Rev. Zechariah Symmes

Biography

Reverend Zechariah Symmes, son of William Symmes (1570-1627) & Mary Ingleram (1577-1599), was born on 5 Apr 1599 in Canterbury, Kent, England; died on 4 Feb 1671 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Immigrant from Dunstable, Bedford to Boston, MA 1634 on the Griffin.

The Reverend Zechariah Symmes was one of the most important clergymen in the early Massachusetts Bay Colony, his virtues and those of his wife being lengthily extolled by Cotton Mather in his Magnalia. Symmes was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge--that hotbed of Puritanism--and graduated in 1620. He was a lecturer at St. Anthony's in London, but he moved to Dunstable in Bedfordshire to escape persecution.

He arrived in Boston on Sep 18, 1634, on board the Griffin, with two hundred other passengers including William and Anne Hutchinson, at whose trial he would testify, and the Reverend John Lothrop.

Family

Married

1. Sarah Baker on 13 Aug 1622 in Southwark, Surrey, England. She was born 1604 in Canterbury, Kent, England; died on 10 Jun 1673 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. 

Known children are:   

1. John Symmes 
2. Rebecca Symmes 1622 – 
3. Son Symmes 1623 –  TWIN 
4. Zechariah Symmes 1623 –  TWIN 
5. Sarah Symmes 1625 – 1681 
6. Capt. William Symmes 1627 – 1691 
7. Mary Symmes 1628 – 1710 
8. Elizabeth Symmes 1630 –  TWIN
9. Huldah Symmes 1630 – 1674  TWIN
10. Hannah Symmes 1632 – 1633
11. Rebecca Symmes 1634 –  
12. Ruth Symmes 1635 – 1709 
13. Zechariah Symmes 1638 – 1708 
14. Timothy Symmes 1640 – 1641 
15. Deborah Symmes 1642 – 1716  

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