Family:John Partridge and Jane Hogg (3)

Medfield Partridges not Proven Children of John and Jane (Hogg) Partridge of Navestock, Co. Essex

"It may be well … for the benefit of those who may desire to extend their researches to England, to call attention to the fact that in the Visitation of Essex (Harl. Soc. Pub.,xiii., part 1, p. 465), which was made in the year 1634, the children of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock, were John, aged about fourteen years, William, Jane and Margerett. From information obtained from the vicar of the parish of Navestock, in 1899, by Mr. Frank Harvey Partridge, of New York, it appears that, of the foregoing children, William was born in 1622, and Margarett in 1628. In his will, made Aug. 14, 1692, William Partridge, of Medfield, states his age as ‘about seventy years’ (Suffolk Co. Prob. Rec., vol. xiii., p. 75), In the will of Margery Stacy, relict widow of Thomas Mason, made in 1695, the testatrix states her age as ‘about sixty and seven years’ (Suffolk Co. Prob. Rec., vol. xx., p. 281). These coincidences, while they prove nothing, should, it seems to the writer, be given consideration in clearing up the mystery of the English origin of the Medfield Partridges."^[1]

1. ↑ Partridge, George Homer. Partridge genealogy : descendants of John Partridge of Medfield, Massachusetts. (Boston, Massachusetts: David Clapp and Son, 1904)
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