Lt. Thomas Nelson

From History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts, Volume 1:

"Thomas Nelson, son of John, perhaps the first white settler in Lakeville, purchased what is known as the Thomas Nelson homestead on Assawampsett Neck, and moved there in 1717. He was born June 6,[1] 1675, and when an infant was taken by his mother from his father's house (the Bennett place) to Plymouth to escape the horrors of the Indian War.

"After he became dissatisfied with the conduct and preaching of the Rev. Mr. Palmer, pastor of the church at Middleboro, and moved to Assawampsett, he joined the Swansea Baptist Church. Every Saturday he travelled the twenty miles with his family, and returned on Monday morning; while there he occupied a small house which he had built for this purpose. He is said to have been the first member of a Baptist Church in Middleboro. His farm, portions of which have always been held'by his descendants, was between Long Pond and Assawampsett, the land on the other two sides being owned and occupied by Indians. His house stood near an apple-tree, opposite that now owned by Sydney T. Nelson, near the Perry place.

"Mr. Nelson married Hope Huckins, or Hutchins, of Barn stable, about the year 1698. She was a woman of strong character and great courage. There is a tradition that while they were living far distant from any white settlers, she heard a noise in the cellar one night when no man was about her premises. Suspecting that an Indian had entered to steal, she went into the cellar in the dark and suddenly attacked him, so fiercely that he was surprised and made frantic efforts to release himself from her grasp, succeeding only by the tearing of some of his garments.

"She became a member of the Baptist Church in Swansea August 5, 1723, and with her husband continued her membership there until the formation of the Second Baptist Church in Middleboro. She attended the communion service of that church after she was one hundred years old. Mrs. Nelson died December 7, 1782, at the age of one hundred and four years. The Rev. Isaac Backus, in an account which he gives in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, states that at her death three hundred and thirty-seven descendants had been born (of whom three were Baptist ministers), and that two hundred and fifty-seven were living. Thomas Nelson died March 28, 1755.

"[1] The date is taken from the History of Plymouth Colony, but in the manuscript of descendants of William Nelson we find that he was born May 17"

sources

• History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts, Volume 1 by Thomas Weston

comments

Title might be Lieutenant (military honorific).

Date and place of birth have also been erroneously reported to be:

• May 16, 1675 at an unspecified location
• May 17, 1675 at Barnstable, Cape Cod (Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)
• May 17, 1675 at Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
• June 6, 1675 at Assawampsett Neck (presumably at or near Assawompset Pond), Plymouth County, Massachusetts

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