Person:Thomas Gage (7)

"69. Lieut. Thomas² Gage, son of Thomas¹ and Hannah or Joanna (Knight) Gage of Yarmouth, and later of Harwich, was a blacksmith, and of Beverly, with wife, Sarah, in 1680. … He, being then of Beverly, married (2) in Rowley, 11 June, 1695, Elizabeth, widow of Ezekiel Mighill. He resided in Rowley after 1695. Lieut. Thomas Gage died in the army 'At Port Royal, ─ Aug. 1707' (Ch. R.), said to have been 'killed by a great shot in his tent,' 13 Aug., 1707. His will, dated 21 Apr., 1707, mentions wife, Elizabeth; son Thomas tohave the land at 'Simondyes' which he now improves; son William to have the homestead and be executor; daughter Sarah; daughter Mary, wife of Nathaniel Jewett; daughter Joanna; daughter Susanna; daughter Elizabeth (Essex Probate, 309:258). He petitioned the Essex Co. Ct., held at Ipswich 31 Mar., 1691, for administration, saying:─'My brother Adam Gage went out a soldier for Cannada & there was slaine in their Maj: service & hath left a widow & not any child & neither house & land or any household good considerable, but hath several debts' (Clerk of Courts Office, Salem, Mass.).

Lieut. Thomas² Gage (Thomas¹), the second of the sons of the pioneer Thomas, who is named in the will of Thomas, from a deposition sworn to by him May 20, 1692, in certain proceedings for witchcraft, he appears to have been at that time thirty-six years of age, which would make him born in 1656. He was not a son of John of Ipswich, as was thought probable by Savage, and by Gage in his History of Rowley. He was by occupation a blacksmith, and married first, Sarah _____, who died Dec. 7, 1694, aged about forty years. He married second, Elizabeth Mighill, widow of Ezekiel Mighill; she was the daughter of Ezekiel Northend, and was born in Rowley, October 19, 1656; she married first, July 25, 1682, Humphrey Hobson, by whom she had one son, Humphrey Hobson, born July 10, 1684: her first husband died Aug. 8, 1681. and she married second, October 10, 1686, Ezekiel Mighill. Her second husband died July 3, 1694, without issue, and she married third, Thomas Gage, June 11, 1695, by whom she had one child, Elizabeth. She died duly 14, 1737. Thomas Gage was a member of a company of troopers at Beverly in June, 1690, but apparently did not go in expedition against Canada; was appointed a lieutenant as early as August, 1696, and was slain Aug. 13, 1707, on the disastrous expedition against Port Royal in Nova Scotia. The following is the copy of an entry in Journal kept by Josiah Batchelder, who went on that expedition: 'Aug. ye 13, being wensday … Lieutenant Gage killed by a great shot in his tout.' By his will, dated April 20, 1707, just prior to the sailing of this expedition from Boston, and proved Oct. 20, 1707, it appears that he left a widow, Elizabeth, and … children:"

"Thomas, Lt. (Geage), [died] at Port Royal, Aug;. __, 1707."