Thomas Eldred (1648 - 1726)

Born 8 Sep 1648 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Susanna (Cole) Eldred — married 1670 in Kings Town, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 9 May 1726 at age 77 in North Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island colony

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Biography

Thomas Eldred was an early settler in Rhode Island.

Thomas Eldred, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Eldred, was born September 8, 1648, and died in 1726.^[1]

Marriage

He married Susanna Cole in 1670 at Kings town, Rhode Island.^[2][3]

Children

1. John Eldred^[4]
2. Elisha Eldred^[4]
3. Susannah Eldred^[4]
4. Sarah Eldred^[4]
5. Mary Eldred^[4]
6. Grace Eldred^[4]
7. Bridget Eldred^[4]
8. William Eldred^[4]
9. Samuel Eldred^[4]

On 6 September 1687 he is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester, (Kingstown) Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1 s, and a property tax of 9s 1d, which places him as an adult resident and as a property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[5] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. The list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[6]

Military

Lieutenant, Local Company Of Militia, Kingstown, Rhode Island ^[7]

Death

Lieut. Thomas Eldred died 9 May 1726 North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918. The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island : comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation. Albany : J. Munsell's sons. 1887. Reference page 71
2. ↑ Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918. The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island : comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation. Albany : J. Munsell's sons. 1887. pg 71
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700. subscription needed
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8} Watson, Marston. Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry. Vol. 2. Reverend Francis Marbury and Five Generations of the Descendants Through Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson and Katherine (Marbury) Scott. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Available at Ancestry pg 26 (subscription needed)
5. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
6. ↑ Randolph Beebe;Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.
7. ↑ Cites Colonial Records of R.I. 3-287.

• Liela Morse Wilson 10 Generations from William & Mary Dyer of Newport, R.I. Putnam, Windham, Ct, private, 1949

• Devere Allen The Allen Families and 83 Connected Families Wilton, Connecticut, January 1947

• Nelson B. Eldred, III Samuel Eldred and Some of his Descendants, Marietta, Georgia, 1992