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Martha Elizabeth (Betty) LEE⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾

Children were: Beverly Anne WEBSTER , Sherry Gail WEBSTER, Teresa Lynn WEBSTER, Edwin , II Webster GAYLORD, Karen Elaine WEBSTER.

Elizabeth Carolyn LEET⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on May 9 1910.

Children were: Donald Roy MARICLE.

Ann LETTICE⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1628 in Lincolnshire, England.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1640-1722 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, possibly.⁽³⁾

She was married to Samuel JENNEY WFT Est. 1640-1671 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, possibly.⁽³⁾

Elizabeth LETTICE⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ died on Oct 31 1693 in Swansea, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ She was born WFT Est. 1616-1651 in ?.⁽³⁾

She was married to Jacob COOKE on Nov 18 1669 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

Mary LEVETT⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1580-1611 in England.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1600-1692 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾

She was married to John WHITE WFT Est. 1600-1642 in ?.⁽³⁾

George LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1605 in East Greenwich, England, possibly.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1634-1696 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

He was married to Sarah JENKINS about 1628 in Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾ Children were: Mary LEWIS, Thomas LEWIS, George LEWIS, James LEWIS, John LEWIS, Joseph LEWIS, Nathaniel LEWIS.

George LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

James LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

John LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

Joseph LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

Mary LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 16 1629 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ She died before 1657 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

She was married to John BRYANT in 1644 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Children were: John II BRYANT, Hannah BRYANT, Joseph BRYANT, Mary BRYANT, Sarah BRYANT, Martha BRYANT, Samuel BRYANT.

Nathaniel LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

Thomas LEWIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1627-1653 in Scituate, Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1633-1733 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ Parents: George LEWIS and Sarah JENKINS.

Solomon LINCOLN⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 25 1682 in Scituate, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1701-1773 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

He was married to Hannah STETSON WFT Est. 1698-1730 in Scituate, Massachusetts, probably.⁽³⁾

Abigail LINDALL⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1635 in Salem, Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1651-1729 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

She was married to Samuel WADSWORTH WFT Est. 1651-1683 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

John LINGWOOD⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1546 in of Braintree, Essex, England.⁽⁴⁾ He died WFT Est. 1596-1638.⁽⁴⁾

He was married to Jane MARLER in 1592.⁽⁴⁾ Children were: Agnes LINGWOOD\LINWOOD.

Agnes LINGWOOD\LINWOOD⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1565 in of Bocking, Essex, England.⁽⁴⁾ She died about 1619.⁽⁴⁾ Parents: John LINGWOOD and Jane MARLER.

She was married to John LOOMIS\LUMMYS WFT Est. 1593-1615.⁽⁴⁾ Children were: Joseph LOOMIS.

? LINTON⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1792-1812 in ?.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1826-1898 in ?.⁽³⁾

He was married to Martha STRONG WFT Est. 1823-1844 in ?.⁽³⁾

Nellie Maria LITTLEFIELD⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1866 in ?.⁽³⁾ She died in 1949 in ?.⁽³⁾

She was married to Edwin Russell TITUS on Jun 14 1888 in Danvers, Massachusetts, possibly.⁽³⁾

Anna LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ Parents: Jerry LONG and Judy WARNOCK.

Children were: Dana LONG.

Christina LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾. Parents: Jerry LONG and Judy WARNOCK.

Dana LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾. Parents: Anna LONG.

Jerry LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾.

Children were: Sherri LONG, Anna LONG, Steven LONG, Christina LONG.

Margaret LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1647-1667 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1668-1751 in ?.⁽³⁾

She was married to Thomas POPE WFT Est. 1668-1701 in Massachusetts.⁽³⁾

Sherri LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ Parents: Jerry LONG and Judy WARNOCK.

Children were: Daniel Allen WEBSTER , Shanna Danielle WEBSTER.

Steven LONG⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾. Parents: Jerry LONG and Judy WARNOCK.

Ann LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Jan 10 1678/79 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1680-1773 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon Joseph LOOMIS and Hannah MARSH.

Anna LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1676-1710 in ?.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1732-1797 in ?.⁽³⁾

She was married to Samuel WRIGHT on Dec 13 1727 in ?.⁽³⁾

David LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on May 30 1665 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died on Jun 24 1665 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

David LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Jan 11 1667/68 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1687-1759 in ?.⁽³⁾

He was married to Lydia MARSH WFT Est. 1683-1716 in ?.⁽³⁾

Deacon John LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1622 in Essex County, England.⁽³⁾ He died on Sep 1 1688 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6325, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]

Deacon John Loomis's wife, Elizabeth, a child of nine, sailed with her parents, Thomas and Ann Scott, from Ipswich, England, April, 1634, to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and removed to Hartford, Connecticut.
John Loomis was admitted to the Windsor Church October 11, 1640. On May 3, 1643, he had granted him from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was Deacon of the church. He was deputy to the General Court in 1666 and 7, also from 1675 to 1687. He died September 1, 1688, about 66 years of age, and his monument is still preserved in the Windsor burying ground [When the author of this source information wrote this, 1880]. His will is preserved in the Probate office at Hartford, and his name is signed John Loomys.

Will of John Loomis, dated 27 August 1688

John Loomiss senior doe beinge of a competent understandinge and memory ordayne and appoynt my Last will and Testament.
In primis my will is that my eldest son John shall have a double portion of my estate in Land yt to be accounted for part that he have already beene possessed of and by this I give liberty to bee assured of
my will is that all my land on both sides ye River shall be equally devided between all my children now livinge I leave itt in charg in my will yt there bee indeavered of all a ready complyance to agree in ye devission itt beinge so small devissions I know not how to pleas myself nor them My will is yt my daughter Elizabeth shall have equall portion with my sons excepting John of ye moveable estate my will is yt my wife shall have ye product of ye thirds of all my land as longe as she lives and that ye house homested & Barne Remayne to my wife as longe as she lives and ye free dispose of itt amongst my children when she dies & thatt ye 3rd prt of my moveable estate of what she shall chuse to bee to her free dispose amongst my children
my will is yt my son Thomas's two sons shall have ten pound a pecs of my moveable estate I apoynt my wife and son John Executors of this my will always provided yt my Just debt shall be payd out of my moveable estate and if itt will not reach every one proportionable shall abate
my will is that (illegible)
by my wife at her death
I subscribe my hand
John Loomys Sr
Wittness:
Abigail Aling
Nathanale Porter Parents: Joseph LOOMIS and Mary WHITE.

He was married to Elizabeth SCOTT on Feb 3 1648/49 in Windsor, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾ Children were: John LOOMIS, Deacon Joseph LOOMIS, Thomas LOOMIS, Samuel LOOMIS, Sergeant Daniel LOOMIS, James LOOMIS, Timothy LOOMIS, Ensign Nathaniel LOOMIS, David LOOMIS, Deacon Samuel LOOMIS, Isaac LOOMIS, Elizabeth LOOMIS, Mary LOOMIS.

Deacon Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 7 1651 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died in 1699 in Windsor, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

He was married to Hannah MARSH on Jan 28 1675/76 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Children were: Ann LOOMIS, Hannah LOOMIS, Joseph LOOMIS, Joseph LOOMIS, Grace LOOMIS, Lydia LOOMIS, Sarah LOOMIS.

Deacon Samuel LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Aug 12 1666 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died on May 20 1754 in Colchester, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

He was married to Elizabeth WHITE on Jul 2 1688 in Hatfield, Connecticut, possibly.⁽³⁾

He was married to Elizabeth NOBLE on Oct 25 1738 in Colchester, Connecticut, possibly.⁽³⁾

Elizabeth LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on May 8 1671 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ She died on Dec 11 1723 in Windsor, Connecticut, possibly.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

She was married to John BROWN on Feb 4 1691/92 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾

Elizabeth LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1619 in Messing, Essex, England.⁽³⁾ She died after 1665 in Killingworth, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾ Parents: Joseph LOOMIS and Mary WHITE.

She was married to Josiah HULL on May 20 1641 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾

Ensign Nathaniel LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Jul 8 1663 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died on Jun 25 1732 in Bolton, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

He was married to Ruth PORTER on Nov 28 1689 in Windsor, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾

Grace LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Mar 17 1684/85 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1714-1779 in Lebanon, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon Joseph LOOMIS and Hannah MARSH.

She was married to Captain John WEBSTER on Aug 6 1709 in Lebanon, Connecticut.⁽³⁾

Hannah LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Jan 10 1678/79 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ She died on Oct 21 1746 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon Joseph LOOMIS and Hannah MARSH.

She was married to John BIRCHARD on Dec 30 1708 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾

Isaac LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Aug 31 1668 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died on Dec 12 1668 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

James LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Sep 19 1659 in Farmington, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died on Dec 14 1669 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

Joanna LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1703-1727 in ?.⁽³⁾ She died WFT Est. 1746-1815 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾

She was married to Joseph LYMAN on Dec 2 1741 in Coventry, Connecticut.⁽³⁾

John LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1622 in Braintree, Essex, England.⁽⁴⁾ He died on Sep 2 1688 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.⁽⁴⁾ [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #3327, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]

!Family records and information Parents: Joseph LOOMIS and Mary WHITE.

He was married to Elizabeth SCOTT on Feb 3 1648/49.⁽⁴⁾ Children were: Joseph LOOMIS.

John LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 9 1649 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1650-1739 in ?.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

John LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born WFT Est. 1539-1568 in England.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1593-1653 in Braintree, Essex, England.⁽³⁾

He was married to Agnes ? WFT Est. 1565-1608 in England.⁽³⁾ Children were: Joseph LOOMIS.

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 7 1651 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.⁽⁴⁾ He died about Oct 1699 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.⁽⁴⁾ [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #3327, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]

!Family records and information Parents: John LOOMIS and Elizabeth SCOTT.

He was married to Hannah MARSH on Jan 28 1675/76.⁽⁴⁾ Children were: Sarah LOOMIS.

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1590 in Braintree, Essex, England.⁽⁴⁾ He died on Nov 25 1658 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.⁽⁴⁾ [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #3327, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]

!Family records and information Parents: John LOOMIS\LUMMYS and Agnes LINGWOOD\LINWOOD.

He was married to Mary WHITE on Jun 30 1614.⁽⁴⁾ Children were: John LOOMIS.

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Feb 13 1681/82 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died before 1682 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon Joseph LOOMIS and Hannah MARSH.

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born on Nov 28 1682 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ He died WFT Est. 1715-1773 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Deacon Joseph LOOMIS and Hannah MARSH.

He was married to Mary COOLEY on Jun 28 1710 in Connecticut.⁽³⁾

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born before 1590 in England.⁽³⁾ He died on Aug 23 1652 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6325, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]

Joseph Loomis, son of John and Agnes Loomis, was probably born before 1590; married in Messing, Co. Essex, England, June 30, 1614, Mary White, bap. Aug. 24, 1590, and died in Windsor August 23, 1652.
Mary White was a daughter of Robert and Bridget (Allegar) White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, who were married June 24, 1585.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen-draper in Braintree, Essex county, England; sailed from London April 11, 1638, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," and arrived at Boston July 17, 1638, tarrying about 1 year at Dorchester, Massachusetts, it is thought. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. I, that on the 2nd of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington river, on the west side of the Connecticut river, this 21 acres including the site of the first English settlement made in Conn.; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase.
He therefore probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor, August 17, 1639, He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen, Oct. 7, 1669, and three daughters. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on "The Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut River. He died November 25, 1658.

The history of Connecticut begins with the year 1630, and that of Windsor with the year 1633. The original town of Windsor was about 46 miles in circumference, lying on both sides of the Connecticut River. It was originally called Dorchester. At the Commissioner's court, Feb. 21, 1637, it was "ordered yt the plantacon called Dorchester shall bee called Windsor."
Seven miles above Hartford, some Pilgrims from Plymouth Colony, in order to prevent the Dutch of New Netherland from getting control of "the finest valley in New England," built a block-house on the side of Windsor near the mouth of the Farmington, in 1633, and began trading with the Indians. This first settlement of Connecticut was made on "the island," so-called, now owned by the Loomis Institute. In 1633 Captain Willaim Holmes with a few other men, had sailed carefully up the Connecticut, "pluckily disregarding the threats of the Dutch commandant of the fort at Hartford, and landed at Windsor, to erected the frame trading-house that had been hewed and fashioned at Playmouth, Mass. . ."
Early in 1639 the people of the three towns of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield met in convention and agreed to govern themselves according to a written constitution. By this act they united themselves into a republic, the first in the new world, and which was finally called Connecticut. This republic of Connecticut is believed to be the first state in the history of the world which was created by a written constitution. Moveover in the state thus founded there was no restriction of suffrage to church members. This constitution was inspired by the learned and eloquent Thomas Hooker of Hartford, and through it a democracy in which freedom, equality and individuality are potent factors was obtained.

The Loomis Family in England

It is already known, of official evidence, that the "Joseph Lummys" ("Loomys"), who resided in the town and parish of Braintree in Essex, England, left that place in the spring of the year of 1638; also, that without any appreciable delay thereafter, he became a passenger of record in a vessel of goodly register, known as the "Susan and Ellen," and that this vessel did depart on the eleventh day in the month of April, of that year, from the port of London, bound for Boston in New England, carrying quite a number of other voyagers with their personal properties.
Joseph Loomis and his family brought with them eleven separate and varying pieces of baggage and "divers other goods."
Braintree scare could afford to lose such a citizen as Jospeh Loomis; but America needed him more, and he knew it. Just that same need was exactly why he went away. Verily, it was not merely religion, not all prospect of gain, not great dissatisfaction with home,--not any one of these things that chiefly moved him to arise and go to set himself down three thousand miles from the ease of home. Broader than any of these causes was the reason. To help found a new country, with fairer laws and wider liberties, where the ordinary man might be more supreme--that was the Great Idea that possessed him, and many others. As one of the non-conformist faction out of the church of England they wanted to dominate the church at home, which power they could not quite attain to there. But deeper than that desire in the breast of Joseph Loomis was the spirit that moved him. He felt himself equal to the task that other men had set. The challenge of their example stirred him. The appeal of Opportunity decided him. It convinced his mind that he was one of "the chosen" for the Great Purpose. And the apparently unlimited possibilities, to him and his, of the natural resources of an unclaimed land, hovered in his imagination. He had all the money that he would require to pleasantly establish his family in America. Let us dismiss, as being insufficient, the idea of "a band of Christians fleeing from persecution"--save with respect to the Mayflower's Pilgrims mostly. To the so-called Puritan settlers, the comforts of religion were vastly more of a necessity and more relished in the New than they had been to them in the Old England. Daily spiritual refreshment kept them to their hard tasks, soothed the longing for a return to the beautiful land they had forsaken, and, in fact, the church was the keystone that held up the arch of the early colonization.
Actual and severe religious persecution had pretty much died out in Essex before 1632. "Speaking particularly of the early emigrants from Essex, it is unquestionably true that a large portion of them were actuated by a desire for more religious latitude than they then enjoyed at home; but there was still another and equally large class, for whose motives there may be entertained a respect quite as sincere, and for whose character a reverence quite as profound. These were men in the humbler walks of life, whose circumstances were moderate, whose families were large, and who foresaw, in remaining at home, only a perpetual struggle for existence, without the prospect or hope of elevating their offspring above the level of their own lives. To such men as these the New World opened a vista of positive enchantment. The farmer, tilling laboriously land not his own, and certain only of the conventional six feet of soil, where his own bones would at last be laid, believed that there, after a little season of toil and hardship, and perhaps even of extreme suffering, he would be able to stand under the shelter of his own vine and fig-tree, call broad acres of wood and meadow his own and then, having distributed his possessions, and seen his sons and daughters comfortably settled in life, lay down calmly, satisfied that he had fulfilled his duties as a parent and a citizen." -- Col. John L. Chester
Joseph Loomis was not one of these unfortunate yet ambitious farmers. His wife was the daughter of a man considered as very well-to-do in that time and region; a man whose testamentary bequests of money alone were upwards of fourteen thousand dollars (present reckoning). Loomis is known to have been a woolen draper, a merchant engaged in the purchase of cloth from the many weavers who wove on hand-looms in their cottage-homes. He had a store in Braintree stocked therewith and with other goods which a "draper" dealt in. These products, he sold at large, both wholesale and retail, to tailors and consumers in general. Braintree and nearby towns were centres of cloth manufacture.
"John Lummys," the father, and tailor, is shown by his will, dated 1619, to have been a tradesman and real-estate holder in comfortable circumstances, and a citizen of esteem in the church and community. His son Joseph advanced the fortune of the family. Contemplating his means and position in England, and his situation in America, it seems entirely fair to say that he was a prosperous man in England, and of the better class of settlers in New England. Long it has been seen that he was independent in Windsor--and particularly so as to the location of his estate there.
Not driven out of England, not forsaking duties or obligations there, not an enthusiast or Puritanical extremist in religion was Joseph Loomis. He came to America on general principles, after long deliberation. As a practical businessman of the world his decision so to do, it will be now agreed, was the apotheosis of wisdom. A study of his life in America prys up no indication that he regretted his transplantation, as did many other settlers, with cause.
Joseph Loomis, John Loomis, the father, "John Lummys," the grandparent, and all of the known men of their family before them, and practically all of the numerous persons found under all forms of the name of Loomis in England, of all times, were of that great middle-class, which may be summed up in the word "yeomen," though some of them wrote themselves down as gentlemen.
The Braintree men, through their business abroad, had opportunities to look out upon a world that was wider than their own shire. London was doubtless no strange city to Joseph Loomis. There he must have gone both to sell and to buy. As a wholesale cloth merchant he may have visited the continent,--even Spain and Portugal, since it was that the Braintree-Bocking cloth was largely sold in those countries. Non-conformity developed with Braintree's commercial growth. Both features seem to have started together. Spiritual liberty was likely founded upon the material independence of the individual.
The act for imprisonment and death for religious non-conformity was passed probably before Joseph Loomis was born and before his father settled in Braintree. Hence all the legal proceedings that were taken against those who violated this law have no special application to these Lomases, but Joseph Loomis faced a heavy fine for a withdrawal from the parish church. We do not consider that he did withdraw therefrom, but rather continued therein though as one of the dissatisfied minority. Before the last year of Elizabeth, 1603, some of the Essex clergy had become enlightened, which cost some fifty of them their positions. The liberal or Puritan party in the church continued to gain in members for fifty years after 1603, and many Separatist assemblies had become organized. It is, of course, to be expected that John Lummys was something of a Puritan, though from what is known of him, no hint is had that he was an extremist--a Separatist. His son Joseph undobutedly, was something of a Puritan sympathizer. Both men probably attended St. Michael's church in Braintree so long as they lived there. There is every reason to believe that they did so. There were small groups of people in Braintree that did not conform at all; but they were not composed of important men like John Hawkins and Joseph Loomis. We cannot conceive the loving friendship of these two men as possible, without religious harmony between them; and Hawkins certainly did not withdraw from the parish church. John and Geoffrey Loomys and their wives must have been buried in the churchyard. The business success of Joseph Loomis is evidence that he lived agreeably with his neighbors. His father-in-law, Robert White, was a communicant of the Shalford or Messing churches until he died. We do not see anything in the Braintree religious conditions as particularly applied to Joseph Loomis, to warrant the belief that he was any such puritancial sort of gentleman.

The Descendants of Joseph Loomis, Who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638, and Settled in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1639, Elias Loomis, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, Connecticut, 1880.
Parents: John LOOMIS and Agnes ?.

He was married to Mary WHITE on Jun 30 1614 in Messing, Essex, England.⁽³⁾ Children were: Joseph LOOMIS, Nathaniel LOOMIS, Sarah LOOMIS, Elizabeth LOOMIS, Mary LOOMIS, Deacon John LOOMIS, Thomas LOOMIS, Samuel LOOMIS.

Joseph LOOMIS⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1615 in Messing, Essex, England.⁽³⁾ He died on Jun 26 1687 in Windsor, Connecticut.⁽³⁾ Parents: Joseph LOOMIS and Mary WHITE.

He was married to Sarah LYMAN on Sep 17 1646 in Windsor, Connecticut, probably.⁽³⁾

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