ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF REV. THOMAS HOOKER First Generation THOMAS HOOKER (HOKER), Blaston, County Leicester, England. Wife Cecilia ( ). Held stewardship under the Digby family who had extensive estates in Leicester County. His will was proved 27 January 1561/2. Second Generation KENELM (KENELLYME) HOOKER (HOKER), only son of Thomas and Cecilia Hooker. He was of Blaston, County Leicester, England. It is thought he was named for Kenellime Digby, Esq. member of the family on whose estates his father was steward. Kenellime Digby was "supervisor" of the will of Thomas Hooker. Third Generation THOMAS HOOKER (HOKER), son of Kenelm Hooker, was a Yoeman of Marfield (or Marshfield [?]), in the Parrish of Tilton. Fourth Generation REVEREND THOMAS HOOKER, son of Thomas, b. 7 July 1586 at Marshfield or Birstall [?]), Leicester County, England. Died 7 July 1647, Hartford, Conn. There is a conflict in the information dealing with his marriage. According to Charles F..Ferris, Thomas Hooker married Susan Garbrand in Holland in 1621. This is clearly not possible, he did not go there until 1631. This is borne out by the fact that children were born to him in England in the years 1626 and 1628. This would prove that he was married before emigrating to Holland. One reference states... "Hooker was married before leaving England. His wife's name was Susanna...... that she was the personal attendant of an invalid, a Mrs. Drake, a wealthy woman, in whose home young Hooker lived while Rector of the church at Esher." He was Curate of Esher beginning in 1620, which would fit with the date given for his marriage. None of the references found to date give her last name other than that from Charles Ferris. One source states that Susanna was Thomas Hooker's second wife. This is very possible since he would have been 35 in 1621 and of an age to have had a prev- ious marriage with no issue. Due to the similarity of names, i.e.; Susan and Susanna(h), and taking all sources into consideration, the probabilities are that he married Susanna Garbrand as his second wife in 1621 in England. Thomas Hooker attended Emanuel College, Cambridge, A.B. deg. 1607, A.M. deg. 1611; Fellow of the Univ. 1609. Curate of Esher, Surrey and Lecturer at Chelms- ford, Essex 1620-29. He was cast out of the pulpit by Archbishop Laud in 1630. He kept a private school for a time at Little Baddow, Essex. He finally was driven out of England for nonconformity and fled for his life to Holland where he spent three years, 1631-1633. He came to New England in 1633 in the "Griffin" with John Cotton and the Rev. Samuel Stone. He settled in Cambridge, Mass. and was ordained there 11 October 1633. He was admitted a freeman 14 May 1634. Thomas Hooker was the founder of the Connecticut Valley Settlement at Hartford and in June 1636 settled there with the majority of his parishoners. He was buried at Center Church, Hartford, and was survived by his wife. Fifth Generation CHILDREN OF REV. THOMAS HOOKER AND SUSANNA (GARBRAND) HOOKER: The exact order of their birth is unclear. i. Joanna...d. 28 April 1646; m. Rev. Thomas Shepherd of Cambridge. ii. Mary...d. 24 Feb. 1676 at Milford, m. Rev. Roger Newton, first minister at Farmington, afterwards Milford. iii. John iv. Anne...baptised at Great Baddow, Essex, 5 January 1626 v. Sarah baptised at Chelmsford, Essex 9 April 1628, buried there 26 August 1629. vi. Sarah...m. Rev. John Wilson of Medfield.(She was probably named for the deceased child Sarah.) v. SAMUEL...b. Mass. 1633, d. 5/6 November 1697; m. 22 Sept. MARY WILLET at Plymouth. REV. SAMUEL HOOKER, son of Thomas and Susanna Hooker, was graduated from Harvard and was installed pastor.of the church at Farmington, Conn. July 1661 and continued there until his death in 1697. His wife MARY WILLET, one of 13 children, was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Willet of Plymouth, who came to America in the "Lion" in 1632. He was the son of a clergyman of the Church of England, Rev. Andrew Willet, D.D. and was born in England in 1610, one of 18 children. He emigrated to Holland as a young man as did Samuel Hooker's father. Thomas Willet was made a freeman in 1633 and later succeeded Miles Standish as Captain of the colony troops. Thomas Willet was the first Mayor of New York, appointed in 1665 and served a second term in 1667. Captain Willet married Mary Brown in 1636, daughter of John Brown of Plymouth, who had also emigrated from England by way of Holland. Thomas and Mary Willet were the grandparents of Sarah Pierrepont who married Jonathan Edwards. Sixth Generation CHILDREN OF REV. SAMUEL HOOKER AND MARY (WILLET) HOOKER: i. Dr. Thomas...b. 10 June 1659; m. Mary (Smith) Lord ii. Samuel...b. 29 May 1661; m. Mehitable Hamlin iii. William...b. 11 May 1663; m. Susannah ( ) iv. John...b. 20 Feb. 1664; m. Abigail Stanley v. James...b. 27 Oct. 1666; m. Mary Leete vi. Roger...b. 14 Sept., died 1698 vii. Nathaniel...b. 28 Dec. 1671; m. Mary Stanley viii. MARY...b. 3 July 1673; m. REV. JAMES PIERREPONT as third wife. ix. Hezekiah... b. 7 Nov. 1675; died young x. Daniel...b. 25 March 1678/9; m. Sarah Stanley 24 June 1707 xi. Sarah...b. 5 May 1681; m. Rev. Stephen Buckingham Samuel Hooker was highly esteemed as a preacher and pastor. In 1622 he was employed as one of a committee of four to treat with New Haven with reference to a union with Connecticut. Cotton Mather said of him when Thomas Hooker, his father died,..."We have among us, this day, our dead Hooker, yet living is his worthy son, Mr. Samuel Hooker, an able, faithful, and useful minister at Farmington in the Colony of Connecticut." After the death of Samuel Hooker, Mary Hooker, his widow, married the Rev. Thomas Buckingham of Saybrook 10 August 1703. References: "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut", Lucius Barnes Barbour, Genealogical Publishing Co.., Inc. Baltimore, 1977. pp 310-313. "Richard Edwards and his wife Catherine Pond May, Their Ancestors' Lives and Descendants", Rev. Maurice Dwight Edwards, D.D., 1931. pp 31-35. "Founders of Early American Families", Founders and Patriots of America, Cleveland, Ohio 1985. p 161. "Pedigrees of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy", The Society of the Descend- ants of the Colonial Clergy, 1976. p 646. "History of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America" 1913. p 70. Note: One source which I have not quoted....... "The New England Register" for the year 1893....contains a treatise by Commander Edward Hooker, U.S.N. which he delivered in August 1892. This paper entirely refutes the ancestry I have given here for Rev. Thomas Hooker. Comm. Hooker maintains that Thomas Hooker's forebears came, not from Leicester- shire, but from Devonshire. That Thomas Hooker's grandfather was not Kenelm Hooker, but a John Hooker of Devonshire and his father was Thomas Hooker of Devonshire. He also claims that Thomas Hooker's wife (although he does not give her first name) was a sister of John Pym of Somersetshire. I have been told, on good authority, by one who is also descended from Thomas Hooker, that the accepted ancestry for Rev. Thomas Hooker is as I have pre- sented it. NLU 1986 ADDITIONAL DATA ON THE CHILDREN OF REV. SAMUEL HOOKER AND MARY WILLET... DR. THOMAS HOOKER...b June 10, 1659 died Oct 13, 1756 ae 64 bur Center Ch mar 1686 Mary [Smith] Lord widow of Richard Lord. She was born Sept. 1, 1643 died May 17, 1702 ae 59 [Hartford] bur Center Church dau of Henry Smith of Springfield and Ann Pynchon. Estate divided 1758. No children given. SAMUEL...b May 29, 1661 mar Mehitabel Hamlin. He died 1758. Children [surviving heirs] Thomas mar Hannah Samuel Giles William Esther mar Rev. Isaac Stiles as 2nd wife Mehitable mar Daniel Coit WILLIAM...b. May 11, 1663 mar Susannah...no further data JOHN...b Feb. 20, 1664 died 1745/6 mar 1687 Abigail Stanley baptised August 1, 1669 dau of Capt. John Stanley & Sarah Fletcher. John Hooker joined Farmington Church Oct 13, 1688. Children:. Hezekiah bp Oct 20, 1688 d bef 1758 Abigail bp May 31, 1691 d. young John bp Nov.19, 1693 d. young John bp Mch 10, 1694/5 mar Mary Hart ? Abigail bp Nov 13, 1698 mar Nathaniel Hart Mary bp Oct 27, 1700 mar Samuel Hart Sarah bp Oct. 29,1703 mar [l] Matthew Hart mar [2] Hewett Strong Joseph bp June 17,1705 mar Sarah Lewis ? Ruth bp Apr 18, 1708/9 mar Asahel Strong Roger bp Sept 10,1710 mar Mercy Hart ? JAMES...b Oct 27, 1666 died 1758 mar Mary Leete Children [surviving heirs] Sarah mar John Bartlett Mehitabel mar John Smith Hannah mar Thomas Smith ROGER...b Sept 14, 1668 died 1698 ae 30 bur Center Church ... no further data NATHANIEL...b Dec 28, 1671 died Nov 21, 1711 ae 40 bur Center Ch mar 1698 Mary Stanley [mar 2nd John Austin Dec 8, 1713]. She was born Oct 8, 1677 died Aug 25, 1753 ae 76 bur Center Ch dau of Nathaniel Stanley & Sarah Boosey. Children: Abigail b Oct 4, 1607 mar Benjamin Lord Nathaniel b Oct 5, 1610 died Jan 25, 1763 ae bur Center Ch mar 1729 Eunice Talcott b Jan 26, 1709 died 1795 dau of Gov. Joseph Talcott & Eunice [Howell] Wakeman. Children: Eunice mar John Ellery Mary died Aug 28, 1763 ae 20 Nathaniel was pastor of West Hartford Ch died 1770 mar Ruth Skinner James mar [1] Hannah Allen m/2 Dorothy Goodwin Horace mar Elizabeth Fuller Mary bp Oct 1 1699 died Jan 12 1765 ae 65 bur Center Ch Alice bp Nov 16, 1701 mar Samuel Howard Sarah bp Nov 12, 1704 mar Daniel Edwards MARY...b July 3, 1673 mar REV. JAMES PIERREPONT as 3rd wife [see Pierrepont papers] HEZEKIAH...b Nov 7, 1675 died young DR. DANIEL...b Mch 25, 1678-9 mar Sarah Stanley June 24, 1707 Children [surviving heirs] Daniel m Sarah Webster Susannah m/1 Ephraim Goodrich m/2 Edward Bayley Sarah m Benjamin Chamberlin Mary m Elijah Peck Hannah m Reuben Norton SARAH...b May 5, 1681 mar Rev. Stephen Buckingham