Deacon Benjamin Colt

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1699

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Benjamin Colt (1698-1754) = Miriam Harris
Benjamin Colt = Lucretia Ely
Christopher Colt = Sarah Caldwell
Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor of the Colt revolver

TWK is a second cousin, five times removed, to Samuel Colt.

Deacon married Miriam Harris on 26 May 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Temperance Colt was born on 28 Feb 1738; died in 1799 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut.

John married Sarah Lord before Jan 1688. Sarah (daughter of William Lord and (Unknown first wife of William Lord)) was born before 1659 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died before 9 Sep 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "Mary Lord" in The Descendants [By the Female Branches] of Joseph Loomis (citation details below) and other sources, incorrectly as far as we can tell.

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In 1658-60 he was a servant of Joseph Mygatt, a Hartford weaver who had received a license to "sell strong liquors by retail."

John married Mary Skinner after Aug 1660. Mary (daughter of John Skinner and Mary Loomis) was born about 1633; died between 14 Jul 1663 and 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1639

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In 1999 Gale Ion Harris (citation details below) established that John¹ Colt married Mary Skinner, not her sister Ann as claimed by most prior sources.

William married (Unknown first wife of William Lord) before 1643. (Unknown died before 3 Jun 1664. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said in the genealogy section of the Boston Evening Transcript, 5 Nov 1923, to have been named "Hattie Nickerson." No such person appears in The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts, Parts I, II & III by Pauline Wixon Derrick with Gertrude James and Barbara E. Goward (Cape Cod, Massachusetts: The Nickerson Family Association, 1997), nor does William Lord.

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• Alternate death: 1650

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In Hartford by 1639; his name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. Removed to Windsor at some point not known.

"It is not known when John Skinner removed from Braintree, Essex, England, but it is certain that he was the grandson of William Skinner and Margerie Trotter of Braintree, and that their daughter Anne married John Talcott, father of Hartford Founder John Talcott, whose sister Rachel married Hartford Founder John Steele, and whose sister Sarah married Hartford Founder William Wadsworth. That John Skinner was the son of John, son of William and Margerie, is uncertain. The will of Anne (Skinner) (Talcott) Wall (whose second husband was Moses Wall), shows that her brother Richard had a son John, and that her brother John had a son John. The will of William also specifies that he had a son Richard who had a son John, and that he had a son John who had a son John. It is through the naming pattern of the sons of Hartford Founder John Skinner that the probability of him being son of John arises: His first son was named John, the second Joseph, and the third was Richard. This does not constitute proof, but points in that direction." [Timothy Lester Jacobs at the Founders of Hartford site]

John married Mary Loomis. Mary (daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White) died on 19 Aug 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 29 May 1651

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Emigrated with his wife and children after 29 Apr 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann.

He was an original proprietor and one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut; his name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. After arriving in Massachusetts in 1635, the Lord family joined the party of the Rev. Thomas Hooker and about 100 other men, woman, and children, and set out from Newtown to form a new settlement on the Connecticut River.

"They traveled more than a hundred miles, through a hideous and trackless wilderness to Hartford. They had no guide but their compass; and made their way over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers, which were passable with great difficulty. They had no cover but the heavens, and no lodgings but such as nature afforded them. They drove with them one hundred and sixty head of cattle and subsisted by the way on the milk of their cows. Mrs. Hooker was borne through the wilderness on a litter. The people generally carried their packs, arms and some utensils. They were nearly a fortnight on their journey. This adventure was the more remarkable as many of this company were persons of figure, who in England had lived in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were strangers to fatigue and danger." [Trumbull's Memorial History of Hartford]

His death date is unknown, but has to have been before 29 May 1651, as on that date Dorothy Lord is shown selling land, and at the time in Connecticut a wife could not make contracts while her husband was living. He may have died as early as shortly after 29 Jan 1644, the date of his last appearance in Hartford town records.

Thomas Lord (1585-1667) = Dorothy Bird (b. 1588)
William Lord (1618-1678)
Hannah Lord (b. bet 1670 and 1678) = John Maltby (1670-1727)
Mary Maltby (1708-1793) = Gershom Lewis (1704-1766)
Nathaniel Lewis (b. 1740) = Esther Tuttle (b. 1747)
Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) = Isaac Hale (1783-1839)
Emma (Hale) Smith (1804-1879), wife of LDS founder Joseph Smith

Thomas married Dorothy Bird on 23 Feb 1611 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Robert Bird and Amy) was born before 25 May 1588 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 25 May 1588 in St. Laurence, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; died between 8 Feb 1669 and 12 May 1675; was buried in First Church, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1675

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Emigrated with her husband and children after 29 Apr 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann.

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• Alternate death: 25 Nov 1658, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut

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He was a woolen-draper. One of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut.

That he was from Braintree in Essex is established by a deposition dated 30 Jul 1639, the original of which is still extant, by Joseph Hills of Charlestown (Massachusetts), who says that he, Joseph Hills, came to New England in 1638 on the Susan & Ellen and that the ship also contained various goods and commodities belonging to Joseph Loomis "late of Brayntree in the County of Essex, Woolen-draper." (Loomis and his family were in fact also on the Susan & Ellen, but their presence was not germane to Joseph Hills' deposition.) In addition, the will of Joseph Loomis's father-in-law, Robert White, 27 May 1617, includes a bequest to "my daughter Marie the wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree".

Probably spent their first year at Dorchester, then removed overland to Windsor, Connecticut.

"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"]

Joseph Loomis (~1590-1658) = Mary White (1590-1652)
John Loomis (~1622-1688) = Elizabeth Scott (1625-1696)
Elizabeth Loomis (1671-1722) = John Brown (1669-1729)
John Brown (1700-1790) = Mary Eggleston (1702-1787)
Capt. John Brown (1728-1776) = Hannah Owen (1740-1831)
Owen Brown (1771-1856) = Ruth Mills (1771-1808)
John Brown, abolitionist (1800-1859)

Joseph Loomis (~1590-1658) = Mary White (1590-1652)
Sarah Loomis (~1617-1689) = Capt. Nicholas Olmstead (1612-1684)
Sarah Olmstead (1641-1709) = Capt. George Gates (1624-1724)
Daniel Gates (1680-1761) = Rebecca Dutton (1686-1749)
Daniel Gates (1706-1775) = Lydia Fuller (1709-1778)
Lydia Gates (1732-1817) = Solomon Mack (1732-1820)
Lucy Mack (1775-1856) = Joseph Smith, Sr. (1771-1840)
Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

Joseph married Mary White on 30 Jun 1614 in Shalford, Essex, England. Mary (daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar) was born before 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; was christened on 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; died on 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Joan about 1582. Joan died before 22 Sep 1610 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; was buried on 22 Sep 1610 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Amy. Amy was born in of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Lumace.

John married Agnes Linwood about 1589. Agnes (daughter of John Lingwood and Jane Marler) was born about 1565. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"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.]

"ROBERT WHITE of Messing, Essex, England who married Bridget Allgar and whose descendants immigrate to Connecticut. His parentage remains unknown. Best research remains: The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948); Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943 and 1931); Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England by Ernest Flagg (1926, reprint 1973), and 'The Children of Robert White of Messing,' NEHGR 55 (1901):22-31." [Martin Hollick, The Slovak Yankee, "Bogus Royal Lines For Gateway Ancestors From Whom I Descend."]

Robert married Bridget Allgar on 24 Jun 1585 in Shalford, Essex, England. Bridget (daughter of William Allgar) was born on 11 Mar 1562 in Shalford, Essex, England; died after Jun 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]