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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY

HISTORY

OF THE

STATE OF CONNECTICUT

A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE

MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE

FOUNDING OF A NATION

EDITORIAL STAFF:

WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.

Historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society ; Librarian Emeritus of
Wobnrn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington,"
"Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc.

EDWARD HENRY CLEMENT
Editor "Boston Transcript," 1881-1906.

SAMUEL HART, D. D., D. C. L.

Dean of Berkeley Divinity School ; President of Connecticut Historical Society.

MARY KINGSBURY TALCOTT

Registrar Connecticut Society, Colonial Dames; Member Connecticut Historical Society,
and New England Historic-Genealogical Society.

FREDERICK BOSTWICK

Librarian and Life Member of New Haven Colony Historical Society; Member Connecticut
Historical Society.

EZRA SCOLLAY STEARNS

Ex-Secretary of State, N. H. ; Member Fitchburg Historical Society, American Antiquarian
Society, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, New Hampshire State Histori-
cal Society, Corresponding Member Minnesota State Historical Society.

VOLUME I

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

191 1

1911

RBIriI1THE LIBRARY
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
PROVO, UTAH

CENTER CHURCH, HARTFORD,
Founded by Rev. Thomas Hooker.

INTRODUCTORY.

THE present work, "Genealogical and Family History of the State of
Connecticut," presents in the aggregate an amount and variety of
genealogical and personal information and portraiture unequalled by any
kindred publication. No similar work concerning Connecticut Families has ever
before been presented, and it contains a vast amount of ancestral history never
before printed. The object, clearly defined and well digested, is threefold :

First. To present in concise form the history of Connecticut Families of
the Colonial Days.

Second. To preserve a record of the prominent present-day people of the
State.

Third. To present through personal sketches the relation of its prominent
families of all times to the growth, singular prosperity and wide-spread influence
of Connecticut.

There are numerous voluminous histories of the State, making it unneces-
sary in this work to even outline its annals. What has been published, however,
relates principally to civic life. The amplification necessary to complete the
picture of the State, old and nowaday, is what is supplied by these Genealogical
and Family Memoirs. In other words, while others have written of "the times,"
the province of this work is to be a chronicle of the people who have made Con-
necticut what it is.

Unique in conception and treatment, this work constitutes, it is believed, one
of the most original and permanently valuable contributions ever made to the
social history of an American commonwealth. In it are arrayed in a lucid and

dignified manner all
the important facts re-
garding the ancestry,
personal careers and
matrimonial alliances
of those who, in each
succeeding generation,
have been accorded
leading positions in
the social, professional
and business life of the
State. It is not based
upon, neither does it
minister to, aristo-.
cratic prejudices and
assumptions. On the
contrary, its fundamental ideas are thoroughly American and democratic. The
work everywhere conveys the lesson that distinction has been gained only by hon-
orable public service, or by usefulness in private station, and that the development

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and prosperity of the State of which it treats have been dependent upon the char-
acter of its citizens, and in the stimulus which they have given to commerce, to
industry, to the arts and sciences, to education and religion — to all that is com-
prised in the highest civilization of the present day — through a continual progres-
sive development.

The inspiration underlying the present work is a fervent appreciation of the
truth so well expressed by Sir Walter Scott, that "there is no heroic poem in the
world but is at the bottom the life of a man." And with this goes a kindred
truth, that to know a man, and rightly measure his character, and weigh his
achievements, we must know whence he came, from what forbears he sprang.
Truly as heroic poems have been written in human lives in the paths of peace as
in the scarred roads of war. Such examples, in whatever line of endeavor, are
of much worth as an incentive to those who come afterward, and as such were
never so needful to be written of as in the present day, when pessimism, forgetful
of the splendid lessons of the past, withholds its effort in the present, and views
the future only with alarm.

Every community with such ample history as Connecticut should see that it
be worthily supplemented by Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of its leading
families and prominent citizens. Such a work is that which is now presented.
And, it should be admitted, the undertaking possesses value of the highest import-
ance— in its historic utility as a memorial of the development and progress of the
community from its very founding, and in the personal interest which attaches to
the record made by the individual. On both these accounts it will prove a highly
useful contribution to literature, and a valuable legacy to future generations. Out
of these considerations the authors and publishers have received the assistance of
authorities of the highest standing as genealogists, historians and litterateurs.

In the production of this work, no pains have been spared to ensure absolute
truth — that quality upon which its value in every feature depends. The material
comprising the genealogical and personal records of the active living, as well as
of the honored dead, have been gathered by men and women experienced in such
work and acquainted with local history and ancestral families. These have ap-
pealed successfully to the custodians of family records concerning the useful men
of preceding generations, and of their descendants who have lived useful and hon-
orable lives. Such custodians, who have availed themselves of this opportunity
of having this knowledge placed in preservable and accessible form, have per-
formed a public service in rendering honor to whom honor is due, in preserving
the distinction which rightfully belongs to the Colonial Families, and which dis-
tinguishes them from later immigrations ; and in inculcating the most valuable
and enduring lessons of patriotism and good citizenship.

Than Connecticut, no other State or region offers so peculiarly interesting a
field for such research. Its sons — "native here, and to the manner born," and of
splendid ancestry — have attained distinction in every field of human effort. An ad-
ditional interest attaches to the present undertaking in the fact that, while dealing
primarily with the history of native Connecticut, this work approaches the dignity
of a national epitome of genealogy and biography. Owing to the wide dispersion
throughout the country of the old families of the State, the authentic account here
presented of the constituent elements of her social life, past and present, are of
far more than merely local value. In its special field it is, in an appreciable degree,
a reflection of the development of the country at large, since hence went out rep-
resentatives of historical families, in various generations, who in far remote places

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— beyond the Mississippi and in the Far West — were with the vanguard of civi-
lization, building up communities, creating new commonwealths, planting,
wherever they went, the church, the school house and the printing press, leading
into channels of thrift and enterprise all who gathered about them, and proving a
power for ideal citizenship and good government.

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and per-
sonal sketches relating to lineal family heads, and the most conspicuous represen-
tatives in the present generation. There is an entire avoidance of the stereotyped
and unattractive manner in which such data is usually presented. The past is
linked to the present in such style as to form a symmetrical narrative exhibiting
the lines of descent, and the history of distinguished members in each generation,
thus giving to it a distinct personal interest. That these ends have been consci-
entiously and faithfully conserved is assured by the cordial -personal interest and
recognized capability of the supervising editors, of prominent connection with the
leading patriotic societies, all of whom have long pursued genealogical investiga-
tions with intelligence and enthusiasm. The results of the combined labors of
editors, writers and publishers make these volumes fitting companions to their
preceding works relating to Massachusetts, Boston and Vicinity, the Hudson-Mo-
hawk Valleys, and various others, all of which have been given most favorable
commendation by leading libraries, genealogical societies and journals, antiqua-
rians and litterateurs.

If, in any case, a narrative is incomplete or faulty, the shortcoming is usually
ascribable to the paucity of data obtainable, many families being without exact
records in their family line ; while, in some cases, representatives of a given fam-
ily are at disagreement as to the names of some of their forbears, important
dates, etc.

It is believed that the present work, in spite of the occasional fault which at-
taches to such undertakings, will prove a real addition to the mass of annals con-
cerning the historic families of Connecticut, and that, without it, much valuable
information would be inaccessible to the general reader, or irretrievably lost,
owing to the passing away of custodians of family records, and the consequent
disappearance of material in their possession.

The Publishers.

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Dwight is an English surname
DWIGHT of considerable antiquity, de-
rived from the place-name
thwaite, meaning clearing in a forest. The
coat-of-arms is : On a field ermine, a lion pas-
sant ; on a chief gules, a crescent, or : in base,
a cross crosslet. Crest : On a wreath a demi-
lion rampant resting on an esquire's helmet.
(I) John Dwight, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came in 1634 or
1635 from Dedham, England, to Dedham,
Massachusetts, after staying a short time at
Watertown, Massachusetts. He was present
at the first town meeting, September 1, 1635,
one of twelve of the signers of the famous
Dedham Compact. He brought with him his
wife Hannah, daughter Hannah, sons John and
Timothy, and his brother Timothy, of Dedham
and Medfield, came about the same time. He
was of some wealth and standing, second on
the tax-list ; one of the founders of the church ;
selectman sixteen years between 1639 and
1655. He was admitted a freeman May 2,
1638. He was one of the citizens of Dedham
who voted to establish the first free-school in
the country, in 1644, and was one of the five
trustees placed in charge of it by the town.
He is described in the town records of Ded-
ham as "having been publicly useful" and "a
great peace-maker." His wife Hannah died
September 5, 1656, and he married (second)
January 20, 1657-8, Elizabeth, widow of Wil-
liam Ripley, and previously of Thomas Thax-
ter. She died July 17, 1660. His will, dated
June 16, 1658, proved January 24, 1660. be-
queathed to wife Elizabeth, son Timothy,
daughters Hannah Whiting, Mary Phillips,
and Sarah Reynolds : sons-in-law Nathaniel
Whiting, Henry Phillips and Nathaniel Rey-
nolds. Children of first wife : 1. Hannah, born
in England, 1625; married Nathaniel Whiting,
ancestor of the Whitins of Whitinsville. 2.
Captain Timothy, born 1629, mentioned below.
3. John, born 1632, died March 24, 1638. 4.
Mary, born at Dedham, July 25, 1635, the

first child born in Dedham ; married Henry
Phillips. 5. Sarah, born at Dedham, June
17, 1638, married Nathaniel Reynolds.

(II) Captain Timothy, son of John Dwight,
was born in England in 1629. He came to
this country with his father ; was admitted a
freeman, 1655; was town clerk ten years; se-
lectman twenty-five years (1664-89) ; repre-
sentative to general court 1691-2. It is re-
corded of him that "he inherited the estate
and virtues of his father and added to both."
He is thus described in the old church records :
"Timothy Dwight, Esq., a gentleman truly
serious and godly, one of excellent spirits,
peaceable, generous, charitable, and a great
promoter of the true interests of the church
and town, deceased Jan. 31, 171 7, in the 88th
year of his age."

He was cornet of a troop in his younger
days and afterwards captain. He went out
ten times against the Indians, nine of whom
he killed or took prisoners — such was the con-
stant guerilla warfare they kept up against the
town. He represented the town in the nego-
tiations with King Philip for the Indian title
to the land. He and Captain Fisher brought
to the selectmen seven Indian deeds that had
been in their custody until 1681, four from the
Indians at Petumtuck, one from Philip, one
from Nehoiden and one from Magus ; and a
receipt from Philip. These writings were
ordered deposited in a box kept by Deacon
Aldis ; the deeds were never recorded and
are now lost. He deeded land in 1707 to son
Michael, attempting to entail it in the deed ; he
gave property to his sons May 12, 1710, vir-
tually settling his estate. His tomb is to be
seen in the Dedham burial ground. He died
January 31, 1718, aged eighty-eight. He mar-
ried, November 11, 1631, Sarah Sibley (ac-
cording to his father's will, but Sarah Perman,
according to town records, and she was proba-
bly a widow). She died May 29, 1652, and he
married (second) May 3, 1653, Sarah, daugh-
ter of Michael Powell. She died June 2"].

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1664, and he married (third) January 9,
1664-5, Anna Flint, born September 11, 1643,
died January 29, 1685-6, daughter of Rev.
Henry and Margery (Hoar) Flint, of Brain-
tree. He married (fourth) January 7, 1686-7,
Mary Edwind, of Reading, a widow, who died
August 30, 1688. He married (fifth) July
31, 1690, Esther, daughter of Daniel Fisher.
She died January 30, 1690-1. He married
(sixth) February 1, 1691-2, Bethiah Moss,
who died February 6, 17 17-8. Children of
second wife: 1. Timothy, born November 26,
1654, a goldsmith in Boston; died January 2,

1692. 2. Sarah, born April 2, 1657; died Feb-
ruary 9, 1659. 3. John, born Atay 31, 1662,
married December 3, 1696, Elizabeth Hard-
ing. 4. Sarah, born June 25, 1664; died July

10, 1664. Children of third wife : 5. Josiah,
born October 6, 1665, died young. 6. Na-
thaniel, born November 20, 1666, died No-
vember 7. 171 1. 7. Samuel, born December
2, 1668, died young. 8. Rev. Josiah, born Feb-
ruary 8, 1670-71, died 1748. 9. Seth, born
July 9, 1673, died January 22, 1731. 10. Anna,
born August 12, 1675, died October 15, 1675.

11. Captain Henry, born December 19, 1676,
died March 26, 1732. 12. Michael, born Jan-
uary 10, 1679-80, died 1761. 13. Daniel, born
September 22, 1681, died young. 14. Jabez,
born September 1, 1683, died June 15, 1685.

(Ill) Justice Nathaniel, son of Timothy
Dwight, was born in Dedham, November 20,
1666.

lie re roved to Hatfield, Massachusetts,
and afterwards (about 1695) to Northampton,
where he spent the rest of his life. He was a
trader and farmer, justice of the peace, and
surveyor of land on a large scale. His real
estate was appraised at eight hundred and
fifty-five pounds. He married, December 9,

1693, Mehitable, daughter of Colonel Samuel
Partridge, of Hatfield, and Mehitable (Crow).
She was born August 26, 1675, and died Oc-
tober 19, 1756. He died November 7, 171 1, at
West Springfield, and was buried there. His
grave is the oldest in the old burying ground
of that place. Children: 1. Colonel Timothy,
born October 19, 1694, mentioned below. 2.
Captain Samuel, born June 28, 1696; died Oc-
tober 3, 1763. 3. Mehitable, born November
11, 1697; died December 22, 1697. 4. Rev.
Daniel, born April 28, 1699, died March 28,
1748. 5. Seth, born March 3, 1702-3, died
September 12, 1703. 6. Elihu (twin) born
February 17, 1704, died June 8, 1727. 7.
Abiah, twin with Elihu, died February 23,
1748-9. 8. Mehitable, born November 2, 1705,
died November 20. 1767. 9. Jonathan, born
March 14, 1707-8, died in Halifax, Nova Sco-
tia. 10. Anna, born July 2, 1710. 11. Captain

Nathaniel, born June 20, 1712, died March 30,
1784.

(IV) Colonel Timothy, son of Nathaniel
Dwight, was born at Hatfield, October 19,
1694. He lived and died at Northampton.
He was a lawyer and surveyor, a man held
in high esteem for his talents and his worth,
and much engaged in matters of public and
private business. He was for several years a
selectman in the town, judge of probate and
judge of the county court of Hampshire county
_( 1737-41 and 1748-57) being some of the time
its chief justice. He was also for many years
a representative of the town at the general
court. In the old French war he was captain
of a company, and was stationed for a time at
"No. 4," now Charlestown, New Hampshire.
In 1724 he superintended the erection of Fort
Dummer, at Vernon ( Brattleboro, Ver-
mont), built by order of the Massachusetts
legislature for protection against the Indians.
He was the first commander of the fort, a
position which he occupied until the close of
the year 1726. There his son Major Timothy
Dwight was born in May, 1726. In 1726 he
superintended also the erection of another fort
at Northfield and was busy during the next
year surveying land. During his life, he was
much employed in surveying and plotting
towns in this section of the country, to such an
extent that he was often called "Surveyor
Dwight." In 1724 he is styled Lieutenant and
later Colonel. He was a very extensive land-
holder in various places, and at his death left
an estate worth nine thousand pounds. His
house, which was in Market street, is said to
have been the handsomest one in Hampshire
county. He married, August 16, 1716, Ex-
perience King, daughter of Lieutenant John,
Jr. (of Northampton) and Mehitable Pomery.
She was born April 17, 1693, and died De-
cember 15, 1763. He died April 30, 1771.
Children: 1. Eleanor, born August 20, 1717;
married General Phineas Lyman, died April,
1777. 2. Gamaliel, born December 19, 1718,
died January 7, 1719. 3. Gamaliel, born De-
cember 20, 1719, died young. 4. Major Tim-
othy, born May 27, 1726, mentioned below.

(V) Major Timothy, son of Colonel Tim-
othy Dwight, was born at Fort Dummer, Ver-
mont, May 27, 1726, and graduated at Yale in
1744. He was a man of large bodily frame,
six feet four inches in height, of great physical
strength and fine proportions. His hair and
complexion were light, eyes hazel, and features
rather large. He was a merchant at North-
ampton, and was many years in succession
selectman (1760-74), town recorder (1760-
75), register of probate and judge of common
pleas (1758-74). He was also for many years

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a representative of the town to the general
court. When the revolution broke out he re-
mained a loyalist on principle (having sworn
allegiance to the British government in accept-
ing his office as judge), and yet thoroughly
patriotic in his feelings. It was in order to
solve his political difficulties that he purchased
largely of the Crown Grant at Natchez, Mis-
sissippi, and set out in the spring of 1776 with
his sons Sereno and Jonathan and his widowed
sister, Mrs. Lyman and her children, in order
to found there a religious and industrial col-
ony. The hardships of travel and of experi-
ences in a new land were so severe, however,
that his health broke down, and he died June
10, 1777. Both he and his sister, who had
died two months before, were buried there.
He left some three thousand acres of land in
Northampton, besides other valuable property,
to his family. His title papers concerning the
Natchez grant were destroyed by the Span-
iards. His real estate was appraised at four
thousand four hundred thirty-three pounds,
and his personal at one hundred thirty-four.
He married, November 8, 1 750, Mary, daugh-
ter of Rev. Jonathan and Sarah (Pierpont)
Edwards. She was born April 1, 1734, and
died February 28, 1807. She was so small
that her husband would sometimes carry her
around the room in his open palm held at
arm's length, yet the smallest of her eight sons
was five feet,' eight inches and a half tall, and
weighed two hundred pounds. She was of
attractive appearance and strong character, as
might be expected of a daughter of the most
famous minister of the Puritan church in his
day. She possessed remarkable intellectual
gifts and executive ability. Left a widow at
the age of forty-two with thirteen children,
she brought them up and to a large extent
educated in her own home. To increase her
burdens of sorrow and trouble the townspeo-
ple treated her and her family with malicious
cruelty, burning her crops and making out-
casts of the children on account of the politi-
cal faith of their dead father. Children: 1.
Timothy, born May 14, 1752, mentioned be-
low. 2. Sereno (M. D.), December 10, 1754.
3. Erastus, September 13, 1756. 4. Jonathan
Edwards, January 29, 1759. 5. Sarah, May
13, 1761. 6. Mary, January 9, 1763. 7. Hon.
Theodore, M. C, December 15, 1764. 8. Mau-
rice William, M. D., December 15, 1766. 9.
Fidelia, August 7, 1768. 10. Rev. Nathaniel,
M. D.. January 31, 1770. 11. Elizabeth, Jan-
uary 29, 1772. 12. Colonel Cecil, June 10,
1774. 13. Henry Edwin, September 20, 1776.
(VI) President Timothy D wight, S. T. D.,
LL. D., son of Major Timothy Dwight, was
born at Northampton, May 14, 1752. From

early youth he was a precocious student and
fond of books. His first instruction was given
him by his mother and aunt, and he used to
say that all his knowledge of history and geog-
raphy came from his mother, with whom he
read such books as Josephus, Rollin and
Pndeaux. He spent one year at Middletown,
Connecticut, preparing for college under Rev.
Enoch Huntington, and graduated from Yale
College at the age of seventeen. During the
next two years he taught the Hopkins gram-
mar school at New Haven, and from 1771 to
1777 he was a tutor in Yale College. During
this time he studied philosophy and law with
the expectation of becoming a lawyer. Not-
withstanding the political views of his father
he took a decided stand for the independence
of the colonies, and his earnest expression of
his views was an important influence in shap-
ing public sentiment in the critical days just
before and after the beginning of the revolu-
tionary war. In 1774 he appears to have
turned his thoughts to the ministry and joined
the church. In June, 1777, he was licensed to
preach, and in September following was ap-
pointed a chaplain in Gen. Parsons's brigade,
and remained in the service until March, 1779,
when, on account of the death of his father
and the needs of his mother and her younger
children, he resigned, and aided the family by
farming, teaching and preaching. He kept a
day school for both sexes, and preached in
Deerfield, Williamsburgh, Hadley and West-
field. In 1782 he was a representative to the
general court of Massachusetts, and during
the session was urged by a committee of rep-
resentatives from his own county to accept a
nomination for congress, but he declined.
While in the legislature he advocated and se-
cured a grant for Harvard College. He was
afterward invited to settle in the ministry at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, and also at Bev-
erly, Massachusetts, and was promised in con-
nection with the latter call a professorship in
Harvard, but finally decided to accept a call
to the church at Greenfield Hill, Fairfield
county, Connecticut, and in November, 1783,
began a pastorate that lasted twelve happy and
useful years. He continued to teach school,
and during that period instructed more than
a thousand pupils from all parts of the coun-
try. In addition to the duties of school and
pulpit he cultivated a farm of six acres, and
it is interesting to note that he is credited with
being the first to cultivate strawberries in his
garden in this country. His success as a
teacher, writer and preacher brought him into
prominence, and in 1795 he was elected presi-
dent of Yale College, succeeding Dr. Ezra
Stiles. From 1795 to 1805 he was professor

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of theology, elected from year to year, and
after that he held the chair for the remainder
of his life. His influence in the church and in
educational methods grew year by year. He
was progressive, and constantly suggested new
ideas and organized new agencies for the pro-
motion of education and Christianity. He was
among the few active founders of the Ameri-
can Board, and one of the nine members of
the first corporate board of that organization.
He was one of the founders of the American
Home Missionary Society and a prime mover
in the American Bible Society. He also first
proposed and brought about the union of Con-
gregational and Presbyterian churches, and
was the organizer of the first theological
schools of the country. As president of the
college he entertained in his home an almost
continuous procession of guests from all parts
of the country; he was professor of divinity,
chaplain of the college, professor of rhetoric,
professor of logic and metaphysics and of
moral philosophy, and during the twenty-one
years of his arduous and brilliant service the
college grew in usefulness, numbers and in-
fluence. He became unquestionably the most
conspicuous man in New England — a popular
poet and hymn writer, an eloquent and influ-
ential preacher, a learned author of many use-
ful books, and a distinguished college profes-
sor and president. His political opponents
acknowledged his power by nicknaming him
"Old Pope Dwight." The students all but
worshiped him, and in later years men were
proud of having studied under him. He re-
ceived the degree of Master of Arts from
Yale in 1772, of S. T. D. from the College of
New Jersey in 1787, and LL. D. from Har-
vard in 1 8 10. He wrote the famous epic
poem, "Conquest of Canaan," dedicated to
Washington, when he was nineteen years old ;
his pastoral poem, "Greenfield Hill" in 1794;
"Theology Explained and Defended," five vol-
umes, 1818 (London 1819; second American
edition 1846). The latter work contains 173
of his best sermons, and went through a score
of editions in this country and at least a hun-
dred in England. He versified thirty-three of
the Psalms, and more hymns that were gen-
erally accepted by the church, than any other
writer before his time. His unpublished man-
uscripts would fill many volumes.

Sparks says of him : "He came upon the
stage of action at the end of a long and strong
swell of revolutionary excitement, when great
questions were agitating all hearts ; when
men's minds were everywhere at white heat
with interest in passing events ; and when
there was a sound in the air itself of coming
changes of high import in church and state.

His soul was charged to the full with the spirit
of the hour. He must speak and write his
own earnest thoughts to others. Great men
were all around him, and he was foremost
among the greatest. His temperament was
ardent ; his will strong ; his consciousness of
inward power continual ; and his aspirations
for usefulness were high and mastering. These
elements of mind and character, guided by
habits of profound reflection and diligent ob-
servation, and accompanied by abounding in-
dustry and a spirit of profound prayerfulness,
made a man of vast influence for good. Truth-
fulness of feeling, purity of motive, faithful-
ness of spirit, comprehensiveness of view and
largeness of liberality constituted the moving
forces of his heart and life."

During all his active life, he was unable to
make much use of his eyes, which were weak-
ened during an attack of small pox in his
youth, and he employed an amanuensis to do
his writing. He died January 11, 181 7.

He married, March 3, 1777, Mary Woolsey,
born April 11, 1754, daughter of Benjamin
and Esther (Isaacs) Woolsey. Her father
was of Dosoris, Long Island, her mother of
Norwalk, Connecticut. Great and constant de-
mands were made at all times throughout her
married life of forty years, upon her good
sense, energy, self-government, tact and skill;
and well were they met with gentle strength
and beauty to the end of her long life. Wid-
owed when she was sixty-three, she spent
twenty-eight years in the home of her eldest
son Timothy, at New Haven, and died there
October 5, 1845. Esther Isaacs was daughter
of Ralph Isaacs, a converted Jew, and Mary,
daughter of Benjamin Rumsey. Children of
Dr. Dwight: 1. Timothy, March 29, 1778, at
Stratford, Connecticut. 2. Benjamin Woolsey,
M. D., born at Northampton, February 10,
1780. 3. James, September 1, 1784; men-
tioned below. 4. John (twin of James). 5.
Rev. Sereno Edwards, D. D., May 18, 1786.
6. Son, died in infancy. 7. Rev. William
Theodore, D. D., June 15, 1795. 8. Henry
Edwin, born at New Haven, April, 1797.

(VII) James Dwight, son of President
Timothy Dwight, was born at Greenfield Hill.
September 1, 1784, and died March 24, 1863.
He entered Yale College in the class of 1804,
leaving at the end of his second year to engage
in the hardware business with his brother Tim-
othy in New Haven. He was afterward a
hardware merchant at Petersburg, Virginia,
for ten years or more, then in New York City,
where he established the firm of James &
George A. Dwight. In later life he spent some
years in Columbus, Georgia, as a merchant.
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New Haven. He married, March 13, 181 I,
Aurelia Darling, born January 11, 1788,
daughter of Dr. Joseph and Aurelia (Mills)
Darling. She died September 17, 181 3, and
he married (second) August 8, 1815, Susan
Breed, born in Norwich, Connecticut, Decem-
ber 17, 1785, died August 29, 1851, daughter
of John McLaren and Rebecca (Walker)
Breed. She was energetic and full of enthus-
iasm, and an inspiration to all her family. He
was tall, strong and vigorous, though suffer-
ing from birth from lameness. He was fond
of reading, and a lifelong student of useful
books. He joined the Presbyterian church at
Petersburg in 1824. Children: 1. Elizabeth
Smith, born July 20, 1812; married Rensselaer
Nicholl Havens. By his second wife : 2. Au-
relia, July 31, 1 816; married Rev. Richard
Hooker. 3. Timothy, June 20, 1820; died
young. 4. John Breed, born at Norwich, De-
cember 8, 1821, a tutor in Yale College; died
October 20, 1843. 5- James McLaren Breed,
born August 11, 1825 ; graduate of Yale, 1846;
practiced law in New York ; married Cora
Charlesina Tallmadge. 6. President Timothy,
mentioned below.

(VIII) President Timothy Dwight, son of
James Dwight, was born at Norwich, Novem-
ber 16, 1828. -He was graduated from Yale
College in the class of 1849, and from 185 1 to
1855 was a tutor in that institution. He
studied divinity at the New Haven Theological
School from 1850 to 1853, and spent two
years, from 1856 to 1858, in study in Germany
at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In
1858 he was appointed professor of Sacred
Literature and New Testament Greek in Yale,
and filled this chair until he resigned in 1886.
He was for some years editor of the New
Englandcr, and in 1870-1 published in that
magazine a notable series of articles on "The
True Ideal of an American University," af-
terward published in book form. He pub-
lished a translation of "Godet's Commentary
on John's Gospel," with additional notes, and
edited with additional notes several volumes
of "Meyer's Commentaries on the New Tes-
tament ;" a volume of sermons entitled
"Thoughts of and for the Inner Life ;" also
various articles and addresses on educational
and other subjects. He was a member of the
committee for the revision of the English Bible
from 1872 until its completion in 1885. He
preached frequently in the college pulpit and
elsewhere throughout his connection with the
college. In 1886 Professor Dwight was elected
president of Yale College, and served with
great ability and success in that office until
1899, when he resigned. The name of the in-
stitution was changed to Yale University in

the early days of his administration. Since
then he has been living in retirement in New
Haven. His administration was marked by a
period of great development in the curriculum
and growth in student membership. The uni-
versity kept pace with the leading institutions
of learning of the world, and under his guid-
ance acquired additional prestige and influence
in the educational world. In 1903 he published
"Memories of Yale Life and Men." At the
celebration of the Hicentennial of Yale in
1 90 1, Dr. Dwight was president of the gen-
eral bicentennial committee.

He married, December 31, 1866, Jane Wake-
man Skinner, daughter of Roger Sherman and
Mary Lockwood (DeForest) Skinner, of New
Haven. Children: 1. Helen Rood, born De-
cember 8, 1868, died October 20, 1909; 2. Win-
throp Edwards, born December 23, 1872 ;
graduate of Yale in the class of 1893 ; now
an attorney at law in New York City.

Clement English, the first of
ENGLISH the name in America, lived in

Salem, Massachusetts, where
he married, August 27, 1667, Mary Waters,
of the same place. He is spoken of as a mer-
chant, a man of wealth and high consideration.
He died December 23, 1682. Children: Mary,
born February 18, 1669; Elizabeth, February
19, 167 1 ; Joseph, born March 12, 1673; Ben-
jamin, October 19, 1678, mentioned below;
Abigail, born December 6, 1680; Clement,
March 7, 1683.

(II) Benjamin, son of Clement English,
was born in Salem, October 19, 1678, and re-
moved to New Haven, Connecticut, about
1700. He married (first) at Salem, June 8,
1699, Sarah Ward, who died December 9,
1700; (second), April 21, 1703, Rebecca
Brown, of East Haven, who died May 6, 1768.
Child of first wife: A son, born May 19, 1700.
Children of second wife : Sarah, born Febru-
ary 7, 1704-05; Benjamin, October 8, 1705,
mentioned below; Mary, February 10, 1707-
08; Joseph, 1709; Mary, 1714; Clement, Oc-
tober, 1716.

(III) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
English, was born October 8, 1705. was killed
bv a British soldier while sitting- in his own
house in New Haven, situated on Water street,
east of Brown street, July 5, 1779. He mar-
ried, September 25, 1735, Sarah Dayton, born
July 27, 1716, died July 29, 1769. Children:
Sarah, born August 27, 1738; Abigail, April
8, 1741 ; Benjamin, December 16, 1742: Mary,
September 29, 1744; Hannah, November 29,
1749.

(IV) Benjamin (3). son of Benjamin (2)
English, was born December 16, 1742, and

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was for many years a shipmaster of vessels in shipping clerk for the New Haven Clock Com-
the New Haven, West India and other for- pany, of which his uncle was president. He
eign commerce. In 1801 he was appointed by embarked in the lumber business on his own
Jefferson a custom house officer in New Haven account in 1861 in partnership with John P.
and held the office till his death, April 19, Tuttle, their place of business being on Water
1809. He married, November 17, 1768, Abi- street, and there they continued with marked
gail, born December 14, 1749, died October success until 1878, when he was called to the
24, 1794, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Todd) management of the extensive real estate inter-
Doolittle. Children : Benjamin, born January ests of James E. English, his uncle, and after
5, 1770; Sarah, November 3, 1771 ; John the death of his uncle in 1890 he continued to
Todd, August 3, 1773; Abigail, February 1, have charge of the property. Various other
1776; Mary, January 12, 1778; Hannah Re- trusts of a similar nature came to him from
becca, January 5, 1780; Isaac, March 9, 1782; time to time, and he is deemed one of the fore-
James, July 26, 1784, mentioned below; Aaron, most authorities in real estate in the city. His
November 25, 1786; Eli, March 9, 1789; Na- judgment as to values and the management of
than Frederick, April 9, 1792. property has been sought by banks and other

(V) James, son of Benjamin (3) English, institutions as well as by individuals. Mr.
was born July 26, 1784, died December 2, 1850. English has been a prominent figure in public
He married, March 29, 1806, Nancy, born Au- as well as business life. His first public office
gust 16, 1786, died August 3, 1867, daughter was that of fire commissioner of New Haven
of Samuel and Lucy (Phipps) Griswold. and he served as president of the board. In
Children : Hannah Eliza, born August 26, 1883 he was elected by an overwhelming ma-
1807; Benjamin, January 24, 1809; John, Sep- jority to the board of selectmen, and became
tember 28, 1810; James Edward, (q. v.), president also of this board. In 1885 Presi-
March 13, 1812; Charles Leverett, August 5, dent Cleveland appointed him postmaster of
1814; Henry, September 4, 1816, mentioned New Haven and he served with ability and
below ; George Doolittle, April 14, 1819; Eliza- faithfulness until 1890. In politics he was a
beth Hannah, November 23, 1820; Nancy Democrat.

Maria, February 14, 1823 ; Caroline Beers, A mark of the public confidence in his in-

September 15, 1828. tegrity and ability was given in June,. 1899,

(VI) Henry, son of James English, was when he was made a member of the committee
born September 4, 1816, died July 5, 1847. He to investigate the irregularities in the town
was educated in the public schools of his na- agent's office. He also served the same year
tive place, and early in life engaged in busi- on a committee of three in charge of the mu-
ness as a carriage dealer. Subsequently he nicipal sinking fund. For a period of four-
was very successful in the lumber business, teen years he was clerk of the New Haven
though his death cut short in the prime of life school district. He was a director of the pub-
a very promising career. He was an able man lie library and at present is treasurer. He is
of high character. He married, September 16, vice-president of the First National Bank and
1839, Grace Emeline, born April, 1817, died of the New Haven Trust Company; senior
February 21, 1889, daughter of Timothy Fow- trustee of the Connecticut Savings Bank; trus-
ler, a descendant of one of the early pioneers tee of the bishop's fund ; trustee and treasurer
of Connecticut and of many of the prominent of the fund for the aged and infirm clergy ;
families of the colony. His son, Benjamin trustee and treasurer of the clergymen's retir-
Rice, is mentioned below. ing fund; trustee and treasurer of the Ever-

(VII) Benjamin Rice, son of Henry Eng- green cemetery fund and director and secre-
lish, was born in New Haven, February 26, tary of the Evergreen cemetery. He is also a
1842. He received his early education in the director of the New Haven County Historical
private schools of the Misses Bakewell and Society; treasurer of the Connecticut Civil
Miss Bunnell, the Lancasterian School, and in Service Association and of the Florence Crit-
the Collegiate and Commercial Institute of tenton Mission. He is an Episcopalian and
General Russell, then a large and flourishing serves as warden of St. Paul's Church. He
school at New Haven. In "1856 he began his belongs to the Quinnipiack Club, the Improved
business career at the age of fourteen, as an Order of Red Men, the Sons of the American
errand boy for Alden & Huntington, dry goods Revolution, the Church Club of Connecticut
dealers, at the usual modest salary of a hun- and of the Chamber of Commerce.

dred dollars a year. The following year he In his younger days he was active in the

received twenty-five dollars more, and on ac- state militia. In February, 1863, he joined the

count of the panic he left this concern at the New Haven Grays, Company F, Second Regi-

end of the second year. In 1858 he became ment, and was elected corporal of his com-

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pany. He was promoted to the rank of
sergeant, but declined further promotion. Dur-
ing the draft riots of the civil war he did
guard duty with a squad, July 16, 20, 31, and
August 3 at the armory. He was on duty
July 30, 1863, to guard conscripts from the
camp at Grape Vine Point to the steamboat.
After five years of service he was honorably
discharged in 1868. In 1876 he joined the
Centennial Grays, a company formed to rep-
resent the state of Connecticut, one of the
original states, at the centennial parade in
Philadelphia. He was treasurer of the com-
pany and managed the business of the trip so
carefully that he had left a balance of three
hundred dollars. He served on important
committees also at the bicentennial celebra-
tion of New Haven, at the dedication of the
soldiers' monument and was chief marshal at
the consecration of Bishop Chauncey B. Brew-
ster in October, 1897.

A New Haven newspaper not long ago said
of him : "Can you not see the man ? Courte-
ous, dignified, yet affable, a keen business
mind, joined with a refined disposition that fits
him to worthily represent his city in ceremonial
functions ; like Matthew of old, he has conse-
crated his ability to higher ends than the mere
raking together of lifeless metal. In his wide
range of interests, embracing finance, politics,
education, literature, charity and church, he
stands for a high type of American citizenship,
the cultured Christian business man."

He married, May 17, 1866, Teresa Henri-
etta, daughter of John S. and Polly Farren.
Children: James Edward, born September 17,
1868, mentioned below; Benjamin Farren,
June 25, 1873, married August J., daughter
of Constant A. Moeller, of New Haven ; two
children : Augusta T., born June 3, 1905, Ben-
jamin, August 19, 1906; Grace Louisa, born
September 5, 1877, died December 5, 1895.

(VIII) James Edward, son of Benjamin
Rice English, was born September 17, 1868,
died February 2, 1907. He married, Decem-
ber, 1895, Gertrude M., born August 4, 1868,
daughter of Paul Worth, of Brooklyn, New
York. Children : Worth and Grace Atherton
(twins), born May 27, 1900; Benjamin Worth,
November 20, 1902.

(VI) James Edward, son of
ENGLISH James (q. v.) and Nancy
(Griswold) English, was born
in New Haven, Connecticut, March 13, 1812,
died at his home in New Haven, March 2,
1890. In his boyhood he exhibited singular
self-reliance, a trait of character that ever re-
mained with him. At the age of sixteen he
was apprenticed to the trade of a carpenter.

and began his first work June 2j, 1827, on the
old Lancasterian school house. His appren-
ticeship closed on his twenty-first birthday.
He never worked as a journeyman at his trade,
but at once became a contractor and followed
this occupation until twenty-three years of age,
by which time he became a possessor of a mod-
erate capital. Having natural architectural
tastes, he designed and erected in this short
experience a number of creditable buildings in
New Haven. For the following twenty years
he was engaged in the lumber business, cover-
ing a period when commercial enterprises of
every kind were subject to great fluctuations,
a period of general financial embarrassment,
when many men found it difficult and often
impossible to avoid commercial disaster. Far-
seeing and always looking beyond the present,
he avoided speculation, never being sanguine
nor despondent. He branched out in his lum-
ber business, buying and building vessels, en-
gaged in shinning clocks to Philadelphia, and
returning with coal and general merchandise
to New Haven and other ports, and in this was
successful. Next he became identified with
the manufacture of clocks, having successfully
re-organized the former Chauncey Jerome
works under the name of the New Haven
Clock Company. In this enterprise he was
associated with Harmanus M. Welch, after-
ward president of the First National Bank,
and for several years a partner with him in
the lumber business ; also with Hiram Camp,
these three purchasin8r the clock plant. In a
few years they made this company not onlv a
success, but one of the largest clock manufac-
turing concerns in existence. Mr. English,
about this time, became prominentlv identified
with the First National Bank of New Haven,
and also with the Connecticut Savings Bank,
having been at the head of the latter institu-
tion from its organization in 18^7. He was
largelv interested in various manufacturing
and commercial industries in this and other
states, being also associated with the manage-
ment of the Adams Express Company. Emi-
nently successful in accumulating property, by
iudicions investments in real estate, he finally
bernme the owner of nrobablv more business
buildings than any other individual in New
Haven. He was a man of the strictest in-
tegrity, taking no advantages of the great
opportunities that arose during the war by
changes in the financial policy of the govern-
ment, which greatly affected commercial val-
ues, of which some men of high station availed
themselves. Not a dollar of his great fortune
came from speculation. His business sagacity
made it all. "If T have been successful as a
business man, it is because I have been content

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with reasonable profits, for I know that enor- servers that the question of general emancipa-

mous gains soon invite ruinous competition." tion must be met sooner or later, and Mr.

Politically Mr. English was reared a Demo- English made up his mind to take the hazard
crat, and "ever remained faithful to the con- and incur the odium of voting with his politi-
viction of a lifetime, that only by adherence to cal opponents whenever, in his view, it became
the principles and policy of genuine Jeffer- a political necessity. More than a year before
soman Democracy could the State reach the the final passage of the bill providing for the
full proportions of a free and prosperous com- necessary constitutional amendment, the posi-
munity." He held many public trusts, cover- tion of Mr. English was well understood in
ing a period of forty-one years, 1836-77. He Washington. When the bill was first intro-
was selectman of his town from 1836 to 1848; duced into the House by Mr. Ashley, of Ohio,
a member of the common council in 1848-49; he was assured of Mr. English's support in
representative in the state legislature in 1855- case it was needed. But when it was found
56; state senator from 1856 to 1859; member that the Administration party were not united
of congress from 1861 to 1865 '■> governor of on the measure, Mr. Ashley advised Mr. Eng-
Connecticut from 1867 to 1869, and again in lish not to vote in its favor, as it was sure not
1870; and United States senator by appoint- to pass. With a very practical conviction of
ment from 1875 to 1877. "The municipal the folly of striking when there is a certainty
trusts of his early manhood were those im- that nothing will be hit, Mr. English acted
posed upon him by the general conviction of upon this advice, but with the emphatic assur-
his fellow citizens, irrespective of party, that ance to Mr. Ashley that whenever it was nec-
their interests might be safely confided to his essary he might rely upon his vote. When
recognized integrity, capacity and public informed a year later that the bill would be
spirit." "His services in both branches of the put to vote the next day, Mr. English was in
legislature were generally marked by attention New Haven, in attendance upon his sick wife,
to the business rather than to the political as- Traveling all night, he reached Washington
pects of the legislation in which he was called in time to listen to a part of the exciting de-
to act. When, subsequently, he became gov- bate, and to hear his name called among the
ernor of the State, the practical cast of his first of the ten War Democrats who, as it was
mind was conspicuously manifested in the em- hoped, would vote for the bill, and whose votes
phasis which he gave in his messages to the were necessary for its passage. When his ring-
cause of free public school education, and in ing 'Yes' was heard in the crowded gathering
the advocacy of which he was ultimately there was general applause. To a New Haven
successful. friend who was in Washington a day or two

But that which specially and honorably marks afterward he said: 'I suppose I am publicly
Mr. English's public career is the course he ruined, but that day was the happiest day of
pursued while a representative in Congress, niy life.' Mr. English's position at this time
His term of service, extending from 1861 to was a very exceptional one. The number of
1865, covered that period in our history dur- War Democrats in Congress was small, and
ing which slavery ceased to disgrace the Na- most of them very timid. But there was never
tion, and the constitutional amendment pro- any doubt from the first where Mr. English
hibiting involuntary servitude became the su- stood or how he would vote when the final
premelaw of the land. Mr. English went to crisis came. While thousands of men in our
Washington a pronounced War Democrat, be- country have been examples of conspicuous
lieving that the great national exigency de- success in business, in political life, and in
manded every sacrifice to prevent our great generous benefactions, few have had the op-
republic from being divided into perpetually portunity, and fewer still the sagacity and the
contending and contemptible fragments. While courage to appreciate a great political emer-
as a Democrat he fully recognized the consti- gency. where duty calls for a sacrifice of the
tutional right of the Southern States to the ties which ordinarily bind a man in public life
possession of their slaves, he also felt that to act in harmony with the party to which he
slavery was a monstrous injustice, and there- is attached. It is sometimes a great thing to
fore had no regret when, as a war measure, have the courage of one's convictions, and the
he found himself at liberty to record alike his favorable mention of his name at one time as a
abhorrence of slavery and his sense of justice candidate for the Presidency of the United
toward the owners of slaves in the District of States was an honorable recognition of the
Columbia, by voting for the bill which united public appreciation of his vote, as having been
the emancipation of the slave with compensa- dictated by conscience and a sense of duty."
tion to the master. Long before the close of Blessed with abundant means, Mr. English
the war it became evident to all thoughtful ob- gave liberally to many institutions and objects.

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Several years ago he gave $10,000 to the Law
School of Yale College to establish a library
fund, and also $20,000 to the Sheffield Sci-
entific School to found a chair in mathematics.
He later contributed the sum of $21,000 to
build the English Drive in East Rock Park-,
and also made numerous generous donations
to the General Hospital and to various other
charities. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where
be regularly attended for over forty years,
bears him in grateful remembrance.

Mr. English married (first) January 25,
1837, Caroline Augusta Fowler, of New
Haven and of their four children, three sons
and one daughter, the youngest, Henry Fow-
ler, alone survives. Mrs. English died October
23, 1874, at the age of sixty-two years. Mr.
English married (second) October 7, 1885,
Anna R. Morris, of New York, daughter of
Lucius S. and Letitia C. Morris.

(VII) Henry Fowler, son of James Ed-
ward and Caroline Augusta (Fowler) Eng-
lish, was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
June 5, 1851. He acquired his preliminary
education at General Russell's Collegiate and
Commercial Institute at New Haven and under
the preceptorship of the late Horace Day, re-
maining a pupil of Mr. Day for a period of
two years. The knowledge thus obtained was
supplemented by a special course of study at
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, and by
attendance at the Yale Law School, graduat-
ing therefrom with the class of 1874. He was
admitted to the county bar the year of his
graduation, and at once established himself in
the practice of his profession, also devoting
considerable time and attention to the man-
agement of real estate. He possesses the
characteristics of self-reliance, determination
to succeed in whatever he undertakes, and per-
sistent application to each and every duty re-
quired of him. In addition to his professional
interests, Mr. English is serving in the ca-
pacity of vice-president and trustee of the Con-
necticut Savings Bank, trustee in the New
Haven Trust Company, trustee of the Young
Men's Christian Association, director of the
First National Bank, director in the New
Haven Clock Company and chairman of its
executive committee, director and vice-presi-
dent in the Bristol Brass Company, director in
the Bristol Manufacturing Company, director
in the New Haven Dispensary and General
Hospital Society, director in the New Haven
Colony Historical Society. He is a member
of the New Haven commission of public parks,
and has been its secretary and treasurer since
1887. In 1903 he was appointed a member
of the State police commission. He is an at-
tendant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at New

Haven. He leans towards the principles of
the Democratic party, but casts his vote for
the candidate who in his opinion is best quali-
fied for office, irrespective of party affiliation.
He holds membership in the fraternity of
Delta Psi at Yale, Graduate Club, New Haven
Country Club, New Haven Lawn Club, and
the Oqoussoc Angling Association of Maine.
From his early boyhood he has been fond of
outdoor sports, especially along the line of
athletics, fond of books, and possessing a keen
losre of nature, inheriting the latter two traits
from his mother.'

Mr. English is public-spirited to a notable
degree and is willing at all times to unite in
any niovement calculated to advance the com-
mon gqod or promote the material welfare of
the community at large. His career is well
worthy of emulation, and his extensive and
varied experience should lend value to his fol-
lowing words of advice to young men about
to enter upon the active duties of life : "What
is termed success in life is due mainly to
earnest and persistent effort by the individual.
This effort must be governed by motives of
integrity and liberality and by the recognition
of the rights of others. Learn to think and
act for yourself but at the same time be ever
ready to accept sound counsel." "Be self-
reliant and yet willing to accept advice ; when
a man depends always upon others he must
ever play a secondary role in life; yet if his
self-reliance degenerates into conceit, and he
refuses to accept the advice of others, he learns
many of life's most valuable lessons only after
bitter experience and often after it is too late
to use to advantage the knowledge he might
have acquired easily by accepting the counsel
of those who are in a position to know."

Mr. English married, June 5, 1888, Alice
Nancy Kimball, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Children: Harold Kimball, born August 2,
1891 ; Philip Henry, January 31, 1893: Alice
Marian, September 12, 1894.

The name of Ingalls is sup-
INGALLS posed to be of Scandinavian

origin, derived from Ingialld.
During the ninth century the Scandinavian
pirates often descended upon the east coast of
Great Britain and in after years many of this
nationality settled here, especially in Lincoln-
shire. The name appears in England as In-
gall, Engle, Ingolds and Ingles, and the fol-
lowing coats-of-arms are recorded : Ingles :
Gules, three bars gemelle or, on a canton ar-
gent five billets en salire sable. Crest : a lily
springing from a crown. Motto : Humilis ex
corona. Also, Ingle : Argent two chevrons
sable, on the chief of the second a lion pass

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of the first. Crest : a hand erect issuing out of
a cloud, holding a sword, blade waved, per-
pendicular. The earliest record found is that
of a will of Henry Ingalls, grandfather of
Edmund, the immigrant, and made in 1655, he
probably having been born about 1580. The
next record is the will of Robert, the father
of Edmund, made in 161 7. The name of In-
galls is still common in England and signifies
"by the power of Thor." The Domesday Book
records a Baron Ingald, a tenant of King Wil-
liam at Bersbi and Elvestone, Leicestershire, in
1080. This baron came' from Normandy.

(I) Edmund Ingalls, immigrant ancestor,
was son of Robert and grandson of Henry In-
galls, and was born at Skirbeck, Lincolnshire,
England, about 1598. He came to Salem,
Massachusetts, in Governor Endicott's com-
pany in 1629, and with his brother Francis and
four others settled in Lynn, where they were
the first settlers. His name is found often on
the records of the town, and he was a prom-
nent citizen. Once he was fined "for bring-
ing home sticks in both his arms on the Sab-
bath day." In March, 1648, while travelling
to Boston on horseback, he was drowned in
the Saugus river owing to a defective bridge.
His will was proved September 18, 1648. He
married Ann . Children : Robert ; Eliza-
beth, born 1622, died June 9, 1676; Faith,
1623; John, 1625; Sarah, 1626; Henry, 1627,
mentioned below; Samuel, 1634; Mary, mar-
ried John Eaton ; Joseph, died young.

(II) Henry, son of Edmund Ingalls, was
born in Skirbeck, England, 1627, and came to
New England with his father. He owned land
in Ipswich which he sold in 1652. He was
one of the first settlers of Andover, Massa-
chusetts, buying the land of the Indians for
clothing and trinkets. He was admitted a
freeman in 1673, took an active part in town
affairs and held various offices. He died Feb-
ruary 8, 1718-19. His will was dated July
5, 1714. He married (first) July 6, 1653,
Mary Osgood, who died in December, 1686,
daughter of John and Ann Osgood, of An-
dover. He married (second) August 1, 1687,
Sarah Farnum, widow of George Abbott.
She died May 12, 1728, aged ninety. Chil-
dren, born in Andover : Samuel, October 3,
1654; Henry, December 8, 1656, mentioned
below; Mary, January 28, 1659; Jonn> May
21, 1661 ; Stephen, May 21, 1661 ; Francis,
September 23, 1663, died of small pox, Decem-
ber 9, 1690; Moses, June 26, 1666, died Sep-
tember 28, 1667; James, September 24, 1669;
Sarah, September 7, 1672; Joseph, March 24,
1675, died young; Josiah, February 28, 1676;
Sarah, January 22, 1679.

(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Ingalls,

was born December 8, [656. at Andover, died
there February 8, 1698-99. He married, June
6, 1688, Abigail Emery, born January 16, 1669,
died July 12, 1756, daughter of John, Jr., and
Mary (Webster) Emery, of Newbury. Chil-
dren, born at Andover: Henry, April 2, 1689;
Mary, February 25, 1691 ; Abigail, January
15, 1693, died August 11, 1742; Francis, De-
cember 20, 1694, mentioned below ; Joseph,
April 17, 1697.

(IV) Francis, son of Henry (2) Ingalls,
was born at Andover, December 20, 1694, and
resided there. His will was proved February

26, 1759. He married (first) November 19,
1719, Lydia Ingalls, who died April 29, 1743,
daughter of James and Hannah (Abbott) In-
galls. He married (second) Lydia Stevens,
who made her will in 1787. Children, born in
Andover: Ebenezer, 1721 ; Isaiah, June 6,
1723, died March 23, 1728-29; Francis, Janu-
ary 27, 1724, died April 3, 1729; Lydia, Au-
gust 11, 1727, died April 18, 1729; Francis,
January 26, 1731, mentioned below; Lydia,
August 13, 1732; Susannah, June 27, 1734,
died September 3,. 1736; Josiah, 1735, died
September 8, 1736: Sarah, April 5, 1736, died
May 31, 1739; Abijah, 1739; Jemima, July

27, 1740, died March 14, 1745.

(V) Francis (2), son of Francis (1) In-
galls, was born at Andover, January 26, 1731,
died there April 3, 1795. He was a farmer.
He married, November 12, 1754, Eunice Jen-
nings, who died May 23, 1799. Children:
Nathan, born June 12, 1755; Isaiah, July 13,
1756; Phineas, November 14, 1758, mentioned
below; Francis, May 30, 1760; Jonathan, Feb-
ruary 25, 1762; Theodore, March 30, 1764;
Asa, January 17, 1766; Cyrus, December 13.
1768; Eunice, October 16, 1770.

(VI) Phineas, son of Francis (2) Ingalls,
was born in Andover, November 14, 1758,
died January 5, 1844. He was a soldier in
the revolution and was in the battle of Bunker
Hill, June 17, 1775, and in Albany in 1776.
He removed to Bridgton, Maine, where he
died. He married, October 22, 1783, Eliza-
beth Stevens, born November 19, 1764, died
July 19, 1858, daughter of Jacob Stevens.
Children, born in Bridgton, Maine : Aaron,
September 20, 1784; Asa, January 14, 1787;
Theodore, February 20, 1790; Elizabeth, May
1, 1793; Eunice, September 8, 1795, died Oc-
tober 9, 1845; Phineas. December 22, 1797,
mentioned below; Cynthia, June 9, 1800, died
September 30, 1866; Tabitha, February 15,
1803 ; Almira, December 14, 1806. died March
26, 1840.

(VII) Dr. Phineas (2) Ingalls, son of
Phineas (1) Ingalls, was born in Bridgton.
Maine, December 22, 1797.

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He was a physician at Gorham and
died there February 24, 1858. He mar-
ried, March 19, 1845, Ruth Huston, born at
Gorham, Maine, July 11, 181 5, daughter of
Samuel and Nancy (Mosher) Elder. She was
a descendant of Josias Cook, who came in the
"Mayflower" in 1620. Children: Nancy Eliz-
abeth, born February 25, 1847, died February
26, 1847; Francis, July 7, 1848, died July 8,
1848; Frederick, May 10, 1850, died May II,
1850; Phineas Henry mentioned below.

(VIII) Dr. Phineas Henry Ingalls, son of
Dr. Phineas (2) Ingalls, was horn at Gorham.
Maine, April 13, 1856. He attended the public
schools of his native town and of Portland,
Maine.

He graduated from Bowdoin College
in 1877 with the degree of A. B. and received
the degree of A. M. in 1885. Pie chose the
profession of his father for his life work, and
began to study medicine under Dr. S. H.
Tewksbury and Dr. Charles W. Bray. He at-
tended two courses of lectures at the Maine
Medical School and graduated from the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City in 1880. He was then appointed house
surgeon in the Woman's Hospital in New
York City and gained much valuable experi-
ence in surgical work. In November, 1881,
he returned to Portland. He located in March,
1882, in Hartford and has continued in active
practice there wth the utmost success to the
present time. For the first three years his
office was located on Elm street, and since
then he has been at his present office, 112
High street. He makes a specialty of dis-
eases peculiar to women and much of his prac-
tice is surgical in operations and consultations
in Hartford and vicinity. His gynecological
practice is probably the largest of any physician
in the state. In 1884 Dr. Ingalls was appoint-
ed visiting gynecologist of the Hartford Hos-
pital. In 1899, after the death of Dr. Campbell,
Dr. Ingalls was appointed medical examiner
of the Aetna Insurance Company. The
extent and variety of his surgical work may
be indicated by the fact that he performs some
two hundred operations every year. He has
taken an active interest in municipal politics
and was appointed to the board of police com-
missioners by Mayor Brainard. He was chair-
man of the building committe in charge of the
new police station and largely through his ef-
forts the building was secured.

In 1883 he was appointed asistant surgeon
of the First Connecticut Regiment; in 1885
he was commissioned adjutant and in 1890
was brigade inspector on the staff of General
Watson. He was an earnest, efficient and en-
thusiastic officer and his resignation in 1892,

due to the demands of his practice, was greatly
regretted by his associates in the militia. He
is a member of the city, county and state med-
ical societies ; of the American Gynecologist
Society, composed of specialists and limited in
membership to one hundred. He was elected
to membership in 1890 and is the only member
from Connecticut. He is a member of the
Board of Censors of the Hartford Medical
Society and of the Alumni Association of the
Woman's Hospital of New York City. He
has contributed papers on technical subjects
to the various medical societies of which he is
a member ; viz : "Non-Surgical Treatment of
Anteflexion," published in the New York Med-
ical Journal, March 27, 1886; "Damages of
Parturition and Their Repair," Connecticut
Medical Society, 1886; "Uterine Cancer,"
Connecticut Medical Society, 1889; "Slough-
ing Fibroids of the Uterus," American Gyne-
cological Society, 1891 ; "Successful Case of
Cassarean Section," American Journal of Ob-
stetrics, August, 1892. Dr. Ingalls is a mem-
ber of the Hartford Club, the Country Club,
the Republican Club, the Hartford Golf Club,
the Colonial Club, the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and
the Church Club of Connecticut. He is a
prominent member of Christ Church of Hart-
ford (Episcopalian). He is fond of travel and
during his vacations has seen much of the
world.

He married, May 13, 1885, Mary Helen
Beach, born at Hartford, July 12, 1861, daugh-
ter of Joseph Watson and Josephine E. (Cof-
fing) Beach. (See Beach VII.) Their only
child, Phineas, born June 10, 1886, died fune
13, 1886.

(The Beach Line).

(VII) Joseph Watson Beach, son of George
Beach (q. v.), was born December 28, 1823,
died in Hartford, March 16, 1887. He was
for many years a member of the firm of Beach
& Company, widely known as a large import-
ing house of colors and dye-stuffs. He was
also president of the Weed Sewing Machine
Company, a former president of the Mercan-
tile Bank, in which he was a director up to
the time of his death. He was also a director
of the Machine Screw Company ; vice-presi-
dent and director of the Western Automatic
Screw Company ; secretary of the Grove
Works, and director of the Broad Brook Man-
ufacturing Company. He was well informed
on all general subjects, and was a student of
chemistry, in which he was much interested.
He was a man of happy disposition and charm-
ing social qualities, and was extremely popu-
lar among a large circle of acquaintances and
friends. Of fine physique and handsome per-

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sonal appearance, he was a well-known figure
in the life of the city. He married Josephine
E. Coffing. Children: i. Katharine, married
George H. Day. 2. Dr. Charles C, graduate
of Yale Scientific School, 1877; College of
Physicians and Surgeons, 1882; was house
physician in St. Luke's Hospital, New York
City, and then went to Berlin and Vienna to
study; settled in Hartford; married Mary E.
liatterson and had Goodwin Batterson, Joseph
Watson, Charles Bradford and Elizabeth
Goodwin. 3. George W., in firm of Beach,
Trieber & Company, Boston. 4. Mary Helen,
born July 12, 1861 ; married Phineas . Henry
Ingalls, M. D. (See Ingalls VIII). 5. Rich-
ard J.

William Fuller was a locksmith
FULLER of Chelmsford, England. He
had two sons, William, John,
mentioned below.

(II) John, son of William Fuller, was born
in England and came to New England with
his brother William, in the ship "Abigal" in
May, 1635. He settled in Ipswich, Massa-
chusetts, afterwards removed to Salisbury, but
returned to Ipswich about 1648. In that year
he was one of the subscribers to the General
Denison fund. He served as surveyor in 1663,
was a commoner in 1664, and owned land near
Rocky Hill. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Emerson. Their children were :
William, John, James, Thomas, Nathaniel,
Joseph, mentioned below ; Susanna, Elizabeth,
Mary. John Fuller died June 4, 1666; his will
proved September 25, 1666, bequeathed to wife
and children, and to a child unborn, money,
lands, houses, stocks, "moveables and debts."
Will recorded at Salem, Massachusetts.

(III) Sergeant Joseph, son of John Fuller,
was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, July 4,
1658. He was a commoner in 1707, and had
granted to him the third lot between Samuel
Ordway's shop and the town bridge in Ips-
wich, March, 1692-93. He had a seat in the
new meeting house in 1700, and subscribed ten
shillings towards the new bell. In October,
1685, he married Mary Hayward ; children:
Joseph, mentioned below ; Thomas, born April
6, 1692; William, March 7, 1693; John, May
16, 1698. Sergeant Joseph Fuller died Au-
gust 22, 1 73 1, aged seventy-three.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Sergeant Joseph
(1) Fuller, was born in Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, August 13, 1690. He was a carpenter
by trade. He settled in Suffield, Connecticut,
in 1715; and was the ancestor of all the Fuller
families in that vicinity. He received from
his father in 1714 a deed of lands bought in
1696 of Samuel Bush, including his Suffield

proprietary grants, with an eighteen-acre lot
on High street adjoining the land of John
Hanchett. The deed is recorded in Spring-
field, Massachusetts. Mr. Fuller was select-
man in 1 72 1, surveyor 1727, constable 1728,
surveyor 1733, tythingman 1735. He married
Bathsheba Hanchett, September 18, 1715.
Their children were: Mary (twin), born June
11, 1 7 16, died April 17, 171 7; Bathsheba
(twin) ; Mary, May 8, 1718; Sarah, May 31,
1720; Hannah, October 3, 1721, died January
2, 1722; Joseph, mentioned below. Joseph
Fuller died March 14, 1744, his will, dated Oc-
tober 10, 1743, is on record at Northampton,
Massachusetts. In this will occurs this para-
graph. "I bequeath to my son Joseph my
negro man named Ishamel."

(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Fuller,
was born in Suffield, Connecticut, August 25,
1726. He married Rebecca Norton, March 11,
1762; a daughter of John and Rebecca (Shel-
don) Norton, granddaughter of Captain
George and Hannah (Younglove) Norton, and
great-granddaughter of George Norton. Her
mother was a daughter of Jonathan and Mary
(Southwell) Sheldon, and granddaughter of
Isaac and Mehitable (Gunn) Sheldon. Chil-
dren : Joseph, mentioned below ; Appolos, born
1767, died the same year; John, May 19, 1770;
Appolos, May 29, 1772, died in 1847. Joseph
Fuller died March 25, 1807, aged eighty-one.
His wife, Rebecca (Norton) Fuller, died 1813,
aged eighty.

(VI) Captain Joseph (4), son of Joseph (3X
Fuller was born November 11, 1765. He re-
sided in Suffield, Connecticut, where he was a
prominent citizen and well-to-do farmer. He
married, June 30, 1796, Mary, daughter of
Ensign William and Lucy (Hathaway) King,
granddaughter of Lieutenant William and
Bethiah (Bedlake) King, great-granddaughter
of James and Elizabeth (Fuller) King, and
great-great-granddaughter of William King
(see King VII.). Her mother was daughter
of Samuel (Roe) Hathaway, granddaughter
of Deacon Abraham and Rebecca (Welber)
Hathaway, great-granddaughter of John Hath-
away, son of Nicholas Hathaway. Sarah Roe
was daughter of Peter and Sarah (Reming-
ton) Roe, granddaughter of Hugh and Abi-
gal Roe, and of Thomas and Mehitable Rem-
ington. Children of Joseph and Mary (King)
Fuller: George, born June 24, 1798, died 1875,
married Eliza Fuller, November 24, 1824, she
died in 1865; Mary, September n, 1800, died
lune 28, 1806; Joseph, mentioned below ; Wil-
liam Franklin, April 3. 1805, married Harriet
Jewett, 1827, who died 1872. Captain Joseph
Fuller died December 17, 1843.

(VII) Joseph (5), son of Captain Joseph

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(4) Fuller, was born in Suffield, Connecticut,
July 13, 1803. Mr. Fuller in early life taught
school for a time. From 1835 to 1837 he was
a merchant in New Britain in company with
Curtis Whoples. He afterwards returned to
Suffield and conducted a farm. He was also
interested in manufacturing, and for more
than thirty-five years devoted a large part of
his time to fire insurance business, continuing
until he was eighty-five years of age. Upon
the surrender of his commission of the agency
of the Springfield Fire Marine Insurance Com-
pany, President Dunham of that company
wrote him a letter, congratulating him upon
his success and good work for the company,
saying : "There is now no officer or employee
of this company that was here when you began
to act as agent, you have outlived all of the
original officers and managers." Mr. Fuller
held many important positions in the church
and town. He married, May 25, 1830, Cor-
delia Smith, of Amherst, Massachusetts,
daughter of Colonel Horace and Rebecca
(Moody) Smith. Colonel Smith was a des-
cendant of the Hadley Smiths. A Puritan and
an abolitionist of note, both of her ancestors
were among the prominent early New Eng-
land families. Mrs. Fuller inherited a keen
sense of justice and a strictness in the observ-
ance of the older times ; to her and her family
the Sabbath was always a day for rest and
worship. She was deeply interested in edu-
cation, a great lover of nature, delighted to
roam in the fields and woods, and her fond-
ness for flowers continued to the last. Mr.
Fuller died April 22, 1890, aged eighty-six;
his wife, Cordelia (Smith) Fuller, died Febru-
ary 15, 1896, aged eighty-seven. Their chil-
dren were: 1. Reuben Tinker, born July 20,
1 83 1, died September 8, 1831 ; 2. Caroline Re-
becca, September 14, 1832, a teacher in early
life, a member of the Congregational Church
and the Woman's Reading Club of Suffield,
also a member of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and
charter member of the Sybil Kent Chapter,
No. 15,461, admitted November 5, 1896. Mar-
ried Ashbel Comfort Harmon, May 14. 1873.
He was born in Suffield, March 6, 1841. He
enlisted August 25, 1862, in the Twenty-second
Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. He was a
member of Samuel Brown Post, Grand Army
of the Republic ; secretary and treasurer of the
Veteran Association of Suffield, and clerk of
the Congregational church in Suffield. He died
November 4, 1909. 3. Horace Smith, men-
tioned below. 4. Dwight Seymour, born Oc-
tober 5, 1837; educated in the public school
and Connecticut Literary Institute of Suffield ;
an active member of the Congregational

church, and a member of the choir for more
than fifty years. He is a farmer and promi-
nent citizen ; director of the First National
Bank and vice-president of Suffield Savings
Bank ; trustee of the Connecticut Literary In-
stitute, and a member of the finance commit-
tee. He was a member of the legislature,
1895-96, and on the committee of humane in-
stitutions. He married, October 24, i860,
Sarah Jane Fowler, of Suffield, only child of
Charles and Jane (Tucker) Fowler. 5. Sarah
Jane, born February 17, 1841 ; educated in the
public school and Connecticut Literary Insti-
tute of Suffield, with a musical education at
Mnsicvale Seminary, of Salem, Connecticut.
She taught music in Suffield and was for sev-
eral years organist in the Congregational
church. Was married to Ashbel Comfort Har-
mon (as his first wife), October 7, 1868. She
died December 1, 187 1. 6. Frank, born May
13, 1844, died July 7, 1847. 7- Mary, born
April 16, 1849; a member of the Congrega-
tional church in Suffield ; four years president
of the Ladies' Aid Society, and twelve years
vice-president of the Home Missionary So-
ciety ; a member of the Woman's Reading
Club, and also a member of the National So-
ciety of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, and charter member of the Sybil
Dwight Kent Chapter, No. 15,456, admitted
November 5, 1896. Married, September 22,
1870, Joseph Butler Fairfield, who was born
in Hartford, Connecticut, July 11, 1846. He
was a farmer and for ten years was associated
with his father-in-law, Joseph Fuller, in the
fire insurance business. He was engaged in
the leaf tobacco business in New York City
for about ten years. He was clerk in the Con-
gregational church in Suffield for a term of
years ; member of Washington Chapter, No.
30, Royal Arch Masons, Suffield, and served
as secretary of the chapter for some years ;
also a member of the Washington Command-
ery, Knights Templar, Hartford. Children of
Joseph B. and Mary Fairfield : i. Julia Louise,
born January 24, 1878, died July 12, 1884; ii.
Carolyn May, born December 11, 1885; a
member of the Congregational church, Suf-
field, and the leading singer in the choir.

(VIII) Horace Smith, son of Joseph (5)
and Cordelia (Smith) Fuller, was born April
10, 1835. in Suffield, Connecticut, a town noted
for its educational facilities and social life. His
ancestors, who were all from England and
were among the very early settlers of this
country, furnished a favorable hereditary in-
fluence to help in his life work. He received
his early education in the public school and in
the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield,
an educational center long known in the state

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for its high standard and good work, and was
the salutatorian of the class of 1854. He
taught school at Southwick, Massachusetts,
for one term ; then entered Amherst College,
was graduated in the class of 1858, and three
years later received the degree of A. M. from
his alma mater. Then followed several years
of teaching in Williamsburg, Massachusetts,
in Kentucky, and at the Connecticut Literary
Institute, of which he was a graduate. At this
time he felt that his life work should be medi-
cine, and entered Harvard Medical School in
the fall of 1862. He took his second and third
course at the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons in New York, where he was graduated
in 1865. In March of that year he was ap-
pointed acting assistant surgeon in the United
States army, and was stationed at Fort Schuy-
ler, New York Harbor, where he continued on
duty until the close of the war, doing good
service, which was of great value to him in
his later practice. In the following October
Dr. Fuller came to Hartford, Connecticut, and
established himself in his profession, where he
has gained the confidence and esteem of the
citizens. To-day he is one of the noteworthy
figures in the medical profession, and is valued
by every one both as a man and a physician.
A sketch of him some years ago says : "Of
quiet, unobstrusive character, he makes the
impresson of solid acquirements, good judg-
ment, and his personal history during the
forty-four years of his Hartford residence
bears this out." Dr. Fuller is a Republican in
politics and has held prominent places in both
city and state. From 1877 to 1884 he was
coroner and chairman of the health commit-
tee, and since that date until the present time
he has served as medical examiner under the
new law. For twenty-three years he was vis-
iting physician at the Hartford Hospital and
since then a member of the consulting board.
He has been president of the Board of Medical
Examiners of the State of Connecticut since
its organization. He was a member of the
P>oard of United States Pension Examiners
from 1873 to 1885. During Governor An-
drew's adminstration he was surgeon-general
on the governor's staff, 1879-80. He is a mem-
ber of the American Medical Association, of
the Connecticut Medical Society ; of the Hart-
ford County Medical Society, of which he has
been president; of the Hartford Medical So-
ciety, of which he was president in 1890. Dr.
Fuller frequently appeared in court as a medi-
cal expert. Through his official duties he has
made a wide acquaintance with the legislators
and members of the bar, and has gained an
enviable reputation for ability, efficiency and
integrity. Dr. Fuller is a member of the Con-

necticut Historical Society, of the Hartford
Archeological Society, of the Connecticut
Congregational Club, and a member of the
Center Congregational Church of Hartford.
Of college societies he was a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa, the
latter indicating his scholarship. Dr. Fuller
has taken a keen interest in genealogy and
local history. In the course of many years has
made a unique and valuable collection of pot-
tery and porcelain, much of which was used
during the Colonial period and was obtained
from old New England familes. He recently
presented this collection to the Wadsworth
Athenaeum. It was classified and labeled under
the direction of Dr. Edwin A. Barbour, direc-
tor of the Pennsylvania Museum of Philadel-
phia. The collection has now been placed in
the Morgan Memorial Building at Hartford.
Dr. Fuller's record as a citizen and physican,
together with the positions of trust and honor
which he has held, reflects credit upon his
honored ancestry. His various activities have
so occupied his time that he has not been a
frequent contributor to medical literature, but
occasionally a valuable paper has come from
his pen. However, his high professional
standard shows that he is a skillful and author-
itative physician. The regard in which Dr.
Fuller is held by his associates is shown by
the fact that a loving cup was presented to
him January 3, 1910, as a token of the love
and friendship borne by the Hartford City
Medical Society to the member whom "it most
desired to honor."

Lieutenant Samuel Smith, immi-
SMITH grant ancestor of this branch of

the family in New England, was
born in England about 1602. He sailed on
April 30, 1634, for New England in the ship
"Elizabeth" of Ipswich, with his wife Eliza-
beth, and children : Samuel, aged nine, Eliza-
beth, aged seven, Mary, aged four, and Philip,
aged one. He and his wife were then called
thirty-two years of age. He settled first at
Salem and was admitted a freeman, September
3, 1634. He was a proprietor there in 1638.
He removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut,
where he was a leading citizen ; was chosen
representative more than any other man, serv-
ing almost the entire session from 164 1 to
1653. He was one of the committee to make
settlement for the purchase of Saybrook and
its dependencies. He also took a very active
part in the church as well as the state. It
may be of interest here to give a short ac-
count of the "Hartford Controversy," showing
the strong feeling of the time in matters of
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Smith with others removed to Hadley in 1659.
The church at Hartford was one of the largest
and most eminent in New England, and the
two ministers, Thomas Hooker and Samuel
Stone, though unlike in some respects, were
both great and good men, whose praise was
in all the churches. Mr. Hooker was firm and
decided, yet prudent and conciliatory, and there
was no serious trouble while he lived. A few
years after his death a contention arose with
a majority of the church on one side and a
strong minority on the other. On each side
were men of distinction in the town and col-
ony. The first disturbance was occasioned by
the call of a person to supply the place of
Mr. Hooker, who had died. Then arose the
question about the enlarging of baptism. The
minority were attached to the order professed
and practiced under Mr. Hooker. They pre-
ferred to adhere to the Cambridge platform,
and were opposed to any changes. Mr. Stone
endeavored to introduce some new practices
Tnto the church ; these innovations were dis-
pleasing to the minority. The changes related
to three subjects: qualifications for baptism,
churchmanship, and the rights of brotherhood.
Only the members of the church in full com-
munion had their children baptized. The
synod held in Boston in 1657 decided that
children could be baptized if their parents were
not scandalous, though not members of the
church in full communion. Mr. Stone ad-
vocated it. This met with so much opposition
that the minority formally withdrew from the
church and formed a union with the church
in Wethersfield under Mr. John Russell. The
matter was brought before the court of Mas-
sachusetts, who forbid their withdrawal. They
then applied to the court of Massachusetts for
a grant of land in Hadley, which was given
them on condition that they should submit to
an orderly hearing of the differences between
themselves and their brethren. In appointing
the annual Thanksgiving in November one
reason given for thanks was the settling of the
differences in Hartford. The general court
of Massachusetts, so careful to have the mem-
bers separate from the church in an orderly
manner, never suggested that there was any ir-
regularity in the conduct of the Wethersfield
members who settled in Hadley in 1659. The
Saybrook platform, in 1708, was the result of
this compromise between the parties. Mr.
Smith was one of the leading men in Hadley,
where he also held important offices in both
church and state. He was representative from
1661 to 1673, a commoner and magistrate of
the town in 1661, lieutenant of militia from
1663 to 1667. He was a thrifty and substan-
tial farmer. He died about 1680, aged sev-

enty-eight. The inventory of his estate was
taken January 17, 1681 ; amount a little more
than seven hundred pounds. Children : Sam-
uel, born about 1625 ; Elizabeth, born about
1627; Mary, born about 1630; Philip, men-
tioned below ; Chileab, born about 1635 ; John.

(II) Lieutenant Philip, son of Lieutenant
Samuel Smith, was born in England, April
30, 1633, and came when an infant with his
parents to New England. In later years he
settled in Hadley, Massachusetts, and succeed-
ed his father as lieutenant of the troop. He
served as justice, selectman, member of the
general court, and deacon of the church ; a
man for devotion, sanctity, gravity, and all
that was honest, exceeding exemplary. "He
was murdered January 10, 1685, with an hide-
ous witchcraft that filled all this part of New
England with astonishment" (see Cotton
Mather in his "Magnalia"). Philip Smith
married Rebecca, daughter of Nathaniel Foot,
of Wethersfield. Children : Samuel, born
January, 1659; child, died January 22, 1661 ;
Jonathan ; Deacon John, mentioned below ;
Philip; Rebecca, married George Stillman,
died October 7. 1750; Nathaniel; Joseph;
Ichabod, born April 11, 1675. Philip Smith's
widow married Major Aaron Cook, October
2, 1688, died April 6, 1701.

(III) Deacon John, son of Lieutenant
Philip Smith, was born in Hadley, December
18, 1661. He married Joanna, daughter of
Joseph Kellogg, November, 29, 1683. They
lived on the Springfield road. Children born
at Hadley : John, mentioned below ; Joanna,
born September 1, 1686; Rebecca, August 5,
1687, married Samuel Crow; Joseph, July 19,
1690; Martin, April 15, 1692; Eleazer, Sep-
tember 25, 1694, died October 3, 1721 ; Sarah,
November 9, 1698; Prudence, March 15, 1701,
died April 18, 1774; Experience, April 19,
1703, died August 23, 1762; Elizabeth, Oc-
tober 12, 1705, died 1790; Mindwell, May 25,
1708. Deacon John Smith died April 16, 1727,
aged sixty-six; his wife survived him.

(IV) John (2), son of Deacon John (1)
Smith, was born at Hadley, December 3, 1684.
He married Esther, daughter of Ephraim Col-
ton, of Long Meadow, and lived on Cold hill.
He was made a deacon in 1743 ; South Hadley
was made a district April 3, 1753, at which
time he was appointed moderator and assessor.
Their children, born in Hadley, were : Philip,
born October 12. 1712; Ephraim, November
17, 1714; John, February 20, 1717 ; Phineas,
April 12, 1719; Silas, mentioned below; Elea-
zer, January 27, 1725; Esther, November 27,
1726; Josiah, 1730. Deacon John Smith died
December 25, 1761, aged seventy-seven; his
wife died at the age of eighty-four.

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(V) Silas, son of John (2) Smith, was born delia, August 15, 1808, married, May 25,
at Hadley, February 13, 1721. He was in the 1830, Joseph Fuller, of Suffield (see Fuller,
French and Indian war in 1757 and served on VII) ; Silas Moody, May 8, 1810; Asenath,
various committees to carry on the revolution. July 8, 1812; Josiah White, June 3, 1819. His
He married (first) in 1749, Sarah, daughter wife died November 3©^ 1821, aged thirty-
of John and Mary (Smith) Preston, grand- eight. Colonel Smith married (second) Sarah
daughter of John and Sarah (Gardner) Pres- King, of Suffield, Connecticut, born June 16,
ton. Mary Smith was daughter of Luke and 1785, died July 22, 1866. Her father was
Mary (Crow) Smith, granddaughter of Chi- Seth King, born in Suffield, September 20,
leab and Hannah (Hitchcock) Smith, and 1758, died February 10, 1846, aged eighty-
great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Samuel eight. He was a soldier in the revolution.
Smith. He married (second) Rebecca Allen, Her grandfather was Ensign William King,
born February 9, 1731, died July 24. 1804. born in 1721, died 1791. He served in the
Children: Philip; Perez, born 1753; Silas, Lexington alarm.

mentioned below ; Sarah, married Hugh Mc-

Master, of Palmer, Massachusetts. Silas (The Kins Line)-

Smith died 1809, aged eighty-eight. The King family is descended from ancient

(VI) Deacon Silas (2), son of Silas (1) English stock. The origin of the name is un-
Smith, was born November 30, 1754, died ascertained, but may have come from the prac-
March 23, 1813. He was a deacon of the tice of having mock pageants and ceremonies,
church in South Hadley. He married in 1780 The person to whom was assigned the part of
(intentions dated March 18, 1780) Asenath, king became known by that name afterward,
daughter of Phineas and Bethia (Chapin) No less than thirty-eight coats-of-arms are
Chapin, granddaughter of John and Sarah given as belonging to King families, with fif-
(Bridgeman) Chapin, great-granddaughter of teen borne by families spelling their name
Hapeth and Abilene (Cooley) Chapin, and Kinge. The coat-of-arms borne by the immi-
great-great -granddaughter of Deacon Samuel grant ancestor of this branch of the family is :
and Cicely Chapin. Her mother was a daugh- Sable on a chevron, or, between three crosses
ter of Benjamin and Hannah (Col ton) Cha- crosslet of the last, three escalops of the first,
pin, granddaughter of Henry and Bethia An esquire helmet surmounts the shield. As
(Cooley) Chapin, and great-granddaughter of early as 1389 the King family was seated in
Deacon Samuel Chapin, mentioned above, the vicinity of Ugborough, England. Fowels-
Children : Horace, mentioned below ; Rufus, combe, in the parish of Ugborough, is an estate
March 2, 1782; Allen, December 8, 1783; of considerable extent, which has for a long
Child, born and died August 29, 1785; Ase- period been the property of the King family,
nath, born March 3, 1787: Laura, March 10, The manor house for several years has been
1789; Warren, September 25, 1790; Hiram, out of repair and untenanted. The following
September 23, 1793. is supposed to be the ancestry of William and

(VII) Colonel Horace, son of Silas (2) James King, who came to America.

Smith, was born in South Hadley, February (I) Thomas Kynge was born before
16, 1781. He removed to Chester and his the opening of the parish registers at Ugbor-
name first appears on the assessors' list of ough in 1538, and was probably the father of
1809. He took a leading part in both town William, mentioned below,
and church affairs. Colonel Smith removed (II) William (1) Kinge, married Mar-
to Amherst about 1821, where he lived until garet .

his death, November 11, 1862. He was a (III) William (2) Kinge married, Septem-

deacon in the First Church, colonel in the mi- ber 27, 1621, Christina Lapp,

litia and justice of the peace. He was an ar- (IV) William (3) King was born in Ug-

dent abolitionist, and as such took a very borough about 1622. He married there, Oc-

active and prominent part in their meetings, tober 16, 1642, Agnes Elwill, who was buried

He was one of those sturdy men, who was April 7, 1662. He became interested in the

always depended upon in town meetings to fisheries along the American coast and was

stand for the right, however unpopular a meas- lost at sea on the Newfoundland banks. Chil-

ure might be. He strictly observed Saturday dren: William, baptized December 31, 1643;

night, and all secular work as far as possible James, mentioned below.

must be finished before the sun went down. (V) James, son of William (3) King, was

Colonel Smith married, March 5, 1805, Re- baptized at Ugborough, November 7, 1647.

becca Moody, born March 28, 1783, daughter He came to New England and settled first at

of Josiah Moody (see Moody VI). Children: Ipswich, where he married, March 23, 1674,

Mary Berintha, born December 2, 1806; Cor- Elizabeth Fuller, born at Ipswich, May 31,

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1652, died June 30. 171 5, daughter of John (first) December 28, 1743, Sarah Fuller, who

and Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller. Elizabeth died July 13, 1744. He married (second) June

Emerson's mother was presented by Queen 26, 1747, Lucy Hathaway, born August 21,

Elizabeth with certain household goods, par- 1725, died February 18, 181 7, daughter of

ticularly a piece of fine linen cloth, which Samual Hathaway. Children, all by second

descended to Elizabeth (Fuller) King, who in wife: Sarah, born June 13, 1748; Elizabeth,

turn gave it to her daughter, Agnes King, June 22, 1751 ; Lucy, April 4, 1753; William,

who married John Austin. James King was December 23, 1755; Seth, September 20, 1758,

one of the original proprietors of Suffield, died February 10, 1846, soldier in the revo-

Connecticut, where they removed after the lution ; Bethia, May 23, 1760; Roxanna, Au-

birth of their first child. He received a grant gust 13, 1762; Mary, June 23, 1764, married

of land there October 30, 1678, consisting of Captain Joseph Fuller (see Fuller VI) ; Dr.

sixty acres on High street, "next south of the Apollos, November 29, 1766, died January 27,

school lot." He built a house which was for 1810.

a long period the family homestead. He had (The Moody Line),

other grants of land. He was prominent in (I) George Moody, progenitor of the Amer-

town affairs and in 1685 was elected tything- ican family, lived at Moulton, England, in

man; in 1695 selectman; 1701 surveyor of Suffolk county. The pedigree of the family

highways; 1702 on a committee to build the is preserved in the Harleian Manuscripts 6071

school house; 1709 town clerk; 1710 sealer of in the British Museum (page 512, folio 254).

weights and measures and for five years af- He ''was famous for his good housekeeping

terwards. He was a cooper by trade. He and plain dealing." He married Lydia .

married for his second wife, Hannah Loomis, Children: George, of Moulton; John, men-
February 27, 1715, widow of Sergeant Samuel tioned below; Samuel, w7oolen draper of Bury
Loomis; she died 1720. James King died at St. Edmunds, alderman, justice of the peace,
Suffield, May 13, 1722. He gave away most member of parliament, had his father's estate
of his property before he died. His will was after his brother's death ; children : George,
dated Ma)' 10, 1722, and proved the following John, of further mention; Samuel, Mary,
August. Children, all by first wife, the first Maryaret, Sarah, Anne and Elizabeth,
born in Ipswich, the others in Suffield: James, (II) John, son of George Moody, was born
born March 14, 1675, died July 15, 1757; in Moulton, England. He came to New Eng-
William, January 4, 1679, died September 30, land in 1633 and settled at Roxburv, Massa-
[680; Agnes, July 15, 1682, died January 7, chusetts. He was admitted a freeman of the
[733: Benjamin, November 20, 1683; Benoni, colony, November 5, 1633. and was a deputy
December 5, 1685, died June 17, 1686; Joseph, to the general court in 1634-35. He became
born June 15, 1687, died January 23, 1688; a proprietor of Hartford in 1639 and his home
Joseph, May 10, 1689, died March 6, 1756; lot there was 'on Main street opposite that of
Mary, April 30, 1692, died May 8, 1769; Wil- George Wyllys. He was townsman (select-
Ham, mentioned below. man) in 163*9-40; lieutenant in 1640. His

(VI) Lieutenant William (4), son of James will was dated July 23, 1655, and his inventory
King, was born at Suffield, September 29, was dated December 6, 1655. It amounted to
1695, died January 8, 1774. He inherited most three hundred pounds, which he bequeathed
of his father's estate and left the best landed to wife, son Samuel and daughter Elizabeth
interest in Suffield. He was a farmer and Pepper. His widow Elizabeth died at Hadley
weaver. He served as selectman, and was in 1671. He was called deacon in the records,
several years deputy to the general court. He (HI) Samuel, son of John Moody, was born
married (first) June 29, 1717, Bethia Bedlake, about 1640. He removed to Hadley, Massa-
of Westfield, who died May 21, 1768. He chusets, in 1659, and died there September 22,
married (second) February, 1770-72, Anne 1689. He married Sarah Deming, who died
Adams, widow. By the first wife he had September 29, 1717. daughter of John Dem-
twelve children, of whom eleven died before ing, of Wethersfield. Children : Sarah, mar-
his death, ten of them without families. His ried John Kellogg; John, born July 24, 1661,
eldest son, William, is mentioned below. died November 5, 1732; Hannah, March 5,

(VII) Ensign William (5), son of Lieu- 1663, died unmarried January 6, 1713; Mary,
tenant William (4) King, was born August married twice; Samuel, born November 28,
10, 1721, died March 8, 1791. He inherited 1670; Ebenezer, mentioned below.

his father's estate. He was appointed in June, (IV) Ebenezer, son of John Moody, was

1768, ensign of the second train band of Suf- born October 23, 1675, died November 11,

field. He served in the revolution in the Lex- 1757. He married Editha , who died

ington alarm, April 19, 1775. He married August 19, 1757, in her seventy-fifth year.

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Children: Jonathan, born January 13, 1703,
died April 3, 1703; Mary, December 28, 1705,
died November 15, 1787; Ebenezer, February
22, 1707; Sarah, January 13, 1709; Joseph,
January 13, 1712; Daniel, March 12, 1715,
died April 20, 1792; Josiah, mentioned below;
Editha, married Joseph White ; Miriam, mar-
ried Reuben Smith.

(V) Josiah, son of Ebenezer Moody, was
born in 1721, in South Hadley. He married
(first) January 17, 1745, Rebecca White, who
died September 15, 1751, aged twenty-seven.
He married (second) Dorcas Clapp, widow of
Noah Clapp, who died November 16, 1762,
aged thirty-four. He married (third) Sarah
Clark, widow of Matthew Clark, who died
March 11, 1810, aged eighty-two. Children:
Eliphaz, born November 23, 1745, died May
15, 1752; Josiah, August 7, 1748, mentioned
below; Rebecca, July 21, 1750, died September
6, 1758; Dorcas, August 8, 1754; Mercy, Oc-
tober 18, 1756; Sarah, July 16, 1764; Eliphaz,
September 20, 1766; Sylvester, May 20, 1771.

(VI) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) Moody,
was born in South Hadley, August 7, 1748,
died in 1828. He married, in November, 1771,
Mary Elmer, of Ashfield. He served in the
revolution in Lieutenant Martin Wate's com-
pany, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's regi-
ment, on a four days' expedition to the north-
ern depot, and marched on the Bennington
alarm, August 17, 1777. Children: Asenath,
born 1772, married Hezekiah Moody ; Polly,
1775, married Silas Smith; Heman, 1777,
married Electa Moody; Clarissa, 1779, mar-
ried Jonathan Yeomans ; Rebecca, 1783, mar-
ried Colonel Horace Smith (see Smith VII).

The surname -Hoadley was
HOADLEY originally a place name.

There are two parishes of the
name in Sussex, England, and as early as
1280 Margaret de Hothlegh and her father
Solomon are mentioned in Sussex. In 1296
William de Hodlegh, in 1318 Maurice de Hod-
leye are mentioned in Sussex records.

(I) William Hoadley, or Hoadle, as he
wrote it, was born in England about 1630 and
was the immigrant of this family. He settled
in Saybrook, Connecticut, as early as 1663,
and in 1666 bought the home lot of Rev. Abra-
ham Pierson, of Branford, Connecticut. This
lot Was on the west side of the public green,
where the Totoket House now stands. He was
a merchant, and his shop was next his dwelling
house. He signed the Plantation Covenant
of Branford, January 20, 1667-68, and was ad-
mitted a freeman in October, 1669. He was
a representative from Branford in the general
court between 1678 and 1685, and one of the

patentees of the town on February 16, 1685-6;
selectman several years between 1673 and
1690. At a town meeting held June 26, 1683,
he was appointed to keep the ordinary in
Branford. The death of his wife, perhaps,
caused him to give up the tavern, and his suc-
cessor was appointed March 28, 1687. He was
one of the grand jurors at a court of quarter-
sessions at New Haven in June, 1688; one of
a committee appointed October 11, 1686, to
make application to the general assembly at
Hartford for liberty for' the town to embody
into a church estate. In 1699 he was on a
committee to build a meeting house and often
served on committees to procure a minister
for the town. The town gave him permission
in December, 1701, to build a pew for himself
and family in the meeting house, and for two
of his sons and their wives, he building at his
own charge, and, after his decease and his
wife's, the pew to revert .to the town provided
the town pay reasonable price for it. He filed
his ear mark — a capital T and a half-penny —
January 28, 1670, and December 19, 1674. He
was elected constable December 21, 1677;
served on a school committee in 1678; was on
a committee to run the line between Branford
and Wallingford, March 14, 1678-79 ; was
elected a lister or assessor of the town Septem-
ber 11, 1679; from time to time served on
committees to lay out lots granted to pro-
prietors of the town and inhabitants. He was
elected March 25, 1679, on a turnpike com-
mittee, and June 17, 1680, on a committee to
consider some claims of New Haven to land
in Branford. He and Edward Barker were
appointed a committee April 26, 1681, to take
an account of "what corn there is in town."
He was a town auditor elected December 6,
1 68 1. He owned much land and left a con-
siderable estate, as shown by the inventory
dated December 27, 1709, four pa^es in length,
as copied in New Haven probate records.
Among the items were : House, barn and home
lot ; ten acres of land and meadow in the Mill
Quarter, meadow land in the same section,
meadow in Little Mill Quarter on near side
of an island ; various other meadows ; a par-
cel at Stony creek ; another at the mouth of
Pine creek ; plowing land at Great Island, Lit-
tle Plain, Indian Neck and Beaver Swamp;
upland and swamp at Cole pit plain ; piece of
swamp on the back side of the town ; pasture ;
parcel called the hop-ground; 159 acres of
fourth division ; right in undivided land ; six-
teen acres at Stratford ; twenty acres at Hop
Yard Plain, and twenty acres near the school
land, etc. Mr. Hoadley was called captain
and doubtless commanded a company of militia
at some time.

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The name and time of death of the first wife
of William Hoadley are unknown. He had
eight children, according to list taken Janu-
ary 17, 1676, but the names of but seven are
known and but six survived him. He mar-
ried (second) about 1686, Mary, widow of
John Farrington, of Dedham, Massachusetts,
and daughter of William Bullard, of Charles-
town, Massachusetts, and Dedham, who died
May 12, 1703, in Branford. Hoadley married
(third) in Branford, about 1704, Ruth, widow
of John Frisbie. and daughter of Rev. John
and Bridget (Thompson) Bowers. She was
baptized December 20, 1657, ^n New Haven
and died April 26, 1736, in Branford. Chil-
dren of first wife: 1. William, mentioned be-
low. 2. Samuel, born about 1666. 3. John,
married Mercy Crane. 4. Mary, married,
about 1698, Nathaniel Finch of Branford. 5.
Elizabeth, baptized February 15, 1668; died
before her father. 6. Hannah, baptized No-
vember 8, 1670, married Nathaniel Johnson,
of Branford. 7. Abraham, married Elizabeth
Maltby. He died in November or December,
1709, aged about seventy-nine years. His will
was presented but not allowed by the court
and the settlement of his estate was the occa-
sion of a long and unhappy litigation. The
will is not to be found and its provisions are
now unknown.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Hoadley, married (first) Abigail, daughter of
Edward Frisbie of Branford; married (sec-
ond) about 1703, Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Mercy (Paine) Frost, born in 1673, in
New Haven, Connecticut, died March 6,
1740-41, in Branford. On the first Monday of
June, 1710, he applied for letters of adminis-
tration on the estate of his father, which the
court refused. He then appealed to the court
of assistants which granted his suit. It does
not appear, however, that he had the adminis-
tration. He was granted the privilege of set-
ting up a saw mill on Stony river, provided he
would agree to sell boards at five shillings and
not take more than half a log to pay for saw-
ing it. He died in Branford, May 30, 1738.
Children of first wife, born in Branford : Mary,
May 22, 1691 ; Hannah, April 27, 1693; Je-
mima, March 24, 1695-96; children of second
wife, born in Branford : Elizabeth ; William,
mentioned below ; Lydia.

(III) William (3), son of William (2)
Hoadley, was born February 13, 1707-08, in
Branford. He removed to Waterbury, and was
one of the first who settled at Judd's Mead-
ow, Salem Bridge, now the town of Nauga-
tuck. It is probable that he removed there at
the time that he and Major Way of Water-
bury bought of James Baldwin, June 1, 1751,

nearly all the latter's land, including a grist
mill and half a saw mill, together with all the
buildings, fruit trees, etc. July 6 of the same
year, Way sold his half interest in the two
hundred acres and mills to Richard Smith, of
Woodbury, who conveyed them to Jonathan
Beebe. In October, 1753, Beebe and Hoadley
divided the land, the former keeping an inter-
est in the house and mill place. They oper-
ated the grist and saw mills together until
May, 1754, when Beebe sold his interest to
Hoadley, including his half interest in the
house. Hoadley lived, it is supposed, in the
Daniel Warner house, the first built in that
section, until 1763, when he sold it with one
acre of land to his son Lemuel. He appears
to have built a house for himself on the north
side of the brook and west of the grist mill.
He married, about 1728, Sarah, daughter of
Ebenezer and Hannah Frisbie, born January
27, 1707, in Branford. He died in the spring
of 1784 in Waterbury. His will, dated Au-
gust 14, 1779, proved at Waterbury, April 5,
1784, mentions his wife Sarah and all his chil-
dren but David. On account of his very dark
complexion, which he inherited from his
mother, he was known around Waterbury as
"Black Will" Hoadley. Children, born in
Branford: Sarah, baptized December 6, 1730;
Eunice, born 1732; William, baptized May 4.
1734, mentioned below; Lemuel, baptized Feb-
ruary 2j, 1737-8; Ebenezer, baptized March
18, 1739; Ithiel, baptized May 3, 1741 ; Jude,
born February 20, 1743; Elizabeth, baptized
February 17, 1745-6, died young: David, bap-
tized June 12, 1748, died young; Elizabeth,
baptized March 17, 1751.

(IV) William (4), son of William (3)
Hoadley, was baptized May 4, 1734, in Bran-
ford. He came with his father to Naugatuck
and after the latter's death operated the mills
till April, 1 810, when he sold his house, grist
mill, and land to Ebenezer Scott, and removed
with his son William to Ohio. After one
year's residence there they returned to Nauga-
tuck. He was in the war of American revolu-
tion. He married, 1761, in Naugatuck, Esther,
daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Burnham)
Porter, born August, 1740, in Naugatuck,
died September, 181 5, in Naugatuck. She
is described as a very handsome woman
and 1 viHag'e belle, and belonged to a wealthy
family. Children born in Naugatuck: Ammi,
born June 15, 1762, mentioned below; Cul-
pepper, September 10, 1764; Lucina, 1767:
Esther, 1769; William, December 28, 1774;
Ithiel, 1776.

(V) Ammi, son of William (4) Hoadley,
was born June 15, '1762, in Naugatuck, and
settled in Bethany, Connecticut, at what is

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called Hoadley Mills, where he owned a grist
mill and water privileges and also manufac-
tured wooden clock wheels. He was a quiet,
unobtrusive man, deliberate in all his ways, of
strict integrity and firm principles. He was
an Episcopalian, and thoroughly devoted to the
interests of his church. He married, April
20, 1785, in Bethany, Amy, daughter of George
Thompson, born September 12, 1763, in Beth-
any, died there April 9, 1834. He died No-
vember 14, 1834, in Bethany. Children, born
in Bethany : Silas, January 31, 1786, mentioned
below; Ada, November 25, 1788; Thompson,
March 1, 1790; Albert, July 18, 1792; Har-
riet, October 20, 1795 ; Lumon, August 10,
1797; William Porter, March 14, 1800; Ursula,
January 1, 1803; Garry, May 2, 1806.

(VI) Honorable Silas Hoadley, son of
Ammi Hoadley, was born January 31, 1786,
in Bethany, and spent his boyhood in his na-
tive place. His school advantages were very
limited, for at an early age he was appren-
ticed to Calvin Hoadley to learn the carpen-
ter's and joiner's trade. He followed this
trade until 1809, when he, with Eli Terry and
Seth Thomas, engaged in the manufacture of
wood clocks at a small settlement then called
Ireland, afterwards Hoadleyville, in the south-
eastern part of the town of Plymouth, Con-
necticut. Since the property left the Hoadley
family the name has been changed to Grey-
stone. In i8to Mr. Terry sold out to Hoad-
ley and Thomas, who carried on the business
till 1814, when Mr. Thomas sold his interest
to Mr. Hoadley. The latter continued it till
1849, when he rented the shops for making
knives and shears, till his death. Mr. Hoad-
ley took an active interest in the affairs of
state, town and church. In politics he was a
Democrat, and was repeatedly honored by his
townsmen with public marks of esteem, being
elected to the general assembly in 1832-37-55,
to the state senate in 1844. Both positions he
faithfully and honorably discharged. In the
legislative halls of his state, his happy way of
illustrating his ideas always commanded re-
spect and attention.. In religion he was an
Episcopalian, and attendant of St. Peter's
Church in Plymouth Centre, of which he was
a vestryman. The church was generously re-
membered in his will. He was a Free Mason
of high standing, and one of the most re-
spected and oldest members of Harmony
Lodge, No. 42, F. and A. M., of Plymouth,
with which he was connected for more than
half a century, having united with the old
Federal Lodge of Watertown in 181 7. He
married, September 21, 1807, in Plymouth,
Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Lucina
Painter, born October 22, 1789, in Plymouth,

died there March 1, 1864. He died in Ply-
mouth, December 28, 1870. Children, born in
Plymouth: Milo, July 25, 1809; George
Thompson, mentioned below, September 22,
181 1 ; Luther Hopkins, July 29, 1813; Sarah
Jane, June 22, 1817; Mary Ann, May 4, 1819.

(VII) George Thompson, son of Hon.
Silas Hoadley, was born in Plymouth, Sep-
tember 22, 181 1, and spent the early part of
his life in the house where he was born, in
Hoadleyville, now Greystone, in the town of
Plymouth. At an early age he commenced
driving a four-horse team to New Haven and
Hartford two or three times a week, carrying
clocks and returning with heavy loads of lum-
ber. A few years after his marriage he moved
to the Tomlinson farm one mile south of the
center, where he lived for over forty years.
After the death of his wife he sold his farm
and bought the place on South street, where
he died. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married, October 2, 1832, in Plymouth, Eu-
nice, daughter of Zecheriah and Polly (Fenn)
Tomlinson, born October 7, 1812, in Ply-
mouth, died there March 23, 1874. He died
in Plymouth, August 24, 1888. Children, born
in Plymouth : Harriette Ann, September 23,
1833; Henry Tomlinson, June 26, 1835, men-
tioned below ; Robert Luther, February 8,
1838; Nancy Jane. August 20, 1849.

(VIII) Henry Tomlinson, son of George
Thompson Hoadley, was born June 26, 1835,
in Plymouth. He received a common school
education, and worked on the farm with his
father till he was twenty years old, when he
began mechanical work at Hoadleyville, now
Greystone, in Plymouth. In i860 he entered
the employ of Plume & Atwood in Thomas-
ton, where he worked for twenty years, hold-
ing responsible and important positions, until
ill health compelled him to give up active
labor. Mr. Hoadley was never active in poli-
tics, but upheld the principles of the Demo-
cratic party. He was prominent in Masonry,
and at the time of his death had held every
office in his lodge. He was a member of
LJnion Lodge, No. 96, F. and A. M., in which
he was raised to the master's degree Septem-
ber 2y, 1870, was tyler the following year,
served as junior deacon in 1873, was elected
junior warden in 1874, and senior warden in
1875. On December 21, 1875, he was unani-
mously elected to preside in the East, a posi-
tion which he filled with great credit to him-
self and to the "craft." At the expiration of
his term he was again elected, but owing to
ill health declined the honor. He was a mem-
ber of Granite Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M. In
religion he was a Congregationalist, and be-
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married, March 30, 1857, in Watertown, Con-
necticut. Sarah Jennette, only daughter of
Amos Murray and Elizabeth Ann (Titus)
Judd, born February 24, 1836, in Watertown.
He died September 26, 1882, in Plymouth.

(IX) Carleton Edson, only child of Henry
Tomlinson Hoadley, was born in Plymouth,
February 16, 1862. He entered the Yale Law
School in L885 and graduated with LL. B. in
1887 and entered at once into the general
practice of law in New Haven. He was a
member of the common council of the city of
New Haven, 1899-91. He was appointed
prosecuting attorney of the Connecticut State
Board of Health, September 13, 1893, and
health officer of New Haven county by Gov-
ernor Luzon B. Morris, and was reappointed
to the same office by the judges of the superior
court and has held it to the present time by
various reappointments. In politics he is an
independent. He is a member of the Con-
necticut Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, by virtue of the service in the
revolutionary war of Joseph Titus, an ances-
tor of his mother. He is also a member of the
United Congregational Church ; the Knights
Templar Club ; the Union League Club of New
Haven; Wooster Lodge, No. 78, Free Masons,
of New Haven ; Franklin Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; Harmony Council, Royal and
Select Masters ; New Haven Commandery,
Knights Templar ; Pyramid Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Bridgeport; Lafayette Consistory,
and is a thirty-second degree Mason of the
Scottish Rite ; member of the Connecticut Bar
Association, and American Bar Association.
He has been active in the Royal Arcanum
order for more than twenty years, and has
been grand secretary since 1902, and formerly
at the head of the order in Connecticut, and
since 1905 member of the supreme council,
the national body.

He married, December 12, 1888, Minnie
Stotesbury, of Matteawan, New York, born
August 12, 1867, daughter of William Stotes-
bury and Charlotte Meyers of Matteawan,
New York. Children: 1. Henrietta Judd, born
November 9, 1889, died August II, 1893. 2.
Charlotte Stotesbury, born December 31,
1890, died September 4, 1897. 3. Sarah Jen-
nette Judd, born April 30, 1892. 4. Carleton
Leonis, born October 4, 1898. 5. Nelson
Titus, born August 24, 1893.

Samuel Newton, of England,
NEWTON was the progenitor of the
Newton family of Connecticut.
(II) Rev. Roger Newton, son of Samuel
Newton, settled in Hartford, and was a stu-
dent of divinity there under Rev. Thomas

Hooker, the founder. He became the first min-
ister of Farmington, Connecticut, about 1645.
After twelve years he prepared for a visit to
England, but while waiting in Boston for the
ship to sail, there was such a season of storms
that the captain thought Newton was the Jo-
nah, who was the cause of the unfavorable
weather, in seeking to escape the work of the
Lord in this country, and sailed away without
him. He was installed second pastor of the
church at Milford, Connecticut, August 22,
1660, succeeding Rev. Peter Prudden, and
continued in this parish until he died, June 7,
1683. He married, at Hartford, Mary, who
died February 4, 1676, daughter of Rev.
Thomas Hooker. Children, born at Hartfonl :
Samuel, October 20, 1646, mentioned be-
low; Roger, who became judge of the
superior court, 1648; Susanna, born at
Farmington, September 20, 1654, married
John Stone ; John, born at Farmington,
June, 1656, married Lydia Ford; Ezekiel,
born at Hartford, December 19, 1659;
Sarah, born at Milford, January 24, 1662, mar-
ried John Wilson ; Mary, born at Milford,
married Edward Jackson, of Newton, Massa-
chusetts; Alice, born September 18, 1664, mar-
ried Daniel Buckingham.

(III) Samuel (2), son of Rev. Roger New-
ton, was very active in town affairs, represent-
ing Milford fifteen sessions in the general
court, and was a famous fighter in the Milford
militia in all the Indian wars, having the rank
of captain. He married, March 14, 1669,
Martha Fenn, born 1650, baptized July 7, 1650,
daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Baldwin)
Fenn. Children, born at Milford : Martha,
July 14, 1671 ; Susanna, July, 1673; Samuel,
June 26, 1677; Thomas, 1679; Mary, baptized
August 19, 1681 ; Roger, 1685; Sarah, bap-
tized September 26, 1686. After the death of
his wife, Martha Fenn Newton, Samuel mar-
ried Sarah (Welch) Fowler, widow of John
Fowler, daughter of Thomas Welch, and
granddaughter of Thomas Buckingham. Sam-
uel and Sarah (Welch) Newton had one son,
Abner, born May 14, 1699.

(IV) Abner, son of Samuel (2) and Sarah
Newton, was baptized at Milford, May 16,
1699. He settled at Durham, on Main street,
in 1724, afterwards purchasing a farm over
the line in Haddam. This part of Haddam
was in 1773 transferred to Durham, and is
known as Haddam Quarter. He married
Mary Burwell, of the John Burwell family, in
Milford. Children, with dates of baptism :
Abner, October 23, 1726; John, baptized with
Abner; Burwell, July 20, 1729, mentioned be-
low; Samuel, November 5, 1732; Rev. Roger,
May 15, 1737, graduate of Yale in 1758, pas-

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tor of Greenfield (Massachusetts) church fifty-
three years. His son Roger was also a grad-
uate of Yale in 1785.

(V) Burwell, son of Abner Newton, was
baptized July 20, 1729, at Durham. He was
a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Norton's
company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Tenth
Regiment, Connecticut militia, in 1779. He
married Eunice Johnson. Children, born at
Durham: Abiathar, 1754; Burwell, 1756;
Mary, 1759; Submit, 1762; Abner, mentioned
below; Roger, twin of Abner; Roger, 1768;
Isaac, 1770.

(VI) Abner (2), son of Burwell Newton,
was born at Durham, December 27, 1764. He
was a deacon of the church, and a prominent
citizen of Durham. As a boy of fourteen
years, he enlisted as a minute-man in the
revolutionary war, and was called into service
whenever Connecticut was invaded, until peace
was declared. He died September 9, 1852.
He and his son Abner were members of the
first temperance society in Durham, organized
in 1828. He married Abigail Fairchild. Chil-
dren : Elisha Fairchild, Abner, Horace, Gay-
lord, Roger Watson, all mentioned below;
Content, and Parnel. Abner Newton and
Elisha Fairchild Newton enlisted as "troop-
ers" (cavalry) in the war of 1812, but were
not called into active service.

(VII) Elisha Fairchild, born in Hartland,
Connecticut, August 7, 1793, eldest son of
Abner and Abigail (Fairchild) Newton, re-
ceived his name in memory of his grandfather,
Elisha Fairchild, who lost his life in the serv-
ice of his country in 1777. He had two chil-
dren— Israel Camp, and Abigail Maria.

(VII) Abner (3), second son of Abner (2)
and Abigail Newton, married Sarah Hall.
Children: Rev. John Newton, graduate of
Wesleyan University in 1847, tnen of Andover
and Yale Divinity Schools; Harriet; Sarah
Cornelia ; Abner and Frances. Frances married
Rev. Charles W. Church, and their son, Ward
Church, is one of the New Haven firm of
Newton, Church & Hewitt, lawyers. Abner
Newton Jr. was for many years publisher of
the Middletown Constitution, and his son
Abner succeeded him in that position.

(VII) Horace, third son of Abner (2) and
Abigail Newton, married Delight Camp. Their
only daughter, Elizabeth, died at the age of
twenty-two years.

(VII) Gaylord, fourth son of Abner (2)
and Abigail Newton, was born at Durham,
July 31, 1804. He was for forty years deacon
of the First Congregational Church in that
place. For thirty-five winters he taught a dis-
trict school or a select school in Durham, and
neighboring towns; was for many years as-

sessor and selectman, and held other town
offices. He married Nancy M., daughter of
Miles Merwin, a descendant of Miles Merwin,
the immigrant ; she also was a successful
teacher before her marriage. They lived in
Durham. Children : Ellen Maria, born June
24, 1841, died October 7, 1863; Henry Glea-
son, born June 5, 1843 (see forward) ; Caro-
line Gavlord, born January 21, 1845, married
Henry Huntington Newton.

(VIII) Henry Gleason, son of Gaylord
Newton, was born at Durham, June 5, 1843.
He was named for Rev. Henry Gleason, who
had joined his father and mother in marriage.
He attended Durham Academy, and entered
Wesleyan University at Middletown in 1861 ;
his health failed and he left, entering again in
1863, when his health again failed, and finally
he graduated in the class of 1870. He was a
member of the Eclectic and Phi Beta Kappa
societies, was third in rank in his class, and
excelled in mathematics. He graduated from
the Yale Law School in 1872, taking prizes for
essays in civil and common law, and was vale-
dictorian on class day. He was admitted to
the bar in 1872, and has practiced law in New
Haven since that time. For many years he
retained his residence in his native town and
took an active part in public affairs. For
twenty years he was school visitor, and at-
torney for the town for thirty years. He was
elected to the general assembly of Connecti-
cut in 1885, and was chairman of the judiciary
committee and by virtue of his position was
leader of the house. In 1886 he was declared
elected by one vote to the assembly, but he
himself claimed a miscount and contested his
own election, as attorney for his opponent, and
succeeded in having himself unseated and his
opponent declared elected at the second day
of the session. He was elected to the general
assembly again in 1895 from New Haven, and
was chairman of the committee of humane in-
stitutions. He obtained the passage of a bill
to establish a state reformatory and another
for a revision of the state constitution, but
both measures were killed at a subsequent ses-
sion. He was, however, instrumental in pro-
curing the passage of a number of important
laws. In politics he is a Republican. He has
written several legal treatises, and "The His-
tory of the Town of Durham" in the "History
of Middlesex County," published by J. B.
Beers. He was president of the day when the
bi-centennial of the town of Durham was cele-
brated, July 4, 1899. He is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution, deacon of the Congregational
Church of Durham, chairman of the board of
directors of the New Haven Missionary As-

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sociation from the time of its organization ; a
director of the New Haven Young Men's
Christian Association ; has been for many years
referee in bankruptcy for New Haven county,
since the passage of the bankrupt law ; member
of the State Board of Health ; director and at-
torney of the Yale National Bank, and trustee
of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank
of Middletbwn, Connecticut. He is a member
of the Union League, and of the Graduates'
Club of New Haven. He is senior partner
of the well-known law firm, Newton. Church
& Hewitt, of New Haven. His office is at 818
Chapel street. New Haven, and his home at
89 Sherman avenue.

He married, September 11, 1885, Sarah
Allen Baldwin, M. D., born February 14, 1846,
daughter of Isaac Stebbins Baldwin. She was
a native of Norwich, New York, but before
her marriage lived at Cromwell, Connecticut.

(VII) Roger Watson, youngest son of
Abner (2) and Abigail Newton, married Cyn-
thia Huntington, a relative of Governor Sam-
uel Huntington. They had six children, two
of whom died in infancy.

(VIII) Henry Huntington, eldest of the five
sons of Roger Watson and Cynthia (Hunting-
ton) Newton, was educated at Durham Acad-
emy and Wesleyan University. He was for
forty years an officer of the First Congrega-
tional Church in Durham, respected and loved
by all who knew him. He married his cousin,
Caroline Gaylord, daughter of Gaylord
Newton.

(VIII) George Watson, second son of
Roger and Cynthia Newton, graduated from
Wesleyan University in 1871, and afterwards
studied for the profession of civil engineer, and
was for many years engaged in surveying for
and laying out railroads in all parts of the
United States including the Northern Pacific.
After the decease of his uncle, Horace New-
ton, he purchased his homestead at Durham
Center, where he now resides.

(VIII) Jonathan Edward, son of Roger and
Cynthia Newton, was a teacher in the schools
of his native town for many years. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Foote, of Northford. They had
one son, Charles Watson, a promising pupil
in the Middletown high school; killed by acci-
dent in his eighteenth year. J. E. Newton is
proprietor of the large farm in Haddam Quar-
ter which has been in the possession of his
family nearly two centuries.

(VIII) Arthur Selden Newton, youngest
son of Roger and Cynthia Newton, married
Mary Rossiter. They have four children :
Katherine Huntington, now a junior in Mt.
Holyoke College ; Roger Rossiter, a graduate
of Middletown high school, and soon to enter

college ; Gaylord Arthur, and Abner Bucking-
ham. He occupies the farm in Haddam Quar-
ter formerly owned by his father.

The name of Roger Newton has never failed
in the family since the first Roger came from
England about 1640, and has always been
worthilv borne.

William Campbell, of Scotch
CAMPBELL ancestry, came to this coun-
try about 1 718, the time of
the beginning of the great influx of Scotch
from the north of Ireland. These pioneers
settled in Worcester, Hopkinton, Pelham, and
other places in Massachusetts, founded Nut-
field, later called Londonderry, New Hamp-
shire, and some remained in Boston and east-
ern Massachusetts, some in Maine. William
Campbell was in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
as early as 1719. He also lived in Boston.

(II) James, son of William Campbell, was
born about 1705, died in November, 1737. He
married Anna — , and lived in Charles-
town. His widow was appointed administra-
trix, December 5, 1737, and the probate rec-
ords show that he had four children. He was
on the tax list, 1729-33, and had his taxes
abated in Charlestown in 1736. His widow
was in Woburn in 1739.

(III) James (2), son of James (1) Camp-
bell, was born in Charlestown, December 4,
1728. He removed to Rehoboth with other
Campbells. He had a son James, mentioned
below.

(IV) James (3), son of James (2) Camp-
bell, was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
December 31, 1753. He settled in Sutton,
Vermont, May 7, 1835. He was a farmer.
He married, November 25, 1778, at Rehoboth,
Sabrina, daughter of Ebenezer Ingalls (see
Ingalls IV).

(V) Benjamin, son of James (3) Campbell,
was born at Sutton, Vermont, July 14, 1781,
died October 14,' 1861, and was buried at
Turner, Maine. He married, January 15, 1804,
Betsey Wilson, born November 20, 1783, died
August 11, 1839, daughter of Ezekiel and
Sarah (Turner) , Wilson and granddaughter of
Benjamin Wilson, a native of England, and
Elizabeth (Sprague) Wilson, born at Reho-
both, May 26, 1694, married, December 15,
1730. Ezekiel Wilson was born May II, 1744;
Sarah Turner was born at Rehoboth. and
married, September 2, 1770 (see Turner Y).
Elizabeth Sprague was daughter of Anthony
Sprague (see Sprague III).

(VI) James (4), son of Benjamin Campbell,
was born at Sutton, September 22, 181 1, died
June 17, 1885, at Antwerp, Belgium. He was
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settled when a young man. He married, in
1840, Esther, born 1818, died April 20, 1876,
dauy liter of Daniel and Esther Griswold (see
Griswold VI).

(VII) Dr. James (5), son of James (4)
Campbell, was born at Manchester, Connecti-
cut, March 14, 1848, died at Hartford, Oc-
tober 17, 1899. He attended the public schools
of his native town and studied medicine at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York City, and in the medical department of
the University of Vermont. He began to prac-
tice at the age of twenty -three years in Min-
nesota. Afterward he resumed bis medical
studies and spent a year and a half abroad in
the hospitals and clinics of Berlin, Prague and
Vienna. In 1874 he located in Hartford, Con-
necticut, and immediately took a place of
prominence in his profession. For nearly fif-
teen years he was president of the board of
health of tbe city and for some years was on
the staff of the Hartford,Hospitaf. In 1886 he
was elected professor of Yale Medical School
and he filled the chair with signal ability until
1899. when he resigned. In 1891 he received
from Yale University the honorary degree of
Master of Arts, and when he retired he had a
vote of thanks from tbe corporation for his
long and excellent service and with its regrets
that he could not remain in a position he had
so long adorned. His resignation, however,
was not accepted and he remained a member
of the faculty until his death. Dr. Campbell
found time in the midst of a busy professional
life to devote much attention to the sanitary
■conditions of the city and for many years he
served as president of the board of health.
The history of the board of health shows his
energy and activity in this department and his
extensive knowledge of law and business con-
nected with this important branch of the city
government. The construction of the inter-
cepting sewer was largely due to his intelli-
gent efforts and good judgment. He was a
member of the City, County, State and Na-
tional Medical societies and contributed many
valuable papers to their publications. He was
a member of tbe national health associations
of this country and Canada. He was a mem-
ber of the New York Academy of Medicine
and of the Association of Medical Directors
of Life Insurance Companies of the United
States and Canada. He was for many years
medical director of the Aetna Life Insurance
Company, and also its medical examiner. He
was director in various business corporations
in Hartford.

He was a prominent Free Mason, a member
of Lafayette Lodge ; of Pythagoras Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; of Washington Com-

mandery, Knights Templar, and taken the
thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.
He was also a member of the Hartford Club;
Crescent Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; Lodge
of Odd Fellows ; the Church Club of the Epis-
copal Diocese and the Connecticut Society
Sons of the American Revolution.

"In a quiet, unostentatious way, he did a
great deal of good. He gave freely of his
time and skill among the families of the poor.
He took pleasure in assisting various young
men in getting a liberal education. He was
generous to the extent of his means. His
kindly ways and magnetic personality drew to
him many friends and made him especially be-
loved in the family. He had a summer cot-
tage at Northwood, New Hampshire, and an-
other at Fenwick."

He married, October 15, 1874, Mary Cor-
nelia, born at Hartford, February 18, 1846,
died there October 15, 1874, daughter of Wil-
liam C. Pettibone (see Pettibone VII). Chil-
dren: James Malcolm, died in infancy; James
Noel H., mentioned below; Grace, born Oc-
tober 9, 1884, died July, 1906.

(VIII) James Noel Howard, son of Dr.
James (5) Campbell, was born at Hartford.
December 25, 1881. He attended the public
school of Hartford, also the high school, and
then entered Yale College, receiving therefrom
tbe degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1903, and
P>achelor of Laws in 1906. He was admitted
to the bar in June, 1906, and since then has
practised his profession in Hartford. He is a
member of the common council of Hartford.
He is a member of the Church of the Good
Shepard (Episcopal) of Hartford, and a Re-
publican in politics. He holds membership in
the Hartford, University and Golf clubs, and
is a Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. He
married, May 1, 1907, Marion Judith, daugh-
ter of Frank P. and Rachel (White) Moulton,
of Hartford. Child : James Howard Moulton,
born February 21, 1908.

(The Ingalls Line).

(II) John Ingalls, son of Edmund Ingalls
(q. v.), was born 1625, in Skirbeck, England.
He married. May 26, 1667, Elizabeth Barrett,
of Salem, Massachusetts, born in England.
He lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, but removed
from there previous to 1687, as would appear
from the following record : "John Ingalls of
the Church of Bristol, Rhode Island, 1687,
late of Toverton." He settled next at Reho-
both, Massachusetts, where his death is thus
recorded: "Old John Ingalls died Dec. 31,
1721." His will was dated April 16, 1718, and
mentioned his son John and Edmund, and
two daughters, Elizabeth Crabtree and Sarah

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Hayward. Children : John, born February 6,
1668, Lynn; Elizabeth, August 10, 1671, Lynn,
died October 29, 1676; Elizabeth, married,
January 2, 1701, at Rehoboth, Benjamin Crab-
tree; Sarah, married (first), August 7, 1707, at
Rehoboth, William Howard, (second) Wil-
liam Havward ; Edmund, mentioned below.

(Til) Edmund (2), son of John Ingalls,
was born at Bristol or Cumberland, Rhode
Island. He married, November 29, 1705, Eu-
nice, daughter of Benjamin Luddin, of Brain-
tree. He removed to Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts, where he died. Children: Benjamin,
born December 8, 1706; Elizabeth, May 8,
1709; Ebenezer, "July 14, 1711, mentioned be-
low; Edmund (twin), October 1, 1713 ; Eu-
nice (twin) ; Joseph, November 29, 1718;
Samuel, April 20, 1723.

Eunice (Luddin) Ingalls was the daughter
of Benjamin and Eunice (Holbrook) Luddin,
of Weymouth. •

Eunice Ingalls's father, Benjamin Luddin,
was the son of Corporal James Luddin, who
was born in England and came to Weymouth,
Massachusetts, in 1635. He died there No-
vember 23, 1693. Her mother, Eunice Hol-
brook, was the daughter of John and Elizabeth
( Strrum ) Holbrook. John Holbrook was born
in England and was captain at Weymouth in
1624. He died November 23, 1699. His
father was Thomas Holbrook, born 1601, of

Broadway, England. His wife was Jane .

He came to America in 1635. Eunice Hol-
brook's mother, Elizabeth Strrum, was the
daughter of John and Elizabeth Strrum. Both
were born in England. He came to Hing-
ham, Massachusetts, in 1635.

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Edmund (2) Ingalls,
was born July 14, 171 1, in Rehoboth. He
married, June 5, 1735, Elizabeth, born June
9, 1717, in Rehoboth, daughter of James, Tr.,
and Elizabeth (West) Wheeler. His last four
children may have been by a second wife. His
estate was divided in 1771 at Rehoboth. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth, born May 5, 1736; Henry,
October 12, 1738; Frederick, December 7,
1740; Alithea, November 18, 1741 ; Ebenezer,
June 30, 1744; Mehitable, January 3, 1746-47;
Lois, February 16, 1750; Hannah, married,
December 3, 1773, John Turner; Benjamin,
possibly a revolutionary soldier ; Sabrina, mar-
ried, November 25, 1778, James Campbell (see
Campbell IV).

(The Wheeler Line).

(I) Tohn Wheeler, immigrant ancestor, was
from Salisbury, England, and was an inhabi-
tant of Hampton, Massachusetts, soon after
the settlement of that town. He received land
in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1641. He re-

moved to Newbury, Massachusetts, before
1650, but was taxed in Salisbury in 1652. He
was a barber by trade. He married Anne

■ , who died August 15, 1662, Newbury.

He died in 1670. His will was dated March
28, 1668, proved October 11, 1670. Children:
Adam, remained in Salisbury, England, 1668 ;
Edward, remained in Salisbury, England,
1668; William, remained in England, 1668;
David, born about 1625, in England,
married, May II, 1650, Sarah Wise; Anne,
married Aquila Chase; Mercy, living in 1668;
Elizaheth, married a Bultom or Button, living
in 1668; Roger, married, December 7, 1653,
Mary Wilson ; Henry, mentioned below ;
George, married, April 30, 1660, Susanna
Stowers ; Joseph, died October 13, 1659.

(II) Henry, son of John Wheeler, married,
about 1659, Abigail Allen or Allan. She was
a member of the Salisbury church in 1687; a
widow of Boston, 1696. He was admitted to
the Salisbury church, August 26, 1694, and
died before 1696. Abigail Allen was the
daughter of William and Ann (Goodale)
Allen, and was born January 4, 1639-40. Her
father, William Allen, was a "house-carpen-
ter" in Salisbury and received land there in
the first division, also in 1640. His name ap-
pears on the list of "townsmen and common-
ers" in 1650 and later lists. He married
(first) Ann, daughter of Richard Goodale, who
died May, 1678; he married (second) Alice,
widow of John Roper and of John Dickison.
He died in Salisbury, June 18, 1686. Children
of Henry Wheeler: Henry, born April 13,
1659, Salisbury; Abigail, March 7, 1660-61,
Salisbury; Wrilliam, September 6, 1663, Sal-
isbury; Moses, June 24, 1665, Salisbury; Ann,
(twin) May 27, 1667, Salisbury; James
(twin), mentioned below; Josiah, April 23,
1669, Salisbury; Ruth, July 15, 1671, Salis-
bury; Nathaniel, March 28, 1675, Salisbury; /
Jeremiah, July 17, 1677, Salisbury: Benjamin,
January 15, 1681-82, Salisbury; Mary, June 5,
i68q, Salisbury.

(III) James, son of Henry Wheeler, was
born May 27, 1667, m Salisbury. He mar-
ried (first) Grizel, daughter of Philip Squier.
He married (second) October 2, 1738, Eliza-
beth Brintnal, of Norton. He removed to
Rehoboth, and was a resident of Swansea in
1738. He died in 1753. Child: James, men-
tioned below.

(IV) James (2), son of James (1) Wheel-
er, was born March 27, 1697, in Rehoboth.
He married Elizabeth West, born November
30, 1694, in Rehoboth, daughter of John and
Mehitable West, of Swansea. Child : Eliza-
beth, born June 9, 1717, in Rehoboth,
married, June 5, 1735, in Rehoboth, Ebenezer

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Ingalls, born July 14, 171 1, in Rehoboth, died
1770-71 (see Ingalls IV).

(The Turner Line).

(I) Humphrey Turner, immigrant, was
born in England about 1593, and is said to
have been of Essex. He came to Plymouth in
New England about 1628 and had a house lot
assigned him in 1629; built his house and lived
in Plymouth until 1633, when he removed to
Scituate and had a house lot granted him on
Kent street. He settled, however, on a farm
east of Colman's Hills. He was a tanner by
trade and we are told was possessed of that
"judgment, discretion, energy and persever-
ance of character, which eminently fitted him
to be one of the pioneers in beginning and
carrying forward a new settlement." Deane
says in his "History of Scituate" : "He was a
useful and enterprising man in the new settle-
ment and often employed in public business."
He was a member of the first church ; repre-
sented the town several years as deputy to the
general court ; was commissioner to end small
causes ; constable, etc. Following a not infre-
quent but puzzling custom of his forbears, he
had two sons, of the same name, John Turner,
whom he distinguished in his will as "John"
and "Young son John," so named, tradition
says, at the instance of godfathers. Both
brought up families and died at a good old age
at Scituate. At last accounts a lineal descend-
ant of the pioneer owned and occupied the
Turner homestead in Scituate. His will was
dated February 28, 1669, and proved June 5,
1673. Resides his children, he mentions
grandchildren.

Humphrey Turner married, in England,
Lydia Gamer, born in England, died in Scitu-
ate in or before 1673. Children: John, born
in England, married, November 12, 1645, at
Scituate: John, born about 1628, mentioned
below ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Joseph,
baptized January 1, 1636, never married ; Dan-
iel, married, January 20, 1665, Hannah Ran-
dall ; Nathaniel, baptized March 10, 1638, mar-
ried, March 29, 1665. Mehitable Rigby ; Mary,
baptized January 25, 1634-35, married, at Sci-
tuate, November 1, 1651, William Parker;
Lydia, married James Doughty.

(II) John, younger son of Humphrey
Turner, was born about 1628, died in 1687 at
Scituate, Massachusetts. He married, April
25, 1649, at Scituate, Ann James. He lived
northeast of Hicks's Swamp, near the farm
lately owned by Leonard Clap.

(II) Thomas, son of Humphrey Turner,
married, January 6, 1652, Sarah Hiland. Chil-
dren, born at Scituate: Nathan, March 1,
1654; Elizabeth, July, 1656; Mary, September

15, 1658; Eunice, April 10, 1661 ; Humphrey,
September, 1663 I Mace, 1665 ; Ephraim, June,
1667; Thomas, December, 1670, mentioned
below; Josiah, January, 1672; Charles, May 3,

1675-

(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Turner, was born at Scituate, December, 1670.
He was a lawyer of note as early as 1690. He
resided near the harbor of Scituate. He mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of Edward Jenkins, in
1693. Edward Jenkins was in Scituate as
early as 1641 and was admitted a freeman in

June, 1647 ! married Lettice ; died 1699,

leaving will dated March 2, 1699. Children,
born at Scituate : Ephraim, February 9, 1694 ;
Rev. David, May 5, 1695, mentioned below ;
Hannah, June 15, 1697; Thomas, March 31,
1699; Relief, June 8, 1701 ; Ruth, March 26,
1703; Sarah, January 19, 1704-05; Jemima,
January 7, 1706-07; Ephraim, March 17,
1708-09; Lettice, April 17, 1711; Mary, July
2, 1717; Silas ( ?).

(IV) Rev. David, son of Thomas (2)
Turner, was born at Scituate, May 5, 1695,
died at Rehoboth, August 9, 1757. He set-
tled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He married

Sarah . Children, born at Rehoboth :

David, May 2, 1724; Sarah, December 26,
1725 ; Thomas, February 25, 1726-27, men-
tioned below; Nathan, January 24, 1728-29;
Nathaniel, July 8, 1730; Mary, February 27,
1731-32; Abigail, December 3, 1733; Jemima,
February 19, 1739-40.

(V) Thomas (3), son of Rev. David
Turner, was born at Rehoboth, February 25,
1726-27. He married, February 13, 1746-47,
Hannah, born at Rehoboth, August 4, 1726,
daughter of James and Mary (Shaw) Whea-
ton. Her father was born at Rehoboth, Oc-
tober 2j, 1685; married. May 15, 1712, Mary
Shaw, born at Weymouth, March 5, 1691,
daughter of John and Hannah Shaw, grand-
daughter of John or Joseph Shaw, sons of
Abraham Shaw, the immigrant, of Dedham.
Massachusetts. Ephraim Wheaton, father of
James Wheaton, was born at Rehoboth, Oc-
tober 20, 1659, died September 26, 1734; mar-
ried Mary Mason, born at Rehoboth, February
7, 1660, daughter of Sampson Mason, who
came from England to Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, in 1 65 1, died at Rehoboth, September,
1676. Robert Wheaton, father of Ephraim
Wheaton, was born in Wales and settled at
Rehoboth about 1643. Thomas and Hannah
(Wheaton) Turner had a daughter, Sarah
Turner, married, September 2, 1770, Ezekiel
Wilson ; their daughter Betsey married Ben-
jamin Campbell (see Campbell V). They had
a son Thomas, born at Rehoboth, December 2,

1747-

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(The Eames Line).
(I) Captain Anthony Eames or Ames, im-
migrant ancestor, was a proprietor of Charles-
town, Massachusetts, as early as 1634. A few
years later he removed to Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, and in 1636 owned a house lot there
on the Lower Plain. From the first he ap-
pears to have been one of the foremost citi-
zens of Hingham. He was admitted a free-
man, March 9, 1636-37, and represented the
town in the general court in 1637-38-39-43-44.
He assisted in laying out the boundary be-
tween the Massachusetts and Plymouth pat-
ents. He was lieutenant of the military com-
pany, but when he was chosen captain there
was a serious controversy between his friends
and others, developing into a lasting difference
that continued for several generations to divide
the citizens of Hingham. June 12, 1643, the
town granted permission to Anthony Ames,
Samuel Ward and Bozoun Allen to set up a
corn mill for the town ; Gowen Wilson had
been miller of the town ; in future either
Thomas Lincoln or John Pogger was to be the
miller. Anthony Eames removed to Marsh-
field, in Plymouth Colony, about 1650, and he
and his son Mark bought a house and land to-
gether there December 10, 165 1, and for many
generations the family lived in that town. He
was deputy to the general court at Plymouth
in 1653-54-55-56-57-58-61, and was a member
of the council of war. He was admitted free-
man in the Plymouth Colony, March, 1654-55.
He also served the town as moderator. His
wife Margery was admitted to the Charles-
town church, September 13, 1635. Children:
1. John, died at Hingham, 1641. 2. Mark,
born 1620, died September, 1698; witness of
will of John Rogers at Marshfield, with his
father, February 1, 1660-61 ; appraiser of es-
tate of Robert Waterman, of Marshfield, Jan-
uary 1, 1652-53, also of Thomas Little's estate,
July 1, 1672; deputy to the general court,
1662, and fourteen years out of the next
twenty. Married — ■ — ; children : i. John, born
September 6, 1649, at Marshfield ; ii. Jona-
than, born 1656; iii. Elizabeth, married, De-
cember 5. 1672, Andrew Lane. 3. Margery,
married, ( )ctober 20, 1653, John Jacobs. 4.
Elizabeth, married Edward Wilder, of Hing-
ham. 5. Justus, born 1626, in England. 6.
Millicent, married William Sprague' (see
Sprague II). 7. Daughter, married Michael
Pierce. (The foregoing areNnot in order of
birth.) fe<;^

(The Barlett Line).

Robert Bartlett, immigrant ancestor, came
to New England. He had four sons, John,
He was a cooper by trade and settled at Ply-
mouth. He was admitted a freeman in 1633

and served on the jury and as a town officer.
His will was proved October 29, 1676, in
which he bequeathed his whole estate to his
wife. He married, in 1628, Mary, daughter
of Richard Warren. Her marriage portion
was confirmed to him. March 7, 1636. Chil-
dren : Benjamin, born 1628; Joseph, 1629; Re-
becca, married, December 20, 1649, William
Barlow; Mary, married (first) September 10,
1 66 1, Richard Foster, of Plymouth, (second)
Jonathan Morey ; Sarah, married, December
23, 1666, Samuel Rider, of Plymouth ; Eliza-
beth, married, December 26, 1661, Anthony
Sprague (see Sprague III) ; Lydia, born June
8, 1647. married, December 25, 1668, John
Ivey, of Boston.

(The Warren Line).

Richard Warren, immigrant ancestor, of
London, came over in the "Mayflower," and
was one of the signers of the famous Com-
pact. He settled at Plymouth and bore a deep
share in the difficulties and troubles of the set-
tlement. His wife and children came in the
"Anne" in 1623. In the division of cattle in

1627, shares were given to him, his wife Eliza-
beth, children, Nathaniel, Joseph, Mary, Anna,
Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. He died before

1628, and his wife October 2, 1673, aged
about ninety. Of his children, Mary married
Robert Bartlett (see Bartlett I).

(The Sprague Line).

The Sprague family is of ancient English
origin. In Prince's Chronology we read
"Among those who arrived at Naumkeag are
Ralph Sprague, with his brothers Richard and
William, who with three or four more were by
Governor Endicott employed to explore and
take possession of the country westward.
They travelled through the woods to Charles-
town, on a neck of land called Mishawum, be-
tween Mystic and Charles rivers, full of In-
dians named Aberginians, with whom they
made peace." Hon. Edward Everett, in his
address commemorative of the bicentennial of
the arrival of Winthrop at Charlestown said :
"Ralph, Richard and William Sprague are the
founders of the settlement in this place, and
were persons of substance and enterprise, ex-
cellent citizens, generous public benefactors,
and the head of a very large and respectable
family of descendants." Ralph Sprague was
about twenty-five years of age when he came
to New England in the ship "Ann" in 1623.
Richard, Samuel and Phineas, and a daugh-
ter Mary, who married September 28, 1630,
Daniel Edmands. John and Richard were
born in England. Ralph was one of a jury
impaneled, which seems to have been the first

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in Massachusetts. Ralph Sprague was a lieu-
tenant in the train band. In 163 1 Captain
Richard Sprague commanded a company of
the train band, and on Friday of each week
exercised his command at a convenient place
near the Indian wigwams. On February 10.
1634, the famous order creating a board of
selectmen was passed, and Richard and Wil-
liam signed the order. Richard left no pos-
terity. His sword, which is named in his
brother William's will, was preserved in one
of the old Sprague families in Hingham in
1828.

(I) Edward Sprague, English progenitor,
was a resident of Upway, Dorsetshire, where
he died in 1614. He was a fuller by trade.
Earlier in life he lived at Fordington, Dorset-
shire. He married Christiana H»w»vsA His will
was proved June 6, 1614, in the prerogative
court at Canterbury. Copies of the will made
at this time are still in possession of the fam-
ily. Children. Ralph, married Joan Warren,
died 1650 in New England; Alice; Edward;
Richard, came to New England and died with-
out issue ; Christopher ; William, mentioned
below.

(II) William, son of Edward Sprague, was
born in Upway, Dorsetshire, England, and
came to New England, settling in Charles-
town, where he was living until 1636. He re-
moved to Hingham, whither he went in a
boat, landing on the side of the cove, on a
tract of land afterward granted him by the
town. He became one of the first planters
here. His house lot is said to have been the
pleasantest in town. Many grants of land
were made to him from 1636 to 1647. He
was constable, fenceviewer and held other of-
fices at various times. He deeded to his son
Anthony, February 21, 1673, certain lands of
merchantable corn. He died October 6, 1675.
His will, dated October 19, 1674, bequeathed
to wife Millicent, children Anthony, Samue»,
William, John, Jonathan, Persis, wife of John
Daggett, Joanna, wife of Caleb Church, and
Mary, wife of Thomas King. He gave to
Anthony the sword of his brother Richard.
He married, in 1635, Millicent Eames, who
died February 8, 1695-96, daughter of Anthony
Eames (see Eames I). Children: Anthony,
born September 2, 1635, mentioned below;
John, baptized April, 1638, married Elizabeth
Holbrook, December 13, 1666; Sprague Island
was given him by his father ; he died in Men-
don, 1690; Samuel, baptized May 24, 1640;
removed to Marshfield, and became secretary
of the colony and register of deeds before
1692; Elizabeth, baptized May 2, 1641 ; Jona-
than, baptized March 20, 1642, died July 4,
1647; Persis, baptized November 12, 1643,

married John Daggett; Joanna, baptized De-
cember, 1644, married, December 16, 1667,
Caleb Church ; Jonathan, May 28, 1648, re-
moved to Providence, Rhode Island ; William,
May 7, 1650, married, December 13, 1674,
Deborah Lane, removed to Providence ; Mary,
baptized May 26, 1652, married Thomas King-
Hannah, born February 25, 1655, died March
31, 1658.

(Ill) Anthony, son of William Sprague,
was born September 2, 1635, died September
3, 1 719. He was a farmer and was selectman
of Hingham in 1688-92 and 1700. He resided
on the homestead at Hingham Centre, and his
house was burned by the Indians in King
Philip's war, April 19, 1676. He died Septem-
ber 3, 1719, in his eighty-fourth year. His
will was dated July 21, 1716, and proved Oc-
tober 12, 1 7 19. He married, December 26,
1661, Elizabeth Bartlett, who died February
17, 1712-13, daughter of Robert and Mary
(Warren) Bartlett. Children, born in Hing-
ham: Anthony, August 18, 1663; Benjamin,
August 16, 1665, died September 27, 1690;
John, September 30, 1667, died October 23,
1690; Elizabeth, September 5, 1669, died Oc-
tober 11, 1690; Samuel, March 8, 1671-72;
Sarah, May 23, 1674, married, June 10. 1718,
Caleb Bate; James, January 23, 1677-78;
Josiah, April 23, 1680; Jeremiah, July 24,
1682; Richard, April 10, 1685; Matthew,
March 27, 1688.

(The Griswold Line).

Griswold is an ancient English surname de-
rived from the name of a place, like a large
proportion of British patronymics. The
ancient seat of the family was at Solihull,
Warwickshire, prior to the year 1400. The
ancient coat-of-arms is : Argent a fesse gules
between two greyhounds currant sable.

John Griswold about the middle of the four-
teenth century came from Kenilworth and
married a daughter and heiress of Henry
Hughford, of Huddersley Hall at Solihull, and
the family has been known as the Griswolds of
Kenilworth and Solihull. Solihull is on the
northwest border of Warwickshire, and Yardly
in Worcestershire is on the south and west. It
is but eight miles from Kenilworth to the
westward and twelve miles northwest of
Stratfdrd-on-Avon, and was a place of im-
portance before the Norman Conquest. The
two American immigrants, Edward and Ma-
thew, came to Connecticut from Kenilworth.
Mathew came over in 1639 and settled at
Windsor, Connecticut; died at Lyme, Con-
necticut, September 21, 1698, and was buried
at Saybrook ; assisted in the settlement of
Lyme and was a large landowner ; was deputy

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to the general assembly in 1664 and after-
wards.

(I)- Edward Griswold, son of George Gris-
wold, and brother of Mathew, was born in
Warwickshire, England, about 1607. He came
to Connecticut, 1639, at tr,e time of the second
visit of George Fenwick when many other
settlers came. He was attorney for a Mr. St.
ATicholas, of Warwickshire, who had a house
built for him at Windsor and a tract of land
impaled, as had also Sir Richard Saltonstall.
There were many other prominent Puritans in
Warwickshire intending to settle in the col-
onies, when a change in the political conditions
in England caused them to stay there. Rev.
Ephraim Hewett and the Wylys family were
two others from Warwickshire. Griswold had
a grant of land at Poquonock to which he re-
moved in 1649, when his house was the out-
post of the colony. It was on the site of
the Eliphalet S. Ladd house, having the
Tunxis river on the south and west.
He was active in public affairs. In 1650
he helped build the fort at Springfield
for Pyncheon. He was a deputy to
the general court from Windsor in 1656,
and every season but one afterward until the
new charter was granted. He was a promi-
nent settler of Homonosett or West Saybrook,
whither about 1663 he removed with his
younger children, deeding to his sons George
and Joseph his Windsor property, reserving a
small annuity. The settlement was organized
as a town in 1667 and received the name of
his English birthplace and home, Kenilworth,
which became strangely perverted in the spell-
ing to Killingworth, and is now Clinton, Con-
necticut. He was the first deputy from the
town, magistrate and deputy for more than
twenty years, 1662 to 1688-89, and was suc-
ceeded in office by his son John. The colonial
records show him to have been an active and
influential member of the legislature, accom-
plishing much good. He had the pleasure of
meeting his own son Francis and brother
Mathew in office, and there has scarcely been
a time since when the family has not been
represented in the legislature of the province
and state. In 1678 he was on the committee
to establish a Latin school at New London ;
he was deacon of the Killingworth church ; he
died there in 1691, aged eighty-four years.

He married (first) in England, in 1630,

Margaret , who died August 23, 1670.

Her gravestone is the oldest in the burial
ground at Clinton, formerly Killingworth. He
married (second) 1672-73, Sarah Bemis,
widow of James Bemis, of New London.
Children of first wife: Sarah, born in 1631, in
England; George, 1633, mentioned below;

Frances, 1635; Lydia, 1637; Sarah, 1638; mar-
ried (first) November 10, 1650, Samuel
Phtlps, (second) July 21, 1670, Nathaniel
Pomeroy; Ann, baptized June 19, 1642, at
Windsor; Mary, baptized October 1, 1644,
married, March 19, 1661, Timothy Phelps;
Deborah, June 28, 1646, married Samuel
Buell ; Joseph, born and baptized March 12,
1647; Samuel, born and baptized November
16, 1649, died July 6, 1672; John, born and
baptized August 16, 1652.

(II) George (2), son of Edward Griswold,
was born in England, 1633, died at Windsor,
September 3, 1704. He remained in Windsor
with his brother Joseph on their father's lands
when the father went to Killingworth. He
was also an extensive owner of land bought
of the Indians, was admitted freeman in 1654;
an eminently respectable and worthy citizen.
He married, October 3, 1655, Mary, daughter
of Thomas Holcomb. She died April, 1708.
Children, born in Windsor : Daniel, October
1, 1656, mentioned below; Thomas, September
29, 1658 ; Edward, March 19, 1661 ; Mary, Sep-
tember 28, 1663; George, December 3, 1665;
John, September 17, 1668; Benjamin, August
16, 1 67 1 ; Deborah, May 30, 1674, married,
December 12, 1695, Thomas Moore; Abigail,
October 31, 1676, died May 7, 1638; Samuel,
November 5, 1681, died June 1, 1682.

(III) Daniel, son of George (2) Griswold,
was born in Windsor, October 1, 1656. He
married there, February 3, 1680, Mindwell,
daughter of Nathaniel Bissell. She died De-
cember 31, 1728, granddaughter of John Bis-
sell. Her mother, Mindwell Moore, born July
10, 1643, was daughter of Deacon John and
granddaughter of Thomas Moore. John came
in 1630 and died September 18, 1877; mar-
ried Abigail . Children born in Wind-
sor: Daniel (twin), February 14, 1684, men-
tioned below; Ensign Nathaniel (twin) ; Pela-
tiah, September 13, 1689; Mary, 1692; Ed-
ward, March 8, 1695-96; Deborah, November
7, 1698; David, August 6, 1701.

(IV) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Gris-
wold, was born February 14, 1684, in Wind-
sor. He married there, September 6, 1716,
Sarah White (see White III). He removed to
Bolton, Connecticut, where his wife died Feb-
ruary 1, 1738, aged forty-three years. He mar-
ried again. Children, born in Windsor : Sarah,
October 14, 1717, married James Olcott ;
Anne, March 20, 1718-19, married Benjamin
Smith; Bathsheba, December 2, 1720, married
Tabez Dart, of Bolton, died February 1, 1746;
Daniel, May 26, 1723; Hannah, February 8,
1725-26; White, October 22, 1727, mentioned
below; George, January 1, 1730, married
(first) Sarah Jones, (second) Susannah Cone,

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died at Bolton, April 26, 1813; Seth, April 27,
1732, married, 1781, Susannah Shurtleff ;
daughter, June 12, 1736, died aged ten hours;
Reuben, January 16, 1738.

(V) White, son of Daniel (2) Griswold,
was born October 22, 1727, died at Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1797. He
removed to Harwinton, Connecticut. He
married, February 14, 1750-51, Elizabeth
Cheney, born at East Hartford, December 9,
1728, died at Manchester, August 1, 1798,
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Long)
Cheney. Her father was born at Newbury,
Massachusetts, January 6, 1698, died at East
Hartford, 1759-60; married, at Hartford, No-
vember 12, 1724, Elizabeth Long, born at
Windsor in 1696, died November 3, 1759.
Her grandfather was Peter Cheney, born No-
vember 6, 1663. Thomas Long, father of
Elizabeth, was born in Boston, removed to
Hartford and died there in 1712; married
Sarah Elmer, born at Hartford in 1664, died
there December 13, 1741, daughter of Edward
and Mary Elmer. Elmer came in the ship
"Lion" in 1632 with Hooker and was killed in
King Philip's war.

Children of White Griswold: Sarah, born at
Bolton, December 23, 1752; Daniel, mentioned
below.

(VI) Daniel (3), son of White Griswold,
died at Manchester in 1833. He married,
September 30, 1792, Esther Case, born No-
vember 10, 1 77 1, died November 9, 1850,
daughter of Joseph Case, Jr., of East Hart-
ford. Joseph Case, father of Joseph Case, was
born at Hartford, December 27, 1705, died
May 26, 1791 ; married Esther Hills, born Sep-
tember 8, 1710. Richard Case, father of Jo-
seph Case, Sr., was born at Hartford, died

February 22, 1724; married Sarah .

Richard Case, father of Richard Case, was the
immigrant, removed to East Hartford and died
in 1694; married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Purchase, who came to Hartford in 1639 ar,d
died in 1645. Esther (Hills) Case was a
daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail (Benjamin)
Hills. Ebenezer was born at East Hartford
in 1676, died there February 12, 1750; son of
William and Sarah Hills. William was born
about 1646, and was buried August 15, 1693.
William Hills, father of William, was born
at High Ongar, county Essex, England, and
came to America in 1632 ; died at Hartford in
1683 ; married Phillis Lyman, baptized at High
Ongar, September 12, 161 1. Richard Lyman,
immigrant, father of Phillis Lyman, married
Sarah Osborne. Abigail (Benjamin) Hills
was born at Wethersfield, April 27, 1673,
daughter of Caleb Benjamin. Caleb was of
Wethersfield where he died May 8, 1684; mar-

ried Mary, daughter of Samuel Hale, of
Wethersfield.

Daniel and Esther (Case) Griswold had a
daughter Esther, born at Manchester in 1818;
married James Campbell (see Campbell VI).

(The White Line).

(I) John White, immigrant ancestor, came'
from England in the ship "Lion," which sailed
from London, June 22, 1632, and arrived at
New England, September 16, following. He
setled first in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
was admitted a freeman, March 2, 1633. He
removed, probably in June, 1636, to Hartford,
Connecticut, of which he was one of the orig-
inal proprietors. He was also one of the first
settlers of Hadley, Massachusetts, and was
deputy to the general court in 1664-69. He
returned to Hartford, where he was elder in
the South Church. He died between Decem-
ber 17, 1683, and January 23 following. He

married Mary , who was living in

March, 1666. Children : Mary ; Nathaniel,
born about 1629; John; Daniel, mentioned
below ; Sarah ; Jacob, October 8, 1645.

(II) Lieutenant Daniel, son of John White,
was of Hatfield, Massachusetts, where he died
July 27, 1713. He married, November 1,
1 66 1, Sarah Crow, born March 1, 1647, died
1 719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Good-
win) Crow, granddaughter of Elder William
and Susanna Goodwin. John Crow was at
Hartford in 1637; died January 16, 1686.

(III) Captain Daniel (2), son of Lieutenant
Daniel (1) White, was born July 4, 167 1, at
Hatfield, died at Windsor, Connecticut, in

1704. He married , daughter of Thomas

and Abigail (Moore) Bissell, granddaughter
of John Bissell, who died at Windsor, October
3, 1677. Abigail (Moore) Bissell was a
daughter of Deacon John Moore, born in Eng-
land, came to America, in the ship "Mary and
John" in 1630, and died September 18, 1677;

married, June 16, 1639, Abigail .

Thomas Moore, father of John, came also in
1630 and died at Windsor in 1645. Captain
Daniel White's daughter Sarah, born at Wind-
sor, August 20, 1694, married, September 6,
1716, Daniel Griswold (see Griswold IV).
She died February 1, 1738.

(The Pettibone Line).

(I) John Pettibone, immigrant ancestor,
came, it is supposed from Wales, and was
possibly a soldier under Cromwell, the follow-
ers of whom were known as "Roundheads."
He was a freeman in Windsor, Connecticut, in
1658. In 1667 he lived in that part of the
Farmington valley which in 1670 became Sims-
bury. He was a freeman there in 1669. He

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married, February [6, 1664, Sarah, born March
28, 1643, m Windsor, died July 8, 1713, daugh-
ter of Begot Eggleston. Her father, Begot
Eggleston, was from Exeter, England, and was
born in 1590. He came to America in the
ship "Mary and John" in 1630 and died in
Windsor September 1, 1671. John Pettibone
died July 15, 1713, in Simsbury. Children:
John, born June 15, 1665; Sarah, September
24, 1667; Stephen, October 3, 1669; Samuel,
September 2, 1672, mentioned below ; Rebecca,
March 9, 1675-76; Henry, June 20, 1677; Ann,
March 11, 1679-80; Benjamin, May 28, 1682;
Joseph, March n, 1688.

(II) Samuel, son of John Pettibone, was
born September 2, 1672, in Simsbury, and
spent his entire life there. He was a farmer,
a well-known citizen and one of the foremost
men of the town in his day. He married Ju-
dith, born January 11, 1679, daughter of
Abraham and Judith (Sill) Shepard, of Con-
cord, Massachusetts. Her father, Abraham
Shepard, was born in Boston, March 7, 1642,
died in Concord, January 2, 1673. His father
was Ralph Shepard, born in 1604, and came
from London, 1635, in the "Abigail." His

wife was Thanks , born in England, 1612.

Her mother, Judith (Sill) Shepard, was the
daughter of John and Joanna Sill. Both were
born in England. John came to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where he was in 1637. Joanna
Sill died in 1671. Children of Samuel Petti-
bone: Samuel, born 1700; Hepsibah, died
February 25, 1755 ; Jonathan, born 1709, men-
tioned below; Isaac, June 19, 1711, died 1771 ;
Abraham, November 8, 1713, died July 30,

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(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Pettibone,

was born in 1709, in Simsbury. He was well
educated and was by occupation a farmer. He
was prominent during the opening scenes of
the revolution, and before the war was com-
missioned colonel of the Eighteenth Connecti-
cut Regiment of Militia, which was called out
in 1776. He died September 26, 1776, at
Rye, New York, while in the service. Besides
being prominent in military affairs, Colonel
Pettibone was justice of the peace for six-
teen years, and represented the town in the
general assembly for fourteen sessions. A
monument was erected to his memory in Sims-
bury. He married, about 1733, Martha, born
in 171 1 or 1712, in Simsbury, died October
7, 1796, daughter of Romas and Hannah
(Hillyer) Humphrey. Her father, Romas
Humphrey, was born September, 1676, in
Simsbury, died October 23, 1714. He was
the son of John and Hannah (Griffin) Hum-
phrey. John Humphrey was born June 7,
1650, in Windsor, died in Simsbury, January

14, 1679. His father was Michael Humphrey.
Hannah (Griffin) Humphrey was born July
4, 1649, m Windsor, daughter of Lieutenant
John and Anna (Bancroft) Griffin. John Grif-
fin was from England, and was the first settler
of Simsbury. He married, May 13, 1647,
Anna Bancroft, born in England, daughter of

John and Jane ( ) Bancroft. John Griffin

died in 1681. John Bancroft was from Lon-
don, and came to America in the ship "James"
in 1632. He died in 1637, in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts. The mother of Martha (Humphrey)
Pettibone, Hannah (Hillyer) Humphrey, was
daughter of Andrew Hillyer. He was born
November 14, 1646, in Windsor, died in Sims-
bury, son of John and Anne Hillyer. John
Hillyer came from England, and was at Wind-
sor in 1640; he died July 16, 1655. Children
of Jonathan Pettibone : Giles, born December
9> 1735 ; Ozias, May 9, 1737; Rosanna, Au-
gust 9, 1739; Jonathan, August 12, 1741 ;
Martha, December 3, 1743, died March 25,
1749; Annis, November 17, 1745; Ahijah, or
Abijah, May 25, 1749, mentioned below. All
the sons served in the revolution, three of,
them as officers.

(IV) Abijah or Ahijah, son of Jonathan
Pettibone, was born May 25, 1749, died April

15, 1784. He married, May 10, 1770, Dorcas
Cornish, born at Simsbury, September 11,
1750. Her father, Elisha Cornish, born at
Simsbury, June 5, 1722, married, September
25, 1740, Hepsibah Humphrey, born at Sims-
bury, October 26, 1724, died February 25,
1755. Charles Humphrey, father of Hepsi-
bah, married, May 8, 1723, Hepsibah Petti-
bone, daughter of Samuel Pettibone, men-
tioned above. Lieutenant Samuel Humphrey,
father of Charles, was born at Windsor, May
15, 1636, died at Simsbury, June 15, 1736;
married Mary Mills, born December 8, 1662,
at Windsor. Simon Mills, father of Mary,
was of Windsor, married, February 23, 1659-
60, Mary Buell, born September 3, 1642, and
removed to Simsbury in 1669. William Buell,
father of Mary, was born in Wales, came to
Windsor and died in 168 1 ; married Mary
, November 18, 1640, and she died Sep-
tember 2, 1684. Goode Buell, father of Wil-
liam, was born in Wales, and died at Wind-
sor, December 30, 1639. James Cornish, Jr.,
of Simsbury, father of Elisha Cornish, died
April 2, 1740; married Amy Butler, born at
Hartford in 1698, daughter of Thomas, Jr.,
and Abigail (Shepard) Butler. Thomas, Jr.,
married Abigail Shepard, August 6, 1691. He
was son of Thomas Butler, who died at Hart-
ford in 1697, and grandson of Deacon Richard
and Elizabeth (Bigelow) Butler, of Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. Richard Butler was in

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Cambridge in 1632 ; died in 1684. James
Cornish, Sr., father of James Cornish, Jr.,
was of Simsbury, son of James Cornish, who
came to Saybrook, Connecticut, as early as
1663. died October 29, 1698, at Simsbury; wife
died December 28, 1664.

(V) Elisha, son of Abijah or Ahijah Petti-
bone, was born at Simsbury, March 15, 1781,
died September 29, 1859. He married, June,
1802, Sarah Sugden, born September 11, 1788,
died July, 1832. Thomas Sugden, father of
Sarah, came from England, lived in Simsbury
and Canton, Connecticut; married, December,
1780, Persis Mather, born January 22, 1760.
David Mather, father of Persis, was born at
Berlin, Connecticut. October 7, 1738, died
1817; married Hannah Dunham, June 2, 1757.
Joshua Mather, father of David Mather, was
born at Windsor, November 26, 1706, died at
Berlin, May 16, 1777; married, 1735, Hannah
Booth, born July 22, 1716, died April 8, 1779.
Robert Booth, father of Hannah, died Decem-
ber 17, 1750; married, November 27. 1712,
Ann Hollister, born at Wethersfield, March
16, 1690. Captain Stephen Hollister, father of
Ann, was born at Wethersfield in 1658, built a
house at Glastonbury in 1675, married, 1683,
Abigail Treat, born at Wethersfield, died in
1700. Matthies Treat, immigrant, father of
Abigail, came to Wethersfield ; married in
England in 1648 Mary, daughter of Richard
Smith, of England. Lieutenant John Hollis-
ter, father of Captain Stephen Hollister, was
born in England in 1633 ; married, November
19, 1663, Joanna Treat, died October, 1694.
Hon. Richard Treat, father of Joanna, was
baptized in England, August 28, 1584, died at
Wethersfield, in 1669-70; married, April 27,
1615, Alice Gaylord, baptized at Minister, Eng-
land, May 10, 1594. The Treat line has been
traced four generations further in England.
Joseph Booth, father of Robert Booth, was
born at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1656, died
September 1, 1703; married, 1686-87. Hannah
Wilcoxson, born at Stratford, February 14,
1665. John Wilcoxson, father of Hannah, was
born in England in 1633, married, March 19,
1663, Elizabeth Wells, a widow. William
Wilcoxson, father of John Wilcoxson, came
from London, England, in the ship "Planter"
in 1635; was born in 1601-02, died at Strat-
ford in 1652 ; married Margaret , born

1610-Ti. Richard Booth, father of Joseph
Booth, was born in England in 1607, died at
Stratford ; married Elizabeth Hawley. of Eng-
land. Atherton Mather, father of Joshua
Mather, was born in Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, October 4, 1663, died at Suffield, Con-
necticut, November 9, 1734; married, Decem-
ber 17, 1750, Mary Lamb, born at Roxbury,

Massachusetts, March 7, 1681. Caleb Lamb,
father of Mary, was born at Roxbury, April
9, 1641, died 1697; married, June 30, 1669,
Mary Wise, baptized at Roxbury, February 3,
1650. Joseph W7ise, father of Mary, came
from England in 1636; married, December 3,
1641, Mary Thompson. Thomas Lamb, father
of Caleb, was born in England, came over in
1630, died November 28, 1646; married, July
16, 1640, Dorothy Harbottle, of England.
Timothy Mather, father of Atherton, was born
at Liverpool, England, died at Dorchester,
January 14, 1684; married Elizabeth Ather-
ton, baptized September 28, 1628. Major-Gen-
eral Humphrey Atherton came from England
to Dorchester in 1637; died September 17,
1 661 ; married in England Mary

-. Rev.

Richard Mather, of London, England, came
to Dorchester in 1642; died April 22, 1669;
son of Thomas Mather, of Low ton, England,
grandson of John Mather.

(VI) William C, son of Elisha Pettibone,
was born at Simsbury, January 26, 1812, died
July 4, 1879, at Hartford. He married, March
28, 1836, Augusta E. Fenton, born at Mans-
field, Connecticut, January 19, 1815. Marvin
Fenton, father of Augusta E., was born at
Mansfield, July 30, 1787, died June, 1855;
married Sally Hibbard, born at Waterford,
New York, in 1794. Jabez Hibbard, father
of Sally, was born at Windham, Connecticut,
April 27, 1764, died at Waterford, New York,
1797; married, 1784, Barthena Howard, of
Amherst, Massachusetts, died at Waterford in
1844, aged eighty-two. Joseph Hibbard,
father of Jabez, was born at Windham, May
15,1733, died at Hebron, Connecticut, April
16, 1774; married, August 9, 1755, Temper-
ance Giles. Joseph Hibbard, father of Joseph,
was born in Windham ; married Anna Strick-
land, who died January 31, 1741. Joseph
Hibbard, father of Joseph last-named, was
born at Wenham, Massachusetts, May 18,
1678. died at Windham, February 28, 17.55:
married Abigail Kendall, born April 20, 1678
or 1688, died December 6, 1756. Robert Hib-
bard, father of Joseph, was born at Beverly,
March 7, 1648, died at Windham, April 29,
1710; married Mary Walden, who died March
7, 1736. Robert Hibbard, father of Robert,
was born at Salisbury, England, baptized
March 13, 1613; camfi to Salem about 1635;
died at Beverly, May 7, 1684; married Jane
Waldron, who died in 1696, daughter of Ed-
ward Waldron. Elijah Fenton, father of
Marvin Fenton, mentioned above, was born at
Mansfield, August 6, 1754. died April 17,
1790; married, November 22, 1774, Ruby An-
derson, born at Mansfield, February 18, 1752.
George Anderson, father of Ruby, married.

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March 23, 1749, Abigail, daughter of Stephen
and Abigail Brown, and granddaughter of
Captain John Brown, of Swansea, Massachu-
setts. Ebenezer Fenton, father of Elijah Fen-
ton, was born at Mansfield, August 29, 1710;
married, February 11, 1740, Mehitable Tuttle,
who died before 1762, daughter of Jonathan
Tuttle. Robert Fenton, father of Ebenezer,
was at Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1688, and
at Windham, Connecticut, in 1693-94.

(VII) Mary C, born at Hartford, Febru-
ary 18, 1846, daughter of William C. and
Augusta E. Pettibone ; she married. ( )ctober
15, 1874, Dr. James Campbell (see Campbell
VII).

The surname Provost is iden-
PROVOST tical with Provoost, Prevost
and Prevot, and is of ancient
French origin. One well-known branch of
the family in America traces its ancestry to
William Provost, who was living in Paris at
the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew
in 1572, and left France on account of religious
persecution, being a Huguenot; married Tarn
Waart, of Dutch ancestry, and perhaps had
taken refuge in Holland before coming in 1634
to New Amsterdam. David Provoost came
from Holland to New Amsterdam before 1630.
Johannes Provost settled among the pioneers
at Albany, being the eldest son of David, it is
thought he suffered for his loyalty to Leisler
and returned later to The Hague ; has des-
cendants in New York. (See New York, Gen.
and Biog. Rec. VI. p. 1-24.) The French
family had a coat-of-arms. Augustine Pre-
vost, born 1695, died 1740, buried at Besinque,
Switzerland, was father of Colonel James M.
Prevost, who commanded the British forces
in New Jersey in the revolution ; married
Theodora Bartow, of Shrewsbury, New Jer-
sey, and has many descendants. These fam-
ilies are doubtless all of the original French
stock but very distantly related to the Cana-
dian branch given below. The spelling in
Canada is generally Prevost. sometimes Pro-
vost and Prevot. The Canadian family sprung
from pioneer ancestors who came before 1644
to Montreal from St. Aubin in Bretagne, and
Rouen in Normandy and Paris.

(I) Martin Provost or Prevost was born in
161 1 in France, died at Beauport, Canada,
January 26, 1691. He came to Quebec, Can-
ada. He married (first), probably in France,
Marie Olivier Sylvestre, who died September
10, 1665. He married (second) Marie
(D'Abancoeur) Guillot, widow of Godfrey
Guillot and daughter of Adrien D'Abancoeur.
Children : Eustache, mentioned below ; Louis,
born 165 1, died at Beauport. May 27,

1686; Jean Baptiste, 1659; Jean* 1660. Per-
haps other children. One Jean Baptiste, per-
haps a nephew, born 1653, is progenitor of
many of the families.

(II) Eustache, son or nephew of Martin
Provost, was born in 1644, died March 27,
1730. He married, November 13, 1673, at
Montreal, Elisabeth Guertin, born 1659, died
March 21, 1714. Children: Rosalie, baptized
April 22, 1688, at Pointe-aux-Trembles ; Anne
Charlotte, baptized February 19, 1690; Eus-
tache, mentioned below ; Marie Louise, Decem-
ber 28, 1694; Jean Baptiste, April 13, 1702.

(III) Eustache (2), son of Eustache (1)
Provost, was born September 20, 1692. He
married (first) December 8, 1715, Catherine
Brazeau ; (second) February 17, 1727, Marie
Madeleine Sarrault. Children : Eustache, born
November 24, 1716; Marie, 1718; Paul, Feb-
ruary 29, 1719 ; Jean Baptiste, August 4, 1720 ;
Francois, May 1. 1722, died young; Claude,
May 24, 1723, died young; Ignace, July 4,
1724, died young; Marie Jeanne, May 5, 1726.
died young. Children of second wife : An-
toine, mentioned below; Marguerite Louise,
July 16, 1729; Marguerite, 1731 ; Pierre, 1733;
Madeline, October 22, 1735: Jean Baptiste,
August 5, 1737; Charles, October 25, 1739;
Clotilde Amarante, March 7, 1742.

(IV) Antoine, son of Eustache (2) Pro-
vost, was born at Montreal, November 24,
1727. He lived at Montreal. He was a mas-
ter cooper by trade. He married (first) No-
vember 26, 1753, Therese, daughter of
Francois Coiteux ; (second) September 19,
1757, Marie Angelique, daughter of Louis
Prejean, of Lachine. Children: Ange-
lique, born 1761 ; Louis, May 25, 1774,
mentioned below ; Marie Joseph, May 29,
1776, died July 14, 1776; Rosalie, May 29,
1776, died August 9, 1776.

(V) Louis Provost, of the family given
above, and believed to be the Louis born May
25, 1774, while his parents were in Detroit. He
married a Chevalier of an old French family
of Canada. Children, born in Canada : Louis,
1806; Adelaide, 1808; Marie, 1810; Joseph,
mentioned below ; Hilaire, 1816. The exact
dates are not known.

(VI) Joseph, son of Louis Provost, was
born in Canada in 1812. He followed the sea
and was a master mariner. He married, in
1838, Archange Danserault. Children : Na-
zaire, born 1839; Vittoire, 1841 ; Philomene,
1847: Joseph, mentioned below; Calixte, 1850.

(VII) Rev. Joseph (2) Provost, son of
Joseph (1) Provost, was born in 1847 m Can-
ada. He was educated for the ministry and
ordained after four years of study in Switzer-
land in 1872. He was for nine years pastor

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in Ohio, four years in Montreal, Canada, thir-
teen years in Springfield, Massachusetts, and
fourteen years at Torrington, Connecticut. He
married Sarah Vernier, born September 18,
1849, daughter of Jean and Lydia (Boder)
Vernier. Her father was a native of France,
a missionary in Canada 1840-53, dying in the
wreck of the ship "Anne Jane" in 1853 ; her
mother was a native of Switzerland ; both were
of Huguenot families. Children : Eva Lydia,
born in Ohio, March 7, 1872; Vernon Joseph,
born in Ohio, September 11, 1873; Fritz Flo-
rian, July 4, 1876; Gerald Harold, February,
1878; Alva George, November 2, 1879, men-
tioned below ; Louise Germaine, born in Ohio,
August 20, 1882; Olga Bianca, born in Ohio,
November 21, 1884; Chester Charles, born in
Springfield, June 21, 1886; Paul Richard, born
in Springfield, January 27, 1889 ; Adrian
Henry, born in Springfield, June 20, 1893.

( VIII) Dr. Alva George Provost, son of
Rev. Joseph (2) Provost, was born at Mow-
rystown, Highland county, Ohio, November 2,
1879. He attended the public schools and
graduated from the grammer school of Spring-
field, Massachusetts, and from the high school
of Torrington, Connecticut, in T900. He en-
tered Yale College in 1900 and was graduated
in the class of 1905 with the degee of M. D.
He took up the study of medicine in Yale
Medical School and was on the staff of the
City Hospital of New York in 1906 and the
Riverside Hospital of New York in 1907. Since
1908 he has been in general practice in New
Haven, Connecticut. He is a member of the
Yale Medical Society and of Yale Alumni So-
ciety and City Hospital Alumni Society. He
belongs to the Skull and Scepter Club, So-
ciety of Yale, and to the United Order of the
Pilgrim Fathers, of which he is medical ex-
aminer. In politics he is a Republican, in re-
ligion a Congregationalist. He is unmarried
His office was at first on Orchard street, now
at 226 Walley avenue.

lohn Kirby, the immigrant ances-
KIRBY tor, was baptized January 4. 1624,
in Rowington, county Warwick,
England. He was the son of "Humphrey
Kerbe." He was registered as "Jo Kerbie
aged 12 years" on the pasenger list of the
"Hopewell," Captain Babb, Master, which
sailed September 11, 1635, from London to
New England. In 1643, ne was registered in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, as "able to bear
arms." Before April, 1645, ne nad become a
resident of Hartford, and in that year, he and
Seth Grant had contracted to herd the cattle
there. In 1654, he had settled "north of the
rivulet" later known as "Middletown Upper

Houses" on what is known as Pleasant street.
in the present village of Cromwell, the Upper
Houses having been set apart in 1851 as the
town of Cromwell. His homestead was sit-
uated in the west part of Cromwell, at the
bend of the Mattabessett river, now known as
Kirby bridge. In the same year, September
31, 1654, he sold a house and land in Rowing-
ton, county Warwick, England, to Richard
Lord of Hartford. In May, 1658, he was
made a freeman by the general court of Con-
necticut. He died April, 1677, leaving a will
made on April 6, and an estate valued at £551.
He left twenty-four parcels of land, comprising
1,068 acres. Part of the original homestead
he had sold to his son-in-law, David Sage.

He married Elizabeth Hinds, who married
(second) Abraham Randall of Windsor, Con-
necticut. She outlived her second husband,
and died in 1697. Children: Mary, born 1644,
in Hartford; Elizabeth, September 8, 1646,
in Hartford; Hannah, March 2, 1649-50;
John (twin), December 18, 1651, Wethers-
field. Connecticut; Eunice (twin), December
18, 165 t ; Esther, 1652, Middletown, Connecti-
cut; Sarah, January 16, 1654, Middletown;
Joseph, July 17, 1656, Middletown, mentioned
below ; Bethiah, February 14, 1658, Middle-
town ; Susannah, May 3, 1664, Middletown;
Abigail, March 6, 1666, Middletown.

(II) Joseph, son of John Kirby, was born
July 17, 1656, in Upper Houses, and married
(first), December 10, 1681, Sarah Markham,
in Wethersfield ; (second), October 17, 1704,
Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Nor-
ton) Plum, of Milford, Connecticut. He was
a wheelwright by trade. He inherited the
house and lot bought by his father of David
Sage ; this he sold and was given one of the
four-acre lots in what was to be "comon for-
ever," on which he built. He removed to South-
ampton, Long Island, and sold May 13. 1685,
350 acres in Middletown, to John Haven.
He returned by November, 1687, and went to
the Carolinas, but came home poor and had a
law suit with other heirs, brothers-in-law,
Alexander Rollo and David Robinson, about
the estate of his father, 1706 and 1707. In
this law suit he was his own attorney, and was
partly successful. March 1, 1708-09, he was
admitted with others to be "attorneys at the
bar'* of Hartford county, and was one of the
first lawyers in Connecticut. From July, 1706,
to June, 1708, he lived in Milford, Connecti-
cut. He died December 2, 171 1, and was
buried in Riverside Cemetery, Lower Middle-
town. He left to his wife Mary his four-acre
lot, on which he had built his home. Children :
Elizabeth, February 20, 1683-84; Sarah, Au-
gust 10, 1685 ; Deborah, March 27, 1688; John,

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February 16, 1691, mentioned below; Mary,
June 10, 1693; Joseph, baptized June 9, 1695,
died young; Bethiah, about 1698; Joseph, bap-
tized July, 1706; Susanna, December, 1706;
Margaret, September 2, 1709.

(III) John (2), son of Joseph Kirby, was
born February 16, 1691, in Upper Houses, and
married March 3, 1718, Hannah, born Febru-
ary 11, 1696, daughter of Thomas and
Bethiah (Stocking) Stow. She died March
7, 1780. He inherited a third part of his fa-
ther's estate and purchased much of his sis-
ter's share. He was a member of the church
in the "North Society" organized January 5,
1715, and died April 25, 1760. Children: Jo-
seph, January I, 1719; Hannah, April, 1723;
Daniel, October, 1724; Sarah, July 19, 1726;
Thomas, December, 1729: Bethiah, December
31, 1731 ; Jonathan, 1726, mentioned below,
and four others.

(IV) Jonathan, son of John (2) Kirby,
was born about 1726, in Upper Houses, and
married March 1, 1769, Lucy, born October
13, 1742, daughter of Thomas and Hannah
(Dodd) Burgis. She was a woman of "Per-
sonal attractions, winning manners and great
energy of character," and died February 28,
18 1 7. Her mother Hannah Dodd was the
daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Savage)
Dodd of Upper Houses. During the revolu-
tion, Jonathan Kirby was a minute man, and
kept a horse in the stable, with saddle and
bridle near, to be ready at once. His wife had
his saddle bags packed, and any time she saw
him coming quickly toward the house she
brought them out, and put up a lunch for him.
He was at Guilford when the British came in
there, also at New London when Benedict
Arnold burned the town, and at other places.
He died May 5, 1782. Children: Elisha,
October 13, 1774, mentioned below; Lucy, Oc-
tober 1, 1776.

(V) Elisha, son of Jonathan Kirby, was
born October 13, 1774, in Upper Houses, and
married November 2, 1800, Betsy, daughter of
Samuel and Martha (Eells) Spencer. She
was baptized October 3, 1779. He left his
farm to keep the "Washington Hotel," on the
corner of Washington and Main streets. The
Washington Hotel Company was organized in
18 12 by a number of citizens. They erected
a spacious house, and here in 1825, General
Lafayette was entertained by Elisha Kirby.
This house, in 1835, became the property of
Rev. Samuel Jarvis, D. D., LL, D., and later
was the Berkeley Divinity School of the Epis-
copal church, and the home of Bishop John
Williams for forty years. Mr. Kirby removed
to Guilford, and then to New Haven, where
he died Februarv 18, 1868. His wife died in

New Haven, December 20, 1859. Children :
Caroline, August 9, 1801 ; John, October 5,
1803, died January 26, 1812; William, July 2,
1805 ; Giles, November 2, 1807; Olive, October
3, 1810; John Burgis, October 11, 1813, men-
tioned below; Eliab Burgis, August 16, 1816;
Thomas Spencer, December 23, 1819.

(VI) John Burgis, son of Elisha Kirby, was
born October 11, 1813. He was educated in
the public schools. He became a prominent
silversmith and jeweler in New Haven. In
1876 burglars entered his place of business
and stole goods amounting in value to sixty
thousand dollars and none of the goods were
ever recovered. He died in New Haven, Feb-
ruary 13, 1888. In politics he was a Demo-
crat, in religion an Episcopalian. He married
(first) February 11, 1841, Mary Ann Thomas,
born January 11, 1817, daughter of Thomas
Burgis, of Guilford, Connecticut. She died
September 11, 1848, in New Haven. He mar-
ried (second), February 26, 1851, Lucretia
Coan, born, 1824, in Guilford, daughter of
John Bartlett, born, 1785, in Richmond, Mas-
sachusetts, and Clarissa (Coan) Bartlett, born
February 7, 1803, in Guilford, and ma/ried
August 10, 1823. Children: 1. Thomas Bur-
gis, born February 28, 1842 ; enlisted Septem-
ber 8, 1862, in the Twentieth Connecticut Reg-
iment; made acting adjutant in April, 1863, in
the First Division, Twelfth Army Corps ; made
assistant adjutant general, May, 1863, in the
Artillery Brigade, First Division, and in De-
cember, 1863, adjutant general, in the same
division. He was commissioned captain, April
7, 1864, of the Forty- fourth United States
colored troops; major, August 5, 1864; his
regiment surrendered to General Hood, Oc-
tober 13, 1864: he was in the battles of Chan-
cellorsville and Gettysburg; was editor of the
Chattanooga Union until 1869; founded the
Chattanooga Times and published it until No-
vember, 1875, when he became the private sec-
retary of Postmaster-General Key ; afterward
on the editorial staff of the Washington Post;
later of the Wall Street Journal. Married,
January 16, 1896, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
(Frazier) Alliman, born March 1, 1843, a*
Canal Dover, widow of William I. Alliman,
and daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Mary
(Lenhart) Frazier. No children. He died in
New York City, April 13, 1909. 2. Samuel
Hubbard, September 21, 1843, mentioned be-
low. 3. John Walter, November it, 1845 ; died
December 28, 1874; served in the First Con-
necticut Cavalry during the civil war. 4.
Sarah Deshon, June 2, 1847, m New Haven;
married, September 18, 1868, Isaac Sammis
Jennings, born September 6, 1843, son °f Jos-
eph Hiram Jennings, grandson of Isaac and

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Elizabeth (Sammis) Jennings, great-grandson
of Jacob Jennings, of Norwalk ; children :
Mary Kirby Jennings, March i, 1871 ; Walter
Barry Jennings, February 28, 1873 ; Burgis
Deshon Jennings, June 3, 1884. Children of
the second wife : 5. Elizabeth Clarissa, born
March 12, 1858, in New Haven; married
there, October, 1877, Frank Allyn Robinson;
children : Ally Kirby Robinson, born April 30,
1879; Louise Robinson, August 11, 1880;
Helen Robinson, February 28, 1882. 6. Wil-
liam Bartlett, lawyer of Lincoln, Nebraska :
born April 17, 1858; married Sally Wood
Louthan, of Jacksonville, Florida, born March
23, i860, in Alton, daughter of Rev. Norman
Wilson Wood, D. D., and Emily (Dunlap) ;
child: Charles E. Kirby, born May 11, 1886,
died July 31, 1887. 7. Emma Henrietta, May
1, 1862, in New Haven; married, January 11,
1887, Elijah Bell Lewis, of Norwich; chil-
dren : Margaret Hazard Lewis, November 2,
1888; John Kirby Lewis, January 15, 1893.

(VII) Samuel Hubbard, son of John Burgis
Kirby, was born at New Haven, September
21, 1843. He was educated in the public
schools of New Haven and at the Cheshire
Academy. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in
the union army, but being under age was re-
leased at the request of his father, who had
already given two sons to his country. His
interest in military affairs did not cease, how-
ever, with his failure to get to the front dur-
ing the war. He was active in the state militia
afterward, and an officer in the famous Gov-
ernor's Foot Guards of New Haven. He be-
came associated with his father in the silver-
ware and jewelry business, and when his father
died, succeeded to the business and continued
it under his own name. Later the sons were
admitted to partnership under the firm name
of Samuel H. Kirby & Sons. Afterward the
business was incorporated, but it is still owned
by the Kirby family. Samuel H. Kirby is
president of the corporation, John Burgis
Kirby, treasurer, and Samuel A. Kirby, secre-
tary. It is the oldest and one of the largest
jewelry houses in the state of Connecticut, es-
tablished in 1830 by John Burgis Kirby. The
place of business has always been on Chapel
street, New Haven, now No. 822. The store
is popular and enjoys the best class of trade in
New Haven. In politics Mr. Kirby is inde-
pendent. In religion, he and his family attend
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church of New
Haven. He is a veteran member of the New
Haven Grays and one of the board of trustees.
He is interested in local and family history
and in 1890 published a brief genealogy of his
family. He married, August 28, 1867, Susan
Adolphine Armstrong, daughter of Captain

Sereno Dwight and Selina (Clark) Arm-
strong, granddaughter of Jerry and Betsey
(York) Clark, of West Haven, Connecticut.
Captain Sereno Dwight Armstrong was a
master mariner and member of the firm of
L. W. Armstrong & Company, West India
merchants. Children: 1. Harriet Ruth, born
January 25, 1870; married May 21, 1890, Jo-
seph Livingstone Jennings of South Norwalk,
Connecticut, born December 1, 1863, at Yon-
kers. New York, son of Samuel Barry of New
York and Matilda Lewis (Stone) Jennings of
Montreal ; children : Ruth Jennings, born
March 31, 1891 ; Samuel Berry Jennings, Jr.;
Mildred Jennings. 2. John Burgis, born Feb-
ruary 25, 1872; treasurer of the Kirby com-
pany ; member of the Quinnipiac Club and of
the Church of the Redeemer of New Haven ;
married May 24, 1898, Harriet Irene Brown;
child: John Burgis Kirby, Jr. 3. Ralph Jay,
born December 11, 1874; married (first) Lena
Hills; (second) in 1907, Caroline Varney, of
Arlington, Massachusetts, born 1878. 4. Sam-
uel Armstrong, born December 1, 1878; secre-
tary of the Kirby company ; member of the
Governor's Foot Guards of New Haven, of
the Union League Club and the New Haven
Yacht Club; married, October 28, 1908, Lillian
May, born May 2.2., 1883, daughter of J. M.
Emerson, of Ansonia. Connecticut. 5. Selina
Maria Russell, born February 7, 1882. 6.
Susan Edwina, born May 13, 1885; married,
October 15, 1906, Hubert Milton Greist, born
October 25, 1883, in Chicago. (See Griest.)

(The Burgis Line).

(I) Thomas Burgis, the immigrant ances-
tor, was born in Yorkshire, England, and came
to this country about 1707. He was impressed
on a British man-of-war and held in the serv-
ice for several years. Once when his vessel
was cruising near New York, he escaped, but
was recaptured at Newtown, Connecticut, and
received a grievous sabre cut in the face, leav-
ing a permanent scar. After a time, he escaped
again at Boston, and came to Guilford, Con-
necticut, to make his home. He was by trade
a tanner and shoemaker. He married, Au-
gust 19, 1707, in Guilford, Mercy, daughter
of Thomas and Sarah (Benton) Wright. He
died October 23, 1736; she died June 29, 1747.
Children: 1. Thomas, born May 29, 1709,
mentioned below. 2. Jesse, April 23, 1712,
died young. 3. John, August 31, 1714; mar-
ried, January 14, 1742, Sarah Dodd, sister of
Hannah, who married his brother Thomas ; he
was deputy to the general court 1768-89 in
twenty-four sessions "always in attendance
thereon he wore very large silver knee and
shoe buckles kept for that season and at his

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death they were given to his niece, Mrs. Lucy energy of her character. She became a widow

Burgis Kirby, who had them made into a when her children were young and their farm

dozen table spoons and as many tea spoons ;" in Middletown not entirely free from encumb-

he was deacon of the Congregational church ranees. By her energy and careful manage-

at Guilford; from November 21, 1775, until ment, she kept up the farm, cleared it of debt

his death, March 26, 1799. 4. Phillis, March and brought up her children. When her son

1, 1716; died October 12, 1760; married Na- became old enough to make choice of his life

thaniel Johnson, of Guilford, born October 4, work, he told his mother that a man could not

171 5, died January 18, 1746, son of Isaac, make a living on that farm. Her reply was

5. Mercy, September 26, 1719; died February that 'if a man could not, a woman had done

24, 1800. 6. Eliab, October 31, 1722, died it.'") 4. Mary, December 9. 1744; died Au-

October 19, 1730. 7. Abigail, born 1724, died gust 7, 1781 ; married, April 13. 1765, John

1802; married Enos Bishop. Griswold, born June 17, 1742, died May 16,

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Bur- 1771, son of Thomas. 5. Samuel, December

gis, was born at Guilford, May 29, 1709. "He 26, 1745 ; died July 20, 1747.

was a man of admirable Christian character. (HI) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)

As the infirmities of age came upon him and Burgis, was born February 24, 1738, at Guil-

confined him to his home, his brethren in the ford. He graduated at Yale College in 1758,

church enjoyed calling upon him, when after studied for the ministry and was licensed to

a cheerful conversation with them, he would preach. But an attack of measles injured his

repeat the passage of Scripture, 'They that eyes and made it impossible to pursue the min-

feared the Lord spake often one to another and istry for a profession. He became a farmer

the Lord hearkened and heard them and a at Guilford. He held various offices oT trust

book of remembrance was written before him and honor, town clerk, judge of probate and

for them that feared the Lord and that thought deacon of the church. "He was an honorable

upon his name.' ' He married. May 18, 1737, man and counsellor." He died June 14, 1799,

Hannah, born July 28, 1712, daughter of Sam- at Guilford. He married, August 9, 1769.

uel and Hannah (Savage) Dodd. Thomas Olive Dudley, born June 3, 1746, died August

Burgis died March 28, 1796, aged eighty-six 13, 1813, daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth

and his wife July 26, 1795. Samuel Dodd, of (Kilburn) Dudley. Children: Thomas, born

Guilford, was born in 1681, died May 2, 1757 ; October 6, 1770, mentioned below; Samuel,

married January 10, 1705, Hannah Savage, of January 17, 1774; Olive, September 14, 1776;

Middletown, Connecticut, born July, 1675, Eliab, March 13, 1779; Hannah, May 9, 1783;

daughter of John and Elizabeth (D'Aubin) Elizabeth, November 2, 1787; Harriet, Sep-

Savage; children: Ebenezer Dodd, born De- tember 2, 1790.

cember 22, 1705; Samuel Dodd, February 28, (IV) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3)

1707; Hannah, July 28, 1712, mentioned Burgis, was born at Guilford, October 6, 1770.

above; Sarah Dodd, April 24, 1815, married He married, February 14, 1793, Sarah Deshon,

John Burgis. Stephen Dodd, father of Sam- of New London, born February 27, 1772,

uel, was born February 16. 1655, died October daughter of Henry and Bathsheba . (Rogers)

26, 1691 : married April 18, 1678, Sarah Ste- Deshon. Thomas Burgis died May 25,

vens, born January 25, 1651, daughter of 1861, aged ninety, and she died January 25,

Thomas and Mary Stevens of Guilford; chil- 1852. Children, born at Guilford: Ruth, No-

dren : Daniel Dodd, born 1679; Samuel, 1681, vember 2j, 1794, married Noah Fowler;

mentioned above. Daniel Dodd, father of Sarah, December 2, 1796, married Samuel

Stephen Dodd, was born about 1620 in Eng- Hubard ; Harriet, January 11, 1800, died un-

land ; settled in Branford where he died Jan- married, December 23, 1877; George T., Feb-

nary 16, 1665: married in 1646. Mary, who ruary 6, 1803, died November 17. 1816; Lydia

died May 25, 1667; children: Mary, Hannah, Maria, July 3, 1807, died June 6, 1808: Eliab

Daniel, Ebenezer, Stephen, mentioned above, Thomas, April 11, 1809; Mary Ann Thomas,

and Samuel, born May 2, 1757. Children of January 11, 1817. died September it. 1848,

Thomas (2) Burgis: 1. Thomas, February 24, married, February 10, 1841, her cousin John

1738; married Olive Dudley. 2. Hannah, De- Burgis Kirby, of New Haven, born October

cember 5, 1739; married William Starr. 3. 11, 1813.

Lucy, born October T3, 1742; died 1817; mar- (The Deshon Line).

ried. March 1, 1769, Jonathan Kirby. ("She (I) Daniel Deshon was a son of one of the

was tall and had a bright, cheerful face and thirty French Huguenots who came from

sparkling black eyes and her presence gen- France in t686 and settled at Oxford,

erally made a lasting and happy impression on Worcester county, Massachusetts. After a time

me. I have heard much of the loveliness and the settlement was broken up and most of the

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settlers sought homes elsewhere. Rene Grig-
non came to Norwich, where he died in 1 7 1 5 ,
and Daniel was a youth at the time in his
family and was a legatee in his will. Daniel
removed to New London and settled there.
He married, Octoher 4, 1724, Ruth, daughter
of Richard and Grace (Turner) Christophers
and descendant of Elder William Brewster.
Richard Christophers was born, July 13, 1662,
in Devonshire, England, son of Christopher
and Mary Christophers. Grace Turner
(Christophers) was daughter of John and
Mary (Brewster) Turner of Scituate. John
Turner married. November 10, 1645, Mary
Brewster, born April 16, 1627; children: Jona-
than. Joseph, Ezekiel, John, Elisha, Benjamin,
Grace (mentioned above), Lydia, Mary and
Ruth Turner. Jonathan Brewster, father of
Mary, was born at Scrooby, England, August
12, 1593; settled in New London, Connecti-
cut; married Lucretia Oldham, who died
March 4, 1669. Elder William Brewster, fa-
ther of Jonathan, was born at Scrooby, Eng-
land, came in the "Mayflower," was a leading
figure in the Plymouth colony ; died at Dux-
bury, April 16, 1643.

(II) Henry, son of Daniel Deshon, was born
at New London in 1728, and died March 20,
181 8. He married Bathsheba Rogers, daugh-
ter of James and Grace (Harris) Rogers,
granddaughter of Lieutenant Joseph Harris.
She died July 23, 1803. James was the son of
John and Bathsheba (Smith) Rogers, grand-
son of Richard and Bathsheba (Rogers)
Smith, great-granddaughter of Captain James
Rogers, of New London. John Rogers, fa-
ther of James, was born March 20, 1664, eld-
est son of John and Elizabeth (Griswold)
Rogers, and grandson of Captain James and
of Matthew Griswold, of Lyme, and Ann
(Wolcott) Griswold. Ann was daughter of
the immigrant, Henry Wolcott, of Windsor.
Sarah Deshon, daughter of Henry and Bath-
sheba (Rogers) Deshon, born February 27,
1772; died January 25, 1852; married, Febru-
ary 14, 1793, Thomas Burgis.

The surname Kirby is of Danish
KIRBY origin and was originally spelled

Kirkby, from Kirke — church, and
bye — dwelling. The word was in use early as
a town name, as Kirkby Kendal, Kirkby Lons-
dale, etc.

The first Baron Kirkby was Ivo Taille-
bois, who came over with William the Con-
queror to England. In 1272 John Kirkby
was keeper of the great seal in England. John
and Joseph Kirkby, of the early settlers at
Hartford, were brothers, and it is thought John
and Richard Kirby were brothers and probably

related to, perhaps brothers of, the Hartford
Kirbys.

(I) Richard Kirby, immigrant ancestor,
came from England and settled in Lynn, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1636. He and William Wood
and others from Lynn removed in 1637 t0
Cape Cod and settled at Sandwich. He shared
in the land division there in 1641. His name
is in the list of sixty-eight inhabitants reported
as able to bear arms in 1643. He was one of
the eleven males in the first recorded list of the
members of the Sandwich church. In 165 1 he
was presented for non-attendance at church,
owing to a disagreement between pastor and
people. He became interested in the Quaker
faith, and was accordingly persecuted by the
Puritan authorities. "Nicholas Upsiell, Rich-
ard Kirby and the wife of John Newland and
others did frequently meet together at the
house of William Allen at Sandwich on the
Lord's Day and other times. They used to
invey against ministers and magistrates to dis-
honor God and contempt of government." It
is not certain that he became a member of the
Society of Friends, but certainly his sympathy
was with the Quakers and he shared their
troubles. In 1684 he took the prescribed oath
of fidelity. In 1658-60 the Sandwich Quakers
were fined six hundred and seventy-nine
pounds, and Kirby and his son paid fifty-seven
pounds twelve shillings of that sum. After
1660 he removed to Dartmouth, Massachu-
setts. In November, 1670, he bought of Sarah
Warren. Thomas Molton's share in Dartmouth ;
in 1683 he bought a lot of Zechariah Jenkins
in Dartmouth, on the east side of the Cocksett
river, at Nasquamskeesett. He married Jane

— ■. He died between May, 1686, and luly

21, 1688. Children: Jane, died July 21, 1707;
Sarah, born 1638, married Mathew Allen :
Ruhamah, married John Smith ; Richard
(mentioned below) ; Recompense, died 1720.

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)
Kirby, was born before 1638. He was in con-
stant difficulty on account of his Quakerism.
He was fined twenty shillings for refusing to
assist Marshall Barlow, and in 1660 five
pounds for the same offence. He was one of
the twenty-four inhabitants of Sandwich in
October, 1660, fined ten shillings each for at-
tending Quaker meetings ,and suffered with
his father distraint of fifteen cows to satisfy
fines amounting to fifty-seven pounds twelve
shillings. "He was evidently of the sterner
stuff of reformers, ahead of the time in which
he lived, and acted fully up to that line, re-
gardless of personal consequences." He mar-
ried. October 9, 1665, Patience, daughter of
William Gifford, of Sandwich. He also re-
moved to Dartmouth. His wife Patience died

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after May 20, 1674, and he married (second)
December 2, 1678, Abigail, widow of Zoeth
Howland, son of Henry Howland, of Dux-
bury, who had been killed by the Indians at
Pocasset in King Philip's war, March 26, 1676,
leaving a widow with nine children. Richard
Kirby 's will was dated January 30, 1707-08,
proved April 4, 1720. Children: Sarah, born
May 1, 1667; Experience and Temperance
(twins), May 5, 1670; John, March 2, 1672;
Robert, mentioned below.

(III) Robert, son of Richard (2) Kirby,
was born May 10, 1674, died 1757. He mar-
ried Rebecca, daughter of Nathaniel Potter.
He was born 1637, died October 20, 1704, son
of Nathaniel Potter, of Portsmouth. Robert
Kirby was a Quaker, residing at Westport,
Rhode Island. In 171 2 he had laid out to him
two hundred and twelve acres there on the east
-ii'e of the Coaxit river. His wife Rebecca
died in 1773. His will was dated March 26,
1755, proved March 16, 1757. Children: Pa-
tience, married John Lawton ; Nathaniel, men-
tioned below ; Ichabod, married Rachel Allen ;
Recompense, married Rebecca Cornell; Silas,
married, February 8, 1742, Elizabeth Russell;
Robert, married, December 13, 1744, Abigail
Allen ; Barsheba, never married.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of Robert Kirby, was
born about 1710. He married, March 25,
1731, Abigail, born June 25, 1712, daughter
of James and Rebecca (Howland) Russell, of
Dartmouth. They were members of the So-
ciety of Friends. He died 1748. His will was
dated November 5, 1747, proved August 21,
1748. Children: Wesson, mentioned below;
Rebecca, born June 26, 1733; Lydia, Novem-
ber 20, 1738; Mary, March 15, 1743; Justus,
April 28, 1746. Ralph Russell, ancestor of
Abigail (Russell) Kirby, from Partepool,
Monmouth, England, was first at Taunton,
Massachusetts, where he worked in the iron
works, afterwards at Dartmouth. John Rus-
sell, son of Ralph, was of Dartmouth, where
he died February 13, 1744-45; had an iron
forge at Russell's Mills ; deputy to the general
court 1665-83, excepting the years 1666-73 > m
1677 he, John Smith and John Cooke served
on the committee to distribute contributions
from Ireland for the relief of suffering caused
by King Philip's war. His wife Dorothy died
December 18, 1687; children: Joseph Russell,
born May, 1660: John Russell, died March 20,
1696; Jonathan Russell, married Hasadiah
Smith ; Dorothy Russell, died December 18,
1687; Mary Russell, married John Cornell.

(V) Wesson, son of Nathaniel Kirby, was
born at Dartmouth, December 14, 1731, died
October 9, 1798. He married, at Dartmouth,
December 23, 1750. Hannah, born t 73 t ,

daughter of William White, Jr., of Dartmouth.
He resided in that part of Dartmouth after-
ward called Westport, near the small fork of
the Noquechuck river, above the bridge. He
was surveyor of highways 1 771-75-76-80-81,
also selectman and treasurer of the town some
years. His widow Hannah died 1819. His
will was dated January 2, 1798. Children:
Nathaniel, born July 4, 1752; William, March
21, 1753; Sarah, April 11, 1755; George,
March 9, 1757, mentioned below; Wesson,
April 15, 1759; Elihu, June 13, 1761 ; Benja-
min, June 18, 1763; Jonathan, July 14, 1765;
Mary, 1767; Hannah. July 19, 1769; Ruth,
October 19, 1771 ; Paul, October 20, 1773;
Abraham, December 11, 1775; Elizabeth, died
young. Flannah (White) Kirby was a des-
cendant of Francis Cooke, who came in the
"Mayflower" with the Pilgrims to Plymouth.
Cooke was born 1577, at Blyth, county York,
England, adjoining Austerfield, near Scrooby.
His wife Hester was called "the Walloon."
His son, John Cooke, also came in the "May-
flower," and his wife and other children in
the ship "Anne" in 1623. Cooke was one of
the original proprietors of Dartmouth in 1652.
His will was dated December 7, 1759. John
Cooke, son of Francis, came with his father
in the "Mayflower" ; was deacon of the Ply-
mouth church ; deputy to the general court ;
defender of the persecuted Quakers ; joined
the Baptist church at Newport, Rhode Island,
in 1676, and preached at Dartmouth and else-
where; married, March 28, 1734, Sarah,
daughter of Richard Warren, another "May-
flower" pioneer. Sarah, daughter of Rev. John
and Sarah (Warren) Cooke, was born 1662,
died 1749; married George Cadman, son of
Hon. William Cadman, of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island. Elizabeth Cadman, daughter of
George Cadman, married William White;
juror, 1713, constable, T716, died 1780. Wil-
liam White, Jr., son of William, married, Oc-
tober 2, 1729, Abigail Thurston, whose will
was dated February, 1777, proved October 31,
1780. Hannah White, daughter of William,
Jr.. was born 1731, died 1819; married, Febru-
ary 23, 1750, Wesson Kirby, mentioned above.
(VI) George, son of Wesson Kirby, was
burn at Westport, March 9, 1757, died at Paw-
ling, December 28, 1831. He removed, in
1790, to Quaker Hill, Pawling. He married
Anna, daughter of Humphrey Slocum, of
Pawling. She died October, 1828, at Pawling.
Children, born at Pawling : Humphrey, died
October, 1826, unmarried; William, died Oc-
tober 23, 1835, at Poughkeepsie ; Clark, born
February 20, 1794; Uriah, mentioned below;
Gideon, January 21, 1799; Hannah, September
30, 1801 ; Amy. Anna (Slocum) Kirby was

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descended from Anthony Slocum, who was
from Somersetshire, England, and one of the
first purchasers of Conihasset, now Taunton,
also purchaser of Dartmouth, whither he re-
moved with Ralph Russell and settled near
Russell's Mills. Giles Slocum, son of An-
thony, settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
and was admitted a freeman in 1655 ; died in
1683; wife Joan died August 31, 1679. Eliezer
Slocum, son of Giles, was born December 25,
1664, at Portsmouth, near Dartmouth ; died
1737; married Eliphel Fitzgerald. Eliezer,
Jr., son of Eliezer Slocum, was born January
20, 1693-94; married, July 20, 1716, Deborah
(Smith) Howland, born May 13, 1695, daugh-
ter of Deliverance and Mary Smith, grand-
daughter of John and Ruhamah (Kirby)
Smith; he died 1739. Humphrey Slocum, son
of Eliezer, Jr., was born February 18, 1730;
settled at Pawling; married, December 9, 1757,
Amy, born December 6, 1734, daughter of
Nathan and Elizabeth (Shaw) Chase. Hum-
phrey removed to Pawling, and died there in
1790; his daughter Anna married George
Kirby, mentioned above.

(VII) Uriah, son of George Kirby, was
born at Pawling, April 4, 1797. He married,
November 23, 1821, Phebe, born February 10,
1805, daughter of Solomon Grow, of Pawling.
His widow died October 14, 1865. Children,
born at Pawling: William, April 3, 1827, mar-
ried Mary A. Bassett; George, January 25,
1829 ; Solomon, mentioned below ; Daniel,
1832, died young; John Bradley, July 10, 1834;
Amelia, October 19, 1836, died, July 4, 1866,
at xA.menia, married. May 15, 1863, Walter
Stocking; Amy, June 10, 1839, died young.

(VIII) Solomon, son of Uriah Kirby, was
born at Pawling, New York, December 2,
1830, died at Sharon, Connecticut, January 2,
1903. He had a common school education.
From an early age he worked at farming at
Pine Plains, New York, in summer. He was
proprietor of a store at Amenia, then of a
hotel at Catskill, New York. In 1872 his
hotel was destroyed by fire, and he then estab-
lished a restaurant in New York city, near
Madison Square, and made his home in Brook-
lyn. Subsequently he had a hotel at Amenia,
New York, for a year. In April, 1879, ne
came to Sharon, Connecticut, and was a pio-
neer in the summer hotel business in that town.
He began with accommodations for ten guests
and found the venture successful. His house
was popular, and at the time of his death he
had rooms for a hundred. Mr. Kirby was a
Republican in politics. He was a Free Mason.
He married, September 14, 1853, Susan, born
in Washington, Dutchess county, New York,
September 19, 1834, daughter of Job and Abi-

gail (Haight) Sisson, of Washington. Chil-
dren: Amy, born July 9, 1855, in Pine Plains,
married, December 28, 1880, George O. Cole,
of New York City; John J., born November
14, 1862, at Millbrook, New York, died Sep-
tember, 1866; George Sisson, mentioned
below.

(IX) George Sisson, son of Solomon Kirby,
was born at Brooklyn, New York, January 31,
1875. He attended the public schools in Sha-
ron, Connecticut, the River View Academy,
of Poughkeepsie, New York, and the Dwight
School, in New York City. When eighteen
years of age he entered the employ of the
proprietor of the Murray Hill Hotel, New
York; afterward was for a time employed in
the Plaza Hotel. Then he returned home and
was associated with his father in the hotel
business at Sharon. -Two years before his fa-
ther died he took over the management of the
business, on account of the father's failing
health, and has continued in this business to
the present time with much success. Under
his management this hotel has become one of
the largest and finest in the state. In politics
he is a Republican. He represented the town
of Sharon in the general assembly of Con-
necticut in 1903, and was delegate to the con-
stitutional convention of the state in 1901. He
is a member of Hamilton Lodge, No. 54, Free
Masons, of Sharon, and of the Modern Wood-
men of America. He married, in 1900, Eliza-
beth Van Alstyne, of Sharon, daughter of
Lawrence and Mary (Eggleston) Van Al-
styne. They have one child, George Van Al-
styne, born March 23, 1901.

The surname Stanton is de-
STANTON rived from a place name and
is identical with Stonington
in origin. The family is of ancient English
origin. Robert Stanton, an early settler of
Newport, Rhode Island, was the progenitor of
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, of Lincoln's cabinet;
died in Newport in 1672, aged seventy-three
years. There was a John Stanton in Virginia
in 1635 and Thomas Stanton, aged twenty,
sailed for Virginia in 1635 in the merchant-
man "Bonaventura." The family historian
thinks he went to Virginia, then came to Con-
necticut, but many ships whose records state
that Virginia was the destination, came to New
England. The "Bonaventura" may have land- •
er some passengers in Virginia, others in
Conecticut, or Boston.

(I) Thomas Stanton, immigrant ancestor,
was in Boston in 1636 and is on record as a
magistrate there. If the same man who came
in 1635 his age must have been understated,
for men of twenty-one were not magistrates in

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the colony, and in 1636 he was acting as In-
dian interpreter for Governor Winthrop. It
is reasonable to suppose that he was a trader
and had been to both New England and Vir-
ginia before 1635 in order to have sufficient
knowledge of the language of the Indians to
become an interpreter. The services of Mr.
Stanton as interpreter during the Pequot war
were invaluable, says the history of New Lon-
don, Connecticut. "He was, moreover, a man
of trust and intelligence and his knowledge of
the country and of the natives made him a
useful pioneer and counselor in all land ques-
tions, as well as difficulties with the Indians."
DeForest's history of Connecticut says :
"Some time in April (1637) a small vessel ar-
rived at the fort (Saybrook), having on board
Thos. Stanton, a man well acquainted with the
Indian language, and long useful to the co-
lonial authorities as interpreter." Stanton
served through the Pequot war and special
mention is made of his bravery in the battle of
Fairfield Swamp, where he nearly lost his life.
He must have returned to Boston at the close
of the war, for he was one of the magistrates
in the trial of John Wainwright, October 3,
1637. In February, 1639, ^e an(^ his father-
in-law, Thomas Lord, were settled in Hart-
ford, Connecticut, coming thither soon after
the colony of Rev. Thomas Hooker established
the town. He was appointed official inter-
preter for the general court at Hartford, April
5, 1638, and at the same session was sent with
others on a mission to the Warranocke In-
dians and as a delegate to an Indian-English
council meeting at Hartford. He was inter-
preter for the Yorkshire (England) colonists
at New Haven, November 24, 1638. when the
land on which the city of New Haven is lo-
cated, was bought of the Indians. He was an
Indian trader as early as 1642, when with his
brother-in-law, Richard Lord, he made a voy-
age to Long Island to trade and collect old
debts. That he traded as far away as Vir-
ginia, we know from an ancient document on
file in New London colony, without date, but
apparently entered in 1668 or 1669: "Whereas
Capt. Morrice hath reported and informed the
King's Commissioner that Mr. Thomas Stan-
ton, Senr., did in Virginia some 20 odd years
since (1638-1650) cause a massacre among
the Indians, whereby to gain their beaver to
himself and the said Morrice named Richard
Arye, mariner, to be his author. These may
certify all whom it may concern that the said
Arye being examined concerning said report
doth absolutely deny that he knew or reported
any such thing to Morrice nor ever heard of
any such thing about Mr. Stanton in Virginia
to his remembrance."

He had the grant of a monopoly of the
trading with the Indians at Pawkatuck and
along the river of that name. He built a trad-
ing house there and about 165 1 removed to
Pequot and in 1658 occupied his permanent
residence at Stonington. In 1650 the gen-
eral court appointed him interpreter to the
elders who required to preach the gospel to
the Indians at least twice a year. Caulkins,
in her history of New London County says:
"On the Pawkutuck River, the first white in-
habitant was Thomas Stanton. His trading
house was probably coeval with the farming
operations of Cheseborough (at Wequetequock
Cove), but as a fixed resident with a fireside
and family, he was later upon the ground. He
himself appears to have been always upon the
wing, yet always within call. He was required
to be present wherever a court, conference or
treaty was to be held. Never, perhaps, did the
acquisition of a barbarous language give to a
man such immediate, wide-spread and lasting
importance. From the year 1636, when he
was Winthrop's interpreter with the Nahantic
sachem, to 1670 when the Uncas visited him
with a train of warriors and captains to get
him to write his will, his name is connected
with almost every Indian transaction on
record."

He sold his grant of 1649 to George Tongue
in 1656. In March, 1652, he received three
hundred acres on the river adjoining his home
lot and in 1659 Cassawashitt deeded to him
the whole of Pawkatuck Neck and the small
islands that lay near to it, known as "The
Hommocks." This deed was confirmed by
the court in 1671. He was elected a deputy
magistrate by the general court, May 15, 1651.
He was appointed with Rev. Mr. Pierson of
New Haven to prepare a catechism in the
Narrangansett or Pequot language for the
commissioners of the United Colonies, but Mr.
Pierson's removal prevented the undertaking.
In 1658 he removed to Wequetequock Cove,
two miles and a half east of Stonington, where
he was the third settler ; it was then called
Southington, Massachusetts, and part of Suf-
folk county, and Stanton was appointed in
1658 one of the managers. His farm was on
the west side of the Pawkatuck river near its
mouth. In 1664 he was a commissioner to try
small causes and in 1665 had authority to hold
a semi-annual court at New London. In 1666
he was re-elected commissioner of county
judges, also overseer-general, of the Coassa-
tuck Indians, a commissioner of appeals in
Indian affairs, and he was successively re-
elected commissioner until his death in 1677.
He was member of the general assembly in
1666 and was elected in succeeding years with-

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out interruption until 1674. In 1667 he was
granted two hundred and fifty acres on the
Pachang river and in the same year he was
called upon to settle threatening trouble be-
tween Uncas and the Niantic tribe. Almost
constantly he was engaged in the public serv-
ice, especially in the discharge of the duties of
his office as Indian commissioner. He and his
sons were active in King Philip's war and all
of his sons were useful and prominent as In-
dian interpreters and peace-makers.

He was one of the founders of the church
at Stonington, June 3, 1674, and his name was
the first on the roll. He died December 2,
1677. He was buried in the family burial
ground between Stonington and Westerly.

He married Ann Lord, born 1621 in Eng-
land, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Dorothy
Lord. Her father was the first physician li-
censed to practice in Connecticut, by the gen-
eral court, June 30, 1652, and the rates he
could charge for visits in Hartford, Wethers-
field, Windsor and other towns in this section
were fixed in the license, a salary of fifteen
pounds to be paid by the county. In Hartford
his stipend was fixed at twelve pence — about a
quarter of a dollar ! The Lord coat-of-arms :
Argent on a fess gules between three cinque
foils azure a hind passant between two pheons
or. She spent her last days with her daughter,
Mrs. Dorothy Noyes, of Stonington, and died
there in 1688. The original home site of
Thomas Stanton at Hartford is now occupied
by the Jewell Leather Belting Company fac-
tory. Children: Thomas, born 1638, died
April 11, 1718; John, 1641, died October 3,
1713; Mary, 1643, married Samuel Rogers;
Hannah, 1644; Joseph, 1646, mentioned be-
low; Daniel, 1648; Dorothy, 1651, died Janu-
ary 19, 1742; Robert, 1653, died October 25,
1724; Sarah, 1655, died 1713; Samuel, 1657.

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Stanton, was
born in 1646 and was baptized March 21 of
that year. He removed with his parents to
Stonington and settled on a large tract of
land which his father had bought of a Narra-
gansett Indian chief for a half bushel of wam-
pum. The sachem's child was a captive and
was redeemed by the aid of Thomas Stanton,
so the Indian sold the land as part payment
of the price. In 1669 he was appointed as-
sistant magistrate to hold court in New Lon-
don. In 1685 he leased land in Charlestown,
Rhode Island, formerly a part of Westerly
"where I do now live," showing that he had
moved thither. He married (first) June 19,
1673, Hannah Mead, of Roxbury, who died in
1676, daughter of William Mead. He mar-
ried a second, and perhaps a third and fourth
wife. Children: Joseph, born 1674, married

Esther Gallup ; Hannah, 1676, buried May 6,
1681 ; Thomas, December 16, 1678, died
young; Rebecca, April, 1681 ; Thomas, bap-
tized April 5, 1691 ; Daniel, baptized April 1,
1694, mentioned below ; Samuel, baptized July
17, 1698, died young.

(III) Captain Daniel, son of Joseph Stan-
ton, was baptized April 1, 1694, died Decem-
ber 28, 1773. He married (first) Mercy,
daughter of Job Babcock, of Westerly; (sec-
ond) ; (third) December 10, 1762, proba-
bly Prudence, daughter of Rev. Salmon and
Dorothy (Noyes) Treat. Children: Daniel,
married Mary Wilcox and Elizabeth Brown ;
Samuel, married Sarah Browning; John, born
February, 1722, mentioned below; Joseph,
married Abigail Sheffield ; George, died un-
married ; Mary, married Thomas Richardson ;
Elizabeth, married Joseph Champlin.

(IV) John, son of Captain Daniel Stanton,
was born in February, 1722, in Charlestown,
Rhode Island, died at Paris, Oneida county,
New York, September 1, 1814. He married
Dorothy Richardson, born 1724, died 1790,
daughter of Jonathan and Anne (Treat) Rich-
ardson, and granddaughter of Dorothy
(Noyes) Treat. Children, born at Westerly:
Adam, 1749, mentioned below; Daniel, mar-
ried Vashti Dickinson ; Amos, born December
22, 1756; George, married Prudence Wood-
burn ; Prudence, married Asahel Parks ; Anna,
married ■ — Trumbull ; Dorothy, died un-
married ; Mary, born 1769, married James
Treat ; Rachel, married Samuel Hayne ; Re-
becca, born 1773, married Amos Treat.

(V) Adam, son of John Stanton, was born
in Westerly in 1749, died at Clinton, Connecti-
cut, October 15, 1834. He moved from Wes-
terly in 1774-75 and settled in Killingworth,
Connecticut, in the southern part, now Clinton.
He built his house on the lot where stood the
house of Abraham Pierson, the first president
of Yale College. The timbers of the Pierson
house are now in the Stanton house. His first
business was making salt from the water of
Long Island sound, sending it by ox trains to
Boston and selling it for two dollars a bushel
He married, December 4, 1777, Elizabeth, born
May 28, 1754, at Preston, Connecticut, died
May 23, 1805, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Treat. Children : Mary, born October 23,
1778, died October 7, 1865, unmarried; Eliza-
beth, May 29, 1780, died September 10, 1862;
John, April 5, 1783, mentioned below; Sally,
October 19, 1786, died February 2, 1843;
Nancy, February 18, 1790, accidentally burned
to death February 28, 1879.

(VI) John (2), son of Adam Stanton, was
born April 5, 1783, in Clinton, Connecticut,
died September 9, 1864. He was a merchant.

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In politics he was a Whig and in religion a
Baptist.

He married, in Clinton, March 29, 1825,
Caroline Elizabeth Eliot, born March 17,
1796, died May 29, 1866, sixth in descent from
John Eliot, the Indian Apostle (see Eliot VI).
Children : John Adam, mentioned below ; Mary
E., July 23, 1829, died unmarried May 4, 1868;
Lewis Eliot, mentioned below.

The following sketch of John A. Stanton
was prepared by his brother, Lewis E. Stanton,
of Hartford, Connecticut :

John Adam, son of John (2) Stanton, late
of Clinton, Connecticut, was born June 26,
1826, died October 23, 1908, at the age of
eighty-two years. He obtained his early edu-
cation at Norwich, Connecticut. He was af-
terward a clerk in the store of his father, John
Stanton, at Clinton. He began business as a
country merchant in Guilford, Connecticut,
about 1854. He moved back to Clinton not far
from 1869, having been in business fifteen
years in Guilford. He then had a small for-
tune, but no income from business after his
return to Clinton. He became a careful and
judicious investor. He wrote in a remarkably
clear and beautiful handwriting, and was a fine
and accurate accountant. He was a director
in the Clinton National Bank, and for many
years clerk of the First Ecclesiastical Society
of Clinton, and he held many trust funds,
most of which he managed without compensa-
tion. By a life of economy he accumulated a
handsome fortune. In his later years he de-
veloped a great love for antiques. He used
to say "We cannot have a new house : let us
have an old one." Accordingly he brought
out every piece of old and neglected furniture
and restored it, and in this work he spent a
small fortune. Very few pieces were bought
by him. The great merit of the collection
which he has left in the family mansion is that
he restored ancient furniture in old styles,
never in new styles. He made things look as
they did when they were new more than a
century ago. He studied every book which he
could find upon the subject, and he was never
deceived by imitations. His collection finallv
became famous. Thousands have visited it.
The writer of this sketch, Lewis E. Stanton,
his brother, with great labor prepared a cata-
logue of nearly one thousand pieces. A young
lady was employed to exhibit them, and she
entertained over three hundred and fiftv peo-
ple in the summer of 1909. Unfortunately.
John A. Stanton left no written history of his
labors and a great amount of information was
lost by his sudden death. His house is packed
full of tables, chairs, mirrors, silver lustre,
glassware, etc., constituting "a large collec-

tion ( f antique furniture, pottery, porcelain,
and (Tier works of art, illustrating early New
England life." One of the best specimens is
a Court Cupboard, made "entirely of oak, no
metals used in construction, everything pinned
with wooden pegs, all work hand made, and
carved from riven timber before the day of
saw mills, the workmanship fine, and the cup-
board probably made about 1670." Mr. Stanton
not only employed experts, but he worked him-
self and restored many pieces with his own
hand/ An old lady gave him the legs of a
dilapidated Queen Anne table, weatherbeaten
and worn, and he repaired it, had a new top
built for it, and it stands in the parlor, one
of the finest tables in New England. A pewter
platter or "plaque" was taken to an artist to
be restored and was put into a lath to be pol-
ished. To the great surprise of the owner,
three letters in the form of a triangle came
out upon the margin. S. T. and E. Samuel
Treat married Elizabeth Stark in 1751, and
this mute record of their initials had been cov-
ered by the rust of ages.

Mr. Stanton was often referred to as a "gen-
tleman of the old school." He was a man of
great information and retentive memory. He
had exact knowledge and loved details. He
was a person of stately carriage and dignified
demeanor. His highest happiness was to give
pleasure to others, and hundreds of guests re-
member his hospitality.

(VII) Lewis Eliot, son of John (2) Stan-
ton, was born in Clinton, Connecticut, July 19,
1823.

He began his education in the district
school and attended the Bacon Academy at
Colchester. He entered Yale College in 185 1,
graduating with honors. Among- his class-
mates were Hon. Lyman D. Brewster, of Dan-
bury, Professor Charles F. Johnson. Professor
P. Henry Woodward, Major John C. Parsons,
Theodore Lyman, Rev. Dr. John E. Todd, and
William D. Alexander, one of the founders of
the Hawaiian Republic. Mr. Stanton went to
Cleveland, Ohio, and became principal of
Shaw Academy, remaining for a year, when
ill-health compelled him to give up teaching.
From July, 1856, to May, 1857, he studied law
at home, and then entered Yale Law School.
After graduation he took a desk in the law
office of John S. Beach, a leading lawyer of
New Haven, and in April, 1859, was admitted
to the bar. Returning to Clinton, he remained
until the following November, and then set-
tled in Norwich to begin active practice. One
of his early suits was against a railroad cor-
poration to recover damages for the death of
an engineer caused by the carelessness of a
switchman. He won the case, and it was set-

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tied for $2,500, and the president of the com-
pany congratulated him upon his industry.
From June, 1863, to July, 1864, he was as-
sistant clerk of the New London county su-
perior court, and recorder of Norwich from
July, 1864, to September 9, 1865, when he re-
moved to Hartford, and entered into partner-
ship with John C. Day. After six years the
partnership was dissolved and Mr. Stanton has
since practiced alone. For fourteen years,
since 1870, he was assistant district attorney,
attending to all the criminal and civil federal
court business in the county. In 1884 he re-
ceived the appointment of district attorney
from President Arthur, and remained in that
office until April, 1888. He then resumed his
private practice. He has a large and lucrative
business, much of which is with corporations
and firms, and is a good court practitioner.
Notable cases in which he has been engaged
are the cases for conspiracy against the Char-
ter Oak Life people — Forber, Wiggin, Walke-
ley and White — he being counsel for Wiggin
and Walkeley ; in the United States supreme
court he appeared as a counsel for Judge Ro-
raback in the case against the Pennsylvania
company ; in Febwick Hall Company vs. Say-
brook he was leading counsel, the case going
before the supreme court of the United States ;
he appeared for South Windsor in the Hart-
ford bridge suit. The city of Hartford, by its
city attorney, retained him in Fisk vs. Hart-
ford, an important case involving the right to
use the intercepting sewer. Charles Soby, the
tobacco manufacturer, recovered by his advice,
duties overpaid to the government. Ex-
United States Marshal Stong's case at Bridge-
port against the government was managed by
him.

He is a good stump speaker, and has
spoken for the Republican party many times,
notably in the campaigns from i860 to 1870,
when he was strongly against slavery. He
had the pleasure of meeting Lincoln at Nor-
wich, where he had come shortly after his
speeches on the stump in Illinois with Stephen
A. Douglas, and Mr. Lincoln repeated pri-
vately to Mr. Stanton the sentiments which he
had so many times expressed publicly. He is
a member of the First Church of Christ of
Hartford. He is a lecturer of ability, and has
made many addresses on literary and histori-
cal subjects. Among them was an address in
1 87 1 on the Wealth of Connecticut, at the
opening exercises of the Morgan School in
Clinton. He was for twenty years president
of the Hartford County Bar Library Associa-
tion, and for years has been one of the local
council of the American Bar Association. He
has never married.

Bennett Eliot lived in Widford,
ELIOT county Hertford, England, and

married there October 30, 1598,
Letteye Aggar. Their first four children were
baptized in the church of St. John the Baptist
at Widford; the others at Nazing, county Es-
sex. He was buried at Nazing, November
21, 1621, and his wife was buried March 16,
1620. Children and dates of baptism : Sarah,
January 13, 1599, died March 27, 1673;
Phillip, April 25, 1602, died October 22, 1657;
John, August 5, 1604, mentioned below ; Jacob,
September 21, 1606; Lydia, July 1, 1610;
Francis, April 10, 1615; Mary, March 11,
1620.

(II) Rev. John Eliot, son of Bennett Eliot,
was baptized at Widford, Hertfordshire, Eng-
land, August 5, 1604, died May 21, 1690. He
entered Jesus College, Cambridge University,
March 20, 1618. He spent a part of the time
between 1622 and 1631 at Little Baddow,
county Eessex, as a schoolmaster with Rev.
Thomas Hooker, who from 1626 to 1628 was
lecturer at Chelmsford, receiving deep religi-
ous impressions. "When I came to this blessed
family," Eliot writes, "I then saw, and never
before the power of godliness in its lively vigor
and efficacy." He embarked about the middle
of August, 163 1, in the ship "Lion" for Bos-
ton, arriving November 2. He immedately
took charge of the church at Boston in the ab-
sence of the pastor, Rev. John Wilson. In
1632 he became teacher of the church at Rox-
bury, where many of his old friends and neigh-
bors settled. He was wanted in the church in
Boston as a colleague for Mr. Wilson, but had
promised in England that when his friends
came he would join them. He married, in
October, 1632, Hannah Mumford, who came
in the ship "Lion" in September of that year.
In 1640 the famous Bay Psalm Book, trans-
lated by Rev. Richard Mather, Rev. Thomas
Weld and Mr. Eliot, was printed. He began
to preach to the Indians, September 14, 1646,
and continued earnestly in his efforts to edu-
cate and christianize the natives during his
whole life. He published "a brief e topographi-
cal description of the Seuerall Townes in New
England with the names of our magistrates
and Ministers." In 1650 he selected Natick,
Massachusetts, as a place for an Indian town
and the foundations were made the year fol-
lowing. In 1653 he had so far progressed in
his knowledge of the Indian language that he
had devised and translated the Book of Psalms.
In 1654 he printed a catechism in the Indian
tongue. In 1655 Genesis was printed and the
Book of Matthew begun. "A Late and Fur-
ther Manifestation of the Progress of the
Gospel amongst the Indians in New England"

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was published. In 1657 ne preached to the
Podunk Indians at Hartford in their own lan-
guage. In December, 1658, he had completed
his translation of the whole Bible into the
Massachusetts dialect. His "Christian Com-
monwealth" was said to have been published
in 1659. In 1660 he was first called "The
Indian Apostle," a title by which he has since
been distinguished. The publication of the
Bible was completed in 1663 and he began the
translation of Baxter's Call. In 1664 his
translation of the Psalter was published, and
in 1666 the Indian Grammar. In 1686, after
much revision and delay, a second edition of
the Bible was printed and distributed among
the Indians. When he was eighty-four years
old he continued to preach from time to time
to the Indians. He died May 21, 1690. The
Indian church at Natick languished after his
death, and in 1698 there were but seven men
and three women members. Biographies of
Eliot were published by Cotton Mather, Mar-
tin Moore, Rev. John Wilson and Rev. Con-
vers Francis. Memorial windows to Eliot are
in Memorial Hall, Harvard University, and in
the church of St. John the Baptist at Hert-
fordshire, England, and a panel framed in
Sienna marble, representing "The Apostle
Eliot Preaching to the Indians" was placed in
position in the State House, Boston, in 1903.
Various sermons and pamphlets were pub-
lished by Eliot, besides those mentioned. Be-
sides the memorials mentioned is a monument
of freestone at South Natick, the parish mon-
ument at Roxbury, a granite watering trough
at Canton, an Eliot Memorial Terrace Fund
at Newton, tablets in the Congregational
House, Boston, and a Memorial at Tucson,
Arizona. Children: John, born August 31,
1636, died October 13, 1668; Joseph, Decem-
ber 20, 1638, mentioned below; Samuel, June
22, 1641, died November 1, 1664; Aaron, Feb-
ruary 19, 1643, died November 19, 1655 ; Ben-
jamin, January 29, 1646, died October 15,
1687.

(Ill) Rev. Joseph, son of Rev. John Eliot,
was born December 20, 1638, died May 24,
1694. He graduated at Harvard College in
1658, and became the minister at Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts, and at Guilford, Connecti-
cut. After his graduation he worked with his
father teaching the Indians, and was one of
those who signed the covenant of the church
at Northampton. Later he was associated with
Rev. Eleazer Mather in the ministry of the
Northampton church, and in 1663 the town
voted to build him a house if he would settle
with them, but he went to Guilford. Of his
ministry there Rev. Thomas Ruggles says:
"Mr. Joseph Eliot was for many years the

conspicuous minister at Guilford, whose great
abilities as a divine, a politician, and a phy-
sician, were justly admired, not only among
his own people, but throughout the colony,
where his praises are in the churches," and,
"The Church and Town Greatly flourished
under his successful Ministry, and Rose to
Great Fame in the Colony." He received a
grant of two hundred acres from the town of
Guilford. In his will, dated December 1, 1693,
he left "ten pounds towards the buying of a
bell." The bell was bought June 6, 1725, and
has been recast and increased at least four
times, and is still in use. Rev. Mr. Ruggles
says : "After this Burning and Shining Light
had ministered to this Good people About 30
years, he deceased May 24, 1694, to the inex-
pressible Grief of his beloved flock, whose
memory is not forgotten to this Day." A schol-
arship in his memory at Yale College, called
"The Joseph Eliot Memorial Scholarship," has
been established by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot and
many others of his descendants. He married
(first) Sarah, daughter of William and
Martha (Burton) Brenton. Her father was
governor of Rhode Island in 1666-67-68. He
married (second) Mary, daughter of Samuel
and Ruth (Haynes) Wyllys, granddaughter
of Governor George Wyllys, and great-grand-
daughter of Richard or Timothy Wyllys, of
Warwick, England. Her mother was daugh-
ter of Governor John Haynes, and through his
second wife, Mabel Harkalenden, of royal des-
cent. Children of first wife : Mehitable, born
October 4, 1676 ; Ann, December 12, 1677,
died November 16, 1703; Jemima, November
14, 1679; Barsheba, 1683. Children of second
wife: fared, November 7, 1685, mentioned
below; Mary, 1688; Rebecca, 1690; Abial,
1692.

(IV) Rev. Tared Eliot, son of Rev. Joseph
Eliot, was born November 7, 1685, died April
22, 1763. He graduated at Yale College in
1706 and became a famous minister. He was
enrolled among the earliest pupils of the Col-
legiate School of Connecticut (afterward Yale
College). Before his graduation he had won
the affection and esteem of Rector Abraham
Pierson, and when the venerable man lay on
his death bed, he earnestly advised his parish-
oners of Killingworth (now Clinton), to call
as his successor, his favorite pupil, young
Eliot. They did so, and Eliot began his duties
June 1, 1707, although he was not formally
ordained until October 26, 1709. To accept
this call he withdrew as schoolmaster in his
native town, but he maintained through life a
strong interest in educational matters. In 1730
he was elected a trustee of Yale College, the
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ored, and he filled the position till his death,
with interest and energy, and in his will left
the first bequest for the development of the
library of that institution. He was an inde-
fatigable student and acquired a broad culture
in science and letters, attainments which Har-
vard recognized with an honorary A. M., the
second on her list, and which brought him into
interesting correspondence with President
Stiles, Bishop Berkeley, and Benjamin Frank-
lin. Eliot's ministry in Killingworth covered
a period of fifty-six years, full of service. Rug-
gles, in his discourse at his funeral, says : "For
more than forty years of the latter part of his
life he never missed preaching some part of
every Sabbath either at home or abroad."
Also ''He was sound in the faith, according to
the true character of orthodoxy, so he was of
a truly catholic and Christian spirit in the ex-
ercise of it. Difference in opinion as to re-
ligious principles was no obstruction to a
hearty practice of the great law of love, be-
nevolence, and true goodness to man, to every
man ; nor of Christian charity to the whole
household of faith. Them he received whom
he hoped the Lord had received; abhorring
narrowness, and the mean contractedness of a
party spirit, but heartily loved and freely prac-
ticed, in word and behavior, the great law of
true liberty." This broad mindedness at one
time nearly led him into Episcopacy. He was
not only a divine, but was a physician as well.
It has been said of him : "Of all those who
combined the offices of clergyman and phy-
sician, not one, from the foundation of the
American colonies, attained so high distinction
as a physician as Jared Eliot." In chronic
complaints "he appears to have been more ex-
tensively consulted than any other physician
in New England, frequently visiting every
county of Connecticut, and being often called
in Boston and Newport." He trained so many
students in medicine who subsequently attained
distinction that he was commonly called "the
father of regular medical practice in Connecti-
cut." He was scarcely less famous in scientific
investigation. He discovered the existence of
iron in the dark red seasand, and as a result
of successful experiments made America's first
contribution to the science of metallurgy in a
tract entitled : "The Art of Making very good
if not the best Iron from black sea Sand."
These investigations won for him by unani-
mous vote the gold medal of the London So-
ciety of Arts, in 1762. Some six years before
he was unanimously elected a member of the
Royal Society. He also published a volume
called "Field Husbandry in New England."

Jared Eliot was distinctly practical, and a
man of affairs, and he utilized his knowledge.

He had large and profitable investments in the
ore-fields of northwestern Connecticut. He
had extensive farming tracts, which were bet-
ter cultivated than most of his neighbors. Rug-
gles says : "Idleness was his abhorrence ; but
every portion of time was filled with action by
him. Perhaps no man, in this day, has slept
so little, and done so much, in so great varie-
ty." He had a rare charm of person and man-
ner. Well proportioned and of commanding
presence, with a countenance from which a
grave dignity did not altogether banish a gen-
tle kindliness, he merits Ruggles' characteriza-
tion : "He had a turn of mind peculiarly
adapted for conversation, and happily accom-
modated to the pleasures of social life. . . .
No less agreeable charming and engaging was
his company, accommodated to every person
under every circumstance. Nothing affected,
nothing assuming ; it is all nature, and shined
with wisdom, so that perhaps no person ever
left his company dissatisfied, or without being
pleased with it." Benjamin Franklin, in one
of his letters to him, says : "I remember with
pleasure the cheerful hours I enjoyed last win-
ter in your company, and I would with all my
heart give any ten of the thick old folios that
stand on the shelves before me, for a little
book of the stories you then told with so much
propriety and humor." His effectiveness and
accomplishment, as well as his charm of man-
ner, remained with him to the end of his long
life. His pastorate was the longest in the his-
tory of the church. In addition to the publica-
tions mentioned, he published : "The Right
Hand of Fellowship," 1730; "The Two Wit-
nesses, or Religion Supported by Reason and
Divine Revelation," 1736; "Give Caesar His
Due; or the Obligations that Subjects are
under to their Civil Rulers are shewed in a
Sermon Preached before the General Assem-
bly of the Colony," 1738; "The Blessings Be-
stowed on Them that Fear God," 1739;
"God's Marvellous Kindness," 1745; "Re-
peated Bereavements Considered and Im-
proved," 1748; Discourse on the Death of Rev.
Wm. Worthington, 1757. He married, Oc-
tober 26, 1710, Elizabeth Smithson, died Feb-
ruary 18, 1 76 1, aged sixty-eight, daughter of
Samuel Smithson, of Guilford. Children :
Elizabeth, born October 20, 171 1, died April
11, 1713; Hannah, October 15, 1713, died
January 27, 1781 ; Dr. Samuel, March 9, 1716;
graduated at Yale, 1735; Aaron, March 15,
1718, died December 30, 1785; Dr. Augustus,
June 18, 1720; graduate of Yale, 1740; Joseph,
January 8, 1723, died August 1, 1762; Na-
than, April 13, 1725, died March, 1798; Jared,
March 17, 1728, mentioned below; Luke, Au-
gust 1, 1730, died September 8, 1730; John,

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December 2, 1732, died March 9, 1797;
George, March 9, 1736, died May 1, 1810.

(V) Jared (2), son of Rev. Jared (1) Eliot,
was born March 17, 1728, died in March,
181 1. He married (first) May 10, 1757, Eliz-
abeth Walker, of Boston, who died May 3,
1759. He married (second) April 7, 1760,
Elizabeth Lord, born 1735, daughter of Rich-
ard Lord, of Lyme. Children, all by second
wife: Jared, born March 1, 1761, mentioned
below; Richard, April 7, 1762, died June 10,
1762; Isaac, April 17, 1763, died July 27,
1763; Richard, June 3, 1764, died July 5,
1848; Lynde, March 7, 1766, died August 3,
1817; Elizabeth, August 26, 1768, died Janu-
ary 15, 1840; Nancy, July 28, 1770, died May
25, 1852; Rufus, December 1, 1772, died Oc-
tober 29, 1826; Sarah, June 17, 1775; Cath-
erine, February 1, 1777, died April 3, 1858;
Augustus, August 10, 1779, died January 23,
1816.

(VI) Jared (3), son of Jared (2) Eliot, was
born March 1, 1761, died September 25, 1841,
in Killingworth. He was a farmer at Killing-
worth, and a justice of the peace and member
of the general assembly. He married, January
30, 1785, Clarissa Lewis, born 1773, died June
4, 1842. daughter of John Lewis, of Killing-
worth. Children: Amelia Zipporah, born
1790, died September 14, 1846; Mary Lewis,
January 18. 1792, died November 14, 1838;
Caroline Elizabeth, March 17, 1796, married,
March 29, 1825, John Stanton (see Stanton

VI).

The origin
MINER and early

ancestry of
the Miner family in
England is given thus :
Edward III of Eng-
land, going to war
against the French,
marched through "Som-
ersetshire, came to
Mendippe hills, where
lived Henry Miner,
who with all careful-
ness and loyalty, hav-
ing convened his domestic and menial servants
armed with battle axes proferred himself and
them to his master's service making up a com-
plete hundred." For this service he was
granted the coat-of-arms : Gules a fesse be-
tween three plates argent.

(I) Henry Miner, mentioned above, died
in 1359. Children: Henry, mentioned below;
Edward, Thomas, George.

(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Miner,
married Henrietta, daughter of Edward Hicks

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of Gloucester. Children ; William ; Henry, who
served in 1384 under Richard III.

(III) William, son of Henry (2) Miner,
married Hobbs, of Wiltshire. Chil-
dren : Thomas, mentioned below ; George, lived
in Shropshire.

(IV) Thomas, son of William Miner, lived
in Herefordshire ; married a daughter of Cot-
ton Gresslap, of Staffordshire. Children : Lo-
dovick, mentioned below; George, Mary.

(V) Lodovick, son of Thomas Miner, mar-
ried Anna, daughter of Thomas Dyer, of
Staughton, Huntingdonshire. Children:
Thomas, mentioned below; George (twin),
born 1458; Arthur (twin), served the house
of Austria.

(VI) Thomas (2), son of Lodovick Miner,
was born in 1436. He married Bridget,
daughter of Sir George Hervie, of St. Mar-
tin's, county Middlesex. He died 1480, leav-
ing two children to the tutorage of their
mother Bridget, but she resigned them to her
father and turned to monastic life, in Datford.

(VII) William (2), son .of Thomas (2)
Miner, married Isabella Harcope de Folibay,
and lived to revenge the death of the two
young princes slain in the tower by their
uncle, Richard III. Children : William, men-
tioned below ; George, Thomas, Robert, Na-
thaniel, John. Four others. John and Na-
thaniel went to Ireland in 1541 when Henry
VIII was proclaimed king of Ireland.

(VIII) William (3), son of William (2)
Miner, was buried at Chew Magna, February
23, 1585. Children: Clement, mentioned be-
low ; Elizabeth.

(IX) Clement, son of William (3) Miner,
died March 31, 1640, at Chew Magna. Chil-
dren : Clement, Thomas, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, Mary.

(X) Thomas (3), son of Clement Miner,
and the immigrant ancestor, came to Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, in 1683. Children : John.
Thomas, Clement, Ephraim, Judah, Mannas-
seh, Joseph, Samuel, Ann, Maria, Eunice,
Elizabeth, Hannah.

(XI) Deacon Manasseh, son of Thomas
(3) Miner, was born at New London in 1647,
the first boy born of white parents in that
town. He resided on the old homestead at
Quiambaug and was buried at Wequetequod.
He was a soldier in King Philip's war. He
married, September 26, 1670, Lydia Moore.
Children, born at New London : Elnathan, De-
cember 28, 1673, mentioned below ; Samuel,
September 20, 1675; Hannah, December 8,
1676; Thomas, September 20, 1683; Lydia,
married Sylvester Baldwin.

(XII) Elnathan, son of Deacon Manasseh
Miner, was born at New London, December

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28, 1673. He lived at Stonington. He mar-
ried (first) March 21, 1694, Rebecca Bald-
win, who died March 12, 1700. He married
(second) March 17, 1702, Prudence (Rich-
ardson) Hallam, a widow. He married
(third) October 14, 1718, Tamsen Wilcox.
Children, born at Stonington : Samuel, De-
cember 12, 1694, mentioned below; Manasseh,
December 1, 1695; Elnathan, June 24, 1697;
Rebecca, February 13, 1699. Child of second
wife: Richardson, November 24, 1704.

(XIII) Samuel, son of Elnathan Miner,
was born at Stonington, December 12, 1694.
He married there, December 3, 1719, Eliza-
beth Brown. Children, born at Stonington :
Elizabeth, August 18, 1720; Rebecca (twin).
August 18, 1720; Samuel, March 14, 1723;
Nathan, July 16, 1724, mentioned below;
David, September 26, 1726; John, December
22, 1728; Elizabeth, November 24, 1730; Jona-
than, February 18, 1733; Anna, June 26, 1735.

(XIV) Nathan, son of Samuel Miner, was
born July 16, 1724, at Stonington. He mar-
ried, March 7, 1751, Sarah Smith. Children,
born at Stonington : Deborah, December 24,
1751 ; Richardson, September 10, 1753; Sarah,
December 7, 1755; Elizabeth, July 15, 1759;
Robert, November 13, 1763, mentioned below;
Nathan, September 23, 1764.

(XV) Robert, son of Nathan Miner, was
born in Stonington, November 13, 1763. He
lived at Stonington and married there, Febru-
ary 10, 1788, Mary, daughter of Christopher
and Mary (Randall) Miner (married August
11, 1765). Charles Miner, father of Christo-
pher Miner, was born November 14, 1709;
Christopher Miner was born March 16, 1745.
James Miner, father of Charles Miner, mar-
ried, February 22, 1705. Abigail Eldredge.
Ephraim Miner, father of James Miner, mar-
ried Hannah Avery, June 20, 1666; he was
baptized at Hingham, Massachusetts, May I,
1642, son of Henry and Henrietta (Hicks)
Miner. Children of Robert Miner, born at
Stonington : Robert, born March 7, 1789, men-
tioned below; Gilbert, December 26, 1791 ;
married Mary Ann Frink; Betsey, February
18, 1795; William, January 12, 1803.

(XVI) Robert (2), son of Robert (1)
miner, was born at Stonington, March 7,
1789. He married Alura, daughter of Captain
Spicer, of Stonington, Connecticut. Children :
Robert Tyler, married Lydia Baldwin ; Alura
Ann, married (first) Julius Harrison, of New
Milford, Connecticut; (second) Jacob Eaton,
of Meriden, chaplain during the civil war of
the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, died at
Newbern, North Carolina, in the service ; Gil-
bert Smith, married Virginia Windsor ;
Mary Elizabeth, married Joseph North;

George L., married Jane Guild; Emily
Frances, married Colonel Ira Pettibone; Fred
William, married Belle Fayer, of Texas ;
Frank S., married Mary Houston ; Lucretia
Victoria, married Erastus Hubbard, of Wal-
lingford, Connecticut ; Sarah Eleanor, died un-
married ; Ralph Jay, mentioned below.

(XVII) Ralph Jay, son of Robert (2)
Miner, was born in Cornwall, Litchfield
county, Connecticut, January 16, 1844. He
attended the district schools of his native town.
He began his business career as clerk in the
general store at Cornwall Bridge, Connecti-
cut, in 1861, and in the spring of 1862 entered
the employ of the Cornwall Bridge Iron Com-
pany. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G,
Nineteenth Regiment, Connecticut Infantry,
and served in that regiment until it was
changed to the Second Heavy Artillery. In
1863 ne was mustered out of service, dis-
charged on account of physical disability.
Later in the year he entered the employ of
John Ives at Meriden, Connecticut. He came
to New Haven to work for the firm of T. P.
Merwin & Company, August 1, 1865, and was
next with the firm of Yale & Bryan, whole-
sale grocers, State street. New Haven, and
continued there until 1869. Then for four
years he was in the dry goods trade with
James H. Bunce, Middletown, Connecticut,
returning to Yale & Bryan, where he was a
salesman again for a period of about nine years.
He was then in business for himself for two
years in New York city as partner in the
firm of Hollway, Wright & Miner, manufac-
turers' agents, 167 Chambers street. He re-
turned to the firm of Yale & Bryan, of which
he became a partner, the firm name then be-
coming Yale, Bryan & Company, and subse-
quently, Bryan, Miner & Read, wholesale
grocers. After Mr. Bryan died, the firm name
became Miner, Read & Garrette, which con-
tinued until the present firm was instituted
Tanuarv 1, 1910, under the style of Miner,
Read & Tullock.

Mr. Miner is a member of the Country Club
of New Haven; the Center Lodge, No. 97,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Meriden, and
of the United Church of New Haven. In
politics he is an Independent.

He married, November 28, 1866, Sarah
Ellen Yale, of Meriden, born September 14,
1846, daughter of Julius Yale. They had no
children, but brought up a son of Mr. Miner's
brother, Frank Spicer Miner, born January 14,
1872, son of Frank S. Miner, of Cornwall.
Frank Spicer Miner married Betsy Hosmer,
of New Haven ; children : Edward Hosmer,
born March 14, 1903 ; Frank Erastus, Septem-
ber 28, 1904.

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The surname Luther is derived
LUTHER from the baptismal and Biblical

name in common use in all
Christian countries. The American family is
of the same German stock, according to family
tradition, as the old immortal Martin Luther,
tracing direct from his brother, Johannes
(John) Luther, sons of Henry Luther, both
of whom were born in Eisleben, Saxony. Mar-
tin Luther was born late in the fifteenth cen-
tury, graduated from a university at twenty
years of age, and two years later, in 1505, ac-
cepted a position as teacher. At the age of
twenty-four he took orders in the Roman
Catholic church. John Luther was born be-
tween 1475 and 1490, and his descendants, of
the third or fourth generation, emigrated to
Holland, from which country, after many
years, perhaps a century, some of them re-
moved to Sussex county, England, among
them being a Wilhelm Luther, who attained
the great age of one hundred and eigftt years.
After the settlement in England they, or some
branches of the family, became wealthy and
owned an extensive manor. The family were
known in local parlance as Luton, but in all
legal papers the name was spelled Luther.

(I) Captain John Luther, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in Shrewsbury, England. He
set sail from Dorset county, England, for the
new world, landing in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1635, and in 1637 was one of the first pur-
chasers and settlers of Swansea, and his ninety
acres of land were said to have been purchased
from the Indians for a peck of white beans.
It is quite possible that the land was assigned
by the government, and the peck of beans
merely quieted any claim made by the Indians.
He sold his interests there, and in 1642 be-
came one of the first settlers of Gloucester.
He was employed by the merchants of Boston
as captain of a vessel to go to Delaware Bay
on a trading voyage, and while there was
killed by the Indians in 1644. Evidently his
son was captured at the same time, as May 2,
1646, the general court of Massachusetts de-
creed that the widow Luther should have the
balance of her husband's wages according to
sea custom, after allowing to the merchants
what they had paid for the redemption of her
son. Children : Samuel, born in Taunton,
1636, died December 20, 1716, married Mary
; Hezekiah, mentioned below.

(II) Hezekiah, son of Captain John Luther,
was born (probably) in Taunton, 1640, died
July 23, 1723. He and his brother Samuel
were among the first settlers of Swansea, Mas-
sachusetts, and many of his descendants lived
there and in the adjoining town of Rehoboth.
and in various parts of Rhode Island. He

married (first) Elizabeth ; (second)

Sarah . Children, by first wife, born in

Swansea: John, 1663, mentioned below; Na-
thaniel, 1664, married, June 28, 1693, Ruth
Cole ; children of second wife : Joseph, Febru-
ary 12, 1669, died March 23, 1736; Elizabeth,
December 29, 1671, married John Kinnicutt;
Edward, April 2^, 1674, married (first), Sarah
Callender ; (second) Elizabeth Mason; Heze-
kiah, August 27, 1676, married Martha Good-
win ; Hannah, married Dr. Richard Winslow.

(III) John (2), son of Hezekiah Luther,
was born in 1663, and died April 14, 1697.
He married, January 25, 1687, Hopestill But-
terworth. Children : John, born August 10,
1690, married Judith Martin ; Nathaniel, Au-
gust 17, 1692, mentioned below ; Job, Decem-
ber 30, 1694, married Hannah ; Pa-
tience, January 8, 1697, married, November
10, 1726, Hezekiah Luther.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of John (2) and Hope-
still (Butterworth) Luther, was born August
17, 1692, and married, June 4, 1715, Mercy
Boomer. Children: Job, born February 21,
1716, married Hannah Harding; Nathaniel,
September 21, 1719, married, January 2, 1752,
Eleanor Boomer; Matthew, August 26, 1721,
mentioned below; Isaac, February 27, 1723,
married, June 14, 1750, Margaret Luther;
Mercy, June 21, 1726; Hopestill, July 6, 1729;
Hepzibah, December 19, 1730; John, March

9, 1733, married Margaret ; Jonathan,

August 22, 1735. died September 5, 1735;
David, April 10, 1737.

(Y) Matthew, son of Nathaniel Luther,
was born August 26, 1721, and married, De-
cember 20, 1747, Eleanor Gansey. Children:
Anna, born August 23, 1748, married, 1765,
Caleb Briggs ; Mehitable, March 23, 1750;
Job, September 14, 1752; Nathaniel, 1754;
Peleg, August 18, 1756, mentioned below;
Eleanor, 1758.

(VI) Peleg, son of Matthew Luther, was
born August 18, 1756, and lived in Providence,
Rhode Island. He married, in 1780, Mary
Nichols, and died November 4, 1810. Chil-
dren : Thomas, September 9, 1781 : Anne, born
January 16, T784; Lydia, June 2, 1790, mar-
ried Grant Barney ville ; Job, April 3, 1793,
mentioned below; Eleanor, March 30, 1796,

married Allen; Mary, 1799; John N.,

August 20, 1802, resided in Millbury; Abigail,
married ■ Barney.

(VII) Job, son of Peleg Luther, was born
April 3, 1793, in Swansea, and died in Reho-
both, Massachusetts, March 22, 1875. aged
eighty-two years. He was a teamster during
his active life and resided in Providence. In
religion he was a Baptist. He married (first),
December 15, 1823, Lucy Ann Peck of See-

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konk, born January 7, 1800, died October 10, In the fall of 1870 he took charge of a parish

1827, daughter of Darius Peck. (See Peck school at Troy, New York. In addition to the

family). He married (second), October 13, teaching of a hundred pupils he began the

1829, Caroline Reed Ormsby, who died April study of theology under Rev. Dr. Coit, and as

15, 1880. Children of first wife: Flavel soon as he was of age he was ordained a

Sweeten, born November 9, 1825, mentioned deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church by

below ; Son, born September 29, died Septem- Bishop Doane. He was successful and efficient

ber 30, 1827. Children of second wife: Ed- as a teacher and disciplinarian. In 1873 he

mund Job, born January 29, 1834, died No- was appointed rector of a large Episcopal

vember 1, 1891, married May F. Chase, no school in Racine, Wisconsin. He pursued his

issue; Charles Wadsworth, born April 29, favorite study of mathematics, and in 1876

1836. died young. was appointed professor in mathematics in Ra-

(VIII) Flavel Sweeten, son of Job Luther, cine College, filling this chair with marked
was born November 9, 1825, at Providence, success until 1881, when he was elected pro-
He attended the common schools of that city fessor of mathematics in Kenyon College,
and a private select school, kept by Benjamin Gambier, Ohio. After two years he resigned
Burns, at Providence. He began his career his office at Gambier to accept the chair of
as a clerk and worked in various stores in his mathematics and astronomy in Trinity Col-
native city. He served an apprenticeship of lege, thirteen years after his own graduation
four years at cabinet making in Pawtucket, there. In 1903 he became acting president of
Rhode Island, and afterward learned the busi- the college and in the summer of 1904, presi-
ness of organ building. He had a farm at dent, succeeding Dr. George W. Smith. While
Brooklyn, Connecticut, where he purchased a teaching mathematics at Hartford, Professor
news agency, and conducted it successfully for Luther was also consulting engineer for the
a period of thirty years. He is now living leading bicycle company of the country, the
in Winsted, Connecticut. He is a member of Pope Manufacturing Company, in its period
the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of of development. One of his inventions is used
Brooklyn. In politics he is a Republican. on every bicycle and was of so much value

He married, March 26, 1849, at Brooklyn, that the company voluntarily made him a

Jane Jerusha, born, at Brooklyn, January 20, handsome present in addition to his salary.

1824, daughter of Jacob and Joanna (Man- President Luther has demonstrated that he has

ning) Lillie. (See Manning VI.) Her father great inventive ability and mechanical skill,

was a farmer and butcher ; was an ensign in He is a member of the American Society of

the war of 1812 and served at New London, Mechanical Engineers.

Connecticut. She had one brother, Warren President Luther's administration has been
Winslow Lillie. Children, born at Brooklyn : progressive. The fine new athletic field was
1. Flavel Sweeten, born March 26, 1850; men- secured chiefly through his efforts, and he has
tioned below. 2. Herman Lillie, born March done much to raise the standard of athletic
12, 1855, graduate of Racine College; took sports at Trinity. He was an athlete of some
post graduate at Harvard, and after a few note in his youth and has lost none of his
years teaching in preparatory schools studied interest in intercollegiate sports. President
law and was admitted to the bar of Minnesota Luther has been exceptionally well trained for
and became a successful practitioner of that his present position by his experience and suc-
state ; married, December 29, 1885, Kate C. O. cess in preparatory schools, his long service as
Blake; he died February 2, 1904; child: Her- a college professor, by his love and knowledge
man Blake, horn October 31, 1886, died Feb- of mathematics and engineering and more
ruary 2, 1887. 3. Riverius Manning, born than all, perhaps, by his sound theological train-
June 30. 1868, graduate of Trinity College, ing. His natural executive ability and com-
Hartford, in tic class of 1890, electrical engi- mon sense, his pleasing personality and com-
peer by profession ; died, unmarried, Novem- plete understanding of youth admirably equip
ber 28^ 1891. him for the difficult duties of his position.

(IX) lion. Flavel Sweeten Luther (2), son Trinity is not a wealthy college and a wise
of Flavel Sweeten Luther, was born in Brook- and prudent administration of its affairs is
lyn, Conn., March 26. 1850. He attended necessary, and also the enlistment of the co-
the district schools of his native town and en- operation of its alumni and others in increas-
tered the sophomore class of Trinity College ing its endowment. President Luther is an
when he was seventeen years old, graduating able and convincing public speaker. As a
when he was twenty, the third in his class, preacher lie ranks among the foremost, and
He took high rank in mathematics, and won his sermons to the college boys are especially
the first prize in that subject in his senior year, earnest, sensible and helpful. On the many

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occasions when he has represented the col-
lege his versatility, eloquence and enthusiasm
have won the admiration of his audience. He
speaks entirely without notes or manuscript.
He received the honorary degree of LL. D.
from his alma mater in 1904. His devotion
to Trinity has been shown repeatedly by his
refusal of less difficult and in many ways more
attractive positions in the* church. He was
offered and declined the presidency of Kenyon
College, while a professor in Trinity. Presi-
dent Luther has always taken a lively interest
in public affairs and is now a prominent mem-
ber of the state senate of Connecticut, holding
a position of leadership in that body and serv-
ing on important committees. In politics he
is a Republican. He married Isabel Blake
Ely, born August 27, 1848, daughter of Alfred
Eli and Mary (Bull) Ely. They have no
children.

(The Peck Line).

This name is of great antiquity. It is found
in Belton, Yorkshire, England, at an early
date, and from there scattered not only over
England but into every civilized country. A
branch settled in Hesden and Wakefield, York-
shire, whose descendants removed to Beccles,
county Suffolk, and were the ancestors of
Joseph Peck, of Hingham, county Norfolk, the
American immigrant. Arms : Argent on a
chevron engrailed gules three crosses formed
of the first. Crest : A cubit arm erect, habited
azure, cuff argent, hand proper, holding on
one stalk enfiled with a scroll, three roses
gules, leaved vert. The arms to which Joseph
Peck are entitled are as given above, quartered
with those of the Brunning and Hesselden
families.

(I) John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, mar-
ried a daughter of Melgrave. (II)

Thomas Peck married a daughter of

Middleton of Middleton. (Ill) Robert Peck,

of Belton, married Tunstall. (IV)

Robert (2) Peck, of Belton, married

Mnsgrave. (V) John (2) Peck, of Belton,

married Watford. (VI) Thomas (2)

Peck, of Belton, married Blaxton, of

Blaxton. Children : Thomas, mentioned below ;
John, settled in Northamptonshire. (VII)

Thomas (3) Peck, of Belton, married

Littleton. (VIII) John (3) Peck, of Belton.

married Carre. (IX) John (4) Peck,

of Belton, married Flemming. (X) John

(5) Peck married Wembourne. Chil-
dren: 1. John, whose daughter, his sole heir,
married John Ratcliffe, thus taking the estate
of Belton out of the direct line. 2. Richard,
mentioned below. (XI) Richard Peck mar-
ried Brunnung. (XII) Richard (2)

Peck, of Hesden. married Savill.

(XIII) Thomas (4) Peck, of Hesden, married

Bradley. (XIV) Richard (3) Peck,

of Hesden and Wakefield, Yorkshire, married a
Hesselden. Children : John, mentioned below ;
Richard, died young; Thomas. (XV) John
(6) Peck married Isabel Lacie, of Bromble-
ton, and was a lawyer. Children : Richard,
mentioned below ; Thomas ; Catherine ; Rob-
ert; John: Margaret. (XVI) Richard (4)
Peck was of Wakefield, and married Joan,
daughter of John Harrington, Esq. Children :
Richard, mentioned below ; Margaret ; Isabel ;
Joan; Judith; Elizabeth. (XVII) Richard
(5) Peck married Alice, daughter of Sir Peter
Middleton. Children : John, mentioned be-
low ; Margaret; Ann; Elizabeth; Isabel.
(XVIII) John (7) Peck, of Wakefield, mar-
ried Joan, daughter of John Aune, of Trick-
ley. Children : Richard, married Anne Ho-
tham ; John ; Thomas ; Ralph ; Nicholas ; Fran-
cis ; Robert, mentioned below.

(XIX) Robert (3) Peck was of Beccles,

county Suffolk. He married (first), —

Norton; (second) Waters. Children":

John ; Robert, mentioned below ; Thomas ;
Joan; Olivia; Margaret; Anne. (XX) Rob-
ert (4) Peck was of Beccles, and died 1593,
aged forty-seven. He married Helen, daugh-
ter of Nicholas Babbs, of Guilford. Children :
1. Richard, died without issue, 161 5, aged
forty-one. 2. Nicholas, born 1576; married
Rachel Yonge, 1610. 3. Robert, born 1680;
took degree at Magdalen College, Cambridge,
A. B., 1599, A. M., 1603; inducted over parish
of Hingham, England, January 8, 1605. 4.
Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Margaret. 6.
Martha. 7. Samuel, died 1619.

(XXI) Joseph Peck, the immigrant ances-
tor, was baptized in Beccles, county Suffolk,
England. In 1638 he and other Puritans, with
his brother, Rev. Robert Peck, their pastor,
fled from the persecutions of their church to
America. They came in the ship "Diligent,"
of Ipswich, John Martin, master. The rec-
ords of Hingham, Massachusetts, state : "Mr.
Joseph Peck and his wife, with three sons and
a daughter and two men servants and three
maid servants, came from Old Hingham and
settled at New Hingham." He was granted a
house lot of seven acres adjoining that of his
brother. He remained at Hingham seven
years, and then removed to Seekonk. At
Hingham he was deputy to the general court
in 1639. He took an active part in town af-
fairs ; was selectman, justice of the peace, as-
sessor, etc. In 1641 he became one of the
principal purchasers of the Indians of that
tract of land called Seekonk, afterwards the
town of Rehoboth, including the present towns
of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Seekonk and

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He removed, 1645,
to his new home. An incident of the trip is
found in the town records of Rehoboth. "Mr.
Joseph Peck and three others at Hingham,
being about to remove to Seaconk, riding
thither they sheltered themselves and their
horses in an Indian wigwam, which by some
occasion took fire, and, although there were
four in it and labored to their utmost, burnt
three of their horses to death, and all their
goods, to the value of fifty pounds." He was
appointed to assist in matters of controversy
at court, and in 1650 was authorized to per-
form marriages. He was second on the tax
list. In some instances land granted to him
is still owned by his descendants. His house
was upon the plain in the northerly part of
the "Ring of the Town," near the junction of
the present Pawtucket with the old Boston and
Bristol road, not far from the Boston & Provi-
dence railroad station. He died December 23,
1663. His will was proved March 3, 1663-64.
His sons united in the amplification of the
written will which was made on his death-
bed, and the court accepted it as a part of
the will.

He married (first) Rebecca Clark, at Hing-
ham, England, May 21, 161 7. She died and
was buried there, October 24, 1637. The
name of his second wife is unknown. Chil-
dren : 1. Anna, baptized in Hingham, Eng-
land. March 12, 1618 ; buried there July 27,
1636; Rebecca, baptized there May 25, 1620,

married Hubbard ; Joseph, baptized

August 23, 1623; John, born about 1626;
Nicholas, baptized April 9, 1630; Simon, born
about 1635 ; Samuel, baptized in Hingham,
Massachusetts, February 3, 1638-39. Na-
thaniel, baptized October 31, 1641, mentioned
below; Israel, baptized March 11, 1644, died
young; Samuel and Israel, baptized July .19,
1646.

(XXII) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Peck, was
baptized at Hingham, Massachusetts, October
31, 1641, and removed with his father to Re-
hoboth. He settled upon land given him and
his brother Israel, in what is now Barrington,
Rhode Island, near the house afterwards oc-
cupied by Ellis Peck. He was buried August

12, 1676. He married Deliverance ,

who died May 1, 1675. Children: Nathaniel,
born July 26, 1 670, mentioned below ; Daugh-
ter; Elisha, born April 19, 1675, died April
30, 1675.

(XXIII) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel
(1) Peck, was born July 26, 1670, and died
August 5, 1 75 1. He settled upon the lands
left him by his father. He was a prominent
man, and held various public offices. He is
called lieutenant and deacon on the records.

He married (first) March 8, 1695-96, Chris-
tian Allen, of Swansea, who died June 8, 1702:
(second), July 18, 1705, Judith Smith of Re-
hoboth, who died November 10, 1743. Chil-
dren: Ebenezer, born April 24, 1697; Na-
thaniel, July 10, 1699; Thomas, October 4,
1700; Daniel, July 28, 1706; David, November,
1707; Abigail, August 12, 1709; Bathsheba,
January 15, 1710-11, died December 13, 1769;
Solomon, November 11, 171 2, mentioned be-
low; John, July 1, 1714, died July 23, 1714;
John, February 29, 1716, died May 14, 1716.

(XXIV) Solomon, son of Nathaniel (2)
Peck, was born November 11, 1712, and died
December 8, 1776. He settled upon a part of
the homestead. He married, December 29,
1737, Keziah Barnes, who died July 18, 1792.
Their gravestones are still standing. Children :
Solomon, born October 29, 1738, mentioned
below; Keziah, August 3, 1740; Hannah,
February 4. 1743, died August 17, 1752; Sam-
uel, December 30, 1744, died August 3, 1814;
Benjamin, June 3, 1747, died October 12.
1776; Amos, May 1, 1749, died April 24,
1816; Esther, May 18, 1751 ; Daniel, March
24, 1753. died September 10, 1776; Hannah,
October 17, 1755; Nathaniel, December 7,
1759, died October 9, 1776; Ebenezer, Decem-
ber 11, 1762.

(XXV) Solomon (2), son of Solomon (1)
Peck, was born October 29, 1738, and died
August 22, 1814. He resided on the place
later occupied by his grandson, Asa Peck, in
i860. He married, December 8, 1763, Abi-
gail (Peck) Barney, widow of Barney.

She died June 16, 1821. Children: Abigail,
born May 12, 1765 ; Keziah. September 10,
1766; Solomon, February 13, 1769, Darius,
June 25, 1772, mentioned below ; Ellis, August
2, 1774; Beebee, June 1, 1777, died April 19,
1781.

(XXVI) Darius, son of Solomon (2) Peck,
was born June 25, 1772, and died in Septem-
ber, 1854. He married, January 24, 1799,
Lucy, daughter of Deacon Charles Peck. Chil-
dren : Lucy Ann, born January 7, 1800, mar-
ried, December 15, 1823, Job Luther; Keziah,
born September 13, 1801 ; Calvin D.. born
May 22, 1803; Rachel S., born March 12,
1805 ; Hermon A. and Sylvester W., twins,
born Julv 12, 1807. Julia Ann, born Febru-
ary 27, 181 1, died unmarried, March, 1840.

(The Manning Line).

(I) William Manning, the immigrant an-
cestor, was born in England as early as 1592,
perhaps earlier, and came to New England at
an early date. He came (from best evidence)
from county Essex, England. From his own
account, he lived the first nine or ten weeks in

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Roxbury, Massachusetts, after landing here.
He then removed to Cambridge, where docu-
ments were first signed by him, in 1634 and
possibly earlier. He was on the list of land-
holders in February, 1635. An old church
record says : "Payd our brother Manninge for
a bell rope." This was dated 1648, when he
was engaged in "a business laudable and com-
mendable." He had doubtless been a mer-
chant in England. In 1638 he bought four
acres of ground in Charlestown. He was a
freeman in 1640. After his second marriage
he removed to Boston and united with the
church there in 1664. He died in 1665-66.
Name of first wife unknown ; he married (sec-
ond) Susannah , who died in 1650;

(third), Elizabeth — — ■, who survived him.

Children, as far as known : William, mentioned
below, Hannah.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)- Man-
ning, was born in England about 1614, and
came to New "England about 1634. He set-
tled in Cambridge, purchased lands and en-
gaged in business as a merchant. He also
owned a warehouse, boathouse, on a canal to
which boats had free access, and constructed
with his own hands a wharf by his boathouse.
He was highway surveyor in 1651 ; gauger of
casks and constable 1652-53 ; selectman in
1652-66-70-72-75-81-83; member of the grand
jury in 1686-88. In 1668 he was sent to Eng-
land to procure another minister, and in 1671
Rev. Uriah Oakes was received and ordained,
and afterwards became the president of Har-
vard College. In 1670 Mr. Manning was ap-
pointed "to catechise the youth" of the town.
He was selected as one of the committee of
two, who had in charge the rebuilding of Har-
vard College, to receive and disburse funds for
that purpose. He died March 14, 1690. He

married Dorothy . Their gravestones

are in the cemetery at Harvard Square. Chil-
dren: Hannah, born June 21, 1642; Samuel,
July 21, 1644, mentioned below; Sarah, Janu-
ary 28, 1646; Abigail, January 15, 1647-48.
died May 10, 1648; John. March 31, 1649, died
unmarried, November 25, 1678; Mary, about
1 651; (Perhaps) Timothy.

(III) Samuel, son of William (2) Manning,
was born July 21, 1644. About the time of
his marriage he settled in Billerica, and while
there his house was twice attacked by Indians.
In 1696 his house was made a garrison. He
was a corporal in 1682, sergeant in 1684, and
ensign in 1699. He was a farmer by occupa-
tion, and was a prominent man. He was sur-
veyor of highways in 1668; sealer of weights
and measures from 1675 to 1700: constable
1677; juryman 1679. assessor 1694-98 and
1702: tything man 1679-82-97 and 1704-09:

town clerk seven years ; selectman eighteen
years ; and deputy to the general court 1695-
96-97. He was admitted a freeman in 1670.
He was a large landholder and his will was
dated February 21, 1710. He married (first)
April 13, 1664, Elizabeth Stearns, who died
June 24, 1671. He married (second) May 6,
1673, Abiel Wight, born at Medfield, January
1, 1654, daughter of John and Ann Wight.
He died February 22, 1710-11. Children of
first wife: Samuel, mentioned below; John,
born 1666. Children of second wife:
Timothy, born February 4, 1674; died
March 12, 1674; Hannah, March 28,
1675 ; William, June 27, 1677 > Mary, Septem-
ber 12, 1679; Sarah, August 26, 1681 ; Doro-
thy, June 27, 1683 ; Isaac, April 15, 1685 ; Eph-
raim, born September 11, 1686; Elizabeth,
born March 14, 1689-90; Timothy, March 4,
1691-92; Eliphalet, July 28, 1693; Abiel, De-
cember 16, 1698.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Man-
ning, was born in Billerica about 1665. He
took the oath of allegiance September 8, 1681.
In 1693 the town of Billerica granted him
liberty to set up a shop and to lay timber
about, and set a cart near to the passage
over the river, during the time of his keeping
the ferry. He removed to Cambridge before
1695, and in that year had the custody of the
town's ammunition. In January, 1698, his
father sold to him the homestead at the south-
east corner of Dunster and South streets, Cam-
bridge, together with the boat house, etc. After
this, he is called "waterman" in deeds. In
1714 he bought land in Windham, Connecti-
cut, between, Merrick and Beaver brook. He
sold his Cambridge property, and after 1722
lived in Windham. His house was in that part
of the town which became the Scotland parish.
At Billerica he was highway surveyor in 1693.
At Cambridge he was sealer of weights and
measures thirteen years ; highway surveyor in
1702: inspector of the "Great bridge over the
Charlestown river" in 1704-05; constable
1707; clerk of the market 1715. At Windham
he was tything man and school committee in
1722; selectman four years, 1723-24-32-33.
He was also ensign of militia in Billerica. His
will was dated March 2, 1750, and he died at
Windham, February 20, 1755. He married
(first) Deborah Spalding, born at Chelmsford,
September 12, 1667, died August 8, 1727,
daughter of Edward Spalding. He married
(second) at Norwich, June 10, 1731, Sarah
Gale, of Canterbury, who died October n,
1746, (perhaps) widow of Richard Gale. Chil-
dren, all by first wife : Dorothy, born January
17, 1688-89; Samuel, January 14, 1690-91;
Sarah, October 1, 1693; Deborah, died Janu-

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ary 30, 1723-24, unmarried; John, baptized December 16. He enlisted in the first regi-

January 17, 1696-97, mentioned below; Abi- ment, which was transferred to Valley Forge

gail, baptized May 14, 1699; Elizabeth, born to Washington's Life Guards. This famous

November 21, 1701 ; Mary, born March 17, command was formed in 1776 of picked men.

1703-04; Joseph, baptized May 12, 1705. He continued in the Life Guards until 1780,

(V) John, son of Samuel (2) Manning, was and beat the drum at the execution of Major
baptized at Cambridge, January 17, 1696-97. Andre. In 1781 he was in Captain Paul Brig-
He was a cordwainer and "waterman," and re- ham's company, Colonel Isaac Sherman's reg-
sided in Cambridge until 1725, and in that iment. He was for many years the bell-ringer
year removed to Hopkinton, and about two of Norwich, and was jailer there during the
years later to Windham, Connecticut. He had French revolution. In 1800 the American ship
a saw mill there on Merrick brook. He was "Trumbull" took as a prize a vessel with a
fence viewer in 1743 and 1747; sealer of number of passengers seeking to escape the
leather 1736-38-43-44; grand juror 1736; con- dangers of the San Domingo war, and several
stable and collector 1738-42-44. He was lieu- of the prisoners were sent to Norwich, and
tenant of the second company of the train band held there until their release. One of the
at Windham, and three years later was made number, a young mulatto, was much impressed
captain. He was clerk of the parish in 1732, by the kindness shown them; his name was
and was a member of the Scotland society. Pierre Boyer, who afterwards became presi-
He died May 5, 1760, intestate. He married dent of the republic of Hayti, and, nearly
Abigail Winship, of Cambridge, baptized Oc- twenty years after his experience at Norwich,
tober 16, 1698, died July 30, 1770, daughter he sent a present of four hundred dollars to
of Joseph and Sarah (Harrington) Winship. Diah's widow in appreciation of the kindness
Children: Joseph, born July 15, 1718; John, shown him. Diah married, April 27, 1784,
July 10, 1720; Sarah, January 2, 1721-22, died Anne Gifford, of Norwich, born October 14,
February 13, 1736-37; Samuel, November 3, 1762, died September 30, 1851, daughter of
1723, mentioned below; Josiah, June 14, 1725 ; James and Susanna (Hubbard) Gifford.
Phineas, March 3, 1727; Abigail, September Children: 1. Samuel, born April 12, 1785. 2.
4, 1728; Irena, baptized September 20, 1730; Eunice, born December 28, 1786; died 182^.
Alice, born August 1, 1732; Susanna, October 3. Joanna, born December 25. 1788; died in
8, 1734; Sarah, October 28, 1737; Abiah, bap- her eightieth year; married February 14, 1813,
tized June 10, 1739. Jacob Lillie, son of Chester and Sarah (Tracy)

(VI) Samuel (3), son of John Manning, Lillie, born June 12, 1785, at Windbam. a
was born in Cambridge, November 3, soldier in the war of 1812; children: Warren
1723, and died at Norwich, November 9, Winslow Lillie, born March 14, 1814; Jane
1783. He settled at Norwich Town, and was Jerusha Lillie, born January 20, 1824, married,
a stone mason by trade. He served in the March 26. i8sq, Flavel S. Luther (Luther
revolution from July 22 to November 27, VIII) ; 3. William Lord, born April 4, 1791.
1775, in Captain Asa Kingsbury's company, 4. Asa, born August 3T, 1793 ; died September
Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment, sta- 10. 1793. 5. Asa, born November 26, T795.
tioned on the sound until September 14, and 6. Lemira, born June 8, 1798. 7. Joseph Terry,
then ordered to Boston camps and to Rox- born November 12, 1801 ; died February 7.
bury. He built a house, in 1750, on the road 1852.

to the burying ground. He married at Nor-

wich, September 21, 1746, his cousin, Anne Bolton is an ancient and hon-

Winship, of Charlestown, born September 24, BOLTON ored English surname. This

1728, died 1792. daughter of Joseph and Anna branch of the family was seated

Winship. Children, born at Norwich : Eunice, at Boltby chapelry, parish Feliskirk Wapen-

born August 3, 1747, died June 29, 175 1 ; take of Birdforth, North Riding of Yorkshire.

Samuel, September 13, 1749; Anne, died Sep- (I) John Bolton was baptized July 3, 1693.

tember 24, 1753, aged two years; Anne, died at Boltby and lived there. Children, born at

September 3, 1759, in her sixth year; Eunice, Boltby: Robert, mentioned below; William,

born January 24, 1756, died October 15, 1781 ; baptized February 28, 1724, died 1753; John.

Roger, born May 15, 1758; Diah, born Au- May 12, 1728, married Frances Johnson,

gust 24, 1760, mentioned below. (II) Robert, son of John Bolton, was bap-

(VII) Diah, son of Samuel (3) Manning, tized at Boltby, August 19, 1722. He was a
was born August 24, 1760, at Norwich, Con- weaver by trade. He married, at Boltby, De-
necticut, and died there August 25, 181 5. He cember 4, 1750, Mary Oxendale, who was
was a drummer in the revolution in Captain buried at Boltby, October 28, 1900. Children:
Asa Kingsbury's company from July 10 to Anne, baptized June 16, 1751 ; Christopher.

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February 7, 1754, mentioned below; William,
August 22, 1756; Anne, August 10, 1760;
John, July 8, 1762, February 26, 1765; Eliza-
beth, June 8, 1766.

(III) Christopher, son of Robert and Mary
(Oxendale) Bolton, was baptized at Boltby,
February 7, 1754; married there, January 29,
1774, Catherine Jackson. Children, born at
Boltby: Thomas, born November 24, 1774,
mentioned below; Elizabeth, born 1788, de-
ceased; Mary, baptized March 19, 1793; Rob-
ert, born 1796, died 1803; Christopher, bap-
tized March 22, 1789, married Elizabeth
Terry.

(IV) Thomas, son of Christopher and
Catherine (Jackson) Bolton, was born at
Boltby, November 24, 1774, and died in Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, May 12, 1846. He came to
America in 1807, with his wife and four chil-
dren, resided for a short time in Newfound-
land, and removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where he made his permanent home, and suc-
cessfully engaged in the watch, clock and
jewelry business.

Thomas Bolton married at Leeds, Au-
gust 19, 1801, Sarah Siminson, born at High
Kilburn, Yorkshire, April 9, 1782. She died
at Halifax, December 28, 1858. Children: 1.
James, born July, 1802; died, Halifax, October
28, 1825. 2. Thomas, February 9, 1804; died,
Halifax, July 17, 1876; married Anne For-
syth. 3. Elizabeth, baptized May 24, 1805, at
Chester-la-Street, Durham ; died September
10, 1873; married, Halifax, Thomas Laidlaw.
4. Robert, baptized at Hamsterley, county
Durham; lost at sea in 1848, on a voyage from
Calcutta to London; married (first) Charlotte
Dixon. 5. Christopher, born July 5, 1808, in
Newfoundland; died September 29, 1855;
married Elizabeth Granville Wright ; she died
July 1, 1879. 6. John Barnett, born Septem-
ber 18, 1810; died in Boston, Massachusetts,
December 26, 1893 ; married October 26, 1837,
Sarah Ann Davis; she died May 1, 1896. 7.
William, born June 25, 1812; married (first),
Mary Ann King, born at Rye, England ; died
at Hartwick, New York; (second) Harriet
Self, born at Bunnell, England, June 23, 1824;
died at Wallingford, Connecticut, May, 1901.
8. Mary Ann, born February 9, 1814; married
January 6, 1839, Joseph Wilson. 9. Cathar-
ine, born April 7, 1816; died March 17, 1894;
married (first) Henry S. McNeil; (second)
Rev. A. Martell. 10. George Siminson, born
October 29, 181 7; mentioned below. 11.
Charles, born 1819; died September 20, 1820.
12. Charles Henry, born 1821 ; died, New
Haven, Connecticut, April 4, 1881 ; married
Isabel Lay; she died, New Haven, 1898. 13.
Sarah Jane, born 1824; died 1885; married

Gideon D. Martin. 14. Margaret, born 1827;
died 1879.

(V) George Siminson, son of Thomas and
Sarah (Siminson) Bolton, was born in Nova
Scotia, October 29, 1817, and died September
20, 1900. He married, September 24, 1843,
Elizabeth Walker, who died May 5, 1901.
Children born in Halifax : George Walker,
September 18, 1844; David Thomas, July 26,
1846, married, October 11, 1873, Fannie H.
Fagneau; Anne Wyman, February 11, 1850;
James Robert, September 5, 1852, mentioned
below ; Maria Lyle and Arthur Hugh, twins,
July 15, 1855, he married, April 15, 1886,
Amelia Platts ; Inglis Havelock, February 3,
1858, died in 1876.

(VI) James Robert, son of George Simin-
son and Elizabeth Granville (Wright) Bolton,
was born at Halifax, September 5, 1852. He
was educated at Halifax and came to New
Haven, Connecticut, in 1872. He is a member
of the Young Men's Republican Club. He
married, May 14, 1884, Frances S.' Sheldon,
born September 22, 1863, daughter of Hon.
Joseph Sheldon. (See Sheldon VIII.) Mrs.
Bolton is a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and of the Mothers'
Club of New Haven. Children : Clarence
Havelock, born August 31, 1891 ; Joseph Shel-
don Gerry, October 6, 1893 ; Dorothea, Sep-
tember 5, 1895 ; Frances, May 29, 1904.

John Sheldon, progenitor of
SHELDON the Sheldon family here con-
sidered, had a son William,
who had sons: John, mentioned below, and
William.

(III) John (2), son of William Sheldon,
settled in Kingston, Rhode Island, where he
died in 1706. He and forty-one others of
Narragansett signed a petition to the king
July 29, 1679, "to end the differences about
the government thereof which hath been so
fatal to the prosperity of the place, animosi-
ties still arising in people's minds, as they
stand affected to this or that government." He
bought two hundred and thirty acres of land,
October 20, 1683, near Pettasomscott of Ben-
jamin Congdon for seven pounds. He was
taxed in 1687. His will was dated August 15,
1704, and proved January 16, 1706. His
eldest son John was executor and residuary
legatee. Children : John ; Isaac, mentioned
below ; Joseph ; Elizabeth, married Daniel
Sunderland ; Abigail ; Mary ; Dinah.

(IV) Isaac, son of John (2) Sheldon, was
born and lived at South Kingston, Rhode Is-
land. He was admitted a freeman in 1712.
He died in 1752. He married (first) Susanna
Potter, who died, and he married (second)

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Sarah . His will was dated May 3,

1 75 1, and proved August 25, 1752. Isaac was
executor and residuary legatee. Children, born
at South Kingston : Thomas, February 18,
1709, settled at Pawlings, New York; Roger,
December 15, 1710, mentioned below; Eliza-
beth, November 8, 1713 ; Isaac, March 4,
1716, lived at North Kingston; John, August
21, 1718. called "Pedlar John"; Susanna, Oc-
tober 23, 1720; Joseph, March 17, 1721, set-
tled at Stephentown, New York ; Palmer
(Valmer or Parmelee), May 16, 1724; Benja-
min, March 4, 1727, settled at Stephentown;
child of second wife: Sarah, January 3, 1733.

(V) Roger, son of Isaac Sheldon, was born
at South Kingston, December 15, 1710. He
married Giffe Sweet. Children, born at South
Kingston: Susanna, 1744, married George
Babcock; Charles, 1746, of Sangerfield, New
York; Alice, 1748, married Lewis Stephen;
Mary, 1750; William, mentioned below; Amy,
1753, married John Lewis; Sarah, 1755, of
Sterling, Connecticut; Roger, 1757; Giffe,
I75Q.

(VI) William (2), son of Roger Sheldon,
was born at South Kingston, in 1751. He
married Ruth Bishop. Children: William,
born 1779; John, 1781, died 1817; Joseph,
mentioned below; Susan, 1787; Mary, 1789;
Lucinda, 1791 ; William, 1793; Daniel Bishop,
1799.

(VII) Colonel Joseph Sheldon, son of Wil-
liam (2) Sheldon, was born in 1783. He set-
tled in Watertown, New York, and became
prominent in public affairs and the state mi-
litia. He married Hepzibah Richardson.
Children, born at Watertown : Tilly R., 1810,
lived at Rodman, New York; Mary, 181 1. died
young; Susan, 1812, married Jenckes P.
Thompson; Mary, 1814, married Willard L.
Eddy; Harriet, 1820; Bishop, 1822, of San
Francisco; John, 1824, of San Francisco; Jo-
seph, mentioned below ; Mark, 1829, of San
Francisco ; Seth, 1834, died young.

(VIII) Hon. Joseph (1) Sheldon, son of
Colonel Joseph (2) and Hepzibah (Richard-
son) Sheldon, was born January 7. 1828, at
Watertown, Jefferson county, New York. His
early boyhood was passed on his father's farm,
in work and in attending the district school.
When fourteen years of age, he began teach-
ing school, and taught through the winters of
1842-43, 1843-44, with flattering success. He
then decided upon a college course, and in the
spring of 1845, began preparing to enter Ham-
ilton College at Clinton, New York. He
studied at Union Academy, at Rodman, New
York, and later at the Black River Literary
and Religious Institute at Watertown, which
was then under the direction of Rev. J. R.

Boyd, a Presbyterian clergyman. Owing to
failing health, however, he was obliged to give
up the plan of a college course, but continued
to study at Union Academy at Belleville, New
York. The years of 1846 and 1847 ne al-
ternated in study and teaching at various
places in New York state. In May, 1848, he
gave up the charge of the large school at
Watertown and set out on a tour of investiga-
tion in order to discover what help the newly
established scientific and agricultural schools
at New York, New Haven and Cambridge
could bring to practical farming. He found
the expense of a course of study at any one of
these institutions too great for him to under-
take. Accidentally, however, he met in New
Haven the late Dr. ' Taylor, who persuaded
him to enter the undergraduate department of
Yale College. In the fall of 1848 he accord-
ingly joined the sophomore class, and gradu-
ated in 185 1. While in college, he distin-
guished himself in debate and English
composition.

Upon his graduation, he at once began prep-
aration for the law, studying first at Water-
town, and later in the Yale Law School, from
which he graduated in 1853, with the degree
of M. A. In the winter of 1852, when Kos-
suth, the Hungarian patriot, visited the United
States, Mr. Sheldon was selected by the stu-
dents from all departments of Yale to prepare
the address which was sent from that institu-
tion to the patriot. Both before and after his
graduation, Mr. Sheldon was a student in the
law office of Hon. E. K. Foster, of New
Haven, and soon found considerable legal
business on his hands. He speedily won repu-
tation in his profession and a lucrative prac-
tice. He early formed a partnership with
Lyman E. Munson, which was continued until
the latter was appointed by President Lincoln
a district judge of Montana. In 1854 he also
taught in the famous Military and Scientific
School of General Russell and Major Skinner,
at New Haven. At the same time he insti-
tuted and for two years conducted very suc-
cessfully "The People's Lectures," chiefly with
a view of aiding the slavery question and
partly with the idea of exciting a more stir-
ring intellectual life. These lectures took up
so much of his time, however, that he was
obliged to abandon them.

In politics he has been most of his life a
Republican. In the campaign of 1856, he took
an active part for Fremont. As a young man.
he was bitterly opposed to slavery and took a
leading part in the debates of that period. He
was among the active Abolistionists of New
Haven, and was one of the few who never
shrank from assisting the fugitive slaves. Soon

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after the election of President Lincoln, for tions of the Societies of the Red Cross held at

which Mr. Sheldon labored zealously, the lat- Geneva. He drew and delivered the address

ter was employed by several of the leading of the American delegation on one of the

carriage-makers of New Haven upon the per- most important controverted questions before

ilous undertaking of settling their claims in the conference, and the question was carried

the southern states. He went south by way unanimously

of Baltimore, Norfolk and Weldon, and at Judge Sheldon has been connected with a
Wilson, a little town forty miles below Wei- number of business enterprises and as a man-
don, he was finally compelled by a drunken ager of business corporations has been remark-
mob to turn back. A guard was placed over ably successful. He has also given a great deal
him to make sure that he actually did leave of attention to the development of real estate.
the state. On his return to New Haven, he He became the owner of the foreign patents
addressed a large audience in Music Hall on for a singularly ingenious machine for the
his "Southern Experiences." manufacture of brushes, the perfecting of
During the civil war he assisted in sustain- which, and of the other necessary machinery,
ing an advanced public sentiment and in pro- and the establishment in London, of the busi-
curing enlistments. He believed that the ness, occupied much of his time for six years,
negro must eventually be employed as a sol- In 1874, he sold out his holdings to a joint
dier, and at one time, when negro orphan asy- stock corporation, which continued and en-
lums were being sacked in New York, Mr. larged the business on the lines originally laid
Sheldon quietly got together a company of out by him, until the establishment has become
thirty or forty colored men, and at midnight, the largest, most perfect and most profitable
in the basement of Music Hall, instructed brush-making concern in the world,
them in military drill, under strict secrecy. Judge Sheldon became a Free Mason in
Later when the negroes were called out, al- 1883, and in the following year became a
most every one of these men became a non- member of the Connecticut Society of Arts
commissioned officer in the twenty-ninth or and Sciences. Besides his political efforts in
thirtieth Regiment and inspired confidence by public speaking, he is well known for his
his military knowledge and aptness. In 1872 Fourth of July Memorial addresses and his
Mr. Sheldon supported Horace Greeley for oration on the death of President Garfield,
the presidency. On a number of occasions he For thirty years he has been an indefatigable
has frankly differed from the Republican party student of political economy and finance. It
on questions of public policy. Early in the has been the dominant feature of the best
seventies, he vigorously opposed the financial years of his life, and he has worked tirelessly
policy of the government, which was leading and sacrificed his own interests consciously
towards the "resumption" that finally pre- and constantly in order to arouse the people
vailed. In the fall of 1875, he began a series to an appreciation of the great importance of
of public meetings in New Haven to resist an intelligent understanding of national finan-
the destruction of the greenbacks and to favor cial policy. He is a strong bimetallist, and has
the remonetization of silver. In May of the delivered a great many addresses on the sub-
following year, he delivered, by invitation of ject, the most important one being before the
the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, an American Social Science Association at Sara-
address before that body on the "Currency," toga. He was for twenty years a leading
which has been widely published. He has long member of the National Bimetallic League and
been known as an enthusiastic and efficient was one of the few Eastern Republicans who
advocate of temperance and woman's suffrage, left their party in 1896 because of their at-
From 1879 to 1882, he served the city of New titude on the money question, and worked vig-
Haven as alderman. He was chairman of the orously for William J. Bryan in that year and
committees to which were referred the proj- again in 1900. Every department of thought
ect of the Western Boulevard sewer and the or action to which Judge Sheldon has turned
retention and repair of the State House, and Ids attention has felt the power of his search-
the reports of those committees were drawn ing criticism and vigorous personality. As a
by him. In 1881-83 he held the judgeship of thinker he is farsighted and consistent, an un-
the city court. In 1881 he was appointed by daunted opponent of evil and fearless exponent
Governor Bigelow to represent the state in of the truth as he sees it. Every great reform
the Tariff Convention in New York, where he of the last half of the nineteenth century has
delivered an address. In 1884, he was dele- found in him a zealous and able champion,
gated by the government of the United States In religion he is a Unitarian, but as there was
and also by the National Association of the no church of that denomination in New
Red Cross, to a conference of the treaty na- Haven, he became identified with the Uni-

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versalist Society, and for years took an active
part in the Sabbath school and the conference
meetings of that church. He has also been a
generous contributor to the Society's support.
September 7, 1861, Judge Sheldon mar-
ried Abby, daughter of Samuel Elbridge
Barker, of Onondaga county, New York, a
grandnephew of Hon. Elbridge Gerry, of Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Sheldon, like her father, was
on terms of special friendship with the early
Abolitionists of central New York, Gerrit
Smith, Samuel J. May and Fred Douglass.
They have had two daughters. 1. Frances,
born September 22, 1863, married James Rob-
ert Bolton (see Bolton VI). 2. Elizabeth
Barker Sheldon Tillingham.

The surname Atwood orig-
ATWOOD mated in the custom of desig-
nating persons by the locality
in which they lived to distinguish them from
others bearing the same baptismal name, hence
John At-the-wood, later Atwood, in the same
way that such surnames as Rivers, Hill,
Bridge, Pond, etc., came into use. The me-
dieval spelling of this surname was Atte
Wode, modified to Atwood and in most cases
to Wood. Some branches of the family, how-
ever, have retained the prefix and spell the
name Atwood. There were several immi-
grants named Wood and Atwood, closely re-
lated, who settled early in the Plymouth
Colony.

(I) Dr. Thomas Atwood, immigrant, a
descendant of Thomas Atwood, of Bromfield,
Essex, England, was born in England and was
one of Oliver Cromwell's captains of horse
during what is known as the first civil war
in England, and he took part, it is said, in the
four great battles of that mighty struggle be-
tween Puritan and the King, including that
of Marston Moor, July 2, 1644. He settled at
Plymouth about 1650, but as early as 1663
removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where
he died in 1682. At the age of fifty-nine years

he married, in 1667, Abigail , a girl of

seventeen, whom he had seen a baby in arms
at the first house at which he stayed after
coming to the New World. He built a brick
mansion at Wethersfield. He was engaged
in the West India trade. As a doctor he rode
from Saybrook to Woodbury. He owned
much land. Children : Abigail, born Septem-
ber 30, 1668; Andrew, September 1, 1671 ;
Jonathan, June 8, 1675, mentioned below ;
Josiah, October 4, 1678; Mary, May 29, 1681.

(II) Dr. Jonathan Atwood, son of Dr.
Thomas Atwood, was born June 8. 1675. died
January I, 1733. He settled in Woodbury,
Connecticut, among the earliest. He owned

land there, now known as the Dr. G. H. At-
wood homestead, having remained in the fam-
ily to the present time. He was a physician,
one of the first in this section. He married,
November 15, 1701, Sarah Terrill. Children,
born at Woodbury: Nathan, September 6,
1702; Mary, April 20, 1705; Lieutenant Jona-
than, September 9, 1710; Oliver, mentioned
below.

(III) Oliver, son of Dr. Jonathan Atwood,
was born in Woodbury, March 11, 1717, died
January 30, 1810. He married (first) Novem-
ber 12, 1740, Lois Wheeler; (second) Nancy
Wells; (third) Naomi Fairchild. Children,
born at Woodbury: Nathan, 1741, mentioned
below; Gideon, March 3, 1743; Elisha, April
27, 1745, died May 24, 1825; Ann, June 3,
1747; John, March 19, 1749. Children of sec-
ond wife : Wells, married Lydia Carrington ;
Nancy, married twice.

(IV) Deacon Nathan, son of Oliver At-
wood, was born in 1741 at Woodbury, died in
1803. He married, January 4, 1763, Rhoda
Warner. Children, born at Watertown, for-
merly Woodbury, Connecticut: Mary, June 1,
1765; Nathan, May 30, 1767, mentioned be-
low; Joseph, September 28, 1770; Daniel. July
8, 1772; Abel, February 13, 1779.

(V) Nathan (2), son of Deacon Nathan
(1) Atwood, was born at Watertown, May
30, 1767, died in 1853. He married (first)
Susanna Minor; (second) Althea Gillette.
Children, born at Watertown: Salina, baptized
February 8, 1789; Rev. Anson S., baptized
October 17, 1790; Norman, baptized 1792,
mentioned below ; Nathan W. ; Alma, married
Lester Sutler?.

(VI) Norman, son of Nathan (2) Atwood,
was baptized at Watertown in 1792. He set-
tled in Goshen, Connecticut. He married Abi-
gail Woodward, of Watertown, a descendant
of Henry Woodward, who was one of the
early settlers of Boston. Children : Lucius.
settled in Bristol; Lucinda (twin), married

West; Belinda (twin), married Henry

Daniels ; Rebecca ; Frederick, married in Cin-
cinnati ; George ; Cornelia, married Joshua
Reed ; Lewis John, mentioned below ; William.

(VII) Lewis John, son of Norman Atwood,
was born in Goshen, April 8, 1827. Healthy
and active in his boyhood, he learned in early
life habits of industry and self-reliance. His
youth was spent partly on a farm in the coun-
try, partly in the village. He attended the
public schools and had little time for play. He
was fond of mechanics and early in life de-
veloped much skill, but he was obliged to earn
his livelihood and took the opportunity first
at hand and worked as clerk in a store at Wa-
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five years he divided his time between the
store, the farm, the grist mill and saw mill.
In 1845 ne left Watertown for Waterbury and
continued in mercantile business there. At
the age of twenty-one he entered partnership
with Samuel Maltby, of Northford, Connecti-
cut, in the manufacture of buckles and buttons,
but they lacked capital, and he soon returned
to mercantile business, as clerk in a flour and
feed store. He next embarked in business on
his own account as a manufacturer of daguer-
reotype cases, lamp burners and other brass
goods. In January, 1869, he and others organ-
ized the firm of Holmes, Booth & Atwood, now
Lie well-known Plume & Atwood Manufac-
turing Company. At first he had charge of a
department in the manufacture of lamp burn-
ers for kerosene lamps, etc. When the con-
cern was incorporated as the Holmes, Booth
& Atwood Manufacturing Company he was
one of the principal stockholders. The busi-
ness grew rapidly to large proportions and be-
came one of the most prosperous industries of
the city of Waterbury. From 1874 to 1890 he
was secretary of the corporation ; since that
time until his death he was the president. In
1865 he became interested also in the Ameri-
can Ring Company and for many years was
the manager of that company.

From the time he engaged in manufactur-
ing, Mr. Atwood displayed his great inventive
genius in many patented devices. During a
period of forty years he took out seventy
patents, many of which proved of great value
and usefulness to the world and brought him
a handsome financial return. Perhaps no me-
chanic in the world did more to develop the
science of domestic lighting. He devised many
burners for oil and kerosene lamps, various
lamps and fixtures for all kinds of uses. He
built an ingenious hydraulic press for forcing
scrap metal into a compact form to prepare it
for remelting, a process formerly accom-
plished by pounding the metal with hammers
in a cast-iron vessel, technically known as
"cabbaging." Mr. Atwood's process is in gen-
eral use at the present time. Mr. Atwood's
substantial success as an inventor and manu-
facturer gave him a place in the front rank of
the industrial and financial leaders of this city
of large and varied manufacturing interests.

Mr. Atwood was an earnest and practical
Christian, a member for many years of the
Second Congregational Church, of which he
was deacon since 1884, and he served on the
building committee when the present fine edi-
fice was erected. He was president of the
Young Men's Christian Association of Water-
bury for five years and was chairman of the
building committee of that organization when

the present home was constructed and paid for.
He was generous in other charities and active
in other benevolent organizations. In politics
he was a Republican. He died February 23,
1909, after a short illness. Faithful, upright
and conscientious in business and private life,
Mr. Atwood expected others to follow his ex-
ample, and his influence has been most whole-
some as an employer and citizen.

He married, January 12, 1852, Sarah Eliza-
beth, daughter of Almon Piatt. Children:
Elizabeth Elvina, died in childhood; Frances
Finnette, married Albert J. Blakesley; Irving
Lewis, born May 19, 1861, married Jennie
Ford, of Lakeville, Connecticut ; he is the only
surviving child ; now a resident of Waterbury.

At the funeral his pastor, Rev. Dr. J. G.
Davenport, said :

"Of the notable group of far-seeing and en-
ergetic men, who have built their life into this
rapidly-growing community, I suspect that there
is scarcely one whose influence has been more
uniformly valuable and inspiring, conservative of
all that was best among us and ever looking
for something better, with clearer vision and
more progressive spirit establishing our city's
industrial life upon sound and enduring foun-
dations, than he whom we mourn to-day. To
him and his fellow workers our city owes more
than it can ever repay. To-day it honors this
our brother's memory. In the humble home of
many a laborer his name is mentioned with re-
spect and regard. In every class of society
among us his departure awakens keen regret.
This great gathering testifies to the place he
held in the thought and esteem of Waterbury.
Through skillful management of men and of
matters, by the exercise of habitual integrity
and faithfulness to obligation, by business fore-
sight and enterprise which never failed him, he
has made his way quite to the front among our
useful and honored citizens. We rejoice in all
that he has accomplished; we are proud of his
successes: we feel that in many respects he
presents a model for the imitation of our youth."

"One of our city papers represents him as sav-
ing what in one form or another many of us
have heard him declare as advice to the young
man who would make a success of life: 'Be hon-
est and truthful; lose sight of yourself in your
interest in your employer's prosperity; have the
courage of your convictions in matters of right
and wrong; use the best judgment at your com-
mand in dealing with men and affairs; be kindly,
considerate in your relations with others; give
good heed to the needs of your higher nature
and you will not fail to succeed in life.' These
are sentiments worthy to be written in letters
of gold and placed in sight of all the youths
of our city. I wish that they might be hung
upon the walls of our Young Men's Christian
Association, where those who gather there could
read and think upon them and apply them to
their own profit. * * * We would have been
glad_ for_ many years to sit under the shadow
of his wisdom and grace, but he had more than
completed four-score years, the work of his life
was done and well done, he has made an im-
pression for good that will abide, he has left
with us a noble and inspiring memory, and has

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gone on to the realization of the hopes he so
fondly cherished."

Bryant's poem, "The Old Man's Funeral,"
was read at the close of the address.

Hungerford is an an-
HUNGERFORD cient English surname,

derived originally from
the name of a locality. All of the name appear
to be descended from a family to which Sir
Thomas Hungerford. the first of the name of
any historical prominence, belonged. He is
said to have begun life in the humble situation
of register of Wyvie, Bishop of Salisbury, and
he was elected mayor of that city in 1360. Sir
Thomas is reported to have been the first
speaker (1377) of the House of Commons.
He afterwards passed into the service of John
of Gaunt as his steward ; and when that noble
was tried before a parliament held at Salisbury
on a charge of treason, Sir Thomas fortified
his castle at Farley, for which he was after-
ward fined.

Farley Castle, the home of Sir Thomas, was
at Blark Bounton, County Oxford, and his
monument there shows that he died in 1398.
The remains of this castle where Sir Thomas
and his proud line of descendants lived for six
centuries or more, is now recognized by a few
embattled turrets, and some monumental effi-
gies and inscriptions. A curious fragment of
painted glass in a window of the parish church
(not the chapel within the castle walls) com-
memorates the purchase of this Manor of Far-
ley and has a portrait of Sir Thomas. This
relict, according to the rector of the parish,
from whom this ancient history of the family
was obtained, confirms what is related by Dug-
dale, that Sir Thomas was buried in the north
aisle of the Church of St. Ann at Farley. The
rector found also this account of the castle :

"The sayde Castell, standeth in a Parke, leny-
ing into a hyllside, portly and very strongly
buylded. having inward and outward wardes,
and in the inward warde. many fayne chambers,
a fayne, large hall, on the hedde of whych hall
ijj or iij goodly chambers with fayre and strong
rofs, and dyo's other fayre lodgings with man
howses of office. The parke wherein the sayde
Castell standeth, ys ij myles and iij q'rtes in
circuit, a very fayre and sikley grounds, being
envyroned rounde about with high hylls, and
in the myddel, a broke, and depe rounying
streme rounying throw it, and harde by the
Castell wall, a very well set with great Okes,
and other Woodde, whych is valued to be
worthe ccccij and is replenished with xxxj dere
of antler and xiiij of rascall and the Kings hugh-
ness doeth gyve by reason of the sayde Castell
iij advowsons and ij chauntyres, while ij Chaun-
tryes doe stand within the walls of the Castell
and the sayde Castle ys worthe in rents, farmes
and causalities in, 111,111, 111,111."

Sir Thomas Hungerford purchased the
charter of a fee warren at Down Anney,
Gloucestershire, in 1398. The place is partly
in Wiltshire. There remains a stately gate-
way leading to the mansion in which are some
traces of the ancient building. This portal is
flanked by two handsome turrets and is grand
and appropriate in its style of architecture.
This ancient mansion still retains more of its
baronial grandeur than any other existing resi-
dence of the Hungerfords ; especially in its old
hall and gateway. The burial vaults there
contain the remains of Sir Edward and Lady
Margaret (Holliday) Hungerford, Culme or
Columb Hungerford and others of the family.
The vault underneath the Hungerford Chapel
at Farley Castle, mentioned above, is remark-
able for a number of leaden coffins shaped like
the Egyptian mummy cases tapering from the
shoulders to the feet and having the features
of a face in strong relief on the coffin. The
Farley estate remained in the Hungerford
family until 171 1, when the last of the direct
male line died. He was extravagant, it is
said, and to him is attributed the demolition
of the family house in London, on the site of
which now stands the Hungerford Market.
The name is extinct in England, but branches
of the family survive in Ireland, it is said, as
well as in America. A saying of Sir Thomas
has been preserved : "Tyme Tryeth Truth."
The sickle was the emblem on the ancient
coat-of-arms of the family and is to be seen
in various buildings in the vicinity of the old
seat of the family, notably in Salisbury Cathe-
dral. Two almshouses, we are informed, are
still in existence in England, founded before
1450 by members of the Hungerford family.

(I) Thomas Hungerford, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England and came to this
country, as a mariner, when a young man. In
1639 ne owned a triangular piece of land, with
a house, at Hartford, Connecticut. He moved
to Pequot, now New London, and shortly af-
terward cleared the land on which the fort
now stands. He died in 1663, leaving four
children. He married (second), in 1650,
Hannah, daughter of Isaac Wyllis of New
London. She married, later, Samuel Spen-
cer. Children of the first wife : Thomas, men-
tioned below; Sarah, born about 1751, married
Lewis Hughes. Children of second wife:
Hannah, May 1, 1759.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Hun-
gerford, was born about 1648, and removed
from New London to Hadlyme, Connecticut,
about 1692. He was a blacksmith by trade.
He had a grant of land at Haddam, Connecti-
cut, and lived in the part now called Hadlyme.
He mentions his wife and children in his will,

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dated January n, and proved, February 5,
1713-14. Children : Thomas, mentioned below,
John ; Green ; Elizabeth ; Susanna ; Sarah ;
Mary Esther.

(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Hungerford, was born about 1680. He was
a seafaring' man, and died in 1750 at Xew
London on his return from a voyage. His
family lived on a farm on Eight-Mile river,
Haddam. He married Elizabeth Smith. Chil-
dren, born at Haddam : Hannah, August 16,
1700; Thomas, July it, 1702; Benjamin, De-
cember 15, 1705: Elizabeth, December 4, 1707;
David, baptized May 21. 17 10, and died during
the French and Indian war in the service ;
Jonathan, baptized April 17, 1715 ; John, men-
tioned below.

(IV) Captain John Hungerford, son of
Thomas (3) Hungerford, was born at Had-
dam, March 4, 1718-19. He was prominent
in military affairs. In 1751-52 he removed to
Farmington and in May, 1754, was commis-
sioned by the general assembly of Connecti-
cut, ensign of the train band of that town, the
sixth company. In May, 1757, he was ap-
pointed lieutenant of the train band in the
parish of New Cambridge, now Bristol, for-
merly in the town of Farmington, and in May,
• i 758, he became captain of this company in
the First Company. He died in Southington,
December 24, 1787, and was buried in the old
burial ground at Plainville, Hartford county.
His epitaph is as follows :

"Behold and see as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you must he.
Prepare for death and follow me."

He had a seat in the meeting house in 1785 ;
was assessed on one hundred and eighty seven
pounds in 1786, at Southington.

He married (first), December 27, 1739, De-
borah, daughter of John Hungerford, a dis-
tant relative. She died March 6, 1745, and he
married (second) Lucy , who died Feb-
ruary 10, 1798, aged seventy-seven years. Chil-
dren of first wife : Levi and Thomas. Children
of second wife : Oliver, Uriah, Amasa, De-
borah, John, Lucy, Elizabeth, Huldah and
Lydia.

(V) John (2), son of Captain John (1)
Hungerford, was born about 1755. He was
assessed for eightv-five pounds two shillings,
three pence, in 1786. In 1790 he was the only
head of family of the name in Southington
and had four sons under sixteen and two fe-
males in his family. He was a soldier in the
revolution. 1777-81, in Captain Holmes's com-
pany, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment.

( VI) John (3), son of John (2) Hungerford,
was born in 1787 in Southington and lived in

Harwinton. He died in 1856. He was a suc-
cessful general merchant until 1836 when he
engaged in business as a woolen manufacturer.
He built the building occupied later by the
firm of Agard & Church ; removed the dwell-
ing built by John Brooker, and on that site
he built the house lately owned by J. W. Coe.
His mill was destroyed by fire in 1844. He
then formed the Union Manufacturing Com-
pany in partnership with F. H. Hollv, and
built the present woolen mill at Torrington.
He had been previously one of three equal
stockholders of the brass mill, and finally .utc-
ceeded to the ownership of the entire property.
He became one of the most substantial and
prosperous business men of Torrington. He
was kindly and benevolent, upright and honor-
able in all the relations of life. He married
(first) Elizabeth Webster, of Albany, who
came to Wolcottville about 1813. She died
June 12, 1819, and he married (second), June

5, 1820, Charlotte Austin. Children of first
wife : 1. John Taylor, born June 4, 181 5 ; mar-
ried Susan McQuarter in Georgia. 2. Eliza-
beth, married Dr. White of Connecticut. Chil-
dren of second wife : 3. Walter M., born Feb-
ruary 6, 1822 ; married Amy Swift, of Dutchess
county, New York ; merchant with store at
Torrington, succeeding his father ; removed in
1874 to Mount Pleasant, Iowa; children:
Mary, Frances, Morton S.. Charles B. and
Harry. 4. Austin N., born October 20, 1824;
married Sarah Prindle ; died November, 1873 ;
son: Harvey Prindle. 5. Charlotte, April 15,
1825; died October 15, 1826. 6. Rev. Edward,
September 11, 1829; married Maria Buell, of
Burlington, Vermont; minister at Meriden,
Connecticut ; children : Caroline, Charles L.,
Charlotte, Frederic B., and Catharine. 7.
Dana L., born April 19, 1827; merchant in
New York City ; married Caroline Grace, of
Hartford. 8. Charlotte A., born July 8, 183 1 ;
died June 13, 1909; married Dr. Roger Olm-
stead, of Brooklyn, New York. 9. Frances
A., October, 1833: married Dr. J. B. Whiting.
10. Ellen L. (twin), born July 13, 1837; mar-
ried George Foot. 11. Helen (twin), born July
13, 1837, died January 7, 1838. 12. George
D., August 25, 1840: died August 25, 1840.
13. Uri T., December 14, 1841 ; married Delia
Hyde, who died March 18, 1870; one child
died in infancy. 14. Frank Louis, November

6, 1843 ; mentioned below.

(VII) Frank Louis, son of John (3) Hun-
gerford, was born at Torrington, November
6, 1843. He attended the public schools and
by private study fitted for college. After two
years in the University of Vermont, he ac-
cepted an opportunity to study law in the
office of Senator George F. Edmunds, at Burl-

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ington, Vermont. He was admitted to the
bar in 1865 and could have remained in Burl-
ington in charge of Senator Edmund's prac-
tice, but he preferred to return to Connecticut,
and he opened his office in his native town in
1866. He was successful from the first, and
soon afterward was elected judge of probate.
In 1869 he removed to New Britain, Connecti-
cut, to become the partner of Hon. Charles E.
Mitchell, afterward Commissioner of Patents
of the United States, under the firm name of
Mitcbell & Hungerford. Some twenty years
later John P. Bartlett was admitted to the
firm and the name changed to Mitchell, Hun-
gerford & Bartlett. His firm occupied a posi-
tion of prominence among the lawyers of the
state for a generation and Judge Hungerford
was one of tbe foremost attorneys of the
county. He was city attorney of New Britain
and corporation counsel, and his influence and
wisdom contributed substantially to the devel-
opment of the thriving city in which he lived.
He was a director of the Russell & Erwin
Manufacturing Company, the Stanley Rule &
Level Company, the New Britain National
Bank, the Burritt Savings Bank and the New
Britain Institute. He was an active and prom-
inent member of the First Church of Christ,
and was elected deacon in 1874. He was one
of the mainstays of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, and from 1889 t0 i9oij a
period of twelve years was its president. In
1897 Judge Hungerford's law firm was dis-
solved and he became the head of the firm of
Hungerford, Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman of Hart-
ford and continued in this relation until his
death. This firm ranks among the best known
and most successful in the state. In politics
he was a Republican, but he declined public
office in later years, though his advice was
often sought in shaping useful legislation, and
his influence was acknowledged by the leaders
of his party. He received from the University
of Vermont the honorary degree of Master of
Arts in recognition of his achievements in law
and public life. Frank Louis Hungerford
married, December 21, 1869, Sarah A., born,
New Britain, July 6, 1841, daughter of Wil-
liam A. Churchill. Children : William Church-
ill, see forward; Florence, died, aged six
years ; Belle, died, aged two years ; Frank
Mills, died, aged fourteen years.

From the eulogy of Charles Elliott Mitchell,
formerly his partner, at a special meeting of
the Hartford County Bar, held in the Superior
Court room at Hartford, June 25, 1909, we
quote :

"From the first he exhibited great aptitude
for all forms of legal business, especially those
which brought into requisition the exercise of

sound judgment and the faculty of presenting
causes in such a way as to be thoroughly un-
derstood by men of common sense. Early in
the development of the partnership life, my at-
tention was diverted in the direction of patent
litigation, and a mutual arrangement was made
which caused the major portion of the general
law business to devolve upon Mr. Hungerford,
while his partner devoted himself largely to
causes involving the law of patents. This di-
vision of labor proved a happy one, and was
maintained for the most part during the whole
life of the partnership of nearly thirty years.
Mr. Hungerford served as judge of probate first
in Torrington and afterwards in New Britain,
acquitting himself in those positions with his
customary judgment and integrity. In 1897 he
became the senior partner of the firm of Hun-
gerford, Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman in this city. As
the head of the firm he met all the demands of
a large business, keeping him closely confined to
his law practice, acquiring a great reputation as
a trial lawyer and never seeking or accepting
office, excepting where the legal function was
the dominant one. * * * He drew to him-
self the respect of all by the influence which he
unconsciously exerted, and this respect increased
as the sphere of his influence broadened from
year to year. He became the corporation coun-
sel of the city of New Britain at a time of rapid
change in the growth and needs of the rising
young city. The city grew with the rapidity of
a western township. The old charter, which had
served its day, had become an outworn gar-
ment. The town and city governments were
to be amalgamated. The sewer problem pre-
sented unending perplexities. The public water
system called for enlargement and an increased
supply. In all directions, change and growth
presented problems which called for command-
ing ability and a legal leader. Mr. Hungerford
was corporation counsel during nearly the whole
of this period of development. His advice was
followed without misgiving; such was the pub-
lic confidence in his legal knowledge, his wis-
dom and probity and personal disinterested-
ness, that practically all of his decisions and di-
rections were accepted as decisive by political
opponents as well as political adherents. If any
exception existed, it was so rare as to prove
the rule. It rarely happens that public confi-
dence is so completely centered in any one legal
adviser as it was in Mr. Hungerford. All be-
lieved that he had the learning and wisdom
called for by all the complexities and problem-
of the city and its government, and no one for
a moment entertained a thought that he could
be diverted from his devotion to the public
good. The present public-spirited mayor of New
Britain placed a very high value upon his serv-
ices, and mourns his death as an almost irre-
parable loss to the city and community; and
the same feeling finds expression upon every
tongue. * * * But during the past winter the
demands of the city have been specially exact-
ing. After strenuous days at Hartford he gave
the still more strenuous evenings to the require-
ments of New Britain. Ala-, that it should have
been necessary, but a necessity within him com-
pelled him to do his duty. * * * T reioice in
the fact that Mr. Hungerford's name has be-
come permanently a part of the city's history,
and that while the city lives his well-earned
reputation will not die.

«* * * Yhe desire to master legal science

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was as native to Frank Hungerford as his vital
breath. He was not content to scratch the sur-
face of decisions. He searched for the law at
the fountains; he laboriously delved for legal
principles in mines that yield their treasures
only to unremitting toil. He delighted in the
mastery of legal problems. Except in a sudden
exigency, it was impossible that he should come
into a case without preparation. And how he
did enjoy a lawsuit! He would establish peace
between litigants if it were possible, but when
a real controversy was on, he delighted in the
labor of preparation, he delighted in the give-
and-take of the contest, and he delighted in the
sensation of a hard-won victory. Any man who
entrusted his cause to Frank Hungerford had
no reason to fear that he was working pri-
marily to secure a fee.

"* * * Just, sincere and affectionate in the
very roots of his nature, his life could not avoid
exhibiting, unconsciously, of course, the exalted
character of the sweet soul of Frank Hunger-
ford. I never knew him give utterance to an
impure word or an impure sentiment. Dishon-
esty was not conceivable of him. There was
never a written contract between us and we
never had a difference. When the lawyer said
he would give a great sum of money for Hun-
gerford's face as a means of prevailing in the
presence of a jury, he forgot that the face which
he coveted simply reflected the sincerity of char-
acter which was the secret of its prevailing
power. Nor should any one associate his purity
of character with any supposed weakness in any
direction. Mr. Hungerford was a full, strong
man, a lover of life and of the good things of
life, which he was not accustomed to reject as
they came along. He was a lover of fine horses,
as his stables witnessed. He loved an intelli-
gent dog and an unflawed diamond. He loved
the broad horns of the farmyard, and a day by
the brookside with his trout rod in the cher-
ished intervals of an exacting business supplied
him not only with sorely needed rest, but with
almost unutterable joy.

"It remains to be added that Mr. Hungerford
had one quality which, whether a felicity or a
failing, undoubtedly stood in the way of political
preferment, if indeed he ever desired political
preferment. His nature was so ingrainedly
truthful and sincere that he could not stoop to
the insincerities which sometimes characterize
the professional politician. His reticence was
remarkable and increased with his years, but his
infrequent words were like the scarcest of metals
— all gold throughout.

"* * * He believed in the truth of the say-
ing, 'In my Father's house are many mansions,'
and he ordered his life in complete subordina-
tion to that belief. He was made a deacon in
the Congregational Church thirty-three years
ago. He was a student of the Bible from earliest
youth. At the time of his death he was the
head of a Bible class of nearly sixty adult, think-
ing men. On Thursday evenings he was a
teacher of the Sunday-school teachers. He was
for a dozen years president of the Young Men's
Christian Association, and he lived his life, year
in and year out, as ever 'in his great taskmas-
ter's eye.' Such a man could not be indifferent
to man's infirmities, and accordingly he was at
the time of his death president of the New
Britain Hospital, giving the time which he could
ill spare to the sweet charities which flourish in
^uch institutions.

"* * * What were the sources of his un-
questioned strength, both before the court and
the jury. If I should try to state them, I should
specify the love of law as a science felt in his
youth and the controlling element in all his ef-
forts; capacity for thorough preparation never
omitted when preparation was possible; loyalty
to truth and conscience which made him more
than ready to settle doubtful cases; profound
knowledge of legal principles and a capacity for
clear statement, seldom excelled, which made the
development of each proposition an aid to a
clear understanding of those which still re-
mained to be unfolded in the natural order of
thought, and perhaps I should add also that joy
of the contest which marks the born advocate.
And attending these qualities all along the line
was the faculty of sound judgment, more rare,
I sometimes think, than genius itself, a faculty
which, as by intuition, separates the immaterial
from the important, and laying due stress upon
the latter relegates the former precipitately to
the rear."

(VIII) William Churchill, son of Hon.
Frank Louis and Sarah A. (Churchill) Hun-
gerford, was born at New Britain, February
25, 1 87 1. His preliminary education was ob-
tained in the Connecticut public schools, and
at a private school in Bridgeport. In 1890 he
entered Sheffield Scientific School, graduating
in 1893. He studied law in the offices of
Mitchell, Hungerford & Bartlett, until Sep-
tember, 1894, when he entered Yale Law
School, graduating in 1895, being immediately
afterward admitted to the bar. The firm of
Mitchell, Hungerford & Bartlett had at that
time offices in New Britain, Hartford and
New York City, and Mr. Hungerford entered
their Hartford office as clerk, remaining until
1897, when the firm was dissolved. He then
became the junior member of the firm of
Hungerford, Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman, with of-
fices in New Britain and Hartford. The firm
name was changed after the death of Hon.
F. L. Hungerford, in June, 1909, to Hyde,
Joslyn, Gilman & Hungerford. Mr. Hunger-
ford is, politically, a Republican, although he
has never sought nor held public office. He
attends the Congregational First Church of
Christ, in New Britain, of which he is the
clerk and a member of the society committee.
His college fraternity was the Chi Phi, and
he belongs to the Hartford Club ; New Britain
Club ; Farmington Country Club ; University
Club, and Connecticut Field Trial Club. He
married, November 2, 1898, at Torrington,
Connecticut, Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Roger
S. and Charlotte (Hungerford) Olmstead.

Thomas Slayton, the immi-
SLAYTON grant ancestor, was born in

England, September 20, 1682,
according to one record, that of Joshua Slay-
ton, and emigrated to America ; married Han-

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nah Culwood, in 1707, and had two sons,
Phineas and Thomas, and one daughter, Han-
nah. There is another tradition in the family,
which says that he was born in Scotland near
the river Tweed, and when seven or eight
years old, either ran away or was stolen as a
cabin boy, or sent away to prevent his inherit-
ing property, and perhaps titles ; that the mas-
ter of the vessel gave him the name Slayton
because it would never be heard of elsewhere ;
that he was landed at Plymouth or Boston
about 1690; that he was well educated and
later taught school. Where he lived or when
or where he died is unknown. Children: 1.
Thomas, June 15, 1709, mentioned below. 2.
Phineas. 3. Hannah, died aged eighty-eight.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Slay-
ton, was born June 15, 1709. He was an in-
habitant of Weston, Massachusetts, in 1732,
and according to the town records of that
place, married, September 21, of that year,
Abigail Harrington, of Watertown, born
March 21, 1712-13, daughter of George and
Abiel Parker (married November 15, 171 1 ) ,
daughter of James Parker of Groton. They
were married by the Rev. Wareham Williams
and the intentions of their marriage were pub-
lished in Weston, October 14, 1732. It is not
known how long he lived in Weston. Three
of his children were born there. In 1735, he
bought the fortieth part of a tract of land in
Worcester, "said tract including a mine or
minerals, with all the mines, minerals, precious
stones, pearls, waters and water courses,
rights, etc.," for thirty pounds ; seven years
later, he sold the same for twenty-three pounds.
April 7, 1738, he is called a husbandman in
the records of Weston, and recorded as having
sold one half of a mansion house and barn
and land, about one hundred and twenty acres.
From 1737 to 1745 he had twelve purchases
of land recorded in different places in Massa-
chusetts. In April, 1739, the settlement of
the town of Tyringham, Hampden county,
began, and at that time, he, with Lieutenant
Isaac Garfield and John Chadwick, moved into
that place. His land there he had doubtless
bought previously, for the records of Hamp-
den county, say that he bought land near
Housatonic, May 24, 1737, in "New Township
Xo. I." He sold his last land in Weston, April
16, 1739, and it is likely that he moved to
Brookfield, Massachusetts, shortly after, as his
fourth child was born there in 1740. June
12, 1749, he first bought land in the latter
place. Upon this, about 1770, he built a house,
which remained standing until i860. He and
his wife were admitted to full communion in
the7 church in Weston, December, 1738, and
dismissed from there to the Brookfield church,

July 27, 1755. He died, August or September,
1778, and was buried in the lot, which he had
given as a cemetery. His wife was buried
beside him. His will was filed September 22,
1778. Children : Thomas, born February 20,
1734, Weston ; Abiel, 1735, Weston, died June
26, 1740; Phineas, September 4, 1737, Wes-
ton; David, June 2, 1740, Brookfield; Joshua,
December 16, 1744, Brookfield; Ruth, Febru-
ary 10, 1746, Brookfield; Reuben, May 30,
1748, mentioned below; Samuel, September
26, 1 75 1 ; Patience, December 13, 1757, Brook-
field. '

(III) Reuben, son of Thomas (2) Slayton,
was born May 30, 1748, in Brookfield. He
served in the revolution ; a sergeant in Cap-
tain John Wolcott's Company of Rangers
from Brookfield and Spencer, which marched
on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. The
men of this company enlisted for eight months,
and went into camp at Roxbury, May 19.
He was commissioned ensign in Captain Joel
Green's company. Fourth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, May 19, 1775. He was also a captain
in Colonel William Shepard's Third Massachu-
setts Regiment in 1780, at White Plains, New
York. He was appointed captain in Ball's
company. Fourth Massachusetts Regiment,
Colonel William Shepard, January 1, 1777.
resigned March 20, 1779. He married Mary
Moore of Brookfield. The date given in the
Brookfield records is May 30, 1777, but wheth-
er that is the date of the marriage or of the
intentions is not known. He was named ex-
ecutor of his father's will, and was at home
and filed the same in probate court, September

22, 1778. Between 1781 and 1786, he bought
and sold lands in Brookfield nine times, in
some of the deeds being styled "yeoman" in
others, "gentleman." About 1785, he moved
to "Chester, Hampshire county, State of Mas-
sachusetts," and from there to Springfield,
Otsego county, New York, about 1800. He
first bought land there in 1801 and sold it in
1809. In 181 1, he went to Chautauqua county
and helped his son Reuben build a sawmill.
In the autumn of that year, he returned to
Springfield after his family, but was taken ill
on the way and died in ten days. Children :
Washington, born December 27, 1778, Brook-
field, mentioned below ; Reuben, Jr., September

23, 1780, Brookfield; Thomas (3), about 1783,
Brookfield; Catharine, 1785, Brookfield; Polly,
born in Chester, Massachusetts; Susan, Ches-
ter; Ruth, Chester; James, April 30, 1790.
Chester; Sophia, 1800, Chester.

(IV) Washington, son of Reuben Slayton.
was born December 27, 1778, in Brookfield.
and married Dorcas Waite, born October 19,
1776, died October 4, 1823, in Springfield,

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New York. He went with his father to
Springfield about 1800. He first bought land
there in 1806, and sold his last in 1827. He
was a mechanic by trade, a musician, a danc-
ing master and a very fine penman. He lived
during his old age with his daughter Laura
near Conneautville, Pennsylvania, and amused
himself by copying much from the Bible. He
died March 4, 1862, at Conneautville. Chil-
dren: Cornelius C, May 2, 1800; Horace
Watson, July 24, 1802; George W., May 7,
1804 ; Laura Adelia, February 8, 1807 ; Nancy
Lorinda, March 25, 1809; Thomas M., June
29, 181 1, mentioned below; Helen Amelia
(twin), August 23, 1813; Harriet Cornelia
(twin), August 23, 1813 ; Reuben H., April

11, 1816; Josiah Waite, August 28, 1818; Os-
mond Birdsley, March 12, 1822.

(V) Thomas M., son of Washington Slay-
ton, was born June 29, 181 1, and married,
about 1840, at Conneautville, Pennsylvania,
Elvira Treadway, born October 10, 1814,
Shoreham, Vermont, died February 25, 1856,
in Elba, Lapeer county, Michigan. He mar-
ried (second) Polly Treadway, a sister of his
first wife. She was born December 18, 1812,
at Shoreham, and died August 11, 1896, at
Lapeer. He moved with his family to Lapeer
in 1847, and a few years later to a farm in
Elba, Lapeer county. He died April 11, 1859,
in Elba, and was buried in Lapeer. Children :
Eugene Treadway, April 20, 1843, mentioned
below; Laura Elizabeth, July 12, 1850, Elba,
Lapeer county, Michigan, married J. Rollin
Johnson, of Lapeer ; children : i. Janette E. ;
ii. Chester R.

(VI) Eugene Treadway, son of Thomas M.
Slayton, was born April 20, 1843, Conneaut-
ville, Pennsylvania. He removed early in life
to Lapeer, and in 1878 removed to Ogemaw
county, where he was engaged in farming and
lumbering. In the latter place he had the Slay-
ton Post Office for a time. In 1883 he went
to Schoolcraft county, where he was secretary
of the Delta Lumber Company and was em-
ployed in estimating pine and lumber until
September 1, 1887, when he went to Cali-
fornia for four years, and was engaged in
purchasing timber lands for Detroit capital-
ists. In 1891 he returned to Lapeer and be-
came interested in insurance, and since 1902
has been postmaster. He married (first) Ra-
chel Truesdale, August 15,1862, Conneautville.
She was born March 6, 1839, died April 2,
1865, Conneautville. He married (second), Oc-
tober 10, 1866, Julia Bell, daughter of Asahel
Wolcott Abbott" and Martha Lamb (White)
Abbott. (See Abbott). She was born May

12, 1843, m Lapeer. Children: Minnie V.,
August 2j, 1863, died September 29, 1863,

Conneautville; Lena E., January 26, 1865,
died August 17, 1895, Conneautville. Children
of the second wife : Lucius Cary, December
31, 1872, Lapeer, mentioned below; Mabel E.,
August 12, 1876, married Harry Demorest, of
Flint, Michigan ; children : George Eugene,
Slayton Jack and Max Harrison; Martha
Lamb, October 31, 1879, married Leon
Schunemann ; children : Louise and Sarah.

(VII) Lucius Cary, son of Eugene Tread-
'way Slayton, was born in Lapeer, Michigan,
December 31, 1872, and was educated in the
public schools and the Agricultural College,
Lansing, Michigan. Since 1893 he has been
engaged in the life insurance business, first in
Detroit, Michigan, later for a short time in
Buffalo, New York, and since May, 1900, he
has been state agent of the Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Company, with office at No. 82
Church street. He is a member of the Quinni-
piack Club of New Haven and of Annaxon
Lodge, No. 115, Free and Accepted Masons
of West Haven. He is a member of the Con-
gregational Church of West Haven.

He married, August 11, 1896, Kate Agnes,
born March 10, 1875, daughter of Martin I.
and Cecelia (Clark) Whitman. Children:
Harry Whitman, born January 3, 1898; Eric
Randolph, September 3, 1901 ; Cecelia Grace,
August 5, 1904.

(The Abbott Line).

(I) George Abbott, the immigrant ancestor,
was probably born in England, and died in
Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1647. He was one
of the first settlers of Rowley, coming from
England in 1642. He deeded most of his
estate to his oldest son, Thomas, before his
death. He had two acres granted him for a
house lot and had other land. He was one of
the thirty contributors towards buying the land
of the Rogers Company in Rowley. He had
four sons, two of whom were named Thomas,
one being called senior, the other junior. This
practice was somewhat common in England
at that time, but seems to have confused the
genealogist of the family, who concludes the
younger was adopted. The younger Thomas
was apprenticed to John Boynton. and at the
death of his father, Humphrey Reynor and
George Mighhill were appointed as guardians
of the minor sons, George, Nehemiah and
Thomas. The elder Thomas had received
land from his father, being the eldest son. and
was doubtless of age at the time of his father's
death. Mark Simons was executor of the es-
tate, and George Abbott's will is referred by
the general court to the Salem court, Novem-
ber 11, 1647, though no will has been found.
Children: 1. Thomas, Sr., received land from

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his father by deed of gift ; died September,
1659; married, July 13, 1655, Dorothy Swan;
resided at Rowley ; bequeaths in his will to his
brothers George, Nehemiah, and Thomas, in a
nuncupative will, dated August 31, 1659. 2.
George, mentioned below. 3. Nehemiah. 4.
Thomas, Jr.

(II) George (2), son of George (1) Ab-
bott, was born in England about 163 1, and
came to New England with his father about
1642, and lived at Rowley for about fourteen
years. In 1655 he settled in that part of An-
dover, afterwards North Andover, but now
Andover Center. He was a tailor and hus-
bandman, and was one of the five wealthiest
men in the town. He was a member of Ser-
geant James Osgood's military company and
previously of Sergeant Stevens' company. He
was admitted a freeman, May 19, 1669, and
was elected constable June 3, 1680. For many
years he had charge of the North meeting
house at Andover. He had land granted him
and his first house was probably on the site
occupied by the house of John Bannon in
1900. He died, intestate, March 22, 1688-89,
aged about fifty-eight years. He married in
Ipswich, April 26, 1658, Sarah, daughter of
Ralph and Alice Farnum, who came from
England in 1638. She married (second) Au-
gust 1, 1689, Sergeant Henry Ingalls, and died
in 1728, aged ninety. Children: George, born
January 28, 1659; Sarah, September 6, 1660;
died November 6, 1738, married, October 19,
1 68 1, John Faulker; John, August 26, 1662;
Mary, March 20, 1664-65. married, May 13,
1687, Lieutenant Stephen Barker; Nehemiah,
July 20, 1667; Hannah, September 22, 1668,
married, April 18, 1695, James Ingalls; Me-
hitable, February 17, 167 1, died young; Lydia,
March 31, 1675, died March 11, 1739, married,
November 28, 1695, Henry Chandler; Samuel,
May 30, 1678; Mehitable, April 4, 1680, died
March 28, 1757, married, June 1, 1 701, Ger-
shom Cutter.

(III) George (3), son of George (2) Ab-
bott, was born January 28, 1659, in Andover,
and resided there. He was a farmer and shoe-
maker. His father gave him sixteen acres of
upland on which he built his house, probably
opposite his father's. The vacant site is now
probably a part of the Kittredge estate. He
died January 24, 1724, aged sixty-five years.
His will was dated October 1, 1724, and proved
December 7, 1725, his son Uriah being execu-
tor. He married (first) September 13, 1689,
Elizabeth Ballard, who died May 5, 1706,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Phelps)
Ballard, and granddaughter of William Bal-
lard, a pioneer settler of Andover. He mar-
ried (second) July 21, 1707, Hannah Estey,

born in Topsfield, 1667, died November 5,
1741, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Towne)
Estey and granddaughter of Jeffrey Estey, of
Salem, in 1638. Her mother, Mary Estey, was
executed in Salem for witchcraft, September
22, 1692, a "woman of sound judgment and
exalted Christian character." Children, all by
the first wife: George, born July 28, 1691,
mentioned below; Uriah, November 20, 1692;
Captain Jacob, March 19, 1694, died April 22,
1 77 1, married, May 1, 1722, Ruth Foster;
Elizabeth, November 5, 1695, cned December 1,
1715, married, November 25, 1714, Deacon
David Foster. Obed, March 16, 1696-97;
Moses, February 14, 1714; Peter, July 27,
1701 ; Sarah, March 17, 1702-03, married,
September 6, 1728, Deacon Comfort Barnes;
Hannah, April 16, 1706, married, August 30.
1727, David Gilbert.

(IV) George (4), son of George (3) Ab-
bott, was born July 28, 1691, in Andover, and
married, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febru-
ary 2, 1 714-15, Rebecca, supposed to be a
daughter of Eben Swan, yeoman, of Cam-
bridge. He was a blacksmith by trade, and
lived in Cambridge, Framingham and Hard-
wick, Massachusetts, and finally in Benning-
ton, Vermont, where he died about 1771. No-
vember 15, 1715, he bought a half acre of
land in Cambridge on condition that he "build
and settle himself upon it." He remained
there for twelve years. December 25, 1725, he
sold this land. He is supposed to be the
George Abbott mentioned in the "History of
Framingham" by Barry, as having been a
town officer there in 1731. December 26, 1733,
he drew, in the assignment of land to the set-
tlers of Hardwick, a lot of 100 acres, and be-
came one of the earliest white settlers of the
place. He was chosen constable February 9,
1737, and in 1738, he was poundkeeper for
that year. In 1749 he was selectman. He
was an original member of the first church in
Hardwick but afterwards ioined an organiza-
tion called the "Separate Church," and moved
with all the members of the latter to Benning-
ton, in 1 761. He became a member of the
church when it was organized there Decem-
ber 3, 1762. This was the first church or-
ganization within the limits of the present
state of Vermont, and the only one in Ben-
nington for sixty-four years. April 25, 1740.
he sold about seventy acres of land in Hard-
wick, and October 23, 1753, about eighty acres.
His descendants in some lines have been quite
distinguished. Children, born in Cambridge:
Jacob, born January 25, 1715-16, mentioned
below ; George, October 2, 1718; Rebecca, bap-
tized June 24, 1721, died young; Rebecca, No-
vember 22, 1724; Samuel, March 12, 1726-27;

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Sarah, married, April 1. 1752, John Roberts
of Morristown, Vermont; Isaac, 1736, Hard-
wick; Ruth, May 8, 1737, Hardwick; Timothy,
1738 .(?), Hardwick; Mary, June 7, 1741,
Hardwick, died, May 5, 1753.

(V) Sergeant Jacob Abbott, son of George
(4) Abbott, was born January 25, 1715-16, in

Cambridge ,and married, Mercy , April

4, 1742, he was admitted to church in Hard-
wick, where he spent most of his youth. His
military service against Indians, in the colonial
wars on the frontier in the Connecticut river
valley about Deerfield, Massachusetts, is as
follows : Private, twelve weeks, six days ;
Colonel John Stoddard's regiment, December
11, 1747, to March 9, 1747-48; private, thir-
teen weeks, two days, same regiment, March
10 to June 10, 1748; private, three weeks, six
days. Major Israel Williams's company, under
Sergeant Ebenezer Stratton, at Morrison's
fort, June 11 to July 7, 1748; private, thirty-
one weeks at Fort Colrain, with detachment
same company March 16 to October 18, 1756;
private, thirteen weeks, six days, Captain Is-
rael Williams's company. Fort Colrain. Oc-
tober 19, 1756, to January 23, 1757; private,
nineteen weeks, two days same company, from

to April 14, 1758; private, 11 weeks,

Captain John Burk's company, at "Morrison's
Garrison, Colrain," April 15 to June 30, 1758;
sergeant, sixteen weeks, one day, same com-
pany, July 1 to October 21, 1758, in charge of
the north fort Colrain and nine men ; also
served five weeks, at Fort Colrain, same com-
pany, October 22 to November 30, 1758; pri-
vate, forty-two weeks, five days, Fort Colrain,
December 1, 1758, to September 25, 1759,
Captain Samuel Wells's company. By occu-
pation he was a farmer and lived after about
1759 in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he
bought, December 7, of that year, about sixty-
six acres of land, a portion of the Hadley
Commons. Here he lived and added to by
purchase until it amounted to seventy-five
acres. He died in 1773. His will was dated
September 8, 1772, and was probated June
21, 1773. His widow Mercy was executrix,
and to her he left one-third of his estate, the
rest to be divided among his children. Chil-
dren, born in Amherst: Daniel, July 25, 1764,
mentioned below; Percis, October 8, 1766;
Amos, April 28, 1769; Eliab, September 24,
1771.

(VI) Daniel, son of Jacob Abbott, was born
July 25, 1764, in Amherst, and married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1790, Naomi Graves, born November
4, 1769, died September 18, 1804. He mar-
ried (second), March 27, 1807, Mrs. Hannah
(Wiggins) Porter, widow of Pierpont Porter
of Hadley, born in Suffield, Connecticut, of

English parents. He was a farmer by occupa-
tion, and lived in Amherst, Hadley and Lever-
ett, Massachusetts. He enlisted during the
revolution for three years, April 17, 1781.
when sixteen years old, was then five feet,
three inches tall, light complexion and light
hair. He died at Leverett, November 11, 1809.
His estate was inventoried for $1,541.47, and
Erastus Field was appointed administrator
December 6, 1809. His widow died in Hadley,
August 30, 1846, aged sixty-nine years. Chil-
dren, born in Hadley : Philena, born April 16,
1791 ; Achsah, May 15, 1793; Mose and Lucy
Willard (twins), August 31, 1795; Roswell
Itheram, October, 1797; Daniel S., April 22,
1800; Eli, July 14, 1802. Children of the
second wife, born in Leverett : Asahel Wol-
cott, March 13, 1808, mentioned below; Julia
Maria, July 22, 1809.

(VII) Asahel Wolcott, son of Daniel Ab-
bott, was born March 13, 1808, in Leverett,
and married, there, July 3, 1836, Martha
Lamb, born in South Hadley, Massachusetts,
June 3, 1819, daughter of Enoch and Martha
(Lamb) White of South Hadley and grand-
daughter of Gad and Jerusha (Ripley) Lamb
of Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Abbott re-
mained in Leverett till of age in 1829, then
lived at Durham, Connecticut, two years, and
in Columbus, Ohio, two years. In 1833 he
took up a grant of land in Lapeer, Lapeer
county, Michigan, where he died of paralysis,
March 20, 1873. He was a shoemaker, tanner
and currier, but abandoned his trade on ac-
count of ill health and took to farming and
stock raising. He was a Republican in poli-
tics and for a time was justice of the peace in
Lapeer township. In religion he was a Uni-
versalist. Children: 1. Louisa, born August
30, 1837; died in Lapeer, March 17, 1848. 2.
Austin, August 11, 1840. 3. Julia Bell, May
12, 1843 ! married Eugene Treadway Slayton,
October, 1866. 4. Martha, December 4, 1847 '■>
died in Lapeer, March 30, 1848. 5. Antha
Maria, June 6, 1849 ! died in Lapeer, December
28, 1857. 6. Fidelia Elizabeth, December 8,
1852; died in Saint Ignace, Michigan, March
25, 1888: married in Lapeer, February 8,
1885, William Jay Kenworthy, born December
4, 1844 ; had two children. 7. Lucy Hubbard,
November 17, 1856; died in Lapeer, July 19,
1858. 8. Henry Kirk, December 24, 1864.

The first Moulton in Eng-
MOULTON land was Sir Thomas de

Moulton, who came over
with William the Conqueror in 1066, A. D.,
and fought at the battle of Hastings. For
service in this battle Sir Thomas was rewarded
with great tracts of land in Lincolnshire to

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which was afterwards added immense estates
acquired by marriage and otherwise. By the
year I ioo a village by the name of Moulton
had sprung up, which secured for its founder
grants from the king for the establishment of
public markets and all necessary municipal
privileges. For two hundred and fifty years
descendants of Sir Thomas held the peerage,
and were foremost in their military and civil
offices to the English kings. In 131 3 the eighth
baron of the name died, leaving as his heir
an only daughter, Margaret, and by her mar-
riage to Randolph de Dacre, Lord of the
North, his immense estates, together with the
Barony of Moulton, passed to the Dacre
family.

The origin of the name has never been def-
initely settled. In the old English records it
is often spelled "Molton" or "Multon." The
original coat-of-arms is described as follows :
A plain field, either of silver or blue ; crossed
by three horizontal bars, generally red, some-
times sable. This continued until 1751, when
a more elaborate form was granted : Argent ;
three bars (gules) between eight escallop
shells, sable ; three two, two and one Crest, on
a pellet a falcon rising argent.

(I) Robert Moulton, the immigrant, came
from England in 1629, and is described as a
freeman in Salem, Massachusetts, May 18,
163 1 ; a ship builder of Salem, 1629; repre-
sentative from Charlestown in 1634. He was
a man of influence in Salem, both politically
and socially. From 1630 to 1635 he lived in
Charlestown, where the navy yard now stands.
The place was then known as Moulton's Point,
and it was here that the British landed when
they crossed from Boston to fight the battle
of Bunker Hill. He died in 1655. Children:
Robert, mentioned below ; Dorothy.

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Moul-
ton, was doubtless born in Salem, Massachu-
setts. He was rector of the church at Salem
in 1640. He married, February, 1640. Abigail
Goode, niece of Samuel Downing. She died
in 1665-66, and he died in the fall of 1665.
Children : Abigail ; Robert, mentioned below ;
John, born April 25, 1654-55; Samuel; Joseph,
January 3, 1656-57; Miriam, January, 1658-
59; Mary, June 15, 1661 ; Hannah.

(III) Robert (3), son of Robert (2) Moul-
ton, was baptized June 23, 1644, died 1730-31.
He married, July 17, 1672, in Salem, Mary
Cook. Children : Mary, born January 2, 1674 ;
Robert, September or October 3, 1675, men-
tioned below; Ebenezer, April 23, 1678; Abi-
gail, February 28, 1681 ; Samuel; Martha;
Hannah.

(IV) Robert (4), son of Robert (3) Moul-
ton, was born September or October 3, 1675,

in Salem, died August 25, 1756. He married,
in Beverly, April 11 or 12, 1698, Hannah
Groves, of Beverly. They lived first in Salem,
then in Windham, Connecticut, and lastly in
Brimfield, Massachusetts. Children, born in
Salem: Hannah, born August 1, 1699; Robert,
December 18, 1700; Mary, September 30,
1702; Abigail, March 13, 170 — ; Lois, April
3, 1706; Lydia, January 13, 1708-09. Children
born in Windham, Connecticut : Ebenezer, De-
cember 25, 1709; Mehitable, March 24, 1712;
Samuel, June 15, 1714; Susanna, June 15,
1714; Joseph, August 24, 1716; Freeborn,
April 3, 1717, mentioned below; John, Febru-
ary 1, 1720-21, recorded in Brimfield.

(V) Freeborn, son of Robert (4) Moulton,
was born in Windham, Connecticut, April 3,
171 7, died before June 28, 1792. He served
in the revolution. He married, June 23, 1737,
in Brimfield, Rebekah Walker; she died before
March, 1797. Children: Joseph, born Janu-
ary 15, 1738-39; Rebekah, November 29, 1740;

■ , September 30, 1742; Hannah, Novem-

bre 29, 1743; Freeborn, April 9, 1746; Abner,
June 27. 1748; Phineas, May 15, 1751 ; Calvin
Elijah, August 10, 1753, mentioned below;
Luther; Daniel, 1762.

(VI) Calvin Elijah, son of Freeborn Moul-
ton, was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts,
August 10, 1753. He married Ruth, probably
sister of Mary Blodgett, daughter of James
Blodgett. Mary married his brother. Phineas
Moulton, of Brimfield, and both families set-
tled at Randolph, Vermont. Calvin E. Moul-
ton was a resident of Randolph in 1793 when
he quit-claimed to his brother. Freeborn, his
interestJn his father's estate. He enlisted as
a soldier from Monson in the revolution, and
after the close of hostilities removed to Can-
ada and settled on Moulton Hill on the St.
Francis river. His children were born at
West Randolph, Vermont.

(VII) Calvin, son of Calvin Elijah Moulton,
was born at West Randolph, Vermont, No-
vember 11, 1797. He was a soldier in the
revolution. He settled on Moulton Hill, Ascot.
Canada. He married, December 3, 1822,
Adaline, daughter of Elihu Hudson. Among
their children was Rev. Tyler Calvin, men-
tioned below ; Edwin Franklin, educator, su-
perintendent of schools in Oberlin, Cleveland
and Warren, Ohio ; Rice, deceased ; and Rev.
George Hollis, residing at Weeping Water,
Nebraska.

(VIII) Rev. Tyler Calvin Moulton, son of
Calvin, was born on Moulton Hill, Ascot,
Canada, January 26, 1826. He became a Uni-
tarian minister and was settled at Austinburg,
Ohio, then at New Bedford, Massachusetts,
for eleven years, and in 1869 he was called to

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Franklin, Ohio, where he died in the summer
of 1870. During the civil war he was chaplain
of the Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volun-
teer Cavalry. He was a member of Rodman
Post, \"<>. 1, G. A. R., New Bedford. He
married, September 10, 1862, Susan Abigail
Seymour, born in Oswego county, New York,
January 10, 1834. Children: Mary Brincker-
hoff, born November 17, 1865, at New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, died unmarried, May 26,
1889, at Oberlin, Ohio; Dr. Edward S.

(IX) Dr. Edward Seymour Moulton, son of
Rev. Tyler Calvin Moulton, was born at New
Bedford, Mass., April 26, 1868. He attended
the public schools of Oberlin, Ohio, the Grand
River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, and Ober-
lin College, from which he was graduated in
the class of 1891 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts and from which in 1894 he received
the degree of Master of Arts. He entered the
Yale Medical School and received the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in 1894. He had val-
uable hospital experience in New York. He
began the practice of his profession at Oak-
land, California, and in 1895 came to New
Haven, Connecticut. He spent the winter of
1898-99 in South America as surgeon of the
South American Development Company, and
after another short stay in California returned
to New Haven, Connecticut, where he has
since been engaged in general practice with
marked success. He is a member of the Con-
necticut State Medical Society, the New
Haven County and City Medical societies, and
has held the position of clerk of the county
society. He is a member of the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States,
assistant surgeon with the rank of captain in
the National Guard of Connecticut, and mem-
ber of the Connecticut Society, Sons of the
American Revolution. He was formerly a
member of the New Haven Grays, a prominent
military organization, and is president of the
Grays Club. He is secretary of the board of
United States pension examiners of this dis-
trict, and from time to time has contributed to
various medical journals and periodicals. In
politics he is a Republican. Dr. Moulton mar-
ried, February 28, 1898, Fanchon Wilson, born
in Sutter county, California, daughter of
James Thomas and Alary (Stewart") Smith.
Children : James Seymour, born at Zaruma,
Ecuador, South America, February 7, 1899;
Janet, born at New Haven, Connecticut, No-
vember 8, 1908.

The surnames of Twiss and Twist
TWISS are identical. The family orig-
inated in England and dates back
to remote antiquity. An old coat-of-arms is

described : Gules a chevron between three
bucks trippant or. Crest : A demi-griffin
proper. Perhaps an even older armorial was :
Argent a bend between three mullets. The
Twiss family of Kerry is descended from
Richard Twiss, Esq., who settled in Ireland in
the reign of Charles I and became a magis-
trate in Kerry. The coat-of-arms : Or on a
fesse wavy vert between three stags courant
proper three pheons of the field on a chief
azure three escallops. About the same time
that Thomas Twiss settled in Connecticut,
Peter Twiss settled at Marblehead, where he
married, October 26, 1680, Anna Kellum.
Peter was doubtless the ancestor of the fam-
ilies of this name at Beverly, Marblehead, and
elsewhere in Essex county, Massachusetts, and
at Antrim, and other towns in New Hamp-
shire. The account of the family as given in
the history of Antrim, New Hampshire, as far
as it relates to three brothers, Daniel, Robert
and Nathan, is not supported by the records
and is doubtless due to careless family tradi-
tion. Both Peter and Thomas Twiss, how-
ever, are thought with some reason to be des-
cended from Dr. William Twiss, who lived in
England from 1575 to 1646, according to the
"Biographical Dictionary" of Dr. Chalmers
(vol. 30). His father was a successful clothier
at Newbury, county Berks, England. The
grandfather of Dr. Twiss was by nativity Teu-
tonic, according to Wood's "Oxoniensis" (by
Philip Bliss, vol. iii, column 169), arfd it is
related that he' settled in the prime of life with
his family near Newbury, England. Sketches
of Dr. Twiss also appear in Middleton's "Bio-
graphic Evangelica" (vol. 3) ; in Thomas
Fuller's "Worthies" (vol. i, page 134), and in
other writers of that period. Wood says that
Dr. William Twiss had a son Robert who
preserved his original manuscripts. Dr. Twiss
became reduced financially. He was a Puri-
tan and it is natural that his sons or grandsons
should have emigrated to New England.

(I) Thomas Twiss, the pioneer in Connecti-
cut, was born about 1675, died 1750, and is
believed to have been the son or grandson of
one of the three brothers, Daniel, Nathan and
Robert Twiss, who came from England and
landed at Salem, Marblehead, or somewhere
near Boston about 1650-60. Thomas Twiss
lived for a time at Farmington, Connecticut,
as shown by the land records, but most of bis
life was spent at Cheshire, formerly part of
Wallingford, Connecticut. He married, De-
cember 2, 1702, Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel
Howe, of Wallingford. Children: Benjamin,
see forward; Daniel, about 1705; Abigail,
June. T707; Catherine, June 14. 1709; Thomas,
Juh 1, 1 712; Mehitable, January 4, 1714;

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John, August 15, 1 7 16; Joseph, April 1, 17 19.
As far as known all of the children were born
in Cheshire.

(II) Benjamin, son of Thomas and Abigail
(Howe) Twiss, was born about 1703, died at
Wallingford before April, 1743, when Desire
Twiss, a minor daughter, had Benjamin Gray
appointed her guardian. He married, 1728,
Ruth Kerns, who bore him one son, Joseph,
see forward.

(III) Joseph, son of Benjamin and Ruth
(Kerns) Twiss, was born January 31, 1729.
He married, September 3, 1751, Mehitable
Burr, of Farmington, Connecticut. Children :
Susannah, born 1752, died August 9, 1762;
Benjamin, December 23, 1754; Sarah, March
19, 1759; Joseph, see forward; Daniel, March
26, 1762; Thomas, February 7, 1763.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Mehitable (Burr) Twiss, was born April 13,
1761, died May 16, 1842. He was a soldier
from Cheshire, Connecticut, in the revolution,
in Captain William Sizer's company, 1777-78,
also in the regiment of artificers under Colonel
Jeduthan Baldwin. He was enjoying a United
States pension for his service in the revolution
and living in New Haven county in 1832; he
was a pensioner living in 1840 at Meriden ;
he took part in the battles of Brandywine, Ger-
mantown, Monmouth and others. Meriden
was set off from Wallingford in 1806, and
Joseph Twiss lived in what is now7 known as
Meriden. He married, October 11, 1786, Lois
Austin, of East Haven, Connecticut. Chil-
dren : Abigail, born August 15, 1788, died Jan-
uary 24, 1789; Austin, April 29, 1790, died in
Montreal, Canada, May 18, 1826; Joseph, May
17, 1791, died April 3, 1799; Abigail, August
21, 1792, died August 28, 1793; Lois, March
3, 1794, died December 20, 1822 ; Abigail, May
10, 1795, died June 2, 1819; Ira, April 17,
1797, died September 14, 1870; Benjamin,
October 31, 1798, died January 23, 1854;
Sarah, January 9, 1801, died October 30, 1872 ;
Joshua A., May 6, 1803, died May 29, 1829;
Joseph B., May 6, 1803, twin of Joshua A.,
died in Canada, March 31, 1877; Hiram, May
2, 1805, died in Nashville, Tennessee, Novem-
ber 12, 1845; Russell, see forward.

(V) Russell, son of Joseph (2) and Lois
(Austin) Twiss, was born September 4, 1807,
died at St. Ligouri, Canada, May 14, 1851.
He was one of the first clock-makers in this
country and made many for the market of
Canada. He also made fanning mills there.
He was married to Permela Hall, daughter
of Augustus Hall, of Meriden, Connecti-
cut, at Montreal, Canada, in the American
Chapel, by Rev. Mr. Perkins, in 1834. Chil-
dren : 1. Joshua Austin, born July 15, 1835, at

Montreal, died October 26, 1835. 2. Julius,
see forward. 3. Nelson W., March 29, 1839,
at St. Ligouri, Canada. 4. Albert Hall, March
16, 1841, at St. Ligouri, Canada, died at Meri-
den, November 1, 1862. 5. Gustavus D., De-
cember 30, 1847, at St. Ligouri, Canada; mar-
ried, April 22, 1875, at New Haven, Connecti-
cut, Maria E. Sherman ; one daughter, Carrie
E., born June 12, 1882, at New Haven, Con-
necticut. Julius, Nelson W. and Gustavus D.
Twiss are now living in New Haven, Con-
necticut.

(VI) Julius, son of Russell Twiss, was born
in Joliette, Province of Quebec, Canada, April
18, 1838. He lived in Canada and attended
school there until he was sixteen years old,
when after his father's death he came to Meri-
den and was first employed as clerk in the post
office, his uncle, Hiram Hall, being postmaster
then. He was not in good health during his
boyhood, but he persevered in his efforts to
get an education and succeeded in spite of
many handicaps. He was especially well
versed in history, religious works, and the best
fiction in English. He prepared for college
at the Hopkins Grammar School at New Ha-
ven, entered Yale College, and was graduated
with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1863.
He studied his profession at the Yale Law
School, where he received his LL. B. in 1865.
In September of that year he opened an office
on Church street, New Haven, and continued
in general practice with gratifying success
until 1894. He has been active and prominent
in public affairs. In 1886 he was elected to the
common council of the city of New Haven,
and was a member of that body for more than
eight years in all. From 1869 to 1872 he was
clerk of the New Haven city court, and in
1882 he was appointed member of the tax
commission. He was a candidate for the of-
fice of probate judge, but always when his
party was in the minority. He has been a very
active and just magistrate. From June, 1872,
to February, 1882, there were brought before
him as justice of the peace eighteen hundred
and thirty civil suits. He declined to serve
longer in this office. He is a Republican, but
inclined to independence in municipal affairs.

From 1866 to 1869 he was an active member
of the New Haven Grays, and is now a mem-
ber of the Veteran Grays. He is very promi-
nent in Masonic affairs, having been treasurer
of Hiram Lodge, No. 1, Free and Accepted
Masons, for three years, master one year, and
trustee since 1880. He was a director of the
Masonic Mutual Benefit Association of Con-
necticut for several years, and member of the
New Haven Commandery, Knights Templar.
In religious and philanthropic interests he has

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been equally active. Since 1880 he has been
a member of the Society's committee of the
Calvary Baptist Ecclesiastical Society, and
member of the executive committee of the
New Haven Baptist Union since 1893, and
also president for a number of years. He has
been a director of the Organized Charities
since 1898, and member of the board of man-
agers of the Calvary Industrial Home since
its organization until it went out of existence.
He is a member of the Young Men's Repub-
lican Club, the New Haven Historical Society,
the Chamber of Commerce, the Union League
Club and the Yale Graduates' Club of New
Haven, also Young Republican Club and
Knights Templars Club. In March, 1894, he
was elected secretary and treasurer of the Na-
tional Savings Bank of New Haven and soon
after he accepted this office he gave up the
practice of law to devote all his attention to the
bank. Under his management the business of
the institution has greatly increased. Mr.
Twiss has never married.

(The Hall Line).

The immigrant ancestor of the Halls of
Wallingford, Connecticut, was John Hall, born
about 1605, in England. He came to America
in 1633, and was a freeman of the Massachu-
setts Colony 1634. His autograph signature
is found on the colonial records of New
Haven, Connecticut, in 1639. His name ap-
pears often in these records, mostly in refer-
ence to pieces of land. He fought in the Pe-
quot war, and was freed from training in 1665,
being then in his sixtieth year of age. Several
of his sons joined a company and settled Wal-
lingford in 1670. The father went with them
at that time, or soon after, and became one of
the original proprietors. He was selectman
in 1675. He married Jean or Jane Woolen.
She had lived with William Wilkes in Boston,
and probably came over with him, as he paid
her fare, and gave her three pounds a year
for services in his family for five years. He
also promised her ten pounds when she should
marry, but did not do so, and her husband ob-
tained it from his estate by litigation, an ac-
count of which is found on the records of New
Haven. He died March 3, 1676-77, making
an oral will on his deathbed. Children : John
and Sarah, twins, baptized August 9, 1646;
Richard, born July 11, 1645; Samuel, May
21, 1646, mentioned below; Daniel, 1647-48;
Thomas, March 25, 1649; Jonathan, April 5.
1651 ; David, March 17, 1652-53.

(II) Samuel, son of John Hall, was
born in New Haven, May 21, 1646, and mar-
ried. May, 1668. Hannah, daughter of John
Walker. She was born September 26. 1646,

and died December' 20, 1728. He removed to
Wallingford in 1670, and became a deacon of
the church there. He. was four times repre-
sentative to the general court, a land owner
and military man. He died March 5, 1725.
Children : John, born December 23, 1670, see
forward; Hannah, March 11, 1673; Sarah,
June 20, 1677; Samuel. December 10, 1680;
Theophilus, February 5, 1686; Elizabeth,
March 6, 1690.

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Hall, was
born December 23, 1670, and married, about
1691, Mary Lyman. She died October 16,
1740. This John may have been the repre-
sentative called the Honorable John Hall. He
fought several times in the Indian wars. He
died April 29, 1730. Children: John, born
September 15, 1692-93; Esther, August 30,
1694; Samuel, October 4, 1695, mentioned
below ; Caleb, September 14, 1697 '- Eunice,
March 7, 1700; Benjamin, August 28, 1702;
Benjamin, December 17, 1704; Sarah, April
15, 1706; Elialim, August 9, 171 1 ; Elihu, Feb-
ruary 17, 1714; Nancy.

(IV) Reverend Samuel (2) Hall, son of
John (2) Hall, was born October 4, 1695.
He graduated at Yale in 1716, and was tutor
from 1 7 16 to 1 71 8. He became pastor of the
Church of Cheshire, 1724. His election ser-
mon in 1746 was published. This church had
eleven members when he became the pastor,
and in 1770, had increased to three hundred
members. He married, January 25, 1726.
Anna, daughter of Jonathan Law, governor of
Connecticut. She was born in Milford, Au-
gust 1, 1702, and died August 23, 1775. He
died February 26, 1776. Children: Samuel,
born July 23, 1727; Jonathan, July 11, 1728;
Benoni, November 4, 1729; Lucy, September
11, 1730; Samuel, January 11, 1732. Ann,
May 10, 1733; Samuel, May 31, 1735; Mary,
November 5, 1736; Brenton, April 2, 1738,
mentioned below ; Elisha, born March 10, 1740 :
Sarah, August 8, 1742; Jonathan, July 19,
1745; Abigail, born December 7, 1748, mar-
ried Reverend John Foote, and their son, Sam-
uel Foote, became governor of Connecticut
and United States Senator. Lyman Hall, a
nephew of Samuel, became governor of Geor-
gia, a representative in Congress, and one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence
for that state.

(V) Brenton, son of Samuel (2) Hall, was
born, in Cheshire, April 2, 1738. He became
a large landed proprietor in the eastern part
of Meriden, and was active in getting that
town set off from Wallingford. He was the
first representative of Meriden in the general
assembly. He married (first), February 18,
1762, Lament Collins; (second) Abigail

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, who died May 5,-* 1837. He died in

Meriden, November 25, 1820. Children : Wil-
liam Brenton, born May 31, 1764; Collins,
January 8, 1766; Samuel, born June 10, 1768;
Lament, July 14, 1776; Augustus.

(VI) Augustus, son of Brenton Hall, was
born in Meriden, Connecticut. He married,
and had a daughter, Permela, who married
Russell Twiss. (See Twiss).

Thomas Dickerman, immi-
DICKERMAN grant ancestor, came over
with his wife Ellen, and
settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early
as 1636. He owned land there in that year,
and bought more the following' year. He
also owned a house and land in Boston Neck
in 1652, to which he added in 1656. He was
a tailor by trade, and also cultivated a farm.
The inventory of his estate was two hundred
and thirty-five pounds, eleven shillings, four
pence. He died June 11, 1657, in Dorchester.
His widow married (second) John Bullard,
and went to live in Medfield before July 14,
1663. Children : Thomas, 1623, died before
1691 ; Abraham, born about 1634, mentioned
below; Isaac, December, 1637; John, baptized
October 29, 1644, died young.

(II) Abraham, son of Thomas Dickerman,
was born about 1634. He married, January
2, 1658-59, Mary Cooper, born about 1636,
England, died January 4, 1705-06, daughter of
John Cooper. Her father had been with the
New Haven colony from the first, and was a
planter, freeman and signer of the "funda-
mental agreement." He was constantly en-
gaged in public affairs, and held many posi-
tions of dignity and honor, attorney, appraiser
of estates, deputy to the general court, select-
man, etc. Soon after his marriage, Abraham
Dickerman removed to New Haven, and re-
ceived as his wife's dowry a considerable
amount of real estate. April 17, 1668, he
bought a house and lot on the corner of Church
and Elm streets, and made his home there.
April 26, 1669, he was chosen townsman, or
selectman, and with the exception of four years
was annually chosen to this office for thirty-
one years, until 1699. In 1683 he was chosen
deputy to the general court, and was re-elected
until 1696. In October, 1683, he was con-
firmed and approved to be lieutenant of the
New Haven Train Band. When the town of
Wallingford was settled, he was on a com-
mittee of thirteen, including his father-in-law,
to lay out the boundaries, which were agreed
upon, January 28, 1673-74. In 1669 he was
one of a committee of seven, vested with power
to manage the affairs of the new settlement.
June 19, 1685, he was again on a committee

"to procure a patent for the town bounds" of
New Haven. June 26, 1671, he "was by vote
appointed to keep the ordinary," and continued
to do so until 1680. He lived for fifty-three
years in New Haven, and devoted most of
that time to the public good. He was moder-
ately prosperous, and added to the property
given him by his father-in-law. He also shared
with the other citizens in the various allot-
ments of land, and received in this way at
least fifty acres. He died November 2, 171 1,
aged seventy-seven. His will was dated April
20, 1 710, and mentions his sons Abraham and
Isaac, daughters Mary Bassett, Sarah Sperry,
Ruth Bradley, Abigail Sperry and Rebecca
Foot, and four grandchildren, the children of
Hannah, who married Caleb Chidsey. Chil-
dren: Mary, born about 1659; Sarah, July 25,
1663 ; Hannah, November 16, 1665 » Ruth,
April 5, 1668; Abigail. September 26, 1670;
Abraham. January 14, 1673-74; Isaac, Novem-
ber 7, 1677; Rebecca, February 2j, 1679.

(Ill) Isaac, son of Abraham Dickerman,
was born November 7, 1677. He married
(first) June 30, 1709, Mary, born December
31, 1686, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth
( Peck) Atwater. Jonathan was the son of
David Atwater. He married (second) Eliza-
beth Ailing, born November, 1691, died April,
1767, widow of John Morris, and daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Chidsey) Ailing. Samuel
was the son of Roger Ailing, the immigrant.
He appears to have had unusual aptitude for
public affairs, and held many positions of trust
and honor. He was appointed constable, Oc-
tober, 1710. In October, 1713, he was ensign
of militia, and in 1722, captain. December
15, 1 712, he was chosen selectman, and after-
ward continuously until 17 19, then from 1722
till 1725, and from 1730 till 1732. He was
deputy to the general court for fifty-nine terms
between 17 18 and 1757, and was appointed
justice of the peace for New Haven in May,
1735, and every year afterward as long as he
lived, for twenty-four years. In church affairs
he was as prominent as in civil matters. He
was chosen deacon of the First Church in
1727, and held the office until 1754', when he
resigned. He then transferred his member-
ship to the White Haven church, and was. at
the same time chosen a deacon there, and re-
tained the office until his death. December
24, 1716, when Yale College was about to be
removed from Saybrook to New Haven, and
the latter town had made it a grant of eight
acres of land, he was one of a committee to
make the transfer, and in 1718 was one of a
number of proprietors who made a gift of
land for the support of the institution. In that
same year he was first sent to the general as-

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sembly, and seems to have been regarded from
the first as the special representative of Yale
interests. During the religious upheaval
which -followed the visit of Rev. George
Whitefield to America (1739), and the con-
troversy which took place between the orig-
inal church in New Haven and the Separat-
ists, Isaac Dickerman, as a magistrate and an
officer in the church, for many years preserved
a neutral attitude. In 1754, however, he
joined the White Haven church and thus
united with the Separatists. He showed
throughout his life the traits of a good citizen
and many qualities of the statesman. He was
energetic, of judicial temper, and tirelessly de-
voted to public interests. He died September
7, 1758. His will was dated May 11, 1756.
Before his death he had transferred large por-
tions of his real estate to his sons. The estate
was appraised at seven hundred and eleven
pounds, four shillings, nine pence. Children :
Isaac, born March 3, 171 1, died young; Sam-
uel, January 12, 1712, died young; Ruth, De-
cember 13, 1712; Isaac, January 31, 1714,
graduate of Yale College, 1736; Samuel,
March 4, 1716; Jonathan, July 4, 1719 ; Ste-
phen, mentioned below; Mary, December 16,
1723; Rebekah, July 2, 1726; Abigail, August

4, I728.

(IV) Stephen, son of Isaac Dickerman, was
born August or October 14, 1721, died Febru-
ary 28, 1779. He married, September 25,

1752, Eunice, born November 22, 1733, died
February 16, 1779, daughter of Andrew and
Eunice (Sherman) Tuttle (Thomas, Thomas,
William). He lived in New Haven, in a
house given him by his father, together with
large tracts of land in the north and north-
western parts of the town. He and his wife
died the same year, leaving seven children,
the youngest only three years old. These chil-
dren all grew up, married, and lived in New
Haven. Children : Stephen, born July 26,

1753, died July 18, 1755; Stephen, December
IO« x755> revolutionary soldier; Mary, Janu-
ary 17, 1758; Isaac, April 15, 1760; Eunice,
married Jared Atwater ; Elisha, March 5,1769,
mentioned below : Rebecca, married Ebenezer
R. Peck; Chloe, 1773; Abigail, 1776.

(V) Elisha, son of Stephen Dickerman, was
born March 5, 1769, died July 26, 1855. He
married (first), December 27, 1794. at New
Haven, Anna, born about 1770, died March 6,
1798, daughter of William and Mary Scott.
He married (second), Pamelia, born Decem-
ber, 1774, died June n, 1861, daughter of
Bartholomew and Hannah (Baldwin) Good-
rich (Timothy, Bartholomew, Bartholomew).
Children of first wife : Mary Ann, born June

5, 1796; Elisha, November 19, 1797. Children

of second wife: Eunice, March 3, 1801, died
September 30, 1803; Grace, May 17, 1802;
John Goodrich; Eunice, October 10, 1806;
Thomas Punderson, October 28, 1808; Ed-
mund Bartholomew, November 29, 1810; Wil-
liam, July 28, 181 2 ; George Chapman, Novem-
ber 14, 1814; Charles, mentioned below.

(VI) Charles, son of Elisah Dickerman,
was born September 10, 1816. He married,
February 22, 1848, at Branford, Connecticut,
Jane, born October 24, 1826, died October 18,
1875, daughter of Merritt and Betsey (Palm-
er) Foote. Her father, Merritt Foote. was
born June 19, 1775, died March 4, 1876. Her
mother was born May 6, 1794, died April 25,
1837. They were married June 18, 1818.
About 1836 Charles Dickerman, with two
brothers, Edmund and William, went to Nat-
chez, Mississippi, and established themselves
in mercantile business there. Ten years later
William and Charles went to Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, and made successful investments in
real estate. About 1850 Charles returned to
New Haven and entered into partnership with
William in the manufacture of carriages,
which they continued till the breaking out of
the civil war. Mr. Dickerman gave much at-
tention to fruit culture and was an expert in
pomology. He grew nearly three hundred
varieties of pears, besides other fruits, and
received a number of medals for exhibits on
various occasions, among them the Wilder
medal of 1873. He took great delight in giving
to others grafts from his choice trees and thus
encouraged an important industry. He also
took much interest in tracing the family his-
tory and in preserving memorials of early
times. In politics he was a Republican. He
died May 6, 1897. Children : Ella Palmer,
born November 12, 1848; George Lewis, April
12, 1852, mentioned below ; Caroline Ives, Sep-
tember 23, 1856.

(VII) George Lewis, son of Charles Dicker-
man, was born in New Haven, April 12, 1852,
died there May 30, 1909. He prepared for
college at the famous old Hopkins grammar
school and entered Yale College, from which
he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in
the class of 1874. He studied law at Colum-

■ bia Law School and received his degree there
in 1876. He continued his study of law in
the office of Hon. Benjamin D. Silliman, of
New York City, and was admitted to the bar
at New Haven, Connecticut, May 17, 1878.
He opened an office in New Haven and took
a prominent place in his profession. He was a
Republican in politics, and served the city with
ability and distinction in the board of alder-
men for four years. He was a member of the
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Country Club. He married, October 14, 1885,
Elizabeth Spence Shoemaker, born at Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1856,
daughter of Lazarus Denison and Esther
(Wadhams) Shoemaker, Lazarus D. Shoe-
maker was grandson of Elizur or Elijah and
Elizabeth Shoemaker, and Esther (Wadhams)
Shoemaker was daughter of Samuel Wad-
hams, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dickerman lived
at 320 Temple street, New Haven, the present
home of his widow. They had no children.

(Ill) Abraham (2) Dick-
DICKERMAN erman, son of Abraham

(1) Dickerman (q. v.),
was born January 14, 1673-74, at New
Haven, died there May or June, 1748. He
married (first) January 16, 1697-98, Eliza-
beth, daughter of John and Joanna Daniels
Glover Henry, born February 23, 1676, at
New Haven, died there October 22, 1742. Her
mother, Joanna Daniels, was a daughter of
Stephen and Anne (Gregson) Daniels. Anne
Gregson was a daughter of Thomas and Jane
Gregson. He married (second) Susannah,
widow of Joshua Hotchkiss, Sir., of New Ha-
ven. Children of first wife : Abraham, born
October 19, 1698, mentioned below; John,
March 24, 1701 ; Mary, 1703; Elizabeth, June
12, 1706; Hannah, May 9, 1709; Joseph, about
1710; Sarah, December 22, 1716; Daniel, Sep-
tember 16, 1719, died young.

(IV) Abraham (3), son of Abraham (2)
Dickerman, was born October 19, 1698, at
New Haven, died there in 1743. He married,
December 15, 1726, Eleanor, daughter of Jon-
athan and Mary (Ellcock) Perkins, born
March 7, 1702, at New Haven. Mary Ell-
cock was a daughter of Anthony Ellcock.
Abraham Dickerman was an ensign of the
militia. No will or administration of his estate
appears in the New Haven records. Children :
John, born October 2, 1727, mentioned below;
Abraham, January 13, 1729-30, died October
30, 1739; Mary, November 30, 1732; Ashbel
June 17, 1736, died May 23, 1739; Elizabeth,
April 8, 1739.

(V) John, son of Abraham (3) Dickerman,
was born October 2, 1727, at New Haven,
died about 1822-23, at Lyndon, Vermont, at
the home of his son Ely Dickerman. He
married, June 8, 1752, Esther, daughter of
Joseph and Anna (Wilmot) Sperry, born De-
cember 4, 1 73 1, at New Haven. Joseph
Sperry was son of Joseph, and the latter a son
of Richard. Children : Rachel, born February
23- T7^3' New Haven; Abraham, October 25,
1754, New Haven; Esther, July 8, 1759, New
Haven ; William was living in 1800, died at
Guilford, New York; John, born March 17,

1764, mentioned below; Grigson, supposed to
have been killed in the revolution; Polly, mar-
ried a Hazelton, in Woodbury, Vermont ; Na-
thaniel, died in Brattleboro, Vermont, aged
twenty-two; Ely, born 1772.

(VI) John (2), son of John (1) Dicker-
man, was born March 17, 1764, in Vermont,
the exact town unknown. At the age of six-
teen he enlisted as a soldier in the revolution,
and served for about nine months in Captain
James Blakeley's company, Colonel Samuel
Fletcher's regiment. During the latter part of
his service he was employed as a scout, and
was accounted the hardiest and fleetest man in
his division. It is highly probable that he
served also under Ethan Allen. For several
years before he drew a pension of thirty-six
dollars a year. When a young man he went
to New Haven and learned the blacksmith
trade. He then returned to Brattleboro, and
worked at his trade until 1800, when he re-
moved to Guilford, Chenango county, New
York, and lived there and near by until he
died. Besides working as a blacksmith, he was
also a farmer. In religion he was a Metho-
dist Episcopalian. He was a man of candor
and great integrity, simple in his habits, faith-
ful and diligent in his pursuits. He married,
1789, Thankful, daughter of Seth and Thank-
ful Smith, born April 7, 1768, probably at
Granby, Massachusetts, died October 7, 1856,
near Rockdale, in the township of Unadilla,
Otsego county, New York. Her father, Seth
Smith, was a descendant in the sixth genera-
tion of Lieutenant Samuel Smith, born at
Hadleigh, England, about 1602, came with his
wife Elizabeth and four oldest children to this
country in 1634, and is supposed to have lo-
cated at Watertown, Massachusetts, 1635 ; re-
moved to what is now Wethersfield, Connecti-
cut, where he remained until 1649 ; removed
then to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he lived
until his death, one of the original settlers of
the latter place. Seth Smith was a colonel of
militia in the revolution. When the news first
reached the town (Granby) of the invasion of
the British he was in church, but instantly left,
mounted a horse, and rode all over the town
to raise volunteers. The next morning with
his new recruits he marched about thirty miles,
and arrived in time to participate in the battle
of Bennington. He had a brother Israel,
whose daughter Chloe married a man named
Hayes, of Brattleboro, Vermont. Their fifth
child was Rutherford Hayes, father of Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, afterwards president of the
United States. John (2) Dickerman died
November 6, 1848, near Rockdale. Children:
Henry, born October 7, 1790; Esther, Decem-
ber 21, 1792; Charlotte, June T3, 1795; Na-

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thaniel, September 27, 1797, mentioned below;
Nancy, September 23, 1800; Sarah, June 16,
1801 ; Clark, June 12, 1803.

(VII) Nathaniel, son of John (2) Dicker-
man, was born September 27, 1797, at Brat-
tleboro, died December 4, 1845, at Masonville,
New York. He spent most of his life in Guil-
ford and Masonville, New York. He received
his education in the common schools and was
afterwards a farmer. He was also engaged
in lumbering to some extent. He held the
offices of constable and justice of the peace,
and after removing to Masonville was town
treasurer for one year. As justice of the
peace he tried very few cases, and usually pre-
vailed upon the parties to settle their difficul-
ties themselves. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church, a devoted Christian, and
had the universal respect of everyone who
knew him, as a man of perfect honesty, sincere
piety and exemplary character. He married,
May 9, 1832, at Masonville, Mary Ann,
daughter of Aaron Ferry and Achsa Smith.
She was born in Brunswick, Rensselaer
county, New York, January 4, 1809, died July
6, 1859, at Masonville. Her mother was the
seventh generation from the same Lieutenant
Samuel Smith who was the ancestor of her
husband's mother, in a different line. She
was educated in the common schools, and
taught school herself in Masonville and Guil-
ford. At the time of her husband's death she
was left with a family of six young children
and in very much reduced circumstances. She
managed, however, to bring them up in a
manner highly creditable to herself and to them.
She married (second), July 8, 1856, Erastus S.
Stebbins. Children of Nathaniel Dickerman,
the first three born at Guilford, the others at
Masonville : John Henry, March 10, 1833, died
April 24, 1833; Norris Henry, March 16,
1834; Sidney Ferry, September 30, 1835,
mentioned below ; Achsa Smith, April 22, 1838,
died 1867; Albert, March 26, 1840, mentioned
below; Mary Elizabeth, December 15, 1841 ;
infant son, died August 21, 1843; Jima Emet-
ine, November 1, 1845, died about 1850.

(VIII) Sidney Ferry, son of Nathaniel
Dickerman, was born September 30, 1835, in
Guilford. As a boy he worked regularly on
his father's farm. He attended the Oxford
Academy, at Oxford, New York, but did not
graduate. After leaving school he became a
farmer in Newburg, Ohio, and at the end of
a few years' experience at farming spent six
years as a bookkeeper in Cleveland, Ohio. He
then went to Winsted, Connecticut, 1868, and
established himself in the hardware business,
in which he has been ever since. Since his
residence in Winsted he has taken an impor-

tant part in town and church affairs, as well
as b siness. He has served on the board of
burgesses for several years, and was a member
of the board of relief for the town and bor-
ough. In politics he is a Republican, in re-
ligion a Congregationalism He has been a
deacon in the Second Congregational Church
since 1898. He was formerly a member of
the Royal Arcanum, and was treasurer of
the local council of that order for fourteen
years. At the time of the civil war he served
for one hundred days in the United States
army. One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Regi-
ment, stationed in the rear of Washington, D.
C, for defence of city ; also served five years in
the Ohio state militia. He married, October
16, 1867, Adelaide Lucinda Whiting, who died
April 16, 1900. They have no children.

(VIII) Albert, son of Nathaniel Dicker-
man, was born March 26, 1840, at Masonville.
He was brought up on his father's farm, and
attended the district school until he was six-
teen years old. He then attended an academy
in Chenango county for two terms. When he
was seventeen he removed with his family to
Cleveland, Ohio. From that time until the
breaking out of the civil war he studied and
taught, part of the time in Chester, Ohio, about
six months at Oberlin, Ohio, and a year and a
quarter in Missouri. In July. 1863, he en-
listed as a private in Company E, One Hundred
and Fifth Regiment, Ohio Infantry. On reach-
ing camp he was appointed sergeant major,
after about four months second lieutenant, and
two months later first lieutenant. In the latter
capacity he served until the close of the war,
and twice declined a captain's commission.
His regiment was in the Fourteenth Army
Corps, under Thomas, and later Sherman, and
participated in the movements of that corps
through Kentucky and Tennessee, in the At-
lanta campaign, the March to the Sea, through
the Carolinas to Goldsboro, to Raleigh, Rich-
mond and Washington, also taking part in
the Grand Review. It was mustered out and
disbanded in June, 1865. Judge Albian W.
Tourgee, who wrote the history of this regi-
ment, speaks of the subject of this sketch as
follows : "He was a man of strong character
and brilliant qualities, systematic, prompt,
cool and courageous, one of those men who
never lose their heads nor forget, nor omit
any routine duty. His career since the close
of the war has fully justified the promise of
his military service." After he was mustered
out he studied law at Union Law College, in
Cleveland, Ohio, being admitted to practice
June, 1866. In August of the same year he
located at Hillsdale, Michigan. While living
there he served three years as director of the

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public schools, four years as circuit court com-
missioner, four years as probate judge, ami
state senator through the general session of
1881 and the special session of 1882. In the
spring of 1883 he moved to Muskegon, Michi-
gan. There he served two years as member of
the board of trustees of the public schools, and
in 1887 was elected circuit judge of the four-
teenth judicial circuit, serving six years. At
the close of his term he declined to be a candi-
date for re-election. In 1894 he removed to
Watsonville, California, where he has since
lived and continued to practice his profession.
In 1869 he published a small pamphlet con-
taining a record of his grandfather's family,
and has always taken a deep interest in the
genealogy of family. He married, July 15,
1871, at Manchester, Michigan, Eva C. Stone,
born July 22, 1848, at Leroy, Lake county,
Ohio. Children: Kate, born March 31, 1874,
at Hillsdale, Michigan; Florence, June 28.
1876, Hillsdale, died there November 22, 1877;
Alice, January 19, 1880, at Hillsdale, died
December 27, 1889, Muskegon; infant, July
25, 1889, at Muskegon, died same day.

(IV) Jonathan Dicker-
DICKERMAN man, son of Isaac Dicker-
man (q. v.), was born
July 4, 1719, died July 28, 1795. He married
(first) January 27, 1742, Rebecca, daughter
of Cornet John and Elizabeth (Thompson)
Bassett. She was born July 23, 1721, died
November 26, 1760. Her father, John Bas-
sett, was the son of John and grandson of
William Bassett. He married (second) Han-
nah Leavenworth, of Derby, widow of Nicho-
las Moss, son of William and Abigail (Riggs)
Moss. She died October 15, 1780, aged sev-
enty. He married (third) about T789, De-
borah Todd, of North Haven, who died De-
cember 8, 1830, aged ninety-one. He lived at
Mt. Carmel, Connecticut, where he was a
farmer. October, 1767, he was appointed en-
sign of the Fifteenth Company or train band
in the Second Regiment, and October, 1770,
was made lieutenant of the same company.
Children, all by first wife: Enos, born Novem-
ber 2, 1743; Rebecca, 1744, died September 5,
1751 ; Jonathan, January 13, 1747; Hezekiah,
1748-49, died August 29, 1751 ; Joel, 1750,
died September 8, 1751 ; Hezekiah, November
6, 1754, mentioned below; Joel, January 2,
1757, served in the revolution; Amos and
Rebecca (twins), January 12, 1759.

(V) Hezekiah, son of Jonathan Dickerman,
was born November 6, 1754, died May 2,
1814. He married Hannah, daughter of Amos
Rice, born about 1764, died April 20, 1815.
He was a farmer by occupation and lived in

Mount Carmel. In the revolution he was a
corporal in Captain Bunnel's company, Fifth
Battalion of General Wadsworth's brigade.
He was a captain of militia, and of his services
Atwater's history says : "Not long after the
departure of Arnold and his men Captain Hez-
ekiah Dickerman with nine members of his
militia company followed their townsmen to
the camp at Cambridge. Both these squads
went as volunteers and without assurance of
pay from any public treasury, but doubtless
with assurance from their neighbors of con-
tributions for their support while engaged in
the common cause." Children : Joel, born May
25, 1785 ; Jason, August 14, 1786, mentioned
below; Asahel, May 3, 1788; Hannah, April
30, 1790; Bede, November 17, 1791 ; Esther,
August 22, 1793; Arba, March 29, 1795;
Martha, April 6, 1797; Jared, October 2, 1798;
Hezekiah, 1801 ; Micah, March 12, 1804.

(VI) Jason, son of Hezekiah Dickerman,
was born August 14, 1786, at Mount Carmel,
died August 12, 1870. He married (first)
Laura Walters. He married (second), 1822,
Lucretia, daughter of Levi Talmage, of North-
ford, Connecticut, a soldier in the revolution.
He married (third), 1839, Nancy Bassett, who
died at Watertown, Connecticut. Children of
first wife: Willis Walter, born about 181 1;
Henry, August 30, 1813; Jason, July 18, 1816.
Children of second wife : Edwin, born Janu-
ary 17, 1823, mentioned below; Laura Walter,
March 31, 1824.

(VII) Edwin, son of Jason Dickerman, was
born January 17, 1823, died April 17, 1868.
He received a common school education, and
learned the trade of blacksmith, at which he
worked most of his life. He lived in North
Haven and New Haven. He married, Novem-
ber 17, 1846, Lydia Lucretia, daughter of
Ward and Lydia (Humiston) Peck, born May
29, 1826. Her father, Ward Peck, was a son
of Ward Peck who served seven years in the
revolution and was one of Washington's staff.
Children : Emma H., Frederick E., mentioned
below.

(VIII) Frederick E., only son of Edwin
Dickerman, was born in Hamden, Connecti-
cut, October 1, 1845. He attended the public
schools, the Lovell School of New Haven,
and a private school conducted by Mr. Lovell.
He began railroading when a young man,
starting as brakeman. He was appointed a
conductor in 1868, and continued in the em-
ploy of the same railroad corporation as con-
ductor under different ownership and man-
agement for thirty-seven years. He retired
from the employ of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, as the concern is
now called, in 1905, after a continuous service

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of forty-three years. Until 1888 he lived at
Watertown, Connecticut, then removed to
Winsted, where he has since lived. Since 1908
he has been superintendent of the state capitol
and grounds. In politics he is a Republican,
and in 1907 represented the town of Winches-
ter in the general assembly. He served on the
committees of new towns, probate districts and
was a delegate to visit agricultural colleges-.
He is a member of St. Andrews Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Meridian Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; of Tyrene Council, Royal
and Select Masters ; of Pyramid Temple, Mys-
tic Shrine, of Bridgeport ; of Clark Command-
ery, Knights Templar, of Waterbury ; also of
Clifton Lodge, Odd Fellows, and the Encamp-
ment. He is a member of the Congregational
church at Watertown. He married, July 24,
1876, Ella L., born at Killingworth, Connecti-
cut, daughter of Harvey and Lydia (Wright)
Willcox. They have no children.

Harvey and Lydia (Wright) Willcox had
children: Frederick Washington, who died
March 8, 1909, was a member of congress
from Chester, Middlesex county, Connecticut;
Mary ; William, lives in Texas ; Edward,
served in civil war four years and was in
Libbv prison six months; Loomis; Evelyn;
Elizabeth ; Ella L., married Frederick E.
Dickerman, mentioned above. Harvey Will-
cox lived at Killingworth and was the son of
Elihu Willcox of that town.

William Simpson Har-
HARMOUNT mount was born in Phila-
delphia, and made his
home in New Haven, Connecticut. He
married Jane' Morgan, of West Haven, Con-
necticut. Children : William Robert, married
Cornelia Blossom, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ;
George Alexander, mentioned below ; Jennie,
married Robert Noble ; children : Robert, La-
bel, Mary, Thomas, William and Joseph
Noble ; Anna, married Edward Ailing ; chil-
dren : Mortimer Ailing, of Providence, Rhode
Island, and Grace Ailing, who married Theo-
dore Abbott and lives at Saltillo, Mexico;
Adoniram Judson, married Mary Loomis, of
New Haven ; children : William, George Simp-
son, Adoniram ludson, Dwight and Paul.
Mary, married Joseph A. Graves, of Hartford,
Connecticut ; children : Dr. Arthur H. Graves,
professor in Yale College ; Helen Graves.

(II) George Alexander, son of William
Simpson Harmount, was born in New Haven,
June 3, 1843. He served all through the civil
war; he was lieutenant-colonel of the ninety-
seventh colored infantry. He married, Inly
28, 1868. Jennette Camp, born September 21,
1843, daughter of Hiram Camp (see Camp

VI). Mrs. Harmount is a woman of educa-
tion and culture and is widely known as a
gifted public 'speaker and lecturer. She is
president of the Study Club of New Haven
and prominent in the social life of the city.

(The Camp Line).

Edward Camp, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England, and settled early at New
Haven. Children, born at New Haven: Ed-
ward. July 8, 1650; Mary, April 21, 1652;
Sarah, November 25, 1655 ; Samuel, mentioned
below.

(II) Samuel, son of Edward Camp, was
born at New Haven, died April 22, 1741. He
married, July 17, 1712, Dorothy Whitmore.
widow of Josiah Whitmore, of Middletown.
They moved to Waterbury about 1733 and she
died September 2, 1749. Children, born at
New Haven: Mehitable, August, 1713; Joel,
May, 1715; Abel; Stephen, February, 1720;
Joab, mentioned below.

(III) Joab, son of Samuel Camp, was born

about 1725. He married Thankful .

Children, born in Waterbury : Samuel, men-
tioned below; Thankful, July 11, 1750; John,
April 14, 1753; Ephraim, June 23, 1756;
Sarah, April 3, 1758; Phebe, May 3, 1760;
Benajah, July 20, 1762; Joab, July 5, 1764.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Joab Camp, was
born probably in Waterbury. He was captain
in the revolution. He was well acquainted
with General Washington and General Lafay-
ette and did efficient service at Crown Point
and Staten Island. His four brothers, John,
Benajah, Job and Ephraim, were also soldiers
in the revolution. John became a Congrega-
tional minister ; Samuel settled in Plymouth
and was deacon of the Congregational church,
dying at the age of eighty years, leaving the
homestead to his son Samuel. Captain Sam-
uel Camp was captain of the Tenth Regi-
ment in 1777, the Seventeenth in 1780, and in
the regiment of Colonel Increase Moody in
1779. He married (first) Mary Row, Decem-
ber 7, 1769, daughter of Daniel Row, of Farm-
ington. She died December 2j, 1777, and he
married (second) Tryphena . Chil-
dren of second wife, born at Waterbury :
Mary, May 1, 1781 ; Rhoda, March 17, 1783;
Phineas Royce, July 14, 1785; Samuel, men-
tioned below.

(V) Samuel (3), son of Captain Samuel
(2) Camp, was born February 2, 1787. He
settled in Plymouth, Connecticut, and died in
1876, aged eighty-nine years. He married
Jennette Jerome, sister of Chauncey Jerome,
daughter of Rev. Charles Jerome. He re-
mained on the farm until 1829, then removed
to Plainville, Connecticut. He was a student

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of the Bible and had a remarkable memory,
having committed to memory half of the Scrip-
tures. His was a long and useful life.

(VI) Hiram, son of Samuel (3) Camp, was
born in Plymouth, April 9, 181 1, died in New
Haven, July 8, 1893. He was educated in the
public schools. Early in life he displayed a
taste for mechanics, and at the age of eight-
een he left the farm to work in Bristol, Con-
necticut, in a clock factory under his uncle,
Chauncey Jerome. At that time, 1829, clock-
making was an infant industry in this country.
He had much to do with the development and
improvement of the modern clock, and he saw
the industry grow to mammoth proportions.
In 1845 ne went to New Haven and for forty
years was president of the New Haven Clock
Company. He was interested in public affairs
and held many offices of trust and honor. He
was selectman of the town and chief of the
volunteer fire department. He represented
New Haven in the general court and served
in the common council of the city. During
the last twelve years of his life he devoted
much time and gave generously to the Mount
Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mas-
sachusetts. He was a Congregationalist and
one of the oldest deacons of the church. He
died at New Haven, July 8, 1893, aged eighty-
two years. He was the last and one of the
most distinguished and remarkable of the
clock manufacturers who went out from Ply-
mouth, Connecticut, to engage elsewhere in
the manufacture of clocks. In politics he was
a Republican. He married Elvira, daughter of
Daniel Skinner, of Windsor, Connecticut.
Children: Mary, born October 8, 1836; mar-
ried John Grove White, of Belfast, Ireland, a
cousin of the Duke of Devonshire, England,
no children; Sarah, born December 21, 1839;
married George O. Cruttenden, of Guilford,
Connecticut, two children who died in infancy ;
Jennette, born September 21, 1843, married,
July 28, 1868, George Alexander Harmount
(see Harmount II).

William Bradley, immigrant
BRADLEY ancestor, was born in Eng-
land, and settled early at New
Haven, where in 1644 he took the oath of
fidelity. He came from the West Riding of
Yorkshire. He married Alice, daughter of
Roger Prichard, of Springfield, Massachusetts,
and Milford, Connecticut, February 18, 1645.
His will is recorded at New Haven. He died
in 1691, and his widow in 1692. Children:
Joseph, baptized January 4, 1646, mentioned
below; Martha, born October, 1648, died Jan-
uary 9, 1707; Abraham, October 24, 1650, died
October 19, 1718; Mary, April 30, 1653, died

October, 1724; Benjamin, April 8, 1657, died
1728; Esther, September 29, 1659; Nathaniel,
February 26, 1661, died August 17, 1743;
Sarah, June 21, 1665.

(II) Joseph, son of William Bradley, was
born at New Haven, and baptized there Jan-
uary 4, 1646. He died in January, 1705. He
married, October 25, 1667, Silence Brockett.
Among their children was Samuel, mentioned
below.

(III) Samuel, son of Joseph Bradley, was
born in 1681, died 1757. He married, Decem-
ber 16, 1722, Eunice Munson. They lived in
New Haven and Wallingford, Connecticut.
Among their children was Titus, mentioned
below.

(IV) Titus, son of Samuel Bradley, was
born in 1746, died February 9, 181 1. He mar-
ried, in 1769, Lydia Yale Todd and lived in
North Haven, Connecticut. They had a son
Titus, mentioned below.

(V) Titus (2), son of Titus (1) Bradley,
was born in 1776, died in 1822. He married,
February 6, 1805, Mary Munson, born about
1785, died August 19, 1861. They resided at
North Haven. She inherited part of the home-
stead and pew 8 in the church. She was a
daughter of Stephen and Mary (Goodyear)
Munson, granddaughter of Jabez and Eunice
(Atwater) Munson, great-granddaughter of
Stephen and Lydia (Bassett) Munson, great-
great-granddaughter of Samuel and Martha
(Bradley) Munson. Children, born at North
Haven : Seymour, mentioned below ; Barzillai,
of North Haven ; Henry Munson, baptized
June 24, 1821 ; Harriet B., married Benjamin
H. Jackson, and lived on High street, New
Haven ; Mary J., married Jesse Andrews, and
lived on George street, New Haven.

(VI) Seymour, son of Titus (2) Bradley,
was born August 14, 1806, died April 25,
1890. He had a store on Chapel street, New
Haven, for many years, establishing it when a
young man. He married, September 30, 1829,
Delia, born June 6, 1809, died January 4, 1880,
daughter of Frederick and Eunetia (Blakes-
lee) Barnes, granddaughter of Joshua and
Mercy (Tuttle) Barnes, great-granddaughter
of Captain Joshua and Deborah (Wooding)
Barnes, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas
and Mary (Leek) Barnes, and great-great-
great-granddaughter of Thomas and Abigail
(Frost) Barnes. Children: Robert Barnes,
mentioned below ; Franklin Seymour, men-
tioned below.

(VII) Robert Barnes, son of Seymour
Bradley, was born at North Haven, March
10, 1832, died at New Haven, January 22,
1890. He attended the public schools in New
Haven and was a pupil at the Lovell Lancas-

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trian School and later at the select school con-
ducted by Mr. Thomas. Until 1858 he as-
sisted his father in the store. He then em-
barked in business on his own account as a
dealer in hardware and agricultural tools in a
store on the corner of State and Court streets.
He continued in business until his death, and
was one of the best-known merchants in the
city. His business was continued by the firm
of Bradley & Dann. He w a prominent
member and for many years treasurer of the
Center Church. He married, December 30,
1858, Cornelia, born July 13, 1835, daughter
of Truman and Eunice (Peet) Minor, grand-
daughter of Seth and Susannah (Frisbie)
Minor, great-granddaughter of Israel and
Anna (Lake) Minor, great-great-granddaugh-
ter of Josiah and Mary (Barnum) (Shove)
Minor, great-great-great-granddaughter of
Ephraim and Rebecca (Curtis) Minor, great-
great-great-great-granddaughter of Captain
John Minor, who was born in 1634, died Sep-
tember 17, 1719, married October 19, 1658,
Elizabeth Booth, born September 12, 1647,
died October 24, 1732,

Truman Minor, father of Mrs. Bradley, was
a member of the firm of Minor, Horton &
Company, manufacturers of plows of Peeks-
kill, New York, and Mrs. Bradley spent her
childhood in that town. Eunice (Peet) Minor,
mother of Mrs. Bradley, was daughter of
Jehiel and Lois (Manville) Peet, granddaugh-
ter of Jehiel and Joanna (Walker) Peet, great-
granddaughter of Richard and Sarah (Cur-
tiss) Peet. Richard Peet was a son of Ben-
jamin and Priscilla (Fairchild) Peet, grand-
son of Benjamin and Phebe (Butler) Peet,
great-grandson of John Peet, the immigrant
ancestor, who came from England in 1635 in
the ship "Hopewell," and settled at Stratfield,
Connecticut. Children of Robert Barnes and
Cornelia (Minor) Bradley: Frederick Tru-
man, mentioned below ; Robert Seymour, born
August 5, 1863, died February 1, 1890; edu-
cated at New Haven public school, Hopkins
grammar school, and graduated from Yale
College in 1885 and from Yale Medical School
in 1887 with the degree of M. D. ; Delia
Barnes, born May 26, 1871, died September
25, 1902; married, November 25, 1891, Charles
W. Whittlesey ; children : i. Ethel, born March
25, 1894; ii. Robert Bradley, born October 11,
1895; : Cornelia Minor, born May 15, 1876.

(VIII) Frederick Truman, son of Robert
Barnes Bradley, was born November 28, i860.
He attended the public schools of New Haven
and prepared for college at the Hopkins gram-
mar school of New Haven, graduating with
honor. He entered the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale College, and was graduated

with the degree of Ph. B. in the class of 1883.
He entered partnership with his father and
continued in this firm until 1890, when his
father died. During the following three years
he was engaged in the same business in part-
nership with George E. Dann, under the firm
name of Bradley & Dann. He became a mem-
ber of the firm of English & Mersick, January
1, 1894, and when it was incorporated June
28, 1895, he became secretary of the company.
Edwin F. Mersick, president, and John B.
Kennedy, vice-president. When Mr. Mersick
died Mr. Kennedy succeeded him, Mr. Brad-
ley became treasurer, and Carl W. Johnson
secretary of the company. Since then the
corporation has been successfully conducted
by these officers. The concern manufactures
carriage and automobile hardware trimmings
and supplies and automobile radiators. Mr.
Bradley is a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, and secretary and treasurer of the Eng-
lish & Mersick Lamp & Foundry Company,
manufacturers of lamps. He is a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution, Yale
Club of New York City, Quinnipiack Club and
the Graduates' Club of New Haven. In poli-
tics he is a Republican. He married (first)
June 15, 1887, Sarah Emily Mersick, died
September 15, 1906, daughter of Edwin F.
Mersick, of New Haven. He married (sec-
ond) June 2"], 1908, Mary English Mersick,
born May 6, 1868, daughter of Charles S.
Mersick. Children of first wife : Seymour
Mersick, born April 25, 1888; Mildred, born
May 1, 1900.

(VII) Franklin Seymour, son of Seymour
Bradley, was born in New Haven, May 17,
1839, died April 26, 1908. He was educated
at the school conducted by Miss Miller, and
later attended Russell school and the school
at Southbury. Returning to New Haven he
entered Yale and graduated in the class of
1861. He was a member of the Alpha Delta
Phi of the college. After his graduation he
engaged in the hardware business, in which
he continued until he sold out to Bronson &
Townsend several years prior to his death.
He was very successful as a business man, and
after having served as a director for some
years was elected president of the Yale Na-
tional Bank, a post which he filled until 1889,
a period of over twenty-five years, when he
retired. He acted as administrator for many
large estates, but was not engaged actively in
business since his resignation from the bank,
of which he still remains a director. His offices
for a number of years were at No. 82 Church
street. He was formerly director of the Free
Public Library and was assistant secretary of
the board. He was a member and deacon, also

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clerk and treasurer, of Center Congregational
Church, a constant attendant at its services,
and his death was sincerely mourned by all
the members of that body. He was a great
lover of music and many years ago played the
organ in churches. He was a Republican in
politics, but never aspired to political office.

Mr. Bradley was always alert in both mind
and body, and during his most active period
he could accomplish a great amount of busi-
ness with celerity and ease. He was quick in
comprehension and quick in decision, and
though not especially aggressive he was tena-
cious and persistent. Though a thorough bus-
iness man, he did not allow business to ab-
sorb him to the exclusion of other important
matters.

He was highly appreciative of excel-
lence in literary work, and could write well
himself. He kept abreast of the progress of
thought and was especially concerned with all
that affected the conduct of public affairs in
this country. He was a well-rounded citizen,
a man who neglected no duty of home, church,
society or city. All who came in contact with
him appreciated that he was a broad man, a
substantial man, and a man in every way ad-
mirable. In a word, he was all his life a no-
table example of that steady, sterling, reliable
manhood which is typical of Connecticut and
New England. His life was well regulated,
active and useful, and his death was sincerely
lamented, leaving the keenest of voids in the
hearts of those whom it touched.

Mr. Bradley married (first) in 1861, Louise
Trowbridge, daughter of the late Le Grand
Cannon. Children : Henry Le Grand, treas-
urer of the Atlas Manufacturing Company ;
Franklin Trowbridge, who died at his home in
Saybrook; Annie Delia, wife of Julian F. Den-
nison ; Louise Cannon, wife of Herman Shaf-
fer, of Fort Washington. He married (sec-
ond) February 5, 1890, at Seneca Falls, New
York, Ella Maria Chatham, born December
29, 1857, daughter of Luther Calvin and
Frances Amelia ( Bockoven ) Chatham, of
Seneca Falls. Her father was born in 1820.
Mrs. Bradley had a brother, George Chatham,
born in i860, died aged seven years; her sis-
ter, Frances Amelia Chatham, was born in
1861, married Charles Lee Burt, of Virginia,
who died in 1902, leaving one child, Chatham
Lee Burt, born in August, 1886, now living in
Seattle, Washington. Through her mother
Mrs. Bradley is related to the Woodruffs of
Connecticut (see Woodruff). Her maternal
great-grandmother was Rachel (Riggs) Bock-
oven, of Auburn, New York. Mr. and Mrs.
Bradley have one child, Dorothea Chatham,
born October 23, 1893.

(The Woodruff Line).

(VIII) Benjamin Woodruff, son of Benja-
min Woodruff (q. v.), was born about 1706.
He married and had children : Benjamin, men-
tioned below ; Charles, James, Susanna, Icha-
bod and others.

(IX) Benjamin, son of Benjamin Woodruff,
was born in 1744. He married Phebe Pier-
son, born 1741. She was of the same family
as President Abraham Pierson, of Yale Col-
lege, son of Abraham Pierson. Abraham
Pierson, the immigrant, was born in York-
shire, England, and graduated at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, in 1632; came to America
in 1639 and located at Southhaven, Long Is-
land, remaining until 1642, when he removed
to Branford, Connecticut. In 1666 he went
to Newark, New Jersey, and died August 9.
1678. He married Abigail, daughter of Rev.
John Wheelwright. Abraham Pierson, Jr.,
graduated from Harvard College in 1668; set-
tled in Newark as colleague of his father there
in 1669; removed to Woodbridge, .New Jer-
sey ; succeeded his father at Newark and was
pastor from 1678 to 1692, then returned to
Connecticut and in 1694 located at Killing-
worth in that colony ; was the first president of
Yale College, an excellent preacher, "exceed-
ingly pious and good." He married Abigail,
daughter of George Clark. Children : Abra-
ham, Sarah, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Ruth,
James, Abigail and John Pierson. Children of
Benjamin and Phebe Woodruff: James, born
1772; Charles. 1774; Phineas, 1776; Hannah,
1779; Elizabeth, 1781 ; Benjamin, 1783; Oba-
diah, 1785; John, 1788; Timothy, 1791.

(X) Charles, son of Benjamin Woodruff,
was born in 1774. He married, in 1797,
Sarah Bartley ; she was of Scotch descent, and
was left an orphan at an early age ; she was
considered the prettiest woman of New Jer-
sey, but her beauty was of character as well
as of face.

(XI) Maria, daughter of Charles and Sarah
(Bartley) Woodruff, married George Bock-
koven.

(XII) Frances Amelia, daughter of George
and Maria (Woodruff) Bockoven, married
Luther Calvin Chatham.

(XIII) Ella Maria, daughter of Luther
Calvin and Frances Amelia (Bockoven)
Chatham, married Franklin S. Bradlev (see
Bradley VII).

The first mention of the
BRADLEY name found in England was

in 1 183, at the feast of St.
Cuthbert in Lent, when Lord Hugh, Bishop
of Durham, caused all the revenues of his dis-
trict to be described. The Surrey of Bolton

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(Burke) mentions in Walsingham Roger de
Bradley as holding forty acres at Bradley and
rendering half marc besides forest service.
The Heralds visitation for the county of York
1563-64, in the Normanton pedigree, mentions
the marriage of Arthur Normanton to Isabel,
daughter of Sir Francis Bradley. This would
be in the early part of the fourteenth century.
Burke gives fifteen coats-of-arms to the Brad-
leys, many of them being variations of the
same coat, having a boar's head. etc. Probably
all were derived from the same family.

The first Bradleys in the United States are
said to have come from the market town of
Bingley. in the West Riding of Yorkshire,
about twelve miles northeast of Leeds on the
river Aire. The town of Bradley (or Broad-
lea) was about seven miles to the north of
Bingley. The name Bradley is Anglo-Saxon,
meaning a broad field or pasture. The father
of the American pioneer of the family is not
known, nor is the name of" his first wife. Their
son, William Bradley, according to tradition
handed down in different branches of the
family, was a friend of Cromwell, and the
"History of Bingley, England," states that he
was a major in the parliamentary army, and
removed to New Haven, United States of
America. He was the first of the family to
come to Connecticut and sojourned for a time
in Bran ford and Guilford, later removing to
New Haven, where he took the oath of fidel-
ity in August, 1644. He later lived in North
Haven and had large landed interests there.
He located on the west side of East (Quinni-
piac) river, about nine miles north of New
Haven, and soon gained possession of the cot-
ters one hundred and eighty-nine acres in ad-
dition to his other lands. Thorpe's "History
of North Haven" states that he was the first
landowner in the village.

His stepmother, Elizabeth Bradlev, with
her four sons and one daughter, is said to
have followed him to America in 1648. These
children were : Daniel ; Joshua, of New
Haven ; Ellen, married John Allin ; Nathan,
born 1638; Stephen, born 1642. She married
(second) in this country, John Parmalee, who
died November 8, 1659; married (third). May
27, 1663, John Evarts. who died May 10, 1669.
She died in January, 1683. Both her Ameri-
can husbands were of Guilford.

(I) William Bradley, of New Haven, was
born in England about 1620. He settled in
New Haven, Connecticut, and married there,
February 18, 1645, Alice, daughter, of Roger
Pritchard, of Springfield. Massachusetts. He
died in 1690 and she in 1692. Children, with
dates of baptism : Joseph, January 4, 1646;
Isaac, 1647 ( ?) ; Martha, October, 1648;

Abraham, mentioned below ; Mary. April 30,
1653; Benjamin, April 8, 1657; Hester (or
Esther), September 29, 1659; Nathaniel, Feb-
ruary 26, 1660-61 ; Sarah, June 21, 1665.

(II) Abraham, son of William Bradley, was
baptized October 24, 1650, died October 19,
1 718. He married, December 25, 1673, Han-
nah, daughter of (John Sr. ?) George Thomp-
son, born September 22, 1654, died at New
Haven. October 26, 1718. Children, born at
New Haven: John, October 12. 1674, died
August 13, 1747; Daniel, 1679, died Novem-
ber 2, 1723; Hannah, November 8, 1682;
Lydia, November 28, 1685; Ebenezer, Septem-
ber 9, 1689; Abraham, mentioned below;
Esther, March 19, 1696. He was a deacon in
the First (now called Center) Church of New
Haven, and at one time justice of the peace.
His will was dated December 5, 17 16, and
proved in the New Haven probate court, No-
vember 18, 1718. (Recorded Probate Rec-
ords, liber 4, page 546.) It contained the fol-
lowing clause : "As a token of my love to ye
first church of Christ in New Haven I give my
silver cup, or the value of it, to be improved
at ye Lord's table ; yt is after my decease."

(III) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1)
Bradley, was born at New Haven, April 9,
1693, died December 4, 1761. He married,
October 5, 1 7 r«j), Sarah Wilmot. who died De-
cember 5, 1775. They had five sons and two
daughters. His second son was Isaac, men-
tioned below.

(IV) Isaac, son of Abraham (2) Bradley,
was born at New Haven, November 7, 1722,
died November 21, 1784. He married (first)
Sarah Mix, May 29, 1750, who died February
4, 1762; (second) Lois (Bishop) Lewis, wid-
ow of Nehemiah Lewis, born 1735, died April
4, 1813. They had six daughters and five sons.
Their fifth child was Lewis, mentioned below.

(V) Lewis, son of Isaac Bradley, was born
January 14, 1767. He lived in Westville
(New Haven) until 1854, dying December 14
of that year. He married, about 1792, Lydia
Woodin, of Hamden, Connecticut. Children :
Chauncey, born May 21, 1793, died July. 1826;
Isaac, January 31, 1795, mentioned below;
Anna. April 1, 1796, died December 18, 1826;
Wealthy, November 8, 1797, died February
19, 1875 : Lydia. January 13. 1803, died Sep-
tember 24, 1881 ; Lewis, June 7, 1805, died
October 7, 1872; Elias, June 2T, 1807, ^e^
December 26, 1845.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Lewis Bradley, was
born in New Haven, January 31. 1705. died
November 7, 1858. He was engaged in the
manufacture of carriages in New Haven until
1854, when he retired to a farm in West
Haven. He married (first) November 8, 1820,

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Louisa Ann Hervey, born August 27, 1798, urer, succeeding Hon. H. G. Lewis, who was
died August 27, 1824, daughter of Frederick elected president. The manufacture of wheels
William and Ann Hervey, granddaughter of was begun in 1845 on the present location of
Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Dibblee, a noted mission- this concern by Henry Stowe. He was suc-
ary of the English Society for the propogation ceeded a year or two later by Smith, Umber-
of the Gospel in foreign parts, whose juris- field & Stowe, and later by Theodore D. Reed,
diction extended from Stamford, Connecticut, Zelotes Day, Carrington & Stowe, and finally
on the east to Tarrytown, New York, on the in 1853, by the New Haven Wheel Company,
west. He married (second) May 27, 1827, The business was incorporated June 4, 1853,
Abigail Knowles Hervey, sister of his first with a capital of $60,000 and Chandler Cowles
wife, who died January 18, 1891. Children of was the first president. In 1865-66 the stock
first wife: William Hervey, born August 13, of the company was bought by William H. and
1821, died October 9, 1890; Jane Louisa, No- E. E. Bradley, William and Henry G. Lewis
vember 19, 1822, died November 8, 1832 ; and Frederick Ives, new buildings were erect-
Maria, August 14, 1824, died August 19, 1824. ed and a new impetus given to the concern.
Children of second wife : Frederick Isaac, No- The company prospered, bought more land
vember 7, 1828, died at Hamilton, Missouri, and built new buildings. In 1874 the corn-
October 24, 1896; Robert Lewis, April 25, pany were turning out four hundred sets of
1830, died in New Haven, December 28, 1883 ; wheels per week. Two-thirds of the plant was
Emily Justine, January 25, 1832, died July 20, destroyed by fire September 8, 1874, causing
1894; married Erastus A. Doolittle; Louisa a loss of $130,000, but was promptly rebuilt,
Ann, November 6, 1833, died October 30, and in five months was in operation again, and
1870; married George E. Leonard; Francis turning out six hundred sets of wheels per
Henry, November n, 1835, died October 28, week. The company also made other parts
1837; Henry Minot, September 21, 1837, died for wagons and carriages. Their trade grew
July 23, 1854; Albert Francis, September 30, to large proportions both in America and
1839, now living in Bloomington, Illinois ; abroad. In 1887 Mr. Bradley, who had been
Samuel Isodore, July 13, 1842, died in New general manager of the company for many
York City, April 4, 1901 ; Edward Elias, see years, became its president and still holds that
forward. office, though he retired from active business

(VII) Hon. Edward Elias, son of Isaac (2) life in 1904.
Bradley, was born in New Haven, January 5, In addition to his connection with the New
1845. As a boy he was robust and healthy. Haven Wheel Company. General Bradley has
The first ten years of his life were spent in the been president of the Boston Buckboard and
city ; lie then lived for five years in the coun- Carriage Company, also of the News Publish-
try, at the end of that time returning again ing Company, the Charles W. Scranton Com-
to the city. He was particularly fond of read- jany, brokers, of New Haven, the New Eng-
ing and study, and though obliged to work on land Dairy Company, and of the New Haven
a farm summers, his tastes were those of a Chamber of Commerce from 1901 to 1903, and
student. When he was thirteen years old his is still a member of its executive committee,
father died, and at fifteen he was obliged to He is president of the Governor's Staff Asso-
give up school to go to work. In i860 he be- ciation of Connecticut, the Defender's Monu-
came shipping clerk for the New Haven Wheel ment Association, which has in hand the rais-
Company. His rise in the business to which ing of funds and the erection of a defender's
he has devoted most of his life is shown in monument to commemorate the successful de-
the fact that he remained with the same con- fense at West River made by the citizens at
cern during nearly his entire business career, the time of the invasion of New Haven by the
rising step by step from his original position British in 1779; president of the Young Men's
to that of president and general manager. In Institute ; a director in the New Haven
1865 he accepted a position with Lawrence, County National Bank; a director of the Red
Bradley & Pardee, the largest carriage manu- River Valley Cattle Company, which owns
facturers at that time in Connecticut. He 718.000 acres of land in New Mexico, and a
then became connected with John English & herd of over 35,000 cattle and 1,000 horses; a
Company, who succeded the firm of English, director of the Organized Charities Associa-
Atwater & White, hardware merchants. After tion, and also a director of the New Haven
a few months of poor health, during which he Colony Historical Society. He is a member
had to give up business entirely, he returned of the Connecticut Civil Service Reform As-
late in 1865 to New Haven and became an sociation, the Civic Federation of New Haven,
owner in the New Haven Wheel Company, and of various other associations organized
and in 1866 was elected secretary and treas- for the public good. He is a member and on

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the board of managers of the Connecticut So-
ciety Sons of the American Revolution. His
great-grandfather was in the war of the revo-
lution, and his father a minute-man in the war
of 1812.

In 1876 he removed to West Haven in the
town of Orange, and while there served as a
member of the board of burgesses and on the
Union school district committee. In 1882 he
represented the town of Orange in the gen-
eral assembly. He was a Democrat, and no
representative of his party had been elected
there before him for a generation or more.
He was appointed member of the standing
committee on banks. In 1883 he was re-
elected and became house chairman of the
joint standing committee on roads and bridges,
and clerk of the committee on cities and bor-
oughs. He introduced and ably advocated the
constitutional amendment for biennial sessions
of the legislature which was finally adopted.
He was one of the most prominent men of the
session and was selected to make the speech
of farewell to the speaker on behalf of the
members of the house, over which he presided
during the closing hours of the session. In
the fall of 1885 he was nominated by the
Democratic convention of his district for state
senator, and was elected in a Republican dis-
trict. He took an active part in the work of
the legislature, especially in legislation affect-
ing education and sanitary laws. He was
chairman of the joint select committee on new
counties and county seats and participated in
one of the most exciting controversies of a
decade between Bridgeport and Norwalk for
the honor of being the county seat of Fair-
field county. He advocated the cause of
Bridgeport, which finally won the contest. In
1886 he again became a resident of New
Haven, and in the fall of that year became the
candidate of the Democratic party for lieuten-
ant-governor, receiving nearly two thousand
more votes than his leading opponent, but was
not elected, as the state constitution then re-
quired for election a majority over all other
candidates for the same office. This threw the
election into the general assembly, a majority
of which being of a different political party,
seate 1 the candidate of its party. He was a
commissioner of public parks in New Haven
from 1888 to 1901. He voted the party ticket
most of his life, until the silver issue of 1896
compelled him to protest, and he then joined
the Gold Democrat wing of the party and was
nominated for mayor by it. Since then he has
classed himself as an Independent.

He has also taken an active part in the mili-
tary life of his native state, enlisting in the
New Haven Grays as a private in 1861, and

rising through the different grades to the cap-
taincy in 1866, holding that position at the
time of the famous celebration of the semi-
centennial of the company ; colonel of the sec-
ond regiment in 1869, in which capacity, act-
ing under orders of the adjutant-general of
the state, he commanded the troops which cap-
tured a large number of New York roughs
who had come to Charles Island, in the town
of Milford, to hold a prize fight; served as
paymaster-general of the Connecticut National
Guard from 1876 to 1878, with rank of briga-
dier-general, and as adjutant-general of the
state forces from 1893 to 1895. He is presi-
dent of the New Haven Grays' Association,
which includes all past and present members
of the company. He was one of the original
members of the New Haven Country Club,
and is prominent socially in New Haven. He
is also a member of the New York Army and
Navy Club.

General Bradley is an Episcopalian, attend-
ing as a child Trinity and St. Thomas churches
in New Haven, and Christ Church in West
Haven with his parents. As a young man he
attended St. Paul's Church, New Haven, and
in 1866 became one of its communicant mem-
bers. In 1876 he removed to West Haven
and was a vestryman eleven years and clerk
of the Parish of Christ Church there ten years.
In 1886 he again became a resident of New
Haven and since then has again been identi-
fied with the work of St. Paul's church. In
all he has served thirty years as one of its
vestrymen and for the past six years was one
of its two wardens. This year he declined fur-
ther service in that position, but was at once
re-elected on the vestry. He has been a dele-
gate to the diocesan conventions of the Epis-
copal church in Connecticut for twenty years
and an alternate delegate six years. He has
been a director of St Paul's Missionary and
Benevolent Society thirty-one years and was
its secretary and treasurer four years. He
has been a trustee for many years of the Epis-
copal Academy of Connecticut, founded in
1794, and located in the town of Cheshire. He
is also a director of the Missionary Society of
the Diocese of Connecticut.

He has always been fond of outdoor sports
and exercise, such as shooting, fishing, walk-
ing, driving, autoing and boating, but has
never given any special attention to athletics.
From the experiences he has had in life, which
are those of a self-made man. General Brad-
ley believes that constant reliability (which he
says includes energy, honesty, good habits and
always keeping promises) does the most to
promote true success in life and also to
strengthen the ideals of voting men.

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General Bradley married, April 26, 1871,
Mary Elizabeth, born April 22, 1847. on^Y child
of Nathaniel and Mary (Jones) Kimberly, of
West Haven, Connecticut. She was a lineal
descendant of Thomas Kimberly, one of the
original settlers of New Haven in 1638 and
the father of the first male child born in New
Haven. Children, born at New Haven: 1.
Edith Mary, March 24, 1873, died March 7,
1906. 2. Bertha Kimberly, July 29, 1875 ;
married. December 10, 1902, Edward Na-
thaniel Loomis, born in Brooklyn, New York ;
children : i. Elizabeth Loomis, born in New
York City, April 18, 1905; ii. Edward Brad-
fey Loomis, July 23, 1907, in South Orange,
New Jersey; iii. Horace Loomis, April 13,
1909, in South Orange; iv. Robert Nathaniel
Loomis, born in South Orange. May 15, 19 10.
3. Mabel Louisa, born August 7, 1880; mar-
ried Professor George Blumer, dean of the
medical department of Yale University, June
26, 1909: one child, Mary Kimberly Blumer,
born in New Haven, May 15, 1910.

The Kendall family is of an-
KENDALL cient English origin. Among
the early representatives of
that family was John Kendall, sheriff of Not-
tingham, who was killed in the battle of Bos-
worth in 1485, fighting in the army of Richard
III. Francis Kendall, of a much later genera-
tion, was banished to the Barbadoes in 1687
by Bloody Judge Jeffries, for participating in
the Monmouth rebellion. He is believed to
have been a near relative of Francis Kendall.

(I) Francis Kendall, ancestor of all of the
name in America, except his brother, Thomas,
who came with him and settled in Maine and
had descendants, came from England in 1642.
In December, 1658, he deposed that his age
was about thirty-eight years, and on April 2,
1662, he deposed that his age was about forty-
eight. Possibly the date of his birth was be-
tween the two dates indicated by these state-
ments, say 1618. With thirty-one others, he
signed the town orders of Woburn, December
18, 1640. He had been living in Charlestown,
of which Woburn was then a part, and was a
taxpayer there in 1645. He had a brother
Thomas, living in Reading, Massachusetts,
where he was a proprietor in 1644. Thomas
Kendall had ten daughters, but no descendants
in a direct line. The father of Francis and
Thomas Kendall is believed by some writers
to have been John Kendall. A curious char-
acteristic of the family of Francis Kendall
and his descendants is the occasional birth of
a child having extra fingers or toes. Down to
the present generation, this peculiarity of the
family has survived.

Francis Kendall married, December 24,
1644, Mary, daughter of John Tidd. In the
records he is called Francis Kendall, alias
Miles. There are several explanations of this
record. It was common with emigrants to
America to take assumed names to avoid vexa-
tious laws, and there is a tradition that Ken-
dall left England against the wishes of his
family, using the name of Miles until he was
settled in this country. He was admitted a
freeman May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him :
"He was a gentleman of great respectability,
and influence in the place of his residence."
He served the town at different times for
eighteen years as selectman, and on important
committees, such as those for distributing
grants to the pioneers, and on building the
meeting house. He was tythingman in 1676.
He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan
church, and was fined for some infraction of
church rules about infant baptism or attend-
ance at communion, or attending meetings of
the Anabaptists. He was a miller by trade,
and owned a corn mill, which he left to his
sons, Samuel and John. This mill has been
in the possession of the family down to the
present time. The mill now or lately on the
Kendall place is one built by Samuel Kendall
soon after 1700, and is some distance from
the location of the first mill. He died in 1708
at the age of eighty-eight, corroborating the
affidavit of 1658. His wife Mary died in 1705.
His will was dated May 9, 1706. His sons
Thomas and John were executors.

Children: I. John, born July 2, 1646. 2.
Thomas, January 10, 1648-49, mentioned be-
low. 3. Mar}', January 20, 1650-51, married,
about 1669, Israel Reed. 4. Elisabeth, Janu-
ary 15, 1652-53; married (first) Ephraim
Winship; (second) James Pierce. 5. Han-
nah, January 26, 1654-55 ; married, as his sec-
ond wife, William Green, Jr. 6. Rebecca.
March 2, 1657; married, December, 1706,
Joshua Eaton. 7. Samuel, March 8, 1659;
married (first) Rebecca Mixer: (second)
Mary Locke. 8. Jacob, January 25, 1660-61.
9. Abigail, April 6, 1666; married. May 24,
1686, William Reed.

(II) Thomas, son of Francis Kendall, was
born at Woburn, January 10. 1648-49, died
May 26, 1730. He resided in Woburn, and
was a farmer. His farm adjoined his father's.
He married (first) Ruth , who died De-
cember 18, 1695. He married (second)
March 30, 1696, Abigail Broughton. who died
December 31, 17 16. Children, all by first
wife, born at Woburn: 1. Ruth, February 17,
1674-75 ; married John Walker, son of Deacon
Samuel Walker; lived in Woburn, Lexington
and Framingham. 2. Thomas, May 19, 1677:

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married Sarah Cheever, lived in Sherborn
and Framingham. 3. Mary, February 27,
1680; married, 1698-99, Joseph Whitcomb.
4. Samuel, October 29, 1682; mentioned be-
low. 5. Ralph, May 4, 1685; lived in Lan-
caster. 6. Eleazer, November 16, 1687. 7.
Jabez (twin), September 10, 1692. 8. Jane
(twin), September 10, 1692; married, 1712,
Joseph Russell. 9. Infant, born and died De-
cember 16, 1695.

(Ill) Samuel, son of Thomas Kendall, was
born October 29, 1682. He married Eliza-
beth . Children, all born in Woburn :

1. Rev. Samuel, born June 30, 1708, died Jan-
uary 31, 1792; pastor of church at New Sa-
lem, Massachusetts, many years ; married
Annie Green. 2. James, born April 28, 1710,
died November 25, 1796; married (first)

Lydia ; (second) July 21, 1735, Sarah

Richardson; (third) March 1, 1740, Lydia
Richardson. 3. Josiah, born September 1,
1712. 4. Ezekiel, born March 14, 171 5, died
December 28, 1802 ; married (first) March 3.
1742, Hannah Pierpont ; (second) December
21, 1752, Mary May. 5. Timothy, born March
23, 1 717, died July 21, 1780; married, Novem-
ber 13, 1740, Esther Walker. 6. Elizabeth,
born September 3, 1719; married John Brooks.
7. Jonas, born March 10, 1721, died July 22,
1799; married, August 8, 1751, Elizabeth
Bennet. 8. Sarah, born April 16. 1723; mar-
ried John Kendall. 9. Susanna, born July 5,
1724; unmarried. 10. Obadiah, born Septem-
ber 3, 1725, died February 10. 1841 ; married,
October 17, 1755, Elizabeth Miles. 11. Jesse,
mentioned below. 12. Seth, born January 4,
1728-29. died July 5, 1790; married Deborah

. 13. Abigail, born February 27, 1730-

31 ; married Jacob Pierce. 14. Ephraim. born
November 9, 1732, died February 16, 1732-33.
15. Jerusha, born February 13, 1734-35; mar-
ried Reuben Richardson, Jr., of Woburn.

(IV) Jesse, son of Samuel Kendall, was
born May 15, 1727, at Woburn, died at Athol,
April 14, 1797. He resided at Woburn, Med-
ford and Athol, Massachusetts. He married,
March, 1749, Elizabeth Evans, who died June
20 or 22, 1813, in her eighty-first year (grave-
stone record). Children, born at Woburn,
Athol and Medford : Elizabeth, August 17,
1751; Mary, November 25, 1753; Jesse, Feb-
ruary 11, 1756; Hannah, December 18, 1757;
Olive, March 31, 1760; Joel, March 11, 1762;
Samuel, January 20, 1764; Andrew, April 17,
1766; David, March 20, 1768; Calvin, July
J5> l77°'< Lois, September 16, 1772; Anna,
May 4, 1775-

(V) Rev. David, son of Jesse Kendall, was
born in Athol, Massachusetts, March 20, 1768.
He graduated from Harvard College in the

class of 1794. He was called to the pastorate
of the Congregational church of Hubbardston.
Worcester county, Massachusetts, July 1,
1802, and settled as minister with a salary of
$400 a year. His letter of acceptance -has
been preserved:

"To the Church and People of Hubbardston:
Beloved in the Lorde Jesus Christ: Your invita-
tion requesting me to settle with you in the gospel
ministry has been taken into serious and deliberate
consideration ; counsel has been sought of heaven,
and christian advice received. Thus far appears no
obstacle in the way of my compliance with your
wishes, but as it is a duty enjoined by the gospel
that 'every one should provide for his own, espec-
ially those of his own house'; and as it is required
that 'they who preach the gospel should live of the
gospel' and that he who ministers to a people 'in
spiritual things, should be partaker of their tem-
poral things', it is highly fit and proper that the
means for a comfortable and decent support should
be taken into consideration, when we deliberate on
a subject of so much importance as the devoting
one's self to the service of a people in the work of
the ministry. Candid deliberation and friendly ad-
vice have accordingly been taken on this part of
the subject. From which it appears that the stipu-
lation proposed for an annual salary would of itself
alone, be rather inadequate to the numerous ex-
penses incident to a clerical life, taking into view,
at the same time, the propriety of making suitable
provision for those whom it may please God to
give us the care of, together with the very high
price of land, which is the foundation of all tem-
poral subsistence. But I have further taken into
account the friendly and benevolent disposition of
the people of this town, heretofore manifested to-
ward their pastor, and the assurances which have
been given me, that the same would be continued
toward his successor. Particular encouragements
have been specified, upon which I am requested to
rely with implicit confidence, and I do not scruple
the sincerity of these proposals, and it would no
doubt be deemed a want of christian candor to
anticipate a dereliction from them, so long as the
relation of pastor and people should continue be-
tween us, provided it be once formed.

"The above particulars being duly weighed and
considered, I have seen fit, with submission to di-
vine Providence, to accept of your invitation and
encouragements, so long as these encouragements
are realized. And I do therefore make known to
you by these presents, my willingness to serve you
in the work of the gospel ministry, according to the
grace which is, or may be given unto me, to en-
able me to fulfil this arduous and important serv-
ice. And may this decision in all its effects and
consequences be attended with the blessing of
Almighty God, 'to whom I now commend you
and to the word of his grace, and to the Spirit
of all truth which are able to build you up in
faith and holiness, to establish you in every good
word and work, and to give you an inheritance
among all them that are sanctified.' That this
may be your happy lot and portion may God in
his infinite mercy grant, through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.

"David Kendall."

"Note. — The liberty of being absent three or four
Sabbaths in a year, if need so require, is usually
reserved by ministers, at the time of their settle-
ment ; this indulgence will also be expected by me.

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He was ordained October 20, 1802. "He Marion Elizabeth. 6. Herbert Parkman, born

was a man of sound principles, but apparently March 6, 1850 (twin of Albert S.) ; married

of very different temper and spirit from his Lotta K. Brown ; children : Grace Louise, Ella

predecessor. When they wanted to get rid of Leore, Clara Maude, Herbert Parkman, Jr.,

him, they did not find him the man to sacri- and Harriet. 7. Eugene Miles, born May 20,

fice all his own interests to accommodate them. 1852 ; married Mary Jennie Jones ; children :

The relation between pastor and people did Mary Louisa and Leonard Jarvis Kendall,

not long remain harmonious. Grievances were Child of third wife : 8. Calvin Noyes, born
magnified by prejudice and bitter criminations . February 9, 1858; married Alia Field; child,

followed. The people charged the minister David.

with a want of sympathy for them generally (VII) Nathaniel Wyeth, son of Leonard

and he complained of their neglect to fulfill Jarvis Kendall, was born at Augusta, Oneida

their implied, though unwritten, promises, of county, New York, May 12, 1848. He was

pecuniary aid, made at the time of settlement, educated in the public schools. Since 1896 he

He was finally dismissed though a majority of has made his home at Kenmore, a beautiful

the church members appeared to wish him to country estate at New Haven, Connecticut,

remain. He was installed pastor of the Con- The house is situated on an elevation giving a

gregational church at Augusta, New York, in most picturesque view of Long Island sound,

1810, and dismissed in 1814. He was never river, harbor, and city of New Haven. He

settled as pastor afterward. He died Febru- has large business interests in New Haven.

ary 19, 1853, aged eighty-five. Since 1885 ne nas been president of the Yale

He married, February 3, 1803, Susannah, Brewing Company of New Haven. He is a
daughter of Nathaniel Jarvis, of Cambridge, director of the Mechanics Bank of New
Massachusetts. His wife died February 3, Haven ; president of the Cashin Card and
1832. Children, born at Hubbardston and Au- Glazed Paper Company; vice-president and di-
gusta : Mary Ann, January 10, 1804; married rector of the Consumers' Malting Company of
George Gaylord; Rebecca Parkman Jarvis, Minneapolis, Minnesota; director of the Na-
May 9, 1805 ; Elizabeth Wyeth, September 28, tional Brewers' Insurance Company of Chi-
1806 ; David Luther, April 13, 1808, married cago, Illinois ; president of the Connecticut
Covell ; Leonard Jarvis, mentioned be- Brewers' Association ; director of the Under-
low; Mary Jarvis, August 4, 1813, died writers' Agency Company. He was formerly
young; Samuel Austin, October 11, 1815; Na- president of the United States Brewers' As-
thaniel Wyeth, January 14, 1818. sociation. He is also a member of Crystal

(VI) Leonard Jarvis, son of Rev. David Wave Lodge, No. 638, Free and Accepted

Kendall, was born in Augusta, New York, Masons, of Brooklyn, New York, and is past

Tuly 31, 1810. He was by occupation a worshipful master of this lodge; member of

farmer. He married (first) Olive Kendall, a Constellation Chapter, No. 209, Royal Arch

cousin, daughter of Calvin Kendall, who lived Masons, also of Brooklyn ; of the Sons of the

at Athol. He married (second) October 1, American Revolution; the Union League

1840, Sarah Rebecca Spencer, of Utica, New Club, the Quinnipiack Club, the Farmers' Club

York, who died in 1855. He married (third) and the Chamber of Commerce. In politics

Sarah Maria Coburn, a widow, born 1820, died he is a Republican. He married, December

March 4, 1910, aged eighty-nine years, eight 20, 1894, Harriet Frances, born July 2, 1862,

months. Only child by first wife: 1. Susan daughter of William R. Terry. Child: Na-

Olive, born January 16, 1837; married Moses thaniel Wyeth, Jr., born May 31, 1898.

M. Sawin ; children: Jennie Olive, Charles

Austin, Susan Kendall, Herbert Edward, Alice (VI) Daniel (2) Denison, son
Laura and George Alfred Sawin. Children by DENISON of Daniel (1) Denison (q. v.),
second wife: 2. Austin Jarvis, married Oc- was born December 16, 1730.
tober 25, 1865, Lucinda Miller; children: i. He married, July 1, 1756, Katherine Avery,
Willis Austin, born October 16, 1867; ii. Lena daughter of his mother's second husband. He-
Elizabeth, June 23, 1871 ; iii. Nathaniel Wyeth, settled in Stephentown, New York, about
April 24, 1876. 3. Sarah E., born December 1773, and he and his wife were both buried

4, 1843 ! married Jackson ; children : there. He died in 1793 and she died in 1825,

Frederick, Mildred Elizabeth, Charlotte May, aged eighty-eight. Children: 1. Katherine,

and Herbert Spencer Jackson. 4. Nathaniel born July 24, 1757. 2. Daniel, September 26,.

Wyeth, born May 12, 1848, mentioned below. 1758. 3. Ebenezer A., January 26, 1760, men-

5. Albert Spencer, born March 6, 1850; mar- tioned below. 4. Jonathan, May 17, 1761. 5.
ried, August 1, 1876, Katherine M. Shaw; George, April 12, 1763. 6. Griswold, August
children :" Waldo Shaw. Leonard Jarvis and 21, 1765. 7. Asenath, February 24, 1767. 8.

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David, March 19, 1769. 9. Latham, March
8, 1 77 1. 10. A child, born and died August
J8.. 1773- II. Samuel, August 24, 1774. 12.
Elihu, April 14, 1777. 13. Thomas, May 5,

1779-

(VII) Ebenezer A., son of Daniel (2) Den-

ison, was born January 26, 1760. He mar-
ried, in 1784, Mrs. Elizabeth (Spencer) Jones.
Children: 1. Katherine, 1786. 2. Ebenezer A.
Jr., 1788. 3. Hannah, 1790. 4. Polly, 1792.
5. Child, born and died, 1794. 6. William,
1795, mentioned below. 7. Alma, 1797. 8.
Orpha, 1799. 9. Avery, 1802.

(VIII) William, son of Ebenezer A. Deni-
son, was born in 1795, died January 16, 1874.
1 le was a farmer in Berne, New York, but
lived for several years in later life at Still-
water. New York. He married, July 15, 1823,
Eunice, born October 5, 1800, died June 5,
1878, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (La-
tham) Gallup (see Gallup XII). Children: 1.
William Latham, born April 11, 1824; mar-
ried. December 22, 1847, Margaret Crary ; he
was a manufacturer of cotton knit goods at
Stillwater, New York, under the name of the
Denison Manufacturing Company. 2. Sabina,
July 11, 1826; married, January 9, 1847, Hi-
ram Holmes; who died May 2, 1881, at Wash-
ington, D. C. 3. Lucy Latham, February 24.
1829; married December 26, 1848, Harvey H.
Hart, and lived at Stillwater. 4. Albert Gal-
lup, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, August
26, 1833 ; married, August 26, 1855, and lived
at Stillwater. 6. Caroline, September 23,
1837 ; married, January 7, 1858, Lucius F.
Spencer, and lived at Passaic, New Jersey. 7.
Emily, May 8, 1840; married, August 29,
i860, Thomas Morey; she died October 21,
1891.

(IX) Albert Gallup, son of William Deni-
son, was born March 24, 1830, at Berne, Al-
bany county, New York, died May 28, 1883.
He was a manufacturer of knit goods at Still-
water, in partnership with his brother,
William L. He married, February 15,
1852, Maria Neilson, born September
23> l&33> died June 3, 1909, daughter
of Charles and Elizabeth (Reed) Neil-
son. Children: 1. Louise Neilson. born
March 2, 1853; married, November 18, 1880,
Dr. George P. Harvey Taylor ; children : i.
Helen Denison, born September 13, 1881 ; ii.
Lewis Dunscombe, born July 28, 1884, died
September 21, 1884. 2. Dr. Rial Newland,
born December 15, 1855; married Helen Dur-
kee, daughter of George and Sarah (Durkee)
Crary ; children : George Crary, born August
23, 1881, died July 24, 1883; ii. Rial New-
land, Jr., born June 2, 1885, died January 29,
1907 ; married, August 2, 1903, Genevive

Whitehead, of Newark, New Jersey, and have
one daughter, Ruth, born February 15, 1905.
Dr. Denison graduated from Long Island Col-
lege Hospital at Brooklyn, New York, with
the degree of M.D. in 1877, also from the
New York Homeopathic Medical College in
1878 ; he practiced his profession in Brooklyn,
New York. 3. Dr. Charles Neilson, mentioned
below.

(X) Dr. Charles Neilson Denison, son of
Albert Gallup Denison, was born at Still-
water, New York, July 9, 1870. He attended
the public schools of his native town and the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York.
He was employed for two years in a manu-
facturing concern and afterward in a Wall
Street banking house for a time. In Septem-
ber, 1890, he entered the Long Island College
Hospital of Brooklyn and was graduated
there with the degree of M.D., March 21,
1893. Two months later he was appointed
interne at Ward's Island Hospital, now known
as the Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwell's Isl-
and, New York City. He began to practice at
White River Junction, Vermont, and re-
mained there six months, removing thence
to Cheshire, Connecticut, October 20, 1894,
and practicing in that town a year and a half.
From April, 1896, to November, 1898, he prac-
ticed at Wallingford, Connecticut, and since
then he has been located at Cheshire, Con-
necticut. He is a member of the New Haven
County Medical Society ; Connecticut State
Medical Society. He is medical examiner for
the town of Cheshire, and also health officer.
He is a member and past master of Temple
Lodge, No. 16, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Cheshire ; member of Franklin Chapter, No.
2, Royal Arch Masons, of New Haven ; of L.
A. Thomas Lodge, No. 9, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of Cheshire ; of Patrons of
Husbandry. He was for a time a member of
the school board. He enlisted in the Second
Company of the Governors Foot Guard as
a private, was advanced to assistant surgeon
with the rank of lieutenant, and then surgeon
with the rank of captain under Major Smith
G. Weed. He was honorably discharged after
seven years of service. He is an examiner for
several life insurance companies.

He married, January 23, 1895, Minnie
Louise Conkey, born March 19, 187 1, daugh-
ter of William S. and Louise J. (Brazier)
Conkey, of Troy. They have no children.
Her grandfather, John Conkey, was probate
judge of Troy, New York. The family came
from Essex county, Massachusetts, and one
of her progenitors was the first white child
born at Salem, New York. Her father was
a soldier in the civil war, in Company B, Thir-

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tieth New York Volunteers, under Captain
Scott, and was discharged for disability in
1862.

The surname Gallup, also
GALLUP spelled Gollop, is said to be de-
rived from the German words
Gott and Lobe, God and Praise, in the same
way as the surname Godfrey is derived from
Gott and Freude, God and Peace. The name
is also spelled Kollop, Golloppe, Golop, etc.
There is a very ancient tradition in Lorraine,
where there is a family of that name, that
one of their number went to western Europe
as a follower of William, Duke of Normandy,
and never returned. In the American family
of Gallup, there is also a tradition that the
founder of the English branch came from
France to England at the time of the Con-
quest. The coat-of-arms of the English fam-
ily from which the America immigrant de-
scended is : Gules on a bend or a lion passant
guardant sable. Crest : A demi-lion harry or
and sable holding in his dexter paw a broken
arrow gules. Motto : Be bolde ; Be wyse. The
following pedigree in England of John Gol-
lup, immigrant ancestor, is taken from the
vizitation of Dorset, 1623.

(I) John Gollop came out of the north in
the fifth year of the reign of Edward [V in
1465. He married Alice, daughter and heir
of William Temple, of county Dorset, where
he also lived.

(II) John (2), of North Bowood and
Temple, county Dorset, son of John (1) Gol-
lop, died in 1533 in the twenty-fifth year of
the reign of Henry VIII. He married Joan
Collins, of Snails Croft, county Dorset.

(III) Thomas, of North Bowood, son and
heir of John (2) Gollop, died April 8, 1610,
in the reign of James I. He married Agneta.
daughter of Humphrey Watkins, of Holwell,
county Dorset. Children : Egedins, went to
Rome and became a priest ; Humphrey, died
without issue ; John, mentioned below ; Thom-
as, heir of North Bowood and Strode ; died
December, 1622.

(IV) John (3), Gallup, son of Thomas
Gollop, married ■ — Crabbe.

(V) John (4), son of John (3) Gallup,
immigrant ancestor, was born in England in
1590, as he was forty-three years old at the
time of the visitation of Dorset, England, in
1633. The family from which he descended
has descendants who still occupy the estate at
Strode. He sailed from Plymouth, England,
March 20, 1630, in the ship, "Mary and John,"
arriving at Nantasket, May 30 following. His
wife and children came over in 1633. He
came from the parish of Mosterne, county

Dorset, England. He went first to Dorchester,
Massachusetts, but was soon living in Bos-
ton. An extract from a letter written by
Governor Winthrop to Rev. John White, of
England, says: "I have much difficultye to
keepe John Gallup here, by reason his wife
will not come. I marvayle at the woman's
weaknesse. I pray, persuade and further her
coming by all means. If she will come, let
her have the remainder of his wages ; if not,
let it be bestowed to bring over his children,
for so he desired. It would be about 40 pounds
losse to him to come for her." This was
dated July 4, 1632. John Gallup was admit-
ted to the First Church, January 6, 1634, and
made a freeman in April of the same year.
He was one of the earliest grantees of land
at the northerly part of the town, where he
had a wharf right and a house. The place
was known as Gallup's Point. He owned
Gallup's Island, where he had a farm, with
a meadow on Long Island, a sheep pasture
on Nix Mate, and a house in Boston. He
was a skillful mariner, well acquainted with
the harbor around Boston, and in the habit of
making frequent trading expeditions along the
coast in his own vessels. One of these ex-
peditions was made memorable as being the
first naval encounter in this country, when
he found the murderers of his friend, John
Oldham, in July, 1636. The following is an
account given in a deposition by his son John,
to Governor Winthrop: "That his father
(John Gallup) and another of his brethren,
a lusty young man also, and a strong, stout
fellow, who was his father's servant, sayelinge
to- wards Block Island, to trade thereabouts,
not knowing of any mischief done by those
Indians. As they drew neere to the Island
they espied a vessel making off from the
shore, but by They'r contrary handling of
They'r sails, they supposed they were Indians,
which had taken some English vessel and
made towards them, and then perceiving it
to be so, shot at them three or four vollies,
as they sometimes came neare the villains, and
then cleared off again to make ready, and
so after a third or fourth charge upon the
Indians, all those Indians got into the hold,
but old John Gallop coming with his vessell
close by the other side, espied a skein hang
down, and resolved to hale down that, and
take it with them to catch Basse withal and
then perceived a dead body under it, with the
head cut off ; he got up into the vessel, bid-
ding his two sons follow him, and stand by
him with their guns ready charged which they
did ; and he taking the bloddy head and wash-
ing- it, knew it to be Mr. Oldham's, and said :
'Ah, Brother Oldham, is it thee? I am re-

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solved to avenge thy blood,' and taking his
dagger to the scuttle hole in which the In-
dians were guoyd, as thick as they could stud,
head by head, and he jobd his dagger very
often with all his strength upon them, and
then lasht that vessel to his vessel, hoping to
tow them along with them. Upon which one
Indian first got out and begg'd quarter for
his life, and he could tell how many were
in the hold, and who they were and what
they had done ; they granted him that quarter,
and took and bound him, and put him down
into they'r hold ; presently after, another, a
very proper fellow, got out and got to them,
and desired like quarter for himself; but they
considering if they spared and bound him
also, in they'r hold, they might in the night
unbind each other and do them mischief,
being but four persons, and much tyred,
whereupon, without further debate, they chopt
off his head, and heaved his carcass over-
board ; upon which the other Indian con-
fessed to them that he was they's sachem
whom they had killed, and that it was he
who stirred the Block Islanders to take that
English vessel and cramb (kill) the men in it.
Now the wind waxing higher and contrary,
they could not tow the other vessel and far-
ther cut they'r rope and let her drive and
hasted to Saybrook fort with the captive In-
dian to give them full information what sort
of Indians they were who mirthered the Eng-
lish ; whereupon that just war was commenced
against the bloody Pequots and they'r asso-
ciates." After the settlement of Rhode Island
and Connecticut, his vessel was about the
only method of communication between the
two colonies, and once when he was delayed
in his trip, Roger Williams wrote to Gover-
nor Winthrop, "God be praised John Gallop
has arrived." He achieved great distinction
by piloting the ship "Griffin" in 1633 through
a new channel, when Rev. John Cotton, Rev.
Thomas Hooker, Rev. Mr. Stone, and other
notables were aboard among her two hun-
dred passengers. It is supposed that his wife
and children were on board also. He died
in Boston, January 11, 1650. His will was
dated December 20, 1649. He married, in
England. Christobel , who died in Bos-
ton, September 27, 1655. She was admitted
to the First Church, June 22, 1634. Her will
was dated July 24, 1655. Children: John,
mentioned below ; Joan, married, 1637, Thom-
as Joy ; Samuel, married, November 20, 1650,
Mary Philips; Nathaniel, married, April 11,
1652, Margaret Eveley.

(VI) Captain John (5), son of John (4),
Gallup, was born in England, and came to
this country in 1633. He was with his father

in the engagement off Block Island, and after-
wards engaged in the Pequot war. The gen-
eral court of Connecticut granted him .a hun-
dred acres of land for his services in that war.
He settled in New London, Connecticut, in
1650-51. On February 9, 1652-53, he re-
ceived three hundred acres of land on the
Mystic river, in consideration of his father's
military services, and in the next year, one
hundred and fifty acres more, about which
there had been some disagreement. In 1654
he moved with his family to the east side of
the Mystic river, now Stonington, and was
one of the early settlers of that town. He
was deputy to the general court in 1665-67.
He was also an Indian interpreter. Although
he was over sixty years old when King
Philip's war broke out, he joined with Cap-
tain John Mason, of Norwich, at the head
of the Mohegans. These troops were en-
gaged in the Swamp fight at Narragansett,
December 19, 1675. He was one of the six
captains who were killed in this fight. He
married, in 1643, at Boston, Elizabeth Han-
nah, daughter of John and Margaret Lake,
and granddaughter of Edmund Read, Esq., of
Wickford, county Essex, England. Her
mother was sister of Elizabeth Read, who
married John Winthrop, Jr., governor of Con-
necticut. Children : Hannah, born at Boston,
September 14, 1644: John, mentioned below;
Esther, born at Taunton, Massachusetts,
March 24, 1653 : Benadam. at Stonington,
1655; William, 1658; Samuel; Christobel,
married, December 31, 1677, Peter Crary,.
of Groton ; Elizabeth, married Henry Stevens,
of Stonington ; Mary, married John Cole, of
Boston; Margaret, married Joseph Culver, of
Groton.

(VII) John (6), son of Captain John (5)
Gallup, was born in 1646, died April 14, 1735.
He settled in Stonington and was deputy to
the general court in 1685-96-97-98. He served
with his father in King Philip's war, and was
on friendly terms with the Indians, and often
acted as interpreter. He acted as interpreter
in 1701 for the committee for renewing the
bounds of the Winthrop land purchase at
Plainfield, Connecticut, where he owned land.
He married, in 1675, Elizabeth, born at Ips-
wich, February 8, 1654, daughter of Thomas
and Martha (Lake) Harris, and granddaugh-
ter of Madame Margaret Lake. Children :
John, born 1675 ! Thomas, 1682 ; Martha, bap-
tized April 2, 1683 ; Samuel, baptized Octo-
ber 9, 1687; Elizabeth, baptized July T4, 1689:
Nathaniel, baptized July 4, 1692, mentioned
below ; William, baptized May 26, 1695 ; Ben-
jamin, baptized November 1, 1696.

(VIII) Nathaniel, son of John (6) Gallup,

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was born at Stonington, 1692. He married
Margaret, daughter of Benadam and Esther
(Prentice) Gallup, June 4, 1717. He and his
wife were admitted to the First Church of
Stonington, July 20, 1718. He died April 3,
1739, and his wife died March 2, 1761. Chil-
dren: Nathaniel, born April 29, 1718, men-
tioned below; John, January 29, 1720;
Thomas, April 19, 1722, died young; Mercy,
April 7, 1725; Thomas, August 26, 1727;
Margaret, October 12, 1730; Martha, July 30,
1733; Benjamin, July 26, 1736.

(IX) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Gallup, was born at Stonington, April 29,
1 718. He married Hannah (Gore) Burrows,
widow of Silas Burrows, and daughter of
Samuel Gore, of Roxbury, Massachusetts,
November 24, 1742. Her ancestors were
among the founders and earlier officers of
Harvard College. Christopher Gore, fellow of
Harvard College, commissioner of England
and governor of Massachusetts, gave to it
the endowment which bears its name. Nath-
aniel Gallup lived in Stonington, and died Jan-
uary 11, 1786. His wife died March 19, 1810,
aged ninety. Children: Nathaniel, born June
4, 1744, drowned at sea, aged twenty; Sam-
uel, August 9, 1746. mentioned below; Silas,
March 9, 1749; George, March 20, 1751 ;
Margaret, March 20, 1753; Amos, August 1,
1755; Hannah, August 22, 1757; Levi, March
26, 1760; Ezra, March 13, 1763.

(X) Samuel, son of Nathaniel (2) Gallup,
was born at Stonington, August 9, 1746. He
married (first) Jemima Enos, at Stonington,
January 1, 1768. He married (second) Sara

. Soon after the revolutionary war he,

with his brothers Levi, Silas and Ezra, their
cousin, John Gallup, and several other fam-
ilies from Groton and Stonington, established
a settlement in Albany county. New York, in
the towns of Knox and Berne. He died April
25, 1826; his first wife died December 15,
1795, aged forty-nine, and his second wife
died September 1, 1802. Children: Joshua,
August 4, 1769; Nathaniel, November 16,
1770, mentioned below; Samuel, July 8, 1772;
Anna, February 3, 1774; Hannah, October
x5> 1775; John Enos, July 17, 1777; Jemima,
September 2j, 1780; Lydia, February 16,
1784; Nathan, May 3, 1786.

(XI) Nathaniel (3), son of Samuel Gal-
lup, was born at Stonington, November 16,
1770. He married Lucy, daughter of Captain
William Latham and his wife Eunice, of Gro-
ton, March 27, 1794. Captain Latham was
second in command at the massacre of Fort
Griswold, and was severely wounded, but re-
covered; he died January 27, 1792, and his
wife died March 5, 1799. Lucy Latham was

twelve years old at the time of the battle and
often related to her grandchildren the story
of that memorable day. Lamby, the old col-
ored servant, gathered the family together as
soon as the British appeared at Eastern Point,
and drove them to the Avery house two miles
away, and then hurried back to the fort, and
fought by the side of his master, and was
killed. His name is on the monument at
Groton as Sambo, but it should be Lambo, as
his name was Lambert. Samuel Gallup, fath-
er of Nathaniel, moved with his family to
Albany county, New York, soon after the rev-
olution. Nathaniel returned to Groton and
married there. There is a record that he
sailed from Groton for Albany in Captain
Berry's sloop, in 1795. He settled in Berne,.
Albany county, after his return to New York-
state. He died April 20, 1834, and his wife
died February 1, 1862. Children: Albert,
born January 30, 1796; Nathaniel, October 2.
1798 ; Eunice, mentioned below.

(XII) Eunice, daughter of Nathaniel (3)
Gallup, was born at Berne, Albany county,
New York, October 5, 1800. She married
William Denison, July 15, 1823 (see Deni-
son VIII). They lived at Berne for some
years, and at Stillwater for several years be-
fore their death. He died January 16, 1874,.
and she died June 5, 1878. Children : Wil-
liam Latham, born April 11, 1824; Sabinav
July 11, 1826; Lucy Latham, February 24,
1829; Albert Gallup, March 24, 1830; Eliza-
beth, August 26, 1833 ; Caroline, September
23> J&37 J Emily, May 8, 1840.

The Coan family is of German de-
COAN scent, and has long been estab-
lished in New England. In 1715
three brothers came from Worms, Germany.
Their parents, who accompanied them on the
emigrant ship, died on the voyage, and the
boys consequently landed in America in a des-
titute condition. The two older brothers were
apprenticed to Deacon Mulford, of East
Hampton, Long Island, where they remained
until their marriage, after which they removed
to Guilford, Connecticut, where they passed
the remainder of their lives. The other
brother, Abraham, left no record of his life
or family.

(I) Peter Coan, one of the brothers afore-
mentioned, was born in Worms, Germany,
1697. He resided in East Hampton, Long
Island, where he married Hannah Davis, and
subsequently removed to North Guilford, Con-
necticut, where his death occurred October 31,
1799. Children: John, mentioned below; Lu-
cretia, Rebecca, Jacob, born 1734; MabeL
Abraham, Hannah, Martha, Elisha ; William,.

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born February 24, 1747; Mary, born July 30,

(II) John, eldest son of Peter and Hannah
(Davis) Coan, was born in East Hampton,
Long Island, December, 1729, died at Guil-
ford, Connecticut, October 18, 1795. He ac-
companied his parents to Guilford in 1736,
and there spent the remainder of his days.
He married (first) in 1752, Mabel Chitten-
den, born November 5, 1737, died May 12,
1787. He married (second) Widow Francis.
Children: Olive, died February 12, 1849; Ma-
bel, born 1758; Josiah, November 20, 1760;
John, January, 1763; Rebecca, 1765; Sime-
on, died November 5, 1815; Submit, born
December 7, 1769; Lucretia; Abraham, No-
vember 9, 1774; Richard Davis, mentioned
below.

(III) Richard Davis, youngest son of John
and Mabel (Chittenden) Coan, was born at
Guilford, Connecticut. He spent the greater
part of his life in the place of his birth, and
being a builder by occupation erected many
houses and public buildings there. Later he
removed to New Haven, where he was ac-
tively engaged in the building business, a
member of the lumber and manufacturing firm
of Lewis & Beecher Company, who conducted
large planing mills, and was one of the lead-
ing industries of the city. He was known
by the title of major, commanding the Guil-
ford troops on muster day. He was very
prominent in the work of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, and later in the Church of the As-
cension, and being a musician of note was
active in the choirs of both churches. After
his removal to New Haven, Mr. Coan built
a fine residence on Wooster street, which was
at that time the finest residential section of
the city.

He married Flora Hitchcock. Chil-
dren: Charles Richard, mentioned below;
Francis, Bennett Fowler, Ella, Augusta, Wil-
liam Arthur. Mr. Coan died of old age, about
1890.

(IV) Charles Richard, son of Richard Da-
vis and Flora (Hitchcock) Coan, was born
at Guilford, Connecticut, August 5, 1838. He
came to New Haven during his boyhood, and
he began his business career by assisting his
father in his building operations. Later he
entered the New Haven County National
Bank, serving as teller, after which he en-
gaged in the insurance business with the Se-
curity Insurance Company. While in their
employ, in 1861, he enlisted in the United
States army for service in the civil war, and
recruiting a company, nearlv all of whom
were from his old home in Guilford, he was
made first lieutenant, and served under Cap-

tain White, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment,
Connecticut Volunteers; subsequently he was
taken sick and was honorably discharged
from service. Returning to New Haven he
engaged in the book and stationery business,
conducting the same for many years,' and
after disposing of it accepted the position of
manager of the local department of the Se-
curity Insurance Company, with which he was
identified early in life. He retired from busi-
ness in 1905, and is now enjoying the fruit
of his former activity. He is a Republican
in politics, but takes no active part with the
exception of casting his vote. He resides in
New Haven, and is honored and respected by
all with whom he is brought in contact. He
married Anna Read, daughter of George Bald-
win, and granddaughter of -— and Maria

(Sherman) Baldwin, the former of whom was
a soldier in the revolution. Among their chil-
dren was George Richard, who is further men-
tioned below.

(V) George Richard, son of Charles Rich-
ard and Anna Read (Baldwin) Coan, was
born in New Haven, Connecticut, December
21, 1865.

He acquired his education in the pub-
lic schools, and after completing his stud-
ies became associated with his father in the
book business. Later he accepted a position
as salesman for a cigar and tobacco firm, in
which capacity he served until 1890, when he
resigned in order to engage in the insurance
business with his father. For many years he
was a member of the firm of C. R. Coan &
Son, now Coan & Bunnell, general insurance
agents, and manager of local department of
the Security Insurance Company, with offices
at No. S7 Center street, New Haven. Mr.
Coan is a man of enterprise and integrity, pro-
gressive and straightforward in his methods,
and is well known and esteemed in the busi-
ness circles of his native city. He is a mem-
ber of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
of New Haven, and his political affiliations
are with the Republican party. He holds mem-
bership in the New Haven Colony Historical
Society, the Union League Club, the Young
Men's Institute, the Young Men's Republican
Club of New Haven, the Automobile Club of
New Haven, the Chamber of Commerce of
New Haven, the Veteran Association of the
New Haven Bicycle Club. He married
(first) December 21, 1887, Lucy Mansfield
Bulkeley, born March 19, 1870, died July 16,
1888. He married (second) in 1892, Mary
Lenora, daughter of John B. and Helen
(Baldwin) Bunnell, of Waterbury, Connecti-
cut. The only child of the first wife died in
infancy.

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Richard Billings, immigrant
BILLINGS ancestor, was granted six

acres of land in Hartford in
1640. He signed a contract with Governor
Webster and others to remove and settle at
Hadley in 1659. In 1661 he removed there
and lived in that part of the town which be-
came Hatfield. He died March 3, 1679. He
married Margery , who died Decem-
ber 5, 1679. They had a son Samuel, men-
tioned below.

(II) Samuel, son of Richard Billings, re-
sided in Hatfield and died there February 1,
1678. He married, in 1661, Sarah, daughter
of Richard and Ursula Fellows. She married
(second) October 9, 1678, Samuel Belden Jr.,
and died February 5, 1713. Children: Sam-
uel, born January 8, 1665, mentioned below;
Ebenezer, October 29, 1669; Sarah, died, July
15, 1674; Richard, born April 7, 1672; John,
October 11, 1674, killed by the Indians, July
15. 1698; Sarah, October 18, 1676.

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Bil-
lings, was born in Hatfield, January 8, 1665.
He married (first) November 18, 1686, Han-
nah Wright, who died November 18, 1687;
(second) Rebecca Miller, widow, born March
26, 1 661, daughter of John and Sarah
(jleald) Miller. Children: Samuel; Sarah,
March 15, 1697; Joseph, November 15, 1700,
mentioned below ; Zechariah, November 29,
1702 ; Benjamin, January 18, 1705.

(IV) Joseph, son of Samuel (2) Billings,
was born in Hatfield, November 15, 1700, died
there about 1783. He was one of a company
organized to fight the Indians. He married,
January 7, 1726, Elizabeth (Colton) Kellogg,
born April 5, 1686, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah Colton, of Springfield. He had a son
Josepb, mentioned below.

(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Bil-
lings, was, with his father, his father's broth-
ers, Benjamin, Zechariah and Samuel, and
his own cousin, Benjamin, Jr., among a com-
pany of about seventy men who, in or about
1763, petitioned Governor Benning Went-
worth, of New Hampshire, for a grant of
land. On August 17, 1763, they were gran-
ted a royal charter by George III, of twenty-
three thousand and forty acres of land on the
borders of Lake Champlain, to be incorpora-
ted into the town of Swanton, yielding and
paying therefor, for the space of ten years
from December 25, 1763, annually, if de-
manded, the rent of one ear of Indian corn,
also one shilling to be paid annually forever,
by each proprietor, for every hundred acres
he owns, settles or possesses. This charter
is a remarkably interesting document, begin-
ning: "George the Third — by grace of God,

of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King,
defender of the Faith etc.," and ending: "By
His Excellency's Command, B. Wentworth,
Province of New Hampshire, Aug. 17, 1763."
The names signed to this charter as grantees
include those of the four brothers, Joseph,
Benjamin, Zechariah and Samuel Billings;
Joseph Billings, Jr., Benjamin Billings, Jr.,
also Asa, David, Silas and Samuel Billings.
Joseph, Jr., was possibly later of Windsor,
Vermont. No Billings was ever an original
land holder in Windsor.

(VI) Rufus, son of Joseph (2) Billings,
was a resident of Windsor, Vermont, and had
a son Ethan F., mentioned below.

(VII) Ethan F., son of Rufus Billings,
was born in Windsor, Vermont, January 27,
1807, died September 11, 1848. He was a
blacksmith by trade. He married Clarissa M.,
daughter of James Marsh, of Rockingham,
Vermont. Child : Charles Ethan, mentioned
below.

(VIII) Charles Ethan, son of Ethan F. Bil-
lings, was born December 5, 1835, in Wind-
sor, Vermont. His parents removed to Wea-
thersfield, Vermont, when he was young, and
he received his early education in the public
schools of that town. In 1852, when seven-
teen years of age, he was apprenticed for
three years to the Robbins & Lawrence Com-
pany, machinists and gun makers at Windsor.
By the terms of indenture the mother agreed
to provide for her son at her own expense,
board, lodging, clothing, etc., and the com-
pany agreed to instruct him in the art and
trade of a machinist, and to pay him for his
services fifty, fifty-five and sixty cents per
day for the first, second, and third years re-
spectively. Along in the middle fifties he
went to Hartford, Connecticut, and in June,
1856, was employed by the Colt Arms Com-
pany, working as a die-sinker in the forging
department. The drop hammer then in use
was quite complicated and expensive to keep
in repair, and the young machinist soon be-
came convinced that the work could be done
in an easier way. In 1862 he began working
in the gun factories of E. Remington & Sons
in Utica, New York, where he formulated
his ideas gained from experience and obser-
vation in the Colt's Armory, and built up,
though with doubts of his employers, a plant
for drop forgings which increased the effi-
ciency of labor forty-fold in the production of
various parts of their pistols. Here he de-
vised a new method of forcing the metal into
the frame, which saved the company $50,-
000 on their; contracts. Returning to Hart-
ford in 1865, he was for the next three years
acting superintendent of the manufacturing

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department of the -Weed Sewing Machine
Company. Here he introduced drop hammers
for forging several parts of the machine, not-
ably the shuttles, which before had been made
in several pieces, brazed together. In 1867
Mr. Billings patented his invention for forg-
ing them from a single piece of bar steel,
running four pairs of dies for the operation.
This process reduced the cost of shuttles one-
half, and has been universally adopted. His
present company has made upwards of four
millions of them. After a short absence in
Amherst, Massachusetts, at the close of his
term with the Weed Company, Mr. Billings,
in 1869, settled permanently at Hartford, and
at this time associated with C. M. Spencer
and organized the Roper Sporting Arms Com-
pany, which at the very outset experienced
severe reverses in the manufacture of the Ro-
per sporting gun. Mr. Billings then organ-
ised the Billings & Spencer Company, which
in 1870 took up drop forgings as a specialty,
and soon advanced to a commanding posi-
tion.

Mr. Billings's life work has been in the
main given to the development of the business
of drop forgings. He early saw the great sav-
ing of labor to be effected, as well as the im-
provement which could be made in numerous
small parts of machines. Starting from the
crude efforts of several persons who preceded
him in that line, he has brought the art up to
its present high standard. By his method,
bars of iron, steel bronze or copper can be
transformed into pieces of irregular shape
and size with rapidity and precision. The
dies are made from blocks of the best bar
steel, and in these are cut the form of the
article to be forged one-half of the thickness
in the lower and the other half in the upper
die, and both parts are then hardened to the
proper temper. One die is fastened to the
base, and its counterpart to the hammer of
the drop. Where the shape to be produced
is unusually complicated, a series of dies is
used, and red-hot bars are subjected to the
blows of the hammer until the desired figure
is reached. Guided by the uprights of pow-
erful frames, hammers weighing from three
hundred to three thousand pounds fall from
one to six feet, and a few rapid blows com-
plete this part of the process. The forgings
are then passed on to other rooms, to be fin-
ished and polished. At this time the company
operates seventy-five drop hammers. While
passing through the Edison Electric Works in
1886, Mr. Billings noted the existing method
of making commutator bars. These are "L"
shaped pieces of copper set at an angle to
each other. Horizontal bars, thin and wedge-

like, separated by some non-conducting sub-
star ce, are placed side by side around the
shaft of the dynamo and bound firmly to-
gether. Electricity is generated by the fric-
tion of metallic brushes revolving at high
speed against the edges of the bars. These
bars were then made in two pieces, united
pins and solder, and, as the current was
partly broken, the best results could not be ob-
tained. Mr. Billings here saw an opportun-
ity, and returning home, he cut the dies, and
in less than three weeks sent to the Edison
Company an invoice of bars forced in a sin-
gle piece from pure copper, and having a
homogeneous molecular structure throughout.
The material is of the greatest possible den-
sity. By this invention of Mr. Billings, the
cost of bars was greatly diminished and their
efficiency increased in like degree. A good
proof of their success is the fact that they
almost immediately sprang into favor with
electric companies. The catalogue of the
Billings & Spencer Company embraces a large
variety of standard articles, made of sizes to
suit the trade, and carried in stock. It in-
cludes screw plates, dies, reamers, wrenches,
ratchet drills, lathe-dogs, clamps, lathe tools,
combination pliers, admitting a wide range of
adjustment, vises, surface guages, sewing ma-
chine shuttles, thumb-screws, pistol frames
and barrels, breech-loading shot guns, solid
eye bolts, carbon tongs, magazine screw driv-
ers, spinning rings and similar articles, many
being the invention of Mr. Billings himself.
His adjustable pocket wrench, graduated to
one thirty-second of an inch, is specially suited
to the bicycle, and one million have been sold.
Manufacturers of electrical apparatus, sewing
machines, gas fittings, guns, pistols, pumps,
automobiles and other standard goods, have
many pieces which enter into their product
forged here at the works of the Billings &
Spencer Company.

The company has made frequent enlarge-
ments in the endeavor to keep up with the de-
mand for their goods. In 1889 they built a
new forge room, forty by ninety feet, and the
next year continued it to Lawrence street with
an L forty feet square, for a repair shop.
At the same time the capacity of the steam
plant was doubled. In the summer of 1892
they broke ground for a new building, which
extends two hundred and twenty-eight feet on
Lawrence, and one hundred and seventy feet
on Russ street, with a breadth of forty feet.
Two stories of brick rest on a brownstone
basement. At the corner, where the offices
are located, the structure rises to three stories,
surmounted by a tower. Everywhere in the
new construction careful provision has been

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made for the comfort and health of the em-
ployees. The forge rooms are very high, and
ventilated under the roof. The offices are
high, and finished in hard woods. Besides
these; nearly every season brings less con-
spicuous additions. At the close of 1896 the
floor space exceeded eighty-one thousand
square feet. The appliances in use have been
so modified and improved by the patented in-
ventions of Mr. Billings, that other concerns,
requiring drop hammers as a part of their
outfit, come to him for equipment. The rapid
growth of electric equipment and the demand
for safe and durable methods, led the com-
pany to enter this field also, and they now
furnish a full line of drop forgings for this
purpose. Over three hundred men are em-
ployed at the works located at Broad, Law-
rence & Russ streets, Hartford, and the com-
pany is the leading concern in its line in the
world. The company is up-to-date in every
particular, and uses the utmost care in every
department of their great works. Their dies
are stored in fireproof brick vaults, warmed
sufficiently by steam to prevent rust, and sep-
arated by a safe distance from the other build-
ings. The manufactured stock is also stored
in another fire-proof vault, similarly kept dry
and warm. An all-pervasive force in the de-
velopment of this great business has been the
inventive genius of Mr. Billings. The drop-
forging business owes much to his ability
and persistence. His success as a manager
of industries in phenomenal.

Mr. Billings is president of the Billings &
Spencer Company, of the National Machine
Company of Hartford, of the C. E. Billings
Manufacturing Company of Rocky Hill, Con-
necticut ; president and trustee of the State
Savings Bank: vice-president of the Ameri-
can Specialty Company of Hartford ; trustee
of the Hartford Trust Company and the State
Savings Banks, and a director of the Hart-
ford Board of Trade. He is not only a man
of much local prominence, but is also well
known throughout the country. On October
2, 1895, he was elected president of the Amer-
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, to com-
plete the unexpired term of E. F. C. Davis,
who was accidentally killed. After the ex-
piration of his term he was made an hon-
orary member in perpetuity and a member of
the honorable council of the society. He had
previously been senior vice-president. This
society comprises two thousand or more of
the leading mechanical engineers of America
and Europe. At one time Mr. Billings was
a member of the First Regiment, National
Guard of Connecticut.

In the midst of his varied business inter-

ests Mr. Billings has not turned a deaf ear
to the solicitations of his friends and fellow-
citizens to take part in civil affairs. He has
been a member of the common council of
Hartford, for four years represented the third
ward of that city in its board of aldermen,
and in that capacity exerted an important in-
fluence in molding legislation for the best in-
terests of the city. He also held the office
of president of the board of fire commission-
ers for twelve years. He is a prominent and
influential Republican. As a Free Mason of
the thirty-third degree he is familiar with all
the York and Scottish degrees ; is an honorary
member of the Supreme Council, Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite ; also of the Royal Or-
der of Scotland, and has local membership in
the Washington Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar, having previously held the position of
grand commander of the grand commandery
of the state. He is connected with the Sec-
ond Congregational Church of Hartford. He
is a member also of the Hartford Club, the
Home Market Club of Boston and the Amer-
ican Protective Tariff League. He has a
farm and summer home at Dividend, town of
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and finds much
pleasure in outdoor work and sports, espe-
cially hunting and fishing. A gentleman of
the most attractive personal character and one
of the foremost business men of New Eng-
land, Mr. Billings, both in private life and
as a public official, is honored and highly es-
teemed by the residents of the flourishing
community in which he has so long lived and
deservedly prospered, and in which he occu-
pies so enviable a position. Mr. Billings mar-
ried (first) January 5, 1857, Frances M. Hey-
wood, who died in 1872, daughter of Williard
Heywood, of Cornish, New Hampshire. He
married (second) September 9, 1874, Evelina
C, daughter of L. H. Holt, of Hartford.
Children of first wife : Charles H., born
Springfield, Massachusetts, July 13, 1861, died
in infancy ; Fred Edward, born Utica, New
York, October 21, 1864, superintendent and
vice-president of the Billings & Spencer Com-
pany; Harry E., born Hartford, Connecticut,
December 23, 1868. Children of second wife:
Mary E., born October 22, 1877, Hartford,
Connecticut, married William B. Green, of
New York; Lucius H., born June 26, 1879, at
Hartford, Connecticut.

The surname Storrs is of Scan-

STORRS dinavian or rather Teutonic

origin, the word meaning great,

in the sense of rule, power, authority. In

old Norse it is Stor ; in Anglo-Saxon, Stor or

Stur; in German, Stur: in English, Stor,

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Storr, Storrs. The surname has been spelled early town meetings were held at his house.

in a great variety of ways. We find the sur- A monument was erected to his memory in

name as early as 1278 when Rogerus de 1879, by Charles Storrs, of New York, the

Stures and son, Rudolphus de Stures, of Beck- family historian. His will was dated May 17,

fontes, England, were of record. It is thought 1717- He married, December 6, 1666, Mary

that all the English Storrs are of the same Huckins, of Barnstable, born 1646, died Sep-

stock. tember 24," 1683, daughter of Thomas Huc-

(I) William Storrs, to whom the American kins, who was a member of the Boston Ar-
family is traced in England, lived in Notting- tillery Company and standard bearer in 1639.
hamshire. His will dated 1557 expressed his She was a member of the church in 1683. He
wish to be buried in St. Bartholomew's. He married (second) December 14, 1685, Esther

married Dorothy . Children : Robert, Agard, widow, who had a son John by her

William, Elizabeth, Dyonice and Ellen. first marriage. Children of first wife: Mary,

(II) Robert, son of William Storrs, lived born December 31, 1667; Sarah, January 26,
in Nottinghamshire and died there in 1588. 1670; Hannah, March 28, 1672; Elizabeth,

He married (first) Mabel , who may May 31, 1675; Samuel, May 17, 1677; Lydia,

have been of the Cordall family, for their son June, 1679 ; Mehitable, baptized September

Cordall was the first of the family bearing 17, 1683; Children of second wife: Thomas,

the surname of this old Devonshire family as October 27, 1686; Esther, October, 1688; Cor-

a personal name. Child of the first wife: dall, October 14, 1692.

Cordall, mentioned below. Children of sec- (VI) Thomas (2), son of Samuel Storrs,

ond wife : Robert, who died in 1658, John, was born at Barnstable, October 27, 1686,

Dorothy and Anne. died at Mansfield, April 4, 1755. He removed

(III) Cordall, son of Robert Storrs, in his to Mansfield about 1698, and was clerk of the
will of February, 161 5, mentions his mother proprietors there and clerk of the town. From
Mabel and brothers, John and Robert ; sisters, 1740 to 1748 he was justice of the peace;
Dorothy and Anne ; uncles, John and Nicho- member of the general assembly of Connec-
las Hammond, supervisors. Children : Thorn- ticut forty-three sessions between October,
as, William and Mary. 1716, and May, 1747. He held various other

(IV) Thomas, son of Cordall Storrs, was offices of trust and honor and was a very
baptized April 25, 1605. He married Mary capable and prominent citizen. He was called

. The names of his children are found captain in records as early as 1742, and in

in the will of his uncle, Robert Storrs, a very that year was on a committee to look for a

aged man, who died in 1661 and was buried minister to succeed Rev. Eleazer Williams.

December 23, 1661. Children: Thomas, bap- He married, at Mansfield, March 14, 1708,

tized January 27, 1632, at Sutton cum Lound, Mehitable ■ — , who died March 10, 1776,

Nottinghamshire, England ; Cordall, baptized according to her gravestone at Mansfield,

there September 21, 1635, died 1698; George, Children: Mehitable, born March 30, 1709;

baptized April 29, 1638, died 1653; Samuel, Rebecca, August 29, 1710; Zerviah, August

baptized December 7, 1640, mentioned below; 27, 1812; Cornelius, December 30, 1714;

Joseph, baptized August 20, 1643; Elizabeth, Thomas, January 16, 1716-17; mentioned be-

baptized February 8, 1648; Mary, baptized low; Prince, March 12, 1718-19; Josiah,

November 2, 1650. March 25, 1721 ; Judah, September 26, 1723;

(V) Samuel, son of Thomas Storrs, was Lemuel, March 13, 1725; Amariah, June n,
the immigrant ancestor, born at Sutton cum 1728; Anne, January 18, 1731-32.

Lound, Nottingham, and baptized there De- (VII) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
cember 7, 1640. In 1663 he came to Barn- Storrs, was born at Mansfield, January 16,
stable, Massachusetts, and was admitted to 1716-17. He was a farmer all his life at
the church there March 8, 1685. He removed Mansfield, and died there May 14, 1802, ac-
to Mansfield in 1698 and died there April 3, cording to his gravestone. He married, Feb-
T719. in his seventy-ninth year. He is buried ruary 27, 1743. Eunice, daughter of Robert
in the old burying ground in the south parish, Paddock, of Mansfield. She died May 2, 1795,
the oldest in Tolland county. He was one according to her gravestone. Children, born
of the original members of the Mansfield at Mansfield: Zervia, January 6, 1744; Dan-
church. The first deed of record in that part iel, February 7, 1748, mentioned below; Eu-
of Windham, now Mansfield, was given to nice, May 28, 1750; Martha, June 1, 1752;
Samuel Storrs by a number of Norwich men Thomas, August 25, 1754; Seth, January 24,
in 1700. He owned various other parcels of 1756; Zalmon, August 30, 1758; Heman, Sep-
land later. He was active in town affairs, tember 27, 1761.
held various town offices, and many of the (VIII) Dan (Daniel), son of Thomas (3)

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Storrs, was born February 7, 1748, at Mans-
field. He was a soldier in the revolution,
one of the Lexington alarm men, a quarter-
master of a Connecticut regiment and was
at White Plains. He was an active and
enterprising citizen, assisting the government
materially by the manufacture of salt-peter,
and by his ardent patriotism. He earnestly
supported Washington and opposed the poli-
cies of Jefferson. He was for many years a
merchant at Mansfield, both wholesale and
retail, and for twenty-five years conducted a
hotel there, known far and wide as the Dan
Storrs Tavern, which is still standing. He
was also a prosperous farmer and owned
much land. He left a large estate in Mans-
field, Ashford, Willington and Tolland. He
was for many years banker for this section.
His store was on the corner of Main street,
.Mansfield, and the road to Ashford. In phy-
sique he was tall, large and robust, and in
manner courteous and obliging. After the
fashion of his day he wore a queue. He died
January 3, 183 1. His gravestone is at Mans-
field. He married, January 5, 1775, Ruth,
daughter of Colonel Shubael Coeant, of
Mansfield, granddaughter of Rev. Eleazer
Williams. His wife died April 18, 1792
( gravestone record) and he married (second)
October 28. 1793, Mary, daughter of Constant
Southworth of Mansfield. Children, born at
Mansfield: Origen, October 11, 1775; Zal-
mon, December 18, 1779, mentioned below;
Juba, March 9, 1782; Sophronia, March 2,
1784; Selina, June 29, 1786; Lucius, June 23,
1789; Egbert, February~7, 1792. Children of
second wife: Egbert, January 18, 1795; Ma-
ria, July 9, 1800; Delia. July 1, 1806.

(IX) Zalmon, son of Dan Storrs, was born
December 18, 1779. He graduated from
Yale in the class of 1801, and studied law in
the office of Thomas S. Williams, then of
Mansfield, later of Hartford, Connecticut, and
chief justice of the state. Zalmon gave up
the practice of law when his brother Origen
died and went to work for his father in
the store, succeeding his father in business.
He was postmaster for twenty years and of-
ten represented the town in the general as-
sembly of the state. He was justice of the
peace until he reached the age limit. He held
various other offices of trust, and in 1831 and
1834 was the candidate for governor of the
state, nominated by the anti-Masonic party,
but was not elected. He was one of the
prime movers in manufacturing silk thread
by machinery in that part of Connecticut. He
had a factory at Mansfield Hollow in 1835 in
partnership with his son, Dan P. Storrs. Zal-
mon Storrs was a prominent member and

leader in the First Congregational Church of
Mansfield. In person he was tall and slender,
quick to move, upright and conscientious in
business. He died February 17, 1867. He
married (first) April 26, 1804, Cynthia, born
December 12, 1780, died April 17, 1833,
daughter of Josiah Stowell, of Mansfield. He
married (second) November 10, 1835, Clar-
issa M. Stowell, widow, of Middlebury, Ver-
mont, and she died December 9, 1869. Chil-
dren of first wife: Origen, born February 22,
1805 ; Dan Paddock. February 6, 1807 ; Aus-
tin C, June 2, 1810; Zalmon A., July 31, 1813,
mentioned below ; Cynthia S., February 27,
1816, married Flerbert Campbell; Susan M.,
February 14, 1823, married, October 22, 1844,
Leonard C. Dewing; Delia, October 27, 1824,
married, October 27, 1852, Joab E. Cushman.

(X) Zalmon Austin, son of Zalmon Storrs,
was born at Mansfield, July 31, 1813. He at-
tended the district schools of his native town
and the academy at Greenwich, Connecticut,
and Monson, Massachusetts, and graduated
from Middlebury College, Vermont, in the
class of 1835. He studied law in the school
at Litchfield, Connecticut, with his cousin,
Origen Storrs Seymour, afterward chief jus-
tice of the state, and was admitted to the bar
and began to practice in the town of Tol-
land, Connecticut. He was elected judge of
probate of Tolland district, and after a num-
ber of years judge of the Tolland county
court. He removed to Hartford, Connecticut,
December 2, 1852, and practiced his profession
with ability and credit until 1868. For a time
he was a law partner of W. W. Eaton, after-
ward United States senator. From July 29,
1868, he was vice-president of the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company until the close
of 1872. He was elected treasurer of the
Society for Savings at Hartford, January 8,
1873, and filled that office to the utmost sat-
isfaction of all concerned to the end of his
life. He died February 22, 1890. He held
various other private and public trusts, and
was for many years one of the prominent
figures in the financial circles of Hartford.
He was slender in build, of medium height,
having dark hair, attractive in personality,
and enjoying the respect and confidence of
the entire community. In politics he was a
Republican. He was a member of the Pearl
Street Congregational Church, which is known
since the change of location as the Farming-
ton Avenue Church. He married, July 28,
1864, Mary, daughter of Lewis and Ruth
(Burnham) Rowell (see Rowell VII). They
had but one child, Lewis Austin, mentioned
below.

(XI) Lewis Austin, son of Zalmon Austin

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Storrs, was born at Hartford, August 28,
1866. He attended the public schools there
and graduated from the Brown grammar
school in 1881 ; from the Hartford public high
school, April 24, 1885, and from Yale Col-
lege in the class of 1889 w^h the degree of
A.B. He took a special course in natural
history at Trinity College, Hartford, from
which he received the degree of M.A. in 1905.
He attended the Columbia Law School in
1889-90 and was admitted to the bar in New
York City, September 17, 1891. He was as-
sociated for a time with the law firm of Car-
rington & Emerson of New York, and he
practiced in that city until May, 1898. He
was admitted to the bar of Connecticut, Janu-
ary 10, 1899, and since then has practiced his
profession in Hartford, Connecticut. He was
for two years a member of Troop C, National
Guard of New York. He is a member of
the Yale Club of New York, the University
Club of Hartford, the Hartford Yacht Club
and the Connecticut Society, Sons of the
American Revolution. He and his family at-
tend the Farmington Avenue Congregational
Church. He married, July 3, 1894, at Brook-
lyn, New York, Bessie, born in Brooklyn, Au-
gust 29, 1870, daughter of William Titus and
Elizabeth (Himrod) Whitmore. Her father
was assistant paymaster in the United States
navy in the civil war, stationed mostly off
Virginia in the North Atlantic squadron ; took
part in the battle at Fort Fisher on board the
United States gunboat "Mackinaw," of which
he was paymaster about two years ; he had
formerly been on the "Valley City" ; he was a
woolen merchant in New York for many
years. Children : John Whitmore, born Au-
gust 17, 1895, at Brooklyn ; Ruth Rowell, Feb-
ruary 8, 1897, at Brooklyn ; Una Hampton,
June 13, 1898, at Southampton, New York;
Marabeth, November 26, 1899, at Hartford ;
Lewis Austin Jr., August 12, 1903, at Hart-
ford ; Robert, August 14, 1907, at Madison,
Connecticut.

(The Rowell Line).

The surname Rowell is of ancient English
origin, derived from some place name at the
time of the adoption of surnames in England.
Many of the family in England as well as
America have been distinguished in various
walks of life. There are several coats-of-
arms borne by Rowley families in the old coun-
try. The name was spelled in various ways,
and some of the common forms are Rowell.
Rowley, Rowlee, all of which are still in
common use. The immigrant, mentioned be-
low, from whom this branch of the family
descended, spelled his name Rowley.

(I) Henry Rowley, immigrant ancestor,

was born in England and died in Barnstable
or Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1673. He was
one of the early planters of Plymouth and
was a taxpayer as early as 1632. According
to some accounts he came with the Pilgrims
from Leyden in 1630. He was admitted a
freeman in 1634, after removing to Scituate,
where he and his wife Anne joined the
church, January 8, 1634. In 1638 he removed
with Rev. John Lothrop to the new settlement
at Barnstable on Cape Cod. He was deputy
to the general court at Plymouth. In 1650
he removed to West Barnstable, and later to
Falmouth. He married (first) Sarah, daugh-
ter of William Palmer; (second) October 17,
1633, Anne, daughter of Deacon Thomas
Blossom, who started for New England in the
"Speedwell" from Holland in 1620, but had
to return, and came to Plymouth in 1629.
Children : Moses, mentioned below ; Joseph,
said to have gone to the Barbadoes ; Sarah,
married Jonathan Hatch.

(II) Moses Rowell, son of Henry Rowley,
was born about 1630, died in 1705 at East
Haddam, Connecticut. He married, April 11,
1652, at Barnstable, Elizabeth, daughter of
Captain Matthew Fuller, soldier and surgeon-
general of the colony. She died at East Had-
dam or Colchester, Connecticut, after 1714.
Moses is mentioned in the will of William
Palmer as legatee, as "Moses whom I love."
The Grandfather Palmer gives evidence of
some unfriendliness towards the father and
wishes young Rowley placed with Mr. Part-
ridge that he "might be brought up in the
feare of God & to that end if his father suf-
fer it, I give Mr. Partridge five punds." Ap-
parently Moses lived with his grandfather, and
March 7, 1653-54, the court allowed him a
cow from Palmer's estate. He was admit-
ted a freeman in 1657. He bought sixty acres
of land of Jonathan Gilbert at Haddam, Con-
necticut. He probably removed to Haddam
in 169 1, but his wife did not approve of the
removal, for she refused to sign the
deeds, and in a deed of her dower
rights in 1714, she declares that her husband
left her without support and dependent on the
bounty of her sons John and Moses. His will
was dated August 16, 1704, at Haddam. Chil-
dren : Mary, born March 20, 1653; Moses,
November 10, 1654; child, died August 15,
1656; Shubael, born January 11, 1660 (twin),
mentioned below ; Mehitable (twin) ; Sarah,
September 16, 1662; Aaron, May 16, 1666;
John. October 22, 1667; Matthew; Nathan.

(III) Shubael, son of Moses Rowell, was
born January ir, 1660, in Barnstable, died at
Colchester, Connecticut, March 28, 1714. He
was in East Haddam as early as 1693, and in

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1700 sold his Haddam lands and removed to
Colchester. He married Catherine, daughter
of Thomas Crippen, of Falmouth and East
Haddam. Children : Isaac, Shubael, Thomas,
Matthew, Elizabeth, Elnathan, Mary, Jabez,
mentioned below.

(IV) Jabez, son of Shubael Rowell, was
born about 1702 at Colchester. He married,
February 20, 1724, Tabitha Harris. Children:
Tabitha, born October 20, 1724; Jabez, Janu-
ary 10. 1726; William, October 15, 1727, men-
tioned below; Phineas, October 7, 1729; Lois,
November 14, 1731 ; Simeon, June 17, 1733;
Eunice, April 3, 1735 ; Nathan, February 12,
1737; Lydia, June 27, 1739; Dorothy, April
28, 1 741.

(V) William, son of Jabez Rowell, was
born October 15, 1727. He married, Febru-
ary l> T753- Sarah, widow of James Gor-
dien. Children, born at Waterbury, Connecti-
cut: Chauncey, April 5, 1756, died 1779; Eli
Smith, April 25, 1764, mentioned below ; Wil-
liam, ; June 26, 1766, married Catherine
Renham.

(VI) Eli Smith, son of William Rowell,
was born at Waterbury, April 25, 1764. He

removed to Windham. He married .

Child : Lewis, mentioned below.

(VII) Lewis, son of Eli Smith Rowell, was
born in Windham, December 21, 1802. He
married Ruth Burnham. Children : Ellen,
Harriet, Mary, Albert. Mary, born at Hart-
ford, married, July 28, 1864, Zalmon Austin
Storrs (see Storrs X).

John Pickett, immigrant an-
PICKETT cestor, was born in England.

He came to Salem, Massachu-
setts, as early as 1648, according to some auth-
orities, and was in Stratford in 1650. but the
John Pickett of Salem moved to Rowley, Mas-
sachusetts, had a family and died there. John

of Stratford married, first, Margaret ,

who died October 6, 1683. Children : John ;
James (mentioned below) ; Thomas, married
Abigail Seymour ; Sarah, married Robert
Lane; Rebecca, born June 30, 1650; Daniel,
January 25, 1652.

(II) James, son of John Pickett, was born
before 1650. He resided at Stratford and
Danbury, Connecticut, and from him are de-
scended the Picketts of Danbury, New Mil-
ford and Sherman, Connecticut. He married
Rebecca, daughter of Ralph Keeler, July 17,
1673. Children: James (mentioned below);
John, September 16, 1675, and perhaps others.

(III) James (2), son of James (1) Pickett,
was born at Stratford, May 7, 1674. He mar-
ried, April 14, 1726, Deborah, daughter of
Ensign James Stewart. They settled in Nor-

walk. Children: Sarah, born September 12,
1728; Esther, November 14, 1730; James,
April 24, 1732; Deborah, October 3, 1734;
John, September 6, 1737; Ezra (mentioned
below).

(IV) Ezra, son of James (2) Pickett, was
born at Stratford or Norwalk, July 12, 1740.
According to the first federal census in 1790
he was living in Norwalk.

(V) Pickett, son of Ezra Pickett,

was born in Norwalk and was a soldier in
the revolution.

(VI) Rufus Pickett, grandson of Ezra
Pickett, was born in Norwalk or Ridgefield,
Connecticut, in 1798. He married Betsey,
born April 20, 1794, died June 13, 1868,
daughter of Abraham Parsons, who was born
February 10, 1764. and died March 16, 1852,
at Ridgefield. Her father was a farmer at
Redding, Connecticut, and a soldier in the
Continental army in the revolution and late in
life a pensioner of the United States on ac-
count of his service. Urana Starr, wife of
Abraham Parsons, was born in Danbury,
March 23, 1765, and died there September 30,
1848. (see Starr VII.) Children William H. ;
Rufus Starr (mentioned below); Isabella;
Francis, and Edwin, who was killed at Gettys-
burg while serving in the Union army.

(VII) Rufus Starr, son of Rufus Pickett,
was born in Ridgefield February 28, 1829,
and died June 9, 1903, at New Haven. He
attended the public schools, and Bank's Acad-
emy of Ridgefield. He worked at odd times
with his father, who was a cabinet maker, and
when he was but eighteen, took over the man-
agement of the business, his father having
failed in health. In 1854, six years later, he
went to New Haven and worked in the loco-
motive shops of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad, building and repairing
the engines. When he began work this road
had but twenty-four locomotives. He became
a Republican in politics when a young man,
and was associated in the Lincoln campaign
with his friend and classmate, Cyrus North-
rop, then a professor in Yale College, after-
wards president of the University of Minne-
sota, and was a stump speaker at meetings
at which Professor Northrop, Hon. N. D.
Sperry, John Woodruff and others also spoke.
When Lincoln became president and appointed
James F. Babcock collector of the port of New
Haven, Mr. Pickett was appointed a weigher
and ganger in this office. After several years
he resigned this position to enter the Yale
Law School. At the end of the first year
he took the Jewell prize for the best essay.
He graduated in 1873, and entered upon the
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was appointed city attorney and for six years
faithfully and efficiently discharged the duties
of the office. In 1885 he was appointed assist-
ant judge, and in 1887 judge of the city
court of New Haven. He heard some of the
early boycott cases, and his opinions were
widely quoted and substantially confirmed by
the higher courts. He was a Republican in
politics and always gave hearty and loyal sup-
port to his party. He was a member of Ply-
mouth Congregational Church, and a deacon
for more than forty years. He was a mem-
ber of the Congregational Club and of the
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution (elected February 2, 1891).
He was a man of strong character, devout, up-
right and conscientious in all the relations of
life. He married, in New Haven, Sarah Eliz-
abeth, born October 1, 1840, daughter of Ed-
ward and Sarah (Bates) Read.

(VIII) Edwin Starr, son of Rufus Starr
Pickett, was born in New Haven, May 13,
1876. He attended the public schools and
the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven,
graduating in 1895. He entered Yale College
and was graduated with the degree of A.B. in
the class of 1899, and with the degree of
LL.B. from the Law School in 1901. He be-
gan to practice immediately at New Haven,
and has achieved a position of prominence at
the bar. He is a member of Trumbull Lodge,
No. 22, Free Masons, of New Haven ; of
Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of
Harmony Council, No. 5, of New Haven; of
New Haven Commandery, Knights Templar,
and to the other bodies of the Scottish Rite
including the thirty-second degree ; of the
Knights Templar Club of New Haven ; the
Young Men's Republican Club ; of Quinnipiac
Lodge of Odd Fellows of New Haven ; of
Golden Rule Encampment of Odd Fellows ; of
the Improved Order of Red Men ; the Hepta-
sophs ; the Modern Woodmen of America ;
the New Haven County Bar Association, and
the Connecticut Society of Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution. He is a Republican in poli-
tics. He is now assistant clerk of the court
of common pleas at New Haven. In religion
he is a Congregationalist and attends with his
family Plymouth Church. His office is at 82
Church street, New Haven.

He married (first) in September, 1899,
Fannie Ada, born May 21, 1877, daughter of
John and Martha Taylor. She died March
14, 1905, and he married (second), June 13,
1907, Lelia Alinda Grenville, born May 17,
188 1. daughter of Dr. Charles G. and Delia
(Hamilton) Surridge. Children of first
wife: Marion Dorothy, born October 22,
1900 ; Fannie Martha, March 10, 1905. Chil-

dren of second wife: Lyndell S., born April
24, 1908; Janyce R. S., March 26, 1910.

(The Starr Line).

(I) Dr. Comfort Starr, immigrant ancestor,
was born at Ashford, County Kent, England,
about forty-five miles southeast of London.
He practiced there as a physician and surgeon
before he emigrated to America. He came
in March, 1634, in the ship "Hercules" with
three children and three servants. He was
warden of the church at Ashford, St. Mary's.
His brother Jehosephat Starr lived and died
there; his brother, Joyful Starr, married Mar-
garet — ; his sister, Suretrust, married

Faithful Rouse, and lived at Charlestown,
Massachusetts ; his sister Constant married
John Morley, and lived at Charlestown. The
family name is now extinct at Ashford. Com-
fort Starr settled first at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, and bought land June 19, 1638, at
Duxbury, of Jonathan Brewster, removing
thither soon afterward. He was reported as
able to bear arms in 1643 at Duxbury. He
deeded his house there to his son John after-
ward, and returned to Boston, where he lived
at the north end near the Charlestown ferry.
After 1649 n's name often appears in the Bos-
ton records, especially in the probate records.
His wife died June 25, 1658, aged sixty-three
years. He died January 2, 1659. His will
was proved February 3, following, bequeath-
ing to Samuel Starr, to the five children of
deceased daughter Maynard ; to the children
of deceased son Thomas and his widow Han-
nah in England ; to grandson Simon Eire for
his education ; to son John ; to daughter Eliz-
abeth Ferniside ; to brothers-in-law John Mor-
ley and Faithful Rouse; mentioning property
at Boston and Ashford in Kent, England.
Children: Thomas; Elizabeth, born 1621 ;
Comfort, 1624 ; Mary ; John ; Samuel, baptized
March 2, 1628 ; Hannah, born July 22, 1632,
and Lydia, March 22, 1634.

(II) Dr. Thomas Starr, son of Dr. Com-
fort Starr, was born in Ashford, Kent, Eng-
land, as early as 1615. He came to Amer-
ica with his father and studied medicine un-
der his instruction. He was a surgeon in the
Pequot war in 1637. Evidently he was a man
of his own opinions, for we find the courts
fining him for "speaking against the order of
the court against swine." The fine was after-
ward reduced and finally was paid by deduct-
ing it from his pay as surgeon in the army.
He resided at Duxbury, Yarmouth, Scituate
and Charlestown, where he was clerk of the
writs in 1652. He was deputy to the general
court at Boston in 1658. His widow was
granted land on account of his service in the

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war. He died October 26, 1658. His widow
Rachel went with the young children to live
at Hempstead, Long Island. Children : Sam-
uel, born 1640, ancestor of the New London
branch ; Comfort, 1644, ancestor of the Mid-
dletown branch ; Elizabeth, 1646, married
John Treadwell ; Benjamin, February 6,
1647-8; Jehosephat, January 12, 1649-50; Con-
stant, 1652 ; William, March 18, 1654-5, and
Josiah, September 1, 1657.

(Ill) Captain Josiah Starr, son of Dr.
Thomas Starr, was born at Charlestown, Sep-
tember 1, 1657. He was but three years old
when his father died. He evidently went
with his mother to Hempstead. He was there
February 17, 1678-9, when he petitioned for a
grant of one hundred acres, and was a farmer
there in 1683. He was one of the seven pat-
entees who founded the town of Danbury,
Connecticut, in 1702, and was elected first
town clerk and second justice of the peace.
Later he was highway surveyor and held other
town offices; in 1710 he was lieutenant and in
17 1 3, captain; deputy to the general court in
1702, and a leading man in church and town
affairs. He died January 4, 1715-16, and was
buried in the old grounds at the rear of the
court house, the slab of native stone that
marks his resting place being the oldest mon-
ument to a Starr in New England. His wife
and son Thomas were appointed adminis-
trators February 3, 1715-16. She died July 15,
x739- Children: Thomas; Benjamin, born
1683; John. 1684; Hannah; Rachel, 1690;
Josiah, 1693 ; Samuel, 1700. and Comfort,
October 20, 1706.

(TV) Captain John Starr, son of Captain
Josiah Starr, was born in Long Island, in
[684, and settled early at Danbury, where he
owned a large tract of land along Beaver
Brook in the northeast part of the town,
now in the town of Brookfield. He was
wealthy and prominent. He was deputy to
the general assembly in 1731-33-34-35; was
elected lieutenant May 10, 1723, and captain
May 14, 1733, holding this command to the
time of his death. He died intestate July 27,
1739, aged fifty-five years. The name of his
wife is unknown. Children: John, born 171 1 ;
Jonathan (mentioned below) ; Eleazer.

(V) Lieutenant Jonathan Starr, son of
Captain John Starr, was born in Danbury, and
resided there in the west part of the town,
near what is now Ridgefield. He was elected
sergeant in May, 1747, and lieutenant May 6,
175 1, holding this command until he died.
His estate was inventoried at 4,500 pounds.
He died in 1751. He married Rachel, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Sarah Taylor. His widow
married Samuel Gregory. Children of Lieu-

tenant Jonathan Starr, born at Danbury: Jon-
athan ; Rebecca, married Nathan Hoyt ; Mica-
jah, April 2, 1746; Benjamin (mentioned be-
low) ; Elijah, 1751, and Nathaniel (?), died
April 26, 1777.

(VI) Benjamin, son of Lieutenant Jona-
than Starr, was born at Danbury, and lived on
Mill Plain in the west part of that town, now
in Ridgebury. He was a soldier in the revolu-
tion and was ill with camp fever at White
Plains. He started home on a furlough and
died on the way, September 3, 1777. His
widow and Asa Church were appointed to
administer the estate, November 14, 1777. He
married Christina Church, who married (sec-
ond) September 9, 1782, Josiah Rockwell and
had more children. Children of Benjamin
Starr: Gideon, born January 29, 1763: Urana
(mentioned below) ; Martin, 1767; Orange,
January 13, 1768; Samuel, September 2.7 y
1770.

(VII) Urana, daughter of Benjamin Starr,
was born at Danbury, March 23, 1765, and
died September 30, 1848, at an advanced age.
She married Abraham Parsons, born Febru-
ary 10, 1764, a farmer at Redding; soldier in
the revolution at the age of eighteen years ;
pension granted on the evidence of his re-
ceipt for a gun used in the service. He died
March 16, 1852, at Ridgefield. Children: 1.
Starr Parsons, born February 15, 1793. 2.
Betsey Parsons, April 20, 1794, married Rufus
H. Pickett, of Ridgefield (see Pickett VI) ; died
June 13, 1868. 3. Laura, February 18, 1798;
married, March 27. 1833. Moses Gregory
Betts, of Reading; died September 30, 1835.

William Swift, immigrant ances-
SWIFT tor, came probably from Bocking,
county Suffolk, England, to New
England in 1630. He settled in Watertown,
Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor -in
1636. In 1637 ne s°ld his estate there, and
removed to Sudbury. On June 28, 1641, he
sold his house and land in Sudbury, and re-
moved to Sandwich, where he died in Janu-
ary, 1643-44. He married Joan , whose

will was proved October 12, 1662, showing
that she died before that date. She bequeath-
ed to Daniel Wing's two sons, Samuel and
John ; grandchildren Hannah Swift and Ex-
perience Allen ; to Mary Darby ; to Hannah
Wing the elder and her daughters ; to Zebe-
diah Allin ; her son William was executor.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Swift, was born in England about 1627, died
at Sandwich, January, 1705-06. He was dep-
uty to the general court in 1673-74-77-78. He
married Ruth . Children, born at Sand-
wich : Hannah, March 11, 1651 ; William, Au-

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gust 28, 1654; Ephraim, June 6, 1656; Mary,
April 7, 1659; Samuel, August 10, 1662;
Josiah ; Jirah, mentioned below ; Temperance ;
Esther ; Dinah.

(III) Jirah, son of William (2) Swift,
was born in 1665, died in April, 1749. Rev.
Benjamin Fessenden, minister of the Sand-
wich church, in a manuscript mentions Jirah
Swift as one of the heads of families of his
church in 1730. He is the ancestor of the
New Bedford branch of the family. He mar-
ried (first) November 26, 1697, Abigail Gibbs,
of Sandwich. He married (second) Novem-
ber 19, 1741, Mary Besse, of Wareham, Mas-
sachusetts. She survived him and is men-
tioned as a legatee with all his children and
Catherine Curby, probably daughter of his
niece, Sarah Kirby (Curby), in his will dated
March 29, 1744, and filed May 1, 1749. He
was a busy and prominent citizen of Ware-
ham, where he died April, 1749, aged eighty-
four. Children of first wife: Alice, born July
23. 1698; Susannah, October 6, 1699; Jabez,
March 16, 1700-01 ; Zephaniah, March 6,
1702-03; William, July 5. 1703-04; Nathan-
iel, March 14, 1707-08; Jirah, November 23,
1709; Job, October 3, 1711; Silas, August 2,
1713; Abigail, July 26, 1715 ; Isaac, May 3,
1720; Rowland, mentioned below.

(IV) Rowland, son of Jirah Swift, was
born at Wareham, March 24, 1721-22, and
died February 13, 1795. Just before the rev-
olution he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut.
He married, December 5, 1745, Mary Dex-
ter, of Falmouth, Massachusetts. She died
at Lebanon, October 19, 1798. Children, all
born at Wareham : Barzillai, January 9, 1747,
mentioned below; Abigail, February 3, 1749;
Abigail. July 8, 1751 ; Rowland, December 10,
1753, soldier in the revolution; Jirah, De-
cember 6, 1755, lost at sea; Zephaniah, Feb-
ruary 27, 1759; Mary, March 1, 1761 ; Wil-
liam, January 19, 1764; Thankful, October 14,
1766.

(V) Captain Barzillai, son of Rowland
Swift, was born in Wareham, Massachusetts,
January 9, 1747: died at Tolland. He mar-
ried, December 23, 1769, at Wareham, Sarah
Fearing, and soon afterward removed to
Mansfield, Connecticut. Children, born at
Mansfield Center: Hannah, June 28, 1771 ;
Lucy: Cynthia, August 20, 1773; George,
September 28, 1779; Washington. September
13, 1781 ; Earl, mentioned below; Fearing,
August 20. 1787.

(VI) Dr. Earl, son of Captain Barzillai
Swift, was born in Mansfield Center, April
8, 1784, died there June 14, 1869. He grad-
uated at Yale College in the class of 1805 and
studied medicine and surgery afterward. He

was admitted to practice in 1808, and loca-
ted in that year at Windham, Connecticut. He
practiced there for two years, then at Weth-
ersfield two years and at Mansfield, his native
town, the remainder of his life. He«married,
April 18, 18 10, Laura Ripley, born at Wind-
ham, Connecticut, July 4, 1792, died at Mans-
field, April 17, 1870, sister of General Rip-
ley, at one time in charge of the Springfield
arsenal, daughter of Captain Ralph and Eu-
nice (Huntington) Ripley. Her father was
great-great-grandson of Joshua and Hannah
(Bradford) Ripley. Hannah Bradford was
daughter of William Bradford, Jr., and
granddaughter of Governor William Brad-
ford, who came over on the "Mayflower."
Her mother was a lineal descendant of Si-
mon Huntington, who settled in Windsor,
Connecticut, in 1633. Children : Albert E.,
born at Windham, January 27, 181 1 ; Har-
riet, born at Wethersfield, October 17, 1812 ;
Alathea, born at Mansfield, June 11, 1815;
Laura, March 7, 1818; Ralph Ripley, Sep-
tember 29, 1821 ; Sarah F., August 19, 1823 ;
James, October 20, 1825 ; Henry F., January
4, 1829; General Frederick W., January 31,
1831, of Detroit, Michigan; Rowland, men-
tioned below.

(VII) Rowland (2), son of Dr. Earl Swift,
was born at Mansfield, February 22, 1834,
died at Hartford, June 13, 1902. As a boy
he was ambitious to follow his father's pro-
fession, but an attack of varioloid contracted
while nursing one of his father's small-pox
patients, left his eyes in such condition that
though he repeatedly returned to his studies,
he was finally obliged to abandon hope of a
college and medical education. He came to
Hartford at the age of sixteen and worked
as clerk in the dry goods store of Joseph
Langdon. Shortly after the organization of
what was known as the Hartford County
Bank, which in 1865 became the American
National Bank, he entered its services as a
clerk and would have been fifty years con-
tinuously in this concern had he lived a few
months longer. He was made cashier in 1854
before he had attained his majority, succeed-
ing James B. Powell. He was elected presi-
dent in 1 87 1, succeeding George M. Bartho-
lomew. He held this office at the time of his
death and was senior by about ten years of
service of any other bank president in Hart-
ford. He was on duty until within a fort-
night of his death. He was also trustee of
the Society of Savings, director of the Re-
treat for the Insane and the American School
for the Deaf. He was treasurer of the Wat-
kinson library of reference, and was senior
member of the board of trustees of the Hart-

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ford Theological Seminary. He was for many
years an active member of the Connecticut
Historical Society, and was one of the origi-
nal members of the Republican Club of Hart-
ford. -These, with other positions of trust,
indicate the esteem in which he was held by
his townsmen. He was a director of the Pratt
& Whitney Company for many years. The
Hartford C our ant said, of him :

"Mr. Swift was a man of intense patriotism and
the Civil War fired the loyalty of his whole na-
ture. Unable himself to enlist he doubled his bank
work to keep open the place of one who had gone
to the front. He entered with enthusiasm into the
politics of the day as president for many years of
the Young Men's Club. He was throughout his
life a staunch, clean and aggressive Republican and
was in frequent demand even in his last years for
chairman of the party caucuses. He never sought
distinction, however. There was no touch of cant
or sanctimoniousness about him. Soon after com-
ing to Hartford, he joined the South Church and
was superintendent of the Sunday school for many
years. At the time of the organization of the City
Missionary Society he threw himself into the work
of that society and worked zealously in raising the
needed funds for the Park Street Sunday school,
of which he was superintendent. Soon after he
joined the Center Church in 1865 he was elected
Sunday school superintendent and he continued in
this position with great fidelity and success until
about 1885. He was repeatedly elected deacon of
this church and held the office to the time of his
death.

"As a lad he had practiced scales and hymns
upon a violin in the attic of his home until he
hecame so proficient that the embargo on his muse
was removed and he was permitted to play in the
living room. This love of music made him es-
pecially interested in the development of the musi-
cal services in Center Church. Mr. Swift was not
one whose christian spirit exhausted itself in the
administration of ecclesiastical office. It was of
his very nature. There was about him an urbanity
of manner and an eminent kindliness that grew
out of a loving charitableness. He was a man of
intense convictions, absolutely fearless in the proc-
lamation of them and exceedingly tenacious in ad-
hering to them. Yet there was nothing but the
finest courtesy at any time in his absolute and
courageous upholding of what he believed was
right.

"Long before the present interest in family
history prevailed he had traced his ancestry, and
was a careful and eager student of the early his-
tory of New England. Before nature study became
fashionable, he studied and loved the flowers and
birds with a care and thoroughness that was char-
acteristic. He loved the broad fields, the sweep
of the hill, the open sky. In the quiet of his coun-
try home on Cedar Mountain, he found for many
years the greatest delight and tranquillity. Children
knew him for a friend and he loved them and
studied ways of augmenting the happiness of his
young friends. He represented in a remarkable
degree the strong, sturdy, religious, and eminently
practical traits of the best type of New England
character. He had, moreover, something of courtly
graciousness and a strain of aesthetic appreciation,
a quality of native lovingness and lovableness al-
together unusual. His home was at 1 Wethersfield
avenue, Hartford."

He married, September 12, 1855, Sarah
Benton, daughter of Norman H. and Jane
(Shepard) Gillett, granddaughter of Mary
(Webster) Shepard, descendant of Governor
John Webster, a sketch of whom appears in
this work (see Gillett II). Children: Robert,
died young ; Howard, died in 1889 ; Mary,
married Arthur L. Gillett, she died in Janu-
ary, 1 901.

Captain Justus Gillett, grandfather of Sa-
rah B. (Gillett) Swift, was of one of the old-
est and most distinguished families of Wind-
sor. He was born in 1783, probably at Win-
tonbury, formerly Windsor, now Bloomfield,
Connecticut, and died at Wintonbury, October
27, 1825. He lived at Wintonbury. He mar-
ried Sylvia •. Children : Justus Pen-

noyer, baptized September 3, 18 15 ; Anson
Center ; Norman Hubbard, mentioned below ;
Sylvia Permelia ; Edward, baptized Novem-
ber 5, 1820; Simeon, baptized October 13,
1822; Flavia Eliza, baptized May 21, 1826.

Norman Hubbard Gillett, son of Captain
Justus Gillett, and father of Sarah B. (Gil-
lett) Swift, was born at Wintonbury, Janu-
ary 20, 1807, died at Hartford, July 5, 1879.
He married, in April, 1834, Jane Shepard.
daughter of Mary (Webster) Shepard and
descendant of Governor John Webster.

Thomas Bingham, the first
BINGHAM American ancestor of this

family, was baptized in Shef-
field, England, June 1, 1642. He came to
America when about eighteen years of age,
with his widowed mother. After living for
a period at New London and Saybrook, he
went to Norwich, with his mother's second
husband, Mr. Backus, they being among the
original founders of the last named town. He
married Mary Rudd, supposed to have been
the daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd, of
Saybrook, and his wife, who was then the
celebrated "Bride of Bride Brook" (Caul-
kins' Hist. New London, p. 48).

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Mary (Rudd) Bingham, was born in Nor-
wich, December 11, 1667. He was the eldest
of eleven children, and succeeded to the priv-
ileges of his father as a proprietor of the
town. He married Hannah, daughter of Lieu-
tenant William Backus.

(III) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) and Han-
nah (Backus) Bingham, was born at Norwich,
June 4, 1709, died at Bennington, Vermont,
November 4, 1787. He was a lieutenant of
provincial troops during the French war. He
broke his hip and could not go to the battle
of Bennington (where he then lived), but
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the meeting-house. He married Ruth Post, of
Norwich.

(IV) Calvin, youngest of ten children of
Joseph and Ruth (Post) Bingham, was born
at Norwich, October 8, 1750. He married
Lydia Denton, of Amenia, New York.

(V) Rev. Hiram, son of Calvin and Lydia
(Denton) Bingham, was born at Bennington,
Vermont, October 30, 1789. He graduated at
Middlebnry College, 18 16, and later at An-
dover Theological Seminary, and in 18 19 re-
ceived an M.A. degree from Yale. He was a
pioneer missionary and labored in the Sand-
wich Islands twenty-one years. His first wife
and the mother of his seven children was Sybil
Moseley, of Westfield, Massachusetts.

(VI) Rev. Hiram (2), son of Hiram (1)
Bingham, was born at Honolulu, August 16,
183 1. When ten years of age he came to
the United States with his parents. He was
educated at Yale College, graduating in
the class of 1853, and studied for the
ministry at Andover. He married, No-
vember 18. 1856, Minerva Clarissa Brew-
ster, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and they
soon after sailed from Boston in the first
"Morning Star" as missionaries of the
American board, and landed at Apaiang, Gil-
bert Islands, November 19, 1857. Upon this
coral island he labored in the midst of great
deprivations. In the seven years spent there
he reduced the native language to writing,
began the translation of the New Testament,
translated and composed hymns, preached and
taught, until the failure of his health com-
pelled him to return to the Hawaiian Islands,
where he gradually recovered. He returned
to the United States in 1865, but in the fol-
lowing year sailed for the Pacific as captain
of the missionary vessel, "Morning Star," No.
2, and arrived at Honolulu four months later.
He later continued his translation of the New
Testament into the Gilbertese language, which
he completed in the spring of 1873, and de-
voted himself with increased zeal to providing
a Christian literature for the Gilbert Islanders.
Dr. Bingham prepared a grammar of the Gil-
bertese language, compiled an enlarged
Hymn and Tune Book, edited a Gilbertese
Bible Dictionary and a commentary on the
Acts of the Apostles, finished the translation
of the entire Bible into Gilbertese, and pre-
pared a Gilbertese-English Dictionary of
eleven thousand words for commercial and
missionary use. Besides these he published
through the American board in 1866, "The
Story of the Morning Star," and often pub-
lished descriptions of the Gilbert Islands and
accounts of the missionary work done there.
Dr. and Mrs. Bingham were for many years

the sole authors of the literature accessible to
the thirty thousand people of the islands. In
1892 he came to the United States to super-
intend the printing of the Gilbertese Bible at
the Bible House in New York, and in 1893
received the honorary degree of D.D. from
Yale and later from Western Reserve Uni-
versity and Oahu College. Nine editions of
the Bible have been printed, the first in 1893.
Dr. Bingham died suddenly at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, October 25,
1908, at the age of seventy-seven years. His
ashes were taken to Honolulu, where his de-
voted wife, who died in 1903, was buried.

(VII) Hiram (3), son of Hiram (2) and
Minerva Clarissa (Brewster) Bingham, survi-
vor of the two sons, was born at Honolulu,
November 19, 1875. His early education was
received at private schools, and he prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts ; graduated from Yale Univer-
sity, 1898, and took post-graduate courses at
the University of California, 1899- 1900, re-
ceiving the degree of M.A. He also pursued
post-graduate courses at Harvard University
from 1900 to 1903, receiving the degree of
M.A. and Ph.D. He taught in Harvard Col-
lege from 1903 to 1905. He was appointed a
member of the faculty of Princeton Univer-
sity in 1905, as preceptor in History, Eco-
nomics and Politics. In 1906-07 he spent six
months in making an expedition across Vene-
zuela and Colombia, studying the country and
following routes taken by Bolivar, the great
liberator of Venezuela. Professor Bing-
ham's journal of his expedition in Venezuela
and Colombia has lately been published by the
Yale University Press. He has also published
numerous reviews in the Nation and in the
American Historical Review, and has contrib-
uted articles to the Geographical Journal, the
American Political Science Review, and other
periodicals. The record of observations and
impressions day by day throws much light
upon the social and economic conditions ex-
isting in the interior of northwestern South
America. Very few travelers in recent years
have been able to penetrate into the heart
of that country and to study intimately the
character and the temper of the people who
have been dominated by President Castro.
In 1907 Professor Bingham became lecturer
on South American Geography and History
at Yale, and in 1908 lecturer on Latin-Amer-
ican History. In 1908 he was appointed a
delegate of the United States government to
the first Pan-American Scientific Congress
held in Santiago de Chili, in December and
January, 1908-09. In 19 10 he was made as-
sistant professor of Latin-American History

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in Yale University. Professor Bingham is a Elizabeth, May 2, 1676, at New Haven ; Anna,

fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; a died September 8, 1677; Joshua (twin), Sep-

corresponding member of the Hispanic Soci- tember 21, 1684; Samuel (twin), mentioned

ety of America; an honorary member of the below; Abigail, December 26, 1686; Sarah,

National Academy of History of the Republic January 23, 1688; Epbraim, September 7,

of Colombia, this honor being conferred on 1692.

him in recognition of the contribution made (HI) Samuel, son of Joshua Culver, was

by him, during his expedition, to a correct born at Wallingford, September 21, 1684. He

understanding of some of the most impor- married first ; second, January 3, 1728,

tant episodes in the history of that country ; Ruth Sedgwick. Children, born at Walling-

a member of the American Antiquarian So- ford: Elizabeth, February 12, 1715 ; Sarah,

ciety; American Historical Association; Con- December 23, 1716; Abigail, December 17,

necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; Con- 1718 ; Anna, October 3, 1719; Esther, March

necticut Civil Service Reform Association; 17, 1721 ; Caleb, mentioned below; Enoch,

American Political Science Association, and January 30, 1725 ; Ebenezer, December 9,

the American Association for the Advance- 1726. Child of second wife: Samuel, Sep-

ment of Science. tember 25, 1728.

Dr. Bingham married, November 20, 1900, (IV) Caleb, son of Samuel Culver, was

Alfreda Mitchell, born December 29, 1874, born February 18, 1723, at Wallingford. He

daughter of Alfred Mitchell, of Salem, Con- married Lois, born October 26, 1727, daUgh-

necticut, and niece of Donald G. Mitchell (Ik ter of Amos Hall (4) (Nathaniel (3), John

Marvel), and granddaughter of Charles L. (2), John (1) ). Children, born at Walling-

Tiffany, the art-jeweler, of New York City, ford: Ruth, January 10, 1746; Josiah, Sep-

They are the parents of five children. They tember 7, 1748; Samuel, July 5, 1750; Ruth,

reside on Prospect street, New Haven, in the November 25, 1751 ; Moses, mentioned below,

winter, and on Woodbridge Farms, Salem, (V) Moses, son of Caleb Culver, was born

Connecticut, in the summer. On one of these about 1765, in Wallingford. He married

farms the "Reveries of a Bachelor" was Lucv Hall, born December 14, 1775, daughter

written. of Titus Hall (5). (See Hall V.)

— 1 (VI) Hon. Moses (2) Culver, son of

Edward Culver, the immigrant Moses (1) Culver, was born at Wallingford,

'CULVER ancestor, was born in England June 20, 1817, and died October 21, 1884.
and settled first at Dedham, He attended the public schools and studied
Massachusetts, with his wife Ann, afterwards his profession in the office of Hon. Ely War-
locating at New London, Connecticut, and at ner of Chester, Connecticut, whither he went
Groton and New Haven, in that colony. He in 1837. He was admitted to the bar in 1845
had a grant of land at Pequot in 1653 and and in May of that year located at Colchester
bought a house lot of Robert Burrows. He where he practiced about a year. He came
was a baker and brewer and was permitted to East Haddam in 1846, and succeeded to
by the court to brew ale as early as May 5, the law practice of Hon. E. A. Bulkeley who
1662. He was at Mystic, Connecticut, in removed to Hartford. He resided in East
1664, and had the farm that the Indians Haddam and practiced there for ten years,
called "Chepadaso." He released his home- representing that town in the general assem-
stead to his son John in 1664 and removed bly and serving as judge of probate in the
to the head of the Mystic river in New Lon- district. He came to Middletown, Connecti-
don. He had a grant on the water side next cut, in 1856, and practiced there for six years.
south of the fort land, February, 1661-62. He He was made state attorney for the county
was elected May 7, 1663, to drum for the in 1865. In June, 1875, ne was elected judge
town — if he should brew, "else not" — and of the superior court for eight years, and
would engage always to have good beer, good at the expiration of his term, was re-elected,
diet and lodging for man and horse and keep Mr. Culver was an able and astute lawyer,
good order. He was a soldier in King Philip's sparing no pains to secure the best interests
war. of his clients. He was successful as a lawyer

(II) Joshua, son of Edward Culver, was and of stainless reputation and high charac-

born in 1642-43, and died, April 2, 1713, aged ter. x^s a magistrate he was honored alike

seventy years. He had three brothers in New by bench and bar and enjoyed the confidence

Haven and vicinity. He was among the first and respect of the entire community. He was

settlers in the town of Wallingford, Connec- a member of the Congregational Church. He

ticut. He married Elizabeth Ford. Children, died at Middletown, October 21, 1884. He

born at Wallingford, except the eldest two: married, May 18, 1845, m Chester, Connecti-

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105

cut, Lucinda, born January 25, 1822, died Au-
gust 23, 1897, daughter of David Baldwin.
(See Baldwin V). Children: Anna, born Au-
gust 4, 1850, living in Hartford, Connecticut;
Moses Eugene, mentioned below.

(VII) Moses Eugene, only son of Moses
(2) Culver, was born at East Haddam, July
10, 1854. He attended the public schools of
Middletown, and Wesleyan University, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1875.
He traveled in the west for several months
after graduation and on his return com-
menced the study of law under the personal
supervision of his father. He was admit-
ted to the bar March 13, 1878, and has been
in active practice since then at Middletown.
He received the honorary degree of A.M. from
Wesleyan in 1878. He was appointed prose-
cuting attorney for Middlesex county and
served in 1880-81. He was elected prose-
cuting attorney of the city court of Middle-
town and continued in that office for twenty
years, being elected ten successive terms. He
has had a leading position at the bar and a
very large practice from the beginning.

Mr. Culver has been a director of the Mid-
dletown National Bank since 1904. He is
attorney for and a director of the Middletown
Loan and Building Association, a most suc-
cessful institution, that has been in existence
since 1889. He is a member of the South
Congregational Church and for thirteen years
was its clerk. He is a member of the Uni-
versity Club of Middletown, of the Connecti-
cut Bar Association, of the American Bar As-
sociation and of the Twentieth Century Club,
of Middletown. In politics he is a Republi-
can.

Mr. Culver married June 10, 1896, at Man-
kato, Minnesota, Lizzie Huntington, daughter
of Philip Bradford and Elizabeth (Isham)
Sparrow. They have one child : Francis
Baldwin, born December 8, 1901.

(The Hall Line).

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Hall,
(q. v.), was born about 1641 and died Sep-
tember 2, 1721. He was the first deacon of
the Wallingford Church. He was selectman
in 1675, and deputy to the general assembly,
at Hartford, in 1687. One of his descendants,
Rev. Aaron, late minister at Keene, New
Hampshire, had a silver spoon marked John
and Mary Hall. He married December 6,
1666, Mary, who died September 22, 1725,
daughter of Edward Parker, of New Haven.
Children: Elizabeth, born August 11, 1670, in
New Haven; Daniel, July 26, 1672; Mary,
June 23, 1675 ; Nathaniel, February 8, 1677,
mentioned below: John, March 14, 1681 ; Ly-

dia, January 22, 1683 : Samuel, December 24,
1686; died November 1, 1689; Esther, Au-
gust 30, 1693; Caleb, September 14, 1697.

(III) Nathaniel, son of John (2) Hall, was
born February 8, 1677. He married, May
1699, Elizabeth Curtis ^vho died September
30, 1735, and married (second), September
J5» I736, Lydia Johnson. He died August
x6, 1757- Children, born at Wallingford:
Amos, January 24, 1700, mentioned below ;
Margaretta, December 21, 1701, died Octo-
ber 30, 1707; Caleb, January 5, 1703, men-
tioned below; Moses, June 6, 1706; Mary,
October 30, 1707; Nathaniel, April 17, 1711;
James, April 23, 1713 ; Elizabeth, September
22, 1715 ; Desire, June 19, 1719; Harmon, Oc-
tober 17, 1720.

(IV) Amos, son of Nathaniel Hall, was
born at Wallingford, January 24, 1700, and
died November 30, 1752. He married, June
8, 1720, Ruth Royce who died November 2,
1775, aged seventy-five years. Children, born
at Wallingford : Reuben, December 20, 1721 ;
Amos, September 9, 1722: Eunice, August
21, 1724, married Abner Atwood ; Lois, Oc-
tober 26, 1727, married Caleb Culver; (see
Culver). Moses, August 25, 1735.

(IV) Caleb, son of Nathaniel Hall, was
born at Wallingford, January 3, 1703, and
died May 11, 1766. He married Esther Ura-
berfield. Children, born at Wallingford:
Margaret, March 28, 1727 ; Esther, April 24,
1729; Nathaniel, April 8, 1732; Caleb, Sep-
tember 12, 1734: Moses, May 13, 1736; Ly-
dia. July 9, 1738; Desire, June 20, 1740;
Sarah, April 10, 1742; Margaret, August 31,
1744 ; Titus, mentioned below ; Rhoda, June
15, 1748; Jonah, February 23, 1750: Rhoda,
July 4, 1753 I Lucretia, February 16, 1757.

(V) Titus, son of Caleb Hall, was born
at Wallingford, August 16, 1746, at Walling-
ford. He married November 26, 1767, Olive
Barnes. Children: Abigail, September 21,
1768: Caleb, January 21, 1771 ; Lucy, De-
cember 14, 1775, married Moses Culver (see
Culver) : Caleb, August 26, 1781 ; Rensaley,
February 7, 1784.

(The Baldwin Line).

(I) Richard Baldwin, the immigrant ances-
tor, was son of Silvester Baldwin, who died
on the ship "Martin" during the voyaee from
England to America, June 21, 1638. Richard
was baptized at Parish Ashton, Clinton, Buck-
inghamshire, August 25, 1622. He settled at
Mil ford, Connecticut. He was well educated
and versed in the law, having studied under
his uncle Henry Baldwin, it is thought. His
handwriting is like engraved script. He
joined the church. May 9, 1641. His home-

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stead in 1646 consisted of three acres on the
west side of the Wepawaug river. He was
on a committee to equalize lots in 1647. He
and Thomas Tibbals were granted Beaver
Pond Meadow on condition that they drain
it within six months, He was sergeant in the
militia. He was an active, intelligent citizen.
He was prominent in the settlement of the
town of Derby. He kept a tavern and was
licensed to sell liquor. His predecessor, it is
interesting to note, had broken a court order
by selling strong drink "at higher prices than
allowed." The high cost of living was then
a subject for court interference. Not only
prices were regulated, but citizens were for-
bidden to buy certain luxuries unless the court
considered them within their means. Men
had to pay taxes on a certain minimum before
they could indulge their vanity in top-boots,
or their wives could appear in silken bonnets.
Baldwin was a member of the general as-
sembly in May, 1662, and May, 1664. He
died July 23, 1665. He married Sarah Bryan.
She married (second) in 1670, William Fow-
ler, Jr.

He mentions his children in his will,
Children : Elizabeth, baptized at Milford, Sep-
tember, 1644; Sylvanus, baptized November
20, 1646. Sarah, baptized April 1, 1649;
Temperance, baptized June 29, 165 1 ; Mary,
baptized November 6, 1653 ; Theophilus, April
26, 1659; Zachariah, September 22, 1660, men-
tioned below; Martha, April 1, 1663; Barna-
bas, 1665.

(II) Zachariah, son of Richard Baldwin,
was born at Milford, Connecticut, September
22, 1660, and settled there. He was sergeant
of the militia and dignified in the records, also
with the then title "Mr." He was auditor in
1696, member of the general assembly, 1705-
18, during fourteen sessions. He married,
perhaps his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of
Ezekiel Sanford. Her will was dated May
22. 1732, and proved April 6, 1733. Children,
born at Milford: Mary, baptized May 2, 1680;
Zachariah, mentioned below ; Sololon ; Eben-
ezer, baptized August 6, 1693 ; Elizabeth, bap-
tized January 1, 1694-95; Susanna, baptized
November 15, 1696; Stephen, October 11,
1699; Temperance, baptized June 13, 1703;
Sarah, June 9, 1706; Richard, September 9,
1709.

(III) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (1)
Baldwin, was born in Milford ; married, there,
August 25, 1708, Sarah Merwin. He owned
land in Waterbury, Connecticut, and bought
land in Stratford in 1714. He lived there in
what is now the town of Huntington, on Wal-
nut Tree Hill. By leave of the general court,
he established a ferry at Stratford in 1723.

He died November 6, 1766, according to the
records of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
of Huntington, of which he was a communi-
cant, and where his children were all bap-
tized. Children : Zachariah, September 6,
1709; Abraham, baptized August 12, 1722;
Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Israel, (see forward),
baptized with Abraham and those preceding,
August 12, 1722, order of birth and dates
not known ; Patience, baptized July, 1726.

(IV) Israel, son of Zachariah (2) Bald-
win, was baptized at Stratford, August 12,
1722, and died there, November 13, 1805. He
married Widow Chatterton, of New Haven,
and had at Wolcott, Connecticut : Hannah,
born August 12, 1679, married Judah Fris-
bie ; David, mentioned below.

(V) David, son of Israel Baldwin, was born
at Wolcott, May 27, 1787, and married at
Kilingworth, Cynthia Snow. He lived in
Chester, Connecticut. Children : Cynthia, Sep-
tember 15, 1808; Mary Ann, September

18, 1810; William Snow, June 8, 1812;
Heman, September 27, 1814; Emily, March

19, 1817; Augustus, December 18, 1819; Lu-
cretia, January 25, 1722; Lucinda (twin of
Lucretia) born January 25, 1822, married
Moses Culver. (See Culver.) William Au-
gustus, February 23, 1824, lived in Chicago ;
Emily. October 8, 1827 ; David Judson, June
19, 1830 : Henry Austin, July 19, 1832.

Tohn Littlejohn, was of
LITTLEJOHN the Littlejohn family of
New York City, de-
scended from an old English family which
immigrated to this country early in the sev-
enteenth century. The father of John, Wil-
liam Littlejohn, was captured by the "Press
Gang" in the streets of New York in 1812.
was made to serve in the British navy, and
was supposed to have been killed in one of
the numerous naval engagements of that time
as he was never heard from.

(Ill) Elliott, son of John Littlejohn, was
born in Newark, New Jersey, March 21, 1832.
He was paymaster in the United States navy,
with the rank of lieutenant during the civil
war, and was for ten years after that date
superintendent of the Hargous line of steam-
ers between New York and Panama. Of late
years he was in the manufacturing business in
New York and in New Haven, and at pres-
ent has permanently retired from business.
Elliott Littlejohn married Sarah Virginia Mal-
lory, in 1865, the latter being born in West-
ville. Connecticut, daughter of Albert B. Mal-
lory (see Mallory VIII). Children: Grace
Virginia, born in New Haven, 1870, well
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107

below ; Mildred Emily, born in New Haven,
1880; Louis, died in infancy.

(IV) Dr. Percy Duncan, son of Elliott
and Sarah V. (Mallory) Littlejohn, was born
in New Haven. December 4, 1874. He at-
tended the public schools of his native city,
and was graduated from the New Haven high
school in the class of 1892. The following
year was a student at Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University, and in 1894 en-
tered the Yale Medical School from which
he was graduated in 1897, obtaining the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Littlejohn
served as house physician and surgeon on
the staff of the New Haven Hospital for the
following two years, and in 1899 began the
general practice of medicine in New Haven,
Connecticut. From 1899 to I9°3 ne was cnn~
ical assistant in medicine in the Yale Medical
School, from 1904 to 1906 was instructor in
Genito-Urinary Diseases in the New York
Post-Graduate Medical School of New York
City. In 1907 Dr. Littlejohn was appointed
assistant attending dermatologist in the New
York and Bellevue Medical College, from
which he resigned in 1909. From 1899 to
1907 his occupation was the general practice
of medicine, but since that time he has spe-
cialized in Dermatology and Genito-Urinary
Diseases. He is a member of the Connec-
ticut State Medical Society, the New Haven
County Medical Society, the New Haven City
Medical Society, the American Urological So-
ciety, the American Medical Association, the
New York Reno-Vesical Society, the Conec-
ticnt Society for Mental Hygiene, the Con-
necticut Society for Moral Prophylacis, etc.,
etc. Dr. Littlejohn has read and published a
number of articles on special medical subjects.
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
church, of Wooster Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of New Haven, of the Second
Company Governor's Foot Guard, of which
an ancestor was a member at the time the com-
pany marched to Boston in 1776, an ex-mem-
ber of the Connecticut Naval Militia, with
which command he turned out when they were
called into camp at the time of the Spanish
war ; a member of the Union League Club, of
the New Haven Yacht Club, and of the Sons
of the American Revolution. (By descent
from Captain Abner Mallory, see Mallory V).
Residence, 25 Wall street, office 193 York-
street.

(The Mallory Line).

Peter Mallory. immigrant ancestor, was
born in England and came early to New
Haven, being one of the signers of the plan-
tation covenant in 1644. He died after 1675.
Children : Rebecca, born at New Haven, May

18, 1649; Mary, October, 1655, died young;
Mary. September 28, 1656; Peter, July 27,
1658: Thomas, September 15, 1659, mentioned
below ; Daniel, November 25, 1661 ; John, May
10, 1663:' Joseph, 1666; Benjamin, January
4, 1668 : Samuel, March 10, 1673 ; William,
September 2, 1675.

(II) Thomas, son of Peter Mallory, was
born in New Haven, September 15, 1659. He
married there, March 26, 1684, Mary Umber-
field. Children, born at New Haven ; Thom-
as, January 1, 1685-86; mentioned below;
Daniel, January 2, 1687.

(HI) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Mallory, was born at New Haven, January
1, 1685-86, died in 1783, aged, according to
one account, one hundred and one, though
but ninety-eight if the date of death is given
correctly. He married, January 13, 1706,
Elizabeth Bartlett, who died November 5,
1719. He removed to Woodbury, Connecti-
cut, from New Haven. Children, born in
New Haven and Woodbury : Mary, December
4, 1707; Thomas, 1709, mentioned below;
Bartlett, March 2, 1710; Aaron, February 16,
1712 ; John; Jesse, April 5, 1717.

(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Mallory, was born in New Haven or Wood-
bury, 1709. He married, at Woodbury, Au-
gust 10, 1720, or 1722, Hannah Minor. Chil-
dren, born at Woodbury: Abner, mentioned
below; Eunice, June 26, 1725; Gideon, bap-
tized June 9, 1728; Mary, December 14, 1730,
Jemima, May, 1733 ; Simeon, February 18,
1737; Silas (adopted), baptized March 29,
1778.

(V) Captain Abner, son of Thomas (3)
Mallory, was born at Woodbury, July 28,
1723. Following is the official report of the
revolutionary service of Captain Mallory:
"This is to certify that Abner Mallory served
in the War of the Revolution and the follow-
ing is said service, according to the records
of this office." On page 547 Connecticut Men
in the Revolution appears the following : "Ab-
ner Mallory, captain, in the list of militia
captains whose companies turned out to re-
pel the enemy at New Haven July 5, 1779.
Tryon's Invasion of Connecticut, July 1779,
New Haven Alarm, on pages 207-8 Revolu-
tion Rules and Lists 1775-83, appears the fol-
lowing : Militia service, the United States Dr.
to the State of Connecticut, for services of
State Troops and militia between the first of
April and first of November raised for the
defense of the state and allowed by act of Con-
gress December 28, 1779. computed according
to the Continental establishment of Pay. In
the list of official Pay Rolls is Captain Abner
Mallory. On page 222 same book, appears

108 CONNECTICUT

the following- : Service at Peekskill, the Uni- ferson City, Tennessee, daughter of Jacob and

ted States Dr. to the State of Connecticut Arabella (Aby) Shewalter. (See Shewalter

for sundry expenditures for bounties, extra in Hulett III.) He settled at Kingsport,

allowances, wages, etc., of militia from said Tennessee, and followed the trade of machin-

state. who served with the main army at and ist there. During the civil war he was a

near Peekskill in the state of New York (pag'e staunch supporter of the Union. Children:

224, August 24, 1779). Captain Abner Mai- 1. Mary Arabella (Belle), born at Kingsport,

lory, 13th regiment. In testimony whereof Tennessee, September 13, 1862 ; unmarried. 2.

we have affixed unto the seal of this office. William Henry, born at Rockford, Tennes-

( Signed) W. E. F. Landers, Col. and Ass't see, May 4, 1865; son, William Edward, lives

Adjutant General." He was in Colonel In- at Knoxville, Tennessee. 3. Laura Gertrude,

crease Moseley's regiment in 1779. He mar- born, at Jefferson City, November 29; 1867 ;

ried, June 25, 1747, at Woodbury, Susanna married O. L. Fisher; children: Annie and

Walker. Children, born at Woodbury : Elec- Frances Fisher, both born at Jefferson City,

ta, April 19, 1748; Hannah, February 16, 4. Ella, born March 6, 1870; died November

1749, died young; Hannah, January 17, 1752; 28, 1899, at Jefferson City; married William

Walker, mentioned below. Ore ; one child died in infancy. 5. Earnest

(VI) Walker, son of Captain Abner Mai- Clyde, mentioned below. 6. Katharine Aby,
lory, was born in Woodbury, February 25, born February 25, 1875; (A. B., Carson
1754. He married there, October, 1776, Mar- and Newman College, Jefferson City, 1895 ;
tha Meicor, of Woodbury. Children, born at unmarried.) 7. Anne Poole, born February 1,
Woodbury: Peggy, February 4, 1778; Polly, 1878; unmarried. 8. Jacob Wilbur, born July
June 8, 1780; Abner, March 2, 1782; Polly, 10, 1880; died February 2, 1881, at Jefferson
April 30, 1784 ; Richard Burke (or Burke City. 9. Lillian Ruth, born May 25, 1882 ;
Richard), mentioned below; Deacon Marcus died March 29, 1883, at Jefferson City. 10.
D., January 10, 1788: Betsey, married Asa- Sophie Tazewell, born March 30, 1884; un-
hel Strong ; Jeanette ; Sarah. married.

(VII) Richard Burke, son of Walker Mai- (HI) Hon. Earnest Clyde Simpson, son
lory, was born at Woodbury about 1785. He of George Simpson, was born at Jefferson
lived at Westville, Connecticut. He married City, April 28, 1872, and attended the public
Eunice Hotchkiss, of New Haven. Children : schools of his native town. He entered Car-
Albert B., mentioned below ; Burton M., mar- son and Newman College, at Jefferson City,
ried Mary Beecher ; Sarah, married Morris and was graduated, with the degree of B.S.,
Smith. in the class of 1893. He entered Yale Law

(VIII) Albert B., son of Richard Burke School in 1896 and graduated in 1899 with
Mallory, was born at Westville. He mar- the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the
ried Grace Electa Sherwood, of New Haven, bar in 1900, and has been in general practice
Connecticut. Their daughter, Sarah Virginia, in New Haven since then. In 1905 he was
married Elliott Littlejohn (see Little- appointed city attorney of New Haven and
john III). served until September 8, 1908, when he re-

— 1 signed to accept the appointment of judge of

William Henry Simpson was the court of common pleas for New Haven

SIMPSON born in 1806 in Wales, of county, a position he has filled wisely and well

Welsh stock, and came when to the present time. His term is four years,

a boy of fourteen to this country. He made from September 9, 1908. He is a member of

his home in Baltimore, Maryland, and mar- the New Haven and State bar associations ; of

ried Mary Gartside, who was born in Scot- the Graduates Club of New Haven ; of the

land, or the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish Union League Club and the Young Men's

parents, in 1813. She died in 1893 at Jef- Republican Club of New Haven; of the New

ferson City, Tennessee, of old age. He died, York Southern Society ; the Tennessee Soci-

in 1879. at Marysville, Tennessee. They had ety of New York City and of the Benevolent

two children, Mark and George, mentioned and Protective Order of Elks. He belongs

below. to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He i^

(II) George, son of William Henry Simp- corporal of the New Haven Grays, a crack-
son, was born, April 2, 1838, at Baltimore military company to which he has belonged
and died May 19, 1899, at Mossy Creek, Jef- since 1904. He was editor of the Yale Law
ferson City, Tennessee. He married, Novem- Journal for two years and is interested in
ber 20, 1861, Frances Virginia Shewalter, history, genealogy and general literature and
born December 8, 1841 at Winchester, Vir- public education,
ginia, and died December 25. 1909, at Jef- Mr. Simpson is unmarried.

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(The Hulett Line).
Charles Hulett was born in England and
came to this country when a boy. He was
a soldier in the revolution in Frelinghuy sen's
eastern company of artillery, state of New
Jersey, he volunteered as a musician May 7,
1778, in Captain Isaac Morrison's company,
Colonel Ogden's First New Jersey regiment
and took part in the battles of Princeton,
Monmouth and Yorktown ; was wounded in
the leg at the battle of Monmouth and there
or soon afterward taken prisoner by the Brit-
ish and sent to the West Indies. To regain
his freedom he enlisted as a musician in the
British service, but deserted, returned to this
country and joined the American army in
the south. He was a drum major at the end
of the war. Jonas Alby (Aby) applied for
a pension in behalf of his heirs August 9,
1845, and the application states that Hulett
was a native of New Jersey, giving also most
of the facts related here concerning his war
record. The pension was granted. He was
at one time sheriff of his county. He lived
at Winchester, Virginia. He married at Win-
chester, Virginia, January 16, 1787, Cather-
ine Miller, who died August 20, 1836, aged
Seventy-six years. He died at Winchester,
May 20, 1835, aged seventy-five. Children:
Richard ; James Madison ; Barbara, married
Jonas Aby, mentioned below ; Harriet, mar-
ried Henry Worrel.

(II) Barbara, daughter of Charles Hulett,
was born in Winchester in 1794; married in
1808, Jonas Aby (Abby or Alby). Aby was
a soldier in the war of 1812. Children of
Jonas and Barbara (Hulett) Aby: Amanda,
died in infancy ; Arabella, married Jacob She-
waiter ; Samuel; George, died young; Ade-
line, married Benjamin Stine; Ellen, died
young; Elizabeth, married Carrington Ander-
son ; Jane, married Barnes, of Mis-
sissippi ; Kate, married A. J. Turner ; Thomas
J. ; Charles W. ; Harriet, married Joseph
Xixon; Sophia, married Dr. John Guyer;
Frances, married William Summerville.

(III) Arabella, daughter of Jonas and Bar-
bara (Hulett) Aby, was born in Winchester in
1812; married, at Middletown, Virginia, in
1833, Jacob Shewalter, son of John and Eliza-
beth Shewalter and descendant of the immi-
grant who came from Germany and settled in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, about 1744.
John Shewalter settled in Frederick county,
Virginia ; children : Jacob, (mentioned above) ;
Elias ; Eliza who married Jacob Barnes, Wes-
ley, Hamilton and Edward. Children of John
and Arabella Aby Shewalter: 1. James Hu-
let, born 1834, at Millwood, Virginia ; mar-
ried Mary Prior, and lives at Kingsport, Ten-

nessee ; had nine children. 2. Laura Jane,
born 1836 and died, unmarried, August 8,
1874. 3. James Summerfield, born 1838;
married, in 1868, Elizabeth Gerry, who died
in 1877; children: Bessie and Wilbur; mar-
ried (second) Anna Chenowith. and had four
children ; lives at Springfield, Ohio. 4. Emma
Gertrude, born 1840; married, in 1857, Henry
Lyle, at Kingsport ; had three children ; hus-
band died in 1901, at Bristol, Tennessee. 5.
Frances Virginia, born 1841 ; married, in
1 861, George Simpson. (See Simpson II.)
6. Ann Cornelia, born 1843 ! married, in 1871,
James S. Larrick ; lives at Middletown, Vir-
ginia ; has seven children. 7. Ella Adeline,
born 1845 ! married, in 1887, Frederick Klee-
ver ; lives in Tennessee ; no children. 8.
Charles W., born in 1846; married, in 1894,
Mrs. George Erskine ; lives in Washington,
D. C, and has two children. 9. Alice Eliza-
beth, born 1848 ; died 1869, unmarried. 10.
Thomas Emory, born 185 1 ; died, in 1870, un-
married. 11. Cora Arabella, born 1856; mar-
ried, in 1894, James P. Taylor, has no chil-
dren ; lives in Embreeville, Tennessee.

John Blake, immigrant ancestor,
BLAKE was the son of "Captain" Blake

and Elizabeth ■. He was

born probably in Maiden, England, about
1652. His father died when he was a child,
and his mother married (second) about 1660,
George Durant. He undoubtedly came to
America with his mother and stepfather about
1660 or 1661. They settled on a farm in
Maiden, Massachusetts, where they lived for
a year or more before removing to Middle-
town, Connecticut. The first child of George
and Elizabeth Durant was Edward, whose
birth record at Middletown is June 2, 1661.
This Edward Durant was, like his father, a
blacksmith by trade, and married Ann Hall,
supposed to have been the sister of John
Blake's wife. He settled in Boston, and had
a smithy on the corner of Newbury and Win-
ter streets, on land deeded to him by Ben-
jamin Pemberton, June 13, 1728. August
18, 1738, he conveyed the same to Samuel
Brown, of Worcester, tailor. John Blake
married, at Maiden, in 1673, Sarah, daughter
of Richard Hall. She survived him and mar-
ried (second) Edward Turner, Jr. She had
the following children by her second husband :
Abigail, born October 11, 1694; Stephen, died
December 16, 1726. In 1683 John Blake
bought from his stepfather a piece of land
in Middletown. He died at Middletown, No-
vember 11, 1690. His children were not bap-
tized until after his death, which may indi-
cate that he was not a churchman. Children,

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recorded in Middletown, February 8, 1683, 15, 1782; Elijah, June 26, 1784; Jonathan,

Mercy, born November 16, 1673; Sarah, August 13, 1786, mentioned below; Harry,

February 15, 1675; Mary, July 29, 1677; Eliz- June 29, 1788; Ithuel, August 1, 1790; Al-

abeth, March 16, 1679-80; Abigail, January len, May 19, 1792; Sally, December 16, 1794;

25, 1681 ; John, May 19, 1683; Jonathan, Maria, October 18, 1797 ; Lavinia, October 16,

July 27, 1685, (mentioned below) ; Stephen, 1799.

July 15, 1687; Richard, died at age of elev- (V) Jonathan, son of Elijah Blake, was

en months. born August 13, 1786, at Torrington or Mid-

(II) Jonathan, son of John Blake, was dletown, died May 14, 1868, at Winchester,
born July 27, 1685, at Middletown, died there He married, at Winchester, May 12, 1808,
October 17, 1733. He married, September Sabra Bronson. She died March 30, 1870,
19, 1 710, Mary, daughter of Isaac and Mary aged eighty-six years. He was a justice of
(Harris) Johnson. Her father, Isaac John- the peace and representative to the legisla-
son, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, ture 185 1. Children: Marcia, born February
1644, the son of Isaac Johnson, born in Eng- 13, 1812; Mary Ann, January 17, 1814;
land, 1617. The latter was the son of John Charles Hamlin mentioned below.
Johnson and his wife Margery, who came (VI) Charles Hamlin, son of Jonathan
from England in the fleet with Winthrop in Blake, was born October 17, 1817, at Win-
1630. Her mother, Mary Harris, was born Chester, died at Winsted, Connecticut, April
at Rowley, Massachusetts, 1651, daughter of 4, 1881. He received a common school edu-
Daniel Harris, born in England, 1619, was at cation. He learned the trade of carpenter,
Rowley in 1643 ar,d Mary (Weld) Harris, became a contractor and builder, and followed
his wife, born in England about 1627. Mary his trade for a number of years. During the
Weld was the daughter of Joseph and Eliza- latter part of his life he lived retired from
beth Weld, who came from England to Rox- active business. He was a member of the
bury, 1635. Jonathan Blake was a farmer by Congregational church, also of the parish
occupation. His wife died January 10, 1761. committee, and superintendent of the Sunday
Children: Daniel, born April 24, 1712; Abi- school. He married, May n, 1842, Jane,'
gail, February 12, 1713 ; died August 7, 1727; daughter of James C. and Lucy (Northrup)
Mary, January 27, 1714-15; Elizabeth, Feb- Cleveland (see Cleveland VII). Children:
ruary 18, 1716-17; Prudence, April 8, 1719, James Cleveland, born February 9, 1847, died
died March 28, 1739-40; Jonathan, May 12, January 24, 1848 ; James Cleveland, mentioned
1721, died at age of five months; Jonathan, below; Lorenzo Mitchell, mentioned below.
August 29, 1722; Mercy, January 12, 1724- (VII) James Cleveland, son of Charles
25; Sarah, July 29, 1727; Stephen, (men- Hamlin Blake, was born July 12, 1849, died
tioned below). April 15, 1891. He went to Winona, Minne-

(III) Stephen, son of Jonathan Blake, was sota, in 1871, and was first engaged in the
born February 18, 1730, at Middeltown, and grocery business. Later he became engaged
married, October 18, 1750, Rachel Alvord. He in the manufacture of wagons, and was sec-
was a tanner and currier by trade, and at retary of the Winona Wagon Company at the
the time of his death was town clerk of Mid- time of his death. He married, October 4,
dletown. He and his son Jonathan were 1870, Anna, born July 6, 1848, at Colebrook,
drowned "the evening after the 6th of Janu- died March 22, 19 10, daughter of Rollin and
ary, 1767, in the mill brook." Children: Susan (Holmes) Beecher. Children: Susan
Rachel, born April 8, 1752; Jonathan, Janu- J., deceased; Charles Beecher, married Helen
ary 31, 1754; Elijah, June 18, 1756, (men- Mann; child, Buel Beecher; Mary Cleveland,
tioned below) ; George, October 30, 1758, sol- deceased; James Bronson; Ward Mitchell,
dier in the revolution; Mary, May 7, 1761, married Genevieve Mullins, of Minneapolis,
died October 14, 1762; still-born son, 1763; (VII) Lorenzo Mitchell, son of Charles
Mary, April 7, 1765; Stephen. April 27, 1767. Hamlin Blake, was born April 26, 1851, at

(IV) Elijah, son of Stephen Blake, was Winsted, and educated in the town and select
born June 18, 1756, at Middletown, died Oc- schools. He has always lived in Winsted,
tober 2, 1833, at Winchester, Connecticut. He except for three years, when he worked in
was a United States pensioner. He removed a savings bank in Hartford. Before going
to Torrington, Connecticut, in early life, later to Hartford he was in the banking business
to Winchester. He was a tanner and currier in Winsted. He has been retired from active
by trade. He married, September 27, 1779, business for a number of years. He is now
Sarah Hamlin, born 1755, died October 27, director and vice-president of the First Na-
181 1. Children: Sally, born December 12, tional Bank of Winsted, trustee of the Gilbert
1780, died June 17, 1793; Polly, September Home and School, and a member of the Gil-

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bert Home Committee. He is a director in
the Winsted Hosiery Company, director and
secretary of the Winsted Real Estate Com-
pany, and director of the Litchfield County
Hospital. He is also deacon in the First
Congregational Church, of Winsted. He
married. October 18, 1888, Nellie, daughter
of William Ward and Lucy (Goodwin) Mit-
chell, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, (see Mit-
chell VI). Children: Faith Cleveland, born
January 3, 1890; Allen Mitchell, March 26,
1892.

(The Cleveland Line).

(III) Sergeant Joseph Cleveland, son of
Samuel Cleveland (q. v.), was born in

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 18, 1689,
died in Canterbury, Connecticut, March 11,
1766. He married (first) in Canterbury, Feb-
ruary 7. 1710-11, Abigail Hyde, born in Cam-
bridge. Massachusetts, August 8, 1688, died
in Canterbury, December 16, 1724, daughter
of Jonathan and Dorothy (Kidder) Hyde.
He married (second) in Canterbury, March
31, 1725, Sarah Ainsworth or Ensworth, born
in Plainfield, Connecticut, June 12, 1699, died
June 21, 1761, daughter of Tyxall and Lydia
or Sarah Ainsworth. Children, born in Can-
terbury by first wife : Ephraim, February 3,
1711-12; Jonathan, May 9, 1713 ; Benjamin,
mentioned below; Dorothy, March 31, 1716;
John, died March 5, 1754; Elijah, born Janu-
ary 5, 1720-21 ; Persis, 1723. By second mar-
riage: Ezra, born 1726; Samuel, June 7, 1730.

(IV) Benjamin, son of Sergeant Joseph
Cleveland, was born in Canterbury, May 20,
1714, died in East Brookfield, Orange county,
Vermont, 1797. He married, in 1736, Rachel

, who died at Lyme, Grafton county,

New Hampshire, in 1792. He was a resident
of Canterbury until about 1780. A deed of
land by Joseph Cleveland to his "well-beloved
son Benjamin Cleveland" is dated Canter-
bury, December 23, 1735, with the reservation
that he and his family be able to have their
firewood from the land. Within a fortnight,
during the month of November in the year
1749, three of their five children sickened and
died. In the following spring another daugh-
ter was born and christened for her mother
Rachel. They had four more children after
this. In 1780 Benjamin Cleveland moved to
Lyme, Grafton county, New Hampshire.
About 1792 he removed with his son-in-law,
Rev. Samuel Hovey, to East Brookfield, Ver-
mont, where he died 1797. His wife died in
Lyme in 1792. It is thought that her maiden
name may have been Stebbins, and many other
conjectures are made also. Children: Jo-
seph, born May 14, 1737; Benjamin, probably
1740; Dorothy, June 10, 1744.; Abigail, Au-

gust 13, 1746; Zenas, September 21, 1748;
Rachel, May 18, 1750; Persis; Rufus, men-
tioned below; Mary, April 14, 1756; Phebe,
June 25, 1758.

(V) Rufus, son of Benjamin Cleveland,
was born June 14, 1754, in Canterbury, died
at Barkhamsted, Litchfield county, Connecti-
cut, February 22, 1828. He married (first)
in Ellington, Tolland county, Connecticut,
September 9, 1779, Mary, who was born in
Coventry, Connecticut. August 7, 1759, died
at Barkhamsted or Winsted, November 13,
1807, eldest daughter of Captain James and
Abigail (Boynton) (Palmer) Chamberlain.
He married (second) in Winsted, May 1, 1808
Mrs. Alice (Jenkins) Kent, born in Boston
or Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1771, died in
Winsted, October 14, 1833, aged sixty-two,
widow of John Kent, daughter of Edward
and Jerusha (Neal) Jenkins. Rufus Cleve-
land was of medium height, florid complexion,
with light curly hair and blue eyes. He served
as a soldier during the revolutionary war, and
paid his marriage fee of one hundred dol-
lars of continental currency. Corporal Rufus
Cleveland enlisted July 9, 1775, and was dis-
charged October 17, 1775. The regiment was
stationed on the sound until September 14,
and at Roxbury, Massachusetts, to expiration
of term, December, 1775. While employed
on Captain James Chamberlain's farm he mar-
ried his first wife, Mary Chamberlain, and
when his father-in-law moved from Elling-
ton, in 1782-83, to Warehouse Point, in East
Windsor, he accompanied them, remaining
there until spring of 1787, when he removed
to Barkhamsted and purchased a farm on Wal-
len's Hill. Here his wife died in 1807, of a
fever contracted from nursing a neighbor's
wife, who also died, as it was an epidemic
in the neighborhood at that time. Her kind-
ness to the sick, and her readiness to watch
and care for them at all times, made her
greatly beloved, and her death was deeply
mourned. In the old burying-ground on the
"Hill" may be seen the graves of the couple,
with inscriptions as follows: "In memory of
Rufus Cleveland, who died Feb. 22, 1838,
aged 82 years." "In memory of Mrs. Mary
Cleveland, wife of Rufus Cleveland, and
daughter of Capt. James Chamberlain, who
died Novem. 13, 1807, in the 49th year of her
age." Rufus Cleveland and wife Mary, were
members of the Congregational church, and
he and all his sons were Whigs. His second
wife was buried in the cemetery at Winsted.
Mary Chamberlain's father was Captain
Tames Chamberlain, born February 11, 1734,
her grandfather was Joseph Chamberlain, of
Tolland, Connecticut, her great-grandfather

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was Thomas Chamberlain, of Newton, born
Billerica, February 20, 1659 ; her great-great-
grandfather was William Chamberlain, born
about 1 62 1, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Chil-
dren of Rufus and Mary Cleveland : Chester,
born June 30, 1780; Clarissa, February 6,
1782; Alexander, October 16, 1783; Oren.
May 3, 1785; James C. (mentioned below);
Horace, February 25, 1789; Mary, March 21,
1791 ; Nancy, August 22, 1792 ; Betsey, August
31, 1794; Mary, May 23, 1796; son, born and
died June 5, 1798 ; daughter, born and died
February 17, 1800; daughter, born and died
September 14, 1801 ; Charles Chester War-
ner, born January 20, 1803. By second mar-
riage : Alice, born October 2, 1809 ; John Kent,
May 12, 181 1.

(VI) James Chamberlain, son of Rufus
Cleveland, was born January 9, 1787, in East
Windsor, Connecticut ; died in Winsted, Sep-
tember 1, 1875, aged eighty-eight. He mar-
ried (first) in Winchester, Connecticut, Feb-
ruary 3, 1813, Philenda, born in Winchester,
August 29, 1793, died in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, May 19, 1814, daughter of Lewis
and Mary (Allen) Miller. He married (sec-
ond) in Hartland, Connecticut, September 19,
1816, Sally, born December 8, 1791, died in
Winchester, December 27, 18 19, daughter of
Prince and Lucy (Adams) Taylor. He mar-
ried (third), in Salisbury, Connecticut, Au-
gust 21, 1820, Lucy Northrup, born April 20,
1798, died March 26, 1884, daughter of Jo-
seph and Mary (Bradley) Northrup. Hon.
James Chamberlain Cleveland removed to
Philadelphia in 1813, and engaged in business
selling groceries and clocks ; also taught
school six months. The early death of his
wife greatly disheartened him, and he sold
out his entire business, stock and fixtures, re-
turning June, 1814, to Winsted. where he al-
ways dwelt afterward. He was a clock man-
ufacturer and farmer. He represented his
town in the legislature in 1834; was assessor
for fifteen years, and filled several offices of
trust with ability. He was of small size, had
light hair and blue eyes. He was a man of
few words, but of plain speech when occasion
required. He died after a short, but severe
illness, universally esteemed and respected.
His third wife survived him. Child of first
marriage: Charles Miller, born May 4, 1814;
children of third marriage : Jane, mentioned
below; son, born and died April 28, 1825.

(VII) Jane, daughter of James Chamber-
lain Cleveland, was born July 21, 182 1, in
Winsted, Connecticut, died in Winsted, Au-
gust 29, 1888. She married in Winsted, May
n, 1842, Charles Hamlin Blake (see Blake
VI).

(The Mitchell Line).

(I) Experience Mitchell, immigrant ances-
tor, came from England in the third ship,
"Ann" to Plymouth, in 1623. He was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1633. He sold his place
in Plymouth to Samuel Eddy in 1631, and
removed to Duxbury, where he purchased
William Peabody's house and farm in 1650.
He was one of the original proprietors of
Bridgewater, but sold his right to Thomas
Hayward. He came to Bridgewater late in
life with his son Edward. While at Plymouth
he lived at Spring Hill and at Duxbury, at
a place called Blue Fish River. At Bridge-
water his home was at Joppa, where at last
accounts descendants were still living. He
died in 1689, aged eighty years. His will
was dated December 5, 1680, proved Septem-
ber 4, 1689, bequeathing to wife Mary, sons
Edward and John, daughters Mary Shaw,
Sarah and Hannah Haward, and grandchil-
dren Experience, Thomas and Mary Mitchell.
He was in Leyden, Holland, with the Pil-
grims, and left a brother Thomas, who lived +
and died there. Experience rrad a share in

the first division of lots at Plymouth in 1623,
and of the livestock in 1627. It is said that
he married Jane, daughter of Francis Cook,
who came in the "Mayflower," for his first
wife. The wife of his old age was Mary
whose family name is unknown. Experience
had a sister Constant who married John
Fobes. The names of his children, as ap-
pears from wills, deeds and other records,
were : Thomas, John, Jacob, Edward, Eliza-
beth, Mary, Sarah and Hannah.

(II) Ensign Edward, son of Experience
Mitchell, was born about 1630. He married
Mary Hayward and lived with her forty years,,
having no children. He married (second)

1708, Alice, daughter of Major John Brad-
ford, of Kingston, son of John Bradford,
grandson of Governor William Bradford, who
came in the "Mayflower." She was born in
1678. died in 1746. He died in 1717, and
was nearly seventy years old when his young-
est child was born. His widow married Dea-
con Joshua Hersey, of Hingham and removed
thither with her children. Edward Mitchell,
sold the family estate, which he had at Blue
Fish River from his father, to Samuel
Sprague, in 1708. Children of Ensign Ed-
ward Mitchell by second wife : Mary, born

1709, married Joshua Hersey; Alice, 1714,
married Noah Hersey ; Edward, mentioned
below.

(III) Colonel Edward (2), son of Ensign
Edward (1) Mitchell, was born at Bridge-
water, 1716, and married Elizabeth, daughter
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died in 1799, aged eighty-five. He returned
to East Bridgewater to live. He died in 1801.
Children: Edward, born 1739; Gushing, 1740;
Elizabeth, 1742; Alice, 1744; Elisha, 1746;
John, 1748; William, 1750, mentioned below;
Bradford, 1752; Mary, 1754; Celia, 1757; Sa-
rah. 1759 ; Bela. 1761.

(IV) William, son of Colonel Edward (2)
Mitchell, was born in East Bridgewater, 1750,
and settled in Cnmmington, Massachusetts.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Ward. She died 1839; he died 1837. Both
be and his father had twelve children, all of
whom lived to be married. Children : Piam,
married Sallv Orcutt ; Cushing, settled in
Windsor; William, married Clarissa Beebe ;
Chester, mentioned below ; Elisha, married

Lucinda Brewster ; Bela, married ■ —

Streeter ; Betsey, married Elijah Warner;
Clarissa, married Stephen Warner, Jr. ; Sally,
married Roswell Hubbard ; Laura, married
Otis Tileston ; Polly, married Seth Porter, Jr.,
Jennet, married Chester Gaylord.

(V) Chester, son of William Mitchell, mar-
ried Venelia Richards.

(VI) William Ward, son of Chester Mit-
chell, was born in Cummington, Massachu-
setts, January 24, 18 16. He married Lucy
Gftodwin, born Ashfield, Massachusetts, De-
cember 14, 1824. Their daughter Nellie mar-
ried Lorenzo M. Blake (see Blake VII). She
is a member of the Daughters of the Revolu-
tion.

Thomas Hurlburt, immi-
HURLBURT grant ancestor of Samuel

W. Hurlburt, was born, it
is thought, in Scotland, as early as 1610, and
came to America with Lion or Leion Gardi-
ner, in the "Bachelor" sailing from London,
August 11, 1635. He is supposed to have
been one of the eleven passengers which the
ship carried. After coming to America, Lion
Gardiner built and commanded the fort at
Saybrook, Connecticut ; Under ' him Thomas
Hurlburt served in the Pequofwar, and was
wounded fly an arrow. This appears from
a letter of Li^'n Gardiner, written in June,
1660. Thomas Hurlburt was a blacksmith,
and after the war settled in Wethersfielcl, Con-
necticut, where, he was one of the first set-
tlers. He served the town in various public
offices, was clerk of the train band in 1640,
constable and grand juror in 1644, and dep-
uty to the general court. Erom the records,
1647, it appears that he received a number
of tracts of land in the several divisions of
the town. October 12, 1671, the assembly
voted him one hundred and twenty acres for
his services in the Indian war. It is supposed

that he died soon after that date. His wife

was Sarah — 1 . Children: Thomas, Jr.;

John, born March 8, 1642; Samuel, born
about 1644 ; Joseph, mentioned below ; Ste-
phen, born about 1649; Cornelius, born about

1654.

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Hurlburt, was
born about 1646, in Wethersfield, died July
13, 1732. He removed to Woodbury as early

as 168 1. He married Rebecca . who

died February 2, 1712, in Woodbury. Chil-
dren : Joseph, Jr., born about 1677 ; John,
born about 1680 ; Sarah ; Cornelius, born
about 1682, mentioned below; Jonathan; Re-
becca ; Mary ; Phebe.

(III) Cornelius, son of Joseph Hurlburt,
was born in Wethersfield, about 1682, baptized
in Woodbury in 1705, died in Roxbury, Con-
necticut. August 9. 1 75 1. He settled in Wood-
bury and became a farmer. He married Sa-
rah . Children, born in Woodbury :

Gamaliel, born December 20, 1714; Mercy,
April 20, 1717; Kesiah, born March 2, 1719;
David, May 10, 1721, mentioned below; Han-
nah. July 15, 1723 : Noah, baptized June 7,
1730; Timothy, born February 13. 1731-32;
Sarah, baptized September 5, 1733; Ruth,
baptized June 15, 1735.

(IV) David, son of Cornelius Hurlburt,
was born May to, 1721, in Woodbury, died
in Hinesburg, Vermont, He married (first)
in Roxbury, June 27, 1749. Hannah San-
ford. She died in Roxbury, December 23,
1760, and he married (second) Sarah, daugh-
ter of Jonathan Pettit, of New Milford, Con-
necticut. She died in Roxbury at the home
of her son. Major. Children of first wife:
Solomon, born in Woodbury, March 21, 1750;
Cornelius, born in Woodbury. November 13,
1752: Hannah, baptized September 15, 1754;
Mabel, baptized May 15, 1757; David, born
in Roxbury, December 9, 1760. Children of
second wife : Major, mentioned below ; Heze-
kiah.

(VI Major, son of David Hurlburt, was
born, it is supposed in 1768, in Roxbury, died
there December 16, 1813. He married Phebe
Jackson, of Roxbury. Before his marriage
he lived in Sharon, Connecticut, where his
name appears on the town records of 1795.
His wife died in Roxbury, August 30. 1856.
Children: Major Horace, born July 25. 1800;
William, July 8, 1802; Ira, July 4, 1806;
George, mentioned below.

(VI) George, son of Major Hurlburt, was
born in Roxbury. October 14, 1809. He
learned the hatter's trade under Colonel Wil-
liam Odell, of Washington, Connecticut, and
worked at it until i860, when lie became a
general mercha/it ; later in life he engaged

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in farming. He was appointed postmaster by
President Lincoln, and was a member of the
state legislature. He married. January 7, 1833,
Thalia A. Merwiri, of Brookfield, Connecti-
cut. Children : Caroline S., born October 22,
1833; Thalia M.. February 9, 1836; Emily E.,
May 7, 1839; George W., March 10, 1841 ;
Samuel W., December 29, 1843 ! William
Henry, March 11, 1846; Charles W., June
8. 1849; Adelaide, June 12, 1851 ; Frank W.,
September 20, 1853.

(VII) Samuel W., son of George Hurl-
burt. was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, De-
cember 29. 1843. He attended the public
schools of Roxbury and Bridgewater, Con-
necticut, and then became associated with his
father in the manufacture of hats, but on ac-
count of his health he left the hat business
to engage in mercantile business in 1866 at
Bridgewater, Connecticut. In partnership
with William T. Northrop he bought the gro-
cery business of David W. Buckingham at
the corner of Chapel and High streets, New
Haven, March 2, 1869. In 1875 Mr. North-
rop withdrew from the firm and Mr. Hurl-
burt continued the business alone until 1883,
when he took into partnership Frank W. Hurl-
burt and the name became Hurlburt Brothers
and continued until 1898. From 1898 to 1902
S. W. Hurlburt conducted the business alone.
In 1902 the business was incorporated and
Mr. Hurlburt became president and treasurer
of the company. In the spring of 1889 he
built the "Roxbury" on the site of the old
store building. His store occupies over one
half of the ground floor of this building,
the three upper floors being rented. His store
is the finest retail provision and grocery store
in the city of New Haven, if not in the entire
state. The location, 1074 Chapel street, is
perhaps the finest in the city and the busi-
ness has been very successful. He is a mem-
ber of the Ouinnipiac Club of New Haven.
He belongs to Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church. In politics he is independent.

He married Frances Irene Keeler, who died
September 22, 1901, at Portland, Maine,
daughter of Daniel and Minerva (Peck)
Keeler (see Peck V). Child, Frederick Sam-
uel, born May 25, 1876; married, June 22,
1898, Bella Notten Manville ; he died April
18, 1908 ; no children.

(The Peck Line).

Joseph Peck, immigrant, was born in Eng-
land, and settled at New Haven, Connecticut,
as early as 1643, removing thence to Mil-
ford in 1649. He was a member of the Mil-
ford church in 1652. He is thought to be a
brother of Henry Peck, of New Haven, and

probably came with him. He married (first)
Alice Burwell, died December 19, 1666; at
Milford, widow of John Burwell; (second)

Richards. His home was near the

residence now or lately occupied by Captain
Cornelius B. Peck. He died in 1700-01.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Peck,
was born in 1653. He settled in Milford.
He married there January 27, 1678-79, Mary
Camp. He settled his own estate by deeding
his property to his children. Children, born
at Milford: Joseph, born February 25, 1680:
Mary, December 15, 1682; John, September
4, 1685; Jeremiah, 1687; Samuel, 1690; Eph-
raim, mentioned below ; Henry, 1695 ; Eliza-
beth, 1697; Nathaniel, 1699; Abigail, Septem-
ber 25, 1701 ; Seth, October 3, 1703.

(III) Ephraim, son of Joseph (2) Peck,
was born at Milford in September, 1692, died
July 23. 1760, at Newtown, Connecticut. He
married, November 7, 1716, Sarah Ford, born
February. 1697. Children, born at Newtown :
Sarah, July 14, 1717; Henry, mentioned be-
low; Ephraim, May 21, 1721 ; Ruth, January
28, 1723-24; Gideon, July 2, 1725; Ebenezer,
July 2, 1727; Ann, September 3, 173 1 ; Da-
maris.

(IV) Henry, son of Ephraim Peck, was
born at Newtown, April 14, 1719, and lived
in his native town. He married (first) De-
cember 23, 1755, Ann Smith; (second) Au-
gust 6, 1765, Hannah Leavenworth. His chil-
dren were: Zalmon, born March 15, 1758;
Lemuel, April 3, 1766; Mercy, August* 10,
1767; Hannah, April 6, 1770; Andrew, May
21, 1773, mentioned below; Samuel, July 2,

1775-

(V) Andrew, son of Henry Peck, was born

May 21, 1773. at Newtown, died August 25,
1826. He removed from his native town to
New Milford, now Bridgewater, Connecticut,
in 1813. He married Lucinda Terrill, who
died September 5, 1848. Children, born at
Newtown: Mercy, April 26, 1795; Sherman,
March 8, 1797; Amy, October 4, 1799;
George, November 5, 1802; Sally, January 17,
1807; Minerva, June 15, 1810, married Dan-
iel Keeler, their daughter, Frances Irene, mar-
ried Samuel W. Hurlburt (see Hurlburt
VII); John, April 15, 1813: Maria. January
19, 1816.

Roger Sumner was a husband-
SUMNER man of Bicester, Oxfordshire,

England. He married there,
November 2, 1601, Joane Franklin. He died
there December 3, 1608, and his widow mar-
ried (second) January 10, 161 1, Marcus
Brian. Roger Sumner had a brother William
who died at Bicester in 1597. Only child

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of Roger and Joane Sumner; William, men-
tioned below.

(II) William, son of Roger Sumner, was
born at Bicester, England, in 1605, and set-
tled at Dorcbester, Massachusetts. He was
admitted a freeman. May 17, 1637, and be-
came a prominent man of the province. He
was selectman there in 1637, and for more
than twenty years. From 1663 to 1680 he
was one of the feoffes of the school land, and
from 1663 to 1671 was a commissioner to
end small causes. In 1663 he was chosen
clerk of the train band. He was deputy to
the general court many years. His wife died
at Dorchester, June 7, 1676, and he died De-
cember 9, 1688. Children: William, men-
tioned below ; Joane, born at Bicester ; Roger,
born 1632; George, 1634; Samuel, born at
Dorchester, May 18, 1638 ; Increase, February
23, 1643.

(III) William (2), son of William (1)
Sumner, was born at Bicester, England, and
was a mariner. He came to New England
with his parents and settled first in Dorches-
ter. He removed to Boston, where he died
in February, 1675. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Augustine Clement, of Dorches-
ter. She died before 1687. Children, the
first two born in Dorchester, the others in Bos-
ton: Elizabeth. 1652: Mary, 1654: William,
February 9. 1656; Hannah, June 10, 1659;
Sarah ; Experience, September 22, 1664 : Eben-
ezer, October 30, 1668; Deliverance, March
18, 1669; Clement, September 6, 1671, men-
tioned below ; Mercy, January, 1675, died
young.

(IV) Clement, son of William (2) Sum-
ner, was born at Boston, September 6, 1671,
and lived there. He married, May 18, 1698,
Margaret Harris. Children, born at Boston:
William. March 18, 1699, mentioned below;
Ebenezer, September 1, 1701 ; Margaret, De-
cember 7, 1702, died same day; Margaret,
July 18, 1705; Elizabeth, October 8, 1707;
Samuel, August 31, 1709; Benjamin, May 28,
171 1.

( V ) Dr. William (3) Sumner, son of Clem-
ent Sumner, was born at Boston, March 18,
1699, died March 4, 1778. He was dismissed
in 1732 from the Second Church, Boston, to
the church at Hebron, Connecticut. He was
a physician there, and removed in 1767 to
Claremont, New Hampshire, where he died.
He married, October 11, 172 1, Hannah Hunt,
who died April 2, 1781, daughter of Thomas
Hunt, of Lebanon, Connecticut. Children, the
first born at Lebanon, the others at Hebron:
William, February 6. 1723; Mary, February
8, 1725 ; Reuben, May 29, 1727, mentioned be-
low ; Hannah, April 23, 1730; Clement, July

15, 173 1 ; Thomas, May 7, 1733, died May 25
following; Thomas, May 11, 1734; Jonathan,
March 15, 1735; Benjamin, February 5, 1737;
Elizabeth, May 22, 1742 ; Sarah, May 22,
1749.

(VI) Reuben, son of Dr. William (3)
Sumner, was born at Hebron, Connecticut,
May 29, 1727, died there April 2, 1807. He
married, March 6, 1754, Elizabeth Mack, of
Hebron, who died July 10, 1805. Children ;
born at Hebron: Hannah, December 29, 1754;
Elizabeth, January 29, 1757 ; Lydia, August

25, 1759; William, September 22, 1761 ; Reu-
ben, March 19, 1764; Sibyl, June 15, 1766;
Abigail, September 8, 1768; Mary, April 21,
1 77 1, died young; Henry Peterson, June 10,
1773, mentioned below; Abigail, November

26, 1775: Mary, May 24, 1778.

(VII) Rev. Henry Peterson Sumner, son of
Reuben Sumner, was born at Hebron, June 10,
1773, died January 18, 1838. He was a Meth-
odist minister, and lived at Hebron. He mar-
ried (first) October 11, 1796, Jerusha, who died
February 4, 1798, daughter of Solomon Per-
rin, of Hebron. He married (second) Sep-
tember 11, 1798, Mary S., who died at Bol-
ton, July 9, 1875, daughter of Timothy Gos-
lee, of Glastonbury. Child of first wife : Je-
rusha, born at Hebron, January 22, 1798.
Children of second wife, born at Hebron:
Henry Tudor, January 21, 1800; Matilda, De-
cember 19, 1801, died young; William Orse-
mus, March 17, 1804; Caroline Elizabeth, Jan-
uary 5, 1806: Hester Ann, February 6, 1808;
Mary Matilda, June 25, 1810 ; John Wesley,
September 16, 1812, mentioned below; Nancy
Lorey, January 24, 1815 ; Charles Fletcher,
March 28, 1817; Harriet Newell, December
1, 1819; Sherman Peterson, October 12, 1822.

(VIII) John Wesley, son of Rev. Henry
Peterson Sumner, was born at Hebron, Sep-
tember 16, 1812, died February 8, 1892, at
Bolton. He was a resident of Bolton, Con-
necticut, and was representative to the assem-
bly in 1877-78. At the time of his death the
Hartford Courant said of him : "Mr. Sumner
was cast in an unusually rugged mould men-
tally and bodily. He was clear sighted and
positive in his ideas of right action, and in
the advocacy of them as well, as in all re-
lations of life he scarcely knew the feeling
of fear. He was active and effective in the
affairs of his town and section, and in poli-
tics," at his funeral, Rev. Luther H. Barber,
former pastor of the Congregational church
at Bolton, gave the following summing up
of his life :

"Mr. John W. Sumner had lived to fill up a full
and useful life. His life covered a period of almost
four-rocrc years, a life longer than hut few, com-

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pared to tlie whole, are permitted to spend here.
The years of his life have been eventful ones in
the history of our country. His birth was in 1812,
in the year of the last war with Great Britain, and
what scenes our country has passed through since
that time ! In the passing events during Mr. Sum-
ner's life he has taken a deep and lively interest.
He has occupied a prominent position in this com-
munity through a period of some forty years or
more. The regard in which he has been held by his
fellow townsmen is shown in the responsible posi-
tions of public trust in which he has been placed
by them. From all we have known and learned
of him we believe you who have known him would
testify he had been faithful to trusts committed
to him, that he has endeavored to act conscientiously
in all matters intrusted to him. Were I to speak
of the marked characteristics in our deceased friend,
among these I should mention :

"First, his earnest convictions. Descending, as he
did, from those who were possessed of the Puritan
principles of character, we should have expected to
find in him such fixedness of opinion that when
his mind was once made up in any direction it
would not be an easy matter to turn him from it.
He meant there should be just grounds for his opin-
ions, and, once formed, he would adhere to them.
What he was one day, he was found to be the next.

"Second, he was one who might be called a wise
counselor. I doubt whether there was a man in
this town whose counsel was sought by so many as
was his. Holding the office of magistrate as he did,
it was natural his advice should be sought many
times, but beyond and outside of this many took
counsel with him. When those came to him with
grievances such that they were inclined to resort
to the civil law for redress, he would do all he
could to dissuade from this, and use all his in-
fluence to have their grievances settled in some
other way; and just here, in this connection, we
might speak of him as a peacemaker.

"Third, he was a peacemaker. When there came
up that which tended to mar the peace between
neighbors, instead of saying or doing anything to
widen the breach, he would do what he could to
bring the parties together. Sometimes when troubles
arose between members of the same family, and
aggrieved ones came to him he would counsel for
those things making peace, and many times his coun-
sel, 'Be at peace among yourselves' was so followed
that harmony was restored when otherwise lasting
alienation would have been the result.

"Fourth, he was emphatically a lover of good or-
der. He would frown upon anything and every-
thing that tended to destroy this or work against
•it. He earnestly desired to see propriety of con-
duct on the part of the young. He seemed greatly
interested in the welfare of the young. He would
have them take such courses as to render them valu-
able and useful members of society. He would have
them avoid associates and places from which there
would be danger, their morals would be corrupted
or in any way suffer. Rarely do we find one in
advanced life more interested in the young than
he was, and he wanted they should be prepared to
act well their part in life.

"Fifth, he had great kindness of heart. You who
have known him longest and best have known him
as a kind neighbor. Those kind, neighborly acts,
which do so much to render neighborhoods what
they should be. he was ready and wont to perform.
Who, when they wanted some kind and neighborly
act done, was not likely to think of Mr. Sumner,
and who went to him for a favor who did not
expect to get it, if in his power to grant it? When

he knew there was want in a family, where poverty
had entered, he would bestow unasked relief. How
many of the poor and hungry have had food and
shelter under his hospitable roof. I doubt if he
ever turned a poor tramp away without food, when
he asked for it, or shelter, when it was evident he
needed it. Has it not been true in the community
when some poor wayfarer has sought a shelter on
some cold, stormy night, when he had called at our
dwellings for shelter he has been directed to Mr.
Sumner with a feeling that he would be sure to
care for him ? When I speak of the kindness of
heart of our departed friend, I feel sure you will
all agree with me. But, may I not here, in this
presence, speak of his kindness as manifested to
me and mine? When I came to be the pastor of the
people thirteen years ago last June, coming up the
hill east of us, Mr. Sumner was in his field just by
the wall. As I halted for a moment, Mr. Sumner
said, T have always been the friend of the minister,
and I shall always be your friend as long as you are
minister here.' That promise he redeemed all along
in the eleven years of my ministry here, and it has
not failed since I have been from you. In multi-
tudes of instances have the kind acts of this friend
been manifested to me and mine. I think of him
to-day as I was wont to meet him in his home and
elsewhere, the warm, kind grasp of his hand I seem
to feel. I think of him as he was wont to sit in the
seat just down there. I think of him as the attentive
listener, never drowsy — hearing every word uttered."

Mr. Sumner married, November 23. 1836,
Mary, born January 12, 1814, daughter of
George Gleason. Children: 1. Henry Peter-
son, born at Hebron, January 21, 1838, died
at Bolton, August 29, 1873. 2. Mary Eliza-
beth, May 23, 1839, died same day. 3. George
Gleason, January 14, 1841 ; lawyer of Hart-
ford ; representative 1867 ; alderman four
years ; city attorney one term ; associate judge
of city court and police commissioner three
years ; recorder of city court four years ; chair-
man of Democratic state central committee,
1873-74; mayor of Hartford, 1878: lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut, 1883 ; state senator
1887-88; married, October. 1870, Julia E. Gal-
lup ; children : i. William Gallup, born Decem-
ber 5, 1871, died January, 1873; ii. Ella Gal-
lup, March, 1875, died young. 4. Ella Mary,
born at Canton, Connecticut, April 24, 1848 ;
married, February 8, 187T, Jabez L. White,
of Bolton, died October 6, 1876. 5. Frank
Chester, mentioned below.

(IX) Frank Chester, son of John Wesley
Sumner, was born in Canton, Connecticut,
June 8, 1850. He received his education in
the public schools of Bolton, and in the Hart-
ford high school. At the age of seventeen
he entered the employ of the Hartford Trust
Company, as messenger. He was promoted
from time to time, and now holds the re-
sponsible position of treasurer of the com-
pany. He is a director of the State prison,
of Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, of the
Gray Telephone Pay Station, trustee of the
Mechanics Savings Bank. He served as jury

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com r issioner, water commissioner, and was
a member of the board of health twelve years,
up to 1900. He is now a member of the
bridge commission. He married, June 17,
1896, Mary L., daughter of George S. and
Adelaide L. (Catlin) Catlin, and granddaugh-
ter of Hon. George S. Catlin.

The original Howlands in
HOWLAND America were Arthur, John

and Henry. The last named
was one of the "Mayflower" number, and
the others appeared in the early days of the
settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts, but
how and from what place in England they
came from has never been definitely ascer-
tained.

(I) Henry Howland, the youngest of the
three brothers mentioned above, is first heard
of in Plymouth in 1624, when his name ap-
pears in the allotment of cattle to the differ-
ent families. In the court records of Ply-
mouth, the name of "Henery Howland" is
found in a list of freeman, under date of
1633. He appears in Duxbury among its ear-
liest settlers, where he is referred to as living
"by the bay side, near Love Brewster's" and
the record says that he was "one of the sub-
stanial landholders and freeman." He was
chosen constable for Duxbury in 1635, and
was for several years surveyor of highways
in the town. In 1643 ne was on a ust °f
freemen, and of men able to bear arms. He
served on the grand jury in the years 1636
37-39-40-49-51-52-53-56.' In the following
year, he apparently joined the Friends' sect,
which was just beginning to spread in Amer-
ica, and as a result endured for the remainder
of his life the various persecutions to which
this sect was subjected by the civil authori-
ties of the time. Towards the end of his life,
he became a large possessor of real estate.
In 1652 he was associated with others in a
large tract of land in Dartmouth, and in 1659
he bought with twenty-six others what was
then called Assonet, and is now Freetown.
It appears from his will that he owned a house
in Duxbury, where he doubtless died. He
married Mary Newland, who died June 6,
1674. He died January 17, 1671. Children:
Joseph, Zoeth, John, Samuel, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail.

(II) Samuel, son of Henry Howland, was
born in Duxbury. He appears in the Ply-
mouth county records in 1662 for breach of
the sabbath in carrying a grist from mill, and
was "fined ten shillinges or be whipt." He
does not appear in the records after this year,
and it is probable that he went to Freetown
and settled on his father's land. He is men-

tioned as one of the original proprietors of
that town, and was prominent there in civil
affairs. His will is dated February 15, 1715,
and proved May 7, 1716, so he must have
died between these two dates. His wife was
named Mary. Children : Content, Samuel,
Isaac ; Abraham, born 1675 ; John ; Joshua,
mentioned below ; Gershom, Alice, Mary, born
1673.

(III) Joshua, son of Samuel Howland,
was born in Freetown. He lived for a time
in Taunton, but was later a resident of Free-
town. He married (first) May 12, 1709, Eliz-
abeth Holloway, of Taunton, Massachusetts ;
(second) February 17, 1725, Dorothy Lee.
Children of first wife: John, born June 26,
1710; Malachi, December 7, 171 1 ; Job, Eliza-
beth, Gershom, Joshua. Children of second
wife: Samuel, February 6, 1726; Isaac, March
4, 1727, mentioned below : Philip, November
l5> l73°'< George, June 18, 1732; Gershom,
March 3, 1734; Phebe, March 18, 1739; Bet-
sey, September 3, 1741.

(IV) Isaac, son of Joshua Howland, was
born March 4, 1727, died in 1812. He mar-
ried (first) 1749, Katharine Howard, of Free-
town ; (second) 1767, Ruth Mitchell. Chil-
dren: George, mentioned below ; Samuel; Wil-
liam, born 1767; Rachel. Robea, Hannah.

(V) George, son of Isaac Howland, was
born in Freetown. He married (first) De-
borah Shaw: (second) Betsey Shaw. Chil-
dren : Deborah, James, mentioned below :
Michael.

(VI) James, son of George Howland, date
and place of birth unknown. He settled in
Monmouth county. New Jersey, near Long
Branch, where he owned a farm. He died at
Long Branch, August 6, 1806. He married
(first) Hannah, perhaps a daughter of Joseph
Cook, who died in 1798; (second) Mrs. Flem-
ing. Children of first wife: Susannah, born
March 9, 1779 ; George. August 12, 1783 :
Michael, about 1785, mentioned below; Cook.
May 8. 1787; John, August 19. 1789; Mar-
garet: Philey, May 15, 1793; Asher, March
10, 1795 ; Charles, January 10, 1798. Chil-
dren of second wife: Ann, March 2, 1805;
Lydia, April 16, 1808.

(VII) Michael, son of James Howland.
was born about 1785, at Long Branch, New
Jersey. He married, March 4. 1840, Meribah
Williams. They settled in Farmingdale
Howell township, New Jersey, where their
children were born. He was for about forty
years a merchant in his native county, and
for the last fifteen years of his life a farmer
at Farmingdale. He was an active worker
and giver in every public and benevolent work
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In 1869 his widow and children moved to
New Haven, Connecticut. Children : Elihu,
born March 2, 1841, lives in New Jersey,
married Emma J. Allen ; child, Norma How-
land, married Walter Allen ; James W., born
February 17, 1843, lives in Hartford, married
Emma French; Elizabeth, born April 15, 1845,
died April 17, 1845 > Michael Asbury, born
July 5, 1848, died December 16. 1874, married
Delia Camp ; Charles Hubbard, mentioned be-
low.

(VIII) Charles Hubbard, son of Michael
Howland, was born in Farmingdale, New Jer-
sey, October 10, 1850. On his mother's side
he traces his descent from one of the numer-
ous Williams families who were early set-
tlers of Monmouth, New Jersey, headed by
Elihu Williams, a Quaker, who arrived there
about 1700. He attended the public schools
until fourteen years old, when he entered the
employ of an uncle in New York City, re-
maining for three years. While at work with
him, he attended night school during the win-
ter. He returned to Long Branch, New Jer-
sey, in 1867. He came to New Haven in
1869, and the following year went to Gen-
eral Russell's Military School at New Haven,
where he prepared for and passed his exami-
nations for the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale College. Desiring to take the academic
course, however, he went to the Hopkins
Grammar school, class of 1875. He entered
Yale College in the class of 1879, but on ac-
count of failing health was able to remain
only till the spring term, when he was com-
pelled to give up both work and study for
two years. In 1877 he entered the Medical
School of Yale and graduated as M.D. in
1880. He took a post-graduate course at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York. In 1881 he settled and began practice
in Meriden, Connecticut, and in 1888 removed
to New Haven, Connecticut. His health fail-
ing again, he went to Florida, where he raised
fruit, and also practiced medicine near the
Indian river. He returned to New Haven in
1895, where he is now practicing. He is a
Republican in politics, a member of the Con-
gregational church, and of the Royal Arca-
num. He married, May 3, 1882, Allice,
daughter of Henry Broughton, of New Haven,
Connecticut. Children : Harold Broughton,
born January 9, 1885, died January 22, 1889 ;
Kenneth Wilbur, August 5, 1891.

Thomas Harrison, immi-
HARRISON grant ancestor, was born in

England. With his broth-
ers, Richard, Benjamin and Nathaniel, he
came to New England, and settled as early

as 1654 in New Haven, Connecticut. Rich-
ard removed to New Jersey; Benjamin and
Nathaniel to Virginia. Thomas took the oath
of fidelity at New Haven, April 4, 1654. He
settled in Branford, Connecticut, in 1667. He
married (first) the widow of John Thomp-
son. He married (second) March 29, 1666,
Elizabeth Stint or Stent, of Branford. Chil-
dren: Thomas, born March 1, 1657; Na-
thaniel, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, January,
1667; John; Samuel; Isaac; Mary.

(II) Captain Nathaniel Harrison, son of
Thomas Harrison, was born at New Haven,
December 13, 1658, died at Branford, Janu-
ary 1, 1728. He was a prominent citizen, cap-
tain of the militia. He married Hannah Fris-
bie. Children, born at Branford: 1. Mary,
April 24, 1696; married William Hoadley. 2.
Josiah, June 1, 1698, mentioned below. Prob-
ably other children.

(III) Josiah, son of Captain Nathaniel Har-
rison, was born at Branford, June 1, 1698. He
married Lydia, born December 23, 1701,
daughter of Samuel Hoadley, who died Feb-
ruary 8, 1714; married, March 6, 1689, Abi-
gail, daughter of John and Mary (Bullard)
Farrington. Abigail Hoadley was born April
30, 1 668, at Dedham, Massachusetts, died
February 26, 1745, in Branford. Samuel was
son of William Hoadley, the immigrant.

(IV) Nathan, son of Josiah Harrison, was
born about 1740. He lived at North Bran-
ford, Connecticut. He married Lola Cook.

(V) Albert, son of Nathan Harrison, was
born at North Branford. He was a farmer.
He married Ann or Anna Hall, daughter of
Elihu and Lucy (Williams) Foote (see Foote
VI). Lucy Williams was a descendant of
Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Massachusetts,
the immigrant ; of Rev. John Williams, who
with his family was taken captive by the
Indians at the time of the Deerfield massacre
in 1703. Rev. Wareham Williams, another
ancestor, of Northfield, Connecticut, was left
a large fortune for his day (1678) some eight
hundred pounds. His son of the same name
preached in Waltham, Massachusetts. The
tombstone of the second Wareham Williams
was lately found by workmen digging in the
streets of Waltham. "Rev. Wareham Wil-
liams" said a local newspaper, "was one of
the leading preachers of colonial days, and
antiquarians have long searched for his
grave ;" Williams was best known as one of
the children in charge of Hannah Dustin at
the time of the Deerfield massacre in 1703.
He was taken with her by the Indians to
Canada. "The rescue was one of the best
known incidents of early colonial history."
Lucy Williams was daughter of Rev. Ware-

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ham Williams, of Northfield, Connecticut, pas-
tor of the Congregational church, and Ann
or Anna (Hall) Williams, daughter of Rev.
Samuel Hall, pastor of the Congregational
church at Cheshire, Connecticut. Rev. Elea-
zer Mather, another ancestor, was one of the
pioneers and ministers of Deerfield. Children
of Albert Harrison: 1. Nathan, born 1835,
a farmer ; married Louise Strickland, of New
Haven. 2. Ann D., 1838, married Thomas
A. Smith, of Northfield; child, Albert H.
Smith. 3. Lucy Williams, married Charles
A. Still, of Michigan ; child, Louise A. Still.
4. Jonathan Law, 1839; married Nellie E.
Dudley, of Madison; child. Bertha A., mar-
ried Beckley, of New Haven. 5.

Charles Albert, mentioned below.

(VI) Charles Albert, son of Albert Har-
rison, was born at North Branford, July 21,
1843. He obtained his early education in his
native town and at North Branford, and at
the Mills Military School in New Haven.
He began the study of law in the office of
Judge Chandler Richards and Judge Alfred
J. Mills, in Van Buren county, Michigan,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1878 and
built up an excellent practice. While in Mich-
igan he was elected to various offices of trust
and honor. He was deputy registrar of deeds
and deputy county clerk, was ex-officio clerk
of the circuit court from 1867 to 1875, and
member of the executive board of the Michi-
gan State Board of Agriculture from 1878 to
1883. He was secretary and treasurer of the
Van Buren County Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, and a director of the Michigan Ag-
ricultural Society. He removed to Walling-
ford, Connecticut, in July, 1883, and has prac-
ticed since then in that town. In 1886 he
was elected from that town to the general
assembly. He was prosecuting attorney of
Wallingford borough for three terms. He en-
listed in Company B, Twenty-seventh Con-
necticut Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and
served in the civil war. He took part in the
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
He is a member of Arthur H. Dutton Post,
No. 36, Grand Army of the Republic, of Wal-
lingford, and is past commander. In 1893
he was judge advocate of the Grand Army
for the state of Connecticut. He is a member
of Compass Lodge, No. 9, of Wallingford,
Free and Accepted Masons ; of St. Elmo Com-
mandery, Knights Templar ; of Pyramid Tem-
ple, Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport. He has
taken all the degrees of Free Masonry to
and including the thirty-second. He is also
a member of the Union League Club of New
Haven. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Congregational church.

He married, October 5, 1876, Ann Isabel,
born March 30, 1857, daughter of George H.
Munger, of Madison, Connecticut. Children :
1. Lillian Munger, born July 28, 1877, mar-
ried William E. Conklin, graduate of Trin-
ity and Yale colleges, teacher of Latin and
Ancient History in the Hartford high school ;
child, Charity Conklin. 2. Blanche Eddy, born
February 26, 1879 ; married Walter S. Valen-
tine, of Wallingford, electrician with the Kerr-
Westinghouse Company, New York City.

(The Foote Line).

(IV) Daniel Foote, son of Joseph Foote,
(q. v.), was born August 16, 1701, died in
November, 1742. He married, in 1726, Sa-
rah, daughter of John Thompson, of East
Haven, Connecticut. She married (second)
May 5, 1746, John Taintor. She died Sep-
tember 6, 1774. Children: Sarah, born De-
cember 1, 1727; Hannah, April 22, 1730;
Jacob. March 20, 1732; Daniel, June 5, 1734,
mentioned below; Asa, July 5, 1737; Samuel,
May 12. 1740; Desire, died unmarried.

(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Foote,
was born June 5, 1734, died March 6, 1797.
He married. February 13. 1755, Mary, daugh-
ter of Isaac and Hannah Ingraham. She
died June 23, 1822, aged eighty-five years.
Children : Daniel, born March 23, 1756, died
young; Elihu, August 19, 1757, mentioned be-
low; Edwin, August 20, 1759; Daniel. De-
cember 7, 1760 ; John, January 30, 1763 ; Jacob
June 30, 1764; Isaac, March 15, 1766, died
young; Sarah, October 1, 1767; Isaac, Sep-
tember 7, 1769; Rufus, March 24. 1771 ; Asa,
December 28, 1773; David, March 28, 1776;
Benjamin, August 1, 1778; Polly, May 17.
1780.

(VI) Elihu, son of Daniel (2) Foote, was-
born August 19. 1757, in Northford, Con-
necticut. He married November 11, 1789,.
Lucy, daughter of Wareham Williams, first
minister in Northford, and Ann or Anna,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Hall, first minister
in Cheshire, Connecticut. Samuel Hall mar-
ried, 1727, Ann Law. third child of Governor
Jonathan Law. of Milford. Jonathan Law
married Ann Eliot, granddaughter of Rev.
John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, of Rox-
bury, Massachusetts. Rev. Samuel Hall's
son, Lyman, was a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, from Georgia. Rev. Ware-
ham Williams, son of Rev. Stephen Williams,
of Long Meadow, Massachusetts, and grand-
son of Rev. John Williams, of Deerfield, Mas-
sachusetts, and his wife, Eunice Mather,
daughter of Rev. Eleazer Mather, of North-
ampton, Massachusetts, was of Welsh origin.
His father, Rev. John Williams, with his fam-

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ily, were captured by the Indians and taken
to Canada, February 29, 1703-04. His wife
and two children were killed by them. She,
Eunice Mather Williams, on her mother's side
was granddaughter of Rev. John Wareham,
of Windham, Connecticut, formerly of Exe-
ter, England. He died June 1, 1840; she died
December 21, 1839. Elihu Foote was a soldier
and pensioner of the revolutionary war. Chil-
dren : Edwin, born December 2, 1790; Delia,
June 23, 1792; Wareham Williams, August
20. 1798; Ann or Anna Hall, December 28,
1804, married Albert Harrison (see Harri-
son Y).

As early as 1277, lands were
BRYAN held in the parish of Bulha-

mough by William and Robert
Brian, and the family has held an important
place in England to the present day. Roger
Bryan was a knight of the shire in Hert-
fordshire in the twenty-third and twenty-fifth
parliaments during the reign of Edward I.
The ancestry of the American family is traced
unbroken to Thomas Bryan, of the parish of
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

(I) Thomas Bryan, born about 1575, lived
at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Children: 1.
Elizabeth, baptized November 2, 1600. 2. Alex-
ander, mentioned below. 3. Frances, baptized
March 29, 1604. 4. Mary, baptized April
19, 1606.

(II) Alexander, son of Thomas Bryan, was
born in Aylesbury, in 1602. He came to this
country in 1639 and settled at Milford, Con-
necticut. Later he removed to Meriden and
finally located at Watertown, Connecticut.
The English ancestry is proved by a deed
made by Alexander and son Richard, July 20,
1663, to Edward Baldwin, of Beaconsfield,
county Bucks, England. Alexander Bryan
bought land at Eaton's Neck, east of Oyster
Bay. Long Island, now Huntington, and his
sons Alexander, Ebenezer and John settled
in Long Island. He owned a large estate in
England. He was a man of education and
was a lawyer. He was one of the five trus-
tees who purchased the land where Milford,
Connecticut, was founded. He was a mer-
chant, and in 1640 sent a vessel to Boston
with a cargo of beaver, otter and other furs.
He built a wharf in 1650, conveying it to
the town in 1653. He sent ships to the Azores,
England, Virginia and Nova Scotia. He
was assistant in May, 1666; commissioner in
the same year : deputy to the general court
in 1667 and assistant again in 1668-69-70-71-
72-73. He was baptized at Aylesbury, Eng-
land, September 9. 1602. He married (first)
in England, Ann Baldwin, Robert (3) ; Henry

(2) ; Richard (1). She died at Milford. ( <>n-
necticut, February 20, 1661. He married
(second) Susannah Fitch, widow of Samuel
Fitch, of Hartford. She was the first wife of
William Whitiny: married (second) Samuel
Fitch; (third) Alexander Bryan, and died at
Middletown, Connecticut, July 8, 1673. His
will was proved May 27, 1679. Children:
Richard, mentioned below; Susanna; Joanna,
married Owen Morgan.

(III) Richard, son of Alexander Bryan,
was born at Aylesbury, England. He came
to this country with his father and settled in
Milford, Connecticut, of which he was a lead-
ing citizen. He was the second of seven
who had the patent for the township from
the general court, May 25, 1685. He was a
wealthy merchant. He bought Eaton's Neck,
Huntington, Long Island, November 13, 1684,
and three sons settled there. He married
(first) Alary, daughter of William and Mar-
garet Pantry. He married (second) July 15,
1699. Mary Wilmot, of New Haven, born
February 16, 1647, daughter of Benjamin and
granddaughter of Benjamin Wilmot. She
was a member of the Milford church. He
married (third) Elizabeth Hollingsworth,
widow of Richard Hollingsworth, daughter of
Michael and Abigail Powell, of Boston and
Dedham. She was born June 16, 1641 ; mar-
ried. August 23, 1659, Richard Hollings-
worth. As Widow Bryan she married, Octo-
ber 24, 1705, Governor Robert Treat, of Con-
necticut. Children: Alexander, born 1651 ;
Mary, 1653; Hannah, August 1, 1654; Sarah,
April 24, 1657, died young; Samuel, baptized
1659; John, born 1662; Abigail, November
22, 1663 ; Richard, October 8, 1666, mentioned
below; Frances, February 13, 1668; Sarah,
1670; Abigail, January 12, 1671-72; Eliza-
beth, 1679; Joseph, January 15, 1682; Eliza-
beth, baptized November, 1685.

(IV) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)
Bryan, was born in Milford, October 8, 1666.
In 1698 he was town clerk of Milford. He
had a deed from his brother Alexander, in
1698, of land at New Milford, sold again in
1706 to John Noble. He sold land also to
Benjamin Bunnell and Caleb Mallory, and his
brother, Joseph Bryan. He married Sarah
Piatt, who died January 18, 1734, daughter
of Josiah and Sarah (Canfield) Piatt. Chil-
dren, born at Milford : Mary, baptized No-
vember, 1701 ; Sarah, born or baptized August
1699 ; Richard, mentioned below : Samuel, bap-
tized August, 1699 : Frances, born September
22, 1704; Augustine, January 28, 1706-07;
Alexander, October 13, 1707; Hannah, Janu-
ary 21, 1711-12; Nathan, December n, 1714.

(V) Richard (3), son of Richard (2)

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Bryan, was born at Milford, and baptized in
August, 1699. He married (first) October
20,1719, Mehitable Clark, who died in 1721,
daughter of Samuel Clark. He married (sec-
ond) March 15, 1721-22, Sarah, daughter of

Joseph . Children, born at Milford :

Richard, mentioned below ; Mehitable, August
15, 1 72 1, married David Ingraham ; Sarah,
June 2, 1723, died young; Frances, August,
1726; Ann, February, 1731 ; Mary, March,
1736.

(VI) Captain Richard (4), son of Richard
(3) Bryan, was born in Milford about 1720.
He married, January 13, 1742, Sarah, daugh-
ter of John and Susan Fowler. He was en-
sign in the First Company of Milford in 1756;
lieutenant of the Second Company, Second
Regiment of the colony, and is called captain
in the records later. Children, born at Mil-
ford: Sarah, June 17, 1746, died young; Me-
hitable, baptized September 4, 1746; Rich-
ard; David, February, 1748, removed to Sher-
burne, Chenango county, New York ; Oliver,
mentioned below.

(VII) Major Oliver, son of Captain Rich-
ard (4) Bryan, was born about 1760. He
was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in
Captain Peck's company. Colonel Douglass's
regiment in Washington's army, New York,
in 1776. He was a pensioner in New Haven
county, 1832. In 1790 the federal census
shows that he had four females in his fam-
ily. Children : Esther, baptized at Milford,
June, 1790; Sarah, baptized with Esther; mar-
ried, October 22, 1800, Anthony Stow ; Su-
sanna, baptized with Esther and Sarah ; mar-
ried, February 15, 1807, David Stow; Oliver,
mentioned below.

(VII) Oliver (2), son of Oliver (1)
Bryan, was baptized at Milford in April, 1793.
He was educated in the district schools, and
when a young man came to New Haven, en-
gaging in the business of merchant tailor
winch he followed until the time of his death
at the age of sixty-nine years. He was pros-
perous, and invested largely in New Haven
real estate, effecting many improvements in
his section of the city. He built the house in
which the widow of his son, William Dag-
gett, resides, about 1840. He also put up the
buildings at Nos. 200-202-210 Crown street
and at 194-96 Crown street, now the quarters
of the Young Men's Republican Club. He
married Phebe Gorham, born in New Haven,
died there aged sixty-seven. Children: 1.
William 1)., mentioned below. 2. Jane, mar-
ried Frank G. Phipps. 3. Oliver, a real estate
broker of New Haven. 4. Benjamin Sherman,
born in 1826: went to California with the
"Forty-niners"and remained there severalyears

keeping a hotel ; died at Saybrook, Connecti-
cut, at the age of fifty; married, November
16, 1868, M. Louise Hayden, a native of Es-
sex, Connecticut ; son Oliver, born November
15, 1870, married Bessie Ida Gitt, born Au-
gust 18, 1872, of New Oxford, Pennsylvania;
they have one son, Hayden Gitt Bryan, born
August 12, 1907. 5. Harry C, married An-
nie Morris. 6. Stephen, married Emma (first)
Powers; (second) Mildred St. Claire.

(IX) William Daggett, son of Oliver (2)
Bryan, was born May 13, 1819, in New
Haven. He was educated there in the public
schools, and learned the trade of tailor of his
father. He succeeded to his father's business
and carried on the establishment successfully
until he died, June 1, 1884. He was a man of
upright and honorable character, attractive in
social life, and highly respected in business
circles. He was a member of the Quinnipiac
Club, the New Haven Grays, the Conecticut
Volunteer Militia, the Odd Fellows, and the
Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the
thirty-second degree, being a member of
Wooster Lodge, the local Chapter. Council
and Commandery. In politics he was always
a Republican and a staunch friend of Gover-
nor English. He was an Episcopalian, at-
tending first St. Thomas Church, and later
Trinity Church, New Haven. He married,
September 1, 1852, Mary Miles Brown, born
December 20, 1825, now living at 198 Crown
street, New Haven, daughter of Jacob and
Henrietta Minor (Miles) Brown, grand-
daughter of Captain John Miles, of New
Haven. Children, born in New Haven : Hen-
rietta Miles, June 3, 1853, died May 30, 1898;
unmarried; William Daggett, March 17, 1856,
died in infancy; Mary Miles, March 11, i860,
died in infancy.

Mercy (Beecher) Brown, grandmother of
Mrs. Bryan, was born in Woodbridge, Con-
necticut, a sister of Thaddeus Beecher, who
planted the famous elm tree in the Newr Hav-
en common. Mercy Beecher married Walter
Brown. Mrs. Bryan had one sister, Hen-
rietta Brown, who married her cousin,
Thomas H. Miles, and had two children :
George Washington Miles and another who
died in infancy. Jacob Brown had one
brother, Webster Brown, and two sisters.
Mary and Elizabeth Brown. Jacob was the
son of Captain Walter Brown, of New Haven,
a sea captain, who married Henrietta Miles.
His vessel was captured by the French and
this claim was one of the famous French
spoliation claims. Captain John Miles was
in Captain Daniel Collins's company, at the
New Haven alarm in 1775. He was a lieu-
tenant in the Connecticut Line 1777-80. In

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1780 he was a captain in the service. He
was commissioned lieutenant, January 6, 1777,
captain-lieutenant October 26, 1779, and
served until 1783. He took part in nearly
all the battles of the north and was at the
siege of Yorktown. He was admitted to the
Society of the Cincinnati, September 11, 1787,
with four others. He was pensioned as a
captain of artillery and was on the list of
1818. He died aged eighty-one years.

The Ford family was prominent
FORD in Devonshire, England, and con-
nected with the Drakes of Ashe.
Sir Henry Ford, born 1620, was only son of
John Ford, of Bagtor, by wife Catherine,
daughter and heir of George Drake, of
Sprattsbays, lieutenant-colonel under his kins-
man, Sir John Drake, of Ashe.

(I) Timothy Ford, believed to be of the
Devon family, was born in England, and
came in 1637 to Charlestown, Massachusetts.
He removed two years later to New Haven,
Connecticut, where he died August 28, 1684.
His wife died July 25, 1681. He was one
of the original proprietors of New Haven.
Mis will, dated August 11, 1682, bequeathed
to children, Samuel, Mary, Bethia, Elizabeth,
Mathew, John, Joshua Culver and Mathew
Bellany. The inventory is dated December 19,
1694. The name is spelled Fford sometimes.
Timothy sold to his son half his homestead
on October 13. 1679. Children: Samuel, mar-
ried, in 1673. Elizabeth Hopkins ; Mary, mar-
ried, in 1661, Nathaniel Thorpe; Bethia, mar-
ried, in 1671, Mathew Bellany; Elizabeth,
married, in 1672, Joshua Culver; Mathew,
mentioned below.

(II) Mathew. son of Timothy Ford, was
born about 1650. Mathew and John divide
land received from their father. August 19,
1682.

He married, at Cheshire', Connecticut,
January, 1675, Mary, daughter of John
Brooks. Children, born at New Haven :
Mathew, mentioned below ; Mary, August 9,
1678; John, November 11, 1680; Mary, 1682;
Mary, August 9, 1684 ; Jonathan, January 26,
1686; Daniel, 1688: Benjamin, 1691 ; Eben-
ezer, 1691 ; Barbabas (mentioned in deeds).

(III) Mathew (2), son of Mathew (1)
Ford, was born October 31. 1675. died Octo-
ber 7, 1 75 1.

His will was proved December 16,
1 75 1, his son Timothy, executor. His
property was divided March 3, 1753, by Nath-
an, Daniel, Timothy and Mathew. He sold
land April 18, 1709, and deeded land to his
son Daniel in 1750. He mentioned all his chil-
dren in his will. Children, born at New

Haven: Nathan, January 12, 1699; Sarah, No-
vember 15, 1702; Elizabeth, April 22, 1704;
Lydia, November 13, 1707; Esther, March 30,
1710; Daniel, December 31, 1712; Timothy,
mentioned below; Mathew, June 25, 1719;
Lydia, July 29, 1722.

(IV) Timothy (2), son of Mathew (2)
Ford, was born at New Haven, December 3,
171 5. Timothy Ford and Caleb Bradley were
executors of his will, dated December 16,

1754-

He bought land, in 1761, and deeded
land March 26, 1753. He married Mary, born
March, 1715, baptized July 8, 1716, daughter
of Caleb Tuttle, who was born August 29,
1678, married, March 1, 1699, Mary, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Sarah (Talmadge) Hotch-
kiss. Mrs. Tuttle died November 12, 1723,
and he married (second) February 17, 1725,.
Hannah (Butler) Todd, widow of John Todd,
daughter of John Butler, of Branford. Caleb
Tuttle was prominent in the first secession
from the First Society, a movement which
took place in face of a powerful opposition
in the organization of the Second Ecclesias-
tical Society in New Haven, now known as
the North Church. Caleb and others owned
the lot which was conveyed to the church for
a parsonage and is now the site of the St.
Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church. Han-
nah Tuttle died October 27, 1748; Caleb died
in 1 75 1, intestate, and Enos was appointed
administrator. President Stiles wrote of him,
in his history of the Judges: "He was a
plain, good man, whom I knew well, a man
of integrity, very intimate with Gov. Jones's
son, they having married sisters * * * he
was a zealous religionist, and warmly captiva-
ted with characters distinguished for holiness
and piety and according to my idea of the
man, whom I well remember, he would, I
should think, have listened to the anecdotes
and history of those pious and heroic sufferers
with avidity and curious and feeling attention.
I doubt not he knew more about the subject
than all his posterity, and he is the source of
the information concerning the Whalley
Stone." Children of Caleb Tuttle : Sarah,
born November, 1699, married Noah Wolcott ;
Caleb, December, 1701 ; Thomas, November
24, 1705 ; James, November 30, 1707 ; Enos,
November 11, 171 1 ; Timothy, February 21,
1713; Mary, March, 1715, married Timothy
Ford, mentioned above ; Eliphalet. December
2, 1718; Levi; Abraham, February 16, 1722;
Joshua, January 31, 1731 ; Stephen.

Thomas Tuttle, son of William Tuttle, the
immigrant, was born in England in 1634;
married, May 21, 1661, Hannah, born in 1641,
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Powell. Thomas Tnttle was a cooper by
trade ; was chosen by the town packer in
March, 1672, and 1674; juryman 1682; con-
stable 1683 ; gauger and packer, 1704. He
lived and died on what is now part of the
College square. His lot fronted on Market
place (upper Green) nearly one hundred and
seventy feet, and extended back about half
the square. On the Tuttle homesteads the
most ancient of the Yale College buildings
were afterwards erected. Thomas Tuttle left
his homestead to his son Joshua who deeded
some of the land to the college in 1750.
Thomas Tuttle died October 19, 17 10. His
will was dated May 6, 1704, and proved the
second Tuesday of November, 1710. Children
of Thomas Tuttle: Hannah, born February
24, 1662; Abigail, January 17, 1663; Mary,
June 14, 1665 ; Thomas, October 27, 1667 ;
John, December 5, 1669; Esther, April 9,
1672 ; Joshua, December 19, 1675 ; Caleb, men-
tioned above; Martha, May 23, 1679.

Mary (Tuttle) Ford joined the first church
in New Haven in 1736. Children, born at
New Haven: Martha, February 24. 1736, died
October 9. 1748; Laurana, May 22, 1737;
Timothy, January 21, 1739-40; Moses, men-
tioned below; Caleb, January 22, 1743-44;
Sarah, May 22, 1747 ; Esther, March 17,
1749-50.

(V) Moses, son of Timothy (2) Ford, was
born November 13, 1741, at New Haven, died
June II, 1822. He married Eunice Potter,
who died May 7, 1833, in the ninety-third
year of her age. He was deacon of the church.
James Potter deeded land to his daughter
Eunice, wife of Moses Ford, November 16,
1667. Moses and Eunice Ford quitclaimed
their title in certain lands January 16, 1764.
Children : Jonah, mentioned below ; Moses,
born 1776, died August 11, 1858; Rhoda, mar-
ried Bronard Lindley ; Huldah, married Eli-
sha Peck ; Sarah, married Leveret Mix ; Eu-
nice, born March 9, 1779, married Joel Ford.

(VI) Jonah, son of Moses Ford, was born
in New Haven in 1765, died October 1, 1804
(gravestone). Mary, his wife, died October
20, 1837, aged seventy ; administration granted
to sons Joel and Moses. His widow had land
near Stephen Hotchkiss. Children : Amelia,
Harvey, mentioned below. Thankful, Maria,
Eunice.

(VII) Harvey, son of Jonah Ford, was
born about 1800. He lived at Hamden Plains,
New Haven. He married Betsey Coats. Chil-
dren ; Harvey, Howard, living in Hamden,
Connecticut, the last surviving member of the
family, he has three children : Carrie, Emily,
Lena, deceased.

(VTTI) Harvey (2), son of Harvey (-1)

Ford, was born at New Haven, June 3, 1830.
He married, at New Haven, June 7, 1855,
Clara Wyatt, daughter of Holsey Cleveland.
He lived in New Haven and Fair Haven,
Connecticut, and was an iron dealer. Chil-
dren, born in New Haven: 1. Charles Cleve-
land, mentioned below. 2. William, married
Emma Johnson ; children : Harold and Wil-
liam. 3. Curtis Howard, born April 6, 1862 ;
married, at New Haven, July 16, 1882, Ella
Mat Perkins, born at Springfield, February
22, 1865, daughter of Luther M. and Antoi-
nette (Hanover) Perkins; children: i. Clif-
ford De Witt, born February 21, 1883; ii.
Marguerite Perkins, December 16, 1885 ; iii.
Curtis H. ; Curtis Howard is a pharmacist in
charge of a drug store in New Haven. 4.
Robert Harvey, born July 21. 1866; married
Iva Hills : children : Horace and Harriet. 5.
Edward, born July 21, 1866, died July 29,
1866. 6. Clara Victoria, born July 13, 1869 >
married Elmer E. Okeson ; children : Elea-
nor ; Ralph, died aged ten months ; Sylvia.
7. Fluvia Bissell, born December 21, 1874;
married Harry Goodyear. 8. Horatio Holsey,
born March 28, 1876 ; married Belle Pickets ;
one son. 9. Mabel Helen, born April 6, 1880 ;
married John Nixon ; children : Cleveland and
Fluvia.

(IX) Charles Cleveland, son of Harvey (2)
Ford, was born March 10, 1856, at New
Haven. He is a lawyer at Ansonia, Conec-
ticut. He married, at New Haven, May 4,
1876, Sarah Alice, born at New Haven, De-
cember 20, 1855, only daughter of Jeremiah
Porter. Child : Alice Porter, mentioned be-
low.

(X) Dr. Alice Porter Ford, daughter of
Charles Cleveland Ford, was born at New
Haven, December 30, 1877. She attended
Mrs. Cady's private school, until ready for
high school in New Haven ; moved to An-
sonia, Connecticut, and graduated from the
Ansonia high school. She was a member of
the class of 1901 of Wellesley College. She
studied her profession at the Woman's Medi-
cal College of Pennsylvania, graduating with
the degree of M.D. in 1904. She was ap-
pointed an interne at the Women's Hospital
at Detroit. Michigan, and after was resident
physician there. She has practiced since 1906
in New Haven with an office at 1302 Chapel
street, making a specialty of diseases of
women and children. She is a member of the
New Haven County Medical Society ; the New
Haven City Medical Society ; the Connecticut
State Medical Society ; the American Medical
Association. She belongs to Alpha Eta Iota,
a college fraternity. In religion she is a Con-
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Samuel Blakeslee, immi-
BLAKESLEE grant ancestor, was a

planter of Guilford, Con-
necticut, in 1650, and is supposed to have been
a brother of Thomas Blakeslee, who came in
the "Hopewell" from London to Massachu-
setts, in 1635, was in Hartford in 1641, and
removed to Branford, Connecticut, in 1645.
He was probably a blacksmith, as appears
from the inventory of his estate. He bought
his home lot in Guilford from Henry Dowd
about 1649, ar,d February 24, 1653-54, sold
it to Richard Hubball. He removed to New*
Haven between 1653 and 1657, and by the
New Haven records died May 17, 1672. He
married, December 3, 1650, Hannah, daughter
of John and Elizabeth Potter, of New Haven.
John Potter's mother was Hannah Beecher,
and he had two sons, John and Samuel. De-
cember 21, 1676, Hannah Blakeslee married
Henry Brooks. She died November 7, 1723.
Administration on the estate of Samuel Blake-
slee was granted to his widow, June 16, 1672,
and February 6, 1676-77, Henry Brooks and
his wife appeared before the court for the set-
tlement of the estate and distribution was or-
dered to Hannah Brooks, John, the eldest son,
to Samuel and Ebenezer, and to Mary, daugh-
ter. In November, 1702, Hannah Brooks ren-
dered the final account of the distribution.
Children: John, born October 22, 1651, died
September 2, 1653; John, born about 1654;
Moses, baptized December 13, 1655 ; Mary,
baptized December 13, 1655 ; Hannah, born
October 22, 1657; Mary, November 2, 1659;
Samuel, April 8, 1662; Ebenezer, July 17,
1664, mentioned below ; Hannah, May 22,
1666, died July 8, 1669 ; Jonathan, March 3,
1669, died July II, 1669; son, April, 1672,
died April 1672.

(II) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Blakeslee,
was born July 17, 1664, died September 24,
1735. He married Hannah, born May 27, 1665,
died at the home of her son Jacob in Water-
bury, July 23, 1749, daughter of Thomas Lup-
ton, of Waterbury, and his wife, Hannah
(Morris) Lupton. Ebenezer Blakeslee lived
in North Haven, where he was prominent in
church affairs, first with the Congregational
and later with the Episcopal. Before he died
he settled his own estate, giving land to sev-
eral of his sons, and providing otherwise for
his other children. In these deeds of land
he names three sons, Samuel, Jacob and
Thomas, of whom there are no birth records.
Children : Abigail, no birth record ; married,
May 19, 1709, John Nash, Jr. ; Ebenezer
(twin) February 4, 1685, mentioned below;
Hannah (twin); Susanna, May 21, 1689;
Grace, January 1, 1693-94; Abraham, Decem-

ber 15, 1695; Isaac, July 21, 1703; Samuel,
no birth record ; Jacob, no birth record ;
Thomas, no birth record.

(III) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
Blakeslee, was born February 4, 1685. He
married, December 5, 1706, Mary, daughter
of Matthew and Mary Ford, of New Haven.
He lived in North Haven. Administration on
his estate was granted to his son Ebenezer,
January, 1761. Distribution was made April
15, 1761, to Ebenezer, Jonathan, Matthew,
Hannah and Desire Taylor. His wife died
August 13, 1760. Children: Matthew, born
October 25, 1707, died January 26, 1707-08;
Desire, November, 1708; Ebenezer, May 12,
1711; Jonathan, September, 1713; Matthew,
December 10, 1715, mentioned below; Mary,
June 15, 1718, died December, 1725; Han-
nah. January 17, 1720-21; Seth, April 11,
1725. died April 13, 1725.

(IV) Matthew, son of Ebenezer (2)
Blakeslee, was born December 10, 1715. He
was one of the subscribers to the Second Ec-
clesiastical Society at its formation, and be-
came one of its first two wardens. He mar-
ried, December 27, 1736, Rhoda Beach. Chil-
dren: Macock, born November 17, 1739; Oli-
ver, August 15, 1741, mentioned below; Mat-
thew, August n, 1743; Phebe, August 25,
1745, died October 26, 1750; Mary, Septem-
ber 6, 1747; Rufus, April 19, 1749; Phebe,
February 22, 1750-51 ; Jordan, October 23,
1752; "Cearfull," December 7, 1767.

(V) Oliver, son of Matthew Blakeslee, was
born in North Haven, August 15, 1741. He
was known in his day as "Master Blakeslee."
His boyhood was spent in hard work, as a
large family and a lean larder in his father's
house made the crosses there greater than
the comforts. Tradition has it that the ma-
ternal hand, often perplexed by the wants of
the hungry children around her, was wont to
prepare in a huge wooden bowl a porridge
of meal and the water in which any vegetables
or meat had been cooked, and placing it on
the floor give each of the children a wooden
spoon and unlimited liberty to help them-
selves. Oliver was apprenticed in early youth
to Squire Ward, of Pond Hill, where he
learned the trade of reed maker for the hand
looms of those days. He became skillful and
it is supposed most of the reeds now preserved
in the community as curiosities of a bygone
day were made by him. He became an expert
weaver and taught his daughters the same
trade. He derived the title of "Master" from
a long career as a district school teacher, hav-
ing, tradition says, taught twenty-seven win-
ters and three summers. He was a superior
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who desired. Further, he was an accom-
plished land surveyor and received the ap-
pointment of county engineer from the gen-
eral assembly of Connecticut. His calcula-
tions in this branch were never questioned,
and in the division of estates, the laying out
of the highways and the establishing of boun-
dary lines his work was esteemed faultless.
His advice was adopted in the survey for
Tomlinson's bridge at New Haven. Except-
ing Dr. Trumbull and Solomon Blakeslee no
better new name was found. Indeed in some
of his exercises he clearly excels both. There
is extant a bit of paper the size of a dime on
which he wrote in 1786 the Lord's prayer in
beautifully legible letters. He was one of the
subscribers to the Second Ecclesiastical So-
ciety at its formation, and was its first clerk,
also collector and treasurer. He was made a
vestryman in 1768 and again in 1772-78, in-
clusive, and a third term, 1786-87-88. In ad-
dition to these duties he acted as one of the
"Quirestors," 1777-80. He was the owner of
the first silver watch in the community. At
his death there passed away an active old
school gentleman, once prominent in the coun-
cils of church and town. There was no one
to raise a stone to his memory and the very
place of his burial is forgotten. He married
(first) Elizabeth Humaston, May 3, 1762. His
home stood near that now owned by Harry
Bradley, and here was born a large family.
He married (second) Mrs. Susanna Tuttle.

( VI) Matthew Gilbert, son of Oliver Blake-
slee, was born in Guilford, October 9, 1781,
died June 6, 1831. He married, February
11, 1802, Rhoda Dorman, who was of a Ham-
den, Connecticut, family. They lived in New
Haven. Children: Manning, born October
20, 1802, died September 23, 1846; Betsie,
April 4, 1805; Sarah, August 31, 1807; Eliza-
beth, May 15, 1810; Matthew G., April 5,
1812; Jerod, March 6, 1814; Daniel, March
8, 1817; Rebecca, October 4. 1820; Charles
Wells, mentioned below ; Caroline and Cath-
erine, August 19, 1827.

(VII) Charles Wells, son of Matthew Gil-
bert Blakeslee, was born near Westfield, Mas-
sachusetts, August 11, 1824. At the age of
ten he returned with his parents to Connecti-
cut, and for a time resided with his brother,
Matthew G. in Hamden. He worked on the
farm in summer and ' attended the district
school in winter, but while a mere boy began
teaming and soon came to taking small con-
tracts in New Haven. In 1844 he bought his
home property of the English family at New
Haven ; it was located on George street, then
a lane, and most of the vicinity was used
for pasturage. He engaged in iarming on

the land now occupied by Grace Hospital. In
i8t? he began to take contracts for street pav-
ing, afterwards for the construction of street
railways, and his business grew year by year
until it reached mammoth proportions. In
later years he admitted his sons to partner-
ship, and finally they took over the respon-
sibilities of the business. In politics he was
a Republican ; in religion a Methodist. He
married (first) Eliza Clark, a native of Mil-
ford, who died in New Haven. Children: 1.
Child, died young. 2. Child, died young. 3.
Charles Wells, born in New Haven, June 9,
1844; served in Company G, First Connecticut
Heavy Artillery, Army of the Potomac, and
took part in the siege of Yorktown, battle of
Hanover Court House, Seven Days' Fight,
and battle of Malvern Hill ; discharged Au-
gust 15, 1864, on account of sickness; was
in business with his father, then for twenty-
one years in business on his own account, since
then connected with the business established
by his father; has served as selectman, coun-
cilman, alderman, major of the Governor's
Horse Guards ; member of Admiral Foote
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and of
the Knights of Honor ; married Grace Caro-
line Fowler ; children : Edith May ; Charles,
died aged four years. 4. Jeanette. deceased;
married (first) Stephen Willard ; (second)
Andrew Lovejoy. 5. Isabella, died aged
twenty-two. 6. Mary, married Adelbert
Leighton, son of Howard B. Leighton ; one
son, 'Howard Theodore Blakeslee Leighton. 7.
Albert, died young. Charles W. Blakeslee
married (second) Martha Jane (Waters)
Blair, widow of Basil Blair, of New Haven.
By her first marriage she had two children :
William H. Blair, superintendent of the
Charles W. Blakeslee & Company ; Jane Blair,
married Jasper Copley, whose son, Charles H.
Copley, had a son, Charles Copley ; Jasper
Copley died in 1900. Children of Charles W.
and Martha Jane (Waters) (Blair) Blakes-
lee: 8. Dennis A., married Lizzie Law; chil-
dren: Harriet F., Martha, Albert D., Harold
L., M. Grant, Dorothy. 9. Dwight Welch,
mentioned below. 10. Phebe, unmarried. 11.
Clarence, married Julia Seeley ; children : Julia
and Ruth. 12. Martha, married Lyman Law ;
children: Hellen and Alice. 13. Theodore R.,
married Addie Hawley ; children : Vera M.,
Gladys, Dwight W., Frank.

(VIII) Dwight Welch, son of Charles
Wells Blakeslee, was born at New Haven. July
9, 1858, died January 15, 1906. His death
was caused by a terrible accident in a rail-
road cut. He had been giving instructions to
one gang of men and stepped over tracks to
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he saw an approaching- freight train, and in
getting out of the way of the freight was hit
by another train coming in the opposite di-
rection. He was educated in the public
schools. He became associated in business
with his father and was one of the firm of
Charles W. Blakeslee & Company, one of the
largest contracting firms in the city. He
served as a member of common council, alder-
man, was a member of the official board of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, a man
of the highest character, and was one of the
best known and most respected citizens of
New Haven. He married, October 19, 1881,
Emma Augusta, daughter of Orrin Elisha
Clark, and granddaughter of Elisha Clark,
born at Milford, February 16, 1777. Orrin
E. Clark was born at Harwinton, Connecti-
cut, September 7, 1815. Elisha Clark, father
of Elisha Clark, was a soldier in the revolu-
tion ; he married Jane Baldwin. Mrs. Blakes-
lee is an active member of Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church. She has contributed freely
to benevolent purposes. She gave the Dea-
coness Home for the deaconesses of New
Haven of the Methodist churches. The home
is situated at 576 George street ; also it is a
training school for deaconesses. It is called
Dwight W. Blakeslee Memorial Dea-
conesses Home, and Training School. Mrs.
Blakeslee is vice-president of the Deaconess
Home, and belongs to all the societies of the
Methodist Episcopal church.

John Beecher. ancestor of the
BEECHER American family of this sur-
name, lived, it is said, in
county Kent, England, and died there about
1637 in middle life. His widow Hannah came
with her sons to this country, arriving at Bos-
ton, April 26, 1637. She was born about 1600
died 1658-59. Her will was proved at New
Haven, March 2, 1659, bequeathing to her son
Isaac Beecher, and her son (by first husband)
William Potter. It is commonly accepted that
her son John was one of the seven young
men left by Theophilus Eaton at New Haven
in the winter of 1637 to prepare for the col-
onists in the spring. It is said that he died
during that winter ; and that his bones were
disinterred when a cellar was dug ^or the
stone house now standing at the southwest
corner of Meadow and Church streets, where
the hut was located in which the men spent
the winter. Hannah Beecher owned land
on the present site of the State Hospital, and
a seat in church in 1656, when, being hard
of hearing, she was assigned a seat nearer the
preacher. She was a physician and midwife,
and for services received a grant of land,

which remained in the Beecher family until
1879.

(II) Isaac, son of John Beecher, was the
only son having children, and was therefore
progenitor of all the early Beecher families,
if not all of the name, in this country. He
was born in England about 1623, died in 1690,
and his will was dated September 28, 1689, be-
queathing to sons John, Joseph, Isaac, Sam-
uel and Eleazer, and to wife Mary. He owned
seven tracts of land, aggregating sixty-one
acres. He and his sons John and Eleazer were
proprietors in 1685. He was on the list of
freemen of New Haven dated July 1, 1644.
Children: John, born 1645; Joseph, 1647, an_
cestor of Rev. Lyman Beecher ; Isaac, 1650 ;
Samuel, October 17, 1652 ; Eleazer, mentioned
below.

(III) Eleazer, son of Isaac Beecher, was
born April 8, 1655, at New Haven, died March
2, 1726. He located early in life at West
Haven, and married, November 5, 1677,
Phebe Prindle, who lived on the west side
of Main street, near the corner of Second
avenue, where she was born March 16, 1657.
He bought, July 2, 1684, ten acres of land in
that part of West Haven called West Side
Farms, (on the west side of Main street, and
on Elm and Main street), and adjoining lands
of William Prindle on the east, and Peter
Mallory, Jr., on the west. Here he built a
house, living there until his death ; the old
house was a familiar landmark until 1896,
when it was removed to make way for the
present Catholic rectory. His will was proved
April 4, 1726. Children: Hannah, born June
23> 1679; Nathaniel, January 24, 168 1 ; Ebe-
nezer, December 25, 1682; Eleazer, April 21,
1686, mentioned below ; Thankful, March 18,
1689; child born and died December 31, 1690;
Obedience, 1692; Stephen, May 18, 1695;
Isaac, April 7, 1698.

(IV) Eleazer (2), son of Eleazer (1)
Beecher, was born at West Haven, April 21,
1686, died in 171 1. He was a farmer and
blacksmith. He married Widow Elizabeth
Welch, November 30, 1704, who was adminis-
tratrix of his estate and mother of his chil-
dren, of whom she was appointed guardian.
Children: Jerusha, born 1706; Eleazer, 1708,
mentioned below; Phebe, 1710.

(V) Eleazer (3), son of Eleazer (2)
Beecher, was born at* West Haven in 1708.
He settled at New Milford. where he died
December 23, 1797, aged ninety, according
to the town record. He married, October 30,
1729, Frances Oviatt, of New Milford, who
died September 1, 1791, aged eighty-one years;
he joined the church at New Milford in 1726.
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prominent in public affairs, and a successful
farmer ; he was a deacon of the First Church,
but after two years joined the Separates, and
was deacon of that church for many years.
Children, born at New Milford : Frances, July
5, 1730; Eleazer, September 17, 1732, men-
tioned below; Abigail, November 22, 1734,
died young-; Phebe, March 22, 1737: Nath-
aniel, March 19, 1739; Lydia, November 18,
1741.

(VI) Eleazer (4), son of Eleazer (3)
Beecher, was born at New Milford, Septem-
ber 17, 1732. He married. December 24, 1760,
Ellice Britton, born in 1741, died April 23,
1814. Children, born at New Milford : Ly-
man, June 4, 1762. died December 7, 1766;
Eunice, May 4, 1764 ; Amos, November 25,
1766; Thalia, June 2, 1769; Eleazer, and
John (twins), August 8, 1773; Urania, mar-
ried Solomon Buck ; Jane, married William
Nickerson.

(VII) Elder Eleazer (5), son of Eleazer
(4) Beecher, was born at New Milford, Au-
gust 8, 1773, died October 22, 1863. He and
his twin brother John married sisters. John
was a deacon in the Congregational church,
and Eleazer a deacon in the Baptist church;
John afterwards became a Baptist. They both
lived at the old homestead. The twins were
much alike in looks, and mental and physical
characteristics, and the "Twin Beechers" be-
came known far and wide. Eleazer married
Mary Barlow, of Kent ; they had one child :
Stephen, mentioned below. John Beecher
married Abigail Barlow.

(VIII) Stephen, son of Elder Eleazer (5)
Beecher, was born at New Milford, Septem-
ber 8, 1796. died July 11, 1853. He was a
farmer at New Milford. He married. Octo-
ber 23, 181 5, Diantha, daughter of Captain
Benajah Stone, who was born the same day
as her husband. Children, born at New Mil-
ford : Mary Ann, February 6, 1819, married
Benjamin J. Stone; Stephen Grenville, men-
tioned below.

(IX) Stephen Grenville, son of Stephen
Beecher, was born at New Milford, Decem-
ber 9, 1832. He lived on the old Beecher
homestead at the foot of Mount Tom. He
married, August 14, 1856, Ellen E. Wetmore.
of Winchester, Connecticut, daughter of Abel
Samuel Wetmore, died at New Milford, July

2, 1894. Children: 1. Henry Wetmore, born
July 22, 1857, mentioned below. 2. Mary
Ann, January 14, 1859, died March 4, 1874.

3. Abel Stephen, July 26, 1861 ; married, De-
cember 19, 1888, Elbie A. Bachelder, born in
Bridgeport. Connecticut, January 14, 1861 ;
children : i. Charles Henry, born April 30,
1890, died April 23, 1891 ; ii. Clarence Hu-

bert, born November 29, 1891 ; Abel S. lived
on the old homestead until 1898, when he
removed to Bridgeport. 4. Lucy, born August
24, 1865 ; married James Marcus Bennett, Au-
gust 29, 1894; he was born in New Milford,
Connecticut, February 24, 1869, and was the
son of Franklin Bennett ; no children.

(X) Henry Wetmore, son of Stephen
Grenville Beecher, was born July 22, 1857.
He was educated in the public schools and at
the Housatonic Institute, New Milford. After
graduation he was employed by the William
L. Gilbert Clock Company of Winsted for
several years. He was then for a time in the
grocery trade. In 1894 he came to New
Haven and engaged in business as an under-
taker and funeral director with his brother-
in-law, James M. Bennett, under the firm
name of Beecher & Bennett, at 280 Elm street,
where he has continued in business to the
present time. He is a member of City Lodge,
Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, and United
Workmen, of New Haven. He is a member,
and for several years has been a deacon, of
the Dwight Place Congregational Church of
New Haven. He is also a member of the
New Haven Business Men's Association. For
a few years previous to removing to New
Haven he was church treasurer and assistant
superintendent of the Sunday school of the
First Congregational Church of Winsted. He
married (first) November 3, 1880, Elizabeth
Abigail, daughter of George Ward Loomis,
of Torrington ; she was born in Torrington,
October 21, 1855, died May 10, 1894, at Win-
sted. He married (second) Addie Theresa,
daughter of Samuel and Harriet Theresa
(Newton) Gilman, May 27, 1896; she was
born December 17, 1862, in West Hartland,
Connecticut. Children of first wife: 1.
George Loomis, born June 15, 1884, at Win-
sted, Connecticut, died, unmarried, July 20,
1908. He graduated from Yale University
with the class of 1906 ; after spending a year
in survey work for the Mexican International
railroad, and serving as assistant civil engi-
neer for the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, he re-
turned to Yale for a post-graduate course, re-
ceiving the degree of C.E. in June, 1908 ; he
was an enthusiastic member of Phi Delta
Chapter of the National College fraternity of
Alpha Chi Rho. 2. Helen Wetmore, born at
Winsted, Conecticut, November 24, 1886;
graduated from the Hillhouse high school and
the State Normal school of New Haven.

Ebenezer Burgess may have
BURGESS belonged to the Burgess fam-
ily of Cape Cod, but no record
has been found to establish the relationship.

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We find him first at Harvard, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, before 1748. Harvard
was set off from the towns of Stow, Lancas-
ter and Groton, Massachusetts, in 1732. In
175 1 he had a dwelling house on land that he
bought of John Whitcomb and he had a seat
in the meeting house. He was a soldier on
the Lexington alarm in the revolution, going
out for a short time in Captain Joseph Fair-
banks's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's

regiment. He married (first) Hannah ;

(second) Rachel Farnsworth. He died in
1807. His will was dated September 18, 1795
and proved at Worcester, January 5, 1808. He
bequeathed to wife Rachel ; son Ebenezer ;
daughter Hannah, wife of Jonathan Stearns ;
to William, Betsey W., Caleb R., and Axis
Burgess, children of son William; sons John,
Solomon, Thomas, Marrett and Laommi ;
daughter Sarah, wife of Abraham Foster; to
Josiah and Nathaniel, sons of son Josiah.
Children, all but eldest recorded at Harvard :
Ebenezer, settled in Ashburnham, also soldier
in revolution; Hannah, born August 14, 1748;
William, January 5, 1750-51 ; John, April 3,
1753; Solomon, December 4, 1756; Thomas,
February 26, 1761; children of second wife:
Sarah, December 31, 1762; Marrett, July 9,
1765, mentioned below; Josiah, July 18, 1767;
Loammi, March 1, 1770.

(II) Marrett, son of Ebenezer Burgess,
was born July 9, 1765, at Harvard. He mar-
ried Sarah . Children, born at Har-
vard: Sarah, February 15, 1789; Nancy,
March 1, 1791 ; Jonathan, February 6, 1793;
mentioned below : Asa, April 4, 1795 ; Marrett,
March 27, 1797; Daniel, December 27, 1799;
Mary.

(III) Jonathan, son of Marrett Burgess,
was born at Harvard, February 6, 1793. He
married and had son, George E.

(IV) George E., son of Jonathan Burgess,
was born at Groton, in 1841. He married
Caroline Martha, born 1846, at Lyndon, Ver-
mont, daughter of Karly and Nancy (Powers)
Hlanchard, of Lyndon. Karly Blanchard
moved to Newport, Vermont, where he spent
his last years, and where his death occurred ;
his wife died in Lyndon. Vermont. Jonathan
Blanchard, father of Karly Blanchard, most
probably came from the neighborhood of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, and belonged to the fam-
ily of that section. He was a soldier in the
revolution from Massachusetts ; removed to
Lyndon, Vermont, where he spent his last
years and died. Children: Edward H., men-
tioned below ; Martha Ellen, born June 7,
1S68, married, In 1902, Harry Baldwin Ken-
nedy, secretary of the Hoggson & Pettis
.Manufacturing Company, of New Haven.

(V) Edward H., son of George E. Burgess,
was born in Groton, Massachusetts, January
5, 1866. He attended the public schools of
Lyndon, Vermont, whither his father moved
when he was a young child. He began his
career as bookkeeper for the International
Company at Newport, Vermont, and was em-
ployed for nine years in' various positions by
this concern. Since 1891 he has been con-
nected with the E. D. Fogg Company, dealers
in lumber, No. 178 Goffe street, New Haven.
He began as salesman, became secretary of
the company and for a number of years has
been at the head of the corporation, holding
the offices of president and treasurer. He
was made a Mason at Newport Lodge (Ver-
mont), No. 65, but is now a member of Woos-
ter Lodge, No. 79, of New Haven. He was
senior warden of the Newport Lodge. He
is also a member of Franklin Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, of New Haven ; of New Haven
Commandery, Knights Templar ; of the
Knights Templar Club of New Haven ; of the
Young Men's Republican Club of New Haven
and of the Chamber of Commerce of New
Haven. He is unmarried. In politics he is
Republican ; he attends the Congregational
church.

Thomas Tolman was born at
TOLMAN Devonshire, England, Decem-
ber 9, 1608, and migrated to
Massachusetts in the ship "Mary and John"
in 1630. This Thomas Tolman was the de-
scendant in a direct line from Sir Thomas
Tolman, Grand Almoner to Egbert, the first
king of the Saxons, A. D., 825. This family
was quite prominent in England ; one member
was a favorite of Charles the First, and under
Sir Thomas Tolman commanded a regiment,
at Marston Moor, at which battle, legend
says, this Sir Thomas Tolman unhorsed the
nephew of King Charles in the fight, but
discovering his identity, spared his life. At
the Restoration this act was the means of
saving Sir Thomas Tolman from the loss of
his family estates.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Tol-
man, was born in T634; he married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Richard Johnson, of Lynn,
November 4, 1654. He died September 12,
1718; she died December 15, 1716.

(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Tolman, was baptized at Lynn ; died Septem-
ber 22, 1716.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of Thomas (3) Tol-
man, was born December 22, 1691.

(V) Thomas (4), son of Nathaniel Tol-
man, was born December 29, 1727 ; he mar-
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in her seventy-second year ; his death occurred
July 4, 1 82 1.

(VI) Thomas (5), son of Thomas (4) Tol-
man, married Lois, daughter of Jeremiah and
Ruth Clark, at Attleboro, August 16, 1780:
was born September 5, 1756, died September
8, 1842. He married, August 16, 1780, at
Attleboro, Lois, born May 27, 1758, died
March 15, 1845, daughter of Jeremiah and
Ruth Clark. They had ten children, of whom
the fourth was Enoch.

(VII) Enoch, son of Thomas (5) Tolman,
was born December 23, 1787, died April 12,
1846. He married Abigail Cook, born May
23, 1796, died in April, 1865.

(VIII) George Burder, son of Enoch Tol-
man, was born July 24, 1832, in Greensboro,
Vermont. He married (first) Hannah Bailey.
He married (second), Sarah Eunicia, daugh-
ter of Linus Cowles, of Kensington. Connec-
ticut. George B. Tolman had one daughter
by his first wife. Elizabeth C. Tolman, who
married George A. Metcalf, and had three
children, Lester, Margaret and Winfield Tol-
man. The three children by his second wife
were Cowles, Lucius Moody and Ruel Pardee
Tolman.

(IX) Cowles, son of George Burder Tol-
man, was born February 10, 1872. He mar-
ried, January 28, 1894, Mary Frances, daugh-
ter of Francis and Mary (Davidson) Wallace,
who was born in New Haven, October 9, 1874.
Cowles Tolman is president and treasurer of
the Holcomb Company, dealers in automo-
biles at 105 Goffe street, of which Charles
Sherman Lee is secretary. He affiliates with
the Republican party : is a member of the
Automobile Club of New Haven. He is also a
member of Plymouth Congregational Church.
Of their five children the eldest is George
Newton Tolman, born February 4, 1896.

(The Cowles Line).

John Cowles came from England in 1635
to Massachusetts ; removed to Hartford, Con-
necticut, in 1635-39; to Farmington, Connec-
ticut, in 1640, and thence to Hadley (now
Hatfield) Massachusetts, in 1664. He died
in 1675.

(II) Samuel, son of John Cowles, was born
in 1637 ; married Abigail, daughter of Tim-
othy Stanley. He resided in Farmington, and
died in 1691.

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Cowles; was born in 1661, died in 1748. He
had three sons, Thomas, Samuel and John.

(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2)
Cowles, born in 1692, died in 1677. He had
three sons, James, Samuel and Ashel.

(V) Ashel, son of Samuel (3) Cowles, born

in 1729, died in 1807. He had two sons, Sam-
uel and Jabez.

(VI) Jabez, son of Ashel Cowles, born in
1761, also had two sons, Linus and Luman.

(VII) Luman, son of Jabez Cowles, born
in 1789, died in 1823. He had four children,
Alonzo, Chandler, Luman and Emily. After
the death of Luman Cowles, his widow mar-
ried his brother Linus, who had had six chil-
dren by a previous wife (Eunicia Pardee) ;
and there were three children by this mar-
riage. Ruel P. Cowles, of New Haven ; Henry
M. Cowles, of Southington, and Sarah E.
(Cowles) Tolman.

The Graham family was es-
GRAHAM tablished as early as 1150 in
Linlithgowshire, Forfarshire,
Perthshire, Stirlingshire, Dumfriesshire, and
the surname was spelled also Graeme. Some
of the descendants still use the old spelling
Grimes. The family possesses the dukedom,
marquisate and earldom of Montrose ; the
marquisate of Graham and Buchanan ; earl-
doms of Airth, Kincardine, Menteith and
Strathern ; viscountcies of Dundas, Dundee
and Preston ; lordships of Aberuthven, Kil-
point, etc. ; barony of Esk, etc. 'The family
is reputed to be of Norman origin, coming
at the time of the Conquest to England and
Scotland. From James Graham, Marquis of
Montrose, a noted Royalist who fought on the
side of Charles I in the first civil war of
England, the family of this sketch is de-
scended.

(I) James Graham, born at Albany, New
York, January 23, 183 1, was a son of the
immigrant ancestor who came from Scotland1
to America a few years before that date and
settled in Albany. He was a brass founder
and manufacturer and established the firm of
James Graham & Company, having brass-
foundries at Albany. He went to Branford,
Connecticut, in 1855, and had charge of a
foundry, and in 1861 came to New Haven and
established the foundry of James Graham &
Company.

He was a successful man of affairs and a
useful and honored citizen, serving the town-
in which he lived on the board of selectmen,
as representative to the general assembly and
as state senator. His marked characteristics
were integrity and generosity. He used his
wealth wisely and usefully. He married Ma-
ria, born October, 1835, daughter of Augustus
Foote, of Branford.

(II) Charles E., only child of James Gra-
ham, was born at Branford, February 9, 1858.
He removed with his parents to New Haven
when he was but five years old and was edu-

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cated at the Webster school there, in the pub-
lic schools of West Haven; in General Rus-
sell's Military School at New Haven and
at the Williston Seminary at Easthampton,
Massachusetts. He was ambitious to follow
the business m which his father had engaged
and he became associated with him in business.
He succeeded his father and since the senior
partner died has conducted the business of
James Graham & Company with notable suc-
cess. In addition to the brass business he
has other and varied interests. He organized
the West Haven Manufacturing Company,
manufacturers of hardware specialties, and
has been from the first its president and treas-
urer. He is vice-president of the Utah &
Eastern Copper Company ; president of the
Wire Novelty Company ; was treasurer of the
Mayo Radiator Company, which he helped to
establish, and director of the Evening Leader
Company, publishing the New Haven Leader,
also vice-president of J. H. Burwell & Com-
pany, New York, manufacturers of telegraph
instruments.

In politics he is a Republican. He repre-
sented the town of Orange in the general as-
sembly in 1897, serving on the committee on
insurance. In 1903 he was state senator from
the seventh district of Connecticut, and dur-
ing his term of office was chairman of three
committees, claims, executive nominations and
forfeited rights. He evinced unusual ability
as a legislator and worked zealously in the in-
terests of his constituents. His favorite sport
is yachting and he is well known among the
yachtsmen of Long Island sound. He is a
member of Agawam Lodge, No. 115, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Wrest Haven ; of Frank-
lin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of New
Haven ;* of New Haven Commandery, Knights
Templar, and has taken the Scottish Rite de-
grees to and including the thirty-second. He
is also a member of the Union League Club
of New Haven; of the Phoenix Club and of
the Congregational Church of West Haven.
He married, October 19, 1881, at New Haven,
Hattie Augusta, born in August, 1859, daugh-
ter of Esteves E. Marsh, of West Haven.
They have one child, Margarite Marsh, born
March 13, 1887.

Richard Mansfield, one of
MANSFIELD the first settlers of New
Haven, Connecticut, came
from Exeter, Devonshire, England, and set-
tled in "Quinnipiac" in 1639; he died in 1655.
He married and among his children was Jos-
eph, see forward.

CII) Joseph, son of Richard Mansfield,
was born in England, probably in 1636, died

in 1692. He took the freeman's oath in 1657,
and he owned land on the present site of the
college buildings in New Haven. He mar-
ried, and among his children was Joseph,
see forward.

(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Mans-
field, was born December 27, 1673, died in
1739. He married Elizabeth Cooper and
among their children was Joseph, see forward.

(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Elizabeth (Cooper) Mansfield, was born Au-
gust 17, 1708, died about 1762. He married
Phebe Bassett, and among their children was
Titus, see forward.

(V) Titus, son of Joseph (3) and Phebe
(Bassett) Mansfield, was born November 5,
1734, died about 1808. He married Mabel,
daughter of Gershom Todd, and among their
children was Jesse, see forward.

(VI) Jesse, son of Titus and Mabel (Todd)
Mansfield, was born August 11, 1772, died in
1825. He married Keziah Stiles, who died
in 1854, aged eighty-two. Among their chil-
dren was Jesse Merrick, see forward.

(VII) Jesse Merrick, second son of Jesse
and Keziah (Stiles) Mansfield, was born July
11, 1801, died March 27, 1878. He married
(first) 1826, Charlotte Heaton : (second)
1845, Juna Turtle; (third) 1850, Catherine B.
Warner. Among his children was Burton,
see forward.

(VIII) Burton, son of Jesse Merrick and
Catherine B. (Warner) Mansfield, was born
in Hamden, Connecticut, April 4, 1856. He
attended the public schools at New Haven,
the rectory school at Hamden, Hopkins gram-
mar school at New Haven, where he prepared
for the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni-
versity, from which he graduated in 1875, and
Yale Law School, from which he graduated in
1878. He took up the practice of law in New
Haven, mostly probate law, immediately after
graduation, in which he is still engaged. He
was clerk of the probate court for the district
of New Haven in 1875-76, and has held sev-
eral other local and state offices. In politics
he affiliates with the Democratic party. He
is now president of the Connecticut Savings
Bank, which institution has recently erected
one of the finest banking houses in the state.
He is a vestryman of St. Thomas's Church
and was superintendent of the Sunday school
for many years. He is earnestly interested
in the Missionary work of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and is frequently present at
conventions and other gatherings in his own
and other dioceses. Mr. Mansfield married
(first) October 18, 1882, Elizabeth H.,
daughter of Samuel E. Barney, of New
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oncl), October 16, 1900, Anna RosaRe, daugh-
ter of Elihu Mix, also of New Haven.

The name Palmer was origi-
PALMER nally a common title of those

who had returned from the
Holy Land, and brought back, as a token and
remembrance of their pilgrimage, a palm
branch. Thus in Marmion, Canto I, xxiii :

"Here is a holy Palmer come,
From Salem first, and last from Rome."

Certain returned Crusaders, and as a rec-
ognition of their merit, were knighted and
allowed to assume this title as a surname. It
is a common name in England, and there were
several representatives of it in New England
previous to 1635.

(I) William Palmer, the first American im-
migrant of the name, came to this country in
the ship "Fortune" with his son William in
162 1, and was followed two years later by
his wife Frances in the ship "Anne." He
settled in Plymouth. His land was in what
was later set off as Duxbury. There he lived
and died.* His will was dated December 4,
1636, and proved March 5 following; it men-
tions "young wife Rebecca." By his second
wife he had a son Henry and a daughter
Bridget. His land in Duxbury was sold in
1638 to John Bissell.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Palmer, was born in England. He married,
in Scituate, March 27, 1633, Elizabeth Hodg-
kins. He died in Plymouth before his father;
and after his father's death his widow mar-
ried (second), John Willis. She sued the
executors of the will of William (1) Palmer,
because she had been the wife of William (2)
Palmer, for a share in the former's estate,
but it was denied her.

(III) William (3), son of William (2)
Palmer, was born June 27, 1634. He married
a daughter of Robert Paddock, of Plymouth,
who died early. He settled in Dartmouth, of
which he was one. of the first purchasers. He
died in 1679, previous to June 3d. He left
a widow, whose name was Susannah ; a tradi-
tion makes her a Hathaway ; at any rate, Ar-
thur Hathaway was joined with her in the ad-
ministration of her husband's estate. He left
children also, William, John, and others.

(IV) William (4), son of William (3)
Palmer, was born in 1663. He settled in Lit-
tle Compton, Rhode Island, where the births
of all his children are recorded. He married

* William Palmer, of Yarmouth, whom Savage
confounds with the Plymouth man, was entirely a
different person, who ultimately removed to Long
Island, and died there.

in 1685, Mary Richmond, born in 1668, daugh-
ter of Captain Edward Richmond, born 1632,
died November, 1696, who came to this coun-
try before his father; married (first) Abigail,
daughter of James Davis; (second) Amy,
daughter of Governor Henry and Elizabeth
Bull. John Richmond, father of Captain Ed-
ward Richmond, was born in Ashton-Keynes,
Wiltshire, England, in 1594; was one of the
original purchasers of Taunton ; settled at
Newport, Rhode Island, but he died March
20, 1664, at Taunton. Children of William
and Mary (Richmond) Palmer: William,
born January 17, 1686; Elizabeth, November
12, 1687; Joseph, June 19, 1689; Susannah,
October 24, 1692; John, November 13, 1794;
Thomas, January 7, 1697, mentioned below ;
Mary, January 10, 1699; Benjamin, Novem-
ber 3, 1700; Abigail, April 5, 1702; Patience,
February 19, 1704; Silvester, May 2, 1706;
Peleg, March 18, 1708.

(V) Thomas, fourth son of William (4)
Palmer, was born at Little Compton, Janu-
ary 7, 1697, died May 3, 1768. He married,
April 5, 1 74 1, Abiel Wilbor (given Abigail
in the Tiverton records) ; married by Richard
Billings, Esq., and recorded also at Little
Compton. Children, born at Little Compton:
Joseph, May 3, 1742, mentioned below;
Thomas, September 5, 1743, died April, 1803 ;
Elkanah, August 3, 1745, died March 19,
1806: Mary, June 10, 1747: William, May 21,
1749; Benedict, October 29, 1753, died July
29, 1837.

(VI) Captain Joseph, son of Thomas Pal-
mer, was born at Little Compton, May 3, 1742,
died March 17, 1791. He was captain in the
state militia. He married, in 1767, Hannah
Briggs, born November 28, 1746, died March
4, 1835. Children, born at Little Compton :
Abigail, June 13, 1768, died December 27,
1850; Ruth, January 20, 1771, died Sep-
tember 20, 1778; Thomas, March 12, 1773,
mentioned below ; Mary, born March 20, 1776,
died January 22, 1850; Hannah, December
19, 1777, died December 7, 1842 ; Ruth, March
27> J779> Priscilla, November 6, 1781 ;
Simeon, October 14, 1785, died July 17, 1853;
Ann, July 7, 1791, died in 187 1.

(VII) Judge Thomas (2), son of Captain
Joseph Palmer, was born March 12, 1773,
died June 25, 1857. He was judge of New-
port county. He married, June 29, 1800, Su-
sannah, daughter of Captain Richard and Fal-
lie (Gray) Palmer. Children, born at Little
Compton, Rhode Island : Richard Addison,
May 20, 1 80 1 ; Julius Auboyneau, June 14,
1803 ; Angelina, November 2, 1805 ; Ray, No-
vember 12, 1808, mentioned below ; Asher,
February 28, 181 1 ; DeWitt C, June 17, 1813;

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Amanda, April 26, 1815; Susanna, February
9, 1817. Child, by second wife, Mrs. Mary
(Bailey) Richmond: Henry Kirk White, Sep-
tember 23, 1819.

(VIII) Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D., son of
Judge Thomas (2) Palmer, was born No-
vember 12, 1808, in Little Compton, Rhode
Island. He was in the class of 1830, Yale
College. He began his career as a teacher in
1830 in New York City; in 1831 became as-
sistant to Professor E. A. Andrews, in the
Young Ladies' Institute in New Haven, in
the building afterward occupied by General
William H. Russell's School for Boys. He
later became the head master of the school,
but resigned in 1834 to enter the ministry. In
1835 he was settled in his first pastorate, at
Bath, Maine, whence he removed in 1850 to
Albany. New York ; there he was pastor of
the First Congregational Church until 1866.
He was the author of many hymns, of which
upwards of sixty were published and many
are still in use ; of these the best known is
"My faith looks up to Thee." He was a wise,
faithful and industrious minister, with the
tact, judicial balance and conciliatory spirit so
necessary to success in a pastor. He pub-
lished several volumes, and was a fruitful
writer in reviews and journals. He died
March 29, 1887, in Newark, New Jersey. He
married, October 3, 1832, Ann Maria Waud,
born August 2, 1814, died March 8. 1886, at
Newark, New Jersey, daughter of Major Mar-
maduke Waud, a native of England, who came
to this country in 1805, with his father, and
fought on the American side in the war of
1812; she was a descendant on her mother's
side of John Odgen, who was mentioned in
the Charter of Connecticut obtained by Win-
throp. Children : Charles Ray, born May 2,
1834; Mary Helen, August 18, 1836; Ed-
ward E., July 24, 1838 ; William A., April 16,
1840; Henry L., April 23, 1842; Mary Pat-
ten, February 13, 1844; Harriet S., August 1,
1845 '■> Maria Waud, May 20, 1848 ; Edward
N., April 22, 1852; Francis A., July 10, 1853.

(IX) Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D.D., son
of Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D., was born in New
Haven, May 2, 1834. He was an active youth,
and received the severe training that custom
prescribed for all boys in New England at
that time. When very young he developed a
fondness for books and music, however, and
from his college days he became a student of
history and biography to an unusual degree.
Of his earlier days he says: "I was taught to
do every kind of manual labor that the house-
hold life required, after the old New England
fashion, a valuable preparation to be oneself
a householder." He attended the public

schools and the high school at Bath, Maine,
then entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas-
sachusetts, from which he graduated in 185 1.
Four years later he was graduated from Yale
College in the class of 1855, winning distinc-
tion by his scholarship. In 1858 he received
the degree of A. M. from Yale, and in 1889
the degree of D.D. For a time after gradua-
tion he was tutor in a private family at Rod-
ney, Mississippi. He then entered the An-
dover Theological Seminary, in September,
1856, and was graduated in August, 1859.
He was licensed to preach by the Albany As-
sociation at Poughkeepsie, November 10,
1858, and was at Andover as a resident licen-
tiate from October 1, 1859, to March 30,
i860; at Albany from March to August, i860.
He was ordained pastor of the Tabernacle
Congregational Church at Salem, Massachu-
setts, August 29, i860. On account of trouble
with his eyes, he made a trip abroad in 1865,
sailing March 29 and returning October 3,
to resume his pastoral work a week later,
"with greatly invigorated health and relieved
entirely of difficulty in the use of his eyes."
After twelve years at Salem, he resigned to
accept a call to the pastorate of the First Con-
gregational Church of Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, in July, 1872. He continued here for a
period of twenty-three years, and "his power
for good was felt not only in his own large
church and in his home city, but throughout
the entire State and beyond its borders."
In 1885 he wrote for his class report : (Quoted
from "Men of Mark in Connecticut," N. G.
Osborn). "I have no story to tell, but one
of hard work in my profession, without any
shining distinctions. Have never waited an
hour for a place to work in ; have never
wanted any better place than I had ; have
been pastor of two churches in succession, and
found useful in some positions of trust be-
side. I review the past years very humbly, but
very thankfully."

From 1864 to 1881 Dr. Palmer was a
director and some years secretary of the
Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and
Theological Education. He was a corporate
member of the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions from 187 1 to
1901, when he resigned. For several years he
was a trustee of Dummer Academy at By-
field, Massachusetts. He is a director of the
General Hospital of Connecticut, of which he
was chairman of the prudential committee
from 1896 to 1905. At one time he was
chaplain of the veteran organization known
as the Salem Light Infantry, part of the fa-
mous old Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. On
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1895 he was chosen pastor emeritus. At that
time he removed to New Haven, where he
has since resided, devoting much attention to
Yale University, of which he was elected a
fellow in 1880.

While Dr. Palmer has published no
books, he has written and published many
pamphlets and sermons. Among- the sermons
is one on "Preaching Christ to Men," preached
in Mansfield College, Oxford University,
England, in 1889, and published in a memorial
volume in London. Notable among his his-
torical publications was his oration at the un-
veiling of the John Robinson memorial tablet
in Leyden, Holland, July 24, 1891, under the
auspices of the National Council of Congre-
gational Churches of the United States. His
paper on "The Pilgrim Fathers and What
They Wrought" (1892) was published by the
Fairfield County Historical Society, and an-
other on the "Pilgrim Fathers" was published
by the Congregational Union of England and
Wales (London, 1893). His Historical Dis-
course at the Bicentennial Celebration of the
First Church and Society of Bridgeport was
also published (1895). He is a member of
several learned societies, among which are :
The American Historical Association, the New
Haven Colony Historical Society, the Fair-
field County Historical Society, the Congre-
gational Historical Society of England, the
Archaeological Institute of America, the Amer-
ican Oriental Society, and the Connecticut
Branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund, of
which he is president. He has also been a
member of the American Academy of Political
Science, the Victoria Institute or Philosophi-
cal Society of Great Britain, and the Amer-
ican Exegetical Society. In politics he is a
Republican. He has said : "The first requi-
site to true success in life is incorruptible
character ; next, industry, concentration, readi-
ness to serve where opportunity offers, per-
sistence in well-doing." His sympathy is
with all things that go to making men better
and stronger, physically and mentally as well
as spiritually.

Aside from his descent from William
Palmer, of Plymouth, Dr. Palmer is a descend-
ant through female lines from several of the
"Mayflower" company, including Richard
Warren and John Alden. His home is at 562
Whitney, avenue, New Haven.

He married, February 10, 1869, Mary
Chapin Barnes, born May 25, 1844, died April
22, 1888, daughter of Alfred Smith and Har-
riet E. (Burr) Barnes, of Brooklyn. Chil-
dren : Alfred Barnes, born February 18, 1870,
died in 1892; Edith Burr, November 23, 1871 ;
married Arthur Ellsworth Foote.

Walter Palmer, the immigrant,
PALMER was born, according to tradi-
tion, in county Nottingham,
England, and died in Stonington, Connecti-
cut, November 19, 1661. The first authentic
records of him in New England are in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, when he and
Abraham Palmer were admitted freemen, May
14, 1634. He owned considerable real estate,
and received land in the first division in 1637
and again in the division of 1643. He was
among those who met to prepare for the new
settlement at Seacuncke, afterward Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, and in 1653 removed to what
is now Stonington, Connecticut. He bought
land from Governor Haynes on the east bank
of the Wequetequoc river. His whole tract of
land contained about twelve hundred acres.
His will was dated May 19, 1658, and proved
May 11, 1662. He married (first), in Eng-
land, Ann . He married (second) Re-
becca Short, a member of Rev. John Eliot's
church in Roxbury. Children of first wife:
Grace ; John ; William ; Jonas ; Elizabeth ;
children of second wife : Hannah, born June
16, 1634; Elihu, January 24, 1636; Nehemiah,
November 27, 1637; Moses, April 6, 1640;
Benjamin, May 30, 1642; Gershom, mentioned
below ; Rebecca.

(II) Gershom, son of Walter Palmer, was
baptized in Charlestown. On June 5, 1684,
he received from his brothers five hundred
acres of land in Stonington, as a part of their
parent's estate. May 3, 1693, there was laid
out to Lieutenant Gershom Palmer, first fifty
acres, then one hundred acres, and again an-
other fifty acres. May 6, 1706, Gershom
Palmer gave "for love of his son Ichabod,
and for his wife and children, as his portion
of his father's estate, land by the Mill Brook,
in Stonington." December 23, 1708, he gave
his sons, George and Walter, all his farm, they
to allow him, for the rest of his natural life,
one-third of the produce of the land, to dwell
in the east end of his "now dwelling house,"
and they to fulfill the agreement he made with
his "now wife" (second wife) before their
marriage. This agreement was drawn up No-
vember 1, 1707, on the eve of his second mar-
riage with the widow of Major Samuel Ma-
son, but on June 16, 1718, he made another
deed in which he stated that he had, before
marriage, agreed to give his wife twenty
pounds before his own decease, and that he
had ordered his sons to pay this, but since
he had been boarding his wife's two daugh-
ters, Elizabeth and Hannah Mason, for some
time, he had caused different arrangements to
be made. November 20, 171 1, there was laid
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purchase of Cattapeset, by virtue of eighty- About the year 1786 he removed to that part

six acres which were granted to Mrs. Anna of Preston which is now known as Griswold,

Stanton, Robert and Samuel Stanton, Moses New London county. On January 2, 1789,

Palmer, deceased, Benjamin Palmer, Thomas he, then of Preston, sold to Elias Sanford

Ilewett, deceased, and James Dean. May 9, Palmer and to William Brown a tract in Ston-

1718, Deacon Gershom Palmer gave his sons ington, which was lying on Palmer's Neck. He

Ichabod, William, George and Walter a deed married, November 5, 1747, Dorothy Brown,

of three hundred and twenty-five acres of land who was born in Preston and died there,

at Puckhunganuck, during his life; after, to March 1, 1808. He died November 6, 1810.

the sons of his son William each one-fourth Children: Prudence, born August 18, 1748;

of it. He married (first), in Stonington, No- Dolly; Zeruiah, born in Preston, 1756; Naomi;

vember 28, 1667, Ann, daughter of Captain Esther; Reuben, June 12, 1759, mentioned be-

George and Ann (Borodel) Denison. Her low ; Lois, April 23, 1761 ; Lucretia; Keturah;

mother was of a fine old English family, and Amy.

from her Mrs. Palmer inherited such stately (V) Rev. Reuben Palmer, son of Rev. Ger-
and gracious manners that she was commonly shorn Palmer, was born in Stonington, June
styled "Lady Ann." She was born May 20, 12, 1759. He was first ordained as elder in the
1649, and died, in Stonington, 1694. He mar- Baptist church of Preston, and while there
ried (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Mason. He was called to the old Baptist church in Mont-
died September 27, 1718. She was the widow ville, New London county, Connecticut. He
of Major Samuel Mason, of Stonington, and served until he was publicly installed, Decem-
her maiden name was Peck, and she was from ber 25, 1798, and there continued until the
the Rehoboth, Massachusetts, family of that time of his decease. He married, November
name. Children of Gershom and Ann (Deni- 16, 1780, Lucretia, daughter of Caleb and
son) Palmer: Mercy, born 1669; Gershom, Hannah (Barnes) Tyler, who was born in
baptized September 2, 1677 ; Ichabod, baptized Preston, November 12, 1764, and died in
September 2, 1677; William, baptized April Montville, August 15, 1855. He died April
25, 1678; George, baptized May 29, 1680, 22, 1822. Children: Hannah, born Decem-
mentioned below; Rebecca, baptized 1682, died ber 25, 1781 ; Sally, October 16, 1783; Reu-
young; Ann, baptized May 20, 1682; Walter, ben, December 26, 1784; Lucretia, April 25,
baptized June 7, 1685; Elihu, baptized May 6, 1786; Mary, December 17, 1787; Caleb, June
1688; Mary, baptized June 8, 1690; Rebecca, 29, 1790: Tyler, March 4, 1792; Gideon, Oc-
baptized July 1, 1694. tober 23, 1793, mentioned below; Joshua, Oc-

(III) George, son of Deacon Gershom tober 15, 1795; Gershom, August 6, 1796;
Palmer, was baptized in Stonington, May 29, Samuel, February 11, 1798; Rhoda, October
1680. In a deed dated October 8, 1729, it is 18, 1799; Peter A., May 11, 1801 ; Achsah,
set forth that George Palmer in his will made May 12, 1803; Lois, December 30, 1804;
his wife, Hannah, his executrix, with his sons, Emma, December 30, 1807 ; Thankful, Jan-
Christopher and Joseph. As his widow was uary 29, 1809.

married in the next year, we know that he (VI) Gideon, son of Elder Reuben Palmer,

died in 1729. January 25, 1738-39, Hannah, was born October 23, 1793. He was associ-

former wife of George Palmer, now wife of ated in business with his father. Among

William York, gave a quit-claim deed of her other enterprises, they were engaged in the

right to one-third of the estate. George extraction of oil from flaxseed, and while thus

Palmer married, March 11, 171 1, in Stoning- occupied he developed and patented a process

ton, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Frances for extracting oil from cotton seed, and thus

(Prentice) Palmer, born May 31, 1694. She originated one of the great industries of the

married (second) February 22, 1730, Wil- country. He also invented an oil press. The

liam York. Children : Christopher, born Feb- patent on the cotton seed oil process, issued

ruary 13, 1712; Zebulon, February 4, 1714; in 1830, bears the signatures of Martin Van

Joseph, August 16, 1716-17; George, junior, Buren and Andrew Jackson, and is greatly

September 16, 1719; Gershom, October 12, prized by Isaac E. Palmer, in whose posses-

1725, mentioned below. Children of Hannah sion it is at present. Mr. Palmer married,

(Palmer) York: Amos York, born October July 11, 1813, Mercy M., daughter of Isaac

13, 1730; Molly York, April 30, 1732; Jona- and Anna (Comstock) Turner, of Montville,

than, August 29, 1735. Connecticut. Children: Elisha Hurlbert ;

(IV) Rev. Gershom (2) Palmer, son of Gideon; Cornelia; Sarah Anne; William
George Palmer, was born in Stonington, Octo- Henry; Matthew; Reuben; Theresa; Joseph;
ber 12, 1725. In 1747 he sold land lately be- Isaac Emerson; Herbert.

longing to his deceased father, George Palmer. (VII) Isaac Emerson, son of Gideon Palm-

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cr, was born in Montville, Connecticut, Febru-
ary 2J> 1836.

He attended the public schools and
the Sufneld Academy. Early in life he
learned the secrets of manufacturing, and,
under the instruction of his father, became
skilled in mechanical arts. In 1855 Mr. Palm-
er established and conducted a cotton mill at
Houston, Texas. The summer of 1859 found
him engaged in the manufacture of lace mos-
quito canopies at St. Louis, Missouri. It was
here that he conceived his first invention, the
self-adjusting pulley. From St. Louis he re-
turned to his home at Palmertown, Montville,
and began the manufacture of wide nettings,
being the pioneer in the use of the power loom
for this purpose. In 1865 he transferred his
business interests to Middletown, where he
has continued in active business down to the
present time. In 1867 Mr. Palmer invented
the Palmer tentering machine. This inven-
tion, together with a patented starching pro-
cess, gave him entire command of the crinoline
situation, which had been hitherto under the
control of foreign manufacturers. Eighteen
\ ears later he introduced the cotton woven
hammock, an acceptable departure from the
crude and uncomfortable Mexican hammocks
of the time, and now one of the most im-
portant branches of his business. In 1907
Mr. Palmer incorporated his interests as the
I. E. Palmer Company, of which he is presi-
dent and treasurer. All of the products of the
company were originated or made commer-
cially practicable by Mr. Palmer, and are
manufactured under methods peculiarly his
own.

In religion Mr. Palmer is an Episcopalian,
in politics a Republican. He is a member of
the Union League Club of New York City,
the Princess Anne Club, Virginia Beach, Vir-
ginia, the Tourilli Club, Quebec, Canada, and
St. John's Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married, May 16, 1876, Matilda,
daughter of Samuel and Caroline (Johnson)
Townsend, of Warren county, Mississippi, and
granddaughter of Hon. William G. Johnson,
of Uncasville, Connecticut. Children : Town-
send ; Natalie Townsend ; Isaac Emerson, de-
ceased.

The origin of the name Treat is
TREAT not known, but it is probably a

place name, and in its present
form dates back as early as 1572. The family
was one of title and had a coat-of-arms. The
family is numerous in county Somerset, Eng-
land, and was found also in other parts of
England. The spelling has varied, some of
its forms being, Trat, Trate, Tret, Treet,

Treete, Trot, Troot, Treat, and others. The
name is rare in England to-day, however.

(I) John Treat, or Trott was of Staple-
grove, near Taunton, county Somerset, Eng-
land. His name occurs often in the Taunton
Manor Rolls.

(II) William Trott was probably son of
John Trott, and his name is found in the
calendars as of the same parish and hundred
of Staplegrove. The following are supposed
to be his children : William ; Richard, men-
tioned below ; Joanna, of Staplegrove, in 1542;.
Lucy, Alice, John, probably died 1584 in
Bishop's Compton.

(ITT) Richard Trott, son of William Trott,

died about 1 5 7 1 . He married Joanna ,

who was probably buried at Otterford, Au-
gust 14, 1577. He lived at Staplegrove,
Poundisford and Otterford. Children: John,
buried, October 16, 1544, in Pitminster ; John,
died about 1595: Robert, mentioned below;
William, buried March 19, 1596: Tamsen.

(IV) Robert Trott, son of Richard Trott,.
was baptized probably in the hamlet of
Trendle, now Trull, parish of Pitminster,
England, and was buried in Pitminster, Feb-
ruary 16, 1599. He married Honora or

Honour , who was buried September

17, 1627, in Pitminster. His will was dated
in 1598-99, and was proved in Taunton. Chil-
dren: Alice, baptized February 4, 1564; John,
baptized September 10, 1570; buried May 7,
1633; Mary, baptized February 6, 1575; Ag-
nes, baptized February 18, 1577; Tamsen, bap-
tized May 26, 1 58 1 ; Richard, mentioned
below.

(V) Richard (2) Treat, son of Robert
Trott, or Treat, was baptized August 28, 1684,
in Pitminster, in. the hamlet of Trendle, county
Somerset, England. He was the immigrant
ancestor, and spelled his name in several ways,
Trott, Trett. Treat, etc. He settled at Weth-
ersfield, Connecticut, and was one of the four
pioneers that were honored with the titles of
Mr. He was a deputy to the general court in
1644, perhaps earlier, and held that office until
1657-58. He was a juror in 1643; was assist-
ant or magistrate eight times, from March n,
1657-58 to 1665 : in 1660 a townsman ; mem-
ber of Governor Winthrop's council in 1663-
64, and served on many important committees
of the town and church. He owned much
land and other real estate in Wethersfield.
His will is dated February 13, 1668, and the
inventory was dated March 3, 1669-70, soon
after his death. Children, born and baptized
in Pitminster, England: Honor, born 1616;
Joanna, baptized May 24, 1618, died 1694;
Sarah, baptized December 3, 1620 ; Richard,
baptized January 9, "1622-23 ; Robert, men-

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tioned below ; Elizabeth, baptized October 8,
1629, died 1706; Alice, baptized February 16,
1631-32, buried August 2, 1633; James, bap-
tized July 20, 1634, died February 12, 1709;
Katherine, baptized June 29, 1637.

(VI) Governor Robert (2) Treat, son of
Richard (2) Treat, was born in Pitminster,
England, about 1624, baptized February 25,
1624-25, died July 12, 1710 (gravestone at
Milford, Connecticut). He married (first)
Jane Tapp, who died the last of October, 1703,
aged seventy-five, daughter of Edmund Tapp.
He married (second) October 24, 1705, Mrs.
Elizabeth (Hollingsworth) Bryan, born June
f6, 1641, died January 10, 1706, aged sixty-
eight, a daughter of Elder Michael and Abi-
gail Powell, of Boston, and had married (first)
August 23, 1659, Richard Hollingsworth and
(second) Richard Bryan. Children: Samuel,
baptized September 3, 1648 ; John, baptized
October 20, 1650; Mary, born May 1, 1652;
Robert, born August 14, 1654, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah, October 9, 1656 ; Abigail, died
December 25, 1727; Hannah, born January 1,
1660-61 ; Joseph, September 17, 1662.

Robert Treat was among the early settlers
of Milford, Connecticut, coming from Weth-
ersfield, and at the first meeting of the plant-
ers, November 20, 1639, was one of nine
appointed to survey and lay out lands. He
subsequently returned to Wethersfield and was
elected rate-maker there in 1647. Returning
soon afterward to Milford, he joined the
church there with his wife, April 19, 1649. ^n
1653 he was chosen deputy to the general
court and the following year was elected lieu-
tenant of the Milford militia company. He
became a large landholder and a strong and
influential factor in the development of the
colony. He was often chosen to purchase and
divide public lands. He was early a promi-
nent member of the church, and in 1660 was
one of the laymen chosen to perform the cere-
mony of laying on of hands at the installation
of Rev. Roger Newton. He held the post of
deputy until 1659, with the exception of one
year, and then being elected magistrate, he
served for five years on the governor's coun-
cil, and was re-elected, but declined further
service. In 1663 he was again chosen magis-
trate for Milford, and he was also captain of
the military forces. In May, 1664, he and
William Jones were appointed to meet a com-
mittee from Massachusetts to consider various
matters of common interest. He was again
elected magistrate, but declined. He was act-
ive in the consummation of the union of the
New Haven and Connecticut colonies under
one government. In 1665 he was a deputy to
the general court, and the following year was

nominated for the office of assistant and de-
feated. He was a delegate to go to New Jer-
sey in the interests of those dissatisfied with
conditions in Connecticut and desiring to settle
there. The movement resulted in the estab-
lishment of the town of Newark, and Treat
and ten others were appointed to have charge
of the government, and he was the foremost
citizen. From 1667 to 1672 he was deputy
to the New Jersey general assembly. In 1672
he returned to his old home in Connecticut,
though a son and daughter remained. Upon
his return he was placed second in command
of the forces in preparation to fight the Dutch
in New York, and at the next election was
chosen assistant and continued for three years,
serving also on the committee of safety, which
acted when the general court was not in ses-
sion. He had many important public duties
on committees of the general court and held
many private trusts. When King Philip's war
broke out he was commissioned major in com-
mand of the Connecticut quota. He saved
Springfield from destruction and took active
part in the campaign in western Massachusetts
and the Connecticut valley. He defeated the
Indians at Hadley in October. He took a
leading part in the famous Swamp Fight,
when the Narragansetts were defeated. Four
of his five captains were slain, but he escaped
with a bullet hole in his hat. After the death
of King Philip, Major Treat returned home,
and was elected deputy governor, continuing
in this office seven years. He also served as
judge of committee, especially in Indian af-
fairs, now at the request of Northampton to
mediate with the Indians for the return of
captives and a treaty of peace, now on the
committee of safety and twice as commissioner
for the United Colonies and twice also as sub-
stitute for other commissioners. In 1683 he
was elected governor, to succeed Governor
Leete, who died in April. He had to deal
with many exceedingly trying problems of
state in his administration. There was fric-
tion with other colonies and encroachments on
all sides. Then came the crushing blow in-
flicted by King James in revoking the colonial
charter and the assumption of power by the
infamous Andros. When James fell and An-
dros was overthrown, Governor Treat and the
colonial officers resumed their stations. Af-
ter the custom of the times, he served as dep-
uty governor after he was governor, and he
was in this important post from the age of
seventy-six to eighty-six, then declined and
retired. "Few men," says Trumbull, "have
sustained a fairer character or rendered the
public more important services. He was an
excellent military officer ; a man of singular

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courage and resolution, tempered with caution
and prudence. His administration of gov-
ernment was with wisdom, firmness and in-
tegrity. He was esteemed courageous, wise
and pious. He was exceedingly loved and
venerated by the people in general."

(VII) Captain Robert (3) Treat, son of
Governor Robert (2) Treat, was born August
14, 1654, in Mil ford, died March 20, 1720.
He was admitted freeman October 9, 1684;
appointed captain August 7, 1673. He was a
farmer. He married (first) about 1678, Eliza-
beth ; (second) about 1687, Abigail

Camp, born March 28, 1667. died March 20,
1742, daughter of Nicholas Camp. Children,
born at Milford by first wife : Elizabeth, bap-
tized September 14, 1679; Jane, baptized Jan-
uary 30, 1681. Children of second wife: Rob-
ert, mentioned below ; Samuel, baptized No-
vember 28, 1697; Jonathan, born March 17,
1 70 1 ; Abigail, baptized June 11, 1704.

(VIII) Robert (4) Treat, son of Captain
Robert (3) Treat, was born about 1694, bap-
tized January 6. 1694-95, died September 16,
1770. He graduated at Yale in 1718; was
appointed tutor there April 7, 1724, and re-
signed September, 1725, to follow farming at
Milford. He published almanacs in 1723-25-
27 at New London, Connecticut. He was
deputy to the general assembly from May,
1736, to May, 1767, with the exception of a
few years ; was auditor of colony accounts
1736 to 1744; justice of the peace and of the
quorum for New Haven county from 1742 to
1770; was one of the committee of war in
1744-57 : was one of the committee to settle
Rev. Mr. Whittlesey, December, 1737. He
married Jane Langstaff, baptized February 2,
1699, died November 12, 1793, daughter of
Bethuel and Hannah Langstaff. Children,
born at Milford and dates of baptism: Philo-
sebius, April 2^ 1727, mentioned below; Rob-
ert, October 11, 1730; Elijah, October 28,
1733 ; Isaac, February 16, 1735 ; Jane, Oc-
tober 10, 1736; Bethuel, November 5, 1738.

(IX) Philosebius Treat, son of Captain
Robert (4) Treat, was baptized in Milford,
April 23, 1727, died May 3, 1798 (gravestone
at Milford). He was a farmer at Milford.
He married (first) June, 1755, Mercy Hull,
of Bridgeport, born 173 1, died July 3, 1758.
He married (second) Elizabeth Baldwin, bap-
tized October 3, 1731, daughter of Stephen
and Eunice (Fowler) Baldwin. He married
(third) Sarah At water, born September 21,
1746, died September 8, 1822, daughter of
Isaac and Dorothy (Mix) Atwater. Chil-
dren, born at Milford, child of first wife:
Philosebius, born about 1756, soldier in the
revolution. Children of second wife : Eliza-

beth, 1759; Mercy; Eunice, 1763; Sarah, bap-
tized July 19, 1767. Children of third wife:
Elijah, baptized April 16, 1775; Stephen At-
water, 1777; Sarah, February 14, 1780; Isaac,
mentioned below ; Abigail, 1784.

(X) Captain Isaac Treat, son of Philose-
bius Treat, was born November 30, 1780, at
Milford, died March 11, 1844 (gravestone at
Milford.) He was a master mariner until
1822, when he retired to the homestead which
had been handed down in the family from
Robert Treat, son of Governor Treat. He
was in partnership with his brother, Major
Atwater Treat, in the shipping business. He
married, September 1, 1799, Elizabeth Miles,
born April 26, 1780, died November 4, i860
(gravestone at Milford). Children, born at
Milford: Atwater, January 16, 1801 ; Isaac,
September 29, 1802; Miles, October 19, 1804;
Sarah, mentioned below.

(XI) Sarah Treat, daughter of Captain
Isaac Treat, was born in Milford, May 4,
1808. She married. May 28, 1828, Wilson
Booth, born March 18, 1800, at Trumbull,
Connecticut, of Scotch ancestry. The name
was originally spelled DeBoothe, French
Huguenot, who went to Scotland and then to
America. He married a Miss Patterson, a
Scotch covenanter. He died August, 1888, in
New Haven, and was buried in Grove Street
cemetery. He came to New Haven in 1819,
and joined the North Church, August 13,
1828. He was a carpenter and builder and
erected many houses in New Haven and vicin-
ity. He held positions of trust in the town
and city. Children : Sarah Elizabeth, born
November 21, 1832, married, August 4, 1863,
Henry Champion (see Champion VIII) ; Wil-
liam Treat Booth, November 12, 1835, mar-
ried, June 3, 1862, Sarah A. Pierce ; child,
Alice Treat Booth, born July 13, 1863, died
May 2, 1908.

(The Champion Line).

(VI) Major Henry Champion, son of Gen-
eral Henry Champion (q. v.), was born at
Westchester, Connecticut, August 6, 1782, died
December 28, 1823. He married, May 5, 1803,
Ruth Kimberly, daughter of Rev. Robert and
Jerusha (Estabrooke) Robbins. Her father
was a graduate of Yale College in the class of
1760. Ruth was born October 5, 1782, at
Wethersfield, died September 12, 1863. Major
Champion enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Regi-
ment of the United States regular army, July
2, 1814, and served until February 25, 1815.
He was afterward commissioned major in the
Connecticut militia. He resided all his life in
his native town, and represented Colchester in
the general assembly in 1820. He was buried

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in the family lot in the burying- ground in
Westchester. His widow spent her last years
in Troy, New York, living with her brother,
Dr. Amastus Robbins, and her daughter, Mrs.
Edwards. Children, born at Westchester :
Robert Henry, born June 5, 1804, died in
February, 1805 ; George, June 3, 1810, men-
tioned below ; Maria, September 25, 1812,
married Hon. Jonathan Edwards ; Abigail
Jerusha, February 5, 1818.

(VII) Rev. George Champion, son of
Major Henry Champion, was born at West-
chester, Connecticut, June 3, 1810, died De-
cember 17, 1841, in St. Croix, West Indies.
From youth he was deeply religious, joining
the church in Westchester at the age of four-
teen. In 1828 he was admitted to the sopho-
more class of Yale College and was graduated
in 183 1. Pursuing a purpose that he formed
in youth, he entered the Andover Theological
Seminary and took a three-year course. He
was ordained at Colchester, November 19,
1834. as missionary to the Zulus near Port
Natal in South Africa. General Henry
Champion was very fond of this grandson, the
only one left to perpetuate the surname, and
being unwilling to have him go to Africa,
offered to pay the expenses of five mission-
aries to go in his place. But George Cham-
pion was determined to go. He said : "If I
stay at home, it will be said that only the poor
go. You may send the five, and I will go
myself, and that will make six missionaries."
When General Champion found that he could
not dissuade him from going, he generously
gave $60,000 for the expenses of the party.
Rev. Mr. Champion and wife embarked at
Boston, December 2. 1834, and arrived at
Capetown after a passage of sixty-seven days,
being one of the first missionaries in South
Africa. "Then," says his journal, "with eyes
fixed upon the land of the benighted African,
whose hazy mountains a kind God had allowed
us at last to see, as we entered the harbor at
Xatal we sang the hymn :

'O'er the gloomy hills of darkness
Look my Soul, be still and gaze.'

It was Africa that we saw, and these moments
on the deck of our good ship which had
brought us hither were rich in blessing. We
had arrived at our field of labor, and our
hearts leaped for joy." The party at once
began to study the Zulu language, and they
were soon able to address the heathen in their
own tongue. On July 22, 1835, the party set
out for Bethelsdorg, where it was decided to
leave the women while the men continued to
the territory under the rule of Prince Dingaan,
who received them kindly and allowed them

to build a home and establish a school. Air.
Champion labored in Africa for four years,
devoting his mind, strength and means to the
work. He was one of three who commenced
to translate the Bible into Zulu. He had
translated the Gospel of Matthew before the
war between the Zulus and Boers broke up
the mission. He then returned home on a
visit, hoping to return after the war. He ac-
cepted the pastorate of a new church at Dover,
Massachusetts, and entered upon his duties
there October 3, 1839. He preached with
zeal and efficiency for two years. He was
seized with consumption and sought to re-
cover his health by a trip to the West Indies.
His wife and sister accompanied him. He
failed rapidly, however, and died soon after
reaching St. Croix.

He married, at Webster, Massachusetts,
November 14, 1834, Susanna Larned, born
March 30, 1808, died July 8, 1846, in Bos-
ton, daughter of John and Susanna (Moore)
Larned. Children: 1. George, born Decem-
ber 17, 1835, at P°rt Elizabeth, South Africa,
died November 21, 1841, in Troy, New York.
2. Henry, born and died January 10, 1837, in
Ginani ("I am with you," name given by Mrs.
Champion), South Africa. 3. Henry, Novem-
ber 8, 1838, mentioned below. 4. Susan,
March 23, 1841, at Dover, died there October
19, 1841.

(VIII) Henry, son of Rev. George Cham-
pion, was born November 8, 1838, in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, died January 30,
1867, in Mankato, Minnesota. He prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, and was graduated from Yale
College in the class of i860. After a year
spent in the study of modern languages at
New Haven he entered Yale Law School in
September, 1861. He was admitted to the
Connecticut bar. May 15, 1863, and estab-
lished himself in practice at New Haven. In
January, 1866, he was obliged by continued
ill health to seek a change of climate, and
he removed with his wife to Mankato, Minne-
sota, where he died a year later. In July,
1863, ne compiled and published a catalogue of
the Greek and Roman coins belonging to Yale
College, of which he had charge, and in the
arrangement of which he spent much time.
He subsequently gave to the college his own
large and valuable collection of over two thou-
sand coins and valuable coin books. Mr.
Champion also prepared a history of Governor
Robert Treat, which he read before the New
Haven Colony Historical Society, and he also
wrote and published several articles on Nu-
mismatics. During his residence at Mankato
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general interest to the local newspaper. At
the time of his death he was secretary of his
college class. He was a member of the City
Tract Society and assistant superintendent of
the North Church Sunday school. He was
active in religious work and of strong and
upright character.

He married, August 4, 1863, Sarah Eliza-
beth Booth, born at New Haven, November
21, 1832, daughter of Wilson and Sarah
(Treat) Booth. Her father was born in
Trumbull, Connecticut, March 18, 1800, son
of Daniel and Betsey (Booth) Booth; her
mother was born at Milford, Connecticut, May
4, 1808; married May 28, 1828. Mrs. Cham-
pion had one brother, William Treat Booth,
born November 12, 1835, died July 8, 1903;
married, June 3, 1862, Sarah A., daughter of
Volney and Abigail (Goodsell) Pierce; she
died May II, 1902; child, Alice Treat Booth,
born July 13, 1863, died May 2, 1908. Mrs.
Champion has in her possession the old Gov-
ernor Treat chair, made of old English oak,
beautifully carved, eventually to be transferred
to the care of New Haven Colony Historical
Society. Mr. and Mrs. Champion had one
child, Henry, born and died October 30, 1865.

Mrs. Champion is a descendant in her ma-
ternal line of Governor Robert Treat, deputy
governor and governor of Connecticut, 1676-
1708. Mrs. Champion is much interested in
colonial history, and among the papers she
has written was one on "History of Our Flag,"
published with illustrations. As regent of
Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, Dauughters of
the American Revolution, for five years, she
gave much time to the historical work of this
organization.

This family is of English origin,
VAILL and the name originally appeared
in various forms. It was not till
after the time of Benjamin (V) that the pres-
ent form (Vaill) was definitely agreed upon.
(I) Jeremiah Vaill, immigrant ancestor,
was born, it is believed, in the west of Eng-
land, about 1618. It is not known by what
ship he came to this country, nor from what
port he sailed. He was a resident of Salem,
Massachusetts, as early as 1639, and on July
24 of that year was a witness in court held
there. In 1647 he became a proprietor;
bought land in 1648; sold it in 1651, and re-
moved out of the jurisdiction. He was a
blacksmith by trade, and probably followed
that trade during his residence in Salem.
April 6, 1645, his wife Catharine, who had
come with him from England, was admitted
to the church there. In 165 1 he removed to
Gardiner's Island, then called the Isle of

Wight, and took charge, with Anthony Wat-
ers, of the farm of Lieutenant Lion Gardiner,
on this island. Previous to his removal he
Lad been granted, June 17, 1651, by the town
of Southampton, Long Island, a lot of land,
provided that he settle there before the fol-
lowing January and do all the blacksmith work
of the town. This offer, however, he did not
accept. In legal and eccelesiastical affairs
Gardiner's Island was subject to the authority
of the town of Easthampton, and its early
records contain several brief statements re-
specting Jeremiah Vaill. From 1653 to 1655
he superintended the farm work on Gardiner's
Island, and was occupied in reducing it to cul-
tivation. February 12, 1655, the town of
Easthampton granted him a lot of land oppo-
site the present site of the Presbyterian
church, and there he lived with his family
for four years, 1655-59. February, 1657, the
wife of his neighbor, Joshua Garlick, was
tried as a witch, and Goodman Vaill and his
wife appeared as witnesses in her behalf. Be-
fore March 24, 1659, he sold his homestead
to Robert Parsons and John Kirtland, and
probably then removed to Southold, Long
Island, where he had owned land for seven
years. His settlement there became perma-
nent, and he lived on the lot which had been
occupied by Peter Paine. About the time of
his removal his wife died, and he married
(second) May 24, 1660, Mary, widow of
Peter Paine. In 1662, when Southold, with
fifteen other Long Island towns, was brought,
by the new charter, under the jurisdiction of
Connecticut, Jeremiah Vaill was one of thirty-
two signers of a letter which was submitted
to the authorities at Hartford, and appointed
Colonel John Youngs as their deputy from
Southold. At the same time he was one of
twenty-six citizens of Southold who were
made freemen of Connecticut. In 1676 he
held about five hundred acres of land in
Southold, besides some fifty acres in other
early divisions. In 1675 he was one of the
well-to-do citizens of that town, and was
rated for taxation at £152, but eight years
later he was rated at only £74. It seems that
in the interval he had made provision from
his estate for his three elder children before
making his will, in which they are not named.
His will was dated December 4, 1685, at
Southold, and probated October 19, 1687. It
is probable that he died in the latter year. To
his son John he gave his dwelling house, cer-
tain lands and a right of commonage, with all
his household goods and movables. The will
also mentions his wife Joyce, to whom he left
her third during her life, and son Daniel. He
married the third wife before 1685. Children,

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the first three born in Salem : Abigail, bap-
tized at First Church, Salem, May 18, 1644;
Sarah, at Salem, March 21, 1647; Jeremiah,
at Salem, December 30, 1649 1 John, born
1663, mentioned below; Daniel, about 1665;
Mary, 1667.

(II) John, son of Jeremiah Vaill, was born
1663, in Southold, and married, 1684, Grace
Braddick, or Burgess, who died May 18,
1 75 1, aged eighty-five years. She was the
daughter of John Braddick, a sea captain,
who for a time lived on the western half of
the lot originally owned by Lieutenant John
Budd. John Yaill lived at Southold, in the
house which he inherited from his father.
The latter's widow Joyce was still an inmate
of the house when the census of 1698 was
taken. November 9, 1694, John Vaill was
appointed guardian to Jeremiah Foster, of
Southampton, cordwainer. December 17, 1694,
he and his brother, Jeremiah Vaill, Jr., made
a joint deed granting land for a windmill on
Orient Point. His name appears in the roll
of Southold militia for 1715, Company One.
Children : Abigail ; Irene ; Tabitha ; John,
born about 1690 ; Mary ; Obadiah ; Josiah,
about 1603 : Daniel, about 1694; Samuel, about
1696, James, died September 9, 1745, at Al-
bany; Benjamin, born about 1706.

(III) Daniel, son of John Vaill, was born
about 1694, married, October 10, 1717, Han-
nah, daughter of Jaspar Griffing. She was
born 1694, at Lyme, Connecticut. Both died
October 4, 1746, at Southold. Children :
Daniel, born 1718; Lydia, 1719; Joseph, 1721,
mentioned below ; Hannah, 1723, died October
20, 1736; Elizabeth, died young, October 24,
1736; Mary, died young; Ruth, born 1726;
Micah, 1731, soldier in the revolution, private
in Third Regiment, New York levies. Colonel
James Clinton, died in prison ship ; Samuel,
married Sarah Beebe ; Nathan, born 1729;
Peter, 1733; Silas, 1733; Daniel, died young;
Jasper, died young, October 7, 1746; Hannah;
Elizabeth, married Silas Beach, of Goshen.
Connecticut; Mary, died 1736.

(IV) Captain Joseph, son of Daniel Vaill,
was born at Southold, in 1721, died at Litch-
field, August 10, 1800. He married, at Litch-
field, Connecticut, February 2, 1744, Jerusha,
born September 7. 1727, daughter of William
Peck, of Hartford. She died at Litchfield,
February 21, 1813. Children, born at Litch-
field: Jerusha, October 17, 1746; Anna, April
2, 1749; Joseph, July 14, 1751 ; Lois, March
20, 1756; Lydia, April 15. 1759, died unmar-
ried; Huldah, May 26, 1762; Ura, December
6, 1765; Sarah, February 12 1769; Benjamin,
mentioned below. Captain Joseph Vaill came
to Litchfield in 1740, and others of the family

followed. The original homestead was deeded
to him and his wife by her father in 1744, and
the deed is still in the possession of the fam-
ily, the property not having been deeded since
then, and the house he built being still in use.
He lived there sixty years. The place de-
scended to his son Benjamin, and grandson,
Herman L. Vaill. The location is described
in the old deed as Wolf-pit Hill.

(V) Benjamin, son of Captain Joseph Vaill.
was born at Litchfield, March 23, 1772, died
August 17, 1852. He spent all his life on the
old homestead. He married (first) Novem-
ber 14, 1793, Sylvia, born January 6, 1773,
daughter of Seth and Anne (Beach) Landon.
She died April 13, 1813, and he married (sec-
ond) November, 1814, Jemirr;a Comstock, who
died October 7, 1848. Children of first wife,
born at Litchfield: Rev. Herman Landon,
mentioned below ; Anna, January 9, 1797 ; Al-
mira, August 25, 1799, died August 21, 1800;
Almira, August 10, 1801, married Drew Hall,
of Newark, New Jersey ; Charles, December
30, 1803, married Cornelia Ann Griswold ;
Dianthe, March 7, 1807; Benjamin Lyman,
February 21, 181 1, died, unmarried, in 1830.

(VI) Rev. Herman Landon, son of Ben-
jamin Yaill, was born at Litchfield, December
7, 1794. He was drafted and served as a sol-
dier in the war of 181 2. He was a teacher in
the Goshen (Connecticut) Academy, and later
a tutor in Morris Academy, where John
Brown, who was hanged for insurrection at
Harper's Ferry, was one of his pupils. He
taught school in Georgia two years, and was
also a teacher at Cornwall, Connecticut. He
studied divinity at the Andover Theological
Seminary and Yale Divinity School. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale
College in 1824. He was ordained as a Con-
gregational minister, and had pastorates at
East Haddam, Millington Society, at East
Lyme, Torrington, Connecticut, Seneca Falls,
New York, and Milton, Connecticut. During
the last seventeen years of his life, because of
ill health, he was retired, living on the old
homestead at Litchfield. He received bounty
land on account of service in the war of 1812.
He married, January 22, 1823, Flora Gold,
born September 25, 1799, daughter of Colonel
Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson. She died De-
cember 14, 1883. Children : Catharine Har-
riet Gold, born at Cornwall, December 3, 1824,
died August 27, 1828; Charles Benjamin, born
at East Haddam, September 11, 1826; Eliza-
beth Sedgwick, at East Haddam, January 4,
1828, died unmarried, 1909; Abbie Everest,
born at East Lyme, September 14, 1829, died
April 2, 1897, unmarried ; George Lyman, born
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her 23, 1833 ; Theodore Frelinghuysen, men-
tioned below ; Sarah Hopkins, born at East
Lyme, October 21, 1834, died September 30,
1862 ; Clarissa Champlin, born at East Lyme,
January 28, 1836, married Rev. Charles E.
Robinson ; Joseph Herman, born at Torring-
ton, October 15, 1837, married Cornelia
Smith ; Julia Maria, born at Torrington, Feb-
ruary 28, 1839, unmarried ; Mary Woolsey,
born at Seneca Falls, July 15, 1842, married.
October 12, 1869, E. Hall Barton, she died
June 5, 187 1.

(VII) Theodore Frelinghuysen, son of Rev.
Herman L. Vaill, was born at East Lyme,
March 27, 1832, died at Winsted, February 8,
1875. He had a common school education,
and attended Union College for two years. He
was for some years a teacher in the public
schools. He enlisted in 1862 in the Nine-
teenth Connecticut Regiment of Volunteers in
the civil war, and became adjutant of the
Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, of which
he published a history in 1868. He was in
the service three years and took part in the
battle of Cold Harbor, the siege of Peters-
burg, the campaign in the Shenandoah Val-
ley, and was at Appomattox. He settled in
Winsted, Connecticut, and for ten years was
editor of the Winsted Herald. He published,
about 1870 a pamphlet containing a travesty
on the First and Fourth Books of Virgil's
Aeneid, entitled "The Aeneid in Modern
America." He was a Congregationalist, and
a member of the local post, Grand Army of
the Republic. He married, June II, 1868,
Alice Mercy, daughter of George and Electa
(Camp) Dudley. Children: Mary Dudley,
born January 28, 1869, married, June 20,
1895, Charles Hooker Talcott, of Hartford,
son of Seth Talcott ; George Dudley, died in
infancy ; Dudley Landon, mentioned below.

(VIII) Dudley Landon, son of Theodore
Frelinghuysen Vaill, was born at Winsted,
August 30, 1873. He attended the public
schools, and Phillips Academy, of Andover.
Massachusetts, graduating in 1892. He en-
tered Yale College, from which he was grad-
uated with the degree of A.B. in the class
of 1896. He has since then been connected
with the George Dudley & Son Company, of
Winsted, leather manufacturers, and is now
president and treasurer of the company. He
is also a director of the Hurlbut National
Bank and trustee of the Winsted Savings
Bank. He is vice-president of the Winchester
Historical Society, and member of the Sons of
Veterans. He married, June 28, 1900, Leila
S., daughter of Charles B. and Abigail
(Pierce) Holmes, of Winsted. Children:
Mary, born October 21, 1902; Charles B. H.,

July 1, 1904; Theodore, September 19, 1905;
Dudley Landon, Jr., January 22, 1907 ;
Holmes, August 20, 1909, died in infancy.

By records in Holland
VANALSTYNE the family is found to

be of ancient origin,
and is traced as far back as the crowning of
"Otho," A.D. 936. The family first appears
by the name Ralsko, then by the name War-
temburg, which it bore for several centuries.
Jean Ralsko built a chateau in Flanders, where
he died in 1236, and named it the Chateau de
Waldstein, in order to distinguish it from
his brother, whose name was Wartemburg.
In Spain the name was Balstein, Vallenstein
in France. Halsteyn in Flanders, and Van Al-
stein in Holland. The name changed from
Waldstein to Wallenstein, Walstein, Valstein,
and then to Van Alstein, which has ever since
been used. It has been spelled in the early
records Van Aelsteyn, Van Aalsteyn, Van Al-
styn. Van Alstyne, Van Alstine, and Van Al-
stein. At present it is spelled only Van Al-
stine. Van Alstyne and Alstyn.

(I) Jan Martense Van Alstyne, immigrant
ancestor, was in New Amsterdam (New
York) as early as 1646, but how long he re-
mained here is not known. In the Dutch
manuscripts of New York, vol. II, p. 154, De-
cember 11, 1646, there is a record of a bill of
sale : "Thomas Hall and Jan Peterson, to
Hendrick Janson and Jan Martense, of a
yacht." In 1657 he owned a lot in Albany
lying on the east of Broadway, north of Col-
umbia street. He owned this as late as 1693,
and also bought a large tract of land ''behind"
Kinderhook. Fie had a grant of two pieces of
land in Ulster county. He lived there until
his death, about 1698. He married Dirckje
Harmense. In 1695 he deeded his home farm
to his son Abraham, who agreed to pay the
other heirs certain sums of money, and this
land is still owned by his descendants. His
sons were Marten, Abraham, Lambert Janse,
mentioned below, Isaac, and probably others.

(II) Lambert Janse, son of Jan Martense
and Dirckje (Harmense) Van Alstyne, came
to this country in 1665. He is mentioned
twenty-two years later, with many others who
took the oath of allegiance in Kings county,
New York. He married, about 1682, Jan-
net je, daughter of Thomas Janse and Marritje
Abrahamse (Vosburgh) Mingael, who was his
first cousin, once removed, since her father
and her husband were first cousins. She was
evidently much younger than he was, as it
is recorded that on February 2, 17 13, she,
his widow, married Jochem Lambertse Van
Valkenburgh, by whom she had five sons.

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Lambert Janse Van Alstyne came into posses-
sion, about 1684, of some land on the east
side of Kinderhook creek, which adjoined his
father's land, by purchase of the patent
(lease) from the heirs of Peter Van Alen, and
this land he kept until his death, October 16,
1703. It is not known just when he settled
at Kinderhook, but all of his children except
the first were baptized there, so he probably
settled there about 1684. Children: Cathar-
ine Van Alstyne, born about 1683, married
Bartholomeus Van Valkenburgh ; Marritje,
baptized December 27, 1685 ; Thomas, bap-
tized August 22, 1688, mentioned below; Jo-
hannes, baptized August 11, 1691 ; Dirckje V.,
baptized May 26, 1695, married Peter Vos-
burgh; Antje, baptized January 16, 1698, died
young; Annetje, baptized July 28, 1700;
Pieter, baptized August 9, 1702.

(III) Thomas, son of Lambert Janse Van
Alstyne, was baptized August 22, 1688, died
August, 1765. He married, December 12,
1718, Maria, baptized June 22, 1695, daugh-
ter of William and Marritje (Van Patten)
Van Alen. He came into possession of his
father's homestead in 1703, when his father
died, and where he was very likely born. He
and his wife were members of the Dutch
church at Muitzeskill, where the records of
the baptism of most of their children are,
although Maria was baptized at Albany. In
the land records at Hudson there is a record
that in 1752 he bought land in the district of
Claverack, lying between Claverack and Kin-
derhook creeks. This land he gave to his son
William. His will was dated November 15,
1760, and is in the Dutch language. He left
his property to his five children, after pro-
viding for his wife during her life. He also
provided that his youngest daughter, Maria,
live with his son Pieter until she married.
He chose his wife, his son William, and
friend, Casparis Conyn, Jr., as his executors.
Children and dates of baptism: Jannetje,
March 6, 1720, died young ; William, Decem-
ber 10, 1721, mentioned below; Lambert, Oc-
tober 4, 1724; Maria, September 10, 1727,
died young; Catharine, January 17, 1731 ;
Maria, November 18, 1733; Pieter, May 16,
1736.

(IV) William, son of Thomas Van Alstyne,
was baptized in Muitzeskill, December 10,
172 1, died May 22, 1802. He married (first)
in 1744, Christina, baptized June 16, I723,
daughter of Stephanus and Mary (Muller)
Van Alen. He married (second) 1762, Cath-
arine, baptized October 19, 1731, daughter of
Lawrence and granddaughter of Captain
Knickerbocker and Catharine (Van Home)
Knickerbocker. Catharine was noted for her

kindness to the ill and the poor. The first
mention of him, after his baptism, is in 1752,
when he and his wife were members of the
Dutch church at Kinderhook, and later in the
same year are recorded as members in the
church at Muitzeskill. About this time he
doubtless settled on the farm which his father
had secured by. purchase of the patent from
John Van Rensselaer, then the lord of the
manor of Rensselaerwyck, and had left him
in his will. While living here he married his
second wife, whose father, Lawrence Knicker-
bocker, was a Dutchess county farmer, who
probably belonged to the Dutch church at
Germantown, in Columbia county, where Cath-
arine was baptized. The immigrant ancestor
of the Knickerbocker family was Harman
Jans Knickerbocker, son of Johannes Van
Bergen Knickerbocker, a captain in the navy
of the Netherlands, and Juliana, daughter of
Rutgert Van Mannix, lord of Botsallaer, born
in Friesland, in 1648. Captain Knickerbocker
entered the Dutch navy at a very early age,
and served in that period of history when
Holland was so remarkable for its naval vic-
tories. In the battle of Soleby he was severely
wounded, where ten Dutch ships fought
against the combined English and French
fleets, off the coast of England. He resigned
his commission when he recovered, and came
to America, where he married Elizabeth,
daughter of Myndert Van der Bogart, the
well-known surgeon of the Dutch ship "En-
draught." He was afterward commissary at
Fort Orange. Van der Bogart was an eccen-
tric character with a very high temper. Once,
when in a boat with Director General Stuyve-
sant, a dispute arose which angered him so
that he tried to throw Stuyvesant overboard,
but was prevented by the other members of
the party. He died a violent death, brought
about by his ungovernable temper.

William Van Alstyne late in life left his old
home and settled on a farm in Amenia, where
he soon died, and here he was buried. May
1, 1772, he leased a house and shop and fulling
mill with mill dam and two acres of land to
Thomas Avery for seven years. He lived in
Claverack at the time and was a yeoman. In
August, 1 79 1, he bought a farm in Hillsdale
of John Collier. There is an old deed of gift,
October 19, 1793, of a negro boy, Tom, to his
son Lawrence. At this time he lived in Hud-
son. On July 12, 1799, he sold to his son
Lawrence, of Amenia, a farm which he had
bought of Nicholas and Philip Hoffman. He
was a captain in Colonel Jeremiah Hoge-
boom's regiment during the revolutionary
war. His commission was dated April 4,
1770, and signed by Cadwallader Colden, gov-

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ernor of the province of New York. He was
buried in a little burying ground on the farm
in Amenia, where his wife Catharine was also
buried. His gravestone says : "Sacred to the
memory of William Van Alstyne, who de-
parted this life May 22, 1802, in the 81st
year of his age." Children by first wife and
dates of baptism: Maria, March 23, 1745;
Hilletje, January 25, 1746, died young; Jan-
netje, February 29, 1749; Hillitje, January 5,
1753; Albertina, 1754. By second wife:
Thomas, born February 18. 1765; Lawrence,"
mentioned below.

(V) Lawrence, son of William Van Al-
styne, was born in Hudson, June 22, 1767,
died May 7, 1806. He married, about 1788.
Mary Mordack, born August 21, 1768, died
December 13, 1836. He was born in the
Claverack township, now Hudson, where his
children were born. May 7, 1795, he lived in
Hudson, but soon after moved to Dutchess
county, New York, to the town of Amenia.
On July 5, 1799, he bought six acres of land
in Amenia from the executors of Piatt Smith.
This land was called lot three in the great lot
No. 36 in the general division of the "Great
Nine Partners Patent." Seven days later his
father sold him the farm which he, in 1794,
had bought of Nicholas and Philip Hoffman.
He signed his name William Van Aelstyne at
this time. He is buried on a lot on this farm,
as well as his wife Mary. His will, dated five
days before his death, gives to his wife the
use of their farm, with all the stock, tools
and furniture, until his son Samuel should
become of age, and he also provides for her
support for the remainder of her life. His
sons, William and Samuel, were left the home-
stead to share between them, and his mother
was to be supported by the estate as long as
she lived. Children : William, born Decem-
ber 6, 1789; Samuel, November 6, 1791, men-
tioned below; Catharine, June 12, 1794.

(VI) Samuel, son of Lawrence Van Al-
styne, was born in Hudson, November 6, 1791,
died February 15, 1869. He married, about
1818, Penelope, born April 16, 1796, died
March 1. 1869, daughter of John and Mary
(Fitzgerald) Wyatt, of Stanford, Dutchess
county, New York. He was five years old
when his parents moved from Hudson to
Amenia, now North East. His father died
when he was fifteen years old, and he in-
herited his farm when he became of age. In
1812, when he was twenty-one, he enlisted as
a private in the war of 18 12, and was sta-
tioned on Long Island, doing garrison duty,
so he never saw active service in the field.
He married after the war and settled in
Chatham Four Corners, Columbia county,

New York, on a farm where his four eldeMt
children were born. In attempting to help a
friend out of financial troubles, he signed his
name to a paper which ruined him. Every-
thing but his wife and children was taken
from him, and he returned to Dutchess county,
a victim of misplaced confidence, broken in
health, and started again to support his fam-
ily and give his children an education. His
wife Penelope was a strict Quaker, also an
expert spinner and weaver, and together they
managed to support the family. He was never
in very good health, died at Sharon, Connec-
ticut, and was buried at the "City," now
Smithfield, Dutchess county. After her hus-
band's death, Penelope Van Alstyne, although
in her usual health, began to distribute her
property as if she intended to leave for a long
journey, and when she had attended to every-
thing, went to bed and died, two weeks after
her husband. No physical trouble could be
found, but she had evidently made up her
mind that her work was done and she wished
to be with ber husband. Children : William,
born July 22, 1821, married Laura Rowe ;
Mary, March 27, 1823, married Isaac B.
Rogers ; Catharine, March 24, 1825, died Sep-
tember 26, 1848: John, February 19, 1828,
died July 13, 1863, 'n the battle at Gettys-
burgh, and was buried in the third row from
tbe monument erected by the government in
memory of those who fell in the battle ; Jane
M., June 7, 1832, married Herman C. Row-
ley : Sarah Elizabeth, April 23, 1836, married
John C. Loucks ; Lawrence, mentioned below.
(VII) Lawrence (2), son of Samuel Van
Alstyne, was born in Amenia, Dutchess county,
New York, August 2, 1839. He learned the
trade of iron moulding with his brother Wil-
liam. He enlisted, in 1862, at Millerton, New
York, in Company B, One Hundred and Twen-
ty-eighth New York Regiment Volunteers.
This regiment was raised in Dutchess and Col-
umbia counties, and since the war it has been
discovered that the average age of men and
officers was less than that of any other New
York regiment. After a few months in camp
in Baltimore, Maryland, the regiment was sent
south and became part of the Army of the
Gulf, under General Nathaniel P. Banks.
While in camp at Camp Parapet, near New
Orleans, Mr. Van Alstyne suffered from an
almost fatal illness caused by the exposure of
camp life. He recovered in time to go with
the regiment to Port Hudson, where in its
first battle it lost in killed and "wounded a
third of its number. The regiment took part
in all the general engagements in the Gulf
Department, as well as in the running fight
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Red River retreat. He was corporal, ser-
geant and lieutenant successively. After the
conclusion of hostilities in 1865, Mr. Van Al-
styne took up his residence in Sharon, Con-
necticut, where he followed carpentering and
building, that being his principal business.
For a period of five years he served in the
capacity of superintendent of the Sharon Val-
ley Malleable and Gray Iron Company. For
twenty years he was engaged chiefly in genea-
logical work, publishing, in 1897, "Descend-
ants of Lambert Janse Van Alstyne." He is
a Republican in politics, his first vote being
cast for Abraham Lincoln, in i860. He has
been active in the affairs of his party, serving
one term as selectman of the town, and was
a representative to the general assembly from
Sharon in 1895, the duties of which he per-
formed in a highly satisfactory and creditable
manner. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and is serving as treasurer
of its board of trustees. He holds membership
in the Holland Society of New York, is a life
member of the Connecticut Historical Society
and of the New York Historical Society, and
member of J. M. Gregory Post, No. 59, Grand
Army of the Republic, of which he has been
adjutant many years, and of Hamilton Lodge,
No. 54, Free and Accepted Masons. Law-
rence Van Alstyne is the only one of the
descendants of his grandfather who bears the
name of Van Alstyne, and at his death the
name in that line will be extinct. Mr. Van
Alstyne married, October 4, 1865, Mary Eliza-
beth, born October 1, 1843, daughter of Ben-
jamin and Elizabeth (Mills) Eggleston. Chil-
dren : William, born June 6, 1867, died June
22, 1867; Jane, born July 6, 1871, died Feb-
ruary 26, 1888; Elizabeth, born January 1,
1877, married George S. Kirby, of Sharon,
proprietor of the Sharon Inn.

The family of Hinsdale had
HINSDALE its origin in the district of

Loos, in the county of Liege,
now in Belgium, where it was settled as early
as the end of the twelfth century. While the
family was doubtless originally French, the
name is as much Dutch as French in its deri-
vation. Dal or Dale is the French for valley,
and corresponds with the English Dale and
the Dutch Dael. The surname is therefore a
place name. Various spellings are found :
Hinisdal, Hinisdael, Henisdael, Hinesdale,
Henesdale, Hinisdale, Hinnisdale, Hynsdale,
Hinsdael and Hinnisdal. The last spelling is
most common in France. In England Hens-
dell, Endesdale and Ensdale are used, while
the American immigrants used Hinsdell, Hens-
dell, Hinsdall, etc. The name is not found in

England earlier than the sixteenth century,
and there is good reason for believing the
family came from France to England at the
time of the Huguenot persecutions. The
founder of the French family was Robertus de
Hinnisdal, and the name occurs frequently in
the subsequent generations of that family. It
is quite possible that the immigrant Robert
was of this stock. As the pedigree given in
France includes only the eldest son, it is im-
possible to trace the connection. The only
coat-of-arms granted to the family is: De
sable, au chef D'argent, charge de trois merles
de sable. Crest : Couronne de Comte, Sup-
ports, Deux Levriers. Motto : Moderata
durant.

(I) Deacon Robert Hinsdale, immigrant an-
cestor, came to Dedham, Massachusetts, prob-
ably from Dedham, county Essex, England,
and was a proprietor of that town in 1637.
He was selectman the same year and after-
ward, and his home was in the eastern part
of the town. He received a grant of land in
1638. He was one of the eight founders of
the Dedham church, November 8, 1638. He
was admitted a freeman March 13, 1639. He
had other grants of land, and was a leading
citizen of the town, serving on important com-
mittees. He was surveyor of highways in
1 64 1. On January 1, 1645, ne' vvith others,
signed a petition for a free school at Dedham,
agreeing to raise twenty pounds a year for
the support of the school. This is supposed
to have been the first school in the country
supported in this way. In 1645 he was chosen
a member of the Ancient and Honorable Ar-
tillery Company, of Massachusetts. On No-
vember 14, 1649, he was on a committee to
organize a new town, which afterward was
named Medfield, incorporated 1651. He was
one of the first selectmen and served six years.
He was one of the first thirteen who took up
house lots there, and his home was on what
is now North street. The original well is
still in use. He built his house in 1652. In
1659 he bought a bell for the use of the town.
Soon after this the town granted him forty-
six acres near what is now Collin's mill. He
built a mill there, which was burned by the
Indians in 1676. He was active in organiz-
ing the first Medfield church. He removed
with his family, about 1667, to the Connecti-
cut valley, and settled first at Hadley, where,
in 1672, he was released from military duty
"on account of age and a sore leg." He was
an original proprietor in the eight thousand
grant made by Dedham people at Deerfield,
and drew lot 31, the present site of the Wil-
lard House. He and his four sons were liv-
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was deacon of the first church and a foremost
citizen. He was one of the five men of the
thirty-two original proprietors who settled in
Deerfield. He and his three sons, Samuel,
Rarn abas and John, were slain in the fight at
Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. The in-
ventory of his estate was taken October 22,
[676. He married (first) probably in Eng-
land, Ann, daughter of Peter Woodward, of
Dedham. She was a sensitive and timid
woman, and fainted away on making her
profession of faith before the church at Ded-
ham, June 2, 1639. She was allowed to go
through the ordeal in private. She died June
4, 1666, and he married (second) about 1668,
Elizabeth, widow of John Hawks, of Hadley.
The marriage was not happy and they soon
separated. They were before the court for
this, March 30, 1674, and she refused to an-
swer the charge and appears to have got off
clear ; but he said "he did it as being her head
and having the rule of her in the Pointe and
that he did it for her correction of her dis-
order towards him." The court held that he
had "broken the Perfect rule of divine law
* ::: * and the law of the Colony in the in-
tent if not in the letter in the first living
asunder," and ordered him "whipped ten
stripes on the naked body," and imposed a fine
for which his sons became responsible, and
which the court refused to remit after his
tragic death. On June 28, 1683, his widow
Elizabeth married Thomas Dibble, of Wind-
sor, Connecticut. She died September 25,
1689. Children, all by first wife: Elizabeth,
married James Rising ; Barnabas, born No-
vember 13, 1639, mentioned below; Samuel,
about 1641-42; Gamaliel, March 5, 1642-43;
Mary, February 14, 1644; Experience, Jan-
uary 23, 1646; John, January 2.J, 1647-48:
Ephraim, September 26, 1650.

(II) Barnabas, son of Deacon Robert Hins-
dale, was born November 13, 1639, probably
at Dedham, baptized November 17, 1639. He
went with his father to Hadley and lived for
several years at Hatfield. He removed to
Deerfield in 1674, when he sold his Hadley
homestead, and lived on lot No. 9 in Deerfield,
also owning lot No. 15. On May 3, 1667, ne
was one of the petitioners for a church at
Hatfield. He was killed at Bloody Brook.
He married, October 15, 1666, Sarah (White)
Taylor, of Hatfield. She married (third)
February 3, 1679, Walter Hickson, and died
August 10, 1702. Children of Barnabas Hins-
dale: Barnabas, born February 20, 1668, men-
tioned below ; Sarah, married Deacon Samuel
Hall; Elizabeth, born October 29, 1671, died
March, 1672; Isaac, born September 15, 1673;
Mary (posthumous), March 27, 1676.

(III) Barnabas (2), son of Barnabas (1)
Hinsdale, was born February 20, 1668, at
Hatfield. He was admitted an inhabitant of
Hartford in 1693, and died there of a "great
sickness," January 25, 1725. He was an or-
iginal proprietor of lands at Harwinton, in
western Connecticut. His grave is in the
Centre Cemetery, back of the First Church,
Hartford, and a stone marks the spot. He
married, November 9, 1693, Martha, daughter
of Joseph Smith, of Hartford. Children :
Barnabas, born August 28, 1694; Martha,
February 17, 1696 ; Jacob, July 4, 1698 ; Sarah,
July 22, 1700; Elizabeth, January 9, 1702;
Mary, July 13, 1704: Captain John, August
13, 1706, mentioned below ; Daniel, May 15,
1708; Amos, August 24, 1710.

(IV) Captain John, son of Barnabas (2)
Hinsdale, was born August 13, 1706, bap-
tized at South Church, Hartford, August 18,
1706. He married, November 8, 1733, Eliza-
beth born March 18, 171 1, died July 5, 1784,
daughter of Nathaniel Cole, Jr., of Hartford.
He settled in Berlin, Connecticut, and owned
a farm there. He and his wife were received
into Kensington Church soon after their mar-
riage. In May, 1749, he was appointed en-
sign of the Fifteenth Company or train band
in the Sixth Regiment; in 1752 he was made
lieutenant ; and in May, 1759, captain. In
1766 he was one of the standing committees
of the church, and in 1775 a constituent mem-
ber. He was moderator of the second church
meeting in their new meeting house. About
1780 he went to New Britain, Connecticut, and
united with the First Church. In 1781 he
bought of John Richards his homestead for
£900, and John Richards and his son signed
the deed March 3, 1781, for seventy acres,
with house, formerly the Skinner house, and
other buildings. Captain John Hinsdale was a
blacksmith, and had his shop near his house,
opposite the Methodist church, in Berlin
street, New Britain. In 1788 he sold to Dr.
Smalley ten acres and sixty-two rods of land.
His will is dated July 26, 1792. and he died
December 2, 1792, aged eighty-six. His son-
in-law was executor of his will. He was a
man of rare military and literary ability.
Children: John, born August 19, 1734, died
October 13, 1743; Elizabeth, June 29, 1736;
Theodore, November 25, 1738, mentioned be-
low; Lucy, July 16, 1741 ; Elijah., April 1,
1744; Lydia, August 11. 1747; John, August
21, 1749.

(V) Rev. Theodore, son of Captain John
Hinsdale, was born at Berlin, November 25,
1738. He graduated from Yale College in
1762, and was ordained a minister at North
Windsor, Connecticut, April 30, 1766, dis-

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missed March 4, 1795. He married, July 14,
1768, Anna Bissell, born March 11, 1748, died
.at Hinsdale, Massachusetts, March 14, 1817.
He removed there in April, 1795, and or-
ganized a church December 17, 1795, with
twenty-three members. The town was named
Hinsdale, after him, and was incorporated
June 21, 1804. He was fifty-eight years old
when he entered upon his work here. He
served the church at North Windsor for
twenty-eight years, and was a man of marked
ability and strong will. He died at Hinsdale,
December 29, 18 18, aged eighty years. There
is a handsome monument to his memory near
the gate of the cemetery at Hinsdale upon
tbe left, and the inscription is as follows: "A
lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,
sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the
faithful word as he hath been taught, that he
may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort
and to convince the gainsayers." He taught
for several years after his graduation from
Yale College, and was twenty-nine years old
when ordained a minister. For several years
he was a justice of the peace. Children:
.Anne or Nancy, born at Windsor, April 16,
1769; Lucy, at Windsor, December 31, 1770;
Theodore, at Windsor, November 12, 1772 ;
Josiah Bissell, at Windsor, November 15,
1774, mentioned below; James, September 28,
1776 John, November 10, 1778; Levi, No-
vember 29, 1780; Altamira or Altemira, No-
vember 8, 1782 ; Daniel, March 22, 1785 ; Ho-
ratio, November 3, 1787; William, at Wind-
sor, March 5, 1790.

(VI) Josiah Bissell, son of Rev. Theodore
Hinsdale, was born at Windsor, November
15, 1774, baptized November 20, 1774. He
died at Rochester, New York, February 6,
1866. He married Temperance, born May 3,
1772, died August 13, 1813, daughter of Rev.
Timothy and Temperance (Clap) Pitkin. He
came to Winsted in 1800, where he carried on
a large and for many years a prosperous busi-
ness selling goods, buying and slaughtering
cattle for the West India trade, also making
potash and buying cheese for the New York
market. In 1826 he became involved in the
failure of his brothers, John and Daniel, of
Middletown, on whose paper he was an en-
dorser for a large amount, and his business
was ruined and his property swept away as a
result. In 1842 he moved to Rochester, New
York, where his two daughters lived, and car-
ried on a commission business for several
years. At middle age he made a profession
of religion, and led a faithful, consistent
Christian life. Children : Theodore, born De-
cember 2"], 1800, mentioned below ; Ann, Oc-
tober 16, 1802 ; Mary Pitkin, January 10,

1805; Timothy Pitkin, May 5, 1809; Charles,
May 23, 1812.

(VII) Theodore (2), son of Josiah Bis-
sell Hinsdale, was born at Colebrook, Decem-
ber 2j, 1800, died November 27, 1841. He
married, April 26, 1826, Jerusha, daughter of
Solomon and Sarah (McEwen) Rockwell.
She married (second) December 10, 1843,
John Boyd, widower, of West Winsted. He
was born at Winsted, March 17, 1799, son of
James and Mary (Monro) Boyd, and he died
December 1, 1881, at Winsted. He compiled
the annals of Winchester, a work of six hun-
dred and forty pages. Theodore Hinsdale
graduated from Yale College in 182 1, and
read law for a short time with Seth P. Staples,
Esq., of New Haven, afterward studied at
Andover for one or two years. In 1827 he
went into the manufacturing business with his
father-in-law, in the firm name of Rockwell &
Hinsdale. After the death of Mr. Rockwell,
in 1837, he was associated in the same busi-
ness (scythe making) with Elliot Beardsley,
under the firm name of Hinsdale & Beardsley,
until his death. He had charge of the school
funds of the town. He was a prominent and
energetic citizen and business man. He was
a commanding person, with a fascinating per-
sonality and a native oratory which made him
widely known and admired. He was con-
stantly sought as a presiding officer or speaker
at large public gatherings, and was noted for
his zeal in advocating a cause. Mr. Hinsdale's
profound interest in the industrial develop-
ment of this country was far reaching in its
effect, and as a member of the Connecticut
legislature in 1837 he framed and secured the
passage of the "Connecticut Joint Stock Act."
In an address delivered by the late Edward
Everett Hale, D.D., before the Phi Beta Kap-
pa Society of Brown University, and repeated
before the Adelphi Union of Williams Col-
lege, Dr. Hale refers to the above-mentioned
act as follows :

"The whole history of government in America
from 1620 to this time is one illustration of the
people's success in doing what no statesman or
theorist, though he were John Locke or John Ad-
ams, could do single-handed. You start with the
charter of a trading company. You come out at
the end of a hundred and thirty years with organ-
ized, constitutional government. In that one hun-
dred and thirty years you have not one Numa, or
Solon, or Lycurgus, but you have the people. One
experiment is tried, and fails. Another experiment
is tried and succeeds. Failure produces nothing,
but success produces success. And the end comes,
better than the beginning, because you relied on this
simple law.

"I had better take one simple instance. Here is
our modern system of associated work, organized
in our several states under what we call the gen-
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limited liability act. Now that the thing is in easy
running order every one says that it is a perfectly
simple contrivance. It gives you almost all the
advantages claimed for socialism, and you pay none
of the penalties. Three men, six, ten or a hundred
men, who want to work together, can combine as
much as they want to, and their corporation moves
as one person, with law and freedom. Who in-
vented this system? Did Robert Owen? or Charles
Fourier? or the Count St. Simon? Not they. They
did not know enough. They tried and they failed.
Look in the books for its history. You will have
better success than I have had if you find it there.
For we gentlemen scholars who write the books are
a little apt to pass such trifles by. It came to life;
it uttered its first cry in the state of Connecticut in
1837. If it lived — well; if it died — no matter. It
chose to live. It lived and grew strong. It
came to stay. 'I attribute to it,' said one of the
first authorities in that state, 'much of our manu-
facturing success. It has always been a useful law.'
It lived. It did not die. So it was copied here.
It was copied there.. It is now in force, in some
form or other, in almost every state of the Union.
It is in force, in principle, in the English limited
liability law of 1855, which is confessedly taken
from it. Now, what scholar or statesman invented
it? Did you find it in Adam Smith? Did you
learn it from Say or from William Cobbett? 'I
never heard who got it up,' this was the answer
made to me by the same accomplished writer in
Connecticut, when I asked him, 'or anything about
its origin.' I had the same answer from one of
the veteran statesmen of that day, who was in pub-
lic life the year in which it was passed and lives
to an honored old age. This is what happened : A
pure democracy like the state of Connecticut needed
such an arrangement. This pure democracy was
intelligent enough to know what it needed, and it
had the power in its hands to fill the need. Your
grand questions about the history and genesis of
such a statute are answered as Topsy answered
Miss Ophelia's theological question: 'I 'specks it
growed'."

Since the delivery of this address in Provi-
dence a very interesting letter has come from
Mr. Abijah Catlin, a member of the Con-
necticut legislature of 1837, and gives the
full detail of the origin of the act :

"Theodore Hinsdale, a representative from the
town of Winchester, introduced and advocated the
bill, and. so far as I know, was the author thereof.
Mr. Hinsdale was a gaduate of Yale, as I believe,
and was in the business of manufacturing scythes in
Winsted, Connecticut, with his father-in-law, Solo-
mon Rockwell.

"The manufactory still exists, under the name of
the Beardsley Scythe Company. Mr. Hinsdale was
a gentleman of fine appearance, of pleasing man-
ners and of fluent speech. He was an ardent advo-
cate of manufactures and of their encouragement.
In advocating the bill he had no personal interest, as
he and his father-in-law were able to carry on their
manufactory without the aid of additional capital.

"In 1837 the dominant political party was strongly
opposed to the chartering of corporations unless a
provision was made for the liability of individual
stockholders for the debts of the corporation. The
joint stock law of 1837 was intended to enable men
of small means to combine together for the effi-
cient execution of their project, and has been, as
you know, acted upon very extensively in this
state."

This letter shows that to Mr. Theodore
Hinsdale the thanks of half the working peo-
ple of the world are due for an act of great
simplicity, which sooner or later is a help
to so many of them.

The following paragraph in reference to
the Connecticut Joint Stock Act is from John-
ston's "American Commonwealths," edited by
the late Horace E. Scudder :

"Apart from the peculiarly state features of the
industrial development, at least one feature of it has
had a national and international influence, as Mr.
E. E. Hale has pointed out. The Connecticut Joint
Stock Act of 1837, framed by Mr. Theodore Hins-
dale, a manufacturer of the commonwealth, intro-
duced the corporation in the form under which we
now generally know it. Its principle was copied by
almost every state of the Union, and by the Eng-
lish limited liability act of 1855, and the effects of
its simple principle upon the industrial development
of the whole modern world are quite beyond cal-
culation. All that can be done here is to notice the
wide influence of a single Connecticut manufactur-
er's idea, and to call attention to this as another
instance of the close connection of democracy with
modern industrial development."

In the midst of Mr. Hinsdale's career of
usefulness he was struck down by typhoid
fever, and died November 27, 1841, aged
forty. Children: Sarah McEwen, born April
2, 1827, died August 17, 1833 ; Mary Pitkin,
December 11, 1828, mentioned below; Solo-
mon Rockwell, August 25, 1835, died No-
vember, 1908 ; he was in the treasury depart-
ment, Washington, D. C, and married Julia
Merritt Jackson, and had one son, Theodore
Rockwell Hinsdale, of Seattle.

(VIII) Mary Pitkin,- daughter of Theodore
(2) Hinsdale, was born December 11, 1828,
in Winsted, Connecticut. She has always
lived in the house where she was born, the
old Rockwell homestead. She is a member
of the Colonial Dames, and of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.

Sebastian Karrman was
KARRMANN born in Germany. He

came to the United States
when a young man and was a weaver and
woolen manufacturer at Plymouth, Connec-
ticut. He died in 1882. He married Eliza-
beth, daughter of John Winter. Children: 1.
John, died in infancy. 2. Katherine K., mar-
ried Frederick Adt ; children : Frank, Ever-
nor and Howard Adt. 3. Elizabeth, married
John Adt ; children : Ida and George. 4.
George, married Eleanor Shepard and had
daughter Elizabeth. 5. Charles, married
Caroline Shyra and had daughter Clara. 6.
Albert, married Ella Rugg. 7. David, un-
married ; enlisted in the civil war at Prospect,
Connecticut, in Company H, Twentieth Con-
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adjutant; took part in Sherman's "March to
the Sea" ; died in 1867. 8. Ellen, married
Charles Carr, of New Haven, Connecticut ;
children: Alice, Mary and Lillian Carr; fam-
ily living in Cheshire, Connecticut. 9. Dr. Ed-
ward W., mentioned below. 10. Henry Se-
bastian, married Lotta Hurd; children:
Ruth, Charles, Margaret, Milton, Henry, Sa-
rah. 11. William, died at the age of sixteen
years.

(II) Dr. Edward William Karrmann, son
of Sebastian Karrmann, was born at Ply-
mouth, Connecticut, June 29, 1852. He at-
tended the public schools there and at Water-
bury, Connecticut. He was a student for one
year at Bellevue Hospital Medical School,
then for one year at the Long Island Medical
College and finally entered the New York
Medical School, graduating in 1884 with the
degree of M.D. He began to practice his pro-
fession at Morris. Connecticut, and continued
to study under private instruction.

After a year he removed to Norwalk, Con-
necticut, and thence, after a short time, to
Bridgeport. After four years in that city he
went to Central 'America in 1890, and took a
course at the Honduras Medical College, from
which he received the degree of M.D. in the
class of 1892. He settled in Central America
and practiced there for ten years. In 1898
he returned to the United States and became
surgeon of the Fourth Missouri Regiment of
Volunteers in the Spanish war, being with the
regiment in camp in South Carolina. After
the close of the war he came to North Wood-
bury, Connecticut, and practiced about two
years, but since 1904 has been in general prac-
tice at Cheshire, Connecticut. He is a mem-
ber of the New Haven County Medical So-
ciety ; of Lodge No. 55, Free and Accepted
Masons, Torrington ; of Darius Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, of Litchfield, Connecti-
cut. In politics he is a Republican.

He married. October 25, 1900, Ida May
Fuller, born February 14, 1874, daughter of
William and Mary Ellen (Leavenworth)
Fuller, of West Haven. Child, David Fuller,
born May 27, 1906. Mary Ellen (Leaven-
worth) Fuller was daughter of Edmund
Smith Leavenworth (see Leavenworth VI).

(The Leavenworth Line).

(III) Thomas (2) Leavenworth, son of
Thomas (1) Leavenworth (q. v.), was born
at Stratford. He married (first) Betty
Davis, who died April 24, 1758. He mar-
ried (second) October 10, 1758, Rhoda Olds,
who died at Watertown, May 1, 1794, aged
sixty-seven years. He owned the half-way
covenant, December 7, 1760, in the First Con-

gregational Church of Woodbury. He re-
ceived by deed from his father, July 6, 1748,
one right in the commonage of Woodbury and
other property there. In 1727 he was collector
of rates. He was a tanner by trade, in busi-
ness at Woodbury. He removed to the
Wyoming Valley and was driven from home
at the time of the massacre in 1778, and as
the family fled they saw the house in flames.
They made their way back to Connecticut,
and settled at Oxford. He died after 1795
and is buried at Shepherd's Point. He spent
the winter of 1795-96, it is said, with his
grandson, David Leavenworth, at Canaan,
New York, and returned to his son David's
at Hamden, Connecticut, in the spring. Chil-
dren: Asa, born 1744; Triphena, July 3, 1746;
Gideon, 1751 ; Samuel, 1751 ; David, Febru-
ary 1, 1756; Betty, October 28, 1760; Isaac,
baptized March 7, 1762; Abel, baptized Feb-
ruary 10, 1765 ; Thomas, baptized December
28, 1766; Dorman, October 28, 1770.

(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Leavenworth, was baptized December 28,
1766, at Oxford, Connecticut. He married
(first) Ruth, daughter of Alexander John-
son. She died at Charlotte, Vermont. He
married (second) Mary Moiser, at Charlotte,
daughter of Jesse Mosier, of New Milford,
Connecticut, and later of Charlotte. He
spent his early life at Huntington, Connecti-
cut, removing in 1797 to Towanda, Pennsyl-
vaia, but soon returned to Connecticut, and
settled at Pines Bridge in the town of Ox-
ford. Later he removed to Charlotte, Ver-
mont, and lived there until 1817, when he
removed to Huntington, Vermont. In 1838
he went to Stockholm, New York, and thence
to Brandon, Franklin county, New York,
where he died July 18, 1850. He was the
last of four generations bearing the name
Thomas Leavenworth. Children : Isaac, men-
tioned below; Calvin, born March, 1793; Polly
married Erastus Johnson ; Sarah, married
Philemon Treat ; Rosette, married Dawnes S.
Thompson ; Betsey, lived at Rockford, Illi-
nois ; Maria, married Elander Stevens ; Seth ;
Mark, born April 5, 1814; Ruth, born 1815,
married Judson Wakefield; Mary, 1818, mar-
ried Isaac Staples; Minerva, 1819, married
Judson Wakefield.

(V) Isaac, son of Thomas (3) Leaven-
worth, was born October 9, 1791. He was a
blacksmith by trade, and three of his sons
were augur makers in Connecticut. He mar-
ried, November 8, 1812, Ruth Clark, born
July 30, 1793, died July 29, 1864. Children,
born at West Haven, Connecticut: Levi C,
April 12, 1814, died June 3, 1814; Edmund
S., mentioned below ; Caroline E., February

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26, 1818; John L., December 15, 1821, died
1859; Clark, May 12, 1827, lived at Chester.

(VI) Edmund S., son of Isaac Leaven-
worth, was born at West Haven, Connecti-
cut, October 1, 1815. He was an augur maker
and lived at West Haven, Connecticut. He
married, February 25, 1841, Ellen Almira
Thomas. Children, born at West Haven :
Edson Hobart, August 14, 1843, died 1843 !
Mary Ellen, December 19, 1846, married
William Fuller, their daughter, Ida May, mar-
ried Edward William Karrmann, M.D. (See
Karrmann II.) Eddie Smith, September 8,
185 1, died 1854; Isaac Stanley, October 31,
1855, died in January, 1879; Etta Flelena,
April 29, 1865.

William Fuller, father of Ida May (Fuller)
Karrmann, was born in Vermont, October
24, 1836, son of Richard and Maria (Par-
rott) Fuller. He was a soldier in the Fifth
Connecticut Regiment, served as sergeant in
Company D, was honorably discharged in
1863, he was a prisoner four months at Libby
Prison. He died in 1877. He married Mary
Ellen Leavenworth ; children : Ellen Maria,
and Ida May Fuller. Ellen Maria married
(first) Timothy P. Reynolds, and had two
children : Vida Grace and Maud Agnes Rey-
nolds; married (second) S. D. Walker, of
Waterville ; child, William Walker. Ida May
Fuller married Dr. Edward W. Karrmann,
October 25, 1900 ; child, David Fuller Karr-

mann.

The name Bidwell is of
BIDWELL Saxon origin, the spelling
Biddulph meaning War Wolf.
From Biddulph the following names are de-
rived: Bedwelle, Bydewell, Bidewell, Bidwell,
Bidwill, Bidwelle, Bidle, Biddle, Bidel, Biddel,
Biddell, Biddol. Biddoll and Biddulps. Those
now in use are Bidwell, Bedwell, Biddel and
Biddulph. One of the oldest castles in Eng-
land is the Biddulph castle, in Norfolk county.
It was built about 1066, and tradition says
that one of William the Conqueror's generals
married the Biddulph heiress of that time and
assumed her name. In 1400 Sir William Ber-
dewelle is mentioned in Thetford, Norfolk
county, as having given a legacy. In 1426
lands were let at Gashorp to Robert Berde-
well, Esq., at twenty shillings per annum. The
following coat-of-arms is given in Burke's
"Encyclopedia of Heraldry," as belonging to
the Bidwells of Thetford : "Gyronny of 4
or and gules 4 roundles each charged with as
many martletts all countercharged. Crest a
martlett proper."

(I) Richard Bidwell, immigrant ancestor,
was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut.

He is called Goodman Bidwell in records, and
died December 25, 1647. Children: John,
mentioned below ; Hannah, born October 22,
1644 ; Joseph, Samuel, Richard.

(II) John, son of Richard Bidwell, mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of John and Mary Wil-
cox. She died June 15, 1690. Her father,
John Wilcox, died before October, 1666. His
wife survived him, and her will is dated
March 4, 1668-69, Hartford. John Bidwell
was an early settler at Hartford, and had four
acres of land allotted him in the division of
lands there in 1639. In 1640 he had a house
lot on the east side of Trumbull street, near
Pearl, and in 1666 had land allotted him at
East Hartford. In 1640 he owned a tan yard
on an island in Little river, in what is now
Bushnell's Park. November 9, 1670, he was
"freed from Training Watching and Warde-
ing by the town of Hartford." He and his
wife Sarah were original members of the
Second or Centre Church, February, 1672.
May 13, 1669, John Bidwell and Joseph Bull
had granted to them two hundred acres of
land "in the next commons to the place where
their Saw Mill stands, with liberty to take
timber out of the common for the improve-
ment of their saw mill as their need shall
require." October 13, 1669, in a list of free-
men on the north side of Little river, John
Bidwell, Sr., is mentioned. His will was
dated February 10, 1680, and mentions his
wife Sarah, sons John, Joseph, Daniel and
Samuel, and daughters Sarah House, Han-
nah Waddams and Mary Meekins. He died
1687. Children: John, born about 1641, men-
tioned below; Joseph, died 1692; Samuel,
born 1650; Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Daniel,

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(III) John (2), son of John (1) Bidwell,

was born about 1641, died July 3, 1692. He
married, November 7, 1678, Sarah Welles,
born 1659, died 1708. She was a daughter
of Thomas and granddaughter of Governor
Welles, being mentioned in the latter's will.
John Bidwell lived in Glastonbury, Connecti-
cut, and had the first saw mill there, 1667.
Later he lived at Hartford, and his father
willed him all his lands and buildings west of
the Connecticut river. He had at Hartford
a saw, grist and fulling mill, six other saw
or grist mills, three at Hartford, one each at
East Hartford, Wethersfield and Middletown.
He was also an engineer, and was selected
by the town of Hartford to deepen the chan-
nel in the Connecticut river between that town
and Wethersfield, 1686. He and his wife Sa-
rah were admitted to full communion at the
Second or Centre Church, Hartford, Febru-
ary 21, 1685. He was buried in East Hart-

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ford. He left an estate of one thousand and
eighty-one pounds, and his widow was admin-
istratrix. In March, 1704, his widow Sarah
gave to her son John land on the east side
of the Connecticut, and her son Thomas wit-
nessed the deed. Children : John, born Sep-
tember 1, 1679; Hannah, August 31, 1680;
Sarah, August 19, 1681 ; Thomas, December
27, 1682, mentioned below; Jonathan, March
5, 1684; David, 1687; James, 1691, died May
7, 1718.

(IV) Thomas, son of John (2) Bidwell,
was born December 27, 1682, died 1716. He
married, March 28, 1707, Prudence, daughtei
of Edward Scott, of New Haven. She was
born 1683, died February 14, 1763. Thomas
Bidwell lived in Hartford, and had a store
north of the state house, between Exchange
corner and the Har.ford Bank. He was also
owner of trading vessels, and was lost at sea
in 1716, while on a voyage to the Barbadoes
for rum and sugar. August, 171 1, he is men-
tioned in a list of persons whose goods were
impressed for the expedition to Canada. Chil-
dren: child born May 29, 1710, died same
day; Thomas, May 16, 171 1, mentioned be-
low; Abigail, August 18, 1713 : Jonathan,
January 12, 1715; Adonijah, October 18, 1716.

(V) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Bid-
well, was born May 16, 171 1, died 1746. He
married Perhannah Pinney, died 1776. She
married (second) Ephraim Wilcox. He re-
moved with his family from Windsor, Connec-
ticut, to West Simsbury, about 1740, and set-
tles on the premises which were later left
to his son Thomas, and remain in the posses-
sion of the family until the present time. His
will was dated December 7, 1746. He was
buried in New Hartford, upon town hill.
Children, Abigail, born 1734; Perhannah, died
1814; Thomas, born 1738, mentioned below-
Prudence, 1740; Jehiel, died ypung; Martha.

(VI) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Bid-
well, was born 1738, died December 3, 1802.
He was born, lived and died in Canton, Con-
necticut. He married Esther Orton, born
May 22, 1738, Farmington, died October 17,
1823, Canton. He served during the revolu-
tion. January 24, 1778, in the militia roll,
at Hartford, he lost his baggage, and collected
from the state for it one pound, six shillings,
two pence, May 30, 1778, in pay rolls of of-
ficers of the militia from Connecticut, he is
mentioned as Captain Thomas Bidwell, in the
Bennington alarm list. Children : Jehiel,
1760; Riverius, August 20, 1762; Thomas,
1764; Norman, 1768; Lois, May 22, 1772;
Jasper mentioned below.

(VII) Colonel Jasper, son of Thomas (3)
Bidwell, was born 1775, Canton, died 1848.

He was a farmer and lived and died in hia
native place. He held the office of town
treasurer. He married Lucy Richards, of
New Hartford. She died in 1872, aged nine-
ty-two years. Children : Sherman, Edmund,
mentioned below.

(VIII) Edmund, son of Colonel Jasper
Bidwell, was born in Canton, 1799, died
October, 1848. He attended the district
schools, and academies in the vicinity, but his
desire for knowledge led him to seek a more
liberal education by private study. He taught
school for a time when a young man and
followed farming in later years. He died
at East Granby, Connecticut, where he had
lived, after 1840, on a farm that he bought.
He was a member of the Congregational
church. In politics he was a Democrat, of the
Andrew Jackson school. He married, in 1834,
Charlotte Dyer, of Canton, Connecticut, born
1816, died 1891, daughter of Captain Zenas
and Sally (Chidsey) Dyer. His widow died
1891. Children: Cerulia, died in infancy;
Jasper Hamilton, mentioned below ; Daniel
W., born February 4, 1845, a hardware mer-
chant at Collinsville, Connecticut.

(IX) Jasper Hamilton, son of Edmund
Bidwell, was born January 6, 1843, in East
Granby, Connecticut. When he was four years
old he went with his widowed mother to the
town of Canton. He attended the public
schools of Collinsville, and at the age of four-
teen went to East Hampton, to attend Wil-
liston Seminary, graduating in the class of
i860. In April, 1861, after he had worked
some months in the office of Adams Express
Company, in Norwich, he enlisted for three
months in Company C, Second Connecticut
Regiment Volunteer Infantry. He took part
in the defence of Washington and in the bat-
tle of Bull Run. In August, 1862, he en-
listed in Company E, Sixteenth Connecticut
Regiment, and was company clerk. His regi-
ment proceeded to Virginia to join the army
of McClellan. At the battle of Antietam he
was struck on the right shoulder by a frag-
ment of shell that burst over his head, and
the missile penetrated several folds of his blan-
ket, rolled with his overcoat. He was climb-
ing over a wall when struck, and the shock
injured his back and shoulder severely, but
he managed to keep up with his comrades
until night. On examination by the surgeon
it was found that his right arm was paraly-
zed, and Colonel Beach appointed him his or-
derly for the remainder of the engagement,
his duty being to carry messages on horse-
back. After the battle he was sent to the
hospital, and while there assisted in caring
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ville, shot through the neck. He rejoined his
regiment, but after a time was taken sick and
left at the home of James Brown, near Snick-
er's Gap, Virginia, where he remained six
weeks. The family was "secesh," but the sick
soldier was kindly treated, and when Mosby's
guerrillas were reported in the vicinity was se-
creted in the house of a relative. When he
was able to return north he was guided one
night to Berlin by a young girl of the family,
the journey being made on horseback. He
made himself known to the provost marshal
and was sent to a convalescent camp near
Alexandria, but did not regain his health suf-
ficiently to join his regiment, and was dis-
charged in February, 1863. He was in the
battle of South Mountain also. When he re-
turned home he weighed but a hundred
pounds, but gradually regained his health and
strength. He returned to the employ of
Adams Express Company at Norwich, Con-
necticut. After about a year he went to Ti-
tus, Pennsylvania. He was associated with
O. B. Miller and Simeon Leland, of the Met-
ropolitan Hotel, owning a patent for driving
wells with tubing. For one year he was in
the hardware business with his brother, at
Collins ville. In 1865 he became a clerk in
the office of the Collins Company, at Collins-
ville, continuing there four years. He then
became clerk in a general store at Collins-
ville. In 1874 he became a clerk in the H.
S. Collins Bank, and in 1886 was admitted
to partnership in the banking business by Mr.
Collins, under the firm name of H. S. Collins
& Company. In 1899 Mf- Bidwell organized
the Canton Trust Company, which succeeded
to the banking business of his firm, and of
which he has since been president. The build-
ing in which the bank is located belongs to
the Collinsville Savings Society, and the stock
of the Trust Company is owned in the town.
Mr. Collins retired from the bank at the
time of incorporation, on account of advanced
age. Mr. Bidwell is a director in the Clinton
Creamery Company, the Collinsville Water
Company and the Farmington Valley Tele-
phone Company, and is connected with the
Columbia Telephone Company as a stock-
holder. He is a Democrat, and for thirty-
five consecutive years was town treasurer,
1875- 1910, and for ten years judge of probate.
The Republicans always endorsed his nomi-
nation for public offce, paying him one of
the highest compliments in political life. In
1896 he did not vote with the Bryan democ-
racy and at other times has displayed his in-
dependence from party. He is a member of
the Masonic Lodge and is prominent in social
life.

He married (first) Dora Kasson, who died
soon after marriage. He married (second),
in October, 1874, Corinne Beckwith, born
April 10, 1853, died July 30, 1902, daughter
of Oliver A. Beckwith. He married (third)
Nellie B. Wagner, of Collinsville, born Au-
gust 12, 1868, daughter of Joseph C. and
Nellie Bugbee Wagner. Children of third
wife: son, died at birth; Ruth, born Septem-
ber 18, 1909. Mr. Bidwell brought up in
his family Oliver R. Beckwith, nephew of his
second wife, now an attorney in Hartford.

The history of the old province
DAKIN of Bretagne or Brittany, in

France, by Morier, mentions the
surname "de Acquignay," pronounced De
Akeny, as existing at or near Louviers, in
the province of Normandy, in the year 802
A. D., and states that one Herveius De Ac-
quignay lived ;n the year 1058. A village
called De Acquignay now exists in France.
The names spelled De Acquignay, Deacuns-
Akeny, D'Akeny, Dakeyne, Deken, De Akin,
and Dakin are connected armorially. One
Baldwin Dakeny fought in the battle of Hast-
ings in 1066.

The families of Dakeyne, Deakune or Da-
kyns are of considerable antiquity in county
Derby, England, and at an early period held
large possessions in Bedford, Buckingham,
Cambridge and Norfolk counties. William
Deken, grandson of Baldwin Dakeny, men-
tioned above, was lord of Wrighton, Norfolk,
in the reigns of Richard T and John, which
title and estate his son, William Deken or
De Akeny, forfeited by his rebellion in the
reign of Henry III. The motto of the wide-
ly-extended family of Dakin, "Dakeyne, strike
Dakeyne — the devil's in the Hemp," is said
to have originated in an incident in a sea fight.
The motto was used in the time of Edward
VI, probably much earlier.

(I) Thomas Dakin was perhaps son of John
and Alice, who came to America in 1635, in
the ship "Abigail." John was born in Eng-
land in 1607. Thomas Dakin was born in
1624, and was living in Concord, Massachu-
setts, before 1650. He died there October

21, 1708. He married (first) Sarah ,

who died in 1659. He married (second) Su-
san Stratton, widow, who died in 1698. Child
of first wife: Sarah, born August 8, 1659.
Children of second wife : John, born March
2, 1661 ; Simon, 1663, mentioned below ; Jos-
eph, 1669, died 1744.

(II) Simon, son of Thomas Dakin, was
born in Concord, 1663, died in Concord, Jan-
uary 11, 1719. He married Elizabeth ,

who survived him. Children : Simon, born

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May 25, 1694, mentioned below; Ebenezer.

(III) Simon (2), son of Simon (1) Dakin,
was born in Concord, May 25, 1694. He mar-
ried Huldah, born 1699, died 1789, widow of
Rev. Timothy Worcester. Children : Simon,
born January 27, 1720, mentioned below ;
Timothy, March 29, 1723 : Huldah, May 29,
1725 ; Benoni, March 16, 1726-27.

(IV) Rev. Simon (3), son of Simon (2)
Dakin. was born January 27, 1720. at Con-
cord, Massachusetts, died at North East, New
York, September 19, 1803. He located at
Phillips Patent, thence removed, in 1783, to
North East, in Dutchess county. He was a
Baptist preacher, a pioneer in church and
town. The church at North East was begun
under Whitefield, Tennat and others. A num-
ber of Presbyterians withdrew and joined one
in the neighborhood at a place called South
Precinct, of the Congregational order, who
held to open communion. Among the dissen-
ters was Simon Dakin, who soon became a
Baptist, and formed a church in 1751, being
ordained its pastor three years later. No his-
torical account of this church has been pre-
served, because the records were taken away
when the Harveys left the locality. But we
are informed (Benedict's "History of the
Baptists," p. 546), that Mr. Dakin's ministry
was greatly blessed and that a numerous
church arose, which branched out to different
places. Some removed to what is now North-
East town, where a church was gathered un-
der James Phillips, who, after serving it sev-
eral vears, went to Fishkill. To this place
Mr. Dakin repaired in 1775 ; many of his
church in Franklin, it seems, came to him ;
what were left behind fell in with a southern
branch which arose under the ministry of Mr.
Nathan Cole. In North East town Mr. Da-
kin spent the most of his long and pious min-
istry. He was born in Concord, 1720, came
with his father to this region at the age of
sixteen, and died in 1803, in his eighty-third
year and the fiftieth of his ministry, leaving
behind him a character "fair, amiable and un-
spotted." He married, December 16, 1742,
Rebecca Perry, of Sandwich, Massachusetts.

(V) Joshua, son of Rev. Simon (3) Da-
kin, was born April 22, 1744. He lived in
the town of North East, New York. He was
a soldier in the revolution from Dutchess
county, and his name appears in the official
list of those entitled to land bounty rights.
("New York in the Revolution.")

(VI) Jacob, son of Joshua Dakin, was born
in North East and lived there all his life. He
was a prosperous farmer. He married Olive
Clark, of North East. Children: Orville,
Harriet, Joshua, Maria, Myron, mentioned

below ; Mary Ann, De Witt C, mentioned
below ; Emeline, George, Cornelia and Caro-
line.

(VII) Myron, son of Jacob Dakin, was
born 1808, in North East, New York, died
1883. He was a farmer and prominent in
public life. He held various town offices and
was a representative to the state legislature.
In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a
Baptist. He married Lucretia A., born at
Lima Rock, Connecticut, 1818, died 1887,
daughter of Ralph Butler. Children : Daugh-
ter, died in infancy; Edward M., lives in Iro-
quois, Canada, William and Webster (twins) ;
William, died in Woodbury, Connecticut, Jan-
uary, 1910; Webster, died aged about four
years ; Charles B., mentioned below.

(VIII) Charles B., son of Myron Dakin,
was horn at Sharon, Connecticut, October 21,
1857, in what is called Sl"^ron Valley. He
attended the public schools ot his native town.
Until seventeen years of age he worked with
his father on the homestead, since then has
been in mercantile business. Since 1882 he
has been in business on his own account as
a general merchant in Sharon. The business
was incorporated in 1892, under the name of
the H. B. Dakin Company, of which Mr. Da-
kin is treasurer and his son president. In
politics he is a Democrat. He is a member
of the fire association of the town. In religion
he is a Congregationalist. He married, 1880,
Hattie E., died April, 1909, daughter of Ebe-
nezer Hamlin, of Sharon, Connecticut. They
had one son, Harold Butler, born September
T3, 1882, educated in the public schools and at
the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeep-
sie. New York ; married Florence, daughter
of Edward B. and Lillian (Moorehouse) St.
John, and has one son, Myron Edward, born
April 20, 1910.

(VII) De Witt C, son of Jacob Dakin,
was born in North East, May 6, 181 1, died
May, 1868, in Sharon, Connecticut. He had
a common school education, but was largely
self educated and self made. He lived in his
native town most of his life. He came to
Sharon a short time before his death. He
was a well-to-do farmer and an influential cit-
izen. He married, 1844, Eliza, born in Salis-
bury, Connecticut, December 26, 1825, died
November 15, 185 1, daughter of James Reed.
Children: James R., born September 4, 1845,
contractor and builder in Mount Kisco. New
York, married Roselia Eggleston ; Emma
Jane, August 22, 1847, married Sanford Eg-
gleston ; Frank Whalen, mentioned below ;
Anna Eliza, September 23, 185 1, died March
18, 1874 ; Charles, October 3, 1853, farmer
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nett: Hattie C, February 18, 1855, lives in
Millerton, New York; Libbie, October II,
1856, died July 12, 1890; De Witt Clinton,
June 22, i860, married Grace Paine.

(VIII) Frank Whalen, son of De Witt C.
Dakin, was born July 23, 1849, m North
East, New York. He was educated there in
the public schools, and at Fort Edward, New
York. He worked during his boyhood on his
father's farm, and for a number of years,
when a young man, had charge of said farm.
In 1868 he came to Sharon, and followed
farming there until 1877. Since then he has
resided in the village of Sharon and has been
in business as a builder and contractor. He
is a director of the Sharon Sewer Company,
the Sharon Telephone Company, and a trustee
of the Hotchkiss Public Library. In politics
he is a Republican. He has served the town
on the board of selectmen and board of edu-
cation. He represented the town in the gen-
eral assembly of the state, 1875-76, serving
on the committee on incorporations. At the
present time he is judge of probate in this
district. He is a prominent member of the
Methodist church, a trustee and treasurer of
the board. He married, 1875, Frances
daughter of Fitch and Olivia (Eggleston)
Landon, of Sharon. They have one child,
Florence, born October 3, 1880, married A.
W. White, of Sharon, who is associated with
Mr. Dakin in the building business.

The Ripley family trace their
RIPLEY descent through various lines to

the earliest settlers in this coun-
try, notably in a direct line to Governor Wil-
liam Bradford, of "Mayflower" fame.

(I) William Ripley came from England
with his wife, two sons and two daughters
in 1638 and settled in Hingham, Massachu-
setts, where he was admitted a freeman, May
18, 1642. His death occurred July 20, 1656.
The death of his first wife is not recorded,
but he married (second) September 29, 1654,
Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Thaxter. She
married (third) John Dwight, of Dedham,
and died July 17, 1660. His children were
all born in England, and the names on record
are: John, Abraham and Sarah.

(II) John, son of William Ripley, was born
in England and died in 1684. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Peter Hobart,
first pastor of the church at Hingham, Mas-
sachusetts. Children : John, Joshua, Jeremiah
and Peter.

(III) Joshua, son of John and Elizabeth
(Hobart) Ripley, was born May 9, 1658, died
May 18, 1739. After his marriage he lived
for a time in Hingham, Massachusetts, re-

moving to Norwich, Connecticut, October 10,
1688, and to Windham, March 23, 1691. At
the first town meeting in Windham, June 11,
1692, he was chosen clerk and treasurer of
the town, and also served as a justice of the
peace. He married, November 28, 1682, Han-
nah Bradford, born May 9, 1662, died May
28, 1738, daughter of William Bradford, Jr.,
deputy-governor of Plymouth colony, and
granddaughter of Governor William Brad-
ford. Children : Alice, born September 17,
1683 ; Hannah, March 2, 1685 ; Faith, Sep-
tember 20, 1686; Joshua, (see forward) ; Mar-
garet. November 4, 1690 ; Rachel and Leah,
twins, April 17, 1693; Hezekiah, June 10,
1695 ; David, May 20, 1697 ; Irene, August
28, 1700; Jerusha and Ann, twins, November
1, 1704.

(IV) Joshua (2), eldest son of Joshua (1)
and Hannah (Bradford) Ripley, was born
May 13, 1688 died November 18, 1773. He
married, December 3, 171 2, Mary, daughter
of John and Mary (Bingham) Backus, of
Windham, Connecticut. Children : Mary, born
November 18, 1714; Phineas, November 21,
1716; Hannah, January 12, 1719; Nathaniel,
June 30, 1721 ; Elizabeth, November 4, 1724;
Joshua, October 30, 1726; Ebenezer (see for-
ward) ; William, February 12, 1734; John,
March 31. 1738.

(V) Ebenezer, son of Joshua (2) and Mary
(Backus) Ripley, was born June 22, 1729,
died at Windham, June II, 181 1. He mar-
ried, June 11, 1752, Mehetabel Burbank, who
died in Windham at the age of eighty-four
years, May 20, 1813. Children: Hannah, born
April 28, 1753, died February 16, 1803 ; Elea-
nor, August 16, 1754; Jerusha, May 28, 1756.
Juliana, July 31, 1757; Justin, January 1,
1759; Abraham February 25, 1761 ; Abiah,
December 12, 1762; Dwight (see forward);
Ebenezer, March 26, 1766; Thaddeus, Octo-
ber 22, 1767: Anna, June 20, 1770; Horace.
August 20, 1772.

(VI) Major Dwight, son of Ebenezer and
Mehetabel (Burbank) Ripley, was born Au-
gust 7. 1764, died in Norwich, Connecticut,
November 18, 1835. He formed a partnership
in the drug business with Benjamin Dyer in
1793 and removed to Norwich, the firm con-
ducting business under the style of Dyer &
Ripley. This partnership was not a lengthy
one, the firm name being changed to Ripley
& Waldo ; dry goods and groceries were
added to the stock, and the firm became the
pioneer in the wholesale trade in Norwich.
For almost half a century Major Ripley was
engaged in Norwich as a merchant and drug-
gist, and during this period many improve-
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ten-pined efforts in its behalf. The house in
which he resided for forty years was locate'
on Broadway, and the Young Men's Christian
Association building now occupies the site
Major Ripley married, February 24, 1796
Eliza Coit, who died July 30, 1846, daughte
of William Coit, a captain of militia in th'
revolutionary war, a resident of Norwich
She was a woman of exceptional gentlenesc
refinement and amiability. Children : Martha
born March 15, 1797; Eliza C, April 3, 1798-
William D., September 2, 1799; George Bur
bank (see forward) ; Lucy C, January 11, 1803
Joseph, August 17, 1804; James L.. March
18. 1806; Eliza, March 22, 1808, married
Hon. William A. Buckingham, governor an'1
United States senator; Harriet, April 7, 1810
Daniel C, July 8, 18 12, died in Washington
District of Columbia, October 27, 1893 ; Jane
born May 16, 181 5, died in Norwich, Decern
ber 1, 1891.

(VII) Hon. George Burbank Ripley, son of
Major Dwight and Eliza (Coit) Ripley, was
born in Norwich, March 13, 1801, died in that
town, July 9, 1858. He was graduated from
Yale College with the class of 1822, which
contained a number of other distinguished
members, studied law under the perceptorship
of Judge Swift, at Windham, Connecticut,
until the latter's death, when he continued his
studies in the office of Judge Staples in New
Haven. He was admitted to the bar in 1824,
and for a time was engaged in the practice
of his profession (with a very satisfactory
amount of success). His love of nature and
an outdoor Hfe appealed to him too strongly,
however, to be resisted, and he turned his at-
tention to farming, in which he was also suc-
cessful. His intellectual attainments were of
an unusually high order, and his ability as
a conversationalist won him many friends and
admirers. He. was not permitted to live a life
of retirement, as he was elected to a number
of public offices by his fellow townsmen, who
felt their interests could be in no safer hands.
He served as judge of the probate court for
the Norwich district for a number of years
between 1850 and his death. Judge Ripley
married, October 19, 1825, Hannah Gardi-
ner Lathrop, born March 9, 1806, died Sep-
tember 17, 1897, daughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Bill) Lathrop (see forward). She
was a woman strikingly beautiful in person
and character. Children: 1. William Lath-
rop, born April 30, 1827, died at Sauga-
tuck, Michigan, April 8, 1878 ; he was en-
gaged in mercantile business in Michigan, and
during the civil war was in the commissary
department and held the rank of major in a
Michigan regiment; he married, 1854, Jerusha

Gilchrist ; children : i. Mary Lathrop, borrr
January 15, 1855, died April 2^, 1874; if
George Bradford, born February 19, 1857
died in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; iii. Charles
Dwight, born February 23, 1858; resides in
Minnesota. 2. Dwight, born June 8, 1829; he
was a member of the firm of Crane, Hamilton
& Ripley, merchants in New York ; he was
living in the south at the beginning of the
civil war. joined the Confederate forces, was
on duty in Texas and Mexico, and attained
the rank of major ; at the close of the war he
became a member of the firm of Melius, Trask
& Ripley, of New York City; he married.
July 9, 1873, in Loudoun county, Virginia
Eliza Chinn McHatton ; one child, Elise, born
in New York, May 23, 1874; married, April
5, 1902, Joseph Ripley Noyes; children-
Katherine, born December 15, 1902; Eliza-
beth, born December 26, 1903 ; Helen Ripley,
born September 7, 1908. 3. Hannah Lath-
rop, born November 4, 1830 ; resides in the
family homestead at Norwich. 4. Harriet,
born September 6, 1832 ; is an artist by pro-
fession, and also resides in the family home-
stead. 5. James Dickinson, born November
14, 1837, lost his life during the destruction
of the steamer, "Commonwealth," by fire, at
Groton, Connecticut, December 29, 1865 ; he
was a medical student of uncommon promise
at Bellevue Hospital at the time of the civil
war, but immediately tendered his services to
his country ; altogether he served for a period
of three years ; first as hospital steward, act-
ing as assistant surgeon of the Eighteenth
Connecticut Regiment. 6. George Coit, born
August 24, 1839; he was graduated from Yale
College in 1862; enlisted in the Tenth Con-
necticut Regiment, was appointed aide to Gen-
eral O. S. Ferry, and served as a member of
his staff until the close of the war ; after the
war he studied law with Judge Kelsey and'
became a brilliant lawyer, winning some noted'
cases ; he married, at Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, November 14, 1867, Lizzie Mann ; chil-
dren: i. Faith, born August 10, 1869, mar-
ried, at Buenos Ay res, Argentina, South
America, September 10, 1900, Howard E.
Atterbury, of New York ; ii. Eleanor Bucher,
born February 8, 1872, died at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, May 2, 1893. 7. Emily
Lathrop, born June 15, 1841 ; married, May
23, 1871, Charles Avery Collin, who was
graduated from Yale College in 1866, was law
professor at Cornell for seven years, and is
now a member of the firm of Collin, Wells
& Hughes, lawyers in New York City ; chil-
dren : i. Dwight Ripley, born January 26,
1873, was educated at Cornell University, and'
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the New York Central railroad, New York; and William, each one-third part of the Pe-
he married, at Buffalo, New York, October qtianeck lands, with other lots in addition
16, 1901, Julia Townsend Coit; children: To his sons, Samuel and Joseph, he gave his
Charles Avery (2), born August 10, 1902; lot, house and barn, with other property, to
Frank Coit, January 2, 1904; Dwight Ripley, be divided equally among them. His wife
July 4, 1906; ii. Grace Lathrop, born March Margaret was made executrix, and he left her
22, 1874; graduated from Smith College with sixty pounds, and the use of his house while
the class of 1896, and from Columbia in 1899. she remained a widow or until the sons, Sam-
She is a journalist and author, and makes her uel and Joseph, were of age. He left money
home in New York City. and moveable property to his daughters. Chil-
dren, not recorded in order of age ; probably
(Lathrop and Bill Lines). a]j by his wife Margaret: 1. Moses, died

(I) John Bill, the earliest known ancestor. 1696 or 1697. 2. Richard, mentioned below.

(II) Philip, son of John Bill. (Ill) Samuel, 3. William, a minor in 1678; died November

son of Philip Bill. (IV) Samuel, son of Sam- 4, 1699. 4. Samuel, younger than William ;

uel Bill. (V) Ephraim, son of Samuel (2) died 1732. 5. Joseph, probable youngest son ;

Bill. (VI) Hannah, daughter of Ephraim died March 16, 1698. 6. Hester, oldest

Bill, married Thomas Lathrop. (VII) Han- daughter; born as early as 1658, died 1699.

nah Gardiner, daughter of Thomas and Han- 7. Betty (Elizabeth), born about 1660. 8.

nah (Bill) Lathrop, married George Burbank Hannah, born after 1659. 9. Abigail, born

Ripley. after 1659, probably youngest child ; died

(I) Rev. John Lathrop came from England March 6, 1698.

to Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1634. (II) (II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)

Samuel, son of Rev. John Lathrop. (HI) Lyon, was born in Fairfield, about 1653. He

Samuel, son of Samuel Lathrop. (IV) Thorn- married Mary , whose maiden name

as, son of Samuel (2) Lathrop. (V) Joshua, was Frye. His land adjoined that of Mihill

son of Thomas Lathrop, married Mercy Eells, Frye, from whom he received a legacy of ten

whose father was a chaplain in the war of the shillings. He lived in Fairfield, but late in

revolution. (VI) Thomas, son of Joshua and life went to Redding, where he died in Janu-

Mercy (Eells) Lathrop, married Hannah, ary, 1740, aged eighty-seven. His wife was

daughter of Ephraim Bill. (VII) Hannah a charter member of the Congregational

Gardiner, daughter of Thomas and Hannah church organized in Redding in 1729. He

(Bill) Lathrop, married George Burbank united with the same church in 1733. Chil-

Ripley. dren : Samuel, born December 27, 1688 ; Sa-

rah, February 14, 1690 or 1693; Ebenezer,

Richard Lyon, in company with mentioned below; Daniel, October 3, 1697;

LYON two brothers, Henry and Thomas, Hannah, May 14, 1701 ; Nathan, November

came from Glen Lyon in Perth- 28, 1703; Jonathan, May 1, 1708.

•dure to the Colonies in 1648. The story is (III) Ebenezer, son of Richard (2) Lyon,

that these three, who were Scotch soldiers in was born in Fairfield, August 15, 1694. The

Cromwell's army, were on guard before the place and date of his death are not known,

banqueting house at Whitehall, January 31, Fie was one of the pioneer settlers in Nor-

1648, and witnessed the execution of King wich, Connecticut, in 1722. He married, in

Charles I. Immediately after the regicide Fairfield, January 9, 1717, Ellen Fanton.

they fled to America. Henry Lyon went to Children, born in Fairfield : Stephen, men-

Milford, Connecticut; Richard Lyon settled tioned below; Ellen, born November 27, 1718

in Fairfield as early as May, 1649. He had (Eleanor); Ebenezer, June 10, 1722; Abel,

a house and lot recorded in the land records (IV) Stephen, son of Ebenezer Lyon, was

of Fairfield (Fayrefield) in January, 1653, baptized November 17, 17 17. He married, in

and was made a freeman there m 1664. In Fairfield, July 21, 1747, Grace Webb. Chil-

1673 he had recorded five acres of land at dren: Nehemiah Webb, mentioned below;

Barlow's Plains, and eighteen and one-half Stephen.

acres "on the Rocks." He was chosen com- (V) Nehemiah Webb, son of Stephen
missioner for Fairfield, May, 1669. The will Lyon, was born in Weston, Connecticut, Au-
of Richard Lyon, made April 12, 1678, pro- gust 16, 1759, died there in his one hundred
bated October 17, 1678, is almost the only and first year. He was a revolutionary sol-
cource of information about his family. He dier, having enlisted in Najah Bennet's corn-
gave to his son Moses, one-third of his land pany in 1781. He was recorded as a pen-
in Pequaneck (Bridgeport), as well as other sioner in Fairfield county in 1832, and in
property. He also gave to his sons, Richard Weston in 1832, and remained on the pension

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roll until his death in i860. He married, Au-
gust 26, 1778, Sarah Treadwell. His chil-
dren nearly all lived to a good old age. Chil-
dren : David, born June 22 or January 29,
1779; Samuel, August 27, 1780; Huldah, Jan-
uary 4, 1783; Clarissa, August 11, 1785; Levi,
September 14, 1788; Walker, May 23, 1790;
Sarah, May 2, 1793 ; Hanford, mentioned be-
low ; Jarvis, died May 24, 1799, aged fifty-
six.

(VI) Hanford, son of Nehemiah Webb
Lyon, was born in Easton, Connecticut, Rock
House District, July 27, 1795, died December
21, 1879. Until fourteen years of age he
lived on his father's farm. He was then ap-
prenticed in Danbury to Elijah Sanford, and
six years later established a saddlery busi-
ness in Bridgeport. He became a member of
Fairchild, Lyon & Company in the same line
of business, and later was principal in the
firm of Lyon, Wright & Company. He was
one of the most prominent citizens of Bridge-
port, occupying many positions of responsi-
bility. He was a director in the Connecticut
Bank, director and president of the Old
Bridgeport Bank, director in the Pequonnock
Bank, first president of the City Savings
Bank, and director and president of the City
Light Company, now Bridgeport Gaslight
Company. He was originally a Whig in poli-
tics, but anti-slavery in sentiment, and during
the civil war an ardent and powerful suppor-
ter of the Union government and a Repub-
lican in politics from the organization of that
party. He was an alderman of the city. He
was a member of the First Congregational
Church of Bridgeport. He married (first)
Hetty Ann Thompson, born in 1805 at Strat-
ford, died April 22, 1842, at Bridgeport,
daughter of John and Alice (Benjamin)
Thompson. She is buried in the Mountain
Grove cemetery at Bridgeport. Alice Ben-
jamin's father kept a tavern. Once, during
the revolution, when she was a young child,
she was picking berries in a field near home
when she was startled by the appearance of a
stranger, who, after reassuring her, asked the
way to an inn. She led the way to her fath-
er's tavern, the man was George Washington
who met General Lafayette on his way from
New London to West Point. After supper
the child remembered being held on the knee
of General Washington and receiving fatherly
advice. Mr. Lyon married (second) Anna
Mackay, daughter of Daniel M. and Ann
(Butler) Frye, of New York City, and sis-
ter of Major Frederick Frye. Children of
first wife : Frederick H., mentioned below ;
William, deceased; Sarah J., deceased, mar-
ried Judge Edward I. Sanford, of New

Haven ; Josephine, married Henry T. Shelton,
son, Harry ; Adelaide, deceased. Children by
second wife: Edward H., deceased; Frank C,
resides in Bridgeport; Charles G., resides in
Bridgeport ; Alice Cheever, married May 4,
1874, General Thomas H. Watson.

(VII) Frederick Hanford, son of Hanford
Lyon, was born September 20, 1827, at
Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was educated
in the public schools of Bridgeport. His
business training began as a clerk in the
Bridgeport Bank. In 1849 he embarked in
business on his own account in the firm of
Holcomb & Lyon, hardware dealers, Bridge-
port, and after five years he bought the in-
terests of his partner and continued the busi-
ness alone. Subsequently he admitted to part-
nership William Kellogg, the firm being Lyon
& Kellogg. In 1864 Mr. Lyon retired from
the business to devote his time to the man-
agement of the real estate that he had largely
inherited from his father. He is one of the
best known citizens of Bridgeport and one
of the oldest men in business in that city. He
has always been a quiet citizen, avoiding pub-
lic life and declining office, but having many
friends and possessing much influence in the
community. In religion he is a Congrega-
tionalist ; in politics a Republican. He mar-
ried Betsey A. Hawley, born in Bridgeport,
daughter of Captain Abijah Hawley. Chil-
dren, born at Bridgeport: I. Hanford, de-
ceased. 2. Frederick Sanford, born February,
1852, died unmarried in 1897. 3. Julia M.,
married Frank W. Wilson, of Bridgeport.
Children : Arthur M. and Edith. 4. Josephine,
unmarried. 5. Henry Meigs, born 1858, died
1888. 6. William Kellogg, born 1859; un-
married. 7. Helen Clinton, born 1862 ; mar-
ried Charles Dudley Mills ; one child, Charles
Dudley.

The surname De Witt is of Dutch
WITT origin and the progenitor of the

distinguished family of this name
in New York was Tjerck Claezen De Witt,
born at Grootholdt in Zunderland, Westpha-
lia, in 1620, settled in New Amsterdam (New
York) in 1656, son of Nicholas De Witt. He
removed to Esopus, New York, now in Ulster
county. It is conjectured that the Witt family
of Massachusetts may have assumed that De
Witt was the original name of their ances-
tors, but the tradition that the ancestry was
Dutch must have been on fairly convincing
grounds or some of the family would not have
adopted that spelling. In the early records
of Massachusetts, however, the De Witt spell-
ing is not to be found. Moreover, the immi-
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from England, for no Dutch-speaking immi-
grants were known at Lynn at the time the
immigrant came. There was a prominent
family named Witt in Lancashire, England,
having this coat-of-arms : Argent a grifhn
segreant sable. Crest : A dexter hand coupe
in fesse apaumee. This is the only Witt coat-
of-arms given by Burke. The origin of the
English name Witt is given the same as
White, from the Anglo-Saxon hwit. The
name appears in the Domesday Book in 1086
as Alvin Albus (White of Witt), alias Wit
and also Unit and Unite. The name is not
uncommon in England. But there is no rea-
son to disbelieve the tradition that the ances-
tors in England were Dutch and dropped the
prefix De.

(I) John Witt, emigrant ancestor, settled
in Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1630. He
came probably from Holland. He married

Sarah , and is said to have had two

wives. He died at Lynn, December 2, 1675.
Children : John, mentioned, below ; Jonathan,
married, Mary Dimond, of Lynn, probably
daughter of John Dimond ; Ann, married
■ Barnes ; Elizabeth ; Sarah ; Mary ; Mar-
tha, born at Lynn, March 5, 1659; Thomas,
born at Lynn, July 25, 1661, married, Feb-
ruary 26, 1685, Bethia, daughter of Nicholas
Potter; Ebenezer, born April 6, 1665, died
young.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Witt, was
born probably about 1650 in Lynn. He mar-
ried. January 14, 1676, Elizabeth Baker. They
resided in Lynn where all their children were
born, not all being recorded. The children
given in Lynn records : Elizabeth, born Au-
gust 9, 1677; John, June 3, 1679, mentioned
below ; Mary, August 14, 1681 ; Jonathan,
married, in Marlboro, Lydia Mathews ; Abi-
gail, born February 10, 1687 ; Samuel, Octo-
ber 20, 1691, married (first) Elizabeth Breed,
of Lynn, married (second) Susanna Pierce;
Ebenezer, August 8, 1693 '> Thomas, Febru-
ary 18, 1696, married Mary Ivory; Persis,
May 2, 1698.

(III) John (3), son of John (2) Witt,
was born at Lynn, June 3, 1679. He mar-
ried Mary Dane. They settled in Marlbor-
ough, Massachusetts, in the northeast part
near the Indian plantation, about 1707. He
died there about 1743. His will was made
March 6, 1741. proved May 16, 1743. It
mentions his wife Mary ; sons, William, Elias,
Joseph, John and Ebenezer ; daughters, Mary,
Dike, and Elizabeth ; granddaughter, Rebecca
Goodell. Children: William, born May 13,
1708; Mary, July 29, 1710; Elias, June 30,
1714, married, March 31, 1742, Elizabeth
Marble: Rebecca, 1715, married, January 17,

1733, Eleazer Goodell, of Sutton ; David,

April 11, 1720, married Sarah , son\

Thomas, born April II, 1745; Ebenezer,
1722, baptized June 22, 1722, married Lydia
Woodbury; Elizabeth, married Benoni Bailey;
John, mentioned below.

(IV) Lieutenant John (4), son of John
(3) Witt, was born at Marlborough, Massa-
chusetts, on the place settled by his father,
where the descendants have since lived. He
was a nephew of Captain Ebenezer Witt, of
Brookfield, and he came to North Brookfield
to settle as early as 1744, with his wife Sa-
rah. They lived on what is lately known
as the Cheever place. John Witt sold his
farm to Samuel Cheever, July 19, 1769. He
was one of the forty-eight charter members
of the Second Church, formed May 28, 1752.
He was a lieutenant in the militia in the In-
dian wars. Four of his children only are
recorded at North Brookfield, as follows:
Benjamin, born August 15, 1750; Ivory, Oc-
tober 20, 1752; Stephen,' August 15, 1754;
Joseph, mentioned below.

(V) Joseph, son of Lieutenant John (4)
Witt, was born at Brookfield, January 3, 1757.
He was a soldier in the revolution from
Granby, in Captain Barton's company, Colonel
Porter's regiment, in 1780, when he gave his
age as twenty-two, his height as five feet seven
inches. He was also in Captain Job Alvord's
company. Colonel S. Murray's regiment in
1780. His brother Ivory also came to Granby
and served in the revolution from that town,
and his brother Stephen was a soldier from
South Hadley. Joseph remained in Granby
and according to the census of 1790 had a
family consisting of one male and one fe-
male, doubtless himself and wife. John ac-
cording to the same record had three sons
under sixteen and three females in his family.

(VI) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Witt,
was born after 1790 in Granby, died there in
1856. He attended the district schools of
his native town. He was a farmer all his life.
Before his death he divided his property by
deed among his children. He married (first)
Mary Witt, his first cousin, thought to be
daughter of Irving Witt; married (second)
Rebecca Winship Tish, of Kingsbury, New
York. Children all by first wife, born at
Granby : Holland Joseph, died unmarried,
aged twenty-one years ; Horace, mentioned
below ; Henry, lived at Granby ; Louisa, died
unmarried; Nancy, married Henry Graves, of
Belchertown, Massachusetts.

(VII) Horace, son of Joseph (2) Witt,
was born in Granby, in January, 18 17, died
there in December, 1876. He was educated
in the public schools of his native town, and

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worked on his father's farm during his youth.
After he came of age he followed farming
on his own account in Granby. He was a
progressive and enterprising man and pros-
perous in business. To all his children he
gave a good education. He was interested in
public affairs, and was for many years a mem-
ber of the school committee and an assessor
of the town of Granby. He was highly re-
spected and honored by all his townsmen. He
was prominent also in the church. He mar-
ried (first) Irene Smith, born in 1815, at
Granby, died in 1863, daughter of Medad and
Pamelia (Dickinson) Smith. Her father was
a farmer in Granby. Married (second), 1865,
Hannah Marshal, of Mechanic Falls, Maine.
Children, all by first wife, born in Granby:
1. Joseph Holland, born April 26, 1846, living
in Denver, Colorado, has a son Webster and
daughter Irene. 2. George Lucas, born Au-
gust 20, 1848, farmer at Belchertown ; has
one son, Joseph, and daughters, Mary,
and Clara. 3. Mary Emma, born May 4,
1 85 1, now living at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
4. Edgar Clifton, born December 14, 1856,
lives at Belchertown, a farmer ; has had six
children ; four living: Henry, Effie, Earle, Clif-
ton. 5. Maynard, born January 21, 1861, died
June, 190 1, at Bridgeport; he assumed the
prefix De, which, according to tradition, was
formerly part of the name, and which the
Worcester county and other branches of the
family have also resumed ; was secretary of
the Belknap Brass Company of Bridgeport, a
well known and successful business man ;
married Julia Stewart, who died in 1898; of
their three children, Marshal Stewart, born
March 5, 1894, is living with his aunt, Mary
Emma Witt, of Bridgeport.

The Pierpont line is traced
PIERPONT back' to Robert de Pierpont,

who came with the Con-
queror to England. The seventh in descent
from Robert was Sir Henry, of Holme Pier-
pont, in right of his wife Annora, daughter
of Michael Manvers, Lord of Holme. From
this Henry it is ten generations to Robert,
who was created Earl of Kingston, 1628,
whose last male descendant was Evelyn Pier-
pont, second duke of Kingston, who died 1773.
The above Robert had a younger brother Wil-
liam, supposed to be the father of James,
mentioned below.

(I) James Pierpont, immigrant ancestor,
came to America with two sons, John, men-
tioned below, and Robert.

(II) John, son of James Pierpont, was
born in London, England, in 1619, died in
1682. He came to America with his father.

He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and
married Thankful Stow. Children : Thankful
born November 26, 1649, died young; John,
July 22, 1651, died young; John, October 28,
1652 ; Experience, January 4, 1655 ; Infant,
August 4, 1657, died young; James, Janu-
ary 4, 1659-60, mentioned below ; Ebenezer,
December 21, 1661 ; Thankful, November 18,
1663; Joseph, April 6, 1666; Benjamin, July
26, 1668.

(III) Rev. James (2), son of John Pier-
pont, was born January 4, 1659-60, in Rox-
bury, and graduated from Harvard College
in 1681. He was ordained pastor of the First
Church in New Haven, July 2, 1685, the suc-
cessor of John Davenport. He remained here
for thirty years, and became one of the
founders of Yale College. He died November
2, 1714, and is buried under the present Cen-
ter Church. A memorial tablet in this church
has upon it the chief facts of his life, the
engraved arms of the Pierpont family, and
the following inscription : "His gracious
gifts and fervent piety, elegant and winning
manners were devoutly spent in the service
of his Lord and Master." He married (first)
October 27, 1691, Abigail, daughter of Rev.
John Davenport; she died February 3, 1692,
aged twenty. He married (second) May
30, 1694, at Hartford, Sarah, daughter of
Rev. Joseph Haynes ; she died October 7, 1696
aged twenty-three. He married (third) 1698,
Alary, born July 3, 1673, died November 1,
1740, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hooker, of
Farmington, and granddaughter of Rev.
Thomas Hooker, of Hartford. Child of sec-
ond wife: Abigail, born September 19, 1696.
Children of third wife: James, May 21, 1699,
mentioned below ; Samuel, December 30, 1700,
Mary, November 23, 1702; Joseph, October 1,
1704; Benjamin, July 18, 1706, died Decem-
ber 17, 1706; Benjamin, October 15, 1707,
graduated from Yale College, 1726; Sarah,
January 9, 1709, married Jonathan Edwards,
the noted divine; Hezekiah, May 6, 1712.

(IV) Rev. James (3), son of Rev. James
(2) Pierpont, was born May 21, 1699, died
June 18, 1776. He graduated from Yale Col-
lege, 1718, became a professor in Yale, and

a minister. He married (first) Sarah ,

who died September 28, 1753, aged forty-
three. He married (second) March 28, 1754,
Anne Sherman. Children of second wife:
Evelyn, born March t6, 1755 ; Robert, June
13, 1757; James, July 27, 1761, mentioned be-
low; David, July 26, 1764.

(V) James (4), son of Rev. James (3)
Pierpont, was born July 27, 1761, in New
Haven. He settled in early life in what is
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Connecticut, where he was engaged for years educated in the public schools of his native
in the manufacture of woolen goods. Later town of Litchfield, and in 1859 removed to
he was occupied in farming. He married Paxton, Illinois, with his father and family,
(first) September 28. 1782, Elizabeth, daugh- He graduated from the Bryant & Stratton
ter of Charles and Anne (Huntington) Col- Business College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1867,
lins. She died July 28, 1815, aged fifty- and engaged in mercantile life in Paxton, Illi-
nine. He married (second) December 1.6, nois, until 1870, when he returned to Connec-
1816, Lucy Crossman. Children of first wife: ticut for a visit, and being urged to remain
Sherman, born June 29, 1783; John, April 6, east entered the grocery store of his cousin,
1785: Sally, January 11, 1787; James, March the late Cornelius Pierpont, where he con-
2. 1789-90; Elizabeth, May 28, 1792; Sarah, tinued until 1886, when he bought out the late
July 21, 1795; Abby, October 13, 1797; Mr. Broderick and the firm of Curtiss & Pier-
James, June 23, 1800. Child of second wife: pont was formed, which has later developed
Leonard, mentioned below. into the large business called The Curtiss &

(VI) Leonard, son of James (4) Pierpont, Pierpont Company with which Mr. Pierpont is
was born October 28, 1819, in Litchfield, Con- still actively connected. In his youth he uni-
necticut, and died in Paxton, Illinois, April ted with the Congregational church in Paxton
10, 1874, where he had removed in 1859 with and brought his letter to the old College
his family. He married Cynthia, daughter Street Church (Congregational) in New
of Elisha and Lucretia (Mason) Turner. Her Haven. In more recent years he has been
Grandfather Mason was a soldier in the rev- a devoted member of the Dwight Place
olution. Children of Leonard and Cynthia Church in New Haven, serving as one of its
Pierpont: 1. Leonard, born May 15, 1842. deacons. He married (first) October 12.
Never married ; enlisted in the seventy-sixth 1875, Esther, daughter of William J. Pratt,
Illinois Infantry Regiment at the beginning of New Haven, Connecticut. She died in
of the civil war, and served all but one month 1885. He married (second) Mrs. Caroline G.
of his period of enlistment, dying at Galves- (Moulthrop) Holbrook, December 29, 1891.
ton, Texas, July 16, 1865 > to°k Part m the He na^ one daughter by the first marriage,
battle of Vicksburg and other battles. 2. Charlotte Cynthia, born November 30, 1878,
Walter, born September 9, 1843 I never mar- now a teacher in the Dwight Training School
ried ; enlisted in the first Connecticut Cavalry, of New Haven. His second wife had a
Colonel Blakeslee, and was killed in one of daughter by her first marriage, Sara Moul-
the engagements near Richmond, Virginia, throp Holbrook, born January 31, 1879.
June 1, 1864. 3. Edward Sherman, born No-

vember 22, 1844 ; never married ; enlisted in The exact origin of the Tif-
the civil war in the Eighth Illinois Regiment TIFFANY fany family is difficult to as-
of Volunteer Infantry and served about a year ; certain, but it is believed the
killed in the charge on Fort Blakely, Mobile name and family originated in Italy, about
Harbor, Alabama, April 9, 1865. 4. J. New- the time of the early crusades, and that some
ton, mentioned below. 5. Mary Hooker, born member of the house, returning, settled in
March 30, 1849; married, October 10, 1872, Brittany, France. From the time of the Nor-
Henry C. Hall, of Paxton, Illinois ; children : man Conquest to 1730 the English left Brit-
Clara W., born October 2, 1874, died May 24, tany at different periods, and it is from some
1880: May Turner, born February I, 1877, of these English Tiffanys that the Americans
married, December 26, 1899, George Shaw ; of that name are descended. The name is
Bertha Melvina born June 23, 1879 ; Edith still frequently found in Brittany and Nor-
Pierpont, born April 24, 1882 ; Henry Pier- mandy, and also in England and Ireland. Ac-
pont, born June 14, 1885, died February 26, cording to one authority on English surnames
1907. 6. Lucy, born January 20, 1853 \ mar- the name Tiffany is a corruption of Theopha-
ried, January 23, 1884, W. Carey Foley ; chil- nia, a woman's first name, meaning light-
dren : Mary Esther, born October 23, 1885, hearted, gay and spirited. Another authority
died September 23, 1893 I Leonard Burnside, gave it as the name of a thin cloth, an equiv-
born October 18, 1887 ; Vera Pierpont, born alent for "taffeta, a fine, smooth, silken stuff,
March 13, 1893. 7- and 8. James and John, remarkably glossy." Some other authorities
twins, born October 22, 1855 ; James mar- on English surnames have devoted consider-
ried, December 5, 1900, Bertha Augusta Yac- able space to prove that the name was taken
kee, and John married, February 19, 1885, from Epiphany, with reference to the Feast
Mattie H. Foley. of the Epiphany, the church festival, also

(VII) J. Newton, son of Leonard Pier- called Twelfth Day, concluding the Christmas
pont, was born February 6, 1847. He was holidays. The name as applied to a silk would

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thus mean Epiphany silk, or holiday silk. The
coat-of-arms is as follows : Argent, chevron
gules, three lions' heads, erased, of the sec-
ond. Crest: A greyhound's head, erased, with
a stag's foot in the mouth. Motto : Patria
fidelis.

(I) Squire Humphrey Tiffany, immigrant
ancestor, came from Yorkshire, England, it
is supposed, and was in Massachusetts Bay
Colony about the year 1660. In the records
of the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, un-
der date of January 22, 1663, appears the fol-
lowing: "Humphrey permitted to be a so-
journer and to buy or hire." At this time,
therefore, he became a citizen of the town.
Later he was a resident of Swansea, as ap-
pears from the Swansea items in the Ply-
mouth Colony records, as follows : "Sarah,
the dau. of Humphrey Tiffany, and Elizabeth,
his wife, was born sixth July 1683. He was
killed by a stroke of lightning while on his
way from Swansea to Boston." The follow-
ing account of his death is given in the diary
of Samuel Sewell, Publications of tne Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, vol. 5, fifth series,
page 88: "Wednesday, P. M., July 15, 1685.
Very dark and great thunder and lightning.
One Humphrey Tiffany and Frances Low,
daughter of Antony Low, are slain with the
lightning and thunder about a mile and a half
beyond the Billinges Farm, the horse also
slain, that they rode on and another horse
in Company slain and his rider who held the
garment on the Maid to steady it at the time
the Stroke a coat or cloak, stoned, but not
killed. Were coming to Boston. Antony Low
being in Town the sad Bill was put up with
(regards) of that solemn judgment of God;
Fast-day Forenoon, July 15, 1685, 2 persons
2 horses." Another record states that he was
killed by lightning between Swansea and Bos-
ton, and that for a long time a metal tablet
was affixed to the tree beneath which he
sought shelter. There was an inscription on
the tree setting forth the incident and con-
cluding with the following :

Squire Humphrey Tiffany

And Mistress Low
By a stroke of lightning

Into Eternity did go.

His wife, "Mistress Elizabeth Tiffany,"
qualified before the general court as execu-
trix of her husband's estate. Children, re-
corded in Swansea : James ; Thomas ; Ebene-
zer ; Consider, mentioned below ; Sarah, born
July 6, 1683 ; Hezekiah, drowned in the
Swanzey river, December 4, 1685.

(II) Consider, son of Humphrey Tiffany,
married (first) . He married (sec-

ond), in Lyme, Connecticut, January 23, 1753,
Mary Davis. Little is known of him except
that he was a landholder and a farmer. A
deed dated Lyme, Connecticut, July 13, 1756,
identifies Sergeant Consider Tiffany as his
eldest son. Children of first wife : Consider,
born March 15, 1730, mentioned below; Dan-
iel, Samuel, 1740, Lyme. Children of second
wife: Timothy, born November 24, 1754;
Lyme: Titus, May 9, 1755, Lyme.

(Ill) Consider (2), son of Consider (1)
Tiffany, was born March 15, 1730, in Lyme,
died at Hartland, June 19, 1796. He married,
in Lyme, Sarah Wilder, born August 13, 1738,
Lyme, died November 7, 18 18, Hartland, Con-
necticut. He lived in Lyme until after the
birth of his first three children. Here he
was a farmer and carried on a small business
as storekeeper. At Hartland, where his other
children were born, he was engaged in the
same business but on a much larger scale. He
transacted a great amount of business and was
always careful to enforce his rights. At one
time he was a school teacher, and it is said
that when he entered upon this work it was
the first time he had ever been in school. It
is further stated that he was a good teacher
and a close student. He was something of an
astronomer, and is said to have calculated an
almanac, but no copy of it has been found.
He was also a writer of prose and poetry,
and kept diaries in which he recorded his daily
adventures. One of these covers the period
of the French and Indian war, in 1756, and
another the revolution. On his death he left
the latter to his eldest son, with instructions
that it was to be transmitted from eldest son
to eldest son, as an heirloom. It is now in
possession of Henry Tiffany, of Clyde, Ohio,
and forms a valuable addition to the revolu-
tionary history of the country, written from
the Tory standpoint. He was a member of
the Church of England and had little patience
with the dissenting sects. During the revo-
lution he was loyal not only to the English
church, but also to the English crown. In
1778 he was confined to his farm in Hart-
land because of his outspoken Toryism and
remained there for fifteen months. At the
end of that time, hearing that he was about
to be released, he wrote to the chairman of the
committee, asking that he might be allowed
to remain where he was, as he still retained
the same sentiments and had no intention of
being drafted for the continental army. Dur-
ing the French and Indian campaign in 1756
he was sergeant of Captain William Lamson's
company, and after his return joined another
military company, which probably had its
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library for those times. A list of the books
contained in it in 1788 has been found in a
book of sermons in his own handwriting. His
will, dated February 7, 1778, is a character-
istic document and has been preserved. Chil-
dren : Jemima, born October 12, 1756, Lyme;
Ephraim, November 8, 1758, mentioned be-
low; Dorothy, June 19, 1762, Lyme; Levi,
April 2$, 1766, Hartland ; Consider, March
12, 1769, Hartland ; Betsey Wilder, February
25, 1772, Hartland.

(IV) Ephraim, son of Consider (2) Tif-
fany, was born November 8, 1758, in Lyme,
and married, in Hartland. February 27, 1783,
Anna Harger. born 1758, died December 17,
1824, Barkhamsted, Connecticut. He died in
Barkhamsted, April 7, 1818. Children, born
in Barkhamsted : Timothy, November, 1783 ;
Joel, June 29, 1785, mentioned below; Sally;
Russell, 1789 or 1790; Ephraim, 1792; Philo-
men, May, 1801 ; daughter, died young;
daughter, died young.

(V) Joel, son of Ephraim Tiffany, was
born June 29, 1785, at Barkhamsted, died
September 15, 1870. He married there 1804-
05, Hannah Wilder, born January 18, 1783,
Barkhamsted, died November 20, 1853. He
was a carpenter and joiner by trade. He was
blind in the later years of his life. Children,
born in Barkhamsted : Anna, May, 1806, died
September, 1807 ; Henry, September 8, 1807 ;
Elijah, January 8, 1810; Joel, September 6,
1812; James, November 6, 1814; William,
January 12, 1818, mentioned below ; Ann Wal-
lace, December n, 1819; Hannah. November
27, 1823.

(VI) William, son of Joel Tiffany, was
born January 12, 1819, died March 29, 1899.
He received a common school education, and
was in the lumber business most of his life.
He was representative to the legislature for
a term. In politics he was a Republican and
an Abolitionist. He married, January 25,
1846, Elizabeth Maria, born Simsbury, April

21, 1823, died in 1895, daughter of George
and Edna (Case) Cornish. Children, born in
Barkhamsted : Frances Elizabeth, November

22, 1847; Leverett Williams, September 21,
1850, mentioned below ; Ellen Jane Torbett,
December 27, 1855 ; Mary Edna, May 4,
1859; Dwight, March 21, 1861.

(VII) Leverett Williams, son of William
Tiffany, was born at Barkhamsted, Connecti-
cut, September 21, 1850. He attended the
public schools of his native town, and at the
age of nineteen entered into a partnership with
his brother-in-law, conducting a general store
at Barkhamsted from 1869 to l&72< and at
New Hartford from 1872 to 1881. In 1882
Mr. Tiffany and Mr. Taylor established the

Winsted Hosiery Company, of which Mr.
Taylor was agent and Mr. Tiffany secretary.
The original capital stock was $50,000, and
the mill was a frame building two stories and
a half high, fifty by a hundred feet. Much
of the time of Mr. Tiffany was devoted to
the selling of the goods. In 1888 Mr. Tif-
fany organized the New England Knitting
Company, with a capital of $50,000, and be-
came the general manager. This company has
been highly prosperous, having two mills and
employing about two hundred hands. Mr.
Tiffany is also manager of the Winsted Yarn
Company, director of the Winsted Hosiery
Company, of the New England Pin Company,
of the Carter & Hakes Machine Company, and
of the Hulbert National Bank. He owns a
farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres,
part of which lies within the borough of Win-
sted, and resides there. He attends the First
Congregational Church. He married, No-
vember 6, 1873, Katherine E., born at Ber-
lin, Connecticut, daughter of Rev. John Rob-
inson and Catherine (Riley) Freeman (see
Freeman VIII). Children: Mabel Freeman,
born June 3, 1875, Canterbury, Connecticut,
died October 7, 1898; Harold Freeman, born
at New Hartford, June 6, 1881, died Septem-
ber 9, 1881 ; Helen Freeman, January 3, 1889;
Margaret Cornish, born at Winsted, Novem-
ber 15, 1891 ; Katherine E., March 30, 1896.

(The Freeman Line).

The surname Freeman is of ancient Eng-
lish origin. The coat-of-arms : Three loz-
enges or. Crest: A demi-lion rampant gules,
holding between his paws a like lozenge. Mot-
to: Liber et audax.

(I) Edmund Freeman, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England in 1590, and came in the
ship "Abigail" in July, 1635, with wife Eliza-
beth and children Alice, Edmund, Elizabeth
and John. He settled first in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, as early as 1635. Lewis says in his
history of Lynn: "This year (1635) many
new inhabitants appear in Lynn, and among
them worthy of note Mr. Edmund Freeman,
who presented to the colony twenty corslets
or pieces of plate armor.'' He was subse-
quently of the Plymouth colony, and with nine
associates was soon recognized by the gov-
ernment as a suitable person to originate a
new settlement. He was admitted a freeman
at Plymouth, January 2, 1637, and after being
a short time a resident of Duxbury settled in
what was incorporated later as the town of
Sandwich. Most of the grantees of this town
were formerly of Lynn. Freeman had the
largest grant and was evidently the foremost
man in the enterprise. He was elected assist-

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ant to the governor and commissioner to hear
and determine causes within the several con-
tiguous townships. He was one of the first
judges of the select court of Plymouth county.
During the persecution of the Quakers he op-
posed the course of the government, and was
once fined ten shillings for refusing to aid in
the baiting of Friends under pretence of the
law. "Pre-eminently respected, always fixed
in principle and decisive in action, neverthe-
less quiet and unobtrusive, a counselor and
leader without ambitious ends in view, of un-
compromising integrity and of sound judg-
ment, the symmetry of his entire character
furnished an example that is a rich legacy to
his descendants." He died in 1682, at the
advanced age of ninety-two. His will is dated
June 21, 1682, and was offered for probate
November 2, 1682. He was buried on his
own land, on the hill in the rear of his dwell-
ing house at Sandwich. It is the oldest burial
place in the town. His grave and that of his
wife are marked by two boulders which he
himself placed in position after his wife died,
and they are called, from a fancied resem-
blance, "the saddle and pillion." His home
was a mile and a quarter west of the town
hall and near the junction of the old and
new county roads to the cape. He married

Elizabeth 1, who died February 14,

1675-76. Children : Alice, married Deacon
William Paddy ; Edmund, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, born 1625; John, 1627; Mar}-,
married Edward Perry.

(II) Edmund (2), son of Edmund (1)
Freeman, was born in England about 1625.
He was a planter at Sandwich, and deputy
to the general court from that town in 1669
and six years afterward. He married (first)
Rebecca, daughter of Governor Thomas and
Patience (Brewster) Prence, granddaughter
of Elder William Brewster, of the "May-
flower" Pilgrims. Governor Prence and El-
der Brewster were famous historic characters
in the early colonial days. A sketch of Gov-
ernor Brewster will be found elsewhere in
this work. Edmund Freeman married (sec-
ond), July 18, 165 1, Margaret Perry. Chil-
dren, born at Sandwich: Rebecca; Margaret,
October 2. 1652; Edmund, mentioned below;
Alice, March 29, 1658 ; Rachel, September 4,
1659; Sarah, February 6, 1662; Deborah, Au-
gust 9, 1665.

(TTI) Edmund (3), son of Edmund (2)
Freeman, was born at Sandwich, October 5,

1655. He married Sarah . Children,

born at Sandwich : Edmund, mentioned be-
low; Benjamin, January 6, 1685-86: Mary,
March 13, 1687; John, June 12, 1693; Thom-
as, March 26, 1696.

(IV) Edmund (4), son of Edmund (3)
Freeman, was born at Sandwich, August 30.
1683, died June 1, 1766. He removed with
his family to Mansfield, Connecticut, late in
life. His will was dated May 28, 1765, proved
June 12, 1766. He lived in the south parish
of Mansfield. He married Keziah Presbury,
who died at Mansfield, April 20, 1764. Chil-
dren, born at Sandwich : Edmund, March 14
1708-09; Lydia, April 8, 1710; Edmund, Sep-
tember 30, 1711; Prince, March 13, 1713;
Stephen, mentioned below ; Sylvanus, Sep-
tember 7, 17 16; Nathaniel, March 31, 17 18;
Keziah, July 7, 1719; Sarah, January 17,
1720; Deborah, April 17, 1722; Skiffe, De-
cember 28, 1723; Thomas, August 17, 1725;
Abigail, February 20, 1726-27 ; Margaret,
August 21, 1729.

(V) Stephen, son of Edmund (4) Free-
man, was born at Sandwich, August 14, 1714
died May 16, 1776. He removed from Sand-
wich to Mansfield about 1738. He married.
October 3, 1736, Hannah, daughter of Joseph
and Lydia (Howland) Jenkins, of Great
Marshes. Children, born at Sandwich and
Mansfield : Keziah, September 24, 1737 ; Jo-
seph, August 15, 1739; Stephen, January 13.
1740; Thomas, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
July 19, 1745; John, March 15, 1747; Han-
nah, December 19, 175 1 ; Deborah, November
1, 1753, and one other.

(VI) Thomas, son of Stephen Freeman.
was born May 1, 1743. He married Sarah
Southworth, of Ashford. She married (sec-
ond) — Dimmick. Children of Thomas

Freeman, born at Mansfield, but not re-
corded: Stephen, died young; Sarah, died
young; Nathaniel, mentioned below; Stephen
died in Vermont ; Sarah ; Southworth, and two
others.

(VII) Rev. Nathaniel, son of Thomas
Freeman, was born at Mansfield. He mar-
ried Mary Fox. They had eleven children,
among whom were : Harriet, resided in New
York ; Rev. John Robinson, mentioned be-
low ; Dr. Nathaniel ; Sophia.

(VIII) Rev. John Robinson, son of Rev.
Nathaniel Freeman, was a minister at Chap-
lin, Connecticut. He married Catherine Riley,
Their daughter, Katherine E., married Lev-
erett W. Tiffany (see Tiffany VII).

Anthony Home was born at
HORNE Galleen, Kings county, Ireland.

September 15, 1808, died at
Winsted, Connecticut, April 3, 1873. He had
a thorough education in his native parish. His
ancestors were of an old English family, com-
ing' to Ireland from England about 1685, and
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large landowner. He came to America in
1849 and located at Winsted, Connecticut,
where he spent the remainder of his days. For
twenty-five years he was in the employ of the
Naugatuck railroad. He retired from active
business a few years before he died. He was
a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He married, November 10, 1837, Ann, born
at Ballykillmurry, county Kings, Ireland, May
10, 1808, died in -Winsted, Connecticut, Feb-
ruary 13, 1882, daughter of James and Mar-
tha Belton. She was the seventeenth child
of twenty-one born to her parents, and four of
her brothers were officers in the British army.
Children of Anthony Home: 1. Matilda,
married Henry Abel, and had William H.,
George F. and Henry B. Abel. 2. William
A., druggist in Los Angeles, California; mar-
ried a daughter of General Price, of Missouri,
and has two children. 3. Colonel Samuel Bel-
ton, mentioned below. 4. John J., of Winsted,
was in the civil war ; married Lucy Roiden-
bow ; children r John Belton, graduate of
Harvard College, chief engineer of the West-
ern Electric Company ; Agnes, married John
Spittle, superintendent of the Torrington Gas
and Electric Light Company ; Elizabeth B.,
professional nurse in the Roosevelt Hospital,
New York. 5. Robert E., farmer, Colebrook,
Connecticut ; served in the civil war and was
twice wounded ; married Sophia Hulbert ; chil-
dren, Alice and Emma.

(II) Colonel Samuel Belton, son of An-
thony Home, was bora at Balleek, parish of
Durrow, county Kings, Ireland, March 3,
1843. Through his mother he is descended
from the Stuarts of Scotland, and his grand-
uncle was on Wellington's staff and was
wounded at the battle of Waterloo. He was
a young lad when the family came to America
in 1850, following the father, who the previous
year came to make his home here. He at-
tended the public schools of Winsted, Con-
necticut, but when he was eleven years old
began to work in the knife shop, bolt shop
and pin shop in Winsted. He left the work
bench to enlist in the Union army in the civil
war. Winsted was the first town in Connecti-
cut to hold a war meeting and call for volun-
teers, April 15, 1861, the very day on which
President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thou-
sand troops was telegraphed over the country.
Horne was the first to enlist in what became
Company K, Second Regiment Connecticut
Infantry, for three months. He took part in
the battle of Bull Run and was discharged at
the end of his period of enlistment, in Au-
gust, but re-enlisted October n, 1861, for
three years in Company E, Eleventh Regiment
Connecticut Volunteers. He was promoted

step by step and became captain of his com-
pany. He was twice wounded at the battle of
Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. When he re-
turned to duty he was appointed provost-
marshal of the Eighteenth Army Corps and
assigned to the staff of General Ord. He was
in charge of Fort Harrison, Virginia, Sep-
tember 29, 1864, when he was ordered to de-
liver a message to the advance line in action,
and his horse was struck by a cannon ball
while on the dead run. When the horse fell,
Horne was thrown to the ground, breaking
three ribs and causing severe internal in-
juries, but. crashed and bleeding, he made his
way forward and delivered his message near
the fort, then fell in a faint. On account of
disability from his injuries, he was discharged
November 17, 1864. For his heroism he was
awarded a Congressional medal of honor.
But five of these medals are held in this state.
This is the official notification of the award :

Subject, Medal of Honor.

War Department, Washington, November 4, 1897.

File No. R. & P. 488,835.

Captain Samuel B. Horne,

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hartford, Conn.

Sir : You are hereby notified that, by direction
of the President, and under the provisions of the
Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, providing
for the presentation of medals of honor to such offi-
cers, non-commissioned officers and privates, as have
most distinguished themselves in action, a "Con-
gressional Medal of Honor" has this day been
presented to you for Most Distinguished Gallan-
try in Action, the following being a statement of
the particular service, viz:

"At Fort Harrison, Va., September 29th, 1864,
this officer, then serving as captain of the Elev-
enth Connecticut Volunteers, and acting as aide-
de-camp to General Ord, while carrying an im-
portant message on the field was wounded and
his horse killed, but, notwithstanding his severe
wounds and sufferings, he continued on his way,
delivered the order, and then joined his General,
but had to be taken to the rear on account of in-
juries received." The medal will be forwarded
by registered mail as soon as it shall have been
engraved. Respectfully,

R. A. Alger,

Secretary of War.

Afterward Captain Horne became a volun-
teer aide on the staff of General Weitzel, com-
mander of the Eighteenth Army Corps, and
with him and his army entered the city of
Richmond the morning of the evacuation.
Later he was again commissioned captain of
his old regiment, and assigned to duty as pro-
vost-marshal of Pulaski county, Virginia.
After the war he attended Fairview Seminary,
and studied law in the office of Florimond D.
Fyler, of Winsted. He was admitted to the
bar of Litchfield county in 1869, and began
to practice at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where
he continued for ten years in partnership with
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of Reck & Home. He was master in chan-
cery in Michigan. He returned to Winsted,
May 30, 1879, and since then has been in gen-
eral practice in that town. He has been dis-
tinguished not only in military life and in his
profession, but in public life. He is a Repub-
lican of prominence. In 1884 he represented
the town of Winchester in the general assem-
bly. He has been a prominent campaign
speaker and a delegate to many county and
state conventions of his party. He was on
the staff of Governor Lounsbury in 1888-89,
and has the rank of colonel. He was for four
years consul to the Danish West Indies, 1890-
94, and made an excellent record in this
service. In 1895 he was appointed labor com-
missioner of the state of Connecticut and
served four years. He is a prominent mem-
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic and
was the first commander of the local post,
and commander of the Grand Army of the
state, being now commander of Palmer Post,
No. 336, Grand Army. He is a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and
has been senior vice-commander of the Medal
of Honor Legion of the United States. He
is a charter member of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, of Winsted. In re-
ligion he is an Episcopalian. He has been a
member of St. Andrews Lodge of Free
Masons since 1864. His home is at Belton
Terrace, a beautiful country estate in Win-
sted, and he has large real estate interests in
the town. He has traveled extensively here
and in Europe, South and Central America,
and spends his winters every year in Florida.

"Colonel Home," said the Hartford Post,
June 27, 1909, "is one of the best-known men
in the state, a former member of the legisla-
ture, state labor commissioner, ex-United
States consul to the Danish West Indies,
prominent in the highest Grand Army circles,
and active in professional and social life, has
an army record of which any man might well
be proud, and is one of the five wearers in
Connecticut of the Medal of Honor, corre-
sponding to the Victoria Cross, conferred for
heroism on the field of battle. And, as be-
comes the real hero, he not only makes no ex-
ploitation of this distinguished honor, but
never refers to it in conversation unless the
subject is brought up by others."

He married, October 11, 1871, Etta D.,
Bartlett, born October 23, 1854, in South
Wayne, Maine, a descendant of General Israel
Putnam, of revolutionary fame, daughter of
John F. and Sarah (Frohock) Bartlett. They
had but one child, Belle B., born July 2, 1872,
married Edward F. Lawton, superintendent
of the Hartford Electric Light Company, and

they have one child, Edwin Home Lawton,
born January 8, 19 10.

Edward Thurston, immi-
THURSTON grant ancestor, was the

first of the name in the
colony of Rhode Island, and must have been
there some time before 1647, at least long
enough to attend to the preliminaries of his
marriage, which took place in June, 1647. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Mott,
who came from Cambridge, England, when
thirty-nine years of age, with his wife Sarah,
aged thirty-one, four children by a former
wife, and Mary Lott, a daughter of Sarah by
a former husband. They were passengers
from London for New England, in the "De-
fence," in July, 1634. Elizabeth, born 1628,
married Edward Thurston, and in the Cod-
dington burying ground, Newport, stones of
Elizabeth and their sons Daniel, Samuel and
others are still standing. Their marriage was
the third on the record of the Society of
Friends at Newport. Edward Thurston is
mentioned in the colonial records as a free-
man in 1655. He was also commissioner,
assistant and deputy from Newport from 1663
to 1690. On August 26, 1686, he, with others,
signed an address from the Quakers of Rhode
Island to the king. His wife died September
2, 1694, aged sixty-seven, and he died March
I, 1707, aged about ninety. Children: Sarah,
born March 10, 1648 ; Elizabeth, February,
1650; Edward, April 1, 1652, mentioned be-
low ; Ellen, March, 1655 ; Mary, February,
1657; Jonathan, January 4, 1659; Daniel,
April, 1661 : Rebecca, April, 1662; John, De-
cember, 1664; Content, June, 1667; Samuel,
August 24, 1669; Thomas, October 8, 1671.

(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1)
Thurston, was born in Newport, April 1,
1652. He married Susanna, daughter of Wil-
liam Jefferay, who married, about 1640, Mary,
died after 1675, daughter of Jeremiah and
Priscilla (Grover) Gould. William Jefferay
was born in 1591, at Chiddingly Manor, Sus-
sex county, England, where his father and
ancestors lived, and took his degree at Cam-
bridge ; he was at Weymouth, Massachusetts,
as early as 1623 ; he was a friend of Rev.
William Blackstone, it seems ; was at Salem
for a time, and went to Newport earlier than
1652 ; died January 2, 1675, and was buried
at Newport ; was son of William, son of
Thomas, son of William, son of John, son of
William, son of Syom. Edward Thurston
was a freeman in Newport, May 6, 1679, died
December 7, 1690, aged thirty-eight. Chil-
dren : Edward, born 1678 ; William, 1680 ;
Abigail, April 3, 1686; Priscilla, married.

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April 16, 1713, Job Lawton ; Jonathan, men-
tioned below.

(III) Jonathan, youngest child of Edward
(2) Thurston, was baptized at Newport, Oc-
tober 9, 1719, in Trinity Church, adult. He
married (first) Phebe, sister of William and
John Holmes, and she died March 31, 1734,
aged thirty-nine. He married (second) Au-
gust 26, 1736, Mehitable Claghorn, who died
September 7, 1745, aged thirty-eight. He died
April 13, 1749, aged sixty-one. His will was
dated March 31, 1749, proved May 1, 1749.
He was a merchant in Newport. He handed
down the family coat-of-arms to his son Jona-
than. Children : John, born August 17, 1723,
mentioned below; Mary, May 2, 1725; Jona-
than, baptized May 2, 1725; Peleg, baptized
July 16, 1727, died October 20, 1727; William,
born October 7, 1728; Peleg, baptized Decem-
ber 20, 1729, died December 29, 1729; De-
borah, baptized June 27, 1731. died Novem-
ber 20, 1749; Thomas, baptized July 3, 1737;
Phebe, baptized June 22, 1740; Peleg, bap-
tized April 4, 1742, died August 16, 1742;
Edward, baptized August 28, 1743, died Sep-
tember 20, 1759.

(IV) Captain John, son of Jonathan Thurs-
ton, was born in Newport, August 17, 1723.
He married, May 10, 1746, Elizabeth Oxx,
born June 14, 1725, died March 25, 1793. He
was a sea captain in Newport, and died Au-
gust 6, 1794! He had the family coat-of-arms.
Children: John, born May 31, 1747; Phebe,
April 14, 1749; Samuel, June 4, 1751 ; Peleg,
May 28, 1753: Jonathan, April 25, 1755, men-
tioned below: Edward, April 12, 1759.

(V) Jonathan (2), son of Captain John
Thurston, was born at Newport, April 25,
1755. He married Hannah Beebe, who died
September 8, 1789, aged forty-one. Children:
Edward, born October 29, 1778, mentioned
below ; Christopher, about 1780.

(VI) Edward, son of Jonathan (2) Thurs-
ton, was born in Newport, October 29, 1778.
He married (first) in June, 1806, Catharine
Hubbard, of Catskill, New York, and he mar-
ried (second) October 7, 1810, Eliza Fair-
child, who died April 10, 1839. He died July
8, 185 1. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.
Children : Henry Christopher, born March
24, 1807, mentioned below; Robert F., July
8, 181 1 ; Hannah Beebe, November 15, 1813;
Mary, October 10, 1816, died August 6, 1817;
Mary Eliza, born February, 1820.

(VII) Henry Christopher, son of Edward
Thurston, was born in Brooklyn, New York,
March 24, 1807. He married (first) Novem-
ber 28, 1830, Catharine Smith, of Catskill,
New York, who died March n, 1840, aged
thirty-two. He married (second) July 6, 1842,

Almira Allen Smith, of Green River, New
York. He was a merchant at Ashley Falls,
Massachusetts, and died June 6, 1875. His
wife died September 6, 1879. Children: 1.
Henry Smith, born January 18, 1832, a book-
keeper in Westfield, Massachusetts ; married,
April 7, 1855, Jennie Colton ; no children.
2 and 3. Harriet and Marietta (twins), born
May 9, 1834 ; Harriet died September 23,
1835 ; Marietta died May 30, 1834. 4. Har-
riet Evaline, born July 3, 1836, married, July
6, 1852, Eugene Decker, a carpenter in Falls
Village, Connecticut ; children : Alice, John,
Frank, Madge and Ina Decker. 5. Mary E.,
born November 10, 1844, married, 1874,
Charles S. Cook, a farmer in Palmerstown,
Connecticut ; no children. 6. Alice Rosa, born
May 26, 1847, married, June 29, 189 1, Joseph
Petit, of Winsted. 7. Esther Anna, born Oc-
tober 23, 1849. 8. Albert, January 8, 1853,
died March 20, 1853. 9. William A., men-
tioned below.

(VIII) William A., youngest child of
Henry Christopher Thurston, was born at
Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, March 13, 1854.
He was educated in the public schools, at the
academy at Ashley Falls, and the Eastman
Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York.
He worked as clerk in his father's store at
Ashley Falls until he was nineteen years old,
then went to Rochester, New York, where he
learned the trade of tinsmith and plumber. In
less than two years he came to Connecticut,
and worked at his trade for four years at
Norwich. He embarked in business on his
own account at Mill River in 1880, and had
a plumbing and tinsmith shop there until 1883,
when he came to Norfolk, Connecticut, where
he has been in the same line of business to
the present time. He has been successful in
business and is a substantial and influential
citizen. Fie has, in addition to his plumbing
and heating business, a hardware and house-
furnishing store. In politics he is a Republi-
can, and is one of the board of selectmen of
the town of Norfolk (1910). He has been
constable of the town and member of its board
of relief. He represented the town in the gen-
eral assembly in 1909, and served on the com-
mittee on capitol furnishings and grounds.
He is a member of Western Star Lodge, No.
37, Free and Accepted Masons, of Norfolk,
of which he has been worshipful master ; of
Royal Arch Masons ; of Royal and Select
Masters of Winsted ; of Laurel Chapter, Or-
der of Eastern Star, of which he has been
patron, and of Wangum Council, Royal Ar-
canum. In religion he is a Methodist. He
married, December 25, 1875, Frances E., born
October 14, 1852, daughter of Frank and

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Lucy (Mason) Hubbard. Children: Clara
May. born February 8, 1879, died June 17,
1880; Lena May, born March 18, 1881, mar-
ried Harry Atwood, of Norfolk, a carpenter;
Ruby Belle, born January 5, 1884.

Rev. George Tyler Hewlett
HEWLETT lived at Bristol, England.
(II) George Tyler (2), son
of Rev. George Tyler (1) Hewlett, came
from Bristol, England, in 1857, and settled at
New Haven, Connecticut. He married Mary
Ann, daughter of Rev. William Bartlett Stad-
dan, of Bristol, England.

(Ill) Major George Tyler (3), son of
George Tyler (2) Hewlett, was born at New
Haven, September 19, 1861. He attended the
public schools of his native city. He began
his business career as a boy in the employ of
Sargeant & Company of New Haven, and for
a few years he was with a New York import-
ing house. Since 1883 he has been employed
by the board of education and has been its
secretary since 1902. He is well known in
military circles. He became a member of the
Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard,
May, 1895, and successively attained the rank
of corporal, sergeant, fourth, third, second
and first lieutenant, and captain of that ancient
and celebrated organization. He was commis-
sioned major in August, 1909. A magnificent
military ball in honor of Major Hewlett was
given in the armory early in the winter fol-
lowing. The Governor's Foot Guard was
called into being by the imminence of civil
war. Sixty-five gentlemen "of influence and
respectability met at New Haven" December
28, 1774, and signed article of agreement to
form the company, meeting thereafter every
week and drilling faithfully. A uniform was
adopted February 2, 1775, and the Governor's
Second Company of Guards was chartered by
the Colonial Assembly, March 2, 1775, being
the second corps chartered in Connecticut, and
the third in the United States. Benedict Ar-
nold, the same Benedict of infamous memory
in later years, was the first captain. When
the Lexington alarm came, the company voted
to march to Cambridge and offer its services
to the patriots' cause. Rev. Jonathan Edwards
addressed the company and a large throng of
citizens on the day the company marched
away. Captain Arnold had to threaten to use
force before the selectmen of the town would
deliver the keys of the powder house and al-
low his men to provide themselves with pow-
der. The people of New Haven were not all
of one mind respecting the war. At Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, the company was quar-
tered in the fine old mansion of Lieutenant-

Governor Oliver, who was a Loyalist, and it
being the only company in the American army
in uniform, it was assigned to special duties
which to the soldier's eye required a uniform.
Arnold was nominally captain until May,
1777, when he was promoted to colonel and
later to general. A dozen men from the
Guards joined Arnold's ill-starred expedition
against Quebec. Hezekiah Smith succeeded
Arnold as captain. The company returned to
New Haven and thereafter took orders direct
from the governor. During all the history of
the organization it has been made up in mem-
bership from the most substantial citizens,
merchants, manufacturers and professional
men, and it has had a long list of distin-
guished men as officers. In 1809 the Second
Company of Governor's Horse Guard was
organized, and since then the older company
has been designated as the Foot Guard. The
charter was amended in October, 1809, to per-
mit the enlistment of one hundred and eight-
een instead of sixty-five men, and making the
officers comprise eight corporals, eight ser-
geants, four lieutenants and a captain. The
company was active in the war of 1812, doing
good service during the riots and on the alarm
of 1814. It enlisted as Company K, Sixth
Connecticut Regiment, in the war of 1861-65,
and also enlisted for the Spanish-American
war of 1898, but was not mustered into serv-
ice.

Major Hewlett married, December 12, 1883,
Nettie Laura Wilson, born November 2,
i860, died November 8, 1894, daughter of
Granville Wilson, of Fairhaven, Connecticut.
Children : George Wilson, born November 27,
1885 ; Samuel Tyler, August 6, 1887; Horace
Barnes, June 2J, 1889 ; William Staddan, July
10, 1891. The family resides at 443 Edge-
wood avenue, New Haven.

Robbins is a very old and nu-
• ROBBINS merous surname in England,
derived from the personal
name, Robin, and identical with Robinson in
derivation. There have been many prominent
men of this family both in England and
America.

(I) John Robbins, progenitor of this fam-
ily, lived at Hedingworth, Leicestershire,
England, and his ancestors doubtless lived
there for generations before him, though the
lineage has not been traced. The name was
common for many generations in that section.
He was a large landowner and a man of sub-
stance. He died at Hedingworth, August 12,
1680, probably about ninety years of age. His
wife Hester was buried there August 7, 1697.
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settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts ; Thomas
settled in Duxbury ; Samuel, settled in Salis-
bury, Massachusetts, where he died in 1665,
leaving a will from which the remainder of
the family is identified and the relationship
established ; Joseph, remained in England.

(II) "Gentleman" John (2), son of John
(1) Robbins, was born at Hedingworth, Eng-
land. He settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut,
as early as 1638. He was a man of means
and high social standing, whence the title
'"gentleman" given to him by historians. He
had a grant of land at Wethersfield, October
10, 1638, and other grants later. He was
selectman in 1652 ; deputy to the general court
in 1653-56-57-59. He died June 27, 1660, and
his inventory amounted to five hundred and
seventy-nine pounds, nineteen shillings, four
pence. He married, about the middle of Sep-
tember, 1639, Mary, daughter or sister of
Governor Thomas and Elizabeth Welles. The
estate was distributed to the children by order
of the court dated June 5, 1662. Children:
Mary, born January 20, 1641-42, married
Elizur Kimberly, schoolmaster ; Hannah,
April 30, 1643, married Deacon William
Warner; Comfort, October 12, 1646, married
Theophilus Sherman ; John, April 29, 1649 >
Joshua, mentioned below ; Samuel, born and
died November, 1659.

(III) Captain Joshua, son of "Gentleman"
John (2) Robbins, was born at Wethersfield,
October 21, 1651-52, died there December 15,
1738. He held various offices of trust and
honor in the town between 1678 and 1703,
and was a prominent and useful citizen. He
married, December 24, 1680, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Elizabeth Butler. His wife
died April 24, 1736, aged about seventy-one.
Children, born at Wethersfield : Joshua, born
October 21, 1681, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
December 29, 1684, married Nathaniel Tal-
cott ; Hannah, June 10, 1688, married Joseph
Welles ; Mary, January 10, 1692, married Jo-
seph Treat ; Captain Jonathan, December 28,
1694; Abigail, June 12, 1697, married, No-
vember 30, 1716, Silas Belden ; Comford,
1699, married John Coleman ; Sarah, Decem-
ber 31, 1703, died December 29, 1710.

(IV) Joshua (2), son of Captain Joshua
(1) Robbins, was born at Wethersfield, Octo-
ber 21, 1681, died there May 30, 1733. He
was a large land holder in Wethersfield and
vicinity. He bequeathed his homestead at
Stepney to Joshua. His widow married Cap-
tain Thomas Welles. She died December 3,
1744, aged sixty-two years. Children, born at
Wethersfield: Nathaniel, September 7, 1708,
mentioned below; Zebulon, May 2, 1710;
Sarah, January 25, 1712, died April 28, 1753,

married John Morton; John, March 31, 1731 ;
Hannah, March 3, 171 5, married Elisha
Treat; Joshua, June 19, 1717, died May 30,
1726, married Mary Welles ; Elizabeth, Sep-
tember 23, 1719, died June 3, 1733; Abigail,

October 9, 1721, married (first)

Loomis, (second) Hon. Jonathan Trumbull,
the revolutionary governor of Connecticut,
known as "Brother Jonathan."

(V) Deacon Nathaniel, son of Joshua (2)
Robbins, was born in Wethersfield, September
7, 1708, died there October 5, 1783. He was
a farmer in Wethersfield. He married, De-
cember 11, 1735, Mary, his cousin, daughter
of Richard and Martha (Curtis) Robbins.
She was born March 10, 1713, died Novem-
ber 7, 1 78 1. His will was dated May 14,
1781, proved April 23, 1784. The inventory
amounted to one hundred and forty-three
pounds, five shillings, ten pence. Children,
born at Wethersfield : Sarah, born December
x3> 173^>' clied March 8, 1739-40; Richard,
September 24, 1738, mentioned below; Joshua,
February 9, 1739-40, removed to Pittsfield;
Sarah, August 7, 1742, married John Deming;
Nathaniel, August 27, 1745 ; Mary, born May
24, 175 1, married John Bulkeley, March 2,
1777; Eunice, August 22, 1755, married, De-
cember 13, 1775, Benjamin Butler.

(VI) Richard, son of Deacon Nathaniel
Robbins, was born at Wethersfield, September
24, 1738, died there October 28, 1783. A
Richard Robbins was a soldier in the revolu-
tion in Colonel S. B. Webb's regiment in
1780. He married, December q, 1762, Abi-
gail Warner, who died September 18, 18 19, in
her seventy-sixth year. He left an estate
valued at over two thousand pounds. Chil-
dren, born at Wethersfield: Elijah, Septem-
ber 30, 1763, mentioned below ; Enos, June 25,
1765 ; Rhoda, October 4, 1767, died unmarried
January 17, 1854; Warner, May 17, 1769, died
young; Warner, September 7, 1772, died No-
vember 7, 1805 ; Roger, twin of Warner, died
September 13, 1772; Abigail, September 10,
1773 ; Rachel, August 29, 1776. died April 1,
1854; Roger, September 25, 1778, lost at sea,
November, 1801 ; Mary. February 26, 1782,
died unmarried.

(VII) Elijah, son of Richard Robbins, was
born in Wethersfield, September 30. 1763, died
probably September 30, 1815. He married,
July 22, 1787, Martha, daughter of Captain
William and Martha (Tapley) Griswold. She
died November 13, 1810-11, in her thirty-
ninth year. Children, born at Wethersfield:
Richard, August 30, 1788, mentioned below ;
William, January 10, 1790; Augusta, Febru-
ary 29, 1792, married, January, 18 17, James
Robbins and had children, Martha and Sarah ;

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Benjamin, July 2, 1794; Martha, born August
29, 1796, married George O. Chambers; Rev.
Loren. February, 1799, graduate of Yale Col-
lege and of Andover Theological Seminary,
resident at Oxford, Massachusetts, went west ;
Edward, March 11, 1801 ; Sally, April 28,
1803, married James Robbins ; Mary, October,
1808, died January 23, 1809-10.

( VIII) Richard (2), son of Elijah Robbins,
was born at Wethersfield, August 30, 1788,
died there March 16, 1858. He married a dis-
tant relative, Chloe, daughter of Jacob and
Eunice Robbins, April 29, 1819. She was a
first cousin of Noah Webster, the author of
the dictionary. She died in February, 1861,
aged seventy-two years. Children, born at
Wethersfield : Silas Webster, October 2,
1822, mentioned below ; Edward Griswold,
February 8, 1824 ; Richard Austin, Septem-
ber 20, 1826.

(IX) Silas Webster, son of Richard (2)
Robbins, was born at Wethersfield, October 2,
1822, and was educated there under the Rev.
Joseph Emerson, who had an excellent private
school in Wethersfield. Mrs. Emerson, the
principal teacher, was a sister of Mrs. Hazel-
tine, principal of the famous Bradford Acad-
emy of Bradford, Massachusetts. So high
was the reputation of the school that pupils
came from all parts of the country. While
Mr. Robbins was a student, a niece of Henry
Clay and a niece of Francis P. Blair were
among the pupils. He started upon his busi-
ness career as a clerk in the market and pro-
vision store of Fox & Porter, Central Row,
Hartford, but before he was twenty years old
he began business on his own account as a
general merchant in his native town, and con-
ducted it with marked success for forty years.
He was instrumental in establishing the seed
firm of Johnson, Robbins & Company, which
gained a national reputation. He was one of
the incorporators of the Hartford & Connecti-
cut Valley Railroad Company and of the Hart-
ford & YVethersfield Horse Railroad Company.
He has been a director of the American Na-
tional Bank of Hartford since September,
1858, of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company since 1889, and has been a trustee
of the Mechanics Savings Bank. He was for
many years treasurer and director of the
Wethersfield Novelty Company : director of
the Merrick Thread Company of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, and president of the A. D.
Vorce Company.

When Mr. Robbins was eighty-seven years
old the Hartford Times said of him :

"The Hon. Silas Webster Robbins of Wethers-
field, the great pioneer importer of Jersey cattle, be-
gan his work in that direction in 1859. and for forty

odd years he was the leading authority concerning
Jersey herds in the United States. Mr. Robbins,
who will be eighty-seven years old October 2, 1909,
is the oldest resident of the town engaged in active
business at the present time. His noted herd of
Jerseys was dismantled seven years ago July 2.
It was known at that time as the oldest and most
in-and-in bred Coomassie herd in the country. Mr.
Robbins had spent the greater part of his life de-
veloping the Jerseys which had been raised on his
Wethersfield farm. The breaking up and scatter-
ing of the herd was due mainly to the fact that his
son, Elisha Johnson Robbins, had died, leaving the
burdens of the continuance to the founder, who
was then eighty years old.

"Mr. Robbins bought imported Victoria April 25,
1859, from John A. Taintor, of Hartford. He
spared no pains in securing the best stock, paying
liberally for the selections. In April, 1883, he paid
five thousand dollars cash for Ona's Kofree, only
twenty-eight days old. The breeding of his herd
was attended with tragedies. Burnett's Boy was
the most beautiful bull that Mr. Robbins owned dur-
ing the period in which he was a Jersey breeder.
On one occasion he gave orders for the sale of one
of the bulls in the herd. The overseer in charge
selected the wrong bull, and Burnett's Boy was sent
to the slaughter house. James O. Sheldon paid
$3,000 for a Short-Horn calf bull, called "4th Duke
of Geneva.

"In recent years Mr. Robbins has become a breed-
er of English pheasants — an occupation that has af-
forded him unlimited pleasure and recreation. The
bulk of the work comes at morning and night, and
the daily tasks are undertaken with interest and
satisfaction.

"Mr. Robbins is known through the country, not
only for his success with Jersey cattle, but as a
breeder of various kinds of thoroughbreds, includ-
ing Shorthorns and Guernseys as well, and of Cots-
wold, South Down and Shropshire sheep. He was
one of the founders of the American Jersey Cattle
Club."

"Ex-Senator Robbins," says the Times in
the same article,

is a man of great taste and culture. His home is
rich in paintings and works of art. One of the
finest illustrations of antique furniture is the Chip-
pendale secretary that was loaned for the St. Louis
fair. It was imported by John Robbins of Rocky
Hill, in the neighborhood of 1765, when he built the
famous home in Rocky Hill from the first brick
made in Connecticut. The secretary is made of
mahogany and is of great value as a specimen of
ancient furniture. The grounds surrounding his
residence on Broad Street are laid out with the
utmost taste and, art and indicate the character and
refinement of the owner."

In public life Mr. Robbins has had a dis-
tinguished and honorable career. He was a
Whig in early life and cast his first presiden-
tial vote for Henry Clay. When the Repub-
lican party was organized in 1856 he became
a member, and has supported the principles
and candidates of that party since. For many
years he was postmaster of Wethersfield and
town treasurer. In 1888 he was elected state
senator from his district (the old second) by
a plurality of four hundred and sixteen and

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served on various important committees, giv-
ing evidence of unusual ability as a legislator.

He is a prominent member of the Congre-
gational church of Wethersfield. A man of
the strictest integrity in all the dealings of
life, of strong and sterling character, sound
judgment, public spirit and exemplary life, he
has the entire confidence and esteem of the
community in which his long life has been
spent.

He married, February 14, 1854, Sophia
Jane, born November 9, 1834, daughter of
Captain Elisha and Hannah (Cushman) John-
son. Her father was the head of the firm of
Johnson, Robbins & Company and an able and
successful merchant. Captain Johnson was
the first manufacturer of thread in the United
States, his works being at Wilmington, and
he was one of the incorporators of the Wil-
limantic Thread Company. He was also an
incorporator of the Merrick Thread Company
of Holyoke. "Mrs. Robbins," says the Times,
"was a woman of fascinating traits of char-
aster and an ornament to the church and so-
ciety in Wethersfield. Soldiers from the town
of Wethersfield who enlisted in the Civil War
were recipients of her interest and encourage-
ment. Colonel John B. Clapp and Robert H.
Kellogg were favorites with Mrs. Robbins.
Captain Elisha Johnson, the father of Mrs.
Robbins, took a cordial interest in the young
men of the town and left nothing undone that
could insure their promotion and success.
Most of them have passed away, but the sur-
vivors hold the names and memories of ex-
Senator and Mrs. Robbins as among the rich-
est treasures of the Civil War period. Mr.
Robbins is deserving of the title of the Grand
Old Man. His life is as gentle as that of a
woman."

Children, born at Wethersfield : Elisha J.,
born January 12, 1857, married Ida M.
Adams ; daughter, Jane Johnson, born June
19, 1882; Julia J., May 7, i860; Katharine
Chester, June 30, 1863 ; Anna Cushman, Octo-
ber 1, 1874, married, April 4, 1899, Wilfred
Willis Savage : child, John Robbins Savage.

(II) Nathaniel Chitten-
CHITTENDEN den, son of William

Chittenden (q. v.), lived
on Crooked lane, now State street, Guilford,
Connecticut. He died in June, 1691. He mar-
ried Sarah . Children: Nathaniel,

born August 10, 1669, mentioned below ; Sar-
ah, March 2, 1672-73. Mary, February 6,
J^7S' Joseph, September 6, 1677; Hannah,
March 15, 1680-81; Deborah, October 15,
1682; Cornelius, 1685.

(Ill) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)

Chittenden, was born August 10, 1669. He
married Elizabeth, born July 14, 1668, died
November 15, 1738, daughter of Thomas and
Mary Fletcher Stevens, of Killingworth.
Children : Phebe, born January 23, 1691 ; Tim-
othy, August 19, 1694; Elizabeth, March 7,
1699; Nathaniel, mentioned below. In 1689
he removed to Killingworth.

(IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2)
Chittenden, was born June 6, 1701. He lived
in Killingworth, and died in Havana, August,
1762. He married, January 6, 1725, Lucy
Nettleton, who died in July, 1762. Children:
Rebecca, born September 28, 1727; Daniel,
August 27, 1729; Nathaniel, June 21, 1731,
mentioned below; Lucy, April 25, 1736;
Lydia, July 21, 1740.

(V) Nathaniel (4), son of Nathaniel (3)
Chittenden, was born June 21, 1731, died in
Winthrop, Connecticut, January 11, 1820. He
married Mehitabel Beebe, born December,
1733, died November 25, 1805. Children:
John, born October 7, 1757, mentioned below;
Mary, 1759; Solomon, September 14, 1761 ;
Asahel, January, 1764; Cornelius, April 6,
1766; Joseph, 1768; Hetty, married George
Dee.

(VI) John, son of Nathaniel (4) Chitten-
den, was born October 7, 1757. He lived in
Westbrook and died there, July 10, 1841. He
married, February 26, 1783, Rebecca Merrils,
born August 20, 1764, died April 13, 1834.
Children: Julia, born July 18, 1784; Daniel,
July 28, 1787; Rebecca, July 26, 1789;
Amelia, January 26, 1792; Fanny, August 13,
1794; John, May 24, 1797; Alfred, April 15,
1799; Una, March 15, 1801 ; Charles, August
29, 1803, died October 4, 1805; Rev. Charles,
September 2j, 1805 ; Horace-, August 24,
1807.

(VII) Alfred, son of John Chittenden, was
born April 15, 1799. He married, October 31,
1822, Anna Platts, born January 10, 1799.
They lived in Westbrook, where he died, No-
vember 22, 1882. Children: Daniel A., born
September 16, 1823 ; Sarah Ann, October 22,
1826; Horace H., born April 2, 1829, men-
tioned below; Eunice M., June 1, 1831 ;
Charles Alfred, November 28, 1835.

(VIII) Horace H., son of Alfred Chitten-
den, was born April 2, 1829. He lived in
New Haven. He married, September 23,
185 1, Emily A. Doane, born March 10, 1830.
Child, Russell H., mentioned below.

(IX) Professor Russell Henry Chittenden,
son of Horace H. Chittenden, was born in
New Haven, February 18, 1856. He attended
the public schools of his native city and com-
pleted his preparation for college in Mr.
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of his tuition by giving instruction to pupils
in the lower classes in Greek, Latin and
mathematics, and even at that time he mani-
fested a characteristic aptitude for imparting
knowledge and inspiring others to work. His
preference at that time was for the classics,
but natural sciences came to have a fascination
for him and he planned a course of study to
fit himself for the study of medicine. The
course he determined upon and pursued has
since been adopted substantially in all medical
schools, and it devolved upon him as a life
duty to develop the idea in Yale University
and set the example for other colleges to fol-
low. Chemistry as applied to physiology was
his special study. When he was a student a
biological course had been planned at the
Sheffield Scientific School, but facilities were
lacking for the proper study of the subject.
In his senior year, however, an independent
physiological chemistry laboratory was pro-
vided and while, nominally, it was in charge
of a professor, the practical management of it
fell to the student, Russell H. Chittenden, who
so keenly appreciated its value and needs. He
held the appointment as laboratory assistant.
He was graduated from the Sheffield Scien-
tific School of Yale in 1875 with the degree of
Ph. !>., and his thesis was accorded the honor
of publication in the American Journal of
Science, and of translation into German for
publication in Liebig's Annalen der Chemie,
Leipsic. After graduation he was assistant
and instructor in physiological chemistry in
Sheffield until 1882. when he was appointed
full professor. He spent the year 1878-79 in
Europe, chiefly at Heidelberg University,
where he studied under Professor Kuhne.
Even at this time his writings on the subject
of his research attracted widespread interest
among scientists. A series of papers was pub-
lished in the American Chemical Journal, ex-
tending over a period of several years. In
the summer of 1882 he accepted the invitation
of Professor Kuhne to return to Heidelberg,
where a long summer vacation was devoted to
a joint investigation into the physiology of
digestion. Though constrained to return to
his duties at Yale in the fall, this was but the
beginning of a long period of collaboration
with Professor Kuhne. Some of their results
were published in Munich in the Zcitschrift
fur Biologic, and eagerly welcomed by stu-
dents of chemistry and biology as a substan-
tial contribution to the .knowledge of the
world. His work as a teacher grew in impor-
tance as the work of research and the fruits
of physiological study in many laboratories
was made available. His classes grew large
and his instruction essential to all the medical

students. He was a member of the governing
board before 1898, and since then he has been
director and treasurer of the Sheffield Scien-
tific School. Six years later was appointed
treasurer of the board of trustees. In addi-
tion to his duties at Yale he was called upon
to lecture at Columbia University, New York,
from 1898 to 1903. Another field of useful-
ness in which Professor Chittenden rendered
distinguished service was on the national com-
mittee of fifty for the investigation of the
drink problem. He investigated particularly
the influence of alcoholic drinks upon the
chemical process of digestion and the effect
upon secretion, absorption, etc.

He received the degree of Ph.D. from Yale
in 1880; LL.D. in 1903 from the University
of Toronto ; Sc.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1904. Indefatigable in lab-
oratory investigation, Professor Chittenden
has displayed equal ability in the presentation
of his results in literary form. He became as-
sociate editor of the English Journal of
Physiology in 1890 and of the Journal of
Experimental Medicine in 1896. He was ac-
tive in establishing the American Journal of
Physiology, of which he is also an associate
editor. He is on the staff of the Journal of
Biological Chemistry. He published "Studies
in Physiological Chemistry" (three volumes,
1885-89), a record of the investigations of
himself and pupils, furnishing material which
has been utilized in all standard text-books
since then. He published in 1894 "Digestive
Proteolysis," and in 1901 "Studies in Physio-
logical Chemistry," Yale Series ; in 1904
"Physiological Economy in Nutrition," and
in 1907 "Nutrition of Man." He has written
a multitudes of papers for periodicals and
learned societies on a wide range of subjects,
and he has been in constant association with
leaders in research and thought in chemistry
and physiology. He became a member of the
National Academy of Sciences in 1890. He
is also a member of the American Physiolog-
ical Society, of which he has been on the coun-
cil since 1887, and was president 1895-1904;
of the American Society of Naturalists, of
which he was president in 1903; of the Con-
necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
in 1907 he was president of the American So-
ciety of Biological Chemists.

As an indication of the standing of Profes-
sor Chittenden among scientists, it is appro-
priate to repeat the sentence from the address
of President Daniel C. Gilman, of Johns Hop-
kins University, at the semi-centennial cele-
bration of the Sheffield Scientific School;
"Nowhere else in this country, not in many
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tempted and accomplished as is now in prog-
ress on Hillhouse Avenue, unobserved, no
doubt, by those who daily pass the laboratory
door, but watched with welcoming anticipa-
tion wherever physiology and medicine are
prosecuted in the modern spirit of research."
In 1908 he was appointed by President Roose-
velt a member of the referee board of consult-
ing scientific experts to aid the secretary of
agriculture in deciding questions connected
with the pure food laws of the country.

In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a
Protestant Episcopal. A lover of nature, he
takes delight in outdoor recreation, especially
in fishing. His home is at 83 Trumbull street.

Professor Chittenden married, June 20,
1877, Gertrude L., daughter of Charles F. and
Hannah Maria (Bradley) Baldwin, who came
from county Kent, England. Children: 1.
Edith Russell, graduate of Smith College in
1899. 2. Alfred Knight, Ph.B., Yale, 1900;
M. F., Yale. 1902. 3. Lilla Millard, born
March 31, 1885.

(Ill) Josiah Chittenden,
CHITTENDEN son of Thomas Chitten-
den ( q. v.), was born
1677, and married, January 8, 1707, Hannah,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Sherman, of
Woodbury, Connecticut, baptized July, 1680.
She died July 30, 1744, aged sixty-four. They
lived in the eastern part of the old Chittenden
Homestead, in Guilford, which had come to
him from his father. He died there, August
28. 1759. Children born in Guilford: Josiah,
May 21, 1710, died August n, 1729; Simeon,
December 28, 1714, mentioned below; Joanna,
January 2, 1716; Mehitabel, July 28. 1719;
Mary, September 14. 1721 ; Abigail, October
31, 1723, died August 21, 1732.

(IV) Simeon, son of Josiah and Hannah
(Sherman) Chittenden, was born in Guilford,
December 28, 17 14, and married, January 26,
1737, Submit, daughter of John and Mary
(Norton) Scranton, of Guilford, born June
18. 1712. She died April 15, 1796. He re-
moved to North Guilford, and acquired a
lar re landed property there. He was chosen
deacon of the church there, October 25, 1760.
He served in the revolution, Lexington
Alarm, Captain Noah Fowler's Company,
seven days. He died April 12, 1789. Chil-
dren: Mabel, born November 5, 1737; Josiah,
November 13, 1739: Simeon, April 13, 1742,
mentioned below; Submit, December 9, 1744;
Mary, October 12, 1747; Abel, November 2,
1750; David, 1755.

(V) Simeon (2), son of Simeon (1) and
Submit (Scranton) Chittenden, was born
April 13, 1742, and married, December 15,

1773, Sarah, daughter of Selah and Rachel
(Stone) Dudley, of Guilford, born Decem-
ber 3, 1746. She died March 12, 1841. He
lived in North Guilford, where he was a farm-
er by occupation and noted for his kindness
and liberality to the poor. He was killed by
a vicious bull, September 22, 1812. Children:
born in Guilford : Josiah, October 14, 1774,
died September 23, 178 1 ; Sally, January 9,
1776; David, September 23, 1777; Abel, Au-
gust 31, 1779. mentioned below; Simeon,
1781, died March 4, 1782; Lucy, March 19,
1783; Ruth, January 19, 1785; Rachel, April
28, 1787; Simeon, January 3, 1791.

(VI) Abel, son of Simeon (2) and Sarah
(Dudley) Chittenden, was born August 31,
1779, .in Guilford, and married, June 19,
1804, Anna Hart, daughter of Timothy and
Olive (Norton) Baldwin, born February 8,
1784. She died June 4, 1845. He lived in
Guilford on the lot ocupied by the first Will-
iam, and died there December 5, 1816. Chil-
dren, born in Guilford : Henry Baldwin, No-
vember 9, 1805, died June 27, 1806; Olive
Norton, April 21, 1807; Sarah Dudley, De-
cember 21, 1809; Anna Hart, April 14, 1812;
Simeon Baldwin, March 29, 1814, mentioned
below ; Henry Abel, April 29, 1816.

(VII) Simeon Baldwin, son of Abel and
Anna Hart (Baldwin) Chittenden, was born
in Guilford, March 29, 1814. and married
(first), May 10, 1837, Mary Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Sherman Hartwell, of Warren, Connec-
ticut, born September 29, 1818 ; died Septem-
ber 3, 1852. He married (second), October
11, 1854, Cornelia Baldwin, widow of Rev.
Walter Colton, of Philadelphia, chaplain in
the Navy, and daughter of Oren and Mary
R. Baldwin Colton, of Philadelphia, born
February 13, 1817. Mr. Chittenden was for
the greater part of his life a merchant, and
carried on a successful and extensive business
first in New Haven, and, after 1842, in New
York. LJntil his retirement in 1874, his firm
was second to none in financial standing and
business enterprise. In the fall of that year
he was elected member of Congress from the
state of New York, and continued in that of-
fice by successive re-elections until 1881. He
was a ready and forcible speaker, and had
sound views on subjects of national interest,
especially in financial matters ; on that ac-
count, he exerted a wide influence in the di-
rection of public affairs. Children : Mary H.,
August 18, 1840; Simeon B., June 6, 1845,
mentioned below; Charles S., August 11,
1850.

(VIII) Simeon B., son of Simeon
Baldwin and Mary Elizabeth (Hartwell)
Chittenden, was born June 6, 1845, U1 Brook-

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lyn. New York, and married, May 21, 186S,
Mary Warner, daughter of John Joel Hill,
of Brooklyn, New York. She was born in
Albany, New York, May 22, 1847. Her moth-
er was Mary Elizabeth McMurdy of Albany,
and was from an old family of Albany. Sbe
is a descendant of John Howland and Eliza-
beth Tilley, and through them is a member of
tbe Mayflower Society. She is also a member
of tbe Colonial Dames of New York State.
Mr. Chittenden graduated from Yale College,
in 1865, and became a lawyer in New York
City. His winter residence is in Brooklyn,
New York, 212 Columbia Heights. In sum-
mer he lives in Guilford, Connecticut. Chil-
dren: 1. Alice Hill, born June 27, 1869, un-
married. 2. Mary Hartwell, January 28,
1872, widow of Augustus F. Holly, Jr. 3.
Anna Gansevoort, February 2, 1876, married
Charles Martin Thayer of Worcester ; no
children. 4. Simeon Baldwin, April 7, 1879;
married Grace Chapman ; children : i. Alice
Fay. ii. Lydia Barrett. 5. Paul, deceased.

Robert Latimer, immigrant
LATIMER ancestor, came first to New

London, Connecticut. He
married Mrs. Ann Jones, widow of Nathan
Jones, and daughter of George Griggs, Es-
quire, of Boston. Children : Robert, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1664, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
married Jonathan Prentis.

(II) Captain Robert (2), son of Robert
(1) Latimer, was born February 5, 1664. He
was rich in landed estate ; he owned a home-
stead in New London, and town lots, also a
large tract of swamp and cedar land in the
vicinity of New London, and an unmeasured
quantity of wild land in the northwest part
of New London, afterwards occupied by his
descendants. He also owned a tract of land
in Chesterfield on which some of his descend-
ants afterwards lived. He held many offices
of trust; deputy in 1706 and for several years
in succession; in 1717 was a member of the
governor's council, and was again chosen in
1720, and held the position until his death. He
died in New London, November 29, 1728. He

married Elizabeth . Children : John,

married Elizabeth ; Robert, married,

June 17, 1 73 1, Mary Huntley; Jonathan, born
about 1698, mentioned below; Samuel, mar-
ried Elizabeth Hallum ; Peter, married Han-
nah Ricket ; Ann.

(III) Captain Jonathan, son of Captain
Robert (2) Latimer, was born about 1698. He
married, April 6, 1721, Barodell, daughter of
George Denison, and great-granddaughter of
Jonathan and Lucretia Brewster (see Brew-
ster II). Captain Jonathan Latimer settled

in New London, and was, like his father, a
wealthy landholder. He owned a large tract
in Chesterfield, inherited from his father, and
another on the west side of Niantic river, now
in the town of East Lyme. The site of a
dwelling-house, on the latter tract of land,
formerly occupied by one of his sons, was in
1882 still visible, and a spring from which
water was taken to supply the house is still
known as "Latimer's Spring." A ledge of al-
most perpendicular rocks, lying along the west
bank of the river, has since been called "Lati-
mer's Rocks" and a beautiful white sand beach
at Black Point in Lyme, formerly owned by
him, is still called "Latimer's Beach." Chil-
dren: Anne, born about 1723; Jonathan, May
27, 1724, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Sep-
tember 16, 1726; Mary, April 16, 1729; Amos,
December 5,si73o; Robert, February 26, 1732;
Henry, February 28, 1737; Daniel, August
16, 1739; John, December 21, 1741 ; Barodell,
baptized February 21, 1744.

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1)
Latimer, was born May 2j, 1724. He mar-
ried Lucretia, born March 26, 1731, daughter
of George Griswold. He lived in New Lon-
don in Chesterfield society on land which he
had inherited from his father. He served in
several campaigns against the French on the
northern frontier and during the revolution
was much of the time in the field of service.
He was colonel of the Third Regiment of
militia in Connecticut at the time of Arnold's
raid on New London in 1781, and at that time
was censured for not taking a more active
part in bringing forward the forces under his
command to meet the enemy. Colonel Lati-
mer with seven sons removed from Montville
to Tennessee about 1790. They moved in an
emigrant wagon drawn by oxen, and took with
them articles and provisions for use on the
way. He himself did not live to reach his
destination, but died on the journey, and was
buried at the place where he died. The sons
settled in that state, and became the ancestors
of numerous descendants now living in the
western states. It was a tradition in the fam-
ily that Colonel Latimer and six of his sons
measured forty-two feet, and their descend-
ants have always been noted for their height
and stalwart muscular frame. Children :
Hannah, born September 19, 1747; George,
July 29, 1749; Barodell, December 13, 1750,
died young; Jonathan, April 12, 1753; Baro-
dell, April 12, 1755; Wetherel, March 18,
1757; Charles, June 30, 1759; Robert, Novem-
ber 2, 1760; Nicholas, June 8, 1763; Gris-
wold, September 8, 1764; Joseph, January 8,
1766, mentioned below; Nathaniel, February
25, 1768; Daniel, May 4, 1771.

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(V) Joseph, son of Jonathan (2) Latimer,
was born January 8, 1766, in New London.
He moved with his parents in 1790 to Ten-
nessee. He married, November 10, 1796,
Anna Dobbins, born in Lancaster county,
South Carolina, May 10, 1776. She also re-
moved to Tennessee when quite young. Chil-
dren: Mary, Barodell, Elizabeth, Jonathan,
Sarah, mentioned below, Alexander, George
G., John C, David T. Susannah P.

(VI) Sarah, daughter of Joseph (2) Lati-
mer, was born May 13, 1805, near Nashville,
Tennessee. She married, January 17, 1822,
Richard F. Boren. Children : Mary Ann,
born November 25, 1822, married, November
23, 1843, Arthur A. Denny, mentioned below;
Carson Dobbins, December 12, 1824; Louisa,
June 1, 1827. (See Denny.)

Arthur A. Denny was of Scotch-
DENNY Irish descent, his ancestors hav-
ing originally removed from
Scotland to Ireland, and thence to America
at a very early epoch in the history of Penn-
sylvania. David and Margaret Denny were
the progenitors of the. family in the United
States. They had a son, Robert, see forward.

(II) Robert, son of David and Margaret
Denny, was born in 1753. He served in
Washington's command in the revolutionary
war. In 1787 he removed to Frederick coun-
ty, Virginia, and in 1790 married Rachel
Thomas, who was a daughter of one of the
revolutionary heroes. Soon after their mar-
riage they removed to Mercer county, Ken-
tucky, where their son John, see forward, was
born.

(III) John, son of Robert and Rachel
(Thomas) Denny, was born in Mercer
county, Kentucky, May 4, 1793. He was
reared amid the wild scenes of pioneer life,
and in his twentieth year served his country in
the war of 1812, being a Kentucky volunteer
in the regiment commanded by Richard M.
Johnson. He was an ensign in Captain Mc-
Afee's company and fought under General
Harrison, being present at the defeat of Gen-
eral Proctor and at the death of the noted
Indian, Tecumseh, who is said to have been
killed by Colonel Johnson. In 1816 Mr. Den-
ny removed from Kentucky to Indiana, and
later to Illinois, becoming one of the distin-
guished men of the latter state and a repre-
sentative in the legislature of 1840-41, being
a colleague of Lincoln, Yates and Baker. In
1 85 1 he crossed the plains to Oregon, and was
the first candidate of his party for governor of
the state in 1858. He was a most able speak-
er, strong in argument and logical in his de-
ductions, and he kept thoroughly informed on

all questions concerning the welfare of city,
state and nation. He married, August 25,
1 81 4, Sarah Wilson, a native of Bladens-
burg, near Washington, D. C, born February
3, 1797. She was of Scotch lineage, although
her people were among the early settlers of
America. She died March 25, 1841, while
the honorable and ureful career of Mr. Denny
terminated over thirty years afterwards, in
July, 1875, m the eighty-third year of his
age.

(IV) Arthur Armstrong, son of John and
Sarah (Wilson) Denny, was born June 20,
1822, near Salem, Washington county, In-
diana. He obtained his education in a little
log schoolhouse in Illinois. He also pursued
an academic course and learned surveying, a
knowledge of which was of much value to
him in the days of his early residence on Pu-
get sound. In 1851 Mr. Denny crossed the
plains to Oregon, starting from Illinois, April
10, and making the journey across the plains
with horse teams. They were attacked by
Indians near the American Falls, but succeed-
ed in escaping and keeping the red men at
bay, although they were fired upon many
times by the savages. Perilous incidents were
met and hardships endured, but at length the
journey was safely accomplished, reaching
Portland, Oregon, August 22, 185 1. Mr.
Denny's health being poor, he determined to
go to the coast, so acordingly he and his party
took passage on the steamer, "Exact," and
November 13, 1851, was landed at what is
now known as Alki Point on Puget sound,
where they built log houses and spent the win-
ter. At least fifteen hundred Indians spent
the winter in that vicinity, some of them oc-
cupying part of the ground which the pioneers
had cleared, but the latter thought it unwise to
antagonize the red men by refusing them the
privilege of camping in this district. In the
spring Mr. Denny and some of his friends be-
gan to seek more favorable locations for
claims, and accordingly located three hundred
and twenty acres of land, upon which a por-
tion of the city of Seattle now stands. Here
they built log houses, and a post office was es-
tablished soon after, Mr. Denny being made
postmaster, caring for the mail in his little
log cabin for several years. His next resi-
dence was a frame house of six rooms, and
for a number of years this was the headquar-
ters for all newcomers. Mr. Denny was a
lifelong Republican, and from the time of his
arrival in Washington took an active part in
political affairs. He was elected a member
of the first legislature of the territory, and
was also elected a delegate to the United
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territory in promoting its interests and wel-
fare. As a citizen he was known as an active
factor in nearly every enterprise that contrib-
uted to the growth, progress and prosperity
of the city. He assisted in organizing the
First Methodist Church ; for years he was an
active member of that denomination, but in his
later days was more closely identified with
the Congregational church. He always took
a deep interest in all religious work, and was
ever ready to asist in Christian and educa-
tional enterprises. He died in January, 1899.
While Seattle stands his memory will be re-
vered and his name will find an honored place
on the pages of its history, for he was its
founder, and for almost a half century was
connected with the majority of the interests
which contributed to its welfare and progress.
Arthur A. Denny married, as aforemen-
tioned, November 23, 1843, Mary Ann Boren.
Two children were born to them in Illinois :
Catharine Louisa, now Mrs. George F.
Fraye, and Margaret Lenora, who resides with
her mother in Seattle. Their eldest son, Rol-
land, was born in Portland, Oregon, Septem-
ber 2, 1 85 1, and their second son, Orion, was
the first male white child born in Seattle ;
Arthur Wilson and Charles Latimer were also
born in Seattle.

(The Brewster Line).

( i ) William Brewster Sr. lived in Scrooby,
Nottinghamshire, England, as early as 1570-
71, in which year he was assessed in that town
on goods valued at three pounds. In 1575-76
he was appointed by Archbishop Sandys re-
ceiver of Scrooby and bailiff of the manor-
house in that place belonging to the bishop,
to have life tenure of both offices. Some time
in the year 1588, or possibly before, he was
appointed to the additional office of postmaster
under the Crown. He was known as the
"Post" of Scrooby, and was master of the
court mails, which were accessible only to
those connected with the court. He died in
the summer of 1590. His wife was Prudence
■ . Child, William, mentioned below.

(I) Elder William Brewster, immigrant
ancestor, who came in the "Mayflower," was
born during the last half of the year 1566 or
the first half of 1567, the date being fixed by
an affidavit made by him at Leyden, June 25,
1609, when he declared his age to be forty-
two years. The place of his birth is not
known, but is supposed to have been Scrooby.
The parish registers of Scrooby do not begin
until 1695, and no record of Brewster's birth,
baptism or marriage has ever been discovered.
He matriculated at Peterhouse, which was
then the "oldest of the fourteen colleges

grouped into the University of Cambridge,"
December 3, 1580, but does not appear to
have stayed long enough to take his degree.
He is next found as a "discreete and faith-
full" assistant of William Davison, secretary
of state to Queen Elizabeth, and accompanied
that gentleman on his embassy to the Nether-
lands in August, 1585, and served him at court
after his return until his downfall in 1587. He
then returned to Scrooby, where he was held
in high esteem among the people of that place,
and did much good "in Promoting and fur-
thering religion." In 1590 he was appointed
administrator of the estate of his father, who
died in the summer of that year, and suc-
ceeded him as postmaster, which position he
held until September 30, 1607. While in
Scrooby he lived in the old manor-house,
where the members of the Pilgrim church
were accustomed to meet on Sunday. When
the Pilgrims attempted to remove to Holland
in the latter part of 1607, they were impris-
oned at Boston. Brewster was among those
imprisoned and suffered the greatest loss. Aft-
er he reached Holland he endured many un-
accustomed hardships, not being as well fitted
as the other Pilgrims for the hard labor which
was their common lot, and spent most of his
means in providing for his children. During
the latter part of the twelve years spent in
Holland, he increased his income by teaching,
and by the profits from a printing press which
he set up in Leyden. When, after the twelve
years, it was decided that the church at Ley-
den should emigrate to Virginia, Brewster,
who had already been chosen elder, was de-
sired to go with the first company. He was
therefore, with his wife Mary, and two young
sons, among the passengers of the "Mayflow-
er," which landed in Plymouth harbor, De-
cember 16, 1620. Here he bore an important
part in establishing the Pilgrim republic, was
one of the signers of the famous compact, and
believed to have drafted the same. He was
the moral, religious and spiritual leader of the
colony during its first years, and its chief
civil adviser and trusted guide until his death.

His wife was Mary . She died April

17, 1627, somewhat less than sixty years old.
Elder Brewster died April 10, 1644, in Ply-
mouth, and a final division of his estate was
made by Bradford, Winslow, Prence and
Standish, between Jonathan and Love, his only
remaining children. Children : Jonathan,
born August 12, 1593, at Scrooby; Patience,
Fear ; child, died at Leyden, buried June 20,
1609; Love; Wrestling, came in the "May-
flower" with his parents and brother Love ;
was living at the time of the division of cat-
tle, May 22, 1627.

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(II) Jonathan, son of Elder William Brew-
ster, was born August 12, ifi93, in Scrooby,
Nottinghamshire, England, and came over in
the ship "Fortune," 1621. He married Lucre-
tia Oldham, of Darby, April 10, 1624, doubt-
less a sister of John Oldham, who came to
Plymouth about 1623. She died March 4,
1678-79. There is some reason to believe
that he had married before at an early age,
and buried his wife and child by this marriage
in Leyden. He moved from Plymouth to
Duxbury about 1630, and from there was
deputy to the general court, Plymouth col-
ony, in 1639-41-43-44. From there he re-
moved to New London, about 1649, and set-
tled in that part later established as Norwich,
his farm lying in both towns. He was admit-
ted an inhabitant there February 25, 1649-50,
and was deputy to the general court of the
colony in 1650-55-56-57-58. He engaged in
the coasting trade, and was master of a small
vessel plying from Plymouth along the coast
of Virginia. In this way he became acquaint-
ed with Pequot harbor, and entered the river
to trade with the Indians. He was clerk of
the town of Pequot, September, 1649, and re-
ceived his first grant of land in that town in
the same month, from Uncas, Sachem of the
Mogegans, with whom he had established a
trading house. At this latter place, which is
still called by his name, Brewster's Neck, he
laid out for himself a large farm. The deed
of this land was confirmed by the town No-
vember 30, 1652, and its bounds determined.
In 1637 he was a military commissioner in
the Pequot war, in 1642 a member of the Dux-
bury committee to raise forces in the Narra-
gansett alarm of that year, and a member of
Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury company
in the military enrollment of 1643. He was
prominent in the formation of the settlement
of Duxbury and in the establishment of its
church ; sometimes practiced as an attorney,
and was also styled gentleman. He died Au-
gust 7, 1659, ancl was buried in the Brewster
cemetery at Brewster's Neck, Preston. A plain
granite shaft, about eight feet high, was erect-
ed in 1855 to his memory and that of his wife.
The original footstone is still in existence,
and leans against the modern monument. No
probate papers relating to his estate have been
found, but bills of sale are recorded, dated in
1658, which conveyed all his property in the
town plot, and his house and land at Poque-
tannuck, with his movable property, to his
son, Benjamin, and son-in-law, John Picket.
His widow was evidently a woman of note
and respectability among her fellow citizens.
She had always the prefix of Mrs. or Mis-
tress, and was usually recorded in some use-

ful capacity as nurse or doctor, as a witness
to -wills, etc. Children, the first three born
in Plymouth, the fourth in Jones River, the
others in Duxbury. William, born March 9,
1625; Mary, April 16, 1627; Jonathan, July
17, 1629; Ruth, October 3, 163 1 ; Benjamin,
November 17, 1633; Elizabeth, May 1, 1637;
Grace, November 1, 1639, married Captain
Daniel Wetherell had child, Mary, married
George Denison (see Denison IV) ; Hannah,
November 3, 1641.

(The Denison Line).

(I) William Denison, immigrant ancestor,
was born at Bishop's Stortford, county Her-
ford, England. He was a liberally educated
man, and reputed to have been a general in
the British army. He came to New England
•with his wife and three children in 1631, and
settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was
chosen by the general court, constable of Rox-
bury, November 5, 1633 ; he was authorized
to impress men for the building of the bridge,
October 27, 1647; was a deputy to the general
court. His sons became very prominent citi-
zens. He was buried January 25, 1653, and
his wife Margaret, February, 1645. His son,
the famous Major-General Daniel Denison,
left a sketch of the family history (see N. E.
Gen. Reg. XLVI). William Denison mar-
ried in England, November 7, 1603, Margaret
Mon'ck. Children : John; Daniel, baptized at
Bishop's Stortford, October 18, 1612; Ed-
ward, baptized November 3, 1616; George,
mentioned below.

(II) Colonel George, son of William Deni-
son, was born in Bishop's Stortford, in 1618,
baptized December 20, 1620. He came to this
country with his parents in 163 1. He was
thoroughly educated for his time, and had as
tutor the famed John Elliot, who followed
Roger Williams as missionary among the In-
dians. He went back to England and served
as an officer under Cromwell in the parliament
army, won distinction and was severely
wounded in the battle of Naseby, and was
nursed at the home of John Barodell, whose
daughter he afterwards married. He returned
to Roxbury, but later settled in Stonington,
Connecticut, where he had a long and honor-
able career. He was always engaged in civil
and military affairs, became a captain while
in Roxbury, beside managing his large estate
of five hundred acres. His house in Stoning-
ton was surrounded by a stockade fort against
the Indians, and he also had a stone fort with-
in the stockade. He commanded numerous
expeditions against the Indians and was al-
ways most successful when commander-in-
chief. He participated in the famous and de-

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structive Narragansett Swamp fight in De- was born July 18, 1646, in Roxbury, and set-

cember, 1675. In the following February, tied in Stonington. He married Phebe, daugh-

1676, a series of forays was commenced ter of Richard Lay, of Saybrook. Children :

against the Narragansetts, who had identi- Phebe, born 1667; John, 1669; George, 1671,

fied themselves with Philip. These partisan mentioned below; Robert, 1673; William,

bands were commanded by Denison and 1675; Daniel, 1680; Samuel, 1683; Ann,

James Avery, and were composed of volun- 1684; Jacob, 1692.

teers, regular soldiers, Pequots, Mohicans and (IV) George (2), son of John Denison,

Niantics. The third of these excursions be- was born in 1671 in Stonington; married, in

gan in March and ended April 10, 1676, re- 1693, Mary (Wetherell) Henry, widow of

suited in the capture of the last sachem of the Thomas Henry, and daughter of Daniel and

Narragansetts, Canonchet, by Denison, and Grace (Brewster) Wetherell (see Brewster

his men, a little above Pawtucket. The death II). George Denison died in January, 1720,

of Canonchet is one of the most touching aged sixty-one. His wife Mary died in 171 1.

tragedies in American history. The follow- Children: Grace, born 1694; Phebe, 1697;

ing June, Colonel Denison commanded a com- Hannah, 1699; Barodell, 1701 ; Daniel, 1703;

pany against the Indians in Massachusetts and Wetherell, 1705; Ann, 1707; Sarah, 1709.

moved as far north as Northampton. After

a short rest he marched to the northwest of Joseph Driggs, immigrant an-
Providence, which only three months before DRIGGS cestor, was born in 1686 in
had been laid in ashes. He then went south England, died November, 1748,
to Point Judith and along the coast to Ston- at East Haddam, Connecticut. He came to
ington. In these marches he made a brief America in 1712, and settled first at Saybrook,
bait on Kingston Hill, to which his soldiers Connecticut; from there he removed to Mid-
gave the name "Little Rest." He afterwards dletown, and in 1746 to East Haddam. He
marched into Plymouth colony and then married (first) September 13, 1716, at Mid-
pushed west to the Housatonic. He and dletown, Mrs. Elizabeth (Martin) Boarne, of
Avery conducted no less than ten expeditions Middletown, widow of Joseph Boarne. She
and broke forever the hostile Indians' power, was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Mar-
In these he bore a conspicuous part and won tin, of Middletown, and was born there Sep-
for himself undying fame. Numerous tracts tember 24, 1689, died there March 3, 1725-
of land were given him for his military serv- 26. He married (second) Martha Holland,
ices, so that at his death he owned several of Middletown. She was living March 2,
thousand acres in Stonington, Norwich, \YTind- 1750, at East Haddam. Children: Joseph,
ham and the western part of Rhode Island, born July 5, 1717, died in infancy; Joseph,
From 1661 to 1694 he represented Stonington September 10, 1718, mentioned below; Eliza-
for fifteen sessions of the general court. He beth December 17, 1719, died January 10.
married (first) in 1640, Bridget, daughter of 1740, unmarried; Daniel, May 17, 1721, died
John Thompson, Gentleman, of Preston, January 30, 1798, married Elizabeth Strick-
Northamptonshire, England. She died in land; John, January 26, 1724-25, probably
1646, and he married (second) Ann, daughter died young.

of John Barodell, in whose home in England (II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Driggs,

he was nursed after being wounded in the was born September 10, 1718, at Middletown,

battle of Naseby. Both he and his wife Ann died there August 23, 1797. He was buried

were distinguished for magnificent personal in the Farm Hill burying ground. By occu-

appearance, and for force of mind and char- pation he was a farmer. He married Rachel

acter. At Stonington she was commonly Johnston, May 22, 1746, at Middletown. She

called "Lady Ann." She died September 26, was born December 24, 1726, died December

1 712, aged ninety-seven years. Her hand- 6, 1802, at Middletown. She is also buried

some slate headstone can still be seen in the in the Farm Hill burying ground. Children :

Elm Grove cemetery, Stonington. He died Joseph born April 30, 1747, died October 24,

in Hartford, Connecticut, while there on pub- 1748; Joseph, May 31, 1749, died November

lie business, October 23, 1694, and was buried 27, 1827, married Chloe Beach; Hannah,

in the yard of the First Church (Center). June 12, 1752, died October 9, 1754; Israel,

His granite monument is in the Elm Grove October 10, 1754, died June 20, 1756; Rev.

cemetery with that of his wife. Children of Israel, April 10, 1757, died August 26, 1821,

first wife: Sarah, Hannah. Children of sec- married Persis Robards ; Elisha, February 1,

ond wife: John, mentioned below; Ann, Baro- 1760, died January 28, 1813, married Charity

dell, George, William, Margaret, Mercy. Dakin ; Samuel, July 21, 1763, died October

(III ) John, son of Colonel George Denison. 31, 1814, married Sarah Norman; John,

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April 30, 1767, died November 19, 1826, mar-
ried Amy Markum ; Benjamin, mentioned be-
low.

(III) Benjamin, son of Joseph (2) Driggs,
was born September 27, 1773, at Middletown,
died of a fever at Jibacoa, province of San-
tiago de Cuba, on March 12, 1828, and was
buried there, in the southeast corner of the
churchyard. He was a shipmaster by occu-
pation. He married, March 20, 1797, at Lis-
bon, Portugal. Joanna, daughter of James
M alone, the English consul at Lisbon. She
was born in 1780, at Cork, Ireland, died Au-
gust 26, 1 87 1, at Cheshire, Connecticut. In
early life Benjamin Driggs was under the care
of his brother Joseph. He ran away and went
to sea, and subsequently became captain of a
ship, about the time Napoleon was at war
with England. His vessel, bound for Portu-
gal, was confiscated by the French, and he
himself was detained in Lisbon for some time.
It was then that he met his future wife and
married. He made his home later in Middle-
town, Connecticut, but subsequently moved
his family to New York City, where his name
first appears in the city directory in 1820, and
continues to appear every year until 1828.
He owned several vessels and traded exten-
sively .with Cuba. His name is associated
with the founding of Jibacoa, and he was the
principal mover in establishing the first lodge
of Free and Accepted Masons in that section
of the country. He was a brave, jovial, open-
hearted sailor, hospitable to the last degree,
and of that old type who were too unselfish
for their own good. Children : Asa Johnston,
born in 1805, mentioned below; Benjamin;
Mary Ann, 1810; Frederick Fairchild, March
20, 1820, died April 24, 1878, married Sarah
Gifford.

(IV) Dr. Asa Johnston, son of Benjamin
Driggs, was born 1805, at Middletown, died
March 16, 1878. at Cheshire, Connecticut,
where he is buried. At above sixteen years of
age he became a pupil of the Episcopal Acad-
emy of Connecticut, of which he was after-
wards a trustee. He graduated from the
medical department of Yale College in 1826,
and commenced the practice of medicine at
Cheshire. He married, 1829, Sarah Maria,
daughter of Reuben Ives, then rector of St.
Peter's Church ; was rector of the church
thirty-two years in Cheshire, graduate of
Yale College, 1786. She was born in 1804,
died October 25, 1829, at Cheshire, where she
is buried. After her death, Dr. Driggs went
to Trinidad, Cuba, where he practiced his pro-
fession, and had charge of several plantations.
He returned to Cheshire after a few years'
residence in Cuba, and lived there most of the

time until his death. He was an able and
successful practitioner, a man of marked char-
acteristics, affable in manner, and of a hum-
orous disposition. Child, Theodore Ives, men-
tioned below.

(V) Theodore Ives, son of Dr. Asa John-
ston Driggs, was born October 25, 1829, in
Cheshire. He graduated from Trinity Col-
lege in 1848, at the age of nineteen. That
same year he removed to Waterbury, as as-
sistant to Charles Fabrique, then principal of
the academy. He was prominent in organiz-
ing the Centre school district of Waterbury,
and in the establishment of the high school,
of which he was the assistant principal in
1851-52. After four years of successful teach-
ing, he was compelled to give it up, on acount
of throat trouble, and in 1853 became book-
keeper for Abbott & Wardwell, button manu-
facturers. In September, 1855, he took charge
of the books of the American Pin Company,
and was responsibly connected with that com-
pany till his deiith. In 1865 he was made sec-
retary, and later was elected president. In
October, 1848, he became the organist of St.
John's Church, and served continuously un-
til 1873, when he was compelled by illness to
retire. He resumed this work in 1876, and
continued it until the illness which preceded
his death, June 28, 1893. As an organist he
showe 1 exceptional ability, and as a choir-
master his training was most thorough and
effective. He was one of the founders of the
Mendelssohn Society, which until 187 1 was
the principal musical association in this vi-
cinity. He was elected president of the Har-
monic Society at its organization in 1889, and
continued to hold that office until his death.
He always took an active interest in educa-
tional matters. Pie was for many years a
member of the board of education, and as
chairman and treasurer introduced many im-
portant reforms. He was the secretary and
one of the trustees of St. Margaret's School
from its organization until his death. He
was a member of the committee appointed in
1868 by the common council for the formal
acceptance of the gift of Silas Bronson for a
public library, and later became a member of
the board of agents of the library and secre-
tary. In politics he was a Republican, and at
different times represented his ward in both
branches of the common council. In religion
he was an Episcopalian, a vestryman of St.
John's Church for many years and agent of
the parish until April 18, 1892.

Theodore Ives Driggs married (first) July
3, 1854, at Waterbury, Connecticut, Sarah
Ellen, daughter of Thomas Watson and Sarah
(Osborn) Shepard. She was born December

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2 1836, at Northampton, Massachusetts, died
March 20, 1857, at Waterbury, and is buried
in Riverside cemetery, Waterbury. She had
one child, Mary Ellen, born December 27,
1856, died July 23, 1857. Her father, Thomas
Watson Shepard, was a printer, and the son
of Thomas and Lydia (Watson) Shepard, of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and was born Sep-
tember 26, 1793, at Worcester. He was a
grandson of Nathaniel Watson, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He married, October 8, 1823,
at Danbury, Connecticut, Sarah Osborn. She
was a daughter of Levi and Miriam (Dibble)
Osborn, and was born August 16, 1800, at
Danbury. Levi Osborn was a son of Moses
and Sarah (White) Osborn, of Danbury,
grandson of David and Rachel (Keeler) Os-
born, and great-grandson of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Whitney) Keeler. He married (sec-
ond) April 9, i860, at Waterbury, Margaret
Sophia, daughter of George and Frances
Jeanette (Scott) Pritchard, of Waterbury.
She was born July 1, 1840, at Waterbury,
died April 8, 1906, at Waterbury. Her fa-
ther, George Pritchard, was a son of Isaac
and Lucina (Baldwin) Pritchard, and was
born May 25, 1816, died July 31, 1877, at
Richfield Springs, New York. He married,
February 19, 1838, Frances Jeanette Scott.
His father, Isaac Pritchard, was a son of
Isaac and Lois (Bronson) Pritchard, and was
born July, 1772. He married, February, 1795,
Lucina, daughter of Major Noah and Eliza-
beth Ives Baldwin. Lois Bronson was daughter
of Isaac and Eunice (Richards) Bronson.
Theodore Ives Driggs died June 28, 1893, at
Waterbury, and is buried in Riverside ceme-
tery, Waterbury. Children: 1. George Asa,
born February 17, 1861, mentioned below. 2.
Martha Rathbun, December 7, 1863 ; lives
at Waterbury ; unmarried. 3. Henry Peck,
December 23, 1873, died July 10, 1907; un-
married ; graduate of St. Paul's school, Con-
cord, New Hampshire, 1891 ; Yale, 1895;
Harvard Law School, 1898; member of the
firm of Sawyer & Driggs, New York City,
where he died, is buried in Riverside ceme-
tery, Waterbury. 4. Helen Ives, February
22, 1878; lives at Waterbury; unmarried.

(VI) George Asa, son of Theodore Ives
Driggs, was born February 17, 1861, at Wa-
terbury, and is now living there. He is at
present president and treasurer of the Ameri-
can Pin Company. He married (first) June
9, 1883, at Waterbury, Annie, daughter of
Thomas Campbell and Jennie (Hall) Mor-
ton, of Waterbury. She was born April 4,
1866, at Waterbury, died April 4, 1897, at
Hartford, and is buried at Waterbury. He
married (second) March 14, 1900, at New

York City, Anne Buel Heminway. Children :
1. Morton Campbell, born March 5, 1884, died
March 3, 1900. 2. Theodore Ives, March 6,
1885; married, October 12, 1907, Louise
Green, daughter of Thomas Thacher ; chil-
dren: i. Louise, October 12, 1908; ii. Eliza-
beth, October 6, 1909; iii. Sarah McC. Green.
These children were born in Tenafly, New
Jersey.

John Wilson, believed to be a
WILSON grandson of Francis Wilson,

of Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
born 1660, at Woburn, son of John Wilson.
He was born about 17 10 and settled in Cov-
entry, Connecticut. Children born at Coven-
try: Abigail, August 10, 1738; Dorothy, died
June 2, 1739-40; John, died September 10.
1740 ; Joseph, mentioned below.

(II) Lieutenant Joseph, son of John Wil-
son, was born at Coventry, March 31, 1745,
died at Tyringham, Massachusetts, August 9,
1818. He was a soldier in the revolution in
Captain John Collar's company. Colonel John
Ashley's regiment of Berkshire county, in
1779, and in Captain Jeremiah Hickok's com-
pany, Lieutenant-Colonel Sears' regiment in
1 78 1. He came from Tolland, Connecticut,
about 1770. He bought land in Tyringham,
April 11, 1770, of Theophilus Street, a hun-
dred acres, lot No. 95 (see Deeds 8, p. 189).
His wife Betty died August 25, 1812. The
births of three children are recorded at Tyr-
ingham, but their names are missing. They
were: Son, July 24, 1773; child, September,
1775, and son, June 13, 1781. His sons were
James, John and Oliver.

(III) James, son of Lieutenant Joseph Wil-
son, was probably the son born July 24, 1773,

at Tyringham. He married Achsah .

He bought lot No. 90 of Job Jenckes at Tyr-
ingham in 1795 and other land in that year
and later. Children, born at Tyringham : Al-
mira, September 20, 1794; Amanda, July 12,
1796; Joseph H., mentioned below; Achsah
"Jr.," July 15, 1799; Annlle (?), April 12,
1801 ; James, April 5, 1803; Julia (twin),
March 4, 1805 ; Abigail (twin) ; John, June
3, 1809; Amarilla, February 28, 181 1.

(IV) Joseph H., son of James Wilson, was
recorded as Joseph "Jr." probably to distin-
guish him from his grandfather. He was
born July 15, 1799, at Tyringham. He mar-
ried Sally, born in 1800, daughter of Dr.
Daniel Herrick, of Preston, Connecticut (see
Herrick IV).

(V) Dr. Grove Herrick Wilson, son of
Joseph H. Wilson, was born in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, March 25, 1824. He attended
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Academy, Massachusetts, and was fitted
for the profession of teaching, which he fol-
lowed for a period in Massachusetts and in
Delaware. He took up the study of medicine,
was graduated in 1849 from the Berkshire
Medical Institute, and located at North
Adams, Massachusetts. He adopted homoe-
opathy in his practice two years later at North
Adams and Conway. In 1857 ne came to
Meriden, Connecticut, where he continued to
practice his profession with great success un-
til the time of his death, January 10, 1902.
From a village of three thousand people
Meriden developed into a great manufactur-
ing city during the years Dr. Wilson lived
there and he took an active and influential
part in its development and government. He
was well known throughout the state and no
physician in Meriden had so large a practice.
He contributed frequently to medical publica-
tions and was recognized as a learned, skill-
ful and able physician and surgeon and a
brilliant student and scholar. He published
a monograph in 1882, proving the epidemic
nature of intermittent fevers in New England.
He lectured frequently on natural science and
incidentally expounded the principles of the
telephone and phonograph two years prior
to the production of the instruments by Edi-
son. He invented the aural masseur, an in-
strument for treating deafness by vibration in
the internal ear.

Notwithstanding the large demands upon
his time, Dr. Wilson devoted much time and
energy to tbe public schools of the town, and
as a result of his efforts the rate bill was
abolished and the public schools became free
to every child in the town, in 1863. The suc-
cess of the plan brought about legislation at
Hartford that made all the public schools of
the state free. He was a member of the state
board of health for many years, and was
medical examiner of Meriden. In 1880 and
1882 he represented the town in the general
assembly and distinguished himself as a legis-
lator. He was a member of the Meriden
board of education almost continuously from
the time of founding the high school to the
end of his life, and much of the credit for hav-
ing the high school is due to his initiative. In
1892 he was elected mayor of the city and his
administration was in every way creditable to
himself and to the city. In politics he was a
Republican. Dr. Wilson was a prominent
Free Mason, a member of Meridian Lodge,
of Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
and Hamilton Council, Royal and Select Mas-
ters. He was the first commander of St. Elmo
Commandery, Knights Templar, and he was
afterward grand commander of the Grand

Commandery. He took the thirty-second de-
gree in Lafayette Consistory. He was a
member of Pyramid Temple Mystic Shrine.

Dr. Wilson was broad and liberal in his re-
ligious views, an earnest, consistent, practical
Christian. He served on the building com-
mittee of the First Congregational Church of
Meriden, one of the finest in the state, and
architects of the structure were materially
aided by his artistic tase and discriminaion.
He designed the capitals himself. He was
highly esteemed in social life. He was a good
talker, of wide information and keen wit. He
was kindly and attracted friends in all walks
of life, giving freely in charity and good
works.

He married, November 30, 1848, Margaret
Ann Adams, of Pencader Hundred, Delaware,
born May 5, 1826. Their only child, Dr. Ed-
gar A., is mentioned below.

(VI) Dr. Edgar Adams Wilson, son of Dr.
Grove Herrick Wilson, was born at Conway,
Massachusetts, December 4, 1853. He came
with his parents to Meriden from Conway,
when he was four years old, and attended the
public schools, private schools and the Corner
School. He prepared for college at Phillips
Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and en-
tered Yale, from which he was graduated with
the degree of A.B. in the class of 1877. He
studied his profession in the Medical School
of the University of Pennsylvania and re-
ceived the degree of M.D., in 1882. From
1883 to 1888 he was engaged in general prac-
tice at Rockville, Connecticut. From 1888
to 1893 he was associated in practice with his
father at Meriden. In 1893 he became clin-
ical assistant surgeon at the Manhattan Eye
and Ear Hospital, and continued for four
years. Since then he has made a specialty of
diseases of the eye and ear with offices in
Meriden. He was for five years health of-
ficer of the city of Meriden and since 1893 na?
been health officer of the town of Meriden.
Since the organization of the New Haven
County Public Health Association in Decem-
ber, 1890, he has been its secretary. He is a
member of the American Medical Association,
the Connecticut State Medical Society, the
Alumni Association of the Manhattan Eye and
Ear Hospital, the New England Association
of Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania.
He is on the staff of the Meriden City Hos-
pital and the Connecticut Masonic Home at
Wallingford. He is a member of Meridian
Lodge, No. yj, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Alfred Hall Council. Royal Arcanum, and
of the Home Club of Meriden. In politics he
is a Republican.

He married, January 23, 1883, Ida May,

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born December 22, 1857, daughter of George
and Lydia (Redfield) Beach, both natives of
Branford, Connecticut. Children: 1. George
Herrick, August 8, 1884; died March 25,
1 891. 2. Leslie Adams, July 23, 1886, edu-
cated in the public and high schools, Willis-
ton Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts,
and the Yale Medical School from which he
was graduated with the degree of M.D. in
1910. 3. Grove Herbert, June 17, 1892, died
September 1, 1892.

(The Herrick Line).

The Herrick family in England is descended
from a Danish chief known as Eric, the For-
ester. As the line has been traced in England,
it begins with Eric or Eyryk, of Great Stret-
ton and of Houghton, Leicester county, and
continues through Henry (II), son of Eyryk
(I), John (III), son of Henry (II) ; Robert

(IV), who married Joanna , and had

William, mentioned below; John, Robert and
Adeline.

(V) Sir William Eyryk, Knight, son of
Robert Eyryk, was commissioned to attend
the Prince of Wales on his expedition to Gas-
cony, 1355; he was a distinguished man.

(VI) Robert Eyricke, son of Sir William
Eyryk, was of Houghton, about 1400. By
his wife Agnes he had Robert and Thomas.

(VII) Thomas Herrick, son of Robert
Eyricke. was of Houghton, of Leicester coun-
ty. The first record there is of him is 151 1 ;
his will is dated August 25, 15 17, and he is
buried in St. Martin's Church.

(VIII) John Herrick, son of Thomas Her-
rick, was born 1513, died April 2, 1589. He
resided in Leicester. He married Mary Bond
and they lived together as husband and wife
for fifty-two years. She died 161 1, aged
ninety-seven years, leaving one hundred and
forty-two descendants. A detailed epitaph on
his gravestone in St. Martin's Church gives
much information about his family. They had
five sons and eleven daughters.

(IX) Sir William (2) Herrick, son of John
Herrick, was born in 1567, died March 2,
1652-53, aged ninety-six years. He lived in
Leicester, London and Beau Manor Park; he
was a member of parliament, 1601 to 1630;
he was knighted in 1605. He become a cour-
tier about 1575, in the court of Queen Eliza-
beth ; he was an ambassador to the Ottoman
Porte on an important mission. He carried
on the business of a goldsmith. His son
Henry is the ancestor of the American family.

(I) Henry Herrick, immigrant ancestor,
fifth son of Sir William (2) Herrick, was
born at Beau Manor, Leicester county, Eng-
land, in 1604. He was named by command

of the unfortunate Prince Henry, the eldest
son of James I., we are told. He probably
went first to Virginia and then came north.
He was among the first settlers of Salem, and
he and his wife were of the thirty who found-
ed the First Church of Salem in 1629. He
was a proprietor of the town in 1635. He
was admitted a freeman on May 18, 1631. He
removed to Wenham, and then to Beverly, the
Cape Ann side of Bass river. He bought
large tracts of land in Beverly and gave farms
there to his sons : Zachariah, Ephraim, Jo-
seph and John, at Brick Plains and Cherry
Hill. He was called a good and honest dis-
senter from the doctrines of the Church of
England; he was a friend of Higgenson, but
not so bigoted as some of the Puritans, for
he was fined a few shillings in 1667 with oth-
ers for "aiding and comforting an excom-
municated person." He and his wife were
among the founders of the church at Bev-
erly. He married Editha, daughter of Hugh
Laskin. He died in 1671, and the inventory
of his estate taken March 15, 1670-71, was
presented by his son Henry. The widow
Editha deposed November 28, 1672, concern-
ing some land her father, Hugh Laskin, sold
"before he went away 25 years ago." She
gave her age then as about sixty years, indi-
cating that she was born about 161 2. Chil-
dren of Henry and Editha Herrick : Thomas ;
Zacheus, born in Salem, baptized December
25, 1636; Ephraim, mentioned below; Henry,
baptized at Salem, January 16, 1640; Joseph,
baptized August 6, 1645; Elizabeth, baptized
July 4, 1647; John, baptized May 25, 1650;
Benjamin, died about 1677.

(II) Ephraim, son of Henry Herrick, \va'-
born in Salem, baptized February 11, 1638,
died September 18, 1693. He settled on a
farm in Beverly, Massachusetts, given to him
by his father at Birch Place. He was admit-
ted a freeman, April 29, 1668. He married,
July 3, 1661, Mary Cross, of Salem. Chil-
dren, born at Beverly: John, May 31, 1662;
Ephraim, August 13, 1664; Mary, June 14,
1667; Stephen. March 15, 1670; Sarah; Sam-
uel, June 4, 1675, mentioned below; Timothy,
January 4, 1681 ; Anna, November 20, 1683.

(III) Samuel, son of Ephraim Herrick, wa<
born at Beverly, June 4, 1675. He settled in
1702, at Preston, Connecticut. He married, in
1698, Mehitable Woodward. Children:
Ezekiel, born November 6, 1699; Samuel,
March 24, 1703; Stephen, February 12, 1705:
Daniel, mentioned below; Joseph, March 1,
171 1 ; Keziah, April 30, 1715; Priscilla. mar-
ried Kinney.

(IV) Daniel, son of Samuel Herrick, was
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cut. His granddaughter, Sally Herrick, of
Preston, married Joseph H. Wilson (see Wil-
son IV).

John Wilson was born in Eng-
WTLSON land, was educated and spent
his boyhood there. He came
when a young man to Canada, where he fol-
lowed the trade of carpenter. He was
drowned in a lake, in 1839, when in the prime
of life. He married Elizabeth Smith, widow.
Children : James Alexander, mentioned below ;
daughter, twin of James Alexander, died
young.

(II) James Alexander, son of John Wil-
son, was born September 13, 1835, in New
York City, died in Bridgeport, 1893, is buried
at Newtown, Connecticut. His father died
when he was only four years old. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools, and
then taught school until he was twenty years
old. He then began to study law, first by him-
self, then in the office of Theodore Kellogg,
of Cornwall, Connecticut. He was admitted
to the bar and began to practice at Newtown,
removing after a time to Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut. He became interested in the manufac-
ture of rubber goods in Bridgeport and es-
tablished himself in that business, which his
widow continues, she being treasurer of the
company which he organized under the cor-
porate name of the Housatonic Rubber
Works, and his son, Justin A. Wilson, is
president of the concern. His legal training
and natural business ability contributed to
make him prominent in the business world.
He was conscientious and thorough in his
work, charitable and hospitable by nature,
giving freely of his means and winning the
esteem of men in all walks of life. He was
a soldier in the civil war, enlisting in Com-
pany I, Fifth Connecticut Regiment, and hav-
ing the rank of corporal of his company. He
was taken prisoner by the Confederates and
confined in Belle Isle military prison and hos-
pital. He was a prominent member of Elias
Howe Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Bridgeport. He represented the town of
Newtown in the general assembly and served
on important committees. He was a member
of the Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch
Masons, Royal and Select Masters, Knights
Templar, and had taken the thirty-second de-
gree in Scottish Rite Masonry. He was a
member of Seaside and Algonquin clubs. In
religion he was a Congregationalist, and in
politics a Democrat.

He married Phebe A., November 13, 1867,
born at Newtown, September 15, 1850, daugh-
ter of Cyrenius and Christa Ann (Beardsley)

Curtiss (see Curtiss VII). Children: 1.
Lynn, born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, June 19,
1870; married (first) Maud Blakeney; (sec-
ond) Mrs. Alice Peckham Booth; children of
first wife : Curtiss and Allen Wilson. 2. Clyde,
died at nine years of age. 3. Justin A., born
January 24, 1874; president of the Housa-
tonic Rubber Company of Bridgeport ; mar-
ried Lucy McDonald. 4. Lee, born January
19, 1877; he is a Boston journalist; married
Edith Hermine, daughter of Leo Lyon. 5.
Enid Lynette, born November 12, 1884; mar-
ried Bradford Tilden Seney, of Centerville,
Maryland.

(The Curtiss Line).

The ancient English surname Curtis is also
spelled Curtiss, Curtesse, Curteis and Curtoys.
Stephen Curtis was of Appeldore, Kent, about
1450, and several of his descendants were
mayors of Tenterden, a town where many set-
tlers in Scituate, Massachusetts, came from.
The family has also lived from an ancient date
in county Sussex. The ancient coat-of-arms
is thus described : Argent, a chevron sable be-
tween three bulls heads caboched, gules.
Crest; A unicorn pas, or, between four trees
proper.

(I) William Curtiss' ancestor lived in Eng-
land and probably died there. His widow
Elizabeth and sons John and William settled
in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639. In the
Stratford town records she is generally called
"Widow Curtiss," and first appears in a list
of property owners about 1650, with her two
sons. Her lot was near or adjoining that of
Rev. Adams Blakeman. She died June, 1658,
and her will was proved November 4, 1658,
at Fairfield, Connecticut. Children : John,
born in England, 161 1; William, mentioned
below ; Thomas, born in England, had a
daughter Mary, mentioned in his mother's
will.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Curtiss, was born in England, 1618. He mar-
ried (first) Mary ; (second) Sarah,

daughter of Matthew Morris, of Hartford,
and widow of William Goodrich, of W'ethers-
field, Connecticut. He came to Stratford with
his mother and brother John, and his name
appears among the list of property owners in
1650. He was an original proprietor and
was a most prominent man. As early as 1650
he had attained the rank of sergeant and rep-
resented Stratford in the general court almost
continuously from 1667 to 1686. May 9,
1672, liberty was granted by the general
court to him and his associates to begin a
plantation at Pomeraug (Woodbury), and he
was one of the original grantees. In June,
1672, he was appointed captain of the train

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band of Stratford and at the same time the
general court declared him the second mili-
tary officer of Fairfield county. In August,
1672, he was appointed one of six commis-
sioners, togther with the governor, deputy-
governor and assistants, as a war council
against the Dutch at New York "to act as the
Grand Committee of the Colony in establish-
ing and commissionating Military Officers —
and to manage, order and dispose of the
Militia of the Colony in the best way and
manner they can for our defense and safety."
Tn October, 1675, during King Philip's war,
he was appointed to command those forces
raised in Fairfield county, with power to ap-
point his own inferior officers. In 1676 he
was a commissioner of both Stratford and
Woodbury. In May, 1676, he was chosen an
assistant or member of the governor's council.
He died in Stratford, December 21, 1702; his
wife in 1701. His will was entered for pro-
bate, December 31, 1702, at Fairfield. Chil-
dren born in Stratford : Sarah, October 10,
1642; Jonathan, February 14, 1644; Joshua, ,
October 1, 1646; Abigail, April 21, 1650;
Daniel, November 16, 1652; Elizabeth, Sep-
tember 13, 1654; Ebenezer, July 6, 1657;
Zachariah, November 14, 1659; Josiah, men-
tioned below.

(III) Josiah, son of William (2) Curtiss,
was born August 30, 1662, in Stratford. In
May, 1714, the general court appointed him
captain of the train band, and in 17 16 he was
a deputy to the general court. December 29,
1725, liberty was granted him and John Wil-
coxson, Jr., to erect a sawmill on the half-
way river. He died in 1745, his widow in
1759. His will was probated November 20,
1745, at Fairfield. He married, July, 1692,
Abigail, daughter of lieutenant Joseph and
Sarah Judson, of Stratford. She died in
1697, and he married (second) Mary, daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Mary Beach, of Strat-
ford. Children born in Stratford : William,
September 22, 1693; Abigail, 1695; Anna,
1697; Eunice, August I, 1699; Abraham, May
10, 1701 ; Josiah, January 6, 1702-03; Benja-
min, December 15 or 25, 1704, mentioned be-
low; Peter, April 1, 1707; Matthew, Decem-
ber 16, 1708, died young; Mary, July 25,
1711; Matthew, December 1, 1712; Charles
(twin), January 1, 171 5-16; Mehitabel (twin).

(IV) Benjamin, son of Josiah Curtiss, was
born December 15 or 25, 1704. He and his
brothers, Matthew and Josiah, settled in New-
town about 1728, where he became a promi-
nent man. He represented his town in the
general court. He died July 28, 1782, and his
will was filed August 6, 1782, in Danbury,
Connecticut. He married (first) Elizabeth,

daughter of Abel and Comfort Welles Bird-
sey, of Stratford, August 27, 1726. She died
February 24, 1773. and he maried (second),
June 17, 1773, Bathsheba Ford, of Stratford.
Children, born in Newtown : Nehemiah, Feb-
ruary 2, 1728; Phebe, October 5, 1729;
Eunice, January 13, 1731 ; Elizabeth, October
26, 1733; Salmon, died May 9, 1735; Benja-
min, mentioned below ; Abel, born February
7, 1738; Abijah, January 31, 1740; Sarah,
born March 25, 1744.

(V) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
Curtiss, was born February 14, 1736, in New-
town. He was a private during the revolu-
tion in Captain David Smith's company, April
21, 1776. He died February 20,. 181 7, in
Newtown, and his will was filed December 16.
181 7, in Danbury. He married (first) Novem-
ber 23, 1758, Phedenia, daughter of Nathan-
iel Nichols, of Newtown. She died Febru-
ary I5» l773' aged thirty-five, and he married
(second) Mary Devine, 1774. She died Au-
gust 23, 1795, and he married (third). May 6,
1801, Phebe Toucey. She died in 183 1. Chil-
dren born in Newtown: Philo, June 27, 1760;
Elizabeth Birdsey, September 21, 1766; Anna,
December 20, 1769; Benjamin, February 15.
1772; Sarah, November 24. 1775; Artemesia,
May 5, 1778; Aurilla, November 30, 1780;
Alfred Devine, January 24, 1783, mentioned
below; Epenetus, October 4, 1786; Phedenia.
married, November 9, 1791, Daniel Clarke, of
Southburv, Connecticut.

( VI) Alfred Devine, son of Benjamin (2)
Curtiss, was born January 24, 1783, in New-
town, died September 30, 1850. He married
Sarah, daughter of Nirom and Sarah Hard,
of Newtown. She died April 6, 1855, aged
seventy-five years. Children born in New-
town: Sophia, September 7, 1802; Nirom
March 28, 1805; Phebe, May 24. 1807; Mary.
May 3, 1809; William. September 14, 1811;
Cyrenius, December 5, 1814; Alfred, June 8,
1817; Sarah, September 5, 1819; Edwin Au-
gustus (twin), January 25, 1825, died same
day; Edward Augustus (twin), died Septem-
ber 12, 1825.

(ATI) Cyrenius, son of Alfred Devine Cur-
tiss, was born December 5, 1814. He married
Christa Ann, daughter of James Beardsley.
of Monroe, Connecticut, May 15, 1838. She
died May 11, 1891, aged seventy-six years.
He died May 27, 1890, in Bridgeport. Chil-
dren born in Newtown : Alfred, December 3.
1839, died January, 1850; William, August
20, 1842; Joseph, April 5, 1844, died June 14,.
1910; Sara Matilda, November 7, 1846, died
aged thirty-seven; Phebe Ann, September 15,
1850, married James A. Wilson, November
13, 1867 (see Wilson II) ; Bertha Celia. May

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20, 1853, in Branford, Connecticut; Eva
Adelaide, May 17, 1856, died aged eleven
years.

William Hull, born in Somerset-
HL'LL shire, England, 1574, was one of

four brothers, of whom three came
to this country in the first part of the seven-
teenth century. William graduated from St.'
Mary's Hall, Oxford, and was instituted
vicar of Colyton, in Devonshire, in 161 1, un-
der the patronage of the dean and chapter of
Exeter, and as the immediate successor of
Rev. John Eedes, one of the translators of
the King James' Bible, who had married
Alice, daughter of Henry Hull, Esquire, of
Exeter. John Hull was doubtless the John*
Hull made freeman August 7, 1632, and men-
tioned in Dorchester, Massachusetts, records.
Joseph Hull, apparently the youngest brother,
matriculated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, May
12, 1612, aged seventeen years; took his first
degree of A. B., November 14, 1614, and was
instituted rector of Northleigh, diocese of
Exeter, Devonshire, April 14, 1621. He re-
signed in 1632, and March 20, 1635, sailed
from Weymouth with his second wife Agnes,
seven children, three servants, and a colony
of over one hundred persons. They arrived in
Boston Harbor, May 6, and settled at Wessa-
guscus, which they named Weymouth. Some
of his descendants settled along the coast of
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
and New York, and became some of them
captains of sailing vessels, some eminent mem-
bers and ministers of the Society of Friends.
Two or three of his children moved to Maine,
where he died November 19, 1665.

(I) George Hull, the immigrant ancestor,
was the second brother, and was born in
Crewperne, Somersetshire, England, in 1590.
He sailed from Plymouth, Devonshire, March
30, 1629, in the ship "Mary and John," Cap-
tain Squeb. He settled at Dorchester, where
he was made a freeman, March 4, 1632, and
a representative for the town to the first great
and general court held in the colony, May 14,
1634. He was also a member of the first
board of selectmen of Dorchester, and in 1633
and 1634 was appointed "to fix the rate." He
appears to have been allotted two acres from
the "Common," and later the meadow that
"lyes before his doore — down to the sea, mak-
ing a sufficient passage that way." In 1636
he removed to Windsor, Connecticut. He
was a surveyor by profession, and surveyed
both Windsor and Wethersfield. He was a
representative to the general court which met
at Hartford in 1637 and declared war on the
Pequot Indians. Some time after 1646 he

removed to Fairfield, and was again repre-
sentative to the general court of Connecticut
for a great many terms. He was a personal
friend and political adherent of Governor
Roger Ludlow. He had come from England
with him in the same ship, moved with him
to Windsor, and jointly with him obtained
from the general court of 1638 a monopoly of
the beaver trade on the Connecticut river. He
also followed him to Fairfield, and in 1651,
1653 and 1654 was appointed by the governor
as associate magistrate for the towns by the
seaside. His first wife is supposed to have
been Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Russell.
The latter made his will January 28, 1640,
proved October, 1640, and in it names "wife
Jane, and only child, Elizabeth Hull." She
died about 1646, and he married, after 1654,
Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston.
Another authority gives as his wife, Tham-
zen, daughter of Robert Mitchell, of Stock-
land, England. He died 1659, aged about sev-
enty years. He is described as public-spirited,
active and intelligent, and as legislator and
magistrate was instrumental in establishing
two of the free and enlightened common-
wealths of New England, Massachusetts and
Connecticut. Cotton Mather distinguished
him with a place in his great book, and also
places his brother Joseph in his First Classis,
or List of First Good Men. The inventory
of his estate and that of his widow were pre-
sented on the same day, August 25, 1659, and
his will was admitted to probate, October 20,
1659. Children: 1. Josiah, born in England;
died November 16, 1675. 2. Cornelius, born
April 9, 1628, in England, mentioned below.
3. Elizabeth, married Samuel Gaylord, of
Simsbury, Connecticut. 4. Martha. 5. Naomi.
(II) Lieutenant Cornelius Hull, son of
George Hull, was born April 9, 1628, in Eng-
land, and came with his parents to Dorchester
in 1629. He removed with them first to Wind-
sor and then to Fairfield. He married, No-
vember 19, 1653, Rebecca, daughter of Rev.
John Jones and Sarah. She was born, 1633,
in England. Her father was born in Wales,
ordained in England, and came to Massa-
chusetts in 1635, in the ship "Defense." He
was ordained pastor of the church at Con-
cord, Massachusetts, April 6, 1637, removed
with many of his parish to Fairfield in Sep-
tember, 1644, an(l became pastor of the first
church in that town. Cornelius was a sur-
veyor, and a large landholder in Fairfield.
He was a deputy to the general court for
eight terms, 1058- 1667. He was made lieu-
tenant for Fairfield county in May, 1661, also
lieutenant of the Honorable Major Treat's
Life Guard, February 25, 1675. This was the

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best corps of the Connecticut levies. As re-
ward for his war services the town of Fairfield
granted him large and valuable lots of land.
He died between September 16 and October
7, 1695. His will was dated September 16,
and proved October 7, 1695. Children: 1.
Samuel, married (first) Deborah Beers; (sec-
ond) Jane (Hubbell) Frost, widow. 2. Cor-
nelius, mentioned below. 3. Theophilus, mar-
ried Mary Sanford. 4. Rebecca. 5. Sarah,
married Robert Silliman, ancestor of Pro-
fessor Robert Silliman. 6. Martha, married
Cornelius Seator.

(Ill) Cornelius (2), son of Cornelius (1)
Hull, was born about 1655, an<3 married,
1684, Sarah Sanford, daughter of Ezekiel and
Rebecca (Wicba) Sanford. She was born in
1666. and died in 1753. Both he and his wife
were admitted to full communion April 20,
1701, in Fairfield. In 1725 Greenfield Hill
was made a parish, and his name heads the
list of members. He was elected constable of
Fairfield and held the office for four years.
Hull's Farms, a village in the town of Fair-
field, was so named because he was the first
person who had a farm there. He died May
7, 1740, and was buried in Greenfield Hill,
where his gravestone may still be seen. His
will was dated January 21, 1734-5. Children:
1. George, born in 1686. 2. Sarah, baptized
August 26, 1694. 3. Rebecca, baptized, August
26, 1694. 4. Nathaniel, baptized April 7, 1695.
5. Ebenezer, baptized January 20, 1697-8. 6.
Elizabeth, baptized October 15, 1699. 7.
Martha, baptized July 13, 1701. 8. John, born
about 1703. 9. Eleanor, baptized September
15,. 1706. 10. Cornelius, born May 14, 1710,
mentioned below.

( tV) Cornelius (3), son of Cornelius (2)
Hull, was born May 14, 1710, and married,
August 24, 1731, Abigail, daughter of Robert
and Anna (Bastaid) Rumsey. She was born
in 1716, and died in 1776. He lived at Hull's
Farms, and died December 26, 1788.

(V) Lieutenant Jedediah Hull, son of Cor-
nelius (3) Hull, was born July 24, 1732;
died February 14, 1796. He was a soldier in
the French and Indian war, in the invasion of
Canada in 1759, Captain David Wooster's
company. He was also in the revolution, a
lieutenant in Captain Dimon's company of
Fairfield, in May, 1775. He married, April 2,
1760, Mary Chapman, born 1730, died 1774,
daughter of Rev. Daniel and Grissell (Covel)
Chapman of Greens Farms. He married
(second) in 1778, Mary Osbqrne, born 1736,
died 1796. Children: Denny C. (mentioned
below), Eunice, Chapman, Molly, Cornelius,
Jedediah, Henry C. and George.

(VI) Denny C, son of Lieutenant Jedediah

Hull, was born January 7, 1762, and died
March 6, 1828. He settled in Redding, Con-
necticut, and lived also in Greenfield Hills and
Danbury, in that state. He married, April 2,
1786, Mary, daughter of Obadiah and Thank-
ful (Scudder) Piatt. Children : Mary, Denny,
mentioned below, Isaac Piatt, and Eunice.

(YII) Denny, son of Denny C. Hull, was
born May 15, 1789, and died July 22, 1859.
He lived at Danbury. He married /\nna,
daughter of Nathaniel and Katherine
(Beatys) Selleck. Children: 1. Jarvis Piatt,
born June, 1809; died 1892. 2. Edward S.,
born January 29, 181 1 ; died January 13, 1880.
3. Isaac Piatt, born June 4, 1813; died August
25, 1883. 4. Clarissa Ann, born May 4, 1815;
died 1875. 5. Natbaniel Selleck, born March
31, 1817; died June 3, 1888. 6. Mary Jane,
born 1823; died February 23, 1878. 7. Denny,
born 1831, died January 5, 1900. 8. Josephine,
born 1833; died February 13, 1866.

(YIII) Nathaniel Selleck, son of Denny
Hull, was born March 31, 1817; died June 3,
1888. He lived at Danbury, Ridgefield and
Norwalk, Connecticut. He married, in 1840,
Angeline Barber, born 1824, died 1886, daugh-
ter of Azor and Abigail (Stevens) Barber, of
Danbury, Connecticut. Children: 1. Azor
Barber, born November 2"], 1842. 2. William
Francis, born June 13, 185 1. 3. Denny, born
September 1,1861.

(IX) Azor Barber, son of Nathaniel S^'-
leck Hull, was born November 27, 1842. He
lived at Redding and Danbury, Connecticut.
He married, June 13, 1866, Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Bun-
nell) Collins, of Norwalk, Connecticut. Chil-
dren: 1. Frederick Collins (mentioned below).
2. Angeline Elizabeth, born June 8, 1875.

(X) Frederick Collins, son of Azor Bar-
ber and Mary Elizabeth (Collins) Hull, was
born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, August 10,
1868. In 1880 he moved with bis parents to
Danbury. He was educated in the public
schools of Ridgefield and Danbury, and was
graduated from Ellis Academy of Danbury.
He came to New Haven in 1889 and engaged
in manufacturing. In 1897 he went to De-
troit, Michigan, and engaged in manufactur-
ing, also banking. In 1904 he returned to
Connecticut, and since that time has been resi-
dent manager in New Haven, Connecticut, for
Bertron, Griscom & Jenks, bankers, of New
York and Philadelphia. He is a member of
the Union League Club, the Chamber of
Commerce, and several organizations whose
endeavors are for the betterment of New
Haven's social and business conditions. In
religion he is a Congregationalist, and in poli-
tics a Republican. He married, April 15,

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1897, Jennie Maria Hunt, daughter of James
R. and Maria ( Linsley) Hunt, of New Ha-
ven, Connecticut. They have no children.

The chief of this family went

LAFLIN into Ireland with several Nor-
man and English families be-
fore the thirteenth century. By the sameness
of its heraldic ensigns it is evidently of the
same origin as the families of Laweleyn,
Lamelin, Launceleyn, Lancelin, all of county
Bedford, of Fishburn of Durham, of Lee of
Fishburn, county Durham ; of Gayer of Fox-
ley, county Berks ; of Levesholm and of Lea
of Levesholm, county Chester and of Mordon
of Pluckley.

In county Bedford, according to the
''Doomsday Book," Leofwire, who was pro-
prietor of the fief of Caddington and Streat-
ley, witnessed a charter of St. Albans in 1070,
for Hugh de Beauchamp, ''Victorian History
of County Bedford," vol. i, p. 198. Passing
from this beginning we find that :

Thomas Lavallin, spelled on one of the rec-
ords Lawelyn, was sheriff of Cork in 1369.
The next mention made in the line of this
family in "Cork Historical and Archaeolog-
ical Society's Journal" is as follows :

Richard Lavallin, mayor of Cork in 1455,
whose daughter Mary, according to Burke's
"Genealogical Dictionary of the Landed Gen-
try," vol. 1, p. 458, married Edward Galway,
Esq., of Dunganon, county Cork. "Waters-
town Castle after 1598 passed to this family
of Lavallin. It is situated in county Cork, on
the 'Great Island' of the Blackwater. A
lawsuit about the property was afterwards
carried to the House of Lords." Cork His-
torical and Archaeological Society's Journal,
Waterstown Castle.

James Lavallin, his wife Frances, James
and Philip Lavallin, their children, were the
appellants, and Christian Gould, executrix of
Elinor Baggott, widow, the respondent. In
this case James Lavallin, on behalf of himself
and family, sought to rid himself of the mone-
tary claim made on the estate of which he was
owner by Elinor Baggott, widow of his fa-
ther's eldest brother, Patrick Lavallin. His
grandfather, James Lavallin, in his lifetime,
had held in fee the lands of Waterstown and
several others in county Cork and had three
sons, Patrick, Peter and Melchior. He re-
solved to disinherit his eldest son Patrick,
who had greatly disobliged him, and did by
deed of October, 1679, settle and convey to
Patrick's children, failing which to his other
heirs. Patrick died without heirs and his
widow brought suit for her portion. "In 1687
his brother Melchior was under twenty-one

years of age. Peter died without heirs. Mel-
chior had a son James. The property dwin-
dled away in litigation and the family van-
ished from the locality."

James Lavallin, of Waterstown, must have
had other children because there is a record
in Burke's "Dictionary of the Landed Gen-
try," vol. 11, p. 1 133, of Catherine, his daugh-
ter, marrying, in 1672, Edward Roch, Esq.,
of Trabolgan, and Philip Lavallin had chil-
dren, because in Burke's same work, vol. i,
p. 35, is the record of his daughter Jane mar-
rying Robert Atkins St. Leger, who assumed
the naive of Atkins by request of his grand-
father's will (Robert Atkins, of Hatfield, who
bought the estate of Waterpark and was
sheriff of Cork in 1722 and mayor of Cork in
1726), whose heir he was. Again, in Burke,
same work, vol. ii, p. 1139, there is the rec-
ord of the marriage of a Miss Lavallin of
this family to Joseph Rogers, of county Cork,
about 1750. This James Lavallin, the grand-
father, was a royalist in the war that the
Puritan demagogues and republicans waged
against the King, Charles I.

James Lavallin was one of the officers who
served King Charles I, before 1689 in Ire-
land, and as a punishment for his loyalty and
devotion to the King, constitution and legiti-
macy, the usurping Puritan parliament, that
succeeded in England by murdering the King
in 1648, and overthrowing the constitution
and the fundamental laws of the land, confis-
cated his property with that of other loyal
participants for King and country. Some of
this property was in the barony of Fermoy,
as was also that of his relatives, John and
Melchior Lavallin ; John owning also in Cork.

In the acts of settlement and explanation,
however, of 1661-65 on the overthrow, in its
turn, of the hateful, tyrannical, corrupt and
illegitimate parliament by the restoration of
the monarchy in the person of King Charles
II, James Lavallin was recompensed by a
grant of land as compensation for the same
from the Crown. No doubt in the above rec-
ords the John and Melchior named therein
were his brothers. The line then descends
from him in the following manner :

(I) James Lavallin married and had chil- .
dren: I. Patrick, married Elinor Baggott and
left issue. 2. John. 3. Peter, married and
left no issue. 4. Melchior, of whom below.
5. Catherine, eldest daughter, married, in
1672, Edward Rock, Esq., of Trabogan.

(II) Melchior, son of James Lavallin, born
in 1664, married and had issue: James, of
whom below.

(III) James (2), son of Melchior Lavallin,
married Frances and had : ] . James.

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2. Philip, whose daughter Jane married Rob-
ert Atkins St. Leger Atkins. 3. Charles,
of whom below.

(IV) Charles, son of James and Frances
Lavallin, is reputed to have gone to America
with his relatives, Samuel and Joseph Atkins,
who, according to Burke's "Dictionary of
Landed Gentry," went off about this time to
America, and the Cook Historical and
Archaeological Society's Journal, in the arti-
cle on Waterstown Castle, testifies to the dis-
appearance of the family about this time
(1740-42) from the community, and here his
record ends.

Undoubtedly the son of James Lavallin
who came to America with the Atkins broth-
ers was Charles Laflin. He is the only one
of the name who came to America any time
hefore the year 1740. Arms. Argent, a fleur-
de-lys sable.

(The Family in America).

Charles Laflin, above-mentioned, settled at
Oxford, Massachusetts. He came over in
1740 from Ulster, Ireland, to escape from the
renewal of parliamentary persecutions, from
which so many suffered and which has been
the direct cause of the expatriation of so
many worthy families not only from Ireland
but from England and Scotland. He bought
land in Antego, afterward Southwick, in 1740,
which he sold to his son Matthew, in 1757,
for £240. His name is spelled in various ways
in old deeds, and Laflin, the final spelling, re-
calls only by sound the original name of La-
vallin. He died in Oxford, Massachusetts,
December 28, 1769. His son was:

( V) Matthew Laflin, of Southwick, born
June 13, 1735, in Ulster, Ireland, died at
Southwick, March 15, 1810. He is described
as an "Irish Protestant." He was lieutenant
in the militia and selectman from 1776 to 1786.
He engaged in the manufacture of gun-
powder. He married, at Westfield, Massa-
chusetts, November 5, 1761, Lucy, daughter
of Benjamin Loomis. Issue: 1. Lucy, born
1763, married David Campbell. 2. Matthew.
of whom below. 3. Charles, born 1767. 4.
Herman, married Clarissa Rising.
. (VI) Matthew (2), son of Matthew (1)
Laflin, born in Southwick, July 2, 1765, died
there December 2, 1828. He married Lydia,
daughter of Amos Rising. Issue: 1. Roland.
2. Luther, of whom below. 3. Winthrop. 4.
Matthew. 5. Walter. 6. Emeline, married
Charles Jessup, of Dalton, Massachusetts, and

has issue. 7. Charlotte, married (first)

Case; (second) Smith, and had issue

by both. 8. Electa, married Joseph M. Boies,
of Saugerties, New York; issue: H. M. : M.

Laflin ; Mary L., married and lived in Canada;
Ella L.

(VII) Luther, son of Matthew (2) and
Lydia (Rising) Laflin, was born at Southwick,
Massachusetts, December 27, 1789. He was
educated in private schools and began his busi-
ness career as a merchant, conducting a gen-
eral store at Blandford, Massachusetts. In
1832 he joined his brother, Matthew Laflin,
who was a citizen of Southwick, Massachu-
setts, and built a powder mill at the Pounds
near that town. This partnership continued
prosperously, under the firm name of L. & M.
Laflin, producing from thirty thousand to fifty
thousand kegs of powder annually and em-
ploying from twenty to thirty hands. About
five years after this partnership was formed
another brother, Winthrop Laflin, built a
powder mill at Saugerties, on the Cauterskill
creek, and the firm of L. & M. Laflin became
half owners thereof. Later Solomon A. Smith,
of Southwick, Massachusetts, became inter-
ested in the business, and the firm name was
changed to Laflin & Smith. Under the shrewd
business direction of Luther Laflin, who dis-
played executive abilities of a high order, the
business rapidly increased. Later another
partner, Joseph M. Boies, was admitted to the
firm. In 1849 Matthew Laflin disposed of his
interest, which was purchased by Sylvester H.
Laflin, a son of Luther Laflin. In that year
the firm met with a severe loss, nine of its
principal buildings in Saugerties being blown
up, killing eight of the workmen, and involv-
ing the firm in a heavy financial loss. Mr.
Laflin and Mr. Smith having acquired a com-
petence, declined to continue the business by
rebuilding, and thereupon Joseph M. Boies
purchased an interest and consolidated to this
the Saugerties and Cauterskill mills under one
management. The interest of Luther Laflin
was assumed by his sons, Fordyce L. and
Colonel Henry D. Laflin. The business con-
tinued to increase steadily, but an enormous
impetus was given thereto by the inauguration
of the civil war, when large orders were re-
ceived from the government. The firm ac-
quired the powder mills at Plattsville, Wis-
consin, and put them in charge of two
brothers, Solomon and John Turck, who had
been in the Laflins' employ since boyhood.
Additional mills were erected at Scranton and
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and two mills at
Esopus and Newburg, New York, owned by
Laflin & Rand, were absorbed by the firm,
which was then incorporated as the Laflin
Powder Company, with a paid-up capital of
$3,000,000. Another consolidation took place
under the name of the Moosic Powder Com-
pany, of which Henry M. Boies was president .

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In 1867 the firm of Laflin & Rand Powder Previous to the civil war, Colonel Laflin had

Company was organized by consolidating the become associated with different military or-

various interests with A. T. Rand, president, ganizations, and at the outbreak of hostilities

and a capital stock of $1,000,000. In 1871 the he became a member of the celebrated Ells-

Schaghticoke mills in Rensselaer county, New worth Zouaves, of which Colonel Laflin was

York, were purchased, and the present capa- second in command. In Saugerties he has

city of the various mills of the Laflin & Rand been a potent factor in the development and

Powder Company is four thousand and fifty the upholding of the community. He has held

kegs per day. Mills were also built in the various positions of honor and trust, being at

town of Laflin (named after Henry D. Laflin), one time president of the village. He has

New Jersey. As stated above, Mr. Laflin always taken ah interest in the fire department

retired from active participation in the busi- of the city, and in earlier years personally

ness in 1850, spending the remainder of his superintended the fire drill. He was one of

life in the enjoyment of a well-earned for- the earliest members of the Republican party,

tune. He was an active member of the Dutch being a strong advocate of the principles of

Reformed church and contributed largely to Abraham Lincoln, and assisted in firing the

its support, maintaining missionaries and col- first gun from the top of the Tremont House

porteurs. in Chicago, in honor of Abraham Lincoln's

He married. February 20, 1820, Almira, first nomination for the presidency. Colonel

daughter of Captain George H. Sylvester, Laflin married, September 7, 1853, Josephine

of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and died at Banker, of Hyde Park, New York. Issue,

Saugerties, New York, October 19, 1876. Mrs. one daughter, who died at the age of ten

Laflin died September 15, 1882. Issue: 1. Syl- years.

vester H., married Anna Weaver; issue: (VIII) Almira Jane, daughter of Luther

Addison H., Jennie Weaver, Sylvester H., Jr., and Almira (Sylvester) Laflin, was married

Anna Bell, Jessie, Nellie. 2. Fordyce Luther, in i860 to Dr. Calvin Edwards Hull. She has

born March 9, 1824, died April 27, 1887 ; mar- been for many years prominent as a leader of

ried, September 25, 185 1, Helen Miranda society in Brooklyn, New York. She is also

Burtt; issue: i. Marietta King, married, Jan- most favorably known for the successful man-

uary 30, 1878. Charles Davis; issue: Byron agement of large charities. She arranged the

Laflin Davis, born December 14, 1878 ; John famous charity balls that have been given in

Winne Davis, died young ; Helen Burtt Davis ; Brooklyn for many years. A lover and a

Harriet Laflin Davis ; ii. Hattie Elmendorf , student of music, she has been the patroness

married, December 8, 1894, Harry Cooper of large musical entertainments. She has in-

Fero ; issue : Mildred Laflin Fero ; iii. Luther, herited many of the qualities that made her

born February 6, 1859, married, April 25, father successful in business life. She has in-

1888, Lucy Boise Bigelow ; iv. Helen Eliza- vented several articles that have been of ben-

beth. 3. Helen M., married, June 16, 1847, e^ to tne people at large. Among these in-

Nathan Kellogg: issue: i. Luther Laflin, a ventions may be cited the openings in glass

member of the New York bar ; ii. Fordyce gas-globes, which have been in constant use

Laflin ; iii. Susan E., married, June 2, 1886, since the time that she designed them ; no

Colonel William A. Roessler, a graduate of chandelier now being considered perfect with-

West Point ; issue : Nathan Kellogg Roessler, out them. She also invented and patented a

born August 27, 1888, died November 6, 1903 ; ladies' chiffonier and cabinet. Mrs. Hull was

Jennie Laflin Roessler ; Edward William the prime mover in having ladies remove their

Roessler, born November 28, 1904 ; iv. Jennie hats at all places of public amusement, per-

Laflin Hull, died at the age of twenty-four sonally interviewing the New York and

years. 4. Henry Dwight, of whom below. 5. Brooklyn theater managers, who welcomed the

Marietta K., died young. 6. Almira J., of proposition and aided in the reform. She was

whom below. the prime mover in having drafted and intro-

(VIII) Henry Dwight, son of Luther and duced the law for expectorating on the side-

Almira (Sylvester) Laflin, was born in Bland- walks in the city of Brooklyn, and this law

ford, Massachusetts, February 12, 1830. At was later introduced and carried into effect in

the age of seven years his parents moved to nearly all the large cities in the United

Saug'erties, New York, where he attended the States. Mrs. Hull has drawn to herself a

*?o

public schools of the village. Later he pur- large circle of intimate friends, who admire
sued his studies in the Boston Latin School, her for her cheerfulness, her unostentatious
and at the Plainfield, Massachusetts, Gym- courtesy, her hospitality, and her many ad-
nasium. He was actively interested in military mirable qualities. Mrs. Hull was deeply inter-
affairs and in the drilling of military bodies, ested in the Memorial Hospital, and was for

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fifteen years its vice-president. She is a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the Home
for Consumptives, in which she has endowed
two beds at a cost of five thousand dollars.
She is a member of the Guild of Plymouth
Church, of the Daughters of the Revolution
and the Colonial Dames. She is very prom-
inent in literary and musical circles, and is a
member of the Apollo Club, the Rubenstein
Club, the Mozart Club, the Chiropean Club,
the Urban Club, the Smile Club, and the
Health Protection Club. Dr. Calvin Edwards
Hull was born in Haddam, Connecticut, Oc-
tober i, 1813, son of Nathaniel and Sally
(Tibbals) Hull, both natives of Connecticut.
His business career was largely devoted to the
manufacture and sale of patent medicines
throughout the south. At the time of the war
he amassed a fortune, but a portion of his
property was seized by the Confederate gov-
ernment. He then discontinued business and
lived a retired life in New York City, but the
last years of his life were passed at his home
in Brooklyn.

In 1864, while she was driving with her
husband, Mrs. Hull saw a beautiful tract of
land at Black Rock, Bridgeport, Connecticut,
which commanded a beautiful view of Long
Island Sound. Upon her earnest solicitation,
the ground was purchased and a beautiful
mansion built thereon in 1865, an^ here she
held her wooden wedding. This beautiful
home is still in the possession of Mrs. Hull,
and there during each summer she passes her
time, dispensing generous hospitality to all
who come within the shadow of her home.
She is a lover of all that is artistic and beau-
tiful in art and in nature, and her greenhouse
at Black Rock daily supplies her city home
with rare and beautiful flowers. In the beau-
tiful home at Black Rock, November 13, 1901,
Dr. Hull passed away in death. He is buried
in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, and the
monument that marks his last resting-place
was erected after a design executed by Mrs.
Hull. The married life of Dr. and Mrs. Hull
was ideally beautiful and happy. Dr. and Mrs.
Hull have no issue.

William Richardson was
RICHARDSON born in England in 1540

and died there in 1581.

(II) Thomas, son of William Richardson,
was born in England, and died there in 1643 >
he married (first) at St. James Church, Lon-
don, Ann Rice; (second) Elizabeth Clark.

(III) William (2), son of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Clark) Richardson, was baptized
at St. James Church, London, February 3,
1637, died May 1, 1691. He is buried at St.

James' Churchyard, Clerkenwel, London. He
married, in 1680, Elizabeth Goodell.

(IV) William (3), son of William (2)
Richardson, was baptized at St. James, June
16, 1684. He married Anne Reid.

(V) William (4), son of William (3)
Richardson, was baptized at St. James, De-
cember 7, 1712; married, February 2, 1742,
Prudence Heath, who died July 4, 1775.

(VI) Thomas (2), son of William (4)
Richardson, was born in London, England, No-
vember 3, 1742, died May 11, 1806, at Salis-
bury, Connecticut. He was educated in Eng-
land and learned the trade of shoemaker. He
came to Quebec, Canada, in 1775, and was a
soldier in the army of General Burgoyne when
he surrendered at Saratoga. After the war
he settled at Salisbury, Connecticut, where
he followed his trade as shoemaker and har-
ness maker, and lived there the remainder of
his life. He married, February 14, 1771, at
Colmonell, Ayrshire, Scotland, Abigail Lloyd,
born in Colomonell, May 4, 1750, died in Sal-
isbury, February 7, 1803. She came to Amer-
ica with her husband and was with him in
the service in the British army. Children :
Thomas, born in Colmonell, December 8, 1772,
died at Woodbridge, Connecticut, September
29, 1825; William; John, mentioned below;
Abigail ; Betsey.

(VII) John, son of Thomas (2) Richard-
son, was born near Saratoga, New York, May
8, 1777, died at Sharon, Connecticut, July 2,
1834. He was an ironworker by trade. He
lived for many years in Essex county, New
York, in the town of Willsboro. Later he
came to Connecticut and lived at Canaan for
a short time. He received an injury at the
iron works there that shortened his life. He
spent his last days at Sharon, Connecticut.
He married, May 15, 1798, Dorothy, born at
Norton, Massachusetts, April 5, 1775, died
in Sharon, Connecticut, January 11, 1859.
daughter of Nathan, Jr., and Abigail (Shores)
Cobb. Children : Charlotte, born at Fort
Anne, Xew York, April 13, 1801, died April
5, 1876; Henry Earle, born at Fort Anne,
New York, January 28, 1803, died February
28, 1869 ; James, born at Fort Anne, Octo-
ber 28, 1805, died July 13, 1846; Leonard,
mentioned below ; Lucy D., born at Sharon,
Connecticut, January 24, 181 3, died August
10, 1861.

(VIII) Leonard, son of John Richardson,
was born at Willsboro, Essex county, New
York, September 10, 1808, died at Lime Rock,
Connecticut, January 4, 1864. He came to
Lime Rock, in the town of Salisbury, when
about seventeen years old, and engaged in
business a few years later with his father-in-

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law, Milo Barnum. This business was estab-
lished in the thirties. An account of this firm
is to be found in the sketch of the Barnum
family in this work. Milo Barnum retired
from the firm in 1852, and Mr. Richardson be-
came senior partner, the firm name being
changed to Richardson, Barnum & Company.
In 1858 the firm bought the Beckley furnace
at East Canaan, Connecticut, and in 1862 the
Forbes furnace in the same place. About the
same time a foundry at No. 64 South Jeffer-
son street. Chicago, was acquired, and the
firm name was incorporated as the Barnum
& Richardson Manufacturing Company, for
continuing the business there. Leonard Rich-
ardson was the controlling force in the con-
cern until his death, in January, 1864. In
May following the Barnum-Richardson Com-
pany was organized, the heirs of Mr. Rich-
ardson retaining their share in the business.
Since then the works have been enlarged from
time to time and large holdings in mines and
furnaces acquired. The third furnace at East
Canaan was built in 1872, with many improve-
ments. In 1870 the second foundry was built
at Lime Rock. A new car-wheel foundry
was built at Chicago in 1873. The foundry
at Chicago uses the Salisbury iron and has a
capacity in two shops of three hundred wheels
a day. The company also uses the Salisbury
iron at Lime Rock, the shops having a capac-
ity of one hundred wheels a day. In 1840
there were four blast furnaces in operation,
using an average of 600 bushels of charcoal
and producing three tons of pig iron a day
to each furnace. Before the death of W. H.
Barnum, who was afterward president of
the corporation, there were used twelve hun-
dred bushels of charcoal in each of the blast
furnaces then in operation, each of which pro-
duced twelve tons of pig iron daily. These
furnaces are within a radius of eight miles of
Lime Rock, two at East Canaan, and one at
Lime Rock, manufacturing Salisbury iron.
This iron is valuable in manufacturing ord-
nance and railroad work and for malle-
able and other manufacturing uses, on ac-
count of its tensile strength. The company
has a large export trade, especially with
South America.

Mr. Richardson was a Democrat in pol-
itics and creditably represented his town
in the general assembly in 1849 and 1&6?>-
In religion he was an Episcopalian. He
married, April 16, 1832, Lucy Ann, born
at Sharon. Connecticut, July 18, 1814, died
at Lime Rock, Connecticut, June 9, 1899,
daughter of Milo and Laura (Tibbals) Bar-
num (see Barnum VI). Children: Milo Bar-
num, mentioned below ; James Leonard, born

March 21, 1852; Caroline Barnum, April 20,
185-7.

(IX) Milo Barnum, son of Leonard Rich-
ardson, was born at Lime Rock, in the town of
Salisbury, Connecticut, February 13, 1849.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town, in private schools, and in Ed-
wards School at Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
He came into the office of the Barnum-Rich-
ardson Company when eighteen years old, be-
ginning as clerk. He was made assistant
treasurer, and upon the death of Hon. Wil-
liam H. Barnum, in 1889, was elected presi-
dent of the corporation, a position he has held
with conspicuous ability and success since
that time. He is a director of the National
Iron Bank of Falls Village, of which, his
father was president ; also a trustee of the
Hotchkiss School, of Lakeville ; trustee of the
Connecticut School for Imbeciles ; director of
the Caledonia American Insurance Company,
of New York, etc., etc. He represented the
town in the general assembly in 1874-75, and
was state senator from the nineteenth district
in 1881-82-84. In politics he is a Democrat.
He was for four years on the staff of Gov-
ernor Charles R. Ingersoll, with the rank of
colonel. He is senior warden of Trinity Prot-
estant Episcopal Church, of Lime Rock. He
married, May 2^, 1872, Ellen Caroline, born
September 22, 1848, Falls Village, Canaan,
daughter of Uriel Holmes and Caroline Eliza
(Canfield) Miner. She is a descendant of
Governor Welles on the maternal side, and
is a member of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution and of the Colonial Dames.
Children: 1. Lucy Caroline, born April 22,
1874, died July 19, 1903 ; married, November
14, 1901, Robert Winch Harwood, manufac-
turer and banker, son of Harrison Harwood,
of Natick, Massachusetts ; child, Richardson
Harwood, born July 17, 1903. 2. Jessie, born
November 28, 1876, died August 11, 1877.
3. Milo Barnum, Jr., born January 26, 1879;
educated in the public schools, the Hotchkiss
School of Lakeville, and Yale University,
from which he was graduated in the class of
1902 ; secretary and assistant treasurer of
the Barnum-Richardson Company ; married,
December 28, 1909, Edith, born December 13,
1883, at Brooklyn, New York, daughter of
Edward Cuyler and Caroline Charlotte (Fay)
Vanderlip, of Brooklyn, New York. 4. Ed-
ward Miner, born February 19, 1883 ; edu-
cated in the public schools, at the Hotchkiss
School at Lakeville and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology of Boston, class of
1907 ; general salesman in the automobile de-
partment of the American Locomotive Com-
pany, New York.

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Amos Richardson, im-
RICHARDSON migrant ancestor, was

born in England, and
came before 1640 to Boston, Massachusetts
Bay Colony. He was a proprietor of Boston
in 1645, an(-l was administrator of the estate
of James Smith in 1653. He married (first)

Sarah ; (second) Mary , who

was admitted to the Boston church, Decem-
ber 25, 1647, ar,d died m J6&3- He removed
to Stonington, Connecticut, where he was a
proprietor and ship builder. He was a tailor
by trade also. His son John was a minister
at Newbury, Massachusetts, and to him he
deeded a farm called Quanaduck, October 12,
1673. He deeded to son Samuel lands at
Stonington. He was sued by Major Mason
for calling him a traitor to the colony and
one hundred pounds in damages awarded. He
was a man of strong convictions and energy,
great respectability, enterprise and consider-
able estate.

His children, all born in Boston, were: Rev.
John, December 26, 1647; graduate of Har-
vard, 1666, minister at Newbury; Mary, mar-
ried John Godliff; Amos, baptized January
20, 1650. By second wife : Stephen, men-
tioned below ; Catherine, January 6, 1655 ;
Sarah, July 19, 1657 ; Samuel, February 18,
1659-60; Prudence, January 31, 1661-62.

( II ) Stephen, son of Amos Richardson, was
born in Boston, June 14, 1652. He manned

Lydia . Children, born at Stonington :

Stephen, baptized June 19, 1681 ; Mary, bap-
tized June 19, 1681 ; Amos, settled at Cov-
entry ; Samuel, baptized March 18, 1683 ; Ra-
chel, baptized March 30, 1686; Lemuel, bap-
tized August 12, 1688; Prudence; Jemima,
baptized June 19, 1692.

(III) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1)
Richardson, was born about 1678, baptized at
Stonington, June 19, 1681. The record of
children has not been found.

(IV) David, son or nephew of Stephen (2)
Richardson, was born in 1728, died at Somers,
Connecticut, August 5, 181 1, aged eighty-
three (gravestone in Somers north cemetery ;
vol. iii, Enfield records, p. 241 1). His wife
Rachel died January 13, 180.7, m ner seventy-
ninth year (gravestone at Somers). The
monument to David and Rachel was erected
by their grandson, May 20, 1817, according to
the inscription.

(V) Stephen (3), son of David Richard-
son, was born about 1750-60. According to
the census of 1790 he was the only head of a
family of this name in Somers, Connecticut,
and had three sons under sixteen and four fe-
males in his family. Mrs. Richardson died
at Somers, October 22, 1784, in her twenty-

eighth year (gravestone). The family came
from Willimantic to Somers.

(VI) Stephen (4), son of Stephen (3)
Richardson, was born 1790- 1800. He settled
at Somers. He married Eunice Wright. Both
died at Somers. Children : William Alanson,
mentioned below ; infant, died at Somers, No-
vember 20, 1825 ; A valine, died at Somers,
January 19, 1832, aged one year, eight months,
five days ; Sophronia, died 1835 ; Henry, died
in the west, and left a family; Danforth, died
in Andersonville prison ; he left a family.

(VII) William Alanson, son of Stephen
(4) Richardson, was born about 1810 in Som-
ers. He married Salona and had three

children: William Lamson, Henry D., Mary.

(VIII) Henry Daniel, son of William Alan-
son Richardson, was born in Somers, June 15,
1834. He married, in Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, Mary Ann Bachelder, born in 1834, in
England, daughter of Simeon Bachelder, and
came to this country with her sister in 1844
to Derby, Connecticut. Children : Henrietta
Salona, born August 9, 1855 > rnarried George
S. Northrop, of Newtown ; Dr. Dwight Al-
phonso, mentioned below ; Sarah L., died aged
seven years.

(IX) Dr. Dwight Alphonso Richardson,
son of Henry Daniel Richardson, was born at
Bridgeport, October 22, 1857. He attended
the public schools and the Williston Seminary
at Easthampton, Massachusetts, and entered
Yale Medical School, from which he was
graduated with the degree of M. D. in the
class of 188 1. He began to practice immedi-
ately at Derby, Connecticut. After two years
he removed to Osceola, Arkansas, where he
was in general practice for the next five years.
While he was there he was vice-president of
Tri-State Medical Society ; the states were
Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. He
then returned to Connecticut where he has
practiced with notable success to the present
time at Shelton and Derby. He is the ob-
stetrician of the new Griffin Hospital at Derby.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem-
ber of King Hiram Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of Derby. He married, De-
cember 25, 1884, Minnie Elizabeth, born May
26, 1863, daughter of Samuel Hitchcock and
Elizabeth Ann (Curtis) Brush. Dr. and Mrs.
Richardson have one child, Henry Brush, born
in Shelton, town of Huntington, January 29,
1889 ; attended the public schools of Derby
and graduated from the high school ; entered
Yale College and graduated in the class of
1909 with the degree of A. B., taking honors
in French ; lias taken post-graduate course in
Romance languages with the intention of be-
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of M. A. in 1 9 10, and has been appointed in-
structor in French in Yale in the academic
department.

John E. Brush, father of Samuel Hitch-
cock Brush, was born at Smithtown, Long
Island, in 1808; married at Derby, in 1832,
Polly Curtis ; he was son of Samuel and Re-
becca (Hart) Brush, grandson of John and
Hannah (Weeks) Brush, of the Long Island
family. Elizabeth Ann Curtis was daughter of
Cornelius Agur and Phebe (Lewis) Curtis.
Polly Curtis was born in Stratford in 1808, died
at Derby in 1883. Agur Curtis, father of Cor-
nelius Agur Curtis, was born and died in
• Stratford, son of Agur Curtis, a soldier in
the revolution, and grandson of Joseph Curtis
3d. Joseph Curtis, father of Joseph 3d, was
son of Joseph Curtis and grandson of Eliza-
beth Curtis, mentioned elsewhere in this work,
who came from England in 1634 and settled
in Stratford about 1637 among the pioneers
in that town.

Alice (Peck) Curtis, mother of Cornelius
A. Curtis, was daughter of Josiah and Helen
(Birdseye) Peck, granddaughter of Rev. Na-
than Birdseye, who> lived to the great age of
one hundred and three years. Dorothy Haw-
ley Birdseye, wife of Rev. Nathan Birdseye,
was daughter of Rev. Thomas Hawley, of
Northampton, Massachusetts. Rev. Thomas
Hawley married Abigail Gold, of Fairfield,
daughter of Nathan 2d. and Hannah (Tal-
cott) Gold, daughter of Colonel John Talcott,
of South Britain, Connecticut.

(II) Nathaniel Burr, son of Jehue
BURR Burre or Burr (q. v.), was born
about 1640, probably in Spring-
field. Massachusetts. He was made freeman
in Fairfield in 1664; constable in 1669; rep-
resentative October, 1692 ; March, 1693 ; Oc-
tober, 1693; February, 1694; October, 1695.
He had several grants of land from the town
of Fairfield. He married (first) Sarah,
daughter of Andrew Ward, of Fairfield, and
sister of Mary, wife of Jehue. He married
(second) Widow Ann Wakeman. Children
of first wife : Sarah, married John Wheeler,
of Fairfield ; Nathaniel. Children of second
wife: John, born May, 1673; Daniel, men-
tioned below ; Ann, married Gideon Allen ;
Mary, married Laboris ; Esther, mar-
ried Sloss ; Rebecca, married Captain

Samuel Sherwood, November 30, 1704.

(Ill) Daniel, son of Nathaniel Burr, died
June, 1722. His will is dated April 9, 1722,
and admitted to probate June 25, 1722. His
wife's will is dated March 9, 1743. He mar-
ried Mary . Children : Nathaniel ;

James ; John, mentioned below ; David ; Re-

becca, married Robert Turney, of Stratford ;
Mary, married Nathan Adams, of Norwalk.

(IV) John, son of Daniel Burr, married
(first) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Nash,
October 14, 1735. She died March 29, 1740.
He married (second) Grace, daughter of Ger-
shom Bulkley. Children of first wife: Dan-
iel, born March 5, 1737, mentioned below;
John, October 9, 1739, died October 9, 1749;
children of second wife : Elizabeth, September
16, 1743; Talcott, October 20, 1746; John,
February 9, 1751 ; Grace, February 2, 1753;
Eunice, September 24, 1755. John Burr died
1787. The amount of his estate was two
thousand nine hundred and ninety-six pounds,
two shillings, one pence.

(V) Daniel (2), son of John Burr, was
born March 5, 1737. He lived in Westport,
Connecticut. He married Abigail Bulkley,
of Greens Farms. Children : Jonathan, born
November 5, 1769; Zalmon, August 31, 1773;
Elizabeth, baptized July 18, 1779, Greens
Farms.

(VI) Zalmon, son of Daniel (2) Burr, was
born August 31, 1773. He married Mary
Hanford, born June 20, 1782, a lineal descend-
ant of Thomas and Mary (Cook) Hanford,
who came to this country in the "Mayflower."
Children : William, born October 7, 1808 ;
Zalmon B., October 4, 1812, mentioned below ;
Enoch F., October 20, 1818, a clergyman and
writer of note, pastor of a church at Lyme,
Connecticut, for fifty years.

(VII) Rev. Zalmon Barlow Burr, son of
Zalmon Burr, was born in Greens Farms,
Connecticut, October 4, 1812, died at South-
port , Connecticut, in January, 189 1. He
graduated from Yale College in the class of
1839. He was settled over the Congrega-
tional church at Ridgebury, Connecticut, June
7, 1850, and was dismissed June 7, 1857.
From Ridgebury he came as pastor to the
Congregational church at Weston, Connecti-
cut, and held the pastorate there for a pe-
riod of twenty-one years. He spent his later
years on the Captain Thorp homestead at
Southport, where he died. He married
(first) June 9, 1849, Hetty E., daughter of
Captain Walter Thorp, of Southport, Con-
necticut. She died December 7, 1878. He
married (second) June 29, 188 1, Ida E.
Foskett, of Sheffield, Massachusetts, and
Louisville, Kentucky, daughter of Hopkins
and Mary (Parsons) Foskett. She is a mem-
ber of the local chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. Hopkins Foskett
was son of Ephraim and Triphena (Easland)
Foskett and grandson of Ephraim Foskett,
a soldier in the revolution. Ephraim Foskett
lived at West Stockbridge Centre ; was a pri-

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vate in Captain Noah Lankton's company,
Colonel Ashley's regiment (Berkshire county,
Massachusetts) from April 26 to May 20,
1777. at the Saratoga campaign ; also in Cap-
tain Zenas Wheeler's company, Colonel John
Ashley's regiment from July 8 to 2y, iyyy,
marching to Fort Edward ; also in Captain
Adam Kasson's company, Colonel John Ash-
ley's regiment, in October, 1780, on an alarm
to reinforce the northern army. John and
Joshua Foskett served in the same regiment.
Ephraim was a descendant of John Foskett or
Fosgate, a soldier in the Narragansett war
in 1676, lived at Charlestown, Massachusetts,
gave his age as forty-six in 1682, married
(first) Elizabeth Leach, who was baptized,
an adult, April 20, 1673, and died January

31, 1682-83, married (second) Hannah ,

who died July 4, 1689. Children: John,
Thomas, Elizabeth, Joshua, Robert, Mary,
Jonathan, Rebecca and Abigail. Mrs. Burr re-
sides at Torrington, Connecticut. Rev. Zal-
mon B. Burr had no children.

(Ill) John Burr, son of Samuel
BURR Burr (q. v.), was born at Hart-
ford, 1670. He married Sarah
and settled in Farmington, Con-

necticut.

He owned the covenant in the First
Church of Hartford, December 3, 1693, and
bis wife Sarah owned covenant February 23,
1695-96. Children: John, baptized Decem-
ber 3, 1693, died young;, John, baptized De-
cember 8, 1695, mentioned below ; Stephen,
baptized August 27, 1699; Noahdiah, bap-
tized December 21, 1701 ; a daughter, died
young; Eunice, baptized January 5, 1706-07;
Miriam, baptized October 31, 1708; Ebenezer,
baptized July 30, 1712; Thankful, baptized
July 12, 1712: Lucy, baptized March 21, 1714;
Gideon, born November 16, 1715 ; Nathaniel;
Sarah, married Joseph Gillett.

(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Burr,
was baptized December 8, 1695. He married
Mary, daughter of Caleb Root, of Farmington,
November 15, 1722. Children: Salmon, born
September 25, 1723 ; John, May 28, 1726, men-
tioned below; Mary, June 4, 1729; Ruth, Oc-
tober 26, 1732; Amos, June 25, 1734.

(V) John (3), son of John (2) Burr, was
born May 28, 1726, in Farmington. He mar-
ried Tabitha Loomis, of Windsor, Connecti-
cut, December 17, 1747. He bought land in
Torringford, east of Burrville. in 1752, and
very likely settled on it that spring. The place
was known for many years as the Burr hos-
telry or tavern, and afterward as the Daniel
Coe Hudson place. John Burr spent his life
clearing out the forests here and making way

for future generations. He took an active part
in the work for the welfare of the town. Chil-
dren: John, born July 19, 1750; Reuben, Jan-
uary 13, 1752, mentioned below ; Tabitha, June
23, 1754; Jehiel, April 11, 1757; Russell, Oc-
tober 19, 1761 ; Chloe, September 27, 1764;
Tabitha, married Foote.

(VI) Reuben, son of John (3) Burr, was
born January 13, 1752. He married Mehitable
Stanley, of Torrington, where he lived, July
2, 1772. She died September 29, 1793, and
he married (second) Martha Wilson, August
20, 1794. He died December 20, 1827, aged
seventy-five years, and his widow Martha died
March 29, 1835, aged seventy-six years. Chil-
dren: Reuben, born August 15, 1773; Sal-
mon, May 26, 1775; Mehitable, November 22,
1777; Allyn, February 15, 1780; Chloe, May
15, 1786; Sally, August 4, 1789; Urial, May
T9» 1795 ! Milo, January 1, 1797, mentioned
below; Fanny, December 4, 1798; Eliza, Jan-
uary 16, 1801 : Harriett, January 13, 1803.

(VII) Milo, son of Reuben Burr, was born
January ,1, 1797. He married Mary Skinner,
of Winsted, March 1, 1825. He purchased
timber lands where Burrville is now situated
and engaged in the lumber' business. In 185 1
he built a dam on the mountains in the west-
ern part of the village, and constructed Burr's
reservoir, a beautiful sheet of very clear water
in the midst of the woods. He was a very en-
terprising, energetic business man. His first
wife died January 1, 1864, and he married
(second) Mrs. E. Coe, of Winsted, in 1866.
He died April 1, 1872. Children: Mary Ann,
born May, 1827, died September 1, 1828;
James Milo, January, 1830, died February,
1832 ; John Milo, March 8, 1833, mentioned
below ; Martha, November, 1836, died Janu-
ary, 1843.

(VIII) John Milo, son of Milo Burr, was
born March 8. 1833. He lived in Burrville,
Connecticut. He married Lavinia Hurlbnt,
of Winchester, April 23, 1855, and lived on
his father's homestead. His wife was born
August 7, 1835, daughter of Samuel and La-
vinia (Blake) Hurlbut, of Winchester. She
now lives in Burrville. He was born and
brought up and always lived on the homestead.
He aided his father in the marketing and de-
livery of the lumber, and a common experi-
ence of his boyhood was to start for Farming-
ton with a cartload of lumber at midnight.
The tending of brick kilns was another duty.
He attended the district school on Torring-
ford street, in the section known as Green-
woods, and afterward for two seasons walked
to Winsted to attend the high school of Henry
E. Rockwell. It was his father's belief that
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mind as well as body. He was associated
with his father in the lumber and brick busi-
ness as long as his father lived. John Milo
Burr took an active interest in politics and
town affairs. He was postmaster of Burrville
for thirty-six years and justice of the peace
for a quarter of a century. In 1871 he repre-
sented Torrington in the general assembly.
He held many other offices of trust and re-
sponsibility. He was assessor, selectman and
member of the board of relief. He owned
much real estate both in Winsted and Tor-
rington. No place in the county is better
known than his handsome residence, with its
well-kept barns and other buildings and well-
tilled fields. He was progressive and enter-
prising, generous and public-spirited. When
the Torrington & Winchester Electric Rail-
way was projected, in the summer of 1897,
he not only gave the company a mile right of
way through his land., but gave a site for the
power house and car barn. He was well
known throughout the state in the Masonic
fraternity.

Mr. Burr was a member of Seneca
Lodge, of Torrington, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of the Royal Arch Chapter, the Royal
and Select Masters ; of Clark Commandery,
Knights Templar ; Charter Oak Lodge of Per-
fection, of Hartfonf; Hartford Council,
Princes of Jerusalem, of Hartford; Cyrus Go-
dell Chapter of Rose Croix, Hartford ; La-
fayette Consistory, of Bridgeport, and Pyra-
mid Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport.

(IX) John Hurlbut, only child of John Milo
Burr, was born at Burrville, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 17, i860. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native town and of Hartford.
He was in business in Hartford for twenty
years. He came to Burrville in 1893, and
since then has followed farming on the home-
stead. He has some four hundred acres of
valuable land and other real estate in Burr-
ville and Winsted. In politics he is a Repub-
lican.

He married, on May 11, 1882, Carrie
Lander, of Cromwell, Connecticut, daughter
of Andrew Jackson and Mary Frances (Lit-
tle) Bottelle, granddaughter of Elleler and
Amelia (Beckley) Bottelle. Her grandfather
was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mary Fran-
ces Little was a daughter of Warren and Sarah
(Landers) Little, granddaughter of Russell
Little, son of Barzillai and grandson of Wil-
liam Little. She is a "Mayflower" descendant.
Child of John H. and Carrie L. Burr : Milo
Andrew, born January 6, 1883 ; married. May,
1904, Albina La Montague, and has Lavinia
Carolyn, born March T2, 1905.

The surname Spaulding
SPAULDING appears quite early in Eng-
lish history. Some conjec-
ture that it is a place named from the town
of Spaulding in Lincolnshire, which is said
to have derived its name from a "spa" or
spring of mineral water in the market place.
There have been many distinguished men of
this name in England in ancient and modern
times ; many had coats-of-arms. The Spauld-
ings of America, with the exception of a few
who have recently emigrated to this country,
are all descendants of three early settlers ; one
located in Massachusetts, another in Mary-
land, the third in Georgia. The Spauldings
of Georgia are descended from the Ashantilly
Spauldings, Perthshire, Scotland, and are
from Sir Pierce Spaulding, who surrendered
Berwick Castle to the earl of Murray. The
Georgia pioneer, James Spaulding, son of
Captain Thomas Spaulding, who came to
America in 1760, married, in 1734, Anna Ler-
month.

( I ) Edward Spaulding, immigrant ancestor,
came to New England probably between 1630
and 1633. He settled in Braintree, Massachu-
setts, where he appears on the list of pro-
prietors in 1640. He was admittted a free-
man. May 13, 1640. He removed to Wen-
ham. He was one of the petitioners for the
town of Chelmsford grant, October 1, 1645,
and was one of the early settlers of that town.
He was a leading citizen ; selectman in 1654-
56-60-61 ; in 1663 was surveyor of highways ;
juryman in 1648. He died February 26,
1670. His will was dated February 13, 1666,
proved April 5, 1670, bequeathing to wife
Rachel and sons Edward, John and Andrew,
and daughter Dinah. His wife Margaret died
August, 1640, and his second wife, Rachel,
soon after his death. Children of Edward and
Margaret Spaulding: John, born about 1633,
mentioned below ; Edward, about 1633 ; Grace,
died May, 1641. Children of Edward and
Rachel Spaulding: Benjamin, born April 7,
1643: Joseph, October 25. 1646; Dinah,
March 15, 1649; Andrew, November 19, 1652.

(II) John, son of Edward Spaulding, was
born about 1633, died October 3, 1721. He
married. May t8, 1658, Hannah Hale, of Con-
cord. She died August 14, 1689. He came
to Chelmsford with his father in 1654, and was
admitted a freeman, March 11, 1689-90. He
had many land grants in Chelmsford from
time to time. He was soldier under Captain
Manning in King Philip's war. Children:
John, born February 15, 1659; Eunice. July
27, 1660; Edward, September 16. 1663, men-
tioned below ; Hannah, April 28, 1666 : Sam-
uel, March 6, 1668; Deborah, November 12,

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1670; Joseph, October 22, 1673; Timothy,
about 1676.

(III) Edward (2), son of John Spaulding,
was born September 16, 1663. He removed to
Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1697. He married
(first) November 2J, 1683, Mary Brackett,
of Billerica ; (second) Dorothy Barker, of
Concord. Children, five eldest born at Chelms-
ford, others at Plainfield : Edward, February
3, 1685; Josiah, January 13, 1686; Isaac,
mentioned below ; Mary, July 2^, 1695, died
same year; Jacob, May 14, 1696; Philip,
March 6, 1700; Deborah and Rachel (twins),
January 17. 1707; Eunice, August 16, 1715 :
Joseph, September 3, 1718.

(IV) Isaac, son of Edward (2) Spauld-
ing', was born at Chelmsford, September 27,
1693. He married February 2, 1713, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Jonathan Haynes, of Haver-
hill, where she was born May 22, 1697. Chil-
dren born at Plainfield and Norfolk, Con-
necticut: Mehitable, February 7, 1714; Eliz-
abeth, January 13. 1716; Amy, December 13.
1717; Phineas, January 23, 1721 ; Edward,
August, 18. 1722; Sarah, February 15, 1724;
Isaac, April 22. 1726; Rachel, July 15, 1728;
Jeremiah, August 20, 1730; Jacob, mentioned
below ; Timothy, December 19, 1739.

(V) Jacob, son of Isaac Spaulding, was
born at Norfolk, Connecticut, December 17,
1732, according to the family Bible, died April
30, 1814. He resided at Danbury, Connecti-
cut, then at Norfolk, where he followed farm-
ing. The Plainfield town record gives his
birth December 6, 1733. He was a soldier in
the French and Indian war and was at the
taking of Quebec by General Wolfe. Both
his sons were soldiers in the revolution, and

he hired a man, Daniel , whom he paid

eight dollars a month throughout the war and
cared for his wife and children. Once he col-
lected a herd of one hundred and twenty cat-
tle and took the herd to the army. Five of
them he contributed himself. His house was
a retreat for sick and wounded soldiers during
the war. Thirty of them were sent to him one
winter, and in the spring twenty-eight were
able to return to the service. He was called
ensign in the records. He served in the revo-
lution, in Captain Andrew Backus's company,
from Plainfield, on the Lexington alarm. He
married Rachel Knapp, of Danbury, born
July 27, 1737, died August 2, 1821. Children:
Isaac, born July 30, 1757. mentioned below;
Daniel, July 25,' 1758.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Jacob Spaulding,
was born at Norfolk, July 30, 1757. He was
a soldier in the revolution. He married
Mercy Knapp, of Norfolk. She died October
13, 1823. Children : Jeremiah, born Decem-

ber 18, 1778; Jacob, June 1, 1780; Isaac,
March 13, 1782; Samuel, mentioned below;
Philo, June 26, 1786; Rachel, December 2,
1788 ; David, February 4, 1791 ; Lockard, Feb-
ruary 24, 1793 ; Paulina, January 27, 1796,
never married.

(VII) Samuel, son of Isaac (2) Spaulding,
was born May 1, 1784, died February 11, 1861,
at Pawling, Dutchess county, New York. He
removed from Connecticut to Northampton,
Fulton county, New York ; was a farmer ;
also deacon of the church. He married (first)
Altana Toby, who died January 10, 1830;
(second), April 27, 1830, Anna M. Gleason.
Children: Orilla, born May 25, 1809; Lock-
wood, mentioned below; Paulina, April 12,
1814; Jane Eliza, October 16, 1820; Altana
Ann, September 24, 1831.

(Yill) Lockwood, son of Samuel Spauld-
ing, was born at Northampton, New York,
April 15, 1812, died August 5, 1865. He re-
sided at Northampton ; was a farmer, deacon
of the church, and justice of the peace. He
married Mary Ann Spaulding, September 14.
1834. She married (second), December 4,
1867, Wolcott N. Adams, brother-in-law, and
went to Canaan, Connecticut, where she died,
March 2, 1889. Children of Lockwood and
Alary Ann Spaulding, born at Northhampton:
Samuel Austin, Aprils 6, 1837; Altana Jane,
March 22, 1840: Jay Ellery, mentioned be-
low; Anna Maria, September 6, 1849; Ellen
Betsey, November 17, 1852; Florence Orilla,
March 9, 1856.

(IX) Jay Ellery, son of Lockwood Spauld-
ing, was born at Northampton, August 15,
[846. He was educated in the public schools
of his native town. In 1866 he became clerk-
in the hardware store in Winsted, and sub-
sequently was in business two years in part-
nership with J. J. Whiting and S. F. Dicker-
man. During the next two years he was em-
ployed in the Old National Bank of Grand
Rapids, Michigan. Upon his return to Win-
sted, in 1872, he became interested with J. G.
Wetmore in the New England Pin Company.
He began as general office man, was elected
secretary of the company, and after the death
of Mr. Wetmore became president, treasurer
and general manager of the concern. Under
his management this industry has grown to
large proportions, and takes rank at the pres-
ent time among the largest and most flourish-
ing concerns of the city. He is also president
and director of the Carter-Hakes Machine
Company, of the New England Knitting Com-
pany, and the Morgan Silverplate Company.
He is vice-president of the Citizens Printing
Company and president of the Music Hall.
He settled the estate of Mr. Wetmore. He is

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one of the foremost business men of the coun-
ty and well known throughout the state. He
has been honored with many offices of trust
and responsibility. He was member of a com-
mittee in charge of the water improvements,
and is a trustee of the Memorial Park and
Soldiers' Monument Associations. For many
years he was burgess and warden of the bor-
ough of Winsted. For fourteen years he was
treasurer of the town of Winchester. In pol-
itics he is a Republican. He represented the
town in the general assembly in 1895, and
served on the committee on incorporations
and as clerk of the Litchfield county repre-
sentatives. He was for some years active in
the fire department and has been vice-presi-
dent of the State Association of Firemen. He
is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Winsted ; of Unity
Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, of Winsted,
and of the Improved Order of Red Men. He
married (first), May 9, 1872, Ellen Elizabeth
Wetmore, who died February 11, 1890. He
married (second), June 30, 1892, Grace W.,
born April 28, 1867, daughter of Edward T.
and Gertrude Waterman Hopkins. Children
of first wife: 1. Louise Wetmore, born Au-
gust 30, 1873, married, June 12, 1895, Hon.
James W. Husted, of Peekskill, New York,
son of James W. Husted, member of the as-
sembly and speaker of the house for several
terms ; both father and son were members of
the assembly, and leaders of the Republican
party. Children of Hon. James W. and Louise
Wetmore (Spaulding) Husted, born at Peeks-
kill: James W. (2), May 15, 1896; John G.,
October 8, 1897 ; Priscilla Alden, February
25, 1899; David R.. April 1, 1900; Ellery S.,
March 3, 190 1 ; Robert, January 27, 1906. 2.
John Wetmore, born November 9, 1878, died
March 27, 1895.

David Sage, immigrant, was born
SAGE in Wales, in 1639, and came to

this country in early life. He was
one of the first settlers of Middletown, Con-
necticut, in 1652, and died there March 31,
1707. His gravestone is in the Riverside
cemetery, on the Connecticut river, at the
north end of Main street, in Middletown city.
His will bequeaths to wife and children. He
married (first), February, 1664, Elizabeth,
born September 8, 1646, died 1670, daughter
of John Kirby. He married (second), in
1672, Mary, daughter of John Wilcox, and
granddaughter of John Wilcox, the immi-
grant. She died December 7, 171 1. He was
ancestor of all the early colonial families.
He was granted a house lot "on the other side

of the river on the other side of the highway
beyond the corner of Goodman White on the
west side of the highway leading to Hartford."
The bank building now occupies the site of his
home. He exchanged homesteads with John
Kirby, his father-in-law, February 16, 1671.
He had a grant of the land "where his house
stands," May 9, 1665, settling a dispute over
the ownership . Children, born at Middle-
town ; David, February 1, 1665; Elizabeth,
June 1, 1666, married ■ — — — Bull ; John, men-
tioned below. Children of second wife : Mary,
born November 15, 1672, married Samuel
Johnson ; Jonathan, 1674 ; Timothy, August
14, 1678; Nathaniel and Mercy (twins),
1680.

(II) John, son of David Sage, was born
at Middletown, March 6, 1668. He married,
January 10, 1693, Hannah, born March 24,
1674, daughter of Comfort and Rachel (Har-
ris) Starr, of Middletown. His epitaph reads :
"Here lyes interred the body of Mr. John
Sage who departed this life Jan. ye 22 A. D.
1750-51 in the 83d year of his age. He left a
virtuous and sorrowful wife with whom he
lived 57 years and had fifteen children: 12
of them married and increased the family by
repeated marriages to the number of 29. Of
these 15 are alive. He had 120 grandchil-
dren, 105 of them now living, 40 great grand-
children, 37 of them now living, which makes
the number of offspring 189." The epitaph
of his widow : "Here lies interred the body
of Mrs. Hannah Sage, once the virtuous con-
sort of Mr. John Sage, who both are cov-
ered with this stone ; and there have been
added to the numerous offspring mentioned
above 44 by birth and marriage, which makes
the whole number 233. She fell asleep Sep.
28, A. D. 1753 in the 83d. year of her age."
The original inscription was cut in a lead
plate stolen to make bullets in the revolution,
as was also the plate on the tablestone of Rev.
Joseph Smith. The present insert of white
marble was cut by Thomas A. Sage, born
1845, Berlin, Connecticut. Children : Hannah,
born December 21, 1694; John, April 28,
1696: Elizabeth and Mary (twins), 1699;
Elizabeth, 1701 ; Ann, 1702; Benjamin and
David (twins), 1703; Jemima, 1704; Nathan-
iel, mentioned below ; Ebenezer, 1709 ; Com-
fort, 1711; Prudence, 1713; Thankful Feb-
ruary 8, 1717; Gideon, 1718.

(III) Nathaniel, son of John Sage, was
born in Middletown, 1707, died 1780. He
married Rebecca Hart. Children, born at
Cromwell, Connecticut: Samuel, 1732; Jede-
diah, mentioned below ; Lucia, 1737 ; Rebecca.
1739: Thankful, 1742; Hepzibah, 1745; Han-
nah, 1747; Hezekiah, 1752; Nathaniel, 1755.

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(IV) Jedediah, son of Nathaniel Sage, was
burn in Cromwell, Connecticut, 1734, died
1798. He married Lucy Smith, of Cromwell.
Children, born in Cromwell: Elisha, 1756;
Abiel, 1758; David, 1760; Amos, 1762; Si-
meon, 1763; Sylvester, 1765; Jedediah, men-
tioned below; Sarah, 1769; Jerusha, 1771 ;
Mary, 1773; Diantha, 1775.

(V) Jedediah (2), son of Jedediah (1)
Sage, was born at Cromwell, 1766, died 1804,
at Sandisfield, Massachusetts, where he set-
tled. 1 le married Wright. Children,

born at Sandisfield: Lucy, 1788; Calvin, 1790,
mentioned below ; Mehitable, 1793 ; Harvey,
1796; Hiram, 1799; Jedediah, 1801 ; Diantha,
1803.

1 \ I) Calvin, son of Jedediah (2) Sage, was
born in 1 790, according to the genealogy, but
died May 17, 1857, according to family rec-
ords. He lived and died in New Marlbor-
ough, Massachusetts, a farmer. He married
Clara Smith, who died February 6, 1883, aged
eighty-seven years. Children: William H.,
born 1816; Ebenezer, 1819; Harvey S., 1820;
Mariette, 1822 ; Elisha P., 1824, died in the
service during the civil war.

(VII) William Henry, son of Calvin Sage,
was born at New Marlborough, Massachu-
setts, August 12, 1816, died September 20,
188 1. He received a common school educa-
tion, and learned the cooper's trade. He lived
at Canaan, Connecticut, and worked at his
trade there for a number of years. After-
ward he returned to New Marlborough and
followed farming the remainder of his life.
In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a
Methodist. He married, November 20, 1838,
Caroline A., born September 13, 1817, died
September 14, 1877, daughter of Lyman and
Anna (Kellogg) Sage, of Sandisfield. Chil-
dren : Francis, mentioned below ; Charles, Oc-
tober 14, 1849, cned June 10, 1887 ; Henry Cal-
vin, December 8, 1856, died August 8, 1863.

(VIII ) Francis, son of William Henry
Sage, was born at Canaan, Connecticut, Janu-
ary 7, 1844. He attended the public schools
of New Marlborough and the South Berk-
shire Institute. He followed farming at New
Marlborough for a number of years. He
came to the town of Barkhamsted, Connecti-
cut, near Winsted borough line, in 1885, and
for five years was superintendent of the Mead-
ow Brook stock farm. He settled in Bark-
hamsted on a farm of his own and made a
specialty of his dairy. Since 1900 he has
been engaged in the real estate business at
Winsted, Connecticut. In politics he is
Republican, and has held various offices of
trust and responsibility. He was selectman
of Barkhamsted for three years ; selectman

of Winchester two years, and is an assessor
of Winchester at the present time. He is a
member of the Second Congregational Church
of Winstead. He married (first) October 12,
1864, Emma A., born July 14, 1845, died No-
vember 27, 1879, daughter of Frederick C.
and Emeline (Soule) Joyner. Children: I vie,
born 1865, cned in infancy ; Frederick Joyner,
April 14, 1869 ; clerk in the railway mail
service between New York City and Boston.
Francis Sage married (second) April 13,
188 1, Fannie A., died November 11, 1883,

daughter of Sylvester and (Jones)

Barker, of Sandisfield. They had one child,
Wilmer Barker, born November 2, 1883, died
in infancy. Francis Sage married (third)
September 3, 1890, Georgia M. Clark, of
Barkhamsted, born August 17, 1848, daughter
of Orlando Clark, born December 25, 1817,
and Melissa (Race) Clark, born Tanuary 25,
1821.

Robert Page, immigrant ancestor,
PAGE was the son of Robert and Marga-
ret Page, of Ormsby, county Nor-
folk, England. The record shows that on
April 11, 1637. Robert Page, aged thirty-
three, with wife Lucy, aged thirty, children
Francis, Margaret and Susanna, and serv-
ants William Moulton, aged twenty, and An-
nie Ward, aged fifteen, of Ormsby, passed
the required examination to go to New Eng-
land. They settled in Salem, where Lucy was
admitted to the church in 1639. He was ad-
mitted a freeman May 18, 1642. He removed
about 1639 to Hampton, New Hampshire,
where he had a grant of land between the
homesteads of William Marston and Robert
Marston, on Meeting House Green. The orig-
inal grant is still held in the family, or was re-
cently. He was selectman of Hampton six-
years, deputy to the general court of Massa-
chusetts two years, marshal of the old county
of Norfolk and served many important com-
mittees of the town. He was elected deacon
in 1660, and from 167 1 to 1679 was the only
deacon of the church. He had a brother, Ed-
ward Colcord, whose wife's name was Ann
(probably brother-in-law) for whom he se-
cured claims in 1654-79. He died September
22, 1679. His will, dated September 9, proved
September 29, 1679, bequeathed to sons Fran-
cis and Thomas, daughters Mary Fogg, Mar-
garet Sanborne, and Hannah, wife of Henry
Dow : grandchildren Seth, James and Hannah
Fogg; Joseph, Benjamin, Robert, Hannah,
Sarah and Ruth Moulton ; Jonathan Sanborne ;
Rebecca, Hannah, Sarah, Lucy and Maria
Marston ; Joseph, Samuel, Symon, and Jabez
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Page (some of these grandchildren were Historical Register" (vol. xxvi, p. 75) and in

called by their marriage names in the will). Dow's "History of Hampton," his children are

His age at death was given as seventy-five given to another John Page, born 1712, son

years. Lncy, his wife, died November 12, of Samuel Page, also of Epping before 1747,

1665, aged eighty-five years. Their children: while John, son of David, came 1755-58, after

Margaret, born in England, 1629, married the birth of Deborah, his daughter. His will,

Jonathan Sanborne ; Francis, born in England, dated August 27, 1790, mentions brothers

1633 ; Susanna, born in England ; Thomas, David and Robert and wife Lydia, and names

mentioned below; Hannah, born about 1641, all his children as given below. He married,

married Henry Dow; Mary, born about 1644; March 14, 1751, Lydia, daughter of Reuben

Rebecca, baptized at Salem, September 16, and Margaret Sanborn, Josiah (2), William

1639; Samuel, baptized September 16, 1639. (1) Sanborn. Children, born at Hampton and

(II) Thomas, son of Robert Page, was born Epping: Deborah, baptized at Hampton, Au-
in Salem, Massachusetts, 1639. He married, gust 9, 1752; married, December 10, 1772,
February 2, 1664, at Plampton, Mary, daugh- Jacob Kelly, of Gilmanton ; Mary, baptized
ter of Christopher Hussey, and settled in October 13, 1754; married Kelly; Da-
Hampton. Children: Mary, born May 21, vid, mentioned below; Mary, baptized at Ep-

1665; Robert, July 17, 1667; Christopher, ping, April 22, 1759 ; married Clough ;

mentioned below; John, born November 15, Ruth, baptized in Epping, December 28, 1760;
1672, settled in Nantucket; Theodate, born died March 27, . 1837 ; married George Saun-
July 8, 1675 ; Stephen, August 4, 1677, Bethia, ders ; Reuben, born 1763 ; John, lived at Fay-
May 23, 1679. ette, Maine ; Lydia, baptized October 29,

(III) Christopher, third child of Thomas 1769; Moses, married Sarah Sias, and lived
Page, born in Hampton, New Hampshire, Sep- at Livermore, Maine ; Aaron.

tember 20, 1670. He married, November 14, (VI) David (2), son of John Page, was
1689, Abigail, daughter of Daniel Tilton. He born in Epping, New Hampshire, 1756-57.
inherited the homestead and lived at Hamp- He was an early settler in the town of Gilman-
ton. His children : Robert, born September ton, and a revolutionary soldier from that
8, 1690; Abigail, .February 1, 1693; Mary, town. He removed later in life to Maine.
December 13, 1695, died March 10, 1760; He married Elizabeth Eastman.
Lydia, August 3, 1698; Jonathan, De- (VII) John (2), son of David (2) Page,
cember 25, 1700; David, mentioned below; was born at Gilmanton, New Hampshire,
Shubael, February 15, 1707; Jeremiah, April 25, 1786, died July 10, 1866. He set-
March 28, 1708; Tabitha, August 21, 1711. tied in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where

(IV) David, sixth child of Christopher he was a cabinet maker and proprietor of a
Page, was born in Hampton, November 1, stage line. He married Ruth Caldwell, a
1703. He married, June 27, 1728, daughter native of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Children:
of Deacon John and Ruth (Smith) Dearborn. . John; David and Thomas Caldwell, twins,
Her father was a resident of Hampton. Da- the latter mentioned below ; Elizabeth, Sarah,
vid Page settled in Hampton, near his brother, Samuel, Abigail and Hannah.

Jonathan Page, on the Thomas Moore place. (VIII) Thomas Caldwell, son of John (2)
He was among the first settlers of Epping, Page, was born at Newburyport, in 1812. He
New Hampshire, his name and that of his eld- was educated in the public schools, and fol-
est son being among those on the first peti- lowed the sea, becoming a master mariner.
tion for the town in 1747. A number of his He married Amelia Ann, daughter of Sam-
children lived in Epping. Children : John, uel and Hannah (Wright) Kelsey, of Clinton,
mentioned below; Robert, born April 1, 1731 ; Connecticut. Children: Margaret, died in
married, November 12, 1755, Sarah Dearborn, infancy: Samuel Kelsey, mentioned below;
settled in Raymond, New Hampshire ; his Annie Wright, died aged seven,
children were baptized in Epping; Deborah, (IX) Samuel Kelsey, son of Thomas Cald-
born January 11, 1733; David, March 26, well Page, was born in Newburyport, Janu-
1735; Benjamin, August 7. 1738; Abigail, ary 23, 1837. He received his education in
born June 20, 1740, died young; Abigail, Feb- the public schools of his native town. In 1855
ruary 25, 1743; Christopher, October 23, he came to New Haven and served an ap-
1744; Ruth, November 5, 1745; Josiah, Janu- prenticeship in the carriage trimming trade in
ary 13, 1749; married Sarah Marston. the shops of Durham, Booth & Allan. Aft-

(V) John, son of David Page, was born erward he worked as a journeyman in vari-
at Hampton, July 17, 1729. He settled at ous shops in this section. He was in the em-
Epping, New Hampshire. In the published ploy of the firm of Henry Hale & Company
records of the family in the "New England for a number of years, and September 1,

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1864, became a partner, continuing until July
1, 1891. when he became sole owner of the
business. Since then he has conducted the
business under his own name, manufacturing
carriages and automobiles at 62 Franklin
street, New Haven. He is a prominent and
successful business man. He is a member of
the New Haven Colonial Historical Society ;
of the Union League Club of New Haven;
City Lodge of Odd Fellows, of New Haven.
In religion he is liberal and non-sectarian ; in
politics a Republican. He married, January
1, 1862, Mary Jane Mallory, born at New Mil-
ford. Connecticut, February 14, 1841, daugh-
ter of George Norman and Julia Ann (Hen-
drix ) Mallory, of Sherman, Fairfield county,
Connecticut. Her mother was a native of
New Milford. Children: Clifford, born
March, 1863. died aged eleven years; Annie
Wright, married William H. Monson, of
Westville, Connecticut ; children : Marjorie F.,
Ruth C. and Mary P.

Abraham Herman, or Herr-
HERMAN mann, as the name was for-
merly spelled by the family,
was born June 9, 1816, at Haasfurt, Bavaria,
Germany, died in Newark, New Jersey, Au-
gust 4, 1897. His parents were Bertha and
John Herman. He was educated in his na-
tive land, and studied the profession of vet-
erinary surgeon and practiced in Germany for
a few years. Finally seeking larger opportuni-
ties, he came to America about 1845. In 1&A7
he settled on a farm at Falls Village, in the
town of Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecti-
cut, and raised and dealt in horses and cattle,
besides following his profession in the vicinity.
During the civil war he established a general
store at Falls village. From 1880 to a few
years before his death he had charge of the
veterinary work of a street railway company
in New York, and lived at Newark, New Jer-
sey. Before the war he was a Democrat.
After the Republican party was formed he
gave it his hearty support during the re-
mainder of his long life. He married Miriam
Bernheimer, born at Oberdorf, Germany,
April tt, T820: died in Newark, New Jersey,
in 1898. Children: Isaac L., born in Ger-
many, now living in New York City ; retired
from business ; married Julia Faulk, of New
York ; children : Sada and Joseph ; John, born
at Canaan, died in 1906, aged fifty-six years:
was a merchant in Newark, New Jersey, then a
real estate broker ; married Bertha Plant, and
had two children, Beatrice and John . Libby,
married William Mabie. and lives at Lewis-
ton. Maine: Fannie, lives in Lebanon. New
Jersey : married David Woertendyke ; Samuel

A., mentioned below : Jacob, merchant in New
York, dealer in men's furnishing goods ; died
1898 : Carrie, died 1888.

(II) Samuel A., son of Abraham Her-
man, was born in Falls Village, town of Ca-
naan, Connecticut, in 1855. He attended the
public schools of his native town and the
Rocky Dell Institute at Lime Rock, Connecti-
cut. He studied law in the office of Judge
Alberto T. Roraback, of Canaan, for three
years, and was admitted to the bar, April 30,
1878. He associated himself in the practice
of law with the late Judge Augustus H. Fenn,
May 13, 1878, and on July 1, 1878, entered
partnership with Judge Augustus H. Fenn,
with offices at Winsted, Connecticut, and the
firm continued until February 22, 1887. Since
that firm was dissolved Mr. Herman has had
no law partner. He has taken a prominent
position in his profession. He was prosecut-
ing attorney in cases of violation of the liquor
law from 1878 to 1880. In politics he is a
Republican of wide influence. He was state
senator 1897-98. He was one of three to
procure the charter for and the construction
of the Torrington & Winchester street rail-
way, of which he was secretary and treasurer
for ten years, until it was sold to the Connecti-
cut company. He has various business in-
terests, in addition to his practice. He lives
on a large stock farm just over the Torring-
ton line, and raises fancy Jersey stock. He
is a director in the Carter & Hakes Machine
Company, of Winsted. He is a member of St.
Andrews Lodge, No. 61, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Winsted.

He married (first). June 25, 1879, Augusta
L.. daughter of Lucius Augustus Fenn, and
sister of Augustus H. Fenn, his former part-
ner. She died December 11, 1894. He mar-
ried (second), December 5, 1895, Mabel
Phelps, born August 1, 1875, daughter of
James and Mary (Gaines) Warner. James
Warner, born in Norfolk, Connecticut. Octo-
ber 27, 1832, son of John Treat and Olive
(Dean) Warner. John Treat Warner was
born in Norfolk, Connecticut, son of John
Warner and Hepsibah Treat Warner. Mary
(Gaines) Warner was born in Granby, Con-
necticut, September 6, 1845, daughter of
Richard and Sarah Bennett Gaines. Sarah
(Bennett) Gaines was born in Belchertown,
Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Es-
ther (Green) Bennett. Children of first wife:
Claude Augustus, born April 2, 188 1, mechan-
ical engineer and draughtsman ; Maude Fenn,
November 17, 1884 ; teacher in the public
schools, Litchfield, Connecticut; Lulu M., Au-
gust 3, 1888, marned Charles E. Dickinson,
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second wife: Donald Warner, born March 9,
1899; Arthur Gaines, March 7, 1900; Samuel
Philip, August 23, 1908.

Andrew Hallett, immigrant
IIALLETT ancestor, came to Plymouth

colony as early as 1637, and
was in Plymouth 1638-39, according to Swift.
It appears from later-discovered records, how-
ever, that he or his son Andrew came before
March 20, 1635, as an employee of Richard
Wade, cooper, of Simstuly (sic), England,
from Weymouth, England, and settled at Dor-
chester, Massachusetts Bay. He was a pro-
prietor of Dorchester in 1638, but in that year
appears at Yarmouth, in Plymouth colony, and
was a proprietor of Yarmouth, May 6, 1639.
He gave a cow to the poor of that town in
1643, and was schoolmaster in 1646. He was
styled gentleman in the records, indicating
education and gentle birth, and had a goodly
estate. He had a two-hundred-acre farm,
through which the dividing line between Yar-
mouth and Barnstable was afterward run, the
larger part being in Barnstable. A meadow
lot was laid out to him October 7, 1639, at
Stony Cove (Mill Pond), in Yarmouth. He
bought land of Dr. Thomas Starr, November
25> I039, at Yarmouth, with the frame of a
house, etc. He mortgaged his land in Barn-
stable, September 8, 1641. as he was going to
England. He returned, however, and prob-
ably lived at Yarmouth until he died. He

married Mary , who survived him.

Many writers have confused the record of
Andrew Sr. and his son Andrew. Children:
Andrew, mentioned below ; Samuel, aged six-
teen or more in 1643; Hannah, born in Eng-
land, about 1627 ; Josias, born in England after

1627; Joseph, married Elizabeth .

(II) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) Hal-
lett, was born in England, and may have been
the settler at Dorchester in 1635 mentioned
above. He was one of the first settlers of
Sandwich, Plymouth colony, and at the divis-
ion of common meadows, April 16, 1640, re-
ceived a share. He sold his farm at Sand-
wich, July 28, 1640, to Daniel Wing. From
Sandwich, Hallett removed to Yarmouth, and
lived there until his death, in 1684. In 1642
lie bought the dwelling house of Gyles Hop-
kins, the first built in Yarmouth, and in 1655
he bought the farm of Robert Dennis. By
various purchases he added to his holdings of
land, until he became the largest landowner
in Yarmouth, having about three hundred
acres of the best lands and meadows. From
him the westerly part of the county road in
Yarmouth obtained the name of Hallett street.
He owned lands also in Barnstable, a thou-

sand acres in Windham, Connecticut, and
rights of commonage in Yarmouth equal to
five hundred acres more. In 1642-56-58 he
was surveyor of highways, in 1651 and 1679
constable. In 1659 he was appointed by the
court one of a committee to raise money for
the support of the ministry in Yarmouth. In
1660-67-75 ne was a grand juror, and Octo-
ber 30, 1667, he was appointed by the colony
court, at the request of the town, a member
of the land committee of Yarmouth. He mar-
ried Anne, daughter of Anthony Besse, of
Lynn and Sandwich, who, according to tra-
dition was only fourteen when married, and
the mother of twins at fifteen. She died in
the spring of 1694, leaving a will dated June
2^, 1684, disposing of her personal estate
among her children and grandchildren. His
will was dated March 14, 1682, proved May
31, 1684, bequeathing to wife Anne; children
Jonathan, John, Ruhama Bourne, Abigail Al-
den, and Mehitable; grandchildren Timothy,
Hannah, Hezekiah, Eliezer and John Bourne.
Children : Ruhama, married Job Bourne, De-
cember 14, 1664; Abigail, born 1644, married
Captain Jonathan Alden, son of John and Pris-
cilla Alden ; Dorcas, baptized at Barnstable,
June 1, 1646; Jonathan, mentioned below;
John, born December 11, 1650; Mehitable,
married John Dexter.

(Ill) Jonathan, son of Andrew (2) Hallett,
was born November 20, 1647, anc' was taxed
in Yarmouth in 1676. He married, January
30, 1683-84, Abigail, daughter of Ensign
Thomas Dexter, of Sandwich, and grand-
daughter of Thomas Dexter, of Lynn. In
1684 he was constable of Sandwich. After
the death of his father he removed to Yar-
mouth, and resided in the west end of his
father's house until 1695, the year after his
mother died, when he built a new house, after-
wards known as the Jeremiah Hallett house.
It stood where the Joseph Hale house now
stands. He was the wealthiest man in the
town, but lived simply, and, according to the
historian of the town, was rather miserly,
charging enormous rates for money that he
lent. He was an extensive land-owner also
in Yarmouth and Barnstable, and in 1699
bought a thousand-acre right in Windham,
Connecticut. His will was made December 5,
.'715, proved February 15, 1716-17. He be-
queathed to his five sons, Ebenezer, Thomas,
Timothy, David and Jonathan, and daughters,
Mehitable Sturgis, Elizabeth Crowell and Abi-
gail Freeman. He died January 12, 1716-17,
his wife September 2, 1715, aged fifty-two.
Their gravestones are standing in the Yar-
mouth burying-ground. The record of his
family is lost, the page of the town book being

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torn out. Children, born at Sandwich and
Yarmouth : Mehitable, married Edward Stur-
gis ; Ebenezer; Thomas, born 1691 ; Jonathan,
1694; David; Abigail, married Hatsuld Free-
man ; Elizabeth, married Paul Crowell ; Tim-
othy, mentioned below.

(IV) Timothy, son of Jonathan Hallett,
was born at Sandwich or Yarmouth. He
owned and lived in the dwelling house lately
occupied by Eldridge Lovell, in Yarmouth.
He was a well-to-do farmer. He married
(first) February 18, 1718-19, Thankful Stur-
giSj who died at birth of her first child, Jan-
uary 10, 1721, and both were buried in the
same grave. He married (second) Elizabeth,
daughter of Deacon Moses Hatch, of Fal-
mouth. She died October 23, 1744, aged forty-
four, and he married (third) May 23, 1745,
Thankful Jones, of Barnstable. He died Jan-
uary 24. 1 77 1 (gravestone record). Accord-
ing to the family Bible, the date of death was
ing to the family Bible, the date of
death was July 7, 1770. Children of
second marriage, born at Yarmouth ; Tim-
othy, May 7, 1725, died 1747; Elizabeth,
June 12, 1727, died 1728; Moses, April 20,
1729; Benjamin, October 9, 1730; Elizabeth,
November 16, 1735, died same year; James,
April 12, 1737; Joshua, January 10, 1737-38;
Isaac, mentioned below.

(V) Isaac, son of Timothy Hallett, was
born at Yarmouth, August 24, 1742. He was
deacon of the Yarmouth church, and his fam-
ily, as well as that of his brother Joshua, were
noted for longevity. He married, in 1761,
Elizabeth Eldridge. He died October 5, 1814,
aged seventy-two, and his widow died March
1, 1 83 1, aged eighty-six. Children, born at
Yarmouth : Benjamin, November 3, 1762 ;
Thankful, October 10, 1764; Isaac, December
6, 1766, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Febru-
ary 23, 1769 ; Anna, March 26, 1771 ; Deborah,
August 3, 1773; John, January 28, 1775; Ro-
sanna. May 1, 1778: Samuel, September 23,
1780; Levina, Januarv 13, 1783; Elisha, March
8, 1787.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Hallett,
was born December 6, 1766, died at the ag£ of
ninety years. He lived at Barnstable. He
married Rebecca Matthews. In his old age
he lived with his daughter, Ruth Sears.
Children, born at Barnstable: Ruth, Olive,
Nehemiah, Isaac, Rebecca, Allen, Lavinia,
Abby, William Matthews, Josiah, Reuben,
Reuben.

(VII) Josiah, son of Isaac (2) Hallett, was
born at Barnstable, September 20, 1796, died
July 31, 1839. He went from his native town
to Boston, thence to Hartford, Connecticut,
about 1824. He engaged in the leather busi-

ness at East Hartford, and continued the re-
mainder of his days there. He married, Octo-
ber 4, 182 1, Emma, born at Nantucket, No-
vember 20, 1802, died January 4, 1839, daugh-
ter of Telemachus and Lydia (Coffin) Bart-
lett (see Bartlett VII). Children: Charles
Bartlett, mentioned below ; William T., Eliza
Jane, Emma Ann.

(VIII) Charles Bartlett, son of Josiah Hal-
lett, was born on the island of Nantucket,
Massachusetts, August 2, 1822. He is now
living at Winsted, Connecticut. He came with
his parents to East Hartford when he was
two years old, and was educated there in the
public schools. At the age of sixteen he be-
came associated with his father in the leather
business, and in 1850 came to Winsted, where
he had a tannery and leather store for a period
of thirty years. In 1905 he retired. He is
president of the Mechanics Savings Bank, di-
rector of the First National Bank of Win-
sted, and of the Winsted Hosiery Company.
In politics he is a Republican, and has held
various offices of trust and honor. He is a
prominent member of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Winsted, of which he was for
many years a deacon. He married, Novem-
ber 12, 1848, Aurora A., born at Manchester,
Connecticut, 1826, died at Winsted, 1905,
daughter of Dudley and Ruby Philips. Chil-
dren : Frank Dudley, mentioned below ; Nel-
lie, born August 2, 1854, married, October 21,
1875, James A. Smith, ice and coal merchant,
New York City; Jennie L., February 3, 1863,
married, June 3, 1890, Arthur L. Clark, mer-
chant, of Winsted ; children : Helen and Hal-
lett Franklin ; Charles, died in infancy ; Wil-
liam, died in infancy ; Charles P., born April
14, 1867, assistant cashier of the First Na-
tional Bank of Winsted, married, June 10,
T896, Lucy H., daughter of George B. Owen,
of Winsted.

(IX) Frank Dudley, son of Charles Bart-
lett Hallett, was born in Winsted, Connecticut,
January 12, 1852. He attended the public
schools of his native town, the South Berk-
shire Institute, at New Marlborough, Massa-
chusetts, Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham,
Massachusetts, and Winchester Institute, at
Winchester, Connecticut. He was clerk in a
general store in Winsted, afterwards employed
in the office of the Springfield Republican for
a time. Then he became a clerk in the Con-
necticut Trust Company, of Hartford. In
1879, when the First National Bank of Win-
sted was organized, he was chosen cashier, and
has held that office to the present time. He is
also a director of the bank, and director of
the Citizens Printing Company, of Winsted.
He has been a member of the board of

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burgesses of the borough of Winsted. In
politics he is a Republican. He has been a
vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal church
at Winsted. He married, October 28, 1875,
Mary J., born April 3, 1853, daughter of
Woodbridge and Margaret P. (Sanchez)
Olmsted, of Hartford. They have no chil-
dren.

(The Bartlett Line).

(I) Robert Bartlett, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came to this coun-
try in the ship "Anne" in 1623. He was a
cooper by trade and settled in Plymouth. He
was admitted as freeman in 1633, and served
on a jury and as a town officer. His will,
proved October 29, 1676, left his whole estate
to his wife. He married, in 1628, Mary,
daughter of Richard Warren, the Pilgrim.
Warren came in the "Mayflower" and was one
of the signers of the famous compact. He
settled at Plymouth and had a large share in
the trials and troubles of the early days. War-
ren's wife and children came in the ship
"Anne" in 1623 also. In the division of cattle
in 1627, Warren had shares for himself, wife
Elizabeth, children Nathaniel, Joseph, Mary,
Anna, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. He died
before 1628, and his wife October 2, 1673,
aged about ninety. The marriage portion was
confirmed to Bartlett. March 7, 1636. Chil-
dren of Robert Bartlett: Rebecca, married,
December 30, 1649, William Barlow ; Benja-
min, born 1638, mentioned below ; Joseph,
1639; Mary, married, September 10, 1661,
Richard Foster, (second) Jonathan Morey ;
Sarah, married, December 23, 1666, Samuel
Rider, of Plymouth ; Elizabeth, married, De-
cember 26, 1661, Anthony Sprague; Lydia,
born June 8, 1647, married, December 25,
1668, John Ivey.

(II) Benjamin, son of Robert Bartlett, was
born in Plymouth, in 1638. He married, at
Duxbury, in 1656, Sarah, born 1632, died at
Duxbury, October 21, 1691, daughter of Love
Brewster and granddaughter of William
Brewster, the Pilgrim, who came in the "May-
flower." Benjamin Bartlett was a prominent
citizen of Duxbury, constable in 1662, collec-
tor of excise in 1664, selectman in 1666 and
many years afterward, deputy to the general
court 1685. chairman 1690-91. Children:
Benjamin, married Ruth Pabodie : Samuel,
married Hannah Pabodie ; Ichabod, mentioned
below; Ebenezer, died before 1712; Rebecca,
married William Bradford ; Sarah, married
her cousin, Robert Bartlett.

(III) Ichabod, son of Benjamin Bartlett,
was born at Duxbury, died there about 1716.
He married (first) at Marshfield, December
28, T699, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and

Sarah (Stow) Waterman, of Marshfield. She
was born at Marshfield in 1679, died there
October, 1708. He married (second) No-
vember 14, 1709, Desire, daughter of Seth
Arnold, of Lebanon, Connecticut. She was
born at Marshfield, probably died at Duxbury.
Ichabod Bartlett inherited all his father's land
at Middleborough. He removed from Marsh-
field to Duxbury in 1710. They had eight
children.

(IV) Josiah, son of Ichabod Bartlett, was
born in 1701. He settled at Lebanon, died
March 16, 1782. He married Mercy Chandler,
of an old Duxbury family. She died Febru-
ary 7, 1781. Children: Ichabod, born Octo-
ber 20, 1723 ; Betty, January 28, 1725 ; Na-
thaniel, November 27, 1727 ; John, mentioned
below; Chandler, January 22, 1733; Cyrus,
January 14, 1739; Mercy, May 4, 1740; Molly,

1743.

(V) Dr. John, son of Josiah Bartlett, was

born August 15, 1730. He lived at North
Yarmouth four or five years, then returned to
his native town, Lebanon, Connecticut. He
married, December, 1753, Susanna, daughter
of Jedediah and Hannah (Scales) South-
worth. Jedediah Southworth was born April
13, 1702, died September 8, 1739. Thomas
Southworth, father of Jedediah Southworth,
was born at Duxbury, 1676, died September
9, 1743. He married Sarah Alden, born 1681,
died 1739, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail
(Hallett) Alden, descendant of John and
Priscilla Alden. who came in the "Mayflower"
to Plymouth. Edward Southworth, father of
Thomas, was born at Duxbury, died there
1727. He married, November 16, 1669, Mary,
born August 7, 1648, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, granddaughter
also of John and Priscilla Alden, of the "May-
flower." Edward Southworth was juror in
1673, constable in 1677, committee to lay out
highways in 1678, deputy to the general court
1689-91. Constant Southworth, father of Ed-
ward, was born at Leyden, Holland, 1615, and
brought up in the family of his stepfather,
Governor William Bradford, at Plymouth ;
was admitted a freeman 1636-37; was in the
service against the Indians in 1637, and color-
bearer of the Duxbury company in 1646; of
the council of war in 1653; deputy to the
general court and assistant-treasurer of the
colony, 1659 to 1673 ; owned land in Tiverton
and Little Compton, Rhode Island. He mar-
ried, November 2, 1637, Elizabeth Collier, of
Duxbury, daughter of William Collier, a Lon-
don merchant, who assisted the Plymouth
colonists, and in 1633 came to Plymouth,
where he died in 1670. Constant Southworth
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father of Constant, was born in England about
1590, died there 1621 ; married, May 28, 1613,
Alice, born about 1590, died in Plymouth,
March 26, 1670, daughter of Alexander Car-
penter, of Wrington, Somersetshire, England.
Edward Southworth was a silk worker in Ley-
den, one of the Pilgrim exiles of Rev. John
Robinson's church, Lancashire; his widow
married Governor William Bradford, who
wrote to her after the death of his wife Doro-
thy, and she came in the ship "Anne," 1623, to
marry him. Children of Dr. John and Su-
sanna (Southworth) Bartlett, born at North
Yarmouth or Lebanon : John, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah, born June 3, 1757 ; Jedediah, May

31, 1759-

(VI) John (2), son of Dr. John (1) Bart-
lett, was born June, 1755. He lived at Le-
banon. He married Lucretia Stewart.

(VII) Telemachus, only child of John (2)
Bartlett, was born 1781, died at Martinique,
West Indies, September, 1802. He married
Lydia Coffin, of Nantucket. Their daughter,
Emma, born November 20, 1802, after the
death of her father, married ]osiah Hallett
(see Hallett VII).

Henry Townsend, the im-
TOWNSEND migrant ancestor, came

with his brothers Richard
arid John Townsend, from Norwich, county
Norfolk, England, to Boston, in 1636. The
day after their arrival they were incensed at
witnessing the abuse of some Quakers. The
stalwart young Englishmen took the part of
the Quakers, for which thev were arrested
and banished from the colony. They went to
Flushing, Long Island, where in 1645 Henry
Townsend became one of the patentees of the
town. Persecuted there because he became a
Quaker, he went to Rhode Island, where he
became a prominent citizen. He was chosen
assistant and was representative to the general
assembly in 1653. He returned to Long
Island, however, and was a patentee of the
town of Jamaica, but was again persecuted by
the Dutch on account of his religion, and he
moved beyond their jurisdiction, locating at
Oyster Bay, Long Island, becoming a pro-
prietor of that town. In 1661 he had a grant
of land on Mill river and erected a mill. He
is alluded to in the Dutch records in 1657 as
"a person of worth and consideration among
the people of Flushing." He was employed
in making surveys, adjusting boundaries and
procuring patents. (See Thompson's "His-
tory of Long Island," vol. II, pp. 285-288 and
344 : "A Memorial of the Townsend Broth-
ers." Mrs. J. C. Townsend, 1865.) Henry,
Richard and John Townsend were sons of

Thomas Townsend, of Norwich, county Nor-
folk. (See "The Townsends," by Malcolm,
1895.) Henry Townsend died in 1677.

(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Town-
send, died before 1703. He married Deborah,
daughter of Captain John Underhill, whose
second wife was Elizabeth, stepdaughter of
Robert Field, and known by the name of
Field, but who was, however, granddaughter
of Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, son
of Henry Winthrop. Governor Winthrop
married, in England, April 25, 1629, his cousin,
Elizabeth Fones, and had a daughter Martha
Elizabeth, baptized May 9, 1630, at Groton,
England, while her father was at sea with his
father seeking his new home. He was
drowned on landing at Salem, and his widow
came to this country with the younger Win-
throp and soon married (second) Robert
Field (Feald or Feake), who adopted the
daughter. Children of Henry Townsend :
Henry, mentioned below ; Robert.

(III) Henry (3), son of Henry (2) Town-
send, died in 1709 ; married Eliphal Wright,
his first cousin, daughter of John and Mary
(Townsend) Wright, of Flushing, Long
Island, granddaughter of Henry Townsend
and of Nicholas Wright, who came from Eng-
land to Lynn in 1637, and wife Anne Wright.
He resided at Oyster Bay. He had a son
Henry, mentioned below.

(IV) Henry (4), son of Henry (3) Town-
send, was born in 1700, in Oyster Bay. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and
Martha (Jackson) Titus, granddaughter of
Colonel John Jackson, of Hempstead, Long
Island. Edmund Titus, father of Peter, was
born in England, in 1730, and died in 1775, a
very prominent Quaker ; married Martha,
daughter of William Washburn, a patentee of
Hempstead, who also lived in Westbury,
where he died. Colonel John Jackson, father
of Martha, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Samuel Hallett, of Newtown and Hallett's
Cove, now Astoria, Long Island. Children of
Henry and Elizabeth (Titus) Townsend:
Henry, mentioned below ; Nicholas, married
Philadelphia Doughty ; Peter, married Han-
nah Hawkhurst ; Phebe, married Joseph Law-
rence ; Elizabeth, married John McCoun;
Martha, married Daniel McCoun ; Absalom,
married Helena De Kay.

Robert Jackson came with his wife Agnes
from Hemel-Hempstead, England. He was
one of the noted company who came with
Winthrop and Saltonstall (see Bancroft's
"History U. S.," vol. I, p. 354, etc.) in 1630.
Remaining a short time in Boston, he was not
content, and he joined the company that went
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Connecticut. Thence he pushed on later and
became one of the earliest settlers of Stam-
ford, Connecticut. In 1643 ne anc' others
purchased land on Long Island of the In-
dians, and in 1644 they began to settle the
town of Hempstead, of which Robert Jackson
was one of the patentees. He was a man of
influence at Hempstead. He died there in
1683. (See Thompson's "Hist. Long Island,"
vol. II, pp. 1-18, 2>7-) Colonel John Jack-
son, son of Robert, was a man of wealth and
influence in Hempstead, a leading man in all
public matters, and a colonel in the Queen's
county provincial troops. In 1683 Governor
Dongan required the town of Hempstead to
take out a new patent, and Colonel Jackson
was one of the six chosen to represent the
town. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Samuel Hallett, mentioned above.

(V) Henry (5), son of Henry (4) Town-
send, was born in 1725, in Chester, Orange
county, New York, and died in 1813. He was
engaged with his brother Peter Townsend in
the Stirling Iron Works. He married Anne
Wright. Children : Betsey, married Lewis
Carpenter, (second) Robert Little; Henry,
mentioned below ; Zebulon, married Anna
Cock ; Noah, married Letty Conklin ; Phebe,
married William Jackson, of Philadelphia.

(VI) Henry (6), son of Henry (5) Town-
send, was born at Chester, New York. He
was engaged with his uncle Peter Townsend
at the Stirling Iron Works, where steel was
manufactured for the first time in this country.
He afterward moved to Canterbury, New
York. He was a member of the Society of
Friends, and in consequence of his religious
belief, he took no part in the revolutionary
war, but he assisted in making the great chain
to protect West Point. He married Mary
Bennett, at Canterbury, New York, in 1776.
Children : Isaiah, married (first) Hannah,
daughter of Solomon Townsend, of Oyster
Bay ; John, mentioned below ; Mary Ann. mar-
ried Andrew Cock ; Samuel, married Mary,
daughter of William Townsend, of Cornwall ;

William, married Charlotte ; Hannah,

married Dr. Elisha Hedges. Two others died
young.

(ATI) John, son of Henry (6) Townsend,
was born at Stirling Iron Works, Orange
county. New York. With his brother Isaiah
he established the first iron foundry north
of the Highlands, and he continued in the
business all his life. He was mayor of the
city of Albany 1829-32 ; president of the
Commercial Bank and the Albany Savings
Bank, and vice-president of the Albany In-
surance Company. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church. He married Abba,

daughter of Ambrose Spencer, chief justice of
the supreme court of the state of New York,
and Laura, daughter of Judge John Canfield
(see Spencer below), of Sharon, Connecticut.
Children of John Townsend : Laura, married
John Walsh, of Albany ; Katherine, married
Charles B. Lansing, of Albany ; Julia, married
Allan Munroe, of Syracuse, New York ; Theo-
dore, married (first) Louisa Mickle, (second)
Mary Sprague ; Abby, second wife of Charles
B. Lansing; John, mentioned below; Mariana,
married Joel Rathbone Reed, of Albany; Ed-
ward, married Katharine Munger, of Syra-
cuse.

William Spencer, the immigrant ancestor
(see Canfield above), was a graduate of Trin-
ity College, Cambridge, England. He came to
this country with the friends of Winthrop in
1 63 1, and settled in Cambridge. In 1633 he
returned to bring his wife and came with her
in the ship "Mary and John." He was chosen
on the committee to frame a body of funda-
mental laws for the colony of Massachusetts.
He was a founder of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company of Boston, his name
appearing fourth in the original charter. In
1634 he was on the committee to confer with
the governor and assistants in regard to the
care of the common stock, which led to the
formation of the house of representatives.
He was the first representative chosen, and
held the office until he left the colony. In
1639 he went with his family to Hartford,
Connecticut, where his brother Thomas had
settled. He was representative in the general
assembly in Hartford in 1639-40, and while
in Hartford he prepared the first revised laws
of the colony. He died in 1640. Children :
Sarah, married John Case, of Windsor, 1657 ;
Elizabeth, married William Wellman, 1649;
(second), 1652, Jacob Joy; Samuel, men-
tioned below.

Samuel, son of William Spencer, was born
in 1634; died 1716; married, 1667, in Hart-
ford, Sarah . They had one son, Sam-
uel, mentioned below, and seven daughters, all
of whom married well.

Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Spencer,
was born in 1668; married, September 16,
1696, Hepzibah, daughter of Deacon Edward
Church. They had six sons and two daugh-
ters.

Philip, youngest son of Samuel (2) Spen-
cer, was born in 1724. He was an iron
worker by trade. He settled in Salisbury,
Connecticut, and during the revolutionary war
he aided the army by manufacturing cannon
and other arms. He died in Dutchess county,
New York, in 1790. He left two sons: Am-
brose, mentioned below, and Philip, both grad-

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uates of Harvard College. He married Abi-
gail, daughter of Jonathan Moore, of Sims-
bury, Connecticut. Judge Ambrose Spencer
married, in 1784, Laura Canfield, daughter of
Judge John Canfield. Their daughter Abba
married John Townsend, as stated above.

( YIII) Rev. John (2) Townsend, son of
John (1) Townsend, was born at Albany,
New York, February 17, 1833. He was the
eleventh child born to his parents. He at-
tended the Boys' Academy, Albany, and Kins-
ley's Military School, West Point, where he
was corps commandant in 1848. He grad-
uated from Union College, Schenectady, New
York, in the class of 185 1. He entered upon
a business career in 1852 in the store of Wins-
low & Corning, hardware dealers, Albany, but
at the end of two years he yielded to a strong
desire to study for the ministry, and entered
the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown,
Connecticut, in 1854, and graduated in 1856.
He was ordained by Bishop John Williams in
the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
church in 1856. He received the honorary
degree of Master of Arts from Trinity Col-
lege, Hartford. He was rector of St. Paul's
Church at Wallingford, Connecticut, 1858-64;
of Trinity Church, West Troy, New York,
1867-74; chancellor of All Saints' Cathedral,
Albany, 1874-76; rector of St. Paul's Church,
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 1876-78; rector of
Christ Church, Middletown, Connecticut, from
September, 1879 to J899, and rector emeritus
from that time until his death. He was trus-
tee of the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut,
at Cheshire, 1860-67, an(1 trustee of Berkeley
Divinity School from 1881 to 1903. He was
a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, Alpha
Chapter, of New York. He married, June 6,
186 1, at Christ Church, Stratford, Connecti-
cut, Georgiana Pollok Devereux, born on the
Johnson homestead, Stratford, August 10,
1837, now living at Middletown, No. 260
Washington street (see Pollok VIII). Chil-
dren: 1. Mariana. 2. George Pollok
Devereux, born 1865, died March 22,
1893 ! graduate of St. Paul's Preparatory
School at Concord, New Hampshire, class
of 1883 ; Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University, class of 1886; entered
the firm of Reid" & Company, civil en-
gineers, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, where
he did much fine work in his profession dur-
ing the last seven years of his life.

(The Pollok Line).

(I) David Pollok married Margaret, daugh-
ter of Right Reverend Zachary Boyd (Protes-
tant), Bishop of Glasgow. He lived at Bal-
gra, county Renfrew, near Glasgow, Scotland.

(II) Thomas, son of David Pollok, lived at
Balgra, Scotland.

(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Pol-
lok, also lived at Balgra, and his descendants
continued to live there for many generations.

(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Pol-
lok, was born May 6, 1654, at Balgra, Scot-
land. In 1683 he came to North Carolina as
agent to Lord Carteret, one of the lords pro-
prietors of the Carolinas, and he "was highly
esteemed for his strict integrity." He was
agent for twenty years. In 1690 he returned
to Scotland, where he married his early love,
Martha, daughter of Thomas Cullen, of Dover,
England. He had received his mercantile
training under Thomas Cullen, and had fallen
in love with his daughter, but he was not
considered a suitable match for the rich mer-
chant's daughter, and she was married against
her will to Robert West, a rich man, who
lived only two years after their marriage.
The young widow married Thomas Pollok
when she was twenty-seven, ten years after
they had separated. At this time he had ac-
quired land in various parts of North Caro-
lina, chiefly in the eastern counties along the
Roanoke, Chowan and Trent rivers. He went
to the great slave market at Boston in order
to purchase negroes to cultivate his lands, and
he obtained African negroes and one or two
Narragansett Indians who had been taken cap-
tive in war and sold. These slaves remained
on the lands until the civil war, and none were
ever sold or bought by the Pollok family.
They were always spoken of as "our people"
and were happy and well cared for. In 17 13
Governor Pollok bought the patent of Baron
de GrafTenried for the town of New Berne.
He had advanced money to assist in this
scheme, but the management was so bad that
he finally bought out all claims. He built a
fine stone house there and removed there with
his family. The house was burned, but the
stone stable still remains and is used as a
parish house for the Episcopal church. He
raised corn and cotton, and had his own ships
in which he sent his wares to England. The
business which he brought to New Berne laid
the foundation for the prosperity of that town.-
He held many important offices in the colony
of North Carolina. In 1701 he was one of
the organizers, and later he was vestryman
of St. Paul's parish, Edenton. In 1712 he
was chosen president of the colony, and he
was president of the council for some years.
In 1713 he was major-general of the colonial
troops and did good service. He protected
the colony from Indians, and in 1712 made
the treaty with the Tuscaroras, by which they
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1722 lie was elected governor for the second
time, and died when in office, August 30,
1722. His wife was born in Dover, England,
1663, and died March 17, 1700. Children
(five died in infancy) : 1. Martha, March 4,
1693, cnec^ 1719 ; married Rev. Thomas Bray,
of England, in 1713. 2. Thomas, born Novem-
ber 9, 1695 ; mentioned below. 3. Cullen,
September 27, 1697; died 175 — . Like the
other children of Thomas, he was sent to
England for education, where he remained and
entered the British army. He served under
the Duke of Cumberland in the Low Coun-
tries, and distinguished himself at the battle
of Fontenoy, where he attained the rank of
major. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in
1748 he left the army and returned to North
Carolina, where his father had built a fine
house for him on the Roanoke, in Bertie
county. He lived here for some time, busy
with his plantation and among his books, for
he had brought a fine library with him from
England. Under very romantic circumstances
he fell in love with a very beautiful, illiterate
young neighbor, and married her. He died
soon after of a broken heart on account of
disappointment in his married life ; no issue.
4. George, October 2, 1699 ; died November
28, 1733; married Sarah, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Swan, son of Colonel Thomas Swan
of Virginia, July 25, 1725 ; no issue.

(V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) Pol-
lok, was born November 9, 1695, at Balgra,
near Edenton, where his early years were
spent. He removed to New Berne with his
father, and later was sent to England for an
education. He always kept up an intercourse
with his relatives in Scotland. He helped his
father in all his business when he became of
age, and became his successor as agent of the
lords proprietors. He was a man of much
influence in the colony and much respected.
1 fe had literary taste, and his books, still
owned by the family, bear his book plate, al-
though much of his fine library was burned in
the house at New Berne. Tie was educated as
a lawyer and stood well in his profession. He
was surveyor for the colony, and later chief
justice for North Carolina in 1724. He raised
corn and cotton on his plantation, as well as
fine horses. His horses bore a high reputa-
tion until the last days of the civil war, when
all trace of them was lost. It was hard for
the inheritor of the great estate, a Yale grad-
uate of 1849, to see his fine horses, which had
been so well cared for. taken away by rough
soldiers, with only a paper "claim" as security,
which was never redeemed. He died January
1, 1732. He married Elizabeth Sanderson,
February to, 1729. Children: 1. Cullen, born

January 5, 1730; educated in Scotland and
England, and spent much of his life abroad;
married an English lady of great beauty, Ann
Booth, of Dover. He came to America to
live after the revolution and resided in New
York and Baltimore, where he died in 1795.
1 lis children all died in infancy. His widow,
much younger than himself, long survived
him, living at her country seat, now Astor
Place. New York ; she died about 1818, re-
membered for her good deeds and kindness to
all, and handsome to the last. 2. Thomas,
twin of Cullen, mentioned below. 3. George,
March 21, 1732; died June, 1734.

( VI ) Thomas (5), son of Thomas (4) Pol-
lok, was born January 5, 1730. He was left
an orphan very early, and sent to Scotland
with his twin brother for education, and re-
mained abroad for many years. He returned
when troubles began to rise in z\merica, and
was driven from New Berne by the British,
and took his family to be near his wife's rela-
tives at Elizabeth, New Jersey, and here he
died after a lingering illness in 1777. He
married Eunice, daughter of Rev. Jonathan
Edwards, in 1764. She was born in 1743, and
died 1825. She married (second) William
Hunt, of New Berne, and had a daughter,
Sarah Hunt. Children: 1. Elizabeth, 1765;

died 178 — ; married Williams, no

issue. 2. Thomas, born 1769; died 1803;
lived in Europe and died at Lucca, Italy, un-
married. 3. Frances, 177 1 ; mentioned below.
4. George, 1772; died 1839, unmarried.

(VII) Frances, daughter of Thomas (5)
Pollok, was born in 177 1. She married John
Devereux, of New Berne, in 1790. After the
death of her brother, George Pollok, the es-
tate was divided between her and her half-
sister, Sarah Hunt. This estate had been in
the Pollok family for nearly one hundred and
fifty years. (Sarah Hunt married John Burg-
wyne, and was the ancestor of the Burgwynes
of North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia.)
By the law of North Carolina they received
almost equal portions of the estate, the planta-
tions lying on both sides of the Roanoke river,
in Weldon, Halifax and Bertie counties. The
portion which came to Frances remained in
the family until after the civil war. John
Devereux, whose descendants became the rep-
resentatives of the old Pollok family, was born
at New Ross, county Wexford, Ireland, of
an old English ancestor who came over in
the days of Henry II. of England. This
branch of the family was descended from
Nicholas D., "the White Knight." The prin-
cipal seat of the family is at "the Ferns,"
county Wexford. He was one of a large
family of children, and by the influence of

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relatives was sent to the college of St. Omers,
in Belgium, to be trained for the Romish
priesthood. He received a fine education and
formed an excellent literary taste, being very
proficient in languages and music. In 1775,
when of proper age, he refused to take vows
in the church, which estranged him from the
family, and on account of his facility in lan-
guages he obtained a position as interpreter
and captain's clerk on a British war ship in
the channel fleet. He made many friends, and
through one of them he secured a berth as
midshipman, and during the war with the
colonies was stationed off Wilmington. He
found it so agreeable that he determined to
return after peace was declared. At this time
he was a second lieutenant and had much prize
money, and he returned home with his small
fortune, but his father refused to receive him,
although he gave him the small portion com-
ing to him from his mother. In 1785 he es-
tablished himself as a merchant at New Berne,
and soon took a place in the society there, on
account of his fine personality and charming
manner. In 1790 he married Frances Pollok,
and built a house of English brick, with a
store and warehouse adjoining, which was
still standing and used as a hotel in 1875.
When his wife inherited the plantations on
the Roanoke he removed to Raleigh, and lived
there or on the plantation until his death. His
wife Frances was born at New Berne and
fled with the family to Elizabeth, to live near
Timothy Edwards, her mother's elder brother.
They were living here when the town was
captured by the British and there was much
fighting in the vicinity. On account of the
unsettled state, Mrs. Pollok, then a widow,
removed to New Haven to live with her
younger brother, Pierrepont Edwards. On
the approach of Arnold in 1781 they were
again forced to flee, and they went to Weth-
ersfield, where many of their family had gone,
and here she formed friendships with her
cousins which lasted through life. When her
boys were old enough for higher education
she persuaded her husband to remove to Srat-
ford, near her cousins, and here she remained
until her sons had graduated at Yale College.
She then resided at Raleigh, seldom visiting
her plantations, which her husband and sons
managed for her. She died in 1849, and John
Devereux died in 1845. Children: 1. Thomas
Pollok Devereux, born 1793; mentioned be-
low. 2. George Pollok Devereux, 1795 ; men-
tioned below. 3. Ann Frances, 1803 ; died
t888; married Rev. Leonidas Polk, afterwards
Bishop of Louisiana; Dr. W. M. Polk, of
New York and Cornell University Medical
School, is one of their children.

(VIII) Thomas Pollok, son of John and
Frances (Pollok) Devereux, was born in
1793 and died in 186 — . He married Kather-
ine, daughter of R. O. Johnson, of Stratford,
Connecticut, and cousin of Mrs. George Dev-
ereux. Children: John, married Margaret
Mordecai ; Katherine, married P. Edmon-
stone ; Elizabeth, married T. Jones ; Frances,
married Henry Miller; Mary, married Wil-
liam Clarke ; Sophia, married Josiah Turner ;
Norah, married Robert Cannon ; Susan, un-
married.

(VIII) George Pollok, son of John and
Frances (Pollok) Devereux, was born in
1795, and died in 1837. He married Sarah
Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. S. W. Johnson,
of Stratford, June 13, 1827. He was edu-
cated by tutors at the south, and later at
Stratford and at Yale College, where he grad-
uated in 181 5. He studied law at Litchfield
with Judge Talmadge, and was admitted to
the bar in 1818. He went to New Berne,
where he lived with his uncle, George Pollok,
who intended to make him his heir, so that
he might take the name of Pollok and keep
up the family. After practicing law in New
Berne for three years he went to Europe with
his uncle, with whom he remained for three
years in Great Britain and on the continent.
When he returned he married his second
cousin, Miss Johnson, and died after a happy
married life of only ten years, most of which
was spent on Runi Roi plantation. His early
death changed his uncle's plans and the es-
tate was divided according to law, as no will
was found. The lawsuits growing out of the
Pollok estate formed "causes celebre" in North
Carolina. Children (three died in infancy) :
1. Elizabeth Johnson, born August 12, 1833 :
married F. Umsted, (second) G. Blake. 2.
Georgina Pollok, August 10, 1837 ; married
Rev. John Townsend, of Albany, New York
(see Townsend VIII).

(The Moore Line).

(I) John (2) Moore, the immigrant an-
cestor, son of John ( 1 ) Moore of Dorchester,
England, came to Boston in 1630, and settled
first at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried there, and had one son and two daugh-
ters. He was made freeman in Dorchester in
1631, and he moved in 1635 to Windsor, with
his friend, Parson Warham. He was a promi-
nent man there, and was representative in
1665-67 and later. He died in Windsor on
September 18, 1677.

(II) John (3), son of John (2) Moore of
Windsor, was born 1625, and died 1678. He
married Hannah, daughter of Edward Goffe
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in the "Good Hope" in 1634-35 with his first
wife Joyce, and two children ; his wife soon
died and he married (second) Margaret Wil-
kenson, mother of Hannah Goffe ; he was rep-
resentative in 1646-50, and died December 26,
1658. His wife, Margaret Wilkenson, was
born in England and came to America with
her mother when an infant ; her mother, Isa-
bel Wilkenson, was the only woman who came
alone to the Boston colony ; she was a woman
of means, and she and her husband had been
intending to come to America, when he sud-
denly died and she came alone.

(III) Jonathan, son of John Moore, was
born at Windsor, 1663, and died at Simsbury,
17 18. He married Hannah, Widow Larg.

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1)
Moore, of Simsbury, was born 1708. He mar-
ried, February 10, 1731, Abigail, daughter of
John Enno, of Windsor. His daughter, Abi-
gail Moore, married Philip Spencer, and their
son Ambrose Spencer married Laura Canfield,
daughter of Hon. John Canfield ; their daugh-
ter, Abba Spencer, married John Townsend
of Albany, and their son was Rev. John
Townsend (see Townsend).

(The Canfield Line).

(I) Jeremiah Canfield, son of Thomas Can-
field, married Alice , and lived in Mil-
ford until 1727, when he settled in New Mil-
ford. He died March 18, 1739-40, and his
wife died January 4, 1739-40.

(II) Samuel, son of Jeremiah Canfield,
married Abigail Peck, June I, 1725, and he
died December 14, 1754, aged fifty-two years.
His wife died September 14, 1764. He was
one of the judges of the county court for
Litchfield county, and a deacon in the church
at New Milford.

(III) Hon. John Canfield, son of Samuel
Canfield, was born at New Milford in 1740,
and graduated at Yale College in 1762. He
studied law, and began practice in Sharon in
1765, the first lawyer who lived there. He
married Dorcas, daughter of Solomon Buell,
of Litchfield, October 2, 1765 ; Solomon Buell
married Eunice Griswold ; he was son of John
Buell, son of Samuel Buell, son of William
Buel, the immigrant ancestor. ( See Dixon,
136.) In 1777 John Canfield joined Major
Sheldon's troop of Light Horse ; in this com-
pany each man supplied his own horse and
equipment, and they joined the army in Gen-
eral Wolcott's brigade. When General Wol-
cott called for volunteers to go to the aid of
the troops in the colony of New York against
Burgoyne, John Canfield was made adjutant
of the Connecticut volunteers and went to
Saratoga. Before the battle of Saratoga he

was made brigade major and held that office
for the rest of the campaign. After the war
he began again his profession and held the
office of judge for several years. He estab-
lished a law school which had a fine reputa-
tion. Judge Ambrose Spencer studied with
him there, and married his daughter Laura in
1784; their daughter Abba married John
Townsend. (See Townsend.) "Mr. Canfield
enjoyed an enviable reputation and was holden
in high estimation by his fellow citizens. He
represented the town in the legislature at ten
different sessions. He was a professor of
religion and enjoyed the reputation of a sin-
cere and humble Christian. In 1786 he was
elected a member of the continental congress
and had he lived to take a seat in that body
would probably have been a distinguished
member. He died however on 26th day of
October. 1786."

(The Edwards Line).

(I) William Edwards, the immigrant an-
cestor, was son of Richard Edwards of Wales
who came from Wales to Oxford in the latter
part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and after
that went to London, where he was a minister
of the Church of England in one of the city-
churches. After his death, his widow mar-
ried a Mr. Coles, who became truly a father
to his wife's young son. When Mr. and Mrs.
Coles decided to go to America, he went with
them and arrived at Boston about 1630. He
is heard of in Hartford in 1636. He married
Anne, widow of William Spencer.

(II) Richard, son of William Edwards,
married Elizabeth Tuthill of Middletown. He
was a merchant in Hartford.

(III) Rev. Timothy Edwards, son of Rich-
ard Edwards, married, November, 1694,
Esther, daughter of Solomon Stoddard. He
was born in 1669, and died in 1758. He grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1691, and
was pastor of the Windsor church in 1694.
He was chaplain of the Connecticut troops
with Arnold's expedition to Canada in 171 1.
Solomon Stoddard, father of Esther, wife of
Rev. Timothy Edwards, was son of Anthony
Stoddard; he was born 1643, and graduated
from Harvard College in 1662 ; he was first
librarian of Harvard College in 1667-74; he
wrote many books on theological subjects;
settled at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1672, as
assistant to Rev. J. Warham of England, pas-
tor at Windsor, whose daughter Esther, then
Widow Mather, he married in 1670 ; he died at
Northampton in 1729, where he was pastor of
the church there, from 1669-1670. His father,
Anthony Stoddard of Boston, 1639, married,
in 1642, Mary Downing, daughter of Emanuel

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Downing and niece of Governor Winthrop;
he was a man of much influence in the colony,
and for twenty years, 1664-85, was represen-
tative of Boston in the. general council ; when
he was constable, in 1641, he hesitated to obey
the warrant to arrest Frances Hutchinson ;
he was recorder of Boston, 1650, and was
one of the first members of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston ; he
died March 10, 1687. Mary Downing, wife
of Anthony Stoddard, was daughter of Eman-
uel and Lucy (Winthrop) Downing; Eman-
uel Downing came from London about 1630.
He was lawyer of the Inner Temple and resi-
dent of St. Michael's, Cornhill ; his father was
the Rev. E. Downing mentioned in Parr's
"Life of Abp. Usher" ; he married Lucy Win-
throp in England before 1601, and came to
Salem in 1638; he was representative in 1640-
41-44-45.

(IV) Rev. Jonathan, son of Rev. Timothy
Edwards, married, July, 1727, Sarah, daugh-
ter of Rev. James Pierrepont. Rev. Jonathan
was born in Windsor in 1703, and died 1758
at Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated
from Yale College in 1720, and was pastor at
Northampton in 1727, and at Stockbridge in
1 75 1. He was president of Princeton Col-
lege in 1757.

(V) Pierrepont, son of Rev. Jonathan Ed-
wards, was born in 1750. He married, May,
1769, Frances, daughter of Col. M. Ogden.
He graduated from Princeton College in 1768
and was a lawyer. He was in the general as-
sembly in 1777-78, "taking an early and active
part in the councils of Conn, in favor of Inde-
pendence. Volunteered as a soldier and was
prominent in the battle of Danbury and in the
defence of New Haven." After the war was
over he was a member of the continental
congress in 1787-88, and was an able advo-
cate of the constitution of the United States
in the Connecticut convention which was held
to ratify it. Later he was judge of the United
States district court until his death. Frances,
his wife, was daughter of Col. Matthias Og-
den, who married Mary Cozzens ; he was a
soldier in the revolution and became a lieu-
tenant-colonel; he was born 1754, and died
1791. His father, Robert Ogden, married
Phoebe Hatfield ; Robert Ogden was held high
in the respect of his townsmen, and was a
member of the king's council and of the legis-
lature, from 1751 to 1763; he was a delegate
to the continental congress in 1765 and was
chairman of the committee of safety in Eliza-
bethtown in 1776; he died at Sparta, New
Jersey, January 1, 1787. Jonathan Ogden,
father of Robert, was deacon of the church in
Elizabethtown and was highly respected ; he

married Rebecca ; his father, John Ogden, was
born 1610, and died 1681 ; he was a resident
of Stamford, Connecticut, in 1641, and of
Hempstead, Long Island, in 1644; ne was a
patentee in 1647 > m x656-57-58 he was magis-
trate at the general court in Hartford; and in
1659 representative from Northampton at
Hartford; in 1661, upper house; in 1665 he
was justice of the peace and one of the gov-
ernor's council ; he moved to Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, in 1667 and in 1668 he was "one
of the burgesses in the legislature from this
town." In 1673 he was scheppen of Eliza-
bethtown, and in 1673-74 he was virtually
governor of the English towns in New Jer-
sey ; in 1676-77 and during Dutch occupation,
"His name appears in the new Charter of
Conn, obtained by Winthrop from Charles II.
as one of the Magistrates and Patentees of
the Colony. Also in the records of both Conn,
and New Haven Colonies, being held in high
honor at home (Elizabethtown). Was one of
its first men." He married Jane Bond.

Susan, daughter of Pierrepont Edwards,
married Judge Samuel William Johnson of
Stratford, 1791, and their daughter, Sarah E.,
married George P. Devereux of North Caro-
lina, 1827. Their daughter, Georgina P.
Devereux, married Rev. John Townsend.
(See Townsend.)

(The Willett Line).

(I) Hon. Thomas Willett was born in Eng-
land in 161 1, and died in 1674, in New York.
He came to America in 1632 and settled at
Swansea, New Hampshire, and afterwards at
Seekonk, Long Island. He was captain of
the military company at Plymouth, succeed-
ing Miles Standish in 1647. He was assist-
ant to the governor in 1661-65, and in 1650 he
was commissioner to settle boundaries be-
tween New England and New Netherlands.
In 1664 he aided the English in organizing a
new government and was appointed first
mayor of New York. He was governor in
1673 and twice afterwards. He was magis-
trate 1661-64. He married Mary, daughter of
John Brown of Duxbury, who was born in
Plymouth, England, and was with the Pil-
grims at Leyden ; the next mention of John
Brown is when he settled in Duxbury, 1636,
and he was commissioner of the United Col-
onies, 1644-48, and assistant to governor of
Massachusetts from 1636 to 1662 ; he died at
Swansea, near Rehoboth, where he owned
much land, April 10, 1662.

(II) Mary, daughter of Hon. Thomas Wil-
lett, married Rev. Samuel Hooker, September
22, 1658, son of Rev. Thomas Hooker. Their
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Pierrepont, son of John Pierrepont of Eng-
land, who was of a distinguished family ; his
father, James Pierrepont of Ipswich, Eng-
land, came to Boston with his brother Robert
and settled at Roxbury ; he was representa-
tive to the general court, Massachusetts, 1672;
he was born in England, 1618, and died at
Roxbury, December 30, 1690; he married
Thankful Stowe, 1645. Rev. James Pierre-
pont was born at Roxbury, January 4, 1660,
and died 171 — . He graduated from Harvard
College in 1681, and was ordained in 1685.
He settled in New Haven and was a founder
of Yale College in 1701. His daughter, Sarah
Pierrepont, married Rev. Jonathan Edwards,
D.D. (see Edwards), and their great-great-
granddaughter, Georgina P. Devereux, mar-
ried Rev. John Townsend. (See Townsend.)

(The Johnson Line).

(I) Robert Johnson, immigrant ancestor,
a founder of New Haven, came from a dis-
tinguished family of Leicestershire, England.
Of this family the best known was Rev. Rob-
ert Johnson (son of Maurice Johnson, alder-
man of Stanford, Lincolnshire), graduate and
fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, canon of
Windsor in 1572 and archdeacon of Leicester
in 1 59 1. He founded two schools and two
hospitals in Rutlandshire, all of which he
endowed. He was also benefactor to the
preachers of St. Paul's Cross, Upping. His
school at Uppingham still remains in charge
of the Johnson family. It reached distinction
in late years under Dr. Thwing. In 1884
Woolsey Johnson, M.D., of New York City,
one of the descendants of Robert Johnson, of
New Haven, visited the school at Uppingham,
and was received with honors as being of the
family of the founder, though the last of the
Johnsons of America to visit the school was
Rev. Samuel Johnson, D.D., who was there in
1724. This incident shows the direct connec-
tion of Robert Johnson, of New Haven, with
the old archdeacon of the days of Good
Queen Bess. The archdeacon also endowed
two scholarships in his school, and they are
still maintained by the Johnson family. Abra-
ham Johnson, son of the archdeacon, lived at
Clipsham, Rutlandshire, and he had two sons
who came to America, Robert and Isaac.
Isaac, the elder, was governor of the Upping-
ham school ; married Lady Arabella Fiennes,
daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and they
came to America with Winthrop, in the ship
named "Lady Arabella." The sad fate of this
young couple is well known. She sickened
and died from the effects of the climate and
lack of comforts, and he was killed within
three months afterward.

Robert Johnson came to Boston in 1637
from Kingston-on-Hull, England, where he
had been in business, bringing his wife Adlin
and four sons, John, Robert, Thomas and Wil-
liam. Children: 1. Robert, graduated at Har-
vard in 1645, clieci January 24, 1650, at Row-
ley, Massachusetts ; unmarried. 2. Thomas,
died unmarried. 3. John, had sons, John,
Samuel and Daniel ; John settled at Walling-
ford and Thomas at Middletown. 4. William,
mentioned below.

(II) Deacon William, son of Robert John-
son, was born about 1629, died in 1702; mar-
ried, July 2, 1651, Elizabeth Bushnell, daugh-
ter of Francis (2) and granddaughter of
Francis (1) Bushnell, the immigrant.

(III) Deacon Samuel, son of Deacon Wil-
liam Johnson, was born in 1670, died 1727;
married Mary Sage, who died March, 1726,
daughter of David Sage, who came from
Wales and settled in Middletown, Connecti-
cut ; married Mercy, daughter of John Wyllis.

(IV) Rev. Dr. Samuel (2), son of Deacon
Samuel (1) Johnson, was born October 14,
1696, died January 6, 1772; married, Sep-
tember 26, 1725, Charity Floyd, widow of
Benjamin Nicholl. She was born April 6,
1692, died June 1, 1758, daughter of Colonel
Richard Floyd, and granddaughter of Richard
Floyd, the immigrant. Richard, the first
settler, came from Wales about 1650, and
settled first at Setauket, about 1656; his wife,
Susanna, born 1636, died 1706, came with
him. He acquired much land and was one
of the fifty-five original proprietors of Brook-
haven. He died about 1700. His descend-
ants still live on some of the land he owned.
Richard Floyd, Jr., was born May 12, 1665,
died February 28, 1726 ; married, September
10, 1685, Margaret, daughter of Hon. Mat-
thias Nicholl. She was born May 30, 1662,
died February 1, 17 18. Floyd was colonel of
provincial troops of Suffolk county : was ap-
pointed in 1723 judge of the court of common
pleas ; was a successful and prominent lawyer.
Matthias Nicholl was born in 1630 in Plym-
outh, England, died December 22, 1687, in
New York ; was a lawyer ; secretary to the
commission under patent of the Duke of
York ; captain ; judge of supreme court, 1683-
87 ; speaker of first assembly : codified New
York laws.

(V) Hon. William Samuel, son of Rev.
Dr. Samuel (2) Johnson, was born October
7, 1727, died November 14, 1819; married
(first) Ann Beach, born April 25, 1729, died
April 26, 1796, daughter of William Beach,
born 1694, died July 26, 1751. and Sarah
(Hull) Beach, who died February 9, 1763.
John Beach, father of William, was born in

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1679, died 1750, married Hannah Birdsey,
born 1671, died October 15, 1750. John Beach,
lather of John, married Hannah, daugh-
ter of Thomas Staples, who came to Connecti-
cut before 1645 an^ settled at Fairfield, be-
coming a man of importance and influence in
the colony. The wife of Thomas Staples was
accused of witchcraft by Deputy Governor
Ludlow, but was acquitted and the governor
was fined ten pounds for defaming her char-
acter.

(VI) Judge Samuel William, son of Wil-
liam Samuel Johnson, was born October 23,
1761, died October 25, 1847; married, Novem-
ber 27, 1791, Susan, daughter of P. Edwards,
horn December 24, 1777, died 1856. Their
•daughter, Sarah E. Johnson, born October 31,
1798, died March 10, 1867; married, June 13,
1827, George Pollok Devereux. He was born
an Newberne, North Carolina, in 1795, grad-
uated at Yale College in 18 15 and was ad-
mitted to the bar at Newberne in 1818. He
died in May, 1837, from a hemorrhage of
fthe stomach, at Suffolk, Virginia, while on
Ins way to spend the summer with his father-
in-law at Stratford, Connecticut. Three
•daughters died in infancy. The other chil-
dren were: I. Elizabeth Johnson Devereux,
known as Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, born at
Raleigh, North Carolina, August 12, 1833, a
literary woman of national fame ; married
(first) June 13, 1855, at New Haven, Francis
Geoffrey Quay Umsted, a lawyer, of Phila-
delphia, St. Louis and New York City ; mar-
ried (second) Grinfill Blake, of New York
City, at Middletown, Connecticut, May 9, 1868 ;
her children by the first marriage took the
name of their stepfather, Blake: i. Elizabeth
Johnson Devereux (Umsted) Blake, born
February 15, 1857, in St. Louis; married,
July 1, 1885, John Beverly Robinson, and has
Beverly and Elizabeth Devereux Robinson,
twins, born in New York, April, 1886, and
Devereux, born in New York City, August,
1888; ii. Katherine, born July 10, 1858, known
as Miss Katherine Devereux Blake, now prin-
cipal of a very large school on Madison ave-
nue, New York. 2. Georgina Pollok Dev-
ereux, born August 10, 1837 (posthumous) ;
married, June 6, 185 1, Rev. John Townsend
(see Townsend VIII).

The surname Trow-
TROWBRIDGE bridge is derived from

the place name. Per-
haps the oldest town of this name is in Wilt-
shire and its history dates back of the Con-
quest. The name has been in use in England
as a surname from the very beginning of the
use of surnames. The Trowbridge coat-of-

arms is described : Or on a bridge of three
arches embattled in fess gules masoned sable
as many streams transfluent towards the base
proper a tower of the second thereon a pen-
nant argent.

(I) Thomas Trowbridge, progenitor of the
American family, lived at Taunton, Somerset-
shire, and his ancestors were doubtless of that
town for several generations. Lie was a mer-
cer and a man of wealth. He gave in trust,
December 4, 1614, certain property, the in-
come of which was to be given to the poor
of the parish of St. James and the parish of
St. Mary Magdalen. This trust is still in ef-
fect. He died at Taunton, February 20, 1619-
20, at an advanced age. His will bequeaths to
his surviving children, grandchildren, rela-
tives, friends and dependents a considerable
estate. Children : Alice, baptized June 24,
1568, married Benedict Webb; John, baptized
March 25, 1570, mentioned below; Dorothy,
married Robert Goodsall in 1594.

(II) John, son of Thomas Trowbridge, was
baptized at Taunton, March 25, 1570, and re-
sided there all his life. He was a woolen
draper, and as his father's chief heir was
wealthy and influential. In middle age he was
mayor of the town and for many years was
warden of St. Mary Magdalen Church and
member of the board of trustees of the alms-
house. He died in July, 1649. His first wife
was buried June 6, 1622. He married (sec-
ond) in 1624, at Taunton, Alice Read, widow
of Robert Read. Children and dates of bap-
tism : Thomas, mentioned below ; Elizabeth,
February 8, 1598-99: John, May 31, 1601 ;
Prudence, February 3, 1602-03; Agnes, Feb-
ruary 10, 1604-05 ; William, March 22, 1607-
08; James, December 3, 1609; Joan, May 21,
1612; Tacy, May 7, 1615.

(III) Thomas (2), son of John Trow-
bridge, and the first of his family to come
to America, was born in Taunton, Somerset-
shire, England. In his early manhood he was
engaged in business as a mercer in Exeter in
Devonshire. In the Exeter records, his mar-
riage license appears as follows : "26 March
1627 Mr. Thomas Trobridge and Elizabeth
daughter of Mrs. Alee Marshall widoe mar-
ried, Jeremy Short parson," and in the parish
register of St. Petrock's, Exeter, are the bap-
tisms of the four children born in Exeter.
Elizabeth Marshall, the wife of Thomas Trow-
bridge, belonged to a wealthy and prominent
family of Exeter. Her father, John Marshall,
the younger, is called "the worshipful Mr.
John Marshall" ; he was bailiff of Exeter in
1601, sheriff in 1609, and mayor in 1615, re-
taining afterwards the position of alderman.
Her mother was Alice (Bevys) Marshall,

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daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Prouz)
Bevys, both of whom came from old and
prominent families in Exeter. Richard Bevys
had been sheriff of Exeter in 1591, governor
of the Guild of Merchant Adventurers in
1594, and mayor in 1602.

Thomas Trowbridge came to America as
early as 1636, with his wife and two youngest
sons, and settled at first in Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts. Thomas and his wife are mentioned
in the records of the town as "Mr." and
"Mrs.," a distinction confined at that time to
people of gentility. His wife was a member
of the Dorchester church in 1638, and their
youngest son, James, was baptized there in
1637 or 1638. It is probable that he was
born there in 1636. The land records of Dor-
chester contain several references to Thomas
Trowbridge during the years 1637-38-39. In
the list of members of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company of Boston in 1638 is
the name "Thomas Strawbridge," which is
supposed to be an incorrect entry for Thomas
Trowbridge. He removed to New Haven in
1639, though his name does not appear in the
list of proprietors there until 1641, when he
is credited with five heads in his family, sup-
posed to have been himself, his wife, and
three sons, Thomas, William and James. His
estate is given as five hundred pounds, a large
sum for that time and place. He was en-
gaged in the foreign shipping business, with
extensive trade between England, the West
Indies and the Colonies. He returned to Eng-
land as early as 1641, leaving his entire estate
in trust and the care of his three sons to his
steward, Henry Gibbons. The latter proved
unfaithful to the trust, and kept possession of
the estate for many years, until after the death
of the father, when he made a deed of the
entire property to the younger Thomas. On
the death of Gibbons in 1686, Thomas was
appointed his administrator and recovered
everything. Thomas Trowbridge died in
Taunton, Somersetshire, England, and was
buried there February 7, 1672-73. His wife
died in New Haven, it is supposed, in 1641.
Children, the first four born in Exeter, Eng-
land : Elizabeth, baptized March 6, 1627-28,
buried May 10, 1630, in Exeter ; John, bap-
tized November 5, 1620, buried February 16,
1653-54, in Taunton : Thomas, baptized De-
cember it, 1631 : William, baptized September
3- J633 : James, born 1636.

(IV) Thomas (3"), son of Thomas (2)
Trowbridge, was baotized December 11, 163T,
in Exeter, Devonsliiu. England. He came in
early childhor ] with his parents to Dorchester.
Massachusetcs, and a few years later removed
with them to New Haven. When his father

was called back to England in 1641, Thomas
and his brothers were left in charge of Henry
Gibbons, who was so unfaithful to his trust
that the property left for their use was greatly
impaired, so that in April, 1644, the remainder
of it and the children were placed by the town
authorities under the care of Sergeant Thomas
Jeffrey and his wife, "to be well educated and
nurtured in the fear of God." With them
Thomas passed his boyhood. Soon after his
coming of age, on April 4, 1654, the "oath of
fidelity" was administered to him. Three
years later, June 24, 1657, he married a daugh-
ter of a leading merchant of the colony, and
settled down to a life of business activitv and
social and political prominence in New Haven.
He was an enterprising man, and became a
successful merchant and shop owner. He was
also active in politics, and frequently served
as juryman and in minor official positions. On
October 1, 1653, he was chosen "watch sen-
tinel" ; in 1667 he was county treasurer and
the town constables appointed his warehouse
as a place for bringing in the rates for county
taxes. He was made a freeman of Connecti-
cut, May 20, 1668. In 1673 he was made
commissary of the expedition to be sent
against the Dutch at New York, but saw no
active service. He was confirmed lieutenant
of the New Haven Troop, May 20, 1675, and
doubtless saw active service in King Philip's
war. He was treasurer of the town in 1679-
80, and in the latter year was chosen select-
man, an office which he held eight years. He
was made justice of the peace in 1687. He
acted as agent for the town in the purchase
of much land from the Indians ; was commis-
sioner for New Haven from 1690 to 1693, and
a member of the New Haven proprietors com-
mittee for many years. He was much inter-
ested in educational matters and when the
Hopkins grammar school was established in
1669, he was chosen a trustee of the school
and served on that board until his death. He
was a regular attendant at the First Church
meeting-house, to which he was admitted a
member, April 3, 1687. He died August 22,
1702, and was buried in the original town
burial ground on the Green in the rear of the
first meeting-house. His grave is now in-
cluded in the crypt of the present Center
Church. He married (first) June 24, 1657, in
New Haven, Sarah, born July 31, 1641, in
New Haven, died January 5, 1687. in New
Haven, daughter of Henry and Sarah Ruth-
erford. He married (second) April 2, 1689,
in New Haven, Hannah (Nash) Ball, born
July 24, 1655, in New Haven, died February
3, 1707-08, in New Haven, widow of Eliphalet
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(Tapp) Nash. Children (born in New
Haven) of first wife: Sarah, born November
7, 1658, died March 20, 1675-76; John, De-
cember 23, 1661 ; Thomas, February 14, 1663-
64; Lydia, June 7, 1666, married, December
22, 1681, Richard Rosewell; Caleb, October
28, 1670; Daniel, January 5, 1672-73, died
February 29, 1739-40; Elizabeth, June 30,
1676, married, April 5, 1691, John Hodshon;
Sarah, September 24, 1680, died December 29,
1690. Child of the second wife: Hannah,
born March 30, 1690, married, January 30,
1709-10, Joseph Whiting.

( V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3)
Trowbridge, was born February 14, 1663-64,
in New Haven. He was graduated in 1677
from the Hopkins grammar school, and later
learned the cooper's trade. Fie was also in-
terested in the West India trade, and is de-
scribed in the records as "gentleman, planter
and merchant." Soon after his marriage he
went to live in a house built for him by his
father in 1684, on Meadow street. This house,
though greatly changed in appearance, is still
standing, and is the oldest house in New
Haven. At his death he left an estate of
twelve hundred and eighty-five pounds, the
largest in New Haven up to that date. He
was admitted a member of the First Church,
December 25, 1689, his wife, March 11, 1691.
He was a trustee of the Hopkins grammar
school from 1695 till his death, and its treas-
urer from 1703. He died September 15, 171 1,
in New Haven, and is buried in the Center
Church crypt. He married, October 16, 1685,
in New Haven, Mary, born June 24, 1667, in
New Haven, died there September 16, 1742,
daughter of John Winston. Children, born in
New Haven: Sarah, November 26, 1686;
Stephen, September 7, 1688; Mary, April 9,
1691 : Elizabeth, March 29, 1693; Thomas,
December 20, 1695; Joseph, April 1, 1699;
Twins, unnamed, November 16, 1701, died
soon ; Daniel, mentioned below.

(VI) Daniel, son of Thomas (4) Trow-
bridge, was born October 25, 1703, in New
Haven. He attended the Hopkins grammar
school, and was graduated from Yale College
in 1725. He made his home in New Haven
during his life, and commanded vessels for
a number of years, afterwards becoming a
merchant. He lived on the east side of
Meadow street, just north of Water street. He
made a large fortune for those days, and his
inventory shows an estate of forty-nine hun-
dred pounds. He died August 4, 1752, and is
buried, with his wife, under the crypt of Cen-
ter Church. He married, April 8, 1731, in
Xew Haven, Mehetable, born April 9, 171 1,
in New Haven, died there October 1, 1797,

daughter of Francis and Hannah (Ailing)
Brown. Children born in New Haven: Han-
nah, June 3, 1732, died August 17, 1739;
Daniel, April 12, 1734, died February 29,
1740; Joseph, June 15., 1736; Newman, Sep-
tember 7, 1738; Daniel, August 27, 1740, died
September 1, 1742; Thomas, May 2, 1742;
Rutherford, February 3, 1744, mentioned be-
low; Stephen, December 21, 1746; John, June
1, 1748; Daniel, October 23, 1750.

(VII) Rutherford, son of Daniel Trow-
bridge, was born February 3, 1744, in New
Haven. He spent his life in his native town.
He learned the mason trade, at which he
worked for some years and acquired consider-
able wealth. After the revolution had begun
he petitioned the state for the right to manu-
facture salt-petre, and received the first bounty
for that commodity, and a large part of that
article used in the revolution was produced
by him. During the revolution he was an
earnest patriot. At the time of the British in-
vasion of New Haven, he sent his wife and
children to a place of safety, and taking his
musket, an old "king's arm," went out with
the volunteers to West Haven Green to re-
pulse the British. After the enemy gained
possession of the town, he did not dare go
back to his own house for two days for fear
of falling into their hands. When he did at
last return, everything was found undisturbed,
even to the bread, which the family, in their
hasty flight, had left in the oven. He was
a man of sterling integrity and worth. He
was admitted a member of the First Church,
October 26, 1788 ; his wife Dorcas was ad-
mitted February 25, 1781. He was one of the
early members of Hiram Lodge. No. 1, Free
and Accepted Masons, of New Haven, being
elected in 1765. He died April 6, 1825, in
New Haven, and is buried in the Grove Street
cemetery. He married (first) July 9, 1766,
in New Haven, Dorcas, born November 10,
1746, in Woodbridge, died February 12, 1788,
in New Haven, daughter of Captain Amos
and Dorcas (Foote) Hitchcock. He mar-
ried (second) January 1, 1793, in New Haven,
Thankful (Ailing) Mix, widow of Nathaniel
Mix, of New Haven, and daughter of John
and Abiah (Hitchcock) Ailing, baptized Oc-
tober 12, 1755, in New Haven, died August 8,
1831, in New Haven. Children of first wife,
all born in New Haven : Rutherford, born
February 4, 1768, died September 7, 1769;
Joseph, April 27,, 1769; Wealthy, November
2T, 1770; Rutherford, April 25, 1772, died
January 4, 1788; Melissa, January 17, 1774;
Lucretia, July 25, 1775 ; Grace, November 30,
1776; Elizabeth, September 25, 1778; Henry,
July 30, 1781, mentioned below; Amos, No-

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vember 25, 1783; Dorcas, January 14, 1786;
Hannah, October 11, 1787, died February 24,
1788. Child of second wife: Rutherford,
July 9, 1794, died September 13, 1795.

(VIII) Henry, son of Rutherford Trow-
bridge, was born July 30, 1781, in New
Haven. He started life as a sailor, on the
ship "Betsey," sailing for the Pacific and
China, September 17, 1799. On the voyage
he made such proficiency in navigation that
he was promoted to be the captain's clerk, and
taken by the captain to Canton, where he laid
the foundations of his career as a merchant.
On his return to this country, he became first
officer of a West Indiaman. After making
several voyages he accumulated sufficient
money to purchase a small sloop on the Con-
necticut river, and fitting her as a schooner,
embarked in the West India trade. He in-
creased the trade from time to time, and
finally established the firm of Trowbridge,
Dwight & Company with his nephew, Timothy
D wight. In 1 83 1 his eldest son Thomas was
admitted to partnership, and the name changed
to that of Trowbridge, Son & Dwight, being
again changed to Trowbridge, Sons & Dwight,
after the admission of his son Henry. After
the retirement of Mr. Dwight in 1847, the
firm became H. Trowbridge & Sons, and after
the elder Trowbridge's death, the business was
continued in the name of Henry Trowbridge's
Sons. He died in New Haven, October 7,
1849. He married, January 1, 1806, in New
Haven, Harriet, born March 1, 1789, in New
Haven, died there November 21, 1851, daugh-
ter of Ezekiel and Mary (Heminway) Hayes.
Children, born in New Haven : Emily, Octo-
ber 6, 1806, died October 6, 1808; Harriet
Emily, August 7, 1808; Thomas Rutherford,
July 17. 1810, mentioned below; John, July
16, 1812, died July 28, 1812; Jane Louisa,
July 25, 1813; Henry, April 22, 1816; Eze-
kiel Hayes, April 21. 1818; Winston John,
May 10, 1820, mentioned below; Eliza Ame-
lia, August 3, 1822 ; Caroline Augusta, Janu-
ary 27, 1825; Julia Ann, January 12, 1827;
Cornelia Adeline, February 5, 1829, died Oc-
tober 23, 1830; Ellen Maria, August 5, 183 1.

(IX) Thomas Rutherford, eldest son of
Henry Trowbridge, was born in New Haven,
Connecticut, July 17, 18 10, died May 26,
1887. He completed his education at Part-
ridge's celebrated military school at Middle-
town, and at the age of twenty-one was ad-
mitted a partner in the well-known shipping
firm of Trowbridge, Dwight & Company, of
which his father was senior partner. The name
of the new firm was changed to Trowbridge,
Sen & Dwight, afterward to Trowbridge, Sons
& Dwight, on the admission of his brother

Henry. Business was conducted under that
name until the retirement of Mr. Dwight in
1847, the firm then becoming H. Trowbridge
& Sons. After the death of their father in
1849, Thomas R. and his three brothers es-
tablished the firm of Henry Trowbridge's
Sons, which succeeded to the business of the
older firm, and of which Thomas R. Trow-
bridge became the senior partner. From the
time of his first entrance into his father's firm
until his death, a period of over sixty years,
Mr. Trowbridge was actively engaged in the
business and, with the exception of absence
in the West Indies and elsewhere, was al-
ways at the office. He was a man of sound
judgment, founded on solid information and
a wide experience of men, cautious in en-
gaging in new enterprises, but resolute in car-
rying them out with activity and spirit when
undertaken.

Mr. Trowbridge was selected to serve as a
member of the boards of directors in many
corporations, but, with few exceptions, he de-
clined to accept such appointments. He was
elected a director of the Mechanics' Bank in
1847, and at the time of his death was its
oldest director, having served on its board for
forty years, and he was also a director in the
New Haven Bank. He was a director of the
Hartford & New Haven Railroad Company
until its consolidation with the New York &
New Haven Railroad Company in 1872. He
was also a director in the Security Insurance
Company of New Haven. For many years he
was secretary and treasurer of the Long
Wharf Company, and was also secretary of
the Tomlinson Bridge Company. From 1872
to 1883 he was president of the New Haven
Chamber of Commerce, and was a life mem-
ber and one of the founders of the New Ha-
ven Colony Historical Society, to whose pub-
lished volumes he contributed a number of
important papers. Throughout his life he
was one of the most efficient supporters of the
First Ecclesiastical Society of New Haven,
and a valued member of the First Church,
with which he and his wife united in 1840,
and from 1849 until his death he was a mem-
ber of its standing committee. Mr. Trow-
bridge married, September 17, 1834, Caroline,
born in New Haven. Connecticut, April 30,
1818, daughter of Captain Simeon and Polly
(Harrison) Hoadley. She is living at the
present time (1910) in the Trowbridge house
on Elm street, facing the Green.

(IX) Winston John, son of Henry Trow-
bridge, was born May 10, 1820, in New Ha-
ven. He was engaged in the West India busi-
ness with his father. At nineteen he was sent
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sugar interests of the firm in the West Indies.
( )n coming of age he was admitted a partner
both in the home firm, and of Trowbridge &
Company, the West India firm. After his
father's death he and his three brothers es-
tablished the firm of H. Trowbridge's Sons.
Lie was the first of the name to live in the
West Indies, and the great prosperity of the
firm there was due largely to his manage-
ment. August 31, 1852, he was appointed by
President Fillmore, United States consul for
Barbados and adjacent islands. This appoint-
ment continued throughout the civil war, dur-
ing which time he was able to render impor-
tant service to his country. In the fall of
1864 his health failed and he returned to New
Haven for medical treatment ; he died Novem-
ber 6, 1864. He had been admitted a mem-
ber of the First Church of New Haven in

1853, and his second wife was received into
the same church by certificate in 1858. He
married (first) June 12. 1850, in New Haven,
Alary Dwight Newton, born January 11, 1829,
in Harmony Mission, Osage Nation, died Oc-
tober 30, 1852, in Barbados, British West In-
dies, adopted daughter of Isaac Leavenworth,
of New Haven, and daughter of Rev. Sam-
uel and Mary Hunt Seeley (nee McCarthy)
Newton. He married (second) August 31,

1854, in New Haven, Margarette Elford, born
December 22, 1828, in New Haven, died there
January 2, 1903, daughter of James Edmund
Prior and Eliza Ellen (Jarman) Dean. Chil-
dren of the first wife, born in Barbados : Mary
Leavenworth, May 6, 1851 ; Caroline Augusta,
October 29, 1852. Children of second wife:
Winston John, mentioned below ; Florence
Maud, December 25, 1859, in Barbados;
Frank Dean, March 16, 1861, in Barbados;
Elford Parry, mentioned below ; Constance
Blanche, May 22, 1864, in Barbados. Frank
Dean Trowbridge graduated from Yale in
1884, entered the National New Haven Bank
the same year as a clerk and cashier and in
1905 was made president, which position he
now holds : married Carrie Hubbell ; children :
Margaret Dean and Mary Brewster ; his home
is at No. 230 Church street. New Haven, Con-
necticut.

(X) Rutherford (2), youngest son of
Thomas Rutherford Trowbridge, was born in
New Haven, Connecticut, December 1, 185 1,
and is residing there at the present time. His
early education was acquired at the popular
school of Stiles French in New Haven, in
preparation for Yale College, but in 1868
was induced to accept a position in the West
India branch of the house of Henry Trow-
bridge's Sons, in the island of Barbados. In
1885 he was admitted to full partnership with

his father and brothers, the firm name being-
Henry Trowbridge's Sons, and was occupied
in this connection when the firm was dissolved
by mutual consent. Mr. Trowbridge is en-
gaged in the care of numerous family trusts
and with the management of a number of cor-
porations with which he is identified. He is
a director in the National New Haven Bank
and the Carrington Publishing Company, pro-
prietors of the Morning Journal-Courier, the
oldest newspaper of Connecticut. He is much
interested in the public weal, and has contrib-
uted generously to the civic, educational and
charitable institutions of New Haven. In
1889 ne established the Thomas R. Trowbridge
Course of Lectures on Architecture in the
Vale School of Fine Arts ; as a memorial to
his father's memory he placed a memorial
window in Center Church, illustrating the ar-
rival of the first settlers in New Haven, in
1638, and as a memorial to his only son he
founded the Rutherford Institute in the Young
Men's Christian Association, New Haven,
which is designed to give a technical education
to poor boys, and the Rutherford Trowbridge,
Jr. Scholarship in Hopkins grammar school.
Mr. Trowbridge is a member of the New Ha-
ven Park Commission, and a director of the
New Haven Hospital, the New Haven Board
of Associated Charities and the Connecticut
Humane Society. In New Haven he is a
member of the Ouinnipiack Club, the Union
League Club, the Country Club, the Yale
Archaeological Society, the Connecticut Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences, and is a life mem-
ber and director of the New Haven Colony
Historical Society. He is also a member of
the Union League Club and the Metropolitan
Museum of Arts of New York City, the Na-
tional Geographical Society of Washington.
D. C, the Connecticut Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, and is an associate
member of the New Hampshire Society of the
Cincinnati. In Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
where he has passed many summers, he is a
director of the Golf Club and of the Casino
Company. He is a member of Trinity Church
(Episcopal) in New Haven, of which he is at
present (1910) a vestryman. Mr. Trow-
bridge married, January 8, 1891, May Wells,
daughter of Franklin and Julia Lockwood
(Smith) Farrel, of Ansonia.

(X) Winston John (2), son of Winston
John (1) Trowbridge, was born in New Ha-
ven, November 24. 1856. He attended the
Hopkins grammar school of New Haven,
from which he graduated in 1875, and Yale
College, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1879 with the degree of A. B. He
studied his profession in the Yale Law School

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and received the degree of LL. B. in 1881.
He was admitted to the New Haven county
bar in 188 1. He was for a time clerk in the
office of the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Company. He then had the
management of extensive real-estate interests
and the care of estates in trust. In 1907 he
was elected assistant treasurer of the New
Haven Savings Bank. He is a director of the
Second National Bank of New Haven, of the
New Haven Gas Company, the New Haven
Water Company, and is a trustee of the New
Haven Savings Bank. He is a member of
the Graduates Club of New Haven, the New
I laven Lawn Club, the New Haven Country
Club, the New Haven Colonial Historical So-
ciety, and the Chamber of Commerce. He at-
tends the St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal
Church of New Haven. Tn politics he is a
Republican. He married, October 16, 1884,
Annie, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, of Lex-
ington, Kentucky. Children : Mary Mitchell,
born July 15, 1890; Winston John, born July
15, 1892, died December 19, 1893. Mrs.
Trowbridge's father was a banker at Lexing-
ton, cashier of the First National Bank there ;
her mother was decended from the Throck-
morton and Dudley families of Virginia.

( X ) Elford Parry, youngest son of Winston
John Trowbridge, was born in New Haven,
Connecticut, September 16, 1862, and is re-
siding there at the present time (19T0). He
graduated from Yale University in 1887 with
the degree of B. A. After spending two
years in travel, he entered the paymaster's
office in the New York. New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Company, and in 1893 was ap-
pointed stationer for that corporation, his du-
ties being to purchase and distribute stationery
and all kindred supplies used by that railroad
system. While he served in that capacity, that
branch of the company's business was con-
ducted in a most efficient manner and various
economies were inaugurated. Resigning- this
position in 1898, he purchased a controlling
interest in the Montowese Brick Company, a
brick manufacturing plant of Montowese,
near New Haven, and subsequently acquired
all of its stock, being now sole owner and pres-
ident of the company. Mr. Trowbridge is a
member of the Quinnipiack, Graduates, New
Haven Country and New Haven Lawn clubs,
the New Haven Colonial Historical Society,
the Yale Club of New York City, and the Yale
Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater-
nity.

Mr, Trowbridge married, October 5,
1904, in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Anna Bertha,
born January 1. 1866, in Old Lyme, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Ellen (Noyes) Chadwick.

The Yibbert or Vibbard fam-
VIBBERT ily of Hartford, Connecticut,

may have been of French Hu-
guenot ancestry. John Vibbert, the pioneer,
came to Hartford about 1700. He seems to
have been a mariner, and died in 1714 in the
prime of life. His widow Mary was appointed
guardian of their children, all minors, Janu-
ary 4, 1714-15. Children: John, born 1706,
James, mentioned below.

(II) James, son of John Vibbert, was prob-
ably born in Hartford, in 1708. His age was
given as six years when his mother was ap-
pointed guardian in 17 14-15. He died No-
vember 12, 1806, at the great age of ninety-
eight years.

(III) Elisha, son of James Vibbert, was
born in Hartford, July 17, 1763. He was a
merchant in Hartford. He married and
among his children was William, mentioned
below.

(IV) William, son of Elisha Vibbert, was
born in East Hartford, July 4, 1784. He was
Mipercargo and captain of a merchantman, en-
gaged in the East Indies trade. He died De-
cember 19, 18 19. He married, in 1808, Pris-
cilla Moore, of Salisbury, Connecticut, born
in 1787, died May 5. 1839, daughter of Dan-
iel Moore, born March 2, 1764, died April 15,
1822, and Priscilla Newcomb, born 1761, died
February 3, 1788. Children: Mary, married
William Brown ; Julia, married W. W.
Holmes ; William Elisha, mentioned below.

(V) Rev. Dr. William Elisha Yibbert, son
of William Vibbert, was born in New York
City, June 26, 1814, died December 2, 1895.
He was educated in a private academy at
New Rochelle, New York. For a few years
lie was engaged in business in New Haven,
Connecticut, then he studied theology under
the instruction of Rev. Harry Croswell, D. D.,
and was ordained a deacon, February 14,
1845, in Hartford, by Bishop Brownell, and
priest, November 12, 1845, at Fairhaven, Con-
necticut. He received the honorary degree of
Master of Arts from Trinity College, Hart-
ford, in 1850, and D. D. from Nebraska Col-
lege in 1876. He was assistant to the rector
of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of
New Haven for a few months before he be-
came rector of St. James, Fairhaven, May
1, 1845. He had a long, useful and honorable
career in the ministry, continuing from May
1, 1845, to August, T892, a period of over
forty-seven eventful years. He was then hon-
ored with the office of rector emeritus during
the remainder of bis life, and continued to lie
interested in his parish. He was a trustee

1 if the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut from
1872 until his death: trustee of the fund for

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the Aged and Infirm Clergy, 1865 to 1893,
and secretary of the board from 1873 to
1893. He married, November n, 1835, Mary
Esther Cooke, born in New Haven, July 15,
1815, died February 20, 1903 (see Cooke VI).
Children: 1. Rev. Dr. William H. Vibbert,
born in New Haven, October 1, 1839; pre-
pared for college at the Episcopal Academy of
Connecticut, Cheshire ; graduated from Trin-
ity College, 1858, and from the Berkeley Di-
vinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, in
1862; ordered deacon, June 4, 1862; priest,
October 28, 1863 ; received the degree of S.
T. D. from Racine College in 1883 ; Pro-
fessor of Hebrew in Berkeley Divinity School
and rector of Christ Church, Middle Haddam,
Connecticut, 1863-73 ! rector of St. Luke's
Church. Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1873-83 ;
rector of St. James' Church, Chicago, 1883-
90; rector of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia,
1890-91 ; vicar of Trinity Chapel, New York
City, 1891-1910. He married, October 2,
1866, Julia Xewbold, daughter of William
Welsh, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, author:
Guide to the reading of the Hebrew Text,
two editions, 1872-75 ; a Plain Catechism of
Church Principles. Children: William Welsh,
M. D., born February 25, 1873, was gradu-
ated from Trinity College, 1894, was gradu-
ated from College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, New York, 1897, died March 26, 1900;
Aubrey Darrell, born July 9, 1879, graduated
from Trinity College, 1899 ; Mary Howard,
married Frederick W. Keasby ; children: Julia
and Anthony Quinton Keasby. 2. Howard
Cooke, mentioned below.

(VI) Howard Cooke, son of Rev. Dr. Wil-
liam Elisha Vibbert, was born in New Haven,
Connecticut, December 14, 1845. He attended
the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven,
and in 1864 entered Trinity College in Hart-
ford, where he was graduated with the de-
gree of A. B. in 1868. He became a teacher
in the Shattuck School at Faribault, Minne-
sota. Then for a few years he was engaged
in business in New York City. He was inter-
ested in history and kindred subjects, and for
a time was librarian of the New Haven Colo-
nial Historical Society. Since 1885 he has
lived in retirement at his home, No. 702
Orange street, New Haven. From time to
time he has contributed papers on historical
subjects to various societies and publications.
He is a member of the Graduates Club of
New Haven, the New Haven Colonial His-
torical Society, the Connecticut Society Sons
of the American Revolution, through the Stan-
ley and Judd lines. In religion he is an Epis-
copalian. He married (first) October 1, 1879,
Alice J. Barnes, born February 14, i860,

daughter of William Barnes, of New Haven.
She died October 1, 1881, and he married
(second) February 19, 1908, Frieda Reuther,
born in Dresden, Germany. His only child,
Howard Curtis, died at the age of a year and
a half.

(The Moore Line).
Thomas Moore, the first settler of South-
old, Long Island, son of Thomas and Ann
Moore, born about 161 5 or 1616 in England,
was in New England as early as July 11,
1636, and probably earlier, and died at South-
old, Long Island, June 27, 1691. By tradition
he was a shipwright. Before July 11, 1636,
he married (first) Martha, daughter of Rev.
Christopher Youngs, vicar of Reydon, Suf-
folk county, England, to which the chapel of
Southwold was then attached, and of Mar-
garet, his wife. She, Martha, was baptized at
Southwold, England, on July 1, 1613, and
came with him to Salem, Massachusetts, and
thence removed to Southold, Long Island,
where she lived until 1671 or later. About
1680 lie married (second) Katharine (prob-
ably Westcate), widow (first) of Thomas
Doxy, of New London, Connecticut, and ( sec-
ond) of Daniel Lane, of New London and
Setauket.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Martha Moore, baptized at Salem, Massachu-
setts, October 21, 1639, died about 171 1.

Married Mott, of Mamaroneck, about

1662.

(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Moore, born January 8, 1663, died December

30, 1738. Married Jane about 1695,

born 1677, died November, 1736.

(IV) Captain Samuel, son of Thomas (3)
and Jane Moore, born at Southold, 1717, re-
moved to Litchfield, Connecticut, and later to
Salisbury, Connecticut. Married, probably at
Litchfield, October 9, 1735, Rachel Landon,
born probably at Southold, daughter of James
and Mary (Vail) Landon. He died Janu-
aiT 5> T796; she died at Salisbury, Septem-
ber 19, 1798.

(V) Samuel (2) (the mathematician), son
of Captain Samuel (1) Moore, was born at
Litchfield, Connecticut, October 27, 1736.
Married Hannah, daughter of John and Mar-
tha Beebe. She was born April n, 1740,
died October 10, 1805. Samuel Moore was
author of "An Accurate System of Surveying"
printed at Litchfield by T. Collier, 1796. He
died February 20, 1810.

(VI) Daniel, son of Samuel (2) and Han-
nah Moore, was born at Salisbury, Connecti-
cut, March 2, 1764. Married Priscilla, daugh-
ter of Azariah and Deborah (Buell) New-
comb, in 1787. She was born 1761, died Feb-

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ruary 3, 1788. Daniel Moore was a promi-
nent lawyer at Salisbury. He died at New
York, April 15, 1822.

(VII) Priscilla, daughter of Daniel Moore,
was born in 1787, died April 5, 1839. Mar-
ried Captain William Vibbert in 1808 (see
Vibbert IV).

(The Judd Line).

The surname Judd is one of the oldest Eng-
lish surnames, and is identical with Jude, an
old and now almost obsolete personal name.
Judson and Judkins are formed from the
same name.

(I) Deacon Thomas Judd, immigrant an-
cestor, came from England in 1633-34, and
settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
he had a home lot granted to him in August,
1634. It was in that part of the town known
as the West End, on the road to Watertown.
He had other land granted in 1635, and was
admitted a freeman May 25 of that year. He
removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636,
and had two acres for a home lot, near the
Charter Oak. He was one of the first pro-
prietors and settlers of Farmington, Connecti-
cut, and removed there from Hartford about
1644. His home lot was on the main street,
and he was a substantial farmer and an in-
fluential man. He was deputy to the general
court several times. He was a charter mem-
ber of the Farmington church, and was its sec-
ond deacon. He died November 12, 1688, aged
about eighty. His first wife died in Farming-
ton, and he married (second) December 2,
1679, Clemence Mason, widow of Thomas Ma-
son, of Northampton, and resided in North-
ampton the remainder of his life. He was se-
lectman there in 1682. Children, order of
birth not known : Elizabeth, married, Decem-
ber 27, 1653, Samuel Loomis ; William, men-
tioned below ; Thomas, born about 1638, mar-
ried Sarah Steele; John, born about 1640,
married Mary Howkins ; Benjamin, born about
1642, married Mary Lewis ; Mary, born about
1644, married, January 1, 1663, Thomas Loo-
mis; Ruth, baptized February 7, 1647, mar-
ried John Steele ; Philip, baptized September
2, 1649, married Hannah Loomis ; Samuel,
born about 165 1, married Mariah Strong.

(II) Sergeant William Judd, son of Dea-
con Thomas Judd, married, March 30, 1658,
Mary, daughter of John and Rachel Steele, of
Farmington; she died October 27, 1718, aged
about eighty. He lived, in Farmington, and
was counted a well-to-do citizen for those
days. The inventory of his estate was pre-
sented November 5, 1690. His age when he
died was about fifty-five years. Children:
Mary, baptized July 22, 1660; Elizabeth, July
22, 1660, died young; Thomas, October 13,

1662; William,, January 8, 1665, died young;
Thomas, born 1663; John, mentioned below;
Rachel, 1670, died unmarried 1703 ; Samuel,
1673; Daniel, 1675; Elizabeth, 1678.

(III) John, son of Sergeant William Judd,
was born in 1667. He lived in Farmington
and died there in 17 10. The inventory of his
estate, presented September, 17 10, was three
hundred and eighty pounds. He married Ra-
chel . She died in 1717. Children:

William, mentioned below ; Eunice, married
John Abbott, of Norwalk, 1724; Rhoda, mar-
ried, 1735, Jared Lee.

(IV) William (2), son of John Judd, was
born in 1698-99, lived in Farmington, died
September 1, 175 1. The inventory of his es-
tate, six thousand and ninety-five pounds, old
tenor. He married, March 14, 1723, Ruth,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Loomis)
Lee. She married (second) 1760, Jacob Kel-
logg. Children: Lois, born January 2, 1724,
married Hezekiah Wadsworth, 1744 ; John,
January 1, 1726; Ruth, November 5, 1728,
died young; Eunice, February n, 1733-34,
married Judah Woodruff; Jesse, August 3,
1739; William, mentioned below; Azuba, mar-
ried Daniel Webster, of West Hartford, 1758;
Elizabeth, married Joseph Skinner, of West
Hartford.

(V) Major William (3) Judd, son of Wil-
liam (2) Judd, was born July 20, 1743, died
at Farmington, November 13, 1804. He grad-
uated at Yale College, 1763. He was a law-
yer, an officer in the revolution, and for many
years a conspicuous and leading man in the
Democratic party of Connecticut. He mar-
ried, December 8, 1765, Elizabeth, daughter
of Ebenezer and Mercy (Sedgwick) Mix, of
West Hartford, widow'of Caleb Merrill. Chil-
dren : William Samuel, mentioned below ; Bor-
tiva, born 1767, died 1774; William, died
1776; Elizabeth Olive, married William T.
B eld en.

(VI) Major William Samuel Judd, son of
Major William (3) Judd, of the revolutionary
war, was born January 10, 1766, died at New
Britain, in Berlin, March 27, 1835. He grad-
uated at Harvard College, 1787, and spent
some years engaged in trade. He married,
March 26, 1789, Esther, born September 25.
1768, daughter of Colonel Gad Stanley, of
the revolutionary war (see Stanley VI).
Children: Henry, died 1819; Maria Mix, n.en-
tioned below ; Philip Samuel, died May,
185 1 ; Rev. Thomas Stanley, graduate of
Trinity College, Hartford, 1832, an Episcopal
minister.

(VII) Maria Mix, daughter of Major Wil-
liam Samuel Judd, born 1791, died August 1,
185 1 ; married, December 24, 1809, John How-

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arcl Cooke, of New Haven. Their daughter,
Mary Esther, married Rev. William Elisha
Vibbert (see Vibbert V and Cooke VI).

(The Stanley Line).

(I) John Stanley, the first of the name of
whom we have information, died in April,
1634.

(II) Captain John (2) Stanley, son of
John (1 ) Stanley, was born in January, 1624,
died December 19, 1705. He settled in Far-
mington, Connecticut. He married, Decem-
ber 15, 1645, Sarah, daughter of Thomas
Scott, of Hartford.

(III) Thomas, son of Captain John (2)
Stanley, was born November 1, 1649. He
married, May 1, 1690, Anna, daughter of Rev.
Jeremiah Peck. He died April 14, T713.

(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Stanley, was born October 31, 1696, died Oc-
tober 13, 1755. He married Esther, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Rachel (Porter) Cowles,
January 2, 17 18.

(V) Colonel Gad Stanley, son of Thomas
(2) Stanley, was born March 21, 1735, died
January 10, 1815. He married, October 29,
1767, Mary, daughter of John Judd (son of
Deacon Anthony Judd), and Mary (Burn-
ham) Judd.

( VI) Esther, daughter of Colonel Gad
Stanley, was born September 25. 1768, died
June 25, 1830. She married Major William
Samuel Judd (see Judd VI).

(The Cooke Line).

(I) Thomas Cooke was born in England,
and settled among the first in Guilford, Con-
necticut, where he signed the church covenant,
June t, 1639. He was a deputy to the general
court at Hartford in 1666. He married (first)

Elizabeth ; (second) March 30, 1668.

Hannah Lindon. who died July 7. 1676. He
died December 1, 1692. Children of first
wife: Thomas, mentioned below: Sarah, mar-
ried Thomas Hall.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Cooke, was born about 1642, died in 1701. He
married, April 15, 1677. Sarah Mason, of Say-
brook. Children, born at Guilford : Eliasaph,
June 2, 1678, died young; Thomas. December
24, 1679, died young: Alice, June 3, 1681 ;
Samuel, T683, died young; Sarah, August 2,
1685 ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Elizabeth,
February 22, T689; Sarah, March 17. 1692.
died young; Mehitable, March, 1694; Deliv-
erance. January 12, 1696.

(III) Rev. Samuel Cooke, son of Thomas
(2) Cooke, was born in Guilford, November
23. T687, died December 2, 1747. He gradu-
ated from Yale College in T705, and taught

the grammar school at New Haven for a
time; was a member of the general assembly
1702-15, and clerk; was ordained in July,
17 1 5, pastor of the Bridgeport Church, Strat-
field. Connecticut, which he retained until his
death. He was a fellow of the Yale corpora-
tion from 1732 to 1746.

1 he Rev. Samuel Cooke married (first),
November 2, 1708, Ann, born July 20, 1688,
daughter of John and Anna (Leet) Trow-
bridge, granddaughter of Thomas and Sarah
(Rutherford) Trowbridge and of Governor
William and Ann (Paine) Leet. She died
August 11, 1721. He married (second), May
3. 1722, Esther, daughter of Nathaniel Burr
and widow of John Sloss, of Fairfield. lie
married (third) Elizabeth, daughter of Jo-
seph Piatt, of Norwalk. She died May 16,
1732. He married (fourth) August 6, 1733,
Abigail, widow of Rev. Joseph Moss, of Derby,
and daughter of Rev. Samuel Russell, of Bran-
ford, Connecticut. Children of first wife :
Thomas, born September 1, 1709: Samuel,
July 22, 1711; Sarah, June 8, 1713; John,
mentioned below ; Daughter, October 27, 17 16,
died same day; Anna, April 11, T718: Wil-
liam, May 29, 1720, chaplain in the French and
Indian war. Children of third wife: Joseph
Piatt, January 4, 1730, member of congress ;
Eliasaph, March 20, 1732, died following
day : Jonah, twin of Eliasaph.

(IV) John, son of Rev. Samuel and Ann
(Trowbridge) Cooke, was born March 31,
1 715, at New Haven, died in New Haven,
July 12, 1813, in his ninety-ninth year. He
married (first) October, 1739, Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. Thomas Toucey : she died
December 15, 1740: had one daughter, Anna,
born December 3, 1740, who married William
Hayes Fitch, of Poland, Ohio. He married
(second) September 21, 1747, Martha, daugh-
ter of Joseph Booth, of Stratford, Connecti-
cut; she died June 23, 1799. After her death
Mr. Cooke lived with his children and died
at his son John's in New Haven. Children
of second wife: Thomas, born October 17,
T750; Elizabeth, October 15, 1752, married
Zebulon Kirtland ; Sarah, March 21, 1755,
married Thaddeus Beardsley, of Huntington,
Connecticut; John, mentioned below; Samuel.
January 29, 1760, Philadelphia : Dorcas, Au-
gust 9, 1763, married William Worden, of
Bridgeport, Connecticut.

(V) John (2), son. of John (t) Cooke, was
born at New Haven, May 23, 1757, died Sep-
tember 8, 1835. He was a pioneer carriage
builder in New Haven, and a man of some im-
portance. He married. May 26, 1787, Anne,
daughter of William Lyon (2), of New Ha-
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daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jones)
Maltby. She died October 25, 1838.

(VI) John Howard, son of John (2) Cooke,
was born 1788, died February 11, 1857. He
married, December 24, 1809, Maria Mix Judd,
born 1 79 1, died August 1, 1851, daughter of
William Samuel Judd (see Judd VI). Their
daughter, Mary Esther, married Rev. Dr.
William Elisha Vibbert (see Vibbert V).

(The Eaton Line).

Governor Theophilus Eaton, born in Stony
Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England, in
1590, son of Rev. Richard Eaton, married
(first) Grace Hiller, December 3, 1622.
She died February, 1626. Married (second)
Ann Yale, widow of David Yale, in
1627. Came to America, arriving at Boston,
June 26, 1637 > came to New Haven. April,
1638; -was the first governor of New Haven
Colony where he was greatly venerated. Died
January 7, 1657.

(II) Hannah, daughter of Governor Theo-
philus and Ann (Yale) Eaton, was baptized
October 6, 1632. Married William Jones
(born 1624), deputy-governor, July 4, 1659.
She died May 4, 1707.

(III) Isaac Jones, son of Deputy-Governor
William and Hannah (Eaton) Jones, was
born June 21, 1671, married Deborah, born
October 24, 1672, daughter of James (2) and
Deborah (Peacock) Clark. He died May 28.

1735-

(IV) Deborah, daughter of Isaac and De-
borah (Clark) Jones, was born September
25, 1700; married Nathaniel Maltby, Decem-
ber 4, 1723.

( Y) Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and
Deborah (Jones) Maltby, was born in Say-
brook, Connecticut, September 4, 1724, died
October 16, 1810. Married William Lyon,
horn in Boston, April 10, 1716, died January
31. 1767.

( \ I) Anne, daughter of William and Eliza-
beth (Maltby) Lyon, born 1760, died Octo-
ber 25, 1838; married John Cooke, May 26,
1787 (see Cooke V).

The surname Phelps is a varia-
PHELPS tion of the spelling of the name

Phillips, meaning, son of Philip,
in the case of the original ancestor using it.
The spelling of the surname has been varied
and a number of well-established family
names arc traced to the same origin. One
branch of the Phelps family, however, claims
to be of the Guelph family of Germany to
which Queen Victoria belonged, but no proof
of record has been found to establish the
claim. Some branches of the American fam-

ily of Phelps are descended from the ancient
family of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, Eng-
land. Among them is the family mentioned
below. The ancient coat-of-arms is described
as follows : Sable lion chained and rampant.
Various branches of the English family have
their coats-of-arms.

(I) James Phelps was born about 1520, and
is supposed to have been a brother of Francis
Phylppe, of Nether Tyne, Staffordshire, Eng-
land. He married Joan , who was

given permission to administer his estate on
May 10, 1588. Children (baptismal dates,
Tewkesbury Abbey Church, England) : Wil-
liam, August 4, 1560, mentioned below;
Thomas, August 10, 1563-64; George (Giles)
September 5, 1566: Alice, December 24, 1572;
Edward, May 10, 1578; Keneline, October 16,
1580; Richard, October 16, 1583; Robert, July
18, 1584; Nicholas.

(II) William, son of James Phelps, was
baptized at Tewkesbury Church, England, Au-
gust 4, 1560. and married Dorothy ,

who administered his estate and died in 1613.
He probably died in 161 1. Children (bap-
tismal dates, Tewkesbury Abbey Church) :
Mary, September 4, 1587, died young; Mary,
April 23, 1588; Thomas, June 24, 1590; Dor-
othy, February 29, 1595 ; "William, August 19,
1599, mentioned below; James, July 14, 1601 ;
Elizabeth, May 9, 1603 ; George, born about
1606.

(III) William (2), son of William (1)
Phelps, was baptized at Tewkesbury Abbey
Church, England, August 19, 1599. He was
the immigrant ancestor. He resided for a
time in Tewkesbury, and his first child, Rich-
ard, was baptized in the church there. Soon
after this he probably removed to one of the
southern counties, as there is no further rec-
ord of him in Tewkesbury. He and his wife,
six children, and his brother George, came to
New England in the ship "Mary and John,"
Captain Squeb, sailing from Plymouth, Eng-
land, March 20, 1630, and landing at Nan-
tasket, now Hull, May 30, 1630. He settled
at Dorchester and was among the first set-
tlers and founders of that place. He was a
prominent man and often served on important
committees to lay out boundary lines. He ap-
plied for admission as a freeman, October 19,
1630, and was admitted soon afterward. He
was one of the jury on the first jury trial in
New England, November 9, 1630. He was
constable in 163 1 : deputy to the general court
1634-35. He removed to Windsor, Connecti-
cut, in the fall of 1630, and William Phelps
was one of the six who formed the first town
meeting of Windsor. At a court held May t,
1637, William Phelps presiding, it was ordered

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that there "shall be an offensive war against
the Pequots." He was magistrate 1630-43,
1645-49, 1656-62 inclusive. He was dep-
uty in 165 1. In 1641 he was governor of the
Windsor colony. He was a man of property,
as shown by the high pew rent that he paid.
He subscribed also toward the fund for the
poor. Not being able to prove his title and
payment for the land he bought of Sehat, an
Indian in Windsor, William Phelps paid for
it the second time, the legal tender used being
wampum. He resided on the road running
northerly, a short distance north of the Mill
river valley, and he was among those who suf-
fered from the great flood in 1639. Soon
after the flood he removed farther north and
settled on what is known as Phelps Meadows,
and his son William lived a short distance east
of him. The cellar of the old house may still

be seen. He married , who died in

]<^>33'> (second), in 1638, Mary Dover, who
came from England on the "Mary and John."
He died at Windsor, July 14, and was buried
July 15, 1672. His wife died November 27,
1675. His will was dated April 22, 1660,
and proved July 26, 1672. Children of first
wife: Richard, baptized in Tewksbury, Eng-
land, December 26, 1619 ; William, born in
England; Sarah, born in England about 1623;
Samuel, born in England, about 1625 ; Na-
thaniel, born in England, about 1627, men-
tioned below ; Joseph, born in England, about
1629 ; Timothy, born at Windsor, September
1, 1639; Mary, born at Windsor, March 2,
1644.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of William (2) Phelps,
was born in England, about 1627, and came
to New England with his father. He settled
first in Dorchester and then in Windsor, Con-
necticut, where he married, September 17,
1650, Elizabeth Copley, of England, a de-
scendant of Copley, the celebrated artist. She
died in Northampton, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 6, 1712, and her will was proved there.
Nathaniel Phelps resided on the Orton place,
opposite his father's homestead, which he pur-
chased of his brother Samuel. About 1656-
57, he removed to Northampton and was one
of the first settlers there. He was one of the
first deacons of the Northampton church and
occupied his homestead forty-three years. The
farm was occupied by his descendants until
1835. It comprised the land which was for-
merly the site of Miss Margaret Dwight's
school, and later the College Institute of J.
J. Dudley, and which is now "Shady Lawn."
The old house stood a few rods north of the
present house. On February 8, 1679, he and
his sons Nathaniel, Jr., and William, took the
oath of allegiance before Major Pyncheon, and

May 11, 1681, he was admitted a freeman.
He died in Northampton, May 27, 1703, aged
seventy-five years. Children : Mary, born
June 21, 1651, Windsor; Nathaniel, June 2,
1652, Windsor; Abigail, April 6, 1665, Wind-
sor, died aged one hundred and one years four
months and eleven days ; William, June 22,
1657, mentioned below ; Thomas, May 20,
1661, Northampton; Mercy, May 16, 1662,
Northampton, died July 15, 1662.

(V) William (3), son of Nathaniel Phelps,
was born at Northampton, June 22, 1657, and
died January 1, 1745. He settled on the
homestead at Northampton, and was admitted
a freeman, May 30, 1680. He married, May
30, 1678, Abigail, born September 24, 1660,
died 1748, daughter of John Stebbins. Chil-
dren: Abigail, born August 3, 1679, married
August 3, 1697, Joseph Parsons ; Elizabeth,
February 4, 1682; William, April 16, 1684;
Mary, January 3, 1688; Nathaniel, October
5, 1690; Deborah, May 17, 1694; Ebenezer,
October, 1697, mentioned below ; Joseph Aus-
tin, December 5, 1699; Mary, May 4, 1703.

(VI) Ebenezer, son of William (3) Phelps,
was born in October, 1697, and died March
8, 1769. He married, in 1740, Sarah Taylor,
born 1706, died October 10, 1742; (second)
Maria Austin, of Suffield, Connecticut, born
1710, died at Northampton, November 18,
1787. Children of first wife: Ebenezer> born
November 4, 1740, mentioned below; Sarah,
September 27, 1741.

(VII) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
Phelps, was born November 4, 1740, and died
October 3, 182 1. He resided in Northamp-
ton. He was in the revolution in Captain Oli-
ver Lyman's company, August 7, 1777. He
married, August 2, 1764, Phebe, born 1743,
died December 8, 1826, daughter of John
and Phebe Wright, of Northampton. Chil-
dren : Ebenezer, born July 14, 1766, men-
tioned below; Phebe, July 25, 1769; Sarah,
June j, 1770; Marion, March 11, 1772; John,
November 9, 1773 ; Asahel, September 24,
1775; Marion, March 5, 1779; Rachel, May
12, 1782.

(VIII) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2)
Phelps, was born July 14, 1766, and died De-
cember 6, 1826. He was a prominent citizen,
large land owner and well-to-do farmer. A
large tract of land that he formerly owned is
now in the very center of the city of North-
ampton. He married Keziah Parsons, No-
vember 2, 1796. She was born September 16,
1766, and died June 16, 1853. Children:
Spencer, mentioned below ; Patty, born April
I, 1799, died young; Charles, April 21, 1800,
died 1801 ; Ebenezer, August 8, 1802; Charles,
July 26, 1804; Lewis, May 7, 1806; Chester,

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October 14, 1807; son, died young; George,
July 21, 1809, died 1810; Phebe, March 21,
1812; Keziah, April 6, 1814.

(IX) Spencer, son of Ebenezer (3)
Phelps, was born at Northampton, September
4, 1797, and died in 1873. He was a farmer
and also engaged in butcher business. In pol-
itics he was a Whig until the formation of
the Republican party, of which he became a
member. He attended the First Congrega-
tional Church of Northampton. He and his
wife are both buried at Northampton. He
married, in 1823, Annie Harris, born Decem-
ber 21, 1801, in Norwich, and died in 1873,
at Northampton. Children, born at North-
ampton: 1. George S., carriage dealer at
Northampton ; married Frances A. Clapp ;
children; William C, Mellie S., George E.
2. Anna Maria, married Enos Wright, of
Northampton ; children : Ann Maria Wright,
Edward Enos Wright, Henry Lewis Wright,
Ella A. Wright, Charles Samuel Wright, Mar-
tin A. Wright. 3. Edward, died in infancy.
4. Edward H., tinsmith of Northampton, born
August 5, 183 1 ; married, December 24, 1863,
Sarah A. Cobb ; children : Annie Cobb, Cara
Cobb. 5. Henry S., born July 25, 1836; was
a soldier in the Union army during the civil
war, in Company C, Eleventh United States
Regulars ; was taken prisoner and died in An-
dersonville prison, unmarried, in 1861. 6.
Charles W., born December, 1838; died aged
eighteen years. 7. Lewis M., mentioned be-
low.

(X) Hon. Lewis Monroe Phelps, son of
Spencer Phelps, was born August 22, 1841,
at Northampton, where he spent his boyhood
and youth and attended the public schools.
He left school at the age of fourteen and
worked for various farmers in the vicinity.
Three years later he went west and worked
in Illinois and Iowa two years. Returning to
Northampton, he learned the trade of carriage
making and followed it until he was twenty-
four years old. He enlisted, August, 1862, in
Company C, Eighty-second Regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, and served until August
11, 1863. He took part in- the battle of Port
Hudson and many other notable battles of the
civil war. When he was twenty-four he en-
gaged in the contracting business for one
year. Then for six years he was foreman in
charge of a number of men in the car shops
of Wason Manufacturing Company, of
Springfield, Massachusetts, and afterward had
a similar position in the car shops of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railway Com-
pany. In 1875 he came to Wallingford, Con-
necticut, to establish himself in business as a
tinsmith, plumber and dealer in stoves, ranges

and similar goods. A few years later he
leased his present store in the Wallace Block
and purchased a half interest, and in 1898
bought the other half interest. He has in-
vested extensively in real estate in Walling-
ford, especially in tenement houses. He has
accumulated a substantial fortune in his busi-
ness, and by shrewdly investing his surplus.
In politics he is a Republican, and for a num-
ber of years he has held a commission as jus-
tice of the peace. He has had charge for
many years of the department of weights and
measures of the city. For two years he was
a member of the court of burgesses. In Octo-
ber, 1 90 1, he was appointed electrical commis-
sioner for three years. In 1904-05 he repre-
sented Wallingford in the general assembly.
Since 1902 he has been borough judge. He is
a member of Arthur Dutton Post, Grand
Army of the Republic ; of Compass Lodge of
Free Masons ; of Accanant Lodge of Odd
Fellows, in which he held in succession all the
offices, and for a number of years has been a
member of the Grand Lodge of the State. He
is also a member of the Encampment, Rebekah
and Canton branches of the Odd Fellows. He
was a prime mover in the organization of Ac-
canant Lodge and its first vice grand. He has
been treasurer of Friendship Encampment and
member of the board of trustees. He married,
June I, 1864, Jennie M., of South Deerfield,
Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel Hastings.
They have no children.

Guy Rowland Phelps, deceased,
PHELPS for many years a physician and
druggist of Simsbury and Hart-
ford, was a man of varied attainments and
prominently identified with insurance interests.
Prior to the reign of Edward VI. the Phelps
family patronymic was spelled Phellyppes.
Dr. Phelps belonged to the Guelph family,
tracing his ancestry to George I., of England.
He was a descendant in the seventh genera-
tion of William Phelps (q. v.), who was born
at "Tewkesbury, England, in 1599, emigrated
to America about 1630, first making his home
at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and became one
of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut,
in 1635. From him the chain of descent is
as follows: Joseph, born in England, died at
Simsbury in 1684; Joseph (2), born August
27, 1667 ; David, a lieutenant in the militia,
born May 7, 1710; Major-General Noah
Phelps, born January 22, 1740; and Colonel
Noah A., the father of Guy Rowland, born
May 3, 1762.

Dr. Guy R. Phelps was born at Sims-
bury, April 1. 1802. His mother's maiden
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schooling was received at Simsbury and Suf-
field, and he graduated from Yale in 1^25.
He was a close student, an apt and facile
learner, and qualified himself for the profes-
sion of teacher while yet a mere youth, and in
fact successfully managed an exceedingly dis-
orderly school, where other — and more expe-
rienced— pedagogues had failed. For several
winters he taught with marked success, de-
voting his summers to the study of medicine,
for which profession he felt a strong voca-
tion early in youth. His first medical pre-
ceptor was Dr. Coggsvvell, a noted and suc-
cessful practitioner of those days, who in ac-
cordance with the custom of his times gave
instruction to three or four embryo physicians.
Going to New York, young Phelps pursued
his studies under the tutelage of those eminent
physicians and surgeons, Dr. Alexander and
I )r. Valentine Mott.

After being licensed to practice Dr. Phelps
opened an office in New York City, where he
met with most gratifying success for three
years. However, his health became impaired,
and»he felt that change of scene and fresh
country air were necessary to restore his phys-
ical condition to its wonted strength. He
therefore returned to Simsbury, where he en-
tered upon the tiresome but active round of
duties incident to a country practice. After
four years of this life he felt well enough to
resume city practice and accordingly returned
to New York. Once more he found the me-
tropolis a field of success, and it was with
poignant regret that he realized that an ex-
tensive city practice (during the epidemic he
was at one time treating forty cases of small-
pox) might prove the means of shortening his
life. Again he returned to Simsbury, but the
long rides and uncertain hours of the country
practitioner were not to his liking, and in
April, 1837, he opened a drug store on North
Main street, Hartford. As a druggist Dr.
Phelps ranked among the first, while his finan-
cial success exceeded his expectations, and he
was recognized as the leading pharmacist of
his day and section. It was he who devised
the formula for the "Phelps Tomato Pill," a
preparation which had a wonderful sale in its
day, and which, together with the profits aris-
ing from his drug business, laid the founda-
tion of his fortune. He always retained his
membership in the County and State Medical
societies, with both of which he had for many
vears been activelv and prominentlv identi-
fied.

Perhaps, however. Dr. Phelps' most endur-
ing- claim to fame rests upon his connection
with the insurance business, to which the lat-
ter years of his life were devoted almost ex-

clusively. His attention was first directed to
the subject of life insurance in 1846, when he
took out a policy upon his own life. In the
United States the field was a terra incognita,
and the scheme was regarded with disfavor,
if not with positive distrust. Dr. Phelps was
quick to perceive the possibilities of the situa-
tion, and his keen, well-trained mind was of
a cast especially well qualified to grapple with
the intricate and perplexing,- problems which
presented themselves. Evidently the first task
to be accomplished was the education of the
American people as to the theory of life in-
surance and the fundamental principles upon
which it is based. At that time the business
was conducted generally in an expensive man-
ner, while the spirit of speculation was rife
among managements which knew compara-
tively nothing of the practical value of risks.
Plis ideas were so far in advance of his time
that, while some pitied what they termed his
"folly," others doubted whether his mental bal-
ance was in correct equipoise. Yet what were
then called his "fanciful" and "absurd" theo-
ries are to-day recognized (with necessary
modifications) as among the underlying prin-
ciples of every sound and well-managed com-
pany.

The great work of Dr. Phelps' life was the
organizing, establishing- and nurturing of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and it was he who conceived the plan under
which the great success of this company was
achieved. In 1846 the company was organ-
ized, Dr. Phelps becoming the first secretary,
and while that great corporation was strug-
gling in the swaddling bands of infancy he
even swept out his own office to save expense.
He had carefully studied the matter in all its
phases, and not long afterward made a spe-
cial trip to Europe to investigate the workings,
of the Old World companies, on his return
to America incorporating with his own plans
all the features of value he had found. He
wrote the charter of the company, which was
adopted practically word for word as com-
posed bv him, and fought for two sessions in
the legislature to have it granted. As the
company was a "mutual" one it was neces-
sary to obtain a guaranty fund of $50,000 —
to guarantee the payment of policies during
the infancy of the company — a task of far
greater magnitude, but at length ten of his
friends in Hartford, Simsbury and New York
came to his relief by signing notes aggregat-
ing that amount, Thomas K. Brace, three of
Dr. Phelps' brothers, two of his cousins and
an uncle being of the number. Dr. Phelps
was ever a tireless worker for the success of
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September, 1868, said : "It is not too much
to say, for it is a well-known and conceded
fact that the Connecticut Mutual owes its emi-
nent success and prosperity, in a very large
measure to the skill and labor of Dr. Phelps,
its principal manager from its organization to
the present time." He regulated and man-
aged its affairs in a most able manner, serving
as secretary for a time, and later, for a num-
ber of years, as president. Though not the
originator of the "mutual" system used in in-
surance he did more than any other man to
"elucidate and popularize" it. Just before his
death he told his daughter that the company
was on such staple footing that without any
management it would continue to run for
twenty-five years. After his demise the Life
Underwriters of Hartford passed resolutions
of sympathy and regret, etc., and among other
things said : "In the death of Dr. Guy R.
Phelps the Life Underwriters of the United
States have met with an irreparable loss."
The Insurance Times of March, 1869, said of
him : "A great and good man has left us
forever. A practical, laborious and eminent
philanthropist, who not only loved his fellow
men, but spent the energies of his life, the
gifts of his intellect and the goodness of his
heart in their behalf, is gone to his haven of
eternal peace and reward. His comfort giv-
ing and abundant works remain, and the spirit
with which he espoused and promoted a sa-
cred cause, and built up a great benevolent
institution, having inspired many others with
its kindling sympathy, will be perpetuated
and multiply on the earth for ages to come."

Dr. Phelps was a reflective reader and a pro-
found student, particularly fond of the study
of history and the languages, in both of which
he was proficient. He was a man fully abreast
of the times, thoroughly posted on the current
events of the day, and well-informed on gen-
eral subjects. Until 1856 he was a Democrat,
but after that date voted with the Republican
party, though it was his wont to say that he
had "never left his party, its name simply
changed." His fellow citizens showed their
appreciation of his worth by early choosing
him a member of the city council, and later
electing him an alderman, as well as by send-
ing him to represent them in the legislature.
For years he attended Dr. Horace Bushnell's
church, and was a liberal contributor to its
support and to the prosecution of its work;
he became a member during his later years.
Dr. Phelps was too old to enlist for service
in the rebellion, but was much interested in
the cause of liberty, and he volunteered to
double the pay of a man who would go to the
front as he had no son to send. His grand-

father served in the revolution, his father in
the war of 18 12, and he desired to have rep-
resentation ; accordingly he sent Charles Ten-
nant, who soon became second lieutenant, was
wounded at Antietam, recovered, was pro-
moted to captain, and was afterward killed.
Dr. Phelps ever after took a deep interest in
his family.

On April 17, 1833, at Simsbury, Dr. Phelps
married Hannah Latimer, born in that town
June 23, i8ot, daughter of Waite and Hannah
(Pettibone) Latimer. Children: Antoinette
Randolph, Maria Augusta, Guy Carelton and
Guyana Rowland, the first named being the
only one that attained maturity. Antoinette
R. Phelps is a resident of Hartford, her home
being at No. 72 Washington street, in that
city. She enjoys the dual distinction of being
a member of two of the most honored orders
in America, the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Colonial Dames.

Dr. Phelps was both a Freemason and an
Odd Fellow, and was held in high regard by
all who knew him, receiving the highest es-
teem from those who knew him best. As a
physician he was careful, reflective and con-
scientious, as a citizen patriotic, as a husband
and father gentle, loving and true, as a man
honest and fearless. He died March 18, 1869,
after a short attack of typhoid pneumonia.
Until within a few days of his passing away
his activity was unimpaired, but a cold con-
tracted through sitting near an open window
at a directors' meeting proved the indirect
cause of his demise. His wife survived until
May 28, 1873, when she, too, fell asleep. Both
rest in the cemetery at Simsbury, where also
sleep five generations of both families.

(IV) Samuel Phelps , son of
PHELPS William Phelps (q. v.), was
born in England about 1625,
and emigrated to New England with his fa-
ther in the ship "Mary and John," 1630. He
settled first in Dorchester, but removed to
Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635-36. He bought
there, October 1, 1657, Thomas Orton's house
and land south of the road separating it from
his father's homestead. He afterward sold
the rear of this lot and house to his brother
Nathaniel and removed to Poquonock, where
he had received a grant of land. He also
bought John Bartlett's place east of Stony
Brook, and lived there until his death. May
15, 1669. In 1666, he witnessed a deed of
land to his father by the Indians. He mar-
ried, November 10, 1650, Sarah, daughter of
Edward and Margaret Griswold. She was
born in Kenilworth, England, and came to
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her husband's death, she married (second)
Nathaniel Pinney, July 21, 1670. She died
November 6, 171 5. Her father, Edward Gris-
wold, was one of two brothers who came to
New England in 1639, in a vessel sent out by
Mr. William Whitney. Matthew, the other
brother, became the ancestor of the two Gov-
ernors Griswold. A third brother, Thomas,
remained in England. Edward was born in
England in 1607, and settled in that part of
Windsor called Poquonock. Later, he settled
in Killingworth, Connecticut, as one of the
first settlers and became a prominent man

there. He married (first) Margaret ,

who died August 22, 1670. He married (sec-
ond) Sarah, daughter of James Bemis, of
New London. Children of Samuel Phelps,
the first three born in Windsor, the others in
Poquonock: Samuel, September 5, 1652;
Sarah. March 16, 1653 ; Timothy, October 26,
1656; Mary, October 26, 1658; William, No-
vember 3, 1660, mentioned below ; John, July
7. 1662; Ephraim, November 1, 1663; Abi-
gail, May 16, 1666; Josias, December 16, 1667.

(V) William, son of Samuel Phelps, was
bom in Poquonock, Windsor, November 3,
t66o, and spent his life there. He married
Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Hannah
(Wilcockson) Hayden, born in Windsor, No-
vember 9, t668. He died November 21, 1711,

and she married (second) Smith. Her

father, Daniel Hayden, was a son of Lieuten-
ant William Hayden, who came over in the
ship "Mary and John," 1630. Her mother,
Hannah Wilcockson. was the daughter of Wil-
liam Wilcockson, of Stafford. Children, born
in Poquonock: Hannah, October 13, 1694;
Phebe, September t, 1696; William, men-
tioned below; Daniel, March 21, 1701 ; John,
March 21, 1703; Elizabeth, July 23, 1706;
Charles, October 13, 1708.

(VI) William (2), son of William (1)
Phelps, Avas born January 13, 1698, in Poquo-
nock, and married, . June 4, 1739, Martha,
daughter of Samuel Holcomb, born in Wind-
sor, November 8, 1722, died there, December
12, 1776. Samuel Holcomb, was the son of
Sergeant Benjamin Holcomb who was the
son of Thomas. Mr. Phelps settled in Wind-
sor, and is referred to in "History of Great
Barrington, Mass." as "2nd William of Wind-
sor, Ct., and also as owning a lot in Great
Barrington in the early Settlement there,"
but does not appear to have lived there. Chil-
dren, born in Windsor: William, September
22, 1740; Martha, April 8, 1742; Eli, men-
tioned below.

(VI I) Eli, son of William (2) Phelps, was
born August t6, 1743, in Windsor, and mar-
ried (first) Ruth Case; (second) Miriam

(Case) Adams, daughter of Noah Case, and
widow of Joseph Adams. She was born
1776, and died in Poquonock, May 4, 1869.
He settled in Poquonock, and died there, Jan-
uary 28, 1829. Children of second wife: 1.
Ruth, married (first) Fredus Case; (second)
Jehu Phelps Ellsworth; died July 1, 1842. 2.
Eli, September 1, 1807, mentioned below. 3.
Mary, about 1809. 4. Miriam, 181 3. 5. Mind-
well, married Manly Snow. 6. Sarah, April
9, 1817.

(VIII) Eli (2), son of Eli (1) Phelps, was
born September 1, 1807, in Poquonock, and
married Abigail Humphrey, at Winsted, Con-
necticut, May 2"/, 1846. She was the daughter
of James and Roxalana (North) Humphrey,
and was born in Norfolk, March 7, 1820. Mr.
Phelps settled in Poquonock, and was a farmer
by occupation. He represented his town in
the state legislature. He died there, Septem-
ber 1, 1879. Children, born in Poquonock:
William, December 23, 1847, mentioned be-
low; James H., January 4, 1849, died January
24, 1849; Emily, October 1, 1850, died July,
1852 ; Maria, November 22, 1852 ; Charlotte,
October 6, 1854.

(IX) William (3), son of Eli (2) Phelps,
was born December 23, 1847, in Poquonock,
and was educated in the schools of District
No. 8 of Windsor, at the academy in Wind-
sor, and the Connecticut Literary Institute,
Suffield. He spent his life on the old home
farm and carried it on in a thoroughly scien-
tific manner. He was an excellent business
man, of strict integrity, and retiring disposi-
tion. In early life he was a Democrat in
politics, but in later years became a Prohi-
bitionist. He married Mariette Dickinson, of
Haddam, Connecticut, daughter of Nathan
and Jemimah (Brainard) Dickinson. She
died June 23, 1899, and Mr. Phelps, January,
1906.

(IV) Lieutenant Timothy
PHELPS Phelps, son of William Phelps
(q. v.), was born in Windsor,
Connecticut, September 1, 1639. He married,
March 19, 1661, Mary, daughter of Edward
Griswold, of Killingworth, Connecticut. She
was born in Windsor, baptized October 13,
1644, and died several years before her hus-
band. He lived on the old homestead in
Windsor, on land which his father had pur-
chased from the Indians. He was propound-
ed October, 1663, and made a freeman May
2, 1664. In May, 1690, he was chosen lieu-
tenant of the train band in Windsor, and in
May, 1696, the soldiers chose him as captain
and the court approved the choice. He was
appointed a lieutenant by the general court.

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received his commission in 1709, and served
under Colonel Matthew Allyn's company in
the Queen Anne war. He died in 1719, and
his will, dated May 2, 1717, mentions all his
children except Mary, who died young, and
his grandson, Samuel Fder, son of his daugh-
ter Abigail. On June 11, 1667, there is a
record, ''to the poor of other colonies, Timothy
Phelps 3s. 6d." Captain Matthew Allyn led
a company from Windsor in the campaign
against Quebec, and in his letters to his wife,
at Woods Creek, near Albany, he says that
"Himself, Tim. Phelps, Obadiah Owen, Mat.
Taylor and Bartlett are sick. Taylor the
worst." He made a deposition in Hartford,
March, 1682-83, that he was son of William,
about forty-two years old. Children, born
in Windsor: Timothy, November 1, 1663;
Joseph, September 27, 1666; William, Febru-
ary 4, 1669; Cornelius, April 26, 1671, men-
tioned below ; Mary, August 14, 1673 ; Sam-
uel, January 29, 1675 ; Nathaniel, January 7,
1677; Sarah, December 27, 1679; Abigail,
June 3, 1682 ; Hannah, August 2, 1684; Anne,
October 2, 1686; Martha, November 12,
1688.

(V) Cornelius, son of Lieutenant Timothy
Phelps, was born in Windsor, April 26, 1671.
He married Sarah, born in Windsor, January
5. 1685, died there 1774, daughter of John
and Sarah (Phelps) Mansfield. He settled
in Windsor, and died there in 1741. His will,
in Hartford probate records, dated March 8.
1741-42. mentions wife Sarah, sons, Corne-
lius. John. Timothy, Isaac, and daughter,
Sarah Hutchinson. Children born in Wind-
sor: Sarah, December 7, 1705 ; Cornelius, June
2, 1707; John. July 6, 1710: Timothy, Febru-
arX 3> 1713' mentioned below : Isaac, July 22,
1722; Lot, or Lanslot, 1724.

(VI) Timothy (2), son of Cornelius
Phelps, was born in Windsor, ' February 3,
1713. He married, April 24. 1746, Margaret,
born in Windsor, December 31, 1723, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Margaret (Eno) Gillett.
He settled in Windsor, where two children
were born, then moved to Colebrook, where
the remainder of their children were born.
He returned to Windsor, where he died. Chil-
dren: Timothy, born July 4, 1748: Lancelot,
mentioned below, and John (twins), July 4,
1750; Margaret, March 2, 1752: Daniel. Sep-
tember n, 1753: Sabra. October 7, 1755; Ur-
sula, September 4, 1758: Edward, August 27,
1759-

(VII) Dr. Lancelot, son of Timothy (2)
Phelps, was born in Windsor, July 4, 1750, a
twin. He married. July 6. 1778, jerusha, daugh-
ter of John and Deborah Pinney, born in Wind-
sor, November 1, 1760, died in Groton, Tomp-

kins county, New York, March 16, 1842, aged
eighty-two. He was a physician, and prac-
ticed first at Windsor, in 1794, removed to
Colebrook, and then to Norfolk. From Nor-
folk he moved to Groton, where he died No-
vember 12, 1836, aged about eighty-seven.
He served in the revolutionary war, enlisting
May 8, 1775, in Third Company. Captain
Roger Enos, and was discharged December
18, 1775. He built the Greenwoods Hotel,
at the parting of the Waterbury river and
Greenwoods turnpike, about 1792 or 1793, and
lived there one year. Children, born in Wind-
sor, except the last two, who were born in
Colebrook: Paulina, October 24, 1780; Je-
rusha, November 1, 1782, died young; Lance-
lot, November 9, 1784, mentioned below;
Bethuel, February 16, 1787; Jerusha, January
27, 1790; Warren, January 10, 1793-94; Har-
vey, -September 4, 1796; Cicero, August 29,
1801.

(VIII) Dr. Lancelot (2), son of Dr. Lance-
lot ( 1 ) Phelps, was born in Windsor, No-
vember 9, 1784. He removed with his father
to Colebrook in 1794. He married Elizabeth
Loveland Sage, July 6, 1809, who was born in
Colebrook, August 26, 1789, where she died,
July 25, 1867. He* practiced his profession
for many years in Colebrook, until his health
became seriously impaired and he was obliged
to give it up. He engaged in agriculture, and
was also interested in mercantile business at
Hitchcocksville (now Riverton) with his son,
William H. Phelps. He resided a few years
in Riverton, then returned to Colebrook. He
represented the town in the general assembly
of the state many times, both before and after
the adoption of the state constitution in 1818.
He was active and influential in public affairs,
and was highly esteemed for his sound judg-
ment and fine character. He was a member
of congress during a part of Jackson's and
Van Buren's administrations, and was sub-
sequently nominated by his party for presi-
dential elector. He died at Colebrook. Sep-
tember 1, 1866. Children, born at Colebrook;
Caroline. March 7, 181 1, married Dr. F. B.
Graham: Elisha Sage, May 9, 1813, died
July 18, 1831, unmarried: William H. men-
tioned below; John and James (twins), born
January 12, 1822: John, married Maria Kel-
sey ; James, married Lydia A. Ingham.

(IX) William H. son of Dr. Lancelot (2)
Phelps, was born at Colebrook, April 5. 1818.
His first experience in business was as clerk in
a general store at Riverton. He was after-
ward in partnership with Normand Adams,
of East Winsted, and conducted a general
store in Winsted for three years. He then
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Wadsworth, of Hartford, formed the firm of
Wadsworth & Phelps, a wholesale dry goods
house. He sold his interest in 1854, and the
business, under various firm names, including
those of John V. Farwell, Potter Palmer and
Levi Z. Leiter, is now the well-known house
of Marshall Field & Company. In 1854 lie
returned to Winsted, having disposed of his
interests in Chicago. In 1857 he organized
the Hurlburt Bank of that town, and was
president until his death, August 27, 1864.
He managed the affairs of the bank with great
success and made a reputation second to none
for financial ability. In politics he was a
Democrat, and he was first warden of Win-
sted in 1859 under the borough government.
He was always interested and prominent in
municipal affairs. In religion he was an Epis-
copalian. His character is best described by
quoting the words of those who knew him
best. The resolutions adopted by the directors
of the bank were :

"Resolved, that we are fully sensible of the
loss to this institution of an able financier whose
faithfulness and diligence in managing the af-
fairs of the bank are fully apparent in the suc-
cess it has sustained at home and abroad for
its soundness and prosperity. We also feel
deeply his loss in common with this community
as an honest and capable adviser, a genial com-
panion and highly-esteemed citizen."

The Winsted Herald, August 26, 1864, said :

"In this institution (the bank) he rapidly
added to a reputation already high as a finan-
cier, and he thus became by degrees a coun-
selor to almost* all who had money to invest
throughout a wide region. In this relation he
took pleasure and felt an honorable pride. To
his credit be it said, that the relation was never
abused. For his advice he asked nothing, and
however trivial the application it was met with
uniform kindness and attention. The woman
anxious for the security of her single hundred
was treated with patience and consideration no
less than the affluent possessor of thousands, and
the assistance was even more cheerfully be-
stowed. In his bank management, though often
quoting and generally adhering to the principle
that 'a bank is not a benevolent institution,' he
was uniformly liberal, and the Hurlburt Bank,
while it has been richly productive to its stock-
holders, has always enjoyed the favor of the
community as a public benefit.

"As a citizen the deceased was a man of genu-
ine public spirit, and had he found a co-oper-
ative disposition in other citizens equally effi-
cient he would have done much in Winsted.
The beautiful park in our village is a monument
to his energy and liberality. He has made re-
peated but vain efforts to bring about the in-
corporation of a cemetery asociation suited to
the necessities and reputation of the town. In
the school project, which came near success
last winter and fell through only in consequence
of general apathy and causeless hostility, he was
a prime mover. And so we might mention
many other public enterprises to which he lent
a hearty sympathy, and that he did not go for-

ward alone in them is a mark of good judgment
and not blamable. Had the usual term of life
been allotted him, we know, of our own private
knowledge, that the proofs of his public spirit
would have been still more conspicuous. A
varied reading, the cultivation of travel, happy
facility at quotation and ready wit, engrafted
upon an exceedingly social nature, rendered him
the choicest of companions.

"Success always attracts admirers, but the
unusual concourse which followed to their burial
the remains of William H. Phelps yesterday
were not merely fascinated acquaintances, they
were friends fastened by holy ties, and the blow
which severed them plunged a large community
in deep and abiding sorrow."

He married, May 28, 1840, Lucy C, daugh-
ter of Dr. Luman and Betsey (Rockwell)
Wakefield. She was born in Winsted, May
26, 1820, and died there October 14, 1867.
Children : George Wakefield, mentioned be-
low ; Elizabeth Newhouse, born January 22,
1857, married Edward S. Soule.

(X) George Wakefield, son of William H.
Phelps, was born in Hitchcocksville, Litchfield
county, Connecticut, July 25, 1842, died in
Winsted, Connecticut, June 6, 1896. He at-
tended school at Winsted, Litchfield and Es-
sex, and the Everett School, of Hampden,
Connecticut. He began his career as an em-
ployee in his father's bank, and rose to the
position of cashier. When his "father died he
resigned. In politics he was a Democrat of
the old stamp. He served the borough of
Winsted as a warden, and had represented the
town in the state assembly. In religion he
was an Episcopalian and a vestryman of the
church. He married, February, 1867, Ellen
M., born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 13, 1840, daughter of William A. and
Minerva (Shears) Forbes. Children: 1.
Lancelot Lawrence, born June 4, 1869, died
September 15, 1869. 2. Judith Bigelow, No-
vember 8, 1870; married Ralph W. Holmes,
of Winsted, Connecticut; daughters: Ellen,
born May 30, 1908; Belinda, July 27, 1910. 3.
William Henry, March 23, 1874; cashier of
Hurlburt Bank, of Winsted, founded by his
grandfather, and of which his father was
cashier before him ; married Mary Pelton ;
child, George, born May 10, 1909. 4. Lance-
lot, August 24, 1880 ; educated in the public
schools and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ;
now train master on the New York Central
railroad, with headquarters in Utica, New
York ; married Olivia Smith ; children : Pier-
son Smith, born April 19, 1907; Mary Morton.
May 24, 1909.

(V) W'illiam (2), son of Lieu-
PHELPS tenant Timothy Phelps (q. v.),
was born in Windsor, Febru-
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Mudge, who died in Windsor, April 24, 1705.
He married, April 18, 1706, (second) Ruth,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Coggens)
Barber. She was born in Windsor, July 24,
1683, died there August 2, 1747. He settled in
Windsor, where he died in 1733. Children,
horn in Windsor by first wife : William,
March 16, 1702; Ebenezer, April 2, 1705.
Children by second wife: Caleb, January 11,
1708, mentioned below; Ruth, January 23,

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(VI) Captain Caleb, son of William (2)

Phelps, was born in Windsor, January 11,
1708. He married (first) December 24, 1730,
Mary, born in Windsor, May 13, 1707, died
there April 20, 1747, daughter of Edward and
Mary (Taintor) Moore. He married (sec-
ond) June 22, 1749, Mary Lathrop, widow of
Walter Henderson by whom she had two chil-
dren, Mary and William. In February, 1757,
he was chosen ensign of the train band in
Windsor, in the first regiment of the colony,
by the general assembly; in May, 1757, he was
made lieutenant, and in October, 1761, was
elected captain of the same train band. He
lived in Windsor, where he died July 15, 1781.
He was an officer in the revolutionary army.
Children, born in Windsor, by first wife :
Mary, July 24, 1734, died in infancy; Caleb,
January 24, 1738; Mary, May 14, 1740; Eli-
jah, July 18, 1744. Children by second wife:
Ruth, April 3, 1750; Lucy, January 3, 1752;
Ann, May 2j, 1753; George, December 9,
1755, mentioned below ; Hezekiah, October 3,

1758
will.

( VII) George, son of Captain Caleb Phelps,
was born in Windsor, December 9, 1755, and
baptized January 9, 1756. He married, May
23, 1784, Anna Theresa, born in Windham,
Connecticut, October 16, 1765, daughter of
Captain James and Ann Fitch. James Fitch
was son of Captain Fitch, son of Captain John
Fitch, son of Rev. James Fitch, son of Thomas
Fitch, of Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1663.
George Phelps was a farmer and lived in
Windsor, where he died February 16, 1816-17.
His widow died there October 29, 1854, aged
ninety. Children, born in Windsor : James
L., April 16, 1785; Walter, May 1, 1790;
Samuel, July 25, 1791, mentioned below;
Rhoda, August 16, 1793; Anne T., August 31,
1804.

(VIII) Samuel, son of George Phelps, was
born in Windsor, July 25, 1791. He was edu-
cated mainly by his grandfather, who was a
Yale graduate. He was a good Christian and
a useful citizen. He married, June 23, 1816,
Emily, born in East Windsor, died in Wind-
sor, December 26, 1870, daughter of John and

died young, not mentioned in father's

Elizabeth (Elsworth) Newbury. He lived in
Windsor, where he died May 3, 185 1. Chil-
dren, born in Windsor: Elsworth Newbury,
November 5, 1819, died November 16, 1824;
Elsworth Newbury, mentioned below.

(IX) Colonel Elsworth Newbury Phelps,
son of Samuel Phelps, was born at Windsor,
February 9, 1826, in the house he now occu-
pies. He attended the old Stony Hill school
and academies at Windsor, Easthampton, Wil-
braham and Ellington. At the age of nine-
teen years he taught his first term of school,
beginning at Ellington with the munificent
salary of eighteen dollars a month and "board-
ing around." He continued as a teacher dur-
ing five winter terms, teaching in his home dis-
trict, in the Bell district, at Windsor Locks,
and was accounted a very successful peda-
gogue. Since the time of his marriage he has
lived on the homestead and conducted it. He
enlisted August 18, 1862, in Company A,
Twenty-second Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teer Infantry, and was at once elected captain.
Between the hours of two and nine in the
afternoon, he recruited in one day one hun-
dred and thirty men. He was offered a colo-
nel's commission soon afterward, declined on
account of his lack of experience, and accepted
the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was in
active service for nine months, serving under
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. He had
charge of taking the votes from the soldiers in
the field in his regiment at the presidential
election. He returned to Windsor when he
was mustered out, and resumed farming. In
politics he was first a Whig, later a Republi-
can, and he has held many offices of trust and
honor. He has been selectman, justice of the
peace, grand juror, representative to the gen-
eral assembly in 1874 at the time when the
appropriation was made for the new capitol
building, and the last session for New Haven,
and was deputy sheriff of Hartford county for
sixteen years, from 1853 to 1869. He was en-
gaged in the manufacture of cigars, has been
an authority on tobacco and has been a large
grower. In addition to farming. Colonel
Phelps has followed the profession of civil
engineering and surveying, for which he was
fitted at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He
was assistant civil engineer on the Connecti-
cut River railroad, when it was first built
from Springfield to Northampton, and has
surveyed all over Hartford county, establish-
ing some important lines that required a search
of records as far back as the year 1700. He
once succeeded in putting back into the town-
ship of Suffield one hundred acres or more
that had been claimed and conceded to Granby
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is the best-known expert in this line of work-
in this section, and lie has been consulted in
all of the important engineering cases of re-
cent times. He is one of the best-known men
of the county. He has retained his health and
strength to a remarkable degree. In religion
he is an Episcopalian, and attends St. Gabriel's
Church.

He married, at Windsor, November 25,
1850, Lucy A. Marshall, a native of Connec-
ticut, born November 14, 1827, daughter of
Warren and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Marshall.
Elizabeth was a daughter of Dr. Christopher
Wolcott, a noted physician of Windsor, grand-
daughter of Dr. Alexander Wolcott, also of
Windsor, and a distinguished citizen in his
day. Dr. Alexander Wolcott was a son of
Governor Roger Wolcott, Simon (2), Henry
(1). Mrs. Phelps was prepared for the pro-
fession of teacher at the schools in Windsor
and by private instruction, and taught school
in Windsor and New Hartford before mar-
riage. Children: 1. Samuel Elsworth, born
June 30, 1852 ; has been town clerk ; now town
treasurer ; postmaster at Windsor ; married
Adella J. Filley ; child, Addie E. 2. Annie
Marshall, January 6, 1858; married Hugh
Harbison, of Hartford ; children : Lucy A.,
born February 6, 1889, graduate of Vassar,
1910; Hugh, September 9, 1892, at Yale;
Alexander W., March 21, 1894, now at An-
dover.

Peter Wainwright was
WAINWRIGHT an English merchant

who settled in Boston
soon after the revolution. He was the immi-
grant ancestor. He married, in Boston, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew,
D.D., a Congregational minister, and a de-
scendant of Thomas Mayhew, the first gov-
ernor of Martha's Vineyard. Soon after his
marriage Peter Wainwright went to Liver-
pool, where his three children were born. In
1801 he returned to Boston. Among his chil-
dren was Jonathan Mayhew, born February
24, 1792, mentioned below.

(II) Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright,
son of Peter and Elizabeth (Mayhew) Wain-
wright, was born in Liverpool, England, Feb-
ruary 24, 1792, and died in New York City
September 21, 1854. He came to America in
1801, graduated at Harvard College in 1812,
and taught school several years. He was ad-
mitted into the priesthood of the Episcopal
church in Christ Church, Hartford, Connec-
ticut, August 16, 1817, and became assistant
minister of Trinity Church, New York, in
1819; rector of Grace Church, New York, in
1821, and of Trinity Church, Boston, in 1834.

In 1838 he became again assistant minister of
Trinity Church, New York (St. John's
Chapel), and was consecrated Bishop of the
Diocese of New York, November 10, 1852.
He took up his new duties with great zeal, but
his health broke down under the strain. His
literary labors were numerous and varied. His
most important work, perhaps, was as chief
working member of the general convention to
prepare the standard edition of the Book of
Common Prayer. He had the honorary de-
grees of D.D. and LL.D. (Oxon) conferred
upon him. He married at Hartford, in Au-
gust, t8i8, Amelia Maria Phelps, born at New
Haven, January 24, 1797 (see Phelps VIII).
Children: 1. Elizabeth Mayhew, born Sep-
tember 1, 1819; died January 10, 1822. 2.
Commander Jonathan Mayhew, born January
27, 182 1 ; died January 1, 1863 ; commander in
the United States navy, and died in the ser-
vice of his country, while in command of the
U. S. S. Harriet Lane, in action at Galveston,
Texas ; married, February 8. 1844, Maria
Page, of Virginia ; children : i. Jonathan May-
hew, born January 7, 1849, died January 9,
1870, on board the U. S. S. Mohcgan, of
wounds received in action off the western
coast of Mexico; he was an ensign in the U. S.
navy; ii. Elizabeth Mayhew, born August II,
1850, died July 12, 1883. married John Page
Burnell, M.D., of Wilmington, Delaware : iii.
Robert Powell Page, born May 19, 1852, mar-
ried Josephine Serrell ; iv. Maria Page, mar-
ried Winston H. Slaughter. 3. Elizabeth, born
June 24, 1824; married, 1844, William Holley
Hudson, and died May 2, 1882. 4. Henry,
born December 11, 1825; died December 12,
1825. 5. Henry Phelps, born December, 1826;
died July 21, 1827. 6. Henry Phelps, born
1828 ; died January 6, 1846. 7. John Howard,
born June 15, 1829; died April 6, 1871 ; mar-
ried Margaret Livingston Stuyvesant, daugh-
ter of Nicholas William and Augusta Con-
tent (Cheesebo rough) Stuyvesant, of New
York City; children: i. John Howard, born
February 14, 1862, married, April 28, 1886,
Catherine Esther Walker, daughter of Fran-
cis Thompson and Catherine Esther (Pen-
fold) Walker, of New York: ii. Stuyvesant,
born June 15, 1863, married Caroline Snow-
den ; iii. Jonathan Mayhew, born December 10,
1864, married Laura Wallace Buchanan; iv.
Richard Tighe, born May 17, 1868, married
Alice T. Crawford. 8. Maria Trumbull, born
March 7, 1831 ; married. December 4, 1851,
Theodore Bailey Bronson, of New York, born
August 29, 1830, died December 5, 1881 ; chil-
dren: i. Arthur Bronson, born February 25,
1853, died October 11, 1855; ii. Amelia Maria
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drew Hammersley, Jr. ; iii. Anne Eliza Bron-
son, born December 18, 1855, married Sheldon
Smith ; iv. Theodore Bailey Bronson, born
July 29, i860, died October 27, 1886; v. May-
hew Wainwright Bronson, born March 29,
1864 ; vi. Talmadge Wainwright Bronson,
born November 8, 1866, died October 15,
1878. 9. Daniel Wadsworth, born June 14,
1833 ; died August 6, 1863, at New Orleans,
Louisiana; was M.D. and Major of U. S.
Volunteers and died of fever contracted while
in service. 10. Jannet Phelps, born December,
1837; died July 28, 1842. 11. Amelia Maria,
born May 31, 1838; died August 13, 1867;
married, August 19, 1863, Col. Henry C. Bank-
head, U.S.A. 12. Rev. Francis Chetwood, born
February 10, 1839 ; died November 30, 1874 ;
married, February 22, 1865, Frances Mary
Davis ; children : i. Belinda Emmot Davis,
born February 6, 1866; ii. Rev. Francis Chet-
wood, born June 6, 1867 ; iii. Amelia Maria,
born December 9, 1868. 13. Edward Bibby,
born February 19, 1841 ; died March 5, 1841.
14. William Augustus Muhlenberg, born Au-
gust 13, 1844; mentioned below.

(Ill) William Augustus Muhlenberg Wain-
wright, M.D., son of Rev. Jonathan Mayhev
and Amelia Maria (Phelps) Wainwright, nas
born in New York City, August 13, 1844, and
was the youngest of fourteen children. He
received his name from Rev. William Augus-
tus Muhlenberg, the founder of St. Luke's
Hospital, New York City. His earlier educa-
tion was at a private school, and he graduated
from Trinity College, Hartford, 1864. He be-
gan the study of medicine under the tuition of
Doctors Alexander Hosack and Henry B.
Sands, of New York, and after successfully
passing his examination in December, 1866,
went into the New York Hospital. He was
interne there from March to December, 1865,
and received his diploma after two years' ser-
vice in the hospital. He settled in Hartford,
where he afterwards made his home. In 1890
he was elected a member of the board of medi-
cal visitors to the Retreat for the Insane in
Hartford. In 1872 he was elected attending
physician and surgeon of the Hartford Hos-
pital, and later a visiting surgeon. He was
appointed assistant surgeon of the first com-
pany of Governor's Foot Guards under the
command of Major John C. Kinney, and held
that position for ten years. He was appointed
medical supervisor for the State Mutual Bene-
fit Life Insurance Company of New Jersey,
the Union Mutual Company of Maine, and the
United States Life Insurance Company of
New York, and one of the medical examiners
of these companies and of the Mutual Life
Company of New York. He was medical ex-

aminer of the Charter Oak Life Company, and
after the death of Dr. Jackson was made
medical director, and filled that position until
the company became insolvent. He was a
member of the American Medical Association
and of the State Medical Society. For sev-
eral years he was clerk of the Hartford
County Medical Society, that being the only
officer whose duties continued from year to
year. He was president of the society in the
one hundredth year of its existence, and made
a brilliant presiding officer through all the
exercises of the Centennial celebration. He
was a forceful and pleasing speaker. He was
a member and vestryman of St. John's Church,
Hartford, and was several times a delegate to
the State Diocesan convention, and was sent
as delegate to the general convention of the
church at New York in 1889 and at Balti-
more in. 1890. At the first dinner and annual
meeting of the Church Club of the diocese of
Connecticut, in January, 1893, he was chosen
president of the club, which was a marked
compliment. In 1865 he became a member of
Holland Lodge, No. 8, Free Masons, of New
York City, and on removing to Hartford
joined the St. John's Lodge. He was also an
active member of the Connecticut Chapter of
the Sons of the American Revolution, and a
member of the board of managers. His con-
tributions to medical literature have been able
and carefully prepared. He wrote the medi-
cal history chapter for the Memorial History
of Hartford County, and had reported several
cases and read various papers before the state
society. At the centennial anniversary of the
Connecticut Medical Society, his paper was
"Medico-Legal Aspects of Chloroform." It
was a consideration of a surgeon's account-
ability when his patient dies under the effects
of the anesthetic given for an operation. He
died at Hartford, September 24, 1894.

He married, January 14, 1869, Helena Bar-
ker, daughter of Thomas Grosvenor and Sarah
A. (Jones) Talcott (see Talcott IX). Chil-
dren : Mabel Wyllys, born December 9, 1869 '<
John Howard, June 15, 1871, died same day;
Talcott, May 22, 1872, died July 3, 1876; Jona-
than Mayhew, February 20, 1873; John Led-
yard, May 10, 1875, died August 29, 1875 !
Helena Talcott, March 28, 1877, died Decem-
ber 30, 1878 ; Elizabeth Mayhew, April 16,
1878 ; Katherine Grosvenor, December 28,
1880, died July 15, 1881 ; William Talcott,
August 24, 1883, died July 29, 1884 ; Philip
Stanley, May 12, 1885 ; Margaret, October 26,
1887, died February. t888.

(The Phelps Line).
(V) Deacon Nathaniel (2) Phelps, son of

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Ncthaniel (i) (q. v.) and Elizabeth (Copley)
Phelps, was born in Windsor, Connecticut,
June 2, 1653, and removed with his father
to Northampton in 1656, where he settled and
resided on the homestead. He was a deacon
of the church and .took great interest in town
affairs. He died there June 19, 1719. He
married, August 11, 1676, Grace Martin, born
1656, in England, died at Northampton, Au-
gust 2, 1727. There is a tradition that she
was engaged to be married to a lover who
proved faithless, and she came to New Eng-
land to join relatives in Hadley. For some
reason she could not get to them, and was in
danger of being sold to pay her passage
money. Children, born in Northampton: 1.
Grace, November 11, 1677, died 1677; Na-
thaniel, November 1, 1678, died May 1, 1690;
Samuel, December 18, 1680, married Mary
Edwards ; Lydia. January 17, 1683 ; Grace,
November 10, 1685 ; Elizabeth, February 19,
1688: Abigail, November 3, 1690; Nathaniel,
February 13, 1692 ; Sarah, born May 8, 1695 ;
Timothy, born 1697, mentioned below.

(VI) Captain Timothy Phelps, son of
Deacon Nathaniel (2) and Grace (Martin)
Phelps, was born in Northampton, Massachu-
setts, in 1697. He settled in Suffield, Connec-
ticut, where he died December 3, 1787-88. He
married (intentions dated 1725), Abigail, born
in Springfield, April 5, 1702, died August 16,
1 79 1, daughter of Captain John and Mary
(Day) Merrick, and granddaughter of Thom-
as Merrick, the immigrant. Children : Tim-
othy, born December 20, 1726, died unmar-
ried, August 22, 1758; Grace, September 15,
1728; Abigail, baptized November 22, 1731 ;
Aaron, born May 4, 1734: John, 1736, men-
tioned below ; Mary, May 20, 1737, died No-
vember 2, 1737; Seth, December 1. 1738, died
unmarried, April 25, 1762; Samuel, Novem-
ber 27, 1742.

(VII) Judge John Phelps, son of Captain
Timothy and Abigail (Merrick) Phelps, was
born in Sufheld, Connecticut, in 1736. He
settled in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, soon
after his marriage, and became an honored
and influential man. He held the office of
justice of the peace for many years, and was
representative to the legislature several times.
He was also a delegate with Elisha Treat
Mills, to the convention of 1779, to ratify the
constitution of the United States. He was
largely interested in the manufacture of iron.
I" r775- ne> with others, erected a blast fur-
nace on a large scale, and manufactured can-
non balls and other war implements for the
government. He died about 1808. He mar-
ried Mary Richardson, daughter of William
and Lady Abigail Richardson, of Edinburgh,

Scotland. She was about fifteen years old at
the time of her marriage. There is a tra-
dition that the Richardsons objected to the
marriage, as their family was aristocratic and
wealthy, while Mr. Phelps was comparatively
poor. One night Mary was assisted by the
colored servant who had been her nurse, to
leave the house after the family had retired,
and met her lover, ran away, and was mar-
ried. Some six months later her mother be-
came reconciled to the match, saying that all
she objected to was the youth of the couple.
Children, born in Stafford Springs : Esther,
1756; Timothy, born 1757, mentioned below;
David, born 1760; Mary, born March 18,
1763; Daniel; Josiah, born 1768; Abigail,
born 1769, married Judge Isaac Mills ; Sam-
uel ; Eleanor.

(VIII) Timothy, son of Judge John and
Mary (Richardson) Phelps, was born in Staf-
ford Springs about 1757. He graduated at
Yale College and settled in New Haven,
where he was a prominent iron manu-
facturer and merchant. A descendant says :
"Timothy Phelps kept up great style in New
Haven. Each of his daughters had a maid
and his son had a valet." He died on the
passage to St. Thomas, November 20, 1812.
He married (first) Janet Broome, born 1774,
in New Haven, died April 25, 1802, daughter
of Gen. Samuel B. Broome and adopted
daughter of Daniel Wadsworth, of Hartford.
He married (second) Henrietta Broome,
sister of his first wife. He married (third)

probably Statira , born March 26, 1784;

died April 1, 1847. Children of first wife:
George, born 1795 ; Samuel, lieutenant in the
United States navy ; Amelia Maria, born Janu-
ary 24, 1797, married Rt. Rev. J. M. Wain-
wright, D.D., LL.D.. (see Wainwright II) ;
Jennette, 1798: Rev. Frank, 1799; Henrietta
B., 1800; Elizabeth, 1802. Children of second
wife; Caroline, born September, 1803, died
young; John, August, 1805, died February 6,
1807 ; Timothy, 1808 ; Grace H., February 2,
18 ro ; Henry, 181 1.

(The Talcott Line).

(IV) Lieutenant-Colonel John Talcott, son
of John Talcott (q. v.), was born at Brain-
tree before 1632, and died at Hartford, July
23, 1688. He came with his parents and sis-
ters in the ship "Lyon'' in 1632 and resided at
Hartford. He was ensign in 1650, captain in
1660 and later a lieutenant-colonel. He was
deputy or assistant magistrate before the
union with New Haven and succeeded his
father as treasurer. May 17, 1660, holding this
office continuously until 1676. He was one of
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I. to Connecticut, April 20. 1662. He re-
signed to take a commission as major, and
later was at the head of the army of Connec-
ticut. He had two hundred Mohican and
Pequot Indians in his command. He was
victorious in every battle and won the title of
Indian fighter ; was promoted lieutenant-colo-
nel in March, 1662. He was granted land at
Killingworth for his service to the colony.
He died intestate. He kept an account book
with a record of births, dates of erecting the
buildings on the homestead and other build-
ings in the colony. This book was the source
of much information to the family historians.
He married (first) October 29, 1650, Helena,
daughter of John Wakeman. He married a
second wife, name unknown. Children of first
wife: 1. John, born November 24, 165 1 ; died
[653. 2. John, born December 14, 1653; mar-
ried Abigail Tibbetts. 3. Elizabeth, born Feb-
ruary 21, 1655 ; married Captain Joseph Wads-
worth. 4. Samuel, born August 21, 1658; died
April 4, 1681. 5. Mary, born August 26,
r66] : married Richard Edwards. 6. Hannah,
horn December 8, 1663; married Nathaniel
Gould. 7. Dorothy, born February 26, 1666;
married Captain Thomas Stoughton. 8. Jo-
seph, born November 16, 1669 ; mentioned be-
low. 9. Helena, born June 17, 1674; married
Cyprian Nichols. Children of second wife:
10. Ruth, born September 12, 1677; married
John Reed. 11. Sarah, born November 16,
1679; died December 6, 1679. T2- Rachel,
born February 23, 1681 ; married Gershom
Bulkeley, of Fairfield. 13. Jonathan, born
February 15, 1683-84. 14. Hezekiah, born
February 24, 1685-86: married Jemima Par-

S< 'lis.

1 V) Governor Joseph Talcott. son of Colo-
nel John and Helena (Wakeman) Talcott, was
born at Hartford, November 16, 1669; died
October 11, 1741. He lived in Hartford. He
was on a committee to lay out Coventry in
171 1. He was the first governor of Connecti-
cut born within its limits, serving in this office
from 1724 until his death, a period of seven-
teen years, longer than any other governor ex-
cept Winthrop. His will was dated Decem-
ber 25, 174c. He married (first) Abigail
Clark, daughter of Ensign George Clark of
Milford. She died at Hartford,"" March 24,
1704-05, and he married (second) Eunice
(Howell) Wakeman, daughter of Colonel
Mathew Howell of Southampton, widow of
Samuel Wakeman. She died May 25, 1738.
Children, born at Hartford: 1. John, born
February 2y, 1699; married, December 30,
1725, Abigail Theobalds. 2. Joseph, born
February 17, 1701 ; married, April 27, 1727,
Estker Pratt. 3. Nathaniel, born November

26, 1702 ; married Hannah Ferris, of Wilming-
ton, Delaware. Children of second wife: 4.
Abigail, born April 13, 1707; died June 24,
1773; married, February 28, 1734, Rev. Dan-
iel Wadsworth. 5. Eunice, born January 26,
1709 ; married Captain Nathaniel Hooker. 6.
Mathew, born 1713: married Mary Russell.

7. Samuel, born about 1715 ; mentioned below.

8. Jerusha, born May 3, 1717; married Dr.
Daniel Lothrop, December 14, 1744. 9. Plel-
ena, born March 13, 1720; married Rev. Ed-
ward Dorr and Rev. Robert Breck.

( VI) Colonel Samuel Talcott, son of Gov. Jo-
seph and Eunice (Howell) Wakeman Talcott,.
was born in Hartford, and died there March 6,

1797. He was a graduate of Yale College in
1733; sheriff of the county; magistrate: very
wealthy for his day. He married. May 3,
1739, Mabel Wyllys, daughter of Hezekiah
and Elizabeth (Hobart) Wyllys. Her father
was born April 3, 1672 ; was secretary of the
colony 171 1-34, and died 1741 : grandson of
George Wyllys, who came from Fenry Comp-
ton. England, and settled in Glastonbury,
Connecticut ; was lieutenant-governor of the
colony in 1641, governor in 1642; died March,
1644. Children, born in Hartford, baptismal
dates given: Samuel, March, 1740, men-
tioned below: Elizabeth, May, 1744; Wil-
liam, December 18, 1743; James, Septem-
ber 1, 1745: Elizabeth, October 5, 1746;
James, April 13, 1749: Mary, December 13,
1752, married James Watson ; Jerusha. April
11. 1756, married John Palsgrave.

(VII) Samuel, son of Colonel Samuel and
Mabel (Wyllys) Talcott, was baptized in Hart-
ford, March 2, 1739-40, and died May 27,

1798, in Philadelphia, where he was visiting.
He graduated at Yale College in the class of
1757. He married Abigail, daughter of John
Ledyard. a native of Bristol, England, sister
of Colonel Ledyard, of Groton Heights, De-
cember 24, 1764. Children: 1. Abigail, born
October 28, 1768; married Samuel Wilcox;
she died at Beaufort, North Carolina, whither
she had gone for her health. 2. Anna, born
October 10, 1772: died July, 1839. 3. Wil-
liam, born January 1, 1775; died April 9,
1855. 4. Sarah, born February 27. 1777; died
October, 1779. 5. Helen, born December 21,
1779; died August 31. 1756. 6. Mathew, born
March 25, 1781 : died November 3, 1837. 7.
Samuel Austin, born December 31, 1789: men-
tioned below. All died unmarried except the
youngest.

(YIII) Samuel Austin, son of Samuel and
Abigail (Ledyard) Talcott, was born in Hart-
ford, December 31, T789, and died in New
York City, March 19, 1836. He graduated
from Williams College in 1809, aged nineteen,

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and removed to Lowville, New York, in 1812.
He practiced law there and at Utica, New
York, and was appointed attorney-general for
the state of New York, February 12, 1820,
before he was thirty years old, and renomi-
nated at the ensuing election. He was sec-
ond in talent and ability, it is said, to no man
that had held the office, except perhaps Alex-
ander Hamilton. He was in office eight years.
In the resolution of the bar association at the
time of his death it was stated : "His distin-
guished talent, profound learning and finished
scholarship have rarely been equalled and
never been surpassed at the bar of the state."

He married (first) in 181 1, Rachel Skin-
ner, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. He
married (second) in 1818, Mary Eliza, daugh-
ter of Frederick and Martha K. (Grosvenor)
Stanley. She died at New Haven at the home
of W. H. Jones, November 3, 1848. Children
of first wife : 1. John Ledyard, born at Wil-
liamstown, September 2, 1812; married Louisa
Sparrow. 2. Abbie, born about 1814; died
aged six years. Child of second wife : 3.
Thomas Grosvenor, born December 22, 1819;
mentioned below.

(IX) Thomas Grosvenor, son of Samuel
Austin and Mary Eliza (Stanley) Talcott,
was born at New Hartford, December 22,
18 19, and died at Hartford, March 4, 1870.
He graduated at Yale College in the class of
1838. He studied a year in Yale Law School
and then continued his study of law in the
office of Charles P. Kirkland, of New York
City ; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and
for four years practiced at Oswego, New
York. He returned to New York City, where
he practiced until 1861. when ill health obliged
him to retire. His last years were spent in
Hartford. He married, July 29, 1841, Sarah
A. Jones, who died March 4, 1870, daughter
of William H. Jones, of New Haven. Child :
Helena Barker, born April 28, 1842 ; married
W. A. M. Wainwright (see Wainwright III).

Dr. Frederick William Pul-
PULFORD ford, son of William and

Alary (Bannister) Pulford,
of England, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire,
August 21, 1826, died June 3, 1893. He came
to this country when a boy in 1838 and settled
at Cleveland, Ohio. He received his medical
education at the Pulte Medical College of
Cincinnati. Ohio, receiving his diploma in
1865. He practiced for a short time in Ohio,
then removed to Massachusetts and practiced
a number of years. Then he came to Sey-
mour, Connecticut, in 1876, and practiced the
remainder of his active life in that town and
vicinitv. He was also interested in farming.

In politics he was a Republican, in religion a
Methodist. He was a member of the Morning
Star Lodge, of Seymour, also State Medical
Society.

He married, July, 1847, Sarah Ann Leon-
ard, born at Shutesbury, Massachusetts, June
16, 1828, daughter of Chester Leonard (see
Leonard III). Children: 1. Rufus A., born
May 25, 1852 ; married Sarah Holmes, July,
1872, and had one child who died in infancy.

2. Mary Elizabeth, born September 29, 1855 ;
married Frederick Pierson ; children : i. Ed-
ward, born August 22, 1876; ii. William, Oc-
tober, 1878; iii. Belle, February, 1880; iv.
Richard, July, 1882 ; v. Gertrude, April, 1884.

3. Dr. Charles Henry, mentioned below. 4.
William E., born June 21, 1862; resides at
Prospect, Connecticut. 5. Belle E., married
A. J. Miles, of Seymour, Connecticut.

(II) Dr. Charles Henry Pulford, son of Dr.
Frederick William Pulford, was born at Staf-
ford Springs, Connecticut, December 18, 1859.
He was educated in the public schools of Sey-
mour and at the Collegiate Institute of Hack-
ettstown, New Jersey, where he prepared for
college. He began to study his profession
in the Homeopathic Medical College of New
York City in 1880, and from there went to
Chicago to complete his course at the Hahne-
mann College, graduating in 1888 with the
degree of M.D. He returned to Seymour and
engaged in general practice, in which he has
continued successfully ever since, succeeding
to his father's practice, after his death in 1893.
He is a member of the Connecticut Homeo-
pathic Society ; of Morning Star Lodge, No.
47, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Evening
Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Olive
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He is in-
terested in music and has more than a local
reputation as a pianist. He has been organist
of the various lodges to which he belongs and
sings in the church. In politics he is Repub-
lican, in religion a Methodist. He married,
in December, 1890, Harriet Humphrey, of
New Haven, Connecticut, born June, 1852,
daughter of Bernard and Sarah (Hitchcock)
Humphrey, granddaughter of Denzil Hitch-
cock, of Seymour, Connecticut. Dr. and Mrs.
Pulford have no children.

(The Leonard Line).

John Leonard, immigrant ancestor, it is
believed, of the Shutesbury family, settled as
early as 1638 in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and was then a proprietor of the town. He
held various town offices. It is supposed that
he came from Bilston, Staffordshire, England.
He married, November 12, 1640, Sarah Heald.
Administration on his estate was granted

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March 28, 1676, to his widow Sarah. An
agreement among the heirs names sons : Jo-
seph, Benjamin, Abel, and Josiah Leonard,
John Keep and Samuel Bliss. Children, born
at Springfield: John, August 25, 1641, died
June 22, 1648 ; Joseph, born and died in 1643 >
Joseph, May 20, 1644; Sarah, December 13,
1645 1 Mary, September 14, 1647 ! Martha,
April 15, 1649; Lydia, October 2, 1650; John,
September 10, 1652; Benjamin, September 5,
1654; Josias, March 28, 1658; Abel, February
19, 1659 ; Hannah, February 19, 1659 ; Re-
becca, May 26, 1661 ; John, died March 13.
1662-63; Deborah, born October 1, 1663;
Rachel, November 8, 1665.

(I) Archelaus Leonard, revolutionary an-
cestor of this family, lived in Shutesbury and
Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in
Captain Reuben Dickinson's company on the
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, in Colonel
Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment;
also in Captain Samuel Taylor's company,
Colonel Nicholas Dike's regiment, in 1776, and
in Captain Zachariah Crocker's company,
Colonel Wright's regiment, which reinforced
the northern army in 1777. Simeon Leonard,
perhaps his brother, was also a soldier in the
revolution and was in Shutesbury in 1790, ac-
cording to the first federal census, with two
males over sixteen, one under sixteen and two
females in his family, while Archelaus had
three males over sixteen, two under that age
and two females in his family.

(II) Watson, son of Archelaus Leonard,
was born at Shutesbury, Massachusetts. He
married Phebe — — . Children : Calvin, Wat-
son, Chester, mentioned below.

(III) Chester, son of Watson Leonard, was
born in Shutesbury, May 4, 1796. He mar-
ried, July, 1817, Mary, born July 7, 1797,
daughter of Abner and Rebecca Smith, whose
children were: i. David, married Caroline
Shoales : ii. Abner, married Florilla Baughn ;
iii. Simeon, married Annie Wood : iv. Annie,
married Samuel Wheeler ; v. Rebecca, mar-
ried Jonathan Sloan ; vi. Mary, married Ches-
ter Leonard, mentioned above. Children of
Chester Leonard: 1. Rufus, born September
2, 1818; married Louise Hooker; children:
Henry, and Mary. 2. Archelaus, November
13, 1819; married Emeline Alvord : children:
Mary, Ann and Chester. 3. Lucy, February
26, 1821 ; married William Winter; children:
Frederick, Mary and Etta. 4. Colisto, Octo-
ber 28, 1822 ; married Martha Marvel and
had one son. 5. Luther, March 13, 1824;
married Yirona Sampson. 6. Dwight, Octo-
ber 23, 1826; married Harriet Chadwick ;
children: Benjamin, Frank and Charlotte. 7.
Sarah Ann, June 16, 1828; married Dr. Fred-

erick William Fulford (see Pulford I). 8.
Mary, January 2J, 1831 ; now living in Spring-
field, Massachusetts ; married Sherman Top-
lift; children: Mary, Emma, Ida and Charles.

The surname Verrill or Ver-
YERRILL rail is abundant, says Patro-
nimica Brittanica, in East Sus-
sex (England) and rarely out of it. It may
be a corruption of spelling Firle, a parish near
Lewis in County Sussex.

(I) Samuel Verrill, immigrant ancestor,
was found at Gloucester, Massachusetts, about
1727. Two others, possibly his brothers, were
there also, but there is no evidence of relation-
ship. \ Samuel Verrill was a mariner, but we
find little record of his life. It is a family tra-
dition that he died in the West Indies of yel-
low fever. The birth of but one child is re-
corded. He married, at Gloucester, May 7,
1 73 1, Sarah Stevens. Child, Samuel, see for-
ward.

(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Ver-
rill, was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
x\pril 20, 1734, died at Poland, Maine, May
20, 1 82 1. He moved from Cape Ann to Minot,
Maine, in 1778, and to Poland in 1783. He
was a soldier in the revolution, a fifer in Cap-
tain John Lane's company, Colonel Foster's
regiment, at Cape Ann ; also in Captain Dan-
iel Gidding's company, Colonel Joseph Fos-
ter's regiment, at Gloucester, in the same year ;
also in Captain Pool's company, Colonel
Jacob Gerrish's regiment, in 1777-78. He
married Eunice Bray, born at Cape Ann,
Gloucester, in 1735, died at Poland, Maine,
1797, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Dav-
is) Bray, and great-granddaughter of Thomas
and Mary (Collins) Bray, of Gloucester. Her
father was born in 1699, died in 1772.

(III) Daniel, son of Samuel (2) Verrill,
was born at Poland, Maine, in June, 1781, died
at Greenwood, Maine, December 25, 1852. He
was a farmer. He settled, about 1818, at
Greenwood, where he reared a large family.
He married, about 1800, Eunice Cordwell,
born at Poland, Maine, 1780, died at Green-
wood, July 9, 1859, daughter of William and
Tryphosa (Leach) Cordwell, granddaughter
of William and Abigail (Bray) Cordwell, of
Cape Ann. Tryphosa (Leach) Cordwell
was a daughter of Elijah and Eunice (Her-
rick) Leach, and granddaughter of William
and Tryphosa (Herrick) Leach, of Beverly,
Massachusetts. Children: 1. Peter, born
March 2, 180 1 ; settled at Calais, Maine. 2.
Cyrus, November 2, 1802 ; settled at Minot.
3. Benjamin, September 1. 1804; settled at
Minot. 4. Ichabod, September 23, 1806; died
unmarried at Greenwood. 5. Daniel C, March

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tt, 1809; settled at Auburn. 6. George W.,
February 28, 181 1, see forward. 7. Ira, Feb-
ruary 8, 1813, died 1814. 8. Theodore B.,
February 17, 1814; settled at Bethel. 9. Jus-
tin, April 16, 1818, died 1824. 10. Eliza-
beth, December 10, 1819, died 1820. 11. Har-
riet F., August 14, 1821 ; married Frederic
Coburn ; settled in Wisconsin. 12. Enoch C,
December 31, 1823; settled in Auburn.

(IV) George W.. son of Daniel Verrill, was
born February 28, 181 1, at Minot, Maine, died
at Norway, April 19, 1862. He moved to
Norway in 1853. He followed the business
of a general merchant at Greenwood, Locke's
A Tills and Norway. From 1839 to 1844 he
was a farmer. Earlier he was a house car-
penter, builder and school teacher. He was
captain of the militia company at Norway,
and was early active in the cause of temper-
ance and the abolition of slavery, and held
various local offices, selectman, etc. He mar-
ried, in 1834, Lucy FI. Hilborn, born at Po-
land, Maine, October 17, 1815, died at Nor-
way, November 16, 1861, daughter of Seth
B. and Betsey (Garland) Hilborn, grand-
daughter of Robert and Lucy (Riggs) Hil-
born, great-granddaughter of Thomas and
Mary (Shreeve) Hilborn, of Burlington, New
Jersey, and Dublin, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, Society of Friends. The two youngest
children were born at Norway. Children: 1.
Byron D., born February 2, 1835 : married,
in 1866, Flattie A. Robinson, of Wiscasset;
he was an attorney at law in Portland for
many years, and previously was principal of
the Academy at Norway ; died December,
[898. 2. Araminta Maria, December 28, 1836,
died February 5, 1850. 3. Addison Emery,
February 9, 1839, see forward. 4. George
Washington, May 2, 1841 ; lawyer in Port-
land ; was captain in Seventeenth Maine Regi-
ment in Army of Potomac, and was wounded
at Gettysburg: was joint author of the books:
"Maine at Gettysburg" and "War Papers";
also genealogist: married, in 1867. Augusta
Ueckett, of Portland ; died July, 1908, at Port-
land, Maine. 5. Lucy Ellen, September 10,
1844; married (first) in 1866, Henry R.
Miqhels, of Carson City; officer in civil war;
editor of Carson Appeal; author; speaker
of Nevada assembly in 1876: married (sec-
ond) in 1880, Samuel P. Davis, of Carson
City; editor and author. 6. Edgar Freeland,
January 4, 1850, of San Francisco; married,
in 1873, Sarah Russell, of Portland, Maine.
7. Emma Lydia, November 18, 1853 ; mar-
ried Jonathan Doane, of Carson City. 8. Hat-
tie L., August 5. 1856; married, in 1881,
George McLaughlin, officer of the United
States Mint, and has served at Carson City,

Nevada. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San
Francisco, California.

(V) Professor Addison Emery Verrill, son
of George W. Verrill, was born in Green-
wood, Maine, February 9, 1839. He removed
to Norway, Maine, in 1853. He was pre-
pared for college at the Norway Liberal In-
stitute of Norway, Maine, but pursued his
scientific studies privately by means of books
and the collections made by himself, from
early boyhood. Before leaving home in 1859,
he had already obtained and classified collec-
tions of most of the minerals, plants, mam-
mals, birds and reptiles of Maine, and also
many of the insects. In his earlier searches
for minerals in the granite hills of his vincin-
ity, he discovered and identified a number of
rare minerals not before known from Maine.
He first discovered tin ore at Paris, Maine ;
zircon and corundum in Greenwood ; chryso-
beryl, in large crystals, in Norway ; amazon
stone in Waterford, etc. In 1859 he added
several species of flowering plants to the flora
of the United States, as recorded in "Gray's
Botany." His catalogue of the Birds of Nor-
way, 1862, was the first general list of the
birds of Maine. He entered the Lawrence
Scientific School of Harvard, May, 1859, and
graduated, S.B., 1862; he was an assistant of
Louis Agassiz, in the Museum of Compara-
tive Zoology, in charge of mammals, birds
and corals, 1860-64, ar>d was curator of Ra-
diates in Boston Society of Natural History,
1864-74. He was appointed professor of
Zoology in Yale University, member of the
governing board of the Sheffield Scientific
School, and was curator of the Zoological
Museum of Yale from 1864 to 1910. While
holding that professorship he was also pro-
fessor of Comparative Anatomy and Ento-
mology in the University of Wisconsin,
1867-70, and instructor in Geology in the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, 1870-94.

In 1859 he went to the Island of Grand
Menan, New Brunswick, and adjacent islands,
to collect the eggs, for the sake of the em-
bryos of sea birds, of which he secured very
large series (about 1,200) of several species,
as well as numerous skeletons of birds and
fishes, for the Museum of Comparative Zool-
ogy. In the summer of i860 he studied the
marine fauna at Mt. Desert and Frenchman's
Bay, in company with Alpheus Hyatt and N.
S. Shaler, ana made large collections there.
In 1 86 1 he made a zoological and geological
exploration of Anticosti Island and the Labra-
dor coast with Alpheus Hyatt and N. S.
Shaler, and published, 1863, reports on the
plants, mammals and birds. This expedition
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chartered for the purpose. Captain Small
was the master. Verrill, Hyatt and Shaler,
with a friend, Upham Treat, manned the ves-
sel, without sailors. About fifty barrels of
excellent fossils were obtained, but owning" to
the oncoming war they were never fully
worked over nor reported upon, but are now
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Dur-
ing nearly every year, from 1863 to 1871, he
conducted scientific dredging expeditions off
the coast of Maine and in the Bay of Fundy.
From 1871 to 1887 he was assistant in charge
of the Zoological laboratories and of the
scientific investigations and deep-sea dredg-
ings of the United States Commission of Fish
and Fisheries, under Professor S. F. Baird.
This involved the exploration of the sea bot-
tom, from Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras,
and from the shore to depths of over twenty-
six hundred fathoms beneath the Gulf Stream.
Wast collections of marine animals were thus
obtained, many of them new to science. The
work of arranging, classifying, cataloguing
and describing these collections has occupied
much of his time for many years. His share
of the deep-sea collections thus obtained wras
purchased by Yale University in 1907.

In connection with these explorations, Pro-
fessor Verrill invented several new forms of
apparatus for obtaining deep-sea animals,
among them the rake-dredge, hopper-sieve,
cradle-sieve, and especially the improved form
of "tangles," which he described and figured
in 1873 and 1880 and recommended for the
use of oyster fishermen for destroying star-
fishes on the oyster beds. It has since been
used very extensively for that purpose, and
has proved of inestimable value. From 1872
to t88o he made a special study of the gigan-
tic cephalopods or devil-fishes, especially those
of Newfoundland. He succeeded in obtaining
many more specimens than had previously
been known, which were fully described and
figured in several reports, especially in those
of 1880 and 1882. In connection with these
studies, and with the assistance of Mr. J. H.
Emerton, a life-size model of a specimen
about fifty-two feet long was constructed, as
well as a large model of the California octo-
pus, for the Yale Museum. Duplicates of
these, from the same moulds, are now exhib-
ited in many large museums, both in this
country and in Europe. From 1885 to 1890
he was employed on the editorial staff of
Webster's International Dictionary, and was
subsequently on its supplements. To these
works he contributed all the zoological and
most of the palasontological matter, and also
selected and supervised the engraving of the
illustrations.

As a public lecturer, he has given many
lectures on zoological and geological sub-
jects, including two courses at the Lowell In-
stitute in Boston. In connection with his geo-
logical work he has examined and reported on
many mineral deposits, especially of iron ores
and coal. In 1898 and 1901 he conducted
very successful scientific expeditions to the
Bermudas, obtaining large collections illus-
trating the land and marine faunae, and the
geology, including especially very complete
series of the corals, gorgonias, Crustacea, mol-
lusca. and other animals of the Bermuda coral
reefs, with numerous colored drawings and
photographs from life. These expeditions and
his reports upon the collections obtained con-
tributed to the establishment of the zoological
station at Bermuda in 1903.

Professor Verrill has published, since 1863,
many important original investigations on the
Invertebrata of the entire Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of North and South America, especially
on the Atlantic deep-sea faunae. He has also
published reports on the zoology of the East
Indies, Japan, New Zealand, Hawaiian Isl-
ands, etc.. especially on the ectimoderms,
Crustacea, corals and the actiniae. The valu-
able zoological collections of the Museum of
Yale University are due almost entirely to his
personal efforts, under discouraging condi-
tions and with very meagre funds. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from
Yale in 1867. He was elected member of the
National Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1872. He is also a member of the Boston
Society of Natural History ; the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences ; the Connecti-
cut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; the Wis-
consin Academy of Science ; Essex Institute ;
New York Academy of Sciences ; Philadel-
phia Academy of Natural Sciences ; the So-
ciety of American Naturalists ; the California
Academy of Science ; American Morpholog-
ical Society ; Zoological Society of France, and
many other societies.

He has been associate editor of the Amer-
ican Journal of Science from 1869. and his
contributions to that journal and to the trans-
actions and proceedings of various scientific
societies amount to over three hundred papers,
mostly on zoological and geological subjects.
They have been collected in twelve volumes.
Mr. Verrill held his professorship and cura-
torship at Yale until T907, when he became
professor emeritus. He was also president
of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences during many years. He received much
credit, early in his career, for the discovery
of many new morphological and biological
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zooids in Alcyonaria, 1865 ; the first discovery
of the bilateral development of the mesen-
teries in Zoanthidse, 1869; the demonstration
that the Tabulata do not form a natural group
of corals, 1867-72 ; the discovery and proof
that the mean temperature of the "breeding-
season" determines the north and south dis-
tribution of birds, etc., while the mean annual
temperature does not, 1866 ; and for many im-
provements in the classification of animals.

His more recent announcement, 1897, that
mammals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., owe many
of their peculiar colors to their protective
value at night or in twilight (noctural pro-
tective coloration), and also that many fishes
regularly change their colors at night, for
protection, thus extending the field for the
action of natural selection, has attracted wide
attention. His "Report on the Invertebrate
Animals of Vineyard Sound and adjacent
waters," 1874, 454 pages, 38 plates, is still
a standard work on the marine animals of
this coast, including their habits and distri-
bution. His report on the Cephalopods, 1880-
82, form a complete monographic treatise,
describing all the species known on our coast.
The Marine Nemerteans and Planarians of
our coast were also described monographically
by him in 1892-93, for all the species then
known, with many new ones, were described
and mostly figured. No other works of im-
portance had been previously published on
these groups in this country. He published
the following works in 1903 : "The Bermuda
Islands : Their Scenery, Climate, Productions,
Physiography, Natural History and Geology ;
With Sketches of Their Early History and the
Changes Due to Man" ; 558 pages, 8 vol. 292
cuts in the text, 40 plates, March, 1903 ; edi-
tion II in 1907. "Zoology of the Bermudas,"
vol. I. This includes fifteen articles on the
Natural History and Geology of the Ber-
muda Islands ; 427 pages ; 45 plates, and many
cuts. Edition II in 1907.

He early made it a duty to study especially
those groups of marine and fresh-water ani-
mals that had been neglected by others, in
this country, owing to the difficulties in the
way of their investigation. For this reason
several of his papers are the first of import-
ance to appear in America, relating to such
groups as actiniae, ascidians, annelids, fresh-
water leeches, nemerteans, marine planarians,
cephalopods, phyllopod crustaceans, etc. The
difficult group of reef corals has been a fav-
orite study for him, since i860. In connec-
tion with his studies of this group he has
examined and labeled most of the larger col-
lections of coral in the United States ; among
them those of the United States National Mu-

seum ; American Museum, New York ; Mu-
seum of Comparative Zoology ; Essex Insti-
tute ; Boston Society of Natural History ; Field
Columbian Museum (while owned by Ward,
of Rochester), and many others. But owing
to lack of funds for the necessary illustra-
tions, most of his work on reef corals re-
mains unpublished, which is also true of his
work on several other groups. He is at pres-
ent engaged on a monographic Report on the
Starfishes of the Northwest Coast of Amer-
ica, to be illustrated by over one hundred
plates, which was intended to form one of
the volumes of Reports of the Harriman Ex-
pedition.

A nearly complete list of his scientific writ-
ings, up to 1893, has been published in "Bibli-
ographies of the Present Officers of Yale Uni-
versity," New Haven, 1893, pp. 130 to 143.
Among his scientific writings are the follow-
ing, chronologically from 1862 to 1909:
Notes on the Natural History of Anticosti
Island ; Notice of Neosorex and Sorex, with
a list of Soricidae of New England ; Catalogue
of Birds found at Norway, Oxford County.
Maine ; Catalogue of Reptiles and Batrachians
found in vicinity of Norway ; Revision of the
Polyps of the East Coast of the United States ;
Synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of the
North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under
Commodore Ringgold and Captain Rogers,
parts 1 to 4 : Descriptions of new Polyps and
Corals from Panama ; On the Polyps and
Echinoderms of New England, with descrip-
tions of new species ; Investigations upon the
Geographical Distribution of North American
Birds : Echinoderms and Corals of New Zea-
land, West Coast of America and Brazil ; Cor-
als and Echinoderms of Brazil ; Echinoderms
of Lower California : Corals and Polyps of
West Coast of America ; Echinoderms of the
Pacific Coast of America ; the External and
Internal Parasites of Man and Domestic Ani-
mals, and Supplement ; Descriptions of Ascid-
ians from New England ; Descriptions of
North American Fresh-water Leeches ; Affini-
ties of Paleozoic Tabulate Corals with exist-
ing Species ; Explorations of Casco Bay by
the United States Fish Commission ; Report
upon Fresh-water Leeches of Nevada, Utah,
Colorado, etc. ; On Post-pliocene Fossils of
Sankoty Head, Nantucket Island ; the Cepha-
lopods of North America (in iwo parts) ; Re-
port on the Cephalopods of the Northeastern
Coast of America; New England Annelida;
Catalogue of Marine Mollusca, added to the
Fauna of New England during ten years
(three parts) ; "Blake Expedition" ; Report on
the Cephalopods with Supplement : Descrip-
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forma ; Blake Expeditions, Report on the
Anthozoa; Notice of the Remarkable Marine
Fauna occupying the outer banks off the
Southern Coast of New England ; Physical
Characters of the Portion of the Continental
Border beneath the Gulf Stream ; Results of
the Explorations made by the Steamer "Alba-
tross," off the Northern Coast of the United
States ; Notice of the Recent Additions to the
Marine Invertebrata of the Northeastern
Coast of America, with descriptions of new
Genera and Species, parts I to Y : Brief Con-
tributions to Zoology from the Museum of
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut; Ma-
rine Nemerteans of New England and adja-
cent waters, and the Dinophilidae of New
England ; Marine Planarians of New Eng-
land ; Supplements to the Nemerteans and
Planarians ; the Opisthoeuthidae, a remarkable
new Family of Deep-sea Cephalopods, with
remarks on some points in Molluscan Mor-
phology ; the Molluscan Archetype considered
as a Yeligerlike form ; A Study of the Fam-
ily Pectinidae, with a revision of the Genera
and Subgenera ; Nocturnal Protective Color-
ation in Mammals, Birds, Fishes, Insects, etc.,
as developed by Natural Selection ; Nocturnal
and diurnal changes in the colors of certain
fishes and of the squid (Loligo), with notes
on their sleeping habits : Revision of the Deep-
water Bivalve Mollusca of the Atlantic Coast
of North America, with descriptions of new
Genera and Species ; Description of imper-
fectly known and new Actinians ; Revision of
the Genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the
Atlantic Coast of the United States ; Descrip-
tions of new Species of Starfishes and Ophiur-
ans, with a revision of certain species for-
mally described: Distribution of the Echino-
derms of Northeastern America ; Report on
the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahama Ex-
pedition in 1893 ; North America Ophiuroidea
(two parts) ; Revision of certain Genera and
Species of Starfishes, with descriptions of
New Forms; Notes on the Geology of the
Bermudas; Additions to the Turbellaria,
Xemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas;
with revisions of some New England Genera
and Species ; the Story of the Cahow, the
mysterious extinct bird of the Bermudas ; Ad-
ditions to the Fauna of the Bermudas from
the Yale Expedition of 1901 ; Variations and
Nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian,
and Brazilian Reef Corals, with notes on vari-
ous Indo-Pacific Corals; Comparison of Ber-
mudian, West Indian, and Brazilian Coral
Faunae; Notes on Corals of the genus Acro-
pora (Madrepora Lam), with descriptions and
figures of types and several new species;
Snails and Slugs of the Bermudas; Botany of

the Bermudas; Insects. Myriapods, and
Arachnids of the Bermudas ; Bibliography of
the Bermudas ; Zoology of the Bermudas ;
The Bermuda Islands ; Decapod Crustacea of
Bermuda, part I, 175 pages, 20 plates; Geol-
ogy and Palaeontology of Bermuda, 167
pages, 12 plates; Life of the Bermuda Coral
Reefs, 150 pages, 29 plates; Origin of the
Bermuda Decapod Fauna ; Descriptions of
New Starfishes from the northwest Coast of
America.

He has recently written a report on the
Deep-sea Alcyonaria of the Blake Expedition,
I vol., quarto, with an atlas of 140 plates,
now printing, in Memoirs Museum Compara-
tive Zoology. Report on the Crustacea of
Connecticut, about 350 pages, 72 plates, 200
text cuts. For Geological and Natural His-
tory Survey of the State. Decapod Crustacea
of Bermuda, part II, 30 plates. Crustacea of
Dominica Island, 32 plates.

Mr. Yerrill married, June 15. 1865, Flora
Louise, daughter of Elliot and Lavinia How-
ard (Barton) Smith, of Norway, Maine.
Mrs. Yerrill is a sister of Professor Sidney I.
Smith, of Yale University, see forward. Chil-
dren : 1. George Elliot, born July 29, 1866;
assistant United States engineer; married, Au-
gust 23, 1890. Maude Mae Price, of Portland,
Oregon. 2. Evelina Flora, born November
n, 1869, died July 10, 1870. 3. Alpheus
Hyatt, born July 23, 1871 ; artist, naturalist;
married, January 21, 1892, Kathryn Laura
McCarthy, of New Haven. 4. Edith Barton,
born August 2, 1875. 5. Clarence Sidney,
born May 6, 1877 ; mining engineer, Boise,
Idaho; married, November, 1906, Dorothy
Lord Maltby, of New Haven. 6. Lucy La-
vinia, born May 26, 1882 ; artist ; married,
February 6, 1904, Samuel Henry Howe, Jr.,
of Norwich, Connecticut ; settled in New York
City. Since 1888 Professor Verrill has occu-
pied a summer residence on Outer Island, off
Branford, Connecticut, where he has carried
out various investigations of the fauna and
flora.

Sidney Irving Smith, M.A., Ph.B., brother
of Mrs. Verrill, was born in Norway, Maine,
February 18, 1843, son of Elliot and Lavinia
Howard (Barton) Smith. His studies in the
public schools and academy of his native town
were supplemented by a course at Gould's
Academy, Bethel, Maine, and a two years'
course at the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale, where he received the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy in 1867. Remaining there
as an assistant in Zoology until 1875, he was
made professor in Comparative Anatomy in
1875, and became professor emeritus of that
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in exploring" the deep waters of Lake Superior
for scientific investigation, and from the latter
year until 1887 he was associated with Pro-
fessor Verrill in scientific work of the United
States Commission of Fish and Fisheries.
Professor Smith has been a member of the
National Academy of Sciences since 1884, and
is a member of many other learned bodies. He
was made a Master of Arts by Vale in 1887.
He is a prolific zoological writer, having up
to 1890 published seventy papers, many of
which are devoted to Crustacea, and is the
author of the definitions of anatomy in Web-
ster's International Dictionary. He married,
June 29, 1882, Eugenia P. Barber.

The first record of the
WHEATLEY family of Wheatley dates
back to the year 1356,
when Sir John Wheatley lived at Castle-
Bromwich, Leicestershire, England. An un-
broken genealogical line can be traced only
to the brothers, John and Thomas, who ap-
pear after the campaigns of Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset, in Scotland and France in
1544-45. John served as captain and Thomas
as a lieutenant. They obtained estates in 1547
at Frome and near Wells, not far from the
Mendip Hills in Somersetshire.

There are two different coats-of-arms at-
tributed to the English families of Wheatleys,
as follows : Sir Nathaniel Wheatley, Frome,
county Somerset ; Gules, a lion rampant ar-
gent, on a chief or, three mullets sable. Crest :
A stag's head cabossed proper. William
Wheatley, Esq., Echingfield. county Sussex;
Per fess azure and or, a pale counter
charged, three lions rampant, regardant of
the second. Crest: Two arms embowed,
vested azure, holding between the hands
proper a garb or.

(I) John Wheatley, the first of the name
of whom there is any continuous record, ap-
pears as a captain in the campaigns of Ed-
ward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, in Scot-
land and France in 1544-45. He afterwards
settled near Wells, Somersetshire, England.
In the probate registry at Wells are filed the
wills of John Wheatley, March 24, 1594, and
of his widow Mary, April 20, 1595. He be-
queathed personal property, mostly cattle, to
the following: Mary, his wife, sons, John,
Nathaniel, Frank, Richard, Samuel, daugh-
ters, Annie, Olive, Martha, nephew, Henry
Wheatley, cousin, Richard Wheatley, son-in-
law, Roger Wingate, servants, John Roberts,
John Hall and John Sideham. The will of his
wife mentions sons Frank and Richard,
daughters Martha and Olive, daughter-in-
law and granddaughter Dorothy. Children,

recorded in the visitations at Somerset at
Somerset House in London : John, born May
31, 1547, mentioned below; Nathaniel, June
1, 1549; Annie, October 20, 1553; Jane, Octo-
ber 10, 1560; Frank, March, 1562; Richard,
May 3, 1565; Samuel, April 28, 1568; Martha,
January, 1571 ; Olive, 1573, married Mr.
Barker.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Wheatley,
was born May 31, 1547. He married Dor-
othy, youngest daughter of the Arctic ex-
plorer, Hugh Willoughby, of Derbyshire. She
probably died before 1609, as no mention of
her is made in her husband's will. Her
father was one of the one hundred and sixty-
four gentlemen and sailors who accompanied
Sir Francis Drake on his freebooting expe-
dition to Spanish America and around the
world, home by way of Cape of Good Hope,
arriving at Plymouth, November, 1580. The
will of John Wheatley, dated May 7, 1609,
was filed at Carew, P. C. C, and mentions
sons, Nathaniel, Samuel, Philip and Andrew,
daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Margery,
brothers, Frank and Samuel, and cousin, Ed-
mund Wingate. Children and dates of bap-
tism : Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Israel, Au-
gust 6, 1572; Elizabeth, December 18, 1574;
Samuel, November 3, 1576: Mary, August 24,
1578; Philip, September 24, 1581 ; Margaret,
September 9, 1583; Andrew, November 19,
1586. The latter was among the sailors sent
by Charles I. of England to Dieppe for the
use of the king of France against the Hugue-
nots at La Rochelle, and one of the signers of
the "Round Robin" remonstrance, in which
the sailors refused to fight against their
brother Protestants.

(III) Sir Nathaniel Wheatley, son of John
(2) Wheatley, was born at Tingsboro, Somer-
set, 1 571, and entered Magdalen College, Ox-
ford, in 1588. He was knighted in 1610. He
married Precilla Throgmorton, of Tortworth,
Gloucester. Her father's sister was wife of
Sir Walter Raleigh, and from her brother,
William Throgmorton, descended a family of
writers, one of whom was Sir John Courtney
Throckmorton. Sir Nathaniel was high sher-
iff of Somersetshire in 1616, and lived at
Woodcroft Manor. His will, dated April 11,
1620, was nuncupative, and mentions Nathan-
iel, Thomas, William, Richard and John, and
wife Precilla. The will of his wife, dated
April 15, 1630, and filed in Skynner, P. C. C,
mentions sons, Thomas, William, Richard and
John, brother, Sir William Throgmorton, as
trustee, and sister. Lady Dale, widow of Sir
Thomas. Children: John, born 1598, died
young: Nathaniel, 1600: Thomas, 161 1; Wil-
liam, baptized May 20, 1614, Tingsboro;

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Richard, baptized September 14, 1615, Tings-
boro; Bridget, baptized May 10, 1616, died at
age of four months ; John, mentioned below.

(IV) Rev.. John (3) Wheatley, son of Sir
Nathaniel Wheatley, was baptized February 9,
1619, Tingsboro, and matriculated at Magda-
len College, Oxford. He married Mary
Maudley, who was from a large and promi-
nent family of Somersetshire. In 1645 he
was rector of Gately, Hants. His loyalty to
Charles I. drew upon him the displeasure of
the Cromwell party and he was sequestered.
Later he made his home at Westham, Essex,
and spent his declining years with his young-
est son at Battle, near Hastings, where he
died and was buried at Senlac Hill, December
4, 1 69 1. He left a nuncupative will, dated
October 8, 1691, which made his son William
his heir, also gave nine hundred pounds and
household goods to daughter Mary, and three
hundred pounds each to his grandchildren,
Henry and James Fitzroy, Mary and William
Wheatley. Children : Charles, born 1640 ;
Mary, married Charles Fitzroy and lived at
Battle in 1685 ; Andrew, was with Duke of
Cleveland under Earl of Marlborough, at the
capture of Dublin in 1689, and was killed at
the attack on Cork, October 9, 1690; he had
a son. Rev. Charles Wheatley, 1686-1742,
was a noted clergyman, published illustrations
of the Book of Common Prayer ; William,
mentioned below.

(V) William Wheatley, Esq., son of Rev.
John (3) Wheatley, was of Streatley Manor,
near Senlac Hill. He married Mary Haynes,
of Bristol, in 1685. While living at Bristol
he was engaged in the manufacture of salt-
petre and apparently held crown contracts.
After removing to Battle he started the manu-
facture of gunpowder. He was bailiff of
Battle in 1685 and was knighted in 1710.
Children: Mary, born 1687; William, 1689,
mentioned below ; Richard, 1695.

(VI) Dr. William (2) Wheatley, son of
William (1) Wheatley, Esq., was born 1689,
and entered Magdalen College, Oxford, 1705.
He married Annie Waring, of Belfast. In
1720 he was serving at the Dublin station as
naval surgeon. At that time there were sev-
enty-six ships in the British navy. There are
also records of Surgeon Wheatley's transfer
to other stations. He was with the fleet sent
to the West Indies in 1727. Tradition says
that he died in the service about 1731. His
family remained in Dublin. Children : John,
born November 15, 1718, mentioned below;
Jane, May 12, 1720, Dublin, died young; Lu-
cinda, September 4, 1723, Dublin.

(VII) John (4), son of Dr. William (2)
Wheatley, and the immigrant ancestor, was

born in Dublin, Ireland, November 15, 1718,
and lived there until he was fourteen years
old. He was then bound to the commander of
a vessel for a term of seven years, to be
trained for the navy. The ship sailed directly
to America, landing at New London or Nor-
wich, Connecticut. The captain then treach-
erously sold his indentures to a farmer in that
vicinity and John was bound to remain until
he attained his majority. At first he suf-
fered much hardship, but remained with the
farmer until the expiration of the indenture.
He was sent to school, and in this connection
it is related that the teacher sent word that
he could not instruct a pupil so advanced. He
soon began teaching himself, and between
terms followed the sea. He commanded a
company in the French war during the cam--
paign at the North in 1759, when Ticonder-
oga, Crown Point, and other forts in that
vicinity were captured by the British. A
powder horn, curiously and elaborately
wrought, was presented to him at this time
by an Indian chief, and is now among the
family relics. Engraved around the lower
end of it are the words, "Capt. John Wheatley,
Crown Point, October ye 3d, 1759," in well-
formed letters surrounded by an ornamental
border.

During the French war, Spain had become
an ally of France, and in 1761 an English
force of ten thousand men was sent to cap-
ture Havana, Cuba. Captain John Wheatley,
with a company of marines from Connecticut,
joined this expedition, commanded by General
Phineas Lyman, with Lieutenant-Colonel Is-
rael Putnam, of Danvers, Massachusetts, in
charge of the marines from Connecticut. Be-
fore this expedition returned, Captain Wheat-
ley had become paymaster of the colonial
troops. The troops from Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, New York, and New Jersey, joined
the English forces before Havana, July 20,
and together they captured the city, August
14, 1762. They returned on one ship, greatly
depleted on account of disease. Of the prize
money resulting from the capture Captain
Wheatley drew $1,135.24. During his ab-
sence his family lived in Boston, and later in
Norwich, until 1763. In 1765 they removed
to Lebanon, New Hampshire, of which town
he was the first settler. He was moderator of
the first town meeting there, September 12,
1765; the first town clerk, an office which he
held for nearly twenty years ; the first civil
magistrate ; the first schoolmaster ; the first
representative to the New Hampshire legis-
lature, the first and only representative in the
Vermont legislature, at the time when the six-
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mont. In 1765 he was clerk of a company of
proprietors of Lebanon, and in 1768 drew up
a petition to the New Hampshire legislature,
asking for a new charter to replace their old
one. He was chairman of the legislative com-
mittee on boundaries, October 3, 1768; ap-
pointed justice of the peace for Grafton
county, September 5, 1774, reappointed April
3, 1779, and October 5, 1785. June 24, 1778,
he was chairman of a committee to receive and
adjust claims for services done in preparing
and completing the union with the state of
Vermont. His name is signed to several
documents relative to the dispute concerning
the jurisdiction over the New Hampshire
grants east of the Connecticut during the year
1782. He married, in 1742, Submit (Peck)
Cooke, widow of Aaron Cooke, and daughter
of Benjamin Peck, a wealthy resident of
Franklin, Connecticut. Her brother. Captain
Bela Peck, was father of Harriet (Peck) Wil-
liams, who gave the Peck Memorial Library
to' Norwich. Captain Wheatley died at Le-
banon, July 30, 1786. His widow survived
him for several years. Both were buried in a
selected burying ground, near the present vil-
lage of West Lebanon. He was a man of un-
usual qualifications for public and private life,
with spirit, energy ^ and perseverance for even-
enterprise which he undertook. "He was of
plain manners and of incorruptible integrity.
His few words were always those of good
sense and truth. The weight of his influence
was given to the best interests of society. He
was an able and courageous soldier." Chil-
dren, the first six born in Norwich : Mary,
1743; John. 1748, killed in battle near Brook-
lyn. September 16, 1776: Andrew, August 10,
1750; Nathaniel, May 2T, 1752, mentioned be-
low; Lucinda, December, 1755: Lydia, Jan-
uary 27, 1758; Luther, T760, Boston, died
September 30, 1777, Stillwater, New York, in
the revolution.

(VIII) Major Nathaniel (2), son of John
(4) Wheatley, was born May 21, T752, in
Norwich, Connecticut, and removed with his
father in the spring of 1765 to Lebanon, New
Hampshire. He became a member of the New
Hampshire militia regiment under Colonel
Jonathan Chase in T775. The following rec-
ord of his services is to be found in the war
department at Washington : "With men who
marched from the county of Cheshire at the
requisition of Major General Gates to re-
enforce the army at Ticonderoga, from Octo-
ber 28 to November 18, 1776; on alarm with
men from Cornish and adjacent towns to re-
enforce the garrison at Ticonderoga from
June 27 to July it, 1777. During this cam-
paign he was appointed senior or color ser-

geant. He was also with men from Cornish
who joined the Continental army under Gen-
eral Gates, near Saratoga, from September 22
to October 23, 1777." "At a council holden
at Concord, N. PL, June 14, 1786, he was
nominated major for the Twenty-fourth Regi-
ment, and received the appointment June 5,
1787."

He lived in Lebanon until 1791, when he
removed to Brookfield, Vermont, and bought
of Shubal Cross the farm since known as
"Willow Grove." This place was settled by
Captain Cross in 1779, who built and lived in
a log house. Major Wheatley, in the sum-
mer of 1796, built a two-story white house,
which is still standing, in somewhat altered
form. Here he lived until his death. He
married (first) January 18, 1776, Vinal, born
February 15, 1758. Lebanon, died February
12, 181 1, Brookfield, daughter of Azariah
Bliss, one of the first settlers of Lebanon. He
married (second) November 12, 1812, Brook-
field, Betsey Bailey, born October 11, 1761,
Brookfield, died October 5, 1827.

Associated with his arrival at Brookfield is
the purchase of a large silver spoon marked
N. W., which has come down through each
generation as the property of the son named
Nathaniel. He possessed the respect and con-
fidence of his fellow townsmen and held im-
portant offices in the town. Children, seven
born in Lebanon, the other three in Brook-
field: Lucy, February 20, 1777, died October
20, 1779; Submit, AParch 7, 1779; John, April
12, 1781 ; Luther, October 15, 1783, mentioned
below; Nathaniel, January 21, 1786; Lucy,
June 16, 1788; Eunice, June 2, 1790; Vinal,
September 26, 1792; Andrew, December 21,
T795: Jesse, July 4, 1801.

(IX) Luther, son of Major Nathaniel (2)
Wheatley, was born October 15, 1783, in Le-
banon. He married, September 27. 1808, at
Brookfield, Sally Stratton, born September 2,
1788, Brookfield, died there, August 19, 1863.
He lived in Lebanon until eight years old,
when the family removed to Brookfield, Ver-
mont. For three years after his marriage he
lived in Cabot. Vermont, and then removed to
a farm in Brookfield. He was a farmer by
occupation and an esteemed citizen of the
town. He is remembered as a conservative
man, slow of speech, and a most hospitable
host. He began the collection of records from
which much early history of the family in
America has been derived. Children, born at
Brookfield, Emily Vinal, August 23, 1809:
Luther, January 17, 1812, died when thirty
hours old ; John, November 5, 1812, died when
eighteen hours old ; Sally. February 5, 1814,
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1816. mentioned below; Frederic, February
U, 1819; Infant son, January 23, 1821, died
when ten hours old; Alpha, January 9, 1824;
Sarah E., August 24, 1825 ; Eunice L., June
30. 1830.

(X) Luther (2) , son of Luther (1) Wheat-
ley, was born March 11, 1816, at Brookfield.
He married, December 7, 1843, at Goshen,
Vermont, Eunice C. Preston, born January 20,
1 82 1, in Goshen, died in Springfield, Vermont,
February 26, 1886. He lived on his father's
home farm until 1870,' then went west and
located at Kidder, Missouri. After two years
of farming there, he returned to Brookfield
and bought the Harrison Edson place, just
north of the Brookfield Centre church. For
many years his place was the centre of much
cordial hospitality. He was a deacon and
an active member of the Second Congrega-
tional Church of his native town. He was a
man of sterling character and led an upright,
blameless life. Children, born in Brookfield :
Edward C, November 27, 1844, mentioned
below ; Frederic, April 26, 1848, deceased ;
Frank G., July 6, 185 1, physician. North Ab-
in°;ton, Massachusetts ; Sarah E., June 19,
1853, married Robert M. Colburn, represen-
tative to congress from Springfield, Vermont ;
Nellie C, October 21, 1858; Charles L., Sep-
tember 25, 1861, died February 22, 1865.

(XI) Edward Carlos, son of Deacon Luther
(2) Wheatley, was born November 27, 1844,
in Brookfield. He married, November 25,
1868, Ellen Jane, daughter of Martin Paine.
He entered the army in 1862 and served one
year in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment, Ver-
mont Volunteers. Afterwards he spent six
years in Kidder, Missouri, as a teacher. He
then taught in Meriden, Connecticut, for five
•years, and from there went to the Westboro,

Massachusetts, reform school. Later he held
a like position in the Connecticut reform
school in Meriden. For the last fifteen years
of his life he traveled for the Lawyers' Co-
operative Publishing Company of New York.
While on a business trip he was attacked with
pneumonia at Augusta, Maine, and died there
in the city hospital, December 25, 1900. He
was an excellent teacher, a fine bass singer
and a man of remarkably cheerful and kind
disposition. His widow is still living in Meri-
den. She is a member of Susan Carrington
Clark Chapter, Daughters of American Revo-
lution, of Meriden. Children: 1. Gertrude Cyn-
thia, born September 23, 1869 : married Wil-
liam A: Hall, of Meriden ; children : William,
Ruth. 2. Edward Martin, June 27, 1872: mar-
ried Emily, daughter of Dr. Robert Bacon, of
Washington. D. C. : child, Edward. 3. Louis
F.. December 16, 1876. mentioned below. 4.

Harold Luther, November 23, 1879; married
Grace Illingworth, T905 ; child, Robert Lu-
ther, born August, 1909. 5. Bessie May, Jan-
uary 14, 1882 ; married Joel, son of Rev. Joel
S. Ives, of Meriden, now living in Cincinnati,
Ohio; children: Elizabeth, died at the age of
two and a half years ; Eleanor, born 1908.

(XII) Dr. Louis Frederick Wheatley, son
of Edward Carlos Wheatley, was born Decem-
ber 16, 1876, in Westboro, and removed with
his parents to Meriden, when two years of
age. He attended the public schools and the
high school there and graduated from the
latter in 1894. He then entered the University
of Vermont, Burlington, and spent one term
there. Subsequently he entered the Tufts Col-
lege Medical School, and graduatd with the
degree of M. D. in 1903. He spent one year
as interne at the Cambridge. Massachusetts,
Hospital, and took a post-graduate course in
the Floating Hospital at Boston. In 1904-05
he was associated in practice with his uncle,
Dr. Frank G. Wheatley (Professor at Tuft's
Medical School), at North Abington, Massa-
chusetts. He came back to Meriden in 1905
and has been in general practice there up to
this time. He is at present health officer of
the city. He is a member of Connecticut
State Medical Society, member of the staff
of Meriden Hospital, member of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, president of Meriden
Medical Society, and was town physician of
Meriden in T907. He is also a member of
the Home Club and of the Colonial Club of
Meriden. He is a member of the First Con-
gregational Church. He married, in 1906,
Leila M. Illingworth, sister of his brother
Harold Luther's wife. Child, Margaret, born
1907.

Henry W. Tibbits came of an
TIBBITS old New York family. Before

the revolution settlers of this
family came from New England and located
in Albany county and along the Hudson. Mr.
Tibbits made his home in White Plains, West-
chester county. New York. He married Mar-
garet Ann Bolmer. Child, William Bolmer,
mentioned below.

(II) William Bolmer, son of Henry W.
Tibbits, was born in Yonkers, Westchester
countv. New York, September 25. 1835, died
at White Plains in 1908. He married Frances
['.ninia Johnson, of Hartford. Connecticut.
Children : Charles Henry, mentioned below ;
Alice Louise, born October 4, 1869. at White
Plains; Sarah Frances, August 8, 187 1 ; un-
married.

(III) Charles Henry, son of William Bol-
mer Tibbits, was born at White Plains, Janu-

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a ry 30, 1866. He attended various private
and boarding schools and fitted for college at
the Harrington School at Westchester, New
York. He entered Trinity College in 1883
and was graduated with the degiee of A. B.
in the class of 1887. He then became a
teacher in St. Margaret's School at Water-
bury, Connecticut, and was instructor in Latin
there for two years. He then took a position
as salesman in the New York store of Simp-
son, Hall, Miller & Company, manufacturers
of silverware, and for a time he was a trav-
eling salesman for this concern. Afterward
he was employed in the office of the company
at Wallingford, Connecticut. He was elected
secretary of the Simpson Nickel Company and
of the Simpson, Hall, Miller & Company. In
1894 the president and manager of the latter
company died and in 1898 both companies
united with other concerns in the new Inter-
national Silver Company, of which Mr. Tib-
bits became the third vice-president and a di-
rector. He has since then been the manager
of -the two Wallingford factories of the com-
pany. He is one of the most prominent men
in the business and public life of the com-
munity. He was elected warden of the bor-
ough of Wallingford in 1906 and represented
the town in the general assembly in 1907. He
had previously served in the board of bur-
gesses. He was for some time a member of
the Central District board of education and
is now a member of the board of electric com-
missioners. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Union League Club
of New Haven, of the Waterbury Club of
Waterbury, and of the Protestant Episcopal
church.

He married, November 20, 1890, Georgi-
anna Simpson, born May II, 1867, daughter
of Gurdon W. and Elizabeth Malinda (Simp-
son) Hull, granddaughter of Samuel Simp-
son (see Simpson III). Children: Mar-
garet Elizabeth, born August 31, 1891 ;
Charles Henry, Jr., October 7, 1907.

(The Simpson Line).

(I) Robert Simpson, a German by birth,
originally named Samuel G. Simpson, was a
lieutenant in the British army and related by
marriage to the king of England. He came
to New England about 1767 on a mission for
the government to persuade the people of the
colonies to accept the odious and burdensome
Stamp Tax which had brought the country
into a state of rebellion. He remained in this
country and made his home in New Haven.
He married Mary Johnson and died in 1776,
leaving an only child, Samuel G., mentioned
below. His widow married (second) Josiah

Merriam, of Wallingford, Meriden parish,
and removed thither with her son.

(II) Samuel George, son of Robert (Sam-
uel G.) Simpson, was born at New Haven
about 1770. He was brought up and educated
in Wallingford. He purchased the Dr. Rus-
sell or Henry farm on the old Tank-hood
Road, a short distance east of the Hall home-
stead. Disposing of this place he removed in
1806 with other Connecticut pioneers to the
Western Reserve in Ohio and cleared a farm.
The way thither was then through the wilder-
ness and made on ox carts. His farm was
thirty miles from a doctor, store or mill ; the
new home affected his wife's health, and after
five years he returned to Wallingford, con-
siderably poorer than when he started.
He married (first) Mary, daughter of
John and Eunice Yale, of Meriden. She
died at Wallingford, April 2, 1799. He mar-
ried (second) Malinda, daughter of John and
Lois Hull, of Wallingford (see Hull IV).
Children : Alfred, Henry, George, Harmon,
Samuel, mentioned below, and others.

(III) Samuel, son of Samuel George Simp-
son, was born in Wallingford, April 7, 18 14.
He was the youngest of seven children, and
owing to the necessities of the family began
at the early age of eleven years to work for
a living. His education was obtained in the
winter terms of the district school. His first
position was as office and chore boy for Dr.
Gaylord. At the age of fifteen years he was
apprenticed for a term of five years to Charles
Yale, of Yalesville, and he learned his trade
as a britannia maker there. He remained with
his employer and worked as 3 journeyman and
rose to the position of foreman. With the
first couple of hundred dollars he had saved he
engaged in business, January 1, 1835, purchas-
ing the britannia business of Mr. Yale with
a partner. He passed through a period of
struggles and difficulties, and in 1847 s0^ out
the brittania and tinware business and bought
the old flour, wool carding and cloth dressing
mills at Wallingford, then known as the Hu-
miston mills. The mills were equipped for
the manufacture of silver-plated ware. Mr.
Simpson had been experimenting with the
electro-plating process and was probably the
fiist manufacturer to apply this process to hol-
low ware. In January, 1854, his business was
merged with the Meriden Britannia Company,
then a year old, and Mr. Simpson was one of
the directors and largest stockholders in the
new corporation. He formed about this time
in partnership with his neighbor, Robert Wal-
lace, a company under the name of R. Wallace
& Company for the manufacture of nickel
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concern a part of his mill property. This was
a partnership limited to ten years and the
Meriden Britannia Company, which afterward
became an owner in the firm, took under con-
tract the goods manufactured. At the end of
the ten years, the partners formed a joint
stock company under the title of Wallace,
Simpson & Company, with a capital of $100,-
000, to continue the business. Mr. Simpson
was president. In 1866 Mr. Simpson or-
ganized a new company under, the name of
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Company, for the
manufacture of electro-plated silverware and
established a plant on the east side of the vil-
lage of Wallingford. Mr. Simpson was also
president of the new company. In 1871 he
sold his share in the joint stock company of
Wallace, Simpson & Company to his partner
and organized the Simpson Nickel Silver
Company to manufacture nickel silver goods
and he was president of this company. Year
by year his business interests grew. He was
progressive and of tireless industry, and to
his business ability and sagacity are due in
large measure the great prosperity of the con-
cerns that he founded. An event of histori-
cal interest was the celebration in 1885 of the
close of his fiftieth year in business by a ban-
quet arranged by the business men of the
town. The enthusiasm and heartiness of
those present gave Mr. Simpson substantial
evidence of the esteem and affection in which
he was held by his associates and fellow man-
ufacturers. Mr. Simpson found time to do
his whole duty as a citizen and he filled with
credit many offices of honor and trust. He
was a leader in developing and perfecting the
public school system. He was a prime mover
in the development of the water works and
the public park system. The town gives am-
ple evidence of his public spirit and foresight.
In politics he was a Democrat. He repre-
sented the town in the general assembly in
1846-59-65-79. He was one of the founders
of the Dime Savings Bank of Wallingford
in 1871 and was president until he died. He
was the first president, also, of the First Na-
tional Bank, which was chartered in 188 1, be-
ing a subscriber to a tenth of the original
stock and serving for many years on the board
of directors. He was a communicant of St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Wall-
ingford and for more than thirty years was
warden and always a generous supporter. In
charitable work Mr. Simpson was second to
none. He was the best friend of the poor and
unfortunate and was universally loved for his
kindness and good deeds.

He married. July 6, 1835, Martha De Ette,
daughter of Joseph Benham, whose immigrant

ancestor bearing the same name was one of
the original planters of Wallingford. Chil-
dren : Samuel Augstus, Martha De Ette,
Willis Duryee, George Williams, Samuel
George, Elizabeth, Malinda, married Gurdon
W. Hull. To the memory of her sons, Mrs.
Simpson erected a fine chapel known as the St.
Paul's Parish Building.

(The Hull Line).

The Hull family of Connecticut i's said to
have come from Derbyshire, England. There
were several immigrants, doubtless related.
George Hull was at Windsor, Connecticut, in
1636, and in the same year highway surveyor
of Wethersfield ; was a member of the gen-
eral court, 1637-38-39. Josias Hull married,
in 1641, Elizabeth Loomis. Richard and An-
drew Hull were both of New Haven in 1639
and had families.

(I) Dr. John Hull or Hulls, as he himself
spelled his name, was admitted a planter in
the town of Stratford in 1661. It is not quite
certain whether he was an immigrant or a
son of Richard Hull, of New Haven. Dr.
John Hulls was at Derby, Connecticut, in
1668, and at Wallingford in 1687. He died
December 6, 171 1, at Wallingford, at prob-
ably a very advanced age. He married, Oc-
tober 19, 1672, Mary Jones, probably his sec-
ond wife. He married (again) September 20,
1699, Rebecca Turner. He exchanged his
house and lands at Stratford with Benjamin
Lewis for a house and land at Wallingford.
The town of Wallingford set out to Dr. Hulls
a tract of land which was supposed to contain
seven hundred acres, lying between the north
side of Broad swamp and the Quinnipiack
river, but which was really more than a mile
square and was known as Dr. Hulls' large
farm. Children : John, born March 14, 1661 ;
Samuel, February 4, 1663; Mary, October 31,
1666; Joseph, 1668; Dr. Benjamin, October
7, 1672; Ebenezer, 1673, died in 1709; Rich-
ard, 1674; Dr. Jeremiah, 1679; Archer.

(II) Dr. Jeremiah Hull, son of Dr. John
Hulls, was born in 1679, died May 14, 1736,
at Wallingford. He practiced in Wallingford.
He married. May 24, 171 1, Hannah, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Hope Cook. Children,
born at Wallingford : John, November 13,
17 1 2, mentioned below; Moses, December 26,
1714: Tabitha, March 3, 1717 ; Hannah,
March 18, 1720; Anna; Jeremiah, January 5,
1729; Joseph, March 24, 1733; Patience, Oc-
tober 20, 1735 ; Keturah.

(III) Dr. John (2) Hull, son of Dr. Jere-
miah Hull, was born at Wallingford, Novem-
ber 13, 1712, died August 15, 1755. He mar-
ried, October 26, 1735, Mary Andrews. Chil-

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dren. born at Wallingford : Sarah, January 12,
1737; Molly, March 12, 1738; Sarah, Sep-
tember 17, 1739; Moses, married, April 28,
1757, Mary Ives; John, mentioned below; Na-
thaniel, March 17, 1743 ; Aaron, July 17, 1745 ;
Abigail, December 1, 1747; Hannah, July 6,

1750.

( IV) John (3), son of Dr. John (2) Hull,
was born at Wallingford, March 7, 1741-42,
died October 6, 1828. He was an enterpris-
ing and well-to-do farmer, and owned and
conducted the place now or lately belonging
to Mr. Durand near Yalesville. He married
(first) at Wallingford, March, 1758, Lois
Beadles; she died September 6, 1802, aged
fifty-nine years. He married (second) Phebe
, who died September 3, 1834, aged ninety-
three. Children : Nathaniel, born September
7> T759' cned in infancy; Mary, August 30,
1 762 ; Sarah, married Samuel Wolcott ; Sally,
married Reuben Ives ; Eunice, married Eph-
raim A. Humiston ; Malinda, married Samuel
G. Simpson (see Simpson II) ; Diana, mar-
ried Benjamin T. Cook.

The first edition of the Sears
SEARS genealogy gave what purported
to be the English ancestry of the
family, but the second edition by Samuel P.
May, in 1890, shows that the ancestry was
conjectured and erroneous. The parentage
and ancestry of Richard Sears, the American
immigrant, have yet to be established. The
surname was spelled Sares, Seares, Sayer,
Seers and Seir, in this country, and many
other variations in England are to be found
in the records. The surname Sawyer and
Saver furnish almost identical variations in
spelling and make the work of the genealo-
gist very difficult. There is a belief in the
family that the Sears family is of Norman
origin. The eastern parishes of London and
vicinity had many families of this name about
1600. The name is common in the islands of
Guernsey and Lersey, from which many emi-
grants came with the early settlers at Marble-
head and vicinity.

(I) Richard Sears, immigrant ancestor, was
a taxpayer in Plymouth colony as early as
1632. He removed to Marblehead, where he
was a landowner in 1637, but returned to Ply-
mouth colony about 1638 and settled in Yar-
mouth. Commissioners were appointed to
meet at his house on Indian affairs, October
26, 1647. He took the freeman's oath, June
7. 1653. He was one of the settlers and
founders of Yarmouth. He was buried Au-
gust 26, 1676. His widow Dorothy was bur-
ied March 19, 1678-79. Children: Paul, born
1637-38. mentioned below; Silas, died at Yar-

mouth, January 13, 1697-98; Deborah, born
at Yarmouth, September, 1639.

(II) Captain Paul Sears, son of Richard
Sears, was born probably at Marblehead, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1637-38, after February 20, and
died at Yarmouth, February 20, 1707-08. He
took the oath of fidelity in 1657. He was
captain of the militia at Yarmouth, and was
in the Narragansett war. He was one of the
original proprietors of Harwich, which was
laid out between Bound Brook and Stony
Brook as Wing's purchase. He married, at
Yarmouth, in 1658, Deborah Willard, baptized
at Scituate, September 14, 1645, died May 13,
1721, daughter of George Willard. Her
mother was probably Dorothy (Dunster) Wil-
lard. Children: Mercy, born July 3, 1659;
Bethia, January 3, 1661-62 ; Samuel, Janu-
ary, 1663-64; daughter, 1666, perhaps Lydia,
married Eleazer Hamblin ; Paul, June 15,

1669, mentioned below ; , October 24,

1672, probably Mary; Ann, March 27, 1675;
John, 1677-78; Daniel, 1682-83.

(III) Paul (2), son of Captain Paul (1)
Sears, was born at Yarmouth, June 15, 1669,
died February 14, 1739-40. His gravestone
is in the West Brewster cemetery. He mar-
ried, in Harwich, in 1693, Mercy Freeman,
born in Harwich, October 30, 1674, died Au-
gust 30, 1747. He lived at Qui vet Neck, and
was prominent in the church of the east pre-
cinct of Yarmouth, to which he was admit-
ted June 2^, 1728, and his wife August 6,
1727. He was on various important church
committees relating to calls of ministers, etc.
He was buried beside his wife in the family
burying ground at Bound Brook, West Brew-
ster. His wife was a daughter of Deacon
Thomas and Rebecca (Sparrow) Freeman,
granddaughter of Major John and Mercy
(Prince) Freeman, and great-granddaughter
of Edmund Freeman, the pioneer proprietor.
Her mother, Rebecca (Sparrow) Freeman,
was daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca
(Bangs) Sparrow, and her grandmother,
Mercy (Prince) Freeman was daughter of
Governor Thomas and Patience (Brewster)
Prince, and granddaughter of Elder William
Brewster, who came in the "Mayflower." The
will of Mercy Sears was dated December 13,
1746, and was filed September 9, 1747. It be-
queaths to children and others. Children :
Ebenezer, born at Yarmouth, August 15,
1694; Paul, December 21, 1695: Elizabeth,
August 2y, 1697; Thomas, June 6, 1699; Re-
becca, April 2, 1701 ; Mercy, February 7,
1702-03: Deborah. March 11, 1705-06; Ann,
December 27. 1706; Joshua, mentioned below;
Daniel, July 16, 1710; Edmund, August 6,
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(IV) Joshua, son of Paul (2) Sears, was
born at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, November
20, 1708, died at Middletown, Connecticut,
September 27, 1753. He was constable of
Harwich, Massachusetts, in 1745. He was a
powerful man of large stature and great en-
ergy and endurance. In 1746 he removed to
Middletown, Connecticut, and purchased land
on the east side of Connecticut river in that
part of the town which was afterward set off
as Chatham.

He married, at Eastham, February 10, 1731-
32, Rebecca, born October 10, 1713, daughter
of John and Susannah (Freeman) Mayo. She
was admitted to the Harwich church, May 27,
1739, and with her husband dismissed to the
East Church of Middletown, February 5,
1748. Children: Rebecca, born at Yarmouth,
November 14, 1732; Elkanah, mentioned be-
low; Joshua, February 14, 1735-36; Betsey,
June 19, 1738 ; Paul, Harwich, October 18,
1740; Simeon, January 14, 1742-43; Thomas,
removed to Sheffield, Massachusetts ; Sarah,
married Hitchcock, of Sheffield ; Han-
nah, baptized at Harwich, October 26, 1746;
Willard, baptized at Harwich, March 24, 1747,
died 1754; Theophilus, born at Middletown,
April 2, 1749; Benjamin, November 3, 1751.

(V) Captain Elkanah Sears, son of Joshua
Sears, was born at Harwich, April 12, 1734,
died at East Hampton, Connecticut, Novem-
ber 24, 1816.

He removed with his parents to Middle-
town in 1746, and after his marriage in
1757, lived on a farm just west of Pocota-
paug Lake in East Hampton. In 1780 he was
on a committee to provide necessities for the
continental army. In 1794 he purchased land
in Freehold, Albany county, New York, being
part of the township sold to Benjamin Spees
et al. of Chatham. He deeded land in East
Hampton to his sons, May 9, 1778. He was
of large frame, tall and muscular, with a mind
fitted for the body' it inhabited, filled with a
spirit of enterprise and reckless of danger.
He commanded a privateer that he fitted out
during the revolution ; his vessel was captured
by the British ; he and another man were taken
prisoner but under cover of the. night they took
to the water and swam ashore ; the man was
nearly exhausted but was rescued by Sears
who found a boat on the shore and both es-
caped ; he went to work at once to fit out an-
other vessel. After the war he was engaged
in mechanical and agricultural pursuits. He
was greatby beloved. He left fifteen thousand
dollars in his will to his children, a fortune for
his day. His house stood until 1878 when
it was torn down. He married, in Middle-
town, January 6, 1757, Ruth, daughter of

Joseph White. She died March 9, 1823, aged
ninety. Children, born at East Hampton :
Isaac, November 3, 1757; Willard, mentioned
below; Ruth, March 13, 1763; Ruth, March
21, 1765; Rachel, September 9, 1768; Benja-
min, February 21, 1773.

(VI) Willard, son of Captain Elkanah
Sears, was born at Chatham, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 8, 1760, died at East Hampton, Au-
gust 23, 1838. He was active in the church
and a useful citizen of East Hampton. He
married (first) November 23, 1785, Rachel
Bailey, born March, 1766, died February 17,
1794. He married (second) May 22, 1796,
Betsey Clark, widow of Joshua Strong; she
died January 9, 1831. Children of first wife:
Child, born and died April 2, 1787. Rhoda,
March 29, 1789; Rachel, February 11, 1794;
children of second wife : Betsey, March 23,
l797 ! Ogden, August 19, 1798 ; Willard, Oc-
tober 19, 1799; Eunice, May 11, 1801 ; Ste-
phen Griffith, mentioned below ; Elijah Clark,
June 23, 1805; Selden Philo, July 21, 1813.
It is an interesting fact that Elijah Clark
Sears, born June 23, 1805, is living at the
age of one hundred and five years at Canton,
South Dakota. He voted for the seventh pres-
ident of the United States and at every presi-
dential election since, including that of 1908,
when he voted for Taft.

(VII) Deacon Stephen Griffith Sears, son
of Willard Sears, was born at Chatham, Con-
necticut, September 27, 1803, died at East
Hampton, October 12, 1874. "One who knew
him from youth to old age testifies that he was
never guilty of a mean action, even as a boy;
that even then his conduct was irreproachable.
He was a per feet example of a man whose
life was a continuous moral growth, and yet
he sought for the deeper life based on faith
in Christ. His whole speech was a witness
to the need of the Christ-life in a soul; but
not only in words did his witness consist, it
was in the course of his daily life, in the faith-
ful performance of all his duties, that he gave
testimony to Him who came to do His Fa-
ther's work. Those who loved him well tell
how scrupulously he performed every little
duty in the family and how anxious he was
to relieve his family and make their burdens
light. Like the true Christian, his light threw
a cheerful glow around his household hearth,
and made his home one of happiness and con-
tent." He was a farmer and also a cooper by
trade.

He married, at Chatham, May 1, 183 1,
Emily, born February 14, 1805, died
April 3, 1879, daughter of Captain Eleazer
and Elizabeth (West) Veazie. Children:
Mary Elizabeth, born January 12, 1835 ; Clark

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Osprey, July 24, 1836; Cushman Allen, men-
tioned below; Caroline Desire, April 24, 1843.
(YIII) Dr. Cushman Allen Sears, son of
Deacon Stephen Griffith Sears, was born in
Chatham, September 26, 1838. He attended
the public schools of his native town and
Daniel Chase's private school at Middletown,
Connecticut, the Chatham high school and
the Wilbraham Academy, from which he was
graduated in 1857. For a time he was a stu-
dent at the Pittsfield Medical College at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts. He then entered the
Medical School of the University of New York
and was graduated with the degree of M. D.
in the class of 1862. He began to practice
his profession at East Haddam, Connecticut,
but after six months removed to Glastonbury,
Connecticut, where he practiced until 1865.
Since then he has been located and in active
and successful practice at Portland, Connecti-
cut. He is a member of the Connecticut Med-
ical Society and of the American Medical As-
sociation. He has from time to time contrib-
uted various papers to The Medical World
and other medical periodicals. He is medical
examiner of the district, and was health officer
of the town for a time, and for thirty years
has been member and chairman of the school
committee. He was president of the Middle-
sex County Medical Society for three terms,
and chairman of the Central Medical Society
twelve terms. He is vice-president of the
Freestone Savings Bank and has been a di-
rector for twenty years. He is president and
treasurer of the Marine Railway and Boat
Building Company of Portland. He is a mem-
ber of the Congregational Church of Port-
land, of Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Order of the American Mechanics. He
was descendent from Elder William Brewster
both on his father's and his mother's side. He
married, at Lyme, Connecticut, November 11,
T862, Evelyn, born in 1840, daughter of Judge
Oliver Lay. Children: 1. Anna Belle, born
at Glastonbury, November 25, 1864; married,
December 9, 1884, William H. Selden, son of
Lynde and Sarah (Loper) Selden, of Lyme,
and nephew of Chief Justice Waite ; inter-
ested with his father in mines at Stambaugh,
Michigan, where he resides ; children : Wil-
liam H., Katherine Hart and Anna Sears
Selden. 2. Dr. Walter Chadwick, born at
Portland, June 10, 1868; practicing physician
in Providence, Rhode Island ; married twice ;
child of first wife, Cushman Sears 2d. 3.
Bertha Evelyn, born in Portland, February
22, 1875 ; married Daniel W. Robertson ; chil-
dren : Evelyn Sears, Paul Herald and Cush-
man Lay ; he is at the head of a bureau of
entertainment at Brooklyn. New York.

The Medlicott family, well
MEDLICOTT and widely known in Eng-
land, of which Mrs. Ar-
thur Dean Medlicott, born Mary Livingston
Williams, is a member at the present time, is
so closely connected with a large number of
the oldest Colonial families of America, that
it will be necessary to take these up in rotation
in order to show the connection clearly.

(Livingston Line).

The founder of this famous old Scotch fam-
ily was a Saxon Thane named Leving, who
donated the church of his manor to the abbey
of Holyrood, founded by Margaret's son, King
David I., in 1128. This manor forms the
present parish of Livingston in Linlithgow-
shire, and remained in the elder branch of the
Livingstons until the commencement of the
sixteenth century. The family took the sur-
name from the parish, after a custom common
in the twelfth or thirteenth century. Leving
is found in old Saxon charters and in Domes-
day. Thurstan, the son of Leving, had three
sons. Alexander, William and Henry, all wit-
nesses of charters, 1 165- 12 14. Sir Andrew de
Livingston, a descendant, was sheriff of La-
nark in 1296, and although of the junior line,
was grandfather of Sir William de Living-
ston, founder of the House of Callendar. This
Sir William was a doughty fighter and served
under Sir William Douglas at the siege of
Stirling Castle in 1339. and was an active
member of the patriotic party during the mi-
nority of David, son of Robert Bruce. David,
on his return to Scotland, rewarded Sir Wil-
liam with a grant of the forfeited Callendar
estates, and Sir William married, about 1345.
Christian, daughter and heir of Sir Patrick de
Callendar, the former proprietor. From this
marriage are descended all the titled branches
in Scotland, including the Barony of Callen-
dar (1458), the Earldoms of Linlithgow
(1600), Callendar (1641), Newburgh (1660),
the Viscounties of Kilsyth (1661), Teviot
(1696), and also the American branches of
the family. No less than five peerages have
been held by descendants. At the battle of
Durham, King David and Sir William were
both captured and Sir William was one of the
commissioners who signed the treaty. The
next member of this house of importance was
Sir John Livingston, of Callendar, who fell in
battle against the English at Homildon Hill
in 1402. His son Alexander succeeded to Cal-
lendar. Alexander was a trusted 'councillor
of James I. of Scotland, and for some time
had custody of the youthful James II., and
later was justice general and ambassador to
England. Upon his return from England Sir

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Alexander was thrown into prison and did general assembly that passed the Five Articles
not long survive his release. He was succeed- of Perth, and he was thrown in prison. After
ed by bis eldest son James, a great favorite his release, however, he boldly continued his
with tbe king, and after the downfall of antagonism. He was a leader in the struggle
Douglas in 1452, he was reinstated in office between the bishops and the Presbyterian
as great chamberlain, and from this date his clergy. Died prior to October, 1641. He mar-
fortunes rose rapidly, having the family es- ried (first) Agnes Livingston, (second) Nico-
tates restored to him, being made master of la Somervell, (third) Marion Weir, and had
the household, and in 1458 his lands were three sons and seven daughters,
erected into the free Barony of Callendar, (HI) Rev. John Livingston, son of Rev.
and about 1455 he was created a lord of par- William and Agnes (Livingston) Livingston,.
Iiament. James had a brother Alexander was born at Monyabroch, June 21, 1603, died
through whom the title descends. At any rate, in 1672. He attended a Latin school at Stir-
James, the third Lord Livingston, who sue- ling until 1617, and the University of Glas-
ceeded Sir James, was not his son but a gow, whence he was graduated as Master of
nephew. Alexander married Agnes Houstoun Arts in 1621. He wished to study medicine,
and was succeeded by his son William, the while his father wished him to settle on an
fourth lord (anno 1503), who married Agnes estate at Monyabroch, and the son finally de-
Hepburn, daughter of Alexander of Whit- cided to enter the ministry. He commenced
some. Of his three sons. Alexander succeed- to preach in January, 1625, but was not or-
ed as the fifth lord, while James, the second dained, on account of hostility to Episcopal
son, who was killed at Pinkie in 1547, was forms. He was called to the parish of Killin-
tlie ancestor of the American branches. The chy, Ireland, and there ordained. A year later
author of "The Livingstons of Livingston he was suspended for nonconformity but soon
Manor," an elaborate and authentic history allowed to resume his duties. He was again
of the family in Scotland and America, says : suspended. May 4, 1632, and restored in May,
"It is quite possible that the heir-male of the 1634. He planned to go to America in the
old Lords Livingston is to be found among meantime and was accidentally prevented. He
the descendants of the rector of Monyabroch married, June 23, 1635, Janet Fleming, whose
(American line) as the senior male lines in mother (Marion Hamilton) was sister of the
Scotland have Ions: been extinct." wife of Rev. Robert Blair, with whom^Liv-

The right of the Livingstons to bear arms ingston was associated in Ireland. Being

dates back to the middle of the fourteenth cen- again suspended, he planned again to go to

tury. The shield bears the arms of Callen- America. He and his friends built a ship,

dar and Livingston quartered. The motto of "The Eagle Wing," and had actually reached

the Lords Livingston was: Si je puis (If I the coast of Newfoundland, when, disabled by

Can). storms, the vessel turned back to the old coun-

(I) Rev. Alexander Livingston, son of try. He was a member of the general assem-
James Livingston, who was killed at Pinkie bly at Glasgow in 1638, and of all the others
as related above, was rector of Monyabroch except that of 1640, until 1650. He was chap-
in 1 561, and died about 1598. ' He was de- lain of a Scotch regiment in the invasion of
posed by the Presbytery chiefly on account of England, and again during the rebellion in
"inability of doctrine" though he was old and Ireland in 1641-42. In 1648 he was assigned
infirm. He married Barbara Livingston, of to the ministry at Ancrum in Roxburghshire,
the house of Kilsyth. Scotland. He was one of the three delegate-

(II) Rev. William Livingston, son of Rev. of the church on the commission sent by the
Alexander and Barbara (Livingston) Living- committee of estates in 1650 to treat with the
ston, was born in 1576, probably at Monya- young king, Charles II. A period of contro-
broch (Kilsyth), and was graduated from the versy and struggle in church and state fol-
University of Glasgow, where he was lau- lowed, and in 1662 he was banished. He went
reated, in 1595. He was ordained July 13, to Rotterdam, his wife and children following
1596, and had temporary charge of his fa- him to that place, and he died there between
ther's parish after the deposition, and he was August 14 and 21, 1672, and his widow re-
subsequently given the ministry permanently, turned to Scotland. She died, however, at
Six years later he was also deposed, having Rotterdam, February 13, 1693-94. Out of fif-
opposed the restoration of Episcopacy and not teen children, five survived the father: 1.
submitting to canons and ceremonies, yet King William, born January 7, 1638, died in 1700;
James himself presented him with the living was a merchant in Edinburg. 2. Janet, born
of Lanark soon afterward, but he was again at Stranraer, September 28, 1643. 3- James,
deposed for denouncing the legality of the see forward. 4. Barbara, born at Ancrum,

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June 21, 1649. 5- Robert, born at Ancrum,
December 13, 1654, ancestor of the principal
branch of the New York Livingstons, and
founder of Livingston Manor, New York.
Two others, however, lived to maturity ; Ma-
rion, born October 10, 1642, and Agnes, who
married Rev. David Cleland.

(IV) James, second son and third child
of Rev. John and Janet (Fleming) Living-
ston, was born at Stranraer, September 22,
1646. He was a merchant at Edinburg, fell
under the displeasure of the privy council, and
was fined two hundred pounds. He married
(first) , by whom he had a son, Rob-
ert, see forward; (second) Christian Fish,
contract dated August 15, 1683.

(V) Robert, son of James Livingston,
known as the "nephew," was the immigrant
ancestor. He was sent to New York at the
invitation of his uncle, Robert Livingston, in
1687. He was appointed deputy town clerk
in 1699 and held this office under his uncle
until May 6. 1707. In that year he was al-
derman of Albany and was appointed mayor
of that city in 17 10, by Governor Hunter, and
held the office nine years. He also sat in the
house of assembly, 1711 to 1715; was one of
the commissioners for Indian affairs. He died
in 1725. and was buried April 21. He married,
1697, Margaretta Schuyler, for whose descent
see "forward. Children: 1. Angelica, born
[698, mother of the wife of General Philip
Schuyler. 2. James, 1701 ; married Maria
Kierstede. 3. Janet, 1703; married Colonel
Henry Beekman; their daughter married
Judge Robert R. Livingston, father of the fa-
mous chancellor of the same name. 4. Peter,
1706; killed by the Indians. 5. John, see for-
ward. 6. Thomas, died young. Margaretta
(Schuyler) Livingston is descended as fol-
lows : (I) Philip Pietersen Schuyler, born
in 1628, reached Albany in the early part of
1650. He married, December 12, 1650, Mar-
gitta. daughter of Herr Brandt Arent Van
Slichtenhorst, a scion of a very ancient family
of Holland. (II) Pieter, son of Philip Pieter-
sen and Margitta (Van Slichtenhorst) Schuy-
ler, was born in 1657, died in 1724. He was
the first mayor of Albany. He married (first)
1681, Engeitie Van Schaick, and had a daugh-
ter, Margaretta. mentioned above, who mar-
ried Robert Livingston. Pieter Schuyler mar-
ried (second) in 1691, Maria Van Rensselaer,
daughter of Jeremias and Maria (Van Cort-
landt) Van Rensselaer, and granddaughter of
Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt, the immi-
grant, and the first of the family in New York,
who married, February 26, 1642, Annetje, sis-
ter of Govert Gorckermans, who came out
with Director Van Twiller in 1633, and was

prominent afterward in New Netherland af-
fairs.

(VI) John, son of Robert and Margaretta
(Schuyler) Livingston, was born in 1709,
died at Stillwater, September 17, 1791. He
resided for some years at Montreal, Canada,
but after the revolution removed to Stillwater,
New York. He married Catherine, born Sep-
tember 11, 1715, died at Stillwater, April 6,
1802, daughter of Dirck and Cornelia (Stuy-
vesarit) Ten Broeck, and sister of Christina
Ten Broeck, who married Philip Livingston,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and a daughter of whom married
the Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer. Chil-
dren : 1. Abraham, see forward. 2. Colonel
James, commanded a regiment of Canadian
refugees under General Montgomery in his
unsuccessful invasion of 1775, and subse-
quently commanded a continental battalion of
New York troops during the revolution. 3.
Richard, also an officer. Catherine (Ten
Broeck) Livingston was the granddaughter of
Peter and Margaret (Livingston) Stuyvesant,
the former being the great-grandson of Gov-
ernor Peter Stuyvesant; she was also the
great-granddaughter of Gilbert and Cornelia
( Beekman) Livingston, and the great-great-
granddaughter of Robert Livingston, born in
1054, died in 1728, founder of Livingston
Manor, New York, who emigrated to America
in 1673, and married, in 1679, Alida Schuy-
ler, widow of Rev. Nicholas Van Rensselaer.
Peter Stuyvesant. grandfather of Catherine
( Ten Broeck) Livingston, was the son of
Gerardus and Judith (Bayard) Stuyvesant:
his cousin ; grandson of Nicholas William
and Maria (Beekman) Stuyvesant; and
great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, born
in 1602, died in 1682, the last Dutch governor
of New York, who married Judith Bayard.
The Bayard line is as follows : Nicholas Bay-
ard was a Huguenot clergyman who signed
the Articles of the Walloon Synod in 1580,
and fled from France to escape religious per-
secution. Judith Bayard, born in Holland,
granddaughter of the preceding, is the Judith
Bayard who married Governor Peter Stuy-
vesant.

(VII) Abraham, son of John and Cathe-
rine (Ten Broeck) Livingston, was named
after his uncle, General Abraham Ten Broeck,
who having lost ten children in their infancy,
selected him for his heir. However, three
children were later born to this uncle, and the
Ten Broeck fortune of two hundred thousand
dollars was lost to the Livingston family.
Abraham Livingston was an officer in the rev-
olution, serving as captain in the First Corn-
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brother, Colonel James Livingston, in 1776
and 1782. He married, about 1784, Maria
Peebles, born at Half Moon, where she was
also married, and died at Stillwater, New
York. She was the daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Bratt) Peebles, and granddaugh-
ter of Gerrit and Maria (Ten Eyck) Bratt.
Children: 1. Elizabeth, married Hub-
bard. 2. Catherine, married Samuel Mather.
3. Rosanna, married Philip Schuyler. 4. John,
was a major in the war of 1812. 5. Angelica,
died young. 6. Maria, married James O'Don-
nell. 7. Janet Vanderhyden, was baptized by
Bishop Hobart, the first bishop of New York,
and was born April 27, 1797. She married,
September 8, 1817, Edwin Williams, the cere-
mony taking place at the home of her brother-
in-law, Samuel Mather, at Middletown, Con-
necticut, and the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott be-
ing the ofiiciating clergyman (see Williams

III).

(The Williams Line).

(I) Benjamin Williams came to America
from the Island of Bermuda when a young
man, and settled in Middletown, Connecticut,
where he died June 15. 1812, at the age of for-
tv-five years. He built and lived in the house
on East Washington street subsequently
known as the De Koven place, and at present
as the Wadsworth House. He became a large
ship owner and had many vessels plying be-
tween the East and West Indies and the port
of Middletown, the towns on the Connecticut
river having extensive shipping interests in
those days. Then came the war of 1812, and
French privateers captured the greater num-
ber of his ships. He expected that the gov-
ernment would reimburse him for this loss,
and died in the hope that his widow would re-
ceive what was her due, but this was never
done. He married, February 11, 1786, Martha
Cornell, whose ancestry will be found herein-
after, and they had six sons and one daughter.

(II) Edwin, son of Benjamin and Martha
(Cornell) Williams, was born in Middletown,
Connecticut, April 22, 1795, died in Stillwater,
N'ew York, September 9, 1842. He married,
September 8, 1817, Janet Vanderhyden Liv-
ingston, born April 27, 1797, died in Still-
water, March 26, 1844 (see Livingston VII).
After his marriage and the birth of several
children he removed to Stillwater, New York.

(III) Mary Livingston, daughter of Edwin
and Janet Vanderhyden (Livingston) Wil-
liams, was born at Glens Falls, December 9,
1839. She was married at Longmeadow, Mas-
sachusetts, December 21, 1865, R-ev- John W.
Harding officiating, to Arthur Dean Medlicott,
born in New York City, June 12, 1843, died
at Middletown, Connecticut, April 7, 1908.

His father, William G. Medlicott, was well
known as the builder and owner of the Medli-
cott Mills, at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, of
which his son was superintendent for a time.
Later he was interested in western railroads
and industries. Children: 1. Gertrude, born
November 17, 1866, died September 29, 188 1.
2. Thomas Mather, September 11, 1868, died
February 2j, 1870. 3. Elizabeth, January 2,
1875. Mrs. Medlicott and her daughter are
residents of Middletown, Connecticut.

(The Willet Line).

(I) Thomas Willet, ancestor of Martha
(Cornell) Williams, was born in 151 1, died
in 1598. He began his career as a public
notary and officiated as such at the consecra-
tion of Archbishop Parker. Late in life he
took holy orders, becoming rector of Barlev,
Hertfordshire, fourteen miles from Cam-
bridge, which living had been presented to
him by his patron. Bishop Cox. He was also
admitted to the fifth prebendal stall of Ely
in 1560 by his patron. Bishop Richard Coxe,
with whom he had been associated as sub-
almoner to Edward VI. He had two sons
and four daughters.

(II) Andrew, son of Thomas Willet, was
born in 1562, died in 1621. After attending
the Collegiate School at Ely, he entered Cam-
bridge University at the age of fifteen years,
and was quickly elected a scholar. He was
graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1580; elected
to a fellowship at Christmas, 1583; Master
of Arts in 1584, and in the same year was
incorporated as a member of the University
of Oxford. He took holy orders in 1585,
and was admitted, July 22, 1587. on the pres-
entation of the queen, to the prebendal stall
at Ely, which his father had resigned in his
favor. He quickly gained fame as a preacher,
and was selected to read the lectures for three
years in the cathedral church at Ely, and for
one year at St. Paul's Church, London. He
held the living of Childerly until 1594. He
was graduated Bachelor of Divinity in 1591,
and Doctor of Divinity in 1601, and in 1597
was admitted to the rectory of Gransden Par-
va, in Huntingdonshire, but shortly after ex-
changed to Barley, his father having died, and
was instituted January 29, 1599. Twenty-
three years of his life were spent here in the
ministry. He was a very prolific writer, mak-
ing it a rule to produce not less than one work
each half year, and so learned and profound
were these writings, that it was said of him
that he was a "Walking library," and that "he
must write in his sleep, it being impossible
he should do so much waking." The method
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however, the secret of his success. He was
chaplain-in-ordinary and tutor to Prince
Henry, as well as a frequent preacher before
the court. He was greatly admired by King
James, yet able to adapt himself to his rural
parishioners. It is owing to his influence with
his friend, Thomas Sutton, that we owe that
masterpiece of Protestant charity, Charter-
house. He fell into disfavor at court by his
opposition to the Spanish marriage, and in
consequence suffered imprisonment for a
month. His death was the result of an acci-
dent. Upon his return to his home from a
trip to London, he was thrown by his horse
and had his leg broken. This was set in so
improper a manner that mortification set in
which caused his death at the end of ten days
at the inn to which he had been taken, De-
cember 4, 1 62 1. A fine effigy and brass,
placed in the church by his friends and par-
ishioners, is still in a good state of preserva-
tion. He married Jacobine, a daughter of his
father's friend, Dr. Goad, provost of King's,
at Michaelmas, 1588. Of his eighteen chil-
dren, nine sons and four daughters survived
him, and his widow was buried by his side
in 1637. His son Henry, who died in 1670,
lost a fortune of five hundred pounds by his
loyalty to the king. Another son was Paul.
Thomas is treated of hereinafter.

(Ill) Colonel Thomas Willet, immigrant
ancestor, and fourth son of Rev. Andrew and
Jacobine (Goad) Willet, was born in the rec-
tory at Barley in August, 1605, and baptized
August 29 of the same year, died in 1674,
and is buried in an obscure corner of the Lit-
tle Neck burial ground at Bullock's Cove,
Swansey, Rhode Island. He was but sixteen
years of age when his father died, and he con-
tinued to live with his widowed mother and
maternal grandmother until he had attained
his majority. Shortly afterward he went to
Leyden and joined the second Puritan exodus
to the New Plymouth plantations, and Gov-
ernor Bradford mentions him as "being dis-
creet and one in whom they could place trust."
He was admitted a freeman in 1633 after he
had become a successful trader with the In-
dians, and soon became a large ship owner
trading with New Amsterdam. He was elect-
ed one of the assistant governors of the Ply-
mouth Colony, and as a proof of his worth of
character and commanding abilities, he was
frequently chosen to settle disputes between
the rival colonies of England and Holland.
He also became captain of a military company.
Early in 1660 he left Plymouth and estab-
lishing himself in Rhode Island became the
founder of Swansey. Accompanying the Eng-
lish commander, Nicholls, he greatly contrib-

uted to the peaceable surrender of New Am-
sterdam to the English, September 7, 1664,
and when the colony received the name of
New York, Captain Willet was appointed the
first mayor, June, 1665, with the approval of
English and Dutch alike. The following year
he was elected alderman, and became mayor
a second time in 1667. Not long afterward
he withdrew to Swansey, where he spent the
remainder of his life. In his religious views
he was an independent. His descendants
were numerous and included Colonel Marinus
Willet, the friend of Washington, who him-
self became mayor of New York, and the
"Dorothy 0." of the poem of Oliver Wendell
I lolmes, was the great-granddaughter of Cap-
tain Thomas Willet, and the great-grand-
mother of the poet. He married (first) July
6, 1636, , who died in Swansey, daugh-
ter of Captain John Brown who, according to
some authorities, came from Leyden prior
to 1636, with his wife, Dorothy, and three
children, to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He
also lived in Duxbury and Swansey, at which
last place he died in 1662. He received into
his family the orphaned children, Mary and
Priscilla. daughters of his brother, Peter
Brown, of the "Mayflower." Captain Willet
married (second) — ■, widow of John Pen-
den.

(IV) Andrew, son of Captain Thomas Wil-
let, was born October 5, 1655, died in April,.
1712. He married. May 30, 1682, Ann, born
July 20, 1663, died December 4, 175 1, daugh-
ter of Governor William Coddington. Gov-
ernor Coddington was born in Lincolnshire,
England, in 1601, died November 1, 1678.
He was chosen in England to be an assistant
or magistrate to the colony at Massachusetts
Bay, and arrived at Salem. June 12, 1630, to-
gether with the governor and the charter, after
which he was several times re-elected. He is
said to have built the first brick house in Bos-
ton, where he was a "principal merchant." Eor
some time he was treasurer of the colony.
Having warmly espoused the cause of Mrs.
Anne Hutchinson, in opposition to Governor
Winthrop and the ministers of Boston, he was
so chagrined at the result of this trial, that he
abandoned his lucrative business in Boston and
joined the emigrants who, in 1638, left for
Rhode Island. His name appears first on the
covenant signed by eighteen persons at Aquid-
neck or Rhode Island. March 7, 1638, forming
themselves into a body politic "to be governed
by the laws of the Lord Jesus Christ, the King
of Kings." After a more formal code had
been drawn up he was appointed judge at
Portsmouth, then the chief seat of the govern-
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the administration of affairs. At Portsmouth
he held office for a little more than a year,
was then appointed judge at Newport, and
when Portsmouth and Newport were united in
1640, he was appointed the first governor.
The four towns, Portsmouth, Newport, Provi-
dence and Warwick, were united in 1647, he
was the second president chosen, holding of-
fice from May, 1648, to May, 1649. In this
year he made an unsuccessful attempt to have
Rhode Island included in the confederacy of
the United Colonies of New England. In
1 65 1 he went to England, and was commis-
sioned governor of Aquidneck Island, separate
from the rest of the colony, but as the people
were jealous lest his commission should affect
their laws and liberties, he resigned it and for
a time retired from public life. In his later
years he was, however, prevailed upon to ac-
cept the chief magistracy. Governor Codding-
ton married Ann, born in 1628, died May 9,
1708, daughter of Thomas Brinley, and audi-
tor of the revenues of Kings Charles I. and
11., as appears from the inscription on his
tomb, in the church at Datchett, Bricks county,
England.

(V) Martha, daughter of Andrew and Ann
(Coddington) Willet, was born March 6,
[698, died in 1780. She married Simon Pease,
son of William Pease.

(VI) Ann, daughter of Simon and Martha
( Willet ) Pease, married Cornell.

(VII) William, son of and Ann

(Pease) Cornell, was born January 16, 1743.
He married, June 15, 1764, Abigail Otis, born
September 4, 1746, whose line of descent will
be found forward.

(VIII) Martha, daughter of William and
Abigail (Otis) Cornell, died at Middletown,
Connecticut, June 23, 1825. She was mar-
ried, February 11, 1786, by Abraham Jarvis,
second bishop of Connecticut, to Benjamin
Williams (see Williams I).

(The Otis Line).

This name as found in old records, both
in England and America, is variously spelled
as : Otis, Otys, Otye and Oatey. These names
are all widely known.

(I) John Otis, founder of the family in
America, is usually believed to have been born
in Barnstaple, Devon, England, whence he
came to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635,
and there drew lots in the first division of
land. Because this allotment took place in
the company of the Rev. Peter Hobart, and
his twenty-nine associates, it has been con-
jectured that, like all this band, John Otis
came from Hingham. in Norfolk. It may be,
however, that he left Devon and lived for a

time at Norfolk, before embarking for Amer-
ica. He married Margaret — .

(II) John (2), son of John (1), and Mar-
garet Otis, was born in England in 1620, died
in Scituate, Massachusetts, January 16, 1684.
He settled first in Hingham, and removed to
Scituate about 1662. He married Mary, who
died in 1683, daughter of Nicholas and Mary
Jacob.

(III) Colonel John (3) Otis, son of John
(2) and Mary (Jacob) Otis, was born at
Hingham, Massachusetts, 1657, died at Barn-
staple. Massachusetts, September 23, 1727.
For twenty years he was the representative
of Barnstaple ; commanded the militia of the
county; councillor, 1706-27; chief justice of
the court of common pleas, and first judge of
probate. He had fine talents and possessed
great wit and humor. Two of his sons occu-
pied important positions at the council and
on the bench. He married, July 18, 1683,
Mercy, born February 28, 1659, daughter of
Nathaniel and Hannah (Mayo) Bacon, who
were married December 4. 1642, the former
died in October, 1691 ; and granddaughter of
William Bacon, of Stretton, England, and of
Rev. John and Hannah Mayo. Rev. John
Mayo immigrated to New England in 1630,
and was the first minister of the Second
Church of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1655.
Among the children of Colonel John Otis
were : Nathaniel, see forward ; James, who
was the father of James Otis, the patriot, and
of Mercy (Otis) Warren.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of Colonel John (3)
and Mercy (Bacon) Otis, was born July 18,
1690, died in 1739. He married Abigail Rus-
sell, born October 2, 1687, whose lines of de-
scent follow.

John Russell, great-grandfather of Abigail
(Russell) Otis, was of Cambridge, England,
and died May 8, 1680; he married Dorothy

. Rev. John, son of John and Dorothy

Russell, was born in 1629, died December 10,
1692 : he married, June 28, 1649, Mary Tal-
cott, who died in 1655, and whose line will be
found forward. Jonathan, son of Rev. John
and Mary (Talcott) Russell, was born in
1655 ; he married, 1680, Martha Moody, who
died September 28, 1729 (see Moody for-
ward). Abigail, daughter of Jonathan and
Martha (Moody) Russell, married Nathaniel
Otis, as above stated.

John Talcott, great-great-grandfather of
Abigail (Russell) Otis, was born in Brain-
tree, Essex county, England, about 1600, and
came to this country with the Rev. Thomas
Hooker's company in the "Lyon," which ar-
rived in Boston, September 16, 1632. He was
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I'xiston, November 6, 1632, and in 1634 was nine years old when his parents united with

a representative in that body for Newtown, the church ; Phebe, who died at Cambridge,

He owned four houses in the "west end" of January 5, 1654, was probably another child ;

the town, which he sold to Nicholas Danforth, John was graduated from Harvard College

May 1, 1636, to remove with Mr. Hooker's in 1649; Samuel lived in Scotland for some

colony to Connecticut. His was the first house years ; Sybil, who married Rev. John Whit-

that was erected in Hartford. He was active ing; Martha, who married Rev. Joshua

in all the affairs of the town ; was one of the Moody.

committee that was appointed, May 1, 1637, (V) Major Jonathan Otis, son of Nathan-

to consider the propriety of a war with the iel and Abigail (Russell) Otis, married, Jan-

Pequot Indians, and was a chief magistrate of uary 16, 1745, Katherine Coggeshall, born

the colony until his death. His name is in- April 2, 1717 (see Coggeshall IV).

scribed on the monument which has been erect- (VI) Abigail, daughter of Major Jonathan

ed by the citizens of Hartford to perpetuate and Katherine (Coggeshall) Otis, was born

the memory of the colonists of Connecticut. September 4, 1746. She married William Cor-

He married Anne Skinner. Colonel John, nell (see Willet VII).
son of John and Anne (Skinner) Talcott, died

about 1660; he married Dorothy Mott. Mary, (The Coggeshall Line),
daughter of Colonel John and Dorothy (Molt) (I) John Coggeshall, first president of
Talcott, married Rev. John Russell, as stated Rhode Island, was the great-grandfather of
above, and died in 1655. Katherine (Coggeshall) Otis. He was de-
Rev. Joshua Moody, grandfather of-Abigail scended from Thomas de Coggeshall, the
(Russell) Otis, was born in England in 1633, owner of vast estates in Essex and Suffolk,
died at Boston, Massachusetts, July 4, 1697. 1135-54. He was born in England about
Graduate of Harvard University, 1653. Or- 1581, died at Newport, Rhode Island, Novem-
dained July 1 1, 1671. His father, William, ber 27, 1647. He came to Boston, Massachu-
settled in Newbury in 1634. Rev. Joshua be- setts, with his wife Mary, and three children
gan to preach about 1648. His regard for — John, Joshua and Anne — landing Septem-
tlie purity and reputation of his church hav- ber 16, 1632. His name and that of his wife
ing brought upon him the enmity of Gov- are on the original records of the Church of
ernor Cranfield, he was imprisoned, but was Roxbury, of which John Eliot was pastor, and
shortly afterward released upon condition that he was admitted as a freeman, November 6,
he would preach no more in New Hampshire. 1632. He removed to Boston in 1634 and be-
He became assistant minister to the First came a merchant, and the same year was one
Church, Boston, May 23, 1684, and was in- of the board of selectmen and a deacon in the
vited to take charge of Harvard University, church. His name also heads the list of depu-
but declined. During the witchcraft troubles ties to the first general court of Massachu-
in 1692 he opposed the unjust and violent setts from Boston, May 14, 1634, and he
measures toward the imagined offenders, and served, with three interruptions, until Novem-
aided Philip English and his wife to escape ber 2, 1637. He was banished from the court
from prison. His zeal in this matter occa- and from Massachusetts for defending Anne
sioned his dismissal from his church and he Hutchinson, and settled with William Cod-
passed the remainder of his life in Portsmouth, dington, John Clarke, the Hutchinsons and
He was the author of : "Communion with others, on the island of Aquidneck, by the ad-
God," 1685; and "Election Sermon," 1692. vice of Roger Williams. They laid out the
He married Martha, daughter of Edward Col- town of Portsmouth and when they outgrew
lins (see forward). Martha, daughter of Rev. the place, founded the town of Newport. On
Joshua and Martha (Collins) Moody, mar- the return of Roger Williams from England,
ried Jonathan Russell, and became the mother with a charter, they organized a government
of Abigail (Russell) Otis. in September, 1644. John Coggeshall was
Edward Collins, born about 1603, died at elected president, and Roger Williams, as-
Charlestown, April 9, 1689. He was of Cam- sistant for Providence, William Coddington
bridge in 1638; admitted freeman, May 13, for Newport, and Randall Holden for War-
1640; deacon representative, 1654-70, with wick. The death of John Coggeshall occurred
the exception of 1661. He lived many years while he was in this office. He married, in

on the plantation of Governor Cradock, at England, Mary , born in 1604, died

Medford, and at last purchased it. Sold parts November 8, 1684.

to Richard Russell and others. He married (II) John (2), son of John (1) and Mary

Martha , and of his children we have Coggeshall, was born in England, 1618. died

the following information: Daniel was about in Newport, Rhode Island, October 1, 1728.

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He was well educated and had unusual so-
cial advantages. Upon the death of his fa-
ther in 1647 he succeeded to his estates. He
was commissioner of Newport upon the re-
organization of the government in 1654, and
held the office until November 26, 1663 ; he
was an original grantee of the royal charter
under which he was elected, May 4, 1664, as-
sistant governor, and was re-elected five times.
He was treasurer of the colony, 1664-66 and
1683-86, and deputy to Newport, 1655-68-69.
In 1665 he was appointed to receive the king's
commissioners, and in the same year was
made a justice of the peace by them. In
1673 he was elected deputy governor, but re-
fused to serve. In 1676 he was elected
an assistant and was also chosen recorder.
In 1683 and again in 1684 he was dep-
uty for Newport, and was also elected as-
sistant. He was chosen major-general of
the forces of the island in 1684, and in
1685 was again assistant. In 1686 he was
elected deputy governor with Walter Clarke as
governor. He was appointed upon the usurp-
ation of Governor Andros, December 30, 1686,
one of his council at Boston, and upon the
fall of Andros and the arrival of the news of
the accession of William and Mary, Governor
Clarke declined to take authority, and Cog-
geshall assumed the reins of government and
safely carried it through until Governor Ball
was elected, Coggeshall continuing to act as
deputy-governor. In 1690 he declined the
governorship, to which he had been elected,
and in 1701 he was again deputy for Newport.
He married for his third wife, 1678, Mary

(III) Joseph, son of Governor John (2)
Coggeshall, was bprn in 1679. He married,
December 17, 1702, Mary Dyer (see Dyer
III).

(IV) Katherine, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Dyer) Coggeshall, married Major Jon-
athan Otis (see Otis V).

(The Dyer Line).

CI) Captain William Dyer, grandfather of
Mary (Dyer) Coggeshall, came with his wife
from England to Boston, Massachusetts, and
joined the First church there in December,
1635. He was disfranchised for seditious
writing, November 15, 1637, removed to
Rhode Island, and was one of the signers of
the compact of government for that province,
March 7, 1638. He was secretary the same
year ; general recorder, 1648 ; attorney general,
1 650-53; member of the general court. 1661-
62-64-66; general solicitor, 1665-66-68; and
secretary of the council, 1669. He was com-
missioned commander-in-chief upon the sea in

1653, and headed an expedition fitted out in
Rhode Island against the Dutch. His wife,
Mary Dyer, was the only woman to suffer cap-
ital punishment' in all the oppression of the
Friends the world over. She accompanied her
husband on his mission to England with
Roger Williams and Dr. John Clarke to ob-
tain the revocation of Governor Coddington's
power in Rhode Island, and while there be-
came a convert to Quakerism and a preacher
in the Society. On arriving in Boston in
1657, she was imprisoned, and on the petition
of her husband was permitted to go to Rhode
Island with him on condition that she never
return to Massachusetts. She returned, how-
ever, and with William Robinson and Marma-
duke Stevens was tried and convicted for
"their rebellion, sedition and presumptuous
obtruding upon us, notwithstanding their be-
ing sentenced to banishment on payne of
death as underminers of the government."
Robinson and Stevens were executed , but
through the petition of her son, Major Wil-
liam Dyer, she was reprieved on the same con-
ditions as before, but in May, 1660, she again
appeared on the public streets of Boston, was
brought before the court, May 31, and con-
demned to death. Her execution took place
June 1, 1660.

(II) Henry, son of Captain William and
Mary Dyer, was born in 1647, cned in 1690.
He married Elizabeth Sanford, born July 11,
1655, died August 27, 1718. John Sanford,
grandfather of Elizabeth (Sanford) Dyer,
married Elizabeth Wett. John, son of John
and Elizabeth (Wett) Sanford, died in 1687;
married, August 8, 1654, Elizabeth, who died
December 6, 1661, daughter of Harry Spatch-
urst, of Bermuda.

(III) Mary, daughter of Henry and Eliza-
beth (Sanford) Dyer, married Joseph Cogge-
shall (see Coggeshall III).

The Calhouns of Scotland
CALHOUN are the descendants of the

ancient family of the Conqu-
houns and Lairds of Luss. The original name
"Colquhoun" is still retained by some in Scot-
land, England and Ireland, but it is pro-
nounced "Colhoun."

The ancestor of the surname of Conquhoun
was Humphrey Kilpatrick, in whose favor
the Earl of Lenox granted a charter of the
lands of Colquhoun in the reign of Alexander
II. about the year 1200. The meaning of the
term Colquhoun is "a seacoasting common or
point" with which the former situation of
these lands will agree. Humphrey K. Cal-
houn married the daughter of Godfrey, Laird
of Luss, in the year 1392. The Colquhouns

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and Lairds of Luss were the most wealthy and
illustrious clans of Scotland. The home of
the clan was about the southern shore of Loch
Lomond and all of this neighborhood is full
of memories and traditions that preserve the
family name.

Among' the neighbors of the Calhouns were
the wild McGregors of Loch Katrine. These
two clans had frequent conflicts, and in 1602
about two hundred of the Colquhouns were
slain by the McGregors, with many acts of
savage cruelty. Sixty of the wives of the
slain Colquhouns took each the gory shirt of
her husband on a pike and rode to King James
at Stirling, demanding vengeance. This was
the original flaunting of the "bloody Shirt"
and secured the outlawry of the McGregors,
as told by Scott in a note of his "Lady of the
Lake."

Many of the Colquhouns fled to Ireland in
the seventeenth century to avoid religious per-
secution, among them the father of the immi-
grant to America in 1714.

The Calhoun coat-of-arms is as follows:
Argent, a saltire, engrailed sable. Crest: A
hart's head erased gules. Supporters, Two
ratch hounds, collard sable. Motto : Si je puis.

(I) David Calhoun, immigrant ancestor,
was born in Scotland about 1690, and emi-
grated with his father's family, who were non-
conformists, to the north of Ireland on ac-
count of persecution. Here they settled near
Londonderry, but the persecution having fol-
lowed them, David, with two brothers, James
and John, emigrated to America in 1714. They
landed in New York, where they separated ;
David settled in Stratford, Connecticut, and
later, 1732, moved to Washington, Connecti-
cut, where he lived until his death in 1769. He
married, in Stratford, Mrs. Fairchild, whose
maiden name was Catherine Coe. They had
six sons and two daughters, the last three born
in Washington. The sons were: Joseph, Da-
vid, James, John, Ebenezer, George, men-
tioned below.

(II) George, son of David Calhoun, was
born April 6, 1744. He married. March 30,
1780, Widow Judith Taylor, daughter of Dea-
con Abel Comstock, of Warren, Connecticut.
Five children ; all born in Washington.
George Albion, youngest son, mentioned be-
low.

(III) George Albion, son of George Cal-
houn, was born in Washington. October tt.
1788. He attended the district school of his
native town for a while, but was put to work
on the farm as soon as he was able to labor,
as his services were needed, and he was able
to do more work than was common for a boy
of his years. He was taught the assembly's

catechism, and received a religious education
in the family. He was strong, fearless, ath-
letic, and a leader among his companions.
"At eighteen," to use his own words, "I be-
came a man for business." At the age of
nineteen, however, he became dissatisfied with
his intellectual acquisition, and determined
that when he should be of age he would gain
a good English education. Therefore, when
he was twenty-one, he went to school, at Wol-
cott, and commenced the study of English
grammar and arithmetic. After four or five
monfhs, he was induced to enter upon the
study of law in the office of Hon. Nathan
Strong, but soon became convinced that his
education was too deficient to pursue that
study profitably, and returned to school and
commenced the study of Latin, when he was
twenty-two. In 1812 he entered the junior
class in Williams College, but left at the close
of the second term, and joined the new Ham-
ilton College, in Clinton, New York. He and
one other constituted the first junior and sen-
ior classes in that college, and graduated with-
out a commencement in August, 18 14. By
invitation of the faculty of Williams College,
he took his degree with the class of which he
had been a member. In September, 1814, he
united with the church in Salisbury, Connecti-
cut. That same fall he went to Andover,
passed the three years of study in the Semi-
nary there, and graduated in 181 7. When he
was in Hamilton College, he had aided in
founding a Young People's Missionary Soci-
ety for Western New York, and under the
patronage of this society he spent his first
year after leaving the seminary, as a mission-
ary in the vicinity of Geneva, New York. He
received invitations to settle over churches in
that region, but it being 'his intention, after
spending a season in supplying some destitute
churches in New England, to go as a mission-
ary to the southwestern states, he declined all
such invitations. At the close of his year he
returned to Connecticut and came immediately
to North Coventry, without the least expecta-
tion of settling there, and preached for the
first time, November 1, 1818. Having re-
ceived a call to become pastor of this church
in such circumstances as led him to think it
was the call of Providence, he was ordained
and installed there, March 10, 18 19. In 1828
he supplied for three months the pulpit of the
Central Presbyterian Church in New York
City, during the absence of its pastor, and in
a revival of religion. In 1830 his health
failed, and he spent the autumn in Maine, trav-
eling and laboring as he was able, in behalf
of the American Education Society. As he
continued unable to resume his pastoral du-

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ties, he visited one hundred congregations in under his command was surrendered to Major
this' state, pleading the cause of Home Mis- John Cutler, July 1, 1778, and in the massa-
sions, and preparing the way for the Domes- ere that followed he and his wife were
tic Missionary Society of Connecticut to be- stripped of everything but scanty clothing,
come the auxiliary to the American Home and compelled to flee back through the wilder-
Missionary Society. He then resumed his ness to Connecticut, where they remained un-
pastoral labors, but his health again failed, til after the war. Later they returned to the
and he proposed to some of his people to re- Valley and died there. An ancient letter in the
sign. This did not accord with their views, family recited some of their experiences and
and he did not carry his purpose into execu- says. that Mrs. Scoville often told the story of
tion. He made a trip to Europe, however, the last Indian battle and of her flight back to
and returned much improved in health, No- Connecticut with her infant in her arms,
vember, 1831. In June, 1832, he was in- That scene and its attendant circumstances
vited to take charge of Home Missionary made such an impression on her that long
operations in western New York, on a salary after she had forgotten everything, even the
of $700. This invitation he declined. It was names of her children, she could still speak
renewed and pressed upon his acceptance, of that massacre. Betsy Scoville's mother,
whereupon a large council was called, before Sarah Church, was the daughter of Samuel
whom he laid the matter, without any expres- Church, who was the son of Caleb Church,
sion of his own wishes in the premises, and it Caleb Church was the son of Isaac Church,
was decided, after a long and careful consid- who was the son of Richard Church. Richard
eration of the case, by a majority of one, that Church married Elizabeth Warren, daughter
his pastoral relation should not be dissolved, of Richard Warren, one of the Pilgrims of the
About 1836, he received an invitation to act "Mayflower." He came from London and
as state missionary for Michigan. Soon after was a signer of the famous Compact. He set-
he was elected financial agent of the Theolog- tied at Plymouth, and bore a deep share in
ical Institute at East Windsor, but this post the difficulties and troubles of that settle-
he declined. He obtained, however, a release ment. His wife and children came in the
from pastoral duty for one year, which he "Anne" in 1623. In the division of cattle in
spent in collecting funds for the endowment 1627 shares were given to him, his wife. Eliza-
of that institution. In this work he was beth, children, Nathaniel, Joseph, Mary, Anna,
highly successful. He was elected a member Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. He died before
of the Corporation of Yale College in 1849, 1628, and his wife October 2, 1673, al?ed about
and in 1852 received the degree of Doctor of ninety. Mrs. Calhoun died April 14, 1857,
Divinity from his alma mater, Hamilton Col- and he married (second) December 1, 1857,
lege. He served several times as delegate Mary J. Davis, of Salem, Massachusetts,
from the General Association of the state to Children : George Whitefield, David Samuel,
foreign ecclesiastical bodies. In March, i860, mentioned below.

he sent a communication to the Ecclesiastical (IV) David Samuel, son of George Albion
Society, relinquishing all claim for salary and Calhoun, was born September 11, 1827, in
resigning the active work as pastor, but still Coventry, Tolland county, Connecticut. His
retaining his pastoral office. From September, boyhood was spent in Coventry in a frugal
1861, till May, 1863, he supplied the pulpit of farming community of plain habits and stub-
the First Church of Coventry, until growing born theology, where he was given intelligent
infirmities admonished him to cease from tuition and taught industrious habits. He fit-
stated preaching. ted for college under the tuition of Rev. Wil-
He married (first) November 16, 1819, Ham Ely in Coventry, then at the Ellington
Betsy Scoville, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Academy and finally at Williston Seminary in
daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Church) Massachusetts. In the fall of 1844 he en-
Scoville. Her grandfather was Elisha Sco- tered Yale and was graduated from his class
ville, who was a lieutenant in command of in 1848, taking an oration. Among his class-
Fort Wintermoot in the Wyoming Valley at mates were Judge Nathaniel Shipman, the late
the time of the terrible massacre. He had Major Theodore Winthrop, Hon. Henry
moved from Colchester, Connecticut, to Wy- Hitchcock, of St. Louis, the distinguished con-
oming with his family in 1770, and was a stitutional lawyer, Arthur D. Osborn, presi-
member of the twenty-fourth regiment or- dent of the second National Bank of New Ha-
ganized from the inhabitants of the valley. ven, and the late Judge Dwight Foster, of
In December, 1777, he was given permission Massachusetts.

to transport four horse loads of salt to that After graduating from Yale, Mr. Calhoun

place for the use of the inhabitants. The fort resolved on self-support, went at once to Ra-

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vcnna, Ohio (then a journey of five days, and
two nights from his home in Coventry), and
opened a boys' school in September, 1848,
when he had just attained his majority. He
remained here until May, 1849, when the cli-
mate compelled him to return east. While in
Ravenna he often saw and heard such distin-
guished Ohioans as Thomas Ewing, "Tom"
Corwin, Columbus Delano. Judges Ranney
and Spaulding, Joshua R. Giddings and Ben
Wade, as he was familiarly called, then a
judge noted for his skill with the rifle and
an emphasis of speech which in New England
would have been called profanity. He would
hold his court by day and deliver a political
address in the evening.

After returning to Coventry, Mr. Calhoun
taught in the academy there until March,
1850, when he entered the law office of the
late Chief Justice O. S. Seymour, of Litch-
field, and was admitted to the bar at Litch-
field, December 17, 185 1. He opened a law
office in North Manchester in February, 1852,
and moved to Hartford in November, 1869,
when he became a partner of the late Mahlon
R. West, a connection which continued for
seven years. While in Manchester he held the
office of judge of the probate court for twelve
years and was state senator in 1856-62. In
his first term he was chairman of the commit-
tee on education which revised the school laws
of the state. Among other important changes
school societies were abolished and the super-
vision of the district schools was transferred
to the towns. In 1862 Mr. Calhoun was chair-
man of the military committee and ex-officio
member of the corporation of Yale College.

In 1869 Mr. Calhoun moved to Hartford
and took up his residence at No. 11 Walnut
street. In 1873-74 he was a candidate for rep-
resentative, but aside from this he has taken
no active part in politics. In 1876 he was
taken down with a serious illness brought on
by overwork, and was disabled for a year.
While recovering from this illness, and still
an invalid, he was chosen judge of the court
of common pleas for Hartford county and re-
gard for his health induced him to accept the
office and retain it for twenty years until dis-
qualified by the state constitution from further
judicial service. During this time he heard
and decided about two thousand cases, only
five of which were overruled by the supreme
court of errors and in two of the five the
court was divided.

Judge Calhoun's memory goes back to 1830,
the days of the weekly newspapers and open
fires, when there was no railroad in New Eng-
land, when the friction match was yet un-
known, when the Democratic slogan was

"Hurrah for Jackson," and it was thought im-
modest for a candidate to vote for himself.
In 1836 Judge Calhoun made a memorable
trip to Philadelphia on the Camden & Amboy
railroad in a compartment car drawn by one
of Robert and George Stevenson's locomo-
tives, which may now be seen in the National
Museum at Washington.

Of the great leaders of the bar before i860,
Hungerford, Perkins, Chapman and others,
Judge Calhoun has a clear recollection and the
highest opinion. In his first capital case, tried
in January, 1866, he was associated with the
late Charles Chapman in defense of Albert
Starkweather, the Manchester matricide. For
some years after this he defended in most of
the capital cases in Hartford and Tolland
counties. He then renounced all criminal
practice. Judge Calhoun is a member of the
Farmington Avenue Congregational Church
Society. He is also a member of the Con-
necticut Historical Society and Sons of the
American Revolution.

He married (first) November 7, 1852, Har-
riet A. Gilbert, of Coventry. She died in
1868, and he married (second) February 16,
1870, Eliza J., daughter of Dr. William Scott,
of Manchester. Children of first wife : Mary
Scoville, born July 23, 1854; Joseph Gilbert,
July 20, 1856, mentioned below ; Elizabeth
Hale, June 20, 1858, died August 23, 1859;
John, January 28, i860, died January 23,
1863 ! Fanny Rose, May 24, 1862 ; Theodore
Winthrop, February 26, 1864, died Novem-
ber 26, 1870; David, December 6, 1865, died
March 1, 1906; Jaspar, August 1, 1868, died
same day.

(V) Joseph Gilbert, son of David Samuel
Calhoun, was born at Manchester, Connecti-
cut, July 20, 1856. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Hartford
public high school, from which he was gradu-
ated in the class of 1874. He entered the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University
and was graduated in the class of 1877. He
studied law in the office of his father and was
admitted to the bar in Hartford county, in
May, 1880, and since then has been engaged
in general practice in Hartford with offices at
present at No. 36 Pearl street, Hartford. He
was clerk of the city police court of Hartford
from 1883 to 1889; member of the common
council of the city of Hartford 1890-91 ; pros-
ecuting attorney of Hartford from 1896 to
1906; police commissioner 1906-09, and cor-
oner of Hartford county since 1905. He is
an active and influential Republican and since
1906 has been a member of the state central
committee. He is a member of the Hartford
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tieth Century Club. He attends the Center
Church (Congregational) of Hartford. He
is a director in the Riverside Trust Company.
He married, November 20, 1889. at Brooklyn,
New York, Sarah Cornelia Beach, born at
Brooklyn, April 5, 1861, daughter of Oren
Milton and Jeanette M. (Johnson) Beach.
Her father was a banker at Albany, New
York, later president of the Broadway Bank,
Brooklyn; an expert accountant. She had
brothers, Hoffman. James, Marble, and Oren
M. Jr., and sisters, Adah Phelps and Eliza-
beth. They have no children.

(The Williams Line).

The family to which the American branch
of Williams' belong, originated in Wales.
The coat-of-arms is as follows : A. white
lion rampant on a sable shield. Crest : A
Cock. Motto : "What God Willeth Will Be."
The side motto : "Wratches his Opportunity."

(I) Robert Williams, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England in 1593, in Norwich, and
married before coming to America, Elizabeth
Stratton. He disembarked at Boston with his
wife, and two children, Samuel and John, in
the year 1637, and before the close of that
year had joined the neighboring settlement of
Roxbury. In that same year his name and
that of his wife are found upon the records
of the Roxbury church, to which the Rev.
John Eliot then ministered. He was made a
freeman in May, 1638. From 1647 to 1653
he was one of the five townsmen or selectmen.
He was interested with William Parks in the
early founding of schools in Roxbury. Ellis
speaks of him as one of the most influential
men in town affairs, and Farmer in his "Gen-
eral Register of the First Settlers in New
England," calls him the common ancestor of
the divines, civilians and warriors of the name
who have honored the country of their birth.
His last will and testament is dated November
26, 1685, and was probated September 29,
1693. He died in Roxbury, September 1,
1693, aged one hundred years. His wife died
July 28, 1674, aged eighty, and was buried in
the ancient burying ground in Roxbury,
Massachusetts.

That Robert Williams was a staunch and
typical Puritan, whose scruples forbade his
conformity with the tenets of the Established
Church of England during the intolerable
reign of the first Charles, and encouraged his
departure thence for Massachusetts Bay,
where he could the more freely exercise his
individual right of conscience, may readily be
believed from the single glimpse had of him as
signer of the petition to the governor of the
colony, 1672, in censure of Harvard College,

which quaint and characteristically Puritan
document reads as follows :

The humble Petition of some of the people
that lyve under the jurisdiction of the Massa-
chusetts government, unto our honorrd Magis-
trats this 5th day of March 1672,

Sheweth

That Whereas it has pleased our ever hon-
orrd Magistrats to send their letters to the
churches, to move us to a liberal contribution
towards the Colledg, and in one of those letters
diclared if any of the good people have any
obicesion you give us leave to propose it. and
also are pleased to promise us, to adde your en-
deavor to remove the same.

We take the boldnesse to propose an obice-
sion not with any intent to shorten either our
owne or others hands to so good and pius a
work, as we trust we shall make it appeare by
our actions, but our only scope is, to endevor
the removal of an evyl, (as it appeareth to us)
in the educasion of Youth at the Colledg, and
that is, they are brought up in such pride as
doth no wayes become such as -are brought up
for the holy service of the lord, either in Mag-
lstry, or ministry especially, and in particular
in their long haire, which last first tooke head,
and broke out at the Colledg so far as we un-
derstand and remember, and now it has got into
our pulpits, to the great griefe and ffeare of
many Godly in the Country.

We fine in the Scriptures that the sons, of
the prophets, and such as were dedicated to
God, were brought up in a way of mortification
and humility. We beseech you to consider
amos 2, 11, 12. I raised up of your sons to be
prophets and of your young men to be Nasa-
ntes is it not even thus O ye children of Isarael
saith the Lord, but ye have Nasarites wine to
drink.

Consider also prov. '16, 31. The hoary head
is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of
righteousnesse, and are these haires so found
that are defiled with this lust?

We beseech you consider, whether all other
lusts which have so incorigibly brake in upon
our youth, have not first sprung from the in-
congableness of his lust. Our humble request
is that you would please to use all due en-
deavors to cure this evyl, and so we commend
you to the lord and to the word of his grace
and remaine your humble petecinoes att the
thron of grace to assest and inable your weighty
consarns and remain

Your Worships humble
petitioners.

For facsimile of the signatures of Robert
and Samuel, his son, appended to said petition,
see New England Historical & Genealogical
Register. 35, pp. 121, 123.

Professor S. Wells Williams, the learned
Chinese scholar, says :

There is a tradition (interesting) in the Wil-
liams family, about the wife of Robert Wil-
liams, as follows: that when Robert Williams of
England desired to come to this country, his
wife who was of good family, and delicately
brought up, shrunk from the hardships to be
encountered. While the subject was under con-
sideration, she had a dream, foreshowing that
if she went to America, she would become the
mother of a long line of worthy ministers.

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The dream so impressed her, that she rose up
cheerfully and prepared for the journey. Nine
years after she died, those two grandsons John
and William, (sons of Samuel and Isaac, the
founder of Williams College, descended from
Eleazer, the son of Isaac, grandson of Robert)
came out of Harvard College, and the day of
fulfillment began.

(II) Samuel, son of Robert Williams, was
born in England. He came to this country
with his father in 1637, and settled in Rox-
burv. *'He was a man of considerable repute"
and held the office of deacon in Rev. John
Eliot's church many years. He married The-
odosia, daughter of William Park, of Rox-
bury. William Park was born in 1616 in
England, embarked with the Rev. Roger Wil-
liams in the ship "Lion," December, 1630, ar-
rived in Boston, February, 163 1, and became
one of the founders of the first church in Rox-
bury and its deacon for many years. He was
deputy to the general court of the Massachu-
setts Bay Colony for thirty-three years, having
the longest term of service in that capacity
under the old charter. Johnson in his "Won-
der Working Providence" calls him "a man of
a pregnant understanding." His will was
dated July 20, 1684, with codicil April 4.

1685, and probated July 30, 1685. He died
May 11, 1685, and his gravestone is to be
found in Roxbury burying ground. In his
will provision is made for schools and the
poor of Roxbury and that "every child and
grandchild or grandchildren, shall have each
of them a new Bible bought and given unto
them, out of what I have given unto my be-
loved wife." He left one daughter, but no
sons to perpetuate his name. Children of
Samuel Williams : Elizabeth, Samuel, Mar-
tha, Elizabeth, Theodosia, John, mentioned
below, Ebenezer, Deborah, married Joseph
Warren ; became grandmother of General Jo-
seph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill, nobly
defending the liberties of his country.

(III) John, son of Samuel Williams, was
born December 10, 1664. at Roxbury.
Through the generosity of his maternal grand-
father. Deacon William Park, he received a
liberal education, and was graduated, at Har-
vard College in 1683, at the age of nineteen
years. His class consisted of only three per-
sons, one of whom was his cousin William,
son of Isaac. Pie preached in Deerfield in

1686, though his ordination did not take place
until October 17, 1688. Shortly after his set-
tlement he married Eunice, daughter of Elea-
ser and Esther (Warham) Mather. Her fa-
ther, Eleaser Mather, D. D., was the eldest
son of Richard and Catherine (Hoult)
Mather, and was born May 1, 1637, at Dor-
chester. He was graduated at Harvard Col-

lege in 1656. June 7, 1658, the people of
Northampton, Massachusetts, resolved unan-
imously to "desire" him "to be a minister to
them in a way of trial in dispensing his gifts."
He accepted their invitation and when a
church was gathered, June 18, 1661, he was
constituted its pastor, so that he must have
preached there about three years previous to
his ordination. He married the only daughter
of Rev. John Warham, of Windsor. He died
July 24, 1669, a<: the age °f thirty-two, greatly
lamented not only by his own church, but by
all the infant churches on the Connecticut
river. Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., was his
youngest brother, and Rev. Cotton Mather,
D. D., son of Increase Mather, his nephew.
His father, Richard Mather, D. D., was born
in 1596 in Lawton, Lancashire, England, and
died in Dorchester, April 20, 1669. He mar-
ried Catherine, daughter of Edmond Hoult,
of Bury, Lancashire, England. He came to
Boston in 1635, and settled in Dorchester, Au-
gust 23, 1636, where he remained till his
death. John and Eunice Williams had nine
children, seven sons and two daughters. The
two youngest sons, one of whom was named
John, were killed with their mother in the
Indian massacre at Deerfield, in 1703. Esther,
one of the daughters, at the age of thirteen
was taken captive with her father, was car-
ried to Quebec, and educated there. She re-
turned and married Rev. Joseph Meacham, of
Coventry, Connecticut, became the mother of
eight children, and died March 12, 1751. Her
husband. Rev. Joseph Meacham, was a native
of Enfield, Connecticut, was graduated at Har-
vard College in 1710, and settled in the min-
istry at Coventry, October, 17 14. He died
there December 15, 1752, in his sixty-seventh
year. Children : Eunice, married Dr. Josiah
Rose ; Jerusha, Catherine, Esther, Sybil.
Three sons, all named Joseph, died in infancy.
Rev. John Williams married (second) after
his second settlement at Deerfield, Abigail
Allen, of Windsor, Connecticut, a cousin of
his first wife.

His salary was for some time probably too
small to support him, and the general court
allowed him two islands in the Connecticut
river, opposite the north part of Deerfield, now
called Corse's and Smead's Island, in conse-
quence of his petitioning in behalf of the
town for an extension of its territories. In
1707 the town voted to "build him a house as
big as Ensign Sheldon's and a back room as
big as may be thought convenient." In con-
nection with professional duties, he is said to
have given much time to scientific subjects.
He left various productions in manuscripts,
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showing that he had a philosophical turn of
mind and had made very respectable progress
in natural science. He died at Deerfield, June
12, 1729, and is buried there with his wife.
The Boston News Letter, which contained an
obituary notice of him, was the first newspa-
per published in New England. Children of
first wife: Eliakim, died young, Eleaser, Sam-
uel, Stephen, Warham, Esther, Eunice, John,
A son. (Order of birth not known.)

(The Hale Line).

There have been in England three large
families of the name of Hale, belonging to
the three counties of Kent, Hertford and
Gloucester. The Hale family of America
have retained the coat-of-arms of the family
of Kent, from which they doubtless originated.
The coat-of-arms is as follows : Gules, three
broad arrows feathered argent.

( I ) Robert Hale, immigrant ancestor, ar-
rived in Massachusetts in 1632. He was one
of these set off from the First Church of Bos-
ton to form the First Church of Charlestown
in 1632, of which church he was made a deacon.
He was a blacksmith by trade, but appears to
have had also a gift, which has been inherited
by many of his descendants, for the practical
application of the mathematics. He was reg-
ularly employed by the general court as a sur-
veyor of new plantations until his death, July

19, 1659. His wife was Jane . She

died in July, 1679. Children : Rev. John,
mentioned below, and four others.

(II) Rev. John Hale, son of Robert Hale,
was born June 3, 1636, and was graduated
from Harvard College in 1657. He was set-
tled as first minister of Beverly, Massachu-
setts, September 20, 1667, and remained in
this charge until his death. He was one of
the three chaplains to the unfortunate New
England expedition to Canada in 1690. He
was taken prisoner but soon released. Two
years after, the Salem witchcraft excited the
whole province, and Mr. Hale was present at
the examinations of some 'of those accused
and participated in the religious exercises at
their trials. In October, 1692, a person in
Wenhem accused Mrs. Hale of witchcraft.
The accusation disabused her husband of any
delusion he had been under, and not him
only, but the whole community. From that mo-
ment the whole tide turned, and the progress
of infatuation was at an end. In writing of
this subject later he "laments the errors and
mistakes of what he knows as the 'Witch-
craft delusion.' ' He married, March 3, 1684,
Sarah Noyes, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
She died May 20, 1695. Children: Samuel,
mentioned below, and others.

(III) Samuel, son of Rev. John Hale, set-
tled in Newbury, now Newburyport. He mar-
ried, August 26, 1 7 14, Apphia Moody, born
June 23, 1693. He afterward removed to
Portsmouth, where he died in 1724. Child,
Richard, mentioned below.

(IV) Richard, son of Samuel Hale, was
born February 28, 1717, and died in Coventry,
Connecticut, June 1, 1802. He married, May
17, 1746, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph
Strong, of Coventry. She died April 21, 1767.
Children: Elizabeth, born January 1, 1751-
52, married Dr. Samuel Rose, died October
31, 1813; Nathan Hale, the martyr spy.

(The Rose Line).

Dr. Josiah Rose, of Coventry, married Eu-
nice Meacham, daughter of Rev. Joseph and
Esther (Williams) Meacham, of Coventry.
She died May 4, 1780. Children: Dr. Sam-
uel, fourth son, mentioned below, and others.

(II) Dr. Samuel, son of Dr. Josiah Rose,
was born March 17, 1748. He married, De-
cember 30, 1773, Elizabeth, born January 1,
1751-52, daughter of Deacon Ricfiard and
Elizabeth (Strong) Hale, of Coventry. He was
a surgeon in the army of the revolution. He
died November 4, 1780, and his wife October
31, 1813. Child: Captain Joseph, mentioned
below.

(III) Captain Joseph, son of Dr. Samuel
Rose, was born September 17, 1774. He mar-
ried Milly, born November 28, 1782, daughter
of Levi and Ruth (Richardson) Sweatland.
He settled in Coventry as a blacksmith. He
died August 3, 1838, and his wife March,
1865. Children: Fanny, born September 3,
1800; Elizabeth Hale, June 28, 1804, men-
tioned below ; Fanny Mar\\ September 24,
1815.

(IV) Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Captain
Joseph Rose, was born June 28, 1804, and
married Jaspar Gilbert (see Gilbert VII). He
died June 18, 1855, in Coventry, his wife
March 31, 1886, in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Children : Elizabeth Hale ; Harriet Antoinette,
married David Samuel Calhoun, of Manches-
ter, died August 1, 1868 (see Calhoun IV) ;
Joseph Rose.

(The Gilbert Line).

The name Gilbert is of Saxon origin, and
signifies a pledge or a Brave Pledge. The
motto on the coat-of-arms is Genox proposi-
tion. Firm of Purpose.

(I) Sir John Gilbert, immigrant ancestor,
was born in Devonshire, England, and came
to Dorchester , Massachusetts, in the ship,
"Mary and John," in 1630. His wife Wini-
fred and two sons, Thomas and John, de-
scribed as "Well grown youth," came with

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him. In 1637 he and his two sons were mem-
bers of an incorporated body of forty, who
purchased of Sachem Massasoit about one
hundred and sixty-two thousand acres of land
lying west of Plymouth, which was named
Taunton. Here the family established itself,
and here descendants remained for over one
hundred and forty years. In 1668 that portion
of the town in which the Gilbert family lived
was set apart under the name of North Pur-
chase. Again in 171 1 it became a part of
the new town of Norton, and finally, in 1725,
Norton was subdivided and the Gilbert land
became a part of Easton. Sir John Gilbert
was admitted a freeman of Taunton, Decem-
ber 4, 1638, and was chosen constable in
1640. In 1641 he received a grant of land
from the town, with others, "for their great
charges in attending courts, laying out lands
and other occasions for the town." He was
over sixty years old in 1643, as ne was ex~
cused from military duty in that year. He
was the first representative from Taunton to
the general court. His house was in the
meadow on the western side of Taunton Great
River. In his will, dated May 10, 1654, he
directs his "body to be buried near my house
at Pondabrook upon the hill near the pine
tree." He bequeathed to his son Gyles his
farm of one hundred acres at Pondabrook, to-
gether with the buildings and certain live
stock ; to his sons Joseph and Thomas, daugh-
ter Mary Norcross, and granddaughter Mary
Norcross ; to Nicholas Street and Richard
Williams, overseers ; wife Winifred ; he gives
"10 bushels of Indian corn to such as have
most need of corn in the town, to be disposed
of at the discretion of the deacons of the
church at Taunton." His wife Winifred was
executrix and the inventory was filed June 3,
1657. He died some time after 1654. Chil-
dren (order of birth not known) : Thomas,
mentioned below-, John, Joseph, Gyles, Mary.
(II) Thomas, son of Sir John Gilbert, was
born in Devonshire, England, and came to
this country with his parents in 1630 or 1636.
He settled in Taunton, where he was one of
the first purchasers, and was admitted a free-
man in 1643. He served as constable in 1648-
49, and as selectman in 1648-51. He was dep-
uty to the general court in 1651. In 1658 he
returned to England, and died there in 1676.
He married, in Cohannet, March 23, 1639,
Jane, daughter of Hugh Rossiter. After his
death she and her children remained in Taun-
ton, where she was a purchaser of the North
Purchase. She died there June 9, 1691. aged
seventy-seven. The names of Thomas Gilbert
and his brother John are to be found enrolled
to do military duty in the Colony of Plymouth

in 1643. Children : Ensign Thomas, born
1643, died April 20, 1725 ; Mary, married
Samuel Williams ; Elizabeth, Jean, Eleazer,
mentioned below.

(III) Eleazer, son of Thomas Gilbert, was
born about 1655, in Taunton. He bought
land of Samuel Smith Jr., and lived in that
part of Taunton called the North Purchase,
later Norton, on what has since been called
the Gilbert place. It is situated a little to the
west of the Bay road, a few rods northwest
of the pond hole, and up the hill. He also
owned eighty-three acres of land in Dorches-
ter (now Sharon), "a gore of land which
Dorchester line cuts off from the lot of land
which Jeremiah Willes' house stands upon."
He married Mary Wilmarth. Children: Jo-
seph, born September 22, 1713; Eleazer, Jan-
uary 20, 1714-15, died young; Lemuel, 1715-
16, served in Nova Scotia in 1755, a sergeant
in Captain Nathaniel Perry's company ; Tim-
othy, baptized August 31, 1718; Eleazer, bap-
tized x\ugust 31, 1718, mentioned below;
John, born October 5, 1719; Ruth, 1721 ; Seth,
about 1725; James, married (first) December
28, 1749, Rebecca Wethrell, (second) June
24, 1761, Elizabeth Williams, who died a
widow November 12, 1789, aged fifty-eight;
Lewis ; Nathaniel. The last two not certain.

(IV) Eleazer (2), son of Eleazer (1) Gil-
bert, was baptized August 31, 1718. He mar-
ried . Child, John, mentioned below.

(V) John (2), son of Eleazer (2) Gil-
bert, was born in Norton, on the east side of
Winniconnet pond, five and one-half miles
from Taunton court house, and was brought
up in that part of Norton which was after-
ward set off as Easton. Here he lived until
he went to Pomfret, Connecticut. He lived
and died in what is now the northwestern part
of Brooklyn, Connecticut, which was set off
from Pomfret. He married (first) Esther,
daughter of Ephraim and Mary (daughter of
Rodger Sumner) Tucker, of Milton. She was
born in Milton, October 12, 1720. Her grand-
father was Ephraim Tucker, the founder of
the Tucker family in this country. John Gil-
bert had two other wives. Child, John, men-
tioned below, and other children.

(VI) John (3), son of John (2) Gilbert,
was born June 2, 1746, in Pomfret. He was
struck by lightning at a farm formerly owned
by his father in Pomfret and died two weeks
after from lockjaw occasioned by the burn.
He married Rachael, daughter of Benjamin
and Naomi (Richards) Pierce, of Brooklyn,
Connecticut. She was born in Canterbury,
February 19. 1743, died September 7, 1837,
after forty-two years of widowhood. She
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ily of children to be honest, honorable and ex-
emplary members of society. Children : John,
Wilkes. Dorcas (twin), Delight (twin), Har-
riet. Peregrins, Esther, Wyllys, Septimus
(twin), Serepta (twin). Jaspar, mentioned be-
low.

(VII) Jaspar, son of John (3) Gilbert, was
born November 14, 1785, in Brooklyn. In
1818 he was living in Coventry, and was a
member of the firm of Wight & Gilbert, mer-
chants. Later he became interested in the
manufacture of black glass, in the firm of Gil-
bert. Turner & Company, with one factory in
Coventry and another in Willington. About
the year 1838 the business was moved to Ellen-
ville, New York, and incorporated as the El-
lenville Glass Company. Mr. Gilbert sold his
property in Coventry, including his store and
residence, to Lyman Talcott, and removed
with his family to Ellenville to take a part in
the management of the Glass Company. In
1842 he returned to Coventry, repurchased his
former home, and remained there for the re-
mainder of his life. He was deacon in the
Congregational church for many years. He
married Elizabeth Hale Rose of Coventry,
Connecticut (see Rose IV). Children: Eliza-
beth Hale ; Harriet Antoinette, married David
Samuel Calhoun ; Joseph Rose.

Rachael (Pierce) Gilbert, wife of John (3)
Gilbert, was the daughter of Captain Benja-
min Pierce and Naomi Richards, his second
wife. She was born February 19, 1743. Her
father settled in the southeastern part of
Brooklyn, Connecticut, called Christian Cor-
ner, on a farm, which was still in possession
of descendants in 1869. The original house
was standing at that time, but is now fast go-
ing to decay. A remarkable elm tree planted
by Captain Delano Pierce, son of Benjamin,
is standing yet. Benjamin Pierce had four
wives. He died February 7, 1782, aged sev-
enty-one. He was the son of Timothy Pierce,
who with a brother and cousin, came to Amer-
ica in its settlement, and lived first in Wo-
burn. Massachusetts, and then in Plainfield,
Connecticut. Children: Benjamin, Ezekiel,
Phebe. The name Pierce originated in Wales,
from which place the family emigrated to the
north of Ens land. It has been fully ascer-
tained that this family is of the lineage of
Lord Percv of Wales.

Marvin is an ancient English
MARVIN surname. The home of the an-
cestors of the American immi-
grant was for more than a century and a half
in the northeasterly part of county Essex. A
hundred years earlier, not long after the year
1400, several Marvin families lived in and

near Ipswich, county Suffolk, only ten miles
from the birthplace of the American immi-
grant. Roger Marvin, of Ipswich, was born
as early as 1432.

The ancestry has been definitely traced to
Reinold or Rynalde Marvin, of Ramsey, Es-
sex county, mentioned below. He had broth-
ers, John and Thomas, and a sister Christian.
John Marvin was doubtless John of Ramsey
and was taxed there as early as 1540 and it
is known that he had children : Elizabeth,
married John Hayles ; John, born about 1534;
Roger, born about 1537 ; Margaret, married

— Clercke (Clark); Reinold (?).

Thomas Marvin, brother of Reinold, was born
about 1 5 19; married Barbara Brett, widow;
his will shows that he lived at Ramsey and
had estates at Little Oakley and in Suffolk
county. Christian Marvin, sister of Thomas,
J^hn and Reinold, was born about 1521, died
before 1561 ; married Thomas Herde, who
was executor of the will of her brother,
Thomas Marvin.

(I) Reinold or Rynolde Marvin, of Ram-
sey, must have been born as early as 15 14,
died before October 14. 1561 . He married

Johan , who survived liim and was his

executrix. He left a legacy to care fot" Ram-
sey bridge and directed that he should be bur-
ied in St. Michael's Church. He owned vari-
ous estates in Ramsey, known as "Betettes,"
"Genettes." On the "Ray" he had land which
he styles "my ferns of East Haull and the
Ray, and E'arwycke," where he pastured
sheep. In Wrabness he owned a tenement, be-
queathed to his son Edward. The main road
after crossing Ramsey bridge is called Ram-
sey street, running northwesterly and then
west passing through Wrabness near the
northerly boundary of Wix which adjoins
Wrabness on the south and southwest. At the
corner made by the road to Wrabness station
on the left and a little more than two miles
from the Ramsey bridge stood the house which
Rynalde gave by will to his son Edward. Ry-
nalde's original will is still preserved in Som-
erset House, London. Edward in turn left
the homestead to his son Edward, who in his
will of March 1, 1622-23, bequeathed it to his
children. It is unusual to locate the English
ancestry of the first settlers in America and
still more difficult and exceptional to be able
to identify the very homestead where they
lived, as in this case. The children of Rynalde
Marvin were: Richard, inherited "The Be-
tettes" ; Edward, mentioned below ; John, was
buried in Little Oakley, September 11, 1584,
inherited "The Genettes" : Andre, mentioned
in the will ; Margery ; Barbara, married John
Wade, of Ramsey and Little Oakley.

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(II) Edward, son of Reinold or Rynalde
Marvin, was born at Ramsey, England, or
Wrabness, about 1550. Besides the homestead
which he inherited he owned several other
farms in Ramsey and vicinity, some of which
he conveyed to his sons before death, confirm-
ing the disposition of his property in his will.
To Matthew, the youngest, was bequeathed
the mansion .house called the "Edons," alias
"Dreybacks," "that I now dwell in." This
mansion is in Great Bentley, still standing in
good repair and bearing its ancient name,
though showing evidences of various changes,
since Edward lived. Views of the ancient
house are given in a recent genealogy of the
Marvins (page 23). Edward died November
13 or 14, 1615, and was buried November 15.
His will was dated November 13 and proved
January 17 following. His widow Margaret
survived him, being buried at St. Mary's, May
28, 1633. Great Bentley parish is in Ten-
dring Hundred, county Essex, ten miles south-
west of Ramsey. Children: 1. Edward, born
about 1 58 1. 2. Thomas, about 1583 ; may have
been the Thomas Marvin, of Newbury, Mas-
sachusetts. 3. Richard, about 1585. 4. Rob-
ert, about 1587. 5. Margaret, about 1589;
died at Great Bentley and was buried there,
January 28, 1595-96. 6. Marie, about 1591 ;
married, April 19, 1610, John Hayse. 7. John
(twin), baptized June 7, 1593, at St. Mary's,
buried next day. 8. Reinold (twin), baptized
June 7, 1593, died next day. 9. Reinold, bap-
tized October 25, 1594, mentioned below. 10.
Elizabeth, born about 1597; married, May 22,
1618. 11. Matthew, baptized March 26, 1600,
at St. Mary's: came to America in 1635 and
settled at Hartford ; progenitor of about half
of the Marvin families of Connecticut.

(III) Reinold (2), son of Edward Marvin,
was baptized October 25, 1594, in St. Mary's
Church, Great Bentley, county Essex, Eng-
land. He inherited from his father real es-
tate at Moyse Hill near Great Bentley. He
was one of the overseers in 1625 and 1637,
according to the register of St. Mary's, and
one of the wardens in 1627-33-34. His
brother came to America more than a year
before he came. The last mention of his name
in Great Bentley was in 1637; he was in
Hartford in 1638. Doubtless his wife and
surviving children came with him ; at least
three died in England and only Reinold and
Mary are named in the will. His home lot in
Hartford was at the north end of the West
Field near those of Thomas Upson and Thomas
Barnes. About 1640 he removed to Farming-
ton, Connecticut, of which he was one of the
earliest proprietors, and later to Saybrook at
the mouth of the Connecticut river. He was

made a freeman of Saybrook, May 20, 1658.
At last accounts some of his descendants
owned part of his original homestead in Lyme
and Saybrook. His house was in Lyme, for-
merly Saybrook. His will was presented for
probate, July 9, 1663. His wife Mary died
about 1 68 1 in Lyme. Her death was attrib-
uted to witchcraft and Nicholas Jennings and
wife Margaret were put to trial on account of
her death and that of other persons. Chil-
dren of Reinold Marvin and dates of bap-
tism: William, St. Mary's, November 4,
1618; Elizabeth, April 19, 1621 ; Mary, Octo-
ber 2J, 1622; John, buried March 16, 1626;
Reinold, mentioned below ; Abigail, May 4,
1634; Mary, October 23, 1636, died March 5,

I7I3-I4-

(IV) Lieutenant Reinold {3) Marvin, son
of Reinold (2) Marvin, was born in England
and baptized in St. Mary's Church, Great
Bentley, December 20, 1631. He died in
Lyme, Connecticut, August 4, 1676. He came
to New England with his father and was ad-
mitted a freeman at Saybrook, May 30, 1658.
He owned much land in Lyme and Saybrook.
He was deputy to the general court from
Lyme in 1670, and from 1682 until his death.
He was on the committee in 1666 to divide" the
town of Saybrook, and he was a town sur-
veyor. He served as selectman in 1672-73
and 1674-75 and as constable in 1674. He was
sergeant of the train band in 1661, and later
lieutenant until his death. He married Sarah
Clark, baptized February 18, 1643-44, in Mil-
ford, Connecticut, died February 1, 1716,
daughter of George Jr. and Sarah Clark. She
married (second) February 12, 1677-78, Cap-
tain Joseph Sill, the famous Indian fighter.
Children, born in Lyme : John, 1664-65 ; Mary,
1666; Reinold, 1669; Samuel, 1671, mentioned
below ; Sarah, 1673.

(V) Deacon Samuel Marvin, son of Lieu-
tenant Reinold (3) Marvin, was born in Lyme
in 1671, died there May 15, 1743, and was in-
terred in the Duck river burying ground. He
was selectman in 1699-1708-12, and 1718-20,
inclusive. He was chosen town clerk in 1725,
and held the office many years. He was con-
stable from 1695 to 1718; surveyor 1701 ;
lister 1706 to 1715 ; tythingman, 1723; town
treasurer most of the time from 1725 to 1738.
In 1700 he was on a school committee to di-
vide the town into school districts. He was
deputy to the general court in 171 1 and 1722,
and was for many years deacon of the church.
In 1726 he was appointed to make the rates.
His will was dated August 19, 1741, proved
June 8, 1743. He married, May 5, 1699, Su-
sannah, daughter of Henry and Mary Graham,
of Hartford. Children, born in Lyme : Sam-

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nel, February 10, 1699-1700; Zachariah, De-
cember 27, 1701, mentioned below; Thomas,
March 4, 1703-04; Matthew, November 7,
1706; Abigail, September 13, 1709, died June
4, 1786; Elizabeth, June 1, 1712; Nathan, born
November 21, 1714; Nehemiah, February 20,
1716-17; Mary (twin), April 15, 1721 ; Son
( twin ) died at birth.

(VI) Deacon Zachariah Marvin, son of
Deacon Samuel Marvin, was born in Lyme,
December 27, 1701, died there September 12,

1792. He was admitted a freeman, Septem-
ber 14, 1731. He was lister in 1729 and 1743;
grand juryman; fence viewer; treasurer in
1742 and for many years. He was chosen
deacon of the church in January, 1 741. He
married, March 29, 1732, Abigail, born 1708,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Lee) Lord.
Children, born in Lyme : Elihu, February 13,
1733, mentioned below; Zachariah, August 11,
1735; Thomas, baptized October 30, 1737,
died young ; Susannah, born November 12,
1738; Thomas, May 29, 1742; Daniel, March
or May 2, 1745. died January 30, 1750-51;
Joseph, January 8, 1747-48, died February
22, 1750-51 ; Silas, July 19, 1750, soldier in
the revolution ; Joseph, June 22, 175 1.

( VII ) Elihu, son of Deacon Zachariah Mar-
vin, was born in Lyme, February 13, 1733,
died in Hebron, August 13, 18 1 2. He resided
a few years at Lyme, and in 1768 purchased
land at Hebron of John Beach. He was a
teacher in Hebron for a time, and then carried
on a farm, living with his father-in-law, Dea-
con Beach. He bought various parcels of land
in Hebron, and was known as "Squire Elihu."
He was justice of the peace from 1787 to 1803,
and was a deacon in the Hebron church in

1793. He married (first) November 16, 1762,
Anna Beach, who died September 26, 1778,
aged forty; married (second) July I, 1779,
Azubah Case, of Gilead, born June 8, 1756,
died April 23, 1780; married (third) June
13, 1782, Mary Chapman, who died March 25,
1788, aged thirty-eight; married (fourth) No-
vember 12, 1789, Eunice (Dimmick) Gurley,
widow of Israel Gurley. She survived him
and died April 12, 1835, aged eighty-two.
Her will was dated September 18, 1834, proved
May 2, 1835. His will was dated May 18,
1812, proved September 27, 1812. Children,
the first two born in Lyme, the others in He-
bron, by first wife: I. Anna, May 15, 1765;
Abigail. August 15, 1767; Mary, February 1,

1770, died May 12, 1774; Elihu, December 13,

1771, mentioned below; Elizabeth, about 1774.
By fourth wife: Mary, August 6, 1792; So-
phronia, married Daniel Niles ; Lucy, born
about 1796; Clarissa, married Abijah Parks.

(VIII) Elihu (2), son of Elihu (1) Mar-

vin, was born in Hebron, December 13, 177 1,
died about June, 1805, in Tioga, Pennsylva-
nia. He removed to Tioga about 1800 and
erected a mill on the Tioga river, in what was
then a wilderness. His widow and children
returned to Hebron not long after his death.
He married, about 1794, Clarissa Kilbourne,
born 1777, died 1809, daughter of Elijah and
Sally (Welles) Kilbourne, of Colchester, Con-
necticut. She married (second) Daniel Lamb,
of Mansfield, Pennsylvania. The children of
Elihu and Clarissa Marvin were : Ira Kil-
bourne, born September 6, 1796, mentioned
below ; Elihu, born in Hebron, 1798, died un-
married about 1840; Harvey, born at Tioga
Point, Pennsylvania, 1801, died 1822; Clarissa,
born at Tioga Point, 1803, died 1806; Lu-
anda, born at Tioga Point, 1805, died 1845.

(IX) Deacon Ira Kilbourne Marvin, son
of Elihu (2) Marvin, was born in Hebron,
Connecticut, September 6, 1796, died May 12,
1879, in Tolland. For twenty-eight years he
was deacon of the Baptist church in Tolland,
where he settled in May, 1820. He served in
the legislature in 185 1. He married, October
22, 1824, Julia Young, born May 14, 1800, in
Windham, Connecticut, died February 24,
1875, daughter of Eliphalet and Sibyl (La--
throp) Young. Children, born in Tolland : Jane
Maria, born January 11, 1826; Julia Ann,
January 27,, 1828; Sibyl Lathrop, July 16,
1830; Harriet, September 5, 1832, died No-
vember 2, 1832; Edwin Eliphalet, October
8, 1833, mentioned below; Lucy Catherine,
March 11, 1837; Clarissa Kilbourne., Septem-
ber 10, 1840: Samuel Harvey, May 12, 1845.

(X) Edwin Eliphalet, son of Deacon Ira
K. Marvin, was born in Tolland, October 8,
1833. He received his education in the public
schools of Tolland and Suffield, and is a law-
yer, by profession. At the outbreak of the
civil war he enlisted April 19, 1861, for three
months, re-enlisting in May 5, 1861, for three
years in the First Regiment, Colt Revolving
Rifles, and upon its disbandment, June 20,
1861, enlisted in Company F, Fifth Connecti-
cut Resiment, which was the first company
from Tolland county to repulse a Confederate
charge and capture prisoners. He was lieu-
tenant and captain of this company, and was
mustered out February 12, 1863, having re-
signed on account of disability. He is the au-
thor of the history of his regiment, written in
1888-89. and of a family handbook of the an-
cestry and descendants of his grandparents,
Eliphalet Young and Sybil Lathrop Young,
written in 1909. He resided at various times
in Tolland, Colchester, Rockville and Hartford
and practiced law in those places. He was for
many years the secretary of the Tolland Coun-

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ty Agricultural Society, and has been grand
juror, justice of the peace, United States
commissioner and for many years clerk of the
United States circuit and district courts for
Connecticut, United States commissioner and
extradition commissioner for the state, filling
these offices with conspicuous ability, hearing
many of the criminal cases coming before the
federal courts in this state on preliminary
hearing and acting as examiner and master
in chancery in the majority of the civil cases.
From 1869 to 1875, as a justice of peace at
Hartford, he presided in the police court dur-
ing the vacations of Judges Samuel F. Jones
and Monroe E. Merrill. He has always been
a Democrat in politics. He is not a church
member but has regularly attended some near-
by church, of late Trinity Church in Hartford.
He was very much interested in the conserva-
tion of Connecticut forests, and is the author
of the original enactment in the Connecticut
statutes of the law authorizing the purchase
and reforestation of all denuded land. He is
very fond of the woods and waters of Tol-
land county, and has been a fairly successful
angler for trout, bass and pickerel, and espe-
cially of the October woods and wing-shoot-
ing when the principal flight of woodcock was
on.

He married, December 24, 1866, in Hart-
ford, Cynthia Paulina, born October 25, 1836,
daughter of Judge Loren Pinckney and Fran-
ces Elizabeth (Eldridge) Waldo, of Tolland.
Their only child was Loren Pinckney Waldo,
mentioned below.

(XI) Loren Pinckney Waldo, son of Edwin
Eliphalet Marvin, was born October 19, 1870,
at Hartford, Connecticut. He attended the
public schools of his native city and entered
Yale College, from which he was graduated
in the class of 1892 with the degree of Bach-
elor of Arts. He was a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity. He studied his profes-
sion at the Yale Law School, was one of the
editors of the Yale Law Journal, and gradu-
ated there in 1894. He was admitted to the
bar of Hartford county in 1894 and since then
has practiced law in Hartford. In November,
1906, he was elected judge of probate for the
district of Hartford and has since been re-
elected twice, the last time receiving the nom-
ination of both the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties. A somewhat unique fact is that
as judge of probate he is custodian of the orig-
inal will of his first ancestor to come to this
country, Reinold Marvin, above mentioned.
Judge Marvin has always been a Democrat in
politics and was at one time chairman of the
Democratic town and city committee. He also
served as a member of the high school com-

mittee for seven years and as a member of the
street board until compelled to retire to enter
upon his duties as judge of probate. He is
at present a member of the commission on the
abatement of assessments. He is a vestryman
of Trinity Church, Hartford, and has for
some years been one of the representatives of
that church in the diocesan convention and
is a member of the social service commission
of the diocese. He is also president of the
local assembly of St. Andrews Brotherhood,
president of the Open Hearth Association, a
rescue mission, and president of the Choral
Club, a male singing society. He is a mem-
ber of the Hartford Club, the University Club,
the Hartford Golf Club, the Elihu Club of
New Haven, the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New
York, La Fayette Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, Charter Oak Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, John Hay Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. Lodge No. 19, Benevo-
lent Protective Order of Elks, Court A. E.
Burr, Foresters of America, and the Hartford
Saengerbund.

He married, June 4, 1895, Florence Belle,
born March 26, 1873, at Chicago, Illinois,
daughter of Christopher and Charlotte (Ken-
dall) Watrous. Children: Florence Watrous,
born December 2, 1896, in Hartford ; Edwin
Waldo, born June 13, 1899, in Hartford.

The word Blanchard was
BLANCHARD applied to an order of
Friars who used to go
about ordinarily in white sheets (French
word Blanche, meaning white), but a wider
application of the word followed, and any per-
son affecting white raiment was called a
blanchard. The surname was derived doubt-
less from the application of the name to dis-
tinguish the progenitor from others of the
same personal name. The family in England
is ancient but not extensive. The only coat-
of-arms is borne by the family in Wiltshire
and Somersetshire, and slightly varied by the
family at Grimmsargh Hall, Lancaster, Eng-
land. Arms. Gules a chevron or, in chief
two bezants in base a griffin's head erased of
the second. Crest : On the point of a sword in
pale a mullet.

(I) Thomas Blanchard, immigrant ancestor,
said to have come originally from Hampshire,
England, sailed from London in 1639 in the
ship "Jonathan," with several of his children.
There is good authority for the statement that
he lived at Penton, Hampshire, during his
youth. He settled first in Braintree, Massa-
chusetts, where he was living from 1646 to
1650. He bought of Rev. John Wilson and
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buildings, on the south and west sides of the
Mystic river, in February, 165 1, and removed
to Charlestown. His first wife died in Eng-
land and he married there (second) Agnes
(Bent) Barnes, who died in 1639 on the
passage, sister of John Bent, who settled in
Sudbury. He married (third) in 1643, Mary

, of Noddle's Island. She died in

Charlestown in 1656. During the religious
controversy in Maiden she sided with the or-
thodox Mr. Marmaduke Mathews. The
Blanchards lived at what is now Maiden. He
died May 21, 1654. His will bequeathed to
his wife and children and to the church at
Maiden, and provided that Benjamin Thomp-
son should be fitted for the University (Har-
vard) and if his parents should consent. Chil-
dren : Joseph ; George, born 1622 ; Thomas,
1625 ; Samuel. 1629, mentioned below ; Na-
thaniel, 1636; Mary, 1639.

(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Blanchard,
was born in Hampshire, England, August 6,
1629, died m Charlestown, Massachusetts,
April 22, 1707. He came to New England
at the age of ten in 1639 with his parents. He
was a prominent citizen of Charlestown and
Maiden, and of Andover, whither he removed
June 10, 1686. He was collector of taxes and
constable there and owned large tracts of
land. He married, January 3, 1654-55, Mary
Sweetser, died February 20, 1668, daughter of
Seth Sweetser, of Charlestown. He married
(second) June 24, 1673, Hannah Doggett,
died July 10, 1725, daughter of Thomas Dog-
gett, of Marshfield, Massachusetts. Children
of first wife: Jonathan, born May 25, 1664;
Joseph, resided in Andover. Children of sec-
ond wife : Thomas, April 28, 1674, mentioned
below; John, July 3, 1677; Hannah.

(III) Thomas (2), son of Samuel Blanch-
ard, was born April 28, 1674, died in 1759.
He married, May 2.2, 1699, Rose Holmes, of
Marshfield. Children : Thomas, Josiah, Jo-
seph, Nathaniel, Isaac, mentioned below.

(IV) Isaac, son of Thomas (2) Blanch-
ard, was born about 1710-15, in Marshfield,
and appears to have settled at Killingly, Con-
necticut, with his brother Nathaniel, whose
son Joseph located at Gloucester, Rhode
Island.

(V) Isaac (2). son or nephew of Isaac (1)
Blanchard. was probably born in Killingly.
He settled in Foster, Rhode Island. Accord-
ing to the census of 1790 there were four
heads of Blanchard in Foster. Reuben Blanch-
ard had ten in his family. He is presumed to
be a brother of Isaac. William, mentioned
below, had three sons under sixteen, himself
and wife in his family. Isaac had three males
over sixteen, one under that age and four fe-

males in his family. Among his children
were : William, mentioned below ; Ruth, mar-
ried, December 16, 1804, Alexander Peck;
Hannah, married, January 19, 1806. William
Herrington ; Isaac.

(VI) William, son of Isaac (2) Blanch-
ard, was born in Foster, Rhode Island, about
1770-80. He was doubtless a Quaker. He
married (second) Martha Hall, a Quaker, of
an old Rhode Island family, daughter of Cap-
tain Daniel and Mary (Greene) Hall. Chil-
dren: 1. Mary. 2. Rosanna. 3. William
Penn, born 1800, mentioned below. 4. Ben-
jamin, born 1802, lived at Daysville, Connecti-
cut : married — ; children : Joel, Esther,

William, Charles, Asenath, Marila, Rosa, Dor-
cas. 5. Avena, born 1806. 6. Joseph, mar-
ried ; children : Eliza, Homy. Eunice,

Martha A., George M., Malina, Angelina, Em-
ily, Victoria, Alonzo. 7. James, married

— ; children : Lucy, John and Hattie ;

James lived at Centreville, Rhode Island. 8.
Daniel. 9. Dorcas. 10. Asenath. 11. Pa-
tience. 12. Martha. 13. Douglas, born about
1813; married Phebe Seamans and (second)
Lydia ; lived at Uxbridge, Massachu-
setts; children: Henry Clinton, George B.,
Bradford J.. Willard D., Louise P.. Charles.

(VII) William Penn, son of William
Blanchard, was born in 1800 at Foster, Rhode
Island, died at the age of eighty-four. He
followed farming all his active life at Fos-
ter. He married. December 2.J, 1829, Sarah
Burlingame Seaman (see Seaman IV).
Children, born at Foster: 1. John Johnson,
October n, 1830; settled on a large ranch at
Poncho Springs, Colorado. 2. Mathew, May
ti, 1832; a farmer living in the Moosup val-
ley, Foster, Rhode Island. 3. Rev. Albert
Damon, mentioned below. 4. Leonard, Sep-
tember 10, 1834, lost at sea. 5. Asenath, July
7, 1838, died in infancy. 6. Sarah Ann, Au-
gust 13, 1836. 7. Sheldon L., March 9, 1839:
served in a Rhode Island regiment in the civil
war: health failed and he died September 11,
1867, unmarried. 8. Chester, June 26, 1840,
died May 19, 1865.

(VIII) Rev. Albert Damon Blanchard, son
of William Penn Blanchard, was born at Fos-
ter, July 14. 1833. He received his early edu-
cation in the public schools of East Green-
wich. Rhode Island. When a young man he
left the farm on which he had worked with
his father and went to Illinois. For a number
of years he was a traveling salesman for vari-
ous book and map publishers with his head-
quarters most of the time at Atlanta. Illinois.
He was in this section during the famous Lin-
coln-Douglas debate and took a lively interest
in the political affairs of that time. He met

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Lincoln in the railroad station at Blooming-
ton, Illinois, and rode on the train with him
to Springfield. He has never lost his warm
admiration and appreciation of the great
emancipator. During these active years spent
among the farmers of the great middle west
Mr. Blanchard spent his leisure hours in the
study of the Bible and Christian religion, and
perhaps unconsciously gathered wisdom and
experience from his daily meeting with all
classes of men and women. He was strongly
attracted to the work of evangelism. In June,
1861, he was installed as pastor of the First
Christian Church of Lebanon, Connecticut. A
most notable and successful revival was con-
ducted by the pastor. After three years of
zealous and fruitful work in this pastorate he
accepted a call to Westport, Massachusetts,
and after a year of strenuous work there, he
resigned on account of failing health. He de-
clined a number of calls during the next three
years. Thinking that his health would war-
rant the undertaking, three years later, he
took the pastorate of the Christian Church at
Summit, in Coventry, Rhode Island, and a
most remarkable series of revival meetings
was held there. For ten weeks he maintained
these extraordinary meetings with singular
success, and the work of the preacher here
made this revival season the most successful
in the history of Rhode Island. After two
years he accepted a call to the church at Rice
City, Coventry, in the same denomination. He
left Rhode Island soon afterward to make his
home in Colorado. Here he found himself
busy in supplying pulpits, mostly in the Metho-
dist denomination. He supplied for a time,
however, in the Baptist and Christian churches
at Salida, Colorado. The later years of his
long and useful life have been spent in Bridge-
port and Hartford, Connecticut, and Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, where his sons lived. He
has been occupied, as far as his health and
strength permitted, in supplying pulpits. His
present home is in Worcester. In politics Mr.
Blanchard is a Prohibitionist. He has been
an earnest and eloquent advocate of temper-
ance all his life. Years ago he was a mem-
ber of the then flourishing order of the Sons
of Temperance. While in Rhode Island he
was clerk and afterward president of the
Rhode Island and Connecticut conference, and
he is a member of the Rhode Island and Mas-
sachusetts Christian conference. He preached
the annual sermon at the conference one year
at Rockland, Rhode Island.

He married, in i860, Mary Catherine, born
at Newport, Rhode Island, October 16. 1832,
daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Sherman)
Burroughs. Children: 1. Fred Parks, born

August 10, i860; owned a ranch at Poncho
Springs, Colorado ; died unmarried October
27, 1890, of typhoid fever. 2. Herbert Le-
roy, November 21, 1861 ; a promising student
fitting for college, died January 4, 188 1. 3.
Elmer Harris, March 4, 1863 ; was associated
with his brother on the ranch at Poncho
Springs ; proprietor of a restaurant at Bridge-
port, Connecticut ; manager of the Capi-
tol restaurant in New York City one year ;
married (first) Anna Brown; (second)
Carrie Salmon ; children of first wife :
Mary Leah, Finla and Curtis. 4. Ed-
ward Howard, August 27, 1864, died Oc-
tober 4, 1865. 5. Jessie Viola, February 25,
1866; married Louis Bailey, an architect, at
Wilson, Connecticut ; has no children. 6. Cur-
tis Royal, October 30, 1867; member of the
firm of Porter & Blanchard, proprietors of the
famous Capitol restaurants in Worcester,
where they have two, in Hartford where they
also have two, in New Haven, Springfield,
Portland, Norwich and New York City, where
they have four, all on Broadway ; resides in
Worcester ; married Jessie Blanchard and has
two children : Elizabeth and Royal Irving. 7.
Dr. Irving De Loss, mentioned below.

(IX) Dr. Irving De Loss Blanchard, son
of Rev. Albert Damon Blanchard, was born
January 30, 1874, at Moosup valley, Foster,
Rhode Island. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools and the Presbyterian Academy of
Salida, Colorado, and at Yale College. He en-
tered the medical school of Yale University
in August, 1894, and received the degree of
M. D. in 1897. He had hospital experience
in the New York Hospital, corner of Fifth
avenue and Fifteenth street, at the Bridge-
port Hospital and at the Hartford Hospital
at Hartford, Connecticut, where he was ap-
pointed an interne, January 1, 1898. He
served also as assistant physician, assistant
surgeon, house surgeon and house physician.
Since January 1, 1900, he has been engaged
in general practice in Hartford. His office is
at No. y2> Windsor avenue. From 1900 to
1905 he was city physician of Hartford. He
is at present assistant visiting physician of the
Hartford Hospital. He is a member of the
Hartford County Medical Society, of the
Hartford City Medical Society, the Connecti-
cut State Medical Society, and of the Ameri-
can Medical Association. In politics he is a
Republican. He married Grace A. Lincoln.
Children : Dana Lincoln, born November
27, 1905 ; Catherine Emily, February 5, 1908.

(The Seaman Line).

(I) Thomas Seaman, immigrant ancestor,
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married Susannah

Children, born in

Swansea: Susannah, April 23, 1692; Thomas,
November 25, 1693; John, January 17, 1695-
96, mentioned below ; Mary, January 17, 1697-
98; James, January 28, 1699-1700; Charles,
1700; Gilbert, November 29, 1706; Rosamond,
December 18, 1709; Hannah, January 16,
1711-12 ; Josiah.

(II) John, son of Thomas Seaman, was
born in Swansea, January 17, 1695-96, died
March 26, 1791, at Foster, Rhode Island. He
resided at Scituate, Rhode Island. He mar-
ried, at Swansea, August 22, 1718, Priscilla
Wood, born there April 17, 1699, daughter
of William and Susannah Wood. Children :
William, born January 3, 1720; Susannah,
August 16, 1723; Penelope, March 22, 1725-
26; John, October 4, 1728; Priscilla. July 14,
1731 ; Tabitha, December 3, 1733; Anne, Jan-
uary 19, 1735-36; Lydia, 1737; Benjamin,
June 26, 1740, mentioned below ; Daniel, De-
cember 8, 1742.

(III) Benjamin, son of John Seaman, was
born June 26, 1740, at Swansea, died at Ash-
ford. Connecticut, May 8, 1829. He married,
April 19, 1759. at Scituate, Rhode Island, Eliz-
abeth Hammond, born July 6, 1740, at Wood-
stock, Connecticut, died August 23, 1814, at
Ash ford, daughter of Jonathan and Katherine
(Davis) Hammond. Children: Lydia, born
1761 ; Chloe, 1763 : Mary, 1765 ; Priscilla,
1767, died young: Asahel, October 3, 1768;
Darius, June 24, 1770: Penelope, 1774, died
young; Elizabeth, 1776,. died young; John,
February 17, 1779: Thomas, 1781, died
young; Benjamin, mentioned below.

(IV) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
Seaman, was born February 18, 1783, at Kill-
ingly, Connecticut, died at East Pembroke,
New York, December 19, 1849, ar>d buried in
the Sand Hill burying ground. He lived at
Foster, Rhode Island, then Ashford, Con-
necticut, and finally in East Pembroke, New
York. He married (first) at Foster, Rhode
Island, in 1801, Phebe Johnson, born May 15,
1783, died March 29, 1810, daughter of Cap-
tain John and Freelove (Burlingame) John-
son, of Foster. He married (second) .

Children of first wife: Charles Almy, born
December 7, 1803. died March 25, 1810: De-
borah Johnson, March 30. 1805 ; Phebe Ham-
mond (twin), March 11, 1807: Sarah Bur-
lingame (twin), married William Penn
Blanchard (see Blanchard VII) ; Susannah,
October 1, 1809, died December 2, 1817.

Richard Sperry, immigrant an-
SPERRY cestor, was born in England,
and came to New Haven, Con-
necticut, as early as 1643 as agent for the

Earl of Warwick, according to family tradi-
tion. He was granted a large tract of land,
still l:i own as Sperry 's Farms in what is now
the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut, and his
descendants still own and occupy land in this
vicinity. Richard Sperry's claim to history
is that he was the courageous and faithful
friend and protector of the Regicides in the
New Haven colony. He was admitted a free-
man in 1644.. He died about 1698. The will
of his widow Dennis was dated April 18,

1693, and proved in March, 1707. Children,
born at New Haven: 1. John, born January

9, 1649, married, September 1, 1676, Eliza-
beth Post ; he died in 1692. 2. Mary, March
14, 1650; married, March 29, 1670. Benjamin
Peck. 3. Richard, January 20, 1652 ; married,
December 16, 1680, Martha Mansfield. 4.
Hester, September, 1654; married, June 21,
1683, Daniel Hotchkiss. 5. Nathaniel, August
13, 1656; married, October 2, 1683, Sarah
Dickerman. 6. Thomas, July 13, 1658. 7.
Son, 1661, died young. 8. Ebenezer, July,
1663. 9. Daniel, 1665, mentioned below. 10.
Joseph, July 22, 1668, probably died young,

(II) Lieutenant Daniel Sperry, son of
Richard Sperry, was born in New Haven in
1665. He was commissioned lieutenant of
the train band of the northwest part of the
town of New Haven in May, 1724. He was
living in 1733, but the date of his death is
not known. He married (first) April 3,

1694, Deborah Peck, who died November 16,
171 1. He married (second) February 7,
1732-33, Sarah (Wilmot) Hotchkiss, daugh-
ter of William Wilmot, widow of Thomas
Hotchkiss, whom she married November 27,
1677, and by whom she had several chil-
dren. Her will dated June 19, 1732, proved
September 4, following-, mentions her Hotch-
kiss children. Children of first wife, born in
New Haven: 1. Deborah, born January 10.
1694-95 ; married Samuel Wooden. 2. Ann,
September 3, 1696; married, December 18,
1722, John Wolcott, Jr. 3. Daniel, August

10, 1698; married (first) February 5, 1723-24,
Abigail Ives; (second) Abigail Roberts. 4.
Abel, November 15, 1700; married Rhoda

. 5. William, September 23, 1702. 6.

Joseph, mentioned below.

(III) Joseph, son of Daniel Sperry, was
born December 30, 1709, at New Haven. He
married, February 18, 1730-31, Anna Wilmot,
probably daughter of John Wilmot. She was
born February 11, 1708-09, and died in the
spring of 1788. Her will was dated Novem-
ber 6, 1787, and was proved March 3, 1788.
Children, born at New Haven: 1. Esther, born
December, 1731. 2. Patience, May 8, 1733.
3. Anna, April 4, 1735, died June 17, 1788.

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4. William, died December 19, 1738, aged
eight months. 5. Patience, born February 4,
1738-39; married, October 15, 1764, Joseph
Mix. 6. William, March 8, 1740-41, men-
tioned below. 7. Anna, July 4, 1744; mar-
ried Dickerman.

(IV) William, son of Joseph Sperry, was
born in New Haven, March 8, 1740-41. He
married Hannah Carrington and they lived
in the old homestead at Sperry's Farms. Chil-
dren, born at New Haven: Joseph, Abigail,
William, Elias, Eli, Abner, mentioned below ;

Sarah, married Wing ; Anna, married,

November 7, 1802, Henry Hall.

(V) Abner, son of William Sperry, was
born in New Haven in 1772, died Oc-
tober 20, 1825. He married October 29,
1795, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and
Sarah (Eaton) Gilbert, of Hamden, Connecti-
cut, Daniel was son of Daniel, grandson of
Matthew Gilbert Jr., great-grandson of Dep-
uty Governor Matthew Gilbert, whose grave
is on the New Haven Green. Sarah Eaton
was born March 21, 1732, daughter of Na-
thaniel and Sybil (Todd) Eaton, grand-
daughter of Nathaniel and Phebe (Cooper)
Eaton. Nathaniel Eaton's father was Nathan-
iel, born 1664, married Mary Todd, born 1675.
Nathaniel Eaton Sr. was son of James Eaton
or Heaton, the immigrant, born in England in
1633, came to New Haven in 1649, married,
in 1662, Sarah Street. Elizabeth (Gilbert)
Sperry died April 6, 181 1, aged thirty-three
years. Children, born at New Haven: 1.
Alfred, born August 1, 1796, died at New Ha-
ven in 1837 ; married Amanda Thomas, who
died in 1841. 2. Betsey, April 14, 1799; mar-
ried Sperry, who moved to Utah and

became a Mormon elder, but was not a polyga-
mist. 3. Elias, March 11, 1801 ; comb maker.
4. Sarah, May 11. 1804; married Jairus Lines,
of New Haven. 5. Daniel Gilbert, July 2,
1807, mentioned below. 6. Adelia, June 1,
1809 ; unmarried.

(VI) Daniel Gilbert, son of Abner Sperry,
was born July 2, 1807, at Sperry's Farms,
Woodbridge, New Haven, died at East Wind-
sor Hill, January 7, 1886. He settled at
Warehouse Point, East Windsor, about 1824.
He was educated in the public schools, and
learned the trade of cooper. He followed his
trade and was for some years proprietor of
a meat market. He bought Bissell's farm and
tavern in East Windsor Hill village in 1837
of Captain Aaron Bissell's estate. He mar-
ried, March 30, 1834, Harriet Frances, daugh-
ter of James Pelton (6) (see Pelton VI). She
was a descendant of Deacon William Gaylord,
Matthew Grant. Daniel Clark, Humphrey
Prior, John Drake. Benedictus Alvord.

Thomas Moore and John Osborn, of Wind-
sor, from the Edwards family of Hartford, the
Lathrops of Norwich, the Pease family of En-
field. Children: 1. Twin, died young. 2.
Twin, born and died May 17, 1835. 3. Har-
riet Sophia, born January 30, 1837; married,
at Hartford, November 3, 1875, Edward Pay-
son Trumbull, son of James and Clarissa (Pei-
ton) Trumbull, of St. Charles, Illinois; child,
Clyarissa Trumbull, born 1877, died in in-
fancy. 4. Sarah Frances, February 9, 1839;
drowned May 1, 1852. 5. Gilbert Daniel,
March 15, 1841 ; removed to Illinois in i860;
enlisted in Company C, Tenth Illinois Cavalry,
and died of typhoid fever in the hospital at
Forsythe, Missouri, May 20, 1862. 6. Edla
Elizabeth, M. D., June 5, 1843, died at East
Windsor Hill, October 5, 1880; attended the
boarding school of the Connecticut Literary
Institute at Suffield and studied medicine
three years, graduating with the degree of M.
D. from the Woman's Medical College of
Philadelphia in the class of 1871. She was on
the staff of the Woman's Medical College in
Philadelphia during the summer after she
graduated and in the fall she went to Paris
for further study. In January, 1872, she was
admitted as a student in La Maternite, the sec-
ond American student there. Dr. Emilv Black-
well being the first. After a year she returned
to America and began to practice at Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvania, but she died of epithelio-
ma at the beginning of a brilliant career.
"Taken all in all," wrote a friend, "she was
the most remarkable woman it was ever my
good fortune to meet. While her relatives
doubtless knew something of the difficulties
she encountered and overcame in Pittsburg,
yet we here, while heartily wishing her suc-
cess, knew it was a conservative, old-fogy re-
gion, where any innovation would be resisted.
No woman had ever practiced medicine here,
therefore no woman ought to do so. Many
who met your sister and Miss Farrar were
surprised that any woman could take such a
profession and still be a lady — a person of
culture and refinement. By their wise, pru-
dent conduct, by their downright earnestness
and by the force of personal character, they
commanded the respect of all and built up a
practice that, had it not been for Edla's illness,
would have made both wealthy. They were
pioneers and opened paths others have found
easy to follow. Had not Edla come here and
labored as she did, and had she not been the
noble woman she was, women physicians
would not have had the position they now have
here. Rest assured that her life was not
fruitless — it was rich in results for good. But
while this is so. it is but little consolation to

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you her relatives or to me her friend. T am
selfish enough to feel careless of the good
of the public, if I could have my friend." 7.
Martha Amelia, July 24, 1845, died April 19,
1904. 8. Lewis, January 23, 1848, mentioned
below. 9. Cornelia Bradley, March 18, 185 1 ;
married, February 2, 1876, James M. Hen-
drick. of Easthampton, Massachusetts ; child,
Lewis Sperry Hendrick. born November 22,
1878. 10. Ruth Thompson. July 4. 1854, men-
tioned below.

(VII) Hon. Lewis Sperry, son of Daniel
Gilbert Sperry, was born January 23, 1848,
in South Windsor, Connecticut. He attended
tbe public and private schools, and at the age
of thirteen went to New Haven to the school
of Sidney A. Thomas. Later he entered the
Academy at Monson, Massachusetts, gradu-
ating in 1869, and spent the next four years
at Amherst College. While there he was edi-
tor of the Amherst Student, active member of
the debating societies, and a popular student.
He won several prizes as a speaker and de-
bater, and the first Hardy prize at his gradu-
ation in 1873. He at once entered the law
office of Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde at Hart-
ford, and was admitted to the Hartford coun-
ty bar in 1875. The following year, in com-
pany with George G. Sill, afterward lieuten-
ant-governor, he opened an office at No. 345
Main street. In 1876 he was elected to the
legislature and was a member of the com-
mittee on education. In 1883 he was appoint-
ed coroner for Hartford county and had the
difficult task of serving without a precedent to
guide him, the office having that year been es-
tablished. His most notable case was the ex-
plosion of the boilers in the Park Central Ho-
tel. The coroner's finding, and his courage
and good judgment in the case were noted by
the New York and Boston papers and his re-
port was called a model. He was nominated
for congress in 1890 and defeated the Repub-
lican candidate by seven hundred and eight, in
spite of the fact that his opponent had carried
the district the previous election by eight hun-
dred and thirteen. He had a majority in Hart-
ford of one thousand one hundred and twelve,
the largest ever given a congressional candi-
date. He was renominated and his speech in
accepting the nomination showed a thoughtful
consideration for the interests of his district.
No Democrat had ever been elected in this
district in a presidential year, and no con-
gressman had ever succeeded himself. With
the chances apparently against him, and the
district almost a tie between Harrison and
Cleveland, Mr. Sperry won by a majority of
three hundred and forty. His personal fol-
lowing in Hartford won him the election. He

was a member of the committee on banking
and currency, charged with the investigation
of the question of increasing the National
Bank Association, and on August 2, 1893,
made one of the best speeches for the repeal
of the Sherman act. He was a leader of his
party against the Wilson tariff bill, and was
one of the seventeen Democrats who voted
against the bill. He was vigorously de-
nounced by the press, and was called upon to
resign. He had the judgment and nerve to
maintain his position. He returned to his law
practice in Hartford and in October, 1895,
entered the firm of Sperry & McLean, of
which he has since been the senior partner.
In religion he is a Congregationalism

He married (first) November 7, 1878, Eliz-
abeth Ellsworth Wood, born August 31, 1849,
died August 3, 1900, daughter of Dr. William
Wood, the naturalist, of East Windsor Hill.
She attended the Glenwood Academy at Brat-
tleborough, Vermont ; she was a member of
the Martha Pitkin Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, and of the Congrega-
tional church. Among her ancestors were
Chief Justice Ellsworth and Oliver Wolcott.
Children: 1. Mary Elizabeth, born January
1, 1880, at Hartford; married Harry Francis
Farnhaw, August 4, 1906, and died in Aus-
tralia, March 12, 1908. 2. Ellsworth, born
June 30, 1881, at East Windsor Hill; edu-
cated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the
Massachusetts School of Technology, Bos-
ton. Mr. Sperry married (second) Carrie
Tryon Armbruster, of Philadelphia, April 6,

1905-

(VII) Ruth Thompson, daughter of Daniel
Gilbert Sperry, was born July 4, 1854, died at
East Windsor Hill, February 22, 1900. After
her graduation from Mount Holyoke College
in 1875 and a few years of teaching, her in-
terest in local history led her to take up the
work of a professional genealogist. Miss
Sperry's enthusiasm for her calling was in-
tense ; with her the preservation of the rec-
ords of the past was a religious and patriotic
duty.

Dr. Mary S. Tudor's memorial tribute in
the Connecticut Magazine for March, 1900,
says : "Scarcely an old attic in her native
town but was to her a familiar hunting
ground, and a clue once found was followed
to its remotest results, — to this end she went
from place to place, spending days and weeks
conning the yellow pages of town records or
among the stones of deserted graveyards. One
can hardly exaggerate the enthusiasm and per-
severance which she threw into her work of
investigation."

Her most important work was assisting Dr.

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Henry R. Stiles in his revision of the "History
and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor." Her
aid is acknowledged in Dr. Stiles' preface:
"Providence has supplied me with a most effi-
cient helper in Miss Ruth T. Sperry, to whose
unwearied enthusiasm and tact in the collec-
tion of material both historic and genealogical
the people of East and South Windsor will
owe far more than they can ever repay."
Again, in the second volume, he says : "What
I have said in the preface to the first volume
concerning my associate editor, Miss Sperry,
applies with even stronger emphasis to this
volume of genealogies. The genealogies of
the families "east of the Great River" would
never have assumed the importance which they
have in this volume, except for her intimate
local acquaintance with them." The chapter
on "East Windsor's share in the Revolutionary
War" was by Miss Sperry and is a remark-
able work as the loss of revolutionary records
for that period made a detailed history excep-
tionally difficult.

(The Pelton Line).

The surname Pelton belongs to the largest
class of English family names — those derived
from names of localities. Pelton was a com-
monplace name before the Norman conquest.
William the Conqueror granted Peldon or
Pelton Manor to William the Deacon, accord-
ing to the Domesday Book of 1086, and later
the family took the name from the manor.
Important branches of the Pelton family, some
of them having the same origin probably,
have lived in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire,
Somersetshire and Buckshire. The coat-of-
arms of the Essex family is: An escutcheon
charged with a bend with an orle of escallops.

(I) John Pelton, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England about 161 6, and descended,
it is believed, from the Essex family. He
came to Boston, Massachusetts, about 1630.
He owned property in Boston as early as

1634, as shown by the first Book of posses-
sions. The land was situated on what is now
the south side of Essex street, from Washing-
ton street easterly. Soon after, probably in

1635, he removed to Dorchester, and became
a joint owner of the Dorchester patent. He
was engaged in the fishing business, and died
in Dorchester, January 23, 168 1. His will
was dated January 3, 1681, proved March

16 following. He married Susanna ,

who died May 7, 1706, called in the records,
"Old Mother Pelton." Children, born in Dor-
chester: 1. John, baptized March 2, 1645.
2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Robert, lost
at sea, July, 1683. 4. Mary, baptized Feb-
ruary 18, 1654.

(II) Samuel, son of John Pelton, was born
at Dorchester about 1647. He married, July
16, 1673, Mary Smith, born July 20, 1650,
daughter of John and Mary Smith. He lived
at Dorchester until about 1687, when he re-
moved to Bristol, Rhode Island, and resided
on the Mount Hope farm. He removed finally
to Seekonk, and died there about 1713-14.
His wife owned the covenant at Dorchester,
October 22, 1682. Children, the first five
born in Dorchester, the remainder in Bristol.
1. Samuel, born January 26, 1675. 2. Mary,
May 29, 1678. 3. Deliverance, July 31, 1680.

4. John, January 9, 1682, mentioned below.

5. Ithamar, 1686. 6. Henry, December 10,
1690. 7. Sarah, March 23, 1693. 8. Benja-
min, September 3, 1698.

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Pelton, was
born in Dorchester, January 9, 1682, died July
15, 1735. In 1706 and 1708 he bought land
in Canterbury, Windham county, Connecti-
cut. He probably kept his property there un-
til 171 5, for on January 19 of that year, al-
though he had then built a house in Haddam,
he with two others and the sheriff met at the
house of Jabez Utter to dispossess him of cer-
tain lands claimed by Captain Jonathan Bel-
cher. On their arrival, Utter being absent,
and his wife Mary and the children at home,
the men gained possession by climbing to the
roof and thence down the chimney. He was
in Lyme as early as 1713 and in 17 14 set up
the frame of his house and was granted land.
He sold his land in Haddam and later was
called of Saybrook, where he bought land.
In 1734 he bought land in Middletown, and
removed there, where he died, aged fifty-two,
and his gravestone is still standing. He mar-
ried, about 1705, Jemima (probably Johnson).
Children: 1. Mary, born October 21, 1706,
died December 12, 1740. 2. John, February
29, 1708, mentioned below. 3. James, July
21, 1710. 4. Phineas, about 1712. 5. John-
son, 1 7 14, died December 13, 1804, aged nine-
ty. 6. Josiah (twin), 1714, died February 2,
1792, aged seventy-eight. 7. Jemima, about
1715-16. 8. Sarah, 1717-18. 9. Elizabeth,
about 1720. 10. Keturah. 11. Joseph, April
15, 1722, died December 31, 1804.

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Pelton,
was born in Canterbury, February 29, 1708,
died January 29, 1786 (gravestone). He lived
on the homestead at Saybrook. He married
(first) December 9, 173 1, Elizabeth Cham-
pion, who died December 5, 1755. He mar-
ried (second) March 25, 1756, Martha, daugh-
ter of John Shipman, of Chester, Connecticut.
She married (second) Dr. Joseph Bishop, of
Saybrook. Children of first wife: 1. Son, born
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beth, October 7, 1734, died February 2, 1750.
3. Jobn, November 2.J, 1735, died April 17,
1819. 4. Nathan, May 2, 1738, mentioned be-
low. 5. Ithamar, November -22, 1740, died
March 16, 1826. 6. Lucy, March 5, 1743,
died May 2, 1748. 7. Josiah, August 15,
1745, died September 3, 1818. 8. William,
December 2, 1747, died May 25, 1825. 9.
Eliza, February 26, 1749. 10. Lucy, Septem-
ber 11, 1752. n. Sarah, January 2, 1755, died
young. Children of second wife : 12. Joseph,
November 25, 1757, died June 15, 1837. 13.
Ruth, January 17, 1759. 14. Martha, August
24, 1760, died February 16, 1840. 15. Pris-
cilla, September 10, 1761. 16. Phineas, De-
cember 5, 1763, died March 5, 1847. l7-
Sarah, January 1, 1766, died August 21, 1862.
18. Jonathan, May 21, 1768, died December 3,
1850. 19. Elizabeth, October 5, 1771. 20.
David, December 30, 1773, died August 22,
1821. 21. Israel, April 1, 1775, died March
20, 1830. 22. Jemima, August 3, 1779, died
1852.

(\ ) Nathan, son of John (3) Pelton, was
born May 2, 1738, died May 16, 1813. He was
a shipsmith and farmer, and is. said to have
removed to East Windsor about 1768, having
bought land of Ebenezer Watson, April 28 of
that year. He and his brother Ithamar went
up the Connecticut river together and each
built a house in East Windsor, both of which
still stand. He and his brother Ithamar were
in Captain Peleg Redfield's company under
General Amherst, in the old French war in
1859. It is said that in early life, while in
Middletown, he was connected in business
with John Harper, of Scotch-Irish descent,
whose wife was Miriam Thompson, sister of
Ruth Thompson, whom Nathan Pelton mar-
ried. Mr. Pelton was a Puritan of the strict-
est type. It is said that on one occasion, sus-
pecting that his son and daughter were at a
dance in a neighboring house, he went for
them and brought them home ; but they, hav-
ing as much spirit as he, after all was quiet,
returned to the dance. He attended church
with the utmost regularity, and from Saturday
night to Sunday night, scarcely allowed a
word louder than a whisper in his house. He
was not a favorite with the young, but was a
reliable and honest man. He had a light com-
plexion and light hair, with broad shoulders
and short neck and legs. Many stories are
told of his great strength, one of which was
that an anchor was to be moved and men with
oxen gathered to do the work. He said that
if they would put the anchor on his shoulder
he would carry it to the required place. This
they did, and he carried it easily, though the
pressure was so great that it split his cow-

hide shoes. He married (first) November
23, 1763, at East Windsor, Ruth Thompson,
born June 1, 1740, died June 21, 1789, daugh-
ter of James and Janet (Scott) Thompson.
He married (second) September 30, 1790,
Mary Waters, a widow of Chatham, Connecti-
cut, born January 1, 1760. Children: 1.
Nathan, born October 16, 1764, died June 7,
1856. 2. Elizabeth, August 20, 1766, died
January 30, 1890. 3. Ruth, September 19,
1768, died April 9, 1850. 4. Enoch, August,
1770, died 1829. 5. John, July 29, 1772, died
March 31, 1864. 6. Lucy, November 7, 1774,
died October 13, 1863. 7. James, August 9,
1776, died July 19, 1778. 8. James, October
20, 1778, mentioned below. 9. Sarah, October
12, 1780, died August 2j, 1869. 10. Joseph,
June 30, 1782, died April 11, 1787.

(VI) James, son of Nathan Pelton, was
born in East Windsor, October 20, 1778, died
February 4, 1870, at South Windsor. He re-
sided in East and South Windsor. He mar-
ried (first) April 20, 1806, Clarissa Watson,
born 1786, died March 27, 1807, daughter of
Robert Watson, of East Windsor. He mar-
ried (second) July 7 or 9, 181 1, Sophia Gay-
lord, born July 22, 1793, died November 16,
1824, daughter of Abiel and Mehitable
(Prior) Gaylord, and a descendant of Wil-
liam Gaylord and Humphrey Prior. He mar-
ried (third) February 16, 1834, Widow Bet-
sey (Wolcott) Bissell, who died August, 1851,
daughter of Ephraim Wolcott. Child of first
wife: Clarissa, born February 27, 1807, died
February 11, 1873. Children of second wife:
1. Enoch Watson, February 7, 1813. 2. Har-
riet Frances, October 20, 1814; married,
March 30, 1834, Daniel G. Sperry (see Sperry
VI). 3. Henry Thompson, December 4,
1816. 4. James Bennett, December 13, 1819,
died September 7, 1821. 5. Martha Sophia,
November 20, 1823. Children of third wife:
6. James Bennett, December 4, 1834. 7.
Charles Nathan, March 6, 1836.

The surname Doty was variously
DOTY spelled Dotey, Doten, Doton, Dol-
ton, Dowty, and the similar sur-
name Doughty is found at an early date in
Plymouth colony where Francis Doughty from
Bristol, England, settled at Taunton as early
as 1639, and James Doughty settled at Scitu-
ate before 1649. The origin of the name has
not been satisfactorily settled, but there is
reason to believe that the family had been in
England several generations before the sailing
of the "Mayflower."

(I) Edward Doty came in the "Mayflower"
in 1620, a London youth in the service of Ste-
phen Hopkins, and was fortieth signer of the

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"Mayflower" compact. A careful search of
his ancestral line and social standing at home
was made in 1873 and it was found that Ed-
ward Doty or Doughty of the "Mayflower"
was an English youth belonging to the same
family as Sir Charles Montague Doty or
Doughty, of Therburton Hill, Suffolk county,
England. The family has an ancient and hon-
orable record dating back to the Norman Con-
quest. There is a well-founded statement in
writing that "Edward Doty ran away from
his home in resentment of his oldest brother's
inheritance of the home and emoluments," has
not only foundation but truth, but there is
more to it than this fact. Under the law of
primogeniture introduced by Norman lawyers
soon after the Norman Conquest only the old-
est son had any rights and the younger son
in common with all others under the laws of
England was obliged to serve his apprentice-
ship of seven years in order to earn his rights
of citizenship. This was Edward Doty's sit-
uation when he entered the service of Stephen
Hopkins and occupied the same position so-
cially as that of any other member. He was
of the party that set forth to explore the coun-
try, December 6, 1620. That Doty and his
fellow-apprentice were not at that time thor-
oughly Puritanic in their views may be judged
from the fact that they fought a duel. But a
small part of the English people had come to
disapprove of the duel, but the Pilgrim fathers
saw fit to punish the combatants. They fought
with swords and daggers and one was
wounded in the hand, the other in the thigh.
They were adjudged by the whole company
"to have their head and feet tied together, and
so to be for twenty-four hours, without meat
and drink ; which is begun to be inflicted, but
within an hour, because of their great pains,
at their own and their master's humble re-
quest, upon promise of better carriage, they
are released by the Governor." His later dis-
putes he took to court, and we find his name
appearing often as plaintiff or defendant in
the civil court. In 1624 he was granted land
on Watson Hill, Plymouth, for a home lot.
He had joined the church and was admitted
a freeman before March 7, 1636-37. One of
the first deeds at Plymouth on record is dated
July 12, 1637, Edward Doty to Richard Derby.
Doty signs with a mark. He had many real
estate transactions and his rates show that
he was in later life a man of property. His
occupation is given as planter, indicating that
he did not find much opportunity to follow
his trade. In 1652 he was one of the pur-
chasers of the Dartmouth tract. The name of
his first wife is unknown. Governor Brad-
ford tells us that Faith Clarke, daughter of

Thurston Clarke, was his second wife. They
were married at Plymouth, January 6, 1634.
He died at Plymouth, August 23, 1655. His
will was dated May 20, 1655, proved Novem-
ber 21, 1655, bequeathing to his wife and chil-
dren, mentioning Edward only by name. His
widow Faith married (second) March 14,
1666, John Phillips, of Plymouth. The oldest
house in Plymouth is the Doten house ; the
oldest wharf was named for Doty — Doten.
Faith Clarke was born in 1619, daughter of
Thurston and Faith Clarke. They came from
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in the ship "Fran-
cis" in 1634. His name is also spelled Tris-
tram Clarke. Children of Edward and Faith
(Clarke) Doty: Edward, 1637; John, 1639-
40; Thomas; Samuel; Desire, 1645, mentioned
below ; Elizabeth ; Isaac, February 8, 1648-49,
mentioned below; Joseph. April 30, 165 1 ;
Mary.

(II) Desire, third child of Edward Doty,
after being twice married and twice a widow
married Alexander Standish, son of Captain
Miles Standish.

(II) Isaac, son of Edward Doty, was born
at Plymouth, February 8, 1648-49, according
to the colony records. At the death of his
father he was but six years old, and after
his mother's second marriage he probably
lived at Sandwich, Massachusetts. He sold
the land that he inherited from his father, or
his share of the estate, July 5, 1672, to John
Smith. At a town meeting at Oyster Bay,.
Long Island, January 22, 1672-73, he was
granted a house lot and on February 19 fol-
lowing he was allotted more land. Most of
the early settlers of Oyster Bay were from
Sandwich. Doty was one of those who bought
the Indian claims to Oyster Bay lands, in
1685. He bought various parcels of land
and late in life deeded farms to his sons. He
married, at Oyster Bay, Elizabeth England.
Children, born at Oyster Bay : Isaac, about
1673; Joseph; Jacob; Solomon, about 169 1 ;
James, December 21, 1693 • Samuel, mentioned
below.

(III) Samuel, son of Isaac Doty, was born
in Oyster Bay about 1695. He married there
about 1718, Charity, daughter of Jarvis
Mudge. They lived in that part of Oyster
Bay now called Littleworth. As early as
1716 he bought lands and again in 1722. His
father deeded to him a part of the homestead, .
March 5, 1723. He was a member of the
Friends' Meeting and his wife was also a Qua-
ker. His will, dated May 5, 1740, was proved
in 1741, bequeathing to wife Charity and chil-
dren. Children, born at Oyster Bay: Phebe,

married Brandiga ; Charity, married

— Dodge ; Elizabeth ; Deborah, married.

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August 14, 1749, Richard Baker; Isaac; Ste-
phen ; Charles, mentioned below ; Elias, born
1732, probably.

(IV) Charles, son of Samuel Doty, was
born at Oyster Bay, probably in 1730. He
married there Sarah Baker. He was a farmer
and they settled in the town of Clinton, now
Hyde Park, Dutchess county, New York,
where he died about 1803 on the same day
that the wife of his son Elias died and both
were buried in the Quaker burial ground at
Crum Elbow, Dutchess county, New York.
He and his brother Elias went to that section
together about 1755. Children: Stephen,
Samuel, Solomon, mentioned below, Elias,
Mary, married Isaac Frailix, Sarah, married
Farr, Phebe, Ruth and Margaret.

( V ) Solomon, son of Charles Doty, was
born at Clinton, Dutchess county, New York,
in 1769. He married (first) in that town,
about 1787, Rachel Doty, daughter of his fa-
ther's brother, Elias Doty. She died there
about 1792, and he married (second) about
1793, Hannah Shaw, born 1776, daughter of
Aaron Shaw. He died in Walworth, New
York, August, 1832, and she died at Bedford,
Michigan, in September, 1848. He was a
farmer and lived successively in Clinton,
Dutchess county, Hillsdale, Columbia county,
Windham, Greene county, and at Walworth,
Wayne county, all in New York. Children of
first wife: 1. Charles, born 1789. 2. Isaac,
died aged eighteen. 3. James. 4. Child, died
in infancy. Children of second wife : 5.
Moses, born at Clinton, February 8, 1795. 6.
Simon Potter, May 9, 1796; married (first)
Elizabeth Lee Brewster; (second) Mrs. Ma-
tilda (Styles) Stoner, daughter of John C.
Styles. 7. Solomon, Clinton, January 14,
1797. 8. Celinda, Clinton, November 17,
1799. 9. Morgan Lewis, Hillsdale. December
31, 1802. 10. Jason, September 20, 1804, died
unmarried. 11. Mary, Windham, May 19,
1806. 12. Aaron, Windham, August 30, 1807.
[3. William, Windham, November 22, 1810.
14. Joseph. Windham, June 6, 181 2, lived in
Minnesota. 15. Edward, Windham, July 11,
1814. 16. Margaret, Walworth, October \j,
1816. 17. Lorenzo, Walworth, May 9, 1819.
18. Lorinda (twin), May 9, 1819.

(VI) Charles (2), son of Solomon Doty,
was born at Clinton, Dutchess county, New
York, in 1789. In his youth he followed the
sea, afterward was a farmer and carried pro-
duce to New York City in a sloop. About
1836 he removed to Croton Landing, New
York. He was run over by a locomotive at
the New Haven railroad station, in -New York-
City, and killed, in 1869. He married Mar-
garet Montross, who died at Huguenot, Rich-

mond county, New York, in 1868. Children:
1. Alexander Hamilton, drowned in the Hud-
son river, falling overboard from his father's
sloop, aged twelve years. 2. Cyrus Berry,
born 1807, mentioned below. 3. Hannah Ma-
ria, married John Acker, a brickmaker. 4.
Rachel Ann. 5. Martha Jane.

(VII) Cyrus Berry, son of Charles (2)
Doty, was born in Dutchess county, New
York, in 1807. He was a brickmaker by trade
and lived successively at Middle Hope, Or-
ange county, New York ; Croton Landing" and
Crugers Station, Westchester county, and at
Huguenot, Richmond county, New York,
where he was for several years engaged in
business. He lived his last years with his son,
Alexander H. Doty, at Hartford, Connecticut,
where he died April, 1886. He married Jane
Elizabeth, born probably at Marlborough,
New York, daughter of Charles and Mary
(Doty) Brower. Children, born at Middle
Hope: 1. Alexander Hamilton, 1827, men-
tioned below. 2. Mary Ann, 1828 ; lived at
Brightwood, Massachusetts and died there ;
married John Merrick. 3. Margaret, 183 1,
died 1867; married Henry Smith, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts : seven children living.
4. Cornelius Brower, born at Cortland, March
7, 1832, deceased. 5. Evaline, 1833. 6. Hannah
Maria, died aged six years. 7. Cyrus Berry,
deceased ; lived in Hartford ; brickmaker ;
served nine months in civil war; married
Lydia Ann De Forest. 8. Charles, died aged
thirteen. 9. Harrison, died aged nine years.
10. Henry Clay, died aged two years. 11.
Jane Elizabeth, deceased; married Charles
Deforest; lived at New Haven. 12. Josephine,
born at Croton, March 4, 1851-52.

(VIII) Alexander Hamilton, son of Cyrus
Berry and Jane Elizabeth (Brower) Doty,
was born in Middle Hope, Orange county,
New York, September 9, 1827, died at Hart-
ford, Connecticut, May 6, 1905. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of Middle Hope and
learned the trade of brickmaking. He re-
moved to Hartford, Connecticut, when a
young man, and followed his trade as a brick
manufacturer in Hartford for about forty
years. He was a staunch Republican in pol-
itics. He married Elizabeth Dusenberry, who
died September 24, 1897, at Hartford, Con-
necticut. Children: 1. Jane R., born April
27, 1846, in New Haven, Connecticut, died in
East Hartford, April 18, 1878; she married
Albert H. Anderson, December 25. 1865 ! ne
died in East Hartford, July 28, 1886; two
children: i. George Farragut Anderson, born
in East Hartford, Connecticut, May 24, 1869;
married Jeanette Kirbell. of East Hartford,
June 18, 1890; two children: Elfreda J., born

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October 30, 1892, and Kenneth G., born No-
vember 19, 1908 ; ii. Lila May Anderson, born
in East Hartford, Connecticut, July 24, 1873 ;
died in East Hartford, January 5, 1900; she
married Ernest Barber, of East Hartford, and
has one child, a daughter, Ernestin Blanche,
who married, February 19, 1896. 2. Alex-
ander Hamilton Jr., mentioned below. 3.
Lila, died in infancy. 4. Harrison E., men-
tioned below. 5. Alfred E., mentioned be-
low. 6. Samuel Colt, mentioned below.

(IX) Alexander Hamilton (2), son of Al-
exander Hamilton ( 1 ) Doty, was born in New
Haven, Connecticut, in 1847; died in Hart-
ford, Connecticut, January 7, 1886. Married
Lizzie Rodgers, of New York City, Septem-
ber 4, 1876. Children: Grace, Clara, Jennie
and Mabel.

( IX) Harrison E., son of Alexander Ham-
ilton (1) Doty, was born in Hartford, June
12, i860, now living in New Haven. Edu-
cated in public schools of Hartford, and
learned the trade of brickmaking with his
father and has followed this trade ever since.
He married Fanny Jones, May 14, 1882. Two
sons: I. Raymond J., born in Hartford, Con-
necticut, January 17, 1884; attended the pub-
lic schools of Hartford and the New Haven
high school ; graduating from there he en-
tered Yale Scientific and became a mechanical
engineer by profession. He married Sadie
Mallory Parmelee, at New Haven, Connecti-
cut, December 29, 1909; he has a daughter
born in 1910. 2. Melvin F., born in Hartford,
Connecticut, September 10, 1885 ; married El-
sie Margurite Watrous, October 12, 1904, and
is now living in New York City.

(IX) Alfred E., son of Alexander Hamil-
ton ( 1 ) Doty, was born in East Hartford,
Connecticut, November 26, 1863. He at-
tended the public schools of East Hartford
and Hartford and is now in the harness manu-
facturing business at New Haven, Connecti-
cut. He married Nellie E. Bacon, in Hart-
ford, Connecticut, December 26, 1882. Four
children: 1. Louis A., born June 21. 1885, at
Hartford, Connecticut, married Nellie E.
Johnson, June 20, 1906, now living at Derby,
Connecticut: 2. Vincent M., born September
11. 1887. 3. Helen F., born June 2, 1896.
4. Richard S., born June 12. 1904.

(IX) Samuel Colt, son of Alexander Ham-
ilton (1) Doty, was born at East Hartford,
Connecticut, March 12, 1867. He attended the
Northeast public school and the Hartford pub-
lic high school. At the age of fifteen years
became bookkeeper for the firm of Farren
Brothers, manufacturers of spring beds. After
a few years he accepted a position as book-
keeper for Bull & Lamb, of Hartford, and re-

mained there for ten years. He joined the ad-
vertising staff of the Hartford Post and es-
tablished a reputation for energy and ability
among the merchants of the city. He was
made a director of the corporation and secre-
tary of the company. He resigned from the
Post to accept a position as assistant to the
editor of the New Haven Register. Later he
went to Boston and for a time was on the ad-
vertising department of the Boston Journal.
Since 1894 he has been engaged in the real
estate business in Hartford with an office at
No. 50 State street. He has built up a large
and flourishing business. While on the Post
he was elected councilman from the seventh
ward, a Democratic district, on a Republican
ticket, and served two terms. He joined
the First Regiment in 1883 an(i was in the
Hartford City Guards for eleven years and
in the Governors Foot Guards, First Company'
nine years. He is now on the major's staff.
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a mem-
ber of St. John's Lodge ; of Pythagoras Chap-
ter, No. 14, Royal Arch Masons ; of Washing-
ton Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar; of
Connecticut Consistory, of Sphinx Temple,
Mystic Shrine ; also of Custer Council, No.
85, United American Workmen : of the
Hartford Automobile Club ; of the Connecti-
cut Society, Sons of the American Revolu-
tion. In religion he is a Methodist, in politics
a Republican. He was formerly a trustee of
the North Methodist Episcopal Church of
Hartford. He has been president of the Hart-
ford Landlords' and Taxpayers' Association
and president of the State Association of
Landlords and Taxpayers.

He married Helen Dewar, daughter of Lo-
ren and Helen (Dewar) Ballou, September 7,
1887. Children: Marjorie Ballou, born Sep-
tember 7, 1900: Helen Arline, December 15,
1904.

The surname Calef, or Calfe as

CALEF it was also written, is said to be

of Scotch origin. The family was

prominent in Massachusetts early through the

careers of Robert Sr. as an author and of his

son Robert, the merchant.

(I) Robert Calef, born about 1648, came
to America in 1688 from England, near Lon-
don, and settled at Boston, where he lived un-
til 1707, removing then to Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, where he died April 13, 1719. Very
little is known of him now, except through his
authorship of the book, "More Wonders of the
Invisible World," in which he emphatically
denounced the witchcraft theories of Cotton
and Increase Mather and others, bringing
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have been expressed as to whether the immi-
grant or his son of the same name was the
author, however. Hon. Arthur B. Calef, late
of Middletown, Connecticut, who made a
study of the Calef family in America and col-
lected many family records, wrote in 1899:
"There is no reason to believe that the son
Robert was the author, both by reason of his
probable youth, and also because there is a
copy with the autograph of the author in the
Lenox Library, New York, presented orig-
inally to Governor Bellingham by Robert the
elder and the writing corresponds with that
of Robert, the immigrant, as seen on the rec-
ords." Robert was a man of great ability,
clear discernment and high moral courage.
His name has descended to posterity for the
able and decisive manner in which he exposed
the outrageous crimes against persons charged
with witchcraft and his stand helped materially
to put an end to the delusion and to prevent
another outbreak when fanatics attempted to
revive the horrors afterward. His wife Mary
survived him and died November 12, 17 10.
Children: Joseph, born in England in 1672,
mentioned below ; Robert ; Martha ; John ;
Jeremiah : Mary ; Edward, born in Boston,
January 30, 1688-89, (Ue^ young; Daniel, born
in Boston, December 27, 1691, died at Rox-
bury, August 13, 1712.

(II) Dr. Joseph, son of Robert Calef, was
born in England in 1672 and came with his
parents to this country in 1687-88. He was a
physician and lived at Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, where he died December 25, 1707, at the
age of thirty-six years. He married Mary,
daughter of Peter Ayer, of Haverhill, March
24, 1693. Children: Robert, mentioned below ;
Joseph, born May 20, 1695 ; Samuel, 1696,
died September 1, 1720, unmarried; Peter,
died 1735; Mary; Ebenezer, born about 1696;
died May 18, 1776, at Nantasket, Massachu-
setts (Hull).

(Til) Robert (2), son of Dr. Joseph Calef,
was born December 12, 1693, at Ipswich, died
July 12, 1730. He married Margaret Stam-
ford, who died October 7, 1727.

(IV) Dr. John, son of Robert (2) Calef,
was born at Ipswich in 1725. He married
(first) Margaret, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel
Rogers, of Ipswich, and Mary (Leverett)
Rogers, daughter of President Leverett, of
Harvard College. She died March 27, 1751,
aped twenty-one years, and he married (sec-
ond) Dorothy, daughter of Rev. Jedediah
Jewett, of Rowley, Massachusetts.

(V) Jeremiah, son of Dr. John Calef, was
born at Exeter, New Hampshire, January 28,
1751. He had a brother Oliver, born 1747,
who also settled in Sanbornton, New Hamp-

shire. Jeremiah Calef was a clothier or fuller
in Exeter. His will was proved May 25,
1762, bequeathing to his son Jeremiah, then
abroad, and to Lydia and Mary Calef, daugh-
ters of his son Jeremiah. He married (first)
Maolly Calef, of Exeter, December 13, 1772.
She was born January 23, 1753, died Feb-
ruary 7, 1796, or June 1, 1795, according to
another record, aged forty-three. She was a
daughter of Jeremiah and granddaughter of
Jeremiah Calef. Jeremiah Calef married
(second) Hannah (Brackett) Creighton, of
Greenland, November 27, 1797. She was born
in January, 1759, died July 10, 1832. He
moved to Sanbornton about 1789 in a double
sleigh and bought the place formerly owned
by Hoyt and others, and since then owned by
his descendants on what is called Calef Hill.
He is said to have given for this farm "his
saw and grist mill and twenty-seven acres of
land in Exeter village." He built the present
Calef house in 1793 and Parson Woodman,
we are told, offered prayer when the frame
was ready. He bore the title of lieutenant
in 1796, being an officer of the state militia
and was a highly valued citizen. He died
May 26, 1821, aged seventy years. Children:
Lydia, born August 4, 1773, died March 9,
1790; Molly, January 3, 1775; Lucy, March
12, 1777; Jeremiah, mentioned below; James,
January 28, 1785 ; Lucy C, April 12, 1787,
died January 3, 1788 ; Jonathan, November
22, 1789, died August 30, 1823; Betsey, Oc-
tober 15, 1791.

(VI) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (1)
Calef, was born at Sanbornton, May 5, 1782.
He was a farmer, associated with his father
until 18 14, then on the Smith lot, No. 71.
first division, Sanbornton, for about twenty
years, and he built the Morrison house there.
He removed to Loudon, New Hampshire, and
remained until 1841, when he settled again
in Sanbornton on the Batchelder place in
Northfield (Shaker Road) and died there Feb-
ruary 23, 1856. He was a member of the
Congregational church. He married (first)
Nancy, daughter of James Osgood, of San-
bornton, September 13, 1805, and she died
March 10, 1824, aged forty-one years. He
married (second) September 2, 1824, Sally,
daughter of Ebenezer Eastman. She died
August 26, 1850. in Northfield, aged fifty-four.
Children: 1. James Osgood, born August 5,
1806, died April 24, 1835. 2. Samuel Pres-
cott, June 15, 1808; a tanner at Charlestown,
Massachusetts, and Loudon Ridge, New
Hampshire; married (first) Mrs. Mehitable
Drew; (second) Mrs. Martha A. Coburn, May
31, 1877; ne was justice of the peace thirty-
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treasurer. 3. Infant, died September 4, 1814.
4. Mary Ann, born September, 1812, died Au-
gust 31, 1816. 5. Arthur Benjamin, men-
tioned below. 6. Abigail Eastman, February
26, 1827. died July 4, 1829. 7. Jeremiah, De-
cember 13, 1830, died November 1, 1833. 8.
Ebenezer Barker, August II, 1832; married
Ursula M. Dalton, and settled on the home-
stead.

(VII) Arthur Benjamin, son of Jeremiah
1 2 ) Calef , was born June 20, 1825. He at-
tended the public schools and Wesleyan Uni-
versity at Middletown, Connecticut, from
which he was graduated in the class of 185 1.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1852. He had a long and honorable ca-
reer as an attorney and counsellor at law. He
was clerk of all the courts of Middlesex coun-
ty for seven years ; treasurer of the state of
Connecticut in 1855-56 and recorder, city at-
torney, councilman and alderman of the city,
and postmaster of Middletown, 1861-69. He
was a trustee of Wesleyan University from
1862 until he died. In politics he was an ac-
tive and influential Republican and was a dele-
gate from Connecticut to the Republican na-
tional convention in i860. He married. May
21. 1853, Hannah F. Woodman, of Canterbury,
New Hampshire, born at Nashua in that state,
December 31, 1827, daughter of Caleb M. and
Lucy (Foster) Woodman, granddaughter of
Asa Foster, one of Benedict Arnold's life-
guard at West Point at the time of his deser-
tion. Children : Jeremiah Francis, mentioned
below ; Arthur Benjamin, mentioned below ;
Edward Baker, mentioned below ; Samuel
Prescott, mentioned below.

(VIII) Dr. Jeremiah Francis, son of Ar-
thur Benjamin Calef, was born in Middletown,
( )ctober 14. 1855. He attended the public
schools and entered Wesleyan University,
from which he was graduated in the class of
1877. He studied medicine in the Yale Medi-
cal School and was graduated in 1880 with
the degree of M. D. He began to practice in
Middletown in 1880 and afterward removed to
Cromwell, Connecticut, where he practiced un-
til December, 1891. He then returned to Mid-
dletown and has enjoyed a large practice in
that city since that time. He was justice of
the peace at Cromwell, and medical examiner ;
city health officer and medical examiner at
Middletown. For a number of years he was
secretary of the Middlesex County Medical
Society and in 1897-98 its president. He is a
member of the Connecticut Medical Society,
was medical examiner for the society in T885,
is now vice-president, and he has been since
1897 chairman of the legal committee of the
society. Dr. Calef received the Goode prize

at Wesleyan University in 1876 and special
honors in chemistry in 1877. He was vice-
president of the Wesleyan Alumni Association
in 1892-93. In 1899 and 1900 he was surgeon
general of the state of Connecticut. Dr. Calef
was one of the prime movers in establishing
the Middlesex Hospital and instrumental in
securing its charter from the state. He has
been a member of the executive and building
committee since its inception, and an
active member of its surgical staff. He was
also one of the founders of the Anti-Tubercu-
losis Society of Middlesex County, and helped
to secure the tract of one hundred acres and
build the camp thereon now owned by the so-
ciety. He is at present first vice-president of
the Middlesex Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and
chairman of its executive committee and medi-
cal board. In politics he is a Republican, and
a member of the First Congregational Church.
He married, April 10, 1883, at Cromwell,
Laura Dart, born at Haddam, Connecticut,
daughter of Dr. Ira Hutchinson, of Cromwell.
Children: t. Lucy Foster, born April 9,

1884, died in infancy. 2. Edith Dart, Decem-
ber t, 1885; married. May 5, 1905, Henry E,
Ackerson Jr., of Keesport, New Jersey, at-
torney, who graduated from the Law School
of the New York University in 1903. 3.
Irene Hutchinson, April 9, 1891. died Septem-
ber T2, 1904. 4. Arthur Benjamin, Julv 28,
1892: graduated from Dummer Academy,
1910, student in Norwich LTniversity, class of
1914.

(VIII) Arthur Benjamin (2), son of Ar-
thur Benjamin ( 1 ) Calef, was born February
20, 1859. He was a student at Wesleyan Uni-
versity in 1877-78, and took the Hibbard prize
in Oratory. He studied law with his father
and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in

1885. He was prosecuting attorney for Mid-
dlesex county for several years, assistant clerk
of the superior court for that county, attorney
for the city of Middletown and clerk of the
city court, postmaster of Middletown, Con-
necticut, since May 1, 1909. He married, De-
cember 29, 1881, at Baltimore, Maryland, Mi-
nerva Crandall Harkum, born October 22,
i86r. daughter of James Patterson and Mary
E. (Wheeler) Harkum.

(VIII) Edward Baker, son of Arthur Ben-
iamin (1) Calef, was born January 25, 1862.
He married, October 25, 1883, at Middletown,
Helen Walton, born at Sheffield, England,
Julv 4, 1868. Children : Charles Harold, born
May 28, 1885: Ethel Minerva, November 15,
T887. married Leonard Mallory, of New Brit-
ain, Connecticut, 1908 : Helen Walton, Janu-
ary 22. 1894. died September 27, 1896.

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Benjamin (1) Calef, was born in Middletown,
Connecticut, November 8, 1864. He studied
in the public and private schools of Middle-
town, was clerk in the secretary of state's of-
fice in Hartford, Connecticut, and in the war
department at Washington. Engaged in min-
ing and oil enterprises in Santa Barbara, Cali-
fornia. He married Nancy Churchill Ma-
thews, of Utica, New York, June, 1905.

John Ingersoll, ancestor of
INGERSOLL the Connecticut Ingersolls,

was born in England, and
settled early at Hartford, Connecticut.
Thence he went to Northampton, Massachu-
setts, about 1655, later to Westfield and finally
returned to Northampton. He died at West-
field, September 3, 1684. He married (first)
Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Lord, one of
the first settlers of Hartford, about 165 1. She
died at Northampton in January, 1657, aged
about twenty-six. He married (second) Abi-
gail, daughter of Thomas Bascom, one of the
first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, where
she was born, and baptized June 7, 1640. He
married (third) Mary Hunt, sister of Jona-
than Hunt, of Northampton, about 1667.
Mary Hunt's mother was Mary Webster,
daughter of John Webster, one of the first
settlers of Hartford, and fifth governor of the
colony of Connecticut. Mary Ingersoll died
at Westfield, September 1, 1690. Children of
first wife : Hannah, born 1652 ; Dorothy,
1654; Margery, January, 1656. Children of
second wife: Abigail, January 11, 1659;
Sarah, October 30, 1660 ; Abiah, August 24,
1663 ! Hester, September 9, 1665. Children of
third wife : Thomas, March 28, 1668 ; John,
October 19, 1669, at Westfield; Abel, Novem-
ber 11, 1671 ; Ebenezer, October 15, 1673; Jo-
seph, October 16, 1675 ; Mary, November 17,
1677; Benjamin, November 15, 1679; Jona-
than, mentioned below.

(II) Jonathan, son of John Ingersoll, was
born at Westfield, May 10, 1681, died Novem-
ber 28, 1760 (gravestone). In 1700 he was
a resident of Milford, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, in 1712, Sarah Miles, widow of John
Miles, daughter of Samuel Newton, of Mil-
ford, granddaughter of Robert and Mary
Newton. She died February 14, 1748, in the
sixty-second year of her age. Children : Jona-
than, mentioned below ; Sarah, born June 16,
1716, died young; Mary, December 14, 1718;
David, September 4, 1720; Jared, mentioned
below ; Sarah.

(III) Rev. Jonathan (2) Ingersoll, son of
Jonathan (1) Ingersoll, was born in 1713 in
Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale
College in 1736 and entered the ministry, be-

ing licensed by the Presbytery of New Jersey
at Elizabethtown, February 15, 1738. He
lived for a time in Newark, New Jersey. He
was installed pastor of the Ridgefield, Con-
necticut Congregational Church, the second
pastor of that church. He was a man of fine
mind and good heart and served his parish
with great ability and fidelity until he died,
October 2, 1778, in the fortieth year of his
ministry. In 1758 he was chaplain of the co-
lonial troops in the French and Indian war and
served at Lake Champlain. He married, in
1740, Dorcas, daughter of Rev. Joseph Moss,
of Derby. She died September 29, 181 1, in
her eighty-sixth year. Children : Sarah, born
October 28, 1741 ; Dorcas, October 15, 1743;
Jonathan, mentioned below ; Mary, December
20, 1748; Abigail, May 7, 175 1 ; Joseph, Au-
gust 11, 1753; Hannah, April 9, 1756; Es-
ther, August 10, 1760; Moss, June 6, 1763;
Anne, April 5, 1765.

(III) Jared, son of Jonathan (1) and
brother of Rev. Jonathan (2) Ingersoll, was
born June 3, 1722, in Milford. He was grad-
uated from Yale College in 1742, and soon
afterward settled to the practice of law in
New Haven. In 1757 he went to Great Brit-
ain, as agent of the colony, receiving a spe-
cial appointment from the general assembly
of Connecticut. He went again in 1764 and
was appointed by the English crown stamp
master. At that time he was a popular and
influential lawyer, but the indignation against
the stamp tax extended to the official in charge
of the enforcement of the law and a mob as-
sembled and compelled him to resign the of-
fice. The resignation was dated at Wethers-
field, September 19, 1765. In 1770 he was
appointed by the Crown judge of the vice-
admiralty court in the middle district of the
colony and went to Philadelphia to reside.
At the beginning of the revolution he returned
to New Haven and died there August 25,
178 1. He earned the reputation of being one
of the ablest and most eloquent lawyers of his
time. He was of open, frank and engaging
manner and was very successful in his prac-
tice. He married (first) Hannah Whiting,
who died in 1779, daughter of Colonel Whit-
ing, granddaughter of Rev. John Whiting;
married (second) in 1780, Hannah Ailing.

(IV) Judge Jonathan (3) Ingersoll, son
of Rev. Jonathan (2) Ingersoll, was born at
Ridgefield, April 16, 1747. He graduated at
Yale College in 1766 and became a lawyer,
locating in New Haven, where for many years
he practiced with great industry, fidelity and
success. He entered upon a notable public
career early in life. He was for many years
in the general assembly and was once elected

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to Congress but declined to accept the office.
From 1798 to 1801 he was on the bench of the
superior court and in 181 1 succeeded Governor
Smith as judge of the supreme court of errors
and as such served until 1816. He soon aft-
erward returned to political life and was one
of the most prominent factors in the over-
throw of the Federalists. The Toleration par-
ty led by Judge Ingersoll and Oliver Wolcott
carried the state in 1818 and Ingersoll was
elected lieutenant-governor, Wolcott, gov-
ernor. Judge Ingersoll continued in office
until after the adoption of the new constitu-
tion. He died in New Haven, January 12,
1823. He married Grace, daughter of Ralph
Isaacs, of Branford. Children: Grace, born
February 20, 1787 ; Ralph Isaacs, mentioned
below ; Mary, March 27, 1791 ; William Isaacs,
May 25, 1794; Charles Anthony, October 19,
1798, married, in 1839, Henrietta Sidell, of
New York City, was a prominent lawyer, state
attorney, 1849-53, juc'g'e °f the United States
district court of Connecticut until his death,
from 1853 to January 12, i860.

(V) Ralph Isaacs, son of Judge Jonathan
(3) Ingersoll, was born at New Haven, Feb-
ruary 9, 1789. After his graduation from
Yale College in 1808 he read law for two
years in the office of Hon. Seth Staples, was
admitted to the bar and opened an office in
New Haven. The period was interesting.
Pierpont Edwards, able and eloquent, had re-
cently been transferred to the bench of the dis-
trict court of the United States, leaving in
practice such prominent lawyers as David
Daggett, Nathan Smith and S. P. Staples,
each a leader in his specialty. Against such
opponents, as a young lawyer. Mr. Ingersoll
won his spurs and prominence in his profes-
sional life. When a young man he began tc
take active part in public affairs. Though a
Federalist, like his father, when the question
of maintaining the ancient privileges of Con-
gregationalism as a state religion was pre-
sented, both he and his father were on the
side of tolerance and separation of church and
state, and in 18 17 he became a member of the
party known at the time as the Tolerationists
and as a candidate of that party two years
later he was elected to the general assembly
from New Haven, previously a strong Federal
town. The session that followed was, on ac-
count of the new constitution, very important.
Mr. Ingersoll immediately took a position of
leadership. He was prominent in debate, in-
defatigable in the routine work, careful and
efficient as a legislator, conceded to be the
ablest man on his side of the house at that
time. In 1820-21 he was chairman of the
finance committee, 1824, speaker of the house.

and in 1825 was elected to congress and he re-
signed from the legislature. During his first
four years at Washington, he supported the
administration of President Adams, but dur-
ing the next four years he was allied with the
National Republicans under Henry Clay. He
was for four years a member of the ways and
means committee, the most important in the
house, and during the last two years held the
second place on that committee. He proved
himself able, vigilant and influential in con-
gress, and grew rapidly in the confidence and
esteem of the people. While he was a con-
gressman he served one term as mayor of New
Haven. In 1833 he left Washington to re-
sume his practice of law in New Haven ; in
1834 he supported Andrew Jackson for presi-
dent ; in 1835 he was selected to fill a vacancy
in the United States senate, but declined the
honor. He also declined the nomination for
governor several times while his party was
in power and there was undoubted truth in the
statement that he could have had any office in
the gift of the people. While in congress he
became an intimate friend of Polk, and when
Polk became president he appointed Mr. In-
gersoll, in 1846, minister to Russia, without
consulting him. He accepted the office, how-
ever, and after two years in St. Petersburg
was glad to return to his home and law prac-
tice. During the next twenty years he prac-
ticed with unabated vigor and success. His
chief ambition was to excel in his own profes-
sion and to that end he devoted his great abil-
ity and applied all his energy. He was al-
ways a student and scholar.

"Mr. Ingersoll," wrote one who knew him,
"was noted for the proportionate and harmo-
nious development of all his powers. That
he was an able lawyer, a close thinker, ade-
quately learned, and familiar with the whole
field of practice, all admit. His voice pleas-
ant, almost musical, and of unusual compass,
could be heard distinctly in its lowest tones.
The ready, fluent speech, graceful delivery,
and active but natural gesticulation ; the ener-
getic, earnest manner ; and the countenance
which mirrored every thought, all contributed
to his power as an advocate. While his lan-
guage was select, his argument was clear, log-
ical, compact and complete. Eminently per-
suasive, forgetting nothing and digressing
rarely, he touched lightly on the weaker points,
and knew where to place the strain. If the
chain broke, the fault was not his. Though
speaking well, with little premeditation, Mr.
Ingersoll was accustomed to prepare his cases
thoroughly ; looked at both sides and weighed
opposing considerations. Well fortified him-
self, he was quick to see and expose an un-

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guarded point in the enemy, dexterously driv-
ing home his advantage. Though when
speaking to the Court, or a deliberate body,
he addressed himself wholly to the intellect,
using little ornament, when before a jury or
popular assembly, he gave himself more lib-
erty, was sometimes impetuous, often eloquent.
On these occasions he would show his power
over the common mind, putting himself in
contact with those primitive sentiments, con-
victions and instincts which lie at the founda-
tion of human nature and which are older
than reason. With his hand on the hidden
springs of action, he shaped and directed the
cerebral movements, awakened emotion, or
quickened the sense of right, carrying his au-
ditors whither he would." Says one of large
experience : "He was the best public speaker
I ever saw." "In a notable degree he was pos-
sessed of that personal magnetism by the aid
of which the orator sways and sets on fire the
sympathetic multitude. At one time he was
witty and humorous, at another serious and
pathetic, and could be sarcastic. Oppression
of the weak by the strong he would vehe-
mently denounce ; a prevaricating witness flay,
if he could. Mr. Ingersoll was an experienced
and accomplished writer. Concerning his
facts he was conscientiously scrupulous, and
would state nothing which was not wholly and
exactly true. No man ever lived a purer or
more exemplary life than he. His character
was adorned by all the public and private vir-
tues. Honorable, manly and just, it is be-
lieved he was never guilty of a deed of mean-
ness or conscious wrong. Mr. Ingersoll was
delicately organized, of moderate stature, slen-
der, straight and of healthy constitution. For
his size his head was large and prominent at
the angles. He had finely cut features, thin
lips and dark eyes well protected by jutting
brows. Till nearly eighty, with unclouded in-
tellect, he continued his practice, and till the
last went daily to his office when health per-
mitted. There he would sit, writing and read-
ing, giving a cordial welcome to any friend
who might call. His intimate acquaintance
with political life and character, taken in con-
nection with his urbanity, kindness and can-
dor and simple dignity, made his conversation
extremely interesting." He died August 26,
1872. In his last years he was a communicant
of Trinity Church. He served in the state
militia in his younger days.
^ He married, February 10. 1814, Margaret
Catherine Eleanor Van den Heuval, of Dutch
ancestry, of New York, a lady of great energy
and discretion. Children : ' Colin Macrae,
mentioned below ; Governor Charles Roberts,
mentioned below ; William, of the United

States navy ; Ralph Isaacs, died in Illinois ;
Grace, died in New Haven.

(VI) Colin Macrae, son of Hon. Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll, was born in New Haven,
March 11, 1819. He was prepared for col-
lege in the schools of his native place, and
graduated from the Hopkins grammar school.
He was in Trinity College, class of 1839, and
later in the Yale Law School, from which he
was admitted to the Connecticut bar, and be-
gan practice in New Haven. In 1843 ne was
chosen clerk of the state senate of Connecti-
cut ; in 1847-48 he was secretary of legation at
St. Petersburg, when his father was minister
to Russia, and later was American charge
d'affaires at this legation. From 185 1 to
1855 he represented his district in congress ;
from 1867 to x87i he was adjutant-general of
Connecticut. He possessed many of the dis-
tinguishing traits of his honored father and
ancestry. From 1841 when he was admitted
to the bar until his death, he occupied a posi-
tion of prominence among the lawyers of the
state. He died in New Haven at the age of
eighty-five. He was a staunch Democrat in
politics, and an Episcopalian in religion.

He married, October 26, 1853, in Grace
Church at Prattsville, New York, Julia Har-
riet, daughter of Hon. Zadock and Abigail
P. (Watson) Pratt. Children: Mary E.,
born August 19, 1854; Colin Macrae, men-
tioned below ; George Pratt, mentioned below ;
Maude Margaret Seymour, born 1863.

Hon. Zadock (2) Pratt, son of Zadock (1)
Pratt, was born October 3. 1790. When a
young man he resided in Lexington, New
York, and in 1814 served under Governor
Tompkins in the war of 181 2 in the defense
of New York. In 1824 he moved to Scho-
hariekill, now Prattsville, and was the founder
of that town. After erecting the largest tan-
nery in the country, for nearly a quarter of a
century he was engaged in the leather busi-
ness, and he owned two tanneries in other
places. From 1822 to 1826 he was colonel
of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment
of state militia. He represented his district in
congress two terms, being elected in 1836 and
again in 1842 and he made a reputation for
ability and efficiency in that office ; in five ses-
sions of congress he was not absent once. For
several years he was president of the Pratts-
ville Bank. In 1836 he was one of the presi-
dential electors and voted for Martin Van Bu-
ren and Richard M. Johnson. In 1852 he was
again in the electoral college of New York,
was elected its president, and voted for Frank-
lin Pierce for president and William H. King
for vice-president. He was a Democrat in
politics, an Episcopalian in religion. In later

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years he traveled extensively, visiting the
West Indies, England and the Continent. He
had an excellent dairy farm. Mrs. Julia H.
(Pratt) Ingersoll was daughter by his third
wife, Abigail P., daughter of Wheeler Wat-
son, of Rensselaerville.

Zadock (i) Pratt, father of Hon. Zadock
(2) Pratt, was born in 1755 ; married, in 1781,
Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Pickett, of
New Milford, Connecticut. He was a soldier
in the revolution, at the siege of Boston, at
Long Island in 1776, and was taken prisoner
at the battle August 27, and confined in the
Middle Dutch Church, New York, in the old
sugar house and the Whitby prison ship.
After his exchange he returned to the army
and took part in the storming of Stony Point
in [779. He removed, after the war, to Ste-
phentown, New York, and died at what is now
Jewett City in 1828.

Zephaniah Pratt, father of Zadock (1)
Pratt, was born in 1712, died in 1758, son of
Benjamin Pratt, who was born in i68r, mar-
ried, in 1702, Anna, daughter of Samuel
Bates. Benjamin Pratt was son of Captain
William (2) Pratt, born 1653, died 1718,
prominent in civil and military life: married
Hannah Kirtland. Captain William (2)
Pratt was son of Lieutenant William ( 1 )
Pratt, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in
this work, one of the founders of Hartford.

(VI) Governor Charles Roberts Ingersoll,
son of Hon. Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, was born
in New Plaven, September 16, 1821. He at-
tended the public schools and the Hopkins
grammar school and entered Yale College,
from which he was graduated in the class of
1840. After spending two years in foreign
travel, as a member of the official family of
his uncle. Captain Voorhes Ingersoll, then
commander of the United States frigate
"Preble," he took up the study of law and
spent two years in the Yale Law School. He
was admitted to the bar in New Haven coun-
ty in 1845 and began to practice there, in as-
iation with his father, continuing for a pe-
riod of thirty years and succeeding to his fa-
ther's practice in 1872. He began his public
career in the general assembly in 1856 and
served also in 1858-66-71. He had important
committee assignments. He declined a nomi-
nation for state senator when his party was
in power and election was reasonably certain
for the candidate. In 1864 he was a delegate
to the Democratic national convention at Chi-
cago and served on the committee on resolu-
tions, and to the Democratic national conven-
tion of 1872 at Baltimore, when he was chair-
man of the Connecticut delegation. In 1873
he received the Democratic nomination for

governor, an unsought honor, and was elected,
running ahead of his ticket. He gave the
state a clean and judicious administration and
was re-elected, receiving a majority of seven
thousand votes. In 1875 he received the high-
est vote ever given at that time for a governor
of Connecticut. During his third term he
signed the act that made elections biennial.
His term ended January, 1877. He was
largely instrumental in securing the creditable
representation of Connecticut industries at the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of LL. D. from
Yale University in 1874.

Governor Ingersoll married, December 18,
1847, Virginia, daughter of Rear-Admiral
Francis H. Gregory, of New Haven. Chil-
dren : Justine Henrietta ; Francis G., of the
Standard Trust Company, New York City ;
Virginia G., married Harry T. Gause, of Wil-
mington, Delaware; Elizabeth Shaw, married
George G. Haven, of New York City.

(VII) Civil Engineer Colin Macrae Inger-
soll, son of Hon. Colin Macrae Ingersoll, and
brother of George Pratt Ingersoll, was born at
New Haven, December 1, 1859. Graduated
from Sheffield Scientific School (Yale) 1880.
Connected with Missouri Pacific railroad for
one year; city engineer of New Haven, 1891,
and later appointed assistant to president
(third vice-president) of New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroad, then chief engineer
of this road, and in 1908 engineer of bridges
of New York City. He married Theresa Mc-
Allister and has three children: Theresa, Co-
line and Ralph.

1 VII) Hon. George Pratt Ingersoll, son of
Hon. Colin Macrae Ingersoll, was born at
New Haven, April 24, 1861. He attended the
Hopkins grammar school and a private school
at Geneva, Switzerland. He was graduated
from Trinity College in the class of 1883 and
from the Yale Law School in the class of
1885. He was admitted to the bar the same
year that he graduated and began to practice
law in law chambers. New Haven, and be-
came three years later a member of the new
firm of Tyler, Ingersoll & Moran, and has
practiced continuously since then. He was ap-
pointed United^, States commissioner by the
circuit court of the United States for the dis-
trict of Connecticut in 1889. He practices at
Riclgefield, Connecticut, and also has an office
in New York, and makes a specialty of pro-
bate law and trust estates. He has been con-
nected as attorney and counsel with various
important cases, notably the case of Peckham
vs. Lego, which he argued in the Connecticut
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one of the standard cases on construction of
wills. It is reported in 57 Conn. (p. 553).
He was called in as special counsel by the Jay
Gould estate in the litigation — Angell vs.
Gould — for claimed dower interest, and repre-
sented Yale University in settlement of the
Egleston estate. Mr. Ingersoll is a Democrat
of the old school, having a strong state feel-
ing and favoring a strict construction of the
constitution of the United States. He was
appointed in 1893 by Governor Morris the
legal member of the Connecticut state board of
health and served six years. He received un-
sought the unanimous nomination of the Dem-
ocratic state convention for congressman-at-
large, September 8, 19 10, but was defeated,
though his vote was thirty-six thousand larger
than that received by the Democratic nominee
two years previously. During the administra-
tion of Governor Morris, Mr. Ingersoll had
charge of his law practice. He removed to
Ridgefield from New Haven in 1900 and is a
director of the First National Bank and other
corporations. While on the state board of
health he introduced the bill requiring out-
of-door exercise and fresh air for the prisoners
at the state prison at Wethersfield. He rep-
resented, under appointment by Governor
Weeks, the state of Connecticut as one of the
delegates to the Washington peace conference
for settlement of international disputes by ju-
dicial decision, December, 1910. In religion
he is an Episcopalian and is a vestryman of
St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church of
Ridgefield. He is a member of the Pai Sig-
ma Tau, of the Hopkins grammar school, the
Delta Psi fraternity, and the Metropolitan
Club of New York City.

He married, November 3, 1891, at New Ha-
ven, in Trinity Church, Alice Witherspoon,
born in 1862 at Buffalo, New York, daughter
of Rev. Orlando and Cora (Taylor) Wither-
spoon. Her father was rector of St. James'
Episcopal Church at Derby, Connecticut, and
archdeacon of New Haven county. Children :
Colin Montaigne, born February 9, 1893 : stu~
dent at the Ridgefield school, class of 191 1;
Gertrude Victoria, July 14, 1897.

The name Stoddard is de-
STODDARD rived from the office of

standard bearer, and was
anciently written De-Ea Standard. The coat-
of-arms is: Sable, three estoiles and bordure
gules. Crest : Out a ducal coronet a demi-
horse salient, ermine. Motto : Festina lente.
William Stoddard, a knight, came from Nor-
mandy to England, 1066, A. D., with William
the Conqueror, who was his cousin. Of his
descendants are found Rukard Stoddard, of

Nottingham, Kent, near Elthan, about seven
miles from London Bridge, where the family
estate of about four hundred acres was lo-
cated. This came into possession of the fam-
ily, 1490. how much before is not known, and
continued until the death of Nicholas Stod-
dard, a bachelor, in 1765.

(I) Anthony Stoddard, immigrant ancestor,
came from England to Boston about 1639.
He was admitted freeman in 1640, a repre-
sentative in 1650-59-60, and during twenty
successive years from 1665 to 1684. He mar-
ried (first) Mary, daughter of Hon. Emanuel
Downing, of Salem, and his wife, Lucy, and
sister of Sir George, afterward Lord Down-
ing. Hon. Emanuel Downing and his wife
were admitted to the church in Salem, Novem-
ber 4, 1638. He married (second) Barbara,
widow of Captain Joseph Weld, of Roxbury,
who died April 15, 1654. He married (third)

about 1655, Christian — . He died March

16, 1686-87. Children of first wife: Solo-
mon, born October 4, 1643. mentioned below ;
Samson, December 3, 1645 ! Simeon, 1650.
Children of second wife: Sarah, October 21,
1652 ; Stephen, January 6, 1654. Children of
third wife: Christian, March 22, 1657; An-
thony, June 16, 1658; Lydia, May 21], 1660;
Joseph, December 1, 1661 ; John, April 22,
1663: Ebenezer, July 1, 1664; Dorothy, No-
vember 24. 1665; Mary, March 25. 1668;
Jane (twin), July 29, 1669; Grace (twin).

(II) Solomon, son of Anthony Stoddard,
was born October 4, 1643, died February 11,
1729. He graduated at Harvard, 1662, and
was afterward elected "Fellow of the House"
and was the first librarian of the college.
which office he held from 1667 to 1674. About
this time, on account of ill health, he accom-
panied the governor of Massachusetts to Bar-
badoes, in the capacity of chaplain, and re-
mained nearly two years preaching to the Dis-
senters. In 1669 he received a call to the
church in Northampton and settled there as
minister, September 11, 1672. In 1726 his
grandson, Jonathan Edwards, was elected his
colleague. Among his publications are the
following: "The Trial of Assurance," 1696;
"The Doctrine of Instituted Churches," 1700.
written in answer to the work of Rev. In-
crease Mather, entitled "The Order of the
Gospel," which occasioned exciting contro-
versy. "The Danger of Degeneracy," 1702;
"Election Sermon," 1703; "Sermon on the
Lord's Supper," Ex. XII, 47, 48, 707. "Ser-
mon, Ordination of the Rev. Joseph Willard.
Swampfield," 1708; "Inexcusableness of Neg-
lecting the Worship of God," 1708 ; "Falseness
of the Hopes of Many Professors," 1708; "An
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1709; "A Plea for Tithes"; "Divine Teachings
Render Persons Blessed," 1712; "A Guide
to Christ," 1713 ; three sermons: "The Virtue
of Christ's Blood," "Natural Men Under the
Government of Self-love," "The Gospel a
Means of Conversion," and a fourth, "To
Stir Up Young Men and Maidens," 1717.
Sermon at the ordination of Mr. Thomas
Cheney, 17 18. "Treatise Concerning Conver-
sion," 1719 ; "Answer to Cases of Conscience,"
1722 ; "Inquiry whether God is not Angry with
this Country," 1723; "Safety of Appearing in
Christ's Righteousness," 1724.

He married, March 8, 1670, Mrs. Esther
Mather, widow of Rev. Eleazer Mather, and
originally Esther Warham, of Windsor, Con-
necticut. She died February 10, 1736, aged
ninety-two. Children : Mary, born January 9,
1671; Esther, June 2, 1672; Samuel, Feb-
ruary 5, 1674; Anthony, June 6, 1675, died
following day; Aaron (twin), August 23,
1676, died same day; Christian (twin); An-
thony, August 9, 1678, mentioned below ;
Sarah, April 1, 1680; John, February 17,
1682: Israel, April 10, 1684: Rebecca, 1686:
Hannah, April 21, 1688.

(III) Anthony (2), son of Solomon Stod-
dard, was born August 9, 1678, died Septem-
ber 6, 1760. He graduated at Harvard, 1697,
and settled as minister in Woodbury, Con-
necticut, where he continued sixty years. He
married (first) by Rev. Stephen Mix, Octo-
ber 20, 1700, Prudence Wells, of Wethersfield,
who died May, 17 14. He married (second)
January 31, 171 5, Mary Sherman, who died
January 12, 1720. Children of first wife:
Mary, June 19, 1702; Solomon, October 12,
1703; Eliakim, April 3, 1705, mentioned be-
low: Elisha, November 24, 1706: Israel, Au-
gust 7, 1708; John, March 2, 1710; Pru-
dence, October 12, 171 1; Gideon, May 27,
1714. Children of second wife: Esther, Oc-
tober 11, 1716; Abijah, February 28, 1718;
Elizabeth. November 15. 1719.

(IV) Eliakim, son of Anthony (2) Stod-
dard, was born April 3, 1705, died 1750. He
lived in Woodbury. He married, 1729, Jo-
anna Curtis. Children : John, born January
26, 1730, mentioned below ; Israel, January
28, 1732: Anthony, October 21, 1734; Jo-
anna, July 16, 1738; Prudence, September
24, 1740; Eliakim, July 25, 1742, died young;
Seth, December 2, 1744; Abigail, August 2,
1747; Eliakim, December 11, 1749.

(V) John, son of Eliakim Stoddard, was
born January 26. 1730, died January 22, 1795.
He lived in Watertown, Connecticut. He
married, April 15, 1751, Mary Atwood, who
died in Charleston, Montgomery county, New
York, January 16, 1802. Children : Sam-

son, born October 25, 1752, mentioned below ;
Abiram, October 25, 1756, died in the revo-
lutionary army; Wells, July 1, 1759; Phebe,
February 19, 1760; John, July 1, 1763, in
Watertown ; Submit, March 17, 1766, died
September 7, 1775 ; Joanna, February 19,
1767; Mary, June 11, 1771 ; Sarah, May 13,
1773; Israel, February 15, 1776; Eliakim, Au-
gust 10, 1779.

(VI) Samson, son of John Stoddard, was
born October 25, 1752, died November 11,
1809, an invalid for twelve years previously
from palsy. He married (first) Susannah
Nettleton, who died April 24, 1779. He mar-
ried (second) Amy Goodwin, who died Sep-
tember 16, 1827. Her ancestors came over in
the "Mayflower." He lived in Watertown,
Connecticut. Children of first wife : Pru-
dence, August 11, 1775; Abiram, January 27,
1777, mentioned below; Susannah, March 26,
1779. Children of second wife: William, Sep-
tember 29, 1781 ; Goodwin, May 8, 1783;
Harvey, April 14, 1785; Anna, August 17,
1788; Samuel, August 6, 1791.

( YII) Abiram, son of Samson Stoddard,
was born January 27, 1777, died November
26, 1855. He graduated from Yale, 1800.
and settled in the practice of medicine in Der-
by, Connecticut. He was representative from
Oxford in the general assembly at New Ha-
ven in 18 14, and held offices of public trust
many years in Derby. He was a man of large
intelligence, great energy and endurance. He

married . Children : Theresa, born

January 6, 1806, died 1814; Jonathan, Octo-
ber 9, 1807; Susan, August 3, 1809; Thomas,
March 11, 1813, mentioned below; Joseph
Nettleton, November 12, 1815: William, Jan-
uary 6, 1818; Maria Theresa, June 2, 1825.

(VIII) Thomas, son of Abiram Stoddard,
was born March 11, 1813. He graduated
from Yale, 1836. He married, April 19,
1839, Esther Ann Gilbert, born July 31, 1819.
Children: Frances Eunice, born January 13,
1840; Sarah, April 6. 1842; Ezekiel Gilbert,
mentioned below.

(IX) Ezekiel Gilbert, son of Thomas Stod-
dard, was born November 14, 1844, at Sey-
mour, Connecticut. He was educated at pri-
vate schools in New Haven, and entered the
wholesale grocery business there at the age
of sixteen. He has been a very enterprising
and successful merchant and takes high rank
in financial and commercial circles in Con-
necticut. He is president of the New Haven
County National Bank of New Haven, vice-
president of the Connecticut Savings Bank of
New Haven, a director in the Union Trust
Company, the Security Insurance Company
of New Haven, and an officer and director

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in several local and foreign corporations en-
gaged in manufacturing, gas and electric
plants, ranching and mining. In politics he
has always been prominently connected with
the Democratic party. In religion an Epis-
copalian, he is a member and has served on
the vestry of Trinity Church. He married
Mary de Forest, daughter of Thomas Burlock.
Children: 1. Esther Ann, born February 2,
1874; married Frank S. Butterworth ; chil-
dren: Frank S. Jr., Benjamin, Esther S. 2.
Louis Ezekiel, mentioned below ; 3. Carlos
French, born July 10, 1880; married Sandol
Milliken : children : Carlos French, Jr., Mary,
Ezekiel G.

(X) Louis Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel Gilbert
Stoddard, was born at New Haven, January
25, 1878. He was educated at St. Paul's
School, Concord, New Hampshire, graduat-
ing there in 1895, anc' at Yale University,
from which he graduated with the degree of
A. B. in 1899. Since he began his business
life he has been engaged largely in mining.
He is now president of the Bingham-New
Haven Copper & Gold Mining Company ;
president of the New England Stone Com-
pany ; director of the New Haven County Na-
tional Bank, the Union Horse Nail Company
of Chicago, Illinois ; the Fowler Nail Com-
pany of Seymour, Connecticut ; the Red River
Valley Company of New Mexico, and the
Carrington Publishing Company of New Ha-
ven. He is a member of the Quinnipiack
Club, the Graduates Club, the Lawn Club and
the Country Club of New Haven, the Racquet
and Tennis Club of New York City, the Point
Judith Club of Narragansett, Rhode Island,
the Pittsburg Club, the Roehampton Club
of London, England, the Meadow Brook Club
of Long Island and the Alta Club of Salt
Lake City. He is a member of Trinity Prot-
estant Episcopal Church. In politics he is a
Democrat. He married, November 9, 1904,
Rebecca McCullough, born June 9, 1879,
daughter of Harry and Elizabeth Darlington,
of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, formerly of Ches-
ter in that state. They have one child, Eliza-
beth Darlington, born January 13, 1906.

The Bill family of England has an
BILL ancient and honorable record, ex-
tending back almost to the begin-
ning of the use of surnames in that country.
The name means a kind of weapon, and the
progenitor doubtless took his surname from
his occupation in war, a bill man. A bill was
an ancient battle ax. The family is from
Denmark originally, according to the. best
authority. The family has been prominent in
Shropshire for «ome five centuries and is

numerous also in Wiltshire and Staffordshire.
Dr. Thomas Bill, born about 1490, was a
prominent physician, an attendant of Queen
Elizabeth.

William Bill was Master of Trinity, Pro-
vost of Eton and Dean of Westminster. Dean
Bill, who wrote the statutes of Westminster,
was buried in Westminster Abbey in what is
known as the Deans' Chapel, named entirely
in his honor.

John Bill, born 1676, was a well-known
London publisher. He appears in London in
17 1 3 as "publisher to King James I., Most
Excellent Majestie." One of the earliest works
published by John Bill was by order of the
king himself. He brought out many editions
of the Bible. He, or his partner, Christopher
Barker, published the first news sheet, called
the English Mercurie, issued to contradict
false reports concerning the descent of the
Spanish Armada upon the coast of England.
After he received the royal license, his place
of business became known as Printing House
Square, its present name.

The Bill coat-of-arms : Ermine two wood-
bills (battle axes) sable, with long handles
proper, in saltire, a chief azure, a pale or,
charged with a rose gules, between two peli-
cans' heads erased at the neck argent.

John Bill married (first) Anne, daughter
of Thomas Mountford, D. D. She was the
author of a book entitled, "Mirror of Mod-
estie," published in London in 162 1. A sec-
ond and very rare edition was published in
1719. She died May 3, 1621, aged thirty-
three. He married (second) Joan Franklin,
of Throwley, Kent. He made his will in
1630; was buried at St. Anne's Blackfriars,
London. He left a bequest to the parish of
Much Wenlock, where he was born. Chil-
dren of first wife: John, mentioned below;
Anne ; Charles, succeeded his father as pub-
lisher of Bibles and books : Henry ; Mary.

(I) John (2) Bill, son of John (1) Bill,
was born in England and was the immigrant
ancestor. The best authority indicates that
he was the son of John, mentioned above,
the book publisher. Little is known of him.
He and his wife Dorothy came to this coun-
try before 1635. Their children, John, aged
thirteen, and Marie, aged eleven, came to
Boston in 1635, Tohn in the ship "Hope-
well," Marie in the ship "Planter." The fa-
ther died in 1638 and a month later Richard
Tuttle became responsible to the town for
Dorothy Bill, widow, "sojourner at his house"
and "for anything about her." It is probable
that Dorothy was a sister of Tuttle. The
genealocy by Ledyard Bill gives this list of
the children of John and Dorothy and states

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that all of the name with a few exceptions are
c'escended from them : James, born in Eng-
land in 1615; Thomas, about 1618, married
(first) Elizabeth Nichols; (second) Abigail
Willie; Philip, about 1620, mentioned below;
John, 1622; Alary, 1624.

(II) Philip, son of John (2) Bill, was
born in England about 1620. He lived at
Pulling Point, a part of Boston, Massachu-
setts, where his brother James and mother
Dorothy were living. Next he resided at Ip-
swich until 1667 or 1668, when he removed
to New London, Connecticut, at the invita-
tion of Governor John Winthrop. He set-
tled on the east side of the Thames river, in
that part of New London incorporated in
1705 as the new town of Groton. He became
the owner of a large amount of real estate.
He died July 8, 1689, of a throat distemper,
and his daughter Margaret died the same day.
His- widow Hannah married (second) Sam-
uel Buckland, of New London, and died in
1709. Children: 1. Philip, born about 1659;
married (first) Elizabeth Lester; (second)
Mary . 2. Mary, about 1661. 3. Mar-
garet, about 1663, died July 8, 1689. 4. Sam-
uel, about 1665, married (first) Mercy

Houghton; (second) Elizabeth . 5.

John, about 1667; married (first) Mercy
Fowler; (second) Hannah Hurst. 6. Eliza-
beth, born in New London. 7. Jonathan, bap-
tized November 5, 1671, living in 1708. 8.
Joshua, mentioned below.

(III) Joshua, son of Philip Bill, was born
October 16, 1675, in that part of New Lon-
don which became Groton, Connecticut, and
which in 1836 formed a part of what is now
the town of Ledyard. He was baptized
March 29, 1675-76. He was a prominent
citizen of Groton. He acted as moderator
in 1719 and in 1720-21 was one of a com-
mittee for the division of lands. In 1725 he
was on a committee to lay out the highway
running from Meeting House hill to the
Great Pine swamp, now the road from Gro-
ton to Preston. He was selectman for sev-
eral years, and also town clerk from 17 19
to 1730. His old family Bible, printed 1690
by Charles Bill of London, contains a rec-
ord of births, deaths and marriages of his
family and is still preserved. He died in
1735 and his widow Hannah was appointed
administratrix, September 26 of that year.
He married (first) November 1, 1699, Joanna
Potts, born in May, 1679, died November
3, 1 7 18, daughter of William Potts, of New
London. She was admitted to the church in
New London, May 9, 1701. He married (sec-
ond) October 4, 1719, Hannah Swodel, born in
December, 1697, daughter of William Swodel,

of Groton. Children of first wife: 1. Son,
born July 29, died September 28, 1700. 2.
Joshua, September 28, 1707. 3. Edward, De-
cember 1, 1710; married Zeruah . 4.

Benijah, March 3, 1713; married Judith Wa-
terman. 5. Mary, April 6, 1716. Children
of second wife : 6. Phineas, September 5,
1720, mentioned below. 7. Naomi, March
10, 1722. 8. Orpah, October 20, 1723. 9.
Hannah, September 30, 1725. 10. Sarah, Sep-
tember 12, 1727. n. Esther, July 9, 1729.

12. Joanna, May 7, 1731, died June 6, 1731.

13. Phebe, October 26, 1733.

(IV) Phineas, son of Joshua Bill, was
born in that part of Groton that is now Led-
yard, Connecticut, September 5, 1720. He
resided in the southwestern part of the town
of Ledyard, about halfway between the vil-
lage of Unionville and Allyn's Point. The
house is still known as the Phineas Bill house.
He died of cancer in the home of his eldest
son Phineas, in February, 1780, aged sixty
years. He married Mehitabel Woodworth.
Children: 1. Phineas, born September 8.
175 1 ; married Mercy Allyn. 2. Mehitable,
married William Spink, of Colchester. 3.
Mary, married (first) Richard Dayton; (sec-
ond) Alpheus Chapman. 4. Benajah, June 29,
1760, mentioned below. 5. Joshua, May 14,
1762. 6. Gurdon, 1766, died September,
178 1. 7. Daughter, married Emanuel Simons.

(V) Benajah, son of Phineas Bill, was
born June 29, 1760, at Groton, Connecticut.
He resided on Meeting House hill, now in
the town of Ledyard. He was a soldier in
the revolutionary war. Later in life he re-
moved to Lyme, Connecticut, where he died
May 22, 1842. He married, January 17, 1782,
Content Park, born February 4, 175 1, died
May 27, 1845. Children, born at Groton: 1.
Polly, December 29, 1782. 2. Lodowick,
mentioned below. 3. Eunice Park, January
2,J, 1788. 4. Alexander Tullius, November
27, 1790. 5. Sarah, May 7, 1793. 6. Elisha
Satterlee, March 19, 1796. 7. Nelson Hora-
tius, September 24, 1798. 8. Park Allyn,
July 1, 1 80 1. 9. Lyman Edgecomb, April
13, 1805. 10. Infant, died young.

(VI) Judge Lodowick Bill, son of Benajah
Bill, was born in the north part of Groton,
October 9, 1784. He removed to Lyme where
he became through his own exertions a well-
to-do farmer and prominent citizen. He was
constable of the town and for many years a
deputy sheriff of the county. He held the
office of judge of probate until retired by age
limitation. He represented the town several
times in the general assembly of the state. He
married, October 20, 1805, Betsey Geer, a
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Eliza, born March 25, 1806, died December,
1809. 2. Julia Ann, September 25, 1807;
married John G. Hughes. 3. Polly, Septem-
ber 25, 1809 ; married Asa P. Edgecomb. 4.
Hiram Geer, November 13, 1810, died at
Montville. December 26, 1830. 5. John
Wight, mentioned below. 6. Benajah Park,
December 5, 1814. 7. James Alexander,
March 30, 1817; married Ann L. Lord. 8.
Ellen Jane. March 18, 1819. 9. Lucy Stark,
March 23, 1822. 10. Gilbert Lafayette, Oc-
tober 7, 1824, died October 14, 1838.

(VII) Judge John Wight Bill, son of
Judge Lodowick Bill, was born at Groton,
now Ledyard, Connecticut, January 4, 1813.
He resided at Blue Hill in the town of Lyme
and was a prosperous farmer. For a num-
ber of years he was interested in book publish-
ing. In politics he was a Democrat and, like
his father, was judge of probate for the dis-
trict. He represented his town in the state
legislature several times.

Judge John Wight Bill married, Au-
gust 4, 1836, Prudence, daughter of Captain
Jacob Gallup, who was descended from Cap-
tain Benadam Gallup, prominent in the co-
lonial wars. Children, born at Lyme: 1.
John Oscar, November 13, 1837, served in
the civil war in the First Regiment of Con-
necticut Volunteers ; died July 10, 1870. 2.
Prudence Parthenia, March 27, 1839, died
February 21, 1842. 3. Gilbert Lafayette,
January 15, 1842, died February 17, 1863;
a graduate of Fort Edward Institute, New
York. 4. Ellen Loraine, July 30, 1844 ; mar-
ried. March 17. 1864, William H. Fowler,
of Williamsburg, Long Island, died Febru-
ary 22, 1 88 1. 5. Lodowick, March 3, 1847,
died October 26, 1867. 6. Emma Gallup,
August 8. 1849, (ned September 7, 1867. 7.
Jacob Gallup, June 10, 185 1, died October 17,
1870. 8. Nelson Horatio, March 10, 1853. 9.
Robert Allyn, January 12, 1855, died
March 22, 1855. 10. Prudence Morgan, April
28, 1856, died- October 20, 1867. Arthur L.
Wight, March 29, 1858, died May, 1902.
Edward Lyman, mentioned below.

( VIII) Edward Lyman, son of Judge John
Wight Bill, author, editor and publisher, was
born at Lyme, Connecticut, June 5, 1862.
After attending the public schools in his na-
tive town he took special courses at the State
Normal School at New Britain, Connecticut,
and at Wesleyan University. He then fol-
lowed teaching for a while, making a specialty
of elocution. He located in the territory of
Dakota, where he was engaged in mercantile
pursuits at Fargo and at Grandin. In the
early eighties he was elected police justice:
was appointed postmaster, and was one of

the first organizers of the territorial militia
in which he had official rank. He also acted
as correspondent for various eastern news-
papers. In 1888 he purchased a part inter-
est in The Music Trade Review, the oldest
music trade publication in this country. In
1 89 1 he purchased the interests held by oth-
ers and became sole proprietor. He is also
editor and publisher of The Talking Machine
World and The Player Monthly, both monthly
publications. His newspaper ventures have
been successful.

He was awarded the Grand Prix at the
Paris Exposition of 1900, the diploma at the
Pan-American Exposition of 1901, the silver
medal at the Charleston Exposition of 1902,
and the gold medal at the St. Louis Exposi-
tion of 1904.

He is also an author, having written three
successful novels, "The Sword of the Pyra-
mids," "The Last of the Danvers," and his
latest literary production is "Hitting the
Thought Trail." He has also published a
number of technical books which have met
with a large demand.

Mr. Bill resides in New Rochelle, New
York, where he has taken an active part in
local affairs. In politics he is a Republican.
He served for six years as a member of the
board of education of the city of New Ro-
chelle and was formerly a police commis-
sioner. He is active and influential in all
movements for the improvement and welfare
of the city. He was treasurer of the New
York state commission to the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition in 1904 and delivered the
oration on New York Day. He was formerly
vice-president of the New York Press Club
two terms, also president of the New Ro-
chelle Republican Club two terms. He is a
member of the New Rochelle Yacht Club, the
Wykagyl Country Club, the National Geo-
graphical Society, the Huguenot Society, the
sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mav-
flower Descendants, and Tolland Club in the
Berkshires where he spends a portion of his
summers. He is a member of the Naval
League, the Huguenot Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Bethlehem Commandery, of
Mount Vernon, the Mystic Shrine and has
taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry.

He married, at Lyme, Connecticut, Feb-
ruary 12. 1889, Caroline Lee. born Septem-
ber 1, 1861, daughter of State Senator James
I. Raymond, of Lyme, Connecticut. Chil-
dren : Hester Raymond, born in New York
City, January 28, i8q^ ; J. Raymond, Mount
Verncn, New York. September 2^, 1895 : Ed-
ward Lvman Jr., Mount Vernon, New York.
May j. 1897. "

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John Owen, immigrant ancestor,
OWEN came from Wales, where he was

born December 25, 1634. He
settled at Windsor, Connecticut, at a place
called Hosford's Lane, but removed afterward
farther north on the Farmington river, to
Polly's Orchard. He married, October 3,
1650, Rebecca Wade, who died December 3,
171 1. He died February 1, 1698-99. Chil-
dren: Josias, born September 8, 1651 ; John,
November 5, 1652, died young; John, April
23, 1654; Nathaniel, August 9, 1656; Daniel,
March 28, 1658; Joseph, October 23, 1660;
Mary, December 5, 1662; Benjamin, Septem-
ber 20, 1664; Rebecca, March 28, 1666; Oba-
diah, December 12, 1667; Isaac, mentioned
below.

(II) Isaac, son of John Owen, was born
May 27, 1670. He was one of the first set-
tlers of Turkey Hills, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, December 20, 1693, Sarah Holcomb,
born 1673, died January 22, 1763. Children:
Sarah, born February 17, 1695 ; Eunice, Au-
gust 8, 1696: Rebecca, March 2, 1697; Ann,
June 12, 1700; Isaac, November 7, 1702;
Elijah, October 7, 1706.

(III) Elijah, son of Isaac Owen, was born
October 7, 1706, died September 22, 1741.
The Owen and Higley lots adjoin each other
in the East Granby burying ground, and it
was doubtless this Elijah who deeded the
ground to the church for burial purposes.
He married Hannah, daughter of Brewster
Higley, born 1716. Children: Rebecca, born
November 6, 1736; Elijah, 1738-39, men-
tioned below: Hannah, July 17, 1740.

(IV) Elijah (2), son of Elijah (1) Owen,
was born probably in 1738-39. He lived at
Turkey Hills. He married Lydia, daughter
of Joel Clarke, March 8, 1762. Children:
Elijah, born April 17, 1763, mentioned be-
low ; Harvey, of Cheshire, Massachusetts ;
Mather, of Lee, Massachusetts; Hannah, mar-
ried Pliny Shaler, of Lee, Massachusetts.

(V) Elijah (3), son of Elijah (2) Owen,
was born April 17, 1763. He married Han-
nah, born November 12, 1765, daughter of
Nathaniel and Hannah (Filley) Mather. Her
father was descended from Nathaniel, Dr.
Samuel, and Rev. Samuel Mather, and her
mother from Hannah, Nathaniel and Hannah
(Moon), Jonathan, Samuel and William Fil-
ley: Child, Elijah, mentioned below.

(VI) Elijah (4), son of Elijah (3) Owen,
was born at East Otis, Massachusetts, died
in New York. He married Sarah, daughter
of John and Elenor (Brown) Hunter. Chil-
dren: Elijah Hunter, born November 30,
1810, mentioned below ; John.

(VII) Elijah Hunter, son of Elijah {4)

Owen, was born in Otis, Massachusetts, No-
vember 30, 1810, died April 14, 1881. He
was one of the leading merchants and busi-
ness men of his day in Hartford, and took
besides a large and active part in charitable
enterprises. He was a member of the firm
of Owen, Root & Childs, dry goods. Early
in 1861 his private means and business con-
nection were used by Governor Buckingham
for purchases of equipments for the Connecti-
cut troops, and it was mainly due to his skill
and energy that the Connecticut men were
the first to reach the field with tents and field
equipments ready for campaigning. The orig-
inal subscription for the Kansas rifles, marked
"pd'' in Mr. Owen's well-known autograph
hand, is in the possession of the Connecticut
Historical Society. The list of names and
date prove that something had occurred prior
to the so-called "Topeka murders" which led
the thinking men, good deacons and leading
citizens of Hartford, as well as Boston and
New Haven, to furnish John Brown, Owen
Brown and Owen Love joy with Sharp's rifles.
Mr. Owen probably did not know that John
Brown was a distant cousin, but took an in-
terest in Brown's venture as an original Abo-
litionist and stockholder in the Kansas Emi-
grant Aid Society. Mr. Owen was remark-
able for personal uprightness no less than for
the generous and wise aid and advice which
he gave to young men, especially of his own
profession. He married, June 13, 1836, Su-
sannah, born May 2, 1813, daughter of
Thomas Danforth and Elizabeth (Lewis)
Boardman. Her father was born in Litch-
field, Connecticut, January 21, 1784, and was
the son of Oliver and Sarah (Danforth)
Boardman. Her mother was the daughter of
Abel and Joanna (Bidwell) Lewis. Her fa-
ther and mother were married May 28, 1812.
Her father lived to the age of ninety, and set
up the first steam engine at Hartford, Con-
necticut. Children: 1. Charles Hunter, born
March 15, 1838, resides in Hartford; mar-
ried Esther Dixwell, of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts. 2. George Boardman, November
9, 1839, died December 25, 1858. 3. Henry
Elijah, May 28, 1843, mentioned below. 4.
Edward Thomas, March 4, 1850, resides at
Madison, Wisconsin ; married Emily B. Pratt,
of Brooklyn.

(VIII) Dr. Henry Elijah Owen, son of Eli-
jah Hunter Owen, was born at Hartford,
May 28, 1843. He attended the public schools
at Hartford and prepared for college in the
Hartford public high school. He entered
Yale College in i860 and was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1864. He
studied his profession in the College of Phv-

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sicians and Surgeons of New York, graduat-
ing with the degree of M. D. in the class of
1867. He also received a diploma from Belle-
vue Hospital where he was an interne. He
engaged in the general practice of medicine
in New York City and continued actively for
a period of twenty years. Since then he has
been retired. He is a member of the New
York County Medical Society, the New York
State Medical Society and the American Med-
ical Association. He belongs to the Presby-
terian church, and is a Republican in politics.
He is a trustee of the Aachen and Munich
Life Insurance Company. He belongs to
the Yale and University clubs of New York
City. His home is at No. 40 West Fifty-
sixth street, New York. He married, Janu-
ary 22, 1870, Sophia Lois, born September 20,
1846, daughter of Lawson C. and Marriette
(Thorpe) Ives, of Hartford. Children: 1.
Marriette Ives, born February 4, 187 1 ; mar-
ried Herbert C. Taylor, of New York City ;
no children. 2. Sophia Ives, November 13,
1872, died aged thirteen years. 3. Susan
Boardman, August 1, 1874; married F. Clif-
ton Brown, of New York City; child, Clifton
Owen Brown, born May 2, 1909. 4. Edith
Hunter, August 23, 1876; married, April 30,
1903, George H. Moore, of New York City;
child, Edith Georgianna Moore, born August
28, 1909, died October 7, 1910. 5. Henry Eli-
jah, Jr., June 1, 1888; married, November 24,
1909, Isabel G., daughter of John P. and
Annie (Dolan) Brady; child, Henry Elijah,
born October 19, 19 to.

John Cowles, immigrant an-
COWLES cestor, was born in England,

and was among the early set-
tlers of Hartford, Connecticut. Not long
after the year 1640 he located at Farmington,
Connecticut, and in 1652 was one of those
who organized the church there. He was
born in the west of England, it is thought,
about 1598. He bought land on the corner
at the north end of Farmington village,
known afterward as the Dr. Thompson and
Bodwell places. Selling this property, he
bought three lots just south of the present
meeting house and built a house there. He
spelled his name Cowles in order to distin-
guish himself from another man named Cole
of the same town, and from that time to the
present the descendants of his eldest son
Samuel have spelled the name Cowles and
those of the youngest son John have, until the
beginning of the nineteenth century, favored
the spelling Cowls. He was a farmer. He
was deputy to the general assembly from
Farmington in 1653-54. In 1659 he was one

of the signers who started the settlement at
Hadley, Massachusetts, but was probably not
there among the first, being a resident at
Hadley in 1662. He was one of the twenty-
five "engagers" in Fladley to establish them-
selves in Hatfield "across the river" before
March, 1661. His record in Hatfield begins
January 14, 1660-61, according to the records
of that place, and he died there September,
1675, and was probably buried there. He was
one of. a committee that laid out a burying
place for the town, February 14, 1669, and
there was no other cemetery there until 1848.
His widow Hannah, after his death, went to
live with son-in-law, Caleb Stanley, of Hart-
ford, where she died March 16, 1683, and she
was buried there. Her will was dated Octo-
ber 27, 1680, and in it she states that her hus-
band's last will was dated December 11, 1674.
The homestead in Hatfield was in possession
of descendants until April, 1898. Children :
Samuel, born 1639, mentioned below; John,
1641 ; Hannah, 1644, married Caleb Stanley,
of Hartford ; Sarah, 1646, married Nathaniel
Goodwin ; Esther, 1649, married Thomas
Bull; Elizabeth, 165 1, married Edward Ly-
man ; Mary, June 24, 1654, married Nehe-
miah Dickinson.

(II) Samuel, son of John Cowles, was born
in Hartford in 1639. He resided at Farming-
ton and was one of the eighty-four proprie-
tors of the town in 1672. He became the pro-
genitor of the Connecticut branch of the fam-
ily, his brother being the ancestor of the Mas-
sachusetts branch. He died April 17, 1691.
He married, February 14, 1660, Abigail,
daughter of Timothy Stanley, one of the lead-
ing men of Hartford, who came from county
Kent, England, in 1634, and was in Hooker's
company that went from Cambridge to settle
Hartford in 1636. Children, born at Farm-
ington: Samuel, March 17, 1661 ; Abigail,
January, 1663, married Thomas Porter; Han-
nah, December 10, 1664; Timothy, Novem-
ber 4, 1666; Sarah, December 25, 1668, mar-
ried Stephen Hart: John, January 28, 1670;
Nathaniel, February 15, 1673; Isaac, March
23, 1674-75; Joseph, January 18, 1677-78;
Elizabeth, March 17, 1680; Caleb, mentioned
below.

(III) Caleb, son of Samuel Cowles, was
born at Farmington (Kensington), June 20,
1682, baptized June 25, 1682, died Novem-
ber 15, 1725. He settled in Kensington, then
called the Great Swamp, and was one of the
original "seven pillars" of the church formed
there, December 10, 1712. He left a consid-
erable estate to his minor children. He mar-
ried, August 8, 1710, Abigail, daughter of
Joseph Woodford. She died in 1736.

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(IV) Daniel, son of Caleb Cowles, was
born at Kensington, December 14, 1717, died
in 1798. He resided first in Kensington, then
sold his property and removed to Lovely
street, Farmington, now West street in Avon,
where he died. He married Martha Powell,
who died in 18 10, aged ninety years.

(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Cowles,
was born in 1743 (two other dates are given
in the records — 1741 and 1747). He was a
soldier in the revolution. He removed from
Kensington to Lovely street, Worthington, in
1779, and died there. He married, April 25,
1765-66, Esther Rhodes, who died in 18 15,
aged seventy-three, daughter of Joseph
Rhodes.

(VI) William, son of Daniel (2) Cowles,
was born in Farmington in 1781, died in
Avon, July or August, 1863. He was a sol-
dier in the war of 1812, according to family
tradition. He married, in 1803, Eliza, daugh-
ter of Elijah Hawley. He was a farmer and
stonemason. Children : Daniel, of Avon ;
Lucy, married Charles Davis, of Avon ;
Chauncey Milton, mentioned below.

(VII) Chauncey Milton, son of William
Cowles, was born July 7, 1813, in Avon, Con-
necticut, died in Bloomfield, Connecticut, July
18, 1863. He was a mason by trade, and fol-
lowed that line of work at Avon. In religion
he was a Methodist, and in politics an old time
Democrat. He married, April 20, 1836, Hul-
dah, daughter of Dyer Dailey, of Farming-
ton. She died May, 1876, at New Haven.
Children: George Washington, died young;
Edward C, born 1839, married Jane Woods,
at Bloomfield, Connecticut; children: James,
Mary J.. William and Edward Cowles; Mar-
tin Daniel, born 1841, died May, 1884, mar-
ried Matilda Buckley; George Washington,
born 1843, now living in New Haven, mar-
ried Georgia Ordway, of Rockland, Maine ;
Ellen Maria, born February 23, 1845. mar-
ried Henry J. Mongovan, of Hartford and
Xew Haven, retired; Augusta, born 1847,
died in infancy ; Henry Dyer, January 19,
1850, mentioned below; Mary Eliza, born
1853, married William Webb, of New Ha-
ven, whose parents came from England, she
died November 29, 1873; Emma Jane, born
1855, married William Jones, of New Haven,
she died in 1872; Charles Lewis, 1858, died
in 1872.

(VIII) Henry Dyer, son of Chauncey Mil-
ton Cowles, was born at Avon, January 19,
1850. He attended the public schools at
Hloomfield and Cherrybrook, Connecticut.
He followed farming in his youth and later
learned the trade of brick mason, and for six-
teen years was a house painter and paper

hanger. He was in the employ of the firm of
F. A. Gilbert & Company of New Haven for
eight years. He was appointed a patrolman
on the police force of the city of New Ha-
ven, April 26, 1878, and was promoted to
sergeant of police a few years later. He was
again promoted to detective sergeant at police
headquarters, January 2, 1892, and was made
captain of police. May 27, 1897. Since No-
vember 1, 1907, he has been chief of police
of New Haven, and has filled this office, as
he had filled the subordinate positions, with
fidelity and ability. He is a member of
Wooster Lodge, No. 79, Free and Accepted
Masons, of New Haven ; Franklin Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; New Haven Command-
ery, No. 2, Knights Templar, of New Ha-
ven; Pyramid Shrine of Bridgeport; Amer-
ica Lodge, No. 52, Knights of Pythias ; New
Haven Conclave, No. 323, Heptasophs, of
which he was arcon for one year, being the
second man ever elected from the floor in that
organization. He is also a member of Dorset
Lodge, Musical Association of New Haven,
and the Young Men's Republican Club of
New Haven. He has been elected three times
to the presidency of the Connecticut State Po-
lice Association. In politics he is a Republi-
can, and in religion an Episcopalian, attending
the Church of the Ascension at New Haven.
He married, July 8, 1873, Fannie Sophia,
born in New Haven, May 30, 1855, daughter
of William H. Tighe, a native of Preston,
England. Children : Ella May, died in in-
fancy ; Henry Dyer Jr., born May 10, 1888,
at New Haven ; graduate of the New Haven
high school ; student at Yale College, class
of 1911.

George Preston Cowles. de-
COWLES scendant of the Cowles fam-
ily of which several lineages
are given elsewhere in this work, and one
of the prominent families among the early
settlers of the colony, was born near Wash-
ington, New Preston, Connecticut. He was
educated in the public schools. He located
at Torrington and afterward in Ansonia, for-
merly Derby, Connecticut, and became finan-
cially interested in the Ansonia Brass & Cop-
per Company, of which he was successively
secretary, treasurer, vice-president and man-
ager. He died in October, 1887. He mar-
ried Charlotte Learning, daughter of General
Russell C. and Orrel (Smith) Abernethy, of
Torrington, Connecticut (see Abernethy V).
(II) Alfred Abernethy, son of George
Preston Cowles, was born at Torn'ngton, then
Wolcottville, Connecticut, September 28,
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sonia, whither the family removed when he
was very young. Afterward he was a stu-
dent in Chase's Military Academy at Middle-
town, Connecticut, and at the Sorbonne, in
Paris, France, and College de France. He
was employed for two years in the Ansonia
National Bank. He traveled abroad for a
time and then entered the employ of the An-
sonia Brass & Copper Company, in the count-
ing room. In 1870 he was given charge of the
New York offices of the Company. He became
successively manager, secretary, treasurer,
vice-president and in 1901 president of the
corporation, and he is at the present time
r 191 1 ) the head of the company. He is presi-
dent also of the Ansonia Clock Company,
which he organized in 1879, president of the
Coronet Phosphate Company, which he or-
ganized in 1908, president of the Terra Ceia
Estates (incorporated), vice-president of the
American Brass Company. He is a director
of these and various other corporations. He
was president of the Birmingham Water
Power Company. He has always been a Re-
publican in politics, but has never sought pub-
lic office and never accepted proffered honors.
He is a member of the Union League, Larch-
mont Yacht, Greenwich Country and Railroad
clubs. His residence is at "The Apthorp,"
New York City, and he has a summer home at
Belle Haven, Connecticut. His office is at 99
John street. New York.

He married, in 187 1, Frances, daughter of
Edward Bailey, of Devonshire, England ; her
mother was Fanny (Kenyon) Bailey, of Syra-
cuse, New York. Children: 1. Russell Aber-
nethy, born 1872 ; married Louise Pfarrius.
2. Frederick Houghton, born 1873 ; married
Maud Sherman.

(The Abernethy Line).

(I) William Abernethy, immigrant an-
cestor, was a native of Scotland and came first
to Branford, Connecticut, and thence to Wal-
lingford, Connecticut. His first wife was

Sarah , the second Elizabeth .

Tradition says that he was an active, ener-
getic man. Children: Elizabeth, born Octo-
ber 15, 1673 ; William, January 23, 1675, men-
tioned below: Sarah, October 10, 1677: Mary,
March 29, 1679: Samuel, January 10. 1683.
died March 14, 1723 ; Daniel. September 3,
1686: Susannah, July 18, 1689.

(II) William "(2), son of William (1)
Abernethy, was born January 23, T675. He

married Mary . He lived in Walling-

ford, and died February. 1728. His wife died
January t, 1757. Children: Mary, born April
30, 1700; Jemima, August 20, 1702: Sarah,
December 15, 1704; Ann, June 7. 1706; John.

February 2.J, 1708; Caleb, February 11,
1710, mentioned below; Susannah, April 28,
1712.

(III) Caleb, son of William (2) Aberne-
thy, was born February 11, 1710. He married
Lois Gaylord, of Wallingford, September 26,
l733- Children: William, born July 1, 1734,
mentioned below; Mary, November 23, 1736;
John, July 2, 1738; Mary, December 9, 1739;
fared, October 31, 1741.

(IV) Dr. William (3) Abernethy, son of
Caleb Abernethy, was born July 1, 1734. He
married, June 20, 1762, Honor, daughter of
Abijah Catlin, the first of the name in Har-
winton. He studied medicine and settled in
Harwinton, where he was a successful, much-
esteemed and honored physician. He died
there. November 26, 1802. His widow died
September 14, 181 1, aged sixty-six. Chil-
dren: Honor, born August 28, 1763; Lorain,
September 25. 1768; Captain William Conant,
May 25, 1770; Lucretia, June 8, 1772; Ros-
well (twin), June 20, 1774; Rossiter (twin),
died young; Andrew, April 23, 1776, died
June 2, 1782; Huldah, February 21, 1778;
Russell Catlin, February 9, 1780, mentioned
below; Andrew, June 28, 1782; Sabrah, June
3, 1785 ; Horace, June 14, 1787.

(V) General Russell Catlin Abernethy, son
of Dr. William (3) Abernethy, was born
February 9, 1780. He married, September
17, 1803, Orrel, daughter of Elisha Smith,
Esq., one of the prominent men of Torring-
ton, Connecticut. He lived in Washington,
Connecticut, in his early days, and learned
his trade as merchant in a store in New Pres-
ton village. About the time of his marriage,
he started a store near the meeting house at
Torrington green, which he continued until
1830, when he gave up the mercantile busi-
ness and removed to Wolcottville, Connecti-
cut. There he engaged in manufacturing and
interested himself in the general enterprises
of the town. He was justice of the peace for
about thirty-five years, until 1850, when he
was disqualified on account of age. While
in that office he showed himself a faithful ad-
ministrator of law, and an honorable, upright
citizen. He was also town clerk for a num-
ber of years. In military service he rose to
be major-general of the state militia. For
this position he was well-qualified by char-
acter and personal appearance, and the town
had more pride in him in this office than in
any other. His soldierly bearing on horse-
back, his prompt and energetic manners as
a commanding officer, were especially pleas-
ing to those who served under him. In per-
sonal appearance he was tall and erect, with
elegant manners and a distinct air of culture.

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He died September 16, 1861, and his wife
May 26, 1835. Children : Elisha Smith, born
October 24, 1805 ; Lucy S., September 7,
1807; Mary Lucretia, March 2j, 1812; Char-
lotte Learning, October 2, 1820, married
George P. Cowles (see Cowles I).

Dr. John Durand, immigrant
DURAND ancestor, was a Huguenot

from France, who came prob-
ably with relatives when quite young and set-
tled in Derby, Connecticut, about 1685. He
practiced medicine in that town for many
years. He seems to have lived at Stratford,
Connecticut, for a time, and married there
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bryan. Dr.
Durand died in October, 1727, aged sixty
years. His wife was born in 1680, baptized
in November, 1685. Among their children
was Andrew, mentioned below.

(II) Andrew, son of Dr. John Durand, was
born in Derby in 1702, died October 28, 1791.
He married Jane, born April 16, 1699, died
February 15, 1778, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Andrews, born January 29, 1655, at Cam-
bridge. Massachusetts, died January 24, 1737,
at Milford, Connecticut, married Abigail
Treat, born April, 1660, at Milford, died De-
cember 25, 1727. Samuel Andrews' mother
was daughter of Richard and Mary (Wil-
mot) Bryan, Mary Wilmot was daughter of
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Heaton) Wilmot.
Samuel Andrews was born about 162 1 in
England. Abigail Treat was daughter of
Governor Robert Treat, born about 1634
in Somersetshire, England, died July 12.
1710, at Milford, Connecticut: was a distin-
guished governor of Connecticut in early co-
lonial days. Among the children of Andrew
Durand was John, mentioned below.

(III) John (2), son of Andrew Durand,
was baptized in 1734, died in 1780. He mar-
ried Ann Downs, born October 27, 1737, died
in 1828. Among their children was William,
mentioned below.

(IV) William, son of John (2) Durand,
was born April 27, 1760, died in 181 1. He
married Mary Baldwin, born in 1769. died
in 1850, descendant of John Baldwin, who
settled in Milford where he joined the church,
March 19. 1648, and Mary (Bruen) Bald-
win, his second wife, a native of Stapleford,
Cheshire, England. They lived and died in
Milford, where both are buried. Among their
children were: I. Calvin, died in infancy. 2.
Calvin, mentioned below. 3. William, died in
Milford in 1865 ; was the first Democrat ever
elected from Milford to the general assembly
of Connecticut ; for many years prominent in
public life ; judge of probate, town clerk, sur-

veyor of the port of New Haven. 4. Nathan
L., died in Manila, Philippine Islands, in 1835.
5. Mason A., a merchant, died in Bombay,
India, and was buried there. 6. David H., a
merchant in London in the firm of Durand &
McFarland ; buried at Milford. 7. Julia, died
unmarried. 8. Charlotte, died unmarried. 9.
Mary, married Francis Trowbridge, a nur-
seryman of New Haven. Four other chil-
dren died young.

(V) Calvin, son of William Durand, was
born in Milford, February 1, 1802, died in the
house where he was born, March 1, 1884.
When a young man he was employed as clerk
in the commission house of Goodhue & Com-
pany, 64 South street, New York City, and
after ten years with this house, was admitted
to partnership. Seventeen years afterward he
became sole proprietor, and for twenty-nine
years more conducted it under his own name
and management, making a total of fifty-six
years of active life in business in this con-
cern. During this period he had extensive
trade with Central and South American
bouses, and imported goods from all parts of
the world. He was interested in public ques-
tions and political affairs, an earnest advocate
of free trade, and a consistent and ardent
Democrat in politics. He married, April 27,
1847, Sarah Cecil, born in 1829 at Savannah,
died June 2J, 1851, daughter of Colonel
James and Eliza (Cecil) Hunter. Her fa-
ther was a native of Ireland ; her mother of
England. Her parents settled in Savannah,
Georgia. Their children were: Eliza Cecil,
born February 6, 1848, died June, 1850. Wil-
liam Cecil, mentioned below.

(VI) William Cecil, son of Calvin Durand,
was born in Milford, Connecticut, June 15,
1 85 1. His early education was obtained
chiefly in private schools in New York City.
He entered the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University and was graduated with the
degree of Ph. B. in the class of 1871. He
traveled extensively with his father whose
business called him out of the country fre-
quently. In the fall of 1871 he became as-
sociated in business with his father and con-
tinued until the business was sold in 1878.
Mr. Durand was elected secretary and treas-
urer of the Milford Savings Bank, February
12, 1891. Under his administration the bank
has flourished and the deposits have increased
rapidly. He has taken a keen interest in pub-
lic affairs in Milford and demonstrated his
public spirit in substantial ways. He was one
of the committee of five in charge of the
Stone Arch bridge built at Milford in 1889
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politics he is a Democrat. He represented the
town in the general assembly in 1883-84-89
and was one of the state auditors from 1889
to 1891. He is treasurer of the trustees of
the Taylor library, treasurer of the Milford
Yacht Club, and president of the Milford
Club. He married (first) January 15, 1885,
Lizzie Catherine Ford, of Milford, 'died Au-
gust 18, 1888. Her father was killed in the
service during the civil war. He married
(second) June 17, 1890, Clara Baldwin Clark,
who died March 9, 1904, daughter of Rob-
ert W. and Mary (Baldwin) Clark. He mar-
ried (third) August 1, 1908, Anna Maria
Keefe, born July 30, 1881. He has no chil-
dren.

Deacon William Douglas,
DOUGLAS immigrant ancestor, was

born in 1610, without doubt
in Scotland, though in what part of Scotland
there is no means of knowing. His wife lived
in Ringstead, England. His father, whose
name was very likely Robert Douglas, was
born about 1588. How and where William
Douglas became acquainted with his wife,
Ann Mattle, or Motley, is unknown, but their
marriage must have taken place at his par-
ish church, probably in 1636, when they were
both twenty-six years old, as their daughter
Ann was born in 1637. Ann Mattle or Mot-
ley was the only daughter of Thomas Mattle
or Motley, of Ringstead, where she was born
in 1610. She had two brothers, one of whom
probably died young, and the other was un-
married and died without descendant, so Ann
was the sole heir. William Douglas came to
New England with his wife and two children,
Ann and Robert, in 1640, though the exact
time of their arrival is unknown. The very
common tradition is that they landed at Cape
Ann. He settled in Gloucester, nearby, but
removed to Boston the same year. The first
mention of him in the Boston records is June
31, 1640, when he was made a freeman or
voter. He did not remain in Boston, but
removed the next year to Ipswich, where he
was entitled to a share of the public land,
February 28, 1641. He remained at Ipswich
for about four years, returning to Boston in
1645. He was a cooper in Boston, and May
I, 1646, he purchased of Walter Merry and
Thomas Anchor, a dwelling house, shop, and
land.

He removed to New London, Connecticut,
and obtained considerable property through
purchase and grants from the town. One of
his farms was inherited by his son William,
and has remained in the hands of the family
for over two centuries. In 1662-63 he was

appointed one of the appraisers of property
for the town of New London. The appraisal
was delivered to the general court at Hart-
ford, but the court was not satisfied, for it
fined him and the others. The town was very
indignant and objected, so that the court
withdrew the fine. He was one of a commit-
tee to consider about a new minister. The
land for a new church was purchased from
Mr. Douglas, and the graveyard still remains
on that place. He was chosen one of the two
deacons of the church in 1670. He and Mr.
Willerby were appointed to deliver provi-
sions to Commissary Tracy at Norwich, dur-
ing King Philip's war. He was one of the
most prominent citizens of New London.
His education, for the times, was liberal, He
held many important offices in the town at
different times. He was deputy to the general
court in 1672, and once or twice later. He
took an active part in town and church af-
fairs until the time of his death, which oc-
curred in 1682. In May. 1670, his wife, then
sixty years old, made a journey to Boston to
establish her claim as heir to her father's
property. She died in New London about
1685. Children: Ann, born in Scotland,
1637; Robert, in Scotland, 1639; Elizabeth, in
Ipswich, Massachusetts, August 26, 1641 ;
Sarah, in Ipswich, April 8, 1643 5 William,
mentioned below.

(II) Deacon William (2), son of Deacon
William (1) Douglas, was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 1, 1645. He came to
New London with his parents in 1660. He
received lands in Voluntown, March 29, 1706,
which he afterward sold to his son William.
He inherited land from his father, which he
gave to his grandson William, son of Rich-
ard, on condition that his grandson live with
him and take care of him till death. He and
his wife Abiah were received into the Congre-
gational church in 1670. His three sons were
also admitted into the church at different
times. After the death of his father in 1682,
he was chosen deacon, an office which he held
for upward of fifty years, until his death. In
the ancient burial ground at New London
may be seen a moss-covered tablet, with the
inscription : "Here Lyeth ye body of Deacon
William Douglas who died Mar ye 9th 1724-
5, Aged 80 years." He married (first) Abiah,
daughter of William Hough, of New Lon-
don, and granddaughter of Edward Hough,
of Westchester, Cheshire, England. She
was born September 15, 1648, died February
21, 1715. He married (second) July, 1715,
the Widow Mary Bushnell, who survived him.
Children, all born in New London, by first
wife: Elizabeth, February 25, 1668-69;

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Sarah, April 2, 1671 ; William, February 19,
1672-73, mentioned below ; Abiah, August 18,
1675; Rebecca, June 14, 1678; Ann, May 24,
1680; Richard, July 19, 1682; Samuel, about
1684.

(III) Deacon William (3), son of Deacon
William (2) Douglas, was born in New Lon-
don, Connecticut, February 19, 1672-73. He
was admitted to the church, July 24, 1698.
The next year he removed with his wife
and two children to "the new plantation on
the Ouinnebaug, which was afterward named
Plainfield." Here lands were set off for him
"on the east side of the river." He also
owned lands in Voluntown, which he pur-
chased of his father, August 18, 1715, for
thirteen pounds. He was of the little com-
pany that covenanted together and formed a
church in Plainfield, in 1705. He was chosen
first deacon. He was buried in the old burial
ground in Plainfield. He died in the prime
of life and was greatly mourned. All the
church and town records, and all but a few of
the probate records, were burned at the time
Arnold burned the town of New London in
1 78 1. His will was among the records saved.
It was dated July 6, 17 17, and proved Sep-
tember 25, 1717. In it he provides for his
wife Sarah, and eleven children, all the latter
under twenty-one years of age. His wife was
Sarah Procter, but no date of marriage can
be found in the New London records. His
two eldest children were born in New Lon-
don, all the others in Plainfield. His widow
Sarah was living in 1729, but no record of
her death has been found. Children : Han-
nah, born September 7, 1696; William, Feb-
ruary 19, 1697-98; Samuel, April 13, 1699;
Abiah, February 26, 1701-02; John, July 28,
1703, mentioned below; Sarah, December 7,
1704; Jerusha, April 26, 1706; Samuel, De-
cember 3, 1707; Benajah, September 17,
1710; James, May 20, 171 1 ; Thomas, Novem-
ber 26, 1712; Asa, December 11, 1715.

(IV) John, son of Deacon William (3)
Douglas, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut,
July 28, 1703. He married, January 13,
1724-25, Olive, born January 17, 1709, daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Olive (Hall) Spaulding,
of Plainfield. He was a man of no little im-
portance in his town. Two of his sons, Gen-
eral John and Colonel William, acted with
bravery in the revolutionary war. A third,
Benjamin, a graduate of Yale College, would
have undoubtedly gained distinction in the
legal profession, but for his untimely death
at the age of thirty-six years. Olive, John's
wife, died February 21, 1752. He died April
20, 1766. Children, all born in Plainfield :
William, born April 26, 1729, died young;

Olive, November 4, 1731 ; John, April 12,
1734; Benjamin, August 29, 1739; William,
January 27, 1742-43, mentioned below ; Sarah,
April 18, 1744 ; Olive, October 14, 1749.

(V) Colonel William (4), son of John
Douglas, was born in Plainfield, January 27,
1742-43. At the age of sixteen years he was
engaged in the old French and Indian war.
He was chosen v orderly sergeant in a com-
pany under Israel Putnam, and was in the
expedition which resulted in the surrender of
Quebec in 1759, and the speedy termination
of the war. He soon afterward removed
from Plainfield to New Haven, where he en-
gaged in the seafaring business, and soon be-
came commander of a merchant ship sailing
between New Haven and the West Indies.
In this he was very successful and accumu-
lated a fortune considered in those days very
large. At the beginning of the revolutionary
war he took part in Ethan Allen's expedition
to Ticonderoga, and raised a military com-
pany in New Haven, receiving a captain's
commission, May 16, 1775, and immediately
proceeded to the north with provisions and
supplies for the troops under Montgomery.
When he reported, Montgomery, finding he
was a good seaman, requested him to take
command of the flotilla on Lake Champlain.
He was made commodore of this fleet, and in
the fall of 1775 rendered important service
in the siege and capture of St. Johns, at the
head of the lake, taking large quantities of
provisions, arms and other military stores, to-
gether with cannon which were carried
across the country and used in the defense of
Boston. Early in 1776 he raised and equipped
out of his private purse a regiment of sol-
diers in the vicinity of New Haven, of which
he was commissioned colonel by Governor
Jonathan Trumbull, June 20, 1776. As soon
as the regiment was equipped he marched to
New York and joined the continental army
under General Washington. He was in the
disastrous campaign of Long Island. He
took part at Harlem Heights, White Plains,
Philips Manor, Croton River and New York.
In the battle of September 16, 1776, his
clothes were perforated with bullets and his
horse shot from under him. He became so
exhausted that, in connection with subsequent
exposure, he lost his voice, and was never
able afterward to speak a loud word. From
the day of this battle until toward the middle
of December, he was so constantly on duty
that he rarely slept beneath a roof. To save
his young wife and children from the British
soliders, he purchased a farm of one hundred
and fifty acres about eight miles from New
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there. After the battles about New York,
being disabled, he returned to his family at
Northford, where he died May 28, 1777, at
the age of thirty-five years. His regiment
was retained as the Sixth Connecticut Con-
tinental Line, and it rendered good service
through the remainder of the war under
Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs. On his dy-
ing bed, he sold his New Haven property to
speculators, and was paid in continental
money, which became almost worthless, so
that his family lost all their large wealth.
Colonel Douglas literally sacrificed his life
and fortune for his country. A modest brown
stone monument in the old burial ground at
Northford marks the resting place of this
patriot of the revolution.

He married, July 5, 1767, Hannah, daugh-
ter of Stephen Mansfield, of New Haven,
where she was born November 17, 1747. She
was sister of Colonel Jared Mansfield, who
was at the head of West Point Military Acad-
emy, and surveyor-general of the United
States. She survived her husband forty-eight
years, and died in Northford, May 22, 1825.
Children, all born in New Haven : Olive,
March 25, 1768; William, February 23,
1770, mentioned below ; Hannah. April 12,
1772 ; John, March 24, 1775.

(VI) Captain William (5), son of Colonel
William (4) Douglas, was born in New Ha-
ven, February 23, 1770. He entered military
service early like his father. The history of
the times tells us that "while yet a lad of
eleven years old, he was sent by his uncle,
General Douglas, then of Plainfield, to
Colonel Ledyard at Groton, the day before
the awful massacre, and defying all the dan-
gers of the way, and compelled to swim his
horse across the Thames, near New London,
he safely delivered his dispatches." Peace
being soon after declared, he retired to North-
ford and became a farmer. He died Septem-
ber 14, 1823. He married, January 28, 1797,
Sarah, born March 19, 1778, died Novem-
ber 28, 1842, daughter of Constant and Ra-
chel Kirtland, of Wallingford. Children, all
born in Wallingford : William, born March
5, 1798; John, February 22, 1799; Sarah Jen-
net, February 5, 1802; Grace, October 26,
1804; Hannah Mansfield, February 18, 1807;
Mary Kirtland, February 18, 1807; William,
January 19, 1812; Benjamin, mentioned be-
low.

(VII) Hon. Benjamin Douglas, son of
Captain William (5) Douglas, was born in
Northford, April 3, 1816.

When he was sixteen years old, he
started in the trade of machinist, and in 1836
began work with the firm of Guild & Doug-

las, at Middletown. In 1839 he and his
brother William, who had established the busi-
ness in 1832, purchased the whole interest,
and continued it under the now well-known
name of W. & B. Douglas. For three years
they had an ordinary foundry and machine
shop, but in 1842 they invented the celebrated
revolving stand pump, and first began intro-
ducing pumps as a regular article of manu-
facture and commerce. In time their trade
rapidly increased. In 1858 the senior part-
ner, William, died, and Benjamin had entire
control of the business. By a special act of
the legislature of Connecticut, the firm was
formed into a corporation of which he was
president, until his death.

Benjamin Douglas represented his town in
the general assembly of the state several
times. He was mayor of the city of Middle-
town from 1849 to 1855, the last year with-
out opposition. In i860 he was a presidential
elector, casting for President Abraham Lin-
coln one of the six electoral votes of the state.
He was lieutenant-governor of Connecticut
in 1861-62. He was a very fine and able man,
with unusual business talent and ability to
manage those under his control. He mar-
ried, April 3, 1838, Mary Adaline, daughter
of Elias and Grace (Totten) Parker, of Mid-
dletown, and niece of the late Major-General
Joseph K. F. Mansfield, United States army.
She was born July 14, 182 1. Children, the
oldest born in Norwich, the others in Mid-
dletown: John Mansfield, February 6, 1839;
Sarah Kirtland, March 21, 1841 ; Benjamin,
November 17, 1843 '> William, August 5, 1845 '■>
Benjamin, August 8, 1849 '< Edward, men-
tioned below.

(VIII) Edward, son of Hon. Benjamin
Douglas, was born in Middletown, Connecti-
cut, June 17, 1854, died in Paris, France, May
22, 1889. He graduated from the high school
of his native town at the age of seventeen
and entered at once the employ of W. & B.
Douglas. He was assistant secretary and
superintendent of W. & B. Douglas at the
time of his death. He gave especial atten-
tion to the export department and by his ef-
forts greatly increased their foreign business.
He crossed the Atlantic frequently and his
final illness attacked him while directing their
exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1889. He
was prominent in church and civic affairs, a
member of the board of education and of
the common council, and was active in every
good work. While his life was cut off be-
fore reaching its fruition, his example fur-
nished an inspiration for all the young men
of the citv, and his memory remains as "a
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cember 16, 1875, S. Emma, born March 17,
1855, daughter of Daniel H. Chase, LL. D.,
of Middletown, and his wife Caroline E.
(Smith) Chase, of Middletown. Children,
horn in Middletown: Edward C, October 4,
1876, mentioned below; Benjamin L., Octo-
ber 11, 1881 ; Mary A., April 10, 1886.

(IX) Edward Chase, son of Edward Doug-
las, was born at Middletown, October 4,
1876. He attended the private school of the
Misses Patten in Middletown and the Law-
renceville School at Lawrenceville, New Jer-
sey. After graduation he entered the employ
of W. & B. Douglas, in which he inherited an
interest, and learned the business in every de-
partment. He occupied in succession the po-
sitions of assistant superintendent, secretary,
superintendent and treasurer. Since 1907 he
has been president of the company. In poli-
tics he is a Republican ; in religion a Congre-
gationalism He married, December 10, 1910,
E. Estelle Williamson, of Brooklyn, New
York. She was born in Brooklyn, May 17,
1881, daughter of Joseph G. Williamson, who
was born in Sidney, Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, March 9, 1852, and Eliza S. (Bau-
cher) Williamson, born at Berwick, Columbia
county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1856.

Anthony Howd, immigrant an-
HOWD cestor, was an early settler at
Branford, Connecticut. Though
the family has maintained the spelling Howd
pretty uniformly from his time, the original
surname appears to be of the same origin
as Howard, Haward, Hayward, and is found
spelled Houd and Houde in the earlier rec-
ords. He died in 1676 and his inventory is
dated June, 1676. His widow Elizabeth mar-
ried (second) August 22, 1677, John Nash.
Children, born at Branford: John, Septem-
ber 2J, 1673: Anthony, November 11, 1674:
Benoni (or Benjamin), mentioned below.

(II) Benjamin, son of Anthony Howd, was
born before 1673 or he was the son recorded
by Savage as Benoni, born September 10,
1076. He married, at Branford, October 1,
1705, Elizabeth Whitehead, born October,
1677, daughter of John Whitehead. John
Whitehead with his brother Thomas was
brought to this country when a mere child by
Francis Hall, of New Haven, at the request
of Deacon George Alcock, of Roxbury. Mas-
sachusetts, who was uncle to the Whitehead
boys. But the uncle died before the boys ar-
rived. Their mother was living, it appears
from the records. One boy was apprenticed
to Matthias Hitchcock, the other, John, to
Francis Hall. Pope's "Pioneers of Massa-
chusetts" under Thomas Alcock says: "His

sister Elizabeth Whitehead of Lemington
Priors wrote him 25(8) 1647 concerning her
sons, John and Thomas Whitehead then with
Francis Hall of New Haven, who formerly
lived in Buckintun parish where her uncle
Darbie lived." Lemington is in Warwick-
shire, England, and "Buckintun" is doubtless
Bulkington parish, Warwickshire. Alcock
appears to have died after the boys came to
this country, according to the records, and it
must be assumed that Hall did not know of
the residence of Alcock until after he died.
Nothing more is known of Thomas White-
head after his apprenticeship expired. He
may have returned to his mother in England.
John Whitehead worked for Jasper Crane
after leaving Mr. Hall. He settled in Bran-
ford, Connecticut, and married, March 9,
1661, Martha, daughter of Leslie Bradfield.
He was nominated for freeman in 1669. He
owned land in Branford and belonged to the
church. He died before June, 1695, and his
widow was appointed administratrix. The
widow deeded, March 16, 1707, two-thirds of
the homestead to her three sons-in-law, Peter
Tyler, of Branford, William Luddington, of
East Haven, and Benjamin Howd, of Bran-
ford. The heirs deeded to the mother Martha
their right in the house, etc., January 3, 1708.
Children: 1. Mary Whitehead, May 6, 1662.

2. Hannah Whitehead, March 10, 1664 : mar-
ried Peter Tyler. 3. John Whitehead, Feb-
ruary 20, 1665-66. 4. Martha Whitehead,
January 10, 1667-68; married William Lud-
dington. 5. Damaris Whitehead, January 20,
1669-70 ; married Nicah Palmer. 6. Samuel
Whitehead, November 24, 1672. 7. Eliphalet
Whitehead, September 27, 1674. 8. Elizabeth
Whitehead. October, 1677; married Benja-
min Howd, mentioned above. 9. Thomas
Whitehead, February 27, 1680-81. Children
of Benjamin Howd: 1. Joseph, mentioned
below. 2. Elizabeth, born December 18, 171 1 ;
married Daniel Hoadley [Samuel (2) Wil-
liam (1)], born December, 1706, at Branford.

3. John, married, January 9, 1735, Martha
Hoadley. 4. Daniel, married, May 9, 1739,
Martha Maltby. Of this family Hannah
FTowd joined the church, age unknown, 171 1 ;
Patience Howd, 1717; Martha, October 26,
1740; Hannah, August 27, 1738: Mary, Oc-
tober 25, 1741 ; Amy, June 16, 1754. The
family became numerous at Branford before
the revolution. Edward, James. John and Ju-
dah of Branford or vicinity fought in the
French war, 1755-58.

(Ill) Joseph, son of Benjamin Howd, was
born about 1710 at Branford. His wife Eliz-
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( IV) Whitehead, son of Joseph Howd. was
born about 1740 in Branford or vicinity. He
settled in Southington, Connecticut, and was
living in 1790, according to the federal census,
having four males over sixteen and four fe-
males in his family. He came from Southing-
ton to Barkhamsted in Connecticut in 1796
and lived there the remainder of his life. He
died May 12, 1818. He married Dorcas

, who died February 7, 1835, aged

ninety-two years.

( V ) Salmon, son of Whitehead Howd, was
born in 1768, died July 23, 1842, at Barkham-
sted. He married (first) Rhoda Webster,
who died February 4, 1804, aged thirty-five
years. He married (second) Sarah Rexford,
who died April 11, 1872, aged eighty-eight
vears.

(AT) Salmon (2), son of Salmon (1)
Howd, was born at Barkhamsted, in 1808,
died there October 21, 1872. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, and followed farm-
ing all his life in his native town. He mar-
ried Marietta Hayden, who died April 10,
1884, aged seventy-five years. Children:
Carlton, Elwin, Julius and Georgianna.

(VII) Carlton, son of Salmon (2) Howd,
was born in Barkhamsted, 1832, died July,
1906. He was educated in the public schools,
and learned the mason's trade which he fol-
lowed for years. He was engaged in farm-
ing in his native town in his later years. He
married, November 26, 185 1. Harriet E. Gid-
dings, born in Hartland, April 10, 1828,
daughter of Lorrain and Desdemona (Cow-
dry) Giddings (see Giddings VII). Chil-
dren: 1. William W., born August 27, 1852.
2. Mary L., December 23, 1855, died January
28. 1857. 3. Salmon Giddings, mentioned be-
low 4. Hattie E., March 29, i860 : married,
in 1881, Edward Gayle. 5. Julius, born
1866, died in 1872.

(VIII) Dr. Salmon Giddings Howd, son
of Carlton Howd, was born at Barkhamsted,
April 21, 1858. He attended the public
schools of his native town and Wesleyan
Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He
began to study his profession in the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New
York City and later entered the Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, from which he was graduated with the
degree of M. D. in 1883. He began to prac-
tice in Hartland, Hartford county, Connecti-
cut, and since 1885 has been practicing at
Winsted. He is a well-known and success-
ful practitioner. He is a member of the
County and State Medical societies, and until
recently has been president of the Litchfield
County Medical Society. In politics he is in-

dependent. He is health officer of the town
of Winchester, Connecticut. He is a member
of St. Andrews Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Winsted, and of the First Con-
gregational Church of that town. He mar-
ried, December 20, 1894, Mabel, daughter of
William K. Bingham, of Newark, New Jer-
sey, and Susanna Sims (Hueston) Bingham,
granddaughter of Jeanette Sims, who was
born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Children of Dr.
Howd; 1. Hadley Hueston, born December
31, 1896. 2. Salmon Giddings, January 8,
1903.

(The Giddings Line).

The name Giddings, according to some au-
thorities, is derived from Gideon, a Hebrew
word meaning a brave soldier. From Gideon
come the names Giddy, Giddies, Gibbon, Gid-
dings, Geddes. The name is a very ancient
one in England, though it has not been found
at what time it first appeared. Giddings and
Geddings are English, Geddes is Scottish, and
Gittings is Welsh. There is a family of Ged-
des of Rachan in Peebleshire, Scotland, which
has possessed its estate for thirteen hundred
years, and there are also other places there,
as Geddes Hill, Geddeston, and Geddeswell.
"The Manor of Geddings," which is situated
within the two parishes of Broxbourne and
Great Amwell, very likely came from the
family of Geddings, for in 1334 it was held
by Edmund Geddings , to whom the king
granted Free Warren. After passing through
different hands, it came into the possession
of Sir William Say, and passed from his de-
scendants to the Crown, and Queen Eliza-
beth granted it by letters patent, dated July,
1569, to Sir William Cecil, Knight, from
whom it descended to the Marquis of Salis-
bury. There is a town called Little Giddings
on the western border of Huntingdon county,
England, and also a parish of that name in
Suffolk county. At Giddings, a few miles
south of Embwell station, is an old Hall with
a moat, now a farmhouse, once the seat of
the Buckingham*. There are a great many
families which have arms, but it is not known
from which family George Giddings is de-
scended.

(I) George Giddings, immigrant ancestor,
aged twenty-five, with his wife, Jane Law-
rence, aged twenty, came from St. Albans.
Hertfordshire, England, in 1635, and settled
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, accompanied by
three servants, Thomas Carter, Michael Wil-
linson and Elizabeth Morrison. It is said that
Sir Henry Vane, fourth Governor of Mas-
sachusetts, who in 1662 suffered martyrdom
for his zeal in the cause of liberty and relig-
ion, was their companion on their voyage on

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the ship "Planter." George Giddings was
born in 1608, died June 1, 1676, and his
property was divided between his sons
Thomas, John, James and Samuel, September
26, 1676. The inventory of his estate was
made June 19, 1676. He was one of Major
Denison's subscribers in 1640, a commoner
in 1 64 1, and one of the twenty sworn free-
holders who paid the highest rate out of two
hundred and thirty in 1664. He was deputy
to the general court for ten different years.
He was selectman from 1661 to 1675, and for
a long time was a ruling elder of the church.
He owned one hundred and fifty-two acres
of land on Plumb Island. His widow, Jane,
died March, 1680. He was once involved
in a long law suit, which he carried to its
end for the sake of establishing a principle,
and a long account of the trial is found. Chil-
dren: 1. Thomas, born 1638. 2. John, 1639,
mentioned below. 3. James, 1641. 4. Sam-
uel, 1645. 5- Joseph Collins, married Susan-
nah Rindge. 6. Sarah. 7. Mary, married
Samuel Pearce. 8. George.

(II) John, son of George Giddings, was
born in Ipswich in 1639, died March 3, 1691.
He had a commonage in 1667, and was a
commoner in 1678. He was a lieutenant of
militia. The inventory of his estate, made
February 20, 1690, amounted to two hundred
and sixty-nine pounds, and the estate was dis-
tributed March 29, 1692. He married Sarah,
who married (second) Henry Herrick, of
Beverly, and died in Gloucester. Children :
1. George, born in 1664. 2. Elizabeth, mar-
ried, December 16, 1685, Mark Haskell. 3.
Jane, married, November 26, 1691. 4. Sarah,
born 1672. 5. John, 1675. 6. Job, 1677. 7.
Solomon, 1679. 8. Joshua, 1681. 9. Thomas,
1683, mentioned below. 10. Mary, 1686.

(III) Thomas, son of John Giddings, was
born in Ipswich in 1683. He removed to
Gloucester and bought a house of Benjamin
Lufkin, in 17 10, which he sold May 22, 1721,
and removed to Lyme, Connecticut, in 1722-
23. Here he purchased land nearly every
year for several years, and settled near Beaver
Brook. He married Sarah Butler in
1708. Children: 1. Job, married Sarah Rath-
bone. 2. Joseph, born 1714. 3. John, mar-
ried Susannah Tozer. 4. Joshua, born 1719,
mentioned below. 5. Thomas, born 1723.

(IV) Joshua, son of Thomas Giddings,
was born in 17 19 in Gloucester, died Febru-
ary 4, 1807. He very likely removed from
Lyme and settled in Hartland, Connecticut,
about 1755, a year after his brother Thomas.
The last deed found on the Lyme records is
to Ensign Jasper in 1755, consideration one
thousand five hundred pounds, and his "Ear-

mark" is also recorded June 5, 1746. It is
said that he was quite young when he went
to Hartland, and that he built himself a house
in the southwestern part of the town, sleep-
ing on a bed of leaves during the time it took.
The foundation and a chimney of the house
are still left, and a large tree is growing in
the cellar. He was for many years one of the
leading men of the town, and he held some
office nearly every year. He was admitted
to the Congregational church, February 5,
1769. He married Jane Reed, who died April
11, 1803. Children: 1. Elisha. 2. Benjamin,
1753, mentioned below. 3. John, November

9, 1754. 4. Joshua, 1756. 5. Sarah, married,
February 18, 1784, Angus McLoud. 6. De-
borah, married, October 27, 1768, Jedediah
Bushnell. 7. Jane, died March 11, 1777,
aged fifteen. 8. Niles, 1760. 9. Chloe, mar-
ried, September 26, 1789, Moses Brockway.

10. Ruth, married. November 18, 1770,

(V) Benjamin, son of Joshua Giddings,
was born at Lyme in 1753, died in Hartland
in 1830, where he lived most of his life. He
married Afiah Holcomb, who died in 1830.
He was prominent in town affairs. He was a
soldier in the revolution during the winter of
1780-81. In June, 178 1, he was appointed at
a town meeting on a "committee to hire all
the soldiers for the army, and bring on the
men that counted for the town of Hartland,
and had not joined." Neither he nor his wife
were members of any church, but they trained
their children to an honorable life of industry
and strict morality. Children: 1. Almon,
married Lota Miller. 2. Salmon, born March
2, 1782. 3. Zeruiah, 1784. 4. Lorrain, men-
tioned below. 5. Julia, 1791. 6. Harriet,
1795. 7. Benjamin, January 12, 1801. 8.
Affie (Afiah), married. May 30, 1820, Dr.
Josiah Banning. 9. Lowly. 10. Harriet,
married a Mr. Tisdale.

(VI) Lorrain, son of Benjamin Giddings,
was born in Hartland, February 12, 1789,
died April 30, 1858. He married Desdemona
Cowdry, born April 30, 1798, died March 28,
1880, at New Hartford, Connecticut. Chil-
dren: 1. Salmon, born in January, 1817, died
December 10, 1819. 2. Almena D., Decem-
ber 1, 1818. 3. Salmon, March 5, 1821, men-
tioned below. 4. Malvena, March 4, 1823. 5.
Washington W., March 29, 1826. 6. Harriet
E., April 10, 1828, mentioned below. 7. Car-
oline D., March 3, 1831. 8. Jane M., June
12, 1833. 9- Lorrain, May 14, 1835.

(VII) Salmon, son of Lorrain Giddings,
was born March 5, 1821, in Hartland. Until
1850 he engaged in the mercantile business,
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farming until 1859. He returned home at
the death of his father and remained until
1868, when he removed to Acton, New Jer-
sey. He was chosen representative to the leg-
islature, postmaster at Acton for several
years, and justice of the peace. He married,
September 20, 1843, Julia T., daughter of
Orville Howd, of Barkhamsted. Children :
1. Almena, born February 19, 1845; married,
February 19, 1867, Orville B. Tiffany, of
Barkhamsted. 2. Walter, December 26, 1853 ;
a railroad engineer ; residence at Acton.

(VII) Harriet E., daughter of Lorrain
Giddings and sister of Salmon Giddijigs, was
born April 10, 1828. She married, Novem-
ber 26, 185 1, Carlton Howd (see Howd VII).

William Brewster, the pio-
BREWSTER neer ancestor of the line

here under consideration,
was born at Scrooby, England, 1566-67, land-
ing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, with the
memorable company of Puritans, December
16, 1620, bringing with him his wife and two
sons.

(II) Love, son of William Brewster, came
in the ship, "Mayflower," 1620, with his par-
ents and brother Wrestling. He served in
the Pequot war, and was a member of Myles
Standish's company in the military enrollment
of 1643. He married Sarah Collier, of Dux-
bury.

(III) William (2), son of Love and Sarah
(Collier) Brewster, married, January 2, 1672,
Lydia Partridge, who died February 2,
1742-43.

(IV) Benjamin, son of William (2) and
Lydia (Partridge) Brewster, was born at
Duxbury, July 7, 1688. He married Eliza-
beth Witter, of Preston, born March 3, 1694,
died February 21, 1740-41.

(V) Simon, son of Benjamin and Eliza-
beth (Witter) Brewster, was born at Pres-
ton, June 20, 1720, died at Griswold, Con-
necticut, June 29, 1801. He married Anne
Andrus, of Norwich, Connecticut.

(VI) Joseph, son of Simon and Anne (An-
drus) Brewster, was born at Preston, August
28, 1763, died at sea, October 10, 1805. He
married Hannah Tucker, of Preston.

(VII) Patrick, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Tucker) Brewster, was born at Norwich,
February 23, 1793, died there July 22, 1873.
He married Catharine Fannie Roath, of Pres-
ton.

(VIII) Benjamin (2), son of Patrick and
Catharine Fannie (Roath) Brewster, was
born at Norwich, June 30, 1828, died at
"Scrooby," Cazenovia, New York, Septem-
ber 4, 1897. He resided in Cazenovia and

New York City. In 1849 he went to Cali-
fornia, where he engaged in mercantile and
other western enterprises for twenty-five
years, and amassed a fortune. In 1874 he
returned east to reside permanently, making
his home in New York City. Some of the
greatest financial movements were more or
less the result of his genius. He was promi-
nently identified with the building of the
elevated railways of New York City, and
was also a leader in many large railroad trans-
actions, one of the most important being the
reorganization of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min-
neapolis & Omaha railroads. At the time of
his death he was vice-president of the Chi-
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Com-
pany, and a heavy stockholder and director in
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Com-
pany, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Com-
pany, and other large enterprises. He was
also a director in the International Naviga-
tion Company — owner of the American line
of steamers. He was a member of the Metro-
politan, Union League, and Riding clubs,
New England Society, American Museum of
Natural History, and of the American Geo-
graphical Society. Mr. Brewster inherited
many of the noblest traits of his ancestors,
and he illustrated by precept and example
the virtues which have characterized the best
of the New England race, viz. : integrity,
perseverance, benevolence, deep religious feel-
ing, courage of convictions, and love of let-
ters, art and nature. In 1891 he erected a
handsome summer residence at the foot of
Lake Cazenovia, New York, and named it
"Scrooby," in honor of the ancestral English
Manor House of Elder William Brewster.
He married at San Francisco, California, June
9, 1863, Elmina Hersey Dows.

(IX) Frederick Foster, son of Benjamin
(2) and Elmina Hersey (Dows) Brewster,
was born August 13, 1872. He is vice-presi-
dent of the W. & E. T. Fitch Company of
New Haven, Connecticut, manufacturers of
malleable iron goods. He is a director of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company, Second National Bank and of the
New Haven Gas Light Company. He mar-
ried, June 11, 1908, Margaret, daughter of
his cousin, John Brewster Fitch, of New Ha-
ven. They have one child, John, born May
13. 1909.

(Ill) Rev. Nathaniel
BREWSTER Brewster, son of Jonathan
Brewster (q. v.) and
grandson of Elder William Brewster, gradu-
ated from Harvard University in 1642 in the
first class graduated. He went to Europe and

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settled at Abby, county Norfolk, England ;
received the degree of B. D. from Dublin Uni-
versity and returned to this country after the
Restoration. He preached at the First
Church of Boston in 1653, and settled at
Brookhaven, Long Island, in 1655. Many of
his descendants of the early generations set-
tled in Suffolk and Orange counties, New
York, and numerous descendants of the pres-
ent generation are located in many sections of
this country, especially in the states of New
Jersey and New York. He married Sarah,
daughter of Hon. Roger Ludlow (see Lud-
low VII). He died at Setauket, Long Island,
aged seventy years. There is a tradition that
Nathaniel Brewster married for first wife
Abigail Reynes and that he had children by
both wives. Children: John, Timothy and
Daniel, probably others.

(IV) Daniel, son of Rev. Nathaniel Brew-
ster, married and had son Benjamin.

(V) Benjamin, son of Daniel Brewster,
married and had son Caleb.

(VI) Captain Caleb, son of Benjamin
Brewster, lived at Fairfield, Connecticut, and
was prominent in the revolutionary war. "It
is related of Captain Caleb Brewster of
Black Rock, who with three whaleboats about
midway of the Sound against Fairfield met
three of the enemy's boats, when an engage-
ment commenced. The boat that opposed
Brewster had a small piece and was to lee-
ward ; there was a fresh gale and Brewster
reserving his fire till within eight or ten rods
of Hoyt poured in a broadside and then an-
other and boarded ; there was a large Irish-
man in the enemy's boat, who walked several
times fore and after brandishing his broad-
sword, till Hasselton, a mighty fellow from
the state of Massachusetts, snatched it from
him and cut his throat from ear to ear ; he
died immediately. Captain Brewster being
wounded was several times struck on the back
with the steel rammer of a gun by Hoyt. On
board of Hoyt's boat all but one were killed
or wounded. In Brewster's boat four were
wounded — one (Judson Sturges) mortally.
Another of our boats had a swivel which
killed two men at one shot in another of the
enemy's boats and they immediately surren-
dered ; the enemy's third boat escaped."

"It has also been related of Captain Brew-
ster, that before sailing on a privateering
cruise his wife had presented him with twelve
new linen shirts. His ship or boat was taken
by tbe enemy. Brewster darted into the cabin,
lashed his new shirts to his back, returned
to the deck and jumping overboard swam to
the shore."

"Captain Brewster was also at the capture

of Thomas, who commanded a privateer of
the enemy, mounting fourteen guns and
manned with thirty-five men. Our vessel had
about seventy men. The enemy hailed and
ordered them to bring to. 'Aye, aye, pres-
ently.' 'Bring to, I say.' 'Aye, aye,' And
running their bowsprit across them amidships,
the sailing master, Hezekiah Gold, exclaimed :

'Strike, strike or I'll sink

you.' Of the enemy nine were killed and five
wounded, not one of ours was hurt ; they were
taken off Stratford Point and carried into
Black Rock ; they had taken two rowboats
bearing the Continental flag that morning and
had the men in their hold."

Caleb Brewster married Anna Lewis, of
Fairfield.

(VI) Jonathan, son of Captain Caleb Brew-
ster, was born at Black Rock, Fairfield, No-
vember 5, 1786. He married, 1810, Clarissa
Bradley, of Fairfield. Children: Sturges
Lewis ; Lucy Ann, married George B. Kis-
sam, of New York.

(VIII) Sturges Lewis, son of Jonathan
Brewster, was born May 4, 181 1, died De-
cember 30, 1846. He lived in New York City.
He married, May 15, 1837, Katherine Pro-
voost, born in New Jersey. Children : Sarah
Ludlow, died in infancy ; Estelle Rebecca,
married Frederick Wheeler ; John Huntington.

(IX) John Huntington, son of Sturges
Lewis Brewster, was born in Greenfield, Con-
necticut, January 23, 1843. He attended the
public schools of his native town and Dr.
Gray's boarding school at Monroe, Connecti-
cut, and the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire,
Connecticut. At the age of eighteen he en-
listed in the civil war, in 1861, as a private
in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment, Volunteer
Infantry, and was wounded several times,
taking part in many engagements. Once he
was struck in the head and carried off the
field as dead ; at another time he was struck
in the side, the ball hitting his watch. After
he was wounded he was for some time in the
military hospital at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
He served through the war and was promoted
through the various grades for merit to the
rank of first lieutenant. After the war Mr.
Brewster came to Birmingham, Connecticut,
now Derby, and worked as clerk in a store.
Afterward he became a partner of his for-
mer employer under the firm name of Curtis
& Brewster, formerly Beebe & Curtis. He
bought the share of his partner and continued
the business under his own name. The store
was destroyed by fire in 1879, but a new
building took the place of the old one, and
the store has continued on the old location to
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with Air. Brewster as president, his son, Sam-
uel S. Brewster, as treasurer. Mr. Brewster
is a member of St. James Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Derby and has been a ves-
tryman many years. He is a member of Kel-
logg Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Derby, and of the Episcopal Academy, Che-
shire School Alumni Association. Mr. Brew-
ster is eligible to the Order of the Cincin-
nati, being the elder son of an elder son of
an officer in the revolutionary war. In poli-
tics he is a Republican.

He married, February 28, 1864, Mary Eliz-
abeth, born September 18, 1843, at Danbury,
daughter of Samuel Shelton and Mary Ame-
lia (Smith) Hurd. Her father was born in
Monroe, Connecticut, August 21, 1820. Mrs.
Brewster is a member of the Sarah Riggs
Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Jonathan Hurd, her revo-
lutionary ancestor, enlisted in the revolution
at the age of seventy years. Children of John
H. and Mary Elizabeth Brewster: 1. Minnie
De Nyse, born at Monroe, November 30, 1864,
unmarried. 2. Mary Louise, 'born September
20, 1866, died aged eleven years. 3. Samuel
Sturges, August 12, 1868; attended the pub-
lic schools of Birmingham (Derby) and be-
came associated with his father in the dry
goods store, Main street, Derby, and is now
treasurer of the corporation. 4. Lucy Anne,
October 7, 1870, died aged six years. The
family home is at No. 47 Seymour avenue,
Derby.

The Ludlow family is one of
LUDLOW the most ancient and distin-
guished in England. Arms of
Ludlow of Hulle or Hill Deverell, county
Wilts, England : Argent, a chevron, between
three bears' heads erased sable.

(I) William Ludlow was of Hill Deverell,
Wiltshire ; married Margaret, daughter and
heir of William Rymer and of his wife,
daughter and heir of William Warnell.

(II) John, son of William Ludlow, mar-
ried Lora, daughter of Thomas Ringwood,
of Ringwood, Hants.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Ludlow,
married Philippa, daughter of William Bul-
strode. of London.

(IV) William (2), son of John (2) Lud-
low, married Joane, daughter of Nicholas
More, of Whitford, Hants.

(V) George, son of William (2) Ludlow,
married Editb, daughter of Andrew, Lord
Windsor, of Stan well, county Middlesex. She
died in 1543. Children: Edmund, eldest
son and heir ; Thomas, mentioned below.

(VI) Thomas, son of George Ludlow, made

his will, November, 1607, describing himself
as of Dinton, Wiltshire, and it was proved
June 8, 1608. He bequeathed to daughter
Anne, wife Jane, son Gabriel, and made his
"brother" Sir Gabriel Pyle, knight, his ex-
ecutor. His wife survived him forty years,
making her will December 10, 1646, be-
queathing to sons Roger, Thomas and Fran-
cis, Ann Elizabeth and Sarah, children of her
son Gabriel, daughter-in-law, Phyllis Ludlow,
who was made executrix. Thomas Ludlow
married Jane, sister of Sir Gabriel Pyle. She
was a daughter of Thomas Pile, of Babton,
Wiltshire, who married Elizabeth, daughter

of Rad. Laugrish, of Boodon, son of ■

Laugrish (Ilaudgridge), of Somersetshire.
The arms of the Pyle family : Argent on a
cross gules, a martlet argent, between four
passion nails, gules impaling, or, on a bend
azure, three pheons or. The regicide, Ed-
mund Ludlow, was son of Henry, grandson
of Edmund, brother of Thomas. Children of
Thomas Ludlow: 1. Gabriel, a lawyer in
London, admitted to the inner temple, No-
vember, 1610; died before his mother. 2.
Roger, mentioned below. 3. George, came
to Dorchester and was admitted freeman, Oc-
tober 19, 1630; returned to England: went to
York, Virginia ; will dated September 8,
1655, and proved at London, August 1, 1656,
establishes the relationship with Roger and
others.

(VII) Hon. Roger, son of Thomas Lud-
low, was one of the assistants or magistrates
selected in 1630 for the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and he sailed from Plymouth, March
20, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John," with
Rev. John Warham, Rev. John Maverick,
Henry Wolcott and others. They landed at
Hull, moved up the Charles river to Water-
town, but eventually settled at Dorchester.
August 20 following he was one of nine to
attend the first general court in the colony,
and he was appointed one of the three first
justices of the peace. He continued in the
office of assistant, though his views were not
in accord with the majority. He was granted
a hundred acres of land, November 7, 1632.
between Masquantum and Chappell and the
mouth of the Napansett river. In 1634 he
was elected deputy governor. He supervised
the building of the fort on Castle Island, later
called Fort Independence. In 1636 he led
a party to Windsor, Connecticut, and was the
leader in establishing that town. He and
four others held the first general court at
Newtown or Hartford, April 26, 1636. He
framed the first written constitution of Con-
necticut. In 1639 he was elected deputy gov-
ernor of Connecticut. He founded the town

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of Fairfield and was indefatigable in his ef-
forts to promote the welfare of the colony lie
established there. He was thrice deputy gov-
ernor and several times commissioner to the
United Colonies of New England on occa-
sions of importance. He was annually chosen
one of the magistrates of the colony and was
not only first judge of the highest court of
Fairfield but after the organization of the
town its first military commander. He was
the first lawyer who came into Connecticut
and one of the greatest who ever lived in the
state. In his unpretentious home at the cor-
ner of Ludlow and Windsor streets he com-
piled a code of laws, which many years aft-
erward was destined to rank him among the
leading statesmen of the age in which he
lived. At the time of the threatened war with
the Dutch in New York he became involved
in political controversy and was even charged
with being an enemy of the commonwealth.
Finally, in disgust, he left the colony which
he had done so much to build up, and re-
turned to England. For nearly two cen-
turies the belief prevailed that he went to
Virginia and spent his days in seclusion there.
He undoubtedly went there to visit his
brother George, but soon afterward went to
Dublin, Ireland, where he followed his pro-
fession as a lawyer. After the death of
Cromwell he removed to Hollyhead, an island
in the county of Anglesia, North Wales, a
parliamentary town of considerable impor-
tance and the nearest British seaport to Dub-
lin, Ireland.

Roger Ludlow married a sister of Governor
John Endicott. One of his children was born'
at Windsor and most of his children at Fair-
field. Children: Jonathan. Joseph, Roger,
Anne, Mary, Sarah, married in Eng-
land Rev. Nathaniel Brewster ( see Brewster
III).

William, immigrant
BARTHOLOMEW ancestor, with his

two brothers, Henry
and Richard, came to Boston, September 16,
1634. William at the age of about thirty-
two was appointed to the general court in
1635 and several times after also. He served
later as town clerk at Ipswich, and was one
df the seven chosen men of the town. He
was also deputy of Salem with his brother
Henry, and in 165 1 he was chosen on a com-
mittee. In England he married Ann Lord.
They were members of the Congregational
church of Ipswich, of which he was a clerk
for over thirty years. Ii is supposed that
William and his brother were disowned for
religious dissensions and came to America to

establish themselves. He died January 18,
1680, aged seventy-eight years. His wife
died January 29, 1682-83. Children : Mary ;
Joseph, born about 1638 : William, mentioned
below.

(II) William (2), son of William (1) Bar-
tholomew, was born in Ipswich in 1640-41,
died in the spring of 1697 at Branford. He
was a carpenter and a millwright. The Old
South Mills in Salem were built by him and
his Uncle Henry. In 1678 he defended dur-
ing the Hatfield Indian raid, and received the
title of lieutenant for his services. In 1679
he was given twenty acres of land in Bran-
ford, on condition that he would live there
and build a grist mill. In 1681 he was given
authority by that town to set up a saw mill
on the river. Later he was appointed sur-
veyor of the town. He married, December
17, 1663, Mary Johnson, born April 24, 1642,
daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth
(Porter) Johnson. Children: Isaac, men-
tioned below; William, October 16, 1666;
Mary, October 26, 1668; Andrew, December
11, 1670; Abigail, December 8, 1672; Eliza-
beth, March 15, 1674; Benjamin, about 1677;
John, about 1679 ; Joseph, about 1682.

(III) Isaac, son of William (2) Bartholo-
mew, was born in Roxbury, November 1.
1664, died in Branford, October 25, 1727. He
was a practical and successful farmer and a
highly respected citizen. About 1694 he
married Rebecca, born November 14, 1679,
died May, 1738, daughter of John Frisbie.
Children: William, born about 1695; Mary,
about 1697; Isaac, November 18, 1699; Re-
becca, April 18, 1702: Elizabeth, April 12,
1704.; Ebenezer, June 10, 1706: Abraham,
mentioned below: Josiah, January 18, 1710;
Abigail: Freelove ; Jerusha, January 13,
1722-23.

(IV) Abraham, son of Isaac Bartholomew,
was born in Branford, June 28, 1708. He was
also a farmer, as his father was. LJntil forty-
six years of age he lived in Branford. In
1754 he purchased much land in Parmington,
some of which is now in the limits of Bur-
lingham where he resided. Later he removed
to a house since called "Bartlemy Tavern,"
situated on Peaceable street, near the line be-
tween the present towns of Bristol and Bur-
lingbam. He kept the first tavern and store in
that section. Although about seventy years
of age he enlisted in the revolutionary war
and served two years, accompanied by his
grandson, in the Sheldon's Dragoons. On
June 18, 1730, he married Hannah, daughter
of Daniel Page. She died October 25, 1770.
Children: Hannah, born May 9, 1731 ; Abra-
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below ; Lydia, February 18, 1738-39 ; Mary,
July 19, 1741 ; John, April 15, 1744; Thank-
ful, March 24, 1745; Patience, May 19,
1748.

( \ ) Jacob, son of Abraham Bartholomew,
w«ts born in Branford, Connecticut, January
9, 1736-37. He was a farmer, and in addition
conducted other business enterprises success-
fully, and served his country well both in
times of peace and war. He became a tan-
ner by trade, and carried on his business at
the Edward Barnes place on Peaceable street.
In turn he became proprietor of "Bartlemy
Tavern," with which was connected a store.
At the organization of the town of Bristol
in 1785, he was elected its first treasurer and
surveyor of highways. He served the town
in several other capacities, and also served in
the revolutionary war. While nursing his
brother John, who as a revolutionary soldier
died on board the government hospital ship
in New York harbor, he contracted a fever
which affected his health, and he died October
29, 1805. He had formerly enjoyed fine
health. He married Sarah, born February 21,
1738, died April 10, 1801, daughter of Squire
Hezekiah and Sarah (Newell) Gridley. Chil-
dren: Mercy, born July 28, 1762; Lenma,
February 27, 1764; Sarah, mentioned below;
Jacob, January 29, 1768; Rosanna, June 2,
1770; Ama, March 9, 1772; Eli, January 7,
1774; Asa, March 25, 1776; Mary, July I,
1778; Gad, April 10, 1780; Nancy, February
2, 1782 ; Gad, May 7, 1783.

(VI) Sarah, daughter of Jacob Bartholo-
mew, born February 6, 1766, married (first)
about 1789-90, John Winston, born in 1763,
died March 24, 1814. He was a lineal de-
scendant of John Winston, who was recorded
a freeman of the New Haven Colony, March
7, 1647. She married (second) Eleazar Nor-
ton and died September 22, 1846. Children:
Lorenzo, born 1791 ; Orestes, about 1792;
Alanson, about 1794; John, about 1796; Sally,
about 1798: Lucy, September 28, 1800: Ro-
meo, 1804: Eunice, February 4, 1806; Allen,
1808.

(VII) Lucy Winston, daughter of John
and Sarah (Bartholomew) Winston, born
September 28, 1800, married, August 21,
182 1, Thomas Franklin Fuller, born April 29,
1798, died February 5, 1848, and was a lineal
descendant of Edward Fuller of the "May-
flower." He was a member of the firm of
Birge, Mallory & Company, manufacturers of
the rolling pinion, eight-day brass clocks.
Quite a number of these clocks are to be
found in Bristol to-day. His wife was blind
for about thirteen years previous to her death
on October 25, 1893, and was tenderly cared

for by her daughters. Children: 1. Jane
Elizabeth, born July 13, 1822, died young.
2. Oliver, January 27, 1825 ; in 1854 he ac-
companied Colonel John C. Fremont, as civil
engineer on his fifth exploring expedition ;
died from exposure and was buried near Par-
owan, Utah. 3. Eliza Jane, June 17, 1829.

4. Mary Elena, January 7, 1841 ; married
(first) April 22, 1859, Horace B. Langdon,
who died March 4. 1870; married (second)
July 19, 1876, Woodbury L. Martin, of West
Haven ; he died June 9, 1887 ; Mrs. Martin
is a genealogist of Bristol, and consulting reg-
istrar of the Connecticut Daughters of the
American Revolution.

(VIII) Eliza Jane Fuller, daughter of
Thomas Franklin and Lucy (Winston) Ful-
ler, was born June 17, 1829; married, April

5, 1849, Wallace Barnes, of Bristol, born De-
cember 25, 1827, died March 28, 1893. He
was a descendant in the eighth generation of
Thomas Barnes of Hartford. In 1857 he en-
gaged in the spring business which has been
continuously conducted ever since at the same
plant and is now known as the Wallace
Barnes Company. One of the most active
men in town, he was public spirited to a de-
gree, and willing to spend and be spent in the
promotion of all objects pertaining to the pub-
lic welfare, comfort and amusement. Mrs.
Barnes was active in every good work, being
especially interested in the home missionary
cause, and was also an enthusiastic member
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Few lives have been more worthy and high-
minded, more useful, more devoted and un-
selfish. She died January 1, 1903. Children:

1. Carlyle Fuller, born December 11, 1852.

2. Harry Ward, born January 15, 1855; mar-
ried Cordelia Newell, October 5, 1880, who
was born January 14, 1858, daughter of Sam-
uel P. Newell. Esq. ; he died September 17,
T889; no children. 3. George Sprague, born
January 30, 1859, died October 30, 1864. 4.
Lucy Almira, born December 28, 1863, died
September 13, 1864. 5- Edith Irene, born
August 22, 1866 ; married, October 8, 1890,
Wyllys Carpenter Ladd. of Bristol, who was
born July 6, 1858 ; no children.

(IX) Carlyle Fuller Barnes, son of Wal-
lace and Eliza Jane (Fuller) Barnes, and
great-grandson of Sarah (Bartholomew)
Winston, born December tt, 1852, was grad-
uated from Williston Seminary, East Hamp-
ton, Massachusetts, in 1870. He entered the
office of Cheney Brothers, Hartford, Con-
necticut, in 1873, remaining four years.
After some preliminary study he went in
1878 to Munich, Germany, where he stud-
ied music under the best masters, returning in

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1880. He did not follow music as a profes- becca Drake, January 18, 1736, and lived at
sion, but entered into manufacturing and now Windsor on Broad street about two rods
conducts tbe extensive business founded by southwest from the house occupied by John
his father. He is a Knight Templar and a Filley, 4th. He was drowned at the Stone
member of the Mayflower Society. He mar- Bridge while bathing, although he was res-
ried, October 1, 1885, Lena Hattie Forbes, cued from the water and lived until the next
born May 20, 1863, daughter of S. Waldo day, 1744, aged about thirty-three. His wife
Forbes, and lineal descendant of Captain died December 6, 1740, aged twenty-five.
James Forbes, of Caithness, Scotland, who Child : John, mentioned below,
came to America in 1654. Children: 1. Ful- (V) John (3), son of John (2) Filley, was
ler Forbes, born March 6, 1887; Yale, 1910, born April 18, 1737. He married, April 27,
now learning the spring business. 2. Harry 1764, Ann, daughter of Joseph Filley. She
Clarke, born November 20, 1889 ; a student was born and died in the house occupied by
at the New England Conservatory of Music. John Fiiley 4th (1889). Children: Ann, born
February 19, 1765; John, May 28, 1767; Re-
William Filley married Marga- becca, April 16, 1770; David, April 30, 1773;

FILLEY ret , September 2, 1642. Jesse, died April 27, 1809 ; Ozias, born March

She was admitted to the Wind- 15, 1777, died March 17, 1780; Horace, No-
sor church, July 17, 1651, and he was admit- vember 16, 1779, mentioned below; Susan-
ted to "church communion, March 8, 1673." nah, June 29, 1784.

Children: Samuel, born September 24, 1643, (VI) Horace, son of John (3) Filley, was

mentioned below; John, December 15, 1645; born November 16, 1779. He died March 5,

Mary, baptized August 3, 165 1 ; Elizabeth, 1857. He was a prominent agriculturist of

March 4, 1652; Hannah, baptized July 3, Windsor in his day, owning a large tract of

1653; Abigail, August 21, 1658; Deborah, land. He took an active part in the interests

March 21, 1661 ; William, March 7, 1664-65. of the town. He married, October 25, 1808,

(II) Samuel, son of William Filley, the Lucy, daughter of Isaac Hayden, of Vermont,
pioneer, was born September 24, 1643. He Children: Horace Hayden, born October 15,
married Anna, daughter of Jonathan Gillett, 1809, mentioned below; Julia, December 29,
October 29, 1663. He removed to Massaco, 18 17.

later Simsbury, in 1669, and then returned to (VII) Horace Hayden, son of Horace Fil-
Windsor where he died January 4, 1711-12. ley, was born October 15, 1809, on the old
His wife died November 18, 171 1. He was homestead in the house which was on the
taken into "full communion" December 18, site of the Filley's present residence. He was
1670, and his wife was admitted to the church educated in the public schools, and the acad-
at Windsor, December, 1665, or 1670. Chil- emy at Windsor. He began business when
dren: Anna, born August 16, 1664; Mary, a young man, on borrowed capital, having no
April 12, 1667; Abigail, January 20, 1668; resources of his own but his ambition and en-
Samuel, April 2, 1670, died before 1674; Jon- ergy, and for many years he followed brick
athan, November 30, 1672 ; Samuel, March 7, making with success. For some time in later
1673, died October 7, 1679, "killed with a years he was engaged in farming, and his
cart"; Josiah, January 21, 1675; John, Feb- business methods were characteristic for strict
ruary 10, 1677, mentioned below ; Abigail, integrity. He was of average height and
January 3, 1679; Samuel, September 8, 1681 ; build, with a keen intellect and sound judg-
Mary, December 14, 1683; "November 10, ment. He married Irene Kingsbury Francis,
'67, Samuell, sonn of Samuell ffilly, dyed by October 19 or 28, 1842, and made his home
drowning in a well." in Windsor. He gave his family every com-

(III) John, son of Samuel Filley, was born fort and advantage possible within his means,
February 10, 1677, and lived in Windsor, and realizing the value of a good education,
near the Dudley house, so-called. He was he endeavored to give his children better op-
drowned while crossing the rivulet, by falling portunities for education, both literary and
through the ice. He married Mary Wilson, musical, than he had enjoyed. He was a Re-
October 9, 1707. Children: John, born Sep- publican in politics, and for many years was
tember 19, 1708, died September 28, 1709; a leading member of the Congregational
John, November 4, 1709, mentioned below ; church at Windsor, in which he served often
Joseph, November 1, 171 1; Amos, July 29, as a committeeman. He died October 14,
1713; David, November 20, 1715; Daniel, 1884, within less than an hour of being sev-
January 9, 17 19. enty-five years old. His wife was an invalid

(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Filley, for years, but showed great vitality, and was
was born November 4, 1709. He married Re- much respected for her admirable qualities.

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Children: I. William Horace, born August
25, 1845, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, July
4, 1847, died 1864, having left home to en-
list in army, but was taken ill with typhoid
fever and brought home where he died. 3.
Henry, November, 1850, died of typhoid fe-
ver soon after his brother Joseph ; was a very
bright youth, intelligent and full of promise.
4. Mary S., January, 1853 ; married E. A.
Welch, of Windsor. 5. Jennie, April 2,
1857 ; married Rev. G. H. Judson and for a
number of years has been a missionary in
China.

(VIII) William Horace, son of Horace
Hayden Filley, was born August 25, 1845, at
the old home, and was educated in the public
schools of Windsor and vicinity. On com-
pleting his high school course he engaged in
business.

When but a mere boy he had bought
tobacco in Windsor and vicinity for William
Harrison, of Westfield, Massachusetts, and
at his suggestion, his father undertook to-
bacco growing on the homestead. He became
associated with his father in business in the
wood and lumber trade and the manufacture
of brick. His ventures turned out favorably
and while still in his teens he formed a part-
nership with H. H. Ellsworth, with whom he
has been associated ever since. Mr. Filley
had charge of his father's brick yard until
1896, often making a million bricks in a year.
He also took charge of the farm when a
young man and afterward he became the
owner of the best part of it and retains it
for his home. He is one of the most exten-
sive tobacco growers in the state of Con-
necticut and is a well-known and successful
buyer. He has varied business interests. He
was treasurer of the Windsor Cannery Com-
pany and when the company failed, he bought
the property and with characteristic energy
and ability put it upon a paying basis. It is
now one of the most thriving industries of
the town. He was a prominent member of
the Moore's Park Driving Association and
he has owned some very fine horses, and still
owns some of the best. Mr. Filley owns
much real estate in Windsor and elsewhere.
In politics he is a Republican and he has been
active in town affairs. For more than twenty
years he was town treasurer, and in 1893 was
representative from his town in the general
assembly of the state and served on important
committees.

In 1882 Mr. Filley built a handsome and
commodious brick house at the corner of
Broad and Elm streets, Windsor, where his
hospitality is extended to hosts of friends.
The family is prominent in social life and

in the Congregational church of Windsor.
Mr. Filley is a member of the church com-
mittee. He also belongs to the Poquonock
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and was a
charter member of Windsor Grange, No. 3.
He is a charter member of W. S. Pierson
Council, Order of United American Mechan-
ics of Windsor. He is a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, a member of Windsor Lodge;
of Washington Lodge Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; of Hartford Council, Royal and Se-
lect Masters ; of Hartford Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Hartford, Washington
Commandery ; of the Mystic Shrine of Hart-
ford, formerly of the Temple at Bridgeport,
and member of the Norwich Consistory.

Mr. Filley married, October 19, 1864, Julia
Ann, born February 15, 1845, daughter of
Hiram Buckland (see Buckland IV). Chil-
dren, born at Windsor: Harriet Elizabeth,
November 29, 1865 ; married, December 19,
1894, Arthur George Loomis, born at Wind-
sor, July 13, 1867, son of Edmund Walton
and Susan Amanda (Camp) Loomis; Mr.
Loomis is a farmer at Windsor ; child, George
F. Loomis, born 1894; Mrs. Loomis is an
artist of much skill. 2. Joseph Henry, June
19, 1868: married, at Windsor, October 28,
189 1, Zulette Mason Caldwell, born at Hart-
ford, June 20, 1-871, daughter of Dorrance
and Susan (Mason) Caldwell : he resides in
Windsor. 3. Alice Grant, September 20,
1873: married, November 1, 1893, Thomas
Dunham Harvey, born at Windsor, March 27,
1870, son of William Huntington and Rhoda
Ann (Griswold) Harvey; they reside at
Windsor; child, William Thomas, who was
born in 1908.

(The Grant Line).

(I) Matthew Grant, immigrant ancestor,
was one of the company who came to Dor-
chester, Massachusetts, in the ship "Mary
and John" in 1630. He was born October
27, 1601, in England. He was admitted a
freeman, May 18, 1631, and removed to
Windsor, Connecticut, with the Dorchester
company which settled that place, about 1635.
He is supposed to have come from Devon-
shire, England, although he may have come
from London. He was the second town clerk
in Windsor, and the first and for many years
the principal surveyor of the town. He was
a prominent man in the church, and was just
and exceedingly conscientious in all his deal-
ings, and often added notes to his records
which have been of much value. He was the
compiler of the Old Church Record, of in-
estimable value. His family record in his
own handwriting is a model of neatness and

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accuracy. The last four years of his life he
spent in the home of his son John. He died
December 16, 1681. His will was dated De-
cember 9, 1 68 1. He married (first) No-
vember 16, 1625, Priscilla , who died

April 27, 1644, aged forty-three years, two
months. He married (second) Susanna

, born April 5, 1602, died November

14, 1666. Children, all by first wife: Pris-
cilla, born September 14, 1626; Matthew, born
in England; Samuel, November 12, 1631 ;
Tahan, February 3, 1633-34, mentioned be-
low; John, September 30, 1642.

(II) Tahan, son of Matthew Grant, was
born at Dorchester, February 3, 1633-34.
He was a blacksmith by trade. He settled at
Windsor and was one of the petitioners for
the new town of East Windsor, May 13, 1680.
He resided on the Michael Try lot in Pali-
zado. He died May 30, 1693, in East Wind-
sor. He married, January 22, 1662-63, Han-
nah Palmer, baptized at Windsor, October

11, 1640, daughter of Nicholas and Joan Pal-
mer. Children : Matthew, born January 4,
1663-64, died 1664 ; Tahan, September 27,
1665, mentioned below ; Hannah, June 8,
1668; Thomas, February 20, 1670; Joseph,
May 14, 1673; Sarah, September 19, 1675;
Mary, October 23, 1678; Son, November ti,
died November 14, 1680.

(II) Tahan (2), son of Tahan (1) Grant,
was born at Windsor, September 27, 1665,
died April 25, 1693. He married, about 1690,
Hannah Bissell, born at Windsor, January

12, 1670-71, daughter of Nathaniel and Mind-
well (Moore) Bissell. She married (second)
Nathaniel Bancroft and died January 27,
1708-09. Children: Hannah, born about
1690; Thomas, mentioned below.

(IV) Captain Thomas, son of Tahan (2)
Grant, was born at Windsor, October 1, 1692,
died October 18, 1769. He married, July 9,
1722, Elizabeth Rockwell, born at Windsor,
November 16, 1695. died November 8, 1781,
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Gaylord)
Rockwell. Children : Elizabeth, born June
8, 1724, died January 9, 1724-25; Samuel
Rockwell. June 30, 1726, mentioned below;
William. April 24, 1728, died unmarried Sep-
tember 18, 1804: Elizabeth, November 15,
1733, died of smallpox, May 17, 1782; Isaac.
October 20, 1734.

(V) Samuel Rockwell, son of Captain
Thomas Grant, was born in Windsor, June
30, 1726, died at Wapping, April 17, 1796.
He married Mabel Loomis. who died July 26,
1805. Children, born at East Windsor: Gus-
tavus, born about 1759 ; Tryphena, about
September, 1761, died January to, 1764;
Thomas, baptized T/64, died unmarried at

Wapping, December 19, 1797; Sylvester,
mentioned below ; Tryphena, married March
25, 1792, Jabez Morgan ; Elizabeth, married,,
April 23, 1795, Luther Goodale ; Wareham,
married Mehitable Hurlbut.

(VI) Sylvester, son of Samuel Rockwell
Grant, was born in South Windsor, March gy
1766, died at Wapping, about 1820. He mar-
ried (first) Gilbert, born in East

Windsor, died there about 1806. He married
(second) in South Windsor, May 9, 181 1,
Mrs. Nancy (Pease) Jennings, of Windsor,
who died in Hartford. He lived at Bark-
hamsted and Great Barrington, Massachu-
setts, and removed to Stockbridge, Massa-
chusetts, in 1805. -^s early as 181 1 he moved
to Windsor, where he settled near the church.
He was a farmer, wheelwright and carpen-
ter. He was also key-keeper and surveyor.
Children: Tryphena, born April 19, 1794;
Samuel Rockwell, 1795 ; Elizabeth, in Stock-
bridge ; Luther, in Wapping (Tolland) ; Han-
nah, in Barkhamsted, June 21, 1802; Harriet,
in East Windsor (Great Barrington), May
14, 1804, mentioned below; Sylvester, in
Gilead, May 2, 1806; Mary Ann, in Great
Barrington.

(VII) Harriet, daughter of Sylvester
Grant, was born at East Windsor (Great
Barrington, Massachusetts), May 14, 1804,
died at Windsor, February 10, 1873. She
married, in Springfield, January 1, 1827, Hi-
ram Buckland, born in Ellington, March 20,
1800, died at Windsor, August 10, 1887, son
of John and Hannah (Blood) Buckland.
They lived in Windsor. He was a farmer and
on the school committee (see Buckland IV).
Children : Solomon Sylvester Buckland, born
in Windsor, May 25, 1828; John William,
Windsor, May 26, 1830 ; Andrew Jackson,
Windsor, November 12, 1833 ; Mary Adeline,
Windsor, November 12, 1835 ; Elizabeth,
Windsor, October 25, 1837; George Wash-
ington, Windsor, January 4, 1840 ; Albert,
Windsor, April 6, 1843 ! Julia Ann, mentioned
below.

(VIII) Julia Ann Buckland, daughter of
Hiram and Harriet (Grant) Buckland, was
born in Windsor, February 15, 1845. She
married, in Windsor, October 19, 1864, Wil-
liam Horace Filley, born in Windsor, August
25, 1845, son °f Horace Hayden and Irene
Kingsbury (Francis) Filley (see Filley VIII).
They live in Windsor, where he was a
farmer and dealer in leaf tobacco. He was
a representative and town treasurer fcr sev-
eral years. Children: Harriet Elisabeth Fil-
ley, born in Windsor, November 29, 1865 ;
Joseph Henry. Tune 19, r868; Alice Grant.
September 20, 1873.

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(The Buckland Line).

(I ) Jonathan Buckland, son of William and
Elizabeth (Hills) Buckland, was born about
1 7 16. William was son of William of East
Hartford, who died in Windsor, insolvent,
May 13, 1 69 1. He was son of William of
Hingham, Massachusetts, 1650, of Rehoboth,
1658. Mr. W. Tracy Eustis and Mr. Edward
G. Buckland, in tracing out the line came to
the conclusion that the male line of the orig-
inal Thomas was extinct, and that the later
Windsor Bucklands were from William of
Hingham, 1635. When Nicholas of Windsor
made his will, June 17, 1737, his wife was
dead and only a daughter survived and he
mentions no sons, and when his brother Tim-
othy, of Windsor, died, his only son was
Thomas, born June 23, 1665, died June 30,
1737, leaving all his property to his wife for
life and the remainder to his daughter Sarah
and her husband, John Gaylord, mentioning
no son. No other evidence of male descent
can be found by them. Jonathan married Sy-
bil Burnham, and may have married (second)
Sarah Anderson. His widow married (sec-
ond) James Forbes. Children: Alexander,
born about 1739, mentioned below; Jonathan,
about 1741 ; Polly, married a Corey; Timothy,
sergeant in Captain Reynold's company, war
of 1812; Sybil, married Sylvanus Snow.

(II) Alexander, son of Jonathan Buckland,
was born about 1739. He settled in Ellington
on the west side of the Great Marsh. He
died in 18 15. He married Sarah Smith,
of New Haven, born about 1738, died
January 19, 1823. Children: Alexander,
born July 24, 1761 ; Epaphras, July 25,
1763; Sarah, August 29, 1764, died May
19, 1769: Leverett, November 22, 1767;
Walter, December 12, 1769; Ashbel, Novem-
ber 14, 1771 ; Erastus, April 2, 1774; John,
June 1, 1776, mentioned below; Electa, De-
cember 18, 1778; Sarah, February 15, 1781.

(III) John, son of Alexander Buckland,
was born June 1, 1776. He married Han-
nah Blood, who was probably a widow, and
died in Windsor Locks, December 2, 1855,
aged seventy-eight. Children, born in El-
lington : Marilda, married August 25, 1833,
Alexander Lord: John, born about 1797. died
December 20, 1807, aged seven ; Hiram,
March 20. 1800 mentioned below; Charles,
1804; Aaron, about 1810-20; Solomon, Au-
gust 4, 1812; Erastus, died in Windsor Locks,
unmarried ; Henry, killed in Mexican war,
unmarried ; Nelson, moved to Marysville,
Missouri ; Juliana, married Samuel Dens-
low ; Jarvis. died T847 ! Clorinda, died aged
fifteen or sixteen.

(IV) Hiram, son of John Buckland, was

born March 20. 1800, died August 10, 1887.
He lived in Springfield. He married, Janu-
ary 1, 1827, Harriet Grant, of East Windsor,
born May 14, 1804, died February 10, 1873.
Children, born in Windsor: 1. Solomon Syl-
vester, May 25, 1828, now living in Califor-
nia. 2. John William, May 26, 1830, now
deceased ; married ; wife dead ; no issue. 3.
Andrew Jackson, November 12, 1833, de-
ceased. 4. Mary Adelaide, November 5, 1835,
deceased ; unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, October
25, 1837; married, Octobe%25, 1866, Andrew
Barnard, died December, 1873; left two pairs
of twins, aged sixteen and nineteen, in 1891.
6. George Washington, January 4, 1840, de-
ceased. 7. Albert, April 6, 1843, deceased.
8. Julia Ann, February 15, 1845, died 1887;
married William Horace Filley. of Windsor,
October 19, 1864 (see Filley VIII).

Governor Simon Brad-
BRADSTREET street, immigrant an-
cestor, was born in Hob-
ling, Lincoln, England, in 1603. He received
the degree of A. B. at Cambridge in 1620,
A. M. in 1624. March 18, 1630, he was ap-
pointed assistant to the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and came over with Governor Win-
throp in 1630. He was secretary of the col-
ony from August 23, 1630, to 1636: deputy
governor 1673-78; governor 1679-86; again
after the rising against Sir Edmond Andros,
1689-92. He died March 27, 1697, aged nine-
ty-four. He married Ann, daughter of Gov-
ernor Dudley, who was born in Northampton,
England, in 1576, came to Massachusetts in
1638 with the commission of deputy governor,
was governor from 1634 to 1640 ; was one
of the signers of the charter of Harvard Col-
lege. Ann Dudley was the first poetess of
note in New England ; one of her brothers
was later governor of the colony and a
nephew was chief justice. She died Septem-
ber 16, 1672, and Governor Bradstreet mar-
ried (second) Ann, widow of Joseph Gard-
ner, daughter of EmanUel Downing ; she died
1683. Children of first wife: Samuel, grad-
uated from Harvard College ; Dorothy, mar-
ried Rev. Seaborn Cotton ; Simon, born Sep-
tember 28, 1643; Hannah; Mercy, 1647; Dud-
ley, 1648; John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Governor Simon Brad-
street, was born July 22, 1652, at Andover,
Massachusetts. He was living in Salem in
1681, but most of his life was spent in Tops-
field. He married, June 11, 1677, Sarah,
daughter of Rev. Wrilliam Perkins, of Tops-
field. Children : Simon, mentioned below ;
John, born January 30, 1693 ; Mary, Novem-
ber 27, 1696; Samuel, August 4, 1699.

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(III) Simon (2), son of John Bradstreet, 1841, in Thomaston, Litchfield county, Con-
was born April 14, 1682, in Topsfield. He necticut. He was educated in the common
married, October 12, 171 1, Elizabeth Capen. schools, and during his boyhood worked early
Children, born in Topsfield : Elizabeth, Au- and late on his father's farm. At the time of
gust 28, 1712; Simon, April 21, 1714; Dud- the civil war, he served as first sergeant in
ley, May 27, 1716; John, March 2, 1717-18, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment, Connecti-
mentioned below; Margaret, April 24, 1720; cut Volunteers, from August, 1862, to March,
Priscilla, September 27, 1722 ; Lucy, Novem- 1863, when he was discharged for total dis-
ber 25, 1724; Joseph, May 13, 1727; Mercy, ability. In 1873 he entered the employ of the
November 27, 1728; Mary, May 10, 1731. Seth Thomas Clock Company as a bench

(IV) John (2), son of Simon (2) Brad- hand. This was the initial step in a lifelong
street, was born M%rch 2, 1717-18. He mar- career as a manufacturer in connection with
ried Elizabeth Fisk, January 13, 1742. Chil- this large and celebrated concern. From a
dren: Priscilla, born January 8, 1745; Mary, workman, he was promoted to the office of
December 22, 1748; Mehitable, June 2, 1751 ; secretary of the company and is now vice-
Huldah, April 15, 1754; Sarah, February 1, president and general manager. He is also
1756; Lucy, March 27, 1758; Eunice, August president of the Thomaston Water Company
16, 1760; Captain Dudley, October 8, 1765; and a director of the Thomaston National
Elizabeth, 1769, married John Gould. Bank. He has always been a Republican in

(V) Captain Dudley, son of John (2) politics and has received at the hands of his
Bradstreet, was born October 8, 1765. He party high honors in the state. In 1886 he
married Polly Porter. Children : Colonel represented his town in the general assembly
Porter, born December 1, 1790; Major John, of the state and served on the committee on
October 8, 1792; Dudley, August 16, 1796; cities and boroughs. In 1903 he was state sen-
Mary, August 10, 1798; Joseph, November ator and chairman of the committee on cities
1, 1801 ; Elizabeth P., January 11, 1803; Al- and boroughs and chairman of the labor com-
bert G., May 19, 1805 ; Thomas J., April 7, mittee and executive nominations. In 1905
1807, mentioned below; Jonathan, October he was again state senator and chairman of
1, 1808; Sarah, March 7, 1812; Lydia, No- the committee on railroads. He was elected
vember 30, 1813. state comptroller in 1906, re-elected in 1908

(VI) Rev. Thomas Jefferson, son of Cap- and unanimously renominated in 1910. The
tain Dudley Bradstreet, was born April 7, Bridgeport Post says: "The renomination of
1807, at Topsfield or Danvers, Massachusetts. Comptroller Bradstreet is a fitting reward for
He married Amanda, daughter of Seth one of the most popular officials in the present
Thomas, who founded the Seth Thomas Clock state government. A veteran of the War of
Company in 1813, and was noted for his hon- the Rebellion, a man who worked his way to
esty in business and private life (see Thomas the top, and a thoroughly competent official,
II). He graduated from Yale College, 1834, he deserved the unanimous renomination
and was a clergyman until 1840, when he was which was given him."

obliged to give up the ministry on account of He is a member of Thomaston Lodge, Free
ill health and became superintendent of the and Accepted Masons ; Royal Arch Masons :
cotton mill department of the Seth Thomas Royal and Select Masters ; Waterbury Corn-
Company and later their commercial agent. mandery, Knights Templar; the Consistory,
His health at last compelled him to seek out- of Bridgeport; Mystic Shrine, having taken
of-door occupation and he became a farmer all the thirty-two degrees of Masonry. He is
for the remainder of his life. He was select- also a member of the Hartford Club ; the
man, a member of the board of education for Hartford Republican Club ; the Thomaston
thirty-seven years, Sunday school superin- Club ; the Army and Navy Club of Connecti-
tendent for twenty-five years, and state rep- cut ; of Russell Post, Grand Army of the Re-
resentative. He was a clear thinker, a ready public, of Thomaston; the Seaside Outing
debater, and a man whose character and in- Club, of Bridgeport ; the New England So-
tegrity were above reproach. His wife was ciety of New York ; the Sons of the Revolu-
a woman of noble character and strong moral tion, of which he is one of the board of man-
and spiritual influence. Children: Thomas agers. In religion he is a Congregationalist.
Dudley, mentioned below : Albert Porter, men- Mr. Bradstreet is a striking example of a
tioned below; George Parker, mentioned be- highly successful man who has won his own
low ; Mary Amanda, married Joseph R. way in business, in public service and popu-
French ; Edward Thomas, mentioned below. lar esteem.

(VII) Thomas Dudley, son of Rev. Thomas He married, March 23, 1864, Sarah Maria
lefferson Bradstreet, was born August 1, Perry, of Waterbury, Connecticut, daughter

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of Julius and Miranda (Carter) Perry, grand-
daughter of Isaac Perry, of Cornwall, Con-
necticut, and a descendant of Commodore Oli-
ver Hazard Perry. Children: Annie W.,
born February 28, 1865 ; married, November
14, 1888, George A. Lemmon, druggist,
Thomaston ; Perry Thomas, born x\pril 30,
1872, died September 13, 1874.

(VII) Hon. Albert Porter, son of Rev.
Thomas Jefferson Bradstreet, was born June
9, 1846, at Plymouth, Connecticut, where he
attended the public schools. He also studied
under private tutors and entered Yale Col-
lege, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1871. He studied his profession in
the Columbia Law School and was graduated
in 1873. He was admitted to the bar in the
same year and began to practice law at Thom-
aston, after spending a few months in the
law office of Webster & O'Neill of Water-
bury. He is a Republican and has been prom-
inent in public life. He represented Thomas-
ton in the general assembly in 1877-78, and
served on the committee on cities and bor-
oughs. He was state senator from the six-
teenth district in 1881-82 and served on the
committee on insurance, of which he was
chairman, and during his second year on the
judiciary committee of which he was chair-
man. In 1879 he was elected deputy judge
of the district court of Waterbury, and in
1883 was elected judge and re-elected in 1887
and 1893. He was town clerk of Thomaston
continuously from 1875 to 1891, and judge
of probate for the Thomaston district from
1882 to 1890. From 1897 to 1907 he devoted
his attention chiefly to the practice of law
in Waterbury and since then he has had busi-
ness interests in New York City. He still re-
tains his residence in Thomaston. He is pres-
ident of the Thomaston Club ; member of the
Waterbury Club ; the Yale Club of New York-
City ; the Alpha Delta fraternity of Yale. He
is a member of the Congregational church.
"Untiring and energetic in the pursuit of his
legal work, he is liberal in his ideas and care-
ful in his judgment." A loyal friend to
every good enterprise, he is an untiring foe
of sham and fraud ; and this fact, with his
exhaustless fund of good nature, makes him
universally respected. He married, March 4,
1875, Mary J., daughter of Edwin P. and
Martha (Lee) Parker. They have no chil-
dren.

(VII) George Parker, son of Rev. Thomas
Jefferson Bradstreet, was born in Plymouth,
Connecticut, January 10, 1848. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town,
and has always lived on the homestead. He
has always made farming his business and has

in cultivation some three hundred acres of
land. He has a large dairy and is modern
and progressive in his methods. In addition
to his extensive farming interests, he owns
valuable real estate in Thomaston, and is a
dealer in feed, flour and grain. In politics
he is a Republican. He was for ten years
first selectman of the town of Thomaston. He
has shown his public spirit in many ways and
has been especially interested in securing bet-
ter roads for the community and at the pres-
ent time is inspector of highways in the vi-
cinity of Thomaston, for the state roads un-
der construction. He married, November 26,
1 88 1, Hattie M. Blackman, of Newark, New
Jersey, born June 28, 1863, daughter of
Charles W. and Elizabeth J. (Hammond)
Blackman. Her father was born in Morris,
Connecticut ; her mother in Newark. Chil-
dren: 1. Thomas J., born March 20, 1883;
associated in business with his father. 2.
Albert Porter, December 1, 1884; machinist
by trade, associated with the New Departure
Bell Company of Bristol, Connecticut ; mar-
ried Effie Calkins : children : Marshal and
Porter Ray. 3. Edith Amanda, June 18,
1886. 4. Irene Hammond, October 11, 1887;
married Joseph Harper, of the American
Sheet Metal Company, of Waterbury ; chil-
dren : Grace Bradstreet and Marion Harper.
5. George C, January 19, 1889. 6. Mary Eliz-
abeth, February 26, 1890. 7. Amanda, Janu-
ary 26, 1896. died in 1897. 8. Dorothy Dud-
ley. June 26, 1898.

(YII) Dr. Edward Thomas, son of Rev.
Thomas Jefferson Bradstreet, was born Feb-
ruary 15, 1852, at Thomaston, Connecticut.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town, at Thomaston Academy, and at
Yale College, from which he graduated with
the degree of A. B. in 1874. He then studied
medicine at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University, and grad-
uated in 1877 with the degree of M. D. After
a brief period, in which he was engaged in
further study, he came to Meriden in that
same year and began the practice of his pro-
fession. He has been a member of the staff
of the Meriden City Hospital since its or-
ganization, and is now president of the medi-
cal board. He stands high in his profession
and his services have always been highly val-
ued. He is a member of the American Med-
ical Association, Connecticut State Medical
Society, New Haven County Medical Society,
president of the Meriden Medical Society, a
director of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, ex-
aminer for fourteen of the leading life in-
surance companies, president of the Meriden
Yale Alumni x<\ssociation. medical examiner

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of the town of Mcriden since 1901 ; member
of the New Haven board of examiners for
pensions from 1882 to 1893. He is a member
of the First Congregational Church, the Home
Club, Governor Thomas Dudley Family As-
sociation, and the Sons of the Revolution,
and president of the Meriden Golf Club since
its organization. He was one of the general
committee arranging for the Centennial Cel-
ebration of the town. He married, December
25, 1875, Alice E., born November 18, 1857,
daughter of Hiram and Sarah (Beers) Pierce,
of Thomaston. Children : Edward Dudley,
born November 11, 1878; educated in the pub-
lic schools of Meriden, graduated from Yale
College, 1901, an artist by profession; Mary
Thomas ; Alice Pierce, died at the age of
six years.

(The Thomas Line).

James Thomas, a native of Scotland, set-
tled in Plymouth, Connecticut, when a young
man, near the James Alcox place on Spindle
Hill. He was a cooper by trade. He mar-
ried Martha . Children : John ; Josiah ;

Martha, married Luther Andrews ; Phebe,
married Truman Prince ; Seth, mentioned be-
low ; Sibyl, married John Newton ; James,
died young.

( II) Seth. son of James Thomas, was born
in Wolcott, now Plymouth, Connecticut, Au-
gust 19, 1785. His education was very lim-
ited and consisted only of a short attendance
in a distant public school. He served an ap-
prenticeship to the trade of carpenter and
joiner and spent some time on the construc-
tion of Long Wharf in New Haven. When
he was twenty-one years of age, with a small
kit of tools and a small sum of money, he
commenced the manufacture of clocks, in
company with Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley
under the firm name of Terry, Thomas &
Hoadley, in the southeastern part of the town
of Plymouth, now known as Hancock Sta-
tion. In 1810 Mr. Terry sold his interest,
and the firm continued for two years as
Thomas & Hoadley. Mr. Thomas then sold
his interest to Mr. Hoadley and went to the
western part of the town, then known as Ply-
mouth Hollow, purchased the site where the
case shop is now located and began the manu-
facture of clocks on his own account. From
small beginnings the clock business grew rap-
idly, and in time he added a cotton mill and
a brass rolling and wire mill. In 1853 he or-
ganized the Seth Thomas Clock Company un-
der the joint stock laws of Connecticut. He
died January 29, 1859, and after his death,
by act of the legislature, the town of Ply-
mouth was divided, and the western portion
was made into a new town and named Thom-

aston in his honor. Children : Seth ; Martha,
married Dr. William Woodruff; Amanda,
married Rev. Thomas J. Bradstreet (see
Bradstreet VI); Edward; Elizabeth, married
George W. Gilbert ; Aaron.

The Mildrum family settled
MILDRUM in Connecticut before the
revolution. John Mildrum
settled at Wethersfield where he died Feb-
ruary 25, 1776. His wife Lydia died there
April 7, 1 79 1, aged fifty-six. • In the census
of 1790 she was living at Wethersfield with
two daughters. Children : Mary, baptized
October 5, 1766; Lydia, baptized January 18,
1769, died October 11, 1841 ; Servia, baptized
September 5, 1790. John Mildrum, probably
a son of John and Lydia, was living at Mid-
dletown, in 1790, and had three sons under
sixteen and three females in his family.

Mark Mildrum, probably a brother of John
and one of the first settlers of the family, was
a soldier in the revolution in 1777, enlisted for
three years in Captain Wright's company,
Connecticut Line. The only other family of
the name in Connecticut in 1790 was that of
Huldah "Mildren," of Farmington, who had
one son over sixteen, one under sixteen and
a daughter in her family.

(I) Orrin Mildrum, of Farmington, of this
family, lived at Berlin, formerly Farmington.

(II) William Augustus, son of Orrin Mil-
drum, died April 25, 1892. He was educated
in the public schools, and learned the trade of
machinist. For many years he was a con-
tractor with the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Com-
pany of East Berlin, making tinman's tools.
He married Adelia M. Wilcox. Children :
Willis Wilcox, mentioned below ; Ernest Wil-
der, mentioned below.

(III) Willis Wilcox, son of William Au-
gustus Mildrum, was born in East Berlin,
October 6, 1846. He attended the public
schools until he was sixteen, and then began
to learn photography in a studio at Meriden.
After a short time he entered the employ of
Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company and learned
the trade of toolmaker. After six years he
left this concern to become a partner in the
firm of D. C. Callender & Company, jew-
elers at New Britain and Meriden. His part-
ners were D. C. and F. A. Callender. After
he withdrew from this firm he was superin-
tendent of the Corrugated Metal Company at
East Berlin and subsequently engaged in his
present business at the same place. He man-
ufactures jewels for compasses, surveyors'
instruments and electrical apparatus. In pol-
itics he is a Republican and has been active
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years he served on the school board. He was June 10, 1904; Philip Ernest, August 21,

appointed postmaster of East Berlin and his 1907.

commission was signed July 9, 1898, by Presi-

dent McKinley, and he has been reappointed Philip Galpin, immigrant an-

as his terms expired, filling the office to the GALPIN cestor, was born in England,

entire satisfaction of the government and the He came to America when a

public. He has been a member of the town young man and settled as early as 1646 at

executive committee. He is a prominent New Haven, Connecticut. In 1657 he was

member of Washington Lodge, No. 81, Free living in the adjacent town of Fairfield, but

and Accepted Masons, of Cromwell, Connecti- before January 26, 1662, he had removed to

cut, and has been senior warden, master and Rye (now in New York) and was living on

deacon. He and his wife are members of the Manursing Island. He was one of the peti-

Second Congregational Church of Berlin and tioners for the grant at Rye known as Has-

he is a member of the standing committee of tings in 1662. Most of the settlers removed

the church. His daughters are members of in 1671 from what is now called Manursing

the Methodist Episcopal Church of East Ber- Island to the mainland, but Galpin not only

lin. wished to stay but petitioned the general

He married, October n, 1871, Anna Shel- court at Hartford to compel his neighbors to
don, born February 28, 1847, daughter of remain also. "He felt sorely aggrieved that
John and Lydia Frances Webster, of New- his neighbors left him behind," but the court
ington. Children: 1. Clare Elizabeth, born decided against him and advised Galpin to go
March 28, 1873; graduate of the New Britain with his neighbors and "if he remain to take
high school and of Mount Holyoke College, care of damnifying his neighbors." Galpin's
class of 1898; married, April 27, 1899, Rol- cove on the west side of Blind Brook creek
lin Colvert Bastress, of Shamokin, Pennsyl- is named for him. He died in Rye in 1685.
vania, a civil engineer with the Cornell Iron He married (first) Elizabeth Smith at
Works, Cold Springs, New York. 2. Miriam Stratford about 1646 when he was before the
Lydia, born April 24, 1875 ; attended the New court on account of some irregularity of the
Britain high school and the Northfield Train- marriage, a common occurrence in the fann-
ing School ; married, June 6, 1900, A. W. A. lies of Quakers and Baptists of the early
Eden, of Brownstown, Jamaica, West Indies, days. It is .to be presumed that he was not
a civil engineer, now in the office of Malcolm in strict accord with the Puritan church. He
A. Rue, of New York. was named as a legatee in the will of Nathan-

(III) Ernest Wilder, son of William Au- iel Draper in 1647. He married (second)

gustus Mildrum, was born February 8, 1866, Hannah . Children: 1. Stephen, was

at East Berlin. He attended the public in the expedition to Albany in the war in

schools. At the age of sixteen he began to 1690. 2. Samuel, born at New Haven, 1650,

work for his father who was then a con- mentioned below. 3. Joseph, settled in New

tractor in the divider department of the Peck, York had land at Will's Purchase. 4. John,

Stow & Wilcox Company. Subsequently he deeded land in 1738 at Budd's Neck and

was admitted to partnership with his father White Plains ; married Mary . 5. Ben-

and four years later, when his father died, he jamin, settled at Woodbury, Connecticut. 6.
took charge of the department. He has also Moses, weaver, sold land in Rye in 1738. 7.
been a contractor for the company in other Jeremiah. 8. Sarah. 9. Deborah. 10. Han-
departments and at times has had as many nah. 11. Daughter, married Richard Wal-
as twenty-five men in his employ. He is ters. 12. Daughter, married Robert Traver.
treasurer of the East Berlin Building Com- 13. Daughter, married Steven Sherwood,
pany. which builds, rents and sells cottages (II) Samuel, son of Philip Galpin, was
to the employees in the vicinity. He is en- born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1650.
ergetic, industrious and reliable, and com- He removed to Stratford about 1675 and
mands the respect and confidence of every bought land there September 6, 1681. He
one with whom he has dealings. He is a was admitted a freeman in 1689, and seems
prominent member of the Second Congrega- to have made his home at Old Mill Green,
tional Church of Berlin, serving as deacon, He was on the grand jury empaneled in 1692
treasurer, and member of the standing com- at Fairfield, Connecticut, to try Mercy Dis-
mittee. In politics he is a Republican. He borough and others for witchcraft. Dur-
married, June 24, 1891, Mary Galpin, born ham, where his descendants lived, was settled
July 24, 1868, daughter of Henry N. Galpin, by men from Stratford and other towns about
of Berlin. Children : Elizabeth, born May 1700, but the records show no traces of this
7, 1894, died March 26, 1901 ; Henry Galpin, family until after 1800. He married (first)

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March 22, 1677, Esther Thompson. She died
about 1678 and he married (second) about
rf)79, Elizabeth Peat. Child of first wife:
Esther, born August 19, 1678, died young.
Children of second wife : Samuel : Eliza-
beth, married Isaac Norton; Abigail; Mary,
married Elnathan Peat ; Caleb.

(III) Caleb, son of Samuel Galpin, was
born in Stratford in 169 1, died at Berlin,
Connecticut, September 16, 1753. He mar-
ried, February 24, 1719, Elizabeth Baldwin,
of Milford, Connecticut, born November 5,
T693. They lived at Berlin. He was a
farmer. They had eight children, among
whom were : Samuel, born October 8, 1720,
at Stratford; Amos, December 2, 1723, men-
tioned below: Elizabeth, December 12, 1724.
The other five were probably born at Berlin.

(IV) Amos, son-of Caleb Galpin, was born
at Stratford, December 2, 1723, died October
10, 1815. He was a farmer and large land
owner. He married Anna Patterson, born at
Dungammon, county Tyrone, Ireland, of
Scotch ancestry, daughter of Edward Patter-
son and sister of Edward and William Pat-
terson, believed to have been the first to man-
ufacture tinware in the United States, hav-
ing a factory in the town of Berlin in the
thoroughfare then known as Lower lane, now
West street. Children, born at Berlin: 1.
Anne, born 1746, died 1831. 2. Amos, born
1753, judge of Litchfield county; married
(first) Jenny Doane and (second) Sibil Tal-
mage, of Litchfield, Connecticut. 3. Thomas,
mentioned below.

(V) Thomas, son of Amos Galpin, was
born at Berlin, February 6, 1757, died No-
vember 17, 1802. He is said to have been
the builder and former owner of the Bos-
worth mansion. He married Ruth Goodrich,
born in 1761, died July 24, 1843. Children:

1. Samuel, married (first) Susan, daughter
of Major Robert Warner, of Middletown;
(second) Abbie, daughter of Nathan Wilcox.

2. Norris, mentioned below. 3. Jenny Du-
ane, born 1784, died 1823, married Harvey
Hubbard. 4. Percy, born 1787, married
Smith, and lived in Ellington, Con-
necticut. 5. Hulda, born January 17,
1797, married, April 10, 1825, Harvey Hub-
bard. She died September 7, 1877, in Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts.

(VI) Norris, son of Thomas Galpin, was
born in Berlin, March 22, 1794, died in New
York. He was educated in the public schools
and was for many years in the employ of the
Patterson Tinware Company. He married,
August 19, 1818, Hepzibah Wilcox, born
1796, died 1853. They had but one child,
Henry Norris, mentioned below.

(VII) Hon. Henry Norris Galpin, son of
Norris Galpin, was born in the old Galpin
home on the lower end of Berlin street, Ber-
lin, December 22, 1820, died December 22,
1892. He attended the common schools and
academy in his native town and at an early
age began to work for a living, his father
dying when he was but a boy. He began an
apprenticeship in a harness maker's shop, but
found that he preferred mercantile life and
entered the employ of Edward Wilcox as
clerk. He continued with Mr. Wilcox and
his successor in business, Samuel C. Wilcox,
until after 1850 when he purchased the busi-
ness and continued it successfully to the end
of his life. He owned considerable real es-
tate in the vicinity of the store building. In
1861 his building and goods were destroyed
by fire, but he erected a new building and re-
sumed business. Though parti}- paralyzed
from the effects of a fall in 1883, he contin-
ued to manage his business. He was one of
the leading citizens of the town, a substan-
tial and capable man of business, active and
useful in town affairs. Before the civil war
he was a Democrat, but he became a Repub-
lican in i860 and continued to support that
political party to the end of his life. For
many years he was town auditor and in 1863-
80-82 represented his town in the general as-
sembly. He was treasurer of school district
No. 5 from 1878 until he died, and was also
trustee of the Selden school fund. He was
one of the organizers of the Wilcox Cemetery
Association and was its first president, con-
tinuing to fill that office until his death. In
1845 ne was first commissioned as postmaster
of Berlin and he held the office almost con-
tinuously until he died. The post office was
in his store. At the time of his death he was
a director of the Berlin Iron Bridge Com-
pany, vice-president of the Berlin Savings
Bank, an office that he held from 1873 to the
end of his life. He was an earnest and sin-
cere Christian, a prominent and consistent
member of the Congregational church, of
which he was treasurer at the time of his
death and the good work of which he sup-
ported generously with his time and money.
He was kindly to all, generous to the unfor-
tunate, upright in all his dealings, the adviser
of many, the friend of all who knew him. His
death was a serious loss to the community.

He married (first), June 25, 1845, Tamson
Eliza Dowd, of East Berlin, born in 1823,
died April 26, 1846, daughter of Willis and
Rebecca (Groves) Dowd. He married (sec-
ond), April 26, 1864, Harriet A. Dowd, sister
of his first wife. She was born in 1832, died
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Grove Seminary, Saratoga, New York, before
marriage. He married (third), October 2,
1867, Mrs. Eliza (Sanford) Booth, of Sey-
mour, Connecticut, who was born December
14, 1838. Child of first wife: Daughter,
died in infancy. Child of second wife :
Daughter, died aged one year. Children of
third wife: 1. Mary, born July 24, 1868;
married, June 24, 1891, Ernest W. Mildrum,
of East Berlin, a contractor for Peck, Stow
& Wilcox Company. 2. Ruth, December 4,
1870 ; graduate of the New Britain high
school ; lives with her mother. 3. Helen, May
23, 1879 ; graduate of the Temple Grove Sem-
inary, class of 1898 ; married Arthur H. Lom-
bard, of Guilford, Connecticut," children:
Howard Galpin Lombard, died young, and
Danforth Henry Lombard, born August 21,
1908.

Mrs. Galpin was the daughter of Nathan
and Mary Ann (Talmadge) Sanford, grand-
daughter of Philo and Cherry (Wheeler)
Sanford, great-granddaughter of Zadoc and
Sarah (Briscoe) Sanford, great-great-grand-
daughter of Moses and Hannah Sanford.
Moses was the fourth generation, son of
Samuel and Esther (Baldwin) Sanford,
grandson of Samuel and Hannah (Bunson)
Sanford, and great-grandson of the immi-
grants, Thomas and Sarah Sanford.

Tohn Reynolds, Renalds, or
REYNOLDS Ranals. died in 1702. He
married Sarah Backus.
Perkins' "Old Houses of Norwich" says :
"Starting from Mill Lane (now Lafayette
Street), the first home-lot on the left, as we
enter the main highway, is that of John Rey-
nolds, of whose antecedents we only know,
that he came from that part of Saybrook,
which is now Lyme, where he married shortly
before emigration, Sarah, daughter of Wil-
liam Backus, and brought with him to Nor-
wich his wife and four children — -John.
Sarah, Susanna and Joseph. John Rey-
nolds may have been a descendant of either
Robert or John Reynolds, early settlers of
Watertown, who moved from there to Weth-
ersfield. John moved to Stamford and Rob-
ert is thought to have returned to Massachu-
setts.) Four more children were born after
his settlement in Norwich — Mary, Elizabeth,
Stephen, and Lydia. He was by trade a
wheelwright, and in his will calls himself a
kinsman of Ensign Thomas Leffingwell. The
two following records of his home-lot will
show how the early records vary. In the
first book it is described as of four and a
quarter acres, abutting east on the highway
to the Landing Place, abutting north on the

highway to the Great Plain, west on land of
Lt. Thomas Leffingwell, southeast on the way
to the Mill, with an addition on the south of
six acres adjacent to it, abutting south on
the land of William Hyde, southeast on the
highway to the Mill. The second book gives
the following record : Six acres and ten acres
of first division land, in all sixteen acres of
meadow and upland, more or less, abutting on
the Town street, and the way to the Mill 68
rods, 'being a crooked line,' abutting south on
land of Samuel Hyde 52 rods, abutting west
on land of Thomas Leffingwell 31 rods, 'and
the norwest a crooked line being in length
10 rods,' then abutting north on the highway
36 rods. The home-lot was laid in Novem-
ber, 1659, the first division land in April,
1 66 1. The highway to the Great Plains is the
little lane between the Reynolds and Bliss
properties, which, crossing the river at 'the
fording place,' joins 'the Great Plain path'
near the residence of the late Hezekiah Rudd.
This was ordered, in 1663, to be a pent high-
way, and so remained as late as 1793. The
house and the land on which it stands.
is still in possession of descendants of the
first John Reynolds, but the greater part of
the land has recently been sold by the family
of Charles Reynolds (great-great-great-
grandson of John Reynolds, the first propri-
etor), to the founders of the hospital. The
house, the framework of which, it is claimed,
is the same that was erected by John Rey-
nolds, the first proprietor, still retains its
huge central chimney, and many old-fa?*i-
ioned features, though it has been greatly
modernized. When first built, the entrance
door was on the south, and by this door still
stands the old well. The present street door
opens into a hall, which was formerly a room,
where the pillions and saddles were kept.
This was always known as 'the pillion room.'
John, the first-born son of the proprietor, was
killed by the Indians, while spreading flax
'over Showtuckett River' in 1676. The ac-
count says that 'Josiah Rockwell and John
Renolls Jun., were found dead, and thrown
down ye River bank, theire scalps cutt off.'
The son of Josiah Rockwell, about thirteen
years of age, was carried off by the Indians,
but soon afterward restored to his friends.
To his only remaining son, Joseph, John, ac-
cording to the early custom, deeds in 1690,
the west 'halfe' of the house and home lot,
and the other half in reversion on the death
of himself and wife. In this deed he men-
tions the pond south of the house. This was
probably the one recently drained and filled
up in the laying out of the hospital grounds."
Children : John, born 1655, killed by Indians

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in 1675; Sarah, 1656; Susannah, 1658; Jo- Middletown and Lyme. Their eldest son,

seph, 1660, mentioned below; Mary, 1664; John, while visiting friends on Long Island

Elizabeth, 1666; Stephen, 1669; Lydia, 1671. in 1752, was killed by a riding accident, his

(II) Joseph, son of John Reynolds, was horse running against a tree. Children, born
born in 1660, died in 1728-29. He married, in in Norwich: Deborah, 1721 ; Ann, 1723;
1688, Sarah Edgerton, who was born 1667, Sarah, 1725; Ruth, 1727-28; John, 1730; Jo-
died 1714, daughter of Richard and Mary seph, 1732, mentioned below; Abigail, 1734;
(Sylvester) Edgerton. "Old Houses of Nor- Lydia, 1736; Elizabeth, 1738-39.
wich"says: "Joseph Reynolds marries Sarah, (IV) Joseph (2), son of John (2) Rey-
daughter of Richard Edgerton. In T711-12 nolds, was born in 1732, died in 1792. He
he was allowed liberty 'to sett the shop, he married, in 1755, Phebe Lee, born in 1736,
hath already sett up the frame of, to sett the died 1818, daughter of Elisha and Hepzibah
one halfe of sd shop in the street, and so to Lee, of Lyme, Connecticut. "Old Houses of
continue during the towne's pleasure.' This Norwich" says: "Joseph inherited the home
may have been the old house which formerly lot after the death of his mother. He had
stood facing the south close to the street, near married in 1755, Phoebe Lee, daughter of Eli-
the present entrance to the hospital grounds, sha and Hepzibah Lee of Lyme, and had
In the early years of the century, this was oc- eleven children. He died after a very short
cupied as a dwelling, and about the middle of illness in 1792, and the house and home lot
the century was moved down the lane to a came into the possession of the widow and
site back of the Reynolds house, where it now son Elisha, who was second mate on the ship
remains. It is said to have been used formerly Gen. Lincoln. Elisha was lost overboard in
as a shop, but no one remembers the date of a gale in 1799, while only three days out of
its erection, and no record of it has been dis- New London. After the widow Phoebe's
covered. In 1714 Joseph Reynolds was li- death in 1818, the daughters, Phoebe and
censed to keep a house of entertainment, and Sarah, resided with Capt. Giles and Abigail
in 17 17-18 (his wife having died in 1714) L'Hommedieu, their sister and brother-in-
he deeds to his son John, his house and home law, who then owned the homestead. Many
lot. 'except reserving' to himself 'ye West years ago an old manuscript record of the
Room,' 'ye Lodging Room, with ye Porch Reynolds family was found in a Norwich
chamber,' &c, 'during my natural life,' and Town attic, which says: 'This family name
then makes the wise (but in this case tin- is likely to become extinct in this town as
necessary) provision, 'if I do marry again, there is not any of this name that will prob-
and it shall please God to remove me by ably keep it up. It may truly be said of the
death, and leave my wife surviving that she most of those that descended from the first
shall have free use and benifet of ye west John, that they have been smart, active, sen-
rooms and ye Lodging Room,' etc., 'during sible men and women for a period of 148
ye time of her living in sd house a widow.' " years ; the few relatives which now remain
Children, born in Norwich: John, 1691, will in a short time be off the stage, and the
mentioned below; Mary, 1693-94; Joseph, name will be forgotten, as there is not at this
1695-96; Stephen, 1698; Daniel, born and died time, 1808, a man of the name living here.'
1701 ; Lydia, born 1702-03; Daniel, 1705, died This melancholy prophecy is not yet fulfilled,
1706-07 ; Sarah, 1707. as after the death of Capt. Giles L'Homme-

(III) John (2), son of Joseph Reynolds, dieu, the nephews, Henry and Charles Rev-
was born in 1691, died in 1742. He married, nolds, entered into possession of the property,
1720, Lydia Lord, born in 1694, died in 1786, and the heirs of Henry Reynolds still retain
daughter of Captain Richard and Elizabeth the old homestead. An old journal exists,
(Hyde) Lord, of Lyme, Connecticut. He written by Abigail Reynolds (Mrs. Giles
inherited his father's estate. "Old Houses of L'Hommedieu), which gives a vivid and in-
Norwich" says : "This son John married in teresting picture of a young girl's mind and
1720, Lydia Lord, daughter of Captain Rich- life one hundred years ago." Children of
ard Lord, of Lyme, and his wife, Elizabeth Joseph Reynolds: Rufus, born 1756; Sarah,
Hyde, who was the first child born in Nor- 1758: Phebe. 1760; John, 1762; Sarah, 1764;
wich." This Lydia, Miss Caulkins says, "was Joseph, 1766: Enoch, born and died 1767;
an admirable Christian woman, surviving her Elisha, born 1769; Anne, 1771 ; Abigail, 1774;
husband more than forty years, and dying in Enoch, 1776; Charles, mentioned below.
1786, aged 92." On her gravestone is in- (V) Charles, son of Joseph (2) Reynolds,
scribed "Here lies a lover of Truth." John was born in Norwich in 1780. He was a
and Lydia Reynolds had eight children, who lawyer at Zanesville, Ohio. He married Mary
married prominent inhabitants of Norwich, Sage, of Middletown, Connecticut. Children:

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1. Charles L'Hommedieu, born 1816, died
June 26, 1852 ; married, September, 1843,
Helen M. W. Downing, of Preston City, Con-
necticut ; children : i. Helen L'Hommedieu,
born June 19, 1844, married, September 23,
1872, Thomas Perkins, son of Colonel George
Leonard Perkins ; ii. Louise Downing, born
June 2, 1846, died November 14, 1884, un-
married ; iii. Mary Day, born June 23, 1848,
married, November 18, 1868, William A.
Buckingham, nephew of Governor Bucking-
ham; iv. Ida Geddes, born January 15, 1850,
married, October 13, 1880, Dr. Anthony Peck,
Oculist of Norwich ; v. Charlie L'Homme-
dieu, born December 17, 1852, married, Octo-
ber 10, 1888, Albert Lewis, of Boston. 2.
Henry Lee, mentioned below.

(VI) Henry Lee, son of Charles Reynolds,
was born at Norwich, September 18, 1818.
He was a hardware merchant in Mobile, Ala-
bama, at the time the civil war began, and he
then removed to Washington, D. C. He re-
turned to Norwich in 1871, and lived in the
old homestead, until his death, June 6, 1888.
He married (first) September, 1850, Martha
J. Thomas, died in 1855, daughter of Henry
Thomas, of Norwich. He married (second)
Mary Wilson Hill, born in Baltimore, Mary-
land, daughter of Rev. Stephen Prescott Hill,
born in Salem, Massachusetts, a clergyman,
son of John Hill. Rev. Stephen Prescott Hill
married Martha Ellen, daughter of Thomas
Corcoran, a leather merchant of Georgetown,
and at one time mayor. Thomas Corcoran
married Hannah Lemon, of Baltimore, Mary-
land. Their son, William Wilson Corcoran,
was the founder of the Corcoran Art Gallery
of Washington, and a noted philanthropist.
Children of Rev. Stephen Prescott and Mar-
tha Ellen (Corcoran) Hill: Charles Stephen
Hill, William Corcoran Hill and Mrs. Rey-
nolds. Child of Henry Lee Reynolds by first
wife: Charles Sage, born December 13, 1851 ;
resides in Columbus, Ohio, married, May,
1877, Florence Jones ; children : Carl, Eliot,
Henry Lee and John Neil Reynolds. Chil-
dren of second wife: 1. Henry Lee, born Au-
gust 4, 1 86 1 ; educated in Columbian College,
Washington, D. C. ; was in the Bureau of
Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute : died April
15, 1891, aged twenty-nine years; was very
talented ; writer of scientific papers for vari-
ous magazines. 2. William Corcoran, August
21, 1863; married, October 25, 1888, Florence
Maclay All, of Columbus, Ohio ; children : Re-
becca, Ruth and Georgianna ; he represents the
firm of Harding, Tilton & Company of Bos-
ton. 3. Ellen Hill, August 11, 1865; mar-
ried William H. Palmer, of Norwich, June 15,
1898; child, Henry Reynolds Palmer. 4.

Louise Eustis, March 6, 1867; married, April
4, 1904, Gardiner Green, judge of the supe-
rior court ; no children. 5. Robert, died
young. 6. Stephen, died young. 7. Albert
Lewis, January 14, 1875 ; unmarried. 8. John
Marbury, March 19, 1877; married, Decem-
ber, 1902, Elsie Johnson, of Norwich ; child,
Julia, born December 6, 1903 ; he represents
the firm of Harding, Tilton & Company of
Boston in Philadelphia. 9. Reginald, Decem-
ber 14, 1878, represents the firm of Graton &
Knight, leather manufacturers of Worcester,
Massachusetts, in New York City.

The Revnolds family set-
REYNOLDS tied about the time of the

revolution in the town of
Northeast, Dutchess county, New York.
Lewis Reynolds was born in New York state,
probably at (Painetown) Cornwall-on-the-
Hudson, and of the Dutchess county family.
He was a shoemaker by trade and worked
at shoemaking all his active life. He died at
Cornwall, New York, aged about sixty years.
He married Esther Benedict. Children : Da-
vid, settled in Easton, Connecticut ; Hiram,
settled in Easton ; Jacob, settled in Norwalk,
Connecticut; Lewis Benedict, mentioned be-
Iow : and two daughters.

(II) Lewis Benedict, son of Lewis and Es-
ther (Benedict) Reynolds, was born at Corn-
wall in 1818. His boyhood was spent largely
in Easton, Connecticut, on the farm of his
brother, David. Afterward he was in the em-
ploy of Walker Sherwood, known as "Esquire
Sherwood," for ten years. He then purchased
a farm in Easton and conducted it the rest
of his life. He died in 1876. He married
Fannie, daughter of Abel and Lovica (Ed-
wards) Peck, and she died, aged sixty-eight
years. Children of Abel and Lovica (Ed-
wards) Peck: Polly, married Charles Mor-
gan ; Fannie, married Lewis B. Reynolds.
Children of Lewis Benedict and Fannie
(Peck) Reynolds: Fannie Marion, born Sep-
tember 8, 1847, married (first) Louis Wake-
lee, of Trumbull; (second) Charles S. Gilbert,
and they reside on the old homestead ; Marcus
L., mentioned below; Acta, born October 31,
1854, married Fred Cocker.

(III) Hon. Marcus L. Reynolds, son of
Lewis Benedict and Fannie (Peck) Reynolds,
was born at Easton, Connecticut, April 15,
1850. He attended the publi: schools of his
nathe town, and the Easton academy for three
years. In March, 1872, he accepted a posi-
tion with the Wheeler and Wilson Manufac-
turing Company, at Bridgeport, and contin-
ued with that concern for a period of thirty-
four years. He won promotion rapidly, and

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from time to time was advanced to positions
of greater responsibility and reward, finally
becoming department superintendent, and re-
maining in this capacity until 1906, when,
owing to his election to the office of mayor of
Bridgeport, he resigned. His energy, knowl-
edge of the business and faithfulness made
him one of the most valued men in the em-
ploy of this great corporation. He was held
in equal esteem by the employees of the com-
pany and the administrative officers. He is
a Republican in politics and began to take
an interest in public affairs early in life. In
1890 he was elected first selectman of Bridge-
port, and in 1891-92 he was police commis-
sioner; and in 1905 he was a member of the
general assembly of Connecticut, representing
Bridgeport, and serving on various impor-
tant committees, including the committee on
corporations, upon which he occupied second
place. At the expiration of his term of of-
fice in the legislature, he was elected mayor of
the city. He was an able and efficient execu-
tive, instituting many important reforms and
winning the popular approval. In 1885 he
was elected to the board of trustees of Lake
View Cemetery Association and has served
to the present time. He has seen the de-
velopment of this beautiful cemetery and has
had charge of the most important work. In
1872-73 he saw the removal of the bodies
from the old cemetery to Lake View. He is
the only survivor of the original board of
trustees. Since 1907 he has been president
of the board and has entire charge of the
grounds. During the time he has been on
the board a tract of nearly fifty acres has
been added to the cemetery and he has super-
intended the laying out of this addition.

Mr. Reynolds has been prominent in fra-
ternal orders. After serving in various of-
fices, as a member of Pequonick Lodge, No. 4,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, he was
elected noble grand, December 1, 1883, and
from July 1, 1885, to the present time, he
has been treasurer of the lodge. He has been
a member of the Connecticut Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows since May, 1884; of the En-
campment, since 1882 ; and was elected grand
patriarch of the state in 1902. In 1904 he
represented the Grand Lodge in the Sov-
ereign Grand Lodge in San Francisco and in
1905 at Philadelphia, serving on both occa-
sions upon important committees and taking
an active part in the deliberations. He is a
member of the local lodge, Knights of Pyth-
ias, and the Improved Order of Red Men.
He married (first) in June, 1872. Laura S.
Bank, born in Easton, daughter of Samuel O.
Bank, a native of Easton, Fairfield county,

Connecticut. Her father was a carpenter and
builder in Easton. She died February i,
1883. She was one of six children. She was
a member of the Easton Congregational
Church. Mr. Reynolds married (second) r
June 12, 1890, Kate J. Segears, born at Wa-
terbury, daughter of Edwin and Katherine
L. (Sperry) Segears. She is one of three
children, having brothers, Edwin and George
Segears, of Waterbury. Mr. Reynolds and
his family attend St. Paul's Church, Bridge-
port, Connecticut.

Prentice or Prentiss is an-
PRENTICE ancient surname, and the
spelling varies even at the
present time. As early as 1318, there is men-
tion of a Thomas Prentiz in England, and a
William de Prentice de Leak lived in Eng-
land in 1 34 1. Peter Prentiz was a member
of the house of commons from Derby about
1361-62, and John Prentiz was also a mem-
ber from Derby. Elizabeth Prentise mar-
ried the Earl of Ferra in 1778. John Pren-
tyz was rector of Winterborn Gradston, Au-
gust 22, 171 3, and prebendary of York, North
Newbold, which he resigned August 22, 1723.
The first of the name recorded in America
was Valentine Prentice, who came over from
Nazing, county Essex, England, with the In-
dian apostle, Eliot, in 1631, with his wife
Alice and son, John Prentice, and another
child who died on the voyage. He settled, in
Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is supposed that
Valentine of Roxbury, Robert of Roxbury,
Henry of Cambridge, and Captain Thomas of
Cambridge and Newton, were in some way
connected.

(I) Captain Thomas Prentice, immigrant
ancestor, called the "trooper," was born in
England in 1621. He married there, about

1643, Grace . The earliest notice of

him in America is on the records of the First
Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under
the Rev. Mr. Shepard. He came to Cam-
bridge with his wife and daughter Grace and
joined the church there about 1652. May 23,
1652, he was made a freeman. 'A few years
later he removed to Newton, where he spent
the remainder of his life. In 1653 he hired
a farm. In 1656 he was chosen lieutenant
of a troop of horse, and its captain in 1662.
In t66t he bought three hundred acres of
land in the "Pequod Country." In 1667 he
was sent to lay out and settle Ouinsigamond
(Worcester, Massachusetts), and had fifty or
sixty acres of land and one of the first fifty-
eight houses there. He had also grants of
land in Woburn in 1684, and in Billerica and
other places. In 1672-74 he was a representa-

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tive to the general court. In 1675 three hun-
dred acres of land were granted to him by
the general assembly of Connecticut. In 1675
he and his troop of horse are mentioned nine-
teen times on books of the treasurer of Mas-
sachusetts colony. "He and his troop of
horse were a terror to the Indians by his sud-
den attacks and impetuous charges." June
24, 1675, he was appointed captain of the
troop of horse in the Indian war, was in the
Narragansett fight and helped in its success.
June 26, 1675, he marched with his troop to
Swansea, and December 29, 1675, to Narra-
gansett; in 1676, with a "Ply" of horse, he
was sent to Sudbury, and April 27, 1676, to
Grafton, Massachusetts. In 1689 he and his
troop were ordered to Rhode Island to arrest
and bring back Sir Edmond Andros. He was
one of the commissioners to put Indian chil-
dren to service in 1675. and the same year a
commissioner to rebuild Lancaster, Massa-
chusetts, after it had been burned by the In-
dians. He was a friend and counsellor of the
converted Indians, who in 1691 petitioned the
general court that "Captain Thomas Prentice
may be appointed their overseer and magis-
trate." In 1705 he settled his estate by gift
deeds. He died July 6, 17 10, "on Sunday, in
consequence of a fall from his horse on re-
turning from church and was buried under
arms by the company of troop July 8, 1710, in
the old burying ground in Newton." His
gravestone is still to be seen there. His wife
Grace died in Newton, October 9, 1692. Chil-
dren : Grace, born in England, 1648 ; Thomas
(twin), January 22, 1649, mentioned below;
Elizabeth (twin); Mary; Henry, died 1654;
John, February 2, 1653, died March 10, 1654;
John, July 10, 1655 ; Hannah, 1661.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Captain Thomas
( 1 ) Prentice, was born January 22, 1649.
He married, March 20, 1675, Sarah, born
1655, daughter of Captain Thomas Stanton.
Thomas Stanton left England in 1635, at the
age of thirty, and was a man of note in the
colony. He was a famous Indian interpreter.
The name of his wife was Anna Lord, and
they were of Stonington, Connecticut. Anna
Lord was the daughter of Thomas Lord.
Sarah, wife of Thomas Prentice, married
(second) Captain William Dennison, and died
in 1713. Thomas Prentice was probably a

'trooper in his father's troop of horse. He
died April 19, 1685. Children: Thomas, Jan-
uary 13, 1676; Grace; Samuel, about 1680,
mentioned below ; John, 1682.

(III) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Pren-
tice, was born about 1680. He married Es-
ther, daughter of Nathaniel Hammond, of
Newton. Before 1700 he owned a large tract

of land in that part of Stonington which was
in 1807 set off as North Stonington, and
about 1709 removed there. Most of the land
'•emained in the family until recent years, and
the old house in which he lived is standing.
He was deputy to the general court from
Stonington in 1721 and 1724, and a selectman
of that town in 1718-20-22-24-26-27. He was
grandfather of Senator and Judge Samuel
Prentiss, of Montpelier, Vermont. He died
April 24. 1728. Children: Samuel, born No-
vember 25, 1702, mentioned below; Joseph,
January 26. 1704; Grace, January 16, 1705;
Mary, April 12, 1708: Jonas, September 28,
1710, in Stonington; Esther, December 12,
1713 ; Oliver died in Stonington, October 18,
1755; Eunice, December 8, 1717; Thomas,
October 25, 1719; Dorothy, December 13,
1723.

(IV) Deacon Samuel (2) Prentice, son of
Samuel (1) Prentice, was born in Newton,
November 25, 1702. He married Abigail,
daughter of Ebenezer Billings. She died Oc-'
tober 30. 1789. He was town clerk of Ston-
ington for over thirty years, and deputy to
the general court in 1749-50-53-57. In 1751
he was appointed by the general court a jus-
tice of the peace for New London county, and
annually thereafter was reappointed until his
death, which occurred October 11, 1773. Chil-
dren: Dorothy, January 7, 1727; Samuel,
May 24, 1729; Ebenezer, October 25, 1731 ;
John, May 13, 1733; Abigail, December 11,
1734; Joshua, July 2, 1737, mentioned below;
Phebe, February 22, 1738; Asa, September 7,
1740, died September 7, 1742; Jonas, Febru-
ary 9, 1742; Jesse, January 24, 1743; Esther,
January 31, 1745, died March 25, 1751 ; Amos,
April 24, 1748; Grace, December 4, 1750.

(V) Joshua, son of Deacon Samuel (2)
Prentice, was born July 2, 1737. He married
(first), January 14, 1776, Widow Elizabeth
Stanton, who died December 10, 1776. He
married (second), April 25, 1787, Pollv,
daughter of Josiah Shepard, of Plainfield,
Connecticut. She died August 2y, 1840. He
lived in Stonington, and died there September
9, 1794. He was a member of the general
court in 1776 and 1786, and selectman in 1775-
76-78, and from 1780 to 1787 inclusive. Chil-
dren: Samuel, born April 22, 1788; Polly,
April 24, 1791 ; Amy, September 10, 1792.

(VI) Samuel (3), son of Joshua Prentice,
was born April 22. 1788. He married, De-
cember 23, 1810, Amy, daughter of Colonel
Chester Smith, of North Stonington. He was
a lieutenant in the state militia and served
in Stonington during the bombardment of that
place in 1813 ; also at New London. He died
May 25, 1837. His wife died Februarv 15,

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1870, aged eighty years. Children: Samuel
S., born October 28, 1814, died July 7, 1815 ;
Chester Smith, August 15, 1816, mentioned
below; Charles F., August 8, 1820; Mary E.,
September 16, 1822 ; William H., August 26,
1825.

(VII) Chester Smith, son of Samuel (3)
Prentice, was born August 15, 1816. He mar-
ried Lucy, daughter of Elisha Crary, of Pres-
ton, December 13, 1843. He was first select-
man of the town in the civil war period and
representative to the general assembly in 1857
and 1862. He was appointed justice of the
peace in 1848. He lived in his native town,
North Stonington, until 1872, when he moved
to Preston City, Connecticut. He was a farm-
er until this removal. Children : Samuel Os-
car, born August 8, 1850, mentioned below ;
Herbert L., October 1, 1853; Charles F., No-
vember 26, 1857, died in infancy.

( \ III) Hon. Samuel Oscar Prentice, son
of Chester Smith Prentice, was born at North
Stonington, August 8, 1850. His youth was
spent on his father's farm and in the district
schools of his native town. He prepared for
college at the Norwich Free Academy, in
which he was a student from 1866 to 1869,
and then entered Yale College, from which he
was graduated in the class of 1873 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. During his col-
lege course he won three prizes for English
composition, a junior rhetorical, the "Lit"
prize medal and was one of the Townsend
speakers. He graduated with an oration
stand. He was chairman of the editorial
board of the "Lit" and member of the Kappa
Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, Delta Kappa
Epsilon and the Skull and Bones.

After graduating from college he continued
his studies at Yale in the law school and re-
ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1875, taking the
Townsend prize for the best oration at Com-
mencement. During his course in the law
school he was also a special teacher in the
Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven.
Immediately after graduation from the law
school he was admitted to the bar and in the
following autumn began practice as a law
clerk in the office of Chamberlain, Hall &
White, of Hartford. In 1876 he became the
junior partner of the new law firm of John-
son & Prentice. In the summer of 1889 he
was appointed judge of the Connecticut su-
perior court by Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley,
whose executive secretary he had been. At
the expiration of his term of eight years he
was re-appointed in 1897 for a second term,
and in 1901 he was appointed to his present
position on the supreme court of errors of
Connecticut. In 1909 he was re-appointed.

From October, 1881, to October, 1886, he was
chairman of the Hartford city and town Re-
publican committees, and he was a delegate
to the Republican state convention in 1884 and
also in 1886. For twelve years he was clerk
of the Hartford county bar, and for several
years town and city attorney of Hartford. He
has been a member of the state bar examining
committee since its formation in 1890 and
chairman since June, 1898. He was appointed
instructor in pleading in the Yale Law school
in 1896, and professor of pleading in 1901
and he still continues his teaching in the Uni-
versity.

From 1879 to l&&9 Judge Prentice was an
officer of Company K, First Regiment, Con-
necticut National Guard. He was president
of the Haitford Library Association in 1885-
86, has been president of the Hartford Public
Library since '1895, and in 1906 was made
president of the Watkinson Library, which
position he now holds. He is also trustee of
the Wadsworth Atheneum. He was president
of the Yale Alumni Association of Hartford
County in 1899, and of the Hartford Golf
Club for three years. He is a communicant
of the Congregational church. He married,
April 24, 1 901, Anne Combe Post, of Jersey
City, New Jersey, daughter of Andrew J.
Post. Their home is at 70 Gillett street, Hart-
ford. They have no children.

In addition to the ancestors mentioned in
the foregoing article, Judge Prentice traces
his ancestry to Elder W'illiam Brewster of the
"Mayflower," Colonel George Denison, of
Stonington, Thomas Stanton, Captain James
Avery, Captain John Gallup, Richard Treat,
Rev. James Noyes and William Cheesboro, all
conspicuous in the early history of Connecti-
cut. Accounts of these immigrants will be
found elsewhere in this work.

Represented in Connecticut by Na-
HEFT than Hopkins Heft, of Bridgeport,
formerly chief of the electrical de-
partment of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, the Heft family, of early
Pennsylvania ancestry, have been very con-
spicuously identified with the introduction and
development of electrical railways, as well as
with the invention and utilization of notable
electrical, improvements. The founder of the
family in this country, an immigrant from
Muhlenberg, Holland, where the surname was
written Herrt, established himself in Pennsyl-
vania in the first half of the eighteenth cen-
tury.

(I) Daniel Heft was born near German-
town, Pennsylvania, and after his marriage
removed to Carverton, Luzerne county, Penn-

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sylvania, where he purchased land which he
afterward divided among his three sons, each
of whom married sisters, members of the Wil-
son family. Daniel Heft was a man of
marked mechanical and inventive abilities,
traits which have especially distinguished his
descendants for three succeeding generations.

(II) Samuel, son of Daniel Heft, was also
a resident of Carverton. "He was a born me-
chanic, a man of fine intelligence and highly
respected." He married Rebecca, daughter of
John and Mary (Blair) Wilson; she died
March 9, 1909, aged eighty-three years and
eleven months. She was paternally descended
from the ancient and distinguished Wilson
family of Scotland. Her father, John Wilson,
resided in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Her
mother, Mary (Blair) Wilson, was the daugh-
ter of Robert Blair, of New Hope, now
Blairstown, New Jersey, and was an own cou-
sin of John I. Blair, noted for the great for-
tune which he accumulated, his restless en-
ergies and his philanthropies. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Heft: 1. Nathan Hopkins, see
forward. 2. Mitchell J., resides on the old
homestead at Carverton ; manufacturer, mill
owner, and identified with lumber interests ;
married Delia Schooley and has two children.
3. John Benham, died at the age of two. 4.
Philip Sarver, deceased ; was a mechanical
genius and a man of enterprising character;
married, but left no issue.

(III) Nathan Hopkins, eldest child of Sam-
uel and Rebecca (Wilson) Heft, was born in
Carverton, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, No-
vember 28, 1848. With no opportunities for
educational training in that rural region ex-
cept the ordinary ones afforded by the dis-
trict schools, his early career, as in the cases
of so many Americans who have risen to suc-
cess and reputation, was that of self-reliant
industry from very small beginnings. After
acquiring sufficient means for a business ven-
ture in a modest way, he purchased a store at
Parsons, in his native county, but in the great
coal strike of 1872, so destructive to commer-
cial enterprise, his resources were wiped out,
and at the age of twenty-four he was obliged
t< 1 -tart anew. Soon afterward he accepted
the superintendency of Broderick & Com-
pany's mines at what was then Valley, now
West Portland, Xew Jersey, receiving a salary
of fifty dollars a month. In that position he
continued for nearly twelve years, demon-
strating great executive ability, both in the
conduct of the practical mining operations,
with which he made himself personally famil-
iar in every detail, and in the management of
the men. Although the period was marked by
general industrial unrest throughout the coun-

try, only one strike occurred during all these
years in the mines under his charge, and that
was terminated at the end of two days. It
may be observed that the same thoroughness
in the mastery of detail, executive tact and
ability were at all times the distinguishing
characteristics of Mr. Heft in his subsequent
important and extensive enterprises. While
in charge of the mines he devised and pat-
ented several notable inventions, including the
Heft lubricating oil cup, the mining cartridge
used for blasting purposes, and the back pres-
sure valves for connecting oil cups to loco-
motive engines.

Retiring from the mining business in 1883,
Mr. Heft was for the following year identi-
fied with the firm of O. A. Jenks & Company
of Binghamton, New York, at the end of
which time he established at Easton, Penn-
sylvania, the Heft Lubricating Oil Works,
which, as sole proprietor, he developed into
one of the most flourishing industries of that
place. During his residence in Easton he
served as president of the Farmers' and Me-
chanics' Institute, and was instrumental in
greatly promoting its usefulness and efficien-
cy. He was also one of the directors of the
Northampton County National Bank.

From an early period of the utilization of
electricity for lighting and power, Mr. Heft
was strongly attracted by its advantages for
industrial economy and profit. Making a
study of the subject with a view to engaging
definitely in some department of the electri-
cal business, he was satisfied that the time
was at hand for the introduction of this as a
new motive pcwer in the operation of street
railways, and decided to throw all his ener-
gies into that work. Accordingly, in 1890,
he sold a large portion of his interests in Eas-
ton, and went to New York City. After care-
ful investigation of various opportunities, he
selected Bridgeport, Connecticut, as the place
to begin his active efforts, and in the same
year organized the Bridgeport Traction Com-
pany, of which he was chosen president, and
which took over the old horse railway secu-
rities. As the proposed system was then a
perfect novelty, it became necessary to en-
gage in a regular educational campaign for
the enlightenment of the public and more par-
ticularly of those in official position, and to
that task Mr. Heft devoted himself with de-
termination and tireless patience. He framed
the charter which the legislature passed grant-
ing a franchise to his electric roads, and also
overcame the special local obstacles in Bridge-
port, procuring the adoption of the franchises
over the mayor's veto. With the installation
of the new lines in that city the Great advan-

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tages to the public were at once apparent,
and rapid progress followed elsewhere, con-
ferring similar benefits and indeed completely
revolutionizing the ordinary traffic conditions
of the state of Connecticut.

In the situation thus created the steam rail-
way companies early discovered a dangerous
factor, with which it was necessary for them
to deal by new policies and departures. In
1893-94 President Clark, of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, in
his annual report advocated the equipment of
a branch line to demonstrate what could be
done with electric power on a standard steam
railway. No practical steps were taken in
that direction, however, until 1895, when a
proposal was made to Mr. Heft to institute
and assume entire charge of the work as
chief of the electrical department of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Company, a
department which was expressly created for
him, and in which he was to be given inde-
pendent authority. Accepting the position, he
entered at once upon a vigorous administra-
tion. The first installation was made on a
seven-mile section of road running from Nan-
tasket Junction to Pemberton, along Nantasket
Beach, in the state of Massachusetts. This sec-
tion was equipped with the overhead trolley
conductor and put in operation on June 20,
1896, being the first standard steam railroad in
the world to be equipped and operated by elec-
tricity. Mr. Heft being the motorman, the
first train order ever issued in the world un-
der these conditions was issued to him. Just
one year later, in 1897, an additional stretch
of track, three and a half miles in length, ex-
tending from Nantasket Junction to East
Weymouth, was equipped with the third-rail
system and put in operation. Within a com-
paratively brief period. Mr. Heft had designed
and installed a third-rail within two inches of
the surface of the ground and was able to
demonstrate that the third-rail system pos-
sessed decided advantages, that the danger to
the public and employees from this system
was shown to be largely theoretical, and that
by its use the cost of maintenance was re-
duced to the minimum. As early as the sum-
mer of 1897 Mr. Heft felt justified in pre-
dicting that : "The advantages of a third-
rail construction are such that I have no
doubt that, in one form or another, it will
become the standard method of contact con-
ductors for the heavy electric currents needed
for heavy railroad service."'

In addition to the original constructions
which have been noted, Mr. Heft, while
serving as chief of the electrical department
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford

road, equipped lines in Connecticut running
from Hartford to New Britain and Bristol
and from New Britain to Berlin, as well as
the Stamford and New Canaan Branch of
overhead trolley, and the branch from Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, to Warren, Bristol and
Fall River. He served as president of the
Meriden Electric Railroad and the Stamford
Street Railway, the two latter belonging to
the New Haven system. Both of these roads
he rebuilt and electrically equipped. In 1903
he resigned his office in that corporation, and
he has since retired from active railway
affairs, residing in his beautiful home on Park
avenue, Bridgeport.

The professional career of Mr. Heft in con-
nection with the establishment and develop-
ment of electrical railways is remarkable when
it is remembered that previous to 1890, when
he embarked upon that work, he had no spe-
cial training or preparation whatever for it.
His previous life had been devoted entirely to
business interests, sustaining no relation to
electrical science. He had never had the ad-
vantage of any technical educational course,
and he was then forty years old, yet he speed-
ily mastered the intricacies both of the prin-
ciples involved and of the practical problems
to be solved, and attained recognized posi
tion as an accomplished engineer and one of
the foremost experts in construction and ad-
ministration. In the department of electrical
inventions and improvements as applied to
railway service, he has also made a distin-
guished reputation. He designed the "heavy
motor truck" used on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford road, which was the first
to use hollow axles with electric motors sus-
pended on bars independent of truck frame,
and also a new electric car, in which, without
impairing strength or safety, he succeeded in
effecting a reduction in weight of from one-
third to one-half in relation to seating capac-
ity. Both of these valuable improvements are
now in general use. He is the inventor of
the atmospheric brake for automobiles, and
is now engaged in the manufacturing of im-
proved automobiles. He is the author of vari-
ous professional papers on technical subjects,
which have been read before societies and
conventions and are regarded as standard au-
thorities. In 1900 he was honored by selec-
tion as representative of the United States
to the International Railway Congress at
Paris, and by that body he was designated
to prepare and submit the report for this
country on "Electric Traction." The result-
ing paper was specially printed in a separate
volume, with numerous illustrations.

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trade of Bridgeport for two years. He is a
member of Landmark Lodge, No. 442, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Wilkes-Barre, and
has taken all the orders up to the thirty-sec-
ond degree, the latter bodies being in Bridge-
port. He is a member of the Engineers' Club
of New York, and of several of the principal
social organizations in Bridgeport, including
the Algonquin, Brooklawn, Country, and
P>ridgeport Yacht clubs. In politics he is a
Republican.

Mr. Heft married (first), 1874, Frances
Cease. He married (second), Mrs. Josephine
Richardson, daughter of John W. and Eliza-
beth (Stauffer) Moore, of Queensburg, Penn-
sylvania. Child by first marriage: George
Stanley, born in Parsons, Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, January 22, 1874. He was
graduated as mechanical engineer at Lafay-
ette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, when only
eighteen years old, and subsequently studied
medicine in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York, and the University of
Vermont, receiving his degree from the latter
institution. His residence is in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, where he is at the head of the
Heft Motor Company, a manufacturing con-
cern which is engaged principally in building
marine and automobile motors.

The name Leonard is one of
LEONARD those taken from the Chris-
tian name, and signifies the
lion-hearted. The ancient coat-of-arms of
the family is : Or on a fesse azure three fleur
de lis argent. Crest : Cut of a ducal coro-
net or a tiger's head argent. Motto: "Me-
mor at fidelis."

(I) Solomon Leonard, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England about 1610, in
Monmouthshire or vicinity, in the southwest-
erly part of England. He seems first to have
gone to Leyden, Holland, probably with his
father, believed to be Samuel Leonard. He
came to New England and was engaged in the
service of the colony company in Plymouth
for a time, but became one of the early set-
tlers of Duxbury, where he was living when
the town was incorporated in 1637. He re-
ceived a grant of land there in 1638 and was
admitted a freeman in 1643. The same year
he was on a list of those able to bear arms.
He spelled his name Lenner, and sometimes
Lennerson. He became one of the earliest
proprietors and settlers of Bridgewater,
where he lived the remainder of his life. He
was a weaver by trade. He married Mary

. Children : Samuel ; John, born about

1645; Jacob, about 1647: Isaac, mentioned
below; Solomon; Marv.

(II) Isaac, son of Solomon Leonard, was
born about 1650, probably in Bridgewater.
He was one of the eight hundred and forty
soldiers who were in "Narragansett Fight,"
King Philip's war, December 19, 1675. About
sixty years afterward seven townships of
land were granted to them by the state of
Massachusetts ; fourteen were from Bridge-
water, and when their shares were drawn,
October 17, 1733, only two were living. His
share was drawn by his son Isaac. These
grants were confirmed by the legislature,
April 18, 1735. He probably married Deliv-
erance , about the close of this war.

Deeds of land made to him in Bridgewater
by his brother Samuel in 1677-78 are on rec-
ord, and he had a house there in 1679. He
seems to have owned land in Mendon and
may have lived there for some time. He also
owned land in Worcester, and a surmise is
made that he may have moved to Worcester
after deeding his land in Bridgewater to his
son Joseph. He conveyed land in Worcester
to Nathaniel Jones by a deed in which he
calls himself a weaver, March 27, 17 17. His
wife Deliverance signed it, March 7, 1719-20,
and two days afterward Benjamin Leonard,
very likely his youngest son, appeared before
the general court of sessions and certified that
he saw him sign this deed. He had doubt-
less died about this time. His wife was one
of the original members of the Second Church
in Bridgewater. Children, born in Bridge-
water : Isaac, mentioned below ; Hannah,
born March 15, 1680; Deliverance; Joseph:
Benjamin.

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Leon-
ard, was born in Bridgewater before 1680.
He married, April 16, 1701, Mary Randall,
daughter of Guido Bailey, who was then
widow of Samuel Randall, son of Thomas
Randall, who died as early as 1697. By rec-
ords of deeds it is known that they were liv-
ing in Taunton, North Purchase (Easton),
in 1713. July 13, 1713, Nathaniel Manley,
son of William Manley, calls him brother-in-
law. March 9, 1719-20, he had deed of land
on the easterly end of North Purchase of
Jeremiah Willis, of Dorchester, and Samuel
Smith, of North Purchase. In March, 1726,
he and his wife Mary conveyed their home-
stead in Easton to Eliphalet Leonard. July
23, 1727, he, of Mendon, bought of John
Adams, of Pomfret, Connecticut, one hundred
and thirty-two acres of land in that town for
three hundred pounds. On September 9,
1727, then of Pomfret, he sold land in Eas-
ton to Thomas Randall, and January 4, 1729,
sold one-third of an iron mine in Easton to
Eliphalet Leonard. It is said that he and

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his wife were members of the Second Church
when it was formed, in 1734. He bought
other lands here, but February 9, 1735-36,
for eight hundred pounds, he sold out to Isaac
Parks, and no further trace of him or his
family can be found. He was in Boston, Oc-
tober 17, 1733, and drew the share of land
belonging to his father as one of the soldiers
in the Narragansett fight. Children : Isaac ;
David, mentioned below ; Thomas, and others.

(IV) David, son of Isaac (2) Leonard,
was born about 17 10, in Taunton or vicinity.

(V) David (2), son or nephew of David

(1) Leonard, was born about 1740. In 1790
he was living in Guilford, Windham county,
Vermont, and according to the first federal
census taken in that year had four sons un-
der sixteen and five females in his family.
Among his children was Daniel, mentioned
below.

( VI) Dr. Daniel Leonard, son of David

(2) Leonard, settled in Dover. Vermont.
He was a prominent citizen and served
the town in various offices, including that of
selectman. He was a Freewill Baptist
preacher, also a physician and surgeon. He
married Sally, born September 4, 1798, died
at Dover, February 11, 1862, daughter of Rev.
James Mann, a Baptist clergyman. Her fa-
ther was born February 6, 1768, at Mont-
gomery, Massachusetts, and in 1813 removed
to Dover, Vermont, where he died February
ti, 1854; children, born at Dummerston, now
Dover: James Mann Jr., July 13, 1790; Abi-
jah. May 3, 1792; George, December 11,
1793; Betsey, August 28, 1796; Sally, Sep-
tember 4, 1798; Hosea, October 18, 1801 ;
William Riley. Timothy Mann, father of
Rev. James, settled in Dover, New Jersey, re-
moved to Montgomery, Massachusetts, and
finally to Dummerston, Vermont, where he
died ; children : Stephen, Nathaniel, Darius,
Richard, Rachel, Rev. James. It is said that
the town of Dover was named for a dog. but
it is a strange coincidence that settlers from
Dover, New Jersey, should have come to
Dover, Vermont. Children of Dr. Daniel
Leonard : Clark ; Alvira ; Martin ; Mary
Ann; Elliott; Filena and Fidelia (twins);
Filena married Alanson Smith ; Fidelia mar-
ried Moses J. Bogle ; Daniel Green, mentioned
below ; Chloe ; David Pitt.

(VIIs) Daniel Green, son of Dr. Daniel
Leonard, was born at West Dover, Vermont,
September, 1833, died in Wilmington, Ver-
mont, August 13, 1892. He received a com-
mon school education. At the time of the
hscovery of gold in California he joined the
Argonauts, going by way of the Isthmus of
Panama and remaining in the mining district

about a year. After he returned to Vermont
he followed farming. He had an extensive
maple orchard of some twenty-five hundred
trees, from which he produced annually some
six hundred gallons of syrup. He was also
a wholesale dealer in this product, buying
from the farmers and selling in the retail
markets. He was a pioneer in the manufac-
ture of cider apple jelly, and established
plants to manufacture this article at Wilming-
ton, Jacksonville and Newfane, Vermont. He
made a specialty also of his dairy. His farm
contained some two hundred acres of land.
He lived, until within one year of his death,
at Dover, Vermont, then removed to Wil-
mington, where he died. He was a deacon of
the Congregational church at West Dover.
He married Annette M., born in Marlboro,
Vermont, in 1837, daughter of Captain Ira
Adams. Children, born at Dover : Florence,
died in childhood ; Claud G., insurance broker,
Springfield, Vermont, married Eleanor Rice ;
children : Stuart and Eulalie ; Florrie, de-
ceased, married W. E. Corse, machinist, of
Springfield, Vermont ; child, Grace ; Mabel
Grace, lives in Winchenden, Massachusetts ;
Charles Hugh, mentioned below.

(VIII) Charles Hugh, son of Daniel Green
Leonard, was born in West Dover, Vermont,
July 14, 1874. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town and at the Leland
Gray Seminary, at Townsend, Vermont.
When seventeen years old he became clerk in
a general store at Wilmington, Vermont.
After about three years in this business he
took a course in the Albany Business College.
He was in the insurance business for a short
time. At the age of twenty-one he started
to learn the trade of jeweler in the employ of
Bogle Brothers, of Boston. This firm after-
ward removed to White River Junction, Ver-
mont ; Mr. Leonard went thither and remained
with the concern there for five years. Dur-
ing three years he was traveling salesman for
the concern, which was engaged in a whole-
sale business. In 1900 he accepted a position
with C. G. Alford & Company, of New York,
wholesale jewelers, and for the next five years
was traveling salesman for this concern. Dur-'
ing three years of that time he made his home
at Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1905 he came
to Winsted, Connecticut, buying the jewelry
business of F. B. Catlin, and since then has
continued there in this business on his own
account. He is a prominent citizen ; a mem-
ber of the Business Men's Association of
Winsted ; director of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association of Winsted ; a member of
United Brothers Lodge, No. 21, Free and
Accepted Masons, White River Junction, Ver-

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mont. He is a member and deacon of the
First Congregational Church. He married,
November 5, 1899, Ella Annette, born at
West Halifax, Vermont, 1874, daughter of
Luther and Susan Emeline (Winchester)
Adams (see Adams VII). They have one
child, Madeline, born at White River Junc-
tion, Vermont, December 5, 1900.

(The Adams Line).

(I) Robert Adams, immigrant ancestor of
this branch of the family in America, was
born in England in 1 602. He came first to
Ipswich in 1635, with his wife and two chil-
dren. He was a tailor by trade and resided
in Salem in 1638-39. He removed to New-
bury in 1640, where he acquired a large farm
and valuable property. He is believed by
some to have come from Devonshire, Eng-
land, and by others from Holderness, county
York, England. There is a tradition, also,
that he was of Scotch origin. The large,
hand-made shears which he brought from
England, and which lie used in his trade, are
now owned by Stephen P. Hale, of Newbury,
a descendant. His will was dated March 7,
1680-81, proved November 27, 1682. He died
October 12, 1682, aged eighty-one. He mar-
ried (first) Eleanor Wilmot, who died June
12, 1677. He married (second) February 6.
1678, Sarah (Glover) Short, widow of Henry
Short. She died in Newbury, October 24,
1697. Children: John, born in England: Jo-
anna, England, about 1633-34; Sergeant Abra-
ham, 1639; Elizabeth, Newbury, about 1641-
42 ; Mary, about 1644-45 ! Isaac, 1647-48 : Ja-
cob, April 23, 1649, died August 12, 1649;
Hannah, June 25, 1650 ; Jacob, mentioned be-
low.

(II) Jacob, son of Robert Adams, was
born in Newbury, September 13, 1651. He
married, April 7, 1677, Anna, born January
3, 1658, daughter of Nicholas Allen, of Dor-
chester, Massachusetts. He removed, very
likely about 1681-82, to Suffield (now Con-
necticut), where he was one of the most
prominent and influential of the early settlers.
He was often chosen for important offices.
He was a member of the general court of
the colony, then held in Boston, 1711-14, and
again in 1717. He died in Boston suddenly,
in November, 1717, while in attendance upon
his duties as a member of the court. He had
much property and was greatly esteemed. His
will was dated November 20, 1717, and is
recorded both at Boston and Northampton,
which was the county seat of Hampshire
county, to which Suffield then belonged. Chil-
dren : Dorothy bom in Newbury, June 25,
1679; Rebecca, Newbury, August 26, 1680;

Sergeant Jacob, Suffield, about 1681-82; Dan-
iel, Suffield, about 1682-83 ; Elizabeth, Suffield,
August 16, 1686; Lieutenant Abraham, Suf-
field, November 10, 1687; John, Suffield, died
November 9, 1690; John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Jacob Adams, was born
in Suffield, June 18, 1694. He married (first),
July 26, 1722, Abigail, daughter of Peter
and Sarah (Remington) Roe or Rowe. He
married (second), July 12, 1732, Martha Win-
chell. He lived in Suffield. Children, born in
Suffield : Moses, 1723 ; Captain Simeon, No-
vember 20, 1724, mentioned below ; Anna,
June 8, 1727; Lieutenant Joel, December 20,
1729; Lucy, May 31, 1731.

(IV7) Captain Simeon, son of John Adams,
was born in Suffield, November 20, 1724. He
married, January 28, 1765-66, Susanna, born
in Westfield, Massachusetts, September 22,
1747, died in Marlboro. Vermont, September
14, 1845, daughter of Jonathan Underwood.
He was a soldier in the French war ; he was
taken captive twice and carried to Canada,
but was exchanged and returned. He pur-
chased a farm in Marlboro, Vermont, in
1783, of Joseph Pease, of Suffield, and it is
very likely that he moved to Marlboro at this
time. He is called Captain Simeon, and there
is a tradition that Susanna, his wife, drove
British officers out of her house during the
revolution. He died in Marlboro, August 1,
1803. Children: Hannah, born in Suffield,
November 23, 1766-67; Captain Oliver, April
3. 1769, Suffield ; David, Suffield, June 9, 1773 ;
Hannah, Suffield, October 10, 1775 ; Captain
Simeon, Suffield, January 8, 1776, mentioned
below ; Susanna, Suffield, July 11, 1778; Ru-
tus, Suffield, March 28, 1785.'

(V) Captain Simeon (2), son of Captain
Simeon (1) Adams, was born in Suffield,
January 8, 1776. He married, August, 1797,
Lucy, born February 26, 1780. died March 31,
i860, daughter of Major Timothy Mather.
He settled in Marlboro, Vermont, died there
December 13, 1846. Children, all born in
Marlboro: Captain Ira, February 2^, 1799;
Philena, March 3, 1800; Simeon,' March 24,
1803, mentioned below ; Lucy, March 8, 1805 I
Clark, April 27, 1807; Hannah, June 23,
1809; Timothy Mather, October 18, 181 1;
Louisa, November 16, 1813 ; Lucius F., June
t8, 1816; Samuel Newell, January 27, 1819 ;
Minerva, May 15, 182 1.

(VI) Simeon (3), son of Captain Simeon
(2) Adams, was born in Marlboro, March
24, 1803, died in Marlboro, April 12, 1885.
He married, November 26, 1828, Mary Ann
W. Sargent, born in Brattleboro, Vermont,
May 13, 1805. Children, all born in Marl-
boro: Sarah. May 15, T832. married Cotton

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Mather Houghton ; Henry, December 27,
1833, married, October 6, 1857, Lucy Ann
Winchester, (second) Ellen L. Fowler,
widow; Hannah, February 15, 1836, married,
March 16, 1859, David Mather; Lucy, Jan-
uary 10, 1838, married, October 7, 1857,
George C. Higley ; Luther, March 26, 1840,
mentioned below ; Mary Ann, July 8, 1842,
married, February 10, 1864, Elliot J. Higley ;
Simeon, July 15, 1844, married, December
31, 1867, Mrs. Mary Jane (Squir) Fulton;
Samuel, August 24, 1846; David, October 14,
1850, married, November 29, 1867, Louisa
Jenette Adams.

(VII) Luther, son of Simeon (3) Adams,
was born in Marlboro, March 26, 1840, died
May 30, 1893. He married, December 12,
i860, Susan Emeline, born December 29,
1839, daughter of Clark A. and Louisa
(Thayer) Winchester. They lived in West
Halifax, Vermont. Children: Evena L.,
born in West Halifax, February 6, 1862, mar-
ried, February 22, 1883, Charles H. Parme-
lee ; Mervill L., West Halifax, February 6,
1865 ; Alice S., West Halifax, July 28, 1867 ;
Marion S., West Halifax, April 2, 1871, mar-
ried, June 12, 1895, William B. McClellan;
Ella Annette, West Halifax, December 28,
1874, married, November 5, 1899, Charles
Hugh Leonard; child: Madeline, born De-
cember 5, 1900 (see Leonard VIII) ; Erunia,
West Halifax, January 23, 1877.

- Jonathan Rudd, immigrant an-
RUDD cestor, was born in England. He
settled as early at 1640 in New
Haven, Connecticut, and soon afterward in
Saybrook, Connecticut. He took the oath of
allegiance in 1651. He was a prominent cit-
izen of Saybrook, assistant to Captain Mason
in the fort there in 1652 ; sealer of leather
in 1656, and held various other places of trust
and honor. Governor John Winthrop Jr.
in 1672 put on record as part of his testimony
concerning the boundary line of New Lon-
don the romantic story of Mary Rudd's wed-
ding. The story is given in the history of New
London: "A young couple in Saybrook were
married. The groom was Thomas Bingham
and the bride Mary Rudd, daughter of Jona-
than Rudd. The wedding day was fixed and
a magistrate from one of the upper towns on
the river was engaged to perform the rite
(ministers were not allowed to perform mar-
riages) : for there was not, it seems, any
person in Saybrook duly qualified to officiate
on such an occasion. But 'there falling at
the time a great snow' the paths were oblit-
erated, traveling obstructed and intercourse
with the interior interrupted, so that 'the

magistrate intended to come thither was hin-
dered by the depth of the snow.' On the sea-
board there is usually less weight of snow
and the causes can be more readily ascer-
tained. The nuptials must not be delayed with-
out inevitable necessity. Application was
therefore made to Mr. Winthrop (who as
governor of New London colony was a mag-
istrate qualified to officiate) to come to Say-
brook to unite the parties. But he deriving
his authority from Massachusetts could not
le ally officiate in Connecticut. T saw it
necessary,' he wrote in his testimony, 'to
deny them in that way, but told them for an
expedient for their accommodation if they
come to the plantation it might be done. But
that being too difficult for them, it was agreed
that they should come to that place which is
now called Bride Brook, as being a place
within the bounds of the authority whereby I
then acted, otherwise I had exceeded the lim-
its of my commission.' This proposition was
accepted. On the brink of this little stream,
the boundary between the two colonies, the
parties met, Winthrop and his friends from
Pequot, and the bridal train from Saybrook.
Here the ceremony was performed under the
shelter of no roof, by no hospitable fireside,
without any accommodation but those fur-
nished bv the snow-covered earth, the over-
arching heavens and perchance the sheltering
side of a forest of pines and cedars. Roman-
tic lovers have sometimes pledged their faith
by joining hands over a narrow streamlet,
but never perhaps before or since was the
legal rite performed in a setting so wild and
solitary and under circumstances so interest-
ing and peculiar. Bride Brook, which is
named for this event, issues from a beautiful
sheet of water known as Bride Lake, and
runs into the Sound about a mile west of
Grant's Cove." The marriage was in 1646-
47. He died about 1668. Children : Jona-
than, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, born about
1650: Patience, married, October 7, 1685,
Samuel Brintnall ; Mary, married, December
12, 1666, Thomas Bingham (the romantic
marriage).

(II) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1)
Rudd, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut,
died at Norwich in that colony, 1689. He be-
queathed to his wife, sons Jonathan and Na-
thaniel, and daughter Abigail. He lived in
Norwich, settling there with his brother Na-
thaniel. Jonathan had a farm on the east
side of Shetucket, later at West Farms, now
the town of Franklin, Connecticut, where he
bought a tract of land of Owaneco, Decem-
ber 10, 1683, one hundred acres on Con-
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between Shunkhungannock Hill and Norwich 9, 171 1, daughter of Jabez and Elizabeth
bounds. He was one of the founders of the (Bushnell) Hyde, and granddaughter of Sam-
church. The descendants of his brother were uel and Jane (Lee) Hyde; married, Decem-
numerous at Montville, Connecticut. Chil- ber 29, 1735, Deacon Simon Tracy, born No-
dren, born at Norwich: Mercy, October 8, vember 7, 1710, at Norwich, second son of
1679; Jonathan, March 18, 1682; Nathaniel. Simon and Mary (Leffingwell) Tracy. Si-
May 22, 1684, mentioned below; Mary, Oc- mon Tracy was born January 6, 1680, at Nor-
tober 15, 1686; Abigail, born February 2, wich, died September 14, 1775, son of Dr.
1688. Solomon Tracy, of Norwich, and Sarah

(III) Nathaniel, son of Jonathan (2) (Huntington) Tracy, grandson of Lieuten-
Rudd, was born at Norwich, May 22, 1684, ant Thomas Tracy, one of the original pro-
died there February 20, 1776. He settled in prietors of Norwich. The Tracys settled in
Windham, Connecticut, and was a prominent Norwich where the wife of Deacon Simon
citizen. He was ensign in the militia in Tracy died August 3, 1741 ; and he married
1736, and a member of the Connecticut gen- (second) February 23, 1744, Abigail Bush-
eral assembly in 1737. He bought land in nell, born October 22, 1718, daughter of Dr.
what is now Scotland, Connecticut, in 1702, Caleb Bushnell. Deacon Simon Tracy died
and removed there. He was commissioned August 9, 1793, in his eighty-third year. Dea-
ensign of the second company of militia of con Jonathan Rudd married (second) March
the town of Windham in October, 1722, and 1, 1804, Anne Tyler. Children: Abigail,
in 1736 he became captain. He was a deputy June 13, 1767; Simon Tracy, September 1,
from Windham to the general assembly at the 1768; Mary, August 22, 1770; Elizabeth,
October session in 1737. He married (first) March 13, 1772; Jonathan, August 16, 1774;
December 27, 1709, at Windham, Rebecca Sarah, December 17, 1776; Hezekiah, men-
Waldo, born August 6, 1686, at Dunstable, tioned below; Lydia, May 6, 1785.
Massachusetts, died at Windham, September (VI) Hezekiah, son of Deacon Jonathan
7, 1727, daughter of John and Rebecca (4) Rudd, was born at Scotland, Connecti-
( Adams) Waldo, granddaughter of Cornelius cut, February 2, 1781. He graduated from
Waldo, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Yale College in the class of 1806 and for
of Captain Samuel Adams, also of Chelms- forty years followed the profession of school
ford. Nathaniel Rudd married (second) teacher. He taught at Colchester, Hunting -
April 18, 1728, at Windham, Esther Burnum, ton and Stratford. He was a man of culture
who died March 22, 1756, in the eighty- and fine literary tastes, a gifted poet. He
fourth year of her age, leaving no children, conducted on his own account a school for
An agreement dated May 25, 1760, between boys at Huntington for many years. He
Jonathan Rudd, Zebulon Rudd, and John married (first) September 24, 1809, Maria
Cary Jr., and Rebecca, his wife, all of Wind- De Forest, born in 1790 at Huntington,
ham, which Jonathan, Zebulon, and Rebecca daughter of Othniel and Hannah (Tomlin-
are children of Nathaniel Rudd, late of Wind- son) De Forest. She died January 12, 1828,
sor, deceased, witnesses that Nathaniel Rudd at Huntington. He married (second) Sep-
died intestate, February 20, 1760, and they tember 4, 1828, Mary Eliza Coggeshall, born
agree to divide some small estate not divided April 8, 1802, at Newport, daughter of Na-
by said Nathaniel Rudd in his lifetime. Chil- thaniel and Margaret Rudd. Children of
dren of first wife: Jonathan, born November first wife: Caroline, February 20, 1812, died
27, 1710, mentioned below; Nathaniel, May April 13, 1812; Abigail, September 4, 1813,
30, 1713; Rebecca, November 17, 1714; Zeb- married George W. Shelton; Mary Rexford,
ulon, July 26, 1717. December 4, 1815 ; Charles De Forest, men-

(IV) Jonathan (3), son of Nathaniel Rudd, tioned below; Caroline May, July 31, 1820,
was born at Windham, November 27, 1710, married George Nelson Allen. Children of
died at Kent, Connecticut, December 5, 1771. second wife: William Henry, September 8,
He married Esther Tyler. They had a son 1829, at Colchester; Nathaniel, April 8, 1831 ;
Jonathan, mentioned below. Frederick, March 19, 1834, died August 29,

(V) Deacon Jonathan (4) Rudd, son of 1836; Emily Post, June 10, 1837; Abigail,
Jonathan (3) Rudd, was born in Windham, February 25, 1839.

died April 3, 1823. He married (first) Oc- (VII) Charles De Forest, son of Hezekiah

tober 1, 1766, Mary, born at Norwich, Au- Rudd, was born at Huntington, February 20,

gust 11, 1741, daughter of Deacon Simon and 1818. He received his early education in the

Elizabeth (Hyde) Tracy, granddaughter of Boys' School conducted by his father at

Jabez Hyde. Elizabeth Hyde was born at Huntington. When a young man he was

Norwich West Farms, now Franklin, July engaged in the banking business in New York

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City, and was afterward a stock broker in
Wall street. He was an able and success-
ful man. He died at Brooklyn, New York,
November 14, 1893, and was buried at Nor-
wich, Connecticut. In religion he was a Con-
gregationalist ; in politics a Republican. He
married, August 7, 1849, Rosina Newport,
born April 23, 1828, in New York, daughter
of William and Margaret (McGregor) Bla-
grove. Her father was born in Richmond,
Virginia, son of Rev. Benjamin and Sarah
(Pelham) Blagrove, the latter daughter of
Peter Pelham, of Richmond, descendant of
Lord Pelham. Children : Margaret Bla-
grove. born May 12, 185 1 ; George Allen
(twin), March 30, 1853; Erastus St. John
(twin), died January. 3, 1855; Mary St. John,
August 19, 1855 ; Maria De Forest, Decem-
ber 20, 1856, married Charles B. Rich-
ards, M. D., a noted physician of Bingham-
ton, New York; Kate Allen, May 25, 1858;
Annie McGregor, October 14, i860, married
Allen M. North, of Binghamton ; Octavia
Pelham, married William P. Lyman, of Nor-
wich ; Angeline D.

The ancestors of the Pierson
PIERSON family were clear, cool, con-
sistent men of mature opin-
ions, of large and fair views. They were rare
men, men of comprehensive, exact, liberal,
regulated minds. They were highly educated,
and stood high in the community in regard
to educational talents and integrity. Being
nearly all of Puritan stock they possessed all
the religious earnestness of their age.

(I) Henry Pierson, the first of the name
of whom we have definite information, was
one of the first settlers of Southampton, Long
Island, in 1640, coming from Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, with his brother Abraham. He
served as clerk of Suffolk county from 1655
to 1669. He married Mary Cooper; chil-
dren : Joseph, see forward ; Henry, born
1652, died 1701 ; Benjamin, died 1731 ; Theo-
dore, born before 1659; Sarah, born January
20, 1660. Henry Pierson (father) died in
1680-81.

(II) Lieutenant Joseph Pierson, eldest son
of Henry and Mary (Cooper) Pierson, was
born at Southampton, Long Island, date un-
known. He married, November 17, 1675,
Amy Barnes ; children : Amy, born October
28, 1676; Henry, April 17, 1678: Mary, June
12, 1680 ; Joseph, August 6, 1682 ; Ephraim,
see forward ; Samuel, February 24, 1689-90.

(III) Sergeant Ephraim Pierson third son
of Lieutenant Joseph and Amy (Barnes)
Pierson, was born January 20, 1686-87, at
or near Southampton, Long Island, died at

Guilford, Connecticut, February 25, 1761. He
served as sexton for twenty years of the old
First Church. He married, June 2"j, 17 10;
Dorothy Bishop ; children : Hannah, born
March 8, 171 1; Mary, May 30, 1713; Mary
(2), September 3, 1720; Nathaniel, Septem-
ber 13, 1722; Sarah, August 5, 1724; Eunice,
July 13, 1726; Ephraim, see forward; Sub-
mit, October 8, 1732.

(IV) Ephraim (2), second son of Ser-
geant Ephraim (1) and Dorothy (Bishop)
Pierson, was born September 21, 1728. He
married, August 31, 1758, Submit Stowe, of
Guilford, Connecticut, ceremony performed
by James Sprout, minister. Children : Sam-
uel, see forward; Mollie, born September 11,
1760, baptized October 12, 1760. Ephraim
Pierson Jr. was a resident of Guilford ; he
was drowned at sea before his daughter was
born.

(V) Samuel, only son of Ephraim (2) and
Submit (Stowe) Pierson, was born in Wal—
lingford, August 2, 1759, died June 8, 1845.
He lived, died and was buried in Glaston-
bury, as did also his wife. The following
account of Mr. Pierson was given by Mr.
Henry M. Selden, of Brooklyn, New York :

"At the beginning of the Revolutionary War
he was an impressed seaman on board of a
British man-of-war, from which he escaped
and joined the American army. During the' lat-
ter service, while marching barefoot over the
frozen ground, with his head inclined forward,
the better to pick his way, he was reproved by
an officer behind him for not marching in an
erect, soldier-like manner, and who, at the same
time, struck him with his sword. Pierson sud-
denly brought his musket back with such force
that the butt, striking the officer in the breast,
knocked him down. He then wheeled, and was
about to pin him to the ground with his bay-
onet, and was only prevented by the efforts of
his fellow soldiers. He was arrested, tried by
court martial, and sentenced to be shot. Gen-
eral Washington, hearing of the affair, had the
prisoner brought before him, and on learning
the particulars asked him if he did not know it
was death for a private to strike an officer.
Pierson replied with spirit: 'I know it is death
for an officer to strike me.' General Washing-
ton immediately ordered his release, and a pair
of shoes from his chest to be given him, and
told him never to be without shoes again. He
then reproved his officers, and charged them to
be more careful and considerate for their men,
adding that such a soldier was too valuable
to lose, and if he had a body of men like him
ho could pierce the enemy's center at any time.
Pierson at length fell into the enemy's hands,
and as he was being marched away, unarmed, in
charge of two of his captors, he managed, un-
der some pretext, to take off his shoes, and
on approaching water, he threw them away,
saying 'Catch me if you can,' rushed for the
water, swam away and escaped."

Samuel Pierson married Betsy Dickinson,
of Glastonbury, born May 28, 1765, died De-

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cember 13, 1839. Children: I. Betty, born
September 8, 1786, died April 11, 1803. 2.
Annia, December 22, 1787, died September
23, 1873 ; married a Pary or Perry. 3. Orin-
da, November 23, 1789, died August 26,
1880 : married a Chappell. 4. Mehetable, Au-
gust 28, 1791, died January 5, 1835; married
a Dickinson. 5. Ephraim, May 15, 1793, died
March 10, 1797. 6. Samuel, December 30,
1794, died March 13, 1877. 7. Pamelia, March

18, 1797, died October 26, 1884; married a
Curtis. 8. Sally, February 29, 1799, died July
12, 1867; married a Nichols. 9. Suky, April

19, 1800, died October 3, 1897 ; married a
House. 10. Ephraim, January 31, 1802, died
April 23, 1874 ; he was a resident of Haddam ;
he represented his county in the legislature
in 1840-41-49-62. 11. Elizabeth, May 19,
1804; married a Loveland. 12. Daniel, Jan-
uary 22, 1806, died March 15, 1863. 13. Na-
than, see forward. 14. Nathaniel, twin of
Nathan, March 31, 1809, died same day. 15.
Betsey, April 23, 1811, died January 3, 1898;
married a Hodge.

(VI) Nathan, son of Samuel and Betsy
(Dickinson) Pierson, was born March 31,
1809, died April 15, 1897. He resided for
many years in Glastonbury, and later re-
moved to Tolland, where his death occurred.
He represented Glastonbury and later Tolland
in the legislature. He married, December 1,
1831, Julia M. Post, born May 8, 1809, died
August t, 1891 (see Post V). Children: Jo-
sephine, born May 23, 1833, died June 9,
1856; Dennison, December 23, 1835, died Jan-
uary 16, 1898; Lyman A., September 22,
1837, died July 16, 1896; Martin Van Bu-
ren, see forward; Thomas B., July 20, 1841,
died March 1, 1862; Melissa, July 20, 1843,
died November 26, 1843 ! Newton, September
25, 1844, died September 9, 1865 ; Melissa,
December 15, 1846, died October 19, 1863;
Frederick A., April 15, 1849; George B.,
April 2.J, 185 1.

(VII) Martin Van Buren, son of Nathan
and Julia M. (Post) Pierson, was born in
Glastonbury, Connecticut, July 9, 1839. He
was educated in the schools of his native town,
worked on his father's farm, and later en-
gaged in agriculture on his own account.
After his marriage he removed to Norwich,
Connecticut, and for some time worked in
the depot of the Central railroad of Vermont.
He then established a local stage and omni-
bus line, which continued until the advent of
the electric cars, and during this time he also
engaged in the sale of horses, continuing in
both lines of business for a quarter of a cen-
tury, at the expiration of which time he dis-
posed of the same to his son. During his

business career he gained a reputation for in-
tegrity and honesty, and was esteemed and
honored by all with whom he was brought in
contact. He is public-spirited and enterpris-
ing, contributing his share toward the welfare
and progress of the community in which .he
resides. Mr. Pierson is a member of Trin-
ity Methodist Episcopal Church of Norwich,
and of Norwich Lodge, No. 12, Ancient Or-
der of United Workmen. He married, No-
vember 28, 1861, Annis, daughter of Samuel
and Eliza (Root) Finley, of Marlborough,
Hartford county, Connecticut. Children: 1.
Elmer Ransom, born July 13, 1863; engaged
in business with his father, and is now de-
voting his attention to the shipping of horses,
having purchased his father's interest in the
business ; his place of business is at No. 349
West Main street, Norwich. He married
Carrie Virginia Lesher ; children : i. Harold
Lesher, born August 16, 1889; ii. Edith An-
nie, born November 2, 1892. 2. Annie E.,
born June 2, 1869; married John M. Newton:
six children, two of whom died young; the
other children are : Gladys Etta, born May
27, 1894; Floyd Chesebrough, November 27,
1896; Alberta Pierson, August 16, 1903;
Russell Elmer, February 19, 1910.

(The Post Line).

(I) Stephen Post and his wife Eleanor were
born in Clamsford, England, and came to
America in the ship "Griffin," arriving in
Boston, Massachusetts, September 4, 1633.
They were members of the congregation
which the Rev. Mr. Hooker led through the
wilderness in June, 1635, to found the col-
ony, afterward called Connecticut. After a
time Stephen Post removed to Saybrook Fort,
at a place called Oyster River, where he died
August, 1659. His name is inscribed on the
monument in the old burying ground of the
Center Church, erected by the citizens of
Hartford, in memory of the founders of that
city. His wife Eleanor died November 13,
1670. They had four children born in Eng-
land: John, 1626; Thomas, see forward;
Abraham, 1629; Catherine, 163 — .

(II) Thomas, second son of Stephen and
Eleanor Post, was born in 1628. He moved
to Norwich with his brother John in 1660.
He married (first) Mary (May) Andrus ;
one child, Sarah. Married (second) Rebec-
ca (Bruen) Brown. Children: Obadiah, Jo-
seph, see forward, Hannah.

(III) Joseph, second son of Thomas and
Rebecca (Bruen) (Brown) Post, married.

. Children : Rebecca, Sarah, Lucretia,

Mindwell, Marah or Maria, Elizabeth, Joseph,
see forward, and Huldah.

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(IV) Toseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Post,
died at Granby, Connecticut, May 20, 1828,
aged eighty-one. He married . Chil-
dren: 1. Joseph, born May 9, 1772; married
Clarissa Wilcox; children: Clarissa, Lorenzo,
John, Fanny. 2. Betsey, born February 21,
1774; married Elijah Holcomb ; children:
Chandler, Juliette, Hiram. 3. Polly, born
February 17, 1776. 4. Eleazer, born Novem-
ber, 1777: married Asenath Brockway. 5.
Dan, born November 20, 1779; married (first)
Polly Heresford; (second) Hannah Finley;
children of first wife : John, Marrietta, Mar-
tin, Charles; children of second wife: Finley,
Hannah, Joseph, Eleazer. 6. Asahel, born
September, 1781, see forward. 7. William,
born May 23, 1784; married Betsey Heres-
ford; children: Climsna, Caroline, Mary,
Hannah, Polly, Sarah, Gibson, Leonard, John.
8. Wealthy, born August 31, 1786; married
Warren Warner ; six children : Wealthy, died
October 20, 1857 ; her husband died Novem-
ber 20, 1882, at Marlboro. 9. Araunah, born
January 31, 1789; married Jerusha Daniels;
nine children.

(V) Asahel, son of Joseph (2) Post, was
born September, 1781. He married Anna
Dunham. Children: 1. Samantha, married
Daniel Pierson ; three children. 2. Julia M.,
married Nathan Pierson (see Pierson VI).
3. Mariva, died young. 4. Mariva, married
Austin Root; four children. 5. Sarilla, un-
married. 6. Celia, unmarried. 7. Henry,
married ; eight children ; lived in Cali-
fornia. 8. Electa, married Albert Rockwell ;
four children. 9. Hiram, went to Michigan.

The surname Briggs is from the
BRIGGS old Saxon word Brigg, mean-
ing bridge, and has been in use
from the earliest times in England. William
atte Brigge of Salle was mentioned in the
records of Edward I. and Edward II., about
1272, and the Norfolk family of this name
traces their descent from him. Various
branches of the family in England have coats-
of-arms and include many distinguished men.
(I) Clement Briggs, American immigrant,
tame from Southwarke, England. At any
rate he made an affidavit, August 29, 1638,
to the effect that in the year 1616 he was
living with Samuel Latham on Bermundsey
street, Southwarke, England. He came to the
Plymouth colony in New England in 1621
in the ship "Fortune." He was a felsmonger
by trade. Latham was also a felsmonger
and doubtless taught him his trade. In this
affidavit Briggs states that Thomas Harlow
was then dwelling with Robert Weeks at that
place. Briggs is mentioned in a letter from

Governor Bradford to Governor John Win-
throp in 1631. Briggs was in Weymouth in
1633 ; he acknowledged the sale of a piece of
land at Plymouth to Robert Weeks, August
29, 1638. He shared in the division of the
common cattle, May 22, 1627. He owned
land at Jones Swamp, June 3, 1639; was an
innholder at Weymouth, June 5, 1660, and
earlier. His will was proved October 24,
1650, bequeathing to wife, to sons Thomas,
Jonathan, Clement,. David, Remember. The
widow made her will November 13, 1683, be-
queathing to grandchild Clement and to son
Remember Briggs. He married (first) Joane
Allen. Mr. Thomas Stoughton performed
the ceremony, and was fined for action March
1, 1630-31. Apparently the marriage was
properly legalized, but the magistrate exceed-
ed his authority in some manner. Briggs was
a resident of Weymouth from about 1630,
though this marriage was before a Dorchester
magistrate. Clergymen were not allowed to
officiate at marriages in the early colonial

days. He married (second) Elizabeth .

Children: Thomas, born June 14, 1633; Jon-
athan, June 14, 1635 ; David, August 23,
1640; Clement Jr., January 2, 1642-43. Chil-
dren of second wife : John, died young ; Re-
member.

(II) William Briggs, of Taunton, Massa-
chusetts, thought to be son of Clement Briggs,
and mentioned by Savage as probably brother
of Clement's son Jonathan, settled with oth-
ers of this family in Taunton. He married,
in November, 1666, Sarah Macomber. Chil-
dren, born in Taunton : William, January 25,
1667-68, mentioned below; Thomas (twin),
September 9, 1669; Sarah (twin), September
10. 1669, a day later than her brother; Eliza-
beth, March 14, 1671 ; Hannah, November 4,
1672; Mary, August 14, 1674; Matthew, Feb-
ruarv 5, 1675 ; John, March 19, 1680.

(III) William (2), son of William (1)
Briggs, settled in Taunton about 1690. He
married there October 13, 1693, Elizabeth
Lincoln. Children : Isaac, Elizabeth, Noah,
mentioned below, William, Sarah, born July 5,
1694.

( TV) Noah, son of William (2) Briggs,
was born about 1700 or later. He married,
at Taunton, August 17, 1733, Elizabeth Trum-
bull. He settled at Volunton, Windham coun-
ty, Connecticut, about 1745. He was an el-
der of the Voluntown Congregational Church
in 1760. He was one of the petitioners from
the towns of Farmington, Windham, Canter-
bury. Plainfield and Voluntown for a grant
of land on the Delaware river, March 29, 1753,
and was of the company formed July t8, 1753,
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hanna valley, but it does not appear that he
joined the colony. Children, born at Taunton:
Elkanab, about 1735 ; Zephaniah, lived at
Sherman, Connecticut; Elizabeth or Betsey;
Freelove. Children, born at Voluntown :
Sarah ; Susannah ; Perez, married Elizabeth
Smith, and lived at Burlington, Otsego coun-
ty, New York; William, mentioned below;

John, soldier in the revolution, married

Hall, lived at Skaneateles, New York; James,
soldier in the revolution, married Phebe
Bowen; Isaac, never married.

( V) William (3), son of Noah Briggs, was
born at Voluntown, Connecticut, about 1750.
The first federal census taken in 1790 shows
that he was living at Voluntown and had four
sons under sixteen and two females in his
family. His brother James was also head of
a family there. He was on a committee to
settle the boundary line of Voluntown in 1794.
He married Elizabeth, born June 2, 1753,
daughter of John and Hannah (Frink) Gal-
lup (see Gallup IX). He married three
times.

(VI) Isaac, son of William (3) Briggs,
was born at Voluntown about 1780. He was
a farmer and blacksmith at Plainfield, Wind-
ham county. He married Cynthia, born De-
cember 22, 1784, daughter of Benjamin and
Amy (Kinne) Gallup (see Gallup IX). Chil-
dren: Asher, born 1809, mentioned below;
William, February, 1815, mentioned below;
Nathaniel, died aged five years ; Horace
Avery, January 6, 1820, mentioned below.

(VII) Asher, son of Isaac Briggs, was born
in May, 1809, died September, 1886. He
married (first) Eliza Park; (second) Julia
Williams; (third) Sabrina Francis. Children,
all by first wife: 1. Isaac, lived and died in
Woodstock, Windham county ; married and
had children : i. Lillian, married Oliver His-
cox and lives in Woodstock ; ii. Alfred, mar-
ried Bertha Spencer and lives in Pomfret,
Connecticut, and has Harold and Edith ; iii.
Emily, married Sydney Butler and resides in
New Haven, Connecticut, has no children. 2.
James, resides in Plainfield.

(VII) William (4), son of Isaac Briggs,
was born February, 1815, died May, 1893.
He married (first) Ruth Taft ; (second) Eliz-
abeth Yerrington. Children, all by first wife :
Ruth, Luther, Mary and Emma. Emma
married Charles Woodmansee : children: i.
Ruth Elizabeth Woodmansee, married Ray-
mond P. Geer, son of Elisha Geer, a farmer
of Scotland Road, Norwich, Connecticut, and
has two children, Gladys Vivian and Beatrice
Geer ; ii. Belton Everett Woodmansee. mar-
ried Louisa , and has one son ; iii.

Wesley Woodmansee, died young; iv. Maurice

D. Woodmansee, unmarried ; v. Clark W.
Woodmansee, unmarried ; vi. Child, died in
infancy.

(VII) Horace Avery, son of Isaac Briggs,
was born at Plainfield, January 6, 1820. He
was educated there in the public schools. In
1849 ne came to Norwich, Connecticut. He
worked at first at the trade of blacksmith in
the gun shop of Edwin Wesson, in Hartford
for two years. He was employed at Norwich
in the shop of Horace Smith, gun maker, for
two or three years, then he came to Worcester
to work in the Allen gun factory. After two
years he returned to Norwich and for a year
made guns for Christopher Brand. He then
entered the employ of the new firm of Smith
& Wesson who began business in Norwich,
making pistols and rifles, and he continued
with the firm until the business was sold to
the Winchester Arms Company. He worked
for several years afterward for the Manhat-
tan Arms Company of Norwich. He was aft-
erward with the Bacon Arms Company until
it was sold to the Hopkins & Allen Company
of Norwich, of which Mr. Briggs was one
of the five founders. He took an active part
in the development and growth of the con-
cern and is still a director, though after the
shops were burned February 4, 1900, he re-
tired from active work. He married (first)
November 25, 1849, Susan M. Stanton, of
Voluntown, daughter of Daniel and Keturah
(Gallup) Stanton. He married (second) Es-
ther Green, of Mansfield, Connecticut. Chil-
dren of first wife: 1. Charles E., born Au-
gust 27,, 1853 ! niarried Louisa Swan and had
Harvey M. and Horace Isaac Briggs ; Har-
vey M. married Hortense Ladd Manning and
lives in Norwich ; Horace Isaac married
Alice Clark, and lives in Providence, Rhode
Island. 2. Susan Maria, born September 19,
1855 ; unmarried. 3. Lillian W., born De-
cember 17, 1858: married Charles Cross; chil-
dren : Robert and Lillian Cross. 4. Alvin D.,
born February 1, 1862; married (first) Alice
Thompson; (second) a Miss Riley; resides
in Westerly, Rhode Island. Children of sec-
ond wife: 5. Hattie C, married Leonard
Church, of Norwich. 6. Edward, married
Martha Babcock and has one child, Augus-
tine, a daughter. 7. Horace A., died young.
8. Nellie E., married Flenry Whiting, and
resides in Worcester, Massachusetts, has no
children.

(The Gallup Line).

(VIII) Captain John Gallup, son of John
Gallup (q. v.), was born at Stonington, Con-
necticut, in 1675. He married, in 1709, Eliz-
abeth, born May 22, 1683, daughter of Isaac
and Martha (Park) Wheeler, of Stonington,

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and granddaughter of Thomas Wheeler, who
was horn in England in 1602, and came to
\merica in 1630. Captain John Gallup moved
to Voluntown about 1710 and was one of the
early settlers of the town, having much land
there which the Gallup family owned in 1891.
He was chosen one of the selectmen at the
first town meeting, June 20, 1 721, and his
name is mentioned in all the important trans-
actions of the town. He gave three acres for
a meeting house and a burial ground, and was
on a committee to build the church. He was
one of the ruling elders of the first church
formed in the town, which was Presbyterian.
In 1726 he was captain of the first military
company formed there. He died December
29J I755> and his wife died April 14, 1735.
It appears in his will that he married twice,
font no record of it has been found. Children,
born at Voluntown : William, September 2,
^710; Isaac, February 24, 1712; Elizabeth,
April 9, 1714; Martha, September 3, 1716;
Hannah, January 29, 1719 ; Dorothy, March
22, 1 721; John, mentioned below.

(IX) John (2), son of Captain John (1)
Gallup, was born June 9, 1724, at Voluntown.
He married Hannah Frink, April 9, 1747,
and they settled at Voluntown. He died
April 6, 1801, and his wife died in 1773. Chil-
dren: Hannah, born February 15, 1748; Wil-
liam, October 8, 1749; John, July 23, 1751 ;
Elizabeth, June 2, 1753, married William
Briggs (see Briggs V) ; Daniel, March 7,
1755 : Wheeler, January 25, 1757 ; Jabish, May
12, 1759; Samuel, April 7, 1761 ; Nathan, Feb-
ruary 11, 1763; Dorothy, January 11, 1765.

(VIII) Nathaniel, son of John Gallup (q.
v.), was baptized at Stonington, Connecticut,
July 4, 1692, died April 3, 1739. He married
Margaret, daughter of Benadam and Esther
(Prentice) Gallup, June 4, 1717. Both were
admitted to the Stonington church, July 20,
1 718. She died March 2, 1761. Children,
born at Stonington : Nathaniel, April 29,
1718; John, January 29, 1720; Thomas, April
19, 1722, died young; Mercy, April 7, 1725;
Thomas, August 26, 1727; Margaret, Octo-
ber 12, 1730; Martha, July 30, 1733; Benja-
min, mentioned below.

(IX) Benjamin, son of Nathaniel Gallup,
was born July 26, 1736, at Stonington, died
July 4. T824. He married, January 20, 1763,
Amy Kinne, of Voluntown, who died Decem-
ber 6, 1824. Children : Hannah ; Nathaniel
January 14, 1765; Zerviah, January 20, 1767;
Thomas, November 20, 1768: Amy, June 27,
1770; Mercy, April 17, 1772; Benjamin, May
25, 1771; Lucy, May 17, 1776;. Martha, April
16, 1778; Esther, April 17, 1780; Margaret,
November 18, 1782 ; Cynthia, December 22,

1784, married Isaac Briggs (see Briggs VI) ;
Eunice, March 18, 1787; Keturah, February
22, 1790.

Nicholas Munger was a step-
MUNGER son of Henry Goldam, an

early settler of Guilford, Con-
necticut, and it is supposed that he came there
with his stepfather. He is believed to have
been the son of Frances, wife of Henry Gold-
am, and had a half-sister, Susannah Goldam,
who married John Bishop Jr., of Guilford.
Goldam had no other children and by his
will, dated July 9, 1661, he left to Nicholas
Munger, his "son-in-law," "all my land in
the Neck, paying myself, if demanded during
my lifetime, one barley corn by the year by
way of acknowledgement, and, after my
death, if my wife shall survive and shall de-
mand the same, the sum of five bushels of
whete by the year, but if she miss demand-
ing in or at the very expiring of the year, then
to be free from any payment that present year,
and at the death of my aforesaid wife, to be
to him fully and freely and to his heirs for-
ever." The land left Nicholas Munger was
situated on the north bank of the Neck river
on the public road, and he is supposed to have
settled there as early as 1651. He married,
June 2, 1659, Sarah Hull. His wife sur-
vived him, and married Dennis Crampton in
1669. She died January 31, 1689. He died
October 16, 1668. Children: John, born April

26, 1660, mentioned below; Samuel, 1665.

(II) John, son of Nicholas Munger, was
born April 26, 1660. He was a weaver by
trade, and had a list in 1716 of one hundred
and thirty pounds, six shillings, three pence.
He married, June 3, 1684, Mary Evarts. She
died June, 1734. Children: Mary, born Jan-
uary 16, 1685-86, died young; John, August

19, 1687; Mary, August 19, 1689; Abigail,
February 26, 1691-92; Ebenezer, July 4,
1693, mentioned below ; Caleb, May 16, 1695,
died young; Jonathan, April 14, 1697; Josiah,
July 20, 1704; Rachel, 1706.

(III) Ebenezer, son of John Munger, was
born July 4, 1693. He married (first) May

27, 1717, Anne Scranton. She died April

20, 1725. He married (second) July 6, 1726,
Susannah Hubbard, of Haddam. After his
death she married Josiah Crampton, of Guil-
ford, February 14, 1733. She died March 25,
1788. Ebenezer Munger's list in 1716 was
thirty-four pounds. Children of first wife:
Ebenezer, born September 3, 1718; Caleb,
September 24, 1722; Reuben, March 28, 1725;
Simeon, March 28, 1725, died May 11, 1725.
Child of second wife: Simeon, mentioned be-
low.

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(IV) Simeon, son of Ebenezer Munger, was
born April 6, 1727, died March 16, 1815. He
lived in East Guilford. He married, July 3,
175 1, Sarah, daughter of Josiah Scranton.
She died December 15, 1815 Children: Si-
meon, born December 7, 1752; Captain Jo-
siah, October 16, 1754; Mary, November 3,
1756; Wyllis, February 9, 1761, mentioned
below ; Mabel, December 17, 1762.

(V) Wyllis, son of Simeon Munger, was
born February 9, 1761. He married, January
19, 1785, Hester, born September 18, 1760,
died March 12, 1846, daughter of Daniel
Hand.

(VI) Walter Price, son of Wyllis Munger,
was born in Madison, September 21, 1801,
died September 4, 1859. He remained in
his native town and became a prominent citi-
zen, town clerk, 1826, justice of the peace,
in 1837 agent of the town deposit fund, and
deacon of the Congregational church. In pol-
itics he was originally a Whig but after the
dissolution of that party was a Republican.
He was a prosperous farmer. He was one
of the founders of the Madison Mutual Fire
Insurance Company. He married, November
13, 1828, Eliza Seward. Children : Walter
Seward, born December 31, 1829, mentioned
below ; George Wyllis, November 30, 1832 ;
Esther Amelia ; Ann Eliza.

(VII) Dr. Walter Seward Munger, son of
Walter Price Munger, was born in Madison,
December 31, 1829. He was a prominent phy-
sician and surgeon and for many years medi-
cal examiner and health officer of Watertown,
Connecticut.

Dr. W. S. Munger married, in the Madison
Congregational Church, February 11, 1856,
Lucy, born June 8, 1829, died February 11,
1906, daughter of Deacon Zenas Wilcox, of
Madison, a lineal descendant of William Wil-
coxson (sometimes Wilcox), of Stratford,
Connecticut, born at St. Albans, Hertford-
shire, England, in 1601, representative to the
general court at Hartford in 1647, died 1652.
Her mother was a descendant of Vincent
Meigs, who came from Devonshire or Dorset-
shire, England, about 1640. Fler maternal
grandmother was Mary Field, sister of Da-
vid Dudley Field, father of the famous Henry
M., Stephen, David Dudley and Cyrus Field,
all great men in their chosen fields. Their
only child was Carl Eugene, mentioned below.

(VIII) Dr. Carl Eugene Munger, son of
Dr. Walter Seward Munger, was born in Ber-
gen, New York, where his parents were then
living, April 13, 1858. He was but three
months old when they returned to Connecti-
cut and located at Watertown. He attended
the public schools and Watertown Academy,

and was prepared for college by a private
tutor. He was graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale College in the class
of 1880 with the degree of Ph. B. He began
the study of medicine in the College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
and was graduated with the degree of M. D.
in 1883. After a year in the Randalls Island
Hospital of New York City and three months
in the Chambers Street Hospital in New York
City, he settled in Waterbury, Connecticut,
as a practicing physician and surgeon, making
a specialty of diseases of the nose, ear and
throat. During the fall and winter of 1891-
92 he studied at Vienna and Berlin in his
special subjects. He is laryngologist and au-
ral surgeon of the Waterbury Hospital and
assistant surgeon of the Manhattan Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital of New York. He is a
member of medical board and one of the
directors of the Gaylord Farm Sanitarium
for the treatment of tuberculosis. He is a
member of the Waterbury Medical Associa-
tion, the New Haven Medical Society, the
Connecticut State Medical Society and has
been president of both Waterbury and New
Haven societies. He is a fellow of the New
York Academy of Medicine, the American
Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological
Society. He was appointed assistant surgeon
of the Second Regiment, Connecticut National
Guard, April 14, 1887, served about a year
and was honorably discharged July 18, 1888.
He is a member of St. John's Protestant Epis-
copal Church. He is a prominent Free Ma-
son, a member of Continental Lodge, No. 76,
of Eureka Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, of Waterbury Council, No. 21, Royal
and Select Masters ; of Clark Commandery,
No. 7, Knights Templar ; of Doric Lodge of
Perfection, of Ionic Council, Princes of Jeru-
salem ; of Corinthian Chapter, Rose Croix ;
of Lafayette Consistory and of Sphinx Tem-
ple, Mystic Shrine. He has been high priest
of Eureka Chapter, eminent commander of'
Clark Commandery and sovereign prince of
Ionic Council. He is a member of Theta Xi
Beta Chapter, college fraternity, of Yale ; of
the Waterbury Club, the Country Club of
Waterbury, the Home Club of Waterbury,
the Graduates Club of New Haven, the Yale
Club of New York and the Connecticut Soci-
ety of Colonial Wars. He is a Republican in
politics, but has sought no public office.

He married (first) October 18, 1888, Mary
Rose Anderson, who died November 24, 1889.
He married (second) November 30, 1893,
Lucy L., born in Waterbury, daughter of
John Edward Smith, a prominent manufac-
turer of that city. She had brothers : J. Rich-

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arcl, Edward S., deceased, John Clark and
Ralph Herbert Smith. Children of second
wife, born in Waterbury: Walter Seward,
June 2, 1896; Ralph Smith, February 1, 1899;
John Clarke, July 19, 1905.

Andrew Pitcher, immigrant
PITCHER ancestor, was born in Eng-
land and settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1634. He was admitted a
freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony, June
2, 1 64 1. He married Margaret . Chil-
dren : Samuel, mentioned below ; John ; Jona-
than ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Experi-
ence, baptized September 25, 1642 ; Mary, No-
vember 25, 1644 ; Ruth, July 25, 1647 '■> Son,
born April 18, 1652, died young.

(II) Samuel, son of Andrew Pitcher, was
born in Dorchester, and settled in Milton,
Massachusetts. He married (first) Novem-
ber 30, 1 67 1, Alice Caig, who died November
20, 1680. He married (second) August 3,
1681, Mary Blake. Children: Mary, born
January 14, 1673; Samuel, December 8, 1674;
Joanna, April 13, 1677; Jonathan, mentioned
below; Mary, June 10, 1682; Susanna, 1684;
Edward, mentioned below ; Joseph, mentioned
below.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Andrew Pitcher,
died January 12, 1736, in his eighty-fifth year.

1 fe married (first) July 8, 1685, Mary ,

who died June 14, 1709, and (second) Mary,
daughter of Ezra Clapp. Children of first
wife: Nathaniel, mentioned below; Mary,
April 26, 1688; Sarah, November 1, 1693; Ed-
ward, October 24, 1697, died young; Susanna,
December 2, 1700; Ezra, mentioned below;
Mary, November 4, 1705.

(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Pitcher, was
born at Milton, December 10, 1678. He ap-
pears to have settled in East Greenwich,
Rhode Island. Among his children were
these, recorded at East Greenwich : Martha,
October 21, 1721 ; Phebe, June 24, 1724; John,
.May 8, 1728; Jonathan, December 6, 1731 ;
Abigail, June 16, 1733-34; William, settled at
Attleborough.

(Ill) Edward, son of Samuel Pitcher, was
born at Dorchester, February 6, 168 — . Chil-
dren: Eliakim, born July 23, 1709; Abijah,
December 29, 1710; Jane, December 26,
1712; Edward, May 30, 1716.

(Ill) Joseph, son of Samuel Pitcher, was

born 23, 168 — , and settled in Scitu-

ate. He had a daughter Lydia, May 4. 1717,
and probably other children.

(Ill) Rev. Nathaniel (2) Pitcher, son of
Nathaniel (1) Pitcher, was born at Milton,
Xovember 30, 1685. Tie married Sarah
. Children: Nathaniel, June 7, 171 1;

Samuel, July 6, 1713; Sarah, April 27, 1715;
Mary, January 21, 1716,

(III) Ezra, son of Nathaniel (1) Pitcher,
was born May 31, 1703, at Milton, and set-
tled in Scituate. He married Zerviah .

Children, born at Scituate : Desire, Septem-
ber 25, 1733 ; Ezra, June 2, 1735 ; John, Janu-
ary 11, 1736; Elisha, April 4, 1740.

(IV) Elijah Pitcher, son or nephew of one
of the third generation, mentioned above.
Nearly the entire family of the first three
generations, as shown on the records, is given
above. In 1790 there were three of the fam-
ily at Westfield, Massachusetts, according to
the federal census, Daniel Pitcher, who had
one son under sixteen and three females in his
family ; Reuben Pitcher who had four sons
under sixteen and three females; Elijah, who
had only self and wife and was either a very
young or very old man. An Elijah Pitcher,
either the Westfield man or his son, was in
the revolutionary army from Westfield, in
Captain David Moseley's company, Colonel
John Moseley's regiment, in September, 1777.

The Elijah of this sketch was in New Lon-
don, Connecticut, before 1790, when, accord-
ing to the first federal census, he had three
males over sixteen, six sons under sixteen and
two females in his family. He married, in
1770, Hannah Barker. He died July 18,
1839, aged eighty-seven years. That would
fix his year of birth as 1752 and he would
have been but eighteen when married. Chil-
dren: 1. Elijah, mentioned below. 2. Elisha,
May 2, 1773 ; married Jane Coombs ; children :
Betsey, Elisha, Alexander, Gerard, David,
Maria, Sally, Harriet, Jane and Elisha. 3.
William, August 26, 1775 ; married Lucy
Dareby ; children : Charles, Joel, William, Bos-
well, Gilbert, George, John, Samuel : by his
second wife, Nabby (Hazen), one son,
Henry. 4. David, November 6, 1777; mar-
ried (first) Polly Gibbons and (second) Mary
Hurlburt ; children : Eliza, Lydia, Lyman,
Frank, Mary, Austin, Eunice, Charlotte, Ju-
lia, Ellsworth, Gerard and Elizabeth. 5. Eph-
raim, February 22, 1780; married (first) De-
sire Brown and (second) Charlotte Crocker;
children : Mary Ann, Emily, Adeline, Eph-
raim, Washington, Emily and Desire. 6. Dan-
iel, November 28, 1782; married Betsey Ellis;
children : Eliza, Caroline, Lucretia, Loren,
Thomas, Joseph, Alary Ann, Ann, James
Monroe, Hezekiah and Daniel. 7. Gurdon,
May 15, 1785; married Rebecca Harris; chil-
dren : Jerusha, Lyman, Dennison, Simon,
Henry, Janette, Joanna, Julia, Jane ; by his
second wife Gurdon. 8. Asher, September,
1788 ; married Bethia Ellis ; children : Louisa,
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Ham, Lucretia and Betliia. 9. Hannah, June,
1791. 10. Jerusha, October 11, 1797; mar-
ried Erastus Waters; children: i. Hannah
Elizabeth, married Jonathan Starr, of New
London, a lumber merchant ; ii. Henrietta
Blake, married David H. Waterman, of Yan-
tic, Connecticut ; iii. Frances Jane, who died
young; iv. George Ellsworth, born September
28, 1834; married Ann Holmes, a native of
England, November 16, 1862. He is a well-
known citizen of Norwich where he followed
farming. In 1862 he entered the employ of
the Yantic cemetery, Norwich, and continued
for many years, being superintendent part of
the time. He is a member of the First Con-
gregational Church at Norwich Town. Chil-
dren of George Ellsworth Waters: Child,
died young, and Annie Elizabeth Waters, a
teacher in the public schools, living with her
father in Norwich.

(V) Elijah (2), son of Elijah (1) Pitcher,
was born at Norwich, July 25, 1771. He mar-
ried Hannah Lothrop, born at Norwich, Sep-
tember 22, 1772, daughter of Zephaniah Lo-
throp (see Lothrop VIII). Children: •Han-
nah, Abby, Charity, Alfred, Nancy, Albert,
mentioned below.

(VI) Albert, son of Elijah (2) Pitcher,
was born October 13, 181 1. He married, De-
cember iy, 1835, Eliza Lord, daughter of
Asher and Betsey (Huntington) Bennett, the
latter a sister of Daniel Huntington. She was
born November 14, 1814, in Norwich. Chil-
dren : Edward Lyman, died young ; Albert
Huntington, January 20, 1838, died December,
1886, married Emma C, daughter of Owen
Stead, no children ; Henry Alfred, mentioned
below.

(VII) Henry Alfred, son of Alfred Pitch-
er, was born at Norwich, November 4, 1842.
He was educated in the public schools of Nor-
wich, and during his youth assisted his father
on the farm and in his teaming business. For
a period of twenty-three years he was in busi-
ness in partnership with his brother, Albert
Huntington Pitcher, general merchants, un-
der the firm name of A. H. & H. A. Pit-
cher, at North Main street, Norwich. After-
ward he was in partnership with Thomas
Bisket in the drug business in Norwich for
five years, under the firm name of Bisket &
Pitcher.

He is a member of Somerset Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Norwich. In
religion he is a Congregationalist, and in poli-
tics a Republican. He married, May 10, 1881,
Hannah Louise, born June 17, 1843, daughter
of Henry and Hannah (Allen) Hamilton, of
Hebron, Connecticut. Children : William Al-
fred, born September 17, 1882, graduate of

Boston College of Pharmacy, and is engaged
in the drug business in Norwich ; Louise Ham-
ilton, December 4, 1886.

(The Lothrop Line).

The surname Lothrop or Lathrop is derived
from the parish Lowthorpe. Thorp means vil-
lage, so the meaning of the word literally is
low village. Lowthorpe is a small parish in
the wapentake of Dickering, East Riding of
county York, England, having only about a
hundred and fifty inhabitants. Walter de Low-
thorpe was elected high sheriff of Yorkshire
in 1216, and the name has been common in
Yorkshire from that time. Robert and Rich-
ard Lowthorpe lived at Whepsted, Thingoe
Hundred, Suffolk, in 1827. A prominent fam-
ily of Lathroppe lived in Staffordshire before
1560. Arms: Sable, an eagle displayed, ar-
gent. Crest: A cornish chough proper.

(IV) Captain Ebenezer Lothrop, son of
Israel Lathrop,* was born in Norwich, Febru-
ary 7, 1702-03. He married, May 13, 1725,
Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Lydia
(Tracy) Leffingwell, of Norwich, where she
was born July 28, 1706. He was well known
both in civil and military affairs, and was best
known by his title of captain. He died Janu-
ary 28, 1 781. He names his children in his
will. Children : Sybell, born in Norwich, Oc-
tober 13, 1726; Lydea, Norwich, October 14,
1728, died July 7, 1738; Anne, Norwich, Feb-
ruary 15, 1730-31 ; Zipporah, Norwich, May
:I> :733; Sarah, Norwich, October 2, 1735;
Zerviah, Norwich, May 6, 1738; Lydia, Nor-
wich, July 4, 1740; Ebenezer, March 30, 1743;
Zephaniah, March 26, 1746, mentioned be-
low : Jedidiah, Norwich, April 17, 1748.

( V ) Zephaniah, son of Captain Ebenezer
Lothrop, was born March 26, 1746. He mar-
ried, January 19, 1769, Hannah, born Septem-
ber 25, 1748, daughter of Ezra Lothrop. They
settled on a farm which had been his father's,
or a part of it. His estate was distributed
April 22, 1817. He left to his widow Hannah,
the "Mansion House" and five acres, begin-
ning at the guide post at the corner of the
road from Lothrop \s bridge to the court house,
and the road fiom said bridge landing. He
died October 25, 1815, as his gravestone, now
standing in the new part of Norwich Town
cemetery, shows. Children : Asher, born July
II, 1770; Hannah, September 22, 1772,
married Elijah (2) Pitcher (See Pitcher V) ;
Sarah, November 11, 1783: Anna, August 22,
1786; Levi, August 28. 1788.

*The preceding generations are given in Lathrop
narrative on following pages. The names Lathrop
and Lothrop are identical, and different branches
of the family differ as to the form.

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The Lathrop family is among
LATHROP the oldest of the colonial fam-
ilies who settled in New Eng-
land. Members of this family suffered per-
secution and arrest for expressing and living
according to their honest religious convictions
and secured immunity from further molesta-
tion on their promise to leave the country.

(I) Rev. John Lathrop, the American an-
cestor of this family, was one of those who
suffered in the above mentioned manner, and
his first wife died while he was in prison. He
was a minister in Egerton, Kent, England,
and removed to London in 1624, where he be-
came the pastor of a Congregational church.
He and forty-three members of his church
were imprisoned by order of the archbishop,
April 29, 1632, because they practiced the
teachings of the New Testament. Upon prom-
ising to leave the country they were released,
and Rev. Lathrop came to New England with
his family in 1634, and shortly afterward or-
ganized a church at Scituate, Massachusetts.
He was admitted freeman of Plymouth Col-
ony, 1636-37, and two years later removed
with the larger part of the membership of his
church to Barnstable. In Pope's "Pioneers
of Massachusetts," we find : "He married
a second wife whose name is not on our rec-
ords, who came here with him, joined the
church, June 14, 1635, and survived him." He
was a man of great piety and energy, and did
much to further the secular as well as the spir-
itual welfare of the colony. Children : Jane,
Barbara, Thomas, Sarah, Samuel, see forward,
Joseph, John, Benjamin, Barnabas, Abigail,
Bathshua, and two who died in infancy.

(II) Samuel, son of Rev. John Lathrop,
was born in England and came to Scituate
with his father in 1634. With his father he
removed to Barnstable, then he removed to
Boston, where he combined the occupation of
house-building with that of farming on an ex-
tensive scale. Subsequently he returned to
Barnstable, in 1648 removed to Pequot (New
London), Connecticut, and in the latter place
was one of the judges of the local court organ-
ized in 1649. He located in Norwich in 1668,
where he for a time held the offices of con-
stable and townsman, and died in 1700. He
married (first) in Barnstable, November 28,
1644, Elizabeth Scudder, who received her
dismissal from the church in Boston, Novem-
ber 10, 1644, in order to join that in Barn-
stable. Children: John, baptized December
7, 1645 • Elizabeth, born March, 1648; Samuel,
March, 1650; Sarah, 1655; Martha, January,
1657 ; Israel, see forward ; Joseph, October,
i66t : Abigail, May, 1665 ; Anne, August 7,
1667. Samuel Lathrop married (second), 1690,

Abigail, born January 29, 1632, died 1734,
daughter of Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth.
Upon the occasion of her one hundredth birth-
day, at which time she retained in a large
measure her youthful intelligence and good
spirits, a great number of people assembled
at her house, and the pastor of her church
preached a sermon.

(III) Israel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Scudder) Lathrop, was born in October,
1659, died March 28, 1733. He settled in
Norwich, where he acquired considerable
wealth, and had a number of sons who were
also thrifty and enterprising. He married,
April 8, 1686, Rebecca, who died August 22,
1737, daughter of Thomas Bliss, of Saybrook
and Norwich. Children : Israel, born Febru-
ary 1, 1687; William, September 20, 1688;
John, October 2, 1690; Samuel, see forward;
Rebecca, born April 20, 1695 ; Mary, Novem-
ber 15, 1696; Martha, twin of Mary; Ben-
jamin, born July 21, 1699; Ebenezer, Febru-
ary 7, 1702-03; Jabez, January 11, 1706-07.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Israel and Re-
becca. (Bliss ) Lathrop, was born in Norwich,
July 12, "1692, and resided in Bozrah. He
married, June 26, 1712, Elizabeth Waterman.
Children: Elisha, born July 13, 1713; Sam-
uel, January 12, 1715, according to the Frank-
lin church records.

(V) Captain Elisha, son of Samuel (2-)
and Elizabeth (Waterman) Lathrop, was born
July 13, 1713, and was killed at Lebanon by
the falling of a tree, July 2, 1787. At first
he settled in Bozrah, then removed to Leb-
anon, New Hampshire, and was a highly es-
teemed citizen in both towns. He took an ac-
tive interest in all military affairs. He mar-
ried (first), January 31, 1732, Margaret Slu-
man, who died October 10, 1742. Children:
Elias, born October 28, 1732; Elijah, April
8, 1735 ; Lebbeus, see forward. He married
(second), January 23, 1743, Hannah, who died
in Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16,
1807, daughter of Captain John and Hannah
(Denison) Hough, natives of New London.
Children, all born in Norwich, Connecticut:
Elijah, October 20, 1743; Elizabeth, No-
vember 20, 17J4; Hannah, March 22,
1747; George, January 21, 1749; Joshua,
April ^o, 1753; Azariah, 1754; Deni-
son, July 2i, 1755; Samuel, 1756; Margaret,
July 2, 1758; Elisha, April 15, 1760; William,
June 4, 1763; Sarah, April 27, 1765; Anna,
January 17. 1766.

(VI) Lebbeus, son of Captain Elisha and
Margaret (Sluman) Lathrop, was born in
Norwich, Connecticut, January 3, 1739, and
died in Bozrah, Connecticut. He married in
the last mentioned town, and spent his life

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there. Children : Polly ; Lebbeus, see for-
ward, and probably one more.

(VII) Lebbeus (2), son of Lebbeus (1)
Lathrop, was born in Bozrah, 1780, died in
Lebanon, January 25, 1866. He was actively
engaged in farming, in which he was em-
inently successful, settled in Bozrah, but later
removed to Lebanon. He married Lucretia,
born April 29, 1781, daughter of William and
Joanna (Stebbins) Maples. Children: Mary,
born 1805; Caroline, August 6. 1807; Elislia,
October 23, 1808; Harvey, see forward; Har-
riet, 1814; Leonard; Henry, born in Mont-
ville ; Erastus.

(VIII) Harvey, son of Lebbeus (2) and
Lucretia (Maples) Lathrop, was born in Boz-
rah, Connecticut, October 23, 1808, died in
New London, Connecticut, January 10, 1879.
He was engaged in farming in Lebanon for
many years after his marriage, then resided in
Greenville for a time, where he was occupied
as a teamster, and upon his return to Lebanon,
in addition to cultivating his farm, he was ex-
tensively engaged in the lumber and timber
trade. His farm was considered one of the
finest in the town, and when his sons were
grown up and had left the homestead he sold
it and removed to New London, built a com-
modious residence there, and spent the remain-
der of his days in that town. While not in
an}' sense a politician or desirous of holding
public office, Mr. Lathrop was a staunch sup-
porter of Whig principles, and later joined the
Republican party. He and his wife were mem-
bers of the Goshen Congregational Church,
and are buried in Yantic cemetery. He stood
high in the estimation of his fellow towns-
men, and was very charitably inclined. He
married, January, 1831, Octavia, born in 1812,
died October 26, 1875, daughter of Deacon
Oliver Woodworth. Children: I. Albert H.,
born November 24, 183 1, died in East Hart-
ford, December 5, 1902. He was engaged
in the livery business at East Hartford, and
filled a number of public offices in that town.
1 le married (first) Jane Hale, of Glastonbury ;
(second) Harriet Hubbell, of the same town;
(third) Nancy Perkins, of Bozrah, who sur-
vived him. 2. Charles W., born December 31,
1833, died March, 1902. He was in the truck-
ing business in East Hartford for about thirty-
five years, and at his death left a considerable
fortune. He served in Company A, Twenty-
fifth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during
the civil war, and for a number of years
was a member of the board of selectmen of
East Hartford. He married Harriet E. Bliss,
and the only surviving child is Julia, who
married Henry S. Camp, of Norwich. 3. Har-
riet L., born April 10, 1836, died in Norwich,

November 20, 1900. She married (first)
Richard Palmer, of Colchester, (second) Cap-
tain William Smith. 4. Henrietta C, born
June 27,, 1838, died in Norwich, September,
1895. She married Charles D. Browning. 5.
Edwin Harvey, see forward. 6. Oliver W.,
born September 26, 1841, was killed at Antie-
tam, September 20, 1862, and his remains were
brought to Norwich and interred in Yantic
cemetery. He enlisted in the Eighth Connec-
ticut Volunteer Infantry. 7. Fannie M., born
December 28, 1843, now resides in Norwich.
She married (first) William S. Standish, of
Lebanon, deceased, ( second) Walter G. Kings-
ley, also deceased. 8. Arthur Douglas, born
February 25, 1846. He was in business with
his brother, John B., and later for himself, and
in 1894 added a coal business to the trucking
enterprise, and both are in a very flourishing
condition. He is a director of the Uncas Na-
tional Bank. He married, November 30, 1870,
in Waterford, Connecticut, Belle E., daugh-
ter of Captain John and Nancy (Chapman)
Bolles, the former a sea captain who died in
Waterford. Children: Arthur Harvey, born
September 13, 1871, is now associated with
his father in business ; Charles Bolles, born
March 3, 1873, died January 3, 1893 ; Lizzie
Belle, born March 30, 1885. 9. John Bald-
win, born March 24, 1848. For a number of
years he was engaged in the trucking business
with his brothers, then became interested in
the coal business, supplying a number of mills
with all their fuel. He is the president of and
a large stockholder in the Uncas Dye Wood
& Extract Company. He is a member of the
Methodist church, a Free Mason and a Repub-
lican. He married (first) January 1, 1873,
Alice M., daughter of Norman B. Church, of
Montville, and they had two children, of
whom the younger died in infancy : the other,
Norman C, is in business with his father, and
married, May 23, 1897, Lulu Perry, of Water-
ford, and has Frederick B., born January 9,
1899. Mr. Lathrop married (second) October
14, 1887, Mary B., daughter of Carmichael
Robertson. He married (third) April 29,
1891, Addie L. Church, a sister of his first
wife. There were no children by the second
and third marriages. He died April 28, 1909.
10. Frederick W., born August 16, 1850, died
August 24, 1883. He was engaged in the
teaming business in N01 wich, and married
Abby Chester.

(IX) Edwin Harvey, s>on of Harvey and
Octavia (Woodworth) Lathrop, was born in
Lebanon, Connecticut, February 26, 1840, died
while on a visit near Syracuse, New York, Au-
gust 24, 1894, and his remains were buried in
Yantic cemetery. He was reared on the home

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farm and instructed in its cultivation until
i860, when he went to Hartford and found
employment in the trucking business. While
there he enlisted, August, 1862, in Company
K, Twenty-fifth Connecticut Volunteer In-
fantry, was in the expedition of General Na-
thaniel P. Banks, in Louisiana, and was a par-
ticipant in the siege and surrender of Port
Hudson. With his regiment he was mus-
tered out, August, 1863, and for a time re-
mained at the home farm in Lebanon. He
came to Norwich in November, of the same
year, and accepted a clerkship with C. D.
Browning, at Greenville, later attending the
Springfield Business College, Massachusetts,
and then returned to Greenville, where he was
manager of an ice company for some time.
He then went to Waterford and engaged in
the trucking business, returning to Greenville,
where he associated himself with his brother
Frederick W. in the same line of business,
under the firm name of Lathrop Brothers.
This partnership continued until the death of
Frederick W., when Mr. Lathrop conducted
the business alone until his death. Mr. Lath-
rop was a very thorough man of business, and
owed the considerable fortune he amassed en-
tirely to his own efforts. He never aspired to
the holding of public office, but was a stanch
supporter of the Republican party. His re-
ligious affiliations were with the Congrega-
tional church. He married, November 4,
1868, Lydia D., born in Norwich, daughter
of James and Mary (Dyer) Houston, grand-
daughter of Eliphalet and Lydia (Denison)
Dyer, and a direct descendant of Colonel
Thomas Dyer, of Windham. James Houston,
father of Mrs. Lathrop, was born in Kilmar-
nock, Scotland, and settled in Greenville,
where he was engaged in the dye business un-
til his death, July 17, 1890. Children: 1.
James Houston, was born in Norwich, Novem-
ber 14, 1869. He was graduated from the
Free Academy in Norwich in 1888, and then
spent two years at Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio. He became associated with his father
in the trucking business, continuing it after
the death of the latter until September, 1902,
when it was sold. He was one of the incor-
porators of the Scott & Clark Company in
November, 1902, and is now secretary of that
corporation. They build wagons and do all
kinds of repair work. He is a Republican, and
in June, 1900, was elected a member of the
common council of Norwich and served two
years ; he represented Norwich in the legisla-
ture in 1901, serving as member and clerk of
the committee on constitutional amendments.
He is a member of St. James Lodge No. 23,
Free and Accepted Masons ; General Burnside

Council, American Mechanics ; charter mem-
ber of Norwich Lodge, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. He married, March
21, 1895, Helen Louise, born in Norwich,
Connecticut, daughter of Timothy Parker, who
lives in Wauregan. Children: Timothy Par-
ker, born February 1, 1896; Edwin Houston,
August n, 1897; Lydia Moseley, August 16,
1901. 2. Ella May, born March 21, 1873;
married William L. Clark, of Norwich, a
member of the firm of Scott & Clark, whose
place of business is located on North Main
street, Norwich.

(IV) Israel (2) Lathrop or Lothrop, son
of Israel (1) Lathrop or Lothrop (q. v.), was
born in Norwich, February 1, 1687. He mar-
ried (first) June 20, 17 10, Mary Fellows,
whose name appears on the roll of the West
Farms church as early as 172 1. He married
(second) June 9, 1747, Mrs. Sarah Tuttle.
He settled on the eastern declivity of Blue
Hill, in the southwest part of the present town
of Franklin, Connecticut. He was prominent
in public life, both civil and military. His
will, dated March 22, 1758, mentioned his
wife Sarah, his deceased son Israel's three
daughters, Ann, Lois and Ednah, his daugh-
ter Mary Birchard, daughter Catharine
Hackly, youngest daughter Prudence, and his
sons, Jedidiah, Simeon and Ezekiel. Chil-
dren, born in Norwich: Israel, born March
19, 1710-11; Ephraim, January 23, 1713-14;
Mary, September 3, 1715 ; Jedidiah, January 4,
1 718; Catharine, August 11, 1720; Simeon,
January 15, 1722-23, mentioned below; Eze-
kiel, September 5, 1724; Prudence, March 16,
1727-28.

(V) Deacon Simeon Lathrop, son of
Israel (2) Lathrop, was born in Norwich,
January 15, 1722-23. He married, January
11, 1749, Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and
Lydia (Hazen) Abel, of Norwich, and they
settled in Bozrah where he was a deacon of
the Congregational church. His wife died
September 17, 1802. His will, dated Bozrah,
February 17, 1804, mentioned his grandsons,
Giles and Simon Lathrop, sons of his son Sim-
eon ; granddaughter Hannah ; sons Roger, Ol-
iver and Zabdiel ; daughter Hannah, wife of
Christopher Calkins ; daughter Eunice, wife
of Stephen Woodworth ; daughter Lydia, wife
of John Fish, and Sarah Lathrop. Children,
born in Bozrah : Hannah, born August 20,
1749; Eunice, August 17, 1751 ; Simeon, Au-
gust 4, 1753; Roger, December 3, 1754; Oli-
ver, September 9, 1756; Lydia, September 2,
1758; Sarah, September 22, 1760: Zabdiel,
November 30, 1762 ; Andrew, mentioned be-
low.

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rep, was born in Bozrah, October 26, 1764.
He married, very likely, (first) January 22,
1789, Lucretia Smith, of Franklin, wbo died
in Bozrah, October 9, 1801. He married (sec-
ond), May 30, 1802, Zerviah Polley, who died
about 1840. He died April 21, 1843. Child-
ren, born in Bozrali ; Dice, December 3,
1789; Philena. April 10, 1791 ; Simeon, No-
vember 25, 1792, mentioned below; Apama,
July 25, 1794; Azariah, February 25, 1796;
Lucy, March 8, 1798, died when about twenty
years old; Eunice, June 14, 1799.

( VII ) Simeon (2), son of Andrew Lathrop,
was born in Bozrah, November 25, 1792. He
married (first), March 7, 1814, Abigail, daugh-
ter of William Ryder, and settled on Blue
Hill in Bozrah, where she died August 29,
1817. He married (second) December 20,
1820, Phebe, daughter of William S. Peck-
ham, of Franklin, where she was born in
1800. She died August n, 1847, ant' m ^73
he was still living on the old homestead on
Blue Hill, in the northwest part of Bozrah.
Children, born in Bozrah, of first wife : An-
drew, born August 2^, 18 15, died March 7,
18 16 ; William, April 17, 18 17 ; of second wife :
Andrew, March 19, 1822 ; Lucy, May 22, 1823 ;
Jabez Smith, May 28, 1824, mentioned below;
Alanson Peckham, July 21, 1826; Jane B., Oc-
tober 25, 1828; David Austin, April 23, 1832;
Lydia Zerviah, April 23, 1832; Anna Hazel-
tine, May 20, 1834.

(VIII) Jabez Smith, son of Simeon (2)
Lathrop. was born in Bozrah, May 28, 1824,
died in Norwich, July 28, 1903. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, and after follow-
ing the sea for a few years devoted himself to
the profession of school teaching for a period
of fortv years in Norwich and New London,
Connecticut. He was a prominent citizen of
Norwich and held many offices of trust and
honor. He was selectman many years, county
treasurer and represented his town in the
general assembly of the state. He was presi-
dent of the board of trustees of the Boys
Reform School at Meriden. He was a prom-
inent member of the Congregational church
of Norwich Town. In politics he was a Re-
publican. He married, December 4, 1849,
Julia Roxanna, born October 11, 1828, daugh-
ter of Elijah Janes Backus and granddaugh-
ter of Asa Backus. Children: 1. Helen Mar-
shall, a teacher in the Broadway public school,
Norwich. 2. Joseph Backus, married Alfar-
etta Blankner, of Columbus ; children : Julia,
Helen, who is a teacher of music in Hono-
lulu, Hawaiian Islands; Joseph Backus was a
bookkeeper for the firm of Brown, Hinman
& Company, Columbus, Ohio, for twenty
years ; died there at the age of thirty-eight

years. 3. Julia Smith, married Walter H. Pot-
ter of Norwich; child, Ruth Potter. 4. Caro-
line Bloomer, died young. 5. Alanson Peck-
ham, member of the firm of Emerson, McMil-
lan & Company, bankers, New York City;
president of the American Light and Traction
Company of New York ; married Ella Far-
quhar ; children : Grayson and Gertrude. 6.
Gertrude, married Alonzo M. Luther, of Nor-
wich ; children : Elizabeth Lathrop, Luther
and Philip Tilden Luther.

Mrs. George Greenman,
GREEN MAN widow of Hon. George

Greenman, is a descendant
of one of the oldest of the colonial families
of New England (see Loring line).

Hon. George Greenman was a descendant
on both sides of his family from colonial fam-
ilies of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island.

(I) James Greenman, shortly after his mar-
riage, removed from Griswold to Norwich,
and was one of the oldest residents of Laurel
Hill. He was engaged in the grain business,
was one of the firm which erected the "Ele-
vator" building,-, and for more than twenty
years was a prominent factor in the business
world of Norwich. He and his wife were de-
vout members of the Broadway Congrega-
tional Church. He died in Norwich in 1870,
and was buried in Yantic cemetery. He mar-
ried, in Griswold, March 21, 1836, Rev. S.
D. Jewett officiating, Sarah L. Morse, born
in Griswold, January 5, 1814, died in Nor-
wich after an illness of more than ten years,
May 26, 1893. She was a woman of unusual
intelligence and kindness of heart, always
thoughtful of the comfort of others and ready
to make any sacrifice for those she loved. Her
charities were widespread and her death was
deeply and sincerely regretted. Children :
Dwight. born October 16, 1837; Sarah
Morse, born May 23, 1840, became the
first wife of Judge Carter, and is now
deceased; William, died in 1874; George,
see forward ; Lydia, died in infancy ;
Mary, died at the age of twenty-one
years. Mr. Morse, father of Mrs. Green-
man, was the owner of a large farm, and pos-
sessed of many fine qualities, which have been
transmitted to his descendants.

(II) Hon. George, son of James and Sarah
L. (Morse) Greenman, was born in Griswold,
Connecticut, January 27, 1843, died July 25,
1908. His preparatory education was received
in the public schools, and this was supple-
mented by a course at the Norwich Free Acad-
emy. He was but nineteen years of age when
he enlisted, August 11, 1862, as a private in

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Company C, Eighteenth Connecticut Volun-
teer Infantry, which participated actively in
the battles at Winchester, Virginia, June 13,
14, 15, and received high commendation from
the commanding general. During the engage-
ment on the third day, Greenman with a num-
ber of others, was captured and sent to Libby
Prison and Belle Isle, and paroled until the
following July 14. He was mustered into
the Thirtieth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
as first lieutenant of Company B, April 6,
1864, and in June of that year this regiment
was consolidated with and afterward was
known as the Thirty-first United States Col-
ored Troops. From May, 1864, he served as
adjutant, until his promotion to the captaincy
of Company K of the same regiment, Janu-
ary 31, 1865, and he was mustered out of
service November 7, 1865. At the close of
the war Captain Greenman returned to Nor-
wich, dividing his time between farming and
his business as a bookkeeper and accountant.
As a faithful supporter of Republican princi-
ples, Captain Greenman was energetic and ac-
tively interested in the public welfare of the
town. He was twice chosen to represent his
town in the general assembly ; was elected
a member of the lower house in November.
1900, was a member of the committee on mili-
tary affairs, in which capacity his practical
service was of invaluable assistance in decid-
ing weighty points ; he was re-elected to the
same body in November, 1902, and this time
served on the committee of appropriations.
He has been a zealous worker in the inter-
ests of Sedgwick Post, No. 1, Grand Army
of the Republic, of Norwich, and has filled the
position of commander of that body. He was
a devoted member of the Congregational
church, and one of its stanchest adherents.
Captain Greenman married, March 24, 1874,
Lucy Lester Loring, of Preston, Connecticut
(see Loring IX). Children: Mary, married,
October 12, 1909, Rev. Edward Starr Worces-
ter, of Norwich; Lucy M., an artist; George
L.. James W.. Lester and Charles D.

(The Loring Line).

Loring is a name of great antiquity and is
derived from the province of Lorraine, for-
merly a French, and since 1870-71 a German
possession.

(I) Deacon Thomas Loring, immigrant an-
cestor, came from Axminster, Devonshire,
England, December 22, 1634, with his wife
and two sons, and died at Hull, Massachusetts,
April 1, 1 66 1. For a time he lived in Dor-
chester, Massachusetts, later removed to
Hingham, and finally settled at Hull, where
his death occurred. He was one of the first

deacons of the Hingham church, and was con-
sidered a godly man. He married, in Eng-
land, Jane Newton, who died in Hull, August

25, 1672. Children, of whom the two eldest
were born in England, and the four others in
this country : Thomas, John, see forward,
Isaac, Josiah, Joshua and Benjamin.

(II) John, son of Thomas and Jane (New-
ton ) Loring, was born in- England, December
22, 1630, died at the home of his son, Captain
Thomas, September 19, 17 14. His entire life
was spent in Hingham, and he was a very re-
ligious man. He married (first) December
16, 1656, Mary, who died July 13, 1679,
daughter of Nathaniel Baker, and they had
ten children. He married (second) Septem-
ber 22, 1679, Rachel Buckland, and they had
four children.

(III) Isaac, fourth son of John and Mary
(Baker) Loring, was born at Hull, Massachu-
setts, January 22, 1666, died in Boston, irom
smallpox, December 3, 1702. He removed to
Boston in early manhood and there spent his
life. He married, August 5, 1691, Sarah
Young. Children : Sarah, born August 26,
1693, married, 1716, Joseph Blanchard ; Ruth,
December 19, 1696, died 1772; Isaac, April
20, 1699; William, see forward; Mary, born
February 5, 1702, married, 1730, Joseph Dyer;
two daughters who died in infancy.

(IV) William, son of Isaac and Sarah
(Young) Loring, was born December 23,
1700. He was a carpenter and joiner by occu-
pation. He married, November 19, 1724, Ann
Holland, who died in 1784. Children : Ann,
born May 29, 1726, married, 1749, Benjamin
Clark ; Isaac, see forward ; Sarah, December

26, 1731 ; William, June 20, 1736; Mary, Au-
gust 6, 1738.

(V) Isaac (2), son of William and Ann
(Holland) Loring, was born in Boston, No-
vember 30, 1729, died prior to March 31,
1758, as the Boston probate records show that
Ann Loring, mother of Isaac, was appointed
administratrix of the estate on that date. He
learned the trade of sailmaking, and was thus
occupied throughout his life. He married,
about January, 175 1, Elizabeth Russell. Child,
William, see forward.

(VI) William (2), only child of Isaac (2)
and Elizabeth (Russell) Loring, was born
in Boston, January 5, 1756, and died at sea,
February 2, 1788. The following extract is
from Caulkins' "History of Norwich" : "In
February, 1788, the brig 'Clarissa' came from
Port au Prince ; her master, Captain William
Loring, had died on the passage home just as
they came upon the coast. The vessel touched
at Elizabeth Island, and buried Captain Lor-
ing at Tarpaulin Cove, that verv cold Tues-

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<'a\ night, February 5, 1788." The inscrip-
tion on a tombstone at Naushon, Elizabeth
Island, reads: "In memory of Captain Wil-
liam Loring, of Norwich, Conn. He was born
in Boston, Jan. 5, 1756, and died at sea Feb. 2,
1788

Loring in all the prime of life.

Hath quit this brittle clay,
And calmly steered his single bark

To yonder world of day."

Captain Loring- married, May 17, 1781, Zer-
viab Lord, who died November 1, 1828. Chil-
dren: William, born March 21, 1782, died
February 14, 1824, was a sea captain ; Henry,
January 22, 1784; George, see forward; Isaac,
April 1, 1788, died at sea in 1805. Mrs.
Loring married (second) March 6, 1794, Dan-
iel Dunham, who died July 1, 1812. Chil-
dren : Hannah, born January 6, 1795 ; Dan-
iel, February 18, 1797; John, September 25,
1800.

(VII) George, son of Captain William (2)
and Zerviah (Lord) Loring, was born April

23, 1786, died December 13, 1852. He mar-
ried, March 23, 1809, Lucy, born February 8,
1787, died August 12, 1836, daughter of Elijah
and Damaris (Lord) Lester. Children: 1.
Lydia, born April 6, 1810; married, June 3,
1835, Andrew Huntington, of Norwich, who
died in Savannah, Georgia, January 21, 1839.
2. Frances Ann, born in Preston, February

24, 1812. died May 22, 1834. 3. Henry Isaac,
born July 19, 1814; married, September 4,
1855, Lucy Maria Baldwin ; died in Norwich,
January 27, 1871. 4. William, see forward.
5. Lucy Ann, born July 27, 18 19, died Decem-
ber t, 1837; married, November 3, 1836, Dr.
William W. Miner. 6. Sarah, born October
2, 1821 : married, February 22, 1843, Oliver
Perry Avery. 7. Charles Frederick, born
December 15, 1824, died in St. Louis, Missouri,
March 11, i860. 8. George, born December
17, 1830: married (first) March 16, 1859,
Harriet Kennedy, (second) Susan C. Ken-
nedy, (third) Mary Francis.

(VIII) William (3), son of George and
Lucy (Lester) Loring, was born in North
Preston, now Griswold, February 3, 1817, died
in Norwich, December 10, 1896. He was
reared on a farm, trained in all the details
which pertain to its proper cultivation, and
made this his life work. Some years prior to
his death he removed to Norwich and made
his home in Laurel Hill avenue. For more
than thirty years he had been a deacon in the
Preston City Congregational Church. He was
very liberal in his contributions when the
church was organized, and at the time of his
death had been its most generous supporter.

He was a man of inquiring mind, liberal in
all his views, and of extensive and diversified
reading. Mr. Loring married, February 2,
1842, Harriet Kinney, daughter of Erastus
and Polly (Meach) Morgan, and granddaugh-
ter of Jacob Meach, who served during the
revolutionary war. Mrs. Loring, who died
January 20, 1894, was noted for her charity
and generosity. Although her chief pleasure
was in her home, she spent much time in re-
lieving the needs of those in less fortunate
circumstances than herself. Children : Lucy
Lester, see forward ; George H., born Sep-
tember 1, 185 1, married, October 24, 1884,
Lillian, daughter of Ulysses and Lucy Ann
(Williams) Avery; children: Nellie Avery,
Frederick William, Sarah Lillian, Lucy Wil-
liams and Ruth Lester ; Mary, who resides
in Denver, Colorado.

(IX) Lucy Lester, daughter of William
(3) and Harriet Kinney (Morgan) Loring,
married Hon. George Greenman (see Green-
man II).

The surname Ruby or Roby is of
RLJBY ancient English origin, derived
without doubt from a place name,
probably the hamlet of Roby in the parish of
Huyton, five or six miles east of Liverpool.
Since 1403 the residence of the family can
be distinctly traced at Castle Donington, a
small town on the northern edge of Leicester-
shire, England, which lies between the coun-
ties of Derby and Nottingham. The name is
variously spelled Ruby, Roby, Rooby, Robie,
Robey, Robay, Robye, etc. In September,
1402, John Roby was possessed of a copyhold
in the Manor of Castle Donington. The an-
cestry of the American family, of which the
immigrant ancestor was Henry Roby, of
Hampton, New Hampshire, born at Castle
Donington, February 12, 1619, has been care-
fully traced to John Roby, of whom the
records show that he took part in court pro-
ceedings of Castle Donington in October,
15 12: was admitted tenant of two burgages
in March, 1513, and in June, 15 13, was named
at a court at which William Roby and three
others were admitted to curtilages. He died
shortly before Christmas, 1515/leaving child-
ren: Thomas and Emmot. ^Thomas had a
son Thomas and his son of the same name
was father of Henry Roby, the American
immigrant.

(I) James Ruby, progenitor of the Cennec-
ticut branch of the family, was probably of
the same stock, but it is not known that he
was descended directly from Henry Ruby, of
Hampton. He lived in Nova Scotia and mar-
ried Abigail Smith Adams, said to have been

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a relative of President John Adams, whose
paternal ancestor, Henry Adams, was one of
the first settlers at Mount Wollaston, now
Braintree, Massachusetts.

(II) John, son of James Ruby, was born
in Nova Scotia and settled about the time of
the outbreak of the revolution at Union, Con-
necticut. He was a soldier in the revolution
(See page 136, History of Union — town rec-
ords). Thomas Ruby, presumably his bro-
ther, was in Captain Abel Brown's regiment
in 1776. He married, June 19, 1776, Esther
Howe, who died November 17, 1834. Child-
ren, born at Union: 1. James, born September

28, 1777; married Mary Lamb, of Ashford.
2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Polly, No-
vember 28, 1779; married Jason Ferry. 4.
John, April 9, 1784. 5. Esther, March 23,
1788, married, May 6, 1805, Chauncey Ferry.
6. Lucinda, December 7, 1793, married, March

29, 1809, Daniel Steers.

( III ) Thomas, son of John Ruby, was born
at Union, September 28, 1778; died September
8, 1855. He was a man of active tempera-
ment and a prosperous farmer in his native
town. He married, February 11, 1800, Bet-
sey Fuller, of Stafford, Connecticut, daughter
of William Fuller, who was a soldier in the
revolution. She died July 1, i860. Children:
1. Orrel or Orrilla, born August 23, 1801 ;
married, March 14, 1824, Paris H. Bowers,
of Thompson, Connecticut. 2. Amanda, Octo-
ber 24, 1802; married, April 18, 1822,

Howard, of Palmer, Massachusetts. 3. Bet-
sey, January 7, 1804; married Nathaniel Sib-
ley. 4. Annis, December 12, 1805 » married
November 3, 1825, Daniel Steers. 5. James,
May 13, 1807 ; married, November, 1830,
Nancy Daggett, of Willington, Connecticut.
6. Esther, December 9, 1808. 7. Thomas
Howe, mentioned below. 8. Ariel Fuller, May
4, 1813, died October 10, 1831. 9. Achsah,
June 6, 1815 ; married, May 22, 1834, William
Harvey, of Palmer. 10. Edmund, November
18, 1817. 11. Julianne, November 9, 1819;
married Wakeman Sibley. 12. Angeline, Jan-
uary 9, 1822 ; married, November 7, 1842,
Samuel W. Moore. 13. William, October 22,
1823 ; married Leonora Burley. 14. Harriet,
August 14, 1825: married, October 10, 1842,
Nathaniel Sessions.

( IV) Thomas Howe, son of Thomas Ruby,
was born August 18, 181 1. He was a farmer
at Union. He married Almeda Potter, of
Willington.

(V) David Thomas, son of Thomas Howe
Ruby, was born January 27, 1837, at Union
died October 1, 1907, in Norwich. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
town and began his business career at Staf-

ford, Connecticut, in the retail grocery busi-
ness. Afterward he was in business at Mont-
ville, Connecticut. In 1868 he located at Nor-
wich, Connecticut, and engaged in the meat
and provision business. He was in the firm
of C. H. Davis & Company, of which he was
a partner, until the death of Mr. Davis, when
he purchased the latter's interest and became
the sole proprietor of the business, continuing
from that time until he died. He was a mem-
ber of the First Universalist Church of Nor-
wich and a member of its board of trustees.
He resided at 148 Laurel Hill avenue, Nor-
wich. He married, April 7, 1862, Anna, born
September 7, 1839, daughter of Alvah and
Mary Ann (Bardwell) Francis, of Stafford,
Connecticut. Alvah Francis was a native of
Rehoboth, son of John and Annie (Gladding)
Francis, who were married at Rehoboth, Feb-
ruary 16, 1792. Mrs. Ruby had sisters,
Martha and Harriet, and a brother, Charles
Elliott, who died at the age of fourteen ; Mar-
tha Francis married Sereno Edwards Dwight
and had children : Nella Dwight, married
Frank Weston, Carrie Dwight, married Wil-
liam Hassett, Frank E. Dwight and Myron
Dwight. Harriet Francis married Daniel
Davis and had children, Daniel, Alvah and
Otis Davis. The only child of David Thomas
and Anna (Francis) Ruby: Ina Francis, mar-
ried George Albert Keppler, of Norwich.

No person familiar with the his-
ADAMS tory of Massachusetts but ought

as they meet with the family
name of Adams to recall in their minds the
historic services performed by the various rep-
resentatives of this family in all of the strug-
gles attending the life of the colony and our
nation. The name of Adams was made illus-
trious by Samuel and John Adams, of revolu-
tionary fame.

(III) John Adams, son of Ensign Edward
Adams and grandson of Henry Adams, was
born in Medfield, Massachusetts, February 18.
1657, died March 1, 1751. He resided in lias
native town, on the homestead. He married
(first) Deborah, born 1662, died before 1695,
daughter of John and Magdalen (Bullard)
Partridge. He married (second) Susanna,
born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, May 10,
1667, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hill)
Breck, Medway record says: "Susanna, sec-
ond wife of John, senior, died 28 May, 1744."
Among his children was Obadiah, see for-
ward.

(IV) Obadiah, son of John Adams, was
born in Medway, Massachusetts, January 20,
1689, died November 22, 1765, in his seventy-
seventh year. He married, April 24, 1716,

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Christian Sanford, of Mendon, Massachusetts,
daughter of Deacon Thomas Sanford. She
died July 21, 1777, in her eightieth year.
Among their children was Nathan, see for-
ward.

(V) Nathan, son of Obadiah Adams, was
born in Medway, Massachusetts, December 3,
1723, died January 26, 1800. He inherited
the homestead in West Medway, one-half mile
south of Obadiah Adams. He made his will,
November, 1794, and it was proved March 4,
1800. He married, May 9, 1750, Kezia, born
November 17, 1730, daughter of Eleazer and
Hannah (Daniel) Thompson. Among their
children was Elijah, see forward.

(VI) Elijah, son of Nathan Adams, was
born in West Medway, January 7, 1753.
died in Hubbardston, Massachusetts,
December 17, 1817, having settled there in
1774. He was a soldier of the revolution and
claimed a pension for services in same. He
married, April 14, 1774, Lizzie, born October
8, 1753, died December 31, 1833, daughter of
Ezekiel and Rebecca (Cousins) Morse, of
Holliston, Massachusetts. Children, all born
in Hubbardston, Massachusetts: 1. Abner,
December 29, 1774, died in West Brattle-
boro, Vermont, August 10, 1856: mar-
ried (first) April 17, 1797, Molly Under-
wood, who died in West Brattleboro,
Vermont, March 12, 18 19, aged forty-
six; married (second) Rhoda Rheeves,
who died October 28, 1877, aged eighty-eight
years, seven months. 2. Lizzie, March 12,
1777, died October 12, 1785. 3. Lydia, March
31, 1779, died June 25, 1823; married, Octo-
ber 24, 1805, Thomas Lazelle. 4. Elijah. March
27, 1781, died October 22, 1785. 5. David,
April i, 1783, died October 28, 1785. 6. Azu-
bah. June 16, 1785, died October 22, 1798. 7.
Elisha, see forward. 8. Isabel, December 23,
1789, died March 4, 1865; married, December
21, 1813, Josephus Clifford: he died October

15, 1876. 9. Rhoda, March 22, 1792, died
October 23, 1875; married, January 31, 1815,
Willard Earle, of Worcester, Massachusetts ;
he died June 17, 185 1. 10. Rebecca, Febru-
ary 13, 1795, died October 1, 1798.

( VII) Elisha, son of Elijah Adams, was
born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, August

16, 1787, died there July 14, 1868. He mar-
ried, October 12, 1808, Betsey Parmenter,
daughter of Richard and Grace (Parmenter)
Dean, of Oakham, Massachusetts ; she died
May 26, 1859, aged seventy years. Children,
born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts: T. Ab-
ner Sumner, October 4, 1809: he removed to
Virginia and was engaged in quarrying in the
James river section ; not heard from since
1861. 2. Elisha Edson, July 18, 1812; removed

to St. Louis ; died in Peoria, Illinois, unmar-
ried, October 14, 1871. 3. Mary, September
7, 18 1 4, died in Gardner, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 22, 1895 ; married, June 16, 1842, Abial
G. Thomas, of Rutland, Massachusetts ; he
died in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 28,
1892; their son resides in Springfield. 4.
Elijah, May 14, 1818, died. March 18, 1842.
5. Silas, August 31, 1820, died August 16,
1884, in Gardner, Massachusetts ; married
(first) April 18, 1845, Roxa Hunting, who
died June 21, i860; married (second) March
10, 1863, Pamelia A., born August 22, 1832,
daughter of Jesse and Betsey E. Temple, of
Gilsum, New Hampshire. 6. Rhoda Eliza-
beth, June 12, 1823, died in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, October 6, 1856; married, November
20, 1849, George W. Plummer, who died in
Manchester, New Hampshire, October 21,
T895- 7- Nelson, see forward.

(VIII) Nelson, son of Elisha Adams, was
born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, July 6,
183 1. At an early age he went to Fitchburg
and engaged in chair making for Alonzo
Davis, but soon went to be a drover with
John Lowe, who had interests in Rindge, New
Hampshire, and the Brighton market, near
Boston, dealing in cattle, sheep and the cele-
brated Morgan horses. In the winter he
worked in various packing houses in Boston,
frequenting the fine markets there and be-
coming familiar with the processes of manu-
facture, so that when a small branch of the
business was for sale in Leominster, Massa-
chusetts, he bought it and removed to Fitch-
burg, his first established location. In 1857
he disposed of the Fitchburg business and
went to New Haven, Connecticut, driving his
own Morgan horses, with his dog following
on. He bought out a small business in Fair
Haven and established his factory on Goffe
street, New Haven, on land leased of Alfred
Todd, a prominent market man of the city,
with whom he made his home for a time. He
soon had the by-product business of New
Haven county in hand and removed to Beaver
Pond, where he built a modern factory ; later
works were built in Fair Haven, where a
warehouse for finished products was estab-
lished. Meanwhile Mr. Adams either bought
or established factories in Bridgeport, Water-
bury, New York City, Hartford and Spring-
field, successively, having partners in those
different places. The New York plant at 383
West Forty-sixth street was entirely whole-
sale. For over fort}' years Mr. Adams con-
tinued to manufacture, supervise, buy and sell
up and down the Atlantic coast from Maine to
Delaware, until the refrigerating system came
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the great western packers there. He had fol-
lowed the trend of affairs and gradually sold
out his factories, occupying himself in manu-
facturing interests and developing the real es-
tate, which had become yearly more valuable. It
was no trifling change that came over his by-
product business when western refrigeration
became a factor. It reduced the amount of
tonnage on coastwise vessels, and interests
that stood in its way had to be removed. The
fertilizer manufacturing and shipping depart-
ments under chemical treatment became
changed entirely ; the western packers having
in their hands the ammoniates, and south-
ern establishments took possession of the phos-
phate deposit mines and a combine came that
no individual plant, such as had been estab-
lished by Mr. Adams, could compete success-
fully, hence it required more tact in closing
out business without loss than it did to estab-
lish them except, perhaps, one or two special-
tics and these were not desirable to maintain.
In 1897 Mr. Adams removed with his family
to Springfield, Massachusetts, and makes his
home on the estate he bought of D. B. Wes-
son, in the Forest Park district, at "Fountain
Side." During all his business transactions,
through panics and war, he has preserved his
solvency unaided. He is an admirer of nature
and the romantic beauty of his well-wooded
estate at "Fountain Side," with its abundant
flowing springs of water, are a constant joy
to the family. He is a member of many so-
cieties, such as the American 1 Fumane Asso-
ciation, the Connecticut Humane Society, the
Connecticut Equal Suffrage League, the Sea-
man's Friend Society, the Mew England His-
torical and Genealogical Society, and locally
of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society
and the Ethical Union.

• Mr. Adams married, October 6, 1868, Jennie
Edgerton, daughter of Thomas P. and Sarah
M. (Parsons) Dickerman, of New Haven, Con-
necticut. Children, born in New Haven, Con-
necticut: 1. Burton Sumner, August 17,
1869, died January 27, 1878. 2. Grace Eliza-
beth, September 23, 1872; married, April 3,
1895, in New Haven, Frank Seaman Valen-
tine, of Freeport, Long Island ; they reside
in Springfield; children: Cora Mildred, born
March 22, 1897, in Springfield; Ruby Louise,
born Januarv 31, 1904, in Springfield. 3.
Mary Louise, June 2, 1874, died in Southing-
ton, Connecticut, October 4, 1874, buried in
New Haven.

The name Harwood is of
HARWOOD Saxon origin, and was an-
ciently spelled Herward,

Horwade and Whorwood.

According to the

Domesday Rook, Hereward had lands in
the counties of Lincoln and Warwick, before
the Conquest. He was a son of Leof ric, Earl
of Mercia, and Lord of Bourne, in Lincoln-
shire and the marshes adjoining. He was
chosen by the prelates and nobility, who retired
to the Isle of Ely after the Conqueror's inva-
sion, to be the general of their forces. He
was the last Earl of Mercia who resided at
Bourne and was buried in the Abbey there.
Sir Robert Harwood is mentioned as bearing
the arms "d'azure a une fesse gabonne de
goules at de vert iij hewtes de argent." This
family continued in the county of Lincoln and
around Bourne for many centuries, and one
of the last was George Harwood, a merchant
of London, who entered his pedigree in the
visitation for Cornhill in 1634. He was a son
of William Harwood, of Thurlby, near
Bourne, county Lincoln, and was a brother
of Sir Edward Harwood, Knight, of whom
Fuller says: "His birth was gentle and from
a root fit to engraft his future education and
excellency." In the visitation of London in
1634, George Harwood is recorded as bearing
the same arms as were borne by Sir Robert
Harwood. There were families of this line
in counties Stafford and Oxford, who spelled
their names Harewade, Whorwood and Har-
wood, and had arms : "arg. a chevron be-
tween three stags' heads cabashed sa.", and
they were of Compton, Sand well and Stourton
Castle, in Stafford county, and of liolton in
Oxford county. In the Staffordshire family
was Sir William Whorwood, Knight Attorney
General to King Henry VIII. The name
was well represented in early settlements in
America ; several were in Virginia and Mary-
land, and one, George Harwood, was the
first treasurer of the Massachusetts Com-
pany, but did not come to America himself.

(I) Henry Harwood, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England. He came to Massa-
chusetts with the Winthrop Company and was
admitted freeman, March 4, 1633. He mar-
ried, in England, Elizabeth . He was

given land at the end of his ten-acre lot, a
little land, three-quarters of an acre, March
4, 164^, at Salem. Savage says he died in
1630, but this record appears to show that
he was living in 1643. He appears to have
lived for some years at Boston and Charles-
town. He was a member of the Charlestown
Church, dismissed' from Boston. CWinthrop
vol. T, p. 30) tells of his suffering in a storm.
He was doubtless a mariner. He had a son
John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Henry Harwood, was
baptised Tune 3. 1632, died in 1600. He set-
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Peabody. He married, July 11, 1659, Emma

. The inventory of his estate was filed

November 20, 1690, by Samuel Cutterson and
Zachariah Marsh, Sr., amounting to one hun-
dred and thirteen pounds, twelve shillings, as
returned by Emm. Harwood, widow, and
Jonathan, his son, March 14, 1690-91, when
administration was granted to them. Under
agreement, March 2, 1690-91, the estate was
divided, but to remain intact as long as the
widow lived, (p. 45, Essex Inst. Coll. vol. 5).
Children: John, Jonathan (mentioned below)
David and Alice.

(III) Jonathan, son of John Harwood, was
born in Salem, June 18, 1666. He married
Rebecca Twiss. He sold, May 31, 1722,
house and ten acres of land to his son, Jona-
than, for a hundred pounds and removed to
Sutton, Massachusetts. He made another
deed, for love and affection, to the same son
of a corner right of land formerly owned by
his father. Children : Jonathan, married at
Lynn, intention dated December 28, 1749,
Sarah Jacobs (this may be his son). Daniel,
settled in Sutton. David, mentioned below.

(IV) David, son of Jonathan Harwood, was
born in Salem about 1700-10. He removed
to Sutton among the first settlers. He
married, September 6, 1739, Elizabeth
Stearns. Children, born at Sutton : David,
May 28, 1740, Elizabeth, October 4, 1742.
Ezra, August 29, 1744. Persis, January 14,
1747. Jonathan, mentioned below ; Hannah,
July 2, 1751 ; Ebenezer, February 11, 1753.

(V) Jonathan (2), son of David Har-
wood. was born, according to the town rec-
ords, September 8, 1748, in Sutton, Massa-
chusetts ; the date September 19, 1748, was
probably calculated from the age at death and
allows eleven days for the change in calendar
in 1752. In 1785 he removed from Stur-
1 nidge, Massachusetts, to West Stafford, Con-
necticut, where he lived the remainder of his
life. He was a farmer by occupation, and the
house in which he lived is still standing. He
married Mary Witt, and they had thirteen
children, seven born in Sturbridge, and the
remainder in West Stafford. Jonathan Har-
wood was a Methodist in religion, and took a
deep interest in church work. Children :
David, born August 28, 1772; Betsey, Sep-
tember 10, 1774 ; Jonathan, September 4, 1776,
died young; Henry, August 21, 1780; Mary,
September 1, 1781 ; Asa, March 11, 1783;
Crispus, December 7, 1784; Keziah, Septem-
ber 4, 1786; Orrin, August 8, 1788, mentioned
below ; Samuel, " November 20, 1791 ; Lura,
July 28, 1793 ; Margery, August 12, 1795, died
young; Ebenezer, June 7, 1797.

(VI) Orrin, son of Jonathan (2) Harwood,

was born August 8, 1788, in West Stafford.
Although his health was poor, he lived to be
nearly a century old. He was a shoemaker
by trade, and also a farmer. When he was
fifty years old a physician told him that the
end was not far off, but he survived his second
wife by many years. He was a devout Metho-
dist and much interested in church work. He
was one of the founders of the church in
Stafford, and was widely known in that con-
nection, as his house was the stopping-place
of the circuit riders who spent only a short
time in each location. He was a class leader
of great character and power, and his home
was the center of Methodist influence in West
Stafford. A class leader did a pastor's work
to a large extent, and the success of the work
in a new neighborhood depended much on the
efficiency of that officer. Orrin Harwood mar-
ried (first) in 181 1, Charlotte Spellman ; mar-
ried (second), December 8, 1852, Mrs. Polly
B. Bartlett, whom he survived.

(VII) Francis Asbury, son of Orrin and
Charlotte (Spellman) Harwood, was born
May 12, 1817, in Ludlow, Massachusetts, died
January 24, 1884, in Stafford Springs, Con-
necticut. He was a farmer for several years
in West Stafford, but in 1842 he began a mer-
cantile career in Stafford Springs, with only
one competitor, L. W. Crane, who owned a
store which was originally established by the
Granite Mill Company, and stood near the
present "Central House." Mr. Harwood's
place of business was at the upper end of
Main street, and both firms had a large trade.
He had the responsible position of first select-
man of the town during the war of the rebel-
lion. It required a man of unusual ability to
carry through measures so that they satisfied
everyone. He was a Republican in politics.
He sold his business several years before his
death and retired. In religion he was a
Methodist, and was an active worker in the
church, being one of the trustees at the time
of his death. His interest in all good works
and his zeal in carrying them out, gained for
him high respect and admiration on all sides.
He married, April 7, 1841, Clarissa, born Sep-
tember 9, 1 82 1, died December 13, 1898, in
Stafford Springs, daughter of Calvin and Polly
Belinda (Hutchinson) Luther. Children: Cal-
vin L., mentioned below ; Charles Francis,
born June 25, 1849, now treasurer of the
Stafford Savings Bank, and a prominent citi-
zen in the town ; married Ella A. Pember, of
Stafford, and they have a daughter, Grace
Emma.

(VIII) Calvin L., son of Francis Asbury
Harwood, was born in Stafford, June 24, 1844.
He attended the public schools there and the

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academics at East Greenwich, Rhode Island,
and Wilbrahani, Massachusetts. At the age
of twenty-four he came to Norwich, and after
serving as a bookkeeper for the wholesale boot
and shoe house of G. A. Jones, Jr., for two
years, engaged in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness with Hammond & Company, and later
became a member of the firm of Lippitt &
Harwood, which succeeded Hammond & Com-
pany. After ten years of successful business
this firm dissolved and was succeeded by
Harwood & Company. Twelve years later,
January i, 1893, it was again changed to Har-
wood, Bishop & Bidwell. It is recognized as
the largest wholesale grocery firm in eastern
Connecticut and conducts a prosperous busi-
ness, having an entire building of three floors
and a basement at No. 45 Water street. Mr.
Harwood from the outset demonstrated his
eminent fitness for a business career, and his
success was the most practical evidence of his
efficiency and ability. His standing was won
by the fairest methods and his position was
therefore unquestioned. He was a staunch
Republican. In 1891 he was elected alderman,
and during his term served as chairman of the
committee on public grounds ; in 1893 was
elected mayor of the city, overcoming a Demo-
cratic majority and receiving a gratifying
plurality ; in 1895 he was re-elected for a
second term, serving four years in all. He
gave the city a good, business-like administra-
tion, in keeping with his personal character-
istics and success in his own affairs, thus in-
creasing the esteem in which his fellow citizens
held him. He was elected a trustee of the
Norwich Savings Society and also a director,
having held the latter office over fifteen years.
In March, 1910, he was elected a vice-presi-
dent, being the third vice-president to pass
away within a month. He was a director of
the Merchants National Bank for a number
of years. He was a member of the first board
of trustees of the Norwich State Hospital for
the Insane; in the original planning of this
work he took a deep interest ; his counsel was
always timely and practical, and as a member
of the finance committee he gave freely of
his time and strength. He was elected a trus-
tee of the Industrial School for Girls at Mid-
dletown, succeeding the late L. A. Gallup.
Some years since he served as president of the
Southern New England Wholesale Grocers'
Association, and was treasurer of the Norwich,
Colchester & Hartford Traction Company.

Mr. Harwood united with the former East
Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
taught a class in the Sunday school and served
as treasurer of the church. When the Metho-
dist churches were consolidated and Trinity

Methodist Episcopal Church organized, he
transferred his membership to it ; he was a
trustee and member of the finance committee
from its organization and was a member of
the building committee of the church. He was
a thirty-second degree Mason, having been a
member of St. James Lodge, No. 23, Free
and Accepted Masons, and all the local
Masonic bodies, as well as Sphinx Temple,
Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. He was also a
member of the Masonic Temple corporation,
and belonged to the Ancient Order of United
Workmen. Mr. Harwood was a man of the
highest integrity, and during his long business
career gained the respect and esteem of all
with whom he came in contact. He possessed
the kindliest disposition, was ever thoughtful
of others in small things as well as great.
The affectionate regard in which he was held
by a large circle is particularly attested by the
sincere tributes paid him by business competi-
tors and his employees. He possessed the
rare faculty of being able to grasp the essen-
tial facts of an intricate or obscure proposi-
tion, and clarity of expression made him of
great service to the numerous interests with
which he was identified. To his family his
loss is irreparable, and the community loses
a citizen of a type none too common.

Mr. Harwood married, September 26, 1865,
Ellen A. White, of Hinsdale, New York,,
daughter of John C. and Sarah B. (Potter)
White, the former a native of Northfield,
Massachusetts. Children: 1. Clara E., born
March 16, 1870; married G. B. Dolbeare, who
holds an important position in the Norwich
Savings Society ; child, Harwood Burrows
Dolbeare, born May II, 1899. 2. Mary E., born
May 29, 1877, died at age of fourteen months.
3. Francis C, born August 27, 1879, twin,
bookkeeper in the employ of the firm with
which his father was connected ; married Mary
I. Griswold, of Norwich ; children : Percival
Francis, born March 21, 1902, and Roger
Griswold, died December 3, 1907, aged two
years, one month. 4. Alice W., twin, died at
age of fourteen months.

Mr. Harwood died in Stafford Springs, Con-
necticut, March 31, 19 10. There was a very
large attendance at the funeral services held in
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Norwich,
including a representative gatheringof business
men, as well as representatives of the Nor-
wich Savings Society, Merchants National
Bank, Court of Common Council, Sedgwick
Post, No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic,
Citizens Corps, and Knights Templar. A fit-
ting eulogy was delivered by Rev. Dr. M. S.
Kaufman, who conducted the services. Inter-
ment was in Yantic cemetery.

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Thomas Fitch, the English pro-
FITCH genitor, was born in England
about 1590, died in 1645. He in-
herited an estate near Braintree, Essex county,
England. He married, August 8, 161 1, Annie
Pew. After his deatb the widow and three
sons came to New England, where two sons
had already located. Children, mentioned in
will: 1. Thomas, came to America in 1638,
settled in Norwalk; in 1663 was one of the
wealthiest citizens, from whom in three gen-
erations each bearing the name of Thomas
Fitch, descended Governor Thomas Fitch, who
was at the head of the colony of Connecticut
from 1754 to 1760. 2. John, of Windsor; left
no issue. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. Na-
thaniel. 5. Jeremy. 6. Samuel, of Hartford.
7. Joseph, settled in Norwalk in 1652 ; in
Northampton. Massachusetts, in 1655; of
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1660; married Mary,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, a founder of
Hartford ; removed to Windsor. 8. Mary. 9.
Anna. 10. Sara. The will of Thomas Fitch,
of Bocking, Essex county, England, is dated
11 December, 1632, proved 12 February, 1632
(O. S.).

(II) Rev. James Fitch, immigrant ancestor,
son of Thomas Fitch, was born at Bocking,
county Essex, England, December 24, 1622.
He came to America when only sixteen years
old, in a company of thirteen young men, all
of whom intended to enter the ministry, and
he was placed under the instruction of Messrs.
Hooker and Stone at Hartford, where he re-
mained seven years. He married (first) Oc-
tober 18, 1648, Abigail, daughter of Rev.
Henry and Dorothy (Sheaffe) Whitfield, the
former of whom was minister at Guilford,
Connecticut, and the latter a daughter of Dr.
Edmond and Joanna Sheaffe, of Crawbrook,
Kent, England. She died September 9, 1659,
and he married (second), October 1664, Pris-
cilla, daughter of Major John Mason. In
1646 he was ordained pastor of a church
formed at Saybrook, and in 1660, after the
death of his first wife, he and a part of his
church moved to Norwich. He learned the
language of the Indians and went among them,
teaching them and winning their friendship,
even though the Mohegan sachems refused
to come to his belief. Large tracts of land
were conveyed to them either in trust or as
absolute grants ; a tract five miles in length
and one in breadth, located in the present town
of Lebanon, was conveyed by Owaneco to
Mr. Fitch, and on this land some of his child-
ren settled. He died among them in 1702,
aged eighty. He preached the election sermon
in 1674, and it is the oldest election sermon
of the Connecticut ministry which has been

saved, and perhaps was the first one preached.
In addition to his clerical labors, he educated
several young men for the ministry; among
those who received at least a part of their
ministerial training from him being the Rev.
Samuel Whiting, of Windsor ; Rev. Taylor, of
Westfield ; Rev. Adams, of New London.
Children by first wife : 1. James, born August
2, 1649, settled in Canterbury. 2. Abigail,.
August, 1650. 3. Elizabeth, January, 1652.
4. Hannah, September, 1653. 5. Samuel,
April, 1655, mentioned below. 6. Dorothy,
April, 1658. Children by second wife: 7-
Daniel, August 16, 1665, made his home in
the North Parish of New London. 8. John,
January, 1667, settled in Windham. 9. Jere-
miah, September, 1670. 10. Jabez, April, 1672,
was a minister ; lived in Ipswich and Ports-
mouth. 11. Ann, April, 1675. 12. Nathaniel,
1679. 13. Joseph, 1681. 14. Eleazer, May 14,
1683.

(III) Samuel, son of Rev. James Fitch, was
born in April, 1655, died in Preston, 1725.
He lived in East Norwich, in what was called
Long Society in the town of Preston. He
married, November 28, 1678, Mary, born in
New London, December 10, 1660, daughter
of Benjamin (died September 10, 1710) and
Ann (Dart) Brewster, who were married
February, 1659 ; granddaughter of Jonathan
(died 1659) and Lucretia (died March, 1679)
Brewster; great-granddaughter of Elder Wil-
liam (died April 10, 1644) and Mary Brew-
ster. Children : Mary, born 1679 ; Samuel,
168 1 ; Hezekiah, 1682; Elizabeth, 1684; Abi-
gail, 1686; Samuel, 1688; Benjamin, 1691 ;
John, 1693 ; Jabez, 1695 ; Peletiah, see for-
ward.

(IV) Peletiah, son of Samuel Fitch, was
born in Mohegan, 1698, died in Preston, 1750.
He married (first) 1723, Elizabeth Haskell,
who bore him one child, Abigail, born 1724.
Married (second) November 2, 1726, Eliza-
beth, born December 9, 1706, daughter of
Samuel (died 1713) and Mary (Williams)
Choate (born December 20, 1669), daughter
of Stephen and Sarah (Wise) Williams,
granddaughter of John (born 1624) and Anne
(born 1637) Choate, and great-granddaughter
of Robert and Sarah Choate. ' Children of
Peletiah and Elizabeth (Choate) Fitch: Ben-
jamin, born 1727; Jabez, 1729; Elizabeth,
1732; Stephen, see forward; Walter, 1736;
Mary, 1740; Ammi, 1742: Andrew, March 22,

1747-

(V) Stephen, son of Peletiah Fitch, was
born in Preston, 1734. He married Sarah

. Children : Asa, see forward ; Walter,

Clarissa, also another son and daughter.

(VI) Colonel Asa, son of Stephen Fitch,

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was born in Bozrah, Connecticut, February 5,
1755, died August 19, 1844. He was a pros-
perous farmer and a manufacturer of iron at
Fitcbville, Connecticut. On February 8, 1781,
he married Susannah Fitch, a descendant of
Samuel Fitch, who died in 1725. She was
born in Bozrah, January 4, 1757. Children:
Nehemiah H. ; Lois F., married Captain
George Lee : Clarissa ; Asa, born May 6, 1787 ;
Susan, married Captain George Lee, his sec-
ond wife; Stephen, August 21, 1790; Fanny,
married Sherwood Raymond ; Douglass, Feb-
ruary 18, 1796; William, October 27, 1800, see
forward; Clarissa, June 5, 1802, married
Major John W. Haughton, October 14, 1824.
(VII) William, son of Colonel Asa Fitch,
was born in Bozrah, October 2J, 1800. He
spent his youth with his father, working on
the farm in the summer, and attending the
common schools in winter until he was about
fifteen years old. He then went to Colchester
and attended the Bacon Academy from which
he graduated. He was deeply interested in
books and study, and taught school several
terms before he was twenty years old. He
went to France in 1820 or 1821 and engaged
in mercantile business there with his brothers,
Asa and Douglass, under the firm name of
Fitch Brothers & Company. He returned to
the United States about 1825 or 1826 and
began business with his brothers in New York
City, where he remained until 1848, and while
there he had charge of the entire correspond-
ence. On account of his failing health, he re-
turned to his native town where he engaged
for several years in manufacturing business
with his brother Asa. He married, October
u. 1857, Mary E., daughter of Dr. Elias and
Mary Ann (Hillhouse) Williams. She was
born in Bethlehem, Litchfield county, Connec-
ticut, January 23, 1825, died July 12, 1897.
Her father was born in Harwinton, Connecti-
cut, September 16, 1797, son of Rev. Joshua
Williams, who graduated from Yale College in
1780, and was a native of Rocky Hill, Con-
necticut, and for many years was pastor of
the Congregational Church in Harwinton.
Rev. Joshua Williams' mother was Mary
Webb ; Mr. Williams was educated by his
father and attended Yale College, and then
studied medicine with Dr. Roswell Abernethy,
of Harwinton. He attended lectures at the
medical schools at New York and New
Haven and was licensed to practice in
1822, when he commenced jn Bethlehem
with his brother-in-law, Dr. Conant Catlin.
About 1826 he removed to Troy, New
York, and established himself as a drug-
gist, but his health soon failed him and
he died of consumption at Claverack, Colum-

bia county, New York, September 28, 1818,
aged thirty-one, while travelling between Troy
and New York. He married, April 3, 1823,
Mary Ann Hillhouse, of Montville, and left
one child, Mary E. Williams (see Hillhouse,
IV). In 1858 William Fitch settled in Nor-
wich town, and lived there until his death,
December 23, 1880. He was a Democrat in
politics. He was postmaster of Fitchville for
.several years, until he moved to Norwich town.
A friend wrote of him, after his death, saying:
"He was a member of Trinity Church, and
was characterized for benevolence among that
people. He was a man of generous impulses,
and will be missed by many poor families.
His was a long and useful life, peacefully
closed with a full hope of immortality. He
leaves a wife and five daughters to mourn his
loss." Children: 1. William Asa, born Aug-
ust 7, 1858, died young. 2. Marion Hillhouse,
September 28, i860; married, April 11, 1882,
Elihu G. Loomis, and died March 21, 1907;
had five children : Mary Fitch, died young,
Ralph Lane, Hubert Hillhouse, Samuel Lane,
and William Fitch Loomis. 3. Susan Lee,
born March 19, 1863; married William Rob-
ert Jewett, born October 13, 1861, son of
William and Mary Ann (Whitehead) Jewett,
both born in England, and the children of Wil-
liam Robert Jewett are: Edward Whitehead,
William Fitch, and Fannie Raymond Jewett.
4. Elizabeth Mason, born August 11, 1865;
married, April 29, 1885, William Nelson Wil-
bur; children: Lawrence Hillhouse, William
Fitch, Mary Elizabeth, Harriet Mason, and
John Mason Wilbur. 5. Fannie Raymond,
born December 22, 1867, died July 21, 1890.
6. Sarah Griswold, December 7, 1871 ; mar-
ried Francis Hillhouse, July 14, 1897; child-
ren : Mary Fitch, Frances Betts, and Marian

Hillhouse.

(The Hillhouse Line).

( I ) Abraham Hillhouse lived at Artikelly,
Ireland. He was among the signers of an
address to King William and Queen Mary
on the occasion of the relief of the seige of
Londonderry, dated July 29, 1669. He had
sons John and James. James was one of the
commissioners to treat with Lord Mountjoy
in the memorable defense of Derry against the
forces of James II. He was mayor of London
in 1693.

(II) John, son of Abraham Hillhouse, was
of Free Hall, England. He died in 1716,
leaving his estate to his son Abraham. His
wife died in January, 17 17.

(HI) Rev. James Hillhouse, son of John
Hillhouse, was educated at the famous Uni-
versity of Glasgow in Scotland, and after-
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at the same college. He was ordained by the
Presbytery of Londonderry in Ireland. He
seems to have lived on or near the ancestral
home in 17 16. Not long after his mother's
death he came to A'ew England, probably with
other Presbyterian immigrants from the north
of Ireland who, in 1719, settled in New Hamp-
shire, where the towns of Derry, Londonderry,
and the Londonderry Presbytery still remain
as memorials of them. In 1720 he came to
Boston, when he published a sermon which he
had written at his mother's death, but he does
not seem to have preached it. "This work,
though entitled a sermon," a historian says,
"was more properly a treatise in a volume of
more than one hundred and forty pages."
Cotton Mather speaks of him as "a valuable
minister." and "a worthy, hopeful young min-
ister lately arrived in America." On Febru-
ary 5, 1721-23, Joseph Bradford was chosen
at a parish meeting of the North Parish of
New London, now Montville, to request Mr.
Saltonstall, the governor, to write to Mr. Hill-
house, requesting him to be pastor of the
church, and on October 3, 1722, he was in-
stalled as pastor. The church was organized
only a short time before he came there. He
was born about 1687. He married, January
18, 1726. Mary, daughter of Daniel Fitch, one
of his parishioners. He was pastor of the
church for about sixteen years, and his early
death was probably hastened by his many
cares and worries. He died December 15,
1740, aged fifty-three, and his wife died Octo-
ber 25, 1768, aged sixty-two. Children: John,
born December 14, 1726, died April 9, 1735 ;
William, August 17, 1728, mentioned below;
Janus Abraham, May 12, 1730; Rachel, Jan-
uary 22. 1735.

( IV) Judge William Hillhouse, son of Rev.
James Hillhouse, was born August 17, 1728.
He married (first), November 1, 1750, Sarah
Griswold. born December 2, 1728, daugh-
ter of John Griswold, and sister of the first
Governor Griswold. He settled on the pater-
nal estate at Montville and lived there all his
life. He was a leading patriot in the revolu-
tion and prominent in the town. When he was
twenty-seven he represented the town in the
legislature, and held that position for many
terms. In 1785 he was elected an assistant
in the upper house, and was also for many
years a judge of the county and probate courts.
He was a major in the Second Regiment of
Cavalry raised by the state for the revolution.
When he was eighty, he declined re-election to
the council, and retired from active life. He
was tall and spare in figure, with a dark com-
plexion and overhanging eyebrows, very sim-
ple in his manners and quaint in speech. He

was very dignified and impressive. His wife
died March 10, 1777, and he married (second)
May 24, 1778, Delia Hosmer. He died Janu-
ary 12, 1816. Children: 1. John Griswold,
born August 5, 1751 ; married Elizabeth
Mason, and they had Mary Ann Hillhouse,
who married Eliar Williams 2. Mary, April
TO> !753- 3- James, October 20, 1754. 4.
David, May 11, 1756. 5. William, September
7, 1757. 6. Rachel, August 17, 1760. 7. Sam-
uel, January 17, 1762. 8. Oliver, November
11, 1764. 9. Thomas, September 24, 1766. 10.
Sarah, May 12, 1773, died September 14, 1778.

Three pioneers named
BLACKMAN Blackman came to Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony from
England before 1640. Rev. Adam Blackman
was minister of Scituate, Massachusetts, and
afterward of Stratford, Connecticut, where he
died March 16, 1665, leaving children, John,
Benjamin, Joseph, James, Samuel and Deliv-
erance and several daughters. Rev. Benjamin
Blackman settled at Maiden, Massachusetts,
graduate of Harvard College in 1663; mar-
ried, April 1, 1675, Sarah Scottow. The third
was John, mentioned below. According to
tradition they were brothers. The same names
occur in each family. According to a tradi-
tion mentioned by Elisha Blackman, of Hano-
ver, Pennsylvania, the family was wealthy in
England, but the property descended to the
elder branch, after the law of the land, and
the younger sons came to America. The
Blackman family of London and the East In-
dies bears arms : Ermine three lions rampant
within a bordure or. Crest: A griffin ermine.
Another Blackman armorial : A demi-Moor in
fetters crowned with an eastern coronet. An-
other, probably very ancient : A demi-griffin
vert.

(I) John Blackman, immigrant ancestor of
this family, was born in England about 1625,
died April 28, 1675, ar>d the inventory of his
estate is dated May 28, 1675. He was one
of the one hundred and two petitioners to the
general court, October 9, 1664, to adhere to
their original patent. He was admitted a
freeman in 1665. He married (first) about
1650, Mary, daughter of Robert Pond. He

married (second) about 1669, Sarah ■ , who

survived him. Children of first wife, born at
Dorchester: John, August 10, 1656, married,
March 26, 1685, Jane Weeks; Jonathan, Jan-
uary 1, 1658, married, in 1687, Leah ;

Sarah, baptized July 17, 1659; Joseph, men-
tioned below ; Mary, baptized October 18,
1663; Benjamin, born December 31, 1665.
Children of second wife : Adam, December
9, 1670; Abraham, February 8, 1674-75.

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(II) Joseph, son of John Blackman, was
born June 27, 1661. He removed to Little
Compton, Rhode Island; about 1709 removed
to Freetown, Massachusetts, and in 171 7 to
Lebanon, Connecticut. He was one of the
organizers of the church at Little Compton
in 1704 and at Freetown in 17 10. He bought
of Jonathan Metcalf one hundred and twenty
acres of land in Lebanon, August 15, 171 7,
for six hundred pounds. He died at Lebanon
and his widow, Elizabeth, and son Elisha and
Jonathan Metcalf administered the estate. In-
ventory one thousand two hundred and ninety-
seven pounds, nine shillings, sixpence, dated
July 15, 1720. He married, November 12,
1(685, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Church,
brother of the famous Captain Benjamin
Church, of King Philip's war. The Church
family also lived in Dorchester and Little
Compton. Children: 1. Benjamin, born
about 1686, died young. 2. Ichabod, March
8, 1691-92. 3. Sarah, January 1, 1694-95. 4.
Rebecca, June 5, 1696; married, January,
1722, Benjamin Brewster. 5. Elisha, Sep-
tember 23, 1699 ; married, January 2, 1723-24,
Susanna, daughter of Captain John and Han-
nah (Drake) Higley and sister of Hannah
Higley, who married Captain Joseph Trum-
bull, father of Governor Jonathan Trumbull,
of Connecticut. 6. Benjamin, mentioned below.
7. Mary, February, 1703-04; married Septem-
ber 17, 1724, Caleb Hyde. 8. Abraham, July
11, 1705. 9. Elizabeth, September, 1707; mar-
ried, June 2, 1724, Stephen Powell.

(III) Benjamin, son of Joseph Blackman,
was born November 12, 1701, at Little Comp-
ton. He married, December 17, 1730, Sarah
Phelps. Their son, Benjamin, is mentioned
below.

(IV) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
Blackman, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut,
in 1732, died in 1828. Children: 1. Captain
Benjamin, born 1764, died 1858, at Verona,
New York. 2. Elijah, mentioned below. 3.
Sarah, July 6, 1771 ; married Mason Tilden :
she died June 7, 1825 ; her grandson, Commo-
dore George M. Ransom, was born June 18,
1820, died in Norwich, Connecticut, Septem-
ber 10, 1889.

(V) Elijah, son of Benjamin: (2) Blackman,
was born in 1766. He married (first) a Miss
Welding: no children. He married (second)
Miss Spencer, by whom he had three children :
Orrilla, Abigail, Elijah, who removed to Ver-
ona, New York. He married (third) Char-
lotte (Ladd) Smith, a widow, by whom he
had two children : Clarissa, who died young,
and Benjamin, mentioned below. Elijah
Blackman was buried beside his second wife
in Andover, Connecticut.

(VI) Benjamin (3), son of Elijah Black-
man, was born March 10, 1810, died March
13, 1872. He married, January 16, 1831,.
Caroline Fountain, daughter of John Foun-
tain Chapman. She died April 4, 1897. He
resided at Franklin, Connecticut. Children:
1. Cornelia Ellerson, born December 5, 1831 ;
married George W. Frinck. 2. John Foun-
tain, born August 2, 1833 ! married Louise
Dillaby, who died December, 1897. 3. Isaac
Newton, born September 17, 1835; married
Lucy Ann Ackley. 4. Lucy Ann Williams,
born March 1, 1837; died July 28, 1897; was
teacher in the Norwich Free Academy, pupil
and teacher there for more than thirty years.
5. Caroline Elizabeth, born November 17,
1838; has been a school teacher for fifty years
in the public schools of Norwich, Connecticut,
and in her private school, which she conducted
for fourteen years. 6. Antoinette Johnson,
born September 6, 1840 ; married Samuel G.
Hartshorn, of Franklin, Connecticut ; no child-
ren. 7. Benjamin Burrill, born February 26,
1844; captain in the Forty-third United States
Infantry, served four years in the civil war ;
practiced law afterward and died August 12,
1888. 8. Harriet Louisa, born August 13,
1847; died August 18, 1854. 9. Monroe Earle,
(twin), born April 14, 1849: married Eliza-
beth Strachan ; is a physician in Brooklyn,
New York. 10. Marion Elsie (twin), was a
teacher in the Norwich Free Academy for
fifteen years; died May 30, 1887. 11. Clarissa
Charlotte, born March 20, 1852, organist and
teacher of music in Norwich for many years.

John Downes, immigrant an-
DOWNES cestor, was born in England,

and before 1648 had settled
in New Haven, Connecticut. He was then a
young man, an apprentice. He married Mary

. Children: John, born 1659, died

young; Samuel, 1662; Mary, 1665; Ebenezer,
married, November 28, 1694, Mary Umphre-
ville; Deliverance, 1669, mentioned below;
Elizabeth, twin of preceding; Hannah, 1671 ;
John, 1672; Daniel, 1674; Nathaniel, 1676;
Ruth, 1679.

(II) Deliverance, son of John Downes, was
born in New Haven in 1669. He married
Rebecca, born at Springfield, 1677, died at
Milford, Connecticut, February 2, 1740. daugh-
ter of Simon and Persis (Pierce) Lobdell.
Her father was one of the "after planters,"
coming from Herefordshire, England, about
1645 ! was admitted a freeman at Hartford,
May 21. 1657; went to Springfield, but re-
turned to Milford : his wife Persis, daughter,
it is thought, of Thomas and Elizabeth Pierce,
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to the Milford Church, January 7, 1677, and
Simon, January 7, 1710. Ann Lobdell, sister
of Simon, married Samuel Terry ; Elizabeth,
her sister, married Jonathan Burt, and both
lived in Springfield. Children of Deliverance
Downes: Rebecca, baptized June 26, 1709;
married David Northey ; John, mentioned be-
low ; Mary; Elizabeth.

(Ill ) John (2), son of Deliverance Downes,
was baptized at Milford, June 26, 1709, died
January 12, 1799. He married. May 24, 1733,
Ann Hine, born February 19, 171 1, died Jan-
uary 27, 1795.

f IV) John (3), son of John (2) Downes,
was born in Milford, June 5, 1745. He was a
soldier in the revolution, and took part in
the battle of Long Island, the battle of New
London, etc. He kept a diary for more than
forty years, which is still preserved, being in
the possession of his great-grandson, William
H. Downes, of Boston. He married, Decem-
ber 14, 1769, Hannah Stone, born in 1752,
died in 1819, Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder
of Hartford, was one of her ancestors, and
John Stone, one of the first settlers of Guil-
ford, was another.

(V) Horatio, son of John (3) Downes, was
born at Milford, December 16, 1787, died May
14, i860; married, May 27, 1818, Nancy
Smith, born January 16, 1799, at Milford, died
August 13, 1855. Among her ancestors were
Governor Robert Treat, Rev. Samuel An-
drew, of Milford, one of the founders of Yale
College, and Edmund Tapp, one of the first
settlers of Milford and one of its first five
judges.

( VI) Hon. William E., son of Horatio
Downes, was born in Milford, August 22,
1824. He attended the district schools of his
native town, and prepared for college under
the tuition of Rev. Asa M. Train, of Milford,
entering Yale College in 1841 and graduating
in the class of 1845. He studied law in the
office of Hon. Alfred Blackman, of New
Haven, and in the Yale Law School. He was
admitted to the bar at Danbury, Connecticut,
in 1848, and in December following opened an
office in Birmingham (now Derby) Connecti-
cut, where he practiced his profession until
1863. He then succeeded his father-in-law in
the management of the Howe Manufacturing
Company of Birmingham, and continued most
successfully until he retired in 1875. He was
an able and distinguished lawyer and he won
the respect and confidence of the community,
especially of his clients. In his business as a
manufacturer of pins, he won a high position
as well as a handsome competence. After he
retired from manufacturing, he devoted him-
self to various positions of public and private

trust. For a decade or more he was president
of the Derby Savings Bank. He was a direc-
tor and member of the executive committtee
of the Ousatonic Water Company ; director in
many other corporations and institutions of
Derby and vicinity. He was one of the prime
movers in securing the charter for the water
company from the legislature. As early as
1855 lie was a representative to the general
assembly from the town of Derby, and again
in 1882-83. He took a prominent part in estab-
lishing the board of pardons of the state and
was chiefly instrumental in procuring the pas-
sage of the "Act concerning Insane Persons"
in 1889, and it may be said that few legislators
have accomplished more in the same length of
time. For several years, at no little sacrifice,
he filled the office of justice of the peace in
Derby. In politics he was a Republican,
though sometimes he took an independent
stand. In religion he was a Congregationalism
He died February 1, 1904, at DeLand, Flor-
ida. His character has been described by a
contemporary : "Mr. Downes is possessed of
certain qualities rarely found, as in him, in
harmonious combination. While a lover of
books and reading and with the instincts and
tastes of a scholar, he is at the same time a
practical man of affairs, with an aptitude for
business born in a thorough legal and business
experience. In the many corporations with
which he is connected, his opinion carries
much weight and his counsel is rarely disre-
garded. While modest and retiring in disposi-
tion, and willing to yield to the judgment of
others in matters of minor importance, he is
steadfast in matters of principle and loyal to
his convictions at all times, without regard to
consequence. His conclusions are generally
reached only after mature reflection and al-
though they are held with firmness, the firm-
ness never degenerates into obstinacy. He has
an instinct for justice and a sense of honor
that feels a stain like a wound. His keen
perception of the humorous side of human
nature and conduct, coupled with a genial,
kindly disposition, make him a delightful com-
panion and relieves the prosiness of many a
business meeting."

He married, June 24, 185 1, Jane M., born
October 6, 1825, died January 5, 1907, daugh-
ter of Dr. John Ireland and Cornelia Ann
(Ireland) Howe. Her father was born in
1793 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, graduated
from the Medical University of New York, and
for many years practiced in New York City.
Dr. Howe obtained a patent on rubber com-
pounds as early as 1828 ; in 1832-33 he devised
a machine for making pins with solid heads
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hand, and visited England, Belgium and
France to secure patents for his invention ; and
in 1835 the Howe Manufacturing Company-
was organized in New York to manufacture
pins. For thirty years Dr. Howe was at the
head of this business; in 1838 the factory was
removed to Birmingham, Connecticut, on ac-
count of the superior water power available
there. In i860 he retired from business and
interested himself in horticulture. His origi-
nal pin-machine is now in the National Mus-
eum at Washington. Dr. Howe was one of
the industrial leaders of his day ; he died Sep-
tember 10, 1876, in his eighty-fourth year.
Children of William E. Downes : 1. Helen
Guion, born March 29, 1852; married, No-
vember 2, 1875, Charles Elmes Atwater, who
died August 2, 1908 ; children : Jean Howe
Atwater, born September 7, 1876 ; and Helen
C. Atwater, May 11, 1879. 2- William Howe,
born March 1, 1854; married, September 28,
1875, Helen Louise Sawyer; children: i. Doro-
thea Helen, March 3, 1878 ; married in Pasa-
dena, California, June 1, 1910, William Ernest
Pierce; ii. Dennis Sawyer, November 15,
1879; married in Pasadena, California, De-
cember 5, 1906, Marion Lee; iii. Barbara
Howe, November 1, 1881 ; iv. Carl Sawyer,
November 9, 1884 ; v. Jerome Ireland Howe,
August 6, 1887 ; his first wife died January
23, 1 89 1, and he married (second) Sarah Olive
Lowell, May 16, 1892 ; child : vi. William Lo-
well, born May 1, 1893. 3. Catherine Jane,
born August 29, 1857; married at Cairo,
Egypt, February 18, 1878, William Wallace
Whiting, who died March 7, 1884; children:
i. Susan Whiting, born January 12, 1879, mar-
ried, October 8, 1908, Paul Victor C. Baur;
children : John Ireland Howe Baur, August
9, 1909, and a daughter, December 18, 1910.
ii. Phoebe Whiting, born May 31, 1880; iii.
William Ernest Whiting, born June 17, 1882;
iv. John Downes Whiting, July 25, 1884. 4.
John Ireland Howe, mentioned below.

(VII) John Ireland Howe, son of William
E. Downes, was born in Derby, September 18,
1 861. He attended the public schools in Derby
and the Hopkins Grammar School in New
Haven. He entered the Yale School of Fine
Arts and received the degree* of B. F. A.
from Yale in 1898. He continued his study
of art in New York City and Paris, where he
was a pupil of Luc Olivier Merson. Return-
ing to New Haven, he opened a studio at 254
Lawrence street. He also has a studio at
Mount Carmel, Connecticut, where he paints
many of his pictures. He is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars ; president of the
New Haven Paint and Clay Club ; secretary
and treasurer of the Alliance Franchise ; mem-

ber of the New Haven Colony Historical So-
ciety ; of the Bibliophile Society of America ;
Lawn Club of New Haven; the Graduates
Club; the New Haven Country Club; the
Archaeological Society of Connecticut. In
religion he is a Unitarian ; in politics inde-
pendent. He is librarian of the Yale School
of Fine Arts. He resides at 345 Whitney ave-
nue, New Haven. He is unmarried.

The surname Lockwood is
LOCKWOOD of very ancient origin and

is mentioned in the Domes-
day Book. It is a place name, and the family
has several branches in England — Stafford-
shire, Yorkshire, county Essex and Northamp-
ton. The coat-of-arms borne by Rev. Richard
Lockwood, of Dingley, Northampton, was :
Argent, a fesse between three martletts sable.

(I) Robert Lockwood, immigrant ancestor,
came to New England about 1630 and settled
in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was ad-
mitted a freeman, March 9, 1636-37, and was
the executor of the estate of one, Edmund
Lockwood, supposed to be his brother. He
removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he
died in 1658. He was recorded as settler
there as early as 1641, and was admitted a
freeman in that state, May 20, 1652. He was
appointed sergeant at Fairfield, May, 1657,
and is said to have lived for a time in Nor-
walk, Connecticut. He married Susannah

, who married (second) Jeffrey Ferris,

and died at Greenwich, December 23, 1660.
Children: Jonathan, born September 10, 1634;
Deborah, October 12, 1636; Joseph, August
6, 1638; Daniel, March 21, 1640; Ephraim,
December 1, 1641 ; Gershom, see forward;
John ; Abigail, married John Harlow, of Fair-
field ; Sarah ; Mary, married Jonathan
Heusted.

(II) Lieutenant Gershom, son of Sergeant
Robert and Susannah Lockwood, was born
September 6, 1643, at Watertown, died in
Greenwich, Connecticut, March 12, 1718-19.
He removed to Greenwich with his father
when he was nine years of age. He became
one of the twenty-seven proprietors of Green-
wich. He was a carpenter by trade and held
many positions of trust in the town. His
will was dated November 22, 1692. The plain
blue slate stone which marks his grave is
well preserved. He married (first) Lady Ann,
daughter of Lord Millington, of England.
She came to New England in search of her
lover, a British army officer. Failing to find
him, she taught school and later married Ger-
shom Lockwood. In 1660 her parents sent
her a large oak chest, ingeniously carved and
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tained a half bushel of guineas, many fine silk
dresses, etc. At last accounts the chest was
in the possession of Samuel Ferris, of Green-
wich, who married Ann Lockwood, grand-
daughter of Lady Ann (Millington) Lock-
wood. Lieutenant Ger shorn Lockwood mar-
ried (second) Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, and
widow of Gideon Wright. Children, all by
first wife : Gershom, see forward ; William,
died young ; Joseph ; Elizabeth, married John
Bates; Hannah, 1667, married (first) John
Burwell, (second) Thomas Hanford ; Sarah,
1669, received by will from her father "a
certain negro girl being now in my posses-
sion" ; Abraham, twin of Sarah.

(III) Gershom (2), son of Lieutenant Ger-
shom (1) and Lady Ann (Millington) Lock-
wood, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut,
and was admitted a freeman of the colony,
February 7, 1693-94. He was probably a
carpenter by trade. In 1687 he and his brother
William agreed to build a bridge across
Myanos river at Dumpling pond, and receive
in payment "whatever the town should see fit
to give, after the work was done." He mar-
ried Mary . Children : Gershom, see for-
ward; Jonathan, born 1710; Ann, 1713;
Peter ; Elizabeth, married Silas Betts ; Nathan-
iel, married Ruth Knapp ; James, married
Sally Ferris ; Moses.

(IV) Gershom (3), son of Gershom (2)
and Mary Lockwood, was born in Green-
wich, 1708; married Mary Ferris, born 1708,
died February 9, 1796. Children: Gershom,
see forward ; Moses ; Milton ; Ann, married
— — Jessup, of Stamford ; daughter, married
Montgomery.

(V) Gershom (4), son of Gershom (3) and
Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, was born about
1728, died at Stanwich, town of Greenwich,
and his will was dated February 9, 1796. He
and his wife were buried in Greenwich. He
married Eunice Close, of Horse Neck Parish,
Greenwich, who died in 1808 at the age of
eighty years. Children : Moses, married Han-
nah Brush; Gershom, married Sally Waring;
Nathaniel, 1756; James, married Cynthia
Matterson; Joseph, see forward; Edward,
married Lydia Hobby; Eunice, married Alex-
ander McDougall ; Lydia, married

Heckle ; Mary Ann, became the second wife
of Alexander McDougall ; Elizabeth, married
(first) Joseph Lockwood, (second) John Hen-
nings ; Sarah, married Lockwood.

(VI) Joseph, son of Gershom (4) and
Eunice (Close) Lockwood, was born Novem-
ber 13, 1769, spent the greater part of his life
in North Stamford, Connecticut, and died
in New York City, where he had passed the

last few years. He married Sarah Slawson,
of Stanwich, Connecticut. Children : Gideon
Weed, see forward ; Andrew ; Matilda ; Maria ;
Sarah, 1801 ; Cynthia, married Philo Thatch-
er; Joseph, died young; Joseph; Edward;
Silas ; Odle.

(VII) Gideon Weed, son of Joseph and
Sarah (Slawson) Lockwood, was born in
North Stamford, February 27, 1793, died
April 11, 1879. He married, at Poundridge,
New York, February 25, 1818, Mary, born in
Poundridge, February 14, 1798, died about
1 87 1, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth
(Lounsbury) Ayres. Children: Sarah, born
March 11, 1819 ; Reuben Ayres, February 19,
1820; Amzi, July 13, 1822; Joseph, January
11, 1824, died March 30, 1830; William, Jan-
uary 11, 1826; Sarah Elizabeth, January 3,
1828; Mary, December 1, 1829; Matilda, Jan-
uary 3, 1832; Edward Close, October 11,
1834; Joseph, July 7, 1836; Emily, May 18,
1839; Henry, see forward.

(VIII) Henry, youngest child of Gideon
Weed and Mary (Ayres) Lockwood, was
born in North Stamford, Connecticut, March
22, 1843. He was educated in district schools
and spent his early years, up to eighteen, on
a farm. He then went into a country store
near his home as a clerk, remaining there two
and one-half years. Then he came to Stam-
ford in February, 1866, as a clerk in Seth VV.
Scofield's hardware business, which vocation
he followed for fifteen years, when he pur-
chased his employer's interest, continuing in
the same store until the building of the present
block in April, 1902. This building has a
floor space of sixty-six by eighty-five feet, the
firm occupying three floors and the basement
and are the largest hardware dealers in this
section of the state. In addition to the general
line of hardware, they also carry carriages
and wagons of all kinds, harness, and all kinds
of agricultural implements. The firm is Lock-
wood & Palmer, the latter having been a clerk
for a number of years for Mr. Lockwood and
admitted to partnership in 1897. Mr. Lock-
wood is purely a self-made man, having started
at the bottom of the ladder and risen to his
present prominent place by strict attention
to business. He married in that town, April
24, 1872, Helen M., born April 19, 185 1,
daughter of George and Charlotte (Warner)
Davenport. Child : Charles Davenport, see
forward.

(IX) Charles Davenport, only child of
Henry and Helen M. (Davenport) Lockwood,
was born in Stamford, November 11, 1877.
He received his early education in his native
town and attended the high school there.
Later he was a student at Yale University,

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from which he was graduated in the class of
1900, and from the Law School of that insti-
tution in 1903. He was admitted to the bars
of Connecticut and New York states in 1903,
and was assistant district attorney in New
York City under William T. Jerome. In 1907
he was elected a judge of the probate court in
Stamford, was re-elected in 1909, and is serv-
ing in this office at the present time (1910).
He is also a member of the law firm of Cum-
mings & Lockwood, who have their offices
in Stamford. He is a director of the Citizens'
Savings Bank, trustee of the Children's Home,
trustee of the Society of the Presbyterian
Church, and a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity in Stamford. His political affiliations
are with the Democratic party. Mr. Lockwood
married, October 13, 1906, Gertrude, daughter
of Harry Bell, of Stamford. Child : Charles
Davenport Jr., born in Stamford, December
22, 1907.

John Gay, immigrant ancestor, was
GAY born in England, and died at Ded-

ham, Massachusetts, March 4, 1688.
He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in
1630, and was one of the grantees in the great
dividends and in Beaver brook plow-lands,
having forty acres. He was admitted a free-
man, May 6, 1635. With other Watertown
men he was a settler of Dedham, and was one
of the petitioners for incorporation of that
town, September 6, 1636, and one of the origi-
nal proprietors. He was a selectman in 1654.
He married Joanna , who died August

14, 1691. She is said to have been previously

widow of Baldmade. His will was dated

December 18. 1686. proved December 17, 1689.
His widow and son John were the executors.
His inventory shows property valued at
ninety-one pounds, five shillings. Children :
Samuel (mentioned below) ; Hezekieh, born
July 3, 1640; Nathaniel, January II, 1643;
Joanna, March 23, 1645 ! Eliezer, June 25,
1647; Abiel and Judith (twins), April 23,
1649; Jonn> May 6, 1651 ; Jonathan, August
1, 1653; Hannah, October 16, 1656; Eliza-
beth. "

(II) Samuel, son of John Gay, was born
at Dedham, March 10, 1639, died there April

15, 1718. He married, Nov. 2^, 1661, at Ded-
ham, Mary, daughter of Edward Bridge, of
Roxbury. She died April 13. 1718. He re-
ceived under the will of his father part of the
land near Medfield. He was selectman of
Dedham in 1698. Children, born at Dedham :
Samuel. February 4, 1663; Edward, April 13,
1666; John (mentioned below); Hezekiah,
May 1, 1670; Timothy, September 15, 1674.

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Gay, was

born at Dedham, June 25, 1668, where he died
June 17, 1758. He married there, May 24,
1692, Mary Fisher, descendant of Anthony
Fisher, of Syleham, England. She died May
18, 1748. He was selectman of Dedham in
1721. Children, born at Dedham: Mary, May
30, 1693; Mercy, February 17, 1696; John
(mentioned below); Samuel, July 12, 1702;
Margaret, July 27, 1705 ; Eliphalet, Septem-
ber 24, 1706; Ebenezer, April 25, 1711.

( IV) John (3), son of John (2) Gay, was
born at Dedham, July 8, 1699. He settled at
Litchfield, Connecticut, thence removed to
Sharon. He married, at Dedham, Lydia Col-
ver. Children, born at Litchfield : Mary, Octo-
ber 3, 1722; Lydia, March 11, 1724; Ebenezer,
December 26, 1725 ; John, January 28, 1727-
28; Ann, November 3, 1727; Sarah, July 20,
173 1 ; Fisher, October 9, 1733; Perez (men-
tioned below); Eleony, April 17, 1738; Let-
tice, January 29, 1739-40, died early.

(V) Perez, son of John (3) Gay, was born
January 5, 1735-36, at Litchfield. He married,
March 23, 1762, Margaret Fairbanks. Chil-
dren, born at Sharon : Edward, February 3,
1763 (mentioned below) ; Luther and Calvin
(twins), August 5, 1765; John Banks, Au-
gust 6, 1767; Eliezer, May 23, 1770; Lucy,
June 4, 1776; Eliza, September 20, 1780; Lu-
cretia, December 13, 1782. Margaret, his
wife, died January 14, 18 13.

(VI) Edward, son of Perez Gay, was born
February 3, 1763, and baptized, with other
children of his parents, April 15, 1770, at
Sharon, Connecticut. He married, May 13,
1783, Mary White, born at Danbury, Connec-
ticut, May 12, 1760.

( VII) Henry Sanford, son of Edward Gay,
was born in Sharon, March 14, 1790, died at
Salisbury, Connecticut, January 9, 1879. He
was a farmer. He married, April 17, 1821,
.Mary Reed, born in Salisbury, April 5, 1796,
died October 30, 1837.

(YIII) Henry, son of Henry Sanford Gay,
was born at Salisbury, April 5, 1834, died at
Winsted, May 17, 1908. He was brought up
on his father's farm, and from early youth
assisted his father in the work and attended
the district school. For three terms he at-
tended seminaries at Salisbury and Winsted.
When he was fourteen he began his business
training as clerk in a country dry goods store,
at Lakeville, Connecticut. After four years
he entered the employ of the Iron Bank at
Falls Village and in the banking business
found his calling. In 1854 he came to Win-
sted, and for more than fifty years was
prominent in banking circles. For many years
he was president of the Hurlbut National
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other business interests, however. He was a
director of the Willam L. Gilbert Clock Com-
pany ; the Winsted Hosiery Company ; the
New England Knitting Company ; the George
Dudley & Sons Company ; the Morgan Silver
Plate Company ; the Winsted Gas Company ;
the Connecticut Western Railway Company;
the Richards Hardware Company ; the Win-
sted Sifk Company ; the Citizens' Printing
Company, and director and president of the
Winsted Edge Tool Company. He was a
member of the partnership known as the Win-
sted Yarn Company. He was president of the
Gilbert Home and trustee of the Gilbert
School and himself gave the land for the
home. He was president of the Winchester
Soldiers Memorial Park Association ; incor-
porator of the Litchfield County Hospital and
chairman of the trustees of its permanent
funds, and was president of the Beardsley
Library. Few men have been more active and
useful in benevolent and charitable organiza-
tions, and none more active in the upbuilding
of enterprises that tended to develop and ben-
efit the city. He owned and developed much
real estate. He was a director of the Tor-
ring-ton & Winchester Street Railway until
it was sold. He was prominent also in public
life. He was one of the original members of
the Republican party when it was organized
and was always active and loyal to his party.
He was six times elected to represent the
town of Winchester in the general assembly of
the state. During his last term he was chair-
man of the committee on finance, an important
position for which his banking experience
and business attainment specially qualified him.
He served from 1875 to 1877 and in 1879-
85-89. He was for more than fifty years
a member of the Second Congregational
Church. His death was a great blow to the
community, and his loss was felt, not only by
the bank of which he was head, the numerous
corporations in which his wisdom and exper-
ience were invaluable, in the councils of the
political party to which he belonged, and in
city affairs, but more especially by his family
and friends, who had for so many years de-
pended upon his good judgment, faithfulness
and kindly sympathy. "Making rough ground
smooth," as he used to express his policy
in a phrase, was one of his chief pleasures
and one of the secrets of his success in life.
He married, May 20, 1857, Charlotte E. Wat-
son, born at New Hartford, Connecticut, Jan-
uary 8, 1835, now living in Winsted, daughter
of Thomas and Emeline (Curtis) Watson (see
Watson). Their only child, Mary Watson,
was born June 19, i860, died August 25,
1901 ; married Dr. Edward L. Pratt, a phy-

sician, of Winsted ; their son, Henry Gay
Pratt, was born May 25, 189 1, graduate of
the Winsted High School.

(The Watson Line).

(I) John Watson is supposed to have been
a native of England. A tradition among his
descendants says that one of the passengers
on the same vessel with him was Peggy Smith,
a young woman who fell overboard, and that
he saved her lite, and on reaching New Eng-
land they were married. He was a juror in
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1644, and, as shown
by Mr. W. S. Porter, lived on lot No. 9,
South Main street, in 1646. The next record
of him is that he bought land of the original
proprietors in the west division, now West
Hartford. He was a highway surveyor in
1646. The exact date of his death does not
appear, but the date of his will and that of
its proof show that it must have been between
March 26 and June 4, 1650. He bequeathed
in his will to his wife and children. His wife
Margaret made her will in March, 1683, which
was proved September 6, 1683. Her death
must have occurred between those dates.
Children : John, born 1646 (mentioned be-
low) ; Sarah ; Mary.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Watson,
was born in 1646, and lived in West Hartford
at his death, 1730. He married (first) Anna

, and (second) Sarah . He was

eighty-four years old at his death. His es-
tate, amounting to one thousand seventeen
pounds, was distributed July 2, 1730. Chil-
dren : John, born in Hartford, December 14,
1680; Thomas, Hartford, September 14, 1682;
Zachariah, Hartford, October 26, 1685 ; Anna,
May 26, 1688 ; Cyprian, January 12, 1689-90
(mentioned below) ; Sarah, December 13,
1692; Caleb, May 5, 1695.

(III) Cyprian, son of John (2) Watson,
was born in Hartford, January 12, 1689-90.
He married (first) Elizabeth, born in Hart-
ford, daughter of James and Sarah (Bar-
nard) Steele. He married (second) Abigail,
who died December 17, 1757. The date of
the death of his first wife is not known. He
died December 30, 1753, aged sixty-three
years. He was one of the first settlers of
New Hartford, and was moderator of the
first meeting which the proprietors held in
the town, December 11, 1739, at the house
of Daniel Shepard. He lived for the first
year or two, on Town Hill, near the centre
of the town, but soon removed towards the
southwest part of the town, and built a house
on the bank of the stream where Bakerville
is situated. It was inclosed in a log fort, and
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Farmington, January 8, 1850 ; married, Feb-
ruary 4, 1785, Elijah Janes, born July 8, 1758,
died February, 1823, son of Elijah and Lucy
(Crooker) Janes. 4. Erastus, November 20,
1768, died March 19, 1770. 5. Erastus (men-
tioned below).

(VI) Erastus, son of Fisher Gay, was born
September 21, 1772, at Farmington, died there
May 27, 1855. He married (first), March
26, 1794, Eunice Treadwell, born July 13,
1776, died June 24, 1808, daughter of Govern-
or John and Dorothy (Pomeroy) Treadwell.
He married (second) March 29, 1813, Eliza-
beth Perkins, of West Hartford, who was
baptized January 8, 1778, died February 16,
T846, daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Trum-
bull) Perkins. Children by first wife: 1.
Fisher, born February 24, 1795 (mentioned
below). 2. Phebe, February 12, 1799, died
December 13, 1869; married, September 29,
1823, Thomas Mygatt, of Canton, born Octo-
ber 25, 1797, died July 25, 1875, son of Tho-

tmas and Lucy (Oakes) Mygatt. 3. Mary,
December 22, 1802, died in Buffalo, August 30,
1886; married, October 12, 1825, Henry Root,
born July 27, 1792, died September 7,1853, son
of Mark and Abigail (Woodruff) Root. 4.
William, September 22, 1805 (mentioned be-
low). 5. Almira, August 31, 1807, died Jan-
uary 6, 1872. Children by second wife: 6.
Charles, born January 7, 1814 (mentioned
below). 7. Elizabeth Perkins, August 12,
18 18, died in Farmington, December 26, 185 1.

(VII) Fisher (2), son of Erastus Gay, was
born February 24, 1795, died January 20,
1865. He married (first), October 5, 1824,
Harriet Lewis, born in 1796, died November
5, 1828, daughter of Luke and Abigail
(Cowles) Wadsworth. He married (second),
September 28, 1830, Lucy, born September 10,
1794, died June 22, i860, daughter of Jona-
than and Eunice (Fitch) Thomson. Child by
second wife: Julius, born February 15, 1834
(mentioned below).

(VII) William, son of Erastus Gay and
brother of Fisher Gay, was born in Farming-
ton, September 22, 1805, died February 27,
1889. At the age of sixteen he went to
Lansingburg, New York, and lived with his
uncle, Elijah Janes, until the latter's death.
Later he was in the mercantile business in
Albany, until his marriage, when he removed
to Farmington and was a merchant there for
the remainder of his life. He married, De-
cember 30, 1830, Ruth Marilda Holmes, of
Schodack, New York, born October 12, 1809,
at Saratoga, New York, died September 29,
1893, daughter of Jotham and Amy (Knapp)
Holmes. Children: 1. Richard Holmes, born
April 7, 1832 (mentioned below). 2. Eras-

tus, July 26, 1843 (mentioned below). 3.
Caroline Bement, July 18, 1846. 4. William
Treadwell, September 25, 1850, died July 22,
1855. 5. Infant son, June 27, 185 1, died
August 7, 1 85 1.

(VII) Charles, son of Erastus Gay and
brother of Fisher and William Gay, was born
January 7, 1814, died in Albany, April 4,
1858. He was a merchant in Albany, and
for many years was in partnership with his
brother-in-law, Thomas Mygatt. He mar-
ried, March, 1840, Elizabeth Allen Hall, of
Albany, born July 30, 1819, died at Albany,
daughter of Green and Margaret (Canfield)
Hall. Children: 1. Mary Louisa, born July,
1843; married Elias Gray, widower, who was
born in Guilderland, New York, December 2,
1829, died at Altamont, New York, February
14, 1910. 2. Harriet Josephine, June 1, 1855,
died October 29, 1886.

(VIII) Julius, son of Fisher (2) Gay,
was born in Farmington, Connecticut, Febru-
ary 15, 1834. He went to the boarding-school
of Simeon Hart, and graduated from Yale Col-
lege, 1856, from engineering department, now
Sheffield Scientific School, 1858. He was a civil
engineer until 1873, and was treasurer of
Farmington Savings Bank until July, 1910.
In politics he is a Republican. He belongs
to the Alpha Delta Phi in Yale College. He
is a member of the Farmington Country Club,
and is still connected with the Farmington
Savings Bank, as director and secretary, as
well as director in the National Exchange
Bank of Hartford, Connecticut. He married,
October 16, 1862, in Farmington, Maria, born
April 22, 1841. in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter
of Mervin Clark, son of Oman, son of Mervin,
son of John, son of Matthew, son of John
Clark. Mervin Clark, her father, was born
January, 1812, and married (first), July 1,
1839, in Cleveland, Ohio, Caroline Guptil,
born May 22, 1822, in Cleveland, died April
4, 1847, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter
of John H. and Lucy (White) Guptil. Mer-
vin Clark married (second), November 6,
1849, Mary Jane Tharp, born January 10,
1828, daughter of Amariah and Elizabeth
(Hines) Tharp. Children: 1. Maria, born
and died May 20, 1866. 2. Florence, July 17,
1867. 3. Lucy Caroline, December 27, 1868,
died May 29, 1869. 4. Mabel Turner, January
30, 1875. died May 1, 1880.

(YTII) Richard Holmes, son of William
Gay, was born April 7, 1832, died March 30,
1903. He married, September 25, 1856, Ger-
trude Rivington, born in Whitehall, New

York, September 25, 1835, daughter of

and Mary (Rivington) Palmer. Children: 1.
Mary Rivington, born at Farmington, August

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21, 1857, died February 2, 1892; married, April each of his sons a good-sized farm. Robert

28, 1880, John Stanley Cowles, born April 28, Roath was married in October, 1668, to Sarah
1885, son of John Edward and Margaret Saxton, born March 20, 1647, daughter of
(Stanley) Cowles. 2. Margaret Palmer, born Richard Saxton, of Windsor, who came to
at Farmington, December 12, 1858. 3. Anna America in the ship "Blessing." Sarah (Sax-
Rivington, born at Hartford, June 30, 1861, ton) Roath died March 20, 1687, the mother
died April 20, 1869. 4. Gertrude Holmes, of the following named children : John, born
born at Farmington, October 13, 1874; mar- in November, 1669; Sarah, August, 1672, died
ried, May 18, 1899, William A. Kimball. March 12, 1695 ; Mary, November, 1674 ; Eliz-

(VIII) Erastus, son of William Gay, was abeth, March, 1677, died in 1678; Hannah,
born July 26, 1843, m Farmington. He at- April, 1679; Daniel, February 1, 1681 ; Peter,
tended public school and Deacon Hart's February 17, 1684. Of these Daniel resided
school, Farmington, Connecticut. Employed at what is now Preston, and was the ancestor
in general store kept by his father and sue- of the Preston branch of the family. It is in-
ceeded him in the business. He was repre- teresting in this connection to note that in
sentative in legislature, 1883-84-85 ; member 1806 ten male members of this branch of the
of senate, 1897; served on the committee on family purchased a fishing ground at Roath's
banking in both houses. Has been town treas- Landing (the old battleground), near the
urer and justice of the peace. Member of present Preston bridge, which is never to go
Hartford Club and member Country Ciub of out of the family name. Peter, the young-
Farmington. A Republican in politics, and a est son of Robert Roath, received a grant of
member of the Congregational church. He a farm on Wawecus Hill. An antique writ-
married, November 7, 1867, Grace Fessenden, ing desk, which is supposed to have been
born August 28, 1844, daughter of Francis brought from England by Robert Roath, is
Winthrop and Mary (Root) Cowles. Chil- now in the possession of Louis P. Roath.
dren: 1. A son, born and died September (II) John, eldest of the children of Rob-
16, 1868. 2. Mary Cowles, born November ert Roath, was born in November, 1669. His
2, 1 87 1 ; married, May 7, 1896, John W. farm was at the Little Fort. On August 6,
Banks. 3. William, October 24, 1873. 4. 1695, he married Sarah Williams, who died
Ruth Holmes, August 16, 1875 ; married, No- September 10, 1702, the mother of three chil-
vember 6, 1900, Ernest H. Cady. 5. Harold, dren: John, born in November, 1697; Joseph,
April 7, 1877. 6. Alice, January 22, 1879; November 11, 1699; Benjamin, October 31,
married, April 15, 1903, John Piatt Cheney. 1701. On July 8, 1708, for his second wife,
7. Frank, March 7, 188 1. 8. Donald, Novem- John Roath married Mary Andrews, and they
ber 20, 1882. 9. Carolyn Dement, August died on the same day, March 9, 1743. Chil-

29, 1884, died June 27, 1909; married, Octo- dren: David, born July 20, 1709; Stephen,
ber 9, 1907, Walter Cowles Booth. July 30, 1710; Samuel, May 15, 1712; Mary,

August 15, 1714; Ebenezer, April 16, 1716.

This name is one of the oldest (HI) Stephen, son of John Roath and

ROATH in the town of Norwich, and grandfather of Colonel Asa Roath, was born

those bearing it have ever held July 30, 1710. He was a farmer, and resided

place among the respected citizens of the com- in Norwich. He died in 1808, at an advanced

munity. It is the purpose of this article to age, leaving considerable property. His house,

treat of the branch of the family to which which was erected by a member of the family

belonged Colonel Asa Roath and his family, over two hundred years ago, is yet standing,

Of his sons the youngest is living in Nor- in a good state of preservation. It is lo-

wich, in the person of Louis P. Roath. Ste- cated on Roath street, and remained in the

phen B. Roath, late of Norwich, was for- family name until a few years ago, when it

merly of Chicago, where he was well known was disposed of by the late Edwin A. Roath.

in financial circles. Another son, Edwin Al- Stephen Roath married, March 6, 1739, Sarah

lyn Roath, died in 1900 ; his only son, Frank Burnham ; children : Stephen, born February

A. Roath, resided in Norwich. The lineage of 25, 1741 ; Mary, April 23, 1744; Sarah, July

the family follows: 21, 1747; Eleazer, February 20, 1754; Asa,

(I) Robert Roath, a native of England, was November 10, 1758.
the first of the name to settle in Norwich. He (IV) Eleazer, son of Stephen Roath, was
came here a few years after the settlement born in the old house mentioned previously,
of the town, in 1660, and received a grant of February 20, 1754, died in 1835, leaving a
a large tract of land from the original town large and valuable estate. He married, March
proprietors. That tract comprised several 26. 1777, Hannah Killam; children: Eras-
hundred acres, so that he was enabled to give tus, born June 15, 1779, died November 4,

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1794; Betsey, September 6, 1780; Eunice,
May 15, 1783; Asa, January 22, 1785, died
November 26, 1787; Asa (2), March 3, 1790;
Rebecca, July 25, 1792 ; Eleazer, August 7,
1795 ; Hannab, March 16, 1797. Six of this
family lived to a good old age. Eleazer Roath
Jr. was an officer in the old Third Regiment of
militia. After the death of Eleazer Roath Sr.,
his daughters, Betsey, Eunice and Rebecca,
continued to occupy the old house. Betsey,
the last survivor, did not move out until 1866.
She died December 31, 1880, aged one hun-
dred years, three months and twenty-five days,
retaining to the last the full possession of her
faculties. Remarkable for industry through-
out her long life, her nimble fingers wove
many a carpet on the hand carpet-loom left
there. On the one hundredth anniversary of
her birth she sat for the first and only pic-
ture ever taken of her. Her sister Rebecca
lived to be seventy-five, and Eunice attained
the age of seventy-three years.

(V) Colonel Asa Roath, son of Eleazer
Roath, was born March 3, 1790, died March
11, 1846. He received a sound education for
the times, proving an apt scholar, learning
quickly and retaining his knowledge. Being
intellectually inclined, he became very accom-
plished, and turned his acquirements to good
use. During the earlier years of his man-
hood he was engaged as a teacher, and met
with excellent success in that profession, giv-
ing instruction in the higher branches, espe-
cially mathematics, in which he was exceed-
ingly proficient. He was a very fine penman,
the master of an art much appreciated in those
days. Following his experience as a teacher,
he took up surveying, doing a great deal of
work in that line in Norwich and vicinity, and
he served many years as county surveyor.
Other offices of public trust were also tendered
him, and he became one of the leading and
influential citizens of his day, active in every
movement for the welfare and future good of
the town. He served many years as probate
judge for the Norwich district. He was
colonel of the Third Regiment of State Militia,
and was at the defense of New London dur-
ing the war of 18 12. Tn religious connection
he was an active member of Trinity Episcopal
Church, and he and the late Colonel George L.
Perkins, who lived to pass the century mark,
were mainly instrumental in the organization
of the first Sunday school in Norwich. Fra-
ternally Colonel Roath was a Free Mason.
He was a staunch democrat in politics. In
person he presented a striking figure. He was
nearly six feet tall, and in his prime weighed
about two hundred and ninety pounds, and
he had a most commanding presence, espe-

cially in his military uniform. He was pos-
sessed of immense physical strength, and had
a powerful voice, which he used to good ad-
vantage in his military service. He was quite
a singer, having a bass voice.

Colonel Roath married Elizabeth Allyn, of
North Groton (now Ledyard), Connecticut,
where she was born July 2, 1799, daughter
of General Stephen Billings Allyn. She died
May 20, 1859, aged sixty years. Children:
1. Edwin Allyn, born in September, 1818,
died in September, 1822. 2. Ann E., August
1, 1820, died August 25, 1822. 3. Edwin
Allyn (2), November 2, 1823, mentioned be-
low. 4. Hannah, December, 1826; married
Rufus Leeds Fanning, and died in Norwich,
July 27, 1874. 5. Stephen Billings, March 7,
1829 ; went to Chicago in the early sixties,
accumulated a fortune, and lived retired in
Norwich until his death, in 1905. 6. Eliza-
beth, August 26, 183 1 ; widow of David M.
Randall, and resided in Norwich ; she has one
daughter. Matilda Brooks. 7. Louis Philippe,
December 25. 1833, mentioned below. 8. Ann
Meech, August 17, 1836, mentioned below. 9.
Henrietta Louise, June 29, 1839, cne<^ J"ly 10,
1840.

(VI) Edwin Allyn, son of Colonel Asa and
Elizabeth (Allyn) Roath, was born in Union
street, Norwich, November 2, 1823. He at-
tended the public schools and the old Norwich
Academy, which was located in the building
which is now a portion of the residence of
George F. Bard, in Union street, and from
which he graduated in 1841, when eighteen
years old. On that occasion he received a
fine gold medal as a prize for the best scholar-
ship, besides eleven other prizes for scholar-
ships in various branches of study. Among
his classmates at that time were Timothy
Dwight, of Yale, Judge Shipman. Daniel Dor-
chester and Charles Rockwell. Edwin Allyn
Roath inherited much of his father's ability,
and but for the fact that a mechanical
life appealed to him more than a pro-
fessional career his name might well have
ranked with those of his distinguished
classmates. Soon after graduating he
began work on the Norwich & Wor-
cester railroad, which gave him an opportunity
to indulge his mechanical turn of mind, and
for twenty-seven years he was a locomotive
engineer, serving the traveling public with the
greatest of care, so that no serious accident
happened during that time on his train. He
was subsequently appointed station agent at
the Ferry street station, where he remained
for twenty-three years. At the time of the
dedication of the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment Mr. Roath ran a special train

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into Boston. After completing fifty years
of active service with the railroad com-
pany he retired to enjoy the fruits of his la-
bors. In 1868 he bought his residence on
Spaulding street, and occupied that place from
January, 1870, until his death. He also owned
two houses on North Main street, built in
1839, and formerly owned by his father, as
well as his grandfather's place in Roath street,
built about two centuries ago, a home in
which the Redman always received kindly
treatment, and from which he was never
turned away. When Mr. Roath was a boy
Greeneville was a large farm, with one house.
When he commenced to work for the railroad
company Worcester had a population of only
fifteen thousand people, with prospects not
as bright as those of Norwich. Politically Mr.
Roath was a Democrat ; as a rule he declined
any official honors. In disposition he was
quiet but genial, and he was held in high
esteem by all his acquaintances. He was a
member of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr.
Roath passed away August 15, 1900, and was
laid to rest in Yantic cemetery.

On February 21, 1849. Mn Roath was
married, in Trinity Episcopal Church, by Rev.
William F. Morgan, then rector of the church,
to Frances M. Rathbone, of Norwich, who
was born June 24, 1828, and still survives,
making her home with her son Frank A. She
is a daughter of Asa and Fanny (Geer) Rath-
bone, granddaughter of Asa and Lucy
(Brown) Rathbone, great-granddaughter of
Abel (Jr.) and Ann (Gates) Rathbone. and
great-great-granddaughter of Abel Rathbone
(or Rathbun), of Salem, Connecticut, where
the family in past years have had numerous
representatives. This branch of the Rathbones
traces its lineage to Richard Rathbun, born
in 1574, in England, who came to Ipswich,
Massachusetts. On February 21, 1899, Mr.
and Mrs. Roath celebrated the golden anni-
versary of their wedding. Children : Francis
Edwin, born November 5, 185 1, died Novem-
ber 30, 1853; Frank Allyn, born April 18,
1857, mentioned below.

(VI) Louis Philippe, son of Colonel Asa
and Elizabeth (Allyn) Roath, was born in
Norwich, December 25, 1833. He was an
attendant at the public schools of Norwich
until 1850, when he engaged as a fireman on
the old Norwich & Worcester railroad, and at
the expiration of fifteen months was advanced
to the position of locomotive engineer. In
September, 1852, when but eighteen years
of age, he was advanced to the position of
engineer of a passenger train, and was thus
employed until he resigned in 1868. He then
became engineer in the newly constructed

railroad shops of the company at Norwich,
removed there with his family, and held this
position for a period of twenty-four years.
At the request of his employers in December,
1892, he resumed his position on the road,
retained it until January 10, 1895, when he
resigned from railroad work after a continued
service of more than forty years. Since that
time he has lived retired from business em-
ployment. He formerly lived with his wife
in a house which he erected in 1869 on land
which he inherited from his father, and which
has been in the possession of the family for
a number of generations. He now resides at
No. 22 Warren street, Norwich. He takes
an active interest in political matters, although
he has never held public office with the excep-
tion of one term, when he served as a member
of the common council ; he is a staunch sup-
porter of the Democratic party. His religious
affiliation is with the Trinity Episcopal Church,
and he is a member of Montacute Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, and of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers.

Mr. Roath married, in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, January 21, 1857, Laura E. Sea-
grave, born in Worcester, January 21, 1839,
died in Norwich, Connecticut, May 4, 1908.
Children: 1. Clarence P., born December 12,
1857; educated in the public schools of Nor-
wich ; was employed one year in the offices
of the Norwich and New York Transportation
Company, then in the office of the Norwich &
Worcester railroad shops, and was a conduc-
tor on the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford railroad ; he is a member of St. James
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Columbian
Commandery, Scottish Rite, Norwich Con-
sistory, thirty-second degree ; he resides at
Norwich, Connecticut. He married (first),
June 8, 1885, Fannie E. Andrews, who died
August 4, 1896; (second) October 25, 1898,
Elizabeth S., daughter of Thomas and Eliza-
beth (Campbell) Service ; children : Marjorie,
born July 7, 1904; Louis, September 27, 1905.
2. Walter, born December 24, 1861 ; was also
educated in the public schools of Norwich,
and at the age of sixteen years entered the
United States navy and served an apprentice-
ship of four years. He then entered the em-
ploy of the Providence & Willimantic rail-
road as a fireman, and was promoted to the
position of engineer. He married Ella F.
Burnham, of Scarborough, Maine, and they
have one child, Laura Louise.

(VI) Ann Meech, daughter of Colonel Asa
and Elizabeth (Allyn) Roath, was born Au-
gust 17, 1836. She was noted far and wide
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and was a member and communicant of Trini-
ty Episcopal Church, where her husband was
senior warden. She married Henry Lester
Parker, of Norwich, Connecticut. Children:
Susan May, married Martin E. Jensen, and
has Gerard Edward, a graduate of Yale Uni-
versity ; Elizabeth Roath, married Henry A.
Norton ; Gerard Lester, married Fannie Ar-
nold Carpenter, and has two daughters, An-
nette and Lester ; Anne Meech, married Henry
H. Walker, of Brooklyn, New York; Henry
Fitch, married Elizabeth Eastmead Scofield,
of Poughkeepsie, New York. Mrs. Parker
passed away October 22, 1894, and an obituary
which appeared in one of the Norwich papers
spoke as follows of her:

"Mrs. Ann Meech Parker, wife of Henry L.
Parker, died very suddenly at her home. No.
431 Franklin street, Monday morning, shortly
after 7 o'clock. She had been suffering from
ill health for a year past. Mrs. Parker was
born in this city in 1836, being a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Roath. She had since
lived in Norwich, where she was widely
known, having a legion of warm friends who
will deeply regret her death. She was a mem-
ber and communicant of Trinity Episcopal
Church, where her husband is senior warden.
Possessed of a deeply sympathetic nature, her
many acts of kindness during her life will
long be cherished and her memory held in
loving remembrance by all with whom she
was acquainted."

(VII) Frank Allyn, son of Edwin Allyn
and Frances M. (Rathbone) Roath, was born
April 18, 1857, in Norwich. He obtained his
education in the public schools and Norwich
Free Academy. Soon after leaving school he
entered the employ of the old Norwich &
Worcester Railroad Company, in the capacity
of clerk. After remaining with them eleven
years he resigned to accept the position of
freight clerk with the Norwich & New York
Transportation Company, which he acceptably
filled for four years ; at the end of that time
he became purser of the steamer "City of
Worcester." He continued thus for ten years,
until September, 1903, when he resigned after
a period of twenty-five years of service. Mr.
Roath, two years after he retired, purchased
Pinehurst, one of the most picturesque places
in Norwich, and here he lived until his death,
August 5, 1905. The Norwich Bulletin said
in an obituary: "In the death of Frank Allyn
Roath, there passed away a man of the con-
servative New England type — one possessing
faithfulness and that sort of unostentatious
kindliness which relieves the more rugged
element of New England character. Friendli-
ness, a kindly spirit and a deep sense of reli-

gious responsibility, which found expression
in the work-a-day of his life, formed the
trinity of characteristics ascribed to Mr. Roath
by those who knew him best." He was a
member of Trinity Church. On June 20,
1894, Mr. Roath was married in Worcester,
Massachusetts, to Gertrude Hakes, a native of
that city, daughter of Henry Babcock and
Anna Williams (Woodward) Hakes (see
Hakes V.) Mrs. Roath is a member of Faith
Trumbull Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, and in 1901-02 served as re-
gent of same. She is a descendant of Robert
Allyn, George Geer, Captain James Avery,
Thomas Stanton, Captain George Denison,
Lieutenant Thomas Miner, Captain Isaac Wil-
liams, Joseph Saxton, Daniel Eldrige and
Deacon William Parke. Mrs. Roath resides
at Pinehurst, which is part of the grant of land
which John Elderkin received from the town
in 1668 and where he lived.

(The Williams Line).

(III) John Williams, son of Isaac Williams
(q. v.), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
October 31, 1667. He moved to Stonington,
Connecticut, about 1685. He married, Janu-
ary 24, 1687, Martha Wheeler, of the Wheeler
family of Stonington. His widow married,
June 1, 1714, Thomas Atwood. His epitaph
reads : "To the memory of John W'illiams,
who came from Roxbury, Massachusetts, set-
tled at Stonington, and married Martha,
daughter of Isaac Wheeler, was one of the
ancient proprietors of this town, died Novem-
ber 15, 1702, aged 33 years. His father,
Capt. Isaac Williams, died in Massachusetts,
February 11, 1707, aged 69 years. His grand-
father, Robert Williams, came from Norwich,
England, and died in Roxbury in 1693, aged
86 years." Children, born at Stonington:
Isaac, mentioned below ; Colonel John, Octo-
ber 31, 1692; Martha, August 5, 1693: De-
borah, April 2, 1695; William, March 29,
1697: Nathan, December 11, 1698: Henajah,
baptized August 28, 1700; Eunice, August 16,
1702.

( IV) Isaac (2), son of John Williams, was
born April 10, 1689. He married Sarah Deni-
son of the Denison family of Stonington.
Children, born at Stonington: Sarah, March
12, 1712; Martha, 1716; Isaac, baptized
March 11, 1717; Nathan, baptized July 22,
1720; Atwood, baptized April 16, 1723: War-
ham, mentioned below ; Phebe, baptized March
8, 1731 ; Eunice, baptized December 25, 1733.

(V) Warham, son of Isaac (2) Williams,
was baptized at Stonington, April 9, 1727.
He married. May 14, 1758, Rebecca Satterlee,
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Warham, mentioned below ; Charles, July 6,
1760; Phebe, December 1, 1761 ; Asa, August
-:3< :/63; Luke, October 26, 1765.

(VI) Warham (2), son of Warham (1)
Williams, was born February 19, 1759, at
Stonington. He married, April 5, 1789, Anna
Stanton, of the old Stonington family of this
name. Children, born at Stonington: Anna,
August 22, 1790, married George Bentley;
Mary or Polly, February 17, 1792, married,
December 3, 181 5, Appleton Woodward (see
Woodward and Hakes) ; Phebe, February 15,
1794, married John Bentley.

(The Hakes Line).

(I) Solomon Hakes, immigrant ancestor,
was born probably in 1688, in England, very
likely in county Devon. The English families
believe that county Devon was where the
family of Hake and of Hakes originated, and
that they were first known here by their ar-
morial bearings. He was in Westerly, Rhode
Island, in April, 1709, and was propounded
as a freeman in the town meeting of that
month. He was admitted a freeman in the
May following, and was granted one hundred
acres of land. He removed to Stonington,
Connecticut, on January 1, 1710, and he was
given an ear-mark for his cattle, and the same
ear-mark was afterwards given to his son,
George, June 28, 1754, and grandsons Jesse,
1793; Elihu, 1807. He married Anna, born
in October, 1681, daughter of Ebenezer and
Anna (Comstock) Billings, of Stonington,
January 16, 1718. They were married by
Rev. James Noyes. The burning of the
county records of New London destroyed
much information that might have been gained
about him. From his many purchases of real
estate, it is thought that he was of liberal
means for that time, and he was a man of
importance in New London county, being ap-
pointed to many places of trust. He was alive
in 1750, but must have died before the revo-
lution, as he would have been ninety years
old in 1776. He may have died in 1753, and
he and his wife were buried about a mile
northwesterly from the village of North Ston-
ington. in the old burying-ground situated in
what was formerly known as Milltown. He
was a farmer by occupation. Children, born
at Stonington: George, born 1719 (?), men-
tioned below: Mary, 1721 ( ?) ; Jonathan,
1724 ( ?) ; Solomon, 1727 (?).

(II) George, son of Solomon Hakes, was
born in 1719 ( ?) in Stonington. He married
(first) Joanna (?) or Hannah Jones, of Ston-
ington, May 15, 1739, and he married (sec-
ond), Sarah Coy, widow, of Preston, Con-
necticut, October 10, 1770. He was a farmer

by occupation, and died in 1790 or 1793.
Children, born at Stonington : Richard, April
8, 1741, mentioned below; Solomon, January
20, 1743 ; Hannah, February 4, 1745 ; Olive,
December 12, 1749; George S., January 27,
175 1 ; James, March 25, 1752.

(III) Richard, son of George Hakes, was
born April 8, 1741, at Stonington. He was
a soldier in the revolution, and was in the
battle of New London, though he seems to
have been only an emergency man. He ac-
cumulated quite a fortune during the war,
intending to purchase a large piece of land
in Central N^ew York, but as his continental
money became worthless, he remained at Ston-
ington until about 1800, when he moved to
Pitcher, Chenango county, New York, and
bought a large tract of land. He married
Mary Babcock, of Stonington, August 11,
1763, and Joseph Fish was their minister.
He died July 5, 1815, and was buried at
Pitcher in Hinman cemetery. His epitaph
was: "Life is uncertain, death is sure: Sin is
a wound, Christ is a cure." He was a farmer
by occupation. Children, born at Stonington :
Mary (Polly), 1764; Eunice, March 19, 1765;
Richard, Jr., January 14, 1767; Jesse, October
15, 1768; Amos, 1770; Solomon, 1772; Eze-
kiel, 1774; Perez, 1777; Elihu, 1779, men-
tioned below ; Hannah, 178 1 ; Elias, March 27,
1783; Esther, 1785; Harry, 1787.

(IV) Elihu, son of Richard Hakes, was
born at Stonington in 1779. He married
(first) Anna Geer, June 13, 1802, and he
married (second) Abigail Geer, November 29,
1 8 10. He w?s a farmer, and lived at North
Stonington, where he died April 20, 1834.
Children, born at Stonington : Elihu, Jr., Au-
gust 13, 1803 ; Richard, March 2, 1806; Anna,
May 1, 1808: Abbie Park, April 8, 1810.
Children by second wife: Thomas G., Septem-
ber 19, 1812; Phebe, April 20, 1815; -Henry
Babcock, July 20, 1817, mentioned below;
John Morgan, September 19, 1822 ; Cynthia
Louisa, September 21, 1824.

(V) Henry Babcock, son of Elihu Hakes,
was born in Preston, Connecticut, July 20,
18 17. He married, January 6, 1841, Anna
Williams Woodward, born in Preston, March
26, 1820, and lived for a number of years in
North Stonington, daughter of Appleton and
Mary (Williams) Woodward (see Woodward
VII). In the Stanton line Mrs. Hakes traces
her lineage back to Thomas Stanton, the
founder of Stonington, Connecticut, who mar-
ried Catherine Washington, who was a grand-
daughter of Robert Bateman, from whom the
Bateman ancestry is traced back to the year
1045. Henry Babcock Hakes began his busi-
ness career in Preston City, Connecticut,

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about 1838. He was an expert iron worker
and tool maker. In November, 1846, he went
to Deep River, Connecticut, where he was
employed in the works of the Jennings Auger
Bit Company. In 1847 ne removed to Nor-
wicb, where he was master mechanic in the
shops of the Norwich and Worcester railroad.
In 1849 ne went to Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he was master mechanic in the repair
shops of the Nashua railroad at the opening
of the road, and later became associated with
the firm of Williams Rich & Company, manu-
facturers of machinists' tools. He sold out
liis interest in this business ajid became a
business manager of the Ames Plow Com-
pany. He was an inventor of prominence.
One of his inventions was the Hakes swivel
plow, which was used on side hills, and this
was absorbed by the Ames Plow Company.
He died in Worcester, December 26, 1884.

In a Worcester newspaper was the follow-
ing obituary of Mr. Hakes: "Mr. H. B.
Hakes, whose death was recorded Satur-
day, came to this city from Preston City
thirty-five years ago. During much of this
time he has been either foreman or superin-
tendent of the works of the Ames Plow
Company. It was in the employ of this com-
pany that he made an extended tour through
Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zea-
land, and back to California, the trip occupy-
ing thirteen months. Mr. Hakes has been a
member of the Baptist Church forty-three
years, and of the First Baptist Church in this
city thirty-three years. The many friends
who attended the funeral services in the
church yesterday afternoon bore witness to the
esteem in which he was held. The number of
gray-headed men present was something re-
markable. Among the many who have called
to express sympathy with the family are a
goodly number who have been in his employ
in the shops. Mr. Hakes served the city very
acceptably as alderman in 1865, under Mayor
Ball, and in t866, under Mayor Blake. He
was earnest and conscientious in all he at-
tempted to do. Mr. Hakes was one of the
gifted mechanics who have so largely made
Worcester what it is." Children: 1. Mary
Abby, born March 24, 1843, fned March 7,
1892; married, September 26, 1871, Rev.
Leroy Stephens, D.D. : moved to Mt. Pleas-
ant, Pennsylvania. 2. Henry Albert, Octo-
ber 1, 1847, died August 25, 1848. 3. Anna
Woodward, February 14, 1850; married, Au-
gust 5, 187 1, Rev. J. Sexton James, D.D., of
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 4. Gertrude, March
15, 1856; lived in Worcester; secretary of the
Hakes reunion in 1889 ; married. June 20,
1894, Frank Allyn Roath, of Norwich, Con-

necticut (see Roath VII). 5. Sarah Rogers,
April 13, 1859; married, January 26, 1887,
Milo C. Treat and resides in Washington,
Pennsylvania. 6. Henry (twin), June 2,
1863, died January 4, 1866. 7. Albert (twin),
died February 23, 1864.

(The Woodward Line).

(I) Richard Woodward, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England in 1590. He sailed
for New England in the ship "Elizabeth" of
Ipswich, April 30, 1635, with his wife Rose,
aged fifty, and children, George and John,
aged thirteen years. He settled at Water-
town, Massachusetts, and was admitted a free-
man, September 2, 1635. He was a miller
and bought a wind-mill located at Boston and
mortgaged or sold it in 1648. His wife Rose
died October 6, 1666, aged eighty years, and
he married (second) (the settlement being
dated April 18, 1663) Ann Gates, born 1603,
widow of Stephen Gates, of Cambridge. In
1642 he had a homestall of twelve acres,
bounded by land of John Spring, Martin Un-
derwood, and the highway, John Wincoll and
John Knight. He had another lot bounded by
land of Edward How, Richard Benjamin and
Edmund Blois, a total of three hundred and
ten acres. He bought, September, 1648, of
Edward Holbrook and wife Anne, a mill in
Boston and sold it December, 1648, to Wil-
liam Aspinwall. He died February 16, 1664-
65. The inventory of his estate was filed
April 4, 1665. His widow died in Stow, Feb-
ruary 5, 1682-83.

(II) George, son of Richard Woodward,
was born in England in 1622 and came with
brother and parents in 1635 in the ship "Eliz-
abeth." He was admitted a freeman, May
6, 1646. He removed from Watertown to
Brookline (Muddy River) in Boston. He was
selectman of Watertown in 1674. He mar-
ried (first) Mary ; (second) August 17,

1659, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ham-
mond, of Newton. Her father in his will,
proved November 5, 1675, gave her a hundred
acres of land in Muddy River, probably where
George Woodward lived. George Woodward
died May 31, 1676, and administration was
granted to his widow, June 20. T676. His
widow married Samuel Truesdale. Children
of first wife: Mary, August 12. 1641 ; Sarah,
February 6, 1642-43 ; Amos, died at Cam-
bridge, October 9, 1679, mentioning his
brothers and sisters in his will ; Rebecca,
December 30, 1647: John, mentioned below;
Susanna, September 30, 1651, unmarried;
Daniel, September 2, 1653, inherited the
homestead : Mary, June 3, 1656. Child of
second wife: George, September 1, 1660.

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(III) John, son of George Woodward, was
born at Watertown, March 28, 1649. He
married (first) Rebecca Robbins, of Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts; (second) July 7, 1686,
Sarah Bancroft, of Reading. She died Sep-
tember 22, 1723. They lived at Newton, Mas-
sachusetts. Children of first wife: John, born
September 7, died September 22, 1674; John,
mentioned below ; Richard, December 26,
1677; Rebecca, October 29, 1679, died young;
Daniel, September 22, 1681 ; Rebecca, Febru-
ary 2, 1682-83 ; Mary, October 6, 1684 ; Jon-
athan, September 25, 1685. Children of sec-
ond wife: Joseph, November 26, 1688; Eben-
ezer, March 12, 1690-91 ; Abigail, May 25,
1695.

(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Wood-
ward, was born in Newton, July 12, 1675.
He and his brothers settled in Windham, Can-
terbury and Preston. Connecticut. Joseph
bought land in Canterbury in 17 10 with John
and Richard. Daniel Woodward, perhaps an
uncle, was one of the signers for the incor-
poration of Plainfield in 1699. The brother
Daniel was not then of age. Daniel, brother
of John, and wife Thankful joined the church
at Preston, Connecticut, April 18, 171 1, and
had children baptized 1704-20. Amos Wood-
ward, son of Daniel, grandson of George (2),
and wife Hannah were also members of the
Preston church.

(V) Thomas, son or nephew of John (2)
Woodward, was born about 1700. He mar-
ried, May 18, 1725, at Preston, Connecticut,
Dorothy Parke, who was baptized at the First
Church of Preston, April 15, 1704, daughter
of Robert Parke. Thomas Woodward joined
the church April 17, 1726, and his wife Doro-
thy February 27, 1732. They lived in the
southern part of Preston for a time. There
was a settlement of bounds between Heze-
kiah Parke and Thomas Woodward, "Be^in-
ning at a white oak tree which is a southeast
corner of a fifty acre grant that ye said Wood-
ward now lives upon." Parke quitclaims to
Woodward all land on the north and east
of a certain line and Woodward to Parke
all right in the west and south of said line.
Woodward also owned land just over the line
in Stonington, where he probably lived at
the time of his death, as his will was proved
there. Thomas Woodward was one of the
six organizers of the Separist Church in Pres-
ton, March 17, 1747, the other five being,
Hezekiah Parke, Paul Parke, relatives of his
wife, John Avery, Ephraim Jones and his
wife Martha. The Separist Church was built
not far from his home. He died in 1778 ; his
will, dated April 13, 1776, was probated at
Stonington, Connecticut, July 22, 1778, the

witnesses being Paul Parke, his pastor, Heze-
kiah Parke, his brother-in-law, and Jeremiah
Halsey. The inventory amounted to two thou-
sand three hundred and fifty-nine pounds, six-
teen shillings. He mentions his wife Doro-
thy in the will, giving her a third of the land
and buildings during her life, his mare, one
cow, six sheep, two hogs, all the bees and
all the house furnishings. During his life-
time he had given land to his sons Parke,
Hezekiah and Jonas ; in his will he gives to
his son Caleb all land and buildings on the
north side of the highway that runs through
my farm that I now live on, "and bequeaths
to him his sword and charges him with the
care of his mother." To his son Thomas he
gives the land on the south side of the high-
way and to his daughters Joanna, Dorothy
and Mary, he gives money in addition to
what they have already had. Children:
Parke, born March 21, 1726, baptized July
31, 1726, at First Church, Preston; Joanna,
February 8, 1729; Hezekiah, May 20, 1732;
Dorothy, November 28, 1734, baptized June
12, 1735; Jonas, born March 21, baptized
May 25, 1737; Mary, baptized June 14, 1741 ;
Caleb, mentioned below ; Thomas ; Elkanah.

(VI) Caleb, son of Thomas Woodward,
was born about 1744 in Preston, Connecti-
cut. He owned land in Preston, but lived
in Stonington and died there July 18, 1814.
He married. May 14, 1769, Aliff Hilliard, born
October 26, 1751, at Stonington (town
records vol. 3, p. 152), died March 13,
1826, at Stonington, daughter of Ambrose
and Mary Hilliard, of Stonington. Am-
brose Hilliard died at Stonington, Octo-
ber 2, 1769, aged seventy-five years and three
days. At a court of probate held at Stoning-
ton, November 7, 1769, John Hilliard was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate, the widow
declining the trust. A portion of the es-
tate was set off to the widow Mary on May
1, 1770. Children: 1. Dolly, born February
7, 1770; married Nye and lived in Tol-
land, Connecticut. 2. Ambrose, September 3,
1 77 1, died unmarried at his sister's home in
New York state. 3. Nancy, January 31,

1773; married Baird, and lived at or

near Newburg, New York ; son Archibald also
lived there. 4. Aliff, May 23, 1775 ; married

Dennison ; lived and died in Mystic,

Connecticut. 5. William, September 23, 1777,
probably died young. 6. Caleb, February 14,
1 78 1 ; married Sallie Yerrington and died at
Stonington. 7. John, July 7, 1783; had son
living in New York City. 8. Appleton, men-
tioned below. 9. Polly, September 14, 1788;
married Ambrose Green ; son Ambrose lived
near Newburg, New York. 10. Cynthia, Feb-

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ruary 5, 1791 ; married

Morgan, of

Ledyard, Connecticut ; settled in vicinity of
Newburg, New York; had three children. 11.
Betsey, June 1, 1793; unmarried, died in Wel-
lington, Connecticut. 12. Elias, July 20, 1795,
died in Newburg, leaving several children.

(VII) Appleton, son of Caleb Woodward,
was born February 2, 1786; married, Decem-
ber 3, 181 5, Mary, daughter of Warham and
Anna (Stanton) Williams, of North Stoning-
ton. He died February 20, 1850, at North
Stonington, where he was buried on his own
farm in the family lot, where his father Caleb
was also buried. Children: 1. Maryanna,
born July 6, 18 17, at North Stonington, died
May 18, 1907, at Preston ; married, August
27, 1848, Seth Main. 2. Appleton Albert,
May 26, 1818, at North Stonington, died Sep-
tember 26, 1883, at Jersey City, New Jersey;
married, August 12, 1840, Frances Eliza Wil-
liams. 3. Anna Williams, March 26, 1820,
at Preston; married, January 26, 1841, Henry
Babcoek Hakes, of Preston (see Hakes V).
4. Phebe Aliff, June 13, 1822, at Preston ;
married, March 8, 1840, Ellis Leonard, for-
merly of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. 5. Cyn-
thia Rebecca, December 27, 1824, at Preston,
died February 6, 1897, at Croton, Connecti-
cut ; married, May 10, 1846, Isaac Gardner
Ford. 6. Harriet Frances, January 4, 1827,
at North Stonington ; married, September 9,
1849, William Hallett, of Ledyard; they live
in Des Moines, Iowa. 7. William Hilliard,
April 11, 1829, at North Stonington, died No-
vember 26, 1881, at Jersey City; served in
Company F, Twenty-sixth Connecticut Volun-
teers, in the civil war, a musician ; married,
September 9, 1849, Lena Frances Billings. 8.
Dolly Rozilla, North Stonington, June 27,
1 83 1, died in Greenville, March 4, 1833.

Ezekiel Foster was born Octo-
FOSTER ber 24, 1767. died December 18,

1835, at Norfolk, Connecticut.
He taught school in his younger days, and was
afterward a farmer at New Marlborough,
Massachusetts. He married, February 19,
1795, Sally, born August 20, 1771, died Janu-
ary 15, 1816, daughter of Captain Ebenezer
Smith, who was a soldier in the revolution
and took part at the battle of Bennington.
Children : Smith, mentioned below ; Sally,
born September 11, 1797: Junius, October 15,
1799, died young; Lorinda, September 23,
1801 ; Paulina, March 22, 1804; Junius, July
7, 1807; Lucia, February 23, 1810.

(II) Smith, son of Ezekiel Foster, was
born at New Marlborough, Massachusetts,
January 29, 1796. died in Canaan, Connecticut,
January 29, 1878. He received a good edu-

cation in the public schools. When a young
man he followed farming for an occupation,
cultivating a farm for two years at Jefferson,
Schoharie county, New York, whither he re-
moved. Later he located in Norfolk, and
worked with his brother at carriage making,
subsequently learning the trade of spinner
there. He was a skillful penman, and took a
just pride in the appearance of the books
which he kept for his son during his later
years. He was active and well preserved to
the time of his last illness at the age of eighty-
two years. Of fine carriage and commanding
presence, Mr. Foster's personality was always
attractive, and he enjoyed the friendship of
many. He married, September 4, 1825,
Dency, born March 14, 1803, died June 1,
1875, daughter of Eliphalet Clark, of Hudson,
New York, who was a wealthy land owner
of Norfolk, the farm on which Hillshurst
house now stands being his estate. Mrs. Fos-
ter, who was a handsome and talented woman,
was of Welsh ancestry through the Thomas
line. Children : Chauncey Smith, mentioned
below ; Sarah Ann, born January 17, 1828,
resides at old home in East Canaan ; Emily
Jane, May 2, 1836, deceased, married Horace
B. Stevens, of Canaan.

(Ill) Chauncey Smith, son of Smith Fos-
ter, was born in Jefferson, Schoharie county,
New York, September 12, 1826. He attended
the district schools and the academy at Nor-
folk. During his boyhood he worked in the
mill when not attending school. He could
have had a college education, but preferred
to learn a trade and engage in business. He
was apprenticed to a merchant tailor in Nor-
folk, and at the age of eighteen was sent by
him to Huntsville, where he carried on the
business for his employer until twenty-one
years of age, when he assumed the business
for himself. Afterwards started in business
in Falls Village, and in the spring of 1855
removed to Winsted, Connecticut, engaging
in business as a merchant tailor. In addition
to his tailoring, he is the owner of a large
store, dealing in men's furnishing goods. His
business career has been notably successful.
He is also secretary and director of the Win-
sted Edge Tool Company and director of the
Hulbert National Bank. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason, a member of St. Andrew's
Lodge of Winsted, of Meriden Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest,
of Clark Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Waterbury, Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport, and
of other Scottish Rite bodies of that city. He
is a member of the Society of the Sons of the
Revolution by virtue of the service of his
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prominent member and trustee of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church and member of the offi-
cial board. In politics he is a Republican. He
is one of the most substantial and influential
merchants of the town, popular among- all
classes of his townsmen. He married, in 1848,
Helen E., born in Canaan, July 2, 1824, died
at Winsted, October 23, 1902, daughter of
Ebenezer and Fannie (Yale) Beebe, the lat-
ter of whom was a descendant of the founder
of Yale College. Children : Junius Smith,
died in childhood ; George C, born Septem-
ber 8, 1865, associated in business with his
father ; married Annie Betts. They had an
adopted daughter, Fannie Belle, born August
28, 1881, died April 19, 1898; she was edu-
cated at Windsor, Connecticut, and was a fine
musician.

Timothy Foster was very likely
FOSTER born in Devonshire, England.

He married (first) , who

died in England. He married (second), in
England, Mrs. Eglin (Hatherly) Hanford.
She married (third), in America, Deacon
Richard Sealis, who died in Scituate in 1656.
Eglin Hatherly was sister of the venerable
Timothy Hatherly who arrived in Plymouth in
the "Ann" in 1623; his home was destroyed
by fire, and he returned to England in 1625,
and returned here again in 1632 in the
"Charles" from Barnstable, went to Plymouth
and to Scituate in 1633 ; was a large property
owner, and was considered the guardian and
patron of Scituate ; was assistant in the gov-
ernment for thirteen years, treasurer of the
colonies and commissioner of the United Col-
onies for three years; died in 1666, issueless.
After the death of Timothy Foster, his widow
came to America in the ship "Planter" in
1635 with her three children, Eglin Hanford,
Lettie Hanford and Rev. Thomas Hanford.
Deacon Sealis, her third husband, was a mem-
ber of Mr. Lathrop's church ; he went to Sci-
tuate in 1634, and had a house in 1636 north
of Thomas Ensign's, which he turned over
to Etrh'n Hanford, his wife's daughter ; in
l6-/i he had a house north of Scituate brook,
and he was one of the Comhassett parties in
t6j6: his will was dated 1656," and he be-
queaths to wife Eglin, daughter Hannah,
wife of John Winchester, and Hester, wife of
Samuel Jackson, Winchester, who was of
Hingham and succeeded to Sealis residence
in Scituate, and had one son Jonathan, born
1647, wno was m King Philip's war and was
granted land for his services. Children :
Edward, born in England, 1610, mentioned
below : Eglin, married Isaac Robinson Jr.,
grandson of the venerable John Robinson, the

"Mayflower" pastor ; Isaac Jr. was drowned
at Barnstable.

(II) Edward, son of Timothy Foster, was
born in county Kent, England, 1610, and came
to this country probably in the ship "Ann"
with Timothy Hatherly, who was his mother's
brother. He settled in Kent street, Scituate,
near Scituate brook, in 1633, and was taxed
that year by the colony court. He was a law-
yer and practiced in England before coming
to America. He was a farmer in this coun-
try, where there was virtually no law busi-
ness. He had sixty acres of land on the
North River near Humphrey Turner's lot
near King's Landing. He was a man of high
reputation and one of the founders of the
church, January 8, 1635 ; was deputy to the
general court in 1639-40. He was constantly
active in public affairs, and but for his early
death would doubtless have taken a place of
historical importance in the colony. He was
assistant in 1637. His will was dated Novem-
ber 24, 1643 ! ne bequeathed to wife Lettie
and son Timothy and to an infant unborn. He
married at Mr. Cudworth's house, April 8,

1635, Lettie Hanford, mentioned above. The
famous Captain Myles Standish performed
the ceremony, which had to be by a magistrate
at that time. The inventory of his estate was
taken by Timothy Hatherly and his father-in-
law, Deacon Sealis. They with Edward Eden-
den were trustees under the will. Children,
born at Scituate: Timothy, baptized March 7,

1636, buried December 5, 1637; Timothy, bap-
tized April 22, 1638, died young; Timothy,
born 1640, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, born
164J, married, 1666, Ephraim Hewitt, of Hull.

(III) Sergeant Timothy Foster, son of Ed-
ward Foster, was born at Scituate in 1640. He
sold part of his house in Scituate in 1662 to
Edward Jenkins and went to live in Dorches-
ter, Massachusetts, but he soon returned to
his farm at North River. He sold the west
part of his house lot and the house at the
harbor to John Allen in 1679. In 1671 he
purchased one-half of the Edward Breck mill
with land adjoining of Mrs. Isabel Fisher,
widow of Edward Breck, and afterward wife
of Anthony Fisher, of Roxbury, and before
her marriage to Breck, widow of John Rigby.
Sergeant Foster married (first) October 13,
1663, Mrs. Ruth (Tileston) Denton, of Dor-
chester, daughter of Thomas Tileston and
widow of Richard Denton. Her father was
a freeman in 1636 and an enterprising and
useful citizen. Ruth died December 5, 1677.
He married (second), March 9. 1680, Mrs.
Relief (Holland) Dowse, who married (first),
October 31, 1672, John Dowse and had four
children. Her third husband was Henry Lead-

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better, bom October 16, 1664. She died July
7, 1743. He died December 16, 1688. Chil-
dren of Sergeant Timothy Foster ; by first
wife: Ruth, born at Scituate, September 4,
1664; Elizabeth, October 8, 1667; Naomi,
February 11, 1668, married John Davenport;
Hatherly, September 22, 1671 ; Rebecca, Sep-
tember 12, 1675, married R. Mountefort.
Children of second wife : Timothy, men-
tioned below : Edward, January 22, 1682 ;
Thomas, November 3, 1686; Elizabeth, Octo-
ber 13, 1688; Prudence, December 3, 1694.

(IV) Timothy (2), son of Sergeant Tim-
othy (I) Foster, was born January 8, 1681,

at Dorchester. He married, in 1705, ,

and lived in Walpole, Massachusetts. Chil-
dren, born at Walpole: William, 1706; Han-
nah, 1708; Lydia, 1710; Timothy, mentioned
below.

(V) Timothy (3), son of Timothy (2)
Foster, was born in 1715 at Walpole. He was
a cordwainer (shoemaker) by trade. From
Walpole he came to Oxford, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, where he bought land
in 1748 in what is now the southeast part of
Dudley. He and thirteen sons served in the
revolution, an aggregate of sixty years. He
had also been in the colonial service. His
will was proved at Worcester, May 5, 1795,
bequeathing to wife Mary and children Sarah,
John, Hannah, Jacob, Joseph and Rebecca.
The service of eight of the sons is found in
the revolutionary rolls. He died April, 1795.
He married (first) in 1739, Molly May; (sec-
ond), May 17, 1753. Keziah Lyon; (third),
1755, Mary Payson. Children of first wife :
Ebenezer, born January 1, 1740; Timothy,
June 20, 1741 ; John, April 10, 1743: Richard,
November 24, 1744: Samuel, December 4,
1746: Mary, June 5, 1748; Hannah, March
18, 1750; Jonathan, August ig, 1752. Child
of second wife: Benjamin, December 13,
1754, killed in revolution. Children of third
wife: Jacob, August 27, 1756: Aaron, Oc-
tober 10. 1758; William, July 20, 1760; Jo-
seph, mentioned below; John (twin of Jo-
seph), April 29, 1762; Samuel, April 30,
1764; Sarah, March 21, 1766; Rebecca, No-
vember 19; 1768. Timothy was sergeant in
the Dudley company of Captain Nathaniel
Healey, regiment of Colonel Ebenezer
Learned.

(VI) Joseph, son of Timothy (3), Foster,
was born at Dudley, April 29, 1762. He
moved to Mansfield, Connecticut, about 1795,
and soon afterward to Hampton in that state.
He was a farmer. He spent his last years in
the homes of his children and died at Chaplin,
Connecticut, aged eighty-three years. He was
a m lc'ier in the revolution, enlisting first at the

age of thirteen years ; was stationed at New
London, Connecticut ; served in New Jersey
and northern New York ; was a fif er, it is
said, in the escort which went with Major
Andre to the execution. His gravestone
states: "He enlisted in the Revolutionary
army when but thirteen years of age and was
one of thirteen brothers, who, together with
their father, served in the war in the aggre-
gate over sixty years." He was a private in
Captain David Batchellor's company, Colonel
Ezra Wood's regiment, from June 5, 1778.
to January 29, 1779, raised for service at
North River ; also in Captain Thomas Fish's
company. Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment,
from July 1, 1779, to December 1 following in
Rhode Island; also from November 20, 1779,
to January 1, 1780. He died November 27,
1845. He married, at Dudley, March 18,
1782, Chloe. daughter of Adams White, of
Dudley, a descendant of the Ouinceys and
Brentons and said to have been descended
from Peregrine White of the "Mayflower"
family. Children : Asenath, born November
2, 1783, died unmarried at Hampton; Lyman,
mentioned below ; Lucy, April 18, 1786, mar-
ried John Ford; William, December 7, 1790;
Samuel P., September 13, 1793; Sophia, Feb-
ruary 6, 1796.; Chloe, February 22, 1798;
Charles, August 29, 1800; Joseph, March 22,
1803 ; Mary Ann, September 22, 1805 ; Re-
becca, December 2, 1807.

(VII) Lyman, son of Joseph Foster, was
born May 14, 1784. He was a carpenter at
Hampton. Connecticut. He married Abigail
(Nabby) Cady. They had a son Lyman
White, mentioned below.

(VIII) Lyman White, son of Lyman Fos-
ter, married Sarah Bradbury. Children: I.
Rowena C, married Samuel J. Bidwell, of
Hartford, Connecticut; children: i. Nellie M.
Bidwell. died aged eighteen years ; ii. Kate L.
Bidwell, married Arthur B. Clarkson and had
Rowena A. ; iii. Grace C. Bidwell, never mar-
ried. 2. Abbie M., married George Clark, of
South Norwalk, Connecticut ; child, George D.
Clark, married Harriet Valentine ; children:
Gifford Foster Clark (daughter) ; Amy
Thelma Clark ; George Frank Clark. 3.
Frank Alonzo, born September 26, 1843, men-
tioned below.

(IX) Frank Alonzo, son of Lyman White
Foster, was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut,
September 26, 1843. He was a prominent in-
ventor and manufacturer of firearms in Nor-
wich, engaging in the same for many years.
He enlisted June 21, 1861, at Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, in the Tenth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, Volunteer Militia. He was captured
at Savage Station, Virginia, while in the hos-

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pital there, June 26, 1862, and was afterward
paroled and sent to Annapolis, Maryland. He
was mustered out July 1, 1864. He settled
in Norwich in 1876. He married Lotina Al-
mina, daughter of Seth and Almina (Green)
Brown, both natives of Rhode Island, town
of Smithfield, who settled in Tolland, Con-
necticut ; Seth Brown was a farmer ; his chil-
dren : Smith Harkness, Abigail Matilda, John,
died young, Jane Melinda, Albert, died young ;
Lottie Almina, Martin Arnold, Harriet Eu-
nice. Mr. and Mrs. Foster had one son, How-
ard Brown, born September 6. 1868, graduate
of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class
of 1 89 1 ; married Margaret L. Bettes and
has one child, Ruth Brown Foster, born Au-
gust 22, 1897.

Hon. Samuel Foster, immi-
FOSTER grant ancestor, was born in

England in 1619, died April 16,
1702. He married, at Dedham, Massachu-
setts, May 30, 1647, Esther, daughter of Ed-
ward Kemp, of Wenham, Massachusetts. In
1650 he romeved to Wenham and was ad-
mitted a freeman the same year. In 1655 he
removed to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where
he became a leading citizen, deacon of the
church and deputy to the general court (1679).
He brought with him the Foster coat-of-arms
on parchment and an old copy of it was in ex-
istence until recently. His house was on the
lower edge of the southeast corner of Robbins
Hill, not far from the center of the village,
and is now or was lately owned by George A.
Parkhurst. He is called lieutenant in the rec-
ords as early as 1666. He, his son Samuel
and grandson Edward, and others, bought of
Jonathan Tyng his interest in five hundred
acres in Wamesit. Even during King Philip's
war he tried to prevent cruelty to the Indians,
but he found public sentiment against him,
and even the cold-blooded murder of peace-
able Indians was permitted unpunished. Chief
Wanalaneett's lands were confiscated and di-
vided and though the general court gave him
Tyng's Island, he soon left the country and
sought a home in Canada. Foster's will was
dated April 30, 1692, and proved in July, 1702.
He died July 10, 1702. Children : Samuel,
born at Wenham, 1650, mentioned below; Eli,
born at Wenham in 1653 ; Eli, 1655, at Chelms-
ford; Edward, April 30, 1657 ; Esther, Novem-
ber 1, 1659; Andrew, April 30, 1662; Abra-
ham, October 27, 1664; Nathaniel, October 14,
1667 ; John, September 28, 1671.

(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Fos-
ter, was born in Wenham in 1650, died July
21, 1730. He married there, May 28, 1678,
Sarah, born 1657, died December 10, 1738,

daughter of Solomon Keyes. Children, born
at Chelmsford: Anna, December 2, 1684; Jo-
seph, November 14, 1686; Edward, January
29, 1689, mentioned below; Moses, October
4, 1692; Sarah, August 16, 1694; Andrew,
March 28, 1695; Jean, October 8, 1696, mar-
ried John Senter, a prominent pioneer of Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire ; Samuel, died De-
cember. 1698; Samuel, died February 18,
1718; Joseph; Elizabeth.

(ITI) Edward, son of Samuel (2) Foster,
was born at Chelmsford, January 29, 1689,
died in 1740. He married Remembrance
Fletcher. Her will, dated May 16, 1752, men-
tions the children. Children, born at Chelms-
ford: Edward, January 28, 1714. mentioned
below; William, November 11, 1716: Remem-
brance, March 2, 1718; Mary, April 25, 1725;
Josiah, July 25, 1728; Samuel, March 23,
1731 ; Bridget, June 12, 1739; Sarah.

(IV) Deacon Edward (2), son of Edward
(1) Foster, was born January 28, 1714, at
Chelmsford, died February 9, 1775. He mar-
ried Rachel ■ , who died November 13,

1803. His will was dated November 22, 1774,
bequeathing to wife Rachel, daughters Sarah,
Rachel and Remembrance, sons Fletcher,
Moses, Henry and Edward. He settled in
Sturbridge. Children, born in Sturbridge :
Henry, March 31, 1737; William, March 3,
1738; Rachel, July 4, 1742; Sarah, April 6,
1744, married Colonel Reuben Alexander;
Remembrance, September 31, 1746; Edward,
May 14, 1749, mentioned below; Fletcher, Au-
gust 1, 1751; Alpheus, August 16, 1753;
Moses, March 2, 1756.

(V) Deacon Edward (3), son of Deacon
Edward (2) Foster, was born at Sturbridge,
May 14. 1749, died March 1, 1818. He was
a soldier in the revolution from Sturbridge, a
corporal in Captain Timothy Parker's com-
pany of minute-men, Colonel Warner's regi-
ment on the Lexington alarm ; sergeant in
Captain Abel Mason's company, Colonel Jon-
athan Holman's regiment in 1776-77 in Rhode
Island, and sergeant in Captain Benjamin
Freeman's company, Colonel Holman's regi-
ment in 1777. He removed to Union, Connec-
ticut. He married, at Sturbridge, November
4, 1773. Rachel, born May 24, 1747. died June
6, 1835, daughter of Timothy Newell, of
Needham. Children born at Sturbridge : Wil-
liam, August 17, 1774 ; Edward, March 20,
1777 ; Eleazer, mentioned below.

(VI) Eleazer, son of Deacon Edward (3)
Foster, was born at Union in 1779, died May
1, 1 8 19. He graduated at Yale College in the
class of 1802 and became a lawyer. Soon
after his admission to the bar, he displayed
great ability and rose rapidly in his profe*-

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sion. In 1817 he was a representative from
New Haven to the general assembly, in which
he distinguished himself. His practice was
largely in the probate courts, and he was fre-
quently called upon to administer important
estates as assignee for debtors and agent for
creditors. He held many important trusts
and never failed in his duty. He was kindly,
charitable and generous to the poor and unfor-
tunate. He was an exemplary Christian and
a useful citizen. He married, at New Haven,
January 1, 1806, Mary Pierrepont, born 1800,
died January 29, 1852, descendant of Rev.
James Pierrepont, a settler in New Haven in
1684 and one of the founders of Yale College.
She was also a descendant of Rev. Samuel
Hooker, of Farmington, through his daugh-
ter Mary, and of Thomas Hooker, the founder
of Hartford. Children, born at New Haven:
Pierrepont Beers, September, 181 1, mentioned
below; Eleazer, May 2, 1813; Mary Ann;
Harriet ; Jane ; Caroline ; Edward William,
March 28" 18 19.

The Pierreponts are descended from Sir
Hugh Pierrepont, Lord of the Castle of
Pierrepont in 980, then of the south part of
Picardy. Godfrey Pierrepont was living in
1090, and his son Robert de Pierrepont came
to England as an officer in the army of Wil-
liam the Conqueror in 1066, and was granted
great estates in the counties of Suffolk and
Essex, England.

John Pierrepont, the American immigrant,
son of James Pierrepont, was born in Lon-
don in 1619 and settled in Roxbury, Mas-
sachusetts, now part of Boston, where he
bought three hundred acres of land and where
he died in 1682. He was a deputy to the gen-
eral court. He married Thankful Stow and
had five children.

Rev. James Pierrepont, or Pierpont, son of
John, was born January 4, 1659 ; graduated at
Harvard College in 1681, and was ordained
a minister, July 2, 1685, over the first church
at New Haven. His home has long been
known as the Pierrepont mansion. Two elms
that he planted in 1686 are still standing in
front of the north side of the village green.
He was minister of this church for thirty
years. He was one of the founders of Yale.
His daughter Sarah married the famous Rev.
Jonathan Edwards. His third wife was Mary
Hooker, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hooker, of
Farmington.

Hezekiah Pierrepont, son of Rev. James
and Mary (Hooker) Pierrepont, was born
May 26, 1712, died September 29, 1781 ; mar-
ried, February 9, 1736, Lydia Hemmingway.

John Pierrepont, son of Hezekiah Pierre-
pont, was born June 1, 1741. He married

Sarah, daughter of Nathan Beers, December
19, 1767. Their daughter Mary married
(first) Edward O'Brien; (second) Eleazer
Foster (see Foster VI).

(VII) Pierrepont Beers, son of Hon. Elea-
zer Foster, was born in New Haven, Septem-
ber 8, 181 1, died there August 4, 1886. Pre-
ferring a mercantile life to a professional ca-
reer, he entered the shipping house of Clark
& Company, located on Long Wharf. He af-
terwards was clerk in the hardware store of
Timothy Dwight, an uncle of ex-President
Dwight of Yale College. The store was lo-
cated in the Dwight building, now known as
the Boardman building. Later he was asso-
ciated with Mr. Dwight in the manufacture of
augers at Humphreysville, now called An-
sonia. By the death of his first wife, Mr.
Foster came into a life interest in her estate,
which was then large. His time was entirely
given up to the management of this estate,
and shortly after his first marriage he aban-
doned active business pursuits. He married
(first) July 16, 1838, Stella L. Bishop, who
died April 11, 1845. Their only child was Wil-
liam Law, mentioned below. He married
(second) December 20, 1849, Cornelia Au-
gusta Miller. He married (third) October
22, 1863, Elizabeth A. Higgins.

(VIII) William Law, son of Pierrepont
Beers Foster, was born in New Haven, April
26, 1841, died there June 24, 1881. He en-
tered Yale College in 1863, but ill health
prevented him from graduating, and in 1865
he was a graduate of Yale Law School. He
then entered the office of his uncle, Eleazer
Foster, where he remained several years,
during which time he acted as clerk of super-
ior court and as assistant prosecuting attorney
during the time his uncle served in the capa-
city of states attorney. In 1874-75 William
L. Foster acted as clerk of the court of com-
mon pleas; in 1876 he was appointed assistant
clerk by Judge Stoddard, and in 1877 re-
appointed by-Judge Harrison, and was the in-
cumbent of the office at the time of his death.
In addition to the above named office he
served as councilman from the eighth ward
in 1880, performing with faithfulness and fi-
delity the duties and responsibilities devolv-
ing upon him. He joined the Grays in 1865,
and in 1876, was an aide on Brigade-Com-
mander Kellogg's staff at the Bridgeport en-
campment. Mr. Foster married, October 12,
1870, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund
K. and Abigail (Heard) Board, the former
of whom was born in April, 1816, and was
a resident of Boardville, New Jersey, and
later of Washingtonville, same state, where he
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Foster: Stella Elizabeth, born July 24, 1871,
died August 26, 1872; Pierrepont Beers, men-
tioned below.

(IX) Pierrepont Beers, son of William
Law Foster, was born in New Haven, Decem-
ber 9, 1878. He attended the public and high
schools of New Haven and the St. Paul
school at Concord, New Hampshire, for two
years. He completed his preparation for col-
lege under private tutors. He was graduated
from Yale with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in the class of 1903. He studied his
profession in the Yale Law School, received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1907, and
was admitted the same year to the bar. He
is now practicing his profession in New
Haven, meeting with a well-merited degree
of success. He is a director of the Yale
National Bank of New Haven, and an active
factor in all that pertains to the welfare of
of his native city. He is a member of the
Graduates Club, the County Club, the Lawn
Club, and the Republican Club of New Ha-
ven. He affiliates with the Center Congrega-
tional Church. He married, June 27, 1903,
Elizabeth Plummer Bowen, of Plainfield, New
Jersey, born March 2, 1883, daughter of
Henry E. and Elizabeth (Plummer) Bowen.
Her grandfather was editor and proprietor of
The Independent, of New York City. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth Pierrepont, born August 1,
1905 ; Marion, October 28, 1909.

The Coe family came to this country
COE from Suffolkshire, England, where

they had resided for many genera-
tions. The earliest notice of them which can
be found is in Fox's Book of Martyrs, which
states that "Roger Coo," of Milford, Suffolk-
shire, was burned by Queen Mary, September,
1555, at Yexford, in that shire. A full ac-
count of his trial and defense is given by Fox.
Little is known respecting the family till the
removal of Robert Coe to this country. In
the authentic family record, he belongs to the
first generations. In Fox's Book of Martyrs
the orthography is Coo. In the records of the
customs house, preserved in the state papers
office, Westminster Hall, London, the name is
written Cooe. In many of the early records
of New England it is Co. "The oldest orig-
inal signature," says the Rev. David B. Coe,
"which T have found is in the town records
of Jamaica, Long Island, and was written
February 14, 1663. The name is Robert Coo,
but a signature written March 2, 1663, is
Robert Coe."

(I) Robert Coe, immigrant ancestor, was
born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1596. With
his wife, Anna, born 1 591, and their three

sons, he sailed from Ipswich, Suffolkshire, in
company with seventy-nine others, in the ship
"Francis," John Cuttinham, master, April
10, 1634. They reached Boston in the follow-
ing June, only six years from the date of the
first settlement in the Massachusetts Colony.
Robert Coe settled with his family in Water-
town, near Boston, and was made a freeman
there, September 3, 1634. In 1635 "all the
towns in the Bay began to be much straight-
ened by their own nearness to one another."
So, leave being granted by the council, several
families from Watertown, Newton and Dor-
chester formed settlements at Windsor, Hart-
ford and Wethersfield. Robert Coe settled
in Wethersfield, which was purchased from
the Indians. On account of some difficulty
which arose in the church, he and several
others agreed to move to Rippowams (Stam-
ford). Andrew Ward and Robert Coe pur-
chased the land for the settlers. In the
autumn of 1643 a deputation was sent from
Stamford to Long Island, to examine the
country and in the spring following, Robert
Coe, Richard Denton, pastor of the church
at Stamford, and several others, formed the
first English settlement at Hempstead, Long
Island. In 1652 he removed to a place called
Mespat, and aided in establishing a settlement
named Middleburg, now Newtown. He was a
magistrate during his whole residence there,
and took a leading part in all the affairs of
the town. Early in 1656 he, with several
others, commenced a settlement in Jamaica.
He was magistrate of the town and repre-
sented it in the general convention at Hart-
ford, May, 1664. He continued to be one of
the most active and prominent men in public
affairs till about 1672, at which time he was
seventy-six years old. The time of his death
is not known. Children: John, born in Eng-
land in 1626 ; Robert, mentioned below ; Ben-
jamin, born in England in 1629.

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Coe,
was born in England in 1627. He accom-
panied his father to Watertown, Wethersfield,
and Stamford. From there he moved to
Stratford, Connecticut, and married Hannah

, according to Rev. David B. Coe. The

Hawley genealogy says that he married Su-
sanna, probably at Hempstead, Long Island,
and settled in Stratford before 165 1, when he
purchased a house and lot and land as a farm-
er. He died in 1659, aged thirty-two. His
widow married (second) Nicholas Elsey. of
New Haven. She died April 2, 1702. That
her name was Hannah is proved by the in-
ventory of her estate. Nicholas Elsey died
December 20, 169 1. He gave all his property
to his wife Hannah and three children,

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namely: Susannah, born 1653; Sarah, 1656;
John, mentioned below. Robert Coe's char-
acter may be inferred from the following
written after his death by Rev. Abraham
Pierson :

"Rest, blessed Coe, upon thy bed of ease,

The quiet grave with thee is no decease,

All, all our anguish hath its period fixed,

E'er hence we go not any joy but mixed;

Rare grace which makes the life of man the best,

This young man lived to God, and now is blest,

Come parallel this saint, now far exceed,

Omit no means that may true goodness breed ;

E'er trials came, he stowed for days of need,

The Lord his widow bless and take his seed."

(III) Captain John, son of Robert (2)
Coe, was born May 10, 1658, died April 19,
1741. He married, December 20, 1682, Mary,
daughter of Joseph Hawley. His father died
when he was not two years old, and his mother
married Mr. Elsey, of New Haven, where he
was reared until he was twenty-one years old.
He then returned to Stratford, and apparently
took possession of the land which he inherited
from his father, and became a prominent
citizen. He was commissioned ensign of Foot,
county Stratford, 1698; lieutenant, 1706;
captain, 1709; was lister, 1705; deputy to the
general court for Stratford, 1701-15; was in
the French and Indian war. The following
letter to his wife has been preserved in the
family :

"Westfield, Aug. 23d, 1708.

My Dear Wife : — Thies come to bring my harty
love and efections to you and to tell you of my ear-
nest desire to imbrace you in the arms of my love,
hoping they may find you and ouers in health. I
have bene very well eve sins I left you for which 1
prays God. The post from Albani last week brings
news that the enemy disagree and the French In-
dians are turned bak. The scouts from Dearfield
have not yet discovered the army. We look for a
post from Albani to-morrow after which we are in
great hops of being drawn ofe or the greater part
of us. I am just now a going to north hampton to
wait on our governor which make me in so much
haste so 1 remain til death your loving husband,

John Coe.

Our soldiers heare are all well."

His wife died September 9. 1731, aged
sixty-nine years. She was born July 16, 1663,
the eighth and youngest child of Joseph and
Catherine (Birdsey) Hawley. Children:
Robert, born September 21, 1684; Joseph,
February 2, 1686, mentioned below ; Hannah,
April 14, 1689; Mary, August it, 1691 ; John,
December 5, 1693; Sarah, March 26, 1696;
Ephraim, December 18, 1698 ; Katherine. Sep-
tember 23, 1700; Abigail, November 11, 1702;
Ebenezer, August 18, 1704.

(IV) Captain Joseph, son of Captain John
Coe, was born February 2, 1686. died July 15,
1754. He was one of the early settlers of

Durham, Connecticut. His brothers, John and
Ephraim, also settled in Durham, and his
brother Robert settled in Middletown. Cap-
tain Joseph Coe was deputy to the general
court, 1728; commissioned ensign, 1722; lieu-
tenant, 1725; captain, 1729. In 1738 "liberty
was granted to those in the north end of the
town to set up a school in the highway not
far from Captain Joseph Coe's house." He
married, November 21, 1708, Abigail, born
April 3, 1690, died July 6, 1775, daughter of
David Robinson. Children : Joseph, born
September 5, 1713; David, mentioned below;
Abigail: Abel, July 20, 1727: Josiah.

(V) Captain David, son of Captain Joseph
Coe, was born February 18, 1717, died Janu-
ary 14, 1807. He was an early settler in Mid-
dlefield. His house stood where the first
house south of the Middlefield Center rail-
road depot now stands (on the west side of the
road). His son Eli built the present one on
its site. In 1759 he was made lieutenant of
the sixteenth military company in the Sixth
Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut, and
was established captain of the company in
1764. He performed important services dur-
ing the revolutionary war. He was on a
committee in behalf of the town to see that the
families of the enlisted were properly cared
for during the war. He and his wife lived
together sixty-seven years. He was interred
in the old burying-ground at Middlefield. On
headstone is this : ''The known bounds of
time bear no proportion to the unknown
bounds of eternity." Hannah Camp, his wife,
daughter of Nathan Camp, was born Novem-
ber 2, 1720. died October 16, 1808. She was
a zealous Christian and an earnest supporter
of the Congregational Church. The religious
antagonism of her son-in-law, Joshua Stow,
was a great grief to her. She was an econo-
mist of the old school. Tn later life she was
known by the familiar cognomen of "Granny
Coe." Children: Nathan, born 1742; Jesse,
1743; Mary, 1745; David. 1747; Ezra, 1750;
Hannah, 1751 ; Adah, 1753: Seth, mentioned
below: Eli, April 11, 1758 ; Ruth. 1760; Grace,
1763.

(VI) Seth. son of Captain David Coe, was
born in Middlefield in 1756. He married
Mary, daughter of Deacon Ichabod Miller.
Amons; their children was Elias C.

(VII) Elias C, son of Seth Coe, married
Hannah Tryon. Their daughter, Harriet Tat-
nall, born March 9, 1821, married, December
30, 1841. Alvin B. Coe, born February 13,
182T, son of Colonel Levi and Sarah (Ward)
Coe, grandson of Eli and Rachel (Miller)
Coe, and great-grandson of Captain David
Coe, mentioned above. This branch of the

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Coe family was also prominent in public af-
fairs and church. Their son, Ebenezer J.,
is mentioned below.

(VIII) Ebenezer J., son of Elias C. Coe,
was born at Middlefield; died at Stony Creek.
He married Phoebe, daughter of John Bird-
sey. Children: i. Ruth Birdsey, married
Elsworth Austin, of Meriden, and has one
child, Florence Austin, married Dr. Harold
Meeks, a physician of Meriden. 2. John W.,
mentioned below. 3. Edwin, died in infancy.
4. Martha, married Wilbur Maynard, of Hart-
ford, now Stony Creek ; children : i. Alice
Maynard, married Charles Maderin, of Cali-
fornia, now of Stony Creek, Connecticut; ii.
Wilbur Maynard, Jr., married Mabel Buider,
now living in New Haven ; children : Wilbur
and Maynard. 5. Fanny, married William
Wallace, of New Haven ; no children.

(IX) John William, son of Ebenezer J.
Coe, was born in Durham, Connecticut, No-
vember 8, 1 84 1. He was educated ^n the
public schools. His home is at 72. Colony
street, Meriden. For many years he has been
a director of the First National Bank of Meri-
den. He is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution and of the Protestant
Episcopal church of Meriden. He married,
December 15, 1865, Sarah Adella Williams,
born at Wallingford, September 29, 1845,
daughter of Elijah and Lydia Ann (Preston)
Williams, granddaughter of Almon and Nancy
(Humiston) Preston, and of Herman Wil-
liams. She has one sister, Estella A. Wil-
liams, born October 10, 185 1, unmarried. Mrs.
Coe is a member of the Susan Carrington
Clark Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, by virtue .of the service of Cap-
tain James Peck, an ancestor of her mother
Children of John W. and Sarah A. Coe: 1
Walter Elsworth, born August 18, 1870; mar-
ried Carlotta Toothe, of Madison, New York
no children. 2. John William, Jr., June 19
1873; married Mary Clark, of Lexington
Kentucky ; children : Marion, January 19
1904, and Catherine Louise, January 18, 1905
3. Mabel Estella, August 26, 1877; married
Howard Hammat, of Brooklyn, New York,
now living in Detroit, Michigan ; child, John
Coe Hammat, born February 5, 1909. 4. Ada
Louise, May 2, 1879 ; married Charles F.
Rockwell, of Meriden ; children : William F.,
born September 28, 1905, and Thomas Brad-
ley, May 4 1909.

(IV) Robert Coe, son of John (q.

COE v.), Coe, was born in Stratford,

September 21, 1684. He settled in

Durham, Connecticut. He married Barbara

Parmale who died at Bristol, September 26,

1774, in her eighty-sixth year. He was com-
missioned an ensign in the train band in 17 18.
He purchased land in Torrington in 1736-37.
Children, born at Durham: John, 1710; Mar-
tha, March 21, 1713 ; Ebenezer, August 21,
1715; Mary, April 11, 1717; Robert, June II,
1719, died young; Hannah, baptized April,
1721 ; Robert, baptized June, 1723; Thomas,
baptized June 25, 1727; Reuben, baptized De-
cember 22, 1728; William, mentioned below;
Rachel, baptized October 22, 1732.

(V) William, son of Robert Coe, was bap-
tized at Durham, June 7, 1730. He came to
Torrington after his brothers, John and Eben-
ezer, and in 1752 purchased twenty-eight
acres of land in the southwestern part of the
town. The name of his wife is not known.
He and his wife joined the Torrington church
in 1757, and he died in that town in 1766.
Children : Seth, mentioned below ; William,
born March 23, 1764.

(VI) Captain Seth Coe, son of William
Coe, was born in Torrington, December 21,
1757. He served in the revolution, it is said,
eight years, enlisting when he was barely
eighteen. The state records do not give all
his service. He drew a pension for many
years. His name was on the Litchfield county
pension list of 1832. He lived at an advanced
age, and was a captain in the militia. He mar-
ried (first) Hopkins; (second)

Elmer, sister of Abiathar Elmer. Child of

first wife: Lucianna, married Scoville.

Children of second wife: Lurania. never
married ; Henry, mentioned below ; Marilla ;
Sylvester.

(VII ) Henry, son of Captain Seth Coe, was
born at Torrington, September 2, 1792. After
his marriage he lived on the farm of his
father-in-law for some years, when he re-
moved to Wolcottville, where he purchased
fifty acres of land and built a house on South
Main street, living there until his death, Janu-
ary 4, 1862. He was for some years engaged
in manufacturing furniture in Torrington. He
married, March 15, 181 5, Sophronia, daugh-
ter of Alexander Elmer. Children, born at
Torrington: 1. Henry P., August 3, 1817;
married Mary Bissell ; removed to Clayton,
Illinois. 2. Sophronia E., September 16, 1820,
died March 16, 1836. 3. Jane E., November
20, 1824; married Samuel A. Healy, of Tor-
rington : lived in Canton, Connecticut. 4. Oli-
ver P., April 25, 1828. 5. Lurania, December
20, 1830, died January 8, 1833. 6. James E.,
January 16, 1834 ; lived in Chicago and had
five children. 7. Nelson W., mentioned below.

(VIII) Nelson W., son of Henry Coe, was
born in Torrington, January 2, 1837, died Oc-
tober 25, 1887. He was educated in the public

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schools of his native town, and later became
associated with his father in business, and
in the course of time succeeded to the busi-
ness of manufacturing furniture, established
by his father. He added the retail furniture
business under the name of the Coe Furni-
ture Company, of which he was the sole pro-
prietor until he died. He was one of the lead-
ing merchants of the town for many years.
He was also active in public affairs, and for
many years was on the board of selectmen
of Torrington. He was a member of Senaca
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Tor-
rington. His home was on Main street. He
married, October 18, 1864, Caroline, born at
Torrington, August 27, 1845, daughter of
Samuel Workman, a native of England, and
Caroline (Franklin) Workman. Children:
Frank, born November 25, 1865, died Septem-
ber 29, 1866; Grace Franklin, mentioned be-
low ; Frank Elmer, who is also mentioned
below.

(IX) Dr. Grace Franklin Coe, daughter of
Nelson W. Coe, was born in Torrington, June
13, 1867. She attended the public schools
of that town, and also studied at Vassar Col-
lege. She received a medical education in
Chicago, graduating with the degree of M.D.
from Herring College of Homeopathy. She
also took special work in electric therapeutics
under Dr. Augustine Coelet, of New York,
and in Paris under Dr. Apostoli, one of the
most eminent European specialists. Also post-
graduate of Cornell University. She is a
member of the Connecticut Homeopathic So-
ciety and of the International Hahnemann As-
sociation. She is also a skillful musician and
prominent in musical circles. She married
Dr. Hudson J. Pulver, who died September
3. 1 901, a prominent physician.

(IX) Frank Elmer, son of Nelson W. Coe,
was born at Torrington, February 1, 1872.
He attended the public schools there and com-
pleted his academic education in Eoane Col-
lege, Nebraska. He started in the bicycle busi
ness in Torrington, remaining in same for a
number of years and later became manager of
the Coe Furniture Company of Torrington.
He designed and supervised the erection of
Coe Block in 1894. He remained at the head
of the Coe Furniture Company until the busi-
ness was merged with that of Workman, Raw-
linson & Company. Since then he has been
with the Waring ton Woolen Company of
Torrington as manager of the wool depart-
ment.

He married Jennie Ford, of Torring-
ton. Children : Nelson, died in infancy ;
Franklin Earl, born May 6, 1897, student at a
school in Cheshire.

John Alden, immigrant ancestor,
x\LDEN was born in England in 1599.

He joined the Pilgrims on the
"Mayflower" at Southampton as the ship was
on its way to America. When the ship stopped
there for supplies, he was hired as cooper.
He had not been with them at Leyden, and
was probably not a member of the independent
church, but soon joined. He cast his fortunes
with the Pilgrims, after enduring the hard-
ships of that first terrible winter at Plymouth,
when so many died. He was doubtless influ-
enced in this decision by his love for Priscilla
Mullens, the story of which, with some em-
bellishments, is told in the "Courtship of Miles
Standish." She was the daughter of William
Mullens, who came on the "Mayflower" with
his family. John and Priscilla were married
in the spring of 162 1. When the common
property of the colony was divided in 1627,
Alden went with Captain Standish, Elder
Brewster, John Howland, Francis Eaton and
Peter Brown, to Mattakeeset, the Indian name
of the territory now included in Duxbury,
Marshfield, Pembroke, Hansen and Bridge-
water, Massachusetts. For several years they
were obliged to return to Plymouth during
the winter season to combine all their forces
against the possible Indian attacks. The resi-
dence at Plymouth in the winter also gave
them an opportunity to attend worship, and
the records show a written agreement of Al-
den and others in 1632 to remove their fam-
ilies to Plymouth in the winter. In 1633
Alden was appointed assistant to the governor,
an office which he held for nearly the whole
of the remainder of his life, serving with Ed-
ward Winslow, Josiah Winslow, Bradford,
Prince and Thomas Hinckley. From 1666 un-
til his death, he held the office of first assist-
ant, was often called the deputy governor,
and was many times acting governor in the
absence of the governor. From 1640 to 1650
he was also deputy to the colonial council from
Duxbury. Winslow's History of Duxbury
says of him, "Holding offices of the highest
trust, no important measure was proposed, or
any responsible agency ordered in which he
had not a part. He was one of the council
of war, many times an arbitrator, a sur-
veyor of lands for the government as well as
for individuals, and on several important oc-
casions was authorized to act as agent or
attorney for the colony. He was possessed
of a sound judgment and of talents which,
though not brilliant, were by no means or-
dinarv. Writers who mention him bear am-
ple testimony to his industry, integrity and
exemplary piety, and he has been represented
as a worthy and useful man of great humility.

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and eminent sanctity of life, decided, ardent, He settled in South Bridgewater, Massachu-
resolute and persevering, indifferent to dan- setts. He was deacon of the church and a
ger, stern, austere and unyielding, and of prominent citizen. His will was dated No-
incorruptible integrity. He was always a firm vember 12, 1743. He married, in 1690, Han-
supporter of the church and everything of an nab Dunham, of Plymouth, daughter of Dan-
innovating nature received determined oppo- iel Dunham. She died January 13, 1748, aged
sition." From the Puritan point of view Al- seventy-eight years. Children, born at Bridge-
den was a model, if this description of his vir- water: Daniel, January 29, 1691 ; Joseph, Au-
tues is truthful. He took his part in making gust 26, 1693; Eleazer, September 27, 1694;
the life of the Quakers at Plymouth colony Hannah, 1696; Mary, April 10, 1699; Jo-
intolerable. On the Alden farm stands the seph, September 5, 1700; Jonathan, Decem-
house built by his son Jonathan, having been ber 3, 1703 ; Samuel, August 20, 1705, men-
occupied by eight generations in direct line, tioned below ; Mehitable, October 18, 1707 ;
It is the oldest house in New England, with Seth, July 6, 1710.

three exceptions; the old fort at Medford, (IV) Samuel, son of Joseph (2) Alden,
built in 1634, the Fairbanks house at Dedham, was born at Bridgewater, August 20, 1705,
built in 1635, and the old stone house at Mil- died in 1785. He resided at Titicut, Bridge-
ford, Connecticut, built in 1640. Here Alden water. He married (first), 1728, Abiah,
spent his declining years. He died in Dux- daughter of Captain Joseph Edson. He mar-
bury, September 12, 1686, aged eighty-seven, ried (second), 1752, a daughter of Josiah
the last of the famous band of Pilgrim Fath- Washburn. Children, born at Bridgewater:
ers, and the last of the "Mayflower" com- Abiah, 1729; Mehitable, 1732; Sarah, 1734;
pany except only Allerton, who died in 1669, Samuel, 1736: Josiah, mentioned below; Sim-
aged ninety. eon, 1740; Silas, died aged twenty -one ; Mary;

John Alden had eleven children, only eight Hosca, killed by kick of a horse,
of whom are known. Children: 1. John, ( V) Josiah, son of Samuel Alden, was born
born about 1622, at Plymouth; freeman 1648, at Bridgewater in 1738. He was a farmer in
at Boston ; died May 14, 1702 ; married, April his native town and at Wales and Ludlow,
1, 1660, Elizabeth Everill, widow, daughter Hampshire county, Massachusetts. He mar-
of William Phillips. 2. Joseph, born 1624, ried, in 1761, Bathsheba Jones, of Raynham.
see forward. 3. Elizabeth, born 1625, died at Children: Elijah, revolutionary soldier; Azel,
Little Compton, Rhode Island, aged ninety- born 1770; Abiah, married Benjamin Win-
three; married William Peabody. 4. Jona- Chester; Josiah, 1773; Bathsheba; Charity,
than, born about 1627. 5. Sarah, married Al- married Peter Trask; Lucy, married Amos
exander Standish, son of Captain Miles Stan- Fletcher ; Rebecca, married Benjamin Snow ;
dish. 6. Ruth^ married John Bass, of Brain- Benjamin, mentioned below. The order of
tree, from whom the presidents Adams de- birth is not known.

scended. 7. Mary, married Thomas Delano, (VI) Benjamin, son of Josiah Alden, was

of Duxbury, son of Philip Delano, who came born in 1781, died in 1841. He married Mary

in the "Fortune" in 1621. 8. David, prom- (Polly) Hodges, born 1783, died in 1865.

inent man of Duxbury. Children, born at Ludlow : Jefferson, January

(II) Joseph, son of lohn Alden, was born 26, 1804; Mary, February 17. 1806; David,

in Plymouth in 1624, died February 8, 1697. May 17, 1807; Dexter, mentioned below;

He inherited land at Bridgewater, where he Caroline, June 26, 1815 ; Lucinda, December

settled, and also at Middleborough, Massa- 4, 1817, married Amos Josiah Gardner, of

chusetts. He was admitted a freeman in 1659. Springfield ; Eliza A., July 8, 1822, married

He married Mary, daughter of Moses Sim- Samuel Gay.

mons Jr., who came in the "Fortune" in (VII) Dexter, son of Benjamin Alden, was
1621 and settled at Duxbury. Joseph Alden's born in Ludlow, October 13, i8t2. He came
will was dated December 14, 1696, and proved to New Haven whpn a young boy and became
March 10, 1697. Children: Isaac, married, associated with Mr. Allis, then proprietor of
December 2, 1685, Mehitable Allen; Joseph, the leading hotel of that city. In early man-
born 1667, mentioned below ; John, born at hood Mr. Alden went to Painesville, Ohio,
West Bridgewater, died September 29, 1730; with a party of settlers who were confident
married Hannah Waite : Elizabeth, married, that in the near future that place would be-
1691, Benjamin Snow: Alary, married, 1700, come an important railroad center. While
Samuel Allen. there he suffered from malaria and had to re-
fill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Al- turn east. He stopped at Little Falls, New
den, was born in 1667 at Plymouth or Dux- York, however, and went into a joint stock-
bury, died at Bridgewater. December 22, 1747. company, composed of Gordon Trumbull.

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Washington Van Dreesen, James Aldrich and
himself, for the manufacture of carpets and
rugs. He was also interested with Mr. Al-
drich in a dry goods business at Little Falls.
The store was sold after several years of
successful operation and about the same time
Mr. Alden sold his share in the factory and
came back to New Haven, where he em-
barked in the retail dry goods business in
partnership with Mr. Huntington, continuing
in this firm until 1862. He then engaged in
manufacturing, forming the Elm City Ruffle
Company. He was also one of the founders
of the American Fish Hook and Needle Com-
pany, the first factory of the kind in which the
goods were made entirely by machinery, and
the fish hook business is still continued on a
large scale. Mr. Alden had an interest also
in a hide and rendering establishment which
was very profitable. He became a member of
the United States Dairy Company of New
York City, and individually owned the rights
of the new process of making oleomargarine
for the state of Connecticut. In this business
he was particularly prosperous, his profits
from this source alone amounting in the month
of March, 1883, to over $50,000, and in that
year to over $225,000. The ruffle business
proved quite as good in its way, and he had
from $50,000 to $100,000 a year in profits
from it. He invested money afterward in an
automatic fire extinguisher, but this venture
was unsuccessful. He erected many fine resi-
dences in New Haven for investment. Mr.
Alden was an upright and conscientious man,
and a useful citizen. He was deacon of the
Presbyterian church at Little Falls and after-
ward a member of the Center Congregational
Church of New Haven. In politics he was a
Republican.

He married (first) Eliza, daughter of Le-
verite and Esther Griswold, of New Haven.
He married (second), December 30, 1857,
Margaret E., daughter of John and Nancy
(Failing) Feeter, of Little Falls, New York
(see Feeter III). Child of first wife: Anna
Griswold, married William L. Fields, presi-
dent of the National Tradesmen's Bank of
New Haven. Children of second wife: 1.
Mary Elizabeth, born April, 1861 ; married
Charles Kingsbury Billings, of New York
City, son of James N. and Julia (Holmes)
Billings ; children : Charles Kingsbury, Mar-
garet Louise, Mabel Frances, Julia Holmes,
Mary Elizabeth and John Alden Billings. 2.
Louise Gertrude, born September 9, 1865 ;
married Lieutenant William L. Howard, of
the United States navy, who took part in the
battle of Manila in 1898, when the Spanish
fleet was destroyed, being on the "Boston"

during the engagement ; staff officer in the
intelligence bureau ; in command of the gun-
boat "Bancroft" as executive officer and navi-
gator ; later at Colon ; then on the United
States steamship "Illinois" when it was flag-
ship in the squadron that met Prince Henry
of Prussia and at the Coronation of King Ed-
ward VII. of England ; was appointed naval
attache to Berlin, Rome and Vienna, now sta-
tioned at League Island. Will be promoted
to rank of captain in 191 1. Child, Helen
Howard.

(The Feeter Line).

(I) Lucas Feeter (formerly Vedder, Vet-
ter, and other variations in spelling in the
early records ) was born in Wittenburg. Ger-
many, as early as 1730. He settled in Stone
Arabia, New York, in 1754, on lands now in
Fulton county. He had several sons who were
very much under the influence of Sir William
Johnson, and at the time of the revolution all
of the family except William Feeter were
Loyalists and went to Canada. Some of the
descendants have added the prefix Mc to
their name. Lucas Feeter married (first)
Agnes Wacker, November 8, 1753 ; she died
before 1765 ; married (second) Maria Eva,
daughter of Captain Peter and Lena Serviss,
who were related to Sir William Johnson. He
had a daughter, Anna Catherine, by first wife.

(II) Colonel William, named for Sir Wil-
liam Johnson, son of Lucas Feeter, was born
February, 1756. He became one of the
most noted pioneers and soldiers in the Mo-
hawk Valley. He was justice of the peace
and a citizen of wide influence. Against the
opinions and wishes of all his family he sup-
ported the patriotic cause in the revolution,
and on every occasion when the Mohawk
Valley was raided by Indians and Tories he
was foremost in the defense. On one occasion
a party of Indians and Tories descended on
the Palatine district to plunder and murder,
but one of the party discovered that a family
of his own relatives was marked for destruc-
tion, and, blood being thicker than water, he
deserted and betrayed the expedition. Wil-
liam Feeter was one of a party of twenty-five
volunteers that went out to repel the invad-
ers. When the party was discovered and put
to flight he was one of six to follow the band,
overtaking and wounding one of them, and
compelling the others to flee without their
knapsacks and provisions. Three of the party
died on the way back to Canada, we are told,
and the wounded Indian was slain by his for-
mer Tory comrade. William Feeter, however,
found little sympathy in his own neighborhood
for his stand, and he left home to live with a
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to Feeter the musket that he carried through highway leading to Timmerman's Hotel,

the war. It was inscribed "Presented to planted the trees surrounding Eastern Park

Colonel Feeter by Henry Yauney during the and assisted in building the old "yellow tav-

year of the Revolutionary war and car- ern church." He married, September 17, 1829,

ried by him during the seven years' war." Nancy Failing, at St. Johnsville, daughter of
The gun is still in the possession of his de- Jacob and Gertrude (Dockey) Failing, of St.
scendants. The inscription must have been Johnsville. Children: 1. Jacob, born 1830;
added by Colonel Feeter after the war. He a prominent lawyer in New York City, living
was one of the forty picked men of this county in Yonkers, New York. 2. Margaret Eliza-
known as the "Tryon County Bulldogs." He beth, June 13, 1832 ; married, December 30,
continued in the militia after the war and 1857, Dexter Alden (see Alden VII). 3.
rose to the command of his regiment. He was Parmelia, born January 13, 1834; married Jo-
commissioned ensign in Captain Jacob Petrie's seph French, of Buffalo, state engineer of
company, Montgomery county, in 1786; again New York. 4. James, died 1846. 5. Ger-

as ensign in Lieutenant Colonel Henry Star- trude, born December 29, 1836; married

ing's regiment in 1789 and made captain of Cruttenden. 6. Cynthia, born August, 1838;

his company March 8, 179 1 ; commissioned married Alfred Walker, of Utica, New York,

captain again October 9, 1793, in Lieutenant 7. Mary, born September 10, 1840; married

Colonel Jacob Petrie's regiment ; second major Nathan Esterbrook, of New Haven.

of the same regiment April 21, 1796, and lieu-

tenant-colonel, March 29, 1798. For more John Sackett, immigrant an-
than twenty-five years it was the habit of SACKETT cestor, came to New England
Colonel Feeter to fire the revolutionary war from Bristol, England, with
musket at seven o'clock of the morning of his brother Simon, on the ship "Lyon," in the
January first and July fourth. He settled, winter of 1630-31. He brought with him his
after the war, on a large farm within the son, John Sackett Jr., who was about three
present limits of Little Falls, New York, and years old at the time. No record of any other
cultivated it for fifty years or more. He was of his immediate family has been found,
a progressive and enterprising man. In 1797 Either before leaving England, or during his
he conceived the idea of establishing a mail tedious mid-winter voyage to America, he
route for this section and started his son became attached to the brilliant and popular
Adam, then a lad of sixteen, riding from Al- non-conformist minister, Roger Williams,
bany to Little Falls, to deliver letters and whom he followed first to Plymouth settle-
newspapers in Johnstown and vicinity through ment and afterwards to Rhode Island. Tiring
the Royal Grant north of Little Falls and to of life in the wilderness, he made his way to
German Flats. He continued this business for New Haven settlement, in the records of
three years. Colonel Feeter died May 5, 1844, which he is mentioned as early as 1640, and
at an advanced age. He reared twelve children as late as 1684. On October 6, 1684, he filed
of his own and six others belonging to vari- an inventory of the estate of John Sackett, Jr.
ous poor and unfortunate families in his Child: John, see forward.
neighborhood. He was a member of the Ger- (II) John (2), son of John (1) Sackett,
man Lutheran church and of Fairfield Lodge, was born about 1628, died September 3, 1683.
Free and Accepted Masons. He was born in England and brought to New

He married, in 1781, Elizabeth, born March England by his father in 1631, when about
23, 1765, daughter of Adam and Mary Eliza- three years old. Very little is known of his
beth (Petrie) Bellinger, descended from sev- boyhood days. In 1646 he was a member of
eral of the most prominent German settlers, the New Haven train band. The general court
She died August 30, 183 1. Among his chil- of that year first brought him to notice and
dren was John, mentioned below, and Adam, gave him a place in the recorded history of
born October 27, 1782, died April 15, 1865; Connecticut by fining him six cents "for want-
married, February 10, 1805, Maria Keyser; ing a rest at the training he attended." A
resided at Ingham's Mills. rest was a stick crotched at one end which

(III) John, son of Colonel William Feeter, was used to steady the heavy musket then in

was born November 30, 1804, and was use, when taking aim. On May 20, 1652, he

brought up on the homestead at Top Notch, married Agnes Tinkham, who was probably a

now the Goodell and Pickett farms in the younger sister of the colonist, Ephraim Tink-

town of Little Falls, New York. He fol- ham, of Plymouth settlement. He remained

lowed farming for many years. In 1847 ne a resident of New Haven until his death in

came to the village of Little Falls and engaged 1684. The records there show that on Octo-

in general contracting. He constructed the ber 6, 1684, John Sackett made and filed an

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inventory of the estate of John Sackett Jr.
Agnes (Tinkham) Sackett died at New
Haven in the early part of the year 1707. An
inventory of her estate was filed April 25,
1707, by her grandson, Lieutenant Joseph
Sackett, who had previously been appointed
administrator of her husband's estate. The
records also show that on July 8, 1712, Lieu-
tenant Joseph Sackett made a final account-
ing of said estates and was discharged from
his bonds. Children : John, born April 30,
1653, mentioned below; Jonathan, June 6,
1655; Mary, September 24, 1657; Joseph,
March 2, 1660; Martha, September 19, 1662.

(III) Lieutenant John (3), son of John
(2) Sackett, was born April 30, 1653, died in
1703. He married, about the year 1686, Mary,
daughter of William and Sarah (Allard)
Woodin. William Wroodin was a colonist and
is first mentioned in the New Haven records
in 1643. He married there October 5, 1650,
Sarah Allard, who died in 1693. He died in
1684. John Sackett's wife, Mary Woodin,
died in 1717. Like his father and many of his
kin, John Sackett took a lively interest in
military affairs. As soon as he reached the
required age, he joined the New Haven mili-
tary company and remained an active member
of it to the day of his death. After serving
for many years as a private and non-commis-
sioned officer, he was commissioned an en-
sign and later a lieutenant. The records of
the general court of Connecticut show that at
a session held at Hartford, May 14, 1696, a
lease from certain Indians was confirmed for
a considerable tract of land to John Sackett
and others. Children : Mary, born 1688 ;
Sarah, 1694; John, 1699; Samuel, see for-
ward.

(IV) Captain Samuel, son of Lieutenant
John (3) Sackett, was born March 7, 1702,
died in February, 1781. Captain Sackett is fre-
quently referred to in the colonial records of
New Haven as "Deacon Samuel Sackett."
These early records show that he was prom-
inent in business and social circles as well as
in military and religious affairs. In 1736 he
was appointed a lieutenant and in 1754 he
was commissioned captain of the "5th Com-
pany or Train Band" in the town of New
Haven. He was justice of the peace in 1748-
49, and again from 1758 to 1776. In 1759
the governor and general council of Connecti-
cut authorized Samuel Sackett and several
other prominent citizens to organize a com-
pany and build and maintain a bridge across
the "New Haven East River." He married
(first), December 11, 1728, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter, of Samuel and Susanna (Tuthill) Todd.
She died 1737. Before 1741 he married (sec-

and) , and she died before 1751.

On August 6, 1752, he married (third) Mrs.
Hannah Russell Pierpont, daughter of Rev.
Noahdiah Russell and widow of Lieutenant
Joseph Pierpont. Children: Sarah, born
April 9, 1730; Mahitable, February 23, 1732;
Elizabeth; Samuel, March 20, 1741 ; Elias,
March 27, 1743 ; Solomon, mentioned below.

(V) Solomon, son of Captain Samuel Sack-
ett, was born in 1748, died August 8, 1823.
He lived in New Haven and Norfolk. He
married twice and both of his wives are bur-
ied in the "North End Cemetery," at Nor-
folk. Several of their descendants resided in
1904 in the adjoining town of Colebrook.
Children: Solomon, born 1785, mentioned
below ; Thomas ; Sylvia, born 1805.

(VI) Solomon (2), son of Solomon (1)
Sackett, was born in 1785, died 1855. He re-
sided in Sandsfield, Massachusetts, and North
Canaan, Connecticut. He married Huldah
Webster. Children : Mary ; Rhoda ; George,
born June 9, 1820 ; Solomon, May 24, 1823,
mentioned below ; Lucretia ; Cordelia.

(VII) Solomon (3), son of Solomon (2)
Sackett, was born in Sandsfield, Massachu-
setts, May 24, 1823, died in Colebrook, Con-
necticut, February 19, 1904. He was a trav-
eling salesman for the Beardsley Scythe Com-
pany, and the Winsted Manufacturing Com-
pany of Winsted for twenty years. In later
years he had a small farm in Colebrook, after
he had retired from active business. He
settled a great many estates. He was a
Republican, and a representative to the legis-
lature several times. He married Melissa
Fargo, who died September 30, 1909. Chil-
dren: Grove, born March 18, 1851 ; George,
December 14, 1857 ; Frank, mentioned below.

(VIII) Frank, son of Solomon (3) Sackett.
was born in Sandsfield, Massachusetts, May 2,
1 861. He attended the public schools of Cole-
brook and Winsted, Connecticut. He began
his business career in the employ of the Wil-
liam L. Gilbert Clock Company in 1879 and
continued with this concern until 1905. For
twenty years he was foreman of the lever and
movement department. Since 1905 he has
been retired, living at Winsted. He is a mem-
ber of Clifton Lodge of Odd Fellows. In re-
ligion he is a Methodist and he is trustee and
collector of the Winsted Methodist Church.
In politics he is a Republican. He married
(first) in Colebrook, October 4, 188.7, Alice
G. Greene, who died May 13, 1884. He mar-
ried (second), July 4, 1887, Nettie J., daugh-
ter of James Edwin and Sarah M. (White)
Dean, of Winsted. She died in 1898. He
married (third), March 14, 1900, Sarah C.
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(fourth) Belle Hart, born December 7, 1876,
daughter of Walter and Lilly (Church) Hart.
Children of second wife : Grove E., born Sep-
tember 3, 1892 ; George Solomon, July 4, 1896.

John Adam, immigrant ancestor,
ADAM was born in Bowfield, Scotland, in
171 5, son of Robert and Mary
Adam, grandson of John Adam, and great-
grandson of John Adam, the name John being
in the family for several generations. He was
born three months after the death of his
father, the other children of Robert and Mary
Adam having been Robert, who died in the fif-
teenth year of his age ; Agnes, Margaret and
Mary, all of whom married and reared fam-
ilies. John Adam emigrated to the new world
May 17, 1737, and landed at Boston, Massa-
chusetts, July 6, 1737, after a voyage of seven
weeks and one day. For the first twelve
years he resided in Easton, Bristol county,
Massachusetts, whence he removed to Taun-
ton, and in 1794 to Salisbury, Connecticut,
where his death occurred April 17, 1802. He
married, November 16, 1749, Sarah, eldest
daughter of Captain Eliphalet and Ruth Leon-
ard, both of whom died in Easton, Massachu-
setts, Captain Leonard February 7, 1786, in
the eighty-fifth year of his age, and his wife
April 12, 1786, in the eighty-third year of her
age, leaving two sons, Eliphalet and Jacob,
and their families, and three daughters, Sarah,
Ruth and Mary, with their husbands, Isaac
Johnson, John Adam, Abiel Mitchel, and fam-
ilies. Sarah (Leonard) Adam died at Salis-
bury, 1785, aged sixty-two years. Children
of John and Sarah (Leonard) Adam: John,
mentioned below ; Sarah, born March 14,
1758; Robert, June 26, 1762; Ann, November
28, 1765 ; Mary, March 29, 1768; Ruth, March
23, 1771 ; William, December 17, 1773.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Adam, was
born in Taunton, Massachusetts, March 4,
1755, died in Salisbury, aged sixty-five years.
He was a graduate of Yale College. He was
a bookkeeper for Samuel Forbes, the pioneer
iron manufacturer of Connecticut. He mar-
ried, August 6, 1780, Abigail, born June 16,
1755, died July 30, 1836, daughter of Samuel
Forbes. Children, born at Salisbury : Lucy,
May 26, 1781, married Judge Walker, of
Lenox, Massachusetts; Sarah, June 26, 1782,
married Judge David Davis, of Illinois ; Sam-
uel Forbes, mentioned below ; John, June 22,
1785 ; William, May 7, 1786, died October 26,
1791 ; Leonard. March 8, 1788; Abigail,
March 28, 1790, died 1791 ; Polly, February
9, 1794, died February 29, 1796; William,
April 17, 1799.

(III) Samuel Forbes, son of John (2)

Adam, was born at Canaan, Connecticut, June

I, 1783, died February 20, 1854. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, and was a man of
pronounced literary taste. He was in the iron
business at Salisbury for many years and was
a large owner of real estate in that section.
He married, April 17, 1805, Mary, daughter
of Rev. Ezra Sampson, of Hudson, New
York. Children, born at Canaan : Mary
Frances, February 1, 1806; Charles Sampson,
April 1, 1808; Forbes Sampson, July 13, 1810;
George, mentioned below.

(IV) Dr. George, son of Samuel Forbes
Adam, was born at Canaan, September 17,
18 1 2, died January 4, 1894. He attended the
public schools and studied medicine at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts, and in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, of New York City.
He practiced his profession at Canaan until
the death of his father, after which he devoted
his attention to the management of the estate.
He married (first), January 30, 1839, R°~
sanna Mills, of Newark, New Jersey. He
married (second), January 7, 1869, Mary
Geikie, born at Edinburgh, Scotland. She
came to this country with her parents in 1853.
Children of first wife : George Sampson, born
February 23, 1842 ; Joseph, September 14,
1845; Mary Elizabeth, August 31, 1847;
Samuel Forbes, February 20, 1854. Children
of second wife : George Archibald, born July

II, 1872, married Lena B. Hatch; children:
Kenneth Archibald, born July 23, 1896 ;
George, July 12, 1898; Malcolm Geikie, 1900;
Maitland Edmund, 1902 ; Catherine Isabelle,
October 22, 1876, married Joseph Roswell
Hawley Moore, a school teacher in Indianap-
olis, Indiana, and had John Adam, born March
3, 1908, and E. Lewis, October 29, 1910; John
Geikie, mentioned below.

( V ) Dr. John Geike, son of Dr. George
Adam, was.born at Canaan, April 4, 1878. He
attended the public schools of his native town
and Hopkins grammar school of New Haven.
He received his medical education in Trinity
Medical College, in Toronto, Canada, gradu-
ating in the class of 1900. In the following
year he located in Canaan, where he has prac-
ticed his profession since. He married, July
23, 1902, Christine, born August 4, 1879, m
Bowmansville, Ontario, Canada, daughter of
Paul C. Trebilcock. Children: Douglas
Geikie, born October 15, 1905 ; Norma Sin-
clair, March 25, 1908.

Mary (Geikie) Adam, wife of Dr. George
Adam, is a daughter of Rev. Archibald Geikie
Jr., and granddaughter of Archibald Geikie.
Archibald Geikie Jr. was born June 7, 17^7, in
Edinburgh, Scotland, died July 2y, 1872, in
Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated in the

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schools of Edinburgh, and later studied for
the ministry, pursuing the lectures of Rev. Dr.
Chalmers in his course. In 1843 ne removed
to Toronto, Canada, settling on the river St.
Clair, opposite St. Clair, where he built a
church and served in the capacity of pastor un-
til 1848, the year of the death of his wife,
when he removed to Toronto, and served as
pastor of the Richmond Street Congregational
Church until about 1855, then he took up his
residence in the state of Connecticut, residing
in Colebrook for eleven years, removing to
East Granville, where he resided until his
resignation from the ministry, after which
lie was a resident of Canaan. He married Isa-
bella Cunningham, of Edinburgh, June 11,
1817.

Rev. Archibald (3) Geikie. D.D., eld-
est son of Rev. Archibald (2) Geikie, was
born in Edinburgh, Scotland, educated in its
schools, graduating from the Edinburgh Uni-
versity, and studied for the ministry in Tor-
onto, Canada. He preached in Stratford and
Gait, where he was assistant to Rev. Dr. John
Payne until the death of the latter. Later he
went to Australia, and for twenty-five years
served as pastor of the Bathhurst Presbyterian
Churcb, after which he resigned, his death oc-
curring in Sidney, Australia, July 7, 1871. Dr.
Geikie was largely instrumental in uniting the
Presbyterian bodies of Australia, so that they
are now known as the "Presbyterian Church
of Australia." He was also moderator of
the synod, and author of "Human Sympathies
of Christ," "Missions, to Wrong Races, in
Wrong Places and in Wrong Lands," and of
other works.

Rev. Cunningham Geikie. second son of
Rev. Archibald (2) Geikie, was born in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, educated in its schools, came
to Canada, and there studied for the ministry.
His first charge was Whitby, Ontario, and
he was called from there to Halifax, Nova
Scotia. Later he went to England and
entered the service of the Episcopal
church. He was vicar at Barnstable, and
subsequently was given the living at Norwich
by William Gladstone. After his resignation
from the ministry he devoted his attention to
literature, and was the author of "Life of
Christ," "Hours with the Bible," "The Refor-
mation in England," etc. He died at Bourne-
mouth, England, April 31, 1907.

Walter Bayne Geikie, M.D., C.L.. third
son of Rev. Archibald (2) Geikie, was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 8, 1830. He served
as dean of Trinity Medical College, of
Toronto, Ontario, for a quarter of a century,
and since his resignation has carried on a
general practice.

Benjamin Webster, descend-

WEBSTER ant of an old English family,

lived at Bradford, England,

and followed the trade of butcher. Among his

children was Benjamin, mentioned below.

(II) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1),
Webster was born in Bradford, England, in
1820, died at Leeds, England, September 7,
1896. He was educated in the schools of his
native town, and engaged in the railroad
business. He became station master at Leeds.
He married Eliza Parker, who was born at
Bradford, died at the age of seventy-three,
in Leeds England. Children: Benjamin,
mentioned below ; William, lives in Califor-
nia ; Clara, married and lives in England ;
Samuel, came to Bridgeport, Connecticut,
and died there, was a die sinker ; Hannah,
lives in England ; Isaac ; Edwin, lives in Eng-
land ; George, died in Philadelphia.

(III) Benjamin (3), son of Benjamin (2)
Webster, was born at Bradford, England, died
December 11, 1908, at Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut. He was educated in the schools of his
native town. He began to work at Leeds,
England, in 1868. He came to New York
City, where he was in the employ of the
Shelton Company, manufacturers of carpet
tacks. Thence he came to Bridgeport, and
fcr sixteen years was with the Glover San-
ford Company, hat manufacturers. He was
then chief engineer of the Bridgeport Brass
Company for twelve years, and retired from
active business about 1885. He took an active
interest and had a potent influence in the
affairs of the city, though he never aspired to
public office. He was a Republican and a
stout supporter of the candidates and princi-
ples of his party. He became a large tax-
payer, as he invested in real estate and built
a number of houses in the city. He also
built engines, heaters and lubricators, and
patented a number of them. He was a mem-
ber of no secret order and had few interests
outside his business and his home, to which
he was devotedly attached. He was a mem-
ber of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
and assisted in raising the fund for the build-
ing. He was studious and read history chiefly,
being able to read and readily translate Greek
history. Few men of his age had acquired
more general knowledge from reading and
study and few indeed had covered so thor-
oughly the range of history. His death was
mourned by a host of friends and was a dis-
tinct loss.

He married, July 19, 1865, at Leeds, Eng-
land, in St. Luke's Church (by Rev. Dr.
Brackenburgh), Margaret Calam, born at
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William and Sarah (Longhorn) Calam. Her
father was born in 1812, died at Howden,
England, July 14, 1849. Children of William
Calam : George ; Robert, resides in England ;
Peter, died young; William, deceased, was a
blacksmith at Bridgeport; Margaret, men-
tioned above ; Mary, resides in London, Eng-
land, married Peter Stephenson ; Elizabeth,
deceased. Isaac Calam, father of William
Calam, was a chemist. Children of Isaac
Calam : Isaac, Thomas, Peter, Hannah, Mary
Elizabeth and William. Children of Benja-
min and Margaret (Calam) Webster: I. Ed-
gar Parker, born October 23, 1867, at Leeds;
assistant superintendent of Smith & Egge
Company ; married Bertha Miller ; children :
Earl Parker, Edgar Ferdinand and Lillian
Margaret. 2. Mary Florence, born November
4, 1869; married Benjamin Webster, of Cali-
fornia, a draughtsman; child, Benjamin Ches-
ter. 3. Harry Calam, born January 22, 187 1,
at Bridgeport ; foreman in Smith & Egge Com-
pany ; married Mary Leaman ; children :
Ethel Elizabeth and Margaret Anna. 4. Ross,
born November 28, 1878; an engineer in the
Smith & Egge Company ; married Carrie Bal-
lard.

The surname Hendee is identi-
HENDEE cal with Hende, Hendys. and

Handy, and is evidently of
French origin, though the first of the name
in this country doubtless came from England,
where it may have been seated for many gen-
erations.

( I 1 Richard Hendee, emigrant ancestor,
was one of the original proprietors of Nor-
wich, Connecticut, in 1660. A tract of land
was granted to him, Josiah Reed and Richard
Welles, both of Leffing's Neck. He had an
earlv allotment near the town plot, and shared
in the first division of land, but it is not known
that he ever lived in Norwich. In 1660-61 he
worked on vessels at New London, Connecti-
cut, and Newport, Rhode Island, and was evi-
dently a ship carpenter by trade. Four or five
years later he was proprietor of a mill built
by John Elderkin, on the Menunkatesuck
river, at Killingworth, where he died August
4, 1670. This mill at Killingworth, and fifty
acres of land on Westward Hill, Norwich,
were among his assets in the inventory of his
estate. In the same year the townsmen of
Norwich directed that the children of Richard
Hendee should have a share in the division of
common lands as equal proprietors. He mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of John Elderkin, who
was guardian of their three children : Jona-
than, Richard and Hannah Hendee.

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Hen-

dee, was born about 1665. He went to live
in the family of his grandfather, John Elder-
kin, and became an inhabitant of Norwich.
His sister Hannah married, January 14, 1685,
Samuel Belding, of Wethersfield. In 1691
he and others from Norwich settled at
Joshua's purchase, Windham, Connecticut, and
he had a house built there, on what was called
the Hither Place, on the north side of Old
Windham street. Hendee bought his land of
Captain James Fitch, and was then unmar-
ried. Joshua's tract was named for the son
of Uncas, the Indian sachem, and the land
was granted to Norwich men. Hendee was
one of those granted the mill privilege of
Beaver Brook, Windham. He was on the list
of admitted inhabitants, May 30, 1693. A
new pound was ordered built at the south-
east corner of his lot in 1698. Children:
Joshua, married (first) Elizabeth Wheelock,
born July 18, 1709, at Preston, Connecticut;
(second) September 30, 1726, Mercy Stand-
ish, descendent of Captain Myles Standish,
of the "Mayflower"; Joshua settled in Cov-
entry, Connecticut ; Jonathan, owned the
covenant in 1725, at Windham; settled in
Coventry ; married, February 12, 1740, Martha
Millenton, five children; Asa, mentioned
below.

(III) Asa, son of Richard (2) Hendee,
was born about 1700. He removed from
Windham to Coventry, Connecticut. He mar-
ried Mary . Children, born at Coven-
try: Asa, December 9, 1739, died young;
Asa, January 19, 1740-41, lived at Bolton;
Eliphalet, 1743, mentioned below; Lydia, July
14, 1746; Eunice, November 24, 1748; Mary,
January 14, 175 1 ; Abner, May 22, 1753; Es-
ther, May 29, 1757.

(IV) Eliphalet, son of Asa Hendee, was
born in 1743, at Coventry, died there February
28, 1827, aged eighty-four years, according
to town record. He was a soldier in the rev-
olution, in Captain Elias Buell's company,
on the Lexington alarm, and sergeant in Cap-
tain Eleazer Hutchins's company. Colonel Hos-
ford's regiment, in 1776. He settled in An-
dover, Connecticut, where he was living in
1790, according to the first census, having
in his family two males over sixteen, five
under that age, and three females. The only
other heads of families reported at that time
in the state were Widow Hendee, of Coventry,
Joseph and Caleb ; the last named was also
a soldier in the revolution. Eliphalet Hendee
married Mary Loomis, born January 29, 1745,
died November 21, 1824, daughter of Captain
Matthew Loomis, of Bolton, who married
(first) October 19, 1727, Rachel Wright, of
Wethersfield, who died February 16, 1736;

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(second) Mav 29, 1739, Martha Lothrop, who
died August 26, 1787. James Loomis, father
of Captain Matthew Loomis, lived at Windsor
and Bolton; was born October 31, 1669; mar-
ried Mindwell , in 1696; she died March

1, 1736, and he died December 29, 1750. The
father of James was James Loomis, the emi-
grant, elsewhere referred to in this work. Chil-
dren, born at Bolton and Andover, of Eliphalet
and Mary Hendee : Abner, June 30, 1779, mar-
ried Elizabeth Johnson; Mary, June 3, 1780;
Eliphalet, July 25, 1783, mentioned below;
Justin, July 2, 1785 ; Leonard J., July 21, 1788.

(V) Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (1)
Hendee, was born at Coventry, Connecticut,
July 25, 1783, died at Andover, October 29,
1863. He married Amelia Babcock, who died
at Andover, November 27, 1870, aged eighty-
one years. Children, born at Andover : Justin,
March 28, 1817, died May 23, 1817; Lucius
Justin, July 13, 1818, mentioned below; Eliza-
beth Amelia, December 7, 182 1 ; Mary Jane,
March 23, 1830, died June 2^, 1833; Leon-
ard Christopher, December 20, 1832, died
January 31, 1833; Mary Frances, June 17,
1837 ; married, October, 1867, Frank J.
Smith ; lived at Schuyler, and now at Leigh,
Nebraska.

(VI) Lucius Justin, son of Eliphalet (2)
Hendee, was born at Andover, Connecticut,
July 13, 18 18, died September 4, 1888. He
was educated in the public schools. He set-
tled in Hartford, Connecticut, and became
president of the Aetna Insurance Company,
and was a man of lofty character and great
business ability. He married Adeline Eliza
Whitmore, born at Chatham, Connecticut,
daughter of Gordon Whitmore. Children,
born at Hebron and Hartford : Abner, De-
cember 15, 1853, mentioned below; Hetta
Elizabeth, June 16, 1856; married Rev. James
Bradin ; Sarah Jane, December 8, 1857, un-
married ; Richard, born in Hartford, Novem-
ber 1, 1862, died February 19, 1908; Lucius,
born in Hartford, May 8, 1866: married
Elizabeth M. Reilly, who died April 7, 1907 ;
children : Eleanor Mary and Philip Abner.

( VII) Abner, eldest child of Lucius Justin
and Adeline Eliza (Whitmore) Hendee, was
born in Hebron, Connecticut, December 15,
1853. He obtained his early education in the
public schools there and in Hartford. He
then entered the grain office of Smith, Nor-
tham & Robinson, of Hartford, where he
learned the first lessons of business experience,
not only in the office of the firm, but on the
road as traveling salesman, where he came in
contact with business men of wide knowledge
?nd acute discernment. To a large extent
his marked success in his wiselv chosen field

of endeavor is attributable to the experience
thus early obtained in his business career. It
was while thus employed that he met Mr.
David B. Crittenden, with whom he was close-
ly associated as a partner in business for
more than a decade. Mr. Hendee came to
New Haven, and July 1, 1879, the firm of
D. B. Crittenden & Company was formed for
the conduct of an extensive grain business,
and which was dissolved by the death of Mr.
Crittenden, May 1, 1890. Since that time Mr.
Hendee has continued in the business under
his own name. While associated with Mr.
Crittenden, Mr. Hendee devoted his attention
almost exclusively to the distribution of their
goods in carload lots. In 1895, in order to
meet the demands of his constantly expanding
business, he opened up a large wholesale es-
tablishment in New York City, with offices
at 16 Broad street, where he conducts an ex-
tensive business, employing many salesmen
who cover the fields of New Jersey, part of
New York, Connecticut, and the east. In New
Haven Mr. Hendee ranks among the leading
business men of the city. He is a director of
the Yale National Bank of New Haven, a
member of the Union League Club, the Young
Men's Republican Club, and Trinity Church,
all of New Haven. In politics he is a Repub-
lican. In matters of public concern he takes
a deep interest, and contributes freely, not
only of his time, but financially, to the up-
building of the city and its business interests,
and is ever ready to aid the unfortunate poor.
Mr. Hendee married (first) Louise H. King,
who died in New Haven, Connecticut. One
child was born to them, Mary Vail, who mar-
ried Chauncey Rice, of Yale College. Mr.
Hendee married (second) Nellie Elizabeth
Green, and they have one son, Lucius Justin
Hendee. Mr. Hendee's residence on Whitney
avenue. New Haven, is a handsome edifice,
artistically decorated and furnished, and is
one of the ''show places" in the Elm City of
beautiful homes.

Professor John Christopher
SCHWAB Schwab, son of Gustav and

Catherine (von Post) Schwab,
of ancient German ancestry, was born in 1865
in New York City. Lie was graduated from
Yale College in the class of 1886 and pursued
his studies as a graduate the following year
at Yale; in 1887-88 at Berlin University; in
1889-90 at Gottingen University ; making a
special study of historical subjects and politi-
cal economy. He returned to Yale College
and was appointed instructor, assistant pro-
fessor and professor of political economy. He
received the degree of Ph.D. at Gottingen.

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Since 1892 he has been editor of the Yale
Review, and since 1905 librarian of Yale Uni-
versity. He has contributed articles to various
historical publications and has written a "His-
tory of New York Property Tax" (1890);
"The Confederate States of America" (1901).
He is a member of the American Economic
Association, the Royal Economic Association
of Great Britain, corresponding member of the
Massachusetts Historical Society ; member of
the Century Club of New York and of the
Graduates Club of New Haven. In politics
he is an Independent, in religion an Episco-
palian. He married, October 5, 1893, at' New
Haven, Edith A. Fisher. They reside at 310
Prospect street, New Haven.

The n a m e Middle-
MIDDLEBROOK brook is of Dutch

origin and the first of
the name came undoubtedly from North
Netherlands. They were among the earlier
Teutonic tribes who crossed the North Sea for
the purpose of colonizing the British Isles, and
settled for the most part in the north of
England, particularly in Lincolnshire, Not-
tinghamshire and Yorkshire, where the family
is well represented to-day. The ancient spell-
ing of the name differs slightly ; early records
in Holland and Yorkshire give it as
Middelburgh, Midelbrugh, Myddelbroughe,
Mydelbrough, Midelbrough, Mydelbrok,
Mydelbrocke, Middlebrock, Middlebrough,
Mistlebrooke, Middlebroke, Middelbrooke
and Middleborrow. Since the beginning
of the eighteenth century it is gener-
ally recorded as Middlebrook. The coat-of-
arms is described thus: "In a golden field, a
hire turret."

(I) Joseph Middlebrook, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England about 16 10, and came
to Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in
( )ctober, 1635. In the summer of 1644 six-
teen families from Concord, owing to some
dissatisfaction on account of excessive taxes,
removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, and among
them was Joseph Middlebrook. He settled
in the Pequonnock district, where he was
granted. January 8, 1649, a home lot consist-
ing of two and one-half acres. He married
(first) Mary, daughter of William Bateman,
of Fairfield, who died young. He married
(second) Mary Turney, widow of Benjamin
Turney, 1648. He died at Fairfield in 1686.
He left a nuncupative will, and according to
it his estate was divided between his two
children, Joseph and Phebe. Children : Jos-
eph, mentioned below ; Phebe, married Sam-
uel Wilson.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Middle-

brook, died 1709. He married Sarah ,

who died in October, 1746. Children, and
dates of baptism : Sarah, November 12, 1675 ;
Hannah, June 25, 1677; Jonn> October 25,
1078, mentioned below; Joseph, April 15,
1680; Jonathan, 1684.

(III) John, son of Joseph (2) Middle-
brook, was baptized October 25, 1678. He
married (first) Elizabeth, baptized February
17, 1694, died in 1720, daughter of Robert
Bisbom, of Fairfield. He married (second)
1726, Mary Porter. She was born in 1692,
died August 13, 1771. Elizabeth, his first
wife, was admitted as a communicant to the
Church of Christ in Fairfield, July 29. 1713.
He removed from Fairfield to Stratford as
early as February 12, 1724. In 1728 he agreed
with Robert Turney upon the division of a
tract of land in Long Hill, North Stratford,
now Trumbull, Connecticut. Here he made
his homestead until his death, October 10,
1769. Children of first wife, and dates of bap-
tism : Robert, May 16, 1703, died in infancy;
John, December 10, 1704, died in infancy;
Elizabeth, January 7, 1708; John, October 1,
1710; Mary, March 1, 1713; David, June 5,
1715; Stephen, February 2, 1718, died in in-
fancy; Ephraim, August 21, 1720, died in in-
fancy. Children of second wife: Mary, born
1727 ; Stephen, mentioned below.

(IV) Stephen, son of John Middlebrook,
was born June 30, 1731, at North Stratford.
He was executor of his father's will, dated
March 21/, 1755, and by it received the entire
homestead at Long Hill, and other lands and
property. He was a physician and surgeon
and established the first store in North Strat-
ford, about 1752. This store was successfully
kept by his descendants for one hundred years,
when it was closed by his grandson, Robert.
At the time of the revolution he was an ar-
dent patriot ; chairman of the committee, of
inspection and safety appointed by the town ;
captain of the "town Watch and Ward" Com-
pany. During the year 1777 he did scouting
service in and around the neighboring towns,
when British raids were frequently made from
Long Island. He also was influential in pro-
viding the soldiers and their families with
funds and provisions. He died November
T7* T795- He married, January 2, 1755, Han-
nah, daughter of Ebenezer Hubbell, born
February 5, 1730, died February 11, 1816.
Children : Dr. Stephen, Jr., December 8,
1755, mentioned below; Patience, October 2,
1758; Theophilus, July 29, 1768.

(V) Dr. Stephen (2), son of Captain Ste-
phen (1) Middlebrook, was born December
8, 1755. During the revolution Dr. Middle-
brook was a member of the "Watch and

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Ward" Company, commanded by his father. from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1848,

He was a member of the Connecticut general among the honor men of his class. He was

assembly in 1802-03-06-15. He was a repu- president of the Athenaeum Literary Society

table physician and influential citizen and left of the college, and a member of the Alpha

a large estate. He died December 18, 1S19. Delta Phi secret society. In 185 1 he received

He married (first) Anner, daughter of Cap- tbe degree of A. M. from Trinity. In 1849-

tain Elijah Beach; she was born 1758, died 50-51 he studied law in the office of the late

July 28, 1792. He married (second), Oc- Lieutenant-Governor Charles Hawley, of

tober 8, 1793, Mrs. Eleanor (Hobart) Stamford, was admitted to the bar of Connecti-

Gold, of Eairfield, daughter of Justin cut at Danbury, in August, 185 1, and in 1852,

and Hannah Hobart ; she was born at began the practice of law in Bridgeport. In

Eairfield, 1764, died at Trumbull, March the same year he was commissioned major,

27, 1813. He married (third) May 10, 1814, and in 1853, judge advocate in the military

Mrs. Abigail Ann (Booth) Burton, daughter organization of the state. In 1861 he enlisted

of Captain James Booth, of Stratford, and as a private in a company raised by himself

widow of Captain Nathaniel Judson Burton ; for the First Battalion, Connecticut Cavalry,

she was born in 1766, died October 5, 1823. He was subsequently commissioned captain of

Children of first wife: Elijah, born October Company D of this organization, was made

20, 1785 ; Robert, August 28, 1789, mentioned senior captain of the First Squadron of the

below; Isaac, July 12, 1791, died August 13, same, and at different periods commanded the

1791. Children of second wife: Stephen, battalion as acting major, under Generals

May 4, 1796; Susan, April 30, 1802. Rosencrans, Fremont, Pope, McClellan. After

(VI) Robert, son of Dr. Stephen (2) the war, he wrote a history of the battalion.
Middlebrook, was born August 28, 1789. He He was honorably discharged, November 21,
succeeded his father as a merchant in the Long 1862, from the army on account of disabilities
Hill District of Trumbull until 1852, when he incurred in the service, and because of said
retired from further active interest in business, disabilities was rendered unable to resume
In politics he was an active Whig and occupied active employment until 1866. October 1, of
various positions in the political affairs of the that year, he became associate editor-in-chief
town. He was town treasurer for many years and one of the joint proprietors of the
and a representative to the general assembly Republican Standard of Bridgeport, and con-
in 1827-33. He was also instrumental in the tinned in that position until 1869, when he re-
establishment of Grace Episcopal Church at sumed the practice of law in Bridgeport. He
Long Hill, its building and installation, and was a member of the council of administration
was the first treasurer of the parish. During of the Connecticut department of the Grand
the war of 1812 he enlisted, April 15, 1814, Army of the Republic in 1869-71, and judge
as a private in Captain Philip Walker's com- advocate in the same in 1870-72-73. In 1872
pany of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In June, he was appointed assistant United States dis-
18 14, he was appointed quartermaster of the trict attorney for the district of Connecticut,
Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by and September 27, of the same year, upon the
Colonel Abel Hall, and had the rank of lieu- nomination of Chief Justice Chase, of the
tenant. He served as paymaster in 1815, and supreme court, register in bankruptcy for the
as regimental adjutant of the Third Regiment fourth congressional district. This last office
of Horse Artillery in 181 9. This last position he filled until the repeal of the National
he held until 1824, when he was discharged at Bankruptcy Act. In 1883 he was appointed
his own request. He was prominent in many director and prosecuting attorney for the Con-
public and financial institutions, and one of necticut Humane Society, and in 1887 was
the largest land holders in the town. He mar- made chairman of its standing committee on
ried, December 14, 1820, Nancy, born at legislation. He also represented the city gov-
Stratford, October 22, 1799, died at Trumbull, ernment of Bridgeport in the capacities of
September 12, 1852, daughter of Captain Na- deputy judge of the city court and clerk of
thaniel J. Burton. Children : Anner Augusta, the city court. He was one of the original
August 26, 1824; Louis Nathaniel, June 19, founders and charter members of the Fair-
1825; Susan Frances, October 18, 1828; field County Historical Society, and for several
James Robert, October 27, 1832. years corresponding secretary and honorary

(VII) Major Louis Nathaniel, son of vice-president of the same, and a member of
Robert Middlebrook, was born June 19, 1825, the Connecticut Historical Society. He was
died at Bridgeport, November 28, 1908. He also a member of the Connecticut Chapter of
was educated at the academies in Newtown, the Society of the Sons of the American Rev-
Easton and Cheshire, Connecticut, graduated olution. He had no taste for political pref-

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erment and uniformly discouraged solicita-
tions to became a candidate for them. He
was a lifelong" member of and a communicant
in the Protestant Episcopal church.

He married, December 9, 1857, Juliette,
born March 22, 1827, died May 30, 1901, at
Bridgeport, daughter of William Henry Tom-
linson, of Stratford. Children : Louis Bur-
ton, born March 4, i860, died December 23,
1866; Jenny, May 2^, 1862, died May 26,
1897, married Frank Brown Weeks, of Texas ;
one child, died in infancy ; Albert James, men-
tioned below.

(VIII) Albert James, son of Major Louis
Nathaniel Middlebrook, was born July 24,
1864, at Bridgeport. He was educated in
private schools of Guy B. Day, a celebrated
school, and of Seth B. Jones. On account of
ill health he went south and spent four years
in the mountains of West Virginia, at a place
seventy miles from the nearest railroad sta-
tion. He returned to Bridgeport and took
a course at a business college. During the
next two years he taught school in New
Haven. In 1891 he became associated with
the Wilmot & Hobbs Manufacturing Com-
pany of Bridgeport, now the American Tube
and Stamping Company, of which he was
assistant treasurer and secretary until Octo-
ber, 1908, when he resigned on account of
ill health, since which time he has been out of
business. He is a member of the Seaside
Club, the Algonquin, the Country Club, the
Hartford Golf Club. In religion he is an
Episcopalian and is a member of St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church of Bridgeport,
to which Mrs. Middlebrook also belongs. In
politics he is a Republican. He married, Sep-
tember 2, 1890, Isabel M. Shelton, born Feb-
ruary 12, 1869 (see Shelton AT). Children:
Henry Tomlinson, born October 24, 1891,
student at Andover College, class of 191 1 ;
Louis Shelton, December 15, 1892, Andover
College, class of 191 1 ; Albert James, Jr., May
19, 1906.

Among the men of the state of
EHRSAM Connecticut who by virtue of
the success which they have
achieved are entitled to special mention is
Frederick F. Ehrsam, late of Bridgeport, who
died in that city, May 2, 19 10. He came of
that sturdy German ancestry whose represen-
tatives have been model citizens in all walks
of life. He was born in Saxe-Meiningen,
Germany, in 1843. an^ at tne aSe °f eleven
came with his mother and step-father, the late
Mr. Eckhart, of Bridgeport, to the United
States.

The family settled first on a farm in Pitts-

field, Massachusetts, and here Mr. Ehrsam
spent two years following agricultural pur-
suits and attending the public schools of the
place. He then accompanied the family to
North Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he com-
pleted his education and began his business
life as a clerk in the wholesale grocery house
of Conrad & Bristol, on Water street. He
was economical, of frugal and saving habits,
and accumulated some money. In the early
sixties, together with his half-brother, George
F. Eckhart, he established in a modest way
the brewery business which has since grown
to such large proportions and is now known
as the Eckhart Brothers Brewery. By close
application to business, Mr. Ehrsam and his
half-brother made a success from the very
start and gradually built the business up to
what it is at the present time. In 1880 Mr.
Eckhart died, and Mr. Ehrsam continued the
business very successfully until 1898, when he
retired, having at that time amassed a com-
fortable fortune.

Mr. Ehrsam was ever a lover of the country
and of nature and nature's products, and
some years previous to his retirement from
business he purchased a farm at Rocky Hill,
North Bridgeport, where he spent his last
years. This farm he improved, bringing the
land up to the highest possible state of culti-
vation, and importing rare breeds of blooded
horses and cattle, for which he had a reputa-
tion among all lovers of blooded stock through-
out this part of the country, and in farming,
as well as in his previous business, he achieved
a decided success and was recognized as one
of the most progressive in this line. In addi-
tion to this, as opportunity permitted, he also
invested profitably in real estate, and in all
these affairs his shrewd executive ability car-
ried him far on the road to success. Born
in a foreign country, yet when coming to the
United States and deciding to make it his
home, he resolved to accommodate himself to
conditions which up to that time were entirely
new to him. As a young man he foresaw
what he believed to be a possibility of success.
This he resolved to achieve, and bent every
energy in that direction until he had accom-
plished his purpose. He died as he had lived,
loved and respected by all, a man of the high-
est sense of honor and integrity, leaving be-
hind him a record which will probably not
be surpassed by any man of his day and gen-
eration. He was a staunch adherent of Demo-
cratic principles, but refused to allow his name
to be used as a candidate for public office.

Mr. Ehrsam married, in 1899, Mrs. Frank
Porter, whose maiden name was Mary I.
Brady, daughter of Patrick Edward Brady.

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a native of Ireland, born 1842, died in New
Haven, Connecticut, 1881. Mr. Brady came to
this country when a young man in a sailing
vessel, and during the voyage the vessel be-
came disabled and drifted about for several
weeks, and for some seven weeks it was
thought that all aboard would be lost. After
arriving in this country Mr. Brady learned
the trade of cooper, which he followed dur-
ing his active life. He married, at New
Haven, Connecticut, Margaret McTiernan,
born in Ireland, 1846. came to this country a
few years after her husband, and died in New
Haven, in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Brady were
the parents of ten children, of whom the
following grew to maturity: 1. John, resides
in New Haven ; engaged in the trucking busi-
ness. 2. Mary I., previously mentioned as
wife of Frederick F. Ehrsam. 3. Rose, mar-
ried (first) Mark Neary ; (second) James
McCue. 4. Margaret A. The family attended
the Roman Catholic church. In politics Mr.
Brady is a staunch Democrat. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Ehrsam: George, born January
30, 1 90 1 ; Frederick, born April 16, 1904.
Mrs. Ehrsam died February 12, 1909.

Mr. Ehrsam, at his death, left the control
and custody of his children to his sister-in-
law, Margaret A. Brady, who is to supervise
their education and training until they attain
their majority. For this purpose he left a
munificent sum. as well as liberal bequests to
his sister, Mrs. Christina Stoehr, of Hartford,
and his brother William, of New York, and
his niece. Florence Neary. of Bridgeport.

Morris Colgan was born in

COLGAN Westmeath, Ireland, and died

there in the prime of life. He

was a prosperous farmer in county Westmeath,

Ireland.

(II) Thomas, son of Morris Colgan, was
born in county Westmeath, Ireland, in 1777,
died there in 1847. He was a well-to-do
farmer, a faithful Catholic and a kind father.
He married Margaret Leavy, born at West-
meath, in 1788, died there in i860. Children:
1. Morris, died aged ninety years at Hones-
dale, Pennsylvania ; children : son and daugh-
ter, residing at Honesdale. 2. James, died in
Ireland, leaving three children. 3. Catherine,
married Edward Hughes ; has three children :

resides in Bridgeport. 4. Bridget, married

Monahan. 5. Dennis, mentioned below. 6.
Mary, died in 1903 at Bridgeport ; married
James Reddy ; left one son. 7. John, resides
at New Haven : has one son. 8. Michael, died
at Norwalk, Connecticut ; had one son and
two daughters. 9. Christopher, born and re-
sides in Ireland ; unmarried.

(Ill) Dennis, son of Thomas Colgan, was
born at Westmeath, Ireland, February 3, 1830,
died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, March 18,
1893. He attended school in Ireland. He
came to the United States in 1850, and landed
in New York City. Thence he went soon
afterward to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where
his brother had already located, and resided
there three years. He then came to Bridge-
port, Connecticut, to work in the construction
of the Harlem railroad, being foreman of a
gang of laborers. He was afterward ap-
pointed superintendent of the drawbridge at
Bridgeport, and held this position for a period
of thirty-eight years with great faithfulness
and efficiency. Though his wages were never
large, he was frugal and thrifty and shrewd
in investing his earnings. He made money in
various real estate deals. He built no less than
seven houses in Bridgeport. With the aid and
cooperation of his wife, who was a shrewd
and careful business woman, he accumulated
a competence, and much of his success in life
he ascribed to her industry and good manage-
ment. Mr. Colgan was a Catholic in religion
and a Democrat in politics. He gave liberally
to the church and to charity. He married
Catherine Mullally, born in Mill Town, county
Westmeath, Ireland, in 1837, daughter of
Peter and Elizabeth (Smith) Mullally. Peter
Mullally was born in Mill Town, county West-
meath, Ireland, in 1796. died there in 1839;
he learned the trade of carpenter, and was
a prosperous contractor and builder in his
native county, erecting many prominent build-
ings including the large mills there, and also
many buildings in the surrounding towns.
Elizabeth (Smith) Mullally was born in Kings
county, Ireland, daughter of Patrick Smith,
who was a prosperous farmer there through-
out the active years of his life. Children of
Peter and Elizabeth Mullally : Child, died in
infancy. Patrick, born 1832, at Mill Town;
came with his mother and sister to America ;
learned the trade of cooper, and afterward
was locomotive fireman ; died from exposure ;
unmarried. Catherine, mentioned above as
wife of Dennis Colgan. Catherine (Mullally)
Colgan came to the United States in 1849 with
her motheT and one brother ; they located in
Bridgeport. Connecticut, where she has re-
sided ever since, being one of the oldest resi-
dents of the city ; she first resided on Golden
Hill. She attended the Sunday school in the
first Catholic church in Bridgeport ; there are
now fourteen : the city had then a population
of less than ten thousand, and now it has a
population of over one hundred thousand.
She is well educated, fond of good books and
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dren of Dennis and Catherine Colgan : 1.
John E., born June 24, 1864, at Bridgeport ;
educated there in the public schools ; engaged
in railroad business and is now conductor
for the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Company, on the Naugatuck division,
being thus employed for twenty-nine years ;
married Adele McCarthy, of England ; chil-
dren: Loretta, died in infancy; Irene, Cather-
ine, Alma, John E., Jr., George, Frederick,
Stephen D. 2. Margaret, died young. 3.
Catherine, born December 27, 1867 ; married
Dr. William J. O'Hara, of Bridgeport. 4.
William, born December 15, 1869, at Bridge-
port ; resides with his mother in that city. 5.
Thomas, born in Bridgeport, November 27,
1871, died May 5, 1906; married Sarah Mc-
Cullough ; one child, William ; lost two infants.
6. Elizabeth, born September 19, 1875 ; mar-
ried Dr. Joseph L. Egan, a dentist of Bridge-
port ; one child, Joseph L., Jr. 7. Child, died
in infancy. 8. Child, died in infancy.

Francis Joseph Eisenman
EISENMAN was born in 1818 in Bavaria,
Germany. He was educated
in his native land and studied music. He came
to this country when a young man and for
thirty-five years was a musician at the Military
Academy at West Point. He played in the
government military band. His instrument was
a clarionet. He was a gifted musician, and
taught music during the years he was at West
Point. He was popular and highly respected
by all who knew him. He died at West Point,
January 18, 1909, aged ninety-one. He mar-
ried Caroline Rudemere, born 183 1, died 1897,
at West Point. Children, born at West Point,
all living at present time: 1. Frederick, born
at West Point. 2. Francis, died 1861. 3.
Theresa, married George Sawyer, of Bridge-
port. 4. Catherine, married William John-
son, of West Point, a musician. 5. Louise,
married Charles M. Miller, of West Point,
New York. 6. John, born in Brooklyn, New
York. 7. Emma, married Perie Heyer, of
Bridgeport. 8. Joseph, mentioned below. 9.
Elizabeth, married Herman Harbers, steward
to the president's doctor, now head of Medi-
cal Supply Co., Washington, D. C. 10. Caro-
line C, married Charles Curtis, of West Point,
at the old homestead.

(II) Joseph, son of Francis Joseph Eisen-
man, was born May 25, 1861, at West Point,
New York. He attended the public schools and
graduated from the Military Academy. He
made a specialty of music and has devoted his
life to it. In August, 1882, he came to Bridge-
port, Connecticut. He has taught instrumen-
tal music, having a large number of pupils.

For many years he has been a member of the
famous Wheeler & Wilson band of Bridge-
port and of the theatre orchestra. He has
taken part in a great many concerts and other
entertainments in Bridgeport and vicinity, and
takes high rank among the best in his pro-
fession. He is a member of the local lodge,
Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Repub-
lican. He belongs to St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married, May 17, 1883, at Bridgeport,
Lily J., born November 23, 1864, at Sheffield,
England, daughter 01 Henry Thomas and
Hannah (Davey) Wright. Her father died
at Walden, New York, in 1908, aged seventy
years. Her mother was a daughter of Abra-
ham Davey, of Sheffield, who was in the cut-
lery business all his life ; he came to Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvania, from England, and after-
wards lived at Walden, New York. Henry
Thomas Wright lived in Middlebury, Wood-
bury and Bridgeport, Connecticut, then at
Walden, New York. He made six visits to
his native country. Mr. Wright was a Free
Mason, member of the Improved Order of
Red Men, the Knights of Pythias, Sons of
St. George and the Modern Woodmen of
America. William Wright, father of Henry
Thomas Wright, was born at Sheffield in
1823, died in October, 1863 ; married Eliza-
beth Berry, who died September 20, 1864, at
Sheffield : children : i. William Wright, still
living, aged seventy-five ; had twelve children ;
lived at Sheffield ; ii. Henry Thomas Wright,
mentioned above ; iii. James Christopher
Wright, and his son William lives at War-
wick, Orange county, New York. William
Wright was a manufacturer of surgical instru-
ments in Sheffield and London, England. Wil-
liam Davey, father of Abraham Davey, was a
manufacturer of table knives and had an
extensive business. Mrs. Eisenman had a
brother, Arthur Thomas Wright, born in
1869, died in 1889. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Eisenman: 1. Ethel Lillian, born at Bridge-
port, February 7, 1884, a teacher in the
schools of Bridgeport ; graduate of city schools
and the Normal School. 2. Harold Eugene,
born June 16, 1885. a musician.

Thomas Flint, immigrant ances-
FLINT tor, came to America, tradition

says, from Wales, in Great Brit-
ain. He is first mentioned in the town
records of Salem in 1650, but there is reason
to believe that he came to America much
earlier. It is also thought that his mother
was here as early as 1642. He was among
the first settlers of Salem Village, now South
Danvers, and his home was situated on the

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Salem and North Reading road, about six
miles from the present court house in Salem,
five miles from the town of North Reading,
and near Phelps's mill and brook. He ac-
quired his land by purchase. The first deed
found on record is September 18, 1654, when
he bought of John Pickering one hundred and
fifty acres of meadow and pasture land, within
the bounds of Salem. John Pickering had
paid John Higgenson thirteen pounds for this
land three years before. He purchased on
January 1, 1662, fifty acres of land from
Robert Goodall, and paid twenty pounds ster-
ling. This land was in Salem, and was
bounded on the south by land of Henry
Phelps, on the west by Phelps's brook, and
on the north and east by Goodall's land. This
land has remained in the family for a period
of more than two hundred years. He died

April 15, 1663. He married Ann .

Children : Thomas; Elizabeth, born April 30,
1650; George, January 6, 1652, mentioned
below ; John, October 3, 1655 ; Anna, Decem-
ber 25, 1657; Joseph, ifj62.

(II) Sergeant George Flint, son of Thomas
Flint, was born January 6, 1652. He went to
Reading before 1682 and settled on land which
he inherited from his father. He was a
farmer, and lived in the North Precinct, in
tbat part which is now the village of North
Reading. Tradition says that he built the
first frame house in the vicinity, and it was
used as a garrison house when there were
hostile Indians in the vicinity, and there were
said to be marks on the door made by the
bullets of the Indians. There is also a story
that on one Sabbath when all the family but
two sisters were at church, one of the daugh-
ters took a pistol in her hand and aimed it
at her sister, saying: "Suppose you were an
Indian, how easily I could shoot you," and
at that moment the pistol went off, and the
bullet struck the sister in the shoulder, crip-
pling her for life. Her father in his will men-
tions his "unfortunate daughter Mary," and
makes suitable provision for her proper main-
tenance. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Put-
nam, gives her a double portion, "because she
lath a lame arm." The old garrison house
was torn down, and a modern one is built
in its place. For several years George Flint
was one of the selectmen of the town. He
was a member of the Salem church, and was
active in religious matters, which is shown
by the interest he took in the organization of
the North parish and church. At the first
meeting of the parish he presided as modera-
tor, and as long as he lived he took a leading
part in the management of its affairs. He
sjave the parish one acre of land on which

the first meeting house was built. The first
minister of the church, Rev. Daniel Putnam,
was his nephew. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hut-
chinson) Putnam, wTho was born August
11, 1662, died March 6, 1697. He married
(second), March 2, 1699, Mfs- Susannah
Gardner. She died March, 1720, and he died
June 23, 1723. Children, all by first wife:
Elizabeth, born August 19, 1685 ; George,
April 1, 1686; Ann, April 18, 1687; Ebenezer,
December 16, 1689, mentioned below ; Nathan-
iel, October 21, 1690, died in infancy; Mary,
November 4, 1691 ; Mercy, October 7, 1692 ;
Nathaniel, January 4, 1694; Hannah, Febru-
ary 12, 1695; John, March 4, 1696, died in
infancy.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Sergeant George
Flint, was born December 16, 1689, died Sep-
tember 18, 1778. He was a farmer and lived
in North Reading on a farm given him by his
father. It was taken from the northern end
of his father's land near the Andover line,
and has always been in possession of his de-
scendants, and has the same boundaries to-
day as it had then. A part of it was land
inherited by his father from Thomas Flint,
his father, and was called in the will, "the
land I bought beyond Ipswich River." He
married, May 18, 1714, Tabitha Burnap, who
died July 30, 1734. Children: Tabitha, born
February 15, 1715, died in infancy; Ebenezer,
September 1, 1716, mentioned below; Eunice;
John, 1720; Tabitha, May 18, 1721 ; Eliza-
beth, 1723; Jacob, 1729; Hepzibah, June 18,
1732 ; Ann, born and died July 30, 1734.

(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
Flint, was born September 1, 17 16. He was a
farmer and lived in North Reading on the
homestead with his father. He was in the
French war, and was shot by an Indian, in
township No. 4, now Charlestown, New
Hampshire. He married. May 25, 1738, Abi-
gail, daughter of Henry and Sarah Sawyer.
Children: Abigail, born March 9, 1739; Dan-
iel, July 30, 1740; Ebenezer, June 17, 1742,
mentioned below ; Abigail, June 30, 1744 : Ben-
jamin, March 12, 1746.

(V) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2)
Flint, was born in North Reading, June 17,
1742, died in Wilton, New Hampshire, April
29, 1829. He was a soldier in the revolution
in the Third Reading Company/ Captain John
Flint, Colonel David Green, at Lexington, and
afterward ; also in Captain Jesse Upton's com-
pany, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment,
1777. He was a farmer, and lived in North
Reading until 1802, when he removed to Wil-
ton. He married (first) June 7, 1764, Asse-
nath Holt, born March 31. 1744, died Decern-

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ber 8, 1786. He married (second) Novem-
ber 27, 1789, Mrs. Mary Taylor, whose maiden
name was Damon. She was born October 11,
1753, died March 20, 1844. Children of first
wife: Ebenezer, born May 13, 1765, men-
tioned below ; Daniel, March 27, 1767 ; Asse-
nath, March 4, 1769; Nabby, June 30, 1771 ;
Ephraim, September 4, 1773 ; John, April 4,
1776, died September 4, 1778; Amos, April
16, 1778; John, February 23, 1780; Phebe,
May 4, 1782, died August 30, 1797. Children
by second wife: Samuel (twin), May 2,
1 79 1 ; Lucinda (twin) ; Abner, October 20,
1796.

( \ I) Ebenezer (4), son of Ebenezer (3)
Flint, was born in North Reading, May 13,
1765, died March 24, 1833. He was a farmer
and lived in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
He married, March 14, 1793, Dorcas Lufkin,
who died in Nashua, March, 1848. Children:
Ebenezer, born December 19, 1793; John, De-
cember 24, 1795; Dorcas, November 11, 1797;
Henry, February 2, 1801, mentioned below;
Isaac, March 29, 1803, died September, 1804;
Isaac, March 20, 1805 ; Mary Lufkin, July 31,
1807 : Charles, November 14, 1809 ; Eliza Das-
comb (twin), July 30, 1812, died in 1815;
Sarah Barnes (twin), died in 1817; Abigail,
December 5, 1814.

(VII) Henry, son of Ebenezer (4) Flint,
was born at Hillsborough, New Hampshire,
February 2, 1801, died April 27, 1847, at
Woburn, Massachusetts. He was born and
reared on a farm, and when a young man
engaged in the trucking business in Boston.
He helped to draw the lumber of which the
famous Long Wharf, Boston, was built.
Afterward he bought a farm at North Woburn
and settled there, but died soon. He was a
member of the Methodist church, and in poli-
tics was a Republican. He married, April
14, 1833, Mary Watson, of Brookline, Massa-
chusetts, born August 19, 1803, at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, and resided until 1840 in Bos-
ton ; died in 1882 at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
\\ here she is buried in Mountain Grove ceme-
tery. Children: 1. Mary Eliza, born Sep-
tember 19, 1835. died September 27, 1848. 2.
Henry Isaac, February 5, 1838, mentioned be-
low. 3. Abbie Maria. December 8, 1839 ;
married, July 6. 1865. John Henry Linscott,
an ensign in the United States navy, who
died February 26, 1904: children: George
Henry, born April 7, 1866; Mary Lizzie. Sep-
tember 7. 1867. died August 26. 1868; Charles
W., May 9, 1869 : Florence May, May 2, 1873 '•
all born at Woburn. 4. Charles Flint, Decem-
ber 14, 1842, died July 27, 1844. 5. Thomas
Watson, November 28, 1844: married, in
1867, Emma J. Linscott; children: Lucy Isa-

belle, born 1867; Harry Watson, 1871 : Ger-
trude ; the family lives at Bridgeport.

(VIII) Henry Isaac, son of Henry Flint,.
was born February 5, 1838, on Hanover street,
Boston. He moved to Woburn with his-
father's family and lived there until he was
of age, attending the public schools there.
He was but nine years old when his father
died and he had to begin work at that age ;
he was employed first by John S. Perry, of
Wilmington, Massachusetts, and after leaving"
his employ lived for three years with Asa G.
Sheldon, one of the first agriculturists in the
state of Massachusetts. He then went to»
work on the Boston & Maine railroad, on re-
pairs, remaining two years. He then learned
the trade of tanner and currier, and after
acquiring this knowledge took up his residence
in Connecticut, and then became acquainted
with Mr. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis & Willett,
stone cutters, for whom he worked during the
winter ; in the spring he entered the employ
of John Shelton at Bulls Head as manager of
a farm, receiving twenty dollars a month and
board, this being the highest price paid at
that time in this section, but his employer
never had cause to regret hiring Mr. Flint,
who remained with him eight months. From
that time until the civil war he was employed
in road-making and painting. He enlisted in
the First Cavalry Regiment of Connecticut
for three years and at the expiration of his
term of service re-enlisted and served in all
four years, remaining until close of war. He
was promoted to company commissary and
later regimental commissary sergeant, and
was discharged with this rank. After he was
mustered out he followed house painting for a
year and the trucking business three years.
1 Te then purchased a cigar and tobacco store
in Bridgeport and conducted it successfully
until he retired in 1907. While engaged in
this line of work he became a successful
operator in real estate; he purchased four
thousand, six hundred acres of land in West
Virginia at ten cents an acre and sold part of
it at a profit of twenty thousand dollars ; built
the Mountain House, which he operated some
years, and here he kept a herd of sixty head
of cattle, two hundred sheep and forty hogs.
He disposed of the property in 1904. He is
a member of Elias Howe Post, Grand Army
of the Republic and of Harris Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bridge-
port. In politics he is a Republican. He
resides in Fairfield.

He married (first), October 26, 1867, Lottie
C, born March 6. 1852. died July 3, 1878,
daughter of Edmund Kent. He married
1 second) November 4, 1879, Mrs. Louis

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Scheuch, nee Josephine Caroline Kurt, born
in Plainfield, New Jersey. Children of first
wife were: I. Lewis Henry, born July 1 1,
1868, died aged three months. 2. Susie Irene,
June 15, 1871, died April 19, 1908; married
George Robertson, of Bridgeport ; child, Char-
lotte Marguerite, born July 2. 1892. 3. Char-
lotte M., January 27, 1873, died September
:5- I8/3- 4- Glendora, September 28, 1874;
lives at home. 5. Henry Sylvester, July 5,
1876, lives in Bridgeport ; married Jessie
Gregory, December 1, 1899; children: Henry
Thomas, born April to, 1900, and Esther
Kent, born November, 1910. Child of second
wife : 6. Joseph Isaac, born September 18,
1880, an attorney at law and now town clerk
and tax collector of Fairfield ; married, No-
vember 30, 1908, Clara Middlebrook, and they
have one child, Retha Middlebrook, born Feb-
ruary 26, 1910.

The name Preston is of great
PRESTON antiquity in North Britain and

was assumed by the family
from territorial possessions in Midlothian in
the time of Malcolm, King of Scots. Leol-
phus De Preston of the time of William the
Lion in 1040 was grandfather of Sir William
De Preston, one of the Scotch noblemen sum-
moned to Berwick by Edward I. in the com-
petition for the Crown of Scotland between
Bruce and Baliol, the decision having been
referred to Edward. After the death of
Alexander III. in 1291, this Sir William De
Preston was succeeded by bis son, Nicol de
Preston, one of the Scottish barons who
swore fealty to King Edward I. He died in
the beginning of the reign of David II. of
Scotland, son of Robert Bruce, and was suc-
ceeded by his son, Sir Lawrence De Preston,
avIio, in turn, was succeeded by Richard De
Preston, who was seated at Preston Richard
in Westmoreland in the time of Henry II.
Sir Ricbard De Preston, fifth in descent from
the above, Richard of Preston Richard, repre-
sented the county of Westmoreland in parlia-
ment in the seventeenth year of Edward III.
His son. Sir Richard De Preston, had like-
wise the honor of being Knight of the Shire
for Westmoreland in the same reign, twenty-
seventh, Edward III., and in the same year,
1368, obtained license to empark five hundred
acres. His successor was Sir John De Pres-
ton, of Preston Richard and Preston Patrick,
and was member of parliament for Westmore-
land in the thirty-sixth, thirty-ninth and forty-
sixth years of Edward III. His son Richard
had no male issue ; his son John was judge of
the court of common pleas in the reigns of
Henry IV. and VI. and retired from the bench

in consequence of great age in 1427. Children
of Judge John : Rev. John ; Richard, his heir ;
and a daughter.

(I) The American line is undoubtedly of
this family and is traced to George Preston,
of Valley Field, who was created a baronet of
Nova Scotia in 1637. Children: George, had
a son Major William, who died in 1637 ;
William, mentioned below.

(II) William, son of George Preston, mar-
ried Anna Saunders and lived in England in
the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., dying
April 23, 1685. Children: William, left no
male issue : Richard, took the title ; had a son
William who inherited it ; Ellen ; Alice ; John,
mentioned below.

(Ill) John, son of William Preston, had
two sons : William, mentioned below ; John,
had a son William, who died without issue in
1729; was Lord Bishop of Fernsborough ;
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

(TV) William (2), son of John Preston,
came to this country from Yorkshire in 1635
with wife Mary and six children and settled
at New Haven, Connecticut. The settlement
of his estate, January 4, 1639, shows that he
owned real estate in Yorkshire, England.
Children : Edward ; Daniel ; Eliasaph ; Sarah ;
Mary ; John, of New Haven ; Jeheil, born
\< 140, lived at Stratfield ; Joseph, born 1646;
Hackaliab, mentioned below ; Eliasaph, twin
of Hackaliah, 1650.

(V) Hackaliah, son of William (2) Pres-
ton, was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
about 1650, died November 20, 1692. He mar-
ried, April 20. 1676, Emma Fairchild, of
Stratfield. They settled at Woodbury, Con-
necticut. Children, born there: William,
March 21, 1676-77, mentioned below; Hannah,
baptized August, 1680; Lydia, baptized No-
vember, 1682 ; Sarah, baptized November,
1683; Jebiel, baptized October, 1686: Emma,
March, 1688; Remember, baptized October,
1691.

(VI) Hon. William (3) Preston, son of
Hackaliah Preston, was born at Woodbury,
March 21, 1676-77. He married, June, 1705,
Martha, daughter of John Judson. She died
September 5, 1754. Children, born at Wood-
bury : Samuel, February 25, 1706, died
March 10, 1706: Elizabeth, February 21, 1707;
Martha, April 23, 1709; Sarah, September 9,
1711 ; Hannah, December 18, 1713 ; Emma,
February 17, 1716; Seth, November 24, 1718;
Mary, August 6, 1721 ; Esther, March 20,
1725 ; Jebiel, November 8, 1727, mentioned
below ; Ruth, Tulv 28, 1730.

(VII) Jebiel, 'son of Hon. William (3)
Preston, was born at Woodbury, November
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was an active patriot during the revolution
and served on the town committee to provide
for the families of soldiers who were fighting
in the American army. He married Betterus
.Mitchell, who died January 24, 1795, aged
sixty-five. Children, born at Woodbury :
Jehiel, January 16, 1754, died young; Nathan,
April 20. 1756; Martha. August 29. 1758;
Jehiel, February 15, 1761, mentioned below;
Sarah, June 29, 1763, died young; Esther,
April 17, 1766; Ruth, August 14, 1769; Sarah,
baptized January 8, 1775.

(VIII) Jehiel (2), son of Jehiel (1) Pres-
ton, was born at Woodbury, February 15,
1761, died there October 29, 1847. He mar-
ried there Anna Terrill, who died July 12,
1 85 1, aged eighty-seven. Children, born at
Woodbury: Nathaniel, November 25, 1785,
mentioned below; Flora, July 17, 1787, mar-
ried John Strong; Julia, July 25, 1791 ; James,
July 31, 1796.

(IX) Nathaniel, son of Jehiel (2) Pres-
ton, was born at Woodbury, November 25,
1785. He was educated in the district schools.
He settled in Woodbury and became a well-
to-do farmer. He was captain of a company
in the war of 1812. In religion he was a
Congregationalist. He married Maria Ham-
mond. Children, born at Woodbury : Bennett
H., died young; Bennett S., a merchant of
Roxbury, Connecticut, married C. Elizabeth
Whittlesey : Maria H., married Robert C.
Lawson ; Nathan H., mentioned below, the
only one living.

(X) Nathan Hammond, son of Nathaniel
Preston, was born at Woodbury, in 1825.
He lived and worked during his boyhood on
the old homestead where his ancestors settled
and he was born. He attended the district
schools for a short time, but was in the main
educated through his own study and observa-
tion. He was with his father until he came
of age. At that time his father died, having
just built a new house, and the son being
unwilling to assume the farm and its encum-
brance, the place was sold. He went to work
for his brother, who had a general store, and,
though his wages for the first year amounted
to but seventy-five dollars, he gained a busi-
ness education that stood by him through a
long and interesting business life. From the
fact that most of the business was done on a
basis of barter instead of cash, Nathan R.
Smith, a cattle dealer, became interested in
him and he sent him out one day to buy cattle
for him. and in this first trip he bought three
hundred and forty head of cattle and three
horses, bringing the entire herd back safely to
Roxbury, reaping a very large profit. He
continued in business after that. He became

well known to all the farmers and stock raisers
of this section of the country, and was given
the entire confidence and esteem of all with
whom he did business. Among his various
business transactions, on one trip to buy cattle,
he brought back one hundred and fourteen
steers and was offered a profit of a thousand
dollars on the lot, but refused. The panic of
1857 came on, the banks, manufacturers and
merchants failed and business was prostrate.
I fe was out of business for a time, and
later bought a small restaurant in Seymour
and conducted it for three years. He sold
this business and accepted a position as mes-
senger for the Merchants Express Union of
New Haven, running on the line to New
York. About a year later the business was
sold out and he took a position as messenger
on the lines to Hartford and Winsted, Con-
necticut, and afterward to Winsted, on the
Naugatuck railroad, remaining in the latter
position twenty years. In the course of his
business, he noted an opportunity to buy vege-
tables and produce along the line of the rail-
road, shipping it to points on the Naugatuck
railroad. He built up a profitable business in
this way and continued with much success
until 1 89 1, when he retired. He has made
his home in Bridgeport since 1873. He never *
lost his appreciation of a good horse and
usually owned one of the best. He was a
member of no secret orders.

He married, in 1868, at Hartford, Agnes,
born at Enfield, Connecticut, daughter of Wil-
liam Hamilton, born 1804 in Scotland, died
1871 at Hartford; married, in 1830, Rhoda
Saunders ; children : Thomas Hamilton, born
1832, lives at Hartford ; Henry Hamilton,
died from exposure in the civil war in 1867,
aged thirty-one ; Mary Hamilton ; Agnes
Ilamilton, mentioned above ; Martha Ham-
ilton ; William Hamilton ; Margaret Hamil-
ton, lives at Flushing, Long Island.
Mr. Hamilton was a weaver by trade; he
came from Scotland and after working at his
trade for a time at Thompsonville, Connecti-
cut, he came to Hartford, where he spent
most of his later years. Children of Nathan
Hammond Preston : child, died young ; Wil-
liam Hamilton, died aged thirty-two, in 1905 ;
was a journalist by profession.

Henry Rowland, immigrant
ROWLAND ancestor, was born in Eng-
land and settled in Fairfield,
Connecticut. In 1649-50 he bought John
Grey's lot on the Foster Square. He became
a dividend land owner in the town and for
some years kept an ordinary there. He died
in 1691. His will was dated October 30, 1690,

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when he describes himself as "well-stricken in
years." His wife Rebecca was executrix.
Children : Joseph, mentioned below ; Jona-
than, married Abigail Barlow ; Israel ; Henry,
died in 1691 ; Elizabeth, married Sergeant
John Wheeler ; Abigail, married Thomas
Jones ; Rebecca, married Ebenezer Smith ;
Mary, married Daniel Frost.

(II) Joseph, son of Henry Rowland, set-
tled in Greenfield, Connecticut. He had his
share of his father's estate before the will was
made. He married Sarah, daughter of An-
thony Wilson. The older children were not
baptized until they became of age. When
Greenfield parish was formed in 1726 he and
his second wife Abigail "covenanted and were
baptized the same year." He was a petit
juror in the witchcraft case against Mary Dis-
borough. Children : Sarah, baptized April
24, 1726, adult; Mary; Hannah; Deborah,
baptized and covenanted with Mary, Joseph
and Hannah, June 26, 1726. Joseph, men-
tioned below ; Israel ; Samuel ; James ; Henry,
baptized November 16, 17 12.

(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Row-
land, was born in Greenfield, a part of Fair-
field, Connecticut, about 1700. He settled in

his native town and married Sarah .

Children, born at Fairfield : Sarah, baptized
April 24, 1746; Abigail, baptized April 24,
1746; Hannah, baptized in infancy; Joseph,
mentioned below ; Jeremiah, born September
12. 1748; Daniel, April, 1750; Jeremiah, July

30, 1758.

(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Row-
land, was baptized August 11, 1746. He lived
in Fairfield, perhaps in Redding.

(V) Israel, son of Joseph (3) Rowland,
was living in Redding in 1790, according to
the first federal census, and had in his family
one son under sixteen and two females. He
had a son Joseph, mentioned below.

(VI) Joseph (4), son of Israel Rowland,
was born about 1800, or later, died in 1843.
He was a ship builder all his life. He lived
for a time at Port Jefferson, New York, but
spent his last days in Setauket, Long Island,
near Port Jefferson. He built a number of
ships, some having very high reputations for
workmanship and speed. He married Esther
McGiveny, an only child. Children : Joseph
Edwin, mentioned below ; Theodocia Eliza-
beth; Charles, deceased; Messalina Esther;
Evelina Virginis; Mary Augusta; Alzina
Aurelia.

(VII) Joseph Edwin, son of Joseph (4)
Rowland, was born May 12, 1840, at Jersey
City, New Jersey, died September 26, 1872,
at Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated in
the public schools of Setauket, Long Island,

and at Danbury, Connecticut, where he went
to live with an uncle, Alfred Darling, his
father having died when he was but three
years old. He learned the trade of shipwright
at his father's shipyard at Setauket, Long
Island. He worked at this trade all his life. He
finally determined to go south in the winter and
made a trip to see how the climate would agree
with him. He returned north for the summer
and in the following fall went again and built
a house and moved there, intending to build
a shipyard and establish his business there.
But his death cut short a promising career.
He took no active part in politics.

He married, October 12, 1870, at Brooklyn,
ceremony performed by Rev. Erastus Sey-
mour, Sarah Lucy Curtis, born May 8, 1840,
at Rose Valley, Wayne county. New York,
daughter of Isaac Curtis, who was born in
Bridgeport, died in Rose Valley ; married
Clarissa Soper, a native of Long Island.
Isaac Curtis was a shoemaker in Bridgeport
and in Rose Valley, New York, and in later
life a farmer. His father was Ira Curtis,
also of Bridgeport. Children of Isaac Curtis :
Ann Maria ; Sarah Lucy, married Joseph Ed-
win Rowland, mentioned above ; Ira, married
Maggie E. Ledger, and lives at Cleveland,
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland had one child,
Clara Esther, born August 31, 1871, married
John A. Morgan, of Trumbull, who is now a
farmer in Indiana ; child, Maurice E. Morgan,
born December 2, 1894, in Jacksonville, Flor-
ida. Mrs. Rowland is a member of the Metho-
dist church.

The Knapp family originated in
KNAPP the province of Saxony, Ger-
many. The English family has
been traced to county Sussex, in the fifteenth
century. In 1540 a Roger Knapp dis-
tinguished himself at a tournament held at
Norfolk, England, and was specially honored
by Henry V. and granted a coat-of-arms. In
1630 three brothers came to this country.
Nicholas, mentioned below ; Roger, who settled
in New Haven and Fairfield, Connecticut ;
William, born in Sussex in 1570, settled at
Watertown, where he died August 30, 1659, a
carpenter by trade.

•(I) Nicholas Knapp, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came to America
in the fleet with Winthrop and Saltonstall in
1630. He settled in Watertown, Massachu-
setts. He sold his lands and rights at Water-
town, May 6, 1646, and removed to Stamford,
Connecticut, where he died in April, 1670.

He married (first) Elinor , who died

August 16, 1658. He married (second) 1659,
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before that of Clement Buxton ; she died April,
1670. Children, born in Watertown, by first
wife: Jonathan, buried December 27, 1631 ;
Timothy, born December 14, 1632 ; Joshua,
January 5, 1634; Caleb, January 20, 1636;
Sarah, January 5, 1638; Ruth, January 6,
1640; Hannah, March 6, 1643; children, born
in Stamford : Moses, mentioned below ;
Lydia.

(II) Moses, son of Nicholas Knapp, was
born in Stamford about 1645. He was of
Stamford as early as 1667 and probably lived
there all his life. His father left him land in
his will. He married (first) in Stamford,
October 30, 1668, Elizabeth Crissey. He mar-
ried (second) Abigail, daughter of Richard
Wescoat. Children : Elizabeth, born Septem-
ber 7, 1690; Moses, mentioned below; prob-
ably other children.

(III) Moses (2), son of Moses (1) Knapp,
was born about 1700-10. He married, No-
vember 25, 1731, Jemima Weed. Children,
born at Stamford: Jemima, January 9, 1733;
Ebenezer, August 4, 1734, mentioned below ;
Moses, June 5, 1735 ; Abraham, December 28,
1736; Tamsen, July 28, 1738; Jabez, June 24,
1741 ; Phebe, June 19, 1743 ; Sarah, August
2, 1745; Jane, March 3, 1747-48; Isaac, April

1, I750-

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Moses (2) Knapp,
was born August 4, 1734. He married and
had a son, Ebenezer.

(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
Knapp, was born at Stratfield, June 25, 1755.

He married Mary , born 1758. He was

a farmer on the old homestead.

(VI) Robert, son of Ebenezer (2) Knapp,
was born at Stratfield, June 10, 1781. He
married Sally Wilson. Children : Mahala
W., born July 10, 1804, died 1804 ; Emeline
W., May 18, 1807, never married ; Robert W.,
September 19, 181 1; Seth Silliman Wilson,
January 24, 1814, mentioned below ; Iverson
Wilson, September 16, 1816; Mahala W., No-
vember 28, 1818, married Andrew Jennings;
William, April 12, 1822: Albert Wilson, De-
cember 10, 1823 ; all now deceased.

(VII) Seth Silliman Wilson, son of Robert
Knapp. was born in Stratfield, January 24,
1814, died at Bridgeport at the age of eighty-
four years. He attended the public schools at
Stratfield and learned the trade of carriage-
maker. He worked at his trade in New
Haven and Bridgeport. He was in the cus-
tom house in New York many years, retiring
in 1864. He was highly esteemed in the
community. He was charitable and upright,
honest and honorable in all the relations of
life, and a good citizen, interested in the af-
fairs of the town but never seeking political

honors. He was a member of the Odd Fel-
lows Lodge and of Christ Church. He mar-
ried, at New Haven, Harriet, daughter of
James and Mary Cannon. James Cannon was
a prominent importer of dry goods in New
York City, and died there. Cannon street,
New York City was named after this family.
Children : James A., died aged forty-eight ;
Harriet C, married William Sutton, of New
York, died in Bridgeport; Helen F., resides
in Bridgeport ; Adah C., resides with sister.

Xicholas Knapp, immigrant an-
KNAPP cestor, was born in England and

came about 1630 to Massachu-
setts with Winthrop. He settled at Water-
town. He sold land and privileges there May
6, 1646. His wife Eleanor died August 16,
1658, and he married (second) March 9, 1659,
Unity Brown, widow of Peter Brown and for-
merly widow of Clement Buxton. He died in
April, 1670. His will bequeaths to four sons
and four daughters. Children : Jonathan, bur-
ied December 27, 163 1 ; Timothy, born De-
cember 14, 1632; Joshua, January 5, 1635;
Caleb, mentioned below ; Sarah, January 5,
1639; Ruth, January 6, 1641 ; Hannah, No-
vember 6, 1643 > Moses ; Lydia.

(II) Caleb, son of Nicholas Knapp, was
born at Watertown, January 20, 1637. He set-
tled at Stamford, Connecticut. His will was
dated December 11, 1674. He was admitted a
freeman in 1670. He married Hannah — — .
Children, born at Stamford: Caleb, Novem-
ber 24, 1661 ; John, mentioned below ; Moses ;
Samuel ; Sarah ; Hannah.

(III) John, son of Caleb Knapp, was born
July 25, 1664, at Stamford. He married, June
10, 1692, Hannah Ferris. Children, born at
Stamford : Samuel, August 27, 1695 ; John,
August 14, 1697; Hannah, March 10, 1698-99;
Peter, August 5, 1701 ; Charles, May 9, 1703 ;
Deborah, June 28, 1705 ; Moses, mentioned
below.

(IV) Moses, son of John Knapp, was born
at Stamford, August 6, 1709. He married,
November 25, 1731. Jemima Weed. Chil-
dren, born at Stamford : Jemima, January 9,
J732-33; Ebenezer, August 4, 1734; Moses,
June 5, 1736; Abraham, December 28, 1737;
Tamsen, July 28, 1739; Jabez. June 24, 1741 ;
Phebe. Tune 19, 1743; Sarah, August 2, 1745;
Jane, March 3, 1747-48 ; Isaac, mentioned be-
low.

(V) Isaac, son of Moses Knapp, was born
at Stamford, April 14, 1750.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Knapp,
was born about 1775. He married Thirza
Lockwood, daughter of Josiah (6), son of
John (5), John (4), Joseph (3), Jonathan

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(2), Robert Lockwood (1). He settled in
Norfolk, Connecticut.

(VII) Lockwood, son of Isaac (2) Knapp,
was born about 1800, in Norfolk, Connecticut.
He was a farmer and lived and died in Nor-
folk, Connecticut. He married Charlotte
Walker. Children : Henry, Samuel, Isaac,
Sarah, Boughton.

( Y1II) Isaac (3), son of Lockwood Knapp,
was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, July 10,
1843. He removed to Stratford, Connecticut,
and followed farming. During the civil war
he served in the Second Connecticut Regi-
ment, Heavy Artillery, for three years. He
married, in 1863, Jane Sullivan, who was born
in Ireland and came to America when young;
botb living. Children: 1. Boughton D., born
in Norfolk, July 31, 1866; a machinist in
Torrington, married Mary Deland. 2. George
H., born in Massachusetts, died in 1906; was
a mechanic and hotel proprietor. 3. Benjamin
Isaac, born in Norfolk, April 27, 1870; lived
in Norfolk and North Marlborough, Massa-
chusetts, until ten years old, then at Torring-
ton, Connecticut, where he attended the public
schools and learned the trade of machinist ;
came to Bridgeport from Torrington in 1900;
was assistant superintendent of the Union
Typewriter Company factory two years ; since
1902 he has been in charge of the works of
the Blickensderfer Typewriter Company at
Stamford ; he is a Republican, Free Mason,
Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and member
of the Baptist church of Stamford ; married
Alice Cargill, July 4, 1895 ; children, born in
Torrington : Howard Monroe, born October
4. [896; Stewart Benjamin, born September 22,
1898. 4. Elizabeth, married, July 11, 1894,
Fayette C. Clark, of Bridgeport.

firm conducted a general grocery and bakery.
After this firm was dissolved, Mr. Sutton
established a grocery and bakery business on
his own account at Stratford. Some years
later Mr. Sutton sold this business and es-
tablished a drug store, which he conducted
successfully for ten years at Stratford. Then
his health failed, and he sold out and went
south, but with no benefit to his health, and
he died there. He was an active and useful
citizen and served the town in various offices
of trust and honor. He was town clerk for a
time and justice of the peace. In religion
he was a Methodist and for a number of
years was superintendent of the Sunday
school. In politics he was a staunch Repub-
lican.

He married, November 28, 1844, Sarah
Ann, born at Stratford, June 6, 1825, daugh-
ter of Alden Russell, who followed the sea all
his life. She is now living at 662 Park ave-
nue, Bridgeport. Children: 1. Edwin Allen,
died aged one month. 2. Nellie Frances, mar-
ried Samuel S. Zella, born at Hagerstown,
Maryland, son of Samuel and grandson of
Daniel Zella, of an ancient Swiss family ;
children : i. Anna Russell Zella, married Carl
J. Hazelton ; two children : Carl Russell and
Ruth Frances Hazelton ; ii. Allen Sutton
Zella ; iii. Bessie May Zella. Mrs. Herrick
Allen Sutton's adopted daughter married
Charles E. Hubbell, who died in 1892 ; had
five children: Elbert Allen, Louis Howard,
Nellie Sutton, Carrie Bell, Marguerite Eliz-
abeth.

Roswell Sutton was a native of
SUTTON Pompey, New York, where he

was a well-to-do-farmer. He
married Nancy Atwell, who lived and died at
Pompey. Children: Oran, Alvin, Lyra, He-
man, I uman, Nathaniel, Roxanna, Julia, Char-
lotte, Hiram, Herrick Allen, mentioned below,
Alden.

(IT) Herrick Allen, son of Roswell Sut-
ton, was born in Pompey, New York, in 1820,
died at Hagerstown, Maryland, buried at
Stratford. Connecticut, in 1882. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
town. During his boyhood he worked on his
father's farm. When a young man he came
to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he was en-
gaged first as clerk with W. A. Gregory, in
the grocery business ; later in business for
a time with Levi Parrott, and afterward with
his brother in law. Chester Russell. The

Fletcher is an ancient Span-
FLETCHER ish surname, meaning an ar-
row maker. The origin of
the family is traced to Burgundy. The pro-
genitor in England came with the Earl of
Richmond in the latter part of the thirteenth
century, with two other nobles, from Chillon,
now in Switzerland, Portier, whose name be-
came spelled Porter, and Granson. whose de-
scendants spell the name Grandison. De la
Flechiere was the original spelling of the
Fletcher surname. The ancient coat-of-arms
was : Sable, a cross flory between four scal-
lop shells argent.

(I) Robert Fletcher, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England in 1592. According to
an old family tradition he came from York-
shire, one of the northern counties. He set-
tled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1630, and
became a wealthy and influential citizen. He
was appointed constable by the general court
for the town of Concord. He removed to
Cbelmsford and was one of the citizens who
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the members of the Wenham church to re-
move to Chelmsford. He died at Concord,
April 3, 1677, aged eighty-five. His will was
dated February 4, 1672. He committed his
wife to the care of his son Francis and his
wife, bequeathed to his sons Francis, William
and Samuel. The inventory of his estate is
dated May 12, 1677. Children: 1. Luke,
born in England. 2. William, see forward.

3. Cary, a daughter. 4. Samuel, born in Con-
cord, Massachusetts, 1632 ; admitted a free-
man, March 21, 1689-90. He settled in that
part of Chelmsford now known as Westford,
and died December 9, 1697. He married, Oc-
tober 14, 1659, Margaret Hailston, and had
children: Samuel, born about 1661, married,
June 7, 1692, Mary Cotton, of Concord ;
Sarah, born August 24, 1663 ; Hannah, born
September 14, 1666; Lydia, born September
26, 1669; William, born January 1, 1 671, mar-
ried, December 10, 1701, Mary , and died

about 1743. 5. Francis, born in Concord,
1636.

(II) Ensign William Fletcher, son of Rob-
ert Fletcher, was born in England in 1622,
and came with his father to Concord, Massa-
chusetts, when he was eight years of age.
He was admitted a freeman, at Concord, May
10. 1643.

He married, October 7, 1645, Lydia Bates,
of Concord, and in 1653 settled in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts, of which he was one of the
first inhabitants, and in which he held the of-
fice of selectman, being first chosen Novem-
ber 22, 1654, at a town meeting in his own
house. In 1673 ne was appointed commis-
sioner for Chelmsford. His land embraced
what is now the city of Lowell, and a part
of his land, a farm near the meeting house,
remains in the possession of his descendants.
He died November 6, 1677. His widow,
Lydia, died October 12, 1704. Children: 1.
Lydia, born at Concord, January 30, 1647 1
married Rev. John Fiske. 2. Joshua. March
30, 1648. 3. Paul, married Deliverance Steven.

4. Sarah. 5. William, February 21, 1657. 6.
Mary, Chelmsford, October 4, 1658. 7. Es-
ther, Chelmsford, April 12, 1663. 8. Samuel,
see forward.

(III) Samuel, son of Ensign William and
Lydia (Bates) Fletcher, was born at Chelms-
ford, Massachusetts, July 23, 1664. He was
admitted a freeman. March II, 1689. He mar-
ried (first) Hannah , who died Decem-
ber it. 1697; (second) June 7, 1699, at Con-
cord, Sarah Bale, who died April 29, 1703 ;
(third) at Concord, December 20, 1708, Eliz-
abeth Proctor, of that town. Children, born at
Chelmsford: Samuel, see forward; Sarah,
Rosanna ; Lydia ; Isaac, born August 27, 1694 ;

William, born October 23, 1673; Mary, born
February 1, 1686; Elizabeth; Hannah.

(IV) Captain Samuel (2), son of Samuel
(1) and Hannah Fletcher, was born at
Chelmsford, September 5, 1684, and married

Hannah . The part of the town in

which he lived and in which his children were
born became Westford in 1729. Children:
Samuel, born March 17, 1713, died young;
Jacob, March 17, 1715, died February 26,
1716; David, see forward; Hannah, born No-
vember 9, 1718; Elizabeth, March 9, 1719-20;
Samuel, April 20, 1722; Susannah, December
29, 1723 ; Jacob, April 4, 1725 ; John, married
Parkhurst ; Abigail.

(V) David, son of Captain Samuel (2) and
Hannah Fletcher, was born November 9, 1718.
He married Mary Butterfield. Children, born
at Westford: Oliver, September 25, 1743;
Samuel, October 13, 1745, see forward; Jo-
anna, June 21, 1747; Willard, August 21,
1749 ; David, June 8, 1752 ; Jeremiah, April
9, 1756 ; Andrew, March 25, 1761.

(VI). Samuel (3), son of David and Mary
(Butterfield) Fletcher, was born at Westford,
October 13, 1745, and settled at Hollis, New
Hampshire. He married, January 15, 1771,
Olive Wright. Children : Mary, born at
Westford, November 8, 1771 ; Samuel, West-
ford, June 6, 1773: Benjamin, see forward;
Olive, Westford, October 14, 1776; Joel,
Ashby, October 18, 1779; Isaac, Ashby, No-
vember 15, 1782; Amos, October 29, 1784.

(VII) Benjamin, second son and third child
of Samuel (3) and Olive (Wright) Fletcher,
was born at Westford, November 28, 1774.
He married Abigail Kittridge. Children : Abi-
gail, born June 18, 1805 ; Benjamin, see for-
ward ; John; Almira, October, 181 1; William
K., May 20, 1817, died young.

(VIII) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Ben-
jamin (1) and Abigail (Kittridge) Fletcher,
was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, Febru-
ary 4, 1807, died in Chester, Vermont, in
1897. ^n early manhood he went to Acworth.
New Hampshire, from there to Lempster.
and subsequently to Nashua, New Hampshire,
where he resided for many years. Still later
he removed to Chester, Vermont, where his
death occurred. In his early years he was a
carpenter, but his later years were devoted to
farming. He married, May 25, 1830, Mrs.
Lucinda Clark, of Acworth, New Hampshire.
Children : Maryetta. born in Acworth, April
n, 1831, died in Indiana; Lydia, Acworth,
August 18, 1832, died in Goshen, New Llamp-
shire ; Catherine E., Sutton, Vermont, August
25< t835 ; Benjamin, see forward; Carlos
Coolidge, Lempster, New Hampshire, Febru-
ary 14, 1839; Lucius Chase, Lempster, New

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Hampshire, December 30, 1840, deceased ; Jos- the front, and Mr. Fletcher was then chosen
•eph W., Nashua, New Hampshire, January foreman. The Niagara Rifles were formed
30, 1843, killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, mainly from this company. In 1872 he was
June 1, 1864; Elbridge N., Nashua, New elected chief of the department during" the ad-
Hampshire, August 11, 1845, died there. ministration of Mayor Chandler, and was re-
(IX) Benjamin (3), eldest son of Benja- elected the following year under Mayor F. A.
min (2) and Lucinda (Clark) Fletcher, was McKeon. In 1878 he was again chief and he
born at Westmore, Vermont, June 4, 1837. He held the position until he was elected to the
removed to Nashua, New Hampshire, with his office of mayor.

father's family in 1842, and was educated A Nashua writer pays this tribute to Mr.
in the public schools and at Crosby's Private Fletcher: "Apropos of Mr. Fletcher's suc-
Academy. He was employed in various posi- cess in public and business life, it is fitting
tions in the lower mills at Nashua for several to mention briefly the underlying causes that
years, and in 1854 entered the employ of the have been potential in bringing about the result.
Nashua Iron and Steel Company. Beginning Being possessed naturally of a sympathetic tem-
.at the lowest round of the ladder he made perament and understanding thoroughly the
rapid progress upward ; at the age of twenty- needs and weaknesses of his workmen from
five years he was a master hammerman for years of actual experience, he has always ob-
this concern, later filled the position of fore- tained and merited the respect and esteem of
man of the hammer department, and was ac- the many employes that have labored under
lively engaged in the management of the busi- his direction. The fact was unmistakably evi-
ness. His connection with this company was denced by his election to the mayoralty, when
an uninterrupted one for a period of twenty- the workmen, without respect to party affilia-
seven years, during which time he was in- tions, supported him unitedly at the polls. Al-
strumental in bringing its business to large ways upright and conscientious, he was never
proportions and placing it upon a sound finan- swerved from what he considered the path of
cial basis, and it was largely owing to his rectitude and unselfish duty, even when the
good judgment and discretion that the com- consequences of his action fell upon himself,
pany weathered the troublous times of panic As chief engineer his efficiency was manifested
and business depression. Prominent as was not only by his excellent management of
the standing of Mr. Fletcher in the business fires, but also by his successful efforts in ob-
■circles of Nashua, his place in its political taining permanently beneficial improvements,
■circles was on a par with it, and his voice During his term the modern post hydrant was
was an influential one in arriving at important substituted for the old-fashioned underground
decisions. His affiliations in politics have style so long in use, and to his efforts is the
been with the Republican party, and his career city chiefly indebted for the improved hy-
has been a distinguished one. As early as draulic service now enjoyed. By letters,
1868 he was elected to the common council speeches and public exhibitions on Main street,
of Nashua from ward four, and in 1869 was he proved conclusively the utter inadequacy of
elected president of the board. In 1881 and the water supply to the city need, a condition
1882 he was mayor of the city, and his admin- of affairs soon recognized by the water com-
istration was notable for its economy and pro- pany and which they were not slow to rem-
gressiveness. From 1882 until he left the city edy. In 1883 Mr. Fletcher was called from
he served as a member of the board of edu- Nashua, New Hampshire, to Bridgeport, Con-
cation. His popularity in Nashua was ex- necticut, to take the position of superintendent
ceeded by that of no other man at that time, of the Bridgeport Forge Company, and super-
In the fire department he had been in active intended the erection of this plant in the West
service twenty-one years, and as its chief was end, Bridgeport, the erection of which was the
well known throughout New England. He means of building up that part of the city be-
joined the Nashua fire department in 185 1 as yond Howard avenue. He was later made
a torch boy for Tiger Company No. 2, and in treasurer and general manager of this con-
1855 became a regular member of Niagara cern. In addition to this, in 1886, he became
Company, No. 5, under Chief Franklin Mun- one of the organizers of the Bridgeport Roll-
roe. He filled all the offices of this company ing Mill, and upon the incorporation of this
in succession, with the exception of that of company was made its president. His con-
foreman. At the outbreak of the civil war nection with the Bridgeport Forge Company
so many members of the fire company enlisted remained in force until his resignation in
that but a dozen men remained to man the 1904, when he went to California and spent
tub at fires. But many prominent citizens loy- considerable time in visiting the large cities
ally took the places of the boys who went to and traveling generally throughout the west.

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Upon his return he was elected to the presi-
dency of the Park City Lumber Company and,
under his capable management, the business
of this concern has grown to huge propor-
tions. His position among the captains of in-
dustry in Bridgeport is in the first rank, and
his opinions are deferred to by those who are
considered competent judges. He was elected
a trustee of the Bridgeport City Savings Bank
in July, 1894 ; vice-president in 1904, and pres-
ident in July, 1906.

He was a member of Pennichuck Lodge, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Nashua,
and has held most of the honors of that or-
der. He was grand patriarch of the State of
New Hampshire in 1870-71, and representa-
tive to the Sovereign Grand Lodge in 1871.
He was initiated into the Masonic fraternity
in Rising Sun Lodge, of Nashua, was a char-
ter member and for a number of years treas-
urer of Ancient York Lodge, and is now a
member of St. John's Lodge, of Bridgeport.
He is also a member of the Council, Chapter
and Commandery, Knights Templar. He was
formerly a member of the Seaside, Algonquin
and Outing Clubs, but has resigned from the
two latter. His religious affiliations are with
the Universalist denomination.

Mr. Fletcher married at Nashua, New
Hampshire, March 6, 1859, Parmelia, daugh-
ter of Roswell Ingram, of Wardsboro, Ver-
mont (see Ingram VI). Children: Frank
M., born December 24, 1859, died January 25,
1885; Laura B., April 29, 1864; Rosalind, De-
cember 4, 1870, married Oliver Cole, of
Bridgeport, and has one son, Oliver Fletcher ;
Mr. Cole is a clerk with the Automatic Ma-
chine Company of Bridgeport ; Agnes, twin
of Rosalind, died April 24, 1873.

(The Ingram Line).

(I) John Ingram or Ingraham, presumably
a son of Richard Ingram or Ingraham, and
pioneer ancestor of the Ingram family, was
born in England about 1642. He came to
New England when a young man and settled
first at Boston ; removed to Hadley, Massa-
chusetts, with two others in 1661, and was
admitted a freeman in 1663. He was a mem-
ber of Captain Joseph Kellogg's company of
Hadley, under Captain William Turner, and
was engaged in the fight at Turner's Falls
during King Philip's war. May 19, 1675. He
died June 22, 1722. He married, in 1664,
Elizabeth Gardner, who died November 29,
1684, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gard-
ner of Hadley. Children : John, see for-
ward; Jadiah. born August 16, 1668; Sam-
uel, October 8, 1670; Ebenezer, February 3,
1673; Nathaniel, October 8, 1674; Jonathan,

1676; Elizabeth, May 1, 1679; Abigail, Janu-
ary 12, 1683.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Eliza-
beth (Gardner) Ingram, was born in Had-
ley, June 29, 1665. He removed, when ad-
vanced in years, from Hadley to Amherst,
Massachusetts, where he was living in Octo-
ber, 1742. He married, June 26, 1689, Me-
hitable, daughter of John Dickinson. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth, born March 15, 1691 ; John,
see forward; Ebenezer, December 10, 1694;
Hannah, October 17, 1697; Mehitable, Sep-
tember 13, 1698; Mary, July 10, 1700; Ebene-
zer, November 10, 1702 ; Rebecca, November
5, 1704 ; Jonathan, December 15, 1708; Elisha,
September 7, 17 17.

(III) John (3), son of John (2) and Me-
hitable (Dickinson) Ingram, was born at Had-
ley, Massachusetts, January 9, 1693, died May
23, 1783. He lived at Amherst, Massachu-
setts, and married there, June 29, 17 19, Lydia,
daughter of Samuel Boltwood ; she died about
1779. Children : Samuel, born December 18,
1720; Sarah, September 25, 1725; Philip, see
forward; John, born November 19, 1730;
Reuben, November 18, 1732 ; Ebenezer, May

21, 1737-

(IV) Philip, son of John (3) and Lydia
(Boltwood) Ingram, was born at Amherst,
Massachusetts, August 27, 1727. He married,
March 10, 1757, Experience, widow of Jona-
than Peirce, and daughter of Peter Montague,
of South Hadley. He settled in Wardsbor-
ough, Vermont. Children : Iodeona, bap-
tized October 1, 1758; Philip, April 27, 1760;
Experience, baptized November 1, 1761,
lived at Ticonderoga ; William, baptized
May 15, 1763; Jonathan Pierce, bap-
tized October 12, 1766; Lucretia, baptized
May 22, 1768 ; Lucinda, twin of Lucretia ;
Asa, baptized January 27, 1771 ; Phebe, bap-
tized August 9, 1772 ; Roswell, see forward.

(V) Roswell, youngest child of Philip and
Experience (Montague) (Peirce) Ingram,
was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1775,
and baptized July 30, of that year. He was
a farmer at Wardsboro, Vermont. He mar-
ried Spear. Children : Roswell, see

forward, Dwight, Emily and Chester.

(VI) Roswell (2), eldest child of Roswell

(1) and (Spear) Ingram, was born

at Wardsboro, Vermont, in 1804, died at
Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1863. He was
a farmer and a cattle buyer and drover, and
lived at Williamsville for a number of years.
He married Laura Pratt, born at Williams-
ville, Vermont, 1806, died in 1896. Children:
Hannah, died young ; Merton, died young ;
Emily, married John Pratt and lived at Mai-
den, Massachusetts, both deceased; Parmelia,

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married Benjamin Fletcher (see Fletcher
IX) ; Laura, deceased, married Richard Whit-
ney, of Nashua ; Henrietta, deceased, married
Charles Bickford ; Henry, twin of Henrietta,
also deceased.

The name of Hinman is found
HINMAN in England, Ireland and Scot-
land, and also in Germany,
spelled Hinmann. In England the name was
often spelled Inman, Hyndman, and other
ways. The Inman coat-of-arms : Vert on a
chevron or three roses gules slipped and leaved
of the first. Crest: On a mount a wivern
proper ducally gorged and lined or.

(I) Edward Hinman, immigrant ancestor,
came from England and settled in Stratford,
Connecticut, about 1650. He was the first
and only immigrant of the name in America.
Tradition says that he had belonged to the
bodyguard of Charles I. as sergeant-at-arms,
and escaped from Cromwell's wrath to Amer-
ica. This is probably where he gained the
title of sergeant which he held in America.
From the Dutch records at Albany it appears
that he had some connection with Captain
John Underhill, in offering their military serv-
ices to Governor Stuyvesant to fight the In-
dians, but the offer was declined, and tradition
says that Sergeant Hinman disbanded his
company at Stamford soon afterward, and set-
tled in Stratford. Fie was a farmer and ex-
tensive land holder there and was the first
owner of the old tide mill between Stratford
and what is now Bridgeport. Soon after set-
tling there he had a house-lot which is re-
corded and described in the "Stratford Rec-
ords, 19th of 9th month, 1668." Royal R.
Hinman, in his work of 1856, says: "This
house of Sergeant was located upon the west
of the present Main street in Stratford, a little
southwest of that noble old Episcopal Church,
the beauty of which is its antiquated structure
and plainness." At a town meeting on March
7, 1654, and on February 2, 1664, various
pieces of land were given to him by division
of the town lands. He also purchased land at
different times. In 1681 he sold his homestead
and removed to Woodbury, Connecticut,
where he made his will. He died Novem-
ber 26, 1 68 1, it is thought in Stratford,
where his will was proved and recorded. He
remembered all his children, and directed that
his youngest son, Edward Jr., be brought up
to a trade by Jehial Preston, of Stratford.
His death is recorded in Stratford. He was
a man of pure character, and was much re-
spected for his strict honesty and integrity.
He married, in Stratford, Hannah, daughter
of Francis and Sarah Stiles, who removed

from Windsor to Stratford. Children, born
in Stratford : Sarah, September 10, 1653 ;
Titus, June, 1655; Samuel, 1658; Benjamin,
February, 1662-63; Hannah, July 15, 1666;
Mary, 1668; Patience, 1670; Edward, men-
tioned below.

(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Hin-
man, was born in Stratford, 1672, and was
the only son to settle at Stratford with his
father. He was taught a trade by Jehial Pres-
ton, according to the will of his father, and
he remained with him until he came of age.
He drew eighteen acres of land in the division
in Woodbury in 1702, but it is evident that he
lived and died at Stratford, where all his chil-
dren were born. He was one of the first Epis-
copalians in Connecticut, and signed the first
petition to sift out the churchmen from the
Congregationalists in that colony. He mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of Joshua Jr. and
Mary (Lyon) Jennings. She died on her
ninety-ninth birthday, July 25, 1777. Twenty
years before her death, she had a premonition
that she would live to be ninety-nine years old,
but no more. She said that a venerable,
comely person whom she used to call her
guardian angel and whom she had seen once
before appeared to her and asked her age.
She told him, upon which he replied, "You
will not live to an hundred years, but almost ;
you will live to be ninety-nine and then die."
She often mentioned this to her friends and
was so confidently persuaded of the truth of
it that she would often reckon up how long
she had to live. She arose on the morning of
her ninety-ninth birthday in her usual good
health. Her son, John Hinman, with whom
she lived, said to her, "Well, mother, the day
has arrived." She replied, "Yes, and I shall
die to-day." And she died on the afternoon
of her birthday. Children : Jonah or Jonas,
born November 5, 1700; Hannah, March 3,
1702; Zachariah, January 27, 1704; Samuel,
1705; Justus, December 28, 1707; Ebenezer,
October 5. 1709, died young; Sarah, October,
171 1 ; John, November 4, 17 13, mentioned be-
low; Rachel, December 4, 171 5 ; Ebenezer,
August 16, 1717; Amos, October 18, 1720;
Charity, June 6, ^723.

(III) John, son of Edward (2) Hinman,
of Stratford, was born November 4, 1713. He
was at Litchfield and Goshen, aiding his
brother, Captain Samuel, in surveying lands,
about 1738-39-40. He returned to Stratford
and settled at Unity or North Stratford where
he was long known as an innkeeper. He was
a member of the First Church at the. time
of the settlement of North Stratford. Rev.
James Beebe, May 6, 1747, and his wife
Eunice, was also a member. His mother, Han-

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nah Hinnian, lived with him after his father's
death, until her death on her ninety-ninth

birthday. He married (first) Eunice ,

and (second) Ann Nicholls, August 15, 1754.
Children by first wife: John, born Febru-
ary 4, 1747; David, February 10, 1750; Jonas,
March 30, 1752. By his second wife: Eunice,
June 6, 1755; Martha, August, 1757; Ann,
May 19, 1760; Isaac, mentioned below; Au-
rilla, 1765.

(IV) Isaac, son of John Hinman, was born
March 3, 1763, died January 5, 1817. He
was a ship-builder, and owned much land in
Stratford. He married (first), January 7,
1784, Charity Edwards, born June 9, 1767,
died January 16, 1808, and he married (sec-
ond) June 4, 180 — , Hannah . Chil-
dren, all born at Stratford ; by first wife :
Lucy, May 10, 1785 ; Munson, May 5, 1787,
mentioned below; Harriet, April 26, 1790;
Sally, February 12, 1793; William, August 2,
1796; George, December 30, 1797, died young;
Sally, September 14, 1799; George, Septem-
ber 12, 1802 ; Frances Ann, February 7, 1805 ;
Catherine Ann, May 13, 1807.

(V) Munson, son of Isaac Hinman, was
born in Stratford, May 5, 1787, died in
Bridgeport, December 31, 1857. He was a
master mariner and for many years sailed to
foreign ports. He then settled in Bridgeport
and ran the City Hotel located on the cor-
ner of Wall and Middle streets. He was one
of the best known hotel men in the section, and
was very popular. He married, October 5,
1813, Priscilla Mead, of Greenwich, born July
26, 1790, died January 1, 1863. Children:
Isaac, born July 18, 181 5, died January 10,
1853; Henry Mead, December 25, 1817, men-
tioned below ; Elizabeth, April 22, 1819, died
July 3, 1873, married William J. Beebe, De-
cember 5, 1838; Lavinia B., August 29, 1822;
Munson (twin), March 10, 1825; Priscilla
(twin), died young; Walter E., March 14,
1827, died May 8, 1879, married Virginia
Conway, January 7, 1858 ; Priscilla, February
12. 1829.

(VI) Henry Mead, son of Munson Hin-
man, was born December 25, 1817, died Janu-
ary Ti, 1846. He was educated in the public
schools for a time, and later was in the gro-
cery business. He was afterward in the ship-
ping business and the vessel on which he sailed
being wrecked in Hell Gate. Xew York, he
managed to get on the rocks on what is known
as Hog's Back, and remained there all night
until picked up by one of the New Haven
boats in the morning. He took a fearful cold
which resulted in his death. He married, at
Bridgeport. December 25. 1839, Eliza, daugh-
ter of Charles Hawlev, of Trumbull, who died

aged seventy-twd years, at Bridgeport. Chil-
dren : Charles Henry, mentioned below ; Wil-
liam B., born January 10, 1845, lives at
Bridgeport, unmarried.

(VII) Charles Henry, son of Henry Mead
Hinman, was born at Bridgeport, August 15,
1843. He was educated there in the public
schools. As a young man he took a position
for a house dealing in dental supplies. Re-
signing from this after a time, he went to
New York, and associated himself with the
oil concern of Bostwick & Tilford, finally tak-
ing charge of their export business and re-
maining several years, until his health failed.
Then he returned to Bridgeport and took a
position with Frank Miller & Company, in
the coal business, and continued with this firm
for thirty years, when he resigned and since
then has been engaged in looking after real
estate, of which he owns considerable. In
politics he is a Democrat, and was a member
of the school board of the borough of West
Stratford for several years and clerk of the
borough nine years. He was for some years
a member of Pequonnick Lodge, No. 4, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member
of Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and
has passed through all the chairs and is a
member of the Grand Lodge.

He married, October 25, 1870, at Bridge-
port, Cornelia Frances, born in New York,
July 2j, 185 1, daughter of George Hawlev,
who was born in Stepney, Connecticut, and
was an engineer, running for a time on the
old "Elm City" from New Haven to New
York. He made his home in Bridgeport
where he died at fifty-five. He married Cor-
nelia Waters, born in Huntington, Long
Island. Had three children: Mrs. Hinman;
George, died an infant ; Helen, married Her-
bert Brown and resides in Albany. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Hinman: 1. Henrietta Jane,
born in Bridgeport, August 12, 1872; married
Albert P. Simonds, a native of New Orleans
and now residing in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania ; they have one child, Ludlow Gibson,
born December 6, 1903. 2. Albert Denton,
born in West Stratford, January 1, 1874;
married Lydia Gates; resides at 1253 Amster-
dam avenue, New York City, where he is in
business, having an office at 33 Warren street.

Dr. Samuel Wood, immigrant an-
WOOD cestor, was born in England. It

is said that he landed first in
Massachusetts, 1683, and settled soon after-
ward in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1685-86
he settled in Danbury, Connecticut, with the
pioneers soon after the first settlement of the
town. He stood high in his profession and

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was a leading citizen. His residence was on
Deer Hill, west of the county jail. He mar-
ried Rebecca, born on Long Island, 1660,
daughter of Thomas Benedict. Dr. Wood
died in 1714, leaving a goodly estate. He had
a son Samuel, mentioned below, and one
daughter.

(II) Samuel (2), son of Dr. Samuel (1)
Wood, was born in Connecticut and died in
1763 at Danbury. He resided on the home-
stead at Deer Hill. He married Sarah Crom-
well. Children: Captain John, born 1715.
Samuel, married, March, 1754, Mary Malley;
Lemuel, mentioned below; Daniel, born 1726;
daughter.

(III) Lemuel, son of Samuel (2) Wood,
was born at Danbury about 1720. His will
was dated there April 19, 1797. He married,
October 29, 1744, Griswold Mallory. Chil-
dren : Lemuel, Joseph, Nathan, Elizabeth and
Ezra.

(IV) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (1)
Wood, was born 1745-55, at Danbury. He
had a son Thomas, mentioned below.

(V) Thomas, son of Lemuel (2) Wood,
was born about 1770-75, in Danbury or vicin-
ity. He settled in Weston, Connecticut. He
was a farmer all his active life. Children: 1.
Burwood, settled at Milton or Weston. 2.
Bradley, married Mrs. Hough and settled at
Weston. 3. Alvah, lived at Southport ; a
prominent man there. 4. Thomas, lived at
Greenfield. 5. Curtis Marvin, mentioned be-
low. 6. Esther, married Lyons, and

lived at Weston. 7. Lucinda, married

Smith. 8. Laura, married Brown. 9.

Maria, married Quintard.

(VI) Curtis Marvin, son of Thomas Wood,
was born in Weston in 1803, died there in
1877. He was educated in the public schools,
and during his youth worked at home on his
father's farm. In the course of time he pur-
chased a farm near the old homestead, and
followed farming all his active life. In poli-
tics he was a Democrat, and he and his wife
were devout members of the Protestant Epis-
copal church, and he was prominent in the
movement to erect the new church. He was
active in early life in the state militia and at-
tained the rank of sergeant. He married
Sally Lockwood, born 1805, died in 1894,
daughter of Harry Lockwood, of Weston, and
a member of the well-known family of that
name. Children: 1. Sarah Marvin, married
Thomas Reed, a blacksmith and carriage
maker of New Jersey. 2. Mary Jane, mar-
ried Levi O. Banks, of Weston, later a car-
penter of Bridgeport ; resides at 728 Shelton
street, Bridgeport. 3. Galeta, married Wil-
lia n Lobdell, of Greenfield. 4. Eunice, mar-

ried Ephraim Osborne, a merchant in Weston.
5. Daniel Curtis, mentioned below. 6. Har-
riet, married John Williams, a farmer in
Stratford.

(VII) Daniel Curtis, son of Curtis Marvin
Wood, was born December 25, 1840, in Wes-
ton. He worked on the farm and attended
public and private schools in his native town.
When he came of age he went to Bridgeport
and entered the employ of Dwight & Chapin,
manufacturers of guns and military supplies,
who were then engaged in filling large orders
for the government. Later he went to Lime
Rock, Connecticut, where he was employed
in a similar establishment for a time, and
upon his return to Bridgeport, became a
sub-contractor for the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Company, remaining for
twelve years and prospering in his business.
He then embarked in business for himself
as a dealer in meats, groceries and notions,
at West Stratford, now part of the city of
Bridgeport, and built up a large trade, re-
quiring six or seven delivery wagons. When
he sold this business he purchased his saw-
mill property in Stratford and engaged in
lumbering and manufacturing of lumber. He
has also followed agriculture and is one of
the largest land-owners in that town. About
a hundred acres in the village he has laid
out in building lots and in part sold. He has
three hundred acres in other parts of the
town and large tracts in Weston, Trumbull
and Mi! ford in New Haven county. He has
been especially successful in market garden-
ing. He has a grist mill and is interested in
various other industries. In politics he has
been a prominent Democrat ; selectman fif-
teen years; justice of the peace many years;
burgess of borough a number of years, rep-
resented the town in the general assembly
and served on the committee that considered
the subject of equal suffrage in 1877-78. He
has been a member of the local school board.
He is a member of the Social Club of Strat-
ford ; Cuppeadie Club, of Stratford, of which
he is past master ; St. John's Lodge, No. 8,
Free and Accepted Masons, Hamilton Com-
mandery, No. 5, Knights Templar. Mr.
Wood has a handsome colonial residence in
Stratford, built in 1895. In religion he is a
Congregationalist, and was deacon five years.
He married (first) in i860, Celestia A.
Sturges, died in 1877, daughter of Edwin
Sturges, of Weston. He married (second)
in 1878, Mary A., daughter of John S. Fray,
of Bridgeport; she died in 1890. He married
(third) Mary A. Bearrlsley, of Stratford,
daughter of Lewis Beardsley ; she died in
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widow of John Stacey, daughter of Thomas
Howe, who was a knife maker by trade.
Children of Thomas Howe : Henry, died
young ; Thomas Henry, died young ;
Sarah, died aged forty-one years; Eliza, mar-
ried Daniel Curtis Wood, mentioned above ;
Mary, died aged twenty-two; Rose, married
Bert Spencer, of East Hartford; Charles, died
aged nine months. Child of first wife: Ed-
mund C, a real estate broker of Bridgeport ;
married Anna, daughter of Rev. G. H. War-
ner, of Hartford ; children : Elorence, George,
( Catherine and Dorothy. Children of second
wife : Laura Belle ; Nellie Frances, married
Robert Athington ; Jessie May, married Wal-
ter C. Lursher.

General Edward Harland,
HARLAND one of the foremost citizens
of the town of Norwich,
Connecticut, has been distinguished as a sol-
dier, lawyer and legislator, as well as in finan-
cial circles. His family history is an interest-
ing one.

(I) Thomas Harland was born in England,
T735- He was an expert watch and clock
maker, and an experienced and capable arti-
san, and came to America from London, Eng-
land, 1773. For a short time he lived in Bos-
ton, but removed to Norwich the year of his
arrival in this country. The construction of
the first fire engine owned in Norwich was
superintended by him in 1788. Mr. Harland
married, 1779, Hannah, born in 1754, daugh-
ter of Elisha and Hannah (Leffingwell) Clark.
Children: Mary, born 1780, died 1859;
Thomas, 1781, died 1806; Hannah, 1785, died
1803; Fanny, 1787; Henry, see forward;
Fdward, 1793, died 1817.

(IT) Henry, second son and fifth child of
Thomas and Hannah (Clark) Harland, was
born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 16,
1789. died at the Harland homestead in that
town, 1841. In early life he took up his resi-
dence in New Orleans, Louisiana, residing
in that city until 1830, and engaged in busi-
ness as a watchmaker and jeweler. He then
returned to his native town, residing on the
Harland homestead, and taking an active and
beneficial interest in the public affairs of the
town. He married, October 14, 1822, Abigail
Leffingwell, born in Norwich, October, 1800,
died 1888, a daughter of Judge John and
Sarah Russell (Leffingwell) Hyde, of Nor-
wich (see Hyde VII). Children: Edward,
born October 5, 1823. died September, 1824;
Harriet, October 3, 1825, died September,
1837; Elizabeth, October 21, 1827, married
Ferdinand Castile Stedman, born April 5,
1826, resided in Norwich; Thomas, March 17,

1830, became a lawyer of Norwich; Edward,
see forward; Harriet, August 31, 1834,
died in infancy; Ruth L., January 16, 1837.

(Ill) General Edward Harland, third son
and fifth child of Henry and Abigail Leffing-
well (Hyde) Harland, was born in Norwich,
June 24, 1832. His education prior to en-
tering Yale College was the usual prepara-
tory one, and he was graduated from that
institution in 1853. He had determined to
make the profession of law his life work, and
entered upon its study in the office of the
late Hon. John Turner Wait, of Norwich,
being admitted to the bar in New London
county, in 1855. He immediately engaged in
the practice of his profession, in which he
met with unusual success for a beginner, when
the outbreak of the civil war caused a tem-
porary change in his plans. April 25, 1861,
General Llarland enlisted in Company D,
Third Connecticut Volunteers, and was mus-
tered into service as captain of that company
May 11, 1 86 1. The company became a part
of the command of Colonel John L. Chat-
field, and was engaged in the first battle of
Bull Run, where "the Third moved with its
brigade at the head of the column under
McDowell, when it advanced via Centreville
and Bull Run, and, in the trying scenes on
that disastrous field, behaved with the firm-
ness and courage of veterans." Of this en-
gagement Colonel Keyes said : "The gallan-
try with which the Second Regiment, Maine,
and the Third Connecticut Volunteers charged
up the hill upon the enemy's artillery and
infantry was never, in my judgment, sur-
passed." August 12, 1861, Captain Harland
was mustered out of his three months' serv-
ice, and on September 4, 1861, joined the
Eighth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and
was appointed its colonel October 5, 1861.
The engagements in which this regiment par-
ticipated were as follows : Newbern, North
Carolina. March 14, 1862; siege of Fort
Macon, North Carolina. April, 1862; Antie-
tam, Maryland, September 17, 1862; Fred-
ericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862;
Fort Hugar, Virginia, April 19, 1863; Wal-
thall Junction, Virginia, May 7, 1864; Fort
Darling, Virginia, May 16, 1864; Petersburg,
Virginia, August 24, 1864; Fort Harrison,
Virginia, September 29, 1864. November 29,
1862, Colonel Harland was advanced to the
rank of brigadier-general, and from that time
on was in command of a brigade. In Feb-
ruary, 1863, this brigade consisted of the
eighth, eleventh, fifteenth, sixteenth and
twenty-first Connecticut regiments and was a
part of Peck's division. General Harland re-
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a war record throughout the years of his serv-
ice of which any hero might justly feel proud.
At the close of the war he returned to his
native town and resumed the practice of the
le^al profession, which has engaged his at-
tention to a great extent since that time. He
has also been active in the political affairs
of his town and state, greatly to their benefit.
He was elected to the state legislature in 1869
and 1878, and represented his district in the
state senate in 1870, serving for a time as
president of the latter body. He served as
judge of probate for the Norwich district
from 1872 to 1876, and was adjutant-general
for the commonwealth for 1879-80. He has
always supported the principles of the Repub-
lican party, and in March, 1883, Governor
Thomas M. Waller appointed him a member
of the state board of pardons, an appointment
which has been successively renewed since
that time, and General Harland is still hold-
ing this honorable office. In the world of
finance his work has been no less important
than along military lines. He was chosen a
director of the Chelsea Savings Bank in 1875,
was elected vice-president a few years later,
and elected president in 1890, an office he is
still filling, as the third president of this in-
stitution since its organization, in 1858.
Among the worthy institutions he has as-
sisted in calling into life is the W. W. Backus
Hospital, at Norwich, of which he was one
of the corporators. Naturally a man of great
executive ability and boundless energy, he has
been a tireless worker and a harmonizer of
discordant elements. His character is a prac-
tical one, as may be seen by a study of his
career, and his mind is well stored with in-
formation on all topics. In the preparation
of his law cases his arguments have always
been clearly and concisely expressed, and have
carried conviction to the minds of his hearers.
The high esteem in which he is held by his
fellow citizens and the number of his friends
bears eloquent testimony to the sterling worth
of his character and to the value of his efforts
in behalf of the community. General Harland
has never married.

(The Hyde Line).

(I) William Hyde, immigrant ancestor of
this family, first appears on record in 1636, at
Hartford, Connecticut, and was an original
proprietor in 1639-40, his name being per-
petuated as such on the monument standing
at the present time in the old graveyard at
the rear of the First church, in Hartford.
His death occurred in Norwich, January 6,
1 681. In later years he was recorded as of
Saybrook, and became one of the thirty-five

original proprietors of Norwich in 1660. Mr.
Hyde was a man of importance in his time
and the various communities in which he re-
sided, and served frequently as selectman.

(II) Samuel, son of William Hyde, was
born in Hartford about 1637, died at Nor-
wich West Farms in 1677. He was also one
of the original proprietors of Norwich, and
had lands assigned to him at Norwich West
Farms. Like all of the colonists of his time,
he was engaged in farming. Mr. Hyde mar-
ried, in June, 1659, Jane, daughter of Thomas
and Phoebe (Brown) Lee, of East Saybrook,
now Lyme. Their daughter Elizabeth is said
to have been the first white child born in
Norwich.

(III) Jabez, son of Samuel and Jane (Lee)
Hyde, was born in Norwich, May, 1677, died
September 5, 1762. He settled in Norwich
West Farms, now Franklin, where he was
considered a wealthy farmer and possessed
large tracts of land. Beginning with the year
1716, Mr. Hyde was clerk of the Franklin
church for many years, and his importance
in the community may be estimated by the
fact that he served as justice of the peace,
and, for eight sessions, was a representa-
tive in the general court. He married, De-
cember 29, 1709, Elizabeth, who died August
21, 1768, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
(Adgate) Bushnell, of Norwich.

(IV) Jabez (2), son of Jabez (1) and
Elizabeth (Bushnell) Hyde, was born in Nor-
wich West Farms, September 16, 1713, died
March 6, 1805. He settled in Norwich West
Farms, where he was owner of extensive
lands. He married, December 8, 1736, Lydia,
who died June 25, 1803, daughter of Benja-
min and Lydia (Hazen) Abel.

(V) Ezekiel, son of Jabez (2) and Lydia
(Abel) Hyde, was born in Norwich West
Farms, April 20, 1738, died July 10, 1808.
He married (first) December 6, 1768, Rachel,
who died November 20, 1781, daughter of
John and Margaret (Hyde) Tracy, and set-
tled at Norwich West Farms. He married
(second) December 12, 1782, Mary Closen.

(VI) Judge John Hyde, son of Ezekiel
and Rachel (Tracy) Hyde, was born in Nor-
wich, June 23, 1773, died March 10, 1847.
He was a lawyer in his native town and served
in a number of public offices, among them
being justice of the peace, postmaster and
judge of probate. He married, March, 1798,
Sarah Russell, born October 20, 1778, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whiting) Lef-
fingwell, of Norwich, and a descendant
through her mother of Governor Bradford
and John Alden, who came to America in the
"Mayflower." She survived her husband.

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(VII) Abigail Leffingwell, daughter of

Judge John and Sarah Russell (Leffingwell)

Hyde, married Henry Harland (see Harland

II). '_

Among tl.e families which have
COIT been prominently identified with

the history of the commonwealth
of Connecticut for almost three centuries the
name of Coit is one of especial distinction.
As in the majority of the colonial families,
the male members of the earlier generations
were mainly engaged in farming or seafaring
occupations, but there has been a goodly
sprinkling of lawyers, merchants and holders
of public offices of responsibility. At first
they were more closely connected with New
London and Plainfield, later with Preston and
Griswold, and since the revolution with
Norwich.

(I) John Coit, immigrant ancestor of the
New London and Norwich families, was prob-
ably born in Glaenmorganshire, Wales,
whence he came between 1630 and 1638, and
died August 29, 1659. He had a grant of
land in 1638 in Salem, Massachusetts, re-
moved to Gloucester in 1644, was a freeman
in 16-17, and a selectman there in 1648. He
was the owner of a quantity of land on
Wheeler's Point and Planter's Neck, and re-
ceived a grant of land in New London, Con-
necticut, in 1650, where he went the follow-
ing year. He married, in England, Alary
Ganners or Jenners, who died January 2,
1676. Children, all born in England prior
to the emigration of the family : John ; Jo-
seph, see forward; Mary; Martha.

(II) Deacon Joseph Coit, son of John and
Mary (Ganners or Jenners) Coit, in all prob-

. ability came from Gloucester to New London
with hi^ father in 1651, and died March 2j,

He spent the greater part of his life in the
latter place, and was engaged in the ship-
building trade in association with his brother-
in-law, Hugh Mould. Loth he and his wife
joined the church in 1681, in which he subse-
quently became a deacon. The greater num-
ber of persons bearing the name of Coit in this
country are descendants of Deacon Joseph
Coit. He married, July 15, 1667, Martha,
who died July 14, 1710, daughter of William
and Edith Harris, of Wethersfield. Children,
all born between 1670 and 1692, inclusive:
John: Joseph, see forward: William; Dan-
iel ; Solomon ; Samuel.

(III) Rev. Joseph Coit, son of Deacon Jo-
seph and Martha (Harris) Coit, was born
in New London, April 4, 1673, died in Plain-
field, Connecticut, July 1, 1750. He was grad-

uated from Harvard College in 1697, and
was admitted to the master's degree at the
first commencement of Yale College in 1702.
He preached at Norwich late in 1698 and re-
ceived an invitation to settle there, but soon
afterward went to Plainfield, where for the
greater part of five years he was engaged in
preaching. He accepted a call to settle as
pastor of the church at Plainfield in 1704,
and officiated until 1748, when he asked for
his dismissal on the score of old age, but
continued to reside in Plainfield until his death.
He married, September 18, 1705, Experience,
who died January 8, 1759, daughter of Isaac
Wheeler, of Stonington, Connecticut. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth, born February 19, 1706-07;
Samuel, see forward ; Joseph, baptized
171 1 ; Martha, born 1713 ; Isaac, December
26, 1714; Abigail, about 1716; Mary, about
1718; William, November 20. 1720; Exper-
ience, about 1722; Daniel, 1731.
. (IV) Colonel Samuel Coit, eldest son and
second child of Rev. Joseph and Experience
(Wheeler) Coit, was born in Plainfield, Con-
necticut, 1708, died in North Society, Pres-
ton, October 4, 1792. He attained the mili-
tary rank of colonel, and was in command of
a regiment in 1758, which had been raised in
the vicinity of Norwich and which wintered
at Fort Edward. He was prominent in the
public affairs of the community in which he
resided, holding a number of offices. He set-
tled in North Society, Preston, now Griswold,
representing Preston in the general assem-
bly in 1761-65-69-71-72-73. During the rev-
olution he served as a judge of the county
court and also of the maritime court. His wife
joined the church at Preston in 1733, he
joined it in 1742. Colonel Coit married,
March 30, 1730, Sarah, born 171 1, died July
11, 1776, daughter of Benjamin Spalding, of
Plainfield. Children: Benjamin, born March
28, 1731 ; Samuel, July 23, 1733; William,
February 13, 1735 ; Oliver, February 23, 1736-
t,/; Wheeler, February 24, 1738-39; John, see
forward; Sarah, 'May 12, 1743; Joseph, bap-
tized May 2, 1746; Isaac, baptized October
3, 1748: Olive, baptized April 5, 1752.

(Y) John (2) sixth son of Colonel
Samuel and Sarah (Spalding) Coit, was born
June 4, 1 74 1, died March 3, 1808. His entire
life was spent in Preston, where he was the
owner of a large farm, with the cultivation
of which he was chiefly occupied. He married
February 6, 1766, Mehitable, who died Jan-
uary 3, 1806, daughter of John Tyler, of
Preston. Children: Lydia, born December
13, 1766; Nathaniel, see forward; Sarah,
May 1, 1770; Olive, February 22, 1772; John,
December 20, 1773 ; Sophia, October 14, 1775 ;

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James Tyler, October i, 1778; Rebecca, Feb-
ruary 2, 1783; Roger, January 25, 1786.

(VI) Captain Nathaniel Coit, eldest son
and second child of John and Mehitable (Ty-
ler) Coit, was born in Preston, May 5, 1768,
died in Jewett City, which was formerly a
part of Preston, March 1 1, 1848. He ac-
quired his title by right of military service
and, settling in Preston, was very successful
in the occupation of farming. His sound
common sense and faithfulness in the dis-
charge of responsible duties won him the
esteem of his fellow townsmen, and they be-
stowed several honors upon him. He made
no profession of religion, although leading
a most exemplary life, until late in life, when
he joined the church at Jewett City. Captain
Coit married, March 14, 1792, Betsey, died
March 13, 1831, daughter of Daniel and Eliz-
abeth (Lord) Morgan, of Preston. Children:
Charles, see forward ; Martha, born Decem-
ber 12, 1795; Charlotte, August 11, 1797;
Olive, October 12, 1799; Betsey, January 10,
1802; a son, March 2. 1804, died in infancy;
Charlotte, born September 20, 1805 ; Hannah
M., May 28, 1808; George, April 29, 1811;
William.

(VII) Colonel Charles Coit, eldest child
of Captain Nathaniel and Betsey (Morgan)
Coit, was born February 19, 1793, died in
Norwich, October 26, 1855. He was actively
engaged in the war of 1812, and upon its
conclusion continued in the militia, finally
attaining the rank of colonel of artillery. He
removed to Norwich about 181 7, and there
engaged in business, mainly in the grocery
line, being thus occupied until his death. He
joined the Second Congregational Church in
Norwich in 1822. where he officiated as dea-
con for a number of years and as superintend-
ent of the Sabbath school. His life was one
of rare purity, and his fellow-citizens looked
up to him as a model in many respects, as
one teaching right living in the best of all
ways, that of example. Colonel Coit married
(first) May 21, 1821. Lucretia, who died in
1822, daughter of Colonel Moses and Olive
(Coit) Tyler. He married (second) Lydia
Tyler, a sister of his first wife, who died
October, 1834. They had two children, Lu-
cretia, and one unnamed, both of whom died
in infancy. He married (third) Sarah Per-
kins, daughter of General Lemuel Grosvenor,
of Pomfret. Children : Ellen Grosvenor,
born November 15, 1835, died December 13,
1909: Charles Morgan, see forward; Sarah
Perkins, born October 16, 1840, died May 17,
1843; George Douglas, a sketch of whom
follows.

(VIII) Colonel Charles Morgan Coit, eld-

est son and second child of Colonel Charles
and Sarah Perkins (Grosvenor) Coit, was
born in Norwich, March 28, 1838, and
drowned in New London harbor, July 3, 1878,
after a successful attempt to save the life of
his little son. who had fallen overboard. He
was in his seventeenth year and a student at
college when the death of his father necessi-
tated his giving up his college course and
turning his attention to business life. He en-
tered upon a situation at the Uncas Bank, but
was made treasurer of the Chelsea Savings
Bank when but twenty-one years of age. He
was an incumbent of this responsible position
at the outbreak of the civil war, and, while his
fervent patriotism urged him to yield to the
first call to arms, he was obliged to combat
his desires in favor of the claims made upon
him as the eldest son of the family. When
the second call for troops was issued by
President Lincoln Mr. Coit could no longer
resist the appeal of his country, and entered
the service as adjutant of the Eighth Connec-
ticut Volunteer Infantry, which was then be-
ing organized by Colonel Edward Harland.
The record of his service is a gallant one,
and can be found in full in the chapter on the
military history of Connecticut in the "History
of New London County," by Hurd. A brief
account is as follows :

Charles Morgan Coit enlisted September
18, 1861, mustered October 5, 1861 ; promoted
from adjutant of the Eighth Connecticut Vol-
unteer Infantry to captain of Company B of
that regiment, March 27, 1862; wounded at
Fair Oaks, Virginia, October 28, 1864; pro-
moted lieutenant-colonel by brevet March 13,
1865 ; discharged May 2.J, 1865. Upon his
return to Norwich, shortly after the close of
the war. Colonel Coit was re-elected to the
position of treasurer of the Chelsea Savings
Dank, an office for which he was eminently
fitted, and in which his executive ability had
full scope. When General Joseph R. Hawley
was governor of Connecticut Colonel Coit
served as an aide on his staff, and also served
one term as postmaster of Norwich. He was
one of the organizers and staunchest support-
ers of the local post of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and a member of the Boston
Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. He took an active interest in
the affairs of the Second Congregational
Church, of which he was a consistent member,
and in which he served as deacon and treas-
urer of the church and as librarian of the
Sunday school. No better commentary can
be offered upon the character of Colonel Coit
that the following resolutions, which were
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of directors of the Chelsea Savings Bank,
held July 5, 1878:

"Resolved, That in the recent sudden death of
Colonel Charles M. Coit, our secretary and treasurer,
this bank has suffered the greatest loss which it has
ever been called upon to bear. We have lost one
who has been identified with the bank for nearly
twenty years, in whose sound judgment and business
capacity we have always had the greatest confidence,
one whose integrity, both in thought and deed, was
such that it seems impossible to replace him.

"Resolved, That in Colonel Coit's death this com-
munity suffers the loss of one who. having passed his
entire life among them, except that portion given to
his country, had gained their confidence, respect and
love to a very unusual degree. As a citizen, a patriot
soldier, and a public officer, he has always shown
those qualities of mind and heart which endeared
him to all who were brought in contact with him.
Though cut off in his prime, the example of such a
life is of incalculable value to the community. Early
professing his love for Christ, Colonel Coit exhibited,
through the pleasures of youth, the trials and tempta-
tions of army life and the cares of business, such a
sincere, unostentatious, but decided Christian, spirit
as left no room for question or cavil. His unswerv-
ing allegiance to his God controlled all his life, and
has, we believe, won for him at the judgment on high
the same verdict so heartily given by all who knew
him here. 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' '

Colonel Coit married, June 18, 1872, Mary
I!. Hillard. Children: 1. Charles, born at
Norwich, March 28, 1873; was graduated
from Yale University in the class of 1896.
He at once became interested in railroad work,
with which he has been identified since that
time. His first position was in the general
offices of the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company, in New York city,
and while with them he accepted a position
with the Honduras Syndicate, which had been
organized chiefly for the construction of a
railroad in Honduras. The Spanish-American
war interfered with the process of this work
to such an extent that Mr. Coit returned to
this country during the summer of 1898.
Shortly afterward he formed a connection
with the Great Northern Railway Company,
whom he served at various points, and is now
employed on the Panama Railroad, on the
Isthmus of Panama. He married, in Balti-
more, Maryland, November 25, 1908, Evelyn
H. Joynes, of that city. 2. Augustus, born
in Norwich, April 29, 1876, died March 22,
1909. He was graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale University in 1897
with high honors, and was elected to member-
ship in Sigma Ni. His first business position
was in the office of the superintendent of the
Norwich and Worcester division of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
at Norwich, and in 1899 he became connected
with the Uncas National Bank, of Norwich,
holding the position of assistant cashier at the
time of his death.

George Douglas Coit, member of a

COIT distinguished family in Connecticut,

was a brother of Colonel Charles

Morgan Coit, a sketch of whom, containing

the ancestral history of the family, precedes

this in the work.

George Douglas Coit was born in Norwich,
Connecticut, January 2, 1845, died October 4,
1906. He was a student at Yale College, and
was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School with the class of 1866. He was ap-
pointed to the position of assistant secretary
in the Norwich Fire Insurance Company, but,
early in 1868, impaired health obliged him to
refrain from all business interests for the
period of one year. In the fall of 1869 the
Dime Savings Bank had just been organized,
and the position of treasurer was offered to
Mr. Coit and accepted by him. Under his
able management the deposits at this institu-
tion had aggregated about one million and
a quarter by July, 1878, when, upon the death
of his brother, Colonel Charles M. Coit, he
became his successor as treasurer of the Chel-
sea Savings Bank, a position he retained until
his death. Mr. Coit was never desirous of
holding public office, although opportunities
to do so were not lacking. In financial and
religious circles he filled many offices of trust
and responsibility, notably as executor and
trustee of a number of large estates. He was
connected as director with a number of manu-
facturing interests, and served as treasurer
for the Otis Library, the City Missionary So-
ciety, the Young Men's Christian Association,
and the chapel and other organizations at his
summer home, Eastern Point. The church
and Sunday school enjoyed the benefits of his
active labors in their interests. In his asso-
ciation with the Second Congregational
Church he had filled, at various times, all the
offices in its jurisdiction, until compelled by
ill health to resign these duties. At this time
the superintendency of the Sunday school had
been in the hands of three members for more
than forty-five years continuously. He suc-
ceeded his uncle. Deacon George Coit, as dea-
con of the church, but failing health necessi-
tated his declining re-election in 1889. Mr.
Coit married, 1870, Frances Henrietta, daugh-
ter of Professor James Dvvight Dana, who
married, June 5, 1844, Henrietta, daughter of
Professor Benjamin and Harriet (Trumbull)
Silliman. By this marriage Mr. Coit became
connected with the Backus, Huntington,
Trumbull, Dana and Silliman families. Chil-
dren of George Douglas Coit : George Gros-
venor, born September 29, 1873, died October
4, 1885 ; a son, born November 4, 1875, died
November 7, 1875; Heleji Grosvenor, born

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February 9, 1879, died January 27, 1880;
James Dana, born December 5, 1880; received
his preparatory education at Holbrook's Mili-
tary Academy, at Sing Sing on the Hudson,
and matriculated at the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University in 1900. His eye-
sight having become impaired, he was obliged
to abandon his studies during his second year
in the university, accepted a position in the
Merchants' National Bank in Norwich, and
has been a clerk in the Chelsea Savings Bank
since 1907, and resides in that town. He
married, May 9, 1906, Emily H., daughter of
Charles Turnbull, of Baltimore, Maryland.

(The Huntington Line).

(I) Simon Huntington, who was born in
England, married there Margaret Baret, of
Norwich, England, and died of smallpox while
on his way to this country, his body being con-
signed to the ocean. The Rev. John Eliot,
pastor of the church at Roxbury, Massachu-
setts, recorded as follows : "Margaret Hunt-
ington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband
died by the way of smallpox. She brought
children with her." She married, 1635-36,
Thomas Stoughton, of Dorchester. Massachu-
setts, and removed to Windsor, Connecticut,
where her husband was a deputy several times
from that town to the general court, and prom-
inent in all public affairs. Children of Si-
mon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington:
William, Thomas, Christopher, Simon. Ann.

(II) Deacon Simon (2) Huntington, son
of Simon (1) and Margaret (Baret) Hunt-
ington, was born in England about 1629, died
in Norwich. Connecticut, June 28, 1706. With
his brother Christopher he migrated to Say-
brook, whence in 1660 he joined the Norwich
•colonists, and became one of the most im-
portant men in the management of the affairs,
both secular and spiritual, of the colony.
Shortly after his advent in the colony he was
chosen as deacon of the church of Mr. Fitch,
serving in this office until the infirmities of
old age compelled him to resign from these
duties in 1696, when he was succeeded by his
son. He was a large land-owner and a man
of enterprise, and represented Norwich at the
general court in 1674 and 1685. Deacon Si-
mon Huntington married, in Saybrook, Octo-
ber, 1653, Sarah, born 1633, died 1721, daugh-
ter of John (or Joseph) Clark, of Windsor,
later of Saybrook. Children: 1. Sarah, born
in Saybrook, August, 1654, married in Nor-
wich, November 23, 1676, Dr. Solomon Tracy,
and died in 1683. 2. Mary, born August,
1657, in Saybrook, married a Mr. Forbes, of
Preston. 3. Simon, see forward. 4. Joseph,
born in Norwich, September, 1661, died De-

cember 29, 1747. He located at Windsor in
1687, and in 1729, was chosen deacon of the
church. He married Rebecca Adgate. 5.
Elizabeth, born February, 1664, died in in-
fancy. 6. Samuel, born March 1, 1665. 7-
Elizabeth, October 6, 1669, married Joseph
Backus. 8. Nathaniel, born July, 1672, died
young. 9. Daniel, born March 13, 1675 or
1676, married (first) Abigail Bingham,
(second) Rachel Wolcott, of Windham. 10.
James, born May 18, 1680, died in Norwich,
where he attained prominence, September 3,
1727. He married Priscilla Miller.

(III) Deacon Simon (3) Huntington, eld-
est son and third child of Deacon Simon (2)
and Sarah (Clark) Huntington, was born in
Saybrook, February 6, 1659, died November
2, 1736. He succeeded his father as deacon
in the church in 1696, and served capably in
many of the most important offices of the town
of Norwich. He married, Norwich, October
8, 1683. Lydia, born August, 1663, died Au-
gust 8. 1737, daughter of John Gager.

(IV) Joshua, son of Deacon Simon (3)
and Lydia (Gager) Huntington, was born in
Norwich, December 30, 1698, died August 26,
1745. His business ability was of a very high
order, and he laid the foundation of the wealth
which gave the family such prestige at the
beginning of the revolutionary war. He and
his wife were admitted to the church in 1727.
He married, October 16, 1718, Hannah, born
1701, died 1745, daughter of Jabez and Han-
nah (Lathrop) Perkins.

(V) General Jabez Huntington, son of
Joshua and Hannah (Perkins) Huntington,
was born August 7, 1719. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1741 and united with
the church the same year. He was elected a
member of the general assembly of Connec-
ticut in 1750, represented his native town in
that body for many years, and frequently acted
as presiding officer of the lower house. He
engaged in the West India trade soon after
his graduation and acquired one of the larg-
est fortunes of the times. The immense num-
ber of ships of which he was the owner were
cheerfully sacrificed on the altar of patriotism
when hostilities broke out with the mother
country, and he was a most active member
of the committee of safety during the war.
He was appointed one of the two major-gen-
erals from Connecticut in 1776 for the mili-
tia, and, upon the death of David Wooster,
the other appointee, Mr. Huntington was ap-
pointed major-general over the entire militia
of Connecticut. He and his family made
enormous sacrifices in the cause of the revolu-
tion, and at the time of the Norwich bicen-
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man's oration : "If the annals of the revolu-
tion record the name of any family which con-
tributed more to that great struggle, I have
yet to learn it". General Huntington mar-
ried (first) January 20, 1741-42, Elizabeth,
born February 21, 1721, died July 1, 1745,
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tracy)
Backus. He married (second) July 10, 1746,
Hannah Williams, of Pomfret, born July 23,
1726. Children: Jedediah, see forward;
Andrew ; Joshua ; Ebenezer ; Elizabeth ; Mary ;
Zachariah.

(VI) General Jedediah Huntington, son of
General Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Hunt-
ington, was born August 4, 1743, died Sep-
tember 25, 1818, at New London, where his
remains were at first interred, but later re-
moved to the family tomb at Norwich. He
was graduated from Harvard College with
honor in 1763, and Yale College conferred
the master's degree upon him in 1770. Upon
the conclusion of his studies he became asso-
ciated with his father in the latter's mercan-
tile enterprises until the beginning of the
revolutionary war. His military record is so
closely and so brilliantly interwoven with the
history of this struggle that a record of one
is practically a record of the other. He was
especially recommended for promotion by
Washington, and was a member of the com-
mittee which drafted a plan of organization
resulting in the constitution of the Society
of the Cincinnati. Upon his return to Nor-
wich General Huntington resumed his busi-
ness operations, was chosen sheriff of the
county, treasurer of the state, and delegate
to the convention which adopted the consti-
tution of the United States. In 1789 he was
appointed by President Washington collector
of the customs of New London, retained this
office under four administrations, and resigned
a short time prior to his death. He made a
public profession of religion when twenty-
tbree years of age, and throughout his life was
a most active supporter of the church's inter-
ests. General Huntington married (first)
Faith, daughter of Governor Jonathan and
Faith (Robinson) Trumbull. She died at
Dedbam, Massachusetts, on her way to camp,
December, 1775, leaving one son. He mar-
ried (second) Ann. daughter of Thomas
Moore, who had seven children and survived
her husband.

(The Trumbull Line).

(I) John Trumbull, immigrant ancestor of
this family, was a cooper, and came to New
England from Newcastle-on-Tyne. He set-
tled at Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1640, and
filled the offices of town clerk and schoolmas-

ter. He married, in England, 1635, Ellinor
Chandler, and brought his wife and a son,
John, with him. Children : Beriah, born in
1637, died in infancy; John, see forward.

(II) John (2), youngest child of John (1)
and Ellinor (Chandler) Trumbull, was born
1639, died 1690. He married Deborah Jackson.
Children: 1. John, born 1670, died 1751 ;
married Elizabeth Winchell ; removed to Suf-
field, Connecticut. 2. Hannah, 1673. 3.
Mary, 1675, married Captain Job Ellsworth.
4. Joseph, see forward. 5. Ammi, 1681, re-
moved to East Windsor ; married Ann Burn-
ham. 6. Benoni, 1684, removed to Hebron.

(III) Joseph, second son and fourth child
of John (2) and Deborah (Jackson) Trum-
bull, was born 1678, removed to Lebanon,
Connecticut, and died June 16, 1755. He mar-
ried, August 31, 1704, Hannah Higley, born
at Windsor, April 22, 1683, died November
8, 1768. Children: 1. Joseph, born March
27, 1705, died 1732; married, November 20,
1727, Sarah Bulkley. 2. Jonathan, see for-
ward. 3. Mary, born August 21, 1713. 4.
Hannah, 17 15, died young. 5. Hannah, Sep-
tember 18, 1 71 7. 6. Abigail, March 6, 17 19.
7. David, September 8, 1723, died July 9,
1740.

(IV) Governor Jonathan Trumbull, second
son and child of Joseph and Hannah (Hig-
ley) Trumbull, was born October 12, 1710,
died August 17, 1785. He was graduated
with honor from Harvard College at the age
of seventeen years, having acquired an es-
pecial proficiency in the Hebrew language.
He commenced the study of theology under
the Rev. Solomon Williams, of Lebanon, be-
came a duly licensed clergyman, and, at the
time of the death of his brother Joseph, had
received a call to the church in Colchester.
This death changed the plans made for his
future life by his father, and his business and
public life began with the following year.
His rise in public life was a constant and
successful one, and is a matter of history
which it is unnecessary to give in detail here.
His relations with Washington were of so
confidential a nature that Connecticut tradi-
tion has it that the origin of the popular name
of the American people arose from a remark
of Washington, when in need of supplies of
any nature or counsel during the days of trib-
ulation of the war, "We must consult bro-
ther Jonathan." Governor Trumbull married,
December 9, 1735, Faith, daughter of Rev.
John Robinson, of Duxbury, Massachusetts.
She was a lineal descendant of John Alden,
the pilgrim, and is said to have been a lineal
descendant of John Robinson, of Peyden, the
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no proofs to substantiate it. Children: I.
Joseph, born March II, 1737, died July 23,
1778; married, March, 1777, Amelia Dyer.
2. Jonathan, see forward. 3. Faith, January
25, 1743, died November 24, 1775; married
General Jedediah Huntington. 4. Mary, July
16, 1745, died February 9, 1831 ; married,
February 14, 1771, William Williams, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. 5. David, February 5, 1751-52, died
January 17, 1822; married, December 6, 1778,
Sarah Backus, born February 7, 1760, died
June 2, 1846. 6. John, June 6, 1756, died
November 10, 1843; married in London.

(V) Jonathan (2), second son and child
of Governor Jonathan (1), and Faith (Rob-
inson) Trumbull, was born March 26, 1740,
died August 7, 1809. He was graduated from
Harvard College with honors in 1759. At the
time of the beginning of the revolutionary
war he was serving as a deputy from Lebanon
to the general assembly of Connecticut, and
in 1775 was appointed deputy paymaster-gen-
eral for the northern department of the army,
an office he filled until the close of the north-
ern campaign. He was obliged to retire from
the army for a time on the death of his broth-
er Joseph, in order to settle up the latter's
estate, and during this time was re-elected as
a deputy to the general assembly. While
presenting his brother's accounts to the con-
tinental congress, at Philadelphia, his finan-
cial ability was conceded to be so remarkable
that he was appointed comptroller of the treas-
ury, a position which placed him at the head
of the treasury department. The department
was reorganized the following year and he
was made one of a committee of five to
control it. In 1780 he was appointed
secretary and first aide to General Wash-
ington, a position which kept him in close
and constant touch with that eminent
man, and be was present at the surrender of
Cornwallis. He was again elected as a deputy
to the general assembly in 1788, and became
speaker of the house of representatives. In
1789 he represented Connecticut in the first
congress of the United States under the con-
stitution, in 1 791 was made speaker of the
house of representatives of that body, and in
1794 was elected a senator in the congress of
the United States. He resigned his seat in
the senate when he was elected lieutenant-
governor of his native state, in 1796, and
was elected governor in 1798, upon the death
of Governor Oliver Wolcott, an office he
filled by successive re-elections until his death.
Few men of his day studied more closely the
public questions of the hour, and his perfect
mastery of the subjects under his considera-

tion enabled him to give a clear and decisive
expression to his views. In manner he was
simple and unaffected, and even during the
most heated political campaign his private
character was never subjected to attack, but
the criticism was always directed against the
measures he championed. Governor Trum-
bull married, March 26, 1767, Eunice Backus.
Children: Jonathan, born December 24, 1767,
died young; Faith, February 1, 1769, mar-
ried Daniel Wadsworth, of Hartford; Mary,
December 27, 1777, died young; Harriet, see
forward; Maria, February 14, 1785, mar-
ried Henry Hudson, of Hartford.

(VI) Harriet, third daughter and fourth
child of Governor Jonathan (2) and Eunice
(Backus) Trumbull, was born September 2,
1783, married, September 17, 1809, Professor
Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College.

(VII) Henrietta, daughter of Professor
Benjamin and Harriet (Trumbull) Silliman,
married, June 5, 1844, Professor James
Dwight Dana. They had six children, of
whom four are now living.

(VIII) Frances Henrietta, daughter of
Professor James Dwight and Henrietta (Sil-
liman) Dana, married George Douglas Coit
(see Coit).

It is .supposed that Edward
SHEPARD Shepard came from England,
but no mention is found of
him previous to his appearance in New Eng-
land, nor has any connection been found be-
tween him and some half dozen other Shep-
ards who came to this country, about the same
time. There is no record of his marriage,
but Violet Shepard died January 9, 16-18-49.
The daughter of Mary Pond married John
Blackmail, and their first child was born Au-
gust 10, 1656. It is very likely, therefore,
that Mrs. Mary Pond lived at Cambridge be-
fore her marriage with Edward Shepard, as
her first husband, Robert Pond, died in 1637.
Daniel Pond, who married Abigail Shepard,
was probably her son, and she must have
brought other children with her to Cam-
bridge. Edward Shepard's name, and that of
his son, John Shepard, appears in the town
and county records in various places until
1680-81, when his will was proved August
20. 1680, and John sold the homestead, Sep-
tember 18, 1 68 1, to Owen Warland. That
he was a mariner appears from his own
assertion in deeds and in his will. The exact
date of his death is not known. Children :
John, born 1627, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
1629; Abigail, 1631; Deborah, 1633; Sarah,
16^6. There is no record of any children
by Mary Pond.

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(II) John, son of Edward Shepard, was He married (second) October 17, 1773,
born in England in 1627. He married (first) Widow Grace Savage. Children, by first
October I, 1649, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel wife: William, born August 30, 1750; Eliza-
Greenhill. She died December 22, 1689. He beth, August 1, 1752; Daniel, March 2, 1754,
married (second) Susannah, widow of Wil- mentioned below ; Sarah, November 30, 1756;
liam Goodwin Sr., of Hartford. He made a Mary, January 30, 1758; Reuben, August 13,
marriage contract with her dated August 3, 1760; Rachel, March 19, 1763; William, Feb-
1691. William Goodwin died October 15, ruary 19, 1765 ; Elizabeth, February 15, 1767;
1689. His wife's will, dated March 7, 1698, Andrew, December 15, 1768; Samuel, Novem-
mentioning three children by name of Good- ber 19, 1772. Children, by second wife: Lucy,
win, was proved April 14, 1698. William August 1, 1774; Nathaniel, September 7,
Goodwin and John Pratt were appointed ad- 1776; Esther; Jonathan; Ruth, November 2,
ministrators. He married (third) September 1788.

8, 1698, Martha, widow of John Henbury, (VI) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Shep-
who survived him. John Henbury was bur- ard, was born at Chatham, now Portland,
ied August 1, 1687. John Shepard died June March 2, 1754, died there October 24, 1850,
12, 1707. He was made a freeman at Cam- at the great age of ninety-seven,
bridge, May 22, 1650. It is supposed that (VII) Erastus, son of Daniel (2) Shep-
he moved to Hartford after the birth of ard. was born at Portland, in 1791. died there
Thomas in 1666, as this is the last birth September 15, 1843. He married (first)
record at Cambridge. The first mention of Monor, daughter of Luther Goodrich, of
him in Hartford is found in 1654. Hinman Chatham. She died in 1832, and he married
says that he was "a man of consequence in (second) Desire, daughter of Samuel Wil-
the colony." He was known as Sergeant cox. Children, born at Chatham, now Port-
John Shepard. He lived in Hartford on what land: Emily, 1812; Edward, 1814; Edward,
is now known as Lafayette street, just south 1816; Delia L., 1818; Nelson, mentioned be-
of the new State House, and owned lands to low; Maria, 1824. Child of second wife:
the Wethersfield bounds. Children, all by Henry S., September 13, 1833.
first wife: Rebecca, born 1650; John, Janu- (VIII) Nelson, son of Erastus Shepard,
ary 2.2, 1653; Sarah, March 5, 1656; Violet; was born at Portland, December 25, 1820.
Elizabeth, 1660; Edward, July 31, 1662, He was educated in the public schools of his
mentioned below; Samuel, 1664; Thomas, native town. He inherited from his father
November 12, 1666; Deborah; Abigail; sixty acres of land, and in 1856 built a
Hannah. new house on the site of the old one. About

(III) Edward (2), son of John Shepard, this time he began to raise tobacco, and was
was born July 31, 1662, died September 9, very successful in the venture, acquiring a
171 1. He resided at Middletown, and was comfortable fortune. He was a prominent
deputy to the general court, 1710-11. He citizen, and was for many years active and in-
married, April 14, 1687, Abigail, born July fluential in public affairs. He was for three
10, 1666, died October 16, 1719, daughter of years county commissioner, selectman of the
John and Elizabeth Savage. Children : John, town three years, and for a time represented
born February 19, 1688, mentioned below; Portland in the general assembly. He was
Edward, December 18, 1689; Samuel, April a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal
18, 1692. church of Glastonbury. He was a stockhol-

(IV) John (2), son of Edward (2) Shep- der in the Middlesex Quarry Company, trus-
ard, was born February 19, 1688. He mar- tee of the Freestone Savings Bank, and di-
ried, February 17, 1720, Sarah, born Septem- rector and vice-president "of the National
ber 8, 1692, daughter of John and Elizabeth Bank of Portland. He married, in Novem-
( White) Clarke, of Middletown. Children: ber, 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Noah Try-
John, born January 19, 1722; Daniel, Septem- on. Children, born at Portland: I. Gertrude
ber 16, 1723, mentioned below; Abigail, Octo- Elizabeth, May 29, 1848; married, Novem-
ber 23, 1726; Sarah, December 10, 1727; ber 3, 1869, Henry Cromwell, who served
Elizabeth, July 23, 1729; Thomas, July 20, with credit through the civil war in the
1 731; Hannah, April 26.. 1734; Elisha, Sep- Twentieth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry,
tember 30, 1736. 2. Isabella Leland, November 11, 1850; mar-

(V) Daniel, son of John (2) Shepard, was ried, May 14, 1880, Erastus Hubbard Crosby
born September 16, 1723, died at Portland, 3. Lizzie A., October 30, 1853; died July 7,
August 22, 1798. He lived at Chatham, Con- 1856. 4. Carrie E., November 10, 1857; died
necticut. He married (first) June 30, 1749, February 7, 1870. 5. Andrew Nelson, 'men-
Sarah Cornwall, who died January 10, 1773. tioned below.

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(IX) Colonel Andrew Nelson, son of Nel-
son Shepard, was born at Portland, May 5,
1862. He attended the public schools, the
Glastonbury Academy and the Cheshire Mili-
tary Academy under the principalship of Ur.
Horton. During his boyhood he worked on
his father's farm when not in school, and
since 1888 has been engaged in growing to-
bacco on a large scale. He is one of the
most progressive, scientific and successful
farmers in the state. He has a large plant
for housing, packing and dealing in tobacco
at Portland. Colonel Shepard has been dis-
tinguished also in public life. He was auditor
of the town of Portland from 1883 to ^93'y
member of the board of relief from 1899 to
1909; represented the town in the general as-
sembly in 1 90 1 ; served on the house commit-
tee on appropriations; in 1907 was elected to
the state senate and was chairman of the com-
mittee on humane institutions. In politics he
is a Republican. He is a director of the First
National Bank and trustee of the Freestone
Savings Bank. He was a member of the staff
of Governor George A. Lilley, and when the
governor died and was succeeded by Lieuten-
ant-Governor F. B. Weeks, Colonel Shepard
was reappointed to the staff with the rank of
colonel. He is a member of Warren Lodge
No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of Port-
land ; Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, of Middletown; Washington Comman-
dery, Knights Templar ; Sphinx Temple, Mys-
tic Shrine, of Hartford ; Freestone Lodge,
Odd Fellows ; Order of Elks ; Ancient Order
of United Workmen, and the Hartford Club.
He is a vestryman of Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Portland. Colonel Shepard
is fond of out-of-door sports, and makes an
annual hunting trip in the Maine woods. He
married, in 1889, Harriet, born August, 1868,
daughter of A. B. Stockwell, of Windsor
Locks, Connecticut. Children : Dorothea,
born Mary 13, 1891, a graduate of the Bennett
School, Halcyon Hall, Millbrook, New York,
in the class of 1910, with the degree of A.B. ;
Nelson A., November 1, 1897.

Hon. Hugh Henry Osgood
OSGOOD (deceased), for a number of
years one of the leading drug-
gists of the state of Connecticut, at the time
of his death president of the Norwich Drug-
gists Association, and associated with nu-
merous other enterprises, commercial and
otherwise, in his city, county and state, was
one of the most progressive, successful and
altogether creditable citizens Norwich has
ever had the honor to claim. Perhaps no bet-
ter description of the character of the man

could be given than that which appears on
the tablet at the entrance to the beautiful
parish house of Park Congregational church,
erected to his memory : "An interested and
generous member of Park Congregational
Church from its organization ; a sincere and
earnest Christian ; a public-spirited citizen ; a
broad-minded patriot ; a wise counselor ; a
devoted and unselfish friend ; a man of noble
powers, nobly used." The last clause is the
keynote to his whole life.

Colonel Osgood was born October 10, 1821,
in Southbridge, Massachusetts, son of Arte-
mas and Saloma (Johnson) Osgood, and
passed his earlier years at his native place. At
the age of ten he came to Norwich, and first
lived with an uncle, but his parents came
hither later, from Pomfret, and the family
resided in what is now the Young block, on
Franklin Square. Mr. Osgood's early am-
bitions inclined him toward the drug business,
and he entered the employ of Samuel Tyler
& Son (afterwards Tyler & Devotion), who
conducted a drug store in a small wooden
building on Water street, where the Tyler
Building now stands. In March, 1842, in
company with his uncle, Dr. Charles Lee, he
opened a drug store under the firm name of
Lee & Osgood, occupying the room later used
for part of their wholesale business. Dr.
Lee remained as a member of their firm until
his death, in the middle sixties, and Mr. Os-
good continued in the business for over half
a century, until his death, October 22, 1899.
The concern prospered beyond all expecta-
tion, in time requiring two large buildings,
and Mr. Osgood came to the front not only in
that line, but in every branch of commercial
enterprise in his section. At the time of his
death he was president of the Uncas Paper
Company, the Goodwin Cork Company, the
Dime Savings Bank, and the Sterling Dyeing
and Finishing Company, of Sterling, Connec-
ticut. He served a long time as president of
the Worcester Thread Company, of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, and the Glasgo Yarn
Company, of Glasgo, Connecticut, until they
were absorbed by the American Thread Com-
pany. He served a long time as president of
the Norwich Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing
Company, and when it was merged into the
United States Finishing Company, of New
York, he became vice-president of the new
concern. He was a director of the Thames
National Bank, the First National Bank, the
Ashland Cotton Company, of Jewett City, the
Norwich Gas and Electric Company, the Yan-
tic Woolen Company, and the Richmond Stove
Company. Ever on the alert to advance the
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early promoters of the Norwich Bulletin, and
acted as president of the Bulletin Association
and the Bulletin Company ; he was one of the
prime movers in the organization of the Nor-
wich Board of Trade, was the first president
of that body, and never lost his interest in it.

Mr. Osgood was equally active in the pub-
lic life of the community. He served several
terms as a member of the court of common
council, and was subsequently honored with
the mayoralty of the city, serving from 1875
to 1876, and from 1877 to 1886, with what
satisfaction may be best judged from the
length of his term. Whenever he consented
to run he was elected with flattering majori-
ties, which were fully explained by the char-
acter of his administration. Many public im-
provements were inaugurated and carried
through while he was in office, among the
most important being a sewer system in the
central part of the city and the introduction
of the fire alarm telegraph. He was always
interested in the fire department. When the
Wauregan Steam Fire Engine Company was
organized his name headed the list, and he
was foreman several years, and always a
warm friend of the organization, in which
he retained an honorary membership until
his death. Public education was another
matter to which he gave especial attention.
He was a fellow of the corporation of the
Norwich Free Academy, and for over forty
years served as treasurer of the Center school
district.

During the civil war Mr. Osgood was an
ardent Union man, aided in raising and send-
ing troops to the front, and was a member
and on the executive committee of the Loyal
League, an organization formed to advance
the Union cause. While William A. Buck-
ingham was governor Mr. Osgood was a
member of his staff, ranking as colonel, and
was the only one on the staff who served
through the governor's entire administration,
lie was a promoter of the organization of
the Buckingham Rifles. His political alle-
giance' was originally given to the Whig
party, and he joined the Republican party
at its organization, being ever after one of
its staunchest supporters.

Socially Mr. Osgood was one of the or-
ganizers of the Kitemaug Association, of
which he was president ; was a charter mem-
ber of the Norwich Club and held membership
in the Arcanum Club. Fraternally he stood
high in Mjsonic circles. In i860 he joined
Somerset Lodge, No. 34, Free and Accepted
Masons, and in 1872 became a charter mem-
ber of St. James Lodge, No. 23, Free and
Accepted Masons ; he also affiliated with

Franklin Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch
Masons; Franklin Council, No. 3, Royal and
Select Masters; Columbian Commandery,
No. 4, Knights Templar; and all of the Scot-
tish rite bodies. He was one of the trustees
of the Masonic Temple corporation bonds.

Mr. Osgood's religious connection was
with the Park Congregational Church, of
which he was one of the constituent members-,
and he served for years as chairman of the
society's committee. He attended services
regularly, and was active in every branch
of work undertaken by the congregation, but
was particularly interested in the Parish
House Association, organized to promote
church work and build a parish house to>
accommodate the needs of an increasing
membership, and afford room for the various
entertainments and social functions of the
congregation. In February, 1895, it was
voted to purchase a piece of land south of
the chapel, which had been offered to the
association for $3,000. Colonel Osgood pur-
chased the land himself, and before his death
deeded it to the association. He was much
interested in the idea of having this needed
building, and on the Easter morning after
his death it was announced that Mrs. Osgood
would make a gift of a parish house in mem-
ory of her husband. The beautiful building,,
complete in every detail, and ample for every
requirement, was dedicated on Sunday, No-
vember 2, 1902, and is a fitting memorial to
the high Christian character of the man in
whose honor it was reared. It is the most
beautiful structure of the kind in eastern
Connecticut. Colonel Osgood was interested
in all benevolent and charitable work, was a
vice-president of the Young Men's Christian
Association, a member of the advisory com-
mittee of the United Workers, and % for two
years president of the Norwich City Mission-
In all these organizations, as, indeed, in every
body with which he was connected, Mr. Os-
good was a power for good, possessing much
influence with all his associates — the result of
a life of unimpeachable integrity, combined
with ability of a high order. The welfare of
his employees was always a matter of con-
cern to him, and he had their unbounded con-
fidence and esteem ; the same might be said
of his relations with his patrons, among
whom he was regarded with feelings of the
utmost respect. He was often chosen to act
as chairman in such positions, his remarks
being few and well chosen, typical of his
unassuming and retiring disposition. All the
honors he received came to him entirely un-
solicited, and Dr. Howe expressed the gen-
eral sentiment when, in the funeral address,

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he said: "No office in his reach could have
brought him added honor. The few offices of
trust and responsibility which his fellow
townsmen tbrust upon him added nothing to
the name he won, and were only accepted as
the means of rendering his city a needed
service." Such was the impression he made
upon those with whom he daily associated.

On June 23, 1892, Mr. Osgood was mar-
ried, by Rev. Dr. S. H. Howe, to Miss Mary
Ruth Lee, of Manlius, New York, who sur-
vives him. He was also survived by his twin
sister, Miss Jane E. Osgood (now deceased),
and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Os-
good is a most estimable lady, and, like her
husband, deeply interested in works of a
benevolent and charitable nature. She has
been connected with the W. W. Backus Hos-
pital since it was established, and is chairman
of the advisory committee of that institution.
Mrs. < >sgood is a member of the local chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

On October 7, 1899, Mr. Osgood and his
wife left Norwich for Niagara Falls, where
Mr. Osgood attended the national convention
of wholesale druggists. On the return trip
he was taken ill, but, not regarding his cold
as serious, proceeded to Manlius, New York,
near Syracuse, where Mrs. Osgood resided
before her marriage. There he was again
prostrated, and became sick with .pneumonia,
which, with heart failure, caused his death.
October 22. His health had not been good
for the last several years. The death of a
citizen whose interests were so numerous,
whose sympathies were so wide, caused uni-
versal grief in Norwich, and throughout that
part of the state in general, and many were
the expressions of sorrow at his demise. A
number of prominent citizens met the remains
at the depot, and all honor was shown to one
who had throughout life shown himself
worthy and highly deserving. During the
funeral almost every place of business in the
city was closed, and the court house bell was
tolled for half an hour at noon that day —
the first time such an honor was ever paid
to a private citizen. There were many other
unusual marks of respect. At the funeral
services in the church were members of the
city and town government, bank officials, and
representatives from the various organiza-
tions to which Mr. Osgood belonged, and
the members of Sedgwick Post, No. 1, Grand
Army of the Republic, were present in a body,
in citizens' dress. Relatives, friends, neigh-
bors, business associates, employes — all came
to do honor to the memory of one who had
ever commanded their respect and affection,
and a most touching address was delivered

by his pastor, Rev. Dr. Howe. Among the
resolutions of sympathy passed by the organi-
zations with which he had been connected,
Coolcy's Weekly of Friday, October 27, 1899,
published those from the common council, the
Norwich Board of Trade, Sedgwick Post, No.
1, Grand Army of the Republic, the Masonic
Temple Corporation, Hugh H. Osgood Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Wauregan Steam Fire Engine Company,
the Dime Savings Bank, the Norwich
Savings Society, the Thames National
Bank, the First National Bank, the Norwich
Druggists' Association, the Lncas Paper
Company and the Crescent Fire Arms Com-
pany. A few extracts from these will not
be out of place in this connection. From the
Masonic Temple Corporation :

While Hon. H. H. Osgood, 326. degree, was not
a director, nor even an incorporator, of this corpora-
tion, it is felt that his death should receive
something more than a passing notice from us. In
spite of the almost innumerable interests, public,
corporate or private, which demanded his attention,
he took a deep interest in the formation and suc-
cess of this corporation, subscribing liberally for
our bonds, willingly consenting to act as trustee for
the bondholders, in which capacity his autograph
appears upon all the bonds.

He was ever ready with his mature judgment, to
give us the benefit of his vast experience at the
time of our organization and later in the conduct
of affairs, and the success which has attended the
corporation was a source of deep gratification to
him.

It is therefore voted : That a page in the records
of this corporation be set apart to the memory of
Hon. Hugh Henry Osgood, the upright citizen, the
incorruptible public official, the firm and devoted
friend, in short the consistent Mason, with all that
is implied thereby.
Official: Arthur H. Brewer,

Chas. B. Chapman, President.

Secretary.

The Thames National Bank :

By the death of the Hon. Hugh H. Osgood there
is lost to the State and community a patriotic and
public-spirited citizen of the best type, to our busi-
ness interests an example of enterprise, thrift and
honorable conduct of affairs, to the poor a friend
ever sympathizing, helpful and generous.

Full of years and honors he has gone to his rest
with the respect, the esteem and the love of all to
whom he was known. No man has been more widely
identified with all the varied interests of a com-
munity, with its political and social life, its churches
and schools, its manufacturing, mercantile and
financial enterprises, and in all he was a leader, not
by reason of self seeking, but by the common con-
sent of his fellows, who have recognized in him a
superiority in wisdom, in self control, in tact and
d;>interestedness.

Kindly in heart, and genial in bearing, he in-
vited confidence and from the stores of his large
experience, gave counsel to the inexperienced or
perplexed. No measure for the public welfare, no
plan to relieve private distress, but enlisted his
ready sympathy and active assistance.

Always progressive he kept pace with the advance

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of the age, and in appreciation of every material im-
provement in social, scientific and industrial af-
fairs he was as one entering upon a career and
desirous of equipping himself with the best instru-
ments of success. Large minded and far seeing, he
wrought for the best interests of the community in
which he lived, and among the successful institu-
tions of his town, there are few who do not bear
the impress of his energy, knowledge and public
spirit.

In voicing its own severe loss this board but
joins in sympathy with a community which is be-
reaved of its foremost citizen.

Voted: That this banking house be closed during
the hours of the funeral and that the directors at-
tend the services in a body.

Chas. W. Gale, Cashier.

The First National Bank :

The death of Hon. Hugh H. Osgood has fallen
upon this community with suddenness, and with
almost paralyzing force. On every side spontaneous
expressions of respect and affection are heard, and
sincere regret that this community has lost its first
citizen.

No eulogistic expression can completely portray
His character, which had for its broad foundation
truth, honor and integrity and all those character-
istics which marked the moral, the social, the re-
ligious and the business life of an upright man.

He was in touch with and his force was felt
in business enterprises to a great extent that is
the choice or possibility with few men only. He
yielded his personal comfort and pleasure at the
solicitation of friends, who leaned upon him in as-
sociation for advice and assistance. In business
his was notably the strong arm.

In church and school, and in the broader walks
of life, he was an intelligent, sympathetic and strong
leader, the supporter of all that is good and true.

In charities the kindest sympathies and the gen-
erous impulses of a Christian philanthropist took
expression in the deeds done, the number of which
none can know.

Joining in the universal expression of sorrow,
and in sympathy and love for a true friend, this
board desires to record their appreciation of the
man, and their pleasure in having so long enjoyed
his friendship and association, as well as his val-
uable advice and co-operation in its affairs.

It is further ordered that the bank be closed on
the afternoon of Thursday, 26th, and that the di-
rectors attend the funeral services.

F. S. Jerome, Cashier.

Following is the editorial which appeared
in the paper mentioned, and in which the
foregoing notices appeared :

In the death of Hon. Hugh H. Osgood, Norwich,
as a community, suffers an almost irreparable loss,
that is universally recognized and sincerely felt.
The many large business interests with which he
was so long and closely identified are deprived of
a wise counsellor and hundreds of individuals mourn
the departure of a personal friend whose substan-
tial aid has time and again been unostentatiously
tendered them.

Col. Osgood was a self-made man, who achieved
the highest measure of usefulness and influence in
both public and private life. He was successful not
only in promoting business enterprises but also in
winning by honest and able effort the hearty esteem
of his fellow citizens. Firm in his own convictions,
he was yet tolerant of opposing opinions, and his

advice for years had been sought by men of af-
fairs in all "walks of life. His going out creates
vacancies many and varied. He will be sadly
missed, yet the genuine public sorrow that marks
his passage from the scenes of his life work is mel-
lowed by the realization that his years of activity
were prolonged nearly a decade beyond the allotted
life of man. His work is done, and the memory
of it will long be gratefully cherished by his ap-
preciative townsmen.

Miles Merwin, immigrant an-
MERWIN cestor, was born in Wales in

1623, died at Milford, Con-
necticut, April 23, 1697. He came to this
country in 1645 an^ settled first at Milford,
later at Merwin's Point, as it came to be
known, in the town of West Haven. His
inventory was dated May 12, 1697; his will
bequeathed to four sons and several daugh-
ters. He married (first) Sarah — ■ , who

died July 16, 1664; (second) Sarah Beach,
widow of Thomas Piatt; she died in 1670

and he married (third) Sarah , who

survived him. Children : Elizabeth ; John,
mentioned below ; Abigail ; Thomas ; Samuel,
August 21, 1656; Miles, December 14, 1658.
The first six are mentioned in the will of
their aunt, Abigail Wareham, widow of Rev.
John, and previously widow of John Branker.
Daniel, died young; Mary (twin), January
23, 1666; Martha (twin) ; Hannah, 1667;
Deborah, 1670.

(II) John, son of Miles Merwin, was born
in 1650, in Connecticut, died at Milford in
1728. He inherited his father's homestead.
He married Mary (Welch) Holbrook.
Among their children was John, mentioned
below.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Merwin,
was born at Milford, April 16, 1683, died in
1762. He married Hannah Piatt. Among
their children was Joseph, mentioned below;
John, born in April, 1707.

(IV) Joseph, son of John (2) Merwin,
was born in 1705. He lived at Milford and
married Margaret, daughter of John Fowler.
Among their children was David, mentioned
below.

(V) David, son of Joseph Merwin, was
born at West Haven, October 11, 1746, on
the homestead at Merwin's Point, died at
New Milford, April 25, 1826. He was a
soldier in the revolution from New Haven in
1 78 1, and must have had other service in the
continental army, for he was a pensioner in
later life. He married Tamesin Comstock,
born June, 1742, died May 28, 1828. Chil-
dren : Orange, mentioned below ; Sarah,
born about 1785.

(VI) Orange, son of David Merwin, was
born at New Milford, April 7, 1777, died

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September 4, 1853. He married (first)
Tryphena Warner; (second) Lydia Sarah
Bostwick, born August 3, 1783, died October
4, 1853. He was a prosperous farmer, active
in public affairs and of much influence in the
community. He held various offices of trust
and honor, and represented for a time his
district in congress. He was an intimate
friend of Elijah Boardman. Children of first
wife: 1. Caroline, born 1801, died January
20, 1824. married Judge David Sanford. 2.
Henry, July 13, 1803; died April 3, 1880;
married Susan Gaylord. 3. Tryphena, born
1805, died June 2, 1870; married Marshall
Piatt. 4. Horace, mentioned below. Chil-
dren of second wife: 5. Harriet, born May
12, 181 1, died June 18, 1867, unmarried. 6.
Charlotte, August 5, 1814, died June 4, 1890;
married (first) Ezra Murray; (second) Starr
Hurd.

(VII) Horace, son of Orange Merwin,
was born in New Milford, December 1, 1806,
died April 12, 1890. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town. He fol-
lowed farming all his active life on the old
Merwin homestead. He was active in the
militia and captain of his company. He was
prominent in politics and represented his
town in the general assembly. He married
Sarah Florinda Peet, born at New Milford,
June 3, 1818, died February 20, 1898. Chil-
dren: 1. Carlos Peet, mentioned below. 2.
Garwood Riley. 3. Sarah Florinda, married
Daniel E. Marsh, living at Bridgeport. 4.
Orange, born August 21, 1854. 5. Florence
Caroline, married (first) Henry C. Lemmon ;
(second) N. Penrose Allen; (third) Clark-
son Clothier.

( VIII) Carlos Peet, son of Horace Mer-
win. was born at New Milford, August 30,
1839, died May 2, 1885. He was educated
in the public schools and in the Claverack
Institute on the Hudson, New York, and at
the academy at Watertown, Connecticut. He
was a farmer at New Milford. For many
years he was a gauger in the United States
internal revenue service. He married, in
1869, Mary Alice Monroe, born at Salisbury,
Connecticut, July 3, 1845, now living at New
Milford, Connecticut, a daughter of Chancel-
lor and Jane (Barton) Monroe. Children:
i. Garwood M.. mentioned below. 2. Fred-
erick Carlos, born June 2, 1878, hardware
dealer in Freedom, Pennsylvania ; married
Mildred Hallock, of New Milford.

(IX) Garwood M., son of Carlos Peet
Merwin, was born at New Milford, January
30, 1872. He attended the public schools
and the academy at Poultney, Vermont. He
left school in 1891 and worked for a year on

his father's farm. He entered the employ of
E. S. Wheeler & Company, wholesale dealers,
in plumbers' supplies, in 1892. From 1895,
in 1897 he was with the Farest Steel Com-
pany of Bridgeport and from 1897 to 1903.
with Charles M. Beach, hardware dealer,
New Milford. He became president of the
Dickerman & Pond Company, hardware mer-
chants, in 1903, at Winsted, Connecticut, and
has continued in that business to the present
time. He and Mr. Dickerman are the prin-
cipal owners and control the company. Mr.
Merwin also has farming interests in New
Milford. He is a member of the Second
Congregational church of Winsted. He mar-
ried, June 15, 1898, Edith May Landon, of
Sharon, Connecticut, daughter of James H.
and Mary (Barton) Landon. They have one
child, Florence Landon, born at New Mil-
ford, August 14, 1 901.

James Latimer was born in
LATIMER Ireland. He came to this

country when a young man
and settled in Connecticut. He has followed
farming in Torrington and Goshen, and at
the present time has extensive farming inter-
ests in Goshen. He married Margaret Row-
land, who was also born in Ireland. Chil-
dren: 1. Frederick Porter, mentioned below.
2. William James, married Alice Rorabacher;
children : Rowland, Dorris and Edith. 3.
Jennie, married Charles Morehouse, a car-
penter in Danbury ; child, Gladys Morehouse.

4. May Elizabeth, married Elijah Pond, lives
in Canada, and has one child, Ralph Pond.

5. Robert, died in childhood. 6. Hattie, mar-
ried Julius Seymour, now with the Excelsior
Steam Laundry. 7. Emma, married George
Ailing, of Westville, Connecticut ; child,
Hazel Ailing. 8. Isabella, married John
Quinn and lives in Los Angeles, California.
9. Albert, lives on the homestead. 10. George,
resides in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 1 1. Val-
entine, died in infancy.

(II) Frederick Porter, son of James Lati-
mer, was born in Torrington, October 14,
1870. He was educated in the public schools
of Goshen, and during his boyhood and youth
worked at home on his father's farm. After-
ward he learned the laundry business at Tor-
rington, and in 1893 started in that business
in Torrington on his own account under the
name of Excelsior Steam Laundry. He has
been very successful in business. In 1900 he
built the business building in which the laun-
dry has since been located. He is a member
of the Business Men's Association of Tor-
rington and a member of the Ridgeley Lodge
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the Methodist Episcopal church. He mar-
ried, September 22, 1896, Anna Neth, of
Winchester Center, Connecticut, daughter of
John and Hannah (Bidwell) Neth. Chil-
dren: 1. Walter Neth, born August 19, 1899.
2. Marjorie Lydia, October 16, 1900. 3.
Howard John. January 7, 1902.

ried, November 2, 1862, Sarah Morrill
Thorne, born October, 1831, died July, 1909,
daughter of Nathaniel Arthur and Sarah Abi-
gail (Bishop) Thorne. They had one child,
Sarah Marion, born January 2, 1872; died
May 6, 1876.

The surname Armstrong
ARMSTRONG is one of the most ancient

and honored Scotch
family names. Some branches of the family
use the spelling Armstrang. Perhaps the
oldest coat-of-arms is simply : Argent three
pellets azure. Another, perhaps originally
the same, is : Argent three torteaux azure.
In Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire the
family uses : Gules three dexter arms vam-
braced argent hands proper. Crest : A dex-
ter arm vambraced in armor hand proper.
A prominent Armstrong family lives in Scot-
land.

(I) Griffith Armstrong, a descendant of
the ancient Scotch family, lived in the Bar-
badoes. He married Mary . Chil-
dren : Joseph Griffith, William H. Benomy,
Thompson Lorenzo, mentioned below. The
order of birth is not known.

(II) Thompson Lorenzo, son of Griffith
Armstrong, was born in the Barbadoes, West
Indies, about 1801, died in 1840. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Leslie Martindale, born 1801,
died in 1876, daughter of George and Eliza-
beth Nichols (Leslie) Martindale, of the Bar-
badoes. Children : Elizabeth Martindale, born
in the Barbadoes, September, 1831, died in
1870; George Leslie, mentioned below.

(III) George Leslie, son of Thompson
Lorenzo Armstrong, was born in the Bar-
badoes, West Indies, August 31, 1833, and
received his early education there, graduat-
ing from Harrison College in the class of
1850. He then engaged in mercantile life
in the West Indies and continued for many
years with great success. He was in busi-
ness from 1856 to 1866 in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. Rather late in life he took up the

' study of law and graduated from the Yale
Law School with the degree of LL.B. in the
class of 1891. He was admitted to the bar
the same year and has been in general prac-
tice in New Haven since then. He is a mem-
ber of the New Haven Bar Association, and
of Industrial Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Philadelphia. He was made a
Mason in Scotia Lodge in the Barbadoes and
was at one time senior warden of his lodge
in Philadelphia. He is independent in poli-
tics. He belongs to St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church of New Haven. He mar-

John Hugo was born in Germany.

HUGO He came to this country when a
young man with has family and
settled on a farm at Hopkinsville, Connecti-
cut, between Waterbury and Union City.

( II ) Hon. Philip Hugo, son of John Hugo,
was born in Hoesbach, Bavaria, Germany,
March 8, 1841. He was educated in the
schools of his native place. He came to this
country in 1865 and lived with his parents
two months ; in December of that year he
came to New Haven and has resided there
ever since. He established a German paper,
called Connecticut Observer, and continued
its publication for two years. He then en-
gaged in the grocery business and continued
the san:2 until 1883. He became a Demo-
crat in politics and took an active interest
in public affairs. In 1879 ne was elected
selectman of the town and served for four
years ; he served in the capacity of town clerk
for five years, from 1884 to 1889; m r9°4
he was the candidate of the Democratic party
in the state of Connecticut for the office of
secretary of state. He was elected to his pres-
ent office of sheriff of New Haven county in
November, 1906, taking office the following
January. In all the offices he has held he has
displayed marked executive ability and capac-
ity. He has won the public confidence by his
courtesy, zeal for the public welfare and his
uprightness. Year by year he has grown in
popularity and the public confidence. He was
one of the original founders and is now vice-
president and a most influential and enthu-
siastic member and worker in the German
Society of New Haven.

Mr. Hugo married, April 10, 1864, at
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, Eliza Stuer-
mer. Children: 1. Grace, born in Germany,
September, 1865; married (first), 1885,
Robert E. Bacon, who died in 1887; their
only child died in infancy; married (second)
1891, Frederick Bassermann; children: Flor-
ence, Frederick and Margaret. 2. Annie,
born 1867: married Augustus P. Smith;
children : Philip A., student in Yale Col-
lege, class of 1910; Albert; John. 3. Kate,
married Frank J. Monz ; children : Margaret,
Alma, Gertrude. 4. John, born in America,
1876; married Matilda Rademacher, of Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin; children: Dorothy Eliz-
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born in New Haven, Connecticut. 6. Mary
Theresa, born in New Haven, Connecticut;
married, 1907, Charles J. Donohue ; child,
Charles J. Jr., born in New Haven. 7. Simon
M., born in New Haven, Connecticut, 1882 ;
married Bernette Crowley, of New Haven ;
child, Bernette.

This surname has many variations
HOIT of spelling. The early records of
New England show the name
spelled Hoyt, Hoit, Hoyte, Hoite, Hoytt,
Hoitt, Hoyett, Hoyet, Hoyette, Hoyght,
Hoight, Hight, Hite, Hyatt, Hayte, Haite,
Hayt, Haight and Hayte. All the Hoight
families appear to have originated in Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire or Maine, and
spelled the name Hoyt or Hoit originally.
The family of Hoyt in Somersetshire, Eng-
land, was located there for many centuries,
but it is thought by some investigators that
the family came to New England from some
German state.

(I) Simon Hoit, immigrant ancestor, was
one of the earliest settlers of Charlestown,
Massachusetts. He landed at Salem in 1628
or 1629 and shortly afterward went to
Charlestown to live, as one of the first set-
tlers. He removed to Dorchester in 1633 or
earlier. He was appointed "to see to the
fences for the east field" at Dorchester, Oc-
tober 8, 1633, and in January following had
a grant of marsh land. Early in 1635 he
left Dorchester and located at Scituate where
he and his wife joined the church, April 19,
1635. Here he built his house between Sep-
tember, 1634, and October, 1636. He next
moved to Windsor, Connecticut, about 1639,
where he had a grant of land, February 28,
1640. His house was on the east side of the
river near what is still known as Hoyt's
Meadow. Again he moved to Fairfield, Con-
necticut, before 1659, and March 6, 1649, ne
had a grant of land there. He sold his land
at Windsor in 1648. There were few pio-
neers who moved oftener than he. Between
1649 and 1657 he had settled at Stamford,
Connecticut, and here he died, according to
Stamford records, September 1, 1657. He
left a widow, Susanna, who married (second)

Bates, and died before February, 1674.

She was probably Hoit's second wife. He
was born very likely as early as 1595, in Eng-
land, and was an early settler in seven dif-
ferent colonies in New England, in most of
them one of the first. He was hardly located
in one before he gave up his farm and home
and began to clear another part of the wil-
derness for a new home. Most of his chil-
dren inherited his propensity for changing

residence, and in twenty years after his death
no. one of the name of Hoit remained in any
of the seven towns, except Stamford. The
family seems to have been adventurous rather
than restless, and in most cases well-to-do.
Children: Walter, born about 1618; Nicho-
las, about 1620; John, about 1630. Children
by wife Susanna : Moses, born before 1637 ;
Joshua, 1641, mentioned below; Deacon Sam-
uel, 1643 > Benjamin, February 2, 1644, at
Windsor ; Daughter, married Thomas Lyon ;
Daughter, married Samuel Finch ; Daughter,
married Samuel Finnan.

(II) Joshua, son of Simon Hoit, was born
in 1641, died in 1690. He married Mary
. They lived in Stamford, Connecti-
cut. His wife survived him. The Stamford
records show that "Ye aintiant Widow Hait"
died January 27, 1729-30, and she was either
widow of Joshua or of Samuel. The first
mention of him on the records is in 1661,
when he was named on the boundary of land
of another man. In 1662 and 1665 he is
named as a witness. He was on the town
lists in 1667, and received a share in the
horse-pasture. He was made a freeman in
1669. In 1666 he was administrator of his
father's estate. On February 25, 1668-69,
at a town meeting he was granted a house-lot.
March 24, 1670-71, he made a record of the
Stamford land records of all his land, con-
sisting of many acres. He was on a com-
mittee to build a meeting-house in 1669; "to
finish the town-house and fence the lot be-
longing unto it" in 1677, and he was also
on other committees to lay out land several
times. In 1677 or ^78 he was authorized
by the town to build a saw-mill "at the head
of the salt at five mile river or thereabout"
within two years, and later he was given
permission to build a wind-mill; in 1683 ms
cider-mill and press are mentioned. In 1682
he was constable and for eight years he was
selectman or "townsman" from 1671 on.
From 1681 to 1687 he was a deputy of the
general court in the October sessions, and at
three other sessions. In 1683 the court re-
mitted a fine imposed upon him "for not mak-
ing up the payment of his country rate with
the Treasurer according to law, he paying the
Marshall's fees." There were thirteen per-
sons from different towns whose fines were
remitted also. In 1665 the general court of
Connecticut granted to him, among others,
land in the southern part of what is now
Poundridge, New York. In most of the
places where he is named, the name is
spelled Hoyt or Hoyte. though it is spelled
in many other ways. The inventory of his
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two negroes, several lots of land and a mill
on Myanus river. Eight children with dates
of birth are also given in the records. The
estate was divided March 10, 1691, the widow
receiving one-third, the eldest sons double
portion and the remainder of the children
receiving equal and single portions except
Moses ; the sons too received their shares
when twenty-one years old, and the daughters
when eighteen years old. Children : Mary,
born December 22, 1664 ; Rebecca, September
2.1, 1667; Joshua, October 4, 1670; Sarah,
April 17, 1674; Samuel (Smith), July 3,
1678, mentioned below ; Hannah, September
1, 1681 ; Moses, October 7, 1683; Abigail,
August 20, 1685.

(III) Samuel (Smith), son of Joshua
Hoit, was born July 3, 1678. He lived in
Stamford, and died August 10, 1738. He
married (first) Susanna Slason, October 24,
1700, and (second) Mary Weed, widow of
Jonas Weed, and daughter of Daniel Sco-
field, December 31, 1707. His first wife died
March 26, 1706-07. His widow was living
in March, 1748, when she deeded land to her
son Jonathan. He was called "Sam. Hoyt
Jun." in 1699, when he sold land in "long
neck" which was laid out to his father
Joshua. In most places he was called a
blacksmith, in order to distinguish him from
the other Samuel Haits in Stamford. He and
his brother Joshua sold land on Shiphan
neck in 1701-02, and he bought land of his
brother, and sold him his right, one-eighth,
in his father's dwelling house in 1701. He
received land of his father in 1706, other land
in 1706, and as late as 1737. After 1704 his
name is in the Stamford records often. His
widow Mary, and his son Josiah, were ap-
pointed administrators of his estate, Septem-
ber 13, 1738, and the inventory amounted to
one thousand, four hundred and sixty-three
pounds, in 1741, when the property was di-
vided among the widow and nine children.
Children: Josiah, born November 24, 1701 ;
Abigail, October 26, 1703; Rebecca, August
8, 1705; Susanna, March 24, 1706-07. By
second wife: Mary, September 23, 1708;
Samuel, January 28. 1709-10, died young;
Israel, died September 25, 1711-15; Samuel,
born March 7, 1712-13, died before 1741 ;
Rachel, January 31, 1714-15; Jonathan, Jan-
uary 14, 1716-17; Nehemiah. April 13, 1718,
mentioned below; Martha, October 3, 1719:
Deborah, July 30. 1721.

(IV) Nehemiah, son of Samuel (Smith)
Hoit, was born April 13, 1718, died in T785.
He married Ruth, daughter of Samuel Peck,
of Greenwich, November 25;. 1742. They
lived in Stamford. He and his brother lona-

than sold land in Stamford in March, 1741-
42. He also sold land alone in 1742-43-44.
In February, 1744-45, he and his wife Ruth
sold to their brother, Samuel Peck, of Green-
wich, land in Stamford which formerly be-
longed to their father, Samuel Peck, of
Greenwich. His will was dated February 1,
and proved September 6, 1785. His widow
Ruth made a will in 1799 which was proved
in 1805 or 1808, in which she mentioned
her children and a granddaughter Lydia, wife
of Daniel Hubbard. Children : Ruth, born
July 13, 1744; Samuel, June 4, 1745; Eliza-
beth, August 20, 1746; Mary, February 7,
1747-48; Nehemiah, deacon, May 14, 1752;
Jesse, died about 1804; Joel, died about 1805;
Noah, born March 23, 1759, mentioned below;
Stephen, living in 1804; Seth, died 1815 ;
Sarah, unmarried in 1785; Thankful, named
Hait in 1804; Lydia, married Lock-
wood before 1785.

(V) Noah, son of Nehemiah Hoit, was
born March 23, 1759. He married Sarah,
daughter of Abel and Sarah Moulton, Janu-
ary 23, 1782. He died in Castleton, Ver-
mont, February 13, 181 1. His widow Sarah
died September 8, 1857, aged ninety or more.
He was a farmer, and lived in Stamford, Con-
necticut, and Castleton. Children, born in
Castleton : Calvin, mentioned below ; Noah,
January 20, 1788; Sarah, June 9, 1790; Doc-
tor Moore, October 15, 1796.

(VI) Deacon Calvin, son of Noah Hoit, was
born October 15, 1785, in Castleton, Ver-
mont. He was a farmer, and lived in Stam-
ford. He married Mary Ann, daughter of
Jonah Ferris. June 29, 1812. His wife Mary
died June 15, 1851. Children: 1. Sarah
Ann, April 20, 1813, in Stamford; married
Rev. Aaron Snow, May 9, 1841, and lived in
Saybrook, Connecticut ; died December 4,
1841. 2. John Lee Count, April 24, 1816,
mentioned below. 3. Calvin Ferris, Decem-
ber 7, 1817; unmarried; lived at Stanwich,
Stamford. 4. Emmet Moore, February 27,
1819; married Lucy Ann Hull, January 27,
1841 ; died November 21, 1843. 5- Mariette,
July 25, 1832, died April 5, 1866.

(VII) John Lee Count, son of Deacon Cal-
vin Hoit, was born April 24, 1816, died April
24, 1907. He lived on the homestead at Long
Ridge in the town of Stamford, and for the
last forty years of his life lived in new resi-
dence near the one where he was born. He
was a public-spirited and enterprising citizen.
He was a prominent farmer and cattle dealer
throughout the active years of his life. For
more than seventy years he was a member of
the Stanwich Congregational Church and an
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in public affairs, but never sought public
office. He married, January 3, 1843, Rebecca
Ann, born 1822, daughter of Edward Brush,
of Greenwich. She died April 6, 1866, aged
forty-four years. Children, born in Stam-
ford: 1. John Moore, April 18, 1845; mar-
ried Caroline Piatt ; lives on the old home-
stead at Long Ridge. 2. Edward Brush, Au-
gust 20, 1847, mentioned below. 3. Mary
Anna, February 10, 1852, died November 25,
1857. 4. Norman Lee, January 10, 1858. 5.
Mary Elma, born in Stanwich, October 14,
1 861 ; married, May 28, 1885, Leroy B. De-
Forest, born May 9, 1852, of Poundridge,
town of Bedford, New York, now living at
Long Ridge ; children : Leroy B. Jr., born
February 22, 1886; John James, June 21,
1888: Edward Brush, October 11, 1890; Har-
old Hoigh. February 1, 1893; Wilfred Cal-
vin, April 15, 1896.

(VIII) Edward Brush, son of John Lee
Count Hoit, was born on the Hoit home-
stead at Long Ridge, Stamford, Connecticut,
August 20, 1847. He had a common school
education, and lived at home until 1879, when
he came to Stamford and engaged in business
as the proprietor of a meat market. He pros-
pered in business and in 1890 built the store
he now occupies. His business has grown
from year to year and takes the leading place
in this line of business in the city of Stam-
ford. In 1907 the business was incorporated
as the E. B. Hoit Company with Mr. Hoit as
president, A. B. Chichester as vice-president
and W. W. Brush as secretary. The store is
known as the Grand Central Market. Here
he has a large up-to-date refrigerator plant
and employs thirty clerks, having the largest
business of its kind in this section of the
state, his trade extending to all surrounding
towns, keeping for delivery purposes two
automobiles, which cover fifty miles each per
day, and four horses for the same purpose.
Since 1892 Mr. Hoit has been interested ex-
tensively in real estate also ; he entered a part-
nership under the name of Ayres Brothers
& Hoit, developing large tracts of real es-
tate in Stamford and Greenwich, selling lots
and building a large number of houses to sell.
He has been a member of the board of as-
sessors for two years and also held other
town offices. He is a member of the Con-
gregational church of Stamford, in which he
has been deacon for twenty-five years and
member of the church committee for twenty
years. He is a Republican in politics. He
married, December 24, 1874, Adelaide V.,
born at Greenwich, March 14, 1854, daughter
of William and Sobina (Bonnell) Bowen.
They have two adopted children : Florence

A., married Angus A. Anderson, of Boston;
Kenneth E., student at the military school of
Poughkeepsie, New York, four years, there
learning the profession of civil engineering.

Andrew Lester, immigrant an-
LESTER cestor, was born in England.

The Lester or Leister family is
of ancient English origin and the family has
produced many distinguished men. Lester
came to this country and settled at Glouces-
ter, Massachusetts, where he was elected con-
stable. January 7, 1646, and was licensed to
keep an ordinary or tavern February 6, 1648,
by the country court. He removed to Pe-
quot, Connecticut, in 1651, and was collector
of taxes and constable at that place. He died
at Pequot, (New London) June 7, 1669. His
home was on the neck. He had liberty to
draw land in 1651-52. His first wife Bar-
bara died February 2, 1653-54, the first
woman whose death was recorded at Pequot.
He married (second) Joanna Hempstead,
widow of Robert Hempstead, and she died
before 1670. By his third wife Anna he had
tbree children. The "Widow Lester" was
admitted to the New London church by letter
from the church at Concord, Massachusetts,
in 1670. Children of first wife, born at Glou-
cester: Daniel, April 16, 1642, died at Great
Neck, New London, January 16, 1715-16,
married Hannah Fox ; Andrew, December 26,
1644; Mary. December 26, 1647; Anne,
March 21, 1651, married Isaac Willey ; child
of second wife : Joanna ; children of third
wife, born at New London : Timothy, July
4, 1662; Joseph, June 15. 1664; Benjamin,
mentioned below.

(II) Benjamin, son of Andrew Lester, was
born at New London about 1666-67. He and
his brothers Daniel and Joseph settled in the
vicinity of the town plot. He married Ann
Stedman, and had nine sons and two daugh-
ters. Their descendants have been very num-
erous in Groton, Connecticut, and vicinity.
Ann Lester, his wife, died January 2j, 171 1-
12. He died April 24, 1737, according to the
Hempstead diary, but his will was dated May
23, 1737. and he probably died May 24, 1737,
not April 24. The will bequeathed to his
wife. Timothy, eldest son. John, Benjamin,
Isaac, Daniel, Ann and Hannah. Children
born at New London and Groton : Timothy,
John, Benjamin, Isaac, David, Jonathan, men-
tioned below, Daniel, Ann, Hannah. Others
died young.

(III) Jonathan, son of Benjamin Lester,
was born at New London, July 26, 1706. He
married, May 15, 1729 (Vol. 2, p. 54, town
records), at Groton. He and his wife owned

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the covenant in the Congregational church at
Groton. His children : Jonathan, Deborah,
Thomas, Amos, born about 1730, mentioned
below; Wait, baptized with the four preced-
ing in childhood and infancy, October 11,
1731 ; Simeon, baptized August 14, 1734;
David, baptized November 7, 1736. The eld-
est, Captain Jonathan, died February 12, 1797;
his wife, Hannah, March 5, 1776, in her
forty-sixth year. A son of Jonathan, aged
ten years, and two others were slightly
wounded and one escaped unhurt July 31,
1742 (town records).

(IV) Amos, son of Jonathan Lester, was
born at Groton about 1730, in the house oppo-
site the Starr burial ground. He was a sol-
dier in the revolution and was wounded in the
hip at the battle of Groton, recovered and
lived forty years afterward, though he was
one of those loaded so inhumanly on the
wagon. His captain, Samuel Allyn, on hear-
ing the alarm at the time of the British at-
tack, rode to the house of Lester, who was
ensign of the company, and together they
rode to the old Wood House, North Lane,
where they left their horses. Allyn was
among those killed. After the Americans
surrendered the fort, the British prepared to
destroy it and load the American wounded
on a wagon. The hill was long and steep and
in some way, intentional or on account of
bad management, the wagon got away and
descended the hill with its load of helpless,
suffering men. It was stopped finally by strik-
ing a tree. The shock killed many of the men. It
was reported at the time that the thing was
intentional and that the British fired at the
ill-fated freight as the wagon coasted down
the hill. Other accounts say the wheels were
chained and the chain broke. The name of
Amos Lester is among those reported as
wounded (p. 578, Rev. Rolls). His name
appears among the invalid pensioners in
1833-34. He had a grant of land in 1792 in
Pennsylvania at the "head of Lake Erie," on
account of revolutionary service. He married
Anna, born December 17, 1736, daughter of
Peter Lester, Sr., who married Anna Street,
daughter of James Street, August, 1733. He
died September 10, 1789; she died March 6,
1790.

(V) Amos (2), son of Amos (1) and Anna
(Lester), Lester, was born March 25, 1776.
He married, January 18, 1800, Sarah, daugh-
ter of James Avery, born March 3, 1781.
Children: 1. Anna, born July 20, 1801 ; mar-
ried Oliver S. Tyler, January 3, 183 1. 2.
Lydie, December 19, 1802; married Erastus
Kimball, December 30, 1821. 3. Amos A.,
March 30, 1805. 4. Isaac A., March 4, 1810,

mentioned below. 5. Eliza Maria, July 26,
1813, married Asa Lyman Lester, August 16,

1835.

(VI) Isaac A., son of Amos (2) and Sarah
(Avery) Lester, was born at Groton, March
4, 18 10. He married, October 7, 1838, Mary,
daughter of Ichabod Chapman. They lived at
Ledyard. Children : 1. Amos, born December 3,
1839; married, May 28, 1868, Caroline Gallup
Spicer, born May 28, 1850. 2. Mary Jane,
born June 6, 1841 ; married, December 12,
i860, Courtland Lamb. 3. Nathan Larrabee,
born January 1, 1843, died June 2j, 1900, San
Jose, California; married, May 24, 1871,
Sarah Elizabeth Spicer, born August 3, 1847.
4. Henry C, born October 20, 1844, died Sep-
tember 17, 1850. 5. Jonathan Fairbanks,
mentioned below. 6. William Isaac, born
February 7, 1848; married, April 16, 1885,
Sarah E. Simmons. 7. Frank Larrabee, born
April 23, 1850, died November 17, 1876. 8.
Samuel Wood, born April 7, 1852; unmarried;
lived in California. 9. Walter C, born April
15, 1854, died July 14, 1855. 10. Sarah E.,
born January 22, 1856, died March 11, 1857.
11. Edward Everett, born April 29, 1858;
married, September 6, 1884, Almyra Chap-
man, born March 9, 1857.

(VII) Jonathan Fairbanks, son of Isaac
A. Lester, was born at Ledyard, June 11, 1846.
He was educated there in the public schools.
He taught school when a young man at Led-
yard and Groton. He spent several years in
California, where he followed farming. He
returned to Connecticut, after a number of
years, and engaged in the meat and provision
business at Norwich. Then with his brothers,
Amos, Samuel N. and Frank L., he returned
to California and followed farming for four
years. Upon his return to Norwich he mar-
ried and made his home there. He was for a
time in the optical business, manufacturing
his own goods. Afterwards he was in the
wholesale produce business in the firm of
Cook & Lester for several years. He was a
member of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and of the Broadway Congrega-
tional church. He married, May 28, 1873,
Cecelia Williams, born September 30, 1852,
daughter of Edmund and Bethia Williams
(Avery) Spicer, of Groton, Connecticut.
Edmund Spicer was a prominent citizen of
Groton. He was postmaster from 1867 to the
time of his death, May 1, 1890. He was
selectman seven years, between 1836 and
1851 ; clerk and treasurer from 1853 to T^65 ;
representative to state legislature in 1849;
candidate for state senate in 1862; judge of
probate for twelve years, beginning in 1865.
He was one of the charter members of the

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Bill Library Association and was secretary
of the association eighteen' years in succession,
retiring in 1885. He was treasurer and
librarian from 1867 until 1890. He united
with the Congregational church in 1843; ne
often served on the church committee, also on
the standing committee of the Ecclesiastical
Society. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Lester:
1. Ella Cecelia, graduate of Mount Holyoke
College ; has taught school in the south and is
now teaching in Hartford. 2. Jonathan Frank,
engaged in business at Newcastle, Pennsyl-
vania. 3. Fannie Bethia, now taking a three-
years course in a Philadelphia hospital with
the intention of following the profession of
trained nurse in church or missionary work.
4. Ida May, died young. 5. Mamie Carrie,
died young.

Thomas Loveland, immi-
LOVELAND grant, was born in Eng-
land, and settled early in
Wethersfield, Connecticut. He owned land
in the First Purchase before 1670, and was
made a freeman of Wethersfield in May, 1670.
There is a tradition that he was the son of
John or Robert Loveland and that his grand-
father died on the voyage to this country, his
widow and three sons buying land of the
Indians on the Connecticut river. In 1673
Thomas was assessed to pay the Indian Pur-
chase. He shared in the first division, April
28, 1 70 1, having a hundred and twenty acres
in the first division and sharing also in the
later divisions of Wethersfield. He deeded
land to his sons, John, Thomas, Robert and
grandson, Thomas. Jr.. in 171 7. He died in
1723. Children: John, married, June 16,
1708, Keziah Williams; Robert, married, Au-
gust 19, 1697, Ruth Gillam; Hannah, mar-
ried, December 1, 1709, William House;
Alary, married, June 1, 1693, Thomas Dickin-
son; Elizabeth, married, December 2, 1708,
Benjamin Strickland; Thomas Jr., mentioned
below; Samuel, married, October 4, 1705,
Lydia Barnard.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Loveland, was born in Glastonbury, formerly
Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1675. He
married (first) Eunice House; (second)

. Children, born at Glastonbury :

Eunice, born 1692, married Richard Keeney;
Thomas, 1700, married Elizabeth Keenney ;
John, 1701, married Ruth Chapman; Elisha,
mentioned below; Joseph, 1712, married

Hannah ; Mary, 1714, married Samuel

Hodees Jr.; Benjamin, 1716, married Abigail
Hollister; Sarah, 1721, married Israel
French; Elizabeth, 1723.

(III) Elisha, son of Thomas (2) Love-

land. was born in Glastonbury in 1709.
Thomas Wells was appointed his guardian in
1725, when he was aged sixteen. He mar-
ried, January 19, 1737, Hannah, born Janu-
ary 24, 1716, of Glastonbury, daughter of
Josiah Hills, descendant of William Hills, of
Hockanum. Elisha Loveland operated a
ferry between Glastonbury and Wethersfield.
Children: Elisha, born May 4, 1735, married
Lucy Sparks; Elijah, November 16, 1742,
married Sarah Smith; Hannah, October 31,
1744, died December 4, 1769; Peletiah. Janu-
ary 13, 1748, married Ruth Sparks; Levi,
November 19, 1749, married Esther Hill;
Lucy, June 8, 1754, married Thomas Forbes.

(IV) Elijah, son of Elisha Loveland, was
born in Glastonbury, November 16, 1742. He
removed to Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and died
there at an advanced age. Elijah Loveland
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain
Elijah Deming's company, Colonel Ashley's
regiment, from Berkshire county, September-
October, 1777, and served at Stillwater under
General Gates. He was also in Captain
Heman Smith's company, Lieutenant-Colonel
Coller's regiment (Colonel John Ashley's
regiment) at Stillwater in 1781. He married,
at Sandisfield, Berkshire county, Massachu-
setts, Sarah Smith. Children : Hannah, born

in Glastonbury, married Smith ; Lucy,

born at Hinsdale; Hiel, born 1778, married
Sally Bartlett; Elijah; Alfred, born 1783;
Levi, born 1784; Clara; Erastus, mentioned
below.

(V) Erastus, son of Elijah Loveland, was
born at Hinsdale, October 23, 1787, died in
Washington, Massachusetts, August 15, 1840,
buried at Hinsdale. He married Olive Forbes
of Hartford, Connecticut, born February 18,
1790, died at Hinsdale, June 12, 1849. He
was a farmer. Children, born at Hinsdale :
Lewis, mentioned below; Amanda, born 1812.
married William Roth ; Lucy, February 18,
1815. married William Beech; Erastus, 1817,
died September 3, 1843; Orin, 1822, died May
24, 18SI : Emily. 1824, died in infancy; Al-
mira, September 4, 1826, married John Day ;
Louise, June 28, 1829, married Andrew Good-
sell ; Samuel, July 28, 1832: Emily, died aged
twenty-four vears.

(VI) Lewis, son of Erastus Loveland, was
born in Hinsdale, August 18. 1810, died in
Colebrook, Connecticut, May 20, 1889. He
received a common school education in his
native town, and when about twenty years
of age removed to North Colebrook, Con-
necticut, remaining there until his death. He
was a farmer by occupation, and being a man
of influence in the neighborhood was chosen
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18, 1839, Fannie Hill, born in Hartland, Con-
necticut, November 25, 1823, died September
20, 1895. Children: Harriet E., born May 1,
1840, died September 13, 1842; Laura A.,
July 15, 1841, died 1863; Orlo C, December
25, 1842, resides in Hinsdale, Massachusetts;
Albert A., May 26, 1844, attorney in Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan; Emeline C, November
28, 1845, married Henry Hill, of Canton, Con-
necticut; Warren S., November 8, 1847, died
October 21, 1878; Ada L., August 25, 1849,
died September 19, 1905 ; Lois S., October 22,
1851, died March 31, 1891 ; Merriman, Sep-
tember 24, 1853, resides in Winsted, Connec-
ticut ; Susie L., August 23, 1855, resides in
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; Wolcott, September

19, 1857, resides in Winsted, Connecticut;
Breckenridge, August 19, i860; Grove Wash-
ington, see forward ; Lillian Bell, February 9,
1866, married cy»iAI^ Tibbies, resides in Nor-
folk, Connecticut.

(VII) Grove Washington, son of Lewis
Loveland, was born in Colebrook, Connecticut,
June 18, 1863. He attended the public schools
and the knowledge thus acquired was supple-
mented by private tuition; completing his
studies at the age of twenty-one years, he
assumed the management of his father's es-
tate and so continued for a period of six
years. At the age of twenty-six he com-
menced the study of medicine under private
instruction, and later entered the Chicago
Veterinary College, from which institution he
was graduated with honors in the class of
1894. After practicing for a short time in Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan, he located in Torring-
ton, Connecticut. 1894, and by conscientious
and painstaking methods he has built up an
extensive and lucrative practice in this and
adjoining towns, besides doing a large amount
of work for the Connecticut Cattle Commis-
sion and State Board of Agriculture. In addi-
tion to the practice of his profession, he is
serving in the capacity of milk inspector of
Torrington, state secretary of American Vet-
erinary Medical Association, chairman of
Board of Censors of Connecticut Veterinary
Association, and member of State Board of
Examination and Registration. Dr. Loveland
holds membership in the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks of Torrington. Scru-
pulously honorable in all his dealings with
mankind, he bears a reputation for public and
private integrity, and being sociable and
genial in disposition has won and retained
a wide circle of friends.

Dr. Loveland married (first) February 22,
1887, Ida J. Thompson, of Sandisfield, Mas-
sachusetts, daughter of Newton and Eleanor
Thompson. Child, May Belle, born May 24,

1889. Mrs. Loveland died March 11, 1896.
Dr. Loveland married (second) December 15,
1897, Gertrude Emmons, of Cornwall, Con-
necticut, daughter of William and Mary
(Bennett) Emmons. Children: Grove Wash-
ington, Jr., born April 23, 1899, and Glenna,
July 22, 1900.

The surname Dougal or Mac-
DOUGAL Dougall, as some branches

spell it, is of ancient Scotch
origin. It is the same as MacDowall. As
early as 1284 this family was settled in county
Argyle, Roxburghshire and Galloway, Scot-
land. The MacDowall family holds the Earl-
dom of Dumfries. The name is derived from
the Gaelic dhu (black) and gall (stranger)
and was an expression of the Celtic inhabi-
tants of Scotland to denote a Lowlander or
any not of their race. It is still in use as a
baptismal name. ^j

The family appears in this country before
the revolution. Thomas Dougal, of Milton,
Massachusetts, served through the revolution.
He appears to be the same man that served
in the Sixth Troop of Connecticut Dragoons
in the revolution. In 1790 there were two
families of Dougals in Connecticut, according
to the first federal census : James, who had
three males over sixteen, one under that age
and three females in his family, and David,
who had two sons under sixteen and one fe-
male in his family.

(I) Thomas Dougal, son of one of the pio-
neers mentioned above, was born about 1780.
He married at New Haven, Mary, born Feb-
ruary 6, 1785, daughter of Henry Peck (see
Peck V). Among their children was Henry
Peck, mentioned below.

(II) Henry Peck, son of Thomas Dougal,
was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He
settled in the south and became the owner of
three extensive plantations in South Caro-
lina. He died at Newark, New Jersey. He
married Dorothy Mix, born at New Haven.
Children: Martha; Amelia; Ferederick
Lewis, mentioned below ; Julia, married S. O.
Nichols, of Newark, New Jersey, where she
is now living.

(III) Frederick Lewis, son of Henry Peck
Dougal, was born in Columbia, South Caro-
lina, August 1841. He came north when a
young man and made his home in Nauga-
tuck, Connecticut. He enlisted in the union
army in the civil war, in the second Connec-
ticut regiment, Volunteer Militia, and was
killed by a sharp-shooter before he had partic-
ipated in any battles. He married Mary M.,
born at Plymouth, Connecticut, May 28, 1841,

daughter of Martin L. and

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Griggs. She is living at Plainville. Chil-
dren : Clarence Henry, mentioned below ;
Frederick L., born November, 1862, is with
the Coe Brass Manufacturing Company, of
Torrington, married Nellie Johnson ; children :
Mabel, Clark and Frederick.

(IV) Clarence Henry, son of Frederick
Lewis Dougal, was born at Naugatuck, May
20, 1 86 1. He was educated in the public
schools of Bristol, Forestville and Harwin-
ton, Connecticut. He followed farming in
his youth. He was afterward a clerk in the
drug store of C. F. Williams, of Thomaston.
Connecticut, where he worked for six years.
He worked for a short time at Willimantic
and in 1890 came to Torrington and during
the next five years was clerk in the drug
store of Simeon D. Piatt. He then bought
the business of his employer and has con-
ducted it to the present time with abundant
success. In politics he is a Republican. He
represented the town in the general assembly
of the state in 1907 and served on the com-
mittee on cities and boroughs. He is a
member of the local camp, Sons of Veterans,
and of the Congregational church of Torring-
ton. He married, October 15, 1891, Minnie
L. Hotchkiss, of Torrington, born November
5, 1867, daughter of Edward C. and Amelia
(Briggs) Hotchkiss. They have no children.

(The Peck Line).

(I) Henry Peck, immigrant ancestor, was
among the first settlers of New Haven in the
spring of 1638. He and Deacon William
Peck, who also settled there in 1638. were
doubtless relatives, and are supposed to have
emigrated to this country in the company of
Governor Eaton, with the Rev. John Daven-
port and others, who arrived at Boston June
26, 1637, in the ship "Hector." He signed
the fundamental agreement of the settlers of
New Haven, and took an active interest in
the management and affairs of the settlement.
A portion of his home lot, on what is now
George street, in still in the possession of his
descendants. He died in 165 1. His will is
dated October 30, 1651. Children, born in
New Haven: Eleazer, baptized March 13,
1643; Joseph, baptized September 5, 1647;
Benjamin, baptized September 5, 1647; Eliza-
beth, born March 16, 1649.

(II) Joseph, son of Henry Peck, was born
in New Haven, and baptized there September
5, 1647. He lived in his native town, on
the homestead. He married, November 28,
1672, Sarah, daughter of Roger Ailing, of
New Haven. His widow was appointed to
administer upon his estate, September 5, 1720,
and returned the inventory September 30,

1720. The court ordered a division of the estate
among the heirs, October 6, 1720. The widow
was still living in 1729. Children, born in
New Haven: Sarah, September 11, 1673;
Joseph, October 9, 1675 ; Samuel, December
29, 1677; James, February 17, 1679-80, men-
tioned below ; John, October 6, 1682 ; Elipha-
let, May 12, 1685; Abigail, May 2, 1686;
Mary, October 6, 1689; Ebenezer, May 2,
1693.

(III) James, son of Joseph Peck, was born
February 17, 1679-80, died in 1760, in New
Haven. His will is dated February 11, 1760. <
He married (first) Abigail Morris, February

4, 1705-06; (second) Hannah Leek, July 10,
1729. Children, born in New Haven: Ebene-
zer, January 20, 1706-07; James, August 4,
1708; Hannah, August 10, 1710; Abigail,
July 1. 1713; Sarah, married Timothy How-
ell, August 7, 1755; John (twin), June 30,
1718, died young; Morris (twin), died young.
Child of second wife : Stephen, mentioned
below.

( IV) Stephen, son of James Peck, was born
in New Haven, June 5, 1730, and settled there,
upon the family estate, which had been pur-
chased by his father of the widow and heirs
of John, grandson of the ancestor, Henry. He
married (first) Esther Munson; (second)
Lydia Miles. Children: Esther, born July 1,
1753; Henry, August 20, 1755, mentioned be-
low; Elisha, October 11, 1757, died young;
John, December 12, 1759; Stephen, February
2. 1765; Sarah, April 24, 1766; Lucy, July
20. 1768.

(V) Henry (2), son of Stephen Peck, was
born in New Haven, August 20, 1755, and
lived there upon the George street estate.
He married Hannah Lewis. Children : Es-
ther, born December 19, 1783; Mary, Febru-
ary 6, 1785, married Thomas Dougal (see
Dougal I) ; Grace, December 2, 1786; Elisha,
May 2.J, 1788, died October 18, 1789; Elisha,
May 5, 1790.

Abel Fowler, the first member
FOWLER of the family of whom there

is mention, was a resident of
Rhode Island. He married and had a son
Anson, mentioned below.

(II) Anson, son of Abel Fowler, was born
in Rhode Island, died at the age of eighty-
four at Churchville, New York. He was a
soldier in the revolution in Colonel Tophan's
regiment from Newport and Bristol, Rhode
Island. He removed from Rhode Island to
Herkimer, New York, and about 1816 to
Churchville, same state, where he cleared a
farm and followed farming during the re-
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Anson, mentioned below. 2. Abel, whose son,
Nelson S. Fowler, resided at Churchville, New
York, on the old homestead. 3. Daughter.
(This family is doubtless a branch of that
founded by William Fowler and very numer-
ous in Connecticut. There was an Anson
Fowler, son of Captain Amos Fowler, born
in 1803, in Lebanon, Connecticut, where he
lived to a great age.)

(III) Anson (2), son of Anson (1) Fow-
ler, was born in 1809, in Rhode Island, died
in 1854 at Wheatland, Michigan. He ac-
companied his parents to New York state,
removing from Churchville to Wheatland,
Michigan. He followed the occupation of
farming.

Anson Fowler married, February 11, 1831,
Harriet L. Gridley. Children: I. Edward
K., resided at St. Louis, Michigan, where his
death occurred. 2. Louise M., died November
1909; she married Cornelius Deering. 3.
Frank Gridley, mentioned below. 4. Amelia,
died in Jackson, Michigan. 5. Lucilla, died
in Wheatland, Michigan. The births of the
last three of these children occurred in Wheat-
land, Michigan.

( IV ) Frank Gridley, son of Anson (2)
Fowler, was born April 24, 1836, at Wheat-
land, Michigan. After attending the public
schools of that section he entered a private
institution, but abandoned it after a few terms.
He did not relinquish his purpose, however,
but pursued the studies of geometry, physics,
chemistry, mechanical drawing and shorthand
successfully without the aid of a teacher. In
the latter study he was particularly interested
and was soon called to fill a position tendered
by Professor O. S. Fowler, the noted author,
and lecturer on phrenology, Mr. F. G. Fow-
ler, being kindly recommended by Andrew
J. Graham. He joined Professor Fowler in
the spring of 1857 at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
traveled with him, visiting all the principal
cities of the United States and Canada. After
spending two years with Professor Fowler
he located in Springfield, Illinois, with a view
of taking up legislative reporting, but the
appropriation for this purpose failing and
being offered a position as tutor, he accepted
it and taught for several years in Springfield
and vicinity. During this period he was
awarded a diploma by the department of pub-
lic instruction, which entitled him to teach
any school in Illinois during' his life without
further examination. This was the highest
honor possible to pay any teacher, and was
awarded only to those who had proved them-
selves successful, and after a rigid examina-
tion by the state superintendent. During this
period he often had calls to do reporting. In

1864, when the Union party found itself
obliged to carry on a war at the front and a
presidential election at the rear, he reported
patriotic speeches, which were published.
Among the speakers were eminent statesmen,
famous generals, and local speakers of note,
whose sentiments were sometimes couched in
homely phrase, but aglow with patriotic fire
and which told with the masses. Among some
of the speakers reported were Governor Yates,
Governor Oglesby, Senator Wilkinson, Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson, General Sherman, Gen-
eral Logan, General Sickles and many others.
Soon after this his reporting practice was in-
terrupted and his energies directed in the
channel of mechanical engineering. At the
request of one of his country friends he con-
structed a novel windmill, which was quite
extensively used in that locality in lifting
water from wells. In studying upon this
theme he perceived the device was not merely
a windmill, but a propellor as well, and could
be used for propulsion, steering and manoeu-
vering of vessels. Accordingly patents were
secured and it was embodied in model form
and was exhibited at Chicago, Buffalo and
New York City, and finally resulted in locat-
ing him at Bridgeport, Connecticut. For this
device he was subsequently awarded a medal
by the American Institute, and a diploma by
the Centennial Commission, it having been
applied to several steam vessels. Among them
may be mentioned the beautiful little steam
yacht, "Bonito," which was a part of his cen-
tennial exhibit, and located on the Schuyl-
kill, and executed, with the centennial judges
aboard, many intricate manoeuvers. Among
these was one describing a figure eight
around two buoys, placed half the length
of the boat apart, without touching them, and
while steaming at full speed, both in going
ahead and also going astern. The perform-
ance of this boat excited a good deal of interest
among foreign exhibitors, and was described at
length in London Engineering. She was sold
to a gentleman in Virginia, and was after-
ward the first boat to reach the wreck of the
United States steamer, "Huron," at Cape
Hatteras, and rescue the survivors. Another
vessel was the United States torpedo boat,
"Alarm," the hull being designed by Admiral
Porter, the engine by John Roach, and the
propelling apparatus by Mr. Fowler. Admiral
Porter in his report to the secretary of the
navy said of her, "that in steering, manoeu-
vering and handling she had no equal in the
navies of the world." On one occasion Gen-
eral Grant was invited on board to witness
her performance and was particularly inter-
ested in the celeritv of her manoeuvers, ex-

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claiming enthusiastically to those present, "see
her turn, just see her turn."

Shortly after this Mr. Fowler discovered
that he had no pecuniary interest in the en-
terprise, and he abandoned all further effort
in that direction. A friend happening to
know that he was a stenographer called him
in to report a case. This call was followed
by a second and a third, and within less than
three years, without having made any effort
or ever intending to enter the shorthand field
again, he found himself doing an extensive
shorthand business. In 1884 a general steno-
graphic law was passed by the Connecticut leg-
islature, the measure being brought about
mainly by Mr. Fowler's patrons and such
friends as they could interest in other parts of
the state. Mr. Fowler was appointed to an offi-
cial position, the signatures of nearly every at-
torney in the county appearing on the applica-
tion. He employed the best of assistance, and
did an immense amount of work in that section
of Connecticut, being the first to produce a
daily transcript on the typewriter. Mr. Fowler
was the author of two works on shorthand, and
of a process of writing shorthand, which under
some circumstances admits of very great
speed. As an instance may be given the re-
porting of the Quarto-Millenial Anniversary
of the Old Stratford Church, which consisted
in part of fifteen five minute speeches, de-
livered in rapid succession, and in which some
of the speakers covered twelve hundred and
eighty-four words, as appears by the printed
report, and concerning which the chairman
of the committee of publication stated, "the
stenographic report of that occasion is an
unceasing marvel to me."

Mr. Fowler married, October 1, 1884, in
Kansas, Jennie Bell, born, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
daughter of George Clinton and Sarah Jane
(Williams) Farmer. George Clinton Farmer
was born in Bath, England, October 10, 1827,
died September 19, 1908, at Oskaloosa, Ohio.
He was a carpenter by trade and at one time
operated a saw mill at Williamsburg, Ohio ;
later he engaged in the grocery business,
wholesale and retail, and subsequently added
a general line of hardware. He retired in
1 901. He was active in public life and held
various positions of trust and honor. His
wife, Sarah Jane (Williams) Farmer, was
born in Cincinnati. Ohio, where her marriage
occurred ; her father. John S. Williams, was
a noted civil engineer and prominent citizen
of Cincinnati. Children of George Clinton
and Sarah Jane Farmer: 1. William G., re-
sides at Duluth, Minnesota; married Emma
Jennie Webb, of Greenleaf, Minnesota; chil-
dren : Leroy, Carl, Frederick, Lee Farmer.

2. Jennie Bell, aforementioned. 3. George
Clinton Jr. 4. Charles Edward, married
Anna Kirkpatrick ; son, George Edward
Farmer. 5. Sadie May, married Judge J. C.
Blanchard, of Oskaloosa, Ohio. Children of
Frank Gridley and Jennie Bell (Farmer)
Fowler: Frederick A. and Francis C, twins,
born September 17, 1887. Both studied at
the International Correspondence School,
Scranton, Pennsylvania ; both are draughts-
men in Bridgeport. As children they re-
sembled each other so nearly as to often
puzzle parents and friends to distinguish them.
Mrs. Fowler is also a stenographer and one
of the few women who have succeeded in
transcribing notes taken in court by another
person.

Stapleton is an ancient
STAPLETON and honored English sur-
name. Various branches
of the family bear coats-of-arms. The word
staple was originally used to mean wool and
Stapleton means literally wool-town. The
family or families took the surname from the
locality, and a large part of the surnames orig-
inated in the twelfth century and later. From
England a branch of the family many genera-
tions ago settled in Ireland.

(I) George Stapleton was born at Castle-
town, county Limerick, Ireland, and died
there in 1842. He was a farmer throughout
the active years of his life. He married Mar-
garet O'Donnell, a native of the same town,
who died there in 1840. Children, born in
Castletown: 1. John, died aged eighty-three;
married Mary Keating. 2. Catherine, died
in Ireland, unmarried. 3. Dennis, died aged
eighty-four years ; married Hannah McAu-
liffe. 4. William, never married. 5. Mary,
married Patrick Burns. 6. Margaret, mar-
ried Cornelius McCollough. 7. Bridget, mar-
ried Edward O'Neil. 8. Walter, died un-
married. 9. George, mentioned below. 10.
Child, died in infancy. 11. James, married
Mary Jane Walsh. Of the above only Mrs.
Patrick Burns, Mrs. Edward O'Neil and
George Stapleton are living at the present
time (1910).

(II) George (2), son of George (1) and
Margaret (O'Donnell) Stapleton, was born
in Castletown, county Limerick, Ireland, in
1838. He was educated in his native place
and resided there until 1853, when he came
to the United States, landing at New York.
He came to Bridgeport, Connecticut, October
11, 1853, and for one and one-half years
thereafter was employed by Captain V. D.
Elsworth. At the expiration of this period
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started in a small way in the teaming busi-
ness on his own account. As his means al-
lowed he added to his equipment and engaged
in general contracting. Year by year his
business increased in volume and importance,
and he had business relations with most of
the building contractors and manufacturers of
the city, for many years being recognized as
the leader in this line of work. He has been
engaged in the same business for fifty-four
years, 1910, and is the only one now left
who started at the same time he did. Always
a man of his word and carrying out faithfully
every agreement, he has won a position among
the most substantial and influential business
men of the city, and his sound judgment,
sturdy independence, integrity and sterling
character, have commanded the esteem and
respect of his townsmen. He has taken an
active part in the development and growth of
the city, and knows the town and the people
as few others do. At the time he took up
his residence in Bridgeport it had a population
of twelve thousand, and at the present time
its population is one hundred thousand, and
he was a witness to this remarkable growth.
He is an Independent in politics, and served
on the board of education before the schools
were consolidated under the city system. He
is a Catholic in religion, being one of the
pioneers of that faith in this section, there
being only one church of that kind in Bridge-
port when he came and now there are nine-
teen ; he witnessed the erection of all these
churches, and has been a liberal supporter and
contributor to the cause of Catholicism.

Mr. Stapleton married, February 20, 1862,
at Bridgeport, Bridget, born in Ireland, daugh-
ter of Michael and Sarah (Ryan) O'Neil.
Michael O'Neil was a farmer in his native
land, Ireland, came to Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, in 1854, and spent the remainder of his
life there ; he died at the advanced age of
eighty years and is buried in St. Augustine
cemetery, Bridgeport ; his wife, also a native
of Ireland, died at the age of fifty-six. Chil-
dren of Michael and Sarah O'Neil: 1. Ed-
ward, married Bridget Stapleton ; three chil-
dren. 2. Michael, Jr. 3. John, married Mary
Kegan. 4. Dennis, never married. 5. Mary,
married Patrick Hearn. 6. Sarah, married
Patrick Fee, of Bridgeport. 7. Anna, mar-
ried Dennis Kealey. 8. Bridget, married
George Stapleton, mentioned above. 9. Pat-
rick, married Mary Clark. 10.' Michael, Jr.
II. Martin. Of these only Mrs. Patrick
Hearn, Mrs. Patrick Fee, Mrs. George Staple-
ton, and Martin O'Neil are living at the pres-
ent time (1910). Children of George and
Bridget Stapleton, all born in Bridgeport: 1.

Margaret A., died aged thirty-three years,
buried at St. Michael's cemetery, Bridgeport.
2. John F., died aged thirty-six. 3. George,
died aged thirty-one. 4. Sarah Gertrude. 5.
William, died aged three years, six months.
6. Catherine, died aged twenty-one years. 7.
William E., died aged twenty-one years. 8.
Mary Louise, married, October 7, 1903,
Thomas Henry Devitt, who was engaged in
the grocery business, now associated with Mr.
Stapleton ; his father was the oldest grocer
in the city of Bridgeport ; children : Mary
Margaret Devitt, born June 1, 1905, and
Dorothy Ann Devitt, April 1, 1910. 9. Ann
Marie, died aged twenty-one. 10. Walter,
died aged seven months. 11. Loretta, died
aged three years and eight months.

Lieutenant Walter Fyler, immi-
FYLER grant ancestor, was born in Eng-
land, and settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, as early as 1634. He was a
freeman there, May 14, 1634. He removed
to Windsor, Connecticut, with the first settlers.
His house there was within the Palisado, and
the well is still to be seen on the property
of the Misses Stiles. He was deputy to the
general court in 1647, an<^ from 1661 to 1663.
He was juror in 1637-42-44. He married

Jane , and in his will gives the use

of his estate to her during her life. He died
December 12, 1683, and his widow in 1690.
Children : John, born at Windsor, September
1642 ; Zerubbabel, December 23, 1644, men-
tioned below.

(II) Zerubbabel, son of Lieutenant Walter
Fyler, was born December 23, 1644, and mar-
ried Experience, daughter of Elder John
Strong, of Northampton, Massachusetts, May
27, 1669. After living for a time in Wind-
sor, he removed to Stony River in Suffield,
but returned to Windsor, where he died Oc-
tober 2, 1 714. He left a good estate for those
days. Children: Thomas, January 25, 1670;
Jane, January 1, 1672; Zerubbabel, October
31, 1673, died young; Zerubbabel, December
25, 1674; John, March 2, 1676; Samuel,
(twin) January 5, 1680, died June 5, 1680;
Abigail (twin), died June 9, 1680; Samuel,
September, 26, 1681, Suffield; Abigail, April
8, 1683, Suffield; Stephen, March 27, 1688;
Ebenezer, December 2, 1690; Experience, De-
cember 25, 1691 ; Elizabeth, June 2, 1694.

(III) Zerubbabel (2), son of Zerubbabel
(1) Fyler, was born December 25, 1674. He
married Rachel, daughter of Jeremiah Gil-
lett, of Simsbury, January 3. 1706. He was
a farmer by occupation and lived in Windsor,
where he died, January 29, 1761. His wife
died January 28, 1768. Children: Rachel,

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born September 29, 1706; Experience, Feb-
ruary 7, 1707; Silas, 1710, mentioned below;
Samuel, 1715 ; Jeremiah.

(IV) Silas, son of Zerubbabel (2) Fyler,
was born in 1710. He married, 1747, Cath-
arine Drake, of Windsor. They lived there
until the spring of 1779, when they removed
to Newfield, in Torrington. Here he pur-
chased land and began to put up a house, but
was taken suddenly ill at Chauncey's Hill,
and died April 12, 1779. His widow settled
on the farm which he had purchased, with
some of her children, but afterwards removed
to Colebrook, where she died March, 1809,
in her eightieth year. Children, born in Wind-
sor: Abi, 1748; Catharine, 1750; Silas, 1752;
Jane, 1754; Stephen, May 2j, 1755, men-
tioned below; John (twin), 1760; Bethesda
(twin); Sabra, April 24, 1764; Roman, Au-
gust 12. 1769.

(V) Stephen, son of Silas Fyler, was born
in Windsor, May 27, 1755. How long he
served in the revolutionary war is not known,
but probably after his marriage and until
the close of the contest. He drew a pension
for many years. About 1781 he settled in
Newfield, where he spent his life as a farmer.
He was an energetic, hard-working man, and
besides his farm, had saw mills, a cider mill,
brandy still, a brick yard and a dish mill,
where he produced a variety of wooden dishes.
This latter mill was built about 1790 and was
locally well known. He also commenced
keeping a dairy and making cheese, an occu-
pation which was carried on later by his son
Harlow. He was captain of a military com-
pany raised in Newfield, after the revolution.
Mr. Fyler was one of the first men in the
northern part of the town who objected to
the compulsory method of supporting the gos-
pel, and as soon as the Baptist church became
established in 1789, he united with it. He
is said to have been one of the three first
Democrats in the town. Some years after-
wards, when the Democratic party had be-
come established, there was established a
Democratic newspaper in Litchfield, edited by
Sellick Osborn. This Mr. Osborn, because
of something he had published, had been in-
dicted for libel, and when brought to trial,
Stephen Fyler was one of the jurors to try
the case. When the jury compared their
judgments, it was found that eleven were in
favor of conviction, and one, Mr. Fyler, in
favor of clearing him. The eleven agreed
among themselves to go in and render a ver-
dict of guilty, but when they did so, Mr. Fy-
ler announced that he had not agreed, which
created a great sensation and caused the court
to order further consideration of the case.

The consideration was continued from week
to week, and as Mr. Fyler clung to his origi-
nal decision, the judge at the end of the
term announced that the jury was discharged.
This trial is said to have been one of the most
celebrated that ever occurred in Litchfield, be-
cause of the spirit of malice and persecution
manifested on the one side, and the bravery
and honesty of one man who stood boldly
for the right. He married, in Windsor, Polly
Collier, July, 1778. She was born January
T5> T7.S8, and was the daughter of Widow

Mary Collier, who married (second)

Coman. Polly died June 12, 1847. Children:
Stephen F., born March 6, 1780, Windsor;
George, February 10, 1782, Torrington; Polly,
March 13, 1784; Catharine, July 16. 1786;
Roxy, October 22, 1788; Reuben, July 9,
1791 ; Juba, August 5, 1793; Harlow, men-
tioned below.

(VI) Harlow, son of Stephen Fyler, was
born December 21, 1795, in Torrington. He
inherited a part of his father's homestead in
Newfield, where he lived for over seventy-
eight years. He purchased land of the lat-
ter's heirs until he possessed all the home-
stead in connection with his brother Juba,
and then continued to buy land adjoining until
he owned over eight hundred acres. He was
a man of great energy and business enterprise,
and succeeded in making his lands highly
profitable. Besides the farm, he conducted
a large dairy, and a brick kiln. He also took
contracts for repairing roads, and built
bridges, brick school houses and other build-
ings of brick. He had many acres of apple
orchard, from which he made each year a
large quantity of cider, most of which he
made into brandy in his own still. For many
years he did much in support of the Metho-
dist church in Newfield. He continued to
live on the old homestead until 1874, when
he removed to Winsted, Connecticut, in order
to be near one of his sons. He married
(first) Prudence E., daughter of Cros-
by, November 26, 18 18. She was born at
Chatham, July, 1795, died March 6, 181 9.
He married (second) Sibyl R., daughter of
Joseph and Rosannah (Peck) Toltes, July
6, 1823. She was born at Montague, Massa-
chusetts, September 22, 1802. Children of sec-
ond marriage: Juba, born December 10, 1824,
died December 13, 1824; Carolina, December
13, 1824, an adopted daughter; Harlow, Octo-
ber 3, 1827, died October 8, 1827; Jenette E.,
May 2J, 1829; Charles H., September 2, 1831,
died June 2^, 1832; Charles H., March 16,
1833, died June 10, 1834; Florimond D., De-
cember 11, 1834; Carlton C, December 31,
1837; Orsamus R., mentioned below.

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(VII) Orsamus Roman, son of Harlow
Fyler, was born at Torrington, January 17,
1840, died November 22, 1909. He attended
tbe public schools of his native town and
Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachu-
setts. Soon after he left school the civil war
broke out, and he enlisted in the Nineteenth
Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, later the
Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and was
mustered into service September 11, follow-
ing. Colonel Leverett W. Wessells was in
command. The regiment was stationed at
Washington, and when the regiment was
transferred to the artillery, Mr. Fyler was
appointed to recruit in order to increase the
size of the command and he did his share
in this work, which resulted in raising the
total to eighteen hundred men. He was com-
missioned second lieutenant, February 6, 1864,
and mustered in at Arlington, Virginia,
March 4, 1864. He took part in the battles
of North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg,
Welden Railroad and Winchester. At Cold
Harbor his regiment met General Longstreet's
command and was repulsed, leaving on the
field three hundred and twenty-three men, of
whom one hundred and twenty-nine were
killed or mortally wounded. At the battle of
Winchester the regiment did much to save
the day, but lost fourteen officers and one
hundred and twenty-two men in killed and
wounded. Major Rice and Lieutenants Can-
dee, Hubbard and Cogswell, Captain Berry
and Lieutenant McCabe were mortally
wounded, and Lieutenant Fyler was crippled
for life by a wound in his left leg. He re-
ceived his commission as first lieutenant for
courage and gallantry at Winchester and
while he lay in the hospital after the battle,
he cast his first ballot for Lincoln for presi-
dent. After he was able to return home, a
year elapsed before he was able to resume
business, and for the remainder of his life he
had to use a crutch.

He commenced his business career in the
flour and grain trade under the firm name of
O. R. Fyler & Company, which continued for
two years. In 1866 he was appointed post-
master of Torrington by President Andrew
Johnson. He was twice reappointed by Presi-
dent Grant, once by President Hayes and once
by President Garfield, being one of the few-
postmasters in Connecticut commissioned by
the martyr-president. His term came to an end
under the Democratic administration of Gro-
ver Cleveland in 1885, after a continuous
service of nineteen years. In the meantime
the population of the town had grown and
the work of the office increased greatly. His
administration of affairs was eminently satis-

factory both to the government and to the
public, and he left the office in admirable con-
dition. It was, in fact, one of the best of
its class in the whole state. Then he re-
turned to public life in a more important and
responsible trust. He was appointed July 1,
1886, by Governor Henry B. Harrison, in-
surance commissioner of the state, largely
upon the recommendation, it is said, of Ste-
phen A. Hubbard, of the Hartford Courant.
He proved efficient and capable in this office
and was reappointed by Governor P. C.
Lounsbury and Governor Morgan G. Bulke-
ley. Almost the first official act of Commis-
sioner Fyler was to place the Charter Oak
Life Insurance Company of this city in the
hands of receivers. The Continental Life
Insurance Company had passed previous ex-
aminations, but the searching investigation of
Mr. Fyler resulted in his taking the same
action as in the Charter Oak case, Hon. John
R. Buck and Governor L. A. Cooke being
appointed receivers. Commissioner Fyler's
course was commended and he afterward
made a systematic examination of all the in-
surance companies with especial attention to
the values of their holdings in western real
estate. This action resulted in raising the
standard of the Hartford insurance com-
panies. Mr. Fyler also superintended the
reorganization of the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Hartford, when it was
changed from a stock company to mutual. He
reorganized the work of his own office and
left it in excellent condition for his successor,
Burton Mansfield, of New Haven.

Mr. Fyler represented Torrington in the
general assembly of Connecticut in 1886 and
was delegate from that town in the constitu-
tional convention of the state in 1902. He
became chairman of the Republican state cen-
tral committee in 1896 during the McKinley
campaign and proved one of the most efficient
men that the party had had in that office.
He resigned in 1902. It was while serving
as a delegate to the constitutional convention
that he had an attack of nervous prostration,
which lasted several years, but from which he
finally recovered fully. This illness caused
him to resign from the state central com-
mittee. He was at the head of the party or-
ganization at the time of some of the most
memorable political contests. One of the
greatest controversies within the Republican
party was that involved in the contest be-
tween Governor McLean and State Attorney
Donald T. Warner for the nomination for
governor in 1900. A great effort was made
at that time to depose Mr. Fyler as chairman,
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fight he was a hard and effective fighter, but
the most bitter opponent never had reason to
accuse him of unfairness. Judge Warner was
supported by Samuel Fessenden while Mr.
Fyler led the support of Governor McLean,
who won the nomination and became one of
the ablest and most popular governors the
state ever had. In 1897 Governor Lorrin A.
Cooke appointed Mr. Fyler a member of the
railroad commission for four years and he
was reappointed by Governor McLean, Gov-
ernor Roberts and Governor Lilley. He died
in office.

He was always keenly interested in local
affairs. He was a prime mover in the intro-
duction of a water supply for the town and
served on the original committee to investi-
gate and make plans for the water works,
and at a later meeting of the town he was
appointed with the same associates, Senator
Isaac W. Brooks and Charles F. Brooker,
to secure subscriptions and take charge of the
construction. He was appointed superintend-
ent and supervised the work. He was also
one of the leading men who established the
Torrington & Winchester Tramway Company,
building an electric railway between Torring-
ton and Winsted. The first meeting was
held November 16, 1896, and it was largely
through his efforts that the corporation was
formed and the road built. It afterward be-
came a part of the system of the Connecticut
Company.

Mr. Fyler was a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion. He never lost
interest in his old regiment and he was a
welcome comrade at the regimental reunions.
He was a member of the General Sedgwick
monument commission. In religion he was
a Congregationalist.

Among messages of condolence re-
ceived by the family at Mr. Fyler's death
was the following from President Taft : "I
have just learned of your great loss and I
tender to you my sincere sympathy. He was
a warm friend of mine and I condole with
you in your sorrow." Governor Weeks tele-
graphed : "I am greatly shocked to learn of
Mr. Fyler's sudden death. Mrs. Weeks joins
me in heartfelt sympathy for yourself and
family." Senator Morgan G. Buckley : "With
sincere regret I have your announce-
ment of the death of our friend, O. R. Fyler.
His patriotism and public service will be held
in grateful remembrance by the people of this
state." Senator Brandegee : "Your telegram
just received on my return from Panama.
You all have my deepest sympathy." Similar
expressions of sympathy were received from
the most prominent men of the state and

nation. The interment was at Hillside ceme-
tery.

Mr. Fyler married, December 14, 1865,
Mary E., daughter of David and Sarah
(Bliss) Vaill, of Torrington, granddaughter
of David Vaill. Samuel Vaill, father of
David Vaill, was a son of David, grandson of
John, and great-grandson of Jeremiah Vaill,
the immigrant, who settled in Salem, Massa-
chusetts, as early as 1639, and became the pro-
genitor of a prominent New England family.
Mr. and Mrs. Fyler had one child, Gertrude
B., married Edward Henry Hotchkiss (see
Hotchkiss IX).

(The Hotchkiss Line).

(VIII) Edward C. Hotchkiss, son of
Charles Hotchkiss (q. v.), was born at Nauga-
tuck, November 5, 1833. He was seven years
old when the family moved to Torrington and
he was educated there in the public schools,
and learned the trade of carpenter. At the
age of seventeen he held the responsible posi-
tion of foreman in charge of important con-
tracts for his father's firm, afterward C.
Hotchkiss & Son, and from 1856 to 1866 he
was a partner. In 1866 his brother Henry
was admitted to the firm and the name became
C. Hotchkiss & Sons. In 1880 the sons
bought the interests of their father and until
1888 conducted the business under the firm
name of Hotchkiss Brothers. Afterward the
business was incorporated under the present
name of Hotchkiss Brothers Company. This
concern is one of the best known among the
contractors and builders of the state. Mr.
Edward C. Hotchkiss was an able architect.
In politics he was a Republican, and he cast
his presidential vote for John C. Fremont,
walking a distance of ten miles in order to
vote. He represtented the town in the general
assembly in 1871-75. He was selectman of
Torrington for two years, member of the
board of burgesses two years and for many
years member of the board of relief. He was
a member of the Masonic fraternity, belong-
ing to Seneca Lodge, of Torrington, Cyrus
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Clark Com-
mandery, Knights Templar, of Waterbury,
and Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine, of
Bridgeport. In religion he was a Congrega-
tionalist. He married, in 1856, Amelia
Briggs, of Saratoga, New York, one of a
family of fourteen children. She died at the
age of forty-seven years. Children : Edward
H., mentioned below ; Josephine A., born No-
vember 29, 1864, married Harlow Pease;
Minnie E., November 5, 1866.

(IX) Edward Henry, son of Edward C.
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29, 1861. He was educated in the public
schools, and in 1888 was admitted to part-
nership by his father, and the name of the
concern became Hotchkiss Brothers & Com-
pany, afterwards incorporated as Hotchkiss
Brothers Company. He married Gertrude B.
Fyler (see Fyler VII).

John Beck was born March 31,
BECK 1838, in Germany. He came, in
i860, to New Haven, Connecti-
cut, when a young man, and has lived there
since. He lived in New York City for about
ten years after coming from his native land,
and is now retired from active business. He
married Elizabeth Madeline Schwile. Chil-
dren : Mary, John, Louise, Frederick,
George.

(II) Dr. Frederick George Beck, son of
John Beck, was born in New York City, where
his parents lived for a time, October 12, 1874.
He attended the public schools of New York
and New Haven. He graduated from the
New Haven high school in the class of 1895
and entered the academic department of Yale
College. At the end of his sophomore year,
he left college to engage in business. After
two years he determined to study medicine
and in 1899 entered Yale Medical School,
from which he was graduated with the degree
of M.D. in 1903. While at college he took a
very active part in athletics. He then be-
came an interne at the New Haven Hospital,
remaining for eighteen months, and afterward
was at the New York City Lying-in Hospital
and the St. Mary's Children's Hospital of
New York City. He went abroad for study
and spent 1905-06 in the hospitals and medical
schools of Vienna, Berlin and Paris, receiving
diplomas at Berlin. He returned to this
country, and in January, 1907, commenced to
practice at 199 York street, New Haven, hav-
ing also an office at his residence, 821 Con-
gress avenue. He is one of the attendant phy-
sicians at the New Haven Free Dispensary
and physician to the Springside Home of New
Haven. He is a member of the New Haven
Medical Society ; New Haven County Medical
Society; Connecticut State Medical Society;
American Medical Association ; Connecticut
Rock Lodge, No. 92, Free and Accepted
Masons, of New Haven, and has taken many
of the higher degrees in the order ; New Ha-
ven Lodge, No. 25, Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks; Dorscht Lodge, No. 2;
Harugri Liendertafel ; D. E. I., Green letter
medical fraternity at Yale ; Phi Gamma Delta,
society of the New Haven high school ; Quin-
nipiac Club of New Haven; New Haven
Country Club; New Haven Automobile Club,

and the Chamber of Commerce. He is a
member of Yale University athletic advisory
board. In politics he is an Independent. For
a time he was one of the military staff of
Troop A, and at present belongs to the fam-
ous New Haven Grays.

He married, June 28, 1905, Margaret Eliza-
beth Fresenius, born in New Haven, Septem-
ber 3, 1879, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth
(Schmidt) Fresenius. Children: Frederick
Beck, born in Berlin, Germany, June 14, 1906;
Margaret Elizabeth, December 7, 1907, at
New Haven.

Dr. Maurice Ferdinand Lin-
LINQUIST quist, M.D., was born at

Gottenberg, Sweden, July 13,
1825. He had brothers: Isaac, Edward,
George, Mortimer, and sister, Sarah Linquist.
He was educated in the schools of his native
land. He came to New York City in 1855
and soon afterward began the study of medi-
cine at the New York Eclectic Medical Col-
lege, from which he was graduated with the
degree of M.D. He went abroad and studied
at Vienna, Austria. Upon his return he prac-
ticed medicine for a time in New York. In
1862 he came to New Haven, Connecticut,
and continued in general practice there until
1903, when he retired. He was for several
years president of the Connecticut Eclectic
Medical Society. He married Josephine, born
March 9, 1841, daughter of Isaac and Laura
Taylor, of New York City. Her paternal an-
cestors were of the Tavlor family of Yonkers,
New York. Children: Carl F., M.D., born
in New York City in 1863, died in 1889, grad-
uate of Yale College Medical School with
the degree of M.D., in the class of 1885 ; Ed-
ward Friechf, born in 1867, died in 1899,
married Annah Ayres ; Dr. Maurice Ferdi-
nand, mentioned below.

(II) Dr. Maurice Ferdinand (2) Linquist,
son of Dr. Maurice Ferdinand (1) Linquist,
was born at Hastings, New York, June 25,
1869, died April 3, 1910. He attended the
public schools of his native town, and in 1887
entered the New York Homeopathic Medical
College and was graduated with the degree
of M.D. in the class of 1891. He then be-
came an interne at the Buffalo Homeopathic
Hospital at Buffalo, New York, and afterward
began to practice there. He was on the medi-
cal staff of this hospital for eight years and
was for three years surgeon for the West
Shore Railroad Company. He was at that
time a member of the New York Homeo-
pathic Medical Society. He came to New
Haven in 1904 and continued in general prac-
tice there until his death. He was a member

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of the New Haven County Medical Society,
the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical So-
ciety, and the Quinnipiac Club of New Ha-
ven. In religion he was a Methodist and in
politics Republican. He contributed from
time to time to the New York and Connecti-
cut Medical Societies. He was unmarried.
He resided at 129 Whalley avenue, New Ha-
ven, Connecticut.

General William Huntington
RUSSELL Russell, M. A. (Valedictorian

Yale, 1833), educator, was de-
scended from two founders of Yale College,
and from a distinguished Puritan and earlier
English ancestry. One of his ancestors was
Rev. Thomas Hooker (1586- 1647), tne most
famous of the Puritan pastors, a graduate of
Cambridge, England, in 161 1, who in Eng-
land "won renown as an eloquent preacher,"
the founder and first pastor of Hartford, and
the founder of Connecticut. Historians con-
cede to Thomas Hooker the honor of being
the father of the first constitutional govern-
ment the world has ever known, and of Amer-
ican Democracy which, according to Profes-
sor Johnston of Princeton College, had its
origin "under the mighty preaching of
Thomas Hooker." Langdon's "Constitutional
History of the United States" states concern-
ing Thomas Hooker : "He grasped the true
idea of popular government, and through the
first constitution of Connecticut gave it to the
world." "Hooker's clear conception of the
idea that all governmental power is derived
under God from the people was remarkable
for that age." Fiske, in his "Beginnings of
New England," shows how the present form
of government of the United States is a lineal
descendant of that "of which Thomas Hooker
deserves more than any other man to be called
the father." Bancroft, in his "History of the
United States," writes : "Hooker had no rival
in public estimation but Cotton whom he sur-
passed in force of character, in liberality of
spirit, in soundness of judgment, and in clem-
ency." and "They who judge men by their
services to the human race will never cease
to honor the memory of Hooker." Governor
Winthrop, of Massachusetts, wrote of Thomas
Hooker in his "History of New England," vol.
II, 310, "who for piety, prudence, wisdom,
zeal, learning, and what else might make him
serviceable in the place and time he lived in
might be compared with men of greatest
note; and he shall need no other praise; the
fruits of his labours in both Englands shall
preserve an honorable and happy remem-
brance of him forever." Palfrey's "History of
New England" states of Thomas Hooker : "His

death was keenly felt throughout New Eng-
land as a general calamity." A Massachu-
setts chronicler wrote, "the whole land sus-
tained a great loss by the death of that most
eminent servant of Jesus Christ." Holmes in
his "History of Cambridge" writes of Thomas
Hooker as "the first minister of Cambridge,
and the father of the Colony, as well as of the
churches of Connecticut." The celebrated Dr.
Ames, author of "Medulla Theologian," de-
clared that "though he had been acquainted
with many scholars of divers nations yet he
never met with Mr. Hooker's equal either for
preaching or for disputing." Hollister's "His-
tory of Connecticut" states "no minister in
New England possessed such unbounded sway
over popular assemblies as did this truly won-
derful man." Rev. Cotton Mather in his life
of Thomas Hooker (printed in 1695) styles
him the "incomparable Hooker," and writes,
"I shall now invite my reader to behold at
once the Wonders of New England and it is in
one Thomas Hooker that he shall behold them ;
even in that Hooker whom a worthy writer
would needs call 'Saint Hooker.' " Cotton
Mather devotes twenty pages of his "Mag-
nalia" (81-83, 332-352) to a tribute to Thomas
Hooker, whom he styles, "The Light of the
Western Churches." Timothy Dwight (the
elder), president of Yale College, wrote of
Thomas Hooker ("Dwight's Travels," vol. I,
239) : "If I may be allowed to give an opin-
ion ; he was the wisest of all those distin-
guished colonists who had a peculiar influence
on the early concerns of this country." Rev.
Mr. Whitfield wrote, "he had not thought
there had been such a man on earth ; a man
in whom there shone so many excellencies as
were in this incomparable Hooker." (Mc-
Millan's "Dictionary of National Biography" ;
Bancroft's "History of the United States,"
vol. I, 245, 246, 265, 268-271, 363, 364; Pro-
fessor Woodrow Wilson's "History of the
American People," vol. I, 141, 142, 145, 148,
149, 155, 156, 170, 204; vol. Ill, 85; Elson's
"History of the United States" 112, 113 ; Lan-
don's "Constitutional History and Govern-
ment of the United States," 24-26; Eggle-
ston's "The Beginnings of a Nation," 269,
292, 316-327, 332-334; "Short History of the
English Colonies in America" by Henry Cabot
Lodge, 346, 247, 373, 424 ; Professor Alex-
ander Johnston's "Study of a Commonwealth
Democracy," 19, 70-74, 221, 222, 320-322,
365 ; "The Beginnings of New England," by
Fiske, 124-128: Palfrey's "History of New
England." vol. I, 367, 444"448, 453, 58l> 582;
vol. II, 45, 91, 173, 185, 239, 263, 264; Hol-
lister's "History of Connecticut," vol. I, 22-25,
29-31, 109, 204, 212, 447, 456-458, 5IO> 5" J

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Winthrop's "History of New England," vol.
I, 88, 108, 109, 115, 118, 140, 160, 187, 238,
304; vol. II, 248, 310, 349; "The Pilgrim
Fathers" by Brown, 319-321 ; "History of New
England," by Neal, vol. I, 289, 290 ; Sanf ord's
"History of Connecticut," 19-20, 33-34, 57-58 ;
"Dwight's Travels," vol. I, 237-239.)

For a brief, interesting account of charac-
teristics of Puritans from English standpoint
see portion of Macaulay's "Essay on Milton."
Another ancestor was Rev. Samuel Hooker,
who graduated at Harvard in 1653, and was
afterwards trustee of Harvard College, of
whom Rev. Cotton Mather wrote in his "Mag-
nalia," "thus we have to this day among us,
our dead Hooker yet living in his worthy son,
Mr. Samuel Hooker, an able, faithful, useful,
minister" ; he was also descended from Lion
Gardiner (1599- 1663), an English officer who
was "master of works of fortification in the
legers of the Prince of Orange in the Low
Countries" ; "while there certain eminent Pu-
ritans acting for a company of Lords and
Gentlemen in England approached him with
an offer to go to New England and construct
works of fortification and command them.
The offer was accepted." He arrived in New
England in 1635 and constructed a fort at
Saybrook, Connecticut, which he commanded
during the early Indian wars. Professor
Woodrow Wilson's "History" describes him
as "a stout soldier bred to war." The large
bay and island (Gardiners Bay and Gardi-
ners Island) south of the east end of Long
Island sound, between it and Montauk Point,
still bear his name. (Appleton's "Cyclopedia
of American Biography," vol. II, 595-596;
Harper's "Encyclopedia of United States
History" ; Winsor's "History of America,"
vol. Ill, 331, 349; Palfrey's "History of New
England," vol. I, 451, 461, 469; Woodrow
Wilson's "History of the American People,"
vol. I, 147, 148; Doyle's "English Colonies in
America." vol. I, 149, 157, 168, 225 ; Hollis-
ter's "History of Connecticut," vol. I, 47-49,
51-53, 55; Fiske's "The Beginnings of New
England." 129; Sanford's "History of Con-
necticut," 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 28; Lamb's "His-
tory of New York," vol. I, 570). He was also
descended from John Brown, magistrate of
Plymouth, elected annually one of the assistant
governors of Plymouth for eighteen years
from 1636, and one of the colonial commis-
sioners for twelve years from 1645. He was
styled "The grand old man" and "the great
pioneer" in "The Pilgrim Republic" (by
Goodwin), 420, 515, 517-520, 526, 608; an-
other ancestor was Captain Thomas Willet
(1605-74), who came from England in 1629,
and was for fourteen year (1651-65) annually

elected one of the assistant governors of Ply-
mouth Colony, commander of the military
forces, and magistrate in Plymouth Colony,
and founder of' the town of Swansea. Imme-
diately after the English conquest converted
New Amsterdam into New York, Thomas
Willet, who on account of his high character
"was more acceptable to both Dutch and Eng-
lish than any other person," was appointed in
1665 first head of the government of New
York as its first mayor. When his term ex-
pired he was reelected. Later, he was a mem-
ber of the council of Lovelace, governor of
the Province which included New York (see
Life of Thomas Willet, "Magazine of Ameri-
can History," vol. XVII, 233-242; McMil-
lan's "Dictionary of National Biography" ;
Appleton's "Cyclopedia of American Biogra-
phy" ; Hollister's "History of Connecticut,"
vol. I, chap. VIII; Lamb's "History of New
York," vol. I, 149, 151, 209, 210, 221, 230,
238, 243 ; Wilson's "History of New York,"
vol. I, 222, 310, 318, 319, 337, 338; Lossing's
"The Empire State," 58, 85, 86) ; also from
Rev. Andrew Willet, D. D. (1562-1621), a
graduate of Cambridge, England, in 1580;
proctor of Cambridge College, 1585 ; chaplain
and tutor to Prince Henry ; preacher to King
James ; appointed prebend of Ely on Presenta-
tion of the Queen. He was famous as a power-
ful preacher and as the most learned and pro-
lific author of his time. He was the author of
more than forty treatises on Scriptural inter-
pretation and church history, one large work
passing through eight editions. His contem-
poraries spoke of him as a "walking library,"
as "one that must write while he sleeps, it be-
ing impossible he should do so much waking."
Bishop Hall, of Exeter, styled Willet as "Stu-
por Mundi Clerus Brittanicus" ; also from
Rev. Thomas Willet (15 11-98), rector of Bar-
ley, prebend of Ely and subalmoner to King
Edward VI.

William Russell, American ancestor, came
from England in 1638. Lie left only one son,
an infant only one year old, and (his wife
having previously died) directed in his will
that his "son be devoted to God in the way
of learning, being likely to prove a useful in-
strument in the good work of the ministry,"
and designated the person to be his guardian.
This son, Rev. Noadiah Russell, graduated
at Harvard in 1681, was tutor in Harvard
College ("Short History of English Colonies
in America," by Henry Cabot Lodge, p. 436),
and was one of the ten founders of Yale Col-
lege, and one of the original trustees of Yale
College during twelve years (1701-13).
(Trumbull's "History of Connecticut" [re-
print, 1898], vol. I, 402, 410, 419; Hollister's

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"History of Connecticut," vol. II, 577, 578). For a period of forty-six years, until his death
He was pastor of the First Congregational in 1761, he was pastor of the First Congre-
Church in Middletown, Connecticut, twenty- gational Church in Middletown, to which he
five years, until his death, and- it was written was called immediately upon the death of his
of him that he "was accounted a man of father. Rev. William Russell married Mary,
weight and wisdom throughout the Colony." oldest daughter of Rev. James Pierpont (Har-
John L. Sibley, librarian emeritus of Harvard vard, 1681), also one of the ten founders of
University, published a sketch of Rev. Noa- Yale College, and one of the original trustees
diah Russell, from which the following are of Yale College thirteen years (1701 to 1714),
quotations: "How well he performed his and for thirty years until his death (1685-
work, how effectually he moulded the charac- 1714), pastor of the First Congregational
ter, and formed the habits of the people, and (Center) Church in New Haven. Another
how much he had of their grateful affection, daughter, Sarah Pierpont, married Rev. Jona-
may be inferred from the fact that when he than Edwards, D. D. (Yale, 1720), the dis-
died, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and tinguished theologian and president of Prince-
twenty-ninth of his pastorate, his son became ton College, and ancestor of three presidents
in a few months his successor, and labored of Yale (Timothy Dwight, president, 1795-
there for almost fifty years — the entire pe- 1817 ; Theodore D. Woolsey, president, 1846-
riod from the ordination of the father to the 71 ; Timothy Dwight, president. 1886-99), anc^
funeral of the son being more than three- whose granddaughter married Eli Whitney, in-
quarters of a century." "Russell was one of ventor of the cotton gin. These Pierponts
the founders and trustees of Yale College and were descended from Sir Hugh de Pierrepont,
one of the framers of the Saybrook Platform of Picardy, in France, A. D. 980, whose grand-
and of course held high rank among his son, Sir Robert de Pierrepont, went from
brethren." Other published memorials prove France to England as commander in the army
how much Rev. Noadiah Russell was hon- of William the Conqueror in 1066, and was
ored. Noadiah married Mary, daughter of ennobled for distinguished conduct at 'the
Hon. Giles Hamlin who came from England battle of Hastings (1066), and from him de-
and was one of the first settlers and principal scended the dukes and earls of Kingston,
proprietors of Middletown, and styled "one ("Genealogical Abstract of the Family of
of the pillars of the Colony." The prominent Pierrepont," Yale College Library ; also Hol-
and honorable record of Giles Hamlin and lister's "History of Connecticut," vol. I, 458-
family for more than one hundred years may 459, 510).

be found in Hollister's "History of Connecti- Rev. Noadiah Russell, M. A. (Yale, 1750),

cut," vol. I, 510; and in the historical ad- son of William and Mary (Pierpont) Russell,

dress of Rev. David Field, D. D., at the sec- was pastor of one Congregational church thir-

ond centennial of Middletown, November 13, ty-seven years. He married Esther, daughter

1850. of Joseph Talcott, treasurer of the Colony of

Rev. William Russell, M. A., son of Noa- Connecticut thirteen years (1756-69),. and

diah Russell, also a clergyman, was gradu- granddaughter of Joseph Talcott, speaker of

ated from Yale in 1709, was some time a the house, judge of the supreme court, and

tutor at Yale, and trustee of Yale College six- governor of Connecticut seventeen years

teen years, from 1745 to 1761. Rev. Mr. (1724-41), until his death while in office. He

Whitfield wrote concerning him: "I think was the first governor of Connecticut born

him an Israelite indeed and one who has been within its limits. Henry Cabot Lodge, in his

long mourning over the deadness of profes- "Short History of English Colonies in Amer-

sors. Oh, that all ministers were like mind- ica," page 382. makes special mention of Gov-

ed." Trumbull, the historian, describes him ernor Talcott's "long term," and concludes

as "A gentleman of great respectability for with the statement that he carried on a steady,

knowledge, experience, moderation, and for frugal government which was probably "one

pacific measures on all occasions." (Trum- of the best the world has ever seen." The

bull's "History of Connecticut" [reprint, Connecticut Historical Society devoted two

1898], vol. II, 86, 87, 98, 100, 101, 264, 422, entire volumes (over nine hundred pages) to

425, 449.) He was offered the position of rec- Governor Talcott and his official papers. Es-

tor or president of Yale College, "and was the ther was also great-granddaughter of Major

first of the alumni to receive that honor from (Lieutenant-Colonel) John Talcott, a magis-

his alma mater," but could not accept because trate in the Colony, and treasurer of the Cbl-

"negotiations with the people of Middletown ony twenty-six years, from 1652 to 1678. He

for the removal of their pastor were ineffect- commanded the "standing army" of Connecti-

ual." (Kingsley's "History of Yale College.") cut and their Indian allies in King Philip's

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war, and was one of the patentees named in
the charter which King Charles II. granted
to Connecticut, and was one of the three to
whom it was intrusted for safe keeping. Pal-
frey, in his "History of New England," styles
him the "indefatigable Major Talcott," and
states that he "was appointed Commander-in-
Chief." It was written of him that "he was
always victorious and obtained great renown
as an Indian fighter." (Palfrey's "History of
New England," vol. Ill, 197, 198, 203 ; Hollis-
ter's "History of Connecticut," vol. I, 209-211,
284-287, 476-483 ; Trumbull's "History of
Connecticut" [reprint 1898], vol. I, 46, 55,
179, 184, 194, 205-207, 211, 213, 214, 226,
230, 292, 293). His father, John Talcott,
came from England with Rev. Thomas
Hooker, in 1632, and was one of the chief
magistrates of the Colony until his death, one
of the wealthiest of the original settlers and
proprietors of Hartford, and his name is in-
scribed upon the monument erected to perpet-
uate the memory of the founders of the Colony
of Connecticut. (Talcott Pedigree, 22-24, 32_
35, 39-51, 66-80; Appleton's "Cyclopedia of
American Biography," vol. VI, 23.)

Matthew Talcott Russell, son of Noadiah
and Esther Russell, graduated from Yale in
1779, and was tutor in Yale College four
years. He entered the legal profession, was
state's attorney, and during thirty years was
deacon in the First Congregational Church in
Middletown. He married Mary, oldest daugh-
ter of Rev. Enoch Huntington (Yale, 1759),
and a niece of Samuel Huntington, M. A., LL.
D. (Yale), signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, unanimously elected president of
the continental congress, 1779-80-81 (until im-
paired health compelled him to resign), chief
justice of the superior court, and during ten
years until his death in office (1786-96), an-
nually elected governor of Connecticut.
Mary's father and two brothers all won the
Berkeley prize for scholarship at Yale. Rev.
Enoch Huntington was a fellow (trustee) of
the corporation of Yale College twenty-eight
years (1780- 1808), and secretary of the Yale
corporation from 1788 to 1793. He was pastor
of the First Congregational Church in Mid-
dletown forty-seven years, commencing 1762.
Three of his brothers were prominent (Con-
gregational) clergymen. He was described as
a man of remarkable scholarship, and it was
recorded that "on the death of President
Stiles, of Yale College, in 1795, Mr. Hunting-
ton was prominent as a candidate to succeed
him, but his failing voice obliged him to de-
cline the honor." (See interesting account of
the Ministers in Connecticut previous to 1818
in "Short History of English Colonies in

America," by Henry Cabot Lodge, 423-425,
429-434; Hollister's "History of Connecticut,"
vol. I, 427, 428, 447, 448 ; Sanford's "His-
tory of Connecticut," 124). Simon Hunting-
ton (ancestor) came from England, and was
one of the original proprietors, first settlers,
and deacons of Norwich, Connecticut. (See
"Old Houses of the Ancient Town of Nor-
wich," Yale College Library.)

The only son of Matthew Talcott Russell
who married was General William Huntington
Russsell, M. A. (Yale, 1833), who was vale-
dictorian of the class of 1833, some time tutor,
and founder of the famous Skull and Bones
Society at Yale, and that society perpetuated
his name by being incorporated as the "Rus-
sell Trust Association." He married Mary
Elizabeth Hubbard, daughter of Thomas Hub-
bard, whose only other daughter, Frances
Harriet Hubbard, married Rev. Simeon
North, D. D., LL. D., valedictorian of the
class of 1825 (Yale), professor of Greek and
Latin (1829-1839), and president of Hamil-
ton College eighteen years (1830-1857).
Thomas Hubbard was professor at Yale from
1829 until his death, in 1838 ; he was president
of the Connecticut State Medical Society five
consecutive years, the longest term of service
in that position with three exceptions since the
society was founded in 1792, the usual term
of service not exceeding one or two years.
He had been its vice-president eight years,
that being a longer term than any other vice-
president since 1792.

General Russell was born August 12, 1809,
in Middletown, Connecticut, where three of
his ancestors had been pastors of the First
Congregational Church, a continuous period
of one hundred and eighteen years, and his
father, deacon for thirty years. Before enter-
ing Yale he was for several years a cadet in
the famous military academy founded and con-
ducted by Captain Alden Partridge (U. S. A.)
a graduate of West Point, and for twelve
years previously professor and military super-
intendent at the National Academy at West
Point. This academy was similar to West
Point, having as an object the preparation of
young men "to command in time of need the
hastily raised troops of a great and growing
nation," and General Sherman stated that it
at one time almost rivaled the National Acad-
emy at West Point. It was these years of
strict military discipline that gave General
Russell such a knowledge of military affairs
and influenced bis life work. The death of
his father, ageo\ sixty-eight, from acute ery-
sipelas, and changes in the fortunes of the
family threw the care of his mother (who had
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upon him, and he subsequently entered Yale
under circumstances of severe financial ad-
versity. He was self-supporting in college,
and in all his frequent journeys between New
Haven and his home in Middletown (twenty-
six miles) was obliged to go on foot, owing to
financial necessity. Such was his ability and
industry that, in spite of these impediments,
he graduated as valedictorian in 1833, at tne
head of a class which in sophomore year num-
bered one hundred and twenty-two students,
among whom were many who attained much
distinction in their life work. He had hoped
to enter the ministry. Urgent financial ne-
cessity, and the need of assuming responsibili-
ties left by the death of his father, forced him
to give up his earnest desire to study theology,
and he then began teaching, to obtain imme-
diate income.

In September, 1836, he opened in a small
dwelling house, a new private school for boys,
preparatory for college. With only a few
pupils at first, and no assistance from any one,
and owing only to .his personality and scholar-
ship, his school rapidly became large and fa-
mous, and when it closed at his death, May 19,
1885, there were said to have been four thou-
sand young men from all parts of this and
some foreign countries under his care as pu-
pils. During about half a century there were
at Yale young men who had prepared for col-
lege under his care. Never seeking to lay
up riches, giving away freely of what he had,
he was ever ready to assist many young men
who without means sought an education.

It was written of General Russell that "he
was a striking example of the New England
life and character" ; that "his personality was
a remarkable one, and fitted him to train
youth for an upright, independent and con-
scientious manhood" ; that "he ranked with
Dr. Thomas Arnold, master of Rugby
School" ; that "by his transparent integrity
and native vigor of intellect he impressed him-
self on all his pupils and on every order of
mind with which he came in contact." Gen-
eral Russell's greatest service was the impres-
sion which he made by his character and schol-
arship and influence upon the thousands of
young men who, during nearly half a cen-
tury, came from all parts of the country to be
his pupils. It was written that "Hon. William
H. Russell was a Whig representative in
1846-1847. Upon the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise in 1854 he became active as one
of the leaders of the movement which resulted
in the organization of the Republican party."
He was a strong Abolitionist and a personal
friend of John Brown, the anti-slavery martyr,
and in a will which Brown made William H.

Russell was named as one of the trustees. He
was the Connecticut representative on the Na-
tional Kansas (anti-slavery) committee before
the war, and John Brown was many times a
guest at his house. Rev. E. S. Lines (bishop
of diocese of Newark), president of the His-
torical Society, wrote of General Russell, that
he had "a New England ancestry than which
one more distinguished could hardly be
named." "He had the respect and regard of
all men. He commanded a feeling akin to
reverence." "Because he wanted justice for
all men he threw himself into the anti-slavery
movement with all his heart," and that he
"has a high and influential place among those
who made the anti-slavery sentiment of the
North, and especially of New England."
Congressman Sperry wrote: "If there ever
was a man who labored faithfully and effi-
ciently for the cause of the anti-slavery party
and the election of Abraham Lincoln, that
man was General Russell. He put his heart
and soul into the cause. Those who knew
him best during the days of the anti-slavery
excitement and the rebellion which followed,
will admit that he had no superior in loyalty,
earnestness, and devotion to the cause." "He
was one of the most courageous men I ever
knew. He had the courage to do what he
believed to be right in spite of every opposi-
tion." "One in whom was realized the highest
ideals of fearless exemplary Christian man-
hood." Believing civil war to be inevitable, he
introduced, about 1840, very thorough military
drill and discipline into his school to fit every
pupil to serve his country in war as well as to
furnish a sound education for times of peace.
In 1861, at the outbreak of the rebellion, mili-
tary instructors were so difficult to obtain that
even the younger boys from his school were
in demand .at the encampment as drill in-
structors for the new recruits for army serv-
ice. It was stated that over three hundred
men who had been his pupils fought in the
Union army. In 1861, at the commencement
of the civil war, Governor Buckingham relied
upon William H. Russell, as the man best
qualified by early training and knowledge of
military affairs, to organize the militia of Con-
necticut for army service, and first by appoint-
ment of the governor and later by act of the
legislature he was appointed major-general.
Such was his earnestness in the prosecution
of the war that, it being impossible to send
his five sons into the army (as he otherwise
would have done), because the oldest was only
about thirteen years of age, and the youngest
an infant, he hired to represent them in the
army five men who otherwise would not have
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Both he and his wife were earnest Chris-
tians in every day's work. Always ready to
help the weak and unfortunate, the last act
of his life (and cause of death) was charac-
teristic of him. In May, 1885, he saw from
his window numerous street boys throwing
stones at the birds in the park. He ran out
to protect the birds from being injured by the
boys, but the boys were active and numerous,
the park was large, and he was too old for
such active, prolonged effort. Overcome by
the effort he fell unconscious from a fatal
rupture of a blood vessel (apoplexy) and died
May 19, 1885, aged seventy-six years. He
had never had a day of illness previously since
childhood. Investigation of old records proves
that his ancestry was especially conducive to
vigorous mental and physical health and long-
evity, and freedom from any tendency to dis-
ease. His wife died December 11, 1890, aged
seventy-four years, having had good health
until her last illness. Immediately after his
death the veteran soldiers of Admiral Foote
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, passed
the following resolution : "Resolved, That
on Saturday next, May 30th, and on all fu-
ture Decoration Days in which we may par-
ticipate, we will decorate the grave of Major
General William Huntington Russell in the
same spirit of affectionate respect with which
we lay our garlands upon the graves of our
comrades." Sixteen years after General Rus-
sell's death the New Haven Colony Histori-
cal Society held a meeting commemorative of
his public services at which addresses were
made by President Lines (now bishop of the
diocese of Newark) and others, and his por-
trait was hung in their hall. Donald G.
Mitchell of Edgewood (Yale, 1839), the well-
known author (related to William H. Russell,
through ancestry), wrote of him that he was
one of "those who had left reputations and
traditions behind them at Yale," "and stories
of his brilliant and effective speech-making
were very current about the corridors of the
old Lyceum," and that "he did enough to
sway into higher and conquering ways of
thought, the minds of hundreds of young peo-
ple with whom he was brought into profes-
sional contact, and of older ones, too, who re-
sponded to the touches of his magnetic influ-
ence." Henry Holt, the publisher (Yale,
1857), one of General Russell's old pupils,
wrote of him as "a man full of his stern Puri-
tan virtues" and he regarded him "as a very
remarkable personality. When he smiles his
eyes glowed with a silvery light that I have
never seen in any other eyes than Herbert
Spencer's," and that of all the men he had
known he knew of no one whom he would put

in advance of him as a model of prompt and
inflexible allegiance to duty. Another old
graduate of Yale, referring to William H.
Russell, wrote, "I thought him to be the best
speaker and scholar I had seen."

His sons are : Talcott Huntington Russell,
B. A., Yale, 1869; LL. B., Columbia, 1871 ; in-
structor on Municipal Corporations in Yale
Law Department, 1892 to 1900. He practices
law in New Haven, where he has resided since
birth. Thomas Hubbard Russell, Ph. B., Yale,
1872; M. D., Yale, 1875; professor in Yale
University from 1883 to the present time.
Philip Gray Russell, B. A., Yale, 1876; LL. B.,
Yale, 1878, who, after a very successful career
in the legal profession, died without issue in
Washington, D. C, July 21, 1900, aged forty-
six, from acute inflammation of kidneys re-
sulting from severe appendicitis. Edward
Hubbard Russell, Ph. B., Yale, 1878, inventor
of Russell Processes for Silver Ores, who
lives abroad. Robert Gray Russell, who died
from acute dysentery during his sophomore
vear at Yale. A sketch of his son, Thomas
H. Russell, Ph. B., M. D., professor in Yale
University from 1883 until the present time,
follows this.

Thomas Hubbard Russell, Ph. B., Yale,
1872 ; M. D., Yale, 1875 ; professor in the Med-
ical Department of Yale University from 1883
to the present time, was born in New Haven,
December 14, 185 1. Until 1868 he received
his education in the large preparatory school
established and conducted by his father in
New Haven. In 1868 he resided in the home
of his uncle, Rev. Simeon North, ex-president
of Hamilton- College, and there continued his
preparations for Yale. Although prepared
to enter the academical department in 1869,
he preferred the scientific course, and having
obtained his father's consent to the change,
passed the entrance examination without con-
ditions and received the degree of Ph. B. in
1872. In 1872 he was assistant to Professor
O. C. Marsh on his paleontological expedition.
He performed all his duties in such a thor-
oughly satisfactory manner that Professor
Marsh endeavored to persuade him to take up
paleontology as his life work. This Dr. Rus-
sell did not consider advisable, as he was un-
willing to longer delay medical studies. A
year later Professor Marsh urged him with
additional inducements to go with him on an-
other expedition, and told him he would al-
ways leave his proposals open for acceptance
at any future time. Professor Marsh showed
his complete confidence in Dr. Russell's work
by depending upon him as his physician and
intimate friend until his death in 1899. His
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preciaticn in real estate, Dr. Russell was self-
supporting by teaching during his professional
studies and subsequently until his medical
practice furnished sufficient income. He re-
ceived the degree of M. D. in 1875, and com-
menced practice in February, 1875. While
studying medicine, and during six or eight
years afterward, he was assistant to Professor
Francis Bacon. In 1875 he was resident phy-
sician and surgeon to the New Haven Hos-
pital, and was for some years physician to the
New Haven Dispensary. From 1877 to 1879
he was assistant to Professor David P. Smith,
and from 1880 to 1883 was lecturer on surgi-
cal subjects in the Yale Medical Department.
He was attending surgeon to the New Haven
Hospital thirty years from February, 1878, to
February, 1908, and from 1908 to the present
time has been consulting surgeon to the New
Haven Hospital. He was professor of ma-
teria Medica and Therapeutics at Yale from
1883 to 1 89 1. In 1 89 1 he was appointed pro-
fessor of Clinical Surgery, and still occupies
that position. In 1886 he went abroad.

On December 21, 1882, he married Mary
K., daughter of Lyman Ezra Munson, for-
merly judge of the United States court of
Montana by appointment from President Lin-
coln. As illustrating his vigor of intellect, he
when eighty-four years of age (by request)
delivered an address before the students at the
law department of Yale University and con-
tinued to do literary work almost to the time
of his death at the age of eighty-six. Mrs.
Munson died at the age of eighty years, hav-
ing been happily married over sixty years, sur-
vived by all her children, all of. whom are
still living good, useful, strictly honorable
lives. Mrs. Russell's ancestors, through both
parents, were Puritans, and left a notable rec-
ord of success, health and longevity. Mrs.
Russell's only brother, Major E. L. Munson,
United States army, is a graduate of two de-
partments of Yale University and is profes-
sor in the Army Service School at Fort Leav-
enworth for instruction of officers in the
United States army. He published a large
volume which was adopted by the United
States government for that work and by for-
eign governments. Thomas H. Russell has
three sons and two daughters : Mary Tal-
cott Russell, who has done educational work
in several states. Thomas H. Russell. Jr.,
Ph. B., Yale, 1906, and M. D., 1910, who in
freshman year was one of the founders of the
Young Men's Christian Association in the
medical department and later its secretary and
president. He was president of the senior
class and representative of the medical de-
partment on the board of directors of the Yale

Cooperative Corporation. At graduation he
received the "Cum laude" degree in medicine
for general excellence in all the studies and
examinations of the four years' course in
medicine. He has been abroad at two differ-
ent times for periods of study in Germany and
Vienna and is a member of the Graduates
Club and Lawn Club. William Huntington
Russell of the class of 1912 in Yale College.
Eleanor Russell, and Edward Stanton Rus-
sell, who is preparing to enter Yale College.
The doctor, his wife, and all of his children
are members of the First Congregational
(Center) Church. His practice has extended,
in consultation and otherwise, over a consid-
erable portion of the state. He owes much to
the help and companionship of his good wife,
who has been all that a Christian wife and
mother could be, who never tires of doing
good, and has always had perfect health,
sound common sense, and all the most lovable
qualities of mind and heart. She had the ad-
vantage of education in both European and
American boarding schools. Like his broth-
ers, who have all been successful in their pro-
fessions, he had by inheritance absolutely no
money, but what was far better, sound health
and a good name. As a foundation for his
life work he received from both parents a
most careful religious, common-sense train-
ing, a college education, freedom from bad
habits, and an ability and willingness to do
hard and successful professional work.

He is a member of the following societies :
American Association for the Advancement
of Science ; Connecticut Academy of Arts and
Sciences ; New Haven Colony Historical So-
ciety : American Medical Association ; Con-
necticut Medical Society ; New Haven County
Medical Association; New Haven (City)
Medical Association ; Graduates' Club.

John Beach, immigrant an-
BEACH cestor, was born in England,

and settled at Stratford, Con-
necticut, probably a brother of Benjamin and
Richard Beach, of Stratford, and of Thomas
Beach, of Milford, Connecticut. His house
lot was on Main and Back streets, originally
Front street. His property in Stratford
amounted to three hundred and twelve pounds
thirteen shillings, at the time of his death.
He also owned property in Wallingford to
the amount of ninety-two pounds nineteen
shillings, though it is not known that he ever
lived in that town. Three sons, however, set-
tled in Wallingford. He died in 1677. Chil-
dren : Elizabeth, born March 8, 1652; John,
April, 1654; Mary, September, 1656; Thomas,
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November, 1667; Isaac, June 27, 1669, men-
tioned below; Josepb, February 5, 1671 ; Ben-
jamin, March, 1674.

(II) Isaac, son of John Beach (q. v.),
was born June 27, 1669, m Stratford. He
settled in Wallingford on land which was
given to him by his father John. In 1694
he was received into the church at Stratford
from the church at Wallingford. In 1699 he
sold land in Wallingford to Joseph Rice. He
married, in 1693, Hannah, born in February,
1671, daughter of John Birdseye. John Birds-
eye was son of John, an original settler in
Stratford. He married Phebe, daughter of
William Willcoxson, who was also among the
early settlers of Stratford. In 1741 he died
at Stratford, where his gravestone still re-
mains. His wife died October 15, 1750, aged
seventy-nine, and she was buried in the Epis-
copal burying ground in Stratford. Children :
William, born July 7, 1694; Elnathan, July
7, 1698, mentioned below; John, October 6,
1700; Mary, December 16, 1703; Hannah,
May 26, 1709 ; Dinah, October 14, 1713.

(III) Elnathan, son of Isaac Beach, was
born July 7, 1698, died August 16, 1743. He
was a merchant and settled in Wallingford,
in the south part of what is now Cheshire.
For several years he was engaged in foreign
trade with Captain Samuel Cooke. They
were very successful in this, and he soon
became a man of great wealth and high stand-
ing. He presented the Congregational So-
ciety of Cheshire with a-bell for the meeting
house, and in his will left a bequest of several
pounds for the relief of the poor in the parish
of Cheshire. He married (first) Abigail Uf-
ford, of Stratford, May 9, 1720. She died
December 2, 1738. He married (second)
Hannah, daughter of Captain Samuel Cooke,
February 8, 1742. She died May 18, 1754.
Children by first marriage: Isaac, born April
7, 1721, died January 27, 1724; Elnathan,
July 21, 1723; Isaac, March 3, 1725; Sarah,
March 25, 1727; Hannah, November 12, 1728;
Abigail, December 17, 1730; Lois, August
18, 1732; John, 1733, mentioned below; Sam-
uel, December 26, 1737; Esther. By second
marriage: Abraham, born August 29, 1743.

(IV) John (2), son of Elnathan Beach,
was born in 1733, at Wallingford. He set-
tled on a farm left him by his father, and the
house, a large, red, two-story one, stood in
the south part of Cheshire, Connecticut. He
married Eunice Eaton in 1744. Children:
Hannah, born January 29, 1756; Isaac, Au-
gust 25, 1758; Elnathan, August 30, 1760;
James Eaton, September, 1762, mentioned be-
low ; John, May, 1764; Eunice, January 4,
1766; Abijah, 1768; Bildad, September, 1770;

Abraham, 1772, died 1772; Lois, December,

1774-

(V) James Eaton, son of John (2) Beach,
was born in Cheshire, September, 1762, died
in 1838 in Bridgeport. In the revolution he
took his brother's place in the ranks of the
nine-months men. His home at this time was
in Cheshire, but after his term of service in
the army had expired he removed to Bridge-
port, Connecticut, and began the practice of
medicine. He was the first doctor there, and
continued his work for over fifty years. He
was one of the most prominent men in the
First Congregational Church, and was one
of the acting deacons when he died, He mar-
ried, October 20, 1789, Hulda, daughter of
Matthew Sherman, who inherited a large es-
tate in the north part of the town on what
was formerly Division street, now Park ave-
nue. This home, over one hundred years old,
is still in the possession of the family. Chil-
dren: Polly, born August 2, 1795, married
Sylvanus Sterling; Laura, married Ira Sher-
man ; Isaac Eaton, mentioned below.

(VI) Isaac Eaton, son of Dr. James Eaton
Beach, was born in Bridgeport, May 23, 1802.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Gurdon
and Annie Hawley, who lived on Main street.
The last twenty-five years of his life he spent
in reading and studying literature, especially
theological works. In 1877 he died aged
seventy-four, and his wife died in 1885, aged
eighty-two. He was a member of the old
North Church. Children: John H., men-
tioned below ; George E., died in 1877.

(VII) John H., son of Isaac Eaton Beach,
was born in Bridgeport, August 9, 1824. He
received his primary education in the district
schools, and at the age of fourteen entered a
classical school in Lafayette street, where he
remained two years under the able instruc-
tion of Isaac M. Johnson, principal. At the
age of sixteen he became clerk in the dry
goods business in the store of Shelton &
Thatche, on State street, Bridgeport, a little
east of Main street. At that time there was
very little business in Main street. Two years
later he returned to take charge of his fa-
ther's farm. His father's health failed, and
the call of duty brought him to the farm and
doubtless changed his career from mercan-
tile business to agricultural. He made a spe-
cialty of market gardening and was a pioneer
in the business. He admitted his sons to
partnership and the firm scored a great suc-
cess, especially with strawberries, of which
they had some fifteen to eighteen acres. Hot-
houses were erected for growing early vege-
tables. Most of the produce found an excel-
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David separated and built for himself,
and for ten years the firm continued
as John H. Beach & Son. During this
time the addition of new greenhouses for the
cultivation of flowers was begun, and in a
few years this branch of the business grew
to mammoth proportions. In 1895 the senior
member of the firm withdrew, and since then
the business has been conducted by James E.
Beach, the junior partner. Mr. Beach owned
nearly a hundred acres of the best farming
land in the county and two attractive houses
on Park avenue. In politics he was always
a Republican. For fourteen years he was on
the school committee. He was an able, indus-
trious, faithful citizen, highly esteemed by
the community in which he was known. He

married (first) , daughter of Captain

Samuel Stratton, in 1845, ar,d m the same
year built himself a house just below the old
house. In less than two years his young wife
died, and two years later he married (second)
Mary A., daughter of Orson Merchant, of
Redding. Children of second wife : 1. James
E. 2. Amelia M., born August 27, 1855 ;
married George S. Curtis, and lives at East
Orange. 3. David Sherman, mentioned below.
4. Edmund H., born October 28, 1864. 5.
Frederick H., born July 3, 1867. Two died
young.

Mary A. Beach, widow of John H. Beach,
died July 23, 1910, at her home, 1984 Park
avenue, after a short illness, aged eighty-
three years. She was a member of the First
Congregational Church, and was one of the
best-known residents of the city, and had re-
sided at the homestead on Park avenue for
sixty years. She was survived by two sons,
James E. and David S., and a daughter, Mrs.
Amelia B. Curtis, of East Orange, New Jer-
sey.

( VIII) David Sherman, son of John H.
Beach, was born in Bridgeport, February 26,
186 1. He attended the seminary of Guy B.
Day from the age of seven to twelve, and was
also a student in S. B. Jones' Park Avenue
Institute. At the age of fourteen he became
a partner of his father and brother in the
firm of John H. Beach & Son. At the age of
eighteen he spent a term of ten weeks in the
Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie,
New York, then returned home, and during
the next ten years was an active member of
the firm of John H. Beach & Sons. At the
age of twenty-eight he withdrew from this
firm and engaged in the market gardening
business on his own account and built up an
extensive business. He has fifty thousand
square feet or more of glass in his green-
house plant, and owns a large amount of val-

uable real estate. In the second year of his
business he lost his buildings by fixe, but with
his characteristic activity promptly rebuilt
them. In addition to his greenhouses he has
one of the best farms and the finest peach,
apple and pear orchards in New England.
Mr. Beach was the founder of the North
American Investment Company, incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey, May 26, 1896,
with offices in Jersey City and Bridgeport.
He has been interested for many years in life
insurance and kindred subjects, and one of
his great plans is his municipal insurance
plan, whereby the public debt of any city,
government, state or railroad corporation may
be paid with economy by life insurance or by
liquidating and refunding bonds. It is a novel
and striking idea, characteristic of the bril-
liant mind of the inventor. Briefly stated, the
plan provides that any government, state,
county, city, town, railroad company, corpo-
ration of any class, or an individual, may
take out insurance policies, sufficient to their
needs, upon the lives of citizens between the
ages of twenty-five and fifty-five years, in
any amount not exceeding $1,000,000 for any
one risk ; or, liquidating and refunding bonds
to any limit, without restriction. In any event
where an application is approved and accept-
ed, all policies or liquidating and refunding
bonds are made payable direct to the party or
parties in whose interest they are applied
for and the purposes for which such indemnity
was created. Characters and numerals can
be utilized along the same lines as citizens, as
real risks, as in pure life insurance ; and, if
need be, all premiums are to be paid from the
same source or sources that precipitated their
specific use and conception. In 1895 Mr.
Beach presented the plan to the city of Bridge-
port, and although received with favor by all
classes of citizens, it was not at this time
adopted. In 1910 the agitation was again
started. It was brought to the attention of
the common council, who appointed a commit-
tee to investigate the matter, and a bearing
was given to Mr. Beach, who gave an inter-
esting and convincing explanation of his plan.
The matter was then referred to the present
mayor, Hon. Edward T. Buckingham, and
the city attorney, with instructions to report
on the same, and they now (1910) have the
matter under consideration. In a communica-
tion to a Bridgeport newspaper we find the
following :

"Mr. Beach put forth this same line of
thought in 1896, fourteen years ago, and ex-
plained his plan and if adopted the length of
time it would take to pay the debt of the city,
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been paid? Had we adopted his plan at that
time, it would only require six years more
and the entire debt would be paid. What a
wide difference this would make to our tax-
payers, or those of any city situated likewise.
I say to all citizens and taxpayers, 'Be up
and doing. Watch this leech that is sapping
the sinews of finance in our great land, and
as years pass our indebtedness grows larger
and more difficult to overcome, for it will
eventually undermine any individual, corpora-
tion, city, state, or nation, as nothing is so
rapid and deadly certain as simple interest and
compound interest, woven together, which
grows larger every moment, day and night.
Even the little insignificant penny, doubled
each day for a period of one year, would buy
the world and everything contained in it, and
I say it again, to those who are now living
and the generations that are destined to fol-
low, watch this insignificant penny before you
succumb to its power, for it never stops its
course when once set in action.' '

This indicates the feeling of a large number
of the taxpayers of the city, but like all ideas
of an advanced nature, it is hard to have them
adopted, and the opposition shown is one of
the most potent indications that this is the
most advanced solution how to pay debts up
to the present day, and for the purpose for
which it is intended.

Mr. Beach has spent a lifetime in close
study of and computing mortuary tables of
the various insurance companies of the United
States, in fact, throughout the world. Prob-
ably there is no mathematician wdio has de-
voted so much time without compensation, or
made such deep and intricate mathematical re-
search in figures on this one subject. Mr.
Beach has prepared columns upon columns
and tables upon tables, showing the results of
life insurance as an auxiliary and of liquidat-
ing and refunding bonds^^ taken at all ages,
with premiums in accordance, and under every
conceivable condition. Under his municipal
plan, as fully copyrighted December 28, 1896,
he has computed the exact cost of the debt per
capita, dependent upon the contract made ef-
fective by its citizens as to its total cost, and
the ratio in which the debt of any city would
be decreased, the taxes lowered and the exact
time in which the debt would be paid and
closed forever.

The amount of work which Mr. Beach has
done along these lines is incomprehensible and
no adequate conception can be gained except
by seeing his exhaustive figures and the meth-
ods employed to obtain these great results.
Not only has he computed the debts which
might be paid in this way, of towns and large

cities of New England and other states, and
even nations, but among others the tremen-
dous debt of Greater New York, with its
nearly 9,000,000 population and its vast debt
of $648,000,000. By his plan this can be paid,
and a saving of one-half made in twenty years.
This statement can be substantiated by posi-
tive facts and figures that, while they may
sound strange to many, are not disputed by
the best actuaries of the leading companies of
to-day.

It is proposed to shortly bring this matter
to the attention of the present mayor of New
York City, William J. Gaynor, and give the
metropolis an opportunity to better its
financial condition. So clear is this plan that
before long it surely will be adopted by some
city, if not by Bridgeport, and in this way the
bonded debt under which that citv is strusr-
gling will be paid, taxation lowered, and op-
pressiveness from that standpoint will not
prevail, and the name of the man, a native of
Bridgeport, who first conceived the idea and
formulated the plan, will stand as a living
monument for all generations to come, as the
greatest liquidator of public indebtedness that
was ever born.

Mr. Beach's next step will be the organiza-
tion of a company which is to be known as
"The World's Liquidating and Refunding
Company of the World." It is to be capital-
ized with one billion dollars, and its object is
to provide for the liquidation of debts of all
classes, including individuals, corporations of
any class, railroads, cities or towns, states and
nations. The plan upon which it is conceived
is a unique one, entirely original with Mr.
Beach, and when fully perfected, bids fair to
be one of the most successful ever put into
operation. It is one step in advance of his in-
surance plan that not only provides for the
liquidating of debts of cities, but also of indi-»
viduals, thereby creating a vast source of help
to those who are struggling under a heavy
burden of debt, which by this plan can be paid.
When this star of hope appears, rejoicings
will follow, for it promises the solution of the
most serious problem which confronts human-
ity to-day.

Mr. and Mrs. Beach are members of the
First Congregational Church. In politics
he is a Republican. He married, October 15,
1885. Mary Jane, born December 7. 1864,
daughter of Burr and Sarah Jane Meeker, of
Westport, Connecticut. Children: 1. Ella F.,
born January 10, 1887. 2. John H., May II,
1889. 3. David S. Sherman Jr., April 14,
1891. 4. Harold Page, August 13, 1893. 5.
and 6. Victor Curtis and Vincent Meeker
(twins), August 2, 1899, died in infancy.

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The surname Duffie is Scotch in
DUFFIE its derivation and formerly had
the prefix Mac, originating from
the MacPhee clan. John Duffie I, born in
Scotland, set sail for America in 1741, with
his wife and young son, but did not live to
see the shores of America, as he was lost at
sea. His wife was Catherine Carmichael, a
widow when he married her, and whose
maiden name is unknown, but she was born in
France, and according to tradition her parents
were wealthy and had been imprisoned for
being Huguenots. In addition to the son re-
ferred to, John Duffie left a daughter who re-
mained in Scotland and married William Wal-
lace, a linen manufacturer of Edinburgh.
Mrs. Duffie and her son settled in New York
and became members of the old French Pro-
testant Church founded by Huguenots, and
Mrs. Duffie was buried in the old churchyard
in Pine street.

(II) Duncan Duffie, son of John Duffie, was
born in Edinburgh, April 19, 1733, and was
only eight years old when he landed in New
York with his bereaved mother. During the
French and Indian war Duncan Duffie be-
came a privateer, having joined his fortunes
with one Angus McGuire in 1757. In the war
of the revolution he was a commissary with
rank of major. He died soon after the estab-
lishment of peace, at his residence on Ferry
street, leaving a widow, who was Mary
Thompson, born in May 1730, and four chil-
dren: Mary, born May 11, 1756; John, men-
tioned below; James, born May 26, 1765, and
Margaret, born February 3, 1767. Another
child, Duncan, died in infancy.

(III) John Duffie, son of Duncan Duffie,
was born in New York City, December 14,
1763. He began his business career as a clerk
for Isaac Clason, and later entered into part-
nership with his brother-in-law, Cornelius C.
Roosevelt, in the wholesale grocery business.
Later Mr. Roosevelt retired and was succeeded
by W. W. Todd, and the business became ex-
clusivelv gnven to the sale of salt, in which
the descendants of Mr. Todd are still engaged.
Mr. Duffie married Maria, daughter of Cor-
nelius and Margaret (Herring) Roosevelt,
who was born July 2, 1760. Mrs. Duffie was a
direct descendant of Claes Martenson Van
Roosevelt, the founder of the Roosevelt fam-
ily in America, and ancestor of Ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt, who arrived at New
Netherlands from Holland in 1649 or 1650.
Mrs. Duffie's father, who was born in 1731,
served as a private in Colonel Hay's regiment
of New York State colonial troops, and was
later an alderman of New York. John Duffie
died July 8, 1808, his wife surviving till May

17, 1821. Their children were: 1, Maria Car-
oline, born December 20, 1787; married Col-
onel W. W. Todd, and had numerous children.
2. Cornelius Roosevelt, mentioned below. 3.
Margaret, died in 1876, unmarried. 4. Ma-
tilda, married Gerard De Peyster, died in 1880.
5. Cornelia, died in 1873, unmarried. 6. Jane
Antoinette, married (first) Miles R. Burke,
(second) Isaac Gibson, died in 1889, leaving
no issue. 7. John Henry, died in youth.

(IV) Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie, son of
John Duffie, was born in New York City,
March 31, 1789. He entered Columbia Col-
lege in 1805, and was one of the founders and
first president of the Peithologian Literary and
Debating Society. After graduation in 1809
he entered the law office of his cousin, Samuel
Jones, afterward chancellor of the State of
New York. He entered the Tenth New York
Regiment of Militia, becoming ensign and later
paymaster with rank of lieutenant, serving
during the war of 1812. After the war he
was commissioned captain by Governor Tomp-
kins. In 1 81 3 he received the degree of Mas-
ter of Arts from Columbia.

Deciding not to take up law as a profession,
Mr. Duffie joined his brother-in-law, W. W.
Todd, in the salt business, but not finding com-
mercial affairs congenial to his nature, he
decided to enter the ministry of the Episcopal
church, having been since 181 7 a vestryman
of Old Trinity Church. Mr. Duffie was or-
dained deacon by Bishop Hobart, an intimate
friend, August 6, 1823, and soon founded the
parish of St. Thomas, of which he became the
first rector, the church edifice being erected at
the corner of Broadway and Houston street,
where it stood for many years until the build-
ing of the new church at Fifth avenue and
53d street. Mr. Duffie was ordained priest by
Bishop Croes of New Jersey, October 11, 1824.
His early death from typhoid on August 20,
1827, removed a life of great promise in the
church. Mr. Duffie married, on April 16, 1816,
Helena, daughter of James Bleecker, of New
York. Mrs. Duffie was descended from Jan
Jansen Bleecker, who came to America from
Holland in 1658, and died in Albany in 1732.
Mrs. Duffie's mother was Sarah, daughter of
Theophylact Bache, one of the leading citizens
of New York, whose wife was Ann Dorothea,
daughter of Andrew Barclay, and grand-
daughter of Rev. Thomas Barclay, founder
of St. Peter's parish, Albany, and a noted mis-
sionary to the New York Indian tribes. The
Barclays trace their descent through Saxon,
Scotch and French lines back to Alfred the
Great, Robert Bruce and Hugh Capet. The
Baches came to America from Yorkshire, Eng-
land, but were of Norman descent.

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The children of the Rev. Mr. Duffie were:
I. Charles William, died in early boyhood. 2.
Helena Bleecker, born in 1818 and died un-
married, at Litchfield, Conn., September 18,
1886. 3. Maria Roosevelt, born in 1820, and
died unmarried, at New York, March 6, 1876.
4. Cornelius Roosevelt, mentioned below.

(V) Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (2) was
born in New York City, August 6, 1821. His
mother died when he was only a few days old
and he and his young sisters were brought
up under the care of their paternal aunts, being
left orphans at their father's death a few years
later. He followed his father's footsteps and
entered Columbia College in 1837, graduating
in 1841 and receiving the degree of M.A. in
1844. He further followed his father's exam-
ple by entering the ministry, being ordained
deacon by Bishop Brownell in Christ Church,
Hartford, June 29, 1845, after completing a
course in the General Theological Seminary of
New York. Mr. Duffie was ordained priest
by Bishop Whittingham in Trinity Church,
New York, March 4, 1849. After his ordina-
tion as deacon he served as curate in Trinity
Church, New York, and in 1848 he founded
and became first rector of the Church of St.
John the Baptist, services being held at first
in a temporary chapel at the southeast corner
of Lexington avenue and 35th street, and later
the parish being permanently established in the
church erected on the northeast corner of the
same streets, on land given by Mr. Duffie's
aunts, which had long been in the family as
part of the old Kip's Bay farm. In 1857 Mr.
Duffie was chosen as the first regular chaplain
of Columbia College, and in 1865 was ap-
pointed a trustee of the General Theological
Seminary. He received the degree of D. D.
from the University of the City of New York,
and the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia.
Dr. Duffie continued in active duty as rector
of St. John Baptist until that parish was
consolidated with the parish of Epiphany, in
1893, the St. John Baptist church being used
by the combined congregations under the
Epiphany name, and soon after the consolida-
tion Dr. Duffie became rector emeritus. He
also retired from his active duties at the col-
lege about this time, as chaplain emeritus,
thus after nearly half a century of active serv-
ice obtaining a well-earned rest. In 1873 Dr.
Duffie purchased the old Lewis homestead on
South street, Litchfield, for a summer home,
and he became deeply attached to Litchfield
and its people. He died at Litchfield, from the
infirmities of old age, on July 8, 1900.

Dr. Duffie married, on June 23, 1863, Sarah
daughter of Joel and Mary (Brush) Clark.
The Clarks are an old New Jersey family, and

Abram Clark, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was Mrs. Duffie's great-great-
uncle. Joel Clark was a hat manufacturer at
Newark, New Jersey, and Danbury, Connec-
ticut, Mrs. Duffie having been born in Dan-
bury. Her mother was the daughter of Robert
Brush, of the old Long Island family of that
name. Mrs. Duffie died in New York, March

4, 1880, and Dr. Duffie eleven years later, May

5, 1891, married Lilian, daughter of John Pel-
ton, of New York, who survives. Dr. Duffie
had four children, all by his first wife, all men-
tioned below.

(VI) Cornelia Roosevelt Duffie, daughter of
Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (2), born at New
York, April 26, 1864, died at Litchfield, Sep-
tember 25, 1878.

(VI) Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (3), son of
Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (2), was born in
New York, November 18, 1866. He was pre-
pared for college at Trinity School and the
School of Languages, New York, and entered
Columbia College in 1884, his father being
desirous that he should live up to the tradition
of his name and heritage and enter the min-
istry. Young Mr. Duffie, however, did not feel
the higher call that he considered essential for
the ministry, his inclination being toward a
business career, so in 1886 he left college and
took a clerkship in the Chemical National
Bank, where he remained for about three years.
He then moved to Litchfield, where he became
editor and publisher of the Litchfield Enquirer.
In 1895 Mr. Duffie sold his interest in the
newspaper to George C. Woodruff, the present
owner, and has since devoted most of his time
to real estate and insurance. In 1900 he pur-
chased a farm on the shores of Bantam Lake,
in the town of Morris, where he has since re-
sided, having served his town in various local
offices and as representative in the legislature
of 1909, where he waged a successful battle to
prevent the city of Waterbury from taking
water from Bantam Lake. Mr. Duffie is a
warden of St. Paul's Church, Bantam, and a
lay reader in the diocese of Connecticut. Mr.
Duffie is also an organist, and was one of the
first pupils in America of Frederic Archer, the
noted English organist. At an early age he
was assistant organist in his father's church in
New York, and later was assistant organist at
St. Thomas' Church, New York, which his
grandfather had founded. He was also or-
ganist at St. George's, Flushing, New York,
St. Peter's, Westchester, New York, and later,
at St. Michael's, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Mr. Duffie married, in New York, January
9, 1888, Edith Normington, daughter of
Thomas B. and Susanna (Springett) Lang-
don, born October 26, 1867. Mrs. Duffie's

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parents were born in England, and were de-
scendants of old English families, her mother
being a collateral descendant of William Penn,
who married Gulielma Springett. Mr. and
Mrs. Duffie have two children : Dorothy, born
in New York, June 13, 1889, and Archibald
Duncan, born in Litchfield, April 13, 1892. It
is worthy of note that the son is a member of
the class of 1913 at Columbia University, being
of the fourth successive generation of the fam-
ily at Columbia, and having entered just one
hundred years after the graduation of his
great-grandfather.

■ (VI) Jane Antoinette Duffie, born in New
York, December 12. 1868, married Edward
Hamilton Cahill, of New York, June 14, 1887.
Mrs. Cahill resides in Litchfield with her
daughter, Helen Antoinette, born November 4,
1892.

(VI) Archibald Bleecker Duffie, born in
New York, April 16, 1871, is a real estate
broker in New York City, and a member of
several clubs, and a former officer of Squadron
A, the noted cavalry detachment of the New
York militia. He married, June 19, 1894, An-
toinette Larocque, daughter of Livingston
Roe, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Duffie have
one child, a son, Roe-Clark Duffie, born March
24, 1898.

Thomas Burpee, immigrant an-
BURPEE cestor, came from England to

Massachusetts about 1644. He
was settled in Rowley in 165 1. There his first
wife, Martha (Cheney) Burpee, was buried
June 24, 1658. His second wife was Sarah,
daughter of John Kelly, of Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, who was born February 12, 1641,
married, April 15, 1659. Thomas Burpee died
in Rowley, June 1, 1701, and his wife Sarah,
December 25, 1713. Children by first wife:
Hannah, born March, 1655 ; John, November
16, 1656; Sarah, May 21, 1658. Children by
second wife: Sarah, February 15, 1660-61;
Thomas, December 25, 1663, mentioned be-
low : Mary, baptized October 24, 1675.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Bur-
pee, was born in Rowley, December 25, 1663;
married there, December 3, 1690, Hester,
daughter of Jonathan Hopkinson. He died
June 24, 1709, and she died October 3, 1722,
in her fifty-fifth year. Children : Jeremiah,
born October 2j. 169 1 : Sarah, December 15,
1692: Esther, March 13, 1693-94; Thomas,
October 31, 1695; Ebenezer, January 8, 1697-
98, mentioned below ; Jonathan, December 7,
1699: David, November 27, 1701 ; Hannah,
December 15, 1703; Nathan, January 8, 1704-
05; Sarah, May 20, 1707; Samuel, March 17,
1708-09. Of these, Jeremiah went to New

Hampshire ; Thomas and Samuel settled in
Lancaster, Massachusetts ; Jonathan in Nova
Scotia.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Thomas (2) Burpee,
was born in Rowley, January 8, 1697-98, died
there, September 11, 1771. He married Mir-,
iam, daughter of Jeremiah Pearson, of New-
bury, Massachusetts, December 15, 1721. She
died January 15, 1782. Children, born in
Rowley: Hepsibah, October 3, 1722; Jere-
miah, September 10, 1724, mentioned below;
Sarah, July 10, 1726; Priscilla, January 18,
1728-29; Ebenezer, January 14, 1730-31; Da-
vid ; Moses.

(IV) Jeremiah, son of Ebenezer Burpee,
was born in Rowley, September 10, 1724. He
had settled in Lancaster before 1753, and died
in Sterling in 1817. Children, born in Lan-
caster. Molly, baptized November 6, 1748;
Moses, born August 11, 1750, mentioned be-
low; Ebenezer, September 9, 1753; Jeremiah,
October 11, 1755; Ebenezer, January 9, 1758;
Jeremiah, November 15, 1770.

(V) Moses, son of Jeremiah Burpee, was
born in Lancaster (Sterling), August 1 1,
1750. He married there, Elizabeth Kendall,
of Leominster, about January 2, 1775. He
was a soldier in the American revolution, and
served in Captain Thomas Gates' company,
from Lancaster, on the Lexington alarm,
April 19, 1775, and in Captain Solomon Stu-
art's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's reg-
iment, on the Bennington alarm, August 21,
1777. He died November, 1827. His will
was filed for probate, December 4, 1827. Chil-
dren, born in Sterling : Abel : Thomas, June
_:o, 1780, mentioned below; Betsey; Prudence;
Relief ; Edmund.

(VI) Thomas (3), son of Moses Burpee,
was born June 20, 1780, in Sterling. He
married (first) Polly Haskell, October 5, 1804,
in Lancaster. She died there April 6, 18 16.
His second wife, whom he married in Staf-
ford, Connecticut, January 8, 181 7, was Bet-
sey Temple, who was born at West Boylston,
Massachusetts, February 4, 1793. He died in
Somers, Connecticut, August 8, 1840; his wife
died in the same place, August 20, 1843. Chil-
dren by first wife : Mary Ann, married Robert
Dennison, of Stafford, Connecticut ; Eliza,
married Peter Smith, of Somers, Connecticut.
Children by second wife : Henry Loomis,
born November 10, 182 1, in Palmer, Massa-
chusetts ; Lucy Moore, January 17. 1824, in
Somers, Connecticut ; Sophia Louisa, Janu-
ary 24, 1825, in Somers, Connecticut ; Martha
Kendall, February 8, 1827, in Stafford, Con-
necticut ; Thomas Francis, mentioned below.

(VII) Thomas Francis, son of Thomas
(3) Burpee, was born in Stafford, Connecti-

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439

cut, February 17, 1830. After a common
school education and a term in the Ellington
Academy, he engaged in the manufacture of
woolen cloths in Rockville, Connecticut, and
was so employed at the outbreak of the civil
war. He had already shown a liking and apti-
tude for military affairs. At the age of nine-
teen he was a corporal in the active militia
company in Rockville, a year later a sergeant,
and afterward lieutenant, adjutant, and at
twenty-five captain of a company in the old
Fifth Regiment of State Militia. In response
to Governor Buckingham's call for volun-
teers on April 16, 1861, he offered his com-
pany, which was accepted and assigned to the
Fifth Connecticut Volunteers. But three reg-
iments more than filled the quota of this state,
and the president of the United States declined
the services of the Fourth and Fifth Regi-
ments, and they were discharged. In July,
1862, Captain Burpee recruited a company
which became Company D, Fourteenth Con-
necticut Volunteers, and he was mustered into
service as its captain. In September follow-
ing he was appointed major and within a
few days lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-
first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, of
which he was afterward commissioned colonel,
and which he commanded almost continuously
until his death. He was a well-read and skill-
ful tactician and a strict disciplinarian, and al-
ways zealous for the welfare and comfort of
his men, who regarded him with unusual re-
spect and affection. In the battle of Drury's
Bluff, May 16, 1864. his skillful handling of
his command and stubborn resistance to an
unexpected attack by the enemy saved the
right wing of the federal army under Butler
from destruction. He led his men coolly into
the murderous assaults at Cold Harbor, and
came out unscathed ; but a week later, while
doing his duties as field officer of the day in
the trenches close up to the enemy's works, he
was singled out by a Confederate sharp-
shooter and mortally wounded, Thursday
morning, June 9, 1864. He was carried to
White House, Virginia, where he died Satur-
day evening, June 11, 1864. Just before his
death, he directed that his sword be given to
his older son. His remains were sent to his
home in Rockville, where they were buried
with military honors.

In his nature Colonel Burpee was sincerely
religious and intensely patriotic. To his sis-
ter, whose oldest son was then serving in the
Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, he sent
this message: "Tell Louise not to be over-
anxious about William. I should rather see
him sacrificed for a holy principle than to see
him remain in inglorious waiting at a time

like this. The Lord has said, 'Whosoever
would save his life shall lose it,' and this has
often been the case in this accursed rebellion.
If any one lacks enthusiasm in this cause, let
him go to work, and if that doesn't awaken
him, then he is a coward. The lofty inspira-
tion of this cause is worth living a life-time to
feel ; and if I had a thousand lives I would not
withhold one of them. * * * Should I be
laid in the grave, remember our Heavenly
Father doeth all things well. Look on the
bright side, and the bright side only."

To the same sister, after her son had fallen
at Gettysburg, he wrote :

"Nothing can be untimely which is ordered
by an all-wise God. The blow which laid him
low welded our hearts to our country's cause.
The sacrifice of suffering and blood which he
poured out sanctified to us its soil/'

After the battle of Fredericksburg, he wrote
to his wife :

"I am thankful that it has pleased God to
protect me from all harm and bring me safe
to the present time. * * * But do not ever
forget that we are always safe in the hands of
our Heavenly Father."

A day or two after the battle of Drury's
Bluff, above referred to, he says :

"We lay at rest after reaching Drury's Bluff
on the 15th, until four o'clock P. M., when
we took position in front of the rebel works,
which position we were ordered to hold at all
hazards. On the next morning we had a
battle. The night had been foggy and wet,
and at four o'clock the fog was so thick that
nothing could be seen two rods off. * * *
I had just sent out skirmishers in front of
the Twenty-first, when a tremendous fire was
poured on the right of my brigade, which was
the right of the whole line occupied by our
troops. The enemy had turned our right
flank, and were in our rear. * * * I will
not attempt to describe the whole fight now;
suffice it to say, that in an hour and a half
I was left alone with the Twenty-first to cope
with the enemy, who were in front and on
both flanks,, and a thick swampy wood was in
our rear. The men fought well, in some in-
stances hand to hand with the rebels. We
changed our front to rear, and fought for five
hours through the swamp and timber, gradu-
ally falling back but often charging upon them
when they pressed too hard on us. * * *
We lost 106 men, and four commissioned offi-
cers. As for myself, I received no scratch.
A bullet struck the spur upon my heel, and
glanced off. God covered my head in the
hour of danger and brought me safelv
through." y

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the trenches in front of Cold Harbor only a
few days before he was shot. In it he writes :

"It is appointed unto men once to die ; and
it matters little when or where, if we are
prepared and engaged in duty."

In a letter written after Colonel Burpee's
death, Connecticut's great war governor said :

"Make my kindest regards to Mrs. Burpee,
and say that from the time her honored hus-
band entered the service to this hour I have
never entertained any other than a high re-
spect for his ability and fidelity as an officer,
as well as for his personal character. That
he is one of the few officers against whom
I never heard a complaint. I sympathize with
her in her affliction, but doubt not that so pure
an offering, presented in the name of human
liberty upon the altar of our country, is ac-
cepted by Him who said 'That inasmuch as
ye have done it for one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' I
give below a sentence which is as brief as I
can write one and express my views of the
character of Colonel Burpee, and which in my
judgment may with propriety be placed upon
his monument. Acknowledge the receipt of
this and

"Believe, I am, with great respect, your
obedient servant,

"Wm. A. Buckingham."

The sentence, which was accepted as Col-
onel Burpee's epitaph, is as follows :

"In the hour of National peril he gave
his life to his country, leaving this tes-
timony that he was a pure patriot, a
faithful soldier, and a sincere Christian."

Colonel Burpee married, November 28,
1852, Adaline M., born in Stafford, Connecti-
cut, July 29, 1829, daughter of Ebenezer Har-
wood, a lineal descendant in the fifth genera-
tion from Henry Harwood, who came to Bos-
ton with John Winthrop in 1630 and settled in
Salem.

(VIII) Lucien Francis, son of Colonel
Thomas Francis Burpee, was born in Rock-
ville, Tolland county, Connecticut, October 12,
1855. In 1863-64 he was for a time with his
father and the regiment he commanded in
Virginia, where his study was in Casey's tac-
tics and his amusement in watching drills and
parades. In 1874 he enlisted in the First
Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, in
Rockville, and was discharged in 1878 for
non-residence. In March, 1886, he was ap-
pointed second lieutenant of Company A, Sec-
ond Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, in
Waterbury, Connecticut; promoted to first
lieutenant in June, 1886 ; to captain in June,
1887 ; to major in February, 1890 ; to lieuten-
ant-colonel in May, 1893 ; and to colonel in

July, 1895 ; and held the command of his
regiment until he retired in November, 1899.
Under his command, this regiment was rated
by United States army officers assigned to in-
spect state organizations as one of the best
drilled and disciplined in the country.

At the outbreak of the Spanish war he
recruited his regiment to the maximum
strength allowed by law, and tendered it for
service in the United States Volunteers,
April 25, 1898, "for any time and in any
place," and maintained it in fit condition and
complete readiness for the field until the end
of the war. In this offer and during this
period, he was unanimously and heartily sup-
ported by all his officers and men ; but their
services not being immediately required, Col-
onel Burpee obtained temporary leave of ab-
sence from his command, and accepted a com-
mission as lieutenant-colonel in the United
States Volunteers, offered to him by Presi-
dent McKinley. He served with that rank
during the campaign in Porto Rico on the
staff of Major General Nelson A. Miles,
commanding United States army, and of
Major General James H. Wilson, command-
ing First Division, First Army Corps. He
was honorably mentioned for distinguished
service. After his return to the United
States, General Wilson in his report said
that Colonel Burpee's conduct "reflected great
credit on him, and that he was a man who
would not have failed to reach the highest dis-
tinction had the war lasted." In October,
1898, Colonel Burpee was assigned to duty on
the staff of General Wilson, who was then in
command of the First Army Corps, and served
in that position in Kentucky and Georgia un-
til January 1, 1899. Then, peace having been
secured, he resigned and was honorably dis-
charged.

Colonel Burpee was prepared in the pub-
lic schools of Rockville to enter Yale College
in 1875, and was graduated there with honors
in 1879. He was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and of Skull and Bones, and editor of
the Yale Record and of the Yale Literary
Magazine. After graduation, he attended
Yale Law School and Hamilton Law School,
receiving his degree of LL. B. there in 1880.
He then returned to Yale College for a year
to take special work in American history and
continue his studies in law. In 1881 he be-
gan to practice law in Waterbury in the office
of the Hon. S. W. Kellogg, under the name
first of Kellogg & Burpee, and afterwards
of Kellogg, Burpee & Kellogg. This partner-
ship was dissolved in 1889. From 1883 to
1890 he was the prosecuting attorney of
Waterbury ; from 1890 to 1896 he was cor-

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poration counsel of the city ; and from 1897
to 1909 he was judge of the Waterbury city
court. In 1900 he took Terrence F. Car-
mody, of Waterbury, into partnership. In
1905 the office of judge of the district court
of Waterbury was offered to him and de-
clined. In 1909 he was appointed a judge
of the superior court of Connecticut, the high-
est trial court of the state.

Colonel Burpee has been active in public
affairs, but never a candidate for office. He
is a Congregationalist in religion ; a member
of Continental Lodge, No. 76, Free and
Accepted Masons ; of Nosahogan Lodge, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows ; of Wrad-
hams Camp, Sons of Veterans ; of the Soci-
ety of Foreign Wars ; of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; of
the Spanish War Veterans ; of the Society of
the Porto Rican Expedition ; of the Military
and Naval Order of the Spanish War, and of
the Sons of the American Revolution. He
has also the medal given by congress for for-
eign service in the Spanish war. He is a
member of the Waterbury Club, of the Grad-
uates and Union League clubs of New Haven,
of the Army and Navy Club and of the
United States Military Service Institution of
New York.

He married (first) September 25, 1881,
Lida (Eliza) Wood, who died July 23, 1889.
She was a daughter of Stephen W. Wood, of
Cornwall, New York, and Catherine C. B.
(Ring) Wood, a descendant of James Sands,
who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in
1658, and in Block Island in 1661. He mar-
ried (second) April 28, 1904, Irene A. Fitch,
born April 21, 1867, daughter of Martin P.
and Exene (Tobey) Fitch, of Southfield,
Massachusetts. She is a lineal descendant of
Roger de Knapp, who was knighted by Henry
VIII. in 1540, and whose grandson, Nicholas,
Mrs. Burpee's ancestor, came with Governor
Winthrop to Massachusetts in 1630. Children
l)y first wife: 1. Lida, born in Waterbury,
August 31, 1883; married John S. Ellsworth,
of Simsbury, Connecticut, July 15, 1905 ;
children : John S., Jr., born June 16, 1907,
Thomas Burpee, January 16, 191 1. 2. Helen,
born in Waterbury, August 31, 1883. 3. Fran-
cis, born in Waterbury, September 15, 1885.

(VIII) Charles Winslow, son of Colonel
Thomas Francis Burpee, was born in Rock-
ville, November 13, 1859, and was graduated
at Yale College in the class of 1883. He was
city editor of the Waterbury American from
August, 1883, to July, 189 1, when he re-
moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and be-
came associate editor of the Standard. In
1895 he became state editor of the Hartford

Courant, of which paper he was managing
editor from 1900 to 1904. Since then he has
been at the head of the educational and edi-
torial departments of the Phoenix Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Hartford. He is
secretary of the Hartford Board of School
Visitors, has been president of the Hartford
Yale Alumni Association, and is a member
of a number of organizations and clubs, local
and otherwise. He has been a contributor
to various periodicals. He served in the First
Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, a
short time ; became second lieutenant in Com-
pany A, Second Regiment, in Waterbury ; was
appointed adjutant of the Fourth Regiment
in 1892, in Bridgeport; was made captain of
Company K of that regiment the same year ;
was appointed inspector of small arms prac-
tice on the staff of the First Regiment in
Hartford ; retired in 1897, with rank of cap-
tain ; served as volunteer aide on staff of the
First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer In-
fantry, in the early part of the Spanish war.
He is historian of the First Regiment. "The
Military History of Waterbury" was written
by him.

He married, November 5, 1885, Bertha
Stiles, of Bridgeport, daughter of Ransom
and Anna (Stillman) Stiles. His wife is a
direct descendant of "Mr." Francis Stiles of
Milbroke, England, who came to Windsor,
Connecticut, in 1635, and whose brother was
the ancestor of President Ezra Stiles of Yale
College. A son, Stiles, was born April 12,
1903.

Samuel Shanklin lived in
SHANKLIN Wythe county, Virginia.
Among his children was
Wesley Dunscomb, mentioned below.

(II) Wesley Dunscomb, son of Samuel
Shanklin, was born in Wythe county, Vir-
ginia, November 27, 1827. He is a successful
merchant and banker, now living in Carroll-
ton, Missouri. He married Locke Ann,
daughter of Wyatt and Frances (Austin) Ar-
nold. Their eldest child was Dr. William Ar-
nold, mentioned below.

(III) William Arnold Shanklin, LL. D., son
of Wesley Dunscomb Shanklin, was born at
Carrollton, Missouri, April 18, 1862. He at-
tended the public schools of his native town
and entered Hamilton College in 1879, grad-
uating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
the class of 1883. He was graduated from
Garrett Biblical Institute, the Theological De-
partment of Northwestern University, in 1891,
with the degree of B. D. In 1895 he received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
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the degree of Doctor of Laws from Baker
University; in 1909 that of Doctor of Humane
Letters from Copper Iowa University. In 1910
Allegheny College conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity, and Trinity Col-
lege that of Doctor of Laws. He united with
the South Kansas conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church in 1887. Before gradu-
ating from the Theological School he entered
upon the pastorate of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church at Spokane, Washington,
and continued there through 1893. He then be-
came pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church at Seattle, Washington. In 1896 he
was transferred to the historic St. Luke's
Church at Dubuque, Iowa, where he was min-
ister until 1900, and became one of the most
prominent clergymen of his denomination in
the state. During the next five years he was
pastor of the Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church at Reading, Pennsylvania. Before
leaving his parish in Iowa, Dr. Shanklin had
declined the offer of the presidency of an im-
portant educational institution. In August,
1905, he was elected president of the Upper
Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and his en-
ergy and enthusiasm transformed it com-
pletely. He was conspicuous as an educator in
the western states and was described in public
prints as "a refined scholar" and "an inveterate
worker." In 1909 he resigned to accept the
presidency of Wesleyan University at Middle-
town, Connecticut, to which office he was
elected November 13, 1908. His administra-
tion has begun auspiciously. He has a wide
personal acquaintance with men of affairs as
well as with educators of note. He was for-
mally installed as president of Wesleyan Uni-
versity, November 12, 1909 ; there were in at-
tendance about six hundred alumni, thirty-
seven trustees of the university, about ninety
delegates — forty of them presidents — from
eighty-one institutions, and a large number of
other distinguished guests, among whom were
four bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church and one bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal church, the governor of Connecticut and
five ex-governors, and, as guests most distin-
guished even in such a company, the eminent
junior senator from New York, the vice-presi-
dent and the president of the United States.

Dr. Shanklin is a prominent Free Mason,
member of the Blue Lodge, of the Chapter
and of the Commandery. He has twice been
grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Iowa.
He is a member of the university senate of
the Methodist Episcopal church, which has
charge of the education institutions under the
auspices of that denomination. In politics he
is independent.

He married, October 14, 1891. Emma Eliza-
beth, born October 4, 1869, daughter of Jef-
ferson Emory and Mary Ann ( McAllister)
Brant, of Bloomington, Indiana. Children:
Mary Arnold, born October 6, 1892 ; Wil-
liam Arnold Jr., July 16, 1895 I Anna Brant,
April 18, 1900.

An investigation of the Eng-
BARNUM lish ancestry of the Barnum
family of America justifies
the belief that the immigrant ancestor was
son or grandson of Sir Martin and Judith
(Calthorpe) Barnham. His mother (or
grandmother) was daughter of Sir Martin
Calthorpe, lord mayor of London, and Sir
Francis Barnham, knight of Hollingbourne,
was either stepbrother or uncle, and the wife
of Francis Bacon (Lord Bacon), great lord
chancellor and viscount, was either first or
second cousin. The alabaster monument of
Sir Martin Barnham, which stands in All
Saints Church, Hollingbourne Hill, England,
is thus inscribed: "Sacred to the memory of
Sir Martin Barnham. Sprung from the old
Southampton family of Barnhams, who mar-
ried Ursula, daughter of Robert Rudstone,
of Bouton, Nonchelsey, and had two daugh-
ters and one son. On her death, he married
Judith, the daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe,
Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had five
sons and five daughters. He was a man on
every side of gentle birth, most happy in the
extreme piety of his life and death alike ; on
whom God of the boundless riches of His
mercy poured (piled upon him) of this world's
gifts of nature, Grace and Honor, good meas-
ure, pressed down, shaken together and run-
ning over. He died 12th December 1610, aged
60 years."

The name in Fairfield and Norwalk is
spelled Barnam but it may have been orig-
inally Burnham or Burnam, all of which are
English names. In Burke's "Encyclopaedia of
Heraldry" is given the name Barnam and a
coat-of-arms as follows : Sable, a cross be-
tween four crescents, argent.

(I) Thomas Barnum, immigrant ancestor,
was one of the first eight settlers of the town
of Danbury, Connecticut. They purchased
the land from the Indians and commenced
the preparation for settlement in the year
1684, and all were living there in the spring
of 1685. Before this, however, there is men-
tion of Thomas Barnum on a Fairfield book
of records as follows: "28 Feb, 1673. Tho :
Barnum hath by purchase of John Crump one
parcel of land at Maximus, being in quantity
by estimation three quarters of an acre more
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April 30, 1678, and another at the same time
says the plantation granted to Thomas Bar-
num was "three acres lying by the land said
Thomas purchased of John Rayment." Hall's
history of Norwalk says: "Thomas Barnam,
of Fairfield, had a grant before 1663." The
same history gives the assessment of Mr. Bar-
num's estate in lands in that town in 1671
and 1687 as forty pounds. At a town meet-
ing in Norwalk, November 8, 1681, he was
"appointed for to oversee and to keep good
Decorum amongst the youth in times of exer-
cise on the Sabbath and other Publique meet-
ings ; and the Town doe impower him if he
see any disorderly, for to keep a small stick
to correct such with ; onely he is desired to
doe it with clemency ; and if any are incoridg-
able in such disorder, he is to present them
either to their parents or masters ; and if they
do not reclaime them, then to present such
to authority."

He married (second) Sarah, widow of John
Hurd, Senior, of Stratford. Her first hus-
band died in 1681. She was the daughter of
John Thompson, the first of the name in
Stratford. Thomas Barnum died in Danbury,
December 26, 1695, about seventy years old,
leaving no will. His estate, which amounted
to three hundred and thirty pounds four shil-
lings four pence, was divided among "five
sons and five daughters, the eldest son to have
a double portion." His widow Sarah returned
to Stratfield in Stratford, and died there in
June, 17 18, aged seventy-six years. Children,
the first four recorded in Fairfield : Thomas,
July 9, 1663 ; John, February 24, 1677 ; Han-
nah, October 4, 1680; Ebenezer, May 29,
1682 ; Francis ; Richard ; four daughters whose
names are not known.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Barnum, was born July 9, 1663, in Fairfield,
and removed to Danbury with his father's
family. He married Sarah, daughter of Sam-
uel Beardsley, of Stratfield society. His will
is dated December 17, 1730, and he died soon
after, leaving an estate valued at one
hundred and ninety pounds five shillings two
pence. Children : Thomas ; Ebenezer ; Josh-
ua ; Sarah, married Hoyt ; Esther, mar-
ried Judd ; daughter, married

Wilks, died before her father ; Mary ; Eph-
raim, mentioned below.

(III) Ephraim, son of Thomas (2) Bar-
num, married Mehetable . He lived

in that part of Danbury which is now the
town of Bethel, and here his descendants have
been numerous. He was a farmer by occupa-
tion. He died in August, 1775, aged about
sixty-five. Children : Ephraim, born Au-
gust 28, 1733, mentioned below; Matthew,

1736; Elijah, February 1, 1738; David; Com-
fort ; Philip ; Samuel ; Ruth, married John
Bassett; Rachel, married Benjamin Hickok.

(IV) Captain Ephraim (2) Barnum, son
of Ephraim ( 1 ) Barnum, was born August
28, 1733. He was a captain in the revolution.
He married (first) May 2, 1753, Keziah Co-
vill, who died August 4, 1775, aged forty-
four years. He married (second) February
I, 1776, Mrs. Rachel (Starr) Beebe, daughter
of Jonathan and Rachel (Taylor) Starr, and
widow of Jonathan Beebe, of Danbury. She
died April 4, 1798, aged fifty-eight years. He
married (third) Anna (Darrow) Stow, widow
of Robert Stow, of Redding, who died August
28, 1822. He died April 17, 1817. His es-
tate was appraised at nine hundred pounds
eleven shillings. Children : Joseph, died at
age of three; Keziah, born January 28, 1756;
Lucy, November 9, 1757; Rebecca, May 13,
1759; Joseph, August 14, 1761 ; Ruth, No-
vember 20, 1763; Dorcas, January 13, 1766;
Noah. July 5, 1768, died July 25, 1775 ; Han-
nah, November 5, 1771, died July 5, 1775;
Chloe, July 30, 1774, died April 7, 1775.
Children of second wife: Noah, August 28,
1777; Philo, April 4, 1779, mentioned below;
Eder, January 12, 1780; Rebecca, July 8,
1 78 1 ; Peter, March or April 7, 1784.

(V) Philo, son of Captain Ephraim (2)
Barnum, was born April 4, 1779, died 1825.
He was a farmer, tailor and hotel keeper. He

married (first) Polly, daughter of

Fairchild, of Newtown, Connecticut. She died
June 23, 1808, aged twenty-six years. He
married (second) December 14, 1808, Irene,
daughter of Phineas and Molly (Sherwood)
Taylor, of Bethel. She was born October 7,
1784, died March 14, 1868. He died at Bethel,
September 7, 1826, and his gravestone is in
the old cemetery there. Children : Rana,
born February 26, 1800: Almon, 1801 ; Mi-
nerva, 1803 : Philo Fairchild, 1807 ; Mary H.,
January 31, 1808. Children of second wife:
Phineas Taylor, July 5, 1810, mentioned be-
low; Eder, May 18, 1813; Mary, August 22,
1815; Cordelia, February 12, 1820; Almira,
June 5, 1823.

(VI) Phineas Taylor, son of Philo Bar-
num, was born at Bethel, Fairfield countv,
Connecticut, July 5, 1810, died at his home in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 7, 189 1. In
his youth he was a typical farmer's boy. He
drove the cows to pasture, weeded the garden,
plowed the fields, made hay and during the
winter attended the district school. Later on
he was clerk in his father's general store,
and when his father died in 1825, leaving the
family without means, he started upon a busi-
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with a monthly stipend of six dollars. In
1826 he became a clerk in the store of Oliver
Taylor in Brooklyn, New York, and in the
following year was in business in New York
City. In 1829 he had a fruit and confection-
ery store in his grandfather's carriage house
in Bethel, conducted a lottery business, and
was auctioneer in the book trade. In 183 1,
in partnership with his uncle, Alanson Tay-
lor, he opened a country store at Bethel and
after a few months bought out his uncle's
share. In the same year he established his
newspaper, the Herald of Freedom. His ex-
perience as a journalist was not lacking in ex-
citement. He was soon sued for libel and
sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dol-
lars and to sixty days in the county jail. He
made the most of the occasion, and during
his imprisonment continued to edit his paper,
having a good room, receiving the visits of
friends and receiving large additions to his
subscription lists. At the expiration of his
jail sentence, he was given an ovation, and
after a sumptuous dinner with toasts, speeches,
ode and oration, Mr. Barnum, in a coach
drawn by six horses, escorted by forty horse-
men, sixty carriages of citizens and a band
of music, rode to his home in Bethel, where
the band played "Home, Sweet Home." The
procession returned to Danbury and Barnum
was the hero of the hour. His career as edi-
tor was brilliant but brief. Despite litigation
and bitter contests, he persevered in the pub-
lication of the Herald until the spring of
1835, when he removed to New York City.
After working for a time as traveling sales-
man for various firms, he conducted a pri-
vate boarding house and bought an interest
in a grocery store.

In 1835 Mr. Barnum began the business
which made him famous throughout the world.
His first experience as a showman was in
the purchase and exhibition of Joyce Heth, a
colored woman, said to have been the nurse
of George Washington and one hundred and
sixty-one years old. His next venture was
the exhibition of Signor Antonio and Mr.
Roberts. In 1836 he was with the Aaron Tur-
ner traveling circus in the south and in the
following year he organized a circus com-
pany and went west as far as the Missouri
river, chartered a steamer and sailed down the
Mississippi to New Orleans, where he traded
the steamer for sugar and molasses and re-
turned to New York, arriving June 4, 1838.
In 1841 he bought the American Museum in
that city and struck out in a bold and sensa-
tional way to attract patronage. He intro-
duced the lecture room as a reform in the
theatre and made an appeal to the better

classes. He was constantly obtaining some-
thing new, amusing and wonderful for his
museum, and he had a genius for clever ad-
vertising. In 1842 he secured General Tom
Thumb, the dwarf, and after scoring a bril-
liant success with the prodigy in this country,
in 1844, took the midget and his parents
abroad, exhibited Tom Thumb to royalty and
reaped a golden harvest in London, repeating
the triumph in Paris. He was invited to the
palace and exhibited to the king, queen and
royal family. For the first day's exhibition
to the general public in Paris, Mr. Barnum re-
ceived five thousand five hundred francs.
Thence the party traveled through France and
Belgium and back to England, returning to
New York in 1847. The general's father, on
returning from abroad, possessed an ample
fortune which he invested for himself and
son and built a residence costing thirty thou-
sand dollars at North avenue and Main street,
Bridgeport. Mr. Barnum continued with Gen-
eral Tom Thumb in a prolonged and profitable
tour of this country and Cuba. In 1847-48
he built his residence at Bridgeport, called
"Iranistan," and November 14, 1848, gave an
old-fashioned house-warming at which a
thousand guests were entertained. The house
was at the northeast corner of Fairfield and
Iranistan avenues. Some years later it was
destroyed by fire. The house itself became
famous. It was a beautiful Oriental structure
and its picture in the illustrated papers ex-
cited the attention of the whole country. At
that time such magnificent homes were rare
and Bridgeport itself was widely advertised
as the home of Barnum and the location of
his palatial dwelling. Mr. Barnum made a
contract as impresario for Jenny Lind, the
great Swedish singer, January 9, 1850, under
the terms of which he deposited the sum of
$187,500 as a guarantee fund. Miss Lind ar-
rived in New York, September 1, 1850, and
the first concert was given September n fol-
lowing, the proceeds of which amounted to
$17,864.05. Ninety-three concerts were given
under this contract which terminated in May,
185 1, and the total receipts were greater than
those of any similar undertaking. At the
same time the American Museum continued
profitably with Tom Thumb and many other
attractions. His next venture was his "Great
Asiatic Caravan, Museum and Menagerie,"
which he fitted out at a cost of $100,000 and
exhibited for four years.

In 185 1 Mr. Barnum bought of William H.
Noble, of Bridgeport, the undivided half of
his father's estate, consisting of fifty acres of
land on the east side of the river, opposite
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tract to become the nucleus of a new city, the owner. Mr. Barnum built a new building
which they believed would soon be built, owing and fitted it with new attractions. Again it
to many natural advantages of the place. A was destroyed by fire in 1868. In these fires
clock company in which Mr. Barnum was a and in that which destroyed "Iranistan," Mr.
stockholder was induced to come from Litch- Barnum lost a million dollars or more. In
field and locate here. It was proposed to 1867 he sold "Lindencroft" and built a new
transfer the entire business of the Jerome residence at Bridgeport, called "Waldemere."
Clock Company of New Haven to this loca- When he bought the land, it was part of an old
tion and to bring this about Mr. Barnum lent farm adjoining the west end of Seaside Park
the company money and notes to the amount and extended from Atlantic street to the
of $110,000 with the positive assurance that sound. He gave to the city seven acres in
he would be involved no further, but the front of his residence to enlarge this park,
amount eventually became over half a mil- and in 1884 he gave thirty acres more, ex-
lion, the company failed and wiped out Mr. tending the park westward toward Black Rock
Barnum's fortune. He managed to pay a harbor. In 1889 he built "Marina," which
larger percentage to his creditors than could has since then been the family residence in
have been secured by the sale of all his prop- Bridgeport.

erties, and began to make another fortune. In 1870, at the age of sixty, Mr. Barnum
Early in 1857 he took Tom Thumb to Europe began the most ambitious of all his projects,
with another midget, Miss Cordelia Howard, Barnum's Circus, which ever since has been
and her parents, and traveled through Eng- known the wide world over as "The Greatest
land, Germany and Holland, and receiving a Show on Earth." Year by year the show has
most enthusiastic greeting wherever he went, grown and on both sides of the Atlantic it
He went to England again in 1858 with Tom has held its place at the head of all amuse-
Thumb and his show traveled through Scot- ments. After forty years the name of Bar-
land and Wales while he devoted himself num still proves the greatest drawing card
principally to the lecture field. His subject of the circus. It was and is the custom to
was the "Art of Making Money," and he open the season in Madison Square Garden,
found his lecture a source of great profit. He New York City, and then to make a tour of
returned to the United States and in i860 this country and Canada. In one of the show
found himself within $20,000 of extinguishing tents an audience of twenty thousand is seated,
the debts on account of the clock enterprise He gathered the largest and best menagerie
and he resumed control of the museum in New of wild animals ever collected. His Ethno-
York. In i860 he built a new house in logical Congress contained the greatest col-
Bridgeport on Fairfield avenue about a hun- lection of different races and tribes ever gath-
dred rods west of the site of "Iranistan," call- ered together. The elephant, Jumbo, pur-
ing it "Lindencroft" in honor of Jenny Lind, chased by Mr. Barnum from the Royal Z06-
and again turned his attention to the develop- logical Gardens of London, was the largest
ment of East Bridgeport. Progress had al- ever seen on exhibition. He had forty other
ready been made there. The Wheeler & Wil- elephants. A hundred railroad cars were re-
son Sewing Machine Company in 1856 had quired to transport the show, and the daily
bought the old clock factory, enlarged it and expense reached $6,000 a day. But from the
had a plant there employing a thousand hands, first the venture was profitable, bringing in a
Churches, dwellings and factories, including million dollars a season. In later years Mr.
that of the Home Sewing Machine Company, Barnum admitted to partnership several able
had been built. The final success of the plan, and experienced men and made wise provision
after the years of adversity and loss, was a for the continuance of the enterprise. The
source of much gratification to Mr. Barnum. winter quarters of the show are still located
He never ceased to give his assistance and at Bridgeport and the building and grounds
support to the upbuilding and development of are a center of attraction,
the city of Bridgeport, however, and the city In 1875 Mr. Barnum was elected mayor of
owes much to his great energy and influence at Bridgeport and he proved an admirable execu-
an important period of growth. tive. He inaugurated the improvements in
In 1861 Mr. Barnum secured for his mu- the Park City. He laid out many streets and
seum another remarkable dwarf, Commo- planted hundreds of trees in the city, built
dore Nutt, a native of New Hampshire, and blocks of houses, many of which he sold to
in 1862 he secured still another, Lavinia War- mechanics on the installment plan, thus pro-
ren, both of whom became as famous as Tom viding homes at small cost for the thrifty.
Thumb. In 1865 trie American Museum in He gave nearly a hundred thousand dollars
New York was burned, entailing great loss to to Tufts College to establish the Barnum Mu-

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seum of Natural History. He gave to Bridge-
port the Barnum Institute of Science and His-
tory. He was generous with his wealth and
set a noble example in wise benefactions.

Before the civil war he was a Democrat,
but from the formation of the Republican
party gave it his earnest support as long as
he lived. In 1865 he represented Fairfield in
the general assembly, and in 1877 he was
elected from Bridgeport.

Few books have made a deeper impression
and enjoyed a larger sale than his autobiog-
raphy. From the first the book sold readily
on its merits. Each year he added an appen-
dix and sold the work in his circus at fifty
cents a copy, the cost of printing. The life
story of this wonderful man reads like a ro-
mance. But the charm of the book is due also
to the wit and charm of the writer. He was a
gifted story-teller and fond of practical jokes,
as the autobiography reveals with a wealth of
anecdote. In 1876 he wrote "The Adventure
of Lion Jack," a work of fiction founded on
facts, and dedicated to the boys of America.
It may safely be said that P. T. Barnum ranks
with Mark Twain as men dearest to the heart
of Young America of several generations past.
In 1 881 Mr. Barnum presented to Bethel, his
native place, a bronze fountain, made in Ger-
many. From an impromptu speech made at
the dedication the following characteristic ex-
tract is made : "Among- all the varied scenes
of an active and eventful life, crowded with
strange incidents of struggle and excitement.
of joy and sorrow, taking me often through
foreign lands and bringing me face to face
with the king in his palace and the peasant
in bis turf-covered hut, I have invariably cher-
ished— with the most affectionate remem-
brance of the place of my birth — the old vil-
lage meeting house, without steeple or bell,
where in the square family pew I sweltered in
summer and shivered through my Sunday-
school lessons in winter, and the old school
house, where the ferule, the birchen rod and
the rattan did active duty, of which I deserved
and received a liberal share."

His desire for success did not lead him from
the ambition to improve the character of pub-
lic amusements, and he lived to see the preju-
dice against the circus effectually removed.
During most of his long life he was a total
abstainer from intoxicating liquor and lost
no opportunity to preach of the value of "tee-
totalism," as it was called. In the later dec-
ades of his life he also abstained from to-
bacco. His example was a powerful aid to
the temperance movement that came into be-
ing when his fame was great. He was presi-
dent of the Pequonnock National Bank of

Bridgeport ; of the Bridgeport Hospital and
of the Bridgeport Water Company ; and he
was a commissioner of Seaside Park.

He married (first) November 8, 1829, Char-
ity Hallett, born at Bethel, October 28, 1808,
died November 19, 1873, daughter of Ben-
jamin Wright and Hannah (Sturges) Hallett.
He married (second) September 16, 1874,
Nancy Fish, of Southport, Lancashire, Eng-
land. Children of first wife: 1. Caroline Cor-
nelia, born May 2j, 1833 ; married, October
19, 1852, David W. Thompson; children: i.
Frances Barnum Thompson, born December
27, 1853, married William B. Leigh, who now
resides in New York ; first child, Nancy Bar-
num, deceased ; ii. Phineas Taylor Barnum
Thompson, born April 10, 1865, died Feb-
ruary 2j, 1868. 2. Helen Maria, born April
18, 1840; married, October 20, 1857, Samuel
H. Hurd ; children: i. Helen Barnum Hurd,
born November 12, 1858, married, June 14,
1883, Frank W. Rennell : had four children :
Henry Hurd, Frank J., deceased, Carita, de-
ceased, Mildred ; ii. Julia Caroline Hurd, born
July 30, i860, married Henry P. Clarke ; now
residing in South Carolina ; have two children ;
iii. Caroline Thompson Hurd, born March 14,
1862, died July 27, 1883. 3. Frances Irena,
born May 1, 1842, died April 11, 1844. 4.
Pauline Taylor, born March 1. 1846: married
Nathan Seeley and died April 11, 1877: chil-
dren : Clinton Barnum Seeley, Jesse Barnum
Seelev, Herbert Barnum Seelev.

(Ill) Thomas (3), son of
BARNUM Thomas (2) Barnum (q. v.),
was born at Danbury. about
1690. He married Deborah . Chil-
dren : Eliphalet, mentioned below ; Caleb, De-
borah.

(IV) Eliphalet, son of Thomas (3) Bar-
num, was born at Danbury, about 1720-30.
He was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant
in Captain Noble Benedict's company (sixth).
May 13 to October 19, 1775. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Benedict,
granddaughter of James Benedict, and great-
granddaughter of Thomas Benedict, of whom
a sketch appears elsewhere in this work.
Children, born at Danbury: Thaddeus, men-
tioned below: Eliphalet, Eli, Micajah, Jeru-
sha, Mary, Elizabeth, Caleb.

(V) Thaddeus, son of Eliphalet Barnum,
was born in Danbury, about 1750-60. He
married Lois Stephens. (See Danbury pro-
bate records, vol 4, p. 454.) Children: Lewis,
Milo, mentioned below ; Eliphalet, Deborah,
Eli, Ira.

(VI) Milo, son of Thaddeus Barnum. was
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where his parents settled after the revolution,
July 16, 1790. He died at Lime Rock, town
of Salisbury, Connecticut, May 10, i860. He
settled, in the spring of 1820, at Lime Rock,
and engaged in business as a merchant. Soon
afterward, getting possession of the iron foun-
dry there, he associated with him his son-in-
law, Leonard Richardson, and his son, Wil-
liam H. Barnum, as partners, and engaged in
the iron business. The foundry was conducted
first on a small scale, in connection with the
store of the firm of Barnum, Richardson &
Company, making clock weights, window
weights, plow castings, etc., for the local
trade. About 1840 the firm began to under-
take railroad work, such as chains, frogs and
head blocks. Large quantities were made un-
der contract for the Boston & Albany rail-
road, then building between Springfield and
Albany. The castings were transported by
team to Springfield and Chatham, a distance
of fifty miles or more. The great tensile
strength and natural chilling qualities of the
Salisbury iron proved it of great value in
manufacturing cast-chilled car wheels, which
naturally followed, in a few years, the making
of the smaller railroad castings. This iron
early obtained still holds the reputation of being
the best known for the purpose. In 1852 Milo
Barnum retired from business, and the name
then became Richardson, Barnum & Company.
He married Laura Tibbals, born in Sheffield,
Massachusetts, July 10, 1796, died May 4.
1880. Children : Lucy Ann, born July 18,
1814; William Henry, mentioned below; Caro-
line Tibbals, May 18, 1822.

(VII) Hon. William Henry Barnum, son
of Milo Barnum, was born at Boston Corners,
New York, September 17, i8i8,.died at Lime
Rock, Connecticut, town of Salisbury, April
30, 1889. He was educated in the public
schools. of his native town, and after he came
of age was admitted to partnership by his
father. The development of the iron busi-
ness has been described. After his father
retired from the firm the business increased
rapidly, as the demands of the railroads and
manufacturers developed. The present corpo-
ration, known as the Barnum-Richardson
Company, was organized in 1864. The plant
was enlarged from time to time, and the com-
pany added to its holdings in various mining
properties. His great executive ability was
shown at an early age, an#d much of the suc-
cess of the concern was clue to his foresight
and business ability. During the period of
railroad development Mr. Barnum became in-
terested in various companies, and for many
years was president of the Housatonic rail-
road. When he took charge the road was un-

profitable, and he put new life into the com-
pany and made it a good property. For some
years he was president of the Connecticut
Western railroad, and was a director in both
companies at the time of his death. He was
also one of the promoters and owners of the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West railroad.
Mr. Barnum was best known, however, from
his career in public life. In 1851 he was
elected to represent his town in the general
assembly and was re-elected the following
year. Although very active in politics, he
declined further nominations until 1866, when
he consented to run for congress on the Dem-
ocratic ticket, and was elected in the fourth
Connecticut district, defeating the famous
Phineas T. Barnum in a memorable contest.
In 1866 he was a delegate from Connecticut
to the National union convention held at Phil-
adelphia, and was a delegate to the Demo-
cratic national conventions of 1868-72-76-80-
84-88. Re-elected to congress in 1869, he took
a prominent part in the legislation of that
session and developed great strength as a
Democratic party leader. He was re-elected
to the forty-second, forty-third and forty-
fourth congresses, and served on many im-
portant committees. Upon the death of Orrin
S. Ferry, United States senator from Con-
necticut, he was one of four candidates for
the vacant place. The others were Henry B.
Harrison, Republican, James E. English and
Charles R. Ingersoll, Democrats. When the
joint session was held Mr. Barnum received
one hundred and sixty-eight out of two hun-
dred and sixty-seven votes, and was accord-
ingly elected on the first ballot. He was sen-
ator from A/fay, 1876, to March 3, 1879. At
the close of the national campaign of 1876 he
was elected chairman of the Democratic na-
tional committee, succeeding Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt, of New York, and continued to hold
this important office during the campaign of
1880 at the request of the nominee for presi-
dent. General Winfield S. Hancock. Mr. Bar-
num had urged Mr. Tilden to become a can-
didate again in that year, but gave General
Hancock his enthusiastic support and con-
ducted a brilliant and skillful campaign. In
1884 he was again chairman of the national
committee, and conducted the remarkable
campaign that ended in the election of the
Democratic candidate for president, Grover
Cleveland. Much against his will, he was in-
duced to continue as chairman in the next
presidential campaign also. He served in this
office thirteen years in succession. Senator
Barnum possessed an acute intellect and great
shrewdness. He understood human nature,
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men and character. He selected his lieuten-
ants with rare discernment. It has been said
of him that "as a politician he was more
abused than any other member of the Demo-
cratic party, simply for the reason that he
could not be managed."

He was Jacksonian in his ideas and meth-
ods, and an indication of his character is
found in his famous epigrammatic saying, "I
never give up the fight before the battle is
begun." He had the simple honesty and inde-
pendence of character that distinguished him
from most men in public life. He was always
active and industrious, not only in business,
but in public affairs. His death was due, it
is thought, to overwork during the campaigns
he managed. He was not self-seeking, and
did not use his office to advance the interests
of himself or his friends. The labor per-
formed by Mr. Barnum in political affairs
was most exacting, and the traveling neces-
sary was in itself a strain upon his endurance.
His great business responsibilities were bur-
densome, but he never neglected them. He
was devoted to his home and family and was
greatly beloved by those nearest to him.

He was prostrated by a serious illness in
1888, and, although he rallied from it, did
not regain his health. In the neighborhood
of his home his death was felt as a personal
bereavement by all, and there was not a house
in the village without its badge of mourning
on the day of his funeral. Some fifteen hun-
dred men, life-long friends in business, pol-
itics and social life, came to his funeral. The
New York Herald at that time said : "In the
death of William H. Barnum, yesterday, the
Democratic party loses one of its ablest fight-
ers. His sagacity, experience and nerve will
be missed in the battles that are to come."
Among the tributes to his memory must be
given that of President Cleveland, who said :
"Mr. Barnum was the most unselfish man I
ever knew. He gave liberally of his time and
money for the benefit of the Democratic party,
and never used his position as chairman of
the national committee to advance the for-
tunes of himself or his political friends." A
few descriptive sentences are quoted from
various newspapers : "Even as a boy he was
a model for a business man of the old Yan-
kee type — that type which has pushed its for-
tunes wherever it could find place for them,
without regard to what the work to be done
was." "He was a remarkable specimen of the
self-made business man, a long-headed or-
ganizer, a keen judge of men, an untiring
worker." "He had also held a seat in the
senate, where he won the esteem of his col-
leagues by unfailing courtesy and industry,

and a broad and intelligent grasp of public
affairs." "Although a prominent Democrat,
he did not agree with many of the leaders
in his party in the policy of 'tariff for reve-
nue only.' ' "He was not a free trader in
any sense, but held to the Republican idea
that American manufacturers should be en-
couraged by such a tariff as would afford
them protection against the encroachments of
goods made by pauper labor in foreign coun-
tries. And yet his endeavors for the success
of the Democratic party at the polls were most
vigorous." The resolutions passed by the
Democratic national committee, besides ex-
pressing profound loss, personally and as a
party, contained the following estimate of
Mr. Barnum's character: "His impartiality,
tireless energy, liberality, sound judgment,
rare knowledge of men, and acute penetra-
tion into the causes of political results, marked
him as one of the most competent as well as
most devoted of party managers. To his
fidelity to official duty the people of Con-
necticut and of the country, particularly those
who were his colleagues in congress, unani-
mously bear witness. Respecting his great
merits as a private citizen and man of affairs
there is universal concurrence among a wide
circle of associates and friends, including
many to whom his business enterprises fur-
nished employment." Said one who knew him
well : "Though not a professing Christian,
he came nearer to the practice of Christian
virtues in all his relations with his fellow men
than most people who claim to be guided by
the teachings of the Gospel. In his family
relations he was truly a model husband and
father. Though always overburdened with
the cares of his business, he never brought
them into the family circle ; there was never a
place for them there ; he entered deeply into
the hearts and affections of his wife and chil-
dren ; never was there a more loving and de-
voted family ; it was a model family, and
about it has been shed the holiest and sweet-
est influences ; he was always in his home so
kind and gentle, so firm and yet so indulgent,
that he had the love and respect of his chil-
dren as fully as a father could." Mr. Bar-
num married, December 7, 1847, Charlotte
Ann, daughter of Charles Burrall. She was
born in Canaan, October 22, 1819, died Feb-
ruary 11, 1895, in Lime Rock, Connecticut.
Her mother, Lucy. (Beach) Burrall, was
daughter of Ebenezer Beach. Children: I.
Laura C, mentioned below. 2. Charles Wil-
liam, mentioned below. 3. William Milo,
born January 25, 1856: a lawyer, residing in
Mamaroneck, New York, practicing in New
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son, Thatcher & Barnum, later of Harvey
Fisk & Sons, bankers ; married Anna Theresa
Phelps, of Glens Falls, New York; children:
Laura, married Richmond Levering ; Wil-
liam Henry, married Rosalind Hazard, and
has daughter Rosalind ; Walter ; Phelps. 4.
Lucy Beach, born November 4, 1859; mar-
ried, in 1883, Rev. Howard Saxtone Clapp,
born at Hartford, Connecticut, April 28, 185 1,
died October 16, 1898, a Protestant Episcopal
clergyman, graduate of Yale College and of
Berkeley Divinity School ; had pastorates in
Wethersfield and Norwalk, Connecticut ;
daughter Marjorie, born at Norwalk, Febru-
ary 13, 1885, resides with her mother in the
Barnum homestead in Lime Rock.

(VIII) Laura C, daughter of Hon. Wil-
liam Henry Barnum, was born at Lime Rock,
Salisbury, Connecticut, September 29, 1853,
and has always lived in the house in which
she was born. She is a member of the So-
ciety of Colonial Dames and of the Society
of Colonial Governors. She is a descendant
of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth.
(VIII) Hon. Charles William Barnum, son
of Hon. William Henry Barnum, was born
at Lime Rock, October 31, 1854. He was edu-
cated in select and private schools in his na-
tive town. At the age of eighteen he began
to work in the offices of his father's company,
the Barnum-Richardson Company, and after
the death of his father was made vice-presi-
dent of the corporation, a position he has
filled- since 1889. He is active in politics, and
since 1906 has been state senator from his
district. In religion he is an Episcopalian.
He married, May 27, 1875, Mary, born at
Hoosick Falls, New York, May 30, 1857,
daughter of Rev. George H. and Julia
(Phelps) Nicholls. Children: 1. Richard
Nicholls, mentioned below. 2. Charlotte, born
October 12, 1878; married, May 2, 1900. Wal-
ter R. Gilbert, of Yonkers, New York, an in-
surance agent ; children : Helen Gilbert, died
aged two years and a half ; Walter Barnum
Gilbert, born July 22, 1908.

( IX) Richard Nicholls, son of Hon. Charles
William Barnum, was born at Lime Rock,
Connecticut, April 8, 1876. He attended the
public schools of his native place and the
Westminster School at Simsbury. Connecticut,
from which he was graduated in 1894, and
Yale College, from which he was graduated in
the class of 1898. He has since then been
connected with the Barnum-Richardson Com-
pany, of which he is treasurer. In politics
he is a Republican, in religion an Episcopa-
lian. He married. May 23, 1900, Marion
Cocks, of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of
John James Cocks, of Brooklyn, New York,

and Florence (Hutchinson) Cocks. Children:
John Charles, born February 23, 1901 ; Elea-
nor, September 10, 1905 ; Richard Nicholls Jr.,
February 3, 1910.

(The Burrall Line).

(I) William Burrall, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, died in Connecticut,
1723 ; married Joanna Westover.

(II) Colonel Charles Burrall, son of Wil-
liam Burrall, was born February 21, 1720,
died October 7, 1803 ; was a soldier in the
revolution; married, December 25, 1746, Abi-
gail Kellogg, born September 28, 1728, died
January 28, 1789.

(III) Charles (2), son of Colonel Charles.
(1) Burrall, was born February 18, 1751, died
January ij, 1820; married Anna Beebe.

(IV) Charles (3), son of Charles (2) Bur-
rall, was born at Canaan, Connecticut, Feb-
ruary 22, 1787, died at Falls Village, in that
state, May 24, 1872; married, January 1,
1810, Lucy Beach, born September 21, 1790,
died May 27, 1834; daughter Charlotte Ann,
born at Canaan, October 22, 1819, died Feb-
ruary 11, 1895; married Hon. William Henry
Barnum (see Barnum VII).

Thomas Canfield, immigrant
CANFIELD ancestor, was born in Eng-
land. The surname is also
spelled Camfield and Campfield. He first lo-
cated at New Haven, where he had a grant
of three acres for a home lot, and remained
until 1647, when he located at New Milford,
where he spent the remainder of his life. He
was admitted to the church in 1657, and was
sergeant of the train band and deputy to the
general assembly, 1674-76. He married Phebe
Crane. His will was dated February 23,
1687. Children, born at Milford: Thomas,
mentioned below; Mary, January 1, 1655-56;
Sarah, 1656, married Josiah Pratt; Eliz-
abeth, February 14, 1659-60 ; Phebe, April,
1661 ; Jeremiah, 1663 ; Abigail, 1665 ; Hannah,
November 20, 1667; Mehitable, July 2, 1671.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Can-
field, was born at Milford, October 14, 1654,
and removed to Durham, Connecticut, before
1734. He married Rebecca . Chil-
dren, born at Milford : Rebecca, June 28,
1682, married Jonathan Stiles ; Israel, March
24, 1684, settled in New Jersey ; Phebe, bap-
tized May 29, 1687; Abiram, baptized Janu-
ary 5, 1688-89; Thomas, mentioned below.

(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Canfield, was born at Milford in 1690. He
settled at Branford, Connecticut. He mar-
ried (first) January 3, 1705-06, Mary Camp;
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1740. He died December 1, 1760. Children,
born at Branford, Connecticut: Joel, men-
tioned below, Gideon, born 1717, married
Anne Robinson ; John, Ann, Mary, Hannah,
Thomas, Rev. Thomas.

(IV) Joel, son of Thomas (3) Canfield,
was born at Branfield in 171 1, died in 1750.
He settled at Saybrook. Children: Benja-
min, Isaiah, mentioned below ; Hezekiah, Joel,
John, Joseph, Jared.

(V) Isaiah, son of Joel Canfield, was born
at Saybrook and also lived in Chester, Con-
necticut. According to the Federal census,
in 1790 he and his father were heads of fam-
ilies at Saybrook, Connecticut. Children,
born at Chester: Charles, Captain Ira B., men-
tioned below ; Hezekiah, John, Caroline, Julia,
Lucy S., Sophia.

(VI) Captain Ira B. Canfield, son of Isaiah
Canfield, was born in Chester in 1776. He
was a master mariner and captain of a ves-
sel lost at sea. A stone has been erected to
his memory in the cemetery at East Had-
dam, Connecticut, by the lodge of Free Ma-
sons of which he was a member. He married
Melinda, daughter of Andrew and Margaret
Buckingham. Children, born at Chester:
Jane, Emeline, William B., Ira, Rev. Joseph
A., Harriet, Jared H., mentioned below.

(VII) Jared H., son of Captain Ira B.
Canfield, was born at Chester, Connecticut,
May 19, 181 1. He spent his early years in
Chester and attended the common schools
there. He then removed to Saybrook, Con-
necticut, and learned the shoemaker's trade.
He began to manufacture boots and shoes on
a small scale at New Haven at a time when
large factories were unknown and all the
work was done by hand. He was an expert
shoe cutter and in 1842 was engaged to make
patterns and cut stock for rubber shoes for
Charles R. Goodyear, at Naugatuck, Con-
necticut, one of the earliest manufacturers of
rubber shoes. He remained there until 1853.
The rubber industry was then in its infancy
and in the same year he went to Europe to
establish the firm of Hutchinson. Henderson
& Company, the first rubber factory ever oper-
ated in the old world. He not only superin-
tended the erection of the buildings and in-
stallation of machinery, but himself devised
some of the machines in use. This factory
was at Montorgis, Loretta, France. In it the
firm manufactured rubber boots and shoes,
and it had a capacity of eight thousand pairs
a day. The business was successful from
the outset and Mr. Canfield continued there
until 1865, when he returned to the United
States and engaged in business for himself at
Meriden, Connecticut. Thence he went to

New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was
part owner of a rubber factory, and where
he remained five years, when he returned
to Connecticut and started in the rubber busi-
■ ness on his own account. Soon after he pat-
ented the celebrated Canfield dress shield
which in a short time became a popular article
and made his name known throughout the
country. He prospered in business and con-
tinued actively until his death, June 30, 1883.
His life affords a splendid illustration of the
opportunities for the mechanic who starts at
the bottom of the ladder. He had skill and
inventive genius, was persistent and enter-
prising, and as a result of the application of
these qualities he performed a prominent part
in the development of the rubber industry,
now one of the most important in the world.
In early life he took an active part in politi-
cal affairs and held various public offices. He
was also prominently identified with the mili-
tary affairs of the state, and was a major on
Governor Buckingham's staff. He was of a
religious turn of mind, and when in France,
that country being largely Catholic, and his
employer being Protestant, he hired a hall
and defrayed expenses so that they might en-
joy their religious belief. He married Mary
A. Andrews, born at Meriden in 1813, died in
1854, daughter of Benajah Andrews (see An-
drews VI). Children: 1. Isaac A., died in
1884. 2. Elizabeth, died in France, June 6,
1899 ; married (first) Wilbur F. Packer, of
Meriden; they had two children: Louis C.
and William F. Packer, born at Meriden;
married (second) Radcliffe Hicks; child:
Elizabeth Hicks. 3. Henry Ogden. men-
tioned below.

(VIII) Henry Ogden, son of Jared H. Can-
field, was born at Naugatuck, Connecticut, No-
vember 9, 1847, died in Bridgeport, July 25,
19 10. He was educated there in the public
schools, and then, going abroad, studied in
France and Germany from i860 to 1865. For
several years he was engaged in the dry goods
business in the firm of S. B. Chittenden &
Company, Leonard street and Broadway, New
York City. The business and plant of this
firm was destroyed by fire. He then entered
the employ of his father, who was at that
time in the soap business in Rose street, New
York, and subsequently he went to Detroit,
Michigan, where he was employed by the Dia-
mond Match Company, then to Pekin, Illi-
nois. While there he was appointed local
agent of the Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville
railroad. He filled this position satisfactorily
to all concerned and was promoted to the
office of general freight agent of the com-
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was absorbed by the Wabash system. During
the next five years he filled a more difficult
office as commissioner for various railroad
pools, which were a feature of railroad busi-
ness at that time. In November, 1885, he
accepted the office of secretary and general
superintendent of the Canfield Rubber Com-
pany and removed to Bridgeport. He left this
concern, January 1, 1889, to engaged in the
rubber business on his own account. He built
up a large and flourishing business, making a
specialty of the Canfield dress shield patented
by his father. The factory had a capacity of
five million pairs annually. Branch offices
were located in New York, London, Paris,
Hamburg and Vienna. In 1889 he sold his
interests in this business and organized the
H. O. Canfield Company with a capital of
$100,000, he being president, his son, Albert
H. Canfield, vice-president, and another son
Henry B. Canfield, secretary. This business
still continues in a flourishing manner. The
concern manufactures a large variety of small
rubber specialties, many of which are made
under patents owned by the company, of
which it has exclusive control. The factory
is equipped with the latest and most efficient
machinery and gives employment to nearly
two hundred hands.

Not only did Mr. Canfield take rank among
the leading manufacturers of the state, but he
was also well known through his Masonic
affiliations. He was made a Master Mason,
February 18, 1890, in Corinthian Lodge, No.
104, was elected junior warden in 1891, senior
warden in 1892, and worshipful master in
1893. He was made a Royal Arch Mason,
April 18, 1890, in Jerusalem Chapter, No. 13,
and a Royal and Select Master, July 14, 1890,
in Jerusalem Council, No. 16, being deputy
master in 1894-95, and thrice illustrious mas-
ter in 1 896-97-98-99- 1 90 1. He was made a
Knight Templar, June 26, 1890, in Hamilton
Commandery, No. 5. He was elected most
puissant grand master of the Grand Council,
Royal and Select Masters, of Connecticut, in
May, 1900, having served in all the subordi-
nate offices of the Grand Council during the
preceding years. He received the Ineffable
Grades, December 30, 1890, in DeWitt Clin-
ton Lodge of Perfection, and was master of
ceremonies of this body in 1 898-99- 1900-0 1-
02-03. He received the ancient Traditional
Grades, January 19, 1891, in Washington
Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of Bridgeport,
of which he was junior warden from 1895 to
1901 inclusive. He received the Philosophical
and Doctrinal Grades, February 16, 1891, in
Pequonnock Chapter of Rose Croix, H. R.
D. M., and was elected most wise and per-

fect master of this body in 1898, serving
through 1903, having served previously in
all the offices from orator up. He received
the Modern Historical and Chivalric Grades,
March 15, 1891, in Lafayette Consistory, S.
P. R. S., thirty-second degree, and was ap-
pointed captain of guard in 1894 and served
to December, 1904, when he became com-
mander-in-chief. He was district deputy for
Fairfield county of most worshipful grand
master of Connecticut in 1900-01 ; was cre-
ated a sovereign grand inspector general at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 17, 1901 ;
crowned active member of supreme council,
September 17, 1903, at Boston, Massachu-
setts. He was a member of Pyramid Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. As will be
seen from this record he was a thirty-third
degree Mason and held the highest offices in
the various Masonic bodies, the highest in
the gift of the order. In politics he was a
Republican ; in religion an Episcopalian.

He married, April 17, 1873, Imogene C.
Freshour, born at Hopewell Center, New
York. Children: 1. Joseph B., born Jan-
uary 21, 1874, died February 20, 1904; he was
associated with his father in business. 2. Al-
bert H., born September 19, 1875 : ne was ed-
ucated at public schools and spent two years
at Cornell University ; he married, February
7, 1899, Ann Frances Stewart; they had one
son, Jared O., who died May 20, 1910, at nine
years of age. He was always associated with
his father in the rubber business, being vice-
president up to the time of his father's death
and in August, 19 10, was made president. He
is a member of all the Masonic bodies, includ-
ing Council, Chapter and Commandery, and
Scottish Rite up to thirty-second degree. A
member of University Club, Brooklawn Club,
Country Club and the Yacht Club. 3. Henry
B., secretary of the Canfield Rubber Company.

(The Andrews Line).

(I) William Andrews, the immigrant, from
Hampsworth, England, was one of fifty-three
persons who shipped at Hampton, fifteen
miles southwest of London, about April 6,
1635, on board the ship "James" of London,
three hundred tons, William Cooper, master.
The ship landed its passengers at Boston,
where many of them settled. Andrews was
made a freeman the same year. He went
early to New Haven, Connecticut, with Eaton
and Davenport and was the builder of the
first meeting house there in 1644. He is
known to have had three sons and a daugh-
ter and is thought to have had two other
daughters whose names are unknown. He
married (first) ■ — ; (second) December

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7, 1665, Anna, daughter of William Gib-
bands, colonial secretary in 1657. Andrews
died in East Haven, Connecticut, March 4,
1676; his widow Anna in 1701. Children:
William, born in England, died January 3,
1663; Samuel, mentioned below; Nathan,
born in 1638, ancestor of the East Haven
branch.

(II) Samuel, son of William Andrews,
was born in England in 1632, died October
6, 1704. He and his brother Nathan were
original proprietors of Wallingford in 1670.
He took the oath of fidelity to England, May
2, 1674; settled at Wallingford in 1670. His
will was dated April 17, 1703, and he died at
Wallingford, October 6, 1704. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon William Peck,
of New Haven. She died at Wallingford.
Children, born at New Haven and Walling-
ford: William, 1658; Samuel, 'February 1,
1661, died young; Samuel, April 30, 1663;
William, February 9, 1664 ; John, July 4,
1667; Nathaniel, August 2, 1670: Twins. May
30, 1673, died next day: Elizabeth, July 16,
1674; Mary, March 27, 1677; Joseph, men-
tioned below; Margery, January 15, 1681 ;
Dinah, July 25, 1684.

(III) Joseph, son of Samuel Andrews,
was born June 1, 1679. He married, Novem-
zer 10, 1703, Abigail Payne. His will was
dated October, 12, 1741, and he died Novem-
ber 20, 1741. His wife died June 25, 1721.
Children, born at Wallingford : Caleb, June
23- I7°5 ! Caleb, March 12, 1706; Joseph,
March 3, 1708; Giles, March 19, 1710; Mercy
(twin), June 15, 1714; Mary (Twin); Na-
thaniel, March 16, 1717; Andrew, mentioned
below; Stephen, May 24, 1721.

(IV) Andrew, son of Joseph Andrews, was
born at Wallingford, August 16, 1719, died
February 22, 1792. He married (first) Es-
ther ; (second) Elizabeth Dunbar.

Children, born at Wallingford : Johanna
(twin), July 31, 1740; Sarah (twin); Mar-
gery, March 23, 1742; Esther, February 24,
1743. Children of second wife: Eunice, De-
cember 6, 1746; Caleb, December 9, 1748;
Margery, November 23, 175 1, died young;
Margery, June 14, 1752; Andrew, mentioned
below ; Joseph, November 26, 1758, died on
the old prison ship "Jersey" in the revolu-
tion; Mary, May 20, 1766; Abigail, April 26,
1770.

(V) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) An-
drews, was born at Wallingford, August 9,
1756, died July 3, 1834, in Sheffield, Massa-
chusetts. He married Mary Morse, of Wal-
lingford, born November 28, 1755-56, died in
Sheffield, February 9, 1847.

(VI) Benajah, son of Andrew (2) An-

drews, lived in Meriden, Connecticut. He

married . Child: Mary A., born 1813,

married Jared H. Canfield (see Canfield VII).

(II) Jeremiah Canfield, son
CANFIELD of Thomas Canfield (q. v.),
was born in 1663, died
March 18, 1739-40. He resided in Milford
until 1727 when he settled in New Milford,
Connecticut. His brother Thomas had lot
40 and he had lot 99 in the list of origi-
nal proprietors of the new town. He also
bought three rights and a half of Samuel
Clark and much of his land was laid out when
he bought it. He gave his son Jeremiah half
a right in 1717. Other land was laid out to
him in 1725, and at the end of the century
when all the divisions had been made his es-
tate amounted to fifteen hundred acres in
New Milford. He joined the First Church
there in 1736. After his death, his land was
divided by his heirs. His wife Alice died
January 4, 1739-40. Children: Jeremiah;
Azariah ; Alice, married, April 25, 1707, Jo-
siah Bassett; Zerviah, married, December 12,
1706, Daniel Terrill ; Mary, baptized April 9,
1699; Samuel, born 1701 ; Thomas, September
16, 1704; Jemima, 1706, married John Bost-
wick : Zerubbabel, mentioned below ; Joseph,
baptized 1711-12.

(III) Zerubbabel, son of Jeremiah Canfield,
was born about 1710, died August 18, 1770, at
New Milford. He came to this town with
his father. He had a "Sabbath-day house" in
1745 and may have then been living in Bridge-
water, part of New Milford. His homestead
was that lately owned by Egbert B. Can-
field. He married, July 26, 173 1, Mary,
daughter of John Bostwick. Children, born
at New Milford: Sarah, March 10, 1733-34;
Betty, October 1, 1735; Ann, September 1,
J737'< Nathan, July 28, 1739; Enos, February
8, 1741-42 ; Lemuel, mentioned below : Han-
nah, July 2, 1746; Daniel, November 28, 1749,
died August 18, 1770.

(IV) Lemuel, son of Zerubbabel Canfield,
was born at New Milford, January 31, 1743-
44. He lived on his father's homestead in
his native town. He married, February 10,
1773, Sarah Burton. Children, born at New
Milford: Daniel, October 29, 1774; Ann,
July 26, 1776, married Ephraim Munson ;
Burton, mentioned below ; Charles A., Sep-
tember 24, 1781 ; Augustine, January 15,
1784; Lemuel, March 26, 1787; Orlando,
April 4, 1794.

(V) Burton, son of Lemuel Canfield, was
born February 28, 1778, died January 10,
1848. He settled in South Britain in 1800.
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who died January 10, 1861. Children: I.
Harriet, born December 27, 1802, died in
1879 ; married, in February, 1824, Anson
Bradley; children: Lemuel C, Burton C,
Polly Ann and Sarah Eliza Bradley. 2.
Mitchell Monroe, mentioned below. 3. Lem-
uel Munson, April 9, 1820, died September 5,
1854: married, March 16, 1843, Emeline
Northrop ; children : Harriet Elizabeth, born
March 16, 1850, died August 18, 1870; Sarah
Eleanor, wife of Otis S. Northrop, president
of Colonial Trust Company, residence, 51
Church street, Waterbury, Connecticut.

(VI) Mitchell Monroe, son of Burton Can-
field, was born March 30, 1809. He lived in
South Britain, formerly Southbury, Connecti-
cut, and died there in 1890. He married
Eliza J. Averill, November 24, 1830. Chil-
dren : Averill Burton ; Henry Monroe, men-
tioned below.

(VII) Henry Monroe, son of Mitchell
Monroe Canfield, was born in Southbury, Au-
gust 15, 1841. He was educated in the Wa-
terbury high school, graduated at Albany
Academy, was matriculated and studied in
Gdttingen University in Hanover, Germany.
He was prominent in public life and was at
one time consul to Greece. In politics he is a
Democrat. He is past master of King Solo-
mon Lodge, No. 7, and past high priest of Hi-
ram Chapter, No. 1, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons and Royal Arch Masons. In later years
he has been a farmer at South Britain. He has
traveled extensively. He married, June 1,
187 1, Alice, born March 1, 1851, daughter of
Stephen and Lucy (Piatt) Hayes. Children:
1. Burton H., born April 1, 1872, died Oc-
tober 22, 1903. 2. Lucy A., September 15,
1874; married, December 21, 1909, Wilbur
Carleton Knowles. 3. Henry Horace, men-
tioned below. 4. Harriet, March 22, 1878;
married N. Louis Ericsson. 5. Samuel M.,
July 23, 1880 ; married Ethel S. Ford, Octo-
ber 1, 1907.

(VIII) Henry Horace, son of Henry Mon-
roe Canfield, was born at Southbury, Con-
necticut, December 22, 1875. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and various private
schools. He started the study of pharmacy
under N. M. Strong, of Waterbury, in 1892,
and has lived there since, and in 1902 engaged
in business as a druggist there on his own
account. He is postmaster of North Wood-
bury, director of the telephone company,
chairman of the Republican town committee.
He is a past master of King Solomon Lodge,
No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons, of Wood-
bury ; member of Hiram Chapter, No. 1, Royal
Arch Masons, of Sandy Hook, and of other
fraternal societies. He married, November

7, 1905, Florence Fowler, of Woodbury, born
January 27, 1877, daughter of William and
Martha Fowler. They have one child, Mar-
jorie, born November 9, 1906.

Henry Bristol, immigrant an-
BRISTOL cestor, was born in England.
He and his brother Richard
were early settlers in Connecticut. Richard
was at Guilford when the first division of
land was made and received a five-acre par-
cel of upland and rocks next Alexander
Chalker's ; was a freeman ; member of the
Guilford church ; a cooper by trade ; seventh
on the list of proprietors in 1672 ; held a num-
ber of minor offices and has a claim to fame
as the originator of the Bristol apple, which
was named for him. Richard married twice
but left no children, so that all the colonial
Bristols of New York and New England
trace their lines to the brother. Henry Bris-
tol came to New Haven, Connecticut, as an
apprentice to William Davis. When he came
of age he settled there. He was born about

1625. He married (first) Rebecca ,

and (second) January 26, 1656, Lydia, daugh-
ter of Francis and Alary (Edwards) Browne.
She was probably born about 1637-38, died
in 1719; he died 1695, and the following heirs
acknowledged the receipt of their portions of
the estate : Jobamah Gunn and wife Mary of
Milford ; Samuel and Bezaleel, heirs of Sam-
uel Bristol, of Guilford, deceased ; Elizabeth
Bristol, of Milford; Abigail Bristol, of New
Haven ; Zaccheus Candee ; Stephen Hine and
wife Sarah of Milford ; Thomas Hine, of Mil-
ford (New Haven county court records, Vol.
II, pages 302-5). Children of first wife: Re-
becca, born February 4, 1649-50; Samuel, De-
cember 3, 165 1 ; Mercy, November 7, 1653.
Children of second wife : Lydia, January 3,
1657-58; John, September 4, 1659; Mary,
September 1, 1661 : Hannah, December 10,
1663 ; Abigail, April 19. 1666 ; Sarah, Feb-
ruary 1, 1667-68; Daniel, May 4, 1671 ; Eliza-
beth, May 20, 1674; Esther, October 3, 1676;
Eliphalet, October 2, 1679; Henry, mentioned
below.

(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Bris-
tol, was born June 1, 1683, died May, 1750.
He married (first) January 23, 1706-07, De-
sire Smith; he married (second) Damaris

. Children : Desire, born November

5, 1707; Henry, November, 1709; Austin, No-
vember 26, 171 1 ; Amos, February 22, 17 13;
Mary, February 7, 1717-18; Thomas, Decem-
ber 29, 1719; Deborah, March 12, 1721-22;
Gideon, March 12, 1721-22; Patience, May 11,
1723; Jonathan, December 27, 1725; Lydia,
March 16, 1728-29.

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(III) Austin, son of Henry (2) Bristol,
was born November 26, 171 1. He married
. Child, Simeon, mentioned below.

(IV) Simeon, son of Austin Bristol, was
born in 1738, died October 23, 1805. He
graduated from Yale College in the class of
1760 with the degree of A. B. His father
died when he was a child. He made his home
in Hamden, Connecticut, where he became a
leading citizen. He was judge of the New
Haven county court. He was selectman in
1786 and town clerk from 1786 to 1801. He

married Mary , who died in April,

181 7, aged eighty years. Children, born at
Hamden : George Augustus, born July 27,
1762; Simeon, July 26, 1764; Mary, October
T5- I/67; Sarah, August 20, 1771 : John, De-
cember 10, 1775 ; William, mentioned be-
low.

(V) William, son of Simeon Bristol, was
born June 2, 1779, at Hamden. He gradu-
ated at Yale College in 1798 and was admit-
ted to the bar in 1800. He was a prominent
lawyer, was judge of the superior court of
Connecticut, and from 1819 to 1826 was
judge of the United States district court for
Connecticut. He married Sarah Edwards, of
New Haven, born December 11, 1780. He
died in 1836, much honored and respected
throughout the state. Among his children
was William Brooks, who is further men-
tioned below.

(VI) William Brooks, son of William
Bristol, was born in New Haven, Connecti-
cutt, July 19, 1806, died in 1876. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1833 and became a
prominent attorney. He married (first)
Mary Wolcott, daughter of Moses and Mary
(Wolcott) Bliss (see Bliss VIII). He mar-
ried (second) Caroline Bliss, sister of his
first wife. Children of first wife: Louis
Henry, born March 2, 1839, unmarried; Eu-
gene Stuart, January 4, 1843, married Julia
S. Gilman. no children ; William Bristol, June
1, 1847, died in 1873, unmarried. Children of
second wife: Mary Bliss, unmarried: John
Wolcott, born May 13, 1855, mentioned be-
low ; Caroline, married Professor Edward S.
Dana ; children : Mary Bristol Dana, James
Dwight Dana and William Bristol Dana.

(VII) John Wolcott, son of William
Brooks Bristol, was born in New Haven, May
J3' 1855. He graduated from Yale College
in 1877. and from the Yale Law School in
1879. He then began at once the general
practice of law at New Haven, where he now
lives, and he has been associated in business
with his brother, Louis H. Bristol, under the
firm name of Bristol, Stoddard, Beach &
Fisher.

(The Bliss Line).

(III) Samuel Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss
(q. v.), was born in England in 1624, re-
moved to America with his father in 1635.
He settled at Springfield, Massachusetts,
where he died March 23, 1720, lacking but
four years of a hundred. He married, No-
vember 10, 1664-65, Mary, born September
14, 1647, died 1724, daughter of John and
Sarah (Heath) Leonard. Children, born at
Springfield: Hannah, December 20, 1666;
Thomas, February 8, 1668-69; Mary, August
4, 1670; Jonathan, January 5, 1672-73; Mar-
tha, June 1, 1674; Sarah, September 10,
1677; Experience, April 1, 1679; Mercy,
July 18, 1680; Ebenezer, July 29, 1683, men-
tioned below; Margaret, September 11, 1684;
Esther, April 2, 1688.

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Bliss, was
born in Springfield, July 29, 1683, died Sep-
tember 7, 1717. He married, January, 1707-
08, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Clark
Gaylord ; she was born about 1688-89. Chil-
dren : Jedediah, born February 7, 1709-10,
mentioned below; Ebenezer, August 17, 1710;
Anne, July 27 ', 1712; Moses, August 9, 1714;
Mary, March 14, 1716; Martha, December
27, 17 17.

(V) Jedediah, son of Ebenezer Bliss, was
born in Springfield, February 7, 1709-10, died
November 30, 1777. He was a tanner by
trade. He married (first) July 2, 1733, Ra-
chel, daughter of Joseph and Mary Sheldon,
of Suffield, Connecticut. She died Novem-
ber 1, 1747. He married (second) August
19, 1748, Miriam, daughter of John and Abi-
gail Hitchcock. She died November 19,
1793. Children: Rachel, born July 24, 1734;
Moses, January 16, 1736, mentioned below;
Jedediah Jr., April 20, 1738; Mary, Decem-
ber 11, 1739; Lucy, June 9, 1741, died young;
Lucy, November 24, 1742; Aaron, April 4,
1744, one record says April 6, 1745 ; Patience,
October 24, 1747. Children of second wife:
Miriam, born May 17, 1749; Ebenezer, June
26, 1750; Reuben, November 5, 1751 ; Alex-
ander, October 11, 1753; Zenas, February 3,
1756; Martha, December 7, 1757; Isaac, Au-
gust 11, 1760; Jacob, March 12, 1763; Naomi,
October 22, 1765.

(VI) Hon. Moses, son of Jedediah Bliss,
was born January 16, 1736, in Springfield,
died July 4, 1814. He graduated at Yale in
1755, studied theology and preached for a
time, but later abandoned the ministry, read
law, and became an eminent barrister. Dur-
ing the later years of his life he was judge
of the court of common pleas for the county
of Hampton. He was greatly respected for
his learning, talents and piety. He was dea-

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con in a Congregational church in Springfield.
It is said that when he first heard of the
Declaration of Independence he was so elated
that he set fire to a load of hay he had just
brought across the river, in the presence of
a large audience of enthusiastic and delighted
spectators. He married, July 20, 1763, Abi-
gail, daughter of William and Abigail (Ed-
wards) Metcalf, of Lebanon, Connecticut.
She was born April 2, 1739, died August 29,
1800. Children : George, born December 13,
1764; Lucy, June 19, 1766; Abigail, Novem-
ber 20, 1768; William Metcalf, October 23,
1770; Frances, May 10, 1772; Moses Jr.,
July 10, 1774,' mentioned below; Edmond,
November 10, 1775; Emily, August 19, 1780;
Harriet, March 23, 1782.

(VII) Moses (2), son of Hon. Moses (1)
Bliss, was born in Springfield, July 10, 1774,
died September 11, 1849. He was a mer-
chant. He married, September 20, 1804,
Mary Wolcott, of Saybrook, Connecticut. She
was born September 15, 1778, died August
26, i860. Children : Emily, born November
28, 1805; William, December 19, 1806; Em-
ily, August 24, 1808 ; Mary Wolcott, May 8,
1810, mentioned below ; Henry, March 29,
1812; Henry, May 22, 1815; Lucy, May 22,
1815; Elizabeth, May 22, 1815 (triplets);
Caroline, September 11, 1817, mentioned be-
low ; Emily C, May 27, i8iq.

(VIII) Mary Wolcott, daughter of Moses
(2) Bliss, was born May 8, 1810, died Feb-
ruary 12, 1849. She married, November 15,
1834, William B. Bristol, of New Haven,
Connecticut (see Bristol VI).

(VIII) Caroline, daughter of Moses (2)
Bliss, was born September 11, 1817; she mar-
ried, November 11, 1850, William B. Bristol
(see Bristol VI).

(II) Eliphalet, son of Henry

BRISTOL Bristol (q. v.), was born at

New Haven, October 2, 1679,

died there December, 1757. He lived at New

Flaven and married Esther . Children,

born at New Haven: Lydia, November 1,
1701, married, December 21, 1723, James
Crawford; Samuel, November 15, 1703; Di-
nah, July 31, 1706, married, September 14,
1727, Ebenezer Downs; Stephen, August 12,
1707; Abigail, August 11, 1709, married, Sep-
tember 13, 1737, Joseph Pardee ; Eliphalet
(mentioned below) ; Aaron, August 31, 1714;
Moses, February 11, 1716-17, lived at Oxford;

Esther, February 11, 17 18-19, married

Stevens; Benjamin, July 24, 1723.

(Ill) Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (1)
Bristol, was born at New Haven, about 171 1.
He and others of the familv settled at Ox-

ford, Connecticut. He had sons : Justis, Gad
(mentioned below) and Asher.

(IV) Gad, son of Eliphalet (2) Bristol,
was born at Oxford, Connecticut, about 1740.
He had sons : Gad, Philo Riggs, mentioned be-
low, David and Sheldon.

(V) Philo Riggs, son of Gad Bristol, was
born at Oxford, Connecticut, 1765, died April
5, 1847, aged eighty-two years. He lived at
Oxford, and married there Nabbie Abigail,
daughter of Rev. Noah Russell, granddaugh-
ter of Lyman Russell. Children, born at Ox-
ford : Noah Russell, Philo Burrit, mentioned
below.

(VI) Philo Burrit, son of Philo Riggs Bris-
tol, was born December 4, 1802, died 1888. In
1825 he removed to Canton, Connecticut. He
married Theresa, born 1802, died aged ninety-
two years, daughter of John Cole, of Ply-
mouth, Connecticut. Children: 1. Henry,
killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, in the
civil war. 2. Charles A., mentioned below.
3. Julia.

(VII) Charles A., son of Philo Riggs Bris-
tol, was born in Canton, Connecticut. Febru-
ary 22, 1827. died July 7, 1909, in the town
of Winchester, Connecticut. He was educated
in the public schools in Canton and Winches-
ter. At the age of sixteen he began to teach
school. He lived in the towns of Canton,
Winchester and Waterbury. In 1861 he en-
listed in the Second Connecticut Heavy Ar-
tillery and served to the end of the civil war.
He took part in the battle of Winchester, bat-
tle of the Wilderness, and battle of Cold Har-
bor, besides many minor engagements. Pie
was with the regiment under Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley. He suffered an attack
of typhoid and spent a number of weeks in the
hospital. He was promoted to the rank of
corporal. At close of war he returned to
Winchester and followed farming for an oc-
cupation. He was an active and prominent
Democrat and was often chosen a delegate
to state, county and other nominating conven-
tions of his party. He was a member of the
board of education of Winchester for a period
of twenty-five years and always keenly inter-
ested in public education. For many years he
was secretary of the board. He was on the
board of town assessors for several years. He
was a member of Palmer Post, Grand Army
of the Republic. In religion he was a Con-
gregationalism

Charles A. Bristol married, February 7,
1847, Harriet, born at Torrington, Connecti-
cut, November 17, 1827, daughter of Robert
and Sophia (White) Hurlburt, granddaughter
of Levi and Sarah (Cook) Hurlburt. Levi
was an earlv settler in Torrington. Robert

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Hurlburt was born at Torrington, June 8,
1785, died at Waterbury, November 9, 1869;
Sophia was born November 23, 1787, died
May 14, 1867. Harriet was one of twelve
children. Children of Charles A. Bristol: 1.
Lyman Mortimer, born February 23, 1848,
died May, 1909; married (first) Annie Fenn ;
(second) Kate Griffin; children of first wife:
Howard and Bertha. 2. Charles A., born Sep-
tember 26, 185 1, died in California. March 9,
1905, married Nettie White. 3. Clifford Eu-
gene, mentioned below.

(VIII) Clifford Eugene, son of Charles A.
Bristol, was born in Winsted, Connecticut, No-
vember 11, 1858. He attended the public
schools of Winsted, and began the study of
law in the office of Judge Fenn of that town.
He was admitted to the bar in June, 1882,
and opened an office in Norfolk, Connecticut.
After he had practiced law for five years he
abandoned his profession to engage in mercan-
tile life. He was for a number of years a
traveling salesman, and at length became a
merchant on his own account at Winsted,
where he has continued with notable success
to the present time. He is a member of the
Litchfield County Bar ; a member of Fred-
erick Lodge, No. 14, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of Plainville, Connecticut ; of the Con-
necticut Masonic Veterans' Association ; Win-
chester Council, No. 755, Royal Arcanum; of
E. S. Kellogg Camp, No. 29, Sons of Veter-
ans, of W'insted. In religion he is a Congre-
gationalist, in politics a Republican. He mar-
ried, March 17, 1898, Luella A., born in An-
sonia, Connecticut, daughter of William E.
Edwards. They have no children.

Thomas Woodford, the im-
WOODFORD migrant ancestor, was born
in Lincolnshire, England,
and came among the early settlers to Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. He was in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, in 1632, and in 1633 he was
one of the party led by Rev. Thomas Hooker
to Hartford, of which he became one of the
founders. During his stay there he took an
active part in the affairs of the colony, serving
at various times as town crier, fence viewer
and in other offices.

Thomas Woodford was married, March 4,
J635. to Mary Blott. In 1654 he removed to
Northampton, Massachusetts, where he be-
came a proprietor, and where he died March
6, 1667. He is mentioned among the set-
tlers of Springfield in 1636 in the Compact.
His will was dated April 26, 1665, and proved
March 26, 1667. He bequeathed to daughter
Mary and her children ; daughters Hannah and
Sarah ; sons-in-law Isaac Sheldon and Nehe-

miah Allen. Children : Hannah, married
Samuel Allen ; Joseph, mentioned below ;
Sarah, married Nehemiah Allen.

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Woodford, was
born in Hartford, and in 1666 removed to
Farmington, Connecticut, where he acquired
a large tract of land. He died there in 1701
and was buried in what was known as the
Cider Brook Cemetery. He married Re-
becca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
(Olmstead) Newell. Children: Mary, died in
1723, married Thomas Bird of Farmington ;
Rebecca, married John Porter ; Esther, died
1742, married Samuel Bird; Sarah, married
Nathan Bird, and died 1750 ;• Hannah, mar-
ried Thomas North ; Joseph, born 1677, men-
tioned below ; Elizabeth, born 1682, married
Nathan Cole of Newington ; Susan, married
Deacon Anthony Judd ; Abigail, born 1685,
died in 1736, married Caleb Cole.

(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Wood-
ford, was born in 1677, in Farmington, in the
Society of Northington, now Avon, Connecti-
cut, and settled in what is known as Nod,
where he owned a large tract of land and
followed farming. He died in 1760 and was
buried in Cider Brook Cemetery. He was one
of the organizers and a prominent member of
the church. He married, in 1699, Lydia
Smith; (second) Sarah Garrett, widow, born
1668, died 1769, over a hundred years old.
Children: Child, died in infancy, 1702; Ly-
dia, born 1702, died 1723; Mary, born 1704,
died in childhood; Joseph, born 1705; chil-
dren of second wife: Elizabeth, born 1707,
married Thomas Case; Mary, 1709, married
Isaac North; Rebecca, 171 1; Samuel, 1712;
Sarah, 1714; Rebecca, 1716; John, 1718, men-
tioned below; Susanna: William, 1722.

(IV) John, son of Joseph (2) Woodford,
was born in Northington in 1718, and died
at Avon in 1802. He was called "captain."
He married Sarah, born June 23, 1729, daugh-
ter of Amos and Sarah (Pettibone) Phelps
(married July 1, 1723). Amos, born at Sims-
bury, Connecticut, in 1708, and died June 11,
1777: a soldier in the revolution three months
in 1776, fourth regiment. Sarah Pettibone
was daughter of John and Mary (Buell) Pet-
tibone. Joseph Phelps, father of Amos, was
born at Windsor, Connecticut, August 20,
1667; married (second) Sarah Case, daughter
of John and Sarah (Spencer) Case. Joseph
Phelps, father of Joseph, was born in Eng-
land, in 1629, lived at Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts, and Windsor; married (first) Sep-
tember 20, 1660, Hannah, daughter of Roger
Newton. William Phelps, the first in this
country, father of Joseph Phelps, was bap-
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August 19, 1599, son of John and Dorothy
Phelps.

(V) Ezekiel, son of John Woodford, was
born at Northington, now Avon, and settled
at Winsted, Connecticut, where he bought of
John Sweet the house and land at the corner
of Main and Coe streets, and there he lived
the rest of his days. He kept a tavern most
of the time and also had a sawmill, situated
nearly opposite his dwelling house. He died
May 10, 1820, aged seventy-one years. He
married Anne Bishop, who died December 23,
1831, aged seventy-seven. Children: Lucy,

married Wadsworth ; Erastus, lived at

Winsted; Jeremiah, of Bloomfield ; Nancy;
Romanta (son), lived at Winsted and at Ben-
nington, New York ; Ezekiel, mentioned be-
low ; Mary ; Harriet ; Lester, born June 19,
1797. married Rosanna Case.

1 VI) Ezekiel (2), son of Ezekiel (1)
Woodford, was born June 30, 1790, and died
August 14, 1859. He came when a minor
to Winsted with his parents. He bought the
farm of his brother Romanta when he went
to New York state, December. 18 17, and re-
sided there until 1822, when he removed to
Hartford, living on Windsor street. He was
an inn keeper there for many years. He re-
turned to Winsted in 1857 and lived in a
house on the north side of Hinsdale street,
next the graded school. He married, Sep-
tember 7, 1825, Roxana Lyman, born June 18,
1797, died December 26, 1871. Children:
Andrew D., born June 15, 1826, died Decem-
ber 9, 1826; George L., December 29, 1827,
painter, lived at Winsted, married Helena J.
Watson ; John, mentioned below.

(VII) John (2), son of Ezekiel (2) Wood-
ford, was born at Hartford, March 4, 183 1,
died February 7, 1904. He was educated in
the public schools and began life as clerk in
the store of C. J. Camp, who afterward ad-
mitted him to a partnership, which lasted
thirty-five years. He married, May 24, i860,
Laura Clarene Burnham, daughter of Hiram
and Hannah Clarene (Sanford) Burnham.
She was born March 6, 1840. Hannah Clarene
Sanford was the daughter of Strong and Tem-
perance (Hotchkiss) Sanford. Children: 1.
Arthur Burnham, born October 7, 1861, men-
tioned below. 2. Frank Clark, born Novem-
ber 24, 1867; died November 17, 1868. 3.
Frances Louise, born January 18, 1870, mar-
ried John Palmer Bankson of Philadelphia,
December 29, 1900. 4. Laura Isabelle, born
April 28, 1874, married Timothy Field Allan,
Tt\, of New York and Litchfield, September
28, 1897.

(V-III) Professor Arthur Burnham Wood-
ford, son of John (2) Woodford, was born

at Winsted, October 7, 1861. He attended the
public schools and Williston Seminary at
Easthampton, Massachusetts. He entered the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University,
from which he was graduated with the degree
of Ph. B. in the class of 188 1. He took
post-graduate courses at Yale University, the
University of Michigan, at Johns Hopkins
University, from which he received the de-
gree of Ph. D. in 189 1, at L'ficole Libre des
Sciences Politiques, Paris, and at Berlin Uni-
versity. He was given the degree of Master
of Arts by Indiana University in 1886. He
was a special agent in the United States De-
partment of Labor in 1885. From 1885 to
1889 he was professor of economics in the
Indiana University. In 1891 and 1892 he was
an assistant professor of political economy
at the Wharton School of Finance, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania ; from 1892 to 1896 in
the School of Social Economics, an instructor
in English and economics. Since 1897 he has
been in the faculty of the Hopkins Grammar
School of New Haven, and rector since 1906.

The Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
in which Professor W'oodford is an instructor
and rector, was founded in 1660, and ranks
as the third oldest school in the country, and
as the oldest school in Connecticut. It was
founded in accordance with the wishes of Ed-
ward Hopkins, Esquire, who in his will, signed
in London, March 7, 1657, left "the residue

of my estate in New England to my

father, Theophilus Eaton, Esq., Mr. John Dav-
enport, Mr. John Cullick, and Mr. William
Goodwin, in full assurance of their trust and
faithfulness in disposing of it according to
the true intent and purpose of me, the said
Edward Hopkins which is to give some en-
couragement in those forrayne Plantations for
the breeding up of hopefull youths both at
the Grammar Schoole and Colledge for the
publique service of the Country in future
tymes."

Edward Hopkins was born in England
about 1600 and came to this country in 1637,
in the ship "Hector," together with a com-
pany of Puritan emigrants, "men of fair es-
tate and of great esteem for religion and wis-
dom in outward affairs." Among them were
two of the men mentioned in the foregoing
will, Rev. John Davenport and Theophilus
Eaton, whose stepdaughter Mr. Hopkins had
married. Air. Hopkins united himself with
the colony of Connecticut and made his home
in Hartford, already settled by Rev. Thomas
Hooker's company. In the new colony his
ability was at once recognized. His name is
signed to the famous constitution drawn up
in January, 1639. He became the first secretary

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of the new government, and was chosen gov-
ernor in 1640 and every alternate year from
1644 to 1654. At the same time he continued
his career as a merchant (in London he had
been a "Turkey merchant"), pushing his posts
up the river and opening a trade in cotton with
the West Indies. In 1652 he returned to Eng-
land and served under Cromwell as navy Com-
missioner, and in 1655 as Admiralty Commis-
sioner. At the time of his death he was a
member of Parliament, representing Clifton in
Devonshire. His interest in New England
continued undiminished until his death, which
occurred in London in 1657. A year before
this event, writing to Mr. Davenport in regard
to the project for a collegiate school, he said,
"If I understand that a college is begun and
like to be carried on at New Haven for the
good of posterity, I shall give some encour-
agement thereunto."

In 1664, after six years of litigation, Mr.
Hopkins' estate in New England was divided
by the two surviving trustees as follows : to
the town of Hartford £400 ; to the town of
New Haven, £412, to the town of Hadley,
£308; to Harvard College, £100. The remain-
ing £500, of which his wife was residuary
legatee, was diverted to ends entirely different
from those originally intended. Mrs. Hop-
kins did not die until 1698, the trustees under
the will having already died. In 1709, in de-
fault of other claimants, Harvard College,
through its agent in London, brought suit to
recover the property. The court found at
Cambridge such a school and college as were
specified in the will, and appointed trustees to
purchase land in the province, three-fourths of
the income to be for the benefit of Harvard
College, "for bringing up students in Divin-
ity for the service of the country," and the
other fourth for the benefit of the grammar
school in the town of Cambridge. The trus-
tees accordingly purchased land in 171 5, and
the place was called Hopkinton in Hopkins'
honor. The college has regularly received
payment from these funds, part of it being
used as deturs, or gifts of books to deserving
undergraduates. These are still known as
Hopkins deturs. Until 1839 an annual pay-
ment was made to the old Cambridge grammar
school for the support of a classical teacher.
At that date a separate school was established,
called the Hopkins Classical School. It was
discontinued in 1854, when the trustees agreed
to pay the interest to the city of Cambridge for
the improvment of classical instruction in the
high school.

The fund allotted to Hadley, Massachu-
setts, whither Mr. Goodwin, the other surviv-
ing trustee, had removed, was increased by

several generous gifts. The school began its
work in 1667 and continued without serious
interruption as a classical school. In 1816
the "grammar school" was incorporated as
Hopkins Academy. In 1865, the school build-
ing having been burned, the trustees offered
to pay all the expenses of a high-school cur-
riculum, if the town would provide a building
and keep it in repair. This offer was ac-
cepted by the town and the agreement has
continued in force. The school is still known
as the Hopkins Academy.

In Hartford a school house was built from
the funds in 1665. In 1798 the school was
incorporated as the Hartford Grammar
School, with a self-perpetuating board of trus-
tees. Since 1747 the grammar school has been
practically united with the high school, the
trustees paying the salary of a classical in-
structor from the income of the Hopkins
funds.

In New Haven, on June 4, 1660, Mr. Dav-
enport, pastor of the Church of Christ, re-
signed Governor Hopkins' donation to the gen-
eral court. The record of the transaction, as
it stands in the ancient record book of the
colony, opens with the Latin formula of bene-
diction, "Quod felix faustumquc sit." Dav-
enport's plan was the fulfillment of an earlier
resolution of the court, to found in New Ha-
ven "a small college, such as the day of small
things will permit." A colony grammar
school was indispensable as an adjunct to the
proposed college. In accepting Mr. Daven-
port's trust, the town granted thirty pounds
per annum for such a school, which the gen-
eral court in the previous year had voted to
establish. This colony grammar school, be-
gun in October, 1660, did not flourish, but
instruction was guaranteed by the town until
the Hopkins funds became available four years
later. New Haven's share in these funds was
less than originally expected and intended.
Political unrest and the dearth of teachers
caused the project of a Hopkins College to
be finally abandoned.

The existence of the grammar school has
been uninterrupted, and since 1784 it has
never lacked a college graduate as its rector,
nor failed to give a college preparation. In
1838 the present property at the corner of
Wall and High streets was purchased, and a
new building was erected, which now forms
the central portion of the school. In 1869 the
rear addition was built, and in 1873 the front
wing, which forms the main portion of the
present school building.

The Hopkins Grammar School is the only
one of the Hopkins schools which has contin-
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are directly related to the "ancient and honor-
able family of the grammar schools of Eng-
land." Eaton and Davenport were school-
mates in the Free Grammar School of Cov-
entry, which served as a model for the Hop-
kins Grammar School in New Haven. The
Hopkins schools have always been, what the
term "grammar" still implies in England, pre-
paratory schools and classical schools. The
head master of the New Haven school is still
called rector.

(The Burnham Line).

Walter De Veutre came to England, at the
time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, in the
train of his cousin-german Earl Warren, son-
in-law of William the Conqueror. He was
made Lord of the Saxon villages of Burnham
and others, and from Burnham where he lived
he was known as De Burnham. He took his
surname, as many others of the Norman con-
querors, from an old English town. The name
is cited spelled Burham, Berham and Barn-
ham as well as Burnham, and in the old An-
glo-Saxon Beornham, Byrbham, etc. In old
Norse the name is Bjorh, which in Anglo-
Saxon is Beorn and Burn (a bear) meaning,
according to Ferguson, "chief, hero, man."
There were towns of this name in both Som-
ersetshire and Sussex county, before 900, and
the family has been distinguished ever since.
The ancient coat-of-arms of the family is :
Sable, a cross between four crescents argent.

(I) Thomas Burnham, the immigrant an-
cestor, was born in 1617, it is believed in Hat-
field, Herefordshire, England, which was the
home of one branch of the English Burnhams.
November 20, 1635, according to an old rec-
ord, he "imbarqued for the Barbadoes, in the
Expedition, Peter Blacklee, Master, took the
oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, Examined
by the Minister of the town of Gravesend."
He appears first in America in 1649, where
he is recorded in Hartford as bondsman for
his servant Rushmore, "that he should carry
good behavior." He was an educated man,
and on first coming to this country practiced
as a lawyer. In 1659 he purchased from Tan-
tonimo, chief sachem of the Potunke tribe
of Indians, a tract of land now covered by the
towns of South Windsor and East Hartford,
on which he afterward lived, and a part of
which is still in possession of his descendants.
He held this land under a deed from Tanto-
nimo, and later in 1661, by a deed from six
of the latter's successors and allies, by which
they renounce "all our right and title in those
lands aforesayd unto Thomas Burnam and his
heirs." The possession of this land led to
endless lawsuits, supported by the government,

and it was ordered to be divided. Burnham
refused to give it up, however, and the con-
test continued for many years. It resulted
finally in the appointment in 1688, at a town
meeting of the inhabitants of Hartford, "of a
Committee in behalf of this town, to treat with
Thomas Burnham, Senior, upon his claim to
the lands on the East side of the Great River."
He erected a house on these lands at Potunke,
which was one of five, on the east side of the
Connecticut, to be fortified and garrisoned
during the Indian war of 1675. In 1649-56-59-
60, he appears as plaintiff in court, and usu-
ally argued his own cases. In 1659 he was at-
torney for Jeremy Adams, Northampton, and
in 1662 for Abigail Betts, accused of blas-
phemy. For his successful defense of her,
"for saving her neck," the court condemned
him to "ye prison-keep." This sentence was
not carried into effect, however, though he
was deprived of his citizenship for a time, and
prohibited from acting as attorney for others,
but allowed to argue his own cases. In 1655
he was on the jury, and in 1662, being com-
plained of for abuse in the case of Abigail
Betts, gave bonds to keep the peace.

He married in 1639 ( ?), Anna Wright ( ?),
who was born in England, in 1620 (?),and
died August 5, 1703. He died June 28, 1688.
Before his death he had divided the greater
part of his estate among his children by deed,
with the condition that it should remain in the
family. His wife did not produce his will
when it was called for by the court, and it was
subsequently proved by the witnesses, June,
1690. Children: Elizabeth, born about 1640;
Mary, about 1642; Anna, 1644; Thomas, 1646,
mentioned below; John, 1648; Samuel, 1650;
William, 1652; Richard, 1654; Rebecca, 1656.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Burnham, was born in 1646, and married, Jan-
uary 4, 1676, Naomi, daughter of Josiah Hull
of Killingworth. She was born February 17,
1657-58, in Windsor, Connecticut, and died
March 15, 1727-28. Her father was deputy to
the general court from Windsor 1659-60-62,
and from Killingworth, 1667-74. Thomas
Burnham died March 19, 1726-27. His will
was dated March 15, 1726, and offered for
probate April 5, by his son Charles, his exec-
utor. It was allowed to stand good, Novem-
ber 1, 1726. Children: Thomas, mentioned
below: John, May 22, 1681 ; Elizabeth, June
4, 1684; Sarah, March 7, 1687-88; Naomi,
June 3. 1688; Charles, May 16, 1690; Mary,
July 12, 1692; Abigail, March 25, 1694; Jo-
siah, September 6, 1696.

(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Burnham, was born or baptized April 16, 1678,
and married, November 9, 171 1, Mrs. Eliza-

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beth (Strong) Boardman, daughter of John
Strong, and widow of Nathaniel Boardman
(Borman). She was born February 20, 1671,
and died April 18, 1720. He lived in Hart-
ford, and died May 12, 1726. His will was
made February 11, 1725-26, and mentioned
son Thomas, daughters Elizabeth and Esther.
He gave to the son Thomas his house and
land. His estate, called "large and valuable,"
was inventoried May 20, 1726. Children :
Thomas, July 24, 1712, mentioned below;
Elizabeth, May 16, 1715 ; Esther, July 5, 1718.

(IV) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3)
Burnham, was born July 24, 17 12, and mar-
ried, April 20, 1737, Mary, daughter of Jo-
seph and Mary (Loomis) Barber, of Windsor,
Connecticut. She was born March 24, 17 14,
and died November 7, 1803. He died June 5,
1802. His last residence was in Simsburv,
Connecticut. His will was made April 4, 1793,
and exhibited in court July 15, 1802, by the
executor, Eleazur Burnham, who declined the
trust. The will was proved by the witnesses
and approved by the court, and ordered re-
corded. The original will was delivered to
Calvin Burnham, July 7, 1803. The second
son of Thomas Burnham, Phineas, was a sol-
dier in the revolution, and escaping the dan-
gers of the war, returned home to die of
camp fever. Children: Mary, May 12. 1740
(?); Reuben, June 22, 1742, mentioned be-
low ; Phineas, April 8, 1753.

(V) Reuben, son of Thomas (4) Burn-
ham, was born June 22, 1742, and married,
August 20, 1765, Chloe, daughter of Joseph
Fitch, and sister of John Fitch, who first ap-
plied steam to the propelling of boats. She
was born May 28, 1745, and died November
27, 1814. He lived in West Hartland, and
died December 22, 1812. Children: Luther,
born July 10, 1766; Chloe, March 6, 1768;
Miriam, January 5, 1770 ; Thomas, October 12,
1771, mentioned below; Reuben, November 3.
I773: Calvin, March 9, 1776; Anna, Septem-
ber 30, 1778: Phineas, September 30, 1782;
Shaylor F., May 9, 1787.

(VI) Thomas (5), son of Reuben Burn-
ham, was born October 12, 1771, and married,
June 15, 1794, Phebe Fairchild. She was born
February 16, 1776, and died November 15,
1857. He lived in East Hartland, and died
December 12, 1854. April 12, 1801, declared
himself a parishioner of Christ Church, Mid-
dletown, Connecticut. A deed of land dated
April 23, 1803, is recorded on Middletown
land records from Thomas and Phebe Burn-
ham to Elisha Fairchild. Children: Chloe,
March 12, 1795 ; Luther, July 26, 1797; Phebe,
August 29, 1799; Hiram, May 30, 1802, men-
tioned below; Anson, August 28, 1804; Me-

lissa, June 12, 1807; Nelson T., December 26,
181 1 ; Laura, March 14, 1815.

(VII) Hiram, son of Thomas (5) Burn-
ham, was born May 28 or 30, 1802, and mar-
ried, April 2, 1828, Hannah Clarene Sanford.
She was born December 23, 1802, and died
November 22, 1884. In 1846 he was a mem-
ber of the Connecticut House of Representa-
tives from Barkamsted. He lived in Winsted,
Connecticut, and died April 29, 1873. Chil-
dren: George, January 4, 1830; Mary J.,
April 6, 1834; Laura C, March 6, 1840, men-
tioned below.

(VIII) Laura C, daughter of Hiram and
Hannah Clarene (Sandford) Burnham, was
born March 6, 1840. and married, May 24,
i860, John Woodford (see Woodford).

(II) Richard, son of
BURN FI AM Thomas Burnham (q. v.),
was born in 1654 and died
April 28, 1731. With his brothers he inher-
ited a large landed estate. May 29, 171 1, he
and three of his brothers received a deed of
land from three Indian women, a small part
of the same lands deeded in 1661 by the In-
dian chiefs to Thomas Burnham. There is
also another deed from John Morecock to
Richard, of land belonging to the latter's fa-
ther, dated 1721. In 1730, the proprietors of
the five miles of land on the east side of the
great river, in the township of Hartford, con-
fined to the heirs of Thomas Burnham the
title to two hundred and twenty-seven acres
of land, in place of lands taken by the town
of Windsor. Richard Burnham married, June
1, 1580, Sarah, daughter of Michael and Pris-
cilla (Grant) Humphries, of Windsor, Con-
necticut. Michael Humphries came to Wind-
sor in 1643. He married, October 14., 1647,
Priscilla Grant. November 17, 1664, he with
others demanded, as a member of the Church
of England, baptism for his children and ad-
mission for himself to full church privileges
in the non-conforming church of Windsor,
or else relief from taxation in support of the
ministry. For this demand he came before
the court charged with making trouble in the
church. Before coming to Windsor, he had
doubtless been at Dorchester ; he was free-
man of Connecticut in 1657, and removed to
Simsburv in 1669; he died there before 1697.
Matthew Grant, father of Priscilla, was born
in countv Devon, England ; he came in the
"Mary and John," 1630; removed, 1635, to
Windsor; freeman. May 18, 1661 ; was many
years town clerk ; and supposed to be the an-
cestor of President Grant. Children of Rich-
ard Burnham: Sarah, born July 11, 1683,
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Mercy, April 14, 1688, died young; Mary,
May 18, 1690, died young; Richard, men-
tioned below; Martha, October 8, 1694; Es-
ther, March 22, 1697; Charles, July 23, 1699;
Michael (twin), May 30, 1705; Susannah
(twin).

(III) Lieutenant Richard (2) Burnham,
son of Richard (1) Burnham, was born July
6, 1692, died February 11, 1754. In 1738 he
was confirmed by the assembly to be lieuten-
ant of the third company in the first regi-
ment in this colony. December 26, 1716, he,
Roger Wolcott and Captain Stoughton were
appointed to "dignify the seats in the Meeting
House." In 1726 he received a deed of land
on the east side of the Connecticut from the
administrators of the estate of John Easton,
of Hartford. There is also another deed of
land to him from Joseph Keeney. He mar-
ried (first) May 5, 171 5, Abigail Easton, born
March 16, 1687. He married (second) Han-
nah, probably Goodwin or Risley ; both these
Hannahs were baptized April 12, 1695 ; she
died March 23, 1784. September 3, 1734,
the court granted letters of administration on
his estate and his widow Hannah had her
third set out to her. Children: Elisha, men-
tioned below; Aaron, May 5, 1719; Ezra, July
16, 1721 ; Moses, August 30, 1723 ; Abigail,
June 3, 1725.

(IV) Elisha, son 'of Lieutenant Richard
(2) Burnham, was born June 22, 1717, died
July 18, 1770, of an epidemic fever which,
within a few weeks, also carried away three
of his children. He was a man noted for
his size and strength. "Richard Burnham, son
of Mr. Elisha Burnham, had his thigh, leg,
and ankle broke," by the explosion of pow-
der in the brick school house, at the celebra-
tion of the repeal of the Stamp Act on Fri-
day, May, 1766, appointed by the general as-
sembly as a day of rejoicing; he survived his
wounds but a few days. Elisha Burnham
married, February 5, 1742, Sarah Olmstead,
born November 10, 1716, died September 3,
1810, aged ninety-four years, forty years after
the death of her husband. She died at the
house of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Good-
win, of Hartford Neck. She was daughter
of Deacon Joseph and Hannah (Marsh) Olm-
stead, of East Hartford ; granddaughter of
Nicholas Olmstead, who was in the Peqout
war of 1637, and of whom it is said that
"after sowing his wild oats he became a good
citizen" ; he was deputy in 1672-73, captain,
1675 ; married, before September 28, 1640, a
daughter of Joseph Loomis, of Windsor, and
died August 31, 1684; she was great-grand-
daughter of James Olmstead, who came from
Suffolk, England, to Boston, September 16,

1632, in the "Lyon" from London ; he was
constable some years at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, and removed with the earliest set-
tlers to Hartford, Connecticut, 1636, of which
he was an original proprietor, with large lots
of land. He left a large estate and his will,
dated September 28, 1640, gives fifty pounds
to the church in Hartford and names only two
children, Nicholas and Nehemiah ; it provides
for his niece and her brothers, and his serv-
ant William Corbee. Hannah (Marsh) Olm-
stead, mother of Elisha Burnham's wife, de-
scended from John Marsh who was in Hart-
ford in 1636 and married Ann, daughter of
Governor John Webster. On November 1,
1770, the court granted administration on the
estate of Elisha Burnham, late of Hartford,
to Joseph Church Jr., who gave bonds with
Elisha Burnham, son of Elisha, and took let-
ters. Children : Elisha, born December 5,
1743; Sarah, September 27, 1745; Richard,
March 6, 1748; Ephraim, May 21, 1751 ;
George, mentioned below; Abner, August 15,
1755; Abigail, October 25, 1757; Mary Ann,
June 12, 1761.

(V) George, son of Elisha Burnham, was
born August 13, 1753, died March 10, 1830.
He married, November 16, 1775, Nancy Bige-
low, born November t8, 1754, died January
16, 1800, aged forty-five years. Children:
George, born June 21, 1776; Nancy, January
4, 1778; William, August 24, 1779; Henry,
December 10, 1780; James, February 8, 1782;
Richard, May 17, 1783; Henry, November 18,
1784 ; Charles, mentioned below ; Abigail, Jan-
uary 8, 1788; John, November 17, 1791 ;
Sarah, April 8, 1793 ! Elizabeth, April 7, 1796.

(VI) Charles, son of George Burnham, was
born June 18, 1786, died May 29, 1852. He
married (first) December 13, 1809, Hannah
White, who was born February 20, 1786, died
October 16, 1812, aged twenty-six. He married
(second) Persis White, May 23, 1813. She
was born April 30, 1792. Hannah and Per-
sis White were daughters of Preserved White,
of Spring-field, great-granddaughters of Dan-
iel White; of West Springfield, great-great-
granddaughters of Deacon Nathaniel White,
of Hadley, Massachusetts, great-great-great-
granddaughters of Captain Nathaniel White,
of Middletown, Connecticut ; great-great-
great-great-granddaughters of Elder John
White, who came to America in the "Lyon,"
Captain Pierce, which sailed from London,
England, June 22, and reached Boston, Sep-
tember 16. 1632; he was one of the first set-
tlers of Cambridge, Hartford and Hadley,
and held important offices in all the places.
"Gore Hall," the library building of Harvard
University, now stands on what was the cow-

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yard attached to his home lot in Cambridge ;
his home in Hartford was near the "Charter
Oak" ; Deacon Nathaniel White lived on the
farm in Hadley originally owned by his
grandfather. Elder John. Children of Charles
Burnham : Charles, mentioned below ; Han-
nah White, May 23, 1815; George, March 11,
1817; Nancy, January 5, 1819; James Henry,
March 10, 1821 ; Franklin White, July 2,
1823 ; William Stanford, August 8, 1825 ; Ed-
ward Goodwin, June 2, 1827; Simon Colton,
June 13, 1835.

(VII) Charles (2), son of Charles (1)
Burnham, was born May 20, 181 1. He mar-
ried, September 19, 1838, Olivia S., daughter
of John Bliss, of Tolland, Connecticut. Chil-
dren : Mary Elizabeth, born July 6, 1839, died
April 14, 1847; Charles Abbot, mentioned
below ; Mary Eliza, April 6. 1847; Georgianna.
October 29, 185 1.

(VIII) Charles Abbot, son of Charles (2)
Burnham, was born September 10, 1841, died
July 4, 1883. He was born while his parents
were living in the Hawaiian Islands, his fa-
ther having gone there to build a church for
a missionary society. When a young man
he became associated in the business of his
father who had purchased the book store of
Lee & Edwards, Norwich, Connecticut. It
easily took first rank in that line in Norwich,
and Mr. Burnham continued the business with
abundant success until the time of his death.
He was a prominent member of the Broadway
Congregational Church and for many years
its clerk. He married (first) April 25, 1866,
Mary Burt, born January 6, 1846, died Sep-
tember 20, 1871, leaving no children. He
married (second) May 26, 1875, Catharine
Cook Lanman, born December 16, 1847,
daughter of Peter and Catharine (Cook) Lan-
man, of Norwich (see Lanman V). Chil-
dren : Mabel Lanman. born November 8,
1876, married Frederick D. Warner ; Catha-
rine Cook, September 2, 1878, married Shel-
don C. Peck ; Charles, mentioned below.
Charles Abbot Burnham died in the prime of
life from a prolonged attack of malarial fever.
The Norwich Bulletin said of him in an obit-
uary notice: "Mr. Burnham was a gentleman
of much culture, delightful conversational
powers and noticeably winning ways, and all
who knew him well will recall many instances
of his singularly delicate consideration for
others. His death brings a real loss to society,
as well as to his family, and he will be deeply
and sincerely mourned."

(IX) Charles (3), son of Charles Abbot
Burnham, was born March 14, 1880. He was
educated in the public schools, learned the
trade of machinist, at the age of seventeen

years worked in the factory of Brown &
Sharpe, Providence, Rhode Island, and aft-
erward in the factory of Eaton, Cole & Burn-
ham, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he
became a draughtsman. He removed to San
Francisco, California, and began his career
as an inventor. He has patented many use-
ful devices, perhaps the most important being
a basket-making machine. He was employed
to complete practically an unfinished model of
a basket-making machine, but rejected the idea
and started upon a different line, creating a
very useful and efficient model for making
small wooden fruit baskets. A company has
been formed to manufacture his machine. He
married Beatrice McBride, of New York.

(The Lanman Line).

(I) Thomas Lanman, of London, England,
married Lucy Elton. They had a son, James,
mentioned below. The arms of this Lanman
family : "He beareth az. and or, three garbs,
a sickle, by the name of Lanman." Arthur's
"Family Names" defines Lanman as "a spear-
man, a lanceman," and Professor Charles Dod
gives the derivation "the son of Lanval."

(II) James Lanman, immigrant ancestor,
son of Thomas Lanman, of London, England,
was born in London and came to America
between 1692 and 1714. He married Joanna,
daughter of Dr. Thomas and Mary (Gard-
ner) Boylston, July 5, 17 14, at W^atertown,
Massachusetts. She was born at Roxbury,
Massachusetts, in 1692, died at Plymouth in
1775, aged eighty-three. James Lanman set-
tled for a short time at Boston, Massachusetts,
but his residence for ten years after his mar-
riage cannot be ascertained. An old record
says : "James Lanman and Joanna Boylston
came to Plymouth about 1724-5." Children:
Mary, born 17 15 : Samuel, 1722; Peter, men-
tioned below ; William, born at Plymouth, Jan-
uary 1, 1726; Thomas, born at Plymouth, June
n, 1728; Joanna, born at Plymouth, Febru-
ary 3, 1730; Edward, born at Plymouth, Oc-
tober 5, 1733.

(III) Peter, son of James Lanman, was
born at Plymouth, in 1725. He married Sarah
Spaulding, daughter of Colonel Samuel and
Sarah (Spaulding) Coit, December 6, 1764.
She was born May 12, 1743, died February 2,
1829. He died April 14, 1804, at Norwich, Con-
necticut, and was buried there. He came to
Norwich from Plymouth about 1750 and was
a prominent member of the Presbyterian
church with which he united in 1786, and
which he had helped to organize. He was ac-
tively engaged in shipping and mercantile busi-
ness and his name, as well as that of his son
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nearly seventy years. He was a staunch pa-
triot, a profound thinker, a courtly gentleman
and of strong religious character. His wife's
will was proved February 11, 1829. Children,
born at Norwich : Sarah, December 10, 1765 ;
Joanna Boylston, June 10, 1767; James, June
13, 1769; Peter, mentioned below; Mary, July
29, 1773 ; Samuel Coit, April 16, 1775 ; Joseph,
November 5, 1.778.

(IV) Peter (2), son of Peter (1) Lan-
man, was born at Norwich, June 5, 1771. He
married Abigail, daughter of David Trumbull,
son of Colonial Governor Jonathan Trum-
bull, the original "Brother Jonathan," on De-
cember 8, 1801. She was born January 2,
178 1, died June 5, 1861. He died December
29, 1854. Children : David Trumbull, born
September 25, 1802;. Mary Huntington, May
28, 1804; Abigail Trumbull, March 21, 1806;
Peter, mentioned below ; Sarah, August 17,
1809; Joseph (Rear-Admiral U. S. N.), July
18, 181 1 ; William T. Williams, July 6, 1813;
Caroline, January 28, 1816, died May 24, 1817 ;
Samuel Coit, March 9, 1818, died November
15, 1820; John Trumbull, October 10, 1820.

(V) Peter (3), son of Peter (2) Lanman,
was born October 4, 1807. He married (first)
Catharine Cook, October 25, 1831. He mar-
ried (second) Lydia S. Bishop, May 6, 1857.
He married (third) Mary E. Golding, Sep-
tember 5, 1866. His daughter by the first
wife was Catharine Cook Lanman, and she
married, May 26, 1875, Charles A. Burnham
(see Burnham VIII).

Nicholas Snow, immigrant an-
SNOW cestor, was born in England. He

came to New Plymouth in the
ship, "Ann," in 1623, and had a share in the
division of land in Plymouth in 1624. He set-
tled in Eastham in 1634 and became a promi-
nent citizen. His home was on the road from
Plymouth to Eel river on the westerly side.
He was admitted a freeman in 1633, and was
elected town clerk at the first meeting of the
town of Eastham, holding that office sixteen
years. He was deputy to the general court
from 1648 for three years, selectman from
1663 for seven years. He and his son Mark
signed the call to Rev. John Mayo to settle as
their minister in 1655. Nicholas Snow was
one of Governor Prence's associates. He died
at Eastham, November 15, 1676. He married,
at Plymouth, Constance, daughter of Stephen
Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." All
the descendants of Nicholas and Constance
Snow are eligible to the Mayflower Society.
Constance herself came on the "Mayflower."
She died in October, 1677. Children, born in
Plymouth: Mark, born May 9, 1628, men-

tioned below; Mary, about 1630; Sarah, about
1632; Joseph, about 1634; Stephen, about
1636; John, about 1638; Elizabeth, about
1640; Jabez, about 1642; Ruth, about 1644;
Hannah, born probably at Eastham about
1646; Rebecca, born at Eastham about 1648.
Bradford in his history states that Snow had
twelve children.

(II) Mark, son of Nicholas Snow, was
born May 9, 1628, died in 1695. He was a man
of influence in the colony. He was a magis-
trate of "Select Court" in 1678; was elected
in 1675 to the general court and served six
years ; was selectman of Eastham eighteen
years from 1667, and held various positions
of trust and honor. He married (first) Jan-
uary 18, 1655, Anne, daughter of Josiah Cook.
Married (second) January 9, 1660, Jane, born
at Duxbury, November 1, 1637, died at Har-
wich, 171 1, daughter of Governor Thomas
and Mary (Collier) Prence. She was ad-
mitted to the church in April, 1701. Child
of first wife, born in Eastham: Anne, July
7, 1656. Children of second wife, born in
Eastham: Mary, November 30, 1661 ; Nicho-
las, December 6, 1663 ; Elizabeth, May 9,
1666, died January 18, 1675 ; Thomas, August
6, 1668; Sarah, May 10, 1671 ; Prence, May
22, 1674; Elizabeth, June 22, 1676, died
March 22, 1677 '> Hannah, September 16,
1679.

(III) Thomas, son of Mark Snow, was
born in Eastham, August 6, 1668. He mar-
ried (first) Hannah, daughter of Lieutenant
Silas and Anna Sears ; she was born in East-
ham, December, 1672, died before September
30, 1706, when he married his second wife,
Lydia (Sears) Hamblin. She was a daugh-
ter of Paul and Deborah (Willard) Sears.
She was born in Yarmouth, October 24, 1666,
and married (first) Eleazur Hamblin, son of
James Hamblin, of Harwich, born April 12,
1668. They had one child, Elisha, born Jan-
uary 26, 1697-98, married Elizabeth Mayo.
Lydia outlived her second husband, Thomas
Snow, and died early in the year 1748. His
first wife, Hannah, was admitted to Har-
wich church, June 15, 1701. and her son Eben-
ezer was the first child baptized March 30,
1 70 1. Lydia Snow was admitted to the
church, July 7, 1707. Thomas Snow died
after 1732. Children of first wife : Elizabeth,
born in Eastham, October 25-26, 1693 ! Mary,
born in Harwich, May 16, 1696; Josiah, born
in Harwich, January 27, 1699-1700 ; Eben-
ezer, born in Harwich, February 14, 1700-01 ;
Hannah, born in Harwich, March 21, 1702-03.
Children of second wife, all born in Harwich :
Lydia, July 24, 1707; Thomas, June 15, 1709,
mentioned below; Aaron, February 15, 1710-

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11 ; Ruth, February 2$, 17 12-13, cne(J July 15.
1717.

(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Snow, was born in Harwich, June 15, 1709.
He married Rachel Nickerson (intention dated
January 31, 1729-30) at Harwich. His chil-
dren, Ruth, Thomas, Samuel and Silas, were
baptized at Brewster, formerly Harwich, July
T7' l7Z7- Thomas Jr. and a son Isaac were
baptized at Harwich, September 4, 1740.

(V) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Snow, was born probably at Harwich about
1730. He removed from Cape Cod to Gor-
ham, Maine, about 1778, and settled in the
north part of the town, having part of the
seventy-acre lots 68 and 78. The house is
torn down, but at last accounts the barn was
standing. He married Jane Magne and her
mother and sister came with them. The sis-
ter died unmarried. He died about June,
1825 ; his wife Jane died March 5, 1837, aged
one hundred and two years. Children, born
on Cape Cod, at Harwich or Eastham : Mercy,
married John Chase ; Aaron, mentioned be-
low ; Gideon, married, December 28, 1788, Jo-
anna Edwards; (second) Susan Parsons;
Thomas, born about 1773; Lydia, born Feb-
ruary, 1776; Jemima, born at Gorham, July,

1785'

(\I) Aaron, son of Thomas (3) Snow,

was born on Cape Cod in 1766. He went with

the family to Gorham, Maine. He married

there Eunice Philbrick, a native of Gorham.

Children : Mercy, Levi, mentioned below,

Aaron, Polly, Hiram, Samuel, Fanny. The

last four children were born in Monroe,

Maine.

(VII) Levi, son of Aaron Snow, was born
in Gorham, Maine, in 1795. He married
Mary Tracy, born in New Brunswick, of
American parents. Children : Odbrey Miles,
mentioned below; Israel T., born August,
1832; Sophronia B., August, 1834; Henry,
March, 1838; Anne, November, 1841 ; Cathe-
rine, November, 1844.

(VIII) Odbrey Miles, son of Levi Snow,
was born at Jackson, Maine, February 21,
183 1. He married Ruth Ridley, born at Pros-
pect, Maine, in 1839, daughter of Samuel and
Isabel (Ridley) Ginn. Samuel Ginn was
born at Prospect, Maine, November 26, 1801,
died December 19. 1882, son of Samuel and
Hannah (Keyes) Ginn, of Orland, Maine.
Samuel Ginn Sr. was born at Gloucester,
Massachusetts, March 10, 1775, son of James
Ginn, who was born in 1745 in Orangetown,
Maryland, son of Thomas Ginn ; James mar-
ried Ann Riggs, born 17,18, of Gloucester, in
1768, ceremony performed by Rev. John Rog-
ers. James Ginn settled in Maine and wished

the new town there named for his Maryland
home, but owing to poor spelling it was called
Orrington instead of Orangetown. Samuel
Ginn, father of Ruth Ridley (Ginn) Snow,
married, December 11, 1823, Isabel Ridley,
born July 16, 1805, clied January 12, 1892.
Children of Samuel and Isabel (Ridley) Ginn:
George W., born in Prospect, Maine, Septem-
ber 9, 1824; Enoch, May 2, 1826; Samuel H.,
April 15, 1828; Rebecca, May 15, 1830; John,
March 30, 1833; Alfred A., May 12, 1835;
James R., May 5, 1837; Ruth Ridley, June
21, 1839, mentioned above; Almira F., June
7, 1841 ; Mary H., June 17, 1844; Charles F.,
January 9, 1847. Children of Odbrey M. and
Ruth R. (Ginn) Snow: 1. Levi Tracy, born
May 30, i860, mentioned below. 2. Melvin
Edgar, born at Prospect, June 10, 1865 ; mar-
ried Etta Norton, of Cornwall, Connecticut;
child Ecla, born July, 1905. 3. Mary Isabel,
born at Phillipsburg, Maine, March 22, 1867;
married Walter E. Collar, of Norfolk, Con-
necticut ; children : Russell, Frederick, Eve-
rett, Isabel and Lester Collar. 4. Frederick
Wooster, born at Thomaston, Connecticut,
June 10. 1874; married Pamela Feeley, a
native of Barkhamstead, Connecticut ; child,
Olive, born September, 1903.

(IX) Levi Tracy, son of Oclbrey Miles
Snow, was born at Prospect, Maine, May 30,
i860. He attended the public schools of his
native town and of Thomaston, Connecticut,
and the Thomaston Academy, Connecticut.
He worked on a farm for a time, and left
home at the age of sixteen to make his own
way in the world. He was clerk in a gen-
eral store at Northfield, Connecticut, and
later at Thomaston, same state. He served
an apprenticeship in the establishment of
Pratt & Whitney at Hartford, 1880-84, and
learned the trade of machinist and toolmaker.
He became superintendent of the Strong Fire-
arms Company of New Haven, 1886, and
finally succeeded to the ownership of the
business, which he continued under the name
of Levi T. Snow. In 1906 the business was
merged into the Snow-Petrelli Manufactur-
ing Company, makers of hardware and ma-
rine specialties, with shops at No. 441 Chapel
street. New Haven ; he is president and treas-
urer of the corporation. He is a member of
the Center Congregational Church, and has
been deacon for a number of years. He is
one of the board of directors of the Young
Men's Christian Association of New Haven,
also of the City Missionary Association. He
is a member of the Connecticut Societv of
the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue
of the service of his great-grandfather, James
Ginn. He is a member of the Chamber of

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Commerce, the Young Men's Republican Club
of New Haven, the Union League Club of
New Haven, the New Haven Colonial His-
torical Society, the Congregational Club of
New Haven, and director and vice-president
of the New Haven Business Men's Associa-
tion.

He married, March 29, 1887, Sila Harrison
Pierpont, of New Haven, born July 31, 1863,
a lineal descendant of the Rev. James Pier-
pont, a founder of Yale College. Mr. and
Mrs. Snow reside at No. 136 Sherman avenue.
New Haven. Children: Ruth Canfield, born
January 10, 1888 ; Helen Pierpont, Septem-
ber 3, 1889; Cornelius Pierpont, June 11,
1891, died February, 1893; Marion, May 18,
1893; Pierpont Melvin, October 21, 1900, died
July 15, 1909.

(II) Stephen Snow, son of Nich-
SNOW olas Snow (q. v.), was born
probably at Plymouth, about 1636,
died December 17, 1705, at Eastham. He
married (first) December 13, 1663, at East-
ham, Susanna (Deane) Rogers, daughter of
Stephen and Elizabeth (Ring) Deane, born in
Plymouth before 1634, married (first) Joseph
Rogers, Jr., son of Lieutenant Joseph Rog-
ers, who came, a boy, in the "Mayflower."'
She died before 1701 and he married (sec-
ond) April 9, 1 701, Mary Bigford. He lived
in what is now East Orleans, Massachusetts.
Children, born in Eastham: Bathshua, July
26, 1664; Hannah, January 2, 1666; Micajah,
December 22, 1669: Bethiah, July 1, 1672;
Mehitable ; Ebenezer, mentioned below.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Stephen Snow, was
born in Eastham, Massachusetts, about 1677,
died before April 9, 1725. He married, De-
cember 22, 1698, Hoge Horton, who married
(second) Thomas AtKins. and went to Chat-
ham to live. Some of her children settled
there. This name Horton is a variation of
Houghton and related to the Houghtons of
Milton, descendants of Ralph Houghton, of
Lancaster, an emigrant ancestor. Ebenezer
Snow's estate was divided, March 4, 1737-38.
Children, born in Eastham : Susanna, Feb-
ruary 6, 1699-1700; Thomas, February 1,
1702; Ebenezer, February 16, 1703-04; Na-
thaniel, February 7, 1705-06; Henry, January
6, 1706-07 ; Aaron, March 20, 1707-08 ; Samuel,
1709-10; Thankful, July 3, 1714; Elisha, Octo-
ber 9, 1716; Hope, November 18, 1718; Han-
nah, December 11, 1720; Bashua, October 4,
1723.

(IV) Aaron, son of Ebenezer Snow, was
born at Eastham, March 20, 1707-08, died
there. He married Hannah, daughter of Ma-
thew and Hannah (Thorpe) Gage, grand-

daughter of Zebulon Thorpe and of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (Lombard) Gage. Thomas
Gage was the father of Benjamin.

(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Aaron Snow,
was born at Eastham and died there. He
married (first) (intentions dated December
11, 1756), Mary, daughter of Stephen Chip-
man; (second) January 8, 1774-75, Eliza-
beth Chase; (third) Sarah . Eliza-
beth Chase was a daughter of Ebenezer and
Susanna (Berry) Chase, granddaughter of
Ebenezer Chase and great-granddaughter of
Jeremiah and Hannah (Baker) Chase. Su-
sanna Berry was a daughter of John and Su-
sanna (Crowell) Berry, granddaughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Bell) Berry, great-
granddaughter of Richard and Alice Berry.
Elizabeth (Bell) Berry was a daughter of
John Bell. Susanna (Crowell) Berry was a
daughter of John and Bethia (Sears) Crowell,
granddaughter of John and Mehitable (Mil-
ler) Crowell, great-granddaughter of John
Crowell. Bethia (Sears) Crowell was a
daughter of Paul and Deborah (Willard)
Sears, granddaughter of Richard and Dorothy
(Batt) Sears. Deborah (Willard) Sears was
a daughter of George Willard. Children of
Ebenezer Snow by first wife, all born at East-
ham: Chipman, December 31, 1757, died
young; Aaron, November 10, 1759; Eben,
February 25, 1762 ; Sarah, September 5,
1763 ; Aventon or Eventon, July 12, 1765,
married Hannah Pattishall ; Stephen, October
16, 1768; Abel, August 8, 1770; Isaiah, July
3, 1773, married, January 20, 1796, Sarah Kel-
logg. Children of second wife : Elkanah,
mentioned below ; Chipman, September 2,
1779; Hannah, May 11, 1781. Children of
third wife: Mary, September 3, 1784; Eben-
ezer, April 7, 1785, married, April 1, 1801,
Abigail Kelly; John, January 6, 1787; Ben-
jamin, December 16, 1788; Elizabeth, April
6, 1792.

(VI) Elkanah, son of Ebenezer (2) Snow,
was born at Eastham, September 8, 1775.
He married (first) in 1796, Ruth Taylor Hig-
gins, of Orleans; (second) December 20,
18 10, in Orleans, Sally, daughter of Even-
ton and Hannah (Pattishall or Paddeshall)
Snow, mentioned above. Hannah was a
daughter of William Pattishall. Children,
born at Orleans, by first wife : Asa, Elkanah,
Jonathan, Higgins, Sumner, Ruth, Ebenezer
and Winthrope. Children of second wife:
Elbridge Gerry, mentioned below, and one
other.

(VII) Elbridge Gerry, son of Elkanah
Snow, was born December 17, 181 1, at East-
ham, died at Saratoga Springs, New York,
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Pleasant Valley, Barkhamstead, Connecticut,
where he was a farmer. He married (first)'
Lucinda Cole, who died without issue, March
20, 1839, aged twenty-four years, at Pleas-
ant Valley and is buried at New Hartford,
Connecticut. He married (second) December
17, 1839, Eunice Woodruff, born July 16,
181 5, at Barkhamstead, died October 4, 1882,
at St. Lous, Missouri, where she was living
with her son Lewis E. She was a daughter
of Ebenezer and Rhoda (Coe) Woodruff
(see Woodruff VI). Children of second
wife, born in Barkhamstead : Elbridge Gerry,
mentioned below; Rev. Frederick E., now of
Guilford, Connecticut; Lewis E., who died in
St. Louis; Alice Elizabeth, unmarried.

(VIII) Elbridge Gerry (2), son of El-
bridge Gerry ( 1 ) Snow, was born in the town
of Barkhamstead, Connecticut, January 22,
1 841. He attended the public schools of his
native town and of Waterbury, Connecticut,
and the Fort Edward Institute at Fort Ed-
ward, New York. Having decided to study
law, he entered upon a clerkship in the office
of a law firm at Waterbury, but soon discov-
ered a preference for business. As a clerk
in the office of J. W. Smith, of Waterbury,
he began his career in the fire insurance busi-
ness. In 1862, soon after he came of age,
he came to New York City to take a clerk-
ship in the main office of the Home Insurance
Company of New York City, and he contin-
ued there for nine years. In 1871 he ven-
tured to start in business on his own account
with an insurance agency, but soon returned
to the Home Company, to which he had be-
come of unusual value, and he was soon aft-
erward appointed general agent of the com-
pany for the state of Massachusetts, with
headquarters in Boston, and he was success-
ful in greatly increasing the volume of his
company's business in Massachusetts. While
holding this position, he formed a partnership
under the firm name of Hollis & Snow, and
conducted an insurance agency in Boston, rep-
resenting the Home and other companies. In
1885 he returned to New York City, however,
to assume the duties of secretary of the Home
Insurance Company, and his successful ad-
ministration of that office brought his promo-
tion to the office of second vice-president in
1888. He was elected first vice-president in
1890 and since then has had the virtual man-
agement of the company. Since 1904 he has
been president. The wisdom, integrity and
good judgment of Mr. Snow in conducting
the business of the company were shown pub-
licly at the time of the recent insurance in-
vestigation by the state of New York. The
Home Insurance Company has prospered

greatly under his management, its gross as-
sets having increased from $18,040,793 at
the beginning of 1904 to $30,178,913.63
Seven years later, and its net assets in the
same time from $9,574,751 to $16,829,613.63.
He has especially maintained the company's
reputation for square dealing and liberal
treatment of honest claimants, the ruling prac-
tice of his methods (and, in fact, a revealing
characteristic of the man himself) tersely set
forth in a recent brief advertisement of his
company in an agents' convention number of
an insurance paper, as follows: "The Home
avoids controversies and disagreements, if
practicable; if not, pacifies or reconciles, if
possible, rectifies if justifiable, and never
fights in court if preventable."

His views on the public duties of insurance
companies, as stated in an interview published
in November, 1910, in the Popular Insurance
Magazine are: "I regard a fire insurance
company as charged with a 'quasi-public func-
tion,' so far as concerns its obligations to use
every effort to lessen the fire waste, as well
as to indemnify for it; to spread the gospel
of 'conservation of created resources,' and to
lessen the cost of insurance as well as to
assess and distribute it. No company which
shapes its course solely and exclusively from
the viewpoint of present dividend payments,
and ignores the beneficent (not benevolent-
business men do not want charity) nature of
its engagement and overlooks its duty to show
the public how to diminish the excessive na-
tional ash heap, even though it thereby re-
duces its own average rate of premium, ful-
fills its highest responsibility or occupies a
creditable place in the general economy." In
the same interview Mr. Snow placed himself
squarely in favor of supervision and investi-
gation by the state. "Such supervision is
not only proper, but necessary. The ade-
quacy, as well as the nature, of' the resources
of an insurance company and its financial
ability to meet all demands made upon it un-
der its outstanding policy contracts, not only
in ordinary but also extraordinary measure's
in cases of large conflagrations, is so unques-
tionably a subject of public interest as to
make its ascertainment a very proper subject
of governmental administration on the part
of the state."

Mr. Snow is a trustee of the New York-
Life Insurance Company, trustee of the North
River Savings Bank, director of the American
Exchange National Bank and of the Fourth
National Bank, all of New York, and of other
corporations ; member of the Mayflower So-
ciety and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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the New England Society of New York, the
New York Chamber of Commerce and Board
of Trade and Transportation ; the Merchants'
Association, the National Geographical So-
ciety, and several other similar societies, city,
state and national, the Municipal Art Society,
the Union League Club, the City Club, the
Lotos Club, the Underwriters Club, and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has
never been very active in politics, but has
supported Republican candidates and plat-
forms, as a rule.

He married, September 5, 1865, Frances
Jane Thompson, born November 17, 1841.
They have had one child, Elbridge Gerry 3d.,
born November 16, 1866, married (first)
Frances, daughter of Rozelle Pickert. He was
divorced, and married (second) Grace Hoppe.
Children of Elbridge Gerry Snow 3d. by first
wife : Dorothy Violet, born February, 1898 ;
Elbridge Gerry 4th, August, 1900. Child of
second wife : Frances Jannette, born Janu-
ary, 1906.

(The Woodruff Line).

(IV) Aaron Woodruff, son of Matthew
Woodruff (q. v.), was born October 25,
1715. at Farmington, died there October 7,
1796. He married, August 5, 1743, Mary,
born July 23, 1723, died February 21, 1816,
daughter of John and Damaris (Phelps)
Mills. Children, born at Farmington : Eli-
sha. mentioned below; Rosanna, December 5,
1747; Daniel. September 6, 1749, died young;
Daniel, August 5, 175 1 ; Susanna, April 2J ,
1753 ; Aaron, April 10, 1755 ; Mary, June 15,
1757; Elizabeth, July 7, 1759; Polly, July
24, 1761 ; Job Mills, February 18, 1770.

(V) Elisha, son of Aaron Woodruff, was
born at Farmington, March 14, 1746, died
there August 17, 1817. He married, May 21,
1772, Anna Griswold, born October 21, 1746,
died June 28, 183 1, daughter of Ebenezer
and Deborah (Grimes) Griswold, grand-
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Wright) Gris-
wold, great-granddaughter of Michael and
Ann Griswold. Mary (Wright) Griswold
was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stod-
dard) Wright, granddaughter of Thomas
Wright. Mary (Stoddard) Wright was a
daughter of John and Mary (Foote) Stod-
dard, granddaughter of Nathaniel and Eliza-
beth (Deming) Foote. Deborah (Grimes)
Griswold was a daughter of Henry and Mary
(Seymour) Grimes, granddaughter of Joseph
and Deborah (Stebbins) Grimes. Deborah
(Stebbins) Grimes was a daughter of John
Stebbins. Mary (Seymour) Grimes was a
daughter of Zachariah and Mary (Greet)
Seymour and granddaughter of Richard and
Mercv Sevmour. The will of Elisha was

dated March 17, 18 17, and proved September
8, 1817, bequeathing to wife, Anna, and chil-
dren : Ebenezer, mentioned below, Elisha,
Daniel, Simeon, Allen, Sally, Rosanna, De-
borah Curtis, and granddaughter, Fanny
Curtis. The sons Allen and Daniel were ex-
ecutors. This will proves erroneous a num-
ber of printed lineages of this family. There
was at the same time an Elisha of Litchfield,
son of Samuel ; Elisha of Southington, son of
Hezekiah, and Elisha of Farmington, son of
Josiah.

(VI) Ebenezer, son of Elisha Woodruff,
was born at Farmington, July 30, 1774, died
there August 17, 185 1. He married, August
23, 1803, Rhoda Coe. His wife was born in
1782, died June 20, 1849, daughter of Jona-
than and Eunice (Cook) Coe, granddaughter
of Robert and Barbara (Parmelee) Coe.
(John [3], Robert [2], Robert [1] . Coe.)
John Coe married Mary, daughter of Joseph
and Catharine (Birdseye) Hawley. Eunice
(Cook) Coe was a daughter of John and Ra-
chel (Wilson) Cook, granddaughter of John
and Edie Cook, great-granddaughter of John
who was a son of Nathaniel and Lydia

(Vose) Cook, grandson of Aaron and

(Smith) Cook and great-grandson of Henry
Smith. Rachel (Wilson) Cook was a daugh-
ter of John and Mary (Marshall) Wilson,
granddaughter of Samuel and Mary Wilson,
great-granddaughter of Robert and Elizabeth
(Stebbins) Wilson. Elizabeth (Stebbins)
Wilson was a daughter of Edward Stebbins.
The daughter of Ebenezer Woodruff, Eunice,
married Elbridge Gerry Snow (see Snow
VII).

The Taft families of America are
TAFT descended from Robert Taft and

a relative, Mathew Taft, who set-
tled near Robert later. Both were Protestant
Irish by birth. The name does not appear in
Scotland in any form, and only in England
apparently among the descendants of the Irish
family. For some centuries the name has
been spelled Taaffe. The families of Tifft
and Tefft in England may have the same ori-
gin, and it is still in doubt whether the fam-
ily is of English or Irish origin. It is true
that the Tafts were associated with the
Scotch-Irish just as many English were. Sir
William Taaffe or Taft, a knight of the Prot-
estant faith, was among the grantees at the
time of the Scotch emigration and settlement
in Ulster Province, Ireland, by order of King
James. In 1610 he received a grant of one
thousand acres of land in the parish of Cas-
tle Rahen in county Cavan. The total grants
in this parish amounted to three thousand

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nine hundred and ninety acres, of which Sir
Thomas Ashe held one thousand five hundred
acres, and in 1619 he also held this grant of
Taft's and one thousand five hundred in the
adjoining parish of Tullaghgarvy. On Taft's
land there was "an old castle new mended
and all the land was inhabited by Irish." It
seems reasonable to suppose that Sir William
Taft's sons settled on this grant. Perhaps
Sir William remained in Louth. At any
rate, this is the only family who had any re-
lations with the Scotch-Irish settlers whom
Robert and Matthew Taft seem to have been
connected with in some way. County Louth,
the Irish home of the Tafts, is on the north-
ern coast, bounded by Armagh and Ulster,
on the east by the British channel and on the
south by the Boyne. It is in the province of
Leinster, and was established as a county in
1210.

(I) Robert Taft, immigrant ancestor, was
born in Ireland about 1640, died in Mendon,
Massachusetts, February 8, 1725. He was
first at Braintree, Massachusetts, where he
owned a lot in 1678. He sold his land there
November 18, 1679, to Caleb Hobart, and
about the same time he bought his first land
in Mendon, and became later one of the larg-
est, property owners in that section. He evi-
dently was a man of property and influence
at the outset. He was a housewright by
trade. He was in the first board of select-
men of the organized town of Mendon in
1680, and the same year served on a commit-
tee to build the minister's house. He and
his sons built the first bridge across the river
Mendon. In 1729 his sons built the second
bridge also. He was one of the purchasers
of the tract of land from which the town of

Sutton was formed. He married Sarah ,

and their five sons all had large families and
many descendants. Children : Thomas, born
1671, died 1755; Robert, 1674, mentioned be-
low; Daniel, died August 24, 1761 ; Joseph,
born 1680, died June 18, 1747; Benjamin,
1684. died. 1766.

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Taft,
was born in 1674. He settled on part of
his father's land in what became Uxbridge,
and lived there all his life. He was chosen
selectman in 1727 at the first March meet-
ing and was re-elected many times. He was
one of the leading citizens. In his will, dated
February 17, 1747-48, he mentions his wife
Elizabeth and children. Children, born in
Mendon : Elizabeth, January 18, 1695-96,
died young ; Robert, December 24, 1697 ; Is-
rael, April 26, 1699, mentioned below ; Mary,
born December 21, 1700; Elizabeth, June 18,
1704; Alice, June 27, 1707; Eunice, Febru-

ary 20, 1708-09; John, December 18, 1710;
Jemima, April 1, 1713; Gideon, October 4,
1714; Rebecca, March 15, 1716.

(III) Israel, son of Robert (2) Taft, was
born April 26, 1699. His will was made in
1752, and allowed September 19, 1753. He
married Mercy, daughter of Jacob and Huldah
(Thayer) Aldrich. Children: Huldah, born
January 28, 1718; Priscilla, August 15, 1721,
married Moses Wood; Israel, April 23, 1723;
Jacob, April 22, 1725 ; Hannah, November
16, 1726; Elisha, May 3, 1728; Robert, Feb-
ruary 14, 1730; Samuel, February 18, 1731 ;
Mercy, April 7, 1733; Stephen, August 21,
1734, died September 14, 1741 ; Samuel, Sep-
tember 23, 1735, mentioned below ; Mary, Jan-
uary 23, 1737, died June 12, 1738; Margery,
May 14, 1738; Silas, December 13, 1739, died
May 10, 1741 ; Stephen, April 1, 1741 ; Ra-
chel, June 18, 1742, died December 30, 1747;
Silas, November 5, 1744; Amariah, April 18,
1746, died September 9, 1746; Phila, died
young.

(IV) Samuel, son of Israel Taft, was born
September 2^, 1735, died August 16, 1816.
He married (first) Alary, born January 3,
1743, daughter of Benjamin and Mary
(Hyde) Murdock, and granddaughter of Rob-
ert and Hannah (Stedman) Murdock. He
married (second), January 9, 1806, Experi-
ence Humes, born May 27, 1750. died Janu-
ary 14, 1837. He was a noted tavern keeper
in his day during and after the revolution.
He had the honor of entertaining Washing-
ton and his staff on one of his journeys north
and so pleased was "the Father of his Coun-
try" with the attention he received at Uxbridge
during his stay that he sent to Mr. Taft's
two daughters each a handsome dress as a
token of his appreciation of their kindness and
attention. Of his twenty-two children, fol-
lowing are the names of seventeen : Frederick,
mentioned below ; Lyman, Sybil, Mercy, died
young, Willard, Mercy, Porter, Washington,
died young, Parla, Merrett, Otis, Phila,
George Washington. Children of second
wife : Danbridge, Warner, Experience,
Polly.

(V) Frederick, son of Samuel Taft, was
born at Uxbridge, June 19, 1759, died there
February 10, 1846. He was a prominent citi-
zen and held various positions of trust and
honor. He was a surveyor and had most of
the business in this line in the southern part
of Worcester county. For twenty years he
was a deputy sheriff of the county, and he
was well known and popular. He lived to the
advanced age of eighty-seven years and his
wife reached the age of ninety. He married,
in 1782, Abigail, born August 29, 1761, daugh-

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ter of Ezra and Ann (Chapin )Wood (see
Wood IV). Children: Samuel, Murdock,
Calista, Frederick Augustus, Naba, Harriet,
Parla, Ezra Wood, mentioned below, Mary
Ann, Margaret.

( VI) Ezra Wood, son of Frederick Taft,
was born August 24, 1800, died September
26, 1885. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town of Uxbridge. In
1815 he entered the employ of Frederick A.
Taft who established the Dedham Manufac-
turing Company with mills at Dedham, Mas-
sachusetts. When he was twenty years old
he hired a small mill in the adjacent town of
Walpole and began business on his own ac-
count. He manufactured forty thousand
yards of "negro" cloth for the southern trade
in the next three years. In 1823 he went to
Dover, New Hampshire, and assisted in start-
ing the Cocheco mills in that town and re-
mained three years as overseer of one of the
rooms. In 1826 he returned to Dedham and
for the next six years was agent of the Ded-
ham Manufacturing Company. In 1832 he
became the agent of the Norfolk Manufac-
turing Company at East Dedham, where he
built the stone mill, still standing, and he con-
tinued at the head of this industry for a pe-
riod of thirty years. When Mr. Taft began
manufacturing all the yarn was spun at the
mills and sent out to the homes of the weav-
ers to be made by hand into cloth. But soon
the power looms came into use in the mills,
and he lived to see both cotton and woolen
mills develop into great industries employing
many thousands of hands in the mills and fac-
tories of New England. "He was one of the
leaders in the development of the industry.
In 1864 he retired from manufacturing and
from that time until he died he was almost
entirely occupied in public business. For
more than forty years he was a justice of the
peace and he was called upon to take many
private and public trusts. For more than thir-
ty years he was a member of the school com-
mittee of Dedham and he was an earnest ad-
vocate of better schools. He was for thirty-
one years a director of the Dedham Bank
and from 1873 to the time of his death was
its president. He was connected with the
Dedham Institution for Savings from the
time of its incorporation and for many years
was a trustee and member of the investment
committee. He was also one of the organ-
izers of the old Norfolk Insurance Company,
and a director of the Dedham Mutual Insur-
ance Company. He was for fourteen years
in succession on the board of selectmen, and
chairman twelve years. He represented his
district for four years in the general court.

No citizen of Dedham in his time was more
prominent in business, financial affairs and
public life. He was a member of the Ortho-
dox church. In politics he was a Republican,
after the organization of that party. He
always labored zealously to advance the in-
terests of the town of Dedham, whether along
material, religious or educational lines, and
he was a prime mover and leader in matters
of public interest.

He married (first), May 2, 1825, Minerva
Wheaton, born May 2, 180 1, died January 26,

1829. He married (second), September 8,

1830, Lendamine Draper Guild, born Septem-
ber 29, 1803, died October 24, 1897, daugh-
ter of Calvin and Lendamine (Draper) Guild,
granddaughter of Joseph and Miriam (Dra-
per) Guild (see Guild V). Children of first
wife: 1. Ezra Josephus, born June 2, 1827,
died February 15, 1829. 2. Edwin Wheaton,
August 30, 1828, died November 23, 1832.
Children of second wife : 3. Josephus Guild,
born June 18, 1831, mentioned below. 4.
Edwin Wheaton, born March 24, 1833, died
December 27, 1890; married, June 7, 1864,
Sarah Frances Southwick, born June 21,
1844; children: i. Frank Edwin, born June 14,
1868 ; ii. Lena Maie, born February 24, 1874,
died January 12, 1876; iii. Ruth Maie, born
October 24, 1876. 5. Cornelius Abbott, born
November 30, 1834; married, December 27,
1871, Maria Louise Boyd, born November 24,
1843 : children : i. Ella Louise, born December
21, 1874, died 1895; ii. Harris Abbott, born
June 29, 1876, died September 14, 1884. 6. Mi-
nerva Lendamine, born August 25, 1838. 7.
Louisa Adelaide, born March 20, 1840 ; mar-
ried, June 19, 1867, George Marsh, born June
24, 1838, died December 25, 1890; children:
i. Theodore Taft Marsh, born March 23,
1868 ; ii. Alice Francis Marsh, born May 2,
1869 ; iii. Louise Taft Marsh, born March 6,
1874. 8. Ezra Fletcher, born March 30, 1846;
married, June 15, 1877, Emma Howe Browne,
born July 8, 1850; children: i. Theodore
Howard, born April 8, 1883 ; ii. Fletcher
Wood, born July 30, 1884; iii. Roger Browne,
born September 14, 1887. Their six children
with their families assisted in celebrating the
golden wedding of their parents, September
8, 1880, a notable family gathering and most
interesting occasion.

(VII) Josephus Guild, son of Ezra Wood
Taft, was born June 18, 183 1, at Dedham.
He received his education in the common and
high schools of Dedham, and early in life en-
gaged in business as a saddler. Later he was
appointed cashier of the Shawmut National
Bank of Boston. He is a member of the Free
and Accepted Masons. In religion he is a

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Congregationalist, and in politics a Republi-
can. He married, May 17, i860, in Ux-
bridge, Anna Eliza Shaw, born January 19,
1834, died January 8, 1899, daughter of
Franklin King and Catherine (Pollock) Shaw.
The Shaw family was from Ware, Massachu-
setts. Her father was born November 23,
1805, died May 22, 1845 ! ner mother was
born July 14, 1804, died aged sixty-nine.
Catherine Pollock was daughter of John Pol-
lock, born April 6, 1770, died November 8,
1843, wno married Anna Lynd, born October
25, 1770. died July 14, 1857. Children of
Josephus Guild Taft : 1. Charles Ezra, born
July 11, 1863, mentioned below. 2. Ade-
laide Shaw, June 21, 1865, died December

10, 1867. 3. Arthur Guild, born July 12,
1869, died 1889.

(VIII) Dr. Charles Ezra Taft, son of Jo-
sephus Guild Taft, was born in Dedham, July

11, 1863. He graduated from the Dedham
high school in 1880 and from Chauncy Hall
College in Boston in 1881. He entered Har-
vard College in 188 1 and graduated from
the medical department in 1886 with the de-
gree of M. D. In 1885 and a part of 1886
he was house physician in the Boston City
Hospital, and then house surgeon in the Wom-
an's Hospital in New York City, graduating
1888. In the summer of 1887 he was ap-
pointed medical inspector on the New York
board of health, which is a civil service ap-
pointment. In March, 1888, Dr. Taft went
to Hartford, Connecticut, and engaged in gen-
eral practice, and for eight years occupied
the same office with Dr. Jarvis. He has
given special attention to surgery and the dis-
eases of women. From 1894 to 1896 he was
assistant surgeon of First Regiment, Con-
necticut Volunteer Militia, and has been visit-
ing surgeon to St. Francis Hospital since
1908. He is also the examining surgeon for
several life insurance companies. He is a
member of the State Medical Society, the
Hartford City and the Boston City Hospital
Alumni associations, and of the New York-
Woman's Hospital Alumni Association, New
York Academy of Medicine, American Medi-
cal Association, and had contributed many val-
uable papers and professional themes to the
state and Hartford city associations. He has
also served as secretary of the Hartford City
Medical Society, and as one of its censors,
and has been a fellow of the State Society.
In politics he is a Republican, but has no time
for active political work. He is regarded as
one of the foremost physicians of Hartford,
and his conscientious work has brought him
an enviable reputation. He married Martha
Louise Jarvis, born February 26, 1869, daugh-

ter of Dr. G. C. Jarvis, of Hartford. Chil-
dren: George Jarvis, born September 9,
1893; Elizabeth, born June 12, 1895; Elea-
nor, born January 1, 1901.

(The Wood Line).

( I ) Thomas Wood, immigrant ancestor,
came to New England probably soon after
1650. He settled in Rowley, where he died
in September, 1687, and was buried there
September 12. He married, April 7, 1654, Ann
Todd or Hunt, who died December 29, 1714.
Among the old family papers belonging to
Charles Mortimer Wood, of Upton, Massa-
chusetts, is a record written possibly by Eben-
ezer Wood, grandson of Thomas Wood, stat-
ing that Thomas and Ann Wood came from
Yorkshire, England. Children, born in Row-
ley: Mary, January 15, 1655; John, Septem-
ber 2, 1656; Thomas, August 10, 1658; Ann,
August 8, 1660; Ruth, May 21, 1662; Jo-
siah ; Elizabeth (twin of Josiah), born Sep-
tember 5, 1664; Samuel, December 26, 1666;
Solomon, May 17, 1669; Ebenezer ; James,
mentioned below.

(II) Captain Ebenezer Wood, son of
Thomas Wood, was born in Rowley, De-
cember 29, 1 67 1. He settled in Mendon, and
he and his wife were dismissed from the Row-
ley church to the church in Mendon, July 14,
171 7. He died at Mendon in 1736. He drew
land there in 1720, 1729, and at various
times. He married, April 5, 1695, Rachel
Nichols. Children : James, born April 28,
1696; Ebenezer, December 6, 1698; Jona-
than, November 2, 1701,. mentioned below;
David, May 30, 1764; Samuel, May 21, 1706;
Jane, March 2, 1708-09; Moses, April 3, 1712;
Eliphalet, August 15, 1714.

(III) Lieutenant Jonathan Wood, son of
Captain Ebenezer Wood, was born in Rowley,
November 2, 1701 (1702 in private records).
He removed to Upton, where his younger
children were born. He married (first) Mar-
garet ; (second) (intentions dated

January 2, 1749-50), Dorothy Crosby, of
Shrewsbury. He bought a number of lots of
land in Mendon in 1723, probably at the time
of his marriage. He added to his real estate
holdings in Mendon from year to year. Chil-
dren, all by first wife: Ezra, mentioned be-
low (and probably others), in Mendon, about
1724-25-26; Daniel, born March 28, 1735 ;

Jonathan, married Sarah ; Lois, born

April 27, 1740; Eunice, November 19, 1742;
Simeon, November 14, 1747.

(IV) Captain Ezra Wood, son of Lieuten-
ant Jonathan Wood, was born in Mendon
about 1725, died in Upton, August 29, 1815,
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tieth year. He then had nine children, seven-
ty grandchildren, one hundred and forty-two
great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-
grandchildren, a total of two hundred and
twenty-eight in his family. He married. Oc-
tober 24, 1747, Anna Chapin, of Uxbridge.
His will was dated August 7, 181 1, and filed
September 21, 1815. He was a soldier in the
revolution, captain of the Upton company,
Worcester regiment. Children, born in Up-
ton: Deborah, March 31, 1749; Margaret,
March 16, 1751 ; Anna, March 12, 1753; Ly-
dia, August 1, 1756; Ezra; Abigail, born Au-
gust 29, 1 761, married Frederick Taft (see
Taft V) ; Bethia, May 19, 1764; Grace, May
19, 1766; Chapin, July 22, 1769; Jonathan,
mentioned in will.

(The Guild Line).

The surname Guild, Guld, Guide or Guile,
is of Scotch origin, the records showing the
surname as early as 1449 when one Alex-
ander Guide owned property at Sterling. Scot-
land. In the sixteenth century we find the
family in Dundee and in the seventeenth at
Forfarshire and Perth. This Scotch family
may have descended from the Guille family
of the Isle of Guernsey, the original seat of
which was on the bay called Saint in the par-
ish of Saint Martin. According to tradition
they were there before or at the time of the
Norman Conquest. At the dedication of the
Saint Pierre du Bois Church in 1167 John
Guile is mentioned as one of the honorable
gentlemen present. The surname is said to
be Norman and is probably the Norman form
of the Latin Aegidium (Giles in English).
The coat-of-arms of the Scotch Guilds resem-
bles closely that of the Guernsey family. The
American families of Guild and Guile are de-
scended from two brothers, John Guild, men-
tioned below, and Samuel Guild, who with
their sister Ann arrived in Massachusetts
about 1636 and settled in De lham. They
were probably quite young when they came
and it is conjectured that Ann was the eldest,
being but about twenty, John about eighteen
and Samuel sixteen. Ann married, March 16,
1638, James Allen, and in 1649 settled in
Medfield, a new town adjoining Dedham.
Samuel went to Newbury, Massachusetts, in
1640, and soon afterward joined the settle-
ment at Haverhill.

(I) John Guild, the immigrant, is supposed
to have been born in England about 1616
and to have come to America in 1636 with
his brother Samuel and sister Ann. He was
admitted to the church at Dedham, July 17,
1640, and bought twelve acres of upland the
same year. He built on this land a house

which was occupied by himself and descend-
ants for more than two hundred years. He
was admitted a freeman, May 10, 1643, an(^
as one of the original grantees had assigned
to him three roods and twelve rods of land
to which he added by further grants and pur-
chase much real estate in Dedham, Wren-
tham, Medfield and Natick. He was thor-
oughly honest in his dealings, industrious and
frugal in his habits, modest in deportment
and retiring in disposition. He held no of-
fices and the town records show his attend-
ance at town meeting but once during a num-
ber of years, and then on occasion of con-
siderable excitement in relation to making ad-
ditions and alterations in the meeting house.
He married, June 24, 1645, Elizabeth Crooke,
of Roxbury, who was dismissed from the Rox-
bury church to Dedham, July 4, 1649, and
who died August 31, 1669. He died October
4, 1682. His will is dated October 3, 1682,
and proved November 3, 1682. Children,
born at Dedham: 1. John, August 22, 1646,
died young. 2. Samuel, November 7, 1647,
mentioned below. 3. John, November 29,
1649 '■> married Sarah Fisher. 4. Eliezur, No-
vember 30, 1653, died June 30, 1655. 5.
Ebenezer, December 21, 1657, died April 21,
1661. 6. Elizabeth, January 18, 1660. 7.
Benjamin, May 25, 1664, died young.

(II) Samuel, son of John Guild, was born
at Dedham, November 7, 1647. He married,
November 29, 1676, Mary, daughter of Sam-
uel and Ann (Herring) Woodcock, of Ded-
ham. She was born March 9, 1631-32. He
was a soldier in King Philip's war, a private
in Captain Moseley's company. He was ad-
mitted a freeman at Salem in May, 1678.
In 1703 he was one of a committee to invest
and manage the school funds ; was selectman
of Dedham from 1693 to I7I3< and a deputy
to the general court in 1719. He died in Ded-
ham, January 1, 1730. Children, born in
Dedham. 1. Samuel, October 12, 1677; mar-
ried Sarah Plartshorn. 2. Nathaniel, Janu-
ary 12, 1678 ; married Mehitable Farming-
ton, or Hartshorn. 3. Mary, May 9, 1681,
died May 27, 1768; married, May, 1714, John
Fuller, of Dedham. 4. John, June 18, 1683,
died October 29, 1684. 5. Deborah, Septem-
ber 16, 1685. 6. John, October 2, 1687;
married Abigail Robinson. 7. Israel, June 11,
1690. 8. Ebenezer, July 23, 1692; married
Abigail Daggett. 9. Joseph, September 13,
1694, mentioned below. 10. Elizabeth, April

14, 1697-

(III) loseph, son of Samuel Guild, was
born at Dedham, September 13, 1694. He
married (first) October 31, 1723, Abigail
Fisher, of Dedham, and (second) December

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4, 1732, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and
Sarah Curtis, granddaughter of John and Re-
becca (Wheeler) Curtis and of Samuel Lyon.
He married (third) October 17, 1745, Beulah
Peck. He renewed his baptismal covenant,
September 30, 1724, and with his wife was
received into full communion in the Dedham
church, February 5, 1727. In 1737 he was
precinct collector. At his death his inventory
amounted to fourteen hundred pounds, a large
sum for his day. His will was dated Sep-
tember 25, 175 1. Children of first wife: 1.
Abigail, born at Dedham, baptized May 29,

1726, died young. 2. Mary, October 24,

1727, died young. 3. Joseph, October 16,
1729, died young. Children of second wife:
4. Abigail, January 22, 1733-34; married,
September 21, 1756, Abel Ellis. 5. Joseph,
May 11, 1735, mentioned below. 6. Hannah,
November 7, 1736; married, April 29, 1756,
Timothy Metcalf. 7. Samuel, June 16, 1739;
married Sarah Smith. Children of third wife :
8. Beulah, July 13, 1746, died young. 9.
Michael, July 26, 1747, died young. 10.
Molly, September 18, 1748, died young. 11.
Desire, October 31, 1750; married Zechariah
Whiting. 12. Heman, baptized July 28, 175 1 ;
married Sarah Taunt.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Guild,
was born at Dedham May 11, 1735. died De-
cember 28, 1794. He spent his early years on
the old homestead, and about the time of his
marriage settled on a farm at Dedham Island
where he followed farming the remainder of
his life. He was much esteemed as an hon-
orable, upright and virtuous man and an en-
ergetic, useful citizen. He was captain of a
company of minute men at the beginning of
the revolution and was with his command also
at Ticonderoga, Montreal and elsewhere. A
brief but interesting journal of his experiences
in the war has been preserved. He served
on the Dedham committee of safety ; was
muster master in 1775 ; served on a commit-
tee to provide for families of absent soldiers
in the revolution in 1777; on a committee of
correspondence, safety and inspection in 1780-
81. He was parish treasurer for eight years
and filled various other offices of trust and
honor, such as justice of the peace, select-
man, representative to the general court. He
was admitted to full communion with the
church, May 20, 1764. He married, June 28,
1758, Miriam Draper, born March 26, 1739,
died September 26, 183 1, daughter of Eben-
ezer and Dorothy (Child) Draper, grand-
daughter of James and Abigail (Whiting)
Draper and of Joshua and Elizabeth (Morris)
Child. Elizabeth Morris was the daughter of
Edward and Grace (Betts) Morris; Joshua

Child was son of Benjamin and Mary
(Bowen) Child. Abigail Whiting was daugh-
ter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight)
Whiting ; James Draper was son of James
and Miriam (Stansfield) Draper. Children,
born in Dedham: 1. Joseph, born March 14,
1760; married Rebecca Felton. 2. Reuben,
August 18, 17C2; married (first) Catherine
Whiting and (second) Susannah Hoskins. 3.
Ebenezer, February 6, 1765 ; married Mary
Grant. 4. Amasa, November 23, 1768; mar-
ried Rebecca Whiting. 5. Abner, August 17,
1772; married Sophia Hall. 6. Calvin, July
6, 1775, mentioned below. 7. Nathaniel,
January 3, 1778; merchant in Savannah,
Georgia, where he died September 7, 1805.

(V) Calvin, son of Joseph (2) Guild, was
born in Dedham, July 6, 1775. He was a
hatter, merchant and auctioneer at Dedham,
and served the county as sheriff. He died at
Dedham, April 25, 1858. He married (first)
Lendamine Draper, born March 30, 1780,
died October 26, 1823, daughter of Major
Abijah and Desire (Foster) Draper, grand-
daughter of James and Abigail (Child)
Draper, mentioned above, and of Ebenezer
and Desire (Cushman) Foster. Desire Cush-
man was the daughter of Samuel and Fear
(Carver or Corser) Cushman, granddaughter
of Thomas and Abigail (Fuller) Cushman.
Ebenezer Foster was son of John and Mar-
garet (Ware) Foster, grandson of John and
Mary (Stewart) Foster and of Robert and
Sarah (Metcalf) Ware. Calvin Guild mar-
ried (second) Mehitable Fuller, of Dedham,
widow. Children: 1. Francis, born Sep-
tember 4, 1801 ; married (first) Caroline E.
Covell ; (second) Lauretta Taft. 2. Lenda-
mine Draper, September 29, 1803 ; married,
September 8, 1830, Ezra Wood Taft (see
Taft VI). 3. Amasa, October 12, 1805, died
young. 4. Emeline, January 17, 1807, died
December 11, 1809. 5. Calvin, November 22,'
1808; married Margaret Taft. 6. Cornelia,
March 29, 1810; married, September 4,
1849, Jonn Shorey, a Boston merchant, and
died September 4, 1849. 7. Nathaniel Met-
calf, July 21, 1812; married Mary Messenger.
8. Abigail, August 9, 1814. 9. Nancy, Octo-
ber 20, 1818; never married. 10. Lucretia,
March 3, 1823, died June 2, 1832.

Cornelius Waldo, immigrant
^■TYVALDO ancestor, was born about 1624,

probably in England, and died
at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, January 3,
1700-01. His name is first mentioned in the
court records at Salem, July 6, 1647. I* is
probable that he settled first in Ipswich and
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the line between Ipswich and Gloucester. He
owned a share and a half in Plum Island, and
was living at Ipswich as late as 1664. He
married Hannah Cogswell, born 1624, died
December 25, 1704, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell, of Ipswich.
Her father was a native of Westbury Leigh,
county Wilts, England, and came to New
England on the ship "Angel Gabriel" ; he was
a well-to-do woollen manufacturer in Eng-
land. Her mother was daughter of Rev. Wil-
liam Thompson, vicar of Westbury parish. On
January 2, 165 1, John Cogswell gave to his
son-in-law his dwelling house at Chebacco
Falls and forty-nine acres of land. About
1665 Cornelius Waldo removed to Chelms-
ford, and on February 15 of that year sold
his Chebacco Falls house to Edward Bragg.
In various deeds during the next fifteen or
twenty years, he is called sometimes of
Chelmsford and sometimes of Dunstable,
probably because his farm lay part in each
town. He was one of the first settlers of
Chelmsford, and in 1673 was on the commit-
tee to instruct the selectmen, and in 1678 was
chosen selectman. He was a charter member
of the church organized December 16, 1685,
in Dunstable, and was one of the first dea-
cons. In 1686 he was one of the purchasers
of land at Wamesit of Jonathan Tyng, and
in 1690 he was licensed to keep a tavern in
Chelmsford. He was chosen selectman again
in 1698. He disposed of his property, which
consisted of a large amount of land in Dun-
stable and Chelmsford, with a dwelling house
and buildings in each town, before his death,
and died intestate. Children : Elizabeth ;
John, mentioned below ; Cornelius ; Daniel,
born August 19, 1657; Martha, February 27,
1658; twin sons, February 24, 1659, buried
February 27, 1659 ; Deborah, January 14,
1661 ; Rebecca, January 28, 1662; Judith, July
12, 1664; Mary, September 9, 1665; died at
Chelmsford, November 29, 1665 ; Jonathan,
1669.
Jtj^i\V) John, son of Cornelius Waldo, was
•born probably at Ipswich, and died at Wind-
ham, Connecticut, April 14, 1700. He was in
King Philip's war in the fight at Brookfield,
August 2, 1675, and was wounded. He
served at the garrison at Groton also. He
resided at Chelmsford and in 1682 was em-
ployed by the town of Dunstable as a mount-
ed guard against the Indians. He removed
to Dunstable, and was a farmer and owned
a grist mill on Nacooke brook in that town.
He was deputy to the general court in 1689
and about this time removed to Boston. In
1697 he owned a mill and five acres of land
in town Cove in Hingham, but probably

never lived in Hingham. He sold this mill
and bought, November 29, 1697, a grist mill
and mill works, dwelling house and an acre
of land at Windham, Connecticut, and in Jan-
uary following purchased an allotment of a
thousand-acre right in Windham. He was
admitted an inhabitant of Windham, January
30, 1697-98. He died there about a year
later. His will was dated April 14, 1700, the
day that he died. He married Rebecca
Adams, who died at Canterbury, Connecticut,
September 17, 1727, daughter of Captain
Samuel and Rebecca (Graves) Adams, of
Charlestown. She married (second) (inten-
tions dated April 26, 1710), Deacon Eliezer
Brown, of Canterbury. Children : Rebecca,
died July 2, 1677, at Charlestown ; John, born
May 19, 1678; Catherine, 1679-80; Edward,
April 23, 1684, mentioned below ; Rebecca,
August 6, 1686; Ruth; Sarah, baptized De-
cember 6, 1 69 1 ; Abigail.

(Ill) Edward, son of John Waldo, was
born April 23, 1684, at Dunstable, died at
Windham, August 3, 1767. He was educated
in the Boston schools, and for a number of
years taught school at Windham. He was an
extensive farmer in that part of Windham
which is now Scotland. He built a house
about 1714, near the county line, which is
still standing, and is occupied by a descend-
ant. He was moderator of the first meeting
of the Third Society of Windham, or Scot-
land Parish, in June, 1732, and was on several
important committees in the church. In 1734
he was chosen a deacon and in 1735 he and
his wife were transferred from the Windham
to the Scotland parish church. In 1746 he
and his family were strong supporters of the
Separate church, but in 1763 he was restored
to his standing in the First Church. He was
a member of the general assembly in 1722-25-
30. He was lieutenant of militia, and in 1745
was one of the jury which tried Elizabeth
Shaw for murder and resulted in the first ex-
ecution in Windham county. His will was
dated April 3, 1766, and proved September 16,
1767. He married (first) June 28, 1706, at
Windham, Thankful Dimmock, born March,
1682, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, died De-
cember 13, 1757, at Windham, daughter of
Deacon Shubael and Joanna (Bursley) Dim-
mock, of Mansfield, Connecticut. He mar-
ried (second) Mary, probably daughter of
Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) Paine, of East-
ham. She was born February 1, 1695-96,
and was widow of Robert Freeman. Chil-
dren, all by first wife: Shubael, born April 7,
1707, mentioned below ; Edward, born July
27, 1709; Cornelius, February 18, 1711-12;
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1734, unmarried; John, April 19, 1717, died
August 29, 1726; Bethuel, June 10, 1719;
Thankful, July 3, 1721, died August 25, 1726;
Joannah, April 18, 1723 ; Zaccheus, July 19,
1725 ; John, October 18, 1728.

(IV) Shubael, son of Edward Waldo, was
born April 7, 1707, at Windham, Connecti-
cut, died May 12, 1776, at Alstead, New
Hampshire. He married, October 14, 1730,
at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Abigail,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Alden) Al-
len, of Bridgewater. She was born in 1712
in East Bridgewater, died September 6, 1799,
at the home of her son, Abiather, at Shafts-
bury, Vermont, where she was buried. It
has not been definitely proved that her mother
was Mary Alden, the second wife of Samuel
Allen, but it is considered likely by good au-
thorities. After his marriage Shubael ap-
pears to have lived in Norwich, Connecticut,
in that part now Lisbon, for in February,

1735, his father conveyed to him land in
Windham, and in 1738 he conveyed to John
French, of Norwich, a house and sixty or
seventv acres of land in Norwich on the "east
side of Shautucket River near Pottenauge,"
as well as land in Windham. At a town
meeting at Norwich, December 31, 1736, he
was chosen "lister," and after that his name
does not appear on the records. He very
likely left Norwich in 1738 when he sold his *
land there, and on March 19, 1738-39, he
bought an estate in the northeast corner of
Mansfield, Connecticut, where he soon moved.
On September 21, 1739, he, then of Mans-
field, bought twenty-five acres of land there,
and again bought land, July 29, 1745, and Au-
gust 22, 1753. He conveyed to his son Sam-
uel, November 2y, 1754, thirty-eight and a
half acres of land in Mansfield and other land
on December 8, 1763, to his son Edward of
Mansfield. He and his wife were admitted to
the First Church of Mansfield in 1739.
About 1769 he removed with his family to
Alstead, New Hampshire, where he lived the
remainder of his life. On May 22, 1769, he,
of Mansfield, "yeoman," bought of Timothy
Delano, of Alstead, for three hundred pounds,
lot "No. 4 in the 5th range," and part of lot
No. 3. On Aueust 25, 1769, he conveyed
one-half of his farm in Alstead to his son
Edward, and this deed was acknowledged in
Tolland, Connecticut; on September 18, 1770,
he conveyed to his son Daniel eighty acres
in Alstead, anrl on April 24, 1775, he conveyed
to his con Calvin part of the land he bought of
Captain Delano. As he had disposed of most
of his property during life, he died intestate,
and on Seotember 1^, 1776. administration
was granted to Beulah Waldo. He was se-

lectman of Alstead in 1772, and the town
meetings were often- held at his house. It
was voted, June 30, 1773, "to hold the Town
meetings Still at mr Shubael Waldos." Chil-
dren : Samuel, born at Lisbon, September
18, 1731 ; baptized at Windham: Shubael,
January 10, 1733 ; Abiather, January 2, 1735 ;
Jesse, September 6, 1736; Jonathan, August
l7< l73&'< born at Mansfield: Thankful, Sep-
tember 28, 1740; Edward, May 14, 1742;
Daniel, January 30, 1744, mentioned below ;
Mary, April 2, 1745 ; Abigail, January 14,
1747; Beulah, January 16, 1749; Ruth, April
23» 1750 ; Rebecca, March 8, 1752; Ruth,
April 10, 1755 ; Calvin, March 12, 1759.

(V) Daniel, son of Shubael Waldo, was
born January 30, 1744, at Mansfield, died De-
cember 18, 1825, at Chesterfield, New Hamp-
shire. He probably went to Alstead with his
father, and on September 18, 1770, his father
conveyed to him eighty acres of land in Al-
stead. On November 20, 1801, he and his
wife Hannah sold to John Fuller, of Chester-
field, one hundred and fifty acres in Alstead,
the farm he lived on, and at the same time
bought a farm in Chesterfield of Mr. Fuller,
where he and his wife lived the remainder of
their lives. He, with his brothers Beulah and
Calvin, was a private in Captain Amos Shep-
herd's company in Colonel Bellow's regiment,
which reinforced the garrison at Ticonde-
roga then besieged. He enlisted June 28 and
was discharged July 2, 1777, after five days'
service. He may be the Daniel Waldo who
was recruiting officer in 1780. He was con-
stable in 1771 and 1774, and was fence viewer
in 1777, tithingman in 1783, selectman in
1784, school committeeman in 1786, and on a
committee to district the town in 1779. He
married Hannah, daughter of John and Lidia
(Ladd) Carlton, of Haverhill, New Hamp-
shire. She was born August 6, 1747, at Tol-
land, Connecticut, died December 2, 1825, at
Chesterfield. Her birth record is not recorded
at Tolland, but her parents are buried there.
Her father died July 3, 1786, and her mother
November 30, 1803 ; Lieutenant John Carl-
ton owned land in Tolland very early and it
is doubtful if he ever lived in Haverhill.
Daniel Waldo and his wife were buried at
Chesterfield where their gravestones still re-
main. He "was low in stature, thick-set,
broad in chest and shoulders, very muscular,
quick in understanding, scrupulously honest
and very orthodox. His wife was unusually
large, weighing two hundred and forty pounds
and not overburdened with flesh. I have
seen her take a barrel of cider from the rear
of a cart, and place it, quietly, upon the
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band in height, and, had they ever come to
blows, he, though a giant in strength, would
certainly have had the worst of it." Once,
when insulted by a man of average size, "she
seized the offender by the back of his neck
and his pantaloons, and, extending him at
arms' length, ran with him over the road and
plunged him into a goose pond." Children,
born at Alstead : Eunice, August 20, 1769;
Roswell, April 20, 1772; Diantha, March 13,
1775; Shubael (twin). May 2, 1777, men-
tioned below; Carlton (twin), May 2, 1777,
died May 22, 1778; Carlton, January 8, 1780;
Hannah, October 8, 1781 ; Allen, January 29,
1784; Patty, August 17, 1786: Nathan, June
23, 1788, died July 14, 1788.

(VI) Shubael (2), son of Daniel Waldo,
was born May 2. 1777, at Alstead, died Oc-
tober 5, 1857, at Chesterfield. He lived at
Alstead for a short time after his marriage,
but soon removed to Chesterfield, probably
in 1802, and settled on a farm then owned
and occupied by Murray Davis. "He was a
farmer of steady habits, strong common sense
and naturally of a very cheerful and happy
disposition. Uncle Shub., as he was famil-
iarly called, was a favorite with young and
old, for his humor and inexhaustible fund of
stories and anecdotes." He married (first)
March 9, 1800, at Alstead, Rebeckah, daughter
of Josiah and Thankful Crosby, of Alstead.
She was born February 7, 1779. at Alstead,
died May 10, 1823, at Chesterfield. He mar-
ried (second) Mrs. Jane (Anderson) Mc-
Collom, born in 1778, died April 20, 1863, at
Chesterfield. She was widow of Alexander
McCollom, son of Robert McCollom, of Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire, and grandson of
Alexander McCollom, who emigrated from
Londonderry, Ireland, in 1730. Alexander
McCollom, her husband, settled at Acworth,
New Hampshire, in 1793, where he died
March 30, 1813, aged thirty-seven. By his
wife lane, Shubael Waldo had five children
of whom four died young and one, Robert,
was "drowned in the Connecticut river," July
8, 1833, at Chesterfield, aged twenty-eight.
Children by first wife, the first born at Al-
stead and the remainder at Chesterfield : Dan-
iel, born January 6, 1802, Josiah Crosby, De-
cember 5, 1803, mentioned below ; James El-
liott, July 11, 1805; George Curtis, August 5,
1808; Albert Carlton, November 24, 1814;
Rosalie Melvina, November 20, 1818.

(VII) Josiah Crosby, son of Shubael (2)
Waldo, was born December 5, 1803, at Ches-
terfield, died August 28, 1890, at New Lon-
don, Connecticut. He was brought up in the
Presbyterian faith, but had long been medi-
tating a change in faith when the sudden

death of his mother brought about a decision.
He says : "My mother, though one of the
best of that hallowed name and universally
beloved, had never made a profession of relig-
ion, and for that cause the Presbyterian min-
ister, Rev. John Walker, who attended her fu-
neral, very charitably consigned her to .

This day's work settled the fate of orthodoxy
for me. It was standing by her grave that
day, while the wound the priest had inflicted
was fresh and bleeding, that I made a vow to
be revenged by devoting my life to blowing
the obnoxious creed sky-high. I have kept the
vow to this hour." He studied under Rev.
Hosea Ballou, of Boston, and preached in
Boston and vicinity for two years. He then
went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he found
many leading men willing to help him in
founding a liberal church, and a meeting
house was built for him the first year. At
the same time he commenced a weekly paper,
The Sentinel and Star in the JVest, which
continued for many years. His work was
widespread, and in the five years that he was
there he preached in all the large cities and
towns of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and
in some in Virginia and Tennessee, and he
published over one hundred controversial ser-
mons and held debates, being the first to
start the liberal faith generally in the West.
In Lynn, Massachusetts, he was pastor of
the First Universalist Church from 1835 to
1839 and he established two flourishing so-
cieties there. While there, he was seized with
a disease of the throat which compelled him
to retire temporarily, and for three years he
was threatened with death, but he recovered
and accepted a call from the First Univer-
salist Society in West Cambridge, now Ar-
lington, Massachusetts, where he remained
from March 15, 1841, until 1847, when he
went to Troy, New York, remaining from
1849 until 1854. He then removed to New
London because of his wife's health and re-
mained there until his death.

He married (first) October 26, 1831, at
Boston, Elmina Ruth, daughter of Rev. Ho-
sea and Ruth (Washburn) Ballou, of Boston.
She was born April 3, 1810, at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, died June 29, 1856, at New
London; she was a cousin of Eliza Ballou,
mother of President Garfield ; she wrote poetry
for the periodicals of the day. He married
(second) February 10, 1864, at Boston, Mrs.
Caroline Matilda (Wright) Mark, of Boston,
who died February 15, 1892, at New London.
She was widow of David Mark, of Pekin, Illi-
nois, whom she married July 28, 1840. Chil-
dren by first wife : 1. Ella Fiducia Oliver, born
at West Cambridge, now Arlington. Massachu-

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setts, May 10, 1835, died August 24, 1848. 2.
George Curtis, at Lynn, March 20, 1837, see
forward. 3. Clementina Grace, September 22,
1838, at Woburn, Massachusetts. 4. Frances
Rebecca, August 7, 1840, at Woburn, died
August 8, 1862, at New London. 5. Maturin
Ballou, January 20, 1843, at Arlington ; mar-
ried, April 13, 1865, at New London, Mrs.
Lucy Ann (Potts) Armstrong, born about
1838, died May 10, 1869, at New London ; had
a son by her first husband named Willis A.
Armstrong, who was living in 1899 in the
west ; Mr. Waldo had no children.

(VIII) George Curtis, son of the Rev. Jo-
siah Crosby Waldo, was born in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, March 20, 1837. He graduated at
Tufts College, Massachusetts, in i860. He
took his degrees of A. B. and A. M. in course
and in 1900 received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Literature (Lit. D.) from the col-
lege. He studied law in the office of the
Hon. A. C. Lippitt, in New London, Connec-
ticut, and from that office enlisted with T. M.
Waller in the first company that went from
New London in the campaign of 1861. Hav-
ing served through the campaign, Mr. Wal-
do, on account of impaired health, abandoned
the study of law and engaged in active busi-
ness, and in 1867 became connected with the
Bridgeport Standard as city editor and local
reporter. Two years later he became associate
editor, under the late John D. Candee, and re-
tained that position until the death of Mr.
Candee in 1888, when he was made editor-in-
chief and president of the Standard Associa-
tion, which positions he still holds. He has
been connected with the Standard for forty-
four years. He has been for nearly a quar-
ter of a century a member of the vestry of
Christ Episcopal Church, and was for five
years its junior warden. He was with the late
Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers, one of the founders of
the Bridgeport Scientific Society, and for
five years its secretary, and he was vice-presi-
dent of the Fairfield County Historical Soci-
ety, since united with the Scientific Society.
He was for five years a member of the Bridge-
port board of education, two years chairman
of the commitee on schools, and was one of
the committee for the town and the school
board, which built the high school building on
Congress street. He was first president of the
old Eclectic Club, was for three years vice-
president ; was two years president of the Sea-
side Club ; is a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Army and Navy Club of Con-
necticut, Phi Beta Kappa Society (Delta
Chapter of Massachusetts), and of a number
of fraternal organizations. He has been one
of the shell fish commissioners of the state of

Connecticut for twenty-two years, and for fif-
teen years chairman of the board. He is a Re-
publican in politics, and has been for several
years an officer of the Republican Club of
Bridgeport. In 1887 Mr. Waldo was ap-
pointed commissary general of the state, on
the staff of Governor Lounsbury, but for busi-
ness reasons was compelled to decline the po-
sition.

Mr. Waldo married, in 1874, in New Or-
leans, Louisiana, Annie, daughter of Major
Frederick Frye, formerly of Bridgeport, and
is a great-great-granddaughter of Colonel
James Frye, of Andover, Massachusetts, who
commanded a regiment at Bunker Hill. Chil-
dren : Seldon Connor, deceased ; Rosalie Hill-
man (Mrs. Roland H. Mallory), Maturin Bal-
lou and George Curtis, Jr.

Edward or Edwin Higbee or
HIGBY Higby, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England and settled in
New London, Connecticut, in 1648. He sold
his house and lot there, September 7, 1649,
for five bushels of wheat and a dog. He was
an innkeeper at Middletown, Connecticut, in
1674. He had a deed, dated October 15, 1664,
from Seankeet, Indian sachem of Hartford,
for land adjoining Jonathan Gilbert's at Hart-
ford. In 1666 he was free of taxes by vote of
the court, for making and maintaining the way
over Pilgrim's Harbor. He removed about
1675 to Jamaica, Long Island. He was living
in Huntington, Long Island, in 1683 and after-
ward, as late as 1709. His wife Lydia joined
the church at Middletown, September 30, 1674,
coming thither from the First Church of
Hartford, and with her six children, she was
dismissed to the church at Jamaica, October
14, 1677. He was a brother-in-law of Edward
Adams, son of John Adams, grandson of
Jeremy Adams, according to a power of at-
torney, given by Adams to Higby, in Febru-
ary, 1696-97, and filed at Hartford (see Hart-
ford probate records, vol. I, p. 288). He mar-
ried Lydia Skidmore. They had six children,
of whom John is mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Edward or Edwin Higby,
was born in 1658, died in 1688. He married
Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Treadwell, of
Fairfield, Connecticut, May I, 1679. The in-
ventory of his estate was dated December 28,
1688, as taken by John Hall, Francis Whit-
more and Nathaniel Stow (vol. II, Hartford
probate records, p. 7). His wife died in
1707-08, and was succeeded in the adminis-
tration of her husband's estate by her son Ed-
ward, appointed March 1, 1707-08. Children:
John, Edward, mentioned below, Thomas.

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born in 1684, baptized August 24, 1684. He
and his wife joined the Middletown church,
April 26, 1713, and were dismissed December
19, 1773, as original members of the new
church at Westfield, Connecticut, where he
died November 21, 1775, in his ninety-second
year. He married, November 29, 1706, Re-
becca Wheeler, who died October 22, 1771, at
Middletown. She was of the Stratford fam-
ily. He appears to have been one of the own-
ers of the Golden Parlour Alining Company
of Wallingford, April 27, 1737, but the record
may refer to a son or nephew. Children: I.
John, born at Middletown, July 16, 1707; mar-
ried, March 9, 1730, Sarah Cande, and died
in 1790. 2. Isaac, mentioned below. 3. Re-
becca, born 1715. 4. Sarah, born 1721. 5.
Stephen, 1730. 6. Daniel, removed to Lewis
county, New York.

(IV) Isaac, son of Edward Higby, was
born in 1709 at Middletown. He married, in
1730, Dinah Elton. Children: Jane, Isaac,
Samuel, mentioned below, Joseph, Noah, Re-
becca, Daniel, Jane.

(V) Samuel, son of Isaac Higby, was born
in 1732. He married, in 1758, Rebecca Doo-
little. Children : Samuel, mentioned below,
below, Ruth, Lemuel, Timothy, Isaac, Syl-
vester.

(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Higby, was born August 14, 1758, died April
23, 1843. He was a soldier in the revolution, a
private in Captain Heart's Connecticut troops,
Colonel Erastus Wolcott's regiment in the
siege of Boston, 1776. He was pensioned in
later years and was on the list of New Haven
county pensioners in 1832 and again from Mil-
ford, New Haven county, in the list of 1840
(see "Revolutionary Rolls of Connecticut.'"
pp. 383, 654 and 660). He married, in 1783,
Hannah Galpin. Children: 1. Betsey, born
July 20, 1784. 2. Hannah, June 16, 1786. 3.
Roxey, September 1, 1788. 4. Samuel Galpin,
March 17, 1791, died 1863; married, in 1814,
Lucy Ann Marlitt. 5. Isaac Riley. 6. Lucy,
April 2y, 1794. 7. Abigail Riley, January 13,
1797. 8. Hervey, mentioned below. 9. Ben-
jamin, July 11, 1804.

(VII) Hervey, son of Samuel (2) Higby,
was born in Milford, January 21, 1801, died
April 29, 1875. He attended the public schools
of his native town, and about 1820 came to
Bridgeport. He learned the trade of saddler
and became foreman and business manager in
the factory of S. B. Jones & Company. He
was afterward with the firm of N. B. Knapp
& Company until the concern retired from
business in 1853. He became a prominent fac-
tor in the financial affairs of the community.
He was for some years president of the Farm-

ers Bank (now the First National) and in
1864 he succeeded Hon. P. C. Calhoun as
president of the Connecticut National Bank.
Mr. Calhoun resigned to become president of
the Fourth National Bank of New York City.
He also succeeded Mr. Calhoun in 1865 as
special and financial agent of the city and
town and agent and active manager of the city
and town sinking funds, which trusts he man-
aged with singular fidelity and success until
his death. He was president of the Bridge-
port Savings Bank from 1870 until the time of
his death. His long connection with this bank
as trustee, vice-president and president, cov-
. ering a period of a quarter of a century, during
which his good judgment, fidelity and financial
ability was at the service of this institution, was
of great value during the most important peri-
od of its development and early growth. He
held various other offices of trust and was
often called upon to act as appraiser, distrib-
utor and administrator of important estates.
He was one of the first members of the South
Congregational Church and took an active and
prominent part in its affairs from its organiza-
tion until his death and was a deacon for thirty
years.

He married Charlotte Baldwin, who died
aged ninety-two. Five children, all died
young with the exception of William Riley,
mentioned below.

(VIII) William Riley, son of Hervey Higby,
was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, August
6, 1825, died September 4, 1902, in that city.
He was educated in private schools in Bridge-
port and New Haven. He began his business
career as teller and bookkeeper of the Con-
necticut, now Pequonnock Bank, where he
was employed for seven years. He embarked
in the manufacturing business, but after a few
months his plant was destroyed by fire. He
then assisted in organizing the Pequonnock
Bank and became its first cashier in 185 1. He
continued in this office until 1869, when he re-
signed and was succeeded by the late Isaac B.
Prindle. For several years he was engaged in
the fire insurance business in Bridgeport. In
1871 he admitted to partnership T. B. De-
Forest and the firm name became Higby &
DeForest. He held many offices of honor and
trust and was a citizen of much public spirit
and influence. From 1853 to 1857 he was
treasurer of the city of Bridgeport, also from
1858 to 1861, from* 1863 to 1868, and in 1872
was town treasurer. He was a member of the
common council of Bridgeport for two years.
In 1 861 he became a director, secretary and
treasurer of Mountain Grove Cemetery Asso-
ciation and held these offices for many years
until he resigned. He was chosen a trustee

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of the Bridgeport Savings Bank, June 25,
1864, and held the office as long as he lived.
He was a director and vice-president of the
Connecticut National Bank and president of
the Bridgeport Gas Light Company for many
years. .

Mr. Higby was one of the most prominent
and best-known Masons in the state, one of
the few who have been honored with the thir-
ty-third degree. He was initiated in St. John's
Lodge, No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, in
1852. He was a member of Jerusalem Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons, and Jerusalem Coun-
cil, Royal and Select Masters. He was First
Knight Templar to join Hamilton Command-"
ery, in 1855. He was a thirty-third degree
Mason and in 1881 was elected one of the
two active members of the Supreme Council
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for
the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the
United States, and held this office for the re-
mainder of his life. He was also grand com-
mander of the Grand Commandery of the
State of Connecticut and grand treasurer of
this body for a number of years. In politics
Mr. Higby was a Republican. He attended
the South Congregational Church.

He married, in 1846, Mary Ann Johnson, a
native of New Haven, Connecticut, daughter
of Lyman Johnson ; she died December 4,
1904, aged seventy-seven. Children: Martha
Louisa, Henry Cornelius, Helen Augusta, mar-
ried George M. Eames (see Eames VII) ;
Helen.

Thomas Eames, immigrant an-
EAMES cestor, was born in England

about 1618 and came to America
as early as 1634. He was a soldier in the
Pequot war in 1637. In 1640 he was an in-
habitant and proprietor of the town of Ded-
ham, Massachusetts. He removed to Med-
ford, and was living there in 1652-59, occupy-
ing the water mill on the Mystic side of
Charlestown, later Wnburn. He moved to
Cambridge, where he owned a house and eight
acres of land east of the common. He sold
his property there February 10, 1664, to Nich-
olas Wyeth and removed to Sudbury, where
he leased Mr. Pelham'<; farm and lived until
1669. He settled finally in Framingham,
where he built a house and barn, though he
attended church in the adjoining town of
Sherborn and was recorded as an inhabitant
there, January 4, 1674. During King Philip's
war, February 1, 1676, his wife and several
children were killed or taken captives. He
held the office of selectman and was on vari-
ous important committees before coming to
Framingham. He died suddenly January 25,

1680. He married (first) Margaret ,

and (second) Mary Paddlefoot, daughter of
Jonathan Blanford, of Sudbury, and she was
killed by the Indians in February, 1676. Chil-
dren : 1. John, born May 16, 1641, died Sep-
tember 17, 1 64 1. 2. John, October 6, 1642,
died December 14, 1733. 3. Mary, May 24,
1645. Children of second wife: 4. Elizabeth,
married Thomas Blanford. 5. Child, captured
by Indians. 6. Child, killed by Indians. 7.
Thomas, baptized July 12, 1663, killed by-
Indians. 8. Samuel, born at Sudbury, January
15, 1664, captured by Indians but returned.
9. Margaret, July 8, 1666, captured by Indians,
redeemed, married Joseph Adams. 10. Na-
thaniel, mentioned below. 11. Sarah, October
3, 1670, killed by Indians. 12. Lydia, June
29, 1672, killed by Indians.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Eames, was
born at Sudbury, December 30, 1668, died
January 1, 1746. He built, in 1693, the east-
ern part of the Jonathan Eames house, which
was preserved until 1886, when it was torn
down. When a child he was captured by the
Indians with others of the family, but regained
his freedom. In 1699 ne petitioned the gen-
eral court to have his lands remain a part of
Natick, instead of Sherborn. He was taxed
July 2^, 1710, to secure a stock of ammunition
"for the colony. He was on the school com-
mittee in 1726; selectman, 1726-27. He mar-
ried Anne , who died March 12, 1743.

Children: 1. Lydia, born December 10. 1694;
married Benjamin Muzzey, of Lexington. 2.
Rebecca, July 25, 1697; married Daniel Bige-
low. 3. Sarah, November 1, 1701 ; married
Nathaniel Coy or Macoy. 4. Nathaniel, men-
tioned below. 5. Anne, January 27, 1706-07.
6. William, married Sarah Perry. 7. Daniel,
March 20, 1711-12; married Silence Leland.

(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Eames, was born in Framingham in the old
Jonathan Eames house near the Natick-Sher-
born line, April 18, 1703, and lived there all
his life. He died March 13, 1796. He was
corporal in Captain Isaac Clark's company of
troopers from August 21 to September 18,
1725, in the Indian war service, and again in
1757 was in the French and Indian war in
Captain Henry Eames' company. He was also
a minute-man at Concord and Lexington,
April 19, 1775, at the age of seventy-two. He
was one of the petitioners for a new meeting
house in 1730. He married, November 27,
1735, Rachel Lovell, of Medfield. She died
October 19, 1778, aged sixty-eight years. Chil-
dren, born at Framingham: I. Benjamin, Sep-
tember 15, 1737, died young. 2. Nathaniel,
July 31, 1739, died young. 3. William, Feb-
ruary 21, 1 741, died young. 4. Ann, August

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6, 1744, died young. 5. Nathaniel, mentioned
below. 6. Alexander, October 15, 1748. 7.
Benjamin, March 16, 1751 . 8. Rachel, mar-
ried Richard Gleason.

(IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2)
Eames, was born at Framingham, September
11, 1747. died September 8, 1820. He lived
on the homestead owned afterwards by his son
Jonathan and was a prosperous farmer. He

"was a soldier in the revolution, a private in
Captain Micajah Gleason's company of min-
ute-men at Concord and Lexington in April,
1775; also private in Captain Nathan Dairy's
company. Colonel Abner Perry's regiment
(Sixth) in 1780. He married Katherine Rice,
born at Framingham, September 5, 175 1, died
May 30, 1833, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth
(Eames) Rice. Children, born at Framing-
ham: I. Anna, born February 5, 1772; mar-
ried, August 1, 1802, Amasa Forbes, of Rox-
bury. 2. Alexander, July 5, 1774. died Octo-
ber 28, 1 86 1 ; married Abigail Lovell, of Med-
field. 3. Zedekiah, February 13, 1776, died
aged two years. 4. Abel, May 23, 1778, died
August 18, 1859; married Hitty Eames. 5.
Rachel, May 30, 1780; married Seth Forbes.

6. Stephen, July 6, 1782, died aged four years.

7. Lovell, mentioned below. 8. Zedekiah, Oc-
tober, 1787. 9. Patty, 1790, died July 29,
1884. 10. Jonathan, July 5, 1793, died Decem-
ber 23, 1875; married Susan Eames.

(V) Lovell, son of Nathaniel (3) Eames,
was born in Framingham, February 7, 1785,
died December 4, 1865; married, April 5,
18 10, Lucy Eames. He built the house north
of the Baptist church and lived there until his
death. Also gave the land on which the Bap-
tist church is built. On March 18, 1854, he
gave to the town of South Framingham a deed
of land for 92x202 feet in front of th*e Bap-
tist church to be held for a common forever.
His wife Lucy was born March 16, 1789, died
July 11, 1780; she was the daughter of Henry
Eames, also a minute-man at Lexington and
Concord and afterward a soldier in the revo-
lution. Henry Eames, father of Henry, was
son of Henry, grandson of John and great-
grandson of Thomas Eames, the immigrant.
Children of Lovell and Lucy Eames : 1 . Al-
bert, mentioned below. 2. Horace, born Feb-
ruary 25, 1813, died May 17, 1878; married
Eliza R. Whittemore, of Ashburnham. 3. Su-
san, February 25, 1817; married Franklin
Manson. 4. Ann Maria. February 20. 1820;
married Josiah Hemenway Jr. 5. Elizabeth
S., June 30, 1822, died February 14, 191 1. 6.
Olivia A., June 19, 1824; married Curtis H.
Barber.

(VI) Albert, son of Lovell Eames, was born
at Framingham, March 9, 181 1. in the old

homestead built by the first Nathaniel in 1693.
He was educated there in the public schools,
and at the age of twenty-one was apprenticed
to Silas Allen, gunsmith, of Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, from whose business the Spring-
field armory developed. After learning his
trade he worked for the government in the
mints at Savannah and New Orleans, making
the journey between these cities with a horse
and buggy which he bought for the purpose
and sold after making the trip. He went up
the Mississippi river as far as the present site
of the city of St. Paul in boats which carried
provisions northward and lumber on the re-
turn voyage. In 1846 he entered the employ
of the Remingtons, makers of firearms at Ilion,
New York, and assisted in filling a govern-
ment contract for breech-loading carbines for
the navy. In the manufacture of this weapon
the system of finishing the parts by gauge and
afterwards assembling them came into use un-
der his direction, a system that has since been
generally adopted by gunsmiths and makers of
all kinds of machines. He returned to Spring-
field and organized the American Machine
Works, manufacturing cotton presses and
heavy machinery. This business was de-
stroyed by the civil war, the assets of the
firm being mostly in the southern states.
In 1856 he came to Bridgeport to work for
the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
Company to build tools, the manufacture
of sewing machines being a new industry
at that time, and his connection with this
business continued until his death, Decem-
ber 14, 1889. He was president of the Bridge-
port Horse Railroad Company, and a charter
member of Hampden Lodge of Odd Fellows
of Springfield and retained his affiliation with
that lodge as long as he lived. His citizenship
was of the highest order, and he gave his
services in full measure on various municipal
boards, the principal of which was the con-
struction of city parks in their beginning, and
in the capacity of park commissioner he
served for a period of twenty-two years, or
until his death. He married, in 1844, Harriet
Avery Ferre, born at Monson, Massachusetts,
March 26, 18 19, died September 3. 1889, a
descendant of Charles and Sarah (Hermon)
Ferre, married January 29, 1661, early settlers
of Springfield, Massachusetts. John Ferre,
born November 6, 1662, son of Charles, had a
son John, born August 15, 1687, by wife, Mar-
tha Miller. John (2) Ferre married Mary
Sweetman, August 24, 1720. Their son John
(3), married Sarah Terry, June 25, 1744, and
had a son Solomon, grandfather of Mrs.
Eames, and a soldier in the revolution, born
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ruary 8, 1835. His wife Rhoda, daughter of
Robert Sanderson, of Springfield, was born
June 14, 1757, died October 19, 1830. Horace
Ferre, father of Mrs. Eames, was born at
Springfield, May 11, 1790, died November 26,
1865 ; married Harriet Avery, who was born
at Stafford, Connecticut, October 27, 1793,
died October 25, 1876. She was a lineal de-
scendant of Captain James Avery, of New
London and Groton, Connecticut ; children :
Giddings H. Ferre, born August 23, 1817, died
September 25, 1830; Harriet A. Ferre, mar-
ried Albert Eames, mentioned above ; Horace
Ferre, born October 24, 1820, settled in Cali-
fornia; Henry P. Ferre, born September 14,
1822, died June 2, 1891 ; Henrietta Ferre, born
October 4, 1824; Giddings H. Ferre, born
February 24, 1834, settled in California ; Helen
Ferre, born April 9, 1840, died in childhood.
Children of Albert Eames and wife: 1. Mar-
tha, died July 16, 1898; married Franklin Mac-
Grath, of Bridgeport. 2. Mary, died aged
about a year. 3. Susan M., married Erva B.
Silliman, of Bridgeport. 4. Horace Lovell,
died August 13, 1895. 5. Albert Hyde, died
aged three years. 6. Harriet L., resides in
Bridgeport. 7. George Manson, mentioned be-
low.

(VII) George Manson, son of Albert
Eames, was born January 19, 1859, in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, and was educated in the
public schools of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Af-
ter leaving school he went into the foundry of
the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Com-
pany, and from there up he worked in prac-
tically every department of the business until
he became vice-president and general superin-
tendent. This business was later absorbed by
The Singer Manufacturing Company, and he
then became the manager of the Bridgeport
works. He is a member of the Bridgeport
Board of Trade, and a member of the execu-
tive board of the Manufacturers Association.
Has served on the executive boards of the
leading clubs in the city, and has served one
term each as president of the Algonquin Club
and commodore of the Bridgeport Yacht Club.
His particular hobby, however, has been the
city's parks. He was recently re-elected presi-
dent of the board of park commissioners for
the seventh consecutive time, at which time
he stated to his colleagues on the board that
he considered that the honor should be given
to some other member for the reason that he
had served so long, not through any lack of
interest ; but his re-election was unanimous,
amply testifying to his popularity and effi-
ciency. His father served as park commis-
sioner for twenty-two years, and the son is
only following in his footsteps. George M.

Eames married Helen Augusta Higby (see
Higby VIII). Children: 1. Charlotte M.,
married George W. Ellis, of Monson, Massa-
chusetts, and has one child, Holbrook Belknap
Ellis. 2. Helen, married Noble E. Vincent
and has one child, Martha Alene Vincent. 3.
Martha, twin of Helen, now deceased. 4.
William, deceased. 5. George Manson, Jr.

Thomas Jewell, immigrant an-
JEWELL cestor, was born in England
about 1600, and it is thought
that he was of the same stock as Bishop John
Jewell, who was born in the north of Devon-
shire, in 1522, died in 1571. The surname was
formerly written Jule, Joyell, Jewell, and
in various other ways. Thomas Jewell
came over in the ship "Planter," in April,
1635, when he gave his age as twenty-seven
in the ship register. He settled at Mount Wol-
laston, now Braintree, Massachusetts, and was
granted land there for three heads, twelve
acres, upon the covenant of three shillings per
acre, April 24, 1639. He died in 1654, and
his will was proved July 21, 1654, bequeath-
ing to his wife and children. Administration
was granted to Grisell, widow of Thomas,
July 21, 1654, but October 5, 1655, she being
about to marry Humphrey Griggs, William
Needham and Thomas Foster were appointed
executors and Griggs agreed to bring up the
Jewell children. She was soon left again a
widow and was appointed administratrix of
Humphrey Griggs, August 18, 1657. She
married afterward John Gurney, Sr., Henry
Kibbe and John Burge, having at least five
husbands. Children : Joseph, mentioned be-
low ; Thomas (twin), born February 27, 1643 ;
Hannah (twin of Thomas), married John Par-
ris; Nathaniel, April 15, 1648; Grisell, March
19, 1651 ; Mercy, April 14, 1653.

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Jewell, was
born at Braintree, April 24, 1642, died before
September 2, 1736. He settled in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, and bought land there July 17,
1694, of Richard Cheever, of Boston. He
deeded this farm to his son John, November
27, 1719. He kept the ferry at Charlestown
for a time and his son Joseph assisted him.
He had a grist mill, known afterward as
Jewell's Mill, at Snow, on the stream dividing
that town from Sudbury. He married (first)

Martha , about 1670; (second) Isabel

, who lived to be over one hundred and

three. Children : Joseph, mentioned below ;
Martha, born July 25, 1675 ! Daughter, mar-
ried Townsend ; Mary, married Will-
iam Skinner, of Stow ; John, died at Stow ;
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(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Jew-
ell, was born June, 1673, died in 1766 at
Dudley, Massachusetts. He married (by the
famous Rev. Cotton Mather), September 14,
1704, in Boston, Mary Morris. Children :
Mary, died at Thompson, Connecticut, mar-
ried Stone; Joseph, born September 1,

1708, died at Dudley ; Elizabeth, May 31, 171 1 ;
Nathaniel, died at Dudley; Archibald, men-
tioned below; Martha, March 12, 1718.

(IV) Archibald, son of Joseph (2) Jewell,
was born April 8, 1716, at Plainfield, Connec-
ticut, died of smallpox at Dudley, Massachu-
setts, December 26, 1777. He married Jan-
uary 6, 1 74 1, Rebecca Leonard. Children:
Elisha, born November 4, 1742; Asahel, men-
tioned below; Mary, November 16, 1746; Jus-
tus, September 20, 1748; Ebenezer, July 13,
1750; Lemuel, July 16, 1752; Elisha, March
25> 1755 ; Rebecca, September 13, 1757; Lem-
uel, January 1, 1760; Olive, July 5, 1762;
Leonard, November 3, 1764.

(V) Asahel, son of Archibald Jewell, was
born August 2, 1744, died at Winchester, New
Hampshire, April 30, 1790. He was a tanner
and farmer. He married, November 5, 1767,
Hannah Wright. Children : Elizabeth, born
August 29, 1768; Leonard, June 18, 1770;
Hannah, September 21, 1773; Asahel, men-
tioned below; Rebecca, April 24, 1778; Sarah,
April 17, 1780; Rufus, June 28, 1782; Alvan,
October 6, 1784; Achsah. February 3, 1787;
Ezbon, November 23, 1789.

(VI) Asahel (2). son of Asahel (1) Jew-
ell, was born in Winchester, May 16, 1776,
died there August 29, 1834. He was a tanner
by trade. He married. FeVuary 21, 1797,
Hepzibah Chamberlain. Children, born at
Winchester : Pliny, mentioned below ; Hepzi-
bah, August 16, 1799, died at Winchester, Oc-
tober 2, 1802; Moses Chamberlain, August 5,
1801, died August 8, 1804; Hepzibah N., Oc-
tober 16, 1805, married Rev. Salmon Ben-
nett; Asahel L., November 16, 1810, lived at
Winchester; William H., January 15, 1813,
died at Winchester, May 13, 1816.

(VII) Pliny, son of Asahel (2) Jewell, was
born at Winchester, September 2"j , 1798, died
August 28, 1869, at Hartford, Connecticut.
He attended the district schools and academy
and for some years taught school during the
winter terms. At an early age be began to
learn the trade of tanner and step by step
mastered the details of his father's business.
He succeeded to the business established by
his grandfather at Winchester and continued
by his father, and he manufactured leather
there until 1845, when he sought a larger field
for his industry at Hartford, Connecticut. In
1848 he added to the tanning business a shop

for the making of leather belting. He asso-
ciated with him at that time his two sons,
Pliny Jr. and Marshall, under the firm name
of P. Jewell & Sons, and subsequently two
other sons, Charles A. and Lyman B. Jewell,
were admitted to the firm. The shop was on
Trumbull street, Hartford. The business pros-
pered and grew to large proportions. It was
incorporated April 16, 1883. The founder and
senior partner of the firm retired in 1866, three
years before his death. About 1856 the firm
established a tannery at Detroit, Michigan,
where for twenty-five years the leather was
prepared. At present the company has large
tanneries at Rome, Georgia, and the leather
manufactured there is used largely in the belt
factory at Hartford. Mr. Jewell lived to see
the industry he established grow to the largest
of its kind in the country. To his great ex-
ecutive ability, sagacity and indefatigable in-
dustry, the success of the business to-day is
largely due. He had great strength of will,
force of character and decided convictions. In
religion he was a decided Calvinist of the
stern, old-fashioned type. He was active in
the Congregational church of his native town
and when he came to Hartford joined the
South Congregational Church, of which he
was a member until a few years before his
death, when he united with the Center Church
at Hartford. He was secretary and treasurer
of the Windsor Theological Seminary and a
prime mover in securing its removal to Hart-
ford.

He was a lifelong student, especially of the
history of his own country, of France and
England, and few men of his day knew more
about the politics and political history of the
United States. He left very voluminous notes
upon English history with characteristic criti-
cism of historical personages. He read old
English literature and studied Shakespeare,
especially the historical plays, with scholarly
method and care. "He was not a mere reader
of history, but he studied the philosophy of
it, the motives and animus of the characters
who figure in it, and the action and reaction of
events upon the actors in the great drama. He
talked well on such subjects, showing always
a fnemory tenacious of facts and a clear grasp
of principles. He had a fondness for rare
books upon the subject in which he was in-
terested, though he was not a collector." And
when he retired from business he had a pleas-
ing and stimulating avocation in his studies,
such as too few of the men who have led
active lives have. Naturally such a man was
keenly interested in the government of his
country. He took an active part in politics in
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several terms in the state legislature. But he
voted for Fremont for president and was a
Republican the remainder of his life.

He married Emily Alexander, of Winches-
ter, New Hampshire, born February 12, 1801,
died March 19, 1889. Children: 1. Harvey,
born May 26, 1820, mentioned below. 2.
Maria, October 14, 1821, married, May 27,
1857, J- E. Coleman, and died in Paris, France,
June 26, 1878; she was a graduate of Mount
Holyoke Seminary and for some years teacher
in the Hartford Female Seminary, a promi-
nent worker in local charities of Hartford and
at the time of her death was president of the
Woman's Home on Church street ; for many
years superintendent of the infant class of the
Sunday school of the Asylum Hill Congrega-
tional Church; she was energetic, gifted and
useful, an artist of some distinction ; Mr.
Coleman was a native of Ohio who came to
Hartford before the civil war and was asso-
ciated in business with the Jewell concern ;
went to New York City to live in 1870 and
died there September 2, 1890. 3. Pliny, Sep-
tember 1, 1823, mentioned below. 4. Mar-
shall, October 20, 1825, mentioned below. 5.
Lyman B., August 29, 1827, mentioned below.
6. Emily, November 6, 1829, died at Winches-
ter, November 1, 1836. 7. Arthur, August 1,
1834, died at Hartford, February 9, 1848. 8.
Charlotte A., September 20, 1836. resides at
Hartford. 9. Edmund, February 12, 1839,
died at Winchester, February 19, 1841. 10.
Charles A., March 29, 1841, mentioned below.

(VIII) Harvey, son of Pliny (1) Jewell,
was born at Winchester, May 26, 1820. He
graduated at Dartmouth College in the class
of 1844, and began the study of law in the
office of Lyman Mason, of Boston, where he
was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county,
August 11, 1847. He acquired special skill in
drafting contracts, charters and other instru-
ments in which clearness, accuracy and fore-
sight were requisite. He became an authority
on maritime law and his opinions were ac-
cepted with almost the force of judicial decis-
ions. From an early age he was interested in
politics, first as a Whig, later as a Republican.
In 1851-52-61 he was a member of the city
council of Boston, and from 1867 to 1871 a
representative to the general court of Massa-
chusetts, serving most of that period as speaker
of the house with such ability and impartiality
that he won the approval and esteem even of
the opposing party. He was vigorously sup-
ported by his friends in a triangular contest
for the nomination for governor in the Re-
publican state convention of 1871 and his with-
drawal in favor of Hon. William B. Washburn
made that gentleman the candidate and de-

feated General Benjamin F. Butler. In 1875
President Grant appointed Mr. Jewell judge
of the court of commissioners of Alabama
claims. After holding that office two years,
he resigned to resume the practice of law in
Boston, where he died December 8, 1881. He
was a law partner of Governor William A.
Gaston. He received the honorary degree of
LL.D. in 1875 from Dartmouth College. He
was the only one of the sons of Pliny Jewell
not connected with the leather business in
Hartford. He married, December 26, 1849,
Susan, daughter of Hon. Richard Bradley, of
Concord, Massachusetts. Children : Elizabeth
B., born October 19, 1850, died August 22,
1857; Susan Emily, March 7, 1854; Helen
Lyman, October 27, 1858.

"(VIII) Pliny (2), son of Pliny (1) Jewell,
was born at Winchester, New Hampshire,
September 1, 1823. He was educated in the
public schools, and early in life began to learn
the leather business in which his father was
engaged. He came to Hartford with his father
in 1845 and was a partner of the firm of
P. Jewell & Sons, formed in 1848. He took
an active and important part in building up the
great industry with which his name has been
so long associated. When the business was
incorporated in 1883 he became president of
the company. Under an act of incorporation
granted by the state in 1881, the Jewell Belting
Company was organized in 1883. The pres-
ent capital stock of this concern, $800,000, is
owned almost wholly by the Jewell family.
Lyman B. Jewell was elected vice-president ;
Charles A. Jewell treasurer, and Charles E.
Newton secretary. After the death of Charles
A. Jewell, June 25, 1905, Charles E. Newton
was elected treasurer and Charles L. Tolles
secretary. The other officers have continued
to fill their original duties. In 1890 the com-
pany added to the works a brick building of
massive walls, sixty by ninety feet, five stories
above the basement. An extension was built
west of the counting room, eighteen by thirty-
two feet, finished in hard wood and hand-
somely equipped for private offices. A closely
related industry is the Jewell Pin Company,
largely owned and controlled by Mr. Jewell
and his brothers. It was chartered in 1881
with a capital of $60,000. The factory in the
rear of the belting works consists of two
buildings, each twenty-five by eighty feet, two
stories high. The machines for making pins
are all manufactured in this plant and each
one has a capacity of one hundred and sixty
pins a minute. The wire is cut, headed, sharp-
ened and polished in a single process. Then,
after passing through a process for cleansing
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papers by other equally ingenious machines.
More than thirty different sizes of pins are
made. The Jewell Pad Company and the
Jewell Belt Tlook Company are under the
same ownership and management, and Pliny
Jewell is president of all these corporations.
For more than a generation, it will be seen,
Mr. Jewell has been one of the industrial lead-
ers of Hartford. He is one of the best-known
leather manufacturers in this country, and
one of the most generally respected business
men of the city and state.

He was one of the founders of the Repub-
lican party in Connecticut and ever since then
has been a prominent and influential member
of that organization, though his vast and varied
business duties prevented him from accepting
public duties of any kind. He is a director of
the Hartford National Bank, of the Travelers
Insurance Company, a trustee of the Hart-
ford Trust Company, and vice-president of the
Board of Trade of Hartford. He is a mem-
ber of the Hartford Club. In religion he is a
Congregationalist, and he attends the Pearl
Street Congregational Church. He married,
September 5, 1845, Caroline Bradbury. Chil-
dren : Edward, born January 26, 1847, re~
sides in Boston ; Emily Maria, February 23,
1856, married Walter Sanford, of Hartford.

(VIII) Hon. Marshall Jewell, son of Pliny
( 1 ) Jewell, was born at Winchester, October
20, 1825. After receiving a common school
education, he entered the employ of John
Cummings & Son, of Woburn, Massachusetts,
tanners, when he was eighteen years old, and
mastered the trade. About 1847 ne was at~
tracted to the new profession of telegraphy
and worked in that business first in Rochester,
New York, and afterward at Akron, Ohio,
where he had charge of a telegraph office.
Later he went south and was engaged in con-
structing telegraph lines in various southern
states. In January, 1850, he was admitted to
his father's firm at Hartford. Much of his
time was occupied from 1852 to 1857 in travel-
ing for the firm and extending its business in
this country and Europe. He was abroad in
1859-60, attending to the foreign trade. In
1865-66-67 he was again in Europe to look
after the export business which had grown to
large proportions. Incidentally he made a trip
up the Nile and visited the Holy Land. He
attended the Paris Exposition in 1867. All
liis life he continued in the firm and company.
He was one of the incorporators of the Phoe-
nix Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and
from its beginning was on the board of direc-
tors. He was also from the beginning a di-
rector of the Travelers' Life Insurance Com-
pany, and from 1855 until the time of his

death a director of the Hartford Bank. He
was connected also with various other cor-
porations in Hartford and elsewhere and was
part owner of the Hartford Evening Post. For
a time he was president of the Jewell Pin Com-
pany of Hartford and he was president of the
United States Telegraph Association.

Mr. Jewell began his political career in 1867
as candidate for state senator on the Repub-
lican ticket from the first district. He shared
in the general defeat, but the vigor and skill
exhibited by him in the campaign as candidate
and chairman of the Republican committee
brought him much loyal support and he was
nominated for governor of the state in the fol-
lowing year. He was defeated by Governor
English at the polls, but in 1869 was success-
ful, defeating Governor English in a notable
campaign. In 1871 the same candidates met
again and Governor Jewell won. In 1872 Gov-
ernor Jewell was elected for a third term as
governor, winning by the slight plurality of
twenty-eight votes over Hon. Richard D. Hub-
bard, Democrat. As governor Mr. Jewell
proved a faithful, able and forceful executive.
His messages show a careful study of the in-
terests of the state, and his recommendations
were practical and judicious. Many of his
recommendations were approved by the legis-
lature. He retired from office in May, 1873,
and in the following month, much to his own
surprise, he was appointed by President Grant
minister to Russia, and in July sailed for Eu-
rope with his family. Although the diplo-
matic service was a new field for him, Gov-
ernor Jewell proved a useful and able minis-
ter. After one year at St. Petersburg, Mr.
Jewell returned to this country to enter the
cabinet of President Grant as postmaster-gen-
eral, succeeding Mr. Cresswell. In his man-
agement of the postoffice department, Mr.
Jewell exhibited the same traits of character
which distinguished him in business life, en-
ergy, system, knowledge of detail and strict
integrity. He accomplished much in rooting
out fraudulent contracts and various other
forms of swindling that had grown up in the
department. He initiated the fast mail service
between New York and Chicago and was in-
strumental in securing an advantageous agree-
ment with the postal authorities of the Domin-
ion of Canada. In July, 1876, he resigned
from the cabinet and spent the remainder of
his days attending to his varied business and
private interests. In 1879 and again in 1881
he was candidate for United States senator
and lacked but a few votes of winning the
Republican nomination. In 1880 he was chair-
man of the Republican National Committee
and took an active and important part in the

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presidential campaign that resulted in the elec-
tion of Garfield. He remained chairman until
the time of his death. For twenty years he had
taken an active part in the campaigns of his
party in state and nation and during the last
four presidential campaigns before he died he
spoke constantly. As a public speaker he was
unknown until after he was nominated for
governor, but he had a gift for easy, natural,
graceful oratory, reasoning clearly, carrying
conviction. In 1876 and 1880 he was in de-
mand for all parts of the country as a campaign
speaker, and addressed many of the largest
meetings in New York, New England and the
west. A promising public career was cut short
by his untimely death in February, 1883. In
personal appearance Governor Jewell was
stout, somewhat less than average height, with
fine silver-gray hair, a singularly friendly and
genial expression, a pleasant voice, and a thor-
oughly cordial manner. He was a member of
the Congregational church.

He married, October 6, 1852, Esther E.
Dickinson, of Newburg, New York. She was
born June 6, 1832, died February 26, 1883.
She was a woman of many social graces and
intellectual gifts, was a student and scholar,
and a charming conversationalist. She was a
graceful and popular hostess and entertained
much both at Hartford and. Washington while
her husband was in public life. Children :
Josephine M., born February 11, 1855, widow
of Arthur M. Dodge, of New York City ;
Florence W., August 24. 1856, married Will-
iam H. Strong, of Detroit, Michigan.

(VIII) Lyman B., son of Pliny (1) Jewell,
was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Au-
gust 29, 1827. He attended the district schools
of his native town until he was sixteen years
old. After leaving school he was variously
employed during the remaining years of his
minority. From 1856 to 1872 he was engaged
in the dry goods commission business in New
York City and Boston. He moved to Hartford
in 1873 and was admitted to his father's firm,
P. Jewell & Sons, afterward the Jewell Belt-
ing Company, of which he has for many years
been vice-president and director. He is also
director and vice-president of the other three
Jewell corporations, and treasurer of the De-
troit Leather Company. He is a director of
the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, the
American National Bank and the Southern
New England Telephone Company. He is a
member of the Hartford Club. In religion he
is an Episcopalian, in politics a Republican.
He is an able, straightforward, outspoken
business man, of great energy and force of
character. His devotion to the varied business
interests with which he has been so long con-

nected has been an important factor in their
growth, development and prosperity. He
married, in January, 1858, Charlotte Williams,
of Boston.

(VIII) Charles A., son of Pliny (1) Jewell,
was born at Winchester, March 29, 1841. He
was but four years old when the family came
to Hartford and he was educated in the com-
mon and high schools of that city. After
graduating from the Hartford high school he
began to learn the leather business conducted
by his father and brothers. He began as ap-
prentice, became a clerk in the office and was
eventually admitted to partnership. From the
incorporation in 1883 he was treasurer of the
Jewell Belting Company and of the Jewell Pin
Company and director of the other Jewell cor-
porations, until his death in 1905. He was a
director of the Citv Bank and of the Hartford
Chemical Company. He was prominent in re-
ligious and benevolent work. He belonged to
the Center Congregational Church and for
years was superintendent of the Sunday
school. For fourteen years or more he was
president of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation of Hartford. He had previously been
vice-president and for many years was one of
the strongest supporters and most liberal bene-
factors of the organization. He was vice-
president of the Hosmer Hall Choral Union
of Hartford. During the civil war he served
as adjutant of the Twenty-second Regiment of
Connecticut Volunteers. He was a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In
politics he was a staunch and influential Re-
publican. He married, in 1866, Julia W.,
daughter of Roswell Brown, of Hartford.
They had no children.

Peter Crary, immigrant ancestor,
CRARY settled in New London, Connec-
ticut, as early as 1663, died in
1708. He resided on the Groton side of the
river. He married Christobel, daughter of
John Gallup, in 1677. Children : Christobel,
born 1678-79; Peter; John; William; Marga-
ret ; Robert, mentioned below ; Ann.

(II) Robert, son of Peter Crary, was born
in 1690 at New London, died in 1750. He
married Elizabeth .

(III) Christopher, son of Robert Crary, was
born in 1713, died in 1790. He married Eliza-
beth Robbins, born 1719, died 1796.

(IV) Ezra, son of Christopher Crary, was
born in 1737, died in 1828. He married, in
1756, Dorothy Ramsdell, born 1741.

(V) Elias, son of Ezra Crary, was born in
1764, died in 1847. He was a soldier in the
revolution. He was a farmer, a Democrat in
politics and Baptist in religion. He married,

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in 1782, Elizabeth Palmer. Children: Solo-
mon, Polly, Aplin, Elias, Sally, Nathan, Cyn-
thia, David and George. They lived in Wal-
lingford, Vermont.

(VI) Dr. David, son of Elias Crary, was
born in Wallingford, Vermont, April 18, 1806.
He was educated in the district school and the
high school at Potsdam, New York. For a
time he taught school in Danby, He began
to study medicine under the instruction of his
brother-in-law. Dr. John Fox, who was one of
the leading physicians of that section of Ver-
mont. He entered the Medical College at
Castleton, Vermont, and was graduated in
1834. For two years he practiced at Dorset in
that state. In 1838 he settled in Hartford,
Connecticut, and became associated with Dr.
Remington, who then enjoyed a very large
practice, particularly in the treatment of malig-
nant tumors and kindred diseases. Dr. Crary
succeeded to his practice, after his death, and
made a specialty of obstetrics. He continued
in the active practice of his profession for a
period of fifty years, retiring in 1885. He
had charge of more than three thousand ma-
ternity cases. In 1861 he returned to Wal-
lingford and enjoyed several years of rest and
recreation, farming, fishing and hunting. In
1867 he resumed his practice in Hartford. He
was interested in ornithology and when he re-
moved to Wallingford disposed of what was
probably the largest private collection of birds
in the state at that time. Many of the speci-
mens were rare. Dr. Crary assisted Dr. Sam-
uel Beresford and Dr. Horace Welles when
the first use of nitrous oxide was made in
Hartford, the patient being a woman suffer-
ing with a tumor. He is also credited witli
the first tracheotomy performed in Hartford,
saving the life of a child that was suffocating
with membranous croup. In politics Dr.
Crary was a Democrat, taking a keen interest
in public affairs. He represented the first
ward in the common council, and was chair-
man of the fire committee. He was for nine
years president of the board of school visitors.
For many years he served on the medical staff
of the hospital, when it was first located in the
building at the corner of Maple street and
Retreat avenue, and afterwards in the new
building on Hudson street. He was a mem-
ber of the Hartford County and State Medi-
cal societies ; surgeon for the Hartford Light
Guard under Governor Sevmour ; and for
many years president of the Hartford Fox
Club. He died April 16, 1894, and is buried in
the old cemetery at Hartford. In religion he
was an Adventist. He married (first) Janu-
ary 14, 1836, Susan Harris, born at Brattlebor-
ough, Vermont, February 8, 181 1, died No-

vember 2, 1849. He married (second) in
Glastonbury, Connecticut, March 12, 185 1,
Martha Tryon, who died December 11, 1893.
Children of first wife: Ellen, born April 21,
1837 ; Dr. David, April 26, 1842, mentioned
below; Henry, January 18, 1844; Frank, Au-
gust 12, 1845, settled in Michigan; Susan, No-
vember 2, 1849, died in 1858. Children of sec-
ond wife: Edwin, July 28, 1854; Louis, Febru-
ary 24, 1856, died in 1890, was clerk in boot
and shoe store.

(VII) Dr. David (2), son of Dr. David (1)
Crary, was born at Hartford, April 26, 1842.
He attended the public schools of Hartford
and then for three years was clerk in a drug
store at Rutland, Vermont, and for one year
clerk in drug store in Hartford. He began
to study medicine under the tuition of his
father and completed his medical education in
the Yale Medical School, graduating in the
class of 1869. In the same year he became
associated with his father and continued until
1885, when his father retired. Since then he
has continued without a partner and has en-
joyed a large and varied general practice. In
1875 he became physician at the county jail at
Hartford, and resigned in July, 1910. He is
a member of the American Medical Associa-
tion, Connecticut Medical Society, Hartford
County Medical Society, Hartford City Medi-
cal Society, and the Yale Alumni Association.
In politics he is Independent. In 1900 he made
a trip abroad partly for study and visited the
Paris Exposition, Switzerland, Germany, Hol-
land and England. He married, May 18, 1881,
at Hartford, Etta Juliette Martin, born at
Wethersfield, Connecticut, January 9, 1853,
daughter of Joseph Henry and Julia (Wood-
house) Martin. Her father was contractor at
the Hartford county jail ; member of the Hart-
ford common council ; a Free Mason, Odd
Fellow and member of the North East school
committee of Hartford. She had sisters :
Lizzie, Mary, Etta, Linda, and brothers : Ar-
thur and William Martin. Dr. and Mrs. Crary
have no children.

Jesse Dayton Crary was born in
CRARY Mystic, Connecticut, January 27,

1853, son of George Burrows and
Catherine Latham Crary, both of whom were
born and reared in Mystic. Descended on the
Crary side from Peter Crary, who was born in
Scotland, and who died in Plainfield, Connec-
ticut, in 1708. Peter Crary married, Decem-
ber 30, 1667, Christabelle Gallup. He was
one of two brothers, the other being Roger
Crary. Peter Crary, the first, had three sons,
Peter, John and William. His son Peter had
five sons, one of whom was Nathan Crary. the

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paternal great-grandfather of Jesse Dayton
Crary, and who married Ann Culver for his
first wife and Ruth Searle, secondly, Ruth
being the paternal great-grandmother of Mr.
Crary. On Mr. Crary 's mother's side he de-
scended from Robert Burrows. The first we
hear of Robert Burrows is that he married the
widow, Alary Ireland, of Wethersfield, Con-
necticut. Mrs. Ireland's first husband was
Samuel Ireland. Her second marriage, to Rob-
ert Burrows, took place in 1645. Robert Bur-
rows was probably one of the first who went
out from Boston and settled in Wethersfield,
about the year 1643. He, in company with
several others, made the first permanent settle-
ment in New London. After the final sub-
jugation of the Pequots and the allotment of
their property was taken, Robert Burrows, in
company with others, were the first settlers on
the west bank of the Mystic river. He was
the third gentleman in the New London plan-
tation in the amount of taxable property.

Mr. Crary has two sisters, Mrs. Charles H.
Cottrell, a widow, of Mystic, Connecticut, and
Mrs. Theodore F. Bailey.

Air. Crary was educated in the public
schools of Mystic ; later attended Hall's School
at Ellington, Connecticut, for one year ; then
studied at Schofield's Business College at
Providence, Rhode Island, from which he
graduated. After that he attended the Mystic
Valley Institute. His first work was at about
the age of seventeen, in the retail lumber yard
in his native town. In 1871 he went to Provi-
dence, where he worked as a clerk in the
Cranston store of the A. & W. Sprague Manu-
facturing Company. He remained with them
eighteen months, boarding in Providence,
walking to business before the horse cars
started and coming back on the last car in the
evening. The cars did not run very late at
the time, probably till about 7 o'clock. At the
end of eighteen months, not being satisfied with
his advancement, he handed in his resignation.
He was asked to report to the central office,
where he was urged to hold his position, that
he would have a much better situation in a
very short time, that the firm had had their
eye on him and was about to advance him
materially, but he did not consider it advisable
to stay, so returned to Mystic and again went
into the retail lumber yard. At that time
business in Mystic was very dull, and it did not
seem that there was any future in that town
for a young man of Mr. Crary's ambitious
tendency, and so he sought New York as a
proper field for his activities. After much
waiting he finally secured a position in the
retail lumber yard of Keeney & Snow, in Jer-
sev City, where he started in the early part of

1876. He was told by those in charge that if
he wanted to come down and take anything
that was offered at a salary of nine dollars a
week, he could come, so he accepted, put on
a leather apron, and went to work in the yard.
From that he was advanced to bookkeeper,
then to assistant foreman, and from that to
foreman, and was with the concern until they
failed. Upon their failure he was offered the
management of the hardwood department of
the then well-known lumber firm of Dodge,
Meigs & Company. He managed that depart-
ment for eighteen months, when Dodge, Meigs
& Company decided to discontinue that branch
of their lumber business. Mr. Crary then con-
cluded to* go into business for himself. Started
as a wholesale and commission dealer in hard-
wood lumber, with offices at 72 Wall street.
His banking was done through the Marine
Bank, and he had been in business just one
year when the Marine Bank failed, but he
notified all his creditors that their claims would
be taken care of upon presentation at his office,
and continued business at the old stand. In
1886, at the earnest solicitation of many of
the lumbermen in New York City, which then
had no representation in the newspaper world,
Mr. Crary was induced to start The New York
Lumber Trade Journal, a paper which is now
in its twenty-fifth year, and which has had
success from the beginning. Mr. Crary is
now the managing director of the corporation
that owns the paper, and with his wife owns
the entire stock of the corporation. In the
fall of 1886 Mr. Crary, by his own personal
efforts, with the co-operation of fourteen
others, formed the New York Lumber Trade
Association, an association which represents
the lumber trade of the Metropolitan district
and which to-day is recognized as one of the
strongest organizations in the United States.
At the present time only two of the original
incorporators are living, and Mr. Crary is the
only one of the original incorporators who is
now in active business. Mr. Crary has been
secretary of the Association practically since
its start and holds that position to-day. He is
also the secretary of the Association of Deal-
ers in Masons' Building Materials, an organ-
ization which is composed of the dealers in
masons' materials doing business in New York
City.

In the fall of 1886 Mr. Crary married Mary
Dent, daughter of William Stith, and has had
two children, one of whom, Paul Stuart Crary,
now in his eighteenth year, is a student at
Philips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
and the other, Jesse Dayton Crary, a student
at Stevens School, Hoboken.

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of years was one of the trustees of the Wash-
ington Avenue Baptist Church, but in the
spring of 1910, owing to a disagreement in the
church, Mr. Crary and a majority of the other
officers resigned, and since then Mr. Crary has
become a member of the Emanuel Baptist
Church. He is a member of the Hamilton
Club of Brooklyn, Lumbermen's Club of New
York, the Apollo Club of Brooklyn, of which
he is a director and chairman of the member-
ship committee, the New England Society, and
a member of Montauk Lodge, No. 286, Free
and Accepted Masons. Politically Mr. Crary
is an old-fashioned Democrat. Believes in
state rights and a tariff for revenue only, but
has never held any political office of any kind.

Mr. Crary 's country place is located at Mys-
tic, Connecticut, on the banks of the Mystic
river, and is known as "Alongshore." He is
actively identified in all matters which inter-
est his home town, is a member of a number
of organizations there, besides being one of the
largest property holders.

Mr. Crary's family were mostly seafaring
people, and he has much interesting family
history in this connection. His grandfather,
Jesse Crary, owned and ran a packet which
plied between Mystic and New York, and in
the war of 1812 was captured by the British
cruiser "Ramales" ; was put ashore, and the
packet, which was named "The Fox," was
made an auxiliary cruiser. His grandfather
returned to Mystic, and together with Mr.
Crary's great-uncle, Ambrose Burrows, fitted
out a smack, put a gun aboard her, and went
out, and under Block Island engaged with and
captured his former packet and brought her
triumphantly into the Mystic river. This
great-uncle, Ambrose Burrows, while trading
in the Pacific Ocean, was captured by the
pirates. The pirates being short of navigators,
took his crew aboard their vessel and supplied
him with a pirate crew, with instructions to
take the vessel to the pirates' rendezvous. He
induced them to allow him to retain the serv-
ices of his son, who was with him. Every
day he had to explain to the representatives
of the pirates the position as shown on the
chart, but he was deceiving them all the time
and making his course in such a direction that
when the proper time came, or should oppor-
tunity occur, he could take possession of his
vessel once more. The time came when he
got his crew in the forecastle, and having
managed to conceal some firearms, he called
them up one by one, made them throw their
arms overboard, after which they were bound
and given the choice of being set adrift in a
small boat with water and provisions or being
taken into port. Knowing that being taken

into port meant death by hanging, they chose
the small boat, and Captain Burrows took his
own vessel into a South American port on the
Pacific side, sold the cargo, and came home
in the "Old Ironsides" with Parnell.

Mr. Crary's father was a well-known sea
captain in the Pacific coast trade, and for many
years commanded the clipper ship "B. F.
Hoxie," which was built for him. She was
captured by the "Florida" during the war and
burned. Afterward Captain Crary commanded
a number of other vessels, the most notable of
which was the ship "Calhoun," which at the
time she was built was the largest ship ever
built in America. After the loss of the "Cal-
houn" Captain Crary retired.

The Mitchell family is sup-
MITCHELL posed to have lived origin-
ally in Scotland, and later
to have removed to Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng-
land, where they lived for three generations.

(I) Matthew Mitchell, immigrant ancestor,
was born in 1590, and is described as a dis-
senter from the Church of England, a very
pious man, and one of considerable fortune.
With other dissenters, he set sail from Bris-
tol, England, May 23, 1635, and arrived at
Boston, August 17 of the same year. On the
fifteenth, two days before they landed, there
arose an exceedingly severe storm, which car-
ried away their sails, cables and anchors and
nearly shipwrecked them. He spent the fol-
lowing winter with his family in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, and removed to Concord in the
spring. In the latter town he lost consider-
able property by fire. The next summer he re-
moved to Saybrook, Connecticut, and in the
spring to Wethersfield, and here he lost still
more of his property. Towards the close of
that year, his son-in-law was murdered by the
Pequot Indians, who also destroyed his cattle
and injured his estate, according to tradition,
to the extent of several hundred pounds. His
residence became so uncomfortable there that
he changed once more and located in Stam-
ford, Connecticut. Here again he lost his
property by fire. He died in 1645. Children :
Rev. Jonathan, born in Yorkshire, in 1624;
David, mentioned below.

(II) David, son of Matthew Mitchell, was
born and settled in Stratford, Connecticut.
Children : Matthew, mentioned below ; John,
settled in Woodbury; Nathan, settled in Litch-
field; Abraham, settled in Woodbury.

(III) John, son of David Mitchell, was born
and settled in Woodbury. He married Eliza-
beth — , who died in 1730. He died Jan-
uary 3, 1732. Children and dates of baptism :
David, November, 1679, died young ; David.

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April, 1680-81 ; Elizabeth, November, 1683,
died young; Elnathan, October, 1686; John,
February, 1688-89, mentioned below ; Knell,
April, 1690-91 ; Elizabeth, May, 1693 ; Mar-
tha, March, 1696-97.

(IV) Lieutenant John (2) Mitchell, son of
John (1) Mitchell, was baptized February,
1688-89. He married (first) Elizabeth Cur-
tiss, January 17, 1717, who died May 14, 1738.

He married (second) Mary , who died

January 4, 1745. He died April 22, 1748, and
"Sarah his widow" died September 3, 1749.
Children: Joanna, born November 18, 1718;
John, October 12, 1720; Asahel, October 6,
1723, mentioned below; Elnathan, February 9,
1728; Reuben, September, 1733, died January,

1737-

(V) Captain Asahel Mitchell, son of Lieu-
tenant John (2) Mitchell, was born October
6, 1723, and lived in West Side, Woodbury.
He married, January 21, 1747, Olive Root,
who died October 1, 1813, aged eighty-eight.
He died May 1, 1797. Children and dates of
baptism: Reuben, December 25, 1748, men-
tioned below; Daniel, August 19, 1750; Su-
sanna, October 15, 1752; Rev. Justus, Sep-
tember 8, 1754; Asahel, October 17, 1756.

(VI) Reuben, son of Captain Asahel
Mitchell, was baptized December 25, 1748. He

married Judson, who died February

23, 1817, aged sixty-six. He died November
9, 1822. Children : Olive, married Justus
Minor : Asahel, died 1825 ; Ruth ; Reuben, died
November, 1853; Susanna; Abner Allen;
Pollv, died unmarried ; Bede, died Februarv
25, 1818.

(VII) Asahel (2), son of Reuben Mitchell,
was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, April 17,
1789, died February 17, 1825. He was a
farmer. He was a lieutenant in the state mili-
tia in 1813 and captain in 181 5. He married
Nancy Lamber. .Children: Julia ; Asahel Wil-
lis, mentioned below ; Mary.

( VIII) Asahel Willis, "son of Asahel (2)
Mitchell, was born in Woodbury, March 18,
1818, died September 10, 1888. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town
and afterward worked in the rubber shops at
Naugatuck. When gold was discovered in
California, he was attracted thither and went
in 1849 by way of Cape Horn. The voyage
required six months and he remained in Cali-
fornia six years. He was for a time clerk for
Adams Express Company in California. He
returned home, but soon afterward went to
California a second time, taking the Isthmus
route. A third time he went there after the
railroads were built, by rail. He finally made
his home in Woodbury, Connecticut. He was
active in town affairs and much employed in

settling estates and in other positions of trust.
He represented the town two terms in the
general assembly, first in 1850, and again in
1876; he held various town offices. He was
for many years clerk of the church. He mar-
ried (first) Frances Cogswell ; (second) Octo-
ber 28, 1862, Harriet S. Allen, born April 12,
1841, died January 29, 1908, daughter of
Minot Mitchell and Catherine (Hurlbut) Al-
len. Her father was born April 8, 1800, died
March 13, i860; her mother was born June
3, 1807, died January 12, 1898. He had by
his second wife one child, Asahel Willis Jr.,
mentioned below.

(IX) Asahel Willis (2), son of Asahel Wil-
lis (1) Mitchell, was born in Woodbury, Oc-
tober 16, 1865. He attended the Parker Acad-
emy in his native town. His first business
position was with the Bradstreet Commercial
Agency at New Haven, which he left to enter
the employ of the American Ring Company of
Waterbury. In 1887 his health failed and he
returned to Waterbury, where he has since
lived. He has been occupied in the manage-
ment of his father's affairs and in the perform-
ance of public duties. He is superintendent,
secretary and treasurer of the Woodbury
Water Company, of which he was one of the
incorporators ; has been auditor of the Wood-
bury Savings Bank for fifteen years, and is
secretary and treasurer of the Waterbury Au-
tomatic Telephone Company. He has been
town clerk since 1895 ; he was representative
to the general assembly in 1897; state senator
in 1899; state comptroller in 1905--06. He
served on the railroad committee in the house
and on the committee on education, of which
he was chairman, and on the committee on
executive nominations in the senate. He has
been justice of the peace for many years and
town auditor for a dozen years or more. He
is a member of the Congregational church and
clerk of the church and society. In politics he
has always been a Republican. He married,
May 15, 1901, Josephine Minor, daughter of
John R. and Jane (Minor) Stanton. Chil-
dren: Katherine Allen, born May 25, 1902;
Jessie Stanton, July 22, 1907.

John S. Mitchell, son of
MITCHELL John Smith Mitchell, was

born in New Haven in 181 7.
About 1 84 1 he came to Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, and entered the employ of the Benedict
& Burnham Manufacturing Company. He ad-
vanced very rapidly, and soon became the prin-
cipal manager of the company's business. For
many years he was a prominent business man
in Waterbury ; when about thirty years old he
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compelled him to give up work for the time.
His life after this was one long struggle with
his health, and he had very few periods of
comfort. In spite of his suffering, he led an
active, useful life, and was ever patient and
courageous. After his first long illness he was
unable to take up his business again, and he
turned his attention to floriculture. His green
houses soon became the pride of Waterbury,
and he had great success in this line. He was
one of the first trustees of Riverside cemetery,
and to him many of the beautiful and attrac-
tive features of the cemetery are due. When
he became well enough, he started in business
again, and built up the house of Mitchell.
Vance & Company, of New York, manufac-
turers of gas fixtures, besides offering much
valuable help and advice to other enterprises.
He moved from Waterbury to New York on
account of his new business, and finally settled
in Tarrytown, New York, where he built a
beautiful home. As his poor health compelled
him to give up active work, he spent more
time in cultivating his grounds and making
the place beautiful. He was a man of much
dignity and mental strength. He was a mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church of
Waterbury, and while he lived there he took
great interest in its charitable work, especially
in the part relating to young persons. He
married, July 3, 1838, Mary Lyman, youngest
daughter of Deacon Aaron Benedict, of Water-
bury (see Benedict VI). They had one child
of great promise, who died when a young boy.

(The Benedict Line).

The surname Benedict is derived from the
Latin bcnedictus, meaning blessed, used as a
personal or baptismal name in Latin countries
and in fact throughout all Europe. St. Bene-
dict founded the Roman Catholic order of
Benedictines in A.D., 520; fourteen Popes
took this name between 574 and 1740.

( I ) Thomas Benedict, immigrant ancestor,
was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in
1617. According to family tradition, appar-
ently verified, he was the only representative
of his family when he came to America. His
ancestors were originally from the silk dis-
tricts of France and of Latin ancestry ; fled
to Germany on account of religious persecu-
tion, thence to Holland, and finally settled in
England. He married Mary Brigum or Bridg-
ham, who came to New England in 1638 on
the same ship. The family history was writ-
ten in 1755 by Deacon James Benedict, who
had his facts from the wife of the immigrant,
viz.: "Be it remembered' that one William
Benedict about the beginning of the fifteenth
centurv (doubtless meaning about the vear

1500) who lived in Nottinghamshire, Eng-
land, had a son born unto him whom he called
William after his own name (an only son),
and this William — the second of that name —
had also an only son whom he called William ;
and this third William had in the year 1617
one only child whom he called Thomas and this
Thomas married the Widow Brigum. Now
this Thomas was put out an apprentice to a
weaver who afterwards in his twenty-first year
came over to New England. Afterwards said
Thomas was joined in marriage with Mary
Brigum. After they had lived some time in
the Bay parts (Massachusetts) they removed
to Southold, Long Island, where were born
unto them five sons and four daughters, whose
names were Thomas, John, Samuel, James,
Daniel, Betty, Mary, Sarah and Rebecca.
From thence they removed to a farm belong-
ing to the town called Hassamanac, where
they lived some time. Then they removed to
Jamaica on said island, where Thomas, their
eldest 'son, took to wife Mary Messenger of
that town. And last of all they removed to
Norwalk, Fairfield county, Connecticut, with
all their family, where they all married.'' The
generations are given down to the time of
writing, March 14, 1755, by James Benedict, of
Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Traces of Thomas Benedict are found on
the records at Jamaica, December 12, 1662,
when he was appointed with others to lay out
the south meadow and was voted a home lot.
He served on other committees and held vari-
ous offices. He was appointed magistrate,
March 20, 1663, by Peter Stuyvesant, the
Dutch governor of New Amsterdam. In the
same year he signed the petition for annexa-
tion to Connecticut. He was lieutenant of the
military company, December 3, 1663 ; was a
grantee of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. After
coming to Connecticut he was town clerk of
Norwalk, 1664-74-77 and later, and often a
selectman, serving seventeen years, ending in
1688; was a freeman as early as 1669; repre-
sentative in the Connecticut general assembly
1670-75. In 1684 he was appointed by the
general court to plant a town, called Danbury,
in 1687. "His good sense and general intelli-
gence, some scientific knowledge and his skill
as a penman made him their recourse when
papers were to be drafted, lands to be sur-
veyed and apportioned and disputes to be ar-
bitrated. It is evident that very general re-
spect for his judgment prevailed and that
trust in his integrity was equally general and
implicit." He was concerned in establishing
the church at Southold and at Huntington
and also helped to found the First Presby-
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deacon of the Norwalk church the last years
of his life. His will was dated February 28,
1689-90. Of his household, James Benedict
wrote : "They walked in the midst of their
house with a perfect heart. They were strict
observers of the Lord's Day from even to
even." Many of his descendants followed him
in the office of deacon of the church. "The
savor of his piety as well as his venerable
name has been transmitted through a long
line of deacons and other godly descendants to
the seventh generation." Children : Thomas,
died November 20, 1688-89; J°hn; Samuel;
James ; Daniel ; Elizabeth, married John Salu-
son ; Mary, married John Olmsted ; Sarah,
married James Beebe ; Rebecca, married Dr.
Samuel Wood.

(II) Lieutenant Daniel Benedict, son of
Thomas Benedict, was born in Southold, Long
Island, about 1650. He removed to Norwalk
with the family ; served in the Swamp fight in
King Philip's war, December 19, 1675 ; had a
grant of twelve acres as one who took part in
that fight ; sold his property at Norwalk,
March 25, 1690, and removed to Danbury. His
date of death is unknown ; he was alive Feb-
ruary 15, 1722-23. He married Mary, daugh-
ter of Mathew Marvin, of Norwalk. Chil-
dren: Mary, Daniel, mentioned below, Mercy,
Hannah, married Nathan Taylor.

(III) Daniel (2), son of Lieutenant Daniel
( 1 ) Benedict, was born in Norwalk. He mar-
ried Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Taylor, an
original settler of Danbury. His will was
dated March 26, 1762, and proved August 5,
1776, soon after his death. Children: Daniel,
mentioned below; Matthew, died in 1781 ;
Theophilus, born 171 1; Rebecca, married
Jonathan Hoyt ; Mary, born 1714; David;
Nathan ; Deborah.

(IV) Captain Daniel (3) Benedict, son of
Daniel (2) Benedict, was born in 1705, died
November 9, 1773. He married, October,
1728, Sarah Hickok, born 1709, died May 6,
1784. Following is her epitaph: "Here lies
buried the body of Mrs. Sarah Benedict the
meek, benevolent and virtuous consort of Cap-
tain Daniel Benedict." His epitaph : "He
was for many years Deacon of this town
(Danbury) and by an exemplary life and con-
versation endorsed the sincerity of his Chris-
tian profession." His inventory amounted to
one thousand and eighty-five pounds, sixteen
shillings, four pence, for real estate, and two
hundred and sixty-two pounds, six shillings
for "movables." Children : Daniel, born De-
cember 27, 1731; Lemuel, August 10, 1734;
Noah, May 25, 1737; Sarah, June 16, 1740,
married Colonel Joseph Piatt Cook, who com-
manded the Crown Point expedition ; Jonas,

September 21, 1742; Aaron, mentioned be-
low; Ruth, June 14, 1748; Mary, May 30,
1 751; Amos, March 17, 1754, graduate of
Yale, 1774, aide-de-camp of Washington, died
February 18, 1777.

(V) Aaron, son of Captain Daniel (3)
Benedict, was born in Danbury, January 17,
1745. In 1770 he removed to Waterbury and
settled in what is now Middlebury. He was
a soldier in the French and Indian war, a lieu-
tenant in the revolution, and took part in the
Quebec expedition. He was a pensioner of
the United States late in life. For some years
he was the leading citizen of the town. In
1809-10 he represented his town in the gen-
eral assembly of the state and was delegate to
the state constitutional convention in August,
1818. He died December 16, 1841. He was
a remarkable and very superior type of the
founders of the Republic, of strong mind,
straightforward, earnest, capable and patriotic.
He married, December 13, 1769, Esther Trow-
bridge, born November 6, 1748, died March
16, 1833. Children, born at Waterbury: Re-
becca, August 3, 1772; Daniel, January 17,
1774; Mary, April 24, 1777; Amos, July 6,
1780; Sally, August 2, 1782; Aaron, August
9, 1785, mentioned below ; Son, March 16,
1788, died soon; Esther, August 11, 1789.

(VI) Deacon Aaron (2) Benedict, son of
Aaron ( 1 ) Benedict, was born in that part of
Waterbury which is now Middlebury, August
9, 1785. in a house that is still standing. He
attended the public schools and entered Yale
College, but ill-health caused him to leave in
the middle of his sophomore year. At the
age of nineteen he became a partner of Jo-
seph Burton in a mercantile business. In 1812
he began at Waterbury in a small way to
manufacture bone and ivory buttons and thus
laid the real foundation of the present Bene-
dict & Burnham Manufacturing Company.
This business, after several years, proved un-
satisfactory and Mr. Benedict began to manu-
facture gilt buttons under the name of A.
Benedict, associated with Bennet Bronson, of
Waterbury, and Nathan Smith, William Bris-
tol and David C. De Forest, of New Haven.
Mr. Benedict was the general partner and had
exclusive management of the concern, which
began with a capital of $6,500. The pros-
perity of Waterbury as a manufacturing cen-
ter may be dated from the formation of this
company, although the gilt button business
had been carried on for some years before
that. The enterprise met with many discour-
agements, but the energy, enterprise and in-
dustry of Mr. Benedict finally won success.
Skillful artisans were brought from England
and the factory produced an excellent grade of

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goods. During the year 1824 the sales
amounted to $5,000. Soon afterward Benja-
min De Forest, of Watertown, and Alfred
Piatt were admitted to the firm, and Mr. De
Forest, who bought out his brother, proved
an excellent salesman and greatly increased
the volume of business. In 1827 the partner-
ship was renewed and the capital increased to
$13,000. The firm name was changed Feb-
ruary 2, 1829, to Benedict & Coe and the cap-
ital raised to $20,000. Mr. Benedict's partners
were Israel Coe, Bennet Bronson, Benjamin
De Forest, Alfred Piatt and James Croft. The
plant was enlarged and a rolling mill added.
The name was changed again February 10,
1834, to Benedict & Burnham and the capital
raised to $40,000. The partners were Mr.
Benedict, Gordon W. Burnham, Bennet Bron-
son, Alfred Piatt, Henry Bronson, Samuel
S. De Forest and John De Forest. The
first two were general partners and agents
of the concern. The copartnership was re-
newed March 16, 1838, and the capital fixed
at $71,000, and again, March 11, 1840, at
$100,000. The business was incorporated,
January 14, 1843, under the title of Benedict
& Burnham Manufacturing Company, the first
joint stock corporation in Waterbury, with a
capital of $100,000, increased in 1848 to twice
that amount, and in 1856 to $400,000. From
time to time the plant was enlarged, and now
the buildings cover several acres. The busi-
ness has grown constantly. The company
manufactures copper and all the alloys of
copper, brass, gilding metal and German silver
in sheets, in wire of all sizes, brazed and
seamless tubing of brass and copper, brass and
German silver headings, drop-handles and
knobs for furniture, also safety pins, rivets,
bars, butt hinges, roller bushings, printers'
rules and galleys, lamp burners and trimmings,
insulated electric wire and hard-drawn cop-
per for telegraph purposes. The Benedict &
Burnham Company has from time to time be-
come the founder of new corporations for
conducting branches of the business. In 1846
the American Pin Company was established
and the pin business transferred to it; in 1849
the Waterbury Button Company was formed ;
in 1852 the Benedict & Scoville Company, a
mercantile corporation ; and in 1857 the Water-
bury Clock Company. The Waterbury Watch
Company also was formed largely by the own-
ers of the parent corporation. Aaron Bene-
dict was succeeded in 1873, after being presi-
dent of the company thirty years, by Charles
Benedict. Mr. Benedict was also treasurer
from 1843 to J854.

He continued at the head of the great busi-
ness that he founded to the time of his death.

He was a director in the Waterbury Bank
from its organization until his death. He rep-
resented the town in the legislature in 1826
and 1 84 1 and was state senator in 1858 and
1859. He was an active member of the First
Congregational Church and in 1823 was chosen
deacon, an office he filled faithfully for fifty
years. He contributed generously to many
charitable, benevolent and religious causes and
institutions and was one of the principal bene-
factors of the State Industrial School for
Girls. He gave ten thousand dollars toward
the fund for Divinity Hall in New Haven, a
like amount to endow the Benedict Professor-
ship of Latin in Iowa College, and thirty thou-
sand dollars to the building fund of the First
Congregational Church.

He married, September 17, 1808, Charlotte
Porter, born October 29, 1789, at Middletown,
Connecticut, daughter of Abel and Hannah
(Eliot) Porter. The sixtieth anniversary of
their wedding was celebrated most happily.
Mrs. Benedict died May 9, 1870 ; he died Feb-
ruary 9, 1873. He left the largest estate that
had up to that time passed through the pro-
bate court. He was naturally quiet, reserved
and deliberate. Events proved that his wis-
dom was remarkable, his judgment most
sound. He was faithful, punctual and consci-
entious. He was certainly the most important
figure in the history of the city during his life,
though by no means the most conspicuous.
Shortly after his death a volume entitled
"Aaron Benedict ; a Memorial," was published.
It contained the address given at his funeral,
resolutions passed by various corporations of
which he had been an officer, obituary notices
from various newspapers, and a full account
of the wedding anniversary. Children, born
at Waterbury : Charlotte Ann, March 27,
1810; married, May 18, 1838, Scoville M.
Buckingham, of Waterbury ; Frances Jean-
nette, November 22, 1812, died February 13,
1830; George William, November 26, 1814;
Charles, September 23, 1817; Mary Lyman,
September 24, 1819, married, Julv 3, 1838,
John S. Mitchell (see Mitchell).

(VII) Charles, son of Deacon Aaron (2)
Benedict, was born at Waterbury, Connecticut,
September 23, 1817, died October 30, 1881,
on the steamship "Wisconsin," while returning
from abroad, and his remains were interred in
Riverside cemetery. In his early years he
attended the Wilton Academy and the Berk-
shire Gymnasium at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
At the age of seventeen he was employed as
assistant bookkeeper in a dry goods jobbing
house in New York. The following year he
became bookkeeper in the commission house
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resented the firm of Benedict & Burnham in
New York, and remained there for nine years.
In 1844, in connection with George Beecher,
he established an agency for the sale of Good-
year's india rubber goods, but the following
year retired from the firm and formed a busi-
ness compact with William Ball, of Chicopee,
Massachusetts, for the purpose of developing
Mr. Ball's pin machinery. Some time after-
wards he became secretary of the Benedict &
Burnham Manufacturing Company, was
elected its treasurer in 1854, and in 1873 suc-
ceeded his father as president. He also served
in the capacity of president of the Waterbury
Clock Company and the Waterbury Watch
Company, and held official relations with many
other important manufacturing concerns, not
only in the Naugatuck Valley but elsewhere,
having been one of the prominent projectors
of Mitchell Vance & Company of New York,
of which corporation he was president for a
number of years. This narration of facts
proves conclusively that he was one of the
chief contributors to the growth and pros-
perity of his native city, Waterbury, in whose
affairs, business, political, educational and so-
cial, he ever took a keen interest.

Mr. Benedict served as mayor of Water-
bury in i860, his term of office being noted for
efficiency and faithfulness, and also acted as
councilman and alderman, the duties pertain-
ing thereto being discharged to the satisfaction
of all concerned. He was one of the presiden-
tial electors for Connecticut, in 1872, when he
cast his vote for General Grant. He was
spoken of frequently as a candidate for gov-
ernor, but he refused to allow a nomination.
He was a devoted member of the Second Con-
gregational Church, which he served as a dea-
con for a number of years. He was a cor-
porate member of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and was
president of the American College and Educa-
tion Society. He was of a liberal and charit-
able disposition, this fact being attested to by
his generous contributions to religious and
private charities, both local and foreign, and
no good cause that interested humanity failed
to find in him a ready response. He was a
man of refinement and considerable culture.
with a taste that beautified whatever it
touched. As a citizen he was universally es-
teemed, always sustaining the character of a
true man. His business transactions were
conducted on the principles of strict integrity,
he fulfilled to the letter every trust committed
to him, and was generous in his feelings and
conduct towards all. As a Christian he suc-
cessfully withstood the temptations of wealth
in his younger days and was found true to

the obligations of religion in the home circle,
in the church and in the competitions of busi-
ness life, a record worth emulating. He pos-
sessed certain qualities of mind and heart
which qualified him to employ his large oppor-
tunities for usefulness without begetting
prejudice in petty minds or arousing the envy
of those who were less favored in life. Mr.
Benedict was a member of the Union League
of New York City.

Mr. Benedict married, October 1, 1845,
Cornelia, daughter of John D. Johnson. Chil-
dren : Amelia C. ; Charlotte B., wife of Gilman
C. Hill ; Cornelia J., married Dr. Charles S.
Rodman, and died November 26, 1879.

Charles Moulton Mitchell,
MITCHELL son of John Smith Mitchell,
was born in East Haven,
Connecticut, July 7, 1822. He attended the
public schools, and at the age of eighteen en-
tered the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis. He was a midshipman for six
years. Afterward he was a clerk in a New
York City store. Returning to Connecticut,
he was employed by the Waterbury Lumber &
Coal Company ; for many years he was with
the Steele & Johnson Manufacturing Com-
pany of Waterbury and was president at the
time of his death ; president also of the Bridge-
port Brass Company.

He married (first) February I, 1854, Mary
Ann Foote, born at Bridgeport, March 20,
1834, daughter of Charles and Jane Sterling
(Thompson) Foote (see Foote ATI). He
died March 9, 1899; his wife April 18, 1850.
They had one son, Charles Foote, mentioned
below. He married (second) September 5,
i860, Mary E., daughter of Captain Samuel
Parsons.

( II ) Charles Foote, son of Charles Moul-
ton Mitchell, was born at Waterbury, Novem-
ber 15, 1856. He was educated in the public
schools and Cheshire Academy. The first
year after leaving school he spent at the
Steele & Johnson Manufacturing Company's
works with his father. Afterward he entered
the employ of the private banking firm of
Holmes & Parsons, with whom he continued
for six years. After spending a year abroad
he became connected with the Manufacturers'
National Bank in August, 1881, and in various
capacities has been an officer of that institu-
tion to the present time, serving as director and
president. . In politics he is a Republican with
independent proclivities. He is a communi-
cant of St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church. He is a member of the Waterbury
Club, Home Club, Country Club. Sons of the
American Revolution and the Colonial Wars.

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(The Foote Line).

(II) Nathaniel (2) Foote, son of Nathaniel
(1) Foote (q. v.), was born about 1620, in
England. He married, 1646, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Lieutenant Samuel Smith. He lived in
Wethersfield, Connecticut, and Hadley, Mas-
sachusetts. He died in 1655, and his wife
married (second) William Gull, of Wethers-
field, Connecticut, and Hatfield, Massachusetts.
Children: Nathaniel, born January 10, 1647;
Samuel, May I, 1649; Daniel, 1652, mentioned
below; Elizabeth, 1654.

(III) Daniel, son of Nathaniel (2) Foote,
was born in 1652. He lived in Stratford, Con-
necticut. He married (first) Sarah ,

(second) Mary . Children: John,

born June 17, 1680; mentioned below; Daniel,
January 10, 1682; Hannah, February 13,
1684; Jehiel, March 17, 1687; Peter, died

1753-

(IV) John, son of Daniel Foote, was born

June 17, 1680. He lived in Newtown, Con-
necticut. He married, July 13, 1715, Sarah
Prindle. Children : Sarah, born October 30,
1716; Elizabeth, May 14, 1718; Nathan, Octo-
ber 24, 1719; John, November 29, 1721, men-
tioned below; Phebe, 1723; Peter, 1725; Han-
nah, 1727.

(V) John (2), son of John (1) Foote, was
born November 29, 1721. He married, 1750,
Deborah Hoyt, who died August 6, 1777,
aged fifty-three. He died July 28, 1791. Chil-
dren : Mary, born June 19, 1751 ; Deborah,
August 22, 1753; Sarah, May 9, 1755; Mind-
well, January, 1758; John, April 2, 1761 ;
Lucy, 1763; David, May 28, 1765; Enoch,
May 2, 1770.

(VI) Enoch, son of John (2) Foote, was
born May 2, 1770. He married, 1791, Abigail
Brooks, widow. She died June 6, 1836. He
lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Children :
Elanson, born July 4, 1792, lost at sea, 1812;
Charles, December 21, 1793, mentioned below;
Mary Ann, May 26, 1797.

(VII) Charles, son of Enoch Foote, was
born December 21, 1793. He married, Sep-
tember 8, 1822, Ann Strong, daughter of Eli-
jah Burr, of Fairfield, Connecticut. She died
August 12, 1832, and he married (second),
May 16, 1833, Jane Sterling, daughter of John
Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut. Mr.
Foote was cashier of the Connecticut Bank
for over thirty years ; he also held the office
of mayor and other offices of trust in his
native city. He was also colonel in the state
militia. He was a Republican in politics ; an
Episcopalian in religion. He lived in Bridge-
port. Children : Mary Ann, born March 20,
1834; married, February 1, 1854, Charles M.
Mitchell, of Waterbury, Connecticut (see

Mitchell) ; Charles Enoch, March 10, 1836,
died January 28, 1837; Charles Benjamin,
September 6, 1837 ; William Henry, August
24, 1839; David Thomas, July 17, 1841 ; Elea-
nor Coit, May 27, 1844; Edward Elanson, Jan-
uary 28, 1848; Caroline Thompson, July 14,
1850.

Among the early settlers of Con-
FROST necticut was William Frost at

Fairfield, in 1639. Many of the
Connecticut families are descended from him.
His home lot was on the southwest of the
school and church division of the meeting
house green. He was then an old man. He
came from Nottinghamshire, England, and
was probably born there. Lie died in 1645.
He had sons, Daniel and Abraham, and daugh-
ters, Elizabeth and Lydia.

(I) Samuel Frost was born in 1704, died at
Wolcott, Connecticut, November 14, 1800. The
family tradition has it that he was born in
England, but there is good reason to believe
that he was descended from William Frost,
mentioned above. Some think he visited Eng-
land, as it appears that his son David was born
there and Samuel had property in England.
He was an Episcopalian and that fact tends
to strengthen the belief that he came from
England. At his funeral, prayer was offered
by the Congregational minister of Southing-
ton where he made his home, the sermon was
delivered by a Baptist clergyman, the closing
prayer by a Methodist and the burial service
was read by the Episcopal minister. This ac-
count is from the history of Southington. He
married, March 21, 1733, Naomi Fenn, born
May 10, 1 712, daughter of Edward and Mary
(Thorp) Fenn. Children, born at Southing-
ton: Moses, born January 6, 1734; Naomi,
March 31, 1735; David, September 15, 1743,
mentioned below. Probably others.

(II) David, son of Samuel Frost, was born
in Southington (tradition says England), Sep-
tember 15, 1743. died December 15, 1812. He
resided at Wolcott, Connecticut. He was a
soldier in the revolution. He married, Novem-
ber 5, 1762, Mary Beach, born December 20,
1740, died February 6, 1819, daughter of
Joseph and Experience Beach, of Wallingford.
Children, born at Southington, now the town
of Wolcott: Jesse, October 18, 1763; Enoch,
January 8, 1765. mentioned below; David,
March 1, 1767: Naomi, July 1, 1770; Mary,
March 24, 1775. died September 14, 1778;
Mary, March 11, 1780; Elizabeth, married
Nathan Barnes.

(III) Enoch, son of David Frost, was born
at Southington, January 8, 1765, died May 27,
1822. He followed farming throughout his

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active life. He lived at Southington and
Waterbury. He married Ann, daughter of
Stephen Culver. Children : Anna, born July
i, died July 2, 1793; Stephen Culver, July 18.
1795; Selah, February 2, 1798, mentioned be-
low; Nancy, March 31, 1801 ; Enoch Williams,
May 7, 1803 ; Eunice, April 2, 181 1.

(IV) Selah, son of Enoch Frost, was born
February 2, 1798, in Waterbury, died in 1848.
He was engaged as a merchant in Torrington.
He married Ursula Brooker. Children : Mary,
married George Mason; Warren S., men-
tioned below.

(V) Warren S., son of Selah Frost, was
born in Torrington, January 19, 1827, died
April 20, 1899. He was a Republican and
served many years in the Waterbury common
council. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional church. He married Jennie E., daugh-
ter of Thomas Spring (see Spring VII). She
died September 20, 1897. Child, Charles W.
S., mentioned below.

(VI) Dr. Charles W. S. Frost, son of War-
ren S. Frost, was born in Waterbury, Decem-
ber 22, 1857. He received his early education
in the public schools and the Waterbury Eng-
lish and Classical School. He entered Yale
Medical School in 1876, and graduated from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York City in 1880. His vacations were
spent in the hospitals of New York, and soon
after graduation he opened an office in his na-
tive town. He built up a large and lucrative
practice, and has made a reputation for unusual
skill and knowledge in his profession. He is
consulting physician and surgeon on staff of
the Waterbury Hospital, and dermatologist
on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital of Water-
bury. In politics he is a Republican and he
served as president of the board of health for
two years, being a member since 1887. He is
city and town health officer, and a member of
the staff of Waterbury Hospital. He was sec-
retary of the Waterbury Medical Society for
eleven years and president in 1908, and is a
member of the state and count}' medical so-
cieties.

He is a member of Continental Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Knights of Pyth-
ias ; Independent Order of Red Men ; Royal
Arcanum ; Heptasophs ; Order of United
American Mechanics ; Knights of the Macca-
bees; Waterbury Lodge, No. 265, Elks; Sons
of the American Revolution ; Waterbury Club
and the Golf Association. He is a member of
the First Congregational Church. He mar-
ried (first), February 5, 1880, Jennie G.,
daughter of E. K. Davis, of New York. He
married (second), December 31, 1891, Mrs.
Minnie L. Ryder, daughter of Leander Wright,

of West Ashford, Connecticut. Child of first
wife, Edna J., married Charles G. Goodale, of
Torrington. Children of second wife : Bar-
bara, Selah

The family of Spring is of Eng-
SPRING lish origin, and is found in

America shortly after the com-
ing of the Pilgrims. In both countries many
of its members have adorned the learned pro-
fessions and are to be found in every honor-
able walk of life. In the United States the
name has long been honored by educators and
theologians of national reputation. It is also
well represented in France, where it is
known through distinguished names. It is be-
lieved that nearly all of the family in the
United States, and most certainly in New
England, are descended from the immigrant
hereinafter named.

(I) John Spring, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England in 1589. He came to New
England in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich,
April 30, 1634. With him came his wife
Elinor, aged forty-six. and children : Mary,
aged eleven, Henry, aged six, John, aged four,
and William, aged nine months. He settled at
Watertown, where he was a planter and pro-
prietor in 1636. He took the oath of fidelity
in 1652. He married (second) Grace Hatch,
widow of Thomas Hatch, of Scituate. She
resided at Scituate in 1659. Children, all by
first wife, born in England : Mary, 1623 ;
Henry, 1628; John, 1630, mentioned below;
William, 1633.

(II) Lieutenant John (2) Spring, son of
John (1) Spring, was born in England in
1630 ; came with his parents to New Eng-
land when four years old. He settled in
Cambridge about the time of the ordination
of its first minister. His house stood on the
northwest side of the Dedham road, opposite
the old burial place. He built the first grist
mill in Newton, on Smelt brook, near the
center of the town. . He was selectman eight
years from 1686; deputy three years; sealer
of weights and measures; pound keeper; tith-
ingman : lieutenant. It is supposed that he
gave the land for the second meeting house in
1696, which stood very near his own house,
and the town afterward reconveyed it to his
son John. He died May 18, 1717. He mar-
ried, in 1656, Hannah Barsham, who died
August 18, 1710, daughter of William and
Anable Barsham, of Watertown. Children :
Hannah, born October 1, 1657; Mary, June

10, 1659; , April 16, 1661 ; Sarah,

1662; Rebecca, February 10, 1664; Abigail,
February 12, 1666; Susanna, August 18,
1670, died young; Mary, February 19, 1672;

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Elizabeth, April 7, 1675; John, mentioned
below.

(III) Ensign John (3) Spring, son of
Lieutenant John (2) Spring, was born in
1678, died May 5, 1754. He was a corporal
in the revolution from August 23, 1776, to
September 26, 1777, in Lieutenant Joel Hay's
company, Eighteenth Connecticut Regiment,
and served in the first campaigns in New
York. He served as selectman twelve years.
He married, March 8, 1703, Joanna Richards,
of Dedham, and lived on the homestead.
Children: William, born December 24, 1704;
John, 1706; Ephraim, May 30, 1708, men-
tioned below; Mary, November 20, 1709;
Hannah, February 2, 1712; Deborah, Febru-
ary 29, 1714; Nathaniel, August 26, 1715;
Samuel, June 17, 1723.

(IV) Ephraim, son of Ensign John (3)
Spring, was born May 30, 1708. He gradu-
ated at Harvard College in 1728. He mar-
ried Mary Bowen. He had a son Thomas,
mentioned below.

(V) Thomas, son of Ephraim Spring, was
born about 1740. He settled in Simsbury,
Connecticut, and married there, April 30,
1 761, Mary Gossard. In 1790 he was of
Granby, Connecticut, according to the first
federal census, and had in his family three
males over sixteen, two under sixteen, and
four females. Sylvester, a son, also had a
family in 1790. Children, born in Simsbury:
Mary, February 1, 1762; Ephraim; Thomas,
October 15, 1765, mentioned below; Sylves-
ter, June 26, 1767; Sarah, December 15,
1769; Amelia, September 2, 1774; Ciriel,
September 11, 1776; Samuel, June 5, 1780.

(VI) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Spring, was born at Simsbury, Massachusetts,
now Connecticut, October 15, 1765. He
lived at Granby, Connecticut. He married
Jerusha Pomeroy. They had a son Thomas,
mentioned below.

(VII) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Spring, was born about 1790- 1800. He mar-
ried Candace Holcomb. They lived at
Granby and later at Collinsville, Connecticut.
Children : Henry, Jerusha, Solomon, Jennie
E., Emma, Nancy, Andrew J., Edwin and
Edward (twins), and George A. Their
daughter, Jennie E., married Warren S.
Frost (see Frost V).

mandy, who received from the Conqueror
large grants of land in Staffordshire, Derby-
shire and Leicestershire. It is said that he
took a prominent part in the battle of Hast-
ings. William Ferers, the Earl of Derby,
was a descendant, and his descendants, the
Ferrers of Groby, bear these arms : Gules
seven mascles or a canton ermine. The Ameri-
can family bears : Gules a fleur de lis or a can-
ton ermine with a crescent for difference.

(I) Zachariah Ferris, immigrant ancestor,
came from England to Stratford, Connecticut.
He was from Reading, England. He was at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1645, and at
Stratford as early as 1655. Children : Zach-
ariah, baptized February 6, 1676, mentioned
below; Sarah, born November 12, 1676; Han-
nah, July 18, 1680. These children may have
been grandchildren of Zachariah ( 1 ) , and
children of a son Zachariah. The records are

verv meagre.

FERRIS

The Ferris family was originally
from Leicestershire, England,
and descended from the house of
Feriers (Farers, Fereis or Ferris), the pro-
genitor of whom in England was Henry de
Feriers, son of Guillaume (William) de Fer-
iers, master of the house of the Duke of Nor-

(II) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (1)
Ferris, was born at Stratford, Connecticut,
and baptized there February 6, 1676. He died
before 1757. He was one of the first settlers
of New Milford, Connecticut. Tradition has
it that his father's name was Samuel and his
mother's Jerusha (Reed) Ferris. Another tra-
dition gives his mother's name as Sarah Noble,
but the records do not support the traditions.
Children, born at New Milford : Deborah,
June 17, 1700; Joseph, September 2"], 1703,
mentioned below; David, May 10, 1707; Ben-
jamin, November 10, 1708; Sarah, November
10, 1710; Hannah, August 6, 1712; John,
February 6, 1714; Zachariah, September 30,
1717.

(III) Joseph, son of Zachariah (2) Fer-
ris, was born at New Milford, Connecticut,
September 27, 1703. He also settled in New
Milford on a farm south of Fort Hill. He
married, at Milford, November 11, 1725,
Hannah Welch, of that town. Children, born
at New Milford: David, September 18, 1726,
mentioned below; Sarah, September 11, 1728;
Joseph, January 5, 1732 ; Jude, May 14, 1735 ;
Zachariah, March 25, 1739, married Phoebe
Gay lord and had a son Zachariah (3) ; Sam-
uel, September 11, 1743; Gilbert, September

24. 1747-

(IV) David, son of Joseph Ferris, was born
at New Milford, September 18, 1726, died
July 20, 1800. He married, February 26,
1755, Abigail Comstock, of Kent, Connecti-
cut. She died at New Milford, September
n, 1797, in her sixty-seventh year. Chil-
dren, born at New Milford : Orange, Decem-
ber 14, 1755, died in the army at Crown Point ;
Jude, February 12, 1758; Amasa, November
5, 1760; Alanson, August 10, 1763; David,

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February 18, 1766; Betty, May 25, 1768;
Daniel Hutton, March 1, 1771, mentioned be-
low; James Fitch, January 1, 1774.

(V) Daniel Hutton, son of David Ferris,
was born at New Milford, March 1, 1771, died
there April 2, 1843. He was a farmer and
for a time conducted a hotel on the Marsh
Place. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He gave the land for the road along the river.
He married (first) Rheamy (Ruhamah ?)

, who died November 3, 1793. He

married (second), January 29, 1795, Annis
Botsford, of Newtown, who died February
19, 1852. Children, born at New Milford,
by first wife: John, December 18, 1790;
Urana, February 17, 1792 ; Henry, October
27> l793- Children of second wife: Julia,
March 18, 1796; David, September 2, 1798;
Martha, January 17. 1800, married Henry
Knapp ; David, June 30, 1802 ; Eugene, June
18, 1806, mentioned below ; Mary E., mar-
ried Peter Robinson, of Danbury, Connec-
ticut.

(VI) Eugene, son of Daniel Hutton Ferris,
was born at New Milford, June 18, 1806. died
there in 1868. He was educated in the com-
mon schools of his native town. He learned
the trade of tanner and owned a tannery in
Lanesville, town of New Milford. He also
made boots and shoes and conducted a farm.
He bought a small place at first and added to
it by purchase from time to time. He cleared
woodland and added many acres to his farm
under cultivation. He was active in town af-
fairs and for many years selectman and jus-
tice of the peace. He was a popular citizen
and highly respected in the community. In
politics he was a Democrat, in religion a
member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He married, October 27, 1829, Laura Ann
Hoyt, born September 18, 1807, at New Mil-
ford; died there, June n, 1881. Children,
born at New Milford: 1. Child, died in in-
fancy. 2. Julia, born 1838, died 1909 : mar-
ried Samuel C. Millington, of New Milford;
children, Annis, Mary and two sons, who died
young. 3. James Reville, mentioned below.
4. Daniel H., mentioned below.

(VII) James Reville, son of Eugene Fer-
ris, was born August 12, 1842, at New Mil-
ford. He was educated in the public schools,
and learned the carpenter's trade, which he
followed for two years. He then learned the
machinist's trade, to which he devoted him-
self for many years in different places, run-
ning stationary engines and locomotives, but
has retired and resides in Bridgeport with
his son. He is a member of the Masonic fra-
ternitv, and attends the Protestant Episcopal
church.

Mr. Ferris married, April 20, 1863, Ellen
Maria, born April 9, 1844, at New Milford,
daughter of Nelson Hawley and Betsey
Adeline (Brownson) Ford. The former was
born December 21, 1806, was a son of Jona-
than Ford, died at New Milford, December
10, 1862. He was a farmer in New Milford
and Litchfield, Connecticut, and a member of
the Congregational church. His wife was
born April 20, 1809, died October 19, 185 1,
at Litchfield. Their sons were James, An-
drew, Albert Nelson and Sherman Nelson,
and their daughters Amanda Adeline, Hannah
Elvira, Ellen Amelia, Ellen Maria, who be-
came the wife of James Reville Ferris, as
mentioned above. Following are the children
of James Reville and Ellen Maria (Ford)
Ferris: 1. Charles Eugene, born December
8, 1865, at New Milford ; fireman by trade
and now foreman of the Valvoline oil yards
in Bridgeport ; married Clara Elizabeth, born
at Watertown, Connecticut, daughter of Isaac
Hugh Robinson ; children : Ellen, born De-
cember 1, 1888; Eugene R., April 13, 1898.
2. Edwin Nelson, born March 14, 1868; pat-
tern maker in service of the Crane Vale Com-
pany ; married Susan Cornelia Caldwell, and
has one child, Charles Henry, born August
22, 1894.

(VII) Daniel H., son of Eugene Ferris,
was born at New Milford, January 20, 1845.
He was educated in the district schools. He
worked on his father's farm until attaining
the age of eighteen, and then came to Bridge-
port, where he entered the sewing machine
works of the Wheeler & Wilson Company.
He was promoted, from time to time, to posi-
tions of responsibility and trust and ultimately
became a stockholder in the company, with
which he was connected in various positions
for a period of forty years. He is now secre-
tary of the Weidlich Brothers Manufacturing
Company, of Bridgeport, having been one of
the organizers of this industry. He is a man
of quiet tastes and domestic habits and has
divided his time between his home and his
business.

Mr. Ferris is a member of the Park Club
and formerly belonge 1 to the Seaside Club.
In politics he is an Independent. Mr. Ferris
married Laura, born at Still River, Connecti-
cut, daughter of Charles Ford, and after her
death, which occurred at her native place, he
married Marietta H., born in New Milford,
daughter of Samuel Smith. Children of sec-
ond wife: 1. Lester S., born January 25,
1882, engaged in the automobile business in
Bridgeport. 2. Harry, born 1885, died March
13, 1906; married Carrie FairchiH, of West-
port, Connecticut.

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Country Club. In politics he is a Republican,
with independent proclivities ; in religion a
Presbyterian, and he is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. His home
is at 38 West Fifty-third street ; his office at 2
Wall street. He married, April 13, 1887, Mary
(Ide) Low, born November 30, 1857, daugh-
ter of Henry Ide, of Wrentham, Massachu-
setts. Children : Lyman Northrop, born in
Brooklyn, June 21, 1889; Francis Worthing-
ton, born in Brooklyn, April 10, 1891.

According to the best histori-
TERRILL cal and traditional evidence the
family of Terrill, or Terrell, in
this country, is of Anglo-Norman origin, and
was founded in England by Sir Walter Tyrell,
a Norman knight, about 1066, when William
the Conqueror took possession of that coun-
try. From this old Anglo-Norman stock de-
scended three brothers, William, James and
John Terrell, who, during the Protectorate of
Oliver Cromwell, being Quakers, and griev-
ously persecuted on account of their religion,
passed over into Ireland, as English colonists
"within the Pale," and after a temporary resi-
dence emigrated to America, some time be-
tween 1665 and 1700. William Terrell settled
in Virginia, one of the other brothers settled
in North Carolina, near Virginia, and the third
brother is supposed to have settled in New
England. Another tradition is that the three
brothers were sent to Virginia by King James
the Second of England about 1687, as ex-
plorers and huntsmen for the crown, and that
they were each awarded for their services a
royal grant of fifteen hundred acres in the
counties of Hanover, Caroline and King
George.

The name Terrill is spelled in various ways.
The founder of the family in England, Sir
Walter, who crossed from Normandy in 1066,
with William the Conqueror, seems to have
spelled it Tirell, as appears from an engraved
stone in Battle Abbey, which stands near the
battlefield of Hastings. Since then various
forms have been adopted by different branches
of the family, such as Tyrell, Terrell, Terrill,
Tirrel, Turrell, Tyrel and Terrail. The sev-
eral branches of the family are scattered widely
over the United States. The branch using the
form Terrill is largely in New England, the
middle eastern states and west of the Missis-
sippi. The branch using the form Terrell is
chiefly to be found in the middle west and
southern states. From this latter branch came
General W. H. H. Terrell, now or late of In-
dianapolis, Indiana, Ex-Governor Terrell, of
Georgia, and the influential Terrell family of
Texas.

Several immigrants of the name of Terrill
appeared at an early period in Connecticut.
Roger Terrill, progenitor of an important
branch of the family, was then in Milfordand
Stratford. He signed the fundamental articles
for the settlement of Woodbury, Connecticut,
whither he came with the first settlers, and
where he died April 17, 1722; his widow,
Sarah, died April 13, 1728. William Terrail
was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, among
the earliest and was one of the petitioners ask-
ing to be allowed to remain when the perma-
nent settlement was made. He may have been
father of John Terrell, who was a taxpayer as
early as 1664 and was one of the grantees of
New London, Connecticut. John married
Sarah, daughter of Isaac Willey, and died Feb-
ruary 27, 1712, the death of his wife occurring
March 7, of the same year. No children are
mentioned in her will, but it is thought that
he had children by a first wife, for the church
records mention two children, William and
Mary, baptized May 7, 1671.

(I) Lewis Terrill was son or grandson of
John Terrell, of New London, and was born
1700-10. He married (first) December 25,
1733, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph Hebard
(Hibbard), of Windham, Connecticut. He
married (second), May 30, 1745, Anna Sim-
ons. He settled at Mansfield, Connecticut,
many of the settlers of which were from New
London. Children of first wife, born at Mans-
field, Connecticut: Mary, February 21, 1734-
35, baptized May 4, 1735; Mehitable, March
11, 1737; Triphena, October 23, 1739. Chil-
dren of second wife : Thomas, born at Coven-
try, Connecticut, in 1746; Arad, mentioned be-
low ; Lewis, October 8, 1752 ; Anne, November
10, 1754; Josiah, August 23, 1756; Hannah,
at Windsor, June 27, 1758; Eunice Simons,
January 9, 1762.

( II) Arad, son of Lewis Terrill, was born at
Coventry, August 2^, 1750. He removed
from Coventry to Hampden, formerly part of
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, where he
lived several years. Later he went to Benning-
ton county, Vermont, and died there, leav-
ing many descendants in that State. He was
a blacksmith as well as a farmer, and was an
industrious and upright man. He married
Jemima Brace. Children : Timothy, men-
tioned below, Thaddeus, Samuel, Jemima, Su-
san, Anna, Mehitable and Lewis. According
to the census of 1790 Arad had a family con-
sisting of two males over sixteen, two under
that age and four females, and was living at
Rupert, Bennington county, Vermont.

(III) Timothy, son of Arad Terrill, was
born in Hampden, Massachusetts, August 7,
1770, died at the age of sixty-two. He was

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a farmer. In politics he was a Whig ; in re-
ligion a Congregationalist. He went to Ver-
mont with his parents and married at Rupert
(first) November 22, 1792, Martha Leavitt.
He married (second) Charlotte Fullington, of
Fairfax, Vermont. Children of first wife,
born at Rupert: 1. Triphena, August 4, 1796;
married Hiram Cady and moved to Brown
county, Wisconsin, in the fifties, settling at
De Pere. 2. Moses, mentioned below. 3.
Aaron, July 19, 1801, died in Vermont; lived
at Morristown and followed farming. 4.
Asaph L., September 2, 1803 ; a farmer at
Underhill, Vermont. 5. Rachel, died young.
6. Arad, April 2, 1808 ; settled in Jefferson
county, New York, and died there. 7. Silas
H., December 11, 1810; died of typhoid fever
in Underhill in 1861. 8. John, February 2,
1814, died at Morristown, Vermont. Children
of second wife: 9. Joseph, October 4, 181 5;
carpenter at St. Joseph, Michigan, where he
died early in life. 10. Timothy, December 19,
1819; lived at Morrisville, Vermont. 11. Ma-

lana, November 2.y, 1824; married Lee,

of Jericho, Vermont.

(IV) Moses, son of Timothy Terrill, was
born May 9, 1799, at Rupert, Vermont. He
attended the district schools as opportunity
offered, but the schools being widely scattered
and of low standards, most of his education
was obtained after he came of age. He bought
a tract of land near his father's farm and
cleared it, built a house and in the course of
time developed one of the best farms of that
section. He died there in 1883. He was a man
of great energy and industry and wrung, by
hard labor and shrewd management, a com-
fortable competence from the stubborn soil.
In politics he was a Democrat in early life,
but when the anti-slavery agitation began to
affect politics he joined the Liberty party, and
afterward, when it was first organized, the
Republican party. He represented the town
in the state legislature. He was active and in-
fluential in local affairs, public-spirited and
generous in support of church and charity.

He married (first) in October, 1825, Ma-
tilda, born at Cornish, New Hampshire, April
14, 1801, daughter of Moses and Miriam
(Harding) Weld. Her parents moved to Ver-
mont when she was ten years old and there
she was brought up and educated. Her father,
Moses Weld, was son of Moses Weld, grand-
son of Moses Weld, great-grandson of John
Weld. Joseph Weld, father of John, was son
of John and grandson of Joseph Weld, the
immigrant, who arived in New England in
the year 1838 among the earliest settlers from
Wales, one of the most prominent pioneers of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony in military and

civil life. Of him Savage said : "He was the
richest man of the colony at the time of his
death. As a recompense for his important
services he received valuable estates in West
Roxbury, recently known as the Bussey farms,
bequeathed to his son John. He stands third
on the organized roll of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company and was chosen en-
sign at its organization at Boston, on the first
Monday of June, 1638. He was captain of
the Roxbury Company, and was in the regi-
ment of which John Winthrop was colonel and
Thomas Dudley was lieutenant colonel." The
family was originally from Wales, but came
to New England from county Suffolk, Eng-
land, and is traced back to 1352, when William
Weld was high sheriff of London. The first
wife of Moses Terrill died April 13, 1830, and
he married (second) Minerva Calkins, born
at Hyde Park, Vermont, April 18, 1803, died
in October, 1901, aged ninety-eight years and
six months. Children of first wife : Moses
Weld, mentioned below; Newton Alonzo, a
farmer in Morristown ; other children died
young. Children of second wife : Lester H,
born January 7, 1833, died at Middletown,
Connecticut, September 1, 1898; Benjamin F.,
December 13, 1834, resides at Middlefield,
Connecticut ; Burton, 1836, lived three or four
months only; Emily Matilda, May 9, 1839,
married Samuel C. Town, of Morristown,
where she still resides ; Carlos B., September,
1847, resides at Morristown, Vermont.

(V) Moses Weld, son of Moses Terrill, was
born in Morristown, Vermont, October 2,
1826. He attended the public schools in his
native town and was a student for one year at
the academy in Johnson, Vermont, and two
terms in a select school. His health and
strength not being suited to the hard labor of
a farmer's life, he was trained for a mercantile
career, beginning as clerk in the general store
of Hon. V. W. Waterman, at Morristown.
After two years in this store he spent another
two years as clerk for P. S. Benjamin, at Wol-
cott, Vermont, and then, in partnership with
W. G. Ferrin, bought the business of Mr. Ben-
jamin. But after a year the firm was dissolved
and the store was sold. Mr. Terrill then es-
tablished a general store in Morristown and
conducted it successfully for twelve years.
In 1 86 1 he became interested, with Rev. E.
Dickerman, of Morristown, Vermont, in the
manufacture of a clothes wringer which Dick-
erman had invented. In the same year they
became associated with the late David Lyman,
of Middlefield, Connecticut, removing their
business to that town, where was organized
the Metropolitan Washing Machine Company,
and later the Metropolitan Manufacturing

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Company, with Mr. Terrill as president and
David Lyman as treasurer. After the death
of Mr. Lyman, in 1871, Mr. Terrill became
treasurer of the company. The patent was
valuable and the business proved profitable.
He continued to act as treasurer of the com-
pany until it was consolidated in 1891 with
the American Wringer Company, when he
retired from active business. However, in Oc-
tober, 1891, on the incorporation of the Rogers
Manufacturing Company, at Rockfall, Con-
necticut, he became a large stockholder and
was elected president, though he did not take
an active part in its management. He was
an active, progressive and enterprising man
of business, winning success and a fortune from
legitimate industry. The same high standards
that characterized his private life were applied
to his dealings in business. His integrity was
never in question. He was always alive to the
duties of citizenship and took his part in pub-
lic affairs. In politics he is a Republican. His
first vote was cast in 1848 for the Free Soil
candidate for president. He represented Mor-
ristown, Vermont, in the state legislature in
1855-56 and served in the general assembly
of Connecticut in 1860-67-83. He was first se-
lectman, assessor, justice of the peace, mem-
ber of the board of relief and school visitor.
From 1861 to 1892 he lived at Middlefield, and
since then at Middletown, Connecticut. He
was a prominent member of the Methodist
Episcopal churches of Middlefield and Middle-
town and served on the boards of trustees.
At the time of the erection of the new church,
in 1866, at Middlefield, he was one of the
leaders in giving and securing contributions to
the building fund.

He married, at Morristown, Vermont, July
17, 1848, Almira Ortensia, born June 24, 1826,
daughter of John and Hannah (Jacobs) Fer-
rin, the former a representative in the Vermont
legislature. She died March 6, 1896. Chil-
dren : 1. John Martin, born June 3, 1849, at
Morristown, now a resident of Bridgeport,
Connecticut ; formerly in the livery stable busi-
ness ; married Theresa Maria Wetherill, of
Middlefield, Connecticut ; children : Edith,
Alice, Whitman, Helen, John, Marjorie and
Ferrin. 2. Willis Edward, born June 16, 1851,
mentioned below. 3. Frederick Weld, April, 30,
1853, at Morristown, Vermont, a prominent
citizen of Middlefield, Connecticut ; has repre-
sented the town in the general assembly of the
state, and was a delegate to the constitutional
convention held at Hartford in 1902 ; married
Mary Ida Louise Skinner, of Middlefield ;
children ; Ivy Laura, Moses Weld, William
Ward, Lily May, Whitman Earl, Alma An-
ner, Paul Ferrin and Maria Ward. 4. Lily

May, January 8, 1864; married, at Middle-
field, June 2, 1887, Rev. David George Dow-
ney, who has been pastor at Hartford, Con-
necticut, Mamaroneck, New York, Stamford,
Connecticut, and St. John's Methodist Episco-
pal church of Brooklyn, and is now corre-
sponding secretary of the board of Sunday
schools of the Methodist Episcopal church,
with headquarters at Chicago ; child, Bradford,
born at Stamford, Connecticut, October 29,
1894. 5. May Lily, June 10, 1868; married,
January 15, 1896, Thomas Charles Cheney,
attorney at Morristown, Vermont, state's at-
torney, clerk of the state legislature several
years and speaker of the house of representa-
tives for two terms.

(VI) Willis Edward, son of Moses Weld
Terrill, was born June 16, 1851, at Morris-
town, Vermont. He attended the public
schools there and at Middefield, Connecticut,
whither he went with the family in 1862. He
also took a course at the United States Busi-
ness College at New Haven, and spent two
years — 1866-67 — and the winter term, 1870-
71, at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massa-
chusetts. He entered the employ of the Metro-
politan Manufacturing Company, of which his
father was president, and was shipping and
stock clerk for three years. In 1874 he left
the company and engaged in business as a mer-
chant on his own account, and for eight years
conducted a general store at Middlefield. He
disposed of this in 1882, and was not again
actively engaged in business until 1884, when
he went to Eustis, Florida, where he was a
successful general merchant for eighe years.
Mr. Terrill represented Middlefield in the Con-
necticut legislature two sessions, 1877-78, and
was county commissioner of Middlesex county
for five years, 1879-84. He served two years
in the city government of Eustis, as an alder-
man. In 1891 he returned to Connecticut, and
in 1892 settled in Middletown, where he now
resides. On the organization of the Rogers'
Manufacturing Company, at Rock Falls, Con-
necticut, in October, 1891, he became a stock-
holder and was made secretary-treasurer and
manager. In 1905, after the death of the
president, Moses Weld Terrill, he became
president of the company, and has since con-
tinued to act as president and treasurer. He
is at present a director of the Middlesex
County National Bank, of the Farmers' and
Mechanics' Savings Bank of Middletown, and
a member of the executive committee of the
First Ecclesiastical Society. For two years
he was a member of the city council of Mid-
dletown. In politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Terrill married, September 5, 1872,
Sarah Wilson, born August 2, 1849, at North

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Killingly (now part of Putnam), Connecticut,
daughter of Captain William and Mary So-
phronia (Wilson) Clapp, of Brooklyn, Con-
necticut. Lowell Clapp, father of Captain
William Clapp, lived at Oswego, New York ;
died August 2, 1820; married Lucy, daughter
of John and Annis (Bowman) Day, of Day-
ville, Connecticut. A history of the Day fam-
ily appears elsewhere in this work.

William Clapp, father of Mrs. Terrill, en-
listed in the civil war from Pomfret, Connecti-
cut, as a captain in Company F, Eleventh Regi-
ment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; re-
turned home on account of illness, but was
again in the service as captain of Company
D, Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teers, and took part in the engagement at New-
bern, North Carolina. Children: 1. Horace,
born September 24, 1839; married (first) Lu-
anda Parrot, daughter of Samuel Williams,
March 22, 1859; married (second) Mrs. Julia
B. (Webster) Lyon, a widow; had no chil-
dren; died August 31, 1891. 2. Albert, born
at Relay ville, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1841 ;
married, March 18, i860, Ella Thompson, of
Greenwich, Rhode Island ; enlisted in Com-
pany I, Third Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teers, and was assistant sergeant major, then
first lieutenant ; was killed at Napoleonville,
Louisiana, January 18, 1865 ; had no children.
3. Edward, December 25, 1842, died December
28, 1842. 4. Ellen, born at West Thompson,
Connecticut, April 24, 1846, died at Danielson,
Connecticut, October 14, 1875 ; married, March
17, 1864, John Park Dexter, of Pomfret, Con-
necticut, and had one child : William Clapp,
born October 21, 1874, at Danielson, Connec-
ticut. 5. Sarah Wilson, married Willis Ed-
ward Terrill, as mentioned above. 6. Lowell
Lawrence, born at Pomfret, March 31, 1852,
died November 19, T879; graduate of Wood-
stock Academy, 1872, and of Yale University,
class of 1876.

Sarah Wilson (Clapp) Terrill, wife of Wil-
lis Edward Terrill, graduated from Wesleyan
Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in the
class of 1 87 1. She is a member of the Con-
gregational church of Middletown, and of
Wadsworth Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, of that city. Her grand-
mother was Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and
Mary (Williams) Starr. Her mother's father
was Jonas Hewes, son of John and Sarah
(Hewes) Wilson, and was a drummer in the
war of 1812. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Willis
Edward Terrill: 1. Child, born September
20, 187.S, died at birth. 2. Olive Clapp, born
at Middletown, December 20, 1892 ; graduate
of the Misses Pattens' Select School, Middle-
town, class of 1909 ; now a student at Welles-

ley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, class of

The Maxwell family is one
MAXWELL of the oldest in Scotland.

Before the year 1200 the
family was prominent in Roxburghshire, Dum-
friesshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Kirk-
cudbrightshire and Wigtonshire. The family
possesses the earldoms of Dirleton and Niths-
dale, baronies of Herries, Innerwick, Caerve-
rock, Eskdale and five baronetcies. A branch
of the family settled in the north of Ireland,
when the Scotch and English Protestants were
granted lands by James, king of England, who
dispossessed the Irish Catholics. .We have
the record of James Maxwell, precinct of Lif-
fer, county of Donegal, in Ulster, who was
a tenant of Peter Benson on a fifteen hundred
grant in 1619, according to the survey of Nich-
olas Pynnar. Maxwell was there in 1616. In
1653 James Maxwell was one of the Scotch
ordered to remove from Ulster by the King's
commissioners. He was then of Route Quar-
ters, county Antrim. At the same time we
find Captain Colin Maxwell in Lord Clanboy's
quarters among those ordered to remove.
Lieutenant Colonel George Maxwell was one
of the Protestant officers who signed an agree-
ment at Londonderry, Ireland, March 1, 1688-
89, to oppose the Irish enemy, etc. The family
multiplied, especially in counties Downs and
Antrim, in which there were in 1890 forty-
eight births in Maxwell families.

(I) Hugh Maxwell lived at Minterburn,
county Tyrone, Ulster province. He was
among the Scotch-Irish who sought a home
in New England. He settled in Bedford,
Massachusetts, and later at Heath, Massachu-
setts.

(II) Hugh (2), son of Hugh (1) Maxwell,
was born in Minterburn, Ireland, April 27,
1733. He was a soldier in the American army
in the revolution and attained the rank of
colonel. He died October 14, 1799.

(III) Sylvester, son of Hugh (2) Maxwell,
was born in Heath. Massachusetts, in 1775,
died in December, 1858. He graduated from
Yale College in 1797, and practiced law at
Charlemont, Massachusetts. He married Tir-
zah Taylor, of Buckland, and they had four
sons and four daughters.

(IV) George, son of Sylvester Maxwell,
was born July 30, 1817, died April 2, 1891.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town. At the age of seventeen he re-
moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he
was town clerk for ten years. In 1843 ne came
to Rockville, Connecticut, where he was for
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He was president of the New England Com-
pany, manufacturers of woolen goods, and
treasurer and president of the Hockanum Com-
pany. He was also treasurer of the Spring-
ville Manufacturing Company, manufacturing
woolens ; vice-president of the Rockville Na-
tional Bank ; president of the Rockville Gas
Company and of the Rockville Railroad Com-
pany ; treasurer of the Rockville Power Com-
pany, president of the Rockville Water and
Aqueduct Company and director in the Na-
tional Fire Insurance Company and of various
other corporations. Mr. Maxwell was a Re-
publican in politics. He represented the town
in the general assembly in 1871, and was state
senator in 1872. Mr. Maxwell was a citizen
of great public spirit, aiding various charities
generously. A magnificent public library at
Rockville was erected by his wife and chil-
dren as a tribute of affectionate remembrance,
and was presented to the town, June 29, 1904.
He was a member of the Union Congrega-
tional Church. He married, November 3,
1846, Harriet Kellogg, born in 1824, daughter
of George Kellogg, of Rockville. Children
living: Francis T., J. Alice, William, Robert.
(V) Francis Taylor, son of George Max-
well, was born in Rockville, January 4, 1861.
He attended the public schools and graduated
from the Rockville high school. He is one
of the leading manufacturers of Rockville and
has important interests in many industries of
that and other towns. He is president of the
Hockanum Mills Company, treasurer of the
Hockanum Company, director of the New
England Company, director of the Rockville
National Bank, director of the Rockville Build-
ing and Loan Association, director of the Na-
tional Fire Insurance Company of Hartford,
director of Travelers Insurance Company
and Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Com-
pany, Hartford Trust Company, and also
First National Bank of Hartford ; president
of the trustees of the Rockville Public Library.
He was on the staff of Governor Bulkeley in
1892, with the rank of colonel. He was a
member of the Rockville council in 1896, and
represented his town in the general assembly
in 1899. serving on the committee on insur-
ance. He was again in the legislature in 1901,
when he was state senator, and served as chair-
man of the education committee. He was a
delegate to the Republican national conven-
tions in 1900 and 1904, and was presidential
elector in 1904. He is a member of the Metro-
politan Museum of Art Association of New
York City, Society of Royal Arts, London;
American Geographical Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, Connecticut Historical Societv, Na-

tional Wool Manufacturing Association and of
various clubs. He married, November 18,
1896, Florence Russell Parsons, of Providence,
Rhode Island.

(V) William, son of George Maxwell, was
born at Rockville, December 7, 1862. He at-
tended the public schools and was graduated
in the class of 1881 from the Rockville high
school. He entered Yale College and was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in the class of 1885. He has been treas-
urer of the Springville Manufacturing Com-
pany since 1887, president of the Hockanum
Company, treasurer of the Hockanum Mills
Company, director of the New England Com-
pany, the Minterburn Mills Company, the
Rockville National Bank, the Rockville Build-
ing and Loan Association, the Rockville Water
and Aqueduct Company and the Rockville
Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. He is
president of the Savings Bank of Rockville.
In politics he is a Republican. He has
been on the high school committee of
Rockville since 1890. He was city assessor
in 1903-04. He is a member of various clubs
and societies, the Hartford Club, the Hartford
Golf Club, the Springfield Country Club, the
Country Club of Farmington, the Automobile
Club of America and the University Club of
New York City.

Alexander Black was born in
BLACK England. He came to this coun-
try when a young man and was
engaged in the shoe business at Bridgeport,
Connecticut. He resided also for a time in
New York City. He died at Bridgeport.

(II) Peter Joseph, son of Alexander Black,
was born and died in Bridgeport. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools in
New York City, and was for a time engaged
in the trucking business there. He came to
Bridgeport in 1852 and embarked in business
as a dealer in meats and orovisions. After-
ward he was a partner in a firm of coal deal-
ers. He was an upright and honorable man,
respected by all who knew him. In religion he
was a Baptist and for a number of years
deacon of the church at Bridgeport. He mar-
ried Maria Loughton, born and died at Bridge-
port. Children : Joseph A., born November
26, 1846, mentioned below ; Mary A., married
William Frisbie and lives at Bridgeport ;
James M. H., engaged in the coal and wood
business at Bridgeport.

(III) Joseph Alexander, son of Peter Jo-
seph Black, was born in New York City, No-
vember 26, 1846, died in Roxbury, August 14,
1902. He came to Bridgeport when he was
about seven years old, with his parents, and

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was educated there in the public schools. He
began his business career as bookkeeper for a
firm of coal dealers in Bridgeport. In 1869 he
went into the coal business in partnership with
his father, and built up a large trade. His
place of business was at the corner of Noble
and Crescent avenues. Afterward he sold the
real estate there to the railroad company, but
continued in business there under lease to the
time of his death. The business was moved
after his death and continued by his brother,
James M. H. Black, and his sons, Edwin N.
and Frank L., the latter a silent partner. He
was a very capable business man and stood
high in the estimation of his townsmen. He
was active in the church and a prime mover
in organizing and building the Second Baptist
Church of Bridgeport. The first meetings
were held at his home and the plans for the
new church later drawn there. After his death
Mrs. Black gave to the church a beautiful
memorial window. In politics he was a Re-
publican and a member of the Maccabees. He
married, November 26, 1867, Gertrude Eliza-
beth, daughter of Garry Noble and Laura
Louise (Davidson) Bronson (see Bronson
VII).

Children: 1. Child, died in infancy. 2.
Willis J., born August 29, 1870, at Bridge-
port ; graduate of Yale College and a civil
engineer with the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company ; married Flora
Lewis, of Bath, New York. 3. Edwin N.,
born January 4, 1880, at Bridgeport; in part-
nership with his uncle, James H. Black, bought
and conducts his father's coal and wood busi-
ness at Bridgeport ; married Grace, daughter
of P. Joseph Black. 4. Frank L., born Sep-
tember 23, 1881, at Bridgeport; graduate of
Yale College ; civil engineer by profession ;
married Mabel Colburn ; child, Edith Col-
burn, born June 8, 1909.

(The Bronson Line).

(II) Jacob Bronson, son of John Bronson,
(q. v.), was born in Farmington in January,
1640. He resided in Kensington Society, Far-
mington. He married Mary . Chil-
dren: Samuel, born 1685; Jacob, of Kensing-
ton ; Roger, mentioned below ; Isaac, of Lyme ;
Elizabeth ; Rebecca.

(III) Roger, son of Jacob Bronson, was
born in Farmington, now Kensington, in 1692.
He settled in New Milford in 1713. He mar-
ried Dorcas . Children, born in Ken-
sington and New Milford : Roger, born De-
cember 10, 1702; Mary, February 20, 1704;
Abram, December 22, 1707, mentioned below;
Ruth, December 25, 1710; Gershom, October
4, 1713; Josiah, February 14, 1715 ; Peter,

October 22, 1717; Dorcas, September 9, 1720;
Noah, October 2, 1722.

(IV) Abram, son of Roger Bronson, was
born December 22, 1707, died January 28,
1743-44. He married, January 24, 1738-39,
Deborah Abbott, who died November 3, 1739.
They had one child, Noah, mentioned below.

(V) Noah, son of Abram Bronson, was
born at New Milford, October 18, 1739. A
Noah Bronson was a drummer in Captain
Heecock's company, Thirteenth Regiment, in
the campaign in New York in 1776 during the
revolution. He married, March 16, 1763,
Elizabeth Oviatt, born March 9, 1741, died
December 8, 1836. Children, born at New
Milford: Orsamus, March 19, 1764; Deb-
orah, June 24, 1766; Austin, June 30, 1768;
Noah, October 24, 1771 ; Lemuel Abbott, Sep-
tember 3, 1773; Dorcas, May 7, 1775; Nath-
aniel, November 20, 1777, mentioned below;
Orsamus, August 5, 1781.

(VI) Nathaniel, son of Noah Bronson, was
born November 20, 1777, died at New Mil-
ford, August 2J, 1850. He married Hannah

. Children, born at New Milford :

John H., Betsey A., Theresa, Daniel G.,
Garry N., Matthew, Cornelia M. and Han-
nah H.

(VII) Garry Noble, son of Nathaniel Bron-
son, was born at Second Hill, New Milford,
in 1818, died in 1884 at Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut. He was educated in the public schools,
and began life on a farm, later as clerk in a
store at New Milford. For several years he
worked at the trade of stationary engineer
for Smith, Erwin & Randall, hatters, then
went to Bridgeport and was an engineer for
Charles B. Hotchkiss there ; later worked as a
molder for the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine Company in the foundry ; subse-
quently a stationary engineer for Charles San-
ford's hat factory. He was a member of the
Park Street Church. In politics he was a Re-
publican. He married Laura Louise David-
son, born at Roxbury, Connecticut, died at
Bridgeport, September 22, 1888. Children: 1.
Gertrude Elizabeth, married Joseph Alexan-
der Black (see Black III). 2. Willis N.. lives
at Tarpon Springs, Florida, married (first)
Helen Tracy, (second) Jane R. Tracy.

(VI) Asa (2) Fitch, son of Asa

FITCH (1) Fitch (q. v.), was born May

6, 1787. He married Hannah,

daughter of Ebenezer Avery, and they lived

in Preston, Connecticut.

(VII) Edwin Augustus, son of Asa (2)
Fitch, was born in Preston, January 9, 1823.
He attended the public schools of his native
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that vicinity, when a young man. He was
afterward bookkeeper for the firm of Rumery
& Burnham, of Portland, Maine, packers of
fruits, vegetables and meats. He embarked in
business on his own account in Norwich, Con-
necticut, and continued with marked success
for a period of thirty-five years. He died at
Norwich, September 17, 1904. He was a mem-
ber of Uncas Lodge, No. 11, Odd Fellows,
and was its treasurer for twenty-five years.
He was a member of the Broadway Congre-
gational Church. He married, January 7,
1862, Frances Swan, born September 27, 1836,
at North Stonington, daughter of Ephraim
and Julia Ann (Grinnell) Swan (see Swan
YI). Children: Charles Edward, born De-
cember 17, 1862, died September 6, 1872;
George Swan, December 9. 1863, unmarried;
Frank Augustus, February 20, 1868 ; Lillian
Frances ; Ella May ; Albert Aver)- ; William
Asa, died voune.

(The Swan Line).

The family of the surname Swan (Swann,
Swanne, Swayne or Swain) is very ancient.
Swain, a Dane of noble ancestry, early settled
in the southeastern part of England. The
Swans have been possessed of landed prop-
erty in the counties of Kent and Derby since
the time of the Conqueror (1066), when we
find their names occur twice in the Domesday
Book as land owners, and nearly as early as
the reign of Richard II., they wrote them-
selves "gentlemen"', as appears from ancient
deeds.

John Swan, of Southfleet, sat as Baron for
the borough of Sandwich in the reign of
Henry VI., Edward IV. and Richard III. The
family held large possessions in county Kent,
including the manors of Swanscombe, Den-
sted, Sutton and Denton. The chief seats of
the Swan family were Hook place in South-
fleet, the residence of the elder branch, from
which Swan of Baldwinstown claims descent,
and Lydd and afterwards Wye and Denton
Court, the places of location of the younger
branch, which intermarried with the Derings,
Boys and Twisdens, all families of high ex-
traction and great antiquity in county Kent.
Both these English branches have become ex-
tinct, the former in the person of Edward
Swan, son of Sir Francis Swan, of Denton
Court, who died without issue in 1743 (?).
Joseph Percival Swan, the possessor, in 1858,
of Baldwintown, representative of the Irish
branch, claims to be also a representative of
the Southfleet family being lineally descended
from the John Swan of that place above men-
tioned, who acquired the manor of Swans-
combe, and died in 1490. His son, John Swan,

Jr., presented the large bell to the church at
Southfleet and died in 1550, leaving a son
Thomas, who left at decease, in 1561, two sons;
the eldest, Sir William, was knight of Hook-
place, county Kent, and the younger, John,
founded the Irish line, going to Ireland in a
military capacity under the Earl of Essex, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The coat-of-
arms of the present Irish branch of this lineage
is : Azure on a fess wavy, argent between
three swans displayed proper, ungulecl and
crowned or, a trefoil vert. Of the various
coats-of-arms of past families in Kent, all
were similar in that they used the swan as an
emblem, indicating, doubtless, the origin of
the name. The oldest coat-of-arms borne by
the Kent family, easily recognized by its sim-
plicity, is : Azure, a swan proper. Motto :
Sit nomen decus.

(I) Richard Swan, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England about 1600, died in Rowley,
Massachusetts, May 14, 1678. He settled in
Boston before 1638, and was a husbandman
there as early as February 6, 1638. He joined
the church, January 6, 1639, an^ was a<^"
mitted freeman, May 13, 1640. He was dis-
missed from the Boston church to the gather-
ing of a church at Rowley, November 24,
1639. He held various town offices in Rowley
and was deputy to the general court from
1666 to 1674. He served in King Philip's war
and the expedition to Canada. His first wife
died in England before he came to this coun-
try, and he married (second) Mrs. Ann Trum-
bull, March 1, 1658. She married (first)
Michael Hopkinson, who was buried February
28, 1648; (second) John Trumbull, June, 1650.
She deposed March 30, 1675, tnat sne was
aged about sixty years. His will was dated
April 26, 1678, and proved May 23 following,
bequeathing to wife Ann according to mar-
riage contract ; to son Robert and his son
Richard, to son-in-law Joseph Boynton and his
wife Sarah and to children : Elizabeth, Samuel
and Sarah Boynton ; to daughters : Frances
Ouilter, Jane Wilson, Dorothy Chapman and
Mercy Warriner. His widow Ann made her
will July 4, 1678, proved September 24, 1678,
bequeathing to daughters Abigail Bayley and
Mary Kilborne ; to son Caleb Hopkinson a
chest that his father made ; to sons John
and Jonathan Hopkinson ; one book to John
Trumble. Children : Richard ; Dorothy, mar-
ried - Chapman ; Jane, married -

Wilson ; Frances, married

Ouilter ;

Robert, 1626 or 1628, mentioned below; Jona-
than ; Susan, married Samuel Stickney, of
Rowley ; Sarah, married Joseph Boynton ;
John, born in Boston, baptized February 13,
or November 24, 1638; Mercy, Rowley, July

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4, 1640; Faith, Rowley, March 30, 1644-45.

(II) Robert, son of Richard Swan, was
born in 1626 or 1628 in England. He mar-
ried (first) Elizabeth Acie, of Rowley; she
died in 1689. He married (second) April 1,
1690, Hannah Russ. He died February 11,
1698. Soon after his marriage he went to
Andover, Massachusetts, and in 1650 to Hav-
erill, in that part afterwards set off and in-
corporated as the town of Methuen, where
many of his descendants have lived. He took
the oath of allegiance, November 28, 1677.
He was a soldier in the great swamp fight,
King Philip's war, Lieutenant Benjamin
Swett's company. Children : Elizabeth, born
September 30, 1653 ; Sarah, August 10, 1655 ;
Robert, May 30, 1657; Ann, March 3, 1658;
Richard, February 24, 1660; Timothy, March
12, 1662-63; Dorothy, "November 8, 1666;
John, August 1, 1668, mentioned below; Sam-
uel, April 11, 1670, died young; Samuel, Octo-
ber 24, 1672; Joshua, September 13, 1674;
Caleb, June 1, 1676, died young.

(III) John, son of Robert Swan, was born
August 1, 1668. He married, August 1, 1699.
Mrs. Susanna Wood, daughter of Philip East-
man and granddaughter of Roger Eastman.
She married (first) Thomas Wood, May 16,
1693, who was killed with a child, Susanna, by
the Indians, March 15, 1697. John Swan and
his family lived in Haverill until 1707, and
three of their children were born there. The
history of Haverill gives an account of an
attack made on their home by the Indians, dur-
ing the Indian war. and of the heroism and
resistance made by Mrs. Swan, which re-
sulted in saving the family. In 1707 they
removed to Stonington and located on what is
now known as Swan Town Hill, North Ston-
ington, where the remainder of his children
were born. He died May I, 1743, and his
wife December 20, 1772, in the hundredth
year of her age. Children, the first three born
at Haverill, the others at Stonington : John,
December 28, 1700; Ruth, December 31, 1703;
William. June 24, 1706, mentioned below;
Nathaniel, April 13, 1709; Asa, June 4, 1712;
Elizabeth, May 14, 1715; Timothy, September
2, 1721.

(IV) William, son of John Swan, was born
at Haverill, June 24, 1706. He married (first)
January 20, 1726, Thankful, born November
12, 1708, daughter of Joshua and Fear (Stur-
ges) Holmes, married November 21, 1698.
Fear Sturges was the daughter of Edward
Sturges, who came to this country from Eng-
land in 1634 and settled in Yarmouth, Massa-
chusetts. The latter was a son of Philip
Sturges, of Hamington county, Northampton,
and a descandant of Roger Sturges, of Clif-

ton county, Northampton, England, a resident
there in 1530. Thankful (Holmes) Swan died
September 7, 1742, and he married (second)
April 14, 1743, Anna Smith, of Groton. Chil-
dren of first wife: Mary, January 1, 1731 ;
Abigail, August 6, 1733; Thankful, Septem-
ber 30, 1734; William, April 7, 1737; Desire,
July 22, 1739; Ruth, September 27, 1741, died
young. Children of second wife : Anna, Sep-
tember 25, 1744; Charles, mentioned below.

(V) Charles, son of William Swan, was
born May 24, 1746. He married, March 21,
1779, Eunice Barnes. Children: Amos, born
September 12, 1780; Charles, April 3, 1782;
Frederick, July 18, 1784; Louisa, February 6,
1786; Christopher, March 30, 1787, died
young; Sabra, July 24, 1789: Denison, No-
vember 6, 1791; Coddington, January 15,
1794; Eunice, September 13, 1796; William,
February 24, 1799; Ephraim, August 2, 1802,
mentioned below ; Christopher, April 16, 1816.

(VI) Ephraim, son of Charles Swan, was
born August 2, 1802, at Stonington. He mar-
ried, November 29, 183 1, Julia Ann Grinnell.
Their daughter Frances, born September 2j.
1836, married, January 7, 1862, Edwin Augus-
tus Fitch (see Fitch VII).

(VII) Stephen, son of Colonel
FITCH Asa (q. v.) and Susannah (Fitch)

Fitch, was born in Bozrah, Con-
necticut, August 21, 1790, died in the same
town, October 6, 1868. His early years were
spent on the farm of his father and he assisted
the latter in his iron business until he mar-
ried, when he removed to New Hartford, New
York, and was there engaged in farming until
1832. He then returned to Connecticut and
settled in Norwich, but after the death of his
wife he removed to Bozrah and for many
years was engaged in the manufacture of cot-
ton goods in association with his brother Asa
at Fitchville. His political support was given
to the Democratic party, which he represented
at the general assembly of Connecticut, and
he filled a number of other public offices. Mr.
Fitch married, March 23, 1817, Mary I. Rog-
ers, born in Norwich, January 4, 1794, died in
the same town, September 22, 1837. Chil-
dren :

1. Sophia Ingraham, born December 10,
1817, died in Paris, July 1, 1873; married
William S. Cruft, of Boston. 2. Asa Doug-
lass, born at New Hartford, New York, March
27, 1820, died in Norwich Town, November
2y, 1891. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born July 27,
1827, was a woman of more than ordinary at-
tainments, and a liberal supporter of religious
matters. She married (first) Hon. R. H.
Winslow, of Westport, Connecticut, (second)

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Dr. R. C. M. Page, of Virginia. 4. William
Huntington, see forward.

(VIII) William Huntington, youngest
child of Stephen and Mary I. (Rogers) Fitch,
was horn in New Hartford, New York, No-
vember 4, 1830, died in Norwich Town, Con-
necticut, October 28, 1904. He was but two
years of age when his parents returned to
Connecticut and his allegiance was always
given to that state in preference to that of his
birth. His education was acquired in the
common schools and in the Cheshire Academy,
from which he was graduated. About the
year 1850 he went to California by way of
the Isthmus of Panama, and there he joined
his brother, with whom he became associated
in a mercantile business in Portland, Oregon.
This enterprise was continued until 1859,
when he returned to the east and formed a
partnership with his uncle, Asa Fitch, at
Fitchville, for the purpose of manufacturing
cotton goods, the firm being known as W. H.
Fitch & Company. When his uncle died Mr.
Fitch conducted the business alone until 1867,
when he retired and took up his residence on
a farm of three hundred acres between Fitch-
ville and Yantic. This piece of property is
beautifully located and improved, and has mod-
ern and commodious buildings. The farm had
one of the best half-mile tracks in the state of
Connecticut, and Mr. Fitch had a collection of
fine race horses. Later he sold this farm and
took up his residence in Norwich Town. For
a number of years he served as a director of
the Uncas National Bank, and was elected
vice-president of that institution in 1903.
While often active in the interests of the Dem-
ocratic party, Mr. Fitch was never desirous of
holding public office. Public honors were,
however, bestowed upon him on various occa-
sions, and he served his district as judge of the
probate court. During his residence in Oregon
he filled the office of assistant commissary
while there was trouble with the Indians on
the frontier. The following extract from the
minutes placed on the records of the Uncas
National Bank at the time of the death of Mr.
Fitch is a faithful and deserved tribute to
his fine character : "His extensive and varied
business training and practical knowledge of
human nature, as well as a prior service in
another bank in Norwich and his close touch
with many of the financial interests of the city,
entitled his judgment to much consideration
and rendered his services with us of much
more than ordinary value. He was a man of
independent views, positive convictions and
the strictest integrity. With him there was no
such thing as any deviation as a matter of
policy from what he considered as right. His

own rights were no more sacred with him
than those of others. His presence upon the
board of any institution was an element of
safety in its financial management. Alto-
gether, Mr. Fitch was a man of rugged and
marked personality. He possessed qualities
which justly entitled him to the regard and
respect in which he was held by those who
knew him. Such men are too few among us,
and seem sometimes to belong, too often only,
to the training of a past generation. In his
death, not only this institution, but this com-
munity, has suffered a great loss."

Mr. Fitch married, in Bozrah, January 13,
1870, Louise C, born in Bozrah, December 3,
1844, daughter of Captain William Smith, of
Norwich. Children: Mary I., deceased;
Stephen D., deceased ; William D., born Octo-
ber 25, 1879; he was graduated from the Nor-
wich Free Academy, became a student at the
Yale Law School, and was graduated in 1903.

Edward Griswold was born
GRISWOLD in Warwickshire, England,

in 1607. He had four
brothers : Thomas, who remained in England ;
Francis, who settled in Cambridge, Massachu-
setts ; Michael, who settled in Wethersfield,
Connecticut; and Matthew, of Windsor and
Lyme, Connecticut. Edward settled first in
Massachusetts. In 1639 ne settled in Windsor,
Connecticut, on the Farmington road. He was
deputy to the general court in 1658 and jus-
tice of the peace before 1663. In that year
the settlement of the plantation of Ham-
monassett began, and was afterward called
Kenilworth, from the place of Griswold's
birth. Through the bad spelling of clerks, the
name of the town eventually became Killing-
worth. He married (first) Ann ;

(second) Elizabeth . Children: Francis,

born in 1629; Sarah, 1630; George, 1632;
John, 1635; Ann, August 19, 1642; Mary,
October 5, 1644; Deborah, June 28, 1646;
Joseph, March 22, 1648; Samuel, November
18, 1650; John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Edward Griswold, was
born August 1, 1652, in Windsor, and re-
moved when a child to Killingworth, Middle-
sex county, Connecticut. He died there Au-
gust 7, 1717. He became a landowner and
farmer in what is now Clinton, and was a
prominent citizen and deacon of the church.
He married (first) November 18, 1672, Mary
Bavis, who died December 29, 1679. He mar-
ried (second) Barshua, daughter of Thomas
North. She died March 19, 1736. Children:
Mary, born February 2, 1674; Margaret, De-
cember 10, 1675; Hannah, October 25, 1677;
John, September 22, 1679; Dorothy. March 4,

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1681, died 1690; Bathsheba, December 5,
1682; John, September 4, 1684; Samuel, April
4, 1686; Lucy, July 21, 1687; Martha, June 1,
1689; Joseph (twin), September 20, 1690;
Benjamin (twin), September 20, 1690; Dor-
othy, September 3, 1692; Martha, June 16,
1694; Daniel, October 25, 1696; Walter,
March 7, 1700.

(III) Joseph, son of John Griswold, was
born September 20, 1690, in Killingworth, died
there April 8, 1771. He was a farmer. He
married. December 29, 1714, Temperance
Lay, who died September 18, 1773. Children :
John, born October 10, 1715 ; Joseph, October
22, 1716; Nathan, April 28, 1719; Giles, June
3, 1723; John, March 6, 1726; Daniel, August
10, 1728, mentioned below; Jedediah, Decem-
ber 13, 1730. All these children were born at
Killingworth.

(IV) Daniel, son of Joseph Griswold, was
born in Killingworth, August 10, 1728. He
was a captain of infantry in colonial days and
went to Havana in the war of 1759. He was
the owner of mills which stood on the site now
occupied by the Clinton Paper Manufacturing
Company. In 1792 he removed with some of
his family to Little Falls, Herkimer county.
New York. The Henry Woodstock house in
Clinton was owned and occupied by Captain
Griswold before he left town and was prob-
ably built by him. He married Lydia Hull.

(V) Selah, son or nephew of Daniel Gris-
wold, was born in Clinton, Connecticut, about
1755. He was a soldier in the revolution, a
private in Captain Elderkin's company i»
1778, and a pensioner for revolutionary serv-
ice as late as 1832. He was living in Say-
brook in 1790, when the first federal census
shows that he had three sons under sixteen
and two females in his family. He lived also
in Essex, Connecticut. At the time of his
death he wTas eighty-three years old.

(VI) Daniel (2), son of Selah Griswold,
was born in Essex, March 15, 1780, died Jan-
uary 12, 1870. He married (first) January
17, 1801, Fanny Babcock, born April 1 1, 1779.
They lived in Essex, and there were born the
following children, all of whom are deceased :
Still-born, October 8, 1801 ; Fannie Maria,
November 1, 1803, died April, 1865; Alfred,
November 28, 1805, died August 13, 1891 ;
Cherella, January 18, 1808, died June 2, 1829;
William Daniel, March 4, 181 1, died October
12, 1898; Edwin, March 12, 1813, died March
16, 1897; Mary, March 15, 1815, died Octo-
ber 13, 1904; Rachel Conklin, May 17, 1817,
died May, 1859; Samuel, August 21, 1821.
Daniel Griswold married (second) Fannie
Spencer, November 10, 1859.

(VII) Samuel, son of Daniel (2) Gris-

wold, was born at Essex, August 21, 1821,
died May 13, 1906. He married Susanna E.,
daughter of Elias and Abigail (Pratt) Pratt,
and a descendant of Captain William Pratt; a
soldier in the revolution (see Pratt X). Chil-
dren: 1. Frederick Pratt, mentioned below.
2. Daniel Porter, born February 8, 1856; now
of Wallingford ; married Emily Page, of
Westbrook; child, Morton Daniel, born Feb-
ruary 19, 1883, died April 5, 1910, graduate
of the Hotchkiss Preparatory School, 1902,
Williams College (A.B.), 1906, Harvard Law
School, 1909; a most promising young man,
equipped for a brilliant and useful career. 3.
Samuel Ames, born March 17, 1867; married
Mrs. Marie (Pratt) Tyler.

(VIII) Frederick Pratt, son of Samuel
Griswold, was born in Essex, March 3, 1850.
He is a descendant of Edward Doty, who
came in the "Mayflower," and of whom a
sketch appears elsewhere in this work. He
attended the public schools of his native town,
and the Suffield Institute and studied his pro-
fession in the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York City, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine in 1876. After spending a year and a
half in Bellevue Hospital he began to practise
at Guilford, Connecticut. After six years
there he was a student for six months at the
Polyclinic in New York City, and then re-
sumed practice in Meriden, Connecticut, in
the autumn of 1884. Since that time he has
been a valued citizen of Meriden and a suc-
cessful physician. His office is at his resi-
dence, on Broad street, opposite the Centre
Congregational Church. He has been on the
staff of the Meriden Hospital since it was
established. He is a member of the New
Haven County Medical Society, the Meriden
City Medical Society, the Connecticut State
Medical Society and the American Medical
Association. He is an examiner for the Mas-
sachusetts Mutual and the National Life In-
surance companies. He and his wife are
active members of the Centre Congregational
Church. In politics he is a Republican. Dr.
Griswold married, October 30, 1878, Caroline
P., born March 17, 1853. daughter of William
Seward and Caroline (Parmelee) Hull, and
.granddaughter of Eliab and Lydia (Pierson)
Parmelee, the latter of North Killingworth
(see Hull X). Children of Dr. and Mrs. Gris-
wold: 1. Frederick Prescott, born April 15,
1880; attended public schools, graduated from
Meriden high school, 1898. and entered Yale
University, but left on account of ill health
and is now in the employ of C. H. Bird &
Company, of New Haven. 2. Harold Hull,
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Meriden high school, 1904; entered Williams
College and graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, in 1908; took postgraduate
work in fine arts at Yale University ; went
abroad in 1909 and studied architecture in
Paris.

(The Pratt Line).

(V) Ensign John Pratt, son of Lieutenant
William Pratt (q. v.), was born Februarv
20, 1644. He first settled on lands in the
old parish of Saybrook, given him by his
father about 1672. When his father died the
homestead on Essex Point fell to him, 1678,
and he removed to the latter place. He was a
large landholder in Saybrook and also in
Hebron, Connecticut. He was a blacksmith by
occupation and his shop was located near the
spot now occupied for the same purpose by a
descendant. He often appears on the records
as "Ensign," more often as "Sergeant," to
distinguish him from another of the same
name. He was a man of some distinction and
represented his town several times in the gen-
eral assembly. He married, June 8, 1669,
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Jones, of Guilford.
He died in the year 1726. The inventory of
his estate was presented August 31, 1726, a'nd
amounted to one hundred and nineteen pounds,
sixteen shillings, three pence. Children, born
at Saybrook: John, September 5, 1671, men-
tioned below; Elizabeth, April 3, 1673;
Thomas, October 28, 1675; Ysacke, January
16, 1677; Sarah, June 5, 1680; Lydia, Febru-
arv 18, 1682; Mehetabel, September 6, 1685;
Mary, 1688.

(VI) John (2), son of John (1) Pratt, was
born September 5, 1671. He lived in that
section of Saybrook called Pautapaug, and his
name appears in the list of inhabitants of the
Second Society who came to an agreement
September 18, 1722, in regard to the situation
of the meeting-house. He is believed to have
died in 1744. His will was presented for
probate, together with an inventory of his
estate, amounting to three hundred and
twenty-four pounds, one shilling, eight pence,
September 10, 1744. He married Hannah Wil-
liams, November 20, 1697. Children, born at
Saybrook : Elizabeth, March 20, 1699 ; Thom-
as, April 23, 1701 ; John, September 26, 1703,
mentioned below ; Nehemiah, January 26,
1706; Lemuel, February 25, 1709; Azariah,
August 1, 1710; Lydia, July 19, 1 7 1 5 : Han-
nah. January 19, 1718: Mehetabel, February
16, 1720, died June 14. 1733.

(VII) John (3), son of John (2) Pratt,
was born September 26, 1703. The exact date
of his death is not known. His estate was
settled by probate, at Guilford, May 10, 1756,
and was distributed to the widow, to Asa, eld-

est son, a double portion, and to the remainder
of the children, equally, single portions. He
bore the title of lieutenant, and probably
served in the French and Indian war. He
married, March 8, 1732, Mary Webb. Chil-
dren, born at Saybrook: Mindwell, December
23, 1732; Asa, September 16,. 1734, mentioned
below; Mary, September 26, 1740; John, July
1, 1742; Jacob, December 16, 1744.

(VIII) Asa, son of John (3) Pratt, was
born September 16, 1734, died November 16,
181 1, and his wife, July 20, 1830, aged ninety-
three. He married, October 7, 1759, Abigail
Denison. Children: Asa, born May 31, 1761,
Saybrook; John, August 25, 1763, mentioned
below; Elias, May 15, 1766, lost at sea; Jen-
net, June 1, 1768; Lucina, November 29, 1771 ;
Abigail, December 8, 1773; Annis, September
25, 1776; Piercy, August 7, 1781.

(IX) John (4), son of Asa Pratt, was born
August 25, 1763. He lived at Essex, Con-
necticut. He died December 19, 1827, and
his wife, November 24, 1849. He married,
February 14, 1788, Hester Kirkland. Chil-
dren: Fanny, born June 4, 1790; Linus,
March 18, 1792; Edwin, March 6, 1794; Al-
mira, March 16, 1797; Elias, February 1,
1801, mentioned below; Emeline, August 21,
1805.

(X) Elias, son of John (4) Pratt, was
born February 1, 1801. He was a blacksmith
by trade and lived at Essex. He died Decem-
ber 14, 1877. He married, October 11, 1825,
Abigail, daughter of Asahel and Elizabeth
Pratt. Children: 1. Susanna E., born June

29, 1826, died February 26, 1898; married
Samuel Griswold (see Griswold VII). 2. Ed-
ward W., born July 31, 1828, deceased. 3.
Edwin, August 22, 1830. 4. Julia L., January

30, 1833, died October 11, 1834. 5. Augustus,
born June 29, 1835, deceased. 6. Julia, born
September 12, 1837, died November 1, 1837.
7. James Elias, born September 14, 1841, died
September 12, 1842. 8. Eveline Hayden, June
21, 1844, married Harrison I. Morgan, now
deceased.

(The Hull Line).

(II) George Hull, immigrant ancestor of
the family, son of Thomas and Jane (Peron)
Hull, was born in 1590, at Krewkerne, Som-
ersetshire, England, and died in 1659. After
coming to America he lived at Boston and
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Windsor and
Killingworth, Connecticut. He married Tham-
zen, daughter of Robert Michell, of Sloth-
land, England.

(III) Josiah, son of George and Thamzen
(Michell) Hull, was baptized November 15,
1620, died November 16, 1675. He passed
his life at Killingworth, and bore the title of

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lieutenant. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Joseph Loomis.

(IV) John, son of Josiah and Elizabeth
(Loomis) Hull, was born December 17, 1644,
died July 24, 1728. He also lived at Killing-
worth and was known as lieutenant. He mar-
ried, December 3, 1668, Abigail, daughter of
William Kelsey.

(V) Josiah (2), son of John and Abigail
(Kelsey) Hull, was born September 17, 1676,
died May 18, 1758. He was of Killingworth,
and held the office of deacon in the church.
He married Elizabeth .

(VI) Josiah (3), son of Josiah (2) and
Elizabeth Hull, was born February 23, 1720,
and passed his life at Killingworth. He mar-
ried, December 1, 1743, Elizabeth Buell.

(VII) James, son of Josiah (3) and Eliza-
beth (Buell) Hull, was born July 13, 1745,
died February 28, 1820. He married (first)
January 24, 1771, Lydia Gray, who died 1771 ;
(second) Mary, daughter of the Rev. William
Seward, the first minister in North Killing-
worth. James Hull passed his life at his birth-
place and was known as "Captain," a title
which he probably gained in the continental
arm}-.

(VIII) James (2), son of James (1) and
Mary (Seward) Hull, was born December 17,
1777, at Killingworth, where he passed his life.
He married, November 23, 1801, Philetta,
daughter of John (?) Herron, a revolutionary
soldier.

(IX) William Seward, third of the ten sons
of James (2) and Philetta (Herron) Hull,
was born December 8, 181 2, died November
18, 1890, at Madison, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, October 11, 1837, Caroline Parmelee,
who died January 19, 1901, at the home of her
daughter, in Meriden.

(X) Caroline Philetta, daughter of William
Seward and Caroline (Parmelee) Hull, was
born March 17, 1853. She married, October
30, 1878, Dr. Frederick Pratt Griswold (see
Griswold VIII). Their sons' are : Frederick
Prescott, born April 15, 1880; Harold Hull,
born November 12, 1886.

(The Pierson Line).

The name Pierson is supposed to have come
from the French Pierre and son, or perhaps
further back, from the Danish Peterson. In
England the name was in use as early as the
first part of the fifteenth century, in York-
shire. It has been variously spelled Pierson,
Pearson, Person and even Parsons.

(I) Rev. Abraham Pierson, immigrant an-
cestor, was born in Yorkshire, England, in
1613, and graduated at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, 1632. He came to America in 1639,

and was in Boston and Lynn, Massachusetts,
in 1640. Before leaving England he had been
ordained as an Episcopal minister, and had
preached there for a while. He came to
America in search of religious liberty and was
ordained in Boston as a Congregational minis-
ter. In 1640, "finding ' themselves straight-
ened, about 40 families, with Pierson as their
Minister," departed from Lynn and attempted
to make a settlement on the west end of Long
Island, but were prevented by the Dutch and
repaired to the east end, where they laid the
foundation of Southampton. He became the
first minister of the church there, which was
started as Congregational, but afterward be-
came Presbyterian. He was rigid in his de-
sire to have the "civil as well as the ecclesias-
tical power vested in the church, and to allow
none but church members to act in the choice
of officers of Gov't, or to be eligible as such."
This led to a division of the colony, and in
1647 Pierson, with a small part of his congre-
gation, attempted another settlement, across
the sound, on the Connecticut shore. There
they organized and formed the town of Bran-
ford. For twenty years he was the minister,
and "enjoyed the confidence and esteem not
only of the ministers, but the more prominent
civilians connected with, the N. H. colony."
He interested himself in behalf of the Indians,
learned their language and prepared a cate-
chism for them. He became to the Indians of
Connecticut what Eliot and Mayhew were to
those of Massachusetts. In 1665 he united
with John Davenport in opposing the union
of the Connecticut and New Haven colonies,
being strongly against the liberality of the
clergy of the Connecticut colony and desiring
to keep the government entirely in the church.
On this account he refused to unite with the
latter, and in 1666, with most of his congre-
gation, left Branford and went to New Jer-
sey. Here, on the Passaic, they purchased
land from the Indians and laid the founda-
tion of the city of Newark. During that year
and the following about sixty-five men came
from Branford and two neighboring towns.
They brought their church organization with
them and became the first church in Newark.
Each man was entitled to a homestead lot of
six acres. Mr. Pierson was their minister for
twelve years, and died there August 9, 1678.
His will was dated August 10, 167 — . He
married Abigail, daughter of Rev. John
Wheelwright, of Lincolnshire, England, who
came to New Hampshire. Children : Abra-
ham, 1641, mentioned below; Thomas, 1641-
42, Southampton, Long Island ; John, 1643,
Southampton; Abigail. 1644; Grace, Bran-
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ford; Rebecca, 1654, Branford; Theophilus,
1659, Branford; Isaac; Mary.

(II) Abraham (2), son of Rev. Abraham
(1) Pierson, was born in 1641, at Southamp-
ton, Long Island, died June 5, 1707, at Old
Killingworth, now Clinton, Connecticut. He
married Abigail, daughter of George Clark,
of Milford. He graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1668, and removed with his father to
the new settlement of Newark. Here he be-
came assistant to the latter, July 28, 1669, and
on his death, sole pastor, which office he filled
until 1692, when he returned to Connecticut.
In 1694 he became pastor of the church at
Killingworth. In 1701, when Yale College was
established, he was made president or "rec-
tor," and for the last six years of his life
filled the two positions of pastor and rector.
Tradition represents him as an excellent
preacher and an exceedingly pious and good
man. Trumbull says of him : "He had the
character of a hard student, a good scholar and
a great divine. In his whole conduct he was
wise, steady and admirable ; was greatly re-
spected as a pastor and he instructed and
governed the college with general approba-
tion.'' In religion he was a Moderate Presby-
terian. Children: Abraham, born 1680. New-
ark; Sarah, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Ruth,
James, Abigail, John, 1689.

(III) Abraham (3), son of Abraham (2)
Pierson, was born in 1680, at Newark, and
died on Long Hill, in Killingworth. He mar-
ried, 1 710, Mrs. Mary Hart, who died January
8, 1752. He was a colonial magistrate of
great learning and usefulness, and a pillar in
the church and state. Children, probably all
born in Killingworth : Jedediah, born Sep-
tember 17, 1711; Mary, February 10, 1713 :
John, May 13, 1717; Phineas, December 29,
1718; Samuel, April 15, 1721, mentioned be-
low; Dodo, 1724; Nathan, March 24, 1726;
Sarah, August 8, 1728; Sarah, July 9, 1732.

(IV) Samuel, son of Abraham (3) Pier-
son, was born April 15, 1721, died January 2^,
1801, at Killingworth, where he had passed
his entire life. The family bore an important
part in the town and church interests of Old
Killingworth. A godly and scholarly ancestry
was their inheritance. Children : Submit,
Sarah, Lydia, Samuel, mentioned below, Mar-
tha, Rachel, Sarah.

(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Pier-
son, was born July 29, 1750, died March 18.
1801. It is said of him that "he was alive
in the revolutionary struggle, and it was said
by his companions in arms that he was a total
stranger to fear, that his courage never for-
sook him in the most dangerous and trying
emergencies." His death was caused by being

thrown from a young horse, and was instan-
taneous. Children : John Purcell, born No-
vember 30, 1773, died 1844; Lydia, mentioned
below ; Simon, Josiah, John, Betsey, Philo,
Thankful, Sally, Linus.

(VI) Lydia, daughter of Samuel (2) Pier-
son, was born July 28, 1776. She married
Eliab Parmelee, born October 13, 1775. They
lived and died in Killingworth, and their chil-
dren were: Alfred, born April 14, 1798, died
August 26, 1846, in Indiana ; Harlow, June
28, 1800, died November 2J, 1803 ; Philemon,
February 17, 1802, died October 6, 1803; Re-
becca, August, 1804, died November 5, 1888;
Harlow, February 10, 1807, died in Newark,
New Jersey, November 9, 1833; Philo, May
3, 1809, died April 11, 1879, in Haddam,
Connecticut; Maria, November 23, 181 1, died
September 25, 1875 ; Caroline, mentioned be-
low; Eliab Harvey, November 27, 1816, died
on Long Island, July 31, 1890; Linus, May 29,
1819, died June 15, 1819; Lydia, twin to
Linus, died June 23, 1878.

(VII) Caroline, daughter of Eliab Parme-
lee, was born June 22, 18 14. She married,
October 11, 1837, William Seward Hull, of
West Killingworth, who was born December
8, 1812. Children, all born in Madison, Con-
necticut :

1. A daughter, born and died Septem-
ber 30, 1840. 2. Clarkson Sherwood, born
April 22, 1842, died April 17, 1858. 3. Cleve-
land Seward, October 5, 1844, died May 25,
1848. 4. William Pierson, December 4, 1846,
died May 21, 1854. 5. Prescott Seward, April
28, 1848, died September 7, 1850. 6. James
Myron, October 10, 1850; married Sarah
Frances, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail
(Harrison) Willard ; children: i. William
Seward, born December 2, 1875 ; married, Oc-
tober 11, 1905, Mary Frances Campbell,
daughter of Enoch S. and Sarah A. (Butler)
Campbell, and has two children, Mary Camp-
bell, born October 5, 1907, and Anna Frances,
born July 7, 1910; ii. Ethelyn Luella, born
August 26, 1877, married, September 24,
1910, Roy Pierson McPherson ; iii. Caroline
Albertson, born April 24, 1883; iv. Myron
LeRoy, born February 15, 1886, died March
22, 1887; v. Frank Raymond, born March
14, 1888, died August, 1888; vi. Elmer Leland ;
all born in Madison, Connecticut. 7. Caroline
Philetta, born March 17, 1853, w^e °f Dr.
Frederick Pratt Griswold. 8. Burton Adel-
bert, born April 15, 1855, c^ec^ March 22,
1883 ; married Sarah Warner Chittenden, and
their children were : i. Grace Burton, born
June 22, 1880; ii. Burton Adelbert, born
August 8, 1882. 9. Colin Marcellus, born
August 22, 1857, died September 12. 1858.

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(II) Joseph Griswold, son
GRISWOLD of Edward Griswold ( q. v. ) ,
was born March 22, 1648,
died November 14, 1716. He married Mary
Gaylord, July 14, 1670, and lived in Wind-
sor. His will was made in September, 1716.
His wife contributed to the relief of the poor
of other colonies. Children : Mary, born
March 16, 1670, died May 31, 1700; Joseph,
January 22, 1677, mentioned below ; Francis,
July 11, 1683; Matthew, February 25, 1686;
Abigail, August 11, 1689.

(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Gris-
wold, was born January 22, 1677. He mar-
ried Deborah — . Children : Joseph, born

May 31, 1700; Shubael, May 2, 1701, men-
tioned below; Jonah, April 12, 1704; Roger,
January 30, 1708^ George, February, 1710;
Abel, February 13, 1714; Deborah, March 10,
1716; Lois, August 29, 1721 ; Deborah, Jan-
uary 26, 1723; Joseph, January 6, 1725.

(IV) Shubael, son of Joseph (2) Gris-
wold, was born May 2, 1701, died March 6,
1733. He married Phoebe Cornish. Chil-
dren : Shubael, mentioned below ; George,
Phoebe and Sarah.

(V) Shubael (2), son of Shubael (1) Gris-
wold, was born December 18, 1730. He came
to Torrington when a young man, and worked
several years. He built his house in the spring
of 1754. This house was probably the first
framed house built on Torringfonl street.
Tradition says that the siding of this house
was all taken from one tree, which stood on
Main street near the present site of the W. W.
Mertz Company's store in Torrington. The
siding was not sawed from the log, but rived
and shaved, and the boards were about four
inches wide. This siding was still on the
house and in good state of preservation when
the house was taken down in 1885. When
the house was built there was an Indian tent
standing in the dooryard, where it remained
some years. The house was only partly fin-
ished for several years and meetings were held
in the unfinished part. He kept a tavern, and
also sold tea and coffee, indigo and other
household commodities. He was a leading-
man of Torringford. He died February 23,
1807. He was a lieutenant in two campaigns
in the French and Indian wars, and a captain
in the revolutionary war. He was appointed
captain, December, 1776, and the pay-roll of
his company is preserved by his descendants.
He was in the campaign of 1777. He was
selectman of the town and representative to
the legislature several times. His tavern was
the first public institution in that section. He
married (first), June 8, 1754, Abigail Stanley,
of Litchfield, who died April 16, 1783. He

married (second) Widow Catlin, who married
(third) John Gillett. Children: Phoebe, born
April 17, 1755; Mary, July 17, 1757; Shubael,
July 26, 1761 ; Stanley, November 14, 1763;
Norman, July 7, 1767; Thaddeus, mentioned
below -><?C

(VI) Colonel Thaddeus Griswold, son of
Shubael (2) Griswold, was born May 12, 1771.
He lived on the old homestead all his life. He
died August 7, 1854. He conducted a tavern
in Torringford, as his father did. He was also
a farmer. He was representative to the legis-
lature in 1810; selectman of the town; was
colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Cavalry.
He married (first) Esther, daughter of Elijah
Phelps, February, 1788. She died May 11,
181 1, aged thirty-nine. He married (second)
Sally Wallace, April, 1813, of Litchfield. She
died September 25, 1821, aged thirty-six. He
married (third) Margaret Taylor Gaylord,
June 11, 1822. She died June 29, 1870. Chil-
dren by first wife: 1. Abigail S., born August
15. 1797; married Trumbull Ives, died May,
1846. 2. Edward T., born July 19, 1804, died
January 10, 1838: married Anna M., daugh-
ter of ^Charles Tappan, of Boston ; child,
Charles Edward, born November 16, 1834,
colonel of Fifty-sixth Regiment, Massachu-
setts Veterans, killed in battle of the Wilder-
ness, May 6, 1864; Edward T. Griswold lived
in Boston. Children by second wife : 3. Rich-
ard Wallace, born July 21, 1815, mentioned
below. 4. Stanley, born March 4, 181 7, died
April 7, 1887; married, November 12, 1840,
Isabelle, born June 1, 1822, died April 20,
1887, daughter of Ira and Maria (Marsh) Sey-
mour, of New Hartford. He lived in Tor-
ringford, a successful farmer, a breeder of
fine Devon cattle for forty years, and one of
the charter members of the American Devon
.Cattle Club. Children: i. Edward Stanley,
'born October 15, 1842, died March 10, 1846;
•.ii. Wellington Seymour, born October 11,
1844, died April 18, 1846; iii. Isabella Wal-
lace, born September 21, 1846; iv. Anna
Maria, born November 29, 1849, married, De-
cember 6, 1869, Edson W. Davis, a lawyer of
' Oneida, New York, who died in Torringford,
I Connecticut, December 12, 1903; children: a.
I Isabelle Louise, born September 7, 1870; b.
Stanley Warburton, born June 2, 1872, died
May 13, 1875; c. Herbert Spencer, born
March 28, 1875; d. Edson Griswold, born
April 19, 1879, married, September 16, 1903,
Louise M. Birge ; child, Elizabeth Louise, born
March 6, 1909 ; e. Max Warburton, born April
15, 1883; f. Nellie Virginia, born July 17,
1885, married, July 31. 1907, the Rev. G.
Frederick Goodenough ; child, Virginia Alice,
born August 1, 1908; g. Anna May, born Jan-

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uary 15, 1888; v. Ellen Peck, born November
21, 1853; vi. Virginia, born November 25,
1858, died September 30, i860; vii. Corinth,
born September 6, 1861. Colonel Thaddeus
Griswold and his third wife, Margaret Taylor
(Gaylord) Griswold, had one child, Mar-
garette Esther, born March 24, 1823, died
March 21, 1839.

(VII) Richard Wallace, son of Colonel
Thaddeus Griswold, was born July 21, 181 5,
in Torringford, town of Torrington, died De-
cember 1 g, 1886. He was educated in the
common schools and in Torringford Academy.
He was a successful farmer in Torringford,
and made a specialty of raising Devon cattle.
He bought the Elijah Gaylord farm and after
some years built a new house for himself. He
married (first) April 16, 1838, Julia Ann,
born in New Hartford, July 7, 181 8, died
February 13, 1856, daughter of Elisar and
Amanda (Steele) Curtis. He married (sec-
ond) December 31, 1856, Sarah, born in
Sandisfield, Massachusetts, May 17, 1829, died
July 28, 1910, daughter of, Michael Clarke.
Children, all by first wife: 1. Margarette
Esther, born February 4, 1843; married, De-
cember 24, 1863, George Kellogg Colt (see
Colt XII). 2. Irving Richard, February 22,
1845, mentioned below. 3. Mary Frances,
January 6, 1854; married Charles G. Rood,
November 12, 1873; children: i. Wallace
Griswold, June 6/1880; married, April 6,
1910, Ella Mabel Forte, of Boston; ii. Annie
Margarette, October 6, 1883; married Joseph
A. Norton, of Winsted.

(VIII) Irving Richard, son of Richard
Wallace Griswold, was born in Torrington, at
Torringford, February 22, 1845. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and at the South
Berkshire Institute, at New Marlborough,
Massachusetts. He worked on his father's
farm until he was twenty-one years old. • For
several years afterward he was in the employ
of the Strong Manufacturing Company, of
Winsted. In 1872 he engaged in the retail
dry goods business at Winsted, in partnership
with John Wing, under the firm name of
Wing & Griswold. After four years and a
half the firm was dissolved and the senior
partner continued the business. During the
next two years and a half Mr. Griswold was
in the insurance business. He then became
secretary, treasurer and manager of the Win-
sted Foundry and Machine Company. In 1892
he engaged in the brokerage and investment
business in partnership with Mr. Williams and
Mr. Hallett under the firm name of Williams,
Hallett & Griswold. After the death of Mr.
Williams the firm name became Griswold,
Hallett & Persons, investment brokers, and

has continued unchanged to the present time.
Mr. Griswold is a director of the First Nation-
al Bank, the Winsted Gas Company, and the
Mechanics' Savings Bank of Winsted. In
politics he is a Republican. He has been a
burgess of the borough. In 1891 he repre-
sented the town in the general assembly, and
served on three committees, no business being
done, as it was deadlock year. In religion he
is a Congregationalist. Mr. Griswold mar-
ried, October 4, 1870, Hettie M., born October
1, 1847, daughter of George and Beulah
(Camp) Kellogg, of Winsted. Mr. and Mrs.
Griswold have no children.

(The Colt Line).

The name of Dutton Colt appears often in
English history. Because he opposed popery
he was dispossessed of his estate, but he after-
ward regained it by valiant service for his
country, and also was granted one of the coats-
of-arms of the Colt family. Very likely he
was son of Sir Oliver Colt. The names of
Sir Thomas, Sir Henry and Sir George Colt
are also to be found. The line is probably as
follows: (I) Sir Peter Colt, a peer of Eng-
land, son of Sir John Dutton Colt. (II) John,
son of Sir Peter Colt. (HI) John (2), son
of John (1) Colt. (IV) John (3), son of
John (2) Colt.

(V) John (4), son of John (3) Colt, immi-
grant ancestor, was born in England about the
year 1625. He came from Colchester, Eng-
land, during the troubles of Charles 1., when
eleven years old. In 1638 he removed from
Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Hartford, with
a colony that came there in that year. He

married, afterward, Skinner, and

settled in Windsor. He doubtless married
(second) Mary, daughter of Joseph Fitch,
from whom he received land in Windsor for
love and goodwill. He was one of the early
settlers on the east side of the river, and was
troubled much by the Indians. In 1665 he
subscribed six shillings to raise the minister's
salary. He lived to the age of one hundred
and five years. Child : John, mentioned be-
low.

(VI) John (5), son of John (4) Colt, was
born in 1658.

(VII) Benjamin, son of John (5) Colt, was
born in Connecticut in 1700. He was one of
the early proprietors of Harwinton, though
very likely he never lived there himself. In
1735 he deeded, "for the natural love and good
will I do have for my son John, all my land in
Harwinton."

(VIII) John (6), son of Benjamin Colt,
married Mercy Higley. He lived about one-
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the present church in Harwinton. Children :
Jonathan Higley, born October 13, 1735, men-
tioned below; Anna, May 6, 1737; Mary,
April 5, 1739; John, February 19, 1741; Ruth,
December 14, 1742; John, March 16, 1745;
Ann, November 17, 1747; Dorothy, Septem-
ber 10, 1753.

(IX) Jonathan Higley, son of John (6)
Colt, was born October 13, 1735. He mar-
ried, October 12, 1761, Mary Tuttle, of Har-
winton, who was born March 22, 1741. She
died October 17, 1822. Children : John, born
September 9, 1762; Eliphalet, February 12,
1764; Anson, July 19, 1766, mentioned be-
low; Allen, March 4, 1769; Truman, January
13, 1771 ; Milicent, January 1, 1773; Rhoda,
January 11, 1775; Sarah, October 3, 1776;
Pollythi, December 20, 1778; Huldah, August
7, 1780; Electa, April 15, 1785.

(X) Anson, son of Jonathan Higley Colt,
was born July 19, 1766. He married, Febru-
ary 23, 1792, Chloe, daughter of Jabez and
Ann Gillett, of Windsor. He came from Har-
winton to Torringford when he was twenty-
one years old, and he married when he was
twenty-six. He built first the second house
south of the present Torringford church on
the same side of the road, and also the shop
standing near. Later he lived in the large
two-story house standing where the house of
James Woodward now stands, one-half mile
north of the church. About the year 18 13 he
removed to Greenwoods. After living in the
one-story brown house for three years, he
built the substantial house now occupied by
the Colts, in 1816. Here he lived the re-
mainder of his life. His wife lived to be
ninety-six, and he eighty-two years old.
When visiting their relatives and friends in
Windsor and Otis, Massachusetts, the journey
was made on horseback, the mother taking
her child on a pillow, and the father taking
the youngest one on a pillion on the front of
his saddle. He died October 28, 1848. Chil-
dren: 1. Nancy, born January 15, 1793; mar-
ried Ralzemon Loomis, July 11, 1819, and
removed to Charlestown, Ohio, making the
journey with oxen and cart in forty days ;
she died January 30, 1876. 2. Anson, January
11, 1795. 3. Chloe, February 12, 1797; mar-
ried, February 14, 1830, Leverett Tuttle. 4.
Henry, November 25, 1800, mentioned below.
5. Charlotte, February 21, 1803; married Bur-
ton Pond, October 5, 1829.

(XI) Henry, son of Anson Colt, was born
November 25, 1800. He married Chloe Cat-
lin, October 19, 1829. He traveled south,
trading in dry goods, and later settled on his
father's estate, where he lived the remainder
of his life. He was a man much respected

for his upright and steadfast character. He
died November 22, 1876. Children: 1. Henry
Gillett, born November 2, 1832; married,
March 19, 1874, Nettie Griswold, born June
24, 1849, resided in Winsted. 2. Maria C,
September 6, 1834; married David Strong,
September 14, 1857; he was born August 17,
1825; she died February 2, 1865. 3. George
Kellogg, October 26, 1838, mentioned below.
4. Emerette L., November 21, 1841 ; married
David Strong, June 7, 1866. 5. Luman Cat-
lin, January 20, 1849; married (first) October
11, 1870, Mary Virginia Tuttle, born Decem-
ber 2, 1850, died September 29, 1892; mar-
ried (second), January 29, 1796, Minnie Al-
vord Hill, of Unionville, Connecticut ; chil-
dren of first wife : i. Charles Henry, born Sep-
tember 24, 1872 ; married Blanche Derlacker,
of Laramie, Wyoming ; children : Virginia,
Francis and Charline ; ii. Leila Rosabelle, born
January 3, 1882; iii. George Tuttle, born De-
cember 4, 1883; married Jessie Blackman, of
Torrington.

(XII) George. Kellogg, son of Henry Colt,
was born in Torringford, October 26, 1838,
died in Winsted, April 17, 1890. He married,
December 24, 1863, Margarette Esther, daugh-
ter of Richard Wallace and Julia Ann ( Cur-
tis) Griswold (see Griswold VII). They had
one child, Julia Maria, born July 6, 1866; mar-
ried Rev. Charles Wilson Loomis, a Congre-
gational clergyman, born in Charlestown,
Ohio ; their children : i. Frederick Colt, born
at Winsted, June 13, 1892; ii. George Colt,
born at Winsted, December 6, 1894; iii. Frank-
Warren, born at West Brookfield, Massachu-
setts, October 5, 1896, died June 2J, 1903; iv.
Charles Wilson Jr., born January 24, 1901.

Morgan Griswold, descend-
GRISWOLD ant of an old New Haven

family, was born in New
Haven and lived at Seymour and Oxford,
Connecticut. He died at the advanced age of
eighty-four years. He married Lucy Towner,
who died aged eighty-six. Children : Mary,
resides at Shelton, Connecticut, married Frank
Radcliff ; Asahel Morgan, mentioned below ;
Cyprian, lived at Oxford, Connecticut, where
he died young.

(II) Asahel Morgan, son of Morgan Gris-
wold, was born at Oxford, December 25. \%\x.
He received his education in the public schools
of that town. In the spring of 1850 he left
home and began to support himself. He
located at Washington, Litchfield county, Con-
necticut, July 18, 1853, and worked for the
humble wages of six cents a day. In the-
course of time he managed to save out of his
meagre earnings the sum of one hundred dol-

^teonaita •Jlennedu

Born March 3, 1767
Died Sept. 19, 1842

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529

lars, of which he was robbed by a roommate.
He went to work for the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Company of Bridgeport, in
February, 1857, and was a contractor in their
shops until February 10, 1879, when he retired
because of ill health. After this he bought
real estate and built a number of houses to
rent. He was an early member of the Eas
Washington Avenue Baptist Church, a mem-
ber of various Masonic bodies up to and in-
cluding the Commandery, Knights Templar.
He died September 20, 1890. He was buried
in the Lake View cemetery, Bridgeport. He
left a fortune of $77,000, accumulated from
the most humble and difficult beginnings by a
life of great energy and the exercise of un-
common shrewdness and common sense. In
politics he was a Republican.

He married (first) at New Haven, Decem-
ber 25, i860, Delia Augusta Hodge, who d'e ■'
May 19, 1866: married (second) November
20, 1866, Lottie Augusta Hurlburt, born at
Trumbull, daughter of Anson Hurlburt. He
was born at Westport and died at the age of
forty. He was a tailor by trade, an Episco-
palian in religion and a Democrat in politics.
Her mother, Sally Ann (Sturges) Hurlburt,
'1 ed at Bridgeport, aged sixty-four years.
( hildren of Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt : Julia,
n arried Thomas B. Williams, of Bridgeport ;
L >ttie Augusta, married Asahel Morgan Gris-
wold, of Bridgeport, mentioned above ; Henry,
married Henrietta Gray, of Westport ; Anson,
married Helen Pulver, of Catskill, New York ;
Theodore, unmarried ; Jane, unmarried. Chil-
dren of Asahel Morgan Griswold, bv first
wife: Charles A., born November 1, 1861,
died August 28, 1890; Henry M., December
11, 1862, died April 5, 1885; Frank LeGrand,
mentioned below. Mrs. Asahel M. Griswold
resides at 175 Kossuth avenue, Bridgeport.

(Ill) Frank LeGrand, son of Asahel Mor-
gan Griswold, was born May 15, 1865. He
was educated in the public schools of Bridge-
por . At an early age he became a clerk in
a confectionery store and he continued in that
line of business until 1890, when the death of
his father Obliged him to devote all his atten-
tion to the management of the estate to which
he was heir. Mr. Griswold is held in the
highest esteem in Trumbull, where he makes
his home and is popular among all classes of
citizens. He is of kindly, hospitable, charitable
disposition and alive with public spirit. In
politics he is a Republcan. He has been an
assessor, selectman, representative, member
of the board of relief of the town. He is a
member of Mithra Lodge, No. 8, Knights of
Pythias, of Bridgeport, and of Uniform Rank,
Company 4, in which he holds the rank of

colonel, and is also member of the Lodge of
Elks and Free and Accepted Masons. He
married, September 9, 1891, at Kingston, New
York, Lizzie, daughter of Frederick H. Ar-
nold. Children: Fred L., Charles AL, Lottie
M. and another. Their home is on the New-
town turnpike, Trumbull.

Daniel Kennedy or Cannady,
KENNEDY immigrant ancestor, settled

at Salem, Massachusetts, and
married there, November 10, 1681, Hannah,
daughter of Henry and Judith (Birdsall)
Cooke (see Essex Institute Historical Col-
lections, vol. 1, p. 114, and vol. 2, p. 43). Dan-
iel Canada's name appears on muster roll of
Captain Mosely's company, King Phillip's war,
1675-76; also on roll of garrison duty at Gro-
ton, Massachusetts, June 20, 1675. He died
June 11, 1695.

(II) Isaac Kennedy (or Canada), son of
Daniel Kennedy or Cannady, settled in Wind-
ham, Connecticut, now Hampton, formerly
called Kennedy Village (see Barber's Conn.
Hist. Collections, p. 424), and was born at
Salem, January 21, 1689 (see Essex Hist.
Collections, vol. II, p. 43). He married, Jan-
uary 21, 1729-30, Phoebe, daughter of Sam-
uel Leonard, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, and
Preston, Connecticut, son of Solomon Leon-
ard, of Duxbury (see Windham Town Rec-
ords, Book A, p. 116). Isaac Kennedy died

in 1755-

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac '(1) Kennedy,

was born December 23, 1732, at Windham.
He married, February 25, 1761, Miriam
Fitch, born at Windham, June 9. 1741. died
June 5, 1799 (see Windham Town Records,
Book B., p. 60). John Fitch, Jr., father of
Miriam, was a son of Captain John Fitch and
grandson of the Rev. James Fitch. The father
of Alice Fitch, who married John Jr., her
second cousin, was Ebenezer Fitch, son of
Major James Fitch. Captain John Fitch, born
in Norwich, Connecticut, in January, 1667,
died May 24, 1743; married, July 10, 1695,
Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas
and Miriam (Tracy) Waterman. He was a
son of Rev. James Fitch, of Booking, Eng-
land, and Norwich, Connecticut, and Priscilla,
daughter of Captain John Mason, the. Indian
fighter.

(IV) Leonard, son of Isaac (2) Kennedy,
was born at Windham, Connecticut, March 3,
1767, died at Hartford, Connecticut, Septem-
ber 19, 1842. He was a merchant and man-
ufacturer at Hartford. In politics he was a
Federalist and later a Whig ; in religion a
Congregationalist and subsequently a Univer-
salis! He married, December 6, 1790, Fanny

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Pamela Lewis, born at Colchester, Connecti-
cut, April 24, 1768, died in Hartford, Febru-
ary 27, 1849, daughter of Ephraim Lewis,
born October 4, 1735, graduate of Yale Col-
lege in 1755, and granddaughter of the Rev.
Judah Lewis, graduate of Yale in 1726.

(V) Leonard (2), son of Leonard (1)
Kennedy, was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
March 30, 1799, died December 14, 1879. He
was a hardware merchant at Hartford and
manufacturer of joiners' tools, and a leading
public-spirited citizen. Afterward he estab-
lished his factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
engaging also in the fire insurance business
there, having a general and local agency.
While residing there, at the personal request
of President Fillmore, and Thomas Corwin,
then secretary of the treasury, Mr. Kennedy
made an inspection of all the United States
land offices in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa,
in 1854, as special commissioner.

He married, July 14, 1825, Parthenia Rob-
inson, born in Moretown, Vermont, Novem-
ber 19, 1802, died in Hartford, April 11, 1874.
She was a direct descendant of Rev. John
Robinson, of Scrooby, England, and Leyden,
Holland, the founder of Congregationalism.
The line is through his son Isaac, Lieutenant
Peter (3), Benjamin (4), and Colonel Elijah
Robinson (5), and Captain Elijah Robinson
(6). Captain Elijah (6) was born in Staf-
ford, Connecticut, May 30, 1775, died at More-
town, Vermont, November 9, 1815; married,
May 30, 1797, Lydia Bragg, born in Spring-
field, Vermont, November 19, 1778, died at
Moretown, March 28, 1864. He was ensign
lieutenant and captain in the Vermont militia
in the war of 1812. Colonel Elijah Robinson,
born in Windham (Scotland parish), Connec-
ticut, April 1, 1735, died in Weathersfield,
Windsor county, Vermont, January 25, 1809;
married, January 22, 1761, Lydia, daughter of
Simeon and Anne (Slater) Scripture, of Cov-
entry, Connecticut. Lydia Scripture was born
in Coventry, April 21, 1744.

The services of Elijah Robinson found in
"Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolu-
tion" :

"P. 21. From Stafford, 'Lexington Alarm,' ten
days. P. 47. Captain in Gen. Spencer's 2nd Regi-
ment, 1-775 ; April and May were spent marching
around Boston ; its post was at Roxbury and the
disbanding was Dec. 19, 1775. P. 389. In State Reg-
iment in Northern Department, under Colonels Mott
and Swift, June-July, 1776, stationed at Ticonderoga
and vicinity. (Col. Mott's Battalion.) P. 614. Cap-
tain in Col. Ely's State Regiment, June, 1777. P. 537.
Capt. Elijah Robinson's Company in 1778, engaged
for three months ; arrived in camp, June 29, 1778.'"

"Elijah Robinson bought his first land in Weath-
ersfield, Vt, Oct. 30, 1784. His will was probated
March 1, 1809." (F. W. Rugg, Asst. Town Clerk).

Obituary of Colonel Elijah Robinson, found
in Volume IV of "Governors and Council of
Vermont," page 61 :

"Colonel Elijah Robinson first appears in the Ver-
mont records as representative from Weathersfield,
Vt., 1782, when he was appointed Councilor. To this
office he was elected annually until 1802. In 1783,
he was a member of the Board of War and in 1786
he served as lieutenant-colonel in suppressing the
attempted insurrection in Windsor County. He was
Judge of Windsor County Court from 1782 until
1787; again from 1788 until 1801 and Chief Judge
in 1802; making nineteen years of judicial service.
He was also a member of the Council of Censors
in 1785. In 1693 he was elected Brigadier-General
but refused to accept the office."

His death was announced in Spooner's Ver-
mont Journal of February 13, 1809, as fol-
lows:

"Died in Weathersfield, on the 25th ult., univer-
sally lamented, the Honorable Elijah Robinson, aged
73, an officer of the late Revolutionary Army of the
United States. Colonel Robinson sustained a share
in the service of his country in the War of 1755
and was one of the number who, in 1759, traversed
the then wilderness from Charlestown, New Hamp-
shire, to Crown Point. At the commencement of the
contest which terminated in the emancipation of the
states he repaired again to the 'tented field' and con-
tributed several years' personal service to our free-
dom and independence. At the close of the Revo-
lution he retired to a wilderness to repair a fortune
exhausted in the service of his country. Since his
residence in this state he has sustained and dis-
charged several important civil offices with honor
and integrity. He was, moreover a virtuous, exem-
plary, and religious man. His remains were com-
mitted to the silent tomb on the Saturday following,
accompanied by the greatest concourse of people ever
witnessed in this country on a similar occasion."
("Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution."
State rules, pp 21, 47, 389, 537 and 614. State rec-
ords in town clerk's office at Stafford Springs,
Conn.)

Children of Leonard and Parthenia (Rob-
inson) Kennedy: 1. Miriam Parthenia, born
in Utica, New York, May 29, 1826, died in
Hartford, February 2, 1902. 2. Leonard
White, born in Utica, May 25, 1829, died in
Brooklyn, New York, July 21, 1898. 3.
Fanny Lewis, born at Hartford, December 4,
1 83 1, died in Brooklyn, New York, Novem-
ber 5, 1907. 4. Algernon Sidney,* August 20,
1834 ; he enlisted in the Fifth Wisconsin In-
fantry on President Lincoln's first call for
volunteers, in 1861, was in the battles of Wil-
liamsburgh, of the Chickahominy, Antietam,
and others in which the Army of the Potomac
was engaged ; although completely broken in
health at the time of his discharge, he always
refused a pension ; died in Hartford, April 2,
1868. 5. Samuel Lewis, February 9, 1837,
living in Brooklyn, New York. 6. Susan
Skinner, November 21, 1839, died in Hartford,
February 20, 1840. 7. Elijah Robinson, men-

antwd •Jtennedi

Born in Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1799
Died in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 14, 1879

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tioned below. The last five were born in
Hartford.

(VI) Elijah Robinson, son of Leonard (2)
Kennedy, was born at Hartford, May 6, 1844.
When he was three years old his parents
moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended
private schools there and the seventh ward
high school and Milwaukee University. He
began his career in business as junior clerk in
a store and became a wholesale hosiery mer-
chant in New York City. For many years he
has devoted himself to the insurance business.
He is a broker in fire, marine, liability and
casualty insurance, with offices at 123 William
street, New York City. He is also the agent
of a number of large fire insurance companies
and United States manager of European fire
insurance companies. He was twice president
of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters.

In politics he has always been a Republican.
He was park commissioner of Brooklyn twice,
and president of the commission to lay out the
"Shore Road," that splendid work being main-
ly due to his initiative and persistent efforts.
He is a Congregationalist and member of
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. He is a member
of the Down Town Club of New York, Ham-
ilton, of Brooklyn, Montauk Club, of Brook-
lyn, Nassau Country Club, of Glen Cove,
Long Island, and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club,
of Southampton, Long Island. He is presi-
dent of the New England Society of Brook-
lyn ; trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences ; president of the Old School-
mates' Association, of Milwaukee ; member of
the Society of Mayflower Descendants,
through Governor William Bradford, the So-
ciety of Colonial Wars, through Captain John
Mason, and Sons of the Revolution, through
Colonel Elijah Robinson.

He married, December 2, 1874, at 40 West
Fifty-sixth street, New York City, Lucy
Brace Pratt, born February 27, 1846, at 108
Willow street, Brooklyn, graduated from the
Hartford Female Seminary, class of 1864,
daughter of Henry Zachariah and Lucy Eliza-
beth (Brace) Pratt. Both parents were born
in Hartford. The father was a book pub-
lisher and vice-president of the Aetna Fire
Insurance Company of Hartford. Children of
Henry Zachariah and Lucy Elizabeth (Brace)
Pratt : 'Henry Cleveland, Thomas Brace,
George Walter, William Hall Brace, Lucy
Brace. Charles Cleveland, Emily Brace, Susan
Cleveland and Edward Lee Pratt.

Lucy Elizabeth Brace was a daughter of
Hon. Thomas Kimberly Brace, of Hartford,
who was born in Hartford, October 16, 1779,
died June 14, i860; graduate of Yale College
in 1801 ; represented Hartford in the general

assembly in 1831-32, as had his father before
him, in 1798; was elected mayor of Hartford
three successive years, beginning in 1840, and
was a candidate for congress in 1843 anc'
1845 ! organized the Aetna Fire Insurance
Company and was its president for thirty-
eight years. To his wise management the
great prosperity of the company is due in no
small degree. After graduating from college
in 1801, he read law at Litchfield, Connecticut,
with Judges Reeve and Gould, and was ad-
mitted to the bar (Hinman's "Conn. Settlers,"
p. 308; "Memorial History of Hartford
County," vol. 1, p. 505). Mr. Brace married,
August 25, 1807, Lucy Mather Lee, the great-
granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Mather, grad-
uate of Harvard College in 1671, and one of
the founders of Yale College. Thomas Kim-
berly Brace was a son of Judge Jonathan
Brace, born November 12, 1754, died in Hart-
ford, August 26, 1837, graduate of Yale Col-
lege in 1779. Judge Brace married, April 15,
1778, Mrs. Ann White Kimberly; he studied
law under Oliver Ellsworth, once chief justice
of the United States, and held many important
positions of honor in both Connecticut and
Vermont; was elected representative to con-
gress from Connecticut in 1799 and again in
May, 1800. The session closed in May, 1801,
and was the last held in Philadelphia. In
181 5 he was chosen mayor of Hartford, and
held the position nine years, declining another
term, being nearly seventy years old. A steel
engraving of Judge Brace copied from his
picture in the Hartford Atheneum is owned
by Mrs. Elijah Robinson Kennedy, as is also
a fine oil portrait of Thomas Kimberly Brace,
her grandfather.

Susan (Cleveland) Pratt (aunt of President
Grover Cleveland), mother of Henrv Zach-
ariah Pratt, was born in Norwich, Connecti-
cut, September 26, 1784, died August 19,
1883, daughter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland. She
married Harry Pratt, of Hartford, May 11.
1804, and was the mother of thirteen children,
all of whom lived to maturity (see "Cleveland
Genealogy," vol. 1, p. 511) (Hinman's "Conn.
Settlers," p. 620 and p. 308). Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy also have portraits of Isaac Ken-
nedy, Lydia (Bragg), wife of Captain Elijah
Robinson ; of Leonard Kennedy and his wife,
Fanny (Lewis), of Leonard Kennedy Jr. and
his wife, Parthenia (Robinson), and of Harry
Pratt and his wife Susan (Cleveland).

Mrs. Kennedy is a member of the Society
of Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Cen-
tury and a charter member of Fort Greene
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, of Brooklyn.

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Robinson

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Kennedy: I. Sidney Robinson, born Novem-
ber 19, 1875; prepared for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Massachusetts ; grad-
uated from Yale University, 1898 ; is engaged
in fire insurance business, holding a respon-
sible position in the Continental Insurance
Company, of New York ; married, November
15, 1906, at Brooklyn, New York, Natalie
Stanton, a graduate of Smith College, class of
1904. 2. Susan Pratt, born February 26, 1880,
in Brooklyn, New York ; graduate from the
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, in 1901,
from Smith College (A.B., 1903) ; married,
April 18, 1906, Francis William Tully, grad-
uate of Yale Law School in 1901 ; children :
Susan, Francis William Jr. and Sidney Ken-
nedy Tully. 3. Leonard, born May 20, 1886,
at Brooklyn, graduate of Phillips Academy,
Andover, of Yale University in 1909; engaged
in the bond business with William A. Read &
Company, bankers, New York City.

William Averill, immigrant
AYERILL ancestor, and probably the

progenitor of all of the early
families in this country of this surname, came
from England to Ipswich as early as 1637.
The name is variously spelled Averel, Averell,
Averhill, Averil and Avery. He died in 1653.
His will was dated June 3, 1652, proved
March 29, 1653. His widow Abigail was
living in 1655. Children : William, men-
tioned below ; Sarah, married John Wildes ;
Thomas, resided at Ipswich ; John, lived at
Ipswich. 1 hree other children, names un-
known.

(II) William (2), son of William (1) Ave-
rill, was a carpenter in Ipswich until 1666,
when he bought a hundred acres of land at
Topsfield, Massachusetts, and removed thither.
Many of his descendants have lived in Tops-
field and vicinity, and the neighborhood of
his home came to be called "The Colleges."
He married, July 31, 1661, Hannah Jackson,
of Ipswich. His will was dated April 15,
1690, proved June 30, 1691. His widow Han-
nah was living in 1735. Children: William,
born May 1, 1662; Nathaniel, October 13,
1664; John (twin), January 1, 1666: Job
(twin); Hannah, December 1, 1667; Eben-
ezer, October 14, 1669: Isaac, January 26,
1671-72; Thomas, December 9, 1672; Abigail,
March 8, 1673-74; Ezekiel, July 24, 1675;
Paul, June 21, 1677; Silas, May 1, 1679; Isaac,
mentioned below ; Mary, baptized May 16,
1697.

(III) Isaac, son of William (2) Averill,
was born at Topsfield, November 10, 1680.
One tradition says that he emigrated from
Milford Haven, Wales, but this probably is

of no value as a clue to the ancestry in Eng-
land. He removed to Connecticut and was at
Preston in that state. May 30, 1724, when he
acknowledged a deed there. His mother was
living in Connecticut in 1735, perhaps with
him. He settled in later life between Kent
and Woodbury, Connecticut, being now part
of the town of Washington. He was an orig-
inal member of New Preston Congregational
Church, January 5, 1757. Children: Samuel,
born 1715 ; Daniel, mentioned below; Moses,
1724.

(IV) Daniel, son of Isaac Averill, was born
in 1716, died October 23, 1785. He deeded
land in New Preston, January 18, 1748, to
Edward Cogswell. He married Lucy Cogs-
well, born in 1727, died September 23, 1782.
Children: 1. Nathan, married Roana Noble,
and lived at Plattsburg, New York ; Daniel,
mentioned below ; Nathaniel, lived at Amster-
dam, New York; Judah, born 1756, died May
18, 1784.

(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Averill,
was born in Kent, Connecticut, about 1755.
He was a soldier in the revolution for three
years from the town of Kent, in Captain
W'oodbridge's company, also in Captain Ste-
phen Billing's company, and was a pensioner
on the lists of 1818 and 1832, New Haven
county, Connecticut. He married. May 17,
1784, Eunice Calhoun. He was a seafaring
man, and lived at Branford, Connecticut.

(VI) David, son of Daniel (2) Averill, was
born about 1785. He was also a mariner. He
married Polly Morris and lived at Branford.
Among his children was John, mentioned be-
low.

(VII) John, son of David Averill, was born
at Branford, March 22, 17 14. He followed
the sea. He was a coaster speculator and cap-
tain of vessels for several years and built a
number of ships. He married Almira, daugh-
ter of Stephen and Polly (Andrews) Heming-
way, of East Haven, Connecticut. Children :
George Marshall, mentioned below ; Harriet J.,
born September 27, 1840, died November 8,
1907, married Lewis Frisbie ; Roland G., May
3, 1843; Asahel S., May 27, 1849; John F.,
September 19, 1852 ; Mary Elvira, May 7,
1856, married Adrian G. Ely.

Stephen Hemingway married Mary, daugh-
ter of Timothy and Mary (Pierpont) An-
drews. Mary Pierpont was daughter of John
and Ruth (Stiles) Pierpont, granddaughter of
Rev. Isaac Stiles. John Pierpont Jr., brother
of Mary, enlisted in the army in the revolution
when he was sixteen years old in Colonel
Lamb's artillery regiment in 1777: was pres-
ent at the battle of Ridgefield, where General
Wooster was killed ; was at Monmouth and

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533

in other battles of the revolution ; at West
•Point he distinguished himself by dragging
a cannon several miles under cover of night to
the banks of the North river, where he and
several others fired it with such success as to
compel the British warship "Vulture," which
brought Major Andre to West Point, to drop
down the river out of range. In appreciation
of this act, General Washington offered Pier-
pont a commission, but it was refused with the
remark, "While John Pierpont lives, the
United States shall never lack a private sol-
dier." He was present at the nine-day siege
of Yorktown ; died December 29, 1851, aged
ninety-one ; was at one time a prisoner of
war. John Pierpont Sr. was the grandson of
Rev. James Pierpont, who donated the land
for the green and church at North Haven,
Connecticut.

(VIII) George Marshall, son of John Ave-
rill, was born at Branford, Connecticut, Oc-
tober 12, 1838, died February 22, '1908. He
was educated in the common schools and at
Branford Academy, and for a number of'
years followed the coast, holding all the ranks
of seamanship from cook to captain. For
twenty-two years he was proprietor of "The
Ark," a most popular summer resort on In-
dian Neck, famous for shore dinners. The
hostelry was built by Mr. Averill from an old
schooner. In politics he was a Republican.
He was a member of Widows Sons Lodge,
No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons. He mar-
ried, March 20, 1864, Harriet Elizabeth Bab-
cock, died May 8, 1883, daughter of Russell
W. arid Wealthy A. Babcock. Her father died
March 31, 1850; her mother November 11,
1850. The Babcocks lived at North Lyme.
Children: 1. Frederick Lawton, born July
15, 1865; married Emma E. Button, of New
Haven, and had Helen Pauline. 2. George
Walter, June 13, 1870: lives in San Francisco,
California. 3. Lester Marshall, October 18,
1871, died September 22, 1872. 4. John Rus-
sell, September 18, 1876; married Daisy Stan-
nard : children : Russell John, Walter George,
Eleanor H. and one child that died in in-
fancy. 5. Louis Southard, July 1, 1878; mar-
ried Grace Brintall, widow. 6. Ernest Leroy,
mentioned below.

(IX) Ernest Leroy, son of George Mar-
shall Averill, was born January 22, 1883. He
attended the public schools of New Haven,
the New Haven high school and the Gaffey
Shorthand School of New Haven. He en-
tered the Yale Law School in 1901 and gradu-
ated with the degree of LL. B. in the class
of 1905. He began to practice law in New
Haven in partnership with Mr. Cressy under
the firm name of Averill & Cressy in offices

in Church street and continued until January,
1907. He then took offices with Prentice W.
Chase, 39 Center street. New Haven, and has
continued in practice in New Haven and also
in Wallingford, where he makes his home.
He was admitted to practice in the supreme
court of the United States in 1910. He was
assistant prosecuting attorney of Wallingford,
1907-09, clerk of the borough of Fair Haven
East for three years. Fie was a member of
the First Naval Battalion of New Haven for
seven years and retired with the rank of en-
sign. He is a member of the New Haven Bar
Association, the Wallingford Club, the Young
Men's Athletic Club of Wallingford, the
Young Men's Republican Club of New Haven,
the Fraternal Benefit League, and the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Re-
publican. He married, January 31, 1906, Lulu
Evelyn, born January 17, 1883, daughter of
William H. Johnston. Children : Esther Mar-
guerite, born September 25, 1906; Eunice Al-
mira, December 4, 1908; William Prentice,
July 2T,, 1910.

(IV) Samuel Averill, son of
AVERILL Isaac Averill (q. v.), was born
in 171 5 in Topsfield or Reho-
both, Massachusetts. He moved with the fam-
ily in 1746 and settled in New Preston, then
a part of the town of Kent in Connecticut, and
bought land that has remained to the present
time in the possession of the family. He died
in New Preston, April 30, 1786. He married
Patience Perry, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
born 1716, died April 4, 1790. Children:
Samuel, Colonel Perry, mentioned below, Pa-
tience.

(V) Colonel Perry Averill, son of Samuel
Averill, was born at New Preston, September
18, 1754, died there July 10, 1842. He was
a soldier in the revolution and also in the
war of 1812. He was with Washington's
army in New York. In later life he was com-
missioned colonel of his regiment in the state
militia. He married (first), September 22,
1774, Dorothy, daughter of Eliphalet Whittle-
sey. She was born September 8, 1755, died
July 12, 1824. He married (second), De-
cember 8, 1824, Mrs. Sarah Turrell, who died
May 19, 1830, aged eighty-three years. Chil-
dren of first wife : Perry, Eliphalet, Heman,
Chloe, Dolly, Perry, Samuel, mentioned be-
low. Matilda Patience. Elisha, Augustine,
Frederick William and Horace.

(VI) Samuel (2), son of Colonel Perry
Averill, was born at New Preston, February
17, 1787, died June 12, 1864. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town,
and he worked on the homestead to which

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Wheaton, April 18, 1887. 4. Dorothy, Jan-
uary 14, 1889. 5. Heman Otis Jr., August 5,
189 1, died August 13, 189 1. 6. Heman Perry,
May 3, 1898. 7. Grace Julia, February 12,
1900.

General Averill is a lineal descendant of
Thomas Dudley, governor' of Massachusetts,
in 1634-35-40-41-45-46-50-51, and of Thomas
Wells, governor of Connecticut in 1655-58,
and his wife is a descendant of William Tracy,
governor of Berkley Colony, Virginia, the first
permanent English settlement on the Western
Hemisphere, and through him of Egbert, first
King of all England.

Thomas Bunce, immigrant an- .

BUNCE cestor, was born in 1612 in Eng-
land and was of English or
Scotch ancestry. He died before August,
1682. In 1639 he was a proprietor of the
town of Hartford, Connecticut, "by courtesie
of the town." His house lot was near the
site of the state capitol. He served in the
Pequot war and was granted sixty acres of
land for his services by the general court in
1 67 1 and fifty acres more in 1672. He and
his wife were members of the South Church
in 1670. He was chimney viewer in 1646
and 1670; constable in 1648; juror in 1649;
townsman or selectman in 1653-61-65 ; rate
and list maker in 1669-71-72-73. He was
freed from the obligation of military training
in September, 1672, being then sixty years,
old. His will mentions his wife Sarah, cousin
Elizabeth White and sister Katharine Clark.
His widow died January, 1693-94. Children:
1. John, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Jacob White. t,. Thomas, married
Susanna, daughter of Captain Thomas Bull;
admitted to the South Church with his wife
in 1677; townsman many years between 1679
and 1703; had a large estate at Rocky Hill,
Wethersfield and Hartford. 4. Sarah, mar-
ried (first) John White, Jr., of Hatfield;
(second) about 1668, Nicholas Worthington,
of Hatfield; died June 20, 1676. 5. Mary,
married (first) Thomas Meakins, of Hatfield,
killed by Indians, October 9, 1673; married
(second) John Downing, of Hatfield.

( II) John, son of Thomas Bunce, was born
about 1650, died about 1734. He inherited
the house and barn and the homestead bounded
by land of Thomas Gridley and others in
Hartford. He was admitted to the South
Church in 1686 with his wife, Mary (Bar-
nard) Bunce. He was townsman or select-
man in 1701-II-15. The inventory of his es-
tate amounted to five hundred and thirty-eight
pounds, six shillings, eight pence. His will
was dated July 16, 1730. He bequeathed half

his homestead to his son James and half to
Jacob, John and Isaac Bunce, the children of
his son John, who was given the right to live
in the house during his life. He left small
legacies to three daughters. Children : John,
mentioned below ; James ; three daughters, of
whom the names are not given in the will.
The estate was divided June 2, 1737, and
May, 1 75 1.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Bunce,
was born about 1690, in Hartford, died in
1743. He married Abigail Sanford. Chil-
dren, born in Hartford: 1. John, born about
1718, mentioned below. 2. Jacob, mentioned
in grandfather's will. 3. Isaac, mentioned in
the will, aged sixteen in 1743 (born in 1727)
(Samuel Flagg, of Hartford, was his guard-
ian). 4. Lucretia, aged thirteen in 1743. 5.
Jared, aged twelve in 1743. 6. Abigail, aged
ten in 1743. The mother was guardian of the
minor children.

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Bunce,
was born 1718. He married Ann, daughter
of Joseph Bunce, of Hartford, who died in
1750, as he and his wife are mentioned among
the heirs of Joseph Bunce. Among his chil-
dren was John, mentioned below.

(V) John (4), son of John (3) Bunce,
was born 1750. He married Susannah, daugh-
ter of Captain Nathaniel and Abigail (Jones)
Kilbourne. Children : Russell, mentioned be-
low ; Nathaniel.

(VI) Russell, son of John (4) Bunce, was
born in Hartford, October 10, 1776. He be-
came a leading merchant and substantial citi-
zen of Hartford, and for many years was
deacon of the First (Centre) Congregational
Church. He married Lucinda Marvin, of
Lyme, Connecticut, a descendant of Thomas
Lee, of Saybrook (1641). Children, born at
Hartford: 1. Lucinda, born March 12, 1800,
died July 23, 1874; married Haynes Lord
Porter, born 1798, died 1874. 2. John Lee,
1802, died April 10, 1878; was president of
the Phoenix Bank of Hartford, and one of the
leading citizens of the city. 3. Susan, mar-
ried Daniel Henchman, of Boston ; son Russell
succeeded his father in business. 4. James
Marvin, October 13, 1806, mentioned below.
5. Mary Jane, 1809, died November 21, i860;
married Samuel S. Ward, of Montreal; both
died in Hartford. 6. Emma, 1814, living in
191 1, in her ninety-seventh year.

(VII) James Marvin, son of Russell Bunce,
was born October 13, 1806, in Hartford, died
there July 25, 1859. He was educated in the
public schools, and in 1825 began his career as
clerk in the Phoenix Bank and later was teller.
He went into business on his own account as
member of the firm of T. K. Brace & Com-

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pany, February i, 1830. The firm carried on
an extensive commission business. At that
time Hartford was an important center of
this line of business. After a time the name
of the firm was changed to Brace & Bunce and
when the senior partner retired, V. A. Bailey
entered the firm, the name becoming J. M.
Bunce & Company. Mr. Bailey died suddenly
and was succeeded by Drayton Hillyer. Mr.
Bunce continued at the head of the business
until his death. For some time the firm dealt
chiefly in wool and cotton. Mr. Bunce was
also a member of the firm of Hillyer, Mun-
yan & Company, dealers in groceries, and
located in the same building with J. M. Bunce
& Company. He had large interests outside
his firm. He was one of the active agents of
Hartford in opposing the construction of the
Air Line railroad bridge over the Connecticut
river at Middletown. The controversy over
this bridge lasted from 1847 to J^49 and dur-
ing its progress Mr. Bunce became well-known
throughout the state for a sturdy and able
fighter. He was chosen president of the Hart-
ford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad Company
and devoted all his energies to the construc-
tion and development of this road. He was a
prime mover in the effort to have an adequate
and fitting high school building in Hartford
and forwarded the agitation by circulating
documents, publishing newspaper articles, and,
as a member of the building committee after-
ward, he contributed liberally toward the com-
pletion of the edifice in accordance with the
ambitious ideas he himself held. Needless to
say, Hartford has been grateful to him for
the foresight and persistence he showed. He
was originally a Whig in politics. He was in
sympathy with the anti-slavery movement,
but continued with the Whig party to the
end, assisting to organize the new Republi-
can party. He was a delegate to the first Re-
publican national convention at Pittsburg.
His pledge that Connecticut would give a plu-
rality for the Republican candidate was re-
ceived with incredulity. "We doubt if any
man in the state gave more generously to the
cause (of the new party) here or in Kansas,
or rejoiced more heartily over the splendid
vote of Connecticut in 1856." His temper was
naturally most ardent and impetuous, impa-
tient of obstacles, leading him straight towards
his object. But he was exceedingly generous
and his warm affections were easily touched
by distress or the demands of any good cause.
He left a goodly estate, but he gave away more
than he left, for his benefactions began early,
increased as his means allowed and continued
to the time of his death.

Many years he was a member of the Centre

Church, but he joined the colony from that
church to establish the now flourishing Pearl
Street Church. He was an active and earnest
Christian, taking every opportunity to do good
to others and to lead them to the faith in which
he believed. His death was caused by a run-
away accident, whife he was yet active in busi-
ness and social life. His great force of char-
acter, his zeal for the public welfare and de-
termination to do all in his power to promote
the public good, his inflexible integrity, strong
will and high purposes, placed him among the
foremost and most useful and honored citi-
zens of Hartford and made his death lamented
as that of few men have ever been in that city.
He married (first) March 15, 1830, Frances
A. Brace, born April 8, 1808, died September
9, 1838. He married (second) October 9,

1839, Elizabeth H. Chester, born October 31,
1807, died March 6, 1861. Children of first
wife : Jonathan Brace, born April 4, 1832,
mentioned below ; Francis Marvin, admiral in
the United States navy. Children of second
wife : William Gedney. born September 19,

1840, an artist; James Russell, 1842, died De-
cember 21, 1874; Frances Ann, May 20, 1844.
Russell, died January 21, 1874; Alfred Ches-
ter, February 12, 1851, resides in Brooklyn,
New York; Ellen, February 15, 1853.

(VIII) Jonathan Brace, son of James Mar-
vin Bunce, was born in Hartford, April 4,
1832. He attended the public schools of his
.native city and fitted for college in the Hart-
ford high school. He was a student for a
year and a half in the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University, and afterward be-
came associated in business with his father.
He learned the business thoroughly and at
the age of twenty-two engaged in the com-
mission business in New York City as part-
ner in the firm of Dibble & Bunce and con-
tinued in this business with substantial suc-
cess until 1859, when he returned to Hart-
ford and succeeded his father in the firm of
J. M. Bunce & Company. His partnership
with Drayton Hillyer thus begun, continued
for a period of fifteen years. In 1875 he
withdrew from the business to take the office
of vice-president of the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Hartford, and filled the
office with ability and honor. In 1889, when
the company was reorganized, he was ad-
vanced to the office of president, a position in
which he has distinguished himself and
brought credit and honor to his company. The
Phcenix Mutual Life Insurance Company was
chartered in May, 1851, and issued its first
policy in September following. The original
name was the American Temperance Life In-
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policies at first only upon lives of total ab-
stainers. The present name was taken in 1861
when the policy was modified. The company
does no foreign business, but has agencies
throughout the United States. Mr. Bunce re-
signed his position as president in 1903, but
still served the company as director and chair-
man of its finance committee.

At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Bunce
was appointed quarter-master by Governor
Buckingham and he served out the balance
of the term of his predecessor. With charac-
teristic energy and executive ability he brought
order and efficiency into the department at a
time when the war multiplied the business of
the office a hundred-fold. He fitted out nine
regiments of infantry, a battalion of cavalry
and another of artillery for the army. The
demands of his own large business made him
relinquish further honors in military life. He
has held many positions of private and public
trust. He is a director of the Phoenix National
Bank, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company,
president and director of the Society for Sav-
ings, the same having the largest amount of
any savings bank in the state of Connecticut,
and trustee of the Connecticut Trust and Safe
Deposit Company. He has been active in va-
rious charitable institutions, especially the
Hartford Hospital and the American School
for the Deaf. In religion he is a Congre-
gationalist and an active member of the Farm-
ington Avenue Congregational Church, of
which he was one of the original incorpora-
tors. In politics he is a Republican.

He married, May 9, i860, Laura, born Sep-
tember 15, 1838, daughter of Calvin B. and
Lura (Hayes) Dibble, of Granby, Connecti-
cut. Children, born at Hartford : James Mar-
vin, January 31, 1861 ; Walter Hayes, October
22, 1862; Philip Dibble, August 6, 1864;
Louise Sheldon, May 17, 1866; Anne Kim-
berly, April 1, 1870: Frank Russell, June 13,
1873 ; Alexander, September 9, 1875 ; Helen
Brace, November 14, 1878.

(The Tuttle Line).

The word Tuthill, meaning a conical hill,
is a common place name in England, of re-
mote antiquity. From one or more places
named Tuthill, the surname Tuthill or Tut-
tle is derived, following a custom prevalent in
the twelfth century and later, when sur-
names came into use in England. The fam-
ily has been especially prominent in Devon-
shire, England.

There came to America in 1635 in the
ship, "Planter," three families of this name
from the parish of St. Albans, Hertford-
shire, England. John, Richard and William

Tuttle, the heads of these families, were
doubtless brothers. John Tuttle, mercer, aged
thirty-nine, according to the passenger list,
settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts ; was in Ire-
land in 1654, and probably fell sick there, for
his wife went to Carrickfergus, Ireland, and
wrote April 6, 1657, that he died there De-
cember 30, 1656. Richard Tuttte, aged forty-
five, settled in Boston, where he died May 8,
1640. William Tuttle is mentioned below.

(I) William Tuttle, immigrant ancestor,
came from St. Albans parish, Hertfordshire,
England, on the ship "Planter," in April,

1635, with his brothers, John and Richard, and
their families. He stated his age as twenty-six.
His wife Elizabeth, aged twenty-three, and
children John, aged three and a half, and
Thomas, aged three months, came at the same
time. His occupation was given as husband-
man. His wife joined the church at Boston,
August 14, 1636. As early as 1635 he was
granted liberty to build a windmill at Charles-
town, and was a proprietor of that town in

1636. His wife was dismissed to the Ipswich
church, September 8, 1639, and they doubtless
lived there for a time. He was part owner of a
ketch with Zebulon Tuttle, of Ipswich, and was
associated to some extent in business with
John Tuttle, of Ipswich. He and John owned
land deeded them bv George Griggs for debt
and the same George Griggs gave him a mort-
gage of house and land on Beacon street, Bos-
ton, October 8, 1650, after Tuttle had moved
to New Haven. About 1639 Tuttle moved to
New Haven. In 1641 he was the owner of the
home lot of Edward Hopkins, who had re-
moved to Hartford. This lot was on the
square bounded by Grove, State, Elm and
Church streets. In 1656 Tuttle bought of
Joshua Atwater his original allotment, man-
sion house and barn with other lands. He
made his home there until his death, and his
widow after him until her death, a period of
twenty-eight years. At the time of his death
it was appraised at one hundred and twenty
pounds. He shared in the division of com-
mon lands in 1640 and afterward. William
Tuttle and Mr. Gregson were the first owners
of land at East Haven, Connecticut, and Mr.
Tuttle surveyed and laid out the road from
the ferry at Red Rock to Stony river. His
land there was bounded by a line running
from the old ferry (where the new bridge
over the Ouinnipiack now is), eastward to
a spring where issues the small stream called
Tuttle's brook, thence south along this brook
to Gregson's land at Solitary cove, thence west
to a point on the New Haven harbor near
the chemical works and Fort Hale, thence
north along the harbor to the point of be-

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ginning. It included Tuttle's hill. In 1659
he became the owner of land at North Haven.
He sold or conveyed most of his property to
his children before he died. Judging from
the seat he was assigned in the meeting house,
he was among the foremost men of New
Haven, as early as 1646-47. He was inter-
ested in the projected settlement from New
Haven on the Delaware, which failed on ac-
count of the opposition of the Dutch in New
Netherlands. He filled many positions' of trust
and responsibility in the colony ; was commis-
sioner to decide on an equivalent to those who
received inferior meadow lands in the first
allotment; was fence viewer in 1644; road
commissioner in 1646; commissioner to settle
the dispute as to boundary between New
Haven and Branford in 1669 and to fix
the bounds of New Haven, Milford, Bran-
ford and Wallingford in 1672. He was
often a juror and arbitrator ; was con-
stable in 1666-67. He died early in June,
1673. His inventory was dated June 6,
1673. His wife died December 30, 1684,
aired seventy-two. She had been living: with
her youngest son, Nathaniel, who presented
her will, but the other children objected to it
and it was not allowed. The inventory of her
estate is dated February 3, 1685. Her grave-
stone was removed with the others in 1821
from the Old Green to the Grove street ceme-
tery, and it now stands in a row along the
north wall of the cemetery, but part of the in-
scription is gone.

Children: 1. John, born in England, 1631.
2. Hannah, born in England, 1632-33; married
John Pantry (see Pantry II). 3. Thomas,
born in England, 1634-35. 4. Jonathan, bap-
tized July 8, 1637. 5. David, baptized in
Charlestown, April 7, 1639, settled in Wal-
lingford. 6. Joseph, baptized in New Haven,
November 22., 1640. 7. Sarah, baptized April
1642. 8. Elizabeth, baptized November 9,
1645. 9- Simon, baptized March 28, 1647.
10. Benjamin, baptized October 29, 1648. 11.
Mercy, born April 27, 1650. 12. Nathaniel,
baptized February 29, 1652.

(The Pantry Line).

(I) William Pantry (Peyntree, Pantree),
immigrant ancestor, came from England to
New England in the same ship with Samuel
Grenhill, Timothy Stanley, Simon Willard and
other prominent pioneers. He was at New-
towne (Cambridge) in 1634 and had a lot
granted to him August 4, 1634. He was freed
from training, November 7, 1634; was ad-
mitted a freeman, March 4, 1635. He went
to Hartford and was one of the wealthiest of
the original proprietors of Hartford. His

home lot in 1639 was on what is now Front
street, and was bounded on the south by land
of James Olmstead and on the north by land
of Thomas Scott. He was townsman (select-
man) in 1641-45; constable in 1649. His in-
ventory, dated November 29, 1649, amounted
to one thousand and eleven pounds, ten shill-
ings. The will of his wife Margaret, Septem-
ber 12, 1651, bequeathed to her daughter,
Mary Bryan, Sister Brunson and her two chil-
dren by Richard Brunson, John and Abigail
Brunson ; also her son John Pantry. Children,
born in England: 1. Mary, married Richard
Bryan, of Hartford. 2. John, mentioned be-
low.

(II) John, son of William Pantry, was born
about 1629, and was admitted a freeman of
Hartford in 1650. His will was dated Septem-
ber 1, 1653, and the inventory was taken No-
vember 25 of the same year. He married
Hannah Tuttle, born in England, 1632-33, died
in Hartford, August 9, 1683 (gravestone)
(see Tuttle I) ; she married (second) June 23,
1654, Thomas Welles. Children : 1. John, bap-
tized March 17, 1650, mentioned below. 2.
Hannah, born August, 1652. 3. Mary (prob-
ably posthumous). Children of Thomas and
Hannah (Pantry) Welles: 4. Rebecca Welles,
born May, 1655. 5. Thomas Welles, Octo-
ber, 1657. 6. Sarah Welles, October, 1657.
7. Ichabod Welles, November, 1660. 8. Sam-
uel Welles, October, 1662. 9. Jonathan Welles,
September, 1664. 10. Joseph Welles, August,
1667.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Pantry,
was baptized in Wethersfield, Connecticut,
March 17, 1650, died April 4, 1736. He re-
sided in Hartford, where he was a leading citi-
zen and a man of wealth. He married Abigail
Mix, baptized January 22, 1660, daughter of
Thomas and Rebecca (Turner) Mix, of New
Haven, and granddaughter of Captain Nathan-
iel Turner, of New Haven. Children : 1.
John, married Mary Norton. 2. Abigail, born
January II, 1678-79. 3. Hannah, married
Hezekiah Goodwin. 4. Rebecca, mentioned
below.

(IV) Rebecca, daughter of John (2) Pan-
try, was baptized April 25, 1692, died Febru-
ary 28, 1776. She inherited considerable prop-
erty in East Hartford. She married, April
30, 1713, Nathaniel Jones. Children: 1. Mary,
born September 8, 17 14. 2. Pantry, married
lerusha Caldwell. 3. Abigail, married Captain
Nathaniel Kilbourne, born January 15, 1731,
son of Thomas and Mary (Higgins) Kil-
bourne, of East Hartford ; he was a sea-cap-
tain and died at sea, June 14. 1759. and his
brother Thomas, the mate, died on the same
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by the crew ; she died in Hartford, January
19, 1798, aged seventy-one; children: i. Re-
becca Kilbourne, married Isaac Mason ; ii.
Mary Ann Kilbourne, baptized April 28, 1754;
iii. Susannah Kilbourne, married John Bunce,
of Hartford (see Bunce V). 4. John Pantry,
baptized August 9, 1730.

Captain Joseph Bunce, of the
BUNCE fifth generation from Thomas
Bunce, the immigrant (q. v.),
lived in Hartford, and was a master mariner.
He was lost at sea. Children: I. William,
went to Atlanta, Georgia, where he published
the first newspaper ; left a large estate ; no de-
scendants. 2. Rufus, a jeweler for many years
in Hartford. 3. Thomas, went to New York
state when a young man. 4. Betsey, married
David Taylor, of Hartford. 5. Lucy, married

Kepper. 6. Horace, mentioned below.

(VI) Horace, son of Captain Joseph Bunce,
was born at Hartford, May 29, 1776, died June
16, 1863, in Southington. He was educated
in the district schools, and learned the trade
of cooper. In connection with his cooperage
business he conducted a farm. He married,
December 25, 1797, at Southington, where he
was then living, Hannah Woodruff, born July
24, 1776, daughter of Robert and Jerusha
(Bronson) Woodruff. She died January 30,
1856. Children, born in Southington: 1.
Nancy, May 19, 1799- 2. Emarilla, October 9,
1800; married John O. Camp, who died sud-
denly at Newbern, North Carolina, while on
a visit ; she died December 23, 1888. 3. Wil-
liam Joseph, mentioned below. 4. Jerusha,
July 1, 1805, died May 26, 1869; married
Henry Norton. 5. Hannah, March 14, 1808,
died November 6. 1835 ; married Romulus An-
drews, a shoemaker of Farmington. 6. Dor-
cas, June 3, 181 1, died May 16, 1852; married
James Hitchcock. 7. Rufus Rodney, May 11,
1814; married and settled in Arkansas. 8.
Henry, August 24, 181 7, died the same day.
9. Horace Henry (twin of Henry), August
24, 1817; married (first) Jane Norton; (sec-
ond) Ann Curtiss ; died March 1 1, 1888; con-
ducted the old homestead in Southington.

(ATI) William Joseph, son of Horace
Bunce, was born in Southington, August 12,
1802, died May 26, 1878. He was educated in
the common schools and learned the trade of
tailor. He established himself in business as
a merchant tailor at Wallingford. After a
few years, however, he sold his business, and
engaged in farming in Burlington and after-
ward in Kensington, on the Meriden and New
Britain road, a mile south of the Kensington
meeting house. He was a well-to-do farmer
and a useful citizen. He was a pious and

faithful member of the Congregational church
and strong in good works. He had firm con-
victions ; his judgment was sound and his in-
fluence great in the community. A man of
great force of character, and of unlimited ca-
pacity for work, he clung to the traditions of
his day and church, intending fully to dis-
charge his obligations as he saw them but with
little sympathy for what he considered the
shiftless and unsound inventions and philoso-
phies of the younger generation. He married,
September 14, 1827, in Wallingford, Emeline
Hough, born July 15, 1808, daughter of James
and Mary (Berry) Hough, granddaughter of
Devon Berry, of the Lexington alarm list and
later distinguished for service throughout the
revolutionary war. She died October 22, 1890.
She passed the years of her widowhood on the
homestead and was buried beside her husband
in the Kensington cemetery. She was a true
Christian, deeply concerned in the welfare and
happiness of her family and neighbors. Of an
unusually eager and inquiring mind, her appre-
ciation of new thoughts was keen and intelli-
gent. No sufferer lacked prompt and ready
sympathy from her, and those closest to her
remember no harsh or censorious judgments
of others from her lips, while her regard for
strict and literal truthfulness kept further
watch upon her speech. Children: I. Wil-
liam, born December 21, 1828; married Ruth
Curtiss, and had two daughters ; he died at
Plainville, Connecticut. 2. George, January
20, 1831 ; farmer at Berlin, Connecticut; mar-
ried (first) Sarah Hall; (second) Mrs. Mar-
cella (Brooks) Hastings. 3. James H., men-
tioned below. 4. Leander, December 20, 1835 ;
married Harriet Louise Wilcox, and has an
adopted daughter. Catherine Stillman, a music
teacher. 5. Horace C, May 1, 1839, died aged
three days. 6. Lucy Emeline, July 27, 1843,
died April 12, 1844.

(VIII) James Hough, son of William Jo-
seph Bunce, was born August 28, 1833, in
Kensington, died October 12, 1908. He at-
tended the district school of his native town
and was a pupil under Asenath Clark, Sarah
Gridley and Harriet Elderkin, well-known and
well-beloved teachers in his day. He attended'
the academy at Southington, of which Rev.
Mr. Day was then the principal, and for two
winter terms attended a school at Berlin taught
by Professor Johnson. At the age of nine-
teen years, he became a clerk in the general
store of John Brandegee at Berlin, beginning
on an annual salary of fifty dollars with an in-
crease of twenty-five dollars, the second and
third years, respectively. But after a year he
was released from his three-year contract and
entered the employ of Ward Coe, grocer, at

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Meriden. Six months later, however, he re-
turned to the employ of Mr. Brandegee and
continued until his employer suffered business
reverses. Mr. Bunce was appointed by the
creditors to sell the stock of goods and he won
their commendation by his energy and success
in discharging this duty. He came to Middle-
town in November, 1856, and became a clerk
in the store of Colegrove & McFarland at an
annual salary of four hundred dollars. In
March, 1857, he became a clerk in the
store of Origen Utley, dealer in dry goods
and carpets, and continued until the busi-
ness was sold to H. C. Ransom, of Hart-
ford, who continued the store at Middletown
in conjunction with a larger store in Hartford.
Mr. Bunce became his manager in Middle-
town, and in May, 1865, bought the business.
His business sagacity and enterprise were im-
mediately in evidence. He rented the adjoin-
ing store and connected the two stores and his
business soon outgrew the enlarged quarters,
however. The building which now forms the
front of his store had been built about one
year. Mr. Bunce bought it in September, 187,6.
It was then twenty-six by eighty feet. It was
later enlarged by an addition of forty feet.
In 1895 he built an annex eighty feet in depth
and four stories high. In 1900 he added an-
other section forty-eight by eighty feet and
six stories high, making his store one of the
largest in the state, much larger than any
other in Middletown and larger than any other
store in New England in a city of the size of
this.

Naturally a merchant, he inherited his fath-
er's talent for application, and his mother's
keen appreciation of the newer ways of life.
An intense believer in his country and its
future, he himself laid the credit of his im-
mediate success to the prompt business re-
bound at the close of the war, for which he
prepared largely and intelligently. Always a
little ahead of others, he worked with the zest
and enthusiasm of the man whose heart is in
his business and who regards that as an oppor-
tunity for increasing service to his community.
No good cause there lacked his support, and
'the ideal towards which he strove in all his
efforts, public and private, was the realization
of justice, to every man according to his worth
and work. Few men strove harder than he to
fulfill the requirements of the prophet, "to do
justice, to love mercy, to walk humbly before
the Lord thy God." A member of the First
Congregational Church, he gave of his best
to its growth and usefulness, and was for
years the chairman of its finance committee.

He married. May 17, 1865, Mary Anna
Hubbard, born at Middletown, January 3,

1838, daughter of Josiah M. and Sarah S.
. (Hubbard) Hubbard (see Hubbard V). De-
scended in the sixth generation from George
Hubbard, a founder of Middletown, and of
the first church there, she grew up in a family
exemplifying the best traditions of "plain liv-
ing and high thinking." Given the best educa-
tion that the times and the position of her
father, a plain farmer, would permit, and born,
as it were, into membership in the First Con-
gregational Church, she has been one with her
husband in all his ideals, and a force, both
in the church and community. Children: 1.
Mary E., born November 24, 1866; married
Percy Norton Evans, of Montreal, Canada,
now professor of chemistry, Purdee Univer-
sity, Indiana. 2. Grace H., September 2, 1872;
married William Paulding, of Cold Springs,
New York, now colonel of the Twenty-fourth
Regiment, United States Infantry. 3. James
H, December 31, 1874. 4. Richard H., May
11, 1881 ; married Mabel Pilsbury, of Charles-
town, Massachusetts. All were given the best
education that exigencies of health would per-
mit. Both sons received their business educa-
tion in their father's store, and remain con-
nected with it in its present corporate form.
All the children, in turn, have joined the First
Congregational Church.

(The Hubbard Line).

(III) Nehemiah Hubbard, son of Nathaniel
Hubbard (q. v.), was born at Middletown,
Connecticut, July 22, 1721, died there March
11, 181 1. He married about 1747, Sarah Sill,
born January 2, 1728, died the same year as
her husband, according to family tradition,
youngest daughter of Joseph and Phebe
(Lord) Sill, of Lyme, Connecticut. He was a
soldier in the old French and Indian war.
Children, born at Middletown: 1. Isaac, torn
September 24, 1750. 2. Nehemiah, April 10,
1752; married (first) in 1771, Cornelia Willis,
who died November 28, 1781 ; (second) Feb-
ruary 12, 1785, Lucy Starr; (third) April 22,
1823, Hannah (Burnham) Latimer; was
supercargo, captain, merchant, paymaster of
Colonel Burrill's regiment in 1776, in the revo-
lution ; president of Middletown Savings Bank,
1808-22; justice of the peace, city treasurer;
died February 6, 1837. 3. Elisha, October 1,
1753. 4. Lucy, April 2, 1755 : married Rev.
Robert Hubbard, c.5. Jacob, January 8, 1757.
6. Phebe, January 3, 1761. 7. Mary, August
20, 1765. 8. Nathaniel, July 17, 1766. 9.
Mathew, November 13, 1770. 10. Anna. 11.
Sarah. 12. David. 13. Name unknown.

(IV) Elisha, son of Nehemiah Hubbard,
was born October 1, 1753, died January 28,
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Roberts, born April 15, 1767, died July 6,
1827. Children, born at Middletown: 1.
Elisha, 1792, died March 7, 1858; married,
1850, Ruth Bill, born in 1787, died Septem-
ber 1, 185 1. 2. Martha, married Uriah Hay-
den, of Essex, Connecticut; died March 30,
1888. 3. Rebecca, December 1, 1795, died Sep-
tember 13, 1885; married Chauncey Wetmore.
4. Anna, April 23, 1797-98, died September
24, 1878 ; married Augustus Phillips. 5. Sa-
rah Sill, married Josiah Meigs, see forward.
6. Phebe, February 10, 1801, died March 19,
1882 ; married Seth S. Hall. 7. Infant, de-
ceased. 8. Daniel, October 21, 1803; married
Louise Newell, of Union, Connecticut. 9.
David, September 28, 1805 ; lived in Iowa.
10. Mary, February 23, 1808, died unmarried,
February 21, 1893.

(V) Josiah Meigs, son of Jeremiah (q. v.)
and Elizabeth (Meigs) Hubbard, and through
his mother a descendant of John Meigs, the
Guilford farmer who brought that timely
warning to the regicides, also of Simon Wil-
lard who saved Brookfield from an Indian
massacre, was born at Middletown, June 10,
1785, lived and died there. He married, May
12, 1830, Sarah Sill Hubbard, born at Middle-
town, June 13, 1799, died there January 19,
1892, daughter of Elisha Hubbard, mentioned
above. A Christian gentleman, and an Ameri-
can patriot, steeped in traditions of family
participation in the stirring events of colonial
life and the revolutionary war. Raised a Cal-
vinist of the old school, his kindly and lovable
nature kept him from the excesses of that
faith. Of genial temperament, and wide hu-
man sympathies, of stalwart common sense,
and with an unusual appreciation of fine litera-
ture, the entire family circle sought him out
for companionship and encouragement, while
tireless industry made him a leader in the
small community of farmers around him. His
wife, Sarah Sill (Hubbard) Hubbard, a sharer
of much of the same family tradition, and a
kindred spirit in all things, joined with him
to produce a family atmosphere of most un-
usual quality. Of their two sons, both in-
herited largely from father and mother ; as
young men both entered the stream of west-
ward migration, one to Kansas, the other to
California ; both enlisted in the war for free-
dom, the elder, Robert, to lay down his life
at Antietam. Children : 1. Robert, born April,
1 83 1, died 1862. 2. Josiah Meigs, born July
16, 1832, see forward. 3. Sarah Sill, born
October 26, 183 s : married Warren Williams,
died 1903. 4. Mary Anna, born January 3,
1838; married James H. Bunce (see Bunce
VIII). 5. Martha Louise, born October 1,
1840. 6. Lucy Lyman, born January 15, 1845;

married (first) Nathaniel Hubbard, (second)
Joseph Hubbard.

(VI) Josiah Meigs (2), son of Josiah
Meigs (1) and Sarah Sill (Hubbard) Hub-
bard, was born at Middletown, July 16, 1832.
He married (first) Harriet Fairchild ; (sec-
ond) Lavina (Bacon) Coe. Stirred by the
struggle to keep Kansas a free state, he joined
the "Beecher rifle company," going there for
settlement, participated in many stirring events
before the war, served through the war in the
western armies, was detailed for Indian service
following the war. Flis private history, an
epitome, as it were, of the western struggle
for free government, he turned his back on
that congenial field at the call of duty, and
cheerfully came home to undertake the duties
devolving upon him there through the death
of his father and elder brother. Entering as
fully into the public life of his native state as
he had in that of his adopted, he became a
quiet but effective force in community and
state life. A farmer, by necessity, the new
ways of agriculture gained his ready atten-
tion, and he entered heartily into the public
campaign for improved agriculture, and bet-
ter agricultural education. A genial and
gifted man, he fully maintained the fine tra-
ditions of the family in which he had such
pride. One child, Robert, son of Harriet (Fair-
child) Hubbard, born November 16, 1867,
married Sarah Edwards (Davis) Hubbard.

Nathaniel Harwood, immi-
HARWOOD grant ancestor, was first of

Boston and then of Con-
cord, between 1665 and 1667. In 1665 he
signed a declaration of non-freemen of Bos-
ton, as to their satisfaction with the govern-
ment. He was a cordwainer by trade. He

married Elizabeth , who died April 25,

1715. He died February 7, 1716. Children:
William, born March 28, 1665, in Boston;
Nathaniel, born in Concord, died in Chelms-
ford, will proved October 28, 1751 ; Peter,
January 12, 1671 ; John, February 8, 1674;
Mary, February 5, 1676.

(II) Peter, son of Nathaniel Harwood, was
born January 12, 1671, in Concord, died in
Littleton, 1740; will proved July 7 of that
year. He married, November 7, 1700, Mary
Fox, of Concord. Children : Nathaniel, born
August 24, 1701-, Concord; John, April 28,
1703; Mary, August it, 1705; Joseph, Febru-
ary 20, 1708; Hannah, January 30, 1710; Ben-
jamin, April 30, 1713; Ebenezer, see forward.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Peter Harwood,
was born February 22, 1714, in Concord. He
removed from Concord to Littleton, 1737,
with his father and brother Joseph, and thence

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to North Brookfield, in 1743-44. In April,
1745, he joined the secret expedition against
Louisburg, enlisting in Captain Olmstead's
company, under Sir William Pepperell of the
American land forces. He was killed June 17,
1745, and his widow drew his prize money at
Boston, February 15, 1748. He married Dor-
othy Hubbard, who died August 15, 1809, 'm
Brookfield. Children, the first three born in
Littleton, the other in North Brookfield : Dan-
iel, born October 27, 1738, died in infancy ;
Peter, May 10, 1740, mentioned below; Abel.
February 19, 1742; Eunice, 1744. His widow
married (second) at Worcester, July 5, 1750,
Nathaniel Bartlett, of North Brookfield.

(IV) Major Peter (2), son of Ebenezer
Harwood, was born in Littleton, May 10,
1740. He was a millwright and a farmer by
occupation. He was an officer in the revo-
lution and was court-martialed for disobedi-
ence of orders to abandon and destroy a bridge
at White Plains, which was then being held
by the American army. In attempting to hold
and defend it. it was captured. On trial, how-
ever, his action was so far justified that he
was retained and promoted in the army. At
the execution of Andre be was officer of the
day. He was first lieutenant in Captain Jona-
than Barnes's company of minute-men. Colonel
Jonathan Warner, on the Lexington alarm,
April, 1775, and later in the year he was
captain in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's regi-
ment. An order dated May 2~j , 1775, directs
Harwood not to take any other men from
Colonel Learned's regiment to serve on board
the whaling boats, etc., besides his own com-
pany, except with the consent of Lieutenant-
Colonel Shepard. He was appointed brigade
major, January 7, 1777, and was major in
Colonel Nixon's (sixth) regiment from Jan-
uary 9 to December, 1779. His commission
was issued September 29, 1778, as major. He
commanded a company in 1779 in Colonel
Thomas Nixon's regiment. He resigned
from the Continental army, October 16, 1780.
After his return from the war he built a
brick house, the most expensive in North
Brookfield. and this proved his financial ruin,
in consequence of which he removed from
the town. He died in Delaware, Januarv 14,
1805. He married. May 26, 1763, Phebe
Prouty, of Spencer, born August 3, 1744, died
February 13, 181 1. Children: Ebenezer, born
February 29, 1764 ; Peter, September 16,
1765; Phebe. December 26, 1767; Mary, June
29, 1770; Abel, September 19, 1772; Jacob,
February 17, 1775; Dolly, January 2, 1777:
George W., December 12, 1779, mentioned be-
low: Jonas, February 28, 1781.

(V) George W., son of Major Peter (2)

Harwood, was born December 12, 1779. He
was a farmer. He died July 24, i860. He
married, December 31, 1807, Anna Bisco, of
Spencer, born March 8, 1780, died March 20,
1849. Children : John Bisco, born September
16, 1808, died August 31, 1810; Anna Moriah,
November 16, 1809; Washington, July 22,
1811; George, March 8, 1813 ; Harrison, Oc-
tober 18, 1814: Phebe Prouty, July 9, 1816,
mentioned below; Abigail, January 31, 1819;
Dolly Powers, November 5, 1820 ; Louisa,
October 1, 1822, died February 6, 1824; Jo-
seph Warren, November 28, 1823.

(VI) Phebe Prouty, daughter of George W.
Harwood, was born July 9, 1816, died March
21, 1868. She married, February 2, 1841,
William Cary Jackson, born in Honesdale,
Pennsylvania, April 28, 1820, son oF George
Jackson, who was born in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, April 12, 1798. died in West
Brookfield, May 8, 1876. He was a mechanic
by trade. George Jackson married, in West
Stockbridge, Hannah (Slaughter) Jenks,
widow of Rev. Hervey Jenks, of Hudson,
New York; children, born in Pennsylvania:
William Cary, aforementioned, and Charles,
born February 17, 1822. William Cary Jack-
son married (second) August 24, 1869, Fi-
delia Snow, of Boston, widow. Children of
first wife, born in North Brookfield: 1. An-
drew Fuarey. April 3, 1842 ; married, Decem-
ber 31, 1863, Sophia Livermore, of North
Brookfield; children: William Moore, Emma,
Philip Luds, Ethel. 2. George Howard. De-
cember 24, 1843 ; married Emma Winch, of
Natiek. 3. Anna Bisco, mentioned below. 4.
Charles William, July 31, 1852; married Clara
Wood, of Springfield, Massachusetts : now
living in Monson, Massachusetts; physician;
graduate of University of Vermont with de-
gree of M.D. in 1884. His wife was before
marriage district superintendent of schools.
5. Lauretta Emeline, November 6, 1855 : mar-
ried, in 1882. Alonzo Prouty Coombs, of West
Brookfield ; died in 1889, in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut.

(VII) Dr. Anna Bisco (Jackson) Ferris,
daughter of William Cary Jackson, was born
in North Brookfield, September 6, 1846. She
attended the public schools of her native town,
and studied under private tutors. She then
entered the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1871, and
graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1874.
She became an interne at the Philadelphia
Woman's Hospital and remained there for
about six months. She then held the same
position at the New England Hospital for
Women and Children in Boston for one year.
For the following six months she was resi-

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dent physician of this hospital, and then re-
moved to Philadelphia, 1875, and remained
there until 1878, and while there she was clin-
ical physician in the Woman's Hospital. In
November, 1878, she came to Meriden, Con-
necticut, and began the general practice of
her profession. Since that time she has been
directress of the Woman's and Children's
Hospital, with the exception of the years be-
tween 1895 and 1901, which she spent in
Philadelphia. She was the first woman to
be admitted to the Connecticut State Medical
Society, and is still a member. She is also a
member of the New Haven County Medical
Society. She is physician to the Curtis Home
of Meriden and also to the Orphanage and
Old Ladies' Plome, and has a very successful
practice. In religion she is a member of the
First Congregational Church. She married,
March 20, T874, Andrew Ferris, of Philadel-
phia, born there January 21, 1833, died March
1, 1906. He was the son of Adam and the
grandson of Joseph Ferris, of Litchfield, Con-
necticut. His brothers were Josiah, Adam,
Adam, William and Joseph ; also a sister, Jane
Elizabeth His brother William has a son, Dr.
Frank Ferris, who is at present practicing in
Philadelphia. His mother was Wilimina
(Zebley) Ferris, born in Spencer, Massachu-
setts. Her family came originally from
Switzerland. Her grandfather was Jacob Zeb-
ley, the first collector of the port of Phila-
delphia.

Isaac Gross, immigrant ancestor,
GROSS was doubtless born in Cornwall,
England. With him or soon
afterward came his brother, Edmund Gross,
a seafaring man, who was a proprietor of
Boston as early as 1639, and was admitted to
the Boston church, March 22, 1645, with his
wife Katharine. As all of the colonial fami-
lies of Gross are descended from these broth-
ers, the names of Edmund's children, born in
Boston, are here given : Isaac, born October
1, 1642; Susanna, August, 1644, baptized
with Isaac, March 23, 1645 ; Hannah, baptized
August 15, 1647, a^ed three days; Lydia, bap-
tized March 10, 1650, aged about four days ;
Mary, born September 9, 1652 ; John, April 21,
1655. Edmund's will was proved May 3, 1665,
bequeathing to wife, son Isaac and daughter
Susanna and three other children.

Isaac Gross also settled in Boston. The
early records have his name spelled Groce,
Grose, Grosse and Growse. He was a brewer
by trade, but appears to have followed hus-
bandry in this country. He was admitted to
the Boston church, April 17, 1636, but fol-
lowed the Wheelwright secession during the

religious controversy at Boston, and was dis-
missed from the Boston church to Exeter,
January 6, 1638. He returned to Boston. In
1636 he had a grant of land in "a great allot-
ment of land at Muddy River" (now Brook-
line). He probably brought property from
England, for when he died he left one of the
largest estates of his time. His will was
proved at Boston, June 5, 1649, and he prob-
ably died in the preceding month. He be-
queathed to his wife, to children, Edmund,
Clement and Mathew Gross; to grandchildren
Isaac, Hannah and Susannah Gross ; Mr. John
Cotton, the minister, Mr. Phileemon Pormort
et al. His widow, Ann, married, August 15,
1658, Samuel Sheere, or Shears, of Dedham.

( II ) Clement, son of Isaac Gross, was born
1625-30 in England, and came to this country
with his father. He was also a brewer by

trade. He married (first) Mary ;

(second) Ann . He lived in Boston.

Children of first wife: Simon, mentioned be-
low ; Isaac, a cordwainer ; Mathew. Child of
second wife : Edmund, born at Boston, Sep-
tember 27, 1669.

(III) Simon, son of Clement Gross, was
born in Boston, about 1650, died at Hingham,
April 26, 1696. He settled as early as 1675
in Hingham and married there, October 23,
1675. Mary, daughter of John Bond, born De-
cember 16, 1657. He was a boatman. His
home was on Scituate street, Hingham. His
widow administered his estate, which was
valued at one hundred and ninety-eight
pounds, five shillings, three pence. Children
born at Hingham: Simon, August 11, 1676;
Thomas, mentioned below ; John, April 3,
1681 ; Jonah, August 2, 1683: Micah, Febru-
ary 20, 1685-86; Alice, April 26, 1689, mar-
ried John Crowell, of Truro ; Abigail, June
28, 1692, married Nathaniel Smith, of East-
ham.

(IV) Thomas, son of Simon Gross, was
born at Hingham, February 4, 1677-78. He
resided at Hingham and Eastham, Massachu-
setts. He married (first) at Hingham, De-
cember 29, 1705, Elizabeth, daughter of John
Hincks, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She
died at Hingham, June 7, 1708, and he mar-
ried (second) October 13, 1709, Experience
Freeman. She was a daughter of Lieutenant
Edmund (b. June, 1657) and Sarah (Mayo)
Freeman, and granddaughter of Major John
(b. 1627) and Mercy (Prence) Freeman,
married February 13, 1649-50. Mercy Prence
was a daughter of Governor Prence
and granddaughter of Elder William Brew-
ster of the "Mayflower." She was descended
also from Edmund Freeman, the pioneer, and
Rev. John Mavo, the minister. Child of

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Thomas Gross and his first wife : Hincks,
born June 7, 1708, ancestor of a prominent
Cape Cod family. Children of second wife :
Freeman, mentioned below ; Sarah, born No-
vember 2.7, 1713, at Hingham; Elizabeth, June
5, 1716; Thomas, October 9, 1718.

(V) Freeman, son of Thomas Gross, was
born at Eastham, or Truro, about 1710-11,
died in 1742. He came to Hartford probably
to join his two uncles who had previously
removed to Hartford from Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, to wit, Jonah, who had arrived in
1708; and John about 1710. He was admitted
to the First Church, Hartford, October 15,
1732. He married Susannah Bunce, and had
several children, among them Thomas.

(VI) Thomas (2), of Hartford, son of
Freeman Gross, was born in 1738, died Au-
gust 26, 1773. On May 1, 1762, he married
Huldah, born January 14, 1745, died January,
1836, daughter of Richard Seymour, a de-
scendant of Richard Seymour, an original
proprietor in Hartford in 1639. After the
death of her husband, she removed with her
children to Litchfield, and subsequently mar-
ried Ashbel Catlin and removed with him to
Shoreham, Vermont. She is buried at Crown
Point, New Yerk. Thomas Gross and Hul-
dah, his wife, left three children, one a son,
Thomas Freeman.

(VII) Thomas Freeman, son of Thomas
(2) Gross, was born in Hartford, November
30, 1772, died at Litchfield, March 3, 1846,
whither he had removed with his mother. In
1793 he married Lydia, daughter of John
Mason, born April 14, 1773, died Julv 23,
1864.

(VIII) Mason, son of Thomas Freeman
Gross, was born in LitchfieM, Connecticut, in
1809, died in Hartford, in March, 1864. At
the age of seventeen he went to Hartford and
became a successful wool merchant there. For
several years he was captain of the Light In-
fantry. He married, in 1832, Cornelia, daugh-
ter of John Jr. and Sally (Robbins) Barnard,
of Hartford, granddaughter of Captain John
Barnard, a soldier in the early French wars
and also all through the revolution, being
present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and
being one of the founders of the Society of
the Cincinnati. Children : John Mason, Wil-
liam H , Cornelia E., died in infancy, Cornelia
J., Sarah A., married, in 1865, Seth E. Thom-
as ; Charles E.

(IX) Charles Edward, son of Mason Gross,
was born in Hartford, August 18, 1847. He
attended the public schools of Hartford, and
graduated from Yale University in 1869.
While in college he was a member of Alpha
Delta Phi, and was one of the leading mem-

bers of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. The
first year after leaving college he taught in
Hall's school at Ellington. In 1870 he re-
turned to Hartford and took up the study of
law under Hon. Charles J. Hoadley, the state
librarian, and later in the office of Waldo,
Hubbard & Hyde. In September, 1872, he
was admitted to the bar of Hartford county,
and remained as a clerk with Waldo, Hubbard
& Hyde. Four years later, in January, 1877,
he was admitted a member of the firm. On
the death of Judge Waldo in 1881, the firm
name was changed to Hubbard, Hyde & Gross,
and after Governor Hubbard's death, in 1884,
it became Hyde, Gross & Hyde. Later, after
the death of Hon. Alvan P. Hyde, it became
Gross, Hyde & Shipman, which it still re-
mains, the partners now being Charles E.
Gross, William Waldo Hyde, Arthur L. Ship-
man, Charles Welles Gross and Alvan Waldo
Hyde, all graduates of Yale. Mr. Gross has
had a very large practice as an insurance and
corporation lawyer, with few equals in the
state, and has gained an enviable reputation
for his skillful handling of the many impor-
tant cases which he has conducted. He stands
among the first in the state in his profession.
He is a director in the Aetna Insurance Com-
pany, and has been a director of the Phoenix
Mutual Life Insurance Company since its
reorganization in 1889. In 1893 he was chosen
a director of the New York & New England
Railroad Companv. He is a vice-president of
the Society for Savings, the largest institu-
tion of the kind in Connecticut. He has been
since 1808 the president of the Holyoke Water
Power Company which controls the large dam
across the Connecticut river at Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts. For a number of years he repre-
sented Mrs. Samuel Colt on the board of
directors of the Colts Patent Fire Arms Man-
ufacturing Company, and has been an active
director in many other corporations. He is
the vice-president of the Wadsworth Athe-
neum which has charge of the beautiful Mor-
gan Memorial, erected by Mr. J. Pierpont
Morgan in memory of his father. Mr. Gross
has been president of the Yale Alumni Asso-
ciation of Hartford. He is a member of the
Cincinnati and of many of the patriotic so-
cieties, having been governor of two. For
many vears he has been vice-president of the
Hartford Bar Association. For sixteen vears
he has been a park commissioner of Hartford
and twice president of the board. He was one
of the organizers of the Hartford Board of
Trade and has been a member of its board of
directors since its organization, and was for
several years its president. In 188c; he became
secretary of a committee of twentv aopointed

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to arouse the public interest to the importance
of action on the license and other public ques-
tions, and no man on the committee did more
work or showed greater interest in the work
than he. In 1891 he was one of a special
committee of five, appointed by the town,
under Professor John J. McCook as chair-
man, on outdoor alms. It was found that the
United States led the world as to expense per
capita on outdoor alms giving, that Connec-
ticut led the states, and that Hartford led
Connecticut. Mr. Gross attended to the legal
questions and bearings of the case in the
report of the committee and did efficient work.
The report created a sensation in the city and
state, and was the direct means of stopping
various abuses. It has since been introduced
into several colleges as a text book on charit-
able work, on account of its great statistical
value. Mr. Gross was the first president of
the City Club, created for municipal reform.
In all his work Mr. Gross has the best in-
terests of the city at heart.

The Hartford Courant speaks as follows of
the important service rendered by him to the
medical practitioners of Connecticut : "The
active struggle before the last legislature over
the Medical Practice Act is still remembered
all over the state, as is the fact brought out
at the hearing that Charles E. Gross, who so
ably managed the case for the Connecticut
Medical Society, declined to accept any fee
for his services. The doctors, however, have
taken another way to testify their appreciation
of his assistance, and yesterday the society,
through its officers, presented him with a
unique and very choice testimonial. It is in
the shape of a beautiful hand-made volume,
bound in white morocco, and enclosed in a
rich silk case. The bonk, on opening, is found
to consist of a number of parchment pages
on which are exquisitely engrossed the reso-
lutions of thanks passed by the society. The
illuminated lettering in colors is worthy of
the old monks, and the whole work is notice-
ably beautiful. * * * The resolutions which
were printed in the volume are as follows :
In recognition of the distinguished service
rendered to the people of Connecticut by
Charles E. Gross. Esq.. in connection with
the recent passage of the Medical Practice
Rill by the legislature, and in view of the
fact that this service has included many scores
of conferences with the members of the com-
mittee which represented this society in secur-
ing such legislation : the drafting of the bill
and subsequent modifications of it ; the presen-
tation of the most cogen^ of arguments in
favor of its enactment : which latter has cov-
ered some vears and all of which has been

done without compensation, and often with
great personal inconvenience and sacrifice of
business interests, and with such devotion to
the welfare of all concerned as to render it
almost if not quite unique in character; there
fore,

"Resolved : That the Connecticut Medical
Society hereby expresses its high appreciation
of these services of Mr. Gross, and begs to
extend to him in behalf of its members and
its, constituency its thanks and congratulations,
that this resolution be spread upon the records
of the society, and that a copy be suitably en-
grossed for presentation to him."

He married, October 5, 1875, Ellen C,
daughter of Calvin and Clarissa M. (Root)
Spencer, of Hartford. Children: 1. Charles
Welles, who in 1905 married Miss Hilda
Welch, of New Haven, and has one child,
Spencer Gross. 2. William Spencer, died in
1882. 3. Helen Clarissa.

The surname Cole is derived from
COLE an ancient personal name of un-
known antiquity, Coel, as it was
formerly spelled, and one of the name, an
early king of Britain, gave his name to Col-
chester. Justice Cole lived in the reign of
King Alfred. Another Cole defeated Sweyne,
the Danish chieftain, in Pinhoe. William
Cole and wife Isabella are mentioned in the
assize roll of county Cornwall in the year 1201,
showing that Cole was at that time established
as a surname. Various branches of the Eng-
lish Cole family bear coats-of-arms, all indi-
cating relationship by similarity in device.
The Hertfordshire family, to which the Amer-
ican immigrant is believed to belong, bears :
Party per pale or and argent a bull passant
within a bordure sable on a chief of the third
three bezants. Crest : A demi-dragon vert
bearing in his dexter paw a javelin armed or,
feathered argent.

(I) James Cole, immigrant ancestor, was
living in Highgate, a suburb of London, in
1610. He is mentioned as a great lover of
flowers. He married, in 1624, Mary, daugh-
ter of the noted botanist and physician,
Mathieu Lobel. Her father was a physician
to King James I., a great student and scholar,
author of a number of books on medicinal
plants and discoverer of the virtues of the
plant named for him, lobelia. In 1632 James
Cole and wife and two children came to Saco,
Maine, and in the following year came to
Plymouth, where he was admitted a freeman
in 16^3. He followed the sea. In 1634 his
name appears in the tax list and he received
a grant of land at Plymouth. His house stood
on the lot next below the present site of the

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Baptist church. He was the first settler on
what is still known as Cole's Hill, the site of
the first burial ground of the Pilgrims, and
he probably owned the land on which Plym-
outh Rock is located, and had other grants
of land. He was surveyor of highways in
1641-42-51-52 ; constable in 1641-44. In 1637
he was one of the volunteers against the Pe-
quot Indians. . Soon after his arrival in Plym-
outh he opened the first inn, one of the first
in New England. This tavern was kept by
him and his son James until 1698. Children:
James, born in London, 1625 ; Hugh, 1627 ;
John, mentioned below ; Mary, 1639, in
Plymouth.

(II) John, son of James Cole, was
born in Plymouth, November 21, 1637, died
at Swansea in 1677. He was one of the
original proprietors of Swansea, Massachu-
setts, signing the agreement at the organiza-
tion of the town. He married, November 21,
1667, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Ryder.
of Yarmouth. His widow married Thomas
Boardman. The settlement of his estate is
found in an order of the court, dated June 6,
1677, viz.: "Ordered by the court, in regard
to the estate of John Cole. Forasmuch as the
estate is small, and there being four small
children to bring up, that the whole personal
estate be settled upon his widow for the
bringing up of the children, and the profits
of the land until the children become of age.
In case there shall be necessity for the bring-
ing up of the children, then some of the land
shall be sold by further advice and leave of the
court. All lands left shall be disposed to the
two sons, a small legacy being allowed the
two daughters." Children: John, mentioned
below; Nathaniel: Elizabeth, born 1675. mar-
ried. June 10, 1695. Nathan Hammond:
Daughter, whose name is unknown.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Cole,
was born in 1672. in Swansea. He married
(first) June 10, 1693, Mary, daughter of
Hezekiah Lewis, of Rehoboth ; married (sec-
ond) November 6, 1712, Deborah, daughter
of Hugh Cole, son of Hugh and grandson of
lames Cole, the immigrant. Her father was
born in Plymouth, March 8, 1658, married.
May 6. 1681. Deborah, daughter of Joseph and
Deborah (Allen) Buckland. Hugh Cole, Sr..
was born in London, 1627, married (first)
January 8, 1654, Mary, daughter of Richard
and Ann (Shelly) Foxwell. of Barnstable:
married (second) January 1, 1689, Elizabeth,
widow of Jacob Cook, former widow of Wil-
liam Shurtlifre and daughter of Thomas and
Ann Lettuce, of Plvmouth : married (third)
Tanuary 30, 1694, Mary, widow of Deacon
Ephraim Morton. Hugh Sr. was a prominent

man, selectman of Swansea, deputy to the
general court for many years ; sergeant in
King Philip's war, but before the war was a
friend of King Philip. Children of John Cole :
Lewis (twin), born October 23, 1694; Lydia
(twin), October 23, 1694; Joanna, February
20, 1697 ; Nathan, mentioned below ; Heze-
kiah, February 27, 1706; Seth, November 17,
1708; Mary, November 1, 171 1, married, Oc-
tober 12, 1729, William Case.

(IV) Nathan, son of John (2) Cole, was
born at Swansea, March 29, 1701. He moved
from the Cape Cod region to East Hampton
(Chatham), Connecticut, about 1755 with his
family. He had sons: Marcus, Abner and
Ebenezer.

(Y) Marcus, son of Nathan Cole, was born
about 1740, or before. He was an ensign, it
is said, in the French and Indian war ; ser-
geant in the Chatham company on the Lexing-
ton alarm; ensign commissioned May 1, 1777;
first lieutenant in Colonel Wiley's regiment,
and detailed as an engineer, January 1, 1777.
He served in the battle of Bunker Hill and in
the Quebec expedition. Children: Hendrick
Abner, Marcus and three daughters.

(AT) Abner, son of Marcus Cole, was born
about 1760. He served in the revolution, in
the Second Regiment, General Spencer, en-
listing May 17, 1775, and was taken prisoner
at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776. He
was from Chatham; was sergeant, January 1,
1777, and ensign June 1. 1778, retired May
29, 1780: he was paymaster and quarter-
master. Child, Abner, mentioned below.

(YII) Abner (2), son of Abner (T) Cole,
was born at Chatham. In the early forties
he removed from his native town to a farm
lying partly in Cromwell, near Middletown.
He married, March 28, 1824. Eliza, daughter
of Enos and Anna (Williams) Brown (see
Brown V). Children: 1. Edwin Halsey, born
April 18, 1827, died July 16, 1859; married,
November, 1852, Julia A. Marvin, of Tolland,
Connecticut ; he graduated from Wesleyan in

185 1, taught school at Amenia. New York, in

1852, and in the Collinsville high school,
1854-56: child, Harriet Julia, born May 17,
1856. 2. Enos, died November 17, 1866. 3.
Charles James, mentioned below.

(VIII) Charles James, son of Abner (2)
Cole, was born in Chatham, June, 1839. He
spent his boyhood on his father's farm near
Middletown and attended the public schools.
He studied his profession in the Harvard Law
School and was graduated there in 1863. He
opened an office in 1864 on Central Row,
Hartford, and practiced there for a period of
thirty-one vears. and during much of that
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ford "1 rust Company. He was never in part-
nership, but at different times shared his office
with Judge Wiley, Leonard Morse, Charles A.
Safford, Henry A. Huntington and others.
Early in his career he made a study of con-
stitutional questions of law and he argued
man}' important cases before the supreme
court where the constitutionality of the law
was involved. He was also prominent among
the corporation lawyers of the state and at-
torney for many well-known Hartford cor-
porations, including the Aetna Life Insurance
Company, the Orient Insurance Company, the
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company,
having been a director in both the latter com-
panies, and the United States Bank, of which
he was a director. He was also counsel for
the Berlin Iron Bridge Company and other
industrial corporations. He was prominent in
the Morris-Bulkeley quo warranto case which
was brought to decide the contested election
of governor of the state. 1891-93, appearing
for the Republican candidate, in association
with Hon. Henry C. Robinson and Hon. Wil-
liam C. Case. He was counsel for the ex-
ecutors in the two trials of the famous Fox
wall case in Hartford. He was an able trial
lawyer, clear, cogent and convincing in argu-
ment. He appeared as often as any other
Hartford count}- lawyer in the state. He had
no superior in knowledge of law, carefulness
in preparation of his cases and fidelity to the
interests of his clients.

In politics Mr. Cole was a Republican, and
he held a position of leadership for many
years in city and state. He was chairman
of the Republican state central committee in
1878, when Charles B. Andrews, later chief
justice, was elected governor. He wras again
chairman in the campaigns wdien Henry B.
Harrison and Phineas C. Lounsbury w^ere
elected governor. He was a shrewd organ-
izer, keeping his own counsel well and man-
ipulating his forces skillfully. He was can-
didate for the state senate in 1873 against
Hon. Charles Murray Pond. The result was
in doubt and was contested, Mr. Cole receiv-
ing the certificate of election. The result de-
pended on the vote of the town of Southing-
ton, the vote for Mr. Cole, which had not
been counted, and, when the mistake was
corrected, Mr. Pond had a plurality. Mr.
Cole w^as for many years active in local af-
fairs, and from 1877 to 1879 he w^as city at-
torney. He was frequently heard in debate
in town meetings and in Republican caucuses,
f>nd his voice and vote were ahvavs on the
side of clean politics and good citizenship.
He was greatly interested in the contest of
the Republican party the fall before his death

and was prominent in supporting Henry E.
Taintor, chairman of the town committee.
He was offered the chief justiceship of the
state by Governor Bulkeley and declined the
honor. Mr. Cole's services as attorney were
in great demand during the sessions of the
general assembly. He appeared before nearly
every committee in support or opposition to
most of the important bills under consider-
ation. He was prominent as the attorney of
the farmers of the state in opposition to cer-
tain proposed legislation relating to tuber-
culosis in cattle. He was perhaps all the more
successful in influencing legislators to his way
of thinking because he confined his efforts to
arguments in the committee room and never
descended to the methods of the lobbyist. He
was extremely industrious and capable of a
vast amount of work. He had a marvelous
memory and a faculty of quickly and thor-
oughly mastering a special subject, even one
of technical difficulty, a gift that stood him in
good stead in both court and legislative argu-
ment.

He was a member of the Connecticut So-
ciety of Sons of the American Revolution.
He attended Trinity Church. His residence
in Hartford was at the corner of Woodland
and Collins streets. He also had a farm in
Norfolk, Connecticut, where he died, August
16. 1895. He wras accustomed to spend part
of the summer there. He also conducted the
homestead of his father and frequently visited
it. The following editorial tribute appeared
in the Hartford Courant:

"The story of his life is briefly told elsewhere.
It was a busy life, full of interests, activities and
responsibilities, a studious, intellectual life, a clean
life, a useful life. The news that it is over comes
as an announcement of loss not merely to the bar
but to the community and to Connecticut citizenship.

"His brethren of the law will presently say what is
fitting to be said of Mr. Cole as a lawyer — of his
love for his profession, his diligence in it, the pains-
taking thoroughness with which he prepared his
cases, the soundness of his advice, his skill as an
examiner, and the well-ordered march of his logical
and lucid arguments. He won and held an enviable
place among them. They have known him for
years in the strenuous contentions of the court-
room— a keen-witted, alert, resourceful ally, a re-
doubtable antagonist. It is not for laymen to antici-
pate their estimate and eulogy.

"But with all his devotion to his profession
Charles J. Cole was much more to this town and
in the commonwealth than a hard-working and suc-
cessful lawyer. He was a good citizen. He had
the sense and conscience of his civic and political
duties. Busied and often overburdened with pro-
fessional work as he was. he found time or made
time for their performance. Hartford and Connecti-
cut were preferred clients. So was the party whose
principles and ideals attracted him in his young
manhood, and of which all these later years he has
been so loyal and valued a member. The quality

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we call public spirit (and talk about oftener than
we see) was one of the basic components of his
character. He saw something more in his town than
a place to eat, drink, sleep, work and make money
in. He saw something more in Connecticut than a
convenient arbitrary sub-division of the earth's sur-
face, a geographical expression, a yellow spot on
the map. Politics was something more to him than
a game to be won by fair means or foul, with office
and power for the stakes.

"It is not in his profession alone, nor by his im-
mediate personal friends and intimates alone, that
a man of this sort is missed. The sense of loss
extends far beyond such narrow limits."

He married Elizabeth Adams, daughter of
Judge Samuel H. Huntington. She is a mem-
ber of the Colonial Dames. Children : Rich-
ard Huntington, Francis W., Sarah B., and
a son and daughter who died young.

(The Brown Line).

William Brown, doubtless brother of James
Brown, mentioned below, appears to have
come with him to Hadley and had a large
family there. William settled in 1720 at
Leicester, Massachusetts, though he appears
to have had two children, Hannah and Wil-
liam, at Colchester, Connecticut. Thomas
Brown, Sr., died at Colchester, April 15, 1717.
He may be father of James, William and
Samuel of Colchester, but the records tell us
little about him and we have no record of a
Thomas Jr. He was not of the Stonington
family.

(I) James Brown was born about 1650. He
settled in Hatfield, Massachusetts, as early as
1673, was in Deerfield in 1683, in Hatfield
again in 1702 and finally of Colchester (Sav-
age). He died at Hatfield, July n, 171 1
CJudd). He married, January 7, 1674, at
Hatfield or Hadley, Remembrance Brook.
Children : Mary, born May 26, 1677 \ Abigail,
September 8. 1678, carried by Indians to Can-
ada in 1704; Thankful, June 1, 1682, married,
at Colchester, April 11, 171 5; Sarah, Decem-
ber 14, 1683; James, April 9, 1685, lived at
Colchester; Mindwell, November 20, 1686:
Hannah, June 1, 1688, married, 1709, Shu-
bael Rowlev, at Colchester ; Mercy. January
4. i6qo : Elizabeth, August 3, 1693, died
youiier: John, February 10, 1695.

(TIT) Samuel, grandson of James Brown,
probably born December 5, 1703. He mar-
ried (first) August 13, 1724, Mercy Brown;
(second) in 1728. Mary Dunham. Children
of second wife: Samuel. August 17, 1729,
mentioned below: Abner, March 2^, 1730;
Mary, February 13. 1732. Mary Dunham was
daughter of Jonathan Dunham, of Haddam,
Granddaughter of Tohn Dunham, born 1675.
John Dunham, father of Tohn, was born in
1648. son of John and Mary, the pioneers.

John Dunham, Sr., was a soldier in the Pequot
war. Samuel Brown was a lister (assessor)
and warden of the town of Colchester; died
there August 15, 1789.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Brown, was born at Colchester, August 17,
1729, died January 11, 1795. He was a sol-
dier in the revolution. He married, April 27,
1758, Elizabeth Brainerd, who died Novem-
ber 29, 1812. Elizabeth was a daughter of
Stephen and Susan (Gates) Brainerd, and
was born December 17, 1733. Susan Gates
was daughter of Joseph Gates, born July 21,
1705, died April 29, 1793, granddaughter of
Joseph Gates, born November 7, 1662, son
of Captain George Gates, of Haddam, born
about 1635, and Sarah . Deacon Dan-
iel and Susannah (Ventres) Brainerd were
parents of Stephen Brainerd, who was born
February 27, 1699, son of Daniel Brainerd,
born March 2, 1665, married, 1688, Susan-
nah Ventres, daughter of William, died Jan-
uary 26, 1754. Daniel Brainerd, Sr., immi-
grant, was brought to New England when
eight years old by the Wyllys family of Hart-
ford, settled in Haddam, married (first ) Han-
nah, daughter of Gerard Spencer, and (sec-
ond) Hannah Saxton. Children of Samuel
Brown: Elizabeth, born 1759; Samuel, 1761 ;
Susannah, 1763 ; Mary, 1767 ; Enos, mentioned
below ; Abner.

(V) Enos, son of Samuel (2) Brown, was
born at Colchester, March 26, 1769. He mar-
ried Anna, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas
Williams. She was baptized February 17,
1778. Lieutenant Thomas Williams was born
January 25, 1728; married (first) Anna Hart,
who died January 16, 1784; (second) Eliza-
beth Sparrow; (third) Sarah . Anna

Hart was born at Kensington, May 22, 1739,
married, 1775, was daughter of Judah and
Ann (Norton) Hart. Judah Hart, father of
Anna, was born October 25, 1709, married
(first) in 1735, Anna Norton: (second)
Sarah North, widow, and he died September
14, 1784. Anna Norton, born 1718, died
before 1759, daughter of Tohn and Anna
(Thompson) Norton, granddaughter of Thom-
as Thompson, whose wife Ann was a daugh-
ter of Governor Thomas Wells, of Hartford.
Tonathan Norton, father of Tonathan, was
born at Branford, October 14, 1657, died April
25, 1725, married Ruth, daughter of Isaac
Moore. John Norton, father of Tohn. was
born about 1625 in London : married (first)

Dorothy : (second) Elizabeth .

Tohn was a son of Richard and Ellen (Row-
lev) Norton, the immigrants, grandson of
William and Margaret Norton. Richard Nor-
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grandson of John, great-grandson of John,
and great-great-grandson of John Norton,
who was of Sherpenhow, England, about 1450.
Deacon John Hart, father ot Judah, was born
in 1084, died October 7, 1753; married (first)
May 20, 1706, Esther Gridley, who died July
10, 1743; married (second) Hannah Hull,
widow, who died November 27, 1760; he was
town clerk and was elected twenty-three times
to the general court. Esther Gridley was bap-
tized May 15, 1687; married, March 20, 1706,
Deacon John Hart; was a daughter of Sam-
uel Gridley, born 1647, married (first) Esther,
daughter of Thomas and Anna (Wells)
Thompson, granddaughter of Governor Wells.
Samuel Gridley married (second) Mary
Humphreys. 1 nomas Gridley, father of Sam-
uel, came to New England from county Es-
sex, England, settled early in Hartford ; mar-
ried, October 29, 1644, Man- D., daughter of
Richard Seymour, and he died June 12, 1655;
was a soldier under Captain Mason in the
Pequot war. Captain John Hart, father of
Deacon John Hart, was born about 1655 ;
married Mary, daughter of Deacon Isaac
Moore; he died November 11, 1714. aged
sixty, and bis wife September 19, 1738, aged
seventy-four. John Hart, father of the last-
named John, married Sarah ; joined

the church, April 2, 1654, and was killed by
the Indians with all his family, except the
son John ; was an early settler of Farming-
ton, freeman in 1654. Deacon Stephen Hart,
the immigrant, was father of John Sr., com-
ing from Braintree, county Essex. England,
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1632, and to
Hartford in 1636, finally locating in Farm-
ington, where he died in 1682-83, aged sev-
enty-seven.

Lieutenant Thomas Williams, who married
Anna Hart, whose pedigree has just been
given, was a son of Charles and Mary
(Robinson) Williams, and his father was
born about 1695 ; married, December 17,
1713. Mary, born August 23, 1695, daughter
of Thomas and Lydia Robinson, of East Had-
dam, granddaughter of Thomas Robinson.
Charles Williams, father of Charles last men-
tioned, was born about 1652; lived at Re-
hoboth, removed to Hadley, Massachusetts,
about 1691, and was of Colchester, 1702-17;
married Elizabeth , and died at Col-
chester, April 12, 1740, aged eighty-eight
years.

Children of Enos and Anna (Williams)
Brown : Halsey, of Haddam ; Eliza, born
December 19. 180T. married, March 28. 1824,
Abner Cole (see Cole VII) ; Horace; Nancy,

married Staples, of Poorville, New

York.

Thomas Whaples and his
WHAPLES brother Ephrann were the

first of this surname in this
country, and from them are descended prob-
ably all of the name in America. Thomas
was born in England about 1625 and died in
Hartford, December 10, 1671. He was living
in Hartford in 1664. His estate was inven-
toried by Thomas Bull, Robert Webster, Jo-
seph Nash and Philip Davis, and Webster,
Bull and Nash were appointed by the court
overseers of the estate. The inventory
amounted to seventy-one pounds, eleven shil-
lings, six pence. The settlement of the es-
tate gives the ages of the children in 167 1.
Children : Rebecca, born 1653 ; Hannah, 1655 :
Thomas, 1656, died in 1713 ; Joseph, 1660;
Jane, 1664; Ephraim, 1665; John, mentioned
below.

(II) John, son of Thomas Whaples, was
born in Hartford in 1667. (See p. 253, vol. I,
Conn, probate records; also p. 130, vol. III.)
He lived in Wethersfield. The inventory of
his estate, dated July 2, 1729, amounted to
three hundred and one pounds, six shillings,
eight pence, and was made by John Camp
and Josiah Willard. His will was dated July

11, 1728. He married Sarah . He

bequeathed to wife and children mentioned
below : Reuben, had the homestead ; Jona-
than, mentioned below ; Jacob, Sarah, Marah,
Lois.

(III) Jonathan, son of John Whaples, was
born in 1698, died October 12, 1741. He
received land from his father both by deed
and will. He married Sarah . Chil-
dren, born in Wethersfield : Theodora, born
January 18, 1727; Jonathan, September 26,
1 73 1. mentioned below; Daniel, September
26, T733.

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1)
Whaples, was born at Wethersfield. Septem-
ber 26, 173 1. He and his wife owned the
covenant in the Newington church. May 5,
1754. He died at Claverack, New York. His
widow Margaret joined the first church at
New Britain, November 6, 1774. She mar-
ried (second) December 22, 1774, Lieutenant
Elijah Porter, of Farminoton, being his third
wife. Margaret (Woodruff) Whaples was
the daughter of Toseph Woodruff. She died
November 6, 1810, aged seventy-five years,
at the home of Selah Streeter, Sr.. New
Britain. Children of Tonathan and Marga-
ret Whaples : 1. Samuel, baotized at Newing-
ton. May 5, I7S4: married Huldah Langdon.
2. Elizur. baptized December 28, 1755 ; men-
tioned below. 3. John, married Rhoda. daugh-
ter of David Lusk. 4. Sallv, baptized Tan-
uary 15, 1758, at Farmington ; married Seth

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Porter. 5. Alary Ann, baptized September
2, 1774. 6. Amzi ( ?).

(V) Elizur, son of Jonathan (2 ) Whaples,
was born at Newington, baptized December
28, 1755- He married Ruth Woodruff. He
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain
Noadiah Hooker's company, May to Decem-
ber, 1775 ; also in Captain Asa Bray's com-
pany in 1778; also sergeant of a troop of
horse in Lieutenant John Phelps's company in
178 1. His brothers John and Samuel were
also in the revolution.

(VI) Elisha, son of Elizur (or Eleazer)
Whaples, was born and died at Newington,
Connecticut.

(VII) Curtis, son of Elisha Whaples, was
born November 21, 1804. Early in 1829 he
opened a store on the east side of Main street
in New Britain, opposite West Main street,
in partnership with Frederick T. Stanley.
The upper part of the building in which their
store was located was fitted up for the manu-
facture of suspenders by F. A. Hart & Com-
pany, both Stanley and Whaples being in-
terested in the business. After a few years
Stanley sold his interests to his partner and
Whaples continued the business, having I. N.
Lee, Fuller & Ward and O. C. Stanley, suc-
cessively, as his partners. After the sus-
pender business was given up, Whaples & Lee
occupied the rooms for manufacturing stocks.
F. A. Hart & Company were the first manu-
facturers of elastic suspenders in this coun-
try. Mr. Whaples married Elizabeth Meigs,
daughter of Solomon and Esther Lopez
(Meigs) Lusk, and granddaughter of Major
John Meigs (see Meigs VI). They had
one son, Meigs Haywood, mentioned below.

(YIII) Meigs Haywood, son of Curtis
Whaples, was born in New Britain, July 16,
1845. He attended the public schools of his
native town and was graduated from the New
Britain high school. He began his career as
clerk in the New Britain Bank, and, except-
ing the years 1870-72, when he served in the
United States navy under Rear Admirals
Boggs and Glisson, then in European waters,
he has been in the banking business contin-
uously to the present time, and was promoted
step by step to positions of greater respon-
sibility. He is president of the Connecticut
Trust and Safe Deposit Company, director,
secretary and treasurer of the Collins Com-
pany, vice-president of the Society for Sav-
ings, director of the Pickering Governor
Company, director of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company, in which he has
recently served for a time in the office of vice-
president: trustee of the Scottish Union and
National Fire Insurance Company : director

of the Hartford Board of Trade, director in
Hartfard Fire Insurance Company ; director
of the Stanley Rule and Level Company of
New Britain, also director of Hartford Hos-
pital Board. He has been called to other
positions of trust and honor in public life.
He has been president of the board of police
commissioners ; is a commissioner of the Con-
necticut River Bridge and Highway District,
which is in charge of one of the greatest pub-
lic enterprises of modern times in Connecti-
cut. He was also a member and chairman
of the finance commission of the citv of Hart-
ford. In politics he is an independent Re-
publican.

Mr. Whaples is fond of outdoor life, a
member and one of the chief promoters of the
Hartford Golf Club, and has a summer camp
in Maine on the very line of march of Major
Return Jonathan Meigs on his way to Can-
ada with General Arnold. Mr. Whaples is a
Congregationalist in religion. He is a mem-
ber of the Army and Navy Club of Connec-
ticut and of the Connecticut Society, Sons of
the American Revolution.

He married, May 15, 1878, Harriet Atwater
Hotchkiss, a descendant of the old Atwater,
Hotchkiss and Hoadley families of Connecti-
cut. Children, born at Hartford: I. Hey-
wood Hotchkiss, born March 31, 1879: grad-
uate of Yale in the class of 190 1 : now en-
gaged in investment brokerage business : mem-
ber of firm of R. T. H. Barnes & Company,
Hartford ; married Constance Roberts. No-
vember, 1909. 2. Mary Atwater, born April
5, 1880.

( The Meigs Line).

(I) Vincent Meigs, immigrant ancestor,
came from Devonshire or Dorsetshire, Eng-
land, to this country about 1640, with his
family, and was living at New Haven, Con-
necticut, as early as 1644. He settled upon
the border of the present public square in
Guilford, Connecticut, in the year 1650, and
subsequently removed to East Guilford and
settled at Hammonassett on land now or
lately owned by Dr. Reynold Webb. He died
in Guilford in December, 1658. Children:
John, mentioned below; Mark.

(II) John, son of Vincent Meigs, was born
about 1610 and came to this country with his
father. He was allotted land at East Guilford,
March 3, 1653, and was admitted a freeman
in 1657. He married Tamzin Fry, of Guil-
ford. Children: 1. Mary, died April 30,
1703 ; married, March 3, 1653, William Stev-
ens. 2. John, born 1640, mentioned below.
3. Concurrence, died October 9, 1708 ; mar-
ried Henry Crane, of Killingworth. 4. Eliza-
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5. Tryal, married, 1668, Andrew Ward, of
Killingworth.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Meigs,
was born in 1640, died November 9, 1713.
He settled at East Guilford. He married
(first) March 7, 1665, Sarah, daughter of
William Wilcox or Wilcoxson, of Stratford,
Connecticut. Wilcox and Wilcoxson were
variations in spelling of the same surname.
Sarah died November 24, 1691. He married
(second) Lydia Crittenden, who died Decem-
ber, 1729. Children of first wife: 1. Sarah,
born February 14, 1667, died April 8, 1688;
married, January II, 1686, Daniel Bartlett,
of Guilford. 2. John, born November 11,
1670, died February 19, 1718. 3. Janna, born
December 21, 1672, mentioned below. 4.
Ebenezer, born September 19, 1675 ; married,
October 3, 1700, Mercy Weeks, of Falmouth
(Portland), Massachusetts, now Maine. 5.
Hannah, born February 25, 1678; married
Jeremiah Foster, of Long Island. 6. Hester,
born November 10, 1680. 7. Mindwell, born
1682, died March 31, 1762; married, October
8, 1702, Samuel Crittenden, of Guilford.

(IV) Janna, son of John (2) Meigs, was
born in East Guilford. December 21, 1672,
died December 5, 1739. He was the first
magistrate of the town of Guilford ; deputy
to the general assembly, 1716-26. He mar-
ried. May 18, 1698. Hannah Willard, of
Wethersfield, born 1674, died January 4, 1750.
Children: 1. Janna, born August 17, 1699.
2. Josiah, born May 14. 1701, died December
26, 1774. 3. Jehiel, born June 11, 1703, died
March 23, 1780. 4. Hannah, born August
13, 1705, died May 20, 1727. 5. Return, born
March 16, 1708. mentioned below. 6. Hes-
ter, born December 19, 1709; married Stephen
Bishop. 7. Silence (twin), born January 5,
1712, died young. 8. Submit (twin), born
January 5, 1712, died young. 9. Timothy,
born September 19, 1713, died September 14,
175 1. 10. Eunice, born October 19, 1715.

(V) Return, son of Janna Meigs, was born
in East Guilford, March 16, 1708, died June
22, 1782. He was a prominent citizen, deputy
to the general assembly. He married (first)
February 1, 1733, Elizabeth Hamlin, of Mid-
dletown, Connecticut, who died September 17,
1762. He married (second) March 25, 1763,
Jane Doane, widow. Children, all by first
wife: 1. Elisha, born January 15, 1734, died
October 10, 1736. 2. Janna. born September
29, 1735, died October 4, 1736. 3. Elizabeth,
born July 15, 1737, died April 16, 1740. 4.
Elisha, born October 4, 1739, died December
22, 1739. 5. Colonel Return Jonathan, born
December 17, 1740, died January 28, 1823 ;
colonel of the Sixth Connecticut Regiment

(Leather Cap) in the revolution^ was in com-
mand of the Second Division in Arnold's
Quebec expedition in 1775 ; conducted the
Sag Harbor expedition, for his success in
which congress voted him the sword now to
be seen represented in the Peale portrait
owned by Mrs. Curtis Wdiaples ; had a com-
mand under Mad Anthony at Stony Point in
1779; after the war he was provisional gov-
ernor of Ohio and his son was postmaster-
general ; married (first) February 14. 1764,
Joanna Winborn, who died December 30,
17 — ; (second) December 22, 1774, Grace
Starr, who died October 15, 1807. 6. John,
born October 9, 1742, died October 28, 1750.
7. Captain Giles, born October 29, 1744;
great-grandfather of President Noah Porter,
of Yale University. 8. Josiah, born Novem-
ber 21, 1746, died October 29, 175 1. 9. Eliza-
beth, born January 25, 1748, died August 4,
1753. 10. Timothy, born February 28, 1750,
died October 28, 175 1 . 11. Hannah, born No-
vember 21, 1 75 1. 12. John, born November
21, 1753, mentioned below. 13. Josiah, born
August 21, 1757, died September 4, 1822;
graduate of Yale College ; professor at Yale ;
president of Athens College, Georgia, and
later of Washington College, Washington.

(VI) Major John (3) Meigs, son of Return
Meigs, was born in Middletown, Connecticut,
November 21, 1753, died in 1826. He was
adjutant in Colonel Webb's regiment in the
revolution and later in the Third Connecticut
Line. Fie was taken prisoner of war in the
Long Island campaign of 1777. In the war
of 1812 he was brigade major in the regular
army. He was a hatter by trade. After the
war of the revolution he removed to New
Flartford, Town Hill, but in 1800 located in
North End Village. His widow removed to
New Britain, Connecticut, about the time her
daughter Esther married Thomas Lee. He
married, June 18, 1781, Elizabeth, born July
3, 1755, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Lord) Henshaw. of Middletown, Connecti-
cut. He was a pensioner and after his death
she also drew a pension on account of his
revolutionary service. The major and his
widow drew a total of six thousand dollars on
this pension. She lived until March 5, 1847,
and she was buried on the bank of the Con-
necticut river at Middletown, where a large
red sandstone monument marks her grave.
She joined the First Church at New Britain,
February 25, 1838, and was dismissed to the >
South Church in 1842.

Elizabeth Henshaw was s^eat-great-grand-
daughter of John and Priscilla Alden, of
Plymouth, who came in the "Mayflower."
Children: 1. Return Jonathan, born August

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30, 1782. 2. Benjamin Henshaw, born March
2.7, 1784; married Ellen Van Dyke, of New
York. 3. Elizabeth Lord, born December 8,
1785, died April 28, 1792. 4. Richard Mont-
gomery, born August 8, 1787 ; married Maria
Keeler, of Albany. 5. Sally Maria, born
March 28, 1789; married Dr. Erastus Wil-
liams, of Knox, New York. 6. Esther Lopez,
born February 24, 1791 ; married, November
25, 1804, Solomon Lusk ; their daughter Eliza-
beth married Curtis Whaples, of New Britain
(see Whaples VII). 7. Joseph Henshaw,
born May 18, 1793: resided at Clarksville,
Georgia. 8. George Lord, born February 23.
1796, died at Knox, aged fifty.

Christopher Godfrey, immi-
GODFREY grant ancestor, came to Fair-
field, Connecticut, before
1685. According to a family tradition he was
a French Huguenot. He may have been from
England, however, as the surname, originally
Norman, is common enough in England. He
owned land at Greens Farms in 1686, then a
part of Fairfield, bought December 29 of that
year of Sergeant Richard Hubbell and in 1695
of James Newton. The Godfreys have been
residents of Greens Farms and Southport
since 1688. His wife renewed her covenant
with the church there July 17, 1697, indicat-
ing that she was a Congregationalist, and her
children were baptized, four of them, July 17,
1698, others later. He died intestate and his
estate was valued at two hundred and seventy-
three pounds. Children : Christopher, men-
tioned below ; Samuel ; Elizabeth ; Mary, bap-
tized with the three preceding, July 17, 1698;
John, baptized April 23, 1699 ; Isaac, bap-
tized February 14, 1703.

(II) Christopher (2). son of Christopher
(1) Godfrey, was born about 1690, baptized
with the others, July 17, 1697, died August
20, 1758. He married, February 11, 171 1,
Margery Sturges, who died August 20, 1759,
daughter of John Sturges, of Fairfield. Chil-
dren, born at Fairfield : David, February 20,
1713 ; Stephen, September 8, 1715 ; Nathan,
September 25, 1719, mentioned below ; Eleaz-
er, March 15, 1721 ; Isaac, December 25,
1724; Ebenezer, June 27, 1727.

(III) Lieutenant Nathan Godfrey, son of
Christopher (2) Godfrey, was born at Mil-
ford, September 25, 1719. He was active in
the militia and lieutenant at Ticonderoga in

. 1756, in Captain Whiting's regiment, which
participated in the storming of Crown Point
and Ticonderoga during the French and In-
dian war. He was one of the wealthiest and
most influential men of Greens Farms, West-
port. His homestead was near the summit

of Clap-board Hill. It was burned by the
British soldiers in 1779. He married (first)
June 11, 1747, Martha Couch, who died May
31, 1761. Children: Abraham, born March
13, 1748; Martha, May 24, 1752, married John
Burr; Nathan, August 19, 1754; Benjamin,
died in continental service at Albany, 1776;
Molly, baptized August 20, 1758, married
Seymour Lockwood, of Norwalk. He mar-
ried (second) November 9, 1764, Sarah (An-
drews) Nash, widow of Jonathan Nash,
daughter of Jonathan Andrews. Children :
Rhoda, baptized August 18, 1765, settled in
Ohio; Jonathan, mentioned below; Esther,
September 17, 1767; Ebenezer, March 17,
1772; Andrews, April 14, 1776.

(IV) Jonathan, son of Lieutenant Nathan
Godfrey, was born at Greens Farms, then a
part of Fairfield, and baptized there in 1766.
He settled in his native town. He married
(first), November 30, 1788, Esther White-
head, who died March 24, 1803. He married
(second), October 26, 1803, Huldah Parsons.
Children, born at Fairfield: Nathan, baptized
October 1, 1789, married Catharine Brown, of
Norwalk; Abel, November 27, 1791, died in
181 1, unmarried; Ebenezer, July 7, 1793, died
September 30, 1807; Elsey, October 30, 1796,
died July 2J , 1882, married Samuel Parker ;
Jonathan, mentioned below ; Seth, baptized
March 2, 1800, married Eliza Cox. Children
of second wife : Esther, Eliza, Mary. Ebene-
zer, Simon, Ann, Fidelia. According to the
census of 1790, Jonathan was living at Fair-
field, and had one son and one female in his
family in 1790. Nathan, Stephen and Ebene-
zer were also heads of families in 1790 at
Fairfield.

(V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1)
Godfrey, was born June 2, 1798, at Greens
Farms, died August 3, 1882. He was a man
of influence and standing in church and state,
much esteeemed and beloved and active in
charity and good works. He served the state
as representative from the town of Fairfield
for several terms of the legislature. He mar-
ried, January 19, 1823, Elizabeth Hubbell, of
Southport, Connecticut, daughter of Aaron
and Elizabeth Hubbell. Children : Elizabeth,
died young ; Harriet, died young ; Jonathan,
mentioned below : Elizabeth, author of the
history of Fairfield, married Adrian V. S.
Schenck, son of Dr. Ferdinand S. Schenck, of
New Jersey ; Samuel H., married Harriet A.,
daughter of Edward Godfrey ; Mary Cath-
erine, married Calvin G. Childs, of Norwalk.

(VI) Rev. Jonathan (3) Godfrey, son of
Jonathan (2) Godfrey, was born at the village
of Southport, town of Fairfield, Connecticut,
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is buried at Fairfield. He attended the public
schools and Trinity College, from which he
was graduated in 184 — . He was rector of
the Protestant Episcopal church of Saybrook.
Connecticut. He married Mary Cartlidge,
who was born at Lynde Green, Staffordshire,
England, died at Fairfield, in August, 1867.
Children : Jonathan, died in infancy ; daugh-
ter, died in infancy; Dr. Charles Cartlidge,
born February 3, 1855, mentioned below;
Jonathan, resides in Bridgeport ; Adrian, died
1899 ; Alice A.

(VII) Dr. Charles Cartlidge Godfrey, son
of Rev. Jonathan (3) Godfrey, was born at
Saybrook, Connecticut. At the time of his
birth his father was the rector of the Episco-
pal church at Saybrook, but not long after-
ward the family removed to Aiken, South
Carolina, because of the latter's ill health.
They remained in Aiken until the outbreak of
the civil war forced them to return north, and
they went to live in the family homestead at
Southport, where the education of Charles C.
was begun. He attended private and public
schools in Southport and Greenfield, Connec-
ticut, and later a military school in Hartford.
He then entered tbe Sheffield Scientific School
of Yale University, where he specialized in
chemistry, and received the degree of Ph. B.
with the class of 1877. In 1881 he located in
Bridgeport and began the study of medicine
under Dr. Robert Hubbard. He also attended
courses of lectures in the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons of Columbia University,
New York, from which he received the degree
of M.D., and at Dartmouth College, from
which he graduated in 1883 with the degree of
Ph.B. On January 1, 1884, Dr. Godfrey formed
a partnership with Dr. Hubbard, which contin-
ued until Dr. Hubbard's death in 1897, since
when Dr. Godfrey has been in the partnership
of Godfrey & Smith (Edward M. Smith),
Physicians and Surgeons, at 340 State street,
Bridgeport, where he carries on a large and
eminent practice. He is a surgeon on the staff
of the Bridgeport and St. Vincent's hospitals,
Bridgeport. He is a Free Mason, a member
of St. John's Lodge, No. 3 ; Jerusalem Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Jerusalem Council,
Royal and Select Masters ; Hamilton Com-
mandery, Knights Templar, and has taken the
thirty-second degree in Masonry. He belongs
to the Brooklawn, University and Algonquin
clubs. He is a member of the Bridgeport
Medical Society, of which he has been presi-
dent, the Fairfield County Medical Society,
the Connecticut State Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, the Associa-
tion of Military Surgeons of the United
States, the New York Academy of Medicine,

is a member and former president of Bridge-
port Scientific Society. He was surgeon of
the Fourth Regiment of Connecticut National
Guard from 1890 to 1893, and surgeon-gen-
eral of the state of Connecticut in 1903-04,
with the rank of colonel on the staff of Gov-
ernor Abiram Chamberlain. He has been vice-
president of the board of education of Bridge-
port. In politics he is a Republican ; he has
represented the city in the general assembly
and was an alderman of Bridgeport in 1892-
93. He married, April 30, 1885, Caroline St.
Leon, born September 10, 1858, at Great Bar-
rington, Massachusetts, daughter of Colonel
S. B. Sumner, of Bridgeport. They have one
child, Carrie Lucile, born March 23, 1886.

Robert Penrose was born in
PENROSE 1632 at Advalton, Yorkshire,

England. He removed to
Ireland in 1656, and married there, Ann Rus-
sell, of Kilmarket, Catherlow, Ireland. He
had a son Robert, mentioned below.

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Pen-
rose, was born in Ireland, and married there,
at Clanmaning, March 29, 1695, Mary Clay-
ton. He came to America in 1717 and settled
in Pennsylvania. He had a son Robert, men-
tioned below.

(III) Robert (3), son of Robert (2) Pen-
rose, was born and lived in Pennsylvania. He
married, September 13, 1733. Mary Heacock.
He had a son Samuel, mentioned below.

(IV) Samuel, son of Robert (3) Penrose,
married, October 9, 1777, Sarah Roberts. He
had a son Morris, mentioned below.

(V) Morris, son of Samuel Penrose, was
born June 15, 1801, died 1886. He married
April 7, 1831, Rebecca A., daughter of Dr.
Gove and Rebecca J. Mitchell, of the Society
of Friends. Children : Harriet, born 1832 ;
Pierson M., 1835 ; William, mentioned below.

(VI) William, son of Morris Penrose, was
born February 20, 1840, at Hatboro, Pennsyl-
vania. He received his education at the Ten-
nent School at Hartsville, Pennsylvania. He
was engaged in the dry goods business, also
the wool business, in Philadelphia, was a mem-
ber of the Union League Club and lieutenant-
colonel of the Eighth Gray Guards of Phila-
delphia. On February 27, 1862, at Willow
Grove, Pennsylvania, he married Sarah, daugh-
ter of George Rex, who married (first) Mary
Cress and had four children, and (second)
Anne Whiteside Rubicam, and had four chil-
dren, two of whom died young; the others
were George Rex, of Philadelphia, and Sarah,
mentioned above. George Rex, father of
Sarah Rex, was son of Levi and Catherine
(Riter) Rex, and grandson of Abraham Rex.

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Abraham Rex was born 1736 and died 1793;
married Anna Sebastian, born 1739, died 1824;
had thirteen children, among whom was Levi,
born in 1763, died 1828, mentioned above.
Abraham Rex was son of George Rex, the
immigrant, who came from Crefield, Germany,
to Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1691, and
married and had sons George, John, Abraham,
mentioned above. William and Sarah (Rex)
Penrose removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in
1877. Their children are: 1. Morris, born
December, 1862; married Lily Pond, daugh-
ter of Rev. Dr. Edwin Pond Parker, of Hart-
ford, Connecticut, has one child, Lucy Harris
Penrose, and resides in Philadelphia. 2. How-
ard Mitchell, October 23, 1869; unmarried;
assistant secretary of the Aetna Indemnity
Company, of Hartford, Connecticut ; member
of the Hartford Golf Club, the Republican
Club and the Country Club, of Farmington,
Connecticut. 3. William Rex, mentioned be-
low.

(VII) William Rex, son of William Pen-
rose, was born February 10, 1873, at Detroit,
Michigan. He obtained his education in the
public schools of Hartford, Connecticut. He
engaged in the fire insurance business with
W. E. Baker & Son of Hartford, where he
continued until 1898. Since that time he has
been a partner in the firm of Hooker & Pen-
rose of Hartford, insurance agents, and is
special agent of the Commercial Union Fire
Assurance Company, of London, England. In
politics he is a Republican. He served with
the Signal Corps, First Regiment, Connecticut
National Guard, of Hartford, receiving his
discharge in 1900. He is a Mason, a member
of Washington Commandery. Sphinx Temple,
Order of the Mystic Shrine, Hartford Club
and Country Club of Farmington, Connecti-
cut. He is an attendant at Trinity Episcopal
Church, of Hartford. He married, in Hart-
ford, December 11, 1901, Mazy Hallas Worth-
ington, born August 19, 1876, daughter of
John D. and Lillian E. Worthington. His
children are: 1. Helen, born 1902, died 1903.
2. Nathalie Worthington, March, 1907.

The Boyd family is one of the
BOYD most distinguished in the history

of Scotland, tracing its descent
from a younger son of the illustrious lord
high steward of Scotland. Robert, son of
Simon and grandson of Alan, the second lord
high steward, was of very light complexion
and nicknamed Boyt or Boyd, meaning fair
or light, in Gaelic. From this came the sur-
name of the family. This Robert Boyd died
in 1240 and from him it is said all the Boyds
of Ireland as well as Scotland are descended,

though some genealogists think the original
spelling of the name was Boit. Sir Robert de
Boyd, son of the first Robert, died in 1270, and
his son, Sir Robert, was one of the barons
of Scotland who were forced to swear fealty
to King Edward of England in 1296. This
third Robert was associated with the immortal
Sir William Wallace for a time. His son
Robert was one of the most gallant supporters
of Robert Bruce, and was made Lord of Kil-
marnock by that king. His descendants sur-
vived in the elder male line to about 1800. The
family formerly possessed the earldoms of
Arran and Kilmarnock (forfeited). Ayrshire
was the original home of the Boyds. When
James III., a mere boy, succeeded to the throne
of Scotland, Lord Boyd seized him and as-
sumed supreme control of the kingdom. In
1467 his eldest son was created earl of Arran
and married the king's sister. But the rule
of the Boyds was of short duration. They
were tried for treason in 1469 and convicted.
The head of the family fled to England where
he soon afterward died. His brother, Alex-
ander Boyd, was executed at Edinburg. The
earl of Arran was forced to flee and was soon
stripped of his royal wife by divorce and she
afterward married the head of the Hamilton
family. Most of the American Boyds are de-
scended from the branch of the Scotch family
in the province of Ulster, Ireland. Sir Thom-
as Boyd, knight, was one of the settlers soon
after 1610 in the precinct of Strabane. county
Tyrone, and had a wife and family there in
161 1. He came from Hedlay or Benehawe,
Renfrewshire, Scotland. Before 1620 he
transferred a grant of eighteen hundred acres
at Strabane to James Hamilton. Boyd was a
son of Lord Kilmarnock (see page 500 and
507 Scotch-Irish in America, Hanna). In
1653 there was a Thomas Boyd of prominence
in county Antrim. At the present time there
are thousands of this surname still living in
counties Antrim, Down and Londonderry.

Eight heads of Boyd families signed the
memorial to Governor Shute, March 26, 1718,
asking encouragement to obtain land in "that
very excellent and renowned plantation" called
New England. Captain William Boyd came
to this country fourteen times bringing Scotch
pioneers from the north of Ireland, and finally
located at Londonderry. There is reason to
believe that many of the Scotch Boyds who
came between the years 1718 and 1750 from
Ulster were his near relatives. A number of
them located at Bristol, Maine.

(I) John Boyd, doubtless one of the Scotch-
Irish pioneers, was born in 1704, died June

30, 1789. He married Margaret , who

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and his brother David settled in 1762 in the
town of Shelburne, then Hampshire county,
Massachusetts. The census of 1790 gives four
heads of family of this name.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Boyd, was
born in 1733, died at Shelburne, October 15,
181 5. His will is filed in the county records
of Franklin county at Greenfield. His wife
Mary died at Shelburne, August 19, 1825,
aged eighty-eight years.

(III) Thomas, son of John (2) Boyd, was
born at Shelburne in 1771, died at York, New
York, January 24, 1856. He was a farmer.
He married (first) Susannah, daughter of
Edward and Beulah (Parsons) Smith, the
latter a daughter of Jacob and Beulah (Hunt)
Parsons. She died August 26, 181 5, aged
forty years. He married (second) Polly
, who died August 22, 1822. He mar-
ried (third) Miriam Allis, who died October
22, 1856, aged eighty years.

(IV) Thomas Parsons, son of Thomas
Boyd, was born at Shelburne, August 18, 1809.
He was a farmer and prominent in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of which he was a local
preacher. He married, at East Bloomfield,
New York, May 22, 1833, Anna, daughter of
Elisha Steele (6), Sergeant Elisha (5), Lieu-
tenant John (4), Lieutenant John (3), John
(2), John Steele (1), the immigrant of Farm-
ington. Children of Thomas Parsons Boyd:
Almira, born August 8, 1834 ; Pliny Steele,
May 18, 1836, mentioned below; Louisa J.,
July 19, 1838; Edward E., April 16, 1842;
Myron Holly, July 20, 1844; Harriet A., Oc-
tober 4, 1846; Ella M., August 5, 1848.

(V) Rev. Pliny Steele Boyd, son of Thomas
Parsons Boyd, was born at Greigsville, Liv-
ingston, New York, May 18, 1836. He was
a Congregational clergyman and wrote much
for religious periodicals and published two
books. In politics he was a Republican. He
graduated from Oberlin College in the class of
i860 and taught school from i860 to 1862.
He studied theology at Andover Theological
Seminary from 1862 to 1865. He was in the
service of the United States Christian Com-
mission in 1865-66. He was ordained and in-
stalled as pastor of the Congregational church
at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1867.
He became pastor of the Congregational
church at Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1869. He
was called to Amesbury, Massachusetts, in
1871, and remained in that parish until 1886
when he was settled at Granby, Massachu-
setts. He was pastor there until his death,
December 6, 1887. He married, September 16,
i860, Mary Jane Allen, born at Southbridge,
Massachusetts, September 16, 1836, daughter
of Rev. Ralph Willard Allen (7), Chester

(6), Samuel (5), Joseph (4), Samuel (3),
John (2), Samuel Allen (1), immigrant
ancestor, of East Windsor, Connecticut. Mary
Jones (Tower) Allen, wife of Rev. Ralph Wil-
lard Allen, was a daughter of Moses Tower
(8), Malachi (7), Malachi (6), Peter (5),
Jeremiah (4), Jeremiah (3), John (2), Robert
Tower (1), of Hingham, Massachusetts, the
immigrant ancestor. Children of Rev. Pliny
Steele Boyd : Herbert Wendell, born at Hing-
ham, April 5, 1862 ; Willard Parsons, Andover,
June 29, 1863; Edward Steele, mentioned be-
low ; Maurice Chester, Ridgefield, Connecticut,
June 16, 1869 ; Charles Allen, Amesbury, Mas-
sachusetts, July 23, 1874; Pliny Arthur, Ames-
bury, March 10, 1876.

( VI) Edward Steele, son of Rev. Pliny
Steele Boyd, was born at Shelburne Falls,
Massachusetts, September 8, 1867. He gradu-
ated from the Amesbury high school in the
class of 1885, from the Arms Academy of
Shelburne Falls in 1886, and from Amherst
College in the class of 1890, and was given
the degree of A.M. in 1893. He taught school
from 1890 to 1898. Since 1898 he has been
superintendent of schools of Woodbury, Con-
necticut, and is secretary and treasurer of the
Woodbury Electric Company. In politics he
is a Republican. He has been selectman of
Woodbury and for a number of years has
been justice of the peace, and a member of
Connecticut legislature of session of 191 1. He
is a member of King Solomon Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, and at present master.
He is interested in history and genealogy and
is a member of the Connecticut Historical So-
ciety. In religion he is a Congregationalist
and clerk of the First Congregational Church
of Woodbury. He is a director of the Wood-
bury Savings Bank. He belongs to the Litch-
field County University Club and the Connecti-
cut Society of Sons of the American Revolu-
tion.

He married, at Woodbury, August 20,
1895, Helen Amanda Shove, born at Wash-
ington, Connecticut, April 7, 1865, daughter
of Burton and Sylvia (Piatt) Shove. Burton
Shove was a farmer, born at Warren, Con-
necticut, December 10, 1834, son of Cyrus
Shove (6), Seth (5), Dr. Seth (4), Seth (3),
Rev. Seth of Danbury (2), Rev. George
Shove ( 1 ) , the immigrant ancestor, who set-
tled at Taunton, Massachusetts. Sylvia
(Piatt) Shove was born at Washington, Con-
necticut, November 20, 1830, daughter of
Henry (6), Fowler Merwin (.5), Epenetus
(4), Gideon (3), Joseph (2), Richard Piatt
(1), a pioneer at Milford, Connecticut. Chil-
dren of Edward Steele Boyd : Harmon Shove,
born at Woodbury, September 24, 1896; Anna,

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September 30, 1898; Burton Steele, August
22, 1903.

William Wattles was an early
WATTLES settler in Lebanon, Connecti-
cut. The only earlier pioneer
of this name in this country was a Richard
Wattles, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1648-63.
Richard may have been father or grandfather
of William. William Wattles married Abigail

, who died November 21, 1744. He died

August 11, 1737. Children, born at Lebanon:
William, mentioned below; Mary, March 11,
1709.

(II) William (2), son of William (1) Wat-
tles, was born at Lebanon, November 21,
1706. He married, May 29, 1735, at Lebanon,
Abigail Dennison. Children, born at Lebanon :
Abigail, March 30, 1736; Ann, March 20,
1738; William, mentioned below; Mary, Oc-
tober 14, 1744; Beecher, November 3, 1743;
Sarah, February 26, 1747; Andrew, July 12,
1754; Denison, July 12, 1754; Daniel, No-
vember 5, 1755.

(III) William (3), son of William (2)
Wattles, was born at Lebanon, December 19,
1739. He was a soldier in the revolution in
the Third Company, Captain Samuel Elmore,
Fourth Regiment, Colonel Benjamin Hinman.
He had a son Captain John, who is further
mentioned below.

(IV) Captain John Wattles, son of William
(3) Wattles, was born about 1775-80. He
was an officer in the war of 181 2 and a dis-
tinguished citizen. He was a corporal in Cap-
tain Charles Abel's company from April 23,
1814. to October 26, 1814. He married (first)
Bethinia Huntington; (second) .

(V) Oliver, son of Captain John Wattles,
was born in Lebanon. He lived in Goshen
Society, Connecticut. He married Abigail
Loomis.

(VI) Andrew Loomis, son of Oliver Wat-
tles, was born in Lebanon, 1792, died 1863.
He married Marjory Davison Sterry, born
1796, daughter of Rev. John Sterry (see
Sterry IV).

( VII ) ( diver Perry, son of Andrew Loomis
Wattles, was born in Norwich, February 29,
18 1 2, died at Norwich, August 1, 1888. He
attended the public schools and studied law
with Mr. Wait and was admitted to the bar of
New London county. He settled in Norwich
and practiced his profession. During the civil
war he was appointed by Governor Bucking-
ham to visit Washington. D. C, and camps
of federal soldiers to collect their votes at
elections. He was a member of the school
committee and captain of the local militia
company. He devoted considerable time to

securing pensions for widows of soldiers in
the revolutionary war and war of 1812. He
married, in March, 1836, Eunice Phillips, who
died November 2, 1888. Children: 1. Mary
Eunice, born July 30, 1840. 2. Marcia Amelia,
November 30, 1841. 3. Thomas Jefferson,
August 29, 1843; married, June 12, 1884,
Emily Gardner, daughter of Moses Pierce (see
Pierce). 4. Jabez Huntington, February 20,
1847 ! married Harriet E. Brooks ; children :
i. Oliver Perry, November 2"] , 1873, married,
October 12, 1905, Lillian Evangeline Putnam;
ii. Mary, born at Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mav
17, 1877.

(The Sterry Line).

(I) Roger Sterry, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England. The Sterrys came from
county Surrey, England, and one of them,
Peter Sterry, the noted Puritan scholar and
teacher, was chaplain to the Protector, Oliver
Cromwell, and one of the famous Westminster
assembly of divines. Another was the "un-
compromising preacher" Peter Sterry, who
wrote, "The Rot Among the Bishops" in 1661.
(See vol. 5, "Biographer's Manual of English
Literature," by W. T. Loundres.)

Roger Sterry was born about 1630 and must
have died before 1680, as his widow, Hannah,
married again in 1681. She was baptized in
1634 ; was the widow of Thomas Hewitt and
daughter of Walter and Rebecca (Short) Pal-
mer, of Stonington. Her father. Walter Pal-
mer, and his brother, Abraham Palmer. Lon-
don merchants, came to Charlestown, Massa-
chusetts, in 1629 or 1630. He settled in Ston-
ington, Connecticut.

(II) Samuel Sterry, son of Roger Sterry,
was born about 1674 and died in 1734. He
was town clerk of Preston, Connecticut, in
1 71 2. In 1 70 1 he bought a hundred acres of
land in the town of Preston on Upper Moun-
tain, called Matteyhook Hill. He married
(first) in 1703, Hannah Rose, who died in
1724. He married (second) February 8, 1725,
Mehitable Starkweather, a relative of Timothy
Starkweather, of Preston. Children : Hannah,
born 1704-05; Samuel, 1706; Cyprian, 1707,
died 1772; Robert, 171 1 ; Zerviah, 1 7 1 3 . Chil-
dren of second wife: Sarah, 1727; Roger,
mentioned below.

(III) Roger, son of Samuel Sterry, was
born at Preston, or Stonington, January 2,
1730, died April 19, 1780. He married, May

4, 1748. Abigail Holms, of Stonington. Chil-
dren: Samuel, April 15. 1749, died February
2, 1752: Mary. April 26, 1751, died March
6, 1752; Mary, August 27, 1753; Arthur, Jan-
uary 26, 1757, died November 25, 1761 ; Me-
hitable, December 28. 1758; Consider, October

5, 1 76 1, died November 15, 181 7; Roger, Sep-

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tember 14, 1764; John, mentioned below; Abi-
gail, January 20, 1769.

(IV) Rev. John Sterry, son of Roger
Sterry, was born at Providence, Rhode Island,
September 24, 1766, died November 5, 1823.
He was educated at Brown University and
entered the Baptist ministry. Both he and
his brother Consider (who was the grand-
father of Dr. Thomas Sterry, the noted geolo-
gist) were superior mathematicians and writ-
ers. When but a little past their majority they
jointly produced and published "The Ameri-
can Truth" in two volumes, a new and com-
plete course of introductory mathematics. The
Rev. John Sterry was also a printer, book-
binder, papermaker and inventor of a process
for marbleizing paper. In 1804 he edited and
published a newspaper called The True Re-
publican. He married, October 4, 1792, Re-
becca, born 1776, died September 10, 1833,
daughter of Christopher and Marjory (Davi-
son) Bromley, of Preston, Children: John
Holms, born March 16, 1794, died June 5,
1870; Marjory Davison, 1796, married An-
drew Wattles, born 1792, died 1863 (see Wat-
tles VI) ; Rebecca, May 20, 1800, died May
25, 1870; Robert, 1803, died March 24, 1866;
George Washington, 1807, died May 15, 1829;
Caroline, 1809, died August 10, 183 1 ; Edward
A., Mav 3, 1811, mentioned below; Maria,
1817, died February 1, 1880; William P., May
23, 1819, died July 26, 1886; Francis D., Sep-
tember 18, 1821, died August 2j, 1902.

(V) Edward Augustus, son of Rev. John
Sterry, was born at Norwich Town, Connec-
ticut, May 3, 181 1. He attended the public
schools. He had a successful business career
as a manufacturer of faucets and was an in-
ventor of ability, having valuable patents on
faucets that he invented. In politics he was
a Republican. He was a Congregationalist
and at one time was a member of the First
Congregational Church of Norwich. He mar-
ried, at Norwich Falls, May 26, 1833 (by Rev.
Peter Sabin), Catharine Amelia Whittlesey,
born May 10, 1810, at Saybrook, Connecticut,
daughter of John Tulby and Betsey (Whittle-
sey) Whittlesey. Her parents were married
March 11, 1798; her mother was born in
1776, her father August 6, 1770. He was a
sea captain and was much interested in family
history, making a trip to England for the
purpose of tracing his Whittlesey ancestry and
brought a copy of the coat-of-arms back with
him. Children of Edward Augustus Sterry :
I. John Augustus, married, February 14, 1853,
Louise Clymena Wescott. 2. Annie R., mar-
ried, May 3, 1859, Ralph H. Park. 3. George
E., married Kate Van Vliet DeWitt, October
3, 1861. 4. Frank W., married, February 13,

1865, Annie E. R. Browne. 5. Tully W., mar-
ried, July 13, 1871, Minnie A. E. Pearle. 6.
Edward A., born October 12, 1845, died Octo-
ber 27, 1845. 7- Catherine Amelia. 8. Carolyn
Augusta (twin of Catherine Amelia).

(The Pierce Line).

Moses Pierce, father of Emily Gardner
(Pierce) Wattles, was born in Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, then known as North Provi-
dence, July 3, 1808, eldest of the eight chil-
dren— five boys and three girls — of Benjamin
B. and Susan (Walker) Pierce, the former
a native of East Greenwich, Rhode Island,
and a tanner by trade, but later in life a cot-
ton manufacturer.

Moses Pierce received his education in the
district schools of his native state and at the
age of twelve years began work as a chore
boy in a factory store, at the wages of seventy-
five cents per week. At the age of fourteen
years he became the bookkeeper, and from
that time until he was twenty he was engaged
in that and other capacities in the cotton mill
business, thereby gaining a thorough knowl-
edge of cotton manufacturing. In 1828 he
located in Willimantic, Connecticut, and as
superintendent took charge of a small cot-
ton mill, one of the first in that now thriving
manufacturing center. The bleaching business
had begun to attract attention, and at the so-
licitation of men of capital Mr. Pierce became
the junior member of an enterprising firm, and
built, started and superintended mills in Rhode
Island and Massachusetts.

In October, 1839, on the invitation of the
late Jedediah Leavens, Mr. Pierce came to
Norwich to consider the outlook for the bleach-
ing business. The following May, having con-
cluded his other engagements, he secured a
lease of water from the Water Power Com-
pany, and the ground was broken for the
first mill on the site of what was, until recent
years, the Norwich Bleaching & Calendering
Company. On September 10, 1840, the ma-
chinery started, and the history of that great
company was begun. From 1840 to 1888 Mr.
Pierce was the real head of, first, the com-
pany, and, afterward, the corporation. In
1863 Mr. Pierce, with about twenty others,
chiefly of Norwich, united to form the Occum
Company, to acquire lands and flowage rights
which should enable them to control the She-
tucket river from the tail race of the Baltic
mill to the upper end of the Greenville Pond.
Three years later Taftville began its career.
Associated with Mr. Pierce in this enterprise
were E. P. and Cyrus Taft, of Providence, and
James L. Arnold, of Plainfield. A charter
was obtained from the legislature, though vio-

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lently opposed 'because of the large amount of
money involved, permitting a capital of $i,-
500,000. The stock was marketed, and when
the company was organized Air. Pierce became
a director, holding this place until 1887, when,
by a sale of certain stock, the management
passed into other hands.

Among other ventures in which Mr. Pierce
played a conspicuous part was the Ashland
Cotton Company at Jewett City, of which he
was president for thirty-five years. Another
was the Aspinook Company of the same vil-
lage. From 1873 the water power at Jewett
City, easily made serviceable by a dam across
the Ouinebaug, was a pet project of Mr.
Pierce. Twenty years later he saw his dream
realized by the erection of a printing, bleach-
ing and calendering plant on the plateau south
of the falls, and of this company he was presi-
dent up to the time of his death. In all the
various concerns with which Mr. Pierce was
prominently connected, about two thousand
persons are constantly employed, and the an-
nual payroll cannot be less than a million of
dollars.

In the political world Mr. Pierce was from
183 1 a strict advocate of temperance principles,
giving of his time and money to further the
cause. He was an Abolitionist until the close
of the war, and afterward voted with the Re-
publican party. In 1854 he represented his
district in the state legislature. Although posi-
tive in his own opinions he was tolerant to-
ward the views of others. While residing at
Fall River, in 1834, Mr. Pierce united with
the Congregational church, for many years
was a member of the church at Norwich town,
and remained connected with that denomina-
tion for the remainder of his days, later trans-
ferring his membership to the Park Church,
in Norwich.

Mr. Pierce's charities were legion. From
the beginning of his career he gave in pro-
portion to his means. In 1878 he gave to
the United Workers the large house at Nor-
wich town, now known as the Rock Nook Chil-
dren's Home. One of the buildings connected
with the training school for Negroes and In-
dians at Hampton, Virginia, made famous by
its founder, General Armstrong, costing way
up into the thousands, was built with Mr.
Pierce's money. His practical consideration
has assisted many an object whose end was
the good of humanity. Until a few years be-
fore his death his constitution was robust, a
fact which he attributed to his temperance in
all things. He was able to ride out up to
within ten days of his death. Mr. Pierce was
a verv methodical man, and possessed of a
great deal of energy, his native energy being

far superior to his strength in his old age, and
he was always in danger of over-taxing him-
self. He loved to be doing something, and
always did as much as his strength would
allow. He retained every faculty until the
last.

Wholly without any solicitation on his part
Mr. Pierce was called to many public posi-
tions. In Fall River, at the age of twenty-two,
he was captain of a fire company of eighty-
six men. In 1858 he was elected director of
the Norwich & Worcester Railroad. He was
president of the Norwich & New York steam-
boat Company for eleven years, and was for
years a member of the board of directors of
the Second National Bank and the Chelsea
Savings Bank. In the forties he was vice-
president of an Association of Inventors, hold-
ing their meetings in the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia. He was trustee of the Hampton
school, which he often visited. At the time of
his death he was a member of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. of New York ; a fellow of the
American Geographical Society in New York,
and of a library association in Boston ; and a
member of the Cotton Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation and of the home Market Club of that
city.

Mr. Pierce had traveled extensively, cross-
ing the Atlantic eight times for business and
rest. His faith in the future of his own coun-
try made him venture much, and amply was
he repaid. In his business affairs he was ever
found honest and progressive, faithful to duty,
and considerate of his employees. His life,
showing what one man can accomplish by in-
dustry, honesty and perseverance, suggests
possibilities and gives courage to those aspiring
youths who are obliged to hew their own
way. In this age when the worker — the doer
— is the man most honored, the career of
Moses Pierce cannot fail to give a lofty con-
ception of right and purposeful living. He
died in Norwich, August 18, 1900. His re-
mains rest in Yantic cemetery at Norwich.

Roger Prichard, immigrant
PRICHARD ancestor, was an inhabitant

of Wethersfield, Connecti-
cut, as early as T640. He removed to
Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1643, an<l
December 18, 1653, was living in Milford,
Connecticut. He was admitted a freeman in
April, 1648. He married (first) Frances
, who died in 1651. He married (sec-
ond) December 18, 1653, Elizabeth (Prud-
den) Slough, widow of William Slough and
daughter of James Prudden. He removed to
New Haven and died there January 26, 1670-
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died 1 6/ 1, married William Bradley, the an-
cestor of the Connecticut Bradleys ; Joan, born
September I, 1647, married John Lumbard ;
Benjamin, mentioned below.

(II) Benjamin, son of Roger Prichard,
was born January 31, 1657, m Milford, Con-
necticut, died April 9, 1743, in Milford. He
married, November 14, 1683, Rebecca Jones.
Child, James, mentioned below. Other chil-
dren.

(III) James, son of Benjamin Prichard,
was baptized in Milford, Connecticut, in 1698,
died September 3, 1749. He married, Decem-
ber 25, 1721, Elizabeth Johnson, born August
28, 1701, daughter of George and Hannah
(Dorman) Johnson. She married (second)
Captain Stephen Upson. Children : James,
born January 31, 1723; George, October
5, 1724; Elizabeth, March 12, 1726-27, married
Benjamin Nichols; Isaac, September 20, 1729;
John, born July 25, 1734, died August 6, 1749;
David, April 7, 1737, mentioned below; Anna,
April 4, 1740, married (first) John Strickland;
(second) Nathaniel Sutcliffe.

(IV) David, son of James Prichard, was
born April 7, 1737. He married, December
20, 1757, Ruth, daughter of Joseph Smith.
Children: Archibel, born June 25, 1759; Ruth,
October 16, 1760, married, 1797, Justus P.
Spencer; Marianna, May 5, 1763, married

Abbe; Philoe, August 5, 1765; Silva,

February 17, 1768, married Francis French;
Molly, June 22, 1770, died January 24, 1772;
Molly, February 28, 1773. married, 1796,
Jacob Hall; David, October 24, 1775, men-
tioned below; Damon, November 5, 1777;
Sally, June 28, 1780, married Ira Hotchkiss.

(V) David (2), son of David (1) Prich-
ard, was born October 24, 1775. He married,
November 9, 1796, Anna, daughter of Benja-
min Hitchcock. Children : Minerva, born June
22, 1798, married Francis Bancroft, of East
Windsor; William, March 20, 1800, married
Eliza Hall ; Julius Smith, February 14, 1802,
married Maria Tyrrell ; Elizur Edwin, Sep-
tember 19, 1804, mentioned below ; Mary
Anna, September 9, 1806, died November 24,
1822; Sally Hitchkiss, August 29, 1808, died
February 4, 1827 ; Dr. David, October 24,
1810, married Wealthy Hill Wilcox; Samuel
Holland, May 2y, 1813; Charlotte Lucy, June
27, 1816.

(AT) Elizur Edwin, son of David (2)
Prichard, was born September 19, 1804. He
married, March 11, 1827, Betsey J. Cooper, of
Derby, Connecticut, daughter of Asa and
granddaughter of Caleb Cooper. Children :
1. Elizabeth Ann, born February 24, 1828. 2.
Sarah Johnson, January 11, 1830; author of
the "History of Waterbury" (1674-1783),

edited by Dr. Joseph Anderson, author of
many children's books and several novels, and
contributed for forty years to many maga-
zines. 3. Son, born February 22, died Febru-
ary 26, 1834. 4. Katharine A., born Septem-
ber 15, 1836; compiler of the genealogical ap-
pendix of the "History of Waterbury," above
mentioned. 5. Florence Cooper, born April

3- J843-

The Turkington family
TURKINGTON is of ancient English

origin. A branch of the
family settled in Armagh, Ireland, province of
Ulster, many generations ago, and the family
is well known there at the present time. In
1890 the census shows twelve births in this
family in Lister, of which nine were in Ar-
magh.

(I) Oliver Turkington, of Scotch and Eng-
lish ancestry, was born in Ulster, at Armagh,
1 78 1, son of a landed proprietor. He received
a good education, and was "disinherited by his
father on his marriage to Ann Rudock, as his
father was greatly displeased at the match.
After his marriage Oliver came to this coun-
try and took up weaving as a business at Red-
ding, Connecticut. After the death of his wife,
February 26, 1849, by whom there were thir-
teen children, six girls and seven boys, Oliver
took for his second wife Rebecca Canfield. He
died at Redding in 1866.

(II) David, son of Oliver Turkington, was
born at Redding, Connecticut, August 21,
1822, died in Morris, Litchfield county, April
11, 1900. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He came to Mor-
ris from Redding when a yonng man.
He had a tannery in Morris for a
time and was a wholesale beef and cat-
tle dealer of much business ability. He
married, February 28, 1849, Lucy A. John-
son, born at Watertown. November 20, 1830,
now living at Morris, daughter of Henry and
Lydia (W'attles) Johnson. Children: 1. Frank
Henry, mentioned below. 2. Arthur H., born
January 13, 1858; married September 30, 1882,
Laura Dayton : children : Grace H., David C.
and Florence E. 3. Ella E., born August 22,
1863 ; married, February 2, 1887, Cornelius M.
Judd, died March 22, 1897. 4. Child, died in
infancy.

(Ill) Frank Henry, son of David Turking-
ton, was born in Morris, Connecticut, June 11,
1854. He attended the public schools of Mor-
ris and Winsted, Connecticut. He worked for
several years as clerk in stores at Seymour
and Morris and was afterward engaged in
the wholesale beef business in partnership
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has had many other business interests. Of late
years he has devoted his time to his extensive
farming properties. He owns some twelve
hundred acres in farms. In politics he is a
Republican and has held various town offices.
He represented for two terms the town in
the general assembly of the state; in 1906 he
was elected sheriff of the county and still
holds that office. He is a member of St. Paul's
Lodge, No. II, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Litchfield. In religion he is a Congrega-
tionalist. He married, October 2, 1876, Caro-
line Ophelia Botsford, of Woodbury, Connec-
ticut, born May 29, 1850, daughter of Heman
and Harriet (Dimon) Botsford. Children: 1.
Harriet Elizabeth, born January 1, 1878; mar-
ried Leman Stone Brundage, of Morris ; chil-
dren : Frank Turkington, Leman Stone, Jr.,
and Evelyn Ophelia Brundage. 2. Charles
Henry, mentioned below. 3. Ferris Royal, De-
cember 11, 1882; a farmer at Morris; mar-
ried, September 26, 1906, Lena M. Pierpont ;
children: Alice Patten and Lucy Johnson.

(TV) Charles Henry, son of Frank Henry
Turkington. was born in Morris, June 11,
1880. He received his early education in the
public schools of his native town and at the
Litchfield high school. He attended the Shef-
field Scientific School of Yale University and
was graduated in the class of 1903. He
studied medicine in Johns Hopkins University
and received the degree of M.D. there in 1907.
He acquired his hospital experience on the
staff of the Hartford Hospital. He located at
Litchfield in 1910 and engaged in the general
practice of his profession. He is a member
of the Litchfield County Medical Society, the
Connecticut State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. He is un-
married.

Matthew Woodruff, immi-
WOODRUFF grant ancestor, was born

in England. He settled
early at Hartford, Connecticut, moved to
Farmington in 1640-41, and died there very
aged, about 1682. His will mentions his wife,
three sons and a daughter Hannah, wife of
Richard Seymour, 2nd., and the court added to
the list the name of another daughter Elizabeth
who was the wife of John Broughton, of
Northampton. Massachusetts. He ws one of
the eighty-four proprietors of Farmington in
1672 and was a freeman in 1657. His wife
Hannah was admitted to the Farmington
church. April 2. 1654. Cbildren : John, born
1643; Matthew, 1646; Hannah, 1648; Eliza-
beth. 165 1 : Mary, November 5, 1654, died
youns-: Samuel, August 26, 1661.

(II) Matthew (2), son of Matthew (1)

Woodruff, was born at Farmington in 1646,
died in November, 1691. He settled at Mil-
ford, but returned to Farmington. He mar-
ried (first), June 16, 1668, Mary, born 1645,
daughter of Robert and Mary (Baldwin)
Plum, the latter a daughter of Sylvester and
Sarah (Bryant) Baldwin. He married (sec-
ond) Sarah, daughter of John North ; she died
in 1692. Children: Matthew, mentioned be-
low; Mary, born December 27, 1670; John,
February 1, 1672; Sarah, 1674; Samuel, 1677;
Elizabeth, 1679; Hannah, 168 1 ; Nathaniel,
May, 1687; Joseph, baptized May 19, 1689.

(III) Matthew (3), son of Matthew (2)
Woodruff, was born at Milforcl, February 8,
.1669, died 1 75 1. He was captain of the mili-
tary company at Farmington. He married
(first) September 15, 1694, Elizabeth, born
March 29, 1673, daughter of Sylvanus and
Mildred (Prudden) Baldwin; Sylvanus was
son of Richard and Elizabeth (Alsopp) Bald-
win and grandson of Sylvester and Sarah
(Bryant) Baldwin. Mildred (Prudden)
Baldwin was a daughter of Rev. Peter Prud-
den. They lived at Farmington and she
died there February 5. 1729. He married
(second), June 10, 1730, Martha, widow of
Thomas North. She died in 1763. Children :
Matthew, mentioned below ; Sylvanus, March
16, 1702, died July 10, 1725; Sarah, June 16,.
1703, died July 10, 1725; Timothy, February
2^, 1705-06; Joshua, November 7, 1708;
Abraham, February 15, 171 1; Elizabeth, May
10, 1713; Aaron, October 25, 171 S. married
Mary Mills.

(IV) Matthew (4), son of Matthew (3)
Woodruff, was born October 1, 1697. He re-
sided at Farmington and married Elizabeth

. He bought land in Waterbury and

was of Judd's Meadows a mile east of Sam-
uel Warner's house in 1732. Land was laid
out to Matthew and Elizabeth Woodruff in
Farmington in 1739. ^ *s no* known whether
they moved from Farmington to Waterbury.

(V) Isaac, son or nephew of Matthew (4)
Woodruff, probably had the land of Matthew
and settled in Waterbury. Isaac Woodruff
was in the revolution, Captain Noadiah Hook-
er's company. 1775. He died at Waterbury,
March 31, 1782, aged thirty-six years. He
married Sarah Newton. Children, born in
Waterbury: Sarah Newton. May 27, 1768;
Susanna, January 24, 1770; Comfort, De-
cember 27, 1771, died January 14, 1784; Isaac,
October 10, 1773, mentioned below; Clark,
April 30, 1776; Joseph, March 8, 1778; Mer-
rit, June 17, 1780; Mary, November 15, 1782.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Wood-
ruff, was born at Waterbury, October 10,
1773, died November 29, 1815. He lived and'

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died at Watertown, formerly Waterbury, Con-
necticut. He married Lodina , born

1775, died October 12, 1863. Children : Isaac,
mentioned below, and Charles Sherman.

(VII) Isaac N., son of Isaac (2) Wood-
ruff, was born September, 1793, at Watertown,
died November 17, 1875. He was a farmer
and lived most of his life in Watertown, spend-
ing his last years with his son, Isaac B. Wood-
ruff, in Winsted, where he died. He was
buried in Watertown. He married Elizabeth,
born in 1797, died December 19, 1863, daugh-
ter of Abram Scott. Children : Sarah, Isaac,
Benjamin, mentioned below, Merritt Burr and
Mary.

(VIII) Isaac Benjamin, son of Isaac N.
Woodruff, was born at Watertown, August
11, 181S, died at Winsted, Connecticut, April
2J, 1900. He received a common school edu-
cation in the district schools. He served an
apprenticeship in a factory at Litchfield, Con-
necticut, learning the art of making flutes,
clarinets and other musical instruments and
afterward became connected with the William
L. Gilbert Clock Company. In 1866 the busi-
ness was incorporated under the name of the
Gilbert Manufacturing Company and Mr.
Woodruff was a director, secretary and treas-
urer of the company. When Mr. Gilbert died
in 1890 he became president and treasurer of
the company and continued in those offices
to the time of his death. He was a director
of the First National Bank of Winsted and
of the Hulbej"t*f National Bank. In politics
he was a Republican, and he held various of-
fices of trust and honor. He was selectman
of the town and served one term in the gen-
eral assembly of Connecticut. In religion he
was an Episcopalian and for many years
treasurer and warden of the Episcopal church.
He was a plain, modest, capable man, resource-
ful and far-sighted in business, a worthy and
useful citizen.

Mr. Woodruff married, October 16, 1841,
Sarah Ann Gilbert, born in Litchfield, July
16, 1819, died September 12, 1886, daughter
of James and Abigail (Kenney) Gilbert. She
was a woman of much intellectual force and
sterling character, and exerted a strong in-
fluence on the lives and careers of her chil-
dren. Her brother, William L. Gilbert, was
Winsted's greatest philanthropist, founder
and first president of the William L. Gilbert
Clock Company. He built and endowed the
Gilbert School and the Gilbert Home, two
of the finest institutions given by private phil-
anthropy in the state. James Gilbert, father
of Mrs. Woodruff, was formerly of North-
field Society, Litchfield. Children : James Gil-
bert, mentioned below ; William Wallace, born

May 20, 1844, died December 4, 1909; married
Eleanora L. Smith.

(IX) James Gilbert, son of Isaac Benjamin
Woodruff, was born in Northfield, in the town
of Litchfield, August 27, 1842. He attended
the public and select schools of his native
village, the Watertown Academy and Wolcott
Institute of Litchfield. From time to time,
after he was nine years old, he worked in the
clock factory of his uncle. Even during school
term he worked mornings and nights, and
learned the business from the ground up,
working in all the departments of the greai
factory. At the age of seventeen he left
school and since then has devoted most of his
time to this business. When his father died
in 1900 he succeeded him as president and
treasurer of the William L. Gilbert Clock
Company. The concern has continued to show
a steady and healthful growth and in the past
ten years a number of new brick buildings have
been added to the plant; the clocks made by
this concern find their way to all parts of the
world. There are branch offices in New York,
Chicago, Boston, London, Australia, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, and many other places. The
company employs about six hundred hands in
the factory and produces goods annuallv to the
value of about a million dollars. During the
civil war Mr. Woodruff served three months
in the Second Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teers. He is director and president of the
GoodAvin Kitz Manufacturing .Company of
Winsted ; director of the First National Bank
and of the Hulbert National Bank. He is a
steadfast Republican in politics and takes a
lively interest in political and public affairs.
He represented his town one term in the gen-
eral assembly of Connecticut. In religion he
is an Episcopalian and he is treasurer of St.
James' Church in Winsted. Mr. Woodruff's
life has been devoted largely to the upbuild-
ing and administering of the great business
established by his uncle and father. He has
demonstrated great executive ability and earn-
estness, strength and breadth of character,
and the industrial world of which Winsted is
a center owes much to his good judgment
and public spirit.

He married, May 10, 1864, Abbie Elizabeth
Osborn, born at Roxbury, Connecticut, daugh-
ter of George S. and Edna A. Osborn (see
Osborn VII). Children, born at Winsted: 1.
George Benjamin, September 18, 1866; ma-
chinery salesman, living in London, England ;
married (first) Agnes H. Mints; (second)
Nellie Jones ; child by first wife, Marguerite
Elizabeth, born April 2, 1891 ; by second wife
Zola De Leon, born December 16, 1900. 2.
Edna Louise, September 26, 1870; married

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Allen Hubbard, of Westfield, Massachusetts,
consulting engineer, Boston ; children : Allen
and Gilbert Hubbard. 3. Florence Gilbert.,
February 15, 1872; married Everett W.
Farmer, manufacturer of iron building mate-
rial, Boston ; children : Virginia Farmer, born
December 14, 1900; James Woodruff Farmer,
April 26, 1906.

(The Osborn Line;.

The Osborn family is of English ancestry.
Richard Osborne sailed from London in 1634,
in the ship "Hopewell," and located in 1635
in Hingham, Massachusetts, afterward in New
Haven, Connecticut, 1639. For service in
King Philip's war he received a land warrant
for land near the centre of Fairfield. He came
to Fairfield about 1650, where he lived until
November, 1682, when he removed to West-
chester. Children : John, Hannah, Priscilla,
Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and David. William
Osborne, presumably a brother of Richard,
settled at Hingham and was a proprietor in
1635 ; removed to Braintree, to become clerk
of the iron works ; removed to Boston in 1652 ;
children : Recompense, Hannah, Bezaleel, Jo-
seph and Jonathan. James Osborne settled
in Springfield ; Thomas Osborne at Charles-
town, before 1650.

(I) John Osborne, presumed to be brother
of William and Richard, settled at Weymouth,
Massachusetts, and also at Braintree. Chil-
dren : John, born at Braintree, February 2,
1639 (mentioned below) ; Mathew, died May,
164 1 ; Ephraim, born August 11, 1657.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Osborne,
was born at Weymouth, February 2, 1639.
He appears to have settled in Connecticut.
The Stratford history says that the John next
mentioned was son of John (2), and it is be-
lieved he was grandson of John of Weymouth
and nephew of Ephraim.

(III) John (3), son of John (2) Osborn
(as the name is now spelled), according to the
Stratford history, was born about 1680; mar-
ried, July 14, 1709, Prudence Blagge. He is
thought to have married (second) Hannah
Gilbert, widow, February 20, 1751. One of
his children died June 22, 1714. Children,
born at Stratford: Prudence, May 13, 1710;
Ephraim, January 17, 1711-12; Mary, August
26, 1715; John, October 24, 1717; Nathan,
(mentioned below) ; Mehitable, April 26, 1722;
Edward, August 8, 1725.

(IV) Nathan, son of John (3) Osborn, was
born at Stratford, November 15, 1719. He
married Sarah Sherman. He was a farmer at
Stratford, and probably in later life of Wood-
bury, Connecticut. Children : Mercy, born
September 28, 1751 ; Nathan, at Stratford,

January, 1753; Nathaniel, baptized November,
1754; Mary, September 29, 1755; Sarah, Sep-
tember, 1757; Jemima, born November 30,
1758; Phebe, baptized March 12, 1758; Isaac,
(mentioned below) ; Nathan, born July 24,
1763 ; Esther, August 25, 1765 ; Molly, August
30, 1767; Benjamin, May 13, 1770; Benjamin,
April 12, 1772; Enos, August 21, 1774.

(V) Isaac, son of Nathan Osborn, was
born August 29, 1760, at Woodbury, and died
at Avon, Connecticut, in October, 1853. He
was a soldier in the revolution, serving at the
fort in New London, Connecticut, and in later
life was a pensioner. He married, 1781, Sarah
Clark Woodruff. Children: 1. Sherman, born
August 26, 1790; died June 13, 1863; married
at Woodbury, December 20, 1820, Elizabeth
Tolles, and had one son, Charles Sherman,
born July 6, 1822, married Harriet Gould, of
Nashua, New Hampshire. 2. Isaac (mentioned
below). 3. Comfort, married Henry Smith.

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Osborn,
was born in 1786, and died April 15, 1866. He
was a farmer. During his last years he was a
Republican. He married Laurin Stoddard.
Children : George (mentioned below) ; Ben-
nett; Walter; Abigail, born February 8, 1820,
died October 22, 1841 ; Horace, born May 8,
1823 : Martha E., February 8, 183 1 ; Jane, Sep-
tember 26, 1835.

(VII) George S. Osborne (as he later
spelled the name), son of Isaac (2) Osborn,
was born May 10, 1818. He was a farmer.
In politics he was a Republican, in religion a
Congregationalist. He died January 13, 1876.
He married Edna A. Young, at Roxbury,
Connecticut. Children : Abbie Elizabeth, born
in Roxbury, September 24, 1842, educated in
the private school of Miss Dayton, at Water-
town, Connecticut ; married James G. Wood-
ruff (see Woodruff IX) Albert, (twin of Ab-
bie E.) ; Nellie A.; Mary E.

(II) Samuel Woodruff,
WOODRUFF son of Matthew Woodruff

(q. v.), was born August
26, 1661, in Farmington ; married, in 1686,
Rebeckah, daughter of John Clark. He re-
mained in Farmington until the birth of his
sixth child, when, about 1698, he removed
to the south part of the town, in what is now
the town of Southington, and was the first
white settler there. Tradition locates his
house on the north side of the second road
south of the town poor-house, leading east to-
ward the mountain, at the southeast corner of
the north corner lot. The place where the
house stood still shows in the lot. Woodruff
is said to have been of very large physique and
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friendly with the Indians. He died January 8,
1742, his wife August 4, 1737. Her tomb-
stone in the north burying-ground records her
age as sixty-five, evidently an error, as she
was nearer seventy-five, unless she became a
mother as early as fourteen years. Children :
Samuel, born January 20, 1686-87; Jonathan,
November 30, 1688; Rebeckah,' February 4,
1690-91; Ruth, February 15, 1692; Ebenezer,
December 27, 1694; Daniel, mentioned below;
David, February 27, 1698-99 ; Hezekiah, Au-
gust 9. 1701 ; Rachel, November 20, 1703;
Abigail. February 26, 1705; John, April 5,
1708; Rede. 1710.

(III) Daniel, son of Samuel Woodruff, was
born in Farmington, November 2, 1696, and
came to Southington with his father two years
later. He married Lydia. daughter of Eph-
raim and Rachel (Cole) Smith, and he died
April 12, 1785. He had the military rank of
ensign. Children, born at Southington : Jon-
athan, mentioned below ; Lydia, March 3, 1723 ;
Rachel, November 25, 1725 ; Daniel, October
28, 1728; Hannah, July 7, 1730; Rhoda, bap-
tized June 16, 1734.

(IV) Jonathan, son of Daniel Woodruff,
was born at Southington, October 30, 1720,
died August 13, 1872. He lived on his fa-
ther's homestead, east of the village. He was
elected deacon of the Congregational church
to succeed his uncle Samuel Woodruff, de-
ceased, about 1766. He married, February 21,
1744-45. Phebe Wiard. of Wethersfield. Chil-
dren, born at Southington : Joel, 1745 ; Temi-
ma, 1747: Amos, 1749; Lois, 1751 ; Phebe,
1754- Jonathan, 1756; Mary, 1758; Ashbel,
January 22, 1761 ; Gideon, mentioned below.

(V) Dr. Gideon, son of Jonathan Wood-
ruff, was born at Southington, 1763, was bap-
tized October 30, 1763. He married Sarah
Heaton. Dr. Woodruff spent his early life in
Plymouth, and after living in New Haven for
a time returned to Plymouth and practised his
profession. He graduated at Yale College in
the class of 1785. Children : Abraham ; Joel ;
William, mentioned below.

(VI) Dr. William, son of Dr. Gideon Wood-
ruff, was born in New Haven, July 17, 1804,
died in his eighty-ninth year, in July, 1893.
He attended the public schools of Plymouth,
and for several years was a pupil of Rev.
Luther Hart. He began to study medicine in
the office of Dr. Jonathan Knight about 1824,
and continued under the direction of Dr.
Nathan Smith, both well-known physicians.
He graduated from the Yale Medical School
in 1826 and located as a physician in Water-
bury. Soon afterward, however, at the urgent
request of friends, he removed to Plymouth,
and for many years enjoyed a large and lucra-

tive practice. Nearly twenty years before his
death he relinquished most of his practice and
devoted much time to travel, visiting Europe,
California, Canada and the south. He was
a man of activity and energy, an able physician
and a useful citizen. He was a faithful mem-
ber of the Congregational church. In politics
he was a Republican. He married Martha,
daughter of Seth and Laura (Andrews)
Thomas. Children : William Thomas, men-
tioned below ; Howard Heaton, who was a
druggist in Hartford, Connecticut ; Sarah.

(VII) William Thomas, son of Dr. William
Woodruff, was born in Plymouth, now Thom-
aston, Connecticut, July 11, 1838. He at-
tended the public schools of his native place,
the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mas-
sachusetts, and the Hudson River Institute,
in New York.

Mr. Woodruff began his business career
as a boy in the employ of the Seth Thomas
Clock Company, of Thomaston. He began at
the bottom and learned the business thorough-
ly, rising step by step to the head of the con-
cern. Since 1890 he has been president of
the company. He is also director and vice-
president of the Thomaston National Bank ; di-
rector of the Waterbury Trust Company,
and director of the Eagle Lock Company, of
Terryville, Connecticut. He is a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution ; the
Free Masons of Thomaston ; the Country
Club of Farmington. the Union League Club
of New York City, the Waterbury Club, and
the Country Club, Waterbury. His home is at
Thomaston. He married, January 22, 1868,
Gertrude, daughter of William Slade, of
Thomaston. They have no children. ,

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(III) Samuel, son of Mat-
WOODRUFF thew (2) Woodruff (q.v.),
was born in Mil ford, in
1677, died November 27, 1732. He was a
cordwainer by trade. He settled in Farming-
ton. Children, born at Farmington : Ezekiel,
January, 1706; James, May 23, 1708; Robert,
October 8, 1710; Mary, October 12, 1712;
Noah, March 2, 1715 ; Abigail, September 25,
1717; Samuel, June 13, 1723, mentioned be-
low; Sarah, August 11, 1726.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Woodruff, was born in Farmington, June 13,
1723, died July 17, 1772. He was deacon of
the church. He removed from Farmington
to Milford, then to Litchfield. He was in
Captain David Welch's company from Litch-'
field in the revolutionary war, on the Lexing-
ton alarm. He married Anne Nettleton.
Children: Samuel. Nathan, Philosebius, An-
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Elisha, Anne, Susan or Susan Andrew, Mar-
tha (Patty).

(V) Andrew, son of Samuel (2) Woodruff,
was born at Milford, about 1757, died in 1837.
He married Miranda Orton. Children, born
at Litchfield, as given in the history of that
town : Asenath, married Daniel Marsh ; Rhoda
and Ruth, twins, married twin brothers ; Sam-
uel, Andrew, Miranda, Elisha, Susan, Luman,
Fanny, Lewis H., Jeremiah, mentioned below ;
Huldah I., William, Irene, Olive, married
Stephen Sanford.

(VI) Rev. Jeremiah, son of Andrew Wood-
ruff, was born at Litchfield, March 17, 1800,
died July 25, 1868. He was a Presbyterian
minister. He married Clarissa Thompson,
born at East Windsor, Connecticut, December
22, 1817, daughter of Anson Thompson, of
East Y\ nidsor. Children : James, Andrew,
Margaretta, Adella, Charles, Frank W., died
unmarried ; Rollin Simmons, mentioned be-
low.

(ATI) Governor Rollin Simmons Wood-
ruff, son of Rev. Jeremiah Woodruff, was
born at Rochester, Monroe county, New York,
July 14, 1854. He spent the early years of
his life in a country village, and when he was
fifteen the family moved to New Haven, where
he obtained his first position in life as errand
boy in a hardware store. His education was
limited to that of the public schools in his
native town and a brief period of schooling
in Lansing, Iowa, but his success in all he
undertook was as complete and as rapid as
that of any college man, for he had in him
all the material that enables a man to "make
himself." He engaged in various financial
and mercantile enterprises in New Haven, and
after a number of years became interested in
the firm of C. S. Mersick & Company, one
of the most extensive iron and steel wholesale
dealers in New England. When the business
was incorporated in 1905 he was elected presi-
dent, and has ever since been at its head. He
is also president of the Connecticut Computing
Company. He has always been intensely in-
terested in public affairs and an ardent sup-
porter of the Republican platform. Mr. Wood-
ruff has held many important public offices.
In 1903 he was elected state senator, and
served so efficiently during his two years term
that in 1905 he was nominated for lieutenant-
governor, and was elected by a large majority.
He so well sustained himself that on Septem-
ber 20. 1906, he was nominated for governor
by acclamation in the Republican state con-
vention in New Haven, and at the succeeding
election was triumphantly elected. His ad-
ministration was marked by characteristic
good sense and conspicuous executive ability.

In each of these high positions to which he
was successively chosen, he had added sub-
stantially to his former prestige, well meriting
the encomium bestowed upon him by a leading
newspaper : "Popular, honest, honorable,
spotless in character, a plain man of the peo-
ple, a devoted citizen of the state, unostenta-
tious, but true blue always — that is Rollin S.
Woodruff." He received the degree of LL.D.
from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con-
necticut, in 1908.

Governor Woodruff has been a member of
the Governor's Foot Guard since 1896, and
was lieutenant for about two years. He was
appointed by Governor George E. Lounsbury
as one of the members of his staff. He is a
director of the Mechanics' Bank of New
Haven, and has served as president of the
New Haven Chamber of Commerce. He has
attained high rank in the Masonic fraternity,
and is affiliated with Hiram Lodge, No. 1,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Franklin Chapter,
No. 2, Royal Arch Masons ; Harmony Council,
No. 8, Royal and Select Masters ; New Haven
Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar ; Lafay-
ette Consistory, Supreme Princes of the Royal
Secret. He is a member of the Union League
Club, the Young Men's Republican Club, and
the Ouinnipiack Club of New Haven. Gov-
ernor Woodruff married, in January, 1885,
Kaomeo E. Perkins, born in New Haven, July
25, 1856, daughter of Nathaniel Perkins.
They were the parents of two children who
died young.

(Ill) Captain Nathaniel
WOODRUFF Woodruff, son of Matthew

(2) Woodruff (q. v.), was
born in Farmington, Connecticut, May 16,
1686-87, died at Litchfield, November 13, 1758.
He was one of the first settlers of the town of
Litchfield, Connecticut, buying one-sixtieth
right August 8, 1721, moving thither soon
afterward. He was a prominent citizen, and
captain of a company in the Thirteenth Regi-
ment Colonial Foot. He married, July 7,
1709, Thankful, born May 23, 1687. at North-
ampton, died January 31, 1774, at Litchfield,
daughter of Benjamin and Thankful (Taylor)
Wright, of Northampton. Children : Eunice,
born April 7, 1710; Dinah, June 17, 1712;
Thankful, June 22, 1714; Benjamin, Novem-
ber 24, 171 5 ; Jacob, mentioned below ; Charles,
April 19, 1720; Thankful, April 14, 1722;
Sarah, December 27. 1725; Nathaniel, May 3,
1728.

(IV) Jacob, son of Captain Nathaniel
Woodruff, was born at Farmington, August
13, 1 71 7. died at South Farms, in the town of
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from his father a large tract of land in that
part of Litchfield called the South Farms, now
called Morris, and cleared a farm, upon which
he lived the rest of his life. He was a man of
ability and prominence. He represented the
town in the general court in 1759 and 1768,
and was one of five men chosen as a committee
of inspection, and from 1759 to 1763 was the
only magistrate in Litchfield at South Farms.
He was an ensign in the Thirteenth Regiment
Colonial Foot, and a volunteer soldier in the
revolution. He married, December 31, 174 1,
Anna, daughter of Captain Jacob Griswold, of
Litchfield, born June II, 1723, died May 27,
1754. Children born by her (recorded) at
Litchfield: Theda. October 8, 1742; Wright,
August 10, 1744; Jacob, February 2, 1746-47;
James, mentioned below ; Lydia, August 7,
1751. He married (second), May 22, 1755,
Lucy, daughter of John Farnam, of Guilford
and Litchfield, by whom he had : Ann, born
April 5, 1756; Lucy, December 30, 1758;
Ruth, December 7, 1761 ; Huldah, September
16, 1765.

(V) James, son of Jacob Woodruff, was
born at Litchfield (South Farms), August 21,
1749, died there April 3, 18 13. He was a
well-to-do farmer and a leading citizen. Like
his father, he served in the revolutionary army,
first in New York City, afterward in the bat-
tles along the Hudson river. He was a life-
long resident of his native town. He married
(first), October 25, 1775, at Litchfield (South
Farms), Lucy, daughter of James Morris,
born August 14, 1754, died April 28, 1790.
Children, all born at Litchfield (South Farms) :
Morris, mentioned below; Phebe, September
26, 1780; twin children, born November 17,
died November 18, 1784; James, May 20,
1786; Lucy, August 9, 1789. He married
(second), August 1, 1790, Sarah Bartholomew,
by whom he had : Clark, born August 23,
1791 ; Edwin P>., December 3. 1797.

(VI) General Morris, son of James Wood-
ruff, was born at Litchfield (South Farms),
now the town of Morris, September 3, 1777,
died in Litchfield, May 17, 1840. He was
brought up to farming on the homestead and
educated in the district schools and Morris
Academy. Early in life he became a merchant.
He was a clerk in the store of David Leavitt
and Simeon Harrison. He was afterward in
business in partnership with David Leavitt,
who subsequently went to New York City.
Mr. Woodruff continued in business as a gen-
eral merchant without a partner for many
years. In 1836 he came to the village of Litch-
field, where he spent his last years. He was
much employed as executor, administrator and
arbitrator, auditor and committee, appointed

by the courts. He was, in 1814, appointed
magistrate by the general assembly, an office
he held for life, and was also associate judge
of the county court for eleven years, afterward
commissioner, the office that succeeded that
of the county court magistracy. He repre-
sented the town of Litchfield for eleven years
in the general assembly of the state. He was
an active and prominent member of the Con-
gregational church. In military life he
achieved high rank. He was commissioned
captain in the Thirteenth Regiment Connecti-
cut Volunteer Militia, in 1809, by Governor
Jonathan Trumbull and in the next few years
rose through the various ranks, being briga-
dier-general from 1818 to 1824 in the Sixth
Brigade, to major-general, commissioned by
Governor Wolcott in 1824. He commanded
the Third Division. In November, 1832, he
was chosen one of the electors-at-large in the
state at the presidential election. In all the
affairs of life General Woodruff was distin-
guished by great activity, energy and perse-
verance, accuracy and fidelity to whatever trust
he assumed. Of high integrity himself, he
was stern in requiring from others observance
of its dictates; he was ready "to do justice to
others, keenly alive to every sense of mercy,
penetrating in his scrutiny into the conduct
and motives of others, convincing rather than
persuasive. In his intercourse with men he
impelled their concurrence in his views by pro-
ducing confidence in the soundness of his
judgment and the correctness of his purposes.
He married, November 21, 1804, Candace,
born in Harwinton, April 2, 1786, died July
22, 1871, daughter of Lewis and Candace Cat-
lin. Children: George C, mentioned below;
Lucy M., born July 1, 1807, died October 20,
1894, married Origen S. Seymour; Lewis B.,
June 19, 1809, died September 10, 1875, was
judge of the superior court and court of ap-
peals of New York and of the United States
circuit court of the second circuit ; married
Harriette B. Hornblower ; Reuben M., born
May 8, 1810, died April 29, 1849; a physician;
married Eliza R. Thompson; James C., Jan-
uary 1, 1813, died January 15, 1813 ; Infant,
born and died November 9, 1818.

(VII) Colonel George Catlin, son of Gen-
eral Morris Woodruff, was born in Litchfield
(South Farms), now Morris, December 1,
1805, died November 21, 1885. He lived in
his youth on the homestead at South Farms
and attended the village schools and academy.
He continued his studies at a private school
in Bethlehem under the instruction of Rev.
John Langdon, and fitted for college there.
He graduated from Yale College in the class
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under the late judge Gould, being admitted
to the bar in 1827. In the summer following
graduation he removed to the village of Litch-
field and began to practice, continuing for fifty-
seven years, being one of the most able and
successful lawyers of the county. He was the
acknowledged leader and was chairman of the
Bar Association for many years. In the early
years of his career he was daily thrown into
contact with those giants of the profession,
the two Churches, Huntington, Bacon, Smith,
and other able contemporaries. He held al-
most every office in town and county. He was
justice of the peace, grand juror, postmaster,
town treasurer, town clerk, bank director, bank
president, clerk of the superior court, colonel
of the militia, member and clerk of the general
assembly of the state, judge of probate, mem-
ber of the thirty-seventh congress — the duties
of which he performed with that rigid exact-
ness and scrupulous integrity which marks the
perfect man. To him the state owes many of the
best features of the revision of the statutes
adopted in 1875. As a lawyer, Colonel Wood-
ruff was conspicuous in those branches where
certainty is possible. It was in the trial of
questions of law — the dryer and more abstruse
the better — that his consummate skill appeared.
In the supreme court of errors not infrequently
his entire argument was written into the opin-
ion of the court. In whatever relation of life
one looks at him, as citizen, as neighbor, in
private life or public station, as counselor or
judge, he was one of the best products of our
American civilization. He was a staunch
Democrat and active in politics. Colonel
Woodruff and his wife were members of the
Congregational church. He married, Septem-
ber 28, 1829, Henrietta Sophronia, born Oc-
tober 25, 1806, daughter of Ozias and Selima
(Storrs) Seymour. She was a sister of the
late chief justice of Connecticut. Her father
was a merchant in Litchfield and also a farmer.
He was one of the foremost men of the town,
was high sheriff of the county for ten years,
and held other offices of trust and honor. He
was a son of Major Moses Seymour, an officer
in the revolutionary army and a lifelong resi-
dent of Litchfield. Children of Colonel and
Mrs. Woodruff: Henrietta Selima, born April
II, 1 83 1, died July 20, 1834; George Morris,
mentioned below.

(VIII) George Morris, son of Colonel
George Catlin and Henrietta Sophronia (Sey-
mour) Woodruff, was born at Litchfield,
March 3, 1836. He attended private schools of
Litchfield, Connecticut, then entered the middle
class, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu-
setts, September, 185 1, where he graduated in
the summer of 1853, and subsequently entered

Yale College, fall of 1853, graduating in 1857,
receiving the degrees of A.B. and A.M. in
regular course. He studied law with George
C. Woodruff from September, 1857, to Sep-
tember, 1858, then entered Harvard Law
School, remaining one year. While at Har-
vard Law School he was awarded the first prize
of fifty dollars for an essay on "The Endorse-
ment of Negotiable Paper by One Not a Party
to It," the judges being Judge Sharswood, of
Philadelphia, William M. Evarts, of New
York, and Henry W. Paine, of Boston. He
was admitted to the bar of Litchfield county
at the September term of the superior court,
1859. He has been a life-long Democrat. At
the October election, i860, he was elected town
treasurer, and by re-elections held the office
until his resignation, in the fall of 1906. At
the October election, 1865, he was elected
town clerk and registrar, and held that office
for three years. At the April election, 1860,
he was elected a justice of the peace, and held
the office until disqualified by age (seventy
years), 1906. On July 7, 1864, he was ap-
pointed clerk of the court of probate for the
district of Litchfield, and held the office until
he entered on his duties as judge of that court,
to which he was elected in April, 1868, which
office he continued to hold by re-elections until
disqualified by age, March 3, 1906, except for
one year, July 4, 1871-72. He was appointed
assistant clerk of the superior court for Litch-
field county in 1862, but resigned after a few
years. In 1863 he was elected representa-
tive to the general assembly, and was member
and clerk of the judiciary committee. On ac-
count of ill health he left during the session
and sailed for Europe, July 1, 1863. He was
appointed commissioner for the state of Con-
necticut to the Universal Exposition at Ham-
burg, in 1863. He returned home in the spring
of 1864, was elected to the legislature in April,
1865, and was again a member of the judiciary
committee and clerk of the same. In 1871 he
was appointed by the general assembly one of
the committee to revise the laws concerning
education. In. 1872 he was again in the legis-
lature and chairman of the committee on
claims. On the reorganization of the state
board of education, in 1865, he was chosen the
member for the fourth congressional district,
and held the office until his resignation, in
1877. In 1867 he was appointed by Governor
English on a commission to examine and re-
port on the military system of the state. In
September, i860, he was appointed by the gov-
ernor of the state of New York a commis-
sioner of deeds for that state, and held the of-
fice for forty-nine years. In March, 1861, he
was appointed a notary public, and is still ire

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office (1910). On September 30, 1864, he was
appointed by Governor Buckingham a com-
missioner to proceed to Virginia and receive
the votes of the First Regiment Connecticut
Heavy Artillery, for president and vice-presi-
dent. On February 17, 1865, he was appointed
by Governor Buckingham a commissioner to
"proceed to the camps, fortresses and hospitals
of the First and Second Regiments Connecti-
cut Heavy Artillery, and First and Third Con-
necticut Batteries, for the purpose of receiving
from the electors in those and other military
organizations, except infantry, in front of
Petersburg and Richmond and on the James
river, their votes for state officers and repre-
sentatives in congress."' In June, 1868, he was
appointed a United States commissioner and
held the office until 1901. In July, 1874, on
the law being changed so as to confer on the
governor the power to appoint railroad com-
missioners, he was appointed by Governor In-
gersoll, and reappointed by Governors Hub-
bard, Andrews, Waller, Harrison, Bulkley and
Morris, holding the office until July, 1897, be-
ing chairman of the board after the first year.
Governor Harrison told him that he hesitated
whether to nominate him as a judge of the
superior court or renominate him as railroad
commissioner, but decided to do the latter, "be-
cause while he could find plenty of lawyers
who would make good judges, he did not know
who could make good his place as railroad
commissioner." In 1877 he was appointed
by Governor Hubbard one of a commission
to prepare and report to the general assembly
a new form for the annual returns of railroad
companies. (The form prepared was subse-
quently used as the basis of the form adopted
by The Interstate Railroad Commission.) On
September 3, 1852, Mr. Woodruff united with
the First Congregational Church, of Litch-
field ; in March, i860, he was chosen superin-
tendent of its Sunday school, and held the of-
fice until he resigned, in March, 1890. In
1867 he was chosen a deacon of said church,
being still in office (1910). In July, 1870, he
was elected a director of the Litchfield Savings
Society, elected president in December, 1885,
which position he still occupies (1910). In
July. 1878, he was chosen a director of the
Litchfield Mutual Fire Insurance Company;
in December, 1885, became treasurer; re-
signed September, 1902, and was chosen presi-
dent. He was elected director of the First
National Bank of Litchfield in 1887, declining
a re-election in 1890. He was again elected in
1896, and chosen president in 1899. On or-
ganization of the Colonial Trust Company, of
Waterbury. Connecticut, in 1899, he was
chosen a director, second vice-president and

trust officer, and first vice-president in 1907.
He is a corporate member of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions ; life member of The Connecticut His-
torical Society ; life member of the Litchfield
Historical Society, and a member of the fol-
lowing: The Archaeological Institute of
America, American Health League, American
Historical Association, American Bar Associa-
tion, State Bar Association of Connecticut,
Connecticut Civil Service Association, and
Connecticut Congregational Club. He is also
a member of "The Sanctum'' and Litchfield
Clubs, and the Litchfield Countv University
Club.

Mr. Woodruff married, at Flushing, New
York, June 13. i860, Elizabeth Ferris, daugh-
ter of James B. and Eliza F. Parsons. Chil-
dren: 1. George Catlin, born June 23, 1861,
mentioned below. 2. Eliza Parsons, born No-
vember 12, 1865, married, June 13, 1894, Alex-
ander McNeil, of Litchfield; children: Mil-
dred, born September 6, 1895; Elizabeth, July
14, 1897; Ruth, May 9, 1903. 3. James Par-
sons, October 30, 1868, mentioned below.

(IX) George Catlin, son of George Morris
Woodruff, was born at Litchfield, June 23,
1861. He attended the public schools there,
and completed his preparation for college at
Phillips Academy, Andover. He entered Yale
College in the fall of i88r, and changed to
Amherst College in 1883, graduating in 1885,
with the degree of A.B. In the fall of 1885
he entered Union Theological Seminary, New
York City, and graduated in 1888, and in May
of that year was ordained at Litchfield. From
June, 1888, to October, 1889, ne was superin-
tendent of the Congregational Sunday school
and Publishing Society of Boston, for the state
of Colorado. He made his headquarters at
Colorado Springs and traveled to all parts of
the state. He received the degree of A.M.
from his alma mater in 1889. In January,
1890, he took charge of the Congregational
church at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.
He returned east in the following year and ac-
cepted the pastorate of Faith Chapel Mission,
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
of Washington, D. C, where he continued
from December 1, 1891, to July I, 1894, when
he resigned to devote himself to journalism.
He purchased the Litchfield Enquirer, a weekly
paper established in 1825, and one of 'the oldest
and best-known weeklies in the state. Since
October. 1894, he has conducted and edited
this newspaper, and has been actively con-
nected with the state and national editorial
associations. He was a delegate to the na-
tional editorial convention in 1895, an<l nearly
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important committees. He has been second
vice-president of the national association and
president of the state association. The En-
quirer is Independent-Republican in politics,
as the editor is an active Republican. Mr.
Woodruff has for many years been a member
of the volunteer fire department of Litchfield,
and foreman, as well as chief engineer and bor-
ough fire marshal. He is a member of St.
Paul's Lodge, No. n, Free and x\ccepted Ma-
sons, of which he has been master; of Darius
Chapter, No. 16, Royal Arch Masons; the Psi
Upsilon college fraternity : a director of the
Litchfield Club, a member of the Young Men's
Republican Club of New Haven, of the Uni-
versity Club of Hartford, and of the Litchfield
County University Club. He is a member of
the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard,
of New Haven, being assistant judge advocate
on the staff of Major George T. Hewlett, with
the rank of lieutenant. He was also appointed
by Governor Weeks a member of the state
conservation commission. He is actively in-
terested in politics, and has traveled exten-
sively in all parts of the country.

In addition to the ancestry traced in this
sketch, Mr. Woodruff is descended from a
number of the founders of Connecticut. John
Buel, John Marsh and Captain Jacob Gris-
wold, his ancestors, were with Nathaniel
Woodruff among the pioneers at Litchfield.
Richard Seymour, a founder of Hartford, and
John Bowne, who came from Derby shire.
England, to Boston in 1649, were also his
ancestors. Thomas Parsons, another of his
forebears, came from Somersetshire, England,
to Philadelphia, in 1685. Major Moses Sey-
mour, one of his revolutionary sires, took
part in the battle of Saratoga, and was
present at the surrender of Burgoyne and had
charge of Major Matthews, the Tory mayor
of New York City, at his home in Litchfield.

Mr. Woodruff married, November 5, 1889,
Lucy Este Crawford, of Baltimore, Mary-
land, a great-great-granddaughter of Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison. They have
no children.

(IX) James Parsons, son of George Mor-
ris Woodruff, was born at Litchfield, October
30, 1868. He attended the Harrington School,
at West Chester, New York ; Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts, and the Housa-
tonic Valley Institute, Cornwall, Connecticut.
He entered Amherst College in September,
1887, and was graduated in 1891, with the de-
gree of A. B. He studied his profession at
the Yale Law School, was graduated in 1893,
with the degree of LL. B., and was admitted
to the Litchfield county bar in the same year.
He returned to the Yale Law School for post-

graduate work, receiving the degree of M. L.
from Yale University, and the degree of A. M.
from Amherst College in 1894. He began
practice in Litchfield in July, 1894, in part-
nership with his father. He became active in
Democratic politics, and was elected a member
of the board of education in 1894, serving un-
til his resignation, in 1909, being chairman of
the board from 1899. From April, 1895, to
April, 1898, he was a member of the board of
burgesses of the borough, being warden of the
borough from 1896 to 1898,. serving again as
a burgess 1906-07. He was a member of the
general assembly in the sessions of 1899 and
1903, being the Democratic candidate for
speaker at both sessions. He was a member
of the judiciary committee at both sessions, in
1903 being also a member of the committees
on joint rules and house rules. He was the
Democratic nominee for secretary of state in
1900. In 1904 he was a delegate from the
fourth congressional district to the Demo-
cratic national convention at St. Louis. He
was clerk of the court of probate for the dis-
trict of Litchfield from 1904 to 1906, when
he succeeded his father as judge, holding the
office until 1907. He has been a justice of the
peace and notary public since 1894. He is a
director and treasurer of the Litchfield Mutual
Fire Insurance Company; director and secre-
tary of the Litchfield Gas Light Company ;
director and vice-president of the Litchfield
Water Company ; director and vice-president
of the Litchfield Savings Society, and director
in the First National Bank of Litchfield. He
has been a member of_the First Congrega-
tional Church, of Litchfield, since May, 1887,
acting as its clerk since January, 1900. He is
a member of the college fraternity of Psi Up-
silon ; the Law School fraternity of Phi Delta
Phi, Yale Chapter, Corbey Court, the Gradu-
ate Club of New Haven ; the Litchfield County
University Club, and the Litchfield Club. He
is a member of St. Paul's Lodge No. 11, Free
and Accepted Masons. Judge Woodruff is
naturally athletic, and fond of all outdoor
sports. He married, at New York City, Feb-
ruary 12, 1895, Lillian Churchill, daughter of
Jared Weed and Harriet (Toms) Bell. Chil-
dren : Lillian Bell, born August 23, 1897 ;
Candace Catlin, July 28, 1902 ; Isabell Par-
sons, February 3, 1905.

John Miller, immigrant ances-
MILLER tor, came from Maidstone,

county Kent, England, and set-
tled at Lynn, Massachusetts. He was also
for a time at Salem, the adjoining town.
With other Essex county men, he removed to
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and his wife Mary had five sons: Andrew,
who settled in 1671 at Miller Place, Long
Island, died December 22, 1718; George, men-
tioned below ; John, born in 1653, died Decem-
ber 15, 1738; William, married Hannah

; Jeremiah, born 1656, died June 2,

1734.

(II) George, son of John Miller, was born
in Easthampton, died October 12, 1712. Chil-
dren, born at Easthampton: George, killed
by a horse ; John ; Hezekiah, mentioned be-
low ; Nathan.

(III) Hezekiah, son of George Miller, was
born at East Hampton, about 1680. He mar-
ried, December 11, 1706, Elizabeth Sherry.
Children, born at East Hampton : Child, born
and died in 1714; child, born July, 1718, died
soon; son, 1721, died 1733; son, 1724; Jane,
married Thomas Filer ; Thomas, married
Sarah Hopkins; Henry, married Anna Earle;
Keturah, baptized in 1736; Joanna, married
Ezekiel Hand ; Jacob, mentioned below.

(IV) Jacob, son of Hezekiah Miller, was
born about 171 5. He owned the covenant
and was baptized at East Hampton July 13,
1740. He married. May 24, 1738, Susanna
Wickes (or Weeks), of Oyster Bay, Long
Island. He removed from South Hampton
to Huntington, Long Island. He married
(second) Mary Renland of Huntington, in
1756. Children of first wife and dates of
baptism: Elizabeth, June 10, 1739; Eliza-
beth, April 4, 1742 ; Mathew, December 16,
1744; Freelove, July 26, 1747; Jacob, men-
tioned below.

(V) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Miller,
was baptized at Huntington, Long Island,
April 24, 1754. He followed the sea and
owned a whaling vessel. During the revolu-
tion he came to Wallingford, where he died.
A Jacob Miller served during the revolution
in the Second Regiment, Connecticut Line,
September-December, 1779. He married Eliz-
abeth Filer. Children: 1. Rev. Samuel, men-
tioned below. 2. Rev. Thomas, began early
in life to preach in the Baptist ministry; for
a time was at Greenpoint, Long Island, and
then at Palmyra, Atwater and Deerfield, Ohio ;
married Asenath, daughter of Nathaniel An-
drews, of Wallingford ; they resided at South-
ington, Connecticut, a few. years; he appears
to have preached a Universalist sermon in
Meriden in 1834 : children : Sylvia, Selina,
Caroline, Henry A., born January 2, 1802,
Louisa, Porter, Mary, Griswold, Samuel, Wil-
liam, and others, said to be twenty-two in all.
3. Orrin D. 4. Henry. And others, names
unknown.

(VI) Rev. Samuel, son of Jacob (2) Mil-
ler, was born on Long Island, April 15, 1773,

died November 14, 1829; married, April 7,
1796, Yincy Blakeslee. He joined the Bap-
tist church. He became the first minister of
the Baptist church of Meriden and continued
for a period of twenty-six years. He preached
in other Baptist pulpits in the vicinity from
time to time and was well known. He mar-
ried, April 7, 1796, Vincy, born June 29, 1775,
died November 18, 1829, daughter of Joseph
and Lois (Ives) Blakeslee. Children: 1. Ly-
man, born September 27, 1797, died July 21,
1865; married, April 19, 1821, Thankful,
daughter of David and Thankful (Moss)
Hall ; daughter, Vincy Ann, was the mother of
Mrs. Grove W. Curtis, of Hartford, Con-
necticut. 2. John Milton, born September 22,
1799, died December 4, 1837; married, in
1823, Mercia Bryant, of Sheffield, Massachu-
setts. 3. Joel, born October 24, 1801, men-
tioned below. 4. Samuel, born December 1,
1803, died January 11, 1878; married, January
21, 1829, Janet, daughter of Ira and Julia
(Hull) Andrews. 5. Alonzo, born April 12,
1806, died October 10, 1873, buried at Wral-
lingford ; married, August 13, 1829, Eliza Ann
Hobson. 6. Almond, born February 7, 1809,
died November 29, 1864 ; married, December
25, 1845, Catherine Rogers. 7. Oliver, born
May 31, 181 1, died when a young man. 8.
Rev. Harvey, born April 3, 1814, died Au-
gust 27, 1856: married, May 21, 1839, Sarah
Rosetta, daughter of Othniel and Rosetta
(Yale) Ives. 9. George, born July 12, 1818,
died June 2, 1869; married, August 5, 1845,
Lucy Marcia, daughter of Elisha B. and Hep-
sibah (Cornwall) Wilcox.

(VII) Joel, son of Rev. Samuel Miller, was
born at Meriden, October 24, 1801, died Au-
gust 25, 1864. He married, March 13, 1823,
Clarissa, born January 23, 1805, died March 4,
1879, daughter of Seth Doud and Elizabeth
(Hall) Plum. Seth Doud Plum was the first
to engage in the tinware business in this sec-
tion and was a prominent man in his day. In
1829 the Millers removed to Canastota, New
York, and lived there eight years. They
then returned to Meriden and settled on a
farm on which the family has since lived.
Broad street cuts through the old homestead.

(VIII) Edward, son of Joel Miller, was
born August 10, 1827, in Wallingford. He
had the usual education of his day, attending
the public schools of his native town and Post
Academy in* Meriden for a few terms. When
he was fifteen years old he began to work in
the factory of Horatio N. Howard in Meriden,
making lamp screws, hoops and candlestick
springs. Then for two years he was in the
employ of Stedman & Clark, who made simi-
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in business, on his own account in partnership
with his father, manufacturing a similar line
of goods to those of his former employers.
The firm name was Joel Miller & Son. Two
years later he bought his father's share in
the firm, giving his note for eight hundred
dollars. Before the end of the following year
he paid his father out of the profits of the
business which continued to grow and prosper.
Larger quarters were soon found necessary ;
a wooden building was erected on the site of
the present works, which was destroyed by
fire in 1856 and'this loss was followed by the
financial panic of 1857, but the business sur-
vived, and in 1858 Mr. Miller began to manu-
facture kerosene burners in his new factory.
Hitherto the burners in use had been imported
and Air. Miller was the pioneer in the industry
of making lamps for burning kerosene made
from distilled coal, lironzes, sheet brass and
brass utensils of various kinds were added to
the product of the factory from time to time.
As the business developed large additions were
made to the factory capacity, and in 1866 new
capital was enlisted and a joint stock company
formed, under the name of Edward Miller &
Company, with a capital of $200,000,
with Mr. Miller as president and manager,
in which capacity he served until his death,
June 11, 1909. New buildings were erected
and the capacity of the plant increased. Some
eight hundred hands are employed regularly in
recent years. The Miller company produced
the famous Rochester lamp, first placed on
the market in 1884. It gained a world-wide
reputation in a short time. Imitations natur-
ally came into the field and the Miller com-
pany met competition by producing the Miller
lamp, the highest achievement in the art of
illumination with kerosene. It is simple and
cannot get out of order ; it has no dirt pocket ;
the central draft through a solid seamless
brass tube cannot leak; it has screw adjust-
ment and plunge movement and it has the
simplest possible arrangement for rewicking.
'Hie present officers of the company are : Presi-
dent, Edward Miller ; vice-president and su-
perintendent, Arthur E. Miller ; secretary and
treasurer, Benjamin C. Kennard : directors,
Edward Miller. Arthur E. Miller, Hon. Abi-
ram Chamberlain, Benjamin C. Kennard. John
L. Billard and Andrew J. Sloper. The pres-
ent capital of the company is $750,000. The
company has recently added the manufacture
of gas and electric fixtures. The Mcridcn
Journal in an appreciative article thus de-
scribed the business :

"The company's prosperity is such that- it
knows no dull periods or its workmen want of
employment. The departments are fully

equipped with all the most modern machinery
that can aid in the rapid and perfect production
of goods. It is the rule in the manufacture of
their goods that excellence is the grand thing
to be attained and the high esteem in which
their products are held by the dealers and con-
sumers warrants the assertion that they realize
the end sought. Their products are largely
exported to foreign lands and immense as this
business is, it is constantly increasing. It
would be an impossibility to enumerate the
great assortment of articles made by this
company. Prominent among them are lamp
trimmings of every variety, tinners' hard-
ware, together with brass and bronze goods.
Their designs are thoroughly their own and
are selected by those appreciative of the supe-
riority of American styles over those of for-
eign lands. Yet the company keeps a sharp
eye on the centres of artistic productions with
a view that none shall excel them. The result
is that not only are the designs of the art cen-
tres equaled, but in most cases excelled by the
addition of the American artist."

The creation and development of this mam-
moth business has been the life work of Mr.
Miller. Although he has had the interest of a
good citizen in public affairs, he has declined
public office, excepting service in the common
council, of which he was a member for twelve
years. In early life he was a Democrat, but
he has supported the Republican party since
it was organized. He is a prominent and hon-
ored member of the Broad Street Baptist
Church and one of its board of managers. In
1869 he gave to this church an excellent pipe
organ. He is greatly interested also in the
Young Men's Christian Association and the
Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, to
both of which he has made substantial gifts.
LTntil recent years he enjoyed outdoor sports
such as fishing and hunting. His motto, to
which he has held fast through a long, useful
and eminently successful career in busi-
ness, has been: "Whatever you undertake as
a life work, do it thoroughly and stick to it."
For years he was treasurer of the Connecticut
Baptist Educational Society. He gives lib-
erally to various benevolent organizations. He
contributed a handsome sum to the building
fund of the German Baptist Church.

He married, August 30, 1848, Caroline M.
Neal, born April 14, 1830. died August 29,
1906, daughter of Joseph and Matilda
(Barnes) Neal, of Southington, Connecticut,
and to her wise counsel and advice Mr. Mil-
ler generously attributes much of his success.
Children : Edward, mentioned below : Layette
Alena, born January 10, 1853, married Charles
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tioned below : Two others died young, Car-
rie and Emma.

(IX) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Mil-
ler, was born at Meriden, February 1, 185 1.
He attended the public schools of his native
place until 1868, when he entered the Pre-
paratory Academy at Suffield, Connecticut,
class of 1870, and fitted for college. He grad-
uated from Brown University with honors in
the class of 1874, and in the following autumn
began in a practical way to learn the business
in his father's factory, step by step. He has
held the offices of treasurer and secretary since
1882 and in recent years has borne a large
sbare of the responsibility of the management.
Much of the recent growth and prosperity of
the concern are due to his prudent and sa-
gacious handling of affairs, and he ranks
among the most substantial and honored cit-
izens of Meriden. He has served two terms
in the Meriden common council and has been
a member of the school board. He is trustee
of the City Savings Bank and is a member of
the Home Club. He is a student and has col-
lected one of the finest private libraries in the
city. Since 1874 he has had charge of the
music of the First Baptist Church, as his
father and grandfather had before him. He
resides in the Edward Miller residence on
Broad street and is unmarried.

(IX) Arthur Eugene, son of Edward (1)
Miller, was born at Meriden, September 12,
1863. He attended private schools there and
graduated from the Hartford high school in
the class of 1883. For one year he was a
student in Brown University, leaving to take
his place in his father's business, with which
he was already somewhat familiar and in
which he was then needed. He learned every
detail of the shop work in a practical way and
fairly won his promotion to the position of
assistant superintendent. In 1901 he became
superintendent and he has filled that position
to the present time. He is a member of the
Home Club : of Meridian Lodge, No. jj, Free
and Accepted Masons, of which he was mas-
ter at one time ; of Honorable Chapter, No.
27, Royal Arch Masons ; of St. Elmo Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, of which he was
eminent commander, and has taken the thirty-
second degree in Masonry. He resides at the
homestead. He is unmarried.

Thomas Miller, immigrant an-
MILLER cestor, settled first at Rowley,

Massachusetts, whence he came
to Middletown, Connecticut, as shown by the
church records. He was one of the first pro-
prietors of Middletown and erected
a mill there. His wife Isabel died in

1666 and he married (second) 1, June 6, 1666,
Sarah, daughter of Samuel Nettleton, of Bran-
ford. In his will in 1680 he gives his age as
above seventy, and in the settlement of his
estate soon afterward the ages of his children
are mentioned, from Thomas, aged fourteen, to
Sarah, aged one year. He died August 14,

1680. His widow, Sarah, married

Harris. Child of first wife : Ann, married, in
1653, Nathaniel Bacon. Children of second
wife: Thomas (mentioned below); Samuel,
born April 1, 1668; Joseph, August 21, 1670;
Benjamin, July 10, 1672; John, March 10,
1674; Margaret, September, 1676; Sarah, Jan-
uary 7, 1679; Mehitable, March 28, 1681 (post-
humous).

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Mil-
ler, was born at Middletown, May 6, 1667;
died September 7, 1727. He resided in his na-
tive town. He married, in 1688, Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Turner. She died in
1695 and he married (second), in 1696, Mary
Rowell. Children, born at Middletown, of first
wife: Thomas, 1692; Abigail, 1694; Elizabeth,
1695. Children of second wife : Mary, 1697,
died aged sixteen ; Stephen, mentioned be-
low; James, 1700: Elizabeth, 1702; Eunice,
1704; Patience, 1707; Deborah, 1708.

(III) Stephen, son of Thomas (2) Miller,
was born at Middletown in 1699. Among his
sons was Stephen, mentioned below.

(IV) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) Mil-
ler, was born about 1730. He lived in Mid-
dletown. In 1790, according to the first feder-
al census, he had in his family three males
over sixteen, two under that age and four
females. Other heads of families there were
Caleb, Jonathan, Edward and Jared, sons or
relatives of Stephen.

(V) Stephen (3), son of Stephen (2) Mil-
ler, was born at Middletown, about 1770.
Among his children was Stephen, mentioned
below.

(VI) Stephen (4), son of Stephen (3) Mil-
ler, was born in 1795 at South Farms, where
he followed farming. He married (first) Cla-
rissa Whitmore, of Maromas. He married
(second) Lucretia, daughter of Elisha Fair-
child, of East Long Hill, whither he moved to
the farm of his father-in-law soon after his
second marriage. He was a prosperous farm-
er. His last years were spent in Middletown,
where he had a home near Pameacha Bridge.
He died there September 26, 1877. Children
of first wife: Stephen YV, mentioned below;
Benjamin W., a farmer, who lived at South
Farms and died unmarried. Children of sec-
ond wife: Darius, mentioned below; Nathan
G., married (first) Cora McKee, (second)
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died in infancy; Charles, married (first) Abi-
gail Welton, (second) Sally Benton, and was
a successful dry goods merchant at Waterbury ;
Catherine E., widow of Erwin Strickland, of
Bridgeport ; Frank, married Emily Clinton,
and is engaged in the coal business in Bridge-
port.

(VII) Stephen W., son of Stephen (4) Mil-
ler, was born October 23, 1821. After his
father's second marriage and removal to the
Fairchild farm, he attended school in that dis-
trict. When a young man he began to work
for the William Wilcox Manufacturing Com-
pany at Zoar, Connecticut, for the humble
wages of fifty cents a day, but he made rapid
progress in mechanical skill and won advance-
ment rapidly. He continued with this concern
for twelve years. For a short time he was em-
ployed in the Whitmore quarries at Maromas,
Connecticut. He inherited fifty acres of his
father's estate and upon that he settled and
devoted his life to agriculture. At the time
of his death he owned eighty-six acres. He
added the culture of tobacco to his other crops
and usually had five acres planted with tobac-
co. He also made a specialty of market gar-
dening. He died July 27, 1884, after several
vears of ill health. He married Hannah A.,
born May 8, 1834, at South Farms, died Feb-
ruary 5, 1870, daughter of William and Lucy
(Clark) Corey. Her father was a carpenter
and joiner. Children: 1. Clara W., born Jan-
uary 18, 1861 ; married, January 1, 1883, Lewis
M. Crowell, born January 7, 1850, at Zoar,
died July 9, 1890, a farmer; children: Stephen
M. Crowell, February 10, 1884; Abigail H.
Crowell, September 10, 1886; Eldon L. Crow-
ell, November 5, 1887; Irene W. Crowell, Oct-
ober 21, 1889. 2. Alice Cora, August 20, 1863 ;
educated in the Middletown public schools and
Durham Academy ; married, November 25,
1885, Frank L. Strickland, born October, 1858,
a clerk in the Parshley shoe store at Middle-
town, then with the department house of R.
H. White & Company of Boston, and since
1886 proprietor of a shoe store in Rockville,
Connecticut ; children : Edna Helen Strickland,
born lune 5, 1887; Bertha Miller Strickland,
June 28, 1889; Walker Knight Strickland, Au-
gust 1, 1891, died January 11, 1892; Seward
Holmes Strickland, April 8, 1898.

(VII) Darius, son of Stephen (4) Miller,
was born October 29, 1829. He was educated
in the district schools of Middletown and in
the Durham Academy. He began his business
career as clerk in Fagan's dry goods store at
Middletown, where he worked for three years.
At the age of eighteen he came to New Britain
and worked as clerk in a store in that town for
two years. With $500 he had saved and $700

lie received from his father, he embarked
in business as a dry goods merchant in
New Britain and he is still in active business
there. From a small beginning his business
grew to mammoth proportions. He prospered
and invested his money shrewdly. Simplicity,
industry and conservatism have characterized
his business career. No merchant in the city
has won a larger degree of financial success
and none stands higher in the esteem and con-
fidence of his townsmen.

The Bridgeport Post says of him : "One of
the guests of honor yesterday (at the golden
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Darius Miller, Au-
gust 14, 1910) was Darius Miller, founder of
the Darius Miller Company's dry goods store
in New Britain, and his wife. Although
eighty-one years of age, he pays close atten-
tion to the store and is familiar with every
detail. He is an ultra-conservative man in a
business way, and has not been in a hurry
to adopt all the new schemes which have
been originated for carrying on business. His
business has been of slow but sure growth.
He has always invested his money wisely and
is now easily a millionaire. Although all of
the other brothers are married, he is the only
one who has been able or will be able, prob-
ably to celebrate the close of a half century
of married life. He married Miss Lizzie Bis-
sell of Windsor, fifty years ago yesterday. The
first wives of the other brothers have all died.
And it was because of the fact that Darius was
the oldest and probably the only one of the
brothers who could celebrate a golden wed-
ding that Frank Miller conceived the idea of
having a reunion to observe the occasion prop-
erly."

The reunion is described by the same paper :
"There was truly a remarkable family re-
union vesterday at Lehmann's shore house,
when Frank Miller and Mrs. Miller, Mr. Mil-
ler's sister, his three brothers with their wives
gathered to celebrate the golden wedding anni-
versary of Darius Miller of New Britain. The
ages of the four brothers and sister aggregate
over 360 years and they represent millions of
dollars. But it was a very quiet affair and
carried off in the most simple way possible.

"All were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Miller of this city. The family reunion would
have been a complete reunion had the parents
been alive. The five were the only children.
Each of the brothers has been unusually suc-
cessful in business. * * * Another broth-
er who was present with his wife was Nathan
G., now of New York. He is a financier and
has been interested in enough big projects to
fill a book if they were enumerated. He is now
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business world are now almost over. He was
first president of the Iron Steamboat Com-
pany, president of the Eagle Lock Company,
owned the Nickel Plate Railroad and a very
large interest in the Edison Electric Light
Company. These are but a few of the matters
in which he has been active. He has always
been successful and is very wealthy.

"Charles Miller of Waterbury, who owns
the Randolph & Clowes Company of Water-
bury and was formerly head of the Miller &
Peck Company, was present. It will be re-
called that on January i, he turned this firm
over to the clerks in the store. He is seventy-
three years of age.

"Frank Miller is too well known in Bridge-
port to call for any details. As a shrewd and
successful business man he can take a place
at the head of the table any time. He is now
president of the City National Ban1:. Mrs.
Miller was formerly Miss Hallock and is a
student of the fine arts.

"Mrs. Kate E. (Miller) Strickland, a sister,
is also very well known in this city.

"A striking incident of the celebration yes-
terday was the taking of the pictures of the
group. The guest of honor had not had a pic-
ture of himself taken in fifty years, but he sub-
mitted to the efforts of John P. Haley, pho-
tographer, without a murmur, and several pic-
tures were taken of himself and the other
members of the family. These pictures will
be treasured in the Miller family as a memorial
of one of the most pleasing incidents in the
family history. * * :;:

"Frank Miller and his brothers were the
sons of a farmer and each started out to 'hoe
his own row' with a capital of $700. The mil-
lions that have been accumulated since were
made out of a careful and intelligent use of
the original few hundred. Yesterday's was
not the first reunion of the family. It is com-
mon at Christmas and Thanksgiving for the
family to get together."

The New Britain Herald in commenting on
the reunion said : "Starting with a modest
bank-roll, the proceeds of the sale of the farm,
the boys developed their resources in differ-
ent fields. Success came to all, and when they
took stock of material things yesterday, they
found that the few hundreds with which they
started had developed into many millions, and
the end is not yet. Mr. Miller is one of New
Britain's worthiest citizens. He is the oldest
merchant doing business on Main street, and
none is held in higher respect or esteem. It
is not too much to hope that he and his wife
may be spared to celebrate other pleasant an-
niversaries."

The account of this familv would be incom-

plete without the interview with Frank Miller
in the Waterbury American, August 18, 1910.
He said : "If we were to start out to-day as we
did, the four brothers, over fifty years ago,
with seven hundred dollars apiece, the chances
are that we would be worth in the same given
time considerably more than we are to-day."

The American has told of the union of the
Miller brothers "* * * who reckoned up
the united results of their strivings at more
than twenty-five million dollars.

"And I suppose that most of the young men
who read that story," said Mr. Miller, "said to
himself, 'Yes. but that was in the good old
days of easy times and great opportunities.
They couldn't do it to-day." The times are
easier to-day and the opportunities greater
than they ever were. Any young man who will
live as we used to and work as we used to
will succeed.

"My father was a farmer. He used to work
— work hard. When I was a little fellow we
boys were up before daylight, taking care of
the stock and doing three hours' labor before
mother called us to breakfast. Then we work-
ed all day and till the sun went down at night.
After dark, we went up the lane for the cows
at the pasture bars and drove them home and
milked after dark. We never heard of a ten-
hour day or an eight-hour day.

"We had no holidays except the Fourth of
July, and then we had only two cents to spend.
We had a loving father, but he knew the value
of money and meant we should. Father was
something more than a farmer. He was a pub-
lic-spirited man and a great friend of Edwin
M. Stanton, and during the Civil War Mr.
Stanton got father to do important things for
him. I went through the war with Grant —
the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, you
know. No man can expect to succeed who
doesn't do his duty by his country. Well, in
1864, when we were right down on the firing
line and things were still interesting, who
should show up in camp one day but father !
He had been to see Mr. Lincoln and got my
discharge paper from him.

" 'Frank,' he said, 'this war will be over
next year and I want you to come home. Your
mother wants you. Since you enlisted, do you
know, she has never allowed me to lock the
door for fear you would come home and find
it locked? She has never gone to bed at night
without going down on her knees, God bless
her, and praying that you would be a man in
the face of the enemy. She has never got up
in the morning without stealing into your room
to see if by any chance you had come home
in the night' It was the hardest situation that
was ever put up to a man, but I stayed, and,

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sure enough, when I got home one night, after
the war was over, I found the house unlocked
and my room waiting for me, as I had left it
when I went away. That was the sort of
mother we used to have, and I guess that our
American girls to-day make just as good moth-
ers, bless 'em.

"All my brothers have been thrifty. There
is Darius up in New Britain. He's worth a
great deal of money and he has made it all
himself. But he still runs his store up there,
just as he did in i860. A woman goes in and
the same clerk sells her a spool of silk and a
carpet. I tell him that he is losing money by
not getting modern, but he says he can't see
it, and hates to change.

"Darius used to be a great friend of J. P.
Morgan's father, who used to go up and con-
sult him about business. He always took Dari-
us' advice. He is like my father's father —
hardheaded and practical and kindly.

"We have always fought shy of politics —
never had time to go into that sort of thing.
Some people have a talent for it, and better
let them do it. My advice is to stick to straight
business. This country is all right, only we
have too many politicians and too much poli-
tics. Things move fast now. People complain
about the country and say it is going to the
dogs. It isn't. The country is better than
ever it was.

"It costs to live, but look at what you get
for your labor. Keep inside the amount of
your earnings — and you can do it without suf-
fering— and the money will pile up. Be wise
in your investments and the money will do
the rest. I have a mine out in the west and
every year I have to go out there and look
after it, and as I ride across the country,
I cannot help thinking what a wonderfully
rich and prosperous land we have here. It
takes the foreigners who come over here to
understand how to live and get ahead. Coming
from a land where frugality is taught, they
start in practicing it and get ahead. I know
people talk about the cost of living. But look
at the pay for labor. It is wonderful. I have
been all through Europe and I have seen how
people live in those lands where they tell us
everything is rb.eare1" than it is here. Things
are cheaper — including wages. All in all, it
simmers down to the same condition — those
who want to work and get ahead can do it
here as well as elsewhere and a little better.

"Why, there is Nathaniel Miller, here in
Bridgeport. He told me the other day that
the two-dollar-a-day workman lives better than
the rich man of his father's time ; and it is
true.

"The American people can be trusted to

spank those that need it and go calmly on their
way, making an honest living and developing
the country."

Darius Miller is a prominent member of
the Congregational church, and he gave to the
society the land for the present church edifice.
He married, in i860, Elizabeth Bissell, of East
Windsor, Connecticut. They have no chil-
dren.

The surname Brandegee
BRANDEGEE is spelled also Brundig,
Brandig, Brandish, Bran-
diger, Brondigee, Brandigat, Brandisley,
Brondish and Boundikee, and all these spell-
ings are found relating to John Brandigee,
who was in Wethersfield as early as 1635.
He was doubtless of English birth, though the
name is possibly German or Dutch originally.
He died before October 27, 1639, the date of
the inventory of his estate. He left a widow
and five children. It is believed that he was
killed by the Indians in the massacre of 1637.
He was at Watertown for a short time before
coming to Wethersfield and was a freeman
there. His widow Rachel married Anthony
Wilson.

John Brandegee, probably a son, was a set-
tler in Rye, New York, and signed the decla-
ration of loyalty to Charles II., July 26, 1662,
spelling- bis name Brondish, but in January,
1663, he spelled his name Brondig. He was
the first town clerk of Rye ; was deputy to the
general court in 1677 and 1681 ; died in 1697.
In the accounts of those days he is called
"Stout Old John Brundig." He was in 1662
one of the original proprietors of Manursing
Island, Rye, and of Poringoe Neck. He left
four sons, John, Joseph, David and Joshua,
and they have had many descendants in West-
chester county, New York.

(I) Jacob Brandegee, believed to be son

of John and (Brock) Brandegee, of

Rye, grandson of "Stout Old John Brundig,"
of Rye, settled in Stepney, in the town of
Wethersfield. According to family tradition
he ran away from home. He is said to have
been born in 1729 and to have come from Nine
Partners, New York, to Great Swamp when
thirteen years old. He was by trade a weaver,
and at one time kept a store in Great Swamp
Village, now Berlin. He married, at Newing-
ton, Connecticut, October 11, 1752, Abigail
Dunham. He owned the covenant in the New-
ington Church, July 27. 1755. In later life he
was engaged in the West India trade, sail-
ing vessels from Rocky Hill, and died at sea
on a return voyage from Guadaloupe, March
25> I7°5- His widow married (second) Major
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Middletown, Connecticut, now Cromwell. She
died January 25, 1825. Children, recorded at
Kensington: Elishama, born April 17, 1754,
mentioned below ; Rhoda, October 5, 1756,
died April, 1781 ; Persis, August 31, 1758;
Abigail August 31, 1760, died 1820; Mary,
December 18, 1763, died 1764; Jacob, January

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(II) Elishama, son of Jacob Brandegee,
was born at Berlin, Connecticut, April 17,
1754. He was also a sea captain and engaged
in the West India trade and had a store at
Berlin. He was a soldier in the revolution,
enlisting in the Second Company, Second
Regiment, under Captain Wyllys. He was re-
cruited in Middlesex county and took part in
the battle of Bunker Hill, after which he was
detached and assigned to Captain Hanchett's
company, September 1, 1775, taking part in
the Arnold Expedition against Canada. After
the assault on Quebec he was taken prisoner.
The Second Regiment was organized under
Colonel Wyllys as a continental regiment. He
married. March 10. 1778, Lucy (Plumb)
Weston, widow of Jeremiah Weston, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Patience (Ward) Plumb.
She died February 1, 1827; he died February
26, 1832. Children, born at Berlin : Jacob,
November 11, 1779; Lucy, July 15, 1781 ;
Elishama, mentioned below : John, November
19, 1786; Sarah Milnor, August 2. 1793. died
1809.

(III) Elishama (2), son of Captain Eli-
shama (1) Brandegee, was born at Berlin,
Connecticut, November 5, 1784, died April
10, 1854. He married (first) October 14,
181 1, Emily Stocking, born 1792, died June
7, 1833, descendant of George Stocking, who
came to Hartford with Hooker in 1636; (sec-
ond) November 28, 1835, Amna Booth
Mygatt, born March 8, 1798. He was
a large land owner and conducted a store
on Main street, Berlin, near where the Town
Hall now stands. He conducted a prosperous
business, people coming from all the neigh-
boring towns to purchase goods at his store ;
it was like the large department store of to-
day, because everything was to be found there,
groceries, dry goods and medicines, ploughs,
and also the post office. Twice a year he went
to New York by stage coach to replenish his
stock and most of his buying of dry goods
was done on Pearl street. His daughter, Julia
Brandegee, says, "I remember the markings
on the different drawers, silks, satins, laces,
fine shawls and dainty-colored red slippers.
Our ancestors loved finery. He ran two
thread factories and some of the spools of
blue thread are still in existence. In the yard
just south of his home stood a mulberry

grove, and from the silk worms which were
fed on the leaves, his mother spun some beau-
tiful silk. There is an old red silk dress in
the family which was woven about 1786, prob-
ably some of the first silk made in this coun-
try." He was a man of excellent ability and
very public spirited. Children, born at Ber-
lin: 1. Jacob Sheldon, born September 9,
1812; married Sarah Hinsdale. 2. Elishama,
mentioned below. 3. John, born August 25,
1816; married Mary Ann Bulkeley. 4. Ca-
millas Marius, April 20, 1820, died May 5,
1821. 5. Marius, March 8, 1823 ; married
Catherine A. Fountain. 6. Henry Justus, July
29, 183 1 ; married Sarah Kipp Miller. 7.
Sarah Elizabeth, May 24, 1833 ; married Dan-
ford Newton Barney. Child of second wife :
8. Julia Sophia, born October 28, 1836 ; lives
in Farmington.

(IV) Dr. Elishama (3) Brandegee, son of
Elishama (2) Brandegee, was born at Berlin,
January 14, 1814, died February 17, 1884.
Dr. Brandegee attended the Cheshire Acad-
emy and the Simeon Hart Academy of Far-
mington and graduated from Yale College in
the class of 1833. He studied medicine in
the Yale Medical School and received the de-
gree of M. D. He also attended lectures at a
medical school at Castleton, Vermont, from
which he also graduated. For about two years
he was engaged in practice at St. Louis, Mis-
souri, but at the end of that time returned
home, on account of his father's ill health,
and from 1841 to within eight weeks of his
death, was in active practice in Berlin. He
was one of the ablest physicians of his day
in this section and enjoyed a large practice,
extending throughout Berlin, East Berlin,
Westfield, Newington, Rocky Hill, New Brit-
ain, Beckley, and Kensington.

In 1850 Dr. Brandegee purchased from Jo-
seph Booth the house built by his father for
the teachers of the Northington Academy,
which was at one time a flourishing institu-
tion. Dr. Brandegee remodeled the house
and made it one of the most attractive resi-
dences in the town. He took a keen interest
in public education and was a staunch friend
of the public schools. He was a prime mover
in establishing a public library. He was a
lifelong student, making a specialtv of botanv
and ornithology. In politics he was in later
years a Republican, and he held the offices of
assessor and treasurer of the school board of
Berlin. He was a consistent and faithful
member of the Congregational Church of
Berlin. He was modest and retiring in dispo-
sition but attracted many friends and wielded
a great influence in the community.

He married. April 28. 1841, Florence Stith,

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of Petersburg, Virginia, born at Florence,
Italy, November 8, 1822, died at Berlin, Con-
necticut, December 28, 190 1, daughter of Ma-
jor Townshend and Katherine (Potter) Stith.
Her father was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was minister to Tunis in Monroe's admin-
istration. Children: I. Daughter, born and
died February 14, 1842. 2. Townshend Stith,
served in the civil war in the First Connecticut
Regiment ; resided at San Diego, California,
now at Berkeley, California ; a civil engineer
and an expert botanist ; married, May 29, 1889,
Mary K. (Layne) Curran. 3. Charles, served
in the Fifth New York Zouaves in the civil
war ; lived in the west for some years, but re-
turned to Farmington, Connecticut, and was
town clerk, now town clerk and judge of pro-
bate. Fie married Mabel Daggett, of Somer-
ville, Massachusetts, daughter of John G. and
Augusta L. (Warner) Daggett; child, Hilda,
born April 12, 1887. 4. Florence Stith, re-
sides at Berlin. 5. Robert Boiling, an artist,
educated in Paris, having a studio in Farming-
ton ; married, March 17, 1898, Susan Lord, of
Northampton, daughter of Joseph and Lucy
(Meech) Lord; children: Robert Lord, born
December 31, 1898; Paul Montague, Septem-
ber 24, 1908. 6. Emily Stocking, resides at
Berlin. 7. Katharine, resides at Berlin. 8.
Henry Melville, died January 28, 1893, in
Helena, Montana, unmarried; buried in the
Maple cemetery, Berlin. 9. Edith Victorina,
died November 22, 1863. 10. Horace Stock-
ing, died March 29, 1864. 11. Arthur Lati-
mer, married, December 7, 1905, Grace,
daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Meech) Lord.
12. Edward Newton, a real estate dealer at
Helena, Montana ; married, October 26, 1899,
at Helena, Montana, Harriet R., daughter of
Francis and Hannah Pope ; children : Florence
Pope, born October 30, 1902 ; Harriet Stith,
January 14, 1907.

John Naphey, the first ances-
NAPHEY tor of this family of whom we
have been able to secure an ac-
count, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and
lived there to the advanced age of eighty-five
years. He followed the trade of an oyster-
man. He was the father of six children :
George, Mary Jane, John Edward, see for-
ward, Maria, Stephen S., Elizabeth. Of these
John Edward and Elizabeth are living.

(II) John Edward, son John Naphey, was
born in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 1,
1838. Here he attended the public schools,
and learned the trade of a painter, which line
of work he followed up to 1871, when he went
to New Britain and continued in the same
business up to 1886, when he removed to

Yonkers, New York, continuing the same
business up to 1904, when he removed to
Bridgeport, Connecticut, following his trade
up to 1908, in all a period of over fifty years.
In the latter named year he retired and re-
moved to Unionville, Connecticut, where he is
now enjoying a well-deserved rest. He mar-
ried Josephine Boyce. who was born at Peeks-
kill, New York. Children : John H., see for-
ward ; Harriet, married D. J. Gillispie. Five
others are deceased.

(Ill) Captain John H. Naphey, son of John
Edward Naphey, was born in Hastings, New
York, August 25, 1866. When he was five
years old he went with his parents to live at
New Britain, Connecticut, where he attended
the public schools. He then entered the em-
ploy of the Adkins Printing Company, learn-
ing the trade of printer. This concern pub-
lished the first daily newspaper of the city,
The New Britain Herald. He remained with
this company until 1890, when he came to
Bridgeport, Connecticut, to take the position
of foreman of the City Steam Printing Com-
pany, and for the following seven years held
this responsible position. He was afterward
in the employ of the Ansonia Sentinel, Anso-
nia, Connecticut, then with the Marigold
Printing Company of Bridgeport, and later
with Walter P. Phillips, inventor of the Phil-
lips-Morse telegraph code, as foreman of the
printing and advertising department. He re-
mained with this concern until 1898, then was
with the printing and catalogue department of
Warner Brothers, corset manufacturers of
Bridgeport, until December 1, 1910, since
which time he has been with the Brewer, Col-
gan Company. In addition to this he owns a
printing plant which he operates. Captain
Naphey, during bis residence in both New
Britain and Bridgeport, has been active in
the state militia. He joined Company E,
First Regiment, Connecticut National Guard,
of New Britain, serving five years, and then
for seven years was in the Fourth Section,
Machine Gun Battery of Bridgeport, ranking
as sergeant and acting lieutenant. He was
one year with the Third Division, Naval Bat-
talion, and three years with Company E,
Fourth Regiment of Bridgeport, as clerk ;
elected captain in 1904, served until 1905,
then resigned. He has served for many years
as drum major of the Wheeler and Wrilson
Band, one of the oldest and most popular
musical organizations in the state, and has ap-
peared with them in a large number of pa-
rades in different parts of the country. He is
a staunch Republican in politics, and has been
a candidate of his party for state senator in
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been a zealous worker for good government,
and has a strong influence in his own party
in public affairs. His earnestness, integrity
and faithfulness have won for him many po-
litical and personal friends. He is a member
of the Woodmen of the World, and has been
a delegate to the convention for the district
that includes the states of New York, Con-
necticut and Rhode Island. He belongs to the
Bridgeport Club, the Concordia Society, the
Germania Society, Pacific Engine Company,
the Volunteer Firemen's Association, of which
he has been secretary, the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, and other social organizations.

Captain Naphey married (first) Sarah
Catherine Vensel, who died January 29, 1904,
daughter of Thomas Vensel, born in New
Britain, and spent life there. Children: 1.
Grace, born December 9, 1886; married, Sep-
tember 12, 1910, Louis J. Morrison, an ac-
countant of Bridgeport. 2. Marjorie, died
May 14, 1907, aged sixteen years. He mar-
ried (second) August 13, 1904. Maria Eliza-
beth Porter, born in Bridgeport, June 22,
1870, daughter of William H. and Sarah G.
(Richards) Porter (see Porter). Child, Ida,
born November 12, 1905.

William H. Porter was born at Holley, Or-
leans county, New York, August 22, 1836, son
of Samuel M. Porter, of Waterbury, Con-
necticut, and grandson of Porter, who

was a soldier in the revolution, wintering at

Valley Forge, and who married (first)

Bronson and (second) Monson, and

whose children were: 1. Rev. Stephen, a
Presbyterian minister, educated at Yale Col-
lege, preached most of his life in Geneva, New
York ; his son, J. Germain, was also a min-
ister, preaching in Buffalo, New York, before
the civil war, and at Eleventh and Locust
streets, St. Louis, and at Watertown, New
York, where he died : his brothers, Edward
Pierson and Samuel Porter, were among the
first telegraph operators in this country. 2.
Azuba. 3. Samuel M., educated in Water-
bury. where he taught school, spending some
years there, and then removed to Holley, New
York, learned the cabinet and chair-making
trades, following the same for forty years ;
he was a soldier in the war of 18 12, on duty
in New Haven ; he married Maria Carpenter
Phillips, born in New Jersey, died aged fifty-
seven ; they had eleven children, of whom only
two are living: Mrs. Lockling. William H.,
see forward. Samuel M. Porter died at Al-
bion. Michigan, aged ninety.

William H. Porter attended the public
school and academy of Holley, New York,
and later learned the trade of cabinet making.
He enlisted in the quartermaster's department

of the Army of the Cumberland and served
under General Sherman in his famous march
from Atlanta to the sea, then served under
General Thomas and was in the battle of Nash-
ville. At the end of six months he was hon-
orably discharged. He then came to Bridge-
port and took a position as foreman of a ma-
chine shop. He remained here until 1866 then
went to Michigan to take charge of his fa-
ther's affairs and settle up his estate, and in
1867 returned to Bridgeport and became mas-
ter mechanic of the Tomlinson Spring and
Axle Company, which position he held for
ten years, until the company went out of
business, when he entered the employ of the
Bullard Machine & Tool Company, with
which he was connected for nine years, dur-
ing three of which he was engineer. He was
then for a year and a half engineer for the
Norton Emery Wheel Company of Bridge-
port, and then took the position of mechani-
cal engineer of the Nonpareil Cork Works.
At the end of two years he resigned to take
charge of the Masonic Temple of Bridgeport,
his present position. Mr. Porter married, in
1866, Sarah G. Richards, born at Poultney,
Vermont, daughter of Tryon Richards, who
was a master mechanic in the Tomlinson
Spring & Axle Works for twenty-five years,
and then resigned and was succeeded by Mr.
Porter, as mentioned above. Children of

Tryon and (Clark) Richards: Mrs.

A. J. Wilkins ; Henry Richards, a man of
great promise, but who died at the early age
of twenty-seven years : Edna Richards, died
young; Sarah G., married William H. Porter
and their only child, Maria Elizabeth, married
Captain John H. Naphey. Mr. and Mrs. Por-
ter are charter members of Orient Chapter,
No. 1, Order of the Eastern Star, of Bridge-
port. Mr. Porter is a member of St. John's
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Jerusalem
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Jerusalem
Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Hamilton
Commandery, Knights Templar, and of all the
Scottish Rite bodies including Pyramid Tem-
ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, up to the
thirty-second degree, and has held office in the
Council and Chapter. In religion Mr. Porter
is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Republican.

The Porter family in this line
PORTER is of pure New England de-
scent, springing from John
Porter, who came to America in 1635 and
lived in Hingham and Salem (Danvers), Mas-
sachusetts. In the country of its nativity,
England, the family was one of worth and in-
fluence from a very early period. Its armo-
rial bearings in its several original English

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branches vary somewhat in details, but have
for their distinctive feature three church bells
on the escutcheon. The blazonry as given by
Matthews (''American Armoury and Blue
Book," edition of 1907, p. 156), for the New
England line, is as follows : "Arms — on a
fesse sable between two barrulets or, three
bells of the first. Crest — a portcullis chained
or. Motton — Vigilantia et virtute." The- de-
scendants of John Porter, of Hingham and
Salem, have included many persons of note in
the learned professions, in connection with
educational interests and institutions, and in
civic and military life. Dr. Noah Porter, pres-
ident of Yale College, and Miss Porter, the
founder of the celebrated Porter School at
Farmington, Connecticut, were of this an-
cestry, as were two presidents of the United
States, Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleve-
land. In the revolution, members of the Por-
ter family of New England were zealous and
active patriots. At the first fire of the British
at Lexington one of those killed was Asahel
Porter, of Woburn, and the first name in-
scribed on the monumental tablet of the slain
at Bunker Hill is that of an uncle of the
grandfather of the present Dr. George Loring
Porter, of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

(I) John Porter, American ancestor, was
born in England, 1596. It is believed that he
was from Dorset, and that Richard Porter, of
Weymouth, Massachusetts (1635), was his
brother. On the second of April, 1635, John
Porter sailed from England on the "Susan
and Ellen." Arriving in Massachusetts, he
probably lived for a time in Boston or
Dorchester, but soon removed to Hingham.
Hon. Samuel Lincoln, the historian of the lat-
ter place, is of the opinion that he was there as
early as 1635. He received a grant of land
in Hingham, September 2, 1637. was constable
in 1641, and was elected representative to the
general court in 1644. In the latter year he
purchased land and became a resident in
Salem (now Danvers), Massachusetts, and
subsequently he largely increased his posses-
sions, "so that at the time of his death (Sep-
tember 6, 1676) he was the largest landholder
in Salem, his lands lying in what are now Dan-
vers, Salem, Wenham, Topsfield and Beverly."
To his third son Joseph he gave as a marriage
portion, in 1663, five hundred acres. He was
representative from Salem in 1668. He mar-
ried Mary — . Children: 1. John, mari-
ner, unmarried. 2. Samuel, see below. 3.
Joseph, baptized in Hingham, September 9,
1638. 4. Benjamin, baptized in Hingham, No-
vember, 1639. 5. Israel, baptized in Hing-
ham, February 12, 1643. 6. Mary, married
Lieutenant Thomas Gardner. 7. Jonathan,

baptized in Salem, March 12, 1648, died be-
fore 1676. 8. Sarah, baptized in Salem, June
3, 1649; married Daniel Andrews.

(II) Samuel, second child of John and
Mary Porter, was probably born in England.
He was a mariner by occupation, residing at
Wenham, where he owned considerable prop-
erty. His will was dated the tenth of the
twelfth month, 1658, the statement being
made that he was then "bound to the Barba-
does." He died in 1660. He married Han-
nah, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Dodge, of Beverly; she married (second) De-
cember 2, 1661, Thomas Woodbury, of Bev-
erly (by whom she had nine children), and
died January 2, 1689. Child of Samuel and
Hannah (Dodge) Porter, John, see below.

(III) John (2), only child of Samuel and
Hannah (Dodge) Porter, was born (prob-
ably in Wenham) 1658. Inheriting the large
property of his father, he was a resident of
Wenham throughout his life, and was a prom-
inent citizen, representing the town in the gen-
eral court in 1712-24-26, and also serving at
various times as moderator of the town meet-
ings. He was noted for his great independ-
ence and liberality of mind. During the
witchcraft excitement he deliberately opposed
the persecutions, and in one of the trials tes-
tified with his wife Lydia in favor of the ac-
cused. He died. March 8, 1753. He married
Lydia, daughter of Henry and Lydia Herrick,
of Beverly; she was born 1661, died February
2, 1737. Children: 1. Samuel, born Feb-
ruary 17. 1681, died September 13, 1770.
2. John, 1683, died about 1775. 3. Hannah, No-
vember 24, 1687, died at the age of one hun-
dred ; married Thomas Kimball. 4. Elizabeth,
died at the age of one hundred ; married Da-
vid Gilbert. 5. Benjamin, see below. 6.
Jonathan, born September 11, 1696, died Oc-
tober 9, 1759. 7. Nehemiah, died at the age
of ninety-two. 8. Mehitable, born October 11,
169 — , died at the age of eighty-eight ; mar-
ried Caleb Kimball Jr. 9. Sarah, born Janu-
ary 6, 1698, died at the age of eighty-nine ;
married Thomas Dodge. 10. Mary, July 20,
1700, died at the age of ninety ; married (first)
Robert Cue; (second) Samuel Tarbox. 11.
Lydia, died aged sixty ; married William Lam-
son. The combined ages of the foregoing
eleven children was nine hundred and fifty-
five, an average of eighty-seven ; their father
lived to ninety-five.

(IV) Benjamin, fifth child of John (2)
and Lydia (Herrick) Porter, was born in
Wenham, 1692, removed to Boxford, Massa-
chusetts, and died there June 30, 1778. He
married, January 30, 17 16, Sarah, daughter of
Moses Tyler ; she was born 1696, died Janu-

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ary 27, 1767. Children: 1. Moses, see De-
low. 2. Mary, married Deacon Thomas Chad-
wick. 3. Benjamin, born October 21, 1721,
died May 15, 1784. 4. Sally, born March,
1726. 5. Lucy.

(V) Moses, eldest child of Benjamin and
Sarah (Tyler) Porter, was born November
18, 1 7 19, lived in Boxford, and died there No-
vember 7, 1 79 1. He and his first wife were
prominent in organizing the first church in
the upper parish, and he was a member of it
for nearly sever.iy y|ars. He married (first)
December 3, 1741, Mary, daughter of Ed-
mund Chadwick, of •Bradford ; she was born
1720, died March 7, i^i.-and was the mother
of all bis children, as follows": 1. Asa, born
1742. 2. William, see below. 3. Mary, born
1748, died 1752. 4. Moses, born January 18,
1750, married Ann Kay. 5. Aaron, March
28, 1752, lived in Biddeford. 6. Mary, July 20,
1754, died July, 1818; married Joseph Hovey.
7. Lucy, October 1, 1756, died May n, 1836;
married Colonel Benjamin Towne. 8. James,
December, 1758, died 1761.

(VI) William, second child of Moses and
Mary (Chadwick) Porter, was born May 27,
1744. He lived in Boxford and died July 26,
1822. He married Mary Adams. Children :
1. Hannah, born January 26, 1769; married
Zachariah Adams. 2. William, March 26,
1770, removed to Haverhill, New Hampshire,
and Danville, Vermont ; married Lettice Wal-
lace. 3. James, August 28, 1771 ; married
Margaret Tilton. 4. Aaron. June 7, 1773;
lived in Danville, Vermont ; married Rebecca
Blanchard. 5. Mary, June 3, 1775 ; married
Amos Carlton. 6. Sarah, April 22, 1777 : mar-
ried John Osgood. 7. Isaac Adams, see be-
low. 8. Elizabeth, November 29, 1782. 9.
Pamelia, February 5, 1785 ; married Luther
Clark.

(VII) Isaac Adams, seventh child of Wil-
liam and Mary (Adams) Porter, was born in
Boxford Massachusetts, March 22, 1779, died
in Dover, New Hampshire, April 15, i860.
He married (first) Catherine Buel, born
March 21, 1781, died at Danville, Vermont,
July 20, 1815. Their children were: Albert,
George, Charlotte, Mary Ann. He married
(second) Mary Newman, born July 17, 1782,
died December 20, 18 17. To them was born
Timothy Newman, December 20, 1817. Mar-
ried (third) Mary Kent, born May 7, 1782,
died in Dover, New Hampshire. Their chil-
dren were: Catherine E., born September 30,
1823 ; Lucy Kent, born April 23, 1828.

(VIII) George, second child of Isaac
Adams and Catherine (Buel) Porter, was
born in Danville, Vermont, November 21,
1808. In early life he established himself in

Concord, New Hampshire, where he was en-
gaged in the hardware business under the
firm style of Porter & Rolfe. Removing in
1852 to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he embarked
in the manufacture of railway spikes, chairs
and other, supplies (the firm being Dilworth,
Porter & Company), and resided there until
his death, November 22, 1881. He married,
August 17, 1836, Clara P., daughter of Peter
and Abigail Ayer, of Haverhill, Massachu-
setts, a descendant of Simond Ayer, who came
from England to Haverhill in 1635 ; she died
August 15, 1893. Children: 1. George Lor-
ing, see below. 2. Henry Kirke, born Novem-
ber 24, 1840, head of the important corpora-
tion of H. K. Porter & Company, manufac-
turers of locomotives, of Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania ; was representative from there to con-
gress ; resides in Washington, D. C. ; married
Annie De Camp Hegeman. 3. Mary Buel,
born June 7, 1846; married William E. Lin-
coln, now vice-president of H. K. Porter &
Company of Pittsburg ; they have one child,
Kirke Porter Lincoln.

(IX) Dr. George Loring Porter, eldest
child of George and Clara P. (Ayer) Porter,
was born in Concord, New Hampshire, April
29, 1838. He received his early education in
academies at Farmington, Maine (under Ja-
cob Abbott), Pembroke, New Hampshire, and
New London, New Hampshire, and then en-
tered Brown University in Providence, Rhode
Island, where he was graduated in 1859, re-
ceiving the degrees both of Bachelor of Arts
and Master of Arts. While a student he was
a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and after-
wards an honorary member of the Phi Beta
Kappa, with both of which organizations he
has since maintained a connection. After com-
pleting his college course he pursued medical
studies successively with Dr. J. P. Dake. of
Pittsburg, and Drs. Brinton and Da Costa, of
Philadelphia, also attending lectures in the
Jefferson Medical College, and in March,
1862, the degree of M.D. was conferred on
him by that institution. He immediately pro-
ceeded to qualify himself for surgical duty
with the army in the field, and on April 29,
1862, passed the requisite examination for the
regular army before the military board in
Washington. Receiving an assignment to duty
in the government hospital at Strasburg, Vir-
ginia, he reported there eleven days later, and
from that time for more than six years he was
actively engaged in professional work in the
army. Soon after his arrival at Strasburg the
Union forces were obliged to retreat from that
locality, and he was left in charge of the sick
and wounded. Being made prisoner by an
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was directed by that officer to assume respon-
sible charge of the hospital and to care for
both the Union and Confederate men needing
his services. It has been said that "this was
probably the first recognition during the civil
war of the right of medical officers to claim
the protection of the modern rules of war gov-
erning non-belligerents." The position at
Strasburg was presently recaptured, and Dr.
Porter, after remaining there a brief time and
performing duty in other hospitals, accom-
panied the army in its movements as surgeon
of Light Battery F, Fourth United States Ar-
tillery. On July 17, 1862, only a little more
than two months after entering the service,
he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the
United States army with the rank of first lieu-
tenant. From November 18, 1862, to May 10,
1864. he was with the Fifth United States
Cavalry, Army of the Potomac. Throughout
this (as well as the preceding) period he was
present in many of the most terrific battles of
the war, including Cedar Mountain, the sec-
ond Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
and the Wilderness, repeatedly discharging his
duties under the direct fire of the enemy. At
Boonsboro he was wounded in the left arm.

His superior officer. Captain Julius Mason
of the Fifth Cavalry, in recommending him
for a brevet, wrote : "The regiment was en-
gaged in many battles, losing heavily in sick
and wounded. Assistant-Surgeon Porter's
faithfulness to the sick and wounded is grate-
fully remembered by the officers and men, and
his conspicuous gallantry during the battles
of Upperville, Aldie, Gettysburg, Williams-
burg, Funkstown and Brandy Station, where
he took the dead and wounded almost from
the hands of the enemy, entitles him to the
greatest praise and consideration." On May
10, 1864, being ordered to Washington, he
entered upon duties as post surgeon in the
Arsenal, where he continued until May, 1867.
He was brevetted captain and major, March
13, 1865, for faithful, gallant and meritorious
service in the field. After the assassination
of Lincoln the responsibility of medical offi-
cer in charge of the arrested conspirators was
assigned to him. In May, 1867, he was or-
dered to St. Paul, Minnesota, and from there
to Camp Cook, Montana ; and in the spring
of 1868 he was attached to the expedition to
the mouth of the Mussellshell river, which
was engaged in that campaign against Sitting
Bull. Shortly after Sitting Bull, with a large
force of Indians estimated at three thousand,
besieged Camp Cook and during this time Dr.
Porter discharged at various times the duties
of officer of the clay, relieving the overworked
officers. Dr. Porter has a very fine testi-

monial from Major-General Terry, reading as
follows : "I well recollect the great service
that you rendered in the Department of Da-
kota under my command, and the high re-
spect and esteem in which you were held by
all your associates. I recollect also your ac-
tion at Camp Cook when it was attacked by
the Sioux in taking upon yourself the duties
of an officer of troops in addition to your
medical duties. It entitled you to the high-
est consideration. Very sincerely yours, Al-
fred H. Terry." In the following summer he
resigned from the army, and, traveling alone
on horseback from Montana to the Pacific
coast, returned to the east by way of the Isth-
mus of Panama. At this time no transconti-
nental railroad extended from the Mississippi
to the Pacific. The trail traversed by the
original explorers, Lewis and Clark, in 1805-
06, was but little improved and the locality
through which he passed was seven years
afterwards made historic by the treacherous
murder by the Modock Indians of the United
States peace commissioner, General Canby.
After many adventures with prospectors and
trappers, he finally reached the Columbia river
at Wallula.

Embarking upon the private practice of his
profession in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Dr.
Porter soon attained a recognized position as
one of the most competent and successful phy-
sicians of that city. He has resided in Bridge-
port without interruption since, and is a citi-
zen highly respected and esteemed. He has
taken a very active, influential and creditable
part in connection with the organization and
promotion of medical societies and institutions
for the interest of the profession and the pub-
lic. Dr. Porter was conspicuously instru-
mental in procuring the passage in the legis-
lature of the "Medical Practice Act," in 1893,
and his address in its support, delivered be-
fore that body, received many warm com-
mendations from friends of the measure, and
was referred to as follows in the New Haven
Register, April 22, 1893, the editor of which
was a stranger to him. and therefore entirely
unbiased : "Two weeks ago there did not seem
to be much hope for the bill, because all the
agitation appeared to be in favor of those op-
posed. But, somehow or other, the friends of
the bill got their second wind, so to speak, and
they rallied with capital effect at the final
hearing Tuesday. The sensation at that hear-
ing was created by Dr. Porter, of Bridgeport,
whose scholarly and eloquent address in be-
half of the bill was not only a surprise to
those in whose favor he was speaking, but to
the opponents as well. It was a very polished
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and there with dramatic effects, that deepened
the interest in the speaker. The anti-medical
bill people were captivated with his charming
and unaffected discourse, and one of the first
to congratulate him on his brilliant and mas-
terful speech was the leading counsel for
those opposed to the bill, of this city. It was
a tribute to one who displayed such rare pow-
ers of entertaining even those who radically
disagreed with him." One of the incorpora-
tors of the Bridgeport Hospital, he delivered
the opening address at the dedication of its
surgical building, and became a member of its
staff and executive board. He served at vari-
ous times as president of the Bridgeport Medi-
cal Association, Fairfield County Medical As-
sociation, and Connecticut State Medical So-
ciety. For many years he has been visitor to
the Hartford Retreat for the Insane ; he has
occupied the position of president of the
United States pension examining board for
Fairfield county ; he was a member of the
Ninth International Medical Congress ; and
he has rendered extensive services as medical
examiner for the principal life insurance com-
panies.

A man of literary tastes and accomplish-
ments, Dr. Porter has written and published
many papers, both of scientific and general
interest. These include : "A Report of a Case
of Xanthic Oxide Calculus" (the only speci-
men ever recognized in America) ; "A New
Danger in Surgery" ; "Tubal Pregnancy" ;
"The Cost of Sickness to the Individual and
the State" ; "The Medical Practice Act in Con-
necticut" (an address to the legislature) ;
"The Recognition of Death" ; "The Wave
Theory, Its Application in Sickness"; "Con-
necticut Work and Workmen" ; "The Water
Supply of Cities" ; "The Tragedy of the Na-
tion" (an account of Lincoln's assassination),
and a lecture on Washington.

He is a member of numerous and varied
organizations in addition to those already re-
ferred to. Some of these are the American
Academy of Medicine, Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic,
Army and Navy clubs of Connecticut and New
York, has been president of the Outing, Eclec-
tic and Seaside clubs, of Bridgeport, honor-
ary member of the Algonquin Club of Bridge-
port, Bridgeport Library Board, and Masonic
fraternity (in which he is of the thirty-second
degree). He is also an honorary member of
the University Club; the only honorary mem-
ber of this club. Throughout his life he has
taken an enthusiastic interest in outdoor sports,
and he is an active member of several select
fishing and game clubs. In his religious affili-
ations he is a Baptist. He has long been a

cordial supporter of the work of the Young
Men's Christian Association.

Dr. Porter married, November 20, 1862,
Katherine Maria, daughter of Edwin M. and
Sarah (Simpson) Chaffee, of Providence,
Rhode Island. She is descended from an old
New England family. Her father was the
inventor of the Chaffee cylinder for vulcaniz-
ing rubber. Children: 1. Clara Elizabeth,
born October, 1864, died September 20, 1865.
2. George, born December 4, 1865, a farmer
in Langdon, New Hampshire ; married, June
2, 1892, Mary A., daughter of Janis Carter
and Marcia (Hammond) Walker. Children:
George Loring, Henry Kirke and Katherine
Marcia. 3. James Benton, born January 24,
1867, connected with General Electric Com-
pany, making special reports on style of plants
built by this company. He resides in Phila-
delphia; married Helen, daughter of William
R. and Cornelia (Arnold) Talbot. Both rep-
resent families prominent in colonial and revo-
lutionary times. Mr. Talbot is a prominent
member of the Cincinnati Society. 4. Ethel,
born January 24, 1870; married Ezra D. Dick-
erman, June 11, 1891 ; died January 17, 1908.
Children : Ethel Cornelia, Mary Porter, Ed-
ward Dwight and Beatrice Bradley. 5. Lind-
say. 6. Mary Hope. 7. Alice. 8. Aaron. 9.
Hugh. 10. Grace. 11. Anna. 12. Clarissa.
The last eight all deceased.

The first of this family in Eng-
PORTER land, William de la Grande,

was a Norman knight who
came with William the Conqueror in 1066
and acquired lands at or near Kenilworth in
Warwickshire. His son Ralph, or Roger, be-
came grand porteur to Henry I. from 11 20 to
1 140, and from this the surname of the family
was derived. The ancient coat-of-arms of the
family : Argent of a fesse sable between two
or three church bells of the first. Crest : a
portcullis argent chained. Motto : "Yigilantis
et virtuti."

(I) John Porter, immigrant ancestor, came
to New England in 1630 and settled first in
Dorchester. In 1635 he with others went with
Rev. John Warham and settled on the Con-
necticut river at Windsor. He was living there
as early as 1637, when his name appears on
the records. His residence was near the Little
river, at its junction with the Connecticut, be-
tween the lands of George Phelps and Joseph
Loomis. He was a man of considerable wealth
as shown by his will. He died in Windsor,

April 22, 1648. He married Rose ,

who died in July, 1647. Children : John, born
1620; Sarah, 1622; Anna, 1624; Samuel, 1626,
mentioned below; Rebecca, 1628; Mary, 1630;

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Rose, 1632 ; Joseph, 1634 ; James, 1638 ; Na-
thaniel, February 29, 1640; Hannah, Septem-
ber 4, 1642.

(II) Samuel, son of John Porter, was born
in England in 1626, died September 6, 1689.
He was a merchant. He married, in 1659,
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Stanley, the im-
migrant. She died December 18, 1708. Chil-
dren: Samuel, born April 6, 1660; Thomas,
April 17, 1663; Hezekiah, January 7, 1665;
John, December 12, 1666, mentioned below;
Hannah, 1668; Mehitable, September 16,
1673 ; Experience, August 5, 1675 ; Ichabod,
June 17, 1678; Nathaniel, November 15, 1680;
Stanley, April 1, 1683.

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Porter, was
born December 12, 1666, at Windsor. He
married (first) April 3, 1690, Mary Butler.
Richard Butler, the immigrant, came from
Braintree, county Essex, England, in 1632,
to Massachusetts, and located at Hartford,
Connecticut ; was deputy to the general court,
1656-60 ; deacon of the church. He died Au-
gust 6, 1684.

Thomas Butler, son of Richard, was born
in England; married Sarah, daughter of Rev.
Samuel Stone, of Hertfordshire, England, who
graduated from Emmanuel College, Oxford,
A.B. 1623, A.M. 1627, came to this country
in the ship "Griffin," arriving September 4,
1633, and located first in Cambridge, where he
was a teacher under Hooker, was chaplain in
the Pequot war, and died at Hartford, July 20,
1663. Mary Butler, daughter of Thomas But-
ler, was born in 1670; married, April 3, 1690,
John Porter, who removed from Hadley, Mas-
sachusetts, to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1702,
thence to Hebron. He married (second), Oct-
ober 13, 1726, Sarah Church. Richard Church
came from England and settled at Hartford,
having twelve acres of land in the first division,
April 18, 1659; agreed to go to Hadley in
1660; died in December, 1667; his wife Anne
died March 10, 1684. John Church, son of
Richard Church, was born in England in 1628 ;
married, October 27, 1657, Sarah, born in
England, daughter of Richard Beckley, who
came from England and settled in Wethers-
field, Connecticut; John Church died in 1696.
John (3), son of John (2) Church, was born
in 1669; married, in 1699, Abigail Cadwell.
Thomas Cadwell, immigrant, came from Eng-
land and settled in Hartford ; married, in 1658,
Elizabeth, born in England, daughter of Ed-
ward Stebbins, who came from England with
wife Mary, sister Eliza Holyoke from Tam-
worth, Warwickshire, to Lynn, Massachu-
setts, removing later to Springfield and died
May 4, 1 66 1. Edward Stebbins removed to
Hartford in 1636; was deputy to the general

court, 1639 to 1656 ; his wife Frances died in
1673 ; he died in 1663. Abigail Cadwell, born
November 26, 1670, married, 1699, John
Church. Sarah, daughter of John and Abigail
Church, was born in 1700; married, October
13, 1726, John Porter; removed to Hebron
and he died January 4, 1747. Children: John,
born January 26, 1691, mentioned below;
Mary, May 4, 1693; John, October 3, 1694;
Esther, 1696; Sarah, 1699; Joseph, 1702; Reu-
ben, 1704; Daniel, 1706.

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Portei
was born January 26, 1691. He married (first)
November 9, 1720, Esther Deane, who died
July 10, 1726. He married (second) Novem-
ber 2, 1727, Sarah Heaton. Nathaniel Heaton
came from England to Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, in 1634, with wife Elizabeth. James
Heaton, son of Nathaniel, was born in Eng-
land, removed to New Haven, in 1660-61, mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Street, who
came from England to Taunton in 1637 and
was a teacher there and at New Haven ; died
April 22, 1674. James Heaton, born 1665, son
of James, married Sarah Bigelow ; their daugh-
ter Sarah Heaton, born 171 5, married, Novem-
ber 2, 1727, John Porter, who removed to
Lebanon, Connecticut, and thence to Hebron ;
was deacon of the church. He died January
5> 1753- John Bigelow, born in England in
161 7, son of Randall Bigelow, of Wrentham,
county Suffolk, came to Dedham, Massachu-
setts, and married, October 30, 1642, Mary,
daughter of John Warren, who came from
England to Watertown in 163 1, died Decem-
ber 13, 1667. Mary Bigelow died October 19,
1691 ; John, July 14, 1703. Jonathan Bigelow,
son of John Bigelow, was born December 11,
1646 ; married, 1671, Rebecca, born 1653,
daughter of John Shepard, who came from
England to Cambridge in 1638-39 ; married,
October 4, 1649, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel
Greenhill, who came from county Kent, Eng-
land, to Cambridge in 1634, removed to Hart-
ford in 1655 ; his widow Rebecca married Je-
remy Adams. Children of John Porter : Mary,
born July 19, 1721 ; John, April 30, 1723;
Daniel, January, 1726; Reuben, September 26,
1728; Amos, 1730; Sarah, November 2, 1731 ;
Ruth, 1733; Laura, 1735; Anna, 1737; Pa-
tience, November 30, 1738; Eunice, 1740; Jo-
nah, 1742.

(V) Daniel, son of John (3) Porter, was
born in January, 1726. He married (first)
October 25, 1747, Diana Dunham, who died
January 2"], 1760. He married (second) April
23, 1761, Sarah Barnard, who died October 17,
1769. They lived at Haddam. Children:
Gaylord, mentioned below; Daniel, October I,
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1754; Anna, December 5, 1757; John, Janu-
ary 4, 1760, killed in the service during the
revolution; James B., January 20, 1762, set-
tled in Georgia ; Ambrose.

(VI) Gaylord, son of Daniel Porter, was
born at Haddam, October 4, 1748. He mar-
ried (first) October 27, 1768, Miriam Brown,
who died July 15, 1779. He married (sec-
ond) February 10. 1783, Susannah Brown,
who died February 25, 1795. He married
(third) August 7, 1795, Amelia Brown. He
died August 5, 1823. He lived at Middletown,
Connecticut. Children, born there : Amasa,
May 12, 1771 ; Roswell, January 7, 1773, died
1777; John, August 25, 1775, died 1778; Su
sannah, November 16, 1783, died December
1, 1788; Truman, March 3, 1790; David, Feb-
ruary 4, 1794; Anna, May 28, 1796; Jasper,
September 22, 1797; John, mentioned below;
Royal, December 2, 1800; Barzilla H., May
1, 1802; Orleans B., September 27, 1803; Al-
mina, May 27, 1805.

(VII) John (4), son of Gaylord Porter,
was born at Middletown, August 25, 1799.
He married, in 1823, Fanny, daughter of Hez-
ekiah Scovil, of Haddam, who married Han-
nah Burr. John Porter married (second) in
1858, Sarah Stocking. He was a manufac-
turer at Middletown. Benjamin Burr, immi-
grant ancestor, and wife Anne came from
England to Hartford; she died August 31,
1683; he in 1682. Samuel Burr, son of Ben-
jamin, married Mary, daughter of John Basey,
of Hartford ; Samuel died September 29, 1682.
Jonathan Burr, son of Samuel, was born in
1679; married Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel
and Mary (Earle) Hubbard. Nathaniel Burr,
son of Nathaniel, was born March 23, 1717 ;
married, August 19, 1743, Sarah Porter, and
removed to Haddam; he died September 12,
1782; she May 21, 1799. Jonathan Burr, son
of Nathaniel, was born April 11, 1756; mar-
ried Lydia Bailey ; he was captain in the con-
tinental army in the revolution ; died at Had-
dam, February 10, 1804. Hannah, daughter
of Captain Jonathan Burr, married Hezekiah
Scovil, son of Joseph, born March 31, 1757,
soldier in the revolution. William Scovil,
father of Joseph, was born June 13, 1706, son
of John Scovil who came from England.
Children of John and Fanny (Scovil) Porter:
John S., born November 16, 1835 ; died Febru-
ary 18, 1882 ; Jane, March 30, 1837, died Sep-
tember 5, 1837; Joseph, August 30. 1839, mar-
ried Harriet Stevens, of Cromwell, Connecti-
cut, and died in 1909; Edward, January 30,
1841, married Kate Stevens, sister of the wife
of his brother Joseph; Alice, June 15, 1843,
unmarried, living in New Haven ; Fanny, Feb-
ruary 4, 1848, died in 1849 ; Wallace, Decem-

ber 25, 1850, mentioned below. Child of sec-
ond wife ; Martha, born 1859, unmarried, lives
at Portland.

(VIII) Wallace, son of John (4) Porter,
was born at Middletown, December 25, 1850.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town, and at Columbus, Ohio, whither
he went with his brother John, after their
father died. When he was sixteen years old
he returned to Connecticut and learned the
trade of machinist in New Haven in the shops
of George Griswold & Company. He came
to Higganum, Connecticut, in 1894. He is
now president of the D. & H. Scovil Company,
manufacturers of plantation hoes. This con-
cern was established by his uncle in 1844 and
was the first to manufacture the cotton
planter's hoe by power other than hand labor.
The company does a large and flourishing
business.

He is a Democrat in politics and a member
of Trumbull Lodge, No. 22, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of New Haven. He married,
September 29, 1881, Florence Gesner, born
August 10, 1856, died July 27, 1910, daughter
of Benjamin Wells, of Stratford. Her father
went to Columbus, Georgia, before the civil
war, and established a wholesale and retail
boot and shoe business. He came north at
the beginning of the war, and after the war re-
turned to Columbus and resumed business.
His firm, Wells & Curtis, was the oldest in
their line in that city. John Wells, father of
Benjamin, married Ruth Birdseye, of Strat-
ford, daughter of Rev. Nathan Birdseye, a
Congregational clergyman, who lived to the
great age of one hundred and tbree years
tbree months and three days, and who
preached a sermon and led the singing on his
one hundredth birthdav, though he was then
blind.

Mrs. Porter is a gifted musician and
for many years sang in the choir of the Con-
gregational church, of which Mr. Porter is
organist. John S. Porter, brother of Wallace
Porter, was also for many years organist of
St. Thomas' Church at New Haven. Mrs.
Porter was educated in the public schools at
Stratford and at Miss Wheeler's Young
Ladies' School. Mrs. Porter has four sisters :
Abigail Curtis Wells, born at Columbus,
Georgia, in 1830, died in 1901, unmarried.
Julia Louisa Wells, born in Columbus, July
25- J833, died November 27, 1908; married
Tillott Kenoney, of Ithaca, New York, born
in Auburn, New York, died June 17, 1909.
Adeline Alice Wells, born February 8, 1837,
married Henry Robert Taylor, of Westport,
and had one child, Robert Henry Taylor.
Clara Elizabeth Wells, born at Columbus, Oc-

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tober 22, 1846, married William Byington, of
Ithaca; child, Benjamin Wells Byington.

Children of Wallace Porter: 1. Ralph Wal-
lace, born in New Haven, January 13, 1884;
attended the public schools of Haddam ; a
farmer ; unmarried ; living with his parents.
2. Whitney Scovil, born at Stratford, Septem-
ber 30, 1886; educated in the public schools
of Haddam, the Worcester Academy and at
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 3. Philip
Wells, born at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania,
September 5, 1888 ; attended the public schools
at Haddam and Middletown and the Wor-
cester Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts ;
now a student at the Colorado School of
Mines, Golden City, Colorado, completing his
training as a mining engineer. 4. Harriet
Louise, born at Wilkes Barre, December 31,
1890; attended the public schools of Haddam
and Middletown and Lasell Seminary at Au-
burndale, Massachusetts. 5. Florence Adeline,
born at Wilkes Barre, October 25, 1892 ; edu-
cated in the public schools at Haddam and
Lasell Seminary. 6. Esther Caroline, born at
Higganum, September 20, 1894; educated in
the public schools of Haddam and Middle-
town. 7. Hezekiah Scovil, born at Higganum,
June 4, 1896, attended the public schools of
Haddam and Middletown and Choate School
in Wallingford.

Dr. Daniel Porter, immigrant
PORTER ancestor, was one of the first

physicians of the colony. He
was doubtless born in England. He came to
Connecticut early. He was fined. March 16,
1644-45, f°r some trivial offense by the par-
ticular court. He was licensed to practice
physic and chirurgery by the general court of
Connecticut. In 1661 a yearly salary of six
pounds was ordered paid him out of the pub-
lic treasury and his "fee-table" was established
by law. He was a celebrated bone-setter, as
the surgeons were commonly called. He set-
tled in Farmington, Connecticut, but was re-
quired to attend on the sick in Hartford,
Windsor, Wethersfield and occasionally Mid-
dletown. In 1668 he was "freed from watch-
ing warding Tryneing (training)" and in the
following year a special grant was made him
by the general court for his services, a hun-
dred acres laid out afterward in the northwest
corner of Wallingford. This tract proved not
in the colony land, and in 1728 on petition of
his grandson, Daniel Porter, son of Daniel and
Hezekiah Porter, of Woodbury, son of Dr.
Richard Porter of New Haven, one hundred
acres were granted instead, west of the Hou-
satonic river. In 1671 his salary was raised
to twelve pounds as "incouragement for set-

ting bones," and the court "advised him to
instruct some meet person in his art." Evi-
dently he instructed his son Daniel. His sons
Richard and Samuel also became bone-setters.
He was not on the list of freemen in 1669, but
was in 1672. He died in 1690. He married
Mary . Children : Dr. Daniel, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1652-53, practiced in Waterbury,
died January 18, 1726-27, married Deborah
, who died May 14, 1765; Mary, Feb-
ruary 5, 1654-55, married Eleazer Knowles ;
Nehemiah, October 24, 1656, married Hannah
Lumb; Dr. Richard, March 24, 1658, men-
tioned below; Anna, 1660-61; John, Novem-
ber 14, 1662, married (first) Rebecca Wood-
ford, (second) Martha North; Dr. Samuel,
October 24. 1665, married Abigail Hum-
phreys, of Woodbury, died March 25, 1763,
succeeded his father as bone-setter at Farm-
ington.

(II) Dr. Richard, son of Dr. Daniel Porter,
was born at Farmington. March 24, 1658, died
1738-40. He lived in Waterbury, where he
was one of the early proprietors, having a
small town right as early as 1684. In May,
1688, he owned two acres at the corner of
Bank and Meadow streets, adjoining the land
of Jonathan Scott. Afterwards he bought,
March 18, 1694-95, of Abraham Andreuss's
widow, for twenty-six pounds, a house and
thirty acres adjoining. He was highway sur-
veyor in Waterbury, 1703-04; collector 1706;
on the school committee 1709; selectman 1713.
In 1 712 he was appointed to dig the graves, an
elective office at that time. He removed from
Waterbury, and lived, in 17 18 and later, in
West Haven. His will was dated November
13, 1738: proved February, 1739-40. He
owned land at Waterbury and New Haven.
He was called Dr. Porter in the probate rec-
ords but seems not to have practiced until
after he left Waterbury. His wife Ruth died
January 9, 1709-10. Children: Dr. Daniel,
settled in Simsbury, died before his father ;
Joshua, born August 7. 1688, in Waterbury,
died November 19, 1708; Mary, January 14,
1690-91 ; Ruth, October, 1692 ; Samuel, March
20, 1695, died 1728, married Mary Brownson ;
Hezekiah, January 29, 1696-97, died August,
1702; John, June 11, 1700, living with Deacon
Clark, 1730; Timothy, December 21, 1701,
married Mary Baldwin ; Dr. Hezekiah, July
27, 1704, mentioned below; Richard; Lydia,
married Pardee.

(III) Dr. Hezekiah, son of Dr. Richard
Porter, was born in New Haven, July 27,
1704. He was living in 1728 in Woodbury,
and in Waterbury in 1739 when his father
died. He removed to Northampton in 1739,
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ords. He was given a settlement jointly by
Hatfield, Hadley, Deerfield and Northampton,
to practice in these towns. He was called a
'"bone-setter," there being a physician in Deer-
field and perhaps others in the section. He
was in Northampton, March 27, 1739, receiv-
ing two hundred pounds from the towns men-
tioned. He have record of four sons : Hez-
ekiah, mentioned below ; Dr. Ezekiel, who was
a soldier in the revolution from Northampton,
removed to Rutland, Vermont, and according
to the census of 1790, had two sons under six-
teen and two females in his family, Dr. Ezek-
iel was the first president of the First Ver-
mont Medical Society, in his family Dr. James
Porter was reared ; Asa, settled at Rutland
and according to the census of 1790 had two
males over sixteen and two females in his
family ; Abel, soldier from Northampton in
the revolution eight months in 1775 and seven
days in 1777.

(IV) Dr. Hezekiah (2), son of Dr. Hez-
ekiah ( 1 ) Porter, was born in Northampton
about 1740. He was a soldier in the revolu-
tion ; probably surgeon, as he is called "Dr."
in the rolls, marching to Bennington, Ver-
mont, in 1777 and again in 1778. A Hezekiah
was also in Captain Parsons's company,
Colonel Charles Webb's regiment, Connecticut
line, in 1780. He lived in Naugatuck.

(V) Asa, son of Dr. Hezekiah (2) Porter,
married and had son, Henry A.

(VI) Henry A., son of Asa Porter, was
born in Waterbury, 1807, died in 1903 at
Bridgeport, Connecticut. The old Porter
house at Naugatuck is still standing and is the
oldest house in the town. He married Abigail
Piatt, born in 1814, died in 1903, at Bridge-
port. Children : Charles Henry ; Sarah, mar-
ried Calvin Hall, of Bridgeport.

(VII) Charles Henry, son of Henry A.
Porter, was born at Naugatuck, Connecticut,
July 8th, 1832, died April 19, 1899. In pol-
itics he was a Republican. He married Isa-
bella Carter. Children : Charles Henry, born
February 1, 1856, mentioned below; Ida F.,
June 9, 1869.

(VIII) Charles Henry (2), son of Charles
Henry (1) Porter, was born February 1, 1856,
at Naugatuck, Connecticut. He attended the
public school and Day's Preparatory School of
Bridgeport. He then devoted himself to the
study of music and in the course of time grad-
uated from the Leipsic Conservatory of Music
in Germany. Upon his return to this country
he founded the Conservatory of Music at Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, and was its director for the
first sixteen years of its existence. He then
accepted the office of manager for the Equita-
ble Life Insurance Company for the Maritime

Provinces and Newfoundland. While living
in Nova Scotia he was teacher of the piano
and musical theory in the Conservatory and
organist of St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church
at Halifax. He was also the conductor of
the Opheus Club for a period of twenty years.
Since July, 1906, he has been state manager
for Connecticut of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance Company. His office is at 865 Chapel
street, New Haven. He is a member of the
Quinnipiack and Country clubs of New Ha-
ven ; of Virgin Lodge, No. 37, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of Halifax, and of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, New Haven. He is a Re-
publican. He married, May 12, 1908, Eliza-
beth, born April 24, 1877, daughter of George
R. Chamberlain.

(II) Dr. Daniel (2) Porter,
PORTER son of Dr. Daniel (1) Porter
(q.v.), was born February 2,
1652-53 and died January 18, 1726. He mar-
ried Deborah Holcomb. They settled in
Waterbury, Connecticut, and she died there
May 4, 1765. He was for a considerable time
the only professional man in the town, there
being no business for a lawyer and no means
of support for a minister. Besides medicine
and surgery, which he learned under the in-
struction of his father, he did land surveying
and filled various offices for which the duties
called for more than the usual amount of edu-
cation. He left an estate valued at about two
thousand dollars and besides had, while liv-
ing, given much to his children. His medical
library, it may be said, consisted at the time
of his death of a "bone-set" book valued at
two shillings. Children, born at Waterbury :
Daniel, March 5, 1699, died aged seventy-six;
James, April 20, 1700, mentioned below;
Thomas, April 1, 1702, died aged ninety-five;
Deborah, March 6, 1603-04, married James
Baldwin; Ebenezer, December 24, 1708, died
aged ninety-five; Ann, April 28, 1712, married
Thomas Judd and James Nicholas, and was
living in 1801.

(Ill) Dr. James Porter, son of Dr. Daniel
(2) Porter was born at Waterbury, April 20,
1700, and died at the age of eighty-six. His
was a family of remarkable longevity. He fol-
lowed the profession of his father and grand-
father in Waterbury. He was on the tax list
in 1730, and his name is often in the town
records. He settled at Hop Swamp about
1725. The first mention of his house is found
in 1730. It was located at the foot of Bissell
Hill and west of the present Hop Swamp
school house. Tradition tells us that when the
house was building the workmen went from
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turned at night, fearing Indian attacks. In
later years a new house was so enclosed un-
der the same roof with the old one that the
two houses appeared as one building. When,
a few years ago, the house was taken down,
the workmen were greatly surprised to find
that two independent frames were set together.
So unique was the work, that a drawing of it
was made for preservation. A new house
built by the Broughton brothers occupies the
very site of the house of 1730. In 1737 he
sold the homestead of his father to his brother
Thomas. The land alone conveyed in this
deed is worth more than a million dollars
at the present time.

He married Dorcas, daughter of John Hop-
kins, August 22, 1733, and she died at Water-
bury, June 26, 1750. He died there March
20, 1785. Children, born at Waterbury :
Huldah, December 8, 1733; James, November
19, 1737, mentioned below; David, May II,
1746.

(IV) James (2), son of Dr. James (1)
Porter, was born at Waterbury, November 19,
1737. He was a soldier in the revolution, en-
sign in Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Canfield's
regiment in 1781. He married (first), Novem-
ber 9, 1762, Lucy Bronson, daughter of Josiah.
She died October 14, 1776, and he married
(second), April 23, 1778, at Waterbury, Mary
Gambel. He was on a committee to provide
clothing for revolutionary soldiers in 1778.
He owned a grist mill on Hop Brook, and
sold it in 1781 to Asa Leavenworth. Children,
born at Waterbury, by first wife : Jesse, June
25, 1763; Dorcas, June 10, 1766, married
Ward Peck; Son, born and died November
22, 1768; James, August 3, 1772, mentioned
below. Children of second wife : Mary, Au-
gust 2, 1779; Reuben, October 24, 1780; Me-
linda, August 6, 1783, married Charles Bough-
ton ; Clarenda, October 15, 1789; Josiah, Au-
gust 30, 1792; Samuel, December 28, 1793.

(V) James (3), son of James (2) Porter,
was born at Waterbury, August 3, 1772, and
died at Woodbury, Connecticut, in 1836. He
married Alethea Perry, born August 7, 1775,
at Woodbury, died at Bridgeport, daughter of
Dr. Joseph Perry, of Woodbury. Children :
Phillips ; Harriett ; James, mentioned below ;
Betsy.

(VI) James (4), son of James (3) Porter,
was born at Woodbury, November 19, 1802,
and died in May, 1891, at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut. He received his early education in
Woodbury, in the district known as Hop
Swamp. He was active in public affairs ; was
supervisor of the town poor, and served three
years in the common council of the city of
Bridgeport. He was first employed in a

grocery store in Bridgeport, and also went
as a supercargo on coastwise vessels. After a
few voyages he purchased two grist and flour
mills which he operated until they were swept
away by a flood. He then purchased a farm,
which he carried on for some years and then
retired. He bought his homestead at Bridge-
port of Wilson Hawley. Most of the original
farm has been sold for building lots, though
the house remains and is occupied by the
family. In religion he was a Congregation-
alist.

He married Mary Hawley, born at Bridge-
port, January 12, 1803, died December 26,
1847. Children: 1. Charles Perry, June 17,
1833; mentioned below. 2. James, May 11,
1834; died July 11, 1891 at Bridgeport; mar-
ried Mary J. Baylies ; children : i. Child died
in infancy; ii. Mary Elizabeth, November 19,
1859; married Joseph J. Rose and had Ruth
Elizabeth Rose, Marion H. Rose and Bessie
P. Rose ; Mr. Rose was a lawyer in Bridge-
port; iii. Kate Belle, July 13, 1861 ; married
Austin J. Blanchard of Jamaica, Long Island ;
have no children. 3. Elizabeth C, now living
on the homestead at Bridgeport, 844 North
avenue, and is well and favorably known
among the older residents of the city.

(ATI) Charles Perry, son of James (4)
Porter, was born June 17, 1833, and died June
28, 1882, at Bridgeport. He was educated in
a private school of Bridgeport. He began his
business career as clerk in the Bridgeport Sav-
ings Bank and eventually became treasurer,
the fourth man to hold that office succeeding
George Sterling in 1871, and holding the office
until his death. He was a faithful and able
bank officer and carried forward the work of
his predecessor efficiently. This bank ranks
among the strongest and best in the state, and
the credit for its high standing is due in large
measure to the ability of its treasurers. Mr.
Porter was a prominent member of the Con-
"res'ational church, a member of the church
board and superintendent of the Sunday
school. He married Angusta Lincoln Wales,
of New York City. They had one child, Edith
Louise.

William Roberts was son of
ROBERTS and Catherine (Leete)

Roberts ("Robards,") and
came to East Hartford from Middletown,
Connecticut. He lived near the foot of
Smith's lane, on the meadow hill, south of the
present bridge road, on what was then the
main street. He died probably in 1735. His
house was built on land which came to him
from his wife's father, Captain James Forbes,
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riage. He married Dorothy Forbes, daughter
of Captain James Forbes. Children : Dor-
othy, baptized in the South Church at Hart-
ford, 1687; Deborah, baptized, First Church,
April, 1690; William, baptized 1695, died
1726, married Deborah Spencer, had son Will-
iam ; Benjamin, baptized March 8, 1698, men-
tioned below; Joseph, baptized August 11,
1700; Mary, baptized Ala}- 31, 1702; Samuel,
baptized December 24, 1704, married Sarah,
daughter of Ebenezer Hills, Sr.

(II) Benjamin, son of William Roberts,
was baptized March 8, 1698. He was a mer-
chant trader and the owner of several vessels,
among them the "Martha," "Samuel'' and
"Porrige," engaged in trade with the West
Indies and New London, bringing home loads
of merchandise which were stored in his cellar,
which was built especially strong for the pur-
pose. He was also a large land owner. He
married (first), September 26, 1730, Dorothy,
born 1705, died October 5, 1737, daughter of
Nathaniel and Hester (Hosmer) Pitkin. He
married (second), July 13, 1739, Jerusha
Pratt, a descendant of John Pratt, who settled
in Hartford with the Hooker party in 1635.
Children of first wife: 1. Dorothy, born Janu-
ary 23, 1734; married Lemuel Kingsbury of
Andover. 2. Susannah, born 1736; died un-
married, 1804. Children of second wife : 3.
Jerusha, born April 24, 1740; married Jona-
than Stanley, for eighteen years town clerk
and treasurer. 4. Catherine (twin of Jerusha),
married Jonathan Hubbard, ancestor of Gov-
ernor Hubbard. 5. Benjamin, born November
15. 1741 ; farmer in East Hartford and mar-
ried Dorothy Goodwin. 6. Sarah, born April
13, 1743; married Joseph Hurlburt. 7. Mary,
born January 18, 1745; married Timothy
Forbes. 8. William, born January 19, 1746;
married Abigail Stanley. 9. Nathaniel, born
December 24, 1750; married Anne Newcomb.
10. George, born November 22, 1752; men-
tioned below. 11. Abigail, born 1756; mar-
ried John Norton and died November 12,
1775. 12. Lemuel, born 1760; died 1775.

(Ill) George, son of Benjamin Roberts,
was born in East Hartford, November 22,
1752, and died October 4, 1824. He was a
farmer and business man. He served in the
revolution in Captain Jonathan Wells' com-
pany, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's regiment, and
was at Boston from December, 1775, to Feb-
ruary, 1776. He held various town offices,
and was elected selectman in 1820, serving: two
years. He married (first), Jerusha, born
May 20, 1757, died November 22, 1817,
daughter of Timothy and Ruth (Pitkin) Will-
iams, granddaughter of Ozias Pitkin and great
granddaughter of William Pitkin, the immi-

grant ancestor. He married (second), Lucre-
tia (Beaumont) Abbey, widow of Jeduthan
Abbey. Children, all by first wife : Jerusha,
born 1782, died July 7, 1798; Clarissa, May 4,
1783, died January 28, 1864, married Dr. Ed-
ward Pitkin; Ozias, August 10, 1785, men-
tioned below; George, May 28, 1789, died
November 10, 1808; Alvin, August 16, 1791,
died April 9, 1818; Esther, born July 4, 1793,
died in Manchester, January 9, 1822, married
James Bud well ; Lucretia, born November 10,
1795, died March 31, 1821, married Dr. W.
Cooley; Martin, born October 14, 1799, died
in New York, April 17, 1821, whither he had
gone to purchase goods to set up in business.
(IV) Hon. Captain Ozias Roberts, son of
George Roberts, was born August 10, 1785,
and died February 8, 1868, in the house where
he was born. He was educated in the district
school, and being fond of adventure, went to
sea when a young man. During the war of
1812 he shipped with Captain Josiah Griswold
of Wethersfield on board the privateer "Block-
ade." This vessel was owned by Thomas
Belden and others, and was fitted out on the
Connecticut river, and carried six guns. After
a time the "Blockade" was captured by a
British brig-of-war, and was run into the
Bermudas, and the crew confined in a prison
ship. Ozias Roberts and Dr. William Cooley,
however, managed to escape to the shore, and
wrere secreted by a negro until they could re-
turn to safety. For some time Ozias continued
to follow the sea, and became captain of a ves-
sel plying in the West Indies trade. At the
death of his father, however, he returned
home and managed the estate the rest of his
life, making a successful farmer. At one time
he owned and conducted the ferry at East
Hartford. Two years prior to his death, he
had a fall in his dooryard, from the effects of
which he never fully recovered, and was there-
after confined to his room, although he con-
tinued to manage his affairs. In politics he
was a Democrat, previous to the formation of
the Republican party, and was a strong Aboli-
tionist, and employed runaway slave labor.
He served as state senator, and, for four terms
after 1828, was a member of the House of
Representatives. In 1838 he was elected town
treasurer, serving two terms, and was for
many years custodian of the school funds.
His good judgment was so well known and
valued that he was often consulted for advice
by his friends and neighbors, and he settled
many estates. He was a Royal Arch Mason,
and although not a church member he gave
liberally for the support of the churches, and
was a member of the Ecclesiastical Society
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strict disciplinarian and brought his children
up to respect the Sabbath and to live lives of
usefulness. Hon. Richard D. Hubbard, an ex-
governor of Connecticut, was brought up in
the family of Ozias Roberts as his ward and
cousin. The home of Captain Roberts was al-
ways open for the entertainment of his friends,
and was the scene of more gatherings than any
house in town. Thanksgiving and Election
days were always observed with bountiful
cheer, and the numbers of relatives and friends
who gathered there on those days testified to
his popularity. He married (first), Martha,
who died January 3, 1809, aged twenty-one,
daughter of Joseph and Martha (Adams)
Treat. He married (second), Harriet Treat,
who died July 19, 1822, aged thirty-two, sister
of his first wife. He married (third), March
26, 1823, Nancy Comstock, born July 4, 1802,
in East Hartford, died January 17, 1859,
daughter of Perez and Abigail (Raymond)
Comstock, of Montville, Connecticut. Chil-
dren of first wife: 1. Mary Ann, died April 3,
i8_j8, aged forty-one; married March 10, 1831,
Deacon Horace Williams. 2. Martha, born
December 23, 1808, in East Hartford. Chil-
dren of second wife: 3. George, born 1810,
mentioned below. 4. Jane Treat, born Decem-
ber 10, 181 1 ; married Edward Goodwin. 5.
Harriet, born October 11, 1814: died Novem-
ber 19, 1875 ; married, 1835, Aaron Olmstead
and had Horace B., Arthur G., A. Fred and
Charles H. Olmstead. 6. Jerusha, born March
15, 1819: married Alfred Kilbourne. Children
of third wife: 7. Esther Bidwell, born May

25, 1824; died September, 1883; married Al-
bert Comstock Raymond, who built the Ray-
mond Library in East Hartford. 8. Luther
Martin, born November 18, 1826; died March
21, 1847, on board a ship on which he was
second mate, and was buried at Vera Cruz,
Mexico. 9. Juliette, born July 23, 1829; died
October 1, 1857; married John B. Smith of
East Hartford and Berlin. 10. Arthur, born
January 14, 1831 ; died January 23, 1833. 11.
Emma (twin), born October 15, 1835: died
April 2, 1856, unmarried. 12. Ellen (twin).
born October ts, 1835: died unmarried. April

26, 1850. 13. Elizabeth Bradford, born March
21, 1838; married Henry A. Street, of New
Haven. 14. Arthur Ozias, born February 22,
1840; master's mate in the civil war. 15.
Frances L., born August 23, 1846; registrar
of the Martha Pitkin Wolcott Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution, at
East Hartford.

(V) George (2), son of Captain Ozias Rob-
erts, was born in East Hartford in 1810, and
died in 1878. He attended the public schools
and assisted his father on the farm until he

was seventeen years of age, when he went to
Hartford and entered the employ of Thomas
K. Brace, as clerk of his grocery store. He
remained there until he was twenty-one, and
then went to New York and entered the dry-
goods house of Fitch, Goodwin & Company,
remaining two years, during which time oc-
curred the great cholera epidemic in the city,
when but few had the courage to remain
there. In 1833 he returned to Hartford, and
in a short time was chosen state director in
the Phoenix Bank. He formed a partnership
with Charles H. Northam, carrying on a
wholesale grocery business under the firm
name of Northam & Roberts. In 1836 a part-
nership was formed with Philip G. and Edwin
G. Ripley, the firm being Ripley, Roberts &
Company, and an extensive iron business was
conducted by them for three or four years.
About 1840 Mr. Roberts returned to New
York, and went into partnership with G.
Spencer, and was for several years in success-
ful business. He was one of the organizers
of the Metropolitan Bank of New York. In
1853 he retired from active business to a farm
in South Windsor, Connecticut. In 1854 he
was chosen treasurer of the Hartford Carpet
Company, which owned extensive mills at
Thompsonville and Tariffville. In 1856 on the
retirement of Hon. T. M. Allvn, he was
elected president and treasurer of the corn-
pan}-, and continued in the position until his
death, twenty-two years later. One of the
prominent officials of this company said that
in all that time the relations were most pleas-
ant, and that Mr. Roberts was never heard to
utter an unpleasant word, being always even-
tempered, genial and kind. He was prudent
and wise and managed the affairs of the cor-
poration with much ability. He was president
of the Woven Wire Mattress Company, a di-
rector in the Phoenix National Bank, the
Aetna Fire Insurance Company, the Connecti-
cut Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and for
twenty years director of the Hartford Gas
Company. He was noted for his business
sagacity and good judgment and was an ex-
ceedingly valuable man in the corporations
with which he was connected. Although by
nature retiring and modest, yet he loved the
society of his friends, and was an agreeable
companion. He was a staunch Republican in
politics, and a supporter of the Union during
the civil war. He took an active interest in
the affairs of his town and state. He was a
member of Center Church, and a practical
Christian, carrying the principles of his re-
ligion into everyday life.

'He married' (first), October 19, 1836,
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He married (second), Elvira Evans, born
July 12, 1812, daughter of Jason and Thank-
ful (Taylor) Evans, and a descendant on her
mother's side from John Taylor of Windsor.
Her line of descent is: Thankful (6),
daughter of Hollis ( 5 ) ; Sergeant Thomas (4),
who was prominent in the French and Indian
war, being captured and taken to Canada
while on a march from Northfield to Fort
Dummer, July 14, 1748; he received fifty
pounds from the government of the province
for bravery in action ; Thomas Taylor (3) was
wounded at Deerfield and drowned in the Con-
necticut river, August 31, 1717; John (2),
married Thankful Woodward and was killed
by the Indians at New Haven, May 13, 1704;
John (1) was a first settler at Windsor, Con-
necticut.

Child of first wife : Louisa Stewart, died
aged about eleven. Children of the second
wife : Martha, married Edward C. Ritchie of
Brooklyn ; Mary, married George C. Perkins
of Hartford ; George, married Ida Hamilton,
and succeeded his father as president of the
Hartford Carpet Company; Jane L., married
George D. Holton, of Chicago, Illinois ; Sarah,
died aged three years ; Henry, born January
22, 1853, mentioned below.

(VI) Hon. Henry Roberts, son of George
(2) Roberts, was born in Brooklyn, New York,
January 22, 1853. The first twelve years of
his life were spent on a farm in South Wind-
sor, where he attended the public schools and
worked on the farm during his boyhood. He
graduated from the Hartford high school, in
the class of 1873, and entered Yale College,
from which he was graduated in the class of
1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He
then studied law and graduated from the Yale
Law School, but has never practiced his pro-
fession. He studied law for the purpose of
fitting himself for a business career. After
completing his education he entered the office
of the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Com-
pany, of which his father was president, and
of which he himself is now president. In
1884 he was elected secretary of the corpo-
ration and since 1886 has been president, suc-
ceeding his brother who was the head of the
company after his father. This concern is one
of the leading enterprises in Hartford and
has shown a magnificent record of growth and
prosperity. He has had a most honorable and
distinguished career in public life. He was
elected alderman from the sixth ward of Hart-
ford in 1897 and served two years as chairman
of the ways and means committee, winning for
himself the public confidence and demonstrat-
ing an aptitude for public affairs and capacity
for high public service. In 1898 he was

elected to the general assembly from the city
of Hartford and during the session of 1899
was chairman of the house committee on fin-
ance. He was earnest and efficient both in the
work of the committee room and on the floor
of the house. His popularity and influence ex-
tended beyond the city of his home to all parts
of the state. He took a position of leader-
ship in the Republican party. He was elected
state senator from his district in 1900 and was
appointed chairman of the appropriations com-
mittee. In 1902 he was nominated by the Re-
publican state convention for lieutenant gov-
ernor on the ticket with Governor Chamberlain
and he was elected. At the end of his two
years of efficient and useful service in this high
office, a New Haven newspaper said of Gov-
ernor Roberts : "The cordial esteem of twenty-
four leading men of the state is something an
unworthy man never gets. The cordial es-
teem of all who know him cannot be enjoyed
by any man not of high class, morally and in-
tellectually. Lieutenant Governor Roberts has
won a high place in the regard and affections
of the people of Connecticut, and in our opin-
ion no Senate was ever presided over more
successfully than the one of 1903, over which
the favorite son of Hartford wielded the
gavel."

The Republican convention nominated him
for governor, September 14, 1904, and he was
elected in November following, by a hand-
some majority over A. Heaton Robertson, the
Democratic candidate. He was inaugurated
Wednesday, January 4, 1905, and his message
received unusual attention and most favorable
comment from the press of the state. His
administration was marked by much impor-
tant legislation and by a most systematic and
intelligent handling of the public business.
Governor Roberts fairly won the high appre-
ciation of his fellow-citizens, regardless of
partisan or other differences. The estimate of
Governor Roberts made at the time of his
nomination, by Charles Hopkins Clark in the
Hartford Coitrant, of which he is editor, shows
again how faithful a prophet is Mr. Clark, for
the estimate need not be changed except as
to tenses to become a summary of the Gov-
ernor's character and record at the close of
his administration. Mr. Clark wrote : "Being
of highest character, experienced in all public
affairs, loyal to all that relates to Connecticut's
best welfare, and ambitious only to perform
every public duty for the greatest good of the
state, he is a candidate who commands the
respect of all, and the better you know him
the better you will like him.

"Sometimes conventions nominate candi-
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they are biggest when first born. Henry Rob-
erts is not such a candidate. He was big
enough to get 171 more votes than the total
number given to his three popular and power-
ful rivals. His growth in popularity will in-
crease every day of the campaign. He will
win by a big plurality. He will be the next
governor of Connecticut, and he will be one
of the best governors Connecticut has ever
had."

Like his father, Governor Roberts is inter-
ested in various enterprises and financial in-
stitutions of Hartford. He is a director of
the Hartford Trust Company, the State Sav-
ings Bank, the Hartford Electric Light Com-
pany, the Farmington River Power Company
and a trustee of the Slater Industrial School
at Winston, North Carolina. He is a mem-
ber of the Country Club at Farmington, the
Hartford Club and other social organizations.
He takes a lively interest in local history and
genealogy and is a prominent member of the
Connecticut Society of the Colonial Wars and
the Sons of the American Revolution. In re-
ligion Governor Roberts is a Congregational-
ist, attending the Centre Street Church. He
married, October 5, 1881, Carrie E., daughter
of Isaac W. Smith of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Children : John Taylor, born October 4, 1882,
now a broker in Hartford ; Francis Thatcher,
born December, 1885, died March 20, 1889;
Edward Constant, born June 4, 1888.

John Roberts lived in Middle-
ROBERTS town, Connecticut, where he

died July 6, 1721. He mar-
ried, December 27, 1693, Sarah Blake, born
February 16, 1675, died May 6, 1737.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Roberts,
was born at Middletown, September 22, 1697,
married there, November 18, 17 18, Martha
Lucas, born March, 1698-99.

(III) Jonathan, son of John (2) Roberts,
was born at Middletown, June 29, 1730, died
December 9, 1775. He settled in Waterbury,
Connecticut. He married (first), September
19, 1751, Mary Whitmore, who died May 18,
1765. He married (second) July 11, 1765,
Catharine, who died in 1788, daughter of
Thomas Doolittle. Children of first wife :
Esther, born September 18, 1752; Benjamin,
January 13, 1754; Amy, May 12, 1755; son,
November 4, 1756, Waterbury; Elihu, June 22,
1758; Deborah, March 24, 1760; Seth, March
2J, 1763. Children of second wife: Benja-
min, mentioned below; Jonathan; Jesse; and
three daughters.

(IV) Benjamin, son of Jonathan Roberts,
was born at Middletown, September 19, 1771,
died May 7, 1850. He lived at Watertown,

Connecticut. He married (first) Esther Pres-
ton, born at Torrington, August 6, 1772, died
March 4, 1832. He married (second) Anna

. Children of first wife : Hosea, born

July 9, 1795; Horace, August 24, 1797; Peter
M., mentioned below ; Frederick, August 8,
1 80 1 ; Maria, October 8, 1803 ; Sarah and
(twins), July 17, 1805; Jefferson, Oc-
tober 8, 1807; Anna, June 6, 1809; Stephen,
June 11, 1811; Harriet, November 23, 1816.
Child of second wife : Jerome, born March
5. 1835.

(V) Peter M., son of Benjamin Roberts,
was born in West Goshen, Connecticut, Au-
gust 15, 1799, died May 4, 1849. He lived
in Cornwall all his life and was a tavern
keeper and prosperous farmer. He lived in
what was called Roberts Hill, where he died
at the age of forty-six years. He married,
April 22, 1823, Joanna Wooster, born Novem-
ber 8, 1805, daughter of a pioneer settler. She
married ( second ) Thomas Herney and lived
to an advanced age.

(VI) Elbert George, only child of Peter M.
Robe'rts, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut,
( )ctober 4, 1824, died July 24, 1889. He at-
tended the district schools and Wesleyan Uni-
versity, at Middletown. After graduation he
lived with his mother and stepfather in St.
Louis, Missouri, where he engaged in business,
first as a wholesale dealer, then as a retailer,
and met with much success. He was also in
business in Alabama. In 1861, when the civil
war broke out, he returned to Litchfield
county, and began to manufacture cotton yarn
in the town of Goshen, making his home in
Litchfield. He died at the age of sixty-two.
He married Virginia, born November 13,
1828, at Montgomery, Alabama, died June 2,
1901, daughter of John W. and Margaret
(Dial) Kerr. Her father was born in 1798,
died August 22, 1855 ; her mother was born
in 1805, died April 9, 1884. Children : 1. Vir-
ginia Helen, born February 22, 1848, resides
with her brother Elbert P. 2. Elbert Frank-
lin. 3. Dr. George Kerr, born March 3, 1855;
graduate of Hobart College and of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New
York, practicing at Attleboro, Massachusetts,
married, Tune 20, 1882, Susan Hawlev ; chil-
dren : William Hawlev, George and Helen.
4. Anna, born November 3, 1857 ; formerly a
school teacher at Duluth, Michigan ; married,
November 3, 1908, William T. Marsh, of
Litchfield. 5. John Williams, born November
16, i860, a farmer in Illinois; married, Tuly
6, 1888, Jennie E. Russell. 6. Elbert Peter,
mentioned below.

(VII) Elbert Peter, son of Elbert George
Roberts, was born October 29, 1863. He was

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educated at Litchfield, in public and private
schools. He began to study law in the office
of Chief Justice Andrews, and continued with
Mr. Hickox, a prominent lawyer of Litch-
field. Having been admitted to the bar in
1884, he has practiced in Litchfield since then.
In addition to the law, he has a large real es-
tate business. He is a justice of the peace and
has been on the grand jury and the school
board. He is a member of St. Paul's Lodge,
No. 11, Free and Accepted Masons; of Darius
Chapter, No. 16, Royal Arch Masons, and of
Buel Council, Royal and Select Masters. In
religion he is an Episcopalian and in politics
a Democrat. He has been auditor. He mar-
ried, May 12, 1900, Marion, born November
22, 1 863, daughter of Charles and Lucy (Mer-
riman) Perkins, of Litchfield. They have no
children.

Charles Browne, immigrant
BROWNE ancestor, was born in England

and became an early settler in
Rowley, Massachusetts. He had a house lot
there in 1647 and other lands, to which he
added later. That he was a man of education
is proven by the fact that he was for a time
the town's school-master. In 1661 he was
granted a lot, "to beate the drum for the
benefit of the towne." His name appears in
a list of freeholders of Rowley, January 28,
1677. It is also recorded as "Br Browne"
among the church members in full com-
munion, and "Goodwife Browne" united
March 7, 1671. The wife of Charles Browne
was Mary, daughter of William and Mar-
garet Acy. Their marriage occurred 14-81110.-
1647, m Rowley. Charles Browne died in
1687, and was buried December 16. His wife
died December 12, 1683. They had eight sons
and one daughter.

(II) Nathaniel Brown, son of Charles
Browne, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts,
May 20, 1660. He shared in the distribution
of his father's estate and received various
grants of land. On June 29, 1707, he sold
his homestead to Jonathan Wheeler, of New-
bury, and soon thereafter removed to Groton,
Connecticut. A deed of land in Groton, Jan-
uary 8, 1707-08, expressly states that he was
"late of Rowley," and he and his wife were
dismissed from the Rowley church to Groton,
June 29, 1707. He purchased lands in Groton
and was soon made an inhabitant. His home
was at Poquonock Cove, where he bought two
hundred acres of Gershom Rice. The town
called upon him for service in various capac-
ities and he was an honored townsman. In
"his will, proved June 24, 1731, he mentions
sons and daughters, among them his son

Nathaniel. His wife, whom he married in
Rowley, June 4, 1685, was the daughter of
David and Sarah (Wise) Wheeler. David
Wheeler was the son of John Wheeler, and
was born about 1625, in England, coming to
New England in the ship "Confidence," in
1638. Sarah Wise was the daughter of Hum-
phrey Wise, of Ipswich.

(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
and Mary (Wheeler) Brown, was baptized in
Rowley in September, 1690, and was aged sev-
enteen when his father removed to Groton.
On May 30, 171 7, after his marriage to Anna
Haynes, which occurred July 11, 171 5, he
bought land at Poquonock Cove, but, March
30, 1722, he bought a one-third interest in a
tract of two hundred acres in the north part
of Groton (Ledyard). In his subsequent life
he bought and sold lands quite extensively,
acquiring finally a large tract, which he be-
queathed to his decendants. His homestead
was on the road from Mystic to Norwich,
about three-quarters of a mile north of where
the "Church Hill meeting house" once stood.
He was probably identified with the Separatist
movement and his son Nathaniel was ordained
a minister of that sect in 1751. Nathaniel
Brown died in July, 1770, aged eighty years,
and his wife shortly afterwards. She was the
daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Starke)
Haynes, and was born November 3, 1696, in
Groton. They had six sons and two daughters.

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Nathaniel (2)
Brown, was born in 1725, in Groton, died
there in July, 1799, aged seventy-four. The
deeds passed in the settlement of his father's
estate establish his line of descent. His home-
stead was originally a part of his father's
tract. He was probably the Ebenezer Brown
who served, April 6 to December 4, 1761, in
Major John Durkee's company of Norwich.
He deeded, during his life, lands to several
of his sons, among them, November 13, 1786,
a tract to his son John Brown. The wife of
Ebenezer Brown was Ruth, daughter of
Captain John Jr. and Sarah (Copp) Mor-
gan, who was born April 9, 1733, in Groton,
and married in 1750. She died in March,
1806. Her grandfather was Captain John
Morgan, of Groton, a son of John Morgan
and grandson of James Morgan, ancestor of
many distinguished persons of that name. Her
grandmother was Ruth, daughter of Benjamin
and Mary (Picket) Shapley. the latter being
a daughter of John and Ruth (Brewster)
Picket, daughter of Jonathan Brewster and
granddaughter of Elder William Brewster, of
the "Mayflower."

(V) John, son of Ebenezer Brown, states in
his application for a pension that he was born

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in 1755, in Groton, Connecticut. He was
therefore about of age when the revolutionary
war broke out and was living in one of the
most patriotic towns in Connecticut. He en-
listed as fifer in the Tenth Company, Captain
Abel Spicer, Colonel Parsons's regiment, May
9, 1775, and served to December 18, 1775, be-
ing stationed at Boston. This regiment was
reorganized early in 1776 as the Tenth Con-
tinental, and John Brown became fifer in the
company of Captain Gallup, of Groton. In
this regiment he served one year, engaging
in the battles of Long Island and White
Plains. He was then engaged in the Rhode
Island service for three months. On April
6, 1777, he enlisted at Groton, in Captain
Amos Stanton's company, Colonel Henry
Sherburne's regiment, and was appointed
"Fife Major" of the regiment. After serving
three years, he was discharged April 6, 1780,
at Morristown, New Jersey. He participated
in some of the most arduous and dreadful ex-
periences of the war, serving in all five years.
On April 11, 1818, he made application for
a pension and his claim was allowed. He was
then a resident of Plainfield, Connecticut. His
brothers, Daniel and Ebenezer, were also revo-
lutionary soldiers, serving in the Tenth Com-
pany of the Sixth Continental Regiment.
After the return of Major John Brown from
the war, he lived for a time at his father's
homestead. In 1786 he received land from
his father, consisting of thirty-four acres,
where he probably lived. Subsequently he re-
moved to Plainfield and died in Sterling in
1835. His gravestone in "Green Hollow"
cemetery bears the epitaph: "Mr. John Brown,
Died June 22, 1835. Aged 80. A soldier of
the Revolution." The wife of Major Brown
was Phebe, daughter of George and Mary
(Fisher) Glover. She was the sister of Mary
Glover, wife of Captain Nathaniel Prentice
Peabody, and Anne Glover, wife of Captain
Erastus Perkins, of Norwich. On her father's
side she was descended from "The Worshipful
Mr. (John) Glover," member of the London
Company and captain of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.
After the former brother-in-law she named
one of her sons.

(VI) Gurdon Perkins, son of John Brown.
was born April 9, 1797. in Groton,
baptized in Plainfield, April 29, 1814. He
married, June 16, 1822, Esther, daughter of
Elias and Elizabeth (Giles) Dean, of Plain-
field. Afterwards he occupied the homestead
of his father-in-law. which na^sed to him and
his wife at the death of Elias Dean in 1849.
He held several town offices, was a justice of
the peace and a schoolmaster of local celebrity

for thirty-six years. His death occurred July
6, 1880, in Plainfield. The ancestral line of
Esther (8) Dean is: Elias (7) Dean, Abijah
(6) Dean, Abijah (5) Dean, William (4)
Dean, James (3) Dean, Walter (2) Dean,
William (1) Dean, of South Chard, Somerset-
shire, England. The wife of Elias Dean was
a daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hall)
Giles, through whom she was descended from
Edward Giles, of Salem, the immigrant an-
cestor of the Giles family, and from John Hall,
of Cambridge and Medford, Massachusetts.

(YII) John Dean Browne, son of Gurdon
Perkins Brown, was born August 26, 1836, in
Plainfield, Connecticut. In youth Mr.
Browne's life was devoted to the farm and
district school, and at the age of nineteen he
taught the schools in his native town. In
1855 he made a visit to the then far-off ter-
ritory of Minnesota, and two years later lo-
cated in Minneapolis, where after varying
occupations, including the duties of associate
editor of the weekly paper, he engaged in the
service of the Minneapolis Mill Company, and
for two years aided in the development and
improvement of the magnificent water power
at that point, which has since brought wealth
and power to that beautiful city. When the
work was completed, Mr. Browne was selected
by the Little Falls Manufacturing Company
to undertake the development of the fine water
power at that point. He was elected a director
and secretary, and appointed agent to carry on
the work. Little Falls was at that time a
small village of a few hundred inhabitants, on
the extreme border of civilization, about one
hundred miles north of Minneapolis. Here he
spent a year, with a large crew, constructing
a dam across the Mississippi river, under
great difficulties successfully completing the
work. This point was about three hundred
miles north of the nearest railroad (LaCrosse)
and nearly all the supplies for the crew had
to be hauled overland from Minneapolis or St.
Paul. This work involved a large responsibil-
ity and was no small undertaking for a young
man of twenty-four years.

While in Minneapolis, Mr. Browne was ac-
tively prominent in local and state politics,
aided in the organization of the Republican
party in Minnesota in 1855 (territorial days)
and held intimate relations with the dominant
party at the national capital through the ad-
ministration of President Lincoln, for whose
election he had been an enthusiastic and effec-
tive worker. He was often a delegate to
county and state conventions, and was elected
an alternate delegate to the National Repub-
lican convention which nominated Mr. Lin-
coln at Chicago in i860. At the close of the

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presidential campaign, he was elected mes-
senger to take the first electoral vote of the
state to Washington, an office regarded as
highly complimentary at that time. He re-
mained in Washington during the eventful
winter preceding the withdrawal of the seced-
ing states, and during his stay there received
an appointment in the interior department,
under Joseph Wilson, commissioner of the gen-
eral land office. For four years during Lin-
coln's administration, he was chief clerk in the
office of surveyor general of public lands in
St. Paul, to which city the office had been re-
cently removed from Detroit. He was ap-
pointed with the rank of major on the staff
of General Daley, then in command of the
state militia. When the call to arms came
in 1861. he with others enlisted and recruited
a company for the Second Regiment, and re-
ported at Fort Snelling, but was rejected by
the examining surgeon on account of physical
disability.

In 1865 Mr. Browne returned to his native
state and engaged in the business of fire in-
surance. In 1867 he became connected with
the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, as its
general agent and adjuster. In 1870 he was
elected secretary of that company, in the du-
ties of which he was engaged until called to
the presidency of the Connecticut Fire Insur-
ance Company, in 1880. This company, un-
der his leadership, has marched steadily for-
ward to its present position as one of the
large and solid financial institutions of Hart-
ford.

In politics Mr. Browne is independent. He
cut loose from the Republican party at the
time of the nomination of Blaine and advo-
cated the election of Cleveland, whose adminis-
tration he cordially approved. He is an un-
compromising foe to centralization, paternal-
ism and imperialism in government. He be-
lieves in the Declaration of Independence, the
rights of states, and the constitution as under-
stood by the fathers. He is interested in many
Hartford business, charitable and social organ-
izations and associations ; is a trustee of the
Society for Savings, a director in the Phoenix
Mutual Life Insurance Company, the National
Exchange Bank ; director, member of the
finance committee and chairman of the board
of managers of the Hartford Retreat ; director,
member of the finance and executive commit-
tees of the Connecticut Humane Society ; di-
rector of the Charity Organization Society ;
president of the Charitable Society of Hart-
ford ; member of the Connecticut Historical
Societv, the Hartford Board of Trade, the
Hartford Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the
Sons of the American Revolution ; hereditarv

member Society of Colonial Wars, the Reform
Club of New York, and a cheerful supporter
of all legitimate charitable and educational
work.

He married, October 23, 1861, Frances,
daughter of Luther and Lydia C. (Wood-
ward) Cleveland, of Plainfield, Connecticut.
She died in 1893, leaving two daughters,
Alice Cleveland, wife of Francis R. Cooley,
of Hartford, and Virginia Frances Browne
(see Cleveland VI).

(The Cleveland Line).

Whether written Cleveland or Cleaveland,
that English patronymic is derived from a
place of the same name in the north riding of
Yorkshire, where the family has been seated
from the time of the Norman Conquest. Tradi-
tion, supported by the researches of students
and investigators of repute, attributes the
founding of the family to Thorkil, who is sup-
posed to have been a Saxon land proprietor,
and who about the time of the conquest as-
sumed the name of de Cliveland- and called
himself Thorkil de Cliveland. The Cleveland
genealogy presents the ancient history of the
family in detail, but does not assume to de-
termine definitely the English ancestry of the
immigrants. It states, however, that the
parish records of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Eng-
land, show records from 1542 to 1612, of Ips-
wich Clevelands, all of whom were without
doubt akin to Moses Cleveland, of Woburn,
Massachusetts, the immigrant ancestor, and
bore the same christian names as Moses and
his immediate descendants. The Cleveland
coat-of-arms is : Per chevron sable and er-
mine, a chevron engrailed countercharged.
Crest : A demi old man proper habited proper,
having on a cap gules turned up with a hair
front holding in the dexter hand a spear
headed argent, on the top of which is fixed a
line proper, passing behind him, and coiled
up in the sinister hand. There were other
coats-of-arms also, borne by different branches
of the family, with more or less difference
from those described.

(I) Moses Cleveland, immigrant ancestor,
came when a youth from Ipswich, England, to
this country. Tradition says he came in 1635.
He was born about 1624 and died at Woburn,
Massachusetts, January 9, 1701-02. He mar-
ried, in Woburn, September 26, 1648, Ann
Winn, born in Wales or England about 1626.
Children, born in Woburn : Moses, Septem-
ber 1, 1651 ; Hannah, August 4, 1653; Aaron,
January 10, 1654-55 ; Samuel, June 9, 1657,
mentioned below; Miriam, July 10, 1659;
Joanna, September 19, 1661, died March 12,
^C)C^^J ; Edward, May 20, 1664; Josiah, Feb-

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ruary 26, 1666-67; Isaac, May 11, 1669;
Joanna, April 5, 1670.

(II) Sergeant Samuel, son of Moses Cleve-
land, was born in Woburn, June 9, 1657, died
at Canterbury, Connecticut, March 12, 1735-
36. He was a soldier in King Philip's war
and held the rank of sergeant. He was ad-
mitted a freeman, March 11, 1689-90. He
bought land in Chelmsford, November 17,

1681, on the north side of Tadmuck Hill. He
returned to Woburn in 1693 and the same year
removed to Canterbury, Connecticut. The
settlers had considerable trouble over the dis-
tribution of the land, and there were nu-
merous disputes and trials at law regarding
it. At one time Samuel Cleveland, together
with nearly all the prominent men in the town,
was fined for "stealing loads of hay." On
April 30, 1723, the land under dispute was
finally apportioned to the satisfaction of all,
and Samuel Cleveland was among those who
had the shares allotted to first settlers. He
married (first) in Chelmsford, May 17, 1680,
Jane Keyes, born in Newbury, October 25,
1660, died November 14, 1681, daughter of
Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes. He
married (second) at Chelmsford, May 23,

1682, Persis Hildreth, born February 8, 1660,
died February 22, 1698, daughter of Richard
and Elizabeth Hildreth. He married (third)
July 25, 1699, at Canterbury, Mrs. Margaret
Fish, widow of John Fish. Child of first wife,
born at Chelmsford: Jane, about 1681. By
second wife: Persis. April 21, 1683; Samuel,
January 12, 1685; Ephraim, April 10, 1687;
Joseph, July 18, 1689 ; Elizabeth, June 26,
1693, at Woburn. Born at Canterbury : Mary,
June 14, 1696; children of third wife: Abigail,
April 23, 1700, died February 23, 1717-18;
Timothy, mentioned below.

(III) Captain Timothy, son of Sergeant
Samuel Cleveland, was born at Canterbury,
Connecticut, August 25, 1702, died there Jan-
uary 19, 1784. He was a farmer, and com-
mander of the second company of the train
band during the French war. He married
Dorothy Hide, who died August 19, 1769,
probably daughter of Jonathan Hide, of Can-
terbury.

Children, born at Canterbury: Abigail,
March 2^, 1728; Zipporah, September 4,
1729: Elizabeth, baptized February 4. 1731 ;
Margaret, born December 24, 1732; Timothy,
December 29, 1734, mentioned below; Lucre-
tia, February 2, 1737; Samuel, February 23,
1738-39; Ephraim, August 20, 1740; Cyrus,
October 2, 1743; Elkanah, baptized Novem-
ber 20, 1744.

(IV) Lieutenant Timothy (2), son of Cap-
tain Timothy ( 1 ) Cleveland, was born at Can-

terbury, December 29, 1734, died there Octo-
ber 2.J, 1803. He served in the revolution in
Captain Aaron Cleveland's company at the
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was at
the battle of Bunker Hill, and had the breach
of his gun stock shot off while in full retreat,
and exclaiming, "the darned British shall have
no part of my gun" ran back in the face of
the advancing foe, and bore it off in triumph.
He was in the Second Connecticut Regiment,
General Israel Putnam's, in 1775, known as
Colonel John Durkee's in 1776, reorganized
for the Continental army, and marched to New
York in April, 1776. He was in the battles of
Trenton and Princeton and re-entered the con-
tinental army in 1777. He was commissioned
lieutenant in 1777. He married, January 30,
1760, Esther Fish, born February 18, 1735-36,
died November 3, 1803, daughter of John and
Esther (Johnson) Fish. Children, born in
Canterbury: Jacob, March 6, 1761 ; Bethabra,
October 31, 1763, mentioned below; Cyrus,
May 12, 1766; Jeptha, October 7, 1768; Dor-
othy, May 30, 1772, died young; Mary, No-
vember 6, 1774; Dorothy, October 12, 1779,
died unmarried March 3, 1862; Elkanah, June
9, died June 21, 1782.

(V) Bethabra, son of Lieutenant Timothy
(2) Cleveland, was born at Canterbury, Con-
necticut, October 31, 1763, died while on a
visit to his daughter at Ware, Massachusetts,
April 15, 1835. He was a farmer of Canter-
bury. He married, December 31, 1794, Mar-
garet Pellett, born about 1770, died at Ware,
May 11, 1847. Children: Nancy, born Sep-
tember 4, 1795, died unmarried April 15,
1863; Hiram, January 8, 1798; Thomas, Sep-
tember or October 14, 1801 ; Mary, August 25,
1803 ; Luther, October 25, 1806, mentioned
below: Emeline, September 25, 1809.

(VI) Luther, son of Bethabra Cleveland,
was born in Canterbury, October 25, 1806. He
was educated at the Plainfield Academy, and
for a number of years was the preceptor of
the school. He resided at Plainfield, and was
a prosperous and prominent citizen. He served
as collector in 1850, clerk and treasurer of the
school fund in the same year, clerk in 1853. He
was active in the church and for many years
leader of the choir. He married, at Plain-
field, October 16, 1834, Lydia Clift Wood-
ward, born March 7, 181 1, died February 19,
1890, daughter of Captain Lemuel and Brid-
get (Gallup) Woodward, of Plainfield. Chil-
dren, born at Plainfield : Frances, December
20, 1837, died December 25, 1893, married,
October 23, 1861, John Dean Browne (see
Browne VII) ; Julia Woodward, November 19,
1 84 1 ; Lemuel Woodward, twin of Julia Wood-
ward.

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The ship "Hector" and her con-
BROWN sort (name unknown) sailed

from London and reached the
Boston Colony, June 26, 1637. Among the
fifty men who came on these ships was Fran-
cis Brown. In the company under Theophilus
Eaton and John Davenport he went in Sep-
temher of the same year to look for a site for
a new colony. They settled upon Quinnipiack,
or New Haven, and seven men, among them
being Francis Brown, were left there during
the winter of 1637-38. The remainder of the
party returned to Boston and in the spring of
1638 returned, bringing their families and
others with them. In the division of land
"seven of them dwelt on the bank side," that
is, on what is now East Water street, fronting
the harbor, among them being Francis Brown.
(Atwater's History of the Colony of New
Haven).

(I) Francis Brown was a tailor by trade,
and also for a time kept the ferry at Red
Rock over the East River, probably the Quin-
nipiack river. He married, in England, Mary
Edwards, who died December 7, 1669. He
died in East Haven, 1668; will proved April
13, 1668, names wife Mary, daughter Lydia
and four sons.

(II) Eleazer, son of Francis and Mary
(Edwards) Brown, was baptized October 16,
1642, died October 23, 17 14. He married Sa-
rah Bulkeley, born August 12, 1640.

(III) Gershom, son of Eleazer and Sarah
(Bulkeley) Brown, was born October 9, 1665,
died 1724. He married, 1695, Hannah Mans-
field, born March 11, 1669, died November 1,
1726.

(IV) Olive, daughter of Gershom and Han-
nah (Mansfield) Brown, was born February
22, 1708, died October 10, 1743. She married,
March 20, 1728, Nathaniel Brown, no known
relative. He was educated in England, came
to America from Ireland, and had a brother
who was a lawyer in London, England. A
family Bible, dated 1735, has his name written
in it and is now in the possession of the family.
He died October 21, 175 1, and his burial was
in the Old Green Cemetery ; later the stone
marking his grave was removed to the Grove
street cemetery, where it now is.

(V) Captain Robert, son of Nathaniel and
Olive (Brown) Brown, was born in 1736, died
September 8, 1807. He married, July 2, 1767,
Mary Law. who died June 11, 1837. In 1790
the first federal census shows that he had in
his family five males over sixteen, three males
under that age and four females.

(VI) Robert (2), son of Captain Robert
(1) and Mary (Law) Brown, was born Au-
gust 19, 1770, died April 20, 1854. He mar-

ried, July 28, 1798, Mrs. Eunice (Mix) Har-
wood, born May 17, 1774, died October 10,
1869. Children: 1. Charles, born March 17,
1801, was for many years in partnership with
his brother, Andrew Law, in the manufacture
of soap and candles in New Haven ; married
Lucretia, daughter of Samuel Russel, and des-
cendant of the Rev. Samuel Russel, who gave
the first forty volumes as a nucleus for the
foundation of Yale College Library ; children :
Frances Louise, married Whiting S. Sanford ;
David Russel, born May 30, 183 1, died Feb-
ruary 21, 1910; James Hotchkiss; George Al-
exander. 2. Andrew Law, see forward. 3.
George. 4. Frances Louise, married (first)
James Hotchkiss; (second) Horace Butler, of
New York. 5. Emily, married Major Moul-
throp, an old time photographer of New Ha-
ven. 6. Catherine, married George B. Rich.

(VII) Andrew Law, son of Robert (2) and
Eunice (Mix-Harwood) Brown, was born
February 17, 1805, died February 12, 1871.
He was educated in the public schools of New
Haven, and engaged in business with his
brother, Charles Brown, in the manufacture
of soap and candles at New Haven. He mar-
ried, November 11, 1832, Mary Ann Beebe,
born July 4, 181 1, died May 17, 1892. She
was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Children, born at New Haven: Robert A.,
secretary and treasurer of the New Haven
Savings Bank and president of the New Ha-
ven Manufacturing Company ; William H.,
see forward ; Mary, married Henry Holt, of
Springfield, Massachusetts.

(VIII) W'illiam H. son of Andrew Law
and Mary Ann (Beebe) Brown, was born in
New Haven, February 18, 1837. He received
his education in the public schools of New
Haven and the Lancastrian school. He was
engaged in business as a dealer in cigars and
spirits up to the time of his death, January
11, 1888. He married Cornelia, daughter
of Horace Camp, who died at the age of
eighty-four years, and his wife died at the age
of eighty-six years. Children : William H.
Jr., secretary and treasurer of New Haven
Manufacturing Company ; Frederick Ward,
see forward ; Dr. Albert R., a dent-
ist in New York City ; Andrew L., a dent-
ist in New York City. Mrs. Brown resides
with her children in New York City.

(IX) Dr. Frederick Ward, son of William
H. and Cornelia (Camp) Brown, was born in
New Haven, July 14, 1863. He attended the
public schools of his native city. He studied
dentistry under Drs. Austin B. Fuller, Frank
C. Swift and J. S. Cairoli, of Bridgeport, and
Dr. H. J. Stevens, of New Haven. He then
pursued a course of dentistry in the University

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of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of
1888 with the degree of D.D.S. Since then
he has practised his profession in New Haven.
He has handsomely appointed offices, equipped
with the latest appliances, located at 1098
Chapel street.

Dr. Frederick W. Brown was appointed by
Governor Rollin S. Woodruff, July 1, 1905,
one of the state commissioners of dentistry of
Connecticut for a term of five years. In 1909
he was president of the Connecticut State
Dental Association. He is a member of the
Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard,
of which he was for a time commissary ser-
geant, and was commissioned major, Decem-
ber 10, 1907, resigning July 13, 1909. He is
a member of Yale Lodge of Heptasophs ;
Wooster Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; New
Haven Commandery, Knights Templar ; Pyra-
mid Temple, Mystic Shrine, having taken all
the Scottish Rite degrees up to the thirty-sec-
ond ; New Haven Dental Club and Union
League Club. In politics he is a Republican.
Dr. Brown married, April 29, 1893, Jennie
Aalata, daughter of Halsey C. Thomas, of
New Haven. Children : Mildred, born Feb-
ruary 13, 1894; Leonard, January 22, 1899.
Dr. Brown and his wife are both musical and
have both held positions in various New Ha-
ven churches.

(II) Samuel, son of Francis
BROWN Brown, (q. v.), was baptized

April 7, 1645, died in Walling-
ford, November 6, 1691. He was an original
subscriber to the compact for the settlement
of Wallingford and had a lot assigned to
him, but not building on it within the time
prescribed, lost his title. He married. May 2,
1667, Merc}- Tuttle, born April 27, 1650. Chil-
dren : Abigail, born March 11, 1669, died
April 28, 1670; Sarah, August 8, 1672; Ra-
chel, April 24, 1677 ; Francis, October 7, 1679,
mentioned below ; Gideon, July 12, 1685 ; Sam-
uel. October 29, 1689, died June 20, 1691.

(Ill) Captain Francis (2)' Brown, son of
Samuel Brown, was born October 7, 1679,
died September 23, 1741. His will shows him
to have been a man of considerable means. He
married (first) April 11, 1705, Hannah Ailing,
born May 2^, 1678, died December 9, 1725,
daughter of John and Susanna (Coe) Ailing.
He married (second) December 22, 1726,
Elizabeth Rosewell, born September 5, 1690,
died October 13, 1742, daughter of Richard
and Lydia (Trowbridge) Rosewell. Children:
John, born May 14, 1706; Samuel, October 6,
1708; Mehitable, April 9, 171 1 ; Stephen, Au-
gust 10, 1713, mentioned below; Timothy,

April 10, 1716; Isaac, died November 21, 1738,
aged twenty-one.

(IV) Stephen, son of Captain Francis (2)
Brown, was born August 10, 1713. He set-
tled in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1764 admin-
istration was granted on his estate to his
widow. He married, September 27, 1739, Ma-
bel Bradley, and had, it is said, seventeen chil-
dren. She married (second) Caleb Turner,
of New Haven, who was appointed guardian
to four minor children. Seven of the chil-
dren are: Hannah, born February 26, 1741 ;
Mabel, May 26, 1743 ; Sibyl, December 28,
1745 ; Stephen, January 4, 175 1, mentioned be-
low ; Olive, August 25, 1753, died young;
Olive, May 28, 1756; Rebecca, May 30, 1757;
Phebe, July 8, 1759.

(V) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1)
Brown, was born January 4, 175 1 , died May
5, 1833. He lived in Windsor, and was in
the revolution in Captain Nathaniel Hayden
Jr.'s company at the Lexington Alarm, April
l9~ L775- He married (first) November 26,
1775, Eunice Loomis, who died June 23, 1808.

He married (second) , of Windsor.

Children : James, born December 2, 1776,
mentioned below ; Stephen, born April 30,
1778; Bradley, December 23, 1779, died Sep-
tember 16, 1845 ; Eunice, January 29, 1781 ;
Sarah, January 27, 1782, died February 10,
1850 ; Martha, December 23, 1784, died June
17, 1865; Rebecca, December 6, 1786, died
November 16, 1867; son, February 11, 1789,
died young; son, April, 1790, died young;
Jesse, May 17, 1791, died December 27, 1870;
Melinda, February 14, 1795, died March 15,
1849; Oliver, December 23, 1798; Mabel, Feb-
ruary 12, 1812.

(AT) James, son of Stephen (2) Brown,
was born December 2, 1776. He learned the
trade of blacksmith of his father, and at the
age of twenty-one removed to Canton, Con-
necticut, remaining there a year. In 1798 he
removed to Waterbury, and worked at his trade
there the remainder of his life. He was an ori-
ginal partner in the third rolling mill erected
in Waterbury in 1830, afterward known as
the Brown & Elton Company. He was re-
markable for his industry, sobriety and hon-
esty, and was a respected citizen. Long after
his frugal habits and success in business had
secured him a competence, he continued to
work, believing idleness to be a sin. He was
a colonel of militia and a deacon of the church.
He died July 24, 1848. He married Lavinia
Welton. Children : Philo, born January 26,
1803 ; William, June 16, 1804, mentioned be-
low ; Mary Ann, died young; Augustus, born
August 20, 181 1 ; Dr. James, July 2, 1815.

(VII) Hon. William Brown, son of James

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Brown, was born in Waterbury, June 16,
1804. At the age of eighteen he became a
clerk in the store of Charles D. Kingsbury in
the old building still standing on the west side
of Exchange place, and remained in this posi-
tion for three years. He then traveled in the
southern states for Mark Leavenworth, manu-
facturer of clocks. In 1827 he entered into part-
nership with Mr. Leavenworth and the firm
continued until 1830, when he removed to Pleas-
ant Valley in the northern part of South Caro-
lina, about fifteen miles from Charlotte, North
Carolina, where he remained two years. On
his return he opened a store in partnership
with his younger brother, at the corner of Ex-
change place and West Main street. In the
summer of 1835 the store was destroyed by
fire, whereupon the firm bought the stock and
good will of Kendrick & Company in the
building occupied later by the Bronson
library. In addition to the mercantile busi-
ness the firm manufactured buttons and hooks
and eyes. In 1842 Mr. Brown took charge of
the works at Waterville where buttons and
pocket cutlery were manufactured and re-
mained there about five years. In 185 1 he
and his brothers Philo, Augustus and James
established the corporation of Brown &
Brothers, brass founders. The business flour-
ished and the firm became prominent in this
line of industry, and for fifteen years Mr.
Brown devoted himself with great energy and
application to this business. Then he retired
and from that time until he died he was occu-
pied in the care of his property, in advising
the managers of the various corporations in
which he was a stockholder and in adminis-
tering public and private trusts. He was pres-
ident of the Detroit and Lake Superior Cop-
per Company, one of the board of agents of
the Bronson Library of Waterbury, and direc-
tor of many other corporations.

He held the office of selectman and other
town and city offices in Waterbury, and for
many years was consulted freely by public
officers, who valued his judgment and experi-
ence and appreciated his good sense and pub-
lic spirit. As a private citizen and town officer
he gave his time and talents freely in the pub-
lic service to a greater extent than any other
citizen in his generation. In politics he was
a Democrat. He represented the fifth sena-
torial district in the legislature in 1870 and
was again elected in 1880 and was in office
at the time of his death. He represented the
town in the assembly in 1872-74-75. When
his death was announced in the senate by Sen-
ator Coe, the following resolution was unani-
mously passed :

"Resolved, That the Senate has heard of

the death of William Brown, late a senator of
the Fifth district, with profound sorrow and
regret ; that as an expression of our respect
for the memory of the deceased a committee
of three be appointed by the president of the
Senate to attend the funeral, and that as a
further mark of respect the Senate do now ad-
journ."

Senator Bradley said : "The sad intelligence
which comes to us at this hour, informing us
of the death of Senator Brown occasions a
profound sorrow not only to this body, but
casts a shade of sadness over a large circle
of acquaintances throughout the state. By
his genial ways, his word of kindly greeting
always extended to an acquaintance and his
sound judgment well seasoned by a long life
spent in active business pursuits, he endeared
himself to us, both as a warm friend and a
valuable member of this body. The ripest of
us all in the fruitage of years, and with one
exception, the oldest member in the councils
of the state has fallen, and we, his associates,
deeply mourn his death." Senators Coe, Brad-
street and Mills were appointed the committee.

The New Haven Union said : "He was much
respected and his death is universally regret-
ted."

The Hartford Post said : "Personally he
was a very agreeable man and in all his busi-
ness and official relations was popular with his
associates."

The Hartford Times said: "Mr. Brown was
among the ablest and most successful busi-
ness men of the state, and he was universally
esteemed. His loss as a public man and as
a private citizen will be regretted throughout
the state."

The Meriden Republican said : "He was
born and always lived in Waterbury, where he
was very highly respected, and in the state
senate he was looked up to as a gentleman
of thorough integrity and is highly esteemed
by his associates."

The New Haven Palladium said: "The
death of Senator Brown of the Fifth district
has sent a feeling of sorrow, not only among
the members of the senate, but also those of
the house. Although not a demonstrative man,
perhaps in consequence of his age as well as
nature, he was universally esteemed and was
generally considered a safe and conservative
adviser. He was a genial man, and as has
been before mentioned in this correspondence,
was the oldest member of the general assembly
with the exception of Judge Seymour of the
house, who was his senior by only a few
weeks."

The board of agents of the Bronson library
took the following notice of Mr. Brown's

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death : "For the fourth time since the organi-
zation of this board we are called upon to
mourn the loss of one of its members. On
the third day of March, 1881, at one-thirty
a. m., Hon. William Brown died suddenly of
heart disease at his residence in this city. He
was born in Waterbury, June 16, 1804. He
was one of the members of the first board of
agents and drew by lot the two-year term,
which expired July 4, 1870. On the first
Monday of October, 1875, he was elected to
serve for twelve years from July 4, 1876, and
this term was but partly completed at the time
of his death. He was a valuable member of
the board, and his counsel in this as in all
other bodies with which he was associated will
be greatly missed. He was often elected to
the legislature and was serving a term as sen-
ator from this district. Thus one by one the
old landmarks are removed. May as worthy
men be found to fill these vacant places."

Lieutenant Governor Bulkeley, now United
States senator, said of Mr. Brown, "Who,
during the time when he represented the Fifth
district in the chamber won not only the respect
but the affection of every senator by his kindly
manner, his sound judgment, his great ex-
perience and his personal worth."

The Waterbury American said of him: "He
was a man of sound judgment and keen busi-
ness insight. He investigated a subject with
great care and so exhaustively that no aspect
of it was likely to escape him. He brought
his imagination to bear on a question in such
a way as to anticipate all contingencies and
hence he was rarely taken by surprise. He
was a safe counselor and an excellent negoti-
ator, patient, wary, thorough and never losing
sight of the end in view. As a legislator he
was careful, conservative, uniformly courteous
and moderate ; never hasty in forming an opin-
ion, but adhering to it firmly though not ob-
stinately when formed. He was domestic in
his habits, fond of his home and a most kindly
and affectionate husband and father."

He married (first) December 17, 1828, Su-
sannah, daughter of Judge John Kingsbury.
She died May 28, 1841. He married (second)
March 25, 1844, Racbel Vienna, daughter of
Asa Fenn, of Middlebury, Connecticut. His
widow is still living at an advanced age. Chil-
dren : 1. Marcia Bronson, born July 31, 1832,
died December 14, 185 1. 2. Robert Kings-
bury, December 6, 1833, mentioned below. 3
Eliza Jane, April 1, 1836; married, October
14. 1858, Guernsey S. Parsons, banker and
judge of probate in Waterbury; child, Sarah
Kingsbury, born November 30. 1864. 4~5- Son,
(twin), born May 1, 1841, died young; daugh-
ter (twin) who died young. Child of second

wife : 6. Frederick James, born September 30,

( VIII) Robert Kingsbury, son of William
Brown, was born in Waterbury, December 6,
1833. He attended the public schools in Water-
bury, East Litchfield and Williston Seminary
at Easthampton, Masachusetts. After leaving
school he entered the employ of Brown Broth-
ers, his father's company, and learned the busi-
ness thoroughly. He held various positions of
responsibility in the concern and for a time
had charge of the manufacturing department.
He was a stockholder in the concern which was
owned chiefly by his father and uncles, who
founded it. After thirteen years he left the
brass business to devote his entire attention to
the care and management of his real estate. His
fortune has been largely augmented by wise in-
vestment, and he is now the largest owner of
real estate in the city of Waterbury. No man
has worked harder or contributed more to the
welfare and development of the city of Water-
bury, and, on the other hand, perhaps no man
has reaped a more substantial reward for his
confidence in the growth and future of the
city. He was frugal and saving in his per-
sonal habits from early youth. He went with-
out shoes and stockings to get together his
first capital. One of his first investments was
two hundred dollars in the stock of the Citi-
zens' Savings Bank of Waterbury. His object
in making this investment was the privilege it
gave him to attend the business meetings of
the bank.

He has been averse to holding public office
and has declined repeatedly to be a candidate,
though not lacking in interest in public affairs.
Indeed, Mr. Brown is active in public affairs
in Waterbury, and often writes and circulates
tracts to influence the public to his way of
thinking, or to remonstrate against bad govern-
ment. "Upon the love and esteem of the gov-
ernment depends the strength of the govern-
ment, and when the laws are considered just,
everv man becomes an executor. When the
laws are used with their iron-clad power re-
venge is often the unspoken motive. * * *
The average American has but a vague idea of
the constitution and the laws governing the
free American people. Blinded by her growth
and prosperity, trusting in the people to rule,
and meekly following our political leaders, it
has never seemed to occur to us that this thing
would not cease content with the present." The
foregoing is an extract from one of his political
tracts.

He married, January 22, 1856, Elizabeth
Nichols, daughter of Stiles Middlebrook, of
Bridgeport, Connecticut. They have no chil-
dren.

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599

Professor Irving Fisher, of
FISHER New Haven, Connecticut, pro-
fessor of political economy at
Yale University since 1898, traces his ancestry
on the paternal side to William Fisher, a
farmer in Ashgrove, New York, and a sol-
dier of the revolution.

(II) Zachariah, son of William Fisher, was
born 1767, died 1840. He was a farmer at
Nine Partners, New York. He married De-
light Norton, born 1770, died 1855, daughter
of George Norton, born 1724, died 1776, of
Roxbury, Connecticut, a revolutionary soldier,
who was fatally wounded at Trenton ; he was
the son of George Norton, born in 1697, mar-
ried Agnes Austin ; he was the son of George
Norton, whose wife was Hannah Younglove,
daughter of John Younglove, the first minis-
ter to Suffield, Connecticut ; he was the son of
George Norton, born 1641, died 1696, whose
wife was Sarah Hart ; he was the son of
George Norton, who married Mary Machias,
and emigrated from London in the fleet with
Francis Higginson, the first minister to come
to Salem. George Norton was sent out by the
Company of Massachusetts Bay and recom-
mended to the consideration of the settlers as
a carpenter ; he built the first meeting house
in Salem in 1654, which is still standing. Back
of him, according to the best information ob-
tainable, the line of Nortons was as follows :
He was the son of Robert Norton, of Bedford-
shire, England ; he was the son of Thomas
Norton, whose wife was the daughter of
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury ;
he was the son of ri homas Norton, who was
the son of John Norton, third, married Jane
Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, and who
was the son of John Norton, who was the
son of Sir John Norton, whose wife was Annie
Grey, daughter of Lord Grey. Sir John Nor-
ton was a son of Sir De Norville, who was the
son of a line of five Sir De Norvilles, the
father of the last of whom was Le Signeur
De Norville, who came over to England with
William the Conqueror.

(Ill) John, son of Zachariah and Delight
(Norton) Fisher, was born 1794, died 1861.
He was a farmer in Cambridge, New York,
and a captain in the war of 1812. He mar-
ried Almira King, daughter of Hezekiah
King, born 1755, died 1823, and Mercy
(Thornton) King, born 1757, died 1824.
Hezekiah King was a revolutionary soldier;
lived in Massachusetts as a farmer, and after-
wards came to Cambridge, New York ; his
brother John also served in the revolution ;
they were sons of John King, zorn 1730, died
108. a farmer in Egremont, Massachusetts,
and a revolutionary soldier. The continental

payrolls on file in the state house in Boston
show that John King was in service from
July, 1776, to August, 1777, and from June
to July, 1780, in Colonel Hopkins' regiment.
He married Elizabeth, born 1727, died 1808,
daughter of John Fenner, of Saybrook, Con-
necticut. John King was the son of Heze-
kiah King, born 1690, died 1740, of Wey-
mouth, Massachusetts, and Sarah, born 1694,
died 1750, daughter of William Read, whose
wife was Esther Thompson. Hezekiah King
(1690-1790) was the son of Hezekiah King,
who was the son of John and Esther (Bayley)
King, and the former named was the son of
John King.

(IV) Rev. George Whitefielcl Fisher, son of
John and Almira (King) Fisher, was born
1 83 1, died 1884. He was a Congregational
minister, his chief pastorate being in Peace
Dale, Rhode Island. He married Elmira,
born in 1846, and still living, daughter of
John and Catherine (Bozorth) Westcott.
John Westcott was born in 1822, died 1898;
he was a glass-cutter in New Jersey ; he was
the son of Reuben Westcott, born 1790, died
1853, a farmer in Pleasant Mills, New Jersey,
and Amy (Beebe) Westcott, born 1796, died
1838. Reuben Westcott was the son of
Thomas Westcott, of Westcott Neck, Gallo-
way, New York, born 1747, died 1823. Thom-
as Westcott was the son of Daniel Westcott,
born 1705, died 1791, who was supposed to
have come to New Jersey from New Eng-
land. It is not absolutely certain that this
Daniel Westcott is the father of Thomas
Westcott, and the genealogy back of this Dan-
iel may belong to another line. This last Dan-
iel Westcott was the son of Daniel Westcott,
who was the son of Daniel Westcott, who
died in 1702, wdio was the son of Richard
Westcott, who died in 1651, and was a brother
of Stukely W'estcott and William Westcott.
These three brothers came from England
some time after 1636. Catherine (Bozorth)
Westcott, wife of John Westcott, is the
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bettel)
Bozorth. Samuel Bozorth was the son of Wil-
liam Bozorth, whose wife was a Norcross.
Elizabeth (Bettel) Bozorth was a daughter of
Richard and Catherine (Oebertorf) Bettel,
who was the daughter of Caspar Oebertorf.

(V) Professor Irving Fisher, son of the
Rev. George Whitefielcl and Elmira (West-
cott) Fisher, was born at Saugerties, New
York, February 27, 1867. He graduated at
Yale College in 1888, continuing his studies
at Berlin and Paris. In 1893 ne was ap-
pointed tutor in mathematics at Yale, since
which time he has been constantly engaged in
teaching, lecturing and writing. In 1898 he

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was appointed professor of political economy
at Yale, in which capacity he is serving at
the present time. He is a member of many
economic and mathematical societies in this
country and abroad, and several of his books
are standard textbooks to-day in many of the
universities and colleges of this country. Pro-
fessor Fisher married, June 24, 1893, Mar-
garet, fifth child of Rowland Hazard, of Peace
Dale, Rhode Island, a prominent manufac-
turer. Children : Margaret, born April 30,
1894; Caroline, June 17, 1897; Irving Nor-
ton, November n, 1900.

Cornelius Jones, immigrant ances-
JONES tor, was of Welsh or English an-
cestry. He settled in Stamford,
Connecticut, where his descendants have been
numerous. He died in 1657. Children:
Ebenezer, born August 20, 1646; Mary, Feb-
ruary, 1647; Cornelius, November, 1648;
Child, aged six in 1657; Child, aged three in

1657- .

(II) Ebenezer, son of Cornelius Jones, lived
at Stamford or vicinity.

(III) Benjamin, son of Ebenezer Jones,
was born about 1700. He married, at Stam-
ford, December 4, 1735, Mary Haley. Chil-
dren, born at Stamford: Benjamin, October
16, 1736; Joseph, July 16, 1738; Mary, Feb-
ruary 17, 1739-40; Prudence, January 1, 1741-
42; Ebenezer, December 20, 1743: Lewis,
mentioned below.

(IV) Lewis, son of Benjamin Jones, was
born at Stamford, December 20, 1745. He
married, May 9, 1790, Sally Masters. Chil-
dren, born at Stamford : Phebe, January 23,
1791 ; John, mentioned below; Oliver, Octo-
ber 8, 1794; Benjamin, March 16, 1797.

(V) John Hamlin, son of Lewis Jones, was
born at Stamford, February 12, 1793. He was
educated in the district schools ; he learned
the trade of shoemaker and made shoes on
his own account later, and on one of the trips
he made to sell his shoes and buy stock in
New York City he disappeared and was pre-
sumably murdered. He was a man of excel-
lent character and enjoyed the respect of the
entire community. He had a small place in
Darien where he also did some gardening and
farming. He married in Darien, formerly
Stamford, Sally Jennings, born 1798, in South
Norwalk, died in 1861. Children, born at
Darien: 1. Henry, married Sarah Ann Butts,
died aged fifty-three ; three children in South
Norwalk : Frederick ; Samuel ; Elizabeth,
married George Piatt. 2. Gershom, died at
South Norwalk, aged twenty-one. 3. Susan

Ann, died aged fifty ; married Henry Prince,
shoemaker, of New Haven and Darien ; he
died aged sixty. 4. John H., mentioned below.
(VI) John Hamlin (2), son of John Ham-
lin (1) Jones, was born at Darien, August 3,
1829. He attended the district schools in the
winter terms until he was sixteen years old.
From the age of seven to fifteen he was ap-
prenticed to a farmer, and then served an
apprenticeship of five years in the tanner's
trade, and afterward worked in the patent
leather factory for a time. He subsequently
left the leather business and started on his
own account a livery stable in Bridgeport,
conducting it successfully for ten years or
more. In 1858 he sold his livery business and
bought out the leather business of W. H. Al-
drich and conducted this successfully for
eight years, when he repurchased his old
stables, which he rebuilt on the site next to
the present postoffice ; conducted this until
1877 and then disposed of them. Having dur-
ing this time purchased a farm in Fairfield
near the Brooklawn Club, he moved to this
and conducted it successfully for four years,
and then embarked in the trucking business
and conducted that four years ; then engaged
in the flour and feed business for three years ;
then sold and engaged in the house-moving
business, which he conducted successfully for
twelve years, when he retired. He married
(first) Jane Ann Sherman, born at Newton,
daughter of Z. R. Sherman. She died in
1865. He married (second), October 6, 1869,
Eliza G. (Milne) Shannon, widow of James
Shannon, and daughter. of Robert Milne, who
was born in Scotland and died in Bridgeport.
Huldah (Thompson) Milne, wife of Robert
Milne, was a daughter of David Thompson,
of Weston, Connecticut, granddaughter of
Samuel and Hannah Thorp. Mr. Milne was
a successful gardener and florist. Flis wife
was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Children of Robert and Huldah Milne: 1.
Eliza G., mentioned above. 2. Jennet, de-
ceased ; married Robert Hitchins, of Bridge-
port ; child. Carrie Hitchins. 3. James, a sol-
dier in the civil war ; deceased. Children of
John Flamlin and Jane Ann (Sherman)
Tones: 1. William, died in infancv. 2. Edith
Sherman, married Charles L. Buckingham, a
millwright of New Milford, and lives at Den-
ver, Colorado ; children : Mabel Sherman,
Harold John, Marian. Children of second
wife : 3. Dr. Robert M., born Bridgeport,
September 2, 1870, graduate of Flower Hos-
pital in New York, a homeopathic physician
of that city, residing in Madison avenue.

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