Individual Details
Joan Purchase
(Abt 1578 - 26 Mar 1653)
Joan Purchase, daughter of Oliver Purchase [NEHGR 2:80]; born about 1578 based on age at death; admitted to second church of Dorchester, probably about 1638 [DChR 4]; she died Dorchester 26 March 1653, aged 75 [NEHGR 2:80].
Events
| Birth | Abt 1578 | England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Marriage | 22 Apr 1596 | England, United Kingdom - Bernard Capen |  | | |
| Death | 26 Mar 1653 | Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Burial | Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Bernard Capen (1562 - 1638) |
| Child | Bernard Capen ( - ) |
| Child | Hannah Capen ( - ) |
| Child | James Capen (1598 - 1628) |
| Child | Ruth Capen (1600 - ) |
| Child | Susanna Capen (1602 - 1666) |
| Child | Dorothy Capen (1608 - 1675) |
| Child | Elizabeth Capen (1610 - 1678) |
| Child | Captain John Capen (1612 - 1692) |
| Child | Honor Capen (1616 - ) |
| Father | Oliver Purchase ( - ) |
| Sibling | Aquilia Purchase ( - 1636) |
Notes
Marriage
According to the fly-leaf of a bible printed in 1615 once owned by a descendant [NEHGR 2:80]:• Barnard Capen maryed Joan ye dafter of Oliuer Purchis, ye yeer of or Lord, 1596, on munday, in whitson week...
Whitsun is the contraction for White Sunday, the 7th day after Easter in the Christian calendar. The following day is called Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form "Monday in Whitsun-week." In the year 1596, Apr. 14th was Easter day, thus they married on Monday, Apr. 22, 1596, not May 31, 1596, a Friday, as claimed in the sketch of Bernard in "The Great Migration Begins" series.
Burial
Inscription:Here
lies the bodies of
Mr Barnard Capen
& Mrs Joan Capen his
wife; He died Nov 8,
1638 Aged 76 years
& She died March
26, 1653:
Aged 75 years.
Endnotes
1. Prouty, Louise., Emails on Prouty genealogy, re desendants of James Prouty. (
2. Prouty, Louise., Emails on Prouty genealogy, re desendants of James Prouty. (
3. Klumph, Richard Amidon, Genealogy of ancestors of Barbara Bushnell Pelton and her husband Doctor Almon Klumph no. 2 (Kalamazoo, Mich.?: unknown, 1973, 286 pgs.), p. 55.
4. Leonard, Clarence Ettienne, The Fulton-Hayden-Warner ancestry in America (New York: T.A. Wright, 1923, 629 pgs.), p. 80.