Capt. Nathaniel Thomas

• Marriage to Deborah Jacob: (11 Feb 1664 — Age: 20) Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Marriage to Elizabeth Dolbery: (3 Nov 1696 — Age: 52) Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Burial: Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
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"Here Lyes Buried ye Body of ye Honorable Nathaniel Thomas Esq, who Dec'd Oct ye 22, 1718, in ye 75th year of his age"

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Nathaniel was an English colonial magistrate, politician, and militia officer. Born in Marshfield, then in the Plymouth Colony, he represented the town in the colonial assembly during the 1670s, and was active in its militia during King Philip's War, serving as captain of a company of Llght horse troops on the first outbreak 1689. He was a member of Plymouth Colony's Council of War in 1681, and again in 1685. He served as clerk of the local court, and, following the combining of Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony into the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from 1702 to 1707 he was an Plymouth County probate judge. From 1692 to 1712 he also served as a magistrate in the court of common pleas. In 1712, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature (the province's highest court), a position he held until his death in 1718. In 1694/5 Nathaniel purchased 250 acres from the Indians in what is now the center of Hanson. He built a dam across the Indian Head River and erected a saw mill.