WILLIAM1 THOMAS
was born at England about 1573, and died at Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, on August 1651.[1] His wife has not been identified, she died before he came to New England in 1636.William Thomas was an Adventurer, at least that was what he was called back then. We might use words like entrepeneur, or investor. When the English congregation in Leiden, the Netherlands, wanted to come to America, they needed a boat, which meant they needed money, which meant they needed investors. A group of London merchants, that included William Thomas, put up the money for the Mayflower, and expected a return on their investment. They stated their motives in a letter to the colony in 1624,[2]
Two things (beloved friends) we have endeavored to effect, touching Plymouth plantation, first, that the planters there might live comfortably and contentedly. 2d, that some return might be made hither for the satisfying and encouragement of the adventurers . .Much of the early history of Plymouth Colony was preoccupied with finding some way to gain income to pay off the adventurers. They finally found this by buying from the Indians animal furs and sending them to England.
The first record of William Thomas in New England is 2 November 1636, when William Thomas and his son Nathaniel took over from John Winslow the indentured service of Edmund Weston.[3] They probably arrived shortly before that: William Thomas, a widower of about sixty-three years, and his thirty year old son Nathaniel. William Thomas' will mentions only one child, Nathaniel, and his grandchildren, the children of Nathaniel.[4]
William Thomas took the Freeman's Oath at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, on 7 March 1637.[5] He represented the Town of Barnstable in the colony's General Court [legislature] in 1641,[6] but his residency in Barnstable was short-lived. On 2 March 1640/1 he was one of the eleven founders of the Town of Marshfield.[7]
William Thomas was elected to the "Court of Assistants," kind of a cabinet of advisors to the governor of Plymouth Colony, in 1642, 1643, 1647,1648,1649,1650. He served on the Council for War of Plymouth Colony in 1643. The Town of Marshfield claims that his election as Moderator of the Town Meeting on 27 February 1643/4 was the first election of a moderator to a town meeting in New England.[8] Nathaniel Morton wrote in New England Memorial that William Thomas:[9]
served in the place of magistracy, in the jurisdiction of Plymouth, diverse years. He was a well approved and well grounded Christian, well read in the Holy Scriptures, and other approved authors, and a good lover and approver of godly ministers and good Christians, and one that had a sincere desire to promote the common good both of church and state |
William Thomas and his wife had the following child:
NATHANIEL2 THOMAS (William1) was born at England on 1606 a son of William Thomas, and died at Marshfield on 13 February 1674/5. He married about 1636 MARY ________. She died after her husband.[10]
Nathaniel Thomas was about thirty years old when he came with his father to New England. It is not clear if his wife, Mary, came with him, or if they married soon after his arrival. Once the family settled in Marshfield, they remained there the rest of their lives.
Nathaniel Thomas was an important figure in Plymouth Colony's miniscule military force. He was an Ensign in Captain Miles Standish's company in the Pequot Campaign of 1643; made a Lieutenant in 1648; in 1653 served in the expedition against the Dutch. On 5 March 1654 he became a Captain and succeeded Myles Standish in command.[11]
Nathaniel Thomas and his wife Mary had the following children:
NATHANIEL3 THOMAS (Nathaniel2, William1) was baptized at Marshfield on 26 November 1943, a son of Nathaniel Thomas and his wife Mary, and died at Marshfield on 22 October 1718. He married first at Marshfield on 19 January 1663/4 DEBORAH JACOB. She was baptized at Hingham, Suffolk County, on 26 November 1843, a daughter of Nicholas Jacob and his wife Mary Gilman. She died at Marshfield on 17 June 1696. He married second at Boston on 2 November 1696 ELIZABETH (WILKIE) (CONDEY) DOLBERRY. She was born about 1653, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Wilkie. She died at Marshfield on 11 October 1713. He married third on 1714 ELIZABETH (DUNSTER) WADE. She was born at Charlestown on 7 February 1637, a daughter of Henry Dunster and his wife Elizabeth Glover. She died at Medford, Middlesex County, on 1729. Nathaniel's first wife, Elizabeth Wilkie, had married first before 1682 WILLIAM CONDEY, and second, at Boston on 31 December 1689 ANDREW DOLBERRY. Nathaniel's third wife, Elizabeth Dunster, had previously married JONATHAN WADE, who died on 24 November 1889.[17]
Nathaniel Thomas grew up in Marshfield, Deborah Jacob grew up in nearby Hingham. Deborah was the seventh of eight children. When she was thirteen years old har father died; when she was fifteen her mother remarried. Deborah and Nathaniel were both twenty years old whwen they married. In the next twenty-two years they had ten children.
Nathaniel extended his family's military heritage, serving as captain of light horse in King Philip's War. He also served on the Council of War for Plymouth Colony in 1681 and 1685.[18]
Nathaniel Thomas served as Probate Court judge for sixteen years, judge of the county court for twenty-three years, and Superior Court judge in Plymouth for six years. These must have been confusing years politically. In 1685 Plymouth Colony organized itself into three Counties, Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable; Marshfield was in Plymouth County. The following year, the King of England consolidated all of the New England colonies into the "Dominion of New England" which later included New York and New Jersey. Edmund Andros, appointed Governor, administered a centralized government unpopular with the colonists, who had lost their powers of self-government. Following the "Glorious Revolution" in England of 1688-9, the New Englanders drove out Andros, the the various colonies returned to their former forms of government. A new charter, for the Province of Massachusetts Bay, annexed Plymouth Colony to Massachusetts. Through all of these changes, Plymouth County continued to be Plymouth County, and Nathaniel Thomas continued to serve it. Nathaniel also served as a delegate to General Court [colonial legislature] after the consolidation with Massachusetts.[19]
Nathaniel Thomas built a dam across the Indian Head River and erected a saw mill.[20]
Deborah (Jacob) Thomas died in 1696. The youngest children, still at home, were ages 10, 13, 15, and 18. Within four months Nathaniel married the twice widowed Elizabeth (Wilkie) (Condey) Dolberry. He was fifty-two, she forty-three. After fifteen years of marriage, Elizabeth died. The following year Nathaniel married the widow Elizabeth (Dunster) Wade. He was seventy-one, she seventy-seven. Four years later Nathaniel died. Elizabeth lived on for another eleven years, dying at the age of ninety-two.
Nathaniel Thomas and his first wife Deborah Jacob had the following children:
ISAAC4 THOMAS (Nathaniel3-2, William1) was born at Marshfield on 19 October 1682, a son of Nathaniel Thomas and his first wife Deborah Jacob, and died at Pembroke on 16 March 1732. He married first at Newbury, Essex County, on 25 October 1711 ANNA TOMPSON. She was born at Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, on 31 December 1689, a daughter of Edward Tompson and his wife Sarah Webster. She died at Pembroke on 1 March 1722/3. He married second at Pembroke on 14 January 1723/4 ABIGAIL CUSHING. She was born at Marshfield on 31 January 1703/4, a daughter of Joshua cushing and Mary Bacon. Abigail married as her second husband at Pembroke on 29 November 1732 ISAAC LITTLE. He was born at Marshfield on 21 February 1677/8, a son of Isaac Little and Bethiah Thomas. He died at Pembroke on 2 February 1758. Isaac Little had previously married MARY OTIS.[30]
Isaac Thomas grew up in Marshfield, the ninth of ten children. When he was thirteen years old his mother died; the following year his father remarried.
Anna Tompson was the first child of Edward tompson, a pastor and teacher, and his wife Sarah Webster. Anna was born when her father was serving the Congregational Church in Simsbury, Connecticut. When she was two years old the family moved to Newbury, Massachusetts, where her father taught school. When she was six years old the family moved to Marshfield, and her father was installed as Pastor. When she was sixteen, her father died.
Anna was twenty-one, Isaac twenty-nine, when theyt married at her former home of Newbury. They made their home in Pembroke, a town immediately west of Marshfield, incorporated in 1712, formerly part of Duxbury. Isaac and anna had five children, however two of them died within a year of their birth. Anna died at the age of thirty-three, leaving Isaac with children ages nine, three, and ten months.
Ten months after Anna's death, Isaac, age forty-one, married nineteen year old Abigail Cushing. Their first child lived thirteen months, their second lived one month, their third lived five months. They had two more children, who lived to adulthood. After eight years of marriage Isaac died, leaving Abigail, a twenty-eight year old widow, with a three year old child and another on the way, as well as step-children ages ten, twelve and eighteen.
Eight months later Abigail married widower Isaac Little. She was twenty-eight, he fifty-four. His children by his previous marriage had already grown up. Together they would have four more children, the first of whom died young.
Isaac Thomas was called a Liuetenent in some records, but I have no information on his military experience.
Isaac Thomas and his first wife Anna Tompson had the following children:
Isaac Thomas and his second wife Abigail Cushing had the following children:
Abigail (Cushing) Thomas and her second husband Isaac Little had the following children:
Isaac Little had the following children by his first wife Mary Otis had the following children:[44]
EDWARD5 THOMAS (Isaac4, Nathaniel3-2, William1) was born at Pembroke on 14 October 1713, a son of Isaac Thomas and his first wife Anna Tompson, and died at Pembroke on 26 December 1802. He married at Pembroke on 1735 RACHEL CUSHING. She was born at Pembroke on 25 November 1714, a daughter of Nehemial Cushing and Sarah Nichols. She died at Pembroke on 8 December 1794.[45]
Edward Thomas and Rachel Cushing both grew up in Pembroke and spent their entire lives there. Thet lived in the West Parish of Pembroke, which would later be incorporated as the town of Hanson. They had eight children, seven of whom lived to adulthood. They were married for fifty-nine years.
Edward Thomas fought in the Revolutionary War. He was a 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Elisha Cushing's company of militia which marched in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775, from West Parish in Pembroke to Marshfield; entered service Apr 20, 1775, discharged April 22, 1775; service, 3 days.[46] We must remember that the "minute men" were ready to assemble and march on a minute's notice; when the alarm was over they could just a quickly return home. Edward was sixty-one years old at the time.
Edward Thomas and hus wife Rachel Cushing had the following children:
NATHANIEL6 THOMAS (Edward5, Isaac4, Nathaniel3-2, Wliilam1) was born at Pembroke on 16 September 1750 a son of Edward Thomas and his wife Rachel Cushing, and died at Pembroke on 1 May 1811. He married at Abington, Plymouth County, on 20 Febvruary 1774 BETTY HOUSE. She was born at Abington on 5 February 1755, a daughter of Samuel House and his wife Deborah Barstow. She died at Pembroke on 27 September 1842.541]
Nathaniel Thomas grew up in Pembroke, probably in the West Parish, the sixth of eight children. Betty House grew up in Abington, the sixth of seven children. When she was fifteen her father died, and her mother was appointed guardian.
Nathaniel and Betty were twenty-three and nineteen years old respectively when they married. They kived in the West Parish of Pembroke, where they hade eleven children, nine of wom lived to be adults.
Nathaniel Thomas' service in the Revolution was more extensive than his father's. The record reads:[55]
Thomas, Nathaniel, Pembroke, Sergeant, Capt. James Hatch's co., of Minute- men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 from West Parish in Pembroke to Scituate and Marshfield; discharged Apr. 29, 1775; service 11 days.
also: 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Josiah Cushing Jr.'s 5th (Pembroke) co., 2d Plymouth Co. regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned by John Cushing, Jr. and others dated Hanover, May 8, 1776; ordered in Council May 10, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned May 10, 1776.
also: 1st Lt., Capt. Josiah Cushing's co., Col. John Cushing's (Plymouth Co.) regt.; marched Dec. 10, 1776; discharged Dec. 24, 1776; service 15 days; company marched from West Parish in Pembroke to Bristol, Rhode Island on the alarm of Dec. 8, 1776.
Nathaniel Thomas and his wife Betty House had the following children:
1Nathaniel Morton, New England's Memorial (Boston, Massachusetts: Congregational Board of Publication, 1855), p. 162.
2"Governor Bradford's Letter Book," Mayflower Descendant, 5 (1903): 5:7-10, p. 7.
3John Marshall Raymond, Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts: genealogies of the families of David Thomas of Middleboro (1620-1689), John Thomas of Marshfield (1621-1691), and William Thomas of Marshfield (1573-1651) (Itasca, Illinois: Thomas Family Publications, 1980), 271.
4Justin Winsor, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 4 (1850): v. 4, p. 319.
5Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 271.
6Ibid.
7Ibid.
8New England's Memorial, pp. 142,144,153,158,161. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 271.
9New England's Memorial, 162.
10Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249.
11Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 272.
12Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the, 1970), p. 389 (Gravestone Records, Marshfield Centre).
13Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. G. Andrews Moriarty, "Notes on Block Islanders of the Seventeenth Century," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 105 (1951): p. 165-66.
14Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Robert S. Wakefield, "Elizabeth Thomas, Wife of Joshua Matson and Sampson Moor of Boston," The American Genealogist, 70 (1995): p. 139. Roger D. Joslyn ed., Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995), v. 1, p. 27 (Middlesex County Records).
15Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249.
16Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 388 (Winslow burying ground record). Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), p. 1191.
17Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, pp. 249-50. Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 17,19,22,388 (Gravestone Marshfield Centre Cem),389. The Great Migration Begins, p. 1070. George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (Hingham, Massachusetts: by the Town, 1893), v. 2, p. 372. Lysander Salmon Richards, History of Marshfield (Plymouth, Massachusetts: The Memorial Press, 1901), v. 2, p. 87. Boston Record Commissioners, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, Report of the Records Commission of the City of Boston, 9 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881), p. 186.
18Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 272.
19Ibid.
20Ibid.
21Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 7,19,p. 389 (Gravestone Record, Marshfield Centre Cem). Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 250. Lee D. van Antwerp and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993), pp. 4,88,98,133. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910), v. 1, p. 26 (Court Record, Essex County Quarterly Court). Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts: the the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1906), p. 269, 381,396 (grave marker at Norton Common Cemetery). Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929), v. 1, pp. 252,420; v. 2, p. 291. George Bowman, transcriber, Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records, first published in Mayflower Descendant (1937), p. 3; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 7 May 2020.
22Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 17. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249.
23Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 18,19. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 May 2020), Deborah Croade; Originally Created by: Dorothy C, Maintained by: Plantagenet Princess, Photo added by Sandra Lennox.
24Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 18,19. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Raymond Hill Cemetery, Oakdale, New London County, Connecticut, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 May 2020), Dorothy Otis; Originally Created by: Patsy Secord; Maintained by: Find a Grave, Photo Added by Ted LaFlamme; Joseph Otis; Created by: Lori Rowe; Photo added by Laura W. Petix. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1909), v. 2, p. 288.
25Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 18. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 250. Boston Records Commission, Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751, Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 29 (Boston, Massachusetts: Municipal Printing Office, 1903), p. 6. Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 93. Samuel Sewal, "Samuel Sewal's Diary," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 6 (1852): p. 75. "Old Dorchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 5 (1851): p. 396.
26Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 14. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249.
27Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 15. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 250.
28Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 11. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903), p. 22 (Court Record, Essex County Quarterly Court); 190. Vital Records of Boxford, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1905), p. 62 (Copy and compilation of Boxford town records made in 1823 by John Bacon, Town Clerk); 208, 250 (gravestone record, ancient cemetery near the French house, East Boxford), 252 (gravestone record, ancient cemetery near the French house, East Boxford). Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912), v. 1, p. 368. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1928), p. 532 (church record, Second Congregational Church, now Georgetown). Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts: to the Year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1918), v. 2, p. 207 (Court records, Essex County Quarterly Court); v. 4, p. 230.
29Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 18, 47. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 249. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910), v. 2, p. 274. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1917, 1923, 1924), v. 1, p. 273. Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751, p. 246. Ethel Farrington Smith, "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and Her People," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 142-43 (1988–89): v. 143, p. 45.
30Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, pp. 13,15,26. Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1911), pp. 359-60,426 (grave marker, Pembroke Centre Cemetery),453. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1911), v. 2, p. 489.
31Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 201,453.
32Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 203,454.
33Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 203,361. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 191.; . 2, p. 288, 399 (gravestone record, Hatch Burying Ground, Greenbush, Scituate).
34Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 204,400. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 119; v. 2, p. 289. Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 93 (grave stone record, Fern Hill Cemetery, Hanson).
35Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 200,453.
36Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 200,453.
37Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 202,453.
38Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 202. Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, pp. 102,155.
39Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 251. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 200. Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, pp. 52,157.
40Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 140 (church record, First Unitarian Church, Pembroke).
41Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 139 (church record, First Unitarian Church, Pembroke); 311,426 (grave record from Pembroke Centre Cemetery).
42Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 426 (grave record from Pembroke Centre Cemetery).
43Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 426 (private record from the record of Deaths in Pembroke and neighboring towns kept by William Torrence).
44Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, p. 30.
45Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 74,201,360 (private record from the Bible of Isaac Thomas),453-54.
46Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Boston: Wright L. Potter, 1902), v. 15, p. 584.
47Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 204,361.
48Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 201, 453 (private record from the Bible of Isaac Thomas). Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts, p. 107 (grave stone record, Fern Hill Cem., Hanson).
49Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 255. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 202,360,454-55.
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51Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 256. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 202,360. Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts, p. 107,107 (grave stone record, Fern Hill Cem., Hanson).
52Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 202,454.
53Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 253. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 50, 204,361. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, v. 5, p. 105,106 (church record, First Church, Salem).
54Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 256. Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pp. 203,454. Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), 2:109. Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts, p. 107 (grave stone record, Fern Hill Cem., Hanson).
55Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, v. 15, p. 606.
56Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 256. Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts, p. 107 (grave stone record, Fern Hill Cem., Hanson).
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63Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts, p. 201 (church record, Second Church of Christ, Pembroke).
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