[739] Patience Jenner

b. bp August 1692

Woodbury Conn

[Strong1 229, 743-4] A farmer at Southbury Ct. Patience married second Jonathan Law of Killingworth Ct. Rachel Strong 'her history not ascertained' (in pencil 'm 1730 David-4 Sanford').

[1477] Rachel Holton

b. c1650

Hartford Conn

[Strong4]

[Strong1 19, 228] Was a trooper in 1658 at Windsor under Major Mason (recorded 11 March 1657-8). Moved to Northampton in 1659. married first 5 December 1660 Mary Hewitt (daughter of Rev Ephraim Hewett of Windsor); she died 20 February 1670/1. Rachel remarried 1698 Nathan Bradley and took the younger chidren to southern Connecticut. 15 children altogether.

[Strong4] Died intestate, inventoried at 379-14-00. Was a farmer. Had by mary: Thomas, Maria, John, Hewett and Asahel; had by Rachel: Joseph, Benjamin, Adino, Waitstill, Rachel, Selah, Benajah, Ephraim, Elnathan, Rugh and Submit.

[1633/2953] Abigail Ford

	bp. 8 October 1619	Bridport, Co Dorset	[Strong4 xxi]
	d. 16 July 1688	Northampton Mass	[Strong4 xxi]

[Strong1 15- ] Came to America in the Mary and John 20 March 1630 and arrived Nantasket 30 May 1630. Had strong puritan sympathies. Searched for a place to settle after landing, called it Dorchester. 1635 moved to Hingham Mass. 9 March 1636 took freemans oath at Boston. 4 December 1638 he is found to have been an inhabitant and proprietor in Taunton Mass; stayed there as late as 1645. Moved to Windsor. In 1659, he moved to Northampton where he was one of the first and most active of the founders. He lived there 40 years. Was a tanner and very prosperous in his business. Was chosen the ruling elder with William Holton. With AF had 16 children.

[TAG ?:?] His first wife was Margery Deane daughter of William Deane of Southchard, Co Chard Somerset. She died either on the way or immediately after landing in this country, leaving 3 children, the youngest of which died two months after its mother.

[TAG 35:1 pp1-6] {recheck as this conflicts with Strong1 about parentage of John-2}

[Strong4 xxi-xxii] JS married 1) c1632 in England Margery Deane, daughter of William Dean, who died with an infant about 1635; married 2) AF. Children by Margery: John, infant; by Abigail: Thomas, Jedediah, Josiah, Return, Elder Ebenezer, Abigial, Wlizabeth, Experience, Samuel, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Hester, Thankful, Jerijah.

JS is listed as a passenger on the ship Hoewell, John Driver, Master for Massachusetts Bay of New England which landed 8 May 1635 at Weymouth. The family tradition has it that he came over in the Mary and John landing in Plymouth 20 March 1630. He may have come over as a youth in 1630 and then returned to England (peryaps as Jonathan Gillett and Stephen Terry did to marry).

They lived in Hingham 1635, Taunton 1638, Windsor Conn 1646, and Northampton 1659. John Strong, Walter and John Deane were admitted freeman of Plymouth Colony 4 December 1638.

[3265/5905] ?

[Strong4 xx] JS will proved 22 September 1613 and his estate was valued at 62-02-00. He left his sone John 10 pounds; 10 pounds to his unborn child, Eleanor; ... His unnamed wife was his sole executor and his overseers were his father George Stronge, John Bowdridge, Walter Stronge, and John Warry. Widow Strong married 2) William Cogan.

[6529/11809] ?

[Strong4 xix] Of Chard, Somerset in 1566. First appeared on the Chardstock Manor Court Rolls September 1596, paying homage to the manor court: ``and that Geroge Strong hath pulled downe a barne builded upon posts upon his cottage and carryed the tymber into another manor and hath also rooted upp certayne apple trees growing upon his said cottage and carryed the same out of the manor.'' In 1636 ``that George Strong, tenant since the last court to the cottage in Chardstoc Town and doth happen to the lord for a death duty, and that Thomas Strong is the next tenant.''

The name Strong is thought to have come from le Strange by way of le Straunge. Rolad Lestrange, called the Duke of Bretaigne in an account of a joust held in the Peke of Derbyshire, at Castle Peverell, who died in 1158, would be the start of the Stronge line. John Lestrange V was summoned to Parliament,26 September 1299 and became Lord Strange. He was known in writs as ``John Lestraunge de Knokyn.