These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Evidence
Isacke Gurney court cluster: Scituate 1663/4; Suffolk file 792, 1667
A young Isacke Gurney appears in a tight cluster of colonial court records — whipped for pilfering at Scituate (Plymouth court, 1 March 1663/4) and jailed for vagrancy and burglary at Medford, committed to the Boston prison under Daniel Gookin's warrant (Suffolk County court file no. 792, June 1667); neither record states his parentage.
Date: court records 1 March 1663/4 (Scituate) to June 1667 (Boston)
Why this conclusion
- Supports Analysis Isaac (c. 1643) most plausibly John-1's son, by elimination (moderate)The court records establish the person Isacke Gurney but state no parentage, so their bearing on the identification is indirect.
Sources
- FamilySearch Full-Text Search, AI-transcribed manuscript image collections (deeds, probate, parish and borough records)., Plymouth Court Orders 1661–1668 images 35, 37 (arks 3:1:3Q9M-C9BJ-NW1P-1, 3:1:3Q9M-C9BJ-NW15-5); Suffolk County Court Case Files 1666–1668 file no. 792 images 56–59 (arks 3:1:3Q9M-CSVR-R913-N, 3:1:3Q9M-CSVR-R91S-Y)
Isacke Gurney, for pilfering and other disorderly liueing, was sentenced by the Court to bee whipt
Topic file location: Family — the children as a family group
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000068 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.