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 48

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

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(V) Joseph Kilbourn (son of the above, and the great-grandfather of Dr. Kilbourn) was born Jan. 14, 1723, in Glastonbury, Conn., and died June II, 1790. He was a lister, 1748-1759; surveyor, 1752, 1762 and 1770. On March 1, 1744, he married Mary, daughter of Joseph Hollister, and children as- follows were born to them: Mary, Ann, Abigail, Nancy, Mabel, Abraham and Joseph.

(VI) Joseph Kilbourn (son of the above, and tlie grandfather of Dr. Kilbourn) was born April I, 1765, in Glastonbury, Conn., and died May 14, 1851. He was twice married, first time April 4, 1793, to Hannah, daughter of Philip Sellew. She died Jan. 23, 1826, and he married (second) May 22, 1832, Onnor House. Children born to Joseph Kilbourn : Austin, Sophia, Ogden, Eliza and Iloracc.

(VII) Horace Kilbourn (son of the above, and the father of Dr. Kilbourn) was born Nov. 11, 1809, in Glastonbury, Conn., and died in 1868. He was a farmer by occupation. In 1858 he married Mary Young, and by her had children as follows : Joseph A., John and Rosella.

(VIII) Joseph A. Kilbourn (son of the above), the subject proper of this sketch, passed his earlier school days in California, and at the age of fifteen years entered St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y. For some time afterward he was in business in Ilart- ford, Conn., as general agent for the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. In 1894 he commenced the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., graduating therefrom in April, 1897, after which he attended lectures at Sloane Maternity Hospital, New York. In 1897 he commenced the practice of medicine in Hartford, and has met with well-merited success. He is a member of the State, County and City Medical So- cieties, and is affiliated with the A. O. U. W., thic Degree of Honor, and the Maccabees.

In Hartford, Jan. 6, 1884, Dr. Kilbourn was united in marriage with Sarah A. Dooley, daugh- ter of Timothy Dooley, of that city, and six chil-

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dren have been born to them, their names and dates of birth being as follows : Ilorace Ogden, June 17, 1885; Joseph, Oct. 8, 1887; Austin, April 5, 1889; Jonathan, Jan. 2, 1891 ; Orrin Paul, Sept. 3, 1893; and Constance Mary, Nov. 29, 1895.

REV. JOHN TAYLOR HUNTINGTON, rector of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Hartford, is a native of Connecticut, born Jan. 30, 1830, at New Milford, of old English ancestry, who in early times settled in Norwich, Conn., and the first of whom in this country was one of the sign- ers of the Declaration of Independence.

Our subject's paternal great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all named Enoch. The great-grandfather was pas- tor of a church in Middletown, Conn., for fifty years, being one of the oldest in the State. The grand- father was a criminal lawyer of note in Middletown. The father was born at Middletown, received his education there and at Yale College, and subse- quently became rector of the Episcopal Church in New Milford, remaining in that incumbency twenty- two years. He died at the advanced age of sev- enty-five, leaving the record of a hard-working, faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. He mar- ried a Miss Taylor, niece of Nathaniel Taylor, of Yale College, and seven children were born to them, five of whom are yet living : John T., our subject ; Samuel G .; Sophia, wife of Theodore D. Beardsley, of Bridgeport; Mary G., wife of Rev. James E. Cooley; and Sarah, living with our subject. The mother died in 1895, at the age of eighty-eight years.

The subject proper of this sketch received a liberal education, in part at the common and high schools of New Milford, in part at Trinity College, Hartford, from which latter institution he gradu- ated in 1850, taking the Valedictory. In 1853 he graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York. His first labor in the church was as assistant minister of St. James' Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, where he served three years in that capacity ; from 1856 to 1862 he was first rector of St. John's, New Haven, Conn; from 1863 to 1864 was rector of the Episcopal Church at Great Bar- rington. Mr. Huntington then, in 1864, accepted the professorship of Greek in Trinity College, Hart- ford, and in the following year organized a Sun- day-school which developed into the Church of the Incarnation, but retired from that incumbency in 1870. Eight years later, in February, 1878, he was recalled to the rectorship, and about the same time resigned the chair of Greek in Trinity College, in order that he might the better be enabled to devote his entire time to church work, though no salary is attached to the function. Mr. Huntington is the third rector, and is justly proud of the church which is the outgrowth of the Sunday-school organized in 1866, by himself (when he was professor in the college), assisted by a band of students as teachers.

Its original name "Church of the Icarnation," was changed in 1878 for convenience sake to "St. James' Church," a new parish having been organized. The congregation, which is numerous, embracing as it does some 300 families, is composed largely of peo- ple living in the tenement houses. Mr. Huntington is the second oldest pastor in the city, and the only one to organize his own church. In addition to his regular clerical duties, he enjoys missionary work ; has always preached on Sundays; was in charge of Christ Church, Hartford, three years; and had charge of Christ Church West Hartford, three years; and has a thriving Sunday-chool, of which he is su- perintendent, with some twenty assistants, his daugh- ter Charlotte being among the number. In addi- tion to all this he is president of the Children's Aid Society of the State of Connecticut.

In 1856, at Norwich, Rev. John T. Huntington was united in marriage with Elizabeth T. Williams, of Norwich, Conn., daughter of Erastus and Eliza- beth (Tracy) Williams, the former of whom, a woolen manufacturer, died at the age of seventy-six years ; the latter, who was a daughter of Col. Elisha Tracy, passed away when fifty-six years old. They had two children, both now deceased. To Rev. and Mrs. Huntington were born four children, two of whom are yet living: (1) Harwood, a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, now a lawyer in New York; and (2) Charlotte E., living at home. The mother of these was called from earth in 1887, at the age of fifty-four years. Mr. Huntington is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Faith- ful to that duty which lies nearest, his exhortations to right living are more effective than any mere glittering eloquence could be, the quiet but powerful force of example adding weight to precept.

MAJOR EDWARD V. PRESTON, Superin- tendent of Agencies of the Travelers Insurance Co., of Hartford, is a member of one of the oldest fam- ilies of New England. The name was made con- spicuous for patriotism during the Revolution, twenty-five of its representatives having served in the army, as shown on the list of Revolutionary soldiers published by Connecticut.

The immediate ancestors of our subject were early settlers in Tolland county, Conn., and his great-grandfather, grandfather and father were residents of the town of Willington, Tolland Co., Conn., all successively residing in the old Preston homestead, where our subject was born, he being of the fourth generation there. The first of the name in this country, Roger Preston, was born in 1614, and in 1635 his name is recorded as a resident in Ipswich, Mass., but in 1659 or 1660 he removed to Salem, Mass. He died Jan. 20, 1666, and his widow, Martha, was married, May 21, 1666, to Nicholas Holt. Soon after her second marriage she and her husband removed to Andover, Mass., taking two of her sons, Samuel and Jacob Preston, and leaving another, Thomas Preston, in Salem.

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(II) Samuel Preston, born in Ipswich about 1651, was about fifteen years old at the time of the removal to Andover. On May 27, 1671, he mar- ried Susannah Gutterson, who died Dec. 29, 1710. (III) Jacob Preston, with two brothers, John and Benjamin, was in Windham, Conn., in 1723- 24, and united with the church of Canada Parish, Windham village, about that time. He was mar- ried, on June 2, 1702, in Andover, to Sarah Wil- son, and had a son, Benjamin.

(IV) Benjamin Preston, the ancestor of the Willington Prestons, was born on the 20th of April or May, 1705, and was married, May 5, 1727, to Deborah Holt, of Canada Parish, Windham Co., Conn. He and his wife died the same hour, Nov. 26, 1784, and were buried in the same grave, at Willington, Connecticut.

(V) Darius Preston was born at Willington Hollow in 1731, and died there May 30, 1821, aged ninety years. On Nov. 15, 1759, he married Han- nah Fisk, who died Jan. 12, 1813, aged seventy-two. They had eleven children, as follows: (1) Han- nah was born Aug. 23, 1760. (2) A son, unnamed, died twenty-four hours after birth. (3) Sarah was born March 3, 1764. (4) Timothy Nye died in Troy, N. Y .; he had five children, who died in Richfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. (5) Darius, Jr., was born Dec. 18, 1766, married Naomi Hibbard, and died April 1, 1845, aged seventy-eight, in Hanover, Luzerne Co., Penn. (6) Joshua was born Sept. 25, 1768, and died Nov. 1, 1811 ; he married Sarah Holt Hampton, and had two children, Florenda and Austin. (7) Jerusha was born June 18, 1770, died July 13, 1792. (8) Chloe was born Feb. 1I, 1772, married Luke Fenton, and died at Corinth, N. Y., June 9, 1841, leaving three children, Weltha, Luke and Orrin. (9) Eunice was born July 16, 1778, married Elijah Nye, and died Oct. 17, 1807, leaving four children, Polly, Jerusha, Crocker and Phebe. (10) Deborah married Abel Johnson, and died Oct. 14, 1857. (11) Amos is next in the line of de- scent.

(VI) Amos Preston was born Feb. 8, 1782, and died Oct. 6, 1864. On Sept. 4, 1804, he married Martha ("Patty") Taylor, who was born Feb. 8, 1782, and died Dec. 7, 1860. Her father, Thomas Taylor, died April 5, 1815, aged sixty-three years. Amos and Martha Preston had the following chil- dren: (1) Almira was born Aug. 6, 1805. (2) Salina was born Dec. 22, 1806, at Richfield, N. Y., was married, March 23, 1829, to Origen Hall, and had one daughter, Justina. (3) Sylvester T. was born Aug. 5, 1808, was married, Sept. 16, 1833, to Fear Glazier, and had four children, Charles T., Helen M., Herbert G. and Francis Wayland. (4) Florenda was born Feb. 19, 1810. (5) Olivia was born Oct. 5, 1811. (6) Joshua was born July 15, 1813.

(VII) Joshua Preston, born July 15, 1813, in Willington Hollow, died March 18, 1900, at his home in the Goodwin building, Haynes street, Hart-

ford. As a boy he learned the tanner's trade, his father and other members of the family being inter- ested in that business, and in 1857 he went to Hart- ford, where he held for the next ten years a re- sponsible position with P. Jewell & Sons, the pred- ecessors of the Jewell Belting Co. In 1879 he re- moved to Chicago to take a similar position with his son, the late Capt. E. B. Preston, but he re- turned to Hartford in 1895 to live with his daugh- ter, Mrs. W. Chapin Hunt, with whom he had made his home. Mr. Preston had been in feeble health, and was somewhat affected by the deatil, the previous week, of his son-in-law, Capt. W. Chapin Hunt. Joshua Preston passed the greater part of his life in the vicinity of Willington. He built and occupied the house at the "Hollow" now owned by G. W. Ide, and was for many years fore- man at the tannery there, owned and carried on by his eldest brother, the late Hon. S. T. Preston. For a time he lived in Westford, being the pro- prietor of the hotel in the village, and also of Lin- coln tannery. He was for many years a mem- ber of the Baptist Church in Willington, and was a decided Democrat in his political views. His strong temperance principles, which were early es- poused, and his independent way of thought and action, as well as his indifference to office holding, prevented his receiving any particular honors from his party, then often in power in the town. He was fond of music, and was a rival of the late Hon. L. P. Waldo, in Tolland, in the way of play- ing on the double-bass viol in the church of which he was a member.

On March 3, 1835, Joshua Preston was mar- ried, by Rev. Horace A. Wilcox, to Caroline El- dredge, daughter of Ariel and Betsey (Dimock ) Eldredge. She was born Feb. 6, 1816, in Willing- ton, and died April 27, 1882, in Chicago, Il1., her remains being taken to Hartford and interred in Cedar Hill cemetery. They had seven children, four of whom are living: (1) Burtren D. Preston, born in Willington Hollow Jan. 28, 1836, died Nov. 13, 1898, and was buried at Colchester, Conn. He was married, Jan. 7, 1863, at Colchester, Conn., to E. Elizabeth Latham, who was born in Lebanon, Conn .. April 3, 1834, daughter of Deacon Amos S. Latham, of Colchester. One son, Bertie, was born to theni July 2, 1868, in Colchester, and died there July 23. 1868. (2) Major Edward V. Preston is mentioned more fully below. (3) Albert B. Preston, born Feb. 10, 1842, in Westford, Conn., was married, at Meriden, Conn., May 10, 1871, by Rev. O. T. Walk- er, to Martha B. Lewis, who was born in Hartford March 27, 1840, the daughter of Walter Lewis. (4) Capt. Everett B. Preston, born in Willington Hol- low Sept. 12, 1843, died in Chicago, Ill., April 27, 1895. He was married, at Hartford, Dec. 6, 1865, by R. Turnbull, D. D., to Ellen H. Allen, who was born in Hartford March 20, 1843, daughter of William G. Allen. They had two children-Ellen Allen, born Sept. 5, 1870, at Chicago, Ill., died

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July 6, 1871, and was buried in Hartford; Mar- guerite was born June 17, 1874, in Chicago. (5) Estelle R. Preston, born at Willington Hollow Dec. 29, 1847, was married, in the First Baptist church of Hartford, Oct. 7. 1869, by Dr. N. J. Burton, to Capt. William Chapin Hunt, a son of William Clark Hunt, of Coventry, Conn. Capt. Hunt was born in Coventry, Conn., April 22, 1839, and died March 15, 1900. (6) Justina H. Preston, born in Willing- ton Hollow Sept. 12, 1849, died in Hartford April 30. 1881. She was married, in Hartford, Oct. 6, 1870, by R. Turnbull, D. D., to Gen. Wallace T. Fenn, who was born in New Haven Dec. 30, 1848, son of Apollos Fenn, of Hartford. They had two children, of whom Charles Wallace Fenn, born Dec. 18. 1871, in Hartford, was married, Oct. 23, 1895, in Wethersfield, Conn., to Carolyn E. Dix: Fred- erick P. Fenn, born July 3. 1876, in Hartford, was married, Sept. 27, 1899, at Wethersfield, Conn., to Charlotte May Daniels, of Hartford, born Dec. 13, 1877. (7) George E. Preston, born in Willington Hollow Dec. 12, 1851, was married, in Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 11, 1877, by Rev. George Duffield, to Minnie E. Parish, who was born at Manitowoc, Wis., June 23, 1856, daughter of Isaac H. Parish, of Grand Rapids, Mich. They had three children, all born in Chicago, Il1 .: Bessie E., Jan. 13, 1879: Howard Eldredge, Dec. 24, 1883; and Robert Duane, Aug. 13, 1886.

(VIII) Major Edward V. Preston was born June 1, 1837, in Willington Hollow, and removed to Hartford in 1850, to engage in mercantile pursuits. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was a member of the firm of Griswold, Griffin & Co., but on April 22, 1861, he volunteered temporary assistance as a clerk in the adjutant-general's office under Gen. J. D. Williams. In July Col. Orris S. Ferry of the 5th Connecticut, who was the organizer, requested the appointment of Mr. Preston as quartermaster of the command. On July 17 he received the appoint- ment, being given the rank of first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, and he was mus- tered into the United States Volunteer serv- ice July 23. In September, 1861, he was de- tailed by Col. Dudley Donnelly, and afterward by Gens. G. H. Gordon and A. S. Williams, to be acting assistant quartermaster of the Ist Brigade, Gen. Bank's division, and retained the position until Jan. 1, 1862, when he returned to his old place in the 5th Connecticut. In March, 1862, Lieut. Pres- ton was detailed as an aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Ferry, who had received a brigadier's commis- sion. During a part of the time until Feb. 19, 1863, he was acting assistant quartermaster of the division. On that date he was commissioned by President Lin- coln as "additional pavmaster, United States Vol- unteers, with the rank of major," and this position he held until July 31, 1865, when he was honorably discharged by the Secretary of War. Millions of dollars passed through Major Preston's hands dur- ing the war, and his account squared to a cent in

the final settlement with the Government. After the close of the war Major Preston at once entered the service of the Travelers Insurance Co., of Hart- ford, and after working two years as special agent was appointed superintendent of agencies, a position which he has since held continuously. The duties of this office require executive ability of a high order, and in discharging them he has visited every section of the United States, Canada and Mexico. His career from the outset has been one of honor and integrity, and he is regarded throughout the country with the utmost esteem and respect.

Major Preston is a member of the Veteran As- sociation of the 5th Connecticut, and of Robert O. Tyler Post, G. A. R. He is one of the trustees of the $10,000 fund owned by the post. He is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Literary Institution, at Suffield, and has been a member of the board of the Baptist State Convention, and secretary, treasurer and presi- lent of the Baptist Social Union of the State. He has been treasurer for twenty-nine years of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Society in Hartford. In 1898 he was elected president of the Connecticut branch of the American Forestry Association. He is a strong Republican in politics, and has served in the common council and as alderman from the Second (now Tenth) ward.

On Sept. 9, 1863, Major Preston was married to Clara M., daughter of the late John G. Litchfield, of Hartford, and to them have been born two chil- dren : Harry Edward, born Sept. 27. 1864, at Hart- ford, died April 7, 1893, at San Antonio, Texas; he was for a few years an emplove of the Travelers Co. Evelyn Wallace was born April 9, 1867.

Among Major Preston's most cherished posses- sions are the original conveyance of the old home- stead and tannery at the Hollow from Lemuel Ol- cott to Darius Preston, consideration £75, dated Jan. 2, 1771, "the eleventh year of the reign of George III," and acknowledged before Abner Par- ker, justice of peace, Hartford, and the original subscription-list for a town library in Willington, dated Feb. 6, 1800, both turned over to him by his cousin, Charles T. Preston, Esq., of Willington. Rev. Hubbell Loomis, father of Prof. Loomis, of Yale College, is among the signers. Another price- less relic is the powder-horn that once belonged to Darius Preston, bearing the date 1771.

Major Preston is descended in the maternal line from the Eldredge and Hinckley families, long prominent in New England. Ariel Eldredge, his grandfather, was born April 28, 1791, and died Sept. 15, 1849 (according to a letter of Henry El- dredge, of New York, dated April 20, 1894) ; his wife, Betsey Dimock, was born Jan. 29, 1795, and died in March, 1873. Her father, Shubael Dimock, was born Oct. 4, 1757, married Jan. 23, 1789, died March 8, 1828; her mother, Elizabeth Wright, born July 31, 1769, died Aug. 10, 1837. From Mrs. Jeremiah Haley, of Hartford, the following account

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of the children of Ariel Eldredge and wife was obtained : (1) Caroline, born Feb. 6, 1816, married Joshua Preston. (2) Ira Dimock, born March 19, 1818, died Oct. 17, 1841 (copied from gravestone). (3) Wealthy Jane, born June 4, 1820, married John Henry Holmes in October, 1841, and died in April, 1851. They had two children-Julia Isadore, born in February, 1845, married a Mr. Dilworth; and a son, unnamed, died in childhood. (4) Elizabeth, born April 3, 1822, died April 21, 1851. On Sept. 25, 1839, she married Lucius Fisk, who was born in 1813, and died April 1, 1874. They had five chil- dren-Theodore D., born Sept. 29, 1840; Jane Eliz- abeth, Oct. 30, 1841; Eugene D., Jan. 14, 1844; Emily Ann, Aug. 21, 1849 ; and Ella Lavonne, April 7, 1852 (died Aug. 14, 1864). (5) Sophronia, born April 8, 1826, died Oct. 15, 1859, in London, On- tario. On April 28, 1851, she married Norman Holt, son of Gen. Origen Holt, member of Congress, of Willington. (6) Phebe R., born Jan. 13, 1829, died March 4, 1865, at Willimantic. (7) William W., born Jan. 14, 1832, died July 12, 1854, aged twenty- two. (8) Henry, born June 16, 1835, is still living. The following was supplied by Judge Leonard Morse, items taken from a book belonging to Thomas S. Weaver, of Hartford, compiled by his father :

"Elder Thomas Dimmock was of Dorchester, 1635 : selectman that year ; freeman, May 25, 1636. Hingham, 1638: Scituate, 1639. Removed to Barn- stable May, 1639; one of the grantees. Ordaining elder of Mr. Lathrop's church Aug. 7, 1659. His wife was Ann (Hammond?), who was living in 1683. Children: (1) Timothy. (II) Mehitable married Richard Child. (III) Shubael married Joanna Borsley, daughter of John Borsley, of Barn- stable. Shubael died in Mansfield, Conn., Oct. 29, 1732, aged eighty-eight years. He resided in the fortification house built by his father, which stood near the present house of Mr. Isaac Davis, in Barn- stable. It was a two-story building about twenty feet square, the lower story of stone, and the upper of wood. This house was taken down about 1800. The children of Deacon Shubael Dimock (or Dim- mock) and his wife, Joanna Borsley, were: (I) Capt. Thomas, born in Barnstable April, 1664, was captain of a company of soldiers and was killed Sept. 9, 1697, in an engagement with Eastern In- dlians and French ; his wife, Desire, survived him with five children; she afterward married John Thacher, Jr., of Yarmouth. (2) John, born 1666, married Elizabeth Lumbard, and had nine children. (3) Timothy was born March, 1668. (4) Shubael was born February, 1673, married Tabitha Lathrop, and had five children. (5) Joseph, born September. 1675, was married to Lydia, daughter of Deacon John Fuller, and had eight children, born in Barn- stable. (6) Mehitable, of whom no record is given. (7) Benjamin was born March, 1680, removed to Mansfield with his father. (8) Joanna was born March, 1682, and removed to Mansfield.

Thankful was born November, 1684, and removed to Mansfield." The name Dimock is variously spelled in this country, but Dimock is the most modern. It originates from Dymoke, in England. "The History of the Ancient and Noble Family of Marmion (or Dymoke) ; their singular office of King's Champion, etc.," by Sir T. C. Banks, was published in 1817, is very rare, and contains the full pedigree of the Dymoke family. See Scott's "Marmion" also.

The Hinckley-Eldredge descent is given as fol- lows: "HINCKLEY appears to be an ancient name in England. There is a town called Hinckley in the County of Leicester, about one hundred miles northeast from London. John de Hinkele was high- sheriff of Staffordshire in the first, second, third and fourth years of the reign of Edward III ( 1327- 1330) [Shaw's Staffordshire, page 35]. John Hinckley, esquire, is mentioned in the will of Hugh, earl of Stafford, in 1385. Arms in Burke's "General Armory :" "Per pale indented, argent and gules. Crest: On a ducal coronet, or, a star of twelve points, proper." It is not known whether the fam- ily here is entitled to those arms or not.

Samuel Hinckley, of Tenterden, Kent, England, came to New England with his wife Sarah and four children in the ship "Hercules," of Sandwich, which sailed about March, 1634. He first set- tled in Scituate, and by the carly records it appears that his wife joined the church there Aug. 16, 1635. He removed with his fam- ily to Barnstable in 1639 | From "History of the Hinckley Family," pamphlet, in Connecticut His- torical Society]. According to another account he was one of those who accompanied Mr. Lothrop to Boston in the "Griffin," arriving Sept. 18, 1634. Some of the first settlers of Scituate and Barn- stable were men of education and easy fortune, who had left homes altogether enviable, save in the single circumstance of the abridgement of their re- ligious liberty. The "men of Kent" are duly cele- brated in English history as men of gallantry, loyal- ty and courtly manners. Vasall, Hatherly, Cudworth, Tilden, Hinckley, and others, had been accustomed to the elegancies of life in England. They were men eminently qualified for transacting not only the municipal concerns of the settlements. but for taking an active and prominent part in the government of the colony. | Moore's "Governors of New Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay," published 1848.]

From Josiah Hinckley, Wollaston, Mass., the following has been obtained : "He was quite prom- inent in the affairs of the town, and was a large land-holder. His wife, Sarah, whom he married in England, died in Barnstable Aug. 18, 1656. He married a second wife, Bridget Bodfish, of Sand- wich, widow of Robert Bodfish. He died in Barn- stable Oct. 31, 1662, age not known, his wider surviving. His will was dated Oct. 8, 1662. ()f his children, the four first named were born in Eng- land, the three following in Scituate, the others in

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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 48

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