Thomas Selden1,2,3,4,5,6

#2486, b. 17 March 1616/17, d. circa November 1655

Spouse

Hester Wakeman b. 15 Jun 1617, d. 1693
Child

BMDB

     Thomas Selden was baptized on 17 March 1616/17 at England.7 He married Hester Wakeman in 1643/44 at Hartford, Hartford, Conn. Thomas Selden died circa November 1655 at Hartford, Hartford, Conn.8 He was buried circa November 1655 at Ancient Burying Ground Cemetery Hartford, Hartford, Conn.9

Other Events

     In 1639 Thomas Selden emigrated from England to Hartford, Hartford, Conn.10,3 Thomas Selden became a Freeman at Hartford, Hartford, Conn., on 9 April 1640.11 His estate was probated on 19 December 1655 at Hartford, Hartford, Conn.12

Time Line

Baptism1617, England7
Emigration1639, Hartford, Hartford, Conn10,3
Freeman1640, Hartford, Hartford, Conn11
Marriage1644, Hartford, Hartford, ConnHester Wakeman
Birth of Son1651, Hartford, Hartford, ConnJoseph Selden13,14
Deathc 1655, Hartford, Hartford, Conn8
Burialc 1655, Ancient Burying Ground Cemetery Hartford, Hartford, Conn9
Probate1655, Hartford, Hartford, Conn12
ChartsDescendants of Thomas Selden
Pedigree of Robert Frank Collins
Pedigree of Sarah Olive Johnson
Pedigree of Selden Marvin

Flags

Freeman
Patriarch
Probate Found
F-A-G Memorial Found
Founder of Hartford

Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 4:050.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 2:1350.
  3. Meredith B. Colket, Jr, Founders of Early American Families, 2nd rev. ed. (Cleveland: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002), 288.
  4. Donald Lines Jacobus, Index to Genealogical Periodicals, Together with "My Own Index", 3 vols in 1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010), 3:66.
  5. Sophie Selden Rogers, Elizabeth Selden Lane, & Edwin VanDeusen Selden, compilers, Selden Ancestry a Family History (Oil City, Pennsylvania: Edwin VanDeusen Selden, 1931), 025-032.
  6. Dwight Brainerd and Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal: The Author, 1948, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, Mass), 085, 259.
  7. Selden, Selden Ancestry, 025.
  8. Selden, Selden Ancestry, 027.
  9. Find A Grave Memorial.
  10. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (Boston: NEHGS, 2015), 301.
  11. J. Hammond Trumbull, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 15 vols. (Hartford: F. A. Brown, 1852), 1:046.
  12. Charles Williams Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 3 vols. (Hartford: RS Peck & Company, 1904-1906), 1:149.
  13. Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Hartford, D:8, FFS:4, Col.2:121.
  14. Brainerd and Jacobus, Brainerd Ancestry, 259.