"Elder" Edmund Frost

Edmund (Edmond) Frost, seen as son of Edward Frost and Thomasine Frost without supporting evidence, was born 1605 / by about 1609 (based on date of marriage) in England. His earliest firm record is his marriage in Earles Colne, 1634. He died 12 Jul 1672 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Edmund married Thomasine CLENCH on 16 Apr 1634 in Earls Colne, Essex, England. His wife Thomasin died before 1669; he married (second) the widow. Reana Daniel, previously the widow of Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, William Andrew, of Cambridge, and Edmund James, of Watertown.

Children with his first wife, the first born in England, the rest in Cambridge

• M i John FROST was born say 1635 and died Sep 1672.
• M ii Thomas FROST was born Mar 1637 and died 1724.
• M iii Samuel FROST 1, 2 was born 3 Feb 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
• M iv Joseph FROST 1, 2 was born 3 13 Jan 1640 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
• M v Deacon James FROST was born 9 Apr 1643 and died 12 Aug 1711.
• F vi Mary FROST 1, 2 was born 3 24 Jul 1645 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
• M vii Ephraim FROST 1, 2 was born 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Family notes

Did he first marry Mary Frost ?

A wife called Mary is seen after Thomasine. However, the Frost record considers that an error :

From Page 54 of The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants Author Frost, Thomas Gold, 1866-1948,Frost, Edward Lysander, 1865- [from old catalog] joint author

• Temple's "Genealogical Register of Framingham" states: "He married (2) about 1642, Mary ___ ; (3) Widow Reana Daniels." The records show that James and Mary were born after this date to Edmund and Thomasine Frost, showing Temple's statement to be in error.

Notes

From https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

(1) Thompson, Neil D., The English Ancestry of Thomasine (Clench) Frost,First Wife of Edmun d Frost of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in New EnglandHistorical & Genealogical Register, Jul y 1999, v. 153, p. 279:

. . . Elder Edmund Frost, who came to New England with the Rev. ThomasShepard in 1635, was m arried by that minister at Earls Colne, Essex, 16 April 1634 to his first wife Thomasine [Tho mas-Anne" in Cambridgerecords] Clenche. . . . [Dr. Thompson cites Earles Colne, Essex Parish Register, FHL microfilm1,472,111, as document ation of this marriage.]

(3) In Thomas Shepard's Memoir of His Own Life, annotated and printed in Young, Alexander, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636, Boston , MA: C. C. Little and J.Brown, 1846, Rev. Shepard states that he held a lecture in Earls Co lne,Essex, England, during the period from 1627 to 1630, and returned to Earls Colne in 1634 .

Comments

Anderson’s Great Migration Project has no origins for him.

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Supporting data

From Parish Records:

Edmund and Mary Frost had Edmund Frost Jr Christened on December 25, 1630, at Saint Mary the Virgin at the Walls in Colchester, Essex, England. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1473014 , https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9841

Edmund and Mary Frost had John Frost Christened on July 15, 1632 at Saint Leonard, Colchester, Essex, England.

Edmund Frost married Thomasine Clench on April 16, 1634 at Earles Colne, Essex, England.

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From Page 9 of Frost Family in England and America, with Special Reference to Edmund Frost and Some of His Descendants Thomas Gold Frost, Edward Lysander Frost. Russell Print. Company, 1909 - 165 pages

• 1. The name of our last English ancestor was John Frost.
• 2. The name of our first American ancestor was Edmund Frost.
• 3. Edmund Frost was a prominent member of Thomas Shepard's party and a close personal friend of the Rev. Shepard.
• 4. Edmund Frost sailed from Gravesend, Kent County, England, on August 10th, 1635, on the ship Defence.
• 5. Edmund Frost landed at Boston on October 2nd, 1635, and settled at once at Cambridge, Mass.

The above are facts. Now let us go further and learn what we can as to his English ancestry. Edmund Frost had undoubtedly, by reason of his pronounced and open sympathy and support of the dissenting clergymen in England, incurred the displeasure of the church party, which ruled in England. We know as a fact that this displeasure was vented in most serious form not only upon the dissenting clergymen themselves, but upon their lay supporters as well. This probably accounts for the fact that Edmund Frost, his wife Thomasine, and his infant son John, all embarked in the ship Defence under an assumed name.

Citations

• 1Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before 1692 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-62.), 2:211, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.274 S264.
• 2Thompson, Neil D., "Thomasine Frost's English Ancestry," NEHGR 153:3 (Jul 1999) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 288, Los Angeles Public Library.
• 3Holman, Mrs. Mary Lovering, "Genealogical Research in England: Robert Daniel," NEHGR 88:4 (Oct 1934) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 384, Los Angeles Public Library.
• 4Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-), 2:1071, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 A549.
• Great Migration, Vol 2, C-F, “Edmond Frost” Page 593 Immigration year: 1635 In the Jan 1658/1659 compilation of Cambridge Church members, Edmund Frost, ruling Elder, and Thomas-Anne his wife in full communion; their children [names listed] all baptized in this church, save John who was baptized in England being about [blank] old when his father joined here.
• 5Frost, Thomas Gold, The Frost Family in England and America (Buffalo: Russell Printing, 1909. FHL US/CAN Film #1,321,180 Item 6.), p. 55.
• 6Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1900.), p. 19, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974.4 P826-1.
• 7Partridge, Craig, The Descendants of William Andrew of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Palo Alto, California: C. Partridge, 1995.), p. 3, Family History Library, 929.273 An25p 1995.
• 8Hawes, Frank Mortimer, Foster Record: An Account of Thomas Foster of Billerica, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants (Somerville, Massachusetts: Fred E. Bradford, 1889. FHL US/CAN Film #1,017,044 Item 8.), p. 4, Family History Library.

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• The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants (1909)
• http://archive.org/details/frostfamilyineng00fros
• http://archive.org/stream/frostfamilyineng00fros#page/43/mode/1up
  • EDMUND FROST OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
• Edmund Frost was born in the neighborhood of Hartest, County of Suffolk, England, about the year 1600. He must have early associated himself with the non-conformist or dissenting portion of the Protestant ......
• .... Edmund Frost married at Hartest, about the year 1630, a woman whose first name was "Thomasine." His first son, John, was born in England about the year 1632. In 1634 (October 16th), Edmund Frost, with his wife and son John, boarded the ship Great Hope (Captain Curling) at Ipswich, England, for Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of the leaders ....
• http://archive.org/stream/frostfamilyineng00fros#page/50/mode/1up
• His death occurred July 12, 1672.
• Through the courtesy of Mr. George Henry Frost of Plainfield, N. J., we present a full copy of the last will and testament of Edmund Frost : .....
• http://archive.org/stream/frostfamilyineng00fros#page/54/mode/1up
• 1. Edmund Frost, born in England about 1600; with wife Thomasine and infant child settled Cambridge, Mass., 1635. The date of his wife's death is uncertain, but sometime before 1669,. he married Reana Daniel (widow successively of James, Wm. Andrew, and Robert Daniel), who survived him.*
  • * Temple's "Genealogical Register of Framingham" states: "He married (2) about 1642, Mary ___ ; (3) Widow Reana Daniels." The records show that James and Mary were born after this date to Edmund and Thomasine Frost, showing Temple's statement to be in error.
• http://archive.org/stream/frostfamilyineng00fros#page/56/mode/1up
• CHILDREN :
  • 2. John, b. Eng., about 1632.
  • 3. Thomas, b. 1st mo. 1637, O. S. (Mar., 1637); d. 1639.
  • 4. Samuel, b. 12th mo. 1638, O. S. (Feb., 1639).
  • 5. Joseph, b. 13, 11, 1639, O. S. (Jan. 13, 1640).
  • 6. James, b. 9, 2, 1643, O. S. (Apr. 9, 1643).
  • 7. Mary, b. 24, 5, 1645, O. S. (July 24, 1645).
  • 8. Ephraim, b. 1646, or later.
  • 9. Thomas, b. 1647, or later.
  • 10. Sarah, b. 1653.
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• Edmund Frost
• M, b. 28 August 1593, d. 12 July 1672
• Father Edmond Frost b. 13 Mar 1561
• Mother Thomasine Belgrave b. 11 Aug 1560, d. 13 Jun 1653
• Edmund Frost was born on 28 August 1593 at Hartest, Suffolk, England. He married Mary on 3 August 1616 at Glemsford, Suffolk, England. Edmund Frost died on 12 July 1672 at Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, at age 78.
• Family Mary b. c 1593
• Child
  • Samuel Frost+ b. 13 Feb 1638, d. 7 Jan 1718
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2304.htm#...
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• Genealogical Frost record (1906?])
• http://archive.org/details/genealogicalfros00fros
• http://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfros00fros#page/10/mode/1up
• And from the Genealogical Register, History of Cambridge, the following:
• "Frost, Edmund, Ruling Elder of the Church in Camb., came here in 1635, and by w. Thomasine, had John, b. in England about 1634; Thomas, b. Ap. 1637, d. young; Samuel, b. Feb. 1637-8; Joseph, b. 13 Jan. 1638-9; James, b. 9 Ap. 1640; Mary, b. 24 July, 1645; Ephraim; Thomas; Sarah, b. 1653. Elder Frost bought of Thomas Blodgett, about 1639, an estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, which he sold soon afterwards to wid. Catherine Haddon; he then bought a house on the Westerly side of ....
• http://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfros00fros#page/11/mode/1up
• His w. Thomasine d. and before 1669 he m. wid. Reana Daniel, who survived him. He died 12 July, 1672, leaving to his children the example of a godly life."
• From other sources it appears that he was married three times, the second wife named Mary, and that Edmund in his will named all of his eight living children; ....
• http://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfros00fros#page/13/mode/1up
• .... The children married and settled, so far as the records show, as follows:
  • John, married Rebeca Andrew and lived in Salem. Was a mason.
  • Samuel m. Mary ____ , lived in Billerica.
  • Joseph m. Hannah Miller, lived Charlestown.
  • James m. Rebecca Hamlet, lived in Bellerica.
  • Ephraim, m. Hepzibah , lived in Cambridge on the homestead on the northerly side of Kirkland Street.
  • Thomas, m. Mary Goodridge, lived in Sudbury.
  • Stephen, m. Elizabeth Woodward, lived in Charlestown.
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• Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; (1908)
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• Edmund Frost, of Cambridge, died there July 12, 1672; his wife Thomasin died before 1669; he married (second) the widow. Reana Daniel, previously the widow of Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, William Andrew, of Cambridge, and Edmund James, of Watertown. He was the well known ruling elder of the church of Cambridge, of whom General Goffe, one of the Regicides who came into New England with his comrade Whaley in his journal, descriptive of his residence in Cambridge, said, under the date of twenty-third of the sixth month, 1660 — "In the evening we visited Elder Frost, who received us with great kindness and love, esteeming it a favor that we would come into their mean habitation: assured us of his fervent prayers to the Lord for us; — A glorious saint makes a mean cottage a stately palace. Were I to make my choice, I would rather abide with this saint in his poor cottage, than with any one of the princes that I know of at this day in the world."
• Elder Frost appeared in Cambridge as early as 1635. The historian of that town, among many other things, says that he possessed "little besides his homestead, and his pressing wants were relieved by the Church." His descendants in Cambridge have been numerous. His will, dated April 16. 1672, named his wife Reana: sons Ephraim, Thomas, John and Joseph: and daughters Sarah
• http://archive.org/stream/historichomesan02cuttgoog#page/n151/mode/...
• and Mary; he also left legacies to Jacob French and his wife; to the children of Golden Moore, to Harvard College and to Mr. Alcock's son there. The inventory of his widow Reana was taken January 3, 1675.
• Children; 1. John, born in England, about 1634, married, June 26. 1666, Rebecca Andrew; he died before September 30, 1672, and his widow married (second), February 9, 1674, George Jacobs, Junior, of Salem, and was imprisoned during the witchcraft delusion. 2. Thomas, born at Cambridge, April, 1637, died young. 3. Samuel, born February, 1637-38, married (first), October 12, 1663, Mary Cole, married (second) Elizabeth Miller, married, (third) Ruth ; resided at Cambridge and Billerica. 4. Joseph, born January 13, 1638-39, married. May 22, 1666, Hannah Miller, resided at Charlestown. 5. James, born April 9, 1640, married (first), December 17, 1664, Rebecca Hamlet, married (second), January 22, 1666-67, Elizabeth Foster. 6. Mary, born July 24, 1645-47. Ephraim, see forward. 8. Thomas, married November 12, 1678, Mary Goodridge, resided at Sudbury, 9. Sarah, born 1653.
• (II) Ephraim Frost, son of Edmund Frost (I), died at Cambridge, January 2, 1717-18, aged seventy-two years; married Hephzibah ; she survived her husband. He resided on the homestead of his father on the northerly side of Kirtland street in old Cambridge. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676. Children: .....

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Settled with his wife Thomasine and infant in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635. Thomasine died before 1669 when Edmund Frost married widow Reana Daniel.

Children of Edmund Frost and Thomasine:

1. John b. England about 1632
2. Thomas b. 1st mo. 1637, O. S. (Mar 1637); d. 1639
3. Samuel b 12th mo. 1638, O. S. (Feb 1839)
4. Joseph b. 13, 11, 1639. O. S. (Jan 1840)
5. James b. 9, 2, 1643, O. S. (Apr 9, 1643)
6. Mary b. 24, 5, 1645, O. S. (July 24, 1645)
7. Ephraim b. 1646. or later
8. Thomas b. 1847, or later
9. Sarah b. 1653

Source: "The Frost family in England and America : with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants", "Part II. The Frost Family in America. Edmund Frost and some of his descendants", page 55.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 3 2016, 5:07:30 UTC http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FROST/2004-04/1082573458

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http://www.genealogy.theroyfamily.com/p16523.htm

Elder Edmund Frost Male, #16523, ( - 12 July 1672)

     On 12 April 1669 Edmund, married Reana James.1,2,3 Elder Edmund Frost died on Tuesday, 12 July 1672 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,2

Citations:

1. Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.

2. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.

3. Lawson, Stephen M. "Daniels - Morse Ancestry of Stephen Lawson. Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/daniels.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998.