Thomas Minor

Thomas Minor (23 April 1608 – 23 October 1690) was a founder of New London[1] and Stonington, Connecticut, United States, and an early colonial New England diarist.

[2] In the introduction of The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut 1653-1684, it states the name of the ship was the Arabella.

After several years in Hingham, the family moved south to the Wequetequock area of present-day Stonington, Connecticut, where Minor and his son Ephraim helped found the Road Church.

[6] In about 1653, Minor bought land west of Stonington, across Quiambaug Cove near present-day Mystic,[7] and built a house for his family.

[10] The pedigree and family coat of arms sent back to Minor were proven to be mostly falsified in a 1984 study published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

This "Minor coat of arms " was discredited in 1984 ^{[

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