Thomas Yale (Wallingford)
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Captain Thomas Yale 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.
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
Founding Father John Jay, chief justice in charge of the supreme court case before Congress named United States vs Yale Todd
Theophilus Yale
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Captain Theophilus Yale was a British military officer, magistrate, and one of the early settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut. His grandnephew, Dr. Lyman Hall, became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Yale was also a deputy of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Justice of the Peace for Wallingford.
Center Congregational Church, Meriden, Connecticut, Theophilus Yale's brother was one of its founders
Valparaiso Bay, Chile, where Sea captain Theophilus Yale died, in the early 19th century
The General Armstrong, Joseph Yale's brother-in-law, Capt. Winship, was captured aboard during the War of 1812