Twelfth Generation

2294. John Richard LAKE II¹⁹³ was born on 26 September 1590 in Great Fanton, North Benfleet, Essex County, England.¹⁹³ He died on 23 August 1657 at the age of 66 in North Benfleet, Essex County, England.¹⁹³ He was buried in Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex (now Greater London) County, England.¹⁹³ He was a direct descendant of LOUIS IV, KING OF FRANCE; Isabelle (de) VERMANDOIS, (FROM CHARLEMAGNE); Harold II (King) of NORWAY; ALFRED THE GREAT, KING of ENGLAND; HENRY, EMPEROR OF GERMANY; Alexander I, King of SCOTS; and Henry I BEAUCLERC, King of England. Margaret Elizabeth READE and John Richard LAKE II were married in 1616 in North Benfleet, Essex County, England.¹⁹³

2295. Margaret Elizabeth READE was born on 11 February 1598 in North Benfleet, Essex County, England.¹⁹³ She was baptized on 16 July 1598 in North Benfleet, Essex County, England.¹⁹³ She emigrated in 1635 from England, United Kingdom.¹⁹³ Margaret died on 24 September 1672 at the age of 74 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁹³ She was buried in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁹³

Children were:

Jan "John" LAKE III¹⁹³ was born in 1622 in North Benfleet, Essex County, England.²⁶⁵ After 1650 he was in Gravesend, Long Island, Kings County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁹³ He died on 6 August 1696 at the age of 74 in Gravesend, Long Island, Kings County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.^193,265 Life Sketch: "John Lake was probably born between 1610 and 1630. [Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 29:51]

Married 1st Anne Spicer, daughter of Thomas Spicer.

He lived at Gravesend, Long Island, but left few records. His ancestry is not known and his whereabouts before appearing at Gravesend are not known. He did not leave a will.

Children by Anne Spicer, b. between 1620 and 1630:
~ Daniel Lake Esq. b. between 1650 and 1660
~ Elizabeth Lake b. between 1655 and 1660
~ John Lake b. between 1655 and 1665, d. between 4 May 1723 and 17 May 1729
~ William Lake b. between 1660 and 1665, d. between 22 Mar 1717 and 5 Jun 1717
~ Margaret Lake b. before 1661, d. before Jun 1689
[Arthur Adams & Sarah A. Risley, A Genealogy of the Lake Family of Great Egg Harbor, in Old Gloucester County, in New Jersey, Descended from John Lake of Gravesend, Long Island (n.p.: Privately Printed, 1915), page 9; Susan K. Amicucci, "Claes Claeszen, Father of Neeltje Claes", New Netherland Connections Vol. 4 (1999): 4:32; Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Amended 1965): 29:51]

Life Sketch: "Thomas Lake, Sr., and his wife, Jane, lived at Amwell, N.J. His will was probated October 19, 1765. He was a son of John Lake, Jr., of Gravesend, Long Island, and a grandson of John Lake the founder of the family.

John Lake, the founder, died about 1696; he was a patentee of Gravesend and a member of the Lady Mary Moody Colony in 1643. He married Ann Spicer, who was a daughter of Thomas Spicer and Ann Grant, and a granddaughter of Mark Grant. See Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol V.

John and Ann (Spicer) Lake had at least two sons:
I. John, Jr., named above.
II. William, of whom nothing further here; he settled in Atlantic County, N.J. A genealogy of his descendants has been compiled and published by Dr. Arthur Adams, of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and his sister, Mrs. Sarah Risley." John was buried in Gravesend, Long Island, Kings County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ in the Gravesend Cemetery.

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Elizabeth Hannah LAKE (*).