John THOMSON

John married Mary STEELE on 24 Oct 1670. Mary (daughter of Lieut. Samuel STEELE and Mary BOOSEY) was born on 5 Dec 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dr Thomas THOMSON was born on 30 Jun 1674; died on 17 Jul 1748.
2. Mary THOMSON was christened on 1 Oct 1682; died in Oct 1763.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Thomas Thompson
• Fact: Son of John Thomson and Beatrice Detton

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Inventory L549, 5s. 5d.; among the other goods were "Tooles for a Carpenter."

He is supposed to have come from London in the Abigail" which sailed July 1, 1635, at which time he was 18 years old. He was a brother of Samuel Thomson, citizen and stationer of London, who, in his will dated August 25, 1668, mentions his nephew, Thomas Thomson, whose mother was in New England and his niece, Beatrice. He was first at Hartford and the earliest record of him is March 28, 1640, when he was a witness to a document for Governor Wyllys. He owned two acres of swamp land on the east side of the Connecticut River in Hartford, which he sold to Thomas Stanley. May 16, 1646, Thomas Welles, "Gent." then of Hartford, conveyed to Thomas Thomson and his wife Anne, also of Hartford, one-half of his farm and buildings in Farmington, comprising a home lot of 7 acres, bounded north on the highway, east on the Common, south on Mr. Steele's home lot and west on the river; 30 acres of meadow and 90 acres of arable land. This property was given "In consideration of a marryage lately had & taken betrothed & Sollemnized by & between Thomas Thomson & Anne Welles Daughter where he became one of "the seven pillars of the church." He was Deputy to the General Court, at the session of May 16 and 21, and June 26, 1650; Constable, March, 1652/3. In his will he gave each of his children a "Byble" and appointed as overseers of his will, "my two brothers ni England and my Brother Thomas Welles."

Thomas married Ann WELLES on 14 Apr 1646. Ann (daughter of Gov. Thomas WELLES and Alice TOMES) was born about 1619 in Essex County, England; died about 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Between 1637 and 1660; Chosen As Magistrate
• Occupation: 1639; Elected treasurer of the colony
• Occupation: 1643; Elected secretary
• Occupation: 1649; Commissioner to represent Connecticut in the confederation of New England colonies
• Occupation: 1654; Acting governor
• Occupation: 1655; Governor
• Occupation: 1656; Deputy governor
• Occupation: 1658; Governor
• Occupation: 1659; Deputy governor

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He was among the fist settlers of Hartford, coming probably from Cambridge, for 8 Feb 1635/6, "Thos. Wells" owned a house there, (Starr's Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, I, p. 221.) and he was made Freeman May 17, 1637. (Col. Hist. of Hartford, Love, p. 32.) Was also an early settler of Wethersfield, removing thither in 1646, and an original proprietor at both places. At Wethersfield he bought a house and 18 acres of Mr. John Plumb. He was a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut in 1637, which office he held every successive year until 1654, when he was chosen deputy governor. Besides holding other offices, he was elected governor in 1655 and as this office could not be held by the same man in consecutive terms, he was again elected deputy governor in 1656/7 and governor in 1658; deputy governor in 1659, which position he held at his death. He was first treasurer of the Colony 1639, and secretary of the Colon from 1640 to 1648. In 1649, 1654 and 1659, he was commissioner of the United Colonies. Trumbull includes him in a list of twelve men whom he calls the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut.

The information here given concerning the parentage of Governor Wells and the name of his wife was obtained from pleadings in a chancery suit brought in 1648 by John Welles of Tidmington, (Nephew ofGovernor) and his son Robert, a minor, against the grantees of land in Burmington, Warwickshire, conveyed by Thomas Welles of Hartford, Conn., in 1638. The pleadings show that the property in dispute at one time belonged to Robert Welles, father of the Governor. It seems probable, therefore, that the family home was in Burmington or one of the neighboring parishes.

Thomas married Alice TOMES in 1618 in England. Alice died about 1640 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: ? Hunt