Individual Details
Thomas LOOK
(Abt 1622 - Bef 1670)
"The first of this family to settle here was Thomas, a son of Thomas Look, a collier at the Lynn Iron Works. The father, born about 1622, settled in Massachusetts, whither he had come probably from Scotland to follow his trade at the newly established iron foundry at Lynn. The name Look is derived from the biblical Luke, and the first settler so spelled it. It is a name found in Scotland before 1600 among the rentallers of the Archbishop of Glasgow. [*In the next century there were several opulent merchants of the name of Luke in the city of Glasgow. It is also of record that a considerable number of Scotchmen were employed at the Lynn Iron Works (Essex Antiquarian, XII, 70). A Thomas Lucke was a merchant of Penthurst, Co. Kent, in 1662 (Suff. Deeds, IV, 35).] Thomas, the collier, became one of the original ten associates of Salisbury in 1659 who purchased Nantucket, and through this transaction his son Thomas, born June, 1646, removed to that island about 1670 and took up the share as a settler. "
Events
| Birth | Abt 1622 | Scotland |  |  | |
| Marriage | Bef 1646 | [unknown 1st wife of Thomas Look, Sr.] [UNKNOWN] | | ||
| Arrival | Bef 1646 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1659 | Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | | |
| Residence | 1659 | Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |||
| Marriage | 26 Jul 1659 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Sarah MILLER | | ||
| Death | Bef 1670 | | |||
| Alt name | Thomas LOCK | ||||
| Occupation | collier - Lynn Iron Works, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah MILLER (1624 - 1666) |
| Spouse | [unknown 1st wife of Thomas Look, Sr.] [UNKNOWN] ( - 1656) |
| Child | Thomas LOOK (1646 - 1725) |
| Child | Sarah LOOKE (1648 - ) |
| Child | Jonathan LOOKE (1651 - ) |
| Child | Experience LOOKE (1653 - 1738) |
| Child | Mary LOOKE (1654 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth LOOKE (1656 - ) |
Notes
Birth
deposed that he was 31 years of age on 27 June 1654Property
Banks:"Thomas ... became one of the original ten associates of Salisbury in 1659 who purchased Nantucket, and through this transaction his son Thomas, born June 1646, removed to that island about 1670 and took up the share as a settler."
Hoppin:
"In July 1659, Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard, conveyed nineteen-twentieths of the island of Nantucket to nine men of Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, each of whom was to choose another man for a partner. One of them, Richard Swain, chose as his partner Thomas Look, Senior, and also purchased William Pile's one-tenth share of the island. Thus Thomas Look, Senior, became one of the first proprietors of Nantucket. He died, however, without removing thither."
Occupation
Hoppin provides substantial detailEndnotes
1. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 15 October 2014), Thomas Look.
2. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 465; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
3. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 465; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
4. William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, 4 vols (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), p 1653; images of book pages, Google, Google Book (http://books.google.com : downloaded 26 December 2014; entry for Look.
5. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 465; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
6. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 15 October 2014), Thomas Look.
7. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 466; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
8. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 465; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
9. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 466; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
10. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 15 October 2014), Thomas Look.
11. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 466; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.