THOMAS HODGMAN

(d. 1729) - Salem, Essex co., MA & Reading, Middlesex co., MA

(First Generation - Hodgman Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN




DEATH Thomas died on 28 August 1729 in Reading, Middlesex co., MA[1,2]. We are currently unsure of his birth & origins.
MIGRATION &##8; RESIDENCE He was in Salem, Essex co., MA by 1661, when he married Katherin MORE. By August of 1663, Thomas had removed to Reading, Middlesex co., MA. Wyman states that he was of Reading, but records the following early ties to Charlestown: "Buys of John Trumbull, 27 acres on Mystic side, 1684, rec. 1687. He and his wife Mary to "cousin Joseph Underwood of Reading, weaver, who hath lived many years with me" &c. 27 acres in Chas. 1703."[3] Joseph was of "Reading &c; weaver" and married Susanna Parker in 1707 at Reading[4].
MARRIAGE #1 In October 1661 Thomas first married Katherin MORE, in Salem, Essex co., MA[5,6,7]. Katherin died before August 1663, when Thomas married for the second time.
MARRIAGE #2 On 12 August 1663 Thomas second married Mary [surname not known], in Reading, Middlesex co., MA[3,5,6,8,9,10,11,12] . Their marriage record reads "Hodgman, Thomas and Morral (Mary, T.C.)". Mary was the widow of Ezekiel MORRILL of Reading. Estimating from her given age at death, Mary was born in 1640. She died in Reading, Middlesex co., MA on 10 November 1735; she was 95[1,2].

CHILD [Adopted] 2. i. Josiah HODGMAN [né WEBBER] Please see his own page.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G8) Grandfather [Adoptive]
FAMILY NUMBER 1832
SOURCES 1. Reading, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records [ReadingVR], 531.

2. ????, Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, ????, [ReadGen], 92.

3. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], I:507.

4. Ibid. II:977.

5. Toler, Grace Cabot, Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Richard Blood - Baptist Hicks and Allied Families, 1470 to 1933, ([Mounds, Ill.: The Independant Press 1933]), [Blood Anc.], 63.

6. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

7. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR], III:507 [Ct. R.]

8. [ReadingVR], 368.

9. Hoyt, Daniel Webster, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., with Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine, 3 vols., (Providence: [Snow & Farnham], 1897-1917), [Salisbury Fam], 765.

10. The Genealogical Magazine, (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1890+), [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 4:90.

11. Hodgman, Fred C., Hodgman, A Partial Genealogy..., (Valley Falls, R.I., 1916, typescript), [Hodgman (ms)], 1,17.

12. Bailey, Frederic William, Early Massachusetts Marriages prior to 1800, 3 vols., (New Haven: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1897-1914), [Bailey: Early MA Mar.], 3:78.

13. [ReadingVR], 243.

14. [Hodgman (ms)], 1,2.

15. [ReadingVR].

16. Concord, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records, [ConcordVR], 432.

17. [ReadGen], 93.

18. [ReadingVR], 368,349.

19. [Charlestown], I::402

20. Ibid. I:507.

21. [ReadingVR], 127.

22. Waters, Henry F., The Newhall Family, (Salem: Essex Institute, 1882; repr., Rutland, VT: Tuttle Antiquarian Books), [Newhall(1882)], 77-8.

23. Ibid. #217; 18:281-282.

24. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR].

25. [Newhall(1882)], 77.

26. Ibid. 43,77.

27. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], PR 125 - First Congregational Church of Lynnfield.

28. Essex co., MA Deeds, [EssexDeeds or ELR], 77.

29. Ibid. Book 84, Leaf 187.

30. [Newhall(1882)], #490; 48:219-220.

31. [ConcordVR], 161.

32. Ibid. 175.




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