Rev Emmanuel DOWNING [26302]

  General Notes:

Emmanuel Downing
Adm. scholar at TRINITY HALL, Dec. 16, 1602. S. of George (1569), of Ipswich. Bapt. at St Laurence, Ipswich, Aug. 12, 1585. Of the Inner Temple. For some years in Dublin. Emigrated to New England, 1638. Settled in Salem, Mass. Took a prominent part in Colonial affairs. After one or two trips to England he returned permanently in 1654. Died at Edinburgh, c. 1660. His son George was created Bart., 1663. Perhaps brother of Joseph (1610). (J. G. Bartlett.)
Cambridge Alumni.

Emanuel Downing letters from America see Ancestry:
http://www.archive.org/stream/allegationsforma00cant/allegationsforma00cant_djvu.txt
Vol 1 Genealogical Gleanings in England.

DOWNING
Emanuel Downing (1585 - 1658).
Emanuel Downing graduated from the University of Cambridge in England. He first married Ann Ware in 1614 and had three children. He then married Lucy Winthrop, sister of Govemor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Emanuel Doming lived in Salem, in what is now Peabody, Massachusetts. He had a tavern on the Ipswich Road, and a house in Salem he bought from Govemor Simon Bradstreet. He retumed to England in 1656 and rented his tavern in what is now Peabody to John Proctor (1631 - 1692).
Emanuel Downing is infamous for penning a letter in 1645 to his brother-in-law, Governor John Winthrop, "A war with the Narragannsett is verie considerable to this plantation... if upon a Juste Warr the Lord shall deliver them into our hands, we might easily have men, women, children enough to exchange for Moores... For I doe not see how we [white men] can thrive until wee get into a flock of slaves sufficient to doe all our business". He advocated trading the native Indians of New England for black African slaves. [Emanuel Downing to John Winthrop, August 1645, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Winthrop Papers, 5: 38 - 39]
After Emanuel Downing returned to England he was made Clerk of Council of State to Scotland. He removed to Edinburgh, where he died on 26 September 1660. He was buried at St. Martin's in the Field in London. Lucy. his wife, removed to England to live with her son Sir George and died in London on 10 April 1679. Emanuel Downing had several famous descendants, including William Tecumseh Sherman. US President John Qui, Adams, and Vice President Aaron Burr (who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804) He is also the ancestor of Reverend Johnathan Edwards, Puritan theologian.
Ref: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/surname-saturday-emanuel-downing-of.html

  Research Notes:

Downing
62. Add Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 1628. Married, Apr 1622, Lucy, sister of John Winthrop.
Cambridge Alumni.

Emmanuel married Lucy WINTHROP [26303] [MRIN: 9448], daughter of Adam WINTHROP Esq [26304] and Anne BROWNE [26305], on 10 Apr 1622 in Ipswich, SFK. (Lucy WINTHROP [26303] was born on 9 Jan 1600/01 in Groton SFK and died on 19 Apr 1679 in London.)

Emmanuel next married Ann WARE [26312] [MRIN: 9453], daughter of Sir James HARE of Dublin [26313] and Unknown, in 1614.