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About Thomas Post
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Post-103
Thomas Post, son of Stephen and Ellen Post, was baptized 01 Nov 1631 in Kent, England. [1]
Thomas and his brother John were "Accepted to be made free, according to order of the [Colony] court" 8 Oct 1663.[2] John and Thomas, sons of Stephen Post, were among the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut. [3] Thomas married Mary Andrews in January, 1656, she died at Norwich in March, 1661, and was buried in a corner of her husband's home-lot. She left an infant daughter, Sarah, afterward the wife of Thomas Vincent. Thomas married, 2d, Rebecca Bruen, daughter of Obadiah Bruen of New London, Sept. 2, 1663. He died in 1701, leaving two sons, Obadiah and Joseph, and two daughters, Mary and Hannah. Obadiah died in 1703, without issue. The daughters died at the age of 70 and upward, Joseph, born in 1681, married Mary Post of Saybrook, and died in 1749, leaving an only son, Joseph, and seven daughters.[4]
Thomas married Mary Andrews in January, 1656, she died at Norwich in March, 1661, and was buried in a corner of her husband's home-lot.
Their children were:
- Sarah, Born Nov 1657 in Saybrook, afterward the wife of Thomas Vincent.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_344.html#P93646
5653. Rebecca Bruen. Born say 1640. Rebecca died in Norwich, CT on 15 Apr 1721.
In Sep 1663 Rebecca married Thomas Post, son of Stephen Post (ca 1596-16 Aug 1659) & Ellen Panton (-13 Nov 1670), in Saybrook, CT. Born ca 1631 in Otham, Kent. Thomas was baptized in Otham, Kent, on 1 Nov 1631. Thomas died in Norwich, CT on 5 Sep 1701.
Thomas first married Mary Andrews, second Rebecca Bruen.
Their children include:
- Thomas Post (Dec 1664-)
- Hannah Post (Died soon) (Feb 1666-Jun 1667)
- Mary Post (Jun 1669-7 Mar 1742)
- Obadiah Post (ca 1671-1703)
- Hannah Post (ca 1674-7 Mar 1743/4)
- Joseph Post (ca 1681-23 Apr 1749)
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7LY-FQD : 30 December 2014), Stephen Post in entry for Thomas Post, 01 Nov 1631; citing Kent, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,736,929.
- ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665. p. 412 Google Books
- ↑ The Post family by Post, Marie Caroline, 1845-1926, pg 56, https://archive.org/stream/postfamily00post/postfamily00post_djvu.txt Publication date 1905
- ↑ History of Norwich, Connecticut: from its possession by the Indians, to the year 1866 by Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, 1795-1869 https://archiveorg/stream/historyofnorwich1866caul/historyofnorwich...
- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SY1J-2XN
- See also Steve Carter, "English Ancestry of Stephen^1 Post of Saybrook, Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160 (2006):30-34; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 497-500 for article "Stephen Post"; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
- Robert Charles Anderson, "The Andrews Sisters: Widow Catherine and her sisters," The American Genealgist 64 (1989):89 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). Citing "Edna M. Rogers ... TAG 16:160" [but see especially 16:226-7], Anderson comments that Rogers suggests Thomas Post's wife, Mary Andrews, may have been a sister of Christian Andrews.
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Thomas Post's Timeline
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November 1, 1631
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Otham, Kent, England
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November 1, 1631
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Otham, Kent
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November 1, 1631
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Otham, Kent, Eng
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November 1657
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Norwich CT
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December 1664
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Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
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February 1666
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Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA
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June 1669
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Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
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October 6, 1671
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Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, Colonial America
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