Thomas McLaughlin Sr. was a centenarian, living to age 110.
Thomas McLaughlin was b c1740
[1][2]
at Londonderry, NH, the son of John McLaughlin and Rebecca Blaire,
d 1851 at Saint David;
[3]
m at Salem, MA, 20 Aug 1757, Joanna Searles,
[4]
b at Salem, MA, Feb 1740/41, the daughter of Joseph Searles and Ruth Chute,
[5]
d. at Saint David, 14 Aug 1834, and buried there with her husband in the Saint David Ridge Cemetery.
[6]
See Arnold E. Krause, Forest of Trees: Loyalist Descendants of New Brunswick and Maine "Plus Others",
[7]
for much biographical information on Thomas McLaughlin and his family.
Sources
↑Birth:
"American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)"
Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 115; Volume: Volume; Page number: Page number Ancestry Record 3599 #597442 (requires subscription, accessed 12 March 2024)
Thomas McLaughlin born in year.
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1790 United States Federal Census, Census Place: Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; Series: M637; Roll: 5; Page: 243; Image: 152; Family History Library Film: 0568145, [1]
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Edited by Ruth Gray, Joseph Cook Anderson II, Lois Ware Thurston, C.G., et al, Maine Families in 1790 (Maine Genealogical Society, Picton Press, Rockport, ME), Vol. 9, p. 443, citing Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the Year 1849, six vols. [1916-1925], 4:49, the groom's name rendered as Joseph McLathning in the town record and as Thomas in the church record, the bride's surname was rendered as Seirls; that her husband was Thomas rather than Joseph and that they moved from NH to NB is confirmed by her death notice in Daniel F. Johnson, New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Newspapers, vol. 5 1832-1834 [1984], item 1719, p. 87
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Arnold E. Krause, Forest of Trees: Loyalist Descendants of New Brunswick and Maine "Plus Others", [2]
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