John Lovett1

b. say 1667, d. April 1750
John Lovett|b. s 1667\nd. Apr 1750|p9092.htm|John Lovett|b. s 1636\nd. 10 Sep 1727|p9074.htm|Bethiah Rootes|b. bt 1639 - 1643|p9075.htm|John Lovett|b. s 1610\nd. 5 Nov 1686|p9076.htm|Mary Grant|b. s 1615\nd. Jun 1695|p9077.htm|Josiah Rootes|b. bt 1613 - 1618\nd. 3 Jun 1683|p9083.htm|Susanna (—?—) (Rootes)|b. s 1625\nd. a 1692|p9084.htm|

5th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
7th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     John Lovett was born say 1667 (deposed 1692, aged about 25). He was the son of John Lovett and Bethiah Rootes.1 He was baptized on 31 May 1668 (31: 3: 1668 in First Church, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.1 He married Mary Pride on 5 March 1694/95 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.2 He died in April 1750.3
     
Additional Data
     John Lovett deposed in 1692 in the case of Dorcas Hoar, who was charged with witchcraft, that he had visited his grandmother (Susanna Rootes) in prison in June 1691:

( John Lovet v. Dorcas Hoar )

     The depersision of John Lovet aged about 25 years this deponant tetifieth & say that he the s'd deponant sume time in June last past went into the prisan to see my gran mother then goodee hore asked me the s'd. deponant whether I knew of any witnesses that would Come in or be brought in against hear.&.I the s'd deponant told her I did not know of any and then the s'd. hore asked me whether goodman witreg would not Come in against her about his Cow I the s'd debonant tould the s'd whore I did believe he Would the s'd whore replyed she did not know that he had ara Cow, furder saith not

     Jurat in Curia
     (Reverse) Jno. Lovett

     ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 82 ).4

Children of John Lovett and Mary Pride

Citations

  1. [S851] Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts to the Year 1950 (Salem, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907).
  2. [S851] Topsfield Historical Society, Beverly VR, 2: 198.
  3. [S850] Frank Nelson Hall, A Lovett Genealogy (Denton, Texas: n.pub., 1965), 6.
  4. [S856] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds., Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, 3 vols. (online <http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/…>: University of Virginia, 2003), II: 401, 402.
  5. [S850] Frank Nelson Hall, Lovett Genealogy, 7.