Person:Theodore Atkinson (1)

Thedorus Atkinson was admitted to the Boston church on 11 Jan 1634/5 as a servant of John Newgate. [BChR 19]. He first acquired land in 1640, and first sporadically and then frequently in by the 1670s, there are numerous deeds transferring land to and from Theodore.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Theodore Atkinson, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

   Origin: Unknown. Migration 1634 to Boston
   Occupation: feltmaker, hatter, beavermaker. Listed as "feltmaker" in numerous legal documents.
   Birth: Abt 1614 (deposed 13 May 1676 at about 62 [EQC 6:155]; age 90 at death
   Death: Buried Boston 16 Aug 1701, aged 90 [Sewall 387]

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).

   
   1:74-75; ATKINSON, ADKINSON or ATKESON; THEODORE 1 of 2; "THEODORE, Boston, 1634, feltmaker, came, in the employm. of John Newgate, from Bury in Co. Lancaster, join. the ch. 11 Jan. 1635, freem. 18 May 1642, by first w. Abigail had John, bef. ment. whose day of b. or bapt. is not found (but we may doubt, that Geneal. Reg. VII. 349 mak. him 44 yrs. old in 1678 ..."
   
   3:133; LYDE; EDWARD 1 of 2; "EDWARD, Boston, m. 4 Dec. 1660, Mary, d. of Rev. John Wheelwright, had Edward, and d. bef. June 1663. The name in the rec. of the m. is Loyd. The wid. m. Oct. 1667, Theodore Atkinson. Wheelwright, in his will, provides for the gr.s."
   
   3:175-176; MATSON; THOMAS 1 of 2; "... fully rec. yet had been adm. freem. 4 Mar. 1634; by w. Ann, wh. was sis. of Abigail, the first w. of Theodore Atkinson, had Thomas, bapt. 27 Oct. 1633; John, 10 July 1636; rem. to Braintree, hav. been disarm. as one of the recusant friends of Wheelwright, in Nov. 1637, there had Joshua, 23 July 1640; and Abigail, perhaps ..."
   
   4:147; SPENCER or SPENSER; ABRAHAM; "ABRAHAM, Boston, 1677, m. Abigail, d. of the first Theodore, Atkinson."
   
   4:502-503; WHEELWRIGHT; JOHN 1 of 2; "... Rishworth, and gr. ch. Edward Lyde, wh. was to pay something to his mo. Mary, then w. of the first Theodore Atkinson, Mary White, d. of Edward Rishworth, Mary Maverick, and William, Thomas, and Jacob Bradbury. In Lincolnsh. and in Maine he had est. to bestow in beq. to heirs, but he thot. very little of any in N. ... donor); Elizabeth m. George Parsons, Person, or Pearson; Rebecca m. 4 Dec. 1660, Samuel Maverick, and next, 12 Jan. or more prob. Mar. 1672, William Bradbury; Mary m. 4 Dec. 1660, Edward Lyde, and next, Oct. 1667, Theodore Atkinson; Hannah m. Anthony Checkley; and Catharine m. Robert Nanny, and next, Edward Naylor. *"