Person:John Luther (9)

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John Luther
d.17 Sep 1645
  • HJohn Luther1597 - 1645
  • W.  Elizabeth Turner (add)
  1. Rev. Samuel LutherAbt 1636 - 1716
  2. Hezekiah LutherAbt 1639 - 1723
Facts and Events
Name[2] John Luther
Gender Male
Birth[1] 11 Dec 1597 Canford Magna, Dorset, England
Marriage to Elizabeth Turner (add)
Residence[2][3] 1639 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 17 Sep 1645 Killed "by Indians" while on a trading expedition
Burial? Buried at sea in Delaware Bay


See FindAGrave Memorial: [[1]]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 FindAGrave.com.

    See memorial for notes from Governor John Winthrop's journal

  2. 2.0 2.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    p132.

    "JOHN, Taunton 1639, by Baylies, [vol.] I 286, numb. as one of the purch. yet may have been of Gloucester 1647"..."A capt. of a vessel trading to Delaware, from Boston of this name, in 1644, was k. by the Ind. in that riv. See Winth. [vol.] II, 203, 237."

  3. Baylies, Francis. An historical memoir of the colony of New Plymouth. (Boston, Massachusetts: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1830)
    p286.

    "John Luther 6" [is listed among the forty-six original proprietors of Taunton, published in Boston, 1866]