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Entered- 3 March 1776, Ebenezer Bartram, 1st Lieut. 10 March 1776, Samuel Smedley, 2d Lieut.
6 March 1776, Joseph Squire, Lieut. of Marines 6 March 1776, Gideon Wells, Surgeon 13 March 1776, Isaac Squire, Yeoman 6 March 1776, Joseph Bartram, Seaman.
# Capt. Smedley was eventually captured and spent two terms in captivity, the latter in an English military prison, from which he escaped to Holland and returned to Fairfield.
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WHARVES AND SHIPPING
Partial "Return of moneys received from masters & owners of vessells of U. S., pursuant to the Act of Congress entitled An act for the relief of Sick & disabled Seamen," by Samuel Smedley, Collector of Customs for the District of Fairfield, 1 Oct .- 31 Dec. 1798.
Date
Vessell
Master or Owner
Seamen Mos.
Days
Amt.
Oct. 10, 1798
Sch. Fair Trader
J. Osborn
3
4
$ .80
11
Sloop Coquet
B. Sturges
2
2
22
.54
16
Industry
B. Dimon
4
6
4
1.22
Nov. 6
Maria
D. Osborn
3
3
22
.75
6
Delight
G. Wells
4
8
18
1.60
6
66
Maria
S. Hawley
3
6
18
1.32
23
Alexander
G. Mills
3
8
9
1.66
Dec. 3
Sch. George & Jane C. Elliot
8
24
24
4.90
14
Sloop Rising Sun
J. Betts
7
24
8
4.85
14
Dolphin
S. Morehouse 2
6
28
1.39
17
Sally
G. Allen
3
10
21
2.14
24
Factor
W. Booth
4
15
24
3.04
27
Sally & Betsy J. Sackett, Jr. 3
11
21
2.34
27
66
Peggy
J. Mead
2
7
24
1.56
If the length of time indicates the extent of the voyage completed, this is an interesting index of voyages made by boats manned by a few men as crew. Although it is probable that the time was distributed over several coasting trips, these small boats voyaged unusual distances, as we have other evidence to prove.
BLACK ROCK LIGHTHOUSE- 1BOB
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Roads
The original roads, probably developed from Indian trails, are shown in the map of Black Rock 1649-1700. They were laid out formally about 1680-1690, according to the Fairfield town records :
1675-June 7-The townsmen have chosen John Banks, John Wheeler, and Sergt. Squire to settle to highways on ye other side of ye creeke
[King's Highway was laid out in 1687]
1692-Samll Squire given liberty to fence across yd highway by Grovers Hill on ye east side of ye creeke
1692-The town do order & appoint Jno. Tompson, Samll Squire, & Jno Gruman to lay out what highways they can find at Pequonock in ye woods.
We find the following routes (identified by present street names) :
1-Fairfield Avenue from Ellsworth Street to Ash Creek, where a bridge soon superseded "ye wading place" or ford.
2-Gilman Street along the creek, probably terminating at Clarkson Street.
3-Brewster Street, from Fairfield Avenue to the wharves.
4-Grovers Avenue from the Green at Brewster Street to the Field Gate which probably stood at the corner of Seaside Avenue.
5-North Ellsworth Street-which continued the main road (Fairfield Avenue) to Ash Creek, where it forked.
(The westward fork beyond the creek crossed to King's High- way and the old Holland Heights road,-now Jennings Road.)
6-Burr Road, which was the eastward fork, turned north at the present Fairfield Avenue intersection and continued to Stratfield, along Dewey Street.
Thus, the road through from the creek to Stratfield may be traced to-day as : Ash Creek, Fairfield Avenue, Ellsworth Street, Burr Road, Dewey Street.
There has been some discussion concerning the old milestone at the corner of Brewster Street and Fairfield Avenue with its inscription of "XXM to NH," several residents believing the inscription to have been cut by some practical joker within recent years, others maintaining that the inscription was long obscured by a printed exhortation, "God is Love," which was cleaned away when the stone was reset. It has been pointed out that the stone stands far south of King's Highway, which was the route to New Haven.
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Without exhaustively entering into the discussion, the following facts might be added to the data already known to the public:
The milestone, while differing from the "Benjamin Franklin stones" along King's Highway, tallies with others in other parts of the state.
The corner upon which it stands was the corner of the old "stage road" and was twenty miles from New Haven by the route indicated above, which joined King's Highway at Stratfield or at the base of Holland Heights.
There is available for reference at the State Library in Hartford a very interesting record of old milestones throughout Connecticut, with photographs, compiled by Dr. Henry P. Sage.
1700-1840
7-Grovers Avenue was extended to Grovers Hill about 1760.
8-Balmforth Street, as an important new road, was surveyed through lands of Capt. Samuel Burr, heirs of Seth Burr, and of Jona- than Wheeler, in 1765, when a bridge was built across Ash Creek to Paul's Neck near the Penfield mills, providing a direct route between Black Rock and Fairfield Center. Road 2 was extended to the new bridge.
9-Two roads were deeded by David Wheeler 3d to the town. Only one of these proved permanent-Beacon Street, laid out to the Middle Wharf in 1765. Another, laid out parallel, running from Grovers Avenue to the harbor, was eventually released by the town.
10-Ellsworth Street, south from Fairfield Avenue to Brewster Street, laid out in 1802 through lands of Caleb Brewster, Mary Bartram (widow of Ebenezer), William Wheeler, John Wheeler, and heirs of Huldah Mason. At this time Haviland Street which gave access to the upper wharves was also laid out officially.
11-Brewster Street, north of Fairfield Avenue, to King's Highway (and Holland Heights) laid out in 1812, through lands of William Morehouse, John Morehouse, Israel Bibbins, and Asa Beardslee. (The bridge across the creek was then known as Beardslee's Bridge.)
12-Fairfield Avenue, called County Road, or road laid by County Commissioners, laid out from Ellsworth Street intersection to "the horse tavern," 1812.
13-Seabright Avenue, laid out in 1809 through lands of Nathan Wheeler and David Penfield.
14-Hackley Street, laid out about 1834.
15-Calderwood Street, then known as 'the lane," laid out about 1836.
Old names-in use about 1867, changed about 1900.
Black Rock Avenue= Brewster Street to Grovers Avenue intersection.
Main Street=Brewster Street from Grovers Avenue to shipyard.
Elm Street =Beacon Street. Church Street = Ellsworth Street.
Water Street =Seabright Avenue. Wheeler Street = Hackley Street.
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Roadside Memoranda.
There was a project in 1880 to extend Wheeler (Hackley) Street across Burr Creek to an extension of Black Rock Avenue in Bridgeport. This accounts for the name of Black Rock Avenue, which, as it now runs, is far from Black Rock.
[The first Black Rock Avenue (Brewster Street) mentioned above, was usually known as the Black Rock turnpike, and not as an avenue.]
Several "pent roads," used from time to time by the public, are not included in the above list. One led from Ellsworth Street toward the Cove, parallel with Hackley Street; another was used as the private entrance to the old Bridgeport Yacht Club, and still another, "Lydia Squire's pent road," led up the hill from Grovers Avenue.
Lighthouses
Of the lighthouses near Black Rock harbor, the earliest was Black Rock Light on Fayerweather Island, established in 1808, but several times blown down and rebuilt. The "fence" built by Webb and Beach Downs, as reported by William Wheeler, was the original breakwater, which extends from the lighthouse to mid-island, along the narrowest strip of sand.
The first keeper of the light was Captain John Maltbie. The second mentioned in the records was Captain Isaac Judson. Both died within a short time. In 1817 Stephen T. Moore was appointed and was succeeded by his daughter Catharine. Her assistant was Joseph Eddy. The Moore tenure extended over more than three-quarters of a century.
Bridgeport "beacon" was set up by Captain Abram McNeil in 1844, and replaced by a government lighthouse in 1851, the present building dating from 1871.
Penfield Reef lighthouse was established and erected by the government in 1874. This dangerous reef, with its submerged island, "The Cows," is the scene of several shipwrecks mentioned in the Journal.
Landmarks
There are several place-names used in the Journal which have now lost their significance. "The break of the beach," was the stretch of open shallow water between Fayerweather Island and the mainland, now filled in and traversed by the park boulevard.
The flat stretches of sedge were early known as crab meadow. In one of the earliest records,
"Richard Hubbell purchases parcell of crab meadow on the eastern side of ship harbor, to begin to be measured the southwest side of the common meadow-five acres, paid 2 bbls of good pork and the remainder in good merchantable wheat."
The rock at the point south of the upper wharves was long known as "The Fishing Rock."
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The First Church
Early Black Rock churchgoers travelled the miles to Fairfield and Strat- field. It was not until Sept. 11, 1849 that there was "gathered" from Fairfield the Black Rock (Congregational) Church. The original founding members were:
Alanson Allen
Elizabeth Penfield
Nancy Allen
Seth Perry
Polly Banks
Catharine Perry
Lewis Burr
Jane Perry
Eliza Burr
Thomas Ransom
Sarah Brewster
Catharine Ransom
Isaac W. Jones
George E. Shelton
Mary Jones
Sarah Shelton
David Lockwood
Elizabeth Smith
Mary B. Nichols
Elizabeth B. Solley
Benjamin Penfield
William Wheeler
Henrietta Penfield
Almira Wheeler
There have been seven pastors of the church :- W. J. Jennings, Marinus Willett, A. C. Baldwin, F. W. Williams, Howard W. Pope, Henry Collins Woodruff, C. S. Macdowell.
Educational Institutions
The first public school in Black Rock was on the "school lot" opposite the Green at Brewster Street and Grovers Avenue. The original one-story building was later moved to the next lot and occupied by a succession of tenants as a home. It was replaced by a two-room schoolhouse with a belfry, in use for more than half a century. Another two-room schoolhouse, used for a few years, stood on the site of the present public playground by the cove.
Black Rock boys-those who did not go to sea-trudged to the Fairfield Academy after its founding. In earlier times those seeking higher educa- tion engaged private tutors,-as did William Wheeler, who studied under Rev. Andrew Eliot. A Select School, organized by Mrs. Joseph Bartram and Mrs. Benjamin Penfield during the mid-nineteenth century, held sessions in "the Lane," where it was at first housed in the upper floor of the carriage shop, and later in its own building. Girl graduates of the Select School went to the Fairfield Academy, to the fashionable school on Lafayette Street in Bridgeport, conducted by the Misses Ward,-or in rare instances to boarding school or college.
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The Revolutionary Fort on Grovers Hill
"The Battery was erected on the extreme point of Grovers Hill and mounted two double fortified 12-pounders,-one long 9- and one 6-pounder, with sometimes not more than 5 men, yet this insignificant force was enough to keep the enemy from burning Black Rock.
"Genl Silliman came one time down & to honour him, in firing one of the pieces it somehow went off as David Squire was ramming down the ball & blew off both his hands, but Dr. Forgue being sent for from Town, dressed his wounds and he recovered ...
"In one year of the war there was a very great abundance of apples- Father that year made 140 barrels (of cider) & sold much of it to the Bat- tery for 5 shillings a barrel -- barrel lasting them not more than a week- each Soldier buying his barrel-and then all drink". .. William Wheeler, Essays.
"The fort was supplied with powder from a magazine at Stratford, taken by the State from a British vessel"-Thaddeus Hubbell.
The garrison at the fort boarded with neighboring families,-"Lt. Trow- bridge (in charge of the fort in 1777) boarded at the house of Capt. Bar- tram" .... "George Squire, Sgt. & family lived with John Knapp at Knapp's house"-Pension records.
The list of the guard serving in 1779 at the burning of Fairfield is given as follows :
Col. Elijah Hill (although the command Huldah Mason (possibly acting as com- missary !)
seems to have been taken by-)
Capt. Isaac Jarvis
James McNay
Capt. David Jarvis (?)
Benjamin Meeker
Daniel Burr
John Meeker
Jesse Burr
Abraham Parrit
Nehemiah Burr
Samuel Patchen
Fayerweather Brothwell
Nehemiah Rose
Chauncy Downs
David Sherwood
Joseph Gold
William Sturges
Silas Hawley
Ezra Wheeler
William Hawley
John Wilson
Nathan Jennings
Nathaniel Wilson
John Lyon
Robert Welch
[Aaron Turney and Hezekiah Burr, Jr., are mentioned in another list.]
Many others served in Black Rock at the Battery or at the upper wharf as guards at various times and for varying terms during the Revolution, so that any arbitrary list of names is subject to revision, addition or subtraction.
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Early Residents of Black Rock (As given in the Journal)
1779
1801
1803
6 Squire (Capt. John)
6 Squire (Capt. John)
6 Squire, James
5 Burr (Nehemiah)
5 Burr (Nehemiah)
5 Burr, Nehemiah
7 Silliman (Capt. Joseph)
7 Silliman, Christiania
8 Bartram, Job
11 Chauncy (Wolcott)
Widow Wheeler (Jona- than)
9 Sturges low)
11 Chauncy (Wolcott)
15 Riley, Terence
36 Wheeler (Capt. Icha- bod)
14 Osborn (Hezekiah)
18 Wheeler, William
3a Wheeler (Ezra)
15 Wheeler (John)
16 Bartram (Ebenezer) 18 Wheeler (William)
3a Brewster (Caleb)
17 Brewster, Caleb Wheeler, John Wakeman, Charles (a negro)
stage Wheeler (Chauncy)
Adams, N.
16 Bartram (Mrs. Mary)
Woodhull, "Widow"
36 Wheeler (Capt. Icha- 3 Wheeler, Ichabod bod) stage ) Read, Samuel
20 Bartram (Thomas)
road Wheeler, David
(Italic numbers refer to house occupied-see Index of Old Houses.)
"19 families"
"15 dwellinghouses
The Fowler family in 1779 and the Gold family in 1801, as well as the Adams family in 1803, were probably temporary tenants. These names do not occur over any term of years as Black Rock residents. The Journal reminds us that masters or captains frequently took up their residence in Black Rock while their ships were being built and afterwards returned to their own homes, or sailed out on the new boat.
(According to the census of 1830)
Alanson Allen
Thomas Halstead
Seth Perry
Joseph Bartram
Elias Hendrick
David Prindle
Ruth Bartram
William Hurlburt
Thomas Ransom
Thomas Bartram
Agur Judson
Silas Runnels
Anne Brewster
Samuel Kellogg
Samuel Runode
Nicholas Burr
Peter J. Kennedy
William Sherwood
Noah Burr
Stephen T. Moore
Gershom Sturges
Ozias Burr
William H. Nichols
Walter Thorp
Thaddeus Burr
David Olmstead
Roswell Wells
Peter Callon
George Osborn
Simeon Wheeler
William Callon
Hezekiah Osborn
William Wheeler
Daniel Goulden
David Penfield
Monson Gray
Bradley Perry
Daniel Wilson
2
Fowler
7 Silliman ("Christian") Gold
8 Bartram (Capt. Job)
9 Sturges, Capt. Barlow
(Capt. Bar- 11 Chauncy, Wolcott
14 Osborn, Hezekiah
road
ASK CREEK - PENFIELD MILLS - 1772
FAMILY INDEX of Old Black Rock
[with a few personal remarks by William Wheeler]
Emphasised names are those of residents in Black Rock.
Parenthetical numbers refer to the index of Homesteads.
The importance given to families is measured by their length of residence in Black Rock. (The Bartram, Burr, Penfield, Squire, and Wilson lines were associated for more than a century with the history of the seaport.)
Genealogical data, given when available, does not aspire to com- pleteness, but is intended to supply clues to genealogists who may wish to bridge the wide gaps in many ancestries between 1800 and 1850,- a period over which town records of Fairfield and Bridgeport are not consecutive.
The chronicle of individual activities is limited to events in Black Rock or mentioned in the Wheeler Journal.
For early genealogies of many families mentioned, the reader is referred to the very accurate "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus.
The arrangement is intentionally informal, but a few heads of families are traced back to their pioneer ancestor.
Notes in italics are quoted from William Wheeler's notebooks.
ALLEN, Alanson5 (Gideon of Compo1, Joseph2, Benjamin3), son of Benjamin4 and Deborah (Disbrow) Allen, born in West- port, died in Black Rock, 6 April 1883, where for many years he occupied the former home of Capt. Ichabod Wheeler (3b). Postmaster of Black Rock and shoemaker. Church deacon. He married (1) 27 Nov. 1823, Nancy
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Olmstead, b. 2 Nov. 1797, d. 8 May 1852, daughter of Heze- kiah and Hannah (Smith) Olmstead: (2) 27 March 1853, Charlotte (Stow) Ells of Milford. By his first marriage he had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married David Smith. Four other children died in infancy.
ALLEN, Captain Charles® (Gideon of Compo1, Joseph2, Joseph3, Benjamin4), son of Captain Charles5 and Sarah (Thorp) Allen of Westport, and nephew of Alanson Allen, married 23 Dec. 1850, Amanda J. Fairchild of Trumbull. He lived on Ellsworth Street until his death in 1911. Of his four children, Charles T. married (1) Ella E. Fancher, (2) Fannie Harmon; Sarah E. married Joseph Smith; Nelson married Susan A. Mills; and Mary married John J. Miller. ALLEN, Henrietta, sister of Alanson, married Benjamin Penfield. ALLEN, Increase, living in Black Rock in 1840, later of Norwalk. His son, Alfred, married Caroline, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Hull) Sturges.
ANNABEL, the family twice victim of tragedy in the Journal, is given in the Fairfield Family Book as that of Anthony, who married 16 Jan. 1748, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Middle- brook. Their children are named as Samuel, b. 26 June 1751; David, 1753; Sarah, 1754; Ebenezer, 1756; Mary, 1759, and Ann (presumably "Nancy"), born 3 Oct. 1761. BABBITT, Abial, resident of Black Rock in 1840.
BANKS, Elbert, resident in 1850, with wife Polly and daughter, Maria, who subsequently married Cyrus Spencer.
BANKS, Jessup, son of Hezekiah and Sarah (Couch) Banks, married 20 May 1818, Laura Sherwood. She died 27 Sept. 1841. He died in Bridgeport 2 Feb. 1863, aged 72. His household in 1850 consisted of : Mary E. (second wife?) ; Cordelia, born 1822; Laura A., born 1831; and Edward J. born 1838.
BARLOW, Captain David, probably son of David Barlow, Sr., and father of Eunice Barlow who married Joseph Lock- wood, Sr.
وشريك نيبيد ستين عام
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1801-The Thomas Bartram homestead (20) (Photographed 1869)
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BARSTOW, John, resident in 1850, with wife Irene and six children, Charles, Kate, Frances, Harriet, Susan, and William. BARTRAM, Captain Ebenezer4 (John1, John2), son of Ebenezer3 and Elizabeth (Williams) Bartram, born in Fairfield, bap- tized 18 June 1732, died in Black Rock 3 Jan. 1783. He married Mary Burr, came to Black Rock in 1775 when he purchased the James Wilson house (16) and his children are mentioned frequently in the Journal. They were ;
Joseph, bapt. 28 Sept. 1760, lost at sea December, 1787. Ebenezer, bapt. 15 Aug. 1762, m. 9 Jan. 1803, Abigail, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Gold) Jennings. He occupied the family homestead (16) until Sept. 4, 1818, when he and his household moved to Westmoreland, N. Y.
Thomas, born 22 Feb. 1764, died 4 April 1838. Ship- master. He built in 1801 his home (20), having mar- ried 16 Nov. 1797, Sarah, daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah (Osborn) Burr, b. 29 March 1771, d. 19 Oct. 1849. They had three children : one daughter, Sarah Ann, who married Isaac DeForest; Joseph who lived in the John Wheeler house (15) ; and Thomas Burr who occupied his father's homestead (20). Both sons were shipmasters and merchants.
Mary, bapt. 6 Oct. 1765, m. 7 April 1787, Daniel Osborn, Jr.
Job, bapt. 17 May 1767, drowned 28 Oct. 1817. Sea captain. He married 6 Nov. 1798, Ruth, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Wilson) Holberton, b. 1772, d. 11 Sept. 1853, and lived in Capt. Holberton's old home (8). Their recorded children include Mary, bapt. 12 May, 1799, m. William H. Nichols; William, bapt. 20 Sept. 1801; John, bapt. 21 June 1803; George Wakeman, bapt. 2 Sept. 1804; Catherine, b. 1808, m. Thomas Ransom; Jane, b. 1814, d. 29 Oct. 1815. Jerusha, bapt. 6 Aug. 1769, m. 2 Dec. 1792, Nathan Lewis of Derby.
Barnabas, bapt. 30 May, 1773, died of yellow fever in
1
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the West Indies 29 June 1805. He married 23 Jan. 1803, Deborah, dr. Ebenezer and Mary (Wheeler) Squire.
BATTERSON, Burr, lived in Black Rock in 1840.
BEACH, James E., resident in 1850, with wife Caroline, and son William.
BEARDSLEE, Asa. Resident north of the stage road in 1815. In 1819 he purchased from Sullivan Moulton a wharf and store, which he sold in 1827, with his house and land, to Samuel Kellogg. His holdings between the stage road and Ash Creek-about 40 acres-were divided in 1812 by the laying out of north Brewster Street to what was known as "Beardslee's bridge" across the creek.
BENEDICT, Thaddeus, "Esq. died 1799-51st year of his age I have heard him in Court- Remarkable for his contra- dictory remarks."
BIBBINS, Israel. Resident near the new road to Holland Heights, laid out in 1812 which cut through his property. He died June 15, 1822, aged 74.
BLACKMAN, Israel, aged 67 in 1850, with wife (or daughter) Minerva, 40.
BLAKEMAN, Henry, listed in 1850 as 43, wife Sarah E., 34, and three children, Georgetta, 12; Franklin, 8; and Adeline, 2.
BRADLEY, Samuel, one of the original shareholders of the upper wharf.
BREWSTER, Captain Caleb, born Setauket, L. I., 1747, from Brookhaven, L. I., bought the Ezra Wheeler house (3a) and became one of the most picturesque heroes of Black Rock. Many stories are told of his exploits during the Revolution. In one encounter on the Sound with the British he was defeated, but swam ashore safely, with twelve new linen shirts lashed thriftily on his back. His "customary cruises"
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FAMILY INDEX
mentioned in the Journal are explained by the notation made by General Knox on his pension application that "he was confidentially employed in an armed boat by the Commander- in-Chief, to keep open communication between Connecticut and Long Island, for the purpose of obtaining intelligence." He was tall and of gigantic strength. He married 18 April 1784, Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Osborn) Lewis, bapt. 26 Oct. 1760, d. 30 Aug. 1834. Their children included : Sarah, b. 5 March 1785, d. 18 May 1875, who long occupied the homestead after the death of her parents; (Jonathan) Lewis, b. 5 Nov. 1786, d. 28 Oct. 1836, who kept a store near the wharf; Sturges, b. 20 Jan. 1789; Racilia, b. 17 April 1794; Benjamin, b. 17 Aug. 1796, drowned 30 Jan. 1817 ; Elizabeth Burr, b. 11 July 1792, d. 23 June 1796. BRITTIN, Captain John Pierson, b. New York, 14 Feb. 1805, d. 13 Jan. 1878, married Lavinia Wilson, dr. Daniel and Anne (Jennings) Wilson, b. 17 April 1805, d. 8 Sept. 1875. Their son, John William Brittin, b. 25 April 1836, d. 30 Aug. 1911, m. (1) Anna Burr, dr. Lewis and Eliza (Olm- stead) Burr: m. (2) Rebecca Brewster Walker, dr. Eliphalet and Frances Elizabeth (Burr) Walker. Their home was at the corner of Ellsworth and Hackley Streets.
BROTHERTON, Alva, resident in 1840.
BULKLEY, Joseph of Fairfield (1743-1776) married Elizabeth Lewis. Their children included Joseph, Jr .; Morehouse (mentioned in the Journal) ; Adad and Medad (twins) ; Lewis ; Elizabeth, who married David Penfield; and Esther, who married David Patchen.
BULKLEY, Nathan, bought in 1770 from David Wheeler 3d. 15 acres "commonly called Cable's Field" between the stage road and the Cove.
BULKLEY, Uriah, son of Joseph and Ellen (Hubbell) Bulkley, purchased in partnership with his brother Joseph a store and wharf which they sold in 1817. He also owned the property and presumably built the house (13) later occupied by Cap- tain William H. Nichols. He married Jane Sayre, dr. of Rev. James and Eunice (Dennie) Sayre.
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BUNCE, William Pernett, born 25 Sept. 1835, died 10 May, 1869, married 10 May 1857, Harriet Elizabeth Fancher, daughter of Henry Wilson and Elizabeth (Benedict) Fancher.
BURR, David died 1825 aged 67 he was a very jovial good- natured man, beloved by everyone- in his latter years he was very corpulent-being at a store he told a stranger he did a great deal of work- "You do not look as if you did much or could"- I am a Quil driver.
BURR, James died 1826 aged 40- I was particularly acquainted with him- he was a schoolmaster and a sailor, very ingenious and honest.
BURR, John (1698-1752), son of Col. John Burr, lived on the road to Stratfield, and was grandfather of William Wheeler. His children included: Elizabeth, who married Col. Abra- ham Gold; Deborah, who married Captain Ichabod Wheeler; Ozias *; Abigail, who married Moses Jennings ; John, struck by lightning and killed at the Stratfield meetinghouse in 1771; Justus, crushed by his own oxen against his barn door in 1766; Wakeman, found dead in a pasture, 1799; Amos; Catherine, who married Captain Robert Wilson; Ann, who married Thomas Sherwood.
BURR,* Ozias5 (Jehu1, Nathaniel2, John3), son of John4 and Catherine (Wakeman) Burr, b. 1739, d. 5 Sept. 1836. His home was on the old Stratfield Road. He married Sarah Nichols (b. 1766) and their children included: Rebecca, and Charity (who died in 1794 within a few days) ; Justus, Ozias, Nichols (who lived near the creek on the old road) ; Sarah (who married Seth Couch) ; and Mary.
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