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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Richardson, Douglas. The Ancestry of Dorothy Stapleton, First Wife of Thomas Nelson of Rowley, Massachusetts, With a Provisional Royal Line. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1994)
148:132-34.
[Mr.] Thomas1 Nelson, gentleman, was born say 1600, and he died about 1650, on a trip to England. At the time of his first marriage, he was a resident of Cottingham, Yorkshire, suggesting that he came from that or a nearby parish. He married, first, at All Saints', York, 27 January 1626/7, Dorothy Stapleton, … daughter of Philip Stapleton, gentleman, of Bilton near Wetherby, deanery of Ainsty, Yorkshire, and his wife Dorothy Hill. … Following their marriage, the Nelsons lived in the parish of Cottingham, Yorkshire, where their six children were baptized. After Dorothy's death, Thomas emigrated in 1638 to New England, where he settled at Rowley, Massachusetts. He was made a freeman in 1639, and was one of the chief town officers in the new community. He married, second, probably soon after a marriage contract dated 15: 12 (February] 1641(/2], Joan Dummer, daughter of Mr. Thomas Dummer of North Stoneham, Hampshire, England. … Thomas Nelson left a will, dated 24 December 1645 in anticipation of a voyage abroad; it was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 21 February 1650/1 by the executor. The will, which contains a codicil dated in England 6 August 1648, names his wife Joan, eldest son Philip Nelson, son Thomas Nelson, and daughter Mercie Nelson, and appoints as executors his uncle Richard Dummer, gentleman, and Richard Bellingham, Esq., directing that they also attend to the education of the children. Mention is made of £10 given to his son Philip Nelson by the testator's aunt Katherin Witham. Mr. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley and Mr. John Norton of Ipswich were appointed overseers. In the codicil, Thomas Nelson noted that he was sick in body, and added a bequest to son Samuel Nelson, born since the will was made.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 130. Mr. Thomas1 Nelson, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
242-43.
130. Mr. Thomas1 Nelson, freeman 23 May, 1639, the wealthiest of Person:Ezekiel Rogers (3)|Mr. Rogers']] company, had a six-acre house lot, 1643. Of his first wife we find no mention. He married (2) after 15 : 12 mo. 1641, Jane or Joane, daughter of Thomas Dummer of Badgely, England, and a niece of Mr. Richard Dummer of Newbury (see his bond of 15 : 12 mo. 1641 to perform marriage contract, Essex Ct. R. 9 mo. 1656). Soon after the settlement of the town, probably as early as 1642, and perhaps earlier, he built a grist mill, and a sawmill, on Mill River, the first to be erected in the town. In the first allotment of lands, he was granted "thirty six Acres of vpland in the ffield called the Mill ffield twenty six whereof was laid out to him as part of his diuision of upland the other tenn was giuen him for incouragement towards building the Mill." Grist mills, known in later years as "Glen Mills" were in operation on this spon from that time until destroyed by fire in 1916. … Mr. Nelson died in England, 6 Aug., 1648 (Essex Deeds, 4 Ips.:190). [That was the date of his codicil to his will of 1645; he apparently died about 1650.] His will, dated 24 Dec., 1645, "Being by providence called now to make a voyage into old England," and a schedule (codicil) made in England, 6 Aug., 1648, proved in Ipswich Court 26 : 1 mo. 1650, mentions "wife Joane my mill; millhouse" etc. in Rowley; also all that ground lately occupied by Joseph Wormehill; eldest son, Philip; son Thomas; youngest son, Samuel, born since will was made; daughter Mercy and "any other child that my wife may have"; "my aunt Katherin Withars," Richard Bellingham and uncle Richard Dummer, executors; Mr. Ezekiel Rogers and Mr. John Norton, overseers. "Also I earnestly desire of or reverend Pastor & Elder MrRogers & of that whole Church of Rowley, that they may not mistake themselves concerning the eleven pounds & the seventeene pounds which I paid to Goodman Seatchwell, for his farme; & I did not give these in with other monies that I laid out for the Plantation: Least this being a wrong to mee, to be to their greefe at the Day of Jesus Christ as also fifteene pound paid to Mr Carletons hundred pound which I ought not to pay. This I entreate them seriously to lay to hart, & righting me in all these pticulars" (Essex Deeds, 1 Ips.:72).
- ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:187.
- 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)
3:267.
"THOMAS, Rowley 1638, prob. arr. that yr. freem. 23 May 1639, rep. 1641; brot. from Eng. Philip, and Thomas, and w. Joanna had Mercy, and Samuel went home in 1647 or 8, as we learn from. his will, made in contemplat. of the voyage so early as 24 Dec. 1645, with codic. made in Eng. designing to return hither, 6 Aug. 1648, wherein his uncle, Rich. Dummer and Gov. Bellingham have trusts as excors. and also care of the ch. Abst. is in the Geneal. Reg. III. 267. I suppose he d. bef. coming, back,"
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