John Fisher (bef. 1601 - bef. 1640)

Born before 7 Mar 1601 in Pluckley, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Fisher — married about 1630 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 23 Mar 1640 at about age 39 in Northampton County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

John Fisher was a Jamestown colonist.

John Fisher is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Birth and Parents

John Fisher,^[1] third son of John Fisher, Gent. and Bennett Dering, was baptized 7 March 1601 at Pluckley, Kent, England.^[2][3]

Parents

married by license dated 26 January 1594:^[2]

• Father John Fisher, Gent. (baptized 1563), son of Alexander Fisher of Debtling, Kent, by Katherine, daughter of Peter Maplesden^[2]
• Mother Bennett Dering (baptized 1568), daughter of Richard Dering, Esq., of Surrenden, Kent, by Margaret, daughter of William Twysden^[2]

Emigration to Virginia

John emigrated to Virginia and was living at the Eastern Shore settlement at the time of the 1623/4 post-massacre census.^[2][4] He acted as agent for his first cousin Capt. William Epes.^[2]

Marriage and Children

Wife: Elizabeth ____, born about 1610 (aged 36 in 1646)^[2][3]

married about 1630 (after 1623/4)^[5]

Children:

• John Fisher^[2] (c.1634)^[6] born before 1637, ca. 1634; fl. 28 Apr. 1639; d.s.p., his land descending to his niece Rebecca. On 28 April 1639, Mr. John Wilkins gave a calf to his “Godson Fisher.”^[7]
• Stephen Fisher^[2][8] (1636-before 1658)^[6] married Rebecca (Bagwell) Andrews^[7]
• Phillip Fisher^[2] (1637-before 1703)^[6]b. ca. 1637; he deposed 18 Sept. 1666 that he was aged 29;^[9] married Elizabeth Maddox (daughter of Alexander); patented 100 a. in Northampton Co., 26 Nov. 1661 [at his death he owned nearly 2000 acres]; witn. will of John Williams, 14 Feb. 1666, Accomack Co., Va.; justice of Northampton Co. & capt. of militia; d. 1703; will dated 9 Dec. 1701–pr. 1 Mar. 1702/3, Northampton Co.; ancestor of the Eastern Shore Fishers.^[7]

Death

John Fisher died in the winter of 1639/40, leaving a will dated 4 December 1639, proved 23 March 1639/40, in Northampton County, Virginia. His widow Elizabeth married second to Henry Weed, whose will was proved 26 December 1649, and third to Richard Bayly, whose will dated 12 June 1661 was proved 29 October 1661. Elizabeth was living when her last husband wrote his will.^[2][3]

Narrative Biography

JOHN FISHER, son of John Fisher and Benetta Dering; baptized 7 March 1601/2, Pluckley, co. Kent, England;^[10] died 1639/40, Northampton County, Virginia; he was aged 16 in the 1619 Visitation of Kent;^[11] his age was given as 34 in September 1634 and as 37 in January 1636/7.^[12]

He married Elizabeth ______, born ca. 1610 (she deposed on 26 December 1646 that she was aged 36);^[13] died 1703.Source??? She married (2) 8 March 1640/1, Northampton County, Henry Weede [will proved 26 December 1649, Northampton County]; she married (3) ca. 1645, Richard Bayly. On 26 December 1646 Elizabeth Bailey deposed that she was aged 36 and that she had formerly been the wife of Henry Weede, who had died two years before and “had left his estate, verbally, to his widow.”^[14] Richard Bayly named her in his will, dated 12 June 1661 in Northampton County, proved 29 October 1661, and also mentioned his son-in-law [stepson] Phillip Fisher’s daughter and Rebecca Fisher, daughter of Stephen Fisher, deceased, and seven god-children.^[15]

John Fisher was a first cousin of Capt. William Epes (1594/5–1642/3), son of John Epes and his wife Thomazine Fisher of Ashford, co. Kent—Capt. William was commander of the Eastern Shore plantations in November 1623.^[16] Having arrived in the colony on the Ann, John Fisher himself was recorded in Eastern Shore, Virginia in the Census of February 1623/4,^[17] but he was missed in the muster of 1624/5.^[18] Fisher was the agent for Capt. Epes’ interests after Epes left the Eastern Shore in the late 1620s,^[19] and he (Fisher) deposed twice about Epes’ land: on 8 September 1634, at the age of 30,^[20] and again on 1 January 1636/7, aged 37 or thereabouts. The first deposition identified him as a kinsman of the captain.^[21]

Fisher was one of the heirs of William Brian, who left the remainder of his estate to “Goodman Fisher and he to see me layd in the ground like a man.” Brian’s will was proved in Northampton County, 7 November 1639.^[22] Less than a month later (on 4 December 1639) Fisher wrote his own will, which was then probated on 23 March 1639/40, Northampton County. In it he named his wife Elizabeth and sons John, Stephen, and Phillip. His widow was to receive his moveable estate, his man servant, and “hoggs.” He bequeathed to his son John Fisher one cow and two yearling heifers and, when he came of age, the 150-acre plantation that his father held in 1639. Stephen was to receive one cow and Phillip one calf. The witnesses were Henry Armytradinge, Robert Kendall, and Phillip Chapman.^[23] By 1646 Richard Baily was the father-in-law [stepfather] of Stephen Fisher, then aged 18, and custodian of the orphans’ cattle.^[24]

Children's info is included above.

Sources

1. ↑ Jamestowne Society: Fisher, John - A9504; baptized 7 March 1601/2, died 1639/40, Northampton Co.: (Muster of 1623/4). accessed 2 September 2020
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. II, page 177, FISHER 15.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. II, page 596.
4. ↑ 1623/4 Muster (under "Eastern Shore")
5. ↑ Guess based on her birth c1610.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Chart, MilesFiles (accessed 18 May 2018)
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 280; Cary, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 64.
8. ↑ From espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p257.htm#i25625 (no longer accessible):
   

   "Phillip Fisher offered to keep Rebecca Fisher the orphan of Stephen (N'hamp Co Orders, 1657-64, p. 110)."

9. ↑ McKey, Accomack County, Virginia Court Order Abstracts (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books Inc., 1996), 1: 166 [p. 125a in original].
10. ↑ Carey, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Lewes, Del.: Colonial Roots, 2007), 3: 64, citing Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th ed., p. 954.
11. ↑ Robert Hovenden, ed., The Visitation of Kent, 1619-1621 (Harleian Society, Publications, XLII; London, 1898), pp. 140, 159.
12. ↑ Carey, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Lewes, Del.: Colonial Roots, 2007), 3: 63.
13. ↑ Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills &c., 1645-51, p. 58.
14. ↑ Carey, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 63.
15. ↑ Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 280, citing Northampton Co. Wills & Deeds, 1657-66, p. 57; Cary, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 64.
16. ↑ Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 279, citing British Museum, The Earl of Romney Deposit, “Wyatt Mss.,” Colonial Records Project Survey Report 1267, 84.
17. ↑ Hotten, 188.
18. ↑ Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 279.
19. ↑ Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 279.
20. ↑ Fleet, Beverley. Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 18, Acchawmacke, 1632-1637, 1943, p. 19, viewable on FamilySearch.org, image 165
21. ↑ Northampton Co. Orders, Wills & Deeds, 1632-40, pp. 35, 86; Cary, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 64.
22. ↑ Northampton Co. Orders, Wills & Deeds, 1632-40, p. 198.
23. ↑ Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, 280, citing Northampton Co. Orders, Wills & Deeds, 1632-40, p. 209; Cary, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 64.
24. ↑ Cary, Miles & Miles, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 3: 64.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Dering Coat of Arms (Amazon, accessed 28 November 2014)

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John Fisher is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. II, pages 171-177 FISHER) that was badged by Magna Carta Project in 2015. John Fisher is also the Gateway in badged trails (reviewed/approved in/about 2015 by the project) to several other surety barons, including: Saher de Quincy (2nd trail), John Fitz Robert, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Hugh le Bigod, Roger Bigod, Robert de Vere and Henry de Bohun that were re-reviewed/updated in April 2020. Another trail to Robert FitzWalter was badged in March 2022. See Fisher Trails to see the status of those profiles and trails.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".