John Wise (clergyman)
John Wise (August 15, 1652 – April 8, 1725) was a
Life
Wise was born in
He attended the
In 1688, Wise led Ipswich citizens in a protest against royal governor Edmund Andros and colonial taxation,[1][3] after the revocation of the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1684 which was superseded by the Dominion of New England.[4][5] Andros took a hard-line position to the effect that the colonists had left behind all their rights as Englishmen when they left England. When in 1687 Wise rallied his parishioners to protest and resist taxation, Andros had him arrested, convicted and fined. As an Andros official explained, "Mr. Wise, you have no more privileges Left you then not to be Sold for Slaves.".[6]
Family
On December 5, 1678 he married Abigail Gardner, granddaughter of Thomas Gardner (Roxbury). They had seven children:
- Rev Jeremiah Wise[7][8] (November 2, 1679 – January 20, 1756) married Mary Shipway
- Lucy Wise (born c. 1681 – March 5, 1727) married John White
- John Wise (born c. 1683 – August 31, 1762) married Mary Rogers
- Mary Wise (May 12, 1685 – March 23, 1735/36)
- Joseph Wise (February 16, 1686 – September 23, 1745) married Martha Appleton
- Amni Ruhami Wise (born c. 1688 – July 6, 1749) married Mary Ringe
- Henry Wise (born c. 1697 – November 12, 1775) married Mary Wade
Through his wife, Rev John was a great-uncle of President John Adams.
Notes
- ^ a b Fiske (1902), 338
- ^ Roberts, GB #68 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke, RD (via NEHGS website)
- ^ a b Coolidge, C. (1926) The Inspiration of the Declaration of Independence via calvin-coolidge.org Archived 2010-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
- ^ Lawrence H. Leder, America: 1603-1789, p. 94
- ^ Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (2001), p. 277
- Harvard in 1700 "Graduates of Harvard University 1691 - 1709". Archived from the originalon 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
- ^ Maine Historical Society (1890), p. 321
References
- Cook, George Allan. John Wise: Early American Democrat. New York: Octagon Books, Inc, 1966, ©1952.
- Fiske, John. The Beginnings of New England; Or, The Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1902. Retrieved January 31, 2010