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ciently served his fellow citizens both as a council- man and as an alderman. The Captain and his family are prominent in the social life of New Ha- ven, and he is an active member of Admiral Foote Post. G. A. R. ; of the Loyal Legion ; the Army and Navy Club; the Society of the Army of the Po- tomac ; the Connecticut Sons of the American Rev- clution ; and Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M. In relig- ious connection he unites with Trinity Church.
(6) Frederick Eneas Monson, born Sept. 18, 1843, was a student when he enlisted, Sept. 18, 1861, becoming a corporal in Company K, 10th Conn. V. I., in the United States service in the Civil war. He was discharged Jan. 16, 1862, and re-enlisted, becoming a sergeant in Company H, 27th Conn. V. I. At the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 3, 1862, he received a wound which crip- pled him for life, and he was honorably discharged April 2, 1863, with a record for duty well done.
CHARLES H. PINNEY, M. D., in his life- time a prominent and successful physician of Derby, was a man of exceptionally high scientific and professional attainments, beloved by his pa-
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tients and universally esteemed by the community at large. He was of English descent, and one of hi, American ancestors was a soldier under Wash- ington.
The first of the family to emigrate from Great Braain to America was Humphrey Pinney, who settled at Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, while he re- turned the following year to England to attend to Mente matters connected with the settlement of the fuiternal estate ; he became a permanent resident of New England in 1634. He married Mary, a daugh- ter of George Hull, who, like himself, was a pio- neer settler from the mother country. . Humphrey Pinney, on his return from England, established himself at Windsor, Conn. He was the father of six children: Samuel, Nathaniel, Isaac, Abigail, Sarah and Mary.
Samuel Pinney, eldest son of Humphrey, was the great-great-great-grandfather of Dr. Charles H. Pinney. He married Joyce Bissell, daughter of Jolın Bissell, of Windsor. They settled in that part of Windsor which one hundred years later was called Ellington, Conn. Three children were born to them: Mary, Samuel and Josiah.
Samuel Pinney, son of Samuel, became the hus- band of Sarah Phelps, daughter of George Phelps ( brother of William, of Windsor). They lived in Ellington, at that time part of Windsor, Conn., where were born their six children, who were named Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Sarah, Mary and Hannah.
Captain Benjamin Pinney, third son of Samuel, and Dr. Pinney's great-grandfather, married Susanna Lathrop, who bore him nine children, Elizabeth, Lois, Benjamin, Jedediah, Eleazer (born February, 1753), Lemuel, Ruth, Chloe and Ebenezer (a physician, who died July 6, 1786).
Lieut. Eleazer Pinney, son of Benjamin, was born in February, 1753, and was present at the sur- render of Burgoyne. His first wife was Eunice King, who died July 6, 1789, leaving five children, namely: Lydia, Persis, Benjamin, Elizabeth and Parmelia. In 1792 he married as his second wife, Anna McKinney, daughter of Andrew Mckinney, who invented the mechanism to weave table linen in patterns of flowers, etc., instead of being plaided or striped, as was the method previous to his in- vention ; he was of Scotch descent. The children of Lieut. Eleazer and his wife Anna were Eleazer, Ebenezer, Eunice, Loring, Nelson and Andrew.
Ebenezer, seventh child of Lieut. Eleazer, was born Sept. 24, 1796. He married Mary Ann Lee, daughter of Dr. Henry Tully Lee, of Hartford, Conn. Of their nine children, two, Henry and Mary, died in early childhood. Those who reached mnature years were Charles Hitchcock, Henry Lee, Caroline, Mary (2), Ellen, Elizabeth and Cath- crine.
Dr. Charles H. Pinney, the subject of this sketch, was born at South Windsor ( then a part of East Windsor), April 25, 1831. His college prep-
aration was received at Rogers Academy, at East Hartford, and he matriculated at Harvard Univer- sity near the close of his third year. Repeated and profuse hemorrhages from the lungs made it im- prudent to longer to brave the violent east winds of that locality, and his professional studies were pursued at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York City. Graduating with honor in 1853, lie at once located in Derby, Conn., where for forty years he was an ornament to his profession, taking part in matters of general interest as a pub- lic-spirited citizen, leading a life without reproach. When on his way to attend the National Medical Convention, which was held at Milwaukee, Wis., he died at Evanston, Ill., May 13, 1893, having rounded out a useful life of sixty-two years. In politics he was a Republican. Professionally he was a member of the local, county, State and na- tional medical societies, and was for many years the Connecticut State Necrologist of the National Association.
On April 4, 1854, Dr. Pinney married Maria Watson, of New Hartford, Conn., daughter of Royal Isaac and Sally (Seymour ) Watson. Royal I. Watson was a descendant of John Watson, an early settler of Hartford, who was a juror at Hart- ford in 1644, and died there in 1650; his mother, Sarah (Phelps) Watson, descended from William Phelps, an early settler of Windsor.
Mrs. Sally (Seymour) Watson was a daughter of Chauncey Seymour (always called "The Squire ;" see "New Hartford Past and Present," published in 1883), who held a commission in the war of 1812, and was the son of Capt. Uriah Sey- mour, who was lieutenant in a company of "mounted men" in the Lexington Alarm, and who, as captain of a company of "Light-horse," was with Washington on his retreat through New York, and was at Valley Forge. The Seymour line is traced back into England, to Sir Edward Seymour, whose sister, Jane Seymour, was the third Queen of Henry VIII and the mother of King Edward VI, during whose minority he (Sir Ed- ward Seymour) was acting Regent, and was created "Lord Protector of England." His previous titles were "Viscount Beauchamp," "Earl of Hert- ford" and "Duke of Somerset."
The mother of Mrs. Sally ( Seymour) Watson was Isabel Sedgwick, a descendant of Major Gen- eral Robert Sedgwick, a distinguished officer un- der Oliver Cromwell. For several years he con- manded "the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company," and in 1641 "The Castle," and was made major-general of a Massachusetts regiment May 26, 1652. On July 1, 1654, having previously visited England and engaged in the service of Cromwell as commander of contemplated expedi- tions, he sailed with a fleet of four vessels and cap- tured "St. Johns," a "strong French fort," also "Port Royal" and others, which was so acceptable to Cromwell that the next year he was appointed
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to important service in the West Indies; he sailed from Plymouth July 11, 1655, and was appointed to command the army of the West Indies, but soon fell a victim to the climate, dying at Jamaica, W. I., May 24, 1656.
Dr. Pinney left one son, Royal Watson Pinney, a practicing physician in Derby. Mrs. Pinney is still living in her beantiful home, containing many treasures of art and mementoes of her departed husband. She is a member of the Mary Washing- ton Memorial Association, of Washington; of the Society of New England Women, of New York; of the Order of Descendants of Colonial Gover- nors; of the Huguenot Society of America; of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America ; and she is regent of the Derby Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution.
SAMUEL A. STEVENS, a worthy representa- tive of an old and honored family of New Haven county, has passed a busy life in the commercial world and can look with pride over the record of a past that has no stain.
· Thomas Stevens, his great-grandfather, built, in 1735, the old Stevens homestead, now standing on Elm street, at the head of Savin avenue, West Haven, Conn., now nearly one hundred and seventy years old; it is to-day in a good state of preserva- tion, and still retains its old original red color paint. There Thomas Stevens lived and died. His son, Jesse, was born in that home in 1744, and died there in 1826.
Newton Stevens, son of Jesse, was born in 1784, and married Polly Reynolds in 1809, by whom he had twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity : Julia Ann, who married James Tolles; Edwin ; Emily, who married William H. Talmadge; Lucius ; Sarah, who married Jonathan Foote, Jr .; H. Au- gusta, who married S. G. Hotchkiss; Sherman; Francis N .; Jesse M .; Mary. E., who married Capt. Frederick S. Ward; Samuel A .; and James R. After fifty-four years of wedded life, the mother died in 1863. at the age of seventy-four ; the father died in 1866, aged eighty-two years.
Samuel A. Stevens was born at the old home- stead, July 11, 1826, and came to New Haven when ten years of age, to live with his brother-in-law, William H. Talmadge. who had a shoe store on Chapel street, next to the City Bank. Young Sanı- uel opened and closed the store, ran errands, and attended the Lancasterian School, taught by Jolin E. Lovell (now the Hillhouse High School). and was a student for a year in the school of S. A. Thomas, located in a building at the corner of Wooster and Olive streets. In looking back to his boyhood days, Mr. Stevens recalls the playing of marbles with his school mates on the site of the home in which he has lived for forty-one years. He returned to his father, and worked on the home farm for about three years. In 1842 he went to New
Haven a second time, to enter the hat, fur, and shoe- store, as clerk for his brother-in-law, J. Foote, Jr., at No. 816 Chapel street. With him he remained eight years, leaving July 11, 1851, to enter into the same kind of business for himself, at No. 856 Chapel street. He began business Oct. 6, of that year, un- der conditions most flattering, as about this time, a gentleman friend whom Mr. Stevens had known for some time and who was much interested in his future business prospects, had very unexpectedly offered the loan of fifteen hundred dollars ($1.500) without security, for the purpose of starting him in a business. While the proposition was a surprise he had not been long in availing himself of this most beneficent offer, and soon secured the store above mentioned, where in a few days the friend advanced him fifteen one-hundred dollar bills. With this fund in his stockings, eight of them in one stocking and seven in the other, Mr. Stevens had gone to New York City and there bought the nec- essary goods for "stocking" the store, thus prac- tically beginning his business career. Having a large circle of friends, to whom he had commended himself both by his personal and business character- istics, he naturally won a good degree of success.
After about twelve years he found his accommo- dations were too small for his increasing business, and in 1863 he rented one of the stores now occu- pied by Howe & Stetson, on the north side of Chapel street, between Orange and State streets. Entirely remodeling the store, he started out in his new quarters, by receiving congratulations from his many friends upon having the most attractive shoe store in the State. About two years after he very unexpectedly sold out his very lucrative business to I. T. Banks, who had carried on the same kind of business in Atlanta, Ga., but who was compelled to vacate when Gen. Sherman's army entered the city during the Civil war. As he had been closely con- fined by his business for fourteen years, Mr. Stevens determined to rest before again entering the con- mercial world, and at the close of the Rebellion, made a tour through the devastated portion of the Southern States. Soon after his return, he formed a copartnership, under the firm name of Joyce & Stevens, for the purpose of manufacturing ladies' and misses' fine shoes.
At the end of twelve years he withdrew from this firm with the intention of not entering into any permanent business again. Some two years after an old friend of his, P. S. Crofut, who had been in the hat, cap and fur trade on the north side of Chapel street, near Orange street, for many years, was compelled to go into bankruptcy, and Mr. Stevens was appointed receiver. In closing up the estate he sold the stock to J. N. Collins, who con- tinued the business. In 1878 Friend E. Brooks and Mr. Stevens formed a copartnership, under the style of Stevens & Brooks, and bought out Mr. Collins. The new firm continued the same business for about ten years when Mr. Stevens withdrew
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front the firm on account of impaired health. Soon after he took a pleasure trip through Southern Cali- fornia, and upon his return, three months later, he was appointed secretary and treasurer of the West Haven & New Haven Horse Railroad Co., to which be devoted a share of his time for about two years. When the road was sold to a Boston syndicate he w.It his interest and resigned his position. When in California, MIr. Stevens was so delighted with the wintry and climate, that in the winter of 1893 he went out a second time, spending the winter in Red- Lunds and Moreno, and while there became so fas- cmated with the culture of oranges that he pur- chased four acres in Redlands and forty in Moreno, set out to orange trees.
In 1894 Mr. Stevens' daughter, who had grad- uated from Rye Seminary, New York, accompanied him for the second time. The next year, 1895, he had planned to go, but was taken critically ill and was obliged to remain at home, going out the three successive winters. He came home June 1, 1898, not feeling well, and very unexpectedly found his daughter sick, and she passed away July 24. From that time Mr. Stevens has been a confirmed invalid.
On Sept. 1, 1859, Mr. Stevens was married to Miss Ellen M. Ives, at her home on Wall street, New Haven, Conn. Her father, Henry Ives, man- ufacturer of carriage axles in Mt. Carmel, Conn., died about six months prior to the marriage of his daughter. Mrs. Stevens was the mother of three children, two of whom died in infancy: Eliza Ives, born May 6, 1861, died Aug. 8 of the same year ; Nellie, born Sept. 12, 1862, died Sept. 20 of the sante year; and Mabel Ives, born Nov. 25, 1873, died July 24, 1898. The mother of these three girls died June 30, 1880, at the age of forty-seven years. Mr. Stevens is now in his seventy-sixth year, and through all his eventful career he has endeavored to live a consistent Christian life, but he says he is fully aware of his short comings and, to his regret, he can only present to his Maker a few withered leaves instead of the great sheaves of wheat which he should have brought.
JOSEPH COAN (deceased). The Coan fam- ily is of German descent, and has long been estab- lished in New England. In 1715 three brothers came from Worms, Germany. Their parents ac- companied them on an emigrant ship, but died on the way, and consequently the boys were landed on the American shore in a destitute condition. The two older boys were apprenticed to Deacon Mul- ford. of East Hampton, L. I., where they were mar- r:ed when they reached adult years. After their marriage they removed to Guilford, where they feed the remainder of their lives and died. The other brother, Abraham, left no record of his career in l.ic.
l'eter Coan, one of the brothers reared by Dea- con Muliord, and the progenitor of the line in which we are especially interested, was born in 34
Worms, in 1697. In East Hampton he married Hannah Davis, and died in North Guilford, Oct. 31, 1799. Their children were: John, born in December, 1729; Lucretia; Rebecca; Jacob, born in 1734; Mabel; Abraham; Hannah; Martha, married George Dudley; Elisha; William, born Feb. 24, 1747, died Jan. 28, 1748; Mary, born July 30, 1750, married Jacob Kimberly.
John Coan, noted above, was born in East Hampton, and came with his parents, in 1736, to Guilford, where he passed the remainder of his life, and died Oct. 18, 1795. In 1752 he married Mabel Chittenden, who was born Nov. 5, 1737, and died May 12, 1787. For his second wife he married the Widow Francis. He was the father of the follow- ing children: (1) Olive, who married William Fowler, and died Feb. 12, 1849; (2) Mabel, born in 1758, who married Robert Kimberly; (3) Josiah, born Nov. 20, 1760, who married Carrie Graves ; (4) John, who will be mentioned in full below; (5) Rebecca, born in 1765, who married Samuel F. Loper, and died Aug. 3, 1848; (6) Simeon, who married Parnell Fowler, and died Nov. 5, 1815; (7) Submit, born Dec. 7, 1769, who married Aaron Chittenden, and died July 24, 1849; (8) Lucretia, who married Abel Chittenden; (10) Abraham, born Nov. 9, 1774, who married Martha Linds- ley, and died Feb. 14, 1863; (II) Davis, born in 1785, who married Catherine Fowler, and died July 27, 1822.
John Coan, son of John, was born at North Guilford in January, 1763, and there died in No- vember, 1845. He married Hannah Stevens, who was born in 1767, and died Nov. 27, 1820. Their children were as follows: (1) Hannah, born in 1787, married Joseph Fowler ; (2) John, born Aug. 22, 1789; (3) Henriettta, born in June, 1794, died Sept. 24, 1795; (4) Abraham, born Aug. 2, 1797, married Eunice Cook, and died Jan. 4, 1875.
John Coan, noted above, married, in October, 1809, Phebe A. Fowler, who was born Feb. 22, 1791, and died Sept. 19, 1821. For his second wife he married, Sept. 22, 1829, Betsy Hart, who was born Aug. 24, 1803, and died March 15, 1873. The children by his first marriage were: One that died unnamed; Jerome, born in 1816, died July 26, 1829; Abraham, born June 11, 1817, died in 1848; and Julia Ann, born in 1821, married Rev. Seth L. Chapin, and died Jan. 21, 1876. By the second marriage were born: Phebe, born June 6, 1830, married Orrin Potter; Jerome and Joseph, twins, born June 19, 1834. John Coan, the father of this family, was a farmer and large land owner.
Joseph Coan (deceased), whose name introduces this sketch, was educated in the district schools of his native town, and remained on the farm with his parents until after his marriage, when he re- moved to Guilford, where he lived until the break- ing out of the Rebellion. He enlisted Sept. 7, 1862, in Company E, 15th Conn. V. I., under Col. White, and died of typhoid fever, Nov. 7, 1862;
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his remains were interred in Alderbrook cemetery. Politically he was a Democrat, but without official aspirations. Quite popular in the community where he was reared, he had many friends, and was a man of character and standing. In religious connection he was a communicant of the Episcopal Church.
On May 7, 1856, Mr. Coan was married to Lydia E. Hall, who was born Jan. 29, 1836, a daughter of George G. and Phebe A. (Griswold) Hall, and died July 4, 1900. This union was blessed with one child, Maria Elizabeth, born Feb. 23, 1857, now the wife of Clifford F. Bishop. Mrs. Coan was a woman of much character and was of a religious disposition. For forty-eight years she had been a member of the Third Church, and was an active worker in its various organizations. In the community her influence was marked, and in the many associations in which the ladies of the town sought the public good, her presence and her work were always ready and appreciated.
THE HALL FAMILY, of Guilford, of whom Mrs. Coan was a descendant, traces its history in this country back to William Hall, who was born in Kent, England, a son of Gilbert Hall. William Hall came to America March 22, 1649, and located in New Haven, where he died March 8, 1669. Hester, his wife, died in 1683; she was the mother of John and Samuel, of whom the latter married Elizabeth Johnson.
John Hall, son of William and Hester, was born in 1648, and was but one year old when his parents settled in Guilford, where he died Jan. 8, 1704. On Nov. 13, 1668, he was married to Elizabeth Smith, and they became the parents of seven children : (1) Elizabeth, born Nov. 22, 1670; (2) Mary, born Oct. 30, 1672, died Dec. 7, 1755; (3) John, born Feb. 28, 1675, died September, 1724; (4) Ebenezer : (5) Silence married Abraham Morri- son; (6) Eliphalet, born Jan. 15, 1682, married Abigail Bushnell; (7) Nathaniel, born December, 1683, married Rebecca Mallory, and died July 27, 1758.
Ebenezer Hall, who was born March 3, 1678, was engaged in farming in Guilford, his native town and died there in December. 1723. Deborah Highland, who became his wife April 11, 1700, was born in 1674, and died Oct. 27, 1758. Their chil- dren were: (I) Ebenezer, born Jan. 30, 1701, married Elizabeth Crittenden, and died Sept. 9, 1734; (2) Daniel, born April 10, 1702, died June 9. 1741 ; (3) Deborah, born Oct. 26, 1704, married Ebenezer Field, and died April 6, 1753; (4) John; (5) Joseph, born May 26, 1710, married Mary Crittenden, and died Dec. II. 1764: (6) Benjamin, born May 27, 1712,. married Judith Hall, and died Dec. 1, 1802: (7) Esther, born May 27, 1717, mar- ried Jehiel Johnson, and died Sept. 9, 1779; (8) Timothy, born Nov. 10, 1721, married Sarah Bris- tol, and died July 29, 1771.
John Hall, son of Ebenezer, was born in Guil-
ford, Dec. 27, 1706, and died Feb. 9, 1742. He was married to Jerusha Johnson, Nov. 2, 1737. She was born Oct. 31, 1720, a daughter of Isaac and Phebe ( Bristol) Johnson, and a granddaugh- ter of Isaac and Mary ( Hotchkiss) Johnson. For her second husband she married, Nov. 15, 1744, Ebenezer Hotchkiss. By her marriage to Mr. Hall she became the mother of two children: Han- nah, born Aug. 14, 1738, died Nov. 30, 1738; and Miles.
Miles Hall, son of John, was born in Guilford, Oct. 23, 1740, and died there Oct. 26, 1801. On Feb. 3, 1762, he was married to Sarah Bishop, who was born Aug. 18, 1736, daughter of David and Deborah (Stanley) Bishop, and died April 8, 1792. This marriage was blessed with the following chil- dren : (1) Sarah, born Sept. 12, 1763, married Samuel Evarts; (2) John, born 1765, died Oct. 6, 1769; (3) Nathan, born 1767, died Oct. 14, 1771 ; (4) Jerusha, born Aug. 10, 1771, married Luther Stone; and (5) John (2).
John Hall (2), born May 21, 1775, in Guilford, died there July 27, 1807. He married Hannah Griswold, who was born May 26, 1771, a daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Cruttenden) Griswold, and died Nov. 10, 1840. Thomas Griswold was a private in Capt. Daniel Hand's company in Col. Talcott's regiment in 1776. The children born to this union were: (1) Amos, Jan. 18, 1795, mar- ried Betsey Graves, and died June 11, 1847; (2) Sarah, born Jan. 22, 1798, married Ammi G. Fow- ler; (3) John, born April 15, 1799, married Bet- sey Davis, and died Aug. 16, 1870; (4) Betsey, born July 28, 1801, married Christopher B. Davis ; (5) Caroline, born Aug. 29, 1803, married Joel Bullard, and died June 17, 1842; and (6) George Griswold.
George Griswold Hall, father of Mrs. Lydia E. Coan, was born in Guilford, Feb. 2, 1806, and there died Sept. 11, 1887. On Oct. 4, 1830, he was married to Phebe Ann Griswold, who was born Nov. 27, 1811. They became the parents of the following children : (1) George Hiram, born April 30, 1833, married Mary E. Morse; (2) Ly- dia Elizabeth, born Jan. 29, 1836, married Joseph Coan : (3) Edward Douglass, born April 1, 1840, married Fannie Barstow Hyde; (4) Charles Au- gustus, born Sept. 8, 1841, married Lucretia Da- vis
Miles Griswold, great-grandfather of Mrs. Coan, was born Jan. 2, 1736, a son of Thomas and Ann (Graves) Griswold, and a brother of Thomas Griswold, who served in the Revolutionary war. He died March 20, 1821. On June 14, 1758, he married Sarah (Chittenden), who was born July 9, 1737, a daughter of Samuel and Susanna ( Bishop) Chittenden, and died June 23, 1766. One child blessed this marriage, Ruth. born Nov. 25, 1760, who married James Davis. For his sec- ond wife Miles Griswold married, Jan. 4. 1769, Ruth Bartlett, who was born Oct. 1, 1738, a daugh-
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ter of Capt. Joseph and Mindwell (Cruttenden) Bartlett, and died Dec. 31, 1831. Their children were: (1) Sarah, born Feb. 9, 1774, died Oct. 15, 1;80; (2) Joy; (3) Mindwell, born Aug. 4, 1780, Ched Sept. 18, 1845.
Joy Griswold, son of Miles, was born Oct. 27, 1 ;; 0, and died May 15, 1851. On Nov. 22, 1798, he was married to Juliana Saxton, who was born April 30, 1777, and died April 26, 1833, a daugh- fer of Simeon and Sarah Saxton, the former of whom was a private in the Revolutionary war. For his second wife Joy Griswold married, Aug. ",, 1835, Hannah Woodruff, a widow, born Jan. 13, 1796, died June 3, 1872. The children, all of whom were born of the first marriage, were: (1) Sarah, born May 24, 1800, died April 5. 1845. un- married; (2) Myrta, born Sept. 26, 1802, married Louis Griswold, and died May 22, 1837; (3) Sher- man Saxton, born Nov. 26, 1805, married Alma Fowler, and died Nov. 2, 1882; (4) Russell Bart- lett, born Sept. 24, 1808, married Mary Jones ; (5) Phebe Ann, born Nov. 27, 1811, married George Griswold Hall; (6) Mary Elizabeth, born Dec. 16, 1817, married Edward T. Moore; (7) Juliet, born Nov. 19, 1820, married John Parmelee.
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