Samuel Converse

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 
    Christening: 12 Mar 1637 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Parents

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         Father: Edward Converse (1589-1663)
         Mother: Sarah (      -1662)

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Notes

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General:

GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS:

The following is from Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633:

Children of Edward Converse with first wife:

vi SAMUEL, bp. Charlestown 12 March 1636/7 [ChChR 47]; m. Woburn 14 October 1660 Judith Carter.

. . . we have a gap of fourteen years between the baptism of the last child in England and that of Samuel in Charlestown in 1637. This might in some cases suggest that Samuel was by a second wife, but there is no evidence whatever that this is the case.

RICHARDSON:

The following is on pages 92-93 of an article by Douglas Richardson in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Vol 153 (1999), pgs 81-96):

"SARAH PARKER was born probably about 1596, and was buried at South Weald, Essex, 13 Jun 1625, as "Sara wyfe to Edward Convers."

CONCLUSION:

Edward's first wife Sarah died in 1625 in Essex. He then married another woman named Sarah, who died in Massachusetts in 1662. Samuel is indeed the son of Edward's second wife. The authors of Great Migration Begins were unaware of the burial record of Edward's first wife.

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