John G Pike b. 1588 Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England d. 26 May 1654 Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

1588 - 1654 (66 years)

Name	John G Pike [1]
Born	1588	Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England [1, 2]
Christened	01 Nov 1588	Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England
Gender	Male
Resided	1635	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
Immigration	1635	Massachusetts [1]
Immigration	on The James
Will Written	24 May 1654
Died	26 May 1654	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts [1, 2]
Will Proved	03 Aug 1654
Name	John G Pike [2]
Person ID	I3274	Jerry Milo Johnson
Last Modified	29 Mar 2015

Father	John Pike, b. 1564, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown
Relationship	Natural
Mother	Jane Castleman, b. 1564, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England , d. Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England
Relationship	Natural
Married	1587	Wiltshire County, England
Family ID	F1042	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Dorothy Daye, b. Abt 1592, Langford, Wiltshire, England , d. Bef 28 Mar 1632, England (Age ~ 40 years)

Married 17 Jan 1612 Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England

Notes

Married:

or 1613

Children

	1. John Pike, b. Bef 08 Nov 1613, Bridgewater, Wiltshire, England , d. 09 Jan 1690, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey (Age > 76 years) [Natural]
	2. Robert Pike, b. 17 Mar 1616, England , d. 12 Dec 1706, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age 90 years) [Natural]
	3. Dorothy Pike, b. Abt 1617, Bridgewater, Wiltshire, England , d. 05 Jun 1659, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 42 years) [Natural]
	4. Ann Pike, b. Abt 1621, Bridgewater, Wiltshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]
	5. Isreal Pike, b. Abt 1619, Langford, Wiltshire, England , d. 12 Mar 1679, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 60 years) [Natural]

Family ID F1070 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 1588 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England
	Christened - 01 Nov 1588 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England
	Married - 17 Jan 1612 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England
	Resided - 1635 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
	Immigration - on The James - 1635 - Massachusetts
	Died - 26 May 1654 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

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John Pike, at the age of 62 (app.), one of the first settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts, arrived in America with his five children: John, age 22; Robert, age 19; Dorothy, age 18; Ann, age 14; and Isreal, age 12 (ages are app.) having been two months since leaving Southampton, England.
They came on the ship, "James of London, three hundred tons, William Cooper, Master. She sailed from Southampton 5 April and arrived 3 June 1635 with 86 passengers and cattle. (Banks, p. 135ff) (Winthrop in his journal 1, 156 calls her master "Mr. Graves" and says that he "had come every year for these seven years.")
Until recently there was a question whether or not his wife Dorothy accompanied the family to New England. Charles E. Banks (The Planters of the Commonwealth, p. 138) lists "John of Langford, Co. Wilts, Mrs...Pike" and the five children by name. James Savage (Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, p.435) does not list her as arriving with the family. Information from the Pike Family Association maintains that the wife and mother did not come with the family to America (Pike Assoc. 1939, p. 27). (Banks in the preface of his book gives a comprehensive explanation of the research into these early records in England. He states: "The compiler of the lists which follows in this volume, during a residence of nearly five years in England has examined personally the originals of all the lists heretofore printed by Drake, Savage and Hotten, and subjected them to analytical study with a view of presenting them in an intelligible form.") We now know that Dorothy, wife of John G. Pike died between 20 June 1631, when she and her husband were named in her father's will, and 28 March 1632, when her mother's will did not mention her but included a bequest to son-in-law John Pike.
There is a legend passed down, especially by relatives in Salisbury, that John Pike is buried in the Old Burial Ground (established in 1639) located on Beach Road, Salisbury, Massachusetts. The story is that early settlers, including John, as well as other Pike members including Major Robert, were buried in unmarked graves due to the fact that the Indians would dig up the graves.
John Pike was probably born in Whiteparish, Co. Wiltshire, which is located about 90 miles southwest of London, a short distance from the great city of Salisbury, with its 13th Century Cathedral. It is recorded: "The earlier name must have referred to the color of the original church" (Grover, Mawer, & Stenton, p.388).
John Pike's parentage is unknown. "The Pike wills in the P.C.C. and in the Sarum (Old name for Salisbury) courts fail to show his parentage; perhaps he was from the adjoining county of Hants, for which there are wills at Winchester" (NEHGR, Vol. 66, 1912, p. 257-261.
He married 14 January 1612, Whiteparish, Co. Wiltshire, England, Dorothy Day of Langford (recorded as Dorothie Daye in the register. Whiteparish WRO, M/F 830/1).
John Pike is said to have been registered in the "Customs House" in Southampton as a "laborer of Langford" (Savage, p. 435). To quote Savage this was certainly done "to evade the despicable tyranny of the regulations" governing emigration or a deception to conceal a more noted person from such regulations. Joshua Coffin writes "No laborer of those days had two such educated sons as Robert and John Pike, Jr.; both were men of marked prominence in the Colony. We might say that no laborer of those days was himself such an educated man. The probabilities are that he certainly was a man of liberal education and much natural ability not only from his having two sons, who ranked so high in later years in the history of the colony and that of New Jersey, but from some evidence of his personal ability."
James Shepherd Pike, grandson (7th generation), of John Pike wriiting in "The New Puritan" stated "The listing of his being from Langford may have been erroneous, for at that period it was sometimes found expedient for persons of pronounced opinions, hostile to the governing powers, to leave the authorities in the dark as to the places of residence of the zealous Dissenters who were hastening out of the country. The description of John Pike as a laborer from LAngford may be therefore mythical. It is clear that a part of it, at least, is inaccurate." (The New Puritan, reprint, p. 25)
John Pike and his children landed in this country, presumably Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1635 and took up residence on the bank of the Parker River in Newbury.
The court records show that he acted as attorney in two cases and successfully on each occasion. Several times in the records of the Quarterly Courts we find him appearing as counsel for his friends. This fact probably accounts for the family tradition that he was a lawyer. He served in 1645 on the Grand Jury and on the Jury of Trials in 1653, and on 28 March 1654 he appeared for the town of Newbury against John Merrill.
In February 1638 he was fined two shillings and sixpence for "departing from the (town) meeting without leave and contemptuously." He endears himself to us by very humanness. When in an argument with Thomas Bloomfield he laid hold of his coat, the latter slipped out of it and ran away. Whereupon, John Pike, enraged by such cowardice, calmly cut the coat to ribbons.
He seems to have made his home in his last years with his son, Robert in Salisbury where he died on 26 May 1654, leaving property to the amount of £230, comprising nearly £15 in clothing. [It is estimated that an early pound would have been in later years worth $3.32 American currency. In 1988 an English pound was worth $2.80 American currency. Therfore, John's worth may be calculated as approximately $750, of which $50 was in clothing; not to mention his land holdings.]
His home and land in Newbury, and land in the new town, Salisbury, comprised his possessions.

The will of Thomas Daye can be found in the July 1999 edition of NEHGR.

He arrived, with his family, in Boston on June 3, 1635 on the Ship "James" which sailed from Southampton April 5, 1635, and on April 9, settled in Newbury with his family. He is listed as being a laborer on the ship's passenger roster, but soon after he acted as an attorney in a debt case. They had settled along the Parker River but found it unsuitable and in 1642 relocated a few miles north of the mouth of the Merrimack in Salisbury, then Norfolk Co., now Essex Co.
- Descendants of John Pike

Born:

http://voiceinverse.com/family/pike%20family.pdf
1588 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England,

Abt 1573 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England

abt 1585

Deed:

Norfolk Deeds. vol. 1, leaf 36.

Daniel Henrick of Haverhill with Dorathy his wife, daughter of John Pike,acknowleged the receipt of her legacy of 20li. from her brothers John and Robert Pike, ececutors of the will of her father, John Pike. Signed Jun 10, 1654. Witness: Robert Clements, Henry Palmer.
Henry True of Salem with Israell his wife, daughter of John Pike, acknowledged the receipt of her legacy of 20li. from her brothers John and Robert Pike, executors of the will of her father, John Pike. Signed May 1, 1655. Acknowledged May 1,1655 by Israell True and 15: 9: 1655 by Henry True before Tho. Bradbury, Commissioner of Salisbury
Norfolk Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 139.

Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill granted to his brother John Pike of Newbury and Robert Pike of Salisbury, executors of the will of his father-in-law, John Pike, all his upland and meadow which belonged to him according to the order of the town of Haverhill in the 4th division to be improved for the use and benefit of his children, Daniel, John, Jotham, Jabez, Israell, Hannah and Dorathie, and that in consideration, the legacy of 20li. to be divided between his wife and children, according to the will of his father-in-law, John Pike. Signed and sealed Mar. 27, 1662. Witness: John Cheney, sr., Nathaniel Boulter,

Probate:

Essex Probate Records v1:193

Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 21893

Estate of John Pike, Sr. of Salisbury

In the name of Amen The last will & testament of John Pike senior being sick and Weake in body but of pfect memory. maye 24. 1654. first. I will & bequeath my soule unto god In the lord Jesus Christ & my body to be buried in Convenient burieinge place & my worldly goods to be bestowed as followeth.

first I give my howse & lande at the old towne at Newbery boath uplande & meddow with my privellidge of Comon ( at Newbery ) unto my gran Child John Pike the son of my eldest son John Pike wth that parcell of my lande at the little River. & In Case the saide John Pike doe die without Issue & before he is twenty one yeare old then the saide lande shall pass to his Brother & sisters by equell portions & If they faile then it shall pass to the next of kinn.

Allsoe I give that portion of my lande at the new towne caled by the name of the pitt boath upland & meddow unto my grand Child John Pike the son of my son Robert Pike & In case the saide John Pike die without Issue ( or before the age of twenty one ) the said land shall pass to his sisters & if they faile then it shall pass to the next of kinn

Allsoe I give unto my Daughter Dorothy twenty pounde to be equally devided betwixt her & her Children by equall portions.

Allsoe I give to my daughter Israel twenty pounde to be devided betwixt her Chilldren by equall portions

Allsoe I give to my daughter in law mary the wife of my son John fowrty shillings & I give to her Children Joseph hanna mary & ruth each of (them) fowrty shillings

Allsoe I give unto my daughter in law sara the wife of my son Robert fowrty shillings & I give to her Children sara Dorathye mary & Elizabeth ( each of them) fowrty shillings.

Allsoe I give unto my tenant samuel more the bedstead that he hath of mine.

Allsoe I doe. appoynte my two sons John & Robert to bee my executors to see my will pformed & my debts & all Charges paide ( soe farr as my estate will reach) & the remainder of my estate within doare & without doare shall be devided betwixt my two said executors my sons John Pike & Robert Pike by equall portions all debts & Charges beinge first discharged & paide furthermore my will is that in Case my sons John Pike & Robert Pike should Remove out of the Cuntry with theire famillyes after my decease before my saide grande Children are of the age of twenty one yeare that then it shall be in the power of my saide sons John & Robert to dispose in the waye of sale or otherwise of the saide lande for the benefitt of my saide grand Children respectively that is to saye my son wch is the father shall dispose of that lande wch is by me given to his owne Child & soe boath respectively
John Pike

Witness: Henry Mondey, John R Raffe
Proved in Hampton court 3: 8: 1654 by Henry Mondey and Jno. Ralfe.

Inventory of estate of John Pike sr., deceased May 26, 1654, taken May 29 1654, Mr. Henry Mondy (Mondey), John Roff ( Rolf) and George ( his mark) Goldwire (Gouldwire) :
His howse & Land at the old Towne of Newbery, 60li.;
his Lande at the new Towne, 60li. ;
one yonge Cattell of 2 yeare & vantage, 39li.;
one bed & appurtenances, 7li;
on new broad Cloth suite, 3li. 3s. 4d.;
one stuff sute & wascot, 2li. 2s. ;
one Cloth sute, 1li. 4s.;
one Cloth Coate, 2li. 10s.;
shirts, Hankerchers & bands & other linen, 2li. 15.;
4 paire of stockings & 2 hats, 1li. 14s.;
a paire of boots & 2 paire of shooes 1li. 2s.;
2 paire of gloves & a paire of mittins, 4s.;
one brass pan, one warming pan, one frieinge pan, 1li. 10s;
one brass pott, one brass possnett, 1li. 1s.;
one brand Iron, one and Iron 6s.;
a hatchet, a Cutting knife to Cut haye & other smale things, 6s. 6d.;
a Chest, a box & other lumber 16s.; In books 1li.;
in debts 7li.;
a Cheese press & som other lumber 13s.;
total 230li. 6s.10d.
Jno. Pike and Robert Pike, executors to John Pike, sr., testified in Hampton court 3:8:1654, that the above is a true inventory.

Resided:

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Sources

[S141] \i Descendants of JOHN PIKE\i0, (Name: http://reocities.com/Colosseum/court/8705/pike.htm;), ) (Reliability: 3).
[S144] Descendants of Richard Pyke Pike, Catherine Edwards-Evans.