John Pike

Before reading all this please see the Pike DNA project for group 6:

https://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?c...

These results prove that Sarah Hyde actually married John3 Pike (john2, James1) Because his male descendants are closely related to Javis3 (John2, James1). Also note that John2 supposedly son of James1 is not actually his biological son. He removed to Roxbury it is stated but he may have actually been an immigrant and the John2 of Reading my have died young. Note also the use of the name Jarvis which is only used in the family of Roxbury and that also Roxbury had a close genealogical connection to Windham County in general.

Elizabeth Welch must have married John3 (James2, James1) because he is closely related to that family in terms of Y DNA results.

John3 (James 2, James1) b. 18 Aug. 1687 in Reading, Ma; m 1710 Elizabeth Welsh ; settled in Norwick , Ct. ; had chr: a) Elizabeth4 b) John. b. 1712 c) Samuel, b. 1715 d) Nathaniel, b. 1716-7 e) Isaac, b. 1721 f) Hannah, b. 1723 g) Silas, b. 1726; m ;d, 1745; ch. (probable)

It has been accepted for some time by the Pike researchers that the John Pike son of James Pike and Hannah Cutler married to Elizabeth Welch. However, an alternate version of this John Pike was published in:

William Henry Harrison Stowell, in 'Four Generations of Descendants of Jonathan Hyde of Newton. Mass.' (The NEHGR Vol. 71. 1917. p. 262)

He gives a different line of descent for a John Pike whose birth date and parents' names make him identical to John Pike (above) That version is as follows:

Sarah Hyde. b. 17 Oct. 1685 at Watertown; m. on 23 May 1706 John Pike, b. at Woburn. Ma. 18 Aug. 1687, son of James and Hannah (Cutler) Pike; they removed to Canterabury, Ct. In 1751 he was executor of the will of Mrs. Abigail Hides, his wife's stepmother. He d. at Canterbury, Ct. 2 Sept. 1754. Chr.. all (ten) b. at Canterbury:

John.. b. 23 July 1707; m. at Canterbury 9 July 1729 Sarah Backus Ebenezer b. 3 Mar. 1709: m. at ' 24 Jan. 1737-8 Abigail Adams Elizabeth . b. 25 Mar. 171/6 Jonathan . b. I Apr. 1713 Jarvis , b. 14 June 1714 James . b. 7 Nov. 1715: m. at Canterbury 25 May 1741 Hannah (Adams) Hyde, widow of Jonathan Hyde. Seth Hide of Canterbury, s. of Jonathan and Hannah in his will dated 25 Apr. 1758 and proved 28 Nov. 1760, made a bequest to his two brothers and sister, Jonathan Pike, Joseph Pike and Ruth Pike, 'the only sons and daughter of the testator's mother and father. James and Hannah Pike ". (Plainfield, Ct. Probate Records, vol. 10. p. 56 Elijah Nov. 1717; d. Canterbury. 22 Aug. 1719 David. b. 9 Jan. 1719-20 Solomon . b. 21 liar. 1722-3. d. Canterbury. 17 June. 1723 Sarah. b. M Feb. 1724-5

Elizabeth Welch and Sarah Hyde cannot represent successive marriages of one and the same John Pike since the birth dates of the children overlap. Proper identification has not been made.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 9 2020, 20:40:45 UTC