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A Thorndike Family History, Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Stratton) Thorndike

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John Thorndike was born in England about 1605. His parents were Francis Thorndike and Alice Coleman. John was one of the first settlers of Agawam, Massachusetts, in 1633. He married Elizabeth Stratton in 1637 and they had five daughters and one son. Their son, Paul (1643-1698), married Mary Patch in 1668 in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the couple had seven children. Descendants lived mainly in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Illinois.

Portable Genealogist: Seventeenth-Century New England Research

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Prior to 1700, the European population of New England was still sufficiently small and compact enough to be manageable from a genealogical standpoint. In many cases, town vital records, church, colony, court, probate, land, military, and tax records not only have survived, but have been abstracted and published. This Portable Genealogist will direct you to the most relevant and useful resources-including study projects, scholarly resources, and finding aids-for tracing your seventeenth-century New England ancestors.