Thomas DAMME

1582 - 1635  (~ 52 years)

• Name	Thomas DAMME
  Born	May 1582	Nantwich, Cheshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Parents Unproven	Y
  Died	1635	England
  Person ID	I4050	Main
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2022

  
  

  Father	John DAMME,   b. Abt 1560, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. ?, England
  Family ID	F12609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann HART,   b. Abt 1585, Norwich, Norfolk, England ,   d. 1641  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Children	+ 1. John DAMME,   b. Abt 1610, Hundred of Hadham, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 27 Jan 1690, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 80 years)   2. Nicholas DAMME,   d. Aft 1689, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F1433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - May 1582 - Nantwich, Cheshire, England Died - 1635 - England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  History of Clinch Co, Georgia" pp 164—167. https://archive.org/details/historyofclinchc00huxf/page/164/mode/2up The family came from Cheshire, England, where they have been freeholders since the reign of Edward IV, a period of about five hundred years. Where they formerly lived is now known as the parish of “Leighton-Cain Minshal Vernon", in the town of Nautwick in Cheshire. One of the most interesting stories of the English family was about Thomas Dame (or Damme, as it was sometimes spelled), who lived to a very great age. He was born in the year 1494, died 1648, age 154 years old. He was buried in the church-yard of the Parish of Church Minshal, near Middlewick in Cheshire (the place was famous for its old people). The register of his death is still in existence, and is marked around with ink to call attention to the remarkable age: “Thomas Damme of Leiggton, buried ye 20th of ffebbruarie being of the age of seven score and fourteen. 1648.” His wife is also buried in Church Minshal. He is said to have danced a hornpipe at the celebration of the opening of the present bridge over the river Weaver, at Church Minshal, he being then 104 years old." As nearly as could be found out, most of the family emigrated during the Puritan troubles in England in the seventeenth century, part going to Holland, where they are said to have established the Van Dam family, some to France, establishing the Daime family, one becoming a French General, and part to America. The first settlers of the name in America were John Dame, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1633, and became the ancestor of the Dame family in the New England States, and John Dame who settled in Virginia in 1638. John Dame, a lineal descendant of the original settler in Virginia, was an officer in the Continental army in the Revolutionary War, and commanded the Maryland Flying Corps.1 The Dame family in Georgia is descended from George Dame and Mary Greene, his wife, who lived in Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia. Their children were Mary, who married John Jarvis, and George, born March 9th, 1784, and John Dame. George and John Dame were soldiers of the War of 1812, with England. George was private, first in Cape. John Waller’s company of the 9th Regiment of Virginia Militia, and later in Capt. Tom Faulkner’s company of the 9th Regiment, and later served int eh 61st Regiment. John Dame was a private in the 21st Regiment of Virginia Militia, Gloucester County. After the War of 1812, they moved to Georgia, john settling in Jones County, and George in Montgomery County. The latter married Catherine Carter, a daughter of Elmore Carter and his wife, Delilah West, who were descended from the eminent Virginia families of those names. 1. The Flying camp was to be composed of troops from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware for the immediate defense of New Jersey while the Main Army focused on the defense of New York. No such numbers were ever realized for this purpose, the total being under 6,000, but Maryland and tiny Delaware seemingly managed to fulfill their quotas. https://www.revwartalk.com/1st-battalion-flying-camp-1776 —— Excerpt from “Nantwich And Crewe Photographic Memories”: The people of this village were so poor that when they needed to rebuild the church, Queen Anne herself provided money for it. The date, 1702, can be seen in different coloured bricks on the tower. They might have been poor, but they must have been healthy - church registers record a John Damme who died in 1649 aged 'seven score and fourteene’... —— The old farm is now called the "Red Hall Farm". A portion of it is known to this day as "Dam's Croft's". —— One Christian, Tobias Dam, became quite eminent in Germany, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, as a theologian, and before that time Jan Dam was known as "a rebellious and troublesome subject" in New Amsterdam (now New York). There is nothing to connect these men with the English family except the name and the tradition (of the removal to Holland) spoken of.