Thomas Gross (1678 - bef. 1728)

Born 4 Feb 1678 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hincks) Gross — married 29 Dec 1705 (to 7 Jun 1708) in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Experience (Freeman) Gross — married 9 Jan 1709 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Jane (Cole) Smalley — married 7 Dec 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 14 Mar 1728 before age 50 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Thomas was born in Hingham 4 Feb 1677-78. He is the son of Simon and Mary (Pond) Gross.^[1][2][3]

Thomas Gross resided at Hingham and Eastham, MA. On 31 Mar 1724, in the town records of Wellfleet, formerly the north precinct of Eastham, Thomas "Groose" (sic) was appointed on a committee with his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Freeman, and others, to call meetings in the precinct.

He married first Elizabeth Hincks 29 Dec 1705 at Hingham.^[1]

1. Hincks^[1][3]

Thomas married second to Experience Freeman at Boston.^[1]

1. Freeman^[3]
2. Sarah^[1][3]
3. Elizabeth^[1][3]
4. Thomas^[1][3]

Thomas married a third time 7 Dec 1721 at Eastham to Jane Cole.^[3]

1. Hannah^[3]

Thomas Gross of Eastham died 4 Mar 1728, intestate. Probate was administered 14 Mar 1727/8. David Doane of Eastham was appointed administrator. The inventory dated 25 Apr 1728, called him "of Eastham in the precinct of Billingsgate" and totaled £566-12-11, of which £40-6-0 was set out to his widow "Joan" Gross for the support of herself and family. On 10 May 1731, Jane Gross received £100-1-0 as her dowry from the estate of her late husband. ^[2][3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town. Vol II, p.280
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Susan E. Roser, Mayflower Births and Deaths (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Vol. 1, William Brewster), Vol 1, William Brewster, page 227.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Barbara Lambert Merrick, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed At Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620, Vol 24 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2019), Pt 3: 49-50.
4. ↑ Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Deeds and Probates: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1994.

See also:

• Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury. Descendants of Edward Small of New England. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & New York, 1934. Vol. 1. R929.2 S635uV.1
• Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6 [Stephen Hopkins]. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001. Page 246.
• William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1911), p543-545.