FAUNCE, Thomas Jr.

1687 - 1749  (61 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	FAUNCE, Thomas
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	18 Mar 1687	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Feb 1749
  Death	26 Feb 1749	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	12 Feb 1936	SGEOR
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  Person ID	I21745	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	FAUNCE, Thomas ,   b. 1647, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 27 Feb 1746, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 99 years)
  Mother	NELSON, Jane ,   b. 28 Feb 1651, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 8 Aug 1717, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1672	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F11793	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	FORD, Sarah ,   b. 14 Oct 1692, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 8 Aug 1717, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1711	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F11940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	BARNABY, Lydia ,   b. 4 Sep 1697, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 9 Apr 1710, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 12 years)
  Marriage	29 May 1718	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F11941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  3.THOMAS FAUNCE (1698-1788) HANNAH DAMON (1713-1768) THOMAS FAUNCE was born 15 July 1698 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Joseph Faunce (1653-1724) and Judith Rickard (1656-1724.) His father, Joseph, was 45 and his mother, Judith Rickard, was approximately 42. He married Hannah Damon 17 April 1732 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the Second Church in Scituate, and they had five children together between 1734 and 1745. He died on June 12, 1788, in Plympton, having lived a long life of 89 years. Footnote Konig 1:196; Copy of the Old Records—Town of Duxbury, Mass. (Plymouth, 1893), 61-62; PCR 8:89;Ply. Co. PR 1:16; Ply. Ch. Recs. 1:259; Sewall, 210. The identification of what is considered today to be "Plymouth Rock" relies on the accuracy of a story verbally brought down to us concerning Elder Thomas Faunce. When Faunce was ninety-five, he told a group of people he had been present when Mary Chilton came to Plymouth and visited the Rock before she died. She set foot on it and laughed, and said she was the first woman of the Mayflower to step upon that rock, and now, at seventy-five, she was stepping on it for the last time. HANNAH DAMON When Hannah Damon was born on April 24, 1713, in Scituate, Massachusetts, her father, Daniel (1688-1733,) was 25 and her mother, Bathsheba Silvester (1692-1720,) was 20. She married Thomas Faunce on April 13, 1732, in her hometown. . They had five children from 1734-1745. She died on January 25, 1768, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 54. Children of Thomas Faunce and Hannah Damon (married 13 April 1732, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts): 1.Bathsheba Faunce, b. 25 Jan 1734; (baptized in the Second Church of Scituate. Recorded in the Plymouth Records.); md. Abner Barrows 1756. 2.Hannah Faunce, b. 27 Feb 1736; (baptized in the Second Church of Scituate. Recorded in the Plymouth Records); md. Samuel Barrow 1767. 3.Daniel Faunce, b. 11 Oct 1738; (baptized in the Second Church of Scituate. Recorded in the Plymouth Records.); md. Sarah Lovell 1762; Ruth Fobes. 1777; d. 2 May 1803. 4.Sarah Faunce, b. abt. 1740. Recorded in the Plymouth Records; md. Ezekiel Samson 1765. 5.Thomas Faunce, b. 26 Jan 1744/45 to Thomas Faunce (1698-1788) and Hannah Damon (1713-1768.) Recorded in the Plymton Records. He married Rebecca Briggs 23 October 1766 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died 28 April 1832 in Plympton, Massachusetts. (The Faunce Family History and Genealogy: The Ancestry and Descendants of John Faunce or Purleigh, Essex, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts,” by James F. Faunce, Akron, Ohio, 1967, 1973.)