Thomas Emerson

Bef 1584 - 1666  (> 81 years)

• Name	Thomas Emerson  [1]
  Birth	Bef 31 Jul 1584  [2, 3]
  Baptism	31 Jul 1584	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 May 1666	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [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 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	24 Nov 1578	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England   [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   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Rev. Joseph Emerson,   b. Bef 25 Jun 1620   d. 3 Jan 1680, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 59 years) + 2. Elizabeth Emerson,   b. Bef 14 Jun 1623 + 3. Nathaniel Emerson,   b. Abt 1631, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 29 Dec 1712, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (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

  [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. [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. [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.