Ann Pitts

Anne married Edmund Pitts circa 1636 / 1637, and gave birth to their first child (Mary) within this time frame. A credible secondary source notes that Edmund Pitts emigrated to Hingham, MA in 1637, accompanied by his "wife and child (Mary, who died in 1641) and brother Leonard, "a mariner and master". Referenced source notes that a William Pitts arrived in Hingham, MA in 1638 as "a servant of Phillip James" and notes that William "was also born in Hackford and probably related to Edmund".

Children

See the link below to Hingham History for details about his children:

1. Mary d 1641
2. Sarah bp 29 Dec 1639
3. Mary (2) bp 9 Sep 1642
4. Ann bp 22 Dec 1644
5. Isaac b 12 Apr 1646
6. Elizabeth 23 Apr 1648
7. Deborah b 6 Nov 1651
8. John b 27 Nov 1653
9. Jeremiah b 25 Jan 1656

She died 30 November 1686 as reported in the Hingham, MA records.

(1)............Anne (Cooke) Pitts is frequently misrepresented as the biological mother of Peter Pitts of Taunton (circa 1626 - 1692), including on any and all Geni family trees. This is a patent improbability / impossibility, inasmuch as Edmund Pitts and Anne Cooke were not married until circa 1636 / 1637, with the issue to their marriage very well and credibly documented.

Origins

Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 1. By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters. Page 766. < GoogleBooks > Grey, 173.

• John Cooke of Sprowston, Norfolk, yeoman, 29 January 1650, proved 13 November 1654.
• To my wife Elizabeth all my houses and lands in Norwich, which I bought of Erasmus Alesson, clerk, lying and being in the parish of St. George, Colgate; also two closes in Burston for her natural life.
• To Dorothy wife of Edward Potts of Cambridge all my houses &c. after the decease of my wife Elizabeth, subject to certain legacies.
• To Elizabeth Parlet wife James Parlitte of Hingham ten pounds,
• to Anne the wife of Edmund Pitts in New England, if she come to demand it, ten pounds,
• to Mary Pitcher daughter of Isaac Pitcher the elder, of Hingham, ten pounds and
• to Sarah (another daughter) ten pounds.
• To Isaac Jyssoppe (Jessopp ?) son of Thomas Jyssoppe the elder my two closes in Burston he to pay to his brother's four eldest children five pounds apiece at eighteen years of age.
• Wife Elizabeth executrix.

Research notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-842

Nov. 1654 Probate of will of John Cooke, of Sprowston of Sprowston, Norfolk, John bequeathed tenn pounds to Ann, wife of Edmund Pitts in New England. But does not indicate relationship. Appears John and his wife did not have any children.

Suggested baptism for Ann Pitts Of 27 Jan 1609 (not possible if she gave birth to a child in 1657).

Source -- 1.) "Hingham, Norfolk: Old Hingham Emigrants" / www.hingham.org.uk/?page_id=162

References

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH19-B4N : 10 November 2020), Ann Pits, 30 Nov 1686; citing Death, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009274.
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ann_Unknown_%281475%29
• Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Indexes to and Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635-1880. (Microfilm of manuscript at Hingham: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965) p. 73. “Ann pits widow dyed the 30th day of november . 1686.”