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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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."
- 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."
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