John Witt, of Lynn

• Evidence needed to support as son of Jacob Witt
• Not the father of Joshua Wheat

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John Witt, Sr.

• Born about 1617 in England
• Died 2 Dec 1675 at about age 58 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Parents: unknown (seen as Jacob Witt)
• Husband of Elizabeth (unknown) — married about 1637 [location unknown]
• Husband of Sarah (Rooles) Witt — married about 1643 in / of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Father of Jonathan Witt, Anne (Witt) Barney, Sarah Witt, Elizabeth Hester (Witt) Knowlton, Sarah Witt, John Witt Jr, Martha Witt, Mary (Witt) Kimball, Thomas Witt and Ebenezer Witt

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GEDCOM from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Witt-215 and then edited.

Disputed Origins

There is considerable debate about his origins. Claims have been made of England, France, Holland and Massachusetts.

On pages 1156-7 in New England Families, Vol. III, Genealogies andMemorials, there is a discussion of the New England Witt origins. It casts doubt on a Holland origin because there were no Dutch speaking Witts in early New England, so the suggestion is that the Witts came from England. Also it is admitted that Dewitts from Holland perhaps went to England and dropped the De, or that the Witts were simply Witts which is derived from White.

Another theory suggests that there were Huguenots in France named DeWitt, who fled to England during the persecution of Huguenots by the Catholic Church in the late 1500s and early 1600s. They changed their name to Witt in England. They then sailed to America in the early 1600s and their descendants changed the family name back to DeWitt in the late 1700-mid 1800s. (Note also, that unlike the Dutch DeWitts of New York, this Witt family included no descendants with Dutch names.) There was then a discussion of this John Witt which basically claimed what is listed below from a variety of sources. All of this research related here was found using ancestry.com. Some claims hold that the father of John was Jacob Witt born in England in 1586 and passing away in Mass. in 1617 with an unknown mother.

Biography

John Witt was born either 1612 or 1617 in England.

Ref: “Some Descendants of John Witt.” Frank W. Balcomb, The Witt genealogy, Peabody, Mass.: Fraedy Press, c1943

He married about 1638 in England Unnamed UNKNOWN.

He married about 1643 in Lynn or Groton, MA to Sarah _______.

Ref:Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.

He died 2 Dec 1675 and was buried in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts.

If he died in Lynn, Mass in 1675. He may have been buried in the Old Burying Ground in Lynn. Unfortunately, the oldest known grave was from 1698.

Emigration

When John Witt arrived in Massachusetts is unclear. He is not listed as a member of one of the Pilgrim ships. Over 250 ships were involved with over 7000 families, but there are several ships about which no passenger list is available. Reference: Pilgrims He emigrated about 1643 according to Torrey's estimate of marriage that year; or 1646 or 1650.

Ref: US & Canada Passenger and Immigration List Index

Family

It is claimed that John Witt Sr. had two wives:

1. Elizabeth? unknown with a marriage in Massachusetts about 1637-1638 (See her link below.) by whom he had:
   1. Jonathan Witt 1638-1665
   2. Anne Witt (Barney) 1639 – 1702 (See link below.)
2. Sarah Rooles (1616-1680) with a marriage in Massachusetts about 1643. (See her link below.) Claimed children:
   1. Elizabeth Witt, b 1645
   2. Sarah Witt 1647 – 1675
   3. John Witt Jr 1649 – 1710 (See link below.) Did he marry 14 Jun 1676 in Lynn Elizabeth Baker
   4. Joshua Witt c 1650; m. Elizabeth Mansfield 10 Jun 1675. Ref: Genealogical Gleanings relative to Lynn, MA," in NEHGR, 5(1851):342-3
   5. Martha Witt 1658 –
   6. Mary (Marah) Witt (Kimball) 1659 – 1703
   7. Thomas Witt 1661 – 1690 (See link below.)
   8. Ebenezer Witt 1665 – 1665

In general, many researchers consider him to be the first of this Wittfamily in North America. Several of his descendants changed their name from Witt to DeWitt so many DeWitts may claim him as their most distant known ancestor as well as many Witts.

DNA Efforts

Currently, a Y-chromosome DNA analysis project is ongoing attempting to determine if several DeWitt families are related to this Witt family. Anyone interested who knows of a living male Witt or DeWitt descendant is encouraged to contact this memorial's (FindAGrave) caretaker for more information.

Last Will & Testament

Ref 55: John Witt's Last Will [55]

Note: I have added paragraph numbers in case it is needed to refer to a specific part of the will.

Will of John Witt, Sr., of Lynn
_1_ This is the Last will & testament of John witt senior of Lynn in the Countye of Essex written the twelvth daye of September, Ano: Domni 1675: whoe being sicke, & weake of bodye, but good memorye, & understanding.

_2_ Imp: I bequeath my bodye to the earth & my spirit to the Lord that have it

_3_ It: I give to my daughter Ann Barnitt, five shillings she having received her portion already.

_4_ It: I give to my Daughter Elizabeth five shillins shee also having received her portion alreaddye.

_5_ It: I give to my daughter Sarah six pounds to bee paid to her with in two years after my deseace-

_6_ It: I give unto my daughter Marye twentye pounds to bee paide unto her with in three years after my deseace but in case shee shall marrye, sooner, then it, to bee pd: at her marryage

_7_ It: I give unto my daughter Martha, twenye pounds to bee paid, unto her (in) four years after my deseace, but id she shall marrye Sooner, then it to bee paid her, at her marryage.

_8_ It: I give unto my son John witt, my now dwelling house & house Lott with all my housing uppon it to him his heires & assignes for ever, with all Comons, Libertyes, & prvilidges what soe ever be Longing there unto (viz) to take posseion until his said mothers death, & then possesse it.

_9_ It: I give to my Son Thomas witt, all my Land by the meeting house which I bought of Mr. King with all commons, Livertyes & privlidges that soe be Longing there unto, to him, his heires, & assignes for ever & alsoe ten acres of my marsh ground this being to bee understood that I hereby doe give unto my afforesd son John witt all the rest of my marsh ground & doe refer unto the overseers of this my will the layeing out for my Son Thomas Witt (yt sd) ten acres of my marsh indifferentlye they having an eye to goodnesse & nadnesse of my marsh the convenience & inconveniencye soe yet neither of my sons maye be wronged & hee the said Thomas to have possession of his whole guift both upkand & marsh ground at the death of his now mother.

_10_ It: I give unto my wife Sarah the use of all my affore said houses Lands & marsh ground with all there appurtenances & privilidges as above said to improve her best advantage during all the tyme shee shall remaine my widow.

_11_ It: I give unto my affore sd wife all my Catles & Living stocke of all sorts to gether with debts due to mee, & also all my moveable estate both within dored & without to be at her dispose for (her) owne Comfortable Livelyhood during the tyme shee shall remain my widow & if shee shall dye my widow then shee is to dispose of what part of my moveable estate maybe bee then Left to all, my children in general, or (to) which of them she pleases but if she shall marry with any man

_12_ Then my will is & I do here by empower my Son John witt to enter possession upon two thirds of my housing Lands & marsh grounds as abodes to be disposed as abused, I hereby giving to my wife one thirdt part of ally houses Lands & marsh ground as above said during her natural loge.

_13_ Alsoe my will is yet if my wife Sarah shall marrye againe, that before shee doe marrye, she doe devide all my moveable estate as above sd which then may be Left, amongst all my children in general )as shee pleases & doe hereby impower my son John, with the overseers of this my will, to see it be done:

_14_ It: I bequeath to my grandchild Hester witt one ewe Lamb.

_15_ It: my will is that in Case any of my children shall dye before the tyme the shall received the respective Legacyes as above aid then their Legacyes to bee paid to their brethren or brother aboved if Living.

_16_ It: My will is that where as there are severall Legacyes to be paid as aboved & alsoe: ten pounds to be paid by mee to my Grandchild Hester witt, as it being soe willed by her father Jonathan witt: that soe much of it as shall bee due to bee paide during ye tyme my estate in generall shall bee in my wifes hands as aboved, she shall paye it out of the moveable estate but soe much of it as maye not bee due to bee paide whiles the tyme of the deseace or marryage of my wife Sarah with some other man as aforesd My two sons John: & Thomas Witt shall paye it after this proportion to my son: John Thirtye five pounds & my son Thomas fifitenn pounds & that upon this sonderacon yt I have given ym all my housing Lands & marsh ground , as above sd this being to bee understood, that how far short that which my Sons: John & Thomas maye paye of it shall be of fiftye pounds the shall make it up fifitye pounds to be paid to her dispose of.

_17_ It: I make my wife Sarah my Lawfull: Executrix Last I doe desire & apoynt my Loveing friends John Burrell, Nathaniel Kertland senior & Matthew Farington to be overseers of this my will.

_18_ In: witt whereof I have put my hands this being to be understood to be the meaning of that fiftye in the interline next before where I make my wife executrix that iff my sons shall paye one of ye 10th: nor of the Legacyes absolved then John: shall paye to the assigns or assignee of his mother 35th & Thomas 15th: but if the shall paye ay part of it by soe much the shall deduct & the time of the payment is at their mothers frath."
John (his mark) witt Senior

Witness: Andrew Mansfield, Joseph Mansfield, Deborah (her mark) Mansfield.

Proved in Ipswich court 28 March 1676 by Andrew and Joseph Mansfield.

Inventory of estate

Taken 14 December 1675 by John Fuller and Andrew Mansfield:

• weareing Apparill, Lyning & woolen 2 li. 15s;
• Bed Coverings, 2 li. 2 s;
• five pare of sheets, 5 li. 10s;
• fether Bed, 1 boulster, 3 pilloes, 6 li.;
• fether bed with other Bedding, 8 li. 1 s;
• more Bedding 1 li., 4s;
• Bedsetead 1 li. 10 s;
• Table Carpitt, Table lining 3 li., 2 s;
• Lining Cloth 4 li., 1s;
• woolen Cloth 3 li. 17 s 6 6d;
• Flax , woole, 3 li. 12 s;
• Puter &Tinn ware 3 li., 11 s 2 d; * Iron & Brass potts & kettles pestile & morter & posnets 2 li. 1s. 6d.;
• Fryeing pan 2 Hakes. 1 Grid iron, 1 spit, 1 pr, tongs, 2 li. 4s.; * 1 spade, 3 aces, 1 Hamer, 1 hooe, Mattake, 1 Hetchell & haye Hooke, 1 li. 3s. 6d:
• Armes & ammunition 1 li. 10 s;
• chest, Boxres, cheres & Fann,, 1 li., 16 s;
• Bookes, 1 li.;
• English & Indian Corne, 14 li. 6s;
• Neate catle & sheep, 57 li. 12s;
• swine Flesh, 11 li. 2s;
• Tobaccoe, 2 li.;
• Carts, plows, chains, yoks & Apurtenances 4 li. 12 s;
• Butter, cheese & Beefe, 3 li., 10 s;
• spinning wheels, woole cards, smoothing iron, 12 s 6 d.;
• Syder, chee press, chese fats 3 li., 6s 6d;
• Pailes, Doe tub & some Lumber 18 s.;
• 1 Horse, 2 li.;
• A Loom for to eave in, slead & Harniss & C., 5 li.;
• grinfle stone syths & sickels. 1 li.;
• moneys 1 li. 4s; * The house lott, 6 acres in estimation with ye housing & orchard uponit. 160 li.;
• 5 acres by the meeting house with the orchard upon it 21 li.;
• marsh ground, 115li;
• total 472 li. 7s,
• Due to the estate in moneys, 5 li.
• Debts due from the estate 2 li. 6s. Attested in Ipswich court 28 March 1676 by Sarah Witt widow and executrix<ref>Probate Records of Essex County, MA: 1675- 1681, MassachusettsProbate Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow, Essex institute:Docket 30, 221.</ref>

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2068. JOHN WITT, born 1612 in England; died December 02, 1675 in Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony. He was the son of 4136. Jacob Witt. He married 2069. SARAH ROOLES Abt. 1637 in Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony.

2069. SARAH ROOLES, born 1616 in England; died January 1679/80 in Mass. Bay Colony.

More About JOHN WITT:

Comment 1: A selectman of Lynn

Immigration: Bef. 1640, from England to Mass. Bay Colony

More About SARAH ROOLES:

Immigration: Bef. 1650, from England to Mass. Bay Colony

More About JOHN WITT and SARAH ROOLES:

Marriage: Abt. 1637, Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony

Child of JOHN WITT and SARAH ROOLES is:

1034 i. John Witt, born 1645 in Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony; died in Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony; married Elizabeth Baker June 14, 1676 in Lynn, Mass. Bay Colony.

Sources

From WikiTree contributors, "John Witt Sr. (abt.1617-1675)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Witt-215 : accessed 08 September 2024).

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20. ↑ Celebration of the 275th anniversary of the First Church of Christ : Lynn, Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/celebrationof27500unse/page/n79/mode/2up
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31. ↑ "New England families, genealogical and memorial; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation; by Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed., Publication date 1913. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company Witt Family: pg 1157-8 https://archive.org/details/newenglandfamili03cutt_0/page/n7/mode/2up
32. ↑ 1646 Francis Lightfoot Will: John owed him money https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/575543/?offset=0#...
33. ↑ The DRIVER FAMILY: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of ROBERT AND PHEBE DRIVER. By Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke, New York, Printed For The Author by John Wilson and Son, University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1889. pg 66 https://archive.org/details/driverfamilyage00cookgoog/page/66/mode/2up
34. ↑ Driver and Witt Familes: pg 67 https://archive.org/details/driverfamilyage00cookgoog/page/66/mode/2up
35. ↑ A genealogical register of North Brookfield families, including the records of many early settlers of Brookfield. by Charles Adams, Jr, published by the Town of North Brookfield. 1887. Pg 788-790 https://archive.org/details/historyofnorthbr87temp/page/788/mode/2up
36. ↑ History of Lynn: ANNALS OF LYNN -- 1640 (See pg 190): https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJA2122.0001.001/204?rgn=full+text...
37. ↑ Orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthography
38. ↑ History of Hugenots in England: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/France_Huguenots
39. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots
40. ↑ https://archive.org/details/agenealogicaldi00unkngoog/page/n142 https://archive.org/details/agenealogicaldi01unkngoog See pg 619
41. ↑ HISTORY of the TOWN OF GROTON INCLUDING PEPPERELL AND SHIRLEY from the FIRST GRANT OF GROTON PLANTATION IN 1655 WITH APPENDICEES, containing Family Registers, Town and Stat Officers, Population, and Other Statistics. By Caleb Butler, Boston: Press of T R Marvin, No. 24 Congress Street 1848 https://dn720500.ca.archive.org/0/items/historyoftownofg00butl/hist... Page 11 The original petition for the plantation or town of Groton, is not found, or any record of it ; but the following copies of records and documents in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, show the names of some of the petitioners, and the purport of their petition. "At a General Court held at Boston the 23d of the 5th mo., 1655. "There being a petition preferred by Mr. Dean Winthrop, Mr. Thomas Hinckley and divers others for a plantation upon the river that runs from Nashua into Merrimack, called Petapawag, and another from some of the inhabitants of Concord for a plantation in the same place, to both of which the Court returned this answer, That the Court thinks meet to grant the petitioners eight miles square in the place desired, to make a plantation, which henceforth shall be called Groaten, formerly known by the name of Petapawag, and that Mr. Danforth of Cambridge with such others as he shall associate to himself, shall and ... Note: This name undoubtedly given to the plantation by Dean Winthrop, the first named petitioner, a son of governor Winthrop, who came from Groton, Suffolk county, in England. Page 12 ... hereby is desired to lay it out with all convenient speed, that so no encouragement may be wanting to the petitioners for the speedy procuring of a godly Minister amongst them, provided that none shall enjoy any right or portion of that land by gift, from the Selectmen of that place, but such as shall build houses on their lots so given them within eighteen months from the time of said town's laying out, or town's grant to such persons, and for the present Mr. Dean Winthrop, Mr. John Tinker, Mr. Thomas Hinckley, Dolor Davis, William Martin, Matthew Harrington, JOHN WITT and Timothy Cooper are appointed the Selectmen for the said town of groton for two years from the time it is laid out, to lay out and dispose of particular lots, not exceeding twenty acres to each house lot, and to order the prudential affairs of the place, at the end of which time, other selectmen shall be chosen and appointed in their rooms, the said Selectmen of groton giving Mr. Danforth such satisfaction for his service and pains, as they and he shall agree." There seems to be no more mention of John Witt in Groton in the document. Did he even serve for two years? As the crow flies, Groton is 44 miles inland from Lynn, Mass. In the mid 1600s that was a significant distance which suggests that he would not have commuted from Lynn to do his business in Groton. So he would have most likely lived there while serving..
42. ↑ FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy-Governours, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-I... See pg 326.
43. http://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalre01farmgoog#page/n350/mode/2up
44. ↑ Father of John Witt: See Kelli Crnkovich's website: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kelliesconnections/genealogy/Descen...
45. ↑ Baptism in 1616 Beercrocombe, Somerset, England https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7140:9146?tid=&pi...
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47. ↑ Joshua Wheat and Elizabeth Mansfield : North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Joshua Wheat Genealogy : A history of the Wheat Family in America : with a brief account of the name https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155...
48. ↑ Hypothesis 3: Sarah Was Only Mother https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZXP-W3C
49. ↑ Freemen vs. Selectmen http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2012/01/freemen-of-massachusetts-ba...
50. ↑ Lindberg, Marcia W. (C.G.); “THE ESSEX GENEALOGIST: JOHN WITT OF LYNN (MASSACHUSETTS),”(Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 2011), [vol. 18, no. 3] [p. 164]
51. ↑ Apple Cider: Dow, George Francis. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. Essex Institute. 1913. Page 422-423. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qh44AAAAIAAJ
52. ↑ John's Death Date in "The Driver family: a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass. With an appendix, containing twenty-three allied families. 1592-1887" by Cooke, Harriet Ruth Waters, 1841- Publication date 1889 See page
53. ↑ Old Burying Ground: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ma/essex//cemeteries/oldburying.txt
54. ↑ Old Burying Ground List: https://ldsgenealogy.com/MA/Old-Burying-Ground-Lynn-MA.htm
55. ↑ Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground https://archive.org/details/inscriptionsfro00moulgoog/page/n6/mode/2up Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground, Lynn, Mass. by John T. Moulton, of Lynn (Mass.) John T Moulton 1886
56. ↑ Old Burying Ground: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91382/old-east-burying-ground
57. ↑ FindAGrave for John Witt: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3455697/person/693...
58. ↑ Large Map of Lynn https://www.abebooks.com/City-Lynn-Massachusetts-H.F-Walling-O.W/30...
59. ↑ Closeup of Possible Burial Ground, the Common and Shepard St https://www.abebooks.com/City-Lynn-Massachusetts-H.F-Walling-O.W/30...
60. ↑ John's Will in "The Driver family: a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass. With an appendix, containing twenty-three allied families. 1592-1887" by Cooke, Harriet Ruth Waters, 1841- Publication date 1889 See pages 67-68 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Driver_Family%2C_A_Genealog....
61. ↑ Probate Records of Essex County, MA: 1675- 1681, Massachusetts Probate Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow, Essex institute:Docket 30, 221
62. Also: Printed version found in Driver Family Genealogy: https://archive.org/details/probaterecordsof01mass/page/54/mode/2up
63. ↑ Y-STR Matches with Witts and DeWitts: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/dewittfamilydna?iframe=ycolorized
64. Miscellaneous:
65. Lynn Genealogy (in Essex County, MA)
66. https://ldsgenealogy.com/MA/Lynn.htm
67. Don DeWitt's Family Tree at Ancestry.com that includes many Witt and DeWitt descendants of John Witt: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3455697/person/693...
68. Balcomb, Frank W. The Witt genealogy: The Witt genealogy: Some of the Descendants of John Witt. Peabody, Mass.: Fraedy Press, c1943. < AncestryImage > Page 5