Parson John House (1564 - 1630)
In the summer of 1983 while on sabbatical leave in Britain it was possible to learn a few things about our ancestor, Parson John House. Two important items were his place and date of birth, and his probable first parish.
-- Edward H. Williams IVRev. John House was born at Cossington, Leicestershire, some 95 miles northwest of London, in 1564. After study at Cambridge University he was licensed to serve St. James, Egerton 1597, about 17 miles from Canterbury.
He is also said to have been at Ashford, a few miles southeast and ended his years in Eastwell, a few miles east. He was presented to his last parish by Sir Moyle Finch, Lord of the adjacent manor on April 29th, 1603, and died in this pleasant hamlet in 1630 being buried September 9th. His widow's name was Alice, and may have been a second wife.
St. James, Egerton. September 2001. (photos by decendant L Nathan Butler)
The Vicars list shows John House, B.A. as the vicar from 1592 to 1603.
We descend from a younger son Samuel, a seafarer and shipbuilder. Our first record of him is that he sailed from England and landed near Scituate around 1630. Samual married a well-to-do bride from Lavenham, whose father was in cloth-making. Her name was Elizabeth Hammond. Samuel and Elizabeth lived in Barnstable, Cambridge and Scituate Mass. He died there 12 September 1661.
Their son Samuel, Jr. born 1638, married Rebecca Nichols, whose father started one of America's oldest shipyards, and Sam carried on with it after Thomas Nichols died. [an older son] Joseph House, born 1637 married Deborah Combes and moved upstream a little, to Hanover, Mass. They were the parents of the first of a long line of John Houses.
John, Sr. was born 1709 and his wife Rebecca Buker whom he married January 9, 1739/40. She out-lived him and made her home with Lt. John, Jr., a Revolutionary war veteran who for his service had lands in Chesterfield, MA. He died there July 4, 1831, aged 90. His wife is identified as Jane Collier "of Hull" in the Chesterfield, Mass. history of 1962 (pp. 199-202)
John 3d, a blacksmith and farmer, born Hanover, MA 1741, pioneered to the Western Reserve in Ohio with his wife Lydia Rhodes.
John 4th, also a blacksmith and farmer, born Westfield, MA, was barely in his teens when the family moved west by Conestoga wagon. He married Jane Electa Mosely, also from Westfield. They lived in Painesville, Ohio. Their son was Rev. John Henry House, D.D. the missionary to Turkey. He married Susan Adeline Beers, daughter of Rev. Henry Newell Beers and Adeline Bigelow. Among their children was Gladys House Williams, born in Samolkov, Bulgaria, wife of Edward H. Williams, 3rd, and mother of E. H. Williams, IV, Jean A. Williams, G. Jacqueline Williams Butler, and C. Richard Williams
Rev. John House = Alice | Samuel House = Eliz. Hammond Thomas Nichols |---------------------------------| | Joseph House = Deborah Combes Samuel Jr = Rebecca Nichols | John House = Rebecca Buker | John Jr. = Jane Collier | John 3rd = Lydia Rhodes | John 4th = Jane Electa Mosely | John Henry House = Susan Adeline Beers | Gladys House = E.H.Williams III | ------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Edward IV Jean A. Jacqueline C. Richard Williams Butler[ Information about Jane Collier was brought to my attention by Wade Collier who is working on the Collier Family genealogy. Including genealogy of the descendants of Thomas and Susannah Collier, who arrived in Hingham, Mass. in 1635. ]
