John Lovett, Sr. (I) of Mackerel Cove

John Lovett emigrated from Kent, England in 1637 on the ship "True Love." (.? No True Love in 1637). Came with his wife, Mary, his infant son, John, and his mother. (See http://www.caskey-family.com/genealogy/JohnLovett2.htm)

"Came to New England and settled on the Cape Ann side of the North River after a short time during which he lived in Salem. He was one of eight admitted inhabitants of Salem, July 25, 1639, and soon went across the river to dwell. In 1665, at the 'seven men's meeting,' he received a grant of two acres of marsh land near the 'old planters meadow, in the vicinity of Wenham Common. He filled acceptably various town offices, surveyor of highways, constable and selectman. He became possessed of a considerable estate in lands, and it is probably that with the vocation of husbandry he combined the trade of cooper, for in his will he bequeathed 'a set of cooper's tools' to his son John."

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Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lovett-497

His wife is seen as Mary Grant. The children of John Lovett and Mary were:

1. John Lovett [Jr.], born, probably England, say 1638 (he was about age 32[23] in 1669, and about age 40[24] in 1678); married Bethiah Rootes
2. Simon Lovett. Married Agnes Sweetland.
3. Joseph Lovett. Married Elizabeth (Solart
4. Mary Lovett, probably born Mackerel Cove, then Salem (now Beverly), before 1643 (she was "above 80" at the time of her death in 1723); died Wenham, Essex County, 26 September 1723.[25] She married Thomas Patch, as his second wife ... WIP
5. Bethia Lovett, probably Mackerel Cove, probably after 8 September 1650, baptized Salem, 13 June 1652;[26] died Beverly, before 25 July 1706; (date administration granted on estate of George Standley).[27] married before 18 July 1698, George Standley.[28]
6. Abigail Lovett, probably born Mackerel Cove, 20 August 1654,[29] baptized Salem, 18 March 1655;[30] died, probably Mackerel Cove, 27 May 1659.[31]
7. Abigail Lovett, probably born Mackerel Cove, after 27 May 1659 (date sister of the same name died); married, probably Beverly, before 1684, Issac Randall, probably born at England, who died of Beverly before 23 April 1684.[32] Abigail probably married (2) about 1686, Thomas Woodbury, and then (3) Thomas Larcum as his second wife. Abigail may be the widow of Thomas Larkum who died Beverly between June and August, 1740.[33]

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Biography

See "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts," edited by William Richard Cutter. Published by Lewis historical publishing company, 1908. http://books.google.com/books?id=qaK9Vz1UdDcC&pg=PA1639&lpg=PA1639&...

The first record found of John Lovett in Essex Co., MA, was on 8 August 1639, when "John Lovett is receaved to be an Inhabitant within this jurisdiction [Salem] & there is graunted unto him ten acres of land neere Macrell Cove." The land along the edge of Mackerel Cove is now part of Beverly. In January of 1640 "John Luvet Daniel Rays [Rea's] servant desireth accommodation." This is the only reference found to a relationship between Lovett and Rea. Lovett was cooper and may have had an arrangement with Rea regarding services performed perhaps in exchange for his passage to Massachusetts, which probably was not long before if not in 1639. The Town of Salem gave John five more acres near Mackerel Cove in 1640. In 1645 he was given two acres of marsh near the "Old Planters Meadow near Wenham Common" and in 1650, twenty acres in "the swamp and upland."

John first appears in court records on 29 June 1641, when it is recorded that John Kettle, a boy apprenticed to "Jno. Lovett of Mackerell Cove" is to be severely whipped and to serve his master 40s worth of time to cover Lovett's expense of paying a fine after Kettle broke into John Ward's house, stole milk ("though he had eat milk that same morneing") and for his "willfull breach of ye saboth."

John was chosen to be a juryman in 1669. He doesn't appear thereafter in found court records. The Town of Beverly was established about this time, but roughly the first two decades of town records of Beverly have been lost. John wrote a will in which he left his son John his cooper's tools. He mentions his wife Mary and children John, Abigail, Randall, Joseph, Mary Patch and Bethiah Standley. His death record in The Early Records of the Town of Beverly says "John Lovett senior Departed this Life on the fifth Day of November being Aged aboute seaventy 6 years Anno: Do: 1686.”

No records have been found that are proven to be for this family in England, including John's marriage to Mary Lighthassel or Mary "Motyer" (the name is "Mote" in the marriage record). The latter two English Lovett families were found by researchers in the Mormon IGI and assumed to be the same as the one in New England as a matter of convenience.

• http://smithharper.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/BethiaLovett.pdf
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lovett-498
• (http://dougsinclairsarchives.com/lovett/johnlovett1.htm)