Thomas
Huntington
Born about in Norwich, Norfolk, England
Ancestors 
Son of Simon Huntington Sr
and Margaret (Barrett) Stoughton
Husband of
Hannah (Crane) Ward
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Huntington
Died about
at about age 59
in Newark, Essex, New Jersey
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Thomas Huntington was a Newark Founder
Biography
Thomas Huntington immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Thomas was born about 1626 in England to Simon Huntington.[1] Thomas came with his brothers, Simon and Christopher and their parents. Their father, also named Simon, died at sea of smallpox during transport to North America.[2][3]
Thomas Huntington was a freeman of Connecticut in 1657[4] and married Hannah Crane, daughter of Jasper Crane.[5] about 1660. In his will, Jasper Crane called his daughter Hannah, the "wife of Thomas Huntington," and Crane made his "son-in-law Thomas Huntington" an executor.[6]
He married Hannah, daughter of Jasper Crane and they had the following children:[7] Samuel and Hannah.
Thomas signed the Fundamental Agreements and was a founder of Newark, New Jersey.[8]
He died after 1684, his wife Hannah remarried John Ward Sr.
Thomas and Hannah (Crane) had children : Samuel and Hannah. Samuel was born 1667 died 1708. The will dated Nov. 11, 1704, names children, Thomas, who had wife Susanna ; Simon born 1686 had wife Thankful, died in Morris county, perhaps at Whippany, July 17, 1770, and Hannah. The will of Simon mentions a brother Samuel.[9]
Sources
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995), 1044-1046 (Simon Huntington), especially 1045; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ "Citing RchR 79," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995), 1044-1046 (Simon Huntington), especially 1044; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Roxbury Land and Church Records, as A Report of the Record Commissioners vol. 6, second edition (Boston : Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1884), 79; digital images, InternetArchive.
- ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond, Hoadly, Charles J., The public records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, Page 297. https://archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc001conn#page/296/mode/2up
- ↑ Citing "NJArch 21:45, 23:115," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995), 1044-1046 (Simon Huntington), especially 1045; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "NJArch 21:45, 23:115," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995), 1044-1046 (Simon Huntington), especially 1045; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Shaw, William H. History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Volume 1, Page 362. https://archive.org/stream/historyofessexh01shaw#page/362/mode/2up
- ↑ A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey, Volume 1, Page 74. https://archive.org/stream/ahistorycitynew04cogoog#page/n96/mode/2up/search/Ward
- ↑ Rockaway records of Morris county, N.J., families. Page; 137, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t6640dp6h&view=1up&seq=147&skin=2021
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William Swaine, of Whethersfield, Gt. (2) Hannah, daughter of Jasper Crane, merchant, who moved from New Haven, Ct., to Banford, Ct., 1652. and came with the Banford Colony to Newark in 1666. Thomas was born in England about 1626,died at Newark 1687, Rockaway records of Morris County, N. J., families : cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/459126-rockaway-records-of-morris-county-n-j-families-cemetery-records-church-history-military-records-local-history-genealogies-of-old-families-nearly-20-000-data?viewer=1&offset=0#page=141&viewer=picture&o=ocr&n=0&q=Losey
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