 1621 - 1698 (77 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Flegg [1] |
| Born |
1621 |
Hardingham, Norfolk, Eng.  [2] |
| Christened |
6 May 1621 |
baptised |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
6 Feb 1698 |
Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA |
| Person ID |
I947 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family |
Mary, b. 1619, d. 1703, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 84 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Gershom Flagg, b. 16 Apr 1641, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA , d. 6 Jul 1690 (Age 49 years) [natural] |
| | 2. John Flagg, b. 14 Jun 1643, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA , d. 6 Feb 1697, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 53 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Bartholomew Flagg, b. 23 Feb 1645, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 4. Thomas Flagg, b. 28 Apr 1646, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 5. Michael Flagg, b. 23 Mar 1651, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 6. Eleazer Flagg, b. 14 May 1653, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 7. Elizabeth Flagg, b. 22 Mar 1655, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA , d. 9 Aug 1729 (Age 74 years) [natural] |
| | 8. Mary Flagg, b. 14 Jan 1658, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 9. Rebecca Flagg, b. 5 Sep 1660, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA [natural] |
| | 10. Benjamin Flagg, b. 25 Jun 1662, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA , d. 3 May 1741, Worcester, MA (Age 78 years) [natural] |
| | 11. Allen Flagg, b. 6 May 1665, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA , d. Nov 1711 (Age 46 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family ID |
F563 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, MA" Henry Bond 1860:
"Thomas Flagg settled in Watertown as early as 1643 and was probably the ancestor of all families bearing that name in this country. He was selectman, 1671, 74, 75, 76, and 78. He lost his left eye, by a gunshot accident, previous to 1659 and he d. Feb. 6, 1697-98."
From "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" Ernest Flagg 1926:
"Thomas Flegg was baptized in Hardingham, co. Norfolk, 6 May 1621, the youngest of 4 children of his parents. He was only 11 years old when his father d. in 1632; so he soon came under the control of his eldest brother, Henry Flegg, b. 1612, with whom he probably lived during the next few years.
At the Public Record Office in London, it is still preserved a list of one hundred and fifteen Norfolk persons who between 8 April and 13 April 1637 were examined and licensed to pass to New England from Yarmouth, either in the ship John and Dorothy, Capt. William Andrews, Sen., master, or in the ship Rose, Capt. William Andrews, Jr., master. In this list appear the following:
"April the 11th 1637 ..... and Thomas Flege ageed 21 yeares ...; goes all for New England to Inhabitt and Remaine"
At this time is was quite customary for yound unmarried men emigrating to New England to engage themselves for two or three years to some older planter who would pay for thier passage to the New World, and by this means Thomas Flegg came to New England.
According to the shipping list, Thomas Flegg is given as 21 years of age, which would make him b. about 1616; but it seems probably that this age was delibertely over-stated to make him appear to be of legal age... Richard Carver, the planter to whom Thomas Flegg attached himself, was of Scratby in Ormesby St. Margaret, a parish only 5 miles north of Yarmouth. ... On arriving in New England in the summer of 1637, Richard Carver and his family and servants settled in Watertown, MA where he d. in 1640. In the next year, Thomas Flegg begins to appear on the records of Watertown where he resided 60 years until his death 6 Feb. 1697/8.
The main evidence for claiming that the Thomas Flegg, bapt. in Hardingham, co. Norfolk, 6 May 1621, was identical with Thomas Flegg the emigrant in 1637 from Yarmouth to New England is the names given by the later to his children... This extraordinary combination of names whereby Thomas Flegg evidently names his children for himself, his wife, his father, two of his three brothers, his only paternal uncle, his two paternal grandparents, and a cousin, cannot be a coincidence, and together with a process of elimination seems to establish beyond any reasonable doubt that the emigrant Thomas Flegg was the Thomas baptised at Hardingham 6 May 1621, son of Allen and Nazareth (Devoroys) Flegg."
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| Sources |
- [S15] "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, MA" Henry Bond 1860:.
- [S11] "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" Ernest Flagg 1926.
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