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Thomas Wiswall
chr.20 Sep 1601 Warrington, Lancashire, England
d.6 Dec 1683 Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Thomas Wiswall1601 - 1683
  • W.  Elizabeth (add)
m. Bef 1633
  1. Enoch WiswallAbt 1633 - 1706
  2. Esther WiswallAbt 1635 - 1707
  3. Rev. Ichabod Wiswall1637 - 1700
  4. Noah Wiswall1638 - 1690
  5. Sarah Wiswall1642/43 - Bef 1667
  6. Ebenezer Wiswall1646 - 1691
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Name[1][2] Thomas Wiswall
Gender Male
Christening[4] 20 Sep 1601 Warrington, Lancashire, England
Marriage Bef 1633 Based on birth of eldest known child
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Marriage Aft 1671 to Isabella Barbage
Death[1][2][4] 6 Dec 1683 Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q7795262?


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Thomas Wiswall (1601–1683) was an early settler of British America, a prominent early citizen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Village, now known as the city of Newton, Massachusetts.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hazen, Henry Allen. History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a genealogical register. (Boston, Massachusetts: A. Williams, 1883)
    p. 49.

    "'Note: Mrs. Isabella Wiswall, above mentioned, was wife of John Farmer, of Ansley, in the county of Warwickshire, and came to this country with some of her children, after his death, which occurred prior to 1669. It appears from original papers, that she was sister to Rev. Thomas Muston, of Wykin, and afterwards, of Brinklow, in England. She m. Mr. Thomas Wiswall, whence she acquired the name.' Mr. Wiswall was ordained ruling elder, with John Eliot, jun., teacher of the church in Newton, at its organization, 1664, July 20; d 1683, Dec. 6."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Farmer, John. Genealogical Memoir of the Family by the Name of Farmer, Who Settled at Billerica, Mass. (Hingham: Farmer and Brown, 1828)
    p. 6.

    "Isabella, his widow [i.e., John Farmer, of Ansley, who married Isabella Barbage], came with some of her children to New England, a few years after this period, and married Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Cambridge Village, now Newton, who died 6 December, 1683."

  3.   Thomas Wiswall, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    [Note: at the time of writing this source gives the baptism of Thomas Wiswall as "baptised in Warrington, Lancashire, England on 30 September 1601" with no source for this data. The nearest cited source is for him having 10 children and does not specify his baptism date. By comparison with other sources, this appears to be converted to new style without any N.S. indication.]

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Threlfall, John Brooks. "The English Origin of John & Thomas Wiswall", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    Vol. 58, p. 111.

    Children of Ralph Wiswell: 2) Thomas, "son of Ralph", bp. Warrington, 20 Sep 1601 "(prob. twin of John), d. 6 Dec 1883, aet. 80 per record which must be off by 2 years if same person."

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