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Defect 1
Jaques Observed:
- "Savage included an entry under the surname Thompson for "Thomas, Farmington, may be that youth of 18 years which embarked in the Abigail of London, 1 July 1635, married 14 April 1646, at Hartford, Ann, daughter of Governor Thomas Welles" [Savage, 4:288]. The Thomas of Farmington who married Ann Welles was the son of John Thompson of Burford, Shropshire, and was baptized in 1610 [Flagg 348-50], and therefore could not have been the passenger of 1635. Pope states that this passenger "settled at Springfield; proprietor 1636" [Pope 451]. This mus have arisen from a misreading of the records, as the only appearance of "Tho[mas] Thomson" in Springfield was in 1646, when he appeared in a "rate for the raising of £30 for the purchase of the lands of the plantation" [Springfield Hist 1:190-91]."
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