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From: Bill Couch <>
Subject: Re: [COUCH] Robert Couch, England ---> Boston; late 1600s
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 22:18:17 -0700
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Kathryn ,
I have this family listed on this page
http://www.couchgenweb.com/couch/william4.htm

But now with your dates The chart can't be correct. but I bet he will
connect some place.

There is others from the same place listed.

Do you have anything on any of the others than may shed some light on
this.

I beleive this is the Same Robert that got the Land Grant in Virginia.
Also the Edward may the same Edward of Middlesex Co. Va.

I would like to run down some more of these Descendats.

The LDS has him listed a number of time but has not included any dates.

This at least gives dates to them.

Thanks Bill Couch
>
> English Origins of New England Families
> >From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register
> Second Series in Three Volumes
> Volume I
> Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
> Baltimore, 1985
>
> Page 601
>
> An Early Boston Physician. -- The following is the title of a book
> of interest to Boston medical men: "Praxis Catholica, or the
> Countryman's Universal Remedy, wherein is laid down the Nature,
> Matter, Manner, Place and Cure of most Diseaases, Incident to the
> Body of man, written by Robert Couch, sometime Practitioner in
> Physick and Chyrurgyry, at Boston in New England," published with
> Additions by Chr. Pack. 1680. 16mo., size of print 5x8-1/2, pp.
> 46+165+3.
>
> 6 Apr. 1663. John Tottey of Ratcliff in the Parish of Stepney,
> county of Middlesex, England, gave a power of attorney to his trusty
> and well beloved friend Robert Couch of Shadwell in the parish of
> Stepney, chirurgeon (now bound forth and intended for a voyage to New
> England). This is recorded in Suffolk Deeds, Lib. iv.f.310. Phillip
> Naylor a witness acknowledged his signature before John Leverett, 14
> June and the document was recorded 9 Aug. 1665.
>
> In the Boston records of births, deaths and marriages we find:
> 2 Nov. 1663 Robert of Mr. Robert and Elizabeth Couch born.
> 20 Oct. 1665 Elizabeth of Mr. Robert and Elizabeth Couch born.
> 24 Dec. 1667 Mary of Robert and Elizabeth Couch born.
> 22 Mch 1671 Edward of Robert and Elizabeth Couch born.
>
> Savage in his Genealogical Dictionary gives Robert couch of New
> Hampshire, 1656-1669. This is the same individual but he was not
> there during that period, only from 1667 to 1669, when he was at
> Portsmouth and that neighborhood, and was interested in the case of
> Mrs. Jane Walford charged with witchcraft, to such an extent that his
> opinions on her condition led to her complaint against him for
> slander 22 March, 1669, when she received a verdict of fine pounds
> and costs in lieu of the one thousand pounds damages asked for in her
> complaint. (See REGISER, Vol. xliv., pp. 182-183).
> This case in our law courts was not the only similar experience of
> Robert Couch while in New England; in the following year he brought a
> suit against one George Willoughby, who lately from Barbadoes, had
> there contracted a disease of an ulcerous nature, and after placing
> himself under the care of Dr. William Hawkins (d. 1685) and Dr. Henry
> Tayler, was treated by Couch at an expense of L5 5s. 6d., which
> Willoughby thought excessive.
> Couch tarried in New England as late as 1677 and soon after that
> date went to Virgina, where he died previous to 1680, and the
> manuscript of the book mentioned above fell into the hands of Col.
> Francis Willis of Ware River, Gloucester County, Va., whose will is
> given, REGISTER, Vol. xii., pp. 257.
> Col. Willis sent the manuscript to England, where it was printed by
> Christopher Pack, chemist, whose laboratory was at the "Sign of the
> Globe and Chymical Furnaces in the Postern near Moorgate."
> The dedication of the work by Pack is to Col. Francis Willis.
> Sabjn's Americana makes no mention of this title given above.
> William of David and Mary Couch was born 25 Jan. 1685 in Boston.
> A marriage license was granted 14 Nov. 1573 to William Couche of
> Stepney, gent, and Johanna Hemmynge, widow, of St. Botolph,
> Aldersgate, London.
> Robert Couch of St. Anne Black friars, London, bachelor, age 23, and
> Anne Frencham, of Westminster, spinster, age 23, her parents dead,
> were granted a marriage license 20 July 1665.
> Walter K. Watkins.
>
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