Person:Thwaite Strickland (1)

It is indicated that records of Dedham, Massachusetts show that Thwait(s) Strickland was a signer of the 1635 Covenant that established Dedham and was an original settler there. Dedham is on the Charles river, near presentday Boston. Thwaite received two grants of land in Dedham (one a grant of six acres of planting land, Oct 27,1640), and was presumably a farmer there for the next 26 years. His name appears on the Dedham tax lists until 1661."

During these years he married Elizabeth Sheppard and had five children. These births are listed in the records of the Dedham town clerk.

In 1662, he was in the Westerly, RI/Stonington, CT, area which reportedly was still a wilderness (One source says they lived in Misquamicut, a peninsula near Stonington). His son Ephriam was probably born there, Feb 3,1662. In addition to the testimony of Thomas Stanton, it is reported by Connecticut Colonial Records, vol. 2, page 546, that in 1670, Daniel Gookin of Cambridge, MA claimed a right in the Pequot country which had been incorporated in the new town of Stonington, one of his evidences being the fact that in May 1662 he had built a dwelling house there for his tennant, "Thait Strickland". Thwaite must have returned to Dedham later, as his name appears again on the tax list of 1669. He died, probably in Glastonbury, CT, in 1669 or early 1670. His estate was settled by the Court at Hartford in 1670.

Great Migration Begins says: "There is not the slightest reason to assume any connection between Thwaite and John Strickland except that they were born with the same surname." -- Jacobus, TAG vol 21. Jacobus also wrote:

"I don't think there is a chance that Thwaite Strickland was a son of John Strickland of Jamaica. Probably you are familiar with the Strickland notes I published in American Genealogist, Vol. 19, pp44-45; Vol 20, pp207-212, and Vol. 21, pp85-92. In writing these, I had the benefit of the long article by Herbert Seversmith on John Strickland and his sons-in-law in Vol. II of my magazine, was aided by Dr. Robert Furman who had made a study of the Furman-Strickland connections and had dug in original sources of Long Island, and I put a great deal of study into the problems involved. I think the conclusions I published concerning John Strickland, his supposed brother Edmund, and Thwaite, can be sustained. There is no evidence whatever that John Strickland had more than three surviving children: (1) a daughter that married John Lum (not, Loanus, the name is spelled Loame in Strickland's will and was Lome in England, (2) a daughter who married John Smith, (3) a daughter who married Samuel Matthews. He may have had a fourth daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Jonas Wood "Oram". (Joanna wife of Jonas Wood "Halifax" was definitely not his daughter)."

Thwaite Strickland had no connection of any kind with John and never at any time lived in any town where John had lived.

Manwaring: Probate record of Thwaite Strickland p 78 in original record. Inventory taken 21 June, 1670. Children: Elizabeth Andrews, age 23 years, John 21, Joseph 15, Jonathan 13, Ephraim 7 years. -- Manwaring, 1902

1. ↑ Manwaring, Charles William, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.