Thomas Weston (1584 – c.1647) was a London merchant who first became involved with the Leiden Separatists who settled Plymouth colony in 1620 and became known as the Pilgrims.
He was admitted to the Ironmongers Company of London in 1609[1][2] In 1615, he persuaded Edward Pickering to become his agent in Holland and together they began to import a variety of nonconformist religious tracts that were seditious.
He and some of his associate Merchant Adventurers had been brought before the Privy Council and ordered to cease unlimited trade in the Netherlands.
Weston became involved with the Leiden Separatists who left England aboard the Mayflower and settled Plymouth colony in 1620.
As agent for the merchant adventurers' investment in the Mayflower voyage, Weston played an instrumental part in the incident of the More children of Shropshire, who had been taken from their mother's home in 1616 in a dispute centering on her supposed adultery.
[1][2] Child of Thomas and Elizabeth Weston: In early 1622, he began the colony of Wessagusset (Weymouth) which failed by March 1623.
[4][1][2] On March 1, 1622, Weston was to deliver a cannon to the Council of New England but sold it instead to a Turkish pirate and pocketed the money.