Ens. Thomas Dexter

  General Notes:

Thomas, farmer, Lynn, in Court for battery on Capt. Endicott 3 May 1631. He bought Nahant of an Indian about 1632, but the town claimed prior ownership [Es. Files 29:144]. Mortgaged his farm of 800 acres and his fishing weir at Lynn in 1640 and 1642. Gave property at Sandwich to son Thomas in 24 Oct 1638, with the provision that Thomas should pay money to his daughters Mary and Frances [L.]. Mary m. John Frend. Removed to Sandwich. Arbitrated a difference with alderman Hooke of Bristol, England 30 (4) 1648 [A.]. Removed to Boston. He d., and administration was granted 9 Feb 1676 to Capt. James Oliver and the son, Thomas D. Jr. Land at Lynn, debts at Barnstable, etc. [Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1900 (reprinted 1965)]

DEXTER, Thomas - (d. 1677) - From Eng., was at Sudbury, Mass., ca 1638; admitted freeman 1640; was the first white settler at Marlborough, Mass., ca 1657; soldier King Philip's War; m. Mary ---. [Frederick A. Virkus, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1, 1968]

THOMAS DEXTER, of Lynn, 1630, came probably in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman May 18, 1631, whose name has been omitted in printed volume, because he was defranchised March 4, 1633; was one of the purchasers to promote settlement of Sandwich, 1637, but did not remove for several years, was admitted freeman of Plymouth Colony, June 1, 1658, lived at Barnstable, there had Mary, born Aug. 11, 1649, had probably other children beside Thomas and William, perhaps born in England, certainly the former; and the kindness of tradition gives doubtful grandson Richard, and great-grandson William; and died in Boston, early in 1677. Lewis, 159. Six of this name have been graduated at Harvard, and six at Yale and Brown. [Alexander Young, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623-1636, 1846 (reprinted 1975)]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, 1606. ¹⁵

• Alt. Birth, 1606, Lynn, Essex, MA. ¹⁹³

• Cemetery: Kings Chapel Burying Ground, 1676, Boston, Suffolk, MA. ³⁴

Thomas married Mary [Unknown] in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.³⁴ (Mary [Unknown] was born about 1598 of Sandwich, Barnstable, MA ³⁴ and died before 1629 ³⁴.)