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John Plumb

Male Bef 1594 - 1648  (> 54 years)


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  • Name John Plumb  [1
    Birth Bef 28 Jul 1594  [2, 3, 4
    Baptism 28 Jul 1594  Great Yeldham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Alternate death Jul 1648  Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6
    Death 1 Aug 1648  Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7
    Person ID I1297  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2023 

    Father Robert Plumb,   b. Abt 1558   d. 14 Aug 1627, Great Yeldham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Grace Crackbone,   b. Bef 7 May 1564   d. 21 Jul 1615 (Age > 51 years) 
    Marriage 14 Dec 1584  East Hanningfield, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F11208  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dorothy Chaplin,   b. Bef 10 Jun 1596   d. 1660, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 63 years) 
    Marriage 27 Mar 1616  Hitcham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Children 
    +1. Dorcas Plumb,   b. Abt 1635   d. Aft 2 Sep 1678, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years)
    Family ID F1393  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2023 

  • Notes 
    • He was at Wethersfield, Connecticut by 1635. According to William B. Saxbe (citation details below), he was one of the first ship owners at Wethersfield, and traded up and down the Connecticut River. He served in the Pequot War of 1635-38. From 1641 to 1643, he was a deputy to the Connecticut legislature from Wethersfield. He is called "Mr." in many surviving records.

      He and his wife were ancestors of FDR. According to Donald Lines Jacobus (citation details below), they were probably also ancestors of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

  • Sources 
    1. [S517] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Wilbore, of Boston, and William Wilbore, of Portsmouth, R.I." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 112:2, 112:3, 112:4, 113:1, 113:2.

    2. [S1500] Clifford L. Stott, "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk: Ancestors of the Plumb and Parke Families of Connecticut." The American Genealogist 82:250, October 2007.

    3. [S3222] Clifford L. Stott, "John1 Plumb of Connecticut and His Cousin, Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds of Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 70:65, Apr 1995; 70:149, Jul 1995.

    4. [S6920] William B. Saxbe, Jr., "A Plumb Line: The Parentage and Progeny of Phineas Plumb (1832-1908)." The Genealogist 37:192, Fall 2023.

    5. [S122] Gary Boyd Roberts, "Update for Ancestors of American Presidents." Vita Brevis, 1 Dec 2015.

    6. [S6101] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Noted Europeans of American Descent." The American Genealogist 30:107, 1954.

    7. [S3222] Clifford L. Stott, "John1 Plumb of Connecticut and His Cousin, Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds of Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 70:65, Apr 1995; 70:149, Jul 1995., place and year only.