Person:Stephen Post (4)

Stephen was a carpenter. He lived at Otham, Kent, England, where most of his children were born. He was a follower and adherent of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. His name appears on the monument as one of the founders of Hartford, CT. He migrated first to Newtowne (Cambridge), MA in 1634, then joined Rev. Hooker's group at Hartford, CT, then to Saybrook, CT, where he purchased his first land in Oyster River in 1648. Stephen died on August 16, 1659 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Stephen Post, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   5:497-500.

   ORIGIN: Otham, Kent.
   MIGRATION: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
   BIRTH: Baptized Hollingbourne, Kent 24 June 1604 , son of Abraham and Ann (Hurst) Post [NEHGR 160:32].
   DEATH: Saybrook 16 Aug 1659 [SayVR 51].

2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:465.

   Stephen (Post), Cambridge 1634, rem. 1636 to Hartford, an orig. propr. had John, Thomas, and Abraham, prob. Catharine, wh. m. Alexander Chalker, in 1649 was of Say brook, where he d. 16 Aug. 1659.