Thomas Halsey

Thomas Halsey (1591/2 – 1678) was born 2 January 1591/2 He emigrated from England in 1633 with Edmond Farrington, Edmund Needham, Abraham Pierson the Elder, Thomas Sayre, Josiah Stanborough, George Welbe, Henry Walton, Job Sayre, and Edward Howell, the town of Southampton, New York in 1640. showing ancestry of Thomas Halsey, immigrant & founder of Southampton, L.I., New York. The earliest Englishman bearing the name "Halsey" lived in the western end of Cornwall. The home of the Cornish Halseys was a manor of Lanesley. According to Halsey's Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire..., In Cussan's History of Hertfordshire, he mentions a Thomas Halsey who was baptized 2 Jan 1592,

Halsey in America Thomas Halsey's arrival in America was connected with the colonization efforts led by John Winthrop. (as early as 1637),

Family Thomas married (1st) Phoebe before 1637. Thomas Halsey (b. abt. 1627) m. Mary (d. 20 Dec 1699) Isaac Halsey (b. abt. 1628/29) m. Mary Daniel Halsey (b. abt. 1630–1633, d. abt. 1682), buried at Wickapogue, New York, m. Jemima Elizabeth Halsey m. Richard Howell (son of Edward Howell, founder of Southampton, New York)

Coat of arms The arms of this family are said by Cussan to have been granted to William Halsey, the elder brother of Thomas of Southampton, in 1633, and are as follows:

Argent, on a pile sable, three griffin's heads erased of the first.

Crest: A cubit arm gules, cuff argent, hand proper, holding a griffin's leg erased or.

Motto: Nescit vox missa reverti (a word once uttered cannot be recalled)