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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
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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 liis estate. He was the first of the name in the colony. This name is spelt Kates, on record at Hartford, and by 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
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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 ; Elizabetli, wife of Samuel, died Aug. 14, 1724. John, Jr., b. April 27, 1676.
Thomas, b. August, 1678.
Benjamin, b. Feb., 1680. 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. 1680, m. Margaret Kel- logg, 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, 1718. 4. Abraham, b. Aug. 13, 1720, had eight children, viz., Jacob, Abraham, Jr., Simeon, Hezekiah, Tim- othy, Jesse, Elisha and 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.
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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. Jocl, settled in Illinois.
6. Sarah, married and lives in New York.
7. Isaac, formerly lived in New Britain, went to Illinois.
8. 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.
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6. Sheldon, died and left a son and daughter.
7. Clorinda, not married.
8. Henry, married and had a family.
CATLIN, ABIJAH, IST, 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. IIONOR, daughter of Abijah Ist, m. William Abernethy, M. D. Issue :
1. Honor, m. Daniel Catlin.
2. Lavinia, m. Aaron Bradley.
3. Wm. C., had three wives, I. Phebe Wiard, 2. - Dexter, and 3. So- phia Hoadley.
4. Gen. Russell C., m. Aurelia Sınith.
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, m. Orinda Williams.
3. Huldah, mn. James Stoddard.
4. Hannah, m. David Candee, of Oxford.
5. Lucretia, m. James Woodruff.
6. Rachel, m. Dana Hungerford.
7. Samuel A., died nnmarried.
CATLIN, GROVE, son of Abijah Ist, m. Hannah Phelps, of Litchfield, and had children, viz.
1. Grove, Esq., a lawyer in the State of Maine.
2. Ilannah, m. George E. Head, Esq., of Boston.
3. Sabra, died single, at Hartford, March 17, 1833, aged 14.
4. Col. Julius, m. Mary Fisher, of Wrentham, Mass., in 1929, 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 Ist, 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 Tingly, member of both branches of the legislature of Conn., speaker of legislature, and four years member of Congress, d. in 1852, 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 Ilooker ; no issue.
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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 at Harwinton ; had children.
1. Harriet, b. 1800, m. A. G. Miller, M. D., of Mansfield, Ohio. He d. 1849.
2. Adaline, b. 1802, m. Hon. Wm. S. Holabird, (Hurlbut,) late Lieut. Gov. of Connecticut.
3. Abijah 4th, b. 1805, in. 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., 1845.
5. Orinda, b. 1810, 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,
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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.
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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 Josiah 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.
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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 Burnap changed to Burnet, Boreman to Boardman, Lankton to Langdon and Lan- don, &c.
* Conger says, 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 reads llannah 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 Ilannah and Esther Bruen, when Esther was the only one in Newark. Ilannah should have been Esther, daughter of Richard Lawrence." (See BRUE.V.) (See CATTELL.)
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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 his 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 Naliantick, 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 " 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.
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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 James 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, 1631, John, Mary, Joseph, Lydia and Ann. David, the father, d. Nov. 25, 1717.
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