Thomas Hosmer

Male 1603 - 1687  (84 years)


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  • Name Thomas Hosmer 
    Born 2 Jan 1603  Hawkhurst, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 12 Apr 1687  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7523  Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2022 

    Father Stephen Hosmer,   c. 26 Dec 1570, Ticehurst, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 May 1633, Hawkhurst, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Selden,   b. Abt 1582, of Hawkhurst, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1640  (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Married 25/25 Jan 1601/1602  Ticehurst, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3047  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Frances Bushnell,   b. 1602, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Feb 1675, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 6 Apr 1635 
    Children 
     1. Hannah Hosmer,   b. 1639, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Clemence Hosmer,   b. 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Sep 1695  (Age 55 years)
     3. Stephen Hosmer, Deacon,   b. 1642, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1693, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     4. Esther Hosmer,   b. 1646, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jun 1702  (Age 56 years)
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F3044  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Katherine Hoskins 
    Married 6 May 1679  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F3046  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • !Settled in Newtown, New Cambridge, Mass. in 1632.

      !Married (2) Catherine (Hoskins) Wilton, widow of David Wilton of
      Northampton and dau of John Hoskins & Ann Filer.

      !Death date might be 12 April 1686.

      !Gen. of the Hosmers fam., by James Hosmer
      !Hartford Steam Press
      !Elihu Greer
      !NUC Library
      !Aunt Nean
      !Family group record by Beth Richmond.

      !On Founders' Monument in Hartford, Conn.

      !Might have died Northampton, Conn./Mass.
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      !"The Hosmer heritage : ancestors and descendants of the emigrant
      Thomas Hosmer (1603-1687), by Ronald Roberts.

      !Married 1st Frances
      !Married 2nd Katherine Hoskins, on or about 6 May 1679, Hartford, Conn.
      Katherine was the widow of Lt. David Wilton.

      !Arrived in America was prior to 1632

      !Religion = congregational

      !Residences = Hawkhurst, Kent, England; Newtowne (Cambridge), Mass. -
      prior to 1632; Hartford, Conn. - June 1636; Northampton, Mass.

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      !from "Hosmer Genealogy: descendants of James Hosmer who emigrated
      to America in 1635 and settled in Concord, Mass." by George Leonard
      Hosmer, Technical Composition Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1928. FHL US/CAN
      929.273 H794h.

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      !Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
      US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 320
      !age 83 when he died.
      !bur Center Ch
      !gave the info about 2nd wife above, but gave name as Katherine.
      !Thomas was in Cambridge 1632
      !removed to Hartford in June 1636
      !removed to Northampton where he died.

  • Sources 
    1. [S122] Record of Marriages & Births Copied from the 1st Book of Records under the date 18 May 1674, transcribed by Samuel H. Parsons, (New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 5, January 1851, p. 63 & subsequent.).