Fobes, John

Fobes, John

Male 1637 - 1661  (24 years)

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  • Name Fobes, John  [1
    Born 1637  Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Jul 1661  Sandwich, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I4159  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 

    Father Forbes, COLONEL John,   b. 1625, Of, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1661, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mitchell, Constant,   b. 1614, Leyden, Holland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1637  Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1637 - Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 10 Jul 1661 - Sandwich, MA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 


    • From the Abstracts of the Earliest Wills, NEHG Register, volume 6, January 1852:

      Written to Experience Mitchell from George Allen,

      "Loveing frind Experience Mitchell, my love and my wife's remembered unto thee and they wife. I thought it fitt to acquaint you with the death of my [thy?] Sister's Son John, whoe died att by house on the sixt day of the week, being as I judeged, about the 10th day of July, 1661: hee was sensable intill about two hours before hee died and did say, Oh Lord, when shel my change come; hee was not affraid of death; hee was with Mistress Swift to bee cured of his desease. The land his father gave him, John gave to his brother William, onely Edward is to have his coise,, when they do devid the two Shares, his love be remebered to his Mother and to his brothers and Sisters; hee was buryed on the last day of the week. I have sent his clothes by John Smith, of Plymouth, they will be left at John Smiths houes pf Plymouth, that if there bee an opportunity to convey them to his mother, you may know where they are,

      Soe I rest
      Youer frind,
      George Allen of
      Sandwich.
      "Postscript--"
      You may send this writing
      to his mother, as you have
      oppertunitie.

      And Subscribed thus--
      To his Frind Experience
      Mitchell of Duxburrow,
      give this."

  • Sources 
    1. [S259] NEHG Register, volume 6, January 1852, page 95 & 96.