Thomas Post (bef. 1631 - 1701)

Born before 1 Nov 1631 in Otham, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Andrews) Post — married about Jan 1657 in Saybrook, Connecticut [uncertain]

Husband of Rebecca (Bruen) Post — married 2 Sep 1663 in Norwich, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1701 after age 69 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut

Biography

Thomas Post immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Thomas Post, son of Stephen and Ellen Post, was baptized 01 Nov 1631 in Kent, England. ^[1]

Thomas and his brother John were "Accepted to be made free, according to order of the [Colony] court" 8 Oct 1663.^[2] John and Thomas, sons of Stephen Post, were among the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut. ^[3] Thomas married Mary Andrews in January, 1656, she died at Norwich in March, 1661, and was buried in a corner of her husband's home-lot. She left an infant daughter, Sarah, afterward the wife of Thomas Vincent. Thomas married, 2d, Rebecca Bruen, daughter of Obadiah Bruen of New London, Sept. 2, 1663. He died in 1701, leaving two sons, Obadiah and Joseph, and two daughters, Mary and Hannah. Obadiah died in 1703, without issue. The daughters died at the age of 70 and upward, Joseph, born in 1681, married Mary Post of Saybrook, and died in 1749, leaving an only son, Joseph, and seven daughters.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7LY-FQD : 30 December 2014), Stephen Post in entry for Thomas Post, 01 Nov 1631; citing Kent, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,736,929.
2. ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665. p. 412 Google Books
3. ↑ The Post family by Post, Marie Caroline, 1845-1926, pg 56, https://archive.org/stream/postfamily00post/postfamily00post_djvu.txt Publication date 1905
4. ↑ History of Norwich, Connecticut: from its possession by the Indians, to the year 1866 by Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, 1795-1869 https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorwich1866caul/historyofnorwich1866caul_djvu.txt

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See also

• Steve Carter, "English Ancestry of Stephen^1 Post of Saybrook, Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160 (2006):30-34; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2021).

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 497-500 for article "Stephen Post"; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2021).

• Robert Charles Anderson, "The Andrews Sisters: Widow Catherine and her sisters," The American Genealogist 64 (1989):89 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2021). Citing "Edna M. Rogers ... TAG 16:160" [but see especially 16:226-7], Anderson comments that Rogers suggests Thomas Post's wife, Mary Andrews, may have been a sister of Christian Andrews.

Acknowledgment

• This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.