John Capen

1612 - 1692  (80 years)

• Name	John Capen  [1]
  Birth	26 Jan 1612  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	26 Jan 1613  [3]
  Death	4 Apr 1692	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Alternate death	6 Apr 1692	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I41893	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Bernard Capen,   b. Abt 1562   d. 8 Nov 1638, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Joan Purchase,   b. Abt 1578   d. 26 Mar 1653, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	31 May 1596  [2, 4]
  Family ID	F11650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Bass,   b. Abt 1630   d. 29 Jun 1704, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1647	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Capen,   b. 29 Jul 1648, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 19 May 1733, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) + 2. Preserved Capen,   b. 4 Mar 1657, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 20 Oct 1708, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F24511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S8587] The Wiswall Genealogy, 1450-1960 by J. M. Wiswall. 1961. [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. [S8063] The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. by Charles Albert Hayden. Minneapolis, 1929. [S6189] "Capen Family Record." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2:80, 1849.