CHILDREN of Thomas MAKEPEACE and Alice BRASIER:
BackGround: London Temple, London, England.
Created 25 February 2005
Thomas was born between 22 September 1592 and 1595 in Burton Dassett, Warwickshire, England and married 1620 in Alerkton, Oxford, England, Alice BRASIER. She was born about 1597, in Bristol, (?Somerset¿) Gloucestershire, England and died 1638 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Thomas married second before 22 Mar 1641 in Boston, Massachusetts, Elizabeth HAWKREDD, widow of Oliver MELLOWS the daughter of Anthony HAWKREDD and Isabel DOWSE. She was christened 8 Dec 1604 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England and died 1670 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married first 16 December 1624 in England John CONEY. She married second 1 January 1633, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, Oliver MELLOWS, and married third before 22 Mar 1641, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas MAKEPEACE.
He married third Janae _______ there were no children by this marriage. Thomas died January 1667, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
MAKEPEACE,...
THOMAS, Dorchester 1636, came with a large fam. ar. co. 1638, m. 1641, for his sec. w. Eliz. wid. of Oliver Mellows, had Joseph, bapt. 20 Sept. 1646, wh. prob. d. bef. his f. rem. some yrs.later to Boston, and there d. In his will of 30 June 1666, he names eldest s. Thomas, to wh. he had bef. giv. ho. and ld. in Eng. where he then liv. and William; eldest d. Hannah, w. of Stephen Hoppin; Mary, w. of Lawrence Willis; Esther, w. of John Brown of Marlborough; and Waitawhile, w. of Josiah, not (as Geneal. Reg. V. 402, has it) Thomas Cooper, nine ch. of Hoppin, whose mo. was Opportunity, four of Brown, and two of Cooper. WILLIAM, Boston, s. prob. of the preced. m. 23 May 1661, Ann Johnson, rem. I suppose, to Taunton, for there the name was long kept up.
In Edminster Family in America they find that a James Edmester and Anne Makepeace were married in Taunton, Massachusetts on 19 April 1689. It is certain that this is the same James. Taunton is close to Freetown; the Anne checks; and the timing is satisfactory. Once more, the spelling variation is not a handicap (except to a genealoger!) According to archive records in the Mormon Genalogical Library, Ann Makepeace was born about 1668 at Freetown. Another reference (17) cites the fact that, "Sarah the second wife (of Remembrance Davis of Freetown) was a daughter of Christopher Fox and wife Hannah Edminster, and born March 30, 1724, near Freetown, Massachusetts, granddaughter of James Edminster and wife Anne Makepeace." Here the spelling is back to "Edminster". The pathetic remainder of this story of Sarah is that "... several children of Remembrance Davis by his second wife were so deformed that they could not live." In the genealogy of the Makepeace family (18) it states, "Also, another deed dated Jan. 25, 1689, by William Makepeace, Thomas Makepeace, William Davis, James Edmester and Anne Edmester, wife of James Edmester, all of Freetown..." Spelling is back to "Edmester" again. Also, note that the January date in 1689 of the deed, above, is about nine months later than the April 1689 date of the marriage of James and Anne due to the fact that the beginning of the new year was on March 25th, and January was thus the 11th month. In a discussion of the early residents of Freetown, especially one Lieut. Gardiner, is the following which places James in Freetown as a taxpayer in 1690; "To the record of Lieut. Gardiner we also owe the names of the resident taxpayers of Freetown in 1690, and which were as follows: John Reed, ...William Davis, William Makepeace, Thomas Makepeace, Ann Makepeace, widow, James Edminster, Job Winslow..." The widow Ann Makepeace in this note is the widow of William Makepeace and mother of Ann Makepeace Edminster. This William Makepeace had been drowned in 1681 (19). He was the second son of Thomas Makepeace who was born in England about 1592, came to Boston in either 1635 or 1637 from Daventry, Northamptonshire (20).
It is not known whether or not this Thomas Makepeace was closely related to the Makepeace's of Northamptonshire, England, who owned Sulgrave Manor. Lawrence Makepeace, of London, in 1610 bought the Manor from Robert Washington, 4-great grandfather of George Washington of Virginia. Robert Washington's sister, Mary, married Abel Makepeace, father of Lawrence who acquired the famed Manor. Lawrence's son, also Abel, sold the Manor in 1659 (21).
In 1637, soon after his arrival in Boston from England, Thomas Makepeace was granted "...a house plot and garden place." with location given as "... bounded with Jeremy Houtchin, Southeast; William Wilson, South; the street, Westerly; and the Lane, Northerly. " It was "...in Hanover Street, near Court Street, and probably not far from where Concert Hall now (1857) is..." It was near the "Market Stead" where the first "Meeting House" was built
CHILDREN of Thomas MAKEPEACE and Alice BRASIER:
1. THOMAS b: Abt 1621; Bristol, Somerset, England.
2. HANNAH b: Abt 1626; Bristol, Somerset, England.
md: 1647; , , Massachusetts.
Stephen HOPKINS
3. MARY b: Abt 1628; Bristol, Somerset, England.
md: 5 Jul 1656; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Lawrene WILLIS
+ 4. ESTHER chr: 21 Jul 1634; Bristol, Somerset, England.
md: 24 Feb 1655; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
John BROWNE Jr.
d: 24 Apr 1685; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN of Thomas MAKEPEACE and Elizabeth HAWKREDD:
5. WAITAWHILE chr: 22 Mar 1641; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
md: 3 Sep 1661; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Josiah COOPER.
d: 14 Apr 1685; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
6. WILLIAM b: 25 Jul 1641 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
d: 23 May 1661; Boston, Suffolk Massachusetts.
Ann JOHNSON
d: 19 Aug 1681; Assonet, Bristol, Massachusetts.
7. JOSEPH chr: 20 Sep 1646; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
d: 1666; , , Massachusetts.
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