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1 Thomas' History of Printing, vol. 1, p. 405.
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don-Catharine, born in 1709; Charles in 1711. His relict married Solomon Coit, Aug. 8th, 1714.
Thomas Munsell, died in 1712.
We find this person mentioned in 1681. He was on a committee to lay out a highway in 1683. His wife was Lydia, and his children Jacob, Elisha, Mercy and Deliverance. In 1723, Jacob was of Windsor, and Elisha of Norwich.
Stephen Hurlbut, died October 7th, 1712.
The Hurlbut family, of Connecticut, commences with Thomas Hurlbut, who was one of the garrison at Saybrook Fort in 1636, and settled in Wethersfield about 1640. Stephen, who came to New London after 1690, was probably one of his descendants, and a na- tive of Wethersfield. He married, about 1696, Hannah, daughter of Robert Douglas, and between 1697 and 1711, had seven children baptized-Stephen, Freelove, Mary, John, Sarah, Titus, Joseph. Stephen, the oldest son, died in 1725. John is the ancestor of the Ledyard family of Hurlbuts, and Joseph of that of New London. Capt. Titus Hurlbut was a man of considerable distinction in his day; he served in the French wars, and was a captain of the old fort that stood on the eastern border of the Parade, near the present ferry wharf. His descendants, in the male line, removed to the western states.
William Camp, died October 9th, 1713.
He was an inhabitant of the Jordan district. His wife was Eliza- beth, daughter of Richard Smith. His two sons William and James removed to the North Parish, (now Montville.)
Hallam.
John and Nicholas Hallam were the sons of Mrs. Alice Liveen, by a former marriage, and probably born in Barbadoes-John in · 1661, and Nicholas in 1664. John married Prudence, daughter of Amos Richardson, in 1682, and fixed his residence in Stonington, where he died in 1700. His possessions were large; a thousand acres of land were leased to him in perpetuity by John Richardson of Newbury in 1692 "for the consideration of five shillings and an
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annual rent of one pepper-corn ;" and his inventory gives evidence of a style of dress and housekeeping, more expensive and showy than was common in those days. It contains silver plate, mantle and coat of broadcloth, lined with silk, "seventeen horse kind," four negro ser- vants, &c.
" Nicholas Hallam married Sarah, daughter of Alexander Pygan, July 8, 1686. Children :
1. Alexander born Oct. 22, 1688.
2. Edward " Ap. 25, 1693, (married Grace Denison.)
3. Sarah 6 € Mar. 29, 1695, (married Joseph Merrills.)
(Mrs. Sarah Hallam died in the year 1700.)
Nicholas Hallam was married Jan. 2, 1700-1 to widow Elizabeth Meades whose maiden name was Gulliver, in Bromley church, on the backside of Bow without Stepney church, in London, Old England. Their daughter Elizabeth was born in the parish of St. John Wapping, near Wapping New Stairs, in London Feb. 22, 1701-2, (married Samuel Latimer.)
5. Mary born in New London Oct. 11, 1705, (married Nathaniel Hempstead and Joseph Truman.)
6. John born Aug. 3, 1708, (married Mary Johnson.)"
Mr. Hallam's gravestone states that he died Sept. 18th, 1714, at the age of forty-nine years, five months and twenty-nine days. His wife survived him twenty-one years.
At this period, many families in town owned slaves, for domestic service ; some but one, others two or three; very few more than four. The inventory of Nicholas Hallam comprises "a negro man named Lonnon," valued at £30; his wife disposes of her "negro woman Flora, and girl Judith." Among the family effects are articles that were probably brought from England, when Hallam returned with his English wife in 1703-such as a clock and secretary. Mrs. Hallam bequeaths to one of her daughters a diamond ring, and a chest made of Bermuda cedar ; to another, "the hair-trunk I brought from London, and my gold chaine necklace containing seven chaines and a locket."
Alexander Hallam died abroad. The will of his father contains a bequest to him " if he be living and return home within twenty years." In 1720 his inventory was presented for probate with the label, sup- posed to be dead. . Edward Hallam was town-clerk from December, 1720, to his death in 1736.1
1 Rev. Robert A. Hallam, rector of St. James' Church, New London, is the only surviving male descendant of Nicholas Hallam, in the line of the name.
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Major Edward Palmes, died March 21st, 1714-15.
The same day died Capt. John Prentis, 2d. They were both buried on the 23d, under arms; Capt. Prentis in the morning and Major Palmes in the afternoon. The latter died on his farm at Nahantick, but was brought into town for interment. Mr. Hemp- stead's diary notices the extreme severity of the weather at the time, and says of Major Palmes-" He was well and dead in two hours and a half." His gravestone states that he was in his seventy-eighth year ; we may therefore place his birth in the year 1638.
Guy and Edward Palmes were both traders in 1659 and 1660; the latter in New Haven, and the former in one of the towns west of it upon the Sound. In December, 1660, Edward had removed to New London. From various sources it is ascertained that he mar- ried Lucy Winthrop, daughter of Governor Winthrop of Connecticut. and after her death a Widow Davis, and that by his first wife he had a daughter Lucy, who married (first) Samuel Gray, and (second) Samuel Lynde of Saybrook; but of these successive events no ex- plicit documentary evidence is to be found in New London. Dates therefore can not be given. Two children of Major Palmes by his second wife, are on Mr. Bradstreet's record of baptisms :
" Baptized Nov. 17, 1678, Major Palmes his child by his second wife who was Capt. Davis his relict, -Guy.
" Baptized Oct. 1, 1682, Major Palmes his child - Andrew."
The Bentworth farm of Major Palmes at Nahantick was mort- gaged to Capt. Charles . Chambers of Charlestown for £853. He left, however, five other valuable farms. The Winthrop homestead in the town plot, and the Mountain farm, bought of Samuel Royce, he gave to his daughter Lucy Gray, but the remainder of his estate went to his son Andrew. These are the only children mentioned in his will, and probably all that survived infancy.
Andrew Palmes graduated at Harvard College in 1703, and died in 1721. He had four sons, Guy, Bryan, Edward and Andrew, and a daughter Sarah, who married Richard Durfey. The name of Palmes is now extinct in New London. The Brainerd family is descended in the female line from Capt. Edward Palmes, the third son of Andrew.
Richard Jennings, died Dec. 12th, 1715.
Richard Jennings and Elizabeth Reynolds were married "the be- ginning of June, 1678." They were both emigrants from Barbadoes.
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Their children were, first, Samuel, born March 11th, 1679; second, Richard, 1680 ; third, Elinor, who married Richard Manwaring.
Thomas Crocker, died Jan. 18th, 1715-6.
The descendants of this person are numerous and widely scattered. At the time of his decease he was eighty-three years of age and had lived about fifty years in the town. His wife, Rachel, was a daugh- ter of George Chappell. Their children were :
1. Mary, b. Mar. 4th, 1668-9.
4. Samuel, b. July 27th, 1676.
2. Thomas, b. Sept. 1st, 1670.
5. William, - - 1680.
3. John, - - 1672.
6. Andrew, - 1683.
The second Thomas Crocker lived to the age of his father, eighty- three years and seven months. William Crocker, the fourth son, was a resolute partisan officer in the frontier wars, during the earlier part of the eighteenth century, and was styled "captain of the scouts." John Crocker of the third generation (son of John,) was also a sol- dier of the French wars, and their victim. He came home from the frontier sick, and died soon afterward, Nov. 30th, 1746, aged forty.
David Caulkins, died Nov. 25th, 1717.
Hugh Caulkin(s) and his son John removed to Norwich in 1660. David the younger son remained in New London, and inherited the homestead farm given by the town to his father at Nahantick. Ed- ward Palmes, John Prentis, David Caulkins and William Keeny lived on adjoining farms, and for a considerable period occupied a district by themselves, around the present Rope Ferry and Millstone Point.
David Caulkins married Mary, daughter of Thomas Bliss of Nor- wich.
Children.
1. David, b. July 5th, 1674.
6. Mary.
2. Ann, b. Nov. 8th, 1676.
7. Joseph, bap. Nov. 3d, 1694.
3. Jonathan, b. Jan. 9th, 1678-9.
8. Lydia, " Aug. 9th, 1696.
5. John,
4. Peter, b. Oct. 9th, 1681.
9, Ann,
Lieut. Jonathan Caulkins, second son of David, served in the fron- tier wars against the French. A later descendant of the same name, Capt. Jonathan Caulkins, was in the field during a considerable por= tion of the Revolutionary War.
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Ensign George Way, died in Feb., 1716-7.
This was the period of the Great Snow, famous throughout New England. Ensign Way lived at the West Farms, not far from Lake's Pond, and after his decease his remains were kept for eleven or twelve days, on account of the impassable state of the roads. He was finally interred on the 7th of March, being brought into town by men on snow-shoes.
The family of Ensign Way removed from New London. He had several children, but Lyme was probably the place of their nativity. His wife was Susannah, daughter of Joseph Nest.
George and Thomas Way were brothers ; their father was George Way, of Lyme, or Saybrook, and their mother the only child of John and Joanna Smith. Thomas Way appears to have lived from child- hood in New London. His wife was Ann, daughter of Andrew Lester, and he had ten children ranging in birth from 1688 to 1714. About the year 1720, he removed with the younger part of his family to East Haven, where he died in 1726. His sons David and James married in East Haven;1 John, another son, settled in Wal- lingford.
Thomas Way, Jr., died in New London before the removal of the family, at the age of twenty. A small stone of rough granite was placed at the head of his grave, on which the following rudely picked characters may still be deciphered.
T. W. DIED ye 22 DEC. 170 11 (1711.)
Daniel Way, the oldest son of Thomas, born Dec. 23d, 1688, and Ebenezer, born Oct. 30th, 1693, are ancestors of the Way families of New London and Waterford, branches of which have emigrated to Vermont, New Hampshire and other states and also to Canada. Capt. Ebenezer Way, of the old fourth United States regiment, who commanded a company in the army of General Harrison at the bat- tle of Tippecanoe, was a descendant of Ebenezer, son of Thomas.
Joshua Baker, died Dec. 27th, 1717.
He was son of Alexander Baker of Boston, and born at the latter place in 1642. He came to New London about 1670, and married Sept. 13th, 1674, Hannah, relict of Tristram Minter. They had Alexander, born Dec. 16th, 1677 ; Joshua, Jan. 5th, 1678-9 ; John,
1 Dodd's East Haven Register, p. 159.
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Dec. 24th, 1681 ; Hannah and Sarah, twins, 1684; also a son Ben- jamin and daughters Mercy and Patience.
Another Baker family belongs to New London, of earlier date than that of Joshua. "William Baker of Pequot," is noticed in 1653. Thomas, by supposition his son, was a householder in 1686, living north of the town plot at Foxen's Hill. No registry of mar- riage, birth or death relating to this family before 1700, has been found. John Baker marrried Phebe Douglas, Jan. 17th, 1703-4.
Thomas Jones, died Oct. 6th, 1718.
His wife was Catharine, daughter of Thomas Gammon of New- foundland, whom he married June 25th, 1677. He lived at first near Alewife Cove, but removed into the North Parish, and his only son Thomas became a proprietor of the town of Colchester.
Daniel Wetherell.
The following memorials collected from the town book, and from the graveyard, are more comprehensive than they would be if mold- ed into any other form.
" Daniel Wetherell was born Nov. 29, 1630, at the Free School-house in Maidstone, Kent, Old England."
" Daniel Wetherell of New London, son of William Wetherell, Clericus of Scituate, was married August 4, 1659, to Grace, daughter of Mr. Jonathan Brewster."
Children.
1. Hannah, b. Mar. 21st, 1659-60.
3. Daniel, b. Jan. 26th, 1670-1.
2. Mary, b. Oct. 7th, 1668. 4. Samuel, bap. Oct. 19th, 1679.
" Here lyeth the body of Capt" Daniel Wetherell Esq. who died April ye 14th 1719 in the 89th year of his age."
Capt. Wetherell's usefulness continued almost to the day of his death. From 1680 to 1710 he was more prominent in public af- fairs than any other inhabitant of the town. He was town-clerk, moderator, justice, assistant, judge of probate, and judge of the coun- ty court. No man in the county stood higher in point of talent and integrity.
The two sons of Capt. Wetherell died young. His daughter Han- nah married Adam Picket; Mary married first, Thomas Harris, and second, George Denison. His family, like the families of several other founders and benefactors of the town-Picket, Christophers, Palmes, Shaw, &c .- was perpetuated only in the female line.
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Andrew Davis, of Groton, died April 23d, 1719.
John Davis was one of the planters of Pequot in 1651, and came probably from Ipswich. In 1662 he was master of a vessel. His death is not registered, but there is little hazard in assuming that his relict was the Widow Davis whom Major Palmes married for his second wife, and that Andrew Davis of Groton was his son. It is difficult to construct a family history out of the scanty materials af- forded by early records. We gather fragments, but the thread is wanting which should bind them together. The wife of Andrew Davis was Mary, daughter of Thomas Bailey. Of his children we can obtain no information, except that it is fair to presume that An- drew Davis, Jr., was his son. The latter married Sarah Baker, Dec. 9th, 1708. A Comfort Davis, mentioned in 1719, and William Davis who died in 1725, may also be sons.
Lieut. John Richards, died Nov. 2d, 1720.
He was the oldest son of the first John Richards, and his wife was Love, daughter of Oliver Manwaring. He had a large family of ten or twelve children, of whom only four (John, George, Samuel and Lydia) survived their father. His inventory, which comprises gold buttons, silver plate, and gold and silver coin, shows that an advance had been made beyond the simple frugality of the first times. He owned the Bartlett farm on the river, one-half of which was prized at £315, which indicates a still greater advance in the value of lands. No spot in New London was more noted than the corner of Lieut. Richards (now opposite the court-house.) It was for many years the most western dwelling in that direction, with only the school- house and pasture lots beyond.
Capt. George Richards, a son of Lieut. John, was a man of large stature and great physical strength. Stories are told of his wrest- ling with various gigantic Indians, and always coming off conqueror from the combat. Capt. Guy Richards, for many years a noted merchant in New London, Colonel William Richards of the Revolu- tionary army, and Capt. Peter Richards, slain in the sack of Fort Griswold in 1781, are among the descendants of Lieut. John Rich- ards.
Col. John Livingston, died 1720.
"The inventory of Lieut. Col. John Livingston, late of New Lon- don taken at the house of Mrs. Sarah Knight in Norwich, at the de-
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sire of Mrs. Elizabeth Livingston widow of ye deceased who is appointed administratrix, March 10, 1720-1." The list of effects under this heading is slender. The principal items are 103 ounces of wrought plate at 10s. 6d. per ounce ; a japanned cabinet, and a field tent. Colonel Livington died abroad. His residence in New London has already been noticed. He speculated largely in Indian lands. In 1705 he purchased " Pawmechaug," 300 acres, of Samuel Rogers, and sold it subsequently to Charles Whiting. In 1710 he was one of the four purchasers of all Mohegan, the reservation of the Indians excepted. He had a farm on Saw-mill Brook, (now Uncasville) of 400 acres which he cultivated as a homestead. Here he had his mills and dwelling-house, the latter standing on the west side of the road to Norwich. It was here that his first wife, Mrs. Mary Livingston, the only child of Governor Fitz-John Winthrop, died, Jan. 8th, 1712-13. She was not interred till the 16th; the weather being very inclement and the snow deep, she could not be brought into town till that time.
Colonel Livingston's second wife was Elizabeth, daughter and only child of Mrs. Sarah Knight. The marriage has not been found registered. To Mrs. Knight, Livingston first mortgaged, and then sold the Mohegan farm. The title therefore accrued to Mrs. Living- ston from her mother, and not her husband. She sold it to Capt. Stephen Harding of Warwick. Colonel Livingston had no children by either wife. The grave of the first-the daughter of Winthrop- is undistinguished and unknown. A table of freestone, with the following inscription, perpetuates the memory of the second.
" Interd vnder this stone is the body of Mdm Elizabeth Livingston, relict of Col. John Livingstone of New London who departed this life March 17th, A. D. 1735-6 in the 48th year of her age."
The following are items from the inventory of her effects :
A negro woman, Rose ; man, Pompey.
Indian man, named John Nothing.
Silver plate, amounting to £234, 13s. A damask table-cloth, 80s.
Four gold rings ; one silver ring ; one stoned ring.
A pair of stoned earrings ; a stone drop for the neck.
A red stone for a locket ; two pair of gold buttons.
A diamond ring with five diamonds, (prized at £30.)
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John Edgecomb, died April 11th, 1721.
His will calls him aged. His estate was appraised at £681, and consisted of a homestead in the town plot, and two considerable farms.
" John, son of Nicholas Edgecombe, of Plymouth, Old England, was married to Sarah, daughter of Edward Stallion, Feb. 9th, 1673."
Children.
1. John, born November 14th, 1675; married Hannah Hempstead.
2. Sarah, born July 29th, 1678 ; married John Bolles.
3. Joanna, born March 3d, 1679-80 ; married Henry Delamore.
4. Nicholas, born January 23d, 1681-2.
5. Samuel, born 1690.
6. Thomas.
Mr. John Edgecombe married for his second wife, Elizabeth, relict of Joshua Hempstead.
The name of Edgecomb is connected with the early settlement of Maine. Sir Richard Edgecomb, of Mount Edgecomb, Devonshire, had an extensive grant of land from Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in 1637, on Casco Bay and the Saco River. Nicholas Edgecomb, who is supposed to have been a near relative, was actively engaged in es- tablishing a settlement on the bay, and himself visited it in 1658. This person was probably the father of John Edgecomb, of New London. Robert Edgecomb, another supposed son of Nicholas, set- tled in Saco, and left descendants there.1
Henry Delamore married Joanna Edgecomb, Feb. 14th, 1716-17. He was a recent emigrant from the old world, and styled himself " late master spar-maker to his majesty the king of Great Britain, at Port Mahon." His second wife was Miriam Graves, but it does not appear that he left children by either wife. His relict, Miriam Del- amore, married the second John Bolles, and this carried the Delamore homestead into the Bolles family. It was where the Thatcher house now stands, on Main Street, at the corner of Masonic Street.
Capt. Peter Manwaring, died July 29th, 1723.
He perished by shipwreck, on the south side of Montauk Point, as stated in a previous chapter. This enterprising mariner is first named a little before 1700. His relationship with Oliver Manwaring has not been ascertained, but the probability is that he was his nephew.
1 See Folsom's Hist. of Saco and Biddeford, p. 112.
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He followed the seas with great assiduity. His family consisted of a wife and three daughters.
Thomas Manwaring was probably a younger brother of Peter. He married in 1722, Esther Christophers, and is the ancestor of the Lyme branch of Manwarings. ,
Oliver Manwaring, died November 3d, 1723.
He was then ninety years of age, and had been an inhabitant of the town about sixty years. His house-lot of eleven acres was bought on the 3d of November, 1664. The nucleus of this homestead, consist- ing of the house plot and garden, has never been alienated by the family, but is still in the possession of a descendant in the direct male line from Oliver.
Oliver Manwaring married Hannah, daughter of Richard Ray- mond. His wife connected herself with Mr. Bradstreet's church, in 1671, at which time they had four children baptized : Hannah, Eliz- abeth, Prudence and Love. After this were baptized in order, Richard, July 13th, 1673 ; Judith, in April, 1676 ; Oliver, February 2d, 1678-9; Bathsheba, May 9th, 1680; Anne, June 18th, 1682 ; Mercy. All these children were living at the period of Mr. Man- waring's death : the eight daughters were married and had families. He bequeathed to his grandson, John Richards, (the son of his daugh- ter Love,) all bills and bonds due to him "and particularly that bond which I had from my nephew, Oliver Manwaring, in England."
Sergeant Ebenezer Griffing, died September 2d, 1723.
His age was fifty years, and he had been about twenty-five in New London. His parentage and native place have not been ascertained. He married Mary, relict of Ebenezer Hubbell, February 9th, 1702-3. Their children were John, Samuel, Peter, Lydia and Mary. John and Samuel left descendants.
Richard Dart, died September 24th, 1724.
This was sixty years and twelve days after the date of his first purchase in New London. He was eighty-nine years of age. His oldest son, Daniel, born May 3d, 1666, married, August 4th, 1686, Elizabeth Douglas, and about the year 1716, removed to Bolton, in Hartford county. Most of his children, eleven in number, either
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went with him or followed in his track. The other sons of Richard and Bethiah Dart, were Richard, born May 7th, 1667 ; Roger, No- vember 22d, 1670, and Ebenezer, February 18th, 1672-3. These all became fathers of families, and their descendants are numerous.
John Arnold, died August 16th, 1725.
His gravestone says "aged about 73." His wife died November 28th, of the same year. We assume with confidence that John Ar- nold was a son of Joseph Arnold, of Braintree, Mass., the latter hav- ing the birth of a son John registered April 2d, 1650-1. He was a resident in Norwich, in 1681, and later ; but before 1700, removed to New London, where he married, December 6th, 1703, Mercy, re- lict of Samuel Fosdick. They had two daughters : 1. Ruhamah, who married an Ely, of Lyme, and 2. Lucretia, who became the second wife of John Proctor, A. M.
Harwood.
George Harwood can be traced as a resident in New London only between the years 1651 and 1657, inclusive. He had a son John, whose birth probably stands recorded in Boston-John, the son of George and Jane Harwood, born July 5th, 1639.1 The family prob- ably resided on the outlands of the town, and therefore seldom pre- sent themselves to our view. John Harwood, a young man aged twenty-three years, and apparently the last of the family, died Feb- ruary 23d, 1726. He made a brief will, in which he mentions no relative, but bequeaths what little estate he has to Lydia, daughter of Israel Richards.
Thomas Bolles,2 died May 26th, 1727, aged eighty-four. Samuel Bolles, died August 10th, 1842, aged ninety-nine.
The person last mentioned was grandson to the former, and yet the time between the birth of the one, and the decease of the other, was 199 years, an immense space to be covered by three generations, and a remarkable instance for our country, where the practice of early
1 Hist. and Gen. Reg., vol. 2, p. 189.
2 At first frequently written Bowles.
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marriages operates to crowd the generations closely together. The intervening link is John Bolles : Samuel was the son of his old age, born when his father had numbered sixty-seven years.
A family tradition states that Thomas Bolles came to this country with brothers, and that they arrived first upon the Kennebeck coast, but Winthrop, the founder of New London, having some knowledge of the family, invited them all to his plantation. Only Thomas an- swered the call, the others remaining where they first landed. It is some corroboration of this account that the name of Bolles is found among the early settlers of Wells, in Maine.
Thomas Bolles is found at New London about 1668. Of his mar- riage we have no account. He bought house and land at Foxen's Hill, and there lived with his wife Mary and three children : Mary, born in 1673 ; Joseph, in 1675,' and John, in August, 1677.
On the 5th or' 6th of June, 1678, while Mr. Bolles was absent from home, a sudden and terrific blow bereaved him of most of his family. His wife and two oldest children were found dead, welter- ing in their blood, with the infant, wailing but unhurt, by the side of its mother. The author of this bloody deed proved to be a vagabond youth, who demanded shelter and lodging in the house, which the woman refused. Some angry words ensued, and the reckless lad, seizing an ax that lay at the wood pile, rushed in and took awful vengeance. He soon afterward confessed the crime, was carried to Hartford, tried by the court of assistants, October 3d, condemned and executed at Hartford, October 9th, 1678.
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