The Thomas Lucas Family- US 1650 to current

Raymond Lineage

** Connected to Holmes Family at Joseph Holmes (1764- ) **

Generation One
Thomas Lucas b. abt. 1630 at England; m. Unknown Lucas Nee Unknown; d. 6 January 1676 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA. Aged 49 years
Their Children:
1. John b. 15 July 1656 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
2. Mary b. 15 March 1658 at Plymouth, Plymouth MA; m. 1683 Nathaniel Atwood
3. Benoni b. 30 October 1659 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 1682 Repentance Harlow; d. 28 February 1730. Aged 70 years
4. Samuel b. 15 September 1661 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
5. William b. 13 January 1663 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. Esther Clark


        Thomas Lucas was first in Plymouth Colony records on 27 June 1650 in a list of townsmen. He is not found in the court records before that. He is found in the Plymouth Colony Court Orders 3 February 1656. He was listed 25 times and 16 of the were for drunkenness. “He even presented himself in Court distempered with drinke and reviled the magistrates.” The first time they were very lenient but later he was publicly whipped, put in the stocks, finally sentenced to prison for 24 hours. “He was also presented 'for abusing his children and wife to her danger' and placed under bonds for good behavior.” On 1 June 1675 records show: “Thomas Lucas for being distempered with drinke, it being soe oftens, and that hee hath borne severall pticular punishments gradually, and can not be reclaimed, it was ordered concerning him, that all that sell drinke be stricktly ordered and prohibited to lett him have none” (Plymouth Col. Court Orders 5: 169). At the Court held 8 Mar 1678/9: “The sixt day of January, 1678, being warned upon a jury to view the body of Thomas Lucase, of Plymouth, deceased, and to make inquiry how hee came by his end, wee, whose names are under written, find it as followeth: hee being very ancient & decriped in his limbes and it being very cold, and haveing drunk some drinke, gott a violent fall into a ditch, in a very dangerous place, could not recover himselfe, but bruised his body, and lying all night in the cold, soe hee came by his end” (Plymouth Col, Court Orders 6: 7-8).
      Thomas was a blacksmith by trade and there are not mention to the name of his wife. It is assumed he was married about 1655. In the settlement of his estate she was living and it was settled in 1679.


Plymouth Colony Court. Orders 6:5, 8 Mar 1678/9:
"From the settlement of the estate, 'the widow shall have free use of the housing and lands until her sones come of age, and then her thirds of the benefits during her natural life and the sume of L38 of movables ... and use of the whole until the children come to their respective ages or marriages; Benonie, the eldest son, the house and half the garden plott, halfe the barn, three acrees meaddow and grant of four acrees excepting his mother's thirds and the sum of L11.6 in personal estate; Mary Lucas and Bethya Lucas each L12 and Mehitable Lucas L10.”

Generation Two:
Samuel Lucas b. 15 September 1661 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 16 December 1686 Patience Warren at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 17 January 1716 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA. Aged 54 years
Their Children:
1. John b. 24 January 1687 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 31 January 1697 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 10 years.
2. Joseph b. 26 October 1689 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. Persis Shaw; d. 4 September 1741 at Plympton, Plymouth, MA, aged 51 years
3. William b. 19 October 1692 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
4. Patience b. 2 January 1696 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 19 December 1717 Nathaniel Harlow at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

     Samuel was made freeman in June 1689 and Ensign 1690. He also served on the jury many
times.

Generation Three:
William Lucas b. 19 October 1692 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 1 May 1722 Mehitable Doty at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. abt. January 1770, aged 77 years
Their Children:
1. William b. 27 June 1723 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d, 29 May 1734 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 10 years.
2. Phebe b. 12 April 1725 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA;
3. Priscilla b. 19 April 1727 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. Eleazer Robbins
4. Joseph b. 12 June 1729 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 8 May 1753 Mary Rickard at Kingston, Plymouth, MA
5. Benjamin b. 21 June 1731 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA;
6. Isaac b. June 1733 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. February 1744 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 10 years.
7. William b. 29 July 1734 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. died young
8. Mehitable b. 24 February 1738 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Generation Four:
Benjamin Lucas b. 21 June 1731 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 1755 Lydia Crocker at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 8 September 1818 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 87 years.
Their Children:
1. Bela b. 1757 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
2. Isaac b. 6 January 1759 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA;
3. Abigail b. 8 March 1761 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA;
4. Ezra b. 19 May 1763 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA;
5. Lucey b. 24 May 1765 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 16 September 1809 Andrew Sturtevant at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
6. Lydia b. 24 July 1676 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 6 November 1767 Joseph Holmes at Carver, Plymouth, MA;
7. Naomi b. 2 June 1770 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Sources
1. Plymouth Colony Records
2. Warren Family
3. Doten- Doty Family in America