Ann Joyliffe

Ann married 1) Thomas Cromwell 2) Richard [SIC: Robert] Knight 3) John Joyliffe

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From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cromwell/696/

Captain Thomas' will provides circumstantial evidence that his wife was Anne, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sherman.Elizabeth is the brave woman who got in an altercation with R. Keayne over a pig, and the matter ended up in the courts and caused the Mass. legislature to become two bodies rather than one. Capt. Cromwell's widow, Anne, married Robert Knight about 1651.They had Edward born 2-5-1652 and Martha born 9-1-1653.Anne was widowed again and married John Joyliffe in 1656.They had Hannah born 5-9-1660.

From page 178 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. "Additional Barbadian Notes"

Ann Cromwell of Boston in New England, widow, executrix of her husband, Capt. Thomas Cromwell, deceased, gives a power of attorney to her loving friend Edward Hutchinson of Boston to collect debts due from John Maniford of Barbados. Dated 2 October 1649.
[Thomas Cromwell came from London to Boston in 1646 and died in 1649. He had made a large fortune in privateering. His widow married Richard Knight of Boston.]

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From link From Family Profile: Captain Thomas Cromwell, Seventeenth-Century Pirate by Thomas E. Jones Published Date: December 1985.

Circumstantial evidence suggests that he was married to Anne _ by 1639 or 1640.

Cromwells will was short and probably hastily prepared after his injury He left five pounds to his daughter, ten pounds to Goodwife Sherman five pounds to Goodwife Spaule six bells to the Town of Boston, and the remainder of his estate to his wife, Anne

Although there is no solid evidence of Anne's parentage, Cromwells will raises the possibility that she was the Anne listed as daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sherman and sister of Alice Sherman who married Thomas Spaule.

The Cromwells had only one child,

• Elizabeth, conjectured to have been born around 1640 She first married Richard Price on 18 August 1659. They had Thomas b. 22 July 1660, Joyliffe b. 2 March 1662, Elizabeth b. 10 February 1664, and Richard b. 26 March 1667. The older Richard died in 1674. The older Elizabeth (i.e., Cromwell daughter) married her second husband, Isaac Vicers, between the period of 1674 and early 1680.
  • Elizabeth Price (i.e., Cromwell's granddaughter) married James Townsend of Boston.
  • Rebecca Vicers who married Captain Samuel Binney of Hull on 11 Nov. 1701.

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Sometime around the mid-1680’s, Jarvis evidently married Martha Knight (born 1653), the step-daughter of John Joyliffe of Boston and his wife Anna (who had previously been married to Thomas Cromwell and Robert Knight). Joyliffe was an eminent merchant who for many years was a selectman and, in 1691, town recorder. See Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Joyliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, pp. 34, 39-40 (Philadelphia, 1893). See also Genealogical Dictionary, supra, Vol. 1, p.476 (for Cromwell); Vol. 3, p.39 (for Knight and the 1653 birthdate for Martha Knight); and Vol. 2, p.573 (for Joyliffe). In his will dated February 7, 1699-1700, Joyliffe gave his “mansion house” to his step-daughter Martha and her husband Jarvis Ballard. See “Vickers or Vickery Family,” supra, at 187; “Genealogical Gleanings in England,” Genealogical Register, Vol. 42, pp.62, 69-72.

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