Ok, I'll post my theory after reading the responses so far.
SUPPOSITIONS:
1. I would suspect that Thomas ap Morgans 1600 birthdate would fit with
Thomas's 1626 birth.
2. Due to the constant warfare between the Puritan & Pilgrim settlers and
the indians to the north of the Mass. Bay colony I really doubt the theory
of coming from Canada to the colonies. Also most of the immigrants to Canada
in that time came from France. Just look at the tough time our army had
crossing Maine to invade Canada during the Revolution.
3. I've recently re-read the first part of "Albions Seed" which examines
the pathways of the migrations of the English to various parts of America. I
was looking to see where my other various ancestors lived in England and
where they ended up over here. This book states that most of the Puritans
were concentrated in the eastern portion of England and they tended to
migrate to the Boston/Salem area. Others who were from the western part of
England tended to go to Conn. and western Mass.
The origins of some of my ancestors seem to bear this out.
Ingalls/Skirbeck, Johnson/Canterbury, Lovejoy/London,
and many others ended up in the Salem area.
Ball/WIltshire, Burt/Devonshire, were from western England and ended
up in the Conn.
& Springfield Mass. area in the 1630s.
4. Albions Seed also says that many of the original settlers from the great
migration returned to England to fight in the civil war or to tend to old
business on the old sod.
5. The lady who wrote the post is mostly involved with Welsh ancestors and I
would doubt that not too many outside of the Carrier clan would make
the Morgan/Carrier connection.
6. Carrier in old and somewhat current Enlish is a term used to define
what we would call teamsters/truckers.
SO, my theory, (drum roll please Bob)
Thomas ap Morgan may be the father of our Thomas (born in Wales)
and the family migrated to some unknown colony (Not the Mass Bay one)
between 1626 and 1635 when Richard Morgan was
born. This would coincide with the great migration. Either all of the family
or just our Thomas returned to the England to get away from the indians or
to fight in the civil
war. As our Thomas was suppose to be tall/big? would make him fit our
image of a current teamster. Maybe he was know as Thomas Morgan "the"
carrier.
I looked thru James Savages dictionary and didn't fine any mention of a
Thomas or Richard Morgan while our Thomas and RIchard are included, which
would lead me to believe that the Morgans went elsewhere.
the end!
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