John Flegg

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁵⁶⁷
The family of Flagg, originally Fleg, derives the name from East Flegg and West Flegg in County Norfolk, England. Thomas Flegg's ancestors lived in this area for a least six centuries prior to his emigration to America in 1637. The capital of this area is the ancient city of Norwich. The chief in industry of this county is generally agriculture, with the manufacture of cloth an important trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Mentions of persons termed "de Fleg" first appear in about 1125, and a family of the name flourished as armiger, landed gentry for five generations down to about 1280, and were lords of Manor of Fleg Hall in Winterton and Manor of Kirkhall is Sall. In three generations the heads of the Flegs of Fleg Hall Attained the honor of knighthood. Upon the death of Sir William de Fleg, Knight, without surviving male issue, the ancient estates of the family passed to his daughters as co- heiresses; and thereafter the later generations of the family name, descended from landless younger sons of substantial yeoman; farming lands they leased from manorial families of other names.

During the one hundred sixty years between the death of Sir William de Fleg and the birth of James Flegg in about 1440, the history of the family in Norfolk is rather obscure and difficult to trace. As late as 1378, the number of families of the name was small. In the poll-tax of 1378, only a dozen Fleg names appear in Norfolk. During the two centuries from 1440 to 1640, there exists many records to clearly establish an unbroken line for seven generations of Flegs to emigrant, Thomas Flegg.

Originally, The English Ancestry of Thomas Flegg, by Gardiner Bartlett found in Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, by Earnest Flagg, pp. 401-402

• Background Information. ⁵⁶⁷
John Flegg married a woman named Aveline about 1574. His father advanced him his portion of his estate by buying him a farm in the adjoining parish of Whinbergh, where he settle and resided for over forty years until his dath in 1618 at about seventy seven years in age.

The will of "John Flegge of Whinburghe," county Norfolk is dated 5 Sept 1613. He asked to be burid in the churyard in Whinburghe. His will further states to my close called Codlings Hyern in Yaxham (copyhold of the Manor of Whinburgh) to my three children, Allinge Flegge, Bartholomew Flegg and Rebecca Flegge; said two sons with the advice of John Scott of Whinburgh, yeoman, to sell said close, and the proceeds to be divided equally among said three children; if my eldest son Allin flegge refuse to join in the sale, then the other two children to have the right to it and divide the proceeds. To my daughter Rebecca and my sons Allin and Bartholomew, various household articles, pewter, copper-ware, bedding ... To my wife's nephew, Edward Benninton, a bedstead with bedding. Each of my three children to pay the aforesaid John Scott 6 shillings for his pains. To Richard Church, parson of Whinburgh, 10 shillings for pain in often writing for me. All residue goods to said Allen and Bartholomew Flegge, executors. Witnesses, Hon Skott and Richard Church. Proved by the executors, 16 Feb 1617/8.

Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, pp. 230-231

John married Aveline Bennington. (Aveline (Elizabeth ) Bennington was born in 1546.)