Mehitabel Thomas

Biography

From Page 653 of The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 11 By Harry Clemons

Israel* Thomas {Daniel' John1), of New Haven, husbandman, deeded land to John Sherman from brother Recompence Thomas, deceased, 24 Apr. 1722. (N. H. L. VI. 83.) In Sept. 1767, administration on his estate was granted to his son Gershom; his will, written over twenty years before, was not accepted. (N. H. Pr. X. 440, 543). He married, first, (although conclusive proof is wanting) Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Experience (Pinion) Humphreville, born 2 Apr. 1695. Samuel Humphreville, in his will of 28 Feb., proved 13 June, 1748, mentions the five children of his dau. Sarah. Thomas, deceased. (N. H. Pr. VII.). He married, second, Mehitabel, dau. of John Wolcott, widow of John Ford, born 30 Nov. 1689. Israel Thomas and his wife Mehitabel sold, 25 June 1761, land that came from their father, Mr. John Wolcott, deceased. (N. H. L. XXIII. 225). Mehitabel's first husband, John Ford, died 1722, and 2 Nov. 1730 she is called Mehitabel Ford alias Thomas. (N. H. Pr. VI.). In the probation of the estate of Daniel Johnson, Mehitabel, wife of Israel Thomas, was mentioned among the heirs. (N. H. Pr. X. 11, 22; Nov. 1762). She was his niece; her mother, Sarah Johnson, married first, 8 Feb. 1683, John Wolcott, second, Benjamin Bradley, and third, 19 June 1719, David Perkins.

Citations

• Wolcott, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974), 8:2008. "Mehitabel (Wolcott), b 30 Nov 1689 (New Haven Vital Records), bp 6 Oct 1689 (church record, First Congregational Society, New Haven); …"

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