Bissell Family History

 

[------- Joseph Loomis [GMD], b. 1615, Messing, Eng.

[          SEE Searle Chart 4.1

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[------- Stephen Loomis, b. 1 Sep 1668, Windsor, CT.

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[                   [------- Mary Chauncey

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[------- Amos Loomis, b. 12 Aug 1707, Windsor, CT.

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[                   [                   [------- John Colt, b. 1625, England

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[                   [------- Esther Colt

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[                                       [------- Hester Edwards (her father may be the John Edwards, to America in 1638, 

[                                                  who came to Watertown & Wethersfield and is listed in the Great Migration Directory)

Curtis Loomis, b. 16 Oct 1736

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[                                       [------- Caleb Pomeroy, b. 1641, Windsor

[                                       [          SEE Searle Chart 3.1 [includes GMD]

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[                   [------- Eldad Pomeroy, b. 6 Dec 1679

[                   [                   [

[                   [                   [------- Hepzibah Baker, b. 10 May 1646, Windsor

[                   [                              SEE Searle Chart 3.2 [includes GMD]

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[------- Hannah Pomeroy, b. 4 Feb 1708/09

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          [                                                           [------- Thomas Waite [GMD], b. 1601, Alford Lines, Lincolnshire, Eng.

          [                                                           [

          [                                        [------- Joseph Waite, b. 1643, Newport, Rhode Island; drowned 25 Aug 1665, Newport.

          [                                        [                  [

          [                                        [                  [------- Eleanor, b. 1605, Alford Lines

          [                                        [

          [                     [------- William Waite, b. 1657, Massachusetts

          [                     [                  [

          [                     [                  [------- Sarah

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          [------- Sarah Wait, b. 18 Apr 1687

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                                [------- Sarah Kingsley, b. 15 Aug 1665

                                           SEE Searle Chart 7 [includes GMD]

 

Notes.

 

Mary Chauncey was Joseph Loomis' second wife (they were married 28 Jun 1659 in Windsor, CT) but was the mother of Stephen Loomis.

 

John Colt's marriage history is complicated.  Colt’s first wife was Ann Skinner’s sister Mary Skinner. (A “John Skinner” - Ann and Mary’s brother? father? - married Mary Loomis.)  John, son of John, who was born in England about the year 1625, came from Colchester, England, during the troubles of George I, at the age of eleven years. In 1638 he removed from Dorchester, Mass., to Hartford, with a colony that came thither during that year. He afterwards married Skinner and settled in Windsor. He probably married for a 2d wife, Mary Fitch, daughter of Joseph Fitch, from whom he received land in Windsor for love and good will. He was one of the early settlers on the east side of the river, and was much troubled with the Indians. In 1665, he subscribed six shillings to raise the minister's salary. He lived to the age of 105 years. JOHN, son of John and Mary Fitch Colt, was born in 1658.

 

Hester Edwards was John Colt’s 2nd wife.  The first was Mary Skinner, b. Abt 1635, the daughter of John Skinner & Mary Loomis, born Abt. 1620. "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America" says at p. 133 that Esther Colt’s mother was Ann Skinner Colt, not Hester Edwards as I have it.

 

Esther Colt was born in the "Podunk" section of Windsor, CT.  she died 6 Nov 1714; she married Stephen Loomis 1 Jan 1690/91.

 

Sources for the Pomeroy family information in this chart include James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England; and NEHGS Register V. 43, P.41, The Pomeroys of Northampton, MA.