• General Notes

  MARY AND JOHN - 1630
  
  Master Thomas Squeb.
  
  Sailed from Plymouth, 20 March 1630.
  
  The day of the sailing was the Saturday before Palm Sunday.
  
  Landed Nantasket, Massachusetts, 30 May, 1630.
  
  400 tons.
  
  140 passengers
  
  40 - 50 crewmen
  
  Ship owned by Roger Ludlow
  
  The ship was suppose to land at the Charles river but Capt. Squeb refused to navigate the Boston Harbor, probably because of it's islands, sandbars and shoals. He had the passengers disembark at Nantasket Point.
  
  June 1630 - John Winthrop sent for Capt. Squeb at Nantasket, where the "Mary and John" lay. He did not record what was said. "[John] Winthrop seemed to think he had 'ended [the] difference between him [Capt. Squeb] and the passengers', in token of which Captain Squeb gave the order for a salute of five guns in the govenor's honour and it was said that Squeb later paid compensation to [Roger] Ludlow." [Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlethwaite, p.76]
  
  There is no official passenger list of the Mary & John.
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  HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS:
  
  Land granted, 18 September, 1635, for five acres of land on North Street near Ship Street, Hingham, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.
  
  Freeman on 9 March 1636/37
  
  TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS:
  
  House lot on Dean Street west of John Dean house.
  
  Freeman of Plymouth Colony 4 December 1638
  
  First Constable, 1638 and 1639, juror 1645.
  
  WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT:
  
  4 February 1647 - "Thomas Thorton al his land formerly recorded in figures is sold to Thomas Ford and John Strong where the particulars fully apperar…."
  
  This included a house, out house, yards, orchards and gardens containing about two acres, more or less, bounded north and west by the land of Walter Fyler, south by the rivulet, on the east by the highways, and adjoining at the foot of the hill, in the great meadow, one acre and three quarters more or less bounded north by the land of John Mason and east by the land of William Hill [Windsor Register of Deeds]
  
  Freeman 15 May 1654 of Connecticut.
  
  NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS:
  
  John Strong was ordained and Elder of the church in 1663.
  
  Lands -
  
  14 October 1660 - John Strong bought from John Webb, a parcel of land lying in the Third square and bounded by land of Richard Lyman on the north and the highway on the south and on the sides bordering the land of David Wilton on the east by Samuel Allyn on the west - Seven acres .
  
  John Strong bought another parcel from John Webb, a home lot bounded on the highway east and north and the mill trench on the west containing two acres. Part of this was given to his son Samuel.
  
  John Strong bought another parcel from John Webb, which lies on the south side of Mill River and bounded by the highway east and west, the sides bordering the highway south and Mill River north containing - two acres.
  
  15 October 1660 - Northampton granted to him several parcels of land including a tan yard which was bounded on the east and west by the highway, north by Ralph Hutchinson's land and the common land, and the meeting house hill on the south. John gave this to his son Ebenezer, on 15 December 1688.
  
  The original tan yard contained one quarter acre. It was on King Street Brook a little north of Hampshire Marble Works. The town by vote directed all hides be taken to him to be tanned at his own price because of his reputation for honesty.
  
  15 October 1660 - Northampton granted to him his home lot which was bounded on the highway north and Mill River on the south and bounded on the sides by the land of Capt. Aaron Cooke on the east and Alexander Edwards on the west. John Strong conveyed these parcels to John Webb 18 October 1660.
  
  The home lot granted to him by Northampton on West Street was nearly opposite the Parson's Homestead. He sold it to John Webb, and purchased John Webb's home lot at the corner of Main and South Streets. The property remained in the family for 103 years.
  
  Northampton granted John Strong another parcel of land in Manham Meadow which butts up on the Great River on the east and Mill River on the west containing four Six acres plus. John gave half of this lot to Ebenezer, 15 December 1688.
  
  [Land records from "Strong Men and Strong Women" by Jeanne Waters Strong]
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  John STRONG - b. about 1609, probably at Chard, Somerset, England; d. Apr. 14, 1699, Northampton, MA; bur. Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA. Son of John STRONG of Chard, Somerset, England. Probably embarked Plymouth, England Mar. 20, 1630 in 'Mary & John', and arrived at Nantasket, May 30, 1630. John apparently returned to England, married, and had two children, before sailing again for New England on May 8, 1635 from Weymouth aboard the 'Hopewell.' Settled first at Dorchester, MA, removed to Windsor, CT about 1636, to Taunton by 1638, and to Northampton in 1659 where he was the first Ruling Elder. He had 17 children and 145 grandchildren. Married first about 1632 in England, Margery DEANE (d. about 1635, Dorchester, MA), the mother of son John and a child who died in infancy, and daughter of William DEANE. Elder John STRONG married second about 1635, Dorchester, MA.
  
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  Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England
  
  STRONG, JOHN, Hingham 1635, removed to Taunton, and from thence to Northampton as early as 1659. [Lincoln, Hist. Hingham.] He had 17 children. His son Thomas had 15, son Jedidiah 12, son Samuel 12, and his grandson Jonathan 17. Sixty-one of the name, 17 of them clergymen, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828. RETURN, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 168.

Details of John's family with Margery Deane

Details of John's family with Abigail Ford