Joanna Munson

Joanna

• Birth: about 1610 in England; seen as Stembury, Hampshire, England with no supporting evidence
• Death: 13 DEC 1678 in New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut

Family

Parents unknown. Parents seen as Richard Mew & Ann Mew with no supporting evidence

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hwbradley&id=I52574

Marriage

1. Thomas MUNSON c: 13 SEP 1612 in Rattlesden,Suffolk,England Married: 1642 in New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut

Surviving children

1. Samuel MUNSON c: 7 AUG 1643 in New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut. Married Martha Bradley.
2. Elizabeth MUNSON b: 1645 in New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut. Married 1) Timothy Cooper 2) Richard Higginbotham
3. Hannah MUNSON c: 11 JUN 1648 in New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut. Married 1) Joseph Tuttle 2) Nathan Bradley

Tombstone Inscription: On the old calender the first month was March. The stone says 13 of 10th mo. i.e. 13 of Dec

Links

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46902880/joanna-munson
• Page 1 of The Munson Record: A Genealogical and Biographical Account of ..., Volume 1 By Myron Andrews Munson
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/93TQ-3N6

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GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Joanna _______ was born about 1610.<ref name=gravestone>Attached photoof gravestone indicates she was 68 when she died 13 Dec 1678</ref>

Joanna Munson, wife of Thomas Munson died 13 Dec 1678 and was buried in the graveyard next to the 1st Church of New Haven.<ref name=gravestone /> This graveyard is now the town green. The stone, whose picture was in the 1895 Munson record, is no longer legible, or was not found, when the stones were moved to the Grove Street Cemetery.

Maiden Name ? ===Some people are claiming that Thomas Munson's wife was Joanna Mew, supposedly a daughter of Ellis Mew and wife Ann Gibbons.

Torrey's New England Marriages lists her as Joanna [Mew].<ref name=Torrey>Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.</ref> The brackets indicate Torrey had a reliable source, but not an actual record. However, if youexamine the sources listed by Torrey none of them mentions the name Mew. See Section From Torrey NE Marriages below. The other place "Mew" is mentioned is the "Second Boat," a defunct periodical, but the mention neglects to cite page and volume. In the Lost Ladies column: Johanna New or Mew, b. about 1611, d. 13 Dec 1678, New Haven, CT. Father was Ellis Mew, d. 1681, & mother was Ann Gibbons, d. 1681, prob England. Without seeing the periodical, the accuracy of this statement can not be evaluated Any wife of Thomas would not have been the daughter of Ellis Mew (d. 1681) and Ann Gibbons. Ellis was refered to as a young man in 1653, so would not have been the father of Joanna b. 1610. There may have been an Ellis Mew Sr., but there are no records of such a person.

Ellis Mew ===Ellis Mew and his wife had seats in the meeting house (1661 seating)<ref>Atwater, Edward Elias, and Lucy M. Hewitt, and Bessie E. Beach. History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut Meriden, Connecticut: 1902</ref>

In 1653, Ellis Mew refered to as a young man in a case of rape/fornication. He lived with John Jones, indicating he was probably single<ref>New Haven town records, Vol I, 1649-1662 edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter et al. Publ. New Haven: New Haven Hist. Soc. 1917. link to page 182</ref> Ellis Mew from Savage "MEW, ELLIS, New Haven, took o. of fidel. 1654, is one of the freem. 1669, by w. Ann, d. of William Gibbons, had Ann; and Dodd, 135, tells no more. In his list of deaths is Ann, only ch. 1681, and Ann, wid. Feb. 1704. But he might have added, that the h. andf. d. 1681; and in 1685 his heirs appear, as proprs. without discrimin. as he had not long been d.

From Torrey NE Marriages

Looking in Torrey's sources for some legitimacy of the name Mew"MUNSON, Thomas (1612-1685) & Joanna [MEW] (1610-1678); by 1643; New Haven {TAG 17:129+; Reg. 29:139, 57:331, 81:129; Hale (1952) 500; New Haven Gen. Mag. 238, 240, 1285; Munson 1; Denio 35; Babcock Anc. 69; Tuttle 278, 279, 672} "

• TAG 17:129 Rubincam, Milton. "The Munson Family of County Suffolk, England, and New Haven, Conn. 1940. Article on possible set of ancestorsfor Thomas Munson. No mention of Mew.*Reg. 29: 139 Greene, Richard Henry. "Munson or Monson." 1875 Article on the Thomas Munson Family. No mention of Mew, but calls Susan the immigrant "probably" his wife.*Reg. 57:331 "New England Colonists from Rattlesden, Co. Suffolk, England. 1903. Mentions Thomas and his sister Susan immigrants. A Thomas was bapt. in Rattlesden that fits and Susan (a sister) but the immigrant's dates are off. No mention of Mew.*Reg 81: 129. Early Probate records of New Haven. 1957. at American Ancestors (paysite) Divides Thomas estate. Makes no mention of a wife. *Hale (1952): Jacobus, Donald Lines, et al., Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford: ConnecticutHistorical Society, 1952) Cooper m. d/o Capt. Thomas and Joanna (____) Munson*New Haven Gen. Mag. 238, 240, 1285 This is Jacobus, DL. Families of Ancient New Haven. p. 238 Thomas in the Pequot War m. to Joanna ____. p. 240 Related to Thomas service no wife mentioned. p. 1285 p.1285 Munson genealogy m. Joanna ___ no mention of Susan.*Munson 1. Munson: Munson, Myron Andrews, 1637–1887. The Munson Record, A Genealogical and Biographical Account of Capt. Thomas Munson, a Pioneer of Hartford and New Haven and His Descendants, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Munson Association, 1895) https://archive.org/stream/16371887munsonre01muns#page/n47/mode/2up Wife is Joanna _______*Denio 35: Denio, Francis Brigham, A Genealogy of Aaron Denio (Montpelier, Vt.: Capital City Press, 1926) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066044272;view=1up;seq=41 "Anne Munson, first wife of John Stebbins, Sr. was daughter of Thomas Munson and Susan ____, his wife. She married (1) May 16 1644 Abraham Munden who was drowned Oct 29, 1645"in ye greate river at ye falls" [at Holyoke, Mass.?] together with William and Jesse Munden. She died in Springfield, 1656. NOTE: This doesn't sound right to me. Needs some research.*Babcock Anc. p 69: DeForest, Louis Effingham. Babcock and Allied Families (New York: DeForest, 1928) p 69 Thomas Munson m. Joanna _____*Tuttle 278, 279, 672: Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639, with Numerous Biographical Notes and Sketches . . . (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1883) Hannah d/o Capt Thomas (no mother mentioned) p. 672 is about Samuel - no mention of Joanna Mew.

Sources

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See Also:*Donald Lines Jacobus, Volumes 1-9, printed by Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1923; originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine - reprinted by Genealogical Printing Company, Inc. Baltimore in 1974, 1981, 1997.

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GEDCOM Source

@R351077827@ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc 1,7486::0 Place: Hartford, Connecticut; Year: 1637; Page Number: 50 1,7486::1053473

GEDCOM Source

@R351077827@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=56830191&pid...

• Immigration: Her family came from Somerset to : right during its founding - Between 1600 and 1699 - Connecticut, United States
• Emigration: 1634 - on the ship "Elizabeth" from England. Settling in Hartford, Ct
• Residence: Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: USA - Between 1637 and 1919
• Residence: New Haven County, CT - 1669
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jul 31 2021, 0:11:57 UTC