Re: Thomas Flint>Wales>Mass
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In reply to:
Re: Thomas Flint>Wales>Mass
8/30/00
"There were TWO Thomas Flints in Massachusetts. I have never seen credible evidence connecting them.There were two brothers, Thomas (b. abt. 1600, d. April 15, 1663) and
William Flint (b. abt 1603, d.April 2, 1673) of Salem, Mass. These two brothers (and their mother) settled in Salem, Mass., and tradition says they were from Wales.
This Thomas had a wife named Ann. After he died she married John Southwick.
Honorable Thomas Flint (1603-1653) of Concord, Mass. and Reverend Henry Flint [Flynt](1606-1668) of Braintree, Mass. were brothers. They were the sons of Thomas Flint (d. 1623) and his wife Dorothy Wood of Matlock, Derbyshire, England.
The Flint Family History of the Adventuresome Seven by Edward and Gwendolyn Flint documents these four lines as well as three other Flint lines (including a Virginia line with a Thomas). Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas Flint of Salem, with a copy of the wills and inventories of the estates of the first two generations by John Flint and John Stone documents the Thomas of Salem line. Thomas Flint and William Flint, of Salem, Mass. and Their Descendants by Alven Martyn Smyth documents the line of William and Thomas of Salem.
To date, as far as I know, no one has found a connection between these two lines, no one has proved that the Salem Flints really came from Wales, no one knows what Thomas Flint's wife's maiden name was....but there ARE two distinct sets of brothers in Massachusetts!"This prior information was posted by N. Flint who I find to be most informed on this line.
You mention that your line decends through Ebenezer son of Capt. Thomas Flint.Did you know that his wife Gertrude's grandfather was Peter Folger who was involved with the settlement of Nantucket Island, MA and who was the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin.His lineage also includes James Folger who was involved with founding Folgers Coffee and Capt Mayhew Folger who discovered the island on which the mutineers of the Bounty settled.
I believe there may also be a connection between Ebenezer's wife Gertrude and possibly a neice who married General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary War fame.
Ebenezer was my 5th great grandfather.My lineage from Ebenezer is as follows Ebenezer>Nathaniel>Nathaniel>William> Charles>Austin>Clarence (Skip)>myself