Sailed from London with his 5 sons and 3 daughters on 4/11/1638 on the ship 'Susan and Ellen' arriving Boston 7/17/1638 staying 1 year in Dorchester Mass.He was a woolen draper in England.Town records of Windsor, Conn. show that on 2 Feb. 1640, he was granted 21
acres from the Plantation adjoining Farmington River on the west side of
the Conn. River. This acreage included the site of the first English
settlement made in Conn. Also there were several large tracts of land on
the east side of the Conn., partly from the town and partly purchased.
Rev. Ephraim Huet arrived in Windsor, Conn. 17 Aug. 1639. It is believed
that Joseph Loomis was in the company with him. In that case it is likely
he arrived in Windsor, Conn. in the summer or autumn of 1639. His house
was near the mouth of the Farmington River on "The Island." That area was
called "the Island" because when raining, the Connecticut River
overflowed, causing it to temporarily become an island.
Joseph and Mary Loomis had 8 ch., all born in England, and came to America
with them. Their five sons were freeman--believed to mean those who
enjoy political liberty (7 Oct 1669).
Proof that Joseph Loomis came from Braintree, England - A deposition made
30 Jul 1639 by one of the passengers in the same ship as Joseph Loomis:
"Joseph Hills of Charlestowne, in New England, Wollen Draper, aged about
46 years, sworne, saith upon his oath that he came to New England
undertaker in the ship called the Susan & Ellen of London whereof was
master Mr. Edward Payne, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred
thirty and eight, the 14th yeare of the raigne of our Souraigne Lord the
Kind that now is, and this day knowes that divers goods and chattells,
victualls & commodities of Joseph Loomis late of Brayntree in the County
of Essex, Woolen draper, w?? were put up in three butts, two hogsheds, one
halfe hogshed, one barrell, one tubb & three firkins, transported from
Malden in the County of Essex to London in an Ipsw? Hye, were shipped in
the said ship upon the eleventh day of Aprill in the yeare abovesayd, and
this deponent cleared the said goods with divers other goods of the said Joseph Loomis and other mens, in the Custome-house at London, as may
appeare by the Customers bookes, and this deponent saith that the goods
were transported into New England in the said ship where she arrived on
the seaventeenth day of July in the yeare aforesayd.
John of Baintree