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1699, married Desire Hemingway, and their daughter, also Desire, married. December 6, 1758. Rev. Nicholas Street. v. Helena. born April 28. 1702. vi. Samuel. September 30, 1704. vii. Joseph. viii. Bathsheba. Almost all the Thompsons of East Haven are de- scended from John and Merey. and the late Nathaniel F. Thompson, president of the Me- chanics' Bank, was a descendant.
3. Hannah, born March 11. 1669, died No- vember 1. 1726: married. about 1005, Ger- shom Brown, born October 9. 1665. died 1724, who was a merchant and ship owner. and considered a man of considerable wealth for that time. He was the -on of Eleazar and the grandson of Francis and Mary ( Edwards) Brown, who arrived in Boston from England, June 26, 1637, and were among the first set- tlers of New Haven. Children: i. Eleazar, born 1696, died September 21. 1708; mar- ried, January 21. 1725. Sarah Rowe. ii. Han- nah, born January 1. 1702. iii. Olive, born February 22, 1708. died October 10. 1743; married. March 20, 1728, Nathaniel Brown, who came from England, and had a son Ben- jamin, who was a sea capatin in the West India trade.
4. Samuel. born December 31. 1671. died unmarried, 1701. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1690. and had charge of the Hopkins Grammar School, 1604-99. then went into the West India trade.
5. Moses, born August 15. 1674. died Feb- ruary 15. 1740. He is sometimes styled mer- chant, sometimes mariner. and his name ap- pears many times on the town records. In 1718 he was one of the persons to whom license was granted "to set up a mill to im- prove the flax seed of this colony and for the extracting and producing linseed oyl," and in the following year they were granted the exclusive right "to make linseed and rape oyl." He married, November 3. 1702. Mar- garer. born June 7. 1682. daughter of John. and granddaughter of Timothy Prout, of Boston. She was the sister of John Prout, who was graduated from Yale College in 1708. and was treasurer of that institution, 1717-65.
6. Sarah, born June 14. 167; : married. Jan- mary I, 1698. William Rhodes, a mariner from Newport, Rhode Island, and probably lived in New Haven. They had a son who be- came a physician.
7. Richard. born July 20. 1680, died Au- gust 7, 1681.
8. Bathshua, born January 1. 1682: mar- ried. January 22. 1705. Joseph Chapman, of Newport, Rhode Island.
9. Jonathan, see forward.
(IV) Deacon Jonathan, son of Moses and Mercy ( Glover) Mansfield, was born Feb- ruary 16, 1686, baptized March 21, same year, and died January 10. 1775. His name appears on the land records in fifty-six deeds, and in the court and town records, thirty-nine times. He was an enterprising and active business man, and was appointed a member of im- portant and responsible public trusts. In farm- ing he was equally successful. His will. dated October 1, 1767, left an estate of £1,493, which was considered large for that time. He joined the church under the Rev. James Pier- pont, August 28. 1709.
Deacon Jonathan Mansfield married ( first) June 1, 1708, Sarali AAlling, born in 1085. dieu May 4, 1765, daughter of John Alling, re- corder and treasurer of Yale College. who married Susannah. daughter of Robert Coe, of Stratford, Connecticut, granddaughter of Rodger Alling, one of the first settlers of New Haven, who came from England in 1639 and became deacon and treasurer of the juris- diction. Deacon Jonathan Mansfieldl married (second), May 13, 1766, Abigail, born Sep- tember 1, 1707, died January 25. 1798. widow of Ebenezer Dorman, and daughter of James and Abigail ( Bennet ) Bishop. Children, all by first marriage :
1. Moses, see forward.
2. Jonathan, born January 27, 1711. died young.
3. Susannah. bern December 9. 1712. died in 1797 ; married (first). December 23. 1736, Samuel, born January 28. 1711. died 1750, only child of Ebenezer (changed from Icha- body and Hannah ( Bassett ) Mansfield. and had one child, Susanna. She married (sec- ond) John Stone, of Milford.
4. Sarah, born May 2, 1715 : married. Feb- ruary 21, 1730, Captain Thomas Willnot, born August 25, 1712, a joiner and builder, and the great-grandson of Benjamin and Anne Wil- mot. who came from England about 1040. Children: Rhoda, born February 20. 1740: Samuel, March 6, 1742: Daniel. October 16, 1744: Sarah, February 6, 1747. The land records show that he was living in 1792. and his wife in 1787.
5. Stephen, born November 14. 1716 died July 15. 1774. He was a captain in the West India trade, and prominent in public mat- ters. He married. December 31, 1746. Han- nah Beach, of Wallingford. born 1728. died September 20, 1795.
6. Nathan, born November 15. 1718. died March 13. 1783 : married. 1545. Deborah Day- ton. born 1724, died May 29. 1817
7. Lois, born April 27, 1720. died March 16, 1806; married ( first), Jannary 9. 1746. Abra-
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ham, born 1720, died 1748. great-grandson of William Bradley, ancestor of all the New Haven Bradleys, who came there about 1645. Children: i. Abraham, born 1740, died Jan- uary 24. 1825 ; married Mary Punchard, who died September 25. 1823. and their only child, William, married Caroline Munson, of New Haven, and had six children. ii. Lois, born March 3. 1748, died April 20, 1805 ; she mar- ried ( second) Josiah Woodhouse, of London, England. born 1722, died September 3, 1764; they had one child: Robert, who probably died young. She married ( third ). July 10, 1766, John Watts, and she joined the church, October 30. 1764.
: 8. Richard, born in New Haven, October 1, 1723. died April 12, 1820. He was fitted to enter college at the age of eleven years, but did not enter until he was fourteen years old. He was graduated from Yale College in 1741, remained two years longer, and then pursued theological studies. He became an Episco- palian and had charge of the Hopkins Gram- mar School in New Haven. 1,44-4 ;. He was ordained deacon in Kensington Church, Lon- don, England. August 3. 1748. by Dr. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, and ad- vanced to the priesthood August 7, same year. Returning to America in 1749. he took his first charge at Derby and had charge of this parish almost seventy-two years. He sided with the English during the revolution and was obliged to flee. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale College in 1792. He married, October 10. 1751, Anna. born 1726, died August 20, 1776, eldest daughter of Joseph Hull (2). of Derby, and of the same family as Commodore Isaac Hull, of the United States Navy. Children : i. Richard. horn September 3. 1752. married Abia Shelton. ii. Elizabeth, baptized Septem- ber 29, 1754. died February 22. 1826. unmar- ried. iii. Anna, baptized May 2, 1756, died April II. ISI. married, October 22, 1774. Major Elijah Humphreys, born 1746, died on his way to the West Indies, May 2. 1785. iv. Sarah, born August 9. 1758. died De- cember 23. 1790; married Rev. Edward Blakeslee, born in 1,67. died July 17, 1797; they had one child, Sarah Mansfield, who married. December 24. 1862, Dr. Pearl Crafts. v. Henrietta. born October 3. 1760, diedl Feb- ruary 3. 1701. vi. Joseph, born February 24. 1752, died December 19. 1782. vii. William, baptized January 12, 1764. died October I. !816: he was graduated from Yale College in 1784 and was a merchant and a manufac- turer of linseed oil in Derby : he married Eu- nice Hall, and had eleven children. viii. Stephen, born September 12. 1765. died Au-
gust 9, 1819: his death was caused by a fall from his carriage. ix. Jonathan, baptized Jan- uary 21, 1768, died in infancy. x. Jonathan, baptized November 12, 1,69. died December 10, 1770. xi. Lucretia, born January 12, 1772, died February 10, 1849, married, August 10, 1796, Abel Allis, and had six children. xii. Mary Louisa, baptized June 12, 1774. died May 6. 1863, married Giles Mardenbrough, and had two children. xiii. Grace, born Au- gust 15. 1776, died October 14. 1776.
(V) Moses, eldest child of Deacon Jona- than and Sarah ( Alling ) Mansfield, was born May 5, 1709, and died in New Haven, in 1754. He was graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1730. By occupation he is styled "schoolmaster," had charge of the Hopkins Grammar School. 1730-34. and afterward kept a private school in which young men were prepared for college. His name appears on the land records in sixteen deeds. He was chosen several times as constable and collector of taxes. and was a number of times a mem- ber of public committee .. He married (first), May 17. 1734. Ann Mary, born in 1700, died July 5. 1742. daughter of - - Kierstcad, of New York, a wealthy Dutchman, who came to New Haven in his old age. He married ( second), February 17. 1748, Widow Rachel Ward. Children :
I. Sarah, born July 7. 1736. died Februar .. 18, 1775 : married, July 13. 1758. John Daniel- son, a Scotchman. Of their three children. two died young. and the third. Mary Ann. married William Lamont, a mariner, had one child. Sarah Mansfield, who died unmarried. October 15. 1867.
2. Jonathan. born Marci: 8. 1739, died Sep- tember 2. 1769. He was a sea captain and owned a homestead on Union street, between Wooster and East Water streets. He mar- ried, November 10, 1761. Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Dorchester ; she mir- ried ( second ) Edmund Burke, and died Sep- tember 24, 1830: by her second marriage she had a daughter, who married Deacon Sher- man Blair. Jonathan and! Mary ( Dorchester ) Mansfield had children: i. Mary, born about 1765. died about 1793. married Wheeler. son of Caleb Beecher. of Woodbridge. Connecti- cntt : they had no children. He married (sec- ond ) Mary ( Polly) Hotchkiss, of Wood- bridge, and had several children. ii. Sarah. born 1768, died April 20. 1850. married, 1786. John Benedict, born in New York. 1766, died in New Haven, 1838: chiliren: Lyman, born 1787, die July o. 1863, married Annie Moul- throup: Barnabas, born 1;88. died Decem- ber 21. 1836: Walter and Polly, died in in- fancy : Sarah, born iyor, died June 2, 1873:
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Truman, born April 19. 1798, died April 14, 1880, married ( first ), July 4, 1819, Elizabeth Hotchkiss, (second ) Mary A. Auger : Mary, born 1800. died 1857, married, January 12, 1823. Morris Church, born 1800, died 1834, had six children . Nancy, born 1802, died un- married. 1883: Harvey, born 1804, died No- vember 11. 1878, married Henrietta Hotch- kiss, who died November 21, 1868, and had seven sons: Charles W., born 1809. died on day appointed for his wedding, January 15, 1832: Sherman, born October 16, 1811, mar- ried ( first ). September 18, 1833. Lucy J. Prin- dle, born October 30. 1810, died January 9. 1843. had two children, ( second ). December 31. 1843, Eliza A. Ives, born November 14, 1820, who also had two children : George W., born 1814. died May 26, 1847. married Polly Landeraft, of East Haven, and had three children. iii. John, was a mariner, never married.
3. John, see forward.
4. Moses, born September 25, 1749. died December 31. 1831. He was also a school- master, and his homestead was on Grove street near Church street. He married the widow of Thomas Dodd. a mariner, who left his wife with five small children. He had no children of his own.
5. James Kierstead. usually called by the second of these names, was born February 15. 1751. and died in 1804. He owned the greater part of the Mansfield home lot that faced Elm street and the Green. He was a mason and builder, engaged in calico printing, and man- ufactured saltpetre. In this last industry he caught a cold which developed into consump- tion and caused his death. He was a member of the Governor's Foot Guard, and, being six feet in height. was chosen one of the twelve grenadiers. At the time of the revo- lution he was already ill and could not serve his country in the field. He married, February 2. 1774, Mary Hitchcock, who was taken into the First Congregational Church, July 26. 1788. Children: i. Jonathan, baptized July 26, 1788. died in West Indies in 1801 : mar- ried. about 1796, Hannah, daughter of David Dougal, who came from Edinburgh, Scotland. ii. Kierstead. baptized July 26. 1788. died Jau- uary 16. 1805, aged twenty-eight years; he was a merchant in New Haven, and married. March 15. 1797. Anna Thompson, born in 1779. died October 6, 1849; she married (sec- ond) Eli Osborn. a widow, among whose children by his first wife were: Walter Os- born, for many years collector of taxes, and Minott Osborn, editor of the New Haven Daily Register. iii. Mary, baptized Septem- ber 12. 1799, married. March 4. 1800, Leman
Hall, a grocer, and had six or eight children. iv. Sarah, baptized March 17, 1782, married, about 1815. Stephen Porter, and had one child: George H .. born November 2. 1819. who married. November 21, 1849. Sarah Hotchkiss, and resides in New Haven: they have an adopted daughter, Alta H. Porter. v. Julia, born November 1. 1784. died Oc- tober 9, 1850, married, March 21, 1821. David Ritter, born 1778. died October 14. 1842, a manufacturer of monuments, etc .. who was a widower with a number of children: by this second marriage he had: Stephen, a com- mercial traveler, born September 22. 1822, married. September 7. 1846, Margaret G. Bond, of New York, and has three children ; Joseph, a jeweler. born October 24. 1824, married. 1845. Elizabeth Pease, of Hartford, Connecticut, and has one child. vi. Rachei, born March 14, 1787, died February 26. 1855, married June 20, 1807. James Webster Town- send, a mariner, born July 20. 1782, died De- cember 21. 1824: children : Lucius Beardsley, born April 16, 1808, died March 10, 1882; Martha, born 1810, died in infancy: John, born July 10, 1812, died March 16, 1867, married and had children: Mary. born 1814, died in infancy : Mary Frances, born June 20, 1820.
(VI) Captain John Mansfield, son of Moses and Ann Mary ( Kierstead) Mansfield. born in New Haven, Connecticut, August 17, 1748, died in Wallingford. Connectient. in 1823. He owned and occupied the lot now owned and occupied by Mr. Harrison and formerly by Jolm Hiddleston, Esq. He served during the revolution, and his record is given as follows :
Capt. John Mansfeld. of Wallingford, Conn. (1748-1823). was a sergeant in the company of Isaac Cook Jr. in the tot Regimient. Col. David Wooster, raised on the first call for troops m April-May. 1775. Served in New York and on Long Island during the summer. In September marched to the northern department. where it served under Gen. Schuyler about Lakes George and Champlain. In October served at the r .- duction of St. John -. He was discharged No- vember 28. 1775. In June. 1,76, he was ensign of the 6th Company of the 5th Battalion. Wads- worth's Brigade. commanded by Col. William Douglas, raised to reinforce Washington's army at New York. Served in the City and at the right of the line during the battle of Long Island. Aug. 27th: was at the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28th and continued in service until December 25th. 1776. re-enlisting in the Con- necticut Line. Jan. Ist .. 17;7. On March 14th. 1777. he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 6th Regiment, Connecticut Line. raised to contin- ue through the war, went into camp at Peck-ki !! in the summer, and served during the fat in Par- son's brigade. on the Hudson, wintered 1 ;;;-; at West Point, and in the summer was encamped
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with the main army at White Plains; wintered 1778-79 at Redding. In the summer of 1;to served on the Fast side of the Hudson: wintered 1770-80 at Morristown Huts, New Jersey, and in the summer of 1;so .erved on both sides of the Hudson: wintered i-So-Si at Camp Connecticut Village, opposite West Point, and there consoli- dated for formation 1,81-1783. In this formation he continued as a lieutenant in the 4th Regiment Connecticut Line, and was present with the regi- ment at Yorktown. At the storming of the en- emy's redoubts on the night of October 24ti. 1781, the column was preceded by a "forlorn hope" of twenty men under Lieutenant Mansfield. who was wounded in scaling the works. He was complimented in Col. Hamilton's report. In the formation of January-June. 1,83. he contin- ued as lieutenant in the 2d Regiment Connecti- cut Line. commanded by Col. Heman Swift, in service at West Point and vicinity, until early in June the regiment was disbanded with the great- er portion of the army by orders of Washington. He was a member of the Society of the Cincin- nati. He was granted a pension .- (Conn. Society. S. A. R. Year Book. 1897-98-99. page 537).
He married Eunice, daughter of Colonel Thaddeus Cook, of Wallingford. Children . I. Ira. born in Wallingford. October 16. 1776, died in Atwater, Ohio. June 16. 1849. His occupation was that of farming and he was a captain in the Indian wars under Gen- eral Harrison and Commander Perry on the lakes. He married Sukie Kirtland. and had a son. Isaac K., born in Atwater, Ohio, Feb- ruary 3, 1809. died in Poland, Ohio. August 16, 1850. He was a merchant in Poland and in Philadelphia, and married. IS39. Lois. daughter of Elkanah Morse. Their son, Cap- tain Ira Franklin, was born in Poland, Ohio. June 27. 1812. and was graduated from Poland College. He served in the civil war, 1862-65, and was promoted through the vari- ous ranks to that of captain of the One Hun- dred and Fifth Ohio Regiment. He lived in Beaver. Pennsylvania, was a member of the legislature. a member of the American Philo- sophical Society, and elder and superintendent of the Presbyterian church. He married. December 11, 1872. Lucy E .. daughter of Dr. Eli Mygatt, of Danbury. Connecticut, and has children: Kirtland M., Mary L., Henry B. 2. Sybil. see forward.
(VII) Sybil. only daughter of Captain John and Eunice ( Cook) Mansfield. married John Hillleston. as mentioned above ( see Reni- bert II).
(The Bronson Line).
This name is usually spelled Brownson on the Hartford, and Brunson on the Farming- ton records.
( [) Jolm Bronson, father of the Waterbury Bronsons, was early in Hartford. It is be- lieved that he was one of the company that
came with Mr. Hooker in 1636, of whose church he was a member. He was a soldier in the Pequot battle of 1637. He is not named among the proprietors of Hartford in the land division of 1639. but in the same vear is mentioned in the list of settlers who by the "towne's courtesie" had liberty "to fetch woode and keepe swine or cowes on the common." His house lot was in the "sol- diers' field," in the north part of the old village of Hartford, on the "Neck Road" ( supposed to have been given for service in the Pequot war), where he lived in 1640. After the purchase of Tunxis (Farmington) by the Hartford people. John Bronson removed to that place about 1641. He was one of the seven pillars at the organization of the Farm- ington church in 1652: was. deputy to the general court. May, 1651, and at several later sessions : and "the constable of Farmington." who collected the rate for "ve Fort at Sea- brook" in 1652. His name is on the list of freemen of Farmington in 1660, and he died November 28. 1680. his estate being inven- toried at £312. He married and had children : I. Jacob, born January. 1641. died 1708: lived in Farmington. in the society of Kensington, married. and had children. 2. John. born
January, 1644. 3. Isaac. see forward. 4-
Mary. married Ellis, or Allis. 5.
Abraham, baptized November 28. 1647. he signed the Mattatuck articles. but declined the responsibilities of a planter : removed to Lyme, where he died at an advanced age. He mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Matthew Griswoldl. and had children. 6. Dorcas, died May 13. too ;: married Stephen Hopkins, of Hart- ford, and had a son, John, who was of Water- burv. 7. Sarah, married Ebenezer Kilbourn. of Wethersfield.
(II) Sergeant Isaac, son of John Bronson. died about 1710. He was one of the original thirty subscribers, and is believed to have been one of the first company who came to Waterbury, and was one of the patentecs named in the first town patent. He joined the Farmington church. May 15. 1684. and was active in establishing a church in Water- burv. being one of the netitioners to the gen- eral court for liberty "to gather" a church. and was one of its seven pillars at its final organization in 1691. He was appointed cor- poral of the train band in 16So. and became sergeant in 1603. He served as deputy in May, 1697. and October. Ifoi. and hell a number of other public offices, being evidently prominent in all public matters of the time and highly respected. The inventory of his estate showed the amount to be distributed to be £386.
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Isaac Bronson married, about 1660. Mary, who died shortly after his death, daughter of John Root, of Farmington. Children : I. Isaac, born 1670, died June 13. 1751 ; he was a bachelor proprietor, a deputy to the general court in 1723-33, and owned a considerable amount of property. In all probability he was the first permanent settler in what is now known as Middlebury, and tradition says that his eldest son Isaac was the first child born within the limits of that town. 2. John, see forward. 3. Samuel, born about 1676; was a cooper. and lived in Kensington. 4. Mary, born October 15. 1680. died 1,56, mar- ried Deacon Thomas Hickox, and supported herself efficiently after she became a widow. .5. Joseph, born 1682. died May 10. 1707. 6. Thomas, born January 16. 1686. died May 6. 1777 ; he was the fifth deacon of the Waterbury First Church, being appointed in 1750, and was a lieutenant, as shown by the inscription on his tombstone. 7. Ebenezer, born in De- cember. 1688, died July 20, 1773 : he is called in deeds a "yeoman." and appears to have been a man of wealth. 8. Sarah, born November 15, 1691, died 1748. 9. Mercy, born September 28. 1694 : married Richard Bronson. of Wood- burv.
(III) Lieutenant John. son of Sergeant Isaac and Mary (Root) Bronson, was born in 1673, and died about the close of 1746. He is supposed to have lived at Breakneck. where he had a house and a considerable amount of land. and later purchased a number of other pieces of property. He became a lieutenant of the militia and was several times a selectman. He was licensed as a tavern keeper by the New Haven county court in 1730 and afterward. His inventory amounted to £1. 184 is 8d. He married and had chil- dren: 1. Mary, born April 9. 1698: married (first) Samuel Porter. ( second) John Barnes, and died in 1774. 2. John. born April 23. 1701 : was a lieutenant, removed to Northbury about 1737, and later to Amenia, New York. 3. Hannah, born October 13. 1204: married Nathan Gaylord: lived in New Milford. 4. Temima, born August 27. 1706: married Stephen Hopkins. 5. Joseph. July 15. 1700. 6. Benjamin, October 2. 1711. ;. Tamer. March 14. 1730; married Joseph Nichols. S. Ezra, see forwardl. 9. Phebe. March 23. 1734: married Nathaniel Richards. n.
(IV) Captain Ezra. son of Lieutenant John Bronson, was born April 24. 1732. and died September 1. 1795. He served as town clerk. town treasurer. representative to the assem- bly, justice of the peace, and commissary of the revolution. He married. September 6, 1753. Susanna, born 1738, died October 13,
182S, daughter of Thomas Judd. Children: I. Michael, see forward. 2. Haimah, born March 26, 1757; married William Leaven- worth. 3. lark, born August 4. 1762. 4. Susanna. born March 6, 1766: married Stephen Welton. 5. Anne, born December 26, 1770: married Joseph Cook. 6. Meliscent. born June 27, 1773 : married William Durand.
(V) Lieutenant Michael, son of Captain Ezra and Susanna (Judd ) Bronson, was born March 25, 1754, and died July 25, 1822. Many from Waterbury were in the northern army under General Gates, and took part in the movements and battles which terminated in the capture of Burgoyne in October. 1777. Lieutenant Michael Brouson, attached to Col- onel Cook's regiment, acted as adjutant and particularly distinguished himself. He mar- ried. July 5. 1776. Eunice, diedi in 1841, daughter of Joseph Nichols. Children: Cla- rissa, born September 30, 1,76. married A ---- Bronson : Horatio Gates, see forward : Hannah, born February 12, 1780, married Toel Scott: Ezra. born December 6. 1783.
(VI) Horatio Gates, son of Lieutenant Mi- chael and Eunice ( Nichols ) Bronson, was born October 2. 1777. and died October 25. 1825. He was named for the famous general under whom his father had served, and served as a private in the war of ISI2.
(VHI) Michael, son of Horatio Gates Bronson, was born in 1812, and died July 29. 1881. He married Julia Ann Marks free Marks).
(VIII) Louisa M., daughter of Michael and Julia Ann (Marks) Bronson. was born in Litchfield, June 12. ISMI, and died De- cember 30. 1881. She married Riley Joli. 00. of Torrington. Connecticut.
( IX) Charlotte Rosette. daughter of Riley and Louisa M. ( Bronson) Johnson, married John Raphael Rembert (see Rembert III ).
(The Marks Line).
(I) Mordecai Marks, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in London, England. April 23. 1706, and died in Derby. Connecticut, January 8. 17;1. He came to New England in 1726. lived for a time in Stratford. then removed to Derby. where he was a mer- chant and did a large business. He also owned considerable land, and his will is dated Izin. He married. 1-20. Elizabeth, born in Derby, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gunn) Hawkins, the former born Februarv 11. 1669, the latter boin in Milford. April, 1672. was married there. August 9. 1603.
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