Mary Tompson

Bef 1619 - 1693  (> 73 years)

• Name	Mary Tompson  [1]
  Born	Bef 14 Nov 1619  [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Baptised	14 Nov 1619	Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Died	4 Aug 1693	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Mary Tompson ,   b. Bef 14 Nov 1619,   d. 4 Aug 1693, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age > 73 years) + 2. Bridget Thompson ,   b. Bef 10 Sep 1622, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. Aug 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age > 20 years) + 3. Dorothy Tompson ,   b. Bef 5 Jul 1624,   d. Aft 9 Aug 1709  (Age > 85 years)
  Person ID	I27042	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	John Tompson,   b. Abt 1585, of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. Between 7 Nov 1626 and 14 Nov 1626, London, England  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Alice Freeman,   b. Abt 1595,   d. Aft 24 Dec 1658, New London, New London, Connecticut  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Married	1613  [3, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Wise,   d. 12 Sep 1684, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Married	3 Dec 1641	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Wise,   b. Bef 27 Feb 1650
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F16151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  No documentation absolutely proves that the Mary Tompson who married Joseph Wise was the Mary Tompson who was baptized in 1619 to John Tompson and Alice Freeman. But a large amount of evidence suggests that this is probably the case.* Arguing that the two individuals were the same, Mary Lovering Holman (in Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948) pointed out that, (1), when "Mary Tompsonn" married Joseph Wise in Roxbury in 1641, there was no Tompson family in Roxbury save for that of Alice (Freeman) Tompson; (2) in the course of their marriage, Mary frequently joined her husband Joseph in the sale of property, and only on one occasion signed in release of dower rights, a believable pattern of behavior if Mary was in fact from a gentry family; (3) Mary and Joseph named their seventh child Henry, "an unusual name at the time but that of Alice Freeman's father, brother, and great-grandfather, while the name of Katherine, the ninth child, also appears in the Freeman family"; and (4) if Mary the wife of Joseph Wise was in fact the Mary Tompson born to John Tompson and Alice Freeman in 1619, then she would have been 22 at her marriage, an entirely plausible age. In 1980, 32 years later, Robert Charles Anderson wrote: "Joseph [Wise] is next seen marrying in Roxbury on 3 Dec. 1641 'Mary Tompsonn.' There is good reason to believe that this is the Mary Tompson baptized at Preston Capes, Northants, 14 Nov. 1619, to John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson (TAG 13: 1-8; 14:145 f.). Arguments for this identification of Joseph's wife are given by Mary Holman (Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, pp. 422 f.), with support from Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 32:128). Further supporting circumstantial evidence lies in the Rhode Island land records, where we find that on 7 June 1671 Joseph Wise of Roxbury sells to Deacon William Parke of Roxbury half of a 600 acre tract in Providence. After the document was drawn up, it was discovered that an error in the bounds had to be corrected. This correction was made and signed by Joseph Wise Senior and by Samiel Williams 'for his father Deacon William Park.' William Parke was son of Robert Parke of Roxbury by his first wife, and was therefore stepbrother of Mary Tompson, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson. Samuel Williams, who had married Theoda Parke, daughter of William, was brother of Stephen Williams who had married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wise. Two years later Joseph Wise sold the other half of this tract to Caleb Lamb and Stephen Williams (Rhode Island Land Evidences vol. 1, 1648-1696, pp. 40 f., 81.). ["Joseph Wise of Roxbury, Butcher," citation details below] ----- * Note that even without this connection, JTS retains descent from "gateway ancestor" Alice Freeman, via descent from her daughter Bridget.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1853] Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller by Mary Lovering Holman (vol. 1) and Winifred Lovering Holman (vol. 2). Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948-1952. [S3715] Robert Charles Anderson, "Joseph Wise of Roxbury, Butcher." The American Genealogist 56:80, 1980. [S965] Randy A. West, "Alice Freeman, Wife of John Tompson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, and of Robert Parke of Connecticut: New Information on Her Parents, Siblings, Children, and First Husband." The American Genealogist 87:209, January-April 2015. [S3781] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Alice (Freeman) (Tompson) Parke." The American Genealogist 13:1, July 1936. [S966] David L. Greene, "Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman of Marshfield, Gloucester, and New London: An Unsolved Problem." The Genealogist (n.s.) 4:173, Fall 1983., "about 1615". [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., "abt. 1615". [S3783] Clarence Almon Torrey, "John Tomson of Little Preston, Northamtonshire, England." The American Genealogist 14:145, Jan 1938., "by Apr. 1, 1616". [S4234] Randy A. West, "John Tompson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, First Husband of Alice1 (Freeman) (Thompson) Parke of Massachusetts and Connecticut." The American Genealogist 91:39, Apr/Jul/Oct 2019.