Family tree Cromer/Russell/Buck/Pratt » John Anthony (± 1607-1675)

Personal data John Anthony 

• He was born about 1607 in Hempstead, Middlesex, England.
• He was baptized on November 3, 1626 in St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, Middlesex, England.Source 2
• Emigrated in the year 1634, London, England.Source 3
• Immigrated in the year 1634 vanuit Boston, MA.Source 4
• Occupations:
• on May 25, 1655 Appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment.
• from 1666 till 1672 Deputy in Portsmouth, RI, British Colonial America.
• in the year 1661 Commissioner.
• (Marriage) : Susannah Potter (d. 1675).
• (Land) on November 14, 1644 in Wadding River: received land grant.Source 5
• (Military Service) in the year 1644: Corporal.
• He died on July 28, 1675 in Portsmouth, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• A child of John Anthony and Unknown

Household of John Anthony

He had a relationship with Susannah Potter.

Child(ren):

1. John Anthony  1642-1715
2. Joseph Anthony  1642-1728
3. Susannah Anthony  1644-1716 
4. William Anthony  1645-????
5. Elizabeth Anthony  ± 1646-1698
6. Abraham Anthony  1650-1727 
7. Thomas Anthony  ± 1652-????

Notes about John Anthony

Notes for JOHN ANTHONY: city of London, where John Anthony, the founder of the line in America, was born. Members of the family have occupied distinguished positions in may different callings throughout the entire period of American history, and no name is more closely associated with the growth and development of Rhode Island, both as a colony and State, than is this. John Anthony was a young man when he sailed from his native country on board the barque 'Hercules,' in 1634, and it was but six years later that we find the first record of him as a resident of Portsmouth, R.I., where his descendants have made their home ever since. In 1641 he was made a freeman of Portsmouth and shortly afterwards became a corporal in the military company of the settlement. He was the recipient of a grant of land at 'Wading River' in 1644, and on May 25, 1655, had authority granted him to keep a house of entertainment at Portsmouth. He was commissioner in 1661, and a deputy to the General Court from 1666 to 1672. Anthony family is one of the oldest settled families in the State of Rhode Island, the American progenitor of the family having been a resident of Portsmouth as early as 1640. Middletown has been the home of many members of this family for generations, and that town is still the abiding-place of two worthy representatives of the name in the persons of Miss Susan A. Anthony and Abraham Anthony. The first of the name in New England was one John Anthony, or Anthonie, as he wrote his name. The first known of the family was one William Anthony, who was born in 1495, in Cologne, Germany. He had three sons, the youngest, Francis, having been goldsmith and jeweler to Queen Elizabeth. The genealogy of the Anthony family in America will be found in detail elsewhere in these volumes.hn Anthony (or Antonie [sic] ) as he wrote it, who was born in 1607, and was a resident of the village of Hempstead, near London, England, became the founder of the family in New England, coming to America in the barque "Hercules", in 1634. He married Susanna Potter, and settled at Portsmouth, R. I., where he is of record in 1640 and the next year became a freeman of the Colony.Anthony, son of (I) John, born in 1650, married Alice Wodell, and lived at Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

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