FOURTEENTH GENERATION

14342. * John Bland ^{(3598) (3599)(3600)} died after NOV 2 1663. E-Mail from David Sylvester 6/24/95 #622 He is my 11th great grandfather. He was also known as John Smith.⁽³⁶⁰¹⁾ see general notes 11th great grandfather

*Genealogical Dict. of ME & NH : "John Bland,alias John Smith was living at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1646, undoubtedly the John Smith [in] association with the Mayhews in the first movement from Watertown to the Island, where he was always 'Bland'. In Watertown, lived his mother Adrian, 2nd wife of Jeremiah Norcross and there is a recorded "Isabel" wife of John Smith, born 12 July 1639, age 60. The Hampton Drakes testified that they knew his daughter Isabel Bland from childhood, that her father John Bland lived in Colchester, and that his ancestory was Bland, not Smith. Apparently his step-father was Smith. His will made 2 Nov. 1663 names wife, Joanna and "all the children that are alive that I owne"

*Descendents of Jonathan Towle : "Philip Towle married, Nov. 19, 1657, Isabella, daughter of Francis and Isabella (Bland) Austin of Colchester, England, and Hampton, NH, and granddaughter of John and Joanna Bland of Edgartown, England"
[NOTE: this should probably be Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard]

*History of Martha's Vineyard [Internet]: "FIRST TOWNSHIP GRANT.
The basis of all land titles in Edgartown rests upon the original grant of the two patentees to certain individuals named in the following grant of township rights:-
..... unto John Doggett, Danish Pierce and Rich'd Beeres and John Smith and Francis Smith with ourselves to make choice for the Present of a large Towne upon the same Terms that we have it: And also equall Power in Governm't with us, and equall Power in admission of all that shall present themselves to come to live upon any part of the whole grant of all the Islands; and wee grant also to them and their Associates with us to receive another Townshipp for Posterity upon the same Terms wee have from the Grantees.
[New York Col. Doc. Deeds, I, 72.]"

He was married to * Joanna.⁽³⁶⁰²⁾ see general notes

14343. * Joanna ⁽³⁶⁰³⁾ is my 11th great grandmother. She was born in England. 11th great grandmother

*Descendents of Jonathan Towle : "Philip Towle married, Nov. 19, 1657, Isabella, daughter of Francis and Isabella (Bland) Austin of Colchester, England, and Hampton, NH, and granddaughter of John and Joanna Bland of Edgartown, England"
[NOTE: this should probably be Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard]
Children were:

3695 i. * Isebella Bland.