John Pope

#2539, (circa 1602 - 12 April 1646)

Family

Jane Clapp b. c 1613, d. 1662/63
Child 1.Patience Pope+9 (s 1637 - )
Birth*circa 1602He was born circa 1602 at EnglandG. 
1633/34He migrated to Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG, aboard the Recovery in 1633/34.1,2,3 
3 September 1634He was admitted as a Freeman on 3 September 1634 at Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG.4 
Marriage*before 1635He married Jane Clapp before 1635 at Massachusetts BayG.5 
Probate18 May 1639He was named as a creditor in the will of Judith Stoughtonl on 18 May 1639 at Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG, £32; Inventory of "ye 18: 3d : 1639."6 
Death*12 April 1646He died on 12 April 1646 at Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG. 
Probate*1 June 1649His estate was probated on 1 June 1649 at Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG, (inventory); inventory.7,8 

Citations

  1. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), V (M-P):483, citing NGSQ 71:171, 77:249-255; sailing from Weymouth to New England.
  2. [S298] The Winthrop Society, online WinthropSociety.com, This table details the roll of passengers of the Recovery [Master Gabriel Cornish] , which sailed from Weymouth, Dorsetshire 31 March, 1633, Julian calendar, bound for New England. The ship arrived safe at Massachusetts Bay, although some of the persons listed below may not have debarked. The rolls represent persons who were ready to embark at the date of record, which often preceded the actual sailing by several weeks. Some may have decided not to sail. Some servants may have run away. And there usually was some loss of life among the passengers from disease and malnutrition during the passage.

    This information was transcribed in the 19th century by James Savage, and later by Michael Tepper from records found in London, the Public Rolls Office, PRO:E190/875/8.

    Passengers of the Recovery,
    Spring of 1633
    Prename      Surname      Roll#
    Thomas      Newbery      1
    Thomas      Long      2
    David      Phippen      3
    Jonathan Gillet      4
    Elizabeth      Parkman      5
    Mary      Coggen      6
    Thomas      Wakeley      7
    Daniel      Norchat      8
    Joseph      Androes      9
    Robert      Dible      10
    John      Pope      11
    Stephen      Terrey      12
    Robert      Elwell      13
    John      Wotts      14
    William      Bowne      15
    John      Hardy      16
    Sarah      Hill      17
    John      Woolcocke18
    Thomas      Shawe      19
    Antony      Eames      20
    Thomas      Swift      21
    George      Pl-----      22
    Thomas      Biscomb      23
    Ezechia      Hore      24
    John      Elderman 25
    John      Pinny      26.
  3. [S300] Phelps Family History in America, online www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com, The date which appears on the Recovery's passenger roll, 31 March 1633, is misleading. The vessel had not left by 30 April 1633, when one of it's passengers witnessed a lease in England. 9 The subsequent voyage would have taken only two months or so; yet no reference has been found to any passengers in the New World until nearly a year and a half later.

    On 1 September 1634, Mr. Thomas Newberry and Robert Elwell are both mentioned in records of colonial Dorchester.10 Two days later, three passengers (Newberry, John Hardy, and John Pope) were made freemen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.11 Frequent mentions are made thereafter to Recovery passengers. It would seem that the clerk who entered the passenger list wrote 31 March 1633 in error for 31 March 1634. Under the Old Style dating then in effect, the year 1634 would have begun only one week earlier.

    Correcting the date of the Recovery's voyage also helps to clarify two other records that have perplexed researchers.

    First, Stephen Terry, another of the passengers, appears in a colonial Dorchester record 3 April 1633.12 This date can be reconciled with his appearance on the Recovery list only if the ship's roster was actually compiled on 31 March 1634; it would seem that he left the colony for England in the spring of late 1633 and returned on the Recovery the following year (early 1634).

    Second, the "Recovery of London" is almost certainly the ship that Coldham places at London on 8 March 1633/34,13 a mere twenty-three days before the corrected date; and it is surely this voyage of the Recovery which is referred to in the diary of William Whiteway of old Dorchester in Dorsetshire, who wrote: "April 17, 1634, Mr. Newburgh [sic] of Marthwoodvale and many others set saile from Waimouth towards New England."14 Mr. "Newburgh" was more precisely, Mr. Thomas Newberry, whose name led the list of passengers aboard the Recovery.

    Accepting the premise that the passenger list should have been dated 31 March 1634, then the ship sailed into Massachusetts Bay in late June or July 1634;15 and it was very likely one of the fourteen said to have arrived that June.16.
  4. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, V (M-P):484.
  5. [S1220] Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, online AmericanAncestors.org, p. 1211. John Pope Sr. ( -1649, 1646?) marr. Jane _____ ( -1662/3), by 1635, Dorchester; citing Pope Reg. 5:465, 7:229, 11:339, 75:225) and Shurtleff 1:318. Originally published as New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Hereinafter cited as New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (AA).
  6. [S749] Wm. B. Trask, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass.", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9 (1855): IX:344; Widdow Smead.--Mr. Israel Stoughtn, Administrator to Mrs Judith Smeed, widdow, deceased, as by Inventory taken ye 18: 3d : 1639. Mentions payment to Batcheller of Salem; Dea. John Pope of Dorchester; dau. Mary Denman, wife to Clement Maxfield; Roger Clap, Christopher Gibson, Hopestill Foster as examiners; division of the estate among children John Denman, Mary Denman (now Maxfield) and Wm Smeed. Also mentions "sister Visallah" [Ursula Knight], John Scudder, "Bro. Knight", Oliver Purchase, sister Clarke, brother Clarke, Tomkins, Bro. Kinsly, Sumner, Jewett, Oldreges [poss. Aldredge].
  7. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, V (M-P):484; undated will; d. 10 Apr 1646; bequeaths to wife, dau. (unnamed); names servants Hanna Janson and Ane Wellington and "William Smead, my little boy"; names Stephen Hoppen (a worn loom), brother Thomas, brother Joshua "my sister's husband." Inventory totalled £184 12s 6d.
  8. [S299] Charles Henry Pope, History of the Dorchester Pope Family 1634-1688 (Boston: privately published, 1888), p. 53-55: date of inventory 1 Jun 1649, deceased 12th of the 2nd month, 1646 [12 April 1646]; "Item I give unto my sarvant mayd Ane Wellmoton 15 shillings and unto my sarvant Hannah Janson 15 shillings at the end of hir time Also unto William Smead, my Littell boye my Lomes and such Taklinge as do belong unto them which is to the vallew of three pound : provided that he be willing to dwell with my wife after his time is out also provided that he be willing to Learn my Trad."
  9. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, V (M-P):485; Jane Pope of Dorchester, widow, bequeaths to dau. Patience £40, residue to be divided among ch. of Patience (named Blake: Jane, Mary, Sarah), all suggested to be under sixteen yeas of age. Executor son-in-law Edward Blake, overseers John Capen and John Gornell.