Nicholas Danforth

Bef 1589 - 1638  (> 49 years)

• Name	Nicholas Danforth
  Birth	Bef 1 Mar 1589  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	1 Mar 1589	Framlingham, Suffolk, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Apr 1638	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I33826	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Danforth   d. Between 20 Apr 1621 and 7 Sep 1621, Framlingham, Suffolk, England
  Mother	Jane Sudbury   d. Bef 21 Mar 1601
  Marriage	24 Jan 1585	Framlingham, Suffolk, England   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F19930	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Barber   d. Bef 22 Feb 1629
  Marriage	11 Feb 1618	Aspall, Suffolk, England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Danforth,   b. Bef 3 Sep 1622   d. 9 Dec 1704, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 82 years) + 2. Thomas Danforth,   b. Bef 20 Nov 1623   d. 5 Nov 1699, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 75 years) + 3. Rev. Samuel Danforth,   b. Sep 1626, Framlingham, Suffolk, England d. 19 Nov 1674, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 48 years)
  Family ID	F19929	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Before his emigration, he was a churchwarden in Framlingham, and served on the local leet jury. He arrived in 1635 and settled at Cambridge. He was an innkeeper, and evidently an educated man. Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay general court several times between 8 Sep 1636 and 26 Sep 1637. Cambridge selectman on several occasions. Cotton Mather, in his biographical sketch about Nicholas Danforth's son the Rev. Samuel Danforth in Magnalia Christi Americana, said of Nicholas Danforth that he was "a Gentleman of such Estate and Repute in the World, that it cost him a Considerable Sum to escape the Knighthood, which King Charles I imposed on all of so much Per Annum; and of such Figure and Esteem in the Church, that he procured that Famous Lecture at Framlingham in Suffolk, where he had a fine Mannour; which Lecture was kept by Mr. Burroughs, and many other Noted Ministers in their Turns; to whom, and especially to Mr. Shepard, he prov'd a Gaius, and then especially when the Laudian Fury scorched them."

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S7062] Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth, of Newbury, Mass. (1640-1721) and Their Descendants by John Joseph May. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1902. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.