John Havens, Sr.

1. John Havens b: 1640, in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

Name: John HAVENS

• Sex: M
• Birth: ABT. 1640 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
• Note: Wainwright Book, Monmouth County Historical Assoc., Freehold, NJ - John Havens contributed to buying land from the Indians in NJ, 1667-70-75.
• Father: William HAVENS b: ABT. 1600 in Aberystwyth, Crds, Wales
• Mother: Dionis Ruth ALLEN b: ABT. 1622 in Sheffield Parish, Yorkshire, Wales
• Father: William HAVENS b: ABT. 1600 in Aberystwyth, Crds, Wales
• Marriage 1 Ann BROWN
• Marriage 2 Anna STANNARD b: 1644 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island Married: ABT. 1665 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

Children

• Alice HAVENS b: ABT. 1654 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
• Jane HAVENS
• William HAVENS
• Hannah HAVENS
• John HAVENS
• Nicholas HAVENS

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Daniel HAVENS in FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY, Brief Biographies by Descendants compiled by: Marian L. Smith, Barbara Carver-Smith, Harriet Stryker-Rodda, Michael Maiden revised by: Evelyn Hunt Ogden, Ed.D. , Page 31 [1], page 43.

"JOHN HAVENS (c. 1635 - c. 1687) John Havens, son of William and Dionis (-) Havens, may have been born in Aberystwith, Cardinganshire, Wales before his parents were in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1639. John married 1) Ann (-); married 2) Hannah or Anna Stannard, who survived him. She is recorded in John's will of 14 March 1686/7, proved 22 November 1687 as Anna, and as Hannah Havens, widow, on the Inventory of his estate made 10 December 1687. The Havens family originally may have been Antinomians in Rhode Island, followers of Ann Hutchinson. In New Jersey they lived among the 1665 settlers in Shrewsbury who came from Rhode Island. On 27 February 1667/8 an Oath of Allegiance was administered to all the inhabitants of Navesink, New Jersey, of whom one was John Havens, son of William of Portsmouth, whose grant of land is set down as 120 acres. In John's will he devised land in Sessoconneta, and Little Silver, New Jersey. Deanna May Scherrer # 118 REFERENCES The Havens Family in New Jersey, by Henry C. Havens Early Havens History - Havens-Crombie Line, by John Newell New Jersey Archives, New Jersey Wills, Abstracts 1670-1730.