Thomas GILBERT

Abt 1582 - 1659  (77 years)

• Name	Thomas GILBERT  [1, 2, 3]
  	Mr. Homer W. Brainard of Hartford, who has made an exhaustive study of Thomas Gilbert, states that the cumulative evidence shows that he was the father of Jonathan, John, Josiah, Obadiah, Thomas Ezekiel, Brothers, and Sarah Judkins, wife of Joel Judkins of Braintree, Mass., a sister. They all shared in his estate. Some of the children were young at the time of their coming to Connecticut and there was no other Gilbert there at the time to whom they appear to belong. he bought a house and lot in Windsor of Francis Stiles, Jan. 24, 1644, and seems to have cultivated Stiles' farm. No mention is made in the Windsor Records of him or children as such. the house be bought in 1644, he sold to John Drake and his son Jacob. In a deed from Francis Stiles to Robert Saltonstall, it is specified that the house and land are "at present in the occupation and tenure of Thomas Gilbert and John Bancroft." He continued to live at Francis Stiles' as late as 1651. he bought part of the home lot of Thomas Gunn on the west side of the street and built on it; this last he had sold Thomas Bissell by 1658, and removed to Wethersfield, (Glastonbury Society), where he died. It is thought by some good authorities that his wife was that Lydia Gilbert who was condemned to be hung as a witch Dec. 7, 1654, but from the fact that the funeral expenses of his wife were paid out of his estate in 1659, it would seem that this is either a mistake or that the sentence was not executed. [1]
  Birth	Abt 1582	England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	05 Sep 1659	Wethersfield, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I25009	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	Lydia ?   d. Bef 1659
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan GILBERT,   b. Abt 1618   d. 10 Dec 1682, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 64 years)  [Birth]   2. Ezekiel GILBERT  [Birth]   3. Sarah GILBERT,   b. Abt 1624  [Birth]   4. Thomas GILBERT,   b. England d. 05 Jun 1662, Springfield, Massachusetts  [Birth] + 5. Josiah GILBERT,   b. Abt 1628   d. 22 Aug 1688, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut (Age 60 years)  [Birth]   6. Obadiah GILBERT,   b. 1630   d. 1674, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut (Age 44 years)  [Birth]   7. Corporal John GILBERT,   b. Abt 1630, England d. 29 Dec 1690, Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut (Age 60 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F23589	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2016

  
  

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• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking. [S02419] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, (Name: Name: Clearfield Company, Inc.;;), 76-3279. [S04086] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2010, Vol. 164 July.