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Direct descendant is highlighted in red Thomas Safford |
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Born: Abt.1605 England |
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Died: Bef. 19 Mar 1667/8 Ipswich, Essex Co., MA |
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WIFE
CHILDREN
1. Elizabeth Safford
b. Abt. 1626
d. 7 Oct 1672
2. Mary Safford
b. Abt. 1628
m.
Oct 1648 Daniel Killam
3. John Safford
b. Abt. 1631
m. Sarah Low
d. Bef. 16
Jun 1708.
4. Joseph Safford
b. Abt. 1633
m.
6 Mar 1660 Mary Baker
d. 29 Aug 1701
5. Abigail Safford
b. Abt. 1642
Thomas Safford
by Susan Brooke
Jun 2023
Thomas Safford was old enough to be married in the 1620's. He probably sailed from England. (1) Various books have him in Ispwich in the 1630's, but Ipswich was not founded until 1633. (2) His wife's name was Elizabeth, but it is not proven that she was Elizabeth "Sutton." He was in Ipswich by 1641. (3) He died between 20 Feb 1666/7 when he made a deed/will naming his wife and children and 19 Mar 1666/7 when his estate was probated. (4)
Sources
(1)
Find a Grave
accurate account of some of the research done on Thomas
Safford
(2) Ipswich,
Thomas Safford, the immigrant, to Ipswich, Massachusetts Colony, through a long line prominent in the formation and advancement of the growth of the American colonies, and on the record of each the verdict : "He did what he could for the betterment of the human kind with which he was brought in contact" is true and just. From the English ancestral records we find that the surname occurs frequently in the early part of the thirteenth century and appears to be of Saxon derivation. The name appears in the inscription engraved on the seal of an ancient town on the English coast, and reads as follows : "Sigillum Burgensium de Saffordia." It also appears among the lists of immigrants who came from England to the Colony of Virginia between 1613 and 1623.
(I) Thomas Safford was born in Suffolk county. England, and first appeared in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, prior to 1630. He owned land in Ipswich before April 6, 1641 ; was made a freeman by the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, December 19, 1648. He died February 20, 1667, having before his death made provision for the certain support of his widow and unmarried daughters, directing that a fixed amount should be paid to them annually out of the first proceeds from the product of his farm of sixty acres and this annuity to be continued during the life of his widow and her dependent daughters. His widow, Elizabeth, died March 4, 1671. in Ipswich. Their children were: 1. Joseph, born in Ipswich in 1631. 2. John, see forward, and the three daughters for whom provision was made in his will were : Elizabeth, Mary and Abigail.
(II) John, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth Safford, was born in Ipswich in 1633. He evidently lived on the farm of his father and was engaged in its cultivation probably in partnership with his brother Joseph, and before his death made provision similar to that made by his father, by which his wife, Sarah, and daughter were placed beyond danger of want in any contingency, by an annuity to be paid out of the product of the farm, and his wife joined him in the conveyance of the sixty-acre farm on such condition, the deed being signed by them September 5, 1665. He and his wife Sarah had children: 1. Sarah, born July 14, 1664, died July 21, 1712. 2. Margaret, February 28, 1666. 3. Rebecca, August 30, 1667. 4. Mary, February 26, 1669. 5. Elizabeth, February 27, 1671. 6. Thomas, see forward. 7. Joseph, March 12, 1675.
(III) Thomas (2), eldest son and sixth child of John and Sarah Safford, was born in Ipswich, October 16. 1672. He lived on the farm cultivated by his ancestors and added to it by the purchase of six or more parcels of land. He married (first) October 7, 1698, Elinor Setchwel, who died December 22, 1734. Their children were : 1. Sarah, born March 29, 1701, died July 10, 1702. 2. Thomas, see forward. 3. Joseph, 1704-05. 4. Daniel, 1706. 5. John. 6. Nathan, March 16, 1712. James, June 27, 1714. 8. Stephen. March 10, 1716-17. 9. Titus, baptized February 24, 1722-23, died April 11, 1729. Thomas Safford married (second) June 29, 1725, Sarah Scott, of Rowley, Massachusetts, who bore him no children.
(4)
Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts :
1662-1667
By Massachusetts. County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow,
Massachusetts. Inferior Court (Essex County)
Published by Essex Institute, 1913
page 401
Thomas Safourd dying intestate, his son Joseph Saffourd, was appointed
administrator, and the estate was to be ordered according to a writing
delivered into court and to the testimonies of John Addams and Nicolas Wallis
and said Joseph's own acknowledgement in court for his mother to have two
cows.
Deed, dated Feb. 20,1666, Thomas Safford of Ipswich, husbandman, for love and
affection and his care of said Thomas, to son Joseph of Ipswich, his farm
where he dwells, 60 acres, with house, barn, etc., the land bounded on the
south by the highway to Mr. Saltonstall's farm, on the southwest by the thick
woods, on the northwest by the river and on the northeast by land of Robert
Wallis, on condition that said Thomas during his natural life reserve for
himself one-half the benefit of the farm to be paid him yearly, or if his wife
outlived him, she was to be paid 6li. yearly. Said Joseph was also to maintain
Thomas' eldest daughter Elizabeth during her life unless she thought well
otherwise to dispose of herself, and if so, she was to have 20li., also to pay
his daughter Mary, 5li., daughter Abigail!, 15li. within three years after his
decease. Presented at Ipswich court, Mar. 26, 1667, by Joseph Safford, with
testimony of John Addams and Nicolas Wallis.
John Addams and Nicolas Wallis deposed that they were present when Thomas
Safford was on his death bed and he said he would have the writing stand, that
he had given his daughter Killum five pounds and that he hoped she would not
be troubled because he had done something formerly for her, but he would give
her one of his heifers, also his daughter Abie a heifer with a calf six weeks
old. Sworn in court.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Safford, taken Mar. 19,1666-7,
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