Could you help please? I am trying to find the details that may shed some light into the conjecture that he perhaps married twice.
He is known to have married Mary Alford of Broadwater Sussex UK in 1693 and had at least 3 children, John, Sarah and Edward but I am not sure if they were born in England or New York.
Reference has also been made to a wife called Mary Burroughs.
The New York Census for 1703 show that he was living in Dock Ward with a wife, 2 children, boy and girl, under 16 and 3 slaves!
Thomas' Will was allegedly proved on 9 October 1709 by the then Deputy Governor of New York, Richard Ingoldesby.
Thomas had an interesting career, captain, merchant, warden of Trinity Church NY, commissioner of customs for the Receiver General and appointed Third Justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1704.
He is also connected with land purchases in America named the Little Nine Partners Patent, the Oriskany Patent and the Oneida Patent.
I understood that his estate was left to his natural son, John Wenham of Beckenham, Kent whose son the Rev. John Wenham of Hamsey sold his interests in the Oriskany Patent to Governor (?) Clinton. Another report, however suggests that he died childless and his Estate went to his two sisters, one of whom married a Mr Smith and their son was Rev. George Wenham Smith, details of whom have eluded me!
Any further info would be gratefully received.
Many thanks.
