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1668 Thomas Hanford, son of Thomas, was born at Norwalk on July 18. [1]

1673 John Burwell was "granted a parcel of land from the town" in Greenwich. [2]

c 1686 Hannah Lockwood and John Burwell were married.

1687 Hannah Burwell was born on March 30.

1690 John Burwell died on May 1 in Greenwich, Connecticut, of smallpox. [3]

John Burwell, from the Parish of Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, in England, … came to this country about 1685, and stopped for a time at Milford, Conn. He was the son of John Burwell, of Hertfordshire, in England, who died there previous to May, 1670. His son John, when he came to America, left a large and valuable landed estate in England, in the possession of his sister, Maria Burwell, at Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire. He is first found at Milford, Conn., in this country, and in Feb., 1687-8, he is next found purchasing a house-lot at Greenwich, where he about this time married Hannah "Lockward," (now spelt Lockwood,) a d'r of Gershom Lockwood, of Norwalk. In 1689, he returned to England, to see to his estate at Hemel Hempstead, and other property there, and returned to Greenwich in the spring of 1690, and immediately after, while on a visit of business to N. York, he took the small pox, and returned to Greenwich and died May 1, 1690. His wife survived him, and afterward married a Mr. Hanford. Mr. Burwell left an only child, Hannah, as sole heir to his estate in this country, and his large estate in England. The death of Mr. Burwell, while his daughter was an infant, left no person to look after his estate in England, and therefore it has never been recovered from the wrongful possessors, by the legal heirs of John Burwell.

c 1692 Thomas Hanford and Hannah (Lockwood), widow of John Burwell, and dau. of Gershom Lockwood, were married. [4]

1733 The will of Thomas Hanford was dated 9 May 1733 and was proved 22 Aug. 1743; naming wife Hannah; sons Theophilus, Thomas, Elnathan; my brother Gershom Lockwood; daus. Elizabeth Waren, Catherine Raymond, Mary Fayerweather. [5] [6]

Hanford, Thomas, late of Norwalk, will dated May 9, 1733, probated Sept. 6, 1743, mentioned his wife Hannah, and children Theophilus, Thomas, Elnathan, Elizabeth Waren, Catherine Raymond, and Mary Fayerweather, and brother Gershom Lookwood. Owned land in OysterBay, Queens County, Island of Nassau. Executors his sons Theophilus, Thomas and Elnathan. Witnesses James Brown, Samuel Hanford, and Thomas Fitch.

1743 Thomas Hanford died on June 7 at Norwalk in his 75th yr. (g. s.). [7]

1744/5 The will of Hannah Hanford was dated 21 February and was proved 14 January 1745/6; naming three sons Theophilus, Thomas, Elnathan; dau. Elizabeth wife of Edmund Waren, Jr. [8] [9]

Hanford, Hannah, late of Norwalk, will dated Feb. 21,1744/5, probated Feb. 18, 1745/6, mentioned her children Theophilus Hanford, Thomas Hanford, Elnathan Hanford, and Elizabeth wife of Edmund Waren, Jr. Executors sons Theophilus, Thomas and Elna-than. Witnesses James Kelly, Jonathan Williams,and Samuel Hanford.

1745 Hannah (Lockwood) Hanford died on December 28, at Norwalk, ae. 78 yrs. 5 days. [10]

Thomas and Hannah were buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Their grave stone inscription is

Here lies the Body
Mr. Thomas Hanford
ye eldest son of ye Rev'd Mr
Thomas Hanford who died
June ye 7 A D 1743 in ye 75
year of his Age with Hannah
his wife lying at his right
hand who dec'd December 28, 1745
aged 78 years and 5 days.


Footnotes:

[1] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Spencer Percival Mead, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (1911, reprinted 1979), 450, [HathiTrust].

[3] Royal Ralph Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1852), 439, of 438-440, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[4] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].

[5] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].

[6] Spencer P. Mead, Abstract of Probate Records of Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut (1934, published online as Fairfield County, CT: Probate Records, 1704–1757, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 3118, vol. 9, page 203, [AmericanAncestors].

[7] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].

[8] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].

[9] Spencer P. Mead, Abstract of Probate Records of Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut (1934, published online as Fairfield County, CT: Probate Records, 1704–1757, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 3117, vol. 9, page 312, [AmericanAncestors].

[10] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Reprinted with additions and corrections (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), 257, [GoogleBooks].