Son of Robert & Jane Moss Vose
Thomas was baptized in Ditton, Lancashire, England, Feb. 18, 1840.41, and came to New England with his parents when between ten and thirteen years of age.
Served in Indian war.
He married Waitstill Wyatt, daughter of Edward & Mary Newport Wyatt.
Their children were:
1) Elizabeth Vose
---b. Aug 8, 1661 in Dorchester
---sp. Henry Crane, Jr.
2) Henry Vose*
---sp. #1 Elizabeth Badcock
---sp. #2 Mrs. Jemima Tucker
3) Jane Vose
---sp. Peter Lyon
4) Thomas Vose
---sp. Hanna Badcock
---Captain Thomas Vose was an efficient and public spirited member of the community. He served eighteen years as selectman, seventeen as town clerk, ten as Representative in the General Court, and was appointed on numberless town and church committees.
---He lived on the farm given him by his father in 1661, to which he added largely in 1682, by the purchase of a large part of his father's estate, viz.: seventy-one acres near his dwelling house, one hundred acres at Providence Plain, and twenty acres of upland and twenty of meadow toward the Blue Hills. His house stood on Gun Hill Street near its junction with Center Street.
---He was one of the grantees in the Twelve Divisions in Dorchester New Grant (later Stoughton), and on June 28, 1707, gave his son-in-law, Henry Crane, sixty acres of upland and twenty acres of lowland in the Fourth Lot.
---He was lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Wadsworth in 1675-6, in King Phillip's War, June 28, 1689 was commissioned Captain in the war against the Indians, and on June 3, 1690 was appointed one of the captains in the Expedition to Canada.
Thomas was baptized in Ditton, Lancashire, England, Feb. 18, 1840.41, and came to New England with his parents when between ten and thirteen years of age.
Served in Indian war.
He married Waitstill Wyatt, daughter of Edward & Mary Newport Wyatt.
Their children were:
1) Elizabeth Vose
---b. Aug 8, 1661 in Dorchester
---sp. Henry Crane, Jr.
2) Henry Vose*
---sp. #1 Elizabeth Badcock
---sp. #2 Mrs. Jemima Tucker
3) Jane Vose
---sp. Peter Lyon
4) Thomas Vose
---sp. Hanna Badcock
---Captain Thomas Vose was an efficient and public spirited member of the community. He served eighteen years as selectman, seventeen as town clerk, ten as Representative in the General Court, and was appointed on numberless town and church committees.
---He lived on the farm given him by his father in 1661, to which he added largely in 1682, by the purchase of a large part of his father's estate, viz.: seventy-one acres near his dwelling house, one hundred acres at Providence Plain, and twenty acres of upland and twenty of meadow toward the Blue Hills. His house stood on Gun Hill Street near its junction with Center Street.
---He was one of the grantees in the Twelve Divisions in Dorchester New Grant (later Stoughton), and on June 28, 1707, gave his son-in-law, Henry Crane, sixty acres of upland and twenty acres of lowland in the Fourth Lot.
---He was lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Wadsworth in 1675-6, in King Phillip's War, June 28, 1689 was commissioned Captain in the war against the Indians, and on June 3, 1690 was appointed one of the captains in the Expedition to Canada.
Son of Robert & Jane Moss Vose
Thomas was baptized in Ditton, Lancashire, England, Feb. 18, 1840.41, and came to New England with his parents when between ten and thirteen years of age.
Served in Indian war.
He married Waitstill Wyatt, daughter of Edward & Mary Newport Wyatt.
Their children were:
1) Elizabeth Vose
---b. Aug 8, 1661 in Dorchester
---sp. Henry Crane, Jr.
2) Henry Vose*
---sp. #1 Elizabeth Badcock
---sp. #2 Mrs. Jemima Tucker
3) Jane Vose
---sp. Peter Lyon
4) Thomas Vose
---sp. Hanna Badcock
---Captain Thomas Vose was an efficient and public spirited member of the community. He served eighteen years as selectman, seventeen as town clerk, ten as Representative in the General Court, and was appointed on numberless town and church committees.
---He lived on the farm given him by his father in 1661, to which he added largely in 1682, by the purchase of a large part of his father's estate, viz.: seventy-one acres near his dwelling house, one hundred acres at Providence Plain, and twenty acres of upland and twenty of meadow toward the Blue Hills. His house stood on Gun Hill Street near its junction with Center Street.
---He was one of the grantees in the Twelve Divisions in Dorchester New Grant (later Stoughton), and on June 28, 1707, gave his son-in-law, Henry Crane, sixty acres of upland and twenty acres of lowland in the Fourth Lot.
---He was lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Wadsworth in 1675-6, in King Phillip's War, June 28, 1689 was commissioned Captain in the war against the Indians, and on June 3, 1690 was appointed one of the captains in the Expedition to Canada.
Thomas was baptized in Ditton, Lancashire, England, Feb. 18, 1840.41, and came to New England with his parents when between ten and thirteen years of age.
Served in Indian war.
He married Waitstill Wyatt, daughter of Edward & Mary Newport Wyatt.
Their children were:
1) Elizabeth Vose
---b. Aug 8, 1661 in Dorchester
---sp. Henry Crane, Jr.
2) Henry Vose*
---sp. #1 Elizabeth Badcock
---sp. #2 Mrs. Jemima Tucker
3) Jane Vose
---sp. Peter Lyon
4) Thomas Vose
---sp. Hanna Badcock
---Captain Thomas Vose was an efficient and public spirited member of the community. He served eighteen years as selectman, seventeen as town clerk, ten as Representative in the General Court, and was appointed on numberless town and church committees.
---He lived on the farm given him by his father in 1661, to which he added largely in 1682, by the purchase of a large part of his father's estate, viz.: seventy-one acres near his dwelling house, one hundred acres at Providence Plain, and twenty acres of upland and twenty of meadow toward the Blue Hills. His house stood on Gun Hill Street near its junction with Center Street.
---He was one of the grantees in the Twelve Divisions in Dorchester New Grant (later Stoughton), and on June 28, 1707, gave his son-in-law, Henry Crane, sixty acres of upland and twenty acres of lowland in the Fourth Lot.
---He was lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Wadsworth in 1675-6, in King Phillip's War, June 28, 1689 was commissioned Captain in the war against the Indians, and on June 3, 1690 was appointed one of the captains in the Expedition to Canada.
Inscription
Here Lyes ye Body of Capt. Thomas Vose died April ye 23 1708 in ye 68 Year of his age.
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