Ann Lange

From Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families:

Anne Humphrey, daughter of John Humphrey by his wife Elizabeth Pelham, married (1st) William Palmes, Gent. of Ardfinan co. Tipperary, Ireland. They had one son, Johnathan, and three daughters, Susannah, (wife of Samuel Avery), Elizabeth (wife of Griffin Edwards), and Anne (wife of Nicholas Lange).

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From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-05/...

9. Humphrey line, p. 406. In the discussion of Anne Humphrey and her husband William Palmes, it's noted that "[t]hey had one daughter, Susannah (wife of Samuel Avery)." I think the common wisdom is that only Susannah has living descendants, but William and Anne Palmes actually had four children:

• Jonathan Palmes
• Elizabeth Palmes, m. Griffin Edwards
• Susannah Palmes, m. Samuel Avery
• Anne Palmes, m. Nicholas Lang

Sources are:

• a. _NEHGR_, 31:307-08 (contemporary statement that Anne Palmes brought a son and three daughters with her when she returned to New England from Ireland; also that "Mrs." Susannah Palmes married Samuel Avery, and that "Mrs." Anne Palmes married Nicholas Lang [both marriages at Swansea, Mass.]).
• b. _NEHGR_, 99:240.
• c. _Records and Files of the Essex County [Mass.] Quarterly Courts_, 8:137-38; 174 (mentions Jonathan Palmes and his sister Elizabeth, wife of Griffin Edwards, controversy over land at Lynn, Mass., presumably part of the estate of John Humphrey).
• d. Savage, _Genealogical Dictionary_ (entry for Griffin Edwards mentions that he "calls, in a deed, Ann, w. of Rev. John Myles, who was sole heir of John Humphrey, his mo.-in-law").

The extracted IGI for Swansea, Mass., shows these marriages--

• Samuel Avevy [sic] to Susannah Palmer [sic], 25 Oct. 1686
• Nicholas Lang to Anne Palmer [sic], 10 Jan. 1687

If you do a search in the Ancestral File for Nicholas Lang + Ann, a family group at Bedford, Westchester, New York, pops up. Nicholas Lang, b. ca. 1668, died 1728, married ca. 1692 to Ann Palmes and had [at least] two daughters: Sarah Lang, married to Aaron Furman, and Susannah Lang, married to Othniel Sands.

_Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of NewYork_, vol. 3 (1730-1744), p. 29, has a will dated 15 July 1728, and proved 20 April 1731, that matches this quite closely. Nicholas Lange, "being by Divine Favour in tolerable health," divided his estate in six parts, five of them to his five children, "Elizabeth Forman, William [Lange], Ann Hutton, Susannah Sands, and Sarah Forman."

This Nicholas Lang has living descendants. I find that the use of the names Ann and Susannah offers *some* onomastic support for the assertion that this is the same Nicholas Lang who married a granddaughter of Mr. John Humphrey of Lynn.