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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #3104, Date of Import: Dec 9, 1998]
!ref:Register of the Ancestors and Desc.f Samuel Warner. William Warner came
from England to Ipswich,MA, in 1637, bringing with him his 2 sons John & Daniel
and his daughter Agigail. The name of the ship on which he came is not known,
but the date is confirmed in the manuscript left by his great-grandson Daniel.
The opening sentences of this remarkable document, which is a nearly complete
genealogy of the 1st 5 generations of the Daniel Warner branch of the family,
read as follows:"Ye posterity of Mr. William Warner, formerly of Ipswich. My
Great Grandfather, William Warner, came out of England in ye year 1637, and
brought over 3 children, 2 sons and a dau.who married with Mr Wells. The
oldest son was John, which went southward, which had 6 sons, to wit: Samuel,
John, Mark, Daniel, Nathaniel & Oliver(Eleazer).My Grandfather had 4 sons & 3
daus.:Daniel, John, William, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Abigail & Susanna."
There is little doubt that the year 1637 was impoesson on the memories of the
early generations of the William Warner family as the time when their
progenitor came to America, and that this date was correctly recorded by
Daniel. He could have heard it from his grandfather Daniel, William's son, who
also came over in 1637, and who died when Daniel(4) was 19 yrs old.
The early records of Ipswich have been sometimes interpreted, however, to
show that William was there in 1635. In that year, Thomas Wells, William's
son-in-law, was granted a piece of meadow land bounded on one side by the
meadow of William Warner. Thomas came over in 1635, leaving his wife behind to
come with her father and brothers in 1637. It is probable that Thomas had this
land reserved for, or assigned to, his father-in-law. It is known that this
practice was sometimes followed, as the records of a town meeting on 2 Mar
1637, show that the ungranted house lot next to Goodman Warner's was "assigned"
(not granted) to Goodman Stace.
William Warner came from Boxstead, Essex Co,ENG. The records of the baptisms
of some of his children have been found there. That Boxstead was his home is
also learned from the will of Sarah Stone, made in Ipswich, MA 25 Mar 1663. In
her will, Sarah stated that she was "wife of Simon Stone of Watertown, in New
England, and the relict of Richard Lumkin, dec'd, sometime of Boxstead in co
Essex in Eng, and last of all of Ipswich in New England." She made bequests to
her "Kinsmen John Warner, Daniel Warner, & Thomas Wells" and appointed them
executors of her estate. Sarah was b.Sarah Baker & m.20 Oct 1614 Boxstead,ENG
Richard Lumkin; Sarah & Her husband came to Ipswich about the time that William
and his family came. Lumkin d.1642, and she m.2)1654 Simon Stone of Watertown,
who was b.Great Bromley,coEssex,ENG. On 10 Nov 1654, Sarah deeded to Daniel
Warner, s.of William, her house lot and 158 acres of land in Ipswich. These
facts suggest first, that Sarah Baker was a sister of William Warner's wife,
whose surname, therefore, must have been Baker; and secondly, that William's
home in Eng. was in Boxstead.
It is probable that the ancestor of this branch of the Warner family is the
William recorded as bp on 10 Mar 1585/6, at Great Horkesley, near Boxstead,
with mention of the parents' names. There is no definite knowledge of
William's wife; only the supposition that she was a Baker. Since she did not
come to America, it is assumed that she died in Eng. That may be sufficient
reason to explain why the dau.Abigail remained in England in 1635 - to care for
her father while her husband became established in America.
The first account of William in Am. is the grant of land to him at Ipswich in
1637."One house lott one acre more or less, in the Mill Street, bounded on the
East by another house lott as yet ungranted; on the northwest by an highway
leading from the Mill stret to the High street; butting upon the Mill street at
the southwest end; at the north end butting upon the swamp. Also a planting
lott 6 acres more or less....Also a farme 97 acres, more or less, meadow and
upland...Also a parcell of meadow, lying in the west meadows, being 14 acres
more or less.
Little is know of William's life in Ipswich. He was called a planter. He
was made a freeman on 2 May 1638. There is a record dated 18 Feb 1638, showing
that William Warner and William Bartholomew were appointed to lay out land
granted to William Whitred. William Warner and his family were spoken of as
"people of consideration." It has been written that the peopling of the town of
Ipswich was by men of such rank and character as to make it one of the foremost
of the early settlements. In 1638 Cotten Mather wrote, "Here was a renowned
Church consisting mostly of such illuminated Christians, that their pastors in
the Exercise of their ministry might think that they had to do not so much with
disciples, as judges."
It is supposed that William d.abt 1648, as the names of his sons appear on
the tax list for that year, but his does not. There is no existing gravestone
that marks his final resting place. Many of the old stones in the High Street
Cemetary are no longer decipherable; others have become buried, as is evidenced
by the digging up, some years ago, of one bearing the date 1647, the earliest
date on any stone in the cemetery.
William Warner 
