Ancestry of
Rikki Bates

Musician (Member of The Incredible Casuals)

John Capen

• • 10th Great-grandfather of Rikki Bates — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7182 
  • Father:
  • Bernard Capen 
  • Mother:
  • Joan Purchase   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1612/1613 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 04 or 06 APR 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Sep 1647 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Capen

  Bernard Capen

  Mary Capen (Ahnentafel No:3591 )

  James Capen

  Preserved Capen

  Joseph Capen

  Hannah Capen

  Elizabeth Capen

• Additional marriages for John Capen

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  • Spouse:
  • Redegon Clap
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Oct 1637
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Capen

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.2, pp. 19-22.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m.1637), pp. 1-6.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/30/2012).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 122, Death record for John Capen.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1848, Vol. 2, p. 80.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 125, 310.
  • ⁷ Bass, Charissa Taylor, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass, Freeport, IL: Privately printed (1940), 8.
  • ⁸ Hayden, Rev. Charles Albert and Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House (1929), 15-16.
  • ⁹ Leach, Josiah Granville, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts: unknown (1894), 151.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 467, 473.
  • ¹¹ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 129.