Dr. John Dane

Our ancestor John Dane was born in Hertfordshire, England-- probably in the hamlet of Little Berkhamsted. He and his wife, Frances, were shocked when their older son, also named John Dane, probably about 20 years old and already working as a tailor, was enthusiastic about joining the Puritan Great Migration, to set up a more godly dominion in the newly established Massachusetts Bay Colony. Here is young John's own statement, made years later: "To return to the way and manner of my coming.... My father and mother showed themselves unwilling. I sat close by a table where there lay a Bible. I hastily took up the Bible, and told my father if, where I opened the Bible, there I met with anything either to encourage or discourage, that should settle me. I, opening of it, not knowing more than the child in the womb, the first I cast my eyes on was: 'come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people.' My father and mother never more opposed me, but furthered me in the thing, and hastened after me as soon as they could." From that time forward, Dane reported, "[I] bent myself to come to New England, thinking that I should be more free here than there from temptations" Parents John and Frances and their other two childern, our ancestor Francis and his sister Elizabeth, followed young John to the New World, probably before 1636 (the year wife Frances died).

John had been a widower for at least 7 years when he married his second wife, Annis Bayford Chandler.

Immigrant John was 68 years old when he died.

See http://www.milkcanpapers.com/dane0-2.html for more information.

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Dr. John Dane b.est 1612 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England d.29 Sep 1684 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Family tree▼ Parents and Siblings (edit)

   F.  John Daneest 1587 - 1658

   M.  Frances Bowyerbef 1590 - bet 1640 and 1641

m. bef 1610

   Elizabeth Daneest 1610 - 1693/94

   Dr. John Daneest 1612 - 1684

   Rev. Francis Dane1615 - 1696/97

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Dr. John Daneest 1612 - 1684

   W.  Eleanor Clarkbef 1612 - 

m. bef 1632

   Elizabeth Daneest 1632 - aft 1704

   Mary Dane1639 -

   Sarah Dane1640 - 1701

   John Daneest 1644 - bef 1707/08

   Dr. Philemon DeanAbt 1646 - 1716

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Dr. John Daneest 1612 - 1684

   W.  Alice Dutchest 1640 - bet 1704

m. bef Mar 1676 Add another spouse & children ▼Facts and Events Name[1][2][3] Dr. John Dane Gender Male Birth[1][2][3] est 1612 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England Marriage bef 1632 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child. to Eleanor Clark Marriage bef Mar 1676 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Alice Dutch Will[1] 31 May 1684 Death[1][2][3][4] 29 Sep 1684 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Probate[1] 30 Sep 1684 [edit] ▼ John2 Dane and His Wives

"John2 Dane (John1) who was born about 1612-3, doubtless at Berkhampstead, co. Herts, England, died at Ipswich on September 29, 1684. He married first in England, probably in Essex, after 1629 and before 1635 Eleanor Clark who was the mother of all of his children and he married secondly before March, 1676, Alice (Dutch) Newman."[1] [edit] ▼ John Dane's Career in New England

"As has been shown John2 Dane emigrated in or before the early part of 1635. [Robert Charles Anderson did not include a sketch of this John Dane in The Great Migration series, indicating that he did not find sufficient evidence to conclude that Dr. Dane was in New England prior to 1636.] … Some John Deane became a freeman on June 2, 1641, and that is usually believed to have been John1 though sometimes assigned to John2, while others claim that John2 became a freeman as late as May 24, 1682, but that must have pertained to John3 for on December 2, 1679, John2, called senior, was recognized as a freeman having the right to have his vote on town affairs counted and recorded. …

In 1648 John2 subscribed two shillings toward compensation for Maj. Denison. That year he was chosen as one of four surveyors for the town and was to view a parcel of land near Chebacco Falls. … 1657 John2 was chosen constable and in 1661 he lost his home by fire. He served on trial juries in 1647, 1649, 1651, 1654, 1662, 1664 and was honored by being chosen on grand juries at least five different years — the first time in 1654 … — and serving also in 1660, 1665, 1675 and 1681. His service as selectman covered at least the years 1664-9, 1676 and 1682. He served endless times as a witness to wills or deeds, as overseer of wills and appraisor of inventories. In six different depositions during his life John2 testified as to his age showing his birth to have been in 1613 or a trifle earlier. …

He must have been ailing in 1667 for in April that year, at the age of fifty-four he was released from training on condition that he should pay six shillings eight pence per year for the use of the military company, but in March, 1676, he was fully released. …

In 1677 John2 was a tithing man and continued so in 1678. … Being called Docktor Dane, he took the required oath of allegiance in 1678."[1] [edit] ▼ The Estate of John2 Dane

"The will of John2 Dane called "Chirugion" dated May 31, 1684, gave to his wife Alice, during the term of her life that new house he had built on the land which he had bought (in 1677) from Daniel1 Hovey, which was to be kept in repair by the testator's son John3. To that son he gave the farm which he had bought of Richard Hubbard, while his books and manuscripts were to be divided between sons John3 and Philemon2, the latter to divide them and the former "to chuse." He made bequests to his daughters Elizabeth3 and Sarah3 and to grandchildren Mary Chandler and Daniel3 Hovey, of whom the latter was to receive £30 when he became of age. His will was probated on September 30, 1684, and the inventory showed an estate of over £469. In 1698 John3 and Philemon3 became guardians of two minor children of their sister Sarah (Dane) Warner."[1] ▼References

   ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 John2 Dane, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943), 1:241-48.

   ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John2 Dane, in Spalding, Rev. S. J. Sermon Preached in the Whitefield Church, Newburyport, August 8, 1875: And Other Papers in Memory of Francis Dane. (Boston, Mass.: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1875), 34.

John2 (Dane), b. in England about 1613; came to Roxbury about 1635, thence to Ipswich, where he d. Sept. 29, 1684; Surgeon; m. 1st, Eleanor Clark; m. 2d. Alice ____, who after his decease m. Jeremiah Meacham of Salem.

   ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 John Dane, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 2:6.

John (Dane), Ipswich, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. at Colchester 1613, perhaps came to Roxbury 1636, with his f. freem. 2 June 1641, unless that name in the rec. of the Col. apply to his f. and he be freem. of 1682, was a surgeon, d. 29th Sept. 1684, leav. good est. for that day; had Mary b. 1639, wh. m. 24 Aug. 1658, William Chandler of Andover, wh. was s. of her gr.f.'s sec. w. His will names w. two s. John, and Philemon, ds. Eliz. and Sarah, gr.ch. Mary Chandler, and Daniel Hovey. In the close investigat. of recent days it is found, that Eliz. m. Reginald Foster; Sarah m. 23 Sept. 1668, Daniel Warner; and a d. Rebecca m. James Hovey, wh. perhaps was the man k. by the Ind. at Brookfield, 2 Aug. 1675. The deficiency of Ipswich rec. leaves all else unkn. but he was ancest. of Hon. Nathan, H. C. 1778, LL. D. of Beverly, disting. in jurisprud. and of Hon. Joseph, H. C. 1799, of Maine.

   ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919), 2:536.

Dane, John, sr., [died] Sept. 29, 1684.
Category: 1630s Immigrants

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https://prezi.com/7jttaiie8tdv/salem-trials-in-the-dane-family/

Sources: Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, pg. xxvii,

edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams

http://www.daynesfamilytree.com/DANE%20FAMILY%20TREE%201636.htm

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Danes in the Salem Witch Trials

One of my birthday presents was the historical fiction novel 'The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane' by Katherine Howe which I'm now almost finished with. Despite the familiar last name, I was not aware that Deliverance Dane was a real person, but she was. As it turns out, I already had her in my own family tree files but didn't realize it until after I received the book.

I did know that one of my direct ancestors, John Dane, was one of the jurors in the Salem Witch trials, and I had a general sense that we had relatives who were accused as well but didn't know any of the specifics. This book got me started looking into the family history in the trials and I was able to find a great deal more just from searches on the internet.

The first Danes to arrive in New England were John Dane and his wife Frances Bowyer and their three grown children John, Francis, and Elizabeth. The Danes all lived in Andover and Ipswich, towns near Salem, north of Boston.

1. John Dane = Frances Bowyer -- 2. Elizabeth Dane (later Howe or How) -- 2. Dr. John Dane -- 2. Revd. Francis Dane (Named but never officially accused or charged)

What struck me when I was researching all this is that once a family was accused, the entire household was typically either accused or actually charged. This was particularly true for the Reverend Francis Dane. He was the pastor at Andover for over 40 years and by 1692 he was 76 years old. He had a long-running dispute with the town because a younger pastor was brought in in 1682 and the two were splitting the typical salary of the town reverend. Two of his daughters and his daughter-in-law (Deliverance) were accused of witchcraft.

-- 2. Revd. Francis Dane = Elizabeth Ingalls

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3. Hannah Dane

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3. Elizabeth Dane (Johnson) - Found Not Guilty

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3. Phoebe Dane

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3. Abigail Dane (Faulkner) - Found Guilty, not executed because she was pregnant, later pardoned

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3. Nathaniel Dane = Deliverance Hazeltine - Accused

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3. Francis Dane

Following the theme, the children of these accused women were also arrested:

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3. Elizabeth Dane (Johnson) = Stephen Johnson

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4. Elizabeth Johnson (age 22) - Found Guilty/Pardoned

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4. Stephen Johnson (age 14) - Indicted/Not Tried

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4. Abigail Johnson (age 11) - Accused

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3. Abigail Dane (Faulkner) = Francis Faulkner

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4. Dorothy Faulkner (age 10) - Released on Bond

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4. Abigail Faulkner (age 8) - Released on Bond

I'm going to include a spoiler here regarding Deliverance and her family. In case you were unclear, Katherine Howe's novel is fiction and clearly the events in the book for Deliverance and her family and the names of the various players directly involved with her are composites. If you think finding out what really happened to Deliverance and her family will ruin the book for you, stop reading here.

Okay, for those still with me, the real-life Deliverance and Nathaniel actually had seven children, five of them born prior to 1692. In the book, they only have one. In any case, I haven't found any records indicating that they were involved in the trials. Deliverance's own story (like in the book) is obscured from the records and it's unclear whether she was ever arrested. She wasn't executed. She had two children after 1692 and lived until 1735.

Another family member wasn't so lucky, though. Revd. Francis's nephew James Howe's wife Elizabeth was one of the 20 people executed. Her granddaughter also accused along with several other family members (not mentioned here). -- 2. Elizabeth Dane (Howe) = James Howe

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3. James Howe Jr. = Elizabeth Jackson (Howe) - Guilty/Executed

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3. Sarah Howe (Bridges) = John Bridges

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4. Sarah Bridges (age 20) - Not Guilty

By the way, in her bio, Katherine Howe indicates that she is a descendant of the unfortunate Elizabeth Jackson Howe, which means that she is also a Dane descendant.

Not to be forgotten is Dr. John Dane, whose son, John Jr. (my direct ancestor) was one of the jurors in at least one of the trials and signed a document several years later that apologized for their part in the trials. It is known that John Jr. was involved in the trial of Rebecca Nurse, but may have been involved in others as well. -- 2. Dr. John Dane = Eleanor Clark

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3. John Dane - Juror / Declaration of Regret

There are several other connections to this family by marriage as well, particularly the families of Revd. Francis Dane's wife Elizabeth Ingalls. It's all quite remarkable. For more information on these other family connections, there's a great post on the Ancestry.com message boards by fellow Dane descendant Walter Crean (which I borrowed from, thank you Walter). A great deal of my recent research involved taking various internet sources and comparing against the Wikipedia entry for People Involved in the Salem Witch Trials, a great resource which I encourage you to use if you want to read more about those involved. When I get a chance, I am going to try to detail the other family connections. I will post here when I do.

http://andover.essexcountyma.net/chaseries/dane.html Andover Historical Series

Immigrant Danes

Article No. 130

published in the Andover Townsman newspaper December 8, 1905

If Miss Bailey had been spared to complete her work, with full study of Andover families, she would have given Rev. Francis Dane a different value in the shaping influences of early Andover youth. Good "Uncle Dane", who belonged to Ingalls and Abbott blood alike, with his descendants the Danes, carried weight here for a half century, as pastor of Andover's first church. For his friends and the blood still active in our later community, I am, with possible worthless sticks and stones of errors, going to try to glean up all I can find from the contemporary records in regard to the early generations.

(2) Francis Dane's brother, Dr. John Dane of Ipswich, in old age compiled a unique conceit in the shape of "remarkable Providences of my Life.", published in the N. E. Gen. & Hist. Register Vol 8, page 147, etc., with a family chart annexed. Although not intended for a genealogical treatise, he throws light upon the main facts of the line. Just north of Middlesex County surrounding London at the North, lies old Hertford County with the town of St. Albans and Hatfield, and just before you cross into Bedford County at the extreme north lies Barkhamstead, where we first locate (1) John Dane, a merchant tailor possibly with a shop and journeymen and apprentices among whom was his elder son John in time. I have missed all estimates of the age of (1) John, nor do I know anything of his wife, the mother of his children. Have been told her name may prove Francis Rowley. Her son speaks of her having been a maid of Lady Denney, thought to have been Lady Margaret, wife of Sir Edward Denney, who died at 88, in 1648, and who had been a maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth. After (2) John Dane had married, and moved to Hatfield, he had an attack of palsy, and Lady Denney, who had heard of a remarkable cure, with his mother, after the doctors had give him up, resorted to a peculiarly heroic treatment, with great success, only John bore the scars to his dying day. As he was born in Barkhamstead about 1612. I conclude his parents were over 21 and born about 1585 to 1588, near the age of the elder Chandler and the Parmenter, who with John Dane, all enjoyed the ministrations in turn of "that blessed saint" at Roxbury, old Annis Chandler, the original "Aunt Hannah", of a long time of Andover saints, who was Dane's second wife. (2) John, born 1612, (2) Francis, born 1615, (2) Elizabeth, about 1605, are all we find of the little band of whom we are introduced by the narrator, who said his father moved to Stortford when he was a babe in memory. I do not know exactly how far from the early home, but he bought a house in Bishop's Shortford, and left the family to settle, while he returned to sell the early home. Staying longer than he expected, they were reduced to short rations for lack of cash and credit. Mother Dane wept in trouble, so that Elizabeth went out in the sun under the window, and digging up in the ground, her little paw brought up a long burned shilling, which she joyfully bore to her sad mother, while John hurried in his turn to dig "and scrabbled up another." This greatly impressed Madam Dane, also "brother Howe", who maybe was the Robert Howe said to be father to out old (1) James of Ipswich, who, later on, married lucky Elizabeth and came over with father Dane. Perhaps Mrs. Dane was related to James Howe's parents in some way or Madam Howe was a Dane herself. (2) John had quite a conscience after his style, but was addicted to playing truant, and was regularly "basted" for it which shows the tailor origin of one of our names for parental discipline. John learned his father's trade, and never names little Francis, only three years younger than he was. He longed to learn to dance, and brings up David's skill as an argument; but when John senior put his foot down after John was 18, he took his way to "dancing scoll" without leave, and was duly "basted" with a stick. After two days of patient reflection, John struck "res and toke two shirts upon his back and the best sute he had" by bell in pocket, set the door open, went to his parents' chamber and shouted "Good bye," "Whither, my son?" "To seek my fortune." His mother's parting stab chasing him "Go where you will. God will find you out." in spite of his reflection that Solomon had a text that fitted father Dane, "Be not holy over much." (2) John fled to a new shopboard, and various temptations he manfully resisted. He danced during his trip abroad so long and so fast, that he often got locked out and spent the night in haymows, losing for good his beautiful color. He was rather unlucky in his occasional breaks for a Sunday ramble. His bands being not strictly clean enough for meeting on one Sunday, he went for a long walk, was stung by some kind of six legged terror, so that he wept and read his Bible before the tearful pain and swelling providentially brought him to a subdued mind. After being stung on the same finger on a second trip, he returned to his room half resolved to go to his father. About this time his god father's Minister Schofield son invited him to go on a voyage to St. Christopher's, but they were kept back when ready to start, by the news that Spain had taken the place, captured October 1627, and 600 English men sent to Mexican mines. This would place John a little back of 1612 I think, nearer Elizabeth born 1605, and in 1607. He intended to parade as a journeyman all over England, but concluded to go home and see the folks first. They welcomed him gladly and our Rev. Mr. Norton, later of Boston, advised him to finish his minority with some religious family near Narenton, and he turned butler awhile, meeting his fate in a Miss Elinor Clark whom he wedded and they set up housekeeping in Woodroe, Hatfield. Here he took the palsy and lost his memory, and after being bedridden was restored, as related by the two old dames after the doctors had given up the case. He lived with the Meachams, a family of Salem later perhaps. In those days he took advise of his brother Howe's father, who also lived hear Hatfield. About this date, John took a shop in Hatfield and had apprentices and journeymen, at which all the other tailors arose and asked Lady Bevimon (? sp) to run the news man off. She was old Joanna, daughter to Sir Henry Cromwell, and aunt to Oliver, widow of Sir Francis, and mother of Mr Tom Barrington, with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, later of Rowley, for chaplain. In spite of all their raging and prosecutions at quarter sessions, three times he beat them and kept the best work. After theses trade troubles, a very old story, you see, of competition, were well over "there was a great coming to New England." He thought the devil would find less to draw on if he came over here. He journeyed to Shortford, and sat in council with the "folks" including brother James Howe. The elder Danes were opposed. John sat by a table with a bible laid out, and they agreed to settle the question by a chance text. "Come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing." brought the old folks to the scheme speedily : they helped off John to break the way and "hastened after him as soon as they could." He hired a plot of ground in Roxbury of a planter and tells of the awful heat and the unusual outdoor work, and the Roxbury spring that relieved his suffering "better than wine." Mr Norton was then at Ipswich, so John decided to settle there and there also came the parents and James and Elizabeth Howe to join him. John tells of his journey on the Indian trail alone, to Ipswich, losing his way often and once meeting fifty Indians, single file, greeting them with "what cheer?" At this, then drum major and the whole band broke out into wild laughing, "making the woods sing" Somebody who says Indians never [illegible] should have been along. He moved safely, hired a good man Metcalf to bring his stuff around from Boston by sea, with a year's provision. He found Ipswich so hungry, he soon parted with it, and shared Indian corn diet with the rest. One day, when they were hard up, he went to the marsh to shoot game and " a very highly esteemed pig" followed him, so he had to lead him back, and forty rods from the house, our grumbler saw a company of great gray geese flying over and secured a "gallant" prize. His house burned down 1661, and the tine stock of swine he saved at greedily of the parched corn thus secured and grew so fat, he had an unusual allowance for the workmen who put up the second frame.

Father John meanwhile decided Roxbury suited him best, with only room for a few goats, he keeping his cattle at Andover with son Francis later on. 1638 is about the date they seem to have arrived. John the elder had a house lot in 1639, and was freeman in 1641. (1) William Chandler was here with wife Annis in Roxbury in 1639, a tanner with a small family. He owned 22 acres and died of consumption Feb. 26, 1641, leaving Annis to struggle with debt. So as John Dane lost his partner about this date, she married Dane July 2, 1643, and in 1649, John, having expended a good deal in training the young Chandlers and starting them for Andover, was allowed to take in Chandler's grant with his own, and was buried at Roxbury Sept 14, 1658, beside Chandler.

Meanwhile, (2) Francis who was born in 1615 and who came over with the rest, no doubt, and who said he was six months on the voyage to Boston and was educated probably by reading with clergymen over here, maybe Mather, came to Andover perhaps after teaching somewhere, and with him, was Elizbeth Ingalls, daughter of old Edmond Ingalls, of Lynn. As Woodbridge went to England in 1647, I think Felt's not of Dane's coming here in 1648 was correct, and from that date to 1697, he taught sire and son the way of this world and the next.

Father John's will of 1658, leaves son Francis a woodlot, daughter Elizabeth Howe a black cow in the hands of George Abbott of Andover, son John the tailor and the surgeon, a feather bed, pewter platter and yellow rug, while widow Annis has the bulk of the movables. I do not find the real estate and conclude it went to the Chandlers of Roxbury line. (2) John Dane lost his first wife Elinor Clark and is said to have married one named Alice, whose next husband was a Meacham. His daughter, (3) Mary Dane married her father's young stepbrother, (2) William Chandler of Andover, her sister Sarah, wife of Daniel Warner, Elizabeth, wife of Reginald Foster, junior. Rebecca, wife of James Hovey with brothers John and Philemon, supplied Dane traits to many old Essex lines.

Of the children of Elizabeth and James Howe, the latter dying at 104, we caught (3) Sarah, wife of John Bridges and (3) Rebecca, wife of Stephen Barnard, both at the heads of the two old families so well known here. A second sketch will take up the Andover Danes who helped make Andover.

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