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Gov. Thomas Wiggin
Posted by: Drusilla Sheldon (ID *****1554) Date: January 18, 2009 at 15:43:38
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Gov. Thomas Wiggin was born in England either in 1592 or about 1600. He was in Piscataqua, NH in 1631 as agent for the upper Plantation. He returned to England and married Katherine Whiting in London in 1633. They came to America that same year on the ship James, went back to Pescataqua and then to Hampon in 1641.
He was agent of Lords Say and Brooke and purchased he area known as Squamscot. He was governor 3 times, magiatrate upon the union of New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1641, deputy for Dover in 1645 and assisstant deputy 1650. His plantation at Squamscot on Sandy Point was qyute extensive and he carried on millimg and farming operations.
In 1979 I, along with my husband and Wiggin descendant Mrs. Margery Brooke of New Fields, N.H. She showed us some of Gov. Wiggin's land and 2 Wiggin houses. Jim, Susan, Susan's 2 year old daughter Amanda, and I walked down the railroad trackes and foun the bolder, inscribed "Gov. Thomas Wiggin 1633-1667" 1633 is evidently the year he began living in the area.
Unfortunatelym I can/t find the pictures I took on that special trip. Only poor Xerox copies of some of them. None of the bolder. Does anyone on this Message Board have a picture of it?


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