Person:Thomas Beecher (4)

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Captain Thomas Beecher
b.Bef 1600
d.Bet 17 Feb 1636/37 and 2 Mar 1636/37 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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Name[1][2][3] Captain Thomas Beecher
Gender Male
Birth[2] Bef 1600
Marriage 30 Jun 1626 Whitechapel, Middlesex, EngalndSt. Mary
to Christian Barker
Emigration[1][2] 1630
Residence[1][2] 1630 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[2] 6 Nov 1632 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[2] Bet 17 Feb 1636/37 and 2 Mar 1636/37 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 29 Jul 1637 £485 16s, including £150 in real estate.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Beecher, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    25.

    "Beecher, Thomas: [Origin} unknown; [emigration] 1630; [resided] Charlestown [GMB 145-46; WF 103-5]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Thomas Beecher, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    1:145-46.

    "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #112, which would be late in 1631 [BChR 14]; dismissed to the new church at Charlestown 14 October 1632 [BChR 15]; admitted to Charlestown church 2 November 1632 [ChChR 7].
    FREEMAN: 6 November 1632 (as 'Mr. Tho: Beecher') [MBCR 1:367]."
    "DEATH: Charlestown between 17 February 1636/7 (chosen selectman) and 2 March 1636/7 ('Mr. Tho: Beecher deceased' replaced as selectman) ChTR 24, 25]."

  3. ↑ Thomas Beecher, 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)
    1:153-154.

    "Thomas (Beecher), Charlestown 1630, freem. 6 Nov. 1632, had been engage. as capt. of the Talbot, 1629, in bring. passeng. to our country, and next yr. with Winthrop's fleet, when his w. Christian, wh. had been w. of Thomas Copper of Wapping, near London (wh. left her a freehold est. at Harwich), came with him, and was of the first ten mem. of the ch. He was one of the earliest selectmen of the town, and at the first gen. ct. 14 May 1634, when repr. came, he was one (all former gen. ct. being inclus. of every freem. of the Col.), and serv. sev. foll. sessions, made capt. of the castle 1635, and d. 1637. His inv. 29 July of this yr. made by Ralph Sprague, Abram Palmer, and Thomas Ewer, shows £405. 16s. His wid. became sec. w. of Nicholas Easton, and d. 20 Feb. 1665. No ch. of B. is seen on any rec. tho. Frothingham, 80, thinks Dr. Lyman Beecher, Y. C. 1797, a descend. prob. on recent suggest. But the progenit. of this disting. fam. was Isaac."

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