James Converse

Also Lt. James Converse · James Converse Sen.

Lt. James Converse of Woburn, Massachusetts, born in England about 1620, who came as a boy with his father, Deacon Edward Converse, in Winthrop's fleet of 1630 and went with him from Charlestown to Woburn. He married Ann Long in 1643 and had ten children at Woburn. He died there in 1715, aged 95, nine years after his son Maj. James Converse.

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Life

c. 1620
Born
England
Aged 95 at his death in May 1715 (Woburn deaths); "b. in Eng." (Savage).
documentedprobable
Sources· 3 found
Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
1643
Married Anna Long
24 Oct 1643, Charlestown, Massachusetts
"James Converse and Ann Long, Oct. 24, 1643" (Woburn marriages); the place is from Kith and Kin.
documentedproven
Sources· 3 found
Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
1715
Died
10 May 1715, Woburn, Massachusetts
"Lieut. James, s. of [blank], May 10, 1715; 95 y." (Woburn deaths).
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Sources· 2 found
Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England

Family

Father: Edward Converse c. 1590–1663
Edward Converse's will of August 1659 "names w. Sarah, s. Josiah, James, and Samuel, Edward, s. of James" (Savage's abstract).
documentedproven
Sources· 2 found
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
Reasoning: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
Mother: Sarah
Edward came to New England in 1630 "with w. Sarah, and childr." (Savage), and Kith and Kin makes James a son of that marriage (1617). WikiTree makes his mother Sarah Parker, who died at South Weald in 1625, so that the Sarah who died at Woburn in 1662 would be a later wife. Not researched further.
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Sources· 3 found
W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
WikiTree profiles: the Chapin, Munn, Hitchcock, Sheldon, Whiting, Pynchon, Cummings, Kendall and Converse ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne
Spouse: Anna Long c. 1622–1691 · married 1643
documentedproven
Sources· 3 found
Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873
Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
1 child
James Converse1645–1706

Pedigree

James Conversec. 1620–1715

Edward Conversec. 1590–1663

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Notes

Father of Maj. James Converse. Born in England, he came to New England as a boy with his father, Deacon Edward Converse, in Winthrop’s fleet of 1630, and went with him from Charlestown to Woburn (source). On 24 Oct 1643 he married Ann, daughter of Robert Long of Charlestown; their ten children were born at Woburn between 1644 and 1661: Anna (1644, died an infant), James (16 Nov 1645), Deborah (1647, m. John Pierce), Sarah (1649), Rebecca (1651), Lydia (1653, d. 1655), Edward (1655), Mary (1656), Abigail (1658) and Ruth (1661) (source; source). Savage notes that he “was a lieut.” Ann died in 1691, aged 69, and he lived on to 1715, dying at Woburn “aged 95,” nine years after his son the Major (source).

Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.