Joanna Burrage

Joanna Stowers

• Birth: Mar 14 1622 - England
• Death: Dec 25 1689 - Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Parents: Nicholas Stowers, Amy

In 1654 or early in 1655 John Burrage married (as his 2nd wife) Joanna Stowers, daughter of Nicholas and Amy Stowers. The Stowers family were of the company of emigrants of whom Rev. Mr. Higginson, Rev. Mr. Bright, and Thomas Graves, engineer, were members, who arrived from England and settled in Salem and Charlestown the last of June or the first of July, 1629. 'With the exception of Thomas Walford, a blacksmith, who had built and occupied a palisado house upon the south side of Breed's (now Bunker's) Hill, these emigrants were the first that settled in Charlestown."

Nicholas and Amy Stowers were of the thirty-five persons who were dismissed from the Boston Church the 14th of the eighth month, 1632, and formed the First Church in Charlestown. — Frothingham.

Nicholas Stowers was herdsman for the settlement. His duties were "to drive the herd forth to their food (to the Cow Commons) in the main every morning and to bring them into town every evening, and to have fifty bushels of Indian Corn for keeping the Milch Cows till Indian harvest be taken in."

Children of Joanna Stowers & John Burrage:

• 1. Nathaniel Burrage – B. Dec 1655, Charlestown, Massachusetts; D. 21 Dc 1656, Charlestown, Massachusetts
• 2. William Burrage – B. 10 Jun 1657, Charlestown, Massachusetts; D. 1720; M. Sarah ______
• 3. Sarah Burrage – B. 24 Nov 1658, Charlestown, Massachusetts; M. William Johnson
• 4. Bethiah Burrage – B. 23 May 1661, Charlestown, Massachusetts
• 5. Thomas Burrage – B. 26 May 1663, Charlestown, Massachusetts; D. 11 Mar 1718; M. Elizabeth Breed (?-1709), 30 Nov 1687
• 6. Ruth Burrage – B. 28 Feb 1664, Charlestown, Massachusetts; M. Ignatius White
• 7. Joanna Burrage – D. 16 Jun 1668, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Sources

1. Nicholas Stowers, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1781-82. "Joanna (Stowers), b. about 1624 (deposed 1671 aged 47 [Wyman 158, citing unknown source]; d. Charlestown 25 December 1689, aged 65 [ChVR 1:141]."
2. From John Burrage, in Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879), 1:157-58. "Burrage, John. "Burridge" Inhabitant 1637; adm. church 10 (2) 1642; clerk of the market 1658; ferryman 1660; æ. 40, 1662. F. Hudson, æ. 78, testified, Feb. 21, 1693-4, that he managed the ferry 13 years after J. B. fell from a horse. Mar. (1) Mary _____, who was adm. church 11 (2) 1641; (2) Joanna Stower, æ. 47,1671, who d. Dec. 25, 1689, æ. 65; d. 19 (8) 1685, æ. 68. Issue. - i. Mary, bapt. 8 (3) 1641; m. John Marshall, ii. Hannah, 14 (10) 1643; m. John French, iii. John, æ. 22, 1668 (files), iv. Elizabeth, m. (1) Thomas Deane, 1668. v. Nathaniel, Dec. 28, 1655; d. Dec. 21, 1656. vi. William (by 2d w.) June 10, 1657. vii. Sarah 24 (11) 1658-9; m. William Johnson, 1682. viii. Bethia, bapt. "of our bro. John," 26 (3) 1661. ix. Thomas, May 26, 1663. x. Ruth, Feb. 28, bapt. 5 (1) 1664-5; m. Ignatius White, 1683. xi. Joanna, d. 16 (4) 1668.
3. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Name: Joanna Stowers Arrival Year: 1629 Arrival Place: Charlestown, Massachusetts Family Members: Daughter Elizabeth; Son Richard; Daughter Sarah; Daughter Joanna Source Publication Code: 116.1 Primary Immigrant: Stowers, Nicholas Annotation: Date and place of first residence in New England. Extracted from passenger lists, lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, vital records, land records, church records, and journals and letters. Place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical and historical information may also be provided. Source Bibliography: ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, . Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, p. Page: 1779
4. Burrage Memorial: The Burrage Memorial:A Genealogical History of the Descendants of John Burrage, who Settled in Charlestown, Mass., in 1637 (Google eBook) by Alvah Augustus Burrage. A. Mudge and son, printers, 1877 - Burrage family - 265 pages

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