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DAVID THOMAS (d. by 1689)
JOANNA UNKNOWN (d. aft. 1689)
David Thomas died by 21 September 1689.
Joanna died after 3 October 1689.
Inventory of the estate of David Thomas, Sr. of Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts was taken by Lieutenant John Tompson and Samuel Wood on 21 September 1689. His widow, Joanna, took oath to it and was granted administration on 3 October 1689. She and her sons David and Jeremiah Thomas posted bond the same day. [1][2]
David and his wife came from Salem, Essex County, Massaachusetts to Middleborough soon after 1668. [3]
Children of David and Joanna Thomas:
i. David Thomas was born about 1650. He died between 14 February 1732/3, when he made his will, and 12 July 1733, when it was proved. [4] He married first Abigail Wood, the daughter of Henry and Abigail (Jenney) Wood and granddaughter of John and Sarah (Cary) Jenney, about 1675. [4] He married second Elizabeth Kannedy of Plympton on 25 June 1718 in Middleborough. [4]
David Thomas, age about 60, was baptized and received into communion at the First Church in Middleborough on 24 August 1710. [5] Elizabeth Thomas, Sr., wife of brother David, was admitted to the church by virtue of a letter of dismissal from the church at Plympton. [5]
ii. Joanna Thomas was probably born in 1657 in Salem or Marblehead. [6] Joanna, the wife of Captain Joseph died on 11 April 1718, age 61, in Middleborough. [7] She married Captain Joseph Vaughan, on 7 May 1680 in Middleborough. [6][7][8]
iii. Jeremiah Thomas was born about 1660. He died on 2 February 1736 in Middleborough. He married Lydia Howland.
iv. William Thomas was born about 1665. He died on 5 April 1734, age 69, and is buried in the old cemetery at The Green in Middleborough. [9] He married Susanna Pratt. [3]
Susanna, the wife of William, was admitted to the First Church in Middleborough on 9 September 1710. [3]
v. Edward Thomas was born on 6 February 1669 in Middleborough. [3][8] He married Abigail, the daughter of Henry Wood, between 1670 and 1675. [3]
Endnotes:
1. "Abstracts from the First Book of Plymouth County Probate Records," in The Genealogical Advertiser, 4 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Lucy Hall Greenlaw, 1896–1901), 73.
2. "Massachusetts, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1635–1991," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9069) > Plymouth > Probate Estate Files, No· 20264-20419, Thomas, Cephas-Thomas, Marcia A, 1686-1915, image 157, entry for David Thomas.
3. Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906), 52 (Pratt famiy), 53–4 (David and David, Jr.) 639–86 (church members).
4. Alicia Crane Williams, "Henry Wood alias Atwood of Middleborough, Massachusetts," Mayflower Descendant 48 (1998): 135–40, specifically 16–18.
5. "Church Records, 1707–1821," images, "Middleboro, Mass. First Church," webpage, Congretional Library & Archives (https://www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series1/MiddleboroMAFirst4970), 4 (David, Jr. baptized), 12 (David's wife admitted).
6. Mary Lovering Holman, "George Vaughan of Middleborough, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist 23 (1946): 23–31.
7. Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records, 2 vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1990, 1987), vol. 1: 10 (Joanna, Jr.'s marriage), 29 (Joanna's, Jr.'s death).
8. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Middleborough.
1 Jerimiah Thomas was married To Lyddia Howland ye 25 February 1684
2 Edward Thomas ye son of David Thomas senior was borne ye sixth day of ffebruary in ye year 1669.
10 Joseph Vaughan was married to Joanna Thomas : May the 7 1680
9. "Gravestone Records from the Old Cemetery at 'The Green,' Middleborough, Mass.," Mayflower Descendant 14 (1912): 214–7.
Last revised: 26-Dec-2023