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elections to the office of church-warden an 1 by the excellent marriages of his daughters.
Edmund Quincy was baptized December 21. 1559. He may have been the son of John, Thomas er Richard Quincy, all of whom were living in that parish at the time of his birth. Hle married, October 15. 1593, AAnne Palmer at Lilford. Children (baptismal dates ) : Anne. September 22, 1504: Elizabeth, January 25. 1596: Helen, or Ellen, April 5. 1598: Alice, September 24. 1600: Edmund, mentioned le- low: Denis, February 17, 1604-05, buried June 25 following: Francis. November 16. 1606: Christian, married Gabriel Munnes: John, May 16, tour: William, January 31. IĆI2-13: Themas. August 27, 1015.
( II ) Edmend (2). son of Edmund ( 1) Quincy. was the immigrant. He was baptized at Lilford. May 30. 1602, and was married at Lilford to Judith Pares ( Paris). The chil- dren they had in England were doubtless baptized at Achurch (or Thorpe-Achurch ). county Northampton, England. About the time of his father's death in 1028. he emi- grated to New England1. afterwards return- ing to bring hi- family. He came again with his family in company with Rev. John Cot- ton from Lincolnshire. England, landing in Boston. September 4. 1033. In the colonial records he is given the title of Mr., then re- stricted to designate men of quality. He was admitted to the church with his wife Judith in November, 1633. He was member of a committee to assess rates November 10. 1634. The town of Boston voted that his lands and those of William Coddington at Mount Wol- laston ( Braintree) should be "bounded out" December 14. 1635. He was member of a committee to lay out lands there January 4. 1635-36. "That he was a man of substance may be inferred from his bringing six serv- ants with him: and that he was a man of weight among the founders of the new com- monwealth appears from his election as a representative of the town of Boston in the first general court ever held in Massachu- setts Bay ( 1634). He was also the first named on the committee appointed (1634) by the town to assess and raise the sum necessary to extinguish the title of Mr. Blakestone to the peninsula on which the city stands. In com- pany with William Coddington, after gov- ernor of Rhode Island, he bought of Chicka- tabut. sachem of Mos-wachuset, a tract of land at Mount Wollaston, confirmed to them by the town of Boston in March. 1636, a portion of which is vet in the family." Ile died about 1636. "immediately after he had built a house yet standing on the estate at Mount Wollaston." His widow married Mo-
ses Pain.c, who died in 1643, and she mar- ried ( third ) Robert Hull, facher of her son- in-law John Hull, mentioned below : she was dismissed from Boston to the Braintree church March 30, 1646. She died November 20, 1654. Children: Judith, born September 3. 1626; Edmund, mentioned below.
( III ) Colonel Edmund Quincy, son of El- mund (2) Quiney, was baptized in Englandl. March 15, 1628 and married (first) July 26, 1648, Joanna or Joane, sister of Kev. Leonard Hoar, ( H. C. 1650), third president of Harvard College, whose grandfather was Charles Hoar of Gloucester, England, and whose father was Sheriff Charles Ioare, of the "Cittie" of Gloucester. The illustriou- family of Concord, Massachusetts, of whom Senator George F. Hoar wascre. were of this lloar family. Mrs. Joanna ( Hoar ) Quincy died May 16, 1685. Edmund married ( -ec- ond) December 8. 1680, Elizabeth, daughter of Major General Daniel Gookin ( see Gookin ) and widow of Rev. John Eliot, elde-t son of Rev. John Eliot, the Indian apostle. He lived a private life on his estate at Braintree: was magistrate, representative to the general court. and lieutenant-colonel of the Suffolk regiment. When Governor Andross was deposed Quincy was chosen one of the committee of safety which formed the provisional government un- til the new charter of William and Mary ar- rived. He died January 8, 1697-98, leaving his second wife, who died November 30. 1,00. He had a military funeral, and his grave 1: marked by two granite stones in which his name and arms, cut in lead, were inserted. In the revolution the stones were robbed of the lead. and all knowledge of their object would have been lost had not President John Adams remembered the engravings on the lead. The same vandals broke the tablet on which the coat-of-arms was inscribed on the Quincy tomb. The fragments of this stone have been preserved by the family. Children of first wife: Mary. born March 4. 1650; Daniel, February 7. 1651 ; John, April 5, 1652: Joanna, April 16, 1654: Judith, June 25, 1655 : Elizabeth, September 28, 1656: Edmund. July 9, 1657, died young : Ruth, October 20. 16:8: Ann. about 1663. died September 3. 1676: Ex- perience. March 24, 1667 : children of secon 1 wife: Edmund. mentioned below ; Mary, De- cember 7. 1684.
( IV) Judge Edmund Quincy, son of Colonel Edmund Quincy, was born in Braintree, Oc- rober 14, 1681, graduated at Harvard College. 1600. Ile was in the public service all bi- life as a magistrate, councilor and justice of the supreme court. He was also colonel of the Suffolk regunent when that was a very
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important military body. In 1737 the general court appointed him its agent to represent it in the adjudication of the disputed boundary between Massachusetts Bay and New Hamp- shire. He died very soon after his arrival in London, February 23. 1737-38, of the smallpox, which he had taken by inoculation. He was buried in Bunhill Fields, where a monument was erected to him by the general court, which also made a grant of a thousand acres of land in the town of Lenox to his family in further recognition of his public services. Two portraits of Judge Quincy were painted by Smybert, in 1728. one of which is deposited in the Boston Art Museum, the other preserved by the family of the late Edmund Quiney of Dedham, mentioned below. He married. November 20, 1701, Dorothy. daughter of Rev. Josiah Flint ( Flynt ) ( H. C. 1664) of Dorchester. Children, born at Braintree: Edmund, June 13, 1703, married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Wendeil. their daughter Dorothy, born May 10, 1747. married (first) Hon. John Hancock. first signer of the Declaration of Independence. afterwards governor of Massachusetts. (sec- ond) Captain James Scott, July 27. 1796; Elizabeth, born October 17. 1706. married No- vember 10, 1724. John Wendell, brother of the wife of her brother Edmund ( see Wen- dell IV) : Josiah. April 1, 1710: Dorothy, Jan- uary 4. 1709. married Edward Jackson. De- cember 7, 1738, the "Dorothy Q." of Oliver Wendel! Holmes's poem ; she was an ancestor of Dr. Holmes.
(The Wolcott Line).
(V) William Wolcott, son of Simon Wol- cott (q. v.), was born November 6, 1676, and lived at South Windsor. He was "a large. fleshy man, very handsome and good-na- tured." He married, November 5. 1706, Abiah Hawley, and he died January 27, 1749. She died June 16, 1716. Children: Abiah. Jan- uary 14. 1708: Lucia, May 7. 1710: William, mentioned below : Ephraim, March 13. 17144; Martha, January 20, 1718.
(VI) William. son of William Wolcott, was born at Windsor. Tely 21. Git, gradu- ated at Yale in 1734. The year after he grad- uated he resided at the college as the holder of the Berkeley scholarship and taught in the Hopkins grammar school. He was then ap- pointed a tutor in the college. beginning Sep- tember. 1735. and continuing to commence- ment. 1736. Hle re-ided at South Windsor : was justice of the peace; for many years rop- resentative to the general assembly : active patriot during the revolution, chairman of the town committee of correspondence and of the
county committee of observation. He died May 22, 1799. "Throughout a prolonged life he was a pillar of the church and an orna- ment to his Christian profession ; his life was pure, beneficent, approved of God and man, and happy was his end." He married ( first ) February 26, 1746-47, Abigail, daughter of Abiel and Abigail Abbott. She died October 12, 1763, and he married ( second ) Naomi, widow of his first cousin, Captain Gideon Wolcott. She died November ;, 1775. Chil- dren : Eunice, born December II. 1747 ; Eu- nice, March I, 1750: Abigail, December 25, 1751, died 1752; William. February 10. 1753; Abigail, February 8. 1755-56, married Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (see Ellsworth) ; Martha, April 23, 1757 ; Abiel, major, August 10, 1761.
(V) Lieutenant Henry Wolcott, son of Si- mon Wolcott, was born May 20, 1670, and died November 17, 1747. He was one of the original proprietors of Tolland and Welling- ton, Connecticut, a man of affairs in town. and like most of the family tall of stature. He married, ( first ) April 1. 1696. Jane Al- lyn, horn July 22, 1670, died April 11, 1702, daughter of Thomas Allyn: (second ) Rachel Talcott, who died January 8, 1725-26. He lived at South Windsor, a mile from the pres- ent church. Children: Henry, born Febru- ary 28. 1697: Thomas. April 1. 1702: Peter : Rachel : Jane, October 20, 1710: Gideon, men- tioned below.
(VI) Captain Gideon Wolcott, son of Hen- ry Wolcott, was born at Windsor, in 1712. He commanded one of the companies in the French and Indian war in 1;60; "his contem- poraries and those who knew him best regard- ed him as one of nature's noblemen." He died June 5. 1761. He married ( first ) Feb- ruary 27, 1739-40. Abigail Mather. horn May 31. 1718, died June 1741 ; (second) Naomi Olmstead, born March 1. 1721, died Novem- ber 7. 1775. daughter of Deacon Joseph and Hannah Mather Olmstead, and she married (second) William Wolcott. mentioned above. Children: Abigail, born April 0. 1741 : Sam- tel, mentioned below: Naomi, September 28. 1754: Gideon. November 28, 1756; Elizur, April 12, 1760.
(VII) Samuel, son of Gideon Wolcott, was born April 4. 1751. He was a soldier in the Revolution, from South Windsor. "When a young man he was a figure of manly beauty. near six feet high. robust frame. dark hair and eyes of dark hazel and uncommon bright- ness, features regular, and a countenance in- dicative of a strong and active mind: in ac- tive and extensive busines, distinguished for incorruptible integrity, a most judicious coun-
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.elor. beloved by numerous acquaintances." Ile married. December 20. 1774, Jerusha Wol- cott, who died at East Windsor. March 19, 1844, aged eighty-eight, daughter of General Erastus Wolcott. mentioned below. Samuel died June 7. 1813. Children: Jerusha, Oc- tober 8. 1775 : Naomi, October 10. 1777 : Sam- nel. December 12. 1781 : Elihu. February 12. 1784: Sophia. March 29, 1786. married Mar- tin Ellsworth (see Ellsworth ) ; Ursula. No- vember 17. 1788: Elizabeth. September 23, 1791 : Horace, March 25. 1794.
(VI) General Erastus Wolcott. son of Gov- ernor Roger Wolcott, grandson of Simon, son of Henry, the immigrant, was born at Wind- sor, September 21, 1722, and settled in South Windsor ; was repeatedfy representative to the general assembly : speaker of the house: jus- tice of the peace: judge of probate: chief judge of the county court: representative to congress : judge of superior court : brigadier- general of Connecticut troops in the revolu- tion. In the spring of 1775 he was sent with Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, afterwards presi- dent of Columbia College, from the Connecti- cut legislature to treat with General Gage. then commanding the British troops at Bos- ton -- an interview from which the delegates gained only specious and delusive promises of peace. In 1776 he commanded a regiment at Boston under Washington : after the evacua- tion he fortified New London and garrisoned Forts Trumbull and Griswold : commissioned brigadier-general in 1777 and served at and about Peekskill. New York. "He was a firm patriot and able advocate for the liberties of his country : and Yale College, in recognition of his personal worth and public services. be- stowed upon him an honorary degree. In per- son he was tall. of a large frame, with light- gray eyes and light hair, reserved in conver- sation, and with such a reputation for sagac- ity as earned for him among his neighbors the sobriquet of 'Old Long-head.' Plain in manners, accessible to and patient with all. he was very decided when he had once made up his mind : and he was noble-hearted and gen- erous : with no ambition for public life. ac- cepting such as were offered him from a sim- ple and sincere sense of duty." The sermon preached by Rev. David McClure at his fu- neral was published. He died September 14. 1793.
He married. February 10, 1746, Jeru-ha Wolcott, who died June 2. 1789. daughter of John Wolcott. mentioned below. Children: Erastus. December 24. 1747 : Flavia, May 27. 1750; Erastus. captain, July 6, 1752: Flavia, January 5: 1754: Jerusha. November 20. 1755; married December 29, 1774. Samuel Wolcott,
mentioned above : Arodi. September 29. 1759- 60: Albert. December 1. 11.
( IV ) Henry, son of Henry Wolcott, the immigift, was born January 21. IGIO-II, almitted a freeman at Boston, April 1, 1634, and was then a member of the Dorchester church: removed to Windsor in 1636; was an importing merchant, and was in England on business in 1634 and 1671 ; engaged in pub- lic life, and was one of the nineteen promi- nent men of the colony named in the charter of Connecticut: a member of the house of deputies in 1660. and of the house of magis- trates in 1662. and annually re-elected until his death. He was a master of short-hand, in which he preserved much of interest and value to Windsor history: gave much atten- tion to fruit culture : was prominent in the church. He married, November 8, 1641. Sar- ah Newberry, daughter of Thomas. She died July 16. 1684, and he died July 12, 1680. Children : Henry, born January 6. 1643; John, mentioned below : Samuel, October 8, 1647: Sarah. July 5. 1649: Mary. December 6, 1651 : Hannah, March 8, 1053-54: Samuel, born and baptized April 16, 1656: Jo-iah, July 21. 1658.
(\) John. son of Henry Wolcott. was born February 28. 1644-45 : settled at Wethersfield. where he was townsman in 1679: removed to Windsor and was deputy to the general court in 1698 and afterward. He married ( first) February 13, 1677. Mary, daughter of Cap- tain John Chester and granddaughter of Gov- ernor Thomas Wells. She was born Decen- ber 23. 1654, and died July 10. 168. He mar- ried (second) June 22. 1692, Mrs. Hannah Nicholas, of Stamford. He died Jannary 23, 1711-12. Children: John, mentioned below : Henry, born August 7, 1679: Lientenant Charles, September 3. 1681 : George. October 20, 1683 : Benjamin ( went to England to pre- sent a claim for the ancestral Wolcott es- tate ) : Mary, married John Eliot, grandson of Rev. John. the Indian apostle.
(VI) John, son of John Wolcott. was born at Windsor, November 20. 16;7 : married. De- cember 14. 1703. Hannah Newberry. died Au- gust 20. 1750. (see Newberry). She was born February 10. 1679, died 1719, daughter of Thomas. Children, born at Windsor: Mary, September 18. 1704: Hannah. October 21. 1706: John, April 24. 1708-00: Anne. Decem- ber 9. 1711 : Abigail. September 26. 1716: le- rusha. January 18, 1718-19. married Februar; 10, 1746, General Erastus Wolcott. mentioned above.
( The Ellsworth Line ).
(V) Martin Ellsworth, son of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (q.v.), was born at Windsor.
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April 17, 1783: graduated at Yale College in ISO1 and died at Windsor in 1857. He was a major in the militia. He succeeded Judge Ellsworth in the occupancy of the family man- sion, now belonging to the Connectiont Dangh- ters of the American Revolution, presented to them by the heirs of Oliver Ellsworth, October 8, 1903. He married, October 19, 1807. So- phia. daughter of Samuel Wolcott, of East Windsor. Their daughter. Delia Williams, born June 20. 1818, at Windsor, died January 23. 1880. at Hartford. married, September 25. 1839, at Windsor. Henry Griswold Taintor (sec Taintor IN').
(The Strong ·Line).
(1\') John Strong, son of John Strong (q. v.), was born at Windsor, Connecticut, July 14. 1707, died October 1, 1793: married Hepzibah. born June 23, 1717. daughter of Governor Roger Wolcott ( see Wolcott ). No- vember 10. 1737. and she died November 9. 1780. Children, born at Windsor: Mary. died September 18. 1751. aged two years: Elnathan. born July 30. 1740: Hepzibah. April Il. 1742: Zerviah. December 13. 1745 : Mary. May, 1749: Zerviah, July 25, 1752: John. Ant- gust 12. 1754. died young ; Ellen Raynor. Jan- uary 22, 1759; John, mentioned below : Sarah. baptized November 29. 1761.
(V) John, son of John Strong, was born at Windsor. May 28, 1760; married, in No- vember. 1781, Lydia Sumner. He was a farmer. Children, born at East Windsor : Elnathan. baptized November 24. 1782, died unmarried October 10. 1834. William. men- tioned below : Sophia. July 10, 1788. married Peter Dobson, a manufacturer of Vernon. Connecticut.
(VT) William, son of John Strong. was born in East Windsor, July 24. 1785, died at Hartford. November 10. 1841: married, in May, 1813. Naomi Terry, born September 21. 1787. of South Windsor. He followed farm- ing until 1828. when he removed to Hartford and engaged in the leather business. His wife died December 1. 1800. Children: [ Jane Naomi, born February 24. 081.1. married Charles Pitkin Welles, of Hartford, who died March 3. 1876: she died June 8. 1885. 2. Charlotte Maria, born September to. ISIS; married Hiram Wolcott Warner, who died in 1874: she die I December 25. 1879. 3. Lucy Terry. born August 24. 1817: married Gus- tavus Fellowes Davis (see Davis). 4. Wil- liam Summer. born February 20. 1820: mar- ried, in i84. Adaline Irwin Blish. resided at Kenosha. Wisconsin : he died November 1. 1888: she died fletcher 20. 18;1. 5. Emily Elizabeth, born February 2. 1823: married
Josiah Bond, of Kenosha. Wisconsin. 6. Clara. born at Hartford, March 25, 1831 : married Rodney Dennis, of Hartford, secretary of the Travelers' Life and Accident Insurance Com- pany : she died June 7, 1888.
( The Newberry Line).
( [) Thomas Newberry, the immigrant. was one of the earliest settlers and largest landed proprietors of Dorchester, Massachusetts. He received from the general court a grant of a hundred acres on Neponset, March, 1634. and many grants in Dorchester: laid out a large farm in Squantum: lived on "the Rock" in 1634; was freeman and selectman : was early engaged in the Connecticut enterprise and sold his lands at Dorchester, planning to remove to Windsor. but his death in December. 1635. or January: 1636, cut short his plans. His widow and children went thither about 1640. His widow Jane married ( second ) Rev. John Warham. Children: Joseph! John; Major Benjamin, mentioned below : Rebecca : Mary. married Daniel Clark, their daughter Elizabeth married ( first ) Cook, ( second) Job Drake. their daughter Sarah married Roger Wolcott : Hannah : Sarah, married Henry Wolcott (see Wolcott ).
(11) Major Benjamin Newberry. son of Thomas Newberry, was the first of the seven proprietors of Windsor to whom the patent was granted in 1685 : commanded the military department of the colony: died September 11. 108: married, June 11, 1646, Mary, daughter of Matthew Allyn, of Windsor. Chiklren : Mary, born March To. 1647-48: Sarah. June 14, 1650: Hannah. December 22. 1952: Re- becca. May 2. 1655: Thomas, mentioned be- low ; Abigail, May 14, 1650: Margaret. Oct- ber 13. 1662; Benjamin, April 20, 1669: Han- nah. July 1. 1673.
( III ) Thomas, son of Benjamin Newberry, was born at Windsor. September 1. 1657 : mar- ried, May 12, 16;6, Ann Ford. daughter of Thomas. She died August 29. 1688 ; he, April 30. 1088, in camp, during the war. Children, born at Windsor: Thomas. January 20. 1677; Hannah. February 10, 10,9. married John Wolcott ( see Wolcott ) : Thomas, March 2S. 187; Thomas, March 22, 1083 : Joseph, ser- geant. October 24. 1684: Benjamin, February 18. 1686.
( The Grant Line).
: IT[) Samvel Grant, son of Samuel Grant 14. 1.1. and Mary ( Porter), was born at Windsor. April 20, 1650. He was a carpen- ter. He married there. December 6. DR3. Anna Filley. horn August 16. 1664. daughter of Samuel and Anna ( Gillet ) Filles. She died April 18. 1086, and he married ( second ) lini
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11, 1688, Grace Minor. bora at Stonington. September 20. 1670. daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Booth ) Minor, granddaughter of Captain Thomas and Grace ( Palmer ) Minor. Thomas was son of William Minor. Grant died May 8, 1710, and his wife died April 16, 1753.
Child of first wife: Sarah, born September 2, 1684, married. July 19. 1705. Thomas Skin- ner. Children of second wife: Hannah, March 28, 1089; Samuel, September 1, 1691; Noah. December 16, 1693; Abigail, December 18, 1695, married January 9. 1717-18, Abiel Abbott, born August 10, 1693, died 1758, she died August 22, 1724, their daughter Abigail Abbott married William Wolcott ( see Wol- cott VI) : Ephraim. August 24. 1698; Grace. August 17, 1701 : David, December 10, 1703; Ebenezer, October 20. 1706.
(II) Tahan, son of Matthew Grant, and brother of Samuel Grant, who married Mary Porter ( mentioned above ), was born at Dor- chester, February 3. 1633-34: a blacksmith by trade: settled in Windsor: married. January 22, 1662-63, Hannah Palmer, baptized at Windsor. October 11, 1640, daughter of Nich- olas and Joan Palmer. He was one of the petitioners for the new town May 13, 1680; died there May 30, 1693. He resided on the Michael Try lot in the Palizado. Children : Matthew, January 4, 1664; Tahan, Septem- ber 27, 1665 : Hannah. June 8, 1668; Thomas, February 20, 1670: Joseph, May 14, 1673; Sarah. September 19. 1675, married Jonathan Ellsworth ( see Ellsworth ) ; Mary, October 23. 1678; son, November 11, 1680.
(The Bulkeley Line).
(XVI) Gershom Bulkeley, son of Rev. John Bulkeley, was born in Colchester, February 4, 1709; a prominent citizen of that town, holding many offices ; married, November 28. 1733. AAbigail Robbins. Children, born at Co !- chester : Sarah. January 10. 1735, married John Taintor. in 1758 ( see Taintor ) ; John, mentioned below ; Joshua, February 24, 1741 ; Daniel, May 13. 1744; Eunice. May 14, 1747; David, July 18. 1749: Roger, September 14, 1751 ; Ann, May II. 1758.
(XVII) John, son of Gershom Bulkeley, was born in Colchester, August 23. 1738 : mar- ried, January 11, 1750. Judith Worthington. Children : John. October 7. 1759: William. August 30, 1761; Gershom, October 3. 1703; Elijah, January 20. 1766: Nabby, December 30, 1769, married Roger Taintor: Joshua Robbins. November 2, 1771 : Mary, February 2. 1774: Judith, January 30. 1775. married Solomon Taintor (see Taintor ) : Gurdon. March 15. 1777: Gad. February 20, 1779:
Lydia, April 25, 1781 ; Dan, March 20, 1784; Harriet, January 22, 1787.
(The Taintor Line).
( I) Charles Taintor, the first of the line here under consideration of whom we have information, was a resident of South Wales, from whence he emigrated to America with his family in consequence of religious perse- cution, being deprived of a large estate in Wales by confiscation. He made his home in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he was the owner of real estate. He was a ship owner. made foreign voyages, and was lost at sca in 1654.
( II) Michael, son of Charles Taintor, was born in Wales, died at Branford, Connecticut, in 1672-73. The following was taken from "The Genealogy and History of the Taintor Family," by Charles M. Taintor, published at Greenfield in 1847: "In him we find the ship master and man of enterprise, the legislator and consistent Christian professor, the com- missioner and judge, the puritan and patri- arch, bringing up his family in the fear of God. From all that can be known of him it appears evident that he was a man of influ- ence and discretion, and posterity held his name in great respect and veneration for his nobleness and integrity of character."
( III ) Micaiell. son of Michael Taintor, re- moved in early life to Windsor, Connecticut. In 1698 the legislature of Connecticut passed a resolution providing that a new plantation should be made at a place called Young's Farms. between Middletown and Norwich, and the Rev. John Bulkeley was appointed to lead out the new colony. Among the most proini- nent persons enrolled in this enterprise were Micaiell Taintor and his brother-in-law. John Loomis, and this was the beginning of the present town of Colchester. He was "one of her Majesty's justices of the peace" ( Queen Anne) a member of the general assembly for twenty-six sessions, town clerk of Colchester from its settlement until his death. He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries as an ornament to the town, as a man of high moral worth, superior abilities and attainments.
( IV) Deacon Micaiell (2), son of Micaie!l ( I) Taintor, was born at Windsor, lived in Colchester, and died on the place where his father settled, at the advanced age of ninety- one years. "His word was a bond and his love of justice and truth as manifested in his life was proverbial."
The line is continued through John, married Sarah Bulkeley; Solomon. inarried Judith Bulkeley; to Henry Griswold. married Delia Williams Ellsworth.
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