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- From Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue (citation details below):
On March 5, 1672, John Tompkins and Samuel Hoyt, Sr., were admitted as "Inhabitants of Eastchester." In the land list for the year 1677, we find John Tompkins as holding 24 acres, and on January 31, 1698 he took an "Oath of Allegiance to the King."
The members of the Tompkins family were all Episcopalians, or Church of England, as it was called in colonial days. In later years they were very active in St Paul's church in Eastchester. In 1678, the little colony decided that "we will meet together on Sabbath days, for time to come to celebrate the worship and service of God, in the best manner that we can attain unto." They decided to pay toward the said Sabbath day's services a free-will offering, and here we find John Tompkins contributing eight shillings, and his brother, Nathaniel, ten. The same year they decided to pay 40 pounds to Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island, "provided he will come and live among us, and perform the office of minister." Mr. Jones appears to have been among them until about 1692, when he was succeeded by Mr. Samuel Golding. He was to receive his pay in wheat and corn and John Tompkins subscribed "3 bushel of good winter wheat." In 1693 they resolved to build a meeting-house and John Tompkins and others were chosen to oversee the building of it. In July, 1696, they decided to "lighten the meeting house by a lantern to every seat of the same." One of these seats belonged to John Tompkins. This meetinghouse was a frame building, twemty-eight feet square and about eighteen feet to the eaves. The sides as well as the roof were shingled. [...] John Tompkins held many town offices in Eastchester.
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"Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island" was an odd character with a highly varied life. Some sense of him can be derived from "Morgan Jones, Llanmadock, in America" by Henry Blackwell, viewable hereMagnalia. But he is most remembered for having testified at New York in 1686 that some seventeen years earlier, in Virginia, he and several others were captured by hostile natives and that he survived because he was liberated by "Indians of the Doeg tribe" who, like Jones, spoke fluent Welsh. This was received by the few who took note of it as further proof that, as asserted by various early Welsh poets, one Madog, son of Owain Gwynedd, prince of North Wales, sailed westward in 1162 and established a colony in a land beyond the great sea. Jones's testimony was given wide circulation some decades later, in 1740, when it was published in the Gentleman's Magazine under the heading "The Crown of England's Title to America prior to that of Spain." Accompanying Jones's account, Theophilus Evans, vicar of St. David's in Brecon, wrote, "Sir, That the vast continent of America was first discovered by Britons, about 300 years before the Spaniards had any footing here; and that the descendants of that first colony of Britons, who then seated themselves there, are still a distinct People, and retain their original language, is a Matter of Fact, which may be indesputably proved, by the concurrent Account of several Writers and Travellers. I shall first quote a letter of Mr. Morgan Jones, Chaplain to the Plantation of S. Carolina..."
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1642 - Bef 1720 (< 78 years)
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