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Facts and Events
(5) Thomas Norton, baptized 15 September 1609 at Sharpenhoe, Streatley, Bedfordshire, England, died 16 May 1648, Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; married 5 May 1631 in Shelton Parish, Bedfordshire, England, Grace Wells, born about 1584 * in Bedfordshire, England, died August 1648 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
They emigrated with Rev. Mr. Whitfield in 1639 to Guilford, New Haven Colony, Connecticut, where Thomas was a signer of the Plantation Covenant, and one of the original proprietors. There he served as town miller until his death nine years later.
His home lot in Guilford contained two acres and was on the west side of Crooked Lane (now State Street); upon his death the lot fell to his son, John, and was afterwards occupied by Thomas' son-in-law, Lt. William Seward. Thomas also owned seventeen and one-half of "upland in the plains" and a parcel of one and one-half acres of marsh land by the seaside. Parents of:
Grace, born before 13 January 1631/1632 in Deems **, Bedfordshire, England, died 5 March 1701/1702 in Guilford, New Haven Co., England; married 2 Apr 1651 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, Lt. William Seward, born about 1627 in England, died 2 March 1688/1689 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
*doubtful
**Deane
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Norton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
242.
"Norton, Thomas: [Origin} Dean, Bedfordshire; [Emigration] 1639; [Resided] Guilford [Guilford Hist 25, NEHGR 51:221, 54:269-76; TAG 54:179-80, 56:170-72]."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Smith, Hon. R. D., and Bernard C. Steiner. The Descendants of Thomas Norton of Guilford, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1900)
54:269.
"Thomas Norton came to Guilford with Rev. Mr. Whitfield in 1639, was a signer of the Plantation Covenant, and served the town as its miller until his death in 1648. He is stated to have been a church warden of Mr. Whitfield's parish at Ockley in Surrey, England, and has been thought to have been connected with the Mortons of Sharpenhow, Bedfordshire. (Register, vol. xiii., p. 225.) Dea. L. M. Norton of Goshen identified him with Thomas, son of William Norton and his second wife Dennis Chelmsby, and put the date of his birth as about 1582. His home lot in Guilford contained two acres and was on the west side of Crooked Lane (now State Street). This lot fell to his son John, on Thomas Norton's death, and afterwards was occupied by Lieut. William Seward, his son-in-law. Thomas Norton also owned seventeen and one-half acres of upland in Norton's quarter, a parcel of four and one-half acres of 'upland in the plaine' and a parcel of one and one-half acres of marsh land by the seaside. His wife was named Grace and her maiden name is supposed to have been Wells. [Note. In the Register for April, 1897, vol. li., p. 221, is a note by Elliot Stone, calling attention to the fact that Thomas Norton and Grace Wells were married in Shelton Parish, Bedfordshire, on May 5, 1631, and that their daughter Grace was baptized Jan. 13, 1632, in the neighboring parish of Deans. A son, John, was baptized Feb. 15, 1634. (See Blaydes' 'Genealogica Bedfordiensis.') Mr. Smyth gave the birth of his children as follows: 1, Anne, about 1625; 2, Grace, about 1627, and 3, John, in 1640. Also that Thomas Norton of Ockley, Surrey, married Judith Howell in 1637. No explanation of his tangle can as yet be given.—B. C. S.]"
- ↑ Seversmith, Herbert F. George Norton of Salem, Massachusetts,'. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Oct 1939)
16:114.
"Thomas (Norton), baptised September 15, 1609; in our opinion the immigrant to Guilford. Connecticut."
- Richardson, Douglas. English Origins of Thomas and Grace Norton of Guilford, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 1978)
54:180.
"This writer personally resists Dr. Seversmith's supposition that the immigrant Thomas Norton was the Thomas Norton christened in 1609 at Streatley, co. Bedford (see the article, 'George Norton of Salem, Massachusetts,' in TAG 15:193-207; 16:101-115)."
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