Thomas Thompson (1610 - 1655)

Born 1610 in Little Preston, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Welles) Howkins — married 14 Apr 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1655 at about age 45 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Thomas Thompson, the son of John Thompson and Beatrice Detton, lived in Farmington, Colony of Connecticut and was a prominent citizen. On April 14, 1646 at Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, he married, Ann Welles, daughter of Gov. Thomas & Alice (Tomes) Welles. His widow married Anthony Hawkins.

A Digest of the Early Conn. Probate Records, Manwaring, p. 155-6 (p. 95-6 in original records): Thompson, Thomas, Farmington. Invt. 549-05-05 taken Dec. 5, 1655 by Thomas Judd and John Harte. Will dated April, 1654: "I Thomas Thompson, being in prfect health and memory, doe ordaine this my Last will and Testament as followeth: Imprmis. I give unto my bloved wife, whom I make my executrix, the one halfe of all my Land in ffarmngton Bounds, & the one halfe of all my howsing, Barnes & orcharding there uppon during her natural Life, and all my Goods &..."

Sources

• Starr, Frank. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford, Conn., 1915) Vol. 1, Page 205-10
• Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012)

• Name: Thomas Thomson
• Year: 1635
• Age: 18
• Estimated Birth Year: abt 1617
• Place: New England
• Source Publication Code: 1219.4

• COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1607-1660. 1988. 600p.
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)

• Name: Thomas Thompson
• Gender: Male
• Marriage: 14 Apr 1646 New England, United States
• Spouse's Name: Ann Welles
• Death Year: 1655

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55.

• Name: Thomas Thomson [Thomas Thompson, Tomson]
• Death: 25 Apr 1655 Farmington

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.602
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, page 656
• Welles, Lemuel A., The English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1926) Vol. 80, reprint Page 26