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Thomas Littlefield (abt. 1633 - 1689)

Thomas Littlefield
Born about in Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married before Jan 1664 [location unknown]
Husband of — married after 1674 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 56 in Berwick, York, Mainemap
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Biography

Thomas Littlefield immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Thomas 2 (Edmund) was bp. Aug. 10, 1633; possibly the twin of Anne as they were baptized the same day.[1][2][3] He drowned in Berwick before Mar 1689/90.[1][4][5]He married (1) Ruth before Jan 1663/64:[6] m. (2) Sarah.[7]

Children:

i. Moses b. c. 1666; bp. 1708 Wells; m. Martha Lord, dau. of Nathan Lord

ii. Rebecca b. c. 1668; m. (1) William Wakefield; m. (2) William King July 19, 1717

iii. Dorothy m. Isaac Nash in 1718; living Kingstown, Rhode Island in 1718

iv. Mary b. c. 1689; m. William Eaton Apr. 19, 1709" page -8- Littlefield Family Newsletter _ v. l, no. l Jan 1991


Thomas was a constable 1661 and 1664; had a grant of land in 1665. There was an inquest c. 1689/90 into the untimely deaths of Samuel Lord, Robert Houston and Thomas Littlefield of Wells. His family emigrated to New England in 1636[8].

Thomas drowned in 1689 in Wells, Maine, along with Samuel Lord and Robert Houston, according to an inquest held after their deaths[9].

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pricilla Eaton, The Littlefield Genealogy, Descendants of Edmund Littlefield of Wells ME Through Six Generations, 220, 23.
  2. Contributed by Miss Elizabeth French, "NEHGR 67(1913):343-348," Genealgical Research in England/Littlefield: 348, bp. 10 Jan 1632/33.
  3. Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. II, (In the Ancestry of Walter Goodin Davis (1885-1966)), 484, bp. Aug. 10 1633.
  4. Contributed by Miss Elizabeth French, "NEHGR 67(1913):343-348," Genealgical Research in England/Littlefield: 348.
  5. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 577.
  6. Contributed by Miss Elizabeth French, "NEHGR 67(1913):343-348," Genealgical Research in England/Littlefield: 348, abt 1667.
  7. Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. II, (In the Ancestry of Walter Goodin Davis (1885-1966)), 484.
  8. Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times, 1620-1640. Genealogical Publishing Company: 1930.
  9. Eaton, Priscilla. The Descendants of Nathan Lord of Kittery and Berwick, Maine. The Maine Genealogist and Biographer, Vol. 33 (2011)




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This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).

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