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- John immigrated to Massachusetts about 26 Feb 1632 from England. He was made a Freeman on 14 May 1634.
John Capen's grave is in the North Burying Ground in Dorchester. The inscription on the stone reads: "Here Lyes Buried Ye Body of Captn John Capen. He was Deacon Of ye Church of Christ in Dorchester. He Decd April ye 6th 1692 In Ye 80th
Year of Age."
He was baptized Jan 26,1612/3 at Dorchester, Co.Dorset, England, the son of Bernard Capen and Joan Purchase Capen.
John, a shoemaker by trade, may have arrived in New England with one or more of his older married siblings, before the July 1633 arrival of their parents. But, he may alternately have arrived with his parents on the unnamed ship from Weymouth, England that arrived at Boston on or about July 24, 1633 [John Winthrop's Journal, 1:129]. His father Bernard and brother-in-law Nicholas Upsall were first granted four acres of land at Dorchester on Aug. 5, 1633. John Capen, a minor until January 1633/4, was made freeman on May 14,1634.
His first wife, married Oct 20,1637 in Dorchester,MA, was Radigan Clapp Capen, the daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth ____ Clapp of Venn Ottery, Co.Devonshire.
His second wife, married Sept 20,1647, was Mary Bass Capen.
Children(by first marriage): Joanna Capen and John Capen Jr.
Children(by second marriage): Samuel Capen, Mary Capen Foster(first wife of James Foster), Bernard Capen, Preserved Capen, Joseph Capen, Hannah Capen Blake Humphrey, and Elizabeth Capen.
Capt. Capen was a shoemaker by trade. He was ordained a Deacon of the Dorchester First Church on Feb. 13, 1658/9, and at his death the Dorchester church entered in its record:
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1613 - 1692 (79 years)
