Arrived 10 May 1637 on the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth, England. Hebecame a freeman on May 10, 1643 and attended a meeting inDedham in Nov.1644 to provide some means of education for theyouth. He received a grant of land in Dedham on Feb 16 1643. Theestate was partly joined in Medfield,set off from Dedham in1651. Family settled in adjoining towns of Trentham andMedfield, except Joseph who is supposed to have gone to Jamaica,Long Island. She died May 9 1662, He died Nov. 7,1685.John Thurston, aged 36, and wife Margaret, aged 32, fromWrentham, England, sailed for New England in the ship "MaryAnne," in 1637. Two children came from England with them. Thefamily settled at Dedham, but came to Medfield among the first,and had a house here in 1652. The homestead was near that nowowned by James Hewins, with a field opposite. He very earlyowned land in what is now Norfolk or Wrentham, as in 1655, hehad leave to make a bridge over Stop River "from his meadow inDedham bounds." This was no doubt the old bridge on the roadfrom Medfield to Wrentham: it bore the name of Thurston'sBridge for years afterward. He frequently served in townoffices: in 1652, he was on the committee for laying out thenecessary highways; in 1658, he was to make the seats about thetable in the meeting-house; in 1661, he was to assist in thedelicate and important work of seating persons in themeeting-house; in 1675, he was engaged to keep a school for 10shillings a week, or 7 shillings, if paid in money. He alsoserved on the board of selectmen eight years. He died in 1685,his wife having died in 1662.