Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 650. (365) THOMAS LETTICE. The following is from the "Genealogy of the Wilbour and Allied Families", by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour of Little Compton, R.I. (1936), and also from the "Cooke Family Descendants and Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower 1577-1820", both on file at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston. Thomas Lettice was in Plymouth, Mass, before 1636. He died October 25/1682. He was a carpenter and was made freeman of Plymouth Colony on June 6/1653. On August 2/1653 he bought a house and garden from John Cooke, Sr. On the same day he apprenticed his son Thomas, until he should be 21 years old - to whom, it is not stated. He owned in Plymouth the whole square from Main St to Coles Hill, of 165 ft on North St, 218 ft on Coles Hill, and 60 ft in Middle St. In 1682 his widow Anne, conveyed all of this to her daughter Dorothy, widow of Edward Gray, who became the wife of Nathaniel Clarke. His Will, proved October 1682, left five shillings each to his three daughters. He married Ann -- (possibly Savoy) born 1607, died July 3/1687 at Plymouth. Issue:- 1. Elizabeth Lettice. Born 1636, died about 1696. She married, 1st, on October 18/1655, William Shurtleffe, who was born at Whitby Hall, Ecclefield, 20 miles from Scrooby: he was killed by lightning on July 23/1666. He was an apprentice from May 16/1634 for eleven years to Thomas Clark, carpenter. He bought the Waterman farm at Marshfield in Plympton. On July 23/1666, a terrible tempest arose: he and 14 other persons were sitting in a neighbors house of John Philips, to get away from the thunderstorm: William was seated at a table next his wife Elizabeth, holding one of her hands, and one of their children on his knee, another child standing between him and the table, under which was a dog. A stroke of lightning passed down the chimney which it rent in pieces, prostrating most of the people in the room and instantly killing William and the two Philips. His wife Elizabeth had a child born that night whom they desired to name Bounerges, (Sons of Thunder), but not being able to make a name in the singular, called him Abiel, meaning "God is with us". They had three children, William, Thomas and Abiel. Elizabeth married, 2nd, on November 18/1669, as his second wife, Jacob Cooke, son of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. See subject 686 for their Issue. Elizabeth died, 3rd, on January 1/1688, Hugh Cole, born March 8/1658, died January 26/1699, son of and Mary (Foxwell) Cole. After Elizabeth died, Hugh Cole married in 1698, Mary Morton. 2. Dorothy Lettice. Married Edward Gray. See subject 324 for issue and further particulars. 3. Thomas Lettice. Born November 3/1650, died in childhood. 4. Ann Lettice. Married Samuel Jenney. 5. Rebecca Lettice. Married Ephraim Cole. There is some doubt as to whether she was a daughter of Thomas Lettice, or of a later generation.