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There were two men, Thomas Patch, who resided Essex County, Massachusetts, in the mid-1600s. Both were born about the same time, and both married women named Mary--(a) Thomas Patch (c1638-1711) of Salem/Beverly, married Mary Lovett, and (b) Thomas Patch (c1638-1721/2) of Wenham, and perhaps earlier, Ipswich, married Mary Scott.

The two men have often been conflated or confused in print, so that their parentage has likewise been confused. These errors in print date back to the entries in Savage, 1861.[1]

Thomas Patch of Salem/Beverly was born, perhaps Salem, about 1638,[2] the son of Nicholas Patch and his wife, Elizabeth Owsley. Thomas died in Beverly, 28 September 1711.[3][4] He married, probably Mackerel Cove, then Salem, before 1667 (baptism of two children at Beverly First Church, July 1668), Mary Lovett, the daughter of John and Mary (_____) Lovett of Salem/Beverly.[5][6] (In The History of Salem, Sidney Perley reported Nicholas Patch's youngest son was "Serg. Thomas Patch of Beverly and Wenham ...," reporting he married Mary Lovett, but the author then conflated continuing details about the two couples and their children.)[7]

Thomas' father, Nicholas Patch, and Mary's father, John Lovett, were both received as inhabitants of Salem at the same town meeting, 25 July 1639, and were granted land "neere Macrell Cove."[8]

The part of Salem where these Patch and Lovett families lived[9] was set off to become Beverly on 3 November 1668. The church at Beverly, originally the "Church of Christ att Bass River," was established just earlier, 20 September 1667.[10] Nicholas Patch and Mary (____) Lovett were founding members of the Beverly church,[11] having been members[12] dismissed from the Salem church.[13] Thomas and Mary (Lovett) Patch became members of the Beverly church in 1668,[14] and they had their three children baptized there--Thomas and William in 1668, and James in 1678. (The children's published baptismal records were annotated by Augustas A. Galloupe to identify their mother as Mary Scott, of Ipswich.)[15]

Both Nicholas Patch and John Lovett died in Beverly--Nicholas died there before 26 Nov 1673 (date administration granted),[16][17] and John Lovett died there on or just after 8 November 1686 (date of will).[18][19][20] Thomas and Mary each inherited property in Beverly when their fathers died.

In 1673, from his father, Thomas inherited land in Beverly, including "forty acres of upland with fower acres of meddow … which sd forty acres of upland is lying in a place called 'the old houses,' where ye sd Thomas now lives." << Perley says that when Thomas died in 1711, this land "descended to son William (died 1 November 1742) [no record oof this transfer yet] ... and then to his son William (buried 11 November 1773) [no record of this transfer yet] ... and then to his son Robert Patch (died 3 August 1816) [see Essex Deeds 132:122 dated 20 December 1773, recorded 29 December 1773, FamilySearch], Lydia Patch, a single woman, to Robert Patch ... and then to his daughter Molly, wife of Nathaniel Roberts ... Where is the deed to William?

In 1686, from her father, Mary inherited "ten Acres of ground adjoyning to [the Patch] dwelling house to her and the male heirs lawfully begotten of her body ----- and in failure of such heirs to return to ye next heirsess and the fifteen Pounds delivered at ye day of marriage.." (language ....) <<Perley says this lot was devised to Mary by her father's will ... and that Mary owned it at 1700.



Thomas and Mary (Lovett) Patch lived out their lives in Beverly, and the property they had inherited from their parents was deeded to their children.[21][22]

Thomas Patch of Beverly was made a freeman 11 May 1670.[23][24][25][26]

....Thomas Patch of Salem/Beverly, whose 1707 "dwelling house" property was bounded "Southerly by ye meadow formerly Ensign John Patch's now in possession of his Son Benjamin Patch & Easterly by ye ten acres of Land given to my late wife Mary by her father Lovits Last Will and Testament."

Thomas Patch of Wenham was born about 1638 or 1639 (age at death and testimony of 1679),[27] and died in Wenham, 19 February 1721/2.[28][29] He married probably Ipswich, by 1666 (child born Wenham tha year), Mary Scott,[30] the daughter of Thomas and Elizabth (Strutt) Scott of Ipswich.[31][32] In 1683, Thomas Patch joined with Mary's sisters, Elizabeth Spofford and Abigaill Barsworth in litigation about the estate of Mary's brother, the late Thomas Scott of Ipswich.[33][34]

Thomas and Mary (Scott) Patch had children's births recorded Wenham in 1666,[35] 1669[/70],[36] 1674[37] and 1680.[38] They built a large home in Wenham, about 1700;[citation needed]

Thomas Patch's name appears frequently in the town records of Wenham, first given on 6th : 11 mo. 1668 [6 January 1668/9] when he, Thomas White and John Abey, Jr., were chosen surveyors to oversee the town common, "that no traspas be don in our timber by any stranger in falling & carying any of it awaye ..."[39] Beginning in about 1695, he was generally referred to as Sergeant Thomas Patch.

Although Thomas Patch's parentage is unknown or unproven, he was appointed the administrator on the estate of his uncle, Edmund Patch, who died in Ipswich, Essex County, 10 November 1680.[40]

Thomas Patch joined the Wenham church (member no. 57) and was admitted to full communion in 1698, his wife having been so admitted earlier, in 1692.[41]

  • 1666-child
  • 1667-child
  • 1673
  • 1674
  • 1676-child
  • 1680-child
  • 1684-deed, Essex 22:188
  • 1695
  • 1696
  • 1697
  • 1698
  • 1700

Research Notes

Sources

  1. ↑ James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England ... (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 4 vols., 3:368-369 (Thomas Patch); digital images, Hathi Trust.
  2. ↑ He is presumed the Thomas Patch deposed in 1677, aged about 39 years, see George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute, 1911-1975), 6:348-349 at 349 (Court Held at Salem, 27 : 9 mo.: 1677 [27 November 1677]; digital image, Hathi Trust, in the matter of Tho. Woodbery v. Richard Stackhouse regarding a length of sail, for "Thomas Patch, aged about thirty-nine years, deposed that Woodbury said he had taken out about thirty yards from the sale for other uses. Sworn in Court."
  3. ↑ Thomas Patch, sr., death entry, citing "C.R. 1. [church record, First Parish Unitarian Church]," Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1906-1907) 2:523 (Patch); digital images, Hathi Trust.
  4. ↑ Thomas Patch 1711 death notation in Beverly church records, William P. Upham, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1905), 39; digital images, Hathi Trust, "An acct. of deaths &c from 1711 ... Tho : Patch Senr Sept. 28 ..."
  5. ↑ John Lovet 1686 Will (image), citing "Probate records v. 12-12 1657-1697," "Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899"; digital images, FamilySearch; transcript at Eugene Tappan, "Essex County Estates Administered in Suffolk County, Prior to 1701," Essex Institute Historical Collections, multiple vols. 40 (1904): 215; digital images, Internet Archive, cites "Docket, No. 1523."
  6. ↑ Symond, Joseph & Mary Lovett 1650 baptisms in Richard D. Pierce, The Records of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629-1736 (Salem, Essex Institute, 1974), 22; digital images, InternetArchive.
  7. ↑ Sidney Perley, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., S. Perley, 1924-28), 2:70, 70n-71n; digital image, Hathi Trust.
  8. ↑ Sidney Perley and Martha O. Howes, Town records of Salem, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1869-), multiple vols., 1:89-90; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  9. ↑ This area later became part of Beverly when the town was set off from Salem, see "Mackerel Cove, Essex County, Massachusetts"; HomeTownLocator; the place is located "In Beverly Harbor at Beverly between Tuck and Woodbury Points; City of Beverly."
  10. ↑ William P. Upham, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1905), 1; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  11. ↑ William P. Upham, ed., Records of the First Church of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1905), 4-9, at 7 (for the names, including Nickolas Patch and Mary Lovett); digital images, HathiTrust.
  12. ↑ Nicholas Patch and Mary Lovett were among 21 admitted to the Salem church in 1650, see Thomas Barnard (pastor), compiler, Records of the First Church of Salem, Mass. [1629-1843] (manuscript, bound volume), image 213; digital images, Congressional Library and Archives, notes "copied from the original ..." and "the original manuscripts are owned by ... Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum.
  13. ↑ William P. Upham, ed., Records of the First Church of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1905), 1-4, at 3 (for the names, including Nicholas Patch and Mary Louitt); digital images, HathiTrust.
  14. ↑ William P. Upham, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1905), 11; digital images, Hathi Trust, for entries dated 10 : 3 : mo. [1668], 17 : 3 mo. [1668] and 12 : 5 mo. [1668].
  15. ↑ Thomas and William Patch 1668 baptism and James Patch 1678 baptism in William P. Upham, ed. with annotations by Augustus A. Galloupe, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1905), 86, 94; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  16. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 2:383; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  17. ↑ Mary's father, John Lovett, was one of the witnesses to the agreement between Nicholas' sons, John and Thomas Patch, as to the settlement of their father's estate, see John & Thomas Patch agreement, 8 December 1673, otherwise Essex (Mass.) Deeds, 4:47; digital images, FamilySearch, viewed as FSL film 866016, digital collection (DGS) 007462654, images 77-78 of 711; witnesses as John Lovet, Senr and Hilliard Veren, Senr.
  18. ↑ Eugene Tappan, "Essex County Estates Administered in Suffolk County, Prior to 1701," Essex Institute Historical Collections, multiple vols. 40 (1904): 215; digital images, Internet Archive, cites "Docket, No. 1523."
  19. ↑ John Lovet will dated 8 November 1686, "Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899"; digital images, FamilySearch
  20. ↑ The town record reports he died on 5 November 1686, which pre-dates his will, see John Lovett sr 1686 death entry in Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield, Mass., Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907), 2:496 (Lovett); digital images, HathiTrust, [Lovitt] "John sr., Nov. 5, 1686, a. abt. 7 y."
  21. ↑ "Thomas Patch House" in Sidney Perley, "Beverly in 1700, No. 5," Essex Institute Historical Collections, 56 (1920): 98-110 for various Patch and Lovett lots, including at 106 (Thomas Patch House); map (between 104 and 105); digital images, Hathi Trust.
  22. ↑ "Mary Patch lot" in Sidney Perley, "Beverly in 1700, No. 5," Essex Institute Historical Collections, 56 (1920): 98-110 (for various Patch and Lovett lots), including at 103 (Mary Patch Lot) and map (between 104 and 105); digital images, Hathi Trust
  23. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 4:347 (Court Held at Ipswich, 28 March 1671]; digital image, Hathi Trust, for "Certificate dated May 11 1670 that John Galley, John Blake, Henry Bayly, Thomas West, John Woodbery and Thomas Patch of Beverly were admitted freeman by the General Court."
  24. ↑ Reporting the date as 11 May 1670, but location as "Groton," Henry Franklin Andres, List of freemen, Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1630 to 1691, with freeman's oath, the first paper printed in New England ([Exira, Iowa] : Exira Printing Co., 1906), [21]; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  25. ↑ Salem Quarterly Court records of 27 : 4 : 1671 [27 June 1671] report again that "John Gally, John Black, Hen. Baily, John Woodberye, Thomas Patch and Tristam Coffin" took the oath of freemen--these are the same men whose 11 May 1670 certificate was entered into the record on 28 March 1671 [Court Held at Ipswich], see George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 4:410 (Court Held at Salem, 27 : 4 : 1671]; digital image, Hathi Trust.
  26. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Ccompany of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston : W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 4 (2):584 (11 May 1670); digital images, InternetArchive.
  27. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files ..., 7 (1678-1680):182; digital images, HathiTrust, "Court held at Ipswich, Apr. 1, 1679" in the matter of abuse against some of Mr. Hale's cattle, for "Thomas Patch of Wenham, aged about forty years, deposed, and John Herrick, aged twenty-nine years, deposed. Sworn in court."
  28. ↑ Sergt. Thomas Patch, Sr. 1721/2 death record, citing in part, "church record" in Vital records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1903), 214; digital images, InternetArchive, [Patch], Thomas [sr. C.R.], Sergt., Feb 19, 1721-2. [a. 83 y. C.R.]"
  29. ↑ Thomas Patch 1721/2 death in church record, Joseph Gerrish, minister, [Wenham, Mass. First Congressional Church] Church Records, 1643-1805, 93; digital images, Congressional Library.org, from the section "Church Records, 1643-1805," click on the link to "browse images of this content," then navigate in the page viewer to 105, "Deaths in Wenham, & of Persons belonging to Wenham," for entry (line 5), "[1721/2] Feb. 19, ^Mr. Thomas Patch Senr, aged 83 yrs." For more information about this collection see "Wenham, Mass. First Church in Wenham Congregational records, 1643-1847. RG4929" [finding aid]; digitized content, Congressional Library.org (PDF), navigate to p. 7.
  30. ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, wife of Capt. Abel Lunt ... (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1947), 117-120 (Scott) at 120; digital images, HathiTrust, "Mary [Scott]; unmarried in 1653/4; m. Thomas Patch of Wenham."
  31. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S (2009), 209-213 (Thomas Scott), in particular, p. 212; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, "Mary Scott ... m. by 1666 Thomas Patch (eldest child b. Wenham 8 December 1666)."
  32. ↑ Citing "Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 9, leaves 49-50" and "Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 123," George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 1:168-170 (Thomas Scott of Ipswich) at 170; digital images, HathiTrust, "Mary Scot certified, Apr. 23, 1663, to the receipt of 25li. from Ezek[iel] Rogers of Ipswich, which was the legacy left her by her father ..."
  33. ↑ Essex Institute Historical Collections, 4 (1862):25-27 (estate of Thomas Scott, 2 mo. 1684); digital images, Hathi Trust, this entry concerns 1683-1684 challenges between Thomas Scott's children and daughter-in-law about the estate of Thomas Scott, Jr. ("or deare Brother Thomas Scott of Ipswich."), deceased 1657.
  34. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute, 1911-1975), 9:223 (Court Held at Ipswich, Apr. 29, 1684); digital images, Salem Witch Trials, "John Kimball, aged about fifty-three years, and Phillip Fouler, aged about thirty-six yeares, testified that Mary, wife of Thomas Patch, Abigail Bosworth and Elizabeth Spafford are all the reputed daughters of Thomas Scott, sr., of Ipswich, deceased, and sisters of Thomas Scott, jr., of Ipswich, deceased. Sworn in court."
  35. ↑ Sarah Patch 1666 birth in Vital Records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1903), 66 (Patch); digital images, InternetArchive.
  36. ↑ Mara Patch 1669 birth in Vital Records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1903), 66 (Patch); digital images, InternetArchive.
  37. ↑ Thomas Patch 1674 birth in Vital Records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1903), 66 (Patch); digital images, InternetArchive.
  38. ↑ Stephen Patch 1680 birth in Vital Records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1903), 66 (Patch); digital images, InternetArchive.
  39. ↑ William P. Upham, Wenham Town Records, 1642-1706 (Wenham: Wenham Historical Society, 1930), 29; digital images, InternetArchive.
  40. ↑ Ciing "Essex County Probate Files, Docket 20,695," George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 3:395-398 (Edmund Patch of Ipswich); digital images, Hathi Trust.
  41. ↑ Joseph Gerrish, minister, [Wenham, Mass. First Congressional Church] Church Records, 1643-1805, 145 (penned upside down at lower right) and 150 ; digital images, Congressional Library.org, from the section "Church Records, 1643-1805," click on the link to "browse images of this content," then navigate in the page viewer 161 ("Persons that owned the Covenant"--no. 57, Thomas Patch), page viewer 166 ("Persons admitted to Full Communion"--no. 85, Thomas Patch; no. 49, Mary Patch).




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