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DANIEL, son of Andrew Bacon, of Middletown, m. Hannah Fairchild, who was his widow and Executrix, His children were Mary and Hannah. Inventory of his estate dated 1738, being £691, 12s. 3d.
It is supposed that Thomas Bacon, of Simsbury, was from Mid- dletown, and a member of that family, and son of Nathaniel, Sen.
SAMUEL, of Barnstable, with John, Nathaniel and Jeremiah Bacon, were admitted inhabitants of Barnstable, Mass., after 1660. FRAN- CIS, freeman of Massachusetts, 1665. NATHANIEL BACON, John Bursley, Austine Bearse, Wm. Beetes, Abraham Blush, Thos. Boreman, Richard Berry, were enrolled in Barnstable, with others, in 1643, as able to bear arms. THOMAS, and Hannah, his wife, of Wrentham, Mass., had a son Thomas b. there, Nov. 26, 1693. JAMES, Roxbury, freeman, 1673-4. MR. SAMUEL, of Salem, wife Elizabeth, d. there, 1753; his wife Anna d. there 1761, and he d. 1765, aged 55 years. Eight of the name had graduated at Harvard College, in 1843, and twelve had graduated at Yale Col- lege, in 1847. JOHN, of Watertown, Mass., free 1690. March 6, 1684, Thomas owned two parcels of land in Hartford, given him by
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his father Nathaniel, Bacon, Esq., of Middletown. NATHANIEL, drew thirty-seven acres of land in a division of the public lands of Hartford, in 1672. THOMAS, JR., of Roxbury, Mass., was an original signer of a contract, for the settlement of Woodstock, Conn., Nov. 7, 1683. He and his wife Rebecca, had a daughter Rebecca b. there, Aug. 7, 1689. Experience, b. Feb. 2, 1691-2. THOMAS had a grant of land in Simsbury. Deed dated Dec. 31, 1685. THOMAS MASKELL, was of Simsbury, in 1683, whose daughter probably m. a Bacon, of Simsbury, who had a son Maskell Bacon. The Bacons of Middletown, have been generally wealthy.
Thomas Bacon was one of the first settlers from Roxbury, Mass., to .Woodstock, in April, 1686.
Joseph Bacon, of the church in Hampton, Jan., 1743, removed to Canterbury.
BADCOCK, JAMES, the first of the name known in New Eng- land, was an Episcopal clergyman in England, and settled in the rectory of Wivenhoe ; he afterwards changed his faith and became a Puritan minister ; he went to Leyden, in Holland, for the purpose of embarking for America, and persuading others to unite with him, and actually became one of the Pilgrim Fathers. He embarked, (as is said,) in 1620, but by stress of weather, the vessel put back, so that he did not come to this country until 1623, when they arrived at Plymouth. He was of Saxon origin. The early family were seated in Essex county, England, at the time of the Norman con- quest. Sir William Seager, in his visit to the county of Essex, in 1612, states that Sir Richard Badcock was the nineteenth in descent from the first holder of the family mansion there, (which is said by the relatives to have been standing in 1850.) James, the first emi- grant to New England, of the name, was deprived of the rectory at Wivenhoe, before he went to Holland. It is not known that James preached after he came to the Plymouth colony.
BADCOCK, JAMES, or BABCOCK, the progenitor and founder of the family in New England, was born in Wivenhoe, in Essex, England, in 1580. He was a younger brother of RICHARD, who occupied the family mansion at Wivenhoe. James came to New England, in the Anr., and landed at Plymouth, in July, 1623, and afterwards removed to Dorchester, (Milton,) where he resided the remainder of his life. He married at Wivenhoe about 1615, and had children, James, Jr., b. at Wivenhoe, about 1616 ; John, b. at same place, about 1618; Job, b. at Leyden, in Holland, 1620 ; Mary, b. at same place, in 1621. His wife d. in Dorchester, (Milton,) about 1640. He afterwards m. and had a son Joseph, b. about 1650.
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BABCOCK, JAMES, Jr., who came with his parents to Ply- mouth, removed to Westerly, Rhode Island, about 1665, where he died in 1690. He m. at Dorchester, Jeane -, about 1637, and had children : Robert, b. in Dorchester, about 1638,
George, b.
1640,
James, b.
1642,
Sarah, b.
1644,
Jeane, b.
66
1646,
Benjamin, b. .
66
1648,
Samuel, b.
1649,
Jonathan, b.
1651,
Dorothy, b. 66
1652,
Elizabeth, b.
1654,
Mary, b.
1656,
Hannah, b.
66
1658,
Nathaniel, b.
1660,
William, b.
1662.
His widow, Jeane, d. at Westerly, R. I., in January, 1719. She made her will, (see W. Record, Probate, Vol. 1. p. 273,) will dated April 30th, 1718. She left property to her daughters, Sarah Lewis, Jeane Lewis, (who had a daughter Jeane, ) Elizabeth Sears, (had a son Elisha,) Mary Brown, Hannah Larkin and her two grand- children, William and Peter Babcock, the children of her son James, who had three sons. (Communicated by Welles.)
The names of Babcock and Badcock have been extensively known in Rhode Island, from an early period. The name is now generally known in that state as Babcock. The coats of arms are all under this name, and the name of Babcock is not found in Burk's Heraldry.
Coats of arms of Badcock. BADCOCK, (borne by Lieut. Colonel Lovell Benjamin Badcock, now Lovell, of Lincolnshire and Bucks,) Barry nebuly of six, or, and gu. Crest-a talbot pass,arg. Motto- Tempus omnia monstrat.
BADCOCK, (St. Winow, Co. Cornwall.) Sa. a fesse, betw. three cocks ar.
There was also a coat of arms in Essex and Kensington, Co. Mid- dlesex, ; also one in Devonshire ; also one other for this name.
BADCOCK, JAMES and CALEB, came to Windham, Conn., about A. D. 1700. For many years, the name is spelt upon the Windham Record, Badcock. After some years, Badcocks and Bab- cocks were found in the same family. And at this time, only one family at Windham, retains the original name of Badcock. James Badcock, of Windham, had a daughter Zerdiah, b. June 18, 1705.
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It is probable the Badcocks and Babcocks are all the descendants of Rev. James Badcock of Plymouth, and Newton.
BADCOCK, Caleb, of Windham, m. Abigail More, Jan. 21, 1713 ; issue : Sarah, b. Nov. 19, 1713, d. Nov. 19; Mary, b. April 22, 1716 ; Jonathan, b. June 10, 1718. Mary Badcock, the wife of 'Jonathan, d. aged 63, on the 28th day of March, 1719. Abigail, the wife of Caleb, d. April 21, 1719, aged 31. Caleb m. for his second wife, Susannah Glover, May 18, 1721. (See BABCOCK.)
In Nov., 1642, the Court at New Haven, ordered Jervis Boykin, to pay GEORGE BADCOCKE, 20s., for taking his barrow without leave. Who was this George Badcock, as early as 1642 ? If he had not resided at New Haven, he probably would not have owned a wheel-barrow there.
BADGER, DANIEL, moved from Hartford, to North Coventry. He had sons, Daniel and Moses. The first settler there was John Bissell, Jr., from Lebanon, (originally of Windsor,)-his deed was dated July, 1716, and his deed of land in South Coventry, is dated Oct., 1715. Ancestor of Hon. Samuel Badger, of Philadelphia. Bad- ger, U. S. Senator, is a descendant. Farmer says Giles, Nathaniel and Richard Badger, were of Newbury, Mass., in 1647. Giles d. there, in 1648. John, of Newbury, Mass., free 1673-4.
BAGER, (Badger ;) this name has two coats of arms.
BADGER, DANIEL, m. Tabitha, of Suffield, and had Hannah, b. Nov. 4, 1722, d. Dec. 16, 1723 ; John, b. Dec. 6, 1723.
*BAILY, JOHN, 1648, viewer of chimneys and ladders, at Hart- ford. He was a constable in Hartford, March, 1656-7; made free
* The different orthography of spelling names, often leads relatives to deny and disown their own blood relations, descended from the same common ancestor, not only in England, but this country ; and for the purpose of showing the little reliance that should be placed upon the manner of spelling names, I annex the name of Bailey, spelt in all the forms found. I also, among all the manners of spelling the name of Talcott on the records, notice more than fifty ways, Talkott, Taylcoat, &c., and yet it is perfectly evident, but one, of the name of Talcott, came to this Colony. The name of Hicox, by most of the descendants of Samnuel, of Waterbury, is now spelt either Hicock, or Hickock or Hickcock, though one of the family at Danbury, spells the" name Hicox. Names are often spelt two or three different ways in the same will. The name of Boreman at Wethersfield, is now generally spelt Boardman, and by this change, lost their coat of arms, and take the coat of arms of Boardman. Burnap has changed to Burnet. And Lankton to Langdon.
Bailey,
Bale,
Bayley,
Baelye,
Bayele, Bayllie,
Baily,
Bailie,
Balye,
Balee,
Bayeley,
Bayllee,
Baley, · Baillie,
Baely,
Bailee,
Bayelly,
Bayle.
Baly,
Bayly,
Baeley,
Baile,
Bayelley,
Balie,
Baylie,
Baelie,
Bailye,
Bayelie,
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May, 1657. He resided at Haddam, in 1676, d. at Haddam and his will proved in 1696, Nathaniel Baily, Executor. Estate £186, 10s. 6d. : had a suit in court at Hartford, 1642.
BAILEY, JOHN, was one of the twenty-eight original purchasers of Haddam, and removed there about 1662, from Hartford. He had sons, Benjamin and John. BENJAMIN, son of John Bailey, had sons, John, Benjamin and Nathaniel. JOHN BAILEY, son of John, had sons, John, Ephraim, Jonathan and David. NATHANIEL had sons, Daniel and Ezekiel. JOHN, son of Benjamin, had sons : John, Na- than, Jeremiah, Amos, James and William. EPHRAIM, grandson of John, Sen., had sons: Ephraim, Jacob, Gideon, Stephen, Jabez, Caleb, Abijah, William, Oliver and a 2d Ephraim. Most of the name in Connecticut, are descended from John, of Haddam. BAI- LIS, THOMAS, was a defendant in Court at Hartford, in 1642. JAMES and MARY BAILEY, had children b. at Killingworth : Sarah, b. Sept. 3, 1683. REV. JAMES, minister of Killingworth, lost his wife Mary, by death, Oct. 28, 1688. ELIZABETH, wife of John Bailey, d. March 29, 1728-9. NICHOLAS BAYLEY was made free at Hartford, by the General Court, in 1663. JO. SEPH BAYLEY, of Huntington, L. I., 1664, made free by Gen- eral Court at Hartford. THOMAS BAYLY had a home lot in Mil- ford, in 1646. He sold three acres to Wm. Brooks, before 1646. SAMUEL BAYLEY, of New Haven, 1643. DAVID BAILEY, and wife Jane, had issue b. at Middletown, viz., Phebe, b. 1736; Elijah, b. 1738 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 22, 1740; James, b. 1743. David, the father, d. Aug. 18, 1747. THOMAS BAYLEY made free in Massachusetts, in 1640. THOMAS and HANNAH BAYLY, of Weymouth, had a son John, b. 1687. THOMAS, of Weymouth, freeman, 1666. JOHN and JAMES BAILY, of Weymouth, made free 1673. JONAS, of Black Point, 1657. SAMUEL and MARY BAYLEY, of Weymouth, in 1667, also THOMAS, and RUTH his wife, 1670. JOHN BAYLY, SEN., and JR., of Salisbury, Mass., 1650. NATHANIEL, 1662. ISAAC and JOSEPH, of Newbury, free, 1690. THEOPHILUS, of Lynn, free 1691. JOSHUA, of Salisbury, free in Massachusetts, 1690. JONAS BAYLI, Andrew Browne, George Bartlet, John Austin, signed a petition "to the Hond Court att York," July 4, 1663. BAILEY has a coat of arms. BAILLES, (Yorkshire, granted 1578,) one. BAILLIE has sev- en. BAILLY, one. BAYLEE, BAILIE or BAILEY, one. BAYLES, one. BAYLIE, one. BAYLEY, eight. BAYLY, five. PALMER BAYLEY, aged 21 years, a miller, came to
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New England, in the Planter. ROBERT BAYLIE, aged 23, Thomas Bull, aged 25, embarked in the Hopewell, Thomas Babb, Master, for New England, Sept. 11.
BAKER, (Bacor, Bakor, Baiker,) JEFRY, of Windsor, m. Jane Rockwell, Nov. 15, 1642, and had children : Samuel, b. March 30-1, 1644; Hepziba, b. May 10, 1646 ; Mary, b. July 15, 1649 ; daughter Abiell, b. Dec. 23, 1652, d. -; Joseph, b. June 18, 1655. SAMUEL, son of Jeffery and Jane, m. Sarah Cook, June 30, 1670. Jeffery Baker d. 1655. He was an original settler at Windsor.
BAKER, JOSEPH, of Windsor, son of Jeffery, b. June 18, 1655, m. Hannah, widow of Thomas Buckland, daughter of Nathaniel Cook, Jan. 30, 1676 ; she was b. Sept. 21, 1655 : children by Baker, viz., Joseph, Jr., b. April 13, 1678 ; Lidda, b. July 15, 1681. Joseph d. in 1691. His will dated 1691. ( Windsor Rec.)
BAKER, JOHN, resided in Baker's Lane, in Hartford, in 1667, and chimney viewer, in 1665 : m. Lidia Basey, and had sons, John and Joseph.
BAKER, JOSEPH, of Hartford, was a son of John Baker, who m. Miss Basey. He, Joseph, d. before his father, and the seventeen acres of land given him by his grandmother, Abigail Basey, was distributed to Joseph's brothers.
BAKER, JOHN, JR., d. 1697, left widow Mary, and children : Joseph, aged 7; Elizabeth, 4, and John.
BAKER, (Backer, Bacor,) JOHN, JR., m. Marcy Cary, of Windham, Dec. 17, 1744 : issue, b. at Windham, Susanna, b. Feb. 17, 1745-6; John, b. Sept. 27, 1747; Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1749 ; Walter, Elijah, 2d Elijah, Phebe ; Hannah, July 4, 1763.
BAKER, JOHN, in 1675, received payment of the town of Ded- ham, Mass., for military services in Philip's war. JOSEPH BA- ker, son of Joseph, was slain by Indians, Aug. 29, 1676. (N. Hampton Record.) JACOB, of Tolland, 1743; children : Joseph, Samuel, John, Hannah Gurley, Allis Baker, Heman, Abigail Baker. JACOB, of Woodbury, in 1755. SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Cook, 1670, also Mary, May 19, 1687, and had William b. June 14, 1689 ; Ann, b. Nov. 15, 1691. LANSLET, shipwright, 1649. THOMAS is in the list of Free Planters, at Milford, Nov. 29, 1639, where he continued until 1650, when he removed to East Hampton, L. Island, and became a Magistrate there under the Gov- erna.ent of Connecticut. He was a member of the upper house of the Legislature, held at Hartford, May 17, 1660 ; also, Oct. 9, 1662;
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also, May 14, 1663; also, Magistrate, May 20, 1658-9, 1661. This name yet continues on Long Island, and in New York. THOMAS BAKER, Wyllys, Gold, Richard Treat, Thomas Tappin, Wolcott, Sherman, Howell and Thurston Rayner, were magistrates at the General Court, in 1663. THOMAS, had a daughter Elizabeth b. at Roxbury, Mass., in 1641. TIMOTHY, of Wethersfield, d. 1709. This name was early in the New Haven Colony, and early in many towns in Massachusetts. Farmer says, ALEXANDER, of Boston, 1635. EDWARD, of Lynn, 1638. JOHN, of Ipswich, 1634. JOHN, of Boston, 1640. JOHN, of Dover, 1647. JOHN, of Ded- ham, 1641. NATHANIEL, of Hingham, 1635. Thirteen per- sons of the name of Baker, graduated at Harvard College, before 1849, and nine at Yale College, before 1850. THOMAS had land at Milford, in 1643, and voted that a foot way to the meeting-house should be allowed and maintained with convenient stiles, from the West End, and that brother Thomas Baker, should support the stiles at the meeting-house, for the outside. The General Court of Mil- ford, in June, 1646, gave him a large house lot, in Milford, of seven and a half acres. JOHN, of Dover, N. H., had a grant of fifty acres of land at Cocheco, in 1642, left Dover, soon after 1650. DANIEL, of Tolland, d. 1743 ; issue : Abigail, Joseph, Jr., Sam- uel, Hannah Gurley (Baker,) John Baker, Heman Baker. JO. BA. KER, Jo. Bennet, Jo. Austin, and others, on the 1st day of Aug., 1635, as per the certificate from Gravesend, embarked in the Eliza- beth, de Lo. Christopher Browne, Master, to Virginia. THOMAS BAKER, Jo. Bishop and Dorothy Bradlie, came bound to Virginia, in the ship Paul, of London, in 1635. THOMAS, free, Mass., 1649. JOHN, made freeman in Massachusetts, 1634 ; also, WILLIAM and NICHOLAS, freemen, Massachusetts, March, 1635-6; also, ED- WARD, freeman in Massachusetts, 1638-9. JOSEPH and son were slain by Indians, near Northampton, in 1675. ALEXANDER, 1646. JOHN, free, Massachusetts, 1647. TIMOTHY, took the oath of al- legiance at Northampton, Mass., Feb. 8, 1678. JOHN was a tax payer at Dover, N. Hampshire, in 1648. JOHN, of Dorchester, free- man, 1673. NATHANIEL, and his wife, Mercy, of Barnstable, had issue, viz., Benny, b. Aug. 15, 1705, and nine afterwards THOMAS, Portsmouth, free, 1665. ELDER BAKER, of Newport, R. I. founded a Baptist Church, in N. Kingstown, R. I. MR. JAMES d. at Dorchester, March 30, 1721, aged 69 years. SAMUEL d at Lynn, 1666. THOMAS, of Lynn, free, 1691. EDWIN, of Lynn,
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1691. Elizabeth and Dorothy Baker were transported in the America, Wm. Barker, Master, to Virginia,* from England, 1635. BAKER is an old name at Hartford and Milford, in Conn., and at Boston, Dorchester, Charlestown, Roxbury, and other places in Massachu- setts, and at Dover, New Hampshire. REV. DANIEL, b. in Ded- ham ; educated at Harvard ; ordained, 1712, at Sherburne. JOHN, free in Massachusetts, 1641. JOHN, in 1642. RICHARD, free in Massachusetts, 1642. JOHN, of Cape Porpus, 1653. BASEY BAKER m. Hannah Willet, April 1, 1696, and had a son Nathan- iel b. at Hartford, Dec. 4, 1696-7, d. -; Basey, b. April 4, 1698, d. -; 2d Basey, b. May 10, 1699, d. 1701 ; 2d Nathaniel, b. Sept. 10, 1702; Hannah, b. Feb. 25, 1704-5, d. -; Timothy, b. Jan. 15, 1706-7; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 15, 1708 ; Jeremiah, b. June 10, 1712. Basey removed to Middletown, and had Hannah, b. July 12, 1715, and Susannah, b. Dec. 21, 1718, at Middletown. The father d. at Middletown, Sept. 4, 1723, and his son Jeremiah d. young. BAKER has thirty-four coats of arms. BAKER'S COMPANY, (of London,) one, and BAKER'S COMPANY, (of Exeter,) one. Bai- ker or Baker, (Scotland,) has a coat of arms. ALEXANDER, aged 28, and his wife Elizabeth, aged 23, and Elizabeth, aged 3 years, and Christian, one year old, embarked for New England, in the Elizabeth and Ann, Wm. Cooper Master. NICHOLAS graduated at St. John's College, (A. B.) 1631. SAMUEL, aged 30, embarked in the Elizabeth and Ann, for New England, May 12, -. FRAN- CIS, aged 24, embarked in the Planter, Nic. Trarice, Master, for New England, with a certificate from the minister of Great St. Al- bans, in Hertfordshire, and " Attestaçon " from the Justice of Peace, according to the Lord's Order, April 2, 1635.
BALCH, EBENEZER, of Wethersfield, Conn., m. Sarah Bel- den, June 28, 1750 : had Sarah, b. April 1, 1751 ; Jonathan B., b. Nov. 14, 1754 ; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1752. His wife d. April 3, 1756, aged 29 ; and he m. for his second wife, Lois Belden, Nov. 29, 1756, and had Lois, b. Feb. 27, 1758, d. 1760 : Joseph, b. Feb. 16, 1760; 2d Lois, b. Dec. 20, 1761; Lucy, b. Dec. 21, 1763 ;
* Our ancestors in England, knew very little of America, previous to its settlement, in Vir- ginia and Plymouth, and even as late as 1640, a town in this colony was bounded west on the wilderness, and the Mohawk. As Virginia was settled some years earlier than any other colo- ny, every part of this country was probably called Virginia in England, and hence the reason why so many of the first vessels are certified as embarking for Virginia, when the same vessels appear to have landed their passengers in the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies, some of whom were soon after found in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor.
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Ebenezer, b. Aug. 30, 1766 ; Timothy, b. Oct. 26, 1768 ; William, b. May 17, 1778. His second wife d. May 23, 1793; all b. in Wethersfield.
BALCH, REV. WILLIAM, H. C., 1724, of Bradford, Mass., d. Jan. 12, 1792, aged 87. John Balch from Bridgewater, in Somer- setshire, Eng., was of Cape Ann, as early as 1625, settled at Salem, in 1626, where he d. in 1648. His wives were Margaret and Ag- nes. (Felt.) This name is yet found in Connecticut, at Hart- ford, Berlin and other towns, probably descended from the family at Wethersfield, in 1750. It was not an early name in the Colony.
BALDWIN, (Baldin, Balden,) RICHARD, NATHANIEL, TIMOTHY and JOSEPH, were early settlers at Milford, in the New Haven Colony, and were free planters there, Nov. 29, 1639, with power to act, in the election of their officers in the plantation. JOHN is also recorded at Milford, immediately after, in the list of those who were not in church fellowship, and therefore deprived of voting for their public officers, (membership being a requisite qual- ification for a free planter.) JOHN, SEN., d. at Milford, in 1681. RICHARD d. in 1665, and the inventory of his estate was present- ed at Court in Hartford, by Robert Treat, Sept. 28, 1665 ; and his eldest son, Richard, was then 19 years old ; Sarah, 17; Temper- ance, about 15 ; Mary, 12 ; a daughter, 8; Zecheriah, 5 ; and Bar- nabas, 3 years old ; Martha, b. April 1, 1663. Perhaps he was the RICHARD, of Braintree, in 1637. NATHANIEL, of Milford, d. in 1692. There was a NATHANIEL in Fairfield, as early as 1641 and '9, perhaps the same who was at Milford in 1639. TIM- OTHY, of Milford, d. in 1664. He left children : Mary, who m. Benjamin Smith ; Sarah, who m. Buckingham ; Hannah ; Timothy, Jr., b. June 12, 1658 ; perhaps others. NATHANIEL, a brother of OBADIAH and RICHARD, of Milford, removed to " Cohansee," about 1702. (Milf. Rec., Vol. I., p. 140.) Three of the Baldwins, of Milford, viz., JOSEPH, JOHN and BENJAMIN, went to and settled at Newark, N. J., where their names are now found record- ed as early settlers. BENJAMIN was quite young, and a son of JOSEPH. He was baptized at Milford, in 1644. Their descend- ants are numerous now, at Newark, Orange, and other parts of New Jersey. There was a MICHAEL at New Haven, who came there from Branford, at a later period. His daughter, Ruth, m. Hon. Joel Barlow. Clarissa, her sister, accompanied Mr. Barlow and his lady to France. The latter m. Col. Bomford, of the U. S. Army. There was a JOHN BALDWIN, from Milford, who settled at New Lon-
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don, on the Groton side of the river ; freeman there, 1669 ; at New London or Groton, 1672. There was also a JOHN at Milford, and another JOHN at Norwich, freeman in 1666, townsman in 1669. John, of New London, (or Groton,) m. Rebecca Cheesbrough, (wid- ow,) July 24, 1672. He d. Aug. 19, 1683, and left issue. Rebec- ca, his wife, was the daughter of Walter Palmer, of Stonington. She m. first, Elisha Cheesbrough, (son of William,) April 20, 1665. Elisha d. Sept., 1670. (Trumbull and Record.) John is found noted as a proprietor, at Stonington, but probably never resided there. JOHN, who settled at Norwich, Conn., about 1662, m. Han- nah Burchard, or Burchett, of Guilford, in 1653. Where he came from to Guilford, I find no evidence. He left Guilford, soon after the birth of his second child, and nothing more is known of him, until he is found at Norwich, in 1662. That he was the son of Richard, or either of the Baldwins of Milford, no record at Milford proves. John, who settled at Groton, was from Milford, as was JOHN, who m. Marie Bruen, of New London. The family tradition, as to JOHN, SEN., of Norwich, is relied upon, and is probably as correct as any record yet found, to show who he was, and where from, viz., " That John, the father of the Norwich family, had no brother ; that he came to New England when quite young, and afterwards returned to England, where he learned the trade of a cabinet maker, and then returned and settled at Norwich, about 1662." This may account, in some measure, for his whereabouts from 1656 to 1662, when he is found in Norwich. There were many persons in Massachusetts and Connecticut and New Haven Colonies, by the name of John Baldwin. John, Sen., of Milford, who the record says m. Marie Bruen, of Pequot, daughter of John, (no date,) but their first child, Mary. was b. Sept. 7, 1654 ; John, b. April 13, 1657 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 15, 1658 ; Obadiah, b. Oct. 29, 1660 ; Sarah b. - 20, 1663 ; a son, b. 2d week in June, 1665. (Milf. Record.) (Query. Did he marry a daughter of John Bruen, or was it a daughter of Obadiah Bruen, of New London ? He calls one of his sons Obadiah, and no John Bruen is found at New London, as early as 1654, except John, the son of Obadiah, who at that time could not have had daugh- ters as old as this Marie must have been, when she married. Not only so, the Milford record says, JOHN, the son of JOHN, SEN., m. Hannah, daughter of Obadiah Bruen, of New London, Oct. 30, 1663. This JOHN removed to Newark, N. J., with his wife's father, Bruen, (perhaps m. 2 daughters of Obadiah.) There was also JOHN, son of Nathaniel, of Milford, m. Hannah, a daughter
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of Richard Osborn, Nov. 19, 1663, and others of the name at Mil- ford. JOHN, SEN., of Norwich, who m. at Guilford, had a son, John, b. 1654, and Hannah, b. 1656. He, soon after this birth, dis- appeared at Guilford. No positive evidence is found, that JOHN, SEN., of Norwich, was the son of Richard, of Milford, or Richard, of Saybrook. If he was, Richard, of Saybrook, must have been aged. Miss Calkins remarks, that " John must have been of trans- atlantic birth, as John, Jr., was of man's age, previous to 1678." "JOHN, the proprietor of Norwich, had two sons: Ist, John, d. in 1700, and left no sons ; 2d, Thomas, who m., in 1684, Sarah, daugh- ter of John Calkins, she d.," by whom he had no sons. Hem. Abigail Lay, for his 2d wife, and had sons: Thomas, b. 1701; John, b. 1704, and Ebenezer, b. 1710. Hon. Simeon Baldwin, late deceased, of New Haven, was of this family. He was b. at Norwich, in 1761, and son of Ebenezer, who was son of Thomas, by his 2d wife, who was son of John, Sen., of Norwich. CHRISTOPHER C., of Worcester, Mass., was born at Norwich, and a descendant of JOHN, SEN., of Norwich.
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