Joane (Joanna) Gibson

Joane emigrated from England to Massachusetts (presumably with the Great Migration of the 1630s). Parents unknown. Married 1) Henry Prentice about 1643 as his 2nd wife 2) "Elder" John Gibson 7/24/1662 as his 2nd wife

HENRY PRENTICE 1, "planter" of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was there before 1640, and probably born in England. He was a member of the First Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, whose members were taken and registered in 1658, by Rev. Jonathan Mitchell of that church. He owned lands in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as one of the original proprietors sin the second and third divisions of land there in 1650.

His first wife was Elizabeth ----, who died May 13, 1643, O. S. He married (2) Joane (per Savage). In 1648 he and his wife deeded lands to John Goodnow (Sudbury). Henry Prentice died June 9, 1654, O. S. "Joan, widow of Henry Prentice, and their children, Mary, Solomon, Abiah, Samuel, Sarah and Henry, were all born and baptized in this (First) Church, Cambridge. Joan, widow of Henry Prentice, deceased, was a member in full communion there as was her husband, Henry Prentice."

Henry Prentice was freeman, Cambridge, May 22, 1653.

Children

1. Mary, b. November 24, 1644.
2. Solomon, b. September 23, 1646.
3. Abiah, (dau.) b. July 22, 1648; probably died before 1713.
4. Sarah, b. ----; m. John Woodward; he lived in 1713.
5. Samuel, b. August 3, 1650. Living December 31, 1713.
6. Henry, b. about 1651 or 1652.

John Gibson's 1st wife, Rebecca, died at Roxbury on 1 December 1661 after various members of the family of John Gibson accused Winifred and Mary Holman, wife and daughter of WILLIAM HOLMAN {1635, Cambridge}, of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns, and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in Cambridge at the time John Gibson married (2) in Cambridge MA, 24 July 1662, Joanna (_____) Prentice, widow of Henry Prentice. There were no children of this marriage.

Sources

1. Binney, Charles J. F. (Charles James Fox), 1806-1888. The history and genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss family, in New England, from 1631 to 1852. Collected by C. J. F. Binney. Boston, The author, 1852. Page 12, 13

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