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- Arrived in 1634 on the Ipswich.
He was clearly a member of the manorial Spring family, clothiers of Lavenham, Suffolk. Multiple letters survive from Sir William Spring of Pakenham, a member of that family, to Gov. John Winthrop (Sr.), inquiring after the circumstances of the emigrant John Spring, whom Sir William calls his "kinsman" and his "cousin."
In 1979 Gary Boyd Roberts published a pedigree for John Spring based on the assumption that the emigrant was the John Spring baptized at Tilbury-juxta-Clare in Essex on 16 Jun 1587. This date is reasonably consistent with the age given for the emigrant on the Ipswich's 1634 passenger list. Roberts' pedigree for John Spring is as follows:
1. Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, d. 1440 = Agnes
2. Thomas Spring of Lavenham, clothier, d. bet. 29 Mar and 12 Sep 1486 = Margaret Appleton, dau. of John Appleton of Waldingfield Parva (d. 9 Apr 1481) and Margaret, daughter of Richard Welling, d. 1468
3. William Spring of Long Melford, Suffolk, clothier, b. ca. 1460-65, d. bet. 13 Sep 1510 and 12 Nov 1512 = Alice
4. Unknown son of the preceding, probably father to
5. Robert Spring of Great Yeldham, Essex, yeoman, b. almost certainly no later than 1525, bur. 14 Jul 1597, Great Yeldham = Joan, bur. 14 Oct 1593, Great Yeldham.
6. Henry Spring of Tilbury-juxta-Clare, Essex, yeoman, b. abt. 1540-45, bur. 9 Mar 1594 Tilbuiry-juxta-Clare = Mary Finch, who married Henry 8 Jul 1571 at Great Yeldham.
7. John Spring, bp. 16 Jun 1587, Tilbury-juxta-Clare.
If this pedigree is correct, John Winthrop's correspondent Sir William Spring would have been the emigrant's fourth cousin once removed.
[Gary Boyd Roberts, "The English Origins of John Spring of Watertown." The American Genealogist 55:65, April 1979.]
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