01399Eleanor R. Wesson, "A Probable Wife for Thomas Axtell,"
Connecticut Nutmegger
31[1998].
[page 390]
A probable wife for Thomas AXTELL
by Eleanor R. Wesson, CSG# 9355
Thomas AXTELL was baptized 26 January 1619 at St. Peter
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s Church in Berkhamstead, Hertforshire,the son of William and Thomasine AXTELL. (Berkhamstead Parish Register; Axtell: AXTELL Tercentenary1643-1943). He came to Sudbury, Mass. with his wife, Mary, and two children by 1643 when he bought five acresof land from Edmund RICE (Axtell Tercentenary, p. 14). His first two children were baptized in Berkhamstead:Mary (Marie) and Henry. (Berkhamstead Parish Register; AXTELL Tercentenary p. 15). The third child, Lydia,was born in Sudbury 1 June 1644. (Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston, Mass.,1903, p. 12). Thomas died in Sudbury 8 Mary 1646 (Sudbury V.R. p. 195), and Mary married 2.) JohnMAYNARD 16 June 1646 in Sudbury. (Ibid. P. 163).Edmund RICE, born Ca. 1594, married Thomasine FROST 15 October 1618 at St. Mary
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s Church inBury St. Edmund, Suffolk. (Smith, Elsie Hawes: More About Those RICEs, Meador Press, Boston, Mass., 1954, p.12). He died in Marlborough, Mass. in May 1663, and was buried in Sudbury, Mass. 18 June 1654 (History of Sudbury p. 201). Edmund and Thomasine RICE lived for a while in Stanstead and then moved to Berkhamstead.Their children were:i. Mary, bp. 18 Aug. 1619 in Stanstead (Stanstead Parish Register).ii. Henry, bp. 13 Feb. 1620 in Stanstead (Stanstead Parish Register; Smith: More about those RICEs p.12; TAG X: 136); d. 19 Feb. 1710/11 in Framingham, Mass. (Holman, Winifred Lovering: Ancestry of ColonelJohn Harrington STEVENS and his wife Frances Helen MILLER, vol II, 1952, hereafter Stevens-Miller, II, p.131); m. in Sudbury, Mass. 1 Jan 1643 Elizabeth MOORE (Sudbury V.R. p. 258), daughter of John MOORE andElizabeth RICE.*iii. Edward, bp. 27 Oct. 1622, Stanstead (Stanstead Parish Register lists him as Edmund; TAG X: 136);d. 15 Aug. 1712 in Marlborough Mass. (Marlborough V.R. p. 384; Ward, A Genealogical History of the RICEFamily p. 6; Stevens-Miller II, p. 130); m. Agnes BENT, daughter of John BENT and Martha (Stevens-Miller II, p.130; History of Sudbury pp. 45-46).iv. Thomas, bp. 26 Jan. 1625/6, Stanstead (Stanstead Parish Register; TAG X: 136); d. 16 Nov. 1681,Sudbury, Mass. (Sudbury V.R. p. 323); m. Mary KING; m. Mary KING[
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], daughter of Thomas KING andAnne, b. ca 1630 (Stevens-Miller, v. 1, 1948, p. 85).[page 391]v. Lydia, bp. 9 Mar. 1627/8, Berkhamstead (Berkhamstead Parish Register, TAG X: 1360: d.. 5 Apr. 1675in Boston, Mass; m. Hugh DRURY (Stevens-Miller II,. 131).vi. Matthew, bp. 28 Feb. 1629/30, Berkhamstead (Berkhamstead Parish Register, TAG X: 136); d. 1717,Sudbury; m. in Sudbury 7 July 1654 Martha LAMSON, bp. 13 Jan. 1633/4, daughter of Barnabas and MarieLAMSON (Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella: History of Cambridge, Mass. Supplement and Index, 1930, p. 447; SudburyV.R. p. 260).vii. Daniel, bp. 1 Nov. 1632, Berkhamstead (Berkhamstead Par. Reg.; TAG X: 136); bur. 10 Nov. 1632,Berkhamstead (Parish Reg.).viii. Samuel, bp. 12 Nov. 1634, Berkhamstead (Berkhamstead Par. Reg.; TAG X: 136); d. 25 Feb. 1684/5,Marlborough (Stevens-Miller II p. 130); m. 1.) Elizabeth KING, b. Ca. 1635, daughter of Thomas and Anne KING(Stevens-Miller I p. 85) on 8 Nov. 1655 in Sudbury (Sudbury V.R. p. 260); 2.) Mary (DIX) BROWN; 3.) Sarah(WHITE) HOSMER, widow of James HOSMER (Stevens-Miller II, p. 130).ix. Joseph, bp. 13 Mar. 1637, Berkhamstead (Berkhamstead Par. Reg.; TAG X: 1136[
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]); d. after 10Feb. 1684, Sudbury
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m. 1.) Mercy (Martha) KING, b. ca. 1638, daughter of Thomas and Anne KING (Stevens-Miller I p.85) on 4 Mary[
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]1658 in Sudbury (Sudbury V.R. p. 259)
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2.) Mary BEERS; 3.) Sarah (PRESCOTT)WHEELER (Steven-Miller II p. 130).x. Benjamin. b. 31 May 1640, Sudbury (Sudbury V.R. p. 119); d. 19 Dec. 1713, Sudbury (Sudbury V.R. p.322); m. 1.) Mary BROWNE; 2.) Mary (CHAMBERLAIN) GRAVES (Stevens-Miller II p. 130).By his second wife, Marcy (________) BRIGHAM, widow of Thomas BRIGHAM, Edmund had:
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