Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameAgnes Way 173
Birthabt 1660, Providence, Providence Co, RI173
Death1732/33, New London, New London Co, CT173
FatherGeorge Way (~1615-1684)
MotherElizabeth Smith (~1630-1713)
Misc. Notes
Notes for Agnes Way:
Savage (Vol. 2, pg. 363) says Samuel Harris, married 1st Agnes Way May 14, 1679, son of John Harris of Charleston, and died the next month. Agnes Way was the daughter of John Way ("Samuel, New London, eldest son of John of Charlestown, married 14 May 1679, Agnes, daughter of John Way and died next month"). John Harris, father of Samuel, was on Malden Selectboard (7,28 NEHS).
Look up: CT-American Marriages, pg 226 re. Agnes Way, b. 166? PG. Savage: 440: Way: James, Newtown, L. I. is first found there in 1656, and had large estate soon, was a Quaker, had children James, Francis, John, Hannah, Elizabeth and Martha, and died 2 Oct 1665. Riker, 378 makes Hannah marry Jeremiah Burrought; Elizabeth marry Arthur Albertis; and Martha marry Thomas Taylor.
Was Agnes Way the daughter of this John Way, son of James? Other Ways: Aaron, Dorchester, son of Henry the first, married probably Joan, daughter of William Sumner, had Susannah, 1660, Aaron and William (Aaron, son of Henry, was same age as John Way, father of Agnes, so need to look at children of Henry).
Henry, the first: Dorchester, probably brother of the first Aaron, came in Mary and John (Note: Look up descendants in Desc. of M & J) 1630, says Roger Clapp, a fellow passenger, well advanced in life, bringing wife Elizabeth and probably children Samuel, Henry, Richard and Elizabeth beside another of his sons who was lost in the winter passage hither of the Lion, that had been chartered here soon after the Gov. and comp. to go to Bristol for food, and was coming back in Dec. and Jan 1630-1. He had good estate never desired to be freemam living to 1667, aged 84, as Blake's Annals tell. His wife had died 1665, at the same age. There was an Eliezer, only son of George, brother-in-law of Thomas Purchase, who was in Connecticut: Son Ebenezer, b 1673 (Our Agnes must be same age as Eliezer).
IGA says Agnes Way was born 1653; married 1st Samuel Harris, in 1679; 2nd married Thomas Pember in 1687-88 (Family History Center, Pittsfield). Further shows George Way her father. However, George Way was born in 1614, and married 1654 (age. 40 yrs) to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John Smith. George Way died 1684 [There was a George Way who was alive in 1702 who, along with some other men, made a deal with John Wade, Sr. on a mill site in Niantic - possibly a brother to Agnes]. Elizabeth was born in 1630, died 4/20/1713, New London, Ct. Elizabeth Smith was the daughter of John Smith (d. Oct 4 1670) and Joanna, who died 1687. Was this a second marriage? George Way was claimed to be the son of Henry Way, b. 1583 in England. d. March 24, 1667 in Dorchester.
Celeste Pember Hazen writes: Agnes studied medicine under her grandmother, Joanna Smith, became her assistant, and took over the practice when the grandmother became enfeebled" (see also Calkin's History of New London, pp. 323, 355).

More About Agnes Way:
Burial: Feb 1732/33

More About Thomas Pember and Agnes Way:
Marriage: Abt. 1687, New London, New London Co., CT 173
Spouses
Birthabt 1662, Herford Co, England173
Death22 Sep 1711, New London, New London Co, CT173
FatherJohn Pember (~1630-)
MotherAnna Edwyn (<1631-)
Marriageabt 1687, New London, New London Co, CT173
ChildrenMercy (~1688-)
 Thomas (<1690-1767)
 Elizabeth (<1692-<1730)
 Ann (<1694->1750)
 John (<1696-1782)
Marriage1679173
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