Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Joan Blessing

-
Name Joan Blessing Gender Female Death Bef 1682 Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts [1]
Person ID I28081 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 11 Apr 2020
Family William Towne, b. Bef 18 Mar 1599 d. Bef Jun 1673, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 74 years)
Marriage 25 Apr 1620 St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England [1]
Children + 1. Sgt. Edmund Towne, b. Bef 28 Jun 1628 d. 1678, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 49 years)
Family ID F16753 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 11 Apr 2020
-
Notes - Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below) notes that the name Blessing occurs in no other Norfolk parish records between 1558 and 1611, leading him to suggest that she may have come from Germany or the Low Countries, from which many emigrants came to Yarmouth in the sixteenth century to work in the thriving herring fisheries there.
-
Sources - [S3311] The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927.
- [S3311] The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927.