ince he was listed as one of the proprietors of Littleworth in April 1695¹, he was doubtless of age then and so born as early as 1674. Unless he was much younger than his wife, he was born still earlier; for he married Anne Hopkins, daughter of his father’s last wife²; and we judge she was born perhaps about 1667, since in the distribution of her grandfather’s estate, she is named before her brother, Ichabod, and so probably the older of the two, and he was born in 1669³. On 11 May 1695 Suscaneman and Werah, Indians, confirmed the ownership of Littleworth Plantation to John Davis, George Downing, Edward Banbury, and Thomas and William Kirby, sons of Richard Kirby deceased. In so doing they gave the boundaries of Littleworth as being: On the north and east; Musketo Cove. On the south; Isaac Doughty’s land. On the west; Hempstead Harbour⁴.

Thomas was, like his father, a great buyer of land, and the town records from 1705 to 1720 list a number of parcels of land acquired by him. He and Anne were alive as late as 25 March 1755, on which date they signed a deed⁵.

1. Oyster Bay Town Records. 2:266
2. Bunker: L.I. Genealogies, p. 229
3. Gorton Genealogy, p. 168
4. Oyster Bay Town Records 2:11-12
5. Ibid., 6:306

[Bertha W. Clark, "Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Dartmouth and Oyster Bay", 1955]

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