History of New London county, Connecticut : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 40

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


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Abel Moore died July 9, 1689. This event occurred at Dedham, Mass., and was caused by the extreme heat of the weather. He was constable of the town that year, and had been to Boston, probably on busi- ness connected with his public duties.


Smith. We find the name of Giles Smith at Hart- ford in 1639; at New London in 1647; at Fairfield in 1651. These three are doubtless one and the same person. At Fairfield he found a resting-place, and there remained till his death.


1 Gleanings by Savage, in Mass, Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. viii. p. 275.


2 Deane's Hist. of Scituate, p. 547, and Thatcher's Medical Biography.


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Ralph Smith was a transient resident in 1657, and again in 1659.


Richard Smith came to the plantation in 1652 from " Martha's Vineyard," but soon went to Wethersfield. Another Richard Smith was a householder in 1655, occupying the lot of Jarvis Mudge, near the burial- ground ; but he also removed to Wethersfield, where the two were styled senior and junior, but they do not appear to have been father and son. This name, Richard Smith, was often repeated on the list of early emigrants.


Other early settlers of New London of the name of Smith were Nehemiah, John, and Edward. The first two were brothers, and the last named their nephew. Nehemiah had previously lived in New Haven, and the birth of his son Nehemiah, the only son that appears on record, was registered there in 1646. John Smith came from Boston, with his wife Joanna and daughter Elizabeth, who appears to have been his only child. Edward Smith is first named in 1660. He settled on a farm east of the river.


John Smith remained in the town plot, and after 1659 held the offices of commissioner, custom-master, and grand juryman. His residence was in New, or Cape Ann Street.


"Feb. 1666-67. John Smith hath given him the two trees that stand in the street before his house for shade, not to be cut down by any person."


Walter Bodington died Sept. 17, 1689. He was a single man who had occupied for a few years certain lands east of the river which he purchased of the heirs of Thomas Bailey. The orthography of the name has since varied into Buddington.


John Packer died in 1689. With this early settler in Groton only a slight acquaintance has been obtained. He fixed his habitation, about the year 1655, in close proximity to the Pequot Indians, who had congre- gated at Naiwayonk (Noank).


William Chapell died in 1689 or 1690. This name is often in the confused orthography of the old records confounded with "Chappell," but they appear to have been from the first distinct names. Some clerks were very careful to note the distinction, putting an accent over the a, or writing it double, Chaapel. William Cha- pell, in 1659, bought a house-lot in New Street, in part- nership with Richard Waring ( Warren ?). In 1667 he was associated with William Peake in the purchase of various lots of rugged, uncleared land, hill, ledge, and swamp, on the west side of the town plot, which they divided between them. William Peake settled on what has since been called the Rockdale farm, now James Brown's, and William Chapell, on the Cohan- zie road, upon what is at present known as the Cav- alry farm. A considerable part of the Chapell land was afterwards purchased by the Latimer family.


In February, 1695, William Chapell, aged eight years and a half, was delivered "to Jonathan Prentis, mariner, to be instructed in the mariner's art and nav- igation by said Prentis, or, in case of his death, by his Dame." This lad died in 1704. The descendants of


John and Joseph Chapell, the oldest and youngest sons of William and Christian, are numerous. There was a John Chapell, of Lyme, in 1678, and onward, probably brother of William, Sr., of New London.


Thomas Minor1 died Oct. 23, 1690. Mrs. Grace Minor deceased the same month. A long stone of rough granite in the burial-ground at Wickutequack, almost imbedded in the turf, bears the following rudely-cut inscription : "Here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Minor, aged eighty-three years. Departed 1690." It is said that Mr. Minor had se- lected this stone from his own fields, and had often pointed it ont to his family, with the request, "Lay this stone on my grave."


Mr. Minor bore a conspicuous part in the settle- ment both of New London and Stonington. His per- sonal history belongs more particularly to the latter place.


George Miller died in 1690. This person had been a resident east of the river (in Groton) from the year 1679, and perhaps longer.


John Lamb. This name is found on the New Lon- don rate-list of 1664, and on the list of freemen in 1669. In December, 1663, he is styled "John Lamb, now of Pockatuck, alias Southerton."


John Bennet died Sept. 22, 1691. This person was at Mystic as early as 1658. He had sons,-William (born 1660), John, and Joseph.


John Prentis. No account of the death of this early member of the community has been found, but the probate proceedings show that it took place in 1691.


Valentine Prentis, or Prentice, came to New Eng- land in 1631, with wife Alice and son John, having buried one child at sea. He settled in Roxbury, where he soon died, and his relict married (April 3, 1634) John Watson.


John Prentis, the son of Valentine and Alice, be- came an inhabitant of New London in 1652, and probably brought his wife, Hester, with him from Roxbury. Though living in New London, he con- nected himself with the Roxbury Church in Septem- ber, 1665, and thither he carried most of his children to be baptized.


It has been mentioned that John Prentis was by trade a blacksmith. He pursued his craft in New London for six or seven years, and then removed to a farm in the neighborhood of Robin Hood's Bay (Jor- dan Cove), near the Bentworth farm, but in a few years once more changed his main pursuit and en- tered upon a seafaring life. His sons also, one after another (according to the usual custom of New Lon- don), began the business of life upon the sea. In 1675, John Prentis, Jr., commanded the bark " Ad- venture" in the Barbadoes trade. In 1680 the elder John and his son Jonathan owned and navigated a


1 This name is now commonly written Miner. We use in this work the original autograph authority.


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vessel bearing the family name of "John and Hes- ter." Thomas Prentis also became a noted sea-cap- tain, making a constant succession of voyages to Newfoundland and the West Indies from 1695 to 1720.


Among these children the father in 1711 distrib- uted the Indian servants of his household-Rachel and her children-in this order :


"To my son-in-law Thomas Hosmer, of Hartford, one black girl named Simone, till she is 30-then she is to be free. To my son-in-law John Bulkley, Bilhah-to be free at 32. To my daughter Sarah, Zilpha -to be free at 32. To my daughter Elizabeth, a black boy named Han- nibal-to be free at 35. To my daughter Irene, a boy named York, free at 35. To Scipio I have promised freedom at 30. Rachel the mother, I give to Irene-also the little girl with her, named Dido, who is to be free at 32." To this bequest is added to the three youngest daughters, then unmarried, each "a feather bed and its furniture."


Stephen Prentis, son of John the elder, inherited the farm of his father, near Niantic Ferry, where he died in 1758, aged ninety-two. His wife was Eliza- beth, daughter of John Rogers, and granddaughter of Matthew Griswold.


John Wheeler died Dec. 16, 1691. No connection has been traced between John Wheeler, of New Lon- don, and Thomas and Isaac Wheeler, cotemporary inhabitants of Stonington. John is first presented to us as part owner of a vessel called the " Zebulon" in 1667. He entered largely into mercantile concerns, traded with the West Indies, and had a vessel built under his own superintendence, which at the period of his death had just returned from an English voy- age.


Avery. Christoper Avery was one of the selectmen of Gloucester, Mass., between 1646 and 1654.1 On the 8th of August, 1665, he is at New London, pur- chasing the house, orchard, and lot of Robert Bur- rows, in the town plot. In June, 1667, he was re- leased from watching and training. In October, 1669, made freeman of the colony. Charles Hill, the town clerk, makes this memorandum of his decease :


"Christopher Avery's death, vide, near the death of mother Brewster."


The reference is to Lucretia, relict of Jonathan Brewster (mother-in-law to Mr. Hill), but no record of her death is to be found. James Avery in 1685 gives a deed to his four sons of the house, orchard, and land, "which belonged" (he says) "to my de- ceased father, Christopher Avery."


No other son but James has been traced. It may be conjectured that this family came from Salisbury, England, as a Christopher Avery of that place had wife Mary buried in 1591.2


James Avery and Joanna Greenslade were mar- ried Nov. 10, 1643. This is recorded in Gloucester. The records of Boston Church have the following entry :


" 17 of 1 mo. 1644. Our sister, Joan Greenslade, now the wife of one James Averill, had granted her by the church's silence letters of recom- mendation to the Ch. at Gloster." 3


The births of three children are recorded at Gloucester ; these are repeated at New London, and the others registered from time to time. The whole list is as follows: Hannah, born Oct. 12, 1644; James, born Dec. 16, 1646; Mary, born Feb. 19, 1648; Thomas, born May 6, 1651; John, born Feb. 10, 1653-54; Rebecca, born Oct. 6, 1656 ; Jonathan, born Jan. 5, 1658-59; Christopher, born April 30, 1661; Samuel, born Aug. 14, 1664 ; Joanna, born 1669.


James Avery was sixty-two years old in 1682; of course born on the other side of the ocean about 1620. At New London he took an important part in the affairs of the plantation. He was chosen townsman in 1660, and held the office twenty-three years, end- ing with 1680. He was successively ensign, lieuten- ant, and captain of the only company of train-bands in the town, and was in active service through Phil- ip's war. He was twelve times deputy to the Gen- eral Court between 1658 and 1680; was in the com- mission of the peace, and sat as assistant judge in the County Court.


He removed to Pequonuck, east of the river, be- tween 1660 and 1670, where both he and his wife were living in 1693. Deeds of lands to his sons, in- cluding the homestead farm, in February, 1693-94, probably indicate the near approach of death. His sons Jonathan and Christopher died young, and prob- ably without issue. The descendants of James, Jr., Thomas, John, and Samuel, are very numerous, and may be regarded as four distinct streams of life. Gro- ton is the principal hive of the family.


Capt. George Denison died Oct. 23, 1694. This event took place at Hartford during the session of the General Court. His gravestone at that place is ex- tant, and the age given, seventy-six, shows that the date of 1621, which has been assigned for his birth, is too late, and that 1619 should be substituted. This diminishes the difference of age between him and his second wife, Ann, who, according to the memorial tablet erected by her descendants at Mystic, deceased Sept. 26, 1712, aged ninety-seven.


Peter Spicer died probably in 1695. He was one of the resident farmers in that part of the township which is now Ledyard. He was a landholder in 1666


John Leeds died probably in 1696. The following extracts from the town and church records contain all the information that has been gathered of the family of John Leeds :


"John Leeds, of Staplehowe, in Kent, Old England, was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Cary Latham, June 25, 1678."


" Mr. Leeds' child John, baptized March 13, 1680-81.


danghter Elizabeth, baptized Oct. 16, 1681.


son William, baptized May 20, 1683.


" Widow Leeds' two children baptized, Gideon and Thomas, Ang. 1, 1697."


John Leeds is first introduced to us in 1674 as a mariner, commander of the "Success," bound to Nevis. He engaged afterwards in building vessels, and had a ship-yard on the east side of the river.


1 Babson of Gloucester.


2 Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. x. p. 139. 3 Savage (MS.).


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John Mayhew died 1696. This name appears after 1670, belonging to one of that class of persons who had their principal home on the deep and their ren- dezvous in New London.


" John Mayhew, from Devonshire, Old England, mariner, was mar- ried unto Johanna, daughter of Jeffrey Christophers, Dec. 26, 1676."


John Plumbe died in 1696. Plumbe is one of the oldest names in Connecticut. Mr. John Plumbe was of Wethersfield, 1636, and a magistrate in 1637. He had a warehouse burnt at Saybrook in the Pequot war. In February, 1664-65, he was appointed in- spector of the lading of vessels at Wethersfield. He was engaged in the coasting trade, and his name inci- dentally appears in the records of various towns on the river and along the coast of the Sound. An ac- count has been preserved among the Winthrop papers of a remarkable meteor which he saw one night in October, 1665, "I being then" (he observes) "rouing in my bote to groton," probably from Seabrook, where his account is dated. In 1670 he is noticed as carrying dispatches between Governors Winthrop, of Hartford, and Lovelace, of New York. We have no account of him at New London as an inhabitant of the town until he was chosen constable, in February, 1679-80. He was afterwards known as marshal of the county and inn-keeper.


Joseph Truman died in 1697. Joseph Truman came to New London in 1666, and was chosen constable the next year.


Joseph and Jonathan Rogers. These were the second and fifth sons of James Rogers, Sr., and are supposed to have died in 1697, at the respective ages of fifty-one and forty-seven, both leaving large fami- lies.


Ebenezer Hubbell died in 1698. He was a native of Stratfield, in Fairfield County ; married Mary, daughter of Gabriel Harris, and purchased the home- stead of Samson Haughion (corner of Truman and Blinman Streets).


The Beeby brothers. The phrase "John Beeby and his brothers," nsed in the early grants to the family, leads to the supposition that John was the oldest of the four. They may be arranged with prob- ability in the order of John, Thomas, Samuel, and Nathaniel. They all lived to advanced age.


William Chapman died Dec. 18, 1699. This name first appears in 1657, when William Chapman bonght the Denison house-lot on the present Hempstead Street, nearly opposite the jail. No record is found of his family. The children named in his will were John, William, Samuel, Jeremiah, Joseph, Sarah, and Rebecca.


Stephen Loomer died in 1700. This name is not found in New London before 1687. Mr. Loomer's wife was the daughter of George Miller. His chil- dren and their ages at the time of his death were as follows: John, sixteen ; Mary, thirteen ; Martha, eleven ; Samuel, eight ; Elizabeth, five.


David Carpenter died in 1700. The period of his


settlement in the town was probably coincident with his marriage to Sarah, daughter of William Hough ; to both events the conjectured date of 1676 may be assigned.


Alexander Pygan died in 1701. On his first arri- val in the plantation Mr. Pygan appears to have been a lawless young man of " passionate and distempered carriage," as it was then expressed,-one who, we may suppose, "left his country for his country's good." But the restraints and influences with which he was here surrounded produced their legitimate effect, and he became a valuable member of the community.


Thomas Stedman died in 1701. This name is found at New London at the early date of 1649, but it soon afterward disappears.


Butler. Thomas and John Butler are not presented to our notice as inhabitants of New London until after 1680. Probably they were brothers. No account of the marriage or family of either is on record.


Capt. Samuel Fosdick died Aug. 27, 1702. Samuel Fosdick, "from Charlestown, in the Bay," appears at New London about 1680. According to manuscripts preserved in the family, he was the son of John Fos- dick and Anna Shapley, who were married in 1648 ; and the said John was a son of Stephen Fosdick, of Charlestown, who died May 21, 1664.


Joseplı Pemberton died Oct. 14, 1702. James Pem- berton had a son, Joseph, born in Boston in 1665, with whom we venture to identify the Joseph Pemberton here noticed. He resided in Westerly before coming to New London.


William Walworth died in 1703. William Wal- worth is first known to us as the lessee of Fisher's Island, or of a considerable part of it, and it is a tra- dition of the family that he came directly from Eng- land to assume this charge at the invitation of the owner of the island, Fitz-John Winthrop, who wished to introduce the English methods of farming.


Edward Stallion died May 14, 1703. When this person made his first appearance in the plantation, Mr. Bruen, the clerk, recorded his name Stanley. It was soon altered to Stallion, or Stallon. In later times it has been identified with Sterling, which may have been the true name.


Edward Stallion was at first a coasting trader, but later in life became a resident farmer in North Gro- ton (now Ledyard).


Ezekiel Turner died Jan. 16, 1703-4. He was a son of John Turner, of Scituate, and grandson of Humphrey Turner, an emigrant of 1628. His mother was Mary, daughter of Jonathan Brewster. At New London we have no account of him earlier than his marriage with Susannah, daughter of John Keeny, Dec. 26, 1678.


Sergt. George Darrow died in 1704. From inferen- tial testimony it is ascertained that George Darrow married Mary, relict of George Sharswood. The baptisms but not the births of their children are re- corded.


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Maj. Christopher Darrow, a brave soldier of the French and Revolutionary wars, who lived in the North Parish, and Elder Zadok Darrow, a venerable Baptist minister of Waterford, were descendants of Christopher and Elizabeth Darrow.


George Sharswood. Only flitting gleams are ob- tained of this person and his family. They come and go like figures exhibited for scenic effect. George Sharswood appears before us in 1666; is inserted in the rate-list of 1667; the next year builds a house, and apparently about the same time becomes a mar- ried man, though of this event we can find no record.


John Harvey died in January, 1705. The name of John Harvey is first noticed about 1682. He was then living near the head of Niantic River, and per- haps within the bounds of Lyme. He left sons, John and Thomas, and daughter, Elizabeth Willey.


Williams. No genealogy in New London County is more extensive and perplexing than that of Wil- liams .. The families of that name are derived from several distinct ancestors. Among them John Wil- liams and Thomas Williams appear to stand discon- nected; at least, no relationship with their contem- poraries has been traced, or with each other. They are entirely distinct from the Stonington family of Williams, although the names are in many cases identical.


The first Williams in New London was William, who is in the rate-list of 1664. He lived on the east, or Groton side of the river, and died in 1704, leaving four sons, Richard, William, Henry, and Stephen, all of full age, and a daughter, Mary, wife of Samuel Packer.


Thomas Williams appears in the plantation about 1670. His cattle-mark was enrolled in 1680. He lived west of the river, at or near Mohegan, and died Sept. 24, 1705, about sixty-one years of age. He left a widow, Joanna, and eleven children between the ages of twelve and thirty-three years, and a grand- child who was heir of a deceased daughter. The sons were John, Thomas, Jonathan, William, Samuel, and Ebenezer.


John Williams, another independent branch of this extended name, married, in 1685 or 1686, Jane, relict of Hugh Hubbard and daughter of Cary Latham. No trace of him earlier than this has been noticed. He succeeded to the lease of the ferry (granted for fifty years to Cary Latham), and lived, as did also his wife, to advanced age. "He kept the ferry," says "Hempstead's Diary," "when Groton and New Lon- don were one town, and had but one minister and one captain's company." When he died, Dec. 3, 1741, within the same bounds were eight religious societies and nine military companies, five on the west side and four in Groton. He left an only son, Peter, of whom Capt. John Williams, who perished in the mas- sacre at Groton fort in 1781, was a descendant.


John and Eleazer Williams, brother and son of Isaac Williams, of Roxbury, Mass., settled in Ston-


ington about the year 1687, and are the ancestors of another distinct line, branches of which have been many years resident in New London and Norwich. The genealogy of this family belongs more particularly to Stonington.


Ebenezer Williams, son of Samuel, of Roxbury, and cousin of John and Eleazer, settled also in Ston- ington, and left descendants there. He was brother of the Rev. John Williams, first minister of Deerfield, who was taken captive with his family by the French and Indians in 1701. A passage from " Hempstead's Diary" avouches this relationship :


"Sept. 9, 1733. Mr. Ebenezer Williams, of Stonington, is come to see a French woman in town that says she is daughter to his brother, the late Rev. Mr. Williams, of Deerfield, taken by the French and Indians thirty years ago."


This passage refers to a young daughter of the Deerfield family that was never redeemed from cap- tivity, but lived and died among the Indians. She was probably often personated for sinister ends. The Frenchwoman mentioned above was unquestionably an impostor.


Capt. John Williams, of Poquetannock (Ledyard), was yet another original settler of the name. He is said to have come directly from Wales, and to have had no relationship with other families in the country. We quote a contemporary notice of his death :


"Jan. 12, 1741-2. Capt. John Williams died at Pockatonnock of pleurisy, after 7 days' illness. He was a good commonwealth's man, traded much by sea and land with good success for many years, and acquired wholly by his own industry a great estate. IIe was a very just dealer, aged about 60 years." 1


Brig .- Gen. Joseph Williams, of Norwich, one of the Western Reserve purchasers, was a son of Capt. John Williams.


Benjamin Shapley died Aug. 3, 1706. Benjamin, son of Nicholas Shapley, of Boston, was born, ac- cording to Farmers' Register, in 1645. We find no difficulty in appropriating this birth to Benjamin Shapley, mariner, who about 1670 became an inhab- itant of New London.


Anthony Ashby. A person of this name kept a house of entertainment at Salem in 1670. It was probably the same man that afterwards came to New London and settled east of the river.


George Dennis. The period of his death is uncer- tain, but it was previous to 1708. He came to New London from Long Island, and married Elizabeth, relict of Joshua Raymond. They had but one child, Ebenezer, who was born Oct. 23, 1682. Ebenezer Dennis inherited from his mother a dwelling-house, choicely situated near the water, and commanding a fine prospect of the harbor, where about the year 1710 he opened a house of entertainment.


Peter Crary, of Groton, died in 1708. He married in December, 1677, Christobel, daughter of John Gallop. His oldest child, Christobel, was born "the latter end of February, 1678-79."


1 Hempstead (MS.).


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John Daniel died about 1709. This date is ob- tained by approximation ; he was living in the early part of 1709, and in July, 1710, Mary, widow of John Daniels, is mentioned. His earliest date at New London is in April, 1663, when his name is given without the s, John Daniel.


George Chappell died in 1709. Among the emi- grants for New England in the "Christian" from London, 1635, was George Chappell, aged twenty. He was at Wethersfield in 1637, and can be traced there as a resident until 1649, which was probably about the time that he came to Pequot, bringing with him a wife, Margaret, and some three or four children. Of his marriage, or of the births of these children, no account is preserved at Wethersfield. The whole list of his family, as gathered from various sources, is as follows : 1. Mary, married John Daniels; 2. Rachel, married Thomas Crocker; 3. John, re- moved to Flushing, L. I .; 4. George, born March 5, 1653-54; 5. Elizabeth, born Aug. 30, 1656 ; 6. Hester, born April 15, 1662 ; 7. Sarah, born Feb. 14, 1665-66; 8. Nathaniel, born May 21, 1668; 9. Caleb, born Oct. 7,1671.


At the time of George Chappell's decease these nine children were all living, as was also his aged wife, whom he committed to the special care of his son Caleb and grandson Comfort. Caleb Chappell had previously removed to Lebanon, from whence his son Amos went to Sharon and settled in that part of the township which is now Ellsworth. The second George Chappell married, first, Alice Way, and second, Mary Douglas. He had two sons, George and Comfort; from the latter the late Capt. Edward Chappell, of New London, descended. Families of this name in New London and the neighboring towns are numer- ous, all tracing back to George for their ancestor. Branches from this stock are also disseminated in va- rious parts of the Union.




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