Windmuller-Heynen Family Tree

Ancestors of Timothy Charles Zimmerman on familytreemaker: William
Thorne, of Dorsetshire, England, the pioneer ancestor of the family,
was made freeman at Lynn, Massachusetts, May 2, 1638, and in the
same year had tracts of thirty and ten acres of land apportioned
to him. Hon. William Kieft, the Dutch governor of Long Island, October
19, 1645, granted to William Thorne and seventeen others the original
patent of Flushing, Long Island. In 1657 he was one of the proprietors
of Jamaica, Long Island. His children were William, John, Joseph,
Samuel and Susannah. He was buried in the burying ground of the Friends
at Flushing, Long Island. Nothing is known of the wife of William
Thorne except that her name was Sarah.

William Thorne was born about 1617 in England. He FREEMAN on 2 May
1638 in Massachusetts Bay Colony. He died between 1657 and 1664 in
Jamaica, Queens, NY. He REMONSTRANCE on 27 Dec 1657 in Flushing,
Long Island, NY. Another of the combination father and son signers
of the Remonstrance was the Thorne family; William Sr. and William
Jr. Like so many of his friends and neighbors William Thorne Sr.
followed the pathway to Flushing in order to escape the religious
intolerances of his earlier New England associations.

The first New England reference to William Thorne is that of his
admittance as a freeman to Lynn, Massachusetts on Ma