Person:John Fiske (40)
Reverend John Fiske
chr.20 Mar 1607/08 South Elmham St. James, Suffolk, England
d.14 Jan 1676/77 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Reverend John Fiske1607/08 - 1676/77
  2. Anne Fiske1610 - 1649
  3. Nathaniel FiskeBef 1614 - 1614
  4. William FiskeAft 1614 - Bef 1654
  5. Martha FiskeAbt 1616 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Reverend John Fiske1607/08 - 1676/77
  • W.  Ann Gibbs1605 - 1671/72
m. 1635
  1. Ann Fiske - 1681
  2. John FiskeBef 1637 - Abt 1700
  3. Sarah Fiske1640 -
  4. Rev. Moses Fiske1642 - 1708
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Reverend John Fiske
Gender Male
Christening[1] 20 Mar 1607/08 South Elmham St. James, Suffolk, England
Degree[1] 1628/29 B.A. Cambridge, England
Marriage 1635 to Ann Gibbs
Emigration[1] 1637
Residence[1] 1637 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1637 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1641 Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1656 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1] 8 Jun 1676
Occupation[1] Planter, minister, physician
Death[1] 14 Jan 1676/77 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 22 Feb 1676/77

"REV. JOHN (FISKE), B. A., of Salem, Wenham, and Chelmsford, Mass., planter, minister, physician, bapt. at St. James, South Elmham, 20 Mar. 1607/8; d. probably at Chelmsford, Mass., 14 Jan. 1676/7 (Chelmsford Vital Records); m. (1) in 1635 ANNE GIPPES of Frenze, co. Norfolk, who d. at Chelmsford 14 Feb. 1671/2; m. (2) at Chelmsford, 1 Aug. 1672, ELIZABETH HINCHMAN (or HINCKSMAN) widow of Edmund Hinchman.

He was admitted sizar at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 2 July 1625, and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1628/9.

In 1637, with his wife and one or two children, his two sisters, and his younger brother William, he emigrated to New England, and, after tarrying first at Cambridge, Mass., moved in the same year to Salem. He was admitted freeman 2 Nov. 1637, was preacher and schoolmaster at Salem for almost four years, moved to Wenham in 1641, gathered a church there, of which he was pastor, 1644-1656, and then went, with the greater part of his church, to Chelmsford, where he was the first pastor and served both in that office and also a physician until his death.

In his will, dated 8 June 1676 and proved 22 Feb. 1676/7, he bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth, his son John, and John's wife Lydia, his daughters Sarah, wife of John Farwell, and Anna, and his younger son Moses [Moses Fiske, A.B. (Harvard, 1662), A.M. (ib., 1665), died in 1708.], and also to William, eldest son of his (the testator's) brother William, late of Wenham, and to his widow and their other children. (Cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses, part 1, vol. 2, p. 144, Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 2, Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, and Chelmsford Vital Records.)"[1]

References
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Genealogical Research In England. The Fiske Family", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    88:272-273.
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