Thompson Spelman was born on 19 April 1730 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
2,3,4 Thompson Spelman married
Mary Unknown.
1,5,6 Thompson Spelman died in 1762 in Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, at age ~32.
2 He was buried on 13 December 1762 in First Church, Middleton, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
2 He was a soldier in the French and Indian War between 1758 and 1762.
2 Thompson [Spelman], b. 19 Apr., 1730; married
Mary; served in French and Indian wars in 1758, 1759, and 1762 [Connecticut Men in French and Indian Wars, pp. 18, no, 309]; sold to brother, Daniel, 14 Apr., 1755, for £80, "half of cordwainers shop belonging to me and the said Daniel in equal parts, in Newfield" [Middletown Deeds, Vol. 14, p. 248-9]; with [his mother] "Annah wife of [his stepfather] Samuel Mackey" gave quit claim to "Nathaniel Cornel" to one and one half acres, eighteen rods, in Newfield, 4 Nov., 1861 [sic, actually 1761], for £9-13-6 [Ibid, Vol.11, p. 541]; died the following year [in 1762] as recorded by the Rev. E. Huntington, pastor of the First Church, Middletown, "A.D. 1762. Dec. 13 attended the funeral of Thompson Spellman who died at Haddam [Middlesex County, Connecticut] in his return from the expedition at the Havannah [Cuba, January to August 1762] and was brot up hither to be interred" [First Church Records]; estate insolvent and sold at Public Vendue to [his stepfather] Samuel Mackey, 9 Apr., 1764; inventory £37-3-9; widow [
Mary Spelman] married
Joseph Williams [on 11 November 1765] [Early Conn. Marriages, Vol. 6, p. 94], who sold right of wife [
Mary Spelman] to the administrators of the estate of Thompson Spelman.].
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