Friday, November 17, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 201: #280 Thomas Dill (1682-1718) of Medford, Massachusetts

Thomas Dill (1682-1718) is #280 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #281 Mary Pierce (1682-1713)  in 1706 in Woburn, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their son, #140 Thomas Dill (1708-1761) who married #71  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758) in 1733.
*  their son, #70 Thomas Dill (1755-1836), who married Hannah Horton (1761-1797) in 1782. 
*  their daughter, #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869), who married  #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) in 1826.
*  their daughter #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884)who married  #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)  in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*  Name:                        Thomas Dill[1–6]  

*  Sex:                           Male  

*  Father:                       Peter Dill (1645-1692)  
*  Mother:                     Thanks Shepard (1650-1733)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                         27 January 1681/2, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]  
*  Death:                       29 January 1717/8 (age 36), Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4–5]  
*  Probate:                    3 December 1722 (age 40), administration filed; Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                 Mary Pierce (1682-1713)  
*  Marriage 1:             17 January 1705/6 (age 23), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]  

*  Child 1:                  Mary Dill (1706-    )  
*  Child 2:                 Thomas Dill (1708-1761)  
*  Child 3:                 Elizabeth Dill (1712-1714)  

*  Spouse 2:              Mary Cheney (1695-1735)  
*  Marriage 2:           11 May 1713 (age 31) Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]  
*  Child 4:                 Marey Dill (1714-    )  

*  Child 5:                 Rebeck Dill (1716-1803)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    


Thomas Dill was born 27 January 1681/2 in Concord, Massachusetts, the last of seven children of Peter and Thanks (Shepard) Dill[1].  He was a twin with his sister Mary Dill.

Thomas married, first, Mary Pierce on 17 January 1705/6 in Woburn, Massachusetts[2].  She was the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (--?--) Pierce.  Thomas and Mary had three children recorded in the Medford, Massachusetts town records before Mary died before May 1713.

Thomas Dill married, secondly, Mary Cheney on 11 May 1713 in Cambridge, Massachusetts[3].  They had two children recorded in the Littleton, Massachusetts town records.

He died 29 January 1717/8 in Medford, Massachusetts[4-5].  There is no known burial site.


Thomas Dill died intestate, and an administration was filed on 3 December 1722 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate Court (see Middlesex County Probate Court Packet 6,281)[6].  Widow Mary Dill of Littleton and Thomas Brown of Cambridge posted a 50 pounds bond.  Mary Dill, widow of Thomas Dill, late of Littleton, was appointed administratrix.  No inventory, account or distribution was included in the probate packet.
 
5)  SOURCES
 
1. George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass. : Committee on Printing, 1894), Middlesex County Register, page 25, Thomas Dill birth entry, 1682.

2. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Marriages, page 77, Thomas Dill and Mary Pierce entry, 1706.

3. Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 118, Thomas Dill and Mary Cheney entry, 1713.

4. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Medford Town Records, 1657-1718," Volume 1, no page number, Thomas Dill death entry, image 140 of 150.

5. Henry Ernest Woods, (Editor), Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907), Deaths, page 393, Thomas Dill entry, 1718.

6. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 1 November 2017), Probate Packet 6,281, Thomas Dill of Littleton, 1722 (3 images).

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 


 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.



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