Should Margaret Todd's children also be PGM?

Question

Margaret Todd and Thomas Lowe/Low (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Low-790) seem to have immigrated with four children:

Thomas: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Low-347

Margaret: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Low-345

John: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Low-272

Sarah: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Low-66

Shouldn't they be also included in the project?

Thanks!

Marcia Benjamin

Answer 1

It looks like they probably should be.  Based on the entry for the father Thomas Low in the GMD, he arrived in New England by 1640 (based on the first record of him, Ipswich Town Records showing a land grant of 6 April 1641 of 10 acres adjoining 10 acres previously granted to him.)  The youngest child is born in abt 1637, so it does appear likely that they all emigrated with him before 1640.  I'll add them.

Comments

Thanks Scott and Jen!

I believe Sarah may have been born in 1635, because of a record I found that may have been for her but could have been transcribed wrong. I wrote about that in the last paragraph of "children".. Obviously, that is not a definitive answer, but since the whole profile was built on conjectures supported by a lot of research and primary sources, but still we can't really be sure of any of it, I thought it was worth putting those ideas out there.

Unless we find more primary sources that place them earlier in the Colony, the date for their arrival will have to remain somewhere between 1636 and 1640. Which is not bad, but I'd love to find them on a passenger list!

Answer 2

His bio suggests he arrived in 1636, and daughter Sarah seems to have been born in 1637. Can these two things be reconciled? If so, it does look like all the children should be PGM.

Comments

Anderson concludes in the GMD that they arrived by 1640, based on the first record of his presence in the records of Ipswich on 6 April 1641, when he was granted ten acres adjacent to his previous ten acres.  He was likely associated with Rev. Nathaniel Rogers who emigrated to Ipswich in 1636, and some researchers speculate that he "accompanied or followed" Rogers to Ipswich, but the exact date between 1636-1640 is uncertain I think.