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Thomas Hanford

Male 1668 - 1743  (74 years)


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  • Name Thomas Hanford 
    Born 18 Jul 1668  Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 7 Jun 1743  Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1461  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Hannah Lockwood,   b. 23 Dec 1667, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Dec 1745, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married Abt 1693  , Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F419  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 257/8: "Thomas Hanford, Son of Rev. Thomas Hanford (and Mary Miles). B. at Norwalk, 18 Jul 1668; d. there 7 Jun 1743 in 75 yr. (gravestone). Married Hannah (Lockwood), widow of John Burwell, and dau. of Gershom Lockwood. She d. at Norwalk, 28 Dec 1745 age 78 yrs. 5 days. Will 9 May 1733, proved 22 Aug 1743...Will of Hannah, 21 Feb. 1744/5, proved 14 Jan 1745/6..."

      2. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: "m., 2d (abt. 1692), Thomas Hanford, (born 1668). He was schoolmaster in Greenwich, Feb. 21st, 1692, and received Đ1, 10s. per month for teaching. He was born born July 18th, 1668 (Hy. Norwalk, 187), and died 7 Jun, 1743, aged 75 years. Son Rev. Thomas and Mary Hanford, of Norwalk, CT. This may was the widow of Jonathan Ince, of New Haven, CT. (Book has no record of children from second marriage.)"

      3. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243:
      GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842).
      Children surname LOCKWOOD:
      By first wife Ann ?Millington:
      i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661.
      ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341).
      iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671.
      (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"