The origins of Thomas Bourne of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 36).
For the best account of Thomas-1 Bourne and his descendants, see "The Bourne Family" chapter in Volume I of the Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations, as compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists), starting at page 615:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Additions and corrections to Jacobus require citations to original records discovered after he published and/or peer-reviewed scholarly publications that followed him.According to Marshfield town records, Thomas Bourne was buried on May 11, 1664, at the age of 83. From this record, it is estimated that he was probably born about 1581.
Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth were probably born in Kent, England. They had arrived in Plymouth by 1637, bringing with them their children Martha, Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne, and John.
He was a resident of Plymouth long enough to be well known there, and was so desirable a citizen that in 1637 the Court of Plymouth Colony granted him and others called special persons, "that would promise to live at Plymouth on some good farms, and so tie the lands of Plymouth as farms for the same; and these they might keep their cattle, tilling by some servants, and retain their dwellings in Plymouth." Dec. 4, 1637, a grant of 100 acres was given to Thomas Bourne, and it was the second grant recorded of land in Marshfield. The same day 100 acres was granted to Josiah Winslow. The town was incorporated in 1640, and the same year Thomas Bourne was one of two that were chosen deputies to represent the town in the October General Court, and he was elected three times afterward. "Under date of Aug., 1645, the following entry is found: 'On a motion being made for one to teach school, we whose names are undersigned, are willing to pay yearly besides paying for our children; we shall send the following sums.' Among others we find the name of Thomas Bourne, who subscribed ten shillings. Thus early, Thomas Bourne, his son, John, and others, took measures to establish a public school. We have one more record of this Thomas, called by one writer the 'eldest of the Marshfield settlers and a patriarch of its Eden.'
The most recent and accurate research on Thomas and Elizabeth is available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. New Haven, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 19391954.
For the best account of Thomas-1 Bourne and his descendants, see "The Bourne Family" chapter in Volume I of the Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations, as compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists), starting at page 615:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Additions and corrections to Jacobus require citations to original records discovered after he published and/or peer-reviewed scholarly publications that followed him.According to Marshfield town records, Thomas Bourne was buried on May 11, 1664, at the age of 83. From this record, it is estimated that he was probably born about 1581.
Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth were probably born in Kent, England. They had arrived in Plymouth by 1637, bringing with them their children Martha, Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne, and John.
He was a resident of Plymouth long enough to be well known there, and was so desirable a citizen that in 1637 the Court of Plymouth Colony granted him and others called special persons, "that would promise to live at Plymouth on some good farms, and so tie the lands of Plymouth as farms for the same; and these they might keep their cattle, tilling by some servants, and retain their dwellings in Plymouth." Dec. 4, 1637, a grant of 100 acres was given to Thomas Bourne, and it was the second grant recorded of land in Marshfield. The same day 100 acres was granted to Josiah Winslow. The town was incorporated in 1640, and the same year Thomas Bourne was one of two that were chosen deputies to represent the town in the October General Court, and he was elected three times afterward. "Under date of Aug., 1645, the following entry is found: 'On a motion being made for one to teach school, we whose names are undersigned, are willing to pay yearly besides paying for our children; we shall send the following sums.' Among others we find the name of Thomas Bourne, who subscribed ten shillings. Thus early, Thomas Bourne, his son, John, and others, took measures to establish a public school. We have one more record of this Thomas, called by one writer the 'eldest of the Marshfield settlers and a patriarch of its Eden.'
The most recent and accurate research on Thomas and Elizabeth is available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. New Haven, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 19391954.
The origins of Thomas Bourne of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 36).
For the best account of Thomas-1 Bourne and his descendants, see "The Bourne Family" chapter in Volume I of the Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations, as compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists), starting at page 615:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Additions and corrections to Jacobus require citations to original records discovered after he published and/or peer-reviewed scholarly publications that followed him.According to Marshfield town records, Thomas Bourne was buried on May 11, 1664, at the age of 83. From this record, it is estimated that he was probably born about 1581.
Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth were probably born in Kent, England. They had arrived in Plymouth by 1637, bringing with them their children Martha, Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne, and John.
He was a resident of Plymouth long enough to be well known there, and was so desirable a citizen that in 1637 the Court of Plymouth Colony granted him and others called special persons, "that would promise to live at Plymouth on some good farms, and so tie the lands of Plymouth as farms for the same; and these they might keep their cattle, tilling by some servants, and retain their dwellings in Plymouth." Dec. 4, 1637, a grant of 100 acres was given to Thomas Bourne, and it was the second grant recorded of land in Marshfield. The same day 100 acres was granted to Josiah Winslow. The town was incorporated in 1640, and the same year Thomas Bourne was one of two that were chosen deputies to represent the town in the October General Court, and he was elected three times afterward. "Under date of Aug., 1645, the following entry is found: 'On a motion being made for one to teach school, we whose names are undersigned, are willing to pay yearly besides paying for our children; we shall send the following sums.' Among others we find the name of Thomas Bourne, who subscribed ten shillings. Thus early, Thomas Bourne, his son, John, and others, took measures to establish a public school. We have one more record of this Thomas, called by one writer the 'eldest of the Marshfield settlers and a patriarch of its Eden.'
The most recent and accurate research on Thomas and Elizabeth is available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. New Haven, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 19391954.
For the best account of Thomas-1 Bourne and his descendants, see "The Bourne Family" chapter in Volume I of the Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations, as compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists), starting at page 615:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Additions and corrections to Jacobus require citations to original records discovered after he published and/or peer-reviewed scholarly publications that followed him.According to Marshfield town records, Thomas Bourne was buried on May 11, 1664, at the age of 83. From this record, it is estimated that he was probably born about 1581.
Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth were probably born in Kent, England. They had arrived in Plymouth by 1637, bringing with them their children Martha, Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne, and John.
He was a resident of Plymouth long enough to be well known there, and was so desirable a citizen that in 1637 the Court of Plymouth Colony granted him and others called special persons, "that would promise to live at Plymouth on some good farms, and so tie the lands of Plymouth as farms for the same; and these they might keep their cattle, tilling by some servants, and retain their dwellings in Plymouth." Dec. 4, 1637, a grant of 100 acres was given to Thomas Bourne, and it was the second grant recorded of land in Marshfield. The same day 100 acres was granted to Josiah Winslow. The town was incorporated in 1640, and the same year Thomas Bourne was one of two that were chosen deputies to represent the town in the October General Court, and he was elected three times afterward. "Under date of Aug., 1645, the following entry is found: 'On a motion being made for one to teach school, we whose names are undersigned, are willing to pay yearly besides paying for our children; we shall send the following sums.' Among others we find the name of Thomas Bourne, who subscribed ten shillings. Thus early, Thomas Bourne, his son, John, and others, took measures to establish a public school. We have one more record of this Thomas, called by one writer the 'eldest of the Marshfield settlers and a patriarch of its Eden.'
The most recent and accurate research on Thomas and Elizabeth is available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067589937?urlappend=%3Bseq=629
Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. New Haven, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 19391954.
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