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Elizabeth Sheaffe m. England b. England d. |
Thomas b. England d. Dec 8, 1653 at sea |
John b. England |
Samuel b. England |
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| Joanna b. 1621? Cranbrook, Kent Co. England d. Aug 11, 1689 Killingworth CT |
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Thomas came to America with his family on the ship Castle from London
about 1638. They were most likely wealthly, Thomas emigrated "in a venture" with
his cousin Joseph Merriam of Concord, and they first lived in Dorcester MA. They
eventually settled in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., about one mile from Dorcester. |
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Daughter Joanna married Henry Farnam after being widowed with a son, remarrying and
divorcing about the time her daughter Elizabeth was born. Divorces were rare in
Puritan New England and they disappear from records until 1665, when he and Joanna
and her daughter Elizabeth are settled in Hammonassett Plantation, to become known
as Killingworth. Joanna's son Thomas Swanne (1642?-1687) was about aged 7 or 8
when his father Thomas Swanne died. He was afterwards raised by Thomas and Elizabeth,
his grandparents, before marrying and starting a family after 1661. |
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Sources: County of Suffolk, Mass., Abstracts of the Earliest Wills on Record... Clapp, Ebenezer Jr.,History of the town of Dorcester, Massachusetts, publ. by author, Boston MA, 1859. Stepanek, Antoinette Farnum, Farnham/Farnum Families in America, Vol. I, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD, 1993, pp. 27-58. |
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