John WAKEFIELD
2000 Ordinance Index
Ancestry.com
New.FamilySearch.org, Oct 2010
Immigrand ancestor - Sailed from Gravesend, Kent, England on 23 July 1635, according to "Landed Gentry" American Families Note: John Wakefield, a merchant boatman, was killed in an accident. Quoting Rev. S. Danforth's Records, p. 166 - "A sad accident happened at Boston to one Wakefield, a boatman, who helping ye ropemaker about a cable, had his head split open and his brains beaten out." (dated July 19, 1667) He is buried a short distance west of the Franklin tomb in Boston.
He married Ann Littlefield at of Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut . Ann Littlefield was born at of England Abt 1615 .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Blocked
Obadiah Wakefield
Hannah Wakefield
born 29 Dec 1644.
Samuel Wakefield
born 1644.
Mary Wakefield
born 24 Aug 1645.
John Wakefield
born 24 Aug 1645.
Martha Wakefield
born 19 Apr 1650.
Matthew Wakefield
born Abt 1661.
John Wakefield died 19 Jul 1667 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts .
Ann Littlefield died 3 Apr 1703 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts .