Re: Sarah Trevore Thompson Mendon, MA parent
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Sarah Trevore Thompson Mendon, MA parent
Karen Buffum-Knutson 4/07/00
What is clear, from Massachusetts Bay Colony records, is that a Mr. John Thomson, Master of the ship the Elizabeth of New England, was the son born to David and Amias Thomson in 1619. In 1650, he laid claim to an island in Boston Harbor, which to this day is referred to as Thomson’s Island. His claim was supported by the testimony of four individuals.
Miles Standish stated that in the yeare 1620 he had come into this country "and I take it the same yeare I was in the Massachusett Bay with Willjam Trevoyre and then being on the Island lying neere Dorchester And called the sajd Island; Island Trevoyre and then no natives there Inhabiting... Further I Cann testify that David Thompson had shown me a very Ancient Pattent and that Isle Thompson was in it but the terms of it I cannot remember."
The Sagamore of Agawam testified "that in the yeare 1619: or thereabouts as I Remember I went in my own person with Mr. David Thompson and then he tooke possession of the Island before Dorcester he liking no other but that because of the Smale Riuer and then no Indeans upon it or any wigwam or planting..." William Blaxton (Blackstone), one of the first residents of what was to become Boston, Massachusetts, testified that the Island called Tomson’s I. is by Dorcester neck, and that I heard ould Mr. Thompson affirm that he had a patten for it and there is a harbor in that island for a boat which none of the rest of the islands had and these that put hoggs there doe it to his consent to my knowledge," (34)
William Trevour (Trevor), a sailor on the Mayflower and later Captain of his own ship, the William claimed that ‘Thompsons Island’ is the formerly called ‘Island of Trevour’ which I took possession of in 1619 and declared the same (as the effect of my proceedings) to Mr David Thomson in London; on which information the said T. obtained a grant and patten for peaceable and quiet possession of said island to him and heirs forever: - I being in the Company’s service at the said time..." (35)
DAVID THOMSON, THE SCOTTISH FOUNDER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE...
A GENTLEMAN, AND A SCHOLAR
by Genevieve Cora Fraser
Copyright 1998, 1999. All rights reserved.
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Re: Sarah Trevore Thompson Mendon, MA parent