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• Christened	26 Jan 1601/1602	Great Bowden
  Gender	Male
  Died	1623
  Person ID	I49947	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2004 00:00:00
  Father	John FYSHE, b. 1555, Market Harborough, Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England
  Mother	Margaret CRADDOCK, b. Abt 1556, of Great Bowden, Leicester, , England
  Family ID	F242	Group Sheet

• Notes

  !BAP 26 JAN 1601/2 !IGI JUL 1984, BATCH 8119430, SERIAL SHEET 4 From John Dean Fish' research (see http://www.dallas.net/~mcmanus/fishdea2.htm): John Fish, the youngest son of John and Margaret, born 1601-2, seems to have been a favorite child of both of his parents. He was executor of his mother's will. He had four children baptized at Great Bowden. He probably went to Warwickshire and located at Wroxhall, being a near neighbor, in that county, of his brother Thomas of Wedgnock Park. "John Fish of Wroxhall", in 1640 had money transactions with Thomas Dexter, an early settler in Lynn and Sandwich, Mass., which were not settled until 1649. He had loaned money to Rev. Ephraim Huit of the Wroxhall Church. Through persecution by the Bishop of Worcester, for non-conformity, Mr. Huit was driven from his church and from England, and came to Hartford, Conn., where he died in 1644. The money for the payment of the debt to John Fish of Wroxhall seems to have been turned over by Mr. Huit's estate and held by the Colonial Treasurer as late as 1686. As this money had not then reached its proper destination, the Huit heirs claimed that it should be returned to them. In this connection the General Court of Connecticut formally refused to pay the 60 pounds to the children of Mrs. Huit, "because this Court are informed that ther is a nephew of Mr. Fish that doth demand it." There is a question of some interest as to the identity of this nephew. He might have been William Fish of Windsor if he were then living, or possibly John Fish of Stonington.