1. Joseph was made freeman 1654. He owned land granted him by town of Windsor, in 1643, 12 rods, 6 ft wide, bordered South and East by Matthew Allyn, North by Joseph Loomis Sr., West by John Porter's lot. In 1660 he purchased land on the East side of the Conn. river, which he divided 1686 to sons Joseph and John.
2. From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," by James Savage, Vol. 3, p. 112: LOOMIS, JOSEPH, Windsor, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. m. 17 Sept 1646, Sarah Hill, had Sarah, b. 22 July 1647, d. young; Joseph, 15 July 1649; John, 1 Oct. 1631; Mary, 3 Aug. 1653. His w. d. 23 of the same mo. and by sec. w. Mary Chauncy, m. 28 Ju ne 1659, had Sarah, again, 1 Apr. 1660, d. young; Hannah, 2 Feb. 1662; Matthew, 4 Nov. 1664; Isaac, 10 July 1666; Stephen,1 Sept. 1668; James, 31 Oct. 1669; Nathaniel, 8 Aug. 1673; and [p. 113] Isaac, 28 Oct. 1677; was freem. 1654, and d. 26 Jun e 1687, when nine of the ch. were alive.
3. From "History of Ancient Windsor," Vol. II, by Henry R. Stiles, p.433: He [was freeman 1654] contributed £1, 0s, 3d to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of Other Colonies, 1676; owned ld. gr. by town of W., 1643, 12 rds 6 ft. wide, bord. S. and E. by Matt. Allyn, N. by Jos. Loomis, Sr. W. by John Porter's lot [1660, purchas ed land on E. side Conn. River, which he div. 1686, to sons Joseph and John]; he d. 26 June, 1687. Ch. (b. W.; bp. O.C.R.)
4. On May 3, 1643, Joseph had granted him for the Plantation four acres of land, The land was granted by town of Windsor, 1643, 12 rods, 6 ft. wide, bordered south & east by Matthew Allyn, north by Joseph Loomis, Sr., west by John Porter's lot . In Vol. I, of lands, in Office of Sec'y of Conn., this entry occurs: Joseph Lumas Jr. owner of land before 1653 at Windsor, Conn. In 1660 by purchase, he acquired land on the east side of the Conn. River. In 1686 he conveyed a part of this land to his son Joseph and a part to his son John. He was a member of Windsor Troop of horse. In King Phillip's war, 1675-76, and was granted 6s 8d "on war account." He was a freeman in 1654, and d. Jun3 26, 1687. (Source: Sue Loomis and James Holcombe, Jr.)
5. ABSTRACT OF ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE OF JOSEPH LOOMIS, SEN., WINDSOR Found in original Records, Vol. IV, p. 261, and in Manwaring's Printed Digest, Vol. I, p. 332.
"Loomis, Joseph, sen., Windsor. died 26 June, 1687. Invt. ?281-14-08. Taken 12 July, 1687, by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott, John Loomis. The children: Joseph age 38 y., John 36, Mary 34, Hannah 25, Matthew 23, Stephen 20, James 17, Nathaniel 14, Isaac 9 yrs. of age.
Court Record, p. 132--1st Sept. 1687: Invt. exhibited,
Page 134, 26 Oct. 1687: An invt. of the Estate of Joseph Loomis, formerly exhibited in court, was now considered, & this Court appoynt Joseph his son and Matthew Loomis Adms. Order to Dist. and appoint John Loomis & John Moore distributors.
Page 6,--(Vol. VIII.) 6 Feb. 1709-10: Joseph Loomis, son of Joseph Loomis Sen., formerly of Windsor, Dec'd in Court shows that he and his Brother Matthew Loomis, now Dec'd have paid the Debts and delivered the Portions of the Estate to his Brothers and Sisters, and is granted a Quietus Est."
Sarah, was the eldest dau. of William & Phillis (dau. of Richard & Sarah [Osborne] Lyman, who emigrated from High Onger, Co. Essex, England, in 1631) Co. Essex, Eng. 1631) Hill, of Windsor.
14. Mary Loomis
Mary was named in the letters of administration of her father's estate & inventory of possessions to be divided among his children.
From "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America, by Elisha S. Loomis, 1908: (Re: Joseph Loomis): "If he was descended from, or related to, Helias Lumhals, whose land grant appears on page 78 herein, then possibly his reason for doing so was well-founded. Moreover, his eldest son, Joseph, m. 2ndly, Mary Chauncey, and this grant, on page 78 , was a quit claim to Henry Chauncey and others, of Norwich, so that it appears as if the Loomises and the Chaunceys were somehow related--at least, acquainted. This being granted, Mary Chauncey, Joseph's 2nd wife, was very probably a descendant of one of these Chaunceys mentioned in the above land grant, and therefore a distant relative, a "cousin" some degrees removed, of Joseph Loomis. There being no conclusive evidence, we leave the reader to form what opinion he may both as to the spelling of the name and the relationship between Joseph Loomis and Mary Chauncey."
p. 128: Her parentage is not known. The History of the Treman Family in America, p. 1688, places her as the dau. of Pres. Charles Chauncey of Harvard, but this is doubted--at least, no conclusive evidence has ever been found. Neither does Judith Chauncey, spinster, the half-sister of Pres. Charles, mention her in her will dated Dec., 1657, proven March 1, 1657-8 (see Waters' Gleanings, Vol. 1, pp. 107-8), wherein she mentions many of her "cousins" and other relatives. Neither does the "Pedigree of the Family of Chauncey," compiled by Stephen Tucker, Esq., Somerset Herald in Ordinary, 1884, name a Mary which could possibly have been Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis.
Who was the second wife of Joseph Loomis, Jr.?
The genealogies of the Allgar & White familes list the second wife of Joseph as Mary Sherwood. This topic was discussed in an article inthe NEHG Rregister 90:383 (1936). The article reveals the discovery of new information from Matthew Grant that lists the marriage record of Joseph Loomis and Mary Sharwood of June 28, 1659. Mary Sherwood, daughter of Thomas, had brothers Stephen, Isaac, and Matthew. Joseph and Mary Loomis had sons of the same names.
Elisha S. Loomis, "The Second Wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor Conn.", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 92:203 (1938).
THE SECOND WIFE OF JOSEPH LOOMIS OF WINDSOR, CONN.--For many years it has been stated that the second wife of Joseph Loomis (son of Joseph and Mary (White) Loomis) was Mary Chauncey, but the contributor never found any documentary proof of this statement.
Careful search, however, shows that Joseph Loomis married 28 June 1659 Mary Sherwood, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," 1903, p. 39.)
Thomas Sherwood married secondly, about 1638, Mary Fitch, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Reeve) Fitch, by whom he had six children, Mary, Ruth, Stephen, Matthew, Abigail, and Isaac. ("Daniel L. Sherwood and His Paternal Ancestors," 1929; also "History of the Fitch Family," 1930, vol. 1.)
Mary Sherwood, the oldest of this group of six children, was born about 1639 and so was twenty years of age at the time of her marriage to Joseph Loomis. The names of her three brothers, Stephen Matthew, and Isaac were given to three of her sons.
Mary (Fitch) Sherwood married secondly, in 1658, John Banks. In her will she mentions her children, Mathew, Mary, Ruth and Isaac Sherwood, and "daughter" Hannah Lumis.
As Mary (Fitch) (Sherwood) Banks had no daughter Hannah Loomis through marriage, it is safe to say that "granddaughter" was meant for "daughter," thereby proving the identity of the second wife of Joseph Loomis.
Cleveland, Ohio Elisha S. Loomis.She was admitted to the Windsor church in Dec. 1660.
21. Nathaniel Loomis
Removed to E. Windsor in 1700, and d. 1730. No issue is noted.
Some sources have identified Nathaniel's spouse as Elizabeth Moore, daughter of John Moore and Abigail Pinney. Documented records show that Elizabeth Moore, born 1638, married the Nathaniel Loomis born 1636.
Torrey's Marriages lists the name Elizabeth as doubtful. The date of the marriage is: by 1701?; no children mentioned in the record.
3. Sarah Loomis
Name unknown in Stiles "Ancient Windsor."
Sarah Loomis, b. 1617, d. Aug. 1684. On 28 Sept. 1640 she m. Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, Conn., who came to America in the "Lion," arrived at Boston, Mass. 16 Sept. 1633. They had 8 children. Some of their descendants were ministers, doctors and professors. Some m. into the fol. families: Wolcott, Ellsworth, Stanley, Bissell, Rockwell, Church, White, Wadsworth, Burnham, Kellogg, Colton, Bigelow, Butler, Cone, Skinner, Smith, Buel, etc.
Frederick Law Olmsted, b. 26 April 1822, s. of John Olmsted and Charlotte (Law) Olmsted, direct descendant of Sarah, dau. of original Joseph Loomis, m. Mrs. Mary (Perkins) Olmsted. A.M. Harvard, 1864; Amherst, 1867. Frederick Law Olmsted was a genius, a landscape artist. Among others, he landscaped the campuses of Amherst, West Point, Trinity, George Washington and Stanford Colleges; also New York's Central Park and about forty other public parks. He landscaped the setting of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, Chicago, Illinois, entire suburbs and private estates, including the huge wooded estate, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina of George W. Vanderbilt which led to the founding of the U.S. Forest Service.
Notes from Military Service event: In 1658, Major John Mason, Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of Connecticut Colony, organized a troop of horse of thirty-seven members, including Nicholas Olmstead of Hartford
August 14th, 1673, with the prospect of a war with the Dutch, the Court ordered that the respective Troops in the colony, with "500 Dragoones, be prepared and fitted for service forthwith." In case of sending a force out of the country, the following officers were appointed: HARTFORD County, Benj. Newbery, Capt.; Nich. Olmstead, Lieut.; John Wadsworth, Ensign. NEW LONDON, James Avery, Capt.; Thos. Tracy, Lieut.; John Denison, Ensign. NEW HAVEN, Robert Treat, Capt.; Thos. Munson, Lieut.; Saml. Newton, Ensign. FAIRFIELD, Mr. Thos. Fitch, Capt.; Jehu Burr, Lieut.; Matthew Sherwood, Ensign. The following November Major Talcott was appointed Commander-in-chief of all the forces; Major Robert Treat, second in command; Thos. Bull superseded Capt. Newbury; Wm. Curtice was appointed instead of Mr. Fitch; Capt. Nash succeeded Major Treat; and Thos. Trowbridge was made Commissary.
Capt. Nicholas Olmsted/Olmstead, served in the Pequot War in 1637, Captain (King Philip's War) 1675, a Townsman of Northside Hartford for 9 years between 1653 and 1683. He was Corporal of the Hartford Troop of Horse in 1658, Freeman and Rate Maker in 1669, and Deputy to the General Court in 1672 and 1673.
From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England., James Savage, p.312: OLMSTEAD, *NICHOLAS, Hartford, br. of the preced. b. in Eng. serv. 1637 in the Pequot war, aft. sowing his wild oats, bec. a good citizen, freem. 1669, ens. and rep. 1672 and 3, capt. in 1675, and d. 31 Aug. 1684. He had early m. bef. his f.'s will of 28 Sept. 1640, a d. of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, had Sarah; Mary or Mabel, b. 20 Nov. 1646; Rebecca, Mar. 1648; John, 3 Feb. 1650; and left s. Joseph, Samuel, and Thomas, beside ds. Sarah Gates, prob. w. of George, m. early in 1662; Mabel Butler; and Rebecca Bigelow.
From: "Excerpts of Loomis Genealogy" (http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/7/NRoots/Genealogies/Loomis.htm): Capt. Nicholas, d. Aug. 1684, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) Olmsted of Hartford, who came in the Lion, arriving at Boston, Sept. 16th, 1633. He was Capt. in the Pequot war, 1675. The Olmsted's old family seat in Fairsted, Co. Essex, Eng., still exists. James Olmsted, "first settler," Hartford, Conn., was bapt. at Great Leighs (or Lees Magna), Co. Essex, Eng., Dec. 4, 1580 (parish register). The name of his wife was Joyce Cornish, m. at Great Leighs, Oct. 26, 1605, bur. Eng. Apr. 21, 1621. James was the son of James, b. 1550, d. Dec. 2, 1595, who m. Aug. 12, 1676, Jane Bristow, he being son of Thomas, b. 1521, who was son of James, b. 1496, the son of John, b. 1470, and Alice Hankley, b. 1473, d. 1533. See Frederick Law Olmstead (sen.) in his Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in Eng., chap. LII.
A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006), (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, by Charles W. Manwaring, R. S. Peck & Co. Printers, Hartford, CT, 1904.). Page 198-9-200.
Olmsted, Capt, Nicholas, Hartford. Died 31 August, 1684. Invt. £421-08-00. Taken by Caleb Stanly, John Marsh. Will dated 20th August, 1683.
I Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford do make this my last Will & Testament : I give to my wife £5 a year during her Widowhood, and £4 a year if she marry, during her natural life, to be paid her yearly by my sons, Samuel 40 Shillings and Joseph 40 Shillings and Thomas 20 Shillings. I give to my son Samuel Olmsted my Dwelling house in Hartford after my decease, only the Use of some part of it to his Mother. I give unto my son Samuel 1-2 of my Barne, and all that part of my Homelott not given to my son Thomas. I give the other half of the Barne to my son Thomas, and I give my Barn Yard equally to my sons Samuel & my son Thomas, with my Well in the same. I give to my son Thomas that part of my Homelott next Mr, Haynes' and Mr. Hooker's Homelott, to be divided from my son Samuel's part of my Homelott as followeth: From the Barne to the Highway to be divided by the fence that fenceth in the Barn yard, and above the Barn from the middle of the Barn Floor up to Jeremy Addams's Homelott. The remainder of my Homelott I give to my son Samuel, and to his heirs, forever. I give unto my son Thomas my Meadow lott in the Long Meadow lying between Deacon Butler's and Lt. Joseph Wadsworth's Land. I give unto my son Thomas my Upland Lott in the West Division in Hartford. I give unto my son Joseph Olmsted & his heirs all that Division of Upland, & the Swamp Land belonging to the same, upon which he hath built his house on the east side of the Great River. I give unto my son
Joseph all my Meadow Land on the east side of the Great River, he paying 20 Shillings unto his sister Gates, and 40 Shillings per Annum to his Mother. I give my Farme of Land lying in the Woods, adjoining to Jeremy Addams's land in the Road to New London, unto my son Samuel and my son Thomas, to be equally divided between them. I give to my daughter Sarah Gates 20 Shillings. I give all my Right & Title to that Land purchased of Joshua, son of Uncas, by the town of Hartford, on the East side the Great River, to my son Samuel Butler and my daughter Rebeckah Bigelow and my daughter Mabel Butler, to be equally divided between them. I give to my son Samuel, my son Joseph and my son Thomas all my Right in a parcell of Land given by Joshua, son of Uncas, in his last Will, to be divided amongst several persons in Hartford. I give to my daughter Bigelow 40 Shillings. I make my son Thomas Olmsted my sole Executor, and appoint Mr. William Pitkin and Caleb Standly Overseers.
Witness: Caleb Standly, nicholas olmsted.
Timothy Cowles.Court Record, Page 95\emdash 25 November, 1684: Will & Invt. Exhibited.
From "Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America," by H.K. Olmsted, 1912: Nicholas Olmsted (4), pg. 12
Nicholas Olmsted came to Boston and to Hartford with his father and the family. Soon after the settlement of Hartford, it was evident that the Indians were "jealous" and seemed determined upon the destruction of the infant town, and it became a question, either to abandon the country, or conquer the foe.
"On the first of May, 1637, just eighteen months after the settlement was begun, and when there were only eight hundred souls in the Colony, the Court met and resolved upon an offensive was against the Pequots. On the 9th of May ninety men were drafted and ready for the expedition".
"They embarked in three little floats that were to convey them down the river, and on the 15th were at the mouth of the river, whence 20 men were sent back to guard their own defenceless homes. On the morning of May 28th the little army, consisting of seventy-seven Englishmen and a party of Narragansett and Mohegan Indians, was before the fort of the Pequots at Mystic. Then began the 'direful fight' in which, in one hour, 600 Indians were slain and their power broken forever".
"In three days the little army was at home again with a loss of two killed and twenty wounded. The Colony had peace for nearly forty years, when King Philip's war began."
Nicholas served in the Pequot War under Captain Mason and is mentioned by him in his account of the burning of the Indian fort: "Lieutenant Thomas Bull and Nicholas Olmsted beholding, came up; and when it was thoroughly kindled, the Indians ran about as most dreadfully amazed." - Bodge's Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 13. Both Nicholas and Richard Olmsted his cousin, "received grants of land for services in the Pequot War." Id., p. 466.
Nicholas Olmsted was chosen surveyor of highways in 1646; Townsman for the North side 9 years between 1653 and 1683; Corporal in the Hartford Troop of Horse, 1658; freeman and list and rate maker, 1669; deputy to the General Court in 1672 and 1673. August 14, 1673, on a great appearance of danger from the Dutch, troops were raised in the Colony, 160 from Hartford County, and Nicholas Olmsted was appointed Lieut. King Philip's war began June 20, 1675. In July, 1675, he was sent in command of the troops to New London and Huntington on the occasion of an Indian alarm. On August 26, 1675, he was made a Captain of the troop.From the London Plantation to the Pequot War 1628-1637
Source: http://glwarner.narrowgate.net/genealogy/Pequot.War.html
In 1628, Mr. John Endicott was commissioned to begin a colony at Massachusetts Bay. In 1629, his group was joined by 300 men, 80 women, and 26 children, sailing for London's Plantation in the "George Bonaventure", the "Talbot", and the "Lion's Whelp". These passengers, paying 5 pounds apiece for passage, were joined by 140 head of cattle and 40 sheep.
Among the possessions they brought were mill stones, stones for peaches, plums, filberts, and cherries; "kernells" of pear, apple, quince and pomegranates; seeds of liquorice, woad, hemp, flax and madder; roots of potatoes and hops; utensils of pewter, brass, copper, and leather; hogsheads of wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans, peas, and "bieffe"; thousands of bread; hundreds of cheese, and codfish; gallons of olive oil, and Spanish wine; tons of water and beer; thousands of billets of wood besides chalk, brick, and "chauldrens of sea coales" to be used as ballast.
Weaponry included halberts, muskets, fowling pieces, full muskets, bandoleers with bullet bags, horn flasks for powder, "cosletts", pikes and half pikes, barrels of powder and shot, eight pieces of land ordnance for the fort, whole culverings, demiculverings, sackers and drakes, great shot, drums, and a sword and belt for each of the three hundred men.
Scores of other ships soon followed, most notably, the Winthrop Fleet.
In May of 1635, Watertown petitioned the Massachusetts Bay Company for leave to remove itself from their current arrangement and become part of Connecticut. They argued that there was insufficient land in Massachusetts Bay Colony for their livestock, and that their friends from England did not have room to join them. They also gave the convincing and deciding argument, that the land in Connecticut, must be settled by Englishmen, or it would become Dutch land. The General Court agreed that the residents of Watertown could remove themselves from their present locale, so long as they remained with the jurisdiction of the Court.
In truth, many of the laws being imposed by the colony were intolerable to the free spirits of our Ancestors. Any who had taken the Freeman's Oath, were required to remain six months within the colony, or risk imprisonment. Furthermore, no man was allowed to take a bushel of corn, without consent of the governor, further than the jurisdiction of the court. (An eight shilling penalty would be applied). The Court also ordered that the churches should agree upon one interpretation of the Scriptures and remain as one "for the preservation of uniformity." This law actually forbade citizenship of anyone who was the member of a church which was founded without the blessing and approval of its neighboring churches.
Certain members of Watertown joined with new arrivals from England, and pledged to the "Lords of Connecticut" that they would plant a new settlement, in an area gathered together as "newTowne" in Connecticut, soon renamed "Hartford Towne" in 1636. The first law they passed forbade the trading of any firearms to the Indians. The town they vacated became known as Wethersfield shortly thereafter.
In 1636, the boat of John Oldham, an Indian trader, active in the area since 1633, was found by John Gallop, who immediately attacked the 14 Indians in the boat, and managed to capture the boat. Two that he took as prisoners implicated the "Narragansetts" as the murderers of Oldham. The colony vowed revenge, and in less than five weeks, ninety men under four commanders, general led by Endicott, set forth for war. Their commission bade them "put to death the men of Block Island, make of the women and children prisoners; and thence to go to the Pequots on the river Thames and demand the murderers of Captain Stone". (Whose death was practically overlooked two years earlier, when Indians assured them the killers had died of smallpox.)
The Indians of Block Island hid in the woods, while our Ancestors destroyed sixty wigwams, two hundred acres of corn, and seven canoes in two Indian settlements. In Connecticut, twenty more of our Ancestors joined the expedition. They sailed the Thames river, and burned wigwams destroyed corn, killed fourteen Indians, wounded forty and departed unharmed.
The English considered themselves avenged of the death of their Captain Stone two years earlier. However, they had just started a fight that was bigger then they could control. Before May of 1637, the Pequots gained Wethersfield, killing six men, three women, and taking captive two young girls. The target of Wethersfield was supposedly selected because, after buying the land from an Indian man on the condition that he could remain there, they expelled the Indian from the area.
In May, when the 9th Session of court was held at Hartford, an offensive war was declared on the "Pequoitt". Ninety men were levied out of the three plantations. Wethersfield giving 18, and the remainder coming from Windsor (formerly Dorchester) and Hartford (formerly NewTowne).
Equipped with twenty "Armour" and 180 bushels of corn, half baked into biscuits, and half in meal. A hoghead of beer, for the Captain and those who were sick was also packed. Hartford provided suet, butter, oatmeal, pease, salt and 500 fish. Windsor sent pork, rice and cheese. All Wethersfield could provide was a bushel of "Indian Beanes". Every soldier carried one pound of powder, four of shot and twenty bullets.
They sailed out past the fort at the mouth of the river, where the heads of seven slain Pequot Indians hung on the wall.
John Warner, John Bronson and Thomas Barnes, the father of Benjamin Barnes, were all granted land in Soldier's Field in Hartford as a result of serving in this so-called "Pequot War". By this point, Hartford was compelled to exterminate the nearby Indians for their own protection, after the overaction of Governor Endicott.
As a result of Endicott's foolish "retribution", the Connecticut colony was placed at a state of war. Every male over the age of sixteen was to keep his firearm at hand. Each man was continually to have in his house "half a pound of good powder, two pounds of bullets, and a pound of match." Each man was to be trained ten days a year in the art of war, by Captain John Mason. As a result of the utter destruction of the Pequot War, Connecticut now received tribute from the Indians of all nearby settlements.
25. Mary Olmsted
In "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis," Dr. Loomis does not list Elizabeth Olmstead as one of the children by Nicholas & Sarah (Loomis) Olmstead. Instead, he lists Mary as the spouse of Deacon Samuel Butler. It was later discovered that Mr. Loomis had not included Elizabeth and that Mary's date of death was 1646.
He settled in Hartford CT by 1669. He died without issue. His will was dated 1707. After providing amply for his widow, he gave all his estate to Jonathan Butler, a relative of his wife.
The Olmsted genealogy, the Bigelow genealogy and the Ackley/Bosworth genealogylist his wife as Rebecca Olmstead, daughter of Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford. The "Families of Early Hartford" says John Bigelow married Rebecca Butler, daughter of George Butler. It is my opinion that he probably married Rebecca Butler, since he left most of his estate to Jonathan Butler, her brother.A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006), (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, by Charles W. Manwaring, R. S. Peck & Co. Printers, Hartford, CT, 1904.), Volume 2, Page 357
Page 113. Bigelow, John, Hartford. Invt. £54-07-01. Taken 27 December, 1721, by Nathaniel Stanly and Thomas Hosmer.
Court Record, Page 159\emdash 5 December, 1721: Adms. granted to Rebeckah, the widow.Volume 2, Page 358
Page 167\emdash 1st May, 1722: Jonathan Butler moves this Court that an instrument in writing under the hand and seal of John Bigelow, late of Hartford deceased, dated 5 October, 1716, might be allowed and accepted as the last will of the sd. decd. This Court have considered that although the sd. writing be in form a deed of gift, and no person named executor in sd. writing, yet the Court considering that the sd. Jonathan Butler, to whome the estate was given, being appointed and obliged by the conditions of the sd. writing to do the office and duty of an executor, to pay all the debts that shall become due from or ought to be paid out of said Bigelow's estate to any person or persons whatsoever, this Court does therefore approve of sd. writing to be as the last will of the sd. John Bigelow deceased, and ordered to be recorded and kept upon file. Joseph Bigelow appealed from the judgement of this Court to the Superior Court. Rec., £10.
Elizabeth was living as of 1665. Josiah Hull was eldest child of George Hull of Windsor. He was Deputy of the General Court 1659, 1660, and 1632. In 1662 he moved to Killingworth, Conn. where he was Deputy 1667 to 1674.
John Hull, their descendant, was first mint master of first mint established in Boston, Mass., 10 June 1652. One Hull was a Judge of Probate Court. One was killed by lightning.
Some of the descendants of Elizabeth and Josiah Hull married into the following families: Kelsey, Buell, Peabody, Nettleton, Hurd, Grant, Griswold, Burnham, Stevens, Burr, Chittenden, Clark, Gaylord, Ward, Seward, etc. A Kelsey and a Hull family moved to Wabaunsee, Kansas prior to the Civil War.
Removed to Fairfield after their marriage. He was Deputy to the General Court in 1659, 1660 & 1662. In 1662 he removed to Killingworth, from which place he was Deputy, 1667-74.
Notes from Marilynn Munoz:
Moved from Dorchester to Windsor to Killingworth CT by 1665. They had eleven children.
Josiah HULL born 10 Nov 1616 in Crewkerne, Somersetshire,England;married: 20 May 1640 Elizabeth LOOMIS (Daughter of Joseph LOOMIS and Mary WHITE b. 10 Jun 1619 probably in Braintree, Essex England; d. aft 1665 in Killingworth, CT) in Windsor, CT; died: 16 Nov 1675 in Killingworth , CT; Son of George HULL and Thomasene MICHELL
Other:
He came to Windsor with his father and brother-in-law, Humphrey PINNEY in 1637. He was a defendant in a lawsuit there in 1645 and served on the Grand Jury 16 July 1660 as well a s deputy to the General Court in 1659, 1660 and 1662. He was a member of the church in Windsor where, on 18 July 1659, he is recorded as having paid 6 shillings for a seat in the Meeting House; he sold this seat on 7 Mar 1664 after his move to Killingworth.
He moved to Killingworth in 1663 as a proprietor of the new plantation which was originally called Hammonascett. As a prelude to the establishment of the new community, the General Court in March 1663 issued the following grant:
"Wm Wadsworth, Ens. Avery and Lnt Smith a committee to view the lands at Homonoscitt and, if they judg be not fitt for a plantation, and will not be very prejudiciall to Say Brook, then they are to lay it out to Mr. Math: Allyn, Cap't Tallcott, John Allyn and Mr. Willis and according to the grant of the court, but if it be prejudicial to Say Brook they are to lay out what they judge right to the town of Say Brook and the rest to Mr. Matthew Allyn, Cap't Talcott , Mr . Willys, Mr. Joseph Haynes or Mr.Daniell Clerk."
On 3 Jun 1663 the surveying committee reported that the area would be a "comfortable plantation" for thirty families to "subsist comfortably".Accordingly, the General Court, in Oct 1663 issued an order for the settlement of the area that was to become Killingworth. The order required that at least 30 families be settled in the plantation by 1665 and that they stay for at least 4 years. The original planters were Bryan Rossiter, Josiah HULL, sen'r, John Clow, sen 'r* , Jonas Westover, William Huydon, Simon Mills*, John Clow jur.*, Josiah Gibberd*, Edward Griswold, William Kelsey, Josiah Ellsworth*, William Barber, John Meigs, senr John Stedman*, Samuel Buell, Matthew Berquett*, John Skinner*, William Wellman, Robert Howard*, Richard Warkley. {* \emdash never settled in Killingworth,}
The Killingworth town records indicate that lots were laid out in accordance with the requirements of the settlement order.These "homelots" were on what is now Main Street of Clinton CT and were allotted to Thomas Smith; William Barber; John Meggs; William Kelcey; Mr.John Woodbridge; Josiah Rositer; Henry Franham; William Wellman; George Chatfield; Thomas Stevens; Edward Griswold; William Huyton; Samuel Buell; John Kelcey; Robert Williams, granted; John Bettleton , granted; AnnanaisTurney, purchase; John Rositer, by agreement; John Meiggs, granted; John Shether, purchase of Jonathan Dunnin; George Sanders, granted; William Stevens; Josiah Hull senr ; Eliezer Isbel, granted; Isaac Griswold,purchase; Jonathan Dunin
Josiah Hull was the first town recorder of Killingworth, serving in this capacity from 2 Oct 1665 to 5 Nov 1675. One of his official duties included proving the will William Wellman; Josias also witnessed this document. He was Lieutenant of the Train Band (1666) and was again elected to serve as deputy to the General Court in 1667 and 1674. His homelot in Killingworth was on the north side of what is now Main Street, west of Indian River in what is now Clinton CT .
A map of the original plantation shows the original land allocations as follows:
East of the Indian River, south of the "Swamp", north side of turnpike and moving west in order:
John Hodge, Henry Crowe, Matthew Allen, John Rossiter, Lower Green,WmKelsey, Jonathan Deming, Parsonage.
South side of turnpike moving west in order:
John Vettleton, Rot't Williams, John Kelsey, Thos. Stevens, Geo Chatfield, Wm Wellman, Henry Farnham, Rev. Woodbridge, Wm Kelsey, , Wm.Barber, Thos. Smith.
West of the Indian River, south of southern parallel of theCommons,moving west:
Geo Saunders, Wm Stevens, Josiah Hull, Eleazer Isbell, Edward Griswold, Wm Hayton
Northeast corner of the Common:
J. Elderkin
West of the Common, moving south
Samuel Buell, Jonas Westover
Sources: The Hull Family in America, Col Weygant; History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Beers, J.B. & Co. - 1884; Some Notes on the Wellman and Bump families of Barry County Michigan, Harthy, Charles O. - 1992; Ancient Windsor - Stiles; Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America and his Antecedents in the Old World, Loomis, Elias, LLD - 1875; LDS Ancestral File; Vital Records of Killingworth, CT; The Griswold Family , England -America,Griswold, Glenn E. - 1935.
32. Lt. Josiah Hull
No issue.
She married second, ____ Tallmadge.
38. Sarah Hull
A LDS IGI listing has Sarah married to John Knapp or Fairfield, CT. There was another Sarah Hull, b. 1654, the daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca (Jones) Hull, from Fairfield, CT. It is far more likely she was the wife of John Knapp.
40. Rebecca Hull
The Rebecca Hull who married John Lyon was either the dau. of Josiah (Josias) Hull & Elizabeth Loomis and b. 10 Aug 1659 or the dau. of Josiah's bro., Lt. Cornelius Hull, b. 10 Aug. 1656. Josiah & Cornelius were the sons of George Hull of Crewkerne and the only sons of his George's to have children. Cornelius. m. Rebecca Jones dau. of Rev. John Jones who was the first minister at Farifield, CT, and removed to Fairfield. No other Hulls were at Fairfield at that time. Geo's bro. Joseph was never at Fairfield. Richard Hull, who has not been traced as a relative of Geo & Joseph, was at New Haven, but had no heirs of the right age; his generations are offset about 15 yrs. later. Because Rebecca, dau. of Cornelius, resided at Fairfield, it is more likely that she became the second wife of John Lyon. The Hull Genealogy, "The Hull Family in America," lists only the date of birth for the daughter of Josiah & Elizabeth (Loomis) Hull.
5. Mary Loomis
Came to the colonies with her father and her husband. She was probably born closer to 1616 considering her age at marriage and her age when her first child was born.
A number of her descendants were Yale graduates, also several were members of Congress, several doctors and a number of ministers. There is still a Joseph A. Skinner Musuem at So. Hadley, Mass. One descendant married a Crocker, and there is still a Crocker landmark, Colchester, Conn. Skinners m. Bissells and Bissells m. Wolcott family. Skinners m. into Foote, Rockwell, Stiles, Pierce, Gridley, House, Goodrich, Goodyear, Colt, Day, Porter, Gillett, Olmsted, Welles, Smith, Arnold, Deming, Webster, Ellsworth families, etc. One Willard Skinner descendant moved to Kansas. One Foote family moved to Manhattan, Kansas.
Ann Skinner, dau. of Mary (Loomis) Skinner was 2nd wife of John Colt who came to Hartford, Conn. in 1638. Samuel Colt, b. 19 July 1814, one of 11 children of Christopher Colt who was s. of Lt. Benj. Colt, going straight back to Ann Skinner and John Colt. Samuel Colt had one child, Jarvis Colt. One of Samuel's brothers was a minister.
Samuel Colt invented the revolving pistol. Colts Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. Plant, 17 Van Dyke Ave., Hartford, Conn. houses a firm organized in Paterson, N.Y. by Samuel Colt in 1836, and removed to Hartford in 1855. "Colts Armory" was the training school for Francis A. Pratt and Amos Whitney, founders of Pratt and Whitney. Prof. Chas. B. Richards, another Colts student became Prof. of Mechanical Engr. at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univ. in 1884 and remained in that capacity for 25 years. Elisha K. Root, Supt. of Colts, trained many of these men and received the highest salary paid to any Hartford resident in the year 1865. Samuel Colt and wife, Elizabeth, were honored by many reigning monarchs of Europe and Asia.
Mary (Loomis Skinner) Tudor's descendants married into the following families: Kilbourn, Porter, Welles, Kellogg, Hale, Hoadley, Tryon, Bissell, Marshall, Brown, Goodrich, Clark, Morse, Brewster, Wolcott, King, Cone, etc.
Samuel Welles, descendant of Mary Loomis, m. (1) Anne Hale May; m. (2) Hannah Hale. Samuel was Presidential Elector in 1821; was member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution of Connecticut, etc. Had sons, 1. Samuel who drowned 28 Apr. 1818; 2. Gideon, b. 1 July 1802, d. 11 Feb. 1878, m. Mary Jane Hale 16 June 1835. 3. Thaddeus, m. Emily Maria Kellogg.Hon. Gideon Welles, direct descendant of Mary (Loomis) Tudor and Owen Tudor, was Comptroller of Conn.; Chief of one of the Navel Bureaus 1846-49; Secretary of the Navy in Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet 1861-69, etc. He was competent, faithful and honest. His supervision of naval warfare was creditable. Human kindness and loyalty to friends were two other traits of theirs. His wife was the only one of the cabinet wives who remained on good terms with Mary Todd Lincoln until her condition became worse. Gideon and wife's son took Robert Lincoln with him on an extended trip (around the world it is believed) when Robert became grief stricken and depressed. In the picture of Abraham Lincoln's deathbed scene, Gideon is the one sitting in the rocking chair at the foot of the bed.
Thaddeus Welles was repeatedly a member of the Connecticut Senate and House of Representatives.
An original proprietor (of Hartford); his hom lot in 1639 was on the west side of Main St. a little below the present corner of Pearl St., but this was given to Richard Olmsted, he receiing in exchange a lot on the hight now Trumbill St.,; juror 1639. John Talcott, in his will Aug. 12, 1659, mentiones his kinsman John Skinner as "living in his service" and as John Talcott's mother was Anne, Daughter of William Skinner, it is probable that John Skinner Sr. came from Braintree, Co. Essex, Eng. Early member of 1st Church of Hartford.
It is believed that Owen Tudor may have come from Wales to New England, where he setttled at Windsor, Connecticut, about 1649. (Stiles, "Ancient Windsor, Vol II," pg. 767).
From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England,...", by James Savage, Vol. 4, p. 340: OWEN, or OWYN, Windsor, 1645, may have been at Dorchester, but no such tradit. exists, nor does any rec. show it; m. 13 Nov. 1651, wid. Mary Skinner, d. prob. of Joseph Loomis of the same, had Samuel, and Sarah, tw. b. 26 Nov. 1652; Owen, 12 Mar. 1655; Jane, 16 Oct. 1657; and Mary, 6 Mar. 1661; all bapt. 12 May foll. and all liv. at his d. 30 Oct. 1690. His w. d. 19 Aug. 1680. He is report. in the freemen's list 1669, had been prob. sev. Yrs. Was common. thot. to come from Wales, but that may be tradit. as to a progen. or childish claim of relationsh. to be possess. of the throne of Gr. Britain. All the ds. we kn. m. viz. Sarah, 1679, to James Porter; Jane, 28 Oct. 1680, to Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; and Mary m. a Judson bef. 1717, perhaps his sec. w.
50. Owen Tudor
From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England...," by James Savage, Vol. 4, p. 340: OWEN, Windsor, s. of the preced. d. 1717, without w. or ch. and by the court his prop. was distrib. to his br. Samuel, sis. Sarah, heirs of sis. Jane, and sis. Mary.
He was admitted to the Windsor church October 11, 1640. His will is preserved in the Probate office at Hartford, and his name is signed John Loomys. "On May 3, 1643, he had granted to him from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor and was Deacon of the Church. He was deputy to the General Court in 1666 and 1667, also from 1675 to 1687. He died Sep. 1, 1688, age 66, and his monument is still preserved in the Windsor burying ground. He had 13 children - all born in Windsor, except for Thomas, Samuel, Daniel and James born in Farminton.
From "The History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. II, by Henry R. Styles, p.433: "adm. to W. ch. 11 Oct., 1640 (O.C.R.); had the homestead at W.; was a contributor to the Conn. Fund for Relief of Poor in Other Colonies, 1676, to am't of 6s. (O.C.R.); m. 6(3 O.C.R) Feb., 1648/9, Elizabeth (dau. Thomas) Scott, who embarked "last of April, 1634, from Ipswich, Eng., in the Elizabeth with his wife Elizabeth and three children, and who was an orig. ppr. of Hartford, Conn." Htfd. Co. Mem. Hist.; Dea. John L. was deputy from W. to Gen Ct., 1666, '67, '75-'87. He d. W. (will dated 27 Aug., 2 Sept., 1688, ae. 66; wid. d. 7 May, 1696; she was b. Eng. abt. 1625, and adm. W. ch., 1655 (O.C.R.). They res. at Farmington, 1652-'60.
From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. 3," by James Savage, p.112: LOOMIS, *JOHN, Windsor, s. of the first Joseph, b. in Eng. m. 3 or 6 Feb. 1649, Eliz. d. of Thomas Scott of Hartford, had John, b. 9 Nov. 1649; Joseph, 7 Nov. 1651; Thomas, 3 Dec. 1653; Samuel, 29 June 1655, d. young; Daniel, 16 June 1657; James, 19 Sept. 1659, d. young; Timothy, 27 July 1661; Nathaniel, 8 July 1663; David, 30 May 1665, d. young; Samuel, again, 12 Aug. 1666; Isaac, 31 Aug. 1668, d. at 20 yrs. soon aft. his f.; Eliz. 8 May 1671; and Mary, 7 Aug. 1673, d. in few mos.; wa s rep. 1666 and 75-7, liv. some time a. 1652 at Farmington, but went back; was deac. and d. 2 Sept. 1688. Nine of the ch. outliv. him and Eliz. m. 4 Feb. 1692, John Brown.
WILL OF JOHN LOOMIS, WINDSOR
The Last Will and Testament of John Loomis of Windsor. The will is dated Aug. 27, 1688. Exhibited 4 Dec. 1688. Will on file. No Court Records found.
John Loomiss senior doe beinge of a competent understandinge and memory ordayne and appoynt this my Last will and Testament.
In primis my will is that my eldest son John shall have a double portion of my estate in Land yt to bee accounted for part that he have already beene possessed of and by this I give liberty to bee assured of.
My will is that all my land on both sides ye River shall be equally devided between all my children now livinge I leave itt in charg in my will yt there bee indeavered of all a ready complyance to agree in ye devission itt beinge so small devis sions I know not how to pleas myself nor them My will is yt my daughter Elizabeth shall have equall portion with my sons excepting John of ye moveable estate my will is yt my wife shall have ye product of ye thirds of all my land as longe as sh e lives and that ye house homested & Barne Remayne to my wife as longe as she lives and ye free dispose of itt amongst my children when she dies & thatt ye 3rd prt of my moveable estate of what she shall chuse to bee to her free dispose amongs t my children
My will is yt my son Thomas's two sons shall have ten pound a pees of my moveable estate I apoynt my wife and son John Executors of this my will always provided yt my Just debt shall bee payd out of my moveable estate and if itt will not reac h every one proportionable shall abete
My will is that (illegible) by my wife at her death
I subscrib my hand
Wittness: John Loomys Sr
Abigail Aling
Nathanale PorterThe gravestone of Deac. John Loomis (No. 5), 1622-1688, is the oldest Loomis monument in America.
56. Samuel Loomis
According to Stiles, Samuel died the same month.
From "History of Ancient Windsor" by Henry R. Stiles, p. 433: ... adm. memb. W. ch. "Apl." (O.C.R.); prob. from another entry in same Rec. Apl., 1666, and d. 8 Aug., 1684; he died 28 Aug. 1689; he rec'd from his father one acre to build upon, on E. side, next S. to Henry Wolcott, Jr., and Mr. Allyn's meadow; W. by the street, 12 rods wide, and bdl. S. on his father - this was on what is known as "the Island" [had also farm on E. side of Gt. River; was made freeman in 1654; adm. to W. ch. 3 Apl., 1666]. - O.C.R
From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," by James Savage, p. 114: THOMAS, Windsor, s. of the first Joseph, b. in Eng. freem. 1654, m. 1 Nov. 1653, Hannah Fox, had Thomas, b. 29 Oct. 1654, d. soon; Thomas, again, 17 Mar. 1656; Hannah, 8 Feb. 1658; and Mary, 16 Jan. 1660. His w. d. 25 Apr. 1662, and he m. 1 Jan . 1663, Mary, d. of Thomas Judd, had Elizabeth 21 Jan. 1664; Ruth, 16 Oct. 1665; Sarah, 1 Feb. 1668; Jeremiah, 3 July 1670, d. at 2 yrs.; Mabel, 27 Oct. 1672; Mindwell, 6 Aug. 1676; and Benjamin, 20 May 1679. His w. d. 8 Aug. 1684, and he d. 28 Aug. 1689, when nine of these ch. were liv. Mary m. 3 Apr. 1679, Michael Taintor of Branford; and Stiles says, Ruth m. 29 Oct. 1691, Joseph Colt; and Sarah m. Wakefield Dibble.
Property settledment: 11 Nov 1689 Windsor, Hartford, Conn. No will. Under the court, the eldest received $130 £ (Thomas?), and the youngest son 65£ (Benjamin?). The lame daughter Sarah received 50£. The other married daughters received 24£ through their husbands William JUDD, Michael TAYNTOR, and John LEE. Hana received 8£, Mary 7 and Elizabeth 11. This distribution was challenged in 1693 by the brothers-in-law of Thomas Loomys. The court agreed and increased the share of several people while, apparently, reducing Benjamin share to 65£.
A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1687 to 1695 (p. 40): Name: Thomas Loomis Location: Windsor
Invt. £377-01-06. Taken 1st November, 1689, by John Moore and Joseph Loomis. The children: Thomas, b. 17 March, 1655-6; Hannah, b. 8 Feb., 1657-8; Mary, b. 16 Jan., 1659-60; Elizabeth, b. 21 Jan., 1663-4; Ruth, b. 16 Oct., 1665; Sarah, b. 1st Feb., 1667-8; Mabell, b. 27 Oct., 1672; Mindwell, b. Aug., 1676; Benjamin, b. 20 May, 1679.Court Record, Page 7--11 November, 1689: Adms. to Thomas Loomis.
(p. 12) 6 March, 1689-90: Dist: To Eldest son, £130; to the youngest son, £65; to the Lame daughter Sarah, £50; to each of the other daughters, £24 (a part before received by the married daughters). William Judd, Michael Tayntor & John Lee sign as having received. Again Hana had £8, Mary £7-01-08, and Elizabeth £11-03-00.(p. 64) 14 December, 1693: The Brothers-in-Law of Thomas Loomys of Windsor having appeared before the Court of Assistants, October Last, & Desireing This Court to Settle the Father of sayd Loomys his Estate, they being dissatisfied with the Dist. of the County Court: The Court of Assistants turning it Back to the Consideration of the County Court, who, having Laboured in it, The sayd Tho. Loomys, John Lee in behalf of his Wife, & Michael Tayntor, agreed in Court that Benjamin Loomys his portion should be as the former Court ordered, £65, & Wakefield Dible's wife's portion £50, & that Thomas Loomys should add to the portions of his six sisters now surviving Fower pounds Ten shillings apeice to each of them, to be paid as soon as he can conveniently, in corn, porck or Neat Cattell; & the Court appoynts Thomas Loomys to be Administrator to his Father's Estate.
(p. 16) (Vol. VII) 4 September, 1701: This Court being desired to appoint Dist. to the Estate of Thomas Loomis, formerly of Windsor Decd, This Court do therefore appoint Mr. John Moore, Capt. Thomas Stoughton and Deacon Job Drake to Dist. the sd. Estate, or Benjamin's part of it, according to an Order of Court made 14 December, 1693, and make return thereof to this Court.
(p. 28) 2 March, 1701-2: There was presented to this Court a Dist. of the Estate of Thomas Loomis Decd, under the Hands of Capt. Stoughton and Deacon Drake, which this Court do not see cause to accept, and order the Dist. to be sent for before the Court of Probates some time, to render their reasons to this Court of their Proceedings therein.
On 11 February 1675/1676 "son Wakefield 9 years" was named in the probate of the estate of Ebenezer Dibble of Windsor. On 30 October 1709 he was mentioned as brother in the will of Nathaniel Hillier of Danbury.
Wakefield lived in Windsor, Danbury and Stratford. In Stratford he was connected with his brother John in church affairs. (Lamb) Torrey indicates he was also at Simsbury Connecticut, and that he was last at Windsor. He died at Stratford between 31 January 1734 and 21 May 1734.
No known children from his first marriage to Sarah Loomis.
76. Benjamin Loomis
Stiles lists this Benjamin as being married to Ann Fitch. He also lists Benjamin (b. 1667, son of Samuel) as being married to Ann Fitch. I have listed the marriage under the other Benjamin Loomis (son of Samuel Loomis).
1. From "The History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. II, by Henry R. Styles, p.434: "...admitted Windsor Church 3 May 1663; wife adm. 28 Sept. 1678 (O.C.R.); she had previously owned the Half-Way Covenant 31 Jan. 1657 (O.C.R.); "Nathaniel L.'s wife d. 18 Jan., 1719" (E.W.C.R.); he bo't of John Moses a house and lands at W. on "the island," which Moses had purchased of Joseph Loomis, Sr., 2r 6' wide, bd. E. by St.; W. by John Porter's lot; N. and S. by Matt. Allyn. After King Phillip's War he removed to E. side of Conn. River. on the Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Colonies, 1676, he contrib. 5s. - O.C.R.
2. Colonial record says he married on 1 Nov. 1653.
3. From From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. 3," by James Savage, p. 113: NATHANIEL, Windsor, br. of the 2d Joseph, b. in Eng. freem. 1654, m. 24 Nov. 1654, Elizabeth d. of John Moore, had Elizabeth b. 7 Aug. 1655; Nathaniel, 20 Mar. 1657; Abigail, 27 Mar. 1659; Josiah, 17 Feb. 1661; Jonathan, 30 Mar. 1664; David, 11 Ja n. 1668; Hezekiah, 21 Feb. 1669; Moses, 15 May 1671; Mindwell, 20 July 1673; Ebenezer, 22 Mar. 1675; Mary, 5 Jan. 1680; and Rebecca 10 Dec. 1682. He d. 19 Aug. 1688, when it is thot. all the ch. were liv. His wid. m. John Case, long outliv. him , and d. 23 July 1728, aged 90. Abigail m. 22 Nov. 1677, Josiah Barber of Simsbury, not Brown, as Stiles has it; and he makes Mindwell m. Oct. 1696, Jonah Brown. Stiles gives him, for sec. w. 23 Dec. 1680, that young woman, that in my opin. clear . belongs to prob. his eldest s., NATHANIEL, of Windsor.Source: Elisha S. Loomis. 1908. Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America and His Antecedents in the Old World: the Original Published by Elias Loomis, 1875. Self-published (facsimile available from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston): 7. NATHANIEL LOOMIS, b. Co. Essex, Eng., a. 1626; m. Nov. 24, 1653, Elizabeth, b. Windsor, 1638, daughter of Deacon John and Abigail Moore (More). He was freeman in 1654 and admitted to the church May 3, 1663. Was a member of Windsor Troop of Horse in King Phillip's War. Dr. Loomis, edition of 1875, says: "His will, dated Aug. 17, 1688, is preserved at Hartford and is signed Nathaniel Loomys"; I have not been able to find such a will.-- EDITOR. He d. Aug. 19, 1688. His wife m. 2nd, John Case of Simsbury; she d. July 23, 1728, age 90. 12 children--all b. Windsor.
According to the Loomis book, Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, Elizabeth died on July 23, 1728. The 1719 date quoted by Stiles is from the East Windsor Church Record.
Reference: Increase Mather, Remarkable Providences, Pub. 1684, p. 24. of George Offer's edition, London. Above account was given Jan. 13, 1670.
"Three women, viz., the wives of Lieut. Filer, and of John Drake (Hannah Moore), and of Nathaniel Lomas (Elizabeth Moore), having crossed Connecticut River upon a necessary and neighborly account (undoubtedly to attend a woman in labor - H.R.S. ), and having done the work they went for, were desiring to return home to their own families, the river being at that time partly shut up with ice, old and new, and partly open. There being some pains taken aforehand to cut a way through the ice, the three women abovesaid got into a canoe, with whom also there was Nathaniel Bissell and an Indian. There was likewise another canoe with two men in it, that went before them to help them, in case they should meet with any distress, which indeed quickly came upon them, for just as they were getting out of the narrow passage between the ice, being near the middle of the river, a greater part of the upper ice came down upon them, and struck the end of the canoe and broke it to pieces so that it quickly sunk under them. The Indian speedily got upon the ice, but Nathaniel Bissell and the abovesaid women were left floating in the middle of the river, being cut off from all manner of human help besides what did arise from themselves, and the two men in the little canoe, which was so small that three persons durst seldom, if ever, venture into it. They were indeed discerned from one shore, but the dangerous ice would not admit from either shore one to come to them. All th ings thus circumstanced, the suddenness of the stroke and distress (which is apt to amaze men especially when no less than life is concerned), the extreme coldness of the weather, it being a sharp season, that persons out of the water were in danger of freezing, the inaptness of persons to help themselves, being mostly women, one big with child, and near the time of her travail (who also was carried away under the ice), the other as unskilled and inactive to do anything for self-preservati on as almost any could be, the waters deep, that there was no hope of footing, no passage to either shore in any eye of reason, neither with their little canoe, by reason of the ice, nor without it, the ice without the loss of life, or wrong to health, was counted in the day of it a remarkable Providence. To say how it was done is difficult, yet, something of the manner of the deliverance may be mentioned. The abovesaid Nathaniel Bissell, perceiving their danger and being active in swimming, endeavored what might be the preservation of himself and some others; he strove to have swam to the upper ice, but the stream being too hard, he was forced downward to the lower ice, where, by reason of the slipperyness of the ice, and disadvantage of the stream, he found it difficult getting up; at length, by the good hand of Providence, being gotten upon the ice, he saw one of the women swimming down under the ice, and perceiving a hole or open place some few rods below there, he watched and took her up as she swam along. The other two women were in the river till the two men in the little canoe came for their relief. At length all of them got their heads above water, and had a little time to pause, though a long and difficult way to any shore, but by getting their little canoe upon the ice, and carrying one at a time over hazardous places they did (though in a long while) get all safe to the shore from whence they came."
No issue. Bought land in E. Windsor, 1689. appointed Lt. in 1707.
Savage lists Elizabeth's father as Joel.
1. From "The History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. II, by Henry R. Styles, p.434:
"...purchased the Witchfield pl. Broad st., site of present Grace ch.; [freem.1654]; on 1st Bk of Rec. January 9, 1659, "also approved that Samuel Loomis should settle among us as an inhabitant;" he was adm. to W. ch. 26 Nov., 1661 (O.W.C.); wife also a memb.; he rem. to Westfield [betw.1672 and '75; in W. 1679; d. 1 Oct., 1689; wid. d. 7 May, 1676].2. From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage, Vol. 3, p.113: SAMUEL, Farmington, perhaps s. of Joseph the first, b. in Eng. freem. 1654, m. 27 Dec. 1653, Elizabeth d. of Thomas Judd, had Samuel, and Elizabeth rem. to Windsor, there had Ruth, b. 14 June, bapt. 22 July 1660; Sarah, 3 Feb. 1663; Joanna, 22 Oct . 1665; Benjamin, 11 Feb. 1668; Nehemiah, 15 July 1670; William, 18 Mar. [p. 114] 1672; rem. to Westfield, there had Philip, 22 Feb. 1675; and Mary, 16 Aug. 1678; he was a lieut. and d. 1689. Elizabeth m. 1673, the sec. Thomas Hansett; and Ruth m. Benjamin Smith of Farmington; and their mo. was liv. 1716.
3. From "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," by Elias Loomis, p. 132: 8. LIEUT. SAMUEL LOOMIS, b. Co. Essex, England, 2, 1628; m. Dec. 27, 1653, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Judd. He was freeman in 1654, and admitted to the church Nov. 26, 1661. He was a Lieut. and removed to Westfield, Mass., between 1672 and '75 . He sold his dwelling house in Windsor in 1679, and d. Oct. 1, 1689. His widow was living in Westfield, 1716. to ch'n--all but last two b. in Conn. 57. SAMUEL, b. (???)+ 58. ELIZABETH, b. (???); m. Nov. 18, 1673. Thomas, d. May 6, 1719, son of Deac. Thomas and Deliverance (Langton) Hanchet. Westfield, Mass. Ch'n: 1. Elizabeth, 2. Thomas, 3. Mary, 4. Hannah, 5. Hannah, 6. Sarah, 7. Samuel, 8. Deliverance. 59. RUTH, b. Farmington, Conn., June 14, 1660, bap. July 24, 1660; m. Benjamin, bapt. Apr. 11, 1658, d. Westfield, Mass., 1738, ae. 80, son of William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Smith, of Farmington, Conn. Ch'n: 1. William, 2. Ruth, 3. Benjamin, 4. Samuel, 5. Elizabeth, 6. Rachel, 7. Jonathan, 8. Job, 9. Mary. He m. 2nd, Mrs. Hannah (Hanchet) Loomis, for which see Stanley Gen., p. 28. 60. Sarah, b. Feb. 3, 1662-3. 61. JOANNA, b. Oct. 22, 1665; m. Nov. 20, 1691. Joseph, b. Aug. 25, 1655, son of William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Smith, his and wife. Farmington, Conn. Ch'n : 1. Joanna, 2. Ruth, 3. Susanna, 4. Thankful, 5. Mercy, 6. Esther, 7. Experience, 8. Zephania. 62. BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 11, 1667-8; m. Jan. 6, 1703, Ann Fitch. He d. 1726. No children. 63. NEHEMIAH, b. July 15, 1670.+ 64. WILLIAM, b. Mch. 18, 1672. + 65. PHILIP, b. Feb. 22, 1675.+ 66. MARY, b. Aug. 16, 1678.