The Ancestors of My GrandchildrenThomas Morehouse1
M, #5818, * s 1620, + 1658
Family | Isabell * s 1620 |
| Children |
Thomas Morehouse married Isabell. He died in 1658.1
Other information:
Thomas was in Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 1640. In 1641 he removed to Stamford, and was one of the original twenty-nine white settlers of that town who purchased it of the New Haven Colony, who had previously bought it of the Indians for one hundred bushels of corn. (New Haven Colonial Records, 1638 to 1649, pp. 45 and 199). In 1653 he settled in Fairfield, and died there in 1658; leaving widow Isabel (who is supposed to have been a second wife and not mother of his children) and children Hannah, Samuel (who had five sons), Thomas, Mary, Jonathan (who married Mary Wilson, daughter of Edward, of Fairfield), and John (who was an ensign in King Philip's war, 1676 and settled in Southampton, L. I., where he died October 10, 1701, leaving children John, Mary, and Phebe)
By the records he appears to have purchased in Fairfield on the 6th of August, 1653, twenty-four acres of land on Sasco Hill, a beautiful location near the Sound, and on the 16th day of the same month he purchased of Henry Jackson the first, and for many years the only, grist mill in the town. In September of the same year he was one of the deputies to the General Court at Hartford.2,3
Thomas Morehouse made a will on 8 Aug 1658.
Other information:
Thomas was in Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 1640. In 1641 he removed to Stamford, and was one of the original twenty-nine white settlers of that town who purchased it of the New Haven Colony, who had previously bought it of the Indians for one hundred bushels of corn. (New Haven Colonial Records, 1638 to 1649, pp. 45 and 199). In 1653 he settled in Fairfield, and died there in 1658; leaving widow Isabel (who is supposed to have been a second wife and not mother of his children) and children Hannah, Samuel (who had five sons), Thomas, Mary, Jonathan (who married Mary Wilson, daughter of Edward, of Fairfield), and John (who was an ensign in King Philip's war, 1676 and settled in Southampton, L. I., where he died October 10, 1701, leaving children John, Mary, and Phebe)
By the records he appears to have purchased in Fairfield on the 6th of August, 1653, twenty-four acres of land on Sasco Hill, a beautiful location near the Sound, and on the 16th day of the same month he purchased of Henry Jackson the first, and for many years the only, grist mill in the town. In September of the same year he was one of the deputies to the General Court at Hartford.2,3
Thomas Morehouse made a will on 8 Aug 1658.
He leaves 1/3 of his estate to his wife Isabell; a double portion to his eldest son Samuel, homestead, mill & mill-lot, which he was not to sell without the consent of the town; and further distributes his estate among his sons Thomas, John and Jonathan and daughter Mary. He mentions daughter Hannah, to whom he had aIready given a full portion.1,4
Citations
- [S464] Donald Lines Jacobus, Morehouse-Jacobus. Available online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/426503/
- [S994] Anonymous (A descendant of Captain Gershom Morehouse), Morehouse. Online at https://www.americanrevolution.org/morehouse.php#anchor443358
- [S993] Charles J. Hoadly, Records of New Haven, pg. 45, 199. Available online at https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyp00newh
- [S638] Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenk, Morehouse-Schenk, This source also mentions a daughter Ann in the will. Available online at http://www.americanrevolution.org/morehouse.html