John Earle of Northampton, Massachusetts and Southampton Long Island.

John Earle came to Boston in 1656.  Married in Northampton, Massachusetts.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Earle-512

The principal source so far is the Kellogg article. According to the story, John came to America in the summer of 1656 on the ship Speedwell.

• Kellogg, Joseph M., “John Earle of Northampton, Mass. and Southampton, L.I.,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 24 (1948).

THE SPEEDWELL PASSENGER LIST https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~historyofmarlborough/history/speedwell.htm

John Earle came to America aboard the Speedwell in 1656, when he was 17 years old. His name is included on a passenger list for that ship. He took the Oath of Fidelity at Springfield in that year.

Kellogg relates:
“It is not known just where John Earle first lived in this country, but by 1661 at any rate he was out in Springfield, working for John Pynchon. The original Account Books of Col. John Pynchon are preserved, the first volume in the Forbes Library at Northampton, and the others in the Pynchon Memorial [now the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History] at Springfield. In the first book Pynchon writes: ‘John Earle came to my worke as my servant’ on July 1, 1661. His ‘foote being swelled he did nothing’; later he did work at Longmeadow, etc. ‘Again take out 2 days goeing to Windsor.’ ‘So it all is as if he came to me but ye 14th of July; and he stayed with me until ye 14th of August, for on ye 15th of August in ye morning he went down to goodman Colton’s.’ So ‘I had him only 1 month and 4 days, when he went.’”

This appears to be John Pynchon’s reminder to himself to dock John Earle’s pay for the days he did not work.

John Earle was in living in Northampton by March 1662/63, when he married Mary Webb, the daughter of John and Ann (Bassett) Webb. However, the Pynchon accounts are filled with John Earle items, such as his getting paid 2 shillings for killing a fox and 5 shillings for a wolf. He bought stockings and a hat, powder and lead, and “one inkhorne.” In the book, he signed his name clearly and he spelled it “Earle.” Northampton residents were still under the jurisdiction of the Pynchon Court in Springfield in 1660, when this item appears in the records:

“July 6, 1660. Before Mr. John Pynchon, Mr. Samuell Chapin and Elizur Holyoke Commissioners:
William Morgan complaynes against John Earle for strikinge him the said William with a bowle uppon his face and nose:

It appearinge by the Testimonyes of John Stewart and Charles Ferry, that John Earle did strike the said William Morgan and broke his nose, which also was evident his nose beinge much bruised and bloody when he came before the Comissioners: John Earle was adjudged to allow the said William Morgan the sum of five shillings also five shillings to the County for breakinge the peace and Three shilling foure pence for entry of the Action.”

In 1664, John Earle was one of a group of four men hauled into court at Northampton for voting illegally in an election for selectmen. He confessed and asked the court for leniency which was granted and his fine remitted.

Also, the Northampton court of 27 March 1666, ordered John Webb and his wife to appear as witnesses in a case in which John Earle was charged with abusing his wife, their daughter Mary (Webb) Earle. The case came before the court, on 26 June 1666, “it being affirmed by his father and mother in law, John Webb and his wife, that his carriage since has been very loveing to his wife” and Lieut. Clark said that he “Made an ingenuous confession of his fault,” he was merely admonished and directed to pay 2 shillings 6 pence to the constable for his trouble.

Kellogg continues:
“After a time, Earle apparently became a trusted agent for Col. Pynchon, gathering in beaver skins and other furs, and trading in horses. There is a long account of ‘bever’ brought in by Earle. On Aug. 28, 1669, Pynchon agreed with Earle to furnish him with about twenty pounds’ worth of horses, etc.; for which ‘he is to goe to New York and Southampton, and requite to me upon his return from New York, 10 pounds of it in good Dutch blankets and good bone lace or some holland at such price as he buys it there, I allowing him [?] on ye Pound advance.’ Pynchon and Earle both sign this agreement in the book. Another agreement, dated May 2, 1670, is about a lot of mares. Earle is ‘to pay me 26 pounds worth of bever or wheate at Boston next spring at our usual market price…. another agreement between Pynchon and Earle, dated … Aug. 19, 1673, and signed by both… ‘Agreed that John Earle shall have one of my home lots at Pocometuck [Northampton] twixt ye church lot,’ about six acres. ‘I am to have of him and he make over to me his meadow land at Eagle Brook over ye river, 8 acres.’”

John’s wife was also before the court on occasion. In 1675, she was among a group of women presented for wearing too fine clothes. And a few days later, Goodwife Earle and Sarah Alexander were called to answer for “dalliance” with Thomas Roote, at the house of Joseph Dickinson, the previous summer. The two were accused of laying in bed with Roote and “having Rhum to drink.” Roote was sentenced to be whipped. Goodwife Earle was to receive ten stripes or to pay a fine of three pounds.

Biographical Sketch

EARLE, John & Mary (Webb)
by Cliff McCarthy, 2016
Last Updated 2 November 2017

“At daybreak on March 14, 1676, a war party of some 500 Nonotucks, Nipmucs and Narragansetts moved in on Northampton. The assault was well planned, with three points of attack: one on the easterly side of Round Hill, a second on today’s King Street, and a third at the lower end of what is now Pleasant Street. It was at this latter point that the palisade was breached. Four men and a 12-year-old girl were killed and six men wounded. The dead included Robert Bartlett, one of the first settlers of Northampton. Four houses outside the palisade, and one inside, were burned. Once the attackers were inside the palisade, however, they found themselves in a bottle-neck and about 20 were killed.”

So wrote Northampton historian and author Allison Lockwood in her Finding Paradise: Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-1861 about the attack on Northampton during King Philip’s War.

However, the 12-year-old girl mentioned above is mis-identified. Mary Earle died in the Indian attack, but it was the mother of the 12-year-old girl, also named Mary Earle, who was killed that day. The 12-year-old Mary Earle survived the attack and later married Nathaniel Hubbard of Middletown, Connecticut.

This is the way eyewitness Major Thomas Savage described the attack in the first report of the incident:

“…on the 14th instant [March 1676] about the break of day, the enemy fiercely assaulted Northampton in three places at once, and forced within their line or palisadoes, and burnt 5 houses and 5 barns, and killed 4 men and one woman, and wounded 6 men more; but being beaten off, [they] marched towards Hatfield, and were seen in several places about that town in considerable companies.”

Notice that Mary Earle is described here as a “woman” and no mention of the “girl” is made. [For a more detailed explanation, see HUBBARD, Nathaniel & Mary (Earle).]
Mary Earle’s death record (from the Pynchon Record Book, Wood Museum of Springfield History)

John & Mary (Webb) Earle had six children in Northampton before the fatal event that took Mary’s life in 1676, as described above.

After that, the family unit disintegrated. John Earle relocated to Southampton on Long Island by 1678, but there is no evidence that his children, who would have ranged in age from 14 to 3, went with him. Mindwell Earle, the youngest, born shortly before the raid, probably died shortly thereafter, since John had another child of that name by his second wife in 1683.

Expert genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus wrote:

“John Earl married Nov. 1678 Mary Raynor (Southampton Town Rec. 2 :242). Only two of their children seem to have been recorded: Mindwell, b. 16 Aug. 1683; and David, b. 11 Jan. 1684/5. John Earle and Mary his wife released claim to the estate of Joseph Raynor, April, 1683. The Town granted him the land he lives on, in 1694.

Probably Earl lost so heavily in King Philip’s War that he came to Southampton with little, and although his second wife’s family, the Raynors, were people of standing and property, there is no evidence that Earl owned much in Southampton. In fact, his family in the 1698 Census of Southampton appears to have been split up while he was still living. The Census shows John Earl, Mary Earl (wife), and David Earl together. Sarah Earl was listed under a Bower[Kellogg says “Foster”] family; Mindwell Earl was listed under the family of Mr. Edward Howell; Huldah Earl was apparently listed with Daniel Halsey’s family; and Hannah Earl was apparently listed with Isaac Halsey’s family.

Later on, the family was even more split up. Sarah Earl married 21 Dec. 1709 Theophilus Heaton (New Haven Vital Rec.). They lived in the North Parish, now North Haven, Conn., and Heaton’s will made provision for his wife ‘s sister, Mindwell Earl. Mindwell Earl, “very aged,” died 4 February 1764 (North Haven Congregational Church Records). Huldah Earl married 1 March 1711 John Brockett (Wallingford, Conn., Records). Hence at least two of John Earl’s daughters by his second wife married in Connecticut, while the unmarried daughter Mindwell lived and died here.”
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Two marriages of John EARLE, Mary (Webb) & Mary (Raynor)

JOHN EARLE, SR. was born Abt. 1639.

He married (First Marriage) MARY WEBB 24 March 1662/63 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA, daughter of JOHN WEBB and ANN. She was born 5 February 1647/48 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT, and died 14 March 1675/76 slain by Indians at Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

i. MARY EARLE, b. 15 October 1664, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA; d. 6 April 1732, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT; m. NATHANIEL HUBBARD, 29 May 1682, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT; b. 10 September 1652, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT; d. 20 May 1738, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT.

The Children of JOHN EARLE and MARY WEBB are:

ii. ELIZABETH[1] EARLE, b. 29 December 1667, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

iii. ELIZABETH[2] EARLE, b. 25 December 1668, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

iv. NOAH EARLE, b. 11 August 1670, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

v. JOHN EARLE, b. 14 December 1672, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

vi. MINDWELL[1] EARLE, b. 25 October 1675, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA.

He married (Second Marriage) MARY RAYNOR in November 1678 in Southampton, Suffolk Co., NY.

The Children of JOHN EARL and MARY RAYNOR are:

vii. MINDWELL[2] EARL, b. 16 August 1683; d. 4 February 1764, North Haven, New Haven Co., CT.
viii. DAVID EARL, b. 11 January 1684/85.

ix. SARAH EARL, m. THEOPHILUS HEATON, son of James & Sarah (Street) Heaton, 21 December 1709, New Haven, CT.

x. HULDAH EARL, m. JOHN BROCKETT, grandson of John Brockett, 1 March 1710/11, Wallingford, CT.

xi. HANNAH EARL.

Wikipedia Article Info: In 1656, the Speedwell made a voyage from England to Boston. Among the passengers were a party of Quakers, including Christopher Holder and John Copeland. Arriving in the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the Governorship of John Endecott, they were deported for religious reasons and obliged to return to Britain. Not all the passengers were Quakers, and they returned to England.

The transcription of the passenger list for the ship “Speedwell” shows John was 17 years old in 1656. This would put his birth at about 1639, somewhere in England.