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Thomas Applegate (abt. 1598 - abt. 1662)

Thomas Applegate
Born about in Englandmap [uncertain]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1622 in Englandmap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 64 in Gravesend, New Netherlandmap
Profile last modified | Created 24 May 2011
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Thomas Applegate migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 1, p. 72)
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Thomas Applegate was a New Netherland settler.
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Origins

Thomas Applegate was of English background, but his English origins and parents are unknown.[1] John Edwin Stillwell suggested that he was probably from Norfolkshire, where the name Applegate could be traced, with corruptions and variations in its spelling, from the names Applegarth and Applegath (an enclosure for apple trees) to Applegate, and might also be related to the name Appleyard and variants. He noted "a striking coincidence of family names" in the Appleyard family of Norfolkshire and the early Applegates of New Jersey, particularly the occurrence of the relatively uncommon name Bartholomew among the Apelyards who were lords of Rainthrop Hall and Mills Manor in Norfolkshire. According to Stillwell, in 1419, a branch of the Appleyards came into the possession of Duaton Manor, which Will Applegate bequeathed to his son, Thomas, in 1481, also naming his mother Elizabeth and his brothers John and Bartholomew (died 1492) in the will. Stillwell stated that the coincidence was suggestive of a family relationship, but there was no proof.[2]

Biography

Puritan Great Migration
Thomas Applegate immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Flushing, Long Island.

The founder of the Applegate Family in America was Thomas Applegate who left Norfolkshire, England and settled in Holland with a group of fellow Englishman during the Puritan disorders. About 1635, he came to Massachusetts Bay Colony[3]

Thomas Applegate in 1645 was an early English patentee in Flushing, northern Queens, Long Island, which was established by Dutch settlers on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Netherland colony. The settlement was named after the city of Vlissingen, in the southwestern Netherlands, the main port of the company; Flushing is an anglicization of the Dutch name that was then in use. In 1646 Thomas then bought land in nearby Gravesend, Brooklyn, Kings, western Long Island, which was another early English colony under Dutch rule. Gravesend is now a neighborhood in south-central Brooklyn, along the shore of Gravesend Bay and Coney Island. In 1609 Henry Hudson landed his ship the Half Moon there at the island known by the natives as Narrioch (Coney Island). In 1643 Gravesend then became one of the original towns founded in the Dutch colony of New Netherland when Governor Willem Kieft granted a land patent to the Anabaptist Lady Deborah Moody, as a site where that English sect could settle free from religious persecution. Clashes with the natives delayed the town for two more years, until December 19, 1645.

Migration

Migrated from England to Holland and then to America.
Thomas Applegate was a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as early as 1635, when he got a license to keep a ferry between Wessaguscas (Weymouth) and Mt. Wooliston (Braintree). A year later he was turned out. Between 1635-1640 his name is in many records. His wife Elizabeth seems to been one of the unfortunate women who suffered from ecclesiastical tyranny of that puritanical time, For she was censured to stand with her tongue in a cleft stick for swearing. Perhaps these experiences prompted them to move to more liberal settlements of Rhode Island.
From Rhode Island they went to New Amsterdam.
  • 1645 patentee of Flushing, Long Island [4]Original Patentees: Thomas Farrington, John Lawrence, John Hicks, John Townsend, Thomas Stiles, Robert Field, Thomas Saul, John Marston, Thomas Applegate, Lawrence Dutch, William Lawrence, Henry Sawtell, William Thorne, Michael Willard, Robert Firman and Willam Widgeon. [5][6][7]
  • 1646 bought land at Gravesend.
  • 1650 Nicholas Stillwell sued Thomas for slander.
  • 1662 He died.[8]

Occupation

Licensed to operate ferry. Date: 2 Sept 1635[9]
Planter Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Birth

Born: About 1598 in England.
The the date is an estimate based on his estimated marriage date of 1623. His origins in England are unknown.

Marriage

Husband: Thomas Applegate
Wife: Elizabeth Mary Wall
  1. Child: Bartholomew Applegate
  2. Child: Helena Applegate
  3. Child: Margaret Applegate No mention of her in books or Find a grave.
  4. Child: John Applegate
  5. Child: Thomas Applegate

Residence

Gravesend, Long Island, New Jersey, USA

Death

Date: 1662[10]

Sources

  1. Anderson, page 72
  2. Stillwell, page 1.
  3. quotation from Applegate genealogy (unsourced user-contributed content on OKGenWeb Project website).
  4. E. B. Callaghan. "Charter - Granted by the Director and Council of New Netherland to the Town of Flushing. 10 October, 1645." In Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674, 48. Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1868.
  5. Rootsweb Queens County Flushing
  6. Material Life on the Long Island Frontier: The Inventory of Captain William Lawrence, Flushing, 1680 Lauren Brincat New-York Historical Society
  7. The History of Long Island: From Its Discovery and Settlement, to the present time by Benjamin Franklin Thompson pg 68 and Freeholders Gravesend 1656 pg 177
  8. Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: By John Salter, Volume 3, Page 3 pub 1903.
  9. Familysearch Thomas Applegate
  10. Find A Grave Memorial# 7808282 Note: There have been several surveys done of the cemetery and no Applegate names are entered in the 1882 survey done by Wm H. Stillwell for the King's County Geneogical Club. Perhaps they were too old even then to read the stones.
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Pages 72-75. Accessed at AmericanAncestors.org. View with NEHGS Membership
  • The Applegate Project Thomas Applegate
  • My Genealogy Home Page:Information about Thomas Applegate
  • Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.
  • Stillwell, John Edwin. Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey, vol. III. New York, 1914.




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Applegate-2295 and Applegate-55 appear to represent the same person because: Per the G2G reply (https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1807634/comments-on-thomas-applegate-pre-1600), I am requesting a merge of this Thomas Applegate with that of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Applegate-55. There is no other known Thomas Applegate in Massachusetts at that time per the records that are known at this time. It is possible this profile was uploaded from an unsourced family tree/trees based on estimations before sources were readily available, etc., but is supposed to represent the same person. He has been disconnected from his inaccurate wife and is ready for merging.
posted by Sarah Shingleton
Hi Neil,

I'm Sending this to G2G for some advice. I've taken over and built up the profile for currently Thomas's son-in-law John Ruckman (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ruckman-170) who immigrated on the ship Abigail in 1635 with wife Elizabeth and son John (at least we think so they were on the log on the England side - smallpox was on the ship). I have looked at Ancestry and FamilySearch and Geni - nobody has produced any source which suggests that Elizabeth's surname was Applegate. The only cited sources are the Geneanet and Millenium files. They are attached to her only because of a merge of the 2 profiles for John, which did have to happen (actually there were 3).

I am doubtful that this Thomas Applegate and Katherine Starkes even existed. Cited sources for a marriage and a child for them in England are acutally in the 1800s! They are not the same couple who actually WERE in Gravesend with John Ruckman (That Thomas is very well sourced and his wife was Elizabeth). This Thomas has no info other than his Geni page with no sources.

What is the right thing to do, just disconnect?

Thank you, Sarah

posted on Applegate-2295 (merged) by Sarah Shingleton
Per the G2G reply, I am requesting a merge of this Thomas Applegate with that of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Applegate-55. There is no other known Thomas Applegate in Massachusetts at that time per the records that are known at this time. It is possible this profile was uploaded from an unsourced family tree/trees based on estimations before sources were readily available, etc., but is supposed to represent the same person. He has been disconnected from his inaccurate wife and is ready for merging.
posted on Applegate-2295 (merged) by Sarah Shingleton
Guys, why is this profile connected to E. Wall-223 in the spousal field and E. Wall-375 in the text of the marriage section? Is there a 2nd profile for Elizabeth Wall that needs merging into the one currently connected as spouse?

What say ye?

posted by BB Sahm
Wall-375 was previously merged into Wall-223 and the link wasn't updated. Not a big issue as it will still go to the merged profile, but I've updated it.
posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
If he was married and fathering children by 1620, then a 1604 estimated birthdate beggars belief. At least five to ten years earlier would be better.

edit: I'm also wondering why we have his marriage in Bedfordshire, when the best guess places his origin in Norfolk? I don't see any source for the marriage here.

posted by Ashley Jones JD
edited by Ashley Jones JD
Corrected birth date to follow Anderson (1598). His son's 1620 birth date was also wrong. He is not known to have been born in Norfolk, and he is not known to have married in Bedforshire.
posted by Joe Cochoit
Thanks, Joe. It looks like his wife's maiden name is suspect as well. Dead ends all around on this little branch of the tree.
posted by Ashley Jones JD
In the data, the death date and place, 1662 at Middlesex, New Jersey is from unsourced Find A Grave.

Anderson in "Great Migration" p. 72 says he died at Gravesend between January 18, 1656 and 1657.

I suggest death be updated to reflect "Great Migration."

https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-i-a-b/image?volumeId=7051&pageName=72&rId=235164633

Yeah, it is best to use sourced information over Find A Grave as a policy. I will check the sourcing used by Dr. Howard Applegate stored in Ocean County, NJ. To date, he is most reliable Applegate authority, and a descendant of Thomas. I will see what he did. If it is different, I will report back.
posted by BB Sahm
edited by BB Sahm
Hi ,

I noticed the project profile was removed as manager of this profile so I added it back as manager now. We are adding the project profiles as manager to all early and/or PPP profiles now, because this is the only way to keep track of and watch over them and it makes it more easy for project members to collaborate and work on them. See also:

Management by Project

What if your ancestor is protected ?

Hope it's more clear this way ?

Greets from the Netherlands, Bea

posted by Bea (Timmerman) Wijma
I am disconnecting the parents Applegate-56 and Applegate-98 from this profile. I have found no reasonable basis for identifying them (or anyone else) as Thomas' parents.
posted by Ellen Smith

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