Surname Saturday ~ TAINTOR of Connecticut

TAINTOR

The gravestone of Michael Taintor in Colchester, Connecticut

In Memory of Mr.
Michael Taintor
Son of Deacon
Michael Taintor
Mrs. Eunice his wife
who died Nove. ye
25th 1748 ye 20th
year of his Age.

Charles Taintor was an early settler of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  His son Michael, AKA Micah or  Micaiell married Elizabeth Rose, the daughter of other early settlers.  The records do not mention his wife, nor did his other children leave descendants.  I have found no proof that he was from Wales, although several online sources  and Savage have stated that he was Welsh.   Charles was a merchant, and was lost at sea with a Connecticut neighbor, Jeremiah Jagger, in October 1654.   They were headed to the West Indies.

Michael Taintor (abt. 1620 – 1673) removed to Totoket, now Branford, Connecticut, about 1644 the same time his father Charles went to Fairfield with Jeremiah Jagger.   Michael was a sea captain and was at one time the master of a ship owned by Isaac Allerton (A Mayflower passenger and also my 11^th great grandfather in another lineage).  Allerton’s vessel sailed back and forth to Virginia.

Sources for Taintor family information:

Genealogy of the Taintor Family of Connecticut: Descendants of Charles Taintor of Weathersfield and Fairfield, Connecticut, a manuscript by Starr Taintor dated June 21, 1949, Chicago, Illinois and available to read at www.Ancestry.com

There are references to Charles and Michael Taintor in other books about early Wethersfield and Connecticut, such as:

Ancient Wethersfield, by Stiles, Volume II, page 693

Connecticut Colonial Records, Volume I, pages 149, 163

James Savages’ Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Volume IV, page 248

My Taintor genealogy:

Generation 1:  Charles Taintor, born about 1597 probably in Wales, died 1654 lost at sea on a voyage to the West Indies from Connecticut; married to Mary Unknown

Generation 2: Michael Taintor, born about 1625 in Wales, died about 1673 in Branford, Connecticut; married to Elizabeth Rose.  Five children.

Generation3: Michael Taintor, born 12 October 1652 in Branford, died 19 Feb 1731; married on 3 April 1679 to Mary Loomis, daughter of Thomas Loomis and Hannah Fox.  She was born 16 January 1659 in Windsor, Connecticut and died on 11 May 1695. Four children.  Michael Taintor remarried second to Mabel Olmstead.

Generation 4: Michael Taintor, born 30 September 1680 in Windsor, died 16 March 1771 in Colchester, Connecticut; married on 3 December 1712 to Eunice Foote, daughter of Nathaniel Fox and Margaret Bliss.  She was born 10 May 1694 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  Seven children.

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor, born on 13 April 1713 in Colchester, died after 1779; married on 4 August 1737 to Aaron Skinner, son of John Skinner and Sarah Porter.  He was born on 14 June 1713 in Colchester, and died on 17 November 1766 in Colchester.  Ten children.

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-taintor-of-connecticut.html

Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ SMITH of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts

SMITH

Samuel Smith and his wife and four children sailed from Ipswich, England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony on board the ship Elizabeth in April 1634.  They first lived in Watertown, and then were in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635. 

In the records of Wethersfield Samuel Smith is called “The Fellmonger” because he was a fur trader and a tanner. He was also part owner and builder of the Tryal, which might be the first ship built in the Connecticut colony.  Around 1659 he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he appears in the records as “Lieutenant Smith”.   The regicides Whalley and Goffe supposedly hid in Smith’s home in Hadley.  (Seven men who signed the death warrant for King Charles I were known as the Regicides.  Edward Whalley, a relative to Oliver Cromwell, and his son-in-law, William Goffe,  escaped to Boston in 1660.  They lived openly for a while until orders arrived for their arrest. They fled to the New Haven colony, and then to Hadley where they lived for fifteen years.)

The only compiled genealogy about this family is Lieutenant Samuel Smith and His Children by James William Hook.  The sketch for Samuel Smith is found in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634 – 1635, pages 396 – 402. There is an article about the identity of Samuel Smith’s wife, who was Elizabeth Smith, in The American Genealogist, Volume 32, page 195 “The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield”.  The Smith family is listed on board the Elizabeth in NEHGS Register, Volume 14, page 329, Hotten’s Original Lists of Persons of Quality pages 280 and 282, Pope’s Pioneers of Massachusetts.  There is a short sketch about Samuel Smith in The History of Whately, Massachusetts.

My Smith genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Smith, born about 1602 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, died 16 Jan 1681 in Hadley, Massachusetts; married on 6 October 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Smith, born about 1602 and died 16 March 1686 in Hadley.  Six children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Smith, baptized on 28 Jan 1627 at St. Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died after 1701; married about 1646 to Nathaniel Foote, son of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming.  He was born on 5 March 1619 in Colchester, Essex, England and died in 1655 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Four children.

Generation 3:  Nathaniel Foote m. Margaret Bliss

Generation 4: Eunice Foot m. Michael Taintor

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ FOOTE of Wethersfield, Connecticut

FOOTE

from the Foote Family Association website www.footefamily.org

I have two separate FOOTE lineages.  Last year I wrote up a Surname Saturday post for my lineage from Pasco Foote (about 1608 – 1670), who lived in Salem, Massachusetts.  You can read it at this link:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-foote-of-salem.html

Today I’m posting about my immigrant ancestor, Nathaniel Foote (1592 – about 1644) of Wethersfield, Connecticut.   There is no proof that the two Foote families are connected genealogically.  

Nathaniel Foote was born in Shalford, England.  He had an amazing number of interesting relations and ancestors in England, including a first cousin who was Sir Thomas Foote, the Sheriff of London in 1649 and also Lord Mayor of London in 1650.  Nathaniel was apprenticed to a grocer as a young man.  He married Elizabeth Deming, whose brother John Deming was also one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  Mary, Nathaniel’s sister, married John Hewes and had three children who came to Roxbury, Massachusetts. (Joshua Hewes, Elizabeth Hewes married Ralph Hemingway, and Pheobe Hewes who married Richard Gorde ).

By 1633 Nathaniel Foote and his family had arrived in Boston and then Watertown, Massachusetts.  By 1635 he was one of the first settlers to Wethersfield.  Nathaniel Foote received a ten acre house lot on Broad Street, and the owner of several other grants of land nearby.  His house lot is now a public park on Broad Street in Wethersfield.

In the early days at Wethersfield there were many conflicts with the native Indians, and the Foote family suffered several losses, including a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren taken captive, and another grandchild killed, another daughter and three grandchildren killed while her husband and another two children were captured. 

Nathaniel Foote died in 1644 and his widow, Elizabeth, married Thomas Welles, who was later the Governor.  Although Nathaniel died intestate, Elizabeth’s will names her children and grandchildren, and she left a large piece of land to her son Robert Foote. 

For more information on the FOOTE family, see The Foote Family, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1849 and Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield. There is a sketch of Nathaniel Foote in the Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume II, pages 540 -544 and there are also three articles mentioning  the Foote family in The American Genealogist, Volume 58, 165 – 167; Volume 71, pages 149 – 150; and also Volume 72, page 49 – 55.  There is an active Foote Family Association of America and website at www.footefamily.org 

My Foote Lineage:

Generation 1: Nathaniel Foote, son of Robert Foote and Joanne Brooke, born about 21 September 1592 in Shalford, Colchester, England and died before 20 November 1644 in Wethersfield, Connecticut;  married about 1615 in England to Elizabeth Deming, daughter of Jonathan Deming and Elizabeth Gilbert.  She was born about 1593 in Shalford, died 28 July 1683.  She married second on 2 March 1645 in Wethersfield as the second wife to Governor Thomas Welles. Eight children.

Generation 2: Nathaniel Foote, born 5 March 1619 in St. James, Colchester, England and died about 1655 in Wethersfield; married about 1646 to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Samuel and Smith and Elizabeth Smith (they were both Smiths). She married second to William Gull. Four children. 

Generation 3: Nathaniel Foote, born 10 January 1648 in Wethersfield, died 12 January 1703 in Wethersfield; married on 2 May 1672 in Springfield to Margaret Bliss, daughter of Nathaniel Bliss and Catherine Chapin. She was born 12 November 1649 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died 3 April 1745 in Colchester, Connecticut.  Nine children.

Generation 4: Eunice Foote, born 10 May 1694 in Weathersfield; married on 3 December 1712 to Michael Taintor, son of Michael Taintor and Mary Loomis. Four children.

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-foote-of-wethersfield.html

Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo 

Surname Saturday ~ LOOMIS of Windsor, Connecticut

LOOMIS

The Loomis Homestead, oldest house in Windsor, Connecticut
from the website Historic Buildings of Connecticut
 http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=8582

Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper from Braintree, Essex, England who came to New England with his wife and children on 11 April 1638 aboard the Susan and Ellen from London, England and arrived in Boston on 17 July 1638.  He resided first at Dorchester, Massachusetts and then removed to Windsor, Connecticut. 

Joseph Loomis was granted land near the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers.  His land was called “The Island” because every spring it flooded, but the house was built on high ground. 

My Loomis Genealogy:

Generation 1: Joseph Loomis, born about 1590 in Braintree, Essex, England, died  25 November 1658 in Windsor, Connecticut; married on 25 August 1614 in Messing, Essex, England to Mary White, daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar.  She was born 24 August 1590 and died 23 August 1652 in Windsor.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Thomas Loomis, born 1624 in England and died 28 August 1689 in Windsor; married on 1 November 1653 in Windsor to Hannah Fox, daughter of Henry Fox.  She died 25 April 1662.

Generation 3: Mary Loomis, born 16 January 1659 in Windsor, died 11 May 1695; married 3 April 1679 to Michael Taintor, son of Michael Taintor and Elizabeth Rose.  He was born 12 October 1652 in Branford, Connecticut, and died 19 Feb 1731.

Generation 4: Michael Taintor m. Eunice Foote

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Mary Loomis, born about 1620 in Shalford, died 19 August 1680 in Windsor; married about 1637 in Windsor to John Skinner, son of William Skinner and Margery Trotter.  He was born about 1590 in Braintree, England and died 30 October 1650 in Hartford, Connecticut.  She married second to Owen Tudor on 13 November 1651.

Generation 3: Joseph Skinner m. Mary Filley

Generation 4: John Skinner m. Sarah Porter

Generation 5: Aaron Skinner m. Eunice Taintor

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn (see above)

For more information:

The Descendants of Joseph Loomis who came from Braintree, England in the year 1638 and settled in Windsor, Connecticut in 1639, by Elias Loomis, New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1870  (available to read online at Archive.org)

The Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his antecedents in the Old World, by Elisha Scott Loomis, 1909 (available to read online at Archive.org)

The History of Ancient Windsor, by Henry R. Stiles,  Vol. II , Somersworth: New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1976, pages 432-433.

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-loomis-of-windsor.html 

Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Amanuensis Monday - Sarah Osborn Skinner 1760 - 1848

Back in 2001 I found a distant cousin on GenForum, and we were both descended of Sarah Osborn, who married Charles Skinner on 24 November 1774 in New Brunswick.  According to my calculations, Sarah was only about 14 when she married, not the 16 claimed in her obituary.  This is the article sent to me by the cousin with whom I was corresponding.  This was a wonderful clue to my 5x great grandmother's life, because records are very scarce in Nova Scotia!

The Christian Messenger, January 1848 ( a Baptist magazine):

"Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis [Nova Scotia], Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha's Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, ME, to NB, then to NS. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W.A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter."


Osborn Genealogy:

Generation 1: Reverend Samuel Osborn, born in Ireland about 1690 and died in 1774 Boston, Massachusetts; married on 1 January 1710 to Jedidah Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith and Jedidah Mayhew.  Six children.  He was a graduate of the University of Dublin and became pastor of the church at Eastham, on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, but was dismissed for his Arminian opinions and removed to Boston.

Generation 2: Samuel Osborn, born 1711 at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, died after 8 October 1753; married on 9 September 1731 in Edgartown to Keziah Butler, born about 1710 in Edgartown and died in October 1768 in Edgartown.  Ten Children.  Keziah remarried to Samuel Pease in 1752.

Generation 3: Samuel Osborn, born about 1732 in Edgartown, died in Nova Scotia; married on 28 April 1755 to Sarah Wass, daughter of Wilmot Wass and Rebecca Allen, born 24 January 1738 in West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, died about 1813 in Nova Scotia.  Five children.

Generation 4. Sarah Osborn, born 22 July 1760 in Fredricton, New Brunswick, died on 15 July 1848 in Pleasant Valley, Cornwallis County, Nova Scotia; married on 24 November 1774 in New Brunswick to Charles Skinner, son of Aaron Skinner and Eunice Taintor, born 3 January 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, died before 1837 in Nova Scotia.  Fifteen children including Ann Skinner, born 1786, who married Thomas Ratchford Lyons in 1802.   I descend from their daughter, Isabella Lyons, who is my 3x great grandmother who married the Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill mentioned in the obituary.

For the truly curious:

Another blog post with a longer version of this obituary:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-obituary-of-sarah-osborne-skinner.html  

My OSBORN lineage:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/surname-saturday-osborn-of-cape-cod-and.html  

My SKINNER lineage:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-skinner-of-hartford.html   

My BILL lineage:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/surname-satruday-bill-of-boston.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Amanuensis Monday - Sarah Osborn Skinner 1760 - 1848", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 29, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/amanuensis-monday-sarah-osborn-skinner.html: accessed [access date]).