Joseph Loomis

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Brief Biography and Family

Joseph Loomis was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut. He was born probably before 1590 at Braintree, in Essex county, England and died in Windsor Connecticut on 25 Nov. 1658.[1]

Parents: John and Agnes Loomis

Married: on 30 June in 1614 to Mary White at Messing, a small village near Braintree, County Essex, England. Mary was baptized on August 24, 1590, at Shalford, England, daughter of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White, of Messing. She died on 23 Aug 1652 at Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Children:

1. Joseph, born in England, about 1615; died at Windsor, June 26, 1687 married 1st, Sarah Hill, Sept. 17, 1646, who died Aug. 23, 1653 ; married 2d, Mary Chauncey, June 28, 1659. On the 3d of July, 1643, he had granted him from the Plantation four acres of land, bounded north by the land of Joseph Loomis the elder, and in 1660 by purchase he acquired land on the east side of the Connecticut. In 1686 he conveyed a part of this land to his son Joseph, and a part to his son John. He was freeman in 1654.
2. Sarah, born 1617, who married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford in 1640. He died Aug. 31, 1684.
3. Elizabeth, born 1619, married Josiah Hull May 20, 1641. Mr. Hull was deputy to the General Court in 1659, '60 and '62. He then removed to Killingworth, from which place he was deputy 1667-74. He died Nov. lo, 1675 ; his wife was living in 1665.
4. Mary, 1620. married 1st, John Skinner; married 2d, Owen Tudor, Nov. 18, 1651. She d. Aug. 19, 1680. He d. Oct. 30, 1690, Windsor.
5. Deacon John, born in England in 1622 ; admitted to the Windsor church Oct. 11, 1640; married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott of Hartford, Feb. 3, 1648-9. On the 3d of May, 1643, he had granted him from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was deacon of the church. He was deputy to General Court in 1666 and '7, also from 1675 to 1687. He died Sept. 1,1688, and his monument is still preserved in the Windsor burying ground. His wife survived him. His will is preserved in the Probate office at Hartford, and his name is signed John Loomys. The will is dated Aug. 27, 1688, and mentions land on both sides of the Connecticut river.
6. Thomas, born in England, married 1st, Hannah Fox, Nov. 1, 1653, who died April 25, 1662; married 2d, Mary, daughter of Thomas Judd, Jan. 1, 1662-3, who died Aug. 8, 1684. He was freeman in 1654, and admitted to the church April 3, 1666. He owned a farm in East Windsor and died Aug. 28, 1689.
7. Nathaniel, 1626;
8. Lieut. Samuel, born in England, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Judd, Dec. 27, 1653. He was freeman in 1654, and admitted to the church Nov. 26, 1661. He was a lieutenant, and removed to Westfield, Mass., between 1672 and '75. He sold his dwelling house in Windsor in 1679, and died Oct. 1, 1689. His widow died May 7, 1606.

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You can see here that the surname has changed from Lummys to Loomis. Actually, this generation spelled the surname Loomys. It comes down to us as Loomis.

Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper, a merchant engaged in the purchase of cloth from the many weavers who wove on hand looms in their cottage homes. He had a store in Braintree, Essex, Eng., stocked with cloths and other goods which a draper usually dealt in. These products he sold both wholesale and retail to tailors and consumers in general.

Braintree and near-by towns were centers of the cloth manufacture, as many weavers from Flanders had been induced to come to England by Edward III and they had been followed by others in the latter part of the sixteenth century, who had settled in Essex, not far from Braintree, in 1570. Joseph Loomis was in prosperous circumstances and his father-in-law, Robert White, was a man of considerable means for those times. Elder John White was a son of Robert White, and the wives of John Porter and Elder William Goodwin were also daughters of Robert White.

Joseph Loomis was married in the church of Saint Michaels, where the family worshipped and where they are buried. This ancient church was founded in 1199, in the first year of the reign of King John. The coat of arms of the Loomis family is carved on one of the ancient Loomis tombs.

He had access to the funds to make the break with the old world to New England, His goods came from Maiden in Essex by way of Ipswich to London, when he started on his journey to America, and he and his family proceeded by land. He sailed with his wife, five sons, and three daughters, from London on 11 April 1638, in the ship “Susan and Ellen” which ship arrived at Boston on July 17th.

After about a year spent in Dorchester, the family moved with the Rev. Ephraim Huet party to Windsor, Connecticut, there arriving August 17, 1639.

By February 1640 Loomis had settled at Windsor, receiving on the 2nd of February, from the Connecticut Plantation, 21 acres adjoining the Farmington River, on the west side (Town Records, Vol. 1). The Massachusetts Bay Colony then had jurisdiction, and he also became owner of several other tracts which he purchased.

Located on a slight elevation above a bend of the Farmington River, the Loomis family homestead dates from 1640, making it one of the oldest houses in Connecticut. Its historical prestige and close ties with the early colonial life of Windsor have made it a symbol of the enduring virtues of those who founded this country.

Joseph Loomis built as his first home a dug-out cabin. His house
was erected before 1652 and located on the “Island” near the mouth of the Farmington River, so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut River. Cabin and house are both preserved on the grounds of the The Loomis Chaffee School, 4 Batchelder Road, in Windsor, Connecticut.

Sources

• Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his antecedents in the Old world; by Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889; Loomis, Elisha S. (Elisha Scott), 1852-1940, ed; Hoppin, Charles Arthur, b. 1866 < Archive.Org >
• Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his antecedents in the Old world; by Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889; Loomis, Elisha S. (Elisha Scott), 1852-1940, ed; Hoppin, Charles Arthur, b. 1866 < Archive.Org >
• http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89060930807;q1=Loomis;star...
• 1906 revision of the "The Loomis Family in America", from the 1875 original by Elias Loomis, L.L.D., by Elisha S. Loomis, Ph.D.
• Abstract of the Disposition of the Estate of Joseph Loomis, Windsor, Connecticut." Found in original records, Vol. 2 page 115-116, and in the printed Digest of Manwaring, Vol. 1 page 135.
• [1] "Joseph Loomis, Son of John and Agnes Loomis, was probably born before 1590, England: married in Messing , Co, Essex, England, June 30, 1614, Mary White, bap. Aug 24, 1590, d. Aug. 23, 1652."..."He died Nov. 25, 1658." Loomis, page 121 of 859 The data appeared on page 121 of 859 pages. It is citation #1 of 12,670.
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Link

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_Homestead

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