Person:Thomas Marshfield (1)

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Thomas Marshfield
b.Bef 1601
d.Bet 1 Jun 1644 and 29 May 1649
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  • H.  Thomas MarshfieldBef 1601 - Bet 1644 & 1649
  • W.  Mercy _____Bef 1606 - 1654
m. Bef 1626
  1. Sheriff Samuel MarshfieldEst 1626 - 1692
  2. Mercy MarshfieldBef 1629 - 1704
  3. Sarah MarshfieldEst 1629 - 1708/09
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Name[1] Thomas Marshfield
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1601 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1626 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Mercy _____
Residence[1] 1634 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1][3] 6 May 1635 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Thomas Marshall [sic]).
Residence[1] Bef 1637 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Occupation[1] Merchant.
Death[1] Bet 1 Jun 1644 and 29 May 1649
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Thomas Marshfield, 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)
    5:48-54.

    "ORIGIN: Exeter, Devonshire.
    MIGRATION: 1634 on the Regard of Barnstaple [WJ 1:178; Dunn 135; TAG 74:225]. …
    REMOVES: Windsor by 1637. Departed Windsor by 1647 [WiLR 1:126], and perhaps by 1643 (when a committee was appointed to value his estate in order to satisfy creditors) [CCCR 1:89-90], perhaps having moved to Springfield, where his wife and children later resided. …
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (as 'Thomas Marshall [sic], third in a sequence of four Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:370]. …
    DEATH: After 1 June 1644 (when Marshfield was sued [CCCR 1:107]) and before 20 May 1649 (when 'widow Marshfield' appeared in court [Pynchon Court 219]"

  2.   Thomas Marshfield, 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)
    3:160.

    "Thomas (Marshfield), Windsor, may be thot. to have rem. with Warham, from Dorchester, but no certainty is reach. by inquir. unless the conject. be adopt. that he and first Thomas Marshall were the same person. The first that can positive. be learn. is by a letter from him, as Marshfield, to Samuel Wakeman, 6 May 1641, on p. 12 of our Vol. I. of Reg. of Deeds, strange as the place is, where an extr. is insert. by Gov. Winthrop and next yr. he withdrew from the country, as by Conn. Rec. 14 Oct. 1642, when the Court appoint. trustees to manage his est. for use of the creditors. Perhaps he was lost at sea, but at least no more was ever heard of him. His wid. and fam. rem. to Springfield, the ch. being Samuel, … Sarah, wh. m. Thomas Miller, and ano. d."

  3. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:93.
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