Captain Jonathan Thing, II

On 26 Jul 1677, Jonathan married his first wife Mary Gilman (1658-1691) in Exeter. Then he married a second time to Martha Denison Wiggins in 1693. Following Jonathan's death in 1694, Martha remarried to Matthew Whipple in 1697. On 15 Jul 1677 Jonathan Thing "made an open profession of his faith in his church and entered into covenant with god and his church by a church vote and was baptized" in Hampton, New Hampshire.[1]

Gravesite Details

Shot from his own gun as he fell from his horse

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7375863/jonathan-thing

Jonathan Thing

BIRTH 1655

DEATH 31 Oct 1694 (aged 38–39)
Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA

BURIAL
Second Public Cemetery
Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
MEMORIAL ID 7375863 ·

Family Members

Spouse

Mary Gilman Thing
1658–1691 (m. 1677)

• Capt Jonathan Thing
• Birth: unknown
• Death: Oct. 31, 1694
• Capt. Jonathan Thing was the son of Jonathan and Joanna (Wadleigh) Thing. He married Mary Gilman on 26 Jun 1677
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Mary Thing (____ - 1691)*
• Note: shot from his own gun as he fell from his horse
• Burial: Second Public Cemetery, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 7375863
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7375863 _________________
• GILMAN, Mary
• b. 10 SEP 1658 Exeter, Rockingham, NH.
• d. AUG 1691 Exeter, Rockingham, NH.
• Parents:
• Father: GILMAN, John
• Mother: TREWORGYE, Elizabeth
• Family:
• Spouse: WADLEIGH, Henry
• Family:
• Marriage: 26 JUL 1677 Exeter, Rockingham, NH.
• Spouse: THING, Jonathan
• b. ABT 1654 Exeter, Rockingham, NH.
• Children:
  • THYNG, Jonathan
  • THING, John
  • THING, Bartholomew
  • THING, Joseph
  • THING, Benjamin
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_f1.htm#4 ______________________

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Jonathan Thing Jr. (abt. 1652 - 1694)

Capt. Jonathan Thing Jr.

Born about 1652 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Son of Jonathan Thing and Joanna (Wadleigh) Tipping

Brother of Elizabeth (Thing) Dudley, John Thing, Samuel Thing and Mercy Thing

Husband of Mary (Gilman) Thing — married 26 Jul 1677 in Exeter, Norfolk, Massachusetts Baym

Husband of Martha (Denison) Whipple — married 1693 in Exeter, New Hampshire

Father of Jonathan Thing, John Thing, Bartholomew Thing, Joseph Thing, Elizabeth Thing, Benjamin Thing, Josiah Thing and Daniel Thing

Died 31 Oct 1694 in Exeter, New Hampshire

Biography

On 26 Jul 1677, Jonathan married his first wife Mary Gilman (1658-1691) in Exeter. Then he married a second time to Martha Denison Wiggins in 1693. Following Jonathan's death in 1694, Martha remarried to Matthew Whipple in 1697. On 15 Jul 1677 Jonathan Thing "made an open profession of his faith in his church and entered into covenant with god and his church by a church vote and was baptized" in Hampton, New Hampshire.[1]

Nov 30, 1677 Jonathan Thing "tooke ye oath of Allegance" at Exeter[2] July 15, 1677 Jonathan Thing ""made open profession of his faith in our Church, & entred into covenant with god & his church, by a church voate & was baptized."[3]
Sources

↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1503/426906587
↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21070/202/1426616595
↑ Sanborn, George Freeman, Jr., and Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Vital records of Hampton, New Hampshire : to the end of the year 1900. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1701/i/40199/434/1085572421
See also:

Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord, New Hampshire; FHL microfilm 1,001, 110 cites death of Jonathan Thing on 31 Oct 1694.
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, vol. 1, p. 54: Inquest and jury of Captain Jonathan Thing found he was shot by his own gun in falling from horseback.
www.familysearch.org, item # 36247 - Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, vol. 17.
www.findagrave.com/memorial ID #7375863, Second Public Cemetery, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, 31 Oct 1694.
Douglas M. Henry
www.dkdonovan.com maintained by Darlene K. Donovan
Bell, Charles Henry, "Names on the Town Books of Exeter, New Hampshire, History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire, Boston, Massachusetts," J. E. Farwell & Co, 1888, 61 pp., (references to 30 March 1670 and Jonathan Thing, Jr).

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Mary (Gilman) Thing (1658 - abt. 1691)

Mary Thing formerly Gilman
Born 10 Sep 1658 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshiremap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of John Gilman Sr and Elizabeth (Treworgye) Gilman
Sister of James Gilman, Elizabeth (Gilman) Wadleigh, John Gilman Jr., Sarah (Gilman) Dudley, Lydia (Gilman) White, Samuel Gilman, Nicholas Gilman, Abigail (Gilman) Thing, John Gilman Jr, Deborah Gilman, Joanna (Gilman) Coffin, Joseph Gilman, Alice (Gilman) Leavitt and Catherine (Gilman) Calley
Wife of Jonathan Thing Jr. — married 26 Jul 1677 in Exeter, Norfolk, Massachusetts Baymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Jonathan Thing, John Thing, Bartholomew Thing, Joseph Thing, Elizabeth Thing, Benjamin Thing and Josiah Thing
Died about Aug 1691 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Biography

Sources

Douglas M. Henry