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- Freeman - 18 May 1631
town Officer - Deputy Lt
he arranged for sale of Patiomony for himself, his sister Judith Palmer & brother Tobias Freeke
!The Shotwell Family by A.M. Shotwell Th
!The Shotwell Family by A.M. Shotwell The Feake Family of North London and Coloniel America Ancestral Lilnes Revised
Apparently lost his mind. He and Eliza
Apparently lost his mind. He and Elizabeth were divorced about 1648, because he left her and returned to England. His abrupt return to England has never been fully explained, but a man named Robert Feake was pardoned for an unstated crime by the House of Commons on March 4, 1649/50. He eventually returned to Watertown MA, where he died. An interesting source for this man is the novel "The Winthrop Woman" by Anya Seaton. The portrayal there of Robert Feake as a person is obviously fictional, but the dates and names of his wife and children are historically correct, and the author's portrayal fits the facts in a plausible way. The portrayal in "The Great Migration Begins" is more clinical, but does not contradict the novel. Feake had been a goldsmith in England, and was well-educated. Came with the Winthrop fleet, took freeman's oath May 18, 1631, with first group to do so. Was made Lieutenant 4 September 1632, and was deputy for Watertown 1634, 1635 and 1636. The fact that he was treated as a person of some importance may have been partly due to his being married to a niece of Governor Winthrop. He, along with Donald Patrick, purchased the site of Greenwich, CT in 1640. An intersting family footnote is that he sold some of his Watertown land to ancestors of ours (Simon Stone - #7080, and John Benjamin - #2956). He was either a very impractical or an unbalanced man, who was able to manage neither his estate nor his wife. After he left or abandoned her, his wife apparently managed to get a divorce in New Amsterdam, claimed to be married to William Hallett, had children by him, and lived with him until she died. Once Feake returned to New England he was apparently a helpless man who was cared for by the town of Watertown, MA until his death. He left an estate of 9 pounds, 9s., 2p., very meager indeed.
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!SPOUSE: LDS ANCESTRAL FILE #8XKV-FG. !SPOUSE-CHILDREN: COLONIAL ANCESTORS OF EDWARD JACKSON (1741-1807), REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, by Glady Stutler Hoffmann; 660 Longwood Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA; 1967; p. 20; FHL film #0854154, item 6; 31 pgs. Robert Feake was the 2nd husband of Elizabeth Fones. He came with the first fleet of 1630 and settled at Watertown; where he was one of the first and largest proprietors. Robert, a silversmith, was unfitted for the rigorous, dangerous life of a pioneer and lost his mind. He went back to England, leaving Elizabeth, her six children and his considerable property, including the Manor of Greenwich, to shift for themselves.
!BIOGRAPHY: George E. McCracken, "The Fe
!BIOGRAPHY: George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, And
!Robt Feake, large land owner in Waterto
!Robt Feake, large land owner in Watertown MA; Mt. Feake, in city named for him
See separate story about him and his wif
See separate story about him and his wife Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop. He was insane the last years of his life and was cared for by Samuel Thatcher, in whose home in Watertown, Mass. Bay Colony, he died. Ref: "Ancestral Lines Revised," Pg. 187 by Carl Boyer 3rd. Pub. 1981
1. Ancestral File.
1. Ancestral File.
1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET:
ARBELLA the fl
1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET:
ARBELLA the flagship
AMBROSE WILLIAM AND FRANCIS
TALBOT HOPEWELL
JEWEL WHALE
CHARLES SUCCESS
MAYFLOWER TRIAL
The first five ships sailed April 8 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and arrived at Salem June 13 and following days. The other half of the fleet sailed in May and arrived in July at various dates. Altogether they brought about seven hundred passengers of whom the following are presumed to have been on these ships.
ROBERT FEAKE of London, goldsmith Watertown
Capt. JOHN UNDERHILL of Holland Boston Mrs. Helen Underhill
JOHN WINTHROP of Croton, Suffolk Boston Henry Winthrop Stephen Winthrop Samuel Wlnthrop
RICHARD WRIGHT of Stepney, Middlesex Boston Mrs. Margaret Wright Elinor Wright ROBERT WRIGHT of London Boston
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WILLSON FAMILY, P.260; DELAFIELD FAMILY,
WILLSON FAMILY, P.260; DELAFIELD FAMILY, VOL 2 P.544; MARRIAGE RECORSD OF SAINT NICHLAS ACONS CHURCH, SAINT MARY WOOLNOTH CHURCH, SAINT EDMUND THE KING CHURCH, LONDON, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND; DEATH RECORDS OF WATERTOWN, MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL ANC BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIEL VOL 1955-1956, P.145, 155, 212, 213; THE FEAKE FAMILY OF NORFOLK, LONDON, AND COLONIAL AMERICA, PALMER ANCESTRY BY BYRON S. PAL;MER P.2117;
Apparently lost his mind. He and Eliza
Apparently lost his mind. He and Elizabeth were divorced about 1648, because he left her and returned to England. He eventually returned to Watertown MA, where he died. an interesting source for this man is the novel "The Winthrop Woman" by Anya Seaton. The portrayal there of Robert Feake as a person is obviously fictional, but the dates and names of his wife and children are historically correct. The portrayal in "The Great Migration Begins" is more clinical, but does not contradict the novel. Feake had been a goldsmith in England, and was well-educated. Came with the Winthrop fleet, took freeman's oath May 18, 1631, with first group to do so. Was made Lieutenant 4 September 1632, and was deputy for Watertown 1634, 1635 and 1636. The fact that he was treated as a person of some importance may have been partly due to his being married to a niece of Governor Winthrop. He, along with Donald Patrick, purchased the site of Greenwich, CT in 1640. He was either a very impractical or unbalanced man, who was able to manage neither his estate nor his wife. After he left or abandoned her, his wife apparently managed to get a divorce in New Amsterdam, claimed to be married to William Hallett, had children by him, and lived with him until she died. Once Feake returned to New England he was apparently a helpless man who was cared for by the town of Watertown, MA until his death.
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!"Feake/Feeks genealogy from "The Feake
!"Feake/Feeks genealogy from "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London & Colonial America"pp 387-427 of " genealogies of Long Island Families" vol 1. 1987 Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.
"B13/31 - 109 N.Y.L.S. 4-202 Am. Pub. N.
"B13/31 - 109 N.Y.L.S. 4-202 Am. Pub. N. 42-206 Thorn Family Tem. Rec. Marr rec of St. Nicholas Acons Ch, St. Mary Woolnoth & St. Edmund the King Church" Lieutenant, goldsmith.
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FEAKE--FEKE--FEAK. First Generation. JA
FEAKE--FEKE--FEAK. First Generation. JAMES FEAKE, of Norfolk, England. Second Generation. WILLIAM, of London, b. Wighton, County Norfolk. Will dated 1595; m. Mary Wetherell. Third Generation JAMES, m. Judith, daughter of Robert Thomas of London. James was a goldsmith, and Oct. 5, 1639, a letter of attorney was granted to Tobyas Dixon, citizen of London, that he might sell a tenement in Lumbard St., London, for estate of James Feke. Fourth Generation. ROBERT, of Watertown, Mass., 1630, came over with Winthrop. He was made Freeman May 18, 1631; Selectman, 1637-39-40; representative, 1634, at the first court, and 1635-36; appointed by the court Sept. 4, 1632, a lieutenant, under Capt. Daniel Patrick, and united with him in the purchase of Greenwich, Conn., in 1640. He signed the original covenant of Dedham, Mass.; Nov. 23, 1638, he proposed to lay down his whole estate at Dedham for twenty marks of English money, when his lands were sold. It was agreed to. Aug. 7, 1639, he is called in the records of Dedham "of Watertown." He sold his homestead there, a house and ten acres, to Thomas Bright, for sixty pounds, who sold it Dec. 17, 1640, to Col. Ramborn. Mount Feake, in Waltham, was named for Lt. Feake, as was also Feake Island on the ocean side of Virginia, but the latter name has been corrupted to "Fetches" Island. He died Feb. 1, 1660-1, but married before the end of Jan., 1632, Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop, the widow of Henry Winthrop, and daughter of Thomas and Anne (Winthrop) Fones. Elizabeth, known as "Bessie," came to America Nov. 2, 1631. Henry Winthrop was the son of Gov. John Winthrop, and was drowned in the Salem River. Anne Winthrop, wife of Thomas Fones and mother of Elizabeth, was a sister of Gov. John Winthrop. Robert Feake died at the home of Samuel Thacher, who disposed of his estate to defray expenses.
Robert was apprenticed to his father to
Robert was apprenticed to his father to learn the trade of goldsmith. By 1630 he was in Massachusetts Bay Colony and resided in Watertown.
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1. B13/31 - 109; NYLS 4 - 202; Am Pub N,
1. B13/31 - 109; NYLS 4 - 202; Am Pub N, 42 - 206; Thorn Fam Temple Rec. 2. Marr rec of St. Nicholas Acons Ch, St. Mary Woolroth & St. Edmund the King Church, London, Eng; also rec of Stepney, Middlesex, Eng, Bishop of London. 3. "Death Rec of Watertown, Mdlsx, MA", NYG&BS, Vol 1955-1956, p 144-45, 212-13. 4. "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London & Colonial America", Palmer Ancestry, by Byron S. Palmer, p 2117. 5. Howard E. Hardy, FR. 6. Phoebe H. Stringham, FR. 7. Michel L. Call, PC 182. 8. Margaret J. Miner, AR.
He was the son of a prosperous goldsmith
He was the son of a prosperous goldsmith of London. Was apprenticed to his father for 8 years, Came with Winthrop's fleet, made freeman 1631.
!PARENTS-CHILDREN: Ancestral File;; LDS
!PARENTS-CHILDREN: Ancestral File;; LDS Church, CD-ROM ver 4.13, 18 Submitters;; Santa Cruz CA FHC, Jun 1994; BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CONFLICT: Hanna Feake was born 2 years before parents' marriage; ACTION: Verify dates. !BIRTH-PARENTS-ORDINANCES: Archive Record; 1602; LDS Church, Family Group Record submitted by Margaret J. Miner, Springville, UT;; FHL with photocopy in poss Dean Barton, Aptos CA; NOTE: Cited B 13/31-109, NYLS 4-202, Am Pub N 42 -206, Thorn Family Tem Rec, Marr rec of St Nicholas Acons Ch. St. Mary Woolworth & St, Edmund the King Church, The Feake Fam of Norfolk, London and Colonial America, Palmer Ancestry by Bryron S. Palmer, p 2117; CONFLICT: The FGR lists only six children (Hannah, John, Tobias, Elizabeth, Robert and Sarah), the birth dates and places for the parents match this database, but the children's do not match; ACTION: Need additional research for children's dates and places.
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Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration
Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633" (Boston, MA: NEHGS, c1995):
ROBERT FEAKE
ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Greenwich 1640, Watertown
RETURN TRIPS: 1647, returned to Watertown 1650
OCCUPATION: Goldsmith. He served an apprenticeship with his father, James Feake, for eight years beginning 21 September 1615, but probably never practiced his craft in the New World [NYGBR 86:212].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. Robte. Feake") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. Roberte Feakes") [MBCR 1:79, 366].
EDUCATION: His 1636 letter to John Winthrop Jr. shows a good education [WP 3:287]. His estate included a Bible [NYGBR 86:220].
OFFICES: Chosen lieutenant to Capt. Patrick, 4 September 1632 [MBCR 1:99]; deputy for Watertown to General Court, 14 May 1634, 4 March 1634/5, 6 May 1635, 3 March 1635/6, 25 May 1636, 8 September 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 135, 145, 164, 174, 178]; committee on fortifications, 3 September 1634 [MBCR 1:124]; committee on various boundary disputes, 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:139]; appointed magistrate for quarter court, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:175]; committee to arbitrate "difference betwixt Boston & Waymothe at Mount Woollaston," 25 October 1636 [MBCR 1:181].
Chosen Watertown selectman, 10 October 1636, 10 December 1638, 6 December 1639 [WaTR 1:2, 5].
ESTATE: Granted eighty acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [WaBOP 4]; granted twenty-four acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted forty acres in the Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 8]; granted nine acres at the Town Plot, 9 April 1638 [WaBOP 11].
In the Watertown Inventory of Grants "Robert Feke" was shown to have received nine parcels of land: fourteen acre homestall [ten acres sold to Simon Stone]; fifteen acres upland [ten acres sold to Thomas Bright by 1640 (Lechford 286-87)]; six acres marsh [sold to Simon Stone]; eighty acres upland in the Great Dividend [to John Benjamin]; twenty-four acres plowland [to John Benjamin]; forty acres Remote Meadow [twenty-five acres sold to Edward Howe]; nine acres upland [Town Plot, to Nathan Fiske]; six acres upland [sold to Daniel Patrick]; and six acres meadow in Plain Meadow [to John Page] [WaBOP 71]. (Robert Feake had disposed of his Watertown property before the compilation of the Watertown land inventories; the indication of sales of land given here derives mostly from comparison of the grants made to Feake with the later holdings of others.)
His house and farm lot at Dedham were held barely a year, he resigning them 21 September and 23 November 1638; Robert Feake attended only those early Dedham meetings which were actually held in Watertown, and never resided in Dedham [DeTR 3, 21-23, 25-26, 35, 49-50, 55, 57, 69, 167].
In 1640 he and Daniel Patrick purchased the site of Greenwich from the Indians, which fell for a time under Dutch authority. The act of submission was signed by Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake, acting in the absence and illness of her husband [NYGBR 86:214].
Mr. Robert Feakes was supported by the town of Watertown from 17 October 1650 until his death [WaTR 1:27, 28, 40, 43, 59, 64, 71, 73, 76].
BIRTH: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR 86:144-45].
DEATH: Watertown 1 February 1660/1 [WaVR 23].
MARRIAGE: Between 2 November 1631 and 27 January 1631/2 Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop, widow of Henry Winthrop (son of Governor JOHN WINTHROP). (See COMMENTS below for their "divorce" and her "remarriage" to William Hallett.)
CHILDREN [from NYGBR 86:220-21 unless otherwise stated]:
i ELIZABETH, b. probably about 1633; m. by 1659 as his second wife JOHN UNDERHILL.
ii HANNAH, b. probably Watertown June 1637; m. Flushing 7 May 1656 [NS] John Bowne as his first wife.
iii JOHN, b. probably Watertown about 1639; m. Killingworth, Oyster Bay, 15 September 1673 Elizabeth Prior [NYGBR 87:107-8].
iv ROBERT, bp. New York Dutch Church 17 July 1642 [NS]; m. Sarah _____, who took administration of his estate 19 June 1669.
v SARAH, bp. New York Dutch Church 14 April 1647 [NS]; d. before 21 July 1648 when only four children of Robert Feake are cared for [WP 5:238].
ASSOCIATIONS: HENRY FEAKE of Lynn and Sandwich was apprenticed to James Feake, father of Robert Feake, for a term of nine years in 1606 and was Robert's distant cousin. Tobias Feake & Judith (Feake) Palmer were niece and nephew of Robert Feake, children of Robert's brother James Feake of London [NYGBR 86:209, 211-12; Lechford 228-29].
COMMENTS: In his lengthy article on the Feake family (see HENRY FEAKE for full citation), George E. McCracken went into great detail on Robert Feake, and particularly on the matter of his "divorce," arguing that the couple had in fact received only a legal separation, and that Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feake was not free to remarry [NYGBR 86:212-21, 94:243-44]. In 1966 Donald Lines Jacobus reviewed the same problem, and came to the conclusion that Robert Feake and his wife did obtain a divorce from the Dutch government, that she had married William Hallett by August 1649, and that the marriage was performed by John Winthrop Jr., her former brother-in-law [NYGBR 97:131-34].
Feake was described as "... a man whose God-fearing heart was so absorbed with spiritual and heavenly things that he little thought of the things of this life, and took neither heed nor care of what was tendered to his external property" [NYGBR 86:214, citing court depositions as transcribed in NYGBR 11:12-24]. To others he was a distracted person who could not manage his estate, and whose lofty connections alone preserved him. Certainly his inability to control his property and his wife was a difficult burden for the Winthrops.
His abrupt return to England in 1647 is not sufficiently explained. McCracken suggests that the Robert Feake pardoned by the House of Commons 4 March 1649/50 for some unstated crime might be Robert of Watertown [NYGBR 86:215]. In any event, he left considerable scandal behind him in New England.
In a letter dated Stamford 14 April 1648, Thomas Lyon related to his "loving grandfather" John Winthrop the history of Mr. Feake and Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop:
...when I married first I lived in the house with her because my father being distracted I might be a help to her. Whereupon seeing several carriages between the fellow she now hath to be her husband and she the people also took notice of it which was to her disgrace which grieved me very much ... and seeing what condition she were in I spake to her about it privately and after I discovered my dislike I see her carriage alter toward me ... Father concerning the condition she is in and the children and estate my father Feike going away suddenly, having taken no course about the children and estate only desired a friend of his and I in case we see them about making away the estate and to remove we should stay it ... She also hath confessed since she came there openly she is married to him is with child by him and she hath been at New Haven but could have no comfort nor hopes for present to live in the jurisdiction and what will become of her I know not [WP 5:213-14].
In a letter dated New Haven 21 July 1648, Theophilus Eaton told John Winthrop Jr.:
...I understand William Hallet etc. are come to your plantation at Nameag, their grievious miscarriage hath certainly given great offense to many. I wish their repentance were as clear and satisfying. It is possible that William Hallet and she that was Mr. Feake's his wife are married, though not only the lawfulness and validity of such a marriage, but the reality and truth is by some questioned, because themselves and Toby Feakes sometimes deny it; but leaving that, I shall acquaint you ... with some passages about that estate. Mr. Feakes from Boston October 6, 1647 wrote to Stamford that he reserved the whole propriety of his estate, till he saw how God would deal with him in England, and desired he and the children might not be wronged etc., after which that estate being from the Dutch in danger of confiscation, they brought it to Stamford, and at their request, it was there seized, as wholly belonging to Mr. Feakes, though after they challenged part thereof as the proper estate of William Hallet, and she besides desired a share in what was due to Mr. Feakes. I was not willing they should be wronged in the least, ... and accordingly at their request, I wrote to Stamford. William Hallet after this brought a letter from your honored father, and told me, he met with some opposition at Stamford, whereupon I advised him to attend the Court of magistrates ... but I perceived in him an unwillingness thereunto.... It was ordered that ... if she settled at Watertown, Pequod, or within any of the English colonies, two of the children, with half Mr. Feakes his proper estate should be put into the power and trust of such English government ... with such respect to Mr. Feakes, as may be meet, and that the other half of the estate should be improved at Stamford for the use of Mr. Feakes and maintenance of the other two children. I hoped that this might have satisfied, but the next news was that William Hallet etc. in a secret underhand way, had taken the children, two cows, all the household goods, and what else I know not, and by water were gone away ... when they had all the estate in their hands, the children went (if not naked) very unsatisfyingly apparelled [WP 5:237-9].
John Winthrop Jr. interceded with Peter Stuyvesant in a letter in the beginning of 1648/9, asking him to manage what estate was left so that "Mrs. Feakes" and her children had a comfortable living [WP 5:298-99]. By the spring, Andrew Messenger was informing Winthrop that the estate at Greenwich was still unimproved [WP 5:323-24]. Winthrop wrote again in May to Stuyvesant, asking that he honor the agreement made between William Hallet with Mr. Feakes, Feakes having consented to i
Freeman - 18 May 1631
town Officer - Deputy Lt
he arranged for sale of Patiomony for himself, his sister Judith Palmer & brother Tobias Freeke
!The Shotwell Family by A.M. Shotwell Th
!The Shotwell Family by A.M. Shotwell The Feake Family of North London and Coloniel America Ancestral Lilnes Revised
Apparently lost his mind. He and Eliza
Apparently lost his mind. He and Elizabeth were divorced about 1648, because he left her and returned to England. His abrupt return to England has never been fully explained, but a man named Robert Feake was pardoned for an unstated crime by th e House of Commons on March 4, 1649/50. He eventually returned to Watertown MA, where he died. An interesting source for this man is the novel "The Winthrop Woman" by Anya Seaton. The portrayal there of Robert Feake as a person is obviously fi ctional, but the dates and names of his wife and children are historically correct, and the author's portrayal fits the facts in a plausible way. The portrayal in "The Great Migration Begins" is more clinical, but does not contradict the novel. F eake had been a goldsmith in England, and was well-educated. Came with the Winthrop fleet, took freeman's oath May 18, 1631, with first group to do so. Was made Lieutenant 4 September 1632, and was deputy for Watertown 1634, 1635 and 1636. Th e fact that he was treated as a person of some importance may have been partly due to his being married to a niece of Governor Winthrop. He, along with Donald Patrick, purchased the site of Greenwich, CT in 1640. An intersting family footnote i s that he sold some of his Watertown land to ancestors of ours (Simon Stone - #7080, and John Benjamin - #2956). He was either a very impractical or an unbalanced man, who was able to manage neither his estate nor his wife. After he left or aband oned her, his wife apparently managed to get a divorce in New Amsterdam, claimed to be married to William Hallett, had children by him, and lived with him until she died. Once Feake returned to New England he was apparently a helpless man who wa s cared for by the town of Watertown, MA until his death. He left an estate of 9 pounds, 9s., 2p., very meager indeed.
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!SPOUSE: LDS ANCESTRAL FILE #8XKV-FG. !SPOUSE-CHILDREN: COLONIAL ANCESTORS OF EDWARD JACKSON (1741-1807), REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, by Glady Stutler Hoffmann; 660 Longwood Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA; 1967; p. 20; FHL film #0854154, item 6; 31 pgs. Robe rt Feake was the 2nd husband of Elizabeth Fones. He came with the first fleet of 1630 and settled at Watertown; where he was one of the first and largest proprietors. Robert, a silversmith, was unfitted for the rigorous, dangerous life of a pion eer and lost his mind. He went back to England, leaving Elizabeth, her six children and his considerable property, including the Manor of Greenwich, to shift for themselves.
!BIOGRAPHY: George E. McCracken, "The Fe
!BIOGRAPHY: George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, And
!Robt Feake, large land owner in Waterto
!Robt Feake, large land owner in Watertown MA; Mt. Feake, in city named for him
See separate story about him and his wif
See separate story about him and his wife Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop. He was insane the last years of his life and was cared for by Samuel Thatcher, in whose home in Watertown, Mass. Bay Colony, he died. Ref: "Ancestral Lines Revised," Pg. 187 b y Carl Boyer 3rd. Pub. 1981
1. Ancestral File.
1. Ancestral File.
1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET:
ARBELLA the fl
1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET:
ARBELLA the flagship
AMBROSE WILLIAM AND FRANCIS
TALBOT HOPEWELL
JEWEL WHALE
CHARLES SUCCESS
MAYFLOWER TRIAL
The first five ships sailed April 8 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and arrived at Salem June 13 and following days. The other half of the fleet sailed in May and arrived in July at various dates. Altogether they brought about seven hundred passenge rs of whom the following are presumed to have been on these ships.
ROBERT FEAKE of London, goldsmith Watertown
Capt. JOHN UNDERHILL of Holland Boston Mrs. Helen Underhill
JOHN WINTHROP of Croton, Suffolk Boston Henry Winthrop Stephen Winthrop Samuel Wlnthrop
RICHARD WRIGHT of Stepney, Middlesex Boston Mrs. Margaret Wright Elinor Wright ROBERT WRIGHT of London Boston
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WILLSON FAMILY, P.260; DELAFIELD FAMILY, VOL 2 P.544; MARRIAGE RECORSD OF SAINT NICHLAS ACONS CHURCH, SAINT MARY WOOLNOTH CHURCH, SAINT EDMUND THE KING CHURCH, LONDON, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND; DEATH RECORDS OF WATERTOWN, MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW Y ORK GENEALOGICAL ANC BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIEL VOL 1955-1956, P.145, 155, 212, 213; THE FEAKE FAMILY OF NORFOLK, LONDON, AND COLONIAL AMERICA, PALMER ANCESTRY BY BYRON S. PAL;MER P.2117;
Apparently lost his mind. He and Eliza
Apparently lost his mind. He and Elizabeth were divorced about 1648, because he left her and returned to England. He eventually returned to Watertown MA, where he died. an interesting source for this man is the novel "The Winthrop Woman" by Any a Seaton. The portrayal there of Robert Feake as a person is obviously fictional, but the dates and names of his wife and children are historically correct. The portrayal in "The Great Migration Begins" is more clinical, but does not contradict t he novel. Feake had been a goldsmith in England, and was well-educated. Came with the Winthrop fleet, took freeman's oath May 18, 1631, with first group to do so. Was made Lieutenant 4 September 1632, and was deputy for Watertown 1634, 1635 an d 1636. The fact that he was treated as a person of some importance may have been partly due to his being married to a niece of Governor Winthrop. He, along with Donald Patrick, purchased the site of Greenwich, CT in 1640. He was either a very i mpractical or unbalanced man, who was able to manage neither his estate nor his wife. After he left or abandoned her, his wife apparently managed to get a divorce in New Amsterdam, claimed to be married to William Hallett, had children by him, an d lived with him until she died. Once Feake returned to New England he was apparently a helpless man who was cared for by the town of Watertown, MA until his death.
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!"Feake/Feeks genealogy from "The Feake
!"Feake/Feeks genealogy from "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London & Colonial America"pp 387-427 of " genealogies of Long Island Families" vol 1. 1987 Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.
"B13/31 - 109 N.Y.L.S. 4-202 Am. Pub. N.
"B13/31 - 109 N.Y.L.S. 4-202 Am. Pub. N. 42-206 Thorn Family Tem. Rec. Marr rec of St. Nicholas Acons Ch, St. Mary Woolnoth & St. Edmund the King Church" Lieutenant, goldsmith.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
FEAKE--FEKE--FEAK. First Generation. JA
FEAKE--FEKE--FEAK. First Generation. JAMES FEAKE, of Norfolk, England. Second Generation. WILLIAM, of London, b. Wighton, County Norfolk. Will dated 1595; m. Mary Wetherell. Third Generation JAMES, m. Judith, daughter of Robert Thomas of London. J ames was a goldsmith, and Oct. 5, 1639, a letter of attorney was granted to Tobyas Dixon, citizen of London, that he might sell a tenement in Lumbard St., London, for estate of James Feke. Fourth Generation. ROBERT, of Watertown, Mass., 1630, cam e over with Winthrop. He was made Freeman May 18, 1631; Selectman, 1637-39-40; representative, 1634, at the first court, and 1635-36; appointed by the court Sept. 4, 1632, a lieutenant, under Capt. Daniel Patrick, and united with him in the purcha se of Greenwich, Conn., in 1640. He signed the original covenant of Dedham, Mass.; Nov. 23, 1638, he proposed to lay down his whole estate at Dedham for twenty marks of English money, when his lands were sold. It was agreed to. Aug. 7, 1639, he i s called in the records of Dedham "of Watertown." He sold his homestead there, a house and ten acres, to Thomas Bright, for sixty pounds, who sold it Dec. 17, 1640, to Col. Ramborn. Mount Feake, in Waltham, was named for Lt. Feake, as was also Fea ke Island on the ocean side of Virginia, but the latter name has been corrupted to "Fetches" Island. He died Feb. 1, 1660-1, but married before the end of Jan., 1632, Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop, the widow of Henry Winthrop, and daughter of Thoma s and Anne (Winthrop) Fones. Elizabeth, known as "Bessie," came to America Nov. 2, 1631. Henry Winthrop was the son of Gov. John Winthrop, and was drowned in the Salem River. Anne Winthrop, wife of Thomas Fones and mother of Elizabeth, was a siste r of Gov. John Winthrop. Robert Feake died at the home of Samuel Thacher, who disposed of his estate to defray expenses.
Robert was apprenticed to his father to
Robert was apprenticed to his father to learn the trade of goldsmith. By 1630 he was in Massachusetts Bay Colony and resided in Watertown.
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1. B13/31 - 109; NYLS 4 - 202; Am Pub N,
1. B13/31 - 109; NYLS 4 - 202; Am Pub N, 42 - 206; Thorn Fam Temple Rec. 2. Marr rec of St. Nicholas Acons Ch, St. Mary Woolroth & St. Edmund the King Church, London, Eng; also rec of Stepney, Middlesex, Eng, Bishop of London. 3. "Death Rec of Wat ertown, Mdlsx, MA", NYG&BS, Vol 1955-1956, p 144-45, 212-13. 4. "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London & Colonial America", Palmer Ancestry, by Byron S. Palmer, p 2117. 5. Howard E. Hardy, FR. 6. Phoebe H. Stringham, FR. 7. Michel L. Ca ll, PC 182. 8. Margaret J. Miner, AR.
He was the son of a prosperous goldsmith
He was the son of a prosperous goldsmith of London. Was apprenticed to his father for 8 years, Came with Winthrop's fleet, made freeman 1631.
!PARENTS-CHILDREN: Ancestral File;; LDS
!PARENTS-CHILDREN: Ancestral File;; LDS Church, CD-ROM ver 4.13, 18 Submitters;; Santa Cruz CA FHC, Jun 1994; BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CONFLICT: Hanna Feake was born 2 years before parents' marriage; ACTION: Verify dates. !BIRTH-PARENTS-ORDINANCES: Archiv e Record; 1602; LDS Church, Family Group Record submitted by Margaret J. Miner, Springville, UT;; FHL with photocopy in poss Dean Barton, Aptos CA; NOTE: Cited B 13/31-109, NYLS 4-202, Am Pub N 42 -206, Thorn Family Tem Rec, Marr rec of St Nicho las Acons Ch. St. Mary Woolworth & St, Edmund the King Church, The Feake Fam of Norfolk, London and Colonial America, Palmer Ancestry by Bryron S. Palmer, p 2117; CONFLICT: The FGR lists only six children (Hannah, John, Tobias, Elizabeth, Robert a nd Sarah), the birth dates and places for the parents match this database, but the children's do not match; ACTION: Need additional research for children's dates and places.
Pricilla Adams Wood 640 Gretchen Rd Chul
Pricilla Adams Wood 640 Gretchen Rd Chula Vista CA 91910 (619) 426-3962 2 May 1994 Flushing Quaker Records He was mantally ill and she divorced him
Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration
Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633" (Boston, MA: NEHGS, c1995):
ROBERT FEAKE
ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Greenwich 1640, Watertown
RETURN TRIPS: 1647, returned to Watertown 1650
OCCUPATION: Goldsmith. He served an apprenticeship with his father, James Feake, for eight years beginning 21 September 1615, but probably never practiced his craft in the New World [NYGBR 86:212].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. Robte. Feake") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. Roberte Feakes") [MBCR 1:79, 366].
EDUCATION: His 1636 letter to John Winthrop Jr. shows a good education [WP 3:287]. His estate included a Bible [NYGBR 86:220].
OFFICES: Chosen lieutenant to Capt. Patrick, 4 September 1632 [MBCR 1:99]; deputy for Watertown to General Court, 14 May 1634, 4 March 1634/5, 6 May 1635, 3 March 1635/6, 25 May 1636, 8 September 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 135, 145, 164, 174, 178]; commit tee on fortifications, 3 September 1634 [MBCR 1:124]; committee on various boundary disputes, 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:139]; appointed magistrate for quarter court, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:175]; committee to arbitrate "difference betwixt Boston & Waymot he at Mount Woollaston," 25 October 1636 [MBCR 1:181].
Chosen Watertown selectman, 10 October 1636, 10 December 1638, 6 December 1639 [WaTR 1:2, 5].
ESTATE: Granted eighty acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [WaBOP 4]; granted twenty-four acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted forty acres in the Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 8]; gran ted nine acres at the Town Plot, 9 April 1638 [WaBOP 11].
In the Watertown Inventory of Grants "Robert Feke" was shown to have received nine parcels of land: fourteen acre homestall [ten acres sold to Simon Stone]; fifteen acres upland [ten acres sold to Thomas Bright by 1640 (Lechford 286-87)]; six acre s marsh [sold to Simon Stone]; eighty acres upland in the Great Dividend [to John Benjamin]; twenty-four acres plowland [to John Benjamin]; forty acres Remote Meadow [twenty-five acres sold to Edward Howe]; nine acres upland [Town Plot, to Natha n Fiske]; six acres upland [sold to Daniel Patrick]; and six acres meadow in Plain Meadow [to John Page] [WaBOP 71]. (Robert Feake had disposed of his Watertown property before the compilation of the Watertown land inventories; the indication o f sales of land given here derives mostly from comparison of the grants made to Feake with the later holdings of others.)
His house and farm lot at Dedham were held barely a year, he resigning them 21 September and 23 November 1638; Robert Feake attended only those early Dedham meetings which were actually held in Watertown, and never resided in Dedham [DeTR 3, 21-23 , 25-26, 35, 49-50, 55, 57, 69, 167].
In 1640 he and Daniel Patrick purchased the site of Greenwich from the Indians, which fell for a time under Dutch authority. The act of submission was signed by Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake, acting in the absence and illness of her husban d [NYGBR 86:214].
Mr. Robert Feakes was supported by the town of Watertown from 17 October 1650 until his death [WaTR 1:27, 28, 40, 43, 59, 64, 71, 73, 76].
BIRTH: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR 86:144-45].
DEATH: Watertown 1 February 1660/1 [WaVR 23].
MARRIAGE: Between 2 November 1631 and 27 January 1631/2 Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop, widow of Henry Winthrop (son of Governor JOHN WINTHROP). (See COMMENTS below for their "divorce" and her "remarriage" to William Hallett.)
CHILDREN [from NYGBR 86:220-21 unless otherwise stated]:
i ELIZABETH, b. probably about 1633; m. by 1659 as his second wife JOHN UNDERHILL.
ii HANNAH, b. probably Watertown June 1637; m. Flushing 7 May 1656 [NS] John Bowne as his first wife.
iii JOHN, b. probably Watertown about 1639; m. Killingworth, Oyster Bay, 15 September 1673 Elizabeth Prior [NYGBR 87:107-8].
iv ROBERT, bp. New York Dutch Church 17 July 1642 [NS]; m. Sarah _____, who took administration of his estate 19 June 1669.
v SARAH, bp. New York Dutch Church 14 April 1647 [NS]; d. before 21 July 1648 when only four children of Robert Feake are cared for [WP 5:238].
ASSOCIATIONS: HENRY FEAKE of Lynn and Sandwich was apprenticed to James Feake, father of Robert Feake, for a term of nine years in 1606 and was Robert's distant cousin. Tobias Feake & Judith (Feake) Palmer were niece and nephew of Robert Feake , children of Robert's brother James Feake of London [NYGBR 86:209, 211-12; Lechford 228-29].
COMMENTS: In his lengthy article on the Feake family (see HENRY FEAKE for full citation), George E. McCracken went into great detail on Robert Feake, and particularly on the matter of his "divorce," arguing that the couple had in fact received on ly a legal separation, and that Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feake was not free to remarry [NYGBR 86:212-21, 94:243-44]. In 1966 Donald Lines Jacobus reviewed the same problem, and came to the conclusion that Robert Feake and his wife did obtai n a divorce from the Dutch government, that she had married William Hallett by August 1649, and that the marriage was performed by John Winthrop Jr., her former brother-in-law [NYGBR 97:131-34].
Feake was described as "... a man whose God-fearing heart was so absorbed with spiritual and heavenly things that he little thought of the things of this life, and took neither heed nor care of what was tendered to his external property" [NYGBR 86 :214, citing court depositions as transcribed in NYGBR 11:12-24]. To others he was a distracted person who could not manage his estate, and whose lofty connections alone preserved him. Certainly his inability to control his property and his wif e was a difficult burden for the Winthrops.
His abrupt return to England in 1647 is not sufficiently explained. McCracken suggests that the Robert Feake pardoned by the House of Commons 4 March 1649/50 for some unstated crime might be Robert of Watertown [NYGBR 86:215]. In any event, he l eft considerable scandal behind him in New England.
In a letter dated Stamford 14 April 1648, Thomas Lyon related to his "loving grandfather" John Winthrop the history of Mr. Feake and Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop:
...when I married first I lived in the house with her because my father being distracted I might be a help to her. Whereupon seeing several carriages between the fellow she now hath to be her husband and she the people also took notice of it whic h was to her disgrace which grieved me very much ... and seeing what condition she were in I spake to her about it privately and after I discovered my dislike I see her carriage alter toward me ... Father concerning the condition she is in and th e children and estate my father Feike going away suddenly, having taken no course about the children and estate only desired a friend of his and I in case we see them about making away the estate and to remove we should stay it ... She also hath c onfessed since she came there openly she is married to him is with child by him and she hath been at New Haven but could have no comfort nor hopes for present to live in the jurisdiction and what will become of her I know not [WP 5:213-14].
In a letter dated New Haven 21 July 1648, Theophilus Eaton told John Winthrop Jr.:
...I understand William Hallet etc. are come to your plantation at Nameag, their grievious miscarriage hath certainly given great offense to many. I wish their repentance were as clear and satisfying. It is possible that William Hallet and she t hat was Mr. Feake's his wife are married, though not only the lawfulness and validity of such a marriage, but the reality and truth is by some questioned, because themselves and Toby Feakes sometimes deny it; but leaving that, I shall acquaint yo u ... with some passages about that estate. Mr. Feakes from Boston October 6, 1647 wrote to Stamford that he reserved the whole propriety of his estate, till he saw how God would deal with him in England, and desired he and the children might no t be wronged etc., after which that estate being from the Dutch in danger of confiscation, they brought it to Stamford, and at their request, it was there seized, as wholly belonging to Mr. Feakes, though after they challenged part thereof as th e proper estate of William Hallet, and she besides desired a share in what was due to Mr. Feakes. I was not willing they should be wronged in the least, ... and accordingly at their request, I wrote to Stamford. William Hallet after this brough t a letter from your honored father, and told me, he met with some opposition at Stamford, whereupon I advised him to attend the Court of magistrates ... but I perceived in him an unwillingness thereunto.... It was ordered that ... if she settle d at Watertown, Pequod, or within any of the English colonies, two of the children, with half Mr. Feakes his proper estate should be put into the power and trust of such English government ... with such respect to Mr. Feakes, as may be meet, and t hat the other half of the estate should be improved at Stamford for the use of Mr. Feakes and maintenance of the other two children. I hoped that this might have satisfied, but the next news was that William Hallet etc. in a secret underhand way , had taken the children, two cows, all the household goods, and what else I know not, and by water were gone away ... when they had all the estate in their hands, the children went (if not naked) very unsatisfyingly apparelled [WP 5:237-9].
John Winthrop Jr. interceded with Peter Stuyvesant in a letter in the beginning of 1648/9, asking him to manage what estate was left so that "Mrs. Feakes" and her children had a comfortable living [WP 5:298-99]. By the spring, Andrew Messenger wa s informing Winthrop that the estate at Greenwich was still unimproved [WP 5:323-24]. Winthrop wrote again in May to Stuyvesant, asking that he honor the agreement made between William Hallet with Mr. Feakes, Feakes having consented to i
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