Tomasine Meigs

Tomasine FRY (AFN: 8Q72-KP) was born on 29 Feb 1612 in Weymouth, Dorset, England and died 4 Jan 1672 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. [nb - same date as husband's death date so suspect transcription error.] She was buried in the Guilford Cemetery but according to Findagrave the body is lost or destroyed.

• Parents: William FRY (AFN: 8J3Z-KL) & Sarah HILL (AFN: 8J3Z-LR) Married

1. abt 1632 to John MEIGS (AFN: 8VF2-5J) in Axminster, Dorset, England. He was the son of Vincent Meigs & Emma Stronge.

Children

1. Mary (1633-1703) married William Stevens.
2.  Elizabeth (1635-1664) married Richard Hubbell.
3. Concurrence (1643-1708) married Daniel Bartlett.
4. John (1641-1713) married Sarah Wilcoxson & Lydia Thompson.
5. Tryal (1646-1690) married Andrew Ward.

Notes

• Arrived with husband and one child in Weymouth, Massachusetts about 1634.

Her given name may be Tamsen, Tamzin, Thimmerzine

New England Historical and Genealigical Register vol. 8: 348: John and Tamsen Fry Meigs brought one child with them when they came to New England. they settled first in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and then in Rehoboth, where they lived until 1644, and removed to New Haven, Connecticut, where John Meigs took the oath of Fidelity that year. In 1648 he bought a lot fronting New Haven Green, known today as Cutler Corner, one hundred thirty-nine feet on Cnurch Street, and two hudnred thirty-five feet on Chapel Street, in the main business part of the cith-the lot along the fronts of which pass daily the greatest number of feet, and on which towers the largest private building yet erected in this city.

Genealogies of the Early Families Of Weymouth, Massachusetts by George Waltere Chamberlain; (The following exerpt is from the Will of William Frye, brother to Thomasine Fry) The will of William Frye of Weymouth, made 9 Nov 1643, states that the testators sister was the wife of John Meigs whose name was Thomasine (Frye) Meigs, and that Walter Harriss wife Mary (Frye) Harris Weymouth was another sister, and that Thomas Rawlins wife Hannah (Frye) Rawlins, also of Weymouth, was a third sister.

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[10599.ged] ! arr in "Wm & Francis" 1632 see also FR 8Q72-KP

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Biography

Birth: Thomasine Fry was born in 1612. (Hubbell Family Tree Maker_2010-09-05.FTW)

Residence: Weymouth, Dorset, England

Burial: Guilford Cem JOHN MEIGS, of Killingworth, CT. Son of (1) Vincent, <b>m. ThomasineFrye.</b> It was this John who changed the spelling of the family name to Meigs.<ref>http://www.meigs.org/gene1-6.htm</ref>

Fry, of Weymouth, Massachusetts: The 1901 Meigs genealogy states that Thomasine Fry(e) was a daughterof William Fry(e) of Weymouth, Dorset. The statement has been widelyrepeated and the IGI contains a number of entries from patrons' submission record giving her birthdate as 29 Feb 1612. the author of the Meigs genealogy appears to have been imposed upon by one of his informants, who passed on to him a garbled version of an account...unobjectionable in itself...of the family of William Frye, of Lyme Regis (not Weymouth), Dorset which had been published about six years earlier by H. F. Waters in NEHGR 49 (1895):495. The children of the William Frye treated by Waters are referred to in the 1620 will of their maternal grandfather as "my daughter Sarah Fry...her three children, Tristam, William and Mary". This cannot be a reference to the Frye siblings of new England....Thus is would appear that our subjects were forcibly attached to a family of high social status who happened to live in the same general vicinity as the Meigs family of Thomasine Fry's husband. The subsequent connection of the Fry family with Weymouth, MA, may have contributed to acceptance of the very dubious proposition that they were from Weymouth, Dorset.

References

• Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860.
• http://www.meigs.org/Vincent.htm
• http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100006717.aspx
• http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100006717.aspx
• http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Fry%20Family/FryThomasinMeig....
• Ancestral File (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998)
• FindAGrave|160805526
• Barlow, Claude W. John Steevens of Guilford, Connecticut: Five Generations of 17th and 18th Century Descendants. Rochester, New York: JohnM. Stephens, 1976.