Thomasine Frost

• not the daughter of Robert Clench & Joan Clench
• not the same as Thomasine Clench

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Biography

Profile last updated 26 March 2024

Thomasine Clench was probably the child "Tomazin" baptized at St. Peter, Colchester, Essex, England, 1 August 1613, daughter of the "John Clinche” (John Clench) who had married Mary Marshall of Colchester.

Thomasine (Clench) Frost died, probably Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, before 15 December 1665, when her husband married again.

Family

Thomasine married Edmund FROST on 16 Apr 1634 in Earls Colne, Essex, England.

They had the following children:

• M i John FROST was born 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.

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References

• Thompson, Neil D., "Thomasine Frost's English Ancestry," NEHGR 153:3 (Jul 1999) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 288, Los Angeles Public Library.
• 2Savage, 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.
• Great Migration, Vol 2, C-F, “Edmond Frost” Page 593 - 594 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. See Page 596 for Baptism & Marriage. ________________
• 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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References

1. Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 3 2016, 5:07:30 UTC
2. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9N92-PDN
3. Thompson, Neal D. “The English Ancestry of Thomasine (Clench) Frost, First Wife of Edmund 1 Frost of Cambridge, Mass.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153 (1999): 278, 287-289 (Robert Clench), specifically 289 (Thomasine Clench in child list); < AmericanAncestors >
4. Perry Streeter, “Thomasine1 (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 (2021): 5–18. < AmericanAncestors >; https://perrystreeter.wordpress.com/articles/ < PDF >
5. WikiTree contributors, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost (bef.1613-bef.1665)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clench-1 : accessed 26 March 2024). Cites
   1. Including snippet image of the parish register entry, Perry Streeter, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 (2021): 5-18 at 10; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   2. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 596; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   3. Citing "NEHGR 153:278-90," Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 596; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   4. Citing "Earls Colne, Essex, Parish Registers," Neil D. Thompson, "The English Ancestry of Thomasine (Clench) Frost, First wife of Edmund Frost of Cambridge, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153 (1999): 278-290, at 289 (Thomasine Clench in child list); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   5. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 596; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   6. Frost (1906), p 13.
   7. Frost & Frost (1909), p 50
   8. The 1906 Frost genealogy, p. 11, says that his second wife was Mary ____, but there is no other independent evidence to support such a marriage.
   9. Citing "MLR 4:80-82; GMB 2:1071-72" and "MLR 3:364," Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 596; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   10. Frost (1906), pp 10-11, citing "Genealogical Register, History of Cambridge
   11. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 593; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors,
   12. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 593-597 (Edmond Frost) at 596-597; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   13. About Edmund's second wife Anderson (1995) wrote, "There is no evidence she had any children by any of her husbands"; see Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1071-1072 (Edmund James) at 1071; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   14. Sudbury. Henry Ernest Woods ed. Vital Records of Sudbury Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston: NEHGS, 1903). p 304.Internet Archive See also:
   15. Charles Sumner Frost, Genealogical Frost Record 1635-1906. Internet Archive < Archive.Org >
   16. Sharples, Stephen Paschall. Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830 (Eben Putnam, Boston, 1906) Page 2: Her name is given as Thomas-Anne. < Archive.Org >