Josiah DEWEY 1696
He was in Braintree, Essex County, England; Occupation: woolen-draper in Braintree, Essex County, England.4
DESCENDANTS
of
JOSEPH LOOMIS
In America
And his Antecedents
In the Old World
The Original Published By
Elias Loomis LL.D.
1875
Mebised By
Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D.
1908
Joseph Loomis was a woolen-draper in Braintree, Essex county, England; sailed
from London April 11, 1638, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," and arrived at
Boston July 17, 1638, tarrying about 1 year at Dorchester, Mass., it is thought.
It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2nd of Feb.,
1640, he had granted him from the plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington
river, on the west side of the Connecticut river, this 21 acres including the site of
the first English settlement made in Conn.; (See Records of Abigail Wolcott
Ellsworth Chapter, D. A. R.), also several large tracts of land on the east side of
the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase.
He therefore probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and
he is generally supposed to have come in company with Rev. Ephraim Huet,
who arrived at Windsor, Aug. 17, 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of
whom were freemen, Oct. 7, 1669, and three daughters. His house was situated
near the mouth of the Farmington river on "The Island," so called because at
every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the
Connecticut River. He died Nov. 25, 1658, as appears from the following
record: Deposition of Joseph Hills of Charlestown, taken 30 July, 1639:
"Joseph Hills of Charlestowne, in New England, Woollen Draper, aged about 36 yeares, sworne, saith upon his oath that he came to New England undertaker in the ship called the Susan & Ellen of London whereof was master Mr. Edward Payne, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred thirty and eight, the 14th yeare of the raigne of our Souraigne Lord the King that now is and this dpt knowes that divers goods and chattells, victualls & commodities of Joseph Loomis late of Brayntree in the County of Essex, Woolen-draper, wch were put in three butts, two hogsheds, one halfe hogshed, one barrel, one tubb & three firkins, transported from Malden in the County of Essex to London in an Ipswch Hye, were shipped in the said ship upon the eleventh day of Aprill in the yeare abovesayd, and this deponent cleared the said goods wth divers other goods of the said Joseph Loomis and other mens, in the Custome-house at London, as may appeare by the Customers bookes, and this dept saith that the said goods were transported into New England in the said ship where she arrived on the seaventeenth day of July in the yeare aforesayd."
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