Thomas NASH

- 1658

• Name	Thomas NASH  [1]
  	According to Berry, he came from Bewdley in Worcestershire. (Gen. and Ped. of Hertfordshire Families, pp. 83-85.) He sailed with the Whitefield party arriving at Quinnipac or New Haven, in July 1639, and was one of the signers of the agreement to remain together made on shipboard. Savage says he was of Guilford in 1639, but this is probably a mistake. (Steiner's History of Guilford, 1897, pp. 23, 29, 48.) New Haven, Col. Rec., (I, p. 82), says: "brother Nash his shoppe did stand by the creeks." He was a gunsmith, and probably well advanced in life at the time of the emigration, for his eldest son, John was old enough to be made Freeman, April, 1642, and in his will of August 1, 1657, he mentions his old age. The first date attached to his name at New Haven, in "1st of the 7th moneth 1640", when he was admitted member of the General Court and received the charge of Freeman. His home lot was on the west side of State Street, about one0third distance from Chapel to Elm St. He was chosen a Fence Viewer "for Mr. Eatons & Mr. Davenports quarter", March 1645/6. May 25, 1646, the General Court ordered: "In regard of severall occasions and worke to be done agaynst trayning day, bro: Nash is spared." Before emigration, he was a member of the church in Leyden, Holland, and was one of five who wrote an interesting letter (given in full on pages 155, 156 & 157 of Vol. 1 of the 4th series of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 1852.) From there, Nov. 30, 1625, to their brethren in Plymouth, informing them of the death of John Robinson, Pastor of the church which included in its membership the planters in Plymouth as well as those left in Leyden. [1]
  Birth	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 May 1658  [1]
  Person ID	I82872	Main Tree
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2023

  
  

  Family	Margery BAKER,   b. England d. Between 11 Feb 1655 and 1 Aug 1657
  Children	1. Mary NASH,   b. England  [Birth] + 2. Major John NASH,   b. 1615   d. 3 Jul 1678 (Age 63 years)   3. Sergt Joseph NASH   d. 1678  [Birth] + 4. Sarah NASH,   b. England d. Aft 1683  [Birth]   5. Timothy NASH,   b. 1626, England d. 13 Mar 1699, Hadley, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F33845	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.