History of New London county, Connecticut : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 126

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1317

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EBENESER, m. Mary Vetch, July 27, 1721. Chil., Jonathan, b. April. 28, 1722; Elisabeth, May 2, 1725; Veach, April 23, 1727 ; Isaac, June 1, 1729.

SAMUEL, 11. Deborah Throop, Dec. 3, 1724. Chil., Deborah, b. Sepl. 26, 1725; Priscilla, Sept. 1, 1727; Joanna, April 26, 1729; Submit, Oct. 22,. 1731; Rebecka, Feb. 20, 1733; George, Nov. 19, 1734; Bathsheba, May 22, 1737; Mary, Sept. 27, 1739; Nathaniel, April 30, 1742; Theody, Dec. 11, 1744 ; Samuel, Dec. 11, 1746-d. Aug. 21, 1768.

REV. SOLOMON, m. Mrs. Mary Potter (no date). Chil., Solomon, b. Nov. 5, 1723-d. young; Eliphalel, Feb. 4, 1727: Esekiel, May 5, 1729-d. Feb. 12, 1818; William, April 8, 1731 ; Mary, -; Thomas, Nov. 12, 1735-d. Feb. 10, 1839; Christiana, -; Moses, -; Samuel, -; Eunice, -.

Rev. Solomon, d. Feb. 7, 1776 ; Mrs. Mary Williams, d. - , 1788.

WRIGHT.

ABEL, In. Rebecka -. Chil., Ebeneser, b. Feb. 22, 1701; Mary, Nov. 22, 1702; Ephraim, Feb. 29, 1704; Martha, April 12, 1705 ; Jemima, Sept. 4, 1707; Anu, June 4, 1709; Miriam, Nov. 14, 1711 ; Benjamin, July 29,. 1712-d. young ; Benjamin, March 3, 1714. Mr. Abel Wright d. June 2, 1745.

SAMUEL, m. Mary Cass, Nov. 22, 1710. Chil., Aaron, b. March 29, 1713; John, Sept. 23, 1716; Mary, May 10, 1721. Abel, m. Mary Calkin, Nov. 7, 1717. Ebeneser, m. Elisabeth Newcomb, April 20, 1721.

BENONI, m. Elisabeth Smith, Jan. 7, 1742. Chil., Samuel, b. Sept. 27, 1752; Theodora, July 9, 1755; Dan, April 7, 1757; Benoni, May 31, 1761.

Military Record.1-This town was prompt and earnest to bear its part in supporting the war for the Union. The firing upon Fort Sumter and the imme- diately subsequent events stirred no community more deeply and thoroughly than this. The call for vol- unteers was at once responded to, and it was a marked feature of those who enlisted from this town that they were the substantial and intelligent young men of the town, connected with some of the best families. Their motives were shown to be patriotic and high from the fact that they had no immediate prospects of position and office, as had those who enlisted from larger places and centres of influence. Two at least, early received lieutenant's commissions, and ultimately four from the society of Exeter (perhaps some from other societies) received a captain's commission, and one a colonel's.

The Governor of the State, William A. Bucking- ham, so distinguished as a war Governor, was a native and spent his early life here, and the town was hon- ored and incited by his enthusiasm and vigor. Here, too, lived and died Jonathan Trumbull,-" Brother Jonathan," -- the only Governor among the thirteen colonies who in the beginning was true to the cause of

) Contributed by Rev. O. D. Hine.

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the colonies, and William Williams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the place contains well-known memorials of the prominence which it held during the period of the Revolution. The ex- amples of the past and present and the associations of the place had educated the people to patriotism, and now incited them to bear their part in the great effort to preserve the integrity of the nation. The ladies were on the alert to do what they could, and during the four years of the war supplies in large amount were sent to be distributed by the Sanitary Commission and the Christian Commission. The pastor of the First Church spent some two months among the sick and wounded of the army in Wash- ington, D. C., under the Christian Commission.

The town responded earnestly to the calls of the government for troops and promptly filled its several quotas, sent its benevolent contributions, and could but congratulate itself that from its homes came the Governor of the State, who performed so efficient service in the nation's peril, and was a worthy suc- cessor of Connecticut's first war Governor.

The following are names of soldiers who enlisted from this town during the Rebellion :

Lewis Beers, three months.

Joseph K. Corey, three months and three years ; lost a foot.

Hosea P. Durfee, three month and three years; veteran and corp. Orlense Lombard, three months and three years.

Charles L. Pitcher, three months and three years ; corp. William C. Tracey, three months and three years ; corp.

The following for three years:

Joseph Wheaten. Joseph S. Forsyth. Obadiah S. Roundsville ; veteran. Henry M. Livermore, 8th Regt., Co. D., corp .; died. Leander Clark. Edwin Blanchard. William C. Blanchard. Robert W. Burk, veteran. Edwin J. Comstock, 8th Regt., Co. D; died.

Fred. Ellsworth, 8th Regt., Co. D; died of wounds.

William Huntington, 8th Regt .; veteran ; sergt .; wounded twice. Jeremiah Jordan.

Michael Hagan. Oliver Lathrop, died of wounds. Edgar A. Lockwood, veteran ; wounded twice. Aaron H. Ceball, died. William A. Mason, died.

Diodate I. Mitchel, died. George K. Morgan, died. John U. Wheaton.

Fred. E. Shalk, 1st lient, 14th Regt. ; died of wounds. David H. Brown, 13th Regt .; veteran ; died.

The following were in the Eighteenth Regiment : Elias Mulliken. Henry D. Rose, veteran. Nelson M. Sammis. Charles H. Sparks. Addison J. Thompson, veteran.

George Zimmerman, veteran. Joseph U. Meach, veteran. James C. Jennings, veteran.

J. A. H. Bowers, veteran.

Andrew Washburn, sergt .; capt. of colored company.

Charles Robinson, sergt .; capt. of colored company. Edwin S, Hinckley, sergt. and lient. 1 Charles H. Carpenter, sergt.

Thomas C. Abel, sergt.

George R. Bill, corp. and capt. of colored company. Rescome Peckham, sergt. Alonzo S. Mather, Ist lieut. Judson A. Gager, musician. William A. Wetmore. Jolın W. Abel. Peleg C. Congdon.

Charles C. Chappel, sergt. Joseph E. Davol.

Abisha P. Durfee, corp., and wounded.

Alfred E. Gates, wonuded and died. Charles F. Geer.

Asher D. ITolmes, killed in battle.

Edwin M. Kidder.

Adgate Loomis, capt. of colored troops.

Nelson P. Lord, severely wounded.

Marcena Lombard.

Henry B. Ormsby.

Lucius G. Pember, starved at Andersonville.

Myer W. Robinson, M.D., also surgeon of 6th Regt. John Shalk, died.

Fred. L. Spencer, sergt.

Albert Sullard, injured at Winchester.

Charles H. Tilley.

Joseph A. Tilden, slightly wounded. Ebenezer Tilden.

George A. Weaver.

John Williams.

Alfred J. Comstock, severely wounded; Vet. Res. H. H. McCracken, killed in battle.

Hiram D. Rose, killed in battle.

The following were in the Twenty-first Regiment :

Isaac G. Avery, Frank Bennett, Bradford K. Green, Michael Kelley, Peter Gallagher, William H. Day.

The following were in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, nine months :

Timothy A. Avery, died. William H. Hyde, died. Maurice Lappe. Michael O. Laughlin, slightly wounded.

Amos Spafard.

Augustus Tittel.

George W. Willcox, died. Samuel S. Willcox, slightly wounded. Henry J. Wilson.

The following were in the Twenty-sixth Regiment, nine months :

Henry L. Gay, 2d lieut. Charles Lamb. William F. Gates.

The following were in the Twenty-ninth Regiment, three years (colored) :

Austin W. Seymour, Edwin Hewitt.

The following were recruits :

Ludwig Ilawerwas, 18th Regt., lost leg. Asa K. Holmes, 18th Regt., slightly wounded. Benjamin Congdon, 18th Regt.

John Sullivan, 10th Regt.

Edwin Washburn, 18th Regt., slightly wounded.

Thomas A. Loomis, 18th Regt. Aaron Wolf, 18th Regt. Orlando Lombard, 18th Regt. John Nutley, 21st Regt.

Benjamin B. Brown, 18th Regt., two wounds. - Pollard.

- Clark.

Some of the battles engaged in by Lebanon sol- diers were those of Antietam, Berryville, Bristol Sta-

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tion, Bull Run, Camp Bisland, Cedar Creek, Cedar Mountain, Culpeper, Drury's Bluff, Fort Fisher, Fredericksburg, Georgia Landing, Hall Town, Hat- cher's Run, Lynchburg, Morris Island, Newbern, Piedmont, Fort Hudson, Petersburg, Roanoke Island, Sharpsburg, Snicker's Ford, South Mountain, Spott- sylvania, Sugar-Loaf Mountain, Summit Point, Wil- derness, Winchester.

In June and July, 1864, the Eighteenth Regiment marched eleven hundred miles.

Lebanon sent of her sons 106; 6 enlisted for three months; later 12 for nine months; all the rest-88 -for three years. Of the 6 three-months 5 re-enlisted for three years, and 1 became a veteran. Whole num- ber of those who re-enlisted as veterans, 12.

In addition the town sent as substitutes a number sufficient to more than fill its quota by 15, the whole number being about 200.

Of the 106, 20 died, 3 were instantly killed in battle, 4 died of wounds before they were removed from the battle-field, 2 died in hospitals from the effects of their wounds, 12 died of disease, and 1 died after 'his return home. Whole number, 20.

CHAPTER LIII.

LEBANON-(Continued). BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Thomas Whitmore was born in England in 1615, and came to America in 1635 ; tradition says that he embarked from Bristol. The first mention that we find of his name in the colonial records is in the Wethersfield town records in 1639-40, as owner of certain lands, where it appears lie first settled on coming to the Connecticut River.

He subsequently removed to Hartford, at what time we have no data for determining.

He was one of the first settlers of Middletown ; the exact date cannot be determined, as a few of the first leaves of the town record are missing.

May 20, 1652, he was made a freeman. The qualifi- cations necessary to be a freeman were, namely : he had to be orthodox, twenty years of age, and worth two hundred pounds, and was obliged to take the oath of fidelity.

That we may more fully fix in our minds the age in which he lived we note the following personages of his time : first, he was a subject of James I., Charles I., and Charles II., and Shakespeare was living, and died when he was a year old. He died Dec. 11, 1681, aged sixty-six years. He was three times married, and had some seventeen children. Izrahiah was his fourth son and eighth child by his first wife, Sarah Hall.

Izrahiah, or Izariah, was born in Middletown, Conn., March 9, 1656, married Rachel Stow, and had eight children, the eldest of whom was Rev. Izrahiah, born

June 28, 1693, and married Sarah Booth and had five children, the eldest of whom was Prosper, born March 14, 1722. The remains of Rev. Izrahiah Whitmore are interred in the old East burying-ground at Middle- town. He was settled over the Presbyterian Church at Stratford, Conn., soon after his majority.

Prosper Whitmore early settled in Norwich, Conn., married Keturah Chesbrough and had seven children, the eldest of whom was Nathan, born Aug. 25, 1757. Prosper Whitmore was a sheriff of New London County for many years. He died Oct. 15, 1787, and his wife died Feb. 13, 1789, aged fifty-three. Both were buried in the old burial-ground at Norwich, Conn.

Nathan Whitmore married Elizabeth Bushnell and had three children, the second of whom was Augustus, born Nov. 6, 1786.

Nathan Whitmore (or Wetmore, as the name was spelled by some of the family) was a man of respec- tability and influence, holding the office of deputy sheriff of New London County, at that time a posi- tion of trust and importance, which he retained till his death, Nov. 5, 1791.

Augustus Wetmore was twice married,-first, to Emily T. Hinckley, Feb. 26, 1816 ; second, to Sarah Hinckley, Nov. 27, 1825. Ilis children by his first wife are William A., Charles H., Edwin D., and Ed- win D. (the second) ; by his second wife, Emily C., Catharine, the wife of William R. Gay, of Lebanon, Sarah J., and William A. (2).

A correspondent thus speaks of Augustus Wet- more: " He removed with his father to Lebanon in 1791, where he has ever since resided, save a few years spent at Millington during his youth. By reason of age and its incident infirmities, though comparatively few have fallen upon him, he no longer confines him- self to business. His threescore years and ten, with their abundant cares and toils, are more than passed, and it surely is befitting that the remainder be spent at ease in the bosom of his family.

" He united with the Congregational Church at twenty-two years of age. In public life he has been little seen, all his tastes leading another way, but in private he is well known as a man of unimpeachable integrity, strict honesty, warm friendship, unwavering fidelity, the purest life, and sincerest piety. His tastes are simple and manners unaffected, and without osten- tation.

"Though his efforts have not been crowned with affluence, at the call of the poor and needy his benev- olence finds no excuse in that for withholding from his means. In person Mr. Wetmore is about five feet six inches in height, his frame well knit and muscu- lar, inclining of late years somewhat to corpulence."

William R. Gay, of Lebanon, Conn., is a son of Asahiel Gay and Mary Reed (see Reed genealogy), and grandson of Asahel Reed, Sr., and Temperance Reed, and was born in Floyd, N. Y., June 17, 1827. His mother dying when he was only five months old,

William R. Jay

Charles Sweet

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and his father when he was but seventeen months of age, he was left to the tender care and sympathy of his paternal grandparents and his aunt Temper- ance, who was always a mother to him, and though now they too are dead, yet their names will ever be cherished with the most tender regard, and their kind words and deeds will ever live fresh in his memory.

Asahel Gay, Sr., was a farmer and distiller by oc- cupation, settled in Lebanon, Conn., at an early day, and continued to reside there till his death, March 24, 1843, aged eighty-seven years nine months and ten days. Temperance, his wife, died Sept. 27, 1843, aged eighty-seven years and ten months. Temper- ance Gay, daughter of Asahel and Temperance Gay, died Feb. 17, 1864, aged eighty-two years.

Asahel Gay, Jr., was born in Connecticut, married Mary Reed, and had two sons, Francis Lafayette, who died at three years and nine months, and William R. Mr. Gay was a merchant. He died Nov. 30, 1828, aged thirty-eight years and two months, and his wife died Nov. 24, 1827, aged twenty-nine years, and both are buried at Whitesborough, N. Y.

William R. Gay received a common-school educa- tion, and one term at an academy at Westfield, Mass. At the age of two, in 1829, he settled in Lebanon, Conn., and has continued to reside on the same farm purchased by his grandfather. He married, May 24, 1853, Catherine (born April 14, 1831), daughter of Augustus and Sarah (Hinckley) Wetmore (see his- tory of the Whitmore, or Wetmore family), and to them have been born Emma F., Mary R., and Sarah Jane, who died at two years. Mr. Gay built his present farm-house in 1858 and '59, and all his other improvements were made by him.

In politics he is a Republican. He never aspired to official honors, preferring the quiet of domestic life. Mr. and Mrs. Gay are members of the Con- gregational Church at Lebanon. He is a man of medium height and light complexion. He is very modest and retiring in disposition, and of industrious and frugal habits. As a man he is esteemed by his neighbors, and loved and respected at home.

His mother descended from Joseph Read, or Reed, who married Sarah Rice, Nov. 26, 1723. Children,- James, born 1724; Berthia, born 1725; John, born 1728. Mrs. Reed died Jan. 1, 1729. Joseph Reed married his cousin Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Reed.

Maj. John Reed (born 1728) married Hannah God- dard. Children,-John, William (afterwards United States navy surgeon), and Thomas. John Reed mar- ried Marcia Goodwin, of Plymouth, Mass., daughter of Gen. Goodwin. Children,-John, Betsey, Hannah, George, Charles, William, Joseph, Isaac, Mary, Fran- cis, and Nancy ; also five others who died young. Nancy Reed married Nathan Viles, of Boston, Mass.

Dr. Charles Sweet, of Lebanon, the subject of this sketch, we trace back through five successive genera- tions to James Sweet, son of Isaac and Mary Sweet,

of Wales. He came to America in 1630, and settled in North Kingston, R. I., where members of the family still live. As far back as their history can be ob- tained, and tradition leading us still farther, we find that they have always been accredited with a capacity or ability in an eminent degree for bone-setting, though uneducated in any department of surgery, and as we follow along down the genealogical line we find members of the family that have become especially eminent in the practice of this natural ability. Dr. John Sweet, grandfather of Dr. Charles Sweet, gained a wide-spread notoricty during the Revolution by his successful practice among the officers and men of both the French and American army, though not himself in the government service. His son Benoni, father of Charles Sweet, had for a few years followed in the footsteps of his father in this matter, but removing to Lebanon, Conn., in 1793, he determined not to prac- tice bone-setting more, but give his whole attention to farming. This resolution, however, he was unable to carry out, for a dislocated shoulder in his own neighborhood which baffled the surgeons forced him again into the practice of this his legitimate and nat- ural calling, which he never afterwards abandoned during active life, and after a long series of years of usefulness he died, Aug. 26, 1840, at the age of eighty years.

Before leaving Kingston he married Sarah Cham- plin, and had one child. The rest of the family were born in Lebanon,-Susannah, Thomas, Benoni, Ste- phen, Sally, Mary, Lydia, Hannah, Lucy, and Charles, the last three only still living. Thomas died at the age of nineteen. Benoni, Jr., practiced bone-setting at Guilford, Stephen at Franklin, Sally for a time at Willimantic, and Charles for many years at the old homestead, and for near thirty years at Lebanon Centre, where he now resides. He commenced the practice of bone-setting as young as sixteen years of age, and for nearly forty years he has maintained an office at Hartford, Conn., and at Springfield, Mass., each of which he visits one day in each month, suc- cessfully treating all sorts of bone dislocations, frac- tures, and diseases.

The greater part of his time is devoted to this call- ing, in which he manifests an intuitive perception truly surprising.

In the intervals he prosecutes a limited amount of farming, which he does more for a pastime than for pecuniary profit.

At an early age he was married to Eliza W. Throop, of his native town, and their children, with one ex- ception, are still living,-Sophia, born March 18, 1835; Sarah E., born April 7, 1837; Maria F., born Nov. 28, 1838; Marietta, born Oct. 24, 1840; Charles, Jr., born Jan. 1, 1845; J. Henry T., born Nov. 4, 1848; Ma- rietta, died Sept. 8, 1873. Their mother died Feb. 14, 1860, at the early age of forty-four years. Charles, Jr., is located near home, and practices with his father. Henry T. has been in practice at Hartford, Conn.,

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for several years, where he has gained an enviable reputation. Dr. Sweet married for his second wife Sarah Elizabeth Williams, of Mystic, Conn. By this marriage he had three children,-Bessic, born Nov. 28, 1869; F. Benoni, born Oct. 7, 1870; George H., born June 3, 1875. Bessie dicd Jan. 10, 1870, and their mother departed this life after having been mar- ried about nineteen years.

His third and present wife was Laura A. Anderson, of Clinton, Conn., whose years run parallel with his own. The doctor has ever been of the strictest tem- perance habits, and his life the life of a Christian, both by profession and practice, in which he has ever had the fullest co-operation of each of his thrce respective wives.

Judge Edwin Munford Dolbeare was born in Montville, Conn., Jan. 23, 1806. He is a lineal descend- ant of John Dolbeare, who came from Wales and set- tled in Boston in 1720, where he (John) was a silver- smith by trade. He died there, and was buried in the Old Park Street burying-ground, tomb No. 50.

John Dolbeare had a large family of children, one of whom was George, who settled in Montville, New London Co., Conn., and became the father of six children, viz .: Mary, Abigail, John, Samuel, Han- nah (who stood in the door of her house in New London, Conn., and defended her home so heroically from the attack of the British forces, Sept. 6, 7, 1781, that her home was not burned; she tried hard to shoot the old traitor Arnold), and George B.

George Dolbeare owned a large tract of land, called Pogwunk, in Montville, Conn. He died far advanced in life. The family for generations has been promi- nent in town affairs and members of the Congrega- tional Church.

Samuel Dolbeare, son of George, was born March 12, 1748, in Montville. He married Hannah Mun- ford, a native of Narragansett, R. I., Nov. 29, 1770, and had the following children, viz. : Munford, Naby, or Abby, and Samuel (2). He was a farmer. He died about 1832.

Munford Dolbeare, son of Samuel (1), was born in Montville, Conn. (now Salem), Oct. 27, 1771. He was a farmer, married Rhoda, daughter of Col. Jere- miah Mason, January, 1800, and had the following children : Sophia E. (deceased), Edwin M., William A. (deceased), Jeremiah F. and Samuel P., twins (de- ceased), and Rhoda M.

He was a Whig in politics. He was a magistrate several years, and a member of the Legislature in 1821. In 1830 he settled in Lebanon, Conn., and continued to reside there till his death, Sept. 8, 1835. His wife died Jan. 31, 1840, and both were buried in the Second Cemetery, at Lebanon, Conn.

Edwin M. Dolbearc, the immediate subject of this sketch, received a common-school education. He re- mained at home working on his father's farm till he was nineteen years of age, when he went forth to seek his fortune in the mercantile business. In 1827 he

went to New York and entered a dry-goods store as clerk, and remained two years, then began business for himself, which he continued some nine years.

For the following two years we find him in Mis- souri, Illinois, and other parts of the great West. In 1838 he settled in Lebanon, Conn., on the farm pur- chased by his father in 1830. Here he has continued to reside to the present time (1881). He has always been a Whig and Republican in politics, and as such has been one of the standard-bearers of the town. He has held all the important offices of the town, such as justice of the peace, selectman, member of the Legislature in 1860, and of the Senate in 1863, that being one of the most important sessions ever held in the State. In 1862 he was chosen judge of probate, and continued to perform the duties of that office to the satisfaction of his constituents till 1876, when his age (seventy) exempted him from further duty. For nineteen years he was clerk of the South Congrega- tional Society. He is regarded as one of Lebanon's stanch men, a man of energy and great force of char- acter, prudent and wise in all his counsels.

Jeremiah Mason (the first Jeremiah Mason of Lebanon) was the son of Daniel Mason (who was the grandson of Maj. John Mason) and Dorothy Hobart, of Topsfield, Mass., daughter of Rev. Jere- miah Hobart and Elizabeth Whiting, and grand- daughter of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, and his second wife, Elizabeth St. John.

Through his ancestress, Elizabeth St. John, Jere- miah Mason was descended from Sir Oliver St. John, Baron of Beauchamp, who upon the coming of his third cousin, Queen Elizabeth, to the throne was created Lord St. John of Bletshoe. Through his ancestress, Margaret Beauchamp (grandmother of King Henry VII.), whose first husband was Sir Oliver St. John, of Penmark, Jeremiah Mason was descended from Gundred, fourth daughter of William the Conqueror, who married William de Warren, first Earl of Surrey. Through his ancestress, Margery Le Dispenser, and her ancestress, Joan Plantagenet (fourth daughter of Edward V.), who married Gil- bert Le Clair, third Earl of Gloucester, and her an- cestress, Matilda of Scotland, niece of Edgar Ath- eling, and wife of King Henry I., he was descended from Alfred the Great; and through his ancestress, Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, and daughter of Baldwin, seventh Count of Flanders, an'd Adela, daughter of Robert I., of France, he was descended from Charlemagne and Hildegarde of Swabia, his wife.

The Waterman Family .- Thomas Waterman was nephew of the wife of John Bradford. Robert Water- man and Elizabeth Bourn, of Marshfield, were mar- ried Dec. 9, 1638. Thomas, their second son, was born in 1644, at Marshfield, and probably came to Norwich with his uncle Bradford. In November, 1668, he was joined in wedlock with Miriam, only daughter of Thomas Tracy.

Echoin In Dacheze

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The Waterman house-lot was next to that of Maj. Mason, and the dwelling-house was built at a slight turn of the town street, opposite the residence of the late Dr. Turner. It projected awkwardly into the highway which now passes over a part of the site. The old well that stood by the house is under the street.

A granite stone records in rude capitals the decease of this proprietor.

The inventory of Thomas Waterman amounted to £855 11s. 4d. He had ten oxen, ten cows, and abun- dant household goods, showing a condition of thrift, comfort, and independence. He left three sons and five daughters. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, mar- ried John Fitch, one of the sons of the reverend min- ister of the town, and settled in Windham.

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History of New London county, Connecticut : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 126

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1317

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1317