Janes, Ruth^[1]

1650 - 1672  (22 years)

• Name	Janes, Ruth
  Birth	15 Feb 1650	New Haven, Connecticut
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Nov 1672	Northampton, Massachusetts   [2]
  	Death record said "Ruth wife of John Searls died in child bed and his child 20 November 1672." Ancestry.com search result incorrectly gave her death date of 11 Dec 1672.
  Person ID	I2300	Martin-Bloom
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Jeanes (Janes), William,   b. Abt 1610, England d. 20 Sep 1690, Northampton, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Mary,   b. England d. 4 Apr 1662, Northampton, Massachusetts
  Marriage	England
  Family ID	F797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Searls (Searl, Searle), John
  Marriage	3 Jul 1667	Northampton, Massachusetts   [3]
  Notes	There are serious errors in the description of Ruth's life in The Janes Family. It says that Ruth had four children with John Searle: James b. 12 Feb 1675, Ebenezer, b. 9 Jan 1679, John b. 6 Aug 1690, and Elisha b. 1695. However, I have found only one child (John) born before Ruth's death in 1672. Also, Northampton vital records show that John Searls married Mary North in Northampton in 1675 and with her had sons James b. 12 Feb 1675 and Ebenezer b. 9 Jan 1679. The parentage of John b. 1690 is unclear. The Janes Family also says that John Searle died in the Pascomac (Pascommuck) massacre in 1704 and that Ruth subsequently married a widower Nathaniel Alexander. According to New England Marriages Prior to 1700 there was a John Searle (d. 1704) who married Abigail Pomeroy 5 Apr 1694 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and she subsequently married Nathaniel Alexander. John Searles and Abigail had a son Elisha b. 4 Feb 1694 in Northampton. It is possible that this John Searles was Ruth's son b.1670 and Elisha was Ruth's grandson. All dates are old style. [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Children	1. Searls (Searl, Searle), John,   b. 6 Aug 1670, Northampton, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2018

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 3 Jul 1667 - Northampton, Massachusetts Death - 20 Nov 1672 - Northampton, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

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