John Turner

1644 - 1680  (36 years)

• Name	John Turner
  Birth	8 Sep 1644	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	15 Sep 1644	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Oct 1680	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Charter Street Burying Ground, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I16025	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Robert Turner,   b. 1611   d. Between 14 Aug 1651 and 3 Dec 1651, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Freestone,   b. Bef 17 Oct 1619, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef 1679 (Age < 59 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1642	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [6]
  Family ID	F10020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Roberts,   b. Bef 11 Jun 1648, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 1691 (Age > 42 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1668  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Col. John Turner,   b. 12 Sep 1671, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 4 Mar 1742, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F10019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  A wealthy merchant in the Barbados trade. In 1668 he bought land from Ann More (or Moore) in Salem, on which he built the actual House of the Seven Gables.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1678] An Archaeology of Manners: The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of Colonial Massachusetts by Lorinda B. R. Goodwin. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002., year and place only. [S1680] George E. McCracken, "The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues." The American Genealogist 30:155, 1954. [S1677] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Turner Family of Salem." Essex Institute Historical Collections 48:263, 1912. [S1678] An Archaeology of Manners: The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of Colonial Massachusetts by Lorinda B. R. Goodwin. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002., year only. [S1680] George E. McCracken, "The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues." The American Genealogist 30:155, 1954., place only. [S1678] An Archaeology of Manners: The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of Colonial Massachusetts by Lorinda B. R. Goodwin. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.