Thomas Wynne (1627 - 1692)

Born 20 Jul 1627 in Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Buttall) Wynne — married 1656 in Flintshire, Wales

Husband of Elizabeth (Chorley) Wynne — married 20 Jul 1676 in at her father's home in Rainhill, Lancashire, England

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1692 at age 64 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Philip Tripp [send private message], William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers WikiTree [send private message], Richard Williams [send private message], and Lindsay Tyrie [send private message]

Thomas Wynne was a part of William Penn's Pennsylvania Settlers community. Join: William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project Discuss: penn

Biography

Thomas Wynne is Notable.

Dr. Thomas Wynne (July 20, 1627 -March 17, 1691) was personal physician of William Penn and one of the original settlers of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania. Born in Caerwys (Flintshire)Wales, where his family dated back fifteen generations, he accompanied Penn on his original journey to America on the ship Welcome.

The fourth of five sons of Thomas Wynne Sr., Thomas Wynne lost his father at the age of 11. While attracted to the study of medicine early on. Heavy taxes levied on his family originally made the acquisition of proper learning materials difficult. He was able to make the acquaintance of an established surgeon by the name of Richard Moore, and soon he was able to apprentice until he was deemed worthy of licensing.

Born into the Protestant faith, in 1655 at the age of 28 he married a Quaker, Martha Buttall (1627-1676), and found himself profoundly converted. Henceforth a devout Quaker and author of several pamphlets on Quaker doctrine, Wynne faced persecution and even six years' imprisonment in England in the 1680s. After his first wife Martha died, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Rowden (b. 1637; d. after 1691) on July 20, 1676, and she accompanied him as he joined Penn on his trip to America, leaving on August 30 and landing on October 27, 1682.

Wynne was notable for erecting the first brick house in the colony, his "Liberty Lot" on Front and Chestnut streets (known as Wynne Street until renamed by Penn in 1684). He built a home on 52nd Street and Woodbine Avenue in 1690 named "Wynnestay" (a pun on the name of the famous Wynnstay estate in Wales), and several surrounding communities now bear his name. He served as speaker for the first two Pennsylvania Assemblies of the Province in Philadelphia in 1687 and 1688 and acted as Justice of Sussex county, now a county in Delaware, from 1687-1691. He followed Penn back to England on his trip in 1684. He was appointed a justice of the peace in January 1690 and held the position of justice of the provincial court from September 1690 until his death. His time in America lasted only nine years. He is buried at the Friends meeting house at Fourth and Arch Streets in Philadelphia. SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5LZ-2T2

Full text of Ancestry of Dr. Thomas Wynne: http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestryofdrthom00cook/ancestryofdrthom00cook_djvu.txt

Notes

Note: We do know that Dr. Thomas Wynne was apprenticed as a cooper in 1644 when he was 15 years old, probably causing him to leave the community. We know he had almost finished his medical training and was in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales when he became a Quaker between 1654 and 1655. He married his first wife Martha Elizabeth Buttall in 1655 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. Dr. Thomas Wynne also satisfied Dr. Walter Needham and Dr. Hollins of his competence and was duly licensed as a qualified barber-surgeon during the year 1659. We know that he had his first four children; Mary 1659, Tabitha 1661, Rebecca 1662 and Sidney 1664 all born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. Which demonstrates that Dr. Thomas Wynne was not living in the Bron Fadog probably from 1644 until 1665. But returned in time for his fifth child Hannah to be born in 1666 and Jonathan Wynne to be born in 1669 at the Bron Fadog.

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Dr. (Edward) Jones married Mary Wynne, daughter of Thomas Wynne, a physician who came with William Penn on the "Welcome."

Migration

Thomas Wynne was a William Penn fleet passenger.

Thomas sailed to the new world on board the William Penn fleet ship "Welcome" with his wife Elizabeth (widow of Josuah Maude) in August, 1682.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "[1]: The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania." Accessed 16 September 2018 Sj Baty.

• Wikipedia, accessed 5 Jun 2105.

• Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, p97. Accessed 5 Jun 2015.

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 1, p. 485-488)

See also:

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=flhg-passengersshipspriorto1684&h=81547&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt (Note: arrival to Pennsylvania)

• http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=7d43305b-3e4d-4956-a77d-47021332000e&tid=26804244&pid=1945349668 (Note: Wynnestay)

• http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f43301e2-09a5-4432-8b81-5618f34d9e37&tid=26804244&pid=1945349668 (Note: ColonialQuakers)

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/26804244/person/1945349668/facts

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/22037455/person/1343530914/facts