Captain Thomas Amsden

b. 9 January 1686/87, d. 27 April 1760
Captain Thomas Amsden|b. 9 Jan 1686/87\nd. 27 Apr 1760|p1190.htm|Isaac Amsden|b. 1655\nd. 3 May 1727|p1185.htm|Jane Rutter|b. 1658\nd. 22 Nov 1739|p1186.htm|Isaac Amsden|d. 27 Jun 1659|p1196.htm|Frances Perriman|b. abt. 1635\nd. bef. 24 Aug 1702|p1199.htm|John Rutter|b. 1616\nd. 1695|p1200.htm|Elizabeth Plympton|b. say 1624\nd. 1689|p1201.htm|
Father*Isaac Amsden1,2,3 b. 1655, d. 3 May 1727
Mother*Jane Rutter1,2,3 b. 1658, d. 22 Nov 1739
ChartsAncestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson
Captain Thomas Amsden was born 9 January 1686/87 at Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.1,2,3 He married Eunice How, daughter of Joseph How and Dorothy Martin, 18 June 1712 at Marlborough.4 He died 27 April 1760 at Marlborough.1,3

Captain Thomas Amsden was a Captain of a military company at Marlboro, and also blacksmith, settling in the Robin Hill district. In 1735 he received an allotment of land for his father's and uncle Jacob's service in King Phillip's war.

His daughter Lucy, a widow, was made administratrix of his estate, valued at £106.5

Family

Eunice How b. 15 Jan 1692, d. 20 Oct 1725
Marriage*He married Eunice How, daughter of Joseph How and Dorothy Martin, 18 June 1712 at Marlborough.4 
Children

Citations

  1. [S49] Bernice Amsden Warnick, Ancestors and Descendants of Jonathan Nichols Amsden and Amelia Jane Smith 1636-1977 and Their Related Families of Colonial America: Belcher, Bent, Cornwall, Cummings, Graves, Hannum, Larkin, Loker, Loomis, Lull, Morgan, Morse, Newton, Nichols, Park(e), Perriman, Phelps, Plumpton, Rutter, Sacket(t), Safford, Thompson, Tyler, Wheeler, Witter and the Griffith Evans Family of North Wales (Santa Barbara, California: J & S Graphics, 1978), 30-34. Hereafter cited as Ancestors and Descendants of Jonathan Nichols Amsden.
  2. [S925] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Four Volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company, 1860-1862, Vol 1. CD-ROM reprint, Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Collection of 14 Classic Genealogical Dictionaries of Early New England Settlers (Columbia, Maryland: Archive CD Books USA, 2006). Hereafter cited as Savage's Dictionary.
  3. [S160] Andrew H Ward, "Amsden Family," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 15 (Jan 1861): 21-22. Hereafter cited as "Amsden."
  4. [S49] Warnick, Ancestors and Descendants of Jonathan Nichols Amsden, 32.
  5. [S1702] Murray M. Brown, Some Descendants of Isaac Amsden of Cambridge, Mass., (Athol, Massachusetts: s.p., 1934), 7. Hereafter cited as Brown, Some Descendants of Isaac Amsden.
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