Joanna Chittenden

Marriage of Joanna Chittenden to Thomas Chittenden of Guilford is not well sourced. Most show his wife as Joanna Chittenden

Joanna Prudden. Born ca 1640 in Milford, CT. Joanna was baptized in First Congregational Society, Milford, on 30 Aug 1640.

Joanna married Thomas Chittenden, son of William Chittenden (ca Mar 1594-1 Feb 1661) & Joanna [Chittenden] (-16 Aug 1668). Thomas died in Oct 1683 in Guilford, CT.

Death date seen as 10//1683 at Guilford without attribution.

links

• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_460.html
• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_231.html#P40804 has no marriage for her
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'Peter Prudden; a story of his life and New Haven and Milford, Conn. (1901)

• http://archive.org/details/peterpruddenstor00prud
• http://archive.org/stream/peterpruddenstor00prud#page/58/mode/1up
• Capt. and Mrs. Willett first resided in New York, and then removed to Rehoboth and Swansea, Mass., where he died in 1674. The record of the letter which received her again into the fellowship of Milford church shows that Mrs. Willett returned shortly after Capt. Willett's death to Milford.
• Although past sixty years of age Mrs. Joanna Prudden Willett was again sought in marriage and became the wife of the Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor in Stamford, Conn.* He was a few years her junior, a widower with several grown-up children, and with him she lived until her death. Neither the date of this marriage, nor of her death, nor of the place of her burial is known. In a letter from Rev. John Bishop to Increase Mather, written in 1681, he sends his "Greetings" and those of his wife, "who was Mrs. Willet, to good Mrs. Mather."
  • The following is a copy of
    • "Last Will of Joanna, wife of Rev. Peter Prudden."
  • The last will and testament of Mrs. Joanna Bishop, sometime Prudden, late of Milford, now of Stamford in the ....
  • * Rev. John Bishop walked all the way from Boston to Stamford with his Bible under his arm accompanying two men who had been sent to invite him to become pastor of the Stamford church. This Bible is still owned by his descendants. ....
• http://archive.org/stream/peterpruddenstor00prud#page/63/mode/1up
• Pg. 63
• The children of Peter Prudden1 and Joanna Boyse1 -- daughter of Rev. John Boyse and Joana Boyse of Halifax,* England:
  • ' I. Joanna2, born August, 1640, married __ Chittenden.
  • II. Mary2, born Jan., 1641, married Zacheriah Walker as his first wife. ....
  • (1) III. Elizabeth2, born Feb., 1642, baptized 4th of March, 1643. Married, name unknown.
  • (2) IV. Samuel2, born Feb., 1643, died 1685; lived in Milford.+
  • V. John2, born Nov., 1645 in Milford, died Dec. 11, 1725, ....
  • VI. Abigail2, baptized Dec., 1647, married Joseph Walker of Stratford, Nov. 14, 1667. Married, second, Richard Hubbell, in 1688. ....
  • VII. Sarah2, born May 12, 1650, married Gideon Allen.
  • VIII. Peter2, born May 26, 1652, died June 10, 1652.
  • IX. Mildred2, born March, 1653, married Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin, 20th of Sept., 1671, died Jan. 6, 1712. ......
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FATHER:: Savage: perhaps dtr of John Jordan

Links

• FATHER:: Savage: perhaps dtr of John Jordan

References

• Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Donald Lines Jacobus, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;).
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey. Page 151. GoogleBooks shows Chittenden, Thomas ( - 1683) & Joanna [? Prudden] (1640 - ) b 1664; Guilford CT
• Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. 2 vols. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB99/i/7471/494/5989977