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BEVIN, or BEVINS, ARTHUR, of Glastenbury, died in 1697. Estate £315, 11s. 3d. Wife Mary ; children, John, b. 1676, Mary 1678, Grace, 1679, Mercy, 1631, Thomas, 1682, Desire 1684, Ar- thur, 1686, Joanna, 1687, Elizabeth, 1690, Abigail, 1692, Sarah, 1694, and Anna, 1696. Arthur Bevin came early to Wethersfield, before Glastenbury was incorporated as a town. Arthur died at Glastenbury. Mary widow of Arthur, d. Dec. 18, 1712.
BEVIN, THOMAS, son of Arthur m. Abigail Blake, daughter of John, of Middletown, in 1704; had a daughter Eunice, b. July 17, 1705. The mother d. about 1706, and Thomas Bevin had children by Martha his 2d wife, viz : Abigail, b. March 3, 1710-11 ; Thomas, Jr., b. May 18, 1713 ; Martha, b. July 1715 ; Mary, b. Nov. 1719 ; Benjamin, b. Sept. 1, 1721 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 5, 1725. His wife Martha, d. Nov. 8, 1725, and he m. Mary Hubbard, April 21, 1726. Thomas died. Mary his widow, d. Sept. 14, 1746.
BEVEN, BENJAMIN, was at East Hartford before 1687.
* BEVIN, JOHN, of Middletown, and his wife Susannah, had children : John b. Feb. 17, 1699; Jean, b. Sept. 24, 1702; Bulah, b. Jan. 17, 1705; Susannah b. Jan. 18, 1708 ; Hipsibeth b. Feb. 10, 1714, d. 1714 ; William b. March 19, 1715 ; Tabatha, b. Dec. 18, 1717 ; Stephen, b. Dec. 21, 1720, d. 1750; Ezra, b. July 22, 1723 ; Mr. John the father, d. Jan 12, 1764.
Bevan has three coats of arms. Bevuans or Bevins one.
BIBBINS, ARTHUR, (Arter,) and Experience his wife, of Wind- ham, had issue : Ebenezer, b. Feb. 1, 1715 ; Jacob, b. Oct. 2, 1717 ; Experience, b. April 6, 1722, d. Nov. 12, 1729. His wife d. May 7, 1730, and Arthur, m. Elizabeth Ames, May 26, 1731, and had issue ; Experience, b. June 10, 1732; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1733 ; Amos, b. May 14, 1736 ; Ann, b. March 2, 1738 ; second Eliza- beth, b. April 17, 1740 ; Eunice, b. Dec. 24, 1742, d. Dec. 9, 1756 ; Thankful, b. March 26, 1746. His son Amos, d. at Fort Edward,
* The following are some of the first setlers of East Hampton Society, in Conn., viz : John Clark, from Middletown, 1743: John Bevin, from Chatham old Society ; David Bailey, from Had- dam ; Jonathan Parmelee, from Branford ; Isaac Smith, Barnstable Mass; James Bell later from Lebanon ; Joseph Buel, from Colchester, also later, Morgan, Welsh, and Webb, about 1775.
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July 16, 1757, and his daughter Elizabeth, d. Feb. 5, 1768. Ben- jamin Bibbins, d. Dec. 27, 1756. Arthur Sen., d. 1788, aged 108.
BIBBINS, ARTHUR, JR., of Windham, m. Abigail Follet, Nov. 8, 1732, supposed he removed to Ashford ; children ; Patience, b. Oct. 23, 1733 ; Benjamin, b. 1736 ; Abigail, b. July 8, 1738 ; Eli- jah, b. Sept. 18, 1740; Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1742; William, b. Nov. 23, 1745 ; Israel, b. Jan. 18, 1748; Arthur, b. June 14, 1750, d. Nov. 1, 1754. Arthur, Jr., the father, d. at Ashford, and his widow Abigail, d. March 18, 1784. Ebenezer, son of Arthur, m. Susannah, and had, Jacob, b. April 26, 1742; Molly, Ebenezer, John, Sarah, Phebe, and Elizabeth b. Aug. 1, 1758; Ebenezer the father, d. Nov. 19, 1761, aged 46.
BICKATT, MATTHEW, was a first settler at Brainford, (or Totoket,) New Haven Colony.
BIDLAKE, BIDLOCK, BEDLAKE, BIDLACK, CHRISTO- PHER, d. at Windham, Feb. 23, 1741, aged 80. His wife Sarah d. Nov. 25, 1739, aged 74 years. He purchased land in Windham before 1700.
BIDLAKE, BENJAMIN, was an early settler at Windham, (probably son of Christopher,) m. Lydia Abbe, Sept 22, 1722 : Is- sue ; Sarah, b. Nov. 24, 1723; Benjamin, Jr., b. July 10, 1725 ; James, b. Jan. 3, 1727, d. 1728 ; second James, b. Oct. 28, 1728 ; John, b. Oct. 28, 1730; Mary, b. July 29, 1732, d. 1733 ; second Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1733; Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1737; Bethia, b. May 22, 1738 ; Hannah, b. Aug. 26, 1741. Benjamin the father, d. Feb. 3, 1740-1. Lydia wife of Benjamin, was admitted into the church at Hampton village, June, 17, 1723 ; also Elizabeth Bidlake. Benjamin, Sen., was one of the seventeen first founders and members of the first church at Windham Village June 5, 1723, and of course a respectable family.
BIDLAKE, BENJAMIN, JR., (son of Benjamin sen., and Lydia) m. Edeth Spaulding, Nov. 11, 1742, and had issue ; Jonathan, b. Nov. 19, 1744 ; Ruth, b. July 14, 1747, d. 1751 ; Sarah, b. Nov. 29, 1748, d. 1751. Bidlake has one coat of arms.
BIDLAKE, JOHN, (son of Benjamin and Lydia,) m. Mary, and had a son Amos, b. May 19, 1754, d. Aug. 23, 1777 ; John the father, d. Aug. 23, 1776.
The above James Bidlake, (son of Benjamin and Lydia,) b. Oct. 28, 1728, at Windham ; was the same Capt. James Bidlake who re- moved to Wyoming, and was taken prisoner there, with Captains, Robert Durkee, and Samuel Ransom, by the British Tories and In-
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dians at the battle at Wilksberry, in 1778. Bidlake was striped, tied to a tree, his flesh stuck full of sharpened pine knots, and pine knots placed around him, and set on fire. The monsters in human form, then placed Captains' Durkee and Ransom in the fire, and held them there with pitch-forks, where they soon expired. Bidlake has one coat of arms. This name is yet found in Pennsylvania, and one of same name in Pennsylvania, has been a member of congress.
BIDWELL, BIDLE, BIDDALL, BEDALL, BIDOLL, BID- DLE, JOHN, of Hartford, was an early settler at Hartford, and had four acres of land alotted him, in the division of lands in Hartford, in 1639. In 1640, he had a house lot north of Mary Betts, and south of Seth Grant, and West of John Skinner, in Hartford. John Bidwell owned a tan yard, on an island in Little River, in Hartford, south of Nathaniel Richard's house lot, in 1640. His wife, Sarah. He died in 1683. He gave to his son John, his swamp east of Con- necticut river, also all his lands and buildings, in Hartford, west of the river. To his son Joseph, he gave £30 ; to his son Samuel, £20; to his daughters, Sarah House and Hannah Wadams, £20 each; to his daughter Mary Meekins, half his upper lot, and the other half to his grandson, John Meekins, provided John should live with him and his wife until he became twenty years of age ; he gave his wife, Sarah, half of all his estate not disposed of ; to his son Daniel, he gave the property which he had devised to his wife, after her decease. He afterwards made a codicil and added to and altered his will. Estate £419, 10s. 6d.
BIDDOLL, JOHN, JR., of Hartford, son John, b. Sept. 1, 1679 ; Hannah, b. Aug. 31, 1680 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1681; Thomas, b. Dec. 27, 1682 ; Jonah, b. March 5, 1684.
BIDWELL, DANIEL'S son Ebenezer, d. Oct. 18, 1702; daugh- ter Dorothy, d. July, 1708 ; Aaron, son of Daniel, d. Feb. 11, 1712 ; Mr. David, d. June 24, 1758.
BIDWELL, DANIEL DENISON, son of John of Hartford, and Elizabeth, had Daniel, b. Oct. 19, 1682 ; Dorothy, b. by his second wife, Dorothy, Aug. 18, 1692 ; d. July 1708; Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1694, ; Hannah b. June 2, 1697 ; Aaron, b. Dec. 5, 1699 d. 1712 ; Ebenezer b. Feb. 28, 1701, d. 1702 ; William, b. Nov. 27, 1703 ; Lydia, b. April 20, 1706, d. about 1720 ; Hannah, m. Daniel Bigelow.
BIDWILL, JOSEPH, son of John, Sen., resided in Wethersfield. He m. Mary, May 18, 1675, and had issue; Mary b. March 12, 1676; Amey, b. Oct. 1, 1678 ; Joseph, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1680 ; Ben-
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jamin, b. Sept. 26, 1684 ; Ephraim, b. Aug. 16, 1686 ; Lydia, b. May 13, 1689. Estate £1081.
BIDWELL, SAMUEL, son of John, Sen., settled at Middletown, where he married Elizabeth Stow, daughter of John Stow, of Rox- bury, Mass., and sister of Rev. Samuel, John, and Thomas Stow, Nov. 14, 1672. Issue, born at Middletown ; Sarah, b. Sept. 20. 1674 ; Samuel, b. June 10, 1677; Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1679, Ann, Samuel, Sen. d. 1715.
BIDWELL, SAMUEL, JR., and wife Sarah of Middletown, had a daughter Thankful, b. Dec. 8, 1695, and his wife Sarah d. 1696. He then m. Abigail for his second wife, and had a son Moses, b. Jan. 9, 1698. His daughter Thankful m. Edward Yeomans, Sept. 5, 1716. Abigail wife of Samuel, Jr., d. March 8, 1733.
BIDWELL, SAMUEL, of Middletown, m. Ann Stanbarrow, of Long Island, Nov. 1, 1707, and had issue ; Samuel, b. Oct. 24, 1708, and Ann, b. May 2, 1710. His wife Ann d. and he m. Mary Barnes, Dec. 2, 1714, and had issue ; Daniel, b. Nov. 18, 1716, and Sarah, b. Jan. 29, 1719. The father, Samuel Bidwell, d. March 1727-distribution 1728.
Bydewell, or Bidwell, has one coat of arms.
Bidewell, has two coats of arms. Bydall one. Bydale one.
Bedell has seven coats of Arms. Bedle or Bedell one. (London.)
Bidall, has one. Biddell, Biddle or Biddelle, has one. Bidwell has three coats of Arms.
BIDLE, RICHARD, was an early settler at Windsor, and had a daughter Hannah, b. there Oct. 22, 1644.
BIGILOW, JOHN, at Watertown, Mass., took the oath of fidel- ity 1652, in Mass. ; m. Mary Warner, or Warren, Oct. 30, 1642. His wife Mary, d. Oct. 19, 1691, and he m. for second wife, Sarah Bemis widow of Joseph 1st of Watertown, Oct. 2, 1694. He d. July 14, 1703, aged 86 years-born in England, 1617; he was Juror, 1636 ; they had issue :
1. John, b. Oct. 27, 1643, and settled in Hartford, Conn.
2. Jonathan, b Dec. 11, 1646.
3. Mary, b. March 18, 1648-9, m. Michael Flagg, June 3, 1674.
4. Daniel, b. Dec. 1, 1650 ; settled at Framingham, and had six children.
5. Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1653, m. Mary Flagg, June 3, 1674, and settled at Watertown ; had ten children.
6. Joshua, b. Nov. 5, 1655, m. Elizabeth Flagg, Oct. 20, 1676-settled first at Watertown, Mass .- in old age removed to Westminster, and d. Feb. 2, 1745; aged 90 years. He had eleven children, b. in Watertown. His son Daniel settled at Worcester, and was the father of Col. Timothy Bige- low, of the Revolutionary Army, and grandfather of Hon. Timothy, and
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great grandfather of the late Mayor of the City of Boston, and late Secre- tary of State.
7. Elizabeth, b. June 15, 1657, m. Lieut. John, of Billerica, and had several children.
8. Sarah, b Sept. 29, 1659, m. Isaac Larned, July 23, 1679. The Learneds of Conn., are her descendants.
9. James, (no record of birth) m. Patience Brown; he had two other wives and four children.
10. Martha, b. April 1, 1662, m. John Woods.
11. Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1663-4, m. Dec. 10, 1684, Benjamin Harrington ; had four children.
12. Hannah, b. and d. March, 1665-6.
13. Son, b. and d. Dec. 1667. (See John's will dated, Jan. 1, 1702-3, record- ed at Watertown, Vol. 10, p. 300.) ( Com.)
BIGELOW, JOHN, the oldest son of John and Mary, of Water- town, Mass., b. 1643, settled at Hartford, Conn., where his land was listed May 3, 1669, his residence was south of little river near where Trinity College is now located, in Cooper Lane lot No. 52. He m. Rebecca Butler, and unfortunately died without issue, and after pro- viding amply for his widow, he gave all his estate to Jonathan But- ler, a relative of his wife. (Deeded in 1705, Vol. 1, p. 307.)
BIGELOW, JONATHAN, b. 1646, brother of John, and son of John of Watertown, Mass., settled at Hartford, Conn.,, with his brother John. He lived in Wethersfield Lane in Hartford, in 1677. He first m. Rebecca Shepard in 1672, daughter of John Shepard ; she d. March 7, 1697, and was the mother of his children. He m. for his second wife, Mary, daughter of Samuel Olcott, of Wethers- field, and had no children by his second wife. He d. Jan. 19, 1710, aged 64, and his widow Mary, m. John Shepard, March, 19, 1712. Jonathan and Rebecca's children were :
Jonathan Bigelow, born in 1672, married Mabel Edwards, Jan. 11, 1699 ; died July 10, 1749.
*John Bigelow, married Abigail Richards, Jan. 11, 1710.
* Capt John Bigelow of Conn., was taken in the West Indies, July 8, 1777 by the British. Andrew Phillip Skeen, of Skeensborough, New York, on the 9th of May, 1775 was taken at home, with his aunt two sisters and a Mr. Beach, and brought prisoners to Hartford, Conn. General Skeen, applied to the Legislature to return to his farm and be protected on his return with his family, or send a suitable person to take care of his farm at Skeensborough. He ob- tained leave for his family to return home, or to Quebec, under the direction of John Bigelow, O. Wolcott, and Elisha Sheldon of Salisbury. Gen. Skeen remained a prisoner at Hartford. In 1777, the Committee of Pay Table were directed to draw an order of £20, (six in Specie,) in favor of John Bigelow, who had been sent to N. York, under a flag to negotiate an exchange of Capt. Judd, of the Antelope, for Capt. Manly of the Hancock, and other public services of said Bigelow. In 1776 he was Captain of a Company of Artillery in Col. Burrall's Regiment. In Feb. 1777, Thomas Grosvenor was appointed Major, in Col. Wylly's Regiment, in place of
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Mary Bigelow, married John Williams, Feb. 20, 1699.
Sarah Bigelow, married John Bigelow, son of Joshua, of --
Violet Bigelow, married Stephen Taylor, Sept. 1, 1709. Joseph Bigelow, died in 1731.
Abagail Bigelow was born in 1690.
Daniel Bigelow, was born in 1692, and died May 14, 1733.
Samuel Bigelow born in 1687; settled at Mid. Society 1748.
BIGELOW, SAMUEL, (son of Jonathan,) b. 1687, settled at Middletown, Conn., where he died in 1748. His children were, Timothy, Isaac, Samuel, Jr., Abigail and Mary.
BIGELOW, JOSEPH, son of Jonathan, m. Mary Spencer, May 21, 1713, and settled in Hartford. His children were; Sarah b. Sept. 6, 1714, or 15; Joseph, b. Aug. 14, 1717 ; Abigail, b. June 9, 1719, d. Oct. 27, 1725 ; Elisha, b. June 27, 1723, d. June 22, 1796, aged 73; Josiah, b. Jan. 3, 1726, d. May 14, 1754 ; second Abigail, b. Sept. 8, 1729.
BIGELOW, JOHN, son of Joshua Bigelow of Worcester, Mass., m. his cousin Sarah Bigelow, Nov. 4. 1709, daughter of Jonathan. and settled at Colchester, Conn.
BIGELOW, JONATHAN, son of Jonathan, b. 1672, m. Mabel Edwards, Jan. 11, 1699 ; he d. July 10, 1749; children : Timothy, b. June 20, 1702; m. Abigail Olcott.
Mabel, b. Nov. 12, 1704.
Rebecca, b. 1708 ; d. Jan. 8, 1754.
Jonathan, b. 1714; d. Jan. 23, 1779.
Jerusha_Irena, m. Daniel Marsh. Jonathan, Sen., the father, d. July 29, 1749, aged 75, and Mabel his wife, d. May 16, 1765.
BIGILOW, TIMOTHY, son of Jonathan, b. 1672; m. Abigail Olcott, and had children ; Hezekiah, b. Feb. 9, 1728, d. aged 20. Timothy, Jr., b. May 22, 1730 ; Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1732; Anne, b. Sept. 27, 1735 ; Martha, b. Nov. 22, 1737; John, b. Nov. 20, 1739; James, b. 1741.
Maj. Bigelow, resigned. In 1778, Otis and Andrews, of Boston Dep. Clothiers for the Con- tinental Army, by request of the Governor, and Council of Conn., had sent cloths &c., to be made into garments, for the Continental soldiers, and requested the Governor to nominate a proper person to take the management and oversee, and Maj. John Bigelow was appointed to oversee the same. The Governor, and Council of Conn., April 28, 1778, appointed Maj. John Bigelow to purchase woolen cloths, suitable for Officers' clothing, from Conn., in the Continen- tal service, not to exceed £3.000 lawful money ; also to take half the pieces of linen in his hands purchased of Capt. Michel, master of the French Ship at New London, suitable for Offi- cers shirts &c. Maj. Bigelow acted as Capt. Major, and Commissary of clothing &c., and was a most useful soldier, and citizen during the Revolution.
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Timothy, m. Hannah Hyde, Dec. 17, 1757, and had children ; Mary, Langrell, and Hannah. Mary m. Aaron Olmsted, of East Hartford ; Hannah, m. Ward Woodbridge; Timothy d. in Charles- town, N. H. 1762 ; Hannah his wife d. Aug. 20, 1764.
Abigail, b. 1732, ; m. James Caldwell, Dec. 18, 1755 ; Anne, b. 1735, m. Jonathan Olcott, 1753 ; Martha, b. 1737, m, Dr. Samuel Flagg of East Hartford, May 22, 176 -; John b. 1739, m. Hannah Wadsworth, June 30, 1771 ; James b. 1741, d. in Barbadoes unmar- ried, Timothy the father d. 1747; Capt. Daniel, m. his widow, Nov. 6, 1748, and d. 1776.
BIGELOW, JOHN, b. 1739, son of Timothy, m. Hannah Wadsworth, a descendant of Hon. William of Hartford, June 30, 1771, and had issue, viz ; John, b. March 10, 1772, d. Jan. 12, 1775 ; James, b. June 10, 1774 ; 2d John, b. Dec. 6, 1775 ; Henry, b. Dec. 19, 1777, d. 1788 ; Richard, b. Dec. 29, 1779, was lost at sea 1797.
BIGELOW, JAMES, son of John and Hannah, m. Anne Spen- cer and removed to Nantucket, where he d. and left a family in 1845.
BIGELOW, JOHN, b. 1775, son of John and Hannah, m. Clar- issa Hillyer, and had issue ; Richard, b. Aug. 22, 1797, a gentle- man of great wealth in New York ; merchant in New York and St. Louis ; Fanny, b. Nov. 14, 1799, d. a young lady, unmarried ; Wil- liam, b. Aug. 13, 1802 ; lives in New York unmarried ; John, b. April 27, 1805, merchant in Northampton, Mass .; Clarissa b. Sept. 18, 1808, unmarried.
BIGELOW, RICHARD, Esq., (son of John and Clarissa, ) b. Aug. 22, 1797, (of New York City,) m. Marther Smith, b. Nov. 28, 1798, daughter of Deacon Normand Smith of Hartford, Conn., Sept. 3, 1823, and had issue, viz :
1. Mary Elizabeth born March 10, 1826; m. George R. Lockwood, June 7, 1848; merchant in New York.
2. Richard Hillyer, born Aug. 22, 1827; m. Columbia L. Jolinson, of New York, Sept. 25, 1851 ; merchant in New york.
3. Frances, born Sept, 1, 1829.
4. Eliza King, born Sept. 24, 1831.
5. Alfred, born Sept. 25, 1833; died March 12, 1834.
6. Martha, born April 2, 1835.
7. Edward, born March, 27, 1837, died, Jan. 22, 1852.
8. James, born Feb. 25, 1839.
BIGELOW, JOHN, son of John and Clarissa, b. 1805, m. Jane Ashley Hinman, Oct. 18, 1838 ; children, viz; Jane Frances, b.
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Oct. 11, 1839 ; John H. b. Aug. 8, 1841, d. Sept. 22, 1844, at Hart- ford, aged 3 years ; William Henry, b. at Hartford, Aug. 19, 1845, and d. at Boston, June 9, 1846 ; George Ashley, b. Feb. 12, 1848 ; baptized by W. S. Potts, D.D. at St. Louis, Missouri.
The line of this family is, first, John Bigelow of Watertown, Mass., d. 1703 ag'd 86 ; second, Jonathan, b. 1646, d. Jan. 10, 1710 ; third, Jonathan, son of Jonathan, b. 1672, d. July 10, 1749 ; fourth, Tim- othy, son of Jonathan, b. June 20, 1702, d. 1747 ; fifth, John, son of Timothy, b. Nov. 21, 1739, d. June 26, 1780; sixth, John, son of John, b. Dec. 6, 1775, d. Nov. 7, 1809; seventh, Richard, b. Aug, 22, 1797, now living in New York. David and Edith Bige- low, of Colchester, had a son Azariah, b. March 28, 1740; John and Sarah Bigelow of Colchester, had a daughter Lydia, b. Sept. 11, 1743. This name has been, and now is, spelled in various ways, upon the records and by different families of the same stock, viz ; John Bigolough, Samuel and John Barnard, and John Bush &c., took the oath of fidelity in Mass., in 1652 ; Bigillo Samuel of Water. town, Mass., free, 1690 ; Bigalo Samuel, free 1690, &c. This family has produced its full share of respectable men, and the name is now dispersed in all quarters of the Country, and are probably descended from John of Watertown. Three of this name have graduated at Yale College, and eighteen by the name of Bigelo ., and six of the name of Biglow, have graduated at Harvard College ; probably all descendants of John, Sen.
BIGGS, WILLIAM, from Mass., settled at Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 1640, where he remained until about 1667, he removed to Middletown. March 23, 1667, he purchased a farm at Middletown, (for his son William, Jr.,) of John Wilcox. He was located near the Wethersfield town line, at Dividend Brook, so called, and adjoin- ing the Connecticut River ; also other tracts of land, at Pistol Point, (the nooks) in Middletown opposite Churchill's landing. July 6, 1668, he mortgaged this land to David Sage, in which he and his wife made their marks, to the deed. In 1671, William Biggs sold half of his land, thirty-two acres, at Pistol Point, 10 Arthur Scovill, of Boston, (probably a friend of Biggs, and who settled near him.) Farmer names John Biggs of Boston, freeman 1634; Ipswich, 1635 ; member of the ar. co. 1641. John Biggs was a member of the first Boston church, in 1630; also William Biggs in Boston, 1642, and Walter Biggs of Taunton, Mass., 1656. The strong probability in this case, is, that the above named William, of Boston, had a son William, who came to Wethersfield, and for whom he purchased the
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land at Middletown, in 1667, for it appears that William, the son of William and Mary, was b. in 1666, for whom his father would not have purchased a farm, not only so, but he would not have mort- gaged the land or sold it to Scovill in 1671, when only five years old. The General Court, Oct. 12, 1676, " William Biggs by reason of his age, is dissmissed from paying rates for his person." The last William above must have been the aged father, of William Biggs the active farmer of Middletown, whose children are below ; as four of the children were born after 1671, and he was married about 1665. The William who was released from taxes on account of his age, was probably the William of Boston, in 1642, and the father of William who first settled at Wethersfield, who came to Wethersfield to reside with his son, and purchased for him lands in Middletown.
William Biggs, gave his son William, Jr., four acres at Pistol Point, Jan. 16, 1671.
William Biggs and his wife Mary, had children, viz :
1. William, b. 1666.
2. Mary, b. 1667.
3. Thomas, b. 1672.
4. Elizabeth, b. 1673.
5. Sarah, b. 1675.
6. John, b. 1677.
William Biggs d. Aug. 19, 1681. Estate, £139, 1s. 6d. Inven- tory offered by his widow Mary, Sep. 1, 1631, (probably William, Jr.) The property distributed in 1684; one third to his widow ; £34 to his son William, and the other children £17 each, to the sons at twenty-one, and the daughters eighteen.
BIGGS, WILLIAM, JR., above son of William (2d,) settled in Middletown, on the homestead before 1700. Thomas Biggs settled at Wethersfield before 1700, and John Biggs at Dividend Brook 1726, on a part of his father's estate. John Biggs Jr., m. Mary Baker, of Wethersfield, May 8, 1735. It is probable William Biggs of Boston, d. at Middletown in his old age, in the family of his son, though his death is not recorded. This name is occasionally spelled Briggs on the Connecticut record.
BIGG, RACHEL, aged 6 years, embarked for New England in the ship Elizabeth, William Stagg,Master, April 17 - Thomas Biggs, aged 13; Jo Briggs, aged 20, embarked for New England, in the Blessing, John Lester, Master. The name Bigg, has five coats of arms. Bigge one. Bigges one, and Biggs four. (I am indebted to Hon. Mr. Stearns for a part of the above record.)
Bigg has 5 coats of arms. Bigge 1. Bigges 1. Biggs 4. BILL, PHILIP, is the first of the name found in Conn., he was a
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS.
member of the church at Ipswich, Mass., before he came to New London, he was at Groton or Ledyard, as early as 1670, and d. there July 8, 1689. His eldest children, Philip, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, and perhaps Margaret, were b. at Ipswich, the last d. at Groton, 1689. His widow Hannah, m. Samuel Bucknall for her 2d husband. His son Philip m. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Lester, and resi- ded in Groton, where he d. in 1739, over eighty years of age.
PELEG, of Colchester, had a daughter Jerusha, baptized July 25, 1756, and Abiel, June 18, 1758. AMOS, of Colchester, had a daughter Jerusha, baptized Dec. 17, 1758, and Bethel, May 20, 1759. OLIVER, of Goshen Society, had a daughter Epapha, baptized Oct. 30, 1768. SOLOMON, was of Wethersfield, and m. Sarah, and had a son John, b. at Wethersfield, March 28, 1769. This name came late into the Colony, first at New London, and the name is now found at Lyme in several respectable families. JAMES, EsQ., was Deacon at East Hampton, in 1795. LODOWICK, EsQ., is now well known in Conn., and his promising family of sons. OLIVER, of Lebanon, m. MarthaS kinner, of Bolton, Sept. 5, 1763. JONA- THAN, m. Elizabeth Dunham, March 3, 1756. JAMES, of Bos- ton, freeman Feb. 7, 1632-3. THOMAS, of Dorchester, freeman 1671. JOSEPH, of Boston, free 1690. BILL, has five coats of arms. THOMAS BILLS, of Eastham, Mass., m. Anna Twining, Oct. 3, 1672 ; she d. Sept. 1, 1675 ; by whom he had children ; An- na, b. June 28, 1673; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1675. He m. for 2d wife, Joanna Twining, May 2, 1676, and had issue ; Nathaniel, b. June 25, 1677; Mercy, b. April 14, 1679 ; Mehitabel, b. March 26, 1681; Thomas, b. March 22, 1684; Gurshom, b. June 5, 1686 ; Joanna, b. Dec. 2, 1688. (His. Gen. Reg.) ROBERT BILLS, aged 32, husbandman, embarked July 23, for New England, in the Pied Cowe, Ashley, Master. BILL, ROZZEL, and Rebecca, of Hampton, Conn. ; daughter Eunice, b. April, 1798; Rebecca, wife of Rozzel, and her children Elisha, Hannah, Amanda, Esther, Ru- fus, and Rozzel, Jr., all baptized Sept. 25, 1799. BILL, MARCE, embarked in the Planter for New England, in 1635. WILLIAM BILLS, of Barnstable, Mass., 1640. One of this name graduated at William's College, 1805 Bill has five coats of arms.
BILLING, BILLINGS, RICHARD, was not as early a settler at Hartford as some others, he was not in the land division at Hartford, in 1639, but he had six acres of land in the division of the river in 1640. He signed the contract with Gov. Webster and others, to re- move and settle Hadley, in 1659, which he performed and died at Hadley, Massachusetts.
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