Hannah (Aborne) Tompkins (abt. 1615 - abt. 1665)

Born about 1615 in Buckinghamshire, England

Wife of Ralph Tompkins — married after 1642 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Died about 1665 at about age 50 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Pope spells the surname "Eborne," hence variations are Aborne, Aburne, and Eborne.

Uncertain Name

Where does the name, "Hannah," come from? Torrey's sources: Felton 245, Silsbee 7, Randall Anc. 440, Farr Anc. 282.
Felton, (Page 244) reports only that she was a sister of Samuel Aborne.^[1]
Emmerton reports she was "probably a second wife who had been a widow Foster ... called sister by Samuel Eborne."^[2]
Randall uses the name, Hannah, "Ralph Tompkins married 2nd, Hannah Aborne [603m] whom Samuel Aborn called 'sister.'"^[3]
Bibliography is: PHSM 1:426-7, HDAH, VRSA, Vols 2, 4, 6, SNE 4:311.
Sumner also uses the name, Hannah, but without evidence or source.^[4]

Uncertain Origin

Whittemore assumed that Samuel Eborne was a son of Thomas Eaborne (without evidence).^[5] Anderson, "Presumably Thomas and Samuel Eborne (or Eaborne) were related in some way, but Thomas was not necessarily Samuel's father ... Thomas may well have been Samuel's brother as father."^[6] In addition, Anderson found no evidence for any marriage or children for Thomas Eborne.^[6]

Some assume that Hannah was the daughter of Thomas Eaborne, based on the assumption that Samuel Eborne was a son of Thomas. In a deposition on the estate of Ralph Tompkins, Samuel Eborne called Tompkin's wife his sister, "Deponent told Tomkins that his sister, Tomkin's wife, had bequeathed all her property to Mary Foster ..." (see below). Anderson featured Ralph Tompkins in his Great Migration series and concludes that Ralph married, as his 2nd, to Unknown (Unknown) and "she was somehow sister of Samuel Aburne."^[7]

Record for Ralph Tompkins

PROBATE: The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume II, 1665-1674, Salem, Mass. Essex Institute, 1916, page 75-76, Estate of RALPH TOMPKINS of Salem. Administration on the estate of Ralph Tompkins, deceased, granted 27 : 9 : 1666 to John Tompkins, and he presented an inventory. Court ordered that the five acres of land mentioned in the inventory be given to said John, and after all debts were paid tht the remainder of the estate be given to Mary, daughter of John Foster. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 177.
Inventory (not copied)
Samuel (his mark) Aburne, aged fifty-two years, deposed that at the burial of the wife of Ralph Tompkins, late deceased, as soon as the company had departed, he went in to said Ralph, who was weak and not likely long to survive his wife, to put him in mind of making his will. He also wished to speak with him about the will which his wife made, which was to dispose of what was hers before her marriage. Deponent told Tomkins that his sister, Tomkin's wife, had bequeathed all her property to Mary Foster because she had been so helpful to her during her long sickness, doing for her what nobody else would do. Tompkins replied that he fully agreed to this but he would like to have the use of it during his life and he would rather increase than diminishing. Before making his will he would first talk with his son Foster, and deponent thought that it was his intention to give what he had to Mary Foster. Also that Tomkins was of this mind when he was removing to Bridgewater, and when, thinking never to see him again, deponent reminded him of Mary Foster.
An (her M mark) Small, aged about fifty years, deposed that Goodwife Tomkins told her that she had willed all to Mary Foster and that the cow was brought up from a calf for said Mary. Edward Grove, aged forty years, deposed.
Nathaniel Felton aged about fifty years, deposed that Tompkins desired to have the bed and other household stuff, but if he removed to Bridgewater, to his son Samuel's etc. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaves 33, 34].^[8]</blockquote>

Marriage

Hannah Aborne married Ralph Tompkins in Salem, Massachusetts, some time after April 1642, last known record of Ralph's first wife, Katherine.^{[citation needed]}

Death and Legacy

Hannah preceded Ralph (short while) in death. Looked after by (prob.) granddaughter, Mary Foster, in her final days, hence made her a primary beneficiary per Essex Co. Quarterly Court files, probated Essex Co., Vol. 12, leaves 33, 34 (this is Ralph's administration, but reference is made to Hannah and Mary).^[9] (p 71)^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ (1886) A genealogical history of the Felton family. Marlborough, MA: Pratt Brothers, Archive.org (page 244).
2. ↑ Emmerton, James Arthur, (1880) A genealogical account of Henry Silsbee ... Salem: Essex Institute, Archive.org (Page 7).
3. ↑ Randall, William. (1943) Randall and allied families; ... Chicago: Raveret-Weber, HathiTrust.org (Page 440).
4. ↑ Sumner, Edith Bartlett. (1959) Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and ninety allied families. Los Angeles: Am. Offset Print., Hathi/trust.org (Page 282).
5. ↑ Whittemore, Henry, (1898) Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America. New York: Archive.org accessed 18 September 2016 (Page 167).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Anderson, Robert Charles, (1995) "Thomas Eaborne," featured name. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. AmericanAncestors.org NEHGS, (Volumes I-III, Page 607-08).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Anderson, Robert Charles. (1995) "Ralph Tompkins." Featured name. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y. Boston: NEHGS AmericanAncestors.org (Vol VII, T-Y, Pages 68-72).
8. ↑ (1913) Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, Archive.org (Vol 3, Pages 379-80).
9. ↑ THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS by Charles Henry Pope, page 457.

See also:

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. III, p. 1529. TOMPKINS, Ralph (1585-1666) & 1/wf Katharine FOSTER (1577-); in Eng, 6 Nov 1608; Dorchester/Bridgewater/Salem TOMPKINS, Ralph (1585-1666) & 2/wf Hannah [ABORNE]; aft 1635; Salem.
• See RALPH TOMPKINS (TOMKINS) & PHILIP KNIGHT FAMILIES OF SALEM MASSACHUSETTS, for guide the multiple generations of these families.
• Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. P 747
• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.