Thomas Yale

Portrait of Capt. Yale's descendant, postmaster Ira Newell Yale, great-grandson of his child, Nathaniel Yale

Captain Thomas Yale (c. 1647 – 1736) was a British-American magistrate, politician and military officer. He was one of the founders of the town of Wallingford, Connecticut. He became Justice of the Peace, surveyor and moderator for Wallingford, and helped establish its first Congregational church in 1675. He was also elected, for numbers of years, as deputy to the Connecticut General Assembly.

His father, Capt. Thomas Yale, was the cofounder of New Haven Colony, and the first Yale to emigrate to the Thirteen Colonies.

Early life Thomas Yale was born in New Haven Colony around 1647, to Mary Turner and Capt. Thomas Yale, members of the Yale family, and future namesake of Yale College. His father was one of the cofounders of New Haven Colony with his step-grandfather, Gov. Theophilus Eaton, the colony's first governor, and his step-grand uncle, minister Samuel Eaton. Yale's uncle was Gov. Edward Hopkins, 2nd governor of Connecticut, and his other uncle, William Jones, was one of its early deputy governors.

Biography The town of Wallingford, Connecticut, cofounded by Capt. Yale and others during the 1668 Wallingford Agreement, Yale also cofounded its Congregational church on the left

While initially born in New Haven Colony, Yale removed afterwards to Wallingford, Connecticut, with his first wife, and became one of its cofounders, signing the 1668 Wallingford Agreement. He was under the direction of the New Haven Committee. One of her brothers, Deputy Joseph Doolittle, was made captain and lieutenant of the train-band by Gov. Gurdon Saltonstall. They were also members of the family of Sir John Brocket of Brocket Hall, and politician Dudley North, the son-in-law of Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale College. Memorial plate, Founders of Wallingford, Connecticut, Capt. Thomas Yale is at the end

Yale Todd

Another descendant, Yale Todd, a veteran of the American War of Independence, went in front of Congress under United States vs Yale Todd, regarding the constitutionality of the obtention of his military pension after being disabled by wounds, having served under Gen. David Wooster's regiment.

This case, with another, gave rise to Marbury v. Madison, a case originating from the rivalry between Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.