Thomasine (Lumpkin) Sunderland (1626 - 1709)

Born 1626 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Mayo — married before 1645 (to before 26 Apr 1664) in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Wife of John Sunderland — married before 27 Jun 1664 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Jun 1709 at about age 83 in Brewster, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Thomasin (Lumpkin) Sunderland immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Thomasine (aka Tamsen) Lumpkin was born about 1625^[1] the daughter of William Lumpkin and Tamesin (____) Lumpkin.

She married first in Yarmouth 1643 Samuel Mayo^[2] by whom she had Mary Mayo. ^[3]

She married secondly John Sunderland before 27 June 1664, the date of an indenture made by John Synderland Sr. of Boston and Thomasin his wife.^[4] John was of Boston and later of Eastham (he d. Dec. 26, 1708 in 85th year of age; his 1st wife Dorothy died Jan 29, 1663/4. John's occupation was a parchment maker in Boston. Later he was a school teacher).^[5] John Sunderland's will of 27 Sept. 1700, prov. 4 Apr. 1704, provides for his widow and her daughters: Mary Bangs; Sarah Freeman; and Mercy Sears.^[6]

Tamsen Sunderlin died 16 June 1709 Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts ^[7] and was buried in the Brewster Old Burial Ground where her gravestone still stands:^{[8] [9]}

HERE LYES Ye BODY

OF Mrs TAMSEN

SUNDERLIN WIFE TO

Mr JOHN SUNDERLIN

DEC'D JUNE Ye 16 1709

IN Ye 84 YEAR

OF HER AGE

Sources

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 6 Jun 1921, 8919; 25 Sep 1922, 8321; 13 Nov 1922, 8321; 13 Dec 1922, 8321; 20 Dec 1922, 832; Volume 112, p. 495
2. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004 Thomasin Lumpkin
3. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
4. ↑ Suffolk Deeds, Liber IV, (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1888), p. 187-8.
5. ↑ E. Jean May Mayo, Rev. John Mayo and His Descendants Pueblo Co., 2010, p. 46
6. ↑ James Savage, Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1862) Vol. 4:233, section on John Sunderland
7. ↑ Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.
8. ↑ Cape Cod Gravestones, Brewster Old Burial Ground Up To 1749 (includes gravestone photo)
9. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 06 April 2019), memorial page for Tamsen Lumpkin Sunderlin (1625–16 Jun 1709), Find A Grave: Memorial #46845191, citing Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by ditdit (contributor 47012745). (Includes gravestone photos)

See also:

• Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 2.
• D.O.S. Lowell, A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, being the ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins, Boston, 1920.
• James Savage, Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1994 edition
• E. Jean May Mayo, Rev. John May and His Descendants, Pueblo, CO (year?)
• Find a Grave - Thomasine Mayo Findagrave memorial