Thomas Remington

1636 - 1721  (~ 88 years)

• Name	Thomas Remington
  Born	Between 1633 and 1636	Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Feb 1720/21	Suffield, Hartford, CT   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I02857	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	John REMINGTON, I,   b. Between 1599 and 1608, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 8 Jun 1667, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Unknown,   b. Abt 1605, England ,   d. Abt 22 Dec 1657, Rowley, Essex Co., MA  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Married	Abt 1623	England
  Notes	This marriage is listed in "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" ( by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1985), which gives Elizabeth's year of death as 1657, and the years of births of their oldest known children as 1629/1630.
  Family ID	F01078	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mehitable Walker,   b. Abt 1638,   d. 17 Dec 1718, Suffield, CT  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Married	19 Mar 1657/58	Rowley, MA   [4]
  Notes	According to "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" ( by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1985), the date of this marriage is 19 March 1657/8. Boyd Scott Remington has 19 Jan 1658. The town records probably say "the first month," which at that time was March. An online transcript of the Rowley records has 19 June 1658, as does Carl Boyer's "Ancestral Lines Revised.".
  Children	1. Thomas Remington,   b. 15 Jul 1659, Rowley, MA ,   d. 16 Dec 1683, Suffield, Hartford, CT  (Age 24 years)   2. John Remington, I,   b. 2 Nov 1661, Rowley, MA ,   d. 1722, Suffield, Hartford County, CT  (Age 60 years)   3. Jonathan Remington, I,   b. 26 Dec 1663, Rowley, MA ,   d. 17 Jun 1755, Suffield, Hartford County, CT  (Age 91 years)   4. Mary Remington,   b. 14 Jul 1666, Rowley, MA ,   d. 27 Dec 1747  (Age 81 years)   5. Sarah Remington,   b. 8 Dec 1668, Rowley, Essex, MA ,   d. Suffield, CT   6. Samuel Remington,   b. Abt 28 Jul 1672, Rowley, MA ,   d. 1730  (Age ~ 57 years)   7. Joseph Remington, I,   b. 1 Sep 1675, Windsor, Hartford County, CT ,   d. 24 Jul 1768, Suffield, Hartford County, CT  (Age 92 years)   8. Benjamin Remington,   b. 23 Dec 1677, Suffield, Hartford County, CT ,   d. 4 Jan 1767  (Age 89 years)
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F01050	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  (If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and/or to other sources as noted herein.) Thomas and his elder brother, John the second [Jr.], were born in Yorkshire, England, and came to America with their parents. They may have come from the town of Rowley. Clarence Almon Torrey, in "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," estimates Thomas's year of birth as 1633. Genealogist Gordon L. Remington suggests 1633, in his article "Sabin-Remington-Hunt Notes" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Oct. 1993, p. 371. Thomas was a freeman at Rowley, MA, in 1651. His home there is mentioned in the inventory of his father's estate. In the early 1670s he moved to Connecticut, which at that time was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became a freeman at Windsor in 1672; he was granted land in in Suffield in 1674, and was selectman in 1682. Dewey's book says he moved to Suffield prior to the birth of his son Benjamin in 1677, and took the oath of allegiance in 1679 with his sons Thomas & John, they being then 16 years old and upwards. He was selectman there for six terms between 1682 and 1699; and tithingman for two terms -- 1693/94 and 1699/00. "The History of Suffield" by H. S. Sheldon speaks of Thomas Remington, son of John of Newbury, as having had a grant of land of sixty acres on Feather Street, Suffield, and his son Jonathan had a grant of thirty acres next to his father's lot. Remington Street in Suffield, once called Northampton Road, takes its name from this family. (See "Thomas Remington of Suffield, Conn. and Some of His Descendants" by Louis Marinus Dewey, published in 1909 by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.) From the Suffield Historical Society website: "The settling of The Town of Suffield as part of Massachusetts began in 1670. The first settlers were all land grantees, given land if they moved to Suffield and improved their land. Between 1670 and 1682, grants of 40 to 60 acres were typically given depending on family size and status. The 30 families identified here were all proprietors [original land grantees] of the Town of Suffield [includes Thomas Remington] . . . Suffield is recorded as Suffield, CT in this Suffield database even though it was Suffield, MA until 1749." Thomas was called "Goodman Remington" in early records. In 1690 he was one of five men on a committee assigned to find a minister for the town -- "to dispense the things of God unto them, and repair the breaches amongst them, and reunite them all again in peace and love." (See "Remingtons of Utah. . . " by Ward Jay Roylance, p. 128.) Thomas Remington, second son of John the first, moved to Connecticut, where he was the first of the Suffield, CT branch of the Remingtons. He married Mehitable Walker in Rowley, MA in 1658, and became a freeman there in 1672. About 1677 he removed to Suffield and died there 22 Feb. 1721. (Further material on Thomas and this branch of the family can be found in: the Encyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 4, p. 243; and New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 63 & 64, compiled by L. M. Dewey.) [For more info on this family, see the following web site by Paul Remington:] http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/Paul-Remington/REMFAM/

  
  

• Sources

  [S012456] New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Clarence Almon Torrey, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985). [S012683] Thomas Remington of Suffield, CT and Some of his Descendants, Louis Marinus Dewey, (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), 3. [S012742] Ancestral Lines Revised, Compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd, (1981: Newhall, CA), 337. [S012647] Rowley, MA, vital records.