It is known that Joanna (Joan) Kerrich and her husband, John "Jessope", had been mentioned in the 1621 Will of her father, Thomas Kerrich. Shortly after the 1625 death of her father, they immigrated to the New England Colonies.
Joanna had first been married, about 1621 to John Jessup, and their family would be among the Weathersfield settlers. They were some of the first to come overland on Indian trails to what was called the Indian village of Pyquag.
They, along with about fifty settlers, had migrated from the Massachusetts Bay area and changed the name of the Pyquag Village to "Weathersfield". It is described as Connecticut's "Most Ancient Towne".
Her first husband died 1638/39. This was about the time John Whitmore's name appears on town records in the sale of 58 acres of his land in 1639. He married "the widow, Joanna Jessup" at that time, about 1641. They had no children together.
Because of disputes regarding church ministerial policies, they, along with several other dissenters, moved sixty miles further west and founded the town of Stamford. John received ten acres in the first division of the settlement.
In 1647, the town elected John to the New Haven Assembly, but he was murdered in October 1648 by Indians as he was tending his cattle.
Whitmore Family Records read that Joanna/Johanna lived on the Whitmore farm until her death in her "48th year of her age". She was Christened in 1604, so perhaps they used that date; however, she could have been born a few years earlier.
Sources: Weathersfield Land Records, I, 118; W.H. Whitmore, "Record of the Decendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Mass. (Boston, 1855) p. 22
Joanna had first been married, about 1621 to John Jessup, and their family would be among the Weathersfield settlers. They were some of the first to come overland on Indian trails to what was called the Indian village of Pyquag.
They, along with about fifty settlers, had migrated from the Massachusetts Bay area and changed the name of the Pyquag Village to "Weathersfield". It is described as Connecticut's "Most Ancient Towne".
Her first husband died 1638/39. This was about the time John Whitmore's name appears on town records in the sale of 58 acres of his land in 1639. He married "the widow, Joanna Jessup" at that time, about 1641. They had no children together.
Because of disputes regarding church ministerial policies, they, along with several other dissenters, moved sixty miles further west and founded the town of Stamford. John received ten acres in the first division of the settlement.
In 1647, the town elected John to the New Haven Assembly, but he was murdered in October 1648 by Indians as he was tending his cattle.
Whitmore Family Records read that Joanna/Johanna lived on the Whitmore farm until her death in her "48th year of her age". She was Christened in 1604, so perhaps they used that date; however, she could have been born a few years earlier.
Sources: Weathersfield Land Records, I, 118; W.H. Whitmore, "Record of the Decendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Mass. (Boston, 1855) p. 22
It is known that Joanna (Joan) Kerrich and her husband, John "Jessope", had been mentioned in the 1621 Will of her father, Thomas Kerrich. Shortly after the 1625 death of her father, they immigrated to the New England Colonies.
Joanna had first been married, about 1621 to John Jessup, and their family would be among the Weathersfield settlers. They were some of the first to come overland on Indian trails to what was called the Indian village of Pyquag.
They, along with about fifty settlers, had migrated from the Massachusetts Bay area and changed the name of the Pyquag Village to "Weathersfield". It is described as Connecticut's "Most Ancient Towne".
Her first husband died 1638/39. This was about the time John Whitmore's name appears on town records in the sale of 58 acres of his land in 1639. He married "the widow, Joanna Jessup" at that time, about 1641. They had no children together.
Because of disputes regarding church ministerial policies, they, along with several other dissenters, moved sixty miles further west and founded the town of Stamford. John received ten acres in the first division of the settlement.
In 1647, the town elected John to the New Haven Assembly, but he was murdered in October 1648 by Indians as he was tending his cattle.
Whitmore Family Records read that Joanna/Johanna lived on the Whitmore farm until her death in her "48th year of her age". She was Christened in 1604, so perhaps they used that date; however, she could have been born a few years earlier.
Sources: Weathersfield Land Records, I, 118; W.H. Whitmore, "Record of the Decendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Mass. (Boston, 1855) p. 22
Joanna had first been married, about 1621 to John Jessup, and their family would be among the Weathersfield settlers. They were some of the first to come overland on Indian trails to what was called the Indian village of Pyquag.
They, along with about fifty settlers, had migrated from the Massachusetts Bay area and changed the name of the Pyquag Village to "Weathersfield". It is described as Connecticut's "Most Ancient Towne".
Her first husband died 1638/39. This was about the time John Whitmore's name appears on town records in the sale of 58 acres of his land in 1639. He married "the widow, Joanna Jessup" at that time, about 1641. They had no children together.
Because of disputes regarding church ministerial policies, they, along with several other dissenters, moved sixty miles further west and founded the town of Stamford. John received ten acres in the first division of the settlement.
In 1647, the town elected John to the New Haven Assembly, but he was murdered in October 1648 by Indians as he was tending his cattle.
Whitmore Family Records read that Joanna/Johanna lived on the Whitmore farm until her death in her "48th year of her age". She was Christened in 1604, so perhaps they used that date; however, she could have been born a few years earlier.
Sources: Weathersfield Land Records, I, 118; W.H. Whitmore, "Record of the Decendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Mass. (Boston, 1855) p. 22
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