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Elizabeth Unknown (d. 1660)
Thomas Thaxter was died on 4 February 1653/4. [1, 103]
Elizabeth ___ drowned in a well on 17 July 1660. [1, 111][2] The widow Thaxter married second William Ripley on 29 September 1654 in Hingham. [3, 2: 181][4] She married third as his second wife John Dwight on 20 January 1657/[8?] in Dedham. [2] He was born about 1601 and died on 24 January 1660/1 in Dedham. [2] He married first Hannah ___ by 1626. [2] She died on 5 September 1656 in Dedham. [2]
On 18 July 1660, the Reverend Peter Hobart wrote, "Elizebeth sometimes wife to Tho Thaxter & to william Ripley then to Mr Dwight at Dedham was drowned in a well." [1, 111] On 24 October 1660 John Hull—the Boston mint master—wrote in his diary, "About the 6th month last, there was likewise another woman, well reputed of, drowned herself at Dedham, - one Goody Dwite. Two aweful strokes unto all that knew them; and no little scandal, by accident, to religion; and a great brand of infamy upon themselves. This is not the death of the righteous." [5]
Thomas and [his son] John Thaxter were in Hingham by 1638. [4]
Thomas was a linen weaver. [6] He was a freeman in 1642. [6]
Inventory on Thomas's estate was presented and sworn to by Elizabeth Thaxter on 9 March 1653/4. It amounted to 163 pounds. [7]
Children of Thomas Thaxter and Elizabeth Unknown:
i. Captain John Thaxter died on 14 March 1686/7. He married Elizabeth Jacob on 4 December 1648 in Hingham. [1, 21][3, 2:181][8] Elizabeth, the daughter of Nicholas Jacob and Mary Gilman, was born say 1634. [8] She married second Daniel Cushing on 23 March 1690/1 in Hingham. [8]
On Monday, 14 March 1686/7, Samuel Sewall wrote in his diary, "Capt. Thaxter of Hingham sinks down and dyes as went to fodder his Cattel." [9]
John was a selectman for eight years and a representative to the General Court in 1666. [6]
ii. Elizabeth Thaxter [6]
iii. Thomas Thaxter died on 6 January 1646/7, probably in Hingham. [1, 19]
iv. Sarah Thaxter died on 1 September 1678 in Medfield. The married Captain Thomas Thurston.
v. Samuel Thaxter was born on 19 May 1641. [1, 13] He married first Abigail Church on 19 December 1666 in Hingham. [3, 2: 182] Abigail was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church. [6] She died on 22 October 1667 in Hingham. [3, 1: 4] He married second Deborah Lincoln, the daughter of Thomas and Avith (or Anis) (Lane) Lincoln. [6]
References
1. C. Edward Egan, Jr., "The Hobart Journal," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 121 (1967). The journal kept by Reverend Peter Hobart, minister at Hingham, until his death on 20 January 1679, and after by his son Deacon David Hobart.
2. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 275 (John Dwight).
3. "Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637–1845," database with images, AmericanAncestors.
4. Andrew Ward, "First Settlers of Hingham," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2 (1848), 251–2.
5. American Antiquarian Society, Diaries of John Hull (Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1857), 196.
6. Henry M. Wheeler, Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord, and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham (Worcester, Mass.: Printed for private circulation, 1898).
7. "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, cases 141.
8. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1070 (Nicholas Jacob).
9. Diary of Samuel Sewall, vol. 1, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 5, Fifth Series (Boston: The society, 1878), 170.
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