Deborah (Unknown) Wing (abt. 1589 - abt. 1667)

Born about 1589 in England

Wife of John Wing — married 1608 in England

Descendants

Died about 1667 at about age 78 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Disputed Origins

It has been seen for well over a century that Deborah Wing was the daughter of Stephen Bachiler. In NEHGS's Early New England Families Study Project sketch of Daniel Wing, pp. 1, 8-11 an exhaustive case is made that there is no definitive evidence that Daniel's mother, Deborah, was the daughter of Stephen Bachiler and that errors have been made in the interpretation of various documentation. It is also shown that Rev. Prince in his A Chronological History of New England never established this relationship though later writers used his work to create it. For the reasons stated in the research, Stephen Bachiler (abt.1561-abt.1656) has been removed as her father and should not be reattached without primary source documentation and discussion with the PGM project. Her maiden name is not known. See Research Notes.

Birth

Deborah may have been born about 1592, based on her stated age of 32 in 1624 (paragraph below), however, genealogist Gene Zubrinsky places her birth about 1589 based on an examination of known details. For over a century she was believed the daughter of Stephen Bachiler and this may be seen in Anderson's The Great Migration Begins.^[1] However, the most recent research found in the Early New England Families Study Project revises this and shows that her parentage is presently unknown.^[2]

"xxii Junii 1624 [22 June 1624] Debora Wynge, xxxii [32] years old, wife of Mr. Jno Winge, preacher resident in Vlishing with her two children: Stephen, iii [3] years old, and Debora Winge, xiii [8?] years old."^[3]

Immigration

Governor John Winthrop in his diary^[4] memorializes that the man formerly believed to be her father "old Mr. Batchelor (being aged 71) ... with ... family and many other honest men" arrived in Massachusetts Bay 5 June 1632 aboard the William & Francis. Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration Begins^[1] stated Deborah had arrived in the late 1630s. Further examination of this hypothesis places the arrival of the Wing family in 1637.^[5][2]

Deborah and her sons settled at Sandwich, where history has referred to her as "the Matriarch."^{[citation needed]} She may have, as she grew older, moved in with one or the other of her sons.^{[citation needed]}

Death

An old Goody Wing died 31 Jan 1691/92 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts,^[6] but since Deborah would be 100 at that time, this date is doubtful. Other dates are before 1680, when her son, Matthew's delayed probate occured.^[7][8][9] In June 2020, Gene Zubrinksy noted that, "While there is no record of Deborah's death, almost certainly in Yarmouth or Sandwich, a power of attorney dated at Rochester, Kent, 27 August 1680, indicates that the New England estate of Matthew Wing, who had returned to England [where he died by 1653], had never been settled upon Matthew's widow or their only child, both by then deceased, and had consequently devolved to Matthew's three brothers, John Wing of Yarmouth and Daniel and Stephen Wing of Sandwich (NEHGR, 38:376-78). Since their mother, Deborah, is not mentioned, it is assumed that she had died by the 1680 date."^[10]

Children

1. Deborah Wing
2. John Wing
3. Daniel Wing
4. Matthew Wing
5. Stephen Wing

Research Notes

Disputed Parents: The connection to parents Stephen Bachiler (abt.1561-abt.1656) and Ann (Bate) Bachiler (abt.1570-bef.1624) was severed in 2020 to reflect the latest research published by NEHGS.

The information below as regards the origins and maiden name of Deborah Wing is contradicted by the Early New England Families Study Project of NEHGS pp 1, 8-11. While there may have been some, as yet unproven, relationship between Deborah Wing and Rev. Stephen Bachiler, there is nothing that documents or gives credible circumstantial evidence that Deborah was the daughter of Rev. Bachiler. The recent discovery of the baptismal record of John in Strood in 1611 would make him about 21 in 1632 when the Wings were alleged to have come with Bachiler. As the Early New England Study Project points out, his absence from records until 1638 was reason for Anderson in the Great Migration Directory to place John's arrival (and by inference the rest of the Wings) in 1637.^[11]

Exported from database of Raymond T. Wing, e-mail: [email removed]:

In the meager town records of Sandwich no reference has been found to Deborah Wing. This is not strange. Her son John became the head of her household, and women were not prominent in town or public matters. Mrs. Emma Bartlett Chamberlain, historian of the Wing family, a few years ago found a will and the records of the probate of the estate of one Thomas Howell, a brick layer, who died in Boston in the spring of 647. It appears that Mr. Howell lived at Duxbury in the Plymouth Colony and the inventory of his estate taken May 31, 1648, mentions "chattels at Kenelm Winslow's, at Thomas Burnes and at Robert Waterman's." Mr. Howell's business seems to have taken him abroad from his home. The reference in his probate papers to "Goodwife Wing" and John Winge undoubtedly referred to Deborah Wing and her son John, to whom, by some chance, he had become indebted. The term "Goodwife" as used by the early colonists, designated the head of a household.

For further reference to this record see The Owl at pages 661-662.[CI:181:?4:CI].

In the "Q.R. Miscell., 560-562, Licenses to pass beyond the sea, Eliz, to Car. I." Public Records office, London, is this quaint entry:

"XXII Junii 1624, Deborah Wynge XXXII years old, wife of Mr. John Winge, preacher, resident in Vlishing, with her two children, vizi, Stephen III years old and Debora Winge XIII years old. Vrs. ib. 't."

This is the only record authority we have of the age of Deborah or of her daughter Deborah and son Stephen.[CI:180:?4:CI]

When the gentlewoman Deborah and her four half-grown sons, landed with their grandsire Bachiler at Boston in June, 1632, they were unusual emigrants. They came from gentle English homes; they had lived at Hamburg, at Middleburg, at the Hague, and in London; they had crossed seas before; they had been nurtured in the very cradle of English protestantism; they were protestants against the English Church themselves; they were such notable arrivals that Governor Winthrop himself makes mention of their coming in his diary.[CI:185:?4:CI] While the Wing Family of America is in firm belief that the Wing family came with Rev. Stephen Bachiler in the [IT:William and Francis:IT] in 1632, Anderson[CI:375:?4:CI] stated they "came to New England in the late 1630s and resided at Sandwich." Mr. Anderson based his conclusion on the fact that none of the Wings were mentioned in any contemporary New England record until they settled in Sandwich. However, Winthrop's History of New England (I:93) a journal written at the time stated: "June 5] The William and Francis, Mr. Thomas master, with about sixty passengers, whereof Mr. Welde and old Mr. Batchelor (being aged 71) were, with their families and many other honest men..." It is quite likely that Rev. Stephen came with his daughters Deborah & Theodate, their children as well as his Sanborn grandchildren and his grandson Nathaniel Bachiler.

It is conjectured that Deborah and her children returned to Holland after the death of her husband. The only proof of this is contained in Q.R. Miscell. 560 (licenses to pass beyond the seas. Eliz. to Car. I.) in the Public Record Office. An item reads: June 23, 1631, Stephen Bachiler, aged 70 years, resident of South Stoneham in Com. Southhampton, et uxer Helen xiviii veeres, vrs fflushing to visite thier sonns and daughters, and so to return within two months." Another, in the same volume reads: "XXV Junii, 1631, Ann Sanborn of age 30 years, widow, resident in ye Strand, vree Vlishing." The sons of Mr. Bachiler known to us were Samuel and Nathaniel and his daughters were Deborah Wing and Ann Sanborn. It is not improbable that Deborah in her widowhood returned to her old home at Flushing. This visit of Mr. Bachiler to his children was fraught with importance to the future of his descendants, for it was made for the purpose of completing final arrangements for the settlement in New England, which occurred the following spring.[CI:183:?4:CI]

At Book 2, page 20, in the record of Essex County deeds, there is a deed from Daniel King of Lynn, gent., of five acres of upland, 'being a neck of land given to John Winge, abutting easterly uppon the highway, that runneth from across the brooke which runneth out of the marsh * * which lyeth northwest from the dwelling house of Henry Collem,' etc. given Sept. 1, 1654." The foregoing is one of the few sounds coming to us from the life of Deborah and her sons at Lynn, between the years 1632 and 1637. It is important to us not only for that reason, but because it may help us locate the property upon which the family first settled when they first landed in New England[CI:3499:?4:CI].

Five years went by at Saugus. Then our ancestress, Deborah, and her four sons took up the trek to Shawme--oldest town on the Cape--which later was called Sandwich after their home town across the water.[CI:110:?4:CI] The name of John Wing was found in the list of the fifty "undertakers" who assisted the "Ten men of Saugus" in the settlement of Shawme, now Sandwich in 1637[CI:3439:?4:CI].

While the old [IT:Owl:IT] records claim that John moved his family to Yarmouth around 1656, it is known that he was of Yarmouth by 1648, when his son Ephraim was recorded born there.

On 27 AUG 1680 brothers John, Daniel & Stephen agreed to forfeit their right of inheritance to their brother Matthew's estate. Mother Deborah was not mentioned in this record so that undoubtedly she was deceased by this time.[CI:374:?4:CI]

Exported from database of Raymond T. Wing

Husband: John Wing - Wynge

Wife: Deborah Bachiler

Child: John Wing - Winge

Note: The influence of the courtship and the marriage of John and Deborah, and the consequent associations with the father of the latter, may have had much to do with the breaking of the young man's relations with his mother church. John Wing and Deborah Bachiler were married about the year 1609-10. It may be conjectured that because John's brother Fulke named a daughter Deborah, born to him in 1608, that the marriage occurred even earlier. At the time of his marriage John was about twenty five years of age, and Deborah barely eighteen. The oldest child, Deborah, was born in 1611. John, the second child, is said by some student of family history to have been born at Yarmouth. He is mentioned in his grand father's will made in 1614, so that it is probable that his birth occurred in 1613.[CI:107:?4:CI] NOTE: see the Early New England Study Project linked elsewhere on this profile for a newer interpretation of the information presented in this note.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (1995), 1:63 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2020).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} NEHGS Early New England Families Study Project
3. ↑ Waters, Henry F. Genealogical Gleanings in England. Vol 1 p 520. Boston: NEHGS, 1901. Presented as "extracts from Q. R. Miscell, 560 (Licenses to pass beyond the Sea, Eliz. to Car. I.), were made in the Public Record Office two or three years ago:" (Click here to view this material at Hathi Trust.)
4. ↑ John Winthrop, Winthrop's journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649, James Kendall Hosmer, ed., 2 vols. ([c1908]), 1:80-81; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
5. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Directory, p 379
6. ↑ Yarmouth Monthly Meeting minutes
7. ↑ Wing, Raymond T. & Ruth Powell; Helen Piersons; Herbert G Wing. Wing Family of America, Wing Genealogy : the Rev. John Wing of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, and Wife Deborah Bachiler: their ancestry and descendants through five generations (Rockport, Me. : Penobscot Press, 2006), pp 8, 32.
8. ↑ The Owl, v 15-17 (1913-1916):1364
9. ↑ Sandwich Monthly Meeting
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #35918875
11. ↑ Great Migration Directory, 379

See also

Caution should be taken with the following with regard the the origins of Deborah Wing. See NEHGS Early New England Study Project for the most recent scholarly research.

• The Owl published Quarterly from 1899-1934, annually from 1939 Book, Multi-Volum: 30 DEC 1998 Wing Family of America, Inc.
• Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a Leading Non-conformist, who sett Chicago, by the author, W.B.Conkey Company, 1898.
• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire Book, Comp. Records DATE: 12 JAN 1999 Reprint, Baltimore, MD; Genealogical Publishing Co.
• James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generation s o f Those who came Before May, Boston, Little, Brown and Company; reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA, c1995
• Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 REFN: 1 TYPE: Book, Simple DATE: 30 DEC 1998 Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. (1985,reprinted 1990)
• Wing, Rev. Conway P. A historical and genealogical register of John Wing, of Sandwich, Mass., and his descendants, 1662-1881. New York : De Vinne Press, 1888.

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