unknown father of Herodias Long

From Rebel Puritan

In 1665 Herodias began the account of her life with a tragedy: “I was upon the death of my father sent to London by my mother in much sorrow and grife of speritt.”  Bubonic plague hit England hard in 1636, one year before Herodias married John Hicks in London.  With Herodias’ father dead, the Long family may have been hard-pressed to support itself.  It was common practice for adolescents to work for family members, and Horod’s mother may have sent her daughter to London to reduce her family’s burden.