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- John, born in Normany, France, was of Ratcliffe, Stepney and of Eastwood, Essex, England. He was married three times at St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Co. Middlesex, England. He was an alderman in London and a vestryman of Stepney where all three of his marriages took place.. He is the first of the Vassalls of whom there is any definite information. John, a man of great wealth, was an alderman of London, and in 1588 fitted out and commanded two ships of war, with which he joined the Royal Navy to oppose the Spanish armada. He was the descendant of an ancient French family, traced back, it is claimed, to the eleventh century, of the house of Du Vassall, Barons de Guerden, in Querci, Perigord. By his 1st marriage,he had one son. Four sons and one daughter by
his 2nd marriage and 2 sons and four daughters by his third marriage.
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According to Adventurers of Purse & Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 by Virginia M. Meyer/John Frederick Dorman, 1987 (Abstracted):
John VASSALL was a subscriber for two shares of stock in the Virginia Company with an investment of £25.10.0 in 1618, and was the son of John VASSALL, a Huguenot of Normandy, sent into England by his father because of the troubles in France. In 1588 John, of county Essex, England, fitted out at his own expense and commanded two ships, the Samuel and the Little Toby, to help repel the Spanish Armada. The arms granted to him by Queen Elizabeth I in consequence of this service were adopted by his family thereafter n place of those used by his French forebears. John VASSALL m (1), 25 Sept. 1569, Anne HEWES [HUGHES], who died without issue, (2), 4 Sept. 1580, Anne RUSSELL of Ratcliffe, Co Middlesex, buried 5 May 1593, and (3), 27 March 1594, Judith (BOROUGH [ABOROUGH]) Scott, daughter of Stephen BOROUGH and his wife Joan OVERYE of Stepney and of Chatham, County Kent, and widow of Thomas SCOTT of Colchester, County Essex. John VASSALL was an alderman of London and also a vestryman in Stepney Parish, Co Middlesex, where his three marriages took place. In a deposition made in 1610, John VASSALL described himself as of Eastwood, Essex, and aged 62. He died 13 Sept. 1625 of the plague and was buried at St. Dunstan, Stepney. His will, dated 29 April 1625, proved 16 Sept. 1625, named his wife Judith and his children. His wife, Judith VASSALL of Eastwood, Co Essex, died testate, her will dated 09 Nov. 1638, proved Jan. 1638/9.
John was one of the builders and owners of the ship, "Mayflower" who in 1588, commanded by one Edward Banks, took part in chasing the Spanish Armada up the Channel. She was commissioned and financed on that occasion by the City of London. John Vassll, then of Stepney, moved in 1591 to Leigh-on-the-Sea, near Southend, at the mouth of the Thames. A Mayflower of Leigh appears in the London port books of 1606, taking a cargo of cloth for Middelburg in Holland; her master was Robert Bonner of Leigh. A year later, Robert Bonner was listed as master of the Mayflower of London, unloading cargo of wine from Bordeaux. In 1608 Bonner was listed as master of the Josian, whose master in 1606 and 1607 was Christopher Jones. In 1609, Jones appeared as master and quarter owner of the Mayflower of London. The Mayflower was chartered for her crossing to New England some two weeks after Tuesday, May 23, 1620 after she docked in London from a recent trip to LaRochelle, France.
Issue of John VASSALL by Anne RUSSELL included Judith, baptized 25 March 1582; d after 29 April 1625; married John FREEBORNE of Prittlewell, Essex (will dated 27 Jan. 1617/8, proved 17 Feb. 1617/8); Samuel; John, born 14 March 1589/90, died 30 Aug. 1591; and William. By his third wife, Judith BORROUGHS (Scott), John VASSALL left issue: Anna, born 10 Jan. 1595/6, buried 24 July 1640, married John JONES, rector of St. Nicholas Acons, London, who died 14 May 1636 at Highgate, Middlesex; Rachel, who m Peter ANDREWES of Ratcliffe, Middlesex (d 1650); Stephen, who matriculated Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1616, with a B.A. 1619/20, and an M.A. 1623, later the rector of Rayleigh, Essex, died 1643, married (1) Mary BROMLEY of Orsett, Essex (d 30 Jan. 1632/3), and (2) Mary GRUBB(E) of St. Alban's , Hertfordshire, b 2 Jan. 1614/5, who resided at Rayleigh when she made a deposition in 1646, aged 30; Thomas, born 7 April 1602, of St. Leonard, Eastcheap, London, when he married and of Whitechapel, London, in 1651, who m 27 June 1625 at St. Nicholas Acons, London, Anne DICKENSON; Mary, who married Edward WEST of Ratcliffe, a mariner; Elizabeth, born 1607, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, m, 20 Jan. 1625/6 at St. Nicholas Acons, London, Henry CHURCH, born 1602, of Wapping, Middlesex.
Footnotes
1. Thomas Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston; Containging exact Transcripts of Inscriptions on the Sepulchural Monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston, (Boston:1853), 228.
2. Francis Dillon, The Pilgrims, (New York:1975), 124; Edward Doubleday Harris, The Vassalls of New England and Their Immediate Descendants; (Albany:1862), 3 [hereinafter The Vassalls of New England ]; Reprinted in the New England Historical and Genealogical Rigister, 1863, Vol. XVII, 56 [hereinafter NHGR]; Winsor,The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, 4 vols (Boston:1882), 2:544.[hereinafter MHB ];
3. Savage, Dictionary of First Settlers , 4:367; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 138, 228; Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony of Massachuste's Bay (London:1765), 17; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 3; NHGR, Vol. XVII, 56; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 138-139, 229.
4. Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Reprinted in: Noel B. Livingston, Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica, (Jamacia: 1909) p. 83,84 [hereinafter Early Settlers of Jamaica; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 5; NHGR, Vol. XVII. 58.
5. Livingston, Early Settlers of Jamaica, 76; Braintree Massachusetts, Town Records 1640-1793; Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 6; NHGR, Vol. XVII. 59; Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Suffolk County Wills 10 June 1737, excerpt reprinted in, Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 7-8; NHGR, Vol. XVII.
6. Henry Flynt, diary (Harvard University Archives), June 30, 1733; Jonathan Belcher, Letter Book (Mass. Hist. Soc.); Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 10; NHGR, Vol. XVII; Winsor, MHB, 3:111; Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630, 130-132, 187 with a Genealogical Register, (Boston:1877), 461, 674 [hereinafter History of Cambridge ]; Early Files in the Mass. Hist. Soc., Collections, series 6, VII, 426-438; Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, Concord, 1867-1944, VI, 43, 45; Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Boston, 1747, June 24, 1747; Middlesex Probate Volume 25:63, 354, 356; 40:154; 44:201, 291, 295; 47:213, 391; 49:79-84; Middlesex Probate 44:291-296; Middlesex Registry of Probate 44: 201;Compiled by Thomas Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Volume 1, Births, 722.
7. Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 17 ; NHGR, Vol. XVII.
John, born in Normany, France, was of Ratcliffe, Stepney and of Eastwood, Essex, England. He was married three times at St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Co. Middlesex, England. He was an alderman in London and a vestryman of Stepney where all three of his marriages took place.. He is the first of the Vassalls of whom there is any definite information. John, a man of great wealth, was an alderman of London, and in 1588 fitted out and commanded two ships of war, with which he joined the Royal Navy to oppose the Spanish armada. He was the descendant of an ancient French family, traced back, it is claimed, to the eleventh century, of the house of Du Vassall, Barons de Guerden, in Querci, Perigord. By his 1st marriage,he had one son. Four sons and one daughter by
his 2nd marriage and 2 sons and four daughters by his third marriage.
,
According to Adventurers of Purse & Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 by Virginia M. Meyer/John Frederick Dorman, 1987 (Abstracted):
John VASSALL was a subscriber for two shares of stock in the Virginia Company with an investment of £25.10.0 in 1618, and was the son of John VASSALL, a Huguenot of Normandy, sent into England by his father because of the troubles in France. In 1588 John, of county Essex, England, fitted out at his own expense and commanded two ships, the Samuel and the Little Toby, to help repel the Spanish Armada. The arms granted to him by queen Elizabeth I in consequence of this service were adopted by his family thereafter n place of those used by his French forebears. John VASSALL m (1), 25 Sept. 1569, Anne HEWES [HUGHES], who died without issue, (2), 4 Sept. 1580, Anne RUSSELL of Ratcliffe, Co Middlesex, buried 5 May 1593, and (3), 27 March 1594, Judith (BOROUGH [ABOROUGH]) Scott, daughter of Stephen BOROUGH and his wife Joan OVERYE of Stepney and of Chatham, County Kent, and widow of Thomas SCOTT of Colchester, County Essex. John VASSALL was an alderman of London and also a vestryman in Stepney Parish, Co Middlesex, where his three marriages took place. In a deposition made in 1610, John VASSALL described himself as of Eastwood, Essex, and aged 62. He died 13 Sept. 1625 of the plague and was buried at St. Dunstan, Stepney. His will, dated 29 April 1625, proved 16 Sept. 1625, named his wife Judith and his children. His wife, Judith VASSALL of Eastwood, Co Essex, died testate, her will dated 09 Nov. 1638, proved Jan. 1638/9.
Issue of John VASSALL by Anne RUSSELL included Judith, baptized 25 March 1582; d after 29 April 1625; married John FREEBORNE of Prittlewell, Essex (will dated 27 Jan. 1617/8, proved 17 Feb. 1617/8); Samuel; John, born 14 March 1589/90, died 30 Aug. 1591; and William. By his third wife, Judith BORROUGHS (Scott), John VASSALL left issue: Anna, born 10 Jan. 1595/6, buried 24 July 1640, married John JONES, rector of St. Nicholas Acons, London, who died 14 May 1636 at Highgate, Middlesex; Rachel, who m Peter ANDREWES of Ratcliffe, Middlesex (d 1650); Stephen, who matriculated Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1616, with a B.A. 1619/20, and an M.A. 1623, later the rector of Rayleigh, Essex, died 1643, married (1) Mary BROMLEY of Orsett, Essex (d 30 Jan. 1632/3), and (2) Mary GRUBB(E) of St. Alban's , Hertfordshire, b 2 Jan. 1614/5, who resided at Rayleigh when she made a deposition in 1646, aged 30; Thomas, born 7 April 1602, of St. Leonard, Eastcheap, London, when he married and of Whitechapel, London, in 1651, who m 27 June 1625 at St. Nicholas Acons, London, Anne DICKENSON; Mary, who married Edward WEST of Ratcliffe, a mariner; Elizabeth, born 1607, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, m, 20 Jan. 1625/6 at St. Nicholas Acons, London, Henry CHURCH, born 1602, of Wapping, Middlesex.
Footnotes
1. Thomas Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston; Containging exact Transcripts of Inscriptions on the Sepulchural Monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston, (Boston:1853), 228.
2. Francis Dillon, The Pilgrims, (New York:1975), 124; Edward Doubleday Harris, The Vassalls of New England and Their Immediate Descendants; (Albany:1862), 3 [hereinafter The Vassalls of New England ]; Reprinted in the New England Historical and Genealogical Rigister, 1863, Vol. XVII, 56 [hereinafter NHGR]; Winsor,The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, 4 vols (Boston:1882), 2:544.[hereinafter MHB ];
3. Savage, Dictionary of First Settlers , 4:367; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 138, 228; Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony of Massachuste's Bay (London:1765), 17; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 3; NHGR, Vol. XVII, 56; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 138-139, 229.
4. Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Reprinted in: Noel B. Livingston, Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica, (Jamacia: 1909) p. 83,84 [hereinafter Early Settlers of Jamaica; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 5; NHGR, Vol. XVII. 58.
5. Livingston, Early Settlers of Jamaica, 76; Braintree Massachusetts, Town Records 1640-1793; Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Bridgman, Memorials of the Dead in Boston, 229; Harris, The Vassalls of New England, 6; NHGR, Vol. XVII. 59; Winsor, MHB, 2:544; Suffolk County Wills 10 June 1737, excerpt reprinted in, Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 7-8; NHGR, Vol. XVII.
6. Henry Flynt, diary (Harvard University Archives), June 30, 1733; Jonathan Belcher, Letter Book (Mass. Hist. Soc.); Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 10; NHGR, Vol. XVII; Winsor, MHB, 3:111; Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630, 130-132, 187 with a Genealogical Register, (Boston:1877), 461, 674 [hereinafter History of Cambridge ]; Early Files in the Mass. Hist. Soc., Collections, series 6, VII, 426-438; Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, Concord, 1867-1944, VI, 43, 45; Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Boston, 1747, June 24, 1747; Middlesex Probate Volume 25:63, 354, 356; 40:154; 44:201, 291, 295; 47:213, 391; 49:79-84; Middlesex Probate 44:291-296; Middlesex Registry of Probate 44: 201;Compiled by Thomas Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Volume 1, Births, 722.
7. Harris,The Vassalls of New England, 17 ; NHGR, Vol. XVII.
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