Birth: FEB 1603 England
Name Var: In the early records his name was spelled Sension, Sention, or Senchon (a French derivative of St. John – even though the family has been shown to NOT be of French origin). The spelling was changed to St. John or Saint John in the early 1700’s.
Marriage: 01 NOV 1627 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Occupation: Chandler (candle maker/seller)
Birth of Son: 1628
Name: Mathias Saint John
Birth of Son: 24 OCT 1631 (baptism)
Name: Thomas Sension
Birth of Son: 10 JUN 1633 (baptism)
Name: Marke Saint John
Note: SEP 1634
Details: Made a Freeman in Dorchester, Colony of Massachusetts
Land Rec: 14 JAN 1634/35
Details: He was granted 20 acres of land in Dorchester, Colony of Massachusetts
Birth of Son: 1637
Name: Samuel Saint John
Moved to: 1640
Place: Colony of Connecticut
Details: Matthias Sension was given a homelot containing ten rods in the northwest side of the Palisades of Windsor, bounded by the old graveyard on the south, bounded east by the green and went back to the palisades (the fence protecting the settlement).
Moved to: Wethersfield, Colony of Connecticut
Details: Matthias purchased land from Jonas Weede who had removed to Stamford. He appears on the list of one of the first settlers of Wethersfield.
Birth of Daughter: 1642
Name: Mercy Sention
Court Rec: 1650-1654
Place: Wethersfield, Colony of Connecticut
Details: His name appears in the records where he appeared before Particular Courts in Hartford several times for various reasons such as debt and defamation.
Court Rec: 01 JUN 1654
Details: “Mathias Sension of Wethersfield sold syder [cider] to the Indians by which they was Drunke.”
Land Rec: FEB 1658
Details: Thomas Wickham bought his house & gardenplot in Wethersfield, and the family removed to Norwalk.
Land Rec: 26 APR 1664
Details: John Steele sold all of his land in Norwalk to Matthis Sention.
Note: 1655
Details: Mathias, along with his sons, Mathias Jr. & Matthew Sention, were on the list of the first settlers of Norwalk, Colony of Connecticut. He received lot #10 in the first division of land.
Will: 19 OCT 1669
Death: OCT 1669 Norwalk, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
Burial: East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Details: No tombstone remains
Will Probated: 10 MAR 1670
Details: His estate was inventoried and totalled 189 pounds. His will mentions his youngest son, James; his wife; his mother — “Mother Seele one cow and one ewe”; sons: Samuel Sension, Mathias Sension, and Mark Sension; and son-in-law, Ephraim Lockwood. He left 205 shillings each to his beloved brother & sister Hoit [may be Walter Hoit] as a token of love.
parents are unknown
Mary Tinker
Birth: 1606 Old Windsor, England
Baptism: 06 AUG 1606 New Windsor Parish, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Death: 1669 Norwalk, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
Burial: East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Details: No tombstone remains
parents are Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin
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