Genealogy Report: Descendants of THOMAS BONNEY (1604-1694) of Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
Descendants of THOMAS BONNEY (1604-1694) of Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
1.THOMAS1 BONNEY was born Abt. 1604 in England, and died May 1, 1693 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.He married (1) MARY TERRY Abt. 1643 in Massachusetts, daughter of JOHN TERRY and MARY WHITE.She was born Abt. 1610 in England, and died Bef. 1649 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.He married (2) MARY HUNT Abt. 1649 in probably in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, daughter of EDMUND HUNT.She was born Abt. 1630, and died Aft. 1693 in Massachusetts.
Notes for THOMAS BONNEY:
Thomas Bonney, a shoemaker, came to New England on the ship "Hercules" from Sandwich, England in March 1634.He settled first at Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts where he was a proprietor in 1635.He sold his house and land there in 1637 to Robert Cutler and moved to Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts where he became a freeman on March 5, 1638/9 and a proprietor on August 31, 1640.In 1640 he owned land northwest of North Hill and thirty acres at Namasakeeset.The name was later changed to Pembroke and subsequently changed to Hanson.
Thomas's first wife was Mary Terry.Following her death, Thomas married Mary Hunt, the daughter of Edmund Hunt.In 1643, Thomas was listed as able to bear arms (16-60 years old) in Duxbury along with his future father-in-law, Edmund Hunt and his son's future father-in-law, Henry Sampson.He was also listed as a constable at Duxbury between 1643 and 1644, a town officer in Court in 1645, and as a surveyor of highways in 1652.He was a shoemaker by trade.His will was dated January 2, 1688/9 and was probated on May 1, 1693.He bequeath to his wife, Mary, and son, Thomas, his estate to be divided between the children after the death of their mother.
While there has been some question as to which Thomas Bonney married Dorcus Sampson, daughter of Henry Sampson, Perez Bonney's chronicle of his predecessors and his own posterity -- from his grandfather down to his own grandchildren is generally accepted as being correct.In it he states:
"I, the subscriber, Perez Bonney, the son of John Bonney, of Pembrook, having a mind to write an account of my predecessor, according to the best information that ever I had, I shall begin with my grandfather, Thomas Bonney, who came from Dover, in England, and was born about the year 1604, and married Mary Terry, but she died, and then he married Mary Hunt, being as I have been told about 50 years old by whom he had: Thomas 2nd, who married Dorcas Sampson; Mary, who married John Mitchell; Sarah, who married Nathaniel Cole; Hannah, unknown; John who married Elizabeth Bishop; William, who married Ann May; Joseph, who married Margaret Phillips; and James, who married Abigail Bishop.My grandfather was by trade or occupation a cordwainer and settled in Duxborough. ... And so I have gone through with my design at present.
Pembrook, Jan. 23d, 1758. Perez Bonney."
Because there is no record of any Terry family in the Plymouth Colony at the time, it is possible that Thomas Bonney's marriage to Mary Terry may have occurred at Charlestown, prior to the time he moved to Duxbury.
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WILL OF THOMAS BONNEY - dated January 2, 1688/89 - Duxbury, Massachusetts:
Upon the 2 Day of january in the Year of our Lord 1688/89 I, Thomas Boney Senr. Shoomaker Living in Duxburrough being of sound mind & in good and perfect rememberance (praised be the Lord for it) Make & ordaine this my last Will & Testament In manner & form following that is to say first I commend my Soule unto Allmighty God, my maker & redeemer, & my bodie to be desently buried & funerall charges defraied together with all my just & lawfull debts.
Item I bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary Boney all my housses & Landes in Duxburrough as also all my cattell & all my household state for her proper use & behoofe During her naturall Life & if anny thing remaine of the moveables My Will is that they be desposed ofby her a Mongst my children as she thenkes fit.I give to my Sonne Thomas Boney all My housses & Lands in Duxburrough after his Mothers Deceas.
I do hereby also Make my Beloved Wife Mary Boney soule Exequitrix & Administratrix of this my Last will & Testament In the fift year of the Raine of King James the second.
Sighned & sealed in the pesene of us witnesses.
THOMAS BONEY his Marke (Seal)
Samuel Hunt
Rhodolphus Thacher
Mr. Rhodolphus Thatcher and Samuel Hunt the witness as above named appeared on ye first day of May 1694 and made oath that they were present and saw and heard Thomas Boney the Testator above named sign seal & deliver ye above written to be his last will and testament and that to the Best of their Judgement he was of depossing mind and memory when he did ye same.Before me
William Bradford
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THE 1643 LIST OF FREEMEN OF DUXBORROW INCLUDES:
Edmond Hunt
Willm Brewster
Love Brewster
John Farneseed
Thom Bonney
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THE 1657 LIST OF FREEMEN OF DUXBORROW INCLUDES:
Thomas Bonney
Thomas Bonney[this may indicate that Thomas Bonney Jr. was already 17 years old, the age required to register for the military]
Edmond Hunt
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SPECIFIC REFERENCES TO THOMAS BONNEY FROM PLYMOUTH COLONY RECORDS INCLUDE:
March 3, 1645/6 - Court of Assistants meeting held at Plymouth Colony:
1. Wee do psent Thomas Bonney, of the towne of Duxborrow, for uncivill carriages and lacivious actions toward weomen and maydes.Released.
Whereas an action of slaunder and defamacon was this Court comenced by Mr John Farnyseede, and Elizabeth, his wyfe, against Thomas Bonney, by the arbitration and mediation of frends, it was upon the said Bonneys acknowledgement withdrawne, weh was shewed in Court, and ordered to be recorded as followth viz:
Know all men by these pnts, that whereas Thomas Bonney hath said that Mris Farniseede did justle him in her house, and that hee tooke it as a temptation of him unto lust, the said Thomas Bonney doth freely and humbly acknowledg, unto the glory of God and unto his own shame, that it was his owne base heart that caused him to make that construction thereof, hee acknowledging that he had no sufficient reason so to conceive, but that evell suspition arose from the corruption of his own heart; and although the said Thomas Bonney did further accuse her in comeing bare legged unto him, speaking unto him, Thomas Bonney, will you mend my shooes?shee utterly denyeth that ever shee came to him in any such manner, the said Thomas Bonney dareing not say but that hee might be mistaken therein; and whatever interpretation Thomas Bonney did make thereof, the said Thomas Bonney acknowledgeth it to arise from his owne base, lustfull heart, and doth wholly condemme himself fro speakeing or thinking any evell of her, the said Thomas Bonney not dareing to say or think any of her but that shee is very honest, modest, and chaste weoman, both in heart, worde, and deede, and doth therefore earnestly beseech the Lord to for give him his many and great sinns therein, & doth humbly entreate Mris Farnyseede, her husband, pents, and frends to forgive him these so greate wrongs & injuries done by him herein, pmiseing to acknowledg these his wronges (donn unto her) in or before the congregacon whenever it shalbe required of the said Mrs Farnyseede, her husband, or friends; and also the said Thomas Bonney doth hereby testifye, that if ever hereafter hee shall in any measure speake any thing to any pson or psons tending to her disgrace oe defamacon, that then it shalbe lawfull for the husband of the said Mris Fernyseede to psecute his action of slaunder and defamacon, notwthstanding this his acknowledgment; the said Thomas Bonney also pmiseing to put into the hand of the deacon of the church of Duxborrow five shillings, for to be by the said deacon distributed unto the poore. In witnesse whereof the said Thomas Bonney hath suscribed his hand this second day of March, 1645.
Thomas Boni
Witnes, John Willis.
[Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff and David Pulsifer - Vol. 2, pages 96 & 97]
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August 4, 1646 - Court of Assistants meeting held at Plymouth Colony:
In the case betwixte Thomas Bonney, compl, and John Willis and Mr John Farneseede, defend, for damage don in the corne and garden of ye said compl, weh damage was awarded to vij by such as viewed the same, the Court, having heard the allegations of all the said pties, doe determine, that the said vij shalbe equally borne betwixte them, vizt: ijs iiij a peece; yt is 2s 4d Bonny, 2s 4d John Willis, & 2s 4d John Farneside, & Thomas Bonney to pay ye charge of ye Courte.
[Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England -Edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff - Vol. 2, page 107]
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May 5, 1656:
Roger Glasse complained against Thomas Bonney, in the action of the case, to the damage of thirty shillings for denying to pay him for the carrying of som thinges for him into the bay.
The jurry find for the plaintife, and give him sixteen shillings besides the bushell and halfe of aples received, and the charges for the suite.
[Records of the Colony of New Plymouth - Judicial Acts 1636-1692 - page 65]
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October 1, 1661- Court of Assistants meeting held in Plymouth Colony:
Thomas Bonney was charged by Christopher Wadsworth with wounding his mare.
[Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff - Vol. 4, page 7]
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A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, BEFORE 1692 - Vol. 1 - Savage, James - 1860-62:
BONNEY, THOMAS, Charlestown, shoemaker, came in the Hercules, 1635, from Sandwich, in Kent, rem. early was one of the proprs. of Bridgewater 1645, but liv. at Duxbury, where he m. Dorcas, d. of Henry Sampson (as noted above, this appears to be incorrect), had one or more s. prob. and Mary, wh. m. 14 Dec. 1675, John Mitchell.
Children of THOMAS BONNEY and MARY HUNT are:
2. | i. | THOMAS2 BONNEY II, b. Abt. 1650, Massachusetts; d. Bet. July 29 - August 19, 1735, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. | |
3. | ii. | MARY BONNEY, b. Abt. 1655, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. May 13, 1677, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. | |
4. | iii. | SARAH BONNEY, b. 1657. | |
iv. | HANNAH BONNEY, b. Abt. 1660; d. Aft. 1685. |
Notes for HANNAH BONNEY: October 27, 1685 - General Court meeting held at Plymouth Colony: John Michell being profered by the Court the benifitt of a jury, but he has rather submitt himselfe to the judgement of the Courtt. The Court then gave him this judgmentt:John Michell, convict for fornication with Hannah Bony, for lasciuious carriages and speeches att sundry times, is sentanced to be severely whipt, & to give bond with surtyes for for his good behavior till March Court next, to stand committed till sentence be performed.[Which accordingly was don.] [Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England -Edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff - Vol. 6, page 176] ______ October 27, 1685 - General Court meeting held at Plymouth Colony: Hannah Bonny convict for fornication with John Michell, & also with Nimrod, negro, & haveing a bastard child by sd Nimrod, is sentanced to be well whipt.[Which accordingly was don.] Nimrod, negro, convict for fornication with Hannah Bonny, is sentanced to be severely whipt, & that sd Nimrod pay 18 pence pr weeke to said Bonny towards the maintainance of sd child for a year, if it live soe long; & if he, or his master in his behalfe, neglect to pay the same, the sd negro to be putt out to seruice by the Deputy Goverr soe long time, or from time to time, soe as to procure the same.[Which accordingly was whipt.] [Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England -Edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff - Vol. 6, page 177] Notes: John Mitchell was the grandson of Mayflower passenger, Francis Cooke, and Hannah Bonney's brother-in-law, the husband of her sister, Mary Bonney, who died May 13, 1677.In the October 27, 1681 inventory of the estate of Dr. Samuel Seabury, husband of Martha Pabodie the daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden, taken at Duxbury, "The Negro slave Nimrod was valued at 27 pounds and 1 Negro Man 7 yeers; his wife and three children were not valued."(Plymouth Colony Probate Records - Vol. 4, page 93) |
5. | v. | JOHN BONNEY, b. February 25, 1663/64, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. November 16, 1745, (age 81) Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. | |
6. | vi. | WILLIAM BONNEY, b. 1667, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. 1746. | |
7. | vii. | JOSEPH BONNEY, b. Abt. 1669, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. 1720, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. | |
8. | viii. | JAMES BONNEY, b. Abt. 1672, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. January 24, 1723/24, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. |