PUTNAM, Captain John

1579 - 1662  (83 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PUTNAM, Captain John
  Birth	17 Jan 1579	Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England
  Christening	17 Jan 1580	Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec 1662	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	5 Jan 1663	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	30 May 1902	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I18686	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family 1	GOULD, Sarah ,   b. 1588, Bovington, Hertsfordshire, England Bovington, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 30 Dec 1662, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1609	of Bovingdon, Hertsfordshire, England
  Family ID	F8802	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	GOULD, Priscilla ,   b. 1586, Bovington, Hertsfordshire, England Bovington, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 30 Dec 1662, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1611	Bovington, Hertsfordshire, England
  Family ID	F9696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY: From "The Life of General (Israel) Putnam" by William Cutter (1846) - a tribute to Israel Putnam's ancestor, John Putnam: "Among the earliest settlers in Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts, was John Putnam; who, for the free enjoyment of the rights of conscience, and the liberty of worshipping God in the manner which his own judgment, enlightened by a careful study of the Scriptures, approved and required, left the home of his youth, and the sepulchers of his fathers, and cast in his lot with the heroic, self-denying Pilgrims, under the banner of the venerable Endicot. He was a man of eminent piety, and acknowledged moral worth; having blended his character these elements of Christian heroism which distinguished our Pilgrim Fathers above every other body of men, that ever effected a great revolution in the world, and eminently fitted them, not only to endure the hardships of a pioneer life in a savage wilderness, but to give substance and permanency to the new institutions, which it was their destiny to found in that wilderness. The original name of the family was Puttenham. They resided in Buckinghamshire, one of the southern counties of England, and out a short distance from the metropolis. The emigrant brought with him three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel, and John, and two brothers, younger than himself. They pitched their tents, in 1634, in that remote part of Salem which, for a century past, had been included within the limits of Danvers, where they soon established themselves as successful, independent farmers; and where many of their posterity still reside, in circumstances of respectability and affluence. Israel Putnam was the son of Captain Joseph Putnam, grandson of Thomas, and great grandson of the worthy John, who planted the family tree in this country..." (pp. 21-22)