Mary Loomis

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brief biography and family

Mary White was baptised on August 24, 1590 in Shalfold, County of Essex, England. Based on her baptismal record, her birth year is estimated as 1590. She came from a well-do-do family. Her father was Robert White (sometimes spelled Whighte), a property owner and man of considerable means for the times, and her mother was Bridget Allgar.

It has been speculated by one author that Mary may have met her future husband when she came to the large Braintree market with her father from their village of Shalford, a few miles away. On June 30, 1614 at the age of 23, Mary married Joseph Loomis, a successful cloth merchant in Braintree, England, and they had eight children. (See story for Joseph Loomis.)

Two of Mary's siblings came to America in 1632--her brother John White (who became a church elder) and his wife Mary Levitt, and her sister Elizabeth White and her husband William Goodwin.

On July 17, 1638 in her late 40s, Mary, her husband Joseph and their 8 children came to America aboard the ship Susan and Ellen. They were accompanied by another of Mary's sisters, Anna White and Anna's husband John Porter.

They landed in Boston. The following year, 1639, they moved to what was to become Windsor, Connecticut and were among the earliest settlers there. Mary's sister Anna and John Porter built a home near Mary and Joseph's on The Island in Windsor, so called because when the Connecticut River overflowed its banks the land became an island.

Mary and Joseph Loomis's house in Windsor still stands. It remained in the family over the generations and has been carefully restored and remodeled. Today it is one of the oldest houses in Connecticut.

Mary died on August 23, 1652 in Connecticut.

Mary White was baptized on August 24, 1590 in Shalfold, County of Essex, England. Based on her baptismal record, her birth year is estimated as 1590. She came from a well-do-do family. Her father was Robert White (sometimes spelled Whighte), a property owner and man of considerable means for the times, and her mother was Bridget Allgar.

It has been speculated by one author that Mary may have met her future husband when she came to the large Braintree market with her father from their village of Shalford, a few miles away. On June 30, 1614 at the age of 23, Mary married Joseph Loomis, a successful cloth merchant in Braintree, England, and they had eight children. (See story for Joseph Loomis.)

On July 17, 1638 in her late 40's, Mary, her husband Joseph and their 8 children came to America aboard the ship Susan and Ellen. They were accompanied by another of Mary's sisters, Anna White and Anna's husband John Porter.

They landed in Boston. The following year, 1639, they moved to what was to become Windsor, Connecticut and were among the earliest settlers there. Mary's sister Anna and John Porter built a home near Mary and Joseph's on The Island in Windsor, so called because when the Connecticut River overflowed its banks the land became an island.

Mary and Joseph Loomis' house in Windsor still stands. It remained in the family over the generations and has been carefully restored and remodeled. Today it is one of the oldest houses in Connecticut.

Mary died on August 23, 1652 in Connecticut.

Mary White1,2

1. 8865, b. before 24 August 1590, d. 23 August 1652

Mary White b. b 24 Aug 1590\nd. 23 Aug 1652 p355.htm#i8865 Robert White b. 24 Jun 1561\nd. b 17 Jun 1617 p132.htm#i3282 Bridget Allgar b. b 11 Mar 1562\nd. a 24 Jun 1605 p132.htm#i3298 Robert White b. c 1542\nd. 7 Sep 1600 p429.htm#i10713 Alice Wright b. 1544\nd. 22 Aug 1596 p429.htm#i10714 William Allgar b. 1536\nd. b 2 Aug 1575 p359.htm#i8968 Margaret A. Parye b. 1540\nd. 25 Aug 1612 p359.htm#i8969

    Mary White was born before 24 August 1590 in Essex, England.1 She was baptized on 24 August 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England.4,2 She was the daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar.3,2 Mary White married Joseph Loomis, son of John Loomis and Agnes Lingwood, on 30 June 1614 in Shalford, Essex, England.4,5,2 Mary White died on 23 August 1652 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony, now Hartford County.1,2

    Mary White and Joseph Loomis immigrated on the Susan & Ellen, departing from London, England 11 Apr. 1638, arriving 17 July 1638 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their children Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Nathaniel and Samuel traveled with them.4,2 

Children of Mary White and Joseph Loomis

1. Joseph Loomis4 b. 1616, d. 26 Jun 1687
2. Sarah Loomis6 b. 1617, d. 1667
3. Elizabeth Loomis+1 b. 10 Jun 1619, d. 16 Nov 1675
4. Mary Loomis+6 b. 1620, d. 19 Aug 1680
5. John Loomis4,2 b. 1622, d. 1 Sep 1688
6. Thomas Loomis4 b. 1624, d. 28 Aug 1689
7. Nathaniel Loomis4 b. 1626, d. 19 Aug 1688
8. Lieut. Samuel Loomis4 b. 1628, d. 1 Oct 1689

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Mary and Joseph were married on 30 June 1614 at an unknown locale.

notes

The Line of Robert and Bridget White became ancestors of USA Presidents Grant, Cleveland and Ford through their daughter Anna who married John Porter. Through the marriage of daughter Mary White and Joseph Loomis came the 13th USA President Millard Fillmore, Joseph Smith, founder of LDS church, and Roy O. Crutcher family.

Robert and Bridget were also ancestors of Reverend Solomon Williams, father of 'signer' William Willams and of author Richard Henry Dana through same daughter.

Two of Mary's siblings came to America in 1632--her brother John White (who became a church elder) and his wife Mary Levitt, and her sister Elizabeth White and her husband William Goodwin.

sources

• [S295] Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor.
• [S1108] Blackman and Allied Families, online.
• [S295] Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. II, Surnames G-H.
• [S295] Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor.
• [S538] "A descendant", "Children of Robert White."
• [S389] Gary Silverstein, "Gary's Database", Oct. 8, 2002, unverified.

links

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19929327/mary-loomis
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-502

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From Mary White was born on 24 August 1590 at Shalford, Co. Essex, England. She was the daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar. Mary White married Joseph Loomis on 30 June 1614 at Messing, County Essex, England. Mary White died on 23 August 1652 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, at age 61.

Beverly Schonewolf also provided the following narrative. "Three women, viz., the wives of Lieut. Filer, and of John Drake (Hannah Moore), and of Nathaniel Lomas (Elizabeth Moore), having crossed Connecticut River upon a necessary and neighborly account (undoubtedly to attend a woman in labor-H.R.S.), and having done the work they went for, were desiring to return home to their own families, the river being at that time partly shut up with ice, old and new, and partly open. There being some pains taken aforehand to cut a way through the ice, the three women abovesaid got into a canoe, with whom also there was Nathaniel Bissell and an Indian. There was likewise another canoe with two men in it, that went before them to help them, in case they should meet with any distress, which indeed quickly came upon them, for just as they were getting out of the narrow passage between the ice, being near the middle of the river, a greater part of the upper ice came down upon them, and struck the end of the canoe and broke it to pieces so that it quickly sunk under them." "The Indian speedily got upon the ice, but Nathaniel Bissell and the abovesaid women were left floating in the middle of the river, being cut off from all manner of human help besides what did arise from themselves, and the two men in the little canoe, which was so small that three persons durst seldom, if ever, venture into it. They were indeed discerned from one shore, but the dangerous ice would not admit from either shore one to come to them. All things thus circumstanced, the suddenness of the stroke and distress (which is apt to amaze men especially when no less than life is concerned), the extreme coldness of the weather, it being a sharp season, that persons out of the water were in danger of freezing, the inaptness of persons to help themselves, being mostly women, one big with child, and near the time of her travail (who also was carried away under the ice), the other as unskilled and inactive to do anything for self-preservation as almost any could be, the waters deep, that there was no hope of footing, no passage to either shore in any eye of reason, neither with their little canoe, by reason of the ice, nor without it, the ice without the loss of life, or wrong to health, was counted in the day of it a remarkable Providence." "To say how it was done is difficult, yet, something of the manner of the deliverance may be mentioned. The abovesaid Nathaniel Bissell, perceiving their danger and being active in swimming, endeavored what might be the preservation of himself and some others; he strove to have swam to the upper ice, but the stream being too hard, he was forced downward to the lower ice, where, by reason of the slipperyness of the ice, and disadvantage of the stream, he found it difficult getting up; at length, by the good hand of Providence, being gotten upon the ice, he saw one of the women swimming down under the ice, and perceiving a hole or open place some few rods below there, he watched and took her up as she swam along. The other two women were in the river till the two men in the little canoe came for their relief. At length all of them got their heads above water, and had a little time to pause, though a long and difficult way to any shore, but by getting their little canoe upon the ice, and carrying one at a time over hazardous places they did (though in a long while) get all safe to the shore from whence they came." Reference: Increase Mather, Remarkable Providences Pub. 1684, p. 24. of George Offer's edition, London. Above account was given 1670, Jan. 13.#S587
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(1 VIEW BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS IN STORY (MEMORIES) FOR THIS RECORD,LZ2X-57M.​ (2) .See also [CONTRIBUTION 21 June 2015 by "Barrow C Phelps"]: Joseph Loomis from Braintree, Essex county, England, sailed with his wife, five sons and three daughters 11 Apr 1638, in the ship Susan and Ellen. They arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638. They then removed to Windsor, CT in 1639. His wife died 23 Aug 1652, and he died 25 Nov 1658.

Their children were Joseph Jr who married first Sarah Hill, and second Mary Chauncey; a daughter who married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted; Elizabeth who married Josiah Hull; John who married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Scott; Thomas who married first Hannah Fox, and second Mary, the daughter of Thomas Judd; Nathaniel who married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Moore; Mary who married first John Skinner, and second Owen Tudor; and Samuel who married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Judd.

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This Mary is the same as Mary Loomis. Merge must be performed by a curator due to relationship locks on that profile. (Alternatively, this profile could be deleted.)

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Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1590 at Colchester, Essex, England <unattested>.