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• Name: Joseph LOOMIS
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1590 in Braintree, Co Essex, England ^b
• Death: 25 Nov 1658 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John LUMMYS Birth: 29 Jan 1562 in Thaxted, Essex, England Death: Before May 1619 in Braintree, Essex, England
Mother:

• Agnes LYNGWOOD Birth: Abt 1564 in Braintree, Essex, England Death: After 1619

Family:
Marriage:

• Mary WHITE on 30 Jun 1614 at Shalford, Co Essex, England .^m1
  
• Mary WHITE Birth: 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Co Essex, England Death: 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut

Children:

1. Joseph LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1615 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: 26 Jun 1687 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
2. Sarah LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1617 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: 1667 in Hartford, Connecticut
3. Mary LOOMIS Birth: 1620 in Messinge, Co Essex, England Death: 19 Aug 1680 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
4. Elizabeth LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1620 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: After 1665
5. John LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1622 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: 2 Sep 1688 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
6. Thomas LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1624 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: 28 Aug 1689 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
7. Nathaniel LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1626 in Co Essex, England Death: 19 Aug 1688 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
8. Samuel LOOMIS Birth: Abt 1628 in Braintree, Co Essex, England Death: 1 Oct 1689

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53]

abt 1588 [Ref: Notley LUMLEY p9]

abt 1590 [Ref: Cutter NE p1508, Porter WHITE p2],

place:

[Ref: Banks Topo p41, Cutter NE p985, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567, Notley LUMLEY p9, Porter WHITE p2],

parents:

[Ref: LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p86, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53, WaltersP WALTERS SKINNER-p40]

John LOOMIS & Agnes ___ [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567],

father:

[Ref: Notley LUMLEY p9]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:

Messinge, Essex, England [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p570, Porter WHITE p2]

1658 [Ref: Holbrook WindsorCT p174, Roberts USPres FILLMORE, Sav-age LOOMIS Joseph],

place:

[Ref: Cutter CT p1092, Cutter NE p985, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p570, Holbrook WindsorCT p174, Roberts USPres FILLMORE, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

25 Nov 1653 [Ref: Cutter CT p1092, Cutter NE p1508, Cutter NE p985, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary WHITE

date:

[Ref: Cutter NE p985, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567, Porter WHITE p2, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53, White WHITE]

1614 [Ref: Roberts USPres FILLMORE],

place:

[Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567, Porter WHITE p2, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53, White WHITE]

Messing, co Essex [Ref: Cutter NE p985],

child:

[Ref: Cutter CT p1093, Cutter NE p985, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p566, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p571, Roberts USPres FILLMORE, Sav-age LOOMIS Joseph, Sav-age LOOMIS Nathaniel, Sav-age LOOMIS Samuel, Sav-age LOOMIS Thomas, Wahl SKINNER p4, WaltersP WALTERS HARMON-p1, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53, WaltersP WALTERS SKINNER-p44]

Research Notes:
wool-draper [Ref: Cutter CT p1092, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p66]

May/Jun 1619: executor of will of father [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567]

April 11 1638: with their eight children, embarked at Malden (the nearest seaport to Braintree) on the "Susan and Ellen", and arrived in Boston on Jul 17 following [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

family tradition that he came in the Mary and John is wrong; more likely is it, though no evidence is found, that he accompanied Rev. Ephraim Huet, in 1638, and brought sons Joseph, John, Thomas, Samuel, and Nathaniel, beside daughters Mary, .... Elizabeth, ... and one more [Ref: Sav-age LOOMIS Joseph]

emigrated in "Susan & Ellen" Apr 11 1638, arrived Boston Jul 17 1638. Windsor, CT by 1639. Supposed to have come with Rev. Huet, Aug 17 1639, bringing 5 sons and 3 daughters [Ref: Cutter CT p1092, Porter WHITE p2, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p53]

Edward Loomis listed on both "Susan & Ellen" and "Elizabeth" of 1637; no passenger list for "Susan & Ellen" 1638 [Ref: Banks Planters p131, Banks Planters p144, Banks Planters p190]

emigrated from Braintree, Essex Co, England, in "Susan and Ellen" to Windsor. Thomas Lechford's Notebook cited in [Ref: Banks Topo p41]

deposition of Joseph Hills of Charlestown, taken July 30 1639: Joseph Hills of Charlestown, in New England, Woolen Draper, aged about 36 years, sworne, saith upon his oath that he came to New England undertaken in the ship called the Susan & Ellen of London whereof was master Mr. Edward Payne, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred thiry and eight, the 14th year of the raigne of our Souraigne Lord the King that now is and this dpt knowes that divers goods and chattells, victualls & commodities of Joseph Loomis late of Brayntree in the County of Essex, Woolen-draper, wch were put in three butts two hogsheds ont halfe hogshed, one barrel, one tubb & three Hye, were shipped in the said ship upon the eleventh day of April in the yeare abovesayd, and this deponent cleared the said goods wth divers other goods of the said Joseph Loomis and other mens, in the Custome-house at London, as may appeare by the Customers bookes, and this dept saith that the said goods were transported into New England in the said ship where she arrived on the seaventeenth day of July in the yeare aforesayd. [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p567, LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p21]

1639: family moved overland to Windsor, Connecticut, probably in the company with Reverend Ephraim Huet [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

early resident of Windsor, Connecticut [Ref: Wahl SKINNER p4]

Feb 2 1640: granted a home lot of 21 acres, on the south side of the Farmington Riber near its mouth [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

Home lots of Joseph LOOMIS and John PORTER in Windsor were adjacent, and these two sisters, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, began in 1639 new homes side by side, in which they lived the rest of their days. Three years before, in 1636, their brother John WHITE and their sister Elizabeth (White) Goodwin, had settled in Hartford. [Ref: White WHITE]

Feb 2 1640 was granted 21 acres of land adjoining the Farmington river, on the west side of the Connecticut, by purchase and land grant [Ref: Cutter NE p1508, LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p121]

house near the mouth of the Farmington River on "The Island" [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568, LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p121, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p66]

named Island because at every freshet it became temporarily one [Ref: Cutter NE p1508, Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568, LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p121]

Feb 2 1648 was granted 21 acres, and other tracts in Windsor, CT, partly from the town, partly by purchase [Ref: LoomisES LOOMIS-1908 p121, WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p66]

Oct 11 1640: joined the Windsor Church [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

Mar 2 1642: served ojn a jury [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

1643: made a gift of a portion of his lands to his son Joseph [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

Sep 1644: served on a jury, with Nathaniel Foote [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

other gifts later to his other sons including that of the homestead to John [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

Jan 6 1650: sued by William Buell for trespass and for damages to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p568]

with sons Joseph and John, took up certain land which was not recorded until 1663, and which was in legal dispute as late as 1675 when Matthew Grant, the town clerk, testified as "Now after this there was entred upon liberty granted them by exchange to resigne up these aboue exprest parcels agayne to ye Town, and thus exprest in ye margent against ye pcell of Joseph Loomys, snr this prcell of land of 40 acers of land was resigned up to ye Town upon exchang and Joseph Loomys ye elder toke up twenty acers towards or in part of ye forty acers resigned up, with his sonn Joseph and sonn John at pip staue swamp so that ye father and two sonnes toke up eyghty acers there together not deuiding. But this was not put one record till may 1663, when they had me out a second time to renew ye bounds, for this I doe testify to be trust. Matthew Grant, recorder [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p570]

Inventory of his estate valued at 178 pounds, 10 shillings, and mentioned a "debt in England" of 12 pounds 14 shillings 8 pence against the estate [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p570]

evidently left no will [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p571]

Inventory by Henry Clark and John Moore, Dec 2 1658: Agreement for division by Children, of Joseph Loomis, Dec'd, approved to be equal. To: Joseph Loomis, Nicholas Olmstead, Josiah Hull, John Loomis, Thomas Loomis, Nathaniel Loomis, Mary Tudor, and Samuel Loomis. Witness: Henry Clark and John Moore [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS LOOMIS-p66]

Dec 2 1658: agreement for division of the estate was entered into by the heirs, who signed the document [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v2p571]



Pedigree of Joseph LOOMIS
                            /-----(Unk) LUMMYS
                   /-----Thomas LUMMYS
          /-----John LUMMYS
         |         \-----(Unk) THAXTED
 /-----John LUMMYS
|        |         /-----(Unk) PASFIELD
|         \-----Kyrsten PASFIELD
Joseph LOOMIS
|         /-----John LYNGWOOD
 \-----Agnes LYNGWOOD
         |                                                      /-----John MARLAR
         |                                             /-----John MARLAR
         |                                    /-----John MARLAR
         |                           /-----William MARLAR
         |                          |         \-----Alice FALSTOLFE
         |                  /-----Thomas MARLAR
         |         /-----William MARLAR
         |        |         \-----Margaret WHITE
          \-----Jane MARLAR
                  |         /-----Thomas PERYE
                   \-----Margaret PERYE



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