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John 7 Gage b. 21 April 1606 d. 24 March 1672
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| Lineage | Gage |
| Sex | Male |
| Full name (at birth) | John 7 Gage |
| Parents
♂ John Gage [Gage] b. 1570 d. 3 October 1633 ♀ Penelope Darcy [Darcy] b. 1593 d. before 2 July 1661 | |
| Reference numbers | GEDCOM::wperkins.ged::INDI @I00464@::Hailey C. Shannon |
Events
21 April 1606 birth: Sussex, Stoneham, England
child birth: ♀ Prudence Gage [Gage]
fact 1: Came to Boston in 1630
fact 2: Moved to Ipswich about 1633
fact 3: Later moved to Rowley, Mass.
fact 4: First to emigrate to America
marriage: England, ♀ Amee Wilford [Wilford] b. 1615 d. June 1658
1638 child birth: Ipswich (Massachusetts), ♂ Samuel Gage [Gage] b. 1638 d. 20 July 1676
1639 child birth: Ipswich (Massachusetts), ♂ Daniel 1 Gage [Gage] b. 1639 d. 8 November 1705
1643 child birth: Ipswich (Massachusetts), ♂ Benjamin Gage [Gage] b. 1643 d. 10 October 1672
1644 child birth: Rowley (Massachusetts), ♂ Jonathan Gage [Gage] b. 1644 d. 15 March 1673
about 1645 child birth: Rowley (Massachusetts), ♂ Nathaniel Gage [Gage] b. about 1645 d. 30 April 1728
1648 child birth: Ipswich (Massachusetts), ♂ Josiah Gage [Gage] b. 1648 d. after 18 July 1717
1650 child birth: ♀ Mary Gage [Gage] b. 1650
7 November 1658 marriage: Ipswich (Massachusetts), ♀ Sarah Keys [Keys] d. 7 July 1681
24 March 1672 death: Boston (Massachusetts)
burial: Ipswich (Massachusetts), Old North Burial ground
Notes
Signed the covenant of the First Church, Boston on Aug. 27, 1630.
Came to America aboard one of the Winthrop's company ships in 1630.
First settled in Boston and was a member of the Puritan Congregational Church as early as 1630. Was admitted a freeman, meaning that he was able to vote for representatives to the colony, March 4, 1633/34. One of first settlers of Ipswich, Mass. Sept. 10,1643. He was a town officer and on the committee of the allotments of land.
Will of John Gage:
I, John gage, being by the grace of God in firm confident measure of understanding, and daily waiting my charge, do make this my Last Will and Testament, and do hereby appoint my sons Samuel, Daniel, Nathaniel, Jonathan and Josiah Gage, Joint Executors of this my will, which is as followeth.
First I comit and comand what I am, and have, Into the hands of my most Loving and gracious God. In Christ I give my soul Imediatly upon my death, to be received Into those hevenly mansions which my blessed savior hath provided for me. And my body I desire may be intered in a desent manor, in hope that my savior will, in his due time, raise it in to glory.
For my temporal estate, which god hath given me, I depose of it as followeth: first my debts all to be paide. and then I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Sarah Gage, one cow and al what household goods wase hir owne during her life, and to dispose of at hir death. The rest of my household goods as beading, peautar, brass, iron earthen and wooden vessels, within house, I give unto hir during hir natural life, and at hir death to returne to my children. Only I do desire, out of those to be now deposed of, to my children al my wearing colothes, and my chest, and al that is in it, and a great kettle, and a cowel. Also I give unto hir one third part of al the corne that shal be mine at my desease and I do will that my five sonns above mentioned, them and each of them thairheire Executor administed asigne., shal pay, or cause to be paide, to my wife Sarah Gage twenty shillings apeace every yeare during her natural life in good merchantable corne. The oone half in English graine, the other halfe in Indian corne, to be delivered by hir order in some place in this town of Bradford or aboard a boat in the Merrimack River at Haverville.
Al ye above said particulars I wil to hir upon, and with, hir consent to relinquish al hir rights in the rest of my estate. For my sonns I wil that they enjoy and prosper for them, and thrive here fo ever al, that every part and parcel of my lands, as it has alredy laid out, and alloted to them. as the Island, which is not yet laid out, to be equaly divided amonst them, my grand sonne to have an equal share with each of them. All the rest of my estate I wil that it be equally divided amonst my sonns. In witness that this is my last will and Testament I set my hand and seal.
In the presents of Shubael Walker the marke I of John Gage the mark W of Gilbert Wilford
The inventory of Sergeant John Gage of Bradford Deseases as it wase appraised ye 26 of March 1673 by Henry Kingsbury, Thomas Kimball and Shubael Walker------
wearing apparil wooling and linning 16-04-00 2 beads and beading and 1 beadstead and 1 pair curtins 16-01-00 books 20s and a curtlash 2-02-00 peaytar and brass and tinn
THERE IS MUCH CONTROVERSY OVER THE ANCESTRY OF THIS JOHN GAGE. SOME BELIEVE JOHN'S FATHER WAS JOHN GAGE OF EDWARDSTONE, SUFFOLK BORN ABOUR 1545. OTHERS BELIEVE THERE IS A GOOD CONNECTION TO SIR JOHN GAGE OF FIRLE, SUSSEX, ENGLAND. ARTHUR E. GAGE HAS MADE SOME STARTLING DISCOVERIES CLAIMING PROOF SUPPORTING THE CONNECTION TO SUFFOLK.
UNTIL I CAN BE CONVINCED I WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY JOHN'S FATHER AS SIR JOHN GAGE OF FIRLE, SUSSEX
From grandparents to grandchildren
♀ Elizabeth Darcy, Countess Rivers title: countess Rivers
marriage: ♂ Thomas Savage
death: 9 March 1651, Cheshire, England, /50
burial: St Osyth, St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
death: 2 July 1654, Firle, East Sussex, England
marriage: ♂ John 7 Gage
death: June 1658, Massachusetts
burial: Old North Burial ground, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
