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Thomas (Parris) Parrys (abt. 1625 - bef. 1673)

Thomas Parrys formerly Parris
Born about in London, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died before before about age 48 in Barbados, West Indiesmap
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Contents

Biography

Date: BET 1613 AND 1678
Note: 'Thomas Parris, b. 1613, in London, England, m. Mary --- of Cambridge, N.E., 1637. She returned to London periodically with her husband and no doubt died there, full of years. Thomas d. in Barbadoes, April 17, 1678, having removed himself to his plantations there, after the great London Fire.[1]

Marriage

Marriage: Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDS-2VJ4 : 13 April 2017), Thomas Perry and Mary Maddison, 12 Jul 1714; citing Marriage, St Michael, Barbados, Department of Archives, Blackrock; FHL microfilm 1,157,923. amb

Siblings

Note: Waters' "Genealogical Gleanings in England" (1901), pp. 143, 144, gives the will of John Parris of the Barbadoes, Esq., dated 1660, naming his brother Thomas' sons Thomas, Samuel, and Martyn, all three nephews being under the age of twenty-one years. He also named Sarah, daughter of his brother Richard Parris, deceased, "Thomas Martaine, son of my cousin Thomas Martaine of this island", and "John Parris, eldest son of my brother Thomas"; he shows that the brother Thomas was in 1660 in London, and also names his sister Rebecca.[2]

Children

Date: BET 1613 AND 1678
1. Martin Parris, b. 1638/39, in London, England; settled in Barbadoes.
2. Thomas Parris, b. July 21, 1641, in Cambridge, N.E. He graduated from Harvard College at Cambridge, N.E., in 1659, and settled in Barbadoes.
3. Mary Parris, b. Apr. 3, 1643, in Cambridge, N.E., she married a son of Roger Williams of Salem, N.E. They settled in Salem, and had a dau. Abigail, who was mixed up in the Salem Village, Witchcraft delusions, caused by the overzealousness of her uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris, in the performance of his duties as Minister of that Place.
4. John Parris, b. 1645, in Cambridge, N.E. He was named after his uncle John Parris, who was residing in Charlestown, N.E., at the time of his birth. John Parris removed to England at an early date.
5. Samuel Parris, b. prob. 1653, in London, England, he was that unfortuante minister, connected with the infamous Salem Witchcraft trials, 1691-92. He had lived in Barbadoes most of his youth and attended Harvard College 1679, but left before graduating. He settled in New England, 1680.'[3]
Conflict
Note: Date of will does not correspond with date of death given in the Parris Genealogy.

Will

Will:
Date: 21 AUG 1673
Place: Barbados
Note: Abstract of will:
'Parris, Thomas Esq.
'21 Aug 1673, RB6/8, p. 519.
'To be buried in plantation where I live near late decd wf; eldest son John Parris in England & Ann Parris his wf & her chn; property in England & Ireland in hands of Capt. Richard Tilden merchant in London; chn of son John: eldest son Thomas Parris, Ann Parris, Elizabeth Parris, & A___ Parris; bro in law John Openbridge & his wf Susannah Openbridg; friend Madam Mary Kingsland; Jacob Legay; friend Mrs. Avis Rightman of London; neice Sarah ____; Madam Mary Cage, wf of Tobias Cage Esq; son Samuel Parris - Xtr; plantation in occupation of Capt. Edward Elding in St. James Parish; friend Martin Bently Esq, Capt. William Robinson, & Richard Clark - Xtras in trust during minority of son Samuel. Signed Thomas Parris.
'Wit: Nathaniel Kingsland, Samuel Goodwyn.
'Proved 2 Sep 1673'[4]

Notes

1660 August 1: 31. Deposition of Thomas Paris, merchant. In July 1628, he arrived at Barbadoes with divers others, in the Long and Costly, where they found Capt. John Powell, the elder, Governor, having been chosen by the people 18 months previously; there was then no discourse of any power from Lord Carlisle, and land was taken up at pleasure without acknowledging any lord proprietor. Wolverton afterwards came and proposed to make a colony of the people by virtue of some patent from Lord Carlisle, but they refused, and some disturbance ensued, which drew them into arms; he, with others, were kept prisoners six weeks, tried for their lives, again imprisoned, and released by Capt. Henry Powell. Capt. Hen. Hawley some time after arrived, seized the Governor, Capt. John Powell, and one Kemp, and they were forcibly taken to England; since which time the planters have been forced to obey Lord Carlisle's deputies.[5]
1665 February: Order of the Council of State. For a warrant to Ant. Danzie, Rich. Alye, Robt. Knightley, and Thos. Parrys, merchants, to export to Barbadoes 900 dozen of shoes and five tons of cheese, upon paying the usual customs. [Ibid., Vol. CIII., p. 664.][6]

Parents

Husband: John Parris
Wife: Ann Martyn
Child: Thomas Parris
Marriage:
Date: 24 JUN 1625
Place: Frieston, Worcester, England[7]
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Sources

  • Source: S165 Title: Genealogy of the Parris Family in Scotland and England Abbreviation: Parris genealogy Author: James Wendell-Howie Parris IV Publication: 1957
  • Source: S171 Title: Barbados Records - Wills and Administrations v.1 1639-1680 Abbreviation: Barbadoes Wills Author: Compiler: Sanders, Joanne Mcree Publication: Walsworth Pub. Co., Marceline, MO, 1979 Repository: #R18 Call Number: 972.981 SA56B
  • Repository: R18 Name: Allen County Public Library Address: City: Ft Wayne State: IN
  • Source: S536 Title: Internet Web Page Abbreviation: Internet - private web page
  • Source: S54 Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Register Abbreviation: NEHGR Publication: Boston, MA
  • http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/a/r/Jesse-E-Parris/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0188.html
  • http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~eastozarka/parris/parg03.htm#3146
  1. Source: #S165 Page: page numbers not available
  2. Source: #S54 Page: v. 112; April 1958; p. 158
  3. Source: #S165
  4. Source: #S171 Page: Barbados Records - Wills and administrations, vol.1 1639-1680; Joanne Mcree Sanders; p.27
  5. 'America and West Indies: August 1660', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1860), pp. 486-489. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol1/pp486-489 [accessed 14 April 2017 amb].
  6. 'America and West Indies: February 1655', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1860), p. 421. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol1/p421 [accessed 13 April 2017, amb].
  7. Source: #S536 Page: http://www.parris.co.uk/family_tree/aqwg71.htm#2266; copied 13 Jan. 2008;

Ancestors

Note: Mr. G. Andrews Moriarty, pp. 354, 355, vol. 49, The Essex Institute Historical Collections (1913), adds the will of the above testator's brother, Thomas Parris, Esq., dated in 1673 at Barbadoes Island, and proved in London. The latter testator names his eldest son John Parris, then in England, and his four other children, Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth, and A-----.
Both Waters and Moriarty show that the legatee John Parris, named in the foregoing wills, was a minister at Ugborough, near Plymouth, and that his son Thomas Parris (son of John, the minister) was identified with the Parris family of Pembroke, Danvers, and Salem, Mass., in the seventeenth century, one of whose descendants was Martin Parris.
It is apparent that the foregoing Parris family were related to the Thomas Martin of Freiston, near Boston, Lincolnshire, mentioned below:
The will of Marie Parrish of Boston, Linconshire, dated 1629, .... Consistory Court of Lincoln,1 632, no. 477:
"I, Marie Parrish of Boston, widow ... my body to be buried in the parish church of Boston ... to John Parrish of Freeston, my sonne, sixe acres of arrable lande ... in Butterwick and Freeston. ... To Susan Parrish, my daughter ... my daughter Leake ... Anne Leake, Rebecca Leake & Saray Leake, my grandchildren. ... Andrew Leake and Elizabeth Leake, my grandchildren ... Marie Meeres, Marie Storre, Alice Blythe and Marie Blyth, my kinswomen ... James Storre of Boston, my kinsman. ... Nathaniel Leake and Marie Murford, my grandchildren ... my freinds Thomas Martyn of Freeston and Nicholas Brandon of Boston, supervisors ... Witnesses: Thomas Martyn, Nicholas Brandon, William Murford, John Kinsle, Tho: Scott". Will dated 5 Nov. 1629, proved at Lincoln 15 Feb. 1532/3 (Lincolnshire Archives Committee) (Unpublished).
Lincolnshire Records, Society Publishications, vol. 3, Boston Parish Registers, include the following: "Buried, December 25, 1632, Marie Parrish, gentlewoman". The Bishop's Transcripts, published by the same Society, include the entry below:
"married January 25, 1625/6, John Parrishe of ffrieston, aged 22 years, and Anne Martin, aged 22 years, daughter of Thomas Martin of (Freiston), yeoman".
The testatrix, Marie Parrish, supra, well could have been that Marie Mountford named in the 1592 "Visitation of Lincolnshire", subject Mountford, who married, First Richard Banks; and, secondly, John Parish. She is named as a widow 2 Sept. 1620 in the will of her brother, Thomas Mountford. Their parents were Henry Mountford of Kirton in Lindsey and Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and Dorothy, buried in 1574, daughter of --- Curteys of Nottinghamshire. The Mountfords, an armigerous family, are said in this visitation to descend from the family of that name of Kylnhurst, Warwickshire (evidently Yorkshire; see Foster's edition, "Glover's Yorkshire Visitation", p. 248; Harleian Society Publications, vol. 12, pp. 54 through 56.) Her husband I think to have been that John Parish of Toft Grange, in the parish of Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire, gentleman, whose administration was dated 1616. Kirkby on Bain lies ten miles northwest of Boston, whild Freiston is about four miles east of Boston.
From the evidence that Governor Bellingham of massachusetts (a native of Boston, Lincolnshire) performed the marriage ceremony in New England of Joanna Quarles (apparently niece of Mabel Quarles Whittingham, of Boston, Lincolnshire) (see The Register, vol. 111, p. 72), and the fact that he also officiated at the marriage of John Parrish and Hannah Jewell in Braintree, Mass., in 1664, and from the above wills, it would seem possible that the above testator, Thomas Parris, of the Barbaoes, esquire, had also a nephew or cousin named John, the resident in 1664 of Braintree, Mass.
While John Parrish of Braintree, supra, did not leave a son Thomas, or a son Martin, he did leave a son Samuel (Eldest son), and grandchildren Abigail, Dorothy, and Rebecca, all names identified with the family of Parrish of Freiston, Lincolnshire, above.
Based on the foregoing, the following pedigree is advanced:
1. Thomas Mountford of Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, m. Isabel Chipley of Northamptonshire. He descended, it is said, from a younger son of the Mountfords of Kylnhurst, Yorkshire. They had:
2. Henry Mountford of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, who married Dorothy, daughter of ___ Curteys of Nottinghamshire. They had:
3. Mary Mountford, who married, secondly, John Parish. He seems to have been that John Parish of Kirby on Bain, Lincolnshire, gentleman, administration of whose goods was granted in 1616. She is styled "widow" in the will of her borther, Thomas Mountford, in 1620. She is believed to have been that "Marie Parrish, gentlewoman", who was buried at Boston, Lincolnshire, 25 Dec. 1632, and who left the following children:
i.John (see 4, below).
ii. Susan, evidently she of that name who married 1 Jan. 1633, at Boston, Lincolnshire, George Machan.
iii.A Daughter, who married one ___ Leake, and had children Anne, Rebecca, arah, Nathaniel Leake, and perhaps anothe rchild, Marie, possibly wife of William Murford.
4.John Parrish was born in 1603 or 1604. He married at Freiston, 25 Jan. 1625/6, Anne (also then aged 22 years), daughter of Thomas Martyn, yeoman, of Freiston. No will or administration can be located for John or his wife. Their children evidently included the following:
i.Thomas (see 5, below)
ii.John Parris, esquire, of the Barbadoes, a planter, whose will, dated 1660, is cited above.
iii.Richard Parris, deceased by 1660, whose daughter Sarah was living in 1660.
iv.Rebecca, living in 1660.
5.Thomas Parris, in 1660 of London, was in 1673 living in the Barbadoes, where he made his will. His children were:
i.John (see 6, below)
ii.Thomas, aged under 21 years in 1660.
iii.Samuel, aged under 21 years in 1660.
iv.Martyn, aged under 21 years in 1660.
6.John Parris, a dissenting minister at Ugborough, near Plymouth, England, living in England in 1673, was father of
7.Thomas Parris, of Pembroke, Mass., father of
8.The Rev. Mr. Samuel Parris of Salem and Danvers, Mass. See the works by Waters and Moriarty, cited above.
Source: #S54 Page: The Origin of the Family of Parris(h), of the Barbadoes and of Massachusetts, in the Seventeenth Century; John G. Hunt; 112; April 1958; p. 158 - 159

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Parris-190 and Parris-44 appear to represent the same person because: The info on Parris-190 is wrong - override with the data of Parris-44 please
Parris-375 and Parris-44 appear to represent the same person because: If there weren't two Thomas's born to the same parents (didn't see anything in bios to suggest this) - these are ready to merge.
Parris-375 and Parris-44 do not represent the same person because: these two are brothers, not duplicates
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