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VINTON, John L.
1620 - 1664 (44 years) 
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Name VINTON, John L. Birth 1620 Romsey, Hampshire, England 
Gender Male Burial Aug 1664 Death 3 Aug 1664 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States WAC 1 Mar 1934 SLAKE _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Father VINTON, Robert , c. 19 Oct 1600, Farnham, Essex, EnglandFarnham, Essex, England d. DECEASED Mother STONE, Jane , b. 27 Dec 1598, Alderley, Cheshire, England Alderley, Cheshire, Englandd. 1660, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 61 years) Marriage 9 Apr 1616 Saint Michaels, Bishops Stortford, Hertford, England Family ID F29838 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MOORE, Ann Eleanor , b. 8 Oct 1619, St. George, The Martyr, Cantebury, England St. George, The Martyr, Cantebury, Englandd. 3 Aug 1664, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 44 years) Marriage 20 Jul 1646 of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States 
Children4 sons and 4 daughters Family ID F10481 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - John L. VINTON
Vinton is a name deeply rooted in the geography of Britian. There is a Venton in Cornwall, a Winton in Suffolk, and Allwinton in Northumberland. Vinton, Venton and Winton were convertible terms. Vinton was Wintonia Latinized, as the Latin has no W, and that was the Roman name of Winchester or Winchestre. The monks changed it to Wintan. Wint or vint comes from went, Celtic for river. There was a Peter de Wintonia in England in 1275, an a Johanas de Wintonia in 1306. In France the name was Vintonne, and there was a Petruis de Vintonne in Rheims in 1326.
In view of finding this as a geographical and family name in England, some authorities assert that the family were originally attached to the soil of Britain as Celts, that they crossed the channel to France at some indefinite period, and crossed to England again. The family anyway are of great antiquity, being traceable in its elements back to the time of Christ.[1]
The tradition is uniform among those bearing the name, not only in this country but also in England, that the family was a Huguenot one, fleeing from persecution for their religion’s sake. John A. Vinton, in his Vinton Memorial, says:
Although no documentary evidence exists that the Vintons suffered persecution in France, the sequel will show that, in the circumstances of the case, no such proof was to be expected. But the evidence from the tradition is clear and unquivocal .... Wishing for definite and precise information I obtained it from my grandfather, Josiah Vinton, of Braintree, who was born in 1755, and was a man of intelligence and integrity. He believed the name originally derived from France, and probably the founder of the family was some Huguenot exiled from that country in the 17th century on account of religious persecution. This statement wsa recorded June, 1823....
On September 27, 1852, James Vinton, Engraver of London, England, wrote me the same facts. He said: “What my father told me of the origin of our family settling in England was that his great grandfather had said that the family had fled from France in the evil hour of persecution. It was supposed to be connected with the silk manufacture, and probably came from Lyons. At that date the art was introduced into England, which seems to correspond with the period when persons bearing the name were resident at Lynn in America. I have always understood that the family was naturalized in England, about two centuries since, but there is no doubt that it is a French name. My impression is that the South of France is the country where such inquiries should be instituted and information obtained."
The coincidence between tradition in England and that in this country is remarkable and not to be accounted for except on the ground of its essential truth. . . . The silk manufacture was introduced into Lyons about 1520, and soon after that into England. . . .
One thing is certain, the Vinton family expatriated themselves from France long before the era of French emigration to America, which immediately succeeded the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the perfidious; Louis XIV, 1685. Forty years previous we find John, of Lynn, already settled in New England. Two periods are offered as most probable dates for removal. One is the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. Another era, with superior probability, may be assigned for the removal of the Vinton family from France. It is the time of the siege of Rochelle, 1629. From this time until 1685 there had been a continual emigration of French Protestants to America, augmented after 1685. . . .
The condition of the Huguenots in France was one of much suffering and anxiety. A removal to America at the time when John Vinton came was attended with more hardship and hazard, and required more resolution and energy, than at the time when the principal French emigration arrived fifty years later.
Not all of the family of Vinton came to America, for the name is found in England to this day, particularly on the eastern coast.
I. John VINTON, the first American ancestor of the name, was born in England, 1620. He appears first in the records of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1648, when a child is there born to him. The first records of that place were burned, and it is thought they would have contained earlier references to him.[2]. He was a comparatively young man, and was connected with the iron works which formed a leading industry in Lynn at that period. There is a small hill there called Vinton Hill, doubtless named for the ancestor. The births of seven children are recorded at Lynn[3], the last one bearing also the name of his wife Ann. Because the other records of births omit the wife's name, coupled with the fact of nearly five years interim between the births of the last two, some have inferred that "Ann, his wife," was not the mother of the first six children.[4]
The following account of John Vinton is entertaining, wheresoever the statements were gleaned:
John Vinton of Lynn, was undoubtedly a Frenchman who did not speak English very well and a Huguenot refugee. He named his son Blaise, and no true Englishman would so name his son with the bitterness then existing between the two countries. If his ancestors, away back, came from England, as no doubt they did, the name had become Gallicized, and the family habits and thoughts were decidedly French. John Vinton was in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1648, when he had a child born. The next mention is in 1649 when he was fined five shillings in court for scolding a neighbor. This is nothing to his disparagement. Men were often arbitrarily punished for no offence at all in those old "blue laws" times. Trivial matters that would be passed over as of no account were subject to severe penalties. John was quick-natured, due to his warm Huguenot blood, and was probably glib of tongue. He could not speak the English language, nor could he understand readily what was said to him, and was, in consequence, imposed upon in some trade, or he fancied that some of his rights were being infringed upon. This may have caused the eruption between him and his neighbor. [5]
John Vinton died on 3 August 1664, according to the New Haven town records, upon which day his wife also died.[6] The court at New Haven on 6 September 1664, received an inventory of the estate, and the children, ranging in age from two to sixteen years, chose Thomas Yale and John Cooper for guardians, while "Mr. Purchase, Clark of the Iron works at Ling, received them affectionately at Lyn where there parents had formerly lived, and they bred and borne. Most of their friends and some remote relatives being there" . . . it is to be supposed they were tenderly cared for. A footnote in the record here indicates that John Vinton "of Lyn" was concerned in the East Haven Iron Works, and that Oliver Purchase, also "of Lyn" was likewise connected with the same works. Doubtless it was while in New Haven on this business, that our ancestors died, leaving their young family.
The eminent brothers, Reverend Doctor Alexander H. Vinton and Reverend Doctor Francis Vinton are desdended from John Vinton, of Lynn.[7]
CHILDREN:[8]
Eleanor, born May 1648; married 12 July 1666, Isaac Ramsdell, of Lynn. They had four sons and two daughters between 1676 and 1685.
John, born 2 March 1650; married 26 August 1677, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Green, of Malden, born 24 February 1659; died 1741.[9] He was an iron worker, and became a large property owner. He lived for about twenty years after his marriage in Malden, and then removed to Woburn, near Lowell, Massachusetts. He devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, in which his three sons joined him, although all were blacksmiths by trade. It is thought he also spent some time in Braintree, where a number of land conveyances which bear his name are of record. There were four sons and three daughters. He died at Woburn, 13 November 1727.[10]
William, born "last of April," 1652.
Blaise, born 22 April 1654; married Lydia, daughter of John and Hannah Hayden. An erroneous statement that is frequently seen is that he was killed in the Indian War, 1675. Town and court records, however, disprove that claim.[11] Four daughters were born to them. He died at Hingham, 26 September 1716, and his widow married (2), intention published 21 August 1721, Jonathan Turner, of Scituate.[12] She married (3), 14 August 1730, as his second wife, Peter, son of Thomas Barnes of Hingham, baptized there 6 June 1652, and whose first wife was Anna, daughter of Cornelius and Anna Canterbury. Fifteen years before Peter Battles and Lydia (Hayden) (Vinton) Turner, were married, his son John and her daughter Elizabeth were united in marriage. She died in Hingham, 17 January 1756, aged 86 years.[13]
Ann, born 4 April 1656; married Gershom Heald (HALE)'''.
Elizabeth, born January, 1657; died 8 April 1728; married 13 November 1677 John Wood.[14] He died 3 January 1728. They had three sons and two daughters.[15]
Sarah, born 16 September 1662; married 5 December 1688, by Mr. Joseph Estabrook, minister of Concord, to George Harris.[16]
Ann VINTON
II Ann VINTON, born in Lynn 4 April 1656, married 6 May 1673, Gershom HEALD, of Concord, Massachusetts.[17]
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SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)
Footnotes
–Massachusetts Genealogies 3:1598.
("Memoirs 9f Prince's Subscribers," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7: 164.)
(Vital Records of Lyon 1: 410; Pioneers of Massachusetts, Pope, 472)
(Vinton Memorial, 14.)
--Massachusetts Genealogies 3: 1598.
(New Haven Town Records 2: 98, Footnote.)
(Annals of Lynn, Lewis and Needham, 229.)
(Annals of Lynn, Lewis and Needham, 229; Vinton Memorial, 14, 15, 16.)
(Massachusetts Genealogies 3: 1598.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7: 164.)
(Ibid. 47: 212.)
(History of Hingharn 3: 272.)
(History of Hingham 2: 24; 3: 27 1 -2.)
(Concord Register 1: 20.)
(Wood Genealogy, 10.)
(Concord Register 1: 27.)
(Concord Register 1:27.)
- John L. VINTON
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