Corporal Thomas Varney

Notes for Cpl. Thomas Varney:

Thomas was apprenticed in his youth to John Hardy of Salem Massachusetts. John names Thomas in his will, dated 30 March 1652 and proved 30 June 1652:

"Item: I give unto my said son-in-law [Roger Haskale] all my interest in Thomas Varney my apprentice unless his parents buie his time by payinge the som of seven pound that I pd for his time whch if they shall doe I give the sd som of seven pounds to my sd son-in-law."

The repurchase appears to have taken place. In the inventory of the estate, even though two other apprentices are mentioned as property, Thomas is not. It would appear that Thomas had only just begun his apprenticeship with Hardy.

Thomas lived in Barbados for 25 years and was a ship builder. He started one of the first iron and glassworks in America. Came from Barbados in either 1644 or 1649.

Name: Thomas Varney
Arrival Year: 1664
Arrival Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Primary Immigrant: Varney, Thomas
Source Publication Code: 1936
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., J. Gardner Bartlett, Samuel G. Drake, H. G. Somerby, John G. Locke, Eben Putnam, Elizabeth French Bartlett, et al. (1977) 1988. Passengers to America: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Edited by Michael Tepper. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing. Available at: Archive.org, pp. 468-470.
Farmer, John. 1829. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy-Governours, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692.. Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA: Carter, Andrews & Company. Available at: Archive.org.

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Ancestry.com: Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 names the following children in his Will:
– Abigail Aurnham — Daughter
– Rebecca Ellences — Daughter
– Elzer — (child of daughter Abigail) Children
– Rachel Lawrence — Daughter
– Hannah Varney — Daughter
Note: The oruginal source has some date not digitized or not correctly digitized. See posted Will in Sources.
Name: Thomas Varney
Residence: Salem, Residence Date: 5 Nov 1692
Probate Date: 25 Nov 1692
Probate Place: Essex, Massachusetts
Inferred Death Year: 1692
Inferred Death Place: Massachusetts

Thomas Varney in the U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current.

References

1. Barber, Kathleen Canney, and Janet Ireland Delorey. “William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts.” The American Genealogist. (Jul 2006) Page 320-321. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) < AmericanAncestors >; document attached