John Remington (abt. 1599 - 1667)

Born about 1599 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Remington — married 1630 in England

Husband of Rhoda (Unknown) Tidd — married before 1659 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 8 Jun 1667 at about age 68 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John Remington migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 280) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

John Remington, probably b in England, about 1600-1610. ^[1]

Marriages:^[1]

• (1) Elizabeth _____ buried in Rowley 24 Dec 1657, mother of his children
• (2) Rhoda (_____) Gore m. June 1659. Rhoda b. about 1610 was the widow of John Gore of Roxbury and m. thirdly Edward Porter.

John settled at Newbury in 1637, then went to Andover for a short time, and was admitted Freeman in Rowley 22 May 1639. He had a lot in Rowley and was a Lt. in the military company in 1647. June 1659 John of Rowley sold his house etc. and moved to Roxbury.^[1]

"John, bur. 8: 4m: 1667. C. R. 1" at Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts.^[2][3]

Administration of the estate of John Remington of Roxbury was granted to Jonathan Remington and John Stedman, of Cambridge 2 Jan 1667.^[1]

"(I) Lieutenant John Remington, One of the early settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, was first of Newbury, where he was made a freeman in 1639. He had lots of land in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1643. He described himself in 1662 as let of Rowley, now of Roxbury. He was a lieutenant of militia. He brought with him, from England, his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1657. His second wife's name was Rhoda. His children were: Jonathan, born 1639, settled in Cambridge; Daniel, 1642; Hannah, 1643; Elizabeth, 1645; Mary, 1653, all born in Rowley, and Thomas and John, Born before going to Rowley." (Geneological and family history of the county of Jefferson, New York).

Children^[1]

1. John Remington. Born about 1630 or 1631 (aged 35 or thereabout in March 1665/6) England. Died 1709 in Rhode Island
2. Thomas b. about 1636 England; d. 23 Feb 1721 Suffield, Connecticut
3. Jonathan b. 28 Feb 1639, Rowley, Massachusetts
4. Daniel b. 2 Oct 1642
5. Hannah b. 19 June 1643
6. Elizabeth b. 5 Apr 1645 bur. Aug 1645
7. Elizabeth b. about 1647 d. 1680
8. Mary b. 31 Mar; bur. July 1653.

citations needed

Birth 1600 Lockington, Yorkshire, England^{[citation needed]}

Research Notes

• A 1993 New England Historical and Genealogical Register 147:371 article "Sabin--Remington--Hunt Notes' by Gordon L. Remington, points out the fact that there has been no comprehensive treatment of the descendants of John Remington of Rowley. The main article is about two Marys
• Sources from Great Migration Directory: NeTR 21; MBCR 1:291, 375; RowBOP 3; Stevens-Miller 1:149-50; Rowley Fam 319-21; NEHGR 147:371/76. KEY to abbrev. (Rowley Families not online)

Parentage

Several sources attribute to John the parents Richard Remington and Elizabeth Hutton. While Richard seemingly had a son John in England, no source has been found directly connecting this son to the immigrant to America. The probable origin of this hypothetical parentage is Pretyman's 1911 article.^[4] Ann Remington Long writing in 1971 laments, "the Pretyman work continues to be copied widely; but because it is so hopelessly confused and overimaginative as to contain almost no truth, it is necessary that it be refuted."^[5] She then goes on to refute point-by-point much of Pretyman's construction of the early Remington genealogy.

A previous version of this profile gave without source, Lockington, Yorkshire, England as his place of birth

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Holman, Mary Lovering, 1868-1947. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens And His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Vol. 1. Concord, N.H.: Privately printed at the Rumford Press, 1948. pp 149, 150
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Roxbury VRs, Vol. 2, Page 621
3. ↑ Vital Records Of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass.; The Essex Institute; 1925); http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/roxbury_d6.htm.
4. ↑ Pretyman, page 139
5. ↑ Long, page 129

• Genealogical and family history of the county of Jefferson, New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the phenomenal growth of her agricultural and mechanical industries. New York/Chicago; Lewis Pub. Co., 1905. Vol. II. History of Jefferson County, p. 912

• Ann Remington Long, "Remington Corrections," The American Genealogist 47 no. 3 (July 1971) pp.30-35.

• William Pretyman, "The Remingtons of Craven, Yorkshire," The Genealogist: a Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research 27 (July 1911) pp.129-149.