John Terry

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Jeremiah Hayes ← Mary Holcomb ← Thomas Holcomb ← Elizabeth Terry ← John Terry

Born

c. 1637 · Windsor, Connecticut

Died

1691

Married

November 27, 1662, in Hartford, Connecticut

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

Stephen Terry
b. October 6, 1666 · d. March 9, 1753
Sarah Terry
b. November 16, 1668
m. John Hills, April 22, 1708
John Terry
b. March 22, 1669/1670 · d. December 30, 1670
Rebecca Terry
b. January 7, 1671/1672 · d. December 10, 1673
Mary Terry
b. July 19, 1673
m. ____ Holcomb
Solomon Terry
b. March 29, 1675 · d. October 27, 1677
Abigail Terry
b. 1676
Samuel Terry
b. 1678 · d. February 11, 1724/1725

Siblings

Mary Terry
b. December 31, 16331/16352, in Dorchester, Massachusetts · d. 1692 in Deerfield, Massachusetts
m. Richard Goodman, December 8, 1659, in Windsor, Connecticut
Abigail Terry
b. September 21, 1646, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Joseph Kellogg, May 9, 1667, in Hadley, Massachusetts

In brief

Born March 6, 1637/1638, in Windsor, Connecticut. He married November 27, 1662, in Hartford, Connecticut and worked as farmer. He died 1691.

Life story

A Simsbury Militia Lieutenant

John Terry was born March 6, 1638, in Windsor, Connecticut, son of Stephen Terry, and married in Hartford in November 1662. He farmed in Simsbury, Connecticut, and rose to militia lieutenant there. John died in 1691.

At a glance

Work

Farmer

Lived

Simsbury, Connecticut

Sources (2)

Stephen Terry, Notes of Terry Families, in the United States of America (Hartford, Connecticut: Stephen Terry, 1887); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/notesofterryfami00terr : accessed 15 July 2026).
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1804-1807; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158320-00492 : accessed 15 July 2026).