Patience Little

Other Events:

• Note: 1000; Education: Sufficient to fill the office of "Keeper of the Colony of New Plymouth books"
• Migration: 1631, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; The first record of Thomas in the New Word was on a tax list in March of 1633.
• Sold Dwelling: 7 Oct 1633, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Little sold his dwelling house to Richard Higgins for twenty-one bushels of corn.
• Deed: 28 May 1635, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Hi made a gift of land to his brother-in-law Robert Bartlett
• Deed: 12 Mar 1639, Plymouth, Massachusetts; William Taylor (son of William Taylor of Boddington, County Cornwall, carpenter) transferred his indenture with the consent of all from Mr. John Atwood to Thomas Little
• Note: 1643, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Military: Aug 1643, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Member of the Plymouth Military Company
• Notes: 1646, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thomas Little is included in a list of those attending town meeting in Plymouth
• Land: 4 Mar 1647, Plymouth, Massachusetts; 5a of upland meadow "at a brook commonly called the Indian Brook" were granted to Thomas Little "so long as ... himself or any of his posterity shall remain within the limits of the township of Plymouth"
• Court: 26 Oct 1647, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thomas Little of "the Yele [Eel] River" acknowledged a £20 debt to the court and king
• Moved: 1650, Marshfield, Massachusetts; Owned 1000 acres in Marshfield in the section now called Sea View.
• Notes: 1652; Seems to have been absent from Plymouth, & from Plymouth Colony, from about 1652 to 1662. In his deed of 2 Aug 1652 states he no longer resides in Plymouth, but does not state where he does live.
• Land Sale: Aug 1652, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Sold the house and lot at Eel River (which was received by marriage) to Richard Foster.
• Land: 2 Aug 1652, Plymouth, Massachusetts; "Tho Little sometimes inhabitant of the town of Plymouth" w/consent of his wife Ann sold to Rich'd Foster of Plymouth, "all that his house & land lying & being at the Eelriver in the township of Plymouth whereon the said Thomas formerly lived"
• Land: 25 Dec 1655, Plymouth, Massachusetts; The town granted to Thomas Clark "five acres of meadow lying in the same meadow with Thomas Little, Tho Little's being first laid out according to his grant in the town book"
• Land: 1662, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Purchased a farm in Marshfield, formerly belonging to Major William Holmes.
• Constable: 3 June 1662, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Appointed constable of Marshfield
• Land: 1664, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Jonathan Morey expressed a desire "to have the meadow land granted to him that was sometimes Thomas Little's being upon the Indian Brook beyond Mannomett Ponds"
• Grand Jury: 8 June 1664, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Was one listed on Grand Jury
• Lawsuit: 7 Feb 1665, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Wm Shurtliff sued Tho Little for carrying off trees shurtliff had felled & squared. Maj. Alden & Joseph Beedle were to settle the bounds & Little to return the trees, but final judgment to await the return of the bounds
• Court: 7 Mar 1665, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Constable William Holmes successfully sued Thomas Little for £5 in damages for misleading Holmes into unjustly attaching the belongings of Nathaniel Winslow
• Fined: 9 Jun 1665, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Fined £1 10s for not keeping secret the proceedings of the grand jury, of which he was a member
• Land: 3 Oct 1665, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thom Little, by virtue of land "he surrendered at Manomett Ponds," & Josias Keane, by virtue of "his great necessity," were allowed to look for land, & if they found it, the court would grant them 100a each. the court would grant them one hundred acres ea
• Land Case: 6 February 1666, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Mrs. Rachel Davenport and her arbitrator referred the case against Thomas Little to the determination of the court and the court replied 1 May 1666 that Little should pay Davenport £15
• Land: 29 Oct 1668, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Court registered the claim of "Experience Michell, Henery Sampson, Rich'd Church & Tho Little" to a parcel of land at Namassakett Pond, & declared that "none shall interpose to deprive them of it until the court purchases it and settles it on them"

Notes:

Died:
Will - "my loving wife all my housing and all my land, upland and meadow on that said of the brook I now dwell" His name is on a monument at Old Winslow Cem in Marshfield as one of the early settlers of Green Harbor.

Thomas married Ann Warren on 19 April 1633 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ann (daughter of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker) was born in 1612 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 19 Feb 1676 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Arrived: July 1623, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Along with her mother and siblings, followed her father to America about the "Ann"
• Will: 17 May 1671, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; "my loving wife all my housing and all my land, upland and meadow on that side of the brook I now dwell"
• Granted Admin: 14 August 1672, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Died:
Burial: Old Winslow Burying Ground, Marshfield, Plymouth AM

Other Events:

• Mayflower: 6 Sep 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts; He was a London merchant. See notes

Notes:

Birth:
See Notes

Died:
"This Year (1628) died Mr. Richard Warren, who …. was an useful Instrumentand during his life bare a deep share of the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plymouth" Buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth.

Richard married Elizabeth Walker on 14 Apr 1610 in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Augustine Walker and Unknown) was born in 1581 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 2 Oct 1673 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: Apr 1613, Great Amwell, Hertford, England; Unto my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren Sixteene pounds of lawefull money of England, and unto her three Children Marcy, Ann and Sarey Warren Fower pounds of like Englishe money equally betwixt them
• Arrived_: Jul 1623, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Followed her husband to America aboard the "Ann" along with her daughters.

Notes:

Birth:
Baptized at Baldock September 1583 See notes for this family

Died:
Plymouth Colony records: “Misstris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widow, …haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shoke of corn fully ripe”. She was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth

Other Events:

• Baptism: 22 Feb 1564, Southam, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

Birth:
Augustine's parents were John Walker (1540-1564) and Katherine Bicknill Walker (1545-?)

Died:
Will names daughter Elizabeth and her children Mary, Ann and Sarah Warren. Burial: St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Great Amwell, East Hertfordshire, England

Augustine married Unknown in 1580 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]