Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 25

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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The surname Hubbard dates

HUBBARD from the first use of family names in England and was doubtless in earlier times a personal nante. Some writers think it a modification of the Danish name Hubba. made famous by one of the sea-kings who conquered part of England. Several forms of spelling survive. Hubbard and Hobart being the most prominent as sur- names, Hubert and Herbert as personal names. In old records some fifty different spellings have been found and as late as the colonial pe- riod in America the variations are very num- erous. The English family has always been prominent and many of the branches have an- cient coats-of-arms. We find the records men- tioning a John Hubbard born about 1233, liv- ing in Tye, Norfolkshire, England. and from him a numerous posterity in that section of the country.

(1) George Hubbard. immigrant ancestor of this family, was born in England in 1001, probably in the eastern or southeastern part. He settled before 1639 in Hartford, Connecti- cut. Another George Hubbard. who settled in Wether-field, Connecticut, was doubtless a relative. but not his father. William Hub- bard and Thomas Hubbard, also of Hartford, among the early settlers, seem also to be closely

related. George Hubbard came with the first settlers overland from the Massachusetts Bay colony. He was given six acres of land "by courtesy of the town, with privilege of wood and keeping cows on the common" and re- sided on a lot adjacent to land of Jamies En- sign and George Graves on a road that ran parallel with the Connecticut river, from the south meadow to George Steele's place. In 1640 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Rich- ard and Elizabeth Watts, and was then as- signed a home lot and land on the east side of the Connecticut river. He moved in March, 1650-51. with about fifteen other settlers and their families to Mattabeseck, later called Mid- dletown, Connecticut. lle was licensed as an Indian agent and trader as early as 1650; in 1054 was admitted a freeman. He owned much land on both sides of the river. living on what is now Main street. He. with Thomas Wetmore and two others, gave land for the second meeting house. His son Joseph used to beat the drum to call the people to meet- ing or to warn them against hostile Indians. His will is dated May 22, 16SI, and it states his age as eighty years. His inventory is dated May 13, 1685, and it states that he died March 18, 1684. His widow died in 1702. One record says that "he was highly respected

Memorial Boulder on site of old Stockaded Meeting House.

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and of marked integrity and fairness." Chil- dren: Mary, born at Hartford, January 16, 1641-42: Joseph. December 10, 1043: Daniel. baptized December 7. 1645. died November 9. 1704: Samuel, born May, 1648. died Novem- ber 4, 1732: George. December 15, 1650: Na- thanie !. December 10, 1652, mentioned below ; Richard, July. 1655: Elizabeth, January 15. 1659.

( II) Nathaniel. son of George Hubbard. was born at Middletown. December 10. 1632. died there. May 20. 1738. He married, May 20. 1682, Mary Earle, born in 1663. died April 6, 1733. His gravestone is standing. He was a subscriber to the fund for the purchase of the Muidietown church bell. He lived at Long Hill on the cross roads. Middletown. Chil- dren. horn at Middletown: Mary, March o. 1683-84 : Abigail. February 16, 1685-86 : Eliza- heth, July 17. 1688; Nathaniel, September 14. 1690, mentioned below : John. Noveriber 28. 1602. mentioned below: Sarah. October 5. 1604: Ebenezer. October 2. 1600: Thankful. October 6. 1698: Hannah. July 4. 1700: Esther, July 20, 1702.

( III ) Nathaniel ( 2), son of Nathaniel ( I ) Hubbard. was born at Middletown. Con- necticut. September 14. 1600, died October 14. 1765. at Long Hill, Connecticut. He married. April 12. 1716. Sarah Johnson. who died in 1776. Children, born at Mid- dletown: Sarah. February 11. 1716-17; Nathaniel, January 5. 1718-19: Nehemiah, July 22, 1721: Samuel. October 8, 1723. re- moved with others of the family to Granville. Massachusetts : John. April 24. 1726: Eveline, February 14. 1727-28: David. August 23. 1730; Mary, April 10, 1733 : Noadiah. March 14. 1735-36. died young.

( III) John. son of Nathaniel ( 1) Hubbard. was born at Middletown. November 28. 1602 He married. August 1. 1722. Elizabeth Stowe. born 1088, died May 9. 186 ;. He was deacon of the Middletown church. His will was dated May 26. 1743. He died March 12, 1753. Children. horn at Middletown: John Earle. May 12 1,23 : Stepben. June 21. 1725 : Eliza- beth. April :8. 1720: Jonathan. December 30. 1730: Jeremial :. October 27. 1732. mentioned below : Benjamin, January 31. 1,35: Marina.

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April 18, 1737: Jabez. June 2. 1739. Jabez, April 7, 1743: Jemima, May 10, 1744.

( IV) Jeremiah, son of John Hubbard. was born at Middletown, October 27. 1732, died there March 7, 1814. He married, June 28, 1-81, Elizabeth, born February 3. 1748. daugh- ter of Deacon Joseph Meigs, of Madison. Con- necticut. When Guilford was threatened by the British during the revolution he marched to the defence of the town. His company at- tended church there and it is interesting to note that he sat in the pew of Deacon Meigs and there met for the first time the. deacon's daughter whom he afterward married. Chil- dren: Jeremiah, born March 29, 1784. men- tioned below: Josiah Meigs, born June 10, 1785, married Sarah Sill Hubbard. May 12. 1830, died November 16, 1862: two daugh- ters, died unmarried.

(V) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (1) Hubbard, was born at Middletown. March 29, 1784. He was a successful farmer. He acquired a competence. He bought the farm in the Long Hill district formerly owned by his grandfather. Deacon John Hubbard. but then held outside the family. He possessed great industry, integrity and enterprise, and was upright and honored by all his townsmen. He had a fine physique, we are toid. He was a member of the North Congregational Church ; held various public offices, including that of justice of the peace. His youngest son had the homestead. He married. Decem- ber 25, 1815. Eunice Prout, born 1795, died February 17, 1856. Children, born at Mid- dletown : 1. Herbert R .. November 11. IST7. died March 19. 1888 : married Charlotte Cran- dall, of New Haven. 2. Elizabeth R .. July 31, 1819. died at xieriden. June 21, 1891 : mar- ried Robert P. Rand. 3. Josiah. June 19. 1821, died July 30, 1801 : married Sarah Wil- cox. 4. Jeremiah, March 31. 1823. 5. Mary L., August 17, 1824, died unmarried at Mid- dletown. September 3. 18go. 6. George W., June 8. 1826, resided in Brooklyn, New York : married Anna Crampton. 7. Walter. April 23. 1828, of the firm of Bradley & Hubbard and Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Com- pany of Meriden, director of the Meriden Trust and Safe Deposit Company. member of the Union League Club, the New England Society. the American Geographical Society of New York : married. in 1852. Abby Ann. daughter of Levi Bradley. of Cheshire. sister of N. L. Bradley, his partner in business ; his wife died four months after marriage in Feb- ruary, 1853, aged twenty, and he never mar- ried again. 8. Harriet Ellen. October 7, 1830. died May 27, 1833. 9. Ebenezer Prout. June 15, 1833. died at Middlefieldl. January 10.

1894 : married, March 27, 1866, Martha Har- riet Heath, of Tyringham, Massachusetts.

(V1) Jeremiah (3), son of Jeremialt 12) Hubbard, was born at Middletown, March 31. 1823. died May 20, 1894. He was a lumber merchant and leading citizen of the town, also a contractor and builder. He married, August 17, 1847, Sophia Belden, born June 16, 1823, died June 13, 1893, daughter of Alvin Belden, of New Britain, Connecticut. Children, born at Middletown : I. Helen Louise, January 1, 1853: married. November 4, 1874. Frank B. Weeks, of Middletown, member of firm of Cowles & Weeks, wholesale grain merchants ; in 1909 governor of Con- necticut : no . children. 2. Walter Bulkley, mentioned below. 3. Anna Sophia, March 9, 1859: married. April 15. 1890, Rev. Arthur Titcomb, of Gilbertville ; no children.

(VII) Walter Bulkley, son of Jeremiah ( 3) Hubbard, was born in Middletown, Connecti- cut, May 31, 1855. On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Middletown, celebrated October Io and II. 1900, Mr. Hubbard was the lead- ing spirit in securing a memorial to the early settlers of the town. A large granite boulder, . with bronze tablet engraved with names of the original settlers (of whom George Hubbard, mentioned above. was one ) and of the Indians, from whom the land was purchased was placed upon the site of the old stockaded "meet- ing house." In the vestibule of the present "house of worship." on Court street, of "The First Church of Christ" in Middletown was placed May 19. 1910, a "Historical Tablet" which had been planned by Mr. Hubbard. It consists of three panels of antique brass, en- cased in a heavy frame of elegantly carved English oak The central panel has the date of the settlement of the town, with a brief sketch of the early worship here and a notice of the five buildings erected by the church. Underneath is the inscription :

To commemorate the faithful and uninterrupted worship of God in this community for over 250 years, this tablet is placed in the year of our Lord, 1910. "But I will, for their sakes, remember the covenant of their ancestors, I am the Lord."

On the left panel are carved the names of the founders of the church, November 4, 1608: on the right panel, the names of the ten pas- tors, with the dates of their service. It was fitting that this tablet be placed to Mr. Hub- bard's ahiding memory.

The men of the Hubbard family have been. as a rule, men of ability and integrity, loval to church and country- another feature has been their reserved and retiring temperament. so that much of their work and influence has

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been performed in so quiet a way as to have escaped public notice and comment. Walter Bulkley Hubbard was connected also with the families of Hosmer, Meigs, Wilcox and Wil- lard, all of whom gave noted service to their country, both in the colonial and the revolu- tionary periods, and whose descendants. even to the present day, hold honorable and import- ant positions.

Mr. Hubbard was a son of Jeremiah War- ren Hubbard. a lumber merchant, and much respected citizen. He was associated with his father in business for a time and then became cashier of the Middlesex County National Bank, also a director of the bank. and held the position seventeen years. until his. death. which occurred April 3, 1908. The 'tribute" paid him by the president and directors reads:

"He was a man of the highest integrity, loyal to all interests with which he was connected, and a true friend. with whom it was a privilege to associate.

1 Although not caring for public office. he was always interested in public affairs, and gave his time and thought to the work of helping his church and the city, where he has always re-ided."

The Middletown Savings Bank. incorpor- ated in 1825, passed these resolutions :

"Resolved, That it is with profound sorrow and regret we record the sudden decease of our late as- sociate, Mr. Walter B. Hubbard, whose efforts dur- ing the past nineteen year-, as a trustee and director of this bank, have been prompted by excellent judr- ment, constant devotion and conscientious regard for its best interests, and whose personality and influ- ence in this Board have been an inspiration to the highest conception of duty and adherence to princi- ples of justice and safety, and whose kindly methods have endeared him to us all."

His charming personality is spoken of by all who knew him. At the annual meeting. May, Igos. of the Middlesex County Histori- cal Society, the president. the Rev. A. W. Hazen, spoke these words :

"We come to our annual meeting under a shadow. The loss we have sastamed since we last gathered here is a heavy one, and we cannot resist a deep feeling of sadness. Indeed, who could be taken from our number creating a greater vacancy than has been caused by the suiden departure of Walter Balklay Hubbard? It is fiting that we pay our sincere homage to his memory. in view of what he was in himself, as well as in view of his eminent services to this society. A lineal descendant from one of the founders of Middletown a resident of this egy dur- ing all the fifty-three years of his life. he loved the place. and knew much of its history. He welcomed the project of forming a historical society here. and was helpful in the earliest days of the movement which gave to our county thus honorable institution For years he was the head of its membership com- mittee, and was instrumental in adding not a few names to our roll. After this edifice came into our possession he was the most natural person to be the leader of its house committee He entered upen the lack of preparing this building for our necepancy with all his cultivated taste, his sound judgment. and

his unsparing enthusiasm. Much of the present at- tractiveness of our rooms and of the expansion of the Society is due to the wisdom, the sentiment and !!.: labor of Mr. Hubbard, while it is known in his friend- that he was revolving other plads in his fertile brain which might contribute to our advance- ment, and to the welfare of our entire constituency In short, Walter Bulkley Hubbard, by reason of his unblemished character, his business sagacity, his re- fined sensibilities, his tireless industry and his loy- alty to the town in which he hved, alike with his constant devotion to the things which elevate hn- manity, was a citizen whom Muldletown will long remember with sincere gratitude. The Middlesex County Historical Society surely cannot scon forget his unflagging zeal in its behalf, and it is most .in- propriate that we place on record our sense of obli- gation to him."

Mr. Hubbard had a keen artistic sense, par- ticularly well developed in architecture and landscape gardening. He was only an ama- teur, but his advice was solicited and appre- ciated by many, even by professionals, who spoke of "his sure touch," and some of his work, on church and bank and home. will long remain a memory to his ability in this direction. He was a man conscientious to a degree, and frowned upon anything that was not true and honorable. Of a somewhat re- served disposition, he vet possessed a warmi heart. In his death Middletown lost a loyal son.

He married, June 20. 1899. Katharine Mather Mansfield, daughter of General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, granddaughter of Henry Mansfield, and descendant of Moses Mans- field, sergeant-major of Colonial troops from New Haven. By virtue of the service of this ancestor she is a member of the Society of Co- lonial Dames. Her great-uncle. Jared Mans- field, was superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Her ancestry on hier maternal side includes the Rev. Richard Mather, of Dorchester, Masso- chusetts, and the Schuylers and Livingstons of New York State ( see Mansfield and Mather ).

Richard Mansfield. the im- MANSFIELD migrant ancestor, was born in England, and came from Exeter, Devonshire, to this country, arriving in Boston on November 30, 1634, and settled in 1639 at Quinnipiack ( New Haven), Con- necticut. Fle owned land in what is now a valuable section of the city, corner of El and Church streets. A schedule of the first planters dated rozt contains his name, val :- ing his land at Ejon, including thirty acres of land in the first division, six in the neck. and eighty-eight in the second division. At about this time he built his dwelling house in the second division. East Farms, now

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about the corner of Church and Elm streets. and lived there until his death, January IO. 1655. llis wife's Christian naine was Gillian, and after his death she married. in 1057. Alexander Field, and removed into town. Her second husband died in 1666, and she afterward resided with her son. Moses Mansfield. She died in 1669. Children of Richard Mansfield : Josephi, born 1636: Moses, mentioned below.

( II) Major Moses Mansfield, son of Rich- ard Mansfield, was born in 1639, at New Haven. Tradition says he was to have been named Richard, but in crossing the East river on the way to meeting, to have him baptized, the canoe was upset. and the infant. well wrapped in blankets, floated down the stream and lodged among the rushes. from which he was taken uninjured, hence called Moses. He certainly became. like the Bible Moses, a leader and lawgiver. Moses Mansfield was admit- ted a freeman, May 1, 1660. He married. May 5, 1664. Mercy, daughter of Henry Glover, an early settler and prominent citizen. He mar- ried ( second ) Abigail, born May 5. 1660, daughter of Thomas and Mary Yale.

Major Mansfield received his title, which indicates the highest military rank in the col- ony at that time. for defeating a body of In- dians in King Philip's war, on the site of the present town of Mansfield, which was named in his honor. He lived at New Haven, and represented the town at forty-eight sessions of the general assembly. He was judge of probate and of the county court. was often moderator, and held other offices of trust and honor. He had his father's homestead. In the old original records in New Haven the earmark of his cattle, pastured on "the green," was a cross in the left ear. Children: Abi- gail, born February 7. 1664: Mercy. April 2, 1667: Hannah, March 11. 1660: Samuel, De- cember 31, 1671: Moses, August 15. 1674; Sarah, June 14. 1677: Richard, July 20. 1680: Bathshua. January 1. 1682; Jonathan, men- tioned below. Major Moses Mansfield died October 3. 1703 : Mrs. Abigail Mansfield died February 28. 1708-09.

( III) Deacon Jonathan Mansfield. son of Major Moses Mansfield, was born at New Haven, February 15, 1686 He married ifirst ) June 1, 1708, Sarah, daughter of John and Susannah ( Coe) Alling. Her father was trens- vrer of Vale College. Her grandfather, Rob- ert Coe, was of Stratford. John Alling died March 25. 1717. aged seventy-six, son of Roger Alling. Jonathan's wife died May 4. 1765. aged eighty, and he married ( second ) May 13, 1766, Abigail, widow of Ebenezer Dorman, and daughter of James Bishop and

Abigail ( Bennett ) Bishop. She was born Sep- tember 1. 170 ;: married. August 20. 1731, Ebenezer Dorman. She lived to be ninety, and died Janvary 25. 1798. Deacon Mans- field joined the church August 28. 1709. nudler Rev. James Pierpont. Deacon Mansfield was prominent in public life, was selectman, en- sign. lister, grand juror, moderator. He fol- lowed farming. He was trustee of the Hop- kins Grammar School. He presided over the town meeting when eighty-two years of age. Children : Moses, born May 5. 1709: Jona- than. January 27. 1711, died young : Susannah, born December 9, 1712: Sarah, May 2, 1715; Stephen. mentioned below : Nathan. November 15. 1718: Lois, April 27, 1721 ; Richard. Oc- tober 1. 1723, minister and teacher. Bishop of Derby. Connecticut.

( IV) Captain Stephen Mansfield. son of Deacon Jonathan Mansfield. was born Novem- ber 14, 1716, and died July 15. 1774. He married. December 31. 1,46. Hannah Beach, who died September 20, 1795, aged sixty- seven years. He was a sea captain, engaged in the West India trade. His home was at the northeast corner of Chapel and State streets. He was vestryman of Trinity Church in 1765. Children: 1. Hannah, born No- vember 17, 1747 : married William Douglass. 2. Stephen, September. 1750. died 1751. 3. Stephen. July 31. 1753. died August 14, 1756. 4. John, April 11. 1756. died November 5. 1760. 5. Jared. May 23. 1759: professor of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy at the United States Military Academy. West Point ; married Elizabeth Phipps. 6. Henry, men- tioned below. 7. Sarah, 1765 : married James Sisson. 8. Grace. 1770: married. October :5. 1785. Peter Totten.

(V) Henry Mansfield. son of Captain Ste- phen Mansfield, was born February 1. 1762. He was engaged in the West India trade. and built one of the largest and best houses in the city of New Haven, on the east side of State street, near Chapel. Nearly two-thirds of this house was standing as lately as 1884. He died in the West Indies, in 1805. He mar- ried. August 3. 1785. Mary Fenno, born April 3. 176;, daughter of Ephraim Fenno, of Mid- dletown. She was aged eighteen years four months at the tine of her marriage, and died January 14. 1825, aged fifty-eight years. Chil- dren: 1. Henry, born at New Haven, May 2. 1786: married. November 10, 1811. Elizabeth Buffum, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. daughter of Joshua ; he was cashier of the Farmers and Manufacturers Bank, afterwards the Village Bank of Slatersville, until August. 1839. when he was succeeded by his son Henry S .: he died in New York, March 26. 1851. 2. John

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Fenno, January 9, 1788, captain. 3. Mary Grace Caroline, June 4. 1792; married David Wade ; she died April 16, 1825. 4. Grace Tot- ten, February 13, 1799, at St. Croix, Fred- erickstead, West End. West Indies; resided at Middletown. 5. Hannah Fenno, born at St. Croix, February 24, 1801. 6. Joseph King Fenno, mentioned below.

(VI) General Joseph King Fenno Mans- field, son of Henry Mansfield, was born in New Haven, December 22, 1803. In 1817. at the age of fourteen years, he was appointed a cadet to the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point. and was graduated in 1822, second in a class of forty, the youngest member, and July first, same year, was com- missioned brevet second lieutenant of engi- neers. Such was the confidence reposed in him by the government as an engineer that for twenty years or more he was engaged in the construction of fortifications and the improve- ment of rivers and harbors, and was univer- sally regarded as an ornament to the service. In 1822-25 he served as assistant to the board of engineers at New York. in the construction of Fort Hamilton, 1825-28, and in 1828-30 of the defenses of Hampton Roads, being de- tached to survey Pasgustauk river, North Carolina, and to take temporary charge of works in Charleston Harbor. South Carolina. 1830. Among the works he planned and constructed as supervising engineer was Fort Pulaski, for the defense of the Savannah river, Georgia -- considered at the time as one of the strongest of harbor defenses. From 1830 to 1846 he was in charge of repairs of Cumberland Roads, Maryland ; in 1831-32, of Savannah river improvement: 1833-39, of in- land navigation between the St. Marys and St. Johns rivers, Florida : 1835-39, of Sulli- van's Island breakwater. South Carolina ; 1837-38. of repairs of St. Augustine sea wall, Florida ; and of improvement of Brunswick harbor, Georgia, 1838-39. He was a member of the board of engineers for Atlantic Coast Defenses, May 8, 1842, to September 8. 1845. He was chief engineer of the army under com- mand of Major General Taylor in the cam- paign of 1846-47. in the war with Mexico, being engaged in various reconnaissances in Texas, and was the builder and renowned de- fender of Fort Brown, May 3-9. 1846, and was breveted major for distinguished bravery. He was engaged in the reconnaissance and battle of Monterey. September 21-23. 1846, where he was severely wounded while direct- ing the storming of the Tannery redonbt, and was breveted lieutenant colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct in the several con- flicts at Monterey : in fortifying Monterey and

Saltillo, reconnoitering the mountain passes. 1846-47; and in the battle of Buena Vista. February 22-23, 1$47. having the honor, it is said, of selecting that renowned battle field. and was breveted colonel. Ile was a member of the board of engineers for Atlantic Coast Defenses, May 13, 1848, to April 11, 1853. and for Pacific Coast Defenses, April II to May 28, 1853; superintending engineer of con- struction of Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor. 1848-53: of improvement of the James and Appomattox rivers and survey of the Rappa- hannock river, Virginia. 1852-53.

In 1853 he was still captain of engineers. third on the list, when he was promoted into the inspector general's department with rank of colonel. As one of the two inspectors- general of the army, he performed the arduous and dangerous duties of inspection of our frontier ports, at a time when transportation facilities were not of the best, and hostile In- dian tribes were to be met, requiring months and even a year's absence upon a single tour of inspection. He served on inspection duty in the Department of New Mexico. 1853: oi the Department of California. 1854: of the Department of Texas, 1856: of the Utah army, 1857 ; of the Departments of Oregon and Cal- ifornia. 1858-59; and of the Department of Texas, 1860-61. While in this last duty he encountered the disloyal sentiment pervading the highest army officer commanding the dis- trict, and he hastened to Washington to lay the matter before the highest authorities. Civil war being broken out. he was the first officer appointed to the rank of brigadier-general, and was placed in command of the defense of Washington, which he inaugurated by moving troops across the Potomac at night, almost in the presence of the enemy, and occupying Ar- lington Heights, which subsequently were for- tified to render the Capitol secure. His civil war service- were as follows :

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