Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society . WORCESTER, BY THE SOCIETY1909 INTRODUCTION, Isaiah Thomas, the son of Moses and Fidelity GrantThomas, was born in Boston, 19 January, 1749, old is the family tradition that he was descended from EvanThomas, of whom Governor Winthrop says:—aOn the5th of June, 1632, arrived in Boston the ship William andFrancis, Mr. Thomas master, with about fifty passengers—whereof Mr. Welde and old Mr. Batchelor (being aged 71)were with their families and many other honest Thomas settled
Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society . WORCESTER, BY THE SOCIETY1909 INTRODUCTION, Isaiah Thomas, the son of Moses and Fidelity GrantThomas, was born in Boston, 19 January, 1749, old is the family tradition that he was descended from EvanThomas, of whom Governor Winthrop says:—aOn the5th of June, 1632, arrived in Boston the ship William andFrancis, Mr. Thomas master, with about fifty passengers—whereof Mr. Welde and old Mr. Batchelor (being aged 71)were with their families and many other honest Thomas settled in tne colony of the MassachusettsBay in 1639 or 1640, the earliest notice of him on the colonyrecords being under the date of 1 September, 1640, whenhe having a wife and four children, is allowed twentybushels of corne at harvest. He was a successful vintner,paying a yearly license, or his proportion of the rents ofwine of from twenty to forty pounds a year. He alsoseems to have dabbled in speculation. His grandson, Peter, the eldest son of George and RebeccaThomas, was born in Bo
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