Thomas Scott (abt. 1595 - bef. 1654)

Born about 26 Feb 1595 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Strutt) Scott — married 20 Jul 1620 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died before 17 Mar 1654 before about age 59 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Thomas Scott migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 6, p. 209) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

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Not to be confused with Thomas Scott of Cambridge and Hartford, Connecticut

Biography

Thomas Scoote the sonne of Henry and Martha was baptized on 26 Feb 1594/5 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. ^[1][2] Thomas was the first child of this marriage to appear in the parish register. He was the son of Henry Scott and Martha Whatlock^[3]

He became a glover.^[4]

He married Elizabeth Strutt on 20 July 1620 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. ^[5]

(1620) July 20 Thomas Scott and Elizabeth Strutt were Maried

The village of Rattlesden and the surrounding area was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1634, a local wheelwright, Richard Kemball, Thomas' brother-in-law, led a relatively large company from Rattlesden to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration.^[6]

Thomas and Elizabeth, along with his mother Martha and his sister Ursula Kimball and her family, immigrated on the ship Elizabeth: "Thomas Skott," aged 40, "Elizabeth his wife," aged 40, "Martha Scott," aged 60, "Elizabeth Scott," aged 9, "Abigail Scott," aged 7 and "Thomas Scott," aged 6,^[2] were enrolled at Ipswich as passengers for New England under Master Willis Andres.^[3] They arrived sometime in July 1634.

They settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony where Thomas was granted a house-lot in 1635. 
Thomas took the Freeman’s Oath on March 4, 1634/5.^[7] He was selectman of Ipswich in 1636/7, constable in 1641, served on grand juries 1645, 1648 and 1651, and on trial juries in 1647, 1649 and 1653.

The town of Ipswich sued him for debt in 1646, and he was one of Major Denison’s subscribers in 1648.^[8]

Thomas died sometime between writing his will on 8 March 1653/4 and 17 Mar 1653/4, when the inventory of his estate was taken.^[2]

"The will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich was made March 8, 1653/4, and proved March 28, 1654. To his daughters Elizabeth and Abigail he left £25 each, half to be paid within half a year of his decease and the rest within a year. To his daughters Hannah, Sarah, and Mary, £25 each, to be paid when they reached the age of twenty-one, but, if they married before that age, one-half was to be paid on their marriage days. Residue to son Thomas. Executors: brother Richard Kembell, Thomas Rowlinson, sr., Edmund Bridges."^[9]

"The inventory of £318 lists three books, much cloth and pewter and the house, barn and land. The legacies of Sarah and Mary Scott were paid to Mr. Ezekiel Rogers for them in 1661 and 1663, and Haniell Bosworth receipted for that of his wife Abigail in 1663."^[8]

Estate Inventory on 17 Mar 1653/54 valued £319-19-11; £129 in real estate.^[2]

Children

1. Elizabeth bp Rattlesden 18 Nov 1623; m by 1646 John Stofford
2. Abigail bp Rattlesden 5 Mar 1625/6^[8]; m by 8 Mar 1653/4 Daniel Bosworth
3. Thomas bp Rattlesden 15 Ju 1628; m by 1656 Margaret Hubbard, daughter of William; he died at Ipswich 6 Sep 1657; his widow m2 Ezekiel Rogers.
4. Benjamin bp Rattlesden 3 Feb 1670 bur there 30 Aug 1633^[8]
5. Hannah b abt 1635; m. 7 Jan 1655/5 (in Stamford, CT) Edmund Lockwood
6. Sarah, b abt 1637; named in father's 1653 will at which time she was single; no further record.
7. Mary b abt 1639; m by 1666 Thomas Patch; eldest child b Wenham 8 Dec 1666. (Did she d Sept 26, 1728 in Wenham?)

Research Notes

Merge caution: Thomas Scott of Ipswich needs to be distinguished from Thomas Scott of Cambridge and Hartford who was also an early immigrant. Early secondary sources mixed the records of the two men. For example, both Savage in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England and Pope in his Pioneers of Massachusetts err in combining the records of the two men.^[10][11] (The ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847 also makes this error).^[8] However, the records of these two men overlap in such a way that it is clear that they are two separate men.

Thomas Scott of Ipswich, MA was baptized in Rattlesden, England in 1594.

“The records for Thomas Scott of Cambridge are continuous from late 1634 until early 1635, whereas Thomas Scott of Ipswich was made a freeman on 4 Mar 1634/5 [MBCR 1:370], demonstrating that these were two separate men. The disappearance of Thomas Scott from Cambridge shortly before a man of the same name appeared at Hartford indicates that the records in these two towns pertain to the same man, participating in the larger migration from Cambridge to Hartford."^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Notes on the history of the church and parish of Rattlesden, in the county of Suffolk: together with a copy of the parish registers from 1558 to 1758, and index of the marriages.
   Rev. J.R. Olorenshaw (pub. 1900) [page 241 image 274 online]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, Boston, MA: NEHGS (2009), Featured name: "Thomas Scott" pages 209-13. NEHGS subscription link
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury: compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury (N.p.: n.p., 1938), pages 81-82. [View online at FamilySearch.org (online pages 91-92)
4. ↑ Henry F. Waters, “Genealogical Gleanings In England,”The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 52, April. 1898. Page 248. Notes: Will of Robert Whotlock 20 Sep 1622: "My kinsman, Thomas Scott of Rattlesden, glover"
5. ↑ Notes on the history of the church and parish of Rattlesden, in the county of Suffolk: together with a copy of the parish registers from 1558 to 1758, and index of the marriages. Rev. J.R. Olorenshaw (pub. 1900) [page 263 image 296 online]
6. ↑ Wikipedia: Rattlesden referencing: Thompson, Roger. Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. pp 212-213
7. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) Vol 1, 370.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Davis, Walter. The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847 (The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1947). p 118-120.
9. ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, wife of Capt. Abel Lunt ... (Portland, Me: Anthoensen Press, 1947), 119; digital images, Hathi Trust.
10. ↑ Savage. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, volume 4 of 4, (1862), vol. 4 page 39.
11. ↑ Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Boston, 1900): 404.
12. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Boston, MA: NEHGS (2008), vol 6, p 218. NEHGS Subscription link.

See also:

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.495
• A Register of the Ancestors of Dorr Eugene Felt and Agnes (McNulty) Felt, Compiled for Dorr E. Felt, by Alfred L. Holman, Chicago, 1921, "Felt and Allied Families", Scott, Pg. 113.
• Sanborn, George Freeman, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire: to the End of the Year 1900. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992).
• Libby, Charles Thornton. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Southward Press, Portland, Maine, 1928), Page 81.
• Filby, P. William, ed, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010. In Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Ancestry.com Place: Boston, Massachusetts; Year: 1634; Pages: 27 and 118
• Ancestry.com. Burke’s Family Records (Indexed) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
• Year: 1624; Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
• Year: 1635; Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
• Year: 1654; The Essex Institute, 1911-1975; Salem, MA, USA; Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volumes 1-9; Volume: I; Page: 338
• Year: 1654; Massachusetts, Essex County, Probate Records; Author: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court (Essex County); Probate Place: Essex, Massachusetts
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81533956

Acknowledgements

Some of the following may have contributed data that was intended for Thomas Scott of Hartford, CT. : Liisa Small (6 June 2011), Michael Stephenson (20 Jun 2011), Betty Patterson (20 June 2011, Brian McCullough (8 Jul 2011), Masm x (7 Aug 2011), Mike Walton (20 Aug 2011), Willette Bryant (12 Sep 2011), John Putnam (12 Oct 2011), Marie Chantigny (27 Jul 13), Johanna Amnelin (5 Jul 2011), Henry Chadwick Mar 29, 2014.