Individual Details

John Mighill Sr.

(Abt 1634 - Bef 7 Dec 1702)

John was born in England and came to America with his parents. Essex County records at Salem show that John was fined on May 6, 1658, for "taking tobacco." He had been found by Thomas Leaver smoking tobacco near a dung hill full of hay and straw between Widow Mighell's house and barn on a dry windy day before the snow fell in the beginning of last winter. Though admonished by Thomas Leaver, he was still smoking when Thomas returned. John Pearson also testified that he saw a pipe in Mighell's mouth.
John married the next year on July 6 1659 to Sarah Batt. He was one of six men in 1661 allowed to build a pen to catch wolves for three years and receive 50s for each wolf taken. Other town records show John selling property and keeping cows for the town. For some time John lived at "Oyster River" in Dover, N.H. and was constable there in 1674. Three of his children were baptized in Newbury, MA on Aug 13, 1676 were he and his wife were living at the time.
By 1681, John and his sons, John and Thomas were in Suffield, Conn. were they received land grants. They were among the early grants to settlers or proprietors between 1670 and 1682. On March 9, 1681/82 John Mighell, Sr. was listed in Suffield as privileged to vote in town affairs. He was selectman from 1686 to 1690, and in 1697 served on a committee to clear five acres of meadow land for the minister. He died in Suffield in 1702.

Events

BirthAbt 1634
Marriage6 Jul 1659Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, British America - Sarah Batt
DeathBef 7 Dec 1702(now Connecticut), Suffield, Massachusetts, British America

Families

SpouseSarah Batt (1640 - 1714)
ChildJohn Mighill Jr. (1660 - 1743)
ChildThomas Mighill (1662 - 1745)
ChildSarah Mighill (1664 - )
ChildElizabeth Mighill (1666 - )
ChildMary Mighill (1668 - )
ChildSamuel Mighill (1670 - 1736)
ChildNathaniel Mighill (1672 - 1709)
ChildNicholas Mighill (1674 - )
FatherDeacon Thomas Mighill (1606 - 1654)
MotherEllen (1610 - 1640)
SiblingSamuel Mighill ( - 1698)
SiblingRev Thomas Mighill (1639 - 1689)

Notes

Birth

aged "about thirty years" in September 1664.

Endnotes

1. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.

2. Swift, Katharine Whitin., The Swift family : historical notes. (Whitinsville, Mass.: E.K. Swift, 1955, 177 pgs.), p. 162.

3. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.

4. Swift, Katharine Whitin., The Swift family : historical notes. (Whitinsville, Mass.: E.K. Swift, 1955, 177 pgs.), p. 162.

5. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.