John Putnam

Generation 14 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Rhoda Slaughter ← Lois Carpenter ← Benjamin Carpenter ← Elizabeth Wilson ← Elizabeth Fuller ← Rebecca Putnam ← John Putnam

Born

Abt. 1579. · Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England

Died

December 30, 1662, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts

Migration

1634: Came from England to America

Family

Father

Nicholas Putnam

no.

Mother

Margaret Goodspeed

no.

Child in this line

John Putnam

Children

Elizabeth “Eliza” Putnam
b. Abt. December 1612 near Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England
Thomas Putnam
b. Abt. March 1614[1615] near Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England · d. May 5, 1686, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts
m. Ann Holyoke, October 17, 1643, in Lynn, Massachusetts; Mary ____, November 14, 1666, in Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Putnam
b. Abt. October 1619 near Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England · d. July 23, 1700, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Hutchinson in Salem, Massachusetts
Sara Putnam
b. Abt. March 1622[1623] near Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England
Phoebe Putnam
b. Abt. July 1624 near Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England

In brief

Born Abt in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England. 1634: Came from England to America. He worked as farmer/yeoman. He died December 30, 1662, in Salem Village (Danvers), Massachusetts.

At a glance

Work

Farmer/Yeoman, Husbandman

Lived

Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England · Salem, Massachusetts

Sources (2)

Eben Putnam, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America (Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1891); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ahistoryputnamf01putngoog : accessed 11 August 2026).
Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: Volume I (USA: Charles G. Dawes, 1943); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/dawesgatesancest00ferr : accessed 12 August 2026).