Individual Details
Thomas Wyborn
(Bef 5 Jun 1580 - 2 Aug 1656)
In 1635 a large group of people from Tenderden joined Rev. John Lothrop's first colony to Massachusetts. Thomas is supposed to have emigrated in 1638 with a number of people that followed the Rev. shortly after. Thomas was refered to as a "Sadler, late of Tenderden, Kent" in the will of Peter Branch. S.F. Weyburn concludes that he couldn't have lived there long before emigrating, as he couldn't find records of him, but this should be looked into again in light of the above doubts. Peter Branch was a carpenter from Holden, near Tenderden, and died on board the ship Castle soon after its arrival.
Thomas lived in Scituate for a time but removed to Boston after buying a house there in 1648 from John Lake, located on High St. His wife's name was given as Elizabeth in Boston records. Other records show that he was able to bear arms in the Colony of Plymouth, Scituate in 1643; was a commissioner of High Ways in Boston in 1653; was elected Constable in Boston in 1654; and was named in other loan/tax records. After his death in 1656 his family returned to Scituate.
Events
| Birth | Bef 5 Jun 1580 | Wrotham, Kent, England |  | ||
| Baptism | 5 Jun 1580 | Wrotham, Kent, England |  | | |
| Will | 30 Sep 1655 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America | | | |
| Death | 2 Aug 1656 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America | | ||
| Probate | 28 Oct 1656 | | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth (1616 - ) |
| Child | Thomas Wyborn (1639 - 1698) |
| Child | James Wyborn (1640 - 1658) |
| Child | Elizabeth Wyborn (1641 - 1677) |
| Child | John Wyborn (1642 - 1720) |
| Child | Mary Wyborn (1643 - ) |
| Child | Jonathan Wyborn (1653 - 1653) |
| Child | Nathaniel Wyborn (1654 - 1656) |
| Father | Richard Wyborn (1544 - ) |
| Mother | ? ? (1545 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Wyborn (1564 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Wyborn (1565 - ) |
| Sibling | John Wyborn (1568 - ) |
| Sibling | Jane Wyborn (1571 - ) |
| Sibling | Anne Wyborn (1574 - ) |
| Sibling | William Wyborn (1575 - ) |
Notes
Baptism
NOTE: This baptismal record might not belong to the Thomas Wyborn of Boston and Scituate, MA. The "Weyburn-Wyborn Genealogy" says it does, but doubt is cast by SW Walker's notes on Thomas Wyborn in his "McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines." See general notes.Will
Thomas left property to his daughter Elizabeth and her infant daughter Deborah.I Thomas Wyborne vpon my bed of weakness, though through favor enjoying my witt, senses and memory, doe apoynt my two eldest sons, viz: - Thomas and James Wyborne to be my executorrs. Then I doe will yt all my debts shall be justly paid. I doe freely giue vnto my wife Elizabeth Wyborne, the one halfe of ye windmill in Boston, as also yt my sd. executorrs shall pay vnto my said wife forty shillings ye year, vntill shee marry. I give vnto sun Jno. Wyborne forty pounds to bee paid at ye age of twenty one years, vnto my daughter Elizabeth Merrit, twenty pounds. Vnto my daughter's child Deborah Merrit five pounds, vnto my daughter Mary Wyborne twenty pounds, to bee paid at ye age of sixteen years & also yt shee live not at ye finding of my executorrs, then I giue her forty shillings a yeare, vntill ye age of sixteene; to my wife Elizabeth ye use of one fether bed & furniture for it, & all other household necessarys while she remain a widdow. - Louving friends Edward Ting, & Jno. Hull of Boston to bee ye overseers of this, my will these them my testament. I hear acknowledge by my hand this 30th of Sepr. 1655, (moreover I will that my best fether bed, and grate bible shall peculerly bee for my eldest son.
Attestants. Edward Eddenden Jno. Marion, John Hull.
Probate
Inventory was taken by Edward Eddenden, Nathaniel Bishope. 14. s. 165 d. amount 386 pounds. I. s. - "desperate" included.Endnotes
1. McArthur, Selim Walker., McArthur-Barnes ancestral lines. (Portland, Me.: Anthoensen Press, 1964, 225 pgs.), p. 130.
2. Weyburn, Samuel Fletcher., Weyburn-Wyborn genealogy : being a history and pedigree of Thomas Wyborn of Boston and Scituate, Massachusetts, and Samuel Weyburn of Pennsylvania, with notes on the origin of the family in England and several branches in Kent County in particular. (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 233 pgs.), p. 15.
3. Merritt, Douglas., [New Merritt records] (Rhinebeck, N.Y.: unknown, 1991, 67 pgs.), p. 9.
4. Weyburn, Samuel Fletcher., Weyburn-Wyborn genealogy : being a history and pedigree of Thomas Wyborn of Boston and Scituate, Massachusetts, and Samuel Weyburn of Pennsylvania, with notes on the origin of the family in England and several branches in Kent County in particular. (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 233 pgs.), p. 18.
5. Merritt, Douglas., [New Merritt records] (Rhinebeck, N.Y.: unknown, 1991, 67 pgs.), p. 9.
6. Weyburn, Samuel Fletcher., Weyburn-Wyborn genealogy : being a history and pedigree of Thomas Wyborn of Boston and Scituate, Massachusetts, and Samuel Weyburn of Pennsylvania, with notes on the origin of the family in England and several branches in Kent County in particular. (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 233 pgs.), p. 15.
7. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts: from its first settlement to 1831 (Boston, MA: J. Loring, 1831), 391-392; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/ : accessed 26 October 2009.
8. Weyburn, Samuel Fletcher., Weyburn-Wyborn genealogy : being a history and pedigree of Thomas Wyborn of Boston and Scituate, Massachusetts, and Samuel Weyburn of Pennsylvania, with notes on the origin of the family in England and several branches in Kent County in particular. (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 233 pgs.), p. 18.