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Life Sketch of Thomas Sayre B. 1597 Thomas Sayre was christened in July 1597 in Leighton, Bedfordshire, England. He was the child of Francis Sayres and Elizabeth Atkins. He had seven brothers and five sisters. His Mother was 27 when he was born. Thomas married Margaret Aldrich about 1619. They had four children that are known; Damaris 1625, Francis 1628, Daniel 1633 and a baby who's name is unknown. All these thilcdren were born in Leighton Buzzard, England. Thomas became a widower in August 1634 when Margaret died. In 1634, Thomas was 36, and had three children ages 9, 6, and 1 year old. Thomas had other children; Joseph, Job and Hannah. Who their mother was or where they were born in unknown. But all were mentioned in his will in 1669. When Thomas came to America is unknown, but both Thomas and his brother Job were in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1638, when they were each alloted 60 acres of land. In the next two years, seven groups were sent out from Lynn to make new settlements. In 1639, one of these groups went to Long Island, New York, to settle. The Long Island group included 7 original immigrants. These men invited Reverend Abraham Pierson of Boston to be their minister. The eight men "entered into a church covenant" before they left Lynn. The eight "undertakers" as they were called, grew in number to 20 families. The group bought a sloop to move their families and goods to Long Island. The sloop cost 80 pounds. Thomas and his brother Job each paid five pounds toward the purchase of the sloop. After the purchase, everyone signed the boat over to David Howe. He was a member of their colony and a sailor. In exchange for the boat, he agreed to make 6 trips to move people and good from Massachusetts to Long Island. The six trips had to be made in the next two years, with three trips a year. By May 1640, the first settlers had sailed down Lond Island Sound and landed at present day Manhasset, at the head of Cow bay (the Dutch called it Schouts Bay). In 1640, Long Island was controlled by the Dutch, who did not encourage english settlers. By landing on Long Island, the Sayres and the other puritans were deliberately challenging the dutch. The dutch had bought long island sound from an indian sachem and they had psoted the Arms of the Prince of Orange on a prominent tree there. When the puritans arrived, they tore down the Coat of Arms and replaced it with "an unhandsome face". The dutch considered this a "criminal offense against his majesty". And when the indians reported to them that "some foreign strollers were building houses", the dutch government in New York took action. On May 13, they sent Cornelius Van Teinhoven to arrest the "strollers and vagabonds" of Schouts bay. Two days later Van Teinhoven with two officers and 20 men arrived at Schouts Bay. They found one small house built and another half built. The puritans admitted that they intended to settle there and explained that the man who had torn down the Dutch Coat of Arms had gone back to Massachusetts. The Dutch arrested 6 men and took them to Fort Amsterdam for trial. Thomas's brother, Job, was one of the men arrested. The Dutch left two men, a woman, and a child in the finished house to "watch over the belongings". It is thought that Thomas was one of the men left behind. The day after their arrest, the six men were released after they promised that they would "depart forthwith from our territory and never to return without the Directors express consent". The small puritan band followed through on their promises. They loaded up their belongings, abandoned the cabin and sailed back out from Long Island Sound. They sailed east and went around the east end, landing about 3 miles from what is now Southampton, Long Island, New York. They started building their village about 3/4 miles from the center of present day Southampton, and lived there for the next 8 years. Thomas moved to Southampton, Long Island, New York in May or June of 1640. About 1648, Thomas and his son built two houses in Long Island. These were so well constructed that they were still standing into the mid 1900's. It was said that "The Sayre family were of high principles and as prominent as any on Long Island. In 1648, Thomas was alloted a town lot on Long Island. That same year he built a house on the property. The house had a "large chimney, a massive frame and narrow windows". The origianl roof was thatch, as all the original roofs on the island were. An early village ordinance required that each house have a permanent ladder that reached from the chimney to the ground as a fire precaution. Thomas' house was lived in until the 20th century and the house was not torn down until the 1940's. Thomas was a prominent man in the Long Island settlement and is mentioned several times in town records, not always favorably: -- December 1640 -- A deed was made with the Indians, 13 settlers (among them Thomas Sayre and Job Sayre) and 9 Indians signed the agreement. The settlers received "The land from Canoe Place east . . . from thence to possess all the lands lying eastward between the foresaid bounds by water." The Indians received "16 coats, 3 score bushels of Indians corn and the protection from other raiding Indian tribes". -- November 1644 -- Thomas Sayre was censured for some "contemptions carriage to Mr. Gosmer, being Magistrate, to pay ten shillings and to make public achnowledgment of his offense, which if he shall refuse, then to be liable to pay forty shillings". -- October 1648 -- Thomas "was allowed for his basedrum the sun of 13 shillings, and his year begins the said day". The town did not have a church bell, so every Sunday, a drummer "was employed" to go around the town and summon people to church and at other times to town meetings. -- October 1649 -- Thomas and two other men are chosen "to agitate town business". -- October 1650 -- Thomas Sayre is ordered by the court to "raise a militia" -- October 1651 -- Thomas and four other men are chosen "for governing of town affairs . . . to act and order all town affairs whatsoever excepting matters of admitting of inhabitants or giving of lands". -- March 1653 -- "Thomas Sayre and Joshua Barnes for speaking unseemly and unsavory words in the Court or concerning The Court were fined to pay 10 shillings each" -- March 1654 -- "Ye Fines remitted upon their achnowlegment" (Thomas Sayre and Joshua Barnes) -- October 1654 -- Thomas is chosen 1 of 3 "Townsmen". -- February 1656 -- "Contribution was made for Goodman Gouldsmith because of his loss by fire" (Indians burned his house). Many settlers donated wheat, and only one gave more than Thomas Sayre did. -- March 1657 -- At a town meeting, Thomas if 1 of 6 men chosen to "act and conclude concerning a difference concerning land which east Hampton men make within our bounds". -- June 1657 -- Thomas was 1 of 5 men "chosen to lay out roads and view fences". -- December 1658 -- At a town meeting, Thomas was chosen to be "overseer for mending the bridge". Thomas died in April 1671 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York. He was 73 years old. He had made his will in Southampton in September 1669. His wife is not mentioned in it, and it is presumed to have died before him. The estate was inventoried on June 10, 1670. Ten months later in April 1671, "Job Sayre is admitted executor of his father's estate". Information from; Walter Gilbert, Robert Warnesbach, "The Sayre Family" by Theodore Banta, "History of Southampton" by Howell, "New York Colonial Documents", and "Atwater History and Genealogy" Vol 1, by Francis Atwater. Compiled by G. Lewis, May 2012. In the Southampton Historical Society, there is a chair made from the timber that were in the 1648 home that Thomas Sayre built in Southampton.. . . . . . . . . . Will of Thomas Sayre "In Ye name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Sayre of South Hampton on Long Island in the Com. Nov Yorke, being in perfect strength of mind, blessed be ye Lord for it, but weake of Bodye, not knowing ye day of my appointed change doe make this last Will and Testament, in manner following: -- Imprimus. I give and freely bequeath my Soule unto God that gave it and my Body unto earth from whence it was first taken. -- 2nd. I give unto my sonne ffrancis Sayre 2 acres of land lyeing next unto his own in Copt Neck in ye Great Playnes and 2 acres more of land lyeing in ye Eight acres Lotts in ye said Great Playnes, a pewter fflaggon, A Pewter Bowl, and great Pewter Platter. -- 3d. I give unto my sonne Daniell Sayre 2 acres of land lyeing next unto ye above said two acres in ye said Eight acre Lotts, and three acres more of Land lyeing in the Ten acre Lotts, and one great Pewter Platter. -- 4th. I give unto my sonne Joseph Sayre, ffourty pounds Sterling to be paid him by my Executor. Ten pounds per annum to beginne with in five years next after my decease to be paid in good Merchant's Shoos or other pay that will procure Hides toward his setting up as a Tanner. -- 5th. I give unto my daughter Damaris Atwater ffourty Shillings. -- 6th. I give unto my daughter Mary Price ffourty Shillings. -- 7th. I give unto my daughter Hannah Sayre Twenty pounds to be paid at her day of marriage or when she shall be eighteen years of age which shall first happen and that my Executor doe keep her Cow and Calfe and their increase for her until she shall be either married or in some other capable way to maintain them. -- 8th I give my household goods to be equally divided between my sons Job and Joseph and Hannah, and that when they be divided, Hannah have her first choice of ye parties. -- 9th. Lastly, I by this last Will and Testament have made my son Job Sayre my sole Executor to receive all my Worldly estate, both of Housing, Lands, goods and Cattle and Debts due to me from any person or persons, and to pay all debts due from me and all Legacyes specified. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this 16th day of September, 1669." 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1597 - 1670 (72 years) Has no ancestors but 45 descendants in this family tree.
1600 - 1634 (34 years)