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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
p. 45.
John Capen ye son of Samuell Capen Junr and Ann His wife was borne march ye 21 1701.
[See note about double-dating]
- ↑ Hayden, Charles Albert, and Jessie Hale Tuttle. The Capen family : descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1919)
p. 29, 38.
John Capen [#67], s/o Samuel Capen, b. Dorcehster 21 Mar 1701/2 [sic, see note ], d. bef 1750, m. Dorchester 5 Jan 1726/7 Elizabeth Hall.
John Capen [#54], s/o Preserved Capen, b. Dorchester "(2 April?) 1695" [see note ], d. Braintree 1748, m. Braintree 20 Sep 1722 Ruth Thayer.
- ↑ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collection. (New England Historic Genealogical Society).
[Elm St. Cemetery of formerly Old Braintree]
CAPEN, John April 12 1748 in 48th year.
- Source:Bartlett, J. Gardner. Simon Stone Genealogy, p. 58, interprets the Dorchester record as 1700/1, while the Capen Family chooses 1701/2. To the extent the copy online (here) maintains the original order, it appears Bartlett is correct. Bartlett's choice also provides a more like spacing of sibling births, since the surrounding children are born in 1698 and 1703.
- ↑ Unfortunately, it appears that the Capen Family book is hopelessly confused and wrong in its arrangement of John Capens (as has been documented on the Source page for this source), a mistake that appears to spread out and infect its treatment of most of the John Capens for a couple of generations. In this case, Preserved's son John is shown by record to be b. 1694 and d. 1695 and is not mentioned in the division of his estate in 1715 so probably is not the man who married Ruth Thayer. The age at death in Braintree 1748 matches the birth of the son of Samuel, so he is almost certainly the husband of Ruth Thayer, and not the husband of Elizabeth Hall.
This conclusion is supported by two deeds showing that the son of Samuel Capen, having brothers Samuel and Purchase, was a cordwainer, and the husband of Ruth Thayer of Braintree was a cordwainer. (The other deeds of John Capen, presumably a different person, give occupation as yeoman.)
Vol. 49, folio 197 front
5 Nov 1730: Samuel Capen Tertius Yeoman and John Capen Tert's Cordwainer and Purchase Capen Cooper all of Dorchester, for £300 to Samuel Capen Yeoman and Hopstill Capen his Son Yeoman both of said Dorchester all that was our Father Samuel Capen Ye'o. of said Deceased of land "late in the said Township of Dorcester but now in the Townships of Stoughton or Wrentham" or that was laid out to our Grandfather John Capen of said Dorchester Taylor Dec'd Or allowed to our Grate Grandfather Cap't John Capen of said Dorchester Deceased. Signed by Samuel Capen Ter., John Capen Ter., and Purchase Capen.
Vol. 56, folio 227 reverse
10 Aug 1737 John Capen of Braintree Cordwainer and Ruth his Wife for £41-10-0 to Ebenezer Jones of Dorchester 2 acres in Dorchester. Signed by John Capen and Ruth Capen.
Note also, that Ruth's husband is called John Capen Tertius (as in the 1730 deed above) in the recorded births of their children from 1727 to 1732. The John Capen that was b. 1685 died in 1733, so in 1734, Ruth's husband is now referred to as John Jr. The remaining, older, John is probably the son of Samuel Capen and Susanna Payson, b. 1696.
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