Person:Thomas Thurston (5)

Captain Thomas Thurston
  1. Captain Thomas Thurston1633 - 1704
  2. Deacon John Thurston1635 - 1711/12
  3. Joseph ThurstonAbt 1639 - 1691
  4. Benjamin Thurston1640 - 1678
  5. Mary Thurston1643 - 1684
  6. Daniel Thurston1645 - 1683
  7. Judith Thurston1648 - 1726
  8. Hannah Thurston1650 - 1690
  • HCaptain Thomas Thurston1633 - 1704
  • WSarah ThaxterEst 1635 - 1678
m. 13 Dec 1655
  1. Thomas Thurston1657/58 - 1704
  2. Sarah Thurston1662 - 1688
Facts and Events
Name[1] Captain Thomas Thurston
Gender Male
Christening[1] 4 Aug 1633 Wrentham, Suffolk, England
Marriage 13 Dec 1655 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Thaxter
Death[1][2] 20 May 1704 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 5541 Thomas Thurston, in Thurston, Brown. Thurston Genealogies, 1635-1892: Second Edition. (Portland, Me.: Brown Thurston, 1892)
    358-59.

    "5541 Thomas Thurston1 (John1), eldest son of John and Margaret Thurston of Dedham, Mass.; born in Wrentham, Eng., and baptized Aug. 4, 1633; married, 'before Capt. Luther' of Dedham, Dec. 13, 1655 [county records say Nov. 10], Sarah Thaxter, daughter of Thomas Thaxter of Hingham, Mass. She died Sept. 1, 1678; he died May 20, 1704. Thomas Thurston and Thomas jr., are on the list of names of those who came to Medfield from Dedham. Mr. Thurston was a man of much usefulness; one of the prudential committee and town clerk, 1673; the same year Thomas and John Thurston were on a committee chosen by the inhabitants of Dedham to manage the division of Wrentham from Dedham; sergeant in 1675, before Philip's war; made lieutenant in 1678; representative to the General Court in 1686, the last session before the abolition of the 'good old charter,' and was justice of the peace, with authority to solemnize marriages."

  2. Thomas Thurston, 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)
    4:297.

    "Thomas (Thurston), prob. s. of the first John, bapt. in Eng. was of Medfield, m. 13 Dec. 1655, Sarah Thaxter, d. prob. of Thomas of Hingham, had John, b. 4 Mar. 1657; Thomas, 11 Feb. 1659; Nathaniel, 24 Jan. 1661; and others, whose names are not kn. He was a man of much usefuln. serg. in 1675, bef. the war, made lieut. in 1678, and rep. 1686, in the last Ct. bef. the abolit. of the good old Chart. Farmer, MS. thinks he must have been the person, wh. had in Apr. of that yr. some votes for Assist. as in Hutch. Coll. 544."

  3.   Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    237.

    "Thurstun, … Thomas, Capt., [died] May 20, 1704."