John Downing

• 'John Downing
• 'M, #76729, b. 3 January 1640, d. 29 April 1694
• Father Rev. Emanuel Downing b. 12 Aug 1585
• Mother Lucy Winthrop b. 27 Jan 1600, d. 19 Apr 1679
• ' John Downing was born on 3 January1640 at Ipswich, MA. He married Mehitable Braybrooke, daughter of Richard Braybrooke and Joanna, on 2 November 1669 at Ipswich, Essex, MA. John Downing died on 29 April 1694 at Boston, MA, at age 54.
• 'Family Mehitable Braybrooke b. c 1651
• Child
  • Sarah Downing+ b. c 1673, d. 21 Mar 1724
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2553.htm#...
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The John Downing of Ipswich, MA,. who married Mehitabel Brabrooke, was born about 1640, and MAY have been, and probably was, the son of Emanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop. BUT ..he did not die in 1694, but was alive in 1714 when his son-in-law Thomas Lufkin posted a bond for the suppport of his 'revered father and mother', according to Ipswich Town Records. (See Thomas Waters. Ipswich in Mass Bay Colony, 1905, Vo 2, 253) John and Mehitabel deeded portions of their 200 acre farm to sons David, John and son-inlaw Thomas Lufkin from 1690-1705 (see LDS micro films #066021, #866021, #08866088 and #0899618)

The John Downing who died 4-24,1694 was a merchant from Nevis in the Caribbean,(from Barbados in 1679) , who moved to Boston to educate his son, Nathaniel in 1689. After extensive reseaech, it is deemed highly improbable that he is the son of Emanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop, as there is no evidence whatsoever, of his being in contact with their daughter, Anne Downing Gardiner Bradstreet, wife of Gov Simon Bradstreet who was living in Salem, or Lucy Downing Norton of Hingham.(supposedly his sisters). Contemporary gossip diarist, Judge Samuel Sewall, did not recognize him, altho he was intimately acquainted with both Winthrop and Downing fmilies of the West Indies, and in the Bay area. Renowned historian and genealogist Eben Putnam in 1898 tried, and failed, to find any relationship with Elizuer Holyoke, who Nevis John claimed to be his kinsman.(Manuscipt collection NEGHS)

Unless there is corroborated data, ie, more than the 73 word deposition of the Irish John Downing (Essex County Court Record 6-117-173), there is no proof either that this was the John Downing who married Mehitabel Brabrooke in 1669. Whether Irish John was an indentured servant, was married, was born in 1638 or before, or even an inhabitant of Ipswich must be verified.

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Sources

1. Fredrick W Downing, The John Downing of Salem, Ipswich and Nevis, BWI Was One the Son of Emanuel and Lucy Winthrop Downing? As Study of Questionable Identities , in The Essex Genealogist (Massachusetts). (Lynnfield, Massachusetts: Essex Society of Genealogists), 30:90-93, 125-32, 171-76:The author concludes that John Downing of Nevis who died 29 Apr 1694 was probably not the son of Emanuel and Lucy Downing. The son of Emanuel and Lucy Downing may have been the "planter" of Ipswich who married Mehitabel Brabrooke. While this identity was previously discounted by Jacobus the author through a series of three articles examines in detail John Downing including a discussion of John Downing of Nevis. See Part I, Part II. Part III

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