William Thorne

Bef 1618 - 1664  (> 46 years)

• Name	William Thorne  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	Bef 1618	England   [6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 1657-1664	Jamaica, Long Island, New Netherland   [6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I7986	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family	Susannah Booth,   b. England d. Aft Jan 1676, Long Island, New York
  Marriage	Bef 1636  [6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Thorne,   b. Abt 1642, Flushing, New Netherland d. 1728, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age ~ 86 years)
  Family ID	F1363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2015

  
  

• Photos		Signature page of the Flushing Remonstrance. William Thorne signed near the top, writing only "Thorne" in Elizabethan script. Edward Heart, the town clerk, wrote in "William" before his name and "seignior" after it. The next line, also mostly in Heart's hand, reads "The mark of [mark] William Thorne Junior."
  		Flushing Remonstrance Signature page of the Flushing Remonstrance. William Thorne signed near the top, writing only "Thorne" in Elizabethan script. Edward Heart, the town clerk, wrote in "William" before his name and "seignior" after it. The next line, also mostly in Heart's hand, reads "The mark of [mark] William Thorne Junior."

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1637; first at Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was in trouble with the authorities for his support for religious dissidents. Appears to have been an associate of Lady Deborah Moody, the "dangerous woman" who fled persecution in the Bay Colony to become, as founder of Gravesend, Long Island, the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America. Thorne himself removed to Long Island, first at Gravesend, then Flushing (where he was an original patentee) by 1648, then Jamaica. Tor Hylbom has an excellent chronology of the eventful life of William Thorne here. William Thorne was a signer--in fact the third signer, after Sheriff Feake and William Noble--of the Flushing Remonstrance.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1131] Bowne Family of Flushing, Long Island by Edith King Wilson and Jacob Titus Bowne. New York, 1948. [S1387] Eardeley Genealogy Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949. [S4398] Find a Grave page for Joseph Thorne, Sr.. [S4399] Find a Grave page for Mary Johanna Bowne Thorne. [S199] Genealogies of Long Island Families, From the New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record ed. Henry B. Hoff. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987. [S745] Thorn Dickinson, "Early History of the Thorne Family of Long Island." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 92:1, 92:91, 92:178, 92:208, 93:29, 93:85, 93:158. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.