John Warner (abt. 1625 - 1700)

Born about 1625 in Hatfield, Essex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Norton) Warner — married 1649 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 24 Jun 1700 at about age 75 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Eldest son of Andrew & Mary (Humfrey) Warner, born say 1625 perhaps at Hatfield, Broadoak, Essex, England.^[1]

Family

He married Anna Norton in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1649.^[2][3][4] 28 June 1649 was stated in the Town and City of Waterbury,^[5] The couple's children were:^[6]

• Hannah, unmarried in 1700 when mentioned in her father's will
• John b about 1657; m (1) unknown (2) Silence Hand Wilcox
• Mary; m John North, both mentioned in her father's will
• Elizabeth, unmarried in 1700 when mentioned in her father's will
• Jonathan b 1660; m Elizabeth Ranney
• Sarah b Mar 5, 1669; m Ebenezer Ranney

The Middletown Church records have the following entry: "May 23, 1669, Goodman John Warner & his yoke fellow Anna Warner & the wife of David Sage in full communion ... May 30 1669 (baptized) child of Brother Warner; viz Hannah, John, Jonathan, Mary, Elizabeth, our sister Sage herself likewise and her 3 children namely, David, John, Elizabeth, in y seale". John Warner Sen'r and Anna Warner Sen'r were among the signers of the covenant at the Middle town Church, "the 4th of the 9th mo 1668".^[6]

Middletown

According to the records of Connecticut, October 8, 1663, he was to be made a freeman on the following day. There is no record of his early life in America, but he settled early in Middletown, Conn. His name is one of those on a granite and bronze memorial unveiled in 1905, to Middletown's "Founders, Fathers, and Patriots", as one of the founders of the period, from 1650, to 1680. With his wife, and his brothers, Robert and Andrew, and their wives, he signed the covenant of the Middletown Church, Nov. 4, 1668, the date of the beginning of the church records.

The list of proprietors of Middletown, March 22, 1670, gives John Warner with a valuation of 96 Pounds, slightly larger than that of his two brothers of the same town. His lot was on the west bank of the Connecticut River, next south of Thomas Ranney's and the middle one of five lots between the roads. He seems to have spent the remainder of his life as a farmer there.

Death and Estate

JOHN WARNER, son of Andrew Warner, died in Middletown, Conn., June 24, 1700. His will, made March 19, 1700, mentions the following eldest son, John: John North, guardian to his two children, by Mary Warner. Anna and Mary North. Distribution of the property was made to John Warner, the eldest son, Jonathan Warner, Hannah Warner, Elizabeth Warner, John North's children by his first wife, and to Ebenezer Raney in right of his wife.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1930/23896289
2. ↑ Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1912) Vol. 14 Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 p. 608
3. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) (From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
4. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7T-RWJ1 : 20 February 2019), John Warnor or Warner in entry for Ann Norten, 1649; citing Marriage, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272241.
5. ↑ Anderson, Joseph (editor). The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut : from the aboriginal period to the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. (New Haven: Price & Lee, 1896). appendix p 166 but the account is also confused with a different John
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Warner, Lucien C. & Nichols, Josephine G. The Descendants of Andrew Warner. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919. Pages 37-8
7. ↑ Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut. Notes: Probate Packets, Warner, Abigail-Warren, John, 1641-1880. John Warner, Middletown, 1700 #5661 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9049/007627896_00553 Note the will is not in this file.

• "Repercussions: John Warner of Famington and John Warner ² (Andrew¹)" The American Genealogist 27: 153-156 (1951) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
• Linzee, John William. The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. (Boston, Mass., 1913)
• Adams, Charles Collard. “Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family.” (The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, New York) 1908. p. 160. https://archive.org/stream/middletownupperh00adam#page/160/mode/1up