Person:Thomas Whittridge (1)

Thomas Whittridge
b.Abt 1625 England
 
m. Abt 1624
  1. Thomas WhittridgeAbt 1625 -
  2. Samuel Whittridge
m. 1656
  1. Thomas WhittridgeAbt 1659 -
  2. Richard Whittridge
  3. William Whittridge
Facts and Events
Name[1] Thomas Whittridge
Alt Name Thomas Whitred
Alt Name Thomas Whitridge
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1625 England
Residence[2] 1648 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 1656 to Florence Norman
Will[1] 21 Aug 1672 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Stateshaving been sick, 2 friends (Robert Morgan & Richard Norman) are told his will
Probate[1] 3 Sep 1672 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 24 Sep 1672 Admin granted to Robert Morgan and Richard Norman

Will & Probate

In Thomas' verbal will of 21 Aug 1672, he names the following: "Bretheren [Robert Morgan & Richard Norman] yow being the most Intimate with vs and dearest in our affectons vnto mee & yor sister my wife now taken from mee in whom wee putt our Confidence;" "to Committ vnto yow my 3 sonnes wch I had by yor sister...sonnes Thomas, Richard, William." Present at the giving of his verbal will were Robert Morgan, Richard Norman, and "his owne 3 Sonnes before mentioned: and his brother Sammuell Whittridge: and ||his|| Sonne in Law John Traske." S1

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thomas Whittridge of Ipswich, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    2:286-288.

    Administration on the estate of Thomas Whitridge, intestate, granted Sept. 24, 1672, to Robert Morgan and Richard Norman, who were ordered to bring in an inventory.
    "Our brother Thomas Whittridge being sicke Sent Vnto mee Robert Morgan: by 2 of his Sonnes desiring me with Speede to (send) to our brother Richard norman : & that wee together would come Vnto him; which wee Accomplished & tarried not long: Uppon the 21st of August last past wee went to the howse of our brother: who findinge him Vppon his bedd..."
    Inventory of the estate of Thomas Whitteridge of Ipswich, taken Sept. 3, 1678, by Robert Colborne of Ipswich and William Flint of Salem
    [Inventory and debts] Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 25, 1673 by Richard Norman.

  2. Thomas Whitred, 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)
    4:533.

    Thomas, Ipswich 1648,, s. of William, brot. by him. from Eng. had w. Florence, of whose d. 1672, a most doleful report may be seen in the diary of Rev. William Adams, pr in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 17. He had a s. 13 yrs old at that time. By sec. w. Charity, he had Rebecca, b. 27 May 1689, wh. m. 11 Jan., the sec. William Cleaves of Beverly.
    [either the probate records are for another man or this Thomas Whittridge is not the son of William.]