| BIRTH | The parents of Thomas and his brother Richard Chadwell are currently unknown. Thomas was born in 1611/1612 in Tintros or Little Barrington, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England[1]. LIttle Barrington is more accepted and likely. |
| DEATH | Thomas died in Lynn, Essex co., MA during the "last of" February 1683; he was 72[1,3]. On his death record, he is listed as "Thomas, Sr." -- perhaps this is to differentiate him from his grandson Thomas, since he did not have a son with that name. |
| MIGRATION | The two brothers are the New England emigrants. Thomas' emigration information is not known, but he was in Salem, Essex co., MA by 2 March 1637 |
| RESIDENCES | Thomas was in Salem, Essex co., MA by 2 March 1637, when he was received as an inhabitant of Salem and was granted 10 acres on the Cape Ann side[2]. He moved to Lynn, Essex co., MA by 10 April 1637, when Moses was born, and lived on Summer Street. In the 1638 Lynn Land Distribution, he was granted 60 acres. Thomas and his third wife, Abigail, moved to Charlestown, Middlesex co., MA after their marriage where Thomas was admitted to the church at Charlestown on 3 April 1670[4]. When he died, his estate was valued at £137 5s. 0d[2]. |
| OCCUPATION | Thomas and his brother, Richard were Shipwrights. |
| MARRIAGE #1 | Sometime before 1637, when Thomas was 26, he first married Margaret [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,2,3,4,5,6]. Margaret died on 29d:7m(September)&358;1658 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,10]. |
| CHILDREN | 4. | i. | Moses CHADWELL | Please seehis own page. |
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5. | ii. | Ruth CHADWELL | Ruth was born in 1640 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1]. On 24d:12m(February):1658 when Ruth was 18, she married Daniel NEEDHAM, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[29]. |
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6. | iii. | Benjamin CHADWELL |
Benajmin was born in 1642 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[2]. Benjamin died in at sea in April 1679;
he was 37[30]. Benjamin was a Ship's carpenter[2] and his descendants became
the Ipswich branch of the family[31]. Inventory of his estate is in Essex Probate, 1679[30].
On 20 December 1666 when Benjamin was 24, he married Elizabeth HAWES, daughter of Joseph HAWES & Elizabeth NEEDHAM, in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA[2,4]. |
| MARRIAGE #2 | After Margaret's death in 1658, when Thomas was 47, he second married Barbara [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA or Boston, Suffolk co., MA[13,4,6,7,8,9]. Barbara died before 1665[1]. |
| MARRIAGE #3 | Between 1665 and 1679, when Thomas was 68, he third married Abigail WYETH, in Charlestown, Middlesex co., MA[1,6,7,10,11,12]. Abigail died on 4d:9m(November):1683 in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA[1,4]. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G9) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 1804 |
| SOURCES |
1. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700.,
(Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 2. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker & Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., (Boston, Mass.: [S. Usher], 1913), [Parker (#9), Parker-Ruggles], 283. 3. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:351. 4. Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin David, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Portland, ME: Anthosensen Press 1928-1939; rpt Baltimore: Gen. Publ. Co., 1972), [GDMNH], 134. 5. Backus, Mary Elizabeth (Neilson), The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, ([Salem, Mass.: privately printed, 1949]), [Backus Anc.], 67, 93. 6. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 16219-[1893], (Lynn: George C. Herbert, [1890]), [Lynn Hist.], 119. 7. [Backus Anc.], 67. 8. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR or Reg.], 13:331. 9. Rockwell, Samuel Forbes, Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston, (North Andover, Mass.: Andover Press, 1932), [Davis (1932)], 251. 10. [GDMNH], 123, 134, 388, 675, 773. 11. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 196. 12. Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner, 5 vols., (Boston, Mass.: 1949, 1955), typescript, [Warner-Harrington], 789. 13. Wiswall, Marcia Wilson, The Chadwell Family, (Lynnfield, Mass.: 1983), [Chadwell], 16. 14. Tucker, Eleanor "William Ivory of Lynn and His Descendants" The Essex Genealogist, [Essex Gen], 10[1990]:33. 15. [Sv], 1:350, 375. 16. [Backus Anc.], 67, 68, 93. 17. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 4:62, 234. 18. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [Dommerich Chart], 38. 19. [NEHGR or Reg.], 67:341. 20. [Lynn Hist.], 228. 21. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, Court Record. 22. ibid. 23. [Lynn Hist.], 227. 24. Hart, James M. Genealogical History of Samuel Hartt from London, England, to Lynn, Mass., 1640 and Descendants, to 1903, Nicholas Hart, from London to Taunton, Mass., 1642, at Boston, Mass., 1643, and Warwick, R.I., 1648, and Descendants, Isaac Hart from Scratby, England, to Watertown, Mass., 1636, Later of Reading, Mass., and Several Short Lines and Their Descendants up to 1903 (Pasadena, Calif.:[Rumford Printing Co., 1903]) [Hart (1903)] 18. 25. Treat, John Harvey, The Treat Family: a Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America, Containing More than Fifteen Hundred Families in America, (Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press, 1893), [Treat], 229. 26. [GDMNH], 314. 27. [NEHGR or Reg.], 111:105.
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