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Thomas (Wardell) Wardwell (b. January 13, 1601/02, d. December 10, 1646)
Notes for Thomas (Wardell) Wardwell:
[Hutchins.FTW]
It seems sometime during the summer of 1633 , Thomas and William (Thomas being at the age of 31 and single) decided to go to the new world, so they embarked on the good ship "Griffin".On September 4, 1633, with Rev. John Cotton Edmund Quincy and two hundred others, arrived in Boston, Massachusetts.(Wintrop's Journal, page 105,6) in eight weeks from the Downs). " Servant to brother Edward Quincy" (In those times it was not unusual for persons desiring to make escape from England to obtain passage as a servant on the voyage).
Wardwell, Boston, Freeholder, 1634-5. According to archives of the New England Geneaology, he was apparently a follower of Rev. John Wheelwrightwho was made preacher to the church in Mount Walloston,( a part of Boston) in 1634. Rev. wheelwright was a brother to Ann Hutchinson, the famous Quaker or Antinomian who was subsequently banished to Rhode Island and was one of the founders of Portsmouth, RI.Rev Wheelwright was accused of "preaching a seditious sermon"in Boston in December , 1636. He was suspected of having "Antinomian sentiments" and was banished from the Boston church.
Rev.Wheelwright, having purched land from the Indians at Squamascot Falls, in what is now Exeter, NH, with a number of his adherents began a plantation there in 1638, which they named Exeter, after Exeter in Devonshire, England. Those dismissed from the Boston Churchwere "John Wheelwright, Richard Merrys, Richard Bulgar, Thomas Wardell, Philemon Purmont, Issac Goose, Christopher Marshall, George Baytes and William Wardell" (William was probably Thomas' brother)." They judged themselves without the Jurisdiction of Massachusetts and they combined into a separate body politic."In Exeter, New Hampshire, Thomas was appointed Justice and Commissioner to try small causes for that jurisdiction. In 1641, Exeter came under the jurisdtiction of Massachusetts. Mr. Wheelwright and most of his adherents then removed to Wells, Maine. Apparently Thomas Wardell did not go to Wells but returned to Boston, in about 1642.According to the early records of Boston "Thomas Werdall dyed Dec 10, 1646".
Thomas Wardwell married Elizabeth Woodruff, who had also come over on the "Griffin" and a maid servant to Madam Edward Quincy.
Source: Geneology of the Wardwell Family
written by Ralph S. Wardwell of Castine, Maine
March 1943
More About Thomas (Wardell) Wardwell and Elizabeth Woodruffe:
Marriage: Abt. 1633, Boston, Massachusetts.124
Children of Thomas (Wardell) Wardwell and Elizabeth Woodruffe are:
- +Samuel Thomas Wardwell, b. March 16, 1642/43, Boston, Massachusetts124, d. September 22, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts124.