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Three husbands: Rev. Peter Prudden, one of the founders of Milford, Connecticut; Capt. Thomas Willett, the first Mayor of New York; Rev. John Bishop, the pastor of Stamford Church. She was an heiress in her own right and married to men who were all important figures in their communities.

After her SECOND husband, Thomas Willett died in 1674, she married Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT, in her old age. They both would have been ~ 60 years of age; she was a few years his senior. They were married sometime after 1674 until Joanna's death in 1681.

All her children were born to Rev. Peter Prudden.

The children of Peter Prudden1 and Joanna Boyse

Joanna2, born August, 1640, married __ Chittenden.
Mary2, born Jan., 1641, married Zacheriah Walker as his first wife. ....
Elizabeth2, born Feb., 1642, baptized 4th of March, 1643. Married, name unknown.
Samuel2, born Feb., 1643, died 1685; lived in Milford.+
John2, born Nov., 1645 in Milford, died Dec. 11, 1725, ....
Abigail2, baptized Dec., 1647, married Joseph Walker of Stratford, Nov. 14, 1667. Married, second, Richard Hubbell, in 1688. ....
Sarah2, born May 12, 1650, married Gideon Allen.
Peter2, born May 26, 1652, died June 10, 1652.
Mildred2, born March, 1653, married Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin, 20th of Sept., 1671, died Jan. 6, 1712. ......

There were no sons named Joseph Bishop (from Rev. John Bishop's first marriage), James Prudden, or Douglas Prudden. [All detached by Hatte Blejer August 2019]

Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett.

Joanna Boyse, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, had come to America and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts with her sisters Silence Robinson and Anna Reyner and their husbands.

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' Joanna Boyse2 was the daughter of Rev. John Boyse and his wife Johane __, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Rev. John Boyse1 died, as indicated by his will, about 1620, and his wife, Johane, about 1631, as shown by her will. One of Joanna Boyse's sisters was the wife of Rev. John Raynor, pastor of the Church of Plymouth, Mass., from 1637 to 1655, and later of Dover, N. H. It is not known when she married Rev. Peter Prudden, but various indications point to about 1638, and that the marriage took place in this country. Her father was a man of estate. In her will, dated 1681, November 8th, she mentions two sons and five daughters, all of the name Prudden. She was one of four coheiresses to property in Edgton and Welburn. After the death of her husband she married, September 20, 1671, Capt. Thomas Willett,* died August 4, 1674, who was the first Mayor of New York. Later she became the wife of Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor of the church at Stamford, Conn.
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Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

Find A Grave contributor Brooke Harlowe adds: Joanna had a third husband, the Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT. She was his second wife. (See D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1: 77)

Bishop is buried in St Johns and St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery in Stamford. His memorial is 50504127.

In his will, Rev. Bishop asks to be buried between his two wives. I presume that Joanna (and Rebecca Goodyear Bishop) are in the same cemetery but no headstone remains for them.

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'Peter Prudden; a story of his life and New Haven and Milford, Conn. (1901)

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Capt. and Mrs. Willett first resided in New York, and then removed to Rehoboth and Swansea, Mass., where he died in 1674. The record of the letter which received her again into the fellowship of Milford church shows that Mrs. Willett returned shortly after Capt. Willett's death to Milford.

Although past sixty years of age Mrs. Joanna Prudden Willett was again sought in marriage and became the wife of the Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor in Stamford, Conn.* He was a few years her junior, a widower with several grown-up children, and with him she lived until her death. Neither the date of this marriage, nor of her death, nor of the place of her burial is known. In a letter from Rev. John Bishop to Increase Mather, written in 1681, he sends his "Greetings" and those of his wife, "who was Mrs. Willet, to good Mrs. Mather."

The following is a copy of

"Last Will of Joanna, wife of Rev. Peter Prudden."

The last will and testament of Mrs. Joanna Bishop, sometime Prudden, late of Milford, now of Stamford in the

* Rev. John Bishop walked all the way from Boston to Stamford with his Bible under his arm accompanying two men who had been sent to invite him to become pastor of the Stamford church. This Bible is still owned by his descendants.

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Joanna Boyse

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o 1616

o Halifax,,Yorkshire,England

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o 1681-11-08

o Stamford,Fairfield,Connecticut,USA

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Abigail Prudden

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Joanna Boyse (1616 - 1681)

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Birthdate: 1616

Birthplace: Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Death: Died November 8, 1681 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Immediate Family:

Daughter of John and Johane

Wife of John, Thomas, and Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Mildred, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Joanna, Mary, Abigail, and Sarah

Sister of Silence and Anna

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Joanna BOYSE (1615 - 1683)

Birthdate: 1615

Birthplace: Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng

Death: Died 1683

Immediate Family:

Daughter of John and Johane

Wife of John, Thomas, and Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Mildred, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Joanna, Mary, Abigail, and Sarah

Sister of Silence and Anna

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Managed by: Jason Peter Herbert

Joanna Boyse (1616 - 1681)

Immediate Family:

Wife of Peter

Mother of Elizabeth, Abigail, Joanna, John, Mary, Mildred, Peter, Samuel, and Sarah

Added by: Thomas Beddy on 2/18/09

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