Thomas FLINT

Male 1645 - 1721  (76 years)


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  1. 1.  Thomas FLINT was born in abt. 1645; died on 24 May 1721.

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    Capt. Thomas Flint, 1s son of Thomas was a farmer and carpenter, and lived on the homestead. He seems to have been much respected by his neighbors of the village, and to have possessed a commanding influence among them, which he used in a judicious and salutary manner. His name is identified with the military organization of his day, which, on account of the hostile depredations of the Indians, required men of nerve and energy. He was in King Philip's War; and in the expedition, commanded by Capt. Gardner, against the Narragansetts, in 1675, in the attack at the swamp, he was wounded; but probably not seriously, as he afterwards held several commissions in the village company. but while thus occupied with secular affairs they did not engross his mind to the exclusion of those of a more important and weighty character --the religious interests and wants of the village. When the attempt to establish the village church was commenced, he was deeply interested in the movement, and prominent in his endeavors to bring the matter to a successful issue. He, with others, prepared a petition to the church in Salem, enjoining, among other reasons why their request should be granted, that if they remained any longer without the privileges of religion, "they would become worse than the Heathen around them."

    As a mechanic, he appears to have possessed considerable skill, from the fact that he was selected by the inhabitants of Salem village to build the first meeting-house in that place.

    He was a large land-holder, owning real estate in the counties of Essex and Middlesex, a large portion of which was in the latter county, in the town of Reading, and in that part of it which now constitues the town of North Reading.

    These purchases were made at different periods, from 1664 to 1702, and amounted in the aggregate to more than nine hundred acres of land. One of these lots in Reading, purchased Dec. 29, 1701, of Ephraim Savage, of Boston, for a consideration of L60 is described as being upland, and containing one hundred acres, and called "Saddler's Neck," and bounded on the east by Adam Har, on the north by Ipswich river and the meadows, south by Bear Meadow, and west by common land.

    From these lands he gave farms, by deed of gift, to three of his sons, namely: Ebenezer, William, and Jonathan.

    Thomas married Hannah MOULTON on 22 May 1666. Hannah died on 30 Mar 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Thomas married Mary DOUNTON on 15 Sep 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Thomas FLINT was born on 20 Aug 1678.
    2. Lydia FLINT was born on 1 Jun 1695.

Generation: 2