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• Birth	1590	Of Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
  Gender	Male
  BIRT	1590	Of Dorchester, Mass.   [1, 2, 3]
  Died	1676  [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I5392	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Family 1	Joan WAY-FORD
  Children	1. Mary FORD-COOKE
  Family ID	F2284	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Elizabeth CHARDE, b. 1590
  Married	WFT Est. 1621-1656  [3]
  Children	> 1. Abigail FORD, b. 18 Oct 1619, Bridport, Dorset, England   2. Hepziabah FORD-LYMAN
  Family ID	F2285	Group Sheet

• Notes

  [MainTree.FTW] quote from "The Great Migration Begins" THOMAS FORD ORIGIN: Dorchester, Dorsetshire MIGRATION: 1630 in Mary & John FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1637, Northampton 1672 FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:79,366] In list of Windsor freemen, 11 October 1669 [CCCR 2:519] OFFICES: Chosen Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 27 June 1636 [DTR3, 16]; Dorchester fenceviewer, 24 May 1635, 10 February 1634/5 [DTR 6,10]; committee to collect rate for fort, 6 January 1633/4 [DTR 5];committee to lay out land, 2 November 1635 [DTR 12] Deputy to Connecticut General Court from Windsor, 8 March 1637/8, 5April 1638, 11 April 1639, 9 April 1640, 9 April 1641 (marked absent),April 1644, 18 May 1654 [CCCR 1:13, 17, 27, 46, 64, 103, 256] Connecticut committee on livestock, 8 February 1640/1 [CCCR 1:60]Grand jury, 15 May 1662 [CCCR 1:379] ESTATE: Ordered to build forty feet of fence (as his proportion for twocows), 3 April 1633 [DTR 1]; granted two acres of land, 17 April 1635[DTR 11]; granted six acres fresh marsh, 17 December 1635 [DTR 14];granted two acres marsh, 27 June 1636 [DTR 17] Granted "50 acres at Massacoe, whereof four & forty hath beenimproved by him by plowing & mowing," 8 September 1653 [CCCR 1:247] On14 May 1663 the "Court in answer to the request of Thomas Forde, whichwas to have some allowance in respect of his land sold to Mr. Fitch,which the said Forde forfeited to the country by mortgage, they grantedhim the sum of thirty pounds" [CCCR 1:405], and on 16 October 1663 the"Court having considered the request of Tho[mas] Forde, by their voted[eclare] that they see no cause to give Goodman Forde the six poundsodd, that he d[esires] in reference to his land at Podunck, now in Mr.Jos[eph] Fitche's hand" [CCCR 1:409] The inventory of the estate of Thomas Ford was taken 4 January1676/7 and totalled œ195 17s. 9d., with no real estate included [HamPR1:187] BIRTH: By about 1591 based on date of first marriage. DEATH: Northampton 28 November 1676 [Pynchon VR 157] MARRIAGE: (1) Bridport, Dorsetshire, 19 June 1616 Elizabeth Cooke; shewas Elizabeth Chard, widow of Aaron Cooke, and mother of AARON COOKE [TAG11:179-80]; she d. Windsor 18 April 1643 [Grant 80 shows the death inthis year, but not the day and month, the source ofwhich has not beenfound] (2) Hartford 7 November 1644 "Ann Scott widow" [HaVR 605], widow ofThomas Scott; she died Northampton 5 May 1675 [Corbin, citing Northamptonchurch records] CHILDREN: With first wife i JOANNA, bp. Bridport 8 June 1617 [TAG 16:41]; m. Dorchester 6November 1633 ROGER CLAP. ii ABIGAIL, bp. Bridport 8 October 1619 [TAG 16:41]; m. by about1637 as his second wife John Strong [Waterman Gen 640-43] iii THOMAS, bp. Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, 21 September1623; bur. there 6 October 1623 [TAG 16:41] iv HEPZIBAH, bp. Holy Trinity, Dorchester, 15 May 1625 [TAG16:41]; m. (1) Richard Lyman, son of RICHARD LYMAN; m. (2) Northampton 7October 1664 John Marsh [Pynchon VR 141] v HANNAH, bp. Holy Trinity, Dorchester, 1 February 1628/9; bur.there 28 March 1629 [TAG 16:41] With second wife vi ANN, b. say 1657; m. Windsor 12 March 1676[/7] Thomas Newberryof Windsor [CTVR 15] ASSOCIATIONS: Through his first marriage Thomas Ford became stepfatherof AARON COOKE [TAG 11:179-80] COMMENTS: Thomas Scott's daughters all married in the early 1640s, sotheir mother must have been born very early in the century (if not before1600), and all these daughters were probably born in the 1620s. But thewidow of Thomas Scott, after her marriage with Thomas Ford, is supposedto have had a daughter who married in 1676/7, and so may have been bornabout 1657. For all this to happen, the widow of Thomas Scott must havebeen a second wife, and not the mother of his daughters. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: As with other families which quickly daughtered out,the best treatments of Thomas Ford appear in various "all-my-ancestor"books. One excellent account by DeForest is replete with biographicaldata and other information which places Ford in historical context [MooreAnc 248-63]; unfortunately, however, DeForest pads his account with anoverlong extract from Roger Clap's memoirs, which is perhaps justifedbecause a daughter of Thomas Ford married Roger Clap, but which does notreally have much to say about Ford. A more concise, but moregenealogically informative version is that prepared by Mary Holman[Stevens-Miller Anc 1:354-56] The basic research on the English records for Thomas Ford waspublished by Jacobus and Torrey in 1939 [TAG 16:41-43] In this articleare some records for a Thomas Ford of Powerstock, Dorsetshire, which mayor may not be relevant to our Thomas Ford. Torrey had earlier presentedevidence on AARON COOKE which showed that he was stepson rather thanson-in-law of Thomas Ford [TAG 11:179-80]

• Sources

  [S104] Tripp,Lintner.FTW. Date of Import: Apr 4, 1999 [S105] desc.FTW. Date of Import: Apr 4, 1999 [S69] Pam's Tree.FTW. Date of Import: Jan 2, 2001