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JOSEPH FRISBEE, WARHAM GIBBS,
DAVID AUSTIN, JOIIN AUSTIN, LEMUEL BASSETT, JOEL BEACH,
PHIINEHAS GRISWOLD,
BELA HILLS, Dec. 2, 1782.
JOHN BEACH, Feb. 12, 1779.
BENJAMIN BENEDICT, TIMOTHY BENEDICT,
BENONI HILLS,
JOSEPH HOSKIN,
SAMUEL HURLBUT,
WILLIAM CASTEL,
REV. MR. KNAPP, WM. KEYES, Feb. 12, 1779.
JOHN CHURCH, July 18, 1782. SAMUEL CLARK, JONATHAN COE,
DAVID LOOMIS, Dec. 2, 1782. ICHABOD LOOMIS,
ROBERT MCCUNE,
SAMUEL MCCUNE,
GERSHOM MCCUNE, Dec. 4, 1778. REUBEN MINER, JOHN MINER,
ADAM MOTT, LENT MOTT, MARTIN NORTH,
ROBERT COE, ROSWELL COE, DAN' HURLBUT CONE, Dec. 2, 1782. RICHARD COIT, PETER CORBIN, DANIEL CORBIN, JOSEPH DODGE, HEZEKIAH ELMER,
SETH HILLS, JOHN HILLS,
LEVI BROWNSON, OZIAS BROWNSON,
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AMBROSE PALMER,
JAMES SWEET,
JOSEPH PLATT, Feb. 5, 1778.
JOHN SWEET,
EBENEZER PRESTON,
JONATHAN SWEET,
SAMUEL PRESTON,
PELEG SWEET,
BENJAMIN PRESTON,
REUBEN TUCKER,
PHILIP PRIEST,
JOHN VIDETO, JR.,
CHAUNCY SMITH, Dec. 2, 1782.
ELEAZER SMITH,
AMASA WADE, SAMUEL WETMORE,
THOMAS SPENCER,
ABEL WETMORE,
WM. STANNARD, Dec. 2, 1782.
ELISHA WILCOXSON,
LEMUEL STANNARD, JR.,
JESSE WILKINSON,
ABEL STANNARD, July 25, 1782.
REUBEN WILKINSON,
LEM'L STANNARD, Mch. 10, 1782.
JONAH WOODRUFF.
An examination of the list shows that of the seventy-eight inhabitants therein named, but fifteen are now represented in the town by descendants bearing their family names.
In Town Meetings this year, taxes were laid, in all amounting to four shillings and three pence on the pound, for meeting the expenses of the town.
Sergt. Freedom Wright and John Balcom, Jr., were allowed five pounds each for doing a tour of duty, the previous year, in the Northern army.
It was voted, that if the committee on trial cannot proenre a sufficiency of provisions for the families of those men who are gone into the Con- tinental army, the Selectmen shall be empowered to lay the matter before the Governor and Council or Assembly, and pray them to point out some way for our relief; and also to pray for a tax on non-resident proprietors to support the country roads.
Ensign Ozias Bronson, Joseph Hoskin, Samuel Hurlbut, Roswell Coe, Ambrose Palmer, Samuel Preston, and Phineas Griswold, were ap- pointed a Committee to provide for the families of the soldiers.
From the records of the Society meetings of this year, it appears that owing to disaffection of many members, it was decided, after consultation with Mr. Knapp, "to throw by the civil law in collecting Mr. Knapp's rate, and [to] support him some other way."
The new comers of this year were, Lemuel Stannard, Senior, Seth Griswold, James Hale, and William Barbour.
LEMUEL STANNARD, SENIOR, has been noticed under the year 1771.
SETH GRISWOLD, of New Hartford, married, December 31, 1778, Huldah, widow of Simcon Loomis, and settled on the Loomis homestead, now composing a part of Luther Bronson's farm, in the southwest part of
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the town, and there resided until 1801, when he removed to the south- west corner of Colebrook, and there resided in the house now occupied by Isaac Jacklyn, until his death, about 1810.
CHILDREN.
I. ROSWELL, b. Feb. 8, 1780; m. Nov. 3, 1802, Lucretia Wheadon, daughter of Solomon. She d. and he m. (2d), Nov. 1808, Mrs. Jerusha (Grant) Walter, daughter of Joel Grant and widow of Cyrus Walter. She d. in Colebrook, March 3, 1828 ; he m. (3d) Anna (Hall) Preston, who was a widow Clark before she m. Preston. Children by first wife : 1. Wyllys, lives in Auburn, Iowa ; 2. Lucretia, m. Asahel Northway ; 3 Hiram, grad. Western Reserve College, lived at Canton and Cleveland, Ohio, a lawyer senator of Ohio, lives at Leavenworth, Kansas. Children by second wife : 4. Lneins, b. July 12, 1810; 5. Almira, b. July 23, 1811; 6. Joel Grant, b. March 15, 1813; 7. Lavinia, b. Feb. 25, 1817 ; 8. James, b. Jan. 20, 1819; 9 Nelson, b. Aug. 20, 1820 ; 10. Edward, b. April 13, 1824 ; 11. Ellen Amanda, b. April 6, 1825, m. March 18, 1850, William S. Phillips, a trader, of Winsted, who d. Aug. 19, 1860-she lives in Winsted ; 12. Mary Ann, d. unmarried. These children were all born in Colebrook.
II. ASA, b. May 26, 1781.
JAMES HALE, from Wethersfield, bought the Ensign lot at the south- west shore of Long Lake, west of the mouth of Taylor's Brook, where he lived until 1784, when he left the town. By his wife, Sarah, he had three
CHILDREN.
I. ABIGAIL, b. May 12, 1778.
II. SARAH, b. Ang. 8, 1780.
III. WILLIAM, b. March 16, 1784 ; is said to have become a sailor, was pressed into the British navy, and obtained his discharge by proeuring a certifi- cate of the record of his birth in Winehester.
WILLIAM BARBOUR, from Paisley, Scotland, deserted the British army brought to this country at the beginning of the revolution, and be- came a resident of this town as early as 1778. He married, September 26, 1778, Ruth Thrall, widow of Renben Thrall, who died in the town the previous year. He resided in the Thrall homestead, near Renben. Chase's present residence, until 1798 ; soon after which he removed to Burke, Caledonia County, Vermont. He was by trade a tailor, - a pious and highly estimable man.
CHILDREN.
I. CLARA, b. July 19, 1781.
II. ESTHER, b. Nov. 19, 1784.
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1779.
The town records of this year are mainly confined to routine busi- ness.
Martin North and Joseph Hoskin were appointed " to provide for the families of Continental soldiers "; and Dr. Josiah Everitt, Samuel McCune, and Phineas Griswold, to provide clothing for the soldiers.
The Society records are also barren of interest. The " civil law " hav- ing been " thrown by in collecting the minister's rate," no Society tax was laid.
The new comers were Elijah Hubbard, Daniel Clark, and Christopher Whiting.
ELIJAH HUBBARD, from Middletown, bought and occupied Lot 8, first Tier, first Division, on Blue Street, near the southwest corner of the town. In 1805 he sold what remained to him of this tract to Jared Curtis. His wife, Ursula, died May 3, 1786. Anna, their daughter, was born April 16, 1783. Tradition says he was an eminently pious man, and that he died alone in a house on the hill, east of the original meeting house.
DANIEL CLARK's name appears only in the record of births. He had by wife Eunice,
CHILDREN.
I. BELA (son), b. Feb. 25, 1779.
II. PATTY, b. June 28, 1781.
BENJAMIN WHITING,* married in Torrington, October 17, 1755, Esther Marcum.
CHILDREN.
I. CHRISTOPHER, 2 b. in Tor., Aug. 3, 1757.
II. WILLIAM,2 b. « Sept. 4, 1759.
III. ESTHER,2 b. “ 13, 1763.
IV. BENJAMIN,2 b. « Dec. 11, 1765; see 1793.
CHRISTOPHER WHITING,? settled on the old road from Winsted to Winchester, north of Sucker Brook bridge, and built and occupied, during his life, the house now owned by Frederick Murray. He died July 6, 1812, aged 54 ; - an industrious, unassuming, and worthy man. He mar- rie:1, January 9, 1782, Mary Wilcox.
* Not a resident of Winchester.
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CHILDREN.
I. LORRAIN,3
b. Dec. 19, 1782.
II. RILEY,3
b. Jan. 16, 1785.
III. CLARA,3
b. March 11, 1785 ; m. Samuel Westlake; she d. Jan.
27,1815.
IV. LUMAN,3
b. May 5, 1792 ; m. Anna Hayden.
V. ESTHER MIRIAM,3
b. Sept. 13, 1796.
VI. NORMAN,3 b. Aug. 5, 1796 ; d. Ang. 5, 1815, by kick of a horsc.
LORRAIN WHITING" built the brick house on Wallen's Hill, in Win- sted, near Barkhamsted line, recently owned and occupied by his son, Hiram C. Whiting, in which he resided until his death September 6, 1833, aged 51. He married, May 1, 1806, Polly Mallory, born in Win- chester, May 24, 1784, daughter of Elisha. She died January 10, 1851, aged 66.
CHILDREN.
I. ALGERNON SIDNEY,4
M. Sage.
II. LAURA,4 Johnson.
b. Jan. 22, 1809; m. Feb. 7, 1828, Martin
III. CHLOE AMELIA,4
b. Oct. 17, 1810.
IV. URSULA JENET,4 Camp; d. June 3, 1839.
b. April 20, 1812; m. Oct. 8, 1833, John
V. ORSON,4
b. July 5, 1813.
VI. LUCIEN,4
b. April 12, 1816.
VII. LORRAIN CHRISTOPHER,4
b. Feb. 22, 1819.
VIII. HIRAM CHATTERTON4 (twin),
b. March 29, 1821.
IX. HOMER WILCOX+ (twin), phronia C. Wheelock.
b. March 29, 1821; m. July 30, 1850, So-
X. NELSON,4
b. Feb. 25, 1823.
XI. DEWITT CLINTON,4
b. Aug. 29 1824; d. Nov. 27, 1846.
XII. POLLY MALLORY,4
b. Feb. 19, 1826.
XIII. SARAH JANE,4
b. April 29, 1827.
XIV. SYLVIA ANN,4
b. Dec. 4, 1828.
XV. EDWARD GAYLORD,4
b. Feb. 27, 1832.
b. March 7, 1807 ; m. June 20, 1832, Loritta
RILEY WHITING came to Winsted about 1810, and soon after built and occupied until his death, the house on the east side of Still River, near the clock factory recently owned and occupied by R. L. Beecher. He went into the clock making business .as partner with Samuel and Luther Hoadley, and about 1815 became sole owner of the concern ; - and carried on the business until his death, with great energy and per- severance. He was a man of quiet, unassuming manners and feeble con- stitution, who, more than most men, minded his own business and prosecuted it with the same perseverance in adverse, as in prosperous circumstances ; and, though twice compelled to assign his property, yet in both instances succeeded in paying off his debts, and left a handsome estate at his death,
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which took place at Jacksonville, Illinois, August 5, 1835, at the age of fifty-one, while on a business journey. He was a man highly esteemed. He represented the town in the Legislature in the years 1818 and 1832. Ile married, February 9, 1806, Urania Hoadley. She married (2d), Erasmus D. Calloway ; she died December 8, 1855.
CHILDREN.
b. May 23, 1807 ; m. August 17, 1826, Dr. Lyman
I. EMILY,3 Case. b. June 11, 1810; m. Feb. 3, 1835, James Litch' field ; she d. at Lima, Michigan, Oct. 7, 1837.
II. MARY,3
III. URANIA,3
b. Sept. 9, 1812; m. May 26, 1840, Thomas
Wilder.
IV. LEMUEL HOADLEY,3 b. Dec. 11, 1815 ; d. Dec. 25, 1815.
V. RILEY,3 b. Sept. 25, 1820 ; m. August 28, 1843, Clarissa Jane Webster.
1780.
At a Town Meeting, March 13, 1780, Robert McCune was appointed " an Agent to represent the circumstances of the town to the General As- sembly and pray that a State Tax be not imposed on this town under our present circumstances ; - and that he be empowered to imploy an At- torney to speak in behalf of the town at the General Assembly, viz, Col. Adams, if he may be had, - and if he cannot be obtained, then sd. Agent to employ some other Attorney."
It was also voted, " to give John Videto, Jr., and those in partnership with him their fine for killing one Deer after the law forbid."
July 17, it was voted to grant some relief for those men who are, or may be detailed to serve in the army between the first day of June last, and the first day of January next.
Whereupon Lieutenant John Wright and Enoch Palmer entered their protest against anything being recovered on the foregoing vote, for that it was (as they say) obtained by illegal voters.
At the Society meeting, February 3, 1780 :-
Voted, to give Mr. Knapp sixty-five pounds for his last year's service, to be paid in specie as it went in 1774, or an equivalent in cashı, to be ad- justed by a committee to be chosen for that purpose, which committee are to adjust the price of all kinds of specie as well as cash, which adjust- ment shall be made once in three months.
Voted, Ichabod Loomis, Samuel McCune and Reuben Miner, a com- mittee to adjust the price of all kinds of specie collected for Mr. Knapp, and also, to estimate money once in three months.
Voted, Levi Brownson, Andrew Everitt, Bela Hills and Abel Wetmore, choristers to tune the Psalm on the Sabbath the year ensuing.
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Voted, Deacon Joseph Mills (of Norfolk), Mr. Noah North, and Lieut. Asahel Case, be a committee to hear the complaints of any agrieved members of this Society, respecting paying to Mr. Knapp for his sup- port, and if the said committee judge the complaints or objections of said agrieved members against paying to Mr. Knapp sufficient, then said agrieved members to be exempt from paying to Mr. Knapp.
Voted, Capt. Jonathan Alvord to sweep the meeting house at forty dol- lars the year ensuing.
At a meeting, March 7, 1780, the doings of the meeting February 3d, were reconsidered ; - and it was then
Voted, to give Mr. Knapp 65 pounds for his last year's service, to be paid in specie - wheat to be valued at six shillings the bushel, and the price of all other kinds of specie to be regulated by wheat at 6s. the bushel in proportion as they were valued in the year 1774, or cash equivalent to specie at the rate above prescribed.
It was further voted, that the Society mean to have Mr. Knapp join with the Church and Society in accommodation of matters of difficulty now subsisting in this Society previous to voting another salary.
December 5th of the same year, another year's salary was voted to Mr. Knapp, " to be paid in Specie as it was valued in 1774, or in Cash equiva- lent, to be adjusted by a Committee," - and that "if any Persons in the Society shall, within one Month from this, appear before the Society Committee and say that they cannot in their conscience support Mr. Knapp, they shall be exempt from supporting him, and the Rate be made on the remainder of the Society."
It would seem from the foregoing votes, and from the action of the church, this year, that the exclusion from the church of Half-way- covenanters was still working dissension in the Society and occasioning irreconcilable hostility to Mr. Knapp, who strenuously persisted in the exclusion. .
The church voted, December 29, 1779, " That it is our opinion yt a visible appearance of Holiness is necessary for ye Church to admit mem- bers into their communion."
What was the occasion of this vote does not appear, but it probably had reference to applications made for half-covenant membership.
A meeting was held March 7th following, " by ye desire of a number of members of ye Society that call themselves greived, in order to see if y^ chh. and they could not come understandingly to agree " - the meet- ing was adjourned to the next Friday -" the agreived members agree- ing to bring their greivences in writing at or before the next meeting; " - another adjournment was had to the next Thursday ; no greivences being brought in - " after considerable of discourse, 3 of ye members of
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ye society were willing y ye chh. should have their greivances in writing wh. [are] here recorded."
The first was Abel Wetmore's, as follows:
" Mr. Knapp told me, He will have nothing to do with any man what- ever of a spiritural nature, that refuses to give me an account of his spiritual estate previous to reading his letter, nor read his letter."
The second matter of grievance was exhibited by Ensign Wilcoxson, as follows :
"1. I exhibited to Mr. Knapp a letter of recommendation from ye chh. of New Hartford to ye chh. of Winchester, wh. Mr. Knapp never com- municated to y" chh.
" 2. Mr. Knapp told me he did not desire ye use of Civil law to sup- port ye gospel - and now he insists on ye use of Civil law."
"3. Mr. Knapp hath neglected to visit and converse with me so much .as I have thought was his duty."
Third matter of grievance was exhibited by Eliezer Smith :
" 1. Respecting Baptized persons - Mr. Knapp said to me that there was no more connexion between ye chh. and ye rest of ye world, any more than between heaven and Hell.
"2. Mr. Knapp signified he did not desire ye use of ye Civil law to support ye Gospel, but now he desires ye Civil law to take place to make men Honest."
The record proceeds to say :
"These following things are what ye chh. attended to and voted ;
"1. of a chh. - A chh. is a number of persons mutually covenanting together to walk in gospel fellowship and communion in all ye ordinances of ye gospel.
" 2. of a covenant - The covenant of grace is yt covenant wh. in reality subsists only between God and true believers. The covenant im- plies on our part, repentance toward God and faith towards our Lord Jesus X. * * * * love as ye spring of all our obedience, * * * God's part, spiritual blessings & privileges are promised, together with ye ever- lasting enjoyment of God in heaven, the covenant subsisting between God and his visible chh. is ye visible exhibition of this covenant.
". 3. Baptism and ye Lord's Supper are Seals of this covenant. By baptism ye parent in behalf of ye child gives it up to God ye Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to God as his God and portion and Chief good; to God ye Son as ye only Redeemer, and by ye Holy Ghost as its Sanctification - By baptism y" parent not only gives it up to God ye Father, Son & Holy Ghost, but he puts it under ye watch & Care of ye chih. - the im- port of it to ye chh. is, pray watch over me and my child, and admonish us when we go astray ; - it is ye duty of y" chli. to watch over them, -
-
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to reprove, rebuke and admonisli them, - they are to be called upon when come to adult years to take upon themselves ye vows of ye coven- ant and cordially, understandingly and heartily come up to its terms. - If, after forbearance towards them, they refuse to comply with ye terms of ye covenant, yy. are to be cut off, and the chh. to withdraw their watch and Care from them."
" 2. Voted, that upon any persons bringing a letter of recommendation from any other chh. to be communicated to this, that Mr. Knapp stay ye church by themselves, and exhibit ye letter to ye chli., and if Mr. Knapp have any objection against ye person bringing such, then to com- municate his objections to ye chh., and also any person having been pro- pounded for admittance into ye chh., on ye day he is to be admitted Mr. Knapp stay the chh. at noon y' if there be any objections yy. may then be made manifest.
" 3. Voted, that no person can be indulged in absenting himself from ye Sacrament of y& Lord's Supper only upon point of tender conscience.
"4. Voted, that persons who shall desire to be propounded for com- munion in this chh., ye chh. be stayed, and if Mr. Knapp have objections, yt he then inform ye chh. of them."
These votes indicate that the church, while agreeing with Mr. Knapp in respect to qualifications for membership, was not disposed to yield to him the prerogative of receiving or excluding members ; - and the whole record quoted leads to the conclusion that a less arbitray, though equally firm adherence to sound principles of church order, would have resulted in greater peace and unity.
The vote in 1778 "to throw by the Civil Law " in collecting the min- isterial rates, and the adoption of the voluntary system of support, proved a failure ; - and the return to taxation seems to have been attended with great difficulties, which were but partially obviated, by allowing the mal- content members to relieve themselves from taxation by avowing con- scientious scruples in respect to the support of Mr. Knapp. This plan of relieving the malcontents, after three years' trial, was abandoned, and the tax was thereafter levied on all the inhabitants of the Society. It is stated on good traditional authority that the taxes were rigorously col- lected by attachment of the property or persons of those who refused to pay ; - that Ensign Jonathan Coe (grand-father of Jehial and Samuel W. Coe), had his cow attached and sold for a minister's rate ; - that there was a surplus of money left of the sale, beyond the tax and costs, which the constable, Deacon Platt, offered to pay him back, but which he indignantly refused to receive ; - telling the constable to " put it under Mr. Knapp's pillow and let him sleep on it if he could." The same tradition tells of the attachment of Joseph Hoskin's great coat in the fall and its retention
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until spring ; - and also of the carrying of the late venerable Jonathan Coe to Litchfield Jail, - and how he finally paid the tax under protest.
These occurrences, and others of a similar nature, prepared the way for the introduction and growth of Methodism ; and in connection with a subsequent division in the Winsted Society, hereafter detailed, led to the establishment and growth of the large and stable Methodist Church in Winsted ; - of which the Coe family have ever been among the most useful and valued members.
The financiers of the present day would be troubled to comprehend the " Specie " currency referred to in the tax votes of this and subsequent years. Hard money was literally too hard in those days, as well as these, to be obtainable as a circulating medium. Continental Bills had so de- preciated that it took forty dollars to pay a year's sweeping of the meet- ing house, which had been done six years before for five shillings and six- pence. The term specie then had a well received meaning not given in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. It comprehended in its meaning, wheat, rye, corn, meslin, beans, beef, pork, mutton, tallow, suet, lard, and all other farm products ; - and these were the tithes for the most part brought into the minister's storehouse in payment of his salary. They were also the kind of specie largely gathered by Washington's " Brother Jonathan,"* from all parts of the State in aid of the revolutionary war. They were received and appraised by committees appointed for that pur- pose, and forwarded to general depots, in lieu of money taxes.
The standard of specie value adopted in the vote of this year was a wise and equitable one. By taking wheat at the price ruling in 1774, and regulating other articles at proportionate values, the difficulty of de- termining what amount of a depreciated and fluctuating currency would be equal to the salary originally voted Mr. Knapp, was obviated in an equitable manner.
On the 19th of September of this year, for the first time, freemen were admitted, preparatory to an election of the first Representative sent by the town to the General Assembly, as appears by the following record :
" This certifies that Eliphaz Alvord, Adam Mott, Capt. John Hills, Lt. Ozias Brownson, Samuel McCune, Seth Griswold, Lent Mott, David Austin, Ens". Josiah Everitt, David Crissey, Phinehas Potter, John Miner, Ebenezer Preston, Robert Coe, Roswell Coe, Samuel Preston, Reuben Tucker, Dea. 'Seth Hills, Ens". Elisha Wilcoxson, Robert Mc- Cune, Andrew Everitt, Martin North, Dea. Samuel Wetmore, David Alvord, Thomas Spencer and Abel Wetmore, are persons of quiet and
* Gov. Jonathan Trumbull - Washington's sheet-anchor.
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peaceable behaviour and civil Conversation, and qualified to take the Freeman's oath, and had said oath administered to them September 19th, A. D. 1780.
SETH HILLS,
ROBERT MOCUNE, Select Men."
ELISHA WILCOXSON,
The new comers of the year were Stephen Spencer, Simeon Hurlbut, John Church, Thomas Cannon, Stephen Schovil, Benjamin Woodruff, William Barnstable, and Prince Negro.
STEPHEN SPENCER, - a relative, probably a cousin of Thomas, - is supposed to have come from Saybrook. He owned and lived on the farm recently owned by William F. Hatch, on the east side of the Lit- tle Pond, in a house on a road now discontinued, which turned out of the Winchester road, nearly opposite the Stabell House, and extended north- westerly to the Little Pond road. This house, the two barns and cider mill around it, have now disappeared, together with all the cherry, damson and peach trees which once profusely abounded. A few antiquated apple trees alone indicate the location.
Mr. Spencer also owned lands extending down to Mad River, along the north side of the pond stream, and built a saw-mill on the site of Lathrop and Barton's Cutlery Works. In 1800 he sold his farm to Jenkins and Boyd, and removed to Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York. He married, January 18, 1776, Elizabeth Turner.
CHILDREN.
I. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 30, 1777.
II. LOVISA, b. Dec. 29, 1779; m. Nov. 28, 1795, Zacheus Munsill.
III. SUBMIT, b. Nov. 15, 1781.
IV. SARAII, b. Sept. 1, 1783.
V. AI (son), b. April 25, 1786.
VI. TEMPERANCE, b. " 20, 1789.
VII. HANNAH, b. Oct. 10, 1795.
SIMEON HURLBUT, " of' Wethersfield," was owner of lands in Winches- ter as early as 1776, and is named of Winchester in 1780, when he sold his home lot on which he then lived, lying south of the south end of Long Lake, and bordering on Torrington line. He probably then removed to Torrington. His wife's name was Mary, by whom he had a daughter, Olle, born in Winchester, August 4, 1780.
JOHN CHURCH, from Chatham, was a raw-boned, grim-visaged man, who served under Arnold at Quebec and Saratoga. The precise time of his coming to Winchester is not ascertainable. His first deed is dated
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July 7, 1780. He built and lived and died in the ancient red lean-to house on the Little Pond road, recently occupied by Sylvester Hurlbut. He was, during his early residence, a zealous religionist of some hardshell order, and preached on his own hook, from house to house. He married, March 29, 1780, Deborah Spencer. He died December 6, 1834, aged 79. She died December 5, 1834, aged 75.
CHILDREN. '
I. HANNAH,2 1847.
b. July 25, 1781 ; m. Ansel Shattuck; she d. April 10,
II. EUNICE,2 b. July 18, 1783 ; m. Jan. 7, 1808, John Storer.
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