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THOMAS WILLIAMS (say 1612–1696)
ELIZABETH TART (say 1615–by 1692), daughter of Thomas Tart
Thomas Williams was born say 1612. He died on 13 September 1696. [1] He married Elizabeth Tart on 30 November 1638 in Plymouth Colony. [2, 1: 103]
Elizabeth Tart was born say 1615. She died before 10 May 1692.
Thomas, the servant of Widow Warren, was accused of blasphemous speeches. Upon his humble acknowledgment of his offence, the 6 July 1635 court reproved and released him, although Governor Bradford would have had him "punished with bodly punishment." [2, 1: 35]
On 7 June 1637 the court ordered that Plymouth would send a company of men to aid Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut in their war against the Pequots. William was one of the men who volunteered to go. [2, 1: 61] Fortunately, the services of the company were not needed.
Thomas is in the Plymouth section of those who took the oath of fidelity in 1639. [3]
The May 1641 court ordered that William Brackenberry of Charlestown or elsewhere be asked about any goods that were sent from England to Mr. Thomas Tart of Scituate. Thomas William was to have them for payment of his wife's portion because he gave an acquittance for it upon the promise that Thomas would secure her portion—the sum of about 24 pounds. [2, 2: 14]
Thomas was surveyor of the highways in Nauset [Eastham] in June 1649. [2, 2: 139 He is on the June 1662 list of ancient freemen and servants who had the liberty to look for land elsewhere if they could not secure it at Saconett Neck. [2, 4: 18] He was on a 20 September 1667 coroner's enquest that found that Daniel Done's child had drowned in a will. [2, 4: 169] He is in the Eastham section of freemen in Plymouth colony in 1683/4. [3]
On 9 November 1683, Thomas Williams of Eastham, husbandman, sold to Joseph Howland of Duxbury 100 acres of upland and meadow in Saconett and another 500-acre lot there. [3]
Thomas Williams of Eastham "having lived to old age" made his will on 10 May 1692. He left bequests to his grandchildren John Smith and William Nickerson, the son of John Nickerson; his four daughters Sarah, Marcy, Elizabeth, and Mary; the children of his daughter Hannah Mulford. He named Joshua Bangs and Jonathan Sparrow his executors. Probate was on 22 October 1696 and inventory was taken on 12 October 1696. On 26 October 1696 Sarah Nickerson, Mercy Nickerson, Elizabeth Williams, Mary Hopkins, Joshua Higgens and Joseph Snow acknowledged receipt of their portions. [1]
Children of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Tarte: (Birth dates are rough guesses from [3].)
i. Sarah Williams was born say 1645. She married John Nickerson. [3]
ii. Hannah Williams was born say 1647. She married first John Smith on 24 May 1667 in Eastham. [3] She married second Thomas Mulford of Eastham. [3]
iii. Mercy Williams was born say 1649. She died on 7 March 1739. She married William Nickerson.
iv. Elizabeth Williams was born say 1651. She was living, unmarried on 26 October 1696. There is no further record of her. [3]
v. Mary Williams was born say 1653. She married Caleb Hopkins. [3]
vi. Nathaniel Williams was born on 24 April 1655 in Eastham. [3] There is no further record of him.
References:
1. "Abstracts of Barnstable County, Mass. Probate Records," Mayflower Descendant 31 (1933): 106.
2. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866).
3. "Great Migration 1634–1635, T–Y," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VII, T–Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 435–9.©a. buiter
26-Dec-2022