Israel Stoughton

Bef 1603 - 1644  (> 40 years)

• Name	Israel Stoughton  [1]
  Birth	Bef 18 Feb 1603  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Baptism	18 Feb 1603	St. Peter ad Vincula, Great Coggeshall, Essex, England   [4, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1644	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England   [2, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I10089	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. Thomas Stoughton,   b. Bef 1557, Sandwich, Kent, England d. Abt 1622 (Age > 65 years)
  Mother	Katherine,   b. Abt 1560   d. 18 Apr 1603, Coggeshall, Braintree, Essex, England (Age ~ 43 years)
  Marriage	1585	Naughton, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F4340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Knight   d. 6 Aug 1681, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	27 Mar 1627	Rotherhite, Surrey, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Children	1. William Stoughton, Acting Governor of Massachusetts,   b. 30 Sep 1631, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 7 Jul 1701, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)   2. Hannah Stoughton,   b. Apr 1637   d. 27 Mar 1670, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 32 years)
  Family ID	F5650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Not mentioned in the article quoted below is that at his death, he was one of the largest landholders in the Bay Colony. From Wikipedia: Born in England, a younger brother of John Stoughton, he emigrated to New England in 1632. He settled at Dorchester, of which he was admitted a freeman on 5 November 1633. He was chosen representative for Dorchester in the assemblies of 1634 and 1635. When the colony was disturbed by the Antinomian Controversy, Stoughton wrote a book which attacked the constitution of the colony and offended the general court. The author somewhat strangely petitioned that the book might be "forthwith burnt, as being weak and offensive." In spite of Stoughton's subsequent submission, he was declared incapable of holding office for three years. This sentence, however, was remitted in 1636, and Stoughton was chosen assistant in 1637. He was entrusted with the command of the Massachusetts force against the Pequot Indians, where he took brutal measures. Stoughton was annually chosen as assistant till 1643, and in 1639 he, together with John Endecott acted as a commissioner on behalf of Massachusetts to settle a boundary dispute with Plymouth Colony. Stoughton visited England towards the end of 1643 or the beginning of 1644, returned to America, and crossed again towards the end of 1644. He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln. His children included William Stoughton, best known as the chief magistrate of the Salem witch trials.

  
  

• Sources

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