"5. Thomas2 (Aspinwall), son of Peter1 and Remember (Palfrey) Aspinwall, was born at Muddy River (Brookline), Mass., on January 21, 1668. In the year 1690, with his elder brother, Nathaniel, he went, in a company commanded by their neighbor, Capt. Andrew Gardner, on an expedition to Canada, and while there 'was cast away in a vessell on Barn Island and perished.' He was unmarried."