Person:Thomas Lapham (1)

Name	Thomas Lapham
Gender	Male
Alt Birth`^?`	1608	Tenterden, Kent, England
Birth`^?`	Abt 1612	Kent, England
Marriage	13 Mar 1636/37	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Tilden
Death^[1]	Bef 23 Jan 1648/49	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 4, p. 319.

Will dated June 15, 1644, signed by his mark; makes his wife, Mary, executrix, and names his children, Elizabeth, Mary, Thomas, and Lydia. Witnessed by William Wetherell and Joseph Tilden.
Inventory, Jan. 23, 1648, by Wm. Hatch and J. Tilden. Amount £68.0.4.
[Note: per records, Vol. 1, p. 98, proved 1 Oct 1651, and the inventory sworn to on the same date. Presumably inventory is 23 Jan 1648/49.]
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)
3:14.

THOMAS, Scituate 1635, join. Lothrop's ch. 24 Apr. 1636, m. 13 Mar. 1637, Mary, d. of Nathaniel Tilden, had Eliz. bapt. 6 May 1638; Mary; Thomas, b. 1643; Lydia; Rebecca, 1645; Joseph, 1648; in wh. yr. the f. d. hav. made his will 15 June 1644, in wh. the four elder ch. are nam. and w. made extrix. Lydia m. 1666, Samuel Bates of Hingham