Capt Thomas WIGGIN

Abt 1592 - Abt 1666  (~ 74 years)

• Name	Thomas WIGGIN
  Prefix	Capt
  Born	Abt 1592	England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1630
  Occupation	Ship-master
  Religion	Puritan
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	Abt 1666	Squamscott, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I2677	Main
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Catherine WHITING,   b. Abt 1601, England ,   d. ?
  Married	11 Jul 1633	London, Middlesex, England
  Children	+ 1. Andrew WIGGIN,   b. Abt 1635, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 9 Feb 1710, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 75 years) + 2. Mary WIGGIN,   b. Abt 1638, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Bef 25 Dec 1700  (Age ~ 62 years)   3. Thomas WIGGIN,   b. Abt 1640
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F1079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah BAREFOOT,   d. Aft 1701
  Married	11 Jul 1633
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F1991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1592 - England Married - 11 Jul 1633 - London, Middlesex, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Histories

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• Notes

  Arrived in New England in 1630. Noyes/Libby/Davis, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," (1939), 5:752; Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," [1995, NEHGS], 3:1983-85. Master of the ship “James”. —— From Wikipedia: Captain Thomas Wiggin (1592-1667), often known as Governor Thomas Wiggin, was the first governor of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire which eventually became the Royal Province of New Hampshire in 1741. Captain Thomas Wiggin first ventured to New England in 1630 when he sailed with John Winthrop to Boston on the Winthrop Fleet. In the years that followed, he served as the governor of the Upper Plantation, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham. In 1631 he settled in Stratham. He was also the holder of the massive Squamscott patent, land east of the mouth of the Squamscott River, and continued to be a close ally of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was a Puritan and extremely religious. He ascribed fervently to the belief that the Anglican Church had to be cleansed of Catholic theology and ritual. He was convinced that God would punish England for its heresy, and believed that English Puritans needed to create a New England in a new world. In June 1659, his son Andrew Wiggin married Hannah Bradstreet, daughter of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Simon Bradstreet and Anne Bradstreet (daughter of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Thomas Dudley).