Person:Thomas Newberry (1)

Emigrated in the Recovery in 1634. Freeman 9/3/1634. Reported in 1635. Was engaged to go with Warham and most of his congregation to plant the town of Windsor, CT., but he died before the migration.

In his will of 1 Dec 1635, he leaves large property of which 200 pounds to wife, Jane, beside what she brought to their marriage, and residue equally equally divided to children., except that the 3 youngest daughters should have 50 pounds (or shillings ?) less. The inventory, taken 1/28/1635 included land in England, for a total of $1,520 pounds, 4 shillings, 7 pence.

1. ↑ Thomas Newberry, 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)
   3:269.

   THOMAS, Dorchester, may have come in the Mary and John 1630, freem. 3 Sept. 1634, rep. 1635, was engag. to go with Warham and most of his cong. to plant Windsor, but d. bef. the migrat. by his will of 1 Dec. 1635, of wh. abstr. is in Geneal. Reg. VII. 29, leav. large prop. of wh. L.200 to w. Jane, beside what she brot. at m. and residue equally to childr. exc. that the three youngest ds. should ea. have L.50 less than the others. Instead of L.50, as I had read some yrs. bef. Mr. Trask, who usually is a careful copier of the old writings, gives 50s. in that abstr. wh. might, in case of some petty estate, seem large enough. This may have affected his eyesight, as the fact of great prop. on my reexamination, wh. led to conforming my first transcript, possib. may have influenced me to judge, that so rich a man would not make so poor a differ. betw. his ds. The inv. tak. 28 Jan. foll. (includ. ld. in Eng. at £300) was of L.1520, 4, 7. Sarah m. 8 Nov. 1640, Henry Wolcott; Mary m. 13 June 1644, Daniel Clarke; Rebecca was sec. w. of Rev. John Russell of Hadley; and Hannah m. Rev. Thomas Hanford, and d. early.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Thomas Newberry, 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)
   5:235-242.

   ORIGIN: Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset.
   MIGRATION: 1634 on the Recovery (on 31 March 1634, "Thomas Newbery" appearson the passenger list of the Recovery, preparing to sail for New England from Weymouth, Dorset [NGSQ 71:171, 77:249-55]; on April 17 1634. "Nr. Neuburgh of Marshwood Vale and many others set sail from Waimouth towards New England" [Whiteway Diary 143]).
   OCCUPATION: Merchant (his inventory included quantities of cloth and other dry goods far beyond those needed for a single household [SPR NS 1:1-2]).
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to first Dorchester church prior to 3 September 1634 implied by freemanship.
   FREEMAN: 3 September 1634 (as "Mr. Tho[mas] Newbery," first in a sequence of three Dorchester men)[MBCR 1:369].
   BIRTH: Baptized Yarcombe, Devonshire, 10 November 1594, son of Richard Newberry [Newberry Gen 24].
   DEATH: Between 17 December 1635 (town grant of land [DTR 14]) and 28 January 1636[/7?] (date of inventory).
   MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1619 Joane Dabinott, daughter of Christopher Dabinott of Yarcombe, Devonshire [PCC 30 Clarke, PCC 112 Gore, Newberry Gen 47-50]. (2) By about 1632 Jane _____. (Bartlett suggested that she was Jane Dabinott, cousin of his first wife [Newberry Gen]. She married (2) by 1638 Rev. JOHN WARHAM {1630, Dorchester} [GMB 3:1925-28] (on 1 May 1639, "John Warham, pastor of the [Windsor] church, and Jane his wife, executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Newberry, gent., deceased," leased to Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, husbandman, the farm "which the said Thomas Newberry purchased of William Pyncheon" [Lechford 124-26]). She died at Norwalk on [2]3 April 16[4]5 [Grant 68].

3.   Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009)
   p. 334.

   Thomas Newberry of Mass. m. (1) Joan Dabinot, (2) Jane (Dabinot?) (a possible cousin of Joan). Ancestor of Rutherford B. Hayes through daughter with Jane, Rebecca. Descendant of Henry I of France through his father.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner). Newberry Genealogy: the Ancesters and Descendants of Thomas Newberry of Dorchester, Mass., 1634; 920-1914. (Boston, Mass.: The Author, 1914)
   24.

Founders of Windsor, CT

Windsor was the first permanent English settlement in Connecticut. Local indians granted Plymouth settlers land at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River, and Plymouth settlers (including Jonathan Brewster, son of William) built a trading post in 1633. But the bulk of the settlement came in 1635, when 60 or more people led by Reverend Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Most had arrived in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England. The settlement was first called Dorchester, and was renamed Windsor in 1637. See: Stiles History of Ancient Windsor - Thistlewaite's Dorset Pilgrims - Wikipedia entry Loomis homestead, oldest in CT. Settlers at Windsor by the end of 1640, per the Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor: Abbot - Alford - S. Allen - M. Allyn - Barber - Bartlett - M. (Barrett) (Huntington) Stoughton - Bascomb - Bassett - Benett - Birge - Bissell - Branker - Brewster - Buckland - Buell - Carter - Chappel - D. Clarke - J. Clarke - Cooke - Cooper - Denslow - Dewey - Dibble - Dumbleton - Drake - Dyer - Eels - Eggleston - Filley - Ford - Foulkes - Fyler - Gaylord - Francis Gibbs - William Gilbert - Jere. Gillett - Jon. Gillett - N. Gillett - Grant - Gridley - E. Griswold - M. Griswold - Gunn - Hannum - Hawkes - Hawkins - Hayden - Haynes - Hill - Hillier - Holcombe - Holmes - Holt - Hosford - Hoskins - Hoyte - Hubbard - Huit - Hulbert - Hull - Hurd - Hydes - Loomis - Ludlow - Lush - Marshfield - A. Marshall - T. Marshall - Mason - M. (Merwin) (Tinker) Collins - M. Merwin - Mills - Moore - Newberry - Newell - Oldage - Orton - Osborn - Palmer - Parsons - Parkman - Pattison - Phelps - Phelps - Phillips - Pinney - Pomeroy - Pond - Porter - Preston - Rainend - Randall - Rawlins - Reeves - J. Rockwell - W. Rockwell - B. Rossiter - St. Nicholas - Saltonstall - Samos - M. Sension (St. John) – R. Sension - Sexton - Staires - Starke - F. Stiles – H. Stiles - J. Stiles – T. Stiles - Stoughton - Stuckey - Talcott - E. Taylor - J. Taylor - Terry - Thornton - Thrall - Tilley - Tilton - Try - F. (Clark) (Dewey) (Phelps) - Vore - Warham - Weller - Whitehead - A. Williams - J. Williams - R. Williams - Wilton - Winchell - Witchfield - Wolcott - Young Current Location: Hartford County, Connecticut   Parent Towns: Dorchester, Massachusetts   Daughter Towns: Windsor Locks; South Windsor; East Windsor; Ellington; Bloomfield