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Thomas Trickey (d. by 1675)
Thomas died before 3 December 1675. He left a widow named Elizabeth.
Thomas Trickey was on a Dover tax list of 1648. [1]
Thomas Trickey ran the ferry from Bloody Point (now Newington) to Hilton's Point in Dover and also provided passage to "Kittery Neck." He owned the farm and land that the ferry was on. [2]
On 19 May 1682 his three daughters Deborah, Lydia and Sarah—with the consent of their husbands, William Shackford, Richard Webber and Joshua Crocket—conveyed to their brother Zachariah Trickey all their right to their father's plantation on which he lived before his decease. [3]
On 16 June 1680, out of love and affection for her son Zachariah, Elizabeth, the widow of Thomas Trickey resigned all right and interest in the plantation and to the ferry belonging to the planation. [3]
Children of Thomas Trickey (order uncertain):
i. Deborah Trickey was born about 1646. She married William Shackford.
ii. Lydia Trickey was born about 1650. She married Richard Weber.
Lydia Webber, the sister of Deborah, deposed that she was 68 on 5 June 1718. [4]
iv. Martha Trickey married Elihu Gunnison on 10 November 1674 in Dover. [5] Elihu, the son of Hugh and Sarah (Tilley) (Lynn) Gunnison, was born on 12 February 1649/50 in Boston and baptized on 17 February 1649/50 in Boston. [5] He married second Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Skillings by 1690. Elizabeth was the daughter of George Ingersoll and the wife of John Skillings. [5]
iii. Sarah Trickey married Joshua Crockett.
iv. Zachariah Trickey lived at Bloody Point. [1]
v. Isaac Trickey was taxed in 1670. [1]
vi. Ephraim Trickey (probable son) had a son Joseph who received land on 23 June 1701.
vii. Joseph Trickey (probable son) died by 2 February 1708/9. He married Rebecca Unknown. [1]
On 2 February 1708/9 Zachariah gave land to Joseph's widow Rebecca. [1]
References:
1. Alonzo H. Quint, "Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 8 (1854): 132.
2. "Marker #151 Newington," blog, Mike in New Hamphshire (https://mikenh.wordpress.com).
3. Mary P. Thompson, "Landmarks in Ancient Dover and the Towns Which Have Sprung From Them," The Granite Monthly 1 (188): 380–1.
4. Winifred Lovering Holman, Remick Genealogy (Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1933), 15.
5. "Great Migration 1634–1635, G–H," digitized book, AmericanAncestors, 177.
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