John Tompkins, of Concord & Fairfield

Do not confuse with John Tompkins, of Salem

John Tompkins

• parents unknown.
• Married Elizabeth. She married William Heyden 2nd.

Children of John Tompkins:

1. Ruth Tompkins, b 1 June 1640 [9]
2. John Tompkins, b Concord, MA on 25 Aug 1642;[10] m & settled at Eastchester, NY
3. Nathaniel Tompkins, b perhaps in Fairfield, CT after 1644, d Eastchester, NY on 6 Sep 1684; m Elizabeth (Unknown)

19th century accounts of the family history say John came from the north of England, which may represent an authentic family tradition.[1] (The Salem, Mass. Tompkins which whom this family is often confused, descended from the immigrant Ralph Tompkins, were from the south of England.) He married Elizabeth ____ and they lived in Concord, Massachusetts, where the births of two of their children are recorded. John arrived in Massachusetts by 1640, when Ruth was born. They moved to Fairfield, Connecticut with the Jones party. He died there.[2][3] Jacobus has:

Of Concard, Mass.; came with Jones contingent to Fairfield, where he died, and his widow m. William Heyden and rem. to Eastchester, N.Y.

He died so early that his will is not found; but on 7 Mar. 1660/1, John Wheeler and George Squire, as overseers to [the younger] John "Tomkins" sued William Hayden for £30 for the neglect in executing the will of John Tompkins. They won the suit, and Heyden was ordered to surrender the lands to [the son] John. Since William Hayden [of Windsor] sat on the jury which tried the case, it is obvious that a different man of the same name was the defendent.

RESIDENCE:

-1640, 42, at the birth of his two children, Ruth and John, lived in Concord, Middlesex Co., MA.

-1644, Rev. John Jones, pastor at Concord, took a group of families, including John Tompkins, to remove to Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT.

-Abt 1660, at his death, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT.he lived in Bridgewater and was called "John Tompkins from Salem." He further says that John died or removed early, because no others of that name resided in Bridgewater. He thinks both John and Samuel came from Salem. Samuel may have lived there earlier, but he moved from Duxbury to Bridgewater.

Pope says John lived at Concord, MA. Pope says he died 23 JUN 1681. Purdy says he was a member of the group which went with the Rev. John Jones from Concord to Fairfield, CT. His name appears frequently in the land and title records of Fairfield, per Purdy, who says his home lot was west of Hydes Pond.

Crane's Tompkins lineage

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) Vol. II, p. 139. https://archive.org/details/historichomesins02cran

References

• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tompkins-358 cites

1. E.g. Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I. by Rev. John Cornell (Press of T.A. Wright, 1902) "TOMPKINS LINEAGE." p. 384; American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Vol. 7, ed. by William Richard Cutter (New York: American Historical Society, 1920).
2. A History of the County of Westchester From Its First Settlement To The Present Time, by Robert Bolton, Jr. (New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848) Vol. II, p. 115.
3. Edward Tompkins, A Record of the Ancestry and Kindred of the Children of Edward Tompkins,Sr., p. 5
4. Edward Tompkins, p.59, .
5. Ellery Bicknell Crane in Historic Homes and Institutions..., Vol. II, p. 139 says: (II) John Tompkins, son of John (I) and Elizabeth Tompkins, born August 25, 1642, at Concord, Massachusetts, settled at Eastchester, New York, where all his children were born, and where he has a large number of descendants. Note the vital record does not name a wife.
6. This appears to indicate that the wife of the first John Tompkins, was named Elizabeth, though Crane does not give a source, nor mention her name in his section on (I) John Tompkins.
7. Source: #S521 (I) John Tompkins, emigrated to America from England some time prior to 1640.; Vol 2, p. 139
8. Source: #S497 Jacobus Tompkins, John Of Concord, Mass.; came with Jones contingent to Fairfield, where he died, and his widow m. William Heyden and rem. to Eastchester, N. Y. He died so early that his will is not found; but on 7 Mar. 1660/1, John Wheeler and George Squire, as overseers to [the younger] John "Tomkins", sued William Heyden for £30 for neglect in exercising the will of John Tompkins. They won the suit, and Heyden was ordered to surrender the lands to [the son] John. Since William Heyden [of Windsor] sat on the jury which tried the case, it is obvious that a different man of the same name was the defendant. On 27 Dec. 1687, William Hayden of Eastchester put it upon record that he had sold out his possession land at Eastchester, to his sons-in-law Nathaniel and John Tompkins. [Westchester Deeds.] Children: two recorded at Concord: Ruth, b. 1 June 1640. John, b. 25 Sept. 1642; propounded for freeman of Conn., May 1669, then residing at Fairfield; sold Fairfield property to John Wheeler by 1673, and rem. to Eastchester. Nathaniel, d. at Eastchester, 6 Sept. 1684; purchased land from Mr. John Pell, 1681; will 2 Sept 1684, names wife Elizabeth, bro. John Tompkins, and Nathaniel White, Exec'rs; children, Nathaniel, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary and Rebecca, all under age.; Vol 1, p. 612
9. Tompkins, David A., Eastchester Village, colonial New York 1666-1698: Maps and Inhabitants, (Eastchester Historical Society, 1997), p. 31-32
10. [http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Concord/Images/Concord_003.... Middlesex, Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, Deaths 1635-1850, page 3, "borne 1d, 4m, 1640", that is, June 1, 1640 in New Style
11. [http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Concord/Images/Concord_003.... Middlesex, Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, Deaths 1635-1850, page 3, "borne 25d, 7m, 1640", that is, September 25, 1642 in New Style
12. Source: S497 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Compiled and Edited, by Donald Lines Jacobus (Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930)
13. Source: S521 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) Vol. II, p. 139. Internet Archive
14. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2011) Vol. III, p. 1528. TOMPKINS, John * ____ ____, m/2 William HAYDEN bef 1661; by 1640; Concord/Fairfield, CT {Fairfield Fam 1:612; NYGBR 52:74; 54:393}
15. "Westchester Country, N.Y., Miscellanea", contributed by Theresa Hall Bristol, The Record, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society) Vol. 52, January 1921, p. 75 'LIBER E, LAND RECORDS, WESTCHESTER Co., N.Y. P. 72: John Tompkins, Sr., of Eastchester, for love and goodwill, to natural son John Tompkins, June., of the same place; ' "all my homelot, which was formerly my father-in-law, William Hayden's, dec'd.;" Apr'l 3, 1708.
16. Eastchester Covenant, 1665, from the Town Clerk’s Archives, Town Minutes, Book 1, pp. 74 -75. Its typed transcription and that of most of the early town records was prepared by long-time residents Harriet Bianchi and Phyllis Knowles in advance of Eastchester’s 300th Anniversary in 1964. http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Eastcheste...
17. Westchester Patriarchs. A Genealogical Dictionary Of Westchester County, New York, Families Prior to 1755. Norman Davis. 1988. pp. 238-239.
18. Edward Tompkins, A Record of the Ancestry and Kindred of the Children of Edward Tompkins,Sr. Late of Oakland,California, With An Appendix (Privately Printed, 1893) [Available on Google Books]