Thomas Flanders

1773 - 1854  (80 years)

• Name	Thomas Flanders
  Birth	20 Oct 1773	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Offices Held	Between 1804 and 1809 (30 years)	Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   [4]
  He served as the Town Treasurer.
  Married	13 Jan 1805 (31 years)	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Sarah "Sally" Sawyer, the daughter of Israel and Miriam Clough (French) Sawyer. She was born on 1 July 1777 in South Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and she was christened on 23 September 1777 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on Monday 25 February 1856 in Cornville, Somerset County, Maine. Issue: 1. Parker Flanders (1805-____) 2. Selina Flanders (1808-____) 3. Lydia S. Flanders (1810-____) 4. William S. Flanders (1813-____) 5. Thomas J. Flanders (1816-1840)
  Military	14 Sep 1814 (40 years)  [2, 11]
  He served in Lt. Col. J. Waugh's regiment raised at Cornville, Maine, from 14 September to 24 September 1814 making him a War of 1812 veteran.
  Death	11 Feb 1854	Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   [6]
  Burial	West Ridge Cemetery, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A. West Ridge Cemetery, Cornville, Maine   [6]
  	Gravestone of Thomas Flanders
  Siblings	6 brothers and 4 sisters
  1. Mary Flanders,   b. 8 Jun 1770, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Jan 1845, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.  (Age 74 years) > 2. Jonathan Flanders,   b. 8 Oct 1771, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 24 Mar 1816, Cornville, Somerset County, Massachusetts (now Maine), U.S.A.  (Age 44 years) ▻ Tamzin Whittier   3. Thomas Flanders,   b. 20 Oct 1773, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 11 Feb 1854, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.  (Age 80 years)   4. Sarah Flanders,   b. 25 Feb 1776, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   5. William Flanders,   b. 19 Nov 1778, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   6. Jedidiah Flanders,   b. 18 Mar 1781, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   7. Jacob Flanders,   b. 17 Apr 1783, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   8. Judith Flanders,   b. 1 Jun 1785, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   9. Eleanor Flanders,   b. 4 May 1787, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.   10. Capt. Daniel Flanders,   b. 28 Apr 1789, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 28 Apr 1858, Mayfield, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.  (Age 69 years) + 11. Moses Flanders,   b. 23 Jun 1791, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Jan 1845, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.  (Age 53 years) ▻ Roxana Webb,  m. 21 Nov 1811
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Steven Flanders,   b. About 1595, Netherlands (Holland) d. 27 Jun 1684, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 89 years)  (3 x Great Grandfather)  Frances   d. 23 Feb 1642/43, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (4 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I14503
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Jedidiah Flanders,   b. 29 Aug 1748, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 6 Dec 1823, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A. (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Judith Tuxbury,   b. 13 Feb 1752, South Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Thomas Flanders(1773 – 1854) 2Jedidiah Flanders(1748 – 1823) 4Jedidiah Flanders(1705 – 1776) 8Daniel Flanders(16 Mar 1674/75 – 1735) 16Steven Flanders(1646 – 1689) 17Abigail Carter(Jan 1652/53 – ) 9Sarah Jane Colby 18Sgt. John Colby(1656 – 1719) 19Sarah Eldridge(1650 – ) 5Eleanor Barnard(1706 – ) 10Samuel Barnard(10 Feb 1672/73 – 1749) 20Thomas Barnard(1641 – 1715) 21Sarah Peasley(1642 – 1736) 11Anne Currier(Abt 1678 – 1752) 22Deacon Thomas Currier(1646 – 1712) 23Mary Osgood(3 Mar 1649/50 – 1705) 3Judith Tuxbury(1752 – ) 6Thomas Tuxbury(1726 – 1791) 12Deacon Isaac Tuxbury(1698 – 1765) 24Deacon John Tuxbury(1674 – ) 25Hannah Colby(Abt 1677 – 1730) 13Sarah Sargent(1701 – ) 26Jacob Sargent(1678 – ) 27Gertrude Davis(1676 – ) 7Mary Currier(1731 – 1791) 14Capt. Jonathan Currier(7 Feb 1698/99 – 1762) 28Capt. Richard Currier(1673 – 8 Feb 1747/48) 29Dorothy Barnard(Abt 1677 – 1765) 15Ann Challis(1700 – 1742) 30Thomas Challis(1673 – ) 31Mary Colby(Abt 1669 – )

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 20 Oct 1773 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Offices Held - Between 1804 and 1809 - Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A. Married - 13 Jan 1805 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 11 Feb 1854 - Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A. Burial - - West Ridge Cemetery, Cornville, Somerset County, Maine, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones

  Gravestone of Sarah (Sawyer) Flanders

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S420] Prescott, William. The Flanders Family, (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXVII, 1873). [S421] Taylor, Ellery Kirke, Descendants of Stephen Flanders of Salisbury, Mass., 1646 being a Genealogy of the Flanders Family, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company, 1932). [S422] Dunbar, Edith Flanders. The Flanders Family from Europe to America, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1935). [S428] Amazeen, Laurence. Some Cornville History, (Skowhegan, Maine: privately printed, 1997). [S887] Vital Records of Cornville, Somerset County, Maine. [S426] Sharkey, Sonya. email: West Ridge Cemetery, Cornville, Maine, (E-mail to Robert Roy from dignupbonz (at) hotmail.com, 29 September 2000). [S815] Sawyer, Fred E. Genealogical Index of the Sawyer Families of New England Prior to 1900, (Blackfoot, Idaho: Neves Printing Co., 1983). [S640] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume I, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S401] Historical Committee. Vital Records of South Hampton, New Hampshire 1743-1886, (South Hampton, New Hampshire: The South Hampton Friends of the Library, 1970). [S846] Topsfield Historical Society. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 , (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Publishing Co., 1915). [S423] Pearson, Gardner W. Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a Threatened Invasion during the War of 1812-14, (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1913).