Thomas Bloomfield (1617 - 1684)

Born 1617 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Withers) Bloomfield — married 1640 (to 1684) in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Jun 1684 at about age 67 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, Colonial America

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Biography

Colonel Thomas Bloomfield was born in 1615 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.^[1]

He arrived in 1638 Newburyport, Massachusetts^[2] He married Mary Withers in 1640 at Newburyport.

In 1684, he was living at the Out Plantation in Essex County, New Jersey.

Residence, 1685, Out Plantation, Essex County, NJ.

He was married in 1640 to Mary who was born in England. They moved to Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1665 and received a patent on a large acreage their in 1669. In 1670 he was a Freeholder and in 1673 he and Jonathan Dunham were elected Representatives to the General Assembly for Woodbridge. He was reelected with Samuel Dennis in 1675. He died in 1685. There were 9 children, all born at Newburyport.

"Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc." Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.

Page: 42 "Thomas Blomfield Bloomfield Blumfield; 10 Jun 1684; Woodbridge will of. Wife Mary; children--John (eldest son), Ezekiel (youngest), Nathaniel; grandsons--Timothy, son of Ezekiel; Thomas, son of John. House and lot in Woodbridge, homelot meadow on Papiack Creek, land at Langster's Plains, lot of Raraton meadows, personal property. Executors--the wife and son Nathaniel. Witness--Samuel Moore. Proved 05 Mar 1685-6. Middlesex Wills, and N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 113" "05 Mar 1687-8 Bond of his widow Mary and of Nathaniel Blumfield, as administrators of the estate of. Benjamin Griffith, of Amboy Perth, merchant, fellow bondsman." ^[3]

He died at the age of 67, 10 June 1684 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey. He is buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Death: Age: 67, 10 JUN 1684, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Burial:, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/u/n/Paul-W-Dunham/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0283.html Notes Mary Withers as his wife and Mary their only child.
2. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
3. ↑ https://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Genealogy/Needham/d0003/I1207.html
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17006928

• New England Marriages Prior To 1700"

Clarence A. Torrey, (as found on NEHGS CD rom."BLOOMFIELD, Thomas (-1686) & Mary _____; by 1642; Newbury/ Woodbridge, NJ"

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/u/n/Paul-W-Dunham/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0283.html Notes Mary Withers as his wife and Mary their only child.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17006928

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/u/n/Paul-W-Dunham/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0283.html

• Monnette, Orra Jean. First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge; Olde East New Jersey part 4. Pg 587.Leroy Carman press, CA, 1931

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Acknowledgments

Walker-Danielson-Bateman-Rogers Genealogy http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=batemanp&id=I2774