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William blev gift med Susannah Fenn i feb. 1685 i Surry, Virginia, USA. Susannah blev født i 1669; døde i 1699. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 - July 7, 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.
Called today "the Father of Connecticut," Thomas Hooker was a towering figure in the early development of colonial New England. He was one of the great preachers of his time, an erudite writer on Christian subjects, the first minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first settlers and founders of both the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut, and cited by many as the inspiration for the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut," which some have called the world's first written democratic constitution establishing a representative government.
Most likely coming out of the county of Leicestershire, in the East Midlands region, the Hooker family was prominent at least as far back as the reign of Henry VIII. There is known to have been a great Hooker family in Devon, well known throughout Southern England. The Devon branch produced the great theologian and clergyman, the Rev. Richard Hooker who, with Sir Walter Raleigh, was one of the two most influential sons of Exeter, the county town of Devon. Family genealogist Edward Hooker linked the Rev. Thomas to the Rev. Richard and the Devon branch. Other Hooker genealogists, however, have traced the Rev. Thomas back to Leicestershire where, in fact, he is said to have been born. Positive evidence linking Thomas to Leicestershire is lacking since the Marefield parish records from before 1610 perished. Any link to the Rev. Richard is likewise lacking since the Rev. Thomas's personal papers were disposed of and his house destroyed after his death. There remains no evidence giving positive information as to which region Hooker came from, so the issue remains unsettled.
homas Hooker was likely born at Marefield or Birstall, Leicestershire, and went to school at Market Bosworth. In March 1604, he entered Queen's College, Cambridge as a scholarship student. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1608, continuing there to earn his Master of Arts in 1611. He stayed at Emmanuel as a fellow for a few years. After his stay at Emmanuel, Hooker preached at the Esher parish sometime between 1618-20, where he earned a reputation as an excellent speaker. and became famous for his pastoral care of Mrs. Joan Drake, a depressive whose stages of spiritual regeneration became a model for his later theological thinking. While associated with the Drake household, he also met and married Susannah Garbrand, Mrs. Drake's woman-in-waiting (April 3, 1621) in Amersham, Mrs. Drake's own birthplace.
Around 1626, Hooker became a lecturer or preacher at what was then St. Mary's parish church, Chelmsford (now the Chelmsford Cathedral) and curate to its rector, John Michaelson. However, in 1629 Archbishop William Laud suppressed church lecturers, and Hooker was forced to retire to Little Baddow. His leadership of Puritan sympathizers brought him a summons to the Court of High Commission. Forfeiting his bond, Hooker fled to Rotterdam (the Netherlands),[8] and for a time considered a position in the English reformed church in Amsterdam, as assistant to its senior pastor, the Rev. John Paget. From Holland, after a final clandestine trip to England to put his affairs in order, he immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony aboard the Griffin.
Hooker arrived in Boston and settled in Newtown (later renamed Cambridge), where he became the pastor of the earliest established church there, known to its members as "The Church of Christ at Cambridge." His congregation, some of whom may have been members of congregations he had served in England, became known as "Mr. Hooker's Company".
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846
Voting in Massachusetts was limited to freemen, individuals who had been formally admitted to their church after a detailed interrogation of their religious views and experiences. Hooker disagreed with this limitation of suffrage, putting him at odds with the influential pastor John Cotton. Owing to his conflict with Cotton and discontented with the suppression of Puritan suffrage and at odds with the colony leadership,[8] Hooker and the Rev. Samuel Stone led a group of about 100 who, in 1636, founded the settlement of Hartford, named for Stone's place of birth: Hertford, in England.
This led to the founding of the Connecticut Colony. Hooker became more active in politics in Connecticut. The General Court representing Wethersfield, Windsor and Hartford met at the end of May 1638 to frame a written constitution in order to establish a government for the commonwealth. Hooker preached the opening sermon at First Church of Hartford on May 31, declaring that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people."
On January 14, 1639, freemen from these three settlements ratified the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" in what John Fiske called "the first written constitution known to history that created a government. It marked the beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father. The government of the United States today is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any of the other thirteen colonies."
In recognition of this, on the wall of the narrow alleyway just outside the grounds near the Chelmsford Cathedral in Chelmsford, Essex, England, where he was town lecturer and curate, there is a Blue Plaque fixed high on the wall of the narrow alleyway, opposite the south porch, that reads: "Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647, Curate at St. Mary's Church and Chelmsford Town Lecturer 1626-29. Founder of the State of Connecticut, Father of American Democracy."
The Rev. Hooker died during an "epidemical sickness" in 1647, at the age of 61. The location of his grave is unknown, although he is believed to be buried in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground. Because there was no known portrait of him, the statue of him that stands nearby, in front of Hartford's Old State House, was sculpted from the likenesses of his descendants.
However, the city is not without a sense of humor regarding its origins. Each year in October, organizations and citizens of Hartford dress up in outrageous costumes to celebrate Hooker Day with the Hooker Day Parade. T-shirts sold in the Old State House proclaim "Hartford was founded by a Hooker."
Thomas Hooker came to the colonies with his second wife, Suzanne. Nothing is known of his first wife.
His son Samuel, likely born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College in 1653. He became the well-known minister of Farmington, Connecticut, where his descendants lived for many generations.[notes 1] Of Rev. Samuel Hooker, Cotton Mather wrote in Magnalia Christi Americana: "Thus we have to this day among us our dead Hooker, yet living in his worthy son Samuel Hooker, an able, faithful, useful minister at Farmington, in the Colony of Connecticut."
His daughter Mary married Rev. Roger Newton who was a founder and first minister of Farmington, Connecticut. He later went on to be minister in Milford, Connecticut.
John Hooker, son of Rev. Samuel and grandson of Rev. Thomas, served as Speaker of the Connecticut Assembly, and previously as Judge of the state supreme court. James Hooker, brother of John and son of Rev. Samuel, also became a prominent political figure in Connecticut. He married the daughter of William Leete of Guilford, Connecticut, and subsequently settled there.
James Hooker served as the first probate judge, and later as speaker of the Connecticut colonial assembly. Rev. Thomas's granddaughter Mary Hooker, the daughter of Rev.

Samuel, 7th known child of Rev. Thomas & Susan (Garbrand) was born in 1633. He married Mary Willet on September 22nd, 1658 in Plymouth.
Mary was the daughter of Thomas Willet.
He died on Nov. 6, 1697.
Inscription:
Rev. Samuel Hooker, 2nd Minister of Farmington in the 37th year of his pastorate, son of Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1st Minister of Hartford.
Parents:
Thomas Hooker (1586 - 1647)
Susannah Harkes Garbrand Hooker Goodwin (1593 - 1676)
Note: Note: age about 64 years.
Find A Grave Memorial# 54937586
He entered Harvard College in 1651, and graduated in 1653.
He entered the ministry in 1657, and preached at Plymouth, Mass., though probably not regularly settled there.
He was invited to settle in Springfield, Mass., but declined the invitation and remained at Plymouth until he removed to Farmington, Conn., in 1661, where he succeeded his brother-in-law Rev. Roger Newton and became the second minister of the place and remained there until his death in 1697.
Rev. Samuel Hooker occupied at Farmington, the parsonage which had been used by Rev. Roger Newton, on the East side of South Main St. and nearly opposite to the road going to the meadows across the stone bridge which now spans the Pequabuc river. This house stood a few feet northward from the site of the house so long occupied by Mr. Solomon Cowles, who was one of Mr. Hooker's descendants, and here in this parsonage Rev. Samuel Hooker died.
He was succeeded at Farmington by Rev. Samuel Whitman whose grandfather was Mr. Hooker's cousin. Mr. Whitman like Mr. Hooker, died while the minister of the town, and tradition says he was buried by the side of Mr. Hooker.
1653- graduated Harvard; 1657- Pastor at Plymouth, MA; from 1661 till death, was 2nd pastor of the church at Farmington, CT, ordained there July; in 1662- one of four to meet w/ the New Haven Colony Rep abt the proposed union with CT, under one colonial government.
On account of his earnestness and piety he was called the 'Fervent Hooker'. He could commit his sermons to memory and was considere

Samuel blev gift med Mary Brown Willett den 22 sep. 1658 i Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (datter af Captain Thomas John Willett, Sr. og Mary Browne) blev født den 10 nov. 1637 i Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; døde den 24 jun. 1712 i Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; blev begravet den 27 jun. 1712 i Old Burying Grounds, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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MARY, eldest known child of Thomas Willett, was born 10 November 1637. She married at Plymouth 22 September 1658 Samuel Hooker, son of THOMAS HOOKER. She married (2) at Farmington 10 August 1703 Rev. Thomas Buckingham.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.

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• Indvandring: 1634, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; Aboard ship GRIFFIN

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The Reverend Thomas Hooker led his congregation through the woods, to found Hartford, Connecticut. was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage. A staunch supporter of universal Christian suffrage (voting rights independent of church membership), Hooker was a renowned theologian and orator who greatly shaped the early development of colonial New England.
He entered Emanuel College, Cambridge in 1604. He received his B.A. in 1608, the degree of M. A. in 1611 and entering upon a divinity course, he was elected a Fellow of the College. He left the college before completing the first course and receiving the degree of B. D. There are many reasons supposing that he went from the college direct to Chelmsford and remained their until being silenced, arrested and placed under bonds to appear before the Ecclesiastical Court, he fled to Holland. Came to New England on ship "Griffin" 1633.
Called today “the Father of Connecticut,” Thomas Hooker was a towering figure in the early development of colonial New England. He was one of the great preachers of his time, an erudite writer on Christian subjects, the first Puritan minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first settlers of Connecticut and the chief founder of Hartford, Conn. In 1639 he was cited by many as the inspiration for the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut," cited by some as the world's first written democratic constitution that established a representative government.

Thomas blev gift med Susannah Garbrand den 3 apr. 1622 i Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. Susannah blev født den 30 aug. 1593 i Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; døde den 17 maj 1676 i Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; blev begravet i maj 1676 i Ancient Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• Beskæftigelse: Waiting gentlewoman to Joane Drake
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The Garbrand family are descendants of a Garbrand [given name] Harkes [surname] from Holland. The name was changed to Garbrand as the surname, but sometimes known as Garbrand alias Harkes, or Harkes alias Garbrand, with spelling variations.

Susan, born about 1593; mentioned in the will of her brother John Garbrand in 1618, as living and not having received her portion of her parents' estates.

After her mother's death in 1609, she probably lived awhile with her childless aunt, Mrs. Christian (Garbrand) Chaloner, wife of Rev. Robert Chaloner, D.D., rector of Amersham, co. Bucks. From this association a few years later she became "waiting-gentlewoman" to Mrs. Joane (Tothill) Drake, who was the eldest of the thirty-three children of William Tothill, Esq., lord of the Manor of Shardeloes in Amersham, and had married in 1603 Franceis Drake, Esq. of Esher, co. Surrey, a suburb of London.

While living in this household Susan Garbrand became acquainted with Rev. Thomas Hooker, who in 1620 became curate of Esher and "had his diet and lodging" in Mr. Drake's house.

The statement that Hooker's wife was the waiting-gentlewoman of Mrs. Drake appears in a little contemporary book entitled "Trodden down Strength by the God of Strength or Mrs. Drake Revived." Mrs. Drake died 18 April 1625.

The will of Francis Drake, Esq., dated 13 March 1633/4 gave to "Joanna Hooker, now in New England, 30 pounds at her day of marriage"; she was the eldest child of Rev. Thomas Hooker and goddaughter of Mrs. Drake.

Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susan Garbrand were married at Amersham, co. Bucks, 3 April 1621 by her aunt's husband, Rev. Robert Chaloner, D.D. rector of that parish.

Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, 1629-1640, page 323.

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Thomas + Mary Browne. Mary blev født cirka 1614 i England; blev døbt den 24 mar. 1615 i Massachusetts, USA; døde den 8 jan. 1669 i Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; blev begravet i Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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