Thomas Blossom, Jr.

Thomas Blossom Jr. aka Blossome

• Born about 1623 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
• Son of Thomas Blossom Sr. and Ann (Elsdon) Rowley
• Brother of Unknown Blossom, Unknown Blossom, Son Blossom, Elizabeth (Blossom) Pike and Peter Blossom
• Husband of Sarah Ewer — married 18 Jun 1645 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
• Father of Sarah Blossom
• Died 22 Apr 1650 in Nauset, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Family

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34754607/thomas-blossom

Thomas Blossom and wife Ann Elsden had five known children b. either in England or Holland:

• iv. Thomas Blossom, Jr., b. circa 1623 in Leiden, Holland, d. Apr. 22, 1650 by drowning off the coast of Cape Cod at Eastham, Mass.; m. June 18, 1645 in Barnstable, Mass., Sarah Ewer, dau. of Thomas Ewer and Sarah Learned, bapt. May 10, 1629 at Stood in Kent, England. They had one child, dau. Sarah.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blossom-253

Sarah Blossom was born about 1650. She was the daughter of Thomas Blossom and Sarah Ewer.[1] The work of Frederick Freeman in 1862 said, "The former, Thomas [Blossom], b. in Leyden, m. Sarah Ewer dr. Thos. deceased, June 18, 1645. He left a dr. Sarah, and, it is thought a posthumous son Peter."[1]

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blossom-65

He was born between 1620 and 1625 in Leiden, South Holland, United Provinces of the Netherlands.

1629 -- Thomas Blossom, Sr., Ann Blossom, son Thomas Blossom, Jr., and daughter Elizabeth Blossom emigrated from Leiden, South Holland, United Provinces of the Netherlands to Plymouth Colony probably on the second ship to be named "Mayflower." [1]

June 18, 1645 -- Thomas Blossom, Jr. and Sarah Ewer married at Barnstable, Barnstable county, Plymouth Colony (later Massachusetts) "with Edmond Freeman performing the ceremony [as] noted by Rev. John Lothrop (NEHGR 9:286)." [2] [3]

April 22, 1650 -- Thomas Blossom, Jr. of Barnstable and Samuel Hallet drowned at Nauset. [4] "Thomas Blossome and Samuell Hollet drowned att the Harbour of Nocett att their first Setting out from thence aboute a fishing voyage. Aprill 22, 1650." [5]

Citations

• Blossom, THOMAS, 5th child of Thomas & Anne (Elsdon) Blossom, was born about 1623. He married at Barnstable 18 June 1645 Sarah Ewer [NEHGR 9:286; TAG 63:238-39].
• “The history of Cape Cod: the annals of Barnstable County, including the district of Mashpee.” by Freeman, Frederick, 1799-1883. Page 260. Archive.Org Publication date 1858. “The Blossoms of this and the adjoining towns are descended from Dea. Thos. Blossom, the pilgrim from Leyden, who, baffled in 1620 by the unseaworthiness of the Speedwell, came over in 1629, and d. 1632, a dea- con of the Plymouth church. His widow Anne having m. Henry Rowley Oct. 1 7, 1633, came to this town 1 639, bringing her sons Thomas and Peter. The former, Thomas, b. in Leyden, m. Sarah Ewer dr. Thos. deceased,' June 18, 1645. He left a dr. Sarah, and, it is tJiought a posthumous son Peter. He was a mariner, and pursuing his avocation at the time of the disaster. Thos. Lothrop was father-in-law to his wife.”
• Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620 - 1691. Eugene Aubrey Stratton. Ancestry Publishing, Provo, Utah. 1986. Pages 246, 433.
• Milinde Lutz Sanborn, Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 Title: Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991, page 23.
• Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691,
• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995
• ↑ Plymouth Colony, page 433.
• ↑ Plymouth Colony, page 246.
• ↑ Sara Ewer #S76 page 246
• ↑ Cape Cod, page 260.
• ↑ "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records," in NEHGS Register, 9(1855):286