Name |
Thomas St. John |
Suffix |
King Charles' Secret Service Agent |
Birth |
May 30, 1613 |
St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England |
Gender |
Male |
Immigration |
1654-1663 |
Virginia, USA [1] |
Name Thomas St. John
Arrival Year 1654-1663
Arrival Place Virginia
Primary Immigrant St John, Thomas
Source Publication Code 2899.10
Annotation Date and place of intended destination. Place of origin or last residence and name of ship may also be provided. Extensive historical information is also provided.
Source Bibliography HARGREAVES-MAWDSLEY, R. Bristol and America, A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America, 1654-1685, Including the Names with Places of Origin of More Than 10,000 Servants to Foreign Plantations Who Sailed from the Port of Bristol to Virginia, Maryland, and Other Parts of the Atlantic Coast, and also to the West Indies from 1654 to 1685. This List is Compiled and Published from Records of the Corporation of the City of Bristol, England. Baltimore, MD: Cl |
Residence |
Jun 28, 1664 [2] |
https://archive.org/stream/cavalierspioneer00nuge/cavalierspioneer00nuge_djvu.txt
CAPT. ANTHONY FULGHAM, Patent Book No. 5, p. 518-519
1000 acs. Is. of Wight Co., 28 June 1664, p. 383, (429). On a br. of the Black Water., beg. at S.W. cor. of Mathew Tomlins land, running Wly. &c. by a meadow &c. Trans, of 20 pers: Daniell Wilson, his wife, Edwd. Atwood, Robt. Cole, Katharine Diamant, Martha Greene, Wm. Lewis, Robt. Edwards, Jno. Browne, Jno. Fulgham, Anthony Fulgham, Jno. Boron, Eliz. Day, Joseph Butler, Hen. Gough, Jno. Who- man, Eliz. Barnett (or Barrett), Susan Smith, Tho. St. Jno., Jno. Wilson. |
Fact |
Apr 1671 |
C. O. 279, 14. ff. 234. 243. Mr. St. John sent with credits for 12,000l at Cadiz. Middleton to Arlington, 2/12th Apr 1671. |
Marriage |
Jul 05, 1672 |
Tangier, Morroco |
Thomas St. John married Mary Carr |
Fact |
May 20, 1679 |
In 1679 Captain St. John complained that the inhabitants had been buying his men's "clothes, arms provisions and bedclothes and selling them in shops" a practice which would "be an inevitable ruin to a great many debauched fellows" who would sell their own and stolen goods.
C.O. 279, 24, 98, 20th March 1678/9 |
Residence |
1681 |
Essex, Virginia, USA |
!Thomas St. John lived in Essex Co., VA, and was a "small" planter. He purchased 100 acres of land from William Claiborne Jr. of King and Queen Co., in 1681. This 1681 deed was witnessed by William covington (I) and Thomas Howerton. (Bird Papers: 1696-1810, King & Queen County, VA) |
Fact |
1684 |
England, UK [3] |
In any case, as an active commander of a company in the furious, forlorn combat of May 1680, Capt. St. John was "shot throw the shoulder under the plate-bone which makes us feare very much his recovery" (Fairborne's report, 14th May, quoted by Routh, p. 177). He did recover, however, returning to England in 1684. 61.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tangier_at_High_Tide/MUhL86gzJTUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=St.%20John |
Fact |
Feb 05, 1684 |
Tangier was officially evacuated, leaving the towns in ruins. Thereafter Kirke's Regiment (i.e., the Tangier Regiment) returned to England. The main force of 2,830 officers and men and 361 wives and children finally completed the demolition of the harbour wall and fortifications, and evacuated the garrison during the early months of 1684. The 2nd Tangier Regiment left late in the second week of February for Plymouth with some six hundred men and thirty wives and children.[52] The Earl of Dumbarton's regiment (The Royal Scots) went into quarters at Rochester, and Trelawney's (Second Tangier) Regiment to Portsmouth.
Some of the departing soldiers were to be rewarded with large land grants in the newly acquired Province of New York. Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, a lieutenant-governor of Tangier, became New York provincial governor and William "Tangier" Smith, the last mayor of Tangier, obtained 50 miles of Atlantic oceanfront property on Long Island.
Others were found in Virginia.
See: Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740) Lt. Gov. of Virginia 1710-1722 was born in Tangier, Morocco.
See: Thomas St. John and his wife Mary Carr
Also see: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellison-2995 for Carr and Virginia references
Also see: Henry Norwood https://www.jstor.org/stable/4246552 |
Fact |
Oct 10, 1690 |
Essex, Virginia, USA |
Will Dated
LAST WILL & TESTAMENT:
In the name of God Amen, I Thomas St. John of ye Parish of South Farnham in ye County of Rappa:ë being sick & weak of Body but of perfect mind & memory praised be therefore given to ye Almighty God, I do make & ordaine this my present last Will & Testamt. in manner & forme following, that is to say first & principally I comend my Soult into thehands of Almighty god hopeing that I first & principally comend my Soult into the hands of Almighty god hopeing that I may obtaine life everlasting.ë I do committ my body to ye earth & to be buried at ye discretion of my Exex., hereafter.ë First I will that all just debts & funerall charges shall be paid & discharged.
Item.ë I give & bequeath unto my Grandson, Thomas Cooper, a young Mare of a year old with her increase for ever;
Item.ë I give & bequeath unto my Daughter, Elesebeth Cooper, ye benefit of land to worke upon whare hur Husband, Wm. Cooper, is now a bilding dureing her life time & to have as much priviledg for Timber or aney thing eless as tho the land ware hir owne duaring her life time;
Likewise my will is that all my Land that I am now possessed with to be equaly devided betweene my Sons, Thomas St. John Junr., & William St. John.ë I do likewise make them both at age at Eighteen years if there Mother should decease or Marry but if not to abide while ye age of one & twenty; I do give & bequeath unto Richd. Covington, Ten Shelings to bey him a Ring;
Lastly, I give & bequeath unto Wife, Mary St. John, all ye rest &
remaining part of my Estate both moveables & immoveables dureing hur life time provided that she shall keep hurselfe a Widow & not marrey & after my Wifes decease to be equally devided amoung all my Cheldren, but if my Wife should marrey then my will is that shee should have but ye third part of my Easteat & ye other to be devided amoung my Children.
I do likewise make my Wife my hole Exex. over my hole Esteat both pasnall & reiall.ë In Witness whereof I the said Thomas St. John to this my last Will & Testament have heareunto set my hand & seale this Tenth day of October one thousand six hundred & ninety.
Signed sealed & acknowledged in ye presents of us ëWilliam C. Cooperëëë Tho: St. John ëJohn Billington ëEdward Brunn Junr.
Proved by the oaths of Jno: Billington & Wm: Cooper in Essex County Court ye 10th day of Sept 1698 & truely recorded.
Source: Essex County Deeds & Wills 1695-1699, pg 37 |
Death |
bef. 10 Sep 1698 |
Essex, Virginia, USA |
Burial |
bef. 10 Sep 1698 |
Essex, Virginia, USA |
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Fact |
Sep 10, 1698 |
Essex, Virginia, USA |
Will Probated
Signed sealed & acknowledged in ye presents of us ëWilliam C. Cooperëëë Tho: St. John ëJohn Billington ëEdward Brunn Junr.
Proved by the oaths of Jno: Billington & Wm: Cooper in Essex County Court ye 10th day of Sept 1698 & truely recorded.
Source: Essex County Deeds & Wills 1695-1699, pg 37 |
Generation |
20 |
Siblings |
11 Siblings |
+ | 1. Mathias St. John, I, b. Aug 09, 1601, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Nov 1669, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 68 years) ▻ Mary Tinker, m. Mathias St. John, m. Nov 01, 1627 | | 2. Joane St. John, b. Feb 27, 1603, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Aug 29, 1603, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 0 years) | | 3. Sarah St. John, b. Oct 28, 1604, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Dec 03, 1604, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 0 years) | | 4. Katherine St. John, b. Nov 03, 1605, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Aug 03, 1610, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 4 years) | | 5. Roger St. John, b. Nov 05, 1607, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Bef 1629, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 21 years) | + | 6. James St. John, Citizen Brown-Baker of London, b. Oct 30, 1608, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Apr 26, 1672, St Magnus Martyr and St Margaret New Fish St, London, England (Age 63 years) ▻ Anne Wiggens, m. Nov 04, 1635 | | 7. Sarah St. John, b. Dec 1609, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Jul 19, 1625, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 15 years) | | 8. "A Chrisson Child" St. John, b. Jan 17, 1610, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England bur. Jan 17, 1610, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age ~ 0 years) | | 9. Humphrey St. John, b. Apr 24, 1612, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Jul 08, 1625, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 13 years) | + | 10. Thomas St. John, King Charles' Secret Service Agent, b. May 30, 1613, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. bef. 10 Sep 1698, Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 85 years) ▻ Mary Carr, St. John, Billington, m. Jul 05, 1672 | | 11. Elizabeth St. John, b. bef. 1616, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Mar 11, 1616, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England (Age 0 years) | + | 12. Nicholas St. John, b. Jan 01, 1617, St. Olave, Silver Street Parish, London, England d. Sep 18, 1689, Windsor, Connecticut, USA (Age 72 years) ▻ Isabel Wilson (?) | |
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Person ID |
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St. John Origin and Ancestry DNA Database | St. John Generation One - Raoul de Sancto Johanne |
Last Modified |
Jul 18, 2023 |