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STEPHEN DEANE (pr. 1605–1634)
ELIZABETH RING (bp. 1603–1687), daughter of William Ring and Mary Unknown
Stephen Deane was probably born about 1605. He died in September 1634. [1] He married Elizabeth Ring. [2]
Elizabeth was probably the daughter of William and Mary Ring who was baptized on 23 February 1602/3 in Ufford, co. Suffolk. [1] Elizabeth Ring died on 3 May 1687 in Eastham. [2] She married second Josias Cooke on 16 September 1635 in Plymouth. [2]
Stephen came to New England on the Fortune in 1621. [3] He became one of the Purchasers. [3] He was a miller.
In the 1623 Plymouth land division, Stephen was granted an acre "beyond the first brook to the wood westward." [3] In the 1627 cattle division he was the twelfth person in the twelfth company. [3]
Stephen was on a 2 January 7 Charles [1631/2] tax list in Plymouth. [4, 1:9–11] He was a freeman in Plymouth in 1633. [4, 1: 3–4] On 24 March 1633/4 he was on a committee to rate people for taxes. [5]
Stephen Deane petitioned the Governor and council to set up a water work "to beat corne upon the brooke adjoyning the town of Plymouth, for the benefit of the comon wealth." On 7 January 1632/3 the court noted that Stephen had agreed to the Governor and council's terms. [4, 1: 8] He was on a 24 March 1633/4 Plymouth tax list. [4, 1: 27–29] On 2 January 1633 Stephen Deane was told he could set up a larger water wheel at the town's expense, but he was to surrender his rights when the colony set up a grinding mill. [4, 1: 22]
William Bradford, gentleman, as administrator of Godbert Godbertson's estate, sold Godbert's house to Stephen Deane for twenty pounds on 10 March 1633/4. [4, 1: 25]
Inventory was taking on Stephen's estate by Stephen Hopkins and Robert Hicks; it totaled £87-19-06. [3]
Mary Ring left bequests to her daughter Elizabeth Deane and to Stephen Deane in her undated will, made between 16 July 1631 and 28 October 1633. [6]
A deed acknowledged on 5 April 1669 transferred land in Yarmouth that had belonged to Stephen Deane to Peter Worden of Yarmouth. It mentions Stephen's heirs: his daughter Elizabeth, the wife of William Twining, husband of Eastham; his daughter Miriam Deane; his daughter Susanna, the wife of Stephen Snow. [7]
Children of Elizabeth Ring and Stephen Deane:
i. Elizabeth Deane was born about 1630 in Plymouth. [1] She died on 28 February 1708/9 in or near Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [1] She married William Twining about 1650 in Eastham. [1] William, the son of William Twining, died on 4 January 1702/3 in or near Newtown. [1]
William and Elizabeth became Quakers. [1]
ii. Miriam Deane was born about 1632 in Plymouth. [1] She died in 1702 in Harwich. [1] She married as his second wife, and late in life, John Wing after 31 January 1692/3. [1] John was the son of John and Deborah (Bachiler) Wing and the grandson of the Reverend Stephan Bachiler. [1] He died between 6 February 1698/8, when he wrote a codicil to his will, and 10 August 1699, when it was proved. [1] His first wife was buried on 31 January 1692/3 in Yarmouth. [1]
Miriam appears to be the Miriam Wing who left her estate to her kinsman Deane Smith, son of her kinswoman Bethiah Smith of Monomoit. [BPR] The estate of Miriam Wing, widow of John Wing and late of Harwich, was granted to her kinsman Dean Smith, son of John Smith of Monomoit on 14 Jan 1702/3. [8]
iii. Susannah Deane was born about 1634 in Plymouth. She died before April 1701 in Eastham. She married first Joseph Rogers. She married second Stephen Snow.
References:
1. John Insley Coddington, "The Widow Mary Ring of Plymouth, Mass., and Her Children," The American Genealogist 42 (1966): 193–205.
2. "Genealogical Profile of Josias Cooke," online article, Plymouth Ancestors (https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/cooke_josias.pdf : accessed 6 June 2020).
3. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally Published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 515–7.
4. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866).
5. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620–1691 ( Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), 278–
6. Editors, "The Deane Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849): 378.
7. "Massachusetts: Plymouth Colony Deeds, 1671–1673," database with images, AmericanAncestors, vol. 3, part 2, 227–8.
8. "Barnstable, MA: Probate Records 1685–1789," database with images, AmericanAncestors > vol. 2: 124.
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