Matthias Sension1

#12575, (say 1602 - circa January 1669/70)

Family

Mary Tinker b. c 1606, d. a 1669
Children 1.Matthias Sension Jr.7 (c 1628 - )
 2.Thomas Sension7 (c 1631 - 1639)
 3.Mark Sension7 (c 1633 - )
 4.Sarah Sension8 (s 1636 - 1647)
 5.Samuel Sension9 (s 1638 - )
 6.Mercy Sension9 (s 1645 - )
 7.James Sension2 (s 1648 - )
Birth*say 1602He was born say 1602.1 
Marriage*1 November 1627He married Mary Tinker, daughter of Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin, on 1 November 1627 at New Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandG.1 
1634He and Mary Tinker migrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1634.2,3 
1638He and Mary Tinker removed to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1638.2 
circa 1648He and Mary Tinker removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, circa 1648.2 
before 1657He and Mary Tinker removed to Norwalk, Connecticut, before 1657.4 
10 October 1669He left a will on 10 October 1669 at Connecticut.5 
Death*circa January 1669/70He died circa January 1669/70 at Connecticut.1 
"The dates on which Matthew Sension and his family moved to and from Wethersfield are not easily determined from the available records." The removal to Norwalk occured between 1654 and late 1656.6 

Citations

  1. [S1231] Richardson. Douglas, "The English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families of New England", Part Two. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 149 (Jul., Oct. 1995): 410, 411. Hereinafter cited as English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families.
  2. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), VI:228.
  3. [S1231] Richardson. Douglas, "English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families", 410, 411: "They immigrated to New England, and were living at Dorchester by 3 Sept. 1634 when he was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colonyl on 4 Jan. 1635/6, the Town of Dorchester granted Matthias Sension a “great lot" of 20 acres "betwixt Roxbury and Dorchester at the great hill.""
  4. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:228, "by 1656."
  5. [S1231] Richardson. Douglas, "English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families", 410, 411, " naming his youngest son James and “my wife his mother,” sons Samuel Sention and Ephraim Lockwood, and leaving the residue of his estate to son Matthias (a double portion), and sons Mark, Samuel and Ephraim Sention." Citation History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield 513.
  6. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:233.
  7. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:231.
  8. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:231, noting as probable dau.
  9. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:232.