Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameThomas NELSON
Birth17 May 1675, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts3684, p 24
Death28 Mar 1755, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts3684, p 24 Age: 79
FatherWilliam NELSON (-1718)
MotherRuth FOXWELL (1641-1726)
Spouses
Birth10 May 1677, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts3263, p 160; date only,3611, p 15,3266
Death7 Dec 1782, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts3263, p 65 Age: 105
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherJohn HUCKINS (1649-1678)
MotherHope CHIPMAN (1652-1728)
Individual Notes
• She died Dec. 7, 1782, at Middleboro, aged one hundred and five years, six months and twenty days, the longest liver of any of English descent born in Barnstable.3263, p 65

• Hope became a member when it [Second Baptist Church of Middleboro] was formed and attended communion service after she was one hundred years of age. The Rev. Isaac Backus said that, at her death, 7 December 1782, she had 337 descendants of whom 257 were living, three of whom were Baptist ministers.3684, p 25

• Line of descent to Pres. George Herbert Walker Bush.3447, pp 6-7
Marriage24 Mar 1698, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts2106, p 531; date only,3684, p 24
Family Notes
• 12 children3611, p 15,3684, p 27
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