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Thomas Ford

Male Bef 1591 - 1676  (> 85 years)


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  • Name Thomas Ford  [1
    Alternate birth Abt 1589  Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Alternate birth Abt 1590  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Birth Bef 1591  Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Alternate death 9 Nov 1676  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Death 28 Nov 1676  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Person ID I1521  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Family 1 Ann   d. 5 May 1675, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Ann Ford,   b. Abt 1657   d. 6 Jan 1691, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 34 years)
    Family ID F11868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2018 

    Family 2 Elizabeth Chard,   b. Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Apr 1643, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 19 Jun 1616  Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 6, 7
    Children 
    +1. Joanna Ford,   b. Bef 8 Jun 1617   d. 29 Jun 1695, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 78 years)
    +2. Abigail Ford,   b. Bef 8 Oct 1619, Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1688, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 68 years)
    +3. Hepzibah Ford,   b. Bef 15 May 1625   d. 11 Apr 1683, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 57 years)
    Family ID F3875  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Emigrated 1630 on the Mary and John. First at Dorchester, then Windsor 1637, Northampton 1672. Deputy to Connecticut General Court twice in 1638, and in 1639, 1640, 1641 (marked absent), 1644, 1654.

      "According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million." [Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS," 1985.]

      "It is possible [Thomas Ford] was the son of John FORD III and Joan BECK (m. Feb. 3, 1583, Piddlehinton, Dorset, England), and nephew of Thomas FORD, merchant of Dorchester who died Jan. 20, 1610/11. The latter's will, proved May 8, 1611 names, among others, his brother John, and "Thomas, son of my brother, John FORDE." [Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)]

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      Thomas Ford (1591-1676) = Elizabeth Chard (1587-1643)
      Abigail Ford (1619-1688) = John Strong (1610-1699)
      Thomas Strong (1637-1689) = Rachel Holton (1650-?)
      Joseph Strong (1672-1763) = Sarah Allen (1672-1724)
      Joseph Strong (1701-1773) = Elizabeth Strong (1704-1792)
      Benejah Strong (1740-1809) = Lucy Bishop (1747-1783)
      Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
      Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
      Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
      Frances Eleanor Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
      Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
      Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
      Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
      William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

  • Sources 
    1. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    2. [S390] Freeman" target="_blank">http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm">Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine).

    3. [S978] American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales by Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984.

    4. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    5. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.

    6. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938.

    7. [S684] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Thomas Ford of Dorchester, England and Dorchester, Mass." The American Genealogist 16:41, July 1939.