Ancestry of
Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.

Joseph Loomis

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Henry Wells — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 146 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1590 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Nov 1658 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jun 1614 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shalford, Essex, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Loomis

  Sarah Loomis

  Elizabeth Loomis

  Mary Loomis (Ahnentafel No:73 )

  John Loomis

  Thomas Loomis

  Nathaniel Loomis

  Samuel Loomis

  • Notes: 

  • Woollen draper in Braintree, Essex, England. Sailed from London on 11 APR 1638 on ship Susan and Ellen. Arrived in Boston, 17 JUL 1638. He settled at Windsor, Connecticut.

    Parents of Joseph Loomis were probably John and Agnes Loomis of Braintree, Essex, England.

    Some sources incorrectly give the year of Joseph Loomis's death as 1653 instead of the correct 1658.

• Sources for Joseph Loomis

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 175, Death record for Joseph Loomis .
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/02/2015).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, p. 28.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, pp. 22, 24.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1359.
  • 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), 211.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 124.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 217.
  • ¹⁰ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 437.
  • ¹¹ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, Page 567, [Birth].
  • ¹² Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 566-571.
  • ¹³ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 121-128.
  • ¹⁴ Olmsted, Henry King and Rev. George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and . . ., New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (1912), 12.
  • ¹⁵ Orcutt, Samuel, History of Torrington, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1737, with Biographies and Genealogies, Albany, New York: J. Munsell, printer (1878), 730.
  • ¹⁶ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 4, Orig. pub. NY: 1911; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1999), 1419, [Birth].
  • ¹⁷ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 4, Orig. pub. NY: 1911; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1999), 1419, [Death].
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ¹⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 44, 110-111.
  • ²⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 448.
  • ²¹ Wikipedia, "Loomis Chaffee", (accessed 06/09/2010).
  • ²² Wikipedia, "Loomis Homestead", (accessed 06/09/2010).