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BRIDGES, EDMOND, of Ipswich as early as 1648.
BRIDGES, EDMOND, of Colchester, Ct., d. 1759, aged 71. Widow Bridges, d. 1769, aged 81, at Colchester. Farmer, men- tions Robert Bridges of Lynn, freeman 1641. Representative 1644, Speaker of the House in 1646. Assistant from 1647 to '56, when he died. Few of the name are now in Conn.
His biographer states that the fleeces of his flock were consumed in clothing the poor of his parish, who were all maintained at his expense. to which purpose all the profits of his two mills were appropriated. His house was a common inn. " Many that passed betwixt Ireland and England, and came to Chester would take up his house for their lodging place, that they might rejoice their hearts in seeing his face. hearing his voice, and conferring and advising with himn. His ordinary table was bountiful, and for the furtherance of it. he had a great flight of pigeons, a warren of conies, delicate fish ponds, beside other or linary provision about his house : his cellar was open and free to all within the bounds of moderation, and in the dear years he made provision for multitudes out of his own and other parishes, almost every day in the week, and would sometimes serve them himself to see their necessities." It is recorded. that on a com plaint made against this excellent man, from some injury done by the water course to his mills, the judge in open court, begged the proceeding might be stayed, adding, " I cannot but think you wrong Mr. Bruen. I will undertake for him. make hun but sensible of any wrong that he hath done, and he shall willing acknowledge it, and make double amends for it."
Bruin, Hon. Obadiah, of Peqnet, (New London ) 2d son of John Bruen, of Bruen Stapleford. (Conger) says in the Newark D. Advertiser, (speaking of the Girdle of Verity, Robert Pasfield was one of the old servants of Jolin Bruen of Bruen Stapleford. To assist him in reciting to his master, the long sermons in which he so peculiarly delighted, this Robert, a man utterly un learned, for the help of his memory invented and framed a girdle of leather long and large, which went twice about him ; this he divided into several parts, allotting every book of the Bible in order to one of these divisions; then for the chapters he affixed points or thongs of leather to the several divisions, and made knots by fives or tens to distinguish the chapters of that book, and by other points divided the chapters into their particular contents or verses as occa- sion required. This lie used instead of pen and ink in hearing sermons; and coming home he was able by it to repeat the sermon, quote the texts, &c., which girdle master Bruen kept after his deatlı hung it up in his study, and would merrily call it the girdle of verity."
"Unfortunately," says Ormrode's Cheshire, " Mr. Bruen's well meant zeal was not confined to his own walls. For finding in the church of Tarvin and his own ancient chapel, many supersti- tious images in the windows, which by their painted coats darkened the light of the church, and obscured the brightness of the gospel, he cansed all those painted puppets to be pulled down, and at his own cost glazed the windows again. Such was the ill fated prejudice of zeal against a species of decoration which peculiarly displayed the taste and munificence of our ancestors, and which by its glorious mixture of splendor aad obscurity, threw a still and solemn air over their religious fabrics, which particularly adapted the mind to the feelings of devotion." In the following extracts, Mr. B. speaks himself. "Anno 1601. My servant going with his Cart laden, fell down, and the wheels being iron bound, went over his leg, yet hurt him not at all : Laus Deo, Praised be God. Anno 1602. My son John going into the field, took up a Sith to see how he could mow; the Sith entred into his stocking to the shiin bone, shaving the haire, and came out at the back side of his leg, and touched no flesh nor skin: Laus Deo, Praised be God. Anno 1603. One that dwelt in my Farin in Wimble Statford, seeing two godly persons going in the way, said to one with him, I will dance, and swagger, and swear, to anger yonder two Puritans, and so he did to their great grief: But presently the revenging hand of God was upon him, so tliat immediately he fell sick, was carried home in a Cart, and within three dayes died most fearfully : All glory to God."
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BRIDGES, REV., an Episcopal minister located in N. York and New Jersey, after the death of Rev. Mr. Muirson in 1707, occasion- ally preached in Fairfield County.
Edmond Bridges, aged 23, embarked in the James, Jno. May, Master, for N. England.
. Wolston Brockway, deeded land in Lyme to "his father Wm. Bridges," who appears to have been the father of Mrs. Brockway the wife of Wolston.
BRIDGE (Bosbury, Co. Hereford and Essex) has 1 coat of arms. Bridge, (Lancashire,) one. Bridge, (Scotland,) one. Bridge, (Dor- setshire,) as borne by John Gawler Bridge, Esq., one. Bridges has 10. Brige has one. Bridge, (Bosbury to Hereford,) one.
BRIDGEHAM, ELNATHAN, of Mansfield, and Peter Buell of Coventry, Plffs. in Court at Hartf. 1722.
BRIDGEMAN, JAMES, was a land holder at Hartford, 1640, and soon after located at Springfield, Mass., and had children born there, viz., John, b. 7th day of 5th mo. 1645, m. Sarah Sheldon, Jan. 1, 1670; James, b. 14th day 11th mon. 1647; Martha, b. 20th, day of 9th mon. 1649, m. Sam'l Dickinson, June 4, 1668 ; Mary, b. 5th day of ye 5th mon. 1652, m. Sam'l Bartlett, Ap'l 27, 1672, perhaps others. James and Sarah Bridgeman lost a daughter Patience by death, 1656. (James Sen., d. Jan. 14, 1655 or '6 ;) James his son, d. 1665. John Bridgeman took the oath of allegiance at Northampton, 1678.
BRIDGEMAN, ISAAC, m. Dorothy, daughter of Serg. John Curtis of Wethersf'd, Conn., Ap'l 11, 1706, and had Lydia b. there Feb. 9, 1707; Gideon, b. Octo. 2, 1708 ; Dorothy, b. Octo. 10, 1710, all born in Wethersfield. The name has disappeared at Wethersfield.
James Bridgeman, m. Elizab'th Allis of Hadley, July 13, 1704.
Thomas Bridgman, who has done those particularly interested in " Copp's Hill Burial Ground," Boston, the special favor of collect- ing and publishing the Epitaphs, from the old and moss-grown monu-
That Obadiah Bruen, the second son, of John of Bruen Stapleford, was the ancestor of all of the name in this country, may be doubted. The ancient records of Milford testify, that John Baldwin, Senior, married Marie, daughter of John Bruen of Pequot, (New London,) and that John, son of John Baldwin, Senior, was married Oct. 30, 1663, by Mr. Robert Treat, to Han- nah Brewen, daughter of Ob. Brewen of New London. Obadiah, son of John Baldwin, Sen'r, was born Oct. 29, 1660. The ambiguity of the record admits the conjecture that Marie and Obadiah were brother and sister, thus removing the difficulty-both children of the noted Pur- itan, and residing at New London.
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ments of their departed ancestors, with so much credit to himself, is a descendant of the above James, Sen'r.
Bridgman (Shropshire) has 1 coat of arms. Bridgeman, (Nor folk,) one. Bridgeman, (Earl of Bradford,) one, and 4 others .*
BRIGDEN, REV. ZECHARIAH, Stonington, 1661, (though he is not mentioned by Dr. Trumbull in his list of ministers.)
BRIGDEN, THO'S, of Wethf'd, m. Grace, and had Wm. b. Aug. 3, 1740, d. 1750; Michael, b. Nov. 16, 1743; Sarah, b. Aug. 9, 1747 ; Timothy, b. Mar. 7, 1749.
BRIGDEN, MICHAEL, son of Tho's, m. Catherin Perrin, daugh- ter of Dr. Perrin, and had issue, Michael, b. Nov. 2, 1774 ; Heze- kiah, b. Oct. 24, 1777 ; Harriet, b. Jan. 28, 1780 ; Catherine, b. Nov. 25, 1784 ; Wm., b. Jan. 24, 1788.
BRIGDEN has one coat of arms.
BRIGGS or BIGGS, WILLIAM, of Middletown, d. in 1681. His children were, William, 15 years old, Mary 14, Thomas 9, Elizabeth 8, Sarah 6, and John 4. (See Biggs.)
BRIGGS, JOHN or BRIDGS, and his wife Mary of Boston, Jan'y 9, 1674, sold land in Lyme to Leonard Asten of Lyme, and acknowl- edged it before Gov'r Leverett in Boston, 1674.
BRIGGS, WM., of Lyme, deeded land to his son John in Lyme, in 1680.
Briggs or Bridge Wm., deeded land to John Robbins, 1673.
BRIGGS, JOHN, had a lot in 1673, and an ear mark at Lyme. Wm. Briggs, son of John, had a wife Mary, b. July 30, 1672 ; Pet- ter Briggs, b. Feb. 5, 1680.
BRIGGS, CLEMENT, of Plymouth, 1623; Weymouth, 1633, sons Tho's, Jona., David, Clement, b. from 1632 to 1642; John of Lynn, (Far.)
BRIGGS, JOHN, administration granted to his widow Kathern on his estate, June 1, 1641, at the Probate Office in Plymouth. Inven- tory taken by Edw'd Dillingham and Tho's Tupper, £55, 2s. Chil- dren, Sam'l and Sarah. (N. E. G. Reg'r, No. 14, p. 173.)
Briggs, Clement, (Brigges,) came to this country in1621 ; John Briggs came to this country in the ship Blessing, John Lester master.
BRIGGS, REMEMBER, and Mary of Weymouth, had a son Samuel, b. 1686 ; Mary, b. 1689 ; Joseph, b. 1693.
Briggs, Boston and Weymouth, early.
Briggs has 10 coats of arms ; Brigges has 2.
* See Doolittle's His. of Belchertown.
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BRINSMAID, BRINSMEAD, BRINSMADE, BRINSMEADE, JOHN, came early to Stratford, Ct., from Mass., yet he was not a pioneer at Stratford. He had sons John, Daniel and Paul, perhaps other children, John, b. in Mass. He was a Deacon at Stratford. John Brinsmead was freeman at Dorchester, Mass., 1638 ; Charles- town, 1640, his son John, b. 1640, (Farm.) At the ordination of Rev'd Israel Chauncey at Stratford in 1665, Deacon John Brins- made of Stratford, " imposed hands" at the ordination of Rev'd Is- rael Chauncey at Stratford in 1665. He being called upon rather suddenly, to " impose hands," the Elder neglected to remove his mitten from his hand, in consequence of which, it has ever since been called the " leather mitten ordination." Rev'd Daniel, gradua- ted at Yale College, in 1745, grandson of Elder John of Stratford ; he settled in the ministry at Judea, (now Washington, Ct.,) in 1748; he d. there 1793, and became the father of Hon. Daniel N. Brins- made, who graduated at Y. College 1772, and was many years one of the Judges of the County Court, in Litchfield County, and often represented Washington at the Gen'l Assembly. He was twice m. had but one child, viz., Gen'l Daniel B. Brinsmade, who is now liv- ing at Washington, about 70 years old, a highly respectable citizen, and has often represented the town at the General Assembly of Conn.
BRINSMADE, DANIEL, was a member of the first church formed at Unity, (Trumbull,) Nov'r 18th, 1730, and Hannah his wife from the church at N. Haven was admitted at Unity, June 4th, 1732, and Daniel aged about 15 years admitted Jan. 6, 1734 ; Mary, daughter of Daniel and Hannah, was admitted June 1st, 1735, un- der 21 years old ; Hannah, daughter of Lieut. Daniel, admitted July 26, 1741, (Ch. Rec. of Unity.)
BRINSMADE, ABRAHAM, and his wife Mary Wheeler, m. 1747-8, of North Stratford, (Trumbull,) had children born there, viz., Abigail, b. Nov. 13, 1748 ; Hannah, b. July 22, 1750; Dan- iel, b. Sept'r 22, 1752, perhaps others. Seven of this name had graduated at Y. College before 1346.
This name is yet found in Fairfield and Litchfield Counties.
BRINSMADE, JOHN, SEN. freeman at Stratford, 1669 ; Abi- gail, daughter of John and Abigail, m. David Gipson of Milford, Aug. 20, 1724, and had a daughter Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 1726 ; Da. vid, b. Feb. 26, 1728-9, and others, removed to Judea.
BRINSMADE, JOHN, had children b. in Milford, viz., John, Octo. 4, 1705 ; Abigail, b. Mar. 7, 1706-7 ; Eliz'th, b. Mar. 12,
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1709-10; Mary, b. July 26, 1714; Ann, daughter of John and Abigail, b. Feb. 24, 1722-3. Abraham was Deacon in North Strat- ford 1765.
John, probably the elder, was Comm'r for Stratford, May, 1669 ; Dep. Octo., 1671 and May, 1672, Octo'r, 1672.
BRINSMEADE, JOHN, and Mary his wife of Charlestown, Mass., daughter Mary, b. 1640 ; son John, b. 2º, (1st) 1643.
BRINSMEADE, JOHN, freeman in Mass., May 2, 1638. Wm. Brinsmeade, of Roxbury, Mass., d. 1648, left children, Wm., Alex- ander, Ebbet and Mary. (See his will, His. Gen. Reg. No. II. p. 266.)
BRINSMEAD, MR. Wm., of Woburn, freeman 1671.
John, son of Elder John, was born before his father settled at Stratford.
The early Church record at Stratford is very deficient, and noth- ing of the first is found. The early town records up to 1650, were destroyed by fire, with the house in which they had been kept, so that the direct evidence from the record, as to who the first settlers were, renders it difficult in all cases, to collect them ; after the fire some matters were recorded again, as grants of land, some births, &c., but none or few dates to the grants. By the births and deeds, a tolerably accurate account, without much tradition, even be- fore 1651, may be obtained : some by the deficiency of dates may not have been at Stratford as early as others named, and some may have located there and left the town before 1650, for shifting from place to place was very common in those unsettled days-yet chil- dren born at Stratford before 1651, are not found on any record be- fore that time.
BRISCO, NATHAN'L, was of Wallingford in 1690, and Na- thaniel was a free planter at Milford, and d. there in 1683, perhaps father of the first named. Briscoe, was at Boston and Watertown, Mass. ; the name was later in the Conn. Colony.
BRISTOL, HENRY, this was strictly a N. Haven Colony name, and an early settler there ; daughter Rebecca, b. at N. Haven, Feb. 4, 1649, (after this spelt Bristow ;) Sam'l, b. Dec. 3, 1651; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1653 ; Lidia, b. Jan. 3d, 1657 ; John, b. Sep. 4, 1659 ; Mary, b. Sept., 1661 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 10, 1663 ; Abigail, b. Ap'l 19, 1666; Sarah, b. 1667.
BRITTAL, CLAUDIUS, and wife Alethea of Windham, had a son Claudius, b. Sep. 15, 1771.
BROADSTREET, JOHN, of Windham, by Rebecca his wife
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had issue, Andrew, b. 1722; Mary, 1723-4; Susannah, 1724-5; Mercy, 1726-7.
Bradstreet (Ireland) has one coat of arms.
BROCKET, JOHN, was carly at New Haven. (One of his daughters m. W'm Pennington, supposed the ancestor of Gov. Pen- nington of New Jersey, where W'm settled.) Son Samuel, b. at New Haven, Jan. 14, 1650; Jabez, b. Feb. 24, 1654 ; John, son of John Brocket, d. Nov. 29, 1676 : Benj'n Brocket d. May 22, 1679 ; Benj'n, son of John Brocket d. June 28, 1700 ; John, son of John, d. Nov. 17, 1709 ; a New Haven Colony name.
BRACKET, BENJAMIN, of New Haven presented for freeman, May, 1669. (Perhaps Brockett.)
BRODWELL, EDWARD, was in the large division and appor- tionment of fence in Branford, in 1646, and in a land division in 1648.
* BROCKWAY, WOLSTON, was a respectable and early set- tler at Lyme. He deeded lands in Lyme to John Robins in 1679, signed by himself and his wife Hannah. He deeded a piece of land in Lyme to his father William Bridges ; the deed entered for record, 1680. In 1682 he sold land to Mr. Christopher Christophers, of New London. His wife was the daughter of W'm Bridges ; he was probably m. before he settled at Lyme. His children recorded at Lyme were Hannah, b. Sept. 24, 1664 ; W'm, b. July 25, 1666 ; Wolston, Jr., b. Feb. 1667; Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1669 ; Briget b. Jan. 9, 1671; Richard, b. Sept. 30, 1673; Elizabeth, b. May 24, 1676; Sarah, b. Sept. 23, 1679; Debrah, b. May 1, 1682 ; goodwife Brock- way d. Feb. 6, 1687.
BROCKWAY, WOLSTON, JR., m. Margaret, Dec. 4, 1688, and had issue, Wolston, b. Oct. 26, 1689; Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1691-2; Jonathan, b. May 10, 1694; Debrah, b. 1696; Edward, b. March 8, 1698-9; Margaret, b. April 17, 1701; Ephraim, b. April 4, 1703.
* Woolston Brockway on the 12th day of March, 1671-2, was one of the Saybrook and Lyme men, against whom John Prentice of New London, complained for " riotous practices" and assaults on New London people, &c. The Saybrook people had also complained to the County Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, against the people of New London, for notorious practices, assaults, &c. The controversy between the towns, was, a strip of land lying be- tween Bride Brook, and Niantic River, including Black Point in Lyme. Both towns claimed the lands by previous grants; and both had reserved a portion of meadow at Black Point. for the use of the ministry. (See the offray, printed Rec., appendix. p. 558.) The Court fined the Town of New London £9, and Lyme £5. (C, C. Rec. vol. 3, p. 122.) The fines afterwards remitted by the Court. (Printed Rec., p. 229 )
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BROCKWAY, EBENEZER, m. Sarah Buckingham, Feb. 11, 1734-5; issue, born at Saybrook, Ebenezer, b. Jan. 16, 1735-6; Lebbeus, b. Dec. 29, 1738 ; Elijah, b. Nov. 29, 1744.
BROCKWAY, WILLIAM, son of Wolston, Sen., m. Elizabeth, March, 8, 1692-3, and had five children, (erased from the record by time.) The first b. 1693, and the last b. Oct. 29, 1704. His will dated 1728. His son WILLIAM, JR., m. Prudence Pratt, Oct. 3, 1716, and had Hannah, b. Nov. 30, 1718; W'm, b. Feb. 22, 1728; perhaps others. W'm, 3d, had his ear mark in Lyme, in 1738. The direct line to Col. Brockway of Lyme, late senator from Lyme, is, Ist, Wolston, Sen., 2d, W'm, 3d, John, 4th, Eben'r, who was the grandfather of Senator Brockway. Rev. Diodate Brockway who graduated at Yale College in 1797, was the son of Rev. Thomas Brockway from Lyme, who graduated at Yale Col- lege, 1768, and settled in the ministry at Columbia ; he m. Eunice Lathrop of Norwich, Dec. 8, 1772. His son Rev. Diodate was b. Dec. 29, 1776 ; he was settled in the ministry at Ellington, where he preached about thirty five years ; he d. July 5, 1807, aged 62 years ; had issue, Hon. John H., and others.
BROCKWAY, GIDEON, had an ear mark at Lyme for his cat- tle, Oct. 7, 1738.
BROCKWAY, WOLSTON, 3D, removed from Lyme to Bran- ford; and about 1752 removed to Sharon, where he died in 1813, aged 90, and left a son Asa, then living. ( Sedgw.) W'm Brock- way by his will dated 1728, gave two of his sons, Richard and John, land at the ferry, part of the plains, Island, &c. John in 1756, purchased the other half of the Island. Three of this family had graduated at Yale College in 1820, viz., Rev. Thomas, Rev. Dio- date and Hon. John H., grandfather, father and son.
BRONSON, BROWNSON, BRUNSON, JOHN ; this name is more generally spelled upon the Hartford records, BRUNSON. John and Richard Brunson were both at Hartf'd, at an early period of the settlement, yet neither of them were in the land division of 1639, but are found in that list of settlers at Hartford, who were allowed by the " courtesie" of the town, the privilege of wood, wa- ter, and keeping cows and swine on the common, &c., as was Wm. Cornwell, Nicholas Disbroe, Hosea Goodwin, (Ozias,) Geo. Hub- bard and many others, who were not original proprietors, perhaps they had been in Hartford before 1639, for we find Samuel White- head had owned a lot and removed to N. Haven as soon as 1639. Ab'm Pratt, John Friend and others of Hartford, had sold their land 29*
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before 1640, and removed from the town, as did John Gibbs of Wethersf'd, and became a first settler at N. Haven in 1638. As John Bronson was in the bloody Pequot battle, 1637, he probably came to Hartford with Mr. Hooker's company in 1636, and was a member of his church. In 1640, John Brunson resided in the north part of the village of Hartf'd on a lot bounded N. W. by Richard Church, N. E. by the neck road, S. E. by Wm. Hayden or Heaton and west- erly by Nicholas Disbroe and Daniel Garrad, (Porter puts him No. 53.) I am inclined to believe John's father Richard was with him at Hartf'd, at that time an aged man, and owned no land there.
After the purchase of Tunxis by Wm. Goodwin, &c., John Brun- son removed to Tunxis about 1641, and represented. the town, (Farmington,) at the Gen'l Court in May, Sept'r, Octo. and Dec'r, 1651, also in Octo. 1655, 1656, &c. In the first division of land in Farmington, of the 84 proprietors, was John, Sen. and Jun'r, Rich- ard, Jacob, Ab'm and Isaac Brunson. Some of John's children were born at Hartford. The Bronsons of Conn., are most of them, if not all, descendants of John and Richard Bronson of Farmington.
JOHN BRONSON was one of the 7 pillars at the organization of the church at Farmington. He died there Nov'r 28, 1680. John a member of the original church there. His wife not found. His children were, Jacob, bapt'd 1641-2, and d. 1708, m. Mary. John, Jr., bapt'd 1643-4, d. 1696, m. Sarah Ventries, she d. 1712, remov_ ed to Waterbury ; Isaac, b. Dec. 7, 1645, wife Mary Root, perhaps Ellis ; Mary, m. Ellis ; Abraham, baptized at Hartford, Nov. 28, 1647, removed to Lyme and m. Hannah Griswold, daughter of Matthew, Sen'r, he d. 1747; Dorcas, m. Stephen Hopkins of Hartford ; Sarah, m. Ebenezer Kilbourn of Wethersfield ; Jacob, son of John Brunson, Sen'r, m. Mary -, and had issue, Sam- uel, Jacob, Roger, Isaac, Elizabeth and Rebecca ; Samuel, (m. Ly- dia Warner,) had 2 children, born before he removed to N. Milford, Ly- dia ,b. 1703, and Rebecca. Samuel and Roger were early settlers at New Milford in 1710 ; Jacob, Jun'r, remained at Farmington, (Ken- sington Society ; ) Isaac, b. 1686, went to Lyme and thence to North Carolina ; Eliz'th, m. Wm. Norris or Harris, and Rebecca, m. Eli- phlet Dickerson ; perhaps Affrances, b. 1688 ; John Bronson, Jun'r, son of John, Sen'r, m. Sarah Ventris, and became one of the early settlers of Waterbury, where he died in 1696, his wife d. Jan. 6, 1711-12. Issue ___
1. JOHN, b. 1670, d. June 15, 1716, removed to Southington, and had chil- dren, David, b. Aug't 9, 1704, d. Octo. 30, 1771, m. Susannah Judd ; Jonathan,
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b. May 14, 1706, m. Abigail Clark, May 17, 1732 ; Joseph, b. June 8, 1708, m. Esther Rust, March 15, 1741 ; Rachel, b. July 6, 1710, m. Mr. Ferry ; Mary, b. Jan. 30, 1712, m. Peck ; James, b. Nov. 19, 1713, m. Hannah Peck, Ap'l 26, 1737, d. March 28, 1775 ; Ruth, b. Feb. 1, 1715-16, m. Barnard.
2. Sarah, b. 1672.
3. Dorothy, b. 1675, m. Stephen Kelscy of Wethersfield.
4. Ebenezer, b. 1677, m. Mary- -, removed to Woodbury in 1726, and d. 1729, he had children, Eliz'th, Sarah, Bethiah, Samuel, John, Ebenezer, Mary, Esther.
5. William, b. 1682, lived in Farmington, m. Esther Barnes in 1707, and d. 1760 ; issue, James, Moses, Martha, Esther, Amos, Anna and John, b. May 2, 1723.
6. Moses, b. 1656, m. Jane Wait of Stratford, Nov. 6, 1712, and d. Aug't 12, 1754, he had 13 children, Eunice, Sarah, Nathan, Elnathan, Comfort, Charity, Esther, Jerusha, Jemima, William, Moses, and Naomi.
7 Grace, b. 1659, m. Jacob Barnes, in 1711.
ISAAC, son of John Sen'r, baptized by Mr. Hooker, 1645, m. Mary daughter of John Root of Farmington, about 1669, and d. about 1719; he went to Waterbury with the first company of settlers and was one of the 7 male members, at the organization of the church there, Ist Serg't of the train-band, and three sessions a member of the Legislature ; his last wife d. about the time her husband d. ; they had issue-
1. Isaac, b. 1670, m. Mary Morgan, daughter of Rich'd of N. London, June 3, 1701, d. June 13, 1751, aged 81; his wife d. Sep. 23, 1749; Isaac, m. Sarah Lewis, widow of Deacon Joseph, for his 2d wife, May 14, 1750, and had chil- dren by 1st wife, Jerusha, Isaac, Anne, Josialı, Mary, Nathan, James, Pa- tience and 2d James.
2. JOHN, b. 1673, son of Isaac, m. Mary Hickox, Nov. 9, 1697, and m. Hannah Richards, widow of Tho's, daughter of Steplien Upson, June 1727, for his 2d wife ; had 6 children by first wife, and 3 by his 2d wife ; he d. 1751 ; issnc, Mary, Jolın, Hannalı, Jemima, Joseph, Benjamin-by 2d wife, Tamar, Ezra, Phebe.
3. SAMUEL, b. about 1676, son of Isaac, was a cooper ; m. Ruth Smith, and d. Jan. 1724-5; they had children, Elijah lived in Southbury, 1790; Marcy, m. John Judd, Elijah, m. Abigail Winchel, 1739.
4. Mary, b. Octo. 15, 1650, daughter of Isaac, m. Tho's Hickox, (Deacon,) Mar. 27, 1700, by whom she had 9 children ; after the death of Deacon Hickox, she m. Deacon Samuel Bull of Woodbury, and d. a widow in Waterbury, July 4,1756.
5. Joseph, b. 1682, son of Isaac, d. May 10, 1707.
6. THOMAS, b. Jan. 16, 1686, m. Eliz'th Upson, daughter of Stephen, of Waterbury, Dec'r 21, 1709, chosen Deacon 1752, and d. May 26, 1777, and his wife d. March 30, 1778; their children were Tho's, b. Jan. 5, 1711, m. Susan- nah Southmayd, and Anna Hopkins, and d. in June, 1759, having had 9 chil- dren, (he was the grandfather of the late Judge B. Bronson of Waterbury.)
7. EBENEZER, b. Dec'r, 1688, m. Mary, daughter of Dr. Hall of Wallingford, Nov. 1, 1716, and d. Ap'l 11, 1768, issue ; Hannah, Andrew, Mary, Samuel,
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Ebenezer, Thankful, Ebenez'r, m. 2d wife Susannah Langton of Farmington, daughter of Joseph, July 1, 1736, and had a son Ebenezer by 2d marriage.
8. Sarah, b. Nov. 15, 1691, m. Stephen Upson, son of Stephen, Feb. 26, 1713; she d. 1748, having had 10 children.
9. Marcy, b. Sep. 28, 1694, daughter of Isaac, m. Richard Bronson of Wood- bury, (the g't g't grandmother of R. R. H.,) her husband d. Ang't 21, 1769, aged 80 years; they had an only child Marcy.
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