Ancestors

John Warner

John Warner was a son of John Warner, a husbandman of Much Waltham in Essex, and his wife Margaret. In May 1584 he witnessed his father's will as "John Warner junior." The same will leaves a quarter of barley to "Thomas Warner the sonne of John Warner my sonne," to be delivered when the boy reached ten.

He married Mary Purchas at Little Dunmow in 1578. The marriage is known from Boyd's list of Essex marriages. Mary was a daughter of John Purchas, a tanner of Much Waltham. When her father made his will in March 1585, he left money to "Mary my daughter, wife of John Warnard," and to her two children, Thomas and Mary. So both grandfathers named the boy Thomas within a year of each other.

He had three brothers, Thomas, Edward and Andrew, and five sisters. Thomas stayed at Much Waltham as a husbandman. When Thomas declared his will on his deathbed on 27 May 1613, John and his son Andrew were two of the three men who heard it.

By 1609 he had moved about ten miles to Hatfield Broad Oak. The parish was also called Hatfield Kings or Hatfield Regis, because its manor had belonged to the crown. That year the lay subsidy, a tax on personal wealth, assessed John Warner of Hatfield Broad Oak on three pounds of household goods and on no land. On 10 March 1614 he bought thirty five acres of freehold, garden, meadow and pasture, for forty one pounds. The purchase is in the feet of fines, the court copies that served as the deeds of the time.

He made his will on 16 July 1614, dated by the year of King James's reign. He called himself "John Warner of Hatfield Broadoke alias Hatfeild Kinges ... yeoman." The new thirty five acres went to his wife Mary for life, then to his sons Andrew and Edward. They were to pay twenty pounds out of it to his grandson Thomas at twenty one. His son John had a hundred and forty pounds. The will names six children, Thomas, John, Andrew, Edward, Elizabeth and Rose, and four grandchildren, Thomas Warner and Thomas, John and Elizabeth Sanford. The Sanfords were the children of his daughter Rose.

The overseers were Christofer Wilkyn and Abraham Purcas. The witnesses were his son-in-law Ezeakell Sanford, Christofor Wilkin and Roberd Howe. He signed with a mark. The will was filed in the Commissary Court of London in July 1614, with no record of probate, so he died after 16 July 1614.

His widow lived until 1627. His son Andrew went to New England in 1633 and became a deacon at Hartford. Three Sanford grandsons, Thomas, Robert and Andrew, were later at Hartford too.

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