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Author: tcbjammon
Surnames: CHAFFEE
Classification: queries
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dear kac1144, thanks for some of your views regarding what glen had questioned. as far as
what i have seen and read, it appears that thomas could not write his own name, which
leads me to believe he could not read. so thomas was uneducated, common for those who
where not born into upper class. thomas a commoner in england, wherever he hailed from; a
farmer, fisherman and maybe kept some stock. do you think he knew one or some of those who
went before him to hingham? i have read somewhere or heard that one had to be
"invited" to live in hingham, one just couldn't show up in those early years
without knowing someone there and an invitation. if that is true, he knew someone who
went there ahead of him and he came with a few others who knew someone already living in
hingham. that is maybe why he became, like ludkin, a freeman almost immediately in 1637.
i believe thomas came in the spring of 1637 and by july 1637, was getting the land grant
from hingham township. just be!
cause he received land on bachelor st. doesn't 100% prove he was single. although
the wife has never been mentioned in any record i have read about thomas, nothing. wish
those records of hull were around but that is history. do you believe that glen's
theory was correct about the ship thomas and his wife came over on? i could see the name
being hacked because of phoenetic spelling and even those people could barely write or
spell like the ship's captain. so, thomas is either from dorset, somers or devon
counties. how do we know his marriage was even recorded?
how do we know his baptism was recorded? we don't. for some reason i believe thomas
knew mathew chaffe someway. maybe they were cousins?
are you related to thomas btw? have you done a dna test yet? i have to do it, hoping
something will come out of it. how do i get chaffee's in england to do dna testing?
i believe thomas's ancestors blood still alive in england but that is wishful thinking
on my part. anyway, would like to discuss more with you.
would you contact me: tcbjammon(a)yahoo.com ?
thanks very much if you would,
sincerely, terry w. chaffee
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