780. Capt.
Edward Gove885,888,889,1607,1613,1614,1615 was
born about 1639 in London, Middlesex, England.889,1614 He
took the oath of freeman on 4 Dec 1678.889
He was arrested for the rebellion against Gov. Cranfield in 1682/83.886,1608
He was convicted and sentenced to be hung, and then sent to England. He was
imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1683 in London, Middlesex, England.1608 He was pardoned in Sep 1685
in London, Middlesex, England.1608
He was then returned home. He died on 29 May 1691 in Hampton, Rockingham County,
New Hampshire.885,886,889,1583 He was a husbandman.1614 March 18, 1669, Gove was appointed general attorney
in New England for his friend Samuel Hall of Langford, county Essex, yeoman.
A few years later, in 1673, he was accused of "shooting and killing a hawk
on the lord's day". He served numerous times on the jury and in September
1674 was in Boston representing Hampton at the Court of Assistants. December
4, 1678, Gove was sworn a freeman and soon was named a lieutenant for Hampton
before New Hampshire became a Royal Province. In 1680 he was a representative,
in 1682 a selectman, and Nov. 14, 1682, a representative to the First Assembly
which was dissolved by Governor Cranfield.
When Cranfield dismissed the Assembly and his men tried to impose taxes on the
New Hampshire citizens without their consent and approval, the irate people beat
off the officers with clubs and boiling water "with true Antimonian spirit".
The unfair taxes and the dissolution of the Assembly caused much resentment and
Gove headed the move to overthrow the royal government in "Gove's Rebellion",
January 27, 1683. He was a fearless, outspoken patriot, and when he felt himself
or his country wronged, he reacted with forceful language and impetuous action.
Boldly declaring for "liberty and reformation", Gove distinguished
himself by his courageous opposition to tyranny, but the attempted insurrection
failed, and Gove was jailed with ten of his followers, one of whom was his son
John. All were soon freed except Edward Gove who was tried and found guilty of
high treason, and sentenced February 15 by the judge, Major Walderne, anxious
to make an example of him, to be "hanged, drawn and quartered".
A letter from Edward Gove, in prison, to the Justices of the court of Sessions:
(Far. Belk., pp. 99, 100.)
"From the Great Island in Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, 29 January, 1682-3.
To the much hon'd Justices of the Peace, as you call yourselves by your indictment,
in which eleven men's names subscribed: namely, Ed. Gove, John Gove, Jo. Wadly,
John Wadly, Rob. Wadly, Ed. Smith, Will. Ely, Tho. Rawlins, John Sleeper, Mark
Baker, John Young. Gentlemen, excuse me. I cannot petision you as persons in
authority, by the name of Justises of the peace, for now I am upon a serious
account for my Life and the Life of those that are with me. Therefore pray consider
well and take good advice of persons in Government, from whence you came. I pray
God that made the Heavens, the earth, the sease, and all that in them is, to
give you wisdom and courage in your places, to discharge such duty as God requires
of you; and secondly, I heartily pray God to direct you to do that which our
grasious king Charles the Second, of blessed memory, requires of you. Gentlemen,
it may be I may be upon a mistake, but, according to what I know and believe,
I am falsely indited, and I am abused notwithstanding by another Inditement,
by being in irons, by Capt. Barefoot's order, which irons are called bilbose,
exceeding large. Pray consider we are men like yourselves, made of the same earth,
and I know who made the difference.
And I verily believe that the holy righteous just God will have an accounty of
you for your justis in this matter. Pray consider. When this last change was,
I writ to one man in this Province. I tould him we were a happy people, if all
was right in the Bottom. Time was that I said all was right in the bottom. I
believed it, but now I see otherwise. Who knows what shall be on the morrow?
Though it bee appointed a solemn day of fasting, I know that when it was appointed
there was not the election of cries and tears that will appear when the day comes.
If ever New-England had need of a Solomon, or David, or Moses, Caleb or Joshua,
it is now. My tears are in my eyes, I can hardly see.
Yet will I say I do believe how it will com. You and they with siths and groanes,
must outdo the ministry. The Ministry must endeavor to outdo you, but if you
and they do any thing in hipocrisy, God will find you out, and deliverance will
com some other way.
We have a hard prison, a good keeper, a hard Captain, irons an inch over, five
feet and several inches long, two men locked together; yet I had, I thank God
for it, a very good night's lodging; better than I had fourteene or fifteene
nights before. I pray God direct you and let me hear from you by a messenger
that your Honors shall imploy, and consider I am your Honors' humbly servant,
in all duty to be commanded.
EDWARD GOVE."
Edward Gove was sent to England in irons and imprisoned in the Tower of London
from June 1683 to September 1685, the first in New Hampshire to suffer punishment
for adhesion to the principle of liberty; and indeed, all New England followed
his example in 1689 when they drove off the tyrannical Governor Andros. In 1685
Gove was given freedom of the Tower and petitioned King James II for pardon.
The order for his pardon dated September 14, 1685, is still preserved. Capt.
Edward Gove and Hannah Partridge were married about 1660 in Salisbury, Essex
County, Massachusetts.889,1607,1614
781. Hannah Partridge875,880,889,1607,1608 was born about 1640.880,1598
She died before 26 Mar 1712.889
Children were:
390 | i. | Ens. John Gove. |
ii. | William Gove504,886,889 was born on 21 Oct 1662 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.504,885,886,889 He died on 1 Mar 1663 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.504,885,886,889 | |
iii. | Hannah Gove504,886,889 was born in Mar 1664 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.504,885,886,889 | |
iv. | Mary Gove504,886,889 was born on 14 Apr 1666 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.504,885,886,889,1616 | |
v. | Abigail Gove885,889,1617 was born on 23 Jul 1667 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,915,1617 She died on 28 Aug 1667 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,1617 | |
vi. | Penuel Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 10 Jul 1668 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,915,1617 She died on 1 Aug 1671 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,920,1617 | |
vii. | Abigail Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 17 Apr 1670 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,886,889,1617,1618 She died on 8 May 1751 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.1617,1619 | |
viii. | Ebenezer Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 23 Jun 1671 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,886,889,919,1617 He died on 16 Apr 1758 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.503,1617 | |
ix. | Edward Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 13 May 1673 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,922,1617 He died on 12 Nov 1675 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,1574,1617 | |
x. | Jeremiah Gove886,889,1617 was born on 3 Oct 1674 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,886,889,1617,1620 He died on 7 Sep 1692 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.889,921,1617 | |
xi. | Rachel Gove885,889,1617 was born on 26 Jan 1675/76 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,889,1617,1621 She died young.885,889,1617 | |
xii. | Ann Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 9 Jan 1676/77 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.885,886,889,1617,1622 She died on 12 Feb 1723.1617 | |
xiii. | Sarah Gove885,886,889,1617 was born on 5 Nov 1678 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.516,885,886,889,1617 |