Person:Thomas Gilbert (72)

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Rev. Thomas Gilbert
b.Cal 1610
  • HRev. Thomas GilbertCal 1610 - 1673
  • WSarah SharpeCal 1603 - Bef 1690/91
m. Bef 2 Jun 1673
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Rev. Thomas Gilbert
Gender Male
Birth[2] Cal 1610
Emigration[1][2] 1661 On the Prudent Mary.
Occupation[1][2] 1663 Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesFirst minister at Topsfield.
Marriage Bef 2 Jun 1673 to Sarah Sharpe
Will[1][2] 2 Jun 1673
Death[1][2][3] 26 Oct 1673 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] 27 Oct 1673 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Burial[2] 28 Oct 1673 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 24 Nov 1673 Personal all, £512.
Probate[2] 5 Dec 1673 Will proved.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Thomas Gilbert, 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)
    2:252.

    "Thomas (Gilbert), Topsfield, from Scotland, it is said, but I hesitate to believe it, came in the Prudent Mary from London, arr. at Boston, July 1661. A fellow passeng. was Ch. J. Samuel Sewall, then nine yrs. old. He had been min. in Eng. and soon found a place in our country as first min. of T. in 1663. But his imprud. and intemper. requir. his dism. and he went back to Charlestown, where he had first sett. and d. 26 Oct. 1673 at the ho. of Rev. Zechariah Symmes. His will, of 2 June 1673, wh. gives every thing to w. Eliz. speaks of £30 due 'for pains in the ministry at T.' tho. we may fear, as his dism. was not reputable, it could not be recov. at law. It is strange, that ch. rec. of Charlestown, on recept. of his wid. call. her Sarah. Budington gives from the Magn. part IV. of Book III. cap. VI., the monument inscript. wh. is still legib."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Rev. Thomas Gilbert 1., in Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
    407.

    "Gilbert Thomas (Rev.) 1. Arrived at Boston in the 'Prudent Mary,' from London, 1661; minister at Topsfield, 1663; removed to Chas.; m. Sarah Sharpe, who was adm. church from Topsfield, Nov. 1, 1674; d. Oct. 26, 1673, 'Scotchman, lodging at Mrs. Symmes;' interred, Oct. 28, 1673, æ. 63 (horizontal monument).

    Will, June 2 (pro. Dec. 5) 1673, devised all to wife Sarah [not Elizabeth, as in print].

    Inventory: Personal all, £512, Nov. 24, 1673.

  3. 3.0 3.1 Joslyn, Roger D. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995)
    1:60.

    "Mr. Thomas Gillbert, [Scotchman, Co. Rec. 3:260], lodging at Mr. Sims, d. in Charlstown 26 & buried Oct. 27, 1673."