Ancestral Glimpses » Thomas Miner (± -1690)

Persönliche Daten Thomas Miner 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1607–8 in ENGLAND.
• Eingewandert am 14. Juni 1630 vanuit Salem, Massachusetts, British Americanlanding in the ship, Arabella..
• (Last Name) : maybe spelled Minor.
• (Military) in King Phillip's War: as Captain.
• Er ist verstorben am 3. Oktober 1690 in Wiquetequoe, Connecticut, British America.
• Er wurde beerdigt in Wiquetequoe, Connecticut, British Americaon the banks of the Wiqueteque creek, near his residence..
• Ein Kind von Clement Miner
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 5. Februar 2017.

Familie von Thomas Miner

Er ist verheiratet mit Grace Palmer.

Sie haben geheiratet am 20. April 1633 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, British America.

Kind(er):

1. Joseph Miner  1644-???? 

Notizen bei Thomas Miner

Thomas Minor, second son of Clement, born in England, in the year 1607, sailed from England in the ship Arabella, and landed at Salem, Massachusetts, 14 Jun 1630. He became a planter at Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he subscribed to the covenant and became a member of the established church. He md. there, 20 Apr 1633, Grace Palmer, who had come from England to Charlestown, with her father Walter Palmer in 1629, her mother having died in England a year before their emigration. In the year succeeding his marriage, Thomas Minor and Grace, his wife, joined the Connecticut colony projected by John Winthrop, the younger, and removed to Saybrook, Connecticut, and accompanied Winthrop to New London in 1643, where he was made a freeman in 1646, and one of the five first selectmen of the town of Pequot, as New London was first known. In 1647, he was appointed by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as the legislative body of New England was called, an assistant, or justice of the county court, and was also appointed sergeant of the Pequot Squadron, or Train Band, with authority to call out and train soldiers for the defense of the settlement. He represented New London in the General Court in 1650 and 1651. 8 Jan 1651-52, he was appointed with Hugh Calkin to lay out 300 acres of land for William Cheesebrough, at Pawkatuck, on the site of the present Stonington borough, where Cheesebrough was the first settler, but was followed a few months later by Walter Palmer, the father of Thomas Minor's wife. Mr. Palmer, as before stated, had located in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1629, where he was made a freeman in 1631. The following year (1632) he md., as his second wife, Rebecca Short, and in 1642, removed to Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, which he later represented in the General Court. 5 Apr 1652, Walter Palmer contracted with Governor John Haynes, for 300 acres, east of the Mystic River, in what is now Stonington, then known as Pawkatuck, and took possession, 15 Jul 1653. The contract of sale was witnessed by Thomas Minor and his son John. Palmer purchased an additional 100 acres of the town of New London in Feb 1653-54, and 500 acres the following year, and by May 1655, had 1,190 acres and 55 acres of meadow there. He died in Stonington in 1662, and lies bur. in the old burying ground on the banks of Wiquetequoc creek. Thomas Minor purchased a tract of land at Pawkatuck adjoining his father-in-law, and removed thereon in the spring of 1653, he and his son Clement purchasing additional tracts there in 1657, though Clement remained in the bounds of New London. Thomas Minor was one of the first selectmen of the new town, first under the jurisdiction of New London, but in 1658 the General Court decided that the territory east of the Mystic belonged to Massachusetts, and it was erected into a separate town under the name of Southerton, and included in Suffolk county. Walter Palmer was the first constable and Thomas Minor was one of four men to whom was intrusted the government of the town until officers were elected. On an appeal to the next General Court, the jurisdiction was again awarded to Connecticut, and in 1665, the name was changed from Southerton to Mystic and in 1666, to Stonington.
Thomas Minor, became an assistant, or justice of Stonington, and filled successively all the important official positions in the town, including that of chief military officer of the town with the rank of captain, and as such directed the formation of the various military companies for service in King Philip's War. He died 3 Oct 1690, aged eighty-three years, and his wife died in the same year. Both were bur. in the ancient grave-yard on the banks of the Wiquetequoc creek, near their residence, where a tombstone records the age of Thomas Minor as given above:

"Here lyes the body of Litenant Thomas Minor, aged 83 years. Departed 1690."

The five eldest sons of Thomas and Grace (Palmer) Minor, were born at
Saybrook, Middlesex county, Connecticut, viz: John, Thomas, Joseph, Clement and Ephraim. His next child Manasseh, was the second child born in the new settlement of Pequot, now New London, 28 Apr 1647, and he was first native of the town to be officially admitted as an inhabitant, 28 Feb 1669. Two daus. born at Pequot died in infancy, and another son Samuel and a dau., were born there in 1652 and 1655 respectively. By reason of the father's several commissions to treat with and military expeditions against the Indians, he, and his elder sons, became proficient in the language of the aborigines, and were frequently called upon to act as interpreters. The eldest son. John Miner, was selected by the General Court in 1654, to be instructed as a teacher and missionary among the Indians, as was John Stanton, by reason of their proficiency in the Indian language; though neither fully followed out the plan of their patrons, both became useful men, filling positions as recorders, clerks, etc. John Miner removed to Stratford abt. 1658, and later to Woodbury.

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