Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Pt 1, Part 47

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1336

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Mr. Godard was a man of strong physique and great activity, never knowing what it was to be sick until attacked by La Grippe in December, 1895, which resulted three weeks later in his sudden death, on Jan. 8, 1896. Surrounded by his family, he ex- pired in the room in whch he was born seventy- three years before. His first sickness was his last.

On May 2, 1858, Mr. Godard married Miss Sabra Lavinia Beach, also of Granby, daughter of Oliver and Lavinia Mercy (Case) Beach, and a di- rect descendant of John Case, of Windsor and Simsbury, and William Spencer, of Hartford. Five sons, Oren Harvy, Porter Beach, George Seymour, Fred Munyon and Oliver Clifton, surviving him; his only daughter, Grace Minerva, having died in 1878, in the fourth year of her age. Porter, who graduated from Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, in 1884, Yale University, 1889, and Yale Law School, 1891, is an attorney in Kansas City, Mo., where he is secretary of the Kansas City Bar Association. George, who also graduated at Wilbraham. 1886, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1892, re-

ceiving the degree of A. B., and from Yale Divinity School in 1895, receiving the degree of B. D., is State Librarian at the Capitol, Hartford. Fred, who also attended school at Wilbraham, graduated from Yale Business College, New Haven, and is now in the United States Internal Revenue service. Oren, who graduated at the Eastman Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Oliver, who attend- ed McLean Seminary, Simsbury, Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass., and graduated from Yale Business College, New Haven, remain in Granby, engaged in the lumber business and farming.

The following genealogical notes were compiled from records in the possession of the family. (I) The earliest Godard, Gozard, Gosard, Goddard, Goz- zard or Gossard mentioned in the records of ancient Windsor, which formerly included the sec- tion now known as Granby, was Daniel Gozzard, who is mentioned as being in Hartford in 1646.

(II) On Aug. 23, 1693, the estate of Nicholas Gozard, of Windsor and Simsbury, is inventoried at £206. The widow, Elizabeth, was appointed ad- ministratrix. She and her three children-Nathan- iel, aged sixteen, Elizabeth, aged twenty-one, and John, aged eleven years-were the heirs.

(III) John Gosard, son of Nicholas and Eliza- beth Gozard, was born in 1682. By his will, made June 23, 1755, and proven June 30, 1760 (before John Owen, justice of peace, at Simsbury and now on file at Hartford probate office), his property was left to "my beloved wife" and his eleven children, viz. : Aaron, b. May 16, 1708, d. Dec., 1776; John, b. 1710, d. Sept. 1, 1805; Abel; Ezra; Elizabeth ; Sarah, b. 1716 (?) ; Abigail, b. Oct. 22, 1717 (?) ; Israel, b. Jan. 4, 1719 (?) ; Margaret, b. May 25, 1724 (?) ; and Ebenezer and Thankful, b. Aug. 13, 1726 (?).

(IV) Aaron Gozard, son of John Gosard, of Simsbury, b. May 16, 1708, m. Mary Huxley in Simsbury July 20, 1737. A son Moses was b. May 26, 1746.

(V) Moses Godard, b. May 26, 1746, in Granby, son of Aaron and Mary ( Huxley) Gozard, d. April II, 1832, in Granby. In December, 1768 ( ?), he 111. Keziah Haves, b. in 1748, daughter of Daniel Hayes, Granby. Children: Keziah, b. March II, 1770, d. April 27, 1796, in Granby ; Moses, Jr., b. Feb. 21, 1772, d. March 27, 1813 (on May 28, 1799, he m. Aphia Gossard (?) ) ; Zedediah, b. Aug. 2, 1774, d. Aug. 6, 1774, in Granby ; Submit, b. Dec. 19, 1775, d. Oct. 30, 1835 (on Nov. 11, 1802, she m. Alexander Cossitt) ; Miles is mentioned below ; Orrin, b. Dec. 22, 1780, d. March 7, 1798, in Granby ; Ruddy, b. April 17, 1783, d. March 7, 1811 (married) ; Elias, b. June 23, 1785, d. June 27, 1785, in Granby ; Ich- abod, b. Feb. 6, 1790, d. Feb. 10, 1790, in Granby ; James, b. Dec. 6, 1792, d. April IT, 1815; Mercy, b. Aug. 4, 1795, d. March 7, 1818 (she m. John or Joseph Fox). All were born in Granby.

(VI) Miles Godard, b. June 2, 1778, in Granby, son of Moses and Keziah (Hayes) Godard, d.

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March 23, 1856, in Granby. On May 28, 1799, he m. Cleopatria Dibble, b. in 1782, d. April 6, 1847. Chil- dren, all born in Granby : Oren is mentioned below : Nancy, b. April 5, 1803, d. Aug. 19, 1882 (on March 20, 1828, she m. Solomon Gaines) ; Flora, b. Nov. 12, 1806, d. March 24, 1878, in Granby (on Nov. 4, 1830, she m. Forest Reed, son of Abner Reed and Mary Spring) ; Cleo. d. Jan. 24, 1840, in Granville, Mass. (in February, 1828, she m. Rowland Barlow, son of Edmund Barlow and Tabitha Bancroft) ; Mi- randa m. Moses Watrous, of Greene, Broome Co,, New York.

(VII) Oren Godard, b. Oct. 18, 1800, in Granby, son of Miles and "Cleo" (Dibble) Godard, d. at Granby May 15, 1857. On Dec. 3, 1821, he m. Min- erva Holcomb, b. May 11, 1803, daughter of Amasa Holcomb, d. Dec. 23, 1881. Children, all born in Granby; Ilarvy is mentioned below; Nelson, b. Jan. 19, 1825, d. Sept. 20, 1888, at Granville, Mass. (on May 2, 1858, he m. Jarusia De Etta Clark, daughter of Simon Clark and Hanna Remington) ; Amelia, b. June 9, 1827, d. Aug. 14, 1848, in Camp- bellsville, Ky., unmarried; Almira, b. Oct. 7, 1829, d. April 8, 1852, in Granby (in February, 1846, she m. Abner Lord Otis) ; Jane, b. March 17, 1832, m. Aug. 17, 1851, Joel Leroy Root, son of James Root and Sally Webster ; Anson, b. Aug. 29, 1836, d. Jan. 19, 1879, in Granby, unmarried; Miles, b. March 23, 1845, d. Jan. 26, 1887, in Granby (on Oct. 22, 1867, he m. Clara Rosetta Thompson, daughter of Joseph Thompson and Sara Celesta Shepard ) ; Oren, Jr., b. Aug. 29, 1848, d. Nov. 2, 1852, in Granby.

(VIII) Harvy Godard, b. March 15, 1823, in Granby, son of Oren and Minerva (Holcomb) Godard, d. Jan. 8, 1896, in Granby. On May 2, 1858, he m. Sabra Lavinia Beach, b. May 17, 1838, daughter of Oliver and Lavinia Mercy (Case) Beach. Children, all born in Granby : Oren Harvy Is mentioned below ; Porter Beach, b. June 6, 1861, m. June 30, 1897, Eleanor May Howd, b. Jan. 12, 1865, daughter of Charles Edmund and Elvira Maria (Parker) Howd, of New Haven; George Seymour is mentioned below; Fred Munyon, b. Sept. 11, 1868, m. June 15, 1898, Jean Templeton Steele, b. Dec. 18, 1876, daughter of Robert and Mary (Dunn) Steele, of Warehouse Point, Conn. ; Oliver Clifton, b. Sept. 17, 1871, m. March 28, 1894, Stella Hep- sibah Jewett, b. Jan. 28, 1872, daughter of Frederick Janor and Mary Elizabeth (Cooley) Jewett, of Granby, Conn. ; Grace Minerva, b. Sept. 29, 1874, d. July 2, 1878, in Granby.

(IX) Oren Harvy Godard, b. July 12, 1859, in Granby, son of Ilarvy and Sabra L. (Beach) Godard, was m. Oct. 20, 1887, to Lena Belle White, of Canton, Conn., b. June II, 1865, daughter of Ed- win Norton and Ann Lucelia (Case) White. Chil- dren, all born in Granby : Harvy Edwin, b. Sept. I, 1888: Grace Minerva, b. Oct. 7, 1890; Ensworth Merrill, b. Sept. 10, 1892; Jewell White, b. Nov. 20, 1893 : Miles Fred, b. April 30, 1895; Oren Beach, b. Jan. 18, 1897.

(IX) George Seymour Godard, b. June 17, 1865, in Granby, son of Harvy and Sabra Lavinia ( Beach) Godard, was m. June 23, 1897, to Kate Estelle Dewey, b. May 21, 1863, daughter of Watson and Ellen Jane (Beebe) Dewey. They have one child : George Dewey, b. Aug. 8, 1899, in Hartford.

WILLIAM BRADDOCK CLARK, president of the Ætna Insurance Co., Hartford, is a descendant in the seventh generation from John Clark, of Farm- ington, Conn., the line of his descent being through Matthew, John (2), Abel, John (3), and Abel N.

(1) John Clark settled in Farmington, Conn., prior to 1657, and was made a freeman in May, 1664. He held various public offices.

(II) Matthew Clark, son of John, of Farming- ton, was born prior to 1674, and was married about 1704 to Ruth, daughter of John and Mary (Hawkins) Judd.

(III) John Cark (2), son of Matthew, born in 1712, was married in 1742 to Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Hawkins) Newell. They lived in New Britain.

(IV) Abel Clark, son of John (2), was born in 1750, and was married in 1774 to Abigail, daughter of James and Hannah ( Andrews) Judd. He was one of the seventy signers of an agreement made Sept. 3, 1774, "to be in readiness and duly equipped with arms and ammunition to proceed to Boston for the relief of our distressed and besieged brethren there." He died in 1824, and the remains of him- self and wife rest at New Britain, where they had made their home.

(V) John Clark (3), son of Abel, was born in 1787, and died in 1835. In 1812 he married Pru- dence, daughter of Joshua and Prudence (Curtiss) Woodruff. He resided in the old house of his father and grandfather, in the Stanley Quarter, New Britain. During the war of 1812 he served as corporal of Capt. Dean Deming's Company, in Col. Brainard's Regiment.

(VI) Abel N. Clark, son of John (3), and the father of William B. Clark, of Hartford, was born June 12, 1819, in New Britain, Conn., and at an early age came to Hartford, where for some years he was engaged in mercantile business. He then entered the office of the Courant, which at the time was under the control of John L. Boswell, as book- keeper and general business manager, and for some twenty years, up to the time of his death, he was closely identified with the interests of the office. His industry was one of the prominent traits in his character, and his fidelity to every trust and every duty was another. He was a great worker in his party in a quiet and unobtrusive way. He was one of the most respected citizens of Hartford, and one of the most generally known newspaper men in the country. On April 27, 1840, he married Emily I. Braddock, born Dec. 7, 1821, daughter of John and Emily (Wells) Braddock, and to them were born children as follows: William B., June 29, 1841;

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Charles Le Roy, Feb. 11, 1843; Clara E., May 27, 1847 (died in 1848), and George N., Nov. 12, 1851. (VII) President William B. Clark, son of the late Abel N. Clark, was born June 29, 1841, in Hartford. He first attended the North school, and then the New Bristol High School, and returning to Hartford completed his studies at the N. L. Gal- lup College Green School. After this he passed a year in the office of the Hartford Courant, and in 1857 he became a member of the clerical corps of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Co. On Aug. 27, 1863, he was elected secretary, and he remained with the company until Dec. 1, 1867, when he was elected assistant secretary of the Ætna Insurance Co. The latter position he retained under Presi- dent Hendee through a period of nearly twenty- one years, and under his guidance young Clark be- came familiar with the vast detail connected with the Ætna's business, and was regarded by his chief with the utmost trust and confidence. The demise of President Hendee, Sept. 4, 1888, necessitated a number of changes in the administration of the company, and Mr. Clark was advanced to the vice- presidency Sept. 26, 1888, receiving the unanimous vote of the board of directors for the position. As vice-president of the company his course was char- acterized by ability and judgment of the highest order, entitling him to a foremost place among in- surance managers in New England. After the death of President Goodnow, Nov. 19, 1892, Mr. Clark succeeded to the presidency of the company, and on his election the Hartford Courant said : "The election of president of the AEtna Fire In- surance is an event not only of interest but of im- portance to Hartford. The standing of all our fire companies is admirable, and they rank among the first in the country. And the AEtna is the larg- est, not only of these, but of all in the United States. It stands there with its more than ten millions of assets and its record of $70,000,000 already paid out for losses, as the great fire company of America. It is, therefore, of large importance to know who will manage it in the future, and there will be uni- veral satisfaction that the directors have chosen William B. Clark as president and executive head

of this great concern. Mr. Clark is a native of Hartford, and has been just a quarter of a century with the Atna. He knows it and he knows its business. A man of character, decision, experience and judgment, he is especially qualified for the re- sponsible duties that fall to him, and the Courant congratulates both the old company and the new president." President Clark, though in the prime of life, in term of service is the oldest insurance official in IJartford, and even from early manhood has been recognized through the country as one of the most competent men in the profession.

Mr. Clark was chosen a director of the City Bank Jan. 14. 1879; a director in the Travelers In- surance Co., July 6, 1875; trustee in the Mechanics Saving Bank, July 18, 1883; and a director of the

Retreat for the Insane, April 10, 1890; Ætna In- demnity Co., elected April 12, 1897; vice-president Republican Club, elected March 2, 1897; director Cedar Hill cemetery, elected Dec. 3, 1891; trustee Society for Savings, elected Jan. 6, 1891; the Fi- delity Co., elected Feb. 9, 1898; First National Bank, elected Jan. 9, 1900 ; president National Board of Fire Underwriters, 1896-97; and a member of the corporation of the Hartford Hospital. On April 5, 1880, he was elected a member of the board of aldermen from the Third ward, and served two years in that position. He was the aldermanic chairman of the Ordinance committee, the mayor holding the chairmanship e.v-officio. At the conclusion of his term of alderman he was appointed a member of the board of water commissioners, and held the office a decade or more, being regarded as one of the ablest members of that commission. Ilis political affilia- tions have always been with the Republican party, and on March 2, 1897, he was chosen vice-president of the local Republican Club He takes some pride in the fact that he was one of the original "Wide- Awakes," becoming an active participant in that noted organization before he had reached his ma- jority. His religious connections are with the First Baptist Church of Hartford, and for thirty years or more he has been clerk of the society and so- ciety's committee. He is also a member of the Connecticut Historical Society, and since Oct. 3, 1899, has been president of the Veteran Foot Guard Corps.

On May 13, 1863, Mr. Clark was married to Caroline H. Robbins, born March 22, 1844, daughter of Philemon F. and Emily Strickland Robbins. Five children have been born to them, as follows : (1) William R., born July 10, 1865, died April 3, 1879; (2) Charlotte B., born Jan. 10, 1868; (3) Alice Robbins, born Jan. 21, 1870; (4) Frederick WV., born Dec. 5, 1873, died Aug. 8, 1875; (5) Caro- line Emily, born Dec. 18, 1883.

HON. JOHN B. WINDSOR, late a well-known manufacturer and business man of Hartford, was born in Wolverhampton, England, March 5, 1827, was educated at Eton public schools, and at the age of twenty-one years came to the United States. Here he entered upon the vocation of teaching as a temporary means of carning his expenses, and i11 his profession made his mark, in both Pennsyl- vania and Kentucky.

In 1860 Mr. Windsor came to Connecticut and located at Windsor Locks, where he became treas- urer of the Farist & Windsor Steel Co., president of the Windsor Locks Savings Bank, and senior warden and treasurer of St. Paul's Church, from its organization until his removal to Hartford, in 1877 ; he also held the office of treasurer of the Farist Steel Co. after its removal to Bridgeport. As a Repub- lican, Mr. Windsor was elected to the State As- sembly in 1876, and was the first representative of his party to be sent from Windsor Locks. Notwith-

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standing the fact that Mr. Windsor had large cares of his own he was frequently called upon to care for and manage estates under wills and through other sources, so reliant were the people upon his sound judgment and unswerving integrity, and in the fulfillment of these duties he disappointed no one. He was a director in the United States Bank, was president of the Hartford Steam Co. at the time of his death, and a vestryman of St. John's Church at Hartford, in which city he resided sev- enteen years, having purchased a dwelling at No. 72 Main street. At this home his lamented death took place April 10, 1887, when he was aged sixty years. He left to mourn his departure his widow, now a resident of Bridgeport, Conn., who before marriage was Miss Harriet Farist, a sister of Joel Farist, of Bridgeport, and two children : Grace W., widow of T. B. Persee; and George, secretary and treasurer of the Farist Steel Co., of Bridgeport.

Mr. Windsor was very fond of books, and spent a small fortune in their purchase. He was re- fined and intelligent, was a pious and useful citi- zen, a devoted husband, domestic in habits and tastes, and was a kind and indulgent father. His decease will long be mourned by his neighbors and business acquaintances, who held him in their highest re- gard, and in unfeigned esteem and respect.

THEOPHILUS B. PERSEE, JR., deceased husband of Grace (Windsor) Persee (daughter of the late Hon. John B. Windsor), and ex-alderman of the Third ward of Hartford, was born in Johnstown, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1844, and was of Irish descent, com- ing from one of the best families in the western part of the Emerald Isle. His grandfather was a man of original and profound thought, had great confidence in a constitutional form of government, and had considerable correspondence with Gen. Washington on this topic, and these letters from Washington are still in the Persee family in Ire- land.

T. B. Persee, Sr., the father of Alderman Per- see, was engaged in the paper business in Windsor Locks for a number of years, as a member of the firm of Persee & Brooks. Subsequently he gave up the manufacturing of paper and engaged in the grocery business in that town. The son succeeded to the trade, and conducted it personally until his removal to Hartford. In 1874 Mr. Persee was a member of the General Assembly, representing the town of Windsor Locks in the House, and was iden- tified with the legislation of the session in a most creditable manner.

Theophilus B. Persee, Jr., was elected a member of the board of aldermen from the Third ward in 1894, being the colleague of ex-Alderman Patrick McGovern. He was chairman of the committee on Water Works, and also of the Claims committee. In the Court of Common Council he was watchful concerning public expenditures, and attended with marked fidelity to the duties devolving upon him. Mr. Persee was deeply interested in public ques-

tions. He was in favor of the city owning the gas plant, and advanced the idea with intelligence and persistency. He was also greatly interested in prob- lems pertaining to the revaluation of taxable prop- erty in the city. During the past two years he de- voted much time to the preparation of a work con- cerning the life and works of Thomas Paine. It is now in the hands of a New York publisher. He made an exhaustive study of Thomas Paine, and the result of his inquiries will place the noted thinker of a century ago in better light with the reading and thinking public. Ex-Alderman Theophilus B. Persee died at his home, No. 41 Capitol avenue, at 2 o'clock on the morning of Jan. 4, 1900, after a week's confinement to the house. His health had been impaired for three years, and he had consulted Dr. M. M. Johnson, who diagnosed his trouble as chronic, caused by obstruction of the gall duct. At Mr. Persee's request Dr. Johnson accompanied him to New York, where two specialists were con- sulted, and pronounced the diagnosis of the Hart- ford surgeon as correct. Ten days afterward an operation was performed, from which the patient rallied. Heart failure developed a day or two later, however, and the patient rapidly sunk until his death.

Mr. Persee was a communicant of St. John's Church, and one of its vestrymen. He was mar- ried June 24, 1876, in Windsor Locks, to Miss Grace Windsor, daughter of the late Hon. John B. Windsor. She survives him with two children, John Windsor Persee, who is engaged in business in Bridgeport; and Miss Mary Marguerita Persee, who graduated from the Hartford Public High School, class of 1899, classical course. One brother and two sisters also survive the deceased. They are Henry S. Persee, of Denver, Col .; Mrs. Anna Car- michael, of Johnstown, N. Y .; and Mrs. Mattie Van Vlett, of Chicago. Mr. Persee was a man of high personal instinct and uprightness of character. He was a friend of good government, and his citizenship was deserving of emulation. He was a man of wide intelligence and reading, was a student of history, and kept abreast with public interests and progress.

MIR. AND MRS. ERASTUS H. CROSBY. The late Erastus Hubbard Crosby, who was for many years a leading citizen of Hartford, was born May 3, 1809, at Montpelier, Vt., of good New England ancestry. Among his forefathers were many men of high standing, Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first to preach a sermon in Connecticut being among them.

When our subject was three years old his father, William Crosby, removed from Montpelier to West Hartford, locating at Crosby's Corners, where his death occurred in 1831. Erastus H. Crosby was, therefore, reared in this section, receiving a common- school education, and for some time he taught school in West Hartford, Bloomfield and Wethers- field. Later he clerked in a wholesale grocery house in Boston, and then went to Savannah, Ga., to

Evoste Ho. Crosby

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engage in mercantile business. For some time he was in business with a brother and brother-in-law in Al- abama. In 1849 he went to De Soto Parish, La., to engage in the business of cotton and corn growing on an extensive scale, in 1867 returning to Hart- ford to spend his remaining years. For some time he was president of the Hartford Life & Annuity Co., now the Hartford Life Insurance Co., and while filling that position was made president of the First National Bank. This position he held nine years, and his resignation marked the close of liis active business career, his death occurring in West Hart- ford Dec. 3, 1885. He was greatly attached to Hart- ford, and was a stockholder in different corporations in the city, including the Phoenix Fire Insurance Co., in which he was a director. He was a man of wonderful powers of perception as a financier, and did a great deal of advising, his counsel being souglit by people of the highest standing in the business world. He was of a generous and benev- olent disposition, honored by all who knew him, and, socially, he and his wife were much esteemed.

On March 14, 1867, Mr. Crosby married Miss Isabella V. McCormack, who was born in New York City, on Crosby street, and is now living at her pleasant home, No. 785 Asylum avenue, Hart- ford, made sacred by the memories of their long married life. She is a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, to which Mr. Crosby also belonged, and to which he gave liberally, and for years her active aid has been given to the work of the Ladies Society, the Children's Aid Society, and other philanthropic organizations.

JOSEPH AUSTIN KILBOURN, M. D., a leading medical practitioners of Hartford, is a native of Connecticut, born Nov. 1, 1860, in Glas- tonbury, Hartford county, and is a member of an honored old New England family.

(I) Thomas Kilbourn, the common ancestor of all the Kilbourns in this country, was born in 1578 at Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England. His wife's name was Frances. On April 15, 1635, with a portion of his family, he set sail on the ship "In- crease" for America, settling in Wethersfield, Conn., where he died in 1639. He was a member of the Church of England.

(II) John Kilbourn (son of the above), bap- tized at Wood Ditton, England, Sept. 29, 1624, was ten years old when he came with his parents to Wethersfield. In 1650 he married Naomi, who died Oct. 1, 1659, the mother of three children: John, Thomas and Naomi. For his second wife he mar- ried Sarah Bronson. He died April 9, 1703, and in his death Wethersfield lost a man very prominent in the military and political affairs of the locality in the for-away beginning of American civilization.

(III) John Kilbourn (son of the above), born Feb. 15. 1651, in Wethersfield, Conn., died Nov. 25, 1711. He married March 4, 1673, Susannah, daugh- ter of William Hills. He settled in Glastonbury,

Conn,. ; was salesman 1693-1708; constable, 1696- 1705; and grand juror, 1695, 1700 and 1703. His first wife died in October, 1701, and for his second wife he wedded, May 12, 1702, Elizabeth, daughter of John Mitchell, of Hartford.

(IV) Abraham Kilbourn (son of the above, and the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Joseph A. Kil- bourn) was born Aug. 25, 1691, in Glastonbury, Conn., and died in 1770. He was constable of that town some seven years; lister, seven years; town treasurer, three years; selectman, cighteen years ; representative, 1721, 1730 and 1756. He was thrice married, first time June 5, 1712, to Sarah, daugh- ter of John Mitchell, of Hartford. She died Oct. 3, 1719, the mother of children as follows : Mitchell, Abraham, and Elizabeth. For his second wife he wedded Mary, daughter of Samuel Tudor, of Wind- sor, Conn. She died Aug. 5, 1751, and for his third wife he married Abigail House.

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Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Pt 1, Part 47

Author: J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1336

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1336