Thomas FLINT

1645 - 1721  (76 years)

• Name	Thomas FLINT  [1]
  	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. [1]
  Birth	abt. 1645  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 May 1721  [1]
  Person ID	I22600	Main Tree
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2022

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah MOULTON   d. 30 Mar 1673
  Marriage	22 May 1666  [1]
  Family ID	F28940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Mary DOUNTON
  Marriage	15 Sep 1674  [1]
  Children	1. Thomas FLINT,   b. 20 Aug 1678  [Birth]   2. Lydia FLINT,   b. 1 Jun 1695  [Birth]
  Family ID	F19188	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S5363] John Flint and John H. Stone, "A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas Flint, of Salem", (Andover: Printed by Warren F. Draper - 1860).