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| North Parish Church, Andover, Massachusetts Founded in 1645, and where the Reverend Francis Dane was the 2nd minister |
DANE
The first DANE in this lineage to come to the New
World was John Dane (about 1587 – 1658) who settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts
from Essex, England. He arrived about
1636 with his children Elizabeth and John, and later married the widow of
William Chandler. He was a chirurgeon (surgeon)
in Roxbury and Ipswich. His son John was also a surgeon in Roxbury. You can
read John Dane’s diary at this link: http://genealogysurnames.net/JOHNDANE.HTML
I descend from the younger son, Reverend Francis
Dane (1615 – 1697). He matriculated at
King’s College in Cambridge, England in 1633.
He was ordained in 1648 and was the second minister of the church in
Andover, Massachusetts. He began a
school and was minister for 44 years when the Salem witch hysteria began in
1692. He and Thomas Barnard wrote a
letter signed by 24 Andover residents condemning the trials. This caused Dane and half a dozen of his
relatives to be accused as witches. Included
in those arrested were his daughters Elizabeth Dane Johnson and Abigail Dane
Faulkner, and daughter-in-law, Deliverance Haseltine Dane. His two granddaughters, Abigail and Dorothy
Faulkner were also arrested. (His daughter, Hannh, my ancestress, seems to have
escaped suspicion). He bravely continued to preach against the witch hunt, and
fortunately none of his kin were hung.
He died a few years later in 1697.
“May the Lord direct and guide those that are in
place, and give us all submissive wills, and let the Lord do with me and mine what
seems good in his own eyes.” Rev.
Francis Dane, 1692.
There has been much published about this family,
Rev. Dane and the Salem Witch Trials, but if you are truly curious about more
information on the DANE family, here are a few suggestions:
Genealogical
Directory of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of
those who came before May 1692 on the basis of farmers register,
by James Savage, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1990, Volume II,
page 6 and 7.
History
of Andover from its Settlement to 1829, by Abiel Abbott, 1829
The
Annals of Salem, by Joseph B. Felt, 1827
Salem
Witchcraft by Enders A. Robinson, 1992
“Early Records of the Dane Family of Andover”
compiled by Charlotte Helen Abbott, a manuscript at the Memorial Hall Library
(Andover Public Library) also available online at http://www.mhl.org/abbott-genealogies
“A Declaration of Remarkable Providences in the
Course of my Life” by John Dane, The New England Historic and Genealogical
Society Register, Volume VIII (1854),
pages 149-156. The original manuscript is kept at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in Boston.
My DANE genealogy:
Generation 1: John Dane was from Bishop’s Stortford,
Hertfordshire, England and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts on 14 September 1658;
married first to Frances Bowyer about 1606 in England and had four
children. She died about 1641 in Roxbury
and John married second to Annis Bayford, the widow of William Chandler, on 2
July 1643 in Roxbury. No children by the second marriage.
Generation 2:
Reverend Francis Dane, born about 1615 in England, died 17 February 1697
in Andover, Massachusetts. He married
first to Elizabeth Ingalls, daughter of Edmund Ingalls and Ann Tripp about 1639
and had nine children. She died on 9
June 1676 in Andover and he married second to Mary Thomas on 21 September
1677. She died on 18 February 1689 and
he married third to Hannah Chandler, his step sister, daughter of William
Chandler and Annis Bayford about 1690.
Generation 3: Hannah Dane, born about 1648 in
Andover; married on 14 November 1666 in Ipswich, Massachusetts to William
Goodhue, son of William Goodhue and Margery Watson. He was born about 1645 and died 12 October
1712. Eleven children.
Generation 4: Bethiah Goodhue m. Benjamin Marshall
Generation 5: Elizabeth Marshall m. David Burnham
Generation 6: Amos Burnham m. Sarah Giddings
Generation 7: Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen
Generation 8: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews
Generation 9:
Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears
Generation 10:
Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder
Generation 11:
Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Another cousin connection!
ReplyDeleteYou may be interested in this very moving (at least for a published genealogy) account of Francis Dane's nephew, James Howe, Jr: https://archive.org/stream/howegenealogiest00howe#page/158/mode/2up
ReplyDeleteJames's mother was my ancestor, Elizabeth Dane (Francis Dane's sister); his wife, Elizabeth Jackson Howe, was the Elizabeth Howe who was hung as a witch in 1692.
Coincidently in the mid-1800s in Bridgton, Maine, a descendant of the Perley family (Samuel Perley was the main accuser of Elizabeth Howe) adopted my orphaned gr-gr-grandmother and her sister (descendants of the Dane, Howe, and Barnard families).
We share the same common ancestor! Francis Dane is my 13th (I think) Great Grandfather. However the connection stops there as I continue from Phebe, another of his daughters, and not Hannah. Cool though!
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