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Thomas Rawlings
b.Abt 1623
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Thomas Rawlins, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
3:1559-60.
Children of Thomas Rawlins and first wife Mary ---:
'THOMAS, b. say 1618; d. much after 12 December 1681 ... unm.'
He finished the job of raising 2 of his sister Joanna's children (Ephraim and Ruth) after his father died.
[Note: see discussion on this page why it is thought he might have married late in life.]
'The younger Thomas not only lived quietly with his step-mother as his father had requested, but took on the responsibility for several of the children of his sister, Joanna (Rawlings) Kempton. ... On 8 June 1658, "Mannasses Kemton Senir" of Plymouth and "Thomas Rawlins Senir of Boston" agreed on the division of Ephraim and Joanna's estate and agreed to share responsibility for two children each [PCR 2:1:211; see also PCR 3:114]. Thomas Rawlings drew eldest son Ephraim and daughter Ruth. When Thomas Rawlings Sr. died, his son, Thomas, completed the job of raising the two Kempton children and left them part of his estate when he died [SPR Case #2097].'
- ↑ Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
1:383.
'THOMAS, ... died probably Dorchester, MA about 1693, after writing his will more than a decade before, on 12 December 1681 (Suffolk Probate #2097), proved in 1693; unmarried.'
- Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
1:375, 383.
'A Thomas Rawlings and wife Mary had children Nathaniel and Thomas baptized in the parish of Little Baddow, about thirty miles southwest of Great Bromley in the late 1620s.'
'NATHANIEL, baptized Little Baddow, Essex, England 16 September 1627 ...'
'THOMAS, baptized Little Baddow, Essex 7 June 1629 ...'
Smith assumes this is the family that immigrated to New England in 1630, and lists Nathaniel and Thomas as the youngest two children. He credits Robert Charles Anderson for the research. However, Anderson, in Great Migration Begins, seems to have decided that this is not the correct family, as he indicates that Thomas Rawlins' origin is unknown, and he lists Thomas as the oldest son. (Anderson presents the children in the same order as listed in the Roxbury Church Records, in the record of Thomas having come to New England - 'Thomas. Mary. Joane. Nathaniell. John.')
Other information, such as the inclusion of Thomas Jr on an August 1643 list of Scituate men aged 16-60 (AEBK, 377; GMB) suggests that Thomas, Jr. was born before 1629 (although GMB points out that the 'list was probably updated from time to time and may not accurately reflect the ages of the men as of 1643').
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Teele, Albert Kendall. The history of Milton, Mass., 1640 to 1887. (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1887)
p. 488.
Here lies buried the body of Thomas Rawlins, aged 70 years. Departed this life July ye 7th, 1693.
[Note: see also, Find A Grave.]
- ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
Case 2097: Vol. 13, p. 289.
Will of "Thomas Rawlins of Boston", dated 12 Dec 1681, proved 14 Nov 1693, names my Nephew Ephraim Kempton of Salem and my Neice Ruth Marshal, the Wife of Sam'll Marshal of Boston; my Cousin Samuel Marshal; four Daughters of my Brother Nathaniel Rawlins dece'd and the wife of John Randall of Situate; my Nephew Manassa Kempton and his sister Joanna Wife of George Morton of Plimouth; small legacies to Stephen totman living with Robert Barker, Nathaniel Rawlins, the four Children of Edward Wright, first Church of Christ in Boston. Cousins Ephraim Kempton and Samuel Marshal to be executors, desires friends Joseph Sylvester of Situate and George Morton of Plimouth to make division of lands.
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