Thomas Wilkins

Abt 1646 - 1717  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Thomas Wilkins  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1646  [2, 3]
  Baptism	16 May 1647	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 4 Mar 1716 and 24 Sep 1717	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Thomas Wilkins ,   b. Abt 1646   d. Between 4 Mar 1716 and 24 Sep 1717, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 70 years) ▻ Hannah Nichols ,  m. May 1667 + 2. Margaret Wilkins ,   b. Bef 10 Feb 1649   d. Aft 9 Jan 1697  (Age > 48 years) ▻ Philip Knight ,  m. Bef 1669
  Person ID	I33748	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Bray Wilkins,   b. Abt 1611   d. 12 Jan 1702, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 91 years)
  Mother	Hannah Way,   b. Bef 3 Mar 1616   d. Aft 26 Jan 1702 (Age > 86 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1636  [2, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F19862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Nichols,   b. Between 1646 and 1647   d. Aft 12 May 1718 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	May 1667	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Wilkins   d. 5 Nov 1751, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F19887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Wilkins and his wife Hannah Nichols, unlike several members of the Wilkins family, were among the small number of people who signed the petition against the Salem minister Samuel Parris who did so much to foment the homicidal mania that killed over two dozen innocent people. Thomas Wilkins was one of the four "dissenting brethren" who led the anti-Parris movement from within the Salem church. This probably had more than a little to do with the fact that Thomas Wilkins' son-in-law John Willard was one of those murdered in the mania, but it seems no less admirable for that.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6756] Janet Ireland Delorey, "William Nichols of Topsfield." The Essex Genealogist 8:128, 1988. [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. [S5391] David L. Greene, "Bray Wilkins of Salem Village MA and His Children." The American Genealogist 60:1, 60:101, 1984. [S5382] David L. Greene, "A Search for the English Origin of Henry1 Way of Dorchester, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 61:241, 1985.