Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p401

made o. that he was a. 59 yrs. old. But to this suffic. longev. the
" Guide to Plymouth," 255, would make alarming addit. in his note,
" suppos. mate of the Mayflower." We can hardly doubt, that the oldest
surv. of that memo. voyage, within the bounds of the Old Colony, would
have been too well known to need a weak tradit. to lean on; and that
officer of 1620 must have been older than the oldest liv. in 1697, had he
not been d. many yrs. bef. In 1627 this Thomas, not the mate, had sh.
in the div. of lds. as com. in the Ann, not Mayflower. THOMAS, Newport
1638, elder br. of John of the same, bapt. soon after b. 31 Mar.
1600, one of the found. of the first ch. of Bapt. 1641, and d. 2 Dec.
1674, without ch. leav. est. to childr. of his br. Joseph in his will, where
alone we find their names. THOMAS, Boston, merch. had first liv.
at Dorchester, 1636, selectman there 1641 and 2, ar. co. 1638, freem. 14
Mar. 1639, a capt. in 1653, and after head of the Boston reg. rep. 1651,
and many yrs. more, speaker in 1662, and sev. yrs. later, chos. an Assist.
1673, and d. 28 July 1678. His first w. was Mary, by wh. he had Mehitable,
b. 18 Apr. 1640; Elizabeth 22 May 1642; and Deborah, bapt. 9
June 1644. Other ch. were Thomas, the only s. and Leah, perhaps,
both b. in Eng. but his will, made shortly bef. his d. instr. us that she
was w. of Thomas Baker, Deborah, w. of Nathaniel Byfield, and Elizabeth
Stevens among ds. and sev. gr.ch. with conting. provision for gr. gr.ch.
and his wid. was Ann. Surnames of either w. are not kn. High
should be our esteem of C. wh. was one of only two mem. of the legislat.
the Boston reps. in 1656, that voted against the law for putt. to d.
Quakers, wh. ret. after banishm. Dr. Harris, with doubtful propriety,
suppos. him to be one of three brs. Bray, Joseph, and Thomas, of D.
1630, commemo. in epit. on a gr.stone:

Here lie three Clarks, their accounts are even,
Entered on earth, carried up to heaven.[1]

Ano. THOMAS of Boston, early, adm. of the ch. 18 July 1640, and perhaps
the freem. of 2 June 1641, was a blacksmith, and may have liv. on
N. side of the harbor, call. Winisemet, now Chelsea, by w. Elizabeth had
Cornelius, b. Dec. 1639, bapt. 19 July foll.; Jacob, 16. bapt. 22 May
1642; Rachel, 6 July 1646, d. at 7 yrs. and perhaps Benjamin, 4 May
1656. THOMAS, New Haven 1645, prob. d. bef. 1648. THOMAS, Lynn
1640, rem. to Reading, there d. 1693. THOMAS, Ipswich 1663. THOMAS,
Boston, call. jr. but tho. b. in Eng. he may not be s. of the Hon. Thomas, yet
he liv. prob. some time, earlier or later, at Dorchester, was of ar. co. 1644, more
than once its capt. rep 1673-6, and d. 13 Mar. 1683. He was one of the
wealthiest merch. of B. and by his will of 15 Aug. 1679, anew declar.
22 May 1680, pro. 22 Mar. 1683, it is judg. that only two ch. were then
liv. Mehitable Warren, and Elizabeth wh. had m. 28 May 1661, Mr. John[1]