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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 3: THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN JR. OF CHELMSFORD AND GROTON MA.

I found only a little bit more about my 8x great grandfather Thomas Chamberlain Jr. than I found about his father Thomas, Sr.  Levi Shattuck has this to say about him:

2.) Thomas Chamberlain, S. of Thomas, (1) above mentioned, settled in Chelmsford, where he d. May 28,1727. He m. Aug. 10,1666, Sarah Proctor, daughter of Robert Proctor, and had the following, and perhaps other children. 1. Thomas, b. May 30, 1667, (noticed below;) 2. Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 1C79; 3. Jane, b. Jan. 19, 1682; 4. Elizabeth, b. July 25, 1685.
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Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck: The Progenitor of the Families in America that Have Borne His Name; Including an Introduction, and an Appendix Containing Collateral Information  Dutton & Wentworth, Boston Ma. 1855.

I found a little more information in a paper about Thomas' grandson John Chamberlain presented to the Maine Historical Society by another descendant. From" JOHN CHAMBERLAIN,THE INDIAN FIGHTER AT PIGWACKET." BY GEORGE W. CHAMBERLAIN.
Read before the Maine Historical Society, March 11, 1897.  :

His grandfather, Thomas Chamberlain of Chelmsford, who was both senior and junior, was a soldier in King Philip's war, being stationed at the frontier garrison in Groton on November 30, 1675. He was probably the Thomas Chamberlain who served in Syll's Company and also in Poole's Company in 1676. Thomas, the father, and Thomas, the grandfather, were both stationed at the garrison in Chelmsford on March 16, 1691-92.
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 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, published by the Society, Portland, Me. 1898

I'm descended from Thomas Chamberlain Jr.'s daughter Elizabeth who married my 7x great grandfather
Jonathan Butterfield.

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