Ancestry of
Joseph Minor

(1644–1712)

Thomas Minor

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• • Father of Joseph Minor — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Clement Minor 
  • Mother:
  •  
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Apr 1608 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
  • 23 Apr 1608 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Andrew, Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 Oct 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Apr 1634 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Minor

  Clement Minor

  Thomas Minor

  Ephraim Minor

  Joseph Minor (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Manasseh Minor

  Ann Minor

  Mary Minor

  Samuel Minor

  Hannah Minor

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Minor's surname is also seen as Miner, Mynor, and Myner.

• Sources for Thomas Minor

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 171, Death record for Thomas Minor.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/30/2020).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1984, Vol. 138, pp. 182-185.
  • ⁴ Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Michigan, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chicago: Chapman Bros. (1885), 734-737.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1262-1267.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1381.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 229.
  • ⁸ FreeREG, Free UK Genealogy, Baptism record for Thomas Minor.
  • ⁹ Jacobus, Donald L., The Genealogy of the Booth Family: Booth Families of Connecticut for Six or More Generations, Pleasant Hill, Missouri: Eden C. Booth (1952), 3.
  • ¹⁰ Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 167.
  • ¹¹ Minor, Thomas, The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut, 1653 to 1684, New London, Connecticut: The Day Publishing Company (1899), 182-183, entry for 23 APR 1684 appears to confirm he was born the same day he was baptized.
  • ¹² Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 466, 507.