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Samuel Lotygroup.
His nuncupative will, made five days before his decease, was witnessed by Rev. John Woodward and Dea. Simon Huntington, and proved in the Prerogative Court the succeeding April. He had nine children. John, the oldest, was probably born in the Bay State; the others in New Lon- don. They were all by his first wife, of whose death there is no record.
His second wife, whom he married at Plymouth in 1690, was Abigail, daughter of John Doane .; She survived him, and lived to the great age of 103 years. On her hundredth birth-day a large audience assembled at her house, and a sermon was preached by the pastor of the church. At this time she retained in a great degree the intelligence and vivacity of her earlier years.
* The following passage occurs in a letter from the elder Winthrop of Boston to his son at Pequot, Aug. 14, 1648 :
" Your neighbor Lothrop came not near me, as I expected, to advise about it ; but went away without taking leave. Only enquiring after him I sent my letters to the house where he wrought the day before his departure." Sav. Win., 2, 355, App.
t This was her first marriage; she was about 60 years of age.
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INSCRIPTION UPON HER GRAVE-STONE.
HERE LYES INTERRD e
y REMA S OF MRS ABIGAIL LOTHROP y RELICT OF MR SAMUEL LO- THROP OF NORWICH . BORN
AT PLYMOUTH ANO' 1631 9
LIVED IN NORWICH 43
YEARS AND DYED JANURY 23 ? ANO? 17345 IN e
y 104 17 YEAR OF HER AGE.
FOOT-STONE.
MRS ABIGAIL LOTHROP
DIED
JANY. 23 . ANO . 1734.
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At the time of her decease, the descendants of her husband amounted to 365.
John Lothrop, the oldest son of Samuel, married Ruth Royce. Eliza- beth, the oldest daughter of Samuel, was united at the same time to Isaac Royce. This double marriage was solemnized in the court room at New London, Dec. 15, 1669, by Daniel Wetherell, Commissioner, the presiding officer of the court. It was not uncommon for the bench and bar to be thus enlivened with a wedding during the interludes of business.
Incidental testimony leads to the conclusion that Nathaniel Royce sub- sequently married Sarah, the second daughter of Samuel Lothrop, forming a third nuptial link in the two families. These young people all went to Wallingford, and were early settlers in that plantation.
Samuel Lothrop had three other sons, Samuel, Israel, and Joseph.
Samuel was joined in wedlock, Nov., 1675, to Hannah Adgate. Israel Lothrop and Rebecca Bliss, Joseph Lothrop and Macy Scudder, were married the same day, April 8, 1686. These three brothers settled in Norwich.
The Lothrops, or Lathrops,* who look back to Norwich for their ances- try, like the Huntingtons and Hydes, have become so numerous that a mere outline of the branches, if it were possible to follow them in their numerous emigrations and connections, would occupy many pages. The name will frequently occur in this history, and only a few prominent per- sons can be noticed here.
Colonel Simon Lothrop, third son of Samuel 2d and Hannah (Adgate) Lothrop, born in 1689, was a man of more than ordinary local renown. He commanded one of the Connecticut regiments in the successful expe- ditions against Annapolis and Louisburg, and was valued for his judgment in council as well as for his gallant bearing in the field. At one period he was left for a considerable time in the chief command of the fortress at Cape Breton.
Col. Lothrop was of a prudent, thrifty disposition, fond of adding land to land, and house to house. There was a doggerel song that the soldiers used to sing after their return from Capertoon, that alludes to this pro- pensity.
* The name appears to have been usually, if not invariably, written Lothrop, until about 1760, when Dr. Daniel Lothrop, having spent some time in England, and while there having made special inquiry concerning his ancestors, became convinced that the original name was Lathrop. He therefore altered the spelling of his own name, and the change was gradually adopted by other branches of the family. The old pronun- ciation, Lotrop, held its ground much longer, and is still occasionally heard.
In this work the old spelling is retained in connection with the early families that wrote the name Lothrop, as it seemed desirable to use the form that appeared in coeval records ; but in later generations the modern spelling is employed.
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Col. Lotrop he came on As bold as Alexander : He wa'n't afraid, nor yet ashamed, To be the chief commander.
Col. Lotrop was the man, His soldiers loved him dearly ; And with his sword and cannon great, He helped them late and early.
Col. Lotrop, staunch and true, Was never known to baulk it; And when he was engag'd in trade, He always filled his pocket.
Col. Lothrop died Jan. 25, 1775, aged 86. He was an upright man, zealous in religion, faithful in training up his family, and much respected and esteemed for his abilities and social virtues. His wife was a Sepa- ratist, and he carefully abstained from any interference with her predilee- tions, but was accustomed every Sunday to carry her in his chaise up to her meeting, half a mile beyond his own,-then return to his own place of worship, and after the service was over, go up town again after his wife.
Col. Lothrop was the father of Simon and Elijah Lathrop, who were prominent inhabitants of the town, and for a long period proprietors of the mills at Norwich Falls.
17 Feb., 1745. The house of Samuel Lothrop Esq. of Norwich was burnt at night, and almost all its contents destroyed. The loss estimated at £2000 Old Tenor. [Bos- ton paper.]
Israel, the third son of the proprietor Samuel, was the father of seven sons and three daughters. William, the second of these seven sons, born in 1688, was one of the old worthies of the town-plot. He lived to the age of ninety years, and had ten children, all of them sons. The young- est but one of this train was the Rev. John Lathrop, a distinguished min- ister of Boston, but born at Norwich, May 6, 1739. After completing his education at Princeton, he became for a time an assistant to Mr. Wheelock in his Indian school at Lebanon, but in 1768 was ordained to the pastoral charge of the old North Church in Boston. This church having been demolished by the British while they had possession of Boston, the society united with the new Brick Church, and Mr. Lathrop became the pastor of the United Society. He published a variety of sermons, and died in 1816, aged seventy-five.
Joseph Lothrop, the fourth and youngest son of the first Samuel, had a family of nine daughters, assisting largely in bringing the sexes in the Lothrop series to an even balance. He had also four sons, the youngest
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of whom, Solomon, died at the age of twenty-seven, leaving an only son, Joseph, who has become extensively known as Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. D. of West Springfield, Mass. He was born at the Lothrop farm upon the west bank of the Shetucket, Oct. 20, 1721. His mother was Martha, daughter of Dea. Joseph Perkins.
Dr. Lathrop was the pastor of one church sixty-three years, and for a long period was regarded as the patriarch of the Congregational churches of New England. As a preacher he was remarkable for the variety of his illustrations and his improvement of daily occurrences. A large proportion of his sermons, which have been published in seven volumes, are upon anniversaries and striking events. He died Dec. 31, 1820, aged eighty-nine years.
Hon. Samuel Lathrop, M. C. from Mass. from 1818 to 1826, was one of his sons.
The following is the oldest Lothrop inscription that is extant and legible in the Norwich grave-yard :
"Here Lyes Buried ye Body of Mr. Israell Lothrup ye Husband of Mrs. Rebekah Lothrup, who lived a life of exemplary piety & left ye Earth for Heaven March ye 28, 1733 in ye 73d year of his age."
CHAPTER XIII.
EARLY INHABITANTS.
[CATALOGUE of inhabitants that came in after the first settlers, and appear as residents of the town-plot, or as grantees on the commons and outlands. The earliest date is given at which the name has been noticed, but in some instances the person may have been upon the ground for sev- eral previous years. This chapter is not designed to include those who settled east of the Shetucket, but the exact location of each new inhabitant can not always be ascertained.
Adm. stands for admitted inhabitant by public vote.]
Allen. Timothy Allen married Oct. 11, 1714, Rachel, daughter of Jo- seph Bushnell; adm. 1715; removed subsequently to Windham.
Allerton. Thomas Allerton had his cattle-mark registered in 1712.
John Allerton was one of the selectmen in 1721. His wife was Eliza- beth, and he had nine children, the births ranging from 1713 to 1735. The name of Isaac appearing among them, suggests a connection with Isaac Allerton of Plymouth and New Haven,* but his antecedents have not been ascertained.
Ames, Eames, Emms. Joseph Eames had a son Joseph, baptized April 2, 1710. He died in 1734. Three sons are brought to view in the set- tlement of the estate: Joseph, Ebenezer, and Josiah. The relict, Mary, married Daniel Palmeter.
Andrews, Andrus, Andross. Jeremiah Andrews adm. May 7, 1714. John Andrews, Sen., adm. 1716.
These were probably sons of Francis Andrews, who died at Fairfield in 1663, and in his will enumerated nine children, among whom were John and Jeremiah.
* Mass. Hist. Coll., Vol. 27, p. 248.
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John Andrews, Jr., adm. 1716.
John and Sarah, children of John Andross, Jr., were baptized July 5, 1713.
David and Benjamin Andross appear also as inhabitants about 1715.
Armstrong. Jonathan Armstrong settled before 1670 at Misquamicut, (Westerly,) where he had a stormy experience of several years' continu- ance amid the riots, inroads, writs and judgments that disturbed the de- bateable lands on the borders of the two colonies, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In partial redress of his grievances, the Legislature of Connect- icut granted him in October, 1677, one hundred acres of land near the bounds of Norwich .*
Nathaniel Armstrong was a grantee of the town in 1679, and Benjamin in 1682.
Benjamin Armstrong died Jan. 10, 1717-18, leaving four sons, Benja- min, John, Joseph, and Stephen, all of age. Benjamin married Sarah Raymond, and in 1703 was one of the patentees of Mansfield. Stephen settled in Windham. Joseph was a householder in 1716. John married in 1710, Anne Worth, and had a numerous family.
Lebbeus Armstrong, a descendant of John, removed about 1770 to Bennington, Vt.
Arnold. John Arnold was a land-holder, both by grant and purchase, in 1683. He removed a few years later to Windham.
Benedict Arnold took the freeman's oath in 1739.
Avery, Jonathan, adm. 1724.
Baker. Joseph Baker, an inhabitant before 1690, was received with his wife into the West Farms church in 1721.
Nathaniel Baker, a resident in 1718. Ebenezer, adm. 1724.
Bacon, John : adm. 1713; wife Hannah received into the church and four children baptized in 1718.
Badger. Nathaniel Badger, adm. 1721, probably came from Newbury. Daniel Badger married Sarah Roath, Oct. 22, 1719.
The births of three children, Daniel, Gideon, and David, are recorded in Norwich.
Conn. Col. Rec., 2, 324.
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Barrett, Ezekiel, 1711. Isaac, 1716.
Barstow. Job, the son of John Barstow, born at Scituate, March 8, 1679, adm. at Norwich in 1708. He and his wife Rebecca, who was the daughter of Joseph Bushnell, were baptized and received into the church Aug. 9, 1709. In 1725 he was one of the selectmen. He had three sons : Jonathan, born in 1712; Ebenezer, in 1720; and Yet-once, July 17, 1722.
Bates, William : cattle-mark registered 1678.
Belden, Stephen : adm. 1720.
Bell. Robert Bell came from Ipswich about 1720. He appears to have been a physician, and had married at that place, Nov. 7, 1717, Abigail, relict of John Fillmore. He died Aug. 23, 1727, and his wife in Novem- ber of the same year. They left three children : Samuel, born in Ipswich, 1719 ; Benjamin and Deliverance, natives of Norwich.
[This Robert Bell may have been a son of Robert of Hartford, as the latter had a son Robert born in 1680 .* ]
Blackmore, Samuel : one of the Separatist party in 1748.
Boorn, or Bourn, George : a resident in 1726, and had a son George, baptized March 8, 1729.
Brown. Ebenezer Brown, son of Capt. John Brown of Swanzey, and grandson of Major Mason, married Sarah, daughter of the second Samuel Hyde, Feb. 25, 1714. They removed to Lebanon, where he died in 1755. His relict long survived him, and died in Windham, March 1, 1797, aged ninety-nine years and two months.
Burton, Samuel : a resident in 1719.
Burley, Jonathan : adm. 1727; mar. March 30, 1730, Elizabeth White.
* Savage's Gen. Dict.
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Capron, Walter: 1730.
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Carew. Thomas Carew married Sept. 10, 1724, Abigail, daughter of Daniel Huntington. Joseph Carew, brother of Thomas, married in 1731, Mary, daughter of the same, and died in 1747, leaving seven children ; estate, £2,847.
Palmer Carew was an inhabitant in 1730.
Carpenter, John : adm. 1723; probably son of William of Rehoboth. His wife, Sarah, was received into the church the same year.
Carter, John : united with the church in 1722.
Case. Moses Case, adm. Sept. 13, 1726. John, son of John Case, baptized in 1729.
Cathcart, Robert : an inhabitant in 1728.
Chapman. Joseph Chapman, probably son of William of New Lon- don, adm. 1715 ; died June 10, 1725. His wife, Marcy, died seven days previous. Eight children are recorded. Two of the sons, Moses and Daniel, are on the list of Separatists in 1748.
Chappell, Caleb, son of George of New London, was resident in 1694, but removed to Windham.
Cleveland. Isaac Cleveland, adm. 1709, was probably son of Moses of Woburn, who had a son Isaac, born May 11, 1669. Samuel and Josiah Cleveland, early settlers at Canterbury, appear to have been his brothers. In 1715, Elizabetlı, wife of Clement Stratford, mariner, administered on the estate of her former husband, Isaac Cleveland. No mention is made of children.
Coolidge, Samuel, a resident in 1694.
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Cole. "The inventory of Ambrose Cole of Norwich, deceased," was presented to the county court in 1690. Probably the family came from Scituate.
Cotterel, Gershom : a resident in 1678.
Crane. Jonathan Crane, probably from Killingworth, had land regis- tered in 1672, and married, Dec. 19, 1678, Deborah, daughter of Francis Griswold. He removed to Windham, where he had a thousand acre right ; built the first mill in that plantation ; was one of the selectmen in 1692, and a patentee of the town in 1703.
Crocker. Samuel Crocker settled at West Farms about 1700, and was one of the selectmen in 1722. He was probably son of Thomas of New London, and born at that place in 1677. He had four children, Samuel, John, Jabez, and Hannah, baptized in 1709.
Cross. Peter Cross had land recorded in 1672, and was a resident in 1698, but afterward removed to Windham.
George Cross, a resident in 1719.
Cullum, Benjamin : adm. 1715. Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Cullum, baptized in 1718.
Culver. The marriage of Edward and Sarah Culver is recorded Jan. 15, 1681 ; the births of seven children follow.
Edward Culver was on the board of Listers in 1685. In 1698 he removed to Lebanon, and was living there in 1716.
John Culver and his wife Sarah united with the church at Norwich in 1721.
Culverswell, Thomas, died April 15, 1725.
Darby, Samuel, a resident in 1700.
Daris. Ephraim Davis was on the roll of 1702. Thomas, Comfort and Joseph appear as inhabitants soon after 1712. Thomas had daughter Mercy baptized in 1711.
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Daynes, or Deans. Abraham Daynes of North Yarmouth mar. Dec. 27, 1671, Sarah, daughter of William Peake. This marriage is recorded at New London, with the births of three children, Johanna, John, and Thomas. Three others are on record at Norwich, viz., Ebenezer, Sarah, and Ephraim. The sons are found among the inhabitants of the town in the next generation, but the name is more frequently written Deans. James and Oxenbridge Dean's were young men in 1738.
Dean. Nathaniel Dean, adm. Dec. 28, 1714; wife, Joanna, probably from Taunton. Seth Dean, 1739.
Decker. Joseph Decker and wife Thankful were received into fellow- ship with the church in 1714. They removed to Windham.
Denison, Capt. Robert, adm. 1718. His farm of 500 acres, conveyed to him by Owaneco, with the consent of the Legislature, in 1710, lay upon the border of Mashipaug or Gardner's lake, and was then supposed to fall within the Nine-miles-square. He began liis improvements at this place in 1716, but when the bounds of the town were more accurately defined, the greater part of his farm, including his family residence, was found to lie within the limits of New London North Parish, and after 1720 his connection with Norwich ceased.
Capt. Denison died in 1737, and was interred in a cemetery prepared by himself on his farm, where a group of Denison graves, with granite curb-stones marked with initials and dates, still remain.
His son, the second Capt. Robert Denison, was an officer in the French war, and removed to Nova Scotia.
Dennis, John : a resident at the Landing in 1739.
Dowd. The cattle-mark of Abraham Dowd was recorded in 1723. He was probably a son of John Dowd of Guilford, born in 1697.
Edgecombe, Thomas, born in New London, 1694, settled in Norwich before 1720, and there died Sept. 16, 1745. His first wife was Katherine Copp ; his second, Esther Post, who survived him but a few months. While on her way to New London, she was thrown from her horse, severely wounded in the head, and carried to the house of Mr. William Angel, where she lingered for a fortnight in great pain and distress. The
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whole neighborhood was moved by her sufferings, and several physicians hastened to her relief. Dr. Goddard came from New London, with Dr. Morrison, an army surgeon, just returned from Cape Breton, Dr. Worden from Franklin, and Dr. Porter from Wethersfield; but surgical skill was exerted in vain. She died May 20, 1746, aged forty, and was interred at New London.
The sons of Thomas Edgecombe by his first wife were Thomas, John, Jonathan, and Samuel.
Thomas died in Norwich, April 39, 1755.
John was a soldier in the expedition against Cape Breton, and there died after the surrender in 1746, at the age of twenty.
Jonathan, a seaman, was taken by a Spanish privateer, Ang. 3, 1752; carried first to Campeachy, and from thence to Old Spain, where he was kept confined for several months, but at length picked the lock of his prison, escaped and reached a French port in safety. Here he found an English vessel, on board of which he worked his passage to England, but had scarcely touched the Island, when he fell into the hands of a press- gang and was enrolled on board of a man-of war. After a year's service he contrived to escape, and through various other adventures, finally reached home, Nov. 30, 1754. He afterward settled in Vermont.
Samnel, the fourth son, was Deacon Samuel Edgecombe of Groton, Ct., who died Aug. 14, 1795, aged 65.
Fairbanks, Samnel : a resident in 1722.
Fales. Samuel Fales, adm. 1708; received into communion with the church in 1711; died 1733. He was son of Mr. James Fales of Ded- ham, and son-in-law to John Elderkin. His inventory included a more than ordinary number of religious books. It is probable that he was theological student.
Fargo. Moses Fargo came from New London about 1690, and in 1694 obtained a grant of land "on the hill above the rock where his house stands." He was on the roll of 1702, and died about 1726. Name often written Firgo.
Field. Verdict of a jury upon the body of Gregory Field : "Found dead in Shoutueket river in Norwich, 29 April, 1710."
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Fillmore. John, son of Jolin Fillmore, was born at Ipswich, March 18, 1702. His father was a mariner, and died at sea about the year 1711. His mother's maiden name was Abigail Tilton. She married for her sec- ond husband, Robert Bell, and removed with him to Norwich West Farms, Her son, John Fillmore, returning from sea, was united Nov. 9, 1724, to Mary Spiller of Ipswich, and on the 28th of the same month made a purchase of lands in Norwich, where he planted his hearth-stone and spent the remainder of his days.
Some extraordinary incidents are connected with his previous history. While out on a fishing voyage, he had been captured by a noted pirate of the name of Phillips, and compelled to perform duty as the helmsman of the freebooting craft; but after nine months of this odious service, he combined with several other prisoners that had been subsequently taken, and at a concerted signal, making a desperate attack upon their captors, they killed and threw overboard the captain and a number of his crew. disabled the rest, took possession of the vessel, and navigated her to Bos- ton, where they arrived May 3, 1724, and gave their prisoners up to justice. Three of them were executed in Boston, and three sent to Eng- land, where they suffered at Execution Dock. The gun, sword, tobacco- box, buckles and rings of the captain of the corsair were awarded by the Court of Admiralty to young Fillmore, as spoils won by his valor and decision. A part of these articles are still preserved as relics by his descendants .*
He was subsequently known as Capt. John Fillmore of Norwich West Farms,-a man of probity, and a useful citizen, a member of the church, and captain of a military company. He was three times married, and his will mentions fourteen surviving children. He died Feb. 22, 1777, aged 75 years.
Nathaniel, one of the sons of his second wife, (Dorcas Day of Pomfret,) born in 1740, married Hepzibah Wood, and settled at Bennington, Vt., when that part of the country was new and unsubdued. He served as a soldier in the French war and in the war for independence, and died at Bennington in 1814. His son, Nathaniel 2d, born in 1771, married Phebe Millard of Bennington, and he and his brothers, following the example of their ancestors, removed into the wilderness, and settled in Western New York, where they became farmers, and in the course of time, clerks, teachers, justices, and members of the Assembly. This Na- thaniel 2d was the father of Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States, who was born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., Jan. 7, 1800 .;
* See Memoir by Ashbel Woodward, M. D., in Hist. & Gen. Reg., 11, 61.
t President Fillmore, on account of the connection of his ancestry with Norwich, attended the Bi-centennial Celebration in 1859, and manifested a cordial interest in the proceedings.
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The descendants of Capt. John Fillmore emigrated not only to Ver- mont, but to Nova Scotia and other provinces, and have been widely scat- tered ; yet representatives of the name and family were left in Norwich and Franklin, where the lineage is still to be found, comprising descend- ants of the brave Capt. John and also of his brother Ebenezer, who mar- ried Thankful Carrier in 1733.
Ford, John : adm. 1722; married May 26, 1729, Ann Holloway.
Fowler. Jonathan Fowler married Aug. 3, 1687, Elizabeth Reynolds. The widow Fowler is incidentally mentioned in 1698.
Thomas Fowler of Lebanon, died in 1707.
Fox. Isaac Fox, adm. 1721; Thomas, 1722.
Frasier. Colin Frasier married in 1718, Sarah, daughter of Paul Wentworth. In January, 1724, Mrs. Frasier was arrested on the charge of killing an Indian woman in a fit of insanity. On the 24th of February, while imprisoned at New London, the unhappy woman, in another access of her malady, to which she was constitutionally subject, plunged a knife into her own throat, but the wound did not prove fatal. She was tried in March, and fully acquitted on the ground of distraction.
French, John French, Senior, of the West Farms, adm. 1724; died April 20, 1730, leaving sons, Abner, John, Joseph, and Samuel.
John French, Jr., [Major John French] married Aug. 21, 1729, Phebe, daughter of Thomas Hyde.
Gaylord, Josiah, 1675. He was probably son of William of Windsor, and step-son of John Elderkin. He is on the roll of 1702; his "house at Pock-nuck" is mentioned in 1720. He died in 1727.
Gibbons, John, 1719. "Hambleton Gibions," connected with a disturb- ance in the meeting-house, 1723.
Gookin. Edward Gookin, adm. Sept. 13, 1726. He had four children baptized at dates ranging from February, 1723, to March, 1730. He was
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probably son of Daniel Gookin of Sherborn, whose wife was a daughter of Edmund Quincy, and who had a son Edmund, born March 31, 1688.
Edmund of Norwich had wife Sarah, and two sons, Samuel and Daniel. The former has not been traced, but Daniel, with his parents and their three daughters, who lived to be aged spinsters, all sleep together in the town burial-ground.
Gould, Nathaniel, 1730.
Gorton. Benjamin Gorton, from Warwick, R. I., on the 20th of Sep- tember, 1717, purchased the valuable farm of Peter Mason near the Great Pond, or Mashipaug Lake, 500 acres, with dwelling-house and other build- ings, for £500. This farm was then supposed to lie within the bounds of Norwich, and he was for several years considered an inhabitant. He died in 1737.
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