Life History

1600	Alt. Birth in Of New Haven, Conn./.1
1601	Born in Bridgwater, Somerset, England.2,3,4
between 1605 and 1632	Birth of daughter Rebecca TURNER in Of New Haven, New Haven, Ct/.3,1,2
1616	Birth of daughter Mary TURNER in England.8,9,10,11,12
1624	Birth of daughter Rebeka TURNER in England
1626	Married Margaret LEACHLAND in England.1
1627	Birth of daughter Nathaniel TURNER in England
1630	Arrival in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.5
about 1631	Birth of daughter Abigaile TURNER in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.3,1,2
about 1633	Birth of son Nathaniel TURNER in Of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut/.3,2,1
17th Nov 1639	Birth of daughter Hannah TURNER in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.3,2,13,1
7th Jun 1640	Birth of son Issac TURNER in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.3,2,1,4
1646	Alt. Death in at sea on Phantom Ship/
Jan 1646	Alt. Death in Lamberton Ship, Atlantic, Ocean.1
Jan 1646	Died in Atlantic Ocean, Aboard The Lamberton ship sank/.2,3

Other facts

Buried in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.1

Notes

• NATHANIEL TURNER ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: LynnREMOVES: New Haven 1638 RETURN TRIPS: Sailed for London in 1646 onship which was lost at sea OCCUPATION: Soldier. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:Chosen as one fit for the foundation work of the church at New Haven,4  June 1639 [NHCR 1:16]. FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 andadmitted 3 July 1632 (as "Mr. Nath: Turner) [MBCR 1:79, 367]. List ofFreemen of the Court of New Haven [NHCR 1:9]. An original signer ofthe New Haven fundamental agreement [NHCR 1:17]. Took the oath offidelity 1 July 1644 [NHCR 1:137]. EDUCATION: The wide range of highcivil and military offices held by Nathaniel Turner indicates that hewas well-educated. OFFICES: Constable of Lynn, 4 September 1632 [MBCR1:99]; committee to set bounds betweenCharlestown and Cambridge, 7November 1632 and 6 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:94-95, 101, 102]; committeeto lay out land for John Humphrey [MBCR 1:102]; captain of militarycompany at Lynn, 4 March 1633/4 [MBCR 1:112]; deputy to MassachusettsBay General Court for Lynn, 14 May 1634, 4 March 1634/5, 6 May 1635, 2September 1635, 3 March 1635/6, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:117, 135, 145,156, 164, 174]; committee to lay out fortifications, 3 September 1634[MBCR 1:124]; committee to settle bounds between Boston andCharlestown, 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:139]; appointed customs officer, 4March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:142]; committee to establish bounds betweenIpswich and Newbury, 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:146]; committee to lay outfarm for Mr. Dummer, 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:146]; committee to establishbounds between Salem and Ipswich, and between Ipswich and Newbury, 3March 1635/6 [MBCR 1:167]; magistrate for Salem court, 25 May 1636[MBCR 1:175]; committee to levy country rate, 25 May 1636 [MBCR1:175].  Deputy, 29 October 1640, 25 March 1644, 19 August 1644, 31March 1645, 22 October 1645 [NHCR 1:44, 125, 146, 156, 171]. Deputy tothe court of combination, 26 October 1643 [NHCR 1:111]. Deputy to themagistrate in all courts, 25 October 1639 [NHCR 1:21]. Committee (as"Captain Turner") to consider laying out lots for inheritance, 3November 1639 [NHCR 1:24]. Committee (as "Captain Turner") to treatwith the "Hartfordeshire men about their lots," 3 November 1639 [NHCR1:24]. Arbiter, 3 April 1640, 7 September 1642 [NHCR 1:32, 77]. Viewerof  lands, 1 May 1644 [NHCR 1:142]. Committee regarding the mill, 21October 1644 [NHCR 1:148]. Captain of all martial affairs of theplantation, 1 September 1640 [NHCR 1:40]. Captain Turner to order andappoint the general trainings (with the Governor), 30 March 1645 [NHCR1:160]. On 23 February 1645/6 it was discussed whether the "militaryaffairs of the town may be comfortably carried on without a captain,or whether it were not convenient to choose a captain instead ofCaptain Turner, not knowing when he will return. After some debate,Mr. Malbon was chosen captain with liberty to resign his place toCaptain Turner at his return [NHCR 1:187]. ESTATE: Gave L10 towardconstruction of fort, 1634 [MBCR 1:113]. In the New Haven list ofestates of about 1643 Captain Turner was credited with seven persons,an estate worth L800, fifty-seven and a half acres in the firstdivision, eleven and a half acres in the neck, forty-three and a halfacres of meadow, one hundred seventy-four acres in the seconddivision, and a yearly rate of ú3 6s. 6d. [NHCR 1:91]. About 1644/5Captain Turner was granted the  right to choose the location of hissecond division meadow "that he may the better attend the publicservice in his military office" [NHCR 1:195]. On 7 December 1647  Mrs.Turner declared to the court that she conceives her husband made awill and left all he had to her dispose, as two of her daughters cantestify the same. Rebecka Turner saith, that when her father was to goaway, her mother desired him to make a will, but he answered that hewould make no will, but he judged her faithful and had found herfaithful, therefore left all to her and wished her to be good to thechildren, and wished the children to bear witness. Abigaile Turnertestifyeth the same [NHCR 1:337].     On 7 December 1647 "Mrs. Turnerdelivered into the court an inventory of the estate left by herdeceased husband, Mr. Nathaniel Turner, which was read and deliveredto the secretary to be recorded" [NHCR 1:336]. The estate totalledú457 7s. 3d., including ú154 in real estate: "the house & lot & landat the town," ú44; and "the housing, land & fences at farm," ú110[NHPR 1:15-16].     On 4 September 1649 Mr. Samuel Goodanhousen wascalled to give security for the portions of his wife's children. Hesaid he had paid Mr. Yale ú35, which he accepted in full satisfactionfor his wife's portion, and that he had offered Thomas Meekes nineteenacres of land "for the portion of Rebecca Turner, now his wife" [NHCR1:480]. The matter of the portions of the other children was to betaken up later.     On 13 January 1661/2 a special court was held "forthe issuing and settling the business concerning the portionsremaining due to some of the children of Captain Nathaniel Turnerdeceased," which recounted the actions of the court of 5 March1649/50, when portions were given to Nathaniel, Isaac, Abigail andHannah Turner. "Nathaniell the eldest son ... being deceased, thecourt did now judge that it should be divided betwixt his brother & 4sisters, in equal proportions.... Mr. Yale, Mr. Hudson, & HannahTurner, resigned their parts to their brother Isaac ..., but Tho[mas]Meekes declared that he expected to receive what was his due out ofthe estate of his deceased brother-in-law, for the discharge of whatwas due to Isaac Turner" [NHTR 1:508-09; see also NHTR 1:15].BIRTH: By about 1601 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH: Diedat sea in January 1645/6, having sailed in the ill-fated New Havenship [WJ 2:336-37]. MARRIAGE: By 1626 _____ _____; she married (2) by1649 Samuel Vangoodenhausen, who  showed himself a merciful man in thematter of Rebecca Turner's 1649 fornication case [NHCR 1:471, 480].She had died by 1662, for on 11 November 1662 Samuel Vangoodenhausenm. (2) at New Haven Elizabeth Parris [NHVR 1:17]. CHILDREN: 1. MARY,b. say 1626; m. by about 1646 Thomas Yale. 2. REBECCA, b. say 1629;with "Thomas Meekes," called before the court 3 July  1649 "to answerto their sinful miscarriage in matter of fornication, with sundry liesadded thereto by them both in a gross and heinous manner" [NHCR1:469-71]; m. by 4 September 1649 Thomas Mix [NHCR 1:480]. 3. ABIGAIL,b. say 1631; m. New Haven 2 September 1651 John Hudson [NHVR 1:3]. 4.NATHANIEL, b. say 1633; d. without issue by 13 January 1661/2 [NHTR1:508-09]. 5. HANNAH, bp. New Haven 17 November 1639; m. New Haven 5December 1667 Samuel Hopkins [NHVR 1:26]. 6. ISAAC, bp. New Haven 7June 1640; m. New Haven 19 August 1668 Mary Todd [NHVR 1:26].COMMENTS: The gap between the request for freemanship in October 1630and admission in July 1632 may indicate that Turner made a brief tripback to England in 1631. (The record in MBCR 1:94-95 which isapparently dated 6 March 1631/2 is a duplicate of the record correctlydated 6 March 1632/3.) On 2 September 1640 a difference between Mr.Craine and Captaine Turner was referred to arbiters [NHCR 1:41]. On 4August 1641 "so far as Captaine Turner hath reference to the civilstate and employed therein, provided that his place be supplied in hisabsence, the Court hath given free liberty to him to go to DelawareBay for his own advantage and the public good in settling the affairsthere" [NHCR 1:57]. Mr. Malbon was chosen to order the watches and allmartial affairs in Turner's absence [NHCR 1:70]. On 2 August 1643 thecourt decided that since Margaret Poore, alias Bedford, now wife toNicholas Gennings, had run away and gotten married before her time ofservice to Captain Turner was up, her husband Gennings was to maketwo-fold restitution to Turner [NHCR 1:105]. On 3 June 1645 John Meggsadmitted his error in charging Capt. Turner, Thomas Pell and ThomasRobinson with extortion or sinful unrighteousness [NHCR 1:163]. On 3December 1645 Turner had a formal disagreement with Mrs. Stolion aboutcloth [NHCR 1:175].

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