Rev. Thomas Hooker1,2,3,4,5,6,7
#3072, b. circa 1586, d. 7 July 1647
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Rev. Thomas Hooker was born circa 1586 at England. He died on 7 July 1647 at Hartford, Hartford, Conn. He was buried on 9 July 1647 at Ancient Burying Ground Cemetery Hartford, Hartford, Conn.8Other Events
In 1633, Rev. Thomas Hooker emigrated from Holland to Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass on the Griffin. 14 May 1634, Rev. Thomas Hooker became a Freeman at Boston, Mass.9 In 1635, Rev. Thomas Hooker, because of heartfelt religious differences, left the First Church of Christ in Cambridge with many of his congregation and settled in Connecticut, founding what is now Hartford. In 1636, he was succeeded at the Cambridge Church by Rev. Thomas Shepard. His estate was probated in 1647; Hartford Probate District, case #2841.10Citations
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- Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 2:786.
- Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698 2 Vols., (Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, (1702) 1853), 1:332.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, Index to Genealogical Periodicals, Together with "My Own Index", 3 vols in 1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010), 3:57.
- Meredith B. Colket, Jr, Founders of Early American Families, 2nd rev. ed. (Cleveland: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002), 166.
- Martin E. Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s (Boston: NEHGS, 2012), 123.
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1996), 2:982.
- Find A Grave Memorial.
- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston: The Legislature, 1853-1854), 1:369.
- Charles Williams Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 3 vols. (Hartford: RS Peck & Company, 1904-1906), 1:16.