4 2 NAME Family Origins(R) for Windows
6 2 CORP FormalSoft, Inc.
15 1 NOTE (Peter Verthez) This is only a very small extract from the original file
16 2 CONT For the full file, see http://www.axtellfamily.org/axgenea/axggedco.html
18 1 NAME Daniel Gibson Axtell
19 1 ADDR 1674 Westminster West Rd
20 2 CONT Putney VT 05346
25 1 _EMAIL daxtell@@sover.net
27 1 NAME Thomas /Axtell/
32 2 DATE ABT 26 JAN 1619
33 2 PLAC Berkhamstead, , Hertfordshire, England
37 1 NOTE son of William and Thomasine Axtell, was baptised in St. Peter's Church,
38 2 CONT Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, January 26, 1619 (N.S.). His father
39 2 CONT died in 1638. He married Mary -- probably in 1638; two children were born to
40 2 CONT them in England, and their baptism is recorded in St. Peter's. They left
41 2 CONT England as early as 1643, for in October of that year, Thomas purchased five
42 2 CONT acres of land in Sudbury, Massachusetts, of Edmond Rice, who himself had come
43 2 CONT from Berkhamstead five years earlier. This land is described as "lying in ye
44 2 CONT south part of ye town-bounds, the southwest side lying to the commons and
45 2 CONT joined to the land of Edmond Rice, southward and northward to the highway
46 2 CONT leading from Sudbury to Mr. Duston's farm." This is what is now Wayland near
47 2 CONT "The Five Paths." Thomas took the oath of fidelity July 8, 1645. He died in
48 2 CONT March, 1646, and was buried the 8th of that month. The following is the
49 2 CONT inventory of Thomas Axtell of Sudbury, lately deceased,
53 2 CONT His land and house 8£ 10s
57 2 CONT Wearing apparel and bedding with his arms 10£
59 2 CONT Brass and pewter 5£
61 2 CONT Edmond Rice bought back the land, six acres, and dwelling house. This was
62 2 CONT near the spring.
64 2 CONT The story told in those words is short, indeed, but we are permitted to
65 2 CONT see what it stands for. The young Englishman was a soldier or at least
66 2 CONT trained to arms; he was of strong puritanical leanings, like his brother
67 2 CONT Daniel the regicide. With his wife and two little ones he followed his
68 2 CONT neighbor across the sea to make his home in a frontier settlement of New
69 2 CONT England. Scarcely had he set up his rooftree in the wilderness when hardships
70 2 CONT and exposure struck him down.
72 2 CONT With his last breath he leaves his little all for the helpless group about
73 2 CONT his death bed. Mary, the widow of Thomas, appears to have married John
74 2 CONT Maynard, a widower with a boy of eight, on June 16, 1
77 1 NAME Daniel /Axtell/
86 1 NOTE twin, probably unmarried.