Thomas Bird
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 ← Thomas North ← Mary Bird ← Thomas Bird
In brief
He died Summer 1662.
Family
No linked relatives on file.
Children
- Mary Bird · in this linem. John North
- James Birdm. Lydia Steele, March 31, 1657m. ____
- Joseph Bird
- Hannah Birdm. ____ Scott
Life story
An Island on the Connecticut River
Thomas Bird settled first in Ipswich and then Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1639 before moving to Hartford, Connecticut, by 1644, where he owned a home lot and a fourteen-acre island in the Connecticut River across from the town landing — a property substantial enough that Hartford appointed surveyors to formally map its bounds in 1659. He served as Hartford's chimney viewer, responsible for fire safety inspections, in 1653, and appeared as a defendant in several cases before the colony's Particular Court in his final years. Thomas died in the summer of 1662; his estate, appraised at over 149 pounds, was distributed among his wife and four children the following year.
Sources (2)
- Dexter North, John North of Farmington Connecticut and his Descendants (Washington, D.C.: The Rumford Press, 1921); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/johnnorthoffarmi00nortiala : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/variousancestral02star : accessed 22 July 2026).