Person:Thomas Call (1)

Thomas Call came from Favorsham, Co of Kent, England in 1636

From Tolman, Hanks Willey published book, December 1952. Tracey Call's genealogy book, 1933: death May 1676

"Thomas Call who was a tile maker and husbandman from Faversham, Kent County, England, sailed in the spring of 1636 embarked for America to settle in the Bay Colony with his wife, Bennett, and three children, as he is listed in the passenger list of the ship the "Hercules" of Sandwich (john Witherley, Mast). His name is spelled Call."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Thomas Call, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
   55.

   "Call, Thomas: [Origin] Faversham, Kent; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Charlestown [NHGR 4:183, 75:222, 225, 85:280-83; ChCR 10 (as 'John Caule'); MBCR 1:376; Ch TR 29; ChBOP 65, Wyman 166; Dawes-Gates 1:132-40; TAG 85:280-83."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 1 Thomas Call, in Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
   166.

   "Call Thomas 1. Tilemaker; baker; embarked 1636, being of Faversham, co. Kent, with wife and 3 chn.; adm. inhabitant, 1637; living near the ferry, on Mystic side, he petitioned for leave to sell refreshments, a. 1643; m. (1) Bennett _____ who was adm. church, 16 (12) 1639-40; (2) Joanna Shepherdson, who d. Jan. 30, 1660-1; d. May, 1676, æ. 79, g. s. in Malden. Issue.—i. Thomas. ii. John. iii. Mary, single in 1670. iv. Elizabeth, bapt. 21 (12) 1640-1; m. (1) Samuel Tingley, 1663; (2) Daniel Shepherdson, 1677. v. Mercy, b. Nov. 7, 1643; m. (1) Samuel Lee, 1662; (2) John Allen, 1677.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} 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)
   1:330.

   THOMAS, Charlestown, on Mistick side, a tilemaker, or husbandman, came in 1636, with w. Bennet, and three ch. of wh. one was Mary, from Faversham, in Kent, had Elizabeth bapt. 21 Feb. 1641; and Mercy, b. 7 Nov. 1643, whose bapt. can hardly be ascert. for the ch. rec. has a gr. gap, and even that of his adm. calls the name John. He was freem. 13 May 1640, perhaps liv. at Concord 1645, but soon went back to Charlestown to m. Joanna, wid. of Daniel Shepardson, wh. d. 30 Jan. 1661, and he d. May 1676, aged 79. One Mercy C. at Malden m. 4 Nov. 1662, Samuel Lee, and, next, 25 Oct. 1677, John Allen; and Elizabeth m. Samuel Tingley, and, next, the sec. Daniel Shepardson, but I knew neither h. nor w. yet venture to conject. that he d. a. mid. age, and that his wid. m. 2. Dec. 1686, Richard Wicks, as this union is sanction. by rec. of M. tho. Richard is as much unkn. as Mercy.

4. ↑ Thomas Call, in Find A Grave.