Individual Details

Thomas Applegate

(Abt 1598 - Abt 1657)

He was the founder of the Applegate Family in America. Also, he was a ferryman, planter and weaver. He left England and settled in Leiden, Holland with a group of fellow Englishmen during the Puritan disorders. About 1635, he came to Massachusetts Bay Colony and on March 31, 1635, he was licensed for a year by the General Court to run a ferry between Weymouth, Massachusetts and Braintree, Massachusetts. Thomas moved to Gravesend, New Netherland in 1646.

He is in the Great Migration books

Biography at this source pp 1-6
https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal03instil/page/n15

Events

BirthAbt 1598Potter Heigham, Norfolk, England
MarriageAbt 1623Elizabeth Wall
Immigration1635Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Departure1635
Residence1646Gravesend
DeathAbt 1657Gravesend, Long Island
Occupationferryman, a planter, and a weaver
ResidenceWeymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Families

SpouseElizabeth Wall (1604 - 1662)
ChildHelena Applegate (1623 - 1652)
ChildBartholomew Applegate (1625 - )
ChildThomas Applegate (1628 - )
ChildJohn Applegate (1630 - )

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