0 HEAD
1 SOUR FamilyOrigins
2 NAME Family Origins(R) for Windows
2 VERS 6.0
2 CORP FormalSoft, Inc.
1 DEST DISKETTE
1 DATE 4 JAN 2003
1 SUBM @SUB1@
1 FILE AXB45.GED
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR ANSI
1 NOTE (Peter Verthez) This is only a very small extract from the original file
2 CONT For the full file, see http://www.axtellfamily.org/axgenea/axggedco.html
0 @SUB1@ SUBM
1 NAME Daniel Gibson Axtell
1 ADDR 1674 Westminster West Rd
2 CONT Putney VT 05346
1 PHON 802-387-4145
1 _EMAIL daxtell@sover.net
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Axtell/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Axtell
1 SEX M
1 NOTE son of William and Thomasine Axtell, was baptised in St. Peter's
2 CONC Church,
2 CONT Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, January 26, 1619 (N.S.). His
2 CONC father
2 CONT died in 1638. He married  Mary -- probably in 1638; two children were
2 CONC born to
2 CONT them in England, and their baptism is recorded in St. Peter's. They
2 CONC left
2 CONT England as early as 1643, for in October of that year, Thomas
2 CONC purchased five
2 CONT acres of land in Sudbury, Massachusetts, of Edmond Rice, who himself
2 CONC had come
2 CONT from Berkhamstead five years earlier. This land is described as "lying
2 CONC in ye
2 CONT south part of ye town-bounds, the southwest side lying to the commons
2 CONC and
2 CONT joined to the land of Edmond Rice, southward and northward to the
2 CONC highway
2 CONT leading from Sudbury to Mr. Duston's farm." This is what is now
2 CONC Wayland near
2 CONT "The Five Paths." Thomas took the oath of fidelity July 8, 1645. He
2 CONC died in
2 CONT March, 1646, and was buried the 8th of that month. The following is
2 CONC the
2 CONT inventory of Thomas Axtell of Sudbury, lately deceased,
2 CONT
2 CONT    Imprimi:
2 CONT
2 CONT       His land and house   8£ 10s
2 CONT
2 CONT       Cattle   8£ 10s
2 CONT
2 CONT       Wearing apparel and bedding with his arms   10£
2 CONT
2 CONT       Brass and pewter   5£
2 CONT
2 CONT Edmond Rice bought back the land, six acres, and dwelling house. This
2 CONC was
2 CONT near the spring.
2 CONT
2 CONT    The story told in those words is short, indeed, but we are
2 CONC permitted to
2 CONT see what it stands for. The young Englishman was a soldier or at least
2 CONT trained to arms; he was of strong puritanical leanings, like his
2 CONC brother
2 CONT Daniel the regicide. With his wife and two little ones he followed his
2 CONT neighbor across the sea to make his home in a frontier settlement of
2 CONC New
2 CONT England. Scarcely had he set up his rooftree in the wilderness when
2 CONC hardships
2 CONT and exposure struck him down.
2 CONT
2 CONT    With his last breath he leaves his little all for the helpless
2 CONC group about
2 CONT his death bed. Mary, the widow of Thomas, appears to have married John
2 CONT Maynard, a widower with a boy of eight, on June 16, 1646.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 26 JAN 1619
2 PLAC Berkhamstead, , Hertfordshire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1646
2 PLAC Sudbury, , MA
1 REFN 1-1
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Axtell/
2 GIVN Daniel
2 SURN Axtell
1 SEX M
1 NOTE twin, probably unmarried.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 FEB 1739
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1772
1 REFN 5-12
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @F23@ FAM
1 CHIL @I71@
1 MARR
2 DATE 15 SEP 1737
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