John G. PIKE

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John Pike, at the age of 62 (app.), one of the first settlers ofNewbury, Massachusetts, arrived in America with his five children:John, age 22; Robert, age 19; Dorothy, age 18; Ann, age 14; andIsreal, age 12 (ages are app.) having been two months since leavingSouthampton, England. They came on the ship, "James of London, three hundred tons, WilliamCooper, Master. She sailed from Southampton 5 April and arrived 3 June1635 with 86 passengers and cattle. (Banks, p. 135ff) (Winthrop in hisjournal 1, 156 calls her master "Mr. Graves" and says that he "hadcome every year for these seven years.") Until recently there was a question whether or not his wife Dorothyaccompanied the family to New England. Charles E. Banks (The Plantersof the Commonwealth, p. 138) lists "John of Langford, Co. Wilts,Mrs...Pike" and the five children by name. James Savage (GenealogicalDictionary of the First Settlers of New England, p.435) does not listher as arriving with the family. Information from the Pike FamilyAssociation maintains that the wife and mother did not come with thefamily to America (Pike Assoc. 1939, p. 27). (Banks in the preface ofhis book gives a comprehensive explanation of the research into theseearly records in England. He states: "The compiler of the lists whichfollows in this volume, during a residence of nearly five years inEngland has examined personally the originals of all the listsheretofore printed by Drake, Savage and Hotten, and subjected them toanalytical study with a view of presenting them in an intelligibleform.") We now know that Dorothy, wife of John G. Pike died between 20June 1631, when she and her husband were named in her father's will,and 28 March 1632, when her mother's will did not mention her butincluded a bequest to son-in-law John Pike. There is a legend passed down, especially by relatives in Salisbury,that John Pike is buried in the Old Burial Ground (established in1639) located on Beach Road, Salisbury, Massachusetts. The story isthat early settlers, including John, as well as other Pike membersincluding Major Robert, were buried in unmarked graves due to the factthat the Indians would dig up the graves. John Pike was probably born in Whiteparish, Co. Wiltshire, which islocated about 90 miles southwest of London, a short distance from thegreat city of Salisbury, with its 13th Century Cathedral. It isrecorded: "The earlier name must have referred to the color of theoriginal church" (Grover, Mawer, & Stenton, p.388). John Pike's parentage is unknown. "The Pike wills in the P.C.C. and inthe Sarum (Old name for Salisbury) courts fail to show his parentage;perhaps he was from the adjoining county of Hants, for which there arewills at Winchester" (NEHGR, Vol. 66, 1912, p. 257-261. He married 14 January 1612, Whiteparish, Co. Wiltshire, England,Dorothy Day of Langford (recorded as Dorothie Daye in the register.Whiteparish WRO, M/F 830/1). John Pike is said to have been registered in the "Customs House" inSouthampton as a "laborer of Langford" (Savage, p. 435). To quoteSavage this was certainly done "to evade the despicable tyranny of theregulations" governing emigration or a deception to conceal a morenoted person from such regulations. Joshua Coffin writes "No laborerof those days had two such educated sons as Robert and John Pike, Jr.;both were men of marked prominence in the Colony. We might say that nolaborer of those days was himself such an educated man. Theprobabilities are that he certainly was a man of liberal education andmuch natural ability not only from his having two sons, who ranked sohigh in later years in the history of the colony and that of NewJersey, but from some evidence of his personal ability." James Shepherd Pike, grandson (7th generation), of John Pike wriitingin "The New Puritan" stated "The listing of his being from Langfordmay have been erroneous, for at that period it was sometimes foundexpedient for persons of pronounced opinions, hostile to the governingpowers, to leave the authorities in the dark as to the places ofresidence of the zealous Dissenters who were hastening out of thecountry. The description of John Pike as a laborer from LAngford maybe therefore mythical. It is clear that a part of it, at least, isinaccurate." (The New Puritan, reprint, p. 25) John Pike and his children landed in this country, presumably Ipswich,Massachusetts in 1635 and took up residence on the bank of the ParkerRiver in Newbury. The court records show that he acted as attorney in two cases andsuccessfully on each occasion. Several times in the records of theQuarterly Courts we find him appearing as counsel for his friends.This fact probably accounts for the family tradition that he was alawyer. He served in 1645 on the Grand Jury and on the Jury of Trialsin 1653, and on 28 March 1654 he appeared for the town of Newburyagainst John Merrill. In February 1638 he was fined two shillings and sixpence for"departing from the (town) meeting without leave and contemptuously."He endears himself to us by very humanness. When in an argument withThomas Bloomfield he laid hold of his coat, the latter slipped out ofit and ran away. Whereupon, John Pike, enraged by such cowardice,calmly cut the coat to ribbons. He seems to have made his home in his last years with his son, Robertin Salisbury where he died on 26 May 1654, leaving property to theamount of £230, comprising nearly £15 in clothing. [It is estimatedthat an early pound would have been in later years worth $3.32American currency. In 1988 an English pound was worth $2.80 Americancurrency. Therfore, John's worth may be calculated as approximately$750, of which $50 was in clothing; not to mention his land holdings.] His home and land in Newbury, and land in the new town, Salisbury,comprised his possessions.

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