GENERATION 13

GENERATION 12

Biography

THOMAS MOREHOUSE, the immigrant ancestor, was in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT, as early as 1640. In 1641, he removed to Stamford, Fairfield, CT, and was one of the original twenty-nine white settlers of that town who purchased it of the New Haven Colony, who had previously bought it of the Indians for one hundred bushels of corn.

In 1653 he settled in Fairfield, Fairfield, CT, and died there in 1658, leaving his widow Isabel, who was his second wife, but not the mother of his children.

His name was sometimes spelled Moorhouse in the early records, and was spelled Morhous by one branch of descendants. It is possible that the spelling, Morris, may have even been adopted.

THOMAS, by the records appears to have purchased in Fairfield on Aug. 6, 1653, twenty-four acres on Sasco Hill, a beautiful location near the Sound, and on the 16th day of the same month he purchased from Henry Jackson the first, and for many years the only grist mill in the town. In September of the same year he was one of the deputies to the General Court of Hartford.

He died in August, 1658. His eldest son, SAMUEL, was the executor of his will, and was given a double portion of his property including his houses, barn, mill and mill lot, and other land. His body was probably buried in the southeastern part of the old cemetery in Fairfield.