Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Macy
Abt 1687 - 1759 (~ 72 years)1. Thomas Macy was born about 1687 in Nantucket, New York (son of John Macy and Deborah Gardner); died on 16 Mar 1759 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Family/Spouse: Deborah Coffin. Deborah (daughter of John Coffin and Deborah Austin) was born in of Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Love Macy was born on 20 Jun 1713 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 Nov 1767.
2. John Macy was born on 14 Sep 1655 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts (son of Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot); died on 14 Oct 1691 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Notes:
He was a house carpenter.
John married Deborah Gardner. Deborah (daughter of Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck) was born on 12 Apr 1658 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Deborah Gardner was born on 12 Apr 1658 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (daughter of Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck); died in 1712. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: 12 Oct 1658
Children:
- 1. Thomas Macy was born about 1687 in Nantucket, New York; died on 16 Mar 1759 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Generation: 3
4. Thomas Macy was born in 1608; died on 19 Apr 1682 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Notes:
First in Newbury, then Salisbury. In 1659, he and his family were the first European settlers of Nantucket, accompanied by Edward Starbuck and the then 12-year-old Isaac Coleman.
The reputed circumstances of his relocation to Nantucket are the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1841 poem "The Exiles."Thomas married Sarah Hopcot. Sarah was born about 1612; died in 1706. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Sarah Hopcot was born about 1612; died in 1706. Children:
6. Richard Gardner was born about 1632 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (son of Thomas Gardner and (Unknown first wife of Thomas Gardner)); died on 23 Jan 1689. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 23 Jan 1688
Richard married Sarah Shattuck about 1652. Sarah (daughter of (Unknown) Shattuck and Damaris) was born about 1632; died in 1724 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Sarah Shattuck was born about 1632 (daughter of (Unknown) Shattuck and Damaris); died in 1724 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Notes:
She was a committed Quaker and suffered several imprisonments and other legal penalties as a consequence.
Children:
- Sarah Gardner died on 19 Dec 1729.
- 3. Deborah Gardner was born on 12 Apr 1658 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1712.
- James Gardner was born on 19 May 1664 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 1 Aug 1723.
Generation: 4
12. Thomas Gardner was born about 1592; died on 29 Dec 1674 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Notes:
He was an Overseer of the "first planters" party of the Dorchester Company that landed in 1624 at Cape Ann, to form a colony at what is now Gloucester. By virtue of having been in authority at this first settlement of what later became the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he is considered by some to have been the first governor of Massachusetts.
Thomas married (Unknown first wife of Thomas Gardner) before 1614. (Unknown died in 1636 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. (Unknown first wife of Thomas Gardner) died in 1636 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Children:
- Sarah Gardner died on 5 Apr 1686 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.
- George Gardner was born about 1616; died on 20 Aug 1679 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
- 6. Richard Gardner was born about 1632 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1689.
14. (Unknown) Shattuck (Unknown) married Damaris. Damaris died on 28 Nov 1674 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Damaris died on 28 Nov 1674 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Children:
- 7. Sarah Shattuck was born about 1632; died in 1724 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.