Joan Blessing

- Bef 1682

• Name	Joan Blessing
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1682	Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I28081	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH
  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.