Person:John Hosford (3)

He was a man of considerable wealth; left his son William £225, s. John £121, s. Timothy £121; daus. Hester, Mary and Sarah, £100 each; sons Samuel and Nath'l, £114 each; s. Obadiah £122, and his widow £85 of personal estate for life; he contrib. 1676, 1s6d. to the Conn. Fund for Relief of Poor in Other Colonies.

From Ye Horseford Booke

He took the oath of a freeman May 20, 1652.

In March, 1657/8 a troop of 30 horsemen, the first in the colony was organized under command of Captain John Mason. John Horsford was a member of this troop and served as a trooper in King Philip's war, receiving in 1675 6s, 8d, for such services. John left an estate of 1203 pounds, which was large for those days. His children, ten in number, were all born at Windsor but as they came to maturity several became residents of other towns near Windsor or further west.

John Horsford lived and died at Windsor...

In Feb., 1674/5 William Thrall conveyed to his son-in-law John Hosford a tract of 50 acres on the east side of the Great River. In 1675 John was listed as having a family, a horse and two oxen. John Horsford and Corporal Joseph Stiles were master workmen in building a house fo the first settled minister at Windsor, Timothy Edwards, father of Jonathan Edwards.

From the Cooley Genealogy

John Hosford2, b. prob. England; d. Aug. 7, 1693 (Savage; d. Nov. or May 8, 1698, Stiles), Windsor, Conn.; m. Nov. 5, 1657, Philippa (Phillury) Thrall, da. William who was among the first settlers of Dorchester. William Thrall served in the Pequot War, and d. Aug. 3, 1679, ae. 73; his wife d. Dec. 30, 1676. John Hosford2 was a man of considerable estate. He left his son William £225, sons John II and Timothy £121 each, and sons Samuel and Nathaniel £114 each; he left his daughters, Hester, Mary and Sarah, each £100, his son Obadiah £122, and his widow £85 and his personal estate for life. His 9 children were all born in Windsor, and all were living at his death in 1693, or 1698.

He appears on a list of freemen in Windsor 7 Oct 1669, along with Timothy and Nicholas Buckland, Peter Brown, among others.

1. ↑ William Hosford, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   Citing parish registers in Norman F. Hosford and David H. Hosford The Hosford Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hosford Sometime Resident of Beaminster, Dorsetshire, Dorchester, Massachusetts; Windosr, Connecticut; and Calverleigh, Devonshire (West Kennebunk, Maine, 1993)

2. ↑ Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925
   Bk I p. 46.

   "John Hosford dyed August 7th 1683"

3.   Hosford, Henry Hallock. Ye Horseforde Booke: Horsford-Hosford families in the United States of America. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Cleveland, Ohio: Tower Press, 1936).
4.   Mortimer Elwyn Cooley in collaboration with Lyman Edgar Cooley and Ernest Linwood Cooley; Compiled by Vivien Bulloch Keatley. Cooley Genealogy, The. (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. Rutland, Vermont)
   p. 530-531.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} John Hosford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:322, 323.

   Hosford, John, Windsor. Died 7 August, 1683. Invt. £1203-17-04. Taken 14 November, 1683, by Jacob Gibbs, Samuel Cross. The children: William, b. 25 Oct., 1658; John, 16 Octo., 1660; Timothy, 20 Oct. 1662; Ester, 27 May, 1664; Sarah, 27 Sept. 1666; Samuel, 2nd June, 1669; Nathaniel, 19 August, 1671 ; Mary, 12 April, 1674; Obadiah, 28 Sept. 1677. (W. R.).
   
   10 December, 1683 : Invt. of the Estate of Mr. John Hosford was exhibited in Court. Adms. to the Widow and the son William. Timothy Thrall, Abraham Phelps and Samuel Cross to be Overseers to assist the Widow & her son in the Adms. and dispose of the Children.
   
   Note: John Hosford sen., who died 7 August, 1683, married, 5 November, 1657, Phillipi Thrall. She died May, 1698. ( W. R.)