Lieut. John Remington

The Fulton-Hayden-Warner ancestry in America, Part II. Hayden Ancestry gives his date of Arrive from England, his military ensign, and his wife's name, Elizabeth.

John Remington was living in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1637. He was a freeman in 1639; moved to Andover and thence to Rowley, Massachusetts.

At the time of his wife's death in 1658, he was a Lieutenant in the Militia. Afterwards, he removed to Roxbury where he died in June 1667.

John , while inheriting an annuity from his father and also from a brother, emigrated to America in 1637, with his wife and two of his children, John and Thomas, both born in Yorkshire. His departure to America was probably on religious grounds. Three thousand left for America from different parts of England that year.

In 1638, The Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, rector of Rowley, within 20 miles of Garrowby, left for America with all the farmers of his parish, for religious freedom. Rogers, who was M. A. Christ's College, Cambridge, was appointed rector of Rowley in 1620. Like his father and brother, he attached himself to the Puritan Party, and was suspended for not conforming to the regulations as to public worship of King Charles I and Archbishop Laud. On reaching America these colonists found John Remington and other Yorkshire people near Boston. They joined forces and formed a new Settlement near Salem, MA, which they called Rowley, after the old home of so many of them.

John appeared before the General Court in Boston, 22 March 1639, to take the oath of freeman. It is impossible to learn the exact date of his arrival or the vessel in which they came, as all Nubery (Newbury) MA records were lost prior to 10 June 1637.

In the new settlement called Rowley, they all laid labor together and obtained a town charter, 4 Sep 1639. They laid out to each family a home lot. Two lots were laid out to John on Weathersfield Street: One lot containing two acres. In all, John Remington the First had about 114 acres laid out to him at various times.

John removed to Roxbury and reconstructed its meeting house in 1658. He became a proprietor there.

Remington is the transferred use of an old Anglo-Saxon surname originating from a place name, so-called Rimington is West Yorkshire, England. The name is derived from the Old English words “riming” (boundary stream) and “tūn” (settlement) to signify the settlement located along the banks of a stream.

Lt. John Remington is my 10th cousin (11 generations removed) on my father's side and my 9th greatgrandfather on my mother's side. Tina Marie Gardner

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At the time they sailed from Hull England to Newbury MA (1637), John and Elizabeth had two sons, John and Thomas, both born in Yorkshire.

The reason they immigrated was probably religious. Not long after they arrived, they joined with a group led by Rev. Ezekial Rogers, a Puritan minister who was suspended for not conforming to the regulations as to public worship of King Charles I and Archbishop Laud.

John was a Lieutenant of the Rowley Company during the Pequor War, May 26, 1647. He was a carpenter, and a school teacher. His father left him 300 pounds and an annuity of 30 pounds per year. His brother Timothy left him a ten pound per year annuity.

After his wife Elizabeth died, John moved to Roxbury where he married Rhoda Gardner Gore (1607-1698), the widow of John Gore. After John died, Rhoda married for the third time (13 June 1674) Edward Proter (1610-1677).

The first Remington immigrant in the Northeast was John Remington, who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England about 1637. Most -- though not all -- Remingtons in America are descendants of this first John Remington. His sons settled in MA, RI, & CT. The famous artist Frederic Remington, as well as Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Co., were both descendants of the CT branch of these Remingtons. This is well documented. Many families in these later generations migrated westward just before and just after the Revolutionary War, and then increasingly during the 1800s. So, many Remingtons throughout the country can trace their ancestry back to these first New England Remingtons.