, Mary Miles Ince (m. October 22, 1661, New Haven Colony) Thomas Hanford (July 22, 1621 – 1693) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.

He was the first minister in Norwalk, and continued in charge of the settlement's church for forty-one years, until his death in 1693.

[2] He was born in Fremington (near Barnstaple), Devonshire, England, on July 22, 1621, the son of Theophilus Jeffrey Hanford and Eglin Hatherly.

His mother, Eglin Hatherly Hanford, with Thomas' sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth, departed from London aboard the ship Planter on April 8, 1635.

However, it appears that he did not finish in England, as he completed his studies in Massachusetts Bay Colony with Charles Chauncy, who later became the second president of Harvard University.