Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Wardwell
Bef 1604 - 1646 (> 42 years)-
Name Thomas Wardwell Born Bef 31 Jan 1604 [1, 2] Gender Male Baptised 31 Jan 1604 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 
[1, 2] Died 10 Dec 1646 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1] Person ID I28470 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 3 May 2020
Father John Wardale, b. of Alford, Lincolnshire, England Family ID F16988 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Married Bef 1632 [1] Children + 1. Samuel Wardwell, b. 16 May 1643, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire , d. 22 Sep 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 49 years)Last Modified 3 May 2020 Family ID F16987 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - He was a shoemaker and an innkeeper. He emigrated in about 1634. First at Boston, where, with his brother William Wardwell, he was a follower of Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Both Wardwell brothers were consequently disarmed and left for Exeter in 1639 with the Rev. John Wheelwright. He and his brother were both signers of the Exeter Combination. In Exeter, he was sergeant of the train band, and was the only man in town allowed to sell alcoholic beverages.
From the fact that he first appears in the record upon admission to the Boston church on 9 Nov 1634, and his obvious association with Mrs. Hutchinson and the Rev. Wheeler, it seems very likely that he crossed the Atlantic in 1634 on the Griffin, on the same journey as William and Anne Marbury Hutchinson and their ten children.
According to Robert Charles Anderson (citation details below), he returned to Boston in 1646, dying there on 10 September of that year. According to Marjorie Wardwell Otten (citation details below), he died on that date in Exeter. It is certain that his death was recorded in the Boston records (NEHGR 9:166, Apr 1855), but that doesn't completely establish where he actually died.
- He was a shoemaker and an innkeeper. He emigrated in about 1634. First at Boston, where, with his brother William Wardwell, he was a follower of Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Both Wardwell brothers were consequently disarmed and left for Exeter in 1639 with the Rev. John Wheelwright. He and his brother were both signers of the Exeter Combination. In Exeter, he was sergeant of the train band, and was the only man in town allowed to sell alcoholic beverages.
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Sources - [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S4095] Marjorie Wardwell Otten, "Sgt. Thomas Wardwell of Boston and Exeter and His Maine Descendants." The Maine Genealogist 18:147, 1996.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.