Thomas Newell
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps ← Rebecca North ← Hannah Newell ← Thomas Newell
In brief
Born in Hertfordshire, England. He died September 13, 1689.
Family
Children
- Rebeckah Newellb. Abt. January 1643m. Joseph Woodford
- Mary Newellb. c. March 1645m. Thomas Bascomb/Bascom, March 20, 1667
- John Newellb. Abt. January 1647d. June 16, 1696
- Thomas Newellb. March 2, 1650, in Southington, Connecticutm. Elizabeth Wrotham, November 5, 1679d. October 1723, in Farmington, Connecticut
- Hester/Esther Newellb. Abt. July 1652m. John Stanley, November 18, 1669
- Sarah Newellb. c. February 1654m. Arthur Smith
- Hannah Newell · in this lineb. c. 1658m. Thomas North, 1669d. November 4, 1757
- Martha Newellb. Abt. April 1658
- Samuel Newellb. Abt. December 1660 around Farmington, Connecticutm. Mary Hart, December 20, 1683d. February 15, 1753
- Joseph Newellb. Abt. April 1664d. November 1689
Life story
A Farmington Constable
Thomas Newell emigrated from Hertfordshire, England, and by March 1645 had purchased land at Tunxis Sepos (Farmington), Connecticut, from William Goodwin and John Crow for 150 pounds, including a house lot and parcels totaling well over a hundred acres in the town's Great Meadow. He was sworn in as Farmington's constable in 1660, became a freeman in 1669, and was counted among the town's eighty-four proprietors in 1672; the following year he signed the petition seeking rights to settle Waterbury, Connecticut, though there is no record he moved there himself. Thomas died on September 13, 1689, without a will; his substantial estate, valued at roughly 700 pounds and including nearly 300 pounds of meadow and upland, was divided among his family by default distribution.
Sources (3)
- Mary A. Newell Hall, Thomas Newell, who Settled in Farmington, Conn. A.D. 1632. And His Descendants (Southington, Connecticut: Cochrane Bros., 1878); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/thomasnewellwhos00hall : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut: Vol. I (Hartford, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/variousancestral01star : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Henry King Olmstead and George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmstead Family in America (New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing, 1912); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843244 : accessed 22 July 2026).