Thirteenth Generation

7808. John* COMBE²⁸⁷⁷ was born in 1568 in , Devonshire, England. He died before 7 Sep 1610 in London, Greater London, England.¹³⁰⁶ He signed a will before 7 Sep 1610. 1613-1-28: Will of John Combe. He bequeathed £5 to "mr William Shackspere"
(Public Record Office, Prob. 11/126). EKC II, 127; facs. SS, 187

If this is the same John Combe then the 1613 date might be at the distribution.

Administration of his estate was granted to his wife Margaret Coombe, widow in Sept 1610. He was buried on 7 Sep 1610 in Alermanbury, Greater London, England.¹³⁰⁶ On 15 Jul 1583, he was "admitted to freedom" of the City of London by the Court of Common Council 5 by virtue of completion of his apprenticeship as a Draper to one Thomas PULLISON. (Thomas PULLISON was an Alderman by no later than 1581, the Sherriff of London in 1582 and Lord Mayor of London in 1583, the same year that John Combe attained his freedom). By the following year, John had entered the hemisphere of international trade, his investments in a number of "adventures" documented by his application to the Lord Secretary for admission to the Levant Company, in which he mentioned trading in Spain, Portugal, Flanders, the Barbary Coast, and that he had "adventured to sundrie places within the straights ever since October 1584 and 85 as to Marsalles to Lingee (?) and to Napels and to Venice...," adding that "...for voyages I have shipped goodes before by sea and
overland and the ways of the Gambonne (?)........ since the 10th day of December 1586..." Neither the priceof an apprenticeship, investments such as these, nor the lease to a house jointly owned by John and his partner, Thomas FARRINGDON by 1587, were insignificant, a strong indication that John's family was likely well-to-do.

John is also recorded as having paid his livery fees for the years 1604 through 1606, and it is in this latter year, that he was first elected Warden of St. Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury, serving as an auditor of the Church Warden Accounts, and assigned to three committees. It was on 3 Jan 1605/6, that John took on his first known apprentice, "kinsman" Ellis COMBE (who, when he applied for his own admission to freedom in 1616, declared that he had apprenticed to John COMBE "a merchant in Aldermanbury 7 years at his house"). In 1606(?), John became a member of the Court of Assistants (governing body) of the Drapers Company, and in 1607(?) was appointed a Commissioner of the Court of Policies of Assurance.

On 7 Apr 1609 at an historic meeting of the Court of Assistants at the Drapers Company (of which John was a member), it was noted that a precept had been received from the Lord Mayor "asking forparticipation in the plantation in Virginia." This was the second charter of the Virginia Company, and the Assistants voted to "adventure" 150 pounds, to be "paid to Sir Thomas SMYTH and that a bill of adventure for the 150 pounds shall be taken under the seal of the Company." The Warden Accounts of the Company (1608/9) further indicate that John COMBE was one of ten men who personally invested five pounds each to be "adventured in the voyage for the plantation in Virginia..." 14

John continued to appear regularly in the records of the Drapers company throughout this period and until his death in 1610, by which time he had been elected a "Common counsell man" by the citizens of his ward: John was known as a "Merchant of London."\

Member of the Drapers Company, with activities and interests that gained him the title of "Adventurer" John* COMBE and Margaret* ARCHDALE were married on 11 Dec 1587 in St. Antholins Parish, London, England. This marriage is recorded in the parish, and again in 1633/4 in the Harleian Visitations of London Archdale Family, which also further documents Margaret's ancestry, listing her as the daughter of Thomas ARCHDALE.

7809. Margaret* ARCHDALE was christened on 6 Nov 1569 in St. Antholins Budge Row, London, England.¹³⁰⁶ She died in Sep 1616 in Aldermanbury, London, England.¹³⁰⁶ A Study in Comparative Philosophy and Genealogy

by Dr. Josiah H. Combs

The surname for Margaret is not for sure. She was a niece of Archdale
Combe and mentioned in his will.

A Study in Comparative Philosophy and Genealogy

by Dr. Josiah H. Combs

Margaret was the dau of Thomas Archdale, son of John Archdale of Stafford
Town. Her birth and marriage dates are from the Register of St. Antholins
Parish Church in London. Children were:

	i.	William COMBES.1305
	ii.	Archdale COMBE was born on 4 Dec 1606 in Great Amwell, Hertford, England. A Study in Comparative Philosophy and Genealogy by Dr. Josiah H. Combs
3904	iii.	John* COMB.