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Thomas Nash [2641]
(1587-1658)

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Thomas Nash [2641]

Born: 1587-1589, Bewdley, Worcestershire, England
Baptized: 27 Mar 1589, Ribbesford, Buckinghamshire, England ¹ ²
Marriage: Margery Baker [2555] in 1614 in England
Died: 12 May 1658, New Haven, New Haven Colony at age 70 ¹
Buried: 1658, New Haven, Connecticut

bullet General Notes:

In 1646, seats in the meeting-house were assigned. His seat was in the second row in the cross seats at the end.

Thomas Nash, the "sonne of Thomas", was baptized 27 March, 1589 at St. Leonard's Church in Bewdley, according to Gertrude Nash Locke in "Lives & Times of the Nash Family."
Thomas came on the good ship, "Hector" arriving Boston on 26 July 1637 or on an un-named ship arriving with the Hector with his wife MARGERY (BAKER) NASH and five children. On 4 Jun 1639, he was an "after subscriber" to the Fundamental Agreement. He was the Commander of the ship, "Charles" sailing to London on June the 21 1679.
He was a smith and a gun smith. His house was on the west side of State Street in New Haven. --- Nareen Lake at www.findagrave.com

bullet Christening Notes:

St. Leonard's

bullet Death Notes:

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• He had a residence in 1625 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands. ³ Before emigration, he was a member of the church in Leyden, Holland, and was one of five who wrote an interesting letter from there, Nov. 30, 1625, to their brethren in Plymouth, informing them of the death of John Robinson, Pastor of the church.

• Membership: signs the New Haven Compact, 1 Jun 1639, Quinnipiac, New Haven Colony. ⁴

• He immigrated in Jul 1639 to Quinnipiac, New Haven Colony. ⁵ ⁶ He sailed with the Whitefield party and was one of the signers of the agreement to remain together made on shipboard.

• Thomas Nash [2641] was a freeman on 1 Oct 1640 in New Haven Colony

• He worked as a Gunsmith in New Haven Colony. ⁷

• He was buried at the Center Church on the Green Churchyard in New Haven, Connecticut in 1658. ⁸

Thomas married Margery Baker [2555] [MRIN: 1005], daughter of Nicholas Baker [2554] and Mary Hodgette [2553], in 1614 in England. (Margery Baker [2555] was born in 1596 in Hertfordshire, England,⁹ ¹⁰ died on 11 Feb 1655/56 in New Haven, Connecticut ¹⁰ and was buried in Feb 1655/56 in New Haven, Connecticut.)

1 (Abbrev: Wright, Anthony
Title: My Family
Author:
Publication: 10 May 2006; http://wc.rootsweb.com~:3229137
Date: 11 May 2006).

2 (Abbrev: Wheeler, Mary Beth
Title: Ancestry of Bob and Mary Beth Wheeler
Author: Wheeler, Mary Beth
Publication: 16 Apr 2005; http://wc.rootsweb.com/~mbwheeler
Date: 20 Aug 2005
Note: Very well documented.)

4 Edward Elias Atwater, Lucy M. Hewitt, Bessie E. Beach, Robert Atwater Smith, History of the colony of New Haven to its absorption into Connecticut, pg 161.

5 Edward Elias Atwater, Lucy M. Hewitt, Bessie E. Beach, Robert Atwater Smith, History of the colony of New Haven to its absorption into Connecticut, pg 125.

7 (Abbrev: New Haven History
Title: History and Antiquities of New Haven, Conn.
Author: Barber, John W., and Punderson, Lemuel S.
Publication: 1856, New Haven, Conn., Published and Sold by the authors.
Date: 16 Jul 2001
Repository:
Name: Ohio University Library
Park Place
Athens, OH 45701-2978

Call Number: F104 N6 B3).

Thomas Nash [2641]

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