Capt. Thomas Wallingford

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92. Capt. Thomas4 Wallingford (Col. Thomas3, John2, Nicholas1) was born probably in Dover, New Hampshire about 1716 to 1718. His birth date is an estimate based on the facts that he was the eldest son and that four of his younger siblings had their births recorded between 1720 and 1726. Thomas died "very suddenly", before 3 October 1792, in Somersworth, Strafford County, New Hampshire, at approximately 75 years of age.(848) (From a newspaper of that date)

He married Abigail Hill, 12 May 1748, in Berwick, York County, Maine.(849) Abigail was born 31 July 1729.(850) Abigail was the daughter of Judge John Hill and Elizabeth Gerrish. Abigail died 10 June 1805, in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire.(851) Her obituary appears in the 22 June 1805 Dover newspaper.(852) She was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Dover with some of the children of her daughter Abigail Kittredge.(853)

He is often referred to in the records as "Captain" Thomas Wallingford.

On 15 December 1779 Thomas Wallingford signed a petition headed by Dover town clerk Paul Gerrish protesting to the Governor, Council and General Assembly that much of the data regarding land grants in the Dover town books was fraudulent. The Legislature formed a committee to investigate and they produced a listing of 54 items from the town books that were apparently fraudulent.(860)

He apparently owned land in Lebanon, Maine as well, because at the 1784 Lebanon Town Meeting a committee was chosen "to Settle with Capt. Thomas Wallingford the Line between the school Lot in the Fifth Division & his Land in the Third Division(861)."

It is probably this Thomas Wallingford whose family is enumerated in the 1790 census of Somersworth, N.H. as having four males 16 or over, one male under sixteen, four females, and one slave.(862) As his son Thomas isn't enumerated in the same census they may have been living together.

Thomas died intestate. On 23 October 1792 his widow Abigail asked to relinquish administration of her late husband's estate to her son Thomas, and this was granted on 3 November following.(863) The estate's inventory was taken on 8 November and mentions a mansion house and other buildings with 138 acres of land in Somersworth. Also the "reversion" of 2 1/2 thirteenths of the farm and buildings by the river where his father lived, and 2 1/2 thirteenths in reversion of the back river farm so called, and 2 1/2 thirteenths in reversion of the house, land and so forth at Portsmouth.(864)

Their family record is included in the "Diary" of Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate.(865)