| 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) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
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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]
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.
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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
What say ye?
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.
edited by Ashley Jones JD
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
edited by BB Sahm
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