Thomas Brigham [14687]

  General Notes:

Thomas Brigham, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1603 in England. He embarked at London for New England April 18, 1635 on the ship "Susan and Ellen", Edward Payne master. He settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1637 he had a fourteen acre lot there bought from John Doggett, situated in a part later annexed to Cambridge. He built his house in Cambridge on a lot containing three acres and a half. His neighbors were Joseph, Simon and Isaac Crosby. His home was about two-thirds of a mile from Harvard College and at one point abutted on the Charles River. He resided there until 1648. He was admitted a freeman April 18, 1637 and became a leading citizen. He was selectman in 1640-42-47 and constable in 1639-42. He made a specialty of raising hogs and in 1647 owned a third of all swine in the town. He owned a windmill for grinding corn. He died December 8, 1653.

His will is dated December 7, 1653 and proved October 3, 1654. He married Mercy Hurd who is said to have come with his sister alone from England, owing to religious differences from which they suffered annoyance and persecution at home.

After the death of Mr. Brigham she married Edmund Rice, March 1, 1655 of Sudbury and Marlborough by whom she had two daughters.

She married a third husband, William Hunt of Marlborough who died in 1667.

She died December 23, 1693 after being in her third widowhood twenty-six years.

Thomas married Mercy Hurd [14688] [MRIN: 4862] about 1635 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Mercy Hurd [14688] was born in 1613 in England and died on 22 Dec 1693 in Marlboro, Massachusetts.)