1. JOHN-

b.c.1576 Mildenhall, Wiltshire
m.1. ?
2. Mary ______ (b.c. 1581, d. 23 Jan. 1658/9 Dorchester, MA) d. 1652 Dorchester, MA

St. John the Baptist- Mildenhall

John and Mary arrived to New England in 1630 aboard the "Mary and John" with their daughters Ann, age 29, Elizabeth, age 22, Susanna, age 10, and Katherine, age 4.

"There came many godly families in that ship. We were of passengers many in number (besides seamen) of good rank. Two of our magistrates came with us, viz. Mr. (Edward) Rossiter and Mr. (Roger) Ludlow. These godly people resolved to live together. Therefore, as they had made choice of those two reverend servants of God, Mr. John Warham and Mr. John Maverick, to be their ministers, so they kept a solemn day of fasting in the New Hospital at Plymouth, in England, spending it in preaching and praying; where that worthy man of God, Mr. John White of Dorchester, in Dorset, was present, and preached unto us the word of God in the fore part of the day and in the latter part of the day, as the people did solemnly make choice of and call those godly ministers to be their officers, so also the reverend Mr. Warham and Mr. Maverick did accept thereof, and expressed the same. So we came, by the good hand of the Lord, through the deeps comfortably, having preaching or expounding of the word of God every day for ten weeks by our ministers." (1)

John became a freeman in Dorchester on 19 Oct 1630.(2) He was a "millwright of much esteem." The family settled in Dorchester, MA where in September 1634, John "Grenway" was granted two and a half acres of meadow on Rock Hill "to make up his meadow at home adjoining to the neck where his eight acres was formerly granted." (3) Daughter Mary and her husband Thomas Millet arrived in Dorchester in 1635. John and Mary were the tenth man and woman, respectively, to be added to the congregation of the second church of Dorchester after the initial gathering in 1636. In May of 1646, John and son-in-law Thomas signed a Dorchester petition that no more Anabaptists be permitted to join the Colony. By 1650 John had "said dwelling house, outhouse, barn, garden & orchards, containing five acres more or less ... and also three acres of meadow ... in the meadow called the Calves Pasture ... also three acres of meadow near the Old Harbor ... land scituated in the Pine Neck in Dorchester."(4) Issue- Mary is probably not the mother of John's first five daughters, given the dates of birth.