Thomas Lettice, US 1635

Generation One:

Thomas Lettice- b. abt. 1604 at England; m. Anne Lettice Nee Unknown; d. 18 October 1681 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 77 years.

Their Children:

1. Elizabeth b. 1636 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. Jacob Cooke; d. 31 October 1693 at Swansea, Bristol, MA, aged 57 years.

2. Dorothy b. abt. 1637 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 12 December 1665 Edward Gray at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

3. Ann b. abt. 1638 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. Samuel Jenney

4. Thomas b. abt. 1639 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 3 November 1650 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 11 years.

Thomas Lettice in first recorded to be in Plymouth on 7 March 1636, when Francis Cooke brought charged against, Thomas Lettice, James Walker, John Browne the younger, and Thomas Teley “who being in service of John Browne the elder and Thomas Willet, who were also charged, abused Cooke’s cattle; he was awarded £3 damaged and thirteen shillings six pence for costs(PCR 7:5)” (Plymouth, p. 317) “In several actions of 1641 against James Luxford, Thomas Lettice (twice) and other complainants were awarded property belonging to Luxford which was in the hands of others. (PCR 7:25, 27). On 2 December 1639 William Fallowell, Robert Finney, John Finney, and Thomas Lettice were assigned garden places near Webb’s Field (PCR 1:136). Thomas Lettice became a freeman in 1654 (PCR 2:48). In 1659 he brought charged against Thomas Pope for abusive carriage at the mill at Plymouth, and Pope was fined ten shillings to the use of the colony. (PCR 3:173). Lettice served at times on juried and as surveyor of highways (PCR, passim). “(Plymouth, p. 317) “Thomas Lettice served on a 1669 coroner’s jury (PCR 3:196). Thomas bought a house and seven acres of land in Plymouth from Thomas Cushman on 24 March 1641 (PCR 12:77), and on 27 August 1679 he was living on New Street (now called North Street) in Plymouth (PCR 6:161)” (Plymouth, p. 318) “Savage thought he might have been Thomas Lettyne, age twenty-three, who appears in Hotten, p. 60, as sailing for New England on the Elizabeth, on 15 April 1635. In his will dated 1678, comfirmed by hom 25 October 1681 and sworn October 1682, Lettice names his wife Anne, and his daughters, Anne, wife of Samuel Jenney; Elizabeth Cooke, widow; and Dorothy, wife of Edward Gray (MD 14:64).(Plymouth, p. 318)