2674–2675. Thomas Nash was born in England and died in New Haven, Connecticut, America, on May 12, 1658. His wife was Margery Baker They were married in England. She took the name Margery Nash. She is the daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Hodgetts) Baker. They had eight children:
| i. | John Nash was born about 1615, and died in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, on July 3, 1687. He married Elizabeth Tapp, daughter of Edmund Tapp; she died on May 1, 1676, in New Haven. They had four children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah.Per Early New England Settlers, which contains much additional information, his New Haven tombstone reads: HERE LYth THE BODY / OF THE HONOVRED & / WORTHY MAOr JOHN / NASH AGED 72 DE / CEASED JULYYe3 / 1687 | |
| ii. | Timothy Nash was baptized in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, on February 15, 1617/8, and died in Bewdley on July 21, 1618. Since Joseph and Timothy were baptized together, they probably were twins. He lived only about four months. | |
| iii. | Joseph Nash was baptized in Bewdley on February 15, 1617/8, and died in Bewdley. Since Joseph and Timothy were baptized together, they probably were twins. There is no death record for Joseph as there is for the first Timothy, but since his parents named a later son Joseph, he probably died young. | |
| iv. | Mary Nash [#1337]: She was born in Kempston, Bedford, England, about 1621, and died in New Haven on August 16, 1683. | |
| v. | Sarah Nash: She married Robert Talmadge. They had six children: Abigail, Thomas, Sarah, John, Enos, and Mary. | |
| vi. | Timothy Nash was born in Bewdley about 1626, and died in Hadley, Massachusetts, on March 13, 1699. He married Rebecca Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone; she died in March or April of 1709. They had two children: Rebecca and Samuel. | |
| vii. | Joseph Nash was baptized in Bewdley on July 1, 1627, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1678. He married twice, Mary and Margaret, and had three children: John, Hannah, and Sarah. | |
| viii. | Samuel Nash was born in Bewdley on March 29, 1630. Samuel does not appear in written sources given at the end of this page, but was found by Dorothy Roberts in the parish register of St. Leonard's Church, Ribbesford Parish, Bewdley, Worcestershire, England. The entries for Joseph and Timothy were on the same LDS microfilm, but not John, Mary, and Sarah. |
From Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, page 245, is taken:
According to [William] Berry, he [Thomas] came from Bewdley in Worcestershire. (Gen. and Ped. of Hertfordshire Families, pp. 83–85.) He sailed with the Whitefield party arriving at Quinnipac or New Haven, in July, 1639, and was one of the signers of the agreement to remain together made on shipboard. Savage says he was of Guilford in 1639, but this is probably a mistake. (Steiner's History of Guilford, 1897, pp. 23, 29, 48.) New Haven, Col. Rec., (I, p. 82) says: "brother Nash his shoppe did stand by the creeks." He was a gunsmith, and probably well advanced in life at the time of the emigration, for his eldest son John was old enough to be made Freeman, April, 1642, and in his will of August 1st, 1657, he mentions his old age. The first date attached to his name at New Haven, is "1t of the 7th Moneth 1640", when he was admitted member of the General Court and received the charge of Freeman. His home lot was on the west side of State Street, about one-third distance from Chapel to Elm St. He was chosen a Fence Viewer "for Mr. Eatons & Mr. Davenports quarter", March, 1645–6. May 25, 1646, the General Court ordered: "In regard of severall occassions and worke to be done agaynst trayning day, bro: Nash is spared." Before emigration, he was a member of the church in Leyden, Holland, and was on of five who wrote an interesting letter (given in full on pages 155, 156 & 157 of vol. 1 of the 4th Series of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1852.) from there, Nov. 30, 1625, to their brethren in Plymouth, informing them of the death of John Robinson, Pastor of the church, which included in its membership the planters in Plymouth as well as those left in Leyden.[References:] Atwater's New Haven, p. 125; Savage, 3, p. 262; The Nash Family, by the Rev. Sylvester Nash; Schenck's Fairfield, I, p. 396.
[It also includes a brief entry for Margery Baker, including children: Mary, John, Joseph, Sarah, and Timothy.]