Person:Thomas Bird (75)
Thomas Bird
b.Cal 1613 England
d.8 Jun 1667 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1602
  1. Thomas BirdCal 1613 - 1667
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas BirdCal 1613 - 1667
  • W.  Ann _____Bef 1620 - 1673
m. Bef 1640
  1. Thomas Bird1640 - 1710
  2. John Bird1641/42 - 1732
  3. Samuel Bird1644 -
  4. James BirdAbt 1647 - 1723
  5. Sarah Bird1649 - 1669
  6. Joseph Bird - 1665
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Thomas Bird
Gender Male
Birth[2] Cal 1613 England
Emigration[1] 1639
Residence[1] 1639 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1640 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Thomas).
to Ann _____
Will[4] 12 Jul 1666 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 8 Jun 1667 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[4] 17 Jul 1667 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesWill proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Bird, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    30.

    "Bird, Thomas: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1639; [Resided] Dorchester [NEHGR 5:97, 25:21-22]; DChR 5; SPR Case #454; Blake-Glidden 45-46]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ancestor Tables, in McArthur, Selim Walker, Compiler, and Donald Lines, Editor Jacobus. McArthur - Barnes Ancestral Lines. (Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1964)
    170.

    "292. Thomas Bird, b. England, ca. 1613, d. Dorchester, Mass., 8 June 1667, ae. 54, … He was a tanner and settled in Dorchester as early as 1640. His will is given in New England H. and G. Register, 16:161; his large estate inventoried at almost £1,000, so he was a wealthy man for that period. For genealogy, see ibid., 25:21."

  3. ↑ Thomas Bird, 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)
    1:182.

    "THOMAS, Dorchester, 1640, by w. Ann, wh. d. 20 Aug. 1673, had Thomas, b. 4 May 1640, bapt. 18 July 1641; John, 11 Mar. 1642, bapt. that yr.; Samuel, 1644, bapt. that yr.; James, 1647; Sarah, bapt. 12 Aug. 1649, wh. d. 2 Apr. 1669; and Joseph, wh. d. 26 Sept. 1665. He made his will, 12 July 1666, and d. 8 June foll. in his 64th yr."

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Trask, William B. Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1848-1866, 1876-1878)
    16:161.

    "Thomas Bird.—I, Thomas Bird, Senir, of Dorchester, in ye County of Suffolk in New England, Tanner, being by ye p’udence of God not well in my body, yet through ye mercy of God in p’fit memory, make my last will & Testament vnless I shall see Cause heerafter to alter it. My will is, that all my Just depts be paid & funerall discharged. My will is, that Ann, my wife, haue one Third p'tof all my housing & land duering her life. For ye rest of my Estate I giue one third pt thereoff vnto my wife wholly to be at her owne dispossall as God shall moue her hart. My will is yt yeother two third pts of my Estate be deuided as Followeth, viz: Wheeras I p'mised my sonne Thomas, at his marrige fifty pounds, of wch a good ptis paid, as by my booke will appeare, then (that fifty pounds being accounted as py of ye Estate) ye estate shalbe equally deuided to my Fower Children, viz: 'Thomas, John, James & Sarah, only my Sonne, Thomas, shall haue ten pounds added to his pt more then any one of ye rest of my Children. For that third pt of my houseing & land wch I leaue in my wiues hands duering her life, my will is, that when it shall please God to put an end vnto her days that then that houseing & land shal be equally deuided vnto my three sonns; but if either of them dy & leaue not Isue, then this pt shall goe equally to those that doe suruiue. I appoiut Anne, my wife, to be execetrix of my wholl Estate. I appoint my loving freinds Liftenant Hopeslill Foster & Ensigne John Capen to be ouerseers. 12th July, 1666.

    THOMAS BIRD

    In p’sence of vs, viz: John Capen, Senr., Jasper Rush.

    Boston 17th of July, 1667. John Capen, Senr., & Jasper Rush deposed.

    An Inventory of ye Estate of Thomas Bird, senr. of Dorchester, who departed this life ye 8th day of June, 1667, taken & apprized by John Capen, Senr., William Sumner, James Humfrey. Amt. .£997, 11: 5, including debts due the estate. Debts due from the Estate, £61: 14: 10. Mentions the names of John Blackman & John Davenport. 'The prsons yt prized ye stock in tanning, John Gurnell, Henry Bridgham.'

    17th July, 1667, Ann Bird, relict of Thomas Bird, deposed."

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