John YOUNGS

  General Notes:

Inscription on alter tomb:
Mr. John Yongs Minister of the Word and First Setler
Of the Chvrch of Christ in Sovth Hovld on Long Island
Deceased the 24 of Febrvary in the Yeare
Of Ovr Lord 1871/2 and of His Age 74

Here Lies the Man Whose Doctrine Life Well Knowen
Did Shew He Sovght Crists Honovr Not His Owen
In Weakness Sown in Power Raisd Shall Be
By Christ from Death to Life Eternally

⁵ Emigration: 1637 <Yarmouth, Suffolk, England>
Note: He sailed on the Mary Anne, of Yarmouth, William Goose (or Gooch), master. He migrated with a wife whose first name is Joan (likely the second wife, Joan Harris), and six children, five of his own and a step-daughter: John, Thomas, Rachel, Marcy and Joseph, as well as Joan Harris' daughter from a previous marriage -- Anna Palgrave (who later married Nicholas Woodbury). Norris Taylor comments: "He is believed to have come on this ship in spite of a note in the margin of his application which said: 'This man was forbyden passage, by the Commission and went not from Yarmouth' -- for he was in Salem, Mass three months later.
Occupation: minister
Note: "He doubtless wore his hair long and flowing to the shoulder, which was the mark of a gentleman; and in the pulpit wore the Geneva gown. He owned the works of the Rev. William Perkins, an able writer who taught the Calvinistic system, and that, no doubt, is the doctrine he expounded to his people.... He appears to have taken no active part in politics, and it is probably because of this that New Haven, on several occasions, desired to hear from him before acting on complaints from Southold. It is attributed to his safe counsel and wise judgement that opposing factions were harmonized, that those in the town who were Quakers, or favored them, were not persecuted, and that there was no case of witchcraft in Southold." (Selah Youngs) This comment by Selah Youngs is contradicted by Antonia Booth, official historian for the Town of Southold, who comments: "In 1658, when Quaker Humphrey Norton criticized Rev. Youngs in church, he was fined twenty pounds, severely whipped, branded with the letter H on his hand and banished from Southold." [see http://southoldtown.northfork.net/History.htm]
PROP: property Southold, Suffolk, NY Note: "His home lot was the largest and best located, and he had a large share in the division of lands, most of which he gave his sons some years before his death. The remainder, together with his homestead, after his widow's death in 1678, was inherited by his son Benjamin, and from him the homestead, in 1697, probably passed to his eldest son, John. In 1783 it was in the possession of Joseph Prince." (Selah Youngs)
Event: Living 14 AUG 1637 Salem, Essex, MA
Note: He received a grant of land in Salem on that date.
Event: Living AFT 1640 Southold, Suffolk, NY
Event: John Yonges AKA

John married Joan HARRINGTON on 25 Jul 1622 in Southwold, , Suffolk, England. (Joan HARRINGTON was born on an unknown date and died before 1630.)

John next married Joan HARRIS between 1630 and 1637. (Joan HARRIS was born on an unknown date and died before 1639.)

John next married Mary WARREN about 1639 in Salem, MA. (Mary WARREN was born on 7 Jun 1602 in Suffolk Co, England and died on 5 Nov 1678 in Southold, Suffolk Co, NY.)