Thomas TURNER

Abt 1620 - 1684  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Thomas TURNER  [1]
  Born	Abt 1620	England
  Gender	Male
  Residence	? 1648	Kittery, York, Maine
  Anecdote	1666	Kittery, York, Maine
  	Sued by John Cutt
  Questions	Who was he? Supposedly a shipping magnate. Apparently wealthy.
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	Oct 1684	Kittery, York, Maine
  Person ID	I3253	Main
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary Magdalene BAILY,   b. 1622, England ,   d. Abt 1685, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age 63 years)
  Married	Aft 1656	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1]
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F1234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1620 - England Residence - ? 1648 - Kittery, York, Maine Married - Aft 1656 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Anecdote - 1666 - Kittery, York, Maine Died - Oct 1684 - Kittery, York, Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Apparently not the person who immigrated on the “Hopewell” in 1635, nor the person who settled in Hingham, s/o Humphrey TURNER. —— THOMAS, Kittery, here by 1648 (see Hil- ton 17), his age wildly guessed at (±48 in 1672, +56 in 1673, ±73 in 1683). Sued by John Cutt, 1666. He m. Mary, wid. of Robert Beedle (4) and Rev. Stephen Batchelder (3), and sold her Gorges gr. to Peter Staples (1) in 1674. Lists 25, 285. Christian Remick accounted as adm. 28 Oct. 1684. Goody Rog- ers was pd. for curing his leg and Staples was reimbursed for the funeral expenses. —— Savage stated that this passenger "may be" the Thomas Turner who appeared at Exeter by 1652 [Savage 4:348]. Noyes, Libby and Davis included a Thomas Turner who was in Kittery by 1648, presumably the same man mentioned by Savage, and showed that "his age [was] widely guessed at" as about 48 in 1672, about 56 in 1673 and about 73 in 1683 [GDMNH 700, sources not cited]. These ages cover a range of years of birth from about 1617 to about 1624, which would make the Kittery man much younger than the passenger of 1635. Pope stated that this passenger "settled at Hingham" and "removed to Scituate" [Pope 465]. The Thomas Turner of Scituate was certainly the son of HUMPHREY TURNER and was probably born about 1627 [GMB 3:1843-46], so could not have been the passenger of 1635. There remains the Thomas Turner of Hingham. The earliest record of him was on 16 November 1637, when he was granted a house lot, a great lot and a planting lot at Hingham [HiBOP 9r]. Since the grant of a house lot generally brought with it a full proprietary share in town lands, Thomas Turner of Hingham most likely settled there in late 1637, and in the absence of further evidence should be accounted an immigrant of that year. Nothing connects him with the passenger of 1635. Further records for Thomas Turner of Hingham are found from 1640 to 1650, with no suggestion of a wife and children and no indication of his fate after 1650 [SLR 1:70, 117-18; Lechford 306; Aspinwall 124, 161, 179, 288; see also Aspinwall 26, 95, 215]. [2, 3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S17] MALU DEL MCDONALD, Ancestors of , McDonald, Patrick Joseph. [S4] Maine and New Hampshire, Genealogical Dictionary of, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME. 1928-1939). [S41] The Great Migration Study Project, Anderson, Robert Charles, Volume VII, T-Y;125.