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England. whence the Irish branch probably came.
Charles Cartwright, who came to this coun- try in 1850, was a native of England. He was a shoemaker by trade. From New York City, where he landed, he came to Bridgeport, Con- necticut, where he followed his trade. and after a time began to manufacture shoes and boots, opening a retail store in Bridgeport. His mercantile career was very successful. and his business was afterwards incorporated under the name of the Cartwright Shoe Com- pany, of which Mrs. Frank Ashley Wilmot. his daughter, is president. He was a member of Trinity Protestant Church, and in politics a Republican. He married ( first ) Sarah N. Atkinson. Child. Frank N .. who was drowned at an early age. He married ( second) Eliza- beth Kingston, born at Stafford, England. died aged forty-nine years, and is buried in Moun- tain Grove Cemetery. Child. Florence Mar- garet. aforementioned as the wife of Frank Ashley Wilmot.
John Peet, immigrant ancestor.
PEET was born in England in 1597, died in Stratford. Connecticut, 1678. He came from Duffield Parish, county Derby. England, in the "Hopewell." Captain Bun- doch, in 1635. He was thirty-eight when he came to America and was the first of the name in Stratford. His wife Sarah was daughter of Richard Osborn. of England. The name was at first spelled Peake. after that Peat. and finally Peet. Children: Mary: John, about 1638, mentioned below : Benjamin, about 1640. married Phebe Benton: Benjamin (2), mar- ried Priscilla Fairchild; Thomas. married Plebe Nichols; Phebe, married Mitchell Cur- tis, and had : Daniel Mitchell. married Huldah Burr : Justis Burr, married Huldah Edwards; Elizabeth, married Aaron Banks Sherwood.
(II) John ( 2), son of John ( I) Peet, was born about 1638, died September 1. 1684. He married Sarah -, and the married ( sec- ond ) John Brooks, as learned from a receipt given by five of her children, dated Novem- ber 15, 1694. Children: Samuel. born De- cember 26. 1663: Sarah. October 5. 1005: Hannah, December 6. 1057: Elizabeth. Feb- ruary 19. 1669: John. November 20, 1672. Mentioned below : Joseph, March 10. 1074-75: Jane, October 17. 1677.
(II) Sergeant John (3) Pect. son of John (2) Peet, was born November 20. 16;2, died February 1, 1709-10. The inventory of his estate was dated March 13. 1709-10, and amounted to three hundred and seventeen pounds, eleven shillings, six pence. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Morehouse. May
12, 1695, or 1606. His widow married John Corbet before 1719: and September 5. 1723. married Benjamin Peet. Children : Joseph, bora January 4, 1606-07: David. June 30. 0008; Sarah, June 4. 1701; Marv. December 3. 1702; Hannah, December 22, 1704; john, April 23, 1707; Daniel, March 30. 1708-09.
(IV) David, son of Sergeant John (3) Peet, was born June 30, 1698. He gave land to his three sons in New Milford. Connecti- cut. where they settled and where some of their descendants still reside. The family at- tended the Episcopal church. He married ( first ) Mary Tithartou, October 1, 1719. She died in 1737, and he married ( second ) Thank- ful Whippo, November. 1739. . Children : Samuel, born April 1, 1721 : Mehitable. No- vember 15, 1722: John, June, 1726; Thaddeus, January, 1727: David. October, 1730; Mary, July, 1733: Patience. September. 1735: Han- nah, December, 1737: Sarah. December, 1740; Benjamin, baptized March, 1744.
(V) Harmon Pect, of a later generation cf the New Milford family, was born at Canaan. Connecticut. He was a farmer. He married Sarah Webb, who died ar Canaan. She was educated in a Moravian Seminary in Pennsyl- vania, and was a woman of refinement and culture. Children: Joseph Webb, mentioned below : John Harman.
(VI) Joseph Webb. son of Harmon Peet, was born at Canaan. in 1842, died there in 1904. He was educated in the public schools. He was clerk in his father's general store and succeeded to the business at Canaan. He was in later life a banker and farmer. He was senior warden of the Protestant Episcopal church at Canaan. His father helped to build the church and was the first person confirmed there, while he was the first child baptized in the church. He was a member of the general assembly one term. He married Frances Stoddard. born in 18;1, at Salisbury. Connect- ient, died in Canaan, resided in Canaan. Chil- dren: George Church, mentioned below : En- sign, died aged twenty years: child, died in infancy.
(VII) George Church, son of Joseph Webb Peet, was born at Capaan. April 15, 1866. He was educated there in the public schools. At the age of seventeen he entered the firm of T. Hawley & Company, dealers in hardware. Bridgeport. He was at Stamford for two years and then returned to Bridgeport and engaged in the furniture business three years there. after which he went to Canaan where for seven years he was associated with his father in the general store. He returned to Bridgeport and has for many years been in- terested in the furniture business and in the
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management of his father's estate in Canaan. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Seaside Club and of the Improved Order of Red Men, and Sons of the American Revolution. He married. February 5. 1890. Julia Crissy Sammer, of Bridgeport, daughter of Samuel Barstow Summer ( see Sumner X). They have no children.
(The Sumner Line).
(IV) William (2) Summer, son of Wil- liam (1) Summer (q. v.), was born February 9, 1656, in Boston, died in Middletown, Con- necticut, July 20. 1703. He was a freeman in May, 1678, a member of the artillery cont- pany, 1679. He married ( first) May 22, 1677. in Dedham. Rachel, laughter of William Avery, of Dedham. She died soon, and he married (second) Hannah About 1687 he moved to Middletown. He was dea- con. lieutenant and deputy in 1701-02-03. Children : William, born November 22. 1679. Boston, died young: Hannah. September. 1681. Boston : Hezekiah. February 21. 1084. Boston, mentioned below: Sarah. December 29. 1685. Boston : Daniel. September 26, 1688, Middletown: Ebenezer. September 28, 1691, Middletown, died 1698.
(V) Hezekiah, son of William (2) Sum- ner, was born February 21. 1684. in Boston. He lived in Middletown and died May 7. 1749. He married, February 10. 1704. in Middle- town, Abigail Bidwell. His widow married (second) Frary. Children, born in
Middletown : William. January 12, 1705. mentioned below : Hannah. March IT. 1,07: Abigail, October 20. 1711 : daughter, August 25. 1713. died same day : Daniel. December 20, 1714: Elizabeth, June 7. 1718.
(VI) William (3). son of Hezekiah Sum- ner, was born January 12, 1705. He lived in Middletown and died November 15. 1739. IIe married. January 15. 1724. Hannah Clark. who married ( second ) September 15, 1759. Joseph Jolinson. She died April 12. 1705, at. Middletown. Children, born in Middletown: Hezekiah. December 4. 1725. mentioned be- low ; Hannah, June 20. 1726: Sarah. July 12. 1727: Mary. June S. 1;30: William. January 14, 1733: John. June 30. 1,35 ; Ebenezer, Au- gust 14. 1737.
(VH) Hezekiah (2). son of William (3) Sumner, was born December 4. 1725. in Mid- dletown. He lived first in Middletown, where he was second lieutenant in the Fourth Con- necticut Regiment. Ahont 1; he moved to Sandisfieldl. Massachusetts, and thence to Bethlehem, now Otis, Massachusetts. Hle died there in 1802. lle married ( first) Feb- ruary 10, 1744. Desire Higgins. She hel
and he married (second ) Widow Mary Children : Samuel, born December 25. 1745: Tabitha. December 14. 1749. died November. 1747: Clement. September 20, 1748: Tabitha, July. 1750: Abigail, June 13. 1752: Desire. September 15, 1754. died May 1, 1758: Hezekiah, August 13. 1,57: Daniel, May 26, 1759, mentioned below ; Desire. Jan- uary 7, 1765.
(VIII) Daniel, son of Hezekiah (2) Sum- ner, was born May 26, 1759, in Middletown. He married ( first ) in 1779. Lucy Cook. His wife died May 21. 1788, and he married ( sec- ond ) November 26, 1789, Hannah Watson. Ile lived in Otis, Massachusetts. and died November 23. 1838. His widow died Sep- tember 5. 1848. Children of first wife. horn in Bethlehem: Daniel, May 9. 1780: William, May 3. 1,82; Lucy, June 15, 1784: Darius, March 7. 1,86: Mary S. April 6. 1788. Chil- dren of second wife: Almira. September 25, 1790: Emilia, March 15, 1792: Watson. May 29, 1794: Susanna, November 9. 1797, died August 7, 1800: Increase, May 13. 1801. Men- tioned below : Ethan Newton. November 18. 1806, died September 18, 1808: Caroline. Feb- ruary 19, 1810.
( IX) Increase, son of Daniel Sumner, was born May 13, 1801. in Otis, died January 28. 1871. He lived in Great Barrington. He was representative, 1833-34. senator from Berkshire, 1840-42. representative. IS50. judge of district court of Southern Berkshire. He received the degree of M. A. from Wil- liams College, 1839. He married (first ) May 25. 1827. Pluma Amelia, daughter of Sam- tiel Barstow, of Great Darrington, Massachu- setts. She died in May. IS4 ;. and he mar- ried ( second!) Clara A., daughter of William Carroll Wells, of Boston. Children. born in
Great Barrington : Elizabeth, April 2. 1828. died March, 1837: Samuel Barstow, February 16, 1830: Edward Prescott. January 7. 1833. died March 24. 1834: Charles Allen. August 2. 1835: Julia Elizabeth, October 20. 1839: Albert Increase, February 4. 1841.
( X) Colonel Samuel Barstow Summer, son of Increase and Summer, was born in Great Barrington, February 16, 1830, died in Bridgeport. February 26, 1901. His pre- liminary education was acquired in the academies of Lenox and Great Barrington. and he then matriculated at Williams College. from which he was graduated in 1849, and in 1852 he was admitted to the bar in Berkshire county, where he practiced with his father. Ile hield the office of postmaster during the administrations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan, and in 1800 was elected state sen- ator from South Berkshire district, com-
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prising the seventeen towns south of Pitts- field. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he at once offered his services to his country. lie enlisted. November 19. 1862. in the Forty- ninth Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteers. was captain of a company and was later ad- vanced to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. During the assault on Port Hud- son, Louisiana, May 27. 1863, he was wounded by a bullet in the shoulder, which was later cut out. The term of his enlistment expired September 1, 1863. Returning from the war he removed to Bridgeport, where he resumed the practice of his profession and was ad- mitted to the Fairfield county bar in 1863. Ilere he was very successful and became one of the leading lawyers of the county. He served several terms as city attorney. one term as judge of the city court, and for six years was judge of the probate court. He was as- sociated for six years with Judge Sidney B. Beardsley in the firm of Beardsley & Sum- ner. In 1884 he was appointed clerk of the superior and supreme courts of Fairfield county. and held that office until his death. Colonel Sumner was in great demand as an orator on all public occasions and was also well known as a poet. In conjunction with his brother. ex-Congressman Charles A. Sum- ner. of California. he published a volume of poems in 1877. which earned for them high and well-merited praise. Colonel Sumner was a member of Elias Howe Jr. Post, Grand Army of the Republic: an honorary member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, before which he delivered, an oration at the annual re-union in 1881; was a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. having been noble gran l of the Arcanum lodge : eminent commander of Knights Tem- plar : past nfaster of St. John's Lodge. No. 3. Free and Accepted Masons. of Bridgeport : honorary member of Cincinnatus Lodge. of Great Britain. a> was also his father. Col- onel Saminer was interested in the building of the Fairfield county court house, and was a member of the building committee. Meniber of Zeta Psi Greek fraternity, of which he had been a member while at college.
Colonel Summer married. 1855. Georgiana Davis, of Bridgeport, who died in INST. Chil- dren: 1. Edward Stewart. a lawyer, admit- tell in 18-8. a member of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, since 18;o: has emne a great deal of work in the Masonic fra- turnity. and has held all offices up to the thirty second degree: has been a member of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine since January. !SX2: recorder of Hamilton Commandery for eleven years, and has held all offices up to
that of high priest. 2. Caroline St. Leon ( twin ), born September 10, 1838, married Dr. Charles C. Godfrey. 3 Clara Elizabeth, twin of Caroline St. Leon, born in Great Barring- ton, was assistant clerk at the superior court. she married Frank 11. Betts, of Bridgeport. and has a child. Marian Sumner. 4. Julia Crissy, born June 11. 1867. Bridgeport, mar- ried George C. Peet ( see Peet VII).
CURTIS The ancient English surname Curtis is also spelled Curtiss. Curtess, Curteis and Curtoys. Stephen Curtis was of Appledore, Kent. about 1450, and several of his descendants were mayor, of Tenterden. a town from which came many settlers of Scituate. Massa- chusetts. The family has also lived, from an ancient date, in county Sussex, England. The ancient coat-of-arms is thus described: Ar- gent, a chevron sable, between three bulls heads caboshed, gules. Crest : A unicorn pas .. or. between four trees proper.
(I) William Curtis lived in England and probably died there. His widow Elizabeth. and sons John and William, settled in Strat- ford. Connecticut. in 1639.
(II ) John, son of William and Elizabeth Curtis, came to Stratford. Connectiont. among the first settlers with his brother William ard his mother. He was born in England. died December 2. 1.07. aged nirety-four years. He married Elizabeth who died March, 1681-82. Children. born at Strationd !: John. October 14. 1012, settled in Newark. New Jersey : Israel, April 3. 1644: Elizabeth. May 2, 1647 : Thomas. January 4. In)8: Jos- eph, mentioned below : Benjamin. September 39, 16:52 : Hannah, February 2. 1654.
(ID) Joseph. son of John and Elizabetit Curtis, was born November 12. 1650. Hle married, November o. 1670. Bethia. daugh. ter of Richard Booth. Children born at Stratford : Elizabeth, January 1 ;. 1678: Anna. September 1. Ibro; Mary, about toSt: Eph- rainy mentioned below ; Joseph. November i. 168; : Nathan, February 21 MA-00: Josiah. March 31. 1001: Bethia, March TO. 1005-00; Elizer. July 30. 1608: Eliphalet. August 1. 1609.
(W) Ephraim, son of Joseph and Bethia . Booth, Curtis, was born at Stratford. Con- necticut. December 31. 084. died in 1770 He married. June 26, 1700. Elizabeth. daugh- ter of Ephrain Stiles: she died in October. 1775. Children, born at Stratford: Stie -. mentioned below: Sarah. September 3. 1708: Henry. October 12. 1700: Ann. August 35, 1711 . Phone (twin1. August 1;12: Elisabeth twin .. died 1715: Ephraim August 20. 1717.
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(lied 1737: Elizabeth. October 2. 1;19' Martha. November 36, 1721 ; Ruth, baptized October 27. 1,23; Edmund. baptized August. 1725: Bathsheba. baptized November. 1728; Elnathan, born January, 1720-27.
(V) Stiles, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth ( Stiles ) Curtis, was born at Stratford, Con- nectient. March 18, 1707. He married, No- vember 7, 1730. Rebecca Jud-on. Children, born at Stratford: Sarah, May 17. 1732: Eli- zabeth. December 28, 1733: Elihu, December 17. 1734: Hannah. December 15. 1736: Eph- raim, mentioned below : Elihu, May 10. 1741; Silas, baptized June 14. 1743; John, baptized September, 1745: Rebecca, baptized February 14. 1747-48; Catee. baptized June. 1752.
(VE) Ephraim (2), son of Stiles and Re- becca ( Judson) Curtis, was born in Stratford. Connecticut. March 27. 1739. died in Hunting- ton, Connecticut, .August 30. 1704. He was a lieutenant in the revolution in Captain Beach Tomlinson's company. 1777. and was a sol- dier in Captain Joshua Brown's company in 1,79. He marrie.l. December 23. 1751. Ann, born July 27. 1743. died January 15. 182, daughter of Josiah and Mary Curtiss, of Sirat- ford. Children. born in Huntington: Levi, December 2. 1765: Mary Ann. September 14, 176 ;: Philo. October 25, 1772: Ephraim, mentioned below : Rebecca. September 17. -1782: Agur. February 19. 1;So.
(VII) Ephraim (3), son of Ephraim (2) and Ann ( Curtiss ) Curtis, was born at Hunt- ington. Connecticut. July 12. 1726. He mar- ried. December 3. 1804. Phele. Lorn at Strat- ford. died at Huntington, daughter of Wil- liam and Phehe . Judson) Brooks. Children : Polly. born December 13, 1805: Agur, July y. 180 ;: Brooks, June ;. 1800: Phebe. April 9. 1811 : Emily, March 20, 1813: Ephrain, Feb- ruary 21, 1815: Philo, September 5. 181 ;; Susan. June 10, 1819: Lucias, July 14. 1821; Witham Bird-eve. October 21. 1823: Sylves- ter. mentioned belos .
(VIH ) Sylvester. son of Ephraim ( 3) and Phebe ( Brooks ) Curtis, was born at Hunting- ton, Connecticut. April 17. 020, die April 17. 1885. at Waterbury. He attended the public school -. He worked in a cash and blind factory, and followed the trade of carpenter for a time, and during the last ten years of his active life, he was superintendent of the Waterbury Clock Company. He we a faithful member of the Methodrt Ppoo gal church and a man of exemplary charakter member of the local lodge of Which belongs. Hle married Caroline Blindeth Russell, bern at Middlebury, Connecticut. Ichruare in. 1830, died then in ISSN She was a dangh- ter of Charles A and Luckey & Recber Ku --
sell. Charles A. Russell was a son of Enoch and Sally Russell, the former of whom died April 15. 1834. aged sixty years; the latter died September 30, 1850, probably in Middle- bury or Woodbury. Lockey ( Bcebe , Hus- sell was a daughter of Amzi and Jerusha ( Summers ) Beebe. the former of whom died December 15, 1839. and the latter at the age of fifty-three years ( see Beebe X). Children : 1. George P .. married ( first ) Margaret Croft. of Waterbury, and had one child, Croft Cur- tis, now living in San Fancisco; married ( sec- ond ). Jennie Lounsbury, who bore him six children. 2. Henry, died young. 3. Daugh- ter, died in infancy. 4. Rollin Alanson, men- tioned below. 5. Caroline Elizabeth, resides with her mother in Waterbury.
( IX) Rollin Alanson, son of Sylvester and Caroline Elizabeth ( Russell) Curtis, was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, October 19, 1865. He attended the public schools and graduate i from Wesleyan Academy. Wilbraham, Mass- achusetts. He studied his profession at the New York University, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1893. He served as interne at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. 1893- 95. and in 1895 began the general practice of medicine in Bridgeport. Connecticut, reuring in igo8: be made his home in Stratford. He is a member of St. John's Lodge. No. 8. Free and Accepted Masons; Jerusalem Chapter. No. 13, Royal Arch Masons: Jerusalem Coun- cil. No. 16, Royal and Select Masters : Haci. ilton Commandery, No. 5. Kmghts Templar: Pyramid Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and has taken all degrees to the thirty-second in Scottish Rite Masonry : member of Nosahogan fire; No. 21. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. of Waterbury, and of Tunxis Tribe. No. 10. Improved Order of Red Men, of Waterbury. He is a member of the Seaside Club, of Bridgeport and of Cupheag Club, of Sirat- ford. In religion Dr. Curtis is a Protestant. and in politics a Republican. Le married. March 23. 16,04. Catherine . Theresa, With it Seymour. Connecticut, daughter of William and Catherine Colbert. One child, Catherine Caroline. born October 27. 1900.
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It is interesting to know that the name Beche occurs in the time of Rameses II. about 3000 B. c. in the form of Pchi, whose nieroglyphic 1. given in the table of Sakkarah, a monsinets in Egypt. Also in Book 21. in Livys ' Hi -- tory of Rome." a Quintius Bacbius, an a201 man. Was sent as ambassador to Hannibal ani to the Carthaginian Senate to demand peace or war, and the date, year of Rome. wa- 534.
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There is a very plausible tradition of French origin. Some ancient family papers. said to be in the archives of Aston Hall. Warwick- shire. England, show that the family de- scended from the two Norman knights. Rich- ard and William de Boebe. These knights were in the Royal Guard of William the Con- queror, and came to England at the time of the conquest. They were granted manors in Warwickshire, by the king, where the family lived to the close of the Commonwealth. In the ancient Norman Rolls which are in the Tower of London. there is the name Willil- mus Babbe, Praepositus, A. D. 1204, who ad- judged the values of property with four other jurors. One of the first authentic records of the name is in Bridge's "History of Northam- tonshire," England, printed in 1740, which say's, under the heading of Town of Brackley, Sutton Hundred: "Here was formerly an In- firmary or Hospital for the sick. dedicated to St. Leonard. one of which was Joh. Beby, February 10, 1403." Joh. Beby was in- cumbent of the Church of St. John Baptist at East Farndon, some time between the years 1398 and 1411. There is a church at Castre dedicated to St. Kyneburga, and upon the porch of this, on the moulding of the door is cut the inscription : "Ricardus Beby, Rector, Ecclesie de Castre. Fecit Fieri." The coat- of-arms of the family is: A blue shield with golden chevron and three gold bees. Crest : A golden bee-hive, indicative of industry, vigi- lance, and persistency of purpose. Motto: "Se defendendo." The motto of the branch of the family under consideration is "Fidele et Brave." and was granted by Henry V. to Sir John Beebe for distinguished gallantry at the siege of Harfleur.
( I) Alexander Beebe lived in Great Ad- dington, England. and died there in 1623. He married Elizabeth who died in 1633.
( II) John, son of Alexander Beebe, died in England in 1634. in Great Addington. His wife was Alice
( Ill) fohn (2), son of John (t) Beebe. was born in 1600. died May 18. 1650. while on his way to America. He left five sons and two daughters. A third daughter, Mary, who war baptized in 1637. was not mentioned in her father's will. where the other children are mentioned, nor the fact that they came from Broughton. England. He left England in April or May, 1650 and was accompanied by his five children. Two sons preceded him to America, and his daughter Hannah and wife Elweka probably died before he started. His "il was written and signed on chipboard, at which time his eldest son was twenty-two, and
his youngest child thirteen. He appointed William Lewis and John Cole executor- of his will. Children born in Broughton, Eng- land, and dates of baptism: John, November 4. 1628. of whom further: Rebecka, August 11. 1630; Thomas. June 23, 1633: Samuel. June 23, 1633; Nathaniel, January 23, 1635: Mary, March 18. 1637: Hannah, June 23. 1640: James. 1041.
(1\) John (3). son of John (2) Beebe. was baptized in Broughton. England, Novem- . ber 4, 1628. He married, about December. 1660, Abigail, born about 1638. died March 9. 1,25. daughter of James Yorke. of Stoning- ton. Connecticut, died March 9. 1725. Her father may have been the James Yorke. aged twenty-one, who sailed from England. June 20, 1635. in the ship "Philip Richard." Mr. Morgan, master. He was sergeant of the train band for twenty years, and in the sum- mer of 1676. Ensign John Beebe. of New Lon- don. with Captain George Denison, were with a company which was raised in New London county for the Indian war. In 16go he was a lieutenant. There was once a dispute between the New London and Lyme people over the right to mow grass on debatable land. The New London men came and began to piow the land. Then the Lyme men came with a constable, who began to read a warrant for the apprehension of Ensign Minor. Sergeant Beebe interrupted him, crying. "We are not a straw for your paper." There was a strag- gle between the two parties which did not result seriously to either side. In 1671-72 he was brought before court with many others m New London. "for an attempt to drive Mr. Matthew Griswold and Lieut. William Wal- ler by violence off their lands, resistance to authority and assault." Very likely he had been for some time on the plantation of New London in the service of John Winthrop. the founder. He came to New England in 1650. September 4. 1651, one acre of land was granted him: December 2. 1051, tive acres : March 5. 1652, lots of ten, seven, and six acres. In 170; he deeded thirty-one acres to his son Benjamin. This deed was recorded April 28. 1714. but very likely he was dead at this time. He was called a "Leather Dresser" in a deed dated 1660. In most he is men- tioned among the grantees or planters of New London, Connecticut. He was given house lots in the spring of 1651. in Pogniogh and also Fog Plain, and in 10se he was granted land east of the Mystic. In 1075 he was ap- pointed ensign by the general court. in Cap- tain George Denison's company in New Lon- don county. Over sixty-eight men were raised there, May 11, 16,6, for the standing
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