John Guild (1609 - 1682)

Born 1609 in Ilketshall St Margaret, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Crooke) Guild — married 24 Jun 1645 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 4 Oct 1682 at about age 73 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John Guild migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 142) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

John Guild was born in 1609, or 1616 in Ilketshall St Margaret, Suffolk, England. His parents were Richard Guild (1576 - 1617) and Margery (Jordan) Guild (1572 - 1629). His siblings were...

1. James Gilde (1610 - ~1610)
2. Samuel Gild (1613 - 1683)
3. Anna (Guild) Allen (~1614 - 1673)

John married Elizabeth Crooke (~1618 - 1669) on June 24, 1645 in Dedham, Norfolk County, MA^[1].

Their children were...

1. John Guild (1646 - <1649)
2. Samuel Guild (1647 - 1730)
3. Deacon John Guild (1649 - ~1722)
4. Eliezur Guild (1653 - 1655)
5. Ebenezer Guild (1657 - 1661)
6. Elizabeth (Guild) Robinson (1660 - 1740)
7. Benjamin Guild (1664 - ).

John died on October 4, 1682 in Dedham aged ~73.

"John Guild came to America in the year 1636, with his brother Samuel and sister Ann. He was admitted to the church at Dedham, MA Jul 17 1640, and bought in this year twelve acres of upland on which he built a house which was occupied by himself and descendants for more than two hundred years. He was made a freeman May 10 1643^[2], and as one of the original grantees had assigned to him and his heirs forever, three roods and twelve rods, more or less, to which he added by grants and purchases, considerable other real estate in Dedham,Wrentham, Medfield and Natick. He was thoroughly honest in all his dealings and industrious and frugal, modest in his deportment, and retiring in his habits. He never held any office, and the town records show his attendance at town meeting but once in several years, and then on an occasion of considerable excitement in relation to making alterations and additions to the meeting-house. He married, June 24, 1645, Elizabeth Crooke, of Roxbury^[3], who transferred her relation from the church of that place to the church in Dedham July 4, 1649. She died Aug. 31, 1669. He died Oct. 4, 1682, leaving the following will...."(see book). Total 153 pounds 11 shillings. Signature. ^[4]

According to Charles Burleigh in his Introduction to "The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile, Gile Family" - "In searching the records at Haverhill, the author found the name of Guild applied to Samuel and his sons, in several instances, still it never occurred to him that the names might be identical, until he mentioned his purpose to prepare a genealogy of the Guile family to a friend, who understood the name to be Guild, both being pronounced nearly alike in this country....."^[5] Corresponding with a descendant in Vermont it was confirmed the name rhymes with "child"^[6].

Research Notes

The well-known historian of Dedham, Mass., Robert Hanson, met with me twice. He has researched all the immigrants to Dedham arriving before 1770. He was familiar with the Gile, Guile, Guild, Gild name. He made the following comments: #The relationship of Anne, John and Samuel is speculative because no record exists. They were the only ones in this area with the same surname. The only other ones were Edward Guile recorded 1634 in Salem, Mass., and Matthew Guile recorded 1643 in Dover, NH. (Note by John Gile - other records show Giles.

1. The appearance of John in the records of Dedham was out of the normal sequence of events. He joined the church July 6, 1640 but he did not have rights and was not granted land. He was probably an indentured servant.
2. The marriage of Anne in 1638 in Dedham is the only document at that time.
3. In 1641, John purchased 12 acres from John Roper and later obtained land grants from the town. Samuel obtained no land in Haverhill and did not marry until 1647. His wife's family (Davis) were not recorded as being in Dedham. (JCG - should be Dedham, not Haverhill in the last sentence.)3.
4. The Gile people were probably from Suffolk, England because Mr. Hanson had found a 1628 will from the archdeaconry of Suffolk made by a widow, Margery Gilde with two sons, John and Samuel. A photocopy of this will has been made.
5. Samuel Gile (the son of the first Samuel) was hung for rape. 5. Records of births, marriages and deaths for Dedham and Haverhill were given to me.6. Photocopies of pages 439-440 from Cutter's Genealogical Memoirs mentioning 7 generations of the Gile family were given me."
6. Research of Hugh Swofford Sr. "1682 - John Guild, Dedham, Mass, d. 4 Oct. 1682 age 64, bro. of Samuel Guile." (JCG - I have not found source of age 64 - It looks like a conclusion based on the speculated ages shown in Burleigh).

Sources

1. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Vol. 1, Page 670.

   • GUILD, John & Elizabeth CROOKE; 24 Jun 1645; Dedham
   • {Guild Anc. 25; Blake-Torrey 17; Tingley-Meyers 104, 125; Dunham-Boyd 49, 57; Reg. 103:324}

2. ↑ Note from DAR #1454 "John Guild, born in England, was admitted to the Churchat Dedham, July 17, 1646. He was made Freeman May 16, 1643.
3. ↑ Vital Records of Dedham, MA Vol 3, Marriages 1638-1844 Town of Dedham 1886 Guild, John m. 6/24/1645 Elizabeth Crooke Deaths - Guild, John d. 10/4/1682
4. ↑ Burleigh page 25
5. ↑ Burleigh, Charles. The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile, Gile Family. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, 1887. Volume #, pp #.B. Thurston & Company, 1887. Digitized Nov 7, 2007. Google Books: [1]. Page 25.
6. ↑ Dorothy Gile Mills, on her research trip to Boston in 1994

• American Ancestry (Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N.Y., 1891) Vol. 6, Page 156: "b. in Scotland 1bt. 1616..."

• Find a Grave Memorial 52837862 - John Guild, BIRTH About 1616, England, DEATH 4 Oct 1682 (aged 65–66), Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, BURIAL Old Village Cemetery Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts FindAGrave Link NOTE: no sources or headstone