Thomas Saffin (1663 - 1687)

Born 8 Mar 1663 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 18 Jun 1687 at age 24 in London, England

Biography

Thomas was born in 1663. He is the son of John Saffin and Martha Willett.

Buried St. Dunstan's, Stepney, epitaph^[1]

Here Thomas Saffin lies interred—ah, why?

Born in New England did in London die,

Was the third son of eight, begot upon

His mother Martha by his father John.

Much favoured by his prince he 'gan to be,

But nipt by death at th' age of twenty-three.

Fatal to him was that we small-pox name,

By which his mother and two brethren came

Also to breathe their last, nine years before,

And now have left their father to deplore

The loss of all his children, with his wife,

Who was the joy and comfort of his life.

Deceased, June 18, 1687.

Sources

1. ↑ Walter Thornbury. "Stepney," in Old and New London: Volume 2, (London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878), 137-142. British History Online, accessed December 17, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp137-142.

• Hart, Robert Wayne. Genealogical Material On The Willet and Saffin Families From The Notebook of John Saffin, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2008) Vol. 162, WN 648, Page 266-7.