Person:Bernard Capen (1)
Bernard Capen
b.Abt 1568 England
d.8 Nov 1638 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 31 May 1596
  1. James CapenAbt 1598 -
  2. Ruth Capen1600 -
  3. Susannah Capen1602 - 1666
  4. Dorothy CapenEst 1608 - 1675
  5. Elizabeth CapenEst 1610 - 1677/78
  6. John Capen1612/13 - 1692
  7. Honor CapenAbt 1616 - 1680
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Name[1] Bernard Capen
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1568 England
Marriage 31 May 1596 to Joan Purchase
Death? 8 Nov 1638 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[4] Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

In his will, dated 9 October 1638 and probated 19 November 1652, "Barnard Capen" bequeathed to his son John five acres out of his great lot, the residue to his wife during her life, "and when it shall appear her days draw to an end, that she with the rest of my friends whom I put in trust, to divide these lands and goods to my children equally," naming trustees "Mr. Minit the elder, my brother George Dyer & Will[ia]m Sumner" [ SPR 1:84]. Given the terms of the document, probate of the will was presumably delayed until the widow's last illness, as she died just four months later.

References
  1. ↑ Editor: William Richard Cutter & William Frederick Adams. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating To the Families of the state of Massachusetts. (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1910).
  2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:333.

    CAPEN, BERNARD, Dorchester, came, perhaps after his s. for he was adm. freem. not until 16 May 1636, and d. 8 Nov. 1638, aged 70, and his wid. d. of Oliver Purchis, m. on the Monday of Whitsun week, 1596, d. 26 Mar. 1653, aged 75, acc. the gr.stone inscript. thot. to be the earliest in N. E. His will of 9 Oct. preced. his d. was not pro. bef. Nov. 1652. Abstr. of it is in Geneal. Reg. V. 240. Only three ch. are kn. Ruth, b. 7 Aug. 1600; Susanna, 11 Apr. 1602; and John, 26 Jan. 1613. Susanna d. 13 Nov. 1666. He was from Dorchester, in O. E. as appears from nuncup. will of Henry Russell, wh. left him a legacy there.

  3.   Bernard Capen, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    ORIGIN: Dorchester, Dorsetshire MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester OCCUPATION: Shoemaker.
    BIRTH: About 1562 based on age at death, but this may be an exaggeration, judging by date of marriage.
    DEATH: Dorchester 8 November 1638, aged 76 [NEHGR 2:80, 5:97].
    MARRIAGE: 31 May 1596 Joan Purchase, daughter of Oliver Purchase [ NEHGR 2:80]; born about 1578 based on age at death; admitted to second church of Dorchester, probably about 1638 [ DChR 4]; she died Dorchester 26 March 1653, aged 75 [ NEHGR 2:80].

  4. ↑ Bernard Capen, in Find A Grave.
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