 1652 - 1725 (72 years)
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| Name |
John Wise |
| Born |
15 Aug 1652 |
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
8 Apr 1725 |
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Buried |
Old Graveyard, Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States |
| Person ID |
I31655 |
Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
1 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
Joseph Wise, b. 1617, d. 12 Sep 1684, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Thompson, b. 14 Nov 1619, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 27 Nov 1651, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA (Age 32 years) |
| Married |
3 Dec 1641 |
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA |
| Family ID |
F15668 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Abigail Gardiner, b. 6 Dec 1652, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA , d. 15 Mar 1735, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA (Age 82 years) |
| Married |
5 Dec 1678 |
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA |
| Children |
| + | 1. Jeremiah Wise, b. 2 Nov 1679, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA , d. 20 Jan 1756, Berwick, Maine, USA (Age 76 years) |
| | 2. Lucy Wise, b. 1681, d. 5 Mar 1727 (Age 46 years) |
| | 3. John Wise, b. 1683, d. 31 Aug 1762 (Age 79 years) |
| + | 4. Joseph Wise, b. 1685, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1764, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 79 years) |
| | 5. Mary Wise, b. 12 May 1685, d. 23 Mar 1735 (Age 49 years) |
| | 6. Joseph Wise, b. 16 Feb 1686, d. 23 Sep 1745 (Age 59 years) |
| | 7. Ammi Ruhamah Wise, b. 1688, d. 6 Jul 1749 (Age 61 years) |
| | 8. Joseph John Wise, b. 1695, d. 1783 (Age 88 years) |
| | 9. Henry Wise, b. 1697, d. 12 Nov 1775 (Age 78 years) |
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| Last Modified |
4 Mar 2021 |
| Family ID |
F15667 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 15 Aug 1652 - Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA |
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 | Married - 5 Dec 1678 - Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Died - 8 Apr 1725 - Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA |
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 | Buried - - Old Graveyard, Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Headstones |
 | John Wise
Underneath lies the body of the Rev. John Wise, A.M. First pastor of the 2nd Church in Ipswich, graduated at Harvard College 1673; ordained pastor of the said church in 1681; and died April 8, 1725. aged 73. For talents, peity and learning he shone as a star of the first magnitude. This monument repaired 1815. Restored 1883. |
| Family Homes |
 | John Wise House
Erected in 1701 by John Wise, Pastor of the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, now Essex. Son of a laborer, Harvard graduate, Army Chaplain. Protestant against taxation without representation and against the witchcraft delusion. Defender of democracy in the church, and a brilliant prose writer.
-- Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission
(heritage sign located outside the home)
John Wise home is located on the John Wise Road to Chebacco, Essex, MA. On this same road is his parish church (whose bell was cast by Paul Revere). |
| Landmarks |
 | John Wise Avenue & John Wise Lane
A portion of Massachusetts Route 133, between Essex and Ipswich, was named John Wise Avenue. This photo, located in front of John Wise House, 93 John Wise Avenue is the intersection of John Wise Avenue & John Wise Lane. |
| Obituary & Death Notice |
 | John Wise
WISE, John, clergyman, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in August, 1652; died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 8 April, 1725. He was the son of Joseph Wise, who, in his younger days, had been a serving-man. John attended Roxbury free school, was graduated at Harvard in 1673, and, after studying theology, was ordained pastor of Chebacco, a new parish of Ipswich, on 12 August, 1683, where he remained till his death. In 1688, for leading the citizens of Ipswich in their remonstrance against arbitrary taxation by Sir Edmund Andros, he was imprisoned, titled £50 and costs, and deprived of his ministerial office, but after the revolution of the following year he brought action against Chief-Justice Dudley for refusing him the benefit of the habeas corpus act, and is said to have recovered damages. The town had paid his fine and costs and sent him, as its representative, to Boston, where he took an active part in reorganizing the government. In 1690 he was a chaplain in the unfortunate expedition to Canada. When it was proposed, under the leadership of the Mathers to establish associations of ministers in Massachusetts that should exercise authority that had belonged to the individual churches, Wise opposed the plan as being the first step toward a hierarchy, and published against it a pamphlet entitled "The Churches' Quarrel Espoused" (Boston, 1710; 2d ed., with the "Cambridge Platform," 1715). In this he attacked the scheme with keen satire, utterly defeating it. Dr. Henry M. Dexter, in his "Congregationalism as Seen in its Literature," says the essay is unsurpassed " for density, for clearness, for largeness of vision, for conclusiveness, and for general ability and beauty of style." Later Mr. Wise amplified his views in his "Vindication of the Government of New England Churches," which was bound together with another edition of the former pamphlet (1717). This is a remarkable exposition of the general principles of civil government, and became, says a biographer, "the text-book of liberty for our Revolutionary fathers, containing some of the notable expressions that are used in the Declaration of Independence." The two essays were reprinted in a volume by the Congregational board of publication, with an historical introductory notice by the Reverend Joseph S. Clark, D.D. (1860). See, also, funeral sermon, by John White (1725). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM |
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