Person:Thomas Wickham (5)

m. 5 Feb 1623/24
  1. Thomas Wickham1624 - 1688
  • HThomas Wickham1624 - 1688
  • WSarah UnknownCal 1630 - 1699/00
m. Bef 1648
  1. Thomas Wickham1648 -
  2. Cornet Thomas Wickham1651 - 1730
  3. Sarah Wickham1653 -
  4. William Wickham1657 - Aft 1730
  5. Samuel WickhamEst 1660 - Aft 1699
  6. Colonel Joseph WickhamEst 1662 - 1734
  7. John WickhamEst 1665 -
  8. Elizabeth WickhamCal 1668 -
Facts and Events
Name[2][3][4] Thomas Wickham
Gender Male
Christening[1] 19 Oct 1624 Chichester, Sussex, England
Marriage Bef 1648 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Sarah Unknown
Emigration[1] Est 1648
Residence[1] 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Residence[1] 1651 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Residence[1] 1653 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2][5] 11 Jan 1688 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 5. Thomas1 Wickham, in Wickham, Alan. A., and James W. Petty. Thomas Wickham of Chichester, Sussex, England and Wethersfield, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1996)
    150:273-74.

    "5. Thomas1 Wickham (ThomasA, GeorgeB, JohnC, ? EdwardD), son of Thomas Wickham and Martha Chitty, was baptized 19 October 1624 at Chichester, Sussex, Encland, six months after the death of his father, and he died at Wethersfield, Connecticut, 11 January 1688."

  2. 2.0 2.1 Thomas Wickham, in Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:789.

    "Thomas Wickham, the Settler, was of Weth., 1648; and a freeman there 1658; purchased land in Eastbury (then a parish of Glast.), with his son Thomas, in 1673 … ; he was still living in Weth. in 1679: but died 11 Jan., 1688, ae. abt. 64."

  3. Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    1:312-13.

    "Wickham, Thomas, the Settler, came to Weth. prob. before 1648, as, in that yr.vhe rec. the birth of his s. Thomas. In Feb., 1658-9, he rec. the ho'd he had bo't of Matthias Sension (St. John) bd. N. and E. by the High St. Common, S. by the Thomas Curtis ho'd, W. by Thomas Tracy's.—Perhaps this was the orig. Weede ho'd. The Town gave him add. adj. ld. in 1662, in which yr. he bo't the Thos. Tracy ho'd, two pieces, with a ho., barn, etc. He also bo't Thos. Curtis' lot on the E. side the River, 135 acs. and had 2 lots next to Far. line. He seems to have been a dealer in wool, of which in 1664, he bo't some 400 lbs. of sundry Boston parties; he had a shop by the River (now The Cove). He and his wife Sarah, in 1673, gave the Matt. Sension ho'd with a ho., warehouse and 'cellar' to their eld. s. Thomas; he d. 1689."

  4. Thomas Wickham, in 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)
    4:538.

    "Thomas (Wickham), Wethersfield, freem. 1658, was liv. 1679; by w. Sarah had Thomas, b. 1648, d. soon; Thomas, again, 14 Oct. 1651, at New Haven, but the first was, as all the others, at W.; Sarah, 1653; William, 1657; beside Samuel, Joseph, and John, nam. in the will of their mo. 15 Dec. 1699, who d. 7 Jan. foll. The f. had d. 1689. Sarah m. a Hudson."

  5. Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    291.

    "Wickham, … Thomas, Sr., d. Jan 11, 1688, Æ about 64 y. [1:5]"