The Stoughton Lineage

Ensign Thomas¹, the emigrant, was at Dorchester in 1630 and a freeman in 1631. In the same year, he was constable and fined for undertaking to marry a couple. He was called "Ancient" or Ensign. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, going there in 1640, and a member of the first court held in the River Colony. The old Stone Fort of Windsor stood on his lot. He died in Windsor on March 25, 1661.

His brother, Israel, was one of the prominent men of Dorchester, and, as Captain, was Commander-in-Chief of the successful expedition against the Pequot Indians. He was, afterwards, Lieutenant Colonel in the Parliamentary forces under Cromwell. Col. Israel's son was Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts, and, as Chief Justice, acquired a fearful notoriety in connection with the witchcraft craze. The arms of the Stoughtons are as follows:

Arms: -Azure, a cross engr. erm.
Crest: -A robin redbreast, ppr.

Thomas², son of Thomas¹, was born in England. He had his father's homestead in Windsor, which has remained in the possession of his descendants. He married Mary Wadsworth on Nov. 30, 1655. They had four sons and three daughters born between 1657 and 1673. He died Sept. 15, 1684.

Rebecca³, youngest child of Thomas² and Mary, was born June 19, 1673. She married Atherton Mather on Sept. 20, 1694. She died in 1704.

Continuation. - Mather Lineage

• Sources:

  • Trumbull's Hist. of Hartford Co., Ct., vol. II, p. 558.

  • The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., by H. H. Stiles, Hartford, 1892, pp. 721-725.

  • Drake's Hist. of Boston.

  • Mist. of Dorchester, p. 85.

  • Drake's Hist. of Boston, p. 210.

  • Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 1154.

Stoughton Genealogy Resources

• Stoughton Researchers
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• Descendants of Thomas Stoughton (1600-1661)
• Stoughton, Canton, and Dorchester births, marriages, deaths and intentions of marriage, 1717 to 1845
• The English ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588-1661, and his son Thomas Stoughton, 1624-1684, of Windsor, Conn.