John Loker I

• Preferred Name: John Loker I^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Inventory+of+Estate: 5 JUL 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3833 LONG: E71.4167 with note: From the Will documents in Memories.
  
• Birth: 1608 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: Birth date is an approximation. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 estimates birth as 1613
  
• FSID: LR4K-9GX
  
• Death: 18 JUN 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3833 LONG: E71.4167 with note: Std.
  
• Will+Made: 17 JUN 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3833 LONG: E71.4167 with note: Rearranged and standardized. The 17th per the will transcript
  
• Will+Proved: 17 AUG 1653 in Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.4997 LONG: E71.3333 with note: From the Will documents in Memories
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Birth: 1608 Bures Hamlet, Essex, England
  Death: Jun. 18, 1653 Sudbury. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
  John Loker, son of Henry and Elizabeth Loker was born in England and came to the colonies about 1638 with his mother and his brother, Henry Loker and perhaps his sisters.
  
  He settled in Sudbury in 1639 and was granted one acre that year for a house lot, 3 acres and a half in 1639 and six acres in 1640.
  
  His brother, Henry Loker had similar grants at the same time. Both shared in the divisions of land to the proprietors.
  
  In 1655, John Loker had 19 acres in the "Second Squadron".
  
  John married Mary Draper.
  
  His children with Mary Draper were:
  
  1. John Loker
  2. Mary Loker, b. Sept. 28, 1653 born after the death of her father John. She married Jonan Prescott, son of John Prescott and his wife, Mary Platts of Lancaster, Mass.
  
  Family links:
  Parents:
  Henry Loker (1577 - 1631)
  
  Spouse:
  Mary Draper Loker (1626 - 1697)*
  
  Children:
  Mary Loker Prescott (1653 - 1735)*
  
  Sibling:
  Anne Loker Newton (1605 - 1697)*
  John Loker (1608 - 1653)
  
  === "The Hendersons of Cambridge", Compiled ===
  "The Hendersons of Cambridge", Compiled by Edward W. Hanson, Boston, MA, 1984, Appendix A. !Immigrant from Bures St. Mary Parish, Suffolk Co., ENG, to Sudbury, Middlesex, MA, ref is N.E.G.R. 63/280, Topographical Dictonary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, Charles Edward Banks, Edited & Indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, Genealogical Pub., Baltimore, 1981, p. 150. !"Newton Genealogy", Ermina Newton Leonard, Published by Bernard Ammidown Leonard, De Pere, WI, 1915, p. 17.
  
  === !Death Records of Sudbury, MA p. 314. ===
  !Death Records of Sudbury, MA p. 314.
  
  === !DEATH: rolled over by 1500 wt. of wood. ===
  !DEATH: rolled over by 1500 wt. of wood. Will dated 17 Jun 1653, died 18 Jun 1653, will proved 17 Aug 1653. BIRTH: from Ancestral File
  
  === !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol 143 pp 330. Will of H ===
  !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol 143 pp 330. Will of Henrie Loker NEHGR Vol 63 p 280.
  
  === !Am. Pub. H Vol. 63-64 p. 281. ===
  !Am. Pub. H Vol. 63-64 p. 281.
  
  === Will dated 16 Jun 1653 ===
  Will dated 16 Jun 1653
  
  === !Moved to Sudbury MA in 1640. ===
  !Moved to Sudbury MA in 1640.
  
  === Parish Registers. Probate Records at Bur ===
  Parish Registers. Probate Records at Bury St. Edmunds. T.A.G. 55. N.E.H.G.S. 143:325-331. "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins," by John Brooks Threlfall. "Newton Genealogy," by Ermina Newton Leonard, 1915, (p 17-18 for will). Middlesex Probate 14283.
  
  === !DEATH:Groton Vital Records to 1850;Vol ===
  !DEATH:Groton Vital Records to 1850;Vol 2,Pg 238. {See Lakin}
  
  === !Information Source: English Origins of ===
  !Information Source: English Origins of New England Families
  Vol. 1 - New England Historical & Genealogical Register Page 40
  The Will of Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary in the Country of Essex, glover
  22 Feb. 1630. to younger son John 10 pounds
  !Information Source: English Origins of New England Families
  Vol. 1 - New England Historical & Genealogical Register Page 40
  John took the oath of fidelity in 1645, was freeman the following year, and
  died 1654. He had a wife Mary.
  
  === !Arch rec Eunice E. Nelson
  
  DOCUMENTATIO ===
  !Arch rec Eunice E. Nelson
  
  DOCUMENTATION
  
  BIRTH:
  MARRIAGE: Torrey, Clarence Almon. "New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
  page 208.
  DEATH;
  
  === - married Mary Draper - Feb 1652 - Sudbu ===
  - married Mary Draper - Feb 1652 - Sudbury, Suffolk, England - sealed 1 Jul 1959 ARIZO
  
  === Feb 1652 as marriage ===
  Feb 1652 as marriage
  
  === He emigrated from England in 1640 with h ===
  He emigrated from England in 1640 with his mother and his siblings
  
  === !DEATH:Vital Records of SUDBURY to 1850 ===
  !DEATH:Vital Records of SUDBURY to 1850; Pg 314. !DEATH:Groton Vital Records to 1850;Vol 2,Pg 238. {See Lakin} ! SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: Book-New England Marriages Prior to 1700; Clarence Almon Torrey;1985; Page 470.
  
  === SOURCE: The Prescott Memorial or a Genea ===
  SOURCE: The Prescott Memorial or a Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America; By William Prescott, M. D.; Printed by Henry W. Dutton & Son, Transcript Building. 1870; University Microfilms Inc.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Microfiche G-395. Aka: John Loker (I p. 42)

• m. ABT 18 JUN 1643 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Mary Loker, b. 28 SEP 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America     d. 28 OCT 1735 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

• m. FEB 1652 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England

1. Title: John Loker in the Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1992126:9069?tid=&pid=&queryId=9db2746175347540bf76778ac46e2b0c&_phsrc=uRf681&_phstart=successSource;
   Note: Name: John Loker Probate Date: 1653 Probate Place: Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Inferred Death Year: 1653 Inferred Death Place: Massachusetts, USA Case Number: 14283 Others Listed John Loker Table of Contents 6 images Cover Page 1 Administration Papers 2 – 5 Cover Page 6 mentions wife, son John, brother-in-law Robert Davis
   
2. Title: John Loker, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-9SP7 : 25 May 2022), John Loker, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 102484230, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-9SP7;
   
3. Title: AmericanAncestors
   Author: "AmericanAncestors.org would like to hear from you!." Americanancestors https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-1620-1850/transcript?pageName=314&volumeId=7806. Accessed 16 Jul. 2020.
   Publication: Name: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-1620-1850/transcript?pageName=314&volumeId=7806;
   Note: death "Loker, John, ____[1653]. M.R."
   Page: Verifies death