John Valentine (1670 - 1724)

Born 28 Dec 1670 in Eccles, Lancashire, England

Husband of Mary (Lynde) Valentine — married 16 Apr 1702 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1724 at age 53 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

See first --> Ebenezer W. Peirce, "Genealogy of The Valentine Family [of Freetown, Mass.], The Register vol. 20(1866):221+. EWP identifies John's father as it is all involved with the "fortune" inherited by John's descendant Samuel Valentine.

John Valentine's children have descent from a Magna Carta baron:

• 1. William de Lanvalliei, one of the Sureties for the Magna Charta, governor Colchester Castle, who d. s.p. m. in 1217, had issue by his wife, whom he m. in 1212, a daughter of Alan Basset, of Wycombe, a descendant of Ralph Basset, of Weldon, justiciary of England, who d. 1120 ... to ... 18. Mary Lynde, b, Boston, November 16, 1680, d. March 26, 1 732, m. April 6, 1 702, John Valentine, of Boston, d. 1 742. He was the son of Rev. John Valentine, vicar of Frankfort, Sligo, Ireland, and was a lawyer and " notary and tabellion publick for Massachusetts Bay" in 1706, or crown advocate-general of the province of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and colony of Rhode Island, and was warden of King's Chapel, Boston, and buried there. * ^[1]

John Valentine died a suicide on 1 February 1724[/25?>: ^[2] "On ye 1. Mr. Valintine, ye lawyer, hanged himself, att his home, in his upper chamber, with his sash. Mr. Harris, minister, & Mr. Auchmutty, giving oath of his distraction, he had a funerall, and was buryed in ye Church yard on ye 4 day of ye month."

Sources

1. ↑ Browning, Charles Henry. "The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John" (Philadelphia: The Author, 1898) seen at https://archive.org/stream/magnachartabaro00browgoog#page/n218/mode/2up pp. 205, 208.
2. ↑ Diary of Jeremiah Bumstead of Boston, 1722-1727, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1861) Vol. 15, Page 200

• Alexander, William Valentine. John Valentine, Progenitor of the Valentine Family In New England And a Man of Mark In Boston. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1937.
• Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
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• Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.
• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
• Foster, F. Apthorp, ed.. Vital Records of Hopkinton Massachusetts To The Year 1850. Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1898,
• Find A Grave. Find A Grave. (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89949988 : accessed 23 May 2017), memorial page for John Valentine (1670–1724), Find A Grave Memorial no. 89949988, citing Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts.