Thomas Barnes my 11th great grandfather on RootsMagic tree

Thomas was born about 1602 in England and was living in Hingham, Massachusetts by 1637 when he and his (probable) brother Peter were on a handwritten list: First Settlers of Hingham. Thomas married Anna around 1643. her last name is unknown around 1643. They had seven kids. Thomas was a weaver and farmer. He was a freeman in 1645.

Thomas died in November 29, 1672. His death is verified in his probate, his will written on April 29, 1671. From the will, “I doe give and bequeath unto my wife Anna Barnes my whole estate both of houses and lands goods and chattles for her comfortable maintenance dureing the time of her widdowhood”. His inventory included books, blankets, a trundle bed, a cedar chest, yards of cloth, cotton and woolen yarn, 5 painted earthen ware dishes, an hourglass, weaving and farming supplies, livestock, bushels of produce, and lots of land.

Thomas is buried in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts in Hingham Cemetery founded in 1672, Thomas’ gravestone was the first- this is noted on FindAGrave . com. The gravestone is original but doesn’t mark his burial place. It was placed with others in a circle around the Founders Monument. The cemetery is right behind Old Ship Church, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America.

Sources

• The ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, page 195 Barnes section. This is a check out book at Archive.org.
• At Ancestry, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records.
• Records of the Governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay at HathiTrust, volume 2 page 264.
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts at HathiTrust, volume 2 page 23.
• Find a Grave memorial 51474179, the “oldest original headstone in the cemetery”.
• Old Ship Church at Wikipedia