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• Birth	Abt 1585	Buckinghamshire, Eng
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I92	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Family 1	Katherine FOSTER
  Children	> 1. Martha TOMPKYNS, b. 1619/1621, Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, , England
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Hannah ABORNE
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Arrived at Salem, SEP 1635 in the Truelove with wife and YOUNGER members of his family, according to R. A. Tompkins. Pope says he was living in Dorchester in 1637. Sold property there 2 MAY 1648 to John Farnham of Dorchester and moved back to Salem 2 MAY 1638. Purdy says Ralph and Katherine had six children, Ralph and Hannah one child. The last child born was Martha. His son, Samuel, was one of the early pioneers of Bridgewater, so Ralph moved there in his old age to be near Samuel's family, according to Pope. Ralph was one of the pioneer settlers of Milford, Connecticut. Research: Estate was administered 27 SEP 1666 by son, John, Salem Quarterly Court Records, Vol. 4, p. 17 Savage, James, Genealogical Dictionary, p. 311 Robert A. Tompkins, 1942 Tomkins/Tompkins family genealogy THE COMPLETE BOOKS OF EMIGRANTS, pp 166-167, from London to New England on the Truelove, sailing 19 SEP 1635, Master John Gibbs was Captain. Family members were Ralph, 50, husbandman; Katherine, 58, wife; Elizabeth, 18, Marie, 14, Samuel, 22. List identical in the NEW WORLD EMIGRANTS, Vol. I, p. 54; arrival date was 1635 in this reference. THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS by Charles Henry Pope, page 457. Ancestral File of the FHL.