Thomas Coleman

- 1674

• Name	Thomas Coleman  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Oct 1674	Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Burial	1 Oct 1674	Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I15496	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 1	(Unknown first wife of Thomas Coleman)
  Children	1. John Coleman,   b. 1635   d. 21 Jan 1711, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 76 years)   2. Sarah Coleman,   b. Abt 1642   d. 23 Aug 1734, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 92 years)
  Family ID	F9766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Frances Albright,   b. Abt 1600   d. Bef 26 Mar 1678, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	Bef 6 Mar 1638  [5]
  Family ID	F17993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated in 1639; first at Wethersfield, where he served as a representative to the General Court in 1652 and 1656; then at Hadley, where they were among the first settlers. His children John and Sarah were both by an unknown first wife.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S1650] Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby by Lucius Manley Boltwood. Northampton: Metcalf & Company, 1862. [S1995] Donald Lines Jacobus and W. Herbert Wood, "Widow Frances Wells and Hugh Wells of Wethersfield." The American Genealogist 28:227, 1952. [S4365] Douglas Richardson, "The Widow Frances (Albright) Wells, Wife of Thomas Coleman of Wethersfield and Hadley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146:28, 1992.