Thomas Macy

1608 - 1682  (74 years)

• Name	Thomas Macy  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26]
  Suffix	II
  Birth	Apr 1608	Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1639	England
  	Came to MA Bay Colony
  FSID	LRKP-D6J
  Burial	Apr 1682	Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Death	19 Apr 1682	Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I45638	footsteps | Bunker
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Macy,   b. Abt 1575, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 28 Oct 1622, Chilmark, Wiltshire, England (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Mother	Kinburia Yokeney,   b. 1 Sep 1566, Warminster, Wiltshire, England d. 26 Dec 1633, Stockton, Wiltshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Family ID	F25140	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Hopcott,   b. 1612, Chilmark, Wiltshire, England d. 19 Apr 1706, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	9 Aug 1639	Chilmark, Wiltshire, England
  Children	+ 1. John Macy,   b. 14 Jul 1655, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 14 Oct 1691, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States (Age 36 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown] + 2. Sarah Macy,   b. 1 Aug 1646, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 1701, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States (Age 54 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown] + 3. Bethia Macy,   b. 4 Dec 1650, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States d. 19 Aug 1732, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. Mary Macy,   b. 4 Dec 1648, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 1729, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States (Age 80 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
  Family ID	F25110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  After their marriage, and previous to their having any children, in 1640, they emigrated to America and settled in Salisbury, Essex County, MA, where he became the possessor of a 1000 acres of land with a good house and barn upon it and a fair amount of stock. He resided on that land for nearly 20 years; during that time he had seven children, the youngest of whom was John, born 1657. During the time that Thomas Macy resided at Salisbury, MA, great dissensions and religious intolerance arose among the people, which led to violent persecution. Laws were passed of the most oppressive character, among them one enacting that any person who should entertain any of the people called Quackers, should pay a fine of five pounds for every hour of such entertainment. Notwithstanding they had emigrated to America to avoid persecution and for the enjoyment of religious liberty, they themselves, as soon as they obtained power, became persecutors in turn, and inflicted harsher and more cruel penalties than those which they had escaped by forsaking the land from whence they came. Thomas Macy, by giving shelter from a storm to four Quakers, violated the law and was consequently prosecuted. This resulted in his removing in the fall of 1659 in an open boat from Salisbury to Nantucket where he, with his family, spent the first year alone among 1500 Indians who occupied the island. Of the four Quakers entertained by Thomas Macy, two, William Robinson, merchant of London, and Marmaduke Stephenson of Yorkshire, England, being banished Quakers, were hung in Boston the 27th of October 1659, for the offense of holding and preaching the doctrine of that sect. A letter written by the Nantucket Historical Assoc. in 1974 states...... Not only was Thomas Macy our first white settler but many of his descendants did a great deal to spread its name and fame. We have a famous Macy House flag which flew on Macy ships all over the world in our Whaling Museum and this year will have the Nathaniel Macy House... built in 1720 as one of our permanent exhibits, plus considerable Macy memorabilia principally acquired by William Macy, our first President of the Association in 1894.

  
  

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