Person:John Warren (150)

John (Warren), Boston, tobacconist, or cardmaker, as in the will he is call. by first w. had Joshua; Thomas; Mary, b. a. 1665; and perhaps Sarah; but the name of h is w. is unkn. nor is any b. found on the rec. so that it seems prob. that he had these ch. in ano. town, where the mo. may have also d. I think he was early of Exeter, there m. 21 Oct. 1650, Deborah Wilson, wh. d. 26 June 1668. In 1669, he m. Eliz. wid. of John Combs, wh. had d. in May of that yr. preced. She had first been wid. of Thomas Barlow. By this w. he had Nathaniel, b. 27 May 1670, and this w. d. next yr. or early in 1672, for in Feb. of this yr. he exhibit. inv. of her goods, and engag. to fulfil her desire towards her three ds. and his s. by her, in their distrib. to one Barlow, two Combs, and Nathaniel, This s. and Mary Combs, in 1685, chose for their guardian, Joseph Ryall of Charlestown, wh. they call. uncle. A third w. Eliz. brought him Abigail, 10 May 1676; and John, posthum. 10 Feb. 1678. He may have been the freem. of 1670, and d. in July 1677, mak. his will 10, wh. was pro. 31 of that mo. and his wid. 4 Oct. 1681, bec. sec. w. of Samuel Lendall, by contr. of that date, in wh. he provid. good portion for her, as did also her third h. John Hayward, the Not. Pub. to wh. 1685, she bec. sec. w. and for her fourth h. she had a rich man, Phineas Wilson of Hartford. Neither of the last three hs. had by her any ch. He seems to have had small est. and in his will is nothing of interest exc. the gift to his s. Joshua, "my engine with wh. I cut tobacco."

John (Warren), planter, cordmaker, Exeter by 22 Apr. 1649 and gr. 5 a. in 1650. Sued John Cass, John Garland, and Humphrey Wilson (for a debt due from Mr. John Legate), 1653-1664, and was summonsed in 1661 for felling trees on the Shrewsbury men's divisions. On committee to lay out county way betw. Ex. and Hampt. 1661, Squamscott bounds 1668. Selectman 1655, 1657; j. 1663. In Oct. 1668 the town sued him and John Folsom as bondsm. for Mary Folsom, sr. Of Boston in 1673 when he sold his int. in an Ex. mill. … He m. 1st 21 Oct. 1650 Deborah Wilson who d. 26 June 1668; m. 2d wid. Elizabeth Coombs and took adm. on her est. in Jan. 1671-2. Will, 10-31 July 1677, gives to 3d w. Elizabeth to bring up her ch. Nathaniel and Abigail, acc. to pre-nupt. contract (or, by ano. abstract, 'my s. Nathaniel and Abigail'), to sons Joshua and Thomas, and 'the rest of my ch.' She m. successively, Samuel Sendall, John Hayward, Phineas Wilson of Hartford. Her will, 5 Jan. 1724-5-Aug. 1727, gives to dau. Abigail and ch., dau. Warren of Boston and her s. Thomas, dau. Mary -Bird- of Hingham, and many others, several called 'daughter' and poss. one or more a Warren. See Early Conn. Prob. Records, Hartford District, ii: 619-624. Kn. ch. by 1st w: Joshua; his fa. willed him 'the engine I cut tobacco with.' Thomas, as 'jr.' had an Ex. gr. in 1664, … T. W. an Ex. abuttor 1680-1697. Mary, m. 24 Dec. 1685 John Burr of Hingham, where she d. 26 July 1742, ag. 77. By 2d w: Nathaniel, b. in Boston 27 May 1670. His mo. willed to her ch: Sarah Barlow, Elizabeth and Mary Coombs, Nathl. W. In 1685 their uncle Joseph Royal, gave bond as gdn. of Mary and Nathl.; the inv. incl. Winter Harbor land and wareho. and debts of fishermen and others, many of them left by Mr. Downes. … By 3d w: Abigail, b. in Boston 10 May 1676, m. 1st ± 1693 Richard Lord, m. 2d by 1716, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, both men of Hartford. John, b. in Boston 10 Feb. 1677, not in will of any step-fa., tho two of them named his sis. Abigail.