Thomas Mapes

• Preferred Name: Thomas Mapes^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 18 OCT 1687 in Southold, Long Island, New York^[1]
  
• Birth: MAY 1628 in Rowlesby, Englan^[1]
  
• Notes:

  Little is known about Thomas Mapes and his background. Evert Eugene Mapes, Mapes Family in England, (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1980) is able to state that Thomas was at Southold, Long Island, NY by 1650, where his first son by born in 1651. On 27 Jan. 1659, in a deposition at Southold, Mapes stated he was "aged about thiry years." He was the town surveyor, so was likely literate.
  
  A John Mapes, age 21, was aboard the ship "Francis" which sailed fromIpswich, England April, 1634... was he related? An elder brother? SeeNEHGS "Register," Vol 14, pg. 331. The inventory of a John Mapes was taken at Suffolk Co., L.I. in 1682, valued at 104 pounds, per the samesource as above. Evert Eugene Mapes, Mapes Family in England, (LittleRock, Arkansas, 1980) believes that this John could be the John "Maypas," son of John, baptized 8 March 1613 at St. Mary Magdelene church, London and, possibly, elder brother of Thomas. This John may also be the grandson of a John Mapes baptized at St. Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich 11 April 1556 who removed to London, where he married Anne Cater 11 May 1585. Evert Mapes disputes the Allaben assertion of 1895 that Thomas was son of Francis Mapes of Rowlesby, Norfolk, as Francis died 9March 1638 leaving only two daughters, no sons. Thomas may have been the son of Thomas Mapes and Elizabeth Ratdisse married 1621 in Gissing, Norfolk. However, the baptism records for that parish begin only in1702, the older records having been lost in a fire. Finally Evert Mapes disproves the 1941 assertion by Lester Dunbar Mapes that Thomas wasbaptized 4 May 1628 at Rollesby, son of Thomas Mapes. The parish register was examined, tracings made and the conclusion by professionals familiar with the handwriting style was that the child baptized was Thomas, son of Thomas Matthews. Thus Mapes' English ancestry remains unproven.
  
  "In 1656 or 1657 he [Thomas Brush] removed to Hunington, Long Island,having 'sold his home at Southold to Thomas Mapes." [William Richard Cutter, Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. II, (Orig. publ. NY, 1911; repr. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997), pg. 697.]
  
  In 1662, Thomas Mapes's name was included on a list as owner of one of the 44 small lots in what later became Cutchogue, Long Island. ("Cutchogue, Southold's First Colony," Wayland Jefferson, 1940, pg. 4.) Thomas Mapes's will of 1686 is recorded in Suffolk Co., NY Will Book A. His inventory was taken in 1687, valued at 84 pounds, 12 per Inventories, Suffolk Co., L.I. Sessions Book #1, on Genealogies of Long Island Families CD, pg. 296.
  
  The following is taken from the book "A History of Mattituck, Long Iland, New York, by Rev. Charles E. Craven.
  "The first Thomas Mapes died in 1687 he left to his children: to Thomas "half that division of upland and meadow on the west side of Mattituck Creek;" one-eighth to William; one-eighth to Jabez; and one-fourthto his daughter Abigail the wife of Thomas Terrill. He had three other daughters who he left fifty acres from his double lot in Corchaug (Cutchogue), A little east of Alvah's Lane; to another two sheep;and tothe third, his "Great Brass Kettle". There is no record of the partition of this land among their heirs. Jabez eventually came into possession of what is now known as Cox's Neck, and was formally known as Mapes' Neck, for there he lived and died , and there upon his death in 1732, he was succeeded by
  his son Joseph. Jabez also owned 50 acres south of the Riverhead Rd. reaching to the bay, next west of the Canoe Place, comprising what we call "South America," for he sold the 2nd James Reeve in 1725. This land was bounded on the west by Thomas Terrill's land. In those days a married woman's
  property was her husband's. Land left by will to her was usually deeded by the executors to her husband, and when it was sold her husband'ssignature sufficed. Thus Abigail Terrill's inheritance became Thomas Terrill's property. Terrill appears to have held more than the one-forth part that was willed to his wife. He was a mason, and like other men who supplemented their farming with trades he became wealthy and a large landholder, and it seems probable that he bought much of 2nd Thomas
  Mapes' share. He owned the Vandenhove property, the Husing farm, and the land at Horton's Creek. He also owned 16 acres in Mattituck Woods."
  
  "The extensive holdings of the Hubbard's and later the Shirley's, between the roads and also south of the Riverhead road were inherited by John Hubbard in 1791 from his grandfather, Barnabas Terrel, or Terrill, who was the grandson or great grandson of Thomas and Abigail Terrill."
  
  "In the Census of Southold Town taken in 1698 there were 800 persons in 132 families. At least nineteen of these families, with about of 120 persons, dwelt in or near Mattictuck then or soon after. The list is not in order of location, like the rate lists of 1675 and 1683, andwhile the names of all inhabitants, old and young, are given, the heads of families are not indicated. It is often impossible to tell whereone family ends and another begins. As far as possible, with probability of some errors both of addition and omisson, an attempt is here made to indicate the Mattituck families, including both those that were in the village then and those that located in Mattituck families aboutthe opening of the 18th century: Thomas Terrell,* and the sons and daughters then living with him, John, Richard, Abigail, Nicholas, and Catharine.
  
  This is probably 1st Thomas Terrell. He first married, in 1665, Mary,daughter of Thomas and Mary (Purrier) Reeve. It appears from the willof 1st Thomas Mapes (1686) that he married later Abigail Mapes. Through Abigail Mapes Terrill a large part of the Mapes property descended to John
  Hubbard, the great grandson of Barnabas Terrill who was the grandson or the great-grandson of the1st Thomas Terrill."
  
  [29012] [S437512] The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy

• m. 6 JUN 1653 in Southold, Suffolk Co., New York

1. Naomi Mapes, b. in Southold, Long Island, New York     d. in Southold, Long Island, New York

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