Thomas Blossom

1580 - Bef 1633  (< 53 years)



Birth	1580 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Died	Bef 25 Mar 1633 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Ann Heldsen

Abt 1590 - UNKNOWN



Birth	Abt 1590 England
Died	UNKNOWN New England
1	Henry Rowley b. 1598, England
Married	17 Oct 1633 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Family	Thomas Blossom & Ann Heldsen
Married	10 Nov 1605 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Children	1. Son Blossom b. Bef 1620 2. Elizabeth Blossom b. 2 Jun 1620, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 3. Thomas Blossom b. Abt 1623, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 4. Peter Blossom b. Aft 1627, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

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Name	Edward Fitzrandolph  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
Gender	Male
Birth	5 Jul 1607 Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England [3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
	(baptism)
Died	1684 Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ [3, 6, 12]
Buried	​ St James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex, NJ [6]
	FindAGrave Memorial 45704155; headstone did not survive the Revolutionary War
Notes	Ancestor of Barack Obama, through son Nathaniel and grandson Samuel
Siblings	None

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Family ID: F20849 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart  |  Last Modified: 12 Sep 2021  

Wife	Elizabeth Blossom (ID:I21969) (Age 93) b. 2 Jun 1620, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 21 Nov 1713, Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ (Age 93)
Marriage	10 May 1637 Scituate, Plymouth, MA [2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Children	1. Nathaniel FitzRandolph (ID:I25857) (Age 70) b. 10 Dec 1642, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 21 Nov 1713, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (Age 70)  [Father: natural] 2. Mary FitzRandolph (ID:I25856) (Age < 5) b. 6 Oct 1644, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. Bef 1650 (Age < 5)  [Father: natural] 3. Hannah FitzRandolph (ID:I25851) (Age 55) b. 23 Apr 1649, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 13 Apr 1705, Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA (Age 55)  [Father: natural] 4. Mary FitzRandolph (ID:I25852) (Age 87) b. 2 Jun 1650, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 4 Jan 1737/38, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA (Age 87)  [Father: natural] 5. John FitzRandolph (ID:I25853) b. 7 Oct 1653, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural] 6. Thomas FitzRandolph (ID:I25854) (Age 91) b. 16 Aug 1654, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 25 Oct 1745, Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ (Age 91)  [Father: natural] 7. Joseph FitzRandolph (ID:I25628) (Age 70) b. 1 Mar 1655, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 10 Jan 1726, Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ (Age 70)  [Father: natural] 8. Hope FitzRandolph (ID:I25855) (Age 40) b. 2 Apr 1661, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 15 Feb 1702, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (Age 40)  [Father: natural] 9. Benjamin Fitzrandolph (ID:I21971) (Age 83) b. 4 Apr 1663, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 5 Oct 1746, Stony Brook, Mercer, NJ (Age 83)  [Father: natural]
Documents		The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 p 17, Appendix A - Alphabetical List of Passengers
Histories » Slide Show		Historical, genealogical, and biographical account of the Jolliffe family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893 pp 217-221
		English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol. I p.855-861
		Edward Fitzrandolph and Elizabeth Blossom p5 Excerpt from "The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, 1950
		Fitz Randolph traditions : a story of a thousand years p99
		New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Name: Thomas Blossom
		A Genealogical Record of the Corliss Family of America pp 254,5. In the chapter on "Detached Families", and among a list of people named Corliss living in New Jersey at the time of the book's publication.

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Arrival	1630 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA [1, 4, 10, 11, 12]
Residence	1630 Scituate, Plymouth, MA [9, 13]
Residence	1639 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA [9]
Residence	1 Jun 1649 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA [5]
Residence	1669 Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ [10, 12]  –  in 1669, with his wife and six of his children, he sought a new home in Piscatway, New Jersey

Documents		U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Name: Elizabeth Blossom. SAR Membership Number: 89625
		The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 p 17, Appendix A - Alphabetical List of Passengers

Histories » Slide Show		English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol. I p.855-861
		Fitz Randolph traditions : a story of a thousand years p99
		New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Name: Thomas Blossom
		Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850 Edward Fitzrandolph
		EdwardFitzrandolf-RoyalDescent
		Quaker "Quaker Financeer"
		Edward Fitzrandolph and Elizabeth Blossom p5 Excerpt from "The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, 1950
		Notes on Edward Fitzrandolph
		A Genealogical Record of the Corliss Family of America pp 254,5. In the chapter on "Detached Families", and among a list of people named Corliss living in New Jersey at the time of the book's publication.
		Fitzrandolph British Ancestry 24 purported generations above Edward Fitzrandolph, to Rolf, b. 860, First Duke of Normandy From Daniel Fitz Randolph His Ancestry and Descendants An American Branch of The Fitz Randolph Family by Oris H.F. Randolph, 1959

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Birth - 5 Jul 1607 - Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England Arrival - 1630 - Plymouth, Plymouth, MA Residence - 1630 - Scituate, Plymouth, MA Marriage - 10 May 1637 - Scituate, Plymouth, MA Residence - 1639 - Barnstable, Barnstable, MA Residence - 1 Jun 1649 - Barnstable, Barnstable, MA Residence - 1669 - Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ Died - 1684 - Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ Buried - - St James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex, NJ  = Link to Google Earth

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[S283] Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Name: Edward Fitzrandolph. Place: Salem, Massachusetts; Year: 1630; Page Number: 29. Name: Edward Fitzrandolph Arrival Year: 1630 Arrival Place: Salem, Massachusetts Source Publication Code: 6111.5 Primary Immigrant: Fitzrandolph, Edward Annotation: Date and place of arrival. Place of origin, ship name, intended destination, and other genealogical data are provided for some. Source Bibliography: "NEW ENGLAND SHIP AND PASSENGER LISTS." In Boulder Genealogical Society Quarterly (Boulder, CO). Vol. 4:1 (Feb. 1972), pp. 28-32 (1630). Page: 29 [S381] Ancestry.com, American Marriages Before 1699, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1997;), Edward Fittsrandolphe. Name: Edward Fittsrandolphe Spouse: Elizabeth Blossom Marriage Date: 10 May 1637 Marriage Place: Scituate, Massachusetts [S289] U.S.,Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Sons of the American Revolution ; Date: 2011;), Edward Fit Randolph. SAR Membership Number: 89625. Name: Edward Fit Randolph Birth Date: 5 Jul 1601 Birth Place: Sutton, England Death Date: 1684 Death Place: Piscataway, New Jersey SAR Membership: 89625 Role: Ancestor Application Date: 3 Apr 1965 Spouse: Elizabeth Blossom Children: Joseph Fit Randolph Household Members: Name: Age Bruce Borchers: Ertelle Fit Randolph: Gustar Brucr Brashears: Ephaim Fit Randolph: Obadiah Woodruff Fit Randolph: Elizabeth Weed: Phoebe Haines Woodruff: Futch Ref Churc Fit Randolph: Rachael Srouder: Louis Fitz Randolph: Rachel Stelle: Rephah Drake: Joseph FitzRandolph: Joarez Conger: Joseph Fit Randolph: Elizabeth Blossom: Edward Fit Randolph: [S383] John Insley Coddington, The Widow Mary Ring, of Plymouth, Mass., and her children, (Name: The American Genealogist; Location: Demorest GA; Date: Oct 1966;), Information about Thomas Blossom's travel across the Atlantic to America. …the Speedwell, the leaky little ship which started to accompany the Mayflower in 1620, but which was forced to turn back to Plymouth in England because of its un-seaworthy condition. Many of the Speedwell’s passengers were transferred to the Mayflower, while others, including Robert Cushman and Thomas Blossom, decided to return to Leyden and await a later opportunity to migrate to the New World. … Blossom and his family were in Leyden by 1609 as members of Mr. John Robinson’s congregation; he was a passenger on the Speedwell in 1620; returned to Leyden after the failure of that ship, and came to New England on the second Mayflower in 1629… [S384] Ancestry.com, Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), Edward Fitzrandolph. Name: Edward Fitzrandolph Event Type: Deed Record Date: 1 Jun 1649 Record Place: Plymouth Colony Residence: Barnstable [S370] FindAGrave.com, FindAGrave Memorial 45704155; Edward Fitzrandolph. Birth: Jul. 5 1607 Sutton-in- Ashfield Nottinghamshire, England Death: 1685 Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA Burial: St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45704155&ref=acom [S197] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories2, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Edward Fitz Randolph. Book Title: A Genealogical Record of the Corliss Family of America : including partial records of some of the families connected by intermarriage; among which are those of Neff, Hutchins, Ladd, Eastman, Roby, Ayer, Kingsbury, Merrick,. Name: Edward Fitz Randolph Gender: Male Birth Date: 1607 1615[1615] Birth Place: of Nottingham, Fngland First Marriage Date: 10 May 1637 [S372] Robert Charles Anderson, et at, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: New England Historicl and Genealogical Society; Location: Boston, MA; Date: 1995-2009;), The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Vol 1, Thomas Blossom, pp182-184, also behind NEHGS paywall at www.americanancestors.org. [[summary]] Thomas Blossom Birth Date: by about 1580 Origin Place: Leiden, Holland Emigration Year: 1629 First Residence Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death Date: Plymouth before 25 March 1633 His correspondence with William Bradford indicates substantial education Marriage: St. Clement's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 10 Nov 1605 to Anne Elsdon. (She married (2) Plymouth 17 Oct 1633 Henry Rowley) Children: 1. ___ Bur. Pieterskerke, Leiden, 12 April 1617 2. Son, ___ by 1620, accompanied his father on the Speedwell in 1620, died in Leiden by 15 Dec 1625 3. Elizabeth b. ca 1620; m (1) Scituate 10 May 1637 Edward FitzRandolph; m.(2) Piscataway, NJ, Capt John Pike 4. Thomas, b. about 1623; m. Barnstable 18 June 1645 Sara Ewer 5. Peter b. after 1627; m. Barnstable 21 June 1663 Sarah Bodfish Details of Thomas Blossom's correspondence with Gov. Wm Bradford, in which he mentions his son. Analysis and dismissal of the common view that Thomas Blossom was a deacon at Plymouth. Discussion of support for death date. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=GreatMigration&h=48951&indiv=try [S1093] Augustus Whittemore Corliss, A Genealogical Record of the Corliss Family of America, (Location: Yarmouth, Maine; Date: 1875;), pp 254,5. In the chapter on "Detached Families", and among a list of people named Corliss living in New Jersey at the time of the book's publication. Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottingham, England, born about 1615, settled at Sciuate, Mass., in 1630. He married, May 10th, 1637, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Blossom of Leyden, one of the forefathers, and removed to Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, in 1639.... [[Taken from a 5-generation direct line descendancy report ending in the children of Richard Fitzrandolph(1605-1754) and Elizabeth Corlies]] [S1030] The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, p 17, Appendix A - Alphabetical List of Passengers. Edward Fitzrandolph - From Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. Came in 1630... Probably an apprentice...perhaps one of those freed in 1630... Fitzrandolph married in Scituate. In 1669 he removed to New Jersey. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-WinthropFleet&h=256830&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt [S1031] Ancestry.com, Fitz Randolph traditions : a story of a thousand years, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;), p99. [[ Supposition about the accuracy of reports of Edward Fitzandolph's birth date, suggesting it was 1614]]... W do know that the emigrant Edward of Nottinghamshire was barely, if quite, grown up when he came to Massachusetts in 1630, and that he was still quite a young man when he marries Elizabeth Blossom at Scituate, Mass, on the 10th of May, 1637 [S1026] Ancestry.com, The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-195, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2004;), p5. [[Overview of the origins, parents, emigration, settlement, marriage, move to Piscataway, and death of both Edward and Elizabeth, followed by a list of their children. See attached history.]] [S1032] English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol. I, p.855-861. [[A great deal of information about Edward Fitzrandolph's ancestors in England.]] https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-EnglishOrigins2Vol1&h=398946&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt [S382] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Name: Elizabeth Blossom. Volume Number: 097. Page number: 276. Name: Elizabeth Blossom Event Type: Marriage Father's Name: Thomas Heilson Blossom Mother's Name: Ann Heilson Blosson Marriage Date: 10 May 1637 Marriage Place: USA Page number: 276 Volume Number: 097 [S1034] Ancestry.com, Historical, genealogical, and biographical account of the Jolliffe family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;), pp 217-221. [[Review of some Fitzrandolph ancestry, immigration of Edward Fitzrandolph and Thomas Blossom (and Thomas' wife & daughter). Then a prose direct line descendancy through 4 generations of Fitzrandolphs, then Rachel "Randolph", and her daughter, who married William Jolliffe.]]