Thwaite Strickland^{[1, 2]}

1625 - 1670  (45 years)

• Name	Thwaite Strickland  [3]
  Birth	1625	, , , England
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1640	, , Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  Death	21 Jun 1670	Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I46738	Master
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2022

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Shepard,   b. 4 Nov 1621, Harwich, Essex, England d. 5 Feb 1684, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1640	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Married	, , Connecticut, USA
  Married	1646	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA   [7, 8]
  Married	30 Mar 1652
  Children	1. Peter Strickland,   b. 1646, New London, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 7 Apr 1723, New London, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 77 years)   2. Elizabeth Strickland,   b. 31 Mar 1647, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1674, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 26 years) + 3. John Strickland,   b. 14 Feb 1648, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1 Sep 1726, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 78 years)   4. John Strickland,   b. 17 February 1648, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1658, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 9 years)   5. Joseph Strickland,   b. 22 Nov 1654, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Feb 1703, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 48 years)   6. Edmond Strickland,   b. 1656, Long Island, Queens, New York, USA   7. Jane Strickland,   b. 23 Jun 1656, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1670 (Age 13 years)   8. Jonathan Strickland,   b. Jun 1657, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. Apr 1704, Long Island, Queens, New York, USA (Age 46 years)   9. Ephraim Strickland,   b. 2 Feb 1662, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1706 (Age 43 years)   10. Rebecca Strickland,   b. Abt 1664, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1670 (Age 6 years)
  Family ID	F10612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Oct 2022

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1625 - , , , England Arrival - 1640 - , , Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 1 Mar 1640 - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Married - 1646 - Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Death - 21 Jun 1670 - Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Married - - , , Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  It is indicated that records of Dedham, Massachusetts show that Thwait(s) Strickland was a signer of the 1635 Covenant that established Dedham and was an original settler there. Dedham is on the Charles river, near present day Boston. Thwaite received two grants of land in Dedham (one a grant of six acres of planting land, Oct 27,1640), and was presumably a farmer there for the next 26 years. His name appears on the Dedham tax lists until 1661. During these years he married Elizabeth Sheppard and had five children. These births are listed in the records of the Dedham town clerk. In 1662, he was in the Westerly, RI/Stonington, CT, area which reportedly was still a wilderness (One source says they lived in Misquamicut, a peninsula near Stonington). His son Ephriam was probably born there, Feb 3,1662. In addition to the testimony of Thomas Stanton, already cited, it is reported by Connecticut Colonial Records, vol. 2, page 546, that in 1670, Daniel Gookin of Cambridge, MA claimed a right in the Pequot country which had been incorporated in the new town of Stonington, one of his evidences being the fact that in May 1662 he had built a dwelling house there for his tennant, "Thait Strickland". Thwaite must have returned to Dedham later, as his name appears again on the tax list of 1669. He died, probably in Glastonbury, CT, in 1669 or early 1670. His estate was settled by the Court at Hartford in 1670. Grt Mig Beg: "There is not the slightest reason to assume any connection between Thwaite and John Strickland except that they were born with the same surname." -- Jacobus, TAG vol 21 "I don't think there is a chance that Thwaite Strickland was a son of John Strickland of Jamaica. Probably you are familiar with the Strickland notes I published in American Genealogist, Vol. 19, pp44-45; Vol 20, pp207-212, and Vol. 21, pp85-92. In writing these, I had the benefit of the long article by Herbert Seversmith on John Strickland and his sons-in-law in Vol. II of my magazine, was aided by Dr. Robert Furman who had made a study of the Furman-Strickland connections and had dug in original sources of Long Island, and I put a great deal of study into the problems involved. I think the conclusions I published concerning John Strickland, his supposed brother Edmund, and Thwaite, can be sustained. There is no evidence whatever that John Strickland had more than three surviving children: (1) a daughter that married John Lum (not, Loanus, the name is spelled Loame in Strickland's will and was Lome in England, (2) a daughter who married John Smith, (3) a daughter who married Samuel Matthews. He may have had a fourth daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Jonas Wood "Oram". (Joanna wife of Jonas Wood "Halifax" was definitely not his daughter). The statement in the Seamon Genealogy that John Seamon married Elizabeth Strickland daughter of John is not based on any records. Her name was Elizabeth. A Seamon descendant writing about 1800 stated on the basis of family knowledge or tradition that this wife was a "Miss Strickland" without stating her first name or parentage. This was of course later amplified. If the tradition is correct, she was most probably daughter of Edmund Strickland rather than of John. Thwaite Strickland had no connection of any kind with John and never at any time lived in any town where John had lived. Pope's Pioneers: "Thwaites or Thweights, Dedham, propr. 27 (8) 1640. Wife Elizabeth adm. chh. 3 (3) 1650; ch. Elizabeth b. 12 (2) 1647, John b. 17 (12) 1648, Rebecca bapt. 19 (11) 1650, Joseph b. 22 (11) 1654, Jonathan b. 23 (4) 1657." Savage's: THWAITES, or THWAIT, Dedham 1643, perhaps s. or br. of John, his w. join. the ch. 3 May 1650, and had her ch. Elizabeth and John bapt. on Sunday aft.; and Rebecca 19 Jan. foll. He rem. to the Narraganset country, on serv. of Gen. Gookin, wh. built a ho. for him at Misquamicut, now Westerly. See Trumbull, Col. Rec. II. 546. His d. Elizabeth m. Samuel Andrews of Hartford. Farmer MS. notes, that of this name was one of the celebr. Westminster Assemb. and that the fam. was of Co. Westmoreland. Manwaring: Probate record of Thwaite Strickland p 78 in original record. Inventory taken 21 June, 1670. Children: Elizabeth Andrews, age 23 years, John 21, Joseph 15, Jonathan 13, Ephraim 7 years. -- Manwaring, 1902 About Thwaite Strickland It is indicated that records of Dedham, Massachusetts show that Thwaite Strickland was a signer of the 1635 Covenant that established Dedham and was an original settler there. Dedham is on the Charles river, near presentday Boston. Thwaite received two grants of land in Dedham (one a grant of six acres of planting land, Oct 27,1640), and was presumably a farmer there for the next 26 years. His name appears on the Dedham tax lists until 1661." During these years he married Elizabeth Sheppard and had five children. These births are listed in the records of the Dedham town clerk. Pope's Pioneers: "Thwaites or Thweights, Dedham, propr. 27 (8) 1640. Wife Elizabeth adm. chh. 3 (3) 1650; ch. Elizabeth b. 12 (2) 1647, John b. 17 (12) 1648, Rebecca bapt. 19 (11) 1650, Joseph b. 22 (11) 1654, Jonathan b. 23 (4) 1657." Savage's: THWAITES, or THWAIT, Dedham 1643, perhaps s. or br. of John, his w. join. the ch. 3 May 1650, and had her ch. Elizabeth and John bapt. on Sunday aft.; and Rebecca 19 Jan. foll. He rem. to the Narraganset country, on serv. of Gen. Gookin, wh. built a ho. for him at Misquamicut, now Westerly. See Trumbull, Col. Rec. II. 546. His d. Elizabeth m. Samuel Andrews of Hartford. Farmer MS. notes, that of this name was one of the celebr. Westminster Assemb. and that the fam. was of Co. Westmoreland. Manwaring: Probate record of Thwaite Strickland p 78 in original record. Inventory taken 21 June, 1670. Children: Elizabeth Andrews, age 23 years, John 21, Joseph 15, Jonathan 13, Ephraim 7 years. -- Manwaring, 1902 Disputed Origins The origins of Thwaite Strickland are not clearly established. Many have reported him as a possible son of Sgt. John Strickland, a 1630 Puritan landholder in Charleston, but documentaion of such is lacking. He has benn variously called Thwaite, Thwait, Thait, Thwaits, Thwaites, and I suppose other variations, but I have never seen a prefix as in xxxthwaite. This name was not continued in his subsequent descendents, with the primary name of the male descendents being John or a variation thereof (Jonathan, Joseph) Grt Mig Beg: "There is not the slightest reason to assume any connection between Thwaite and John Strickland except that they were born with the same surname." -- Jacobus, TAG vol 21 "I don't think there is a chance that Thwaite Strickland was a son of John Strickland of Jamaica. Probably you are familiar with the Strickland notes I published in American Genealogist, Vol. 19, pp44-45; Vol 20, pp207-212, and Vol. 21, pp85-92. In writing these, I had the benefit of the long article by Herbert Seversmith on John Strickland and his sons-in-law in Vol. II of my magazine, was aided by Dr. Robert Furman who had made a study of the Furman-Strickland connections and had dug in original sources of Long Island, and I put a great deal of study into the problems involved. I think the conclusions I published concerning John Strickland, his supposed brother Edmund, and Thwaite, can be sustained. There is no evidence whatever that John Strickland had more than three surviving children: (1) a daughter that married John Lum (not, Loanus, the name is spelled Loame in Strickland's will and was Lome in England, (2) a daughter who married John Smith, (3) a daughter who married Samuel Matthews. He may have had a fourth daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Jonas Wood "Oram". (Joanna wife of Jonas Wood "Halifax" was definitely not his daughter). Thwaite Strickland had no connection of any kind with John and never at any time lived in any town where John had lived. References http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amorrow/fg05/fg05... http://minerdescent.com/2010/06/17/edward-shepard

  
  

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