Sergt Joseph NASH

Family/Spouse: Mary ?. Mary died on 25 Dec 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
According to Berry, he 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 1, 1657, he mentions his old age. The first date attached to his name at New Haven, in "1st 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 one0third 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 occasions 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 one 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.

Thomas married Margery BAKER. Margery was born in England; died between 11 Feb 1655 and 1 Aug 1657. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Nicholas Baker and Mary Hodgets of Herts, England

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There is no mention of the wife of Thomas Nash in the records of New Haven, except in the seating of the Meeting House and then her Christian name is not given. But in Berry's County Genealogies and Pedigrees of Hertfordshire, there is an account of the Baker Family, which makes it highly probable that her name was MARGERY and that she was the daughter of NICHOLAS BAKER of Hertfordshire, England. The last time that she is mentioned i the records is in the seating of Feb. 11, 1655, "In ye short seate Good w: Nash ye elder and Rogger Allins wife". (her daughter.) Mrs. Schenck in her History of Fairfield, says she died within two years of her husband.