John Tomes

Abt 1602 -

• Name	John Tomes
  Birth	Abt Oct 1602  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I18846	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	John Tomes,   b. of Long Marston, Gloucestershire, England d. 25 May 1602, Long Marston, Gloucestershire, England
  Mother	Ann Warner
  Family ID	F11427	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "It was [this John Tomes] who concealed Charles II in his home when the king was a fugitive after the Battle of Worcester, on the night of 10 Sept. 1651. [The king] was disguised as servant of Mrs. Jane Lane, and as 'Will Jackson' was sent to the kitchen. The maid, getting supper for her master's friends, asked him to wind up the Jack. Will Jackson obediently attempted it, but hit not the right way, and the annoyed maid asked, 'What county man are you, that you know not how to wind up a Jack?' He answered to her satisfaction, 'I am a poor tenant's son of Colonel Lane in Staffordshire. We seldom have roast meat, but when we have we don't make use of a Jack.'" [Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.