Person:John Levens (2)

John came to New England aboard the ship William & Francis leaving London the March 9, 1632 and arriving in Boston Harbor June 5, 1632 along with Rev. Thomas Weld of Terling in Essex. It is probable that others who made the voyage were attached to his ministry. John Leavens was one of the 19 men who joined in covenant, creating the Church of Christ of Roxborough where Rev. Thomas Weld became pastor. John became a freeman in 1634, giving his oath in Boston.^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} John Levens, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:1173-75.

   "ORIGIN: Unknown
   MIGRATION: 1632 on William & Francis [Hotten 149]"
   "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Roxbury 1632: 'John Leavens he arrived at N. E. in the year 1632. His wife lay bedrid diverse years. After she died he married Rachel Write a Godly maid a member of our church: John, his first born, was born the last of the second month anno 1640' [RChR 74]."
   FREEMAN: 4 March 1633/4 [MBCR 1:368]."
   "BIRTH: About 1582 (at the baptism of his twin sons on 15 September 1644, Eliot refers to the father as 'in the 63 year of his age' [RChR 115]).
   DEATH: Roxbury 15 November 1647 'John Leavens an ancient godly Christian, died of a palsy' [RChR 173]."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Leavens, Philo French. The Leavens name, including Levings: an account of the posterity descending from emigrant John Levins, 1632-1903. (Passaic Daily News Print, 1903)
   4, 9.

   "A record says:─'1647 Month 9 day 15 John Levens an ancient godly Christian dyed of a dead palsie'"

3. ↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   2:575.

   "Levins, … John, householder, [died] Nov. 16, 1647."