Person:Timothy Thrall (1)

"Timothy Thrall … Son of William Thrall, born in Windsor, Connecticut, 25 July 1641, died there June 1697. Married in Windsor, 10 Nov. 1659. Deborah Gunn, dau. of Thomas Gunn who came with Dorchester Company.

In the Windsor Church records of this period, Timothy Thrall is grouped with the men who had a family, a horse and two yokes of oxen, so it would appear that he was a better businessman than his brother-in-law, John Hosford. Hosford, however, is on two military lists. First on a list dated 11 Mar. 1658 of 37 Windsor men in the first horse troops (30 horse) in the Colony. Second, he was paid 6s 8d for fighting in King Philip's War.

Both men protested the town vote to invite Mr. Chauncy to replace the aging Rev. Wareham as minister of the Windsor Church in 1662. When the 54 dissenting members were allowed to form their own church, the brothers-in-law went with them and became leaders of the Second Church. This new congregation were more Presbyterian than Congregational, and opposed to Chauncy's ideas. This sort of schism was occurring throughout all the New England colonies and therefore the Windsor dissenters, when they appealed to the Colonial Council, were less harshly treated than they might have been. In the end, after years of wrangling, which split the town, the two Windsor Churches reunited The first overtures were made by the Second Church, who sent John Hosford, Timothy Thrall and Jacob Gibbs to negotiate.

Timothy Thrall was a land-owner. He had a place of his own, or did soon after his marriage in 1659. His father-in-law, Thomas Gunn, gave him the original Gunn homestead and lot, as well as Gunn's land on the other side of the River. Timothy moved to a new house and again he was a leader in the forming of a new Church. Timothy was, we assume, honest and able, as he was named as executor in several wills.

Deborah Gunn, Timothy's wife, is mentioned in Old Windsor records. Her father moved in 1665, to Westfield, Mass. and became active in the Westfield Parish, leaving all his Windsor property to his son-in-law. Thomas Gunn died in Westfield on 26 February 1681.

Timothy and Deborah Thrall had eleven children of whom two died in infancy."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Timothy Thrall, in Thrall, D Steven, and Grant Leslie Thrall. Thrall genealogy, 1630-1965: Descendants of William Thrall. (1976)
   2-3.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 William Thrall; Fam. 2. Timothy² Thrall, in Stiles, Henry R. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1892): including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks and Ellington, 1635-1891. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892)
   2:761.

   "Timothy (Thrall), 'b. 25 July, bp. 1641.'—O. C. R."
   "Fam. 2. Timothy (Thrall)² {William^l), m. Deborah (dau. Thomas) Gunn, 10 Nov., 1659; contrib. 1s. 6d. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Colonies, 1676."

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Timothy² Thrall, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943)
   2:794-97.
4. ↑ Timothy Thrall, 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)
   4:293.

   "Thrall, Timothy, Windsor, only s. of William of the same, m. 5 or 10 Nov. 1659, Deborah, d. of Thomas Gunn of the same, had Deborah, b. 9 Aug. 1660; Timothy, 7 Dec. 1662; Mehitable, Mar. 1665; Eliz. 1 May 1667; John, 8 June 1669, d. soon; John, again, 5 June 1671; Martha, 31 May 1673; Thomas, 5 May 1675, d. at 3 mos.; Thomas, again, 10 July 1676; Samuel, and Abigail 1681; and his w. d. 7 Jan. 1695. He d. June 1697, leav. good est."

5.   Genealogy of US Thralls by D. Stephan Thrall
   [1].
6. ↑ Windsor Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   277.

   "Thrall, … Timothy, b. July 25, 1641; bp. [1641]; …"

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

   Timothy Thrall, Senr dyed June 1697 (Bk I p. Fifty-One)

8.   Timothy Thrall, in Find A Grave.

   This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial.

9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3} Thrall, Timothy, Windsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:591-92.

   "Probate Records. Vol. VI, 1695 to 1700. Page 11-12.
   
   Thrall, Timothy, Windsor. Died June, 1697 (W. R.). Invt. £797-14-07. Taken 25 June, 1697, by Daniel Hayden, Samuel Cross and Michael Taintor. Will dated 13 May, 1697.
   
   I Timothy Thrall of Windsor, being of sound mind & in Health of Body, doe make my Last will & Testament: I give to my daughter Deborah Moses £10, to Elizabeth Cornish £20, to Mehetabell Clarke £20, to my daughter Martha Pinney £20, to mv daughter Abigail Thrall £30. I give to my four sons, Timothy, John, Thomas and Samuel, all my right and Propriety in those Lands which Lye within the Township of Windsor which were appointed by the Towne to be divided to the proprietors, Inhabitants, by a comitte chosen for that end in the year 168_. I give and bequeath unto my son John Thrall, in the East side of my farm in Windsor, at a place Commonly Called Hoyt’s meadow, Twelve rodds in breadth, bounding easterly in part on Samuel Gibbs, part by Samll Cross, south by the Riverlett, & to runn northerly til it comes to my north bounds. All the rest of my farm at Hoyt’s Meadow, both upland and meadow, I give to my two sons Thomas & Samuel, to be equally divided betwixt them. And they shall each of them have a Yoake of Oxen or Steers, fitt for worke, and One Cow or Heifer a peice, three years of age at least, to be delivered within three years after my decease by my Executor afternamed. And all the Residue of my Estate and goods & Cattells not herein above bequeathed, after my debts and funeral expenses are discharged, I doe give and bequeath to my son John Thrall, whom I doe make sole Executor.
   
   TIMOTHY TRALL. LS.
   
   Witness: Jacob Gibbs, sen., Abraham Phelps.
   
   Court Record, Page 11-12—6 July, 1697: The Will and Invt Exhibited and approved. At the same Court John Thrall and Thomas Thrall declared that Samuel Thrall & Abigail Thrall, being 15 years of age, made choice of Daniel Heyden to be their guardian."