Thomas Lumbert

Thomas LUMBERT (1582 – 1665) was Alex’s 11th Grandfather; one of 4.096 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Thomas Lumbert (Lombard, Lumbar, Lumberd) was baptized on 2 Feb 1581/82  in Thorncombe, Dorsetshire, England.  His father was also Thomas LUMBERT. He was married four times.   He first married in 1602 and his first wife died sometime between 1608 and 1617.  He married a second time in 1617 to someone who died after 1623.  Thomas emigrated in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet on the Mary and John, first settling in Dorcester, Mass. He married a THIRD TIME about 1635, possible a sister or sister-in-law of Alice (Richards) Torrey[TAG:67:51].  After 1645, he married Joyce Small, widow of Ralph Wallen of Plymouth.    Thomas died on 7 Mar 1665 in Barnstable, Mass.

Mary and John 1630

Joyce Small was born in 1614.  She first married Ralph Wallen before 1620 in England. They arrived at Plymouth Plantation aboard the Anne on 10 Jul 1623. A “division of cattle” was made in New Plymouth Colony 1 Jun 1627. Ralph and Joyce Wallen were assigned to the thirteen-member Company of Francis Eaton. In the “division of cattle” their group was given “an heyfer of the last yeare called the white belyed heyfer and two shee goats.”

In 1633 the Freemen of Plymouth were listed and Ralph Wallen was on the list. He was also on the Plymouth Colony tax list for 1631/33. In 1633/34 the name “Widow Wallen” replaced the name of her deceased husband. Joyce continue to live in Plymouth until she sold her land on 7 Sep 1643.  She had lived in Plymouth for 20 years. Joyce was living on 19 Sep 1683 at Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Ralph & Joyce Wallen had four (4) children:

a. Ann Wallen , b. after Nov 1620, Plymouth , Massachusetts
b. Jane Wallen, b. Plymouth , Massachusetts
c. Thomas Wallen , b. Plymouth , Massachusetts
d. Richard Wallen, b. Plymouth , Massachusetts

Children of Thomas and First Wife  (Thomas and Bernard)

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Children of Thomas and Second Wife (Thomas, Joshua and Margaret)

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Children of Thomas and Third Wife (Caleb, Jemima, Jobaniah, Jeremiah and Benjamin)

The name was generally written by the first settlers Lumbert, sometimes Lumber, which is in accordance with the common pronunciation. Mr. Lothrop wrote the name Lumber, Lumbert, Lumbart and Lumbard.

Waters noted that Thomas Lumbert was an overseer to the estate of Philip Torrey of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, in 1621, and the will of his widow Alice (Richards) Torrey of Combe St Nicholas in 1634 mentions her brother-in-law Thomas Lumbard. (The four sons of Philip and Alice Torrey emigrated to New England).  Thomas was acquainted with many families who came to New England icluding the Rossiters, Torreys, Frys, and Richards. Maybe one of his first wives was a Torrey but not a Richards

Waters suggested this Thomas Lumbard may be the immigrant. Thomas Lumberd of Combe St. Nicholas married Thomaszine Hawkins at Ashill, Somerset, 9 June 1624. They had a son William baptized 25 Jan. 1628 in Ashill, and a daughter Sarah, baptized 8 Dec. 1636 at Combe St. Nicholas. This Thomas would appear to be too young to be the brother-in-law of Alice Torrey, but he does show the existance of another closely related family.

“However, it is in Thorncombe, Dorset, eight miles from Combe St. Nicholas, that we find the family of Thomas Lombard the immigrant. The Thorncombe parish records include the following entries:
1580 July 2 Barnard, s. of Thos. Lumbert
1581 Feb. 2 Thomas Lumbard (1582 by New Style)

Thomas emigrated when he was almost 50 years old.  He came to America prior to 19 Oct 1630 when his name appears in the list of the first 24 men of Dorchester who applied to become freemen. He became a freeman 18 May 1631. As he was one of the first settlers of Dorchester, he probably came on the Mary and John that arrived at Nantasket on 30 May 1630. The passengers on this ship were from Somerset, Dorset and Devon, and all of them settled in Mattapan, renamed Dorchester. One of the leaders of this group was Mr. Edward Rossiter of Combe St. Nicholas and another was Aaron Cooke of Thorncombe. Thomas Lombard must have known both of these men in England and, although his name does not appear in the Mary and John passenger lists, all of which are modern reconstructions, he probably came on that ship.

On the 20th of March 1630, a group of 140 men and women, set sail from Plymouth, England, in the ship “Mary and John.” The company had been selected and assembled largely through the efforts of the Reverend John White, of Dorchester, England; of Dorchester, England; with whom they spent the day before sailing, fasting, preaching, praying.” These people had come from the western counties England, mostly from Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. They had chosen two ministers to accompany them: “men who were interested in the idea of bringing the Indians to the knowledge of the gospel.” The Reverend John Maverick was an elderly man from Devon, a minister of the Established church. Reverend John Warham was also an ordained minister of the Church of England, in Exeter, eminent as a preacher.

There is some evidence that both of these men were in some difficulties with the church on account of their sympathies with the Puritans. According to tradition they landed upon the south side of Dorchester Neck, [which is now South Boston], in OId Harbor. Ten of the men, under the command of Captain Southcote, found a small boat, and went up the river to Charlestown Neck, where they found an old planter, probably Thomas Walfourd, who fed them “a dinner of fish without bread.” Later they continued their journey up the Charles River, as far as what is now Watertown, returning several days later to the company who had found pasture at Mattapan. The settlement was later called Dorchester, in honor of Reverend John White, of Dorchester, England.

Roger Clapp tells of the hardships that followed. They had little food, and were forced to live on clams and fish. The men built small boats, and the Indians came later with baskets of corn. “The place was a wilderness,” writes Roger Clap. “Fish was a good help to me and to others. Bread was so scarce that I thought the very crusts from my father’s table would have been sweet; and when I could have meal and salt and water boiled together, I asked, ‘who could ask for better?’” Here they lived for five or six years.

Other boats arrived and other towns were titled. But the life at Dorchester was not entirely congenial to the lovers of liberty of the “Mary and John. The group of settlements around Massachusetts Bay was dominated by clergymen and officials of aristocratic tendencies. Their Governor, John Winthrop, had little empathy with the common people. “The best part (of the people),” he declared, “is always title least, and of that best part, the wiser is always the lesser.” And the Reverend John Cotton put it more bluntly when he said, “Never did God ordain democracy for the government of the church or the people.”

These principles were repugnant to the people of the “Mary and John”, who had come to America to escape such restraint. They had no wish to interfere with the methods of worship of others, and they did not wish others to interfere with them. Too, they were land-hungry, after centuries of vassalage to the lords of the manors, leading hopeless lives without chance of independence. Perhaps there were influenced also, by the fact that a great smallpox epidemic had raged among the Indians, killing off so many that they were not the menace that they had been at the first. The settlers turned their attention toward the fertile meadows of the Connecticut Valley.

A group under Roger Ludlow, set out and reached the Plymouth Trading house that had been erected by William Holmes near the junction of the Connecticut and the Farmington Rivers, early in the summer of 1635. A little later 60 men, women and children, with their “cows, heifers and swine,” came overland from Dorchester. The winter was severe and the food scarce, and many returned to Massachusetts, but in the Spring they came back to Connecticut with their friends, and by April 1636, most of the members of the Dorchester Church were settled near the Farmington River, along the brow of the hill that overlooks the “Great Meadow”. This in spite of the fact the Plymouth people disputed their claim to the land. They built crude shelters, dug out of the rising ground along the edge of the riverbank. The rear end and the 2 sides were simply the earth itself, with a front and a roof of beams. The town was later named Windsor. Below are surnames of the first settlers of Dorchester who arrived on the Mary and John in 1630, or were known to be in Dorchester before 1632 (from Anderson, NEHGR 147): Benham, Clap, Collicot, Cooke, Denslow, Dyer, Eggleston, Ford, Gallop, Gaylord, Gibbs, Gibson, Gillet, Glover, Grant, Greenaway, Holman, Hoskins, Hulbird/Hubbert, Hull, Johnson, Lumbert/Lombard, Louge, Ludlow, Maverick, Newton, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pomeroy, Rockwell, Rossiter, Smith, Southcott, Stoughton, Terry, Upsall, Warham, Way, Williams, Wolcott, Woolr

In 1639 Thomas was one of the first settlers of Barnstable, apparently there already when the Rev. John Lothrop arrived with the main group of settlers.   On 11 Oct 1639, removed to Mattacheese (Barnstable) with Rev. John Lothrop, who says in his Diary, relation to their first Thanksgiving, Dec. 11, 1639, O.S.:

‘After praises to God in public were ended, as the day was cold, we divided into three companies to feast otgether, som at Mr. Hull’s, some at Mr. Mayo’s, and some at brother Lumbard, Sr.’s’

Thomas was an Innkeeper.  Plymouth Colony Records show that on 3 Dec. 1639 Thomas Lumbert was “allowed to keepe Victualling, or an ordinary, for entertainement of passengers, and to draw wyne at Barnstable he keeping good order in his house”.  Thomas’ descendants are eligible for membership in the Flogon and Trencher;  Descendants of Colonial Taverner Keepers.

Thomas Lombard died between 10 June 1663 when he acknowledged his will and 8 Feb. 1664 when his inventory was taken. He left most of his estate to his wife and three younger sons, Caleb, Jedediah and Benjamin. He also confirms that he formerly gave lands to sons Barnard and Joshua and son-in-law Joseph Benjamine and son-in-law Edward Coleman. He mentions daughter Margaret Coleman, grandchild Abigaill Benjamine and daughter Jemima

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: When Jobaniah Lombard was baptized at Dorchester on 23 June 1639, he appeared in a list of “such children as have been baptized in the church of Dorchester by communion ofHY0 churchesHY1, their parents one or both being members of the church at Windsor, or Hingham” [DChR 149]; the church member in this case was probably Joyce. Thomas Lombard had joined the Barnstable church by 1641, as he had two sons baptized there, and is called “BrotherLumbar Senior” at the baptism of the second.

FREEMAN: Reque sted 19 October 1630 (as “Tho: Lumberd”) and admitted 18 May 1631 (as “Tho: Lumbard”) [MBCR 1:80, 366]. Oath of fidelity, Barnstable, 1657 [PCR 8:179].

EDUCATION: His inventory included “books” valued at 14s.

OFFICES: Barnstable surveyor of highways, 6 June 1649

ESTATE: Granted two acres marsh at Dorchester, 27 June 1636 [DTR 16]; grant of additional two acres of marsh, 2 January 1637/8 [DTR 28]; granted two lots, each of nearly four acres, 18 March 1637/8 [DTR 31]; received Lot #51, six acres, in meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321].

In his will, dated 23 March 1662/63, acknowledged 10 June 1663 and proved 7 March 1664/65,

“Thomas Lumbert of Barnstable” bequeathed to “my wife that she shall have her habitation in the house that I now live in so long as she liveth or continueth a widow, and further that she shall have the use of one third of my arable lands … and the meadow lying in Mattakessett field”;

to “my son Caleb my house and one third of my lands … moreover my son Caleb and my son Jedadiah and my son Benjamine all of them are to have habitation and free egress and regress in the house so long as my wife liveth or continueth a widow”;

at wife’s death or remarriage “my son Caleb shall give unto my son Jedediah and my son Benjamine each of them £5 and then the house and forementioned lands to be Caleb’s”;

“if my son Jedediah or Benjamine shall see cause to remove their dwellings that if they be willing to have their forementioned £5 apiece; that upon six months’ warning my son Caleb shall pay it unto them;

and the other two thirds of my lands I give unto my other two sons, Jedediah and Benjamine”;

“I do confirm by this my last will and testament certain parcels of lands that formerly I gave unto other of my children as followeth … unto my son Barnard twenty acres of land, unto my son Joshua two acres of land, and unto my son-in-law Josepth Benjamine four acres of land and unto my son-in-law Edward Coleman one acre of land”;

to “my wife the old mare, one cow and two heifers only she is to give unto my son Joshua and my daughter Margarett Coleman the first living colt”; “she is to give unto my grandchild Abigaill Benjamine the first heifer calf that shall come of the forementioned cows”;

to “my wife my yoke of oxen with yokes, chains, cart and wheels” and at her death they to be divided between “my three sons Caleb, Jedediah and Benjamine equally”;

residue to “my wife and to be at her dispose, only an hogshed of mackerel that is due from Thomas Starr my son Caleb is to have for his own use in lieu of some bedding that was his”; to “my son Caleb the yoke of oxen and a gale and the three year old mare that was always accounted his, and his carpenter’s tools and his arms and the saddle and bridle … only he shall give unto my son Barnard the half of the first colt that his forementioned mare shall have”;

to “my son Jedediah the young mare of a year and vantage old, and a calf of a year old and a cow and a gale and his arms”; to “my son Benjamine the black horse and a cow and a calf of a year old with his arms”;

“my wife shall give … unto my son Barnard’s wife 10s. and unto my son Barnard my looms with all materials”; the bay horse lately bought of Mr. John FREEMAN equally divided among “my three sons Caleb Jedadiah and Benjamine and they shall pay “unto my son Joshua Lumber 20s. within a year”; “I do confirm the cow that formerly I gave unto my daughter Jemina“

The “true inventory of the estate of Thomas Lumbert of Barnstable Senior deceased” was taken 8 Feb 1664/65 and totalled £210 8s. 6d., including “lands and housing” valued at £60

On 7 March 1664/65 Joyce, “the wife of Thomas Lumbert, deceased,” Jedediah Lumbert and Caleb Lumbert, were granted administration on the estate of Thomas Lumbert [PCR4:81].

Children

2.Thomas’ son Bernard was first at Dorchester with his father. Moving to Plymouth County, he lived at Scituate, where he and his wife joined Lothrop’s church 19 April 1635; he had a house at Scituate by 1636, and his daughter Mary was baptized there 8 October 1637 . He became a Plymouth freeman 3 January 1636/37 . In 1639 he moved to Barnstable with the Lothrop group. On 10 October 1643 the court ordered that if the townsmen of Barnstable did not appoint a place for their defense, it would have Mr. Thomas Dimmack, Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, Henry Cogan, and Bernard Lombard do it ). On 2 June 1646 Bernard Lombard was on the grand jury , a position he held a number of times. On 5 October 1652 he was approved by the court as ensign for the Barnstable military company . On 9 June 1653 Gyles Rickard was presented for lascivious carriage toward Mary Lombard, the daughter of Bernard Lombard

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