Esther Cann

Not the same as Esther Gray

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reade-118

Esther Read (the name is spelled "Read" by Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration Series)[1]

Origins

Esther was born 8 May 1641 at Weymouth, Suffolk (later Norfolk) County, Massachusetts.[1] She was the fourth child of William Reade and Susanna Hayme.[2]

Note: Some of the older published works, and also online data bases, attribute Esther to the William Reed and Avis Chapman family. However we now know that family did not arrive at Weymouth until about 1650.[2]

Family

Esther married on 30 July 1661 at Boston, Massachusetts to John [Mc]Cann.[1]

From http://bzasab.net/genealogy/Briggs/Cann-John1636.Id_9175.htm

John Cann 1636-?

• Born: 1636 in Bristol, England
• Died: ?
• Father’s name: William Cann of Bristol, England, b. about 1614.
• Mother’s name: Margret (Yeamans) Cann of Bristol, England
• Spouse: Esther (Reade) Cann, b. May 8, 1641 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, m. July 30, 1661 at Boston, Massachusetts Children:
• John Cann
• ?

Disambiguation

Note: originally reported a marriage to Jonah Austin in 1665, death July 11, 1719 at "Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States." Some older sources and online data bases reported this marriage and death information. However, this has been proven to be incorrect. According to Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration Series, that Esther married John McCann.[1]

Sources

• Anderson, Robert C., William Read Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S. (Vol R-S, Page 27) (Online database accessed February 9, 2015. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
• Jacobus, Donald L., and Waterman, Edgar F., The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry ..." (Pages 301-02) Hartford: E. F. Waterman, 1945, HathiTrust.org accessed February 4, 2015 link
• History of Weymouth, Massachusetts: Published by the Weymouth Historical Society, Howard H. Joy, President. Under Direction of the Town, Volume 4 Weymouth Historical Society (Weymouth, Mass.) Wright & Potter printing Company, 1923 - Page 565-566 GoogleBooks
• http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Stub/stump.html
• http://ntgen.tripod.com/bw/read_wm_index.html
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/FILE...