Thomas Minor

Thomas Minor was one the people of the great Puritan migration from England to the New World. He settled originally in Salem shortly after a charter was secured from Charles I in March of 1629. He arrived in July of that year. He traveled to Charlestown where he met and married Grace Palmer the 23rd day of April in 1634. Their first child was born there in August of 1635. They then moved to Hingham, Massachusetts where he was made a Freeman in 1635 and received shortly after that town land that He sold in 1645. There, four of theirr children were born and then they moved to New London, Connecticut where their remaining children were born.

He died 23 October 1690 and was laid to rest on the banks of Wicketequack Creek, which flowed past the residence of William Cheesbrough. This location is marked with a large stone of rough granite with the inscription cut in it that says, "here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Minor aged eighty-three years. Departed 1690.

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