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Thomas Emerson

Male Bef 1584 - 1666  (> 81 years)


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  • Name Thomas Emerson  [1
    Birth Bef 31 Jul 1584  [2, 3
    Baptism 31 Jul 1584  Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 1 May 1666  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I33410  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of RAH
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2022 

    Father Robert Emerson,   b. Bef 23 Oct 1552   d. Bef 6 Jan 1621 (Age < 68 years) 
    Mother Susan Crabbe,   b. Abt 1556   d. 20 Nov 1626, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Marriage 24 Nov 1578  Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F19710  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Brewster   d. Aft 25 Sep 1666 
    Marriage 1 Jul 1611  Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Joseph Emerson,   b. Bef 25 Jun 1620   d. 3 Jan 1680, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 59 years)
    +2. Elizabeth Emerson,   b. Bef 14 Jun 1623
    +3. Nathaniel Emerson,   b. Abt 1631, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1712, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)
    Family ID F19709  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 May 2024 

  • Notes 
    • He came to Ipswich in 1638. He is probably the Thomas Emerson, baker, who in 1650 sold land granted him by the town of Ipswich to Joseph Jewett of Rowley. Stone-Gregg Genealogy drily notes that "authors at the turn of the century were reluctant to believe that Ralph Waldo Emerson was descended from a lowly baker but did not supply documentation proving the existence of two concurrent Thomas Emersons in Ipswich."

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S1409] Stone-Gregg Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Galen Luther Stone and His Wife Carrie Morton Gregg by Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987.

    3. [S2304] Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts. 2009 edition, 2012 reprint with 2015 corrigenda. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., year only.