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Honor Capen

Female Abt 1616 - 1680  (~ 64 years)


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  • Name Honor Capen  [1
    Alternate birth Abt 1615  Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Birth Abt 1616  Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Dec 1680  Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I19372  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Father Bernard Capen,   b. Abt 1562   d. 8 Nov 1638, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Mother Joan Purchase,   b. Abt 1578   d. 26 Mar 1653, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Marriage 31 May 1596  [3, 5
    Family ID F11650  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Hannum,   b. Between 1601 and 1612   d. 1 Jun 1677, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1636  [3, 6
    Children 
     1. John Hannum,   b. 1637, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1712 (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F11665  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2018 

  • Notes 
    • She probably arrived in New England with her parents, on the ship that arrived at Boston from Weymouth, Dorset about 24 Jul 1633. Her three older sisters — Susanna, Dorothy, and Elizabeth — had already emigrated to New England by then.

  • Sources 
    1. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    2. [S2524] William Hamilton Hannum, "William Hannum of New England and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90:157, 1936.

    3. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    4. [S2524] William Hamilton Hannum, "William Hannum of New England and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90:157, 1936., year and place only.

    5. [S6189] "Capen Family Record." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2:80, 1849.

    6. [S2524] William Hamilton Hannum, "William Hannum of New England and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90:157, 1936., "about 1635".