Individual Details
James Capen
(Abt 1598 - Aft 3 Sep 1628)
Events
| Birth | Abt 1598 | Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Will | 3 Sep 1628 | Holborn, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom |  | | |
| Death | Aft 3 Sep 1628 | Holborn, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom | | ||
| Burial | 8 Sep 1628 | Church of the Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom | |
Families
| Father | Bernard Capen (1562 - 1638) |
| Mother | Joan Purchase (1578 - 1653) |
| Sibling | Bernard Capen ( - ) |
| Sibling | Hannah Capen ( - ) |
| Sibling | Ruth Capen (1600 - ) |
| Sibling | Susanna Capen (1602 - 1666) |
| Sibling | Dorothy Capen (1608 - 1675) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Capen (1610 - 1678) |
| Sibling | Captain John Capen (1612 - 1692) |
| Sibling | Honor Capen (1616 - ) |
Notes
Will
3 September 1628 "James Capen of Holborne in the County of Middlesex, scrivener," made his nuncupative will, bequeathing all to his mother "Joane Capen the wife of Barnard Capen of Dorchester in the County of Dorset, shoemaker," out of which she was to make payments of £4 apiece to his "four sisters unmarried"; witnesses were Barnard Capen the younger and Jerom[e] Wolverton [NEHGR 49:489, citing PCC 83 Barrington].The will of James Capen refers to four unmarried sisters, three of whom must be Dorothy, Elizabeth and Honor. The fourth could be Ruth, although there is no evidence for her other than her birth record. In the Holy Trinity, Dorchester, church records is the marriage on 4 August 1629 of Robert Guifford and Hannah Capen [Dorset Marr 7:10], who could be another candidate for this fourth unmarried sister. "Barnard Capen the younger" who witnessed the will of James Capen may also have been a child of Bernard Capen the immigrant, but he may equally as well have been a cousin or nephew [NEHGR 49:490].
Endnotes
1. BERNARD CAPEN, Suzanne Storck Leonard online [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6265/bios/bernardcapen.htm], accessed 5/2007.
2. BERNARD CAPEN, Suzanne Storck Leonard online [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6265/bios/bernardcapen.htm], accessed 5/2007.
3. Dillon, Arthur Orison, The ancestors of Arthur Orison Dillon and his poems (Pomona, Calif.: Printed by the Progress Pub. Co., 1927, 113 pgs.), p. 16-17.
4. Swift, J. G., The memoirs of Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift, LL.D., U.S.A., first graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, Chief Engineer U.S.A. from 1812 to 1818 : 1800-1865 : to which is added a genealogy of the family of Thomas Swift of Dorchester, Mass., 1634 (1890, 370 pgs. : Press of F.S. Blanchard & Co., Worcester, Mass.), p. 59.