Ancestry of
Merrill C. Meigs

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John Thomas

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 244 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Pitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Dec 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Daniel Thomas

  James Thomas

  Ephraim Thomas

  Israel Thomas (Ahnentafel No:122 )

  • Notes: 

  • This may have been the John Thomas who sailed for New England in 1635 aboard the Hopewell. Since John Thomas does not appear in any records until eight years later in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1643, there is some doubt as to it being the same man.

• Sources for John Thomas

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 333.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 473.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 22.
  • ⁴ Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937 (3 vols.), Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed and Co. (1938), 662-666.
  • ⁵ Jenkins, Philomene, Waters-Law and Allied Families: Mayflower Ancestry of George Leland Waters, Lincoln, Nebraska: (1929), 77.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 83, 127.