John Parmelee

  General Notes:

Baptized Sept. 27, 1584, at All Saints, Lewes, and died Nov. 8, 1659, at New Haven, Conn.Yes, he was born after his father died; it also looks as if his mother waited a few months to do the christening. His will was probated Jan. 3, 1659/60, at New Haven. He was a bricklayer in England and was the patriarch of the North American Parmelee family.

John is listed as 55 years old on the passenger list of the St. John under Capt. Richard Russell, setting sail from London on May 20, 1639, and arriving July 10-15 at New Haven. If other members of the family were aboard, they are not on the passenger list. John was among the signers of Guilford's Plantation Covenant, dated June 1, 1639. The village just east of New Haven was settled that fall. His home lot was at the north end of the Village Green, the site now occupied by the 1st Congregational Church. He appeared at a 1647 New Haven hearing to testify about a shoemaker's shoddy workmanship. John was voted a freeman at Guilford on May 22, 1649. He and his family returned to New Haven, where he was admitted as a freeman there on Aug. 8, 1659.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 27 Sep 1584.

John married Anne Howell on 15 May 1608 in All Saints, Lewes, England.

John next married Hannah Wilbur on 29 Apr 1630 in St. Michael, Lewes, England. (Hannah Wilbur died in 1634 in St. Michael, Lewes, England.)