Tower, Thomas

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Battle:Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Ship/Arrival:Unity, Dec 1650
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Published: 18 August 2018, Updated: 04 Apr 2019
Page Contributors: Ray Dusek, Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust

Tower, Thomas, #29 on Scots at Lynn 1653. Iron Works Inventory1

IMPORTANT UPDATE! (Jul 2018)
According to, Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018),2 on page 248, Thomas is categorized as:

Definite [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]

Tower, Thomas. Residences: Lynn, Reading MA. Appears: 1653. D.1684. [Exiles; Banks; DR; SPOWS; Ch.7 & 8]345678

For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.

First Generation in the New World

1. THOMAS¹ TOWER, was presumably born in Scotland and died in Massachusetts on 01 April 1684. He married at Reading, Massachusetts on 30 Oct 1662, HANNAH DASTIN/DUSTIN.

Biographical Notes: He first appears at the Lynn Iron Works in 1653. He lived in Lynn and Reading, MA.

 

Sources and Notes:

Page excerpt from book
Thomas Tower Marriage, contributed by Ray Dusek. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015
Death date from image contributed by Ray Dusek

On Sun, 10/21/18, Ray Dusek <> wrote:
Thomas Towers, 1631–1684, Birth 1631, Scotland
Death 1 APR 1684 • Reading,Mass.
Spouse, Hannah Dastin 1645 – ?
Children
None

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  1. Stewart, George Sawin. The Bartlett Collection. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. /george-sawin-stewart-documents/ [↩]
  2. Gerrard, Christopher M.., et al. Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books, 2018, p. 248. [↩]
  3. Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. Scotch Exiles in New England. 1922. Coll. 733 & 831, Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Portland ME. [↩]
  4. Banks, C.E. 1927. ‘Scotch Prisoners deported to New England by Cromwell 1651-2’. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 61, 4-30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25080212 [↩]
  5. Rapaport, Diane. Working List of Early New England Scots. 2015. [↩]
  6. Stewart, George Sawin. The Bartlett Collection. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. /george-sawin-stewart-documents/ [↩]
  7. “Dunbar Prisoners of War Profiles.” The Scottish Prisoners of War Society, Teresa Rust, 18 Feb. 2019, scottishprisonersofwar.com/battle_of_dunbar_pows_america/. [↩]
  8. Gerrard, Christopher M.., et al. Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books, 2018. Ch. 7, 8. [↩]