Thomas Huckins

Abt 1617 - 1679  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Thomas Huckins  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1617  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	9 Nov 1679	At sea   [2]
  Death	29 Nov 1679	At Sea   [3]
  Person ID	I38357	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2022

  
  

  Family	Rose   d. 1687, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Marriage	3 Nov 1648	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. John Huckins,   b. 2 Aug 1649, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 10 Nov 1678, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F22530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Huckens, Huggins. He was in Boston by about 1638. His name appears sixth on the original muster roll of the Artillery Company at Barnstable in 1637, and he was Commissary General of the Plymouth forces in King Philip's War. In 1639, he was the standard bearer of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, a fairly high honor for such a young man. Based on this and other similar facts about Thomas Huckins, Amos Otis (citation details below) argues that Huckins must have been "connected with influential families" at the very least, if not actually born to one. From History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888 (citation details below): Ensign Huckens (1637) was a member of the board of selectmen, in Barnstable, eight years; represented that town in the Colonial Court eight years; a grand juryman in 1655; was licensed to retail wine and strong water, March 1, 1653, and was licensed as an innkeeper, June 1, 1663. He was appointed collector of the excise duty, June 5, 1667, and collector of ministers' rates, June 7, 1670. He was elected a member of the Council of War in Plymouth Colony, June 5, 1671; was auditor of colony accounts in 1669, 1640, and 1672; and in the expedition against the Indian Fort, in what is now Kingston, R.I., in December, 1675, he was commissary of the Plymouth Colony forces. He was one of the number who went to England, and under the command of Col. William Rainsburrow (1639) fought in the army and cause of Parliament. More fortunate than some of his comrades, he returned to America. He perished at sea, with his son Joseph, Nov. 29, 1679.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S672] Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot by Amos Otis, revised by C. F. Swift. Barnstable, Massachusetts: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888. [S2741] History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888 by Oliver Ayer Roberts. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1895-1901. [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. [S672] Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot by Amos Otis, revised by C. F. Swift. Barnstable, Massachusetts: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888., date only.