Dr. Thomas was the son of William and Anne (Patershall) (Breck) Thomas; born in Boston 1718. He was
a descendant in the sixth generation from William Thomas, a merchant adventurer, who came to America from Yarmouth, England, in the "Mayre and Ann," in 1637, and settled in Marshfield, Mass. He was aneminent physician, of extensive practice in Plymouth for upwards of fifty years. He was a member of the medical staff in the hazardous and successful enterprise against Louisburg in 1745, and at Crown Point in 1758. He was an active man in the struggles with the mother country during the Revolution. Soon after the first blow was struck at Lexington, in 1775, he, with his four sons, joined the first organized revolutionary corps. Joshua became aide-de-camp to General Thomas in the expedition to Canada in 1776, and, at the conclusion of peace, Judge of Probate for Plymouth County; Joseph was a captain of an artillery company; and John was on the medical staff, and upon the termination of the struggle settled at Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, in the practice of his profession, where he died in 1818, leaving a son and one daughter. The other sons settled in Plymouth. A daughter married and settled in Charlestown, N.H.
He married 1st Mary Papillon, of Boston;
2nd Mercy Bridgham, of Boston;
3rd Mary Howland.
source: Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman [p. 92]
a descendant in the sixth generation from William Thomas, a merchant adventurer, who came to America from Yarmouth, England, in the "Mayre and Ann," in 1637, and settled in Marshfield, Mass. He was aneminent physician, of extensive practice in Plymouth for upwards of fifty years. He was a member of the medical staff in the hazardous and successful enterprise against Louisburg in 1745, and at Crown Point in 1758. He was an active man in the struggles with the mother country during the Revolution. Soon after the first blow was struck at Lexington, in 1775, he, with his four sons, joined the first organized revolutionary corps. Joshua became aide-de-camp to General Thomas in the expedition to Canada in 1776, and, at the conclusion of peace, Judge of Probate for Plymouth County; Joseph was a captain of an artillery company; and John was on the medical staff, and upon the termination of the struggle settled at Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, in the practice of his profession, where he died in 1818, leaving a son and one daughter. The other sons settled in Plymouth. A daughter married and settled in Charlestown, N.H.
He married 1st Mary Papillon, of Boston;
2nd Mercy Bridgham, of Boston;
3rd Mary Howland.
source: Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman [p. 92]
Dr. Thomas was the son of William and Anne (Patershall) (Breck) Thomas; born in Boston 1718. He was
a descendant in the sixth generation from William Thomas, a merchant adventurer, who came to America from Yarmouth, England, in the "Mayre and Ann," in 1637, and settled in Marshfield, Mass. He was aneminent physician, of extensive practice in Plymouth for upwards of fifty years. He was a member of the medical staff in the hazardous and successful enterprise against Louisburg in 1745, and at Crown Point in 1758. He was an active man in the struggles with the mother country during the Revolution. Soon after the first blow was struck at Lexington, in 1775, he, with his four sons, joined the first organized revolutionary corps. Joshua became aide-de-camp to General Thomas in the expedition to Canada in 1776, and, at the conclusion of peace, Judge of Probate for Plymouth County; Joseph was a captain of an artillery company; and John was on the medical staff, and upon the termination of the struggle settled at Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, in the practice of his profession, where he died in 1818, leaving a son and one daughter. The other sons settled in Plymouth. A daughter married and settled in Charlestown, N.H.
He married 1st Mary Papillon, of Boston;
2nd Mercy Bridgham, of Boston;
3rd Mary Howland.
source: Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman [p. 92]
a descendant in the sixth generation from William Thomas, a merchant adventurer, who came to America from Yarmouth, England, in the "Mayre and Ann," in 1637, and settled in Marshfield, Mass. He was aneminent physician, of extensive practice in Plymouth for upwards of fifty years. He was a member of the medical staff in the hazardous and successful enterprise against Louisburg in 1745, and at Crown Point in 1758. He was an active man in the struggles with the mother country during the Revolution. Soon after the first blow was struck at Lexington, in 1775, he, with his four sons, joined the first organized revolutionary corps. Joshua became aide-de-camp to General Thomas in the expedition to Canada in 1776, and, at the conclusion of peace, Judge of Probate for Plymouth County; Joseph was a captain of an artillery company; and John was on the medical staff, and upon the termination of the struggle settled at Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, in the practice of his profession, where he died in 1818, leaving a son and one daughter. The other sons settled in Plymouth. A daughter married and settled in Charlestown, N.H.
He married 1st Mary Papillon, of Boston;
2nd Mercy Bridgham, of Boston;
3rd Mary Howland.
source: Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman [p. 92]
Inscription
WILLIAM THOMAS M.D.
Died Sept. 20, 1802,
Aged 84 years.
MERCY
Daughter of
Wm & MERCY THOMAS
Died Nov. 1776,
Aged 17 years.
Kingman #806
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