Tobias Feake1,2

M, b. before August 1624, d. before 8 October 1672
FatherJames Feake b. 13 Feb 1599, d. b 1625
MotherAudrey Crompton d. b 1625
     Tobias was born before August 1624 in London, County Middlesex, England.3 In August 1624, he was christened in London, County Middlesex, England, at the Church of St. Mary White Chapel.4 When he was a young child, he & his sister went to live with their aunt & uncle, Alice & Tobias Dickson. It was this uncle for whom he was named. Some time after 1625, the Dicksons went to live in Germany. Years later, his aunt & uncle sent him to live with his uncle Robert Feake in Watertown, Connecticut. On 10 May 1639, Robert Feake had guardianship of Tobias age 17 years.5,2 Tobias married Anna van Beyeren, daughter of Albert Sebastiaens van Beyeren and Maritgen Pauwels Sterlinex, after 1645 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.6 He and Anna were blessed with 1 child. Before 14 August 1649, Tobias & Anna were residing in Flushing on Long Island.7 Tobias's wife, Anna, died in April 1656 in the Town of Flushing, Queens County, Long Island, New York, leaving him a widower.8 Tobias married 2nd Mary Patrick after 1656 in England. On 29 December 1659, he carried a remonstrance to New Amsterdam & was arrested & jailed for lodging Quakers in his home. He was fined 299 guilders.9 On 24 June 1662, Tobias was authorized by the Orphan Masters to travel to Holland to collect the inheritance that belonged to his first wife.10 Tobias never returned from his trip abroad. Instad of returning home to Flushing, he returned to his home in England, deserting his wife & children. Mary & the children were left with no income & to fend for themselves. Tobias made his will on 7 July 1669 at Wapping, County Middlesex, England. In it Tobias Feake "of Wapping, Middlesex, mariner, mentioned no wife or child but stated he was indebted to Ann Faraway of the same place, widow. "In a good & valuaable sum of money and also for divers good causes and considerarions". He named her his sole heir & exectris.ion.11 Tobias departed this life before 8 October 1672 in Wapping, County Middlesex, England. His will was probated on 8 October 1672.

Family 1

Anna van Beyeren b. 1610, d. Apr 1656
Child

Family 2

Mary Patrick d. b 20 May 1692

Citations

  1. [S968] Dutch Records of the City Clerks Office of the City of New York, page 33 - 1659. Nov. ro. Tobias Feeke had instituted an action against William Hallet, concerning debt of his uncle Robbert Feeke, to be paid by William Hallet. Said Robbert Feeke had been living at Greenwich, near Stanfort, and his wife [sic] had married Willem Hallet. Tobias Feake was living at Flushing, on Long Island.
    page 36 - No Date. Petition of Tobias Feake, regarding his case against William Hallet. Petitioner's uncle and blood-guardian, Tobias Dickson, living in Germany, had sent petitioner from there to New England, and given him into the care of his uncle Robbert Feacke.
    page 38 - 1662. July 19. Tobias Feeke orders Luykas Arents to pay for him fifty guilders to Skipper Jan Jansen Bestevaer. Intends to cross with the ship "De Arent" in company of his son-in-law and brother-in-law, to receive inheritance at the Hague.
  2. [S969] Horace Wilbur Palmer, Palmer Families In America
    , page 10 -.
  3. [S1080] George E. McCracken, The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America, pages 210-211 - On 5 December 1639, in a power of attorney to allow certain property on Lombard Street in London, Tobias was described as being age 17 years. This may be a discreptency since he was christened in 1624.
  4. [S1080] George E. McCracken, The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America, page 210.
  5. [S90] Genealogies of Long Island Families From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume I: page 400 - Alice, mentioned in wills of maternal grandfather Robert Thomas in 1610 and of paternal grandmother Mary Feake in 1619; m. Tobias Dixon of London, mercer, Feb. 15, 1619/20, license granted by the Bishop of London, Feb. 14, 1619/20, this record calling him haberdasher and her spinster; daughter of James Feake, City of London, marriage to take place at Stepney, co. Middlesex. It was for Tobias Dixon that Tobias Feake was doubtless named. He had already given testimony at the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham in 1614. He removed from England to Germany after 1625 and took with him his wife’s nephew Tobias Feake and probably also her niece Judith, Tobias’ sister. Later, both children were sent to America to live with their uncle Robert Feake at Watertown. By 1634 Tobias Dixon was back in London when his wife took administration in her grandfather’s estate, and he was still there in 1639 when he was named attorney to sell property. Whether the Dixons had issue, we do not know.
  6. [S90] Genealogies of Long Island Families From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume I: page 421 -.
  7. [S971] Patricia L. Haslam, Captain Daniel Patrick of the 1630 Winthrop Fleet & Some of His Descendants, page 474 - 14 August 1649, Tobias & Anna sent Adriaen vander Donck to Holland to check on her affairs.
  8. [S90] Genealogies of Long Island Families From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume II: pages 497-499 - "The Ancestry of Anna van Beyeren who married first Daniel Patrick & second Tobias Feake" by Josephine Frost. ... Anna died April six years past.
  9. [S970] Martha Bockee Flint, Early Long Island- A Colonial Study
    , page 176.
  10. [S971] Patricia L. Haslam, Captain Daniel Patrick of the 1630 Winthrop Fleet & Some of His Descendants, page 475 - Anneken’s four children with her first husband, Daniel Patrick and her son with Tobias Feake were named in a document dated 19 May 1662:
    Anna Patrick, wife of Bartholomew Applegate living in Gravesend; Patientia Patrick, wife of Arent Cornelius of Flushing, Zeeland, and living in Flushing, Long Island; Daniel Patrick living in Middleburg; Samuel Patrick living in Gravesland (all villages in the jurisdiction of New Netherland); and James Feackx. Daniel and Samuel were under age on 24 June 1662 when Martin Kresjier (Creiger) and Pieter Kowenhoven, Orphan Masters at the Court at New Amsterdamn, were appointed their guardians in papers filed in the Orpans Court at The Hague, Holland. The children were to gain possession of the inheritance of their maternal grandparents.
  11. [S971] Patricia L. Haslam, Captain Daniel Patrick of the 1630 Winthrop Fleet & Some of His Descendants, page 476 - Will of Tobias Feake dated 7 July 1669.