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Thomas Cooper was born on 31 August 1630 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. He and Mary Kingsbury were married in 1657 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He died on 16 August 1698 at age 67 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Mentioned frequently in Early Rehoboth (Richard Lebaron Bowen, 1948). He helped form the early town of Rehoboth and was one of the original land owners. Was grandjuryman for town 1646. He was senior deacon in the Rehoboth Congregational Church, 1670 (Deacon Philip Walker #2324 was the junior deacon). There was a lot of conflict between the Congregationalists and the Baptists just before this. He bought a house with 8 acres of land and various other parcels of land from Thomas Smith on May 16, 1654.

Also listed as wives Mary Slye and Mary Raynor. There's also a question as to whether his first wife Mary died and he married (2) Elizabeth Rand (see Ancestral Lines, Third Edition). Thomas Cooper had person sources.¹

Mary Kingsbury was born on 1 September 1637 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Thomas Cooper and she were married in 1657 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She died on 18 September 1700 at age 63 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Was she born in Hingham or in Dedham, MA 1 July 1637? Mary Kingsbury had person sources.¹

Thomas Cooper was born on 8 February 1606 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. He and Rachel Bosworth were married in 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. He and Ann Bosworth were married on 17 October 1656. He died on 17 March 1690 at age 84 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

He came to New England on the Diligent with his wife and two children in 1638. Thomas Cooper had person sources.¹

Rachel Bosworth was born in 1610 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Thomas Cooper and she were married in 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. She died on 17 October 1656 at age ~46 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Check to see if her name was really Bosworth and was it Rebecca Ann vice Rachel..

Nicholas Ide was born about 1620 in Ide, Devonshire, England. He and Martha Bliss were married on 16 May 1647 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ He died on 18 October 1690 at age ~70 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Mentioned several times in Early Rehoboth (Richard Lebaron Bowen, 1948) as son-in-law of Thomas Bliss and as owning 3 acres of meadow (p. 159). He is mentioned as having acquired the share of John Houlbrook in 1643. He was listed as an inhabitant of Rehoboth February 7, 1689. He was listed among the Rehoboth soldiers who served under Major Bradford in King Philip's War.

See "The Pennsylvania Branch of the Ide Family" by Silas C. Ide, 1940.

Martha Bliss was born on 8 December 1622 in England. Nicholas Ide and she were married on 16 May 1647 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ She died on 3 November 1676 at age 53 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Also referred to as Martha Wheatlie of Belstone. There's a question as to whether this Martha married Nicholas Ide. Martha married Nathaniel Toogood and Benjamin Carpenter, according to Carl Boyer in Ancestral Lines, p. 95.

Nathaniel Ide was born on 11 November 1647.

Mary Ide was born on 10 December 1649.

John Ide was born in December 1652.

Martha Ide was born in October 1656. Samuel Walker and she were married on 11 November 1677.

Nicholas Ide was born in November 1654. He died before 3 July 1723 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

He was a weaver. His will dtd. February 18, 1722/23, probated July 23, 1723. Names wife, children.

Elizabeth Ide was born on 6 April 1658.

Dorothy Ide was born on 11 May 1662.

Patience Ide was born on 25 May 1664.

Experience Ide was born in October 1665.

Thomas Bliss was born about 1596 in Preston Parva, Daventry, Northampton, England. He and Dorothy Wheatleigh were married on 22 November 1614 at Holy Cross Church in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.¹ He died after 8 June 1647 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He was buried at old Cemetery in Seekonk, now Rumsford, Rhode Island.

He emigrated with his brother, George, in 1636 upon the death of his father. He moved to Braintree, then to Hartford, CT, then back to Weymouth, MA, then to Rehoboth in 1643 as one of the original proprietors with Rev. Newman on land purchased from Massasoit. At the time of his death, he owned 47 acres in Rehoboth.

Thomas Bliss, married to Dorothy Wheatley (first wife), is mentioned in Early Rehoboth (Richard Lebaron Bowen, 1948) on page 128 as being from Daventry. He made his will at Rehoboth on 7 October 1647 and entreated his friends Richard Wright and Stephen Payne to be overseers. The will was proved at Plymouth 8June 1649. He left an estate of 117 pounds (see Plymouth County Wills, Vol. 1, pp. 67, 81). Thomas Bliss was a surveyor of highways for the town of Rehoboth in 1646 (p. 142).

There is confusion about the origins of Thomas Bliss and Dorothy Wheatlie. Boyer in Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, mentions three possible parentages for Thomas Bliss and calls the Dorothy Wheatleigh connection a forgery by a British genealogist who was trying to find a royal connection for a client. Martha Bliss was the daughter of Jonathan Bliss, not Thomas Bliss, and married Nathaniel Toogood and Benjamin Carpenter. Mary, the other possible candidate, married Nathaniel Harmon. Torrey's New England marriages gives the marriage of Nicholas Ide and Mary Bliss as Rehoboth. Anyway, this is a mess to look into when I have appropriate documentation.

Little Compton Families suggests "Genealogy of The Bliss Family" by John Homer Bliss, Boston 1881. Thomas Bliss is said to have come from Belstone Parish in England to this country.

Dorothy Wheatleigh was born on 22 August 1591 in Maiden Newton, Dorset, England. Thomas Bliss and she were married on 22 November 1614 at Holy Cross Church in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.¹ She died before 1645.

There is controversy over whether Dorothy was the daughter of John Wheatlie or his brother Frank and whether Frank's wife was Mary Fiennes of the D'Acre family. See Carl Boyer's Ancestral Lines, p. 93. If her ancestry goes back through Mary Fiennes, Edward I, King of England, is her ancestor.

Frank Wheatley was born in Maiden Castle, Dorsetshire, England. He died after 1595 in Tingsboro, Somerset, England.

Early Rehoboth (Richard Lebaron Bowen, 1948) mentions that Dorothy's father was John Wheatly, not Frank Wheatley (p. 128). But Richard Wheatleigh is more often mentioned.

William Freeborne was born on 28 April 1591 in Ipswitch, Suffolk, England. He and Mary Wilson were married on 25 July 1625 in Saint Mary's Church, Malden, Essex, England. He died on 28 April 1670 at age 79 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.¹

He was a sawyer in 1621. He lived at Batisfords Manor (also called "Freebournes") in Witham. Boyer quotes sources that say that Freebournes was built early in the 16th Century and is located on what is now Newland Street in Witham.

"He came over on the Francis in 1634. He was freeman on 3 September 1634 when he may have been living in Roxbury. He moved later to Boston, where he became a supporter of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson and Mr. Wheelock. On 7 March 1637/8, he and eighteen others signed the Compact which incorporated Portsmouth, RI. Five days later he and eight of the other signers were formally banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court. He helped survey Rhode Island in 1639 and was freeman in Portsmouth on 16 March 1641. He served as Constable in 1642 and as Commissioner to the General Court in 1657. A mill he purchased from James Sands and Samuel Wilbor stayed in the family until after 1800." Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, p. 258-59.