Rev. John Youngs, of Southold

John YONG or YOUNGS Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, June 3, 1620. S. of Christopher (1593). B. 1602. B.A. from St Catharine's, 1623. Minister at St Margaret's, Suffolk. Went to Salem, New England, 1637. Removed to Long Island with a party of relatives and friends; founded the town of Southold (named after his home in England). Pastor of Southold, Long Island, 1641-72. Married, at Southwold, Suffolk, Jane Harrington (1st wife), July 25, 1622. Died at Southold, Long Island, Feb. 24, 1671-2. (Felt.; J. G. Bartlett.)

Source: Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900

"John Yonge of St. Margaretts', Suffolk, ae. 35 yrs., and Joan, his wife, ae. 34, with 6 children, John: Tho: Anne: Rachell; Mary & Josueph, were examined by the Commissioners, 11 or 12 May 1637, being desirous to pass to Salem in New England to inhabit, & being forbyden passage, went not from Yramouth."

Family

Parents 

 the first child of the Reverend Christopher Yonges and his wife Margaret (née Ellwyn).

Born c.1598, John Yonges was the son of Christopher Yonges, clerk, minister of Southwold and his wife Margaret (_____). He had siblings Joseph, Christopher, Mary, Margaret & Martha.[1]All of his siblings with the exception of Margaret who is not accounted for, migrated to Salem.[2]

Marriages and Children

Married 1st to Joan Jentilman, widow of Robert Herrington (died between 1625 and 1629 in England); married July 25, 1622 in Southwold, England July 24, 1622.—John Yonges and Joan Herrington, both single, of Southwold. Surety: Christopher Yonges. (Book 5, fo. 11) Source: Marriage licenses from the official note books of the archdeaconry of Suffolk deposited at the Ipswich probate court 1613-1674. p. 28

Children:

1.  Col. John Youngs (April 10, 1623 in Suffolk, England - April 12, 1698 in Southold, New York), married [1] Mary Gardner; married [2] Anne Wines Nichols Elton Tooker.
2. Capt. Thomas Youngs, (May 1, 1625 in Southwold, England - between April and September 1686 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey).

Married 2nd to Joan Harris (died before 1639), the widow of Richard Palgrave; married after 1630 in England.

Children:

1.  Anna Palgrave (Stepdaughter), married Nicholas Woodbury.
2. Mary Youngs (born in England), married Edward Petty.
3. Rachel Youngs (born in England).
4. Joseph Youngs (in England - about April 1675 in Southold, New York), married Sarah Wines.

Married 3rd to Mary Warren (died 1678 in Southold, New York), married about 1639 in Salem, Massachusetts.

Children:

1.  Benjamin Youngs (about 1640 in Southold, New York - 1697 in Southold, New York), married Elizabeth.
2. Christopher Youngs (about 1642 in Southold, New York - July 31, 1695 in Southold, New York), married [1] Mary; married [2] Mary Budd.

Brief biography

John Youngs was of Welsh descent; Col. John Youngs, of the second generation, placed the Tudor Trevor coat of arms upon his will in 1697. Tudor Trevor was Lord of Whittingdon, Oswestry, and both Maelors in Powys, in right of his father; founder of the "Tribes of the Marches"; King of Gloster, and Earl of Hereford in right of his mother; surnamed Trevor from the place of his birth, Co. Denbigh. The American Youngs families used three coats of arms in America. The seal affixed to the will of Col. John Youngs bears the "lion rampant" with a crest a grayhound passant. The Oyster Bay branch bears the "three griffin heads" coat. An extensive history of the Yonges family in England and their pedigree can be found online:
Yonges family: Vicar Christopher Yonges, his ancestors in England and his descendants in America" by Selah Youngs, Jr. (1907) Boston Public Library.

He sailed on the Mary Anne, of Yarmouth, William Goose (or Gooch), master. He migrated with a wife whose first name is Joan (likely the second wife, Joan Harris), and six children, five of his own and a step-daughter: John, Thomas, Rachel, Marcy and Joseph, as well as Joan Harris' daughter from a previous marriage -- Anna Palgrave (who later married Nicholas Woodbury). Norris Taylor comments: "He is believed to have come on this ship in spite of a note in the margin of his application which said: 'This man was forbyden passage, by the Commission and went not from Yarmouth' -- for he was in Salem, Mass three months later.

He received a grant of land in Salem on that date.

"He doubtless wore his hair long and flowing to the shoulder, which was the mark of a gentleman; and in the pulpit wore the Geneva gown. He owned the works of the Rev. William Perkins, an able writer who taught the Calvinistic system, and that, no doubt, is the doctrine he expounded to his people.... He appears to have taken no active part in politics, and it is probably because of this that New Haven, on several occasions, desired to hear from him before acting on complaints from Southold. It is attributed to his safe counsel and wise judgement that opposing factions were harmonized, that those in the town who were Quakers, or favored them, were not persecuted, and that there was no case of witchcraft in Southold." (Selah Youngs) This comment by Selah Youngs is contradicted by Antonia Booth, official historian for the Town of Southold, who comments: "In 1658, when Quaker Humphrey Norton criticized Rev. Youngs in church, he was fined twenty pounds, severely whipped, branded with the letter H on his hand and banished from Southold." [see http://southoldtown.northfork.net/History.htm]

"His home lot was the largest and best located, and he had a large share in the division of lands, most of which he gave his sons some years before his death. The remainder, together with his homestead, after his widow's death in 1678, was inherited by his son Benjamin, and from him the homestead, in 1697, probably passed to his eldest son, John. In 1783 it was in the possession of Joseph Prince." (Selah Youngs)

Inscription on alter tomb: Mr. John Yongs Minister of the Word and First Setler Of the Chvrch of Christ in Sovth Hovld on Long Island Deceased the 24 of Febrvary in the Yeare Of Ovr Lord 1871/2 and of His Age 74

Here Lies the Man Whose Doctrine Life Well Knowen Did Shew He Sovght Crists Honovr Not His Owen In Weakness Sown in Power Raisd Shall Be By Christ from Death to Life Eternally

Reverend John Younges emigrated to America and was an original founder of Southold, Long Island, New York. He founded the First Church (then Congregational, later Presbyterian) in Southold, Long Island, New York, where he was the minister until his death there on February 24, 1671/2, aged 74 years.

“ Yonges John 35, Minister from St Margaret's, Ipswitch, Suffolk, bound for Salem. [Sidelined: "This man was forbidden passage by the Commissioners and went not from Yarmouth."]

Ship passenger list from which they were denied boarding at Yarmouth:

Yonges Joan 34

Yonges John

Yonges Thomas

Yonges Anne

Yonges Rachell

Yonges Marey

Yonges Josueph.

Rev. Younges came to America very shortly afterward and landed in Salem but soon moved to New Haven and then Long Island, New York and helped found Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island. He became the minister of the first church of Southold. Naturally it was Congregational.

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 376

John Youngs was born about 1598 in Reydon, England, the first child of the Reverend Christopher Yonges and his wife Margaret (née Ellwyn). His father Christopher Younge was Vicar of Ashburton and Ermington. John Youngs served as a minister at Hingham, Norfolk, England.

In 1637, John Youngs sailed to Salem, Massachusetts aboard the "Mary Anne", with his second wife Joan (née Harris), his five children, and his stepdaughter Anna Palgrave. The family resided in Salem until October 1640, when they crossed Long Island Sound, coming ashore at what is now Founder's Landing at Peconic Bay. There John Youngs founded Southold, the first permanent English settlement in New York. The Native American's name for the area that became Southold was Yennycock.
John Young, of Southold, Long Island, "was appointed a magistrate by Connecticut as early as 1662, to assist the magistrates of South and East- Hampton. The towns of Southold, Huntington, East and Southampton, Oyster Bay and other towns on Long Island, were under the jurisdiction of Connecticut for several years ; and the Island was claimed as being within the bounds described in the Charter, as was Rye, Hastings, Westchester, Narragansett, &c., and most of them were organized as towns by order of the General Court of Connecticut, and were represented in the General Assembly of Connecticut for some years, until the bounds of the Colony under the Charter were settled by the King's Commissioners, in 1664-5. On the admission of Southold into the jurisdiction of Connecticut, a petition, signed by said Young, Richard Terre and
22 others, inhabitants of Southold, was presented, all of whom were made freemen of Connecticut. George, 1664. Capt. J. Young was appointed in 1655, to command a vessel for observation, with men from Saybrook and N. London, to prevent Ninegrate's crossing the sound to attack the Indians on Long Island, and in case he did, to destroy his canoes, and kill his men, if possible. John, of Windsor, 1640."[1]

English Puritans from New Haven Colony settled in Southold on October 21, 1640. They had purchased the land in the summer of 1640 from the group of Indians related to the Pequot of New England, who lived in the territory they called Corchaug (now Cutchogue). Settlers spelled the Indian name of what became Southold as Yennicott. In most histories Southold is reported as the first English settlement on Long Island in the future New York State. Under the leadership of the Reverend John Youngs, with Peter Hallock, the settlement consisted of the families of Barnabas Horton, John Budd, John Conklin, John Swazy, William Wells, and John Tuthill.

In 1650, the Treaty of Hartford established a boundary between Dutch and English claims[clarification needed] roughly through Oyster Bay on the North Shore. The Dutch colony was the western part of Long Island, and the English dominated the east. The population of Southold at that point was about 180. The harbor at Greenport, on the North Fork, became important in trade, fishing, and whaling, because it rarely froze over. Settlers developed the interior land for agricultural purposes.
Both New Haven Colony and Connecticut Colony had sought to establish Southold as a theocracy.[citation needed] The New Haven Colony did not permit other churches to operate at all, while the Connecticut Colony allowed freedom of religion. New Haven supervised Southold until 1662, when New Haven towns began shifting their allegiance to the surrounding Connecticut Colony. By 1664, New Haven colonists all had decided to join Connecticut, and the New Haven colony ceased to exist. Southold was supervised by the Connecticut Colony until 1674.

When the Dutch took control of the colony of New York in 1673, the English-settled eastern towns, including Southold, East Hampton, and Southampton, refused to submit; the Dutch attempted to force the matter by arms, and the colonists of the towns repelled them, with assistance from Connecticut. When New York was retaken by the English in 1674, these eastern towns preferred to stay part of Connecticut. Although Connecticut agreed, the government of James, Duke of York forced the matter for them to be part of the Province of New York. Governor Sir Edmund Andros threatened to eliminate the residents' rights to land if they did not yield, which they did by 1676.[5] The Duke of York had a grudge against Connecticut. New Haven had hidden three of the judges who sentenced his father King Charles I to death in 1649.
The town called as its second minister Rev. Joshua Hobart, a Harvard graduate from Hingham, Massachusetts, and son of Rev. Peter Hobart. The latter was the founding minister of Old Ship Church, the nation's oldest church in continuous use. Rev. Joshua Hobart was installed in 1674 and served until his death in 1717, when he was 88 years old. Rev. Hobart's brother Josiah was one of the earliest settlers and initial trustees of East Hampton, Long Island, as well as High Sheriff of Suffolk County.

The name Southold is believed to be an elision of Southwold, a coastal town in the corresponding English condado of Suffolk. John Youngs, the minister who was one of the founders of the Town, was born and brought up in Southwold, England. Youngs was a member of St. Margaret's Church in nearby Reydon.[9] Within the Town's limits is an area known as Reydon Shores, perhaps a reference to the Reydon, England known by Youngs. The Town's name also may refer to a "holding" to the south [of New Haven]), from whence the original settlers hailed.

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Considered the founder and spiritual leader of Southold, Long Island. Southold, along with Southampton (founded by settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts) were founded almost simultaneously and established the first English settlements on Long Island.

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John (Yonges) Youngs (1598 - 1672)

Reverend John Youngs formerly Yonges

Born 15 Nov 1598 in Southwold, Suffolk, England

Son of Christopher Yonges Sr. and Margaret (Elwin) Yonges

Brother of Elizabeth (Youngs) Hallock, Christopher (Yonges) Young, Edward (Yonges) Youngs, Josephe Yonges, Mary (Yonges) Browne, Margarett Yonges and Martha (Yonges) Moore

Husband of Joan (Jentilman) Yonges — married 25 Jul 1622 in Suffolk, England

Husband of Joan (Harris) Youngs — married before 1637 in England

Husband of Mary (Warren) Youngs — married 1639 [location unknown]

Father of John Youngs, Thomas Young, Mary (Youngs) Petty, Joseph (Young) Youngs, Benjamin Youngs and Christopher Youngs Sr.

Died 24 Feb 1672 at age 73 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York

Profile last modified 30 Oct 2022 | Created 30 Nov 2010

John (Yonges) Youngs migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

Puritan Great Migration
John (Yonges) Youngs } immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Southold, Long Island.
John Yonges

Considered the founder and spiritual leader of Southold, Long Island. Southold, along with Southampton (founded by settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts) were founded almost simultaneously and established the first English settlements on Long Island.

Birth, Parents, Siblings

Born c. 1598, John Yonges was the son of Christopher Yonges, clerk, minister of Southwold and his wife Margaret (_____). He was enrolled as sizar at Emmanuel College, June 3, 1620, B.A. from St. Catharine's, 1623.[1]

John had siblings Joseph, Christopher, Mary, Margaret & Martha.[2] All, with the exception of Margaret who is not accounted for, migrated to Salem.[3]

Immigration, Lands, Records

John emigrated from Yarmouth to New England aboard the Mary Ann and arrived in New England on 15 May 1637. John Yonges of St. Margaret's, [Ipswich], Suffolk, minister aged 35 and Joan his wife aged 34, with 6 children John, Thomas, Anne, Rachell, Marey and Josueph, for Salem to inhabit. However, Akerly in "Genealogical Notes Relating to the English Ancestors of the Youngs of Southold, N. Y." citing Hotten's Passenger Lists says he was forbidden to leave:

"John Yonge of St. Margaretts', Suffolk, ae. 35 yrs., and Joan, his wife, ae. 34, with 6 children, John: Tho: Anne: Rachell; Mary & Josueph, were examined by the Commissioners, 11 or 12 May 1637, being desirous to pass to Salem in New England to inhabit, & being forbyden passage, went not from Yarmouth."
He did however migrate as he was received as an inhabitant of Salem, Massachusetts on June 14, 1637.[4][5]Ferris in "Dawes Gates..." on p. 622 says the family may have hurridly traveled overland to a port touched later by the Mary Anne" "for it seems highly probable that he came in that vessel since, on the very day that he was admitted as a resident of Salem, Samuel Greenfield and Thomas Oliver were similarly accommodated there and they had applied for and received permission to embark on the Mary Anne at the time that such permission was refused the Reverend Young."[6]

At Salem he received Ben Felton's 10 acres in Basse River. In a record of Salem dated Christmas day of 1637, it says the town granted one acre of land to "Mr. Yong;" a family of eight people. Another record dated May 31, 1640, shows "an apprentiss boy unto Mr. John Yongs," Robert Gell, was before court where he was sentenced to be whipped for housebreaking and stealing on the Lord's day.[3][7]

Southold, Long Island

In 1640, soon after the court proceedings above, John Yongs and his family moved to Southold on Long Island. According to Selah Youngs in "Youngs Family," New England was "oversupplied with ministers and teachers who had fled from religious persecution in England", and since Yongs was without a church, "he left Salem and became the pioneer and founder of Southold." When he first arrived there were few white settlers on that fork of Long Island, but as more people came, Yongs organized the Puritan settlement and was pastor of it's first church. Young in "Youngs Family" says the likely date that the church was established is July 29, 1641. The Long Island town was first called "Yennycock" (meaning extended country) until about 1649 when it was re-named "Southold."[3]

Spouses

1) Joan Herrington, married July 25, 1622 in Southwold, England (recorded in Southwold Parish records). Mother of at least John and Thomas, possibly more of the children. Probably died before 1630. Marriage indicates that she was a widow at the time he married her;[8]previously married March 7, 1613 to Robert Herrington.[9]

2) Joan Harris, widow of "Richard Palgrave of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, a member of the Pulham Market branch of the family".[10] John Youngs and Joan Harris were married sometime between 1630-1637 (between the death of Ms. Harris' first husband, Richard Palgrave, in 1630 and the record of a wife named Joan in the family's immigration records in 1637). "They came to Salem, Mass., in 1637, prior to 14 Aug. of that year, bringing with them Joan's daughter by her first husband, Anne Palgrave. This Anne subsequently married Nicholas Woodbury in 1651 at Salem."[10] Joan Harris probably died before 1639. She is probably the mother of Joseph Youngs and a possible mother of Rachel and Mary.

3) Mary Warren, daughter of Thomas Warren of Southold, merchant;[2]widow of Stephen Gardiner. Mary's daughter, Mary Gardiner, married Col. John Youngs, her stepbrother. She died after November 5, 1678 on Long Island, N. Y.[4]

Family

"The known children of the Rev. John Youngs are as follows, the first two recorded at the parish of Southwold, Suffolk, England..."[11]

John Youngs (10 April 1623-12 April 1698)
Thomas Youngs (1 May 1625-1686)
possibly Rachel Youngs (b.a. 1628-died before 5 Nov. 1678)
Mary Youngs (b.a. 1628-before 5 Nov. 1678)
Joseph Young (b. after Jan 1633/4; died soon before 12 April 1675), m. Sarah Wines, daughter of Barnabas, father of John
Christopher Youngs (b. around 1637 - 31 July 1695)
Benjamin Youngs b around 1640, d 1697
Death and Legacy

Inscription:[12][13]

"Mr John Youngs Minister of the Word and First Setler (sic) of the Church of Christ in Southhould on Long Island deceased the 24 of February in the yeare of our Lord 1671/2 and of his age 74 Here lies the man whose doctrine life well known did show he sought Christs honour not his own in weaknes (sic) sown in power raisd shall be bt Christ from death to Life Eternally"
He was 74 at the time of his death. Rev. Youngs' is one of nine vault-style interments covered horizontally by slate table gravestones which were probably carved in England. His and William Wells' gravestones are the earliest markers with legible dates in the burial ground.

Note: "The original inscription on this stone was recut in 1857 by one of the third and one of the fourth generations of Rev. John Young's grandchildren, Dea. Stephen Youngs, Morristown, N.J., and Capt. Selah Youngs, Mattituck, L.I.[citation needed]

Sources

↑ Venn, John and J. A. Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, Vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927. Page 493.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Henry F. Waters. "Genealogical Gleanings in England" New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA (1901). Vol. 2, p. 1409-1412.see at archive.org
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Selah Youngs Jr., "Youngs Family" (New York 1907) p. 17, 38-43.see at archive.org
↑ 4.0 4.1 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Lucy Dubois Akerly. "Genealogical Notes Relating To The English Ancestors of the Youngs of Southold, N. Y." Vol. 39, pp 193-199.subscription subscriber$]
↑ Martha O. Howes, Sidney Perley. "Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts" The Essex Institute, Salem, MA (1634). Vol. 1,p. 54.see at archive.org
↑ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-1943.see at hathitrust.org
↑ Martha O. Howes, Sidney Perley. "Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts" The Essex Institute, Salem, MA (1634). Vol. 1,p. 54.see at archive.org
↑ J"England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJLN-4J9 : 13 March 2020), Joan Herington in entry for John Yonges, 1622.
↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Lucy D. Akerly. "Genealogical Notes Relating to Joan Jentilman, Wife of Rev. John Yonges, of Southold, N. Y." Vol. 45, pp 114-116.subscriber$
↑ 10.0 10.1 G. Andrews Moriarty. "Dr. Richard Palgrave and his Family," in The American Genealogist, 18(1941):206-209. Available via AmericanAncestors.org
↑ Reynolds, J. (1998, April). "The Identity of Sarah, Wife of Daniel Scofield and Miles Merwin -- Still A Mystery." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 165, 182-183.
↑ Ancient Long Island Epitaphs from the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton, New York - Harris, Edward Doubleday 1903 - page 22: Reverend John Yongs 24 February 1671/2 age 74 Archive.org
↑ From "Ancient Long Island Epitaphs", provided by Find-a-Grave member Fred Saar:
See also:

Find A Grave: Memorial #8269918
McCurdy Family Lineage (Well documented tree)
Delmar, J. P. (1998-2014). a look backward : Perraults and Mosiers . . . a bit of family history (Online family tree)
McKinnon-Suggs, Eileen. Our Kingdom Come by (suggs1at msn.com) (Online family tree)
Taylor, Norris, Reverend John Youngs, link
Bradley, Hal. (2016, Jan). "William Brown of Salem, Massachusetts, and the Youngs Family of Suffolk, England, and Southold, Long Island: Additional English Sources on Their Connection. The American Genealogist, vol. 88, no. 1, pages 73-77
Information, discussion on Rev. Yonges and his possible ancestry, spouses, etc. http://ntgen.tripod.com/bw/youngs_index.html
Rev. John Youngs, http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=d53227c2-4f14-43d6-b63...
John Ledyard - Notable Explorer and Kin, http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=6a93c138-dd0b-4d77-aa7...
Acknowledgements

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He sailed on the Mary Anne, of Yarmouth, William Goose (or Gooch), master. He migrated with a wife whose first name is Joan (likely the second wife, Joan Harris), and six children, five of his own and a step-daughter: John, Thomas, Rachel, Marcy and Joseph, as well as Joan Harris' daughter from a previous marriage -- Anna Palgrave (who later married Nicholas Woodbury). Norris Taylor comments: "He is believed to have come on this ship in spite of a note in the margin of his application which said: 'This man was forbyden passage, by the Commission and went not from Yarmouth' -- for he was in Salem, Mass three months later.

"He doubtless wore his hair long and flowing to the shoulder, which was the mark of a gentleman; and in the pulpit wore the Geneva gown. He owned the works of the Rev. William Perkins, an able writer who taught the Calvinistic system, and that, no doubt, is the doctrine he expounded to his people.... He appears to have taken no active part in politics, and it is probably because of this that New Haven, on several occasions, desired to hear from him before acting on complaints from Southold. It is attributed to his safe counsel and wise judgement that opposing factions were harmonized, that those in the town who were Quakers, or favored them, were not persecuted, and that there was no case of witchcraft in Southold." (Selah Youngs) This comment by Selah Youngs is contradicted by Antonia Booth, official historian for the Town of Southold, who comments: "In 1658, when Quaker Humphrey Norton criticized Rev. Youngs in church, he was fined twenty pounds, severely whipped, branded with the letter H on his hand and banished from Southold."

"His home lot was the largest and best located, and he had a large share in the division of lands, most of which he gave his sons some years before his death. The remainder, together with his homestead, after his widow's death in 1678, was inherited by his son Benjamin, and from him the homestead, in 1697, probably passed to his eldest son, John. In 1783 it was in the possession of Joseph Prince."