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From The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker:
Mary Hooker (Thomas), daughter of Rev. Thomas
Hooker of Hartford, Conn., married in 1644, Rev. Roger New
ton, who was a student of Theology with her father, son of
Samuel Newton. He was the first minister at Farmington,
Conn., where he was installed on the day that the church was
formed, Oct., 1652, he having preached there some time before.
He remained there five years when he was dismissed and pre
pared to return to England.
It has always been supposed that
he did go to England and after remaining some time he re
turned to New England and settled in Milford, Conn. Later
researches however, have led the searchers to believe that after
he had prepared to go the ship left without him, and that he remained
in New England until he was called to Milford. He
was installed at Milford, Conn., Aug. 22, 1660, and remained
over the church until his death.
Mary Hooker, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hooker was the one upon whose young shoulders had fallen many of the burdens of family life as a result of her mother’s invalidity which seems to have lasted for many years.
As a child she had walked the long miles through the Massachusetts wilderness beside the litter which carried her invalid mother, Susannah Hooker.
Mary was probably born in Esher, England, in which place two little sisters, Anne and Sarah, were born and died. Another sister, born later, was also called Sarah.
It is said of the mother by one who knew her, ”Susannah Hooker was a lady of culture, and worthy to be the companion of such a man as Thomas Hooker.” Some think that she was a second wife, and not the mother of the older children, but there is no record of two marriages.
Spouse and children
Roger Newton
- Samuel Newton (1646-
- Roger Newton (1648-
- Susannah Newton (1654-
- John Newton (1656-
- Ezekiel Newton (1659-1734)
- Sarah Newton (1662-
- Mary Newton
- Alice Newton (1664-