Person:John Thurston (4)
Deacon John Thurston
chr.13 Sep 1635 Wrentham, Suffolk, England
d.3 Mar 1711/12 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Captain Thomas Thurston1633 - 1704
  2. Deacon John Thurston1635 - 1711/12
  3. Joseph ThurstonAbt 1639 - 1691
  4. Benjamin Thurston1640 - 1678
  5. Mary Thurston1643 - 1684
  6. Daniel Thurston1645 - 1683
  7. Judith Thurston1648 - 1726
  8. Hannah Thurston1650 - 1690
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Deacon John Thurston1635 - 1711/12
  • W.  Mary Wood1642 - 1726
m. 4 Oct 1660
  1. Mary Thurston1665 -
  2. Mehitable Thurston1667 - 1749
  3. Hannah Thurston1669 -
  4. Bethiah Thurston1672 - 1743/44
  5. Esther Thurston1674/75 -
  6. John Thurston1677 -
  7. Benjamin Thurston1680 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Deacon John Thurston
Gender Male
Christening[1] 13 Sep 1635 Wrentham, Suffolk, England
Marriage 4 Oct 1660 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Wood
Other[1][3] 27 May 1663 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Jno. Thirston").
Will[1] 10 Jan 1707
Death[1][4] 3 Mar 1711/12 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 25 Mar 1712 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 5542 John Thurston, in Thurston, Brown. Thurston Genealogies, 1635-1892: Second Edition. (Portland, Me.: Brown Thurston, 1892)
    359-61.

    "5542 John Thurston (John1), … son of John and Margaret Thurston of Dedham, Mass.; born in Wrentham, Eng.; baptized Sept. 13, 1635; married, 'before Ralph Wheelock,' Oct. 4, 1660 [county record says Aug. 8], Mary Wood, born Dec 25, 1642, daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Williams) Wood of Roxbury, Mass. He was a resident of Medfield, Mass.; freeman May 27, 1663, one of the prudential committee 1673, representative to the General Court in 1683, town clerk 1687, and deacon in the church. His will, dated Jan. 10, 1707, proved March 25, 1712, names wife Mary, son John, and daughters Mary, Mehitable, Hannah, Bethia and Hester; died March 3,1712; she died Nov. 23, 1726."

  2. ↑ John Thurston, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:297.

    "John (Thurston), Medfield, s. prob. of the preced. brot. from Eng. by his f. 1637, was freem. 1663, and rep. 1683, of wh. we should gladly kn. more, than that he m. Mary, d. of Nicholas Wood."

  3. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:194.
  4. ↑ Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    237.

    "Thurstun, … John, Dea., h. Mary, [died] Mar. 3, 1711-12."

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