Thomas Duston

Abt 1606 - 1662  (56 years)

• Name	Thomas Duston  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1606	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Note	came to America with the 'Trelawney Party' which settled on Richmond Island, Maine between Black Point and Cape Elizabeth in 1633. This party was under the command of John Winter, who was a hard man to work for. Like most of his comrades, after his agreed term of service had expired, Thomas left and moved to Dover, New Hampshire. Here he was one of the signers of the 'Combination' in 1640 and the 'Protest' in 1641. About 1648 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wheeler, and settled in Kittery, Maine where on November 16, 1652 he was one of the signers of the 'Submission' of citizens of Kittery to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His name is 12th on the list and is written Durston. On November 20, 1652 he was made Constable of Kittery and served as such for several years. In 1654 he was in the employ of George Walton on Great Island in the Piscataqua River and also received a grant of land in Kittery, where he built a house and lived until the winter of 1659-1660. That winter the house burned and he moved to Portsmouth where he died in 1662. On June 9, 1663 his widow married Matthias Button of Haverhill as his 4th wife and moved to his home in Haverhill with her children, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Mary Duston.
  Death	1662	Kittery, Maine, -USA   [1]
  Person ID	I3088	HHTT
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Wheeler,   b. 1622, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 16 Jul 1690, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, -America (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1648  [2]
  Children	> 1. Thomas Duston,   b. Abt 1652, Kittery, York, Maine, -USA d. Bef 27 Nov 1732, Haverhill, Massachusetts, -USA (Age < 80 years)
  Family ID	F928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] World Family Tree, . [S41] World Family Tree, . WFT Volume 1 Tree #1606