Thomas Spring, son of Ephraim and Mary (Bowen) Spring, was born in Rehoboth, June 3, 1737, and removed to Simsbury, now Granby, Connecticut, where, according to the first Federal census, he was residing in 1790, his family at that time consisting of three males over sixteen years of age, two under sixteen, and four females. His son, Svlvester, also had a family in 1790. Thomas Spring was a carpenter by trade, and died March 24, 1825. He married (first) April 30, 1761, Mary Gossard, born in Simsbury, now Granby, Connecticut, October 1, 1739, died April 6, 1789. He married (second) in December, 1789, Abigail Hawley, who died in Ohio. Children, all born in Simsbury, to the first marriage: Mary, horn February 1, 1762; Ephraim; Thomas, of whom further; Sylvester, born June 26, 1767; Sarah, born December 15, 1769; Amelia, born September 2, 1774; Ciriel, born September 11, 1776; and Samuel, born June 5, 1780."
