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Subject: Re: GALLOP/LAKE/READE
Date: 3 Apr 1998 14:25:25 -0800


In a message dated 4/3/98 1:22:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, OR826 writes:

<< was about to scrap this Gallop thread, when to my amazement, I found the
above. Turns out I'm a descendant of John Lake and Margaret Reade, through
their son, John Lake, b. 1617, on my Loyalist line to Jane Lake, dau. of
Thomas Lake who m. Capt. James Wiltse, a Loyalist.
So, I am wondering, (of course) what you might have, above and below this
couple, in case we should be related??
>>
Generation No. 1

1. .... LAKE.

Notes for .... LAKE:
Lived in the first half of the sixteenth century, probably in some parish in
the county of Essex, was the father of at least four sons and two daughters.
A search of about thirty sixteenth-century wills of men and women named Lake
in the various probate registries of Essex has failed to identify him.

Children of .... LAKE are:
i.WILLIAM LAKE, d. Aft. 17-Sep-1599.
2.ii.DAUGHTER LAKE.
iii.JOHN LAKE, b. Abt. 1538; d. Bef. 12-Mar-1596/97,
North Benfleet, ESS, ENG; m. (1) ELIZABETH LONE, 3-Feb-1558/59,
Runwell, ESS, ENG; m. (2) MARY CASTLE, 28-Apr-1589, North Benfleet,
ESS, ENG.

Notes for JOHN LAKE:
He must have died childless since, in his will [on file], after the usual
formal
directions and charitable bequests, he makes John Lake, the son of his
brother Richard, his chief heir and executor. Other legatees were his
mother-in-law, wife, brother Richard, his nephews John Porter, George
porter, and John Brooman, the children of his brother Robert, Elizabeth
Lone, Anthony Lone, and various servants and persons of unspecified
relationship.

Moved to North Benfleet where he held the manors of Great Fanton and
Bonevilles and other property, also lands in the neighboring parishes of
Rayleigh, South benfleet, Wickford, Laindon, and South Hanningfield.

Notes for ELIZABETH LONE:
Probably a widow when she married John.

3.iv.RICHARD LAKE, b. Abt. 1540; d. Bef. 24-Sep-1599, North
Benfleet, ESS, ENG.
4.v.ROBERT LAKE, b. Abt. 1542.

Generation No. 2

2. DAUGHTER2 LAKE She married .... PORTER.

Children of DAUGHTER LAKE and .... PORTER are:
i.JOHN PORTER.
ii.GEORGE PORTER.

3. RICHARD LAKE was born Abt. 1540, and died Bef. 24-Sep-1599 in
North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.

Notes for RICHARD LAKE:
Of North Benfleet, a widower living with his brother John, at Great Fanton
Hall, in 1596. As the very full parish registers of North Benfleet cobtain no
baptismal records of his children, obviously his married life was spent in
another parish. He was buried in North Benfleet.

His will, dated September 17 and proved October 11, 1599, directed that
he be buried in the church or churchyard at North Benfleet. To the poor
of the parish 5s. To every godchild 12d. To every servant dwelling with
my executor 12d. To my brother William's wife 5s. To my sister Greene
and my sister Cracknell 12d. each. To the children of George Reignolde
which he had by my daughter £10, to be paid to the said George for their
use. To my son richard Lake £20. To my daughter Phennynge and her
children £10 equally between them. To my daughter Lachyngdon and her
children £10 equally between them. To my son-in-law Thomas Lachyngdon
all the debts he owes me. To my daughter Joan Ducket and her children
the £21 which her husband Robert Ducket owes me, and to her two children
two of my best platters. To my son Richard Lake, to my daughters Margaret
Phennynge and Sybille Lachyngdon, and to my executor my chest of linen
and certain pewter. To every one of my brothers' and sisters' children, 5s.
Residue to my eldest son, John Lake, and he is to be executor. Witnesses:
Edmund Portwaye and Thomas Meredithe.

Source: Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts.

Children of RICHARD LAKE are:
5.i.RICHARD LAKE, d. Aft. 17-Dec-1622.
ii.MARGARET LAKE, m. .... PHENNYNGE, Bef. 17-Sep-1599.
iii.SYBIL LAKE, m. THOMAS LACHYNGDON, 11-Oct-1591, North
Benfleet, ESS, ENG.
iv.JOAN LAKE, m. ROBERT DUCKET, 10-Apr-1592, North Benfleet,
ESS, ENG.
6.v.JOHN LAKE, b. Abt. 1565, ENG; d. Abt. 10-Dec-1612, North Benfleet,
ESS, ENG.

4. ROBERT LAKE was born Abt. 1542.

Child of ROBERT LAKE is:
i.SUSAN LAKE, b. Bef. 22-Aug-1574, Runwell, ESS, ENG;
d. Bef. 8-Oct-1574, Runwell, ESS, ENG.

eneration No. 3

5. RICHARD LAKE died Aft. 17-Dec-1622. He married SARA .....

Children of RICHARD LAKE and SARA .... are:
i.TABITHA LAKE.
ii.SARAH LAKE, b. Bef. 13-Sep-1618, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.

6. JOHN3 LAKE was born Abt. 1565 in ENG, and died
Abt. 10-Dec-1612 in North Benfleet, ESS, ENG. He married ELIZABETH
SANDELL Abt. 1589, daughter of JOHN SANDELL.

Notes for JOHN LAKE:
In addition to his inherited manors of Great Fanton and Boneviles in North
Benfleet, John Lake acquired from his wife's nephew, John Sandell, then
living at Kempton, co. Hertys., "all that manor of Little Barstable Hall alias
Basildon hall . . . in Basildon, co. Essex, with all the lands thereunto
belonging . . . and all other its appurtenances in Basildon, Vange, and
Fobbing, co. Essex, . . . also three crofts containing forty acres called
Sawyers in Basildon . . . and two other parcels of land called Hockleys
and Undermunds in Vange" for the sum of £1,121.

John Lake was buried at North Benfleet December 10, 1612. His will,
dated Novenber 29, 1612, and proved January 30, 1612/13. The estate
of Little Barnstable went to his wife for her life, with all the furnishings
at
the hall and certain articles from Great Fanton, and after her death to his
son John, provision being made to satisfy the dower rights of "my sister
Blage," the widow of Lake's brother-in-law Thomas Sandell. Boneviles
was devised to his son and Jac-at-Hoods, one of the Sandell properties,
to his son Thomas. Great Fanton Hall, the family homestead, went to
his son John. His daughters Sybil Benton, Tamsen Lake and Anna Lake
were bequeated £100 apiece and Mrs. Lake was directed to have Anna
"set to school." His daughter Elizabeth Paschall, who had doubtless had
her portion, and her two sons Andrew and Thomas, received small legacies,
as did his neice Tabitha Lake, daughter of his brother Richard, and all of his
servants. John Lake was made residuary legatee and sole executor, with
Andrew Paschall and Andrew Benton overseers. The witnesses were Thomas
Man, Abraham Turke and Robert Castell.

Notes for ELIZABETH SANDELL:
At the time of her death was living with her daughter Mrs. Paschall at
Nevendon,
buried at North Benfleet May 4, 1616. Her will, dated May 1, was proved June
3,
1616. She gave small sums to the poor of Basildon, North Benfleet and
Nevendon,
to her grandchildren and her servants Richard Woodley, Dorothy Sworder and
John
Wood. Larger sums went to her daughters Elizabeth Paschall (and "my best
gowne"), Sybil Benton, Tamsen Lake and Anna Lake, Anna's legacy to be paid to
her son
John who was to care for her education between the ages of 16 and 18. Thomas
Lake was named residuary legatee and executor, with his brothers john and
Richard overseers. The witnesses were Jeremy Rogers, Thomas Man and Thomas
Playle.

Children of JOHN LAKE and ELIZABETH SANDELL are:
7.i.JOHN LAKE, b. Bef. 26-Sep-1590, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG; d.
Bef. 18-Jan-1661/62, England.
8.ii.ELIZABETH LAKE, b. Bef. 12-Dec-1591, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG;
d. Bef. 28-Aug-1651.
iii.SYBIL LAKE, b. Bef. 11-Feb-1592/93, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG; m.
ANDREW BENTON, Bef. 29-Nov-1612.
9.iv.RICHARD LAKE, b. Bef. 18-Nov-1594, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG; d.
Bef. 18-Feb-1651/52.
v.THOMASINE/TAMSEN LAKE, b. Bef. 14-Oct-1596, North Benfleet,
ESS, ENG.
vi.MARGARET LAKE, b. Bef. 12-Mar-1597/98, North Benfleet, ESS,
ENG; d. young.
10.vii.THOMAS LAKE, b. Bef. 21-Oct-1600, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG; d.
Bef. 8-Apr-1652.
viii.ANNE LAKE, b. Bef. 10-Feb-1604/05, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.

Generation No. 4

7. JOHN4 LAKE was born Bef. 26-Sep-1590 in North Benfleet, ESS, ENG,
and died Bef. 18-Jan-1661/62 in England. He married MARGARET READE
Abt. 1616 in North Benfleet, ESS, ENG, daughter of EDMUND READE and
ELIZABETH COOKE.

Notes for JOHN LAKE:
John LAKE, of Great Fanton Hall, North Benfleet, Essex, baptized at North
Benfleet 26 Sept. 1590, was living in 1657, but died before 18 Jan. 1661/2
(vide infra). He married about 1616, Margaret Reade, born 11 July 1598 and
baptized at Nort Benfleet 16 July 1598, died at Ipswich, MA, between 30 Aug.
1672, when her will was dated, and 24 Sept. 1672, when it was proved, daughter
of Edmund and Elizabeth (Cooke) Reade of Wickford and North Benfleet.

By an indenture dated 4 June 1622 he sold Little Barstable Hall and its
appurtenant properties in Basildon, Fobbing, and Vange, co. Essex, to Richard
Chester of Leigh, co. Essex. It would seem that he also disposed of the North
Benfleet manors before 1636, as his name does not appear in the North Benfleet
list of landowners in the Essex Ship-Money Returns in that year.

Sometime between 1631 and 1635, his wife left him and emigrated with her
sisters and their families to New England, taking with her her two daughters,
Ann and Martha Lake. For many years she lived in the family of her brother-
in-law,
Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. at New London, CT, and is mentioned repeatedly in the
Winthrop family correspondence. The last decade of her life was spent at
Ipswich,
MA, the home of her daughter Martha Harris, and of her brother-in-law, Deputy
Governor Samuel Symonds. In 1654 Rev. Hugh Peter, Margarets step-father,
wrote from London to John Winthrop, Jr. "John Lake is alive and lusty;" and in
1657 he said "John Lake lives still." On 18 Jan. 1661/2 Margaret wrote from
Wenham, MA, to her brother-in-law, Governor Winthrop, who was in London:
"Might I not bee to troublesome to you I would have desired yors. to have done
mee yt courtesy as to have inquired concerning my husbands death, & how
hee ended his dayes, as also to have inquired of my cousen Thomas Cooke,
whether he knew whether their was any thing left mee or no."

No will of John LAKE has been found. Margaret's will, dated 30 Aug. 1672,
left her property to her daughters Hannah Gallop and Martha Harris, and to her
grandchildren.

Notes for MARGARET READE:
The will of Margaret Lake of Ipswich, widow, was made August 30 and proved
September 24, 1672. To my daughter Hannah Gallop and her children, all my
land at new London. To my daughter Hannah, my best gown, my red cloth
petticoat and my enamelled ring, anf after her decease my granddaughter
Hannah Gallop shall have the ring. To my granddaughter Hannah Gallop, a
pair of sheets, one of my best pewter platters and one of the next [best]. To
my daughter Martha Harris, my tapestry coverlet and all my apparel not
disposed
of particularly. To my daughter Martha, my mantle, and after her decease to
all
of her children as they need it. To my grandson Thomas Harris, the coverlet
of
tapestry, after my daughter Martha's decease. To my daughter Martha, and
after
her decease to my granddaughter Martha Harris, my gold ring. To my
granddaughter Martha Harris, my bed and bedstead, one bolster, two blankets,
two pillows and one coverlet. To my granddaughter Elizabeth Harris, on heifer
at my cousin Eppes.
To my grandaughter Margaret Harris, my carved box, a damask table-cloth and
six damask napkins. All my brass and pewter, and all my household stuff nt
otherwise disposed, to my daughter Harris' children. To my grandson John
Harris,
my bible and a pair of fringed gloves. To my son Thomas Harris, all the rest
of my estate:viz. my part of the vessell, and all my debts. Executors: My son
Thomas
Harris and my daughter Martha Harris. Witnesses: Thomas Knowlton, Sir James
Chute.

The inventory, which was made up of clothing and household articles, totalled
£141.
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According to 'The Lake Genealogy.....' of 1915, Margaret Reade Lake was a
widow and claimed her husband was related to the family of Thomas and John
Lake of Boston. This is the Lincolnshire branch. If she was telling the
truth, she would be referring to a brother, cousin, uncle etc of John and
Thomas's grandfather John Lake of Irby-upon-Humber. He married in 1560 and
1562 and possibly before that elsewhere. I am guessing there was a small
group of LAKEs living about Claxby, north of Market Rasen, LIN who had
originated as a junior branch out of Normanton, WRY. Perhaps your Essex
Lakes came from there. If I find something promising, I will let you know.
I am very interested in trying to link some of the Lake families together.
Those of WRY, LIN and KEN and maybe others all have the same arms while
those of Salop are different. I would be grateful if you do get a connection
between the N. Benfleet and another Lake family to let me know.

Children of JOHN LAKE and MARGARET READE are:
i.JOHN5 LAKE, b. Abt. 6-Jul-1617, Wickford, ESS, ENG.
ii.THOMAS LAKE, b. Abt. 18-Jan-1618/19, Wickford, ESS, ENG.
iii.RICHARD LAKE, b. Abt. 21-May-1620, Wickford, ESS, ENG; d.
22-May-1620, Wickford, ESS, ENG.
11.iv.HANNAH LAKE, b. Abt. 3-Jul-1621, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG;
d. 19-Dec-1675, Stonington, CT.
v.ELIZABETH LAKE, b. Abt. 5-Jun-1623, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG;
d. Abt. 31-Aug-1623, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.
12.vi.MARTHA LAKE, b. Abt. 20-Jul-1624, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.
vii.SAMUEL LAKE, b. Abt. 29-Mar-1629, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG;
d. 19-Mar-1629/30, North Benfleet, ESS, ENG.
viii.ELIZABETH LAKE, b. Abt. 17-Feb-1630/31, North Benfleet, ESS,
ENG; d. young.

Let me know if you need any more--I'll check out me READE stuff.

Always optimistic--Dave

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