Thomas
Trott
Born about in England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Martin Trott
[uncertain]
and Anne Perient
[uncertain]
Brother of
Perient Trott
Husband of
Sarah (Proctor) Trott
— married
1644 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas J. Trott, Preserved (Trott) Baker, Sarah (Trott) Capen, Mary Trott, Samuel Trott, John Trott, Thankful Treat (Trott) Crocker and James Trott
Died
at about age 82
in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Thomas Trott is not recognized as having arrived in New England by 1640 according to information on his immigration by that timeframe in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration series of books.
Thomas Trott[1] came to America from Bristol, England in 1635, on board the ship "The James" with Richard Mather.[citation needed] He settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
He was made freeman in 1644, joined the church the same year.[2] [3][4]
He married Sarah Proctor, daughter of George and Edith Proctor, who came from England and settled in Dorchester in 1644.[5] [6]
Thomas was selectman in 1646, died July 28, 1696, aged eighty-two years. Sarah (Proctor) Trott died May 27, 1712; she was daughter of George and Edith Proctor, who came from England and settled in Dorchester. Mr. Proctor was granted land in 1634-37-56, and was town bailiff in 1642.
15 Sep 1648 Thomas Trott of Dorchester bought a house on acreage from Christopher Gibson of Boston. [7]
Thomas died 28 Jul 1696. He is buried in Dorchester North Burying Ground. [8]
Marriage 1 Sarah PROCTOR b: Abt 1627 in Pitminster, Somerset, England Married: 1644 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA Children:
- Preserved Trott , Proctor b: 19 MAR 1645/46/47 in Dorchester, Norfolk, Ma
- Thomas Trott , Proctor b: in Of Dorchester, Suff., Mass.
- Sarah Trott , Proctor b: 16 JAN 1651/52 in Of Dorchester, Suff., Mass.
- Mary Trott , Proctor b: 26 JAN 1656/57 in Dorchester, Suff., Mass.
- Samuel Trott , Proctor b: 27 AUG 1660 in Dorchester, Suff., Mass.
- John Trott b: 24 NOV 1664 in Dorchester, Suffolk , Mass.
- Thankful Trott. Proctor b: 5 OCT 1667 in Dorchester, Suff., Mass.
- James Trott , Proctor b: 2 JUN 1671 in Dorchester, Suff., Mass
Research Notes
No reliable sources have yet been found showing that Thomas Trott was a son of Martin Trott (1586-1617) and Anne Perient (abt.1586-abt.1624). They will be detached as his parents pending reliable sources showing their connection.Hill-11959 17:26, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Sources
- ↑ Jessie Hale Tuttle, editor , The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 2012.
- ↑ Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700.
- ↑ History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, published 1859. Reference page 136
- ↑ Records of th First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734, published 1891. Reference page 6
- ↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 for Thomas Trott New England Marriages Prior to 1700
- ↑ Anderson, R C "The Great Migration Begins..." Vol II page 538
- ↑ Anderson, R C "The Great Migration Begins..." Vol II page 760
- ↑ Thomas Trott on Find A Grave: Memorial #20742701 retrieved 5/30/2019
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I've marked them uncertain for now. If reliable sources are not added for their relationship, they will be detached as his parents.
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S Willson
Our DNA guru here in the U.K. is a descendant of the Trott/Perient line I and have asked her for comment, but I would have thought she would have told me before if the line was hers.
I have had a comprehensive response from a descendant of Martin’s line and it is not supportive of the original entry. If you would like to see it, drop me an email (address on the TONRG web site) and I can forward. I wish we could resolve the problem of his origin, but dna might help. Regards Bob
Bob
Martin and his family lived in Essex/Hertfordshire/London. At that period ships were sailing to New England on a regular basis from Gravesend, so no good reason for any of them to sail across the Atlantic from Bristol. So, this always sets off alarm bells, and a Trott sailing from Bristol was almost certainly from Somerset.
This sort of thing crops up a lot. I don’t have evidence that they had a son called Thomas. But there is a slight snag. They married in 1605 and their first known child was baptised in 1608. There is a chance they had an earlier child in the gap, say 1606. However, in the Visitations of Essex, 1634, there are no children then living before Martin b 1610. There are no further gaps until Anne’s death in 1624. Martin remarried and had children from 1628 to 1635 with his second wife. But clearly the younger children would all be too young anyway. I had a look at the Wikitree entry and it says that he was said to have sailed from Bristol with Richard Mather, which rang a bell. I then had dig around and found some material sent to me by Taylor Trott about 8 years ago when he joined the DNA project. I don’t think he is a TONRG member. Once we established using DNA, that he matched the Essex Trotts, it became clear that the earliest generations of the his family tree were not reliable. I suspect a lot of New England Trotts claim descent from this man, without much justification. It was, of course, common for people to claim descent from someone of the right name living in the right place, and later descendants don’t always question this.
It appears he may not be eligible to be considered a PGM immigrant.
So, you are in agreement that Sarah Proctor married Trott was not caught up in the Witch Trials, right?--Gene