Thomas Gregson was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1598, to Gregorii and Elizabeth Gregson. He was baptized into the Catholic church the same year. Throughout his brief life, he was married to Jane Gregson, and together they had nine children, seven daughters and two sons. After the birth of his first three children, he and his meager family migrated to America in the year 1636. Located at the New Haven Colony in current day Connecticut, the Gregsons started a new life under the direction of John Davenport and Thomas Hooker. The births of his other children followed in the next eight years. He died while sailing the Atlantic Ocean 1646. In Derbyshire, England, there is a church called Sutton-on-the-Hill or St. Michael’s Church, where Thomas Gregson was born and baptized. He was raised…show more content… Davenport came to the Americas to continue his Puritan church, but a scandal of another Puritan women in Boston reinforced him to find a new settlement. They continued their migration to the New Haven colony (current day Connecticut), where they purchased land from the indians. Davenport and Eaton deliberately laid out this land in a “nine square plan” which integrated future growth, making out the area to arguably be America’s first pre-designed colony. They also appointed members of the colony as leaders, including Thomas Gregson. As a chief leader of this new colony, Gregson acted as a treasurer, a commissioner to the legislator, a magistrate, and a representative for the New Haven Colony in a council with other colonies, where the first New World constitution was written. Shortly after Thomas’s family arrived at New Haven, Jane gave birth to their third daughter Susanna in the year 1638. Two years later, Mary was born, then three years following that, Jane birthed Pheebe. Thomas and Jane had two more daughters, Abigal in 1644 and Sarah in
