Person:Amee Unknown (5)

The Possible Identity of Amy/Amee _____, first wife of Captain John Gage

"The only hint we have as to who she may have been may be in the fact that her son Josiah, who, although twice married, died without issue, in his will after remembering his brothers and their children makes a request to his 'cousin Whittaker.' This cousin Whittaker was Mary Wilford daughter of Gilbert Wilford, the first wife of John Corliss and then of John Whittaker. Gilbert Wilford was an attesting witness to the will of John Gage. The word cousin in this will, in a bequest to one Mehitable Gage, is undoubtedly used with the meaning of niece. Another hint of relationship may be afforded by the fact that in a deposition of one Alexander Sessions it appears that Henry Kingsbury's son called Sergt. John Gage his 'Uncle." (Essex Court Papers, Vol. 14, page 46; REGISTER, ante, Vol. 54, page 260.)"^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Gage, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:721.

   John Gage married "(1) By about 1638 Amy _____; she died at Ipswich in June 1658."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Gage, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward). Some Descendants of John Gage of Ipswich, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1908)
   62:254.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
   2:563.

   Gage, Amy, w. John, (died) June --, 1658 (court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court).

4. ↑ That she was Amy Wilford is not proven.