Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 69

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Publication date: 1905
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On Sept. 27, 1900, in Groton, Mr. Fish far- ried Martha Gates Edgcomb, daughter of Stiel and Elizabeth Mary (Gallup) Edgcomb, the fer a daughter of Palmer Gallup. Two children ve come to this union: (VIII) Warren Beebe,

born Dec. 30, 1901; and Sands Alden, born De 413. 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Fish are consistent menfers of the Union Baptist Church of Mystic, and they are young people who stand very high in the geral esteem and confidence of their community. Ir. Fish is an excellent, practical farmer and a roble citizen, and creditably upholds the high sta ford set by his ancestors.

(VI) HON. ASA FISH was born July 17, 90, in Groton, and was married Sept. 30, 1818 the ceremony being performed by Rev. Ira Ha -to Prudence B. Deane, daughter of James and ru- dence (Brown) Deane. The following chiren were born of this marriage; (1) James Deane orn Aug. 7, 1819, married (first) Mary Esther Bl get, and (second) Isabella Rogers ; he is a ship ch eller at No. 105 St. Felix street, Brooklyn, N. Y. |2) Sands H., born Sept. 19, 1821, married Emelin fee- be, now deceased. (3) Hannah, born June 6, 23, married Elias P. Raymond, deceased, and the bad one child, Sands F., of No. 99 Nassau street. fen- nett building, New York City. (4) Silas, bor )ct. 23, 1825, married Mary D. Stoddard, and 11des at Brooklyn, N. Y. (5) Asa, born April II, 28, married May 12, 1857, Eleanor H. Peckhan (6) Prudence, born Aug. 1, 1830, married Uriah H ud- ley, of No. 272 Henry, street, Brooklyn, N. Y (7) Benjamin, born Sept. 2, 1834, is in business : No. 96 Fort Green Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. (8) john D., born Feb. 23, 1837, died Aug. 29, 1838. (9) Fanny Deane, born Sept. 5, 1839, married aleb Smith Woodhull, of Brooklyn, New York.

Hon. Asa Fish was one of the most prorent men of Stonington, holding the offices of sele han, senator and judge of Probate up to the life mit. His death occurred April 20, 1861. In March 315, he embarked in a general merchandise busirs in a store which stood where Manning's grain tore now is. This store was blown over in Septen fr of that same year, but was set up, and he confined there in business until 1837, when he mov

the building, and erected a new structure, in wh he continued until 1854. In politics he was an lent Whig, later a Republican, and was very prosent in his party.

(VII) Asa Fish, born April II, 1828, his present residence, was educated at Mystic.

ifter which he clerked for his father until 185: At that date he and Elias P. Randall took thestore and operated it for ten years, after which, f two years, Mr. Fish continued it alone, but in 1: 4 he retired from business. Mr. Fish has beer quite prominent in local affairs, serving as depu col- lector of the port for some years, and in I: 3 he was appointed registrar of election, and has rved ever since, never missing a single day's serv

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1 M7 12, 1857, Mr. Fish was married at erly, erly 2. I., to Eleanor Hoxie Peckham, of .. I., and children as follows were born Proline Fellows, born Feb. 28, 18-, who m : Feb. 3, 1890; Eleanor, born Dec. 17, 1863, a er o: Mystic; and Silas, born Aug. 18, 1871, e A.,L. & S. F. Railroad office in New York

VI) MEON FISH, fourth child of Sands and yet ( llup) Fish, was born Jan. 17, 1797, and 5, 1863, while his wife died in 1876. For

April year zed le was a merchant at Mystic, and later a shipbuilder, and he was one of five estab hed the Old Field shipyard. His part- were Tilliam Clift, Nathan G. Fish, William axson nd B. F. Hoxie. They began by build- ishing smacks, but later furnished the coast- esselstor the cotton trade, and also built clip- hips r the California trade. Among many of their construction was the "B. F. crafts e," w h was well known to the merchant ma- servic between New York and San Francisco. vas b ed by the Confederate privateer "Ala-

e Atlantic ocean.

"' on n Oc 15, 1823, Simeon Fish married Eliza daughter of Jedediah Randall, of Mys- er, who prepared whaling vessels for Randa n out ea, an did a large business. The children of

on an Eliza Roe (Randall) Fish were: Will-

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eased; Nathan S., of Poquonnock, Jed Randall, born Nov. 20, 1832, of ; and Lond Conn., whose sketch follows.

'II) lliam R. Fish was born July 13, 1824, vill: : of Mystic. From the time he was

yea of age he worked on the farm, for half century. This farm of 100 acres is the lot of its size in this section.

Jan19, 1848, William R. Fish was married lia, d ghter of Erastus and Nancy (Hewitt) Ledyard. Four children came to this

ms, ( ige : a, born Oct. II, 1850, who resides in , ma ed Nov. 26, 1878, Russell W. Welles, ; Walter, born Nov. 22, 1854, is men- eceas belo Charles Randal, born Aug. 14, 1858,

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uly 2 1861; Mary, born July 17, 1861, mar- 1888, Thomas W. Wolf, of Mystic. . Wi

m R. Fish was a member of the Bap- urch om boyhood, and died May 12, 1890, years, firm in that faith. His wife lixty- Det. & 1896, aged sixty-seven years. [II) alter Fish was born Nov. 22, 1854, from is present home in Mystic, and was ie local schools and at the academy.

ed in slı is garded as one of the most progressive s of

w London county. He has the latest st fa a p able steam engine. As a breeder and

ling implements and machinery, in- in the uperior Brown Swiss stock he stands to 110 . On a part of the original farm that

1 ma years ago numerous village homes en bit. The many massive and well-built

walls surrounding and dividing the property rep- resent a vast amount of labor and expense. For several years, Mr. Fish has been the president of the Brown Swiss Breeders' Association of America, in which capacity his father served for twelve years or more.

On June 25, 1884, Mr. Fish married Eunice Avery, of Preston, and they have one daughter, (IX) Fanny Ella, born Nov. 14, 1888. Mr. Fish is a consistent member of the Baptist Church.

(VII) NATHAN SANDS FISH, second son of Sim- eon and Eliza Roe (Randall) Fish, was born in the town of Groton April II, 1828. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and attended for three terms the well-known Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield. When only fifteen years of age he entered his father's store as a clerk, was subse- quently made a partner, and finally succeeded his father in the business. For two years he also owned and operated a glass furnace at New London, and in 1872 conducted a hotel at Madison, Ga. In 1875 he located on his farm of over 100 acres on the west side of Poquonnock Plains.

On April 22, 1850, Mr. Fish married Jennett, daughter of Elisha and Caroline Morgan, and to them were born children as follows: (I) Mary died at the age of eight months. (2) Frank S., born in 1852, died May 12, 1890. He married Della Rog- ers, and they had children-Simeon, Caroline M., Fay, Ethel and Hortense, the latter deceased. (3) E. Bertha married Charles L. Burrows, and has one child, Cecil. (4) Donald M. is of Port Townsend, Washington.

In politics Mr. Fish is a stanch Republican, and has served as grand juror, selectman, assessor, town clerk and justice of the peace, and while a resident of New London he was a member of the common council. He has been a member of the State board of equalization, the board of relief at Groton, and the board of health of Groton. For some twenty years he was one of the members of the executive committee in charge of the Groton Monument, and had charge of the letting of contracts for the re- pairs of 1881 and 1893. Mr. Fish has been secre- tary and treasurer of the Brown Swiss Cattle Breed- ers Association' for over twenty years, and is in every way a prominent, responsible and solid citizen and excellent business man.

(VII) JED RANDALL FISH was born in Mystic, Conn., Nov. 20, 1832. He is in the seventh genera- tion from John Fish. His boyhood days were spent in Mystic, and in addition to attending the public schools he went to the old academy. When a young man he went to Georgia, and remained until the Civil war broke out, when he returned home.

On Nov. 18, 1868, Mr. Fish married, at Ithaca, N. Y., Myra Oltz, and she died in Lee county, Ga. In 1869 Mr. Fish returned to Lee county, Ga., and in 1870 came back to Connecticut and bought the farm now occupied by the Thames Ship Build- ing Co., which property he sold them.

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On Oct. 18, 1871, Mr. Fish married, at Ithaca, N. Y., Josephine Oltz, who died March 5, 1887, at New London. They had one child, (VIII) Jose- phine, born March 5, 1887.

ALBA W. LOOMIS, a successful farmer and highly respected citizen of Lebanon, is a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who was born about 1590 and was the American ancestor of the Loomis family of Lebanon.

Joseph Loomis came with his wife, five sons and three daughters to New England, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," in 1638. Formerly he was a .woolen draper at Braintree, England. He removed to Windsor, Conn., in the summer or autumn of 1639, and had grants of land on Farmington river, on the west side of the Connecticut, and also on the east side. He died in 1658, his wife in 1652.

Deacon John Loomis, born in 1622 in England, married, Feb. 3, 1648-49, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Hartford, and resided first in Windsor, where in 1643 he was granted by the Plantation forty acres of land, and was admitted to the church there Oct. 1I, 1640. From 1652 to 1660 he resided in Farmington, but returned to Windsor, was made a deacon in the church and died Sept. 1, 1688; he was survived by his wife.

Thomas Loomis, born Dec. 3, 1653, married, March 31, 1680, Sarah, daughter of Daniel White. She was born Oct. 15, 1662, and after the death of Mr. Loomis, in 1688, she again married, Nov. 12, 1689, John Bissell, and removed to Lebanon.

Ensign John Loomis, born Jan. 1, 1681, married (first) Oct. 30, 1706, Martha Osborn, born April 10, 1687 ; he married (second) Sept. 30, 1725, Ann Lyman. Mr. Loomis was a resident of Windsor and Lebanon, and died in 1755.

Israel Loomis, born Sept. 29, 1715, married (first) Dec. 15, 1737, Esther Hunt, who died Feb. 16, 1743. In September of that year he married (second) Mrs. Mary Holbrook, who died in April, 1745, and he married (third) April 8, 1747, Mary Marsh, who died Oct. 18, 1795. Mr. Loomis lived in Lebanon, and died Oct. 2, 1801.

Israel Loomis (2), born Jan. 22, 1742, married May 2, 1765, Rebecca Bingham, and resided in Lebanon. He died in December, 1825. His sec- ond wife was Mrs. Chloe (Prior) Fitch, and his children, all born to his first marriage, were: Eleazer, born Feb. 22, 1766, married Julia Coleman, who died March 10, 1847, at Otsego, N. Y .; Israel, born June 24, 1767, married Catherine Mattison, and died Feb. 26, 1845, at Otsego, N. Y .; Lora, born Dec. 28, 1768, married Joshua Dewey, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1787 (Mr. Dewey resided in Cooperstown, N. Y., Watertown and Brooklyn, and died Feb. 23, 1864, aged ninety-six years) ; Silas, born Dec. 6, 1770, married (first) Experience Dewey, and (second) Hannah Pratt, and died at Cooperstown Jan. 11, 1860; Huldah, born Nov. 9, 1772, married William Bliss; Esther, born Dec. 19,

1774, married Joel Fuller, and lived at Ne Berlin, N. Y .; Rebecca, born April 5, 1776, mar d Seth Bailey ; Aaron, born April 6, 1778, marriedMay 14, 1805, Lydia Pierce, and lived at Cooper: fvn, N. Y .; Isaiah was born Dec. 26, 1780; and alinda, born Dec. 29, 1787, married Fenner Ward, ad lived in Norwich.

Israel Loomis, father of these childr was a Jebanor farmer, and resided on the road between Green and Liberty Hill, a short distance noti of the present home of Alba W. Loomis. For my years irming he conducted a tavern in connection with and he died at the home of his son Isaiah. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and waneld il high esteem.

Isaiah Loomis, father of Alba W., s bori Dec. 26, 1780, in the home just menti-ed, and was educated in the district school. In yc g man hood he taught school. He purchased hom farm and conducted the tavern until al ft 1843 when it ceased to be profitable, and he wa filso en gaged in surveying, a knowledge of whi he had acquired by himself. His death occurred fry sud denly, on the farm where he was borr June & 1855, and he was buried in the yard at Li ty Hill In politics he was a Democrat, and he serve as con stable, assessor and also on the board of ref. MI Loomis was successful in all his undertalegs, an was a well-known man in his day; he sced as lieutenant in the local militia. His deat was ro garded as a public sorrow. He was an tenday and liberal supporter of the Baptist Chur

Mr. Loomis married, on May 18, 181 Hulda P. Fitch, of Windham, who was a dauglfr of h father's second wife. She died March 5, 187 aged seventy-eight years. Their child |1 wer Noven a til here sl Rebecca B., born April 22, 1816, married ber, 1836, Calvin Hale, and they resided in Lebanon and later in Norwich Town, died ; he was a shoe and harness maker B., born March 24, 1818, died in 1823. J Abiga born Dec. 16, 1821, married in 1861 Jane Villian se Fito was a carpenter and farmer, and died (

Liber Hill. George Henry Lathrop, born July9, 18. married April II, 1854, Amy Louise Ba pck, a died at Chestnut Hill. Gideon P., born sept. : 1826, is unmarried and resides at Che: ut H Alba Williams was born March 21, 1829 his twin sister, died April 19, 1843. Abig:

Alba W. Loomis was born on the ! meste: attended the district schools, and resided nder t parental roof, assisting his father, un

he v. twenty-four years of age. While a lad mechanical ability and as he grew older self very useful in repairing watches, cles, gu etc., saving many dollars to the family rse. the age of twenty-four he went to Haford a secured work in the Colt pistol factory, main there almost two years. When he left } was o ployed in the finishing department. Af a sh time at home he made a trip to the vicinityof Cle land, Ohio, and there started into busines is a g

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al retirer, and was doing very well when the ath chhis father recalled him home. He then took arge anage vil wł: tivity ploy r mo: n and affairs for his mother and assisted in the ent of the farm until the opening of the started the different armory works into when he went to Norwich and was there in the armory, making guns and bayonets, than a year. He then returned to Leba- uilt a residence on his portion of the home rm, wo ch remains his home. He bought the in- rest ( res a the other heirs and acquired sixty-eight now has a farm of eighty acres. Mr. as been a successful farmer, and besides omis endir to his agricultural labors found work for ery hl r as an expert in watch and gun repair ork, i at act me ti which he took great pleasure, continuing ty for many years, but has given it up for past. In politics he is a stanch Demo- at, bul e has never desired to hold office. He is own oughout his neighborhood for his kindli- pleasant, sociable nature, and his friends inted on every side.

omis was united in marriage, Aug. 14, Alice Lucinda Babcock, who was born 837, in Franklin, Conn., but at that time ig in Salem. She is a daughter of Silas d Dow s (Greenman) Babcock. One son came this gion, Frederick William, born Oct. 29, Ijs education was obtained in both public l prive schools, and he remained at home until

age twenty-two years, assisting his father h in : ming and in his mechanical work, having eritedhis father's skill. He then went to Sar- tc Laf, N. Y., where he was employed for a watch repairer, but his health failed and e as retund home for a year to build up again. on h return to Saranac Lake he purchased a k an tationery store, which was located in the stoffic omis h an building there. Very soon after Mr. k charge of the store trade increased to ent that he felt justified in regarding the ce as permanent home and in the erection of hands e business block, 36x60 feet. Here he dles ine line of goods. He married Harriet eland} f Westport, New York.

ROB chinis 1ghn wich John live a mi Robe le of

IT HENDERSON, for many years a but now a pattern maker for A. H. Sons, is a highly respected citizen of nd resides at No. 213 Central avenue.

enderson, the grandfather of our sub- nd died near Edinburgh, Scotland, and right by occupation.

Henderson, the son of John, learned the lwright, and for a number of years was loyed: it. Later he engaged in the coal busi- , and as thus occupied for several years pre- an

is to coming to America. In 1854, with his children, except his eldest son and nd State .! ighter, he embarked for the Uni- 1 a steamer, and after a voyage of eight-

een days landed at Philadelphia, Pa., and came di- rect to Norwich, where his son-in-law, Alexander C. Borthwick, was residing. He made his home in Norwich the rest of his life, and followed the oc- cupation of millwright. He died Nov. 2, 1875, in his seventy-sixth year. Robert Henderson, Sr., married Ann Cowan, whom he survived, as she died in Norwich, at the age of seventy-six years. Their children were Margaret, who became the wife of James Francis, and died in Norwich; John, a retired merchant, residing in Waterbury, Conn., who came to the United States several years later than his parents; Ellen, who became the wife of Alexander C. Borthwick, of Norwich, and died July 31, 1901; Jeannette, who married Thomas White, and died in New Haven, Conn .; Robert ; James, who is a mechanic, and resides on Prospect street, Norwich.

Robert Henderson, the younger, was born Aug. II, 1830, in Perthshire, near Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended school until near the age of twelve years, but after he was eight, went only to night school, as at that age he began working in a paper mill, where he remained until he was fourteen. At that age he was apprenticed for five years to learn the trade of millwright and machinist, and being a nat- ural mechanic he learned very readily. Three years. of this time he worked as a millwright, and two years as a machinist, but he had very small wages, as was customary at that time. He was employed at his trade there until the family came to America, and he and his wife and two children accompanied his parents and their family.

Mr. Henderson soon found work in his adopted country with Peleg Rose, the well-known mill- wright, at Norwich, and remained with him a few months, when he entered the employ of the Chel- sea Paper Company, under James Wilson, who was the head of the mechanical department of the mill. Mr. Henderson was there for three years, when he took charge of the machinery and remained there for five years more. He then went to Lanca- shire, England, where for a year he was employed in a paper mill. While in England his first wife died there. Returning to America, he located at Norwich for a few months, and then went to Wat- erbury, Conn., and later to Windsor Locks, where he was the head of the mechanical department of a paper mill. Later he occupied a better position in a paper mill at Rainbow, in the town of Windsor, for a year and a half, and then returned to Greene- ville, to take his former position in the mills of the Chelsea Paper Company. For a couple of years. he was engaged in the paper manufacturing busi- ness with his brother-in-law, Mr. Borthwick, at Chaplin, Conn., but withdrew from that and took charge of the mechanical work in a mill at Buck- land, Conn. His health failing, he located on a farm in Watertown, Conn., and, as a result of the out-of-door life for four years, he regained his. health. After his recovery he went to Norwich, and

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for many years has been a pattern maker there in the employ of A. H. Vaughn & Sons, and others. At the present time he does practically no work at his trade.

Mr. Henderson was first married in his native town to Miss Elizabeth Scott, who died in Lanca- shire, England, in 1863, at the age of thirty-two years. She was the mother of six children: (1) Robert, who is foreman in a factory in Thomaston, Conn., married Mary Manson, and has three chil- dren; (2) Christina died young; (3) William S., a foreman in the employ of the Waterbury Clock Works at Waterbury, Conn., is married and has four children ; (4) Anna C. married Henry Fensley, of Norwich, and they have three children; (5) Ellen B. married John F. Cochran, of Norwich, and has five children; (6) Jane married Edwin L. Bur- nap, of Norwich, and has had four children, three of whom are now living.

For his second wife, Mr. Henderson married, on June 11, 1864, in Norwich, Agnes Crawford, a native of Paisley, Scotland, daughter of William Crawford. Her father was a carpet weaver by occupation, who came from Scotland to America in 1845, and died in Norwich. There have been two children by the second. marriage: (1) Mary G. graduated from the Norwich Free Academy, and the Normal School at Norwich, and attended the Willimantic Normal School. She taught in the public schools for several years. She received drawing instructions from Miss Dunn, of Williman- tic, and at present is teacher of drawing in the Broadway School. (2) Josephine C., wife of Lewis Woodman, resides at Providence, Rhode Island.

Politically Mr. Henderson is a Republican on national questions, but in local matters votes for the best men regardless of party lines. He is a member of the Greeneville Congregational Church, a man of intelligence, naturally of a studious in- clination, and is very well read. He has always been a hard worker, and is most highly respected both for his success and for the honorable methods by which it has been achieved.

SCHOLFIELD. The Scholfield family is an old and honored one in New London county, where its progenitors, Arthur and John Scholfield, were the first successful woolen manufacturers in Con- necticut, and in the United States.

(I) Great-grandfather Arthur Scholfield was a spectacle maker in England, where he died in 1812, when about seventy-eight years of age, leaving to his children about twenty-five pounds sterling. His home was at the foot of Standish, or Standige Hill, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire. He was the father of the following children: (1) Arthur, who emigrated to America with his brother John, and later settled in Pittsfield, Mass .; (2) John, grandfather of Charles Fox, John Fox, Benjamin Franklin, and Hannah Fox; (3) Joseph ; (4) James, who met his death by drowning; (5) Benjamin, who followed

the sea ; (6) Abraham, who died abo1 1825. ster out issue, and left his fortune of £1,6 his brothers; (7) Isaac, who came tofhis c several years later than his elder Mother settled in Boston, Mass., where he wasfi merchant.

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Arthur Scholfield was a citizen foot, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Engend, March 24, 1793, his two sons, John Ind A with the family of the former-a wife Ind si ited tred a in C dren-sailed from Liverpool for the in the ship "Perseverance." They ar ton, Mass., in May, and settled at fir town, near Bunker Hill. There they imaine August, constructing machinery, and 1 king rations for the manufacture of wooler loth. then made themselves known to Jedliah author of "Morse's Geography and zette manufacturers skilled in the most a roved lish methods of making woolen goo and turn introduced them to some wealthy tien of buryport. The latter, glad to avail this skilled knowledge, at once erecte fa fact Lemsel Byfield, near Newburyport, which

hey under the supervision of the Schol ld br There they constructed the first woo cardin chine put in use in the United Stat whi operated by hand until the factory wayready ceive it. All the machinery was con: ucted their supervision, and when the facto bega ning John Scholfield was employed a agent business prospered, and was the firstwoole tory to be conducted advantageously the .led t States, all previous attempts having imperfect machinery. When they hadbeen field about five years, John Scholfield, n one trips through Connecticut and Rhoc Islan covered a valuable water privilege nor the of the Oxoboxo river, in the townof Mo Conn. This he desired to purchase, fut w; and nents only to secure a lease for fourteen year as he could make the necessary arrang there, erecting a factory (where nowstands son's Dye-Works), which after ope ting years he sold to John and Nathan Cc stock mill, put into operation in 1798, was t

first mill in Connecticut. The brothers arried successful business in Montville, ur thei expired in 1812, carding rolls, and anufa woolen cloth. In 1802 or 1803 Artır So settled in Pittsfield, Mass., where heprodu first piece of broadcloth made in this puntr Scholfield, after an unsuccessful atteint to Montville privilege, at the expirationof hi con, a purchased a mill privilege at Stonir

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river, removing to the latter place i. 1814. he remained until his death, Feb. 28, 320, v was sixty-two years of age. His wifesurviy until March 29, 1845, when she died 1 Wa

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tere she was visiting her son Thomas, aged hty-two.

(II) John Scholfield, born about 1758, in Sad- ·worth, Yorkshire, England, married in 1781, unnah Fox, whose birth occurred in England out the year 1763. Their children were as fol- vS: (I) John, born in England in November, 32, married Betsey Comstock. In the early thir- ; he emigrated to Michigan, making the trip on t from New England. He took up land in Mich- n, on which he lived until his death at an ad- iced age. (2) James, born in England, Sept. 1784, married Anna Comstock. He settled in ntville, Conn., where he was a manufacturer ; he d there when over ninety-eight years of age. (3) ry, born in England, Feb. 4, 1787, married omas Hinckley, and died in Stonington, Conn. Joseph, born in England, March 23, 1789, mar- 1 Mercy Newberry, and was the father of Charles «, John Fox and Benjamin Franklin, mentioned ow. (5) Thomas, born in England, March 21, I, married Cynthia Ross. He was a manufac- er, and made the first piece of satinet manufac- ed by power loom in Connecticut. He settled first Waterford, in 1814, where he owned a small fac- y which he afterward sold. In 1866 he moved to ntville; living there until 1882, when he went to rth Lyme, where he lived until his death at the of 101 years. (6) Martha, born in England, . 27, 1793, married Harry Vincent, and both died Montville. He carried on a mill on the Oxoboxo er in Montville, on the water privilege now led by Raymond N. Parish. (7) Benjamin, born Byfield, Mass., Jan. 26, 1796, married Caroline Iden. He was engaged in the Montville woolen 14 with his brother-in-law, Harry Vincent. His e died Jan. 28, 1878, and he survived her until gust 19th, of the same year. (8) A son died in ncy. (9) Hannah, born in Byfield, Jan. 26, 8, married Elias Strickland, a farmer of Water-

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Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 69

Author: Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1568

Author:
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1568