Generation 1

THOMAS CHILLINGSWORTH (d. by 1653) of Marshfield

Parents: Unknown

Thomas died before 1 Mar 1652/3 when the Court ordered Mr. Alden and Capt. Standish to take portions of his estate for his children and his wife was appointed administratrix. [Ref] He married Joan Unknown. The widow Joane Chillingsworth married Thomas Dogget on 17 Aug 1654 in Marshfield. [Ref]

Thomas lived briefly in Lynn and Sandwich before settling in Marshfield. [Ref] Thomas Hampton of Sandwich died without family. On 21 Mar 1637/8 he signed his will, naming Thomas Chillingsworth as one of the main beneficiaries. [Ref][Ref] On 4 Dec 1638 Thomas was fined for keeping swine unringed. [Ref] On 3 Oct 1639 the Plymouth Court noted that he had sold a lot at Sandwich to Justin Winsor. [Ref] He is on a 16 Apr 1640 list of men granted land at Sandwich. [Ref]

He is in the Sandwich and Marshfield sections of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref] Thomas Chillingsworth was a freeman in Marshfield in 1644. [Ref] On 4 Jun 1645 he was surveyor of highways at Marshfield. [Ref] On 2 Jun 1646 he was constable of Duxbury. [Ref]

He was deputy to the General Court in 1648 and 1652. [Ref]

On 4 Oct 1648 Thomas Chillingsworth, shoemaker, bought about 300 acres from Mr. Edmund Freeman. [Ref] Thomas Chillingsworth of Marshfield, shoemaker, bought about forty acres of upland and six acres of meadow in Marshfield from Job Cole on 2 Oct 1650. [Ref] cites Plymouth Colony Records]

Inventory on his estate, taken on 7 Jun 1653, amounted to £180. [Ref] Administration was granted to his widow Joanna in Mar 1653/3. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Chillingsworth:

1. Elizabeth Chillingsworth died on 28 Sep 1665 in Marshfield. [Ref]
2. Mehitable Chillings worth married Justus Eames on 20 May 1661 in Marshfield. [Ref]
   On 3 Oct 1665Justice Eames complained against Samuel Sprague, his wife Sarah and John Foster for concealing a document belonging to Thomas Chillingsworth and for withholding lands by violence. [Ref]
3. Sarah Chillingsworth married Samuel Sprague about 1666 in Marshfield. [Ref]
4. Mary Chillingsworth died on 25 Sep 1702 in Marshfield. She married Dea. John Foster.

Generation 2

MARY CHILLINGSWORTH (d. 1702) of Marshfield

Parents: Thomas Chillingsworth

Mary Chillingsworth died on 25 Sep 1702 in Marshfield. [Ref] She marrried Dea. John Foster about 1666. [Ref]

References:

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol. 1-3, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Entry for Job Cole.

Editors, "A Few Facts in the Early History of the Town of Marshfield," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7, 1853, 276-.

Editors, Great Migration Newsletter 14, April - June 2005.

Jones, William, "'Robert Carver of Marshfield and some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 88, 1934, 215- .

Paige, Rev. Lucius R., "Family of Thomas Foster," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 26, 1872, 394 - .

Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4, 1850, 255-259.

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620 - 1691, Salt Lake City, Ancestry, 1986.

Thomas, M. A., "Deaths and Burials in Marshfield," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 8, 1854, 191-192, 228 - 230.

Thomas, M. A., "Marriages from Early Records of Marshfield," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6, 1852, 347- .

Winsor, Justin, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5, 1851, 259.