Copy 2 No. 4 ' . . • .u 4? C %'*»T* ** oV •'Sire" *° <* *'t: ^ % v/V ST * a* o • " • ♦ <^ ^ ,t •*^ •^^ ;* ^ v » ^. v V v & ** • C,sf\ aV*^- ; AT <€±. 3STo. IV. ^®4 y ■> fejfc R. HI N MAN'S CATALOGUE OF THE irst IPuritau 0ettUrs| i> OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT. 13 h w HARTFORD: IPRESS OF CASE, TIFFANY AND COMPANY. Jt 1854. .Jffl For sale at D. APPLETON & CO'S, Broadway, Hot or:.. x ^jgJ^ GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 493 Gideon, b. June 23, 1708. Carter, Joshua, of Hartford, named above, was the grandson of Joshua, vvho died at Windsor ; and son of his son Joshua, Jun., who settled at Deerfield, Mass., where Joshua of Hartford was born, and removed and settled at Hartford. Joshua, Jun., son of Joshua, Sen., of Windsor, died at Deerfield, Mass. CARTER, THOMAS, and Anne, his wife, of Charlestown, had Anne, b. there 1640; Elizabeth, b. 1642. CARTER, SAMUEL, and Winnfred, his wife, of Charlestown, had daughter Hannah, b. there in 1640, and Samuel, b. 1692. CARTER, EZRA, m. Jerusha White, of Middletown, June 24, 1724, and had issue b. there, viz., Ezra, b. March 14, 1724-5, d. 1726; Jerusha, b. Jan. 11, 1726-7; Margery, b. March 24, 1729 ; 2d Ezra, b. Nov. 24, 1730 ; Mary, b. Sept. 26, 1732. Neile Carter came to Boston in the John and Sarah, of London, as early as 1652, from England, as a Scotch prisoner, by order of the English government. CARTER, JOHN, "late of Woburn," purchased land in Canter- bury, Ct., of John Cady, in 1706. John and Mary Carter, his wife, had issue, b. at Canterbury, Bethial, b. 1707 ; John, b. 1709 ; the last m. Abigail Hagget. John Carter, of Canterbury, m. Deborah Bundy in 1731. There is one family of this name now residing in Canterbury, of good standing in that community. (Learned.) Catherine, of Windsor, m. Arthur Williams, Nov. 30, 1647. Carter, Joseph, had a home-lot at Windsor of nine acres, from the town, in Feb., 1640. CARTER, AMOS, m. Anne Wilcocks, Jan. 10, 1765, and had a daughter b. the same year at Saybrook. CARTER, HENRY, of New Haven, d. in 1671. DAVID CARTER, of Wethersfield, and his wife Susannah, had children b. at Wethersfield, viz., Joan- na, b. Jan. 23, 1759; David, b. Sept. 18, 1761; George, b. Jan. 26, 1763, d. in 1767 ; Elisha, b. July 26, 1764 ; Jason, b. Jan. 8, 1767 ; Geo., b. Sept. 25, 1768 ; Susannah, b. Jan. 18, 1771. CAR- TER, JOHN, of Springfield, Ms., m. Sarah Smith, daughter of Eb- enezer, of Sufneld, in 1714. JOHN CARTER had an earmark at Hartford, in 1645. ABIGAIL d. at Windsor, Sept. 23, 1640. JO- SIAH and CALEB d. at Windsor in 1647, and Henry Carter's child d. there in 1647. Elias and Elisha Carter d. there in 1653. JO- SEPH CARTER and wife Abigail, of Saybrook, had issue, Joseph, b. Jan. 28, 1737 ; Amos, b. July 1, 1739 ; Abigail, b. June 1, 1741 ; Robert, b. May 19, 1744 ; Lydia, b. Aug. 1, 1746 ; Mary, b. 174S, and William, b. Sept. 2, 1750. CARTER, NICHOLAS, of Flush- 42 494 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ing, L. I., was accepted by the General Court of Connecticut for a freeman, in May, 1GG4. CARTER, SAMUEL, was "seated be- fore the hind pillar" with John Marvin, in the meeting-house at Nor- walk, in 1710. John, taxed at Salisbury, Mass., 1050. Joshua, freeman in Boston, 1034. Susannah, wife of Thomas Carter, d. at Woburn in 1651, aged 51. CARTER, SAMUEL, of Norwalk in 1705, is not of the family of this name who were early settlers at Hartford or Windsor. This Samuel was born in London, and when about twelve years old was enticed away from England by the captain of a vessel bound to New England, who brought him to Boston, and in 1090 he married Mercy Brook, who died in 1700. By her he had children, Samuel, b. 1692 ; Mercy, b. 1694 ; Ebenezer, b. 1097 ; Thomas, b. 1099, and Mary, b. 1700. He resided at Deerfield, Mass. In 1701 he married Hannah Weller for his second wife, and by her had a son, Joseph, b. 1702, and a daughter, Hannah, b. 1703. When Deerfield was de- stroyed, Feb. 29, 1704, he was absent, and his family at Deerfield ; his whole family were captured, (Joseph had died before.) His son Thomas was slain by the Indians in the open fight upon the meadows. The mother, and her daughters Mary and Hannah, were slain on their escape for Canada ; Samuel, Mercy, Ebenezer and Thomas, arrived safe in Canada. The three eldest married in Canada. Eb- enezer was stolen by merchants who traded between Albany and Montreal, and restored to his father ; the other thx*ee died in Canada. The father, Samuel, settled at Norwalk, Conn., in 1705, and proba- bly brought with him his son Ebenezer. Ebenezer married Hannah, daughter of Matthias St. John, of Norwalk. In 1731, Ebenezer, with his family, removed to the parish of Canaan, (New Canaan, Ct.) His father, says Mr. Hall, lived on the place now owned and occupied by Jonathan Camp, Jun. The wife of Ebenezer died Feb., 1774, aged 74; he died the next summer, aged 77 years. Ebene- zer and Hannah had children : 1. Mary, m. Jonathan Husted, Dec. 3, 1744, and had no issue. 2. Hannah, m. Jonathan Burrall, April 7, 1740, and had children, viz., 1. Theophilus, d. 1772. 2. Samuel, d. 1821. 3. Charles. 4. Jonathan. 5. Susannah. 6. Elizabeth, m. Levi Han ford, and had issue, Ebenezer, Levi, Elizabeth and John. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 495 John, b. Feb. 22, 1730, m. Hannah Benedict, daughter of Tho's, (the mother of all his children,) and died 1780. Children, viz., 1. Hannah, b. 1754, m. John Benedict. 2. Rachel, b. 1750, m. Nathan Kellogg. 3. Deborah, b. , m. Gabriel North. 4. Elizabeth, b. 1763, m. Robert North. 5. Ebenezer, b. 1765, m. Susannah Benedict, 1788, and Rhoda Weed, April 1, 1795. 6. Samuel, b. 1708, m. Sarah Hanford, d. Dec, 1831. 7. Sally, b. 1709, m. Andrew Powers, and second husband, Enoch St. John, and died March 14, 1808. 8. Polly, b. 1771, m. Stephen Hoyt, May 20, 1794. (£. Hall's Record of Nor walk, Ct.) CARTER, JACOB, removed from Branford to Southington, about 1770, where he married Sarah Barnes, and had children, Jacob, Stephen, Jonathan, Ithiel, Isaac, Elihue, Levi and Sarah. Ithiel re- moved and settled at Warren, where he had three children born ; he then removed to Torringford, and remained nine years, and re- moved from thence to some other place. Some of this family settled at Wolcott. Newton Carter, of Hart- ford, is of the Southington Carters. Ant Carter, aged 22, embarked from England for Virginia, Aug. 7, 1635, in the Globe, of London. Jo. Carter, aged 22, embarked for Virginia in the ship Safety, John Grant, master, in Aug., 1635. John Carter, aged 54, embarked in the America for Virginia, from England, Wm. Barker, master, June 23, 1635. Thomas Carter, aged 25, a servant of George Giddins, embarked in England, for New England, in the Planter, Nic. Frazier, master, April 2, 1635. Certificates from the minister of Great St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, with Wm. Beardsley, his wife and three children. Martha Carter, aged 27, embarked in the Hopewell, with Robert Day, 30, and oth- ers, 1635. Mary Carter, 27, embarked for New England in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, about 1635. (Mass. Col) Six persons by this name have graduated at Yale College, and nine at Harvard College. Thomas Carter graduated at St. John's College, A. B., 1629, and A. M., 1633. John Carter took the oath of fidelity in Mass., Dec. 5, 1677. Phillip took the oath of allegiance to his majesty and fidel- ity to the country, Nov. 30, 1677. (Exeter.) John, of Woburn, 1654. Thomas, of Salisbury, Mass., 1660. 496 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Carter has ten coats of arms, and Carteret has four. Carter, John, aged 54, embarked for Virginia, in the America, June 23, 1635. Thomas Carter, 25, embarked in the Safety, for Virginia, Aug., 1635. Thomas Carter, aged 25, embarked in the Planter, April 2, 1635, with a certificate from the minister of Great St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, for N. England, in company with Maria Chittwood, Wra, Felloe, &c. John, of Woburn, freeman, 1644. Joseph, of Newbury, 1636. Joseph, Sen., d. at Charlestown, Dec, 1676. Joshua, freeman, 1634, (of Windsor soon after.) Richard, Boston, 1641. Thomas, first minister at Woburn, came to N. England as early as 1635 ; freeman, 1637 ; lived at Dedham and Watertown. Ordained at Woburn, Nov. 22, 1642 ; d. Sept. 5, 1684, aged 74. (See Farmer.) CALLENDER is an old name in Connecticut, yet not as early as many others. Callander or Callender has one coat of arms ; Callendar, one ; Callender, two. CARUTHERS. This name came late to Middletown, Conn., where gravestones only give their history. Caruthers has three coats of arms. CARTWRIGHT, GIDEON, from Wrentham, Mass., united with the church at Hampton, Conn., with his wife Ruth, in 1759. Edward, son of Gideon and Ruth, was born at Windham, March 1, 1753. Jonathan, b. March 4, 1754, removed to Hampton, and had Ruth, b. Oct. 7, 1755 ; Silas, b. May 9, 1757 ; Drisilla, b. Jan. 21, 1761. (/. Clark.) Cartwright, Col. George, one of His Majesty's Hon. Comm'rs, with Sir Robert Carr and Samuel Maverick, Esq., who presented propositions to the General Court of Conn., April 26, 1665. This name was also on Long Island. Cartwright has nine coats of arms. CARVER, Ensign DAVID, d. at Canterbury in 1727 ; he had a son Benjamin, b. 1722. SAMUEL and ESTHER CARVER were parents of a family at Canterbury, as were JONATHAN and ABI- GAIL CARVER, (maiden name Robins,) the last m. 1746. Bar- ber says that Jonathan Carver, the traveler, was a native of Canter- bury, but he is not identified. {Can. Rec. and Learned.) CARVER, JOANNA, w. of David, d. at Weth'ld Sept. 14, 1751. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN?. 497 CARVER, JONATHAN, by Eunice Downer, had Jonathan, b. Dec. 18, 1741, at Windham. Joanna Carver, wife of David, d. Sept. 14, 1751, ae. 17. Whether either of the above are descendants of Gov. Carver, of the Plymouth Colony, is not known. CARVER, MALZER, of Norwalk, is named (by Hall) as having married Phebe Wicks, Jan. 29, 1777, and had children born at Nor- walk, Amos, Charles, Hannah, Nancy, Joseph, Ebenezer, Stephen, William, George and John, b. 1797. Two by the name of Carver have graduated at Yale College. CARVER, JOHN, one of the first* at Plymouth, 1620, and first governor of the colony ; died April, 1621, and his wife soon after. (Prince's Annals, 105.) Carver has two coats of arms. « CARWITHA or CARWITHEE, KERWITHY, was a defend- ant in court at Hartford, Evens, plaintiff, October 1, 1646. Caleb Carwithee, of Huntington, L. I., was admitted to the oath of freedom in Connecticut, May, 1664. Philip Carwithe forfeited his grant at an early period. Philip Kerwithy had a grant of land at Pequot, in 1650, but was only a transient inhabitant at N. L. (Calk.) CASE, JOHN. (This name is occasionally spelled Cass.) He came to Windsor with the early settlers, supposed from Dorchester, Mass. He was a member of the Gen. Court of the Colony in May, 1670, May and October, 1675, and received other marks of respect from Windsor and Simsbury. He married Sarah Spencer, and re- mained at Windsor until about 1668 or '9, when he removed to Wea- tauge, in Simsbury. A part of his children were born in Windsor, and the others in Simsbury. Issue, Mary, b. June 22, 1660 ; John, Jr., b. Nov. 5, 1662 ; Wm., b. June 5, 1665 ; Samuel, b. June 1, 1667, d. July 30, 1725 ; Richard, b. Aug. 27, 1669. The follow- ing b. at Simsbury : Sarah, b. April 14, 1676 ; Abigail, Elizabeth, Joseph and Bartholomew, d. Oct. 25, 1725. John, Sen., the father, d. Feb. 21, 1703-4. John Case, of Simsbury, will drawn Nov. 21, 1700, but dated Dec. il, 1700; a codicil to the will was dated Feb. 12, 1703-4. He made his mark to the instrument. Mr. Samuel Spencer, of Hart- ford, and John Case, his son, executors. Inventory exhibited and sworn to by his son, Richard Case, of Simsbury, March 9, 1703-4. Mr. John Case, Sen., d. Feb. 21, 1703-4. Inventory taken by John 42* 498 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Slater, James Cornish and Andrew Robe, March 2, 1703-4, £562, 5*. Id. His wife Elizabeth he gave £5, to be paid her annually, which was agreed to before marriage, and he directed in his first will, that it should be paid to her as follows : William, Samuel, Richard and Bartholomew, to pay each 15s., and his son Joseph, £2 annu- ally during her life, which was altered in his codicil. His daughter Elizabeth m. Tuller; daughters Mary Case, Sarah Phelps, and Ab- igail Case. His son William d. March 31, 1700, after his father's will was made and before the death of his father. William's relict was Elizabeth ; she with his brother John, of Simsbury, were adm'rs on William's estate in 1701. 'Inventory, £276, 95. 8d., dated May 29, 1700. He left children, viz., Elizabeth, b. Sept., 1689 ; W'm., b. March 22, 1690-1 ; James, b. March 12, 1692-3 ; Rachel, b. Dec, 1694* Mary, b. 1696 ; Joshua, b. June 1, 1699; Mindwell, b. March 21, 1700. These children received their father's portion in their grandfather's estate. CASE, JOSEPH, (son of John and Sarah Case, of Windsor and Simsbury,) was a highly respectable man in Simsbury, (Hop Mead- ow;) he represented the town at the General Court, first in October, 1713, and eighteen sessions afterward. John, Richard, James and Benajah Case, all represented the town in the General Assembly before 1750, and James and John frequently afterward. (I publish but one line of this family, as it is now very numerous.) CASE, JOSEPH, among other children, had a son Jacob, b. 1699, at Simsbury, (Hop Meadow;) Jacob m. Abigail Barber about 1725, and settled in the wilderness at Case's Farms, in the same town, where he died July 25, 1763, and his widow died January 8, 1779. They had issue: 1. Abigail, b. Jan. 12, 1730 ; m. Daniel Hoskins ; d. June 20, 1806. 2. Sarah, b. June 5, 1733 ; m. Elijah Tuller, or Fuller, and d. Dec. 20, 1798. 3. Jacob, Jun., b. June 19, 1735; m. Elizabeth Hoskins; he d. Sept. 27, 1S07. 4. Jesse, b. May 19, 1738; m. Sarah Humphry; d. Oct. 3, 1S07. 5. Anne, b. April 9, 1740; m. Solomon Case; d. April 6, 1S17. 6. Martha, b. May 21, 1743; she d. young. 7. Moses, b. Sept. S, 1746 ; m. Lucy Wilcox ; d. Dec. 19, 1794. 8. Second Martha, b. April 12, 1742 ; she d. April 5, 1S34. CASE, JESSE, son of Jacob and Abigail, b. 1739. Had chil- dren, viz., 1. Jesse, b. July 20, 1767 ; m. Sarah Cornish and Lydia Church ; d. Feb. 10, 1842. 2. Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 176S ; m. Samuel Leet. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 499 3. Augustus, b. May 30, 1770; m. Hannah Hoskins ; yet living. 4. Asenath, b. June 30, 1772; d. 1776. 5. Abigail, b. Oct. 13, 1774; m. Riverius Case. 6. Second Asenath, b. Aug. 26, 1777 ; d. Jan. 19, 1845. 7. Gideon, b. Feb. 26, 1779 ; m. Persis Seward : d. May 11, 1822. 8. Hannah, b. Sept. 19, 17SI; m. Edmund O. Sullivan; now living. 9. Charlotte, b. Jan. 24, 1785 ; m. Allen Barber. 10. Salome, d. young. CASE, JESSE, Jr., son of Jesse and Sarah, had two wives; 1st, m. Sarah Cornish ; 2d, Lydia Church ; and had issue: 1. Jesse O., b. Oct. 29, 1792; m. Chloe Gleason. 2. Justin, b. Jan. 4, 1795; d. June 22, 1S02. 3. Everest, b. Dec. 19, 1796; m. Lucy Case. 4. Sarah, b. Oct. 31, 179S ; m. Ezekiel H. Wilcox. 5. Newton, b. June 7, 1S01, d. April 12, 1S07. 6. Elmina, b. April 15, 1803. 7. Second Justin, b. March 11, 1S05 ; m. Rachel H. Talcott ; d. Oct. 1, 1841. S. Second Newton, b. March 12, 1807 ; m. Lemira B. Hurlbut. 9. Rowena, b. Nov. 27, 1809; d. Jan. 1, 1834. 10. Abigail, b. Aug. 21, 1812. 11. Lydia C, b. Dec. 5, 1817; d. April 9, 1820. 12. Second Lydia, b. April 25, 1820. (12 children.) CASE, EVEREST, (son of Jesse, Jun.,) b. 1796, m. Lucy Case, and had children, Sarah, b. Oct. 22, 1820 ; Levi; Orestes, d. Oct. 5, 1824 ; Emeline; 2d Orestes; Lucy M., d. Aug. 14, 1828 ; Helen R.; Wm. W.; Nathan, and Lucy A., b. July 9, 1838, d. Sept. 16, 1838. CASE, JESSE O., b. 1792, son of Jesse, Jun., m. Chloe Gleason. Issue, Gideon M., b. Jan. 30, 1821 ; Henry; Orlando D.; Nelson M., and Mariette, b. Feb. 1, 1833. These are the direct descendants, in part, from John Case, Sen., of Windsor, to Newton Case, now of Hartford, of the firm of " Case, Tiffany & Co." In Nov. 10, 1697, when Rev. Dudley Woodbridge was ordained at Simsbury, Joseph, the son of John Case, Sen., was a member of his church ; and he paid a rate there in 1696, and was a member of the legislature as late as Oct., 1741, and as early as 1713. Jonas Case, from Simsbury, settled at Goshen in Litchfield Co. in 1745. CASE, RICHARD, of Windsor, removed to West Simsbury, (now Canton,) about 1737, first settler. His son Sylvanus, is said to have been the first white child born there ; he resided on East Hill ; had ten sons and two daughters. ABRAHAM CASE removed from Windsor to Simsbury, (to Canton,) 1741, and d. there in 1800. 500 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. LYMAN CASE, a grandson of Ab'm, d. over SO years old. His brother AMOS, from Windsor to W. Simsbury, had five sons and four daughters, and d. aged 86. CASE, DUDLEY, a brother of Zaccheus and Ezekiel, removed from the parish of Windsor to West Windsor, (Canton,) in 1742, when many others removed there from the old parish ; he had seven children, and d. aged, in 1792. CASE, ZACCHEUS, Capt., brother of Daniel and Ezekiel, re- moved to W. Simsbury about 1749 ; he had one son and six dau'rs ; he afterward removed to Oneida County, N. Y., and d. in 1812. CASE, HOSEA, from Simsbury to Canton, about 1751, had four sons and seven dau'rs, and d. in 1793. Capt. RICHARD CASE, oT Simsbury, July 4, 1724, was ordered to employ ten men as a scouting party, to rendezvous at Litchfield, all of Simsbury, and re- mained until Oct. (Phelps' Simsbury.) DANIEL CASE m. Pe- nelope Buttolph, of Simsbury, May 7, 1719. Watson and Luke Case, of N. York, are descendants of John Case, Sen., of Windsor. The foregoing families are all, with many others, descendants of John Case, Sen., of Windsor. CASE, BARNARD, of Windham, was the son of John and De- sire Case, and was born Oct. 29, 1688, at Martha's Vineyard ; he m. Abigail Rudd, May 22, 1712, and had issue, Seth, b. Jan. 26, 1712-13; Joseph, b. April 26, 1714, d. 1714; Wm., b. Feb. 7, 1715-16; Jonathan, b. May 16, 1718; Abigail, b. April 8, 1720. Abigail, his wife, d. April 10, 1722, and he m. for his second wife, Abigail Clark, Oct. 17, 1722, and had Eliz'th, b. Jan. 31, 1725-6. (This is not of the family of John Case, Sen.) Case, Benjamin, m. Mary Manning, April 25, 1728. Case, John, and Desire, his wife, had a son Benjamin b. at Mar- tha's Vineyard, Dec. 4, 1703. (Recorded at Windham.) CASE, SETH, son of Barnard, b. 1712, at Windham, m. Sarah Griggs, Nov. 11, 1736. Issue, Hester, b. Sept. 26, 1739; Susan- nah, b. April 15, 1739 ; Ichabod, b. April 10, 1741. CASE, WILLIAM, b. 1715-16, son of Barnard Case, m. Lucy Tracy, Nov. 11, 1736. Issue, Win., b. Nov. 26, 1737 ; Lucy, b. Nov. 22, 1739. Barnard Case, of Windham, is not found to have been a relative of either John, of Windsor, or Richard Case, of Hart- ford. He removed his family to Windham from Martha's Vineyard, before the birth of his son Seth, about 1711. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 501 CASE, RICHARD, was not as early a settler at Hartford as many others; he m. Eliz'th, dau'r of John Purcase or Purchase, (a first settler in Hartford.) He removed on the east side of Conn. River, into E. Hartford, about 1669. He had three children b. in Hartford, viz., Richard, Jun., John and Mary. He describes himself of Hart- ford, in his will dated Sept. 8th, 1690, and d. at E. Hartford about 1693 or 1694. Inventory dated March 30, 1694, £203, 2s. 6d His widow Eliz'th, and Tho's Olcott, his kinsman, Exec'rs. He made his mark to his will. The Court appointed Thomas Olcot and Mr. Wm. Pitkin, Jun., overseers to assist the widow by their advice, April, 1694. It has been stated by some of the family, that Richard Case, of Windsor, son of John, was the same Richard who settled at Hartford. Richard, son of John, was born at Windsor Aug. 27, 1669, and Richard, of Hartford, was propounded for a free- man in Oct., 1671. Richard Case, Jun., of E. Hartford, son of Richard and Elizabeth, d. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 1724, as testified by his relict Sarah. He gave to his son Joseph all his lands and estate, by Joseph paying his two sisters £35 each ; his son Charles or Charter, he had before provided for, and gave him two acres of land in his will only. His children recorded as b. at Hartford, Sa- rah, b. Oct. 1, 1703 ; Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1705; Eliz'th, b. Sept. 1, 1710, and others not recorded. These descendants of Richard are known as the East Hartford Cases. There was a Benjamin Case, who removed from Mansfield to Coventry, at an early period ; he was probably of the Windham family. CASE, THOMAS, resided at Newtown, L. I., in 1674, and was ordered by the court there in May, 1674, not to entertain the wife of Wm. Smith, without her husband's knowledge. CASE, JOSEPH, was of Rhode Island, and had children born there, viz., Joseph, b. in 1678; W'm, b. 1681; Mary, Hannah, Margaret, John and Emanuel. CASE, RICHARD, and Wm. Burnham, of Hartford, were pro- pounded for freemen in Oct., 1671. Those relatives who claim that Richard Case, of East Hartford, was a son of John, of Windsor, by looking at the birth of Richard, the son of John, will discover that Richard, of Hartford, was a man in active life, before Richard, son of John, was born. Ten of this name have graduated at Yale College, and one Case and one Cass at Harvard. Case has 5 coats of arms; Casse, 2 ; Cass, 2 ; Cassey, 1. 502 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Farmer says, "JOSEPH CASS, Exeter, as early as 1G80, had chil- dren, from one of whom descended Major Jonathan Cass, father of Hon. Lewis Cass, late governor of Michigan, a native of New Hamp- shire." The lady of Hon. Lewis Cass, lately deceased, was a de- scendant of the Selden family, of Connecticut. Quere, were not Cass and Case originally the same name. The name of Case is occa- sionally spelled upon the Conn, records, Cass. Richard Case, in 1669, purchased of William Edwards, and Agnes, his wife, all their division of upland and water land, east of the Great River, about ninety acres — perhaps removed to E. Hartford about this time. CASEL, BARNARD, of Windham, m. Abigail Rudd, May 22, 1712, son of John. Desire, his wife, wasb. Oct. 29, 1688 ; from Mar- tha's Vineyard. Barnard " Cease'" had children by Abigail, Seth, b. 1712; Joseph, d. 1714; William, Jonathan, Abigail, b. 1720. His wife, Abigail, died April 10, 1722. Barnard m. 2d, Abigail Clark, Oct. 17, 1722. (This name changed to Case, on same record.) CASTLE, JOHN, of Wethersfield, died before 1645, and left a widow and an estate of J£59; no issue found. The name of Castle is yet found in Litchfield and New Haven counties, Conn. One by the name of Castle has graduated at Yale College. Andrew Castle graduated at Yale College, 1825. Caswell, Daniel, of Colchester ; daughter, Wealthy, baptized May 27, 1770. Cassell or Cassel, 1 coat of arms ; Casstle, 1 ; Castel, 1 ; Cas- tell, 11 ; Castle, (London) 4; Caceyll, 1. Castel, Henry, aged 22, passenger for Virginia, in the Transport, of London, July 4, 1635. George Castell, aged 21, embarked for Virginia, August, 1635, in the Safety. Castle or Castwell, noticed in Appendix of Temple's E. History, as an early family of Whately. Cask, Henry, was drowned at Windsor, while catching flood wood in the river, at Windsor, March 14th, in the early settlement of the town, with M. Rainerd. Cassen, Lieut. Samuel, of Milford, in 1713. (See KASSEN.) CATTS, KATES, JOHN, aged 23, was passenger for Virginia, in the Safety, from England, John Grant, master, August, 1635. CATES or KATES, Lieut. JOHN, of Windham, Conn., d. in 1697, (supposed the same man.) He gave in his will 200 acres of land, by entailment, to the poor of Windham, and 200 acres for a school-house for the town. He gave his negro to Rev. Samuel GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 503 Whiting, of said Windham, and other personal property. To the church of the town he gave £10 in money. He made Mary How- ard, executrix, and gave her the remainder of his estate, unless his child, or any of his children then in England, should come to New England, and if so, such as should come should have all his estate. He was the first of the name in the colony. This name is spelt Kates, on record at Hartford, and hy himself in his will, but he was the same Lieut. John Cates who served under Oliver Cromwell's administration of the British government. His negro Jo, whom he gave to Mr. Whiting, he procured in Virginia, where he first landed. He escaped his pursuers in Virginia, and came to Nor- wich, yet feeling unsafe, he went to Windham, when a wilderness, and in 1689 raised the first house, where he closed his life in safety from punishment by Charles II. He gave no silver plate to any person, in his will, as has been stated by some historians. He and his servant were the two first settlers in Windham, and erected the first house there. Cates, Jo, aged 17, passenger in the Assurance de Lo., for Vir- ginia, 1635. CATLIN, CATLING, THOMAS, was not one of the first pro- prietors and settlers in Hartford. He is first found at Hartford, about 1645-6, by the name of Catling. The time he came from England, or the ship he came in, is not found, He was one of the viewers of chimneys, in 1646-7, and owned two lots of land in Elm street, No's 23 and 24, in 1646. Soon after he came to Hartford, he was appointed a constable of the town, which office he held many years. The office of constable at that time was one of the most honorable and trustworthy in the colony. He held other places of trust in the colony and town. He had a portion in a division of lands in 1672, and was living in 1687, when he testified in court and was 75 years old. He was probably married before he came to Hartford, and brought with him his only son John, and his wife, as his son is not found born at Hartford, by the record. He had a daughter, Mary , b. at Hartford, and baptized Nov. 29th, 1646, and died. A second daughter, Mary, baptized May 6th, 1649. The 15th of January, 1684, the town of Hartford granted to Thom- as and John Catlin, ten acres, formerly granted to John Wier. Thomas Catlin purchased the house and land of Richard Billing, in Hartford. He owned land south of Little River, purchased of F. Addams ; also land purchased of Andrew Warner, about four acres ■ one piece purchased of James Ensign, about one acre ; one piece 504 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. purchased of Richard^Fellowes, Oct. 28, 1653 ; three acres, and many other lots of land. John Richards mortgaged his house and all his lands to Thomas Catlin, in Hartford, and two cows, for a debt he owed Catlin, Feb. 2, 1662. CATLIN, JOHN, only son of Thomas and Mary, m. Mary Mar- shall, July 27, 1665, and settled in Hartford, where his children were born, viz. Mary, b. at H., July 10, 1666, died young. Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1673; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel, died Aug. 14, 1724. John, Jr., b. April 27, 1676. Thomas, b. August, 1678. Benjamin, b. Feb., 16S0. All born in Hartford. John's wife, Mary, d. at H., Oct. 20, 1716. John Catlin signed to remove to Hadley, but did not, in 1659. John made free, 1665. CATLIN, SAMUEL, son of John, of Hartford ; wife, Elizabeth Norton, of Farmington, m. Jan. 5, 1702-3; had issue: John, b. Oct. 20, 1703, m. Margaret Seymour. Thomas, b. Feb. 17, 1705-6. Samuel, Jr., b. March 27, 170-. Isaac, b. Nov. 11, 1712, m. Betsey Kilbourn. Abijah, b. April S, 1715, m. Hannah Cook. Mary, b. March 26, 1717. A daughter b. March 26, 1719, d. Sept. 27, 1719. Ebenezer, b. July 25, 1724. Samuel Catlin's wife, Elizabeth, d. Aug. 4, 1724. CATLIN, BENJAMIN, son of John, b. 1630, m. Margaret Kel- 1o«to-, b. 1689, of Hartford, d. at Harwinton, 1767 ; his wife d. at Harwinton, 1786. They had children, 1. Jonathan, b. Feb. 8, 1714-15, had two children, Jonathan and Dan. 2. Daniel, b. Dec. 6, 1716; he had three children, Daniel, Jr., Dorcas and Margaret. 3. Sarah, b. June 18, 1713. 4. Abraham, b. Aug. 13, 1720, had eight children, viz., Jacob, Abraham, Jr., Simeon, Hezekiah, Tim- othy, Jesse, Elisha ;ind Abigail. 5. Joel, b. Feb. 16, 1731-2, had six children, viz., Joel, Hannah, Molly, Thursey, Rebecca and So- phia. 6. Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 7, 1723, had two children, viz., Benjamin and Abigail. 7. Jacob, b. June 3, 1727. 8. Amos, b. June 29, 1729, had two children, Ensign and Thankful. 9. George, b. Dec. 22, 1731. Sarah, above daughter of Benjamin, m. Rev. Andrew Bartholomew, the first minister of Harwinton. CATLIN, JACOB, son of Benjamin, born in Hartford, 1727, d. in Harwinton, July, 1802, m. Hannah Phelps, of Windsor, and had issue, Isaac, Jacob, Jr., Hannah, Rhoda, Elijah, Sarah, Samuel, Horace ; three died in infancy. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 505 CATLIN, GEORGE, son of Benjamin, b. 1731, m. Mindwell Phelps, of Litchfield ; he had children, viz. 1. Lucy, m. Josiah Butler. 2. George, Jr., m. Sophia Davis. 3. Alice, m. Thankful Hodge. 4. Russel, not married. 5. Mindwell, m. Kellogg. 6. Candace, m. Lewis Catlin. CATLIN, ISAAC, son of Jacob, of the fourth generation, d. at Harwinton, in 1833, m. Ruth Carter, of Southington, and had chil- dren. 1. Stanly. 2. Chester, died. 3. David, lived in Illinois. 4. Belinda, died single. 5. Joel, settled in Illinois. 6. Sarah, married and lives in New York. 7. Isaac, formerly lived in New Britain, went to Illinois. S. Wyllis, settled in Illinois. CATLIN, JACOB, Jr., second son of Jacob, of the fourth gener- ation, was thirty years a minister in New Marlborough, and had children. 1. Joseph, died and left a family. 2. Polly, married. 3. John, married and had a family. 4. Jacob, lives in New York, and has a family. 5. Emeline, married in Sheffield, Mass. 6. Julia, married Harvey Holmes. 7. Rhoda, married Asa Sheldon ; has a large family. CATLIN, ELIJAH, son of Jacob, of the fifth generation, m. Hannah Starr, of Middletown, and had issue. 1. Almira. 2. Clarinda. 3. Nancy. » 4. Caroline. CATLIN, LUMAN, son of Jacob of the fourth generation, mar- ried Chloe Wiard, had children. 1. Polly, 2. Lucas, 3. Linus, 4. Luman, 5. Chloe, 6. Lois, 7. Lucretia, 8. Maria, 9. Alfred. CATLIN, BENJAMIN, son of Jacob, of the fourth generation, had children ; wife still living. 1. Anna, m. Lewis Catlin, son of Lewis, son of Abijah. 2. Rhoda, m. Lyman Catlin. 3. Lucy, m. Normand Bull, (widow.) 4. Hopkins, M. D., of Meriden, widower, has children. 5. George, m. Lewis, lives in Harwinton. 43 506 GENEALOGY OF THE PUEITAN3. 6. Sheldon, died and left a son and daughter. 7. Clorinda, not married. S. Henry, married and had a family. CATLIN, ABIJAH, 1st, son of Samuel, m. Melicent Cook, had issue. 1. Hannah, m. A. Kellogg ; had a large family. 2. Melicent, m. Jonathan Rossiter; large family. 3. Sarah, m. Samuel Baldwin ; had a son Canfield, in Whitestown, N. Y. 4. HONOR, daughter of Abijah 1st, m. William Abernethy, M. D. Issue : 1. Honor, m. Daniel Catlin. 2. Lavinia, m. Aaron Bradley. 3. Win. C, had three wives, I. Phebe Wiard, 2. Dexter, and 3. So- phia Hoadley. 4. Gen. Russell C. , m. Aurelia Smith. 5. Roswell, m. Anna Catlin, daughter of 2d Abijah. 6. Huldah, m. Abel Peck. 7. Sarah, m. Selah Whiting. 8. Andrew Abernethy, M. D., m. Sophia Wells. CATLIN, ABIJAH, second son of Abijah 1st, m. Huldah Wiard ; he died 1813, and his wife in 1814. Issue : 1. Anna, m. Roswell Abernethy. 2. Abijah, 3d, in. Orinda Williams. 3. Huldah, m. James Stoddard. 4. Hannah, in. David Candee, of Oxford. 5. Lucretia, m. James Woodruff. 6. Rachel, m. Dana Hungerford. 7. Samuel A., died unmarried. CATLIN, GROVE, son of Abijah 1st, m. Hannah Phelps, of Litchfield, and had children, viz. 1. Grove, Esq., a lawyer in the State of Maine. 2. Hannah, m. George E. Head, Esq., of Boston. 3. Sabra, died single, at Hartford, March 17, 1S33, aged 1-1. 4. Col. Julius, m. Mary Fisher, of Wrentiiam, Mass., in L829, and has two sons and a daughter ; resides at Hartford, retired upon a fortune acquired by industry. 5. Flora, resides with her brother at Hartford, unmarried. CATLIN, LEWIS, son of Abijah 1st, lived at Harwinton, m. Candace Catlin, Issue : 1. Lewis, Jr., m. Anna Catlin, daughter of Benjamin, and has five sons and one daughter. 2. Hon. George S. Catlin, the eloquent political orator, m. Miss TinglV, member of both branches of the legislature of Conn., speaker of legislature, and foui years member of Congress, d. in 1S52, and left one daughter, but no sons. 3. Candace, m. Gen. Morris Woodruff, of Litchfield, had two sons and one daughter. 4. Lucy. m. Asahel Hooker ; no issue. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 507 5. Clarissa, m. Luman Bancroft. 6. Calista, m. 1. Sanford, 2. Butler. CATLIN, ABIJAH, 3d, son of Abijah 2d, m. Orinda Williams in 1799; was a merchant atHarwinton ; had children. 1. Harriet, b. 1S00, m. A. G. Miller, M. D., of Mansfield, Ohio. He d. 1849. 2. Adaline, b. 1S02, m. Hon. Wm. S. Holabird, (Hurlbut,) late Lieut. Got. of Connecticut. 3. Abijah 4th, b. 1805, m. first Mary Simonton, of Georgia, had one child which died. He m. 2. Mary Abernethy, of Harwinton, dau. of Dr. Andrew. 4. David W. b. 1807, m. Elizabeth Huggins, of New Haven, and has issue. He is a wealthy merchant in New York. Children, Mary S., b. Sept., 1842 ; William H.,b. Nov., 1S45. 5. Orinda, b. 1510, m. O. B. Freeman, M. D., of Canton. 6. Julia, b. 1814, m. Charles Mygatt, formerly a merchant at Hartford, now resides at Columbus, Georgia. •7. Caroline, b. 1817, m. Anson Hungerford, Jr., of Monticello, Georgia. 8. Ann H., b. 1819, m. Gen. Newman, of Ohio. He died about 1849. Abijah 4th has been twice married, first married Mary Simonton, of Georgia, and second, Mary Abernethy. He has one son, Abijah 5th, and a daughter, and is now living on the same land that was given to Abijah the first by his father, Samuel. Abijah, Esq., 4th, graduated at Yale College, in 1825, read law and practiced for a time in Litchfield county ; after a few years he removed to the State of Georgia, where he followed his profession successfully for some few years, and then returned to his native place in Connecticut, and re- sumed his practice in Litchfield county, where. he was elected state senator of Connecticut, in 1844, state comptroller from 1847 to 1850, and commissioner of the school fund of Connecticut, in 1851, judge of probate at Harwinton from 1838 to 1841, judge of the county court of Litchfield county from 1844 to 1846, &c, all which re- sponsible offices he filled to the satisfaction of the public. Catlin, John, from Hartford, and James Church were two of the early settlers at Litchfield, about 1722 or '3 ; Daniel and Abijah Catlin were in Harwinton, in 1740, with John Coult and others ; Daniel Catlin was on the map and a first settler there ; John Catlin and Daniel Arnold were made free at Hartford, in October, 1665 ; John Catlin, who went to Litchfield from Hartford, was not one of the grantees of Bantam, in the first settlement of Litchfield, but be- came the ancestor of the Litchfield Catlins ; Alexander Catlin, of Litchfield, married Abigail, daughter of Timothy Goodman, of West Hartford, Feb. 26, 1766, and his first child, Abigail, was baptized at West Hartford, Dec. 14, 1766 ; the Catlins of Burlington, Vermont, are descended from the Litchfield branch of the family ; Alexander and his wife publicly owned and renewed their baptismal covenant, 508 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITNS. at West Hartford, Nov. 23, 1766 ; Benjamin Catlin, quarter-master in the army, was taken prisoner in the expedition against Quebec, in Dec, 1775 ; George Catlin died at Camden, New Jersey, May 1, 1852, aged 75 years ; Thomas Catlin, Sen., and his son John, were freemen in Hartford, in 1669 ; Thomas held the honorable and re- sponsible office of constable and selectman in Hartford, and other places of trust ; he owned land in South Meadow, by a deed of Sam- uel Wyllys, Nov. 6, 1679; on Rocky Hill, recorded May 26, 1682 ; land he purchased of Richard Billings, also land of Jeremy Adams, of Andrew Warner, of James Ensign, a lot and house of Richard Fellows, Dec, 1658 ; land in South Meadow Swamp, Dec. 20, 1660 ; land he and George Grave bought of Andrew Bacon, Nov. 18, 1659, and various other lots of land in Hartford, being 16 tracts. Col. Julius Catlin now owns some of the land originally owned by his first progenitor in this country. John, son of Thomas, Sen., signed the agreement to remove to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, but re- mained at Hartford ; for some time he is said to have resided at Hoccanum. The Catlins of Deerfield were probably of the family of John, of Newark, who moved there himself in 1684. George Catlin, the celebrated painter of Indian persons and scene- ry, and author of travels in the west, was a descendant of the Litch- field branch. John, who went to Litchfield, was son of Samuel, who married Margaret Seymour, and was born 1703 ; children, John, Theodore, Alexander, William, Roswell, Eli, David, George, Uriah, Thomas, Samuel, Abel, Roger, Elizabeth and Abigail ; these were settled at Litchfield ; thirteen by this name have graduated at Yale College. There were no persons of this name in Hadley, in the seventeenth century. John, from Newark, was at Deerfield as early as 1684. Coats of arms. — Catlyn or Catlin, 1 ; Catlin, (Kent,) 1 ; Callyn or Catlyne, 1. This name was early at Marlborough, Mass., and Catlin, Keyes, Sheldon, &c, were early settlers from the above town to New Marlborough, Mass., where the name of Catlin is yet found, and one of this family is now a merchant at Canaan, Conn., and not known to have been a relative of Thomas, of Hartford, or John, of Weth- ersfield. CATLIN, JOHN, of Wethersfield, was not one of the first set- tlers ; whose son he was, or where from is not found ; (the name is spelled, recording his marriage, " Catellin, John.") He m. Mary , at Wethersfield, Sept. 23d, 1662, and had a son, John, b. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 509 there July 26, 1663, after which he disappeared at Wethersfield. This John is next found at Branford, where he signed the contract to settle the town of Newark, New Jersey, Oct. 30, 1665, and to provide for the maintenance of the purity of religion professed in the Congregational church. He is next found at Newark, with other signers, from Branford, New Haven, Milford, New London and Wethersfield, with Laurence Ward, two John Wards and Jcsiah Ward, &c. In 1676, the townsmen of Newark agreed with Mr. John Catlin to instruct their " children and servants in as much English reading, writing and arithmetic, as he could teach." In April, 1669, the town of Newark agreed with John Catlin to hang out and fasten poles or young trees in the river adjoining the com- mon fence, to prevent hogs swimming around the fence into the neck, and allowed him 5s. out of the treasury for his pains, &c. In 1670, he was a " committee man" to order as to fences, &c. In 1676, and until 1681, he was a townsman of Newark. In 1678, town's attorney, (not a lawyer,) an " honest brother," to take care that all town orders should be executed, and if a breach occurred, to prosecute the offender. In 1681, he was one of a committee to lay out highways to the mountain. John ^Catlin and his associate Wheeler, in 1673-4, purchased the Neck, a large tract of land above Newark. The title to this property was long contested ; after Cat- lin had closed this controversy, he and his wife disappear on the Newark record about 1682, when he sold to Henry Lyon, and in 1683, Judd says, was in Hadley, Mass., for a short time, and is found at Deerfield, Mass., in 1684. Deacon Lawrence Ward from New Haven and Branford, to Newark, died at Newark, without issue, in 1670. Isabel, wife of Joseph Baldwin, of Hadley, (the Jo- seph of Milford, and the father of Benjamin, who went to Newark,) was sister to Deacon L. Ward, and Isabel Baldwin authorized " her son, John Catlin," also John Ward (Turner,) to act for her in relation to the estate of their uncle, Lawrence Ward. John Ward, Jun., one of the early settlers, was a cousin of John Catlin ; he was a relative of " Robert Liman," who was early at Newark, perhaps a brother of John Lyman, who m. Dorcas Plum, at Bran- ford, about 1653 ; Robert Liman left Newark, 1677, (before Cat- lin;) Isabel calls John Catlin, of Newark, her son, in 1670; also John Catlin says in a law suit that he was the eldest son of Isabel Catlin and Isabel Northam ; Isabel, it appears, had had two hus- bands before she m. Joseph Baldwin., John Catlin, of Wethersfield, Branford, Newark and Deerfield, may possibly, in the singular dis. 43* 510 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. position, at that time, to change names, I conjecture, have been the son of John Cattell, who died at Wethersfield, in 1644, (see CATTELL,) and the name changed to Catlin. It is certain that John Catlin, of Wethersfield, was not identical with John Catlin, of Hartford, son of Thomas, Sen. I give some more light as to Joseph Baldwin, and his wife Isabel, of Hadley, by a letter from my friend, the irrefraga- ble. I find after more research, that Joseph Baldwin, who married Isabel Northam for his second wife, was the same Joseph Baldwin who was early at Milford, where his first wife died ; he went to Had- ley and m. Isabel Northam, the mother of John Catlin, of Newark. Joseph, son of Joseph Baldwin, went to Hadley, and died before his father. Joseph's sons, Jonathan and David, remained at Milford, and his son Benjamin, when young, removed and settled at Newark, where his name is recorded. (Newark Record, Judd, Conger, Bran- ford, Wethersfield and Deerfield Records.) This appears to have been a distinct family from that of Thomas Catlin, in 1647, of Hart- ford, Ct.* CATON, Widow ELIZA, died at Suffield, Dec. 26, 1817, aged 76; a child of John Caton, died Nov. 19, 1817, aged 5; not an early name in Connecticut. CATTELL, CATTEILL, JOHN, of Wethersfield, was a juror at Hartford, in 1644. This fact proves his respectability and character in Wethersfield. The goods of John Catteel were appraised July 17, 1644. He had a home lot and barn, £12 and six acres in Mile Meadow, and three acres in Great Meadow, and garden, £12, 12s. in Wethersfield, all presented to the court by the relict and Wm. Gib- bons, adm'rs, total £69 ; widow's name not given ; no family or dis- tribution found, except his relict. I conjecture he might have left an infant son, John, who was afterward the John Catlin who was m. at Wethersfield, and removed to Branford and Newark, in 1667, and changed his name to Catlin, (see JOHN CATLIN,) as the chang- ing of names at that time was not uncommon, as Buinap changed to Burnet, Boremarl to Boardman, Lankton to Langdon and Lan- don, &c. • Conger gays, in a letter to the compiler, " When I last visited Trenton, I examined the rec- ords in order to ascertain certain facts as to Rev. David Evans, &c. I then discovered upon close examination that Elizabeth Baldwin was really Isabel. If the correction will help us out in the John Catlin difficulty, it is better late than never." So this last summer, in the proprie- tors' records, at Perth Amboy, I find the manuscript niads Hannah Brown. In the names printed in the bill in chancery, about 1746, it is Bruen, and thus have we been wild and wan. dering after Hannah and Esther Bruen, when Esther was the only one in Newark. Hannah »hould have been Esther, daughter of Richard Lawrence." (See BRUEJV.) (See C.9TTF.LL.) GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 511 CAULKIN, CALKIN, CAWKIN, HUGH,* was, says Miss Caul- kins, in her History of New London, one of the party that came with Rev. Mr. Blinman, in 1640, from Monmouthshire, on the borders of Wales, and brought with him his wife Ann, and several children, and settled with others of his party, first at Marshfield, and afterward at Gloucester, Mass. ; at the latter place was selectman from 1643 to 1648 inclusive ; commissioner for trial of small causes in 1645, and deputy to the General Court in 1650 and 1651, (Miss Caulkins.) Mr. Caulkin probably removed to Pequot about 1650, where he was deputy to the General Court of Connecticut twelve sessions, and so well was bis character known by those who came with him to New Lon- don, (Pequot,) that he was elected to the General Court in May, 1652, and the same year chosen townsman, and continued to hold the office until 1662, and until he removed to Norwich. In 1660, he was one of the associated proprietors to settle Norwich, and the church was organ- ized for this purpose at Saybrook, where many of the proprietors re- sided, previous to the removal to Norwich, at which meeting Mr. Calkin was elected one of the deacons of the new church for Nor- wich, and in 1663 and '4, was deputy to the General Court from Nor- wich ; he remained, the balance of his useful life, at Norwich, and died there in 1690, aged 90 years. His sons, John and David, sur- vived him, and his son John, who was also a proprietor of Norwich, removed and settled there with his father. David, his youngest son, remained upon his father's farm and inherited it at Nahantick, and it is now owned by his descendants, {Miss Caulkins, Col. Rec. &c.) The first grant to Deacon Hugh was Oct. 19, 1650, made by the townsmen of Pequot. Early in 1651, nine lots of six acres each, were laid out on Cape Ann Lane, New London ; Mr. Calkins had the first lot by the Lyme road to Nahantick, and next to him his son-in-law, Hugh Roberts, (Miss Caulkins' Hist N. London, p. 71.) He was selectman in New London in Feb., 1660. In Mr. Bruen's list of the inhabitants of New London, dated July, 1651, of all who wrought at the mill dam, the name of Hugh Calkin is not found. In 1651, the town of Pequot or u Nameage," directed Hugh Calkin and Thomas Mynor to state to the court "that the town's name may be • Deacon Hugh Calkin held an exalted rank with the first settlers of Mass., while he remained there, and retained his character as a Christian and a man of integrity, after his removal to New London and Norwich, and until his death. Some of the family have made themselves conspicuous in the French war, and the war of the Revolution, but no descendant of Deacon Hugh has added as many laurels to the escutcheon of the family as Miss F. M. Caulkins, by her late History of New London, which should be owned by not only every family within the old boundaries of Pequot, but by all whose ancestors had an early home at New London. 512 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. called London." Three places in New London were fortified in 1652, viz., the mill, the meeting-house, and the house of Hugh Caul- kins, near the entrance of Cape Ann Lane, and in case of an alarm, Sergeant Minor's squadron was to repair to Hugh Caulkins' house, &c. Wampassock Neck, of 550 acres of upland, and a small neck adjoining it, were given to Hugh Caulkins, which afterward went into the hands of Mr. Winthrop by purchase, about 1651. August 28, 1654, Goodman Calkin with six others, were appointed by the town of New London, and three of Pockatucke and Mistike, to debate and conclude whether Misticke and Pockatucke should be a town, &c. May 21, 1653, Hugh Calkin was appointed by the General Court one of a committee at Pequot, to advise the constables as to pressing men for an expedition then getting up. In Sept., 1654, he was deputy, and in October he and Capt. Denison were appointed, with the con- stables of Pequot, to press men and necessaries for an expedition, with one drum and one pair " cullers," from Pequot. In June, 1659, he, with .lames Morgan and James Avery were appointed to lay out the governor's land, (which Gov. Winthrop had before requested,) at the head of Pocatanack Cove, for a plantation at Quinibauge, and the court gave him 1,500 acres on the Fresh River, if not prejudicial to any other plantation, and to include but 150 acres of meadow. His first election to the General Court in Connecticut, was May 20, 1652, also May, 1653, May, 1654, Sept., 1654, May, 1656, Oct., 1656, Oct., 1657, May, 1658, May, 1659, May, 1660, March, 1662-3, May, 1663, August, 1663, May, 1664, May, 1665, May, 1666, Oct., 1666, May, 1669, Oct. elected and absent, Oct., 1671. Hugh and John Calkins are found in the Norwich list of freemen, Oct. 9, 1669. (Col. Rec.) Caulkin, Hugh, had sons, John and David, perhaps others, and one daughter, Deborah, who m. Jonathan, son of Robert Royce,in 1660, and settled in Norwich. David Calkin, son of Deacon Hugh, m. Mary, daughter of Thomas Bliss, of Norwich, who was the son of Thomas Bliss, of Hartford, and had issue, David, b. July 5, 1674, Ann, b. Nov. 8, 1676, Jonathan, b. Jan. 9, 1678-9, Peter, b. Oct. 9, 1681, John, Mary, Joseph, Lydia and Ann. David, the father, d. Nov. 25, 1717. CALKIN, Lieut. STEPHEN, of Lebanon, was a proprietor of Sharon, Conn., where he early removed. He had the following sons, viz., Stephen, Jun., Joseph, Elijah, Timothy, Amos, Justus and David. Lieut. Stephen, Sen., died in 1781. Acquilla and Desire Calkins, his wife, of Colchester, (descendants of Hugh,) had children born at Colchester, Abigail, b. Sept. 18, 1748, Desire, b. Nov. 11, GENEALOGY OF THE PURITHNS. 513 1750, Hannah, b. Aug. 25, 1754, and perhaps others. John Calkin free 1663. John Calkins of Lebanon, purchased a right of land in Litchfield, and removed there in 1721. One of this name has grad- uated at Yale College. Farmer says Hugh was of Lynn, and ad- mitted freeman 1642, at Gloucester, 1643, representative, 1650 and 1651 (see Farmer.) Hughe Caukin had a grant of land made to him by the townsmen of New London, Oct. 19, 1650. Another says Hugh Cawkin was a freeman at Salem, Dec. 27, 1642. Samuel Calkins' daughter Ann, baptized at Colchester, May 6, 1733, David, also, baptized Feb. 29, 1736. John Caulkins graduated at Yale Col- lege, 1789. Calkin has one coat of arms. CEELY, CEELEY, ROBERT, a marshal at New Haven in October, 1639. (Lambert.) He had a family of four persons there, and an estate of £179, in 1643. He was one of the first settlers at New Haven. Ceely has 2 coats of arms ; Ceily or Cely, 1 ; Cely, 3. (See SEELY, ROBERT, Capt., of Wethersfield and other parts of Conn, and Long Island, an officer in the Indian wars.) CELDEN. (See SELDEN.) This name is generally spelled Celden on the West Hartford records, and on most other records, Selden. Supposed one of this family went to Hadley about 1660. CENTER, JONATHAN, of Middletown, m. Martha Markham, dau'r of Wm. Markham, Jr., April 26, 1706. Children: 1. John, b. Feb. 4, 1707. 2. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 18, 170S ; d. Nov. 30, 1713. 3. Jonathan, b. Oct. 27, 1710. 4. Martha, b. April 4, 1713 ; d. Dec. 28, 1713. 5. Elizabeth, 2d, } Tw - b March 10 1714 _ 15 . 6. Jemima, ) 7. Ruth, b. July 10, 1719. CENTER, JONATHAN, of West Hartford, m. Bethiah, dau'r of Cornelius Merry, Nov., 1734, and were admitted to full commun- ion there, May 27, 1759; also, widow Agnes Center, March 11, 1787. Jonathan and Bethiah had a son Jeremiah, b. March 11, 1750. CENTER, EBENEZER, of W. Hartf'd 5l had a son Ebenezer, bap. Sept. 4, 1768 ; Timothy, bap. March 4, 1769 ; Robert, bap. April 19, 1772 ; Agnes, bap. Dec. 25, 1773 ; Anson, bap. March 25, 1775 ; Joab, bap. April 27, 1777 ; Electa, bap. March 7, 1779 ; second Agnes, bap. June 7, 1784 ; Nabby, bap. Oct., 1786. Ebenezer and 514 GENEALOGY OF THE PRITANS. his wife publicly renewed their baptismal covenant at West Hart- ford, July 10, 1768. CENTER, JOHN, of Middletown, d., and his property distribu- ted, 1745-6, to Hannah Center, alias Turner, who was some time the widow of said John Center, and the remainder to his only dau'r Hannah. Jeremiah Center m. Mary Wyman, in Mass., about 1718. This has been a late and respectable family in Connecticut. CESUM, JOHN, was drowned in Windsor, in 1675. Nothing more is found of this settler at Windsor. CHADWICK, CHARLES, freeman at Watertown, Mass., in 1631 ; deputy to General Court, 1657 and 9; died April 10, 1682, aged 86. (Shaltuck.) Farmer says John his son, was freeman 1655, and called Ser- geant Chadwick, and had five sons and three daughters and d. Feb. 5, 1711 ; also THOMAS, son of Charles, of Watertown, had four sons and three daughters. Charles desired to be made a freeman in Oct., 1630, and was sworn in May, 1631. He early had seven lots of land recorded at Watertown. ( Wat. Rec.) BENJAMIN, of Maiden, a son of James, in 1689; also Abigail, daughter of James, b. Feb. 4, 1692. James was a freeman at Maiden, in 1689-90* JOHN CHADWICK, of Tyrringham, m. Prudence Seymour, daugh- ter of Elisha, of West Hartford, Conn., May 15, 1773. This name came late into Connecticut, but for many years has been found at Lyme, where several wealthy families of this name now reside ; two or more of them are sea captains. An estate in England is waiting for the lawful heirs of Andrew Chadwick, deceased, to prove their heirship. Mary Chadwick m. Dane Robinson, at Ando- ver, Mass., 1693-4. Chadock has one coat of arms, and Chadwick has five coats of arms. Chadwick, Clark, Child, Chenery and Coolidge were names early at Cambridge, Roxbury and Watertown. Mass. Chaduck, (perhaps Chadwick,) James, (perhaps Shattuck,) was allowed by the council at Hartford, Jan. 22, 1676, " for his paynes as Commissary, besides souldiers pay," five pounds. {Rec. of Gov- ernor and Council of Conn.) Thomas Chaddock, of Newbury, m. Sarah Woolcott, April 6, 1674. Chadwick, Joseph, came from Lon- don in England, and landed at Falmouth, Mass., as early as 1709; supposed to have been a brother or relative of Sir Andrew Chad- wick, who died without heirs in England in the reign of Queen Anne, where he left a large estate. Joseph married Martha Lumbard, of GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 515 Falmouth, Sept. 23, 1709, by Stephen Skiff, justice of peace, and had children born at Falmouth, viz. 1. Martha, b. Dec. 17, 1709. 2. Joseph, b. May, 1711. 3. Benjamin, b. Aug. IS, 1713. 4. Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1719. 5. Marah, b. Aug. 26, 1723. CHADWICK, SAMUEL, son of Joseph, m. Elizabeth Price, both of Falmouth, April 10, 1740, by Rev. Samuel Palmer, the minister, and had issue, 1st, Martha, b. Sept. 8, 1740 ; 2d, Mary, b. Feb. 11 or May 16, 1742; 3rd, Rose, b. Feb. 11, 1745; 4th, Isa- iah, b. Dec. 13, 1749; 5th, Abiather, b. last day of Feb., 1754; 6th, Archilus, b. March 1, 1757; 7th, Samuel, b. March 30, 1700. (See Falmouth records; also old bible of Samuel Chadwick.) Dr. Ansel Chadwick, one of the family, furnished the following list for one of his family, viz : "Charles Abiather Chadwick, the son of Abiather Chadwick and Basheba his wife, who was the son of Samuel Chadwick and Elizabeth, who was the son of Joseph and Martha his wife, who were married at Falmouth, Mass., Sept. 23, 1709 " Chadwick, James, and Hannah his wife, of Maiden, had a son Benjamin, b. Jan. 28. 1689; Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1692; Mary Chadwick, m. Dane Robinson, of Andover, Mass., Jan. 18, 1693-4. Charles Cheedwicke, freeman of Boston, 1630 ; Jno., made free in Mass., 1656; John, of Woburn, made free 16S0 ; James, of Mai- den, free 1689-90. {Bis. Gen. Reg.) John Chadwick, of West Hartford, m. Prudence Seymour, May 15, 1773. the first of the name on the Hartford record. Abiather Chadwick, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, m. Desire Rider. Archelaus, son of Sam. and Eliz'th, m. Sarah Goodspeed. The above Joseph Chadwick is supposed by his descendants to have been a brother of Sir Andrew Chadwick, who died intestate in Lon- don, without children, and his descendants the lawful heirs of Sir Andrew. Samuel Chadwick, a settler of Reading, Mass., before 1700. Mary Chadwick, m. John Pcabody, of Mass., in 163G. "CHADDUCK, (Commiss.) JAMES, is allowed for his paynes as commissary, besides his souldier's pay, five pounds." Flias Shadock d. at Windsor, 1676. {See Record of Council of Conn. Jan. 22, 1676. Windsor Rec.) CHAFFE, THOMAS, had lands granted him by the town of Hingham, in 1637. (His. Gen. Reg.) 516 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHAFE, MATHE WE, a ship-carpenter, admitted into the church in Boston, 1G36, and removed to Swanzy. (Farmer.) This name, spelled "Chaffee," was at Woodstock in the early settlement of the parish, a respectable family, (but as the first book of records of North Woodstock has been lost, I have few facts of the family at Woodstock.) CHAFFEE, JOSHUA, of Mansfield, Conn., removed to Sharon, Conn., in 1755, and m. the only child of Matthew St. John, Jr., where he d. in 1769, aged 56 years. He had sons, b. in Sharon, Joel, Matthew and Joshua B. ; his son Matthew d. early ; Joshua B. was a Justice of the Peace, and Joel was living in 1842. (Sedg.) CHAFFEE, HEZEKIAH, came from England to Rehoboth, in Mass., and settled there as a farmer, and had several sons, one of whom was John. This John, the son of Hezekiah above, had two sons, viz. : John, Jr. and Dr. Hezekiah. John, Jr. is supposed to have had no issue ; Hezekiah, brother of John, Jr., b. at Rehoboth, in 1731, was educated, and came to Hartford for the purpose of es- tablishing a druggist's store and pursuing his profession, but by the advice of the first Dr. Isaac Bull, of Hartford, he settled at Windsor, Conn., and held a high rank in his profession. He m. Lydia Gris- wold, of Simsbury, and had children, Hepzibah, who d. July 6, 1824, ao-ed 76. 2nd, Esther, m. Hector McLane, and d. April 4, 1790, aged 25. Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., d. Oct. 16, 1821, aged 60. John, d. Aug. 1, 1844, aged 77, m. Mary Rowland, daughter of Rev. Mr. Rowland, of Wi. ; had no issue. Mary, wife of James Hooker, Esq., d. Oct. 7, 1846 ; he d. Dec. 10, 1805, aged 63. Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee, Sen., of Wi., d. March 4, 1819, aged 88 years. Lydia, his wife, d. Oct. 1, 1801, aged 79. CHAFFEE, JOHN, son of Dr. Hezekiah, of Wi., m. Miss Mary Rowland, of Windsor, but left no children. CHAFFEE, Dr. HEZEKIAH, Jr., his other son, also became a physician at Windsor, and sustained the good reputation of his fath- er in his profession. Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., brother of John, m. Char- lotte Bradley, of Fairfield, Conn., daughter of Hezekiah Bradley ; she d. March 24, 1812, aged 48 ; he had sons Hezekiah Bradley and Samuel Grisuold, and one daughter, Abigail S. Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., died. CHAFFEE, ABIGAIL, daughter of Dr. Hi zekiah, Jr., m. Col. James Loomis, of Windsor, and has a very respectable family. CHAFFEE, HEZEKIAH BRADLEY, has never married and resides a bachelor in the city of New York. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 517 CHAFFEE, SAMUEL G., m. first Rebecca Phelps, of Bloom, field, only child of Nathan Phelps; she d. Nov. 18, 1818, and had children, Samuel Good and Rebecca Charlotte. He m. for his sec- ond wife, Julia, daughter of Daniel Lombard, Esq., of Springfield, Mass., and had Julia L., Hezekiah and Maria Louisa, also Julia and Delia, twins ; Julia d. aged 15 months, and Delia d. 4 months old. Hezekiah B. and Samuel G. graduated at Yale College in 1809 and '10, and were many years merchants in company at Hartford, where Samuel G. now resides. CHAFFE, ANN, m. Phineas Stebbin, son of Stephen, a descend- ant of Rowland of Northampton. CHAFFEY, MATHEW, purchased Dr. John Clark's farm in Essex, Dec, 1651. {Gen. Reg.) Coat of arms: Chafe, (Exeter,) has one, and Chaffe has one. CHALKER, ALEXANDER, was an early settler at Saybrook; on page 96, vol. 1, at Saybrook, he m. Katrine Post, Sept. 29, 1649, and had issue, 1. Stephen, b. Sept. S, 1650. 2. Mary, b. April 27, 1653; m. Rich'd Cogens, 1G77-S. 3. Abram, b. Oct. 19, 1055; m. Debora Barber, 1691. 4. Catern, b. Sept. S, 1657, m. John Hill, of Greenfield, 1673. 5. Sarah, b. Oct. 19, 1059. 6. Jane, b. May 25, 1602. 7. Alexander, b. Feb. 24, 1666. CIIALKER, STEPHEN, m. Eliz'th Chapman, June 3, 1703 ; he d. June 2, 1727. Issue, Eliz'th, b. March 12, 1704, d. 1707; Phebc, b. Aug. 11, 1705; Stephen, b. July 19, 1707; Mary, b. May 30, 1710; Lydia, b. July 30, 1713; Mehitabel, b. Aug. 13, 1715, d. March 7, 1730; Deborah, b. May 2, 171S. Stephen fined 20s. at N. L., for violation of Sabbath, 1673. CHALKER, STEPHEN, son of Stephen, Jun., b. 1707, m. Mehitabel Chapman, Dec. 14, 1727. Issue, Stephen, b. Oct. 24, 1728 ; Eliz'th, b. May 22, 1730 ; Jabez, b. March 24, 1732 ; Me- hitabel, b. Sept. 9, 1733; Gideon, b. Jan. 9, 1735; Jeremiah, b. July 20, 1736, d. Dec. 31, 1730. CHALKER, AB'M, b. 1657, son of Alexander, Sen., m. Han- nah Sanford, Jan. 16, 1679, and had children, b. at Saybrook, viz : Hannah, b. March 25, 1682 ; his wife Hannah d. Dec. 7, 1683. He m. for his second wife Sarah Ingham, Sept. 23, 1686, and had Abram, b. Sept. 1, 1687, d. Sept. 16, 1687, and his second wife Sarah d. Sept. 11, 1687. 44 518 GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. Isaac Chalker graduated at Y. C. in 1728, and Henry in 1834. CHALKER, AMB'M, recorded at Killingworth, m. Deborah Barber or Barker, Nov. 19, 1691 ; she d. 1753, and he d. Feb. 17, 1731. Children, Deborah, b. Oct. 3, 1694; Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1697; Ab'm, b. May 1, 1699; Hannah, b. July 19, 1703; Isaac, b. Sept. 12, 1707; Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1710. CHALKER, JABEZ, son of Stephen, m. Sarah Coe, May 29, 1750. Issue, Ja-bez, b. Aug. 21, 1757; John, b. Oct. 3, 1758; perhaps others. Jabez was taken prisoner in the expedition against Quebec, in 1775, with Andrew Hinman and others. CHALKER, SAMUEL, perhaps son of Alexander, of Saybrook, m. Phebe, daughter of Robert Bull, Oct. 31, 1676 ; (another entry is Nov. 7, 1676;) had children, Stephen, b. Sept. 11, 1677; Sam- uel, b. Oct. 6, 1679; Phebe, b. March 29, 1682, d. 1683; 2d Phebe, b. May 9, 1685. Alexander was a respectable and early settler at Saybrook. Goodm. Chalker, Lt. Prat, Rob't Chapm., Mathew Griswold and Win. Waller, were appointed by the Gen'l Court of Conn't, Oct., 1666, a committee to entertain and approve such as were received " inhabitents on ye east side ye River at Sea Brooke" — (forming the town of Lyme.) Alexander Chalker was placed in nomination for a freeman in Saybrook, Oct. 10, 1667. The appointment, of Alexander Chalker upon this important com- mittee with such men as Chapman, Griswold, &c, shows his stand- ing in the colony. His descendants are yet found in Saybrook, Hartford and other towns in Connecticut. CHALKWELL, EDWARD, was an early settler at Windsor; he made his will Oct. 17, 1648, and his estate was £13, 7s. 8d., which he gave to Nicholas Saint John, John Moses, Rev. Mr. War- ham, Geo. Phelps and the poor of the church in Windsor ; Geo. Phelps, Ex'r. He left neither wife or children; d. single, Dec. 5, 1648. He gave N. St. John his gun, sword, bandoleers, best hat and 40s. John Moses and Mr. Warham 50*., &c. (In one instance the name is spelled Charwell.) CHAMBERLAIN, CHAMBERLANE, CHAMBERLIN, JOHN, of Colchester, had children, Eliphalet, bap. April 13, 1740; Joseph, bap. Feb. 14, 1742; Mary, bap. Sept. 31, 1744; Elisha and Eliz'th, twins, bap. Aug. 10, 1746. CHAMBERLAIN, PELEG, had several children bap. at Col- chester, as did John. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 519 CHAMBERLAIN, BENJAMIN, had children bap. at Colches- ter, viz., Benj'n, Sept. 21, 1735; Oliver, Feb. 9, 1737; Hannah, May 30, 1742, and a 2d Benj'n, Oct. 14, 1744, and Ann, Nov. 23, 1746. Benj'n d. 1750, aged 49 years. CHAMBERLAIN, WM, of Colchester, m. Lydia Treadway, Jan. 3, 1734, and had Joel, bap. May 4, 1735 ; Wm., Jun'r, bap. Oct. 26, 1735 ; Roswell, bap. March 16, 1740, and Lydia, bap. June 14, 1741. WM. CHAMBERLAIN, of the 2d church in Col- chester, had a daughter Molly, bap. Aug. 2, 1772. CHAMBERLAIN, FREEDOM, of the 2d church in Colchester, an adult, was bap. March 25, 1733 ; wife Mary and his daughter Lydia, bap. same time ; daughter Delight, bap. Sept. 23, 1733, and Ellis, bap. Oct. 12, 1735 ; Irena, b. 1642. He d. in 1763, aged 59 ; widow Sarah d. 1768, aged 76. CHAMBERLAIN, ELIPHALET, of 2d church in Colchester, had daughter Lucy, bap. Nov. 22, 1772, and Lecta in June, 1773. CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH, of Colchester, m. Widow Hannah Gillett, July 12, 1738. Rebecca, bap. June 24, 1739; Mary, bap. March 14, 1742 ; Aaron, bap. Sept. 30, 1744. CHAMBERLAIN, WM., an inhabitant of Billerica in 1658. Wm. taken prisoner on the expedition against Quebec in Dec, 1775. {His. Gen. Reg.) CHAMBERLAIN, EDMUND, at a town meeting at Woodstock, Nov. 23, 1693, was allowed a corner of land, about thirty rods, on the north side of Muddy Brook, for fencing. Granted March 21, 1693-4, three acres adjoining the land he purchased of James Frizell, of Woodstock. CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH, was early settled at Colchester, where he d. in 1752, aged 87 years. The governor and council of Conn., March 21, 1712, directed the treasurer to pay him £1, 13s. for his entertaining the French embassador when they passed through Colchester to and from New London, in March, 1711. CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN, of Colchester, had a daughter Eu- nice, bap. Oct. 29, 1732; Jerusha, bap. March 4, 1733; John, March 30, 1735, and Hannah, bap. 1735. WM. CHAMBERLAIN d. at Colchester, Oct., 1755, aged 67. John Chamberlain was one of the men under Capt. John Lovewell, by command of Lieut. Gov. Dummer in quest of Indians in 1724. CHAMBERLAIN, PETER, m. Jane Higgins. JOHN m. Sarah Day, June 7, 1744. 520 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS, embarked for Virginia in the Thomas and John, John Lombard, Master, Jan. 6, 1035. Farmer notices Edmond, of Chelmsford, 1655, and son Edm'd, b. 1656. Henry, of Hingham, blacksmith, freeman 1638, land granted before 1640 ; and sons Henry and Wm. John, Charlestown, d. 1653 ; Richard, of Braintree, 1644 ; Tho's, of Woburn, free- man, 1644; Wm., of Billerica, 1654, perhaps son of Henry, of Hingham ; had sons Jacob, Tho's and Edmonde ; he, Wm., d. May 31, 1706, aged S6 ; R. Chamburlayne is found in the " Roll of Bat- tie Abbey," of Norman blood, true as steel. Coats of Arms. Chamberlain, one ; Chamberlaine three ; Cham- berlan, one ; Chamberlayn, twenty ; Chamberlayne, nine ; Cham- berlen, one ; Chamberlin, (London,) one ; Chamberlyn, two. This was not an early name in Connecticut, but is found early in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. CHAMPION, RICHARD, aged 19 years, embarked from En- gland for Virginia, in the Merch't Bonaventure, in 1634-5. THO'S CHAMPION, of Ashford, England, by a certificate of Edm. Hayes, Vicar, 12th of March, 1634, embarked in the Hercules, of Sand- wich, from Sandwich, in England, for New England. Number of Coats of Arms. — Champeyon has one; Champion, (Berkshire and Essex,) one ; Champion, (London,) one ; Champion, (Essex,) one, and eight others ; Champeyne, one; Champeyon, one. CHAMPION, HENRY, was born in England in 1611. He came to New England, and is found at Saybrook as early as 1647, as he married there in August, 1647. Henry was propounded for a free- man at Lyme in 1670. Henry Champion was one of those com- plained of by John Prentice, &c, of N. London, to the county court at Hartford, in March, 1671-2, in the great quarrel between the people of New London and Lyme, as to the eastern bounds of Lyme and western bounds of New London. He had lands beyond "Little Stoney Brook," in June, 1674, and other lands. He removed from Saybrook to Lyme many years before he died. He died Feb. 17, 1708. He had children, viz.: 1. Saraw, (Sarah,) b. 1649. 2. Mary, b. 1651. 3. Henry, Jun'r, b. 1654 or '5. 4. Thomas, b. April, 1656. 5. Stephen, b. 16.33, d. May, 1660. Henry, Sen., died in 1708, aged ninety six years. He had his earmark at Lyme, in 1673-4. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 521 CHAMPION, THOMAS, son of Henry, Sen., b. 1G56, m. Han nah Brockway, of Lyme, Aug. 23, 1682, and had issue, 1. Hannah, b. Feb. 13,1083; (died March 2, 1750.) 2. Sarah, b. March 8, 16S7-S. 3. Thomas, Jan., b. Jan. 21, 1690-1. 4. Mary, b. July, 1693. 5. Henry, b. May 2, 1695. 6. Deborah, b. April 20, 1697. 7. Elizabeth, b. July 1, 1099. Thomas, the father, diedl705. CHAMPION, HENRY, son of Thomas, born May 2, 1695, re- moved and settled at East Haddam. He married Mehitabel Rowlee, Jan. 16, 1717, and died in 1779, and had issue. 1. Ebenezcr. 2. Henry, b. Jan. 19,1723. 3. Israel, who married and left children. 4. Judah, b. in E. Haddam. CHAMPION, Col. HENRY, (son of Henry,) born in East Had- dam, Jan. 19, 1723, m. D. Brainard. He d. July 21, 1797, and left issue, Gen. Henry, b. March 16, 1751 ; Gen. Epaphroditus, bap. in the second church in Colchester, April 11, 1756 ; Dorathy, bap. Dec. 23, 1759 ; (supposed one b. in Nov., 1760 ;) Esther, bap. June, 1766. CHAMPION, Gen. HENRY, of Colchester, (son of Col. Henry,) b. 1751, m. Abigail Tinker, Oct. 10, 1781, and had issue, Henry, bap. Oct. 6. 1782 ; Aristobulas and Aristarchus, twins, bap. Oct. 31, 1784 ; Abigail, bap. April 8, 1787 ; Harriet, bap. July 19, 1789 ; Maria, bap. Feb. 14, 1792, and one other daughter. One of his daughters m. Joseph Trumbull, late governor of Connecticut; one m. Robert Watkinson, Esq.; one m. Elizur Goodrich, Esq., of Hartford ; and his daughter Abigail, m. Gen. David Deming, (now deceased,) Sept. 14, 1804. One of her daughters m. Rev. Mr. Ship- man, one died unmarried, and she has the honor of being the mother of Hon. Henry C. Deming, of Hartford, who has been so favorably known in Connecticut as an orator and public debater in both branch, es of the legislature, and at the bar. CHAMPION, Gen. EPAPHRODITUS, son of Col. Henry, bap. in the second church in Colchester, April 11, 1756. He m. Miss Hubbard, of Hatfield, Mass., and had but two children who survived him. His son Epaphroditus, who was educated a lawyer, died un- married at middle age. The only daughter of Gen. E. Champion, m. Hon. Asa Bacon, an eminent lawver of Litchfield, Conn, (now 44* 522 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. of New Haven,) who has retired from his profession with an ample fortune, full of honors and years. They had three most promising sons, all of whom they have lived to consign to the tomb. CHAMPION, Rev. JUDAH, son of Col. Henry, and grandson of Thomas, b. at E. Haddam, graduated at Yale College in 1751 ; in- vited to settle in the ministry at Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 26, 1753, as the successor of Rev. Mr. Collins, their first minister, which he ac- cepted and became the second minister of the town, where he died in 1810, aged 81 years. He early married Miss Welch, a sister of the first Judge Welch, of Litchfield, and had three daughters and no sons, viz., Nancy, Betsey and one other; the two last died single. Nancy m. John Landon, Esq., who was many years high sheriff" of Litchfield County, and had one son and two or more daughters. He and his wife both died at Castleton, Vt. in their old age. CHAMPION, HENRY, supposed Jun., had children born at Lyme, viz., Joshua, b. Sept. 28, 16 . . ; Henry, b. Jan. 5, 16 . . ; Susan, b. Feb. 25, 16 . . ; Samuel, b. 169 . ; Alse, b. March 15, 1694; Rachel, b. Dec. 1, 1697; Abigail, b. June 25, 1699 ; Ste- ven, b. July 15, 1702; Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1704. Henry, the father, died July, 1704. CHAMPION, REUBEN, of Lyme, married Lydia Dunk, of Say- brook, Feb., 1755, and had issue, born in Saybrook, viz., Sarah, b. Dec. 12, 1757; Reuben, b. July 30, 1760; Meads? b. Aug. 18, 1764 ; Azeubah, b. May 6, 1768. Reuben died at Lyme, Dec. 10, aged 92 years — a soldier of the Revolution. CHAMPION, STEVEN, married Abigail Bowers, July 18, 1743, had Stephen, b. Aug. 24, 1744 ; Jerusha, b. at Saybrook, June 21, 1746 ; perhaps others. CHAMPION, THOMAS, had children, Hannah, died March 2, 1750; Jane, d. March 12, 1750; Betty, d. March 13, 1750; Sam- uel, d. March 14, 1750; Elizabeth, d. March 16, 1750; Phebe, d. Dec. 11, 1752; Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1751, and Lucy, b. May 26, 1754 — (unfortunate family.) Jeffrry and Win, Champion, and Christopher, of'Weste-ly, R. I., took the oath of fidelity in that colony in 1679. Four of this name had graduated at Yale College in 1850.* * Aneipote for Lyme. — The town of Lyme passed the following vote : " At a public meet- ing, April the 18th, 1692, it was votmJ, riiat all bachelors and boys, from eight years old and upwards, be catechised once a fortnight on the Lord's day, in the meeting-house." Also voted at the same meeting, " that all maids and girls shall be catechised on the week days, and that. Mr. Noyes shall see that they meet to order." GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 523 Few families in the Connecticut Colony have been more prospered than that of Henry Champion, Sen., of Saybrook. When I speak here of his family, I intend his numerous descendants. The branch descended from Thomas, Sen., have been peculiarly fortunate in amassing wealth, particularly Col. Henry, Gen. Henry and Gen. Epaphroditus Champion. Col. Henry was appointed commissary in 1775, in the commencement of the war of the Revolution, with oth- ers, to supply all necessary stores and provisions for the troops then to be raised. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia in May, 1775. The same year he was appointed a full colonel. He officia- ted as commissary most of that war, aided by his sons. When in- telligence reached the governor of Connecticut, that a large fleet of the British, with many transports, " were pushing up Narragansett Bay, toward Newport and Providence, in 1776, Col. Champion was sent for, and ordered to provide for the troops ordered to Rhode Isl- and. In 1777, all the salt of the state in the hands of Mr. Bull, store- keeper at Hartford, was ordered into the hands of said Champion, for salting pork for the state, and he was ordered to put up one thousand barrels of pork for the state. The governor and council of safety, Jan. 15, 1778, judging that the quantity of salted and other provis- ions laid up for the Continental army, in this state, would prove far short of the required quantity, and as fattened cattle were difficult to be obtained, " and as Col. H. Champion was considered a gentleman of great judgment, capacity and experience in said business, espe- cially beyond any other person in this state, and of most unexcep- tionable honor and integrity, and of universal acquaintance and abil- ity to promote the fattening of cattle and skill in purchasing ; the board applied to him to undertake said business." (Record, Jan. 15, 1778.) Enough is here shown to prove the exalted rank he held in Connecticut during the war. Many others of the family were equal- ly ardent whigs. His two sons, Gen. Henry and Gen. Epaphrodi- tus, though young, were active whigs toward the close of the war, and were, after the war, elected members of both branches of the state Legislature, and held an exalted rank in Connecticut. CHAMPLIN, JOHN, took a lease of the Rope Ferry, at the bar on the road from New London to Lyme, of the town of New Lon- don, in 1720. A great horse race was held, five horses at forty shil- lings each, at Champlin's, March 30, 1725, and Major Buor held the stakes. Bly won the money. (See Caulkins, p. 407.) Two seamen, Samuel and Lodowick Champlin, were at New London in 524 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 1778 ; also, Lieut. George was killed in a desperate conflict in the West India seas, in 1778. (Caulkins, p. 402.) Two of this name graduated at Yale College, and one at Harvard College.* CHAUNCEY, CHANCY, GEORGE, Esq., resided in Hertford- shire, in England, a descendant of Chauncy de Chauncy, who went to England with William the Conqueror, in 1066. George, Esq., d. in 1627 ; he m. and had five sons, the youngest of whom was Charles, bap. Nov. 5, 1592 ; graduated at Trinity College, A. B., 1613 ; A. iM., 1624. He m. in England, Catherine, daughter of Robert Eyre, of Wiltshire. He died in New England, Feb. 19, 1672, aged 82, and his wife died Jan. 4, 1668. Mr. Chancy having been persecuted in England, came to New England in 1638, and preached at Plymouth three years, and settled at Scituate in 1641, until 1654, at which time he succeeded President Dunster, as President of Harvard College, where he continued until his death, Feb. 19, 1672, in his eightieth year, or as Mather says, eighty-sec- ond year. He evidenced a brilliancy of talents which few possess, which has continued in several branches of his descendants. His children : 1. Isaac, b. in England, Aug. 23, 1632; d. in London, Feb. 23, 1712. 2. Ichabod,b. in England, 1635; (wife Mary d. 1736 ;) he d. at Bristol, Eng., July 25, 1601. 3. Barnabas, died in middle life ; admitted into the church at Cambridge, Dec. 10, 1656 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1657. 4. Nathaniel, b. about 1639; settled at Hatfield, Mass., where he d. Nov. 4, 16S6. He m. Abigail, daughter of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, and be- fore of Windsor, Ct. His widow, Abigail, d. April 15, 1704. 5. Elnathan, became a noted physician in Boston. 6. Israel, b. in 1644, was settled as the pastor of the church at Stratford, Conn., where he died March 14, 1703. lie m. 1. Mary Nichol, and 2. Sarah Hodshon, at New Haven, Nov. 11, 1684. * Capt. Lodowick Champlin, of N. London, in 1777, was captain of the privateer American Revenue, and took a brig from Quebec and sent her into Bedford, laden with fish. The same year a sloop from New London was taken and carried into New York. April 2,j, 1777, news arrived at N. London that the armed brig Defense, (Capt. Smedley,) owned by Connecticut, and the sloop American Revenue, (Capt. Champlin,) of N. London, had arrived from a cruise in a safe port, and had taken four valuable prizes. Capt. Champlin, in 1777, in the American Rev- enue, of N. London, in company with a small privateer, took a large ship with 439 hogsheads of sugar, and arrived safe in port. He also sent into a safe port, a prize schooner, with 220 hogsheads of rum. New London, May 8, 1778. The American Revenue, Capt. Champlin, and Revenge, Capt. Conklin, of N. London, took the ship Lovely-Lass, Wade, late master, from Lon don, with a valuable cargo, and sent her into Boston, (JVewtpapcrs of that time.) GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 525 7. Sarah, m. Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of Wethersfield. (See BULKLEY.) 8. Hannah. Six sons of President Chancy were educated at Harvard College. His sons Isaac and Ichabod, returned to England. ISAAC settled in Woodborough parish, in Wiltshire, and was rejected by the Bar- tholomew act in the reign of Charles II., and afterward studied med- icine, and went to London to pursue his profession as physician ; but after the death of Rev. John Owen, D. D.,in 1663, he succeeded that eminent divine, and officiated in the church in Berry Street, in London, many years, and for reasons assigned by Dr. Calamy, he left preaching, and died in London, Feb. 12, 1712, aged over 79 years. He m. Jane , in England, and had children, viz.; 1. Isaac, Jun.; 2. Uzziel, d. Aug. 31, 1696 ; 3. Charles, came to Bos- ton, where he was a merchant, and d. there ; 4. Elizabeth, m. John Nisbit, of London, Dec. 10, 1689, and d. 1727. (Farmer.) The will of "Richard Sealis," dated 17th of 7th mo., 1653, was witnessed by " Charles, Isaac and Ichabod Chauncye." (Scituate, Gen. Reg.) CHANCY, CHARLES, last above, was the father of the celebra- ted Charles Chauncy, D. D., who was minister of the first church in Boston, from the 25th of October, 1727, to his decease in Feb., 1787, aged 82. CHAUNCEY, ICHABOD, son of President Chancy, b. in Eng- land, 1635, graduated at Harvard College, 1651 ; prepared himself for the pulpit, and returned to England, and became a chaplain in Sir Edward Harley's regiment, and was at Dunkirk, in France in 1662, and afterward was of " good note," physician in the city of Bristol. Dr. Calamy says, " he was prosecuted on the thirty- fifth of Elizabeth, and upon that act suffered banishment, and in 1684, was compelled to abjure the realm, and removed with his fam- ily to Holland, but by liberty from King James, he returned to Bris- tol in 1686, where he d. July 25, 1691, aged 56 years. His widow Mary d. about 1736, aged 90. CHANCY, Rev. ISRAEL,* son of President Chancy, of Cam- •By a deed given to Rev. Israel Chancy, at Stratford, in 1C76-7, by his parishioners, and Bigned by them, proves their identity, viz.: Wm. Curtis, Isaac Nichols, John Bird6eye, Sen., John Beach, Sen., James Blackman, (son of Rev. Adam,) Samuel Hawley, John Burritt, James Clark, Nath'l Porter, Epb'm Booth, Thomas Knowles, Benjamin Beach, Daniel Brin6made, Jno. Wilcoion, Isaac Nichols, John Welles, Samuel Beardsley, Tho's Uffoot, Joseph Hawley, Jehia Preston, Jehn Birdseye, Jun., John Bostick, Jonathan Curtis, Thomas Welles, John Hurd, Jun., John Curtis, John Picket, John Beach, Jun., Henry Tomlinson, (ancestor of Gov. G. TonilinsoD,) 526 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. bridge, was born at Plymouth or Scituate, educated at Harvard College, 1G61, and settled in the ministry at Stratford, Conn., 1G65. He m. for his first wife, Mary Nichol, daughter of Isaac, of Strat- ford, and his children recorded at Stratford, are Isaac, b. Oct., ; Charles, b. 1668; Robert, b. 1613, perhaps others not recorded. It appears his wife died, as the record at New Haven says, Israel Chauncy married Sarah Hodshon, Nov. 11, 1634. His son, Rev. Isaac Chauncy, was educated and settled in the ministry at Hadlcy, Mass. Rev. Isaac had a son Josiah, who became grandfather of Hon. Moses, of Amherst and Schenectady, and this Hon. Moses was the father of Mr. Chauncy, of New York. From the branch of the family settled at Fairfield, Conn., is descended Commodore Chancy, who d. Jan. 27, 1S40, the father of Charles W. and John S., of the U. S. Navy, and Rev. Peter Chancy, of Yorkville, N. York. Rev. Israel Chancy, of Stratford, was a fellow of Yale College from 1700 to 1703. He was a finished scholar, a good preacher, and a most useful divine. He d. March 14, 1703, aged 59.* CHANCY, Rsv. NATHANIEL, son of President Charles and brother of Rev. Israel Chancy, of Stratford, Ct., was b. at Plymouth, about 1G39; was educated and graduated at Harvard College in 1661, of which he was afterward fellow ; bap. at Scituate. He first settled as teacher of the church of Christ at Windsor, Conn. Hem. Abigail Strong, daughter of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Nov. 12, 1673, and had children recorded at Windsor, viz.: 1. Isaac, b. Sept. 5 and bap. Sept. 6, 1G74. 2. Katherine, b. Jan; 12, and bap. April 16. 3. Abigail, b. Oct. 14, and bap. 4. Nathaniel, Jan., b. 1631. 5. Charles, b. Sept. 3, 1679, bap. 7th, and d. Oct. 31, 1679. Katheren m. Rev. Daniel Brewer, of Roxbury and Springfield, Aug. 23, 1699, and had eight children ; d. March 15, 1754, aged 78 years. His daughter Abigail in. 1. Dr. Hudson, and 2. Ed- mond Burroughs. Mr. Chancy continued several years at Windsor. It was voted in the church at Windsor, June 21, 1668, that the chil- Richard Rooth, John Minor, (which is certified by John Minor, Recorder, 1G70-7.) Mr. Chancy had by gift of the town, twelve acres of meadow, and also twelve or thirteen acres of upland in tli.; neck; also, eleven acres ; forty acres as woods on Long Hill, between " Woronoke and Pageusett;" also, two acres, two-thirds of swamp, recorded March 22, 1676-7. * It will be noticed, Mr. Chancy m. first, Mary, dau. of Isaac Nichol. Before this marriage, Mr. Nichol, in his deeds, is uniformly noticed as Isaac Nichol, the soap boiler, which after Mary married the minister, was changed to Mr. Isaac Nichol. GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. 527 dren should be baptized by Mr. Chancy, if desired by the husband or wife, if they presented themselves to the elders in private, (before public,) and declared to their satisfaction their knowledge in the prin- ciples (of the covenant) and owned their father's covenant, &c. After Mr. Nathaniel Chancy left Windsor, he settled at Hatfield, Mass., where he died Nov. 2 or 3, 1685, and his widow died July 2, 1686, and was buried at Roxbury. In the settlement of the estate of Rev. Nathaniel, of Hatfield, 1685, inventory, £478, 145. Id.— *' Now whereas, the Rev. Mr. Chancy, of Stratford, hath freely of- fered to take care to bring up ye second son (Nath'l,)of his deceased brother, to learning, with this proviso, that he (Mr. Chancy) may have the use of the library which was his brother's, till such child came to be of age, and gave his advice that their said son might have the library as his own forever, &c; and as to Mr. Chancy 's right and the remainder of said children, which are a son, viz., the eldest, (Isaac,) and three daughters, who are all young, and to bring up," &c. (See Northampton Prob. Rcc.) Rev. Israel, of Stratford, ful- filled his obligation, and educated his nephew Nathaniel, and he probably formed his marriage connexion with Miss Judson, of Strat- ford, by his youthful days being spent with his uncle, Israel Chancy, at Stratford. His son Isaac died without issue. His daughter Sa- rah m. Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, of Wallingford, Conn. Nathaniel settled at Durham. CHANCY, Rev. ISAAC, the second minister of Hadley, Mass., m. the widow of Joseph Metcalf, (maiden name Abial Adams, dau'r of Rev. Wm. Adams, of Dedham,) soon after 1723. CHANCY, Mr. CHARLES, is noted on the records as of Wind- sor, Fairfield and Stratfield ; m. Sarah Wolcott, daughter of Mr. Henry, of Windsor, Mar. 16, 1698-9, and had issue, Abial), b. Jan. 22, 1699 ; Robert, b. at Windsor, Nov. 29, 1701 ; Ichabod W., b. Jan. 4, 1703-4. Mr. Wolcott and his daughter, Sarah Chancy, both being deceased, the court at Hartford ordered a distribution of their mother's share in her father Wolcott's estate, to be distributed to her children, viz., to R.obert, Ichabod W., and Abiah Chancy. Rev. Charles, of Stratfield Village, Clerk, Nov. 6, 1710, was appointed guardian for his children, named above. Rev. Charles, the father, of Stratfield, d. as early as 1715, and his wife Sarah, d. Jan. 5, 1703-4. John More and Daniel Bissell, of Windsor, were appointed guardians for said children in 1715. Personal property distributed 1720 ; real, distributed 1714-15, £315, 10s.; total, £367, 0s. lOd. To each of them £122, 65. lid. Final distribution, Dec. 3, 1722. 528 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHAUNCEY, Rev. NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Hatfield, and grandson of Pres. Chancy, settled at Durham. At a town meeting at Durham, June, 1708, it was voted to pay Mr. Nathan- iel Chauncey, for the present year's labor in the work of the ministry, if he continued there in said labor, £55 in grain at country price yearly, so long as he should continue in the work of the ministry with them. A church was formed Feb. 11, 1711, and he was ordain- ed there the same day. He had preached to the people of Durham as a candidate in 1706, where he had continued most of the time to his ordination. He was engaged in the war of the Revolution, with Col. Ely, as well as Chaplain on Long Island. Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, of Durham, was a son of Rev. Nathan- iel Chauncey, first at Windsor, and afterward at Hatfield, Mass., and grandson of President Charles Chauncy, of Harvard College. He was b. at Hatfield, Sept. 26, 1681. He was the first graduate of Yale College, who had received his entire collegiate education at Y ale in 1702. His father died when he was young, and his uncle, Rev. Israel Chauncey, of Stratford, had the oversight of his morals and education. He was many years a fellow of Yale College. He married Sarah Judson, of Stratford, Oct. 12, 1708, and had by her six children, viz., Elihu, Sarah, Katharine, Abigail, Nathaniel, Jun., and Elnathan. Hed. Feb. 1,1756. He was a great scholar, divine and Christian. CHAUNCEY, NATHANIEL, Esq., son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Durham, b. Jan. 26, 1720 ; graduated at Yale in 1740. Pie settled at Middletown, where he held a respectable rank as a magistrate and citizen. He died Sept. 3, 1798, aged 77. He was twice married; first to Mary Stocking, and second to Susannah Gilbert. Issue by his first wife, John S., a light-horseman in the war of the Revolu tion, and was killed after he had surrendered ; Sarah, Mary, Abi- gail, Nath'l, (father of Henry, of N. Y.,) Michael, of Hartford, John, of Western N. Y. and Catherine. (Fowler and Rec.) CHAUNCEY, Col. ELIHU, the eldest son of Dr. Chauncey, of Durham, was b. April 2, 1710. He settled at Durham, was judge of the county, and for many years was a standing representative to the General Assembly. He was concerned in the French War. He d. April 10, 1791, aged 81 years. He m. Mary Griswold, who died in March, 1791, aged 83 years. They had issue, Charles, died an infant; Catherine, b. April 11, 1741, d. April 8, 1830; Sarah, d. an infant ; second Sarah, b. May 8, 1745, m. Lemuel Guernsey for GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 529 her first husband, and Simeon Parsons for her second ; he d. iMarch 19, 1823 ; Charles. CHAUNCEY, ELNATHAN, third son of Dr. Nathaniel Chaun- cey, of Durham, wash. Sept. 10, 1725 ; graduated'at Yale College, in 1743. After his license to preach, he was called to preach and settle at N. Guilford and in Sharon, both of which he declined, but remained at Durham to aid his father on his farm and in the pulpit. He was a man of brilliant talents. He d. May 4, 1796. He m. Elizabeth Worthington, daughter of Rev. William, of Saybrook, the widow of Samuel Gale. His children were, Nathaniel William, b. Sept. 12, 1761, d. Jan. 29, 1840; 2. Catherine, b. Aug. 6, 1764, m. Reuben R. Fowler, the father of Rev. Wm. C. Fowler, of Amherst, Mass., d. April 12, 1841; Elnathan Elihu, d., aged four years; Worthington G. His wife, who had been the wife of Col. Gale, had children by Mr. Gale, viz., Asa W. Gale, who d. at Cape Francois, Aug. 14, 1772, aged about 16 years. Benjamin Gale, second son, proved his valor at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a sea-captain. He was washed overboard in a violent storm from a vessel, on board of which he had taken passage from the East Indies, in 1796 or '7, aged about 39 years. CHAUNCEY, Hon. CHARLES, LL. D., was b. May 30, 1747, O. S. He d. April 28, 1823. He was a man of exalted powers of mind, but had not received a collegiate education. He read law with J. A. Hillhouse, Esq., and was admitted to the bar, Nov., 1768. In 1776, he was state's attorney in Conn. In 1789, he was a judge of the superior court, which he held until 1793, when he resigned his seat upon the bench; after which he kept a law school. An honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by Yale College in 1777; and in 1811, the degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon him by Middlebury College. He m. Abigail Darling, who was born Nov. 9, 1746 ; died Dec. 24,1618. Their children were, Charles, Jun.,LL.D.; Elihu, Esq., d. May, 1847; Nathaniel, Es>; Sarah, m. W. W. Woolsey, Esq., the father of President J. D. Woolsey, S. T. D., LL. D., the pres- ent president of Yale College ; and Abigail Chancey, who d. unra. Of this family are the Chaunceys of Philadelphia. There has been a brilliancy of intellect attending the blood of this family, from President Chauncey to this time, and though they generally married into the best families in the country, they communicated their own brilliancy by their connection, to other names and families. (-Far., 45 530 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Fowler's Dedication Sermon at Durham, Stratford Rec, Windsor Rec, Hatfield Rec, Durham Rec, Old Bible, \c) Coals of Arms. — Chancy, (Essex and Porter, co. Norfolk,) 1 ; Chancey or Channcy, (Essex,) 1; Chancey, or Chauncey, (Saw- bridgeworth, co. Herts,) 1 ; Chancey, (Lincolnshire,) 1 ; Chancey or Chancey's, (Edcott, co. Northampton,) 1 ; Chancey, Chauncey,. or Chameny, (Northumberland,) 1, and 1 other. Chansey, 1 ; Chase or Chansey, 1; Chauncey, (Essex,) 1, and 7 others; Chaun- cy or Cauncy, 1. CHANDLER, HENRY, one of the early settlers of the N. W. part of Enfield, Conn., came from Andover, 1723, and purchased 700 acres of land, d. 1737, aged 70, had five sons; Henry, d. 1735, left three sons, who left town; Samuel, b. 1699, d. 1761 ; Daniel, b. 1701, m. Sarah Keep, 1728, d. 1785, left two sons ; Daniel, b. 1732, d. 1805, out of town; Joseph, b. 1738, d. 1816, in Enfield, and left children ; Nehemiah, fourth son of Henry Chandler, b. 1702, m. Mary Burroughs, daughter of John B., 1737, d. 1756, aged 54, had five sons ; Samuel, b. 1737 ; Jonathan, b. 1742, died young ; Nehemiah, b. 1744, d. 1814; John, b. 1746, died young; Joel, b. 1748, left town ; Zebulon, b. 1754, left town ; Isaac, youngest son of Henry Chandler, b. 1717, m. Abigail Hale, 1741, d. 1787, aged 70, had five sons, Isaac, David, Henry, Nathaniel and John. Henry Chandler had six daughters, five settled in Enfield. Lydia, m. John Booth, 1728, d. 1780; Abigail, m. John Rumerill, 1728, d. 1772; Sarah, m. Joseph Booth, 1736, d. 1778 ; Deborah, m. Ebenezer Colton, d. 1769 ; Hannah, m. Ezekiel Pease, 1732, d. 1756; Mary, m. Timothy Pease, 1736, d. 1789. CHANDLER, JOHN, Sen., husbandman, was an original pro- prietor and settler of Woodstock, from Roxbury, Mass., and drew home-lot No. 10, of thirty acres, with thirty acre rights at New Rox- bury, in 1686, at the north end of the eastward vale. He was one of the committee of New Roxbury to contract with William Bar- tholomew-, carpenter, of Branford, Ccnn., to build the first corn mill in Woodstock, 1687. He was many years towu clerk, as iate as 1715. The mill contract was signed by William Bartholomew on one part, and by Edward Morris, Joseph White, Nathaniel Johnson and John Chandler, aud witnessed by Robert Hughs and Wii'iam Whardley. John Chandler, Jun., drew lot No. 16, in the dhision of the good meadow in Woodstock, in 1690. Join, Sen., drew lot No. 21 in the second division of lots, and John Chandler, Jun., drew lot No. 41. John, Sen., drew No. 39, in the division of the bad GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 531 meadow, and John, Jan., No. 33, and John, Jan., drew lot No. 16, in the division of good meadow, in Woodstock. March 21, 1693-4, the town gave John, Jun., five acres against John Morse's, and fifteen acres at Muddy Brook, &c, for writing in the town books and re- cording ear-marks. March 12, 1688, at a full meeting of the inhab- itants of New Roxbury, Edward Morris, John Chandler, Sen., Ben- jamin Sabin, Joseph Bugbee, William Bartholomew, Samuel Rice and John Butcher, were appointed to state and settle highways, for the benefit of all proprietors, and any five of them had power, &c. They laid out seventeen highways in Woodstock, and reported them on the 18th of March, 1688, and signed their report. CHANDLER, CHARLES CHURCH, of Woodstock, and Thad- deus Burr, of Fairfield, were appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1775, at the expense of the colony, to employ two news carriers, to perform regular stages from Fairfield to W ood- stock, backward and forward, so as to arrive at Hartford every Sat- urday, and forward all intelligence through the country, with all convenient speed, &c. (Hin. His. Rev. p. 164.) Gen Chandler acted as paymaster for the commissary depart- ment, toward the close of the war of the Revolution in Connecticut. CHANDLER, Hon. JOHN, was a side judge of the county court in Fairfield county, in 1790. He was the first side judge in 1794, in Fairfield county. Col. John Chandler, of Newtown, in said county was appointed to command one of the eleven regiments ordered raised by Connecticut, in 1777. In 1776, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of a battalion of foot, ordered to be raised. Capt John Mills' company was annexed to Col. Chandler's regiment, instead of Capt. Elderkins, March 14, 1777. Col. Chandler was afterward appointed general, and proved a patriotic and useful offi- cer, during the war of the Revolution. John Chandler and John Beach, of Newtown, and Stephen Bil- lings, of Groton, were members of the convention in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and voted to ratify. CHANDLER, JOHN, a licensed taverner at New London, in 1698. This second John m. Elizabeth Douglass, daughter of Wm., of New London ; his son John m. Mary Raymond, daughter of Joshua, of New London, and lived at New London until his children, John, Joshua, William and Mary, were born there, (recorded,) after which the family removed to Woodstock ; the third John in this line m Hannah, daughter of John Gardiner, of the Isle of Wight, about 17 18, and resided a short time in New London. His son John, being 532 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. the fourth John in succession, was born in New London, Feb. 26, 1720, (see Caulkins, p. 301.) John, Sen., was at Woodstock, one of the first settlers, and John, Jun., drew land rights in 1690. John, Sen., who first came to New Roxbury, (now Woodstock,) was one of the first settlers who came there from Roxbury, Mass., and in the first division of lands in 1687, and proved one of the best families who settled there. George Chandler, aged 29, was passenger for Virginia, in the America, with a certificate from Gravesend, June 23, 1635. CHANDLER, Hon. JOHN, of Woodstock, a subscriber to Prince's Chronology ; also John, of Worcester, Mass. CHANDLER. THOMAS, aged 32, 1661; William, aged 28, 1664 ; William, aged 48, 1664, Newbury, Mass. ; John and Thom- as, brothers, 1663; Thomas, aged 37, in 1665 ; William, aged 54, in 1670. (His. Reg.) George Bourn m. Elizabeth Chandler, at Marshfield, May 21, 1713 ; Mercy Chandler, of Duxbury, m. Josiah Bartlett, of Marshfield, Jan. 3, 1722-3. (His. Reg.) John Chandler, Esq., of Woodstock, died Aug. 10, 1743, aged 78 years. John, Sen., and John Chandler, Jun., were two of the thirty- nine signers to settle Woodstock, with John Bowen, Henry Bowen, Thomas Bacon, Jun., James Barnet, &c. Isaac Chandler died at Windsor, June 16, 1741, aged 48. Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, and twenty-three at Harvard College, in 1850. William Chandler m. Mary Done, or Dany, of Ipswich, Aug. 24, 1658, by Mr. Simons. John, of Ando- ver, m. Hannah Abbot, Dec. 20, 1676. William, of Andover, m. Bridget Richarson, Oct., 1679. William, also of Andover, m. Sa- rah Buckmaster, Dec. 28, 1682. Thomas, m. Mary Peters, 1686. William, of Andover, m. Eleanor Philips, April 21, 1687. William, of Andover, free 1669; also, William, of Mass., free 1640. Chandler, surveyor at Duxbury, as early as 1666. Henry Chandler, of Andover, Mass., m. Lydia Abbott, Nov. 28, 1695. Roger, free 1682. Coats of arms. — Chandler, (London,) has one ; Chandler, (Lon- don,) one ; Chandler or Cluxundler, one, and Chaundler, one. The above Henry Chandler, perhaps, was the same Henry Chand- ler who settled at Enfield, Conn., in 1723, from Andover, Mass., and died, aged 70, in 1737. CHANCUTT, EDWARD, of Windsor, for divulging misreports against Hide, was fined by the court, March 2d, 1647, 40s., and GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 533 Benjamin Nubery, for the like, fined 20-$., and Masten's boy to be ■corrected. CHANCUT, THOMAS, 1647. CHANELL, ROBERT, and Robert Latimer, noticed by Miss Caulkins, as joint owners and commanders of the Hopewell, in 1662, (at New London.) On the 19th of May, while the barque was an- chored in the harbor of New London. Capt. Chanell, who was well in the morning of the 19th of May, was dead at two o'clock P. M., of the same day. His affairs were settled ; Latimer purchased Cha- nell's interest in the vessel ; the balance of his property, after the settlement of the estate, was sent to his wife and children, in Eng- land. (See Caulkins' New London, pp. 231, 232.) CHAPELL, WILLIAM, of New London, applied for permission to remain at New London, in 1664. He was fined in 1680, for fish- ing on the Sabbath. John Chapell was fined with others in Sept., 1693, for walking on Sabbath night and other offenses. George •Chappell and John Chapell were both of New London, in 1704. The names of Chapell and Chappell appear to be distinct names and fam- ilies. William Chapell purchased land in New London, in company with Richard Waring, and in company with William Peake, he pur- chased land in 1667, on the west side of New London, and William Chapell settled on the Cohanzie road. William Chapell and Christian, his wife, had children : 1. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1668-9, m. John Wood. 2. John, b. Feb. 25, 1671-2, m. Sarah Lewis, Aug. 26, 169S. 3. William, b. Sept., 1677. 4. Christian, b. Feb., 16S0-1, m. William Fairbanks. D. 2d William. 6. Joseph, m. Bethiah Dart. After the death of William Chapell, his relict m. Edward Stallion, 1693. Edward Stallion was drowned by falling out of a •canoe, on the 14th of May, 1703. (Caulkins.) Samuel Chappel, of West Hartford, had a son, Nathaniel, bap. there May 2, 1736. CHAPPELL, NATHANIEL, made free in Mass., 1639. CHAPPELL, JONATHAN, m. Lucy Tennant, of Colchester, Conn., Dec, 1750. CHAPPEL, CYRUS, died at Ellington, April 2, 1807. Thomas •Chappell, Rowland Cotton, &c, embarked for Virginia, June 23, 1635, in the America, from England. Coate of arms. — Chappell, (London,) one, and one other for Chap- pell. Chapell, or Chappell, (Cambridgeshire,) one. Chapell, gu. three chaplets, or, one. 45* 534 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHAPIN, EBENEZER, one of the early settlers of Enfield, was the son of Japhet Chapin, of Springfield, and grandson of Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the first settlers of the same place. Samuel, at Springfield as early as 1644. He (Ebenezer) was born at Spring- field, 1675, lived at Enfield, died Dec. 13, 1772, aged 97. He left eleven sons and two daughters, viz. i 1. Rachel. 2. Ebenezer, b. 1705; lived in Enfield; had two sons; d. aged 97; m. E. Pease. 3. Noah, b. 1707 ; lived in Somers-; had three sons and four daughters. 4. Seth, b. 1709; lived in Somers; had one son and three daughters ; died 1808. 5. Catharine, history unknown. 6. Moses, b. 1712; lived in Somers; had six sons and five daughters. 7. Aaron, b. 1714; lived in Somers; had seven sons and three daughters ; m. S. Markham. S. Elias, b. 1716 ; lived in Somers ; had two sons. 9. Reuben, b. 1718; lived in Salisbury. 10. Charles, b. 1720 ; lived in Salisbury and Bloomfield, N. Y. ; had two sons. 11. David, b. 1722; lived in New Hartford; had two sons. 12. Elisha, b. 1725; died unmarried., 13. Pluneas, b. 1726 ; died unmarried.* * (2) Ebenezer, 2d, mairied Elizabeth Pease. He died 1751, leaving two sons. Ebenezer, 3d, b. 1735 ; lived in Enfield; died 1822, leaving children. Eliphalet, was brigade-major under Gen. VVolcott ; Lieut. ; lived in Somers ; son of Ebenezer and Rutb, of Enfield ; b. 1707 ; m. Mary Wright, of Deeifield, Mass. (3) Noah, lieutenant, had three sons and four daughters. Oliver, died in the service. Noah, lived in Somers; left one son, Oliver, M. D., Esq.; graduated at Williamstown, 1305; for many years town clerk of Soraeis. He has a son, Seth, who is a physician. David, died young. Chapin, Cornet Noah, b. 1748, d. 1790, son of Lieut. Noah, in. Mary Williams, daughter of John and Ann, Jan. 22, 1778, and ba 1 issue: Ann, Abigail, Oliver, Mary, Dorca3, Submit. Cornet Noah, the father, died May 5, 1790. (0 Seth, b. 1709, married a Bliss, of Longmeadow ; died 1608, and had : Elizabeth, married Ezekiel Spencer, of .Somers. Catharine, married Daniel Sheldon, of Stafford. Samuel, b. 1739, married Elizabeth Spencer, of Somers ; died 1833; issue: Margaret, who married Daniel Davis, of Stafford ; lived in Stafford. Seth, who married Mary Stacy, of Wilbiaham ; lived in Somers. Samuel, who married Mary Pease, of Somers, and lived in Somers. The enterprising keepers of the Massasoit House, Springfield, are children of this couple. Reubo:i, b. 1773 ; graduated at Willnmstown, 1805 ; studied divinity with Rev. Messrs. Hyde, of Lee, Mass., and Pruden, of Enfield: married Louisa Russel, of Somers, in 1807 ; lost his health and settled in Somers ; died 1331, leaving — Alonzo Bowen, b. 1808 admitted to the bar in 1831 ; ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, 1338. and priest, in 1839. John Russel, b. 1811 ; graduated at the Berkshire Medical College, 1334 ; practiced in New York city; died in 1852. Louisa Cooley, born 1813; died 1822. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 535 CHAPIN, EPHRAIM, was a first settler at Stafford. CHAPIN, JAPHET, of Springfield, m. Thankful Dickinson, of Hatfield, May 26, 1726. CHAPIN, Deacon SAMUEL, made free at Braintree in 1644, and at Springfield, the same year, where he was a leading man. CHAPIN, CHEAPIN, JAPHET, had a daughter, Sarah, born at Milford, March 15, 1667-8; Thomas, born May 20, 1671. CHAPIN, JOSIAH, and MARY, had Samuel, born Nov. 11, 1659, at Weymouth, Mass. ; David, free at Springfield, in 1649. CHAPIN, Lieut. NOAH, of Somers, was son of Ebenezer and Ruth Chapin, of Enfield ; was born Oct. 25, 1707 ; he m. Mary Wright, of Deerfield, Mass. ; issue : Mary, born Nov. 12, 1734 ; Sarah, born 1736; Oliver, born April 9, 1739; Experience, born May, 1742 ; Eunice, born 1746, died 1816 ; Noah, born July 20, 1748, died May 5, 1790; David, born March 24, 1753. Lieut. Noah, the father, died Aug. 21, 1787, and Mary, the mother, died March 8, 1795. Reuben Spencer, born 1818; licensed to practice medicine by the Medical Society of New i'orkcity, 1848. Seth Smith, born 1821 ; ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, 1851. Louisa Cooley, born 1826. Bliss, born 17 — ; married Eunice Benton, of Tolland, and settled in that place. He had : Elisha Benton, M. D, born 1808 ; graduated at Berkshire Medical College, 1832 ; lived in Granby, Mass. ; died 1842. He had also one other son and three daughters. Elizabeth, married Philip Davis, and settled in Greenwich, Mass. Lucy, married Daniel Smith, of Westfield, Mass. (5) Moses, married and had issue : Phineas, settled in Newport, N. H. ; had four sons and four daughters. Daniel, born 1758 ; settled in Newport, N. H. ; married Joanna Arms, of Deerfield, Mass., and had William Arms, born 17'JO ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 181C ; licensed to preach, 1821, and has had seven children. Philomela, born 1792; married Reuben Basan ; died 1824. Elizabeth, married Moses Haven. Daniel Dwight, lived in Newport; had three children living in 1842. David Belding. Horace, was unmarried in 1842. Jason, graduated at Amherst College, 1827; studied divinity at Andover. Joanna, married Stephen G. Allis. Frederick, settled in Hatfield, Mass. ; had two sons and two daughters. Moses Augustus, lived and died at West Springfield. He had Mary ; Moses, attorney at law, judge of circuit court, Genesee county, N. Y. ; Elizabeth; Augustus Lyman ; Alpha; Seth Dwight; Elizabeth; Alonzo, M.'D., missionary to Sandwich Islands ; Lucina ; Louis. Jason, settled in Wilbraham, Mass. ; had one son, Henry, a lawyer in Baltimore. Samuel Dwight, lived in Somers ; left one son, Samuel Dwight, (G) Aaron, settled in Somers, and had seven sons and three daughters. Hiram, settled in Surry, N. H. Justus, settled in Gilson, N. H. Aaron, Jr., settled in Stafford. Jeremiah, settled in Somers. Gideon, died in the Revolution. Oliver, settled in Somers. Joseph, died unmarried. (7) Elias, settled in Somers, and had two sons. Elias and Asa. (8) Reuben, settled in Salisbury. Hon. Graham H. Chapin is supposed to be a descendant of this man. (9) Charles, lived in Salisbury ; removed to Western New York ; had : rhineas ; David. (The foregoing communicated by A. B. Chapin, D. D, of Glastenb'.iryj 536 GENEALOGY OF THE PDEITAN3. CHAPLIN, Mr. CLEMENT, aged 48, came from England with his wife in company with Mr. Wm. Swayne, aged 50, &c, in the ship Eliza and Ann, Cooper, Master, in 1634, to Cambridge, Mass., where he had lands. He remained there more than a year, and then went to Hartford, probably, with Mr. Hooker and his company, in 1636, and owned land in Hartford in 1639, in the first division. He did not remain many years in Hartford before he located in Wethersfield with Mr. Swayne, and others. He became a large landholder there and sustained an exalted reputation among the citizens of the town and colony, as elder, first treasurer of the colony in 1637, and first secretary. He is first found on the colony record of Conn., Dec, 1636, where " A Corte at New Towne" "ordered y l Mr. Clement Chaplin shall diligentlie inquire af- ter any thegoodes of Mr. Oldam deceased," &c. ; and the next notice of him on record is his appointment to the high office of treasurer and collector of the colony in 1637, and the appointment of his sub-col- lectors, viz. : Wm. Wadsworth, Henry Wolcott, Sen., Andrew Warde and Jehu Bur. In May, 1637, Mr. Chaplin was one of the Committee (or House of Assembly) who boldly " ordered that there shalbe an offensiue warr ag' the Pequoitt, and that there shalbe 90 men levied out of the 3 Plantations," &c. ; and Mr. Chaplyn is in the list of creditors to W. Oldam's estate, in 1639, £146, 18s. Od. Elder Chaplin in June, 1640, is found in a bitter quarrel with Mr. Michell of Wethersfield, and the latter ordered by the General Courte to make satisfaction to Mr. Chaplin, in some "publike meeting," as part of his censure by acknowledging his fault, &c, and Mr. Michell for undertaking the office of town clerk or recorder " notw th standing his uncapableness of such office by censure of courte, he is fyned to pay to the country twenty nobles," and those persons who voted for Mr. Michell for the office, " notwithstanding the censure of Courte," were fined to the country five pounds each. Mr. Chaplin, though a deputy to the general court in 1643, was fined by the court, eleven pounds, for divulging and setting his hand to a written dec- laration of slander, defaming the character of Rev. Mr. Smith of Wethersfield, with Francis Norton, John Goodridge, Mr. Plum and Robert Rose, &c. Elder Chaplin was also deputy, Feb. 14, 1643. Mr. Chaplin was in court as plaintiff against Henry and Samuel Smith, 1644, and Thomas Staples plaintiff against Clement Chaplin defendant, June, 1645, and plaintiff in Court 1646. He was also plaintiff against Dickerson in June, 1646, and had other law- suits, as was the fashion of the day. (While Mr. Chaplin remained GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 537 at Hartford in 1640, he was on a lot at market place, bounded nortl. on market-place, east on meeting-house alley, south, on John Steel, and west on the road from the Palisadoes toCentinel Hill.— Porter.) In 1639, Mr. Chaplin was one of a committee of six, viz. : Mr. Deputy, Capt. Mason, Mr. Stone, Mr. Goodwin, Geo. Hubbard and Elder Chaplin, appointed by the General Court for the better keeping in mind of those passages of God's providence, which had been remarkable, since their first undertaking in the plantations : and report the facts to the General Court, &c. (This report, if made, is not found.) The time of his death is not known, as nei- ther stone or record is now found to give the day or year of his decease. He left by will, all his property to his wife Sarah, and from this fact, he probably left no children. His widow, Sarah, returned to England after the death of Elder Chaplin, (about 1647, or 1648, " where she executed a general power of Attorney to Wm. Parks, of Roxbury, Mass,") in which she calls herself of Edmonds- Jury, in the county of Suffolk, in the kingdom of England, widow and relict of Clement Chaplin, late of Thetford, in the county of Norfolk, in said kingdom, clerk, deceased." (Goodwin.) By vir- tue of which Mr. Parks sold to Hon Henry Wolcot, various tracts of land and buildings in Wethersfield, which had been the property of Elder Chaplin, dated Sept. 24th, 1661, amounting to over 1300 acres of land, with buildings. It is not known that he left any relatives in this country. He had eight parcels of land recorded in Wethersfield, as early as 1641. It was voted at Hartford, Jan. 14th, 1639, to deal with Clement Chaplin for land forfeited to the town. Mr. Wm. Swayne who came to New England in the ship with Elder Chaplin, probably came with him to Hartford and located at Wethersfield a few years, and then removed to Branford or Totoket, where he died. (See SWAIN.) Coats of arms— Chaplin, (Scotland,) 1. Chaplin or Chapelin, (Londonor Stoneham, co., Hants, granted 1593,) 1. Chap- lin, (Lord Mayor of London 1678) 1. Three others for Chaplin. CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN, from Reading, in Mass., was received into the church at Hampton, Conn., June 14, 1736 ; Nathaniel ad- mitted to the church, Sept., 1741 ; Janny, also, Benjamin and his wife ; Mary, admitted Nov. 15th, 1741, removed to Mansfield or Coventry ; Ebenezer, son of Benjamin, Sen., a minister, admitted August 21, 1763 ; Sarah, wife of Dr. Joseph Chaplin, also ad- mitted into the church at Hampton, Jan. 6, 1760 ; Mary Chaplin, 538 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. from Pomfret, united with the church at Hampton, Nov 17th, 1751 ; Jammison Chaplin, widow, in 1757. CHAPLIN, EBENEZER, (son of Benjamin, Sen,) and Jammi- son, his wife, had children, baptized at Hampton. Ebenezer, Jun., baptized, June 2d, 1734 ; Mary, April 3d, 1748 ; Jamma, Dec. 3, 1749; Hannah, August 9th, 1752; Benjamin, Nov. 30, 1755; Anna, Dec. 11th, 1757 ; Mehitabel, baptized Oct. 14, 1759. CHAPLIN, JOSEPH, of Hampton, m. Sarah Stedman, June 13, 1754 ; issue, Joseph, April 10, 1755 ; John, born Nov. 30, 1756 ; Nathaniel, b._ Mar. 20, 1759, died 1763 ; Daniel, born July 10, 1761; 2d Nath., born May 1st, 1764 ; Sarah, born Oct. 22, 1766. (This has been a noted family.) CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN and Sarah, had a daughter Martha, bap. April, at Hampton, May 20, 1764. Benjamin, Jr., joined the church in Hampton, 1741. Chaplin, Hugh, of Rowley, Mass., will proved, 1657. Benjamin was the first of the name in Hampton, Conn, ; Nathaniel joined 1741. CHAPLIN, ROBERT, aged 22, passenger in the Paule of Lon- don, for Virginia, July 6, 1635. CHAPLIN, WILLIAM, embarked in the Thomas and John, Jan. 6, 1635, John Lombard, Master, for Virginia ; examined and took the oath of allegiance, (as was the custom.) The town of Chaplin was probably named after some one of the above family, formed into a society from a part of Windham, Mans- field and Hampton, in 1806, and incorporated a town in May, 1822. CHAPMAN, Hon. ROBERT, came to Saybrook about 1636. Tradition says he came to this country from Hull, England, in 1635. He appeared first at Saybrook, the next year. His father was a chandler in England, (then called soap-boilers.) One or more sis- ters either came with him or soon after, and one of his sisters mar- ried Francis Bushnell. There were but few men came into the Connecticut colony who rose higher in public estimation, or proved more useful, than Robert Chapman. He was a deputy to the Gen- eral Court of Connecticut, Sept. 9, 1652 ; May, 1653 ; Sept., 1653 ; Sept., 1854 ; in 1656 ; four sessions in 1657, three in 1658, two in 1659, two in 1660, one in 1661, two in 1662, four in 1663, one in 1664, two in 1665; in May, 1667; Oct., 1667; May, 1668; Oct., 1668. In May, 1669, he was elected an assistant, and deputy. also; deputy, Oct., 1669; deputy in May, 1670; Oct., 1670. In May, 1671, he was nominated for assistant ; chosen deputy, May, 1671 ; Oct., 1671. He was again nominated for assistant, Mav, 1672; GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 539 also, Ma)', 1673 ; deputy, May, 1674 ; May, 1675 ; Oct., 1675 ; Oct., 1676 and '77. Capt. Robert nominated for assistant, May, 1677, and elected deputy, 1677 ; Oct., 1677, &c. (See. Col. Rec.) Mr. Chapman was chosen commissioner for Saybrook in 1666 ; also, commissioner for Saybrook and Lyme in 1668. Mr. Chapman and Lieut. Wm. Pratt were chosen commissioners by the plantation for Saybrook and Lyme, May, 1669 ; also, in May, 1671 ; also, May, 1672 and '73. Mr. Chapman of Saybrook, O. Bruen and John Smith of New London, were appointed by the General Court to settle difficulties with the Niantick Indians for burning fences in 1653. He was grand juror the same year; also, grand juror, 1661. In 1653 the General Court ordered 65 men raised from the several towns in the colony to be forthwith prepared with provisions, on a day's warning to march, and ordered that one man in each town shoujd be appointed a committee for the constables to advise with about pressing the men for the expedition. Capt. Mason, Good'n Clark and Mr. Robert Chapman were appointed in Saybrook. In 1654 a like order was made, and John Clark and Robert Chapman ap- pointed a committee to advise with the Major (Major Mason) as to thepressing of men and necessaries for the service in the Narragan- sett expedition. The General Court confirmed a former grant of Twenty-Mile Island, with the meadow adjoining on the east side of the great river, (Conn.,) and commonage appertaining, to Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, in 1656. In 1665, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Wyllis, Mr. Leet and Capt. Nash, or any three of them, were appointed a committee to hear Uncas's* complaints, and report to the Gen. Court. Robert * The earliest records of the town of Hebron are the proceedings of meetings held in Say- brook and Lyme by persona styling themselves legatees of Joshua, Sachem. The following are extracts : " In Sabrook and Lyme. " At a meeting of y* Legatees of Joshua Sachem: that is y« Legatees it was agreed that y e Legatees doe give unto the Trustees of ye Collegiate Schoole in Conecticott, for y e use of e d Schoole, the quantity of two thousand acre right, in y« Lands given by s d Joshua, alhvayes provided y l s d Schoole be erected at Saybrooke. "Ye 10' h Febu: 1701— In testimony hereof we set to our hands. And ordr to be recorded. Th°: Buckingham Sen r Will™ Trait. James Lord John Chapman. Benj* Lord. Sam" Clarke Sam' Jones Sean r Stepa Tost. Ebenezar Ingham John Parker, Sean, Nathl Pratt John Kirtland Thomas Norton Sean r John Tilhtson. Taniell Lord Rob' Chapman. Pamli Jones Jun r Steophen Bushnell William Parker Tho : Buckingm Junr John Parker, Juni"." John Pratt Sean r Daniel Bucking" 1 John Clarke Hezikiah Bucking™ 540 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Chapman, Mr. Tinker and Mr. Campfield were chosen and sworn assistants, May, 16G1. He was directed to swear the people as freemen in " Sea Brooke," who had been orderly propounded. (Col. Rec, 1665.) The same session, Mr. Chapman, with the Gov- ernor, Deputy Governor and Mathew Griswold, were appointed a committee to try and determine a case presented to His Majesty in a petition of Mr. Morton, and report to the General Court in May, 1666, &c. He was grand juror for Saybrook, May, 1660. He and Matthew Griswold were appointed by the General Court to lay out Mr. Allyn's farm, Oct., 1661. Facts sufficient are related to show the exalted rank in the Con- necticut colony occupied by Hon. Robert Chapman of Saybrook, in the early settlement of Connecticut, and the organization of its gov- ernment. CHAPMAN, Hon. ROBERT, of Saybrook, m. Ann Blith at "Seabrook," April 29, Anno, 1612, and had children, viz. : John, b. July, 1044. 2. Robert, Jr., b. Sept., 1046. 3. Anna, b. Sept., 104b; d. 1649. 4. Hanna, b. Oct. 4, 1650. 'Say-brooke Febu: 19'h 170 s7 — "At a meeting of the Legatees of the last Will and Testament nf Joshua Sachem belonging to Say-brook." " It was agreed and vouted that Cap 1 John Clarke, Mr Rob 1 Chapman, Ens" John Pratt, and Serg' Stephen Post should preferr a petision unto the Gen 11 Court to be hoklen at Hartford next May for the granting a Township within said Land. And y l the name of the said place may be called Hebron — And that s J petision be by said men signed in the name and behalf, and preferred at the charge of us the Legateea." (Hebron. Record, copied by Hendee, Town Clerk.) There is a deed recorded in the Town P.ecords of Hebron, book 3d, page 65, from " Ben Uncose Sachem of Mohegin Benjamin Uncose and Ann daughter to feasor and wife to said Benjamin," conveying the township of Hebron to " Capt Hezekiah Gaylord Capt. Obadiah Hos- ford, Capt Nathaniell Phelps, John Phelps Jonathan White Moses Cass, Joseph Phelps, Charles Dewey and Rachell Jones, inhabitance" and proprietors of the town of Hebron and "Nathan. iell Man and y e rest of ye inhabitance of y e town of Hebron." The deed was executed at Col- chester, January 11th, 1737-8. (The magistrate before whom the deed was acknowledged, appended the following certificate :) "Hartford County ss. Colchester, Jan? 11th, A. D. 173' 8 Mr. John Avery interpreter, being sworn ilk; I ".fore iiio y subscriber Roger Woolcot Assistant in y- Colony of Connecticut interpret y e instrument contained on y- other side of thin paper unto y« granters therein men- tioned. IVn Uncose, Benjr.min I'n:o=c, Ann L'ncose y e wife of s 1 Benjamin Uncose, and de- clars U(ion i ath that he had made thorn all fully to understand y ^.iine and that y e said granters did declar ihr.t they had rece.vid full satisfaction as expressed in said instrument and y said BenUn'-a' a»id Benjamin Uncas and Ann were then sober and of sound understanding and thut y said in tmment was their volintary act and deed. "Corar Roovr Wolcot, Assistant." GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 541 5. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 16, 1653. 6. Mary, b. April 15, 1655. 7. Sarau, (Sarah,) b. Sept. 25, 1657. His wife, Ann, d. Nov. 20, 1685, and Capt. Robert Chapman d. Oct. 13, 1687. CHAPMAN, Capt. JOHN, son of Hon. Robert, m. Elizabeth Hally, or Holly, of Stratford, June 7, 1670, and had children : John, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1671 ; Joseph, b. July, 1673 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 10, 1676, d. 1676. His wife, Elizabeth, d. May 10, 1676, and he m. for second wife, Elizabeth Beamon, March 26, 1677, and had issue : Andrew, b. April 24, 1678, d, May 16, 1683 ; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 26, 1679 ; Thomas, b. Jan. 23, 1681, d. in 1682 ; Lydia, b. Feb. 13, 1682; Anne, b. Nov. 5, 1684 ; second Andrew, b. Oct. 1, 1686, and d. same year. His w l ife, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 30, 1694. CHAPMAN, ROBERT, Jr., son of Hon. Robert, m. Sarah Griswold, of Norwich, June 27, 1671. Issue, Samuel, b. Sept. 12, 1672 ; Robert, b. April 19, 1675; Sarah, b. Sept. 12, and d. Oct. 15, 1677; Francis, b. Aug. 5, 1678; Dorkis, b. Aug. 26, 1680, d. soon after; Stephen, b. Nov. 24, 1681, d. 1686; a son, b. and d. .March, 1683-4; Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1686, d. soon after; his sixth son and ninth child b. Nov. 6, (no date,) and d. Nov. 9, 1689. His wife, Sarah, d. April 7, 1692, and he m. for second wife, Mary Sheather, Oct. 29, 1694, and had Benjamin, b. Jan. 1, 1695 ; Me- hitabel, b. May 15, 1697, d. 1697-8; Stephen, b. March 5, 1698-9. Robert Chapman died when a member of the Gen. Court at Hart- ford, and was there buried, where his monument yet says : " Here lyeth Robert Chapman, who departed this life Nov. y* 10, 1711, aged 63." (The birth and age disagree.) The Chapmans of Ellington are, many of them, descendants of Robert, 3d. John, son of Robert, removed to East Haddam before 1690. His second son resided at Oyster River, in Saybrook, and *was a member of that noted body of Puritans who formed the Say- brook Platform, in 1708. He died suddenly at Hartford while a member of the Gen. Assembly, and was interred at Hartford in Oct., 1711. His son, Robert, the grandson of Hon. Robert, 1st, set- tled and d. at East Haddam, and was b. 1674. His first wife was Mary, and first child b. Dec. 16, 1698. John had thirteen children, several died young ; Joseph, Jabez and Samuel only had families. Joseph lived and d. in Saybrook ; Jabez settled and d. in East Haddam ; and Samuel, the youngest, was b. in 1692 ; he removed to Stonington ; his wife was Mary, and she d. young in Saybrook. 46 542 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Samuel deeded land to his son, Samuel, in Saybrook, 1745, and Samuel, the son, deeds the same land and buildings, as of Salis- bury, in 1748. Jabez has few descendants, and now only one or two families in East Haddam, but most of the Chapmans there are descendants of Robert, 3d. The Chapmans of Ellington are, many of them, descendants of Robert, 3d, by his third son, Jonathan, b. in 1702, and m. Hannah Brainard, Dec, 1730, and had sons : Jabez, b. 1731 ; Jonathan, b. Aug. 21, 1734; Joseph, b. Sept. 6, 1736; and John, b. Nov. 10, 1739. John and Joseph never married ; lived and d. at Millington. Jabez and Jonathan married and settled in Ellington from 1760 to '65. As Rev. F. W. Chapman, a descendant of Hon. Robert, is pre- paring a full genealogy of the family, I publish a small part of it. Hon. Asa Chapman, an eminent lawyer and judge of the S. Court of Conn., and his son, Hon. Charles Chapman, of Hartford, late member of Congress ; Geo. H., of Saybrook ; Li' I pus, of New York ; Rev. F. W. Chapman, and very many other ' respect- able men, are found descended from Hon. Robert nan, once of Saybrook. CHAPMAN, JOHN, d. at Colchester in 1745, aged 60. John and Robert, of Saybrook, nominated for freemen, Oct., 1667. Thomas Chapman, deputy to Gen. Court in Conn., May, 1652, and Oct., 1654. He testified with others in court, in May, 1651, that he knew nothing of John Dyer's carrying Indians on board the Dutch vessel, and that that was no cause of their seizing the vessel and goods. There was a THOMAS CHAPMAN admitted to the church at Hampton, Conn., July 31, 1726 ; and Thomas and his wife are en- tered as having joined the church at Hampton, Feb. 18. 1728, (per- haps father and son.) CHAPMAN, EDWARD, of Windsor, m. Eliz'th Fox in Eng- land, and had children born at Windsor, viz., 1, Henry, b. July 4, 1663 ; 2, Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1664, d. ; 3, Mary, b. Oct. 22, (or 7,) 1654 ; 4, Eliz'th, b. Jan. 18, 1667 ; 5, Simon, b. April 30, 1669 ; 6, Hanna, b. May 3, 1671 ; 7, Margaret, b. March 7, 1672 ; 8, Sarah, b.' May 24, 1675. Some of his daughters appear to have been born before he came to Windsor ; he d. at Windsor in 1675. Edward Chapman, Corp'l Samuel Marshall, Ebenezer Dibble, Nath'l Pond and Richard Sexton, all of Windsor, were in the Indian fight, and were wounded, and d. Dec, 1675. The inventory of said Ed- ward is dated Feb., 1675, £184, 10s. ; offered in court, March 2, GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 543 1675 ; distributed, .£61 to his widow ; his eldest son, Henry, £30 ; the other son, Simeon, £18 ; to the five daughters, .£15 each. Ed- ward was sworn freeman in 1667. Eliz'th, widow of Edward, afterward, 1673, had her children baptized, after the death of her husband. CHAPMAN, WILLIAM, of N. London, in 1657, had the house and lot which had been Capt. Denison's, purchased o( Mr. Blyn- man, agent of John Chynnery. {Caulk. N. L., p. 93.) He rang the first bell at N. London, " a large brass bell," as Miss Caulkins says, " to signalize the entrance of Mr. Saltonstall on his official du- ties. It cost £25 in current money, and for ringing it, he had 40s. added to his salary of £3, as sexton." Wm. was a freeman at N. London in 1669. There is no evidence that Robert, of Saybrook, and William, of N. London, or John, of N. Haven, were relatives. CHAPMAN, SARAH, for sitting under an apple-tree in Goodman Chapman's orchard, on the Lord's day, with John Lewis, was pre- sented to the court for trial. CHAPMA.N, JEREMIAH, of N. London, teacher of the gram- mar school there, in 1738. SAMUEL, of N. London, in 1704. Capt. DANIEL, of N. London, commander of one of the com- panies raised against Cape Breton, in 1744-5. DANIEL d. 1841, aged 80. RICHARD CHAPMAN'S wife admitted to the first church at Unity, (North Stratford,) Nov. 12, 1730, and Richard admitted in 1736, and his daughter, Mary, admitted June 25, 1738- Ruth, dau. of Richard, deceased, admitted in June, 1741. Abner, son of Mary Chapman, b. Aug. 8, 1738. CHAPMAN, DANIEL, original proprietor and settler of Staf- ford, Conn. CHAPMAN, SIMON, and Nathaniel Cook, the first inn-keepers recorded in Windsor, 1712. ICHABOD, of Colchester, had a son, Ichabod, bap. April 15, 1733. SAMUEL, of Colchester, removed, and was a first settler at Sharon, Conn., and had sons, Samuel, Jr., Ezekiel and Nehemiah. OBADIAH removed from Colchester to Sharon, in 1741, and d. 1761; his son, Obadiah, Jr., d. 1763; his son, Pelatiah, d. 1759; Matthias and Robert — (Sedg.) CHAPMAN, JOSEPH, of Colchester, d. 1765, aged 98 years. SARAH, of do., d. 1772, aged 86. 544 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. JOHN, of do., d. 1745, aged 60. Wife of John, of do., d. 1749,. aged 75. Her husband, John, d. there, Feb., 1750, aged 97. The wife of Joseph, of do., d. there, 1753, aged 75. Mr. JOSEPH, of Newport, R. I., m. Bathshua Mansfield, of N. Haven, Jan 22,»1705. CHAPMAN, JABEZ, and Dyer Throop, of E. Haddam, were members It ratify the Constitution of the U. S., in 1788. CHAPMAN, SAMUEL, and J. West, of Tolland, also were members. CHAPMAN, HENRY, aged 19, embarked from England for Virginia, July 27, 1635, in the Primrose, Douglass, master. CHAPMAN, RICHARD, aged 18, was passenger for Virginia, Aug. 1, 1635, on board the Eliz'th de London, Christopher Brown, master. (Somerby.) CHAPMAN, WALTER, aged 44, passenger in the Assurance de London, for Virginia, in 1635. CHAPMAN, RALPH, aged 20, embarked in the Eiiz'th de Lon- don, Wm. Stagg, master, in 1635, with certificates from the min- ister of St. Saviour's, Southwark, &c. THOMAS, aged 26, passenger in the Globe of London, for Vir- ginia, in 1635. Mary m. Samuel Bate, of Saybrook, April 15, 1677. SAMUEL had an ear mark at Lyme, one of the first. There was a JOHN CHAPMAN, interested £4, 15s. in the set- tlement of Mr. John Oldham's estate, which was the first estate settled in Conn. CHAPMAN, JOHN, a first settler at N. Haven, signed the " foundimental " agreement there, in 1639. (See Note, p. 76.) He was at N. Haven in 1643, with two persons in his family, and an estate of £300. {Lambert.) As his marriage is not recorded there, he was probably married when he came there ; neither has he children recorded there. Capt. JOHN, of Haddam, d. in his old age, and his children divided his property, March 28, 1712, viz. : Joseph, of Saybrook ; Jabez and Samuel, of Haddam, then living ; and his sons-in-law, viz., Stephen Chalker, of Saybrook ; Joseph Selden, of Lyme, and Samuel Richardson, of Stonington, by their marriage with his daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, Mehitabel, and Lydia Chapman, of Haddam, the last unmarried. CHAPMAN, LYDIA, of Haddam, d. 1738, and her heirs were GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 545 her brothers and sisters, viz., Jabez and Samuel Chapman, Anne Selden, Mehitabel and Elizabeth Chalker, of Saybrook. John, of Colchester, had a son, Gideon, bap. Aug. 6, 1737, and dau. Delight, bap. same day. WM. CHAPMAN'S dau., Mary, an adult, bap. May 18, 1735 ; also, Abigail, an adult, bap. at Colchester, same day. CHAPMAN, Mr. ELIJAH, of Tolland, m. Sarah Steel, May 28, 1747, and had children, Joanna, Reuben, Sarah, Elijah, Ashbel, Sarah, Ruth, Esther, Roxanna, Aaron, Dorcas, Daniel. The father d. Feb. 17, 1808. Sarah, wife of Dea. Elijah, d. Feb. 22, 1812. Capt. Samuel had issue b. at Tolland, viz., Ruth, b. Oct. 13, 1733, m. Mr. Eleazer Steel, Nov. 7, 1751 ; Simon, b. Dec. 23, 1736; Margaret, b. May 5, 1739, (perhaps others.) JOHN, of Colchester, aged over 7(3 years, bap. April 7, 1734. SAMUEL and his wife, adults, of do., bap. July 18, 1736. DANIEL, of Colchester, had sons, Barnabas and Jeremiah, bap. Sept. 16, 1733 ; Mercy, May 3, 1735, and Eunice, 1737. Ichabod, son of Ichabod, of Colchester, bap. April 15, 1733 ; Elisha, 1736, and Lydia, 1738. Farmer notices John, in Mass., freeman, in 1634 ; Jacob, admit- ted a resident, or townsman, in Boston, 1642 ; Richard, Braintree, 1647, killed by Indians ; Dea. Samuel, proprietor at Westfield, in 1660. This has been a familiar name in many parts of Connecti- cut, from the first settlement. Coals of Arms. Chapman, (Cambridgeshire,) 1 ; Chapman, (Stratton, Co. Gloucester,) 1 ; Chapman, (Cambridgeshire,) 1 ; Chapman, (London,) 1, and 22 others. Four by this name had graduated at Cambridge college, and eight at Yale, in 1850. Note for Tolland. Matthew Allen, Roger Wolcot, Timothy Thrall and John Ellsworth, of Windsor, had liberty of the Legislature to lay out the town of Tolland, in 1715. In 1719 the proprietors sold the town to 53 persons, and reserved to each of the four original proprietors 300 acres of the land. These fifty three were, and have been deemed, the first settlers, but Waldo says, roads were laid out and lots assigned in 1713, and children born there before 1715. Amy Hatch, dau. of Joseph, was b. there Oct. 10, 1713; Margaret Park, dau. of Joseph Park, b. there Jan., 1715 ; Joseph, son of Joseph Hatch, was the first male child b. at Tolland, Sept. 12, 1715, but Hatch and -.Park had deeds with the first proprietors, yet the settlement began befoie 1715. Joseph Benton was Town Clerk in 1719, and he was sent the same year to procure a minister, and Rev. Stephen Steel preached there in 1720, and in 1721 was voted j£75 a year, and in 1723 he was settled their first minister; Noah Grimes and Daniel Cook appointed to prepare for the ordination. Mr. Steel dismissed for ill health, Dec. 25, 1758, and d. Dec. 4, 1759, aged 63 years. 46* 546 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHAPPELL, GEORGE. The first found of this man in the colony is on the colony record, March 28, 1637, where the court "ordered y l Mr. Frances Stiles shall teach Geo: Chappie, Tho: Coop 1 a vessel was built for John Wheeler, a prominent maritime man at New London, for European trade ; and sent out under Capt. Sam- uel Chester. In 1664, Capt. Samuel Chester received, says Miss Caulkins, his first grant of land in New London, in company with Wm. Condy, of Boston, called his nephew, for a warehouse. Capt. Chester died on the east side of the river, in 1710. She also says, p. 353, in her valuable History of New London, that he was much employed in land surveys, and was appointed, in 1693, by the Gen. Court, one of the agents to meet a committee from Mass., to renew and settle the boundaries of the two colonies. He had a tract of land in the North Parish, purchased of Owaneco and Josiah, Mohe- gan sachems. The children he had baptized in New London, were John, Susannah and Samuel in 1670, Mercy in 1673, Hannah in 1694, Jonathan in 1697. His will, dated in 1708, names only Abra- ham, John, Jonathan, and Mercy Burrows. The Chester families at Montville, are descendants of Capt. Samuel. (Miss Caulkins and Record, an early Indian deed, 1683, to Samuel Chester, fyc.) In this place, one generation is not found only by tradition. CHESTER, Deacon JOSEPH, grandson of Capt. Samuel, was born in Groton, Jan. 17, 1731. He m. Rachael Hillhouse, of New London, (Montville,) April 4, 1753. Their daughter Mary was b. Jan. 17, 1754. His wife Rachael died April 8, 1754, and his dau'r Mary died June 11, 1765. Deacon Chester m. for his second wife, Elizabeth Otis, April 21, 1757, and had children, viz. : 2. Joseph, b. Jan. 27, 175S. 11. Caroline, b. Aug. 27, 1773. 3. Rachael, b. June 12, 1759. 12. John, b. Oct. 7, 1775; d. Oct. 3, 4. Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1761. 1796. 5. Levi, b. Feb. 13, 1763. 13. Olive, b. March 12, 1776. 6. Mercy, b. Oct. 5, 1764. 14. Lucinda, b. Feb. 3, 1779. 7. Otis, b. Aug. 4, 1766. 15. Dorothy, b. Feb. 7, 17S0. 8. David, b. April 23, 1768. 16. Anna, b. July 21, L783. 9. Mary, b. Feb. 27, 1770. 17. Sarah, b. Jan. 12, 17S5. 10. Mabel, b. Nov. 11, 1771. CHESTER, JOSEPH, Jun , son of Deacon Joseph, m. Elizabeth Lee, of Lyme, and he died April 2, 1791. CHESTER, RACHEL, a daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Jared Comstock, and died in Feb., 1841. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 559 CHESTER, ELIZABETH, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Ezekiel Fox. He died, and she married Thomas Adgate, and died at Bethany, N. Y., Sept., 1830. CHESTER, LEVI, son of Deacon Joseph— (little known of him.) He died June 2, 1812. CHESTER, MERCY, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Jona- than Whaley, and for her second husband married Deacon Elisha Lord, of Pomfret. CHESTER, OTIS, son of same, married Miss Mott, and removed to Granville, Mass., and died Feb. 28, 1816. CHESTER, DAVID, son of Deacon Joseph, married Prudence Fox, and removed to Alabama. CHESTER, MARY, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Asahel Otis, and died Jan. 2, 1834. Asahel Otis died Jan. 12, 1837, at the house of his son, Levi Otis, in Batavia, N. Y. CHESTER, MABEL, another daughter, married James Sterling, of Lyme, and removed to Lima, N. Y. CHESTER, CAROLINE, another daughter of Deacon Joseph, married John Smith. He died Feb. 26, 1830. CHESTER, OLIVE, another daughter, married William VV. Haughton. CHESTER, LUCINDA, died at her sister Sterling's, at Lima, Feb. 19, 1801. CHESTER, DOROTHY, another daughter, married Ephraim Fellowes, of Stonington, Oct. 26, 1806, and became the mother of Francis Fellowes, Esq , Counselor at Law, in Hartford, &c. CHESTER, SARAH, another daughter, married Elisha Forsyth, and perhaps Haughton. The foregoing are a small part of the descendants of Capt. Sam- uel Chester, of New London. CHESTER, LEONARD, Esq., came from England to Cam- bridge, Mass., in the early settlement of New England, and stopped first at Cambridge, in 1633. He was of an important and distin- guished titled family, of Brady, in Leicestershire in England, and left his country and all his honors there for New England, to enjoy his liberty and religion. In 1635, he went to Wethersfield, to pre- pare a house for himself and family, and left his wife in delicate health at Watertown, (Cambridge,) and his son John was born at that place, where his birth is recorded — (several years afterward, his birth was recorded, b. at Wethersfield, the first white male child b. there, which was not correct.) Mr. Chester was one of the few 560 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. titled gentlemen, who left England, in the early settlement of New England, and remained and died here. His title is engraved upon his tomb by his family, as " Armiger" — probably with no more fam- ily pride than those who have recorded upon the tombstone of their progenitor, his office of corporal or " sargant" — (a title of dignity next in degree to a knight, an esquire, armor-bearer, an at- tendant on a knight.) Mr. Chester was a juror in 1643, '44, '45, and grand-juror in Sept., 1643 and '44 ; plaintiffin court in 1640. Sept. 29, 1642, the Gen. Court, that the country should be the better enabled to kill yearly " some beves for supply of Leather," ordered that no calves should be killed within the plantatations, except by the approbation of two men in each town, appointed by the court, upon a forfeiture of ten shillings to the country, and Leo. Chester and Rich. Trotte were appointed for the town of Wethersfield. (See Col. Rec.) Mr. Chesterdied when only 38 or 39 years old, Dec. 11,1648. He was only about 25 or 26 years old when he first came to Wethers- field. His wife, Mary, whom he probably married in England. Their children were : 1. John, b. Aug. 3, 1635, at Cambridge. 2. Dorcas, b. Nov. 1 or 5, 1637, at Wethersfield ; m. Mr. Samuel Whiting, of Billerica. 3. Stephen, b. March 3, 1639; d. April 23, 1705. 4. Mary, b. Jan. 15, 1641. 5. Prudence, b. Feb. 16, 1643. 6. Eunice, b. June 15, 1645. 7. Mercy, b. Feb. 14, 1647. CHESTER, Capt. JOHN, son of Leonard, Esq., married Sarah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Welles, Feb., 1653, and married by Gov. Welles. Capt. John was a gentleman of much use and importance Notes. Chester, Mr. Ed : Hampson Harrison, fined J-5 for divulging slanderous speeches against Mr. Chester, Dec, 1644. Leo. Chester (being in the list of jurors, June, 1(545) fined 5s., probably for tardiness or absence. Mr. Chester, for resisting the constable and miscarriage in court, was fined 40s. Mr. Chester freed from training, Oct., 1G46. Leonard Chester and Richard Trott were appointed by the court to give license for killing calves in Wethersfield — (a law was riiade in 1642, that the country might be enabled to kill yearly, some beeves, for the supply of leather. It was ordered that no calves should be killed within the plantations, upon a penalty of ten shillings, without the approbation of two men within the town, appointed by the court.) Mr. Chester was one of a large committee, to take an account of what the several towns would disburse for building a ship, in 1642. Inscription on the monument of Mr. Chester, at Wethersfield. — " Here lyes the body of Leon- ard Chestar, Armiger, late of the town of Blady, and several oilier Lordships in Leicestershire, Deceased in Wethersfield, Anno Domini, 1648 — Etatis 39." GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 561 in the colony. He directed in his will to have each of his children have a mourning ring ; also the same for each of his son's wives. Anthony, his slave, he gave to his wife, and entailed to his eldest son John, his buildings, home-lot, and his land adjoining, to him and his heirs male, providing he had male heirs. Their children were : 1. Mary, b. Dec. 23, 1G54; m. John Wolcott,Feb. 14, 1G7G-7 ; she d. before her father, July 10, 1689. 2. John, Jr., b. June 10, 1656. 3. Sarah, b. Nov., 1657; m. Simon Wolcott, of Windsor, Dec. 5, 1689. 4. Stephen, b. May 26, 1060 ; d. before his father, Feb. 9, 1697-8. Jemima, (Treat) his relict, and children, Dorothy, b. Sept. 5, 1692; Sarah, b. 1693-4; Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1696, and a son d. in infancy, b. Feb., 1697-S. Estate, £1,140. 5. Thomas, b. March 23, 1662 ; d. Dec. 4, 1712, aged 50. 6. Samuel, b. May 23, 1664; d. 16S9. 7. Prudence, b. Dec. 10, 1666. S. Eunice, b. May 17, 1668 ; m. Timothy Stevens ; she d. June 16, 1698. Capt. John Chester's will presented in 1698, by Stephen Chester and Peter Bulkley. He gave John. Jun., his gold ring, which had been his father's, and his mourning ring for his mother. He gave his son Thomas half the farm given him by the Gen. Court, laid out by Doct. Brocket and Capt. Thomas Yale ; also the gold ring given • him at the funeral of Mr. Whitwell. Capt. John gave his wife all his silver plate, tankard, porringer, wine-cup, silver spoons, &c. His daughters Sarah, Eunice and Prudence, he gave each £100. He noticed his daughter Mary Wolcott, dec'd, (wife of John Wolcott,) and gave her children £75 each. To his daughter Eunice he gave his division of the Indian purchase east of the river, of "30 square miles." His Japan, with a silver head, he gave Mr. Stephens. He gave his brother, Stephen Chester, £5, and made his sons Thomas and John, his executors. He gave the town of Wethersfield the land at the burying-ground he purchased of Samuel Wyllys, Esq. Will dated Feb. 21, 1697-8, and proved May 6, 1698. He died Feb. 23, 1697-8. Sarah, his relict. Estate, £1,103. Capt. John was approved by the Gen. Court, 1657-8, as one of the first company of troopers in Conn., and was made a freeman in May, 1658. Capt. John was repeatedly a member of the Legislature — in May, 1676 ; in October, 1676 ; May, 1677, and October, 1677, &c. Capt. John drew 29 acres in the land division in Wethersfield in 1670. He d. Feb. 23, 1698, aged 62. Mrs. Sarah, his w., d. Dec. 12, 1698. CHESTER, STEPHEN, son of Leonard, Esq., died about 1705, and left no children, having never married. Major John Chester his 562 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. administrator on his estate. His property was distributed to his brother, Capt. John Chester, and to the children of his two sisters. His lands, warehouse, &c, were divided into three equal parts, one part to the living children of Capt John Chester, deceased, a brother of Stephen, deceased; one part to Mr. Samuel Whiting, of Billerica, in right of his wife Dorcas, a sister of said Stephen, deceased, and the other third to the children, then living, of Capt. Thomas Russell, of Charlestown, Mass., deceased, who had married a sister of said Stephen, deceased. The above distribution was altered by the court, who gave Thomas Russell, son of Thomas, a double portion of the one-third, and to Prudence Russell a single portion ; one-third to the Whiting children. Inventory dated May 5, 1705. Estate, £200, 155. 6d. CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Capt. John, Sen., b. 1662, m. Mary, daughter of Richard Treat, Dec. 10, 1684, and had children, viz.: 1. Eunice, b. Nov. 23, 16S5. 2. Samuel, b. Sept. 29, 1696, and d. 1710. 3. John, b. Dec. 17, 1699; d. Dec. 14, 1700. 4. Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706. Thomas Chester, the father, died Dec. 5, 1712, and his widow Mary died Jan. 1, 1748, aged 81 years. CHESTER, JOHN, Jun., son of Capt. John, married Hannah, the daughter of Capt. Samuel Talcott, of Wethersfield, Nov. 25, 1686, and had issue : Penelope, b. Oct. 21, 1687, d. in infancy ; Me- hetable, b. Jan. 29, 1689; Mary, b. March 8, 1691; second Penel- ope, b. Nov. 18, 1693 ; Hannah, b. May 15, 1696, and died May 29, 1749; Prudence, b. March 4, 1699; Eunice, b. May 11, 1701 ; John, b. June 30, 1703; Sarah, b. July 1, 1707 ; Thomas, b. Aug. 31, 1711, died in infancy. Major John, the father, died Dec. 14, 1711, aged fifty-five and a half years. Mrs. Hannah, his widow, died July 23, 1741, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. CHESTER, Mr. JOHN, 3d, son of John, Jun., of Wethersfield, b. June 30, 1703. He graduated at Harvard College in 1722. He married Miss Sarah Noyes, a daughter of Rev. James Noyes, of New Haven, Nov. 19, 1747. They had issue, John, b. Jan. 18, 1749; Leonard, b. Sept., 1750; Sarah, b. Aug. 12, 1752; Abi- gail, b. May 27, 1754 ; Stephen, b. Oct. 28, 1761 ; Thomas, b. Jan. 7, 1764. The father died instantly in the hay-field at Weth- ersfield, Sept. 11, 1771, in the 69th year of his age. His widow survived him. Mr. Chester was one of the most important men in the colony. He GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 563 was often a member of the Gen. Assembly, held many of the offi- ces of the town, was a judge of the county court — (in 1748, he was the only male in his line by the name of Chester, says Rev. Mr. Marsh's sermon) — an assistant, and distinguished in both branches of the Legislature for integrity and brilliancy of talents. In the obituary it says, "a strong pillar has fallen when Chester fell," " a father to the fatherless and a God to the widow, in the 69th year of his age." His widow survived him with four sons and two daugh- ters. John d. 1809; Leonard d. 1803 ; Stephen d. 1835 ; Thomas d. 1831 ; Abigail m. Joseph Webb, and d. March 16, 1827, aged 73. CHESTER, JOHN, 4th, Col., b. 1749, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Jabez Huntington, of Norwich, Nov. 25, 1773, and had issue : Elizabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1774; Mary, b. April 20, 1779; Hannah, b. Oct. 27, 1781 ; Sarah, b. June 17, 1783; John, 5th, D. D., b. Aug. 17, 1785 ; Charlotte, b. March 20, 1787 ; Henry, b. Oct. 3, 1790, d. in infancy ; Julia, b. March 15, 1792; Henry, b. Dec. 22, 1793 ; William, b. Nov. 20, 1795 ; George, b. June 14, 1798. Col. Chester died Nov. 4, 1809. He graduated at Yale College in 1766, and in 1772 he was elected a representative to the General Assem- bly, in his native town. In 1775, he joined the army near Boston, at the head of a company of volunteers, and signalized himself at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was advanced to the command of a regi- ment for his bravery, but in 1777, he reluctantly retired from the army, by the imperious calls of his family concerns. Col. Chester was a gentleman of dignity of character and appear- ance. Previous to 1788 he was repeatedly a member of the House of Representatives in Connecticut, and for several successive ses- sions was speaker of the House. In 1788 he was chosen one of the state council, where he was continued until 1791, when he received from President Washington the appointment of the office of supervi- sor of the district of Connecticut, the duties of which he faithfully performed. In 1803, he was again elected a member of the state council. He also held the offices of judge of probate, and judge of the county court. He died in 1809. Ten of this family of Clus- ters have graduated at Yale College, from 1721 to 1831. CHESTER, Rev. JOHN, son of Col. John, of Wethersfield, b. Aug. 17, 1785, m. Rebecca, daughter of Robert Ralston, of Phila- delphia. He prepared for college with Azel Backus,. D. D., then of Bethlem. He entered Yale College in 1800, and graduated in 1804. He read theology, and preached his first sermon, as he had promised 564 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Dr. Backus, when he left him in 1900, he should do, in his pulpit. He was, strictly speaking, a popular preacher. His voice was music. He preached at Cooperstown, N. Y., where he received a call to settle, but declined, as he had done at Middletown. He was ordain- ed at Hudson, N. Y., in 1810, where he remained until 1815, when he was installed as pastor of the second Presbyterian Church at Al- bany, N. Y. He received the doctorate of D. D. from Union Col- lege, in 1821. Dr. Chester became a star of the first magnitude in the pulpit. His whole soul was devoted to his profession. He died on the morning of the 12th of Jan., 1829, aged 44 years, at the city of Philadelphia, where he left an amiable widow and a family of young children. ELIZABETH, daughter of the fourth Col. John, b. 1774, married EleazerF. Backus, of Albany, June 8, 1807. MARY, daughter of Col. John, b. 1779, married Capt. Ebenezer Welles, of Brattleboro, Vt., June 3, 1806. His father was an En- glish minister. HANNAH, her sister, b. 1781, married Hon. Charles Chauncey, of Philadelphia. She died Feb. 6, 1821, aged 39. Mr. Chauncey died in 1849. SARAH, her sister, b."1783, living unmarried. CHARLOTTE, b. 1787, died in Philadelphia, July 19, 1844, unmarried. HENRY, son of Col. John, b. 1790, died in infancy. JULIA, his sister, b. 1792, m. Matthew C. Ralston, of Philadel- phia, April 2, 1816. Second HENRY, b. 1793, a lawyer in Philadelphia, died in 1S4? ; unmarried. WILLIAM, son of Col. John, b. 1795, a clergyman in Philadel- phia, married a daughter of Dr. White, of Hudson, N. Y. He grad- uated at Union College in 1815. GEORGE, son of Col. John, 4th, b. 1798; died in infancy. CHESTER, THOMAS, son of the first John, married Mary Treat, daughter of Richard, Dec. 10, 1684. He died Dec. 5, 1712, aged 50. His wife died 1748, aged 81 years. They had issue : Eunice, b. Nov. 22, 1685 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 29, 1696, died March 17, 1710-11, aged 14; John, b. Dec. 17, 1699, died Dec. 14,1700; Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706. Eunice, m. Elisha Williams. Estate dis- tributed Dec. 6, 1714, to widow Mary, one-third of movables, £152, Qs. Id.; daughter Eunice, £746, lis., (id. , in real and movables ; Mary Chester, £746, Us. Qd. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 565 CHESTER, STEPHEN, Jim., married Jemima, daughter of Lieut. James Treat, Dec. 17, 1691, and had issue, Dorothy, b. Sept. 5, 1692 ; Sarah, b. March 5, 1694 ; Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1696 ; Ste- phen John, b. Feb. 14, 1698, died June 8, 1725. Stephen, Jun., the father, died Feb. 9, 1698, nearly 38 years old. Capt. John Chester, in his will, gave these children £75 each. CHESTER, LEONARD, son of Col. John, 3d, was b. Sept., 1750; married Sarah Williams, of Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1776, and had issue, Leonard Wms. Pepperell, b. Dec. 20, 1777 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1779; Henrietta and Sophia, twins, b. March 8, 1781 ; John Noyes, b. March 20, 1783 ; Sally Williams, b. Nov. 2, 1784 ; Wm. Williams Chester, b. July 13, 1786. Mr. Chester removed to and died in New York. It is supposed he had a daughter Hannah, who married Mr. Leffingwell, who is now living, a widow, in New York. Thomas, Esq., of New York, is also supposed to be a son of said Leonard. SARAH, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1752, married Thomas Coit, of Norwich, and had a family of children. ABIGATL, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1754, married Joseph Webb, a merchant of Wethersfield, and had twelve children ; two only survive, and reside in Hartford ; both unmarried ladies. STEPHEN, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1761, married Elizabeth Mitchel, daughter of Judge Mitchel, deceased, of Wethersfield. He lived and died at Wethersfield. Issue, living, Stephen M., of New York ; Walter, in Erie, Pa.; John, of Detroit, Michigan ; Maria Strong, who married a son of Joel Strong, and others. CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1764, married Esther M. Bull, of Hartford. He was many years clerk of the court at Hartford. Issue, Rev. Alfred and four daughters, three now living. The Chester family have, from Leonard, the Armiger, to the pres- ent time, been one of the most important families of the colony and state ; though few of the name are left in Connecticut, to share the honors of their departed and worthy ancestors. John Chester graduated at Harvard College in 1722 ; also, John, in 1775, and Thomas, in 1784. Stephen J. Chester graduated at Yale, in 1721; John, in 1766; Leonard, 1769; Stephen, 1780; Thomas, 1780; John, 1804; Stephen M., 1813; Donald, 1814; Alfred, 1818; Orlando, 1831 ; Charles T., 1845 ; George F., 1846. Col. John Chester and Stephen M. Mitchell, of Wethersfield, mem- 48 566 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. bers of the convention to ratify the constitution of the United States, in 1788. Stephen Chester, Esq., appointed sheriff of Hartford county in 1789, in place of Ezekiel Williams, resigned. CHESTER, Mr. STEPHEN, distribution by consent, April 5, 171-1 : Widow Jemima, £210, lis. Wd.; John Chester, £500, lis. 2d.; Mrs. Dorothy Chester, £250, 5s. Id.; Mrs. Sarah Chester, £250, 5s. Id.; Mrs. Mercy Chester, £250, 7s. Id. CHESTER, MERCY, distribution Feb. 6, 1749, late of VVeth- ersfield, deceased. — To Dority, wife of Martin Kellogg, £794, 8s. 10^d.; to Widow Sarah Lamb, .£794, 8s. 10^d. Coats of arms. — Chester, (Chichely, co. Bucks,) 1; Chester, (Chicheley Hall, Bucks,) 1 ; Chester, (Lee, co. Essex,) 1 ; Chester, (Upley, co. Essex,) 1 ; Chester, (Amesbury, co. Gloucester,) 1 ; Chester, (Gloucestershire.) 1, and nine others. Chestor, (Glouces- tershire,) 1. CHEEVERS, CHEEVER, CHEVER, Me., was one of the signers of the fundamental agreement of the first settlers of New Haven, "on the fourth of the fowerth month called June," (1639,) that church members only should be free burgesses, &c. He, Eze- kiel Cheevers, had three in his family at New Haven, in 1643, and £20 estate, and was one of the committee to examine persons for the first church in New Haven. Mary, wife of Ezekiel Cheever, died atN. H., Jan. 20, 1649. JOHN SHEDER was early at Guilford. This was perhaps John Sheather, a name afterward found at Killing- worth. The title of Mr. being given on the record to Ezekiel Che- vers, proves his standing at N. Haven. Chever or Chener has one coat of arms. Eleven by the name of Cheever, had graduated at Harvard Col- lege, before 1814. CHESEBRO, as now spelled by the family, is found on the col- ony records spelt Chesebrough, Chessbrooke, Ceessbrooke, Chesbo- rough, Cheesbrough, Cheesbruck, Cheesbrook, &c. Chesebro, Wm. This name, in the early settlement of Connecticut, was peculiarly prominent, and a history of two hundred pages could easily be col- lected of the history of William and Samuel Chesebro. William is first mentioned on the colony record, by the Gen. Court, Nov. 7, 1649, when the court ordered a warrant to be issued to the consta- ble of Pequot, to go forthwith to " Cheessbrooke, of Long Island," and inform him that the government of Connecticut " doth disslike and distaste the way he is in, and trade hee doth drive amonge the GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 567 Indians," and required of him immediately to desist; also that he should repair to Capt. Mason, of " Seabrooke," or to some other magistrate on the Connecticut River, and give an account of his previous conduct. On the 19th day of March, 1650-51, the Gen. Court of Conn, are found in trouble again with " Cheessbrooke." The record says, " Whereas vppon former information given to this court that William Cheessbrooke, (a smith, sometimes an inhabitant in the Massachusetts, but more lately at Seacunck, alias Rehoboth, in the Jurisdiction of New Plimouth) had begunn to settle himself at Pacatuck, a place within the limitts of this Colony." The court therefore issued an order for him, either to depart from " the place," or appear and account for his proceedings. He chose the latter, and gave his penal bond to attend before the court. He accordingly pre- sented himself before the court, and apologized for his conduct, by saying, he intended settling at Pequot plantation, but he found the place, in several respects, " vnsutable to his expectations," and hav- ing disposed of his former abode, that he was necessitated " for the preservation of his estate, " to make winter provision for his cattle there," to which he had been encouraged by Mr. John Winthrop, " who pretended a commission from the Generall Courte in the Mas- sachusetts for the planting of those partes." He was informed by the court that the right of the place clearly belonged to Connecticut, and that his sitting down there without the knowledge and approba- tion of the government of Connecticut, was unwarrantable, and " carried (in the open face of it) the greater ground of offence in that by his calling [blacksmith] he was fitted, and by his solitary living advantaged, to carry on a mischievous trade with the Indians," and against the orders of the country, and very prejudicial to the safety of the country — which was increased by reports of his prac- tice of that kind where he had last resided. Also that it appeared to the court, " more than vncomely for a man professing Godliness, so to withdraw from all publique ordinances and Xtian (christian) society." He answered the court by acknowledging his former trans- gression "(for wh eh he justly suffered)" but affirmed that when he removed, he sold his tools, and rendered himself incapable of repair- ing any gunlocks, " or making so much as a screw-pin" for himself or others, and that he was fully resolved not to continue in that sol- itary condition, but had good grounds to hope "(if libberty might bee graunted)" shortly " to procure a competent company of desirable men," to plant the place. The court, on consideration, were willing to give the most favorable construction of his previous proceedings, 568 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. yet expressed themselves altogether dissatisfied " in the aforemen- tioned respects," that he should continue there " in the way he was in," and refused to give their " aprobation therevnto ;" yet the court inclined, "(hee professing his full agreem' with the approoued Churches of Christ in all things)" if his own necessities in his own opinion were such that he would " adventure vppon his owne acco'," and would give a bond of £100, not to prosecute any unlawful trade with the Indians, the court would not compel him to remove ; provided, before the General Court in the next September, he gave in the names of a considerable company of persons, such as the court should approve, and such as should engage to plant the place, and sit down there before the (then) next winter, and submit to such ways and rules as should best promote the public good, that all proper encouragement would be given " in that way" — which being made known to William Cheessbrooke, he thankfully acknowledged the court's favor, and acquiesced in their determination. The next we find of this offender is, he is returned a Deputy to the General Court of the colony, May 18, 1653, by the name of Will. Cheesbruck. Good: Chesbroock is also deputy, Sept. 8, 1653 ; also, Sept. 14, 1654; absent in 1655 ; also, Feb. 26, 1656; 1664. Cheesbrook, Mr., petitioned the General Court, 1664, for their fa- vor to pass by the offenses of Mistick and Paucatuck. The court considered the petition, and declared that what irregularities and abusive practices they had been guilty in seeming to offer contempt to the authority established, "it should be forgiven and buryed in perpetuall oblivion and forgetfullness, and this to extend itself to all ye members of the afoarsayd plantation, Captayn Denison only ex- cepted," who had neglected or refused to submit himself peaceably to the order of the " Councill of the Colony." (See Col. Rec.) Mr. Chesbro became a man of notice in the colony. In 1664, the General Court appointed Mr. Wm. Cheesbrook, Tho's Stanton and Tho's Minor, judges of cases of. forty shillings,. and grant summonses before them or any court in the colony, to pun- ish criminals to the value of forty shillings, &c. CHESBRO, SAMUEL, of Stonington,* represented the town as _ ! >i . * The Indian name of Stonington was Pawcatuck. The first English name was Southertown, or Southerton. It was afterward named Mistick, in Oct., 1665, by the General Court of Conn., " in memory of that victory God was pleased to give this people of Connecticut over the Pe- quot Indians." (See Col. Rec.) It was named Stonington, in May, 1666. It was firstly claim- ed by Massachusetts, under the grant of the Earl of Warwick, and Council for British America, Dec. 10, 1643, and settled by persons who went there under John Winthrop. Jun , in 1646. It GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 569 Deputy to the General Assembly, (by the name of Cheesbrook,) May 21, 1657; also, May 11, 1665, by the name of Samuel Chesbo- rough ; also, 1670, 1672, 1673, and commissioner, 1666. Mr. Sam- uell, Nathaneell, and Elisha Cheesbrough, were in the list of free- men at Stonington, in 1669, Oct. 5. Samuel Chesebrough was many years a useful and highly respectable inhabitant of Stoning- ton. CHESBOROUGH, ELISHA and NATHANIEL, of Stonington, were entered to have the oath of freedom, in May, 1666,. Mr. Eli- sha Cheesbrooke was deputy to the General Court at Hartford, Oct. 14, 1669. The Chesboroughs, for many years, figured largely in Stonington, with Thomas Miner, Thomas Stanton, Sen., Capt. Geo. Denison, Palmers, &c, in the early settlement of the town. Most of these signed the voluntary agreement. (See Dr. Trumbull.) CHEESBROUGH, DAVID, Mr., a merchant at Newport, R. I., and subscriber for Prince's Chronology. CHEESEHOLM, THOMAS, 1663. CHEW, JOSEPH, of New London, b. 1720, was a son of Thomas Chew, of Virginia, and his mother a daughter of Col. James Tay- lor, a progenitor of two presidents of the United States, viz., James Madison and Gen. Z. Taylor. Joseph Chew is found at New Lon- don, in 1752, an assistant to Joseph Hull, Esq., the collector of cus- toms at New London, in the violent quarrel between Col. Salton- stall, as to the charge of a Spanish vessel wrecked on Bartlett's Reef, west of New London harbor. (See Caulkins' Hist, of Neio London, pp. 462, 463, 477, note.) Chew was surveyor in the office. Joseph Chew married Miss Deshon, whose mother was Ruth Chris- tophers. Joseph Chew left New London, having espoused the cause of the Loyalists, 1778. (Note, Caulkins, p. 540.) His brother, Capt. Chew, was also from Virginia, and a firm whig ; was killed on the 4th of March, 1778, in a conflict in the West India seas, with a letter-of-marque of twenty guns, and the- brig carried into Boston, by Lieut. Leeds, and afterward taken by the British and burnt.* was assigned to Connecticut by commissioners of the United Colonies, July 26, 1647. This order being revoked, the town petitioned the Massachusetts to become a town, which they granted Oct. 25, 1658, and was a part of Suffolk County, in Mass., where the town continued until after Connecticut obtained the royal charter in 1G62, and being included in this grant, it was annexed to Connecticut. (See Felt's Statistics of Towns, p. 24.) It then included " We- quetiquock," the society of North Stonington, which was made a society in May, 1740, and named North Stonington, in May, 1724. and incorporated a town in May, 1807, by the same name. (See State Record.) * CHEW, BENJAMIN, of Pennsylvania, Recorder of Philadelphia, Register of Wills, Attor- 48* 570 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Coat of Arms. Chew, (Bedfordshire and London, granted 1703,) has one. CHICHESTER, JAMES, of L. I., made free by Connecticut, May, 1664. Also, the following persons from Huntington, L. I., at the same session, viz.: John Teed, Edward Hornett, Samuel Titus, Thomas Jones, Wm. Williams, Samuel Ketcham, Joseph Whitman, Thomas Brush, Caleb Curwithee, Joseph Bayley, John Rogers, Sam- ney General and. Chief Justice of the State. Washington dined with him in 1774 ; in 1776 opposed to the whigs, and retired to private life. In 1777, refused to sign a parole, sent to prison in Virginia, and after the war in 1790, was appointed President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and held the office until the tribunal was abolished in 1806, and died in 1810, aged 87 years. His father, Hon. Samuel Chew, was a Quaker, judge and physician. Joseph Chew, of New London, was a commissary in the royal service, and in 1777 was taken prisoner at Sag Harbor, L. I., by a party of whigs. Joseph Chew, a magistrate of Tryon, now Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1775 signed a declaration of loyalty ; in 1792 was in Canada, an officer under Sir John Johnson, and an associate of Brant. Wm. Chew, a lieutenant in a corps of loyalists, settled at New Brunswick, after the war, under half pay, and died at Fred- ericton in 1812, aged 64 years. (Sabine's American Loyalists, p. 207.) Note for Tories. — Abiathar, Abiathar, Jun., and Eldad Camp, were all loyalists in Connecti- cut in 1783. Settled at St. John's, New Brunswick, and received grantsof city lots. Abiathar, one of the fifty-five petitioners for land in Nova Scotia. He died in New Brunswick, in 1841, aged 84. He afterward, by his confession dated Oct. 2, 1775, appears to have regretted his course. (See CAMP ; also, American Loyalists, pp. 194, 195.) He was a citizen of New Haven. Carpenter, Coles, Jacob, Isaac, James, John, Joseph, Joshua and Nehemiah, all were loyalists of Queens county, N. Y., and acknowledged allegiance, Oct., 1776. Nehemiah signed a decla- ration of loyalty in 1775. Thomas Carpenter was an ensign in De Lancey's third battalion, and an adjutant of the corps. He went to St. John's at the close of the war, and a grantee of the city, and had half-pay. Abraham Carrington, of Milford, Conn., with his wife, went to St. John's, New Brunswick, in 1783. EUsha Case, John Ceely, went with the British army to Halifax, at the evacuation of Boston, 1776. Gardner Chandler, a trader at Hardwick, Mass., proscribed, and banished in 1778. John Chandler, of Worcester, Mass., in 1774 driven from his family and sought protection at Boston. In 1776 went with the royal army to Halifax, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Ct., a member of the Legislature in 1775 and in August, 1782, wrote a letter to Gov. Wm. Franklin, in favor of the loyalists. He removed to Nova Scotia at the close of the war, and perished when crossing the Bay of Fundy. His son William, conducted the royal forces to New Haven in 1779. Nathan Chandler died at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1816. Nathaniel, of Worcester, Mass., son of Col. John, graduated at H. C, 1768 ; was a lawyer ; one of the eighteen who addressed Gage when he departed in 1775. In 1776 he went to Halifax, and was proscribed and ban- ished in 1778. He led a corps of British volunteers._ After the war he returned and died at Worcester in 1801, aged 51 years. Rufus, son of Col. John Chandler, born at Worcester, 1747, graduated at II. C, 1766; one of the lawyers who addressed Hutchinson in 1774 ; went to Halifax in 1776 ; proscribed and banished in 1778, and died in London, Oct., 1823, aged 76 years. Wm. Chandler, son of Col. John, of Worcester, Mass., graduated at H.U. 177-'. He was one of the eighteen country gentlemen driven from their homes to Boston, for addressing Gage on his departure in 1775. He went to Halifax in 1776. and was proscribed and banished under the act of 1778, yet returned to Massachusetts after the close of the war. (See The American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine.) GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 571 uel Wood, Thomas Workes, Henry Whisson, Henry Ludlow, Tho's Scudder, John Samway, Tho's Powell, Jonathan Rogers and Isaac Piatt ; and the commissioners of Huntington ordered to give them the oath of freedom. (Col. Rec.) A man of the name of Chichester, was in Hartford in 1649. CHIDESTER, ANDREW, (probably Chichester,) had a son Samuel, born in Connecticut, Oct. 18, 1720. Peter Blatchford tes- tified in court, that in the latter end of the last year, (1648,) he put on board of CHICHESTER'S vessel, for Mr. Blackleach, by order of Jarvis Mudge, six bushels of wheat and three bushels of peas. JAMES CHICHESTER, in the list of those of Taunton, able to bear arms in 1643. (His. Reg.) ABRAHAM, of Norwalk, Conn., married Mary Arnold, May 30, 1782, and had children, Abijah, b. Aug. 6, 1783 ; Ab'm, Samuel, Polly, Phebe, Aaron, Hezekiah and Betsey, b. Sept. 26, 1797. HENRY, of Norwalk, married Deborah Hoyt, June 1, 1784. Issue, Walter, b. Jan. 31, 1785; Sally, Amelia, Henry, Jun., Al- fred, Ward, Eliza and Emeline. This was an early name in Massachusetts and Long Island. Farmer names WILLIAM, of Marblehead, in 1648 ; JAMES, of Salem, 1651. CHICHESTER has twelve coats of arms. CHIDSEY. (See CHEDSEY, ante.) CHILD. The north part of the town of Woodstock, was settled some (ew years after the south part of the town, and mostly, if not all, entirely by persons from Roxbury, Mass., and from under the preaching of Rev. John Elliot. The precise time North Woodstock was settled, I am not able to state, as the original proprietor's book or record, has been lost. The town was settled and claimed by Massachusetts, and by them incorporated in March, 1690 ; and in Felt's Statistics, p. 23, we find that " Judge Sewall" wrote in his MS. diary, March 18, 1690, that he gave New Roxbury the name of Woodstock. The town was claimed by Connecticut as within her bounds, and came under the government of this state, May, 1749. The May and Child families have been prominent, active and re- spectable, from the early settlement of the place. The tradition of the family is, (which is all I have since the loss of the record book,) that the first of the Child family came from England to Roxbury, or Watertown, Mass., at an early period ; that he had seven or eight sons, all of whom settled at North Woodstock. I have not even the names of the seven or eight sons, by the name of Child, who first 572 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. came to North Woodstock, and therefore am unable to give any of the first genealogy of the family.* * Anecdote of the seven or eight brothers by the name of Child. ^Tradition.) The seven brothers in the north half of Woodstock, owned but one cow— each of the seven used her a week in their turn — except on Thanksgiving days, when the elder brother was to keep her, until a sufficient quantity of milk should be gathered, so that the seven brothers, with their families, could all partake of a Thanksgiving supper of hasty pudding and milk, at the house of the oldest brother. On one occasion of this kind, the families had all assembled, and the milk served in the long wooden bowls, and with the pudding and milk placed upon a large fall-leaf table, each family provided with their own small wooden bovvles and wooden spoons, each pre- pared for his delicious repast. With only the blessing wanted, and while the elder brother, with all the solemnity of a Puritan father, was imploring a blessing, the large watch-dog, in passing under the table, hit the leg which held up the leaf, and down fell the table, milk and pudding. The younger brother, as he saw the table falling, cried out, Stop, brother, stop, stop ; the pudding is gone, and the milk is gone, and of what use is a blessing now — but kill the dog. Anecdote. — As most of the first settlers of the colony who left Roxbury, Mass., to settle in the town of New Roxbury, (Woodstock,) were a part of the congregation and church of Rev. John Eliot, who preached at Roxbury, and the new settlers from Roxbury being the constant subjects of prayer by the Roxbury Church, so that the Rev. Mr. Eliot, every Sabbath, in his pub- lic prayers in the church, uniformly prayed for the colony of New Roxbury, But on one occa- sion, when the congregation had assembled on the Sabbath for worship, the pious Eliot neglected to mention in his prayer, the colony of New Roxbury, and closed and took his seat. This neg- lect of the minister was noticed by the goodly fathers and mothers of the church with great pain, and they began to fear their children at New Roxbury would be devoured by the wild beasts, or destroyed by the Indians, and the iniquities of the fathers visit their children, because they had been omitted by the godly Eliot. While the good mothers were thus sitting, depressed in spirits at so great a neglect, it occurred to the minister that he had not made mention of the New Rox- bury colony in his prayer, and immediately arose in his pulpit, and exclaimed, Alas ! alas ! I for- got to pray for our sons and daughters at New Roxbury, and therefore let us again pray. He made a most fervent prayer, especially for the colony, much to the comfort and relief of the congregation, friends and relatives of the colony. Note. April 11, 1694, a public meeting of the proprietors of Woodstock assembled and vo- ted a division of land be laid out, " from the East line on the East side of y e Pond," to four miles •• Westward, &.c." — and chose a committee of three, with John Butcher, the surveyor, to do the whole work, viz., Win. Bartholomew, Benjamin Sabin and Benjamin Grigs, committee. NAMES OF THE PERSONS TO WHOM DISTRIBUTED. 1 Samuel Perin. 13 Robert Corbit. 3 John Scarborough. 14 Benjamin Grigs. 3 Minister's land. 15 Edward Morris. 4 James Frissel. 1'j Samuel Lyon. 5 Joseph Peak. 17 Joseph Bacon. C John Bowen. 18 Isaac Bartholomew. 7 Win. Bartholomew, .lun. 19 John Bugbe. 8 Lieut. Bartholomew, Mill Lot. 20 Nathaniel Johnson, Sen. 9 John Holmes. 21 John Chandler, Sen. 10 Joseph Bugbe, Sen. 22 John Hubbard. 11 Arthur Humphrey. 23 Wm. Bartholomew, Sen. 12 Joseph Bugbe, Jun. 24 Joseph Frissell. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 573 Mr. Farmer names EPHRAIM CHILD, of Watertown, made free in 1631 ; that he came to New England in 1630 ; that he was elect- ed representative in 1635, 1646, 1649, 1650, and from 1652 to 1662, except '53 and '58 ; that he was a deacon of the church, and died Feb. 13, 1663, aged 70. This Ephraim was probably the father of the brothers of the name, who settled at North Woodstock. He also names Dr. Robert Child, who received his degree as Doctor of Med- icine from Padua, came twice to New England, and disturbed the government. (Winthrop's Hist. N. E., Index.) Willard, in his History of Lancaster, says, Robert Child was one of the petitioners for a grant of Lancaster in 1644. We find " Elizabeth Child," of Watertown, witnessing the will of Mary Benjamin, of Watertown, in 1646. (His. Gen. Reg., p. 178, No. 10, 1849.) Joseph Child, freeman, in Mass., 1654 ; also took the oath of fidelity, 1652. Also, Richard Child, (Middlesex C. C. Rec, and His. Gen. Reg.) Tho's Child, a first settler of Rochester, Mass., married Bethia Westcot, Aug. 29, 1727. Thomas Childs embarked in the Speedwell, of Lon- don, Jo. Chappell, master, May 28, 1635, for Virginia. Deacon Richard Child married Elizabeth Crocker, who died Jan. 15, 1706 ; resided and is entered in the list of first settlers at Barnstable, after 1660. His children are, Samuel, b. Nov. 6, 1679 ; also, sons Tho's, Timothy, Ebenezer, James, Joseph, and five daughters. Richard Childs, of Marshfield, married Mary Truant, Jan. 24, 1664. Eliz- abeth Childs, of Marshfield, married Laurence Cone, July 31, 1718. Priscilla Child, of Marshfield, married Shubael Tinkham, Dec. 17, 1718. Patience Childs, also, married Francis Crocker, at Marshfield, 25 John Johnson. 41 John Chandler, Jun. 26 Nathaniel Gaeger. 42 Thomas Bugbee. 27 Mathew Davis. 43 Nathaniel Aspinwall. 28 Nathaniel Johnson, Jun. 44 Thomas Lyon. 29 Samuel Rice. 45 John Butcher. 30 Watkins' Heirs. 46 James Corbin. 31 Henry Bowen. 47 Ebenezer Morris. 32 John Leavens. 48 Benjamin Sabin. 33 Joseph Deming. 49 John Marcy. 34 Peter Aspinwall. 50 John Carpenter. 35 Smith Johnson. 51 Jonathan Davis. 36 Nathaniel Gary. 52 Benjamin Sabinjbis second lot. The 48th 37 Clement Corbin. and 5 2d lots, lye together, to Benjamin 38 Jonathan Peake. Sabin, and John Carpenter had the 49th 39 Jabez Corbin. lot, Jonathan Davis the 50th, and John 40 Thomas Bacon, before Samuel May. Marcy the 51st and teat. This division was seven years after the first settlement of Die town. 574 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. March 11, 1723. (See His. Reg.) Jeremiah Child, taken prison- er on the expedition against Quebec, in 1775. Mr. John Child, in Mass., aged 25 years, in 1653. Ephraim Child had eight pieces of land early recorded at Watertown. ( Watertoim Rec.) It is probable the brothers by the name of Child, who settled at Woodstock, were from Watertown, Mass., instead of Roxbury, as the tradition is descended from Ephraim and not Benjamin. The tradition of the family is in one line as follows : Child, Benjamin or Ephraim, who came in 1630, the father of Ephraim, Jun., who was the father of Ephraim, the father of Asa, who was father of Rensa- lear, who was the father of. Asa, Esq., of Hon. Peleg C, and Hon. Linus Child. Also a WILLIAM CHILD, admitted a freeman in Massachusetts in 1634. EPHRAIM CHILD, Jun., was one of the settlers at Woodstock, while Ephraim, Sen., remained and died at Watertown. Few families have been more successful in life, or pro- duced more influential men in the different callings which they have pursued for several generations, than this family. In the Lyon, May and Child families in Woodstock, most of the land owned by the first settler of the family, has not changed the title deeds out of the name of the family. Col. Caleb Child now resides on the same spot where the oldest of the first brothers lived, and the same is the case with several others of the Child family. Capt. Wm. Lyon is similarly situated, and his farm has not been changed in title since it was purchased of the Indians. Before Woodstock was amicably annexed to Connecticut, in one or more instances when the town elected their representative to the General Assembly, the delegate attended the Gen. Court in Connecticut, in- stead of attending at Boston. Coats of Arms. Child, (Bigelly House, co. Pembroke ; descend- ed, it is presumed, from a younger son of the noble house of Castle- maine, and now represented by James Mark Child, of Bigelly House, Esq.,) has 1 ; Child, (Newfield Hall, co. Stafford, as borne by Smith Child, of that place, Esq., &c.,) 1 ; Child, (as borne by Coles Child, of Lambeth and Streetham, co. Surry, Esq.,) 1 ; and six oth- ers of a high order ; Childe, 1. CHILLY, JOHN, 1663. CHILSON, DANIEL and SYBIL, of Wethersfield, had a son Daniel, born at Wethersfield, Feb. 9, 1746. John and John Jun., of Middlefield, in 1744. CHIPMAN, JOHN, ancestor of all of that surname in the United States and adjoining British provinces, (as far as known,) was born in or near Dorchester, in Dorchestershire, England, A. D. 1614-15. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 575 The only son of Thomas Chipman, of whose estate part was and is in Marshwood Vale. He was a near kinsman of " Christopher Derby, Gent.," of" the Derby's of Stirthill and Askerville." Said John Chipman sailed from England in May, 1631, but probably in the Friendship, which arrived at Boston, July 14, 1638. He resided a while at Yarmouth, Mass., and afterward at Barnstable, at Great Marshes, now West Barnstable. In 1663, '4 and '5, he was deputy to the General Court of his colony, (Plymouth.) In 1666, he was "celectman," at which time the selectmen in that colony had func- tions since pertaining to justices of the peace. In 1669, he was a " Deputy present" and " surveyor of highways" for his town. With one other member of the church, he was, April 14, 1670, " chosen and ordained to be ruling elder, and was solemnly invested with office." The following shows how he was estimated: "Whereas some have desired and others think it meet to permit some persons to frequent the Quaker meetings to endeavor to reduce them from the error of their wayes, the Court considering the premises, doe permit John Smith, of Barnstable, Isaacke Robinson, John Chipman and John Cooke, of Plymouth, or any two of them, to attend the said meetings for the ends aforesaid, att any time betwixt this Court and the next October Court." Act passed June, 1659. " The court have granted unto Mr. John Howland one hundred acres of land, in that land which Captain Willett made purchase of att Teliquott. The court also granted John Chipman and Jonathan Sparrow each fifty acres of land at the place where Mr. Howland " is to be accom- odated," "next above mensioned," and meadow answerable in pro- portion for their upland, (June 5, 1666 ;) also see act, (July, 1673 ;) also 100 acres between Taunton and Telicott, &c, in 1673. (Laws and Rec. of Plymouth Col., 1673.) There is no evidence Chipman received any benefit from the grants, but in the mean time he pro- cured a homestead in Barnstable, deed dated Dec. 10, 1672, which deed still exists on parchment, drawn by Gov. Hinckley, then an as- sistant. Near his house, for more than a century after, stood the court and custom-houses. William Chipman, of the sixth genera- tion, owns and occupies the same land, and it has never been transfer- red from the family and name of Chipman. CHIPMAN, JOHN, married Hope, daughter of Hon. John How- land and his wife Elizabeth, a granddaughter of Gov. Carver. Thus all the Chipmans, in common with the Howlands, share the privilege of being the only known descendants of the Pilgrims' now honored chief. The ruling elder, John Chipman, died at Barnstable in 576 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 1701-2, aged 88. His wife, Elizabeth, died about twenty years be- fore, (soon.after her father,) Jan. 8, 1683. His second wife, Ruth, widow of Elder John Chipman, died at Sandwich, Mass., Oct. 4, 1711. Will dated Dec. 6, 1710 ; proved Oct. 8, 1713. His children, all except the first, and perhaps the second, were b. at Barnstable, viz.: I. Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1647 ; probably died in infancy. •2. Elizabeth, the second, bap. Aug. IS, 1650. 3. Hope.b. Aug. 31, 1652; bap. Sent. 5, 1652 ; m. John Huckins, Aug. 10, 1670; d. 1678. 4. Lydia, b. Dec. 25, 1654 ; m. John Sargeant, of Maiden, Mass., bis third wife; d. March 2, 1730. 5. John, b. March 2, 1656-7 ; d. May 29, 1G57. 6. Hannah, b. Jan. 14, 1658-9; m. Thomas Huckens, of Barnstable, May 1, L680; (1. Nov. 4, 1696. i 7. Samuel, b. April 15, 1661. 8. Ruth, b. Dec. 31, 1663; m. Eleazer Crocker, of Barnstable, April 7. L682, and died April S, 1698. 9. Bethiah, b. Julyl, 1666. 10. Mercy, b. Feb. 6, 1667-S; m. Nathaniel Skirl", in Sandwich, of Chil- mark, Mass., Dec. 13, 1699. II. John, 2d, b. March 3, 1669-70. 12. Desire, b. Feb. 26, 1672-3. CHIPMAN, SAMUEL, b. 1661, son of John, settled his father's estate. He was ordained deacon of the church at B., Sept. 1, 1706. He married Zarah Cob, of Barnstable, Dec. 27, 1686, and he died in 1723. His will dated Aug. 31, 1722 ; proved June 17, 1723. His widow died Jan. 8, 1742-3. Will proved May 8, 1743. He had ten children. Thomas Chipman, Esq., his eldest son, b. Nov. 17, 1687, removed and settled in Groton, Conn., where he re- mained several years, and then removed and became an early set- tler at Salisbury, Conn., where he held a high rank in the town and county. He was at Salisbury at the organization of the county in 1751. He died at Salisbury about 1751, as he was appointed a jud^e in 1751, and died before he held a court. His second son, Samuel, was- the father of the late Chief Justice Nathaniel Chipman, LL. D., and of the late Hon. Daniel Chipman, of Vt., and their brothers scarcely less distinguished. II. Son of the last Samuel, was Deacon Samuel, b. Aug. 6, 1689, and kept the " Chipman tavern," which was noted until the last twenty-five years, in Cape Cod celebrity. His son, Samuel Chip- man, b. Nov. 21, 1721, lived at Groton, Ct. Some of his descend- ants, and perhaps children, are yet in that vicinity. His son, Eben- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 577 ezer Chipman, b. Sept. 9, 1726, lived in Middletown, Conn., and some of his descendants are yet in that quarter. His son, John Chip- man, b. June 30, 1728, lived at Stratford and Middletown, Conn. He has descendants at New Haven, Waterbury, &c. III. ReV. John Chipman, b. Feb. 16, 1690-1, graduated at Har- vard College, 1711, and ordained over the second church at Bev- erly, Mass., Dec. 28, 1715. He married Rebecca, daughter of Dr. Robert Hale, Feb. 12, 1718, and granddaughter of Rev. John Hale, of Beverly. His son John, b. Oct. 23, 1722, graduated at Harvard Coll., 1738, barrister at law in Marblehead, Mass., had among his children, Hon. Ward Chipman, grad. Harvard Coll., 1770, judge of the supreme court in New Brunswick, and died president of that province, and left an only son and child, Hon. Ward Chipman, LL. D., late chief justice there. His son, Capt. Samuel Chipman, of Ipswich and Salem, Mass., was the great-grandfather of Rev. R. Manning Chipman, (and most of it is abstracted by him from his ex- tended account of the family.) Rev. John Chipman died pastor at Beverly, March 23, 1775. The widow of his son Joseph, b. 1738, resided with Joseph's children, (neither of which children are forty years old,) in the old parsonage house. IV. Seth Chipman, of Kingston, Mass., was the ancestor of most of the name in Maine. V. Deacon Barnabas Chipman, of Barnstable, Mass., was the an- cestor of some of the Chipmans in Vermont, Michigan and Iowa. CHIPMAN, JOHN, b. March 3, 1669-70, lived in Sandwich and Chilmark, Mass., and in Newport, R. I. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Capt. Skiff, of Sandwich. After her death in 1711, he m. second, Widow Elizabeth Russell, who had been the Widow Pope, and was daughter of Capt. Thomas Handley. After she died in 1725, he married, third, a Hookey, of R. I. Hon. John was judge of a court at Martha's Vineyard, while he resided at Chilmark, and after his removal to Newport, he was first assistant to the governor. He had twelve children. 1. Percy, born Sept. 28, 1702, ancestor of most of the Cape Cod, Delaware, Carolina and Mississippi families of the name. 2. Judge Handley, born Aug. 31, 1717. He resided at Chil- mark and Providence, and in 1761, removed to Cornwallis, N. S., in which province two of his sons reside, where his descendants are nu- merous and respectable. In the extended account of Ruling Elder J. Chipman and his de- 49 578 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. scendants, which is nearly finished, in the many generations to the 6th, and many of the 7th, 8th and 9th, with the extended memoirs, &c, with topographical illustrations of English homes of the Chip- man race, would have been printed by the family, had the means to do so been provided by the family. Rev. R. M. Chipman says, that some twenty-five Chipmans are named and described from A. D., 1070, to the present time ; the first one of whom was of those who made the Doomsday Survey Book. The name, Chipman, as by the armorial bearings, is Chippenham ; De Chippenham it originally bore. Chippenham, Chapman's town, (or home,) designates three places in England, one of which was King Alfred's royal abode. Thomas, who went from Groton to Salisbury, represented the town of Salisbury in the Legislature in 1757. Chipman, (Bristol,) one coat of arms, and two others. CHIPPERFIELD, or CHEPPERFIELD, was a first settler at New Haven, and signed the fundamental agreement there, of the first settlers in 1639. CHITTINGDEN, THOMAS, aged 51, (lynnin weaver,) with his wife Rebecca, aged 40, and children, Isaac, aged 10, and Hen. Chitten- den, six years old, brought the certificate of the minister of Wapping, and two justices. Probably embarked in the Increase de London, in April, 1635, for New England. (Mass. Collect.) Note. — Samuel Chipman, son of Thomas, of Salisbury, married Hannah Austin, of Suffield. Had six sons, Nathaniel, Lemuel, Darius, Cyrus, Samuel and Daniel ; the last b. Oct. 22, 1765. Hon. Nathaniel, a lawyer, died aged 90. Dr. Lemuel d. aged 76. Darius, lawyer, d. aged 76. Dr. Cyrus d. aged 77. Hon. Samuel, a lawyer, d. aged 76. Their father, Samuel, and his broth- ers Thomas and Jonathan, d. about 90 years old. Daniel, the youngest of Samuel and Hannah's sons, lived to be over 80 years of age. The father of Hon. Daniel Chipman removed about 1775, to Tinmouth, in Vermont. His son Daniel graduated at Dartmouth College in 1788; admitted to practice law in Connecticut in 1790, and did an extensive business at Rutland ; was member of the constitutional convention in Vermont in 1793. After a few years he opened his office in Middlebury, Vt. In 179G, he m. Eleatherea, daughter of Rev. Lemuel Hedge, of Warwick, Mass., and sister of Professor Levi Hedge, of Harvard, Vt. His children were, 1. Austin; 2. George, grad. at Harvard College and read law ; 3. Sarah W., m. Charles Linsley, Esq., attorney at Middlebury, Vt.; 4. Susan H., Ele- atheria, Mary and Eliza ; the last m. Rev. Matthew F. Maury, of Danville, Kentucky. Hon. Dan- iel was frequently a member of the Legislature in both houses ; professor of law in Middlebury College until 1816. In 1812, chosen a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; speaker of the House of the Gen. Assembly in 1813 and '14, and in 1814 elected a member of Congress. Hon. Nathaniel and Daniel have been ornaments in their profession, to the state of Vermont, and were both eminent jurists, and most worthy as well as learned men. Thomas Chipman, of Barnstable, m. Bethiah Fuller, of Colchester, Ct., 1760. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 579 This name is spelled on the records, Chittenden, Chettinden, and Chittinton, &c.* Thomas Chittenden was an early settler at Guil- *Note. A provision was made at Guilford in 1642, for the assessment of the inhabitants of the town, and their names, and sums assessed, are now recorded there ; most of which are as follows, as far as deciphered, viz.: Mr. Leete, Dep. Gov., £160 Os Mr. Joseph Eliot, X200 0» John Leete, 93 10 Thomas Stevens, - 6 Andrew Leete, - 105 15 John Betts, - 21 William Leete, - 88 7 Mathew Bellamy, - - 26 Josias Rossiter, - 152 3 John Scranton, 64 6 William Seward, 125 14 John Crittenden, - 62 Richard Bristow, - 80 10 Ebenezer Empson, - 49 18 Thomas Wright, 37 Joseph Clay or Cloy, - 39 John Hodgke, - 35 George Chatfield, (Heare,) 10 13 George Hubbard, 144 John Bowers, 4 10 Daniel Hubbard, - 95 George Hibard, 79 11 Judah Everts, - 56 10 Isaac Cruttenden, - 67 John Everts, - 49 9 Nathan Bradley, 79 5 Daniell Everts, - - 59 John Doude, - 29 10 Richard Guttreg, - 62 10 Thomas Chittenden, - 116 9 John Guttridge, 31 John Hall, - 58 8 Abraham Crittenden, Sen., - - 100 16 Joseph Hand, 65 William Johnson, 69 17 John Hill, Senior, - 54 7orl John Fowler, - 160 17 John Hill, Jun., 47 13 John Parmaley, 54 15 James Hill, - 42 John Hopson, - 167 Wm. Dudley, - 96 5 Edward Morse 1 27 John Jordan, - 48 John Meigs, - 78 6 Joseph Dudley, 62 Abraham Crittenden, 82 13 Thomas Robinson, Jun., • - 18 Thomas Crittenden, - • 50 John Stone, - 87 Samuel Stone, - 42 Thomas Cook, Jun., - 77 Nathaniel Stone, - 33 Ephraim Devin, 18 Thomas Stone, ... 29 Thomas Scranton, - 74 02 William Stone, Sen., - 134 17 Thomas ffrench, 30 10 William Stone, Jun., 43 3 John French, - 18 10 Benaga Stone, - 32 Thomas Wacklee 1 12 John Johnson, - 72 9 Benjamin Wright, - 25 Mr. John Collins, - 68 4 Stephen Bradley, 51 10 JohnSargant, • 18 Thomas Dood, - 48 Thomas Cook, Sen., - - 51 15 Widow Dood, 17 11 John Bishop, 91 15 Nathaniell Chittenden, - 51 11 Widow Bishop, - 25 Thomas Robinson, Sen., 11 10 James Kingsnorth, 55 Deacon Curtis' estate, - 60 17 Thomas Makock, - 105 5 Widow Evarts, 4 John Baylee, 13 John Norton, - 11 10 Edward Benton, - 72 1 John Crave, - 92 15 William Stevens, 38 12 Samuel Huges, - 48 5 Nicolas Mongers. 5 16 James Evarts, 6 11 Maior Thomson 1 330 18 Samuel Hall, - 40 12 Widow Clarke, - 28 Nicholas Huges, 27 16 580 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ford, and was in the list of those assessed there in 1642, at £116, 9s. Also, Nathaniell Chittenden, at .£51, lis. — (the last was perhaps a son of Thomas.) The Thomas Chittenden who is found at Guilford, is not the same Thomas Chittenden, aged 51, and his wife 40, who shipped for this country in 1635. Mr. Chittenden was a member at least thirteen sessions of the Colony Legislature of Connecticut, and Abraham Chittenden seven sessions. (Marks on Guilford Record.) John Chittenden, Jun., had an ear-mark at Guilford in 1708-9. Isaac Crittenden, Thomas Chit- tenden and Daniel Everts, agreed to take the oath of fidelity at Guilford. CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, a brother of Ebenezer, was born at Guilford, Conn., in 1730, a descendant of Thomas Chittenden, an original settler of Guilford. He removed to Salisbury, Conn., when young, where he remained several years, and was representative to the General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1764, and twelve sessions afterward — the last in 1772. His son, Hon. MARTIN, was born at Salisbury, March 12, 1766. When Martin was about twelve years old, his father removed with his family to Vermont, where he was a prosperous and respectable farmer. He had several children. His son Martin graduated at Dartmouth College in 1789. He loca- ted in Chittenden county, at Jericho, and the same year was appoint- ed justice of peace, and in 1790 made clerk of the county, and rep- resentative to the Legislature, and frequently afterward. He was elected one of the county judges in 1793, and three years after was made chief judge of the court, which he most faithfully and ably performed for about seven years. In 1803, he was elected a dele- gate to Congress, and continued there ten years, an efficient and faithful member. The year after he left Congress he was made governor of the state of Vermont, during the war of 1812, viz., in Widow Miegs, - - - jE7 0s Widow Hall, - Widow Benton, - - 41 13 Henry Craine, Samuel Relfe 1 - - -25 Jacob Doude, Denis Scranton, - - 16 2 Javes Evarts, Aaron Bishop, - - - 126 9 Jonathan Hoite, This is a true copy, taken out of the list of estates, in 1642, drawn out and compared by us, the Committee appointed by the Town for that worke, John Fowler, William Seward, William Jonson. Guilford was one of the early settled towns in the New Haven Colony, (1C30,) and incorpo- rated in 1643. The Indian name of the place was Menunkatuck. A few names are not deciphered in the above copy. £8 0* 30 18 73 31 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 581 1814. His refusal to Gen. Macomb, an officer at Plattsburg, to send the Vermont militia to his assistance into a neighboring state, while Vermont was equally exposed to the depredations of the British troops, rendered him peculiarly conspicuous with the politicians, and he was not re-elected after 1816. He married Miss Anna Bently, March 12, 1796, and had two sons and two daughters. She d. Sept. 25, 1827. He d. Sept. 5, 1840, aged over 74 years. He became the most prominent public man of the Guilford family of Chittendens. Timothy Chittenden, Jun., of Salisbury, represented Salisbury at the General Assembly four sessions, first in 1803. Others of the name have been prominent, wealthy and respectable citizens in Guilford, from its early settlement. Nathaniel Chittenden, of Guilford, was nominated for a freeman in October, 1667, and Thomas, John, Na- thaniel, Abraham and Abraham Chittenden, Jun., were in the list of freemen at Guilford, Sept. 24, 1669. Thomas Chittingden, (Scituate,) in his will, calls himself weaver, Oct. 7, 1668 ; sons Isaac and Henry. (Gen. Reg.) This must have been the Thomas Chittingden, with wife and sons Isaac and Henry, who came to N. England in 1635. Isaac assisted in taking the inventory of Samuel House's estate in Scituate, Sept., 1661 ; also the inventory of John Pickles, deceased of Scituate, Dec. 4, 1664, and in Sept. of the same year, witnessed the will of Timothy Hatherly, of Scituate. (See His. Gen. Reg.) This Isaac was prob- ably the son of Thomas, the weaver, who came from England with his father and his family mentioned above. Farmer notes Thomas Chittenden, of Scituate, 1638, where he lived and died. CHITWOOD, Sir RICHARD, was the father of Grace, the sec- ond wife of Rev. Peter Bulkley, of Concord, Mass., and the mother of Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of N. London, Wethersfield and Glasten- bury, and the maternal ancestor of all the Bulkleys of those places; also of Hartford, Colchester, New York, and Wilkesbarre, Penn. (See BULKLEY.) Grace Bulkley, (Chitwood,) after the death of her husband, in 1659, went to New London, where she purchased the homestead of William Hough, and remained there with her son, Rev. Gershom, while he continued there. (Caulk., p. 132.) Whether his mother went with Rev. Gershom to Wethersfield, after he left New Lon- don, is not said. CHOCK, PETER, at an early period, acknowledged a deed of land at Stratford, before Joseph Curtis, J. P. Petter (Peter) Chock, 49* 582 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. of Newtown, L. I., in 1689 or '90, purchased of Thomas Jeffery and Mary, Ins wife, of Stratford, one acre of meadow in ye Great Neck, for £7. Also a right in the common meadow that had formerly be- longed to Richard Harrison, &c, signed by Tho's Jeffery and Mary, and recorded at Stratford, April, 1690. CHRISTY, CHRISTIE, JAMES, of Flushing, L. I., was accept- ed a freeman of Connecticut by the Gen. Court, in May, 1664. (See JOHN BURROWS, ante.) James Christie was warmly engaged with Capt. John Coe and others, of Middleburg, (Newtown,) L. I., in shaking from their necks the galling yoke of the Dutch government, and placing themselves under the government of Connecticut ; and Christie being a warm advocate for the change, he was selected as a safe and efficient per- son to carry the letter of those of Middleburg, favorable to the pro- ject, to the Gen. Court at Hartford — who, on his return to the island, found Director Stuyvesant absent at Boston, kindled a fire in Hemp- stead, Jamaica, Flushing, &c, on the island, which lodged him in Fort Amsterdam, and thence before the council for examination, &c. (See Col. Rec, Annals of Newtown, Panton.) Christie has six coats of arms ; Chrystie has one, and Christy one. CHRISTOPHERS, CHRISTOPHER and JEFFERY, brothers, were the first of the name in Connecticut, at New London, about 1665. CHRISTOPHERS, JOHANNA, daughter of Jeffery Christo- phers, married John Mayhew, of Devonshire, England, Dec. 26, 1676. CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, of New London, son of Christo- pher Christophers, married Lucretia, daughter of Daniel Bradley, Jan. 26, 1684, and had issue, Christopher, b. Dec. 2, 1683, m. Sa- rah Prout, of New Haven, Jan. 22, 1711-12 ; Richard, b. Aug. 18, 1685, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall ; Peter, b. July 18, 1687 ; John, b. March 15, 1689-90. Lucretia, wife of Richard, died Jan. 7, 1690-1. Richard m. for second wife, Grace Turner, Sept. 3, 1691, and had Joseph, b. July 14, 1692 ; Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1694 ; Jonathan, b. Sept. 19, 1696, d. Oct., 1696 ; Grace, b. Oct. 14, 1698, m. John Coit, May, 1721 ; Ruth, b. Sept. 26, 1705, and Joanna, b. March 19, 1706-7. CHRISTOPHERS, JOHN, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Hal- ford, of Long Island, July 28, 1696. Children, Samuel, b. July 24, 1697 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 15, 1698, m. Joshua Raymond, Aug. 31, 1719 ; John, b. May, 1701 ; Hester, b. June 20, 1703, m. Thomas GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 583 Manwaring, April 6, 1723. Lieut. John d. in Barbadoes, Feb. 3, 1702-3. Mr. RICHARD, son of Richard Christophers, m. Elizabeth Sal- tonstall, Aug. 14, 1710, and had issue, Richard, Jun., b. July 29, 1712, m. Mary, daughter of Mr. John Pickett, 1734 : Elizabeth, b. Sept. 13, 1714; Mary, b. Dec. 17, 1716 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1719; Joseph, b. Nov. 30, 1722 ; Catherine, b. Jan. 5, 1724-5. Richard, the father, died June 9, 1726. CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, Jun., and MARY, his wife, of N. London, had children, Mary, b. May 23, 1734; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1735, m. Capt. Joseph Hurlbut, and died March 11, 1798. Richard, the father, died Sept. 28, 1736. This family was one of the best families at New London, and married into some of the most noted families of that day, though not as early settlers in the colony as many others. Coats of arms. Christopher, (London,) has one ; Christophers, one, and two others. Christopher Christophers was one of the citizens of New London in 1671-2, who was informed against by Mr. Mathew Griswold and others of Lyme to the County Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, for attempts by violence to drive them off their land, resistance to au- thority, and assault. It was in fact a quarrel between New London and Lyme, as to the ownership of a tract of land. (See 2d vol. Col. Rec, Apjwndix, pp. 557, 558.) Christopher Christophers died July 23, 1687. Miss Caulkins says, in the Hist, of New London, that two brothers of this name, both mariners, came to New London about 1665, and were engaged in the exchange trade with Barba- does. Jeffery aged 55 in 1676, and Christopher aged 56 in 1687, at his death. Jeffery, in 1700, lived at Southold, L. I., with one of his daughters, as he had no sons then living. (See Miss Caulkins' interesting account of the family, in her Hist, of N. London, pp. 316-18.) CHURCH, RICHARD, was rated £1,1 16 at Plymouth in 1632-3. He was born in 1608, and came to New England in 1630, a car- penter by trade, was made free 1632, in Plymouth Colony. He m. Elizabeth Warren, 1636, {Guide to Plymouth, p. 349,) and is said by Bradford to have been the father of Col. Benjamin Church, who was noted as famous in the Indian wars. Richard proved his skill in the trade of a carpenter, in building the first church at Plymouth. He lived at Eel River, at Eastham, at Hingham and Dedham. He died at the last place, Dec, 1668. His wife Elizabeth died at Hin^. 584 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ham, March 4, 1670. (His. Duxbury.) He was the same Richard Church who sold his " house, houseing and land, with all the meadow ground, &c," he had of Goodman Kempton, at the Eel River ; and his wife Elizabeth gave her free approbation to said sale. (See Note, Gen. Reg., vol. ii., No. 3, 1848.) Yet the life of Church, in his memoirs, calls Joseph, of Duxbury, the father of Col. Benjamin. Farmer names Benjamin Church, of Little Compton, the celebrated warrior, " son of Joseph Church," and born at Duxbury, 1639 ; m. Alice Southworth, and had children, Thomas, Constant, Edward, Benjamin, Charles and one daughter. (Col. Church died Jan. 17, 1718, aged 77.) Richard requested freedom October 19, 1630, and Farmer says, he probably was the same who afterward was at Hing- ham, and possibly the Richard Church, a first settler at Duxbury, whom Mr. Bradford makes the father of the great warrior. (See Fanner and Gen. Reg.) " Richard Church shall speedily build the carriage for another piece of ordnance," when finishing the fortifica- tion on Fort Hill in 1642. (Guide to Plymouth, p. 205.) Richard was a sergeant in the Pequod war, and had children by Elizabeth Warren, viz.: Elizabeth; Benjamin, b. at Plymouth, 1639; Rich- ard, d. young ; Nathaniel, Hingham and Little Compton, m. Sarah Barstow, and died before 1700. (See Winsor's Hist, of Duxbury, p. 245.) This could not have been the Richard Church who settled at Hartford, 1636. CHURCH, JOSEPH, of Duxbury, 1639, (Farmer says,) had sons Joseph, Caleb and Benjamin, and perhaps others. That Caleb lived at Watertown, and his brother Joseph and Benjamin at Little Compton, cites the life of Church in his memoirs, p. 159. Caleb Church m. Joanna Sprague, Dec, 1667, at Hingham. Abigail Church m. Sam- uel Haxter, at Hingham, Dec, 1666. (His. Reg.) Caleb in the list of freemen in Watertown, March 22, 1689-90. (His. Reg.) CHURCH, GARRET, free in Mass., in 1649. John, son of Gar- ret and Sarah, b. at Boston, 1637 ; Samuel, b. 1640 ; Sarah, b. 1642. CHURCH, JOHN, b. 1641, received an inhabitant of Dover, New Hampshire, 19th day, 1st mo., 1665-6 ; taxed atCocheco, 1662-1672 ; killed May 7, 1696. John, b. 1668; killed, 1711. (His. Reg.) Nathaniel Warren, Sen., (of Plymouth,) in a supplement to his will, names his sister Elizabeth Church, (probably wife of Richard,) da- ted July 15, 1667. (See His. Reg.) John, of N. H., also had a son Jonathan, b. April 12, 1666, and Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1672. (His. Reg.) Nathan Folger m. Sarah Church, the 29th day of GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 585 Dec, 1699, and Thomas Clark m. Mary Church, the 13th day of Dec, on Nantucket. (His. Reg.) CHURCH, CHARLES, Esq., sheriff of the co. of Bristol, was one of those noble subscribers for Prince's Chronology. CHURCH, SAMUEL, of Hadley, took the oath of allegiance " by order from our Gin'll Cort," Feb. 8, 1678. (His. Reg.) Samuel, in Connecticut, took the oath of freeman, 1657 — same man. CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, of Hartford, Conn., ap- peared at Norwalk in the early settlement of the plantation. If he settled there, he did not long remain. In a list of accounts in 1654, the name of Edward Church is found there. He owned land there which he sold to Thomas Fitch, yet his name is not found in Hall's lists of early landholders in Norwalk. Mr. Roger Ludlow, of Fair- field, purchased of the Norwalk Indians, the town of Norwalk, i. c, the grounds " betweene the twoe Rivers, the one called Norwalke, the other Soakatuck, to the middle of sayed Rivers, from the sea a days walke into the country." Deed dated Feb. 26, 1640. June 19, 1650, an agreement was made between said Ludlow and Nath'l Eli, Ritchard Olmested, with the " rest," for settling and planting Norwalke ; Edward Church is named as one of the grantees. Anoth- er indenture dated February 15, 1651, made between a body of In- dians, Piamikin and fifteen other Indians, and Richard Webb, Nath'l Eli, Edward Church and others, " Planters of Norwake, conveying to them all their lands," known by the name of Bunckinheage, Roo- atan," and which was " Recorded Feb. y e 24th, 1708-9, Per John Copp, Record'." Edward Church early disappeared. Edward Church was at Hartford before he went to Norwalk. He had a dau'r Mary, b. at New Haven, 1656, but was not an original proprietor at New Haven. Edward Church and his wife Mary, were at Hadley in 1662, and his son Samuel died there May 6, 1662. He was taxed at Hatfield in 1682. His son John died at Hatfield, 1676. The same Edward, who was at Norwalk, son of Richard, Sen. (See below.) CHURCH, RICHARD, was an early settler at Hartford ; proba- bly came there with Mr. Hooker's company in 1636. He drew twelve acres of land in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639, and sixty acres in the division of land in East Hartford, 1666. He had land at the cow-pasture in Hartford, in 1640, and had a house and land in Burr Street in 1640. Viewer of chimneys in 1647. He was freed from watching, warding and training at Hartford, by the Gen. Court, March 7, 1654-5. He was one of the sixty persons 586 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. who " At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April 18, 1659," signed an engagement to remove themselves and families out of Connecticut into Massachusetts, for the purpose of forming the town of Hadley. (See p. 97 of this book.) He accordingly re- moved, with Ann his wife, as he had stipulated. He was made free in Conn., 1658. When Richard removed to Hadley, he left personal and real es- tate at Hartford. Who was the father of Richard Church, who came to Hartford, is not found, or from what place he came to Hartford. Richard Church, Sen., of Hartford, and afterward of Hadley, died at Hadley Dec. 16, 1667. His wife Ann died in Hatfield, March 10, 1684. They had three sons and one daughter, viz.: 1. Edward, of Hartford, Norwalk, New Haven and Hadley. 2. John, remained and died at Hartford. 3. Samuel, removed to Hadley. 4. Mary, m. Isaac Graves, of Hatfield, Mass. These children were probably born before Richard came to Hart- ford, as none of them were recorded as born there. CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, Sen., the proprietor of Norwalk in 1651-2, m. Mary — — , and had a daughter Mary born at New Haven, 1656, 9th mo., 17th day, and perhaps others born there. His children as far as known, were : 1. Rebecca, m. Joseph Selden, 1677, and settled at E. Haddam, Conn. 2. Mary,b. 1656, 9th mo., 17th; m. Philip Russell in 1679. 3. Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1663. 4. Naomi, b. May 12, 1666; m. Joseph Rodman, 16S7. 5. Sarah, b. May 18, 1670 ; m. William Porter, 1697. 6. John, was slain by the Indians, May 19, 1676. 7. Richard, b. January IS, 1675 ; lived at Hatfield. S. Hepzibah, b. Dec. 24, 1678; m. Samuel Spencer, of Hartford, ancestor of Hon. Ambrose Spencer. 9. Hannah, b. ; m. Ebenezer Billings in 1690. If John, who settled at E. Haddam, was of this family, he was b. after the death of the above John. Edward, the father, settled at last in Hatfield, Mass., where he died Sept. 19, 1704, aged 76, and his wife Mary died there in 1690 or 1691. As his estate was not settled by the court of probate, he may have had children not recorded. CHURCH, JOHN, son of Richard and Ann Church, of Hartford and Hadley, settled at Hartford, and m. Sarah, daughter of Richard Beckley, of New Haven, in 1657. His children are found on the probate record at Hartford, viz.: 1. Richard, went first to Westfield, and then to Colchester, and d. in 1730. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 587 2. John, (Jim.,) lived in Hartford. 3. Samuel, lived in Hartford. 4. Joseph, aged 15, probably, counting to the time of his father's death. 5. Deliverance, 12 years old. 6. Sarah Knight. 7. Mary Standige. 8. Ruth Church. 9. Ami Church. 10. Elizabeth Church. John, Sen., above, had his father's lands in Hartford. He d. at Martford in 1691. He was made free, May, 1658. CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Richard, Sen., and Ann, m. Mary Churchill, of Wethersfield, daughter of Josias, and she is noticed in her father's will. She d. in 1690, and he d. April 13, 1684. He probably removed to Hadley with his father Richard and his family, about 1659 or '60. Their children were : 1. Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1665; m. Samuel Smith. 2. Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1667; lived in Hadley. 3. Richard, b. Dec. 9, 1669; killed by the Indians, Oct. 5, 1696. 4. Mehetabel, b. Jan. 11, 1671 or '2; m. Nehemiah Dickinson. 5. Josiah, b. April 10, 1673. Had a family at Hadley, but removed. 6. Joseph, b. May 26, 1673 ; d. single in 1721. 7 Benjamin, b. Sept. 1, 16S0 ; resided in Hadley. 8. John, b. Dec. 24, 1682. This was probably the John who settled at East Haddam. CHURCH, RICHARD, son of John, of Hartford, and grandson of Richard, of Hartford and Hadley, left Hartford, and for several years was located in Westfield, Mass., where several of his children were born. He m. Elizabeth Noble, of Westfield, March 3, 1692, and had Hannah, John, Rachel, James, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel and Elizabeth. From Westfield, he removed to Colchester, Conn., where he died in 1730. CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of John, of Hartford, settled in Hart- ford j m. , and had sons and daughters. Among his sons I only mention Samuel, Jun., and Ebenezer. The latter was by trade a hatter, and settled in Norwalk. He m. Susannah Fitch, Jan., 1746, and had children, 1. Daniel, (m. Sarah Pickitt, 1768, and had four sons and three daughters,) b. 1746 ; 2. Richard, b. Oct., 1747. His wife d. Oct. 7, 1747, and he m. 2. Ruth , Nov., 1755, and had 3. Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1756 ; 4. Ebenezer, b. July 31, 1753 ; 5. Ruth, b. Jan. 29, 1760 ; 6. Esther, b. March 23, 1762 ; 7. Samuel, b. Nov. 25, 1763 ; 8. Grace, b. Aug. 7, 1765 ; 9. Jo- siah, b. Jan. 10, 1767 ; 10. John, b. Jan. 12, 1769; 11. Elizabeth, 588 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. b. Oct. 10, 1770; 12. Isaac, b. May 3, 1772. (Hall) Of the above family are the Churches of Fairfield county. CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Samuel, Jun., was by trade a sad- dler. He m. Mary Porter, of Farmington, and removed to Bethlem, then a part of Woodbury, and pursued his trade. He died there in the great sickness, which nearly desolated that parish, and left nine children. His sons were, Joshua, Samuel, Ebenezer and Nathan- iel. CHURCH, JOSHUA, son of Samuel above, was many years a merchant at Bethlem, where his children were born, among whom was Samuel Church, many years town-clerk of Bethlem, who left a family in his old age ; also, Rollin Church, who resided in Beth- lem, son of Joshua. He also had several children, among whom is now living, Leonard H. Church, Esq., of the city of New York. He m. Sarah Sophia Morris, daughter of Harvey Morris, Esq., of Woodbury, Conn., and has two children, Roderick Henry and Ellen Morris. This L. H. Church is the present popular cashier of the Empire City Bank, in New York, who by his industry, integrity and strict attention to business, was lately honored and rewarded for it, by the directors of the Empire City Bank, who presented to him as a reward of merit, an elegant service of silver plate, worth $1,000. for his unremitting efforts as cashier to the interests of the bank. CHURCH, NATHANIEL, youngest son of Samuel, Sen., of Bethlem ; by the death of his father, he was left an orphan, only three years of age. He learned the trade of a weaver, and at the age of eighteen years, he absconded from the severe usage of a hard master, and enlisted a private soldier in Col. Silliman's regiment in the Continental army, where he was severely wounded by a grape- shot at the battle of White Plains, (which grape-shot was extracted, and is now in possession of his son, Judge Church, of Litchfield, Ct.) He was a long time in the hospital at Danbury. After his recovery he went to Canaan, in Litchfield county, and followed his trade as a weaver, and became a man of wealth. He m. Lois Ensign, the second daughter of Capt. John Ensign, of Canaan, Ct., a descendant of James, Sen., the Puritan, of Hartford, in 1636. Soon after he m. he removed to Salisbury, where he resided until he died, in Nov., 1837, and left a noble family. His sons were, Ensign, Judge Sam- uel, Leman, Esq., John, Nathaniel, Jun., Frederick and William. CHURCH, Hon. SAMUEL, m. when young, and has a family of most promising sons. (See Note.) CHURCH, LEMAN, Esq., was a lawyer by profession, and set- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 5S9 tied in his profession at Canaan, Ct., and by his industry and talents, with a few years' practice, ranked with the three first of his profes- sion in Litchfield county. He died in middle life, and left a large estate to his widow and children, which he had accumulated by a short life of industry in his practice. John Church m. Anne Curtis, of Wethersfield, Dec. 11, 1735, and had children born in Wethersfield, John, b. 1736 ; Hepzebah, b. Feb. 20, 1738 ; Anne, b. Feb. 20, 1740 ; Christian, b. 1642 ; Eli- sha, b. 1747 j Daniel, b. Aug. 17, 1750. Samuel Church m. Phebe Fuller, at Colchester, June 24, 1744. Rebecca Church m. Joseph Selding, of Hadley, 1676. Sergeant Samuel, of Hadley, died April 13, 1684. Richard was one of the number in Massachusetts, who desired to renew his oath of a freeman, under the act of the General Court at Boston, May 14, 1634. John Church, of Colchester, had his wife Thankful, and children Ruth, Ezra, John and Abigail, bap. Jan. 20, 1734. John Church, son of John, of Hartford, m. Abigail Cadwell, 1699 ; he died 1735. Mary, Joseph, Daniel, b. 1710, at Hartford, and others. James Church was an original settler at Litchfield. Samuel Church m. Elizabeth Clark, Aug. 17, 1710. James m. Abigail Stanly, Dec. 10, 1712. James and Abigail had Joseph, b. April 21, 1724 ; Abi- gail, b. Feb. 11, 1727-8 ; Jerusha, b. 1729-30, m. Wm. Pitkin. CHURCH, GEORGE, a servant of Stephen Kent, with others, passengers intended for New England, in the good ship Confidence, of London, John Jobson, master, by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's warrant, of the 11th of April, 1638. Dated, Southampton, 24th April, 1638. (Stevens.) CHURCH, MARTIN, sixteen years old, passenger for Virginia, in the Safety, August, 1635, from England. Coats of arms. — Church or Churche, (Earls Colne, co. Essex,) has 1 ; Church, (as borne by Henry Church, Esq., R. N., and by the Rev. William Church, of Hampton, co. Middlesex,) 1 ; Churche, (Essex,) 1 ; and one other for Churche. Note. As so much has lately been published of the Church family in Connecticut, I with- hold a large share of the facts collected on this family. Note. Hon. Samuel Church, the son of Nathaniel, of Salisbury, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 1803. He read law in the office of Judge Reeve, at Litchfield, and settled in his pro- fession at Salisbury, when quite young, and soon became prominent in his profession at the Litchfield bar, which at that time was one of the most prominent bars in the state, viz., Gould, Allen, Tracy, Bacon, Benedict, Boardman, &c. In 1818 he was elected a member of the 50 590 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CHURCHILL, CHURCHIL, CHURCHEL, JOSIAS,(JOSIAH,) was an early settler at Wethersfield, and perhaps came to Wethers- field, (then called Watertown,) from VVatertown, Mass., where most of the first settlers were from. There was also John Churchill,* Gen. Assembly, and sis sessions afterward. He was state senator, elected 1825 and '27, by general ticket. In 1833 he was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and in 1847, was appointed Chief Justice, which office he now holds — all which places of trust he has most faithfully filled, to the perfect satisfaction of the public. He married, when >oung i and has a small family of promising children. One of his sons, Albert E., is now a professor at the Military Academy at West Point, and another, Dr. Samuel P., at Derby. Judge Church has probably become more celebrated than any of the descendants of Richard, Sen., of Hartford. * CHURCHILL, JOHN, who is not found to have been a relative of Josiah, who was an early settler at Wethersfield, Conn., came from England, and stopped at Plymouth — the year not known — but at an early period of the settlement of New Plymouth; married Hannah Pontus, of Plymouth, Dec. 18, 1644, and died there between Dec.24 and Feb. 11, 1662. The will of John Churchill was exhibited in court at Plymouth, May 3, 1662, and proved. He gave his sons "Joseph and Eleazer, lands at Plymouth," and sons John and William, other property, &c. In. rentory, .£74, 14s. Gd. (Gen. Reg., 1842.) In August, 1643, the names of the males able to bear arms, from sixteen years old to sixty, were taken in the several townships, and with the 148 names thus enrolled, is found that of John Churchill, vol. 5, p. 259. The children of John and his wife Hannah, were : Joseph, m. Sarah . Birth or death of either not known. Eleazer. John. William. Hannah. These children are found in the will of their father, John, of Plymouth. JOSEPH, son of John, m. Sarah ; had children, Margaret, Barnabas, b. July 3, 1686> Joseph, and perhaps John. BARNABAS, son of Joseph, m. Lidiah ; children, William, Ichabod, Joseph, b. May 10, 1721, Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Ebenezer, Lydia, John, (Mariah Ryder, b. Dec. 2, 1724.) JOSEPH, son of Barnabas, m. Mariah Ryder, at Plymouth, Sept. 23, 1745, daughter of Sam- uel Ryder, son of John and Hannah, b. 1698, and Mary Sylvester, who were m. at P., Nov. 2. 1722. Joseph d. in P. soon after his daughter Lucy was born. His widow m. Ar«hippus Fuller, and with all their children they moved to Woodstock, Vt., and lived to be aged. His children were, Ichabod, b. Aug. 9, 174G; Joseph, b. July 14, 1748; Lucy, b. Aug. 22, 1750, and Con- sider Fuller, Seth, Samuel, Polly and Mariah Fuller. JOSEPH, son of Joseph, b. 1748, m. Sarah Cobb, daughter of Gersham Cobb and Miriam Thomas ; m. at Middleborougb, Mass., March 3, 1739. Joseph and Sarah m. in M., March 21. 1771, and continued in M. until 1777, when they removed with three children to Woodstock, Vt., and continued there until 1819, when they removed to Stowe, and Joseph d. in 1823, and bis wife Sarah in 1836. All his children survived them. Children, Levi, b. April 24, 1772 ; Miriam, b. Aug. 16, 1774 ; Sarah, b. April 13, 1777 ; Lucy, b. March, 1779 ; Joseph, b. July 7, 1781 ; Sylvester, b. Aug. 2, 1783; Isaac, b.Feb. 19, 1787, and Susan, b. July 17, 1794. SYLVESTER, b. 1783, in. Lucy Hunter at Windsor, Vt., Aug. 30, 1812. He being an officer in the army, had no fixed residence, but was stationed at different military posts. His wife was a daughter of Win. Hunter, who was b. in Sharon, Ct., Jan. 3, 1754. His parents were David Hunter and Rebeckah Marvin. Gen. Sylvester Churchill is now Inspector General in the United States army. Two of his sons were educated at West Point, and have since done signal ser- vice for their country. His children : GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 591 early at Plymouth, whose will was exhibited in court there, May 3 1662 ; but there is no evidence found that he was of the family of Josias. Josiah drew eighteen acres in the land division in Wethers- field in 1670. He was a juror from Wethersfield at the particular court in June, 1643, and in June, 1649 ; and held other responsible places of trust in the town. He was a gentleman of more than a medium estate, for the time in which he lived, and of reputation in the colony. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Foot, of Wethersfield, in 1638, and had children : 1. Mary, b. March 24, 1639. Her father, in his will, calls her " my daughter Church." 2. Elizabeth, b. May 10, 1042 ; she m. Henry Buck in 1660, and had eight children. (See BUCK.) 3. Hannah, b. Nov. 1, 1644 ; not named in his will dated Nov. 17, 16S3 ; not found that she ever married. Hannah Churchwood, of Wethersfield, daughter of Josiah, m. Samuel Royce, of N. London, Jan. 9, 1666-7. This perhaps should have been recorded Churchill. 4. Ann, b. 1647; she m. Rice, as her father calls her in his will. 5. Joseph, b. Dec. 2, 1649. He m. Mary , May 13, 1674, and d. at the age of 49, in 1699 ; had a large family. 6. Benjamin, b. May 16, 1652; m. Mary , in 167S, and had a small family. 7. Sarah, b. Nov. 11, 1657; she m. Thomas Wickham, June, 1673. The record also says, a son b. 1653 ; probably d. young. Mr. Josiah Churchill made his will, dated Nov. 17, 1683, which was proved in court at Hartford, in 1686-7. Inventory, £618, 12s. 6d. His wife Elizabeth survived him. He gave her the use of all his property for her life, and then to his children, viz., Joseph, Ben- jamin, Mary Church, Elizabeth Buck, Ann Rice, and Sarah Wick- ham. Will proved March 5, 1686-7. His wife Elizabeth sole ex- ecutrix. He does not mention his daughter Hannah in his will, who Helen Susan, b. May 29, 1817 ; d. Sept.27, 1818 ; b. and d. in Fort Columbus, and buried on Governor's Island, N. Y. Capt. Wm. Hunter, b. July 8, 1819 ; d. Oct 19, 1847 ; b. at Fort Wool, Bedlow'a Island. Mary Helen, b. Aug. 30, 1821 ; b. in Windsor, Vt. Franklin H., b. April 22, 1823 ; b. at Fort Hamilton, L. I. Charles C, b. July 18, 1825 ; b. at Alleghany Arsenal, near Pittsburg. WM. HUNTER, son of Gen. S. Churchill, b. in Fort Wool, Bedlow's Island. He m. Elizabeth M. Cuyler, daughter of Richard R., of Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 17, 1844, and d. at Point Isabel, Texas, but buried at Savannah, and left one son, Richard Cuyler Churchill. MARY HELEN, daughter of Gen. Churchill, b. in Windsor,. Vt., while her mother was there on a visit. She m. Spencer Fullerton Baird, son of Samuel Baird, at Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 8, 184C. FRANKLIN H., son of the general, was born at Fort Hamilton. L. I. CHARLES C, another son, b, at Alleghany Arsenal, near Pittsburg, Penn. Their names and births are recorded at Windsor, Vt. 592 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. probably died single, before her father. Mr. Churchill died in 1686, as his wife made oath to the will in March, 1686-7. His widow, Elizabeth, died Sept. 8, 1700, an old lady, over eighty years of age. (Will, Probate and Wethersfield Record.) He gave his son Joseph his land at Newington. The coats of arms of the Churchills have been, Churchill, (Duke of Marlborough.) 1 ; Churchill, Baron, 1 ; Churchill, (Churchill, Henbury, co. Dorset and Somersetshire,) 1 ; and one other. CHURCHILL, JOSEPH, b. 1649, son of Josias, Sen. He m. Mary, , May 13, 1674, and had issue : Mary, b. April 6, 1675 ; Nathaniel, b. July 9, 1677. Joseph, above, of Wethersfield, died about Dec. 2, 1701, and left a widow and children, Nathaniel, Sam- uel, Joseph, Jonathan, Mary Edwards, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Butler, and Dinah Churchill. Ensign Samuel Churchill d. July 21, 1767, and Martha, his widow, d. Dec. 14, 1780. CHURCHILL, BENJAMIN, b. 1652, son of Josias, Sen., m. Mary , July 8, 1676, and had issue: 1. Josiah, b. Jan. 28, 1676-7 ; 2. Prudence, b. July 2, 1678 ; Abigail, b. Feb. 18, 1680. Mary, the mother, d. Oct. 30, 1712, aged about 60. CHURCHILL, JOSIAH, son of Benjamin, b. Jan. 28, 1676-7, m. Elizabeth Towsey, daughter of Thomas, of Wethersfield, May 8, 1706, (the ancestor of Hon. Isaac Toucey, late governor of Conn., and now a U. S. Senator from Conn.,) and had children, Arminell, (d'r,) b. Feb. 20, 1709; 2. Prudence, b. Dec. 20, 1710; Hezekiah, b. Aug. 20, 1712, d. June 24, 1714; Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1715 ; Sarah, b. June 11, 1716 ; Josiah, b. June 28, 1720. The father, Josiah, d. Aug. 22, 1751, and his wife d. Oct. 28, 1751. Arminell m. Dan- iel Butler, of Wethersfield. CHURCHILL, NATHANIEL, son of Joseph, b. July, 1677, m. Mary, dau'r of John Hurlbut, of Middletown, Oct. 9, 1701, and had children, Nath'l, Jun., b. Oct. 29, 1703 ; John, b. Jan. 19, 1706. This John removed to Middletown, with his brother, and settled in Chat- ham ; Daniel, b. Nov. 3, 1710 ; Josiah, Stephen and Solomon, and perhaps Charles. Nathaniel, Sen., removed and settled at Middle- town about 1719. Some of his sons and grandsons settled at Berlin, (New Britain and Meriden.) Churchill's ship-yard or landing, where several armed vessels have been built since 1794 — two by the name of Holker, Macedonian, Boxer and others. These owners are de- scendants of John of Chatham and Josiah of Wethersfield. CHURCHILL, NATHANIEL, Jun., son of Nathaniel, b. 1703, m. Rebecca Griswold, and had issue, viz.: GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 593 1. Abigail, b. Sept. 2S, 1727. 2. Mary, b. Aug. 22, 1729. 3. Nathaniel, b. June 25, 1731; had children, Nathaniel, John, Stephen, Solomon and others. Solomon settled at Berlin. 4. Rebecca, b. Feb. 10, 1734. 5. Lucy, b. May 3, 1736. 6. Jannah, b. Feb. 20, 173S ; moved to Hubbardston and then to Georgia, Vermont. He had a son Josiah and other children. 7. Josiah, moved to Hubbardston, Vt., and having no children, he adopted his brother Jannah's son Josiah. After his adopted Josiah had grown to manhood, he settled in Genessee county, N. Y.,and was several sessions a member of the New York Legislature. His son, William R., settled in Michigan ; had other children. S. AMOS, b. March 5, 1743; settled first at Middletown, from Wethersfield, where he was born. After most of his children were born at Middletown, he removed with his family to Broadalban, Montgomery county, N. Y. He early m. Lydia Cowles, of Meriden, Conn., and was a justice of the peace at Middle- town, and a deacon in the church at Middletown in 1779. He changed his re- ligious views as to baptism, and united with the Baptists, and removed to Broadalban, as above stated. His children were : 1. Lydia, m. Elijah Roberts, of Middletown, and removed to May field, N. Y., and there died. 2. Huldah, m. Elijah Bacon, of Middletown, and moved to Mayfield, N. Y. 3. Amos, Jun., m. Olive Wilcox, of Middletown, and moved to Broadalban, Montgomery co., N. Y., and had children, Olive, Dr. Amos, Harriet, Charles, Giles and Elijah. 4. Roswell, m. Abigail Roberts, of Middletown, July, 1802, and had a dau'r Lorane, b. at Middletown. He then removed toJMayfield, N. Y., and had Car- oline, Emeline and Abigail by his first wife. She d. 1811, and he m. for his second wife, Abigail Covel, and had issue, Alansing, Erastmust D. , William H., Reanselaer E., Charles R., and James E. Roswell is now living in New York. 5. Lucy, m. Isaac Cornwall, of Middletown ; removed to Mayfield, N. Y. and had two children, Isaac and Lucy. 6. JESSE CHURCHILL, son of Amos and Lydia, of Middletown, m. Cath- erine Smith, of Middletown, Upper Houses. He d. March 29, 1842. They had eight children, viz.: 1. Wm. Eliot, b. Feb. 22, at Middletown, 1805 ; m. first, Sarah E. Cowles, of Meriden, Conn.; second, Louisa Terry. 2. Henry, b. at Middletown ; m. Selina Burr. 3. Timothy Gridley, b. April 28, 1S09, at Broadalban, N. Y. 4. Mary Ann, b. Sept. S, 1S12, at Broadalban, N. Y.; m. S. H. Smith, of Johnstown, where they resided. 5. Lucy Maria, b. July 16, 1S13 ; m. Peter M. Reynolds, of Johnstown, N. Y. 6. Jane Eliza, single. 7. Allen Cowles, b. July 17, 1S20, at Broadalban, N. Y. He m. Caroline C. Warner, at Gloversville, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1840, who was b. Dec. 29, 1S20, and had four children, viz.: 1. Sarah Louisa, b. July 9, 1S43, d. Dec. 5, 1S43 ; 2. 50* 594 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Emily Louisa, b. Nov. 3, 1S44 ; 3. Wm. Eliot, b. Feb. 5, 1848 ; 4. Clara Bella, b. April 13, 1852. S. Charles Brockway Churchill, b. Feb. 26, 1828 ; m. Caroline Smith, dau'r of Leonard K. Smith, of the city of New York. No issue. 1. CHURCHILL, WM. ELIOT, a merchant in New York, son of Jesse, m. 1. a dau'r of Major E. A. Cowles, of Meriden, Ct.; had children, 1. John C, d. young ; 2. Catherine R.; 3. Sarah C.j 4. Lucy Maria. His wife died, and he m. second, Louisa, daughter of Eliphalet Terry, Esq., deceased, late of Hartford, Conn., by whom he has no issue. 2. CHURCHILL, HENRY, son of Jesse, b. Feb. 17, 1807, at Middletown, Conn. He m. Selina Burr, at Gloversville, Fulton co., N. Y. She was b. March 15, 1808, and d. March 13, 1851, aged 43, by whom he had children, viz.: 1. Wm. Scott, b. March 28, 1S31 ; d. aged 4, April 12, 1835. 2. Helen, b. Jan. 12, 1837. 3. Alice, b. Feb. S, 1839. 4. Caroline, b. July 10, 1841. 5. Henry, Jun., b. June 15, 1844. He married for his second wife, Sybil E. Roberts, June 1, 1852, at Albany, N. Y. He now resides at Gloversville, N. Y. 3. *CHURCHILL, TIMOTHY GRIDLEY, son of Jesse and * John Lawrence, a descendant of Abraham " Rycken," and Margaret, the daughter of Hen- drick Harmensen, and from Sir Robert Laurens, of Aehton Hall, in Lancastershire, in England, though Abraham might have been " an armorer in the Dutch service," and forged " tomahawks" for the Indians about him. He was descended, says one of his descendants, of an ancient fam- ily in Lower Saxony, being a Dutchman, and perhaps the friend of Govs. Kieft and Stuyvesant, his countrymen ; yet, from his life and character, was a ,l Yonker" (a gentleman) of fortune and character, as many of his descendants have been, and continue to sustain their Dutch ancestor in his reputation by their own. Mrs. Timothy G. Churchill, of New York, daughter of John Lawrence, dee'd, of New York, is a descendant of the Rikers, by her mother, who was a Riker, and a descendant of Abraham Rycker. She also descended by her father, John Lawrence, (" familiarly called the commodore" from his having been an officer on board the American frigate Confederacy, Capt. Harding,) from Sir Robert Laurens. John, and his brother Isaac Lawrence, were large wholesale dealers and importers of silks and china ware from the East Indies to New York, when few if any oth- ers in New York, were as large importers of these articles. Mr. John Lawrence was twice m.; 1. m. Elizabeth, widow of Nath'l Lawrence, and a daughter of Judge John Berrien ; and -2. a daughter of Samuel Riker, Esu. His children were: Madison, Samuel Riker, Louisa, Jane Ri- ker, Julia and Patience. The last m. Timothy G. Churchill, of N. York, where she now resides. The ill health of John Lawrence, her father, compelled him to retire from the mercantile and importing business in which himself and brother had been largely engaged for years. lie died in New York, Aug. 29, 1817, aged 5!) years. John Lawrence (says Riker, in his History of Newtown, L I.,) was a descendant of "Sir Robert Laurens, of Ashton Hall, in Lancastershire, England." That Sir Robert accompanied Richard Caaur de Lion, in his famous expedition to Palestine, and signalized himself in the GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 595 Catherine, b. 1809, m. Patience Lawrence, of N. Y., (dau'r of John L. and Patience Riker,) June 15, 1836. His wife b. Oct. 2, 1814. Their children were : 1. Anna P., b. May 9,1837. 2. Jane Lawrence, b. June 9, 1839. 3. John Lawrence, b. Nov. 14, 1S42. 4. Wm. Eliot, b. July 15, 1815; d. May 12, 1S47. 5. Emily Virginia, b. Dec. 13, 1S4S. 4. CHURCHILL, MARY ANN, b. Sept. 8, 1812, at Broadalban, N. Y., m. at Hartford, Feb. 19, 1850, to H. S. Smith, of Glovers- ville, N. Y., who was b. Oct. 14, 1814. CHURCHILL, JOSIAH, son of Nathaniel, Sen., had a son Jo- siah, b. at Middletown, and other children. This son Josiah born about 1711 or '12, in 1737 m. Abigail White, and removed to the state of New York, after some of his children were born. Daniel, his fifth child, b. at Chatham, Conn. His children were : 1. Ruth, in. White, of Cherry Valley, N. Y. 2. Elisha, d. during the Revolution, without issue. memorable siege of St. Jean d'Acre, in 1191, by being the first to plant the banner of the cross on the battlements of that town, for which he received the honors of knighthood from King Richard, and a coat of arms ; after which the family became eminent in England. Faulkner, in his History of Chelsea, says : " The Lawrences were allied to all that was great and illustri. ous — cousins to the ambitious Dudley, Duke of Northumberland ; to the Earl of Warwick I to Lord Guilford Dudley, who expiated on the scaffold the short-lived royalty of Lady Jane Grey ; to the brilliant Leicester, who set two queens at variance ; also to Sir Philip Sidney, who refu- sed a throne." Mr. Riker, in his history, states that a large number of families of this name in the United States, descended from three brothers, viz., John, William and Thomas Lawrence, who emigrated from Great St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, during the political troubles which led to the dethronement and death of Charles I. — (and in confirmation, Riker says,) "In corrobora- tion of their descent from Sir Robert Laurens, we find on the seals appended to some of their wills now on file at New York, and on old plate still possessed by their descendants, the same coat of arms as were granted to that knight." (See Hiker's Hist, of Newtown, pp. 181, 182, 187; also, see Bolton's Hist, of Westchester.) The Lawrences of New York city, and first of Long Island, have generally been either merchants or connected with one of the learned professions, and many of them have retired upon ample fortunes. They have held important offices under the government of the city, colony and Gen. Gov't. John held offices under the Dutch and English at New Amsterdam. Under the English in N. York city, he was alderman in 1665, and afterward mayor and member of the council. In 1692, judge of the sup. court until his death in 1699, over 80 years of age. His daughter Mary m. Wm. Whittingham, and became the mother of Mary, the wife of Gov. Saltonstall, of New London, Ct. They were connected by marriage with the Saltonstalls, Stevensons, L. I. Smiths, Sir Phillip Cartaret, governor of New Jersey, by his marriage with the widow of Wm. Lawrence, Sir John T. Jones, Bart., Winslows, Le Bross, Saunders, Kdsalls, WoodbuOs, Wiltsees, Alsops, Sacketts, Livingstons, Berriens, Moors, Rikers, Brinkerhoffs, Palmers, Lents, Luysters, Suydams, Beach's, Hillhouses, Pools, McVickars, Welles's, Kips, Whitneys, Campbells, Lees, Churchills, Fish's, Van Sinderers, Remsens, Lindsleys, Irelands Mullers, Rogers's, Sehlossons, Whittemores, Walsh's, and many others of the best families in the country. Few, if any, better or more prosperous families early came to this country, than the Lawrence brothers, and their descendants are now scattered through the country. 596 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 3. Benjamin ; had seven children. 4. Sarah ; m. Benjamin Hodge, of Buffalo, N. Y. 5. Daniel, b. Oct., 1750, at Chatham, Conn.; m. Eunice Saxton, 1779; re- moved to Richfield, N. Y., April, 1795; d. Dec, 1812; had four children. The seven children of the above Benjamin were : 1. Elisha, no children ; 2. Betsey ; 3. Ebenezer — had son Ebenezer ; 4. Sarah ; 5. Charles, had three children, viz., Elizabeth, Cornelia and Cha's ; 6. Sophia, m. Peck ; 7. Benjamin, d. young. The four children of the above Daniel were: 1. Nancy, m. An- drus Martin ; 2. Selden, m. , had children, viz.: 1. Alonzo, ch., Charlotte J. and Emma D.; 2. Nancy ; 3. Daniel, ch., Selden A.; 4. Lucretia; 5. Malvina ; 6. Adelaide. 3. Philemon, d. un- married ; 4. Alfred, m. Emma Derbyshire, three children — 1. Al- fred Derbyshire ; 2. George Clarence ; 3. Charlotte Derbyshire ; died Feb. 26, 1834. CHURCHILL, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield, son of Joseph, m. Lydia Dickinson, of Hatfield, Mass., in 1713. CHURCHILL, JOHN, son of Nathaniel, Sen., of Wethersfield and Middletown, m. Bethia Stocking, of Middletown, June 8, 1727, and had a daughter Mary, b. at Middletown, March 18, 1727-8. He removed to Chatham, and became the progenitor of the Churchills of Chatham. The captain of the steamer Prometheus is of the Chat- ham line of the descendants of Josiah, Sen., of Wethersfield. F. de Courcy, claimed as ancestor of the Churchills, "who (ac- cording to Leliard,) were of the best blood of France, and renowned long before the Norman conquest." " John, son of Sir Winston Churchill, was one of the ablest generals England ever had, and at- tained its greatest honors as Duke of Marlborough," Prince of the Empire, &c. The late Earl Spencer was descended from the duke in the female line. (See Note, His. Gen. Reg., No. 5, Jan., 1848. The direct line from Josiah to Timothy Gridley Churchill, is, Jo- sias, Joseph, Nathaniel, Sen., Nathaniel, Jun., Amos, Jesse and Timothy G., of New York. CIRKAM, THOMAS, in the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 1069, (see KIRKHAM,) also spelled Kircum and Kirkman. The particular court, Oct. 29, 1646, ordered Kircum and Carrington to pay 20s. to the administrators of Vere, for corn. Thomas Kirkeman was noticed in the will of Ed: Vere. of Weth- ersfield, and provided for John Carrington and Tho: Kirkman to have 20s. for making his coffin, and gave also 20s. to provide " wyne, bear, caks and such like of what may be had for my buriall." GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 597 CIRTLAND, KORTLAND, KIRKLAND, KIRTLAND, CORT- LAND, (the name is thus spelled on the records,) NATHANIEL, of Lynn, Mass., in the contract in the note below, signs his name "Nathaniel Kortland." (See KIRTLAND, 1667.) Quere ? was not the name of this family originally Cortlandt or Courtland ? It is now generally spelled Kirtland, though a few yet write it Kirk- land. It has proved an excellent family in New England, and in the state of New York.* Curtland has one coat of arms. CITRON. BENJAMIN, m. Sarah Bush, and settled in Enfield as early as 1718, and had two sons b. in Enfield, viz., Benjamin, b. 1721, and Daniel, b. 1723. CINKER, CYNKER, JOHN, 1663. CLAPPUM, PETER, was warned to attend town meetings in Nor- walk about 1679, and the town, Oct. 4, 1679, voted, that if the se- * Note. Cirtland, Nathaniel, of Lynn, Mass., the father of John Cortland, of Saybrook, Ct., resigns his son John to John Wastall, a wealthy farmer, without children of his own, by will and contract, will dated July 15, 1672 ; contract dated July 15, 1674. Mrs. Wastall appears to have been a Kirtland before marriage. (See KIRTLAND and note.) Note. " The will of John Wastall, (of Saybrook,) aa to John Cortland, [Kirtland], being his ayr, Jully the 15, 1672. "There was this agreement made between Mr. John Wastall of Saybrook in theCollony of Conanicut and Mr. Nathaniell Cortland of lin in the Collony of the Massachusets, to say, that the said Nathaniell Cortland doth resighn up his son John Cortland to the dispose of the said Was- tall, that is to say, the said Wastall doth promise to take the said John as his own, to bring him up under good edication, in the nurtor and admonition of the lord and to do his best indevor to instruct hime in all things pertaining to life and godlyness, as also at the decease of the said Wastall that then the said John Cortland shall suksead in the estate of the said Wastall as his own proper ayr, provided that the said Wastall be allowed liberty to give and grant legasyes to other of his kindred or such as shall deserve the same, and that this is the true meaning of this agreement two partys abovesaid, have put to their hands — that is to say, that after the death of the above said John Wastall and Susanah his wife, the wholl estate shall be and Re- main to the abovesaid John Cortland as their ayr and sucksessor as abovesaid, that is accord- ing to the tenor of what is above written, and unto this we do both interchangably set our hands this 15th of Jully 1674 in the presence of witness Robert Capman The mark I IV of John Wastall John Davis Nathaniel Kortland." Ordered to be recorded in the Records of Saybrook. It appears that Mrs. Wastall had a brother John Kirtland, who lived in Saybrook, who sold his house and home-lot to Mr. Wastall in 1631, probably to save it (page 37, vol. i.) for Mrs. Was- tall as widow, (legatee.) She gave this house and home-lot to her kinsman, John Kirtland, (viz., the above John, the heir of Mr. Wastall,) provided he kept it in repair, and allowed Barbara, relict of her brother, John Kirtland, to occupy during her life ; (page 122.) The brother, John, had no children. The nephew, John, the heir, married Lydia, daughter of Win. Pratt, of Saybrook, and was the progenitor of the Kirtlands of Connecticut. 598 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. lectmcn were necessitated to send to said Clappum, to warn him to attend meetings, to allow the person sent, one shilling for so warning him. In January, 1687, he was in the list of estates of commonage in Norwalk, £100. (See Hall's Norwalk.) Cabot, Rev. Martin, settled at Killingly in 1730, and died in 1756. CLAP, CLAPP, Capt. Roger, of Dorchester, Mass., born at Sa- lom, Devon, England, in 1609, came in the Mary and John from England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, where he had lands as early as 1633, and was much employed from 1637 for most of his life, in public offices. Rater of property there in 1638 ; selectman, 1641, '48, '53, '54, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, &c; one of a committee to build a meeting-house in Dorchester, 1645 ; he was a commissioner to try small causes with Foster and Wm. Sumner, 1663, and had power to marry persons; deputy to the Gen. Court of Massachusetts. Rev. John Elliot laid out to Lieut. Roger Clap, 500 acres, and 1,000 acres for the school of Dorchester in 1657. He was also townsman, deputy and commissioner for small causes, in 1664; also, '65. In 1665, he was appointed to that most trustwor- thy and responsible office of captain of the Castle in Dorchester, in the place of Capt. Davenport, who had been killed by lightning. He resigned this office at the Castle in 1686, unwilling to aid Gov. Andros, and soon after removed to Boston, and died there in 1691, aged 82 years. He m. Joan, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Dorches- ter, 'Who removed to Windsor, Conn., and had by her four sons and two daughters, viz., Samuel, William, Waitstill, Preserved, Hope- still and Desire. Many of the Claps of Connecticut are descend- ants of the branch of his son Preserved, who m. Sarah Newbury, daughter of Capt. Benjamin, of Windsor, Conn., June 4, 1668. He lived in Northampton, where he raised a family. Capt. Roger was one of the first and enterprising settlers of Dorchester. The oldest allotment of land there was the salt marsh, to twenty-one persons, April 3, 1633, of which he was one. (Hist, of Dorchester ; Rec- of Windsor and Dorchester.) CLAP, Deacon EDWARD and ROGER, were brothers, and both of Dorchester, Mass., in 1637, and townsmen, and one of the building committee of the new meeting-house in Dorchester in 1645. He was selectman in 1646, 1657, &c. He died the 8th of the 11th month, 1664. CLAP, Rev. THOMAS, graduated at Harvard College in 1725, and settled in the ministry at Windham, Conn., in 1726, and became popular as a preacher, a ripe scholar, and an able divine. He m. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 599 at Windham, Mary Whiting, Nov. 23, 1727, and had children born at Windham, viz.: Mary, b. April 25, 1729 ; Temperance, b. April, 1731, d. June 4, 1731 ; 2d Temperance, b. April 29, 1732; Anne, b. May 13, 1734, d. April, 1735. His wife died Aug. 9, 1736. He m. for his second wife, Mary, (relict of Capt. Rosewell Saltonstall, son of Gov. Saltonstall,) daughter of John Haynes, of Hartford, and relict of Elisha Lord. Rosewell resided at Branford, though he died at New London, Oct. 1, 1738, on a visit. In 1739, Rev. Mr. Thomas Clap, of Windham, was chosen Presi- dent of Yale College, which he accepted, and continued in that re- sponsible office until 1766, about twenty-seven years, and performed its duties to the satisfaction of the public. His last wife. Mary, was the daughter of Hon. John Haynes, son of Rev. Joseph Haynes, and Sarah Lord, of Hartford, and grandson of Gov. Haynes. She was the daughter of Hon. John, who was an assistant in Conn., and Mary Glover. All his children, except Mary, died without issue. His daughter Mary first m. Elisha Lord, of Hartford, May 4, 1723, and had one son, John Haynes Lord, b. Jan. 13, 1724, of Hartford. After Mr. Lord died, April 16, 1725, Mary, his relict, m. Capt. Rosewell Saltonstall, the eldest son of Gov. Saltonstall, of New Lon- don, and by him had one son, Roswell Saltonstall, of Branford, and daughters Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Katherine. Her daughter Mary m. Col. Whiting, of New Haven; Sarah m. Jonathan Fitch, Esq.; her daughter Elizabeth died single ; Katherine m. Jonathan Welles, of Glastenbury. Mary, wife of President Clap, died his widow, Sept. 23, 1769, aged about 65 years. Capt. Roger, was father of Nehemiah, who died 1681, and of Edward of Sudbury, of Preserved of Northampton, and father-in-law of Elder Blake, of Dorchester, &c. Thomas Clapp had a son Oliver, born at Hartford July 7, 1718. Hannah Clap, daughter of Nicholas, of Dorchester, m. Ebenezer Strong, of Northampton, Oct. 14, 1668. Preserved Clap m. Sarah Newbury, daughter of Capt. Benjamin, of Windsor, June 11, 1668. Preserved Clap m. Mehitabel Warner, at Hatfield, 1712-13, (perhaps son of Preserved.) Most of this name in Connecticut are descendants from Preserved Clap, of North- ampton, Mass. Nicholas Clap, of Dorchester, 1636 ; Thomas, his brother, 1638, removed to Hingham and Scituate, d. 1684. His son Thomas born at Weymouth, 1639. (See Farmer.) Four by the name of Clap, and two by the name of Clapp, grad- 600 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. uated at Yale College before 1843. Nine by the name of Clap and two spelled Clapp, graduated at Harvard College before 1838. CLARK, NICHOLAS,* was the first of the name in Connecticut. He was by trade a joiner and carpenter, and in 1635 was sent to Hartford by John Talcot to build him a house, &c, at Hartford, that it might be ready for him when he should go to Hartford. Clark built a part of the house in 1635, and finished it in 1636. {Manu- script of TalcotVs son.) To confirm the manuscript, Clark is found at Hartford a first settler, a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. He drew twelve acres in the first division of land in Hartford in 1639, and thirty-nine acres in the land division in East Hartford, June 12, 1666. He was a defendant in Court Sept. 4, 1643, and in Oct., 1648, was fined twelve pence for not exposing Wm. Vincent for neg- lecting his ward. The Gen. Court in May, 1663, empowered Mr. Toppin, &c, to hear and consider the business respecting " Hamo- nassett," and report ; also the case of the horse in the possession of Nicholas Clark, &c. He left a family of children. His will, dated Jan. 28, 1679, in which he provided for his children, viz.: Thomas, * The following is extracted from a manuscript journal or scrap book, which was kept by a son of the first John Talcott, of Hartford, which shows the first house built in Hartford in 1635, and that John Talcott moved to Hartford in 1636, and that some English settlers were in Hart- ford in 1635, and that Nicholas Clark was the first English settler there known, viz.: " The kitchen that now stands on the north side of the house that I live in, that was the first house that my father built in Hartford in Connecticut Colony, and was done by Nicholas Clark the first winter that any Englishmen wrought or built in Hartford, which was in the year 1635. " My father and mother and his family came to Hartford in the year 1636, and lived first in said kitchen, which was first on the west side of the chimney. "The great barn was built in the year 1636, and underpin I in the year 1637, and was the first barn that was raised in this Colony. The east end of this house that we live in, and was my father Talcott's, deceased, was built with the porch that is in the year 1638. And the chim- neys were built in the year 1638. " The Cow House on the north side of the Cow yard, now part improved for a Corn House was finished and built in the year 1640. "The house and barn that was in partnership between my father and my uncle W r ad*\vortli atFarmington, was finished in the year 1642. "The Hay Barn, standing on the north end of the great Barn next Capt. Allyn's Garden was built in the year 1644. "The west end of that house we live in which was belonging to my honoured deceased lather Talcott, was built in the year 1645. "My uncle, Mr. Mott, sold ray Hon 1 father Talcott his house that he lived in in Brantry, in Old England, (y order) [something 1 can not decipher or understand,] in the year 1614. My father Talcott then living in this House in Hartford." (Furnished by a descendant.) This kitchen stood upon a part of the ground where Dr. Bushnell's church now stands in Hartford. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 601 son-in-law Alexander Douglass, son-in-law Lester, of New London ; noticed his grandson Daniel, son of his son Thomas ; also, Joseph, Thomas, Jun., sons of his son Thomas, who was sole executor of his will, on which he made his mark. His will proved at Hartford, Dec. 2, 1680. Inventory, £243, 2s. Nicholas Clark, aged 31, was a passenger in the Paule, of London, Leonard Betts, master, bound for Virginia July 6, 1635. (Somerby.) CLARKE, JOSEPH, of Windsor, Conn., was an early settler at Windsor. His son Joseph and daughter Mary were bap. at Windsor, Sept. 30, 1638. Joseph Clark died at Windsor in 1641. His wife died in 1639. His sister died at Windsor in 1640 ; anoth- er Joseph died there in 1659. CLARK, JOSEPH, of Saybrook, made his will at Milford, Aug. 27, 1658, being bound for a voyage to the West Indies. He gave his father Clark £15, to purchase a servant. He gave his brother John his clothes he left at home, and his cloak, left at Milford, for the use of said John's eldest son. He gave his brother Pratt's son Samuel, £5. His brother Huntington's dau'r Sarah, £5 ; to Mr. (Rev.) Fitch, £4. He desired his father Clark to take care of his wife, and gave her his house and land if he never returned. In- ventory taken Aug. 27, 1663, .£143, 19s. Gd. Will and inventory accepted by the court, Oct. 14, 1663. John Clark, Sen., and Joseph Peck, adm'rs. There was a Joseph Clark died in 1659. CLARK, JOHN and JAMES, were original settlers of New Ha- ven, and signed the fundamental agreement there in 1639, with 107 other settlers. John had a family of three persons, and an estate of £240 at N. H. in 1643. A John Clark of New Haven m. Sarah Smith, Feb. 1, 1661, and had children b. at N. H., Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1662 ; John, b. Nov. 23, 1663 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 20, 1666 ; Jo- seph, b. Oct. 27, 1668 ; second Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1671. Sarah, wife of John, died July 25, 1674 ; and a dau'r died Sept. 22, 1675. CLARK, JAMES, an original settler at New Haven as above, m. Widow Wakefield, Oct. 17, 1661, probably his second wife, as he had Ebenezer, b. Nov. 29, 1651, and had a family of four per- sons in N. H. in 1643, and £50 estate. CLARK, SAMUEL, of New Haven, had a dau'r Rebecca, died Dec. 29, 1696. Samuel's wife Hannah d. Dec. 21, 1708. Joseph, son of Joseph Clark, of N. H., d. July 17, 1711, and Lidiah, his dau'r, died at N. H. April 18, 1712, and Mr. John Clark died there March 22, 1718-19. Samuel Clark m. Hanna Tuttle, of New Ha- ven, Nov. 7, 1672. John Clarke m. Mary Walker, May 28, 1675. 51 G02 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Joseph Clark m. Elizabeth Lane, May, 1693. Stephen Clark m. Sarah Hill, Nov. 26, 1702. Joseph Clarke, of New Haven, m. Ma- rah Parker, of Wallingford, Nov. 27, 1707. The last above are the New Haven Clarks; but as few births are found on the N. H. rec- ords, of births previous to 1649-50, it is difficult to trace their rela- tion or family connexion. John and James were freemen in New Haven in 1669. CLARKE, JOSEPH, and Bray Clark were grantees of land at Dorchester, Mass., before Jan., 1636. (Hist. Dorchester.) Also John Goiteor Goyt, now spelled Coit. CLARK, Mr. DANIELL, of Windsor, was early at Windsor. He was by profession a lawyer. He m. Mary Newbury, of Wind- sor, June 15, 1644, and had children born at Windsor, viz.: 1. Mary, b. April 24, 1015. 2. Josias, b. Jan. 21, 164S. 3. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 2S, 1651. ■1. Daniell,b. Aug. 4, 1654. 3. John, b. April 10, 1656. 6. Mary, b. Sept. 22 or S, 1658. 7. Samuell, b. July 6, 1661. 8. Sara, b. Aug. 7, 1663. 9. Hanna, b. Aug. 29, 1665 ; died. 10. Nathaniel, b. Sept. S, 1666. Mr. Clark became one of the leading men of Connecticut, before and after the union of the two colonies. He was often placed upon important committees by the Gen. Court. He was a magistrate and frequently a member of both branches of the Gen. Assembly, and secretary of state or of the colony several years. In 1644, David Wilton with Daniell Clark, were executors of the will of Rev. Eph'm Huit, dee'd, of Windsor. In 1646, acted as a juror. In 1656, one of a committee to give safe advice to the Indians. Same year ap- pointed to write letters to the elders in the Bay, and the former coun- cil, regarding the difficulty in the Church at Hartford. In 1657, was appointed by the Gen. Court to write to the magistrates of South- ampton, to inform them of the mind of the commissioners, and anoth- er letter to the Indians. In 1657-8, appointed lieut. of the first troop of horse raised in the colony. Aug. 18, 1658, was sworn " according to ye forme of the Secretaries oath approved by this court, and or- dered to be recorded." Oct. 3, 1661, " SeC Dan" Clark" was ordered to be put to election for a magistrate. March 13, 1662, four hundred acres of land were granted vnto ye Secy, Daniel Clarke, and John Moor, eighty acres of it to be meadow ; also land at " Ha- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 603 manaset," July 22, 1662. May session of the Gen. Assembly, 1663, Wm. Edwards, of Hartford, " chargeth Mr. Daniell Clark, for breach of his oatli, unfaithfullnesse in ye great trust committed to him by the freemen of this corporation, to the dishonour of God, infringment of ye royall prerogatiue of our Soueraign Lord the King, contempt of ye authority established in this corporation, and abuse of the mem- bers of ye same, &c. The Gen. Court, on the complaint of Mr. Edwards, found Mr. Clark " so far falty," and removed him from the office of secretary " until the next election court." May 12, 1664, the Gen. Court confirmed Mr. Daniel Clark, Captain of the troop. Oct. 13, 1664, Mr. Daniell Clark refused to take the place of an assistant, and Mr. James Richards was chosen assistant. May, 1666, Mr. Clark was appointed clerk of the county court at Hart- ford. July 26, 1666, Capt. Daniel Clark was appointed on a com- mittee by the Gen. Court, with Gov. Winthrop, Mr. Mathew Allyn, Mr. Samuel Willys, Capt. Talcot, Mr. Henry Wolcott, Lieut. John Allyn, Capt. Nubery, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Fitch. In case there was danger of invasion by the approach of an enemy, and it appeared necessary to send force to oppose them, before the Gen. Assembly could convene, such committee was impowered to order the militia, and to commission officers how to act and to pre- vent the designs of the enemy, &c. May 11, 1676, Capt. Daniel Clark was appointed by the Gen. Court, with the governor and deputy gov- ernor and assistants, with Capt. Benj. Newbury, in his absence, Capt. Daniel Clark, Mr. Richard Lord, Mr. John Wadsworth, Mr. Sam- uel Tallcott, Mr. Jehu Burr and Mr. John Bankes, for a standing council, to order, manage and dispose of all such affairs as should be necessarily attended in the interval of the sessions of the Gen. Court ; impowered to act on all such occasions, and their acts or any three of them should be in as full force as if acted or determined by the Gen. Court, the governor or deputy-governor being one of the three. (See Col. Rec.) Mr. Clarke and Mr. Allyn, of Windsor, in 1658, were voted "to put to sale the town barn in Windsor." He was at Windsor as early as 1641. He joined the church at Windsor in June, 1643. (Row- land.) He, in behalf of the church of Windsor, complained of Ja's Eno and Michael Humphrey, for the violation of an established law of the colony, and withdrew it in 1663. He was confirmed captain of the troop in May, 1664. He, with Mr. Allin, Mr. Steel, Mr. Lord, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Hollister, John Deming and Robert Web- ster, were appointed, with the magistrates, a committee, by the Gen. 604 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Court, Feb. 26, 1656, lo give their best advice to the Indians, if the)' agree to meet, and being met, crave the same of them. March 26, 1656, the Gen. Court ordered Mr. Wolcott to assist Mr. Clark as to all defects of training in Windsor, as far as two magistrates had power. In May, 1655, Mr. Clarke, the gov'r and dep. gov'r, were appointed by the Gen. Court to hold a court at Fairfield or Stratford. In Oct., 1663, Mr. Mathew Allyn, Capt. Ta[lcott,] Lieut. Clark, were appointed by the Gen. Court, a committee to treat with the gentleman who had come from M[anhatoes] on the controversy be- tween the corporation and the Dutch at Manhatoes, &c. (Col. Rec.) He was recorder in May, 1658. In 1662, he was chosen as a re- serve as commissioner. Hon. Worshipful Daniel Clarke made his will Aug. 31, 1709, and a codicil in July, 1710. He notices his wife and children, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, John, Samuel, Daniel and Josia. His son John and son-in-law Roger Wolcott, Ex's, &c. Will proved April 8, 1710. Capt. Daniell Clark lost his first wife, and m. second, Widow Martha Wolcott, who had been. the wife of Simon Wolcott, son of Henry, Sen. She m. him Oct. 17, 1661, and Simon d. Sept. 11, 1687. She was a sister of Hon. Wm. Pitkin, of Hartford. She survived Mr. Clark. His son, Nath'l Clark, about to enter the ser- vice of his country in 1690, made his will, and gave his property to his brothers and sisters. He was propounded in Windsor for a magistrate in 1649. (See Col. Rec, Windsor Rec.) Robert and Ja's Clark, Nicholas and Thomas, of Hartford, Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, John, of Farmington, John, of Saybrook, John and James, of New Haven, Mr. John, George, Sen., George, Jun., and Thomas Clark, of Milford, were freemen in their respective towns in 1669. CLARK, DANIEL, Jun., son of Hon. Daniel Clark, of Wind- sor, at a meeting of the council in Hartford, March 10, 1675-6, was convicted for notorious, reproachful, contemptuous speeches, and threatening Mayor Treat ; fined him £20, and committed him to prison during the pleasure of the council. And at a meeting of the council, Jan. 2, 1676(7,) Capt. Daniel Clark appeared and requested " that his son's fine" might be remitted, and stated it would be a great en- couragement for him to settle " here," in the improvement of his trade and art, for the benefit of the country, &c. Mayor Treat also interceded for him, and stated Daniel's confession, reformation, &c. The council remitted the fine, expecting his return and settlement in attendance of his art and trade. (See Meeting of the Council, Jan. 2, 1676, and March 10, 1675-6.) GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 605 CLARK, WM., of Wethersfield, m. Susannah , and had Mary, b. June 18, 1669 ; Susannah, b. Dec. 25, 1671 ; Wm., b. Jan. 29, 1673 ; Matthias, b. Feb. 9, 1677 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1679. His wife died, and he m. Margaret , and had Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1707 ; William, was drowned April 8, 1708, aged about 33 years. The father died Dec, 1711. CLARK, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Dorothy, daughter of Stephen Hurlbut, Dec. 9, 1710, and had Phebe, b. Aug. 25, 1711, died 1712 ; Wm., b. June 19, 1713 ; Martin, b. May 9, 1715 ; Elisha, b. March 23, 1718 ; second Phebe, b. Jan. 27, 1720 ; Han- nah, b. Jan. 23, 1722 ; Mary, b. June 9, 1724 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 25, 1728. The father died April 3, 1767. CLARK, THOMAS, Jun., of Wethersfield, m. Lois Brooks, June 17, 1756, and had Martin, b. July 20, 1757, d. 1762. Roger, b. Dec. 1, 1759; Wm., b. May 30, 1762; Rufus, b. Sept. 2, 1764; George, b. Dec. 1, 1766, d. 1775 ; Moses, b. Jan. 4, 1769 ; Mary, b. Feb. 15-17, 1771; Olive, b. Oct. 23, 1774; George, b. Jan., 1778. The Clarks, of Wethersfield, might have been from some other town in the colony. There was a Thomas Clark, freeman in Hart, ford in 1669. There was also " Thomas Clerk," freeman at Mil- ford, 1669. Clarke, Mr. John, George, Sen. and Jun., and Thomas, were all freemen in Milford in 1669. (Spelled Clarke, Clerke.) CLARK, GEORGE, Sen., called the farmer, was one of the first planters of Milford, and in the list of free planters in Nov., 1639, and died there in 1690, one of its most respectable citizens. His wife Sarah also died there, July 19, 1689. Farmer George Clark was taxed there in 1686 on £156, 16s. Deacon George Clark taxed there on £173, same year, and George, Jun., taxed on £131, and Samuel taxed on i£l40, and Mr. Thomas Clark, same year, taxed at Milford on £246. George and George, Jun., Nicholas Camp, Hen- ry Botsford, Nath'l Brisco and others, in 1640, before the town was named Milford, were made free planters of the town, with liberty to vote for public officers, to carry on public affairs in the plantation. George, Sen. and Jun., were original proprietors of Milford in 1639. George Clark was often a deputy to the Gen. Court of Connecticut and New Haven. To Gen. Court of Connecticut, April, 1665, May. '66, Oct., '68. Deacon George, 1669 ; George, Oct., '69, May, '72, '74, '75, Oct., '75, absent. Deacon George, 1676, and other sessions. George, the farmer, deeded land to Vincent Stilson, of 51* 606 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Milford, April 7, 1685. Samuel and George Clark, commissioners for Milford, May, 1669. CLARK, GEORGE, Jun., an original proprietor and settler at Milford with George, Sen. He was by trade a carpenter. His wife was Mary, who died in 1689. Their children were Abigail, b. Jan. 9, 1653-4 ; Thomas. His daughter Hester died Oct. 19, 1661, and others. George, Jun., purchased ten acres of land at Mill Neck of Jasper Gunn, in 1647. Mr. Thomas Clark, (son of George, Sen.,) of Milford, Ensign George Clark, Col. Robert and Ensign Joseph Treat, &c, received an Indian deed of the town of Wiantinoque, (New Milford,) from Papetopo, Wempetoo and other Indians, in consideration of £60, current money, £20 in goods, at money prices, in behalf of the Milford purchasers, signed Feb. 8, 1702-3, by four- teen Indians, and witnessed by John Minor, (Interpreter, allowed by " bothe ye English and ye Indians,") and by John Durand and two Indians. Recorded by Richard Bryan, Register, Feb. 10, 1702-3, at Milford. George, the carpenter, died in 1690. The Clarks, of Milford, were of the best families of Milford ; some branch of this family settled at Washington and New Milford. CLARK, DANIEL, of Milford, was ordered to have a house-lot next to Thomas Camfield's, in 1648, in Milford. CLARK, Deacon JOHN, of Milford, represented Milford in the Gen. Court of Conn., in Oct., 1676, &c. He with Tho's Welch, were impowered to hold a court at Milford, 1665, with the assistant in Milford. He was a commissioner for Milford in 1666. CLARK, Mr. THOMAS, son of George, Sen., of Milford, m. Hannah Gilbert, dau'r of Wm., of New Haven, then deceased, May 20, 1663. CLARK, WM., a servant of Mr. John Crow, was fined forty shil- lings, and corporal punishment, for drinking — the corporal punish- ment remitted upon his promise of care for the future to avoid " such occations," Jan. 3, 1639. Wm. Clark forfeited his recognizance in court, of £10, in May, 1649, at Hartford. He resided in Hartford in 1659, and quite reduced in property. CLARK, WM., was an original first settler of Haddam. The inventory of his estate, he being deceased, was in court at Hartford, Sept. 3, 1681, £412, 185. He left issue, Thomas, William, John, Joseph, and dau'rs Jennor, Spencer, Hannah, and an adopted son or son-in-law, Daniel Hubbard. His son Thomas sole ex'r ; a very reputable family. CLARK, WM., owned a tract of swamp land in Hartford, in 1642 ; GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 607 also had land there in 1660 ; perhaps the same who settled at Had- dam. CLARK, WM., was brought before the Gen. Court, and they con- sidered the low estate of his family; Nov., 1659, ordered that the fine imposed upon him for trading liquors contrary to law, should be to the public treasury, 405. per year for four years. He was in court again in 1660, and the Gen. Court, May, 1661, remitted £4 of the £8 fine before inflicted upon him. Probably the Wm. above, servant of John Crow. CLARK, WM., of Colchester, (his father not found,) probably m. a Parsons. Had children born in Colchester, viz.: Russell, bap. 1749, was a merchant in New Haven, where he died in old age, and left Content and other children ; William, Jun., bap. 1750, settled and died at New Milford ; Parsons, bap. 1752, lived at Derby and New Haven; John, bap. 1753 ; Mary Parsons, bap. Nov., 1758; Ransom, bap. 1759, supposed lived in New Haven. Parnel, bap. Sept., 1762. CLARK, WM., son of Wm., of Colchester, settled at New Mil- ford, Conn., where he m. Miss Bostwick, a sister of the father of Charles Bostwick, dec'd, of New Haven, and had children, viz.: 1. Walter, d. in early life, unmarried, aged about 28 years. 2. Sally, who m. Gerardus or Garry Booth, of New Milford, and had chil- dren. She is yet living ; her husband deceased. 3. William, d. a young man, unmarried. 4. Parsons, formerly a merchant in New YodIc, now resides in N. Milford, where he has a family. 5. Gerardus, graduated at Yale College in 1S04, with John C. Calhoun, Dr. Chester, Henry R. Storrs, and others of that noted class. He settled in the city of New York as a lawyer, in early life, soon after he graduated, where he sus- tains a good reputation in his profession, and where he married, and now has a family. 0. Heneretta, the youngest child of William, of New Milford, m. Maj. Beebee Hine, then of New Milfoid, now of New Haven ; a most excellent and accom- plished lady ; no issue. CLARK, JAMES, was an early settler at Stafford, Conn. CLARK, NATH'L, son of Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, in 1690, en- tered the service against the Indians, and before leaving his friends, he made his will, and gave his property to his brothers and sisters. CLARK, WM. At a meeting of the townsmen of Windsor, the above Wm. " was appointed to sitt in the great pew" in the meeting- house, May 5, 1651. CLARK, JOSEPH, of West Hartford, had issue, bap. there, viz.: Abijah, May 4, 1729 ; Mary, Aug. 15, 1731 ; Sarah, Oct. 8, 1749. 608 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CLARK, MARY, of Farmington, was a sister of John Ward, of Newark, N. J. She had lived at Milford, and removed to Farming- ton, where she died. Her will, dated at Farmington, Nov. 28, 1677. She notices in her will her dau'r Mary Stevens, dau'r Re- beccah Warner, dau'r " Chittington," son-in-law Elnathan " Boch- ford," granddaughter Elizabeth Bochford, grandchild Rebecca Ste- vens, grandchild Mary Warner ; also, Abigail Standly ; also, Eliz'h Chittingdon ; also, Eliz'th Standley ; her son-in-law, John Standly, and Sarah, his wife ; her dau'r, Abigail Fletcher, and four other daughters, Rebeccah, Mary, Sarah and Hannah. She also notices the Rev. pastor, Mr. Roger Newton, and her brother, John Warde, of Newark, N. J. Nath'l Farrand had leased her land in Milford, or a part of it, which she provided for, and appointed her dau'r, Ab- igail Fletcher, sole ex'x ; made her mark. Inventory of Mary Clark's estate, " sometime living in Milford, deceased, prized by vs," &c, Feb. 26, 1678, at " Milford," £273, 5s. 6d. Inventory at Farmington, Feb. 14, 1678, £32, 16s. She appears to have been twice married. Will proved 1678-9, at Hartford. CLARK, DAVID, of Sheffield, Mass., m. Mercy Adams, of Suf- field, Ct., 1735-6. CLARK, NATH'L, of Lyme, in 1726, (says Otis,) was a grand- son of Thomas Clark, of Plymouth, mate of the Mayflower. CLARK, ROBERT, settled in Stratford about 1652, and free there, 1669. CLARK, JOSEPH, will dated 1655 ; died same year. CLARK, Hon. HENRY, of Windsor, was an early, active and useful settler there. He was a juror at Hartford, 1641, '45 ; grand- juror in 1643, '45 and '47 ; deputy to the Gen. Court in April, 1642, March, 1643 ; a member of the court of magistrates in May, 1659, four sessions in 1660 and in May, 16G1. He was one of the grantees of the old charter of Connecticut in 1662, named in it by King Cha's ; also, deputy, Aug., 1642, Sept., '44, Nov., '44. Henry Clark, with Mr. Whiting, Capt. Mason and Mr. Phen, were desired by the court, Jan., 1641, to procure some pieces of ordnance from Pisquataqua, or elsewhere, and erect some fortifications, where they thought ad- visable. (Col. Rec.) Mr. Henry Clark, and the secretary, (of Conn.,) Mr. Allyn and Mr. Phelps, were appointed by the Gen. Court, Aug. 18, 1658, "to write and indite" letters in behalf of the court to the elders, &c, to come to Hartford and assist in settling the difficulties between the church and the withdrawers at Hartford. At the same Gen. Court, Mr. Matthew Allyn was appointed a com- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 609 mittee with Mr. Henry Clark, of Windsor, to act in the disposition of land at Massacoe, according to a previous order. He was an as- sistant, deputy, and magistrate in the colony of Conn., and one of the few important petitioners to the king for the charter of Connecticut, and one of the grantees named in said charter in 1662, and lived to act under the charter as an assistant, and otherwise serve the pub- lic. Mr. Clark was one of the two important and useful settlers of Windsor by the name of Clark. No person, it appears, was allow- ed to sign the petition to Charles II. for the charter, but the well- known and most influential men in the colony; and of the nineteen signers to that instrument, Henry Clark, Daniell Clarke and John Clarke, were signers and grantees named in the charter, in behalf of the people of Connecticut, (spelled Clerke,) which effectually proves the high standing of the name in the colony, in its early settlement. CLARK, SAMUEL and JOHN, were legatees of Joshua, sachem, (or so styled,) of Saybrook, who signed an instrument with other leg- atees, to " give unto the trustees of ye Collegiate Schoole in Conect- icocott for ye use of said schoole the quantity of a two thousand acre right in ye lands given by said Joshua," &c, if the house should be erected at Saybrooke, (for Yale College,) Feb. 10, 1701-2. CLARK, SAMUEL, was a first settler of Stamford, and one of the first company of settlers there in 1651, from Wethersfield ; an original proprietor with Seaman, Weeks, &c. CLARK, THOMAS, was interested in the iron works at East Haven before 1668, and principal in the establishment in 1669. He appears to have come from Boston, as Dr. Dodds says, for a time he resided at Boston after his purchase ; that he sold his interest in it in 1680 ; that he was a gentleman of wealth and good standing in the colony. CLARK, Mr. JOHN, of Saybrook, was an early settler at Cam- bridge, Mass., as early as 1632 ; noted by Winthrop in his journal, perhaps from Braintree, near Chelmsford, Essex county, England. He came from Cambridge to Hartford, Conn., about 1636, perhaps with Rev. T. Hooker's company. He was in the first division of lots at Hartford in 1639, and had twenty-two acres, and one of the committee to apportion the land. He was a juror at Hartford in 1641, and was a soldier in the battle against the Pequot Indians in 1637. He was deputy to the Gen. Court at Hartford, Sept., 1641, Aug., 1642, Sept., 1642, and juror. Deputy, Nov., 1644, and Feb., 1644 ; in 1649, '51, May, '52, May, '53, July, '54, and two other sessions in 1654, '55, '56 ; four sessions in 1657 ; three in 1658 ; 610 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. two sessions in 1659 ; two in 1661 ; two in 1662 ; also in 1663 and 1665, &c. Nominated commissioner for Saybrook, May, 1664. He with Major Mason and Hon. Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, were appointed by the Gen. Court in 1654, for the town to press men for an expedition then on foot against Ninigret, at Narraganset. The exact time he left Hartford and removed to Saybrook, is uncer- tain. He remained at Hartford several years; in 1640 lie was lo- cated in the west part of the village of Hartford, on a lot bounded north on Robert Birchard, (spelled Birchwood,) east on the road from Seth Grant's to Centinel Hill, south on Wm. Parker and Wm. Ruscoe, and west on Allyn, in the West Field. He and Birchard both settled from Hartford in Saybrook. He and Birchard, both of " Seabrook," were appointed by the court to go to Pequett and view the lands there given Capt. Mason's soldiers, which had been taken by Pequet settlers, and then go to Nianticut and lay out land there to the soldiers, to make it equivalent to their land taken at Pequet. In 1647, John Clarke, of Seabrooke, and Capt. Mason, were desired by the Gen. Court to carry on the building of the fort at Seabrook, by hiring men, carts and other necessaries, and use the last rate paid by Seabrooke, (Sept. 9, 1647.) In May, 1651, the Gov'r, Mr. Cul- lick and Mr. Clark, were desired by the Gen. Court to go to Strat- ford, to hold a court and try Goody Bassitt for her life, (witchcraft,) and if the governor could not go, directed Mr. (Thomas) Welles to supply his place. In Sept., 1654, " Maior Mason & Capt. Cullick, (if his occasions can permitt him, if not,) Mr. Clarke, are desired to goe to Pequott, with Mr. Winthrop to keepe a perticuler Courte, be- fore winter," &c. John Clarke and Ensign Waller, of Seabrooke, adm'rs on Joseph Clark's estate, according to his will, Oct., 1664. He was the first of the name at Saybrook. His or his son John's house stood upon a back road near a school-house on the point at Saybrook. He was a large landholder in and about Saybrook. John Clark was one of the most influential settlers in the colony, during his life, and was appointed magistrate, commissioner, judge and frequently a deputy to the Gen. Court of Connecticut. CLARK, JOHN, was married to Rebeka Parker (or Barker,) Oct. 16, 1650. Children, Rebeka, b. Jan. 26, 1652 ; John, b. Nov. 17, '55; James, b. Sept. 29, '57, departed this life in August, '59. John Clark died Sept. 21, 1677, being killed by a cart overturned upon him. Rebekah Spencer, sometime the wife of John Clark, de- parted this life Jan. 9, 1682. (Nash, and Saylrook Record.) Sam- uel Clark, who m. Mary Kirtland, Dec, 1699, and Wm., who m. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 611 Hannah Griswolcl, March 7, 1677-8, at Saybrook, were perhaps the same family. As John, Sen., drew his twenty-two acres of land at Hartford in 1639, and was in the Pequot battle in 1637, and a deputy to the Gen. Court in 1641, he must have been in middle life when he came to Hartford, where he remained several years before he went to Saybrook. From his age and standing in society, it is prob- able lie was m. and had children before he settled at Saybrook, and if this John m. Rebeka Parker, 1650, that she was his second wife, and this was John, son of the first John. And John, who married Rebeckah Beamont, Dec. 17, 1684, (she was sister of the wife of first John Tully,) was the son of John, Jun. Also is found on that record, John Clark, of Saybrook, m. Rebeka, and had Abigail, b. Sept. 23, 1685 ; Rebekah, b. May 25, 167-. Abigail, his daughter, died Feb. 6, 1688-9; John, b. June 11, 1689; Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 1690-1, and died March 12, 1691-2; second Joseph, b. Jan. 23, 1691-2 ; Nath'l, b. July 19, 1694 ; Temperance, b. July 20, 1698 ; Samuel, b. June 26, 1702. This was Major John, who m. Rebeka Beamont. A Scotchman by the name of Clarke, settled at Saybrook many years later, who now has descendants there and in New York. CLARK, MARY, in 1692, "had a base born child," and accused Lieut. Hollister o( being the father ; " she having been constant in the charge in time of travail, and at all times." The court judged him the reputed father; and ordered him to pay two shillings per week from its birth, for the term of four years ; and ordered Mary to pay a fine of forty shillings, and to be whipt. A portion of the present law upon this subject, originated in the Puritan law of 1692 ; the same evidence of being constant in the charge, and in time of travail, is now required in this state. CLARK, FRANCIS, aged 28, embarked for Virginia, 1635, in the Transport, of London, Edward Walker, master. Mary Clark, aged 16, embarked for New England, in the Hopewell, Tho's Babb, master, Sept. 4, 1635. Syialle Clark, aged 16, embarked in the Planter, April 6, 1635, Nic Frarice, master. Margaret Clark, aged 21, and Win. Clark, aged 1, passengers for Virginia, in the Prim- rose, July 27, 1635. Daniel Clark, aged 33, and Wm. Clark, aged 27, embarked in the Plain Joan, May 15, 1635. John Clark, aged 19, embarked for Virginia in the Merchant Bonaventure, in 1634-5. Wm. and Thomas Clark, embarked for Virginia, Jan. 6, 1635, in the Thomas and John. Edmond Clark, 16, also in the Speedwell, of London, May 28, 1635, for Virginia. Nicholas Clarke, aged 31, 612 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. in the Paule, of London, for Virginia, July 6, 1635. This name was ia Hartford in 1635. (Somerly.) This name is nearly as numerous as the Smiths and Browns, and occupies too much space in a work like this ; so much so that I must omit giving any genealogy of most of the first settlers by this name. CLARK, JOHN, d. at Colchester, Oct. 27, 1749, aged 63. Dan- iel d. there Sept. 4, 1762, aged 82. Widow Elizabeth Clarke d. there, 1763, aged 77. CLARK, Sergt. JOHN, and his wife Elizabeth, of Middletown, an early settler there, had issue, Nath'l, b. April 18, 1676 ; John, b. June 14, 1678 ; Daniel, b. Aug. 30, 1680; Eliz'th, b. April 3, 1685; Mary, b. April 3, 1691, d.; Sarah, b. Sept. 8, 1692; White, a dau'r, b. Nov. 4, 1693 ; second Mary, b. May 4, 1695. Serg't John d. July 26, 1731 ; Elizabeth, his wife, d. Dec. 25, 1711. CLARK, JOHN, of Farmington, an early family there, appears to have been twice married. He m. Widow Mary Fletcher ; she d. in 1677, and he d. Nov. 22, 1712. He had children, Eliz'th, d. 1696 ; she had m. Thomas Gridley, Dec. 25, 1679 ; John, d. Oct. 6, 1709 ; Rebeca, m. Samuel Woodruff, 1686, d. 1737 ; Mercy, m. Samuel Huntington, of Lebanon; Mathew, m. Ruth Judd, and died Sept. 24, 1751 ; Sarah, m. Tho's Root, of Lebanon ; Martha, m. Tho's Clark; Abigail, m. Joseph Pixley, of Milford ; Hannah, born 1680, m. Joseph Woodruff, Dec. 27, 1722 ; Rachel, m. Caleb Jones, of Hebron ; Ebenezer, b. 1690 ; Mercy, m. at Milford. CLARK, DANIEL, of Colchester, m. Eliz'th Butler, Dec. 14, 1704. Issue, Hannah, b. June 30, 1706; Elizabeth, b. June 29, 1708; Daniel, Jun., b. July 17, 1710, d. same day ; second Daniel, b. Sept. 28, 1711; Jonah, b. Dec. 19, 1713; Roger, b. Dec. 24, 1715, m. Hannah Bigelow, 1746; Alexander, b. Nov. 6, 1717; Zuruiah, b. March 14, 1719; Mabel, b. Oct. 7, 1721. CLARK, NOAH, of Colchester, m. Sarah Taintor, Jan. 10, 1719. Issue, Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1719-20, d.; second Sarah, b. March 9, 1721 ; Noah, b. Aug. 24, 1722 ; Jerusha, b. Feb. 28, 1723-4 ; Ezra, b. Nov. 8, 1725 ; Elihu, b. Nov. 8, 1727, m. Eliz'th Kellogg, 1750, and Esther, b. Oct. 14, 1729. (Colchester Rec, by Otis.) Clark, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Jones, 1657 ; Daniel, m. Jones, and had twelve children. Daniel, son of Thomas Clark, m. Mary Burr June, 1693. Alexander Clark, m. Eliz'th Williams, 1747. Noah Clark, m. Eunice Quittertl'eld, of Colchester, 1751. Lemuel Clark, of Colchester, m. Mercy Briggs, 1752. Asa, m. Sarah Hop- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 613 son, of Colchester, 1755, and Nathan Clark, m. Elizabeth Jones. 1757. CLARKE, Widow, assessed in Guilford £28, in 1642. CLARK, EBENEZER, of Mansfield, deeds to father Timothy Dimock, of Mansfield, lands in Stafford, in 1741* (Clarks of Windham and Hampton, see Note.) Farmer enumerates many of this very common name, who were early in Mass., viz.: Arthur, 1640 ; Daniel, of Ipswich, 1635 ; Ed- ward, of Lynn, 1636 ; Hugh, of Watertown, 1640 ; Jeremiah, Pres- ident R. I. colony, 1648 ; John, Cambridge, 1632, (afterward at Hartford and Saybrook ;) Dr. John, R. I.; John, of Newbury, 1638 ; John, free, 1635 ; Joseph, of Dedham, 1635 ; Joseph, of Newport, 1644 ; Nicholas, of Cambridge, 1634 ; Richard, of Plymouth, d. in 1621 ; Thomas, of Boston, 1638 ; Thomas, blacksmith, of Boston, 1639 ; Cornelius and Jacob, sons of Thomas, b. 1639 and 1642; Thomas, of Dorchester, 1636 ; Thomas, of Ipswich, 1648 ; Thomas, of Lynn, 1640; Thomas, of Newport, before 1644; Thomas, of Plymouth, d. 1697, aged 98; Walter, of R. I., governor of R. I., 1676, '86, '96 and '97— one of Andros' council, 1687 ; William, of Ipswich, 1633, perhaps free, 1631 ; William, of Watertown, 1631 ; William, of Dorchester, 1636 ; William, of Salem, 1647, and many other early settlers of the name of Clark, in Mass. and R. I. Nineteen by the name of Clark, and twenty-one by the name of Clarke, had graduated at Harvard before 1848 ; and forty-five by the name of Clark, and eighteen by the name of Clarke, had gradua- ted at Yale, before 1850. Note. CLARK, EDMOND, came from England and settled at Lynn, Mass., about the year 1636. He removed from thence to Sandwich, then to Gloucester, Mass., 1651, where he was town-clerk from 1656 until his death in Feb., 16G6. He left a widow Agnes, who m. Thomas Penny. She d. Feb. 23, 1682. His children were, Abigail, b. 1636 ; John, b. 1640, d. 1680; Joseph, Sen., b. Nov. 16, 1650, and m. Hannah Davis, March 27, 1682. He died Nov. 29. 1696, aged 46. CLARK, JOSEPH, Sen., (son of Edmond,) and wife Hannah, had issue, Joseph, Jun., b. Sept, 10, 1684, in. Rachel Rickworth ; Edmond, Jun., b. April 1, 1686, d. young; Abigail, b. Dec. 20, 1687, d. April 24, 1688 ; Mary, b. March 9, 1689, d. 1709 ; John, b. March 6, 1692, m. Ruth Haskell, Nov. 17, 1718, (grandparents of Jonathan Clark, Esq., now living in Hampton, nearly 80 years old.) Second Edmond, b. Dec. 3, 1695, m. Elizabeth Pierce, Nov. 24, 1718. CLARK, JOSEPH, Jon., son of Joseph, Sen., b. 1684, m. Rachel Rickworth, and had issue, Rachel, Joseph, Benjamin, John, 2d Rachel, 2d Benjamin, Abigail and Samuel. CLARK, EDMOND, Jun., fourth son of Joseph, Sen., m. Eliz'h Pierce, and had issue, Ed- mond, Eliz'h, Lydia, Hannah, Benj'n, Eunice, Ruth, Sarah, 2d Lydia. CLARK, JOHN, b. 1692, son of Joseph, Sen., and Ruth Haskell, of Gloucester, west parish. Mass., the fifth dau'r of John Haskell, of Gloucester, m. Nov. 17, 1716, and the next year, in 52 614 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. " CLAY, MILES, of Brantery, in England, dec'd," in 1678 had an interest in the estate of Zachary Sanford, " late of Saybrook." The court granted John Durant and John Loomis, of Hadley, in right of May, removed to the second parish of Windham, (Hampton,) Ct. August 29, 1718, he pur- chased a 100 acre lot of wild land, of Joseph Jennings, of Windham, then co. of Hartford, in the north-westerly part of said second society, two and a quarter miles from the centre of the society t being the fourth settler in the parish, and chosen deacon Aug. 17, 1737. He was one of the first incorporators and formers of the first church in Windham village, June 5, 1723. The day on which Rev. Win. Billings was ordained their first pastor, Mr. Clark being chosen deacon, is full proof of his high standing in the church and town. In those days the minister ranked first, the deacons nest, and the constable next. He was grandfather of Jonathan Clark, Esq., of Hampton, now living. His children were, John, Jun., b. Aug. 14, 1719, d. June 19, 1771, aged 71 years ; Stephen, b. May 16, 1721, d. Feb. 27, 1780, aged 64 ; Daniel, b. Nov. 27, 1722, d. about 1745, aged 23; David, b. July 14, 1724, d, July, 1755, aged 31; Jeremiah, or Jerusha> b. March 26, 1726, d. May 31, 1798, aged 72 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 14, 1727, d. May 6, 1760, aged 32; Amos, b. Sept. 19, 1729, d. Sept. 12, 1807, aged 77 y., 11 m., 23 d.; Mary, b. Aug. 18 1731, d. July'29, 1753, aged 21 y., 11 m., 11 d.; Jonathan, b. Sept. 12, 1734, d. Oct. 22, 1797. aged 63 ; Isaac, b. June 18, 1736, d. Sept., 1788, aged 52 years. Deacon John, the father, died Nov. 9, 1782, aged 90 y., 8 m., 3 d. Ruth, his wife, d. July, 1776, aged about 82 years. CLARK, STEPHEN, son of John and Ruth, m. Hannah Durkee, Feb. 1, 1743 ; had five dau's and five sons. CLARK, JOHN, Jun., son of John and Ruth, m. Eliz'th Parker, 1747, and had four sons and one daughter. CLARK, JEREMIAH, b. 1726, son of Deacon John and Ruth Clark, Sen., at the age of 24 years m. Hannah Gould, of Ipswich, Mass., dau'r of Henry, 2d, May 3, 1760. She was b. May 20, 1728. Issue, Jeremiah, b. March 25, 1751, d. Aug. 28, 1820, aged 69 ; Mary, b. June 30, 1752, d. May 14, 1826, aged 73 ; Eunice, b. Feb. 17, 1754, d. Nov. 15, 1844, aged 90 ; Susan- nah, b. March 22, 1756, d. May 27, 1825, aged 69 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 29, 1757, d. April 14. 1827, aged 69 ; Elizabeth, b. March 3, 1760, d. March 6, 1760 ; Elizabeth, b. April 7, 1762, d. June 23, 1844, aged 82 ; Amasa, b. Aug. 11, 1764, d. July 12, 1847, aged 82 y., lira,,] d.; Jona- than, Esq., now living in Hampton, b. Sept. 17, 1773, the only one living of this large family. Jeremiah, the father, d. May 31, 1798, aged 72 years. His wife Hannah, the mother, d. Sept- 10,1807, aged 79 years. CLARK, JEREMIAH, son of Jeremiah and Hannah, b 1751, m. Hannah Flint, dau'r of Sam- uel and Mary, b. Aug. 10, 1756, m. Feb. 18, 1773, and had issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1774 ; Jeremiah, b. Nov. 15, 1776, d. Feb. 14, 1813, aged 36 ; Polly, b. May 26, 1779 ; David, b. April 26, 1781 ; Sally, b. Feb. 2, 1783, d. 1799, aged 16 ; Henry, b. March 31, 1785 ; Betsey, b. April 4, 1787 ; Samuel, b. Oct. 31, 1789, d.; Chester, b. Sept. 13, 1792. Capt. Jeremiah, the father, d. Aug 28, 1820, at Brookfield, Vt., of lung fever, aged 69. Hannah, the mother, killed by being thrown from a wagon, Aug. 25, 1822, aged 66 years. CLARK, MARY, dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1752, m. Isaac Parish, Nov. 14, 1770 ; he was b. 1753, son of Capt. Zebulon and Hannah. Soon after he m. he removed with his family, his wife and son Isaac, to Lacavvany district, Wyoming. Capt. P. was chosen fence viewer and Isaac tythingman, a short time before the battle, July 3, 1778. Ifaac and his wife lied, and re- turned to her father in Hampton, and afterward removed to Goshen, N. Y., where Capt. Parish also lived. Isaac d. there Feb. 17, 1795, aged about 47 years. Widow Mary removed to Ran- dolph, Vt., in 1796, and d. there May 14, 1826, aged nearly 74 years. Their children were, Elisha, b. May 2, 1772 ; Wm. Phipps, b. 1774 ; Hannah, Irene, Mary, Sarah, Mason C, Fanny, Eunice and Isaac, Jun. CLARK, EUNICE, second dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1754, m. Eliphalet Martin, son GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. 615 their wives, (who were grandchildren of said Clay,) administration on said estate, being next of kin ; at a court held at Hartford, Dec. 5, 1678. of John and Sarah, May 15, 1777. He was b. Sept. 12, 1754. Issue, Eunice, second Eunice > Hannah, Almira, Aseneth, Eliphalet. Martin, the father, d. April 11, 1801, aged 46. His widow Eunice d. Nov. 15, 1844, aged nearly 91. CLARK, SUSANNAH, third daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1756, m. Abel Hall, of Mansfield, son of James and Mary, Dec. 3, 1778. He was b. Dec. 29, 1753. Issue, Abel, b. Dec. 9, 1779 ; Susannah, Jeremiah, d. April 16, 1849, aged 64. Abel, the father, d. May 23, 1785, aged 31. Susannah, his widow, m. Ebenezer Jennings, of Mansfield, son of Manoah, and had issue by him : Abi, b. Sept. 6, 1792 ; Ebenezer, Wm., Edmond, b, Jan. 10, 1799. They re- moved about this time to Randolph, Vt., where he resided. He entered the service in the last war with England, and after he was discharged, died at the French Mills, in the state of New York, Jan. 20, 1814. His widow d. at Randolph. Vt., May 27, 1825. CLARK, HANNAH, 4th dau'rof Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1757, m. Phinehas Flint, son of Nath'l and Mary. He was b. Feb. 23, 1757, and m. Feb. 24, 1780, and remained in Conn, until Jan. 25, 1796, when they removed to Randolph, Vt. From thence, after a few years, purchas- ed a farm in Brainteee, Vt., and removed and d. there. Issue, Patience, Phinehas, Jeremiah, John, second Patience, Eliphalet, Hannah, Rebeckah, Sally, Clark, Seymour. The father died June 25, 1810, aged 53. Hannah, his widow, died April 14, 1827, aged 69. CLARK, ELIZABETH, fifth dau'rof Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1760, died single. CLARK, ELIZABETH, sixth dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1762, m. Asa Walcott, son of Moses, Nov. 25, 1784. Lived and died on the road to Windham, in Hampton. Issue, Polly, Wm., Elisha, Hannah, Eleanor, Anna, Betsey and Elmira. Asa Walcott, the father, died Feb. 23, 1841, aged 76 years. Elizabeth, his widow, died June 23, 1844, aged 82 years. CLARK, AMASA, 2d, son of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1764, m. Eleanor Fuller, daughter of Thomas and Sarah, June 25, 1788. She was born Aug. 6, 1768. She lived at Bigelow, at the east part of Hampton. Issue, Eunice, b. April 25, 1789; Hon. Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1791, the late treasurer of Conn.; Amanda, b. March 31, 1793; Jeremiah, b. Sept. 23, 1795, d. April 18, 1833, aged 37 ; Harvey, b. Sept. 18, 1797; Sally, b. Aug. 21, 1799, d. Dec. 2, 1746, aged 47 ; Griffin, b. Nov. 28, 1801 ; Wm., b. May 4, 1804 ; David, Esq., a gentleman of fortune, and a large grocery merchant in Hartford, b. Oct. 12, 1806; Lester, b. Oct. 31, 1808, died Oct. 13, 1829, aged over 20 years. Eleanor, wife of Amasa, died Nov. 12, 1833, aged 65. Amasa Clark m. for his second wife, Hannah Clark, widow of Capt. John Clark, of Ashford, Dec. 3, 1834. She was a dau'r of Ebenezer Moseley, 2d, of Hampton. He was 69 and she 45 years old, when m. She was b. May 14.1789. He died July 12, 1847, aged nearly 83 years. His widow m. for her third husband, Augustus O. A. Stowel, of New Boston, in Windham, Sept. 3, 1848. CLARK, JONATHAN, Esq., third son and ninth child of Jeremiah and Hannah Clark, of Hampton. He was b. Sept. 17, 1773. Mr. Clark has been probably for over forty years, one of the most accurate surveyors in Conn., and is now engaged in surveying his native town for the purpose of making a map of the town in early times. Though he is 79 years old, he possesses the activity and vigor of a man of 50 years. The family, from the fourth settler of the town to this time, have held a high standing in Hampton for integrity and intelligence. When 27 years of age, he m. Hannah Blackman, the only daughter of Aaron and Mary Blackman, of Windham, (of the Dorchester family,) Jan. 15, 1801. She was born in Andover, Conn., Aug. 28, 1776. They had children, viz.: " Jonathan Gould, b. Thursday, 10 o'clock, A. M., Feb. 18, 1802, weight 91b. 8oz.; Newton, born Sat., 8 o'clock, P. M., Oct. 1, 1803, wt. 81b. 14oz.; Hannah Wood, born Wed., at 3 o'clock, P. M., April 1, 1807, wt. 9f lb.; Calvin Haskell, born Fri., i after 5 clock, A. M., Dec. 4, 1818, wt. 91b. lira.," and died July 20, 1822, at half past 2 o'clock, P. M., of dysen- tery, after six days sickness, aged 3y.. 7 mo. and 16 d. 616 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. CLAY, HUMPHREY, was attorney for Richard Eliot in 1663. CLAY, or CLOY, JOSEPH, was assessed at Guilford in 1642, at j£39. CLAY, HUMPHREY, was inn-keeper at N. L. Mrs. Katherine Clay was informed against in 1664, for keeping an inmate contrary to order, and Thomas Marshall informed against for abiding at Clay's house, contrary to order, and was fined 5s. for remaining at Clay's house. Catherine Clay, presented for selling liquors at her house, and selling lead to Indians, for profanation of Sabbath, card playing, en- tertaining strange men, &c. He was bound over to the court of as- sistants, to answer for the offenses of his wife. They were both convicted for keeping a disorderly house, and fined £40, or to leave the colony within six months; in such case the fine was remitted. He sold his land and two dwelling-houses, (on Foxen's Hill,) about 1664. He probably had kept an ordinary for several years, per- haps as early as 1655. Miss Caulkins, p. 88, says the inn of Mr. Clay continued to be a place of notoriety until 1664, when it was broken up and its landlord banished from the place for breaches of law and order. (Caulk, and Eec.) (Not relatives of Hon. Henry Clay, as he says in his letter.) Coats of arms. Clay, (London,) one, and two others ; Claye or Cley, two. Cassius M. Clay graduated at Yale, 1832, and two at Harvard College, before 1850. CLEAVER, CLEVER, TOBIAS, was of Litchfield during or soon after the Revolutionary War. It is not an early name in Conn. Thomas Clever, aged 16, was passenger in the Merchant's Hope, bound for Virginia, in 1635. Cleaver has two coats of arms. CLEMENTS, CLEMENS, CLEMONS, CLEMENT, JASPER, was an early settler at Middletown, and was a householder there in 1660. CLARK, JONATHAN GOULD, eldest son of Jonathan and Mary, b. 1802. At the age of 37 years he m. Susan Hall Lawton, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Lawton, of North Kingston, R.I. She was born Jan. 21, 1807, andm. Oct. 1, 1839. Issue, Mary Elizabeth, b. June 11, 1840 ; Jonathan Lawton, b. April 14. 1843, d. June 27, 1848, aged 5, of scarlet fever. NEWTON, son of Jonathan, b. 1803, never has married. CLARK, HANNAH WOOD, dau'r of Jonathan and Mary, b. 1807, m. Charles W. Trumbull. of Mansfield Centre. He was born Jan. 3, 1807. Issue, Hannah Clark, b. June 23, 1839 ; John Newton, b. Aug. 29, 1840. This is the last of this respectable name in Conn., in the early settlement, I can afford to pub- lish. / GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 617 The court discovered that Jasper Clements was about to marry Ellin or Elenor Brown, of Middletown, and at the May session of the Gen. Court of Conn., 1660, he confessed he had a wife in En- gland. The court ordered that said Jasper and Ellen should be forthwith separated, until evidence should be offered to demonstrate that the marriage covenant had been dissolved between said Clem- ents and his former wife. And the selectmen of Middletown were directed to execute the order of the court. Her maiden name was Watts. She had probably m. a Brown ; and from his will and the disposition of his property, he resided with her afterward. He died Oct. 16, 1677. Inventory proved in court at Hartford, Feb., 1677, £243, 4s. Will dated Oct. 13, 1677, aged, at his death, 64 years. Elenor, his relict, presented the will as executrix. He had no chil- dren. He gave most of his estate to John, Benoni and Nathaniel Browne, and his "cousin," Hannah Lane, and his wife Elenor ; and his division of land the east side of the great river at Middletown, which was to have been divided in 1674, by list of 1673, he gave for the support of a school at Middletown. Quere — were they married ? No evidence found. The legatees were probably Elenor's children by a previous marriage to Brown. The colony record spells her name Ellin, and on the probate record, Ellenor. He made his mark to his will, March 7, 1677-8. Inventory taken by Wm. Cheeny, Nath'l Bacon and John Hall, Sen. Jasper, propounded for a freeman in 1667. CLEMMONS, JOHN, m. Mary Roe, of Suffield, July 15, 1723 or '24. Issue, John, b. Sept. 26, 1724 ; Sebrina, b. Nov. 6, 1726, d. 1727; Mary, b. Aug. 29, 1728; Joel, b. at Brookfield, Nov. 14, 1730; second Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1733; Lurina, b. April 8,- 1737, d. in 1737 ; Desire, b. April 28, 1738 ; second Mary d. Feb. 14, 1739-40. CLEMMONS, WM., of Stamford, 1675, had a dau'r Elizabeth, m. John Bolt, of Norwalk, Nov. 20, 1694, and had four sons and two daur's. Wm. was not a first settler at Stamford. CLEMENS, JOHN and WILLIAM, were proprietors and first settlers of the town of Stafford, Ct. ROBERT, of Haverhill, as early as 1657, had sons Robert, John, Abr'm and Daniel. DANIEL, of Exeter, took the oath of allegi- ance in Mass., 1677. JAMES m. Martha Deane, at Marshfield, Mass., Dec. 28, 1674. WM., in the expedition against Quebec, 1775, and enlisted in the king's service. AUGUSTUS, freeman at 52* 618 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Dorchester, 1636. Wm. of Cambridge, in 1636. (Far. and His. Reg.) Clement has nine coats of arms, and Clements has one. Jasper Clements was householder and proprietor in Middletown in 1670, with an estate of £98, 10s. in the list of estates there, (by Dr. Field.) Jasper Clements, Nath'l White, and Mr. Samuel Stow ; each made a bequest for common schools in Middletown. The name of Clement has been borne by several popes, as Clement XIV., who suppressed the order of the Jesuits. Jaques Clement assassinated Henry III., of France. Cleomenes was the name borne by three kings of Sparta. Rufus Hargrove Clements graduated at Harvard, 1847 ; Peabody Clement graduated at Yale in 1774. Augustine Clement, of Dor- chester, 1636 ; John, of Haverhill, 1647 ; Robert, from London, 1642, settled in Haverhill, and d. 1658; Wm. of Cambridge, 1636. (See Farmer.) CLEVELAND, CLEAVLAND. The family of Cleveland prob- ably derived the name from the town of Cleveland, in Durham co., in England. The principal branch was seated in the county of York, early in the thirteenth century. Sir Guy de Cleveland was present at the siege of the city of Boulogne, in France, in 1349. Afterward, at the battle of Poictiers, when he commanded the spear- men ; and a branch of this family went into Devonshire, and contin- ued until the male line of the family became extinct. Coat of arms. — Per-chevron, sable, (black,) and ermine a chevron engrailed. Counter changed. (The colors reversed.) Crest. — A demi old man habited, azure, (blue,) having on his head a cap gules, (red,) turned up with/ur, holding in his dexter (right) hand a spear proper, (of its true colors,) having from the blade a golden cord passing behind, and coiled in the left hand. Motto. — Pro Deo et Patria — (for God and my country.) CLEVELAND, " MOYSES," of Ipswich, in England, came to New England, and settled in Mass., probably at Woburn, in the 16th century. He m. Ann, in England, in 1648, and had children, viz.: 1 . Moses, b. 1st of 7th mo., 1651. 2. Hannah. 3. Aaron, b. Jan. 10, 1054. (An Aaron d. at Woburn, Sept. 14, 1716, ae. 62 ) 4. Samuel, probably went to Canterbury, Conn. 5. Miriam. 6. Johanna, d 7. Edward, (supposed the son of Moses and Ann,) went to R. I. and Canter- bury, Conn. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 619 8. Josiah ; wife Mary. 9. Isaac. 10. Second Johanna. 11. Enoch, b. 1st of 6th mo., 1671. SAMUEL, above, was the father of Col. Aaron Cleveland, of Canterbury, whose son, Gen. Moses, named the city^ of Cleveland, in Ohio. 'hum* CLEVELAND, Col. AARON, son of &tra»e4, m. Dorcas Wil- son, Sept. 26, 1675, and had issue, Dorcas, Hanna, d., Aaron, b. 1680, July 9, second Hannah, Moses, Miriam, Sarah, Isabel, and Benjamin. The last found at Windham. (JCu*aa>^ CLEVELAND, AARON, b. 1680, son oflSamtwJ, m. Abigail Waters, and had issue, Aaron, b. Oct. 20, 1702, d.; Samuel, Abi- gail, John, Josiah ; second Aaron, b. Oct. 29, 1715 ; second John, b.; Moses and Mary. This is supposed to have been Capt. Aaron, who is called, on East Haddam record, " Aaron Cleveland, gentle- man." An estate of £3,000. (The above Josiah and John were ministers.) CLEVELAND, Rev. AARON, graduated at Harvard College in 1735, born in Medford, Mass., settled in the ministry at Haddam, Conn., in 1739, and dismissed from his society in 1746. After his dismission, he preached at Maiden, Mass., Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and at Lewiston, in Delaware. He changed his views as to the Con- gregational faith or discipline, and became an Episcopal preacher, and went to England for orders, and returned to this country, and either on his return from England, or from his preaching in Dela- ware, to visit his family in New England. While in Philadelphia, on his way, at the house of his friend, Benjamin Franklin, he sick- ened and died, and his body was interred at Lewiston. (See Dr. Field.) He had three sons and five daughters, viz.: 1. William, had no issue found. 2. Aaron, m. Abiah Hyde. 3. Stephen. 4. Susan, m. Stephen Higginson, of Boston. 5. Margarett, m. Joseph Hiller, of Salem, Mass. 6. Abby, m. Deacon Hartson, Salem, Mass.; no issue. 7. Betsey, m. W. Ropes, of Danvers ; no issue. 8. Lucy, m. Blythe, of Salem, Mass. CLEVELAND, AARON, son of Rev. Aaron, was b. at Haddam, Ct., Feb. 3, 1744 ; (m. Abiah Hyde, who was b. at Norwich, Ct., Jan. 9, 1749, April 12, 1768.) Issue, viz.: 1. George, b. at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 9, 1769 ; m. Caty Caldwell, both liv- ing in 1849; lives in Middlebury, Vt. 620 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 2. William, b. Dec. 20, 1770 ; d. about eighteen years since, at Black Rock, N. Y. 3. Charles, b. June 21, 1772; a minister, and has resided in Boston. 4. Francis, b. March 9, 1774; d. Sept. 25, 1796, aged about 22. 5. Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1775 ; d. Nov. 27, 1779, aged about four years. 6. Aaron Porter, b. July 11, ]778 ; d. aged about two years. 7. Second Sarah, b. at Norwich, Nov., 17S0; wife of D. L. Dodge, of New York. 8. Second Aaron Porter, b. Sept. 24, 1782; lived in Boston, and d. there. 9. Susanna, b. Sept. 26, 1784; m. Harry Pratt, Esq., and lives in Rochester, N. Y. 10. Lucy, b. June 17, 17S7; m. a Smith, and d. about five years since, at the residence of her soiwn-law at Albany, N. Y. Abiah, (Hyde,) wifeW Aaron Cleveland, d. Aug. 23, 1788, aged 38. Aaron m. for his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of David Breed, Oct. 23, 1788, the dau'r of Jeremiah Clement, and b. June 10, 1755. She had three children when she m. said Aaron, viz., Betsey Breed, b. April 13, 1778 ; Dolly, b. July 16, 1781, and David Breed, b. Nov. 29, 1783. By second marriage : 11. Anthony B. Cleveland, b. Oct. 22, 17S9; lives at Dedham, Mass. 12. Stephen, b. Feb. 15, 1792 : supposed d. in Boston some years since. 13. Jeremiah C.,b. June 14, 1794; nothing is known of him 14. Abiah H., b. April 24, 1790; nothing known of her. 15. Francis, b. March 22, 1798 ; m. Rev. Dr. Cox, and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. (See old Cleveland Bible.) Aaron, the father, d. in New Haven, where he was buried. His first wife d. in New York, and is supposed to have been buried in Trinity Church yard ; (not positive.) He was a member of the Legislature, a man of wit, humor and talent. WILLIAM, the second above, d. at Black Rock, N. Y., at the residence of his son-in-law, Lewis B. Allen. His widow, Marga- rett, also d. at her son-in-law's, L. B. Allen's, at Black Rock, Aug. 18, 1850, aged 84 years. Relict of Deacon Wm. Cleavland, for- merly of Norwich, Conn. SUSANNA, the ninth child of said Aaron, by his first wife, m. Harry Pratt, Esq., of Hartford, Conn., where he resided for a time, and removed to New York, where he was a merchant, and then re- moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he has died the present winter, aged over eighty years. His widow is yet living there. John M. Pratt and an older brother, extensive book merchants and publishers in New York, are sons of said Harry and Susanna. (See PRATT.) CLEVELAND, JOSIAH, supposed son of Moses, Sen., emigrated from Chelmsford, Mass., to Canterbury, Conn., in 1694, " when there was but one English family in the town." — (So said his grand- son.) In 1699, he purchased 176 acres of land of Owaneco, " then being of Peagscommeck." Josiah d. April 26, 1709. After his GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 621 death, his widow Mary m. Robert Buswell, in 1722. His children found were : 1. Josiah, Jun., b. at Chelmsford, in 1690. 2. Joseph, had a family at Canterbury. 3. Henry, do. do. do. 4. Mary, m. Richard Smith in 1716. 5. John, d. without issue in 1718. 6. Rachel, m. Jonas Spalding in 1722. The following born in Canterbury, viz.: 7. Lydia.b. 1704; m. Obediah Johnson, Jun., 1723. 8. Deliverance, b. 1707 ; m. and lfad a family. 9. Abiel, b. 170S; m. Jedediah Smith in 1727. JOSIAH, Jun., m. Abigail Paine, and had a large family. Among them were Ebenezer and John, who were ministers in Mass.; also, Aaron, the father of Gen. Moses, of Canterbury, a conspicuous man ; also, the father of W. Pitt Cleveland, Sen., deceased, of N. London, a lawyer of reputation. It was one of this family who gave the name to Cleveland, in Ohio. CLEVELAND, SAMUEL, often called Serg't, was another early settler in Canterbury. He was one who aided to form the church in Canterbury in 1711. He probably died in 1736. He was twice m.; 1. m. Persis ; she d. 1698. He m. 2. Widow Margaret Fish, in 1699. His children, as far as found, were : 1. Ephraim, his son, d. in 1711, at Canterbury. 2. Samuel, Jun. 3. Joseph; Elizabeth, m. John Ensworth. 4. Margaret, m. Gideon Cable in 1717. 5. Mary, b. 1696 ; m. Joseph Ensworth, 1719. By his second wife, 6. Abigail, b. 1700; d. 1718. 7. Timothy, b. 1702, and had a family. These sons of the Serg't fulfilled nature's trust, in filling the town with their name. CLEVELAND, EDWARD, « late of Kingstown, R. I.," pur- chased land in Canterbury in 1716, and his wife Deliverance d. at Canterbury in 1717. He m. for his second wife, L. Church, in 1722, and had children born in Canterbury, viz.: 1. Isaac. 2. Edward, Jun., m. Rebecca Paine, and had children; one son Silas, born 1706. 3. Samuel. 4. Mary, rn. Richard Adams and Samuel Butt. 5. Elizabeth, perhaps m. Christopher Huntington, of Norwalk, 1733. CLEAVELAND, SILAS, son of Edw., Jun., settled in Hampton 622 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. or in Canterbury, near Hampton line, and his son, Silas, Jun. m. Lois Carpenter, March 22, 1793, and had children, viz.: 1. Hon. Mason, b. Feb. 25, 1795. 2. John, b. Sept. 5, 1797; d. Aug. 15, 1826. 3. Hon. Chauncey Fitch, b. Feb. 16, 1799. Capt. Silas, the father, died Sept. 24, 1840, aged 84. CLEVELAND, Hon. MASON, was late Comptroller of Public Accounts in Conn., and now Commissioner of the School Fund of the State ; m. Eliza M. Perkins, and had children, viz.: 1. Abijah P., attorney at. law, and editfir of a newspaper at Quincey, 111. -•2. Edward Spier, m. Miss Bolles; has two sons; engrossing clerk at Wash- ington. 3. Henry Mason; these three bap. at Hampton, April 3, 1S31. 4. George Lee, bap. Sept. 2, 1836. CLEVELAND, Hon. CHAUNCEY F., son of Silas 3d, m. . Few men in Conn., by their own exertions and industry, and with as much opposition, have risen as high into public favor as Gen. Cleveland. As a military officer, he had the entire support of the militia of the state, and was rapidly promoted to the offices of Gen. and Maj. Gen. Being a lawyer by profession, he located himself in his native place, and has risen in his practice to the head of the bar in Windham county. . He has repeatedly been honored with a seat in both branches of the state legislature, of which he has filled the place of clerk of the house, and one of its most efficient and pop- ular speakers of the lower house, and afterward governor of the state, and four years member of congress ; all which, with several minor offices, he executed to the satisfaction of the party who elected him to the many places of public trust to which he has been exalted. He married in early life. He had but two children : 1. John, Esq., who d. unmarried. 2. Delia M. married A. A. Burnham, Esq. JOHN received a collegiate education at Trinity, and prepared himself for the practice of law, and located at New Haven for the pursuit of his profession, and soon after was appointed clerk of the District Court of the U. S. in the District of Conn., which he accept- ed, and acceptably performed for a few years only, when that fell destroyer, the consumption, seized upon his vitals ; he resigned his office, and returned to the tender care of a kind mother, in hopes of relief; but recovery was impossible, and he soon after died in early manhood, unmarried, in 1852, in his father's family, lamented by his numerous friends. DELIA M., his only daughter, married Mr. Burnham, a respect- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 623 able lawyer, settled at Danbury ; but finding the health of his wife declining, he removed to Hampton, that she might have the tender care of her parents, where she, after the birth of a child, also died of the same disease, which deprived Gen. Cleveland of all his children. EDWARD, Jun., son of Edward, resided in the north-west part of the town of Canterbury. Besides the three distinct families of Clevelands, in Canterbury, viz., Josiah, Samuel and Edward, there were BENJAMIN and Anna Cleveland, his wife, found in Canterbury about 1725. Benjamin and Ann, (Church,) his wife, are described as of Can- terbury, in their deed of land in Hartford, with Elizabeth Church, of Hartford, to James Harrison, of Hartford, Feb. 13, 1723-4. Ann was a sister of Elizabeth. Benjamin perhaps had children born at Canterbury. This family appear on the Hampton record first in 1733, and their son Benjamin, by Windham record, b. Aug. 30, 1733 ; Moses, b. July 20, 1736 ; Chloe, b. May 30, 1744. Ann, his wife, d. Oct. 21, 1754. (Windham Rec.) It is probable that two of the above families who settled at Canterbury, Moses and Ben- jamin, were the sons of Aaron, of Woburn, Mass. CLEVELAND, EPHRAIM, of Hampton, and his wife Mary, had issue recorded at Hampton, viz.: Mary, b. March 30, 1768; Frank- lyn, b. Aug. 13, 1779. (Hamp. Rec.) Dollee, his dau'r, bap. Nov. 18, 1770 ; also, Mary ; Ephraim, Jun., bap. Oct. 10, 1773 ; Grif- fin, bap. Oct. 6, 1776, and Franklyn, bap. Feb. 6, 1780. Mary, wife of Ephraim, admitted to the church in Hampton, Nov. 18, 1770. Solomon Cleveland also admitted to the same church, March 4, 1744, and Rebecca Cleveland admitted also, March 7, 1742. The forego- ing are the different families of this name who congregated together in the towns of Canterbury and Hampton, in the early settlement of each. They married into most of the old and respectable families of Canterbury, viz,, with the Bradfonls, Paines, Adams's, &c, and were several of them men of influence and distinction, the noblesse of the town. And now not a name of these several original families is found in Canterbury, to point to its present population, or the in- quiring stranger, the resting-places of their own immediate ances- tors ; the cemetery is left alone to do this duty. CLEVELAND, BENJ'N, Jun., m. Mary Elderkin, Feb. 20, 1754. Issue, Ann, b. May 9, 1755 ; Roulenia ; Martin Luther, b. 1759; Mary, b. 1761 ; Olive, b. 1763, &c. CLEVELAND, Gen. MOSES, of Canterbury, m. Tabitha Spen- 624 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. cer, May 31, 1759. Issue, Eliphaz, b. 1761 ; Asa, b. 1763 ; Easter, b. 1765; Clark, b. 1768 ; Abel, b. 1770 ; Dyer, b. 1772, and Ja's, b. Dec. 14, 1775. Moses Cleveland and Asa Witter were members of the Conn. Con- vention in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the U. S., and voted for its adoption. Joseph Cleveland received in full communion in the church at Canterbury, in 1715 ; Samuel, in 1736 ; Abigail, wife of Joseph, Sen., in 1724 ; Josiah, 1744 ; Samuel, Jun., 1727 ; Moses, 1748 ; Benjamin, 1749 ; Zeruiah, wife of Edward, Sen., 1738 ; Mary, wife of Win. Bradford ; Benjamin, 1753, and his wife Rachel ; John, 1744, &c. (Learned. His. Notices.) Eight of the name of Cleaveland, graduated at Yale before 1850, and three by the name of Cleveland, had graduated at Harvard, in 1825. CLIFFORD, BRIDGET, died at Suffield, May 8, 1695. Clif- ford has 19 coats of arms, and Clifford 1 ; Clifton has 25 coats of arms; Cliffe, 4; Clyff, 1 ; Clyffe has 1. Clifford, Oliver, aged 18, passenger for Virginia in the Primrose, July 27, 1635. Cliford, Geo., Mass., ar. co. 1644. John, of Lynn, 1698, aged 67. (See Farmer.) CLINTON, CLENTON, JOHN, 1663. CLINTON, JOSEPH, m. Phebe Benedict, of Norwalk, Sept. 1, 1757, and had children b. in Norwalk, viz.: Levi, b. March 26, 1758 ; Esther, Joseph, Allen, Salmon, Simeon, Martha, Isaac and Phebe, b. Aug. 9, 1777. (See Hall, p. 297.) Clinton has 13 coats of arms. CLOFTS, MOSES, d. at Wethersfield, Dec. 30, 1718. CLOSE, THOMAS, Angell Huisted, Sen., John Mead, John Hob- ble, John Reynolds, Sen., James Ferris, Sen., Joseph Ferriss, Sen., Samuel Peck, Jonathan Reynolds, Sen., Joshua Knapp, Joseph, son of Joseph Mead, were proprietors in Greenwich in the early settle- ment of the town, the title of which was confirmed to them and oth- ers by Gov. R. Treat, in 1697. Thomas Close was early settled at Greenwich, with John Bower, Gershom and Jonathan Lockwood, Jeremiah and S. Peck, &c. The name of Close has 4 coats of arms. This name is yet found in Fairfield County. He held land in Greenwich in 1672. Four of this name graduated at Yale Col., before 1843. CLASSAN, CLASSON, CLAWSON, CLASON, STEPHEN, of Stamford, was propounded for a freeman in May, 1670. Jona- GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 625 than Closson, of Stamford, died July ye 14, 1747, aged 55. Clason or Classon (Scotland) has 1 coat of arms. CLOISON, DAVID, of Stamford, had children, Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1689 ; Deborah, b. Nov. 2, 1695; Hepzebah, b. Nov. 4, 1698. CLASON, FRANCIS; Daniel and Elizabeth were bap. Nov. 19, 1685, at Stamford. These appear to have been the same family and name. CLOTHIER, JOHN, Sen., was early at Colchester^ and had children born there, viz.: Abigail, b. Nov. 3, 1704 ; John, Jun., b. July 3, 1707 ; Sarah, b. March 13, 1709 ; Barbara, b. Dec. 3, 1714 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 29, 1716; Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1717; Ann, b. March 8, 1719; Lucrese, b. June 20, 1720. {Colchester Rec.) CLOTHIER, JOHN, Jun., of Colchester, had John and Ruth, bap. April 14, 1734, and Delight, bap. July 20, 1735. CLOUGH, CLOW, JOHN, had land in Wethersfield, in May, 1665. Made a freeman of Hartford in May, 1654. John Clough, Jun.. had three lots of land which he sold to Bartholomew Barnard. John, Jun., presented a petition to settle " Hamonosatt," Aug., 1663 ; also had an appeal tried with Mr. Rogers, the same court. John, Sen. and Jun., were entered by the committee as settlers of Hammo- nassett, in 1663. CLOUGH, JOHN, a carpenter, of Salisbury, Mass., 1662, and took the oath of allegiance there in Dec, 1677. THOMAS, also of Salisbury, one of a military company, took the oath of allegiance, Dec, 1677. (His. Reg.) Clough (Wales) has one coat of arms and three others. Clow has one. John Clough, constable, of Hartford, 1663. CLOUGH, WM., graduated at H. College, 1816. Isaac Clough, Mass., free, 1642. John, freeman, Mass., proprietor of Salisbury. 1642. *CLOW, CLOUGH, JOHN. Jun., petitioned the Gen. Court for "planting of Homonoscitt,'' 1663. * In Oct., 1603, the committee appointed to form rules for the settlement of " Homonassett," (Kiningworth.) It was determined that thirty families should settle on the east side of Ham- monassett, at least. Committee were Samuel Wyllys, Henry Wolcott and Wm. Wadsworth. Those who were entered as planters by the committee in 1663, and found on Killingworth town record, were Bryan Rossiter, Wm. Hayden, Edward Griswold, (from Windsor,) John Miegs, Sen., *John Skinner, Josias Hull, Simon Mills, Wm. Kelsey, Mohn Stedman, Wm. Wellman, (of N. L.,)*Jbhn Clow, Sen., *John Clow, Jun.,*Josias Ellsworth, Samuel Buell, 'Robert Howard, Jonas Westover Jo-iah Gilbert, Wm. Barber, Mathew Beekwith — (those with stars never came or 53 626 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ' COAKER, COKER, COAKE, RICHARD, was plaintiff against Cable, defendant at Hartford, July 2, 1640 ; also, defendant in court, Richard Fellowes, plaintiff, Dec. 28, 1648. Richard Coaker, plain- tiff at Hartford, vs. John Cable, July 2, 1640. Coake, Richard, 1648. Jos. Coker embarked for Virginia in the Plain Joan, May 15, 1635. Wm. Potter, of Roxbury, Mass., in his will in 1653, names Annes, wife of John Coking. (His. Reg.) Robert Coker, New- bury, 1638, b. 1606 ; son Joseph, b. 1640 ; son Benjamin b. 1650. (Farmer.) - m COBB, COB, GIDEON, and Margaret, his wife, admitted to the church in Hampton, Ct., July 31, 1726, and afterward removed from Hampton. COBB, DAVID, died at Suffield, Nov. 8, 1824, aged 64. COBB, WM., of Windham, m. Huldah Norton, Dec. 22, 1768. Issue, Wm., b. Sept. 18, 1769 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 30, 1772. Dr. Kob, a German, of Hartford, says the name is uniformly in Germany spelled with a K. This is not an early name in Connecticut. Cobb (Bedfordshire) has one coat of arms ; Cobbes has one, and eleven others. COBB, HENRY, (Barnstable,) had sons Samuel and Jonathan, noticed in the will of Samuel Hinckley, Sen., and the inventory made by Henry Cobb and Wm. Crocker. The inventory of the estate of Tho's Lumbert, (Barnstable,) was taken by Henry Cobb, John Go- rum and Nath'l Bacon, Feb. 8, 1664. Mary Cobb, noticed in the early will of Nicholas Miller, alias Hodgis, 1665. Mr. Tho's Cobb, a subscriber to Prince's Chronology. Gen. David Cobb, of Taun- ton. (His. Reg.) COBBIT, Mr. MICHAIL, Mr. Danforth, and for a reserve, Mr. Browne and Mr. Street, "for a reserue to y m y l ye withdrawers chose, (who were Mr. Dauenport, Mr. Norton, Mr. Fitch.") The above gentlemen were appointed by the Gen. Court, on the question soon left.) (Hon. Matthew Allyn had lands laid out to him, but never resided at Killingworth.) Added to the above list, 13. Thomas Smith ; 14. Henry Farman ; 15. John Rossiter ; 10. Jona- than Dunnin ; 17. Thomas Stevens ; 1 8. William Stevens ; 19. Geo. Chatfield ; 20. John Kelsey ; 21. Henry Crane ; 22. Eleazer Isbell ; 23. Benjamin Wright ; 24. Joseph Hand; 25. Robert Williams; 26. John Nettleton ; 27. John Hodge ; 23. Josiah Hull, Sen. {Killingworth Town Rec.) ' Descendants of Rossiters, Griswolds, Hulls, Kelseys, Williams's, Buells, Farmans, Stevens's, Chatfields, Cranes, Isbells, Wrights, are now at Killingworth, but few, if any, of the descendants of the original settlers are now found there, the numerous graves showing where they were laid. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 627 between the church at Hartford, and the withdrawers, (who went to Hadley.) The latter were willing to elect them according to the 3d article, but the church at Hartford refused. Mr. COBBIT had a right of commonage at Ipswich, Mass., in 1678. Rev. THOMAS COBBIT, of Ipswich, 1677. CORBITT, WM., defendant in court at Hartford in two causes, Dec, 1647. Pedell Corbitt, plaintiff, at Hartford, in 1649. Wm. Corbitt, of Farmington, propounded for a freeman, Oct., 1664. Cor- bet, Wm., a ship carpenter, deeded land to Edward Braughton, mer- chant, of Farmington, in Dec, 1729. John Corbet m. Martha Corn- stock, Feb. 12, 1724, and had John, b. Sept. 20, 1724, and Samuel, b. March 4, 1727, at Saybrook. John Corbet, of Lebanon, settled in Sharon in 1743. Wm. made free May, 1665. CORBET has 32 coats of arms; CARBOTT, 6 ; COBBETT, 1. COBBETT, JAMES, aged 23, Josiah, aged 21, embarked for N. England in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, in April, 1633. COBBETT, JOSIAH, Cambridge, 1636, freeman, 1640. Same name at Hingham in 1635. Thomas, the fourth minister of Ipswich, b. at Newbury, in England, 1608 ; student, Oxford ; arrived in N. E., June 26, 1637 ; settled in Ipswich, 1656, and died there Nov. 5, 1685, aged 77. Left sons Samuel, Thomas, (taken by Indians in 1676) John, and dau'r Elizabeth. (See Fanner.) Tho's Cobbit, freeman in Mass., 1638. Josias Cobitt, . freeman in Mass. Oct. 7> 1650. Mr. Samuel Cobbet, of Ipswich, free 1673-4. Mr. John, of Ipswich, freeman, 1683. (See His. Reg.) COBURN, SAMUEL, of Windham, Ct., m. Elizabeth Holt, Nov. 16, 1727. Issue, Samuel, Jun., b. Sept. 29, 1728 ; Edward, b. April 5, 1730; Zebadiah, b. Feb. 26, 1731-2; Cornelius, b. Jan. 1, 1733-4 ; Sarah, b. April 17, 1736; George, b. Sept. 5, 1737 ; Mary, b. April, 1740; (Eliz'h, b. Aug. 27, 1743; Lydia, Dinah and Pris- cilla ;) Hezekiah, bap. April 15, 1750 ; Ebenezer, June 28, 1752 ; Stephen, bap. July 20, 1755 ; all bap. at Hampton, Ct. COBURN, EDWARD, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, of Wind- ham and Hampton, m. Prudence Weekley, Oct. 17, 1751. Chil- dren, Priscilla, b. Sept. 1, 1752; Abigail, b. 1754 ; Wm., b. and d. 1756 ; Edward, Jun., b. Oct. 9, 1757; Prudence, b. April, 1760 ; Samuel, b. Oct. 25, 1762 ; Lucy, b. Oct. 9, 1763 ; Susannah, b. Jan. 27, 1767 ; Lydia, b. 1769. COBURN, ZEBADIAH, son of Samuel, m. Elizabeth Durkee, Jan. 22, 1751, of Hampton. Children, Eliz'th, b. Nov. 12, 1754; 628 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Zebediah, Jun., b. 1756 ; Olive, b. 1753 ; Chloe, b. 1760 ; Nath'l, b. 1762; Stephen, b. 1764; Amaziah, b. Jan. 14, 1768. COBURN, SAMUEL, Jun., m. Judith Webster, Jan. 23, 1751, and had Judith, b. Nov. 17, 1751, perhaps others. COBURN, ROBERT, of Windham, (perhaps brother of Samuel, Sen.,) m. Hannah Canada, Nov. 9, 1726, and had Robert, Jun., b. April 15, 1728 ; perhaps others. COBURN, ROBERT, Jun., of Hampton, m. Mary Jennings, Nov. 7, 1749, and had issue, Hannah, b. 1750 ; Mary, 1752 ; Betty, 1754; Sylvanus, b. July 23, 1757; Daniel, b. May 19, 1759 ; Try- phena, 1761 ; Robert, b. April 17, 1763; Jonathan, b. March 22, 1765 ; Ithamer, b. May 1, 1768. His wife Mary d. Dec. 27, 1769. Sarah, wife of Edward Coburn, Jun., from Dudley, Mass., united with Hampton church in 1776. Serg't Edward Coburn, Sen., and his wife Mercy, united with the church in Hampton, July 3, 1730. Samuel, Sen., united in Dec, 1724 ; also, Robert, Sen., and Eliz'th, April 17, 172S. Many of this name were at Hampton in the early settlement of the town. COBRON, WM., (perhaps Coburn,) one of the Mass. company. Wm. Colbron, aged 16, embarked in the James, for New England, John May, master. Robert Colburn, aged 28, Edward Colburne, aged 17, embarked also in the James, for New England, John May, master. COCKERRYLL, John, defendant in court at Hartford in 1640. Gov. John Haynes was plaintiff in court July, 1640, vs. Cockerryll. Cockerill, William, of Hingham, Mass., d. at Salem, 1661. {Farm.) COCKRAN, WM., a native of Ireland, settled at Saybrook with his wife. He was for some time the only merchant in Saybrook. He had no issue. He had a brother in Ireland, a clergyman, who had a son John. He sent to Ireland for John to come to Saybrook, and Wm. left him a large propert}'. He was a militia captain, and represented the town in the Gen. Court. John became intemperate, and left his family destitute of property at his decease. Cockran has eight coats of arms, and Cochrane 1. COCKSHOT, JAMES, of Haddam. The inventory of his estate was offered in court at Hartford, in 1692-3. The court ordered one- third of his estate to be given to his widow, and the other two-thirds to be paid to his creditors, being insolvent. Inventory, £36, 16s. Eliza Cockshot, a widow, of Haddam, d. in 1699. CODNAM, CODMAN, CODNUM, ROBERT, of Saybrook, was concerned in an affair of bonds and estate with Edward Lay, in GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 629 1657. The jury at Hartford, in the case of Rose vs. Robins, June 5, 1646, found six bushels of corn forfeited by Codman ; Jo. Lord, two bushels; Mr. Eauens, forty-eight bushels, (fee; probably the same name and man. Codman, at Hartford, 1646. CODNER, EDWARD, is first found in New London, in 1651, a grantee of land there. It also appears by Miss Caulkins, p. 145, he was in N. L. in 1664, and applied to remain there. In 1691 there was a path in N. L. called the " Codner highway," or " old path- way from the meeting-house to the mill." Lawrence Codner was of N. L. in 1704, and was there as early as 1664. Edward came first to Saybrook, a mariner, thence to N. London, and returned and died at Saybrook. His first wife, Priscilla, came with him. She d. and he m. Alice, who was his widow. Also, left a son Laurence or Laurent, who administered on his estate which he had, and he also had a daughter. Laurence had a wife Sarah, by whom he had three children, two of them sons, who died young, and dau'r Sarak, who m. Thomas Bennet, of Mystic — the only dau'r. Codner's place was the original home-lot of Jarvis Mudge. (See Caulk. His. N. L.) This name is found only in Saybrook and N. London. There was a John Codner in Marblehead, in 1673. COE, Hon. ROBERT, Sen., b. at SufFolkshire, England, in 1596. His wife Anna, born in England 1591. They sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng., April 10, 1634, in the Francis, John Cutting, master with eighty-four others, and landed at Boston in June. He had chil- dren, viz.: 1. John, b. in 162G. 2. Robert, Jim., b. 1627. 3. Benjamin, b. 1629. (See Note.) COE, Hon. JOHN, eldest son of Robert Coe, Sen., of Watertown, Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Newtown and Jamaica, b. 1626 ; his sons were Robert, John, Jonathan, Samuel, David. His son John was a judge of Queen's county. Neither John or David, his brother, left issue. Samuel, above, was an elder of the Presbyte- rian church, trustee of the town, and in 1712, m. Margaret Van Zandt, daughter of John, and in 1734, removed to New Hempstead, Rockland co., and d. there, aged 70, in 1742. His children were Samuel, John, Benjamin, Wm., Isaac, Matthew, Daniel, Margaret, Sarah and Abigail. Margaret m. Benjamin Skillman ; Sarah m. Moore Woodward. Isaac and Benjamin left no issue. John be- came the father of Rev. Dr. Jonas Coe, late of Troy, N. Y. COE, Capt. ROBERT, d. 1734, aged 75. He had sons: 53* 630 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 1. John, b. 1702, d. 1748; sons John, Samuel, Benjamin and William. 2. Robert, b. 1707, d. 1777; had sons Robert, John, Elnathan and James. 3. Samuel, b. 1712, probably d. at Salem, N. Y., Westchester co., 17GS; had John, &: c. (See Note, p 400, Rike^s Newtown.) COE, BENJ'N, b. 1629, son of the first Robert, m. Abigail Car- man, dau'r of John, and had children, who are the New Jersey Coes by descent. When the N. York committee called upon the friends of liberty in Newtown, L. I., in 1775, to elect a delegate to send to N. Y. city, to choose delegates to the second General Congress, we find in the noble band of 100 in Newtown, the names of Benjamin Coe, Benj'n, Jun., John, Jonathan, Robert and Samuel Coe, who proved themselves true whigs of 1775. (See Riker, p. 180.) The Coes of L. I. took an active and laudable stand for the country dur- ing the war of the Revolution, several of them being officers in the service. COE, ROBERT, Jun., of Stratford, wife Susanna, had children, Susanna, Sarah and John. Robert, Jun., d. at Stratford in 1659, aged 32. His widow m. second, N. Elsey, of New Haven. COE, JOHN, only son of Robert, Jun., of Stratford, b. May 10, 1658, m. Mary Hawley, of Stratford, Dec. 20, 1682. She d. April 19, 1741, aged 83. His children, viz.: 1. Robert, b. Sept. 21, 16S4 ; m. Barbara Parmele, 1708; lived in Middle- town.; d. Feb. 4, 1762, aged 78. 2. Joseph, b. Feb. 2, 16S6 ; m. Abigail Robinson, 1708, Durham ; d. July 15, 1754, aged 69. 3. Hannah, b. April 14, 1689; m. James Curtis, Sept. 6, 1709, Durham; d. 1755, aged 69. 4. Mary, b. Aug. 11, 1691 ; m. Samuel Picket, Nov. 27, 1712, Durham; d. Feb. 19, 1763, aged 72. 5. John, Jun., b. Dec. 5, 1693 ; m. Hannah Parsons, 17j 5, Haddam ; d. Sept. 23, 1757, aged 5S. 6. Sarah, b. March 26, 1696; in. Israel Burritt, March 4, 1719; d. Feb. 6, 1731, aged 35. 7. Ephraim, b. Dec. IS, 1698 ; m. Hannah Miller, Nov. 29, 1723, Durham ; b. Nov. 10, 1765, aged 69. 8. Katherine, b. Sept. 23, 1700; m. Joseph Fairchild, Nov. 11, 1725, Fair- lield; d. 9. Abigail, b. Nov. 11, 1702; m. John Guthry, June 1, 1727, Durham; d. 1747, aged 45. 10. Ebenezer, b. Aug. IS, 1704; m. Mary Blackman, June 1, 1727, Stratford ; t. 1766, aged 63. COE, EPH'M, son of John, of Stratford, m. Hannah Miller, of Middletown, Nov. 28, 1723, and had issue, Eph'm, b. July 25, 1724; Samuel, b. Aug. 5, 1726; Timothy, b. Oct. 15, 1728, d. 1733; GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 631 Aaron, b. Feb. 16, 1730-1 ; Daniel, b. Dec. 20, 1732, d. 1733 ; Seth, b. Dec. 31, 1734. (Middletoum Rec.) COE, ELI and ELISHA, were justices of the peace in Middlesex county, Conn., as was Charles Coe, of Durham. COE, SAMUEL, AARON and ENOCH, removed from Durham, Ct., to Granville, Mass. Robert and Joseph Coe, with Samuel Fair- child, James Curtiss, &c, from Stratford, removed to Durham, Ct. COE, ROBERT, son of John, of Stratford, and great-grandson of Robert, Sen., of Jamaica, L. I., m. Barbara, and had children at Middletown, viz.: Robert, b. Sept. 20, 1721, d. Oct., 1721; Jede- diah, b. Aug. 4, 1725 ; Thomas, b. May 18, 1727 ; Reuben, b. Nov. 17, 1728 ; Wm, b. April 29, 1730 ; Rachel, b. Sept. 6, 1732. Mr. Robert, the father, d. Feb. 2, 1762. COE, MATHEW, and his wife Eliz'th, were of Gloucester, Mass., and had children b. there, viz.: Abigail, b. June 5, 1658 ; Mathew, Jun., b. June 3, 1660, d. soon after. (See Gen. Reg.) COE, JANE, aged 30, came to New England in the Susan and Ellyn. Edward Payne, master, in 1635. Mathew Coe, an early set- tler at Essex as early as 1647. Capt. Mark Cooe, in 1656, was no- ticed in the codicil of the will of Ann Hibbins, of Boston, as her cousin, and the sum of 405. given as a legacy. (His. Reg.) COE, or COO, (Norfolk,) has four coats of arms, and Coets, 1. There were 51 persons in Stamford, the first year. They pur- chased the Indian title before they purchased of the New Haven com- pany. Note. — COE, EOB'T, was born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1596. His wife Anna was born in 1391, in England. Their children named were John, b. in 1626 ; Robert, b. in 1627 ; Benj'n, b. in 1629. They sailed from Ipswich, Suffolkshire, England, April 10, 1634, in the Francis, John Cutting, master, (in company with 84 others,) and arrived in Boston in June after. Rob- ert Coe and others of the crew, firstly settled in Watertown, Mass., where he remained about two years. At the first court held in Conn., at " Newton," (Hartford,) April 26, 1636, " Andrew Warde, Jo: Sherman, Jo: Stickland, Rob'te Coo, Rob'te Reynold and Jonas Weede," appeared before the court and produced their certificate of dismission granted by the church of Water- town, Mass., dated 29 of Ma[ ] last, to form anew in a church covenant " on this River of Con- ectecott," which certificate was received and approved by the court, and the before named per- sons settled at Wethersfield, Conn., where six parcels of land stood recorded to Robert Coe in 1041, where they continued about four years, during which time a trouble arose in the church, which it was found difficult to settle, even under the council of Mr. Davenport j he therefore advised one of the contending parties to make a new settlement. Accordingly, the leaving party purchased Rippowams, (Stamford,) Oct. 30, 1640, of the New Haven colony, and removed to Rippowams in 1641 ; (see jXote, p. 232, ante,) and the first vote upon the purchase of the plant- ation by the proprietors, was at a town-meeting held at Stamford in 1641, when the following vote was passed to pay N. Haven, at least in part, for the purchase of the town, viz.: " Whereas 632 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. COFFUR? SEABORN, is noticed by Rowland, of [Windsor, in his list of the number of children in each family in Windsor, between 1639 and 1681, as having one child, and no other account is found concerning him. (Perhaps Cotton.) the purchase of the place and viewing of it, was first done by our friends of New Haven, and we stand indebted to them for it. It is ordered, that one hundred bushels of corn, at three shil- lings a bushel, be paid towards it, when raised, and sent them as followeth, by Mathew Mitchell, viz." Here follow the names of the proprietors, one of which is the name of Robert Coe, and twenty others, which can be read upon the record of Stamford. However, nine of the names of the thirty can not be deciphered, being lost, and to each name is attached his proportion of corn to be paid. Coe's share was four bushels and one peck. Mr. Coe continued at Stamford until Rev. Richard Denton removed to Hempstead, L.I. in 1644. He then with his sons Robert, John and Benjamin, went to Hempstead. At this time Robert, Sen., was about -48 years old, his eldest son John about 18 years, Robert, Jun., about 17, and Benjamin about 15 years old. Mr. Rob't Coe and Capt. John Coe, the first of Jamaica and John from Newtown, L. I., were appointed by their tespective towns to attend the court at Hartford, (see Col. Rec. of Conn., printed vol., p- 425,) May 12, 1664. Same session, the Gen. Court appointed Mr. Robert Coe a commissioner for " Jamaicoe," L. I., and Capt. John Coe a commissioner for Newtown, L. I. At the Gen. Court of Conn., May 1 1, 1665, it was ordered by said court that the villages of Hastings and Rye should be " for the future, conioyned and make one plantation, and that it shall be called by the appellation of Rye." The lands of this township were purchased of the proprietors, by Peter Disbrow, John Coe, Thomas Studvvell, and John Budd, in 1660, '61 and '62, and by them conveyed to Samuel Allen, Rich'd Lowe and five other planters. (See Col. Rec. and ,A"ote, vol. 2, pp. 15, 16 ; also, Bolton's Hist. Westcheiter Co.) At the Gen. Court of Conn., Oct. 14, 1669, the court was informed that the people of Rye had no orthodox minister, and did not take due care to procure one, to carry on ''the workeof the Lord on the Sabbath and instruct them," &c, but seemed to rest satisfied without " in the im- prouementof John Coe and Marmaduke Smith," who had been represented to the court " as per- sons unsownd and heterodox in their judgments," &c; therefore the court impowered Mr. Na- than Gold and any three of the Commiss'rs of that county, to require said Coe and Smith, or " any others of that towne to appear before them," and if the facts should appear to them, as had been represented to the court, to give them no opportunity " to sowe the seeds of error among the people there." Also to inform the people of Rye, that the court were resolved, if the said people's prudent consideration did not move them to provide " a suitable person, sownd and orthodox in his principles, and apt to teach," and approved by Mr. Bishop, of Stamford, Sir- Hanford, of Norwalk, Mr. Lliphalet Joanes, of Fairfield, and Mr. Wakeman, that the court would procure and settle a minister among them, and take sufficient order that he should be maintained by them. It appears by these facts that John Coe resided at Rye in 1669, and being a leading man there, was selected by the court to whip into their traces, expecting the other inhabitants of Rye would follow Coe and Smith's example. John Coe was rated 12s. among the 55 persons taxed at Middlebury, L. I., in 1656, four years after the first settlement there " on Indian rate." Robert Coe wa9 taxed £4, on the same rate, land rated at Is. an acre. (Hiker's Annals of .Yewtown, p. 43.) John Coe had a flouring mill, at the mouth of Horse Brook in 1653. Edward Jessup applied to 'the council in 1657 for land to build another mill, not however to the injury of Mr. Coe's mill. In 1600, Capt. Coe indicted a man for taking corn from his mill ; the culprit after being made to make amends to Capt. Coe, was sentenced "to walk from Mr. Doughty's house, with two rods under each arm, and the drum beating before him, until he comes to Mr. Jes'sup's house, and then he is to have his liberty," &c, (p. 43.) GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 633 COGGIN, JOHN, a defendant in court at Hartford, in favor of Mathew Allen, in Sept., 1641 ; £20 damages and costs. He was also plaintiff against Allen, 1641. He was in Hartford in 1646. In 1655, Mr. Coe was a magistrate. Capt. John was a warm advocate for an alliance of the people of Middleburg with Connecticut, and sent a letter upon the subject to the Gen. Court of Conn., by James Christie, &c. Capt. Talcott, when he arrived in Hartford, engaged Christie to visit Flushing, Hempstead and Jamaica, " to try if the inhabitants were favorably inclined to- wards the gov'r of Hartford." Christie returned to Middleburg, and in the absence of Director Stuyvesant, who had gone to Boston, Christie went with two others to Gravesend, with a " sim- ple commission signed Coe," and a copy of Capt. Talcott's letter. The people being called to- gether, Christie produced his letters and informed the people they were no longer subject to the Dutch gov't, but to that of Hartford. Nicholas Slillwell doubted the fact, and arrested Christie and his papers, and informed the council, who dispatched a serg't and eight men to convey Christie to Fort Amsterdam, &c. (Rikcr, pp. 556, 557, &x.) Coe, Christie, Panton, Waters and others, Richard Mills, the school-master, aided the revolt at Westchester, where Mills was a magistrate. The affair of Stuyvesant with Conn., Westchester and on Long Island, is rich in the history of the first settlement of Long Island and Westchester. James Christie and others were made freemen in Conn. John Coe and Richard Betts repre- sented Hastings to attend the convention at Hempstead, L. I., Feb. 28, 1665. In 1666, '67, new style, a patent was granted by Gov. Richard Nicoll to John Coe, Capt. Thomas Lawrence, and the other inhabitants of Newtown, L. I., as patentees of said Newtown, in confirmation of their previous title. John Coe was also named as one of the patentees and inhabitants of Newtown by Thomas Dongan, in his confirmation of the title of Newtown, Nov. 25, 1686. {Rikcr.) John Coe was chosen sheriff of Queen's co., L. I. and commissioned by Leisler. (Rikcr, p. 117.) John Coe was one of Leisler's council. Leisler and Milborne, with all their loyalty, were con- demned and executed. Coe was imprisoned, but escaped. (Rec. Hist, of J\T.) John, Roberti Jonathan and David Coe were all signers of the petition to hia excellency, Edward Viscount Cornbury, her majesty's captain-general and governor-in-chief of the province of New-York, &c. in behalf of the freeholders of Newtown, in Queen's co., on the island of Nassau. John Coe also held the office of judge, and was one of the leading men on Long Island: Benjamin Coe, the youngest son of Robert, Sen., was a farmer ; while Robert, Sen., and his son John were important men, and most of their lives while upon Long Island, in some impor- tant public employment. Robert, Sen , left " Heemstede" after a few years'residence there ; he became a pioneer in the settlement of Middleburg, about 1651-2. At the first meeting of the first English settlers at Middleburg, Robert Coe and Richard Gilder- sleeve, both of whom had resided at Wethersfield and Stamford, were confirmed, with Hazard* in the office of first magistrates of the town. Robert Coe and Edward Jessup, were sent from Middleburg, and a delegation from Hempstead, to propound to " the Honorable Commissioners" then in session at Boston, questions which agitated the public mind, (Rikcr, p. 31, 32,) and re- quested protection from N. England. Robert Coe and Tho's Hazard were delegates from Mid- dleburg. and met the burgomasters of New Amsterdam at the City Hall, Nov. 25, 1653. Robert Coe held the office of ensign of a company of soldiers under Capt. Titus, to sustain Lieut. Gov. Leisler in the military force of the province, and were by him commissioned in their new ofiV ..-. Rikcr, p. 118.) Robert signed the petition with his son John to his excellency, E. Vis- count Cornbury, Capt. Gen. and Gov. of the province of New York in 1703. xYug. 20, 1720, Robert Coe was appointed with others, a committee to examine the accounts for eight years preceding, of the trustees of the place, &cc. Few of the original settlers of Conn., who removed to Long Island, held a more exalted rank with the first English settlers upon the island, than Hon Robert and his son John Coe. Mr. John Hicks of Hempstead, Mr. Robert Coe of Jamaica. Capt. John Coe of Newtown, and 634 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. COGGENS, RICHARD, m. Mary Chalker, dau'r of Alexander, of Saybrook, in 1677-8. COGGAN, JOHN, Boston, freeman, 1633, member of the ar. co. 1638. He in. Martha, widow of Gov. Winthrop, March 10, 1651, and d. 1658. His son Joshua b. 1652 ; son John, of Boston, freeman, 1642. (Farmer.) Thomas Coggin, of Taunton, able to bear arms in 1643, d. March 4, 1653. Sarah Coggin, aged 20, embarked for Virginia, in the Assurance do Lo, Isaac Bromwell and Geo. Pewsie, master, 1635. COGGIN, HENRY, of Barnstable, 1640. John Coggan, of Bos- ton, dau'r Annah, b. 7" (9°) 1636. John Phinney, of Barnstable, m. Abigail Croggin, widow, June 10, 1650 ; she d. 1653. John, son of John and Elizabeth Coggen, of Woburn, March 10, 1693 ; also, Henry, their son, d. 1694. (See His. Reg.) This name is not now in Conn. John Cogan was an early settler in Dorchester, and probably came to Windsor in the first settlement of the town, or soon after, as he was in court at Hartford in 1641 and 1646, though he either left Wind- sor within a few years, or died. In 1635, John Cogan, Wolcott, Telley and Pinney, had a case of some importance referred to arbi- tration at Dorchester. He was probably the John Coggin first named above, and grantee of Dorchester. Mr. Hallett of Flushing, in May, 1064, were appointed by their respective towns on L. I., to at- tend the court in Conn. The same session of said Gen. Court, Mr. Robert Coe and Mr. Thomas Benedict 1 were appointed commissioners for Jamaica, L. I., and Capt. John Coe and Richard Betts, commissioners for Newtown. While Benjamin, the second son of Robert, Sen., b. 1629, was quietly seated upon his farm at Jamaica, L. I., his father and his brother John were figuring in the aifairs of government in public life. Robert Coe, Jun., the third son of Robert, Sen., b. 1627, removed from L. I. about 1654, to Stratford, Conn., where he was a farmer, and neighbor of Mr. Sherman, who had re- moved there from Stamford. He m. Susanna, and by her had three children, who were living at his decease, at Stratford, in 1639, aged 32 years. After his decease his relict m. Nicholas Elsy, or Ellery, of New Haven. His three children, John, Susannah and Sarah, are named in the settlement of his estate on the probate record of Fairfield, From this branch are descended most of the Coes of Conn. Some of the descendants of Benjamin Coe settled in New Jersey, where the name is yet found. Susannah, the widow of Robert, of Stratford, presented the in- ventory of the estate of her late husband, Oct. 20, 1659. being X179, 18*. distributed to his son John, Susanna and Sarah, each £35, and the remainder to his widow. Josua and Jeremie Jud- son, Henry Wakley and Richard Boothe, appraisers. Robert, Sen., of Wethersfield, was one of the thirty families who settled Stamford, and is one of the twenty names now found there recorded of the thirty who first purchased Rippo wains, Oct. 30, 1640, and removed there in 1641, on condition that Rev. Richard Denton was to re- move there by March, 1641-2, and the settlers by Nov., 1641. COE, COOE, ROBERT, had six tracts of land recorded at Wethersfield in 1641. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 635 COGSWELL, COGGSWELL, COGSWEL, ROBERT or JOHN, was an original settler of New Haven, and a signer of the fundamental agreement made there in 1639; and in 1643, he is found in Lambert's list of families and estates in New Haven, with four persons in his family, and an estate of £60. Whether Mr. Sam- uel Coggswell, of Saybrook, was one of the four of this family; in 1643, I have no evidence. COGSWELL, Mr. SAMUEL, was a farmer at Saybrook about 1665. Who was his father, or whence he came, the record does not show. He was unm. when he came to Saybrook, and m. Susan- nah , Oct. 27, 166S. Her name is so badly written and blotted, it is impossible to decipher her entire name. (Mr. Nash says Hearn.) She was probably a Wastall. John Wastall, a first settler there. On a page or two after the Coggswell family, is found the will of John Wastall, and Susannah, his wife; they being advanced in years and childless, he made John Cortland [Kirtland] sole heir to his estate. Mr. Coggswell calls one of his sons Wastall. By his calling his first son Wastall, perhaps, for it is only conjecture, he might have m. Wastall's sister; who she was is in doubt. They had chil- dren born at Saybrook, viz.: 1. Hannah, b. June 4, 1670 ; m. Josiah Dibble, 1691-2, and had a child born there. 2. Susannah, b. Nov. 23, 1072. 3. Wastall, b. Feb. 17, 1074. 4. Samuel, b. Aug. 3, 1G77. 5. Roland, b. July 7, 1679. 6. Joseph, b. April 10, 1682. 7. Nath'l, b. Dec. 16, 1654. S. John, b. Aug. 7, 16SS. COGGSWELL, SAMUEL, Sen., was presented to the Gen. Court for a freeman from Saybrook, in May, 1669, and at the same ses- sion was appointed commissioner for that town. COGGSWELL, JOSEPH, b. 1682, son of Samuel, Sen., of Say- brook, settled at Southington, where he m. Anna Orvis, Aug. 25, 1710, and had children, viz., Joseph, Jun., b. May 24, 1711, m. Joanna Andrews, May 3, 1732 ; Samuel, b. May 23, 1713, m. Mary Langdon, Nov. 28, 1734 ; Nathan, b. May 20, 1716, m. Susanna Warner, Nov. 24, 1737 ; Susanna, b. Aug. 18, 1718, m. Jedediah Smith, 1740; Martha, b. Aug. 24, 1721; David, b. March 26, 1725, d. 1806 ; Mary, b. May 21, 1728, m. Oct., 1756; Deborah, b. April 23, 1731 ; Anna, b. March 6, 1732-3, d. 1736; Elizabeth, b. March 31, 1735, m. Ebenezer Hurlbut, Aug. 20, 1752. 636 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. JOSEPH, son of Joseph Cogswell, m. Joanna Andrews, and had issue, Isaac, b. 174- ; Nathan, b. 1741, m. Bulah Scott, 1760: Sam- uel, b. 174- ; Rachel, b. 174- ; Bulah Scott, 1760. SAMUEL, son of Joseph, m. Mary Langdon, and had issue, an infant, d. 1736 ; Lucerna and Joseph, b. July 13, 1737 ; Mary, b. April 1, 1739, m. Joseph Barnett, Oct. 6, 1756 ; Asahel, b. April 18,1741; Rhoda, b. 1743 : Isaac, b. 1745 ; Samuel, Jun., b. 1747. d.; Rachel, b. 1749; Lydia, b. 1752; second Samuel, b. Sept. 17, 1754; Reuben, b. March. 1756 ; Lucy, b. 1746; Simeon and Levi, b. Sept. 6, 1759; Jerusha, b. 1761. NATHAN, son of Joseph Cogswell, of Southington, m. Susanna Warner, and had issue, Anna, b. Jy 24, 1733 ; Solomon, b. March 20, 1743 ; Asahel, b. 1744. DAVID, son of Joseph, Sen., m. and had issue, Ptuth, b. Dec. 6. 1749, m. Wm. Barrett, 1762 ; Huldah, b. Sept. 22, 1751 : Phebe, b. 1754; David, Jun., b. 1757, d. 1823; Noah, b. Sept. 27, 1761, m. Lyuia Woodruff, 1798; Salmon, b. March IS, 1768. m. Sarah Smith. The Coggswells of Washington, Conn., are supposed descendants of this family. COGSWELL, NATH'L, b. 1684, son of Samuel, Sen., of Say- brook, settled in Lyme. Joseph, his brother, settled in that part of Farmington called Southington. Joseph Cogswell, of Farmington, deeds to his "brother, Nathaniel Cogswell, of Lyme, all his right" in the ninth part of a 2.000 acre right in the town of Hebron, that accrued from his honored father, dated April 10, 1710. (Vol. 2, p. 276, Say. Rec.) Same page, John, another brother, of Say brook, gives a similar deed, dated April 21, 1710. COGSWELL, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Samuel, Sen., of Saybrook, b. 1677 ; m. Anne Denison, " each to the other, the 3d day of March, 1700-1." " Their son Samuel was born ye 25th of Dec, 1701; their dau'r Anne was born ye — of Dec, 1703; their son Hezekiah was born ye first day of ffeb r , 1705-6." (Entered July ye 9th, 1707, vol. 2, p. 124.) The funeral sermon at the decease of Dr. James Cogswell, a son of Samuel and Anne, says he (James) was also born at Saybrook in January, 1720, but his birth is not found at Saybrook ; but it was probably as stated. Samuel, Jun., and his wife Anne, removed with their family from Saybrook to Lebanon, where they remained until himself and his wife had become aged, and their children left them and settled in separate families, when ike father and mother, by age. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 637 needed the fostering care of a dutiful and affectionate son to comfort them after they had arrived to the helpless state of threescore years and ten. They removed to Scotland society in the town of Wind- ham, to the hospitable house of their son, Rev. James Cogswell, D. D., of that place, where they both died in the care of their son. The father d. (Samuel, Jun.) in 1752, and his wife about two years after. COGSWELL, Rev. JAMES, son of Samuel, Jun. and Anne, b. at Saybrook in 1720, removed with his parents to Lebanon, probably when quite young. He became a youth of great promise, and grad- uated at Yale College in 1742. After his graduation he immediately turned his attention to the study of divinity, and Dr. Trumbull says was ordained in the ministry at Canterbury, Dec. 28, 1744, where he continued their able and faithful pastor until 1771, when he was dismissed from the charge of that church, and the next year he was installed over the church in the parish of Scotland, in Windham. While in this place, he was honored by Yale College with the title of D. D., which few more justly merited. He continued his minis- terial services at Scotland, until Dec, 1804, when he by a life of industry and usefulness and being far advanced in life, had become enfeebled and unable to pursue his pastoral charge. Thus aged and infirm, by an invitation from his affectionate son to reside with him, he removed into the kind family of his son, Dr. Mason F. Cogs- well, at Hartford, where he was kindly cared for and tenderly nour- ished, as he had previously done by his own aged parents. He died at the house of his son, Dr. Cogswell, Jan. 2, 1807, nearly 87 years old. He was three times married ; first, m. Alice Fitch, dau'r of Jabez, Esq., of Canterbury. She was the mother of all his chil- dren, and died April, 1772, aged 47 years. He m. second, Martha Devotion, the widow of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, dee'd, of Scotland in Windham. He m. for his third wife, Mrs. Hibbard, of said Scot- land. His children were : 1. James, Jun., b. July, J746; d. Nov. 20, 1792. 2. Alice, b. Dec, 1749; d. May 9, 1772. 3. Samuel, b. May, 1754 ; d. Aug. 24, 1790. 4. Dr. Mason Fitch, b. Sept., 1761 ; d. at Hartford, Dec. 17, 1830. 5. Septimius, b. Aug., 1769 ; d. Oct., 1773. Their mother, Alice, d. 1772, having lost no children by death at her decease, while Rev. James lived to inter his three wives and all his children, except Dr. M. F. Cogswell, of Hartford. COGSWELL, Dr. MASON F., son of Rev. James and Alice 54 638 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Fitch, of Canterbury, graduated at Yale College in 1780, and soon after located himself as physician and surgeon in the city of Hart- ford, Conn., where his talents, education and skill in his profession, within a few years elevated him to the head of his profession, not only in the city, but in a large extent of country in Conn. Fie married Mary Ledyard, of Hartford, one of the noted Ledyard family of Conn. (The widow of Austen Ledyard m. Butler for second husband.) His children were : 1. Mary A. She m. Rev. Lewis Weld, son of Rev. Ludovicus Weld, dee'd, of Hampton, Conn., May, 1823, a finished scholar, who for many years has been the principal of the deaf and dumb institution at Hartford, where, he died the past year, soon after his return from a visit to Europe, hoping to improve his previous declining health. (See WELD.) 2.i Elizabeth, m. Hon. John T. Norton, of Farmington, Conn. 3. Alice, a deaf mute and a most interesting, intelligent and lovely girl. She died single, Dec, 1S30, aged 25. (See Note.) 4. Dr. Mason Fitch, of Albany, graduated at Yale College in 1S29, and set- tled in Albany as physician and surgeon, where he has proved himself a ripe scholar in the profession his father had so much honored. He m. Lydia, dau'r of Rev. John Bradford, D. D., who was an eloquent pulpit orator. 5. Catherine Ledyard, m. Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., of Burling- ton, N. J., son of the former patroon, of Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Dixon, the wife of Hon. James Dixon, of Hartford, and dau'r of Rev. Dr. Cogswell, of N. Jersey, is a descendant of the Cogswell family of Mass. Five persons by the name of Cogswell, had graduated at Harvard College before 1817, and eight at Yale before 1848. COGSWELL, JOHN, freeman in Mass., March 3, 1635-6. Rev. Win. Cogswell, D. D., dec'd, at Gilmanton, N. H., who died 1850, aged 62, son of Rev. Win., of Atkinson, N. H., was the author of many published discourses, and aided in several periodical publica- tions, a member of many literary societies, and for a time connected with the publication of the N. E. His. Gen. Register, also with the American Quarterly Register, and proprietor and editor of the New Hampshire Repository ; was a descendant of John, of London, who afterward settled in Ipswich, Mass , about 1635. Wife Elizabeth d. June 2, 1676, and he d. Nov. 29, 1669. Had children, Win., John, Edward, Mary, Hannah, Abigail and Sarah. (See His. Reg.) These are the first branches of John Cogswell, of Ipswich, Mass. The Cogswells were connected by marriage with the Uphams, Went- worths, Badgers, Otis's, and many others of the best families in New England. William, son of John, Sen., of Ipswich, in 1648. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 639 John Cogswell has the title of Mr. on the Ipswich record. Mr. Wm. Cogswell is in the list of those who had a right of com- monage in Ipswich, Feb., 1678, as was Mr. Jno. Cogswell. JOHN, Sen., of Ipswich, had no son Samuel in his list of children. Farmer notices John, of Ipswich ; came to N. E. in 1635 ; admit- ted freeman, 1636 ; that he was wrecked on his passage at Pema- quid, and names his three sons, John, b. 1623, d. 1653, and left three children; William, of Ipswich, 1648, and Edward, b. about 1629. Samuel, Sen., of Saybrook, was probably not a descendant of the Ipswich family. COIT, JOHN, (and wife, Mary Jenners,) is found at Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, and a grantee of land there before 1636, where the name is spelled Goite and Goyt. He is also claimed to have been at Salem, and a grantee of land there in 1638. He was selectman in Gloucester in 1649. When he came to N. England is not known. He was probably from England, as the name of Coit is found there. Note. Epitaph of Dr. Jfath'l Ledyard. In memory of Poet. Nathaniel Ledyard, who de parted this life June y e 1st, A. D. 1766, in the 26th year of his age. Just when deliv'd from her boding fears, My chearful country wiped away her tears, Materials wrought the public joys to aid, With dire explosion snapp'd my vital thread, And lif 's rich zest, the bliss of being free, Pov'd the sad cause of bitter death to me. (Blown up in the school house.) Father of the wife of Doct. M. F. Cogswell. (See p. 414 , ante.) Note. Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell, who died at Hartford, was not only a skillful and learned physician, but one of the kindest and most affectionate of fathers, and his affections for his fam- ily were most kindly reciprocated by all his children. His daughter Alice, who possessed all the good qualities of her father, was unfortunately a deaf mute, yet as intellectual as any of his children, and most affectionately loved her father. It was her misfortune in being a mute, which was the great first cause of establishing the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford. Dr. Cogswell's energies were all bent upon this subject, to relieve his distressed child from her sit- uation as far as his exertions and means could be put forth. And by the aid of Mr. Gallaudet and some few others, an act of incorporation was obtained from the Legislature of Conneoticut, and Mr. Gallaudet went to France to procure an experienced teacher, and soon after opened a school for deaf mutes at Hartford. The great success of the school is known through the coun- try, and the immense pleasure it has afforded this unfortunate class of the community. Dr. Cogswell lived to see his exertions crowned with success, and his darling daughter attending the school, and fast learning to converse with her school mates and her own affectionate father and family. But in the midst of joys, he was taken sick with a severe cold, which closed his earthly career on the fifth day of his illness. This so affected his daughter Alice, for she loved her father most tenderly, that it entirely unnerved her, and the night after his decease, she wm taken with spasms, and died thirteen days after the death of her father, lamented by the whole city, which was attributed entirely to her grief at the death of her father. 640 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. The original name was probably Coit, though the name on the rec- ord at Dorchester, and upon the probate record at Hartford, where his will was proved, is spelled Goite and Goyt, but not spelled by himself. He came to New London about the time Mr. Blynman came there, or soon after followed him to N. L. from Gloucester about 1651. His son, John, Jun., held land in N. London, and per- haps came there, but he finally settled at Gloucester, and had chil- dren there, viz.: John, Mary, Abigail, Nathaniel and Job, of whom the three last married and had children. But the name of Coit was soon lost in Gloucester, nor is it known that there lives a descendant of John, Jun., by the name of Coit. Coit, John, Sen., d. in N. London, Aug. 29, 1659. His widow, Mary, survived him until Jan. 2, 1676, when she died, aged 80.* His will, dated Aug. 1, 1659, is on file in Hartford. In the inven- tory of his estate, the name reads Coite, and so in the copy of the will found on the town records at New London. In this will men- tion is made of his two sons and two daughters, absent, besides his son Joseph and daughters Mary and Martha, then with him in New London. MARTHA, m. Hugh Mould, from Barnstable, June 11, 1662. MARY, m. John Stevens, (says Miss Caulkins.) JOSEPH, m. Martha Harris, daughter of Wm., of Wethersfield, * The Last will and Testaman of John Goit of Newlondonn August the first 1659 — Imp r I give unto my wife and my son Joseph, the house and houshold stuf w' 1 the orchard and all lands about my house. As also all my great catle — as also half my meadows. And they shall enjoy itt togather as long as my wife lives, except they both agree to the contrary. And also 1 give to y m my ground on ye other side of ye river, that is the lot of 22 acres, as also half my land in the neck. I give unto my two daughters Mary and Martha my farm up Mohegin river, as also two-thirds of the sheepe, as also my other lot of thirty acres upon the other side of the river, as also half my meadow, as also the other half of my land in y e neck. Also I give to my two sons and two daughters twenty shillings a piece I mean thos absent from me in case they bee living — to bee payd out of the whole. I give to my son Joseph one- third of my sheep. Also after all my debts bee pay'd, I give the remaynder to my wife, son and two daughters w h me. Also 1 leave my loving friends, Mr. Thomson and James Avery and Win. Xickols to bee my Exequtors to look after y e dispose of my children w th my wife And if any of the children dye be. fore mariage their estate shall be divided by the other now at home. The Mark / of John Goit. In the p,sensof William Younglove Gabriell Harrcs. (An exact copy of John Goit's will on file in probate office, Hartford.) Inventory dated 1660, (June 25, J66], £103.) GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 641 July 15, 1667. He was the first deacon of the church there. He was a partner of his hrother-in-law, Mould, in ship building, at New London. He d. March 27, 1704. His widow d. July 14, 1713. His estate £312, 17*. 4d. He and his wife were confirmed in the church, April 3, 1680. His property was divided between his widow and his sons John, Joseph and Solomon, and the heirs of his son Wm., deceased. His sons Daniel and Samuel, probably died young, and unmarried, before their father, as they are not known in settling his estate. Inventory of estate May 3, 1704, .£312, 17s. 4d. Joseph, Sen., and Martha's children were : 1. John, b. Dec. 1, 1C70; m. Mehetabel Chandler, of Woodstock, June 25, 1695. 2. Joseph, (Rev.,) b. April 4, 1673. 3. William, b. Jan. 25, 1675. 4. Danyell, b. Dec. 8, 1677, probably d. young. 5. Solomon, b. Nov. 29, 1679. 6. Samuel, bap. Aug. 14, 16S2, probably d. young. Joseph was presented for a freeman at Hartford, Oct., 1669. COIT, JOHN, son of Joseph and Martha, is supposed to have fol- lowed his father's business in New London. He m. Mehitabel, (dau'r of John and Elizabeth Chandler, of Woodstock, a most amiable lady,) June 25, 1695, and had children, viz.: 1. John, b. May 25, 1696; m. Grace Christophers, 1719, and raised a family in New London. 2. Joseph, b. Nov. 15, 169S; in. Lydia Lathrop, 171S, and was father of Hon. Joshua, and grandfather of Rev. Mr. Learned, of Canterbury, &c, &zc. 3. Samuel, b. Feb. IS, 1700, supposed died young. 4. Thomas, b. June 1, 1702; m. Mary Prentiss, 1723; great-great-grand- father of Rev. Dr. T. W. Coit, of Hartford. 5. Elizabeth, b. March 22, 1704; in. Samuel Gardiner in 1720. 6. Martha, b. April 1, 1706 ; in. Daniel Hubbard, 1731, and in. 2d, Thomas Green, 1744. John Coit, the father, d. Oct. 22, 1744, aged 74, and Mehitabel, his widow, d. Nov. 3, 1759, aged 86. COIT, Rev. JOSEPH,* (son of Joseph and Martha,) b. 1673, graduated at Harvard College in 1697, and afterward took a degree with the first class at Yale in 1702. He preached a while at Glou- * In the absence of all church records, it is difficult, at this late period, to gather the fruits of Rev. Mr. Coit's ministerial labors. His memory at Plainfield is cherished with respect and ven- eration by the older descendants of those to whom he ministered for nearly half a century. i^Ie held a good standing with the clergy of his day, and was often called to preside at their meet- ings, and was one of the excellent men of his generation, and a blessing to the people among whom he settled in the infancy of the town and the church, to the improvement and prosperity of which he seems to have contributed a large share. 54* 642 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. cester and at Norwich, after Rev. James Fitch (the father of the Fitches of Conn.) had become disabled, and they gave him a call to settle, which he declined, for the reason that he disagreed with the church at Norwich. June 12, 1699, Plainfield voted to give him a call, for one quarter of a year. The town being in want of means, continued to engage him in short periods from three to six months and a year, until January 7, 1705, (O. S.,) when he was ordained over the church and society at Plainfield, (Dr. Trumbull says in Jan., 1703, which is an error,) and continued their pastor about forty-four years, and was dismissed at the time of settling a sue- cessor, and died July 1, 1750, aged 77 years. He m. Experience Wheeler, daughter of Isaac, of Stonington, Sept. 18, 1705. She d. Jan. 8, 1759, and had ten children, viz.: 1. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 19, 1706-7, (O. S.,) probably d. young. 2. Samuel, b. 1708 ; settled in North Preston, and was the ancestor of all the Preston Coits. He m. Sarah Spalding, daughter of Benjamin, of Plainfield, in 1730, and removed to Preston, (now Griswold,) where he was colonel of mili- tia, and principal man of the town. He died Oct. 4, 1792, aged S4 years. 3. Joseph, Jun., b. about 1711 ; he d. young, though he m. Mary Spalding, of Preston, removed to Griswold and had two dau'rs, Elizabeth and Mary, and d. July 21, 1741, and his widow m. Gen. John Tyler, of Griswold, for second husband. 4. Martha, b. about 1713, (uncertain.) She m. 1. Lemuel Smith, of Volun- town ; had several children, one of whom was the late Luther S., of P. After the death of Mr. Smith, she m. 2. Humphrey Avery, of Norwich. 5. Isaac, b. Dec. 2G, 1714. Hem. Ruth Spalding, of Plainfield, and settled at Plainfield. After his wife d., 1773, he m. Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, widow of Rev. Mr. W., of Uxbridge, Mass.; had children by neither, and d. April 23, 1776, aged 61 years ; was one of the principal men of Plainfield. He left a leg- acy of £2")0 for the education of indigent youth at the academy in P. His widow m. Rev. Mr. Jones, ol Weston, Mass., Nov. 30, 1779. Isaac and his wife, members of the church in Plainfield, 1768. 6. Abigail, b. about 1716, (uncertain.) She m. Thomas Gates, of Plainfield. 7. Mary, b. about 1718, (uncertain;) m. Nathaniel Stanton, of Preston or Groton. 8. William, b. Nov. 27, 1720 ; name of his wife not known. He removed to Sheffield, Mass., before 1750, and his line lost track of. He d. in 1776. 9. Experience, b. about 1722, (uncertain.) She m. John Stevens, of Plain- field. 10. Daniel, b. in 1731. He m. Tamasore Kimball, of Methuen, Mass., and settled in Plainfield, and d. there April 23, 1762, and left a dau'r Experience, who d. young. His widow m. (about 1764) Dr. Elisha Lord, of Abington, (Pom fret.) She had children by Dr. Lord, a son Elisha, and five dau'rs, viz.: Experience, wife of Dr. Nehemiah Cleveland, of Topsfield, Mass.; Alathea, w. of Rev. Asahel Huntington, of Topsfield. Mass.; Sarah, wife of Gen. James Danielson, of Killingly ; Mary, wife of Dr. Josiah Fuller, of Plainfield ; Pamela, GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 643 wife of Major John Douglass, of Plainneld, and afterward wife of Judge Joseph Eaton, of Plainneld. (This is a digression to name some excellent ladies.) COIT, JOHN, b. 1670, son of Deacon Joseph, and grandson of John, Sen., and Mary Jenners, of N. London,) m. Mehetibel Chand- ler, (dau'r of John, of Woodstock,) June 25, 1695. They had chil- dren, viz.: 1. John, b. May 25, 1696; m. Grace Christophers, b. Nov. 14, 1698, (dau'r of Richaid and Grace,) m. July 2, 1719. 2. Joseph, b. Nov. 15, 1G9S ; m. Lydia, dau'r of Thomas Lathrop, 1739. 3. Samuel, b. Feb. IS, 1700. 4. Thomas, b. June 1, 1702; m. Mary Prentiss, dau'r of Thomas, of N. L., 1723. 5. Elizabeth, b. March 22, 1701 ; m. Samuel Gardiner, Nov. S, 1720. 6. Martha, b. April 1, 1700; m. Daniel Hubbard, Aug. 13, 1731, and Tho's Green, 1744. John, the father, d. Oct. 22, 1744, aged 74, and his widow Me- hitahel, d. Nov. 3, 1759, aged 86. COIT, JOSEPH, b. 1698, (son of John and Mehitabel,) m. Lidia Lathrop, (dau'r of Tho's and Lydia, of Norwich,) Jan., 1739-40. Issue : 1. Lydia, b. June 17, 1741 ; in. Wm. Hubbard, of Boston, Aug. 28, 1764. 2. Elizabeth, b. April 5, 1743; m. Christopher Leffingwell, Aug. 28, 1764. 3. Lucy, b. July 2, 1740; ra. And'w Huntington, Nov. 26, 1766. 4. Lucretia,b. April 15, 174S ; d. unmarried. 5. Joseph, b. Sept. 23, 1750; ni. Elizabeth Palmes, of Preston, Feb. 10, 1773. 6. Thomas, b. July 17, 1752; m. Sarah Chester, of Wethersfield, Oct., 17S2. 7. Daniel L , b. Sept. 20, 1754; ra. Eliz'thBill, of Nor'h, Nov. 23, 17S6. v . Jerusha, b. June 21, 1756; d. single. 9. Joshua, b. Oet. 7, 175S ; m. Ann Barradil Hallani, Jan. 2, 1785. JOSEPH, above, b. 1698, m. for his first wife, Mary Hunting, of E. Hampton, L. I., and had a son Jonathan, b. March 25, 1723, d. aged ten days. His wife Mary d. Lydia, his second wife, d. Jan. 10, 1794. Joseph, the father, was received into the church as early as March 16, 1717-18, and his second wife received Aug. 21, 1763. He d. at Norwich. He had ten children. Most of the Coits in- creased and multiplied. COIT, THOMAS, (son of John and Mehitabel,) b. 1702, m. Mary Prentiss, (daughter of Tho's and Mary,) Nov. 5th, 1723. They had an only son, (great-grandfather of Dr. T. W. Coit, of Hartford,) Thomas, b. Aug. 15, 1725, and Thomas, his father, d. March 10, 1724, aged 22 years. His widow. Mary, m. Dr. E. Gray, of Wind- ham, (then of Lebanon,) Feb. 20, 1727-8. His estate, £145, 2s. 9d. distributed to his widow Mary and only son, Tho's Coit. " Thomas 644 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Coit, son of John Coit," received to the church May 17, 1719. " Wid w Mary received Feb. 18," 1727-8. COIT, THOMAS, Jun., (only son of Thomas and Mary,) b. 1725, m. 1. Abigail Richards, his cousin, dau'r of John, May 23, 1756, and had children : 1. Abigail, b. March 5, 1757 ; d. June 21, 1757. 2. Thomas, b. Aug. 5, 175S ; d. Sept. 16, 175S. 3. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 1(5, 1759 ; in. Nathaniel Richard?. •1. Second Abigail, b. Aug. 10, 1761 ; m. George Hallam, Nov. 3, 17S4. Abigail, wife of Tho's, the father, d. Aug. 19, 1761, and Tho's m. for his second wife, Mary, dau'r of David and Eliz'"th Gardiner, Jan. 12, 1764, (of the family of Gardiner's Island,) and had ph., viz.: 5. Thomas, b. April2, 1767 ; m. Mary Wanton Saltonstall, dau'r of W. and Anne, Nov. 29, 1789. 6. David, b. May 3, 1769; m. Betsey Caulkins, dau*r of Pember, April 28 } 1797. 7. Jonathan, b. Aug. 6, 1771. 8. Mary, b. Oct. 13, 1773, d. 177-1. 9. Charles, b. Feb. 9, 1776. 10. Mary, b. May 9, 1778; m. Benj'n Richards, Dec. 20, 1795. 11. Henry, b. Oct. 21, 17S0 ; m. Ann Tolman. 12. Susannah, b. July 11, 1783. 13. James, b. Jan. 31, 17S6 ; m. Frances Tabor, dau'r of Pardon. COIT, THOMAS, b. 1767, (son of Thomas and Mary, his second wife,) m. Mary Wanton Saltonstall, of N. L., Nov. 29, 1789, and had children, viz.: 1. Ann W., b. Sept. 11, 171)0; d. Aug. 30, 1794. 2. Mary Gardiner Coit, b. April 28, 1792. 3. Hannah Saltonstall, b. June IS, 1795; d. Aug. 23, 1796. 4. Augusta Dudley, b March 31, 1797 ; d. 1822. 5. Martha, b. March 13, 1802; d. March 17, 1802. 6. Dr. Thomas Winthrop, b. June 28, 1803; m. Eleaner Forrester. 7. Elizabeth Richards, b. May 25, 1806 ; m. Edward Coit, of Norwich, and d. Feb. 25, 1837. 8. Gurdon Saltonstall Coit, b. Oct. 28, 1808; m. Eleaner F. Carlile. This is the branch of Rev. T. W. Coit, D. D., of Hartford. Sur- rounded by the blood of the Saltonstalls, Prentiss's, Richards's, Chandlers and Gardiners, we might well expect of him what we find, a ripe scholar, and one of the most literary men in New England, as well as one of the most liberal. He graduated at Yale College in 1821; M. A., 1831; and now Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Trinity College, and Lecturer on Chemistry and Natural Science. A lineal descendant of Martin Luther. COIT, JOHN, b. 1696, (son of John and Mehitabel Chandler,) m. Grace Christophers, b. 1698, (dau'r of Richard and Grace,) July 2 ? 1719, and had issue : GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 645 1. John, b. April 7, 1720; m. Pierce, June 13, 1742, daughter of Robert and Ann. 2. Richard, b. July 8, 1722; m. Abigail, daughter of Capt. John and Mary Bradick, of L. I., Oct. 12, 1743. 3. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 31, 1724 or 1725, d. same year. 4. Samuel, b. Oct. 14, 1750; m. Elizabeth Richards, b. Feb. 9, 1733, m. Feb. 18, 1753. 5. Joseph, b. Oct. 3, 172S; m. Mosier, of Montville. Grace, wife of John, d. Nov. 9, 1745, and John in. for his second wife, Hannah Potter, of Newport, R. I., widow of Thomas Potter, anddau'r of Henry Gardiner, June 20, 1748, and had three children, viz.: 6. Desire, b. Oct. 15, 1749; d. at Newport. 7. John, b. Oct. 30, 1752. 8. Mehitabel, b. June 16, 1755. COIT, RICHARD, b. 1722, son of John and Grace, m. Abigail Bradick, of Southold, L. L, Oct. 12, 1743. He had an only dau'r Martha, b. Oct. 9, 1744. She rn. John Holt. Her father, Richard, d. Oct. 3, 1745, and Abigail, his widow, m. James Chapman, June 7, 1767. COIT, SAMUEL, b. 1726, son of John and Grace, m. Elizabeth Richards, (dau'r of David,) b. Feb. 9, 1733, m. 1753. Had issue : 1. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 25, 1753 ; m. Joseph Fox, Jan. 16, 1772. 2. Samuel, b. Feb. 22, 1755; d. Sept. 10, 1756. 3. Rhoda, b. April 1, 1757 ; m. Benj'n Rogers. 4. Lydia, m. Joshua Potter, of Rhode Island. 5. Grace, m. Walter Gracie. 6. Lucretia, m. 1. Henry Young, and John Carroll, Sept., 1813. 7. Second Samuel, m. Silvia Lewis, Nov. 28, 1782. 8. David. 9. Second John, m. Lucy Smith, dau'r of James, Dec. 3, 1789. 10. Richard, d. young. Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Coit, received to the church, 1790. COIT, JOHN, (son of John and Grace, of N. L.,) b. 1720, m. Mary Pierce, dau'r of Robert and Ann, June 13, 1742. They had a dau'r Grace, b. Aug. 27, 1744. She m. Daniel Shaw or Starr. John, her father, was drowned March 26, 1744-5. COIT, JOSEPH, Jun., son of Rev. Joseph, b. 1711, m. Mary Spalding, of Plainfield, and removed to Griswold, where he had dau'rs, viz. : 1. Elizabeth, m. E. Lord, of Preston, March 21, 1754, and Daniel Kelly, of Norwich, June 4, 1767. 2. Mary, b. 1739, d. July 21, 1741, orm. Amos Clift, Feb. 12, 1761. Elizabeth and Mary were bap. as the children of Mary Coit, 646 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. widow, Nov. 1, 1741. His widow, Mary, m. Gen. John Tyler, of Preston, Dec. 14, 1742, for second husband. COIT, ISAAC, son of Rev. Joseph Coit, b. Dec. 26, 1714 ; he m. R.uth Spalding, of Plainfield, where he settled. His wife d. about 1770, and about 1773 he m. Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, widow of Rev. Mr. Webb, of Uxbridge, Mass. He d. without leaving children, April 23, 1776, aged 61. His widow m. Rev. Mr. Jones, of Weston, Mass., Nov. 30, 1779. COIT, DANYELL, b. in 1731, son of Rev. Joseph, of Plainfield, m. Tamasore Kimball, of Methuen, Mass., and settled ir/Plainfield, where he d. April 23, 1762, and left one daughter, Experience, who d. at Pomfret about 1765, and no sons. His widow, as before stated, m. Dr. Elisha Lord, of Pomfret, about 1764. (See ante.) Joseph, Isaac and Daniel, sons of Rev. Joseph Coit, left no sons. Daniel d. at Plainfield, April 23, 1762. Estate, £640. ?His widow administratrix, 1762. COIT, WM., son of Rev. Joseph, b. Nov. 27, 1720; not known who he m. He removed before 1750 to Sheffield, Mass., and died 1776. I have searched for no children. He had a son Isaac and others. COIT, Col. SAMUEL, b. about 1708, appears to have been the only son of Rev. Joseph, who has left sons to keep up his worthy name in Preston. Col. Samuel m. Sarah Spalding, dau'r of Benj'n, of Plainfield, in 1730. He removed from Plainfield, and settled at Preston, (now Griswold,) where he became a colonel of militia, judge of the county court and principal influential leader in Griswold. He died Oct. 4, 1792, aged 84 years. Most of the name in Griswold, Norwich, &c, are descendants of Col. Coit and his wife Sarah. Children : 1. Benj'n, b. March 2S, 1731 ; m. Abigail, dau'r of Roger Billings, of Pres- ton, Jan. 30, 1753. 2. Samuel, b. July 23, 1733; m. Mercy Clark, of Preston, May 7, 1754. 3. William, b. Feb. 13, 1735; in. Sarah La thr op, dau'r of Ebenezer, of Nor- wich, March 21, 1759. 4. Oliver, b. Feb. 23, 1736-7 ; m. Zipporah Morgan, Nov. 21, 1758. 5. Wheeler, b. Feb. 24, 173S-9 ; ni. Mehetabel Lester, dau'r of Timothy, of P., Dec. 26, 1765. 6. John, b. June 4, 1741 ; m. Mehitabel Tyler, dau'r of Gen. John, Feb. 6, 1766. 7. Joseph, bap. May 2, 1746; d. aged 20. 8. Isaac, d. aged three years, April 10, 1757. Sarah, wife of Col. Samuel, d. July 11, 1776, aged 65, and Col. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 647 Coitm. Mrs. Jemima Hall, for second wife, March 22, 1779. He d 1792.* COIT, WILLIAM, b. Jan. 25, 1675, (son of Deacon Joseph, of N. L., and Martha Harris, of Wethersfield, his wife,) m. Sarah Chandler, (sister of his brother John Coit's wife,) June 9, 1697, and d. at N. L. May 7, 1703, aged 27 years. His widow, Sarah, m. John Gardiner for her second husband. William left three children : 1. Daniel, b. Oct. 25, 1698. He became a business man in N. London, town- clerk, &c; had three wives and several children ; but no male descendants of his are now found there. 2. Elizabeth, b. in 1700, d. young. 3. William, b. 1701-2 ; also d. young. COIT, SOLOMON, b. Nov. 29, 1679, son of Deacon Joseph and grandson of John, Sen., of N. L., m. Mary Stow, Dec. 24, 1706, and had issue : 1. Solomon, b. 1710, probably died young. 2. Mary, b. June 30, 1713; m. G. Lucas, Aug. 18, 1733. 3. Nathaniel, birth not certain; had a large family in N. L., of whom there are now few descendants of the name. Mary, wife of Solomon, d, July 7, 1713. Solomon m. second, Elizabeth Short, Aug. 18, 1714, and after- * Note. Several of this family were conspicuous whigs during the War of the Revolution. One of the Capt. Coits distinguished himself at the battle of Bunker Hill, with Knowlton and many others from Connecticut. Capt. William Coit was appointed captain of the ship of war Oliver Cromwell, which was built at Saybrook by Connecticut in 1776. He was appointed cap- tain of said ship of war then building, July 11, 1776, and on July 31, the governor and council appointed Azariah Whittlesey, master of the colony ship under Capt. Coit, and allowed £250 to enlist his men ; and Capt. Coit continued her captain until April 11, 1777, when Seth Hard- ing, Esq., was appointed captain of the Oliver Cromwell, and Capt. Coit considered discharged, after the 14th of April, 1777. This ship did good service during that war. (See The doings of the Governor and Council of Connecticut in 1776, '77, and pp. 578, '79. '80, '81, Jlppendir Jim- man's Hist, of Revolution.) Col. Samuel Coit held an exalted rank in Connecticut for many years before, during and after the war, as a man of excellent judgment, on the bench of the court, in society, or in the battle- field. He had become somewhat aged when the war commenced, but in 1776 was colonel of a regiment of the militia of Connecticut, and the committee of war, Sept. 6, 1776, directed that the vacancy made in Col. Wolcott's regiment should be supplied by men from Col. Coit's and Saltonstall's regiments of militia. Col. Samuel Coit, by his age and infirmity, (not his good will for the cause,) was excused from service in the expedition to New York, by the governor and council of Connecticut, Sept. 18, 1776. An interesting coincidence is related by Judge N. Shipman, late of Norwich, viz.: "Samuel Coit, of Preston, was Lieut. Col. and Judge of the County Court, at the same time Hezekiah Huntington, of Norwich, was Lieut Col. and Judge of the County. Each was the father of nine children, who arrived at the age of maturity. In 1835, all that remained of the blood of Col. Huntington was contained in the veins of the five children of Hon. Frederick Wolcott, of Litchfield, while the descendants of Col. Coit numbered over five hundred." 648 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ward supposed to have m. Margaret . The history of this household needs further investigation. Elizabeth, second wife of Solomon, d. March 25, 1715. COIT, JOSEPH, b. 1728, son of John and Grace, m. Miss Mosier of Montville, and perhaps had sons Joseph and Richard. COIT, NATH'L, son of Solomon, m. Margaret Douglass, dau'r of Richard, Nov. 6, 17:35, and had issue: 1. Sarah, b. July 18, 1736 : m. Samuel Belden, June 17, 1759. 2. Nath'l, Jan., b. Dec. 1, 1738; m. Baradii Latimer, dau'r of Jno., July 5, 1761. 3. Mary, b. Nov. 10, 1710 ; d. 1742-3. 4. Margaret, b. Feb. 8, 1742-3; d. 1746. 5. Solomon, b. Feb. 15, 1744-5; m. Hannah Jordan, Feb. 26, 1775. (3. Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1717; d. May 2S, 1S32. 7. Samuel, b. July 1, 1752 ; d. at Boston: S. Win., b. July 1, 175-2 ; d. July 9, 1752. Margaret, wife of Nathaniel, d. July 17. 1752, and Nathaniel m. for his second wife, Mary Braddick, (widow,) and dau'r of Richard Christophers, July 13, 1754 ; had a dau'r Katherine, who d. young, and Mary, her mother, d. Nath'l in. for his third wife, Love, the widow of Lemuel Rogers, and dau'r of George Richards, Nov. 18, 1759, and had children, John, Benjamin, William, Russell and Love. COIT, RUSSELL, (son of Nath'l and Love,) m. Lucretia Wolf, Nov. 19, 1791, and had children, viz. : 1. Natb'l.b. Aug. 13, 1792; m. Nancy Neil. 2. Love, b. Nov. 2, 1794; d. 1795. 3. Mary, b. Sept. 4, 1796. 4. Second Love, b. Nov. 19, 179S; m. Dr. West, of Tolland. 5. Nancy, b. Feb. 21, 1S04; m. John Miller. 6. John Wolf, b. Jan. 29, 1S03. 7. Win. Avery, b. Oct. 30, 1806. Lucretia, wife of Russell, d. 1832, and Russell d. Feb. 22, 1850. COIT, NATH'L, son of Nath'l and Margaret, (Douglass,) b. 1738, m. Baradii Latimer, (dau'r of Jona.,) July 5, 1764, and had issue, viz.: 1. Nathaniel, b. April 11, 17G5 ; d. single at sea. 2. Margaret, b. Aug. 21, 1767; d. 1S14. 3. Barradill.b. Aug. 9, 1769; m. Stephen G. Thatcher, Oct. 27, 1798. 4. Anne, b. April 10, 1771. 5. Catherine, b. April 13, 1775; m. Richard Chapped, Feb. 5, 1797; d. March 13, 1849. 6. Richard, b. March 26, 1777; d. at sea. 7. Jonathan, b. Sept. 14, 1779 ; drowned about 1785. 8. Sarah, b. July 28, 1781; d. Aug. 7, 1781. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 649 Nathaniel, the father, d. of the "prison and ship fever," April 24, 1783, and his widow Baradil d. March 4, 1817, aged 63 years. COIT, SOLOMON, Capt., b. 1744-5; son of Nathaniel and Margaret (D.) m. Hannah Jordan, Feb. 26, 1775, of Saco, and had issue, viz.: 1. Margaret, ) , .„_, . ( m. Nicholas Scammon, a farmer, March 5, 1808. 2. Hannah, )' 'I Hannah resides at Saco. 3. Mehetabel, b. 1781 ; m. 1. Wentworth, and 2. Patterson. 1. Nath'l, d., aged I4yeai . 5. Mary, d., aged 7. 6. Solomon, b. 1093 ; d. Capt. Solomon, the father, d. in the West Indies about 1793. Hannah, his widow, m. Capt. Jos. Perkins, of Arundel, (now Ken- nebunkport,) in 1797. Solomon, Jun., son of Solomon and Hannah, sailed from Ports- mouth about 1814. He was master of the privateer Mars, and was never heard from. COIT, BENJAMIN, (son of Col. Samuel and Sarah,) of Oris- wold, had two wives : first, Abigail, dau'r of Roger Billings, of Pres- ton, m. Jan. 30,-1753, and had children, viz.: 1. Isaac, b. Oct. 28, 1753; m. Ruama Hall, dau'r of John, of Preston. 2. Roger, b. March 28, 1755; m. Olive Brewster, daughter of Simeon, of Preston. 3. Daniel, b. Jan. 2S, 1757 ; m. Olive Tyler, dau'r of Gen. John, of Preston. 1. Benjamin, Jun., b. Dec. 21, 1759; in. Sarah, dau'r of Wm. and Sarah Coit, of Norwich. Abigail, the mother of the above children, d. Jan. 27, 1760, aged 38. He m. for his second wife, Widow Mary Boardman, a daugh- ter of Captain Tyler, May 28, 1760, and had other children, viz.: 5. Henry, b. Dec. 11, 1761 ; d. single, 1790. 6. George, b. Sept. 19, 1764 ; d. in London, England, Sept. 2S, 1787. 7. William, b. August 21, 1766 ; m. Miss Cornell ; merchant in N. York. S. Abigail, b. Aug. 20, 176S ; m. Nathaniel Shipman, of Norwich, Oct. 14, 1794. 9. Martha, b. Oct. 16, 1770 ; m. Dwight Ripley, of Norwich, April 24, 1794. 10. Betsey, b. Oct. 29, 1772; m. Rev. Jona. Pomeroy, of Northampton, Mass., Dec. 24, 1795; d. 1834. 11. Thomas, b. Feb. 7, 1775; was lost at sea. Mary, second wife of Benjamin, d. June 15, 1800, aged 70. Ben- jamin, the father, d. April 21, 1812, aged 81. " Benj'n Coit, Esq." received to communion at 2d church in Preston, July 6, 1806. He and his wife Abigail, owned the covenant at Preston, Oct. 20, 1754. 55 G50 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. COIT, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Col. Samuel, of Preston, m. Mercy Clark, of Preston, May 7, 1754, and had issue : 1. Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1755 ; d. Feb. 1, 1S2G, aged 72. 2. Mercy, b. May 13, 1756 ; d. Feb. 2, 1790. 3. Solomon, b. Jan. 21, 1759 ; d. in the army, Aug. 17, 1776. 4. Bethany, b. Nov. 23, 1760 ; m. Jno. Wingate, of Plainfield, N. H., Jan. 28, 1796. 5. Samuel, b. Oct. 23, 1762 ; in. Mary Burton, of Preston, June 25, 1785. 6. Joseph, b. Sept. 20, 1764. 7. James, b. Feb. 3, 1768 ; m. Lovitt, of Lisbon, Nov. 27, 1800. S. Polly, b. June 3, 1770 ; m. Turner. 9. Clark, b. May 7, 1772 ; d. at his brother James', in Hastings, N. Y., July 25, 1844. Mercy, the mother, d. Nov. 12, 1800, aged 73. Samuel, the father, d. at Preston, March 13, 1806, aged 73. Mr. Samuel was re- ceived to the second church in Preston, in 1801. COIT, OLIVER, son of Col. Samuel, m. Zipporah ?^organ, of Preston, Nov. 21, 1758. Children : 1. Farewell, b. Dec. 21, 1758. 2. Huldah,b. Feb. 20, 1760; d. Aug. 3, 1790. 3. Experience, b. March 12, 1763 ; d. Feb. 13, 1S50, aged 86. 4. Elizabeth, b. March 21, 1765; d. Feb. 10, 1850, aged 84. 5. Olive, b. April 2, 1766 ; d. July 8, 1772. 6. Elisha, b. Dec. 10, 1769. 7. Oliver, b. June 9, 1771 ; d. Dec. 17, 1843, aged 72. S. Second Olive, b. Dec. 7, 1773 ; d. 1S39, aged 65. 9. Daniel, b. July 7, 1776; d. 1801, aged 28. 10. Samuel, b. July 6, 1778; d. of yellow fever in Cuba, July 10, 1799, aged 21. 11. Benjamin S., b. July 1, 17S2 ; d. Oct. 2S, 1822, aged 40. Capt. Oliver Coit d. in Preston, Oct. 3, 1809, aged 72. Zippo- rah, his widow, d. Aug. 11, 1827, aged 90. (See Note of Oliver.) COIT, WHEELER, son of Samuel and Sarah, b. Feb. 29, 1738, m. Mehetibel Lester, dau'r of Timothy, of Preston, Dec. 26, 1765. Issue : 1. Lucy, b. Oct. 18, 1766 ; m. Eb. Ledyard, Jun., of Gvoton, Oct. 14, 1789, and m. second, Thomas Fanning. 2. Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1767 ; d. Dec. 27, 1788, aged 21. Mehitabel, wife of Wheeler, d. March 3, 1774, aged 28, and he m. Sibil Tracy, of Norwich, second wife, Dec. 8, 1774. Issue: 3. An infant, d. July. 4. Daniel, b. Aug. 12, 1777 ; m. Uezekiah Lord, Oct. 3, 1804, d. May, 1805. 5. Betsey, b. Dec. 11, 17S0 ; m. John Coit, of New York, Dec. 14, 1802. 6. Mehitabel, b. Nov. 5, 1734; m. John L. Boswell, of Norwich. 7. Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 17S6 ; m. Hon. Tho's Day, of Hartford. 8. Lydia, b. Sept., 1788; m. Eliphalet Terry, Esq., of Hartford. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 651 !). Samuel Tracy, b. May 0, 1790; m. Penelope M. Abbott. Sybil, second wife, d. Feb. 27, 1793, and be m. for bis third wife, Hannab, a widow, and a granddaughter of Rev. B. Lord, of Norwich, Nov. 14, 1793, and by her had issue : 10. Hannab Ann, b. Oct 24, 1797 ; d. May 20, 1816, aged 21. 11. Joseph Lord, b. June 14, 1796, d. 1S36. Wheeler, the father, d. in Preston, Oct. 1, 1796. aged 57. COIT, JOHN, son of Samuel and Sarah, m. Mehitabel Tyler, daughter of Gen. John, of Preston, Feb. 6, 1766, and had issue: 1. Lydia, b. Dec. 13,1766; in. James Lord. 2. Nathaniel, b. May 5,1765; m. Betsey Morgan, of P., March 14, 1792. 3. Sarah, b. May 1, 1770 ; m. James Rogers, of Norwich, Jan. 16, 1799. •1. Olive, b. Feb. 22, 1772; m. Col. Moses Tyler, May 29, 1793. and 2. Rev. G. Dorman, in 1S35. 5. John, b. Dec. 20, 1773; m. Betsey Coit, bis cousin, daughter of Wheeler, 1S02. 6. Sophia, b. Oct. 11, 1775 ; m. Roland Bnrbank, of W. Springfield. 7. James Tyler, b. Oct. 1, 177^5 ; drowned at St. Mary's, Georgia. 8. Hon. Roger, b. Jan. 25, 17S6 ; m. 1. Frances Coit.dau'r of D'l and Mercy, Nov. 15, 1S08. 9. Rebecca, b. Feb. 2, 17S3 ; m. D. T. Coit, March 27, 1805. John, the father, d. at Preston, March 7, 1808, aged 67. His widow, Mehitabel, d. Jan. 3, 1806, aged 73 years. COIT, WILLIAM, son of Samuel and Sarah, (b. 1735,) m. Sarah, dau'r of Ebenezer Lathrop, of Norwich, March 21, 1759. His wife Sarah d. Feb. 21, 1780, aged 45. He d. Nov. 16, 1821, aged 86 years. He m. a second wife, Elizabeth, (Palmes,) widow of Joseph Coit. She d. Aug. 28, 1803. Issue : 1. Abigail, b. Jan. 26, 1760; m. Gen. Joseph Williams, of Norwich. 2. Wm., Jun., b. April 27, 1761 ; d. aged 24, April 25, 1785. 3. Elisha, b. Dec. 22, 1762; m. R. Manwaring. 4. Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1765; m. Benj'n Coit, of Norwich, Oct., 1788. 5. Lydia, b. Sept. 4, 1766; m. Thomas Fanning, June, 17S9 ; d. Nov. 1, 1789. 6. Daniel, b. April 2, 1768 ; d. at Port au Prince, 1790. 7. Levi, b. April 24, 1770; m. Lydia Howland, of Norwich. 8. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, 1772; m. Dwight Ripley, of Norwich, Feb. 24, 1796. 9. Lucy, b. Sept. 9, 1773; d. May 1, ISM, aged 70; single. COIT, Hon. ROGER, b. Jan. 25, 1786, son of John and Mehita- bel; he resided many years at Plainfield, and while there was six years high sheriff of Windham county, and sustained that high rep- utation which men of his deportment and good common sense, with a gentlemanly ease of manner, always will, in all good society. He held several places of trust in the town and state, in which he was 652 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ever. careful to honor his office, rather than have the office honor him. He has resided also at Norwich, and in his old age has re- moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. He m. first, Frances Coit, daughter of Daniel and Mercy, of Preston, Nov. 15, 180S, and had children, viz.: 1. John,!). Aug. 28, 1809; m. Camela L. Fuller, of" Plainfield, March 10, 1S36. 2. Susan, b. Oct. 8, 1810 ; in. Daniel Packer, Jun., Sept. 21, 1831 : d. 3. Catherine, h. Dec. 4, 1M1 ; in. Elisha Morgan. 4. James Mason, b. Feb. 15, 1S13; m. Mary Ann La thro n, of Norwich. 5. Lydia Lord, b. Aug. 9, 1814 ; in. P. Spooner. 6. Frances, b. June 9, 1S1G; in. G. Webb. 7. Jane, b. Jan. 6, 1818; d. March 12, 1844, aged 20. s. Samuel, b. Feb. 17, 1819 ; in. Mary, daughter of Joseph Gladding, of Pj; many years in a bank ; now of New York city. 9. Henry R., b. Oct. 5, 1820; in. Fanny, dau'r of O. Olmsted, of Hartford ; now Cashier of the bank in Litchfield. 10. Ruth Harwood, b. Jan. 18, 1822; in. Rev. Andrew Dunning, Aug. 1 I ; d. aged 26. 11. Olive Tyler, b. Nov. 17, 1823 ; d. aged 22. 12. Harriet G., b. Oct. 12, 1S25 ; d. aged 20. 13. Betsey P., b. Jan. 30, 1827; a noble girl; unmarried in Ohio. 14. Daniel Roger, Esq., b. Aug. 23, 1S29 ; a lawyer in Ohio. Mrs. Frances, wife of Hon. Roger, and mother of the above fam- ily, d. Sept. 26, 1843, aged 53. Mr. Coit removed to Cincinnati, where he m. for his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Cogswell, (maiden name Rowland, of Ct.,) and where he now resides, and has a dau ; r, Mary Rebecca, by his second marriage, being fifteen children by two wives. COIT, ELISHA, (son of Wrn. and Sarah, above,) was a mer- chant in the city of New York. He m. Rebecca Man waring, of N. L., Jan. 20, 1793, and had children born in New York, viz.: 1. Martha M., m. Hon. Thomas S. "Williams, of Hartford, late chief justice of the supreme court of Conn., his second wife ; no issue by either. 2. Mary Ann, m. first, Rev. Henry Blatchford, and second, Hon. Samuel Hubbard, LL. D., of Boston, late judge of the superior court in Mass., now deceased. 3. "William D., unmarried. 4. Susanna M., m. Thomas Adams, of Castine, a merchant at Boston. 5. Sarah L.,m. Charles Scudder, merchant, of Boston. 6. Gurdon Saltonstall, m. Mary Ann Burbige, of N. York. 7. Rebecca M., d. in infancy. COIT, NATH'L, son of John and Mary, m. Eliz'th Davis, Feb. 16, 1687. Issue : 1. Mary, b. Marcli 9, 1688. GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. 653 2. John, b. March 9, 1691. 3. Daughter, b. May 31, 1993. 4. Abigail, b. April 20, 1695; d. 1698. 5. Joshua, b. July 5, 1697 ; d. 1697. 6. Martha, b. July 14, 1698. 7. Abigail, b. Jan. 13, 1703. S. Steven, b. Nov. 1, 1704 ; d. 1703. His wife, Elizabeth, d. Feb. 11, 1700, and Nath'l Coit m. Abigail Stevens, Feb. 17, 1702, and had issue above. Abigail, second wife, d. Jan. 8, 1710, and Nath'l m. Widow Hannah Sargent, for third wife, Nov. 30, 1711. Nath'l, the father, d. Jan. 10, 1743, aged 84. He had been selectman, representative, &c. March 11, 1650-1. — John Coite, " the younger, hath given him by the townsmen of Pequot, one acre of meadow lying in its length, by Wm. Welman, towards the weast, and will mea. towards the east, land laid out by the measurers in Quaganapauxet." It appears by this, John, Jun., was at N. L. for a time. "John Coite, Sen., hath given to him 20 acres, Feb. 19, 1654." COIT, JOHN, of Gloucester, son of John and Mary Jenners, m. Mary Stevens, dau'r of Wm., May 21, 1652, and had issue in Mass.: 1. John, b. Aug. 14, 1653. 2. Mary, b. June 4, 1655. 3. Abigail, b. March 29, 1657; m, Isaac Eveleth. Nov. 13, 1677. 4. Nath'l, b. April 13, 1659. 5. Job, b. Aug. 26, 1661. John, the father, d. April 25, 1675. COIT, JOB, son of John and Mary, m. Hannah — ^-, and had a dau'r Mary, whod. young; perhaps others. Job d. Sept. 15, 1690. There is a certificate of the marriage of Mary Coyt with Joseph Whitne, from Charleston, S. Carolina, certified by A. Garden, min- ister, Aug. 2, 1736, recorded at Norwalk, Ct. Joseph, John and Joshua Coit, had graduated at Harvard College, before 1776, and fifteen at Yale College, before 1851. Dr. Isaac, of Southwick, d. 1813. This informal, extended list of the family of Coits, containing many facts, is far from a full list of that worthy family. For many of the facts, (not the form,) I am indebted to Rev. Mr. Learned, of Canter, bury, (a descendant of the family,) and others; though I should not have published it in its present informal shape, except by the earnest solicitation of one of the famil)-. COKE, PENFIELD, was refused a settlement in Hartford, in 1664. COLE, JAMES, was an original settler at Hartford, and in the 55* 654 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. first land division there in 1639, and drew ten acres. He was lo- cated on the eighth tier of lots, west of Trumbull Street, in Hartford, numbered 35 to 43, from Burr Street to the river. (Porter.) He had a lot of land in Wethersfield, in 1645. He was a weaver by trade, and not a man of much wealth or particular notice in the col- ony. He m. in London, before he came to this country, Ann Ed- wards, said to have been the widow of Rev. Richard Edwards, of London, who died there. She had one child by Mr. Edwards, a son, about twelve years old, by the name of William Edwards who came with her and his father-in-law, to Hartford. This boy became the ancestor of Rev. Timothy Edwards, J. Edwards, D. D., Jonathan, President of a college in N. Jersey, and Jonathan, President of the college at Schenectady ; of Gov. Edwards, of Hon. Daniel Edwards, of Hon. Pierpont, of Judge Edwards, of N. York, Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., late president of Yale College, of Hon. Theodore, and many others of the great men of this country, probably more than have descended from any other English ancestor who settled in Connecticut. (See EDWARDS.) Ann, the wife of James Cole, d. Feb. 20, 1678-9, and by her will, gave her house and lot to her son, Wm. Edwards, during his and his wife's lives ; at their decease, to vest in her grandson, Richard, son of Wm., and his heirs forever; Richard, administrator. Estate, £103. James and Ann Cole had a son John, and other children by her second husband. There was also a John Cole, an early settler at Hartford. The relation be- tween James and John is not found, if any existed. James d. 1652. COLE, JOHN, early removed to Farmington, and belonged to the first church organized there as early as 1651 or '52 He had two sons, Samuel and John. Soon after the settlement of the town of Hadley, in 1659, John Cole, Sen., removed there with his son John, while Samuel, his other son, was located in Farmington, and re- mained there. John, Jun., of Hadley, had sons Jonathan and Sam- uel, and their descendants are now numerous in and about Hadley, particularly Jonathan's. Samuel, son of John, Sen., of Farmington, wife Abigail, had sons Samuel, Jun., Timothy, John, Nath'l, Isaac, Joseph and Caleb. Samuel's descendants settled in Southington, New Britain, Meriden, &c. Timothy Covvles m. into the family of Hon. Wm. Pitkin, of East Hartford, where Timothy settled and became a deacon in the church there. John left no posterity. Porter says, the sons of Nathaniel settled in Canaan, except the oldest Nathaniel, who lived with his uncle John, and d. young, soon after he married, but left a son Nathaniel, whose family settled in Bethlem, Ct. Isaac GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 655 became the ancestor of most of the wealthy Cowles's, of Farming- ton. Joseph, another brother, settled at Meriden, where he m. Mis Royce, and became a deacon of the church there. This has proved a good branch of the descendants of John, Sen.; and Caleb, the other brother, who located his family at Kensington, was the most unfortunate branch of these seven sons. The descendants of Sam- uel, Sen., of Farmington, uniformly spell the name Cowles, while the descendants of John, Jun., spell it Cowls, and the ancestor, John, spelt his name Cole. Joshua, of Colchester, 1731. COLE, CALEB, of Norwalk, settled in Sharon, 1748 ; his sons were Matthew, Zebulon and David. He d. 1780. (Sedg.) COLES, SUSAN, of Hartford, for her rebellious carriage to her mistress, was sent to the house of correction, kept to hard labor and coarse diet, brought forth the next lecture day and publicly corrected, and so weekly corrected, until an order should be given to the con- trary, March 5, 1644. (Col. Rec.) She was often adjudged to be whipped afterward. Mathew Williams' debt for wages in the hands of Belding, ordered detained by him, until an order was had as to Susan Cole's child layed to his charge, 1645. COLES, HENRY, and wife Sarah, of Middletov>n, (record by his wife,) had issue, Henry, b. Sept. 20, 1647; James, b. Feb. 8, 1649; John, b. Feb. 14, 1652 ; Wm., b. April 25, 1653 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 22, 1654 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1050 ; Mary, b. June 11, 1658 ; Joanna, b. Aug. 1, 166] ; Abigail, b. 1664, and Rebecca, b. April 5, 1667 — ten children. COLE, ICHABOD and SARAH, of Middletown, had issue born there : Stephen, b. July 17, 1708, d.; Rachel, b. Jan. 23, 1709-10. Ichabod, the father, d. April 4, 1711. (Steams.) COLLS, TOBIAS, of Saybrook, notices in his will, John Corn- stock, II. Champion, W. Waller, R. Marvin, Rich'd Smith, W. Brockway, J. Borden, P. Lay, John Prentice, Mr. Lay and his chil- dren. He gave his property to the Lay family, principally, though he left one child. John Lay, executor. Will dated Sept. 2, 1664. Inventory presented Oct. 15, 1664. COLE, JAMES, settled at Harwinton as early as 1740. Cole, Robert, Adam Goodwin, Wm. Carpenter, John Green, John Field, John Clark, John Coggshall, Wm. Dyer, and Richards, are some of the early settlers of Rhode Island. COAL, JOHN, plow-maker, New London, in 1651. Mary Gal- lop, daughter of John, of New London, m. John Cole, of Boston. COLE, HENRY, fined 10s. 8d. for sleeping when on watch, 656 GENEALOGY OF THE i'UIUTANS. 1649. Hem. Sarah Rusco, Dec. 10, 1640. He was proposed for a freeman in 1007. COLE, SAMUEL, m. Lidiah , Sept. 25, 1079. Issue b in Wethersfield, Joseph, b. Sept. 12, 1081 ; Lidiah, b Jan. 18, 1084. His son Joseph m. Abigail Riley, dau'r of Jonathan, Jan. 13, 1709, and had a son John b. at Wethersfield, June 13, 1710. COLE, JOHN. Deputy in H., 1053 and '54. In 1070, the town of Hartford voted him an enlargement of his lot for his son to build upon, so much as Maj. Talcott, Mr. Richards, Mr. Nichols and Thomas Bunce should see reason to lay out for him. John m. Eliz'h Good- win, Sept., 1713. COLE, SAMUEL, of Hartford, had a son b. Feb. 9, 1098; Dan- iel, b. Aug. 18, 1701 ; Selah ? b. Feb. 8, 1703 ; Sarah, b. Feb. 18, 1705, d. in Sept.; Abigail, b. Sept. 18, 1700. {Bar. Rec.) COLE, JOHN, of Farmington, elected commissioner from Farm- ington, May, 1009, and constable of Farmington, Nov. 30,1057, and '08. John Coal was deputy, Oct., 1053 ; also, May, 1654, Nov., 1053; freeman, May, 1057. John Cole in the list of freemen at Hartford, Oct., 1009. Samuel Cole in the list at Farmington, 1009. John Coale proposed for freeman by Farmington, May, 1009. Mr. John Cole and others appointed commissioners for the town of Wick- ford, invested with the power of magistrates in 1070. (See p. 553, printed Col. Rec, vol. 2.) John Coles, in 1001, occupied the farm in Hartford which had been owned by Gov. Hopkins. COLE, JOSHUA, of Colchester, and Mary, his wife, had Mary, b. Nov. 5, 1732 ; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 31, 1734-5, perhaps others. COLE, NATH : L, of Hartford, d. April 20, 1734-5. COLE has 22 coats of arms, and COLES has 0. COLE, SAM'L, of Hartford, m. Mary, dau'r of James Kingsbury, ofPlainfield, in 1093. Edward Coles embarked in the Thomas and John, for Virginia, Jan. 0, 1035. Thomas Coles, aged 32, shipped in the transport, for Virginia, July 4, 1035. John Cole, aged 40, embarked in the ship Confidence, of London, for New England, in 1038, from Southamp- ton, April 24. Clement Cole, aged 30, came to New England in the Susan and Ellen, in 1035. Isaac Cole, a carpenter, and Joan, his wife, came toN. England in the Hercules, of Sandwich, in 1034, with two children. This was an early name at Duxbury, Mass. Farmer names George Cole, of Lynn, 1037, removed to Sandwich, and died about 1053. Isaac, of Charlestown, free in ]038, d. June 10, 1074. John, GENEALOGY OF THE PUR1TAXS. 657 of Boston, mem. ar. co., 1642 ; son John, b. 1643, and Samuel, b. 1646. Rice, or Rise, of Charlestown, free, 1633, d. 1646. Robert, of Salem, free, 1631. Samuel, of Boston, came over 1630. Wm., of Boston, 1653. Three by the name of Cole had graduated at Harvard College, be- fore 1826, and one spelled Cowles, in 1843 ; and three by the name of Cole, at Yale Coll., before 1S35 ; and nineteen by the name of Cowles, before 1848 ; two of the name of Cole at Brown University, and four Cowles at Williams College. There have been several distinct families in Connecticut in its early settlement. COLFAX, JOHN, at New London, not early. Geo. Colfax, at a still later period, was common-council-man and alderman at New London, several years. John Colfax was one who opened Hill St. at N. L. in 1752. (See Caulk.) COLEFOXE, COLFAX, COLEFAX, WM. We first found him fined 20s. at court in Hartford, Sept. 4, 1645, for a misdemeanor. He is next found in 1647 or '48, before the court at Hartford, for la- boring to inveigle the affections of Write, his dau'r, and fined £5- Next defendant in court for a debt of £16, in favor of Jervis Mudge, in Dec, 1648. In Dec, 1649, he is plaintiff" in court at Hartford, against John Sadler, and recovered £A. (See Court Record.) WM. COLEFOX or COLEFEX, had four parcels of land in Wethersfield, he purchased of Samuel " Willas," Nov. 15, 1649. William was at Wethersfield, m Alsie, his wife, and had children born there, viz.: Elizabeth, b. April, 1653 ; John, b. Feb., 1655 ; Mary, b. Feb., 1657 ; Jonathan, b. Feb., 1659. His estate distrib- uted to his children in 1661. COLEFAX, JONATHAN, son of Wm., of Wethersfield, m. Mary, May 28, 1696, and had Sarah, b. March 3, 1697, and perhaps others. Jonathan, d. Dec. 17, aged about 53 years, and his property distributed to his children, John, Jonathan, Sarah, Elizabeth, m. Henry Arnold, and Mary. John, of Wethersfield, d. at Wethersfield, 1681. John Colefox's inventory taken Dec, 1676, £30 ; d. in Windsor, 1676 ; no issue. Colefox has four coats of arms. COLEGROVE, ISAAC, died at Suffield, of palsy, Dec. 20, aged 85 years. This name is found in New York. COLDGROVE, NATHAN, of the second society of Colchester. His son John bap. July 27, 1783. One by this name graduated at Yale College, 1849. 658 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. COLEMAN, THOMAS, was an early settler at Wethersfield, Conn.; appointed by the particular court, with Francis Norton, to appraise damage done in a field of corn, 1639 ; juror, Oct., 1644 ; defendant in court, 1643. In 1645, he with Nath'l Dickinson, were appointed by the P. court to take the particulars of the estate of Mr. Parksman, then deceased, and return the same to the court. Defend, ant in court May 19, 1647. In 1654, was appointed by the Gen. Court, with Edward Stebbing, to draw rules for sealing leather, and deputy the same session. At the Gen. Court, March, 1657-8, he was freed from watching, warding and training, if he proved he was over sixty years of age. He was juror Dec, 1641 ; Sept., 1645; Oct., 1645; Dec, 1647; four sessions in 1648; representative to the Gen. Court four sessions in 1650 ; in May, 1651 ; May, 1652 ; also in June, Sept., Oct. and Feb., 1652; April, August and Sept., 1653, and repeatedly afterward. Few if any gentleman in the col- ony was as frequently a member of the Gen. Court as Mr. Coleman ; few sustained a higher reputation in the colony. Oct. 3, 1654, he and Mr. Hollister and Nath'l Dickinson, of Wethersfield, were ap- pointed to join with the Dep. Gov., to see to the pressing of men and procuring necessaries in Wethersfield, to attend the expedition to Nar- ragansett in the Ninigret war. Thomas Coleman, of Marlborough, England, farmer, embarked at Hampton, in the James, of London, for N. E., about April, 1635. He took charge of Ab'm Easton's estate until the court settled the administration, March, 1647. He was much given to litigation, as many of the early settlers were* He was appraiser of John CattelPs estate, dee'd, of Wethersfield, July 17, 1644. Notwithstanding the popularity of Mr. Coleman, at Wethersfield, he was one of the signers at. Goodman Ward's house in Hartford, April 18, 1659, to remove, with their families, out of the jurisdiction of Conn, into Mass., (see p. 97, ante,) for the purpose of settling the town of Hadley, and he with many others did remove and settled the town in 1659 and '60, headed by Gov. Webster, who being in poor health, stopped at Northampton for a time. Mr. Coleman was probably married and his children born before he came to Wethersfield, if he was over 60 years old in 1657-8. Tho's Coleman died at Hadley, in 1674. The births of his children are not found upon the record at Weth'fd. Noah and John are sup- posed to have been his sons. John, defendant in court at Hartford, 1648 ; free, 1658. Coleman. Noah, of Hadley, m. Mary Crow, Dec. 27, 1666, and Mary Coleman m. Peter Montague, at Hadley, in 1680. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 659 Noah, Sen., d. at Hadley, July 20, 1676. Mary, dau'r of Noah, d. at Hadley, Sept., 1671. COLEMAN, NOAH, of Hadley, (supposed son of Noah, Sen.,) appears to have removed to Colchester, Conn., after the death of Noah, Sen.; had a son Joseph, b. June 28, 1706, d. 1770 ; an early settler at Colchester. Hannah Coleman, widow, at Colchester, Sept. 23, 1727 ; d. 1765. Noali Coleman, of Colchester, (supposed son of Noah, Jun.,) had a dau'r Pybell, bap. Nov. 11, 1733; Noah, bap. Jan. 11, 1736; Ozias, bap. Dec. 24, 1738, perhaps others. COLEMAN, JOHN, of Hadley, m. Mary , in Sept., 1667. He owned a share in mill swamp lots in Hadley, in 1669 ; his dau'r Mary was b. at Wethersfield, Nov. 29, 1072 ; Eliz'th, b. Jan. 14, 1677. John Coleman m. Hannah, dau'r of James Wright, April 24, 1695, and had Mary, b. Dec. 13, 1695 ; John, b. May 12, 1698 ; Thomas, b. June 6, 1701 ; Hannah, b. Sept. 25, 1704; Elisha, b. Oct. 3, 1707. Mrs. H. Coleman d. Aug., 1741. His son John m. Comfort Robbins, of Wethersfield, and had Comfort, b. Aug. 29, 1727 ; John, b. July 27, 1729; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 24, 1731 ; Han- nah, b. Sept. 19, 1734 ; Thomas, b. May 28, 1737. ELISHA, son of John, Sen., m. Anne Rose, and had a son Peleg, b. Aug. 19, 1738; Anne, b. Dec. 22, 1739; Zadock, b. Aug. 27, 1746, perhaps others. COLEMAN, NATHAN'L, m. Ruth Beadle, Jan. 19, 1744, and had issue, Mary, b. 1745 ; Benjamin, b. April 21, 1747 ; Sarah, b. 1749, d. in infancy ; Apphia, b. 1751. His wife, Ruth, d. Feb. 20, 1751, and he m. second wife, Comfort Loveman, Nov. 23, 1752, and had a son Nath'l, b. Dec. 30, 1755. ZADOCK, son of Elisha, m. Hannah Coodrich, Sept. 28, 1774, and Zadock b. 1776, and the father d. soon after. PELEG, son of Elisha, of Wethersfield, m. Rebecca Dickinson, and had Thomas, b. Feb. 10, 1761 ; Sarah, b. 1763; Elisha, b. 1765; Anne, b. 1767; George, b. 1769, d.; sec- ond George, b. 1771, and John, b. July 10, 1773. Nathaniel was of Hatfield, in 1717. John in 1672. Thomas d. there 1674. Nath'l m. Mary Ely, 1705 ; both of Hatfield. COLEMAN, EBENEZER, of Colchester, m. Ruth Nichols, March 11, 1704-5, and had children : Niels, b. Feb. 20, 1706-7; Ruth, b. June 20, 1709; Mehitabel, b. July 14, 1713; Mary, b. 1718. Ebenezer d. there, Nov. 30, 1740, aged 60. Joseph, d. there 1770, aged 64. Noah d. there 1770, aged 67. {Record by Otis.) COLEMAN, NOAH, of Colchester, had a son Josiah, who set- tled first at Hebron, and in 1771, removed and settled at Sharon, 060 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. where he represented the town in the legislature in 1783, '84 and '88. Children : Josiah, d. in Milford in 1777 ; Dr. Aaron, settled at War- ren, Elihu, Jesse and Amasa. COLEMAN, RICHARD, m. Anne, widow of Thomas Wilcox, Sept. 2, 1728, and had issue, b. in Middletown : John, b. Aug. 3, 1729 ; Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1731, d. 1732 ; second Mary, b. May 10,* 1733. COLEMAN, NIELS, son of Ebenezer and Ruth, of Colchester, b. 1706-7, had sons Ebenezer and Josiah, bap. at Colchester, Sept. 16, 1733; Eliz'th, bap. April 20, 173-"): Nathaniel, bap. May 22, 1737 ; Daniel, 1741 ; Niles or Niels bap. May 17, 1711. Whether the family of Wethersfield and Iladley were relatives of "William and Elizabeth, his wife, of Boston, the parents of Rev. Ben- jamin, D. D., who was b. at Boston, Oct. 19, 1673, and grandson of Mathew and Grace Coleman, of Salterly, in Suffolk county, England, is not known. William Coleman, aged 16, passenger in the Assurance de Lo. for Virginia, 1635. Joseph Coleman, of Sandwich, England, shoe- maker, and Sarah, his wife, with four children, took passage from Sandwich to America, certified under the seal of office of mayoralty, June 9, 1637. Farmer notes Edward Coleman, Boston. 1651 ; son Joseph, b. 1656; Joseph, of Scituate, 1638; Wm., Boston, b. in En- gland, father of Benj'n, D. D.; also, Thomas Coleman, Newbury, 1635, free, 1637; went to Nantucket and d. 1685; and sons Benj'n, b. 1640 ; Joseph, b. 1642; Isaac, b. 1647. This name yet is found at Glastenbury and other parts of Conn. Seven by the name of Coleman, had graduated at Yale College before 1845; and one Coleman and six by the name of Colman, at Harvard College. COLDICOTTS, COLLICOTTS, RICHARD, withdrew his ac- count against Francis Styles, &c, June, 1646, at Hartford. Sept., 1650, Mr. Gayler and John Bissell were chosen by the Gen. Court to arbitrate between Mr. Richard Collicott and Mr. Mathew Allyn, and bring it to an issue. Coldicotthas one coat of arms. Farmer notes Edward Collicott, Representative to the Gen. Court in Mass., 1642. Richard, of Dorchester, free, 1633, member of the ar. co., 1637 ; rep. 1637 ; removed to Boston, and d. there, 1686. His wife, Joanna d. Aug. 5, 1660. Thomasen, another wife, had children, Experience, b. 1641, and Dependance, b. July 5, 1643. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 661 COLL, HONORY, a settler at Middlctown before 1700— (per- haps intended for Henry Cole.) COLLIER, WM., of Plymouth colony, came to N. England in 1633 ; assistant in that colony from 1634 to 1665, except 1638, '52 and '53, being twenty-eight years ; commissioner of the United Col- onies in 1643, (Far.;) one of the important and influential settlers in the colony. (Hon.) Wm. Collier, one of the first settlers of Plym- outh, had a dau'r Mary, who m. Gov. Thomas Prince, of Plymouth. He first m. Patience, dau'r of the noted Wm. Brewster, in 1624; she d. in 1634. He was elected governor in 1635, and then lived at Duxbury, and m. Mary Collier for second wife the same year. Gov. Prince removed to Eastham in 1644, where his second wife d. and he returned to Plymouth in 1663. Mr. John Loring, of Hull, Mass., born there about 1673, son of Deacon Benjamin, m. Eliz'th, daughter of John Collier, Feb. 10, 1709. (His. Reg.) Moses, of Hingham, made freeman, 1652. Thomas, free, May 6, 1646. Thomas, of Hingham, said to have died April 6, 1646. (See Farmer.) COLLIER, JOSEPH, was the first of the name in Conn.; he was probably from Salem or Hingham, about 1660. He lived at Pine- field, in Hartford, in 1668, and m. Eliz'th Sanford, of Hartford, a sister of Robert and Zach'h Sanford. He d. Nov. 16, 1691, and his widow, Eliz'th, d. 1695-6, and her brothers Zechariah and Robert Sanford, were administrators. Her estate, £57, 12s. 4(Z. Their children : 1. Joseph, aged 23 in 1691, (at the death of his father.) 2. Mary Phelps, aged 22, of Simsbuiy. 3. Sarah, aged IS. 4. Elizabeth, 16. 5. Abel, aged 14. 6. John, aged 12; m. Eliz'tB Humphries, 1705. 7. Abigail, aged 9, m. Samuel Peck, March 6, 1700-1. 8. Susannah, aged 7. 9. Ann, aged 4 years. His son John chose his uncle, Z. Sanford, for his guardian, in 1697. Joseph, Sen., propounded for a freeman at Hartford, Oct., 1671. COLLIER, JOSEPH, Jun., son of Joseph, Sen., of Hartford, m. Sarah Forbes, April 15, 1695, and had children, viz.: 1. Joseph, 3d, b. May 4, 1696. 2. Mary.b. Jan. 9,1698. 3. Abel, b. Sept. 21, 1700; d. 1701. 4. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1702. 56 662 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 5. Second Abel, b. Nov. 20, 1704. 6. Hezekiah, b. March 22, 1707. 7. Daniel, b. March 17, 1709-10. Joseph, the father, d. Sept. 25, 1738, aged G9. COLLIER, ABEL, son of Joseph, Sen., d. unmarried in 1697, and his property, £61, 16s. 2d. distributed to his brothers and sisters. COLLIER, JOHN, Sen., son of Joseph, Son., m. Eliz'th Hum- phries, July 4, 1705, and had children, viz.: 1. Eunice, b. Nov. 15, 1703. 2. Elizabeth, b. April 11, 1706. 3. John. 4. Mary. 5. Thankful. John d. Aug. 2, 1730. Inventory over £600. COLLIER, JOHN, Jun., d. about 1734. Inventory accepted, 1736, about £300. Mary, his dau'r, aged 16, chose Wilterton Mer- rill for guardian in 1735-6 ; perhaps had other children. COLLIER, Capt. HEZEKIAH, b. 1707, son of Joseph, Jun., and Sarah (Forbes,) m. Hepzibah , who was his widow. He d. Dec. 15, 1763, aged 56. His will, dated 1761, presented by his son Hezekiah, 1763. Inventory, £1,436, 16s. 5cZ. He had lands in Hartford, in Windsor, Springfield, &c. He was noted for his good common sense. His children named were : 1. Hezekiah, Jun. 2. Grove, d. July 20, 176S, aged 29. 3. John, d. aged 6, in 1740. 4. Hepzibah, m. Chenevard. 5. Ann,d. (perhaps) May 7, 1754, aged 18. He gave Pompey, his negro boy, to his wife, and black boy, Dick, to his son Hezekiah. Hepzibah, his widow, d. Nov. 22, 1770, aged 57 years. COLLIER, Capt. HEZEKIAH, Jun., m. Jennett Evens, of Va., who was his widow. He d. March, 1768, aged 37 years, and his will presented by his executors, George Smith and James Church, at Hartford, in 1768. Inventory, £1,365, 16s. 4cZ. Children: 1. Daniel, d. single, aged 29. 2. Wm., m. Abigail Goodwin, dau'r of Ozias Goodwin. 3. Martha, m. James Bull. 4. Catherine, m. Hezekiah Merrill. 5. Margaret, m. Maj. John Caldwell, (fust wife.) Jennett, his widow, d. Oct. 28, 1806, aged 75 years. COLLIER, WILLIAM, son of Capt. Hezekiah, Jun., m. Abigail Goodwin, dau'r of Ozias, and had children: GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 663 1. Hepzibah, b. May 8, 1778; d. single. 2. Hezekiah, b. March 26, 17S0 ; m. in New York. 3. Anna, b. Oct. 31,1781; d. 17S4. 4. Daniel, b. May 2, 1784 ; m. in St. Kitts. 5. Win., b. Nov. 24, 1785; m. Harriet Ward. 6 Patty, b. Sept. 5, 1790 ; in. John McAuchan, of Enfield. 7. George, 1>. Jan. 14, 1793 ; m. Heppy Steel, and moved to Ohio. COLLIER, WILLIAM, son of William, m. Harriet Ward, of N. Haven, a descendant of Andrew Ward, Sen., and had children, viz.: 1. Hezekiah, b. May 27, 1807 ; d. at sea in 1832. 2. George, b. Sept. 11, 1809; d. single at N. H., Nov., 1848. 3. Martha M., b. Jan., 1818. 4. Jane, d. in infancy. 5. Harriet A., b. Feb. 13, 1-1'.'. 6. Henry Ward, b. Feb. 9, 1823 ; a sailor and single. 7. John Caldwell, b. April 15, 1S25 ; m. Maria Burt. S. Ozias Goodwin, b. March 3, 1829. 9. William, b. March 23, 1831. COLLIER, JOSEPH, 3d, grandson of Joseph, Sen., settled in Windsor, where he died in 1767 ; left no issue ; wife Abiah. Wm. Manly, adm'r. Gave most of his estate to his wife for her life. After her death, he gave it all to Wm. Dart, a boy, who had lived with him. His second wife, Hannah, his widow, d. in 1750-1, and Charles Humphrey, of Simsbury, admin'r on her estate in 1751. COLLIER, ABEL, son of Joseph, Jun., m. Rachel, who was his relict. He d., and Stephen Hosmer, adm'r in 1746. Issue at his decease : 1. Thomas, aged 16. 2. Joseph, aged 11 ; Rachel, Sarah and Mary. His widow Rachel, d. in 1749. Her estate, £1,216, 85. 3d. Her will dated Feb. 6, 1747-8. COLLIER, DANIEL, son of Joseph, Jun., of Hartford ; wife Thankful, who was his widow. He was supposed to have d., being absent. Inventory presented, <£l,184, Is. Id. He left children, Sarah Sheldon, aged 19 ; Thankful and Susannah ; no sons found. The widow d. Dec. 24, 1772, aged 85. COLLIER, Capt. THOMAS, son of Abel, m. Ruth , who was administratrix, with Hezekiah Collier, on his estate, in 1763. Inventory, £289, 9*. 9d. He died Aug. 5, 1763, aged 54 or 34. Issue : 1. Abel, bap. Jan. 1-, L730. 2. Sarah, bap. Jan. 30, 1732. 3. Second Abel, bap. April 28, 1734. 4. Joseph, bap. July 17, 1737. 5. Rachel, bap. June 8, 1740. 664 GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. COLLIER, RICHARD, supposed by some to have been a de- scendant of Joseph, Sen., of Hartford, by a different brand) from Hezekiah, but claimed by his immediate descendants to have come to Litchfield from Hartford, about 1775, and from Boston to Hart- ford. His son Thomas was many years a printer at Litchfield, Ct., but removed with his family about'1810 to Owego, N. Y., and from thence to Binghampton, where he died since 1830. He m. Stockwell, in early life, and had children, viz.: Thomas G., who be- came a printer, and removed to the state of Georgia, where he died and left a large family. POLLY, dau'r of Tho's, Sen., m. Hon. John C. Wright, former member of Congress from Ohio. THO'S, Sen., also had a dau'r, who m. at Binghampton, N. V.. and a son Daniel, counselor and attorney at law at. Steubenville, Ohio. Hon. John A. Collier, another son of Thomas, of Binghamp- ton, N. Y., read law in the office of Reeve & Gould, at Litchfield, about 1806, where his talents were fully developed to his fellow-stu- dents, and have since been as fully appraised by the freemen of the state of New York, as a lawyer and statesman, and have placed him in several of the most important offices in their gift. He has had three wives, and has two sons, who are lawyers, and perhaps other children. •Coals of Arms. Collyear has 1 : Collyer has 4 ; Colyear, (Earl of Portmore,) 1. Two of this name had graduated at Harvard College in 1848, and one at Brown University. COLLINS, JOHN, of Branford, m. Mary, widow of Henry Kings- ton, or Kingsworth, one of the first twenty-five settlers of Guilford, Ct.; m. June 2, 1669. He lived at Guilford a part of his life, but died at Branford in 1704. He probably had been twice married. John Collins was offered to be made a freeman from Guilford, Oct., 1669. Deputy, Oct., 1672. John Collins assessed at Guilford in 1642 or '50, £68, 4s. Children : 1. John, 1). 1665. 2. Robert, b. 3. Mary, m. Mr. Chapman. COLLINS, JOHN, son of John, (Lebanon,) born probably at Branford, 1665, m. Ann Leete, dau'r of John, son of Gov. Leete, July 23, 1691. Children: 1. Ann, h. March 9, 1692; in. Daniel Bartlett, March 31, 172U. 2. Mary, b. April 11, 1694. 3. John, b. Feb. 23, 1697 ; in. Rachel Mix, ofN. Ii., April 26, 1716. 4. Timothy, b. Feb. 11, 1698, and d. same month. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 665 • 5. Second Timothy, Rev., b. April 13, 1699; graduated at Yale Coll., 1718; minister of Litchfield. 6. Daniel, b. June 13, 1701 ; m. Lois Cornwall, March 15, 1725; d. 1751. 7. Susannah, b. Oct. 5, 1703. S. Samuel, b. Nov. 2, 1701 ; m. Margary Leete, Oct. 20, 1731 ; he d. Dec. 6, 17S4. 9. Mercy, b. 1700 ; m. Mr. Hobson ; she d. Aug. 12, 1796. 10. Avis, b. 170^; m. Peter Buell, of Litchfield. 11. Oliver, b. Oct. 18, 1710; m. 1. Elizabeth Hall, 2. Ann Smithson, and 3. Abigail Bartlett. 12. Eunice, b. April 1, 1714. COLLINS, Rev. TIMOTHY, son of John, was the first settled minister of Litchfield. He probably went to Litchfield about 1721, from Lebanon or Guilford, on the first settlement of Litchfield. He was ordained there June 19, 1723, though he accepted his call to set- tle, Dec, 1721, and dismissed Oct., 1752. After his dismission, he was appointed justice of the peace, which he accepted, and remained there as a physician. He was extensively known as a physician, as many other clergymen were at that time. His wife was also much employed in one branch of surgery, and on the birth of Ursula Nor- ton, of Goshen, she (Mrs. Collins) was sent for, and drawn upon a hand-sled in Jan., 1780, a distance of four and a half miles. He d. 1776. Rev. Timothy m. Eliz'th Hyde, of Lebanon, Jan. 16, 1723, and had children born in Litchfield, viz.: 1. Oliver, b. March 7, 1724 ; m. Sarah Hyde, of Lebanon, June 22, 1746. 2. Anne, b. Aug. 24, 1725; m. Isaac Baldwin, Esq., clerk of the county ofL. 3. Charles, b. Aug.5, 1727; m. Ann Huntington, of Lebanon, June IS, 1752; lived at Litchfield South Farms. 4. Lewis, b. Aug. 8, 1729. 5. Rhoda, b. May 3, 1731 ; had four husbands. 6. Cyprian, b. March 4, 173- ; m. Azuba Gibbs, Jan. 9, 1756 ; he settled in. Goshen. 7. Ambrose, b. March 30, 1737. 8. John, b. June 1, 1739; m. Sarah 'Parmele, Jan. S, 1769. He lived at Litchfield, in the Luke Lewis house, which he built. Rev. Timothy died 1776. OLIVER, son of Rev. T. Collins, of Litchfield, born 1724, m. Sarah Hyde, of Lebanon, 1746, and had one child recorded at Litch- field, viz.: 1. Timothy, b. April 16, 1748. AMBR.OSE, son of Rev. Timothy, graduated at Yale College, 1758, became a minister, and went among the Indians as missionary, by whom he was probably murdered, as he was never heard from afterward by his friends. 56* 666 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 'CHARLES, son of Rev. Timothy, b. 1727, in. Ann Huntington, jf Lebanon, June 18, 1752, and had children at Litchfield : 1. Lewis, I). Oct. 29, 1753. 2. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 1755. 3. Lois and Eunice, twins, b. Oct. 11, 1757. 4. Anne, b. Oct. 10, 175'.'. 5. Charles, Jun., Aug. 14, 1761. 6. Rhoda, b. Oct. 5, 1764. 7. Lorain, b. May 1, 1767. 8. Darius, b. Nov. 8, l COLLINS, CYPRIAN, son of Rev. Timothy, of Litchfield, was born 1733. His father deeded to him fifty acres of land in Goshen, July 2, 1759. He settled in Goshen, and became the progenitor of the Goshen Collins's. He m. Azuba Gibbs, of Litchfield, Jan. 9, 1756. and had issue : 1. Ambrose, b. March 28, 175.1; m. Mary Baldwin. 2. Triphena, b. Aug. 21, 1757 ; m. Abraham Wadhams. 3 Amanda, b. March 27, 1759 ; in. Joseph Brook.-. 1. Philo, b. Jan. 5, 1761 ; m. -Olive Foot. 5. Anna, b. Nov. 21, 1762 ; m. Moses Wadhams. 6. Luranda, b. Aug. 28, 1764 ; m. Elijah Towner. 7. Rhoda, b. June 30, 1766 ; m. Alexander Norton. 3. Timothy, b. Jan. 11, 1769; m. Miriam Norton. 9. Cyprian, Jun.,b. Nov. 6, 1770; in. Huldah Norton. 10. Phebe, b. Jan. 25, 1773 ; m. David Wadhams. 11. Tyrannus, m. Eliza Goodwin. Cyprian resided for a time at Litchfield after he was married. His first child was born there. He died Jan. 8, 1809, aged 76. She died Aug. 24, 1823, aged 89 years. AMBROSE, son of Cyprian Collins, b. at Litchfield, 1756. He m. Mary Baldwin, dau'r of Samuel, and had children : 1. Augustus, b. May 13, 17S0, and d. at Charleston, S. C, July 4, 1S07. 2. Anne, Jan. 23, 1782; m. Ethan Walter. 3. Calvin, b. Dec. IS, 1783; m. Mary Ann Wright. 4. Ambrose, b. Aug. 26, 1786 ; m. Effia Hicock, of Danbury. 5. Cyprian, b. June 25, 17SS; in. Jennett Scovell. 6. Samuel Baldwin, b. April 17, 1790. 7. Nervina, b. Sept. 6, 1792; d. 1838. 3. John Hyde, b. Oct. 26, 1791 : m. Eliza W. Washburn. 9. George Lewis, b. Sept. 8, 1796; d. 1817. 10. Lama, b. July 2, 1799. 11. Clara Maria, b. Sept. I, 1801. 12. Freelove, b. April 12, 1S04 ; m. Amasa N. Ghapin. The father d. at Goshen, Sept. 1, 1809, aged 53. His wife died March 4, 1S21, aged 61 years. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 007 COLLINS, PHILO, son of Cyprian, b. in Goshen, Jan. 5, 1761, m. Olive Foot, Nov. 3, 1782, and had children : 1. Olive, b. Sept. 19, 17S3; m. Benjamin Sedgwick, Esq. 2. Martha, b. Sept.l, 17S6. 3. Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1795; m. Julftis Bell, of Cornwall. 4. Harriet, b. March 9, 179S ; m. Wm. Miles. 5. Emily, b. Sept. 13, 1801 ; m. Oakey M. Hogeland ; no sons. Capt. TIMOTHY, son of Cyprian, b. Jan. 11, 1769, m. Miriam Norton, dau'r of David Norton, Sept. 8, 1791, and had children : 1. Homer, b. Dec. 10, 1793; m. Anne Wadhams. 2. Cicero, b. July 30, 1798 ; m. Allitia Gaylord. 3. Plato, b. Aug. 7, 1803 ; d. Dec. 26, 1834. 4. Virgil Collins, b. March 4, 1810; m. Jane Lucas. COLLINS, CYPRIAN, Jtjn., son of Cyprian, of East Bloomfield, b. at Goshen, Nov. 6, 1770, m Huldah Norton, dau'r of Aaron, May 7, 1793. Children : 1. George W., b. Feb. 8, 1797; m. Cynthia Newton. 2. Hiram L., b. June 31, 1799; m. Ann H. Cooly. 3. Betsey, b. Oct. 9, 1S01 ; m. Philo Hamlin. 4. Hasculine, b. July 8, 1803; m. Patty Boughton. 5. Guy, b. May 8, 1805 ; m. Maria Ellis. 6. Wm., d. Di?c. 12, 1807. 7. Mary, b. March 20, 1807 ; d. July 29, 1809. 8. Azubah, b. Aug. 22, 1808; m. Horace Lee. 9. Second William, b. Dec. 25, 1810 ; m. Emily Stimpson. He d. at E. Bloomfield, Sept. 3, 1843, and his wife d. Dec. 17, 1843. TYRANNUS, son of Cyprian, of E. Bloomfield, b. at Goshen, and m. Eliza Goodwin, and had children : 1. Nelson, d. 2. Virgil A., d. 3. Clara Eliza, b. Nov. 9, 1S10 ; m. Ethan Waller. 4. Montgomery. 5. Horatio G. 6. Lucius M., d. 7. James G., d. 8. James L., d. This is only the line of Rev. Timothy Collins. Note. — COLLINS, PETER, a planter at Pequot, (N. I..,) had a house-lot at N. L. in 1651. He d. in ]G.~>o. Will dated May, 1U55. He notices John Rager, of Say[brook,] as his full heir and executor, but gave Richard Poole his house and home-lot, &c, and Joseph Waterhouse to have the land at the neck; also a brindle cow and thirty shillings. He gave Robert Burrows planter, at Pequet, a black cow and £1, Is. due him from Win. Roberts, who was Thomas Stan- ton's man ; one-third of a bill of X'4, James Tonge owed him ; also gave Gideon Hnrwood one- third of the £4 due from Tonge ; also noticed John Hnrwood, planter, of Pequet, Mathew Beek- 668 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. COLBURN, COLBORNE, WM, signed to embark for N. Eng- land if the charter and government should be transferred, came with Winthrop, and was deacon, ruling elder in Boston, representative, &c.j d. Aug. 1, 1662. {Collections, p. 96.) with, Tho's Hungerford, £1, 2s., James Tongo and Wm. Morton. Inventory, £57, Os. 8d. Ap- pears left no family ; lived alone. He applied to remain in N. L. in 1654. He appears not to have been a member of either of the other Collins families in Conn, in 1655. He was the first of the name in N. L. (See Caulk., p. 271.) COLLINS, EDWARD, 1640, of Cambridge, Mass., a deacon, representative sixteen years from 1654 to '70, excepting 1661. Mather says he lived to see " several most worthy sons be- come very famous persons in their generation." His children : 1. Daniel, lived in Konigsberg, in Prussia, in 1658. N 2. John, graduated at H. College, 1649. 3. Samuel, went to Scotland; lived there with his wife and son Edward, in 1658. 4. Martha. 5. Nathaniel, graduated at H. Coll., 1660 ; settled at Middletown, Ct. Also, Abigail, Sybil and Edward. (See Far. and Mather's Magnolia.) COLLINS, Rev. NATHANIEL, of Middletown, was a son of Deacon Edward Collins, of Cambridge, Mass.; was born there in 1642, graduated at Cambridge College in 1660, and was ordained over the church at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 4, 1668, over a church of ten male mem- bers. He m. Marie or Mary Whiting, dau'r of Mr. Wm. Whiting, Aug. 3, 1664. He contin- ued until 1684. They had children, viz.: 1. Mary, b. May 11, 1666, at Middletown ; m. Hon. John Hamlin, 1684, Jan. 11 ; d. 1722. 2. John, b. Jan. 31, 1667; m. Mary, dau'r of Judge Dixwell, of New Haven, one of the En- glish regicide judges and Bathshua, his wife, Dec. 24, 1707. 3. Susanna, b. Nov. 26, 1669 ; m. Wm. Hamlin, brother of John, May 26, 1692, and son of Hon. Giles Hamlin, Sen.; d. Feb. 24, 1721-2. 4. Sibbil.b. Aug. 20, 1672. 5. Martha, b. Dec. 26,1673; m. Wm. Harris, Jan. 8, 1690. 6. Nath'l, Jr., b. June 13, 1677 ; m. Alice Adams, Jan. 7, 1701, a sister of Rev. Eliphalet, of N. L., from Dedham, Mass. 7. Abigail, b. July 13, 1682 ; m. Serg't Wm. Ward, July 9, 1702, and perhaps S. Wolcott. 8. Samuel, b. April 16, 1683 ; d. at Middletown, April 23, 1683. Rev. Nath'l d. at Middletown, Dec. 28, 1684. Mary, his widow, d. at Middletown, Oct. 25, 1709. Rev. Noadiah Russell, b. in New Haven, was his successor in Middletown in 1687. The estate of Mr. Collins appears not to have been closed until himself and wife were both deceased in 1712 ; estate, £679 ; when it was settled by his children ; signed by John Collins, John Hamlin and wife, Nath'l Collins, Win. Hamlin, Thomas Hurlbut, Samuel Wolcott and his wife Abigail. Nath'l Collins calls Tho's Fitch, of Middletown, his brother-in-law, June 23, 1673, vol. 1, p. 102; also calls Susan Bryan his honored mother. (See Mather's Magnolia.) Rev. Nathaniel Collins propounded for a freeman in 1667. COLLINS, Rev. NATH'L, Jcn., b. 1677, was a son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, and grandson of Deacon Edward, of Cambridge; graduated at Cambridge in 1697, and was the first settled minister at Enfield, Ct., as his father had been first at Middletown. He m. Alice Adams, daughter of Rev. Win. Adams, and Alice, his wife, of Dedham, and was b. at Dedham, Mass., April 3, 1682. She d. at Enfield, Feb. 19, 1735, and was interred in the old yard at Enfield . Their children, born in Enfield, were : 1. Mary, b. Nov, 15, 1701. 2. Ann, b. Dec. 20, 1702 ; m. E.Terry, Sept. 13, 1723 ; d. Sept., 1778. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 669 COLBURN, DANIEL, an original proprietor and settler at Staf- ford, Conn., settled about 1719. He was from Dedham, Mass. Mercy Colburn admitted to the church in Hampton, Conn., Nov., 1723. Hannah Canada in 1725. Samuel Colburn and his wife, and Elizabeth Colburn, admitted into the Hampton church in 1735. 3. John, (Lieut.,) b. Jan, 7. 1705 : in. Mary Meacham, 1728; he d. at Cape Breton, March 26, 1746. 4. Olive, b. Feb. 19, 1707 ; d. 1709. 5. Nath'l, (Rev.,)b Aug. 17, 170(1; m. Abigail Pease, July 17, 1735 ; d. Dec. 5, 1787 ; left a son, Eliphalet and perhaps others. 6. Win., b. June, 1711 , m. Ann Jones, or Collins, May 3, 1734 ; d. at Somers, 1799. 7. Edward, (Deacon.) b. Nov. 26, 1713; m. Tabitha Geer, Feb. 19, 1736; d. 179G ; left children. 8. Second Mice, b. March 14, 1716 ; m. Nath'l Parsons, Jan. 15, 1736. (Rev. Wm. Adams, the father of the wife of Rev. Nath'l Collins, of Enfield, was "called to the charge of the church at Dedham, by a vote made with white and red corns," instead of votes on paper.) COLLINS, JOHN, b. 1667, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, m. Mary Dixwell, of New- Haven, daughter of Judge Dixwell and Bathshua, his wife, Dec. 24, 1707. They had children born in Middletown, viz.: 1. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 17, 1708. 2. Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1710. 3. John, b. March 1, 1712-13 ; d. 1714. 4. Second John, b. Nov. 13, 1714; d. in infancy. 5. Sibbel, b.Aug. 16, 1716. 6. Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1718. Bathshua, the mother of Mary, the wife of John Collins, d. at Middletown, Dec. 27, 1729, aged — , and was buried there. COLLINS, SAMUEL, of Middletown, who had d. at Middletown. His widow Mary petitioned the court for the sale of land to pay debts, as administratrix on his estate, May 10, 1711 ; al- lowed. Samuel Collins, of Middletown, and wife Mary, had issue : 1. Edward, b. June 18, 1664. 2. Martha, b. March 3, 1666. 3. Samuel, b. Oct. 21, 1C68. 4. Sibbila, b. Feb. 24, 1670. 5. Mary, b. June 16, 1672. 6. Abigail, b. June 2, 1673. 7. Daniel, b. Oct. 5, 1675. Mary, the mother, d. March 5, 1714. (Middletown Record, by Steams. This Samuel Collins was perhaps a brother of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, son of Edward of Cambridge, and was the son of Edward ; the same Samuel who went to Scotland in 1658, and was at Saybrook Oct. 14. 1664, named by Farmer. Mr. Samuel Collins, deputy to the Gen. Court from Middletown, Oct., 1672. Mr. Samuel Collins was an importer of goods. The Gen. Court of Conn., May, 1665, remitted the custome of Mr. Samuell Collins, on his t;oods, which he had then landed in the colony, on account of his late loss. He was offered for a freeman of Middletown in May, 1667. Oct. 14, 1664, Samuel Collins, now residing at Seabrooke, in the corporation of Connecti cut, mortgageth his grey horse, now in Middletown meadows, to his brother, Nathaniel Collins, of Middletown. This is strong evidence that Samuel, of Saybrook, was the son of Deacon Ed- 670 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Edward, of Chelmsford, 1675, ancestor of the Dracut Colburns, orCoburns. {Hubbard's hi. War.) Robert, of Ipswich, 1648, had a son Robert. Samuel, of Salem, 1637. (See Farmer.) COLLSON, or COLTSON, or COL AND, from Great Britain, ward, of Cambridge, in HMO, the same Samuel Collins, who was with his wife and son Edward in Scotland, in 1658, and the same Samuel Collins who was an importer at Saybrook, and after- ward lived and died in Middletown, and a brother of Kev. Nath'l, the first minister oi Middle- town, Ct. Mary, widow of Samuel Collins, d. at Middletown, March 5, 1713-14. As I have not traced the descendants of Robert Collins, I only mention, ROBERT COLLINS m. Eunice Foster, of Middletown, June 3, 1707, and had Mary, b. April 26, 1708 ; Robert, b. Feb. 17, 1709-10; Edward, b. Aug. 7, 1711, &c. Edward m. Susanna reck, Aug. 29, 1738, and had Mole, b. Aug. 23, 1739. ROBERT COLLINS, b. 1709-10, m. Abigail Ebenetha, May 4, 1736, by Mr. Hall, and had a son Samuel, b. April 20, 17 37 ; John, b. Jan. 12, 1740, &c. Lament, daughter of Robert, Sen., d. May 13,1732. Alexander Keith, of Middletown, son of Win, Kief, m, a dau'r of John Collins and Mary Dis- well, his wife — (no date.) COLLINS, DANIEL, (not known where from,) settled, one of the first, in the south part of the town of Enfield, and d. in May, 1690, aged 42 years. Left a son Nathan, b. May 31, 1683, who went to Brimfield, Mass., to settle ; Also, Sarah, b. July 31, 1686 ; also, Josiah and Thomas, twin sons of Daniel, d. in Sept., 1690, aged about three months. COLLINS, DANIEL, m. Ruth Wilkinson, of Milford, Dec. 7, 1699, and had a son Daniel, Jun., b. Dec. 9, 1700 ; Edward, b. Sept. 17, 1702, d. Feb., 1702-3. Daniel Collins m. Abigail Thomp- son, at N. Haven, Sept. 8, 1698. Wm, Collins m. Sarah Morrell, at N. Haven, Jan. 1, 1667. COLLINS, MARY, of Windsor, 1640. COLLINS, THOMAS, had his ear mark for cattle in Hartford, 1646. WETHERSFIELD COLLINs's. COLLINS, SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, m. Martha , Oct. 24, 1704, and had issue at Wethersfield, viz.: 1. Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1705. 6. Hannah, b. June 7, 1717. 2. Jonathan, b. Oct. 8, 1706. 7. Mary, b. April 11, 1720. 3. Martha, b. July 9, 1709. 8. John, b. Jan. 8, 1723. 4. David, b. May 13, 1712. 9. Benjamin, b. Nov. 13, 1724. 5. Daniel, b. Aug. 27, 1714. 10. James, b. Oct. 30, 1727. COLLINS, JONATHAN, b. 1706, of Wethersfield, son of Samuel and Martha, in. Rebina Smith, June 21, 1731. Issue b at Wethersfield : 1. Isaac, b. Feb. 27, 1732. 5. Prudence, b. Sept. 20, 1740. 2. Robert, b. June 5, 1734. 0. Olive, b. March 13, 1743. 3. Charles, b. Oct. 6, 1736; d. 7. Charles, b. Nov. 1 1, 1740. 4. Anna, b. July 14, 1738. 8. Rachel, Rebina and Kezia, b. July 20, 1749 COLLINS, JOHN, son of Samuel, b. 1723 ; m. Lydia Allis, March 8, 1739, and had children b. at Wethersfield, viz.: 1. Amos, b. June 4, 174ii. 2. Kezia, b. 1747. COLLINS, DAVID, b. 1712, son of Samuel, of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Cole, Nov. 11, 1742, and had issue at Wethersfield : 1. Abigail, b. Dec. 14, 1740. 3. Josiah, b. July 26, 1748, d. 1748. 2. Lucy. b. Dec. 5, 1745. 4. 2d Josiah, b. Sept. 26, 1750. COLLINS, JAMES, b. 1727, son of Samuel, of Wethersfield, m. Eliz'th Riley, Nov. 5, 1747 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 671 m. Marcy Shepard, of Simsbury, Feb. 26, 1718-19. He d. March 12, 1719, less than three weeks after his marriage. COLLSON, MOSES, m. Sarah Silsby, April 10, 1766, of Wind- ham. Issue, Wm., b. July 26, 1766, d. Aug. 16, 1766; second Win. b. and John. COLTMAN, COULTMAN, JOHN, was early at Wethersfield, in 1645, and had six tracts of land recorded there as early as 1647, and four acres in the land division there in 1670. Sued for slander by Matthias Trott, in 1649, and defendant in court, Sept., 1649. For his improper treatment of Ruth Fish, and for disobeying the governor's command, was fined £5, July, 1645. He m. Mary , of Wethersfield, Sept. 16, 1667, and had Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1672; Eliz'th, b. Jan. 14, 1677 : Anna, b. March 11, 1681. He was in the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 1669. The inventory of his estate was proved in court at Hartford, by Mrs. Mary Sherman, the former wife of said Coltman. She had again married. A previous inventory had been presented. She was sole administratrix, and she and had Eliz'th, b. May 2, 1748; Patience, b. Nov. 9, 1749 ; Lydia, b. June 5, 1752 ; Zebedee, b. July 10, 1755. COLLINS, BENJ'N, son of Samuel, b. 1724, m. Bathsheba Dimock, Jan. 30, 1755, and had Moses, b. at Wethersfield. Jan. (5, 1756. COLLINS, ISAAC, son of Samuel and Martha, m. Esther Belding, Sept. 5, 1754, and had Simeon, b. Jan. 29, 1755. These are the Collins' s of Wethersfield. COLLINS, GILES, aged 20, passenger in the Paule, of London, Leonard Betts, master, bound for Virginia, July 6, 1635. Wm. Collins, aged 34, and Wm. Collin, aged 20, passengers in the Plain Joan, for Virginia, May 15, 1635. Henry Collins, aged 29, starch-maker, with his wife Ann, aged 30, and children, Henry, aged 5, Jo, aged 3, and Margery, aged 2 years, and five servants, embarked in the Abigail, Hackwell, master, for New England. Certificate from the minister of Stepney Parish, July 2, 1635. Collins was an early name in Massachusetts and in Connecticut. John, in Massachusetts, aged 54, in 1658. John, Jun., aged 24. Christopher in 1654. Henry, aged 55, in 1662. James, aged 20, in 1664. John, aged 30, in 1665. Henry, Sen., of Lynn, 1662. Thomas, Sen., of Gloucester, 1666. Rev. Timothy, of Litchfield. Mr. Henry, of Newport, merchant, and Mr. Daniel Collings, of C'harlestown, were subscribers for Prince's Chronology. John Collins and Mehitable, his wife, of Gloucester, Mass., had children b. there, viz.: John, b. Dec. 12, and d.20, 1659: John, 2d, b. 1662; Ezekiel, b. 1665 ; Ebenezer, b. 1667 ; Samuel, b. 1671 ; Amos, b. 1672 ; Benjamin, b. 1675. Farmer names Edward, of Cambridge, 1640, deacon, &c; Fran- cis, of Salem, 1665; Henry, freeman, of Lynn, 1637; John, of Gloucester, selectman, 1646, and mem. ar. co. 1644, and son Tho's, b. 1645. (Far. His, Reg. and Kec.) Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, before 1838 ; four at Harvard, before 1748, and seven at Williams College, before 1846. Coats of arms. — Collens, or Collins, (Offwell, co. Dorset,) has 1 coat of arms ; Collens, or Col- lensworth, (Barnes Hill, co. Devon,) 1; Collens, (Upton, co. Hereford) 1 ; Collins, 14; Collie, 1, and 10 others. 672 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. in 1697, asked the court for a distribution of the estate to herself and three daughters, he having left no sons. Coultman has one coat of arms ; Coltman has two coats of arms. In 1659, John Coltman was a signer " at the meeting at Goodman Ward's house in Hartford, April 18, 1659," of the contract to re- move to Mass.; yet he did not remove as he had agreed, but re- mained in Wethersfield. COLT, JOHN, a peer of England, father of Sir John Colt, " the great," who was dispossessed of his estates for opposing popery. He fought in defense of his country until he had three horses killed under him, and broke his sword in the action ; replacing it, he gained the victory, at the head of his troops ; and from this was granted the coat of arms. He was the father of Peter Colt, a peer in England, who was father of John, who was father of John, the father of John, who was father of John, who was born in Colchester, in England, and, left there during the troubles of King Charles I., and came to Dorchester, near Boston, it is said, when about eleven years old, but left there, and removed to Hartford, Conn., about 163S. He m., perhaps, a , dau'r of Joseph Fitch, then of Hartford, and this is conjecture only from the fact of their friendship, and that Mr. Fitch gave him land in 1679, " for love and good will." Mr. Fitch also removed from Hartford to Podunk, where he held a respectable rank and was a large landholder. The settlers of this part of Windsor, for some reason, do not appear much in probate records, or records of births and deaths, or on grave-stones, which renders it very difficult to find their children, and if found to know their fathers. John, Sen., was at Hartford, and had a dau'r Sarah bap. in Hartford, Feb. 7, 1646-7; also a son John. Joseph, of Windsor, Abraham, and Jonathan, were probably the children of John, Sen. The time he located at Podunk is uncertain. He was there in 1665, when he subscribed six shil- lings to raise the salary of the minister. In 1672, he was called out with others to cut brush. In 1675, he was taxed there for £67, in-, eluding his poll at £18, and was there some years after. In 1691, in the valuation of property, John Colt had two persons under age, and Joseph and Abraham, his sons, (of age.) In 1713, these were signers to an East Windsor petition, viz., John, Joseph, Jabez and Benjamin Colt ; this makes John Colt and four persons, including Abraham Colt, who removed to Glastenbury. From the age of John, Sen., at this time, (he was probably deceased in 1713,) and this was John, Jun., his son, who removi d to Lyme with his family. In a list of the taxable inhabitants of Windsor, in 1726, only two Colts, GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 673 Jabez and Ruth, appear on that list. Abraham had removed at this time to Glastenbury. Jonathan d. in 1711. John and his family- had removed to Lyme. Jabez Colt had a son John b. at Windsor, Oct. 29, 1703 (whose son Jabez was, is not found ;) it was probably his son John, who settled in Harwinton in 1740. COLT, JOHN, Jun., (so called,) owned a house and lot of six acres at Podunk, he purchased of Samuel Olmsted, and other lands recorded as early as 1691, and Joseph Colt purchased the house and six acres of John, Jun., at Podunk. At a meeting of the council, at Hartford, Sept. 1, 1075, John Colt declared before them that " he was shot at yesterday by an Indian," and that another party of Indians were discovered near the north meadow in Hartford the last night. The council ordered the return of Major Treat and his troops forthwith to Hartford. This John Colt was in the list of freemen at Windsor, May 13, 1609. COLT, ABRAHAM, removed from Podunk to Glastenbury, in 1691. He married Hannah Loomis, of Windsor, July 1, 1690. He had 9S acres of the 6,000 acre tract at Glastenbury, for £49, in 1716, and 6 acres more Dec. 19, 1723, (says Br. Chapin.) Abra- ham d. at Glastenbury as early as 1730, as Abraham, Jun., a minor son of Abraham, dec'd, chose David Hills, of Hartford, for his guardian, in 1730. (Perhaps it was Abraham, Jun. that d.) See below. Abraham Sen's children were: 1. Abraham, Jun., b. May '21, 1692, at Glastenbury. 2. Mary, b. Jan. 17, 169G. 3. Isaac, b. Sept. 15, 1702; d. Jan. 17, 1703. COLT, AB'M, Jun., (son of Ab'm and Hannah.) b. 1692, m. Su- sanna Risley ? Dec. 10, 1713, and had a son Ab'm, b. Sept. 30, 1714. It was this son Ab'm, who chose his guardian in 1730, and not the son of Ab'm, Sen., who was of age. COLT, JOSEPH, of Windsor, m. Ruth Loomis, Oct. 29, 1691. COLT, JONATHAN, of Windsor, cordwainer, dec'd, and admin- istration granted to Mathew Grant, for which he gave bonds as adm'r, April 2, 1711. Joseph, "his brother," and other brothers, refused to administer on his estate. COLT, JOHN, who removed from Windsor to Lyme, had several sons and dau'rs. None of his sons lived to have families except Samuel and Benjamin. One dau'r in. Sterling, of Niantic, in Lyme, and had an only dau'r, who m. Capt. Ezra Ely, and left issue. Another dau'r m. Travers Ay res, of Say brook, and had several chil- 57 674 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. dren. The third dau'r m. Mr. Comstock, of Hadlyme, and had a large family of children. COLT, SAMUEL, son of John, m. Miss Marvin, and had issue: 1. Martin, was killed in his youth by the fall of a tree. 2. Samuel, Jun., m. Sarah Fowler, of Lebanon, dau'r of Dizah Fowler. 3. One daughter. COLT, SAMUEL, Jun.. sou of Samuel, m. Miss Fowler, of Leb- anon, and had issue. His dau'r Taphenia m. Timothy Tiffany. COLT, BENJAMIN, son of John, Sen., of Lyme, m. Miriam Harris, of Saybrook, and had seven sons and three dau'rs, all of whom m. and had issue. He d. aged 56 years. 1. JOHN, his first son, lived with his grandfather, (John,) while a minor. He m. Mary Lord, a maternal relative, and had several sons and one dau'r. His wife d. 1759, aged 29. He m. for his second wife, Mary Matson, and had a son. His eldest son d. single. Am- herst, his second son, settled as a physician in New Hampshire. His youngest sons settled in Lyme, and with Sam'l Colt possessed the old family estate. John's second wife Mary d. 1767, aged 25. 2. COLT, JOSEPH, b. Feb. 27, 1727, son of Benj'n, m. Desire Pratt, b. 1729 ; in March 11, 1756, they had children, (five sons and three dau'rs,) viz.: 1. Isaac or Isaiah, b. Sept. 5, 17o7 ; d. when m college. 2. Deborah, b. Oct. 27, 1739 ; m. Samuel Selden, son of Col. Samuel Selden. 3. Judah, b. July 1, 1761 ; m. 4. Desire, b. April 11, 1763 ; m. Pochard Ely Selden, Oct. 2, 1783, son of Col. Samuel. 5. Asenath, b. Oct. 19, 1764. 6. Joseph, Jim., b. April 17, 1766 ; in. 7. Samuel, b. June 27, 1771 ; m. 8. Jabez, b. Jan. 19, 1778-9; did qoI marry. After the death of Joseph, the father, his sons Judah, Samuel, Joseph and Jabez, sold their patrimonial estate, and settled in Geneseo, N. Y. 3. COLT, MARY, dau'r of Benj'n, m. Tho's Giddings, of Lyme, and removed to Hartland, when it was a wilderness, and had a large family of sons and dau'rs, and acquired a good property by farming. His wife was living in 1799. Some of the sons settled in Hartland, one in Vermont, and two of the dau'rs in N. H. One dau'r m. Amherst Colt, her cousin, and one m. Dr. Judd. 4. COLT, SARAH, dau'r of Benj'n, m. Joseph Harvey, of Lyme, and had sons and dau'rs. She d. before 1799. Her children set- tled in Lyme. 5. TEMPERANCE, dau'r of Benj'n Colt, m. Capt. Abner Lord, a maternal relative and brother to the first wife of her brother, John GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 675 Colt, and had two sons and one dau'r, viz., Thomas, Abner and Mary. Thomas was a minister, and went to Marietta, Ohio. He m. a dau'r of Capt. Oliver, who moved there from Mass. Abner m. a dau'r of Col. Samuel Selden, of Lyme. After his father died, he removed to Ohio, near his brother. Mary, the dau'r, m. Rev. Mr. Ely, of Danbury, where her mother d. previous to 1799. 6. COLT, HARRIS, third son of Benjamin, m. Elizabeth Turner, of New London, and had children, Elisha, Arnold, Lucretia, Eliza- beth, Harris, Anne, d. young, Peter, second Anna, Temperance, Polly and Sally. Hon. Elisha Colt settled in Hartford ; was many years a popular and an efficient comptroller of the state of Conn. He d. at Hartford in 1827, and left a family of high standing there then and at this time. Arnold, a son of Harris, went to Wyoming, Penn., where he m. and left children, Harris and Peter, d. single; Lucre- tia m. Hon. Isaac Spencer, son of Gen. Spencer, of E. Haddam, who was many years treasurer of Connecticut. Elizabeth m. Zach- ariah Seymour, who settled in Canadaigua, N. Y. Anna m. Capt. Job P. Tabor, moved to Louisiana, and d. in Baton Rouge, and left three dau'rs ; two m. there, the other m. and settled in Penn. 7. TEMPERANCE. 8. POLLY, m. Francis Brown, and d. in Florida ; her child d. young. 9. SALLY, m. Deodate J. Griswold, and d. in Penn'a, without issue. 10. BENJAMIN, Jun., foiyth son of Benj'n, Sen., b. 1738, m. Lucretia, daughter of Major Daniel Ely, of Lyme, in 1761 ; settled in Hadley, Mass., and d. in middle life, Aug. 30, 1781, aged 43. Lucretia, his widow, m. John Walker, and d. March 23, 1826. He was the youngest son of Benj'n, Sen., who moved from Windsor to Lyme, and was an ingenious blacksmith, and made scythes, axes and other edge tools. He had children, viz.: 1. Benjamin, b. Sept. 30, 1762; lived in Brookfield, Vt., &c; m. Hopkins. 2. Lucretia, b. 1764 : d. Sept. J 2, 1767, aged 3 years and 9 mo. 3. Daniel, b. July 7, 1767; was liberally educated; d. south in 1816; had lived in Hartford. 4. Second Lucretia, b. 1709; d. Jan. 7, 1771. 5. Ethalinda, b. July 23, 1771 ; m. J. Dudley Selden. 6. Ame, or Amy, b. Feb. 7, 1773; m. Moses Porter, of Hadley. 7. Betsey, li. gent. 1, 1774; ) r . , D . -, rr^i • ii . i « <><- .--.,. !>m. boot and Price. n. Ihinl Lucretia, b. Nov. 25, 1//0; ) 9. Elisha, b. June 12, 177s ; d. [ n Hadley. 10. Christopher, b. Aug. 31.17S0; wasahighly respectable merchant at Hart- lord, (agent at Ware, Arc.) He wa? twice in. All his children now living, 676 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. were by his first wife. He was the father of Col. Samuel Colt, the ingenious inventor of Colt's revolver, a most useful fire-arm, and the father of Judge Colt, of St. Louis, Missouri. The father, Christopher, d. a few years since. His second wife is yet living in Hartford. COLT, JAMES DANIELSON, in. a dau'r of Deacon Ely, of Lyme, and had two sons and a dau'r. His wife d. and he m. a dau'r of Col. Williams, of Pittsfield, Mass., and had ten children living there. COLT, JABEZ, of Lyme, m. Watrous, of Lyme. She d. and her children also in early life, and he m. a dau'r of Dr. Mix, of New Haven, where he then resided, and had four sons and one dau'r. About the close of the Revolutionary War, he sold his property at N. Haven, and removed to Richmond, Mass. His two oldest sons, Jabez and Samuel, m. and settled at Pittsfield. John and Joseph Colt were farmers. Harris, Benjamin, James and Jabez Colt were axe and scythe makers in connection with hus- bandry. COLT, Hon. PETER, the youngest son of one of the Benja- min's, graduated at Yale College in 1764. When the war of the Revolution broke out, he engaged in the civil department of the army as deputy quarter-master-general for the eastern department ; then as assistant commissary-general with the rank of colonel, and was attached to the French army. His nephew, Hon. Elisha Colt, (who was afterward comptroller of the state,) served with him as assistant, while he was attached to the French army in Rhode Island. Dur- ing the war, Hon. Peter and Elisha C%lt were important and efficient pillars in the great strife for liberty in this country. Peter was sev- eral years treasurer of the state. He afterward, in 1793, removed to Paterson, N. Jersey, and from thence to Rome, N. Y., where he died. While he lived in N. Haven, he m. a dau'r of Daniel Lyman, by whom he had children, viz.: Roswell L., Sally, Catherine, John, Mary and Richard. Roswell L. and John settled at Paterson, N. J. Most of the facts regarding the Colts, of Lyme, are collected from an aged man of that branch. The following are the descendants of the branch of Jabez, by his son John, born at Windsor in 1703, and settled in Harwinton in 1740. COLT, JOHN, son of Jabez, b. 1703, removed and settled at Harwinton as early as 1740, (perhaps in. a Higley,) and had issue, Anne, b. June 24, 1734, d.; Jonathan Higley Colt, b. Oct. 13, 1735 ; second Anne, b. May 6, 1737. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 677 COLT, LEVI, had a dau'r Mary T., b. March 22, 1741. Noth. ing more is found of Levi ; perhaps d. COLT, JONATHAN H., m. Mary Tuttle, Oct. 13, 17G1. Issue, John, b. Sept. 9, 1762 ; Eliphalet, b. Feb. 12, 1764 ; Anson, b. July 19, 1766; Abel, b. March 4, 1769; Truman, b. Jan. 13, 1771 ; Millicent, b. Jan. 1, 1773 ; Rhoda, b. Jan. 11, 1775; Sally, b. Oct. 3, 1776 ; Polly, b. Dec. 20, 1778 ; Huldah, b. Aug. 7, 1780 ; Electa, b. April 15, 1785, b. at Harwinton. COLT, JOHN, son of Jonathan, m. Ruth Gilbert, and had issue, Belinda, John, Jr., Gilbert, Lyman, Riley, Wolcott, Elias, second Elias. COLT, ELIPHALET, son of Jonathan, b. 1764, was a doctor. He m. Huldah Adams, and had childven. COLT, ANSON, b. 1766, son of Jonathan, m. Cloe Gillett, and had children, Nancy, Anson, Jun., Cloe, Charlotte and Henry. COLT, ABEL, or ALLEN, b. 1769, m. Mary Webster, and had children, Cloe, Abel, Jun , and Amos. COLT, TRUMAN, son of Jonathan, b. 1771, m. 1. Ann Forbes. Issue, Willis F., Anson and Truman. After the death of his wife he m. Widow Anna Pardee, of New Haven, and resided at East Haven a few years. COLT, MILLICENT, dau'r of Jonathan, b. 1773, m. Ruel Grid- ley, and had Clarissa, Fanny, Amos, Ann, Rhoda, Betsey and Ruel. COLT, RHODA, b. 1775, dau'r of Jonathan, m. Benj'n Hopkins and had Joel, Polly, Malissa, Rebecca, Chester and Maria. COLT, SALLY, b. 1776, m. Darias Wilson, and had Darius, Jun., and other children by a second husband. COLT, POLLY, b. 1778, m. Mr. Williamson, and had issue, James, Riley and one other. COLT, HULDAH, dau'r of Jonathan, b. 1780, m. Silas Gridley, Jun., and had issue, Eliza, Sally, Belinda, Silas R. and Mary. Electa, b. 1785, m. Mr. Crane, and had no children. These are the descendants of John Colt, who went from Windsor and settled in Harwinton, where some of his descendants are yet found, (as far as collected.) Coats of arms. — COLT, (Westminster ; since of Leominster, co. Hereford, Bart.) 1 ; ar. a fesse, betw. three colts in full speed sa. Crest, a colt as in the arms. Motto, Vincit qui patitur. COLT, or Cault, (Canterbury, 1613,) 1 ; Colt, (Essex,) 1 ; Colt (Colt Hall, co. Suffolk, 1587,) 1 ; Colt, (as borne by John Hamilton Colt, of Garthshire, co. Lanark, Esq., son of the late Robert Colt, Esq.,) one. 57* 678 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Two of this name graduated at Yale College before 1834. Dan- iel Colt, at Harvard, 1786 ; four at Williams College. Thomas Adkins had a son Josias. This Josias m. Joanna , and soon after d. His widow, Joanna, m. for her second husband, Benj'n Colt, of East Hartford, and had a dau'r Lucy. This Lucy- Colt m. Josiah Gilman. She d. April 29, 1793, aged 74, at East Hartford. COLT, HENRY, m. Sara Rusco, Dec. 10, 1646 ? who was he ? COLT, WILLIAM, and his wife Alice, had children, viz.: Eliz- abeth, b. April, 1653 ; John, b. Feb., 1654 ; Mary, b. Feb., 1656, and Jonathan, b. Feb., 1658. Whose son was this Wm.? or should the births and other dates be in the 17th century ? or was he the William Colt, admitted freeman at Salem in 1648, mentioned by Farmer ? COLTON, GEORGE, (called quarter-master on the Suffield rec- ord,) was at Springfield, Mass., as early as 1644. He was the first of the name known to the writer in N. England, and the ancestor of the Coltons of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was located at (Masacksick) Longmeadow, in Springfield, soon after 1644, and a worthy, respectable settler. He represented the town at the Gen. Court in 1669. In 1670, he, with Capt. John Pynchon, Benjamin Cooley, Lieut. Thomas Cooper, Rowland Thomas and Capt. Elizur Holyoke, were appointed a committee to lay out lots, organize and sell the lands in the new plantation, (of Suffield,) by the Gen. Court of Mass. March 20, 1671-2, the general committee appointed Lieut. Thomas Cooper, and Quarter-master George Colton, to lay out and establish the bounds of Suffield ; and Charles Ffery, Joseph Leonard, Samuel and Joseph Harmon, were appointed to attend the committee in establishing the bounds. In the year 1722, fifty acres of land were laid out in Suffield to the assigns of said George, then de- ceased. Quarter-master Geo. Colton d. 1699, and his wife d. Sept., 1689. His wife was Deborah Gardiner, by whom he had children, viz.: Isaac, Ephraim, Mary, Thomas, Sarah, Deborah, Hepsibah, John and Benjamin. COLTON, THOMAS, son of Quarter master George, was b. May 11, 1651; m. Sarah Griswold, of Lyme, Sept. 11, 1677, and settled at Springfield, (Longmeadow,) Mass., where he d. September, 1728, aged 77 years. His wife, Sarah, d. Sept. 12, 1690. The town of Springfield voted, Nov. 30, 1693, to send Capt. Thomas Colton and Serg't Luke Hitchcock, to the Bay, to procure a minister to preach the word of God to the town, &c. They had children, Sarah, b. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 679 Sept. 25, 1678, Anna, Thomas, Jun., Benj'n, Eliz'h and Mathew_ Thomas, Sen., m. for second wife, Hannah Bliss, dau'r of L. Bliss, of Springfield, Dec. 17, 1691, and had children, Hepzibah, William, Ebenezer, Joseph, Isaac, Hannah, Dinah and Abner. COLTON, ISAAC, son of George, Sen., m. Mary Cooper, of Springfield, and had children, viz.: George, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary, b. March 30, 1671 ; Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 1673 ; Rebeckah, Deborah and Hannah. COLTON, EPH'M, 2d, son of Quarter-master George, m. Miss Drake, and had sons Eph'm, Jun., Samuel and Job. His wife d., and he m. for his second wife, Esther Marshall, and had children, Joseph, Benj'n, Daniel, Isaac, Nathaniel, Noah, Thomas, Esther, Sarah, Margaret and Mary. COLTON, EPH'M, Jun., son of Eph'm,^ m. Margaret Noble, of Westfield, Mass.; and children, Eph'm 3d, m. Sarah Burt; Job, d. young ; Mary, d. single ; Samuel, m. Mary Store ; Deborah, m. Store; Jerusha, in. David Burt ; Damaris, never m.; Hannah, m. Stephen Keep. COLTON, WM.j son of Thomas and Hannah, was b. July 7, 1694; m. Mary Merrick, of Springfield, Jan. 24, 1717; lived at Longmeadow. He d. Dec. 4, 1770, aged 76 years. Mary, his wife, d. June 5,' 1767, aged 73. Children, Aaron, Ann, Mary, Ruth, Abigail, Loice, Eunice, Mariam and Israel. COLTON, AARON, (son of Wm. and Mary,) was b. June 13, 1718; m. Mary, dau'r of Jonathan and Lydia Ely, Nov. 17, 1746; lived at Longmeadow. Aaron d. June 28, 1778, aged 60. Mary, his wife, d. Nov. 21, 1797, aged 78 years; had children, Israel, Lovisa, Mary, Wm., Mary, Aaron, second Mary and Walter. COLTON, ISRAEL, (son of Aaron and Mary,) b. Sept. 12, 1747, m. Martha Wright, dau'r of Elnathan and Mary, of North- ampton, Nov. 29, 1775; lived at Longmeadow; he d. May 26, 1818, aged 71. Martha, his wife, d. April 14, 1829, aged 82 years. Issue: Martha, Miranda, Israel, Aaron, Horace, Nancy, Warham and Sylvia. COLTON, LOVISA, (dau'r of Aaron and Mary,) b. Nov. 26, 1749, m. Tilly Merrick, of West Springfield, and settled there. She d. March 18, 1828, in her 79th year. -Her husband d. Aug. 31, 1835, aged 92. Children, Parnel, Lucinda, Aaron, Daniel, Tilly and Lovisa. COLTON, WM., son of Aaron and Mary, was b. Jan. 6, 1754 ; m. Hannah, dau'r of Ebenezer Colton, Oct. 7, 1777; settled at 6S0 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Longmeadow, in Springfield. He d. May 0, 1825, in his 72d year. Wife Hannah d. Oct. 9, 1808, in her 59th year. Issue : Wm. Mer- rick, Adolphus, Hannah, Rodolphus, Sophronia and Jeduthan. COLTON, AARON, Jun., (son of Aaron and Mary,) b. Dec. 5, 1758, m. Elizabeth Olmsted, dau'r of Ashbel and Hannah, of East Hartford, Conn., April 5, 1787, and settled in Hartford, Conn. He d. June 4, 1840, in his 82d year. Elizabeth, his wife, d. Nov. 16, 1831, aged 69 years. Children, Laura, Elizabeth, Anson and Na- than. Some of this family now reside at Hartford. Anson is a bachelor, and Nathan has an only child, a daughter, of Hartford. COLTON, MARY, dau'r of Aaron and Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1761, m. Simeon Smith, of W. Springfield, Mass., and settled there; d. May 16, 1832, aged 71. Children : Polly, Rodolphus, Preston, Al- mira, Lucinda, Olive, Simeon, second Simeon, Safiah and William. COLTON, WALTER, son of Aaron and Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1764, m. Thankful Cobb, dau'r of John, and Susannah Cobb, of Ben- nington, Vt., 1793, and settled in Georgia, Vt. Thankful, his wife, d. June 7, 1843, aged 72. Children, Harvey, Susannah, Walter, Jun., was chaplain in the navy, Quintus Curtius, Wm., Addison E., Hannah, John, Aaron M., Luther Calvin, Quincy Gardiner. * COLTON, Rev. BENJAMIN, of W. Hartford, was the fifth son of Ephraim, and grandson of Quarter-master George, of Spring- field, Mass. He graduated at Yale College, with John Bliss, the only graduates of Yale in 1710. He d. in 1759, aged 69, and Bliss d. 1741. (See Catalogue of Y. C.) Mr. Colton settled the first minister at West Hartford, Feb. 24, 1713, and d. there March 1. He continued their minister about forty-four years. He m. Ruth *Rev. Benjamin Colton, the first ordained pastor at West Hartford, was ordained Feb. 24, 1713. The elders who assisted were Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, Tho's Buckingham, of Hart- ford, Rev. Samuel Whitman, of Farmington, and Timothy Woodbridge, of Simsbury. Rev. Nath'l Hooker, Jun., was the second ordained minister at W. Hartford, Dec. 21, 1757. The elders who assisted were Rev. Elnathan Whitman, Edward Dorr and Eliphalet Williams, of Hart- ford Rev. Ebenezer Booge and Timothy Pitkin, of Farmington, Hezekiah Bissell, of YVintonbury, and Joshua ISelding, of Newington. He d. of consumption, June 11, 1770, aged 32. Rev. Na- than Perkins, D.D., was the third ordained minister at West Hartford, ordained Oct. 14, 1772. The elders who assisted were Rev. Elnathan Whitman, Hezekiah Bissel, Eliphalet Williams. Joseph Perry, Wm. Russell. Timothy Pitkin, Joshua Belding, George Colton, John Staples and Andrew Lee. Fourth, Rev. Caleb S. Henry was installel colleague pastor with .Nalhan Perkins, D D June 12, 1833. Fifth, Edward W. Andrews, ordained as colleague pastor with Nathan Perkins D. D., Nov. 15, 1837. Rev. George T. Wood, installed pastor of the church at W. H. Nov. 9, 1841. GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 68J Taylor, dau'r of Rev. Edward Taylor, of Westfield, Mass., Dec. 3* 1713. Children: 1*. Eli, b. Aug. 2, 1716. 2. Ruth, b. Nov. 5, 1718; bap. Nov. 9, 1718. 3. "Theodosia, b. July 13, 1721 ; bap. July 16, 1721. 4. Benjamin, b. June 7, 1721; bap. June 7, 1724. His wife, Ruth, d. 5. Lucina, (by Benj'n and Eliz'th, his wife,) b. March 8, 1726-7 ; bap. March 12, 1727. 6. Eliz'th, b. Nov. 28, 1728 ; bap. Dec. 1, 172S. 7. (Abijah, bap. April 4, 1731 ;) m. Mary Gaylor, April 21, 1774 ; had Polly, Eliz'th, George, Horace, Chester and Roderic. 8. Esther, bap. July 15, 1733. 9. George, bap. July 11, 1736. Widow Elizabeth d. Oct. 11, 1760, aged 71. COLTON, Rev. GEORGE, b. 1736, graduated at Yale College in 1756, and was settled at Bolton in 1763 ; d. in 1812. His por- trait is at the historical room in Hartford. He was particularly ec- centric, in words and actions. I have not his family of children, if he had any, and only know that he married, by his publishing his own intention of marriage in church. COLTON, ELT, son of Rev. Benj'n and Ruth, m. Eunice Smith, ofSimsbury, and had children: 1. Eleazer, bap. Oct. 17, 1742, at W. Hartford. 2. Ithamer, m. 1. Alinda Welles; 2. Andrus ; 3. Miriam Benton. 3. Samuel. 4. Eliakim, m. Betsey Viets, ofSimsbury. 5. Eunice, m. Joseph Higley for second husband. He appears to have graduated at Yale Col., 1737, and settled in the ministry at Stafford, Conn. His children there named are Eunice Higley, alias Colton, one-third of his real estate for life ; Eleazer, his oldest son ; Eliakim, Ithamer, Lemuel and Samuel Colton, 1765. His dau'r Eunice m. Higley for second husband. He d. 1756. (See Yale Catalogue.) COLTON, BENJAMIN, second son of Rev. Benj'n and Ruth, of W. H., m. Anna Whiting, and had children, viz.: 1. Benjamin, d. young; bap. Sept. 15, 1751. 2. Joseph, in. Esther Belden,ofW. H., and had a son Joseph, d. lS37,&c. 3. Anna, d. young ; bap. Dec. 28, 1755. 4. Ruth, bap. Nov. 2, 1760 ; m. Amos Sedgwick, of W. H.; removed to Ash- ford, and had a son and two dau'rs. He d. at Ashford. Widow m. Daniel Ilosmer, and hail dau'r Mariah. 5. Benjamin, d. young. COLTON, JOSEPH, son of Benj'n and Esther, had children, 682 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Joseph, d. at Hartford, 1837, Anna, Ruth, Esther, Benj'n, d. young, Laura, Alma, Sarah, d. in youth, Whiting, d. in Indiana in 1842, and second Benjamin Col ton, son of Joseph, above, m. Sabrina Ho*we, and had issue : 1. Mary, in. Edward Brace, and had a son, John G. Brace. 2. Melanctcm 11. 3. Charles A., m. Mary Grant, of Asbford ; no i-^m' : m. 2. Ruth Winship, and had Clarence, Henry and a son. •4. Nehemiah II. 5. Joseph F., d. in youth. COLTON, LAURA, dau'r of Joseph, m. Samuel Steel, of VV. H., and removed to Woodbury. Had Laura, Sophia, Mary, Mariah, died young. ALMA, a dau'r of Joseph, m. John De Forest, of Woodbury, and had a dau'r Abigail. ESTHER, dau'r of Joseph, m. John Perkins, of Ashford, and had Lucy Ann, d., and Laura. COLTON, BENJ'N, son of Joseph, m. Jerusha Porter, of Hadley* Mass. Issue: Julia, Harriet, Augustin and Frederick P. His wife d. in Hartford, soon after 1825. He d. in Woodbury, 1850. COLTON, RUTH, dau'r of Benj'n, Jun., and granddaughter of Rev. Benj'n, of W. H., m. Timothy Skinner, and had issue : Ruth, Ann, Timothy, d. young, Abigail, d., second Abigail, d., and James* Dau'r Ruth m. first, Rev. Nath'l Hooker, of W. H., and had Ruth and Eunice. Ruth m. Col. Nathan Haynes Whiting, and had a son Nath'l H. Whiting, of W. Hartford. Her second husband was Fisher Gay, of Farmington. Her third husband, Thomas Goodman, of W. Hartford. This branch of the Coltons are connected by mar- riage to Hon. Noah Webster, Good riches and Ellsworths. These facts are gathered from all sources, and with few dates, and probably some errors. This family have produced many clergymen, some deacons and some poets. Twenty-one had graduated at Yale College before 1851. One at Brown University in 1834. COMSTOCK, COMBSTOKE, KOMSTOCK, WILLIAM and SAMUEL, wer^both early at Hartford. Win. was in court at Hartford in August, 1644, and again in 1649. Samuel was in court at Hartford, and gave a bond in March, 1648, and in April, 1649, was freed from his recognizance. Soon after this, both William and Samuel disappeared*. Samuel probably went to Rhode Island. There was a Welchman by this name who early settled in R. Island) and as Samuel, of Hartford, is not found in Conn, afterward, it is GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 683 probable being a brother of William, and the latter going to New London to settle, that Samuel went with him and. settled in R. I., near by his brother Wm, at N. L. Comstock, Samuel, at an early period, had the following children b. in R. I., viz,, Samuel, Jun., Hazadiah, Thomas, Daniel, Eliza- beth, John, Ichabod and Job. COMSTOCK, HAZADIAH, Samuel's second son, had fifteen chil- dren, ten by his first and five by his second wife, viz.: Susannah, Wm., Gideon, Rachel, Catherine, Hazadiah, Jun., Penelope, An- thony, Andrew, John, Amy, Ezekiel, Phebe, Rufus and Martha. COMSTOCK, GIDEON, second son of Hazadiah, Sen., was the father of Col. Adam Comstock, who was the grandfather of Andrew Komstok, of Philadelphia, Penn. Col. Adam had seventeen children, viz.: Ruth, Win., Susannah, Gideon, John and Mary, twins, also twins not named, Freelove, Samuel, Amy, Catherine, Sally, Oliver Cromwell, Alpha, James McGregore, and Alexander McGregore Comstock. COMSTOCK, Col. ADAM, removed with his family, about 1780, to Saratoga county, N. Y., where he ,d., in 1819, an aged man. Gideon, his fourth son, was the father of Andrew Komstock, of Phil- adelphia. Gideon also had a dau'r Mary. Rev. Oliver C. Com- stock was son of Col. Adam ; he was chaplain for Congress in 1837. He was a physician and Baptist minister. He was member of Con- gress from Tompkins county, N. Y., six years, and baptized and ordained at Washington, at the close of his congressional life. He had held other places of high trust before he went to Congress. Thus much for Samuel, of Hartford and Rhode Island. COMSTOCK, CHRISTOPHER, of Fairfield and Norwalk, his descendants say, came from England about 1652, and settled at Fairfield about 1654, where he remained until 1661 or '62. Jan. 27, 1661, he was of Fairfield, when he purchased the house and home-lot of Tho's Betts, of Norwalk, which had previously been owned by Nath'l Eli. He probably moved on to his new purchased property soon after, at Norwalk, where he was a reputable man and useful settler. No evidence is found which shows that he was a relative either of John, of Lyme, Wm., of N. London, or Samuel, of Rhode Island. He m. Hannah, dau'r of Richard Piatt, of Milford, Oct. 6, 1663. After he located at Norwalk, about 1671, he was ap- pointed at Norwalk to keep an ordinary, (hotel,) to entertain stran- gers. Jan. 16, 1694, he was one of a committee of ten of the inhab- itants of Norwalk, and commissioned for the town " to look out for 684 GENKALOGY OF THE PURITANS. and obtain a faithful minister for the town," &c. In 1687, his estate of commonage in Norwalk, accepted by the town, was £201, 10*. He is sometimes called Serg't Comstock. He had children, viz.: 1. Daniel Comestocke, b. July 21, 1664; m. Eliz'th, dau'r of John Wheeler, of Fairfield, Jan. 13, 1692. 2. Hannah, b. July 15, 1666. 3. Abigail, b. Jan. 27, 1669 ; d. Feb. 9, 10^9. 1. Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1671. 5. EhVtb, b. Oct. 7, 1674. 6. Mercie, b. Nov. 12, 1676. 7. Samuell, b. Feb. 6, 1679. 8. Moses, b. 1685; d. 1766, aged 81. Christopher d. Dec. 28, 1702. COMSTOCK, DANIEL, son of Christopher, m. Eliz'th, dau'r of John Wheeler, "of Ffaierfield," Black Rock, June 13,1692. No issue found. COMSTOCK, SAMUEL, son of Christopher, b. 1679-80, m. Sarah, dau'r of Rev. TJio's Hanford, of Norwalk, Dec. 27, 1705, and had children : 1. Sarah, b. March 25, 1707. 2. Samuel!, b. Nov. 12, 1708. • J. Mary, b Aug. 5,1710; perhaps others. In 1718, Ensign Samuel Comstock was a committee, with five others, to lay before the committee " the surcomstances of ye town in their present differences." as to repairing and making an addition to the meeting house in Norwalk. Daniel Comstock, with j£60, is found in the list of estates of commonage at Norwalk in 1687. COMSTOCK, MOSES, son of Christopher, m. Abigail Brins- maid, dau'r of Mr. Daniel, dee'd, of Hartford, Feb. 23, 1709-10. He died Jan. 18, 1766, aged 81. His wife Abigail died Nov. 16 same year, aged 74. Moses had children : Moses, Jun., Abigail, Hannah, Sarah and Phebe ; (perhaps David and others.) COMSTOCK. DAVID, m. Sarah Leeds, 1774. and had children, Elisha, Abijah, Sarah, David. Jun., and Eliz'th. His wife Sarah d. May 8. 1790, and he m. Deborah Weed, Feb. 5, 1795, and had children : John, Samuel and Mary. COMSTOCK, CALEB, m. 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