Thomas Curtis

THOMAS CURTIS (1659–1738), son of Richard Curtis and Ann Hallett

MARY COOKE (1676–1793), daughter of William Cooke and Mary Unknown

Thomas Curtis was born on 18 March 1659 in Scituate. [1] He died on 3 January 1738 in Scituate. [2] He married first Mary Cooke on 6 March 1694/5 in Scituate. [3] He married second Mary Guilford on 19 September 1711 in Scituate. [2]

Mary, the daughter of William and Mary Cook and wife of Thomas Curtis, was born in July 1676 in Scituate. [4] Mary, the wife of Thomas, died in June 1703 in Scituate. [2]

Thomas, the son of Richard, settled on a tract of land in Scituate called Egypt, where he had a house in 1693. [5]

Thomas Curtis was granted land in Scituate on 6 April 1695 and 6 and 8 May 1699 in right of [his grandfather] John Hallett and the right of John Hore. [6]

Children of Thomas Curtis and Mary Cooke:

i. Deborah Curtis was born on 17 February 1697 in Scituate. [1]

ii. Ruth Curtis was born on 19 April 1699 in Scituate. [1] Ruth, the daughter of Thomas, died in 1708 in Scituate. [2]

iii. Mary Curtis was born on 6 March 1701/2 in Scituate. [1]

iv. Thomas Curtis was born on 5 March 1703/4 in Scituate. He married Ruth Wade.

Children of Thomas Curtis and Mary Guildford:

v. Ruth Curtis was born on 24 February 1711/2 in Scituate. [1] She married Benjamin Stoddard, Jr. on 24 November 1737 in Scituate. [3] Benjamin, the son of Benjamin and Mary Stoddard, was born on 18 November 1708 in Scituate. [7]

References

1. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2909), vol. 1: 104–15.

2. Vital Records of Scituate, vol. 2: 373–377.

3. Vital Records of Scituate, vol. 2: 82–88.

4. Vital Records of Scituate, vol. 1: 84.

5. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831), 252.

6. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), 2: 39, 45.

7. Vital Records of Scituate, vol. 1: 342.

last revised 26-Dec-2022