Deborah Wing, along with her father, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and her four sons, John, Stephen, Daniel, and Matthew, sailed to America aboard the ship _William and Francis_ and landed in the Boston area on June 5, 1632. Deborah's husband, John Wing, had died two years before. They settled at Saugus, now Lynn, where they remained until 1637, on land that was given to the family by the king. They, along with 49 other families, then founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. It is believed they named the town after Sandwich, England, which was Rev. John Wing's first pastorate after graduation from Oxford.
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The foregoing paragraph, which is retained with only minor revisions, was presumably contributed in 2009, when this memorial was created. It must be said, however, that there is no evidence that Deborah Wing and her children accompanied Rev. Stephen Bachiler on the _William and Francis_. The earliest record of a Wing in New England is found in the will of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich, dated 21 March 1637/8, which mentions a debt to John Wing. This namesake son of Rev. Wing (the latter had died in London in 1630) was baptized in Strood, Kent, England, 1 Sept. 1611 and therefore was an adult by 1632. If he had emigrated that year, one would expect him to appear in New England records before 1637/8. Prudently, respected genealogists regard his arrival in Massachusetts as having occurred in 1637. There is, moreover, no contemporary evidence putting his mother and siblings in New England prior to 1640.
That Rev. John Winge's wife, Deborah, was the daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler is typically presented as a certainty; it is not. The Early New England Families Study Project, whose lead genealogist is the highly regarded Alicia Crane Williams, has produced an 11-page sketch of Deborah's son Daniel (c1616–1698), in which, according to a recent review of the printed volume that includes it, she "corrects the connection between Rev. Stephen Bachilor and Rev. John Wing.” Williams does this (on pp. 1, 8–11 of the online sketch) not by rejecting the possibility that Rev. Wing’s wife was Deborah Bachiler but by laying out the evidence (and lack thereof) for that frequently repeated claim and ultimately concluding that Deborah's identity is not definitively established (see https://media.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/american_ancestors/content/databases/pdfs/earlyamericanfamilies/daniel_wing_m1642,1666_8-20-2016.pdf; the sketch also appears in Alicia Crane Williams, _Early New England Families, 1641–1700, Volume 2_ [Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019]).
Due to the uncertainty as to Deborah (_____) Wing's origin, her birthplace, previously presented above as Wherwell, Hampshire (where Rev. Bachiler was vicar 1587–1605), has been removed. In that Deborah's husband, Rev. John Wing, was baptized 12 January 1584/5, and their eldest known child was baptized 12 October 1609, we may roughly estimate that Deborah was born "by say 1589." This assumes that she was about twenty years of age when she married John Wing, and that he was about five years older than she; both were typical of the period.
While there is no record of Deborah's death, almost certainly in Yarmouth or Sandwich, a power of attorney dated at Rochester, Kent, 27 August 1680, indicates that the New England estate of Matthew Wing, who had returned to England [where he died by 1653], had never been settled upon Matthew's widow or their only child, both by then deceased, and had consequently devolved to Matthew's three brothers, John Wing of Yarmouth and Daniel and Stephen Wing of Sandwich (NEHGR, 38:376-78). Since their mother, Deborah, is not mentioned, it is assumed that she had died by the 1680 date.
Contributor: Gene Zubrinsky (47226970)—27 June 2020.
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The foregoing paragraph, which is retained with only minor revisions, was presumably contributed in 2009, when this memorial was created. It must be said, however, that there is no evidence that Deborah Wing and her children accompanied Rev. Stephen Bachiler on the _William and Francis_. The earliest record of a Wing in New England is found in the will of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich, dated 21 March 1637/8, which mentions a debt to John Wing. This namesake son of Rev. Wing (the latter had died in London in 1630) was baptized in Strood, Kent, England, 1 Sept. 1611 and therefore was an adult by 1632. If he had emigrated that year, one would expect him to appear in New England records before 1637/8. Prudently, respected genealogists regard his arrival in Massachusetts as having occurred in 1637. There is, moreover, no contemporary evidence putting his mother and siblings in New England prior to 1640.
That Rev. John Winge's wife, Deborah, was the daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler is typically presented as a certainty; it is not. The Early New England Families Study Project, whose lead genealogist is the highly regarded Alicia Crane Williams, has produced an 11-page sketch of Deborah's son Daniel (c1616–1698), in which, according to a recent review of the printed volume that includes it, she "corrects the connection between Rev. Stephen Bachilor and Rev. John Wing.” Williams does this (on pp. 1, 8–11 of the online sketch) not by rejecting the possibility that Rev. Wing’s wife was Deborah Bachiler but by laying out the evidence (and lack thereof) for that frequently repeated claim and ultimately concluding that Deborah's identity is not definitively established (see https://media.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/american_ancestors/content/databases/pdfs/earlyamericanfamilies/daniel_wing_m1642,1666_8-20-2016.pdf; the sketch also appears in Alicia Crane Williams, _Early New England Families, 1641–1700, Volume 2_ [Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019]).
Due to the uncertainty as to Deborah (_____) Wing's origin, her birthplace, previously presented above as Wherwell, Hampshire (where Rev. Bachiler was vicar 1587–1605), has been removed. In that Deborah's husband, Rev. John Wing, was baptized 12 January 1584/5, and their eldest known child was baptized 12 October 1609, we may roughly estimate that Deborah was born "by say 1589." This assumes that she was about twenty years of age when she married John Wing, and that he was about five years older than she; both were typical of the period.
While there is no record of Deborah's death, almost certainly in Yarmouth or Sandwich, a power of attorney dated at Rochester, Kent, 27 August 1680, indicates that the New England estate of Matthew Wing, who had returned to England [where he died by 1653], had never been settled upon Matthew's widow or their only child, both by then deceased, and had consequently devolved to Matthew's three brothers, John Wing of Yarmouth and Daniel and Stephen Wing of Sandwich (NEHGR, 38:376-78). Since their mother, Deborah, is not mentioned, it is assumed that she had died by the 1680 date.
Contributor: Gene Zubrinsky (47226970)—27 June 2020.
Deborah Wing, along with her father, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and her four sons, John, Stephen, Daniel, and Matthew, sailed to America aboard the ship _William and Francis_ and landed in the Boston area on June 5, 1632. Deborah's husband, John Wing, had died two years before. They settled at Saugus, now Lynn, where they remained until 1637, on land that was given to the family by the king. They, along with 49 other families, then founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. It is believed they named the town after Sandwich, England, which was Rev. John Wing's first pastorate after graduation from Oxford.
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The foregoing paragraph, which is retained with only minor revisions, was presumably contributed in 2009, when this memorial was created. It must be said, however, that there is no evidence that Deborah Wing and her children accompanied Rev. Stephen Bachiler on the _William and Francis_. The earliest record of a Wing in New England is found in the will of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich, dated 21 March 1637/8, which mentions a debt to John Wing. This namesake son of Rev. Wing (the latter had died in London in 1630) was baptized in Strood, Kent, England, 1 Sept. 1611 and therefore was an adult by 1632. If he had emigrated that year, one would expect him to appear in New England records before 1637/8. Prudently, respected genealogists regard his arrival in Massachusetts as having occurred in 1637. There is, moreover, no contemporary evidence putting his mother and siblings in New England prior to 1640.
That Rev. John Winge's wife, Deborah, was the daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler is typically presented as a certainty; it is not. The Early New England Families Study Project, whose lead genealogist is the highly regarded Alicia Crane Williams, has produced an 11-page sketch of Deborah's son Daniel (c1616–1698), in which, according to a recent review of the printed volume that includes it, she "corrects the connection between Rev. Stephen Bachilor and Rev. John Wing.” Williams does this (on pp. 1, 8–11 of the online sketch) not by rejecting the possibility that Rev. Wing’s wife was Deborah Bachiler but by laying out the evidence (and lack thereof) for that frequently repeated claim and ultimately concluding that Deborah's identity is not definitively established (see https://media.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/american_ancestors/content/databases/pdfs/earlyamericanfamilies/daniel_wing_m1642,1666_8-20-2016.pdf; the sketch also appears in Alicia Crane Williams, _Early New England Families, 1641–1700, Volume 2_ [Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019]).
Due to the uncertainty as to Deborah (_____) Wing's origin, her birthplace, previously presented above as Wherwell, Hampshire (where Rev. Bachiler was vicar 1587–1605), has been removed. In that Deborah's husband, Rev. John Wing, was baptized 12 January 1584/5, and their eldest known child was baptized 12 October 1609, we may roughly estimate that Deborah was born "by say 1589." This assumes that she was about twenty years of age when she married John Wing, and that he was about five years older than she; both were typical of the period.
While there is no record of Deborah's death, almost certainly in Yarmouth or Sandwich, a power of attorney dated at Rochester, Kent, 27 August 1680, indicates that the New England estate of Matthew Wing, who had returned to England [where he died by 1653], had never been settled upon Matthew's widow or their only child, both by then deceased, and had consequently devolved to Matthew's three brothers, John Wing of Yarmouth and Daniel and Stephen Wing of Sandwich (NEHGR, 38:376-78). Since their mother, Deborah, is not mentioned, it is assumed that she had died by the 1680 date.
Contributor: Gene Zubrinsky (47226970)—27 June 2020.
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The foregoing paragraph, which is retained with only minor revisions, was presumably contributed in 2009, when this memorial was created. It must be said, however, that there is no evidence that Deborah Wing and her children accompanied Rev. Stephen Bachiler on the _William and Francis_. The earliest record of a Wing in New England is found in the will of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich, dated 21 March 1637/8, which mentions a debt to John Wing. This namesake son of Rev. Wing (the latter had died in London in 1630) was baptized in Strood, Kent, England, 1 Sept. 1611 and therefore was an adult by 1632. If he had emigrated that year, one would expect him to appear in New England records before 1637/8. Prudently, respected genealogists regard his arrival in Massachusetts as having occurred in 1637. There is, moreover, no contemporary evidence putting his mother and siblings in New England prior to 1640.
That Rev. John Winge's wife, Deborah, was the daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler is typically presented as a certainty; it is not. The Early New England Families Study Project, whose lead genealogist is the highly regarded Alicia Crane Williams, has produced an 11-page sketch of Deborah's son Daniel (c1616–1698), in which, according to a recent review of the printed volume that includes it, she "corrects the connection between Rev. Stephen Bachilor and Rev. John Wing.” Williams does this (on pp. 1, 8–11 of the online sketch) not by rejecting the possibility that Rev. Wing’s wife was Deborah Bachiler but by laying out the evidence (and lack thereof) for that frequently repeated claim and ultimately concluding that Deborah's identity is not definitively established (see https://media.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/american_ancestors/content/databases/pdfs/earlyamericanfamilies/daniel_wing_m1642,1666_8-20-2016.pdf; the sketch also appears in Alicia Crane Williams, _Early New England Families, 1641–1700, Volume 2_ [Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019]).
Due to the uncertainty as to Deborah (_____) Wing's origin, her birthplace, previously presented above as Wherwell, Hampshire (where Rev. Bachiler was vicar 1587–1605), has been removed. In that Deborah's husband, Rev. John Wing, was baptized 12 January 1584/5, and their eldest known child was baptized 12 October 1609, we may roughly estimate that Deborah was born "by say 1589." This assumes that she was about twenty years of age when she married John Wing, and that he was about five years older than she; both were typical of the period.
While there is no record of Deborah's death, almost certainly in Yarmouth or Sandwich, a power of attorney dated at Rochester, Kent, 27 August 1680, indicates that the New England estate of Matthew Wing, who had returned to England [where he died by 1653], had never been settled upon Matthew's widow or their only child, both by then deceased, and had consequently devolved to Matthew's three brothers, John Wing of Yarmouth and Daniel and Stephen Wing of Sandwich (NEHGR, 38:376-78). Since their mother, Deborah, is not mentioned, it is assumed that she had died by the 1680 date.
Contributor: Gene Zubrinsky (47226970)—27 June 2020.
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