On Friday, July 27, 2012 2:02:30 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
> It probably didn't hurt that Mary's mother was a Clarke, as was the mother of Thomas Freke of Hannington:
> The New England property probably came into the family through the influence of Joseph Dudley when he was an MP (see his sketch in HOP).
The ancestry of John Freake of Massachusetts can be taken much
further.
Muskett's book on Suffolk Manorial Families includes the will of John's grandmother Elizabeth Freake, along with details of her Taylor ancestry.
Fantastic.
I had known for years that Francis Smith had a wife "Miss Taylor" but no clue as to who she was.
This Francis is a Cecil 4 so this family is pulled in close to the others in my database by this source.
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Subject: Re: John Freake of New England
On Friday, July 27, 2012 2:02:30 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
> It probably didn't hurt that Mary's mother was a Clarke, as was the mother of
> The New England property probably came into the family through the influence
of Joseph Dudley when he was an MP (see his sketch in HOP).
The ancestry of John Freake of Massachusetts can be taken much
further.
Muskett's book on Suffolk Manorial Families includes the will of John's grandmother Elizabeth Freake, along with details of her Taylor ancestry.
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Thanks, John and Leslie -- John Freake is another low-hanging fruit, with a readily apparent armigerous ancestry, who should be on the NEHGS Roll of Arms of armigerous colonists but has heretofore escaped notice!
Nat Taylor
On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:27 PM, ravinmaven2...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Charles Knowles Bolton's _The Founders_ says that early settler John Freake or Freke of Boston, "was born in England, between February and July inclusive, 1635. The coat of arms on his tomb in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston is the same as that used by a 'visitation' family of the name at Ewern Courtney, alias Shroton, County Dorset."
> Bolton notes that John Freake's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Major Thomas Clarke of Boston.
> Ralph Freke's _A Pedigree, or Genealogye, of the Family of The Freke's_ notes a Thomas Freake of the same place (Shroton), whose son (by the sister of Sir Francis Dodington) was a John "born at Hinton, 1631, and married to Elizabeth Clarke, NEW ENGLAND �"
