Joseph Loomis
Joseph Loomis was born in England, probably before 1590. He was a son of John and Agnes Loomis, who were buried at St. Michael's church in Braintree, Essex.
He was a woollen draper of Braintree. A draper was a dealer in cloth.
On 30 June 1614 he married Mary White at Shalford, a few miles north. The parish clerk wrote: "Joseph Loomys was married unto Marye whight the XXXth Daye of June anno pr dicte." Mary was a daughter of Robert White, a yeoman of Messing. Three years later Robert White made his will. He left "my daughter Marie the wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree" a pewter platter. He also named Joseph and his other son-in-law, William Goodinge of Bocking, as the two men whose consent his unmarried daughter Bridget would need before she married.
On 11 April 1638 Joseph sailed from London in the Susan and Ellen with his wife and children. They arrived at Boston on 17 July 1638. The family went on to Windsor on the Connecticut River. On 2 February 1640 he was granted land there, and the grant took in the site of the first English settlement in Connecticut.
Mary died at Windsor on 23 August 1652. Joseph died there on 25 November 1658. His inventory came to 178 pounds 10 shillings. His heirs settled the estate among themselves by agreement, and the court recorded the division. The eight who shared it were Joseph, Nicholas Olmsted, Josiah Hull, John, Thomas, Nathaniel, Mary Tudor and Samuel. Olmsted and Hull were the husbands of two of his daughters.
Children
Mary Loomis (1620-1680)
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Cite: Heirology, "Joseph Loomis (d. 1658)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/joseph-loomis-1658-51a606.