Thomas Ferrit

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at Battle Road

Place of Birth:

Natick, Massachusetts(?)

Date of Birth:

Circa 1751

The following is from the 2004 National Park Service study Patriots of Color researched and prepared by George Quintal:

Thomas Ferrit was born circa 1751.^I He was undoubtedly the son of Caesar and Naomi (_____) Ferrit.^II

He served on the Lexington Alarm form the 4^th Parish of Dedham, in Capt. Ebenezer Battle’s company, for two days.^III This unit served at Battle Road.^IV

In Dedham, Thomas Ferrit published his intentions on 18 April 1777 to marry Lydia Fagins of Natick. They were married in Natick on 8 May 1777.^V He undoubtedly married second in Boston to Susannah Patten on 4 November 1788.^VI 

Footnotes:

1. Birth date backwardly-computed, based on average age of marriage of 26 (per study of compiler).
2. The only known family by this name in all of New England is Caesar’s family. Naomi was a white woman; as her child, Thomas would have been born free.
3. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 5:626. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
4. Coburn, Frank Warren. Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in The Battle of April 19, 1775, … (1912) 53-4.
5. Vital Records to 1850. Births, Marriages and Deaths. Vols for most Massachusetts towns, Dedham, Marriages, 262.
6. McGlenen, Edward W. Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1809 (1977), 459; wife listed as ‘Elizabeth Patten (should be Susanah).’

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See also, John Ferrit.