Joanna Prudden Willett Bishop (Boyse)

Three husbands: Rev. Peter Prudden, one of the founders of Milford, Connecticut; Capt. Thomas Willett, the first Mayor of New York; Rev. John Bishop, the pastor of Stamford Church. She was an heiress in her own right and married to men who were all important figures in their communities.

After her SECOND husband, Thomas Willett died in 1674, she married Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT, in her old age. They both would have been ~ 60 years of age; she was a few years his senior. They were married sometime after 1674 until Joanna's death in 1681.

All her children were born to Rev. Peter Prudden.

The children of Peter Prudden1 and Joanna Boyse

1. Joanna2, born August, 1640, married __ Chittenden.
2. Mary2, born Jan., 1641, married Zacheriah Walker as his first wife. ....
3. Elizabeth2, born Feb., 1642, baptized 4th of March, 1643. Married, name unknown.
4. Samuel2, born Feb., 1643, died 1685; lived in Milford.+
5. John2, born Nov., 1645 in Milford, died Dec. 11, 1725, ....
6. Abigail2, baptized Dec., 1647, married Joseph Walker of Stratford, Nov. 14, 1667. Married, second, Richard Hubbell, in 1688. ....
7. Sarah2, born May 12, 1650, married Gideon Allen.
8. Peter2, born May 26, 1652, died June 10, 1652.
9. Mildred2, born March, 1653, married Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin, 20th of Sept., 1671, died Jan. 6, 1712. ......

There were no sons named Joseph Bishop (from Rev. John Bishop's first marriage), James Prudden, or Douglas Prudden. [All detached by Hatte Blejer August 2019]

Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett.

Joanna Boyse, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, had come to America and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts with her sisters Silence Robinson and Anna Reyner and their husbands.

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/r/Tami-K-Barton/GENE...

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34716079

• __________________
• 'Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and some of his descendants (1903)
• http://archive.org/details/cu31924029842907
• http://archive.org/stream/cu31924029842907#page/n163/mode/1up
• Pg.176
• ' Joanna Boyse2 was the daughter of Rev. John Boyse and his wife Johane __, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Rev. John Boyse1 died, as indicated by his will, about 1620, and his wife, Johane, about 1631, as shown by her will. One of Joanna Boyse's sisters was the wife of Rev. John Raynor, pastor of the Church of Plymouth, Mass., from 1637 to 1655, and later of Dover, N. H. It is not known when she married Rev. Peter Prudden, but various indications point to about 1638, and that the marriage took place in this country. Her father was a man of estate. In her will, dated 1681, November 8th, she mentions two sons and five daughters, all of the name Prudden. She was one of four coheiresses to property in Edgton and Welburn. After the death of her husband she married, September 20, 1671, Capt. Thomas Willett,* died August 4, 1674, who was the first Mayor of New York. Later she became the wife of Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor of the church at Stamford, Conn.
• ______________________________

  ---

  
  

Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

Find A Grave contributor Brooke Harlowe adds: Joanna had a third husband, the Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT. She was his second wife. (See D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1: 77)

Bishop is buried in St Johns and St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery in Stamford. His memorial is 50504127. In his will, Rev. Bishop asks to be buried between his two wives. I presume that Joanna (and Rebecca Goodyear Bishop) are in the same cemetery but no headstone remains for them.

GEDCOM Source

@R-1799648131@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7162903&pid=396

• http://archive.org/details/peterpruddenstor00prud
• http://archive.org/stream/peterpruddenstor00prud#page/58/mode/1up

Capt. and Mrs. Willett first resided in New York, and then removed to Rehoboth and Swansea, Mass., where he died in 1674. The record of the letter which received her again into the fellowship of Milford church shows that Mrs. Willett returned shortly after Capt. Willett's death to Milford.

Although past sixty years of age Mrs. Joanna Prudden Willett was again sought in marriage and became the wife of the Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor in Stamford, Conn.* He was a few years her junior, a widower with several grown-up children, and with him she lived until her death. Neither the date of this marriage, nor of her death, nor of the place of her burial is known. In a letter from Rev. John Bishop to Increase Mather, written in 1681, he sends his "Greetings" and those of his wife, "who was Mrs. Willet, to good Mrs. Mather."

The following is a copy of

"Last Will of Joanna, wife of Rev. Peter Prudden."

The last will and testament of Mrs. Joanna Bishop, sometime Prudden, late of Milford, now of Stamford in the

* Rev. John Bishop walked all the way from Boston to Stamford with his Bible under his arm accompanying two men who had been sent to invite him to become pastor of the Stamford church. This Bible is still owned by his descendants. 

• ________________________

  *

I found this... one... on ancestry.com...private tree *
Craw - Rodgers FAMILY HISTORY
*
o View family tree
o Tree Settings
* Owner: helen_craw
*
Joanna Boyse
B:
o 1616
o Halifax,,Yorkshire,England
D:
o 1681-11-08
o Stamford,Fairfield,Connecticut,USA
Children

   *  

* Name
* Birth
* Death
*
*
Abigail Prudden
Daughter
*
1647-02-13
in Milford,New Haven,Connecticut,USA
*
1718-01
in Stratfield,Fairfield,Connecticut,USA
Relationship Events

   * Marriage

* 1639 in Edgton,,Yorkshire,England
Joanna Boyse (1616 - 1681)
This profile has been linked to another profile pending a merge. View her other profile.

Birthdate: 1616

Birthplace: Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Death: Died November 8, 1681 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Immediate Family:

Daughter of John and Johane

Wife of John, Thomas, and Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Mildred, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Joanna, Mary, Abigail, and Sarah

Sister of Silence and Anna

Added by: Thomas Beddy on 2/18/09

Managed by: Me

Joanna BOYSE  (1615 - 1683)

Birthdate: 1615

Birthplace: Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng

Death: Died 1683

Immediate Family:

Daughter of John and Johane

Wife of John, Thomas, and Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Mildred, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Joanna, Mary, Abigail, and Sarah

Sister of Silence and Anna

Added by: Samuel Lawrence on 5/21/09

Managed by: Jason Peter Herbert

Joanna Boyse  (1616 - 1681)

Immediate Family:

Wife of Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, and Sarah

Added by: Thomas Beddy on 2/18/09

Managed by: Thomas Gavin Edwin Beddy

GEDCOM Note

Category:Rowley, Massachusetts Category: New Haven, New Haven Colony Category: Milford, New Haven Colony Category: Stamford, Connecticut

Biography

Joanna Boyse was probably born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, where her parents Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse lived. Their youngest child, John, was baptized in 1618, in Halifax. Her father's will in 1620, mentions five unnamed daughters, but her mother's 1630 will names Joanna last in a group of daughters. She didn't marry until after 1637, so about 1615 seems a reasonable estimated date.<ref name=Prudden>Prudden, Lillian Eliza. Peter Prudden; a story of his life and New Haven and Milford, Conn. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company, 1901 willp. 105 Joanna p. 54-61</ref> She probably came to New England about 1636 with her brother-in-law and sister Silence and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where as "Joanna Boyce, a maide" she was a member of Rev. John Eliot's congregation sometime between 1631 and 1650.<ref>Thwing, Walter Eliot. History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904. Boston : W.A. Butterfield, 1908. (p. 54)</ref> She married the Rev. Peter Prudden. No record of where or when her marriage occurred has been found,<ref name=TAG16>"Rev. Peter Prudden, Pastor and Founder of Milford, Connecticut, and his English Ancestry." The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 16:8-12</ref>but it is known that it occurred in New England, between his arrival (summer 1637) and the 1640 baptism of her first child in Milford, Connecticut. Massachusetts, in the year that the New Haven and Milford settlers spent there (summer 1637-spring 1638) would seem likely. An unsourced date of July 2, 1637, is sometimes seen on the internet. <ref>
sameas=no</ref> During the early years of Peter Prudden's life in New England, he removed to Quinnipiac (later New Haven) with Eaton and Davenport, did someinterim preaching in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and began his own town in a place known as Wepawaug by the natives, and later called Milford. In Milford Peter and Joane raised their children.<ref name=TAG16 />The Milford church was organized at New Haven 22 Aug 1639. Joannah Prudden, wife of Peter, was admitted 2 Dec 1639<ref name=MilfordCh>Connecticut. Church Records Index. Milford First Congregational Church 1639-1926. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, 1950.</ref> The Rev. Prudden died April 1656.<ref name=CtChMilford>Connecticut. Church Records Index. Milford First Congregational Church 1639-1926. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, 1950.</ref>Mris. Joanna Prudden, widow and executrix affirmed the correctness ofhis inventory<ref>Hoadley, Charles J, MA. (editor) Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May 1653 to the Union. Hartford: Case, Tiffanyand Company, 1858. p. 203</ref> She continued to live in Milford for the next 15 years as her childrengrew to maturity.<ref name=Prudden /> She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671.<ref name="Barbour">White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Milford. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.</ref>(Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and findsthe error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett.<ref name=GM>Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Study Project</ref>The following day, 20 Sep 1671, her youngest daughter Mildred marriedSylvanus Baldwin.<ref name="Barbour"/> Thomas Willett, was wealthy, respected and lived at Plymouth. They lived for a while in New York, then went to Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts. She returned to Milford after his death in 1674.<ref name=Prudden /> Mrs. Joanna Willet was admitted, 25 Oct 1674, to the Milford Church from the Church of Christ at Rehoboth, Massachusetts.<ref name=MilfordCh /> Joanna married (3) John Bishop<ref>D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1: 77</ref> after 25 Oct 1674, the date of her admittance to the Milford Church. Rev. John Bishop, a Puritan divine, was chosen minister of Stamford, Connecticut , in 1643. It is said he went on foot to Stamford, carrying his Bible under his arm. Joanna was his second wife.<ref>William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, New York, NY: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.</ref> Mrs. Joanna Bishop's will was dated 8 Nov 1681. Bequests were made to her eldest son Samuel; second son John; five daughters, Joanna, Elizabeth, Abigail, Sarah, Mildred; two children of the decd daughter Mary Walker; husband Mr. John Bishop. An inventory was taken 22 Mar 1682/3.<ref name=FoOF>Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families ofOld Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930. Prudden p. 494</ref> Her husband, Rev. Bishop, requested in his will to be buried between his two wives, who went to Heaven before him.<ref name=FoOF1>Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930. Bishop p. 77</ref> No markers have survived and it is unknown precisely where they were buried. There is a Find a Grave memorial located at St Johns and St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery in Stamford.<ref>sameas=no, 34716079</ref>This church was not established until 1742, long after the deaths of Bishop and his wives.

Children of Peter and Joanna, bpt. at Milford

1. Joanna bpt. Milford 30 Aug 1640;<ref name=CtChMilford /><ref name=FoOF/> m Thos. Chittenden<ref name=FoOF /> # Mary bpt 4 Dec 1641 m. Rev. Zachariah Walker<ref name=FoOF /> or bpt 5 Dec 1641<ref name=CtChMilford /># Elizabeth bpt 5 Mar 1642/3;<ref name=CtChMilford/> m. Jehu Burr<ref name=FoOF /> # Samuel Prudden bpt. 18 Feb 1643/4;<ref name=CtChMilford /><ref name=FoOF /> d. Milford 1685; m. Grace Judson.<ref name=FoOF /> He was adm full com. 5 Feb 1671<ref name=CtChMilford /> # John Prudden (Rev.) bpt Nov 1645; d. Newark, NewJersey 11 Dec 1725; m. Grace<ref name=FoOF />He was bpt 1645 and adm. full comm 30 Jan (or Feb) 1675.<ref name=CtChMilford /> # Abigail bpt. 13 Feb 1647/8;<ref name=CtChMilford /><ref name=FoOF /> d. abt Jan 1717/8; m. (1) JosephWalker; m. (2) Srgt Richard Hubbell. <ref name=FoOF /># Sarah; b. 9 May 1650; bpt the 12th; m. Gideon Allen<ref name=FoOF /> or bpt. 12 May 1650<ref name=CtChMilford /># Peter Prudden (1652 - 1652) bpt 30 May 1652; d. 10 June 1652.<ref name=FoOF /> or bp 25 Jun 1652; d. June 10 following.<ref name=CtChMilford /># Mildred bpt. 14 May 1653;<ref name=CtChMilford /><ref name=FoOF /> d. Milford 6 Jan 1711/2; m. Silvanus Baldwin <ref name=FoOF />

Sources

<references />

See also: * Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants toNew England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3, Boston, Suffolk, Ma: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "International Genealogical Index," 1980, 2002, data as of July 2, 2007*Yates Publishing "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004* The Hon Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson, their ancestors and descendants: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]: Ancestry.com* Houghton, Roy M., Manual of TheChurch of Christ Congregational in Milford, Connecticut (Milford,Connecticut, 1945) Page 21.

Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

Find A Grave contributor Brooke Harlowe adds: Joanna had a third husband, the Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT. She was his second wife. (See D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1: 77)

Bishop is buried in St Johns and St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery in Stamford.  His memorial is 50504127. In his will, Rev. Bishop asks to be buried between his two wives.  I presume that Joanna (and Rebecca Goodyear Bishop) are in the same cemetery but no headstone remains for them.* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34716079/joanna-bishop Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Aug 30 2021, 18:10:52 UTC''