Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Life-stories from early New England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
WADE, Joan
Joan Wade was the wife of Robert Wade, who arrived at Dorchester in 1635. (He may have been related to Richard Wade, who arrived that year from Symondsbury, Dorset, and also settled in Dorchester.) Robert Wade soon moved to Hartford, where he was admitted a freeman in 1640. By 1657 Robert was in Saybrook.
Joan Wade abandoned her husband and went back to England. In 1657, Robert petitioned for divorce. The divorce was granted on the grounds of
his wives unworthy, sinfull, yea unnaturall carriage towards him … notwithstanding his constant and commendable care and indeavours to gaine fellowship with her in the bond of marriage, and that either where she is in England, or for her to live with him here in New England; all which being slighted and rejected by her … for neare fifteene yeares …
Conn. Rees. I, 301; GM 7: 182–3, ‘Richard Wade’.
WALVER, Abraham
Abraham Walver graduated BA at Harvard in 1647, but did not stay to take an MA. He had already gone to England by 26 March 1651, when Samuel Mather* reported to Jonathan Mitchell that ‘Sir Birden [John Birden*] and Sir Walver are preachers in their owne county’. To this the historian Thomas Hutchinson later added ‘where their friends were’. The Harvard graduate of 1647 could well be the person of this name in Ireland: the minister at ‘Maglass’ (Mayglass), County Wexford, on the Irish civil list of 1654, who moved to County Galway before June 1658.
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- Abandoning AmericaLife-Stories from Early New England, pp. 303 - 331Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013