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G. H. and his wife Rebecca owned the covenant in Stratford church Jan., 12, 1724. She joined in full communion March 21, 1725.
On a careful examination of the records of Stratford, the author has dis- covered, to his full satisfaction, that the account given of this Rebecca on page 586 is erroneous, and that she was not a descendant of Capt. John Sher- man. She was the dan. of Daniel Sherman, by his wife, Rebecca Wheeler, of Stratford, and was born there. Daniel Sherman, was son of Samuel Sher- man, Jr., who was the son of Hon. Samuel Sherman, the emigrant to Strat- ford.
HUNTINGTON FAMILY.
1. SIMON, as tradition has it, was the ancestor of all, or nearly all of the Huntingtons in this country. He was b in England and m., probably, Marga. ret Baret, of Norwich or its immediate vicinity, Eng. He d. while on the voyage to this country of small pox, in 1633, and his body was consigned to its ocean grave. He had five children, among whom was-5. SIMON, b. according to the Norwich records, in England, in 1629, and was about four years of age when the family came to this country. He settled in Norwich, Conn., became a leading citizen there, a deacon in the church and represent- ed the town in the General Court. He m. Oct., 1653, Sarah, dan. of Joseph Clark, of Windsor and Saybrook. He moved to Norwich in 1660. He died, 28th June, 1706, aged 77. Shed. 1721, aged 88. Ife had 10 children, among whom was-(3) Daniel, b. in Norwich, Conn., March 13, 1675-6, m. 1st, Abi- gail, dat. of Thomas and Mary (Rudd) Bingham, who was b. 4th Nov., 1679, by whom he had five children. She d. Dec. 25th, 1734. He m. 2d, Rache. Wolcott, of Windham. He d. in Norwich, 13th Sept., 1741. His 3d child by his Ist w. was DANIEL, b. in Norwich, March 24th, 1711. He graduated at Yale, 1733, and m , Sept. 25, 1740, Sybil Bull, of Milford. She d. Oct. 12, 1744. He m. 2d, Rebecca Huntington, July 24, 1746. She d. March 7, 1774. Rev. S. B: Huntington has two different dates for this death. On page 87 of his Huntington Genealogy, he has it April 15, 1798. On page 87 he has it as above. He d. July 26, 1756. He had five children, all born in Norwich, the 2d of whom was-(5) DR. DANIEL, b. Oct. 2, 1744. He studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Perry, of Woodbury, and commenced its practice in that town about the year 1767. He became a man of some distinction in his profession, and in the 1st Church, of which he was a deacon. He was the first Postmas. ter in Woodbury, which office he held from 1797 to 1814.1 Hc d. Feb. 19, 1819. He m. Sybilla Tomlinson. She was b. Sept. 10, 1750.
1 To this point the account of this family has been taken from Rev. E. B. Huntington's " Memoir " of the Huntington Family
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Children : Sybilla, b. January 1, 1770, m. David Stiles Curtiss, father of Daniel Curtiss, Esq. She d. Dec. 30, 1838. He d. Jan. 22, 1846. Abigail, b. Dec. 18, 1770. So the record says-two births in one year. Both lived to be bap. in 1781, with the remaining four children : Daniel, b. Sept. 7, 1772 ; Cyn- thia, b. April 1, 1774 ; Isaac, b. July 20, 1776 ; Russel, b. Jan. 18, 1779, d. Sept. 14, 1794; Alza, bap. June 10, 1787, m. - Proctor, of Philadelphia, Pa., April 21, 1822. Children : William H. and Nathaniel L.
JAMES HUNTINGTON, Esq., Attorney at Law, at Woodbury, is descended from the first Simon through another line.
HURD FAMILY.
A little care is necessary to avoid confusion here. John Hurd, among the first settlers of Meriden, came so early to Stratford, that he represented the town in 1649. He had either a brother or a son Adam, probably his brother, because both Adam's, son John and John's son John, were m. in Dec. 1662. These two Johns are sometimes styled " cousins," on the record, which would make Adam a brother of the elder John. But again, Adam's son John is styled nephew of the other John, which implies brotherhood of their fathers, although the two terms of kinship are carelessly exchanged.
On Dec. 10, 1662, John Hurd, Jr., (so called) son of Adam, m. Ann, widow of Joshua Judson, and he had Sarah, Dec. 1664; Joseph, Feb. 1666; Benja- min, Feb. 1667; Ebenezer, Nov. 1668. Ruth, Feb. 1670; John, Aug. 1673. THIS JOHN the SON OF ADAM is he who went to Woodbury.
The other John son of John, m. Dec. 15, 1662, Sarah, dau. of John Thomp- son, and from 1664, to 1679, had eight children. John, Sarah, Hannah, Isaac, Jacob, Mary, Esther, Abigail, but of these I suppose you have no need.
HULL FAMILY.
I examined the Derby Records for Mr. Savage and drew off the Hull gene- alogy, of which he has made use in his work.1
JOHN HULL, (who seems to be the John of New Haven, 1657, and son of Andrew) appears in Stratford, 1661. In 1670 he voted in Pagusset (Derby) as an inhabitant, although the birth of his sons, in 1672, is recorded in Strat- ford. (This may be explained by reference to the case of Thomas Wheeler before the Court at New Haven, 1663, by which it seems that Stratford claim- ed jurisdiction and levied ministers rates at Pagusset, so that IIull's record might be left at Stratford).
Upon Stratford Record are the following named children of John IIull :- John, b. March 1662, d. 1753 at Derby ; Samuel, Feb. 1663-4, m. Deboralı Beers Fairchild ; Mary, Oct. 1666; Joseph, Feb. 1668-9, d. 1744, great-great_ grandfather of Commodore Hull; Benjamin, April 1672.
On Record at Derby ; Richard, Oct- 1674; Ebenezer -- , 1678, drowned in the Naugatuck in 1722; Jeremiah, 1679. Andrew, 1685.
1 Furnished by Rev. B. L. Swan.
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Joseph IIull of Derby, son of John m. in 1691. Mary Nichols, dan. of Ca. leh Nichols, of Woodbury, (see Nichols,) and had Samnel, 1692; Joseph, 2d 1694; Calsa, 1695; Andrew, 1697; Mary, 1699; Sarah, 1701; Abijah 1703 ; Nathan, 1709.
His wife d. in 1733. In 1735 he m. Hannah Prindle, and died in 1741.
Joseph Hull 2d, son of Joseph son of John, mn. Sarah -- , and had Sarah, 1726; Joseph, 3d, 1727: Elizabeth, 1731 ; Anna, 1736.
Joseph Hull, 3d, m. Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, May 1750 ; they had Joseph, 4th, Oct. 1750; General William, 1752; Samuel, 1755 ; Isaae, Levi, and David.
Joseph Hull, 4th, b. 1750, d. 1826, in his 76th year, had Isaac, (Commodore).
JUDSON FAMILY.
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JUDSON, JEREMIAH, (page 588, No. 21, V.,) among his children is Mercy instead Martha. She married Solomon Burton in 1687'
JOSHUA JUDSON, (4) son of William, m. Ann, (who, Goodwin is confident was a dau. of John Porter, of Windsor.) They had children : Joshua, b. Dec., 1658 ; Samuel, b. Aag., 1660, and Ann, who must have been older than the sons-perhaps born 1656-for she married Arthur Perry about 1675.
Joshua Judson died 1661, aged 38 In 1662 his widow married John Hurd, Jr., and had by him six children.
Jeremiah Judson's 1st wife was Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Foote. They were married in 1652. She died 1673, aged 41. She was the mother of all his children. His second wife, Katharine, m. Nov. 8, 1675, was widow of Thomas Fairchild, Sr. She was also his second wife. Her maiden name was Craig. J. J. went to London to marry her in 1662. The bond executed by him to secure her a title to his real estate in Hartford, is on record in Hartford. Descendants of Jeremiah Judson are in Stratford (old Mill Hill) and in Bridgeport.
11. No. 7 in your list of Joseph's children, (p. 588) viz : Joshua, b. Dec. 3, 1658, is by mistake. He was Joshua's son, not Joseph's. The latter had but one Joshua, a twin with Ruth, and he died young.
Page 593. Capt. James Judson, No. (61) married Nov. 12, 1751, Mary Ed- wards, dau. of Thomas, (North Stratford-Trumbull.)
P. 592. Polly Judson m. Solomon Stoddard. Kezia m. John Bassett, of Kettletown, (Southbury). Mary m. Birdseye Curtiss, of Newtown.
JOHNSON FAMILY.
[Additions and corrections.]
Page 600. It was MOSES JOHNSON himself, not his son Moses, who came to Stratford and signed the Woodbury compact. Moses, Ebenezer, (who went to Derby,) and John, who d. in 1659, are understood to be sons of Peter, of Fairfield.
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Moses Johnson m. about 1676, Mary, dau. of Robert Rose, of Stratford. Children : Rebecca, b. April, 1677, died young ; Zeruiah, b. April 30, 1682 ; Rebecca, b. 1681; John, b. April 18, 1686 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 5, 1688; Mary, b. April 20, 1690 ; Elizabeth, Oct. 18, 1691 ; Moses, b. May 13, 1694; Solomon, Jan. 5, 1695-6.
That Moses Johnson, Senior, married again is plain, from the mention of Mary, "his aged widow," in 1747.
JENNER FAMILY.
Page 602. JOHN JENNER was in Stratford before 1650, but left in a few years : went to Long Island ; had by his wife, Alice thought to be dau. of. Robert Pigg, of New Haven : Mary, b. Oct., 1648 ; Thomas, b. April, 1651, and others.
Samuel, of Woodbury, descended from, or rather may have been son of Thomas. Another Thomas, of Charlestown Mass., had a son Samuel, but he was b. in 1669, and would be but 18 or 19 years old when Woodbury Samu- el's first child was born.
KNOWLES FAMILY.
Page 604. Eleazur Knowles was son of Thomas, of New Haven. THOMAS KNOWLES was of New Haven, 1645; died before 1648 ; leaving wibow Eliza - beth and sons Eleazur and Thomas. The widow married, in 1650, Nicho- las Knell, whose dau. Elizabeth, b. 1653, m. John Mitchell. What became of Thomas K., brother of Eleazer, does not appear.
The following was received from Hon. Liberty Knowles, of Potsdam, N. Y.
" You may find my name on page 605-8. Liberty .- You have given my eldest brother a girl's name, Ellen. My father gave him the first syllable of his name, El., reserving Eazer for his youngest son, b. at Grenville, N. Y. Feb. 1787. My father removed to Greenville, (then Lotana,) March 1st, 1786, and d. there 1814 where El and Eazar still live. LIBERTY was educated at Williams College, Mass., opened a Law office at Potsdam, June 14th, 1809 : in. Melinda Raymond, of Richmond, Mass., Feb., 1812 ; had children : Cathe- rine, b. Nov. 12th ; Henry L., b. June 23d, 1815, educated at Union College, N. Y., took his father's place in Law business, 1838 ; William Z., b. Feb. 26, 1818, educated at University of Vt., commenced Law practice at Potsdam, 1845 ; Augustus L., b. May 11, 1821, d. Oct. 19th, 1824.
" Many a leisure hour has been agreeably spent in reading of old Wood- bury and its descendants. We trace the Knowles line to the grandfather of Eleazar, of Stratford, who, with sixty-nine others, sailed in a new ship from New Haven for Liverpool in Jan., 1646, and were never heard of. He left a wife and two sons-one son d. young, the other removed to Stratford, m. Jane Porter. Children, two sons : Eleazer and Thomas. E. was amongst the first settlers of Woodbury.
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KASSON FAMILY.
Page 604. There is an error in the date of the marriage of Geore M. Kas- son to Lucretia M. Turner. It should be April 7, 1830.
After Elizabeth H., on the same page, insert Willian. A., b. Feb. 20, 1854.
KIRTLAND FAMILY.
The family of Kirtland is of Scotch descent ; and among the first thirty-six settlers of Saybrook, in 1635, was John Kirtland, who came from Silver- street, London. He had a son John, who was the father of Daniel, who was the father of the noted missionary, Rev. Samuel Kirkland, who was born in 1701, graduated at Yale College 1720, under the name of Kirtland. John Kirtland m. his Ist wife in Saybrook, March 3, 1703 ; in. 2d, Lydia Baldwin. )
JOHN KIRTLAND, first settler, who came from Essex County, Eng., about 1633, m. Lydia, dan. of Lieut. Wm. Pratt. His son John m. Lydia Belden. Ilis grandson, Ezra, b. Oct., 1728, went from Saybrook to Bridgeport, 1748, m. Olive Wakeley 1752, and had two sons, Ezra and Zebulon, and d. 1800. His wife d. 1803. EZRA, b. 1753, was m. 1791, to Sarah Wheeler ; had seven children, he died 1799 ; she died 1837. Their first son d., aged 19 : WHEELER, b. Aug., 1780, moved to Woodbury, m. Phebe Minor, dan. of deacon Matthew, and had seven children. He died 1822, his wife d. 1845. Wheeler, d. 1823, aged 17. Cornelia m. John Finch, New York City, 1832-both dead. They had three children. John K., Matthew M., Cornelia T. Sarah in. Geo. C. Mi- nor, 1829, and had two children ; family all dead. Chas. W. Kirtland in. Eliza- beth Ann Stiles, 1854. Reside at Woodbury. Lewis m. Mary Ann Tracy, 1851, she and child d. He resides at Minneapolis, Minn. Benjamin d. 1844 aged 23. Eliza m. Hiram B. Platt, 1840. He d. 1863. They have four chil- dren ; Maggie, Fannie, Ida and William. Reside at Waterbury.
LAMBERT FAMILY.
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Henry Lambert m. Amelia C. Moses, Nov. 1, 1854. Children : 1. Jesse Peck, b. Feb. 14, 1859, d. Oct. 20, 1859. 2. Charles L., b. May 29, 1861.
GEORGE D. Lambert, m. Ellen A. Judson, Oct. 18, 1858. Child : Frank Judson, b. Oct. 19th, 1862.
Henry A Lambert m. Sarah G. Corliss, Sept. 3, 1867. Child : Wallace Corliss, b. May 28, 1869.
Elizabeth L. Lambert m. Truman Abrams, Sept. 5th, 1854. Children : Ella Lambert, b. June 27, 1855 ; Eddie A. b. June 22, 1857.
Willis Lambert (p. 611) d. June 7, 1871. Eliza, his wife, d. Oct 4, 1865.
1 Davis' Hist. of Wallingford.
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LEAVENWORTH FAMILY. 1
On page 612 is an account of the origin of the Leavenworth family in this country. It was taken principally from the " Leavenworth Tree " preserved in the family, supposed to be correct, and by them specially requested to be inserted. Later investigations, by Deacon Philo M Trowbridge, and by Rev. Benjamin L. 8wan, have shown that there are many inaccuracies. The an- thor would have re written the article, with all the lights before him, except that his friend, Gen. E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse N. Y., has been for for many years engaged in perfecting a complete list of the family in this country, and being now on the eve of publishing it, it would be ungenerous to anticipate him by publishing some of his materials in advance of him, when he has been at so much pains and expense in preparing his list for the nse of his family name.
The following corrections and additions, by Rev. Mr. Swan, are added to set the anthor right so far as he attempted to give the history of the family in his former work :
Leavenworth.
THOMAS LEAVENWORTH, of Woodbury, died in 1683. His inventory was made Aug 20, 1683. Property £225 2s. 1d. He left a widow, Grace, who June 11, 1684, executes a document yet on record in Hartford. The Court, in distributing his estate, mentions three children, without giving their names-two sons and a daughter. The sons are not then 21 years of age, nor the dau. 18 years old. The sons prove to be Thomas and John. I think the widow married David Jenkins as his second wife. Jenkins went from Woodbury to Stratford in 1694. He had by former marriage Alice b. 1678, who died in Stratford in March, 1708-9, and Mary, who married Thomas Leavenworth 2d. In 1715, Thomas L. 2d gives bonds for maintenance of David and Grace Jenkins.
THOMAS L. 2D, first appears in Stratford in an old account book of Joseph Booth, 1695, (tanner and shoemaker,) agreeing to make for Booth two pairs of shoes per week for his board, 2s. 2d. per pair.
In January, 1697-8 T. L. 2d " owns covenant " in Stratford, and in Febru- ary 6, 1697-8, is received to fall communion,
In 1696 he acquires land in Stratford by exchange with John Judson, of Woodbury. There seems also to have been a nephew or brother of Thomas Leavenworth Ist in Woodbury, for in October 12, 1702, the inventory of " John Leavenworth, sometime of Woodbury," is presented in Fairfield Probate Court, and administration is granted to Thomas Leavenworth of Stratford, " cousin to the deceased." Finally, by order of Court, the property, £47, 16s. 8d., is divided between the abovesaid " Thomas L. and his brother John."
In 1728, Thomas L. 2d is mentioned as Dr. Thomas L., of Ripton, (IIun- tington). John Leavenworth, brother of Thomas 2d, is, in 1705, styled " blacksmith, in Stratford." Ile had a son Ebenezer, bap. in 1706, (June.)
1 See Ilistory of Waterbury, Conn., page 515, and foot note, for corrections in part, and for other branches of the family.
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Thomas Leavenworth 2 (son of Thomas Sen., of Woodbury, who d. 1683) married Mary, dau. of David Jenkins. They lived in Ripton Parish (New Huntington). The children (partly on record and partly derived from his will of July 6, 1748,) were: James b. Sept. 1, 1699, d. 1759; David, b. Oet. 12, 1701, d. 1725, (m. Sarah -. She joined Woodbury church 1734. He in 1727.) leaving sons, Nathan and Ebenezer, (named in grandfather's will,) ; Ebenezer, b. April 7, 1706, d. 1734, unmarried. Estate distributed to brothers and sis- ters. John, b. Nov. 3, 1708, bap. in Stratfield. There is a discrepancy of two years in his age, as given at death; Mark, (Rev.) b. 1711' m. Feb. 1740, Ruth Peck, and Dec. 1750, Sarah Hnll, of Derby ; Zebulon, m. Esther, who d. 1793. He d. 1778 ; joined Woodbury church 1742 ; Thomass; Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1722, m. Abner Perry ; Edmond, b, 1725, d. 1785 aged 60. His widow, Abigail, d. 1804, aged 81 ; Mary, m. Joseph Perry ; Hannah m. Nicholas Moss.
All the foregoing are named in Thomas L.'s 2 will, except Ebenezer, who was already dead 14 years.
JAMES, son of Thomas Leavenworth 2, mn. Hester Trowbridge, of New Haven, Ang., 1720. They lived in Stratford, and he d. in Aug., 1759. They had Mehetable, b. July, 1721; Tamar, b May, 1727; Samuel, b. Feb., 1729; Daniel, b. March, 1731 ; Ann, b. April, 1733 ; Mary, b. Aug. 1735 ; James, b. July, 1737 ; Esther, b. Jan., 1740; Ebenezer, b. Sept., 1743, d. young.
You will see that the heads of all your classified families are children of Thomas L.2, except Ebenezer, of the 5th family, and he was son of David, who was son of Thomas2, and d. 1725.
MALLORY FAMILY.
Mallory, page 615. PETER MALLORY signed New Haven Plantation Cov- enant, 1644. He had children : Rebecca, b. May 18, 1649; Peter, b. July 27, 1673; Mary, b. Oct., 1655, d .; Mary, Nov. 28, 1656, Dodd says Sept. 28) ; Thomas, b. April 16, 1659 ; (Dodd says Sept. 15,); Daniel, b. Nov. 25, 1661 ; John, b. May 10, 1664, (Dodd says 1663,) ; Joseph, b. 1666 ; Benjamin, b. Jan. 4, 1669. (Dodd says 1668,) ; Samuel, b. March 10. 1673; William, b. Sept. 3, 1695, (Dodd says Sept. 2). The differences between Savage and Dodd (His. tory of East Haven, where the Mallorys lived) is marked. Dodd, who was a careful investigator, and was on the spot, is to be preferred.
PETER2 Mallory, son of Peter, m. Elizabeth Trowbridge, dau. of James Ist, of New Haven, May 27, 1678, had : Peter, b. April, 1679, d. ; Caleb, b. Nov. 3, 1681; Peter, b. Aug. 1684 ; Elizabeth, b. April 27, 1687 ; Judith, b. Sept. 2, 1689; Benjamin, April 3, 1692 ; Stephen, b. Oct. 12, 1694 ; Ebenezer, Nov. 29, 1696 ; Zechariah, b. May 2, 1699 ; Abigail, b. Ang. 5, 1701 ; Zipporah, b. Dec. 15, 1705 ; (Zipporah m. March 18, 1731 Jeremiah Tomlinson, of North Strat- ford) ; Peter, b. March 1, 1708 (settled in North Stratford, had Andrew, 1744). (12 in all.)
THOMAS, son of Peter Mallory 1st, m. March 26, 1684, Mary Umberfield, (dau. or sister of John 1st, of New Haven,) and had Thomas,2 b. Jan. 1, 1685 ; Daniel, Jan. 2, 1687.
THOMAS MALLORY,2 son of Thomas, son of Peter, removed to Woodbury.
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If he died July 21, 1783, he was not 101 years old-but (allowing 11 days for difference between Old and New Style,) 98 years 6 mo. 9 days of age, and m. Jan., 1706, Elizabeth Bartlett, (probably dau. of John Bartlett, who came to Stratford 1678). They had Mary, b. 1707 ; Thomas, b. 1709 (?) ; Bartlett b. 1710; Aaron, b. 1712; John, Jesse, b. 1715, (you say 1717, and may have ac- cess to more correct record).
Page 617. JOHN MALLORY, b. 1739, who m. Esther Barnes,) was son of Ben- jamin, of Stratford, who was son of Peter Jr., of New Haven. (Thomas and Benjamin were second cousins).
Page 618. CALEB MALLORY, b. 1726, was also a son of Benjamin, of Strat- ford. El'le Mallory, p. 618, is a contraction of Elijah, son of Benjamin, b. 1738.
I can give you all Benjamin's record if you need. He lived in Ripton Par- ish, and m. Eunice Butler, of Wethersfield, Dec. 22, 1715, and had 12 chil- dren. There seems to have been, in most of the Mallory stock, a marvellous productive vitality.
MARSHALL FAMILY.
[Corrections and additions by HENRY P. MARSHALL, Esq., of New York.]
EDWARD MARSHALL came from Barbadoes. (There is no evidence, says Henry P. Marshall, that he was in any way related to Jarvis Marshall.)
Reference to your numbers 11-IV, no children - the children named in your book were the children of Hermann, 12-V.
17-I, add to children Cornelia Ellsworth. Henry, before given, should be Henry Rutgers.
18-II. Frederick A. m. Ann Quarles, of Kenosha, Wis., d. July 18, 1854. Buried there. He d. at Woodbury, 26th Feb. 1866, 51st year.
20-IV. Walter P. m. Frederica Ellsworth.
MARTIN FAMILY.
[Additions.]
"I do not wonder," says Mr. Swan, referring to the former account, " at your incredulity about this family."
As to WILLIAM, who settled in Woodbury, I doubt his having had a mid- dle name (Seaborn). Middle names, so far as I remember, were unknown in New England before the 2d quarter of last century. Had he been born on the voyage from England, the parents would have called him Seaborn, alone, if at all, as Seaborn Colton, and others. 2. I doubt his ever having been an inhabitant of Stratford. He is not named in the records of any kind or in any list of men, up to 1730-indeed at all, excepting in the Brand Book. William Martyn, of Wethersfield, is mentioned in 1670. That fact identifies his origin, not with New Haven, but Wethersfield-where he was, and of which he was, in 1670. I feel no doubt of his having been the son of Samnel, of
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New Haven first, and afterward of Wethersfield, of whose children, doubt- less, Wethersfield records would give an account.
3. I doubt the marriage of William Martin with Abigail, dau. of Jonathan Curtis of Stratford, in 1685.
Jonathan Curtis, son of William, had a dau. Abigail, b. Oct. 1671, (by his wife Abigail, (dau. of John Thompson), who, after J. C's death m. Nocholas Huse). This daughter Abigail could not have m. Martin in 1685, because, first, in 1692, she, as Abigail Curtis, receipts for her share of her father's estate, and of her deceased brother William's estate. 2. She did after Oct. 1692. probably November, m Ebenzer Black man as his 2d wife In 1734, Jona- than2, son of Jonathan1, and his " sister Abigail Blakeman," adjust property left by " our father Jonathan Curtiss."
That surely decides the matter and sweeps away all the romance of that early marriage (p. 622.)
MEIGS FAMILY.
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Dr. JOHN MEIGS, of Bethlehem, Conn., son of John Meigs of East Guil- ford, b. April 29, 1725, m. Rebecca Clark, Jan. 21, 1744, d. 1770. Children : Dr. Abner Meigs, b. 1749, d. 1834; Rebecca; Dr. Phineas ; Jessc ; Irene ; Rer. Benjamin C., graduate of Harvard College in 1809 ; missionary to Ceylon. Died there 1830.
Dr. ABNER MEIGS, son of Dr. John Meigs, b. in Bethlehem, Conn., moved to Claremont, New Hampshire, m. Sarah Church, a descendant of the famous Capt. Church, of Conn. Children : Dr. John Meigs. b. in Claremont about 1774, d. in Lyndon, Vt., 1823; Heman, b. in Claremont, June 9, 1781, d. in Lyman, N. H., May 21. 1857; Lorenzo, of Malone, N. Y., d. about 1856 ; An - son : Church, b. Oct. 9, 1788, d. without issue, March 9, 1849 ; Sarah ; Re- beeca.
HEMAN MEIGS, son of Dr. Abner Meigs, b, 1781, m. Lydia Hunt, of Tun- bridge Vt. b. 1785 d. May 7, 1842. He died May 21, 1857. Children : Church, b. Dec. 16, 1804, d. in Malcolm, Iowa, July, 1865; Chastina, b. May 17, 1807 ; m. Welcome McGaffey, of Lyndon, Vt .; John, (M. D.) b. Feb. 16, 1810; Le- lonia, b. July 28, 1815 ; m. Benjamin Franklin, Paddleford ; Josephine, b. June 14. 1830, m. David Kibbey.
JOHN MEIGS, M. D., (son of Heman Meigs,) of Stanstead, Province of Que. bec b. Feb. 16, 1810, m. Elizabeth Caroline Thorndyke Granniss, Jan. 4, 1843, dan. of William Granniss, of Stanstead. Children : Alice Lydia, b. April 26, 1846 ; Elizabeth Sumner, b. May 20, 1853.
MOSELY FAMILY.
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P. 619. This family name was, until about 150 years ago, Maudesley, or Modesly-finally changed to Moseley.
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The first settlers in New England of the name were HENRY, who came over in the Hopewell, 1635, Oct. 24, and JOHN, freeman of Dorchester, Mass., 1639, probably came earlier, for he had a son born 1638. He had wife, Cicely, and sons John and Thomas, perhaps also Joseph, and dau. Elizabeth. He died 1661. His son John settled in Windsor, and d. 1690.
THOMAS, of Dorchester, son of John Ist, m., Oct. 25, 1658, Mary, dau. of Thomas Lawrence, of Hingham, had John, 1659 (?) d. 1661 ; Mary, Dec. 31, 1660, d. Dec. 1661 : Increase ; Thomas, March, 1667, d. April 1749 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 19, 1668-9; Unite, May 5, 1671 ; Ebenezer, Sept. 4, 1673 ; John, April 9, 1676 ; Nathaniel, Oct. 28, 1678; Joseph, April 17, 1681.
Thomas Mosely 1st d. Oct. 22, 1706, mentioning in his will Increase,2 son of his son Increase deceased. The latter, viz : Increase 2d, would seem to have been father of him who was b. at Norwich, May 18, 1712.
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