John LOVEJOY

1622 - 1690  (68 years)

• Name	John LOVEJOY
  Birth	1622	Caversham, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	14 Jul 1622	Caversham, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Death	7 Nov 1690	Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Notes	For John Lovejoy's ancestry see the NEHGR, Vol. 163, January 2009, pp. 27-32. John, age 16, and Grace Lowgie (or Lougie) arrived in Massachusetts in 1638 on the Confidence as servants to the family of John Stephens, age 31 of Gowshame, County Oxon, Husbandman. Because of the unusual spelling on the list, the identity of John and Grace was not recognized until 1964 when Philip J. Greven, Jr. was doing research for his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, which was published in 1970. He observed that "Since John Lovejoy, of Andover, in a deposition to the Quarterly Court made in September 1662, stated that he was 'aged about forty years,' he must have been the John Lougie on the Confidence passenger list. When Greven's book, based on his dissertation, was published, he neglected to provide the rationale for this conclusion, stating only that John Lovejoy "originally emigrated from England as a young indentured servant." [1, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I7229	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

  Family ID

  F5901

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• Sources

  [S30] NEHGR, James R. Henderson, English Origins of John Lovejoy of Andover, Massachusetts, Vol 163 (2009): 27-32. (Reliability: 3). [S185] Lovejoy, Clarence Earle MacKechnie, Horace Knight, Lovejoy Genealogy, (New York, 1930). [S319] Philip J. Greven, Jr., Four Generations Book, (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970, p. 92.). [S318] Philip J. Greven, Jr., Four Generations Thesis, (Ph.D. dissertation, Havard University, 1964.).