John SCRIVEN

Male 1623 - Bef 1675  (51 years)


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  • Name John SCRIVEN 
    Born 27 Oct 1623  Wem, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • The birth of John Scriven is recorded on page 51 of Part 1 of the Parish Register for Wem, Shropshire County, England. The original entry reads : "1623, Oct. 27. John, s. of Thomas [Skeinen?], sawyer bap." The question about Thomas' last name is answered on page xvi. of Part 2 (one of the pages where corrections are noted), where it is stated: "Page 51, Line 18. For 'Skeinen,' read 'Skriven.'" In that Wem Register, the mothers' names are not listed.
    Gender Male 
    _UID 57EC7770180341DEA03E6180A9C13F1AE606 
    Died Bef 27 Jun 1675  Dover, Strafford, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Will: November 24, 1674, Mentions wife Mary, and children John, Edward, Thomas, and Elizabeth, all minors.

      Will Proved: June 27, 1675
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    • JOHN SCRIVEN:
      Listed in Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Noyes, et al) on page 615: taxed 1662; Jury 1666; grand jury 1670, 1673. In 1685 his son sold the plantation on which he had lived. Will, 27 Nov 1674 (d. Oct. 1675).

      Birth information from Wem Parish Register, SHROPSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS, DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD, 9, Pt. 1, (Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society, 1908):51. See correction of the misspelling of John's name in Vol. 10, p. xv i IGI[note 13], 23, 642.

      Death record from PROBATE RECORDS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, VOL. 1, 1635-1717. STATE PAPERS SERIES VOL. 31 (Concord, NH: Rumford Printing Co., 1907):157.

      Source: Savage, Volume IV, Dictionary First Settlers of Northeast
      SCRIVEN, SCREVEN, SCRIEVEN, or SCRIVINE, JOHN, Dover 1662, d. 2 Oct. 1675, says Quint, in Genealogy Reg. VIII. 65, though in the same l. he makes his will of 24 Nov. 1674, probably 27 June following that date of its making not of his death. Some error, which is seldom found in so careful a writer must here demand correction. It mentions wife Mary, and children Jon, Edward, Thomas, and Elizabeth, all minors. The daughter perhaps married 1686, Samuel Eastman. John Scriven was the illegitimate son of an English Nobleman, Sir Thomas of Shropshire. John Scribner, Wells, Maine, 1663, Capt. of a coasting vessel plying from Boston to Maine settlements, M. Mary Mills (Thomas), who as his wid. conveyed her Mills inher. to her d. Abigail Wiggin in 1719. page 152 Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis.

      John was accepted as an inhabitant of Dover on 5 April 1662. He settled in an area just to the northeast of Dover Town known as "Cocheco," where he had a small farm of 20 acres, "said land being at Cochecha near the east side of the plantation of Richard Otis" (from the deed to John's land, when it was sold by his son, John, to Peter Coffin of Dover in 1685, see PROVINCE DEEDS 20:334).

      It was in September of 1662 that he paid his first taxes (John Scales, COLONIAL ERA HISTORY OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE [1923. Reprint. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1977], 242).

      According to the Inventory of his possessions following his death, John owned a hay barn with 20 acres of land, a few animals (2 oxen, 4 cows, 1 calf, 3 sheep, 1 lamb, 1 mare, a yearling colt and 6 hogs), farm implements and household goods (Inventory of John Scriven's Property, dated 8 October 1675). Interestingly, the inventory also listed 1 musket and sword.

      [Note: There is speculation he was the son of Sir Thomas Scribner which could account for the sword. However his birth record identifies his father as Thomas, a sawyer.
    Person ID I6908  Master File
    Last Modified 21 May 2015 

    Father Thomas SCRIBNER,   b. Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary 
    Children 
     1. John SCRIBNER,   b. 1657, Dover, Strafford, NH Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between Mar 1734/35 and May 1738, Exeter, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F4887  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart