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Thomas LECHFORD, Esq.
Elizabeth __?__
Husband:  Thomas LECHFORD
Birth:  ca. 1590, England
Death:  1644(?), England
Occupation:  solicitor, author
Historical:  America's first practicing attorney
Marriage:  by 1639, probably earlier
Migration-1:  27 Jun 1638, arrived Boston from England
Migration-2:  3 Aug 1641, departed Boston for England
Wife:  Elizabeth __?__
Birth:  ca. 1600, presumably in England
Death:  aft. 1657, presumably in MA
Other Spouse:  m2. 1644/5, Samuel WILBORE
Other Spouse:  m3. 20 Feb 1656/7, Henry BISHOP
Children:
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Keywords for search engines:  genealogy; UK, United Kingdom, ENG; USA, US, United States, Massachusetts

Sources:

1.  Clarence Almon Torry.  1985.  New England Marriages Prior to 1700.  New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA (reprinted 1997, Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD):
p. 458 LECHFORD, Thomas (-1648?, 1645?) & Elizabeth   ?  , m/2 Samuel WILBUR 1645, m/3 Henry BISHOP 1657; b 1645?; Boston

2.  Charles Henry Pope.  1900.  The Pioneers of Massachusetts. C.H. Pope, Boston, MA (republ. 1965/98 by Genealogy Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-504; online at Ancestry.com):
p. 282 LECHFORD,

Thomas, gent., Clements' (sic) Inn, London, practiser at law, arrived at Boston 27 (4) 1638.  Kept careful record of papers drawn by or executed before him until his ret. to Eng., Aug. 3, 1641.  This Note Book, published by the American Antiquarian Society in 1885, is a mine of wealth to students of the colonial period.  At his suggestion pubic record of deeds and wills was begun in Boston.  He was not in accord with the prevalent ideas of church and state here, and after returning to Eng. he published in 1642 "Plain Dealing: or Newes from New England," a book full of criticism of the colonial governments.  His wife Elizabeth was here with him; after his death she m. Samuel Wilbore.  She was adm. chh. Nov 19, 1645.

Inv. of Lechford's est. was filed in B. 3 (3) 1648, and admin. gr. to S.W.  After Mr. Wilbore's death she m. Henry Bishop, and d. about 1655.  [Reg. XXX, 201.] [Mass. Hist. Coll. 3-3.]

"Clement's Inn" is not Thomas's birthplace.  It's one of the Inns of Chancery where he, as a solicitor, could live and practice.  We don't know where he was born, beyond the fact that it was almost certainly somewhere in England.  Henry BISHOP died in 1664, not 1655.

3a.  Edward Everett Hale, Jr., et al., eds.  1885.__Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, In Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to Jul 29, 1641.  Publ. by The Antiquarian Society; Printed by John Wilson & Son, University Press, Cambridge, MA (online at GoogleBooks.com). 

3b.  J. H. Trumbull.  1885.  "A Sketch Of The Life of Thomas Lechford."  Pp. vii-xxviii in Edward Everett Hale, Jr., et al., eds., Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford…  Publ. by The Antiquarian Society; Printed by John Wilson & Son, University Press, Cambridge, MA (online at GoogleBooks.com).
p. xiv ...From succeeding pages of his Note-book we gather some — but scanty and unsatisfactory — knowledge of his domestic relations.  His wife is mentioned in 1639 and afterwards; and, as no evidence has been discovered of his marriage on this side of the water, we infer that she accompanied him from England; but he nowhere gives any information of her family, nor even introduces her Christian name...

4.  Thomas Lechford.  1642.  Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England... A short view of New-Englands present government, both ecclesiasticall and civil, compared with the anciently-received and established government of England, in some materiall points; fit for the gravest consideration in these times.  Printed by W.E. & I.G. for N. Butter, London. [plus later editions]

5.  Angela Fernandez.  2007(?)  "Record-Keeping and Other Troublemaking: Thomas Lechford and Law Reform in Colonial Massachusetts." Law and History Review 23(1): no pagination (online at the web site of the Baldy Center, SUNY at Buffalo Law School):  "Lechford was America's first practicing lawyer, and he was present at a foundational moment in America's early legal history."

6.  Thomas Lechford, 1590-1644 (online in the "Law Museum" at www.duhaime.org).

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