Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Life-stories from early New England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
EARNING, Katherine
Katherine Earning, a widow, probably emigrated in 1638 with her daughter Hannah and son-in-law Nehemiah Bourne*. Her daughter Ellen stayed in England, married to Anthony Earning, a mariner of Limehouse, London. On 27 September 1639 Katherine Earning made Nehemiah Bourne and Anthony Earning her attorneys to collect money due to her in England. She became a church member at Dorchester on 21 December 1639. Along with Nehemiah and Hannah Bourne, she was dismissed from Dorchester to the Boston church on 27 November 1642. When Nehemiah and Hannah set off in December 1646 on a voyage to London, they left their children in her care in Boston.
Not long after the departure of her daughter and son-in-law, Katherine decided to follow them to England. This unexpected news brought the Bournes' children to England, too. On 12 August 1648, Nehemiah Bourne wrote to John Winthrop:
I had it not in my heart that my Mother Earning would haue returned, whose going [from Boston] was the cause that putt me vpon a kind of Necessity of sending home my Children being young: and it was beyond my wife her thought or expectation either to se Mother or Children at London.
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- Abandoning AmericaLife-Stories from Early New England, pp. 96 - 103Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013