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John Throckmorton (settler)

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in May 1631. In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson argued that this was highly unlikely because a person of his stature would not be absent from the colonial records from 1631 to 1638, suggesting that George Throckmorton either died soon after his arrival or else returned to England, and John Throckmorton
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Some of those who escaped the Indian attack returned to Providence. Throckmorton was in Providence on 27 February 1647 when he was granted a house and land once belonging to Edward Cope. Soon he became active in civil affairs; he was a Providence Moderator in 1652 and from 1664 to 1675, and he
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in September 1643, who said that the Indians set upon the English who dwelt under the Dutch and killed "such of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornhill's families as were at home." He further added that these settlers "had cast off ordinances and churches, and now at last their own people, and for
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of Salem alluded to him and his wife in July 1639 as having "the great censure passed upon them in this our church." Rev. Peters also complained that they and certain others "wholly refused to hear the church, denying it and all the churches in the Bay to be true churches."
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According to town records of Middletown, Monmouth, NJ 6 November 1669, John Throckmorton Jr. gives power of attorney to his father John Throckmorton of Providence RI in which he names himself as lawful heir to the estate of his brother Freegift
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did not arrive in the colonies until closer to 1638. Twenty years later, however, Anderson had evidently changed his view, stating that John Throckmorton of Salem and Providence was in fact the 1631 passenger on the
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served for eight years as Deputy to the General Assembly. He was also on the Providence Town Council in 1667, and ten years later he was the town treasurer. In July 1672, Throckmorton wrote one of three letters to
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who signed an agreement for a form of government in Providence. Three years later, he obtained a grant of land for himself and 35 others from Governor
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caused him and others to return to Providence. He became active in civil affairs, serving as moderator, deputy, and treasurer. He died in 1684 in
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where he had gone to visit his children, and he was also buried there. He had owned land in Middletown but never resided there permanently.
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Gary Boyd Roberts has published a genealogy of John Throckmorton, showing him to be descended in the 15th generation from King
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as early as 1635, but the first definitive record of his presence in New England is in 1638 when he was one of the
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in October of that year. Nevertheless, it is certain that he was in Salem at some point because the Reverend
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larger accommodation had subjected themselves to the Dutch, and dwelt scatteringly near a mile assunder."
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The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States...with a 2008 Addendum
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Records of Burlington County NJ testimony on the Estate of Joseph Throckmorton by a witness to the will
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The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium
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from the State of Rhode Island General Assembly website. See Chapter 2, Colonial Era.
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and settled there with several dozen others. However, an Indian attack during
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in New York City. Other nearby English settlers included Thomas Cornell and
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The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633
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Hannah, Freegift, Patience, John, Deliverance, Job, and Joseph
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Sufficient to write letters and be a scrivener's apprentice
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Original proprietors of Rhode Island's first settlements
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Economic and Social History of New England 1620-1789
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Index

Norwich
Middletown, New Jersey
Providence Plantation
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
12 original proprietors
Norfolk
Salem
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Netherland
Kieft's War
Middletown, New Jersey
Throggs Neck
The Bronx
Norwich
Norfolk
scrivener
New England
freeman

Throggs Neck
Salem
Massachusetts Bay Colony
12 original proprietors
Providence Plantation
Roger Williams
Hugh Peters
one of 39 settlers
Willem Kieft
New Netherland
Throggs Neck

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