P. L. Colman

This later account does not take into consideration three other children born to Thomas: a son, John, who was born in 1644, and a daughter, Joanna, both of whom were born to Thomas and his first wife, Susanna, who died in 1650. After Susanna’s death, Thomas married Mary, known as ‘widow Johnson,’ widow of Edmund Johnson. Mary died in 1663. Thomas then took a third wife (in succession, of course), Margery, ‘daughter of Philip Fowler and widow of Thomas Rowell of Andover. Margery had two children of her own from a previous marriage (to Christopher Osgood, also of Andover); Thomas and Margery had one son, Thomas’s ‘eldest child,’ in 1638.

The infamous, cryptic document gives the Colman patriarch the dubious distinction of being a prime mover in the historic scandal and suspenseful drama of the notorious Eunice (‘Goody’) Cole of Hampton. Thomas was a contemporary of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s great-grandfather, John Hawthorne, who presided as one of the judges at the legendary Salem witch trials, Hawthorne also being a fellow native of Boston. Given Thomas’ sullied reputation as a husbandman in his native Newbury, and his association with the reputable miscreant and ‘unforgiven Puritan’ the Reverend Stephen Bachiler, it is not surprising that Colman choose to relocate ‘lock, stock and barrel’ to a friendlier climate.








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