Thomas Rawlings was born after 1583. He took the oath of freeman on 18 May 1631. He signed a will on 12 Mar 1659/60 and died on 15 Mar 1659/60 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. 

During his residence in Scituate he was a man of note and usefulness, having been appointed by the General Court a member of the Grand Jury of the Colony in 1641, 1642, and 1646; he was also a surveyor of Scituate, 1642, 1644, and one of the Town Committee in 1643; he was also one of the Deputies from Scituate at the special session of the General Court held at Plymouth, Sept. 27, 1642, for the purpose of providing forces against the Indians, for an offensive and defensive war, at which session "Miles Standish was appointed Captain of the forces to be raised; Mr. Thomas Prence to be his counsel, and to advise in the wars; William Palmer, leftenant, and Peregrine White, auncient bearer.

Oct. 10, 1643, he was again a delegate to the General Court, convened on the occasion of the insurrection of the Indians against the Dutch and English.

His first wife, Mary, died just prior to his removal, having, according to Roxbury Church Records, "lived a godly life." His second wife, Emma, died Dec. 27, 1655, and he married May 2, 1656, Sarah, widow of David Mattocks, of Roxbury.(+)

Mr. Rawlins died in Boston, Mar. 15, 1660. His will, dated Mar. 12, 1660, conveyed property to his wife Sarah; and to his son Thomas, a house in Boston, provided he live there with his mother as heretofore; to his son Nathaniel, a farm in Scituate, etc. It is added in the record of probate that "Thomas Rawlins, ye sonne, declared that knowing his father to have left his mother-in-law, Sarah, too little, he was free and willing, and did give her nine pounds more," etc.

He was married to Mary about 1618.

Mary was born about 1600. She died about 1639 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Children were:

i. Mary Rawlins was born about 1619. She died in Aug 1651 in Plymouth Colony.
ii. Joanna Rawlings.
iii. Nathaniel Rawlins was born about 1626. He was baptized on 16 Sep 1627 in Little Baddow, co. Essex, England. He died on 23 Dec 1662 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
iv. John Rawlins was born about 1628.
v. Thomas Rawlins was born about 1629. He was baptized on 7 Jun 1629 in Little Baddow, co. Essex, England. He signed a will on 12 Dec 1681. He died about 1693 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts.