Person:Increase Nowell (1)

m. 7 Feb 1591/92
  1. Increase Nowell1593 - 1655
m. 8 Jul 1628
  1. Joseph Nowell1629 - 1629
  2. Increase Nowell1630 - 1631/32
  3. Abigail Nowell1632 - 1633/34
  4. Samuel Nowell1634 - 1688
  5. Eleazer Nowell1636 - 1636
  6. Mehitabel Nowell1637/38 - 1711
  7. Increase Nowell1640 -
  8. Mary Nowell1643 - Bef 1729/30
  9. Alexander NowellAbt 1645 - 1672
Facts and Events
Name Increase Nowell
Gender Male
Christening[3] 19 Aug 1593 Sheldon, Warwickshire, England
Marriage 8 Jul 1628 Holy Trinity Minories, Middlesex, Englandto Parnell Gray
Emigration[1] 1630
Residence[1] 1630 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2] 1 Nov 1655 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? Increase Nowell
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Increase Nowell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1342-46.

    Increase Nowell b. by 1603 [estimate based on marriage], d. Charlestown 1 Nov 1655 [so stated by inventory of his estate], m. London 8 Jul 1628 Parnell (Gray) Parker.

  2. Appleton, William S. Early Wills Illustrating the Ancestry of Harriot Coffin: with Genealogical and Biographical Notes. (Boston: Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1893)
    p. 29, 73-75.

    Will of "Increase Nowell of Charlestowne in New England planter", dated 23 of the 4th Month [June] 1655, proved 25 Dec 1655, mentions "my mother Coitmore ... if living", son Increase, son Alexander, son Samuell, daughters Mehetabell & Mary [all except Samuel appear to be under age]; bequeasts to "Mr Zachary Sims o[u]r Pastor of Charlestowne", "Mr John Wilson Pastor of Boston", "Mr John Green ruling Elder in Charlestowne", Ralph Mousall, Robert Hale. Wife Parnell Nowell and son Samuel named executors, Ralph Mousall and Robert Hale overseers.

  3. Randy A West, The "Cousin" relationship between Rev. Francis1 Higginson of Salem, Massachusetts, and Increase1 Nowell of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    Vol 90 No 1 Whole # 357 p 71-76, Jan 2018.

    Rev Francis1 Higginson, bp. 6 Aug 1587 Cleabroke (aka Claybrooke, Leicestershire), d Salem, Mass., 6 Aug. 1630; m St. Peter, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 8 Jan. 1615/6, Anne Herbert, Immigrated 1629; son of Vicar JohnA Higginson b 1543 buried there 19 Feb 1623/4 and his 2nd wife Elizabeth ____ buried 19 Jun 1635, JohnA Higginson whose will dated 4 Dec 1623 proved 2 Apr 1624... etc.

    Increase1 Nowell, bp. Sheldon, Warwickshire, 19 Aug. 1593, d Charlestown, Mass., 1 Nov. 1655; m. Holy Trinity Minories, London, 8 Jul 1628, Parnell (Gray) Parker; immigrated 1630. He was son of AlexanderA Nowell and SarahA Smyth. The will of SarahA Smyth dated 1 Mar 1644 proved 18 Jun 1651. She was bp 27 Feb 1574/5 Sheldon, Warwickshire and was buried Claybrooke 12 Mar 1644/5. AlexanderA Nowell was buried Sheldon, 27 Sep 1596. They were married 7 Feb 1591/2. She married 2nd William Perkins by 1605 who was buried Claybrooke, 24 Mar 1608/9. She married 3rd 22 Sep 1610 Claybrooke to Richard Perkins who was buried 2 Oct 1619.

    Bartholomew Perkins (half-brother of Increase1 Nowell) married Ann Andrews daughter of Elizabeth Higginson sister of Rev Francis1 Higginson.


The Winthrop Fleet (1630)
The Winthrop Fleet brought over 700 colonists to establish a new colony at Massachusetts Bay. The fleet consisted of eleven ships: the Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the Ambrose, the Charles, the Mayflower, the Jewel, the Hopewell, The Success, the Trial, the Whale, the Talbot and the William and Francis.
  Sailed: April and May 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
  Arrived: June and July 1630 at Salem, Massachusetts
  Previous Settlers: The Higginson Fleet (1629)

  Passengers: Winthrop wrote to his wife just before they set sail that there were seven hundred passengers. Six months after their arrival, Thomas Dudley wrote to Bridget Fiennes, Countess of Lincoln and mother of Lady Arbella and Charles Fiennes, that over two hundred passengers had died between their landing April 30 and the following December, 1630.
  Selected leaders and prominent settlers: Gov. John Winthrop - Richard Saltonstall - Isaac Johnson - Gov. Thomas Dudley - Gov. William Coddington - William Pynchon - William Vassall - John Revell - Robert Seely - Edward Convers - Gov. Simon Bradstreet - John Underhill - William Phelps

  Resources: The Winthrop Society - The Winthrop Fleet (Wikipedia) - Anderson's Winthrop Fleet