Thomas Axtell

   Ancestral File Number: 8WGZ-W7.

  General Notes:

!BIRTH (chr. 26 Jan 1619, St. Peter's Church, Berkhamstead): MARRIAGE (Mary):

DEATH (date, place, burial): The Axtell Genealogy; Carson A. Axtell, Fairhaven MA 1945, Darwin Press, New Bedford MA, pp. 17-18.

BIRTH (26 Jan 1619, Berkhamstead): MARRIAGE (c. 1638, Mary Starr): DEATH (8

Mar 1646, Sudbury): Graves Family Newsletter, Feb 1982 Vol 7 #37, Mrs. Carolyn H. Pappas, 1531 Forest Lane, McLean VA 22010.

!MARRIAGE (Thomas Axtell ca. 1620-1646. MArried Ann d/o of Edumnd and Ann): The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy - First Families of America by

Federick A. Vickers; page 592; Univ. of FL Libary West Reference area.

!MARRIAGE (Thomas Axtell, 1619-1646 to Sudbury m. before 1639 Mary who married 2nd John Maynard): The Compendium of American Genealogy by Frederick A. Virkus Vol 4 page 506; Leesburg Public Library

!English Origins of New England Families, VOL I p. 54: Thomas Axtell bought 5

acres of land in Sudbury Oct 1643. This land joined that of Edmund Rice, who

came from Berhamstead England in 1638 or 1639. Thomas Axtell took the oath of fidelity 9 Jul 1645. His daughter born 1 Jul 1644 was named Lydia, not Mary, as appears from two original entries in old record books. "John Maynard and Mary Axtell were married 16 (4) 1649 (16 Jun). This doubtless is the widow of Thomas Axtell who was bur. 8 Mar 1646. Maynard was a widower with a son 8 or 9 years old. The Mary Axtell who married John Goodenowe 9 Sep 1656 was doubtless the Mary baptized in Berhamstead 25 Sep 1639. She bore eleven children, the last in 1680 and died 14 Apr 1704. Edmund Wright married Hannah Upson, not Axtell, as appears from a careful scrutiny of the records. William Axtell of Berkhamstead died in 1637, leaving a will in which mentioned his wife Thomasine and sons John, William, Thomas, Daniel and Samuel. This confirms the conjecture in regard to the two Willaims of Berhamstead and the children to be assigned to each and with the facts given above, suppports the view that Thomas Axtell was a brother to Col. Daniel Axtell the regicide.

Pope's Pioneers of MA lists Thomas on page 24.

NOTE - A Thomas Axtell Jr. was married in Grafton, Worcester MA 10 Jun 1777 to Deborah Jones.

Thomas married Mary Starr, daughter of Dr. Comfort Starr and Elizabeth, about 1636 in , Hertsfordshire, England. (Mary Starr was born on 16 Apr 1620 in Ashford, Kent, England, England and died on 2 Apr 1659 in Duxbury, Plymouth, M.)