On 15 Oct 1638 Hannah married
John Winchester, son of
Richard Winchester &
Elizabeth, in First Parish Church of Scituate.
52 “John Winchester of Hinghame and Hannah Sillis of Scituate were marryed the xv^th Octob^r 1738”.
Born ca 1611 in Cranbrook, Kent. John was baptized in Cranbrook, Kent, on 19 May 1611.349 John died in Brookline, MA on 25 Apr 1694.349
From Henry Winchester Cunningham’s article “John Winchester of New England and some of his descendants”:349
“John Winchester, the immigrant ancestor of the family that forms the subject of this article, embarked in England, 6 Apr. 1635, in the Elizabeth, the same ship in which came Clement Bates from Lydd, co. Kent, and arrived a few weeks later at Boston in New England. After remaining there a short time he went to Hingham, where Clement Bates had already settled, and received, 3 Joly 1636, a grant of five acres of land in that town, situated on the present South Street in West Hingham (Lincoln’s History of Hingham, vol. 3, page 330). On 20 may 1667 Elizabeth hersie granted to her son John four acres of land in Hingham, ‘in the feild called the plane neck,’ which her late husband, William Hersie, had bought of John Winchester (Suffolk Deeds, lib. 5, fo. 514). William Hersie had originally received a grant of five acres adjoining John Winchester’s land, and on the same date 3 Jul 1636.”
He was made a freeman March 9, 1636-37. At the time of the military trouble here, 1644-45, he took an active part in the proceedings, from which cause he was fined, but subsequently released on account of his poverty. (Colonial rec's, iii. 80.) His w., whom he m. Oct. 15, 1638, was Hannah, dau. of Dea. Richard Sealis of Scit. They removed to "Muddy River," a part of Boston, where he d. 25 Apr.1694, at about the age of 75 yrs.45