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Ensign Thomas Shaylor
b.Bef 1637
d.Bet 3 Mar 1706/07 and 22 Dec 1714
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Ensign Thomas Shaylor |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2] |
Bef 1637 |
Based on estimated date of birth of wife. |
| Emigration[1] |
Est 1660 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 11 Apr 1670 |
to Marah Spencer |
| Living[1] |
3 Mar 1706/07 |
Discharged from his duties as administrator of the estate of his brother-in-law John Kennoe (Kennard). |
| Death[1][2] |
Bet 3 Mar 1706/07 and 22 Dec 1714 |
Probably died at sea. |
| Probate[2] |
6 Dec 1714 |
Administration to sons Thomas and Timothy. |
| Estate Settlement[1][2] |
22 Dec 1714 |
Estate settled by the three surviving sons. |
Thomas is usually listed as being from Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwick, England, but there’s no proof, and the name was common in the Village of Hadham in Hertfordshire, England.
His father is occasionally given as Roger, which is the name on a christening record from Alcester, Warwickshire, about 8 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. The records also have a Thomas having children in the 1670s, and either him or another man marrying in 1683.
Thomas Shaylor, as he spelled it, the progenitor of the family in America, is believed to have come to this country from Stratford-on-Avon about 1660. In 1662 he was one of a party of twenty-eight men from Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield who commenced the settlement of Haddam, Conn. on land purchased by the General Court of Connecticut from the Indians on 20 May 1662. Thomas was assigned a house lot a little way back from the river near that of Gerrard Spencer, later to become his father-in-law. In 1669/70 he married Marah (often miscalled Alice), the daughter of Gerrard Spencer and widow of Thomas Brooks who had died in October 1668. She became the mother of his five children. They lived for some years at Killingworth, having moved there from Haddam where the first two sons were born. After Nathaniel's birth they apparently returned to Haddam where their daughter was born. Thomas was a Freeman of Connecticut, a status propounded by the General Court in 1671 and also, like many of the early Shalers, an officer of the militia, having on 4 December 1675 been appointed "Ensign for the Traynor Band". Like many of the men from the towns along the Connecticut River, Thomas was a sailor and spent much of his time at sea. The last known record is his discharge, 3 Mar 1706/7, by the Court from his duties as administrator of the estate of John Kennoe. Some time after that date it is said he sailed for the West Indies and never returned - presumably being lost at sea. The estate was settled 22 December 1714 by the three surviving sons. Since the mother's name was not included in the agreement with those of the children, it is assumed that she was dead.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Shaler, Harrison. Shaylor Genealogy. Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists). (Apr 1972)
4:532-33.
This article states that a sister Hannah died after 22 December 1714; however, neither she nor her husband is named in the settlement of the estate.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jared Spencer, 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)
6:423.
- Shator, Thomas. Haddam, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
2:293-94.
"Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 17-18, Vol. IX, for Invt. and Agreement.
Shaler, Thomas, Haddam. Invt. £117-15-00. Taken 22 December, 1714, by James Wells, Moses Ventrus, Joseph Arnold and Benjamin Smith.
An agreement, dated 22 December, 1714: Know all men by these presents: That we, the subscribers, viz., Thomas Shaler, Abell Shaler and Timothy Shaler, brethren, and sons of Thomas Shaler, late of Haddam, as we suppose deceased: And for what lands, rights in lands, or commonage, or buildings, that was our hond. father's, wee the aforsaid three Shalers, brethren, do for ourselves, our heirs and assigns, agree and determine that (notwithstanding the liberty given by law to the eldest son) foey shall be thus divided, viz: To Thomas Shaler, eldest son, that house and lot that was Samuel Gains his original house lot, and a small lot in the Cove Meadow, and £53 right on the neck or plain on the east side of the Great River, and 18 acres of land that was James Hadlock's, and 24 acres of land at Cow Swamp, and one-third part of all rights in undivided lands and commonage on the west side of the Great River. And to Abell Shaler, a house lot that was William Corby's containing eight acres, and that tract of land called Shaler Farm, and one-third part of all the rights in all undivided lands and commonage on the west side of the Great River in said Haddam. And to Timothy Shaler, that house and homelot that was bought of Thomas Spencer of Saybrook, and one-third part of all the rights of undivided lands and commonage on the west side of the Great River in said Haddam bounds. To the above-written or division of the lands and rights in undivided lands and commonage that was our hond. deceased father's, as is above exprest, shall be and remain to be forever, and that we the said Thomas, Abell and Timothy Shaler, for ourselves, our heirs and assigns, are fully satisfied in the above premises, and do hereby oblige ourselves and foresaid heirs and assigns forever hereafter to abide by and rest satisfied. In testimony whereof, and in full confirmation of the above-written, we have put to our hands and seals the, date above written.
THOMAS SHALER, LS.
ABELL SHALER, LS.
TIMOTHY SHALER, LS.
Witness: James Wells, Joseph Arnold.
Court Record, Page 227—6 December, 1714: Adms. granted jointly to Thomas Shaylor and Timothy Shalor, sons of sd. decd.
Page 230—3 January, 1714-15: Thomas, Abell and Timothy Shalor exhibit now an agreement, which this Court confirm and order it to be recorded."
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