 1675 - 1755 (79 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Nelson [2] |
| Birth |
17 May 1675 |
Barnstable, MA  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
28 Mar 1755 |
Assawompet, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [2] |
| Person ID |
I4342 |
Main |
| Last Modified |
30 Sep 2009 |
| Father |
William Nelson, b. 1645, Plymouth, MA d. 22 Mar 1718, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Ruth Foxwell, b. 25 Mar 1641, Barnstable, MA d. 7 Sep 1726, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 85 years) |
| Family ID |
F1743 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Hope Huckins, b. 10 May 1677, Barnstable, MA d. 7 Dec 1782, Barnstable, MA (Age 105 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Mar 1697 |
Barnstable, MA [3] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Hannah Nelson, b. 10 Apr 1699, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Aft 1738, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 39 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1733 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Sep 2009 |
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| Notes |
- Mary Beth Wheeler notes:
Thomas Nelson was one of the earliest settlers in Middleboro, having originally purchased land in 1714 and settled there in 1717. He was one of the first of the Calvinist Baptist denomination in Middleboro, being a member of the Swansey Church, the first Baptist Church in America. ("The Peirce Family," Ebenezer W. Peirce, 1870). His wife was Hope "Higgins," according to this text.
From William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, First Series, Vol. I, (NY: 1913; repr. Baltimore: 1996, 1997 for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), pg. 855:
"Thomas, son of William (2) Nelson (one account makes him son of John, brother of William), was born June 6, 1675 (also given May 7). He was perhaps the first white settler in Lakeville, part of Middleborough. He bought the homestead on Assawaupet Neck and moved thither in 1717. When he was a baby he was taken to Plymouth with the family in 1675 to escape the horrors of the Indian war. He joined the Swansea church and every Saturday used to travel twenty miles with his family, returning Monday morning. While at Swansea he occupied a small house that he built for the purpose. He is said to have been the first Baptist church member to live in Middleborough. Part of his farm is still in the possession of descendants, between Long Pond and Assawamscott. When he located there Indians owned the land on each side of his farm.
"He married Hope Hutchins, a woman of strong character. Once when she was alone in the house, hearing a noise in the cellar, she descended in the dark and caught an Indian who was glad to escape from her grasp with no worse injury than torn clothing, after a frantic struggle with his unknown assailant. She joined the Baptist church at Swansea, August 5, 1723, and afterward became a member of the Baptist church of Middleborough, where she attended communion in her one hundred and fourth year. Among her three hundred and thirty-seven descendants when she died were three Baptist ministers. Thomas Nelson died March 28, 1755." [4]
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| Sources |
- [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).
- [S996] Frank Ripley, Frank Ripley, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=frankripley&id=I251.
- [S996] Frank Ripley, Frank Ripley, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=frankripley&id=I252.
- [S1003] Mary Beth Wheeler, (http://www.thewheelers.com/), http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbwheeler&id=I32354.
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