Thomas Danforth

- 1699

• Name	Thomas Danforth
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	20 Nov 1623	Framlingham, Suffolk, England   [1]
  Died	05 Nov 1699	Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  Notes	Thomas DANFORTH was representative from Cambridge in the General Court, 1657-58, assistant, 1659-79, deputy Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 28 May 1679 to May 1686, president of the Province of Maine during the same period, and associate justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 until his death. He strongly opposed the infamous proceedings against alleged witches. He was also president of the Board of Commissioners for the United Colonies, and from 1650-1669 was treasurer of Harvard College, to which he made bequests. !NEHGR 75:144
  Person ID	I22763	Bryant
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2001

  
  

  Family	Mary Withington,   b. Abt 1623, probably, Guilford, New Haven Co, Connecticut ,   d. 26 Mar 1697, Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  Married	23 Feb 1644	Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F1746	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Baptism - 20 Nov 1623 - Framlingham, Suffolk, England Married - 23 Feb 1644 - Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Died - 05 Nov 1699 - Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S315] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles & George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001), p. 283.