John married Abigail HOWLAND on 13 Dec 1648 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Henry HOWLAND and Mary NEWLAND) was born in 1629 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 7 Apr 1692 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph YOUNG was born in Dec 1654 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; and died.
2. Lydia YOUNG was born in 1664 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died before 1716.
3. Henry YOUNG was born on 17 Mar 1672 in Eastham, Bristol, Massachusetts.; died on 26 Apr 1706.

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Rev. John was believed to have been educated at Oxford. He wrote andtaught the Calvinistic System. Because the English ruler was Catholic heand many of the Parish were persecuted until conditions becameintolerable. His brother Christopher and wife sailed with brother Joseph,Master of the ship "Love" for New England. Two years later Rev. John madeapplication to sail and was refused (from the records of Westminister,was written in the margin "This man was forbyden passage by thecommissners. and went not from Yarmouth".

One report places him at New Haven 1638-40. Woods, in his history of LongIsland, where he makes Young a Minister at Hingham, England and came toNew Haven with part of his church in 1640 and to begin the settlement ofSouthold, in Oct of that year.

(Farmers Register) says he died 1672 in his 74th year.

John married Joan HERRINGTON on 25 Jul 1622 in England. Joan was born about 1600; died about 1630 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christopher Youngs, Born in England, died at Wenham, Mass, June 1647. Hecame to America from England in l635 in the ship "Love", of which hisbrother Joseph was master. He was a weaver. He married in England about1635, Priscilla Elvin, who died about 1646, daughter of Richard Elvin ofGreat Yarmouth, England, Norfolk County. They had five children.

Christopher married Pricilla ELVIN about 1595 in England. Pricilla was born in Jan 1580-1581 in Reyden, Southwold, Suffolk, England; died about 1646 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was Vicar of Reydon, Suffolk County, England, in 1611. The Youngsappear to have been of Norman-French origin, He married, late in life asthe church disapproved of the clergy marrying.

"Here Lyeth Interred Body of Mr. Christopher Yonges Who Departed thisLife 14 June Anno Domini, 1626, A Good Man Full of Fayth was Hee / HerePreacher of Gods Word And Manie by his Ministrie Weare added to the Lord.Acts 11:24."

So reads a brass tablet laid beneath the 17th century pulpit in theChurch of St. Edmunds, Southwold, Suffolk, England. The man entombedbeneath, Christopher Yonges, was vicar to this parish and neighboring St.Margarets, in the small village of Reydon, for 15 years.

The Rev. Christopher's eldest son, the Rev. John Youngs, was the leaderof the small group of Englishmen and -women who in 1640 settled the NorthFork of Long Island. Capt. Joseph Youngs and his sister, Martha Youngs,with their spouses, Margaret Warren and Thomas Moore, later joined theireldest brother and were among the earliest English colonists in thisarea. Their younger brother, Christopher (Jr.), and his wife, PriscillaElvin, died in Salem, Mass., before they could join the family on LongIsland. Christopher and Priscilla's son, Christopher (III), was broughtup by his father's sister, Martha, in Southold.

These people fled England to escape religious persecution in England. TheNew World both horrified and excited them. It offered challenges. (Youngsclan converging, By Patricia McCabe).

Christopher married UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]