Rev. Thomas Hooker1,2,3,4,5,6,7

#3072, b. circa 1586, d. 7 July 1647

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     Rev. Thomas Hooker was born circa 1586 at England. He died on 7 July 1647 at Hartford, Hartford, Conn. He was buried on 9 July 1647 at Ancient Burying Ground Cemetery Hartford, Hartford, Conn.8

Other Events

     In 1633, Rev. Thomas Hooker emigrated from Holland to Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass on the Griffin. 14 May 1634, Rev. Thomas Hooker became a Freeman at Boston, Mass.9 In 1635, Rev. Thomas Hooker, because of heartfelt religious differences, left the First Church of Christ in Cambridge with many of his congregation and settled in Connecticut, founding what is now Hartford. In 1636, he was succeeded at the Cambridge Church by Rev. Thomas Shepard. His estate was probated in 1647; Hartford Probate District, case #2841.10

Time Line

Birthc 1586, England
Birth of Daughterc 1622, EnglandJoanna Hooker
Birth of Sonc 1633Rev. Samuel Hooker
Emigration1633, Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass
Freeman1634, Boston, Mass9
Move-to1635, Hartford, Hartford, ConnRev. Thomas Shepard
Death1647, Hartford, Hartford, Conn
Burial1647, Ancient Burying Ground Cemetery Hartford, Hartford, Conn8
Probate164710

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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), 2:459.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 2:786.
  3. Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698 2 Vols., (Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, (1702) 1853), 1:332.
  4. Donald Lines Jacobus, Index to Genealogical Periodicals, Together with "My Own Index", 3 vols in 1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010), 3:57.
  5. Meredith B. Colket, Jr, Founders of Early American Families, 2nd rev. ed. (Cleveland: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002), 166.
  6. Martin E. Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s (Boston: NEHGS, 2012), 123.
  7. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1996), 2:982.
  8. Find A Grave Memorial.
  9. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston: The Legislature, 1853-1854), 1:369.
  10. Charles Williams Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 3 vols. (Hartford: RS Peck & Company, 1904-1906), 1:16.