Thomas Cilley1
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Thomas Cilley||p739.htm|Captain Thomas Cilley|b. bt 1670 - 1675|p733.htm|Ann Stanyan|b. 17 Feb 1678\nd. b 1718|p734.htm|Thomas Sealey|b. 28 Jul 1638\nd. 1686|p740.htm|Martha Blaisdell|b. 1644\nd. a 1 Apr 1707|p741.htm|John Stanyan|b. 16 May 1642\nd. 27 Sep 1718|p745.htm|Mary Bradbury|b. 17 Mar 1642\nd. 29 May 1724|p746.htm|
Thomas Cilley was the son of Captain Thomas Cilley and Ann Stanyan.1 He married Abagail Knowlton on 7 March 1729 at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.1
Thomas Cilley was also known as Thomas Sillea.1
In 1745 he was a soldier in Col. Moore's N. H. Regiment at Louisburg and present at its capture. His name appears with other soldiers in a petition to the Masonian proprietors in 1750, for a grant of a township (partly in consideration of their patriotic services) next north of Bakerstown, now Salisbury. The petition was granted, and he received three lots. The original document is now (1878) in the hands of George E. Emery of Lynn, Mass., one of his descendants. Thomas appears in the original plan of the Township of Andover, then New Brittan, and he gave Lot 22, East Div., 2d Range, to his son Jonathan Sillia, then a resident of Nottingham, N.H. Was with others a petitioner in 1739 for annexation to Massachusetts.1
Thomas Cilley was also known as Thomas Sillea.1
In 1745 he was a soldier in Col. Moore's N. H. Regiment at Louisburg and present at its capture. His name appears with other soldiers in a petition to the Masonian proprietors in 1750, for a grant of a township (partly in consideration of their patriotic services) next north of Bakerstown, now Salisbury. The petition was granted, and he received three lots. The original document is now (1878) in the hands of George E. Emery of Lynn, Mass., one of his descendants. Thomas appears in the original plan of the Township of Andover, then New Brittan, and he gave Lot 22, East Div., 2d Range, to his son Jonathan Sillia, then a resident of Nottingham, N.H. Was with others a petitioner in 1739 for annexation to Massachusetts.1
Children of Thomas Cilley and Abagail Knowlton
- Hannah Cilley1
- Nancy Cilley1
- Polly Cilley1
- Jonathan Cilley+1 b. 14 Sep 1745, d. 11 Aug 1825
Citations
- J. P. Cilley. The Cilley Family. Augusta, ME: n.pub., 1878.