13093. Thomas Damon. Born on 31 Jan 1658[/9] in Reading, MA.14 Thomas died in South Reading (Wakefield), MA, on 20 Oct 1723; he was 64.282 Buried in Wakefield, MA GR1. Occupation: yeoman, blacksmith.

Joseph Damon, yeoman, was appointed Administrator of the estate of his father, Thomas Damon, of Reading, 6 Dec 1723, with Kendal Parker as surety. Heirs named in the documents of 1724 were Joseph (the eldest), Ebenezer (second son), both of full age and married, Thoms (third son) in 21st year, Edward aged 17, John 15, Lucy wife of Kendal Bouttell, Elizabeth wife of Benjamin Gery, Susan wife of Nathaniel Townsend, Nathaniel Coudrey husband of Mehitabel, Mary of full age, and Abigail 12. “Luce Anne Dammon” widow, with Joseph Dammon, blacksmith, as her surety, was appointed guardian to daughter Abigail in her 13th year on 14 Feb 1723/4. On the same date Thomas Poole, husbandman, with Juseph Burnap, housewright, as his surety, was appointed guardian to the son John, in his 16th year.153

Sources

1. 153. Donald Lines Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation, New Haven, Connecticut, 1933.
2. Burial: Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 48115058

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Marriage to Lucian (Lucy Ann) Emerson: (15 May 1683 — Age: 25) Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Civil: (1723 — Age: 65) Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Burial: Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Thomas Damon was the son of Rachel and Thomas Damon, I. The alternate "Daman" was also a common spelling.

Birth: 31 Jan. 1658/9, Reading, Mass.
Died: 20 Oct. 1723, Reading, Mass.

Marriage: Lucy Ann Emerson 15 May 1683, Reading, Mass. She was the 16 year old daughter of Joseph Emerson and Elizabeth Bulkeley, and the great-granddaughter of Peter Bulkeley, the founder of Concord, Massachusetts. The Bulkeley genealogy reaches all the way back to Henry II of England and his mistress Rosamond. Lucy was also the great, great-grandaunt of the famed American author Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children:

1. Lucy Ann (1684-1759);
2. Joseph (b. 1686; he was a Reading town official in 1738 and '48);
3. Ebenezer (b. 1687/8; he was a Reading town official in 1731)
4. Elizabeth b. 1693);
5. Hannah (1695-1715);
6. Susannah (b. 1697);
7. Mehitable (b. 1699);
8. Mary (b. 1701);
9. Captain Thomas (III) of Sudbury/Wayland, Mass (b. 1703);
10. Edward (b. 17060;
11. John (see below),
12. Abigail (b. 1713).

Thomas seems to have lived his entire life in Reading, within a mile of where his father's home. One Reading land record shows he bought 8 ½ acres from William Hooper on 23 March 1695. However, the birth site for his son John is sometimes given as Wakefield, which is the name given to South Reading.

The book "Genealogy of the Philadelphia branch of the Damon family of Massachusetts" provides some information about Thomas:

"A later seach of the Reading records reveals the following: 'Thomas Damon, son of Thomas, was born 11, 31, 1658,' which goes to prove he was born in this county, although no further mention of his father's name has been found.

The next entry under the name is 4, 11, 1679 when Thomas damon must have paid his first modest tax of sixpence 'for powder, bullets, and flints'.

"On the 30th of November, the following year, his tax for the minister (Mr. Brock) was eight schillings eightpence,and at the same time was paid another of a like amount for the meeting house.

"In April 1681, there is a tax of ninepence, which was the earliest record of Thomas Damon discovered by the Rev. David Damon...."

Early research by the Rev. Damon is quoted at length in the book:

His tax that year is quite small, but rapidly increased every year after, till he became what I should judge to be a man of middling interest for the time and the place. After that amount of tax was nearly the same from year to year till his death, May 15, 1683 (sic). He lived in South Reading, now Wakefield, a mile or more west of the meeting-house and common, and less that a mile from Stoneham line and near the head of a meadow (still sometimes called Damon's meadow), which meadow makes up from the northward among the hills in a hilly high range, formerly called Bear Hill, and now frequently called Cowdrey's Hill. There is a spring and willow-tree by the side of the meadow near the place where the house stood, and two good sized red cedar-trees are now growing in the cellar-hole. From the top of Bear or Cowdrey's Hill near the place is a fine view, spread out like a map below you of the large and beautiful South Reading pond, which is the source of the Saugus River. Remains of the road which once led by the house are easily traced for some distance both ways. Perhaps in former days it was the road of South Reading to Woburn. Most of the land near is rude and rough and comparatively barren. My grandfather used to say his father told him that his brothers, or his brothers' sons, sold the place because it was so hard to work on and get a living from it...."

It seems that Rev. Damon has confused his data in this paragraph (or it was incorrectly copied form the source) since it is Thomas II he is discussing, not the father. He makes this clear later when he gives the correct date of death:

    "This Thomas Damon, whose former mundane locality I have been so long in fixing, died October 20, 1723, while several of his children were minors."

Thomas I did die in 1683, and so perhaps he has confused information about the father and son, but the usual date given for this is Dec 7, not May 15.

One other note about Thomas provided in the text is from Mr. Samuel G. Damon: "I have seen East Cambridge deeds of land, or copies of deeds made by Thomas and Lucy Ann his wife, and deed to him."

Thomas' will shows his oldest son Joseph was the administrator of the estate, and the second oldest son Ebenezer was a blacksmith (in Ebenezer's own will he bequeaths land to his son Thomas which had belonged to his "beloved father"). Thomas Jr., who later lived in Sudbury and was styled "a gentleman," was 21, (he would later gain the rank of captain for the town militia in Sudbury), Edward was 17, and John was 15, but due to his young age, Thomas Poole was appointed his guardian. Of his adult daughters, Lucy was married to Kendall Boutwell, Elizabeth to Benjamin Gary, Susan to Nathaniel Townsend, and Mehitable to Nathaniel Cowdrey. Mary was an adult and unmarried at the time, but she later wed John Holden. Abigail was 12 with her mother as her guardian, and she eventually wed Robert Thompson.

In the actions of a person's children we might see a reflection of the parents values, and thus it is important to note Thomas' extended family supported the Revolution. His son John and grandson Peter served at Roxbury (see John below). His son Thomas, III was a militia captain by 1757 for the "Alarm List" at Sudbury during the French and Indian War, and his own sons Thomas, IV and Isaac served with him as a corporal and private respectively. In 1773 at age 70 when the Revolution was brewing, Thomas III was a member of the "Reading Training Band" and then, when the war broke, he served as a private in Ward's Company, Green's Regiment (a Plymouth County unit) which was numbered among the Rhode Island regiments. Enlistment age usually cut off at age 60, but time, circumstances and previous military experience might had led to the authorities waiving the regulation. "Captain" Thomas earned 20 pounds for his service before his discharge at age 75 on 13 Sept. 1778, and his own son Thomas, IV saw even more action and received 57 pounds of pay. Many other grandsons and great-grandsons, including Jason Damon, also enlisted in the Continental forces.

Thomas' wife Lucy Ann died Jan. 17, 1740

The exact location of Thomas' grave in Reading is unknown.

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Thomas Damon was the son of Rachel and Thomas Damon, I. The alternate "Daman" was also a common spelling.

Birth: 31 Jan. 1658/9, Reading, Mass.
Died: 20 Oct. 1723, Reading, Mass.

Marriage: Lucy Ann Emerson 15 May 1683, Reading, Mass. She was the 16 year old daughter of Joseph Emerson and Elizabeth Bulkeley, and the great-granddaughter of Peter Bulkeley, the founder of Concord, Massachusetts. The Bulkeley genealogy reaches all the way back to Henry II of England and his mistress Rosamond. Lucy was also the great, great-grandaunt of the famed American author Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children:

-  Lucy Ann (1684-1759);

-  Joseph (b. 1686; he was a Reading town official in 1738 and '48);

-  Ebenezer (b. 1687/8; he was a Reading town official in 1731)

-  Elizabeth b. 1693);

-  Hannah (1695-1715);

-  Susannah (b. 1697);

-  Mehitable (b. 1699);

-  Mary (b. 1701);

-  Captain Thomas (III) of Sudbury/Wayland, Mass (b. 1703);

-  Edward (b. 17060;

-  John (see below), 

-  Abigail (b. 1713).

Thomas seems to have lived his entire life in Reading, within a mile of where his father's home. One Reading land record shows he bought 8 ½ acres from William Hooper on 23 March 1695. However, the birth site for his son John is sometimes given as Wakefield, which is the name given to South Reading.
The book "Genealogy of the Philadelphia branch of the Damon family of Massachusetts" provides some information about Thomas:

   "A later seach of the Reading records reveals the following: 'Thomas Damon, son of Thomas, was born 11, 31, 1658,' which goes to prove he was born in this county, although no further mention of his father's name has been found.

"The next entry under the name is 4, 11, 1679 when Thomas damon must have paid his first modest tax of sixpence 'for powder, bullets, and flints'.
"On the 30th of November, the following year, his tax for the minister (Mr. Brock) was eight schillings eightpence,and at the same time was paid another of a like amount for the meeting house.
"In April 1681, there is a tax of ninepence, which was the earliest record of Thomas Damon discovered by the Rev. David Damon...."
Early research by the Rev. Damon is quoted at length in the book:
"His tax that year is quite small, but rapidly increased every year after, till he became what I should judge to be a man of middling interest for the time and the place. After that amount of tax was nearly the same from year to year till his death, May 15, 1683 (sic). He lived in South Reading, now Wakefield, a mile or more west of the meeting-house and common, and less that a mile from Stoneham line and near the head of a meadow (still sometimes called Damon's meadow), which meadow makes up from the northward among the hills in a hilly high range, formerly called Bear Hill, and now frequently called Cowdrey's Hill. There is a spring and willow-tree by the side of the meadow near the place where the house stood, and two good sized red cedar-trees are now growing in the cellar-hole. From the top of Bear or Cowdrey's Hill near the place is a fine view, spread out like a map below you of the large and beautiful South Reading pond, which is the source of the Saugus River. Remains of the road which once led by the house are easily traced for some distance both ways. Perhaps in former days it was the road of South Reading to Woburn. Most of the land near is rude and rough and comparatively barren. My grandfather used to say his father told him that his brothers, or his brothers' sons, sold the place because it was so hard to work on and get a living from it...."
It seems that Rev. Damon has confused his data in this paragraph (or it was incorrectly copied form the source) since it is Thomas II he is discussing, not the father. He makes this clear later when he gives the correct date of death:

    "This Thomas Damon, whose former mundane locality I have been so long in fixing, died October 20, 1723, while several of his children were minors."

Thomas I did die in 1683, and so perhaps he has confused information about the father and son, but the usual date given for this is Dec 7, not May 15.

One other note about Thomas provided in the text is from Mr. Samuel G. Damon: "I have seen East Cambridge deeds of land, or copies of deeds made by Thomas and Lucy Ann his wife, and deed to him."

Thomas' will shows his oldest son Joseph was the administrator of the estate, and the second oldest son Ebenezer was a blacksmith (in Ebenezer's own will he bequeaths land to his son Thomas which had belonged to his "beloved father"). Thomas Jr., who later lived in Sudbury and was styled "a gentleman," was 21, (he would later gain the rank of captain for the town militia in Sudbury), Edward was 17, and John was 15, but due to his young age, Thomas Poole was appointed his guardian. Of his adult daughters, Lucy was married to Kendall Boutwell, Elizabeth to Benjamin Gary, Susan to Nathaniel Townsend, and Mehitable to Nathaniel Cowdrey. Mary was an adult and unmarried at the time, but she later wed John Holden. Abigail was 12 with her mother as her guardian, and she eventually wed Robert Thompson.

    In the actions of a person's children we might see a reflection of the parents values, and thus it is important to  note Thomas' extended family supported the Revolution.  His son John and grandson Peter served at Roxbury (see John below).  His son Thomas, III  was a militia captain by 1757 for the "Alarm List" at Sudbury during the French and Indian War, and his own sons Thomas, IV and Isaac served with him as a corporal and private respectively.  In 1773 at age 70 when the Revolution was brewing, Thomas III was a member of the "Reading Training Band" and then, when the war broke, he served as a private in Ward's Company, Green's Regiment (a Plymouth County unit) which was numbered among the Rhode Island regiments.  Enlistment age usually cut off at age 60, but time, circumstances and previous military experience might had led to the authorities waiving the regulation. "Captain" Thomas earned 20 pounds for his service before his discharge at age 75 on 13 Sept. 1778, and his own son Thomas, IV saw even more action and received 57 pounds of pay.  Many other grandsons and great-grandsons, including Jason Damon, also enlisted in the Continental forces.

Thomas' wife Lucy Ann died Jan. 17, 1740

The exact location of Thomas' grave in Reading is unknown.

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