The Founders of Hartford
Thomas Root,1 Salem, 1637, was an original proprietor at Hartford, in 1639, when his home-lot was
on the east aide of the road to the Cow Pasture (North Main St.). He was a weaver; served in the Pequot War; removed,
May, 1654, to Northampton, where he was one of the founders of the church; he d. there, July 17, 1694, at a great
age
1 Believed to be the son of John Root and Ann Russel, his wife, of Badby, Co. Northampton ; b.
Jan. 16, 1605. Root Genealogy, 95-107.
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