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Chancellor Walworth was called upon to respond, and spoke as follows :-
MR. PRESIDENT, AND MY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES:
It is sixty-six years since I left the place of my nativity, a part of the old nine miles square, then Bozrah, for an adjoining state, in which I have spent the residue of my life. My adopted state has heaped upon me many honors, and has given to me many highly valued friends. I love her, and I love her people and her institu- tions. Still " this is my own, my native land." And it is with
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feelings of unmingled pleasure that I come back to it at this time, to meet and to greet my kith and kin, congregated here from every part of this blessed union.
I have a right to be here as a native of the good old town, which in the war of our independence, as you have already heard from another, was behind no other place in devotion to the cause of freedom ; and, also, because few of my age are descended from so many of the first settlers of Norwich as I am. For I have in my veins the blood of lieutenant Thomas Tracy, of John Tracy, his eldest son, of goodman William Hyde, of Samuel Hyde and Jane Lee, of John Post and Hester Hyde, of Margaret Post, their daughter, of deacon Thomas Adgate and Mary (Marvin) Bush- nell, and of captain Richard Bushnell, and Elizabeth Adgate; twelve persons who were here the first year of the settlement of the town. And I claim all of you who are descended from either of those persons as my blood relatives and cousins.
I may also add, that in the veins of six of my grandchildren the blood of those twelve ancestors is mingled with the blood of the Rev. James Fitch, of lieutenant William Backus and Elizabeth Pratt, his wife, and of deacon Simon Huntington and Sarah Clark, his wife, five others of the first settlers of Norwich. And in the veins of five others of my grandchildren the blood of my own twelve Norwich ancestors, first named, mingles with the blood of the most distinguished of the thirty-five original proprietors, the corner stone of whose monument we have this day seen laid, and one of them bears the honored name of John Mason.
As this bi-centennial anniversary of the birth of Norwich is a proper occasion for ascertaining the descendants of her sons and of her daughters, of whom she may justly be proud, I will mention a few of those who were and are descendants from my first named twelve Norwich ancestors, before I proceed to speak of her two first born children, who appear to have been specially committed to my care and guardianship by your worthy president, or by the committee on sentiments and speeches. And as I have always had a preference for the ladies, I will, in this connection, speak only of the descendants of some of the daughters of Norwich, and of some distinguished men who have shown their good taste, and their good judgment also, in selecting daughters of Norwich, or the de- scendants of her daughters, for wives.
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1. Miriam Tracy, only daughter of Thomas Tracy the first, of Norwich, married in 1668, ensign Thomas Waterman, one of the thirty-five proprietors. She was ancestress of Martha Waterman, second wife of Lyme's famed captain, Reynold Marvin ; of Susan- nah Hyde, wife of John Tracy, of Oxford, state senator and lieu- tenant governor of New York ; of the Rev. Elijah Waterman, min- ister of Windham; of colonel Archibald W. Hyde, of Burlington, Vermont, collector of the customs; of Dudley Marvin, of Canan- daigua, member of congress; of judge William Marvin, of Lyme ; of captain Asa Waterman, of Norwich, commissary of United States in the revolutionary war, son-in-law of governor Nicholas Cook, of Rhode Island; of Oliver M. Hyde, mayor of the city of Detroit; of general Elihu Marvin, of Norwich, a distinguished merchant ; and of Jedediah Hyde, of Grand Isle, three times elect- ed censor of the state.
She was also the ancestress of numerous families of Watermans, Lathrops, Averys, Posts, Hydes, Tracys, Huntingtons, &c.
2. Elizabeth Adgate, eldest daughter of deacon Thomas Adgate, married in 1672, captain Richard Bushnell, her step-brother, one of the early magistrates of Norwich. She was ancestress of doctor Ashbel Woodward, of Franklin, an eminent physician; of Jede- diah Hyde, of Hyde Park, Vermont, a captain in the army of the revolution, whose first wife was a descendant of Thomas Tracy the first, and his last wife was a descendant of major Mason, of Nor- wich ; of Elisha Hyde, of Norwich, a distinguished lawyer, who was mayor of this city about fifteen years ; of doctor Phinehas Hyde, of Mystic, surgeon in the navy of the United States in the revo- lution; of Elizabeth Backus, wife of Othniel Gager, town clerk of Norwich, and city treasurer; of judge Elias Perkins, of New Lon- don, member of congress ; of doctor Joseph Perkins, the father-in- law of John A. Rockwell, M. C., one of your most distinguished citizens, who has this day delighted us all by his appropriate eulogy upon one of Norwich's greatest men; and of that talented and ac- complished daughter of Norwich, Nancy Maria Hyde, whose epi- taph of fourteen stanzas, which she wrote for her own early grave, will compare favorably with " Gray's Elegy." To the memory of this young lady justice has long since been done by her early friend, one of Norwich's most talented and honored daughters, whose name is known and revered by the whole civilized world.
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Elizabeth Adgate was also the ancestress of numerous families of Bushnells, Hydes, Perkinses, Tracys, Leffingwells, Watermans, &c.
3. Hannah Adgate, second daughter of deacon Thomas Adgate, married in 1675, Samuel Lathrop the second, of Norwich, grand- son of the Rev. John Lathrop, of Scituate and Barnstable, minister of the first independent or congregational church in London, whose puritan blood warms the pious hearts of many who are now present, and of one, Mr. President, who is near and dear to you.
Several of the honored descendants of Hannah Adgate are pres- ent. And in one of them, a son of Norwich, Daniel Coit Gilman, of New Haven, librarian of Yale college, who has delighted us with the history of this good old town from its first settlement, you have another specimen of the descendants, in the female lines, of the pious and revered Thomas Adgate, one of the first deacons of the church in Norwich. His descendants in those lines are al- most innumerable, although his descendants in the male lines are very few. Two of his honored male descendants I well know ; judge Mathew Adgate, of Canaan, New York, afterwards of Ad- gate's Falls, and judge Asa Adgate, of Chesterfield. The first was one of the leading patriots of the revolution, and was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of New York, in April, 1777. The last was a member of congress from the north- ern district of New York, and judge of the Essex county court.
Hannah Adgate was the ancestress of numerous families of La- throps, Perkinses, Watermans, Coits, Austins, &c.
4. Abigail Adgate, eldest daughter of deacon Thomas Adgate, by his second wife, married, in 1682, Daniel Tracy the first, of Nor- wich, who was killed in 1728 by the falling of a bridge which they were raising across the Shetucket. She was the great grandmother of Sybil Tracy, who married Wheeler Coit; of Lydia Tracy, who married Thomas Fanning ; of Abigail Tracy, who married John Fanning ; of Daniel Tracy, who graduated at Yale in 1779; of Thomas Tracy, who graduated at Yale in 1795 ; and of doctor Ebenezer Tracy, a distinguished physician of Middletown.
5. Rebecca Adgate, third daughter of deacon Thomas Adgate, by his second wife, married, in 1687, Joseph Huntington, second son of Simeon Huntington, one of the first deacons of the Norwich church. She was the honored ancestress of Samuel Huntington, chief justice and governor of Connecticut, and one of the signers of
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the declaration of independence ; of the Rev. Joseph Huntington, D. D., minister of Coventry ; of Samuel Huntington, of Paines- ville, chief justice and governor of Ohio ; of Rev. Joseph Hunt- ington, minister of Middletown ; of judge Samuel G. Huntington, of Troy, N. Y .; of Enoch H. Rosekrans, one of the justices of the supreme court of the state of New York; of the Rev. Jonathan Huntington, of Worthington, Massachusetts ; of Frances Hunting- ton, wife of the Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin, D. D., Bartlet professor in the theological seminary at Andover, and president of Williams col- lege; of the Rev. Joseph Huntington Jones and judge Joel Jones, of Philadelphia.
She was also the ancestress of several families of Huntingtons, Griffins, Smiths, &c.
6. Mary Bushnell, eldest daughter of Mary Marvin, (deacon Thomas Adgate's second wife,) by her first husband, Richard Bush- nell, of Saybrook, married, in 1672, Thomas Leffingwell, eldest son of lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, the first, of Norwich. She was the ancestress of Hannah Tracy, wife of the Rev. John Tyler, first rector of Christ church, at Norwich landing; of Anne Tracy, wife of Richard Hyde, esq., of Bean Hill, one of the early magis- trates of Norwich ; of deacon Isaac Tracy, of Norwich, one of the leading patriots of the revolution ; of major Elijah Hyde, of Leb- anon, another patriot of the revolution, who was the friend and the confidant of the first governor Trumbull; of Eliphalet Hyde, of Pittstown, New York, a captain in the army of the revo- lution ; of general Caleb Hyde, sheriff of Berkshire county, and afterwards state senator, and a member of the council of appoint- ment in the state of New York ; of Thomas J. Patterson, of Roch- ester, M. C .; of Uri Tracy, of Oxford, New York, M. C .; of judge Thomas Howard Ray Tracy, of Honesdale, Pennsylvania; of John Tracy, of Oxford, New York, lieutenant governor and state sen- ator, and president of the constitutional convention of 1847; of judge Josiah Tracy, of Painesville, Ohio; of colonel Christopher Leffingwell, of Norwich, chairman of the committee of correspond- ence, whose patriotic services in the revolution were mentioned by my young friend, Mr. Gilman, yesterday ; and of the Rev. Thomas Leffingwell Shipman, of Jewett City, who has shown you the cane carried by his distinguished ancestor, the first captain Thomas Lef- fingwell.
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Mary Bushnell was also the ancestress of numerous families of Lef- fingwells, Tracys, Bushnells, Huntingtons, Lathrops, Abels, Hydes, Backuses, Tylers, Edgertons, Bentleys, Perkinses, Chesters, &c.
7. Elizabeth Hyde, granddaughter of Elizabeth Adgate and Richard Bushnell, esq., of Norwich, married, in 1720, doctor The- ophilus Rogers the first, of Norwich, who was the fifth in descent from one of the ten children of the Rev. John Rogers, the martyr, who, as you all know, was burned at Smithfield during the short and bloody reign of Mary I, of England. And as I have been called upon to explain how I know that the martyr had ten chil- dren instead of nine, for which many who have counted their heads in the " New England Primer" have long contended, I can only say I have it from his own mouth.
After he had been condemned, he said to the lord chancellor, Stephen Gardner, bishop of Winchester, who was one of his ec- clesiastical judges, " My lord, I pray you to grant me one thing, that my poor wife, being a stranger (he had married her in Ant- werp) may come and speak with me so long as I live; for she hath ten children, which are hers and mine, and somewhat would I counsel her what it were best for her to do."
This Elizabeth Hyde was the mother of colonel Zabdial Rogers, of Norwich, the number of whose children only wanted one to double the number of the children of his martyred ancestor. She was also the ancestress of Fanny Rogers, wife of Roger Griswold, of Lyme, M. C., and governor of Connecticut; of Lyman Trum- bull, of Alton, Illinois, United States senator; of Henry Rogers Selden, lieutenant governor, and Samuel L. Selden, judge of the court of appeals of my adopted state; of the Rev. Thomas Hub- bard Vail, D. D., rector of St. Thomas' church in Taunton; of the Rev. Zabdial Rogers, of Charleston, S. C .; of the Rev. George Alfred Woodbridge, of Ross Station, Indiana ; of the Rev. George A. R. Rossiter, professor of mathematics in Marietta college; of the Rev. Zabdial Rogers Ely, of Deep River ; of the Rev. William Dudley Rossiter, of Rockville, Indiana, district secretary of the American Christian Union ; of the Rev. Charles Chester, of Geneva ; of the Rev. Albert Tracy Chester, D. D., of Buffalo, New York ; and of my young friend, Carlos Tracy, of Walterboro', South Carolina, a member of the state legislature, who was with us here yesterday.
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In his veins the blood of John Rogers, the martyr, is mingled with that of each of my twelve Norwich ancestors, who were here at the settlement of the town, and with the blood of several of the revolutionary patriots of South Carolina.
This Elizabeth Hyde was also the ancestress of numerous families of Rogerses, Seldens, Jewitts, Marvins, Hydes, Lathrops, Tracys, Birchards, Griswolds, Tylers, Mathers, &c.
8. Margaret Post, eldest daughter of Hester Hyde and John Post the first, of Norwich, married, in 1669, the first Caleb Abel, of Norwich. She was the ancestress of Lucy Tracy, wife of doc- tor Philip Turner, of Norwich, surgeon in the army during three wars, of whose services in the war of the revolution you heard yes- terday ; of major John Walworth, of the army of the United States in the war of 1812, afterwards clerk of Clinton county, and one of the registrars of the court of chancery of New York; of Sarah Walworth, assistant missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. at Canton, and wife of Samuel Wells Williams, LL. D., the distinguished author of " The Middle Kingdom," and secretary of legation of of the United States at Pekin; of the Rev. Alvan Hyde, D. D., of Lee, Massachusetts, vice president of Williams college; of the Rev. Lavius Hyde, minister of Bolton; of Joseph Hyde, of Sheffield, Massachusetts, for many years acting treasurer of the American Bible society at New York; of judge John Hyde, postmaster at Norwich Town; of judge Jabez Hyde, of Rush, Pennsylvania; of judge Austin Hyde, of Norwich, New York; of colonel Ezekiel Hyde, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; of general Elijah Abel, of Fairfield, sheriff of Fairfield county, a patriot of the revolution ; of doctor Elisha Tracy, and doctor Philemon Tracy, his son, distin- guished physicians of Norwich ; of Alfred P. Edgerton, of Hicks- ville, Ohio, state senator and M. C .; of Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, LL. D., of Saratoga Springs, reporter of the court of chancery and of the supreme court ; of judge James Hyde, of Richfield Springs, New York ; of James Hyde, of Bean Hill, a captain in the army of the revolution; of Joseph Estabrook, professor in Amherst col- lege, and president of the university of Eastern Tennessee; of judge James Clinton Walworth, of Burlington, New York; of judge Clinton Walworth, of Milwaukee; of the Rev. Ezra Abel Hunt- ington, D. D., professor in the theological seminary at Auburn, New York; of doctor Benjamin Walworth, of Fredonia, New
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York, judge of the county court; of the Rev. William Albert Hyde, of Greenwich, Connecticut ; of the Rev. Charles Cleveland, of Boston ; of the Rev. Simeon Hyde, of Deerfield, New Jersey ; of the Rev. Charles Hyde, of Ellington; of the Rev. James Thomas Hyde, of Middlebury, Vermont; of Mariette Cleveland, wife of the Rev. Reuel Keith, D. D., professor in the theological seminary at Alexandria; of Lucy Cleveland, wife of the Rev. John A. Hicks, D. D., rector of Trinity church, Rutland; of the Rev. William Neale Cleveland, of Broomville, New York; of William Earl Dodge, a distinguished merchant and philanthropist, of New York; of Elizabeth Clement Dodge, wife of William B. Kinney, charge des affaires of the United States at Sardinia ; of doctor Allyn Hyde, a distinguished physician of Ellinton; of the Rev. Jabez Backus Hyde, missionary to the Indians in Western New York ; of Mary S. Hyde, wife of doctor William H. Rice, missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. at the Sandwich Islands; of the Rev. Azariah Hyde, principal of the seminary at Castleton, Vermont; of the Rev. Eli Hyde, minister of Oxford, New York, son-in-law of Rev. Samuel Nott, D. D., of Franklin; of Mary Ingraham Rogers, wife of Stephen Fitch, esq., of Norwich; and of John Turner Wait, esq., of Norwich, who has, in such flattering terms, welcomed some of us back to the home of our ancestors.
Margaret Post was also the ancestress of numerous families of Abels, Hydes, Tracys, Lathrops, Huntingtons, Griswolds, Edger- tons, Metcalfs, Wests, Watermans, Rogerses, Clevelands, Woods, Leffingwells, &c.
9. Sarah Post, third daughter of Hester Hyde and John Post the first, of Norwich, married, in 1680, captain John Hough, of Norwich, and afterwards of New London. She was the ancestress of the venerable deacon Guy Hough, of Bozrah; of David Hough, esq., of Lebanon, N. H., member of congress; of Martha Manwaring Coit, second wife of Thomas Scott Williams, LL. D., of Hartford, member of Congress, chief justice of Connecticut, vice president of the A. B. C. F. M., and president of the American Tract society ; of Mary Anne (Coit) Blatchford, second wife of Samuel Hubbard, of Boston, judge of the supreme court of Massa- chusetts; and of William J. Hubbard, esq., of Boston, chairman of the prudential committee of the American board of commis- sioners for foreign missions.
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Sarah Post was also the ancestress of numerous families of Houghs, Richardses, Marshalls, Manwarings, Woods, Abels, Coits, &c.
10. Mary Post, fourth daughter of Hester Hyde and John Post, of Norwich, married, in 1685, Nathaniel Rudd, son of Jonathan Rudd the first, of Norwich. Her descendants are not numerous, as she died early. Othniel Gager, the present worthy town clerk of Norwich and treasurer of the city, is a specimen of them. She was the ancestress of some families of Rudds, Woods, Gagers, Huntingtons, Tracys, &c.
11. Ruth Post, granddaughter of Hester Hyde and John Post the first, of Norwich, married, in 1731, Joseph Bingham, young- est son of Thomas Bingham the second, of Norwich, and Hannah Backus. She was the ancestress of the Rev. Joel Smith Bingham, of Westfield, Massachusetts; of the Rev. Hiram Bingham, of New Haven, first missionary to the Sandwich Islands; of Kinsley Scott Bingham, governor of the state of Michigan, and United States senator ; and of several families of Binghams, and of some families of Tenneys, Failes, Kingsleys, Hutchins, Whites, &c.
12. Phebe Hyde, second daughter of Samuel Hyde the first, of Norwich, and Jane Lee, married in 1683, Matthew Griswold, of Lyme, eldest son of Matthew Griswold and Anne Wolcott. She was the ancestress of Matthew Griswold, LL. D., of Lyme, chief justice and governor of Connecticut; of Roger Griswold, of Lyme, member of congress and governor of Connecticut; of the Rev. Ed- ward Dorr, minister of Hartford; of major general Samuel Holden Parsons, of the army of the revolution, and first chief justice of the northwestern territory ; of Lucia Parsons, wife of Stephen Titus Hosmer, LL. D., of Middletown, chief justice of Connecticut ; of Oliver H. Prince, of Savannah, United States senator, who, with his wife, was lost by the wrecking of the "Home," in 1837; of William Woodbridge, of Detroit, governor of Michigan, and United States senator; of the Rev. Elisha Pope Swift, D. D., of Alleghany City, corresponding secretary of the foreign missionary society of the presbyterian church ; of Ebenezer Lane, of Chicago, chief justice of Ohio; of Mary Ann Chandler, wife of James Lanman, of Norwich, judge of the superior court of Connecticut, and United States senator ; of Edward D. Tracy, of Macon, judge of one of the superior courts of Georgia; of Albert H. Tracy, of
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Buffalo, state senator and member of congress; of Phinehas L. Tracy, of Batavia, N. Y., member of congress; of the Rev. Ed- ward Dorr Griffin, D. D., professor in the theological seminary at Andover, and president of Williams college; of George Griffin, LL. D., of New York; of Simon Greenleaf, LL. D., Dane pro- fessor of law at Harvard university ; of Phebe Griswold, wife of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, minister of Lyme, and of Newbury- port; of the Rev. Sylvanus Griswold, minister of Springfield, Mass .; of Lucretia Backus, wife of Nathaniel Pope, of Kaskaskias, delegate to congress, and judge of the U. S. court for the district of Ill .; of the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, of Marietta; and of Sarah Griswold, wife of William Hillhouse, of Montville, a mem- ber of the congress of the confederation, and chief judge of New London county.
In the veins of all of his descendants, the blood of his grand- father, John Hillhouse, of Free Hall, in Ireland, is mingled with the blood of the Rev. James Fitch, first minister of Norwich, and of the celebrated major John Mason. For the mother of judge William Hillhouse was Mary Fitch, a granddaughter of Priscilla Mason, second wife of the Rev. James Fitch.
This Phebe Hyde was also the ancestress of Frances Louisa Griffin, wife of Dr. Lyndon Arnold Smith, an eminent physician and philanthropist of Newark, N. J .; of Lucretia Griswold, wife of colonel Jonathan Latimer, of New London, who served in the French war, and was an officer of the U. S., in the revolution; of captain Andrew Griswold, who was also a revolutionary officer, and was a distinguished magistrate of East Lyme; of James Hill- house, LL. D., treasurer of Yale college, M. C., and U. S. senator; of the Rev. George Griswold, minister of "the old synagogue," at East Lyme; of David Hillhouse, a judge of the territory of In- diana; of Harriet Ann Schuyler, second wife of Edward C. Dela- van, of Ballston, N. Y., the apostle of temperance in the United States; of Rebecca Woolsey Hillhouse, first wife of the Rev. Nathaniel Hewett, D. D., of Bridgeport, for many years general agent of the American temperance society; of the Rev. William Raymond Weeks, D. D., of Plattsburgh, and afterward of Newark, N. J .; of Dr. Jonathan Dorr, an eminent physician and surgeon of Cambridge, N. Y .; of judge Matthew Dorr, of Chatham, N. Y .; of judge Edmund Dorr, of Athens, Ohio; of judge Henry Champ-
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lin Denison, of Woodstock, Vt. ; of Rev. William Cowper Denison, of Prescott, Wisconsin ; of the Rev. Ephraim Griswold Swift, of Stockbridge; of Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D. D., professor of mathe- matics and natural philosophy, in the university of N. C., who perished in 1857, on the mountains, while making a scientific exploration; of the Rev. Elliot Elisha Swift, of Zenia, Ohio; of judge Griswold Elliot, of Sheckley, Pa. ; of Dr. John Delamater, of Cleveland, a distinguished physician and surgeon, medical profes- sor in the Western Reserve college; of Deborah Griswold, wife of major Robert Denison, of Montville, afterwards of Horton, N. S., who was an officer in general Wolcott's brigade, at the taking of Louisburg; and of Miss Frances Manwaring Caulkins, of New London, the talented and distinguished authoress of the histories of Norwich and of New London, who, I trust, will soon give us a new and enlarged edition of the history of her native town of Norwich.
Phebe Hyde was also the ancestress of many families of Gris- wolds, Dorrs, Denisons, Parsonses, Bushnells, Backuses, Hill- houses, Elliotts, Raymonds, Latimers, Griffins, Tracys, Waits, Mc- Curdys, Mathers, Sills, Lays, Lees, Greenleafs, Woodbridges, &c.
I will only add that I have in my possession an original Con- necticut love letter, written in 1682, and another letter written about the same time, which letters show that many of her de- scendants should be poets and poetesses. For by these letters it appears that she was successfully courted in poetry, as well as in prose, and that the consent of her guardian, John Burchard, to her marriage, was also solicited by her pious and considerate lover, in the same way.
I will now proceed to speak of the two first born children of Norwich, who have been committed to my special care by my friend, the governor. For the reason I have before given, I shall devote my attention principally to the young lady, and shall leave the young gentleman to take care of himself after he has arrived at years of discretion, and when I shall have given him one of my blood relatives for a wife, and another for the first wife of his eld- est son.
This first born son of Norwich, Christopher Huntington, (who succeeded his father-in-law as one of the deacons of the Norwich church,) was the second son and third child of Christopher Hunt-
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ington, one of the 35 proprietors of Norwich; who came from Norwich in England to Saybrook, and married, in 1652, Ruth Rockwell, of Windsor. (I believe one of the brothers of Ruth Rockwell was the honored ancestor of the worthy son of Norwich, Charles W. Rockwell, esq., of New York, who sits at my left hand.) In 1681, while the first son of Norwich was yet in his minority, he married a half sister of my ancestor Richard Bush- nell, esq., and of my ancestress Elizabeth Adgate. She was Sarah Adgate, the second daughter of deacon Thomas Adgate the first, of Norwich, by his second wife, the widow Mary (Marvin) Bushnell.
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