Edward THURSTON

  General Notes:

Edward Thurston,1, was the first of the name in the Colony of Rhode Island. He must have been there some time previous to 1647, sufficient, at least, to attend to the preliminaries of his marriage, which occurred June, 1647, to Elizabeth Mott, daughter of Adam Mott, and is the third on the record of the "Society of the Friends,"at Newport. He is mentioned in the colonial records as a freeman in 1655; as commissioner, assistant and deputy from Newport from 1663 to 1690. August 26, 1686, he, with others,signed an address from the Quakers of Rhode Island, to the king. She died Sept. 2,1694, aged 67; he died March 1, 1707, aged 90.

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Edward married Elizabeth MOTT, daughter of Adam MOTT and Elizabeth CREEL, in Jun 1647 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. (Elizabeth MOTT was born on 2 Sep 1629 in Cambridge,Cambridgeshire, , London, England,⁵⁰ died on 2 Sep 1694 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA and was buried on 17 Sep 1694 in Coddington, Graveyard, , Newport, Rhode Island ⁵⁰.)