TARE, Jane and Richard

Jane Tare was described in a deed of 1656 as formerly the wife of John Parker of Boston, now the wife of Richard Tare. She had two sons by her marriage to Parker, Noah and Thomas. On 7 October 1656, Jane Tare, with her son Thomas Parker, sold off land given to her by the town of Boston to Clement Corbin, for ‘tenn pounds to them in hand paid’.

The land was sold to raise money for a passage to England. The going rate for the journey to England was £5 for an adult (as in the case of John Morse*, who struggled to raise £15 for a party of three). The deed of sale stated that ‘the said monies together with other parcells from others receaved was to helpe transport the said Jane and Thomas with his Brother Noah into England’. Richard Tare was said to be ‘late of Boston’: he must have already been in England.

THOMPSON, Edmund and Martha

Edmund and Martha Thompson came from Framlingham, Suffolk. They arrived in New England in 1637 or 1638, with William Fiske (perhaps Martha's father) of Laxfield, Suffolk. Edmund was a seaman – perhaps the ‘Mr Thomson’ plying between Barbados and New England via Bermuda in August 1646. They settled at Salem, Massachusetts.