Ancestral Glimpses » Edward Thurston (± -1707)

Personal data Edward Thurston 

• He was born about 1617–18 in ENGLAND.
• Religion: a Quaker.
• He died on March 1, 1707 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• This information was last updated on March 9, 2015.

Household of Edward Thurston

He is married to Elizabeth Mott.

They got married June 1647 at Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.

Child(ren):

1. Sarah Thurston  1648-????
2. Elizabeth Thurston  1650-????
3. Edward Thurston  1652-1690
4. Ellen Thurston  1655-> 1734
5. Mary Thurston  1657-1732 
6. Jonathan Thurston  1659-< 1740 
7. Daniel Thurston  1661-± 1712
8. Rebecca Thurston  1662-1737
9. John Thurston  1664-1690
10. Content Thurston  1667-????
11. Samuel Thurston  1669-1747
12. Thomas Thurston  1671-1730

Notes about Edward Thurston

Edward Thurston - TimeLine

EDWARD, b. 1617; d. 1707, Mar. 1.
m. 1647, Jun.
ELIZABETH MOTT, of Adam Mott, b. 1629; d. 1694, Sep. 2.

Newport, R. I.
He was a Quaker.
1655. Freeman.
1663. Commissioner.
1667-71-72-73-74-80-81-82-83-84-85-86. Deputy.
1675-86-90-91. Assistant.
1686, Aug. 26. He signed an address with other Quakers to the King in regard to the writ of Quo Warranto. They desired to be excused from bearing arms, being a peaceable people and "willing to pay all just rates and duties for carrying on the commonwealth's affairs," &c.
1690, Jan. 30. He with five other assistants and Deputy Governor Greene wrote a letter to William and Mary, congratulating them on their accession
to the crown and informing them that since the deposition of Sir Edmund Andros, the former government under the charter had been re-assumed, mentioning also the seizure of Andros, in Rhode Island, on his flight from confinement in Massachusetts, and his return to Massachusetts on demand of that Colony.
1705, Apr. 4. He confirmed a deed from his son Daniel to John Cory, declaring that he had given the land (90 acres in East Greenwich), to his son Daniel in his will.
1704, Jan. 11. Will—proved 1707, Mar. 12. Only fragmentary parts remain of this will. He names grandson Edward (son of his son Edward) and four surviving sons, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel and Thomas. He also mentions
granddaughter Elizabeth (daughter of son Jonathan) and sons-in-law Weston Clarke and Ebenezer Slocum and two granddaughters Slocum.
His wife was buried in the Coddington Burial Ground.

Edward Thurston, born 1617, in England, and died at Newport, R. I., March 1, 1707, was a Freeman 1655, Deputy for Newport and Governor's Assistant,
holding each office several years, in the period between 1667 and 1691. He signed an address, with others, from the Quakers of Rhode Island to the King, on August 26, 1686. His marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Mott, took place in June, 1647. She was bom 1629, in Newport, R. I., and died September 2, 1694. Adam Mott was born in Cambridge, Eng., 1596, and his will was dated and proved 1661. He was a sailor and came as a passenger in the ship Defense, July 2, 1635. Became a Freeman and a member of the First Church in Roxbury, and then removed to Hingham, where he had a grant of land. In 1638 he was in Portsmouth, R. I., and a Freeman there 1641. He was clerk of the Military Company 1642. Mary, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston, married Ebenezer Slocum.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, page 103.

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