The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Vol. II, Part 132

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company
Number of Pages: 1012

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" Sept. 10, 1640. Francis Stiles admitted a freeman." -- Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 62.

" Dee'r the 9th, 1641. The P'rticular Court."-Francis Stiles, plt., agt. Robt. Saltington. gent .. dft. in an action of the case to the damage of 70/. Jury find for plt. damages 51/ .; costs viis.

Robt. Saltington, gent., plt., agt. Francis Stiles, dft., in to damage of 80H. Jury find for deft. Costs xs. Francis Stiles, plt., against Rob. Saltingston, gent., dft., in an action of debte to the damage of 100/. Jury find for plt., 81 pound, twelve shillings damage according to the award, and the double costs of the Court. Robt. Saltingston, gent., plt., agt. Francis Stiles, deft., in second action of the case to damage of 500/. Robt. Saltingston, gent .. plt., agt. Francis Stiles, deft., in an action of the Case to the damage of 50%. The Jury is to be named for Thursday come fortnight .- Ibid, Vol. I, p. 70. " Particular Court of 14 Oct .. 1612. Francis Stiles on Jury."- Ibid, Vol. I. p. 76.

March 27, 1643. "It is ordered that Francis Stiles, for his forcible resistance of the officer of the Court upon the execution of his office, is fyned to pay the county fifty pd."- Tid, Vol. I. p. -.

Court of Election held the 13th of Aprill, 1643. "The Gov'r (John Haynes, Esq.), the Deputy (Ed. Hopkins, Esq.), Mr. Willis, Mr. Ludlow, Captain Mason, Mr. Webster, Mr. Whiting and Mr. Rochester are desiered to debate with Mr. Huit consarning Mr. Stiles his petition and other offensive carriadges, and if they recrave not satisfaction to returne their report to the next Generall Court. They may also take such other helpe as they shall see cause."- Ibid, Vol. I. p. 8G.

July the 6th, 1643 " It is ordered that Mr. Huit and Mr. Stiles shall be cauled to the next Generall Courte to answer for their oliscarridge in their petition formerly given into Courte."- Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 86.

May 24th, 1647. " In the action of Mris. Willis, pl. agt, Francis Stiles, dft. (Mr. Roceter appeared for Mr. Stiles) the Jury find for the pl. 310/. damages and costs of Court."- Ibid, Vol. I, p. 149.

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Stileses to whom the title of "Mr." was accorded, this identities him as then living in Windsor: or, at least, as still having a right to a seat in the meeting-houst there, which seat was prob. sold with the house which he sold in 1647 to Gilbert: but it cannot be hell as proof positive that Stiles was res, in W. in 1659-60. Mr. Hayden gives him no standing in W. after 1647 - See Appendix, Mr. Orcutt (Hist. Stratford, Coen Langgests that he removed to Stratford about 1600; in cor. roboration of which he cites the following from the Stratford Records: "Cale Nichols purchased of Mr. Stills [Stiles evidently, since there were none of the name of Still in town] one house lot, one acre and a quarter, bounded with Mr. Fayre- child on the south. Isaac Nichols on the west, my own lot that was Francis Nich- ols' on the north, and the street on the East."* No date is given to this record of purchase, but, being in the handwriting of Joseph Hawley, it must have been before 1666; and, from its relation to other records, was probably made about 1660. Mr. Stiles' purchase of this property is not recorded, as far as can be ascertained. Besides this we have the fact that Robert Clark who married Francis Stiles' wid. gave to het three sons by Stiles, about fifty acres of land, which there is no record of his having purchased when he had several children of his own; indicating that he had received it from his wife (Stiles' widow), and that Stiles had resided in Strat- ford for several years and was the owner of considerable property at Oronoke, and . a home lot.

Mr Francis Stiles in in Eng .. his wife prob. b ing the " Jutn Stiles, [aged ] 35 Years," who appears in the passenger list of the vessel which conveyed the Salton- stall party over. The exact date of Mr. Stiles' death is unknown. llis wid., in 1665, petitioned the General Court in regard to his est. ; afterwards in Rob't Clark of Stratford. Com ; made her will 5 June, 1672, and d. 1692. leaving her ppy. to her children by Stiles. Ch. (first four b. in Windsor):

1 Mary. b. not later than 1640: m. abt. 1660, Hope . of William Washburn of Stratford; then of 11 mp-grad 1. 1 . rem. to Derby. Com .. on its settlement : Was many years in business with his farber at Oyster Bay, 1. 1 ; Und 2 ch.

2 Ephraim. b. 3 Aug .. 1615. FyM 2.

3. Simultdent. ). Elizabeth (dan, of Thomas) Sherwood. 31 Dec .. 1661, le probably d. in Sila You, Conn. : Savage say- ( V & Gas. Diet.) br ore 16%, which is disputed by d'othron ( Ilist. 1 . Il' mlburgt, who says " he is named as Sam- nel of Woodbury, de Los; sometimes as . En- sign sang I stil"," " brother of Ephraim," Fir .: he was app. by Gen. Court, Ort .. 1650, to make a 1 st of persons and estates of Woodbury: also. same year was confirmed as Ens'gn of the W'

train-band: Det . 1;01. was app. excenter of John Sherwood's est .: Max. 105. app. Lient of train band in Woodbury: was a memb. (162 of first Ch. in W .. and his wife in 1992; was one of the signer to " Fundamental Article- " agreed njom at etthe. ment of Pomparozve: Pres Stiles says he had a son, bunt d. childless: is said to have adopted 2 ch. and gave most of his estate to Ebenezer Brownson. 1. Benjamin, b. (prob. : 1651. FMM. 3.

5. Thomas. d. 1683. probably in Apl : m Elizabeth Clarke fare, to Cothren; no issue; gave estate to Francis, son of his bro. Benjamin.

6. Hannah. in. iprob 1661) Sgt. Edward Hinman of Stratford; res. Main Sr., a few rods below Epi -. Ch . on west side of road: bad & ch.

Www. 2. Ephraim : [B] (Mr. Francis), b. 8 Aug., 1645; was a prominent citizen at Stratford, Conn .; deputy from that town to Gen'l Assem., 1686, '89. 92-3. 96, '99, 1:02, and to the Court of Election, 1695, 1607, 1704, 1708. In 1200 app. by Court one of two to lay out land for Rev. Mr. James; and also to Capt. Johnson for his military services in 1697, in 1204 app. one of a Com. of Safety for Fairfield Co : a member of First Church in 1620. Ile m. (1) Ruth (wid of Obadiah) Wheeler, OS July, 1669, (2) after 1680, Bathsheba (Jau, Heary) Tomlinson of Derby, Conn He d. 21 June, 1714, and she m. (2) -

1 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 145 6.

2. Elizabeth. b. I. Feb., IST: In. 26 June. 1507. Epbrain Curtiss of stratford: bad 10 ch.

5 Sarah. b 1 Nov , 1693: m. Thoma- Wells of

- Curtiss, and d. 1735. p. 14. (h .: Stratford. 31 Aug., 1710; had 9 ch.

4. Ph be. b. 25 Mich .. 1606: d. 20 May, 1765; m. David Judson of stratford, short . 1:13: bad 10 ch.

Fiv. B. Benjamin ' [5] (Mr. Francis), In prob, 161, in Windsor, Conn., res, at Woodbury, but d. at Stratford, 13 Apl .. 1;11; inventory. S40s; was. in 1670, mem- ber of First Church. He m. (D) Abigail - -; (2)) Elizabeth Rogers of Milford, Conn. Children (by Ist marriage):

1 Sarah, by. Apl., In 1, m The- Wheeler (arr to her father > will . F.M. 1 2. Francis, bp. Mch. Irs1 2; m Maly Johnson.

3. Ru h, bp May. 16 2 3. m. John Wheeler of

Wendtbury. 11 Nov .. 1:01.

4. Thomas, hp. No . 1685; prob. d. young.

5. Abigail. bp. 16 Apl .. 1688 9; m. sammal Munn of Woodmiry.

* The east end of Lot 32.

Hist Stratford, p. 1.

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FAM. 4. Francis . (Lieut. ) ( Benj. ,2 Mr. Francis1), settled in Southbury Society; was a very wealthy man for his day ; avowed (July, 1708) Half Way Covenant of church during Mr. Stoddard's pastorate; his house was for many years used as a barn by Dea. David J. Stiles, and when blown down by a storm in 1858, was about 150 yrs. old. He m. Mary Johnson of Stratford, 21 Sept., 1709, and d. in 1:48, Ch .:

1. Francis, b. 23 .Inly. 1210: d. same day

2. Sarah, b. 21 Oct., 1711; m. Deacon Benjamin Hickock, 2 Feb. 191:d Oct. 1173; xch. 3. Mahel, b. 9 May, 1714; m. Andrew Hinman. Jr., 24 Feb .. 1:34: 6 ch.

4. Ennice, b. 18 Ang .. 1717: m. David Curtiss. 5. Benjamin, b. 11 Feb., 1720: grad. Yale College, 1240; was a man of cultivated mind. large heart. and considerable wealth for that day; studied law and practiced it extensively, attaining a very respectable position at the bar: filled many pub- lie town and county offices: delegate to General Assembly. 1755. 1:56. 1760 65. 1769. 1770, 1771: State Auditor, etc .: was considered. during the Revolutionary struggle, by some of his more ar- dont neighbors, as being somewhat too conserva- tive; represented Southbury, in 1988, at the meet- ing in Hartford for the ratification of the Consti ation of the U. S .: his house, now occup, by his granddaughters, Ellen, Esther, and Alice Maria

Stiles, was the first " upright " house ( .. , with the wear as high as the from) erected in Litchfield county: it's bricks were burned in 185: the house completed in 1982; he m. his cousin Ruth clau. of David and Phobe Stiles) Judson, and d. 15 Mch., 1797, at Southbury, Conn ; his widow d. at Stratford, 21 June. ISI. e. 57: he had 10 ch., and by his sons Francis, Durid, Ephraim, Esq .. Ben .jemin. Abel, and Vathan, was the ancestor of the Southbury, Salisbury, and Woodbury Stileses. Mr. Ransom B. Stiles, furniture dealer, Bridgeport. J'onn .. is of this line, (viz .: Mr. Francis, Benja min.2 Lieut. Francis,3 Benjamin Abels Jonu thun," Ransom B.,2) b. at Southbury. Conn., July, 1536: m. Anna (dau. of Frederick) Stillman; has dan .. Emma B., b. in N. Y. city, 6 Sept., 1866. 6. David, b. S Apl., 1215; d. 31 Mch., 1727.

7. Mary. b. F Jan., 1728: m. Col. Benjamin Hin- man ; d. 7 May, 1783: had 1 ch.

STOCKING, Elizabeth (dlau. Samuel), bp. 16 Aug., 1793 .- E. I. C. R. STONE, John W., m. Mary Kimball, 28 Nov., 1816 .- S. B.

STOORS, Sophia, m. Josiah Washburn of Norwich, Mass., 19 Feb., 1797 .- W. C. R.

STOUGHTON. A family of remote antiquity in County Surrey, Eng. In the reign

of King Stephen (1135-54) God- win de Stocton res. at Stocton in that Co. In the Sth yr. of King Edward I, Henry de Stocton re- ceived the royal license to em park 160 acres of land there. In the early part of the 16th century a younger branch of the family became seated at St Johns. Co. Warwick, occupying a large and · FOR! ancient mansion, originally the Hospital of St. John the Baptist. The chler branch continued at Stoughton, County Surrey, at Stoughton Place, the mansion STOU being delightfully located in the centre of the manor. Ils site. now a plowed field, is still known as "Stoughton Garden." In the neighboring Church of Stoke, and at the east end of its northern aisle, is Stoughton Chapel, containing many ancient monu- ments of the family, with quaint inscriptions, etc. When, in 1692, the chief line of Stoughtons of Stoughton became extinct by the death of Sir Lawrence, see- ond Baronet of Stoughton, the succession was preserved by the younger branch at St. John's, Co. Warwick, until the death of Sir George Stoughton. The fortunes of the family appear to have been, at one time, identified with those of the Earl of Warwick, upon whose estates the Stoughton Manor was stamling, as late as 1876. The arms of the Stoughton Family are: " Field, azure, a cross engrailed ermine: crest, a robin redbreast, ppr." These arms are pictured in Drake's Hist. Boston, For interesting items as to origin, etc., of, see V. Eng. Gion Hist Rey- VOL. II .- 91

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ister, iii; also, Hist. Dorchester, Max. There is extant a large folding pedigree of this English family of Stoughton, from the lithograph press of J. II. Bufford, Bos- ton, Mass., and authenticated by the following endorsement: "The above-written Pedigree is extracted from the Records of the College of Arms, London, and exam- ined therewith, this third day of May, 1856, by me. GEORGE HARRISON, Windsor Ilerald." This Pedigree was procured and published, as far as we can ascertain, by Mr. William Stoughton, referred to on p. 223 as compiler of a MS. S. Gomal.

The first of the name in America were two brothers, Thomas and formal Stough- ton, who came to Dorchester, Mass., in the first voyage of the ship Mary and John, 1630. Judge Jons A. Srocuiros, in his work entitled Windsor Farmex (p. 17, natex is inclined to think that they were the sons of the Rev. JOHN STOUGHTON. D). D., curate of Aldermanbury parish,* London; and the fact that this reverend gen. tleman's widow, in 1640, published a volume of his sermons, dedicated to Robert, Earl of Warwick, would give some color to the supposition that he was of the War- wiek branch of Stoughtons, and that, considering dates, etc., he might have bron the father of the emigrant brothers. This, however, seems to me to be open to some doubt, since:

(1) We learn from tradition that the brothers, THOMAS and ISRAEL, were accompanied to New England by their father, THOMAS, Senior.

(2) In the English Pedigree, above referred to, we find a THow As (third son of Anthony of County Dorset) who married a Montpon of County Wilts, and who was about the right generation to be the father of our two emigrants, Thomas and Israel.

" Thomas the Elder," as he is designated on the Land Ree. of I., in a deed dated 11 July, 1645, makes over to " Thomas, my son," all his ppy. in W., except his "home Lott, well Court and Court before the house, and the orchard," evi- dently reserved for his own use. Afterward T. S. the elder sold to T. S. the younger his dwelling-house and outhouses, orchard and courts, formerly exempted, "provided the said Thomas, the younger, shall afford convenient maintenance to the said Thomas, his father, and [ J his mother-in- Law [ that is the former wid. Huntington] during the time of their lives, and in case Mr. Stoughton dyes first, then to all | j his mother-in-law, the third part of a hundred pounds, which the said partienlars were prized at, or to allow the said convenient mainte- nance with himself, During her Life, the Last being her Choyce provided she Live with the said Thomas, otherwise not." etc.

Research in the Parish Register of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury St., London, from 1630 to 1610, show that the Rev. Jons Stor CHTON wa- instituted curate of that parish, is Sept. 1639. the date of his signing the required articles of the Church of England. See also, Mr. Waters's summary of his win, in A. E. g. His. Com. R. ... XI. 306. The Smythe's Obituary, referred to in foot note of that arti- ele, is on of the (anden society"- publications.

in 1010 Mr. Stoughton's wadlow pub, the following works by him (lille & fak a from topics in Guildhall Pib. Leberry, London : 1. A Form of Wholesome Words : an Introduction to the Body of Divinity, in three Sermon- on 2 Timothy, i : 13, preached by John Stoughton. Doctor in Divinity, sometime Fellow of Imman- u ] College in Cambridge, late Preacher in Aldermanbary, etc. London. 1010. 2. A Learned Treatise in Thre Parts (1) The Definition of Divinity. (2) The Distribution of Divinity. 31 The Happiness of Man, a- it was scholas ically handled by John stoughton. D. D., in Immanuel Cofledge Chappell, in Cambridge, white he was Fellow there. And now published according to the copy left under his own hand, London, 1410. 3. The Right .& M's Il tto Ter Happiness; in Ten Sermons ou Ps is, ver. B. Preached by John Singhton, Doctor in Divinity, sometime Fellow of Emanuel College. Cambridge, late Preacher of Aldermanbury, London, London, 1010.

The logistes of he pt sme and Bari Is in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin. Aldermanbury, in the city of London, Renched 13 Charles Collins, M.A. vicar. 19th day of July, 1991, give : Reptinings, 1039 Stough- fon Marythe da chterof Doctor Stoughton, bap. April 24. 1039. Burials, 13. Dr Stoughton John Stongh- ton Doctor of Divmity. and Pastor of the church of Aldermanbury, buried May 9, 1459.

Thomas Stoughton, whom we are mehmed to claim as the father of the Emigrant brothers. Thomas and irae, and therefore, as the connecting link between the Eng and Am. Stoughton families, had another brother named John, who noy have been (and very prob, was this Rev. John Stoughton, D.D.

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We come, thus, to the consideration of The American Family of Stoughton. Our authorities for the following genealogies are (1) the Windsor Records, Trom which the 2-page genealogy was made up, which was published in our first edition of 1559, and which was, and is (up to the date of the present edition . the only pub- lished genealogy of Stoughtons, in America; (2) a MIS. volume of Stoughton gene alogy, compiled by the late WILLIAMS (Janus, Jond. Timo, Capt. Ilx. Es. These Thos., Sen'y SporenTON of Brockport, N. Y .; this manuscript bears in trinsic evidences of having been based upon the printed genealogy (above referred to) in the first edition of .Incient Windsor ; it was, however, much enlarged by Mr. Si's correspondence, and having passed into the hands of another branch of the family, has received various additions from various hands; this volume belongs to Mr. Joux P. STOUGHTON of Perkinsville, Vt., and contains the only copy of the English Pedigree (referred to, p. 722) which we have ever seen; (3) examinations of Probate Records, Land Records, etc., and especially the family papers and documents known as the Thomas Stoughton Papers and the John Stoughton Papers, by Miss Rrrn T. SPERRY of East Windsor Hill, and also her extensive correspondence among the Stoughton kith and kin. The arrangement of the Stoughton Genealogy has been by the author of this history.

The founders of this family in the United States were, as we have already seen, two brothers, ThoMis and ISRAEL., who came over in 1630 or 1633 with their father, TuoMas, the Elder.

Israel (whose history deserves more space in our volume than we can well spare for it) quickly became a man of mark in the Massachusetts Colony. Evidently he was a man of superior intelligence and large ppy. ; he rec'd a grant of land at Dorches- ler, Apl., 1634; was adm. freeman in Nov., 1633, and chosen ensign of the Dorches- ter Irain-band, then onder command of Capt. John Mason, afterwards of Windsor. In the division of town-lands, his share and that of Mr. Rossiter indicate that they were the largest adventurers in the Dorchester plantation; in Nov .. 1633, he was gr. permission by the town to creet a mill on the Neponset Falls, to ent timber near by with which to erect it, and also to erect a fish weir near it. At the first Gen. Court of the Mass. Bay colonies, May, 1634, he sat as Deputy from Dorches- ter, and at that time obtained from the court a confirmation of all these grants from D., upon condition of supporting a horse-bridge over the river, and of selling ale- wives at 5s, per 1,000; and at the mill which he then erected was ground the first corn ever ground by water in New England. At the same court he, with Mr. Henry Wolcott, were permitted to look out farms for themselves, probably without the limits of the D. plantation. In 1634 he was gr. 150 acres $ or 9 miles up the Neponset, and (same year) was appointed, with Mr. Ludlow, a committee of audit on Gov. Winthrop's accounts. In Jan., 1635, having offended the Gov. and Assist- ants by publishing a pamphlet denying some of the powers which they claimed, he was disqualified from holding office for three years, and the D prople petitioned the Gen. Ct., but without snecess, for a remission of this sentence. It is evident that in 1635-6 he was much engaged in the proposed emigration to Conn., with some of those who did go thither, on account of their dissatisfaction with the then ruling powers of the Mass. Colony. But the Court, perhaps in consideration of his pronounced opposition to the Antinomian heresy, became more friendly to him, and in 1636 he was again a member. At the election of May, 1637, when the Vane party was defeated, Stoughton was chosen an Assistant, and so great was his popularity that he was elected by the General Court, over two other candidates, to command (as captain) the Mass. troops in the Expedition against the Pequots. His command did not arrive in time to participate with the Conn. troops, under his old com- mander, Capt. Mason, in the attack upon Mystie Fort, but by its pursuit of the fly- ing for, nearly extinguished the Pequot tribes. His triumphal return was signal- ized by the Mass. Colony by the proclamation of a day of special thanksgiving, and

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his town-rates were remitted for one year. In 1639 he served with Gov. Endicott in running the Old Colony line, and assisted in the same year in preparing a code of laws for the colony. In 1641 he served as commissioner to administer the gov- ernment of New Hampshire; and being called, by his private affairs, to go to Eng., in 1643, became intimate with some of the Revolution, and determined to offer his services to the Revolutionary cause. Returning home for this purpose, he induced others to join in the undertaking, and was again in London in July. 1644, where he made his will, and served as Lieut Col. under Rainsboro until his death at Lincoln, Eng., in 1645.

Col. Stoughton was a Puritan of the most rigid school, and with his wife were among the first signers of the Covenant of the D Ch., 1636; perhaps occasionally officiated as an officer of the Church, for Letelford's Notes* mention him as assisting. in 1637, in administering a ch. censure at Dorchester. He was also a member of the Synod which tried Mrs. Ann Hutchinson in that year. He left a very large estate, comprising some 5,000 acres of land, besides other property, and by will left 4300 to Harvard College, then in its infancy. He may be considered as the founder of Dorchester, " a lawmaker for the people, a champion of liberty, an opposer of usurpation, the victim of Power, the idol of the people. a soblier in the wills of America and in the army of Cromwell, a patron of literature, and an ioveterate opponent of Popery."

lle left three sous, of whom only one lived to manhood, viz. ; WHIM Sroreuros, who was never married, but who was a most remarkable figure in the early history of Massachusetts, combining as he did the highest qualities of civilian, scholar, lawyer, and divine; attaining the highest distinction in all, being Lieut .- Governor, then Governor, also Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, who, dying July i, 1201, a. 70 yrs, gave generous gifts for the poor and for educa- tion to the towns and churches of D. and Milton, and, in addition to other generous gifts to Harvard College, established " Stoughton Hall " at that seat of learning.

C'ol. Israel Stoughton's will mentions three sons and two daughters, viz. : (1) Israel, who d. yg .; (2) John, b. about 1038, lost at sea, 161; ( William, the Governor of Massachusetts, alluded to above; (b) Hannah, who m. James Minot in IGS; (5) Ribera, b. Aug., 141; m. a Taylor of Boston, and was the mother of Lient. Gov. William Taylor.

Thomas, Sr. (Mr.), came from England to Dorchester, 1630 or 33, with his brother; emig. from D. to Windsor, prob, about 1640, where he ree'd grant of land from the town, which he dreded 17 July. 1645, to his s. Thomas, Ir mn (1)a Montpeson. whod. in Eng. (see reference to English Pedigree, p. 122, line 21; he m. (2) in Bor- chester, Margaret Barnet (widow of Simon) Huntington, whod. in 1993, on the passage over from Eng . and with whom Mr. Thomas Stoughton was a fellow passenger.t

Close examination (by L. H. Sporcuroy, in 1891), of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Cambridge Torn, Land, and Prob. Rec., gives no items relative to Thomas (the' nu-

* Note Book kept by Thomas Lechford. Es. lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27. 1638, to July 20, 1641; edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr .: " Israel Stoughton," pp. 103. 133. 323, 119. - Trung Am. Antiq. Soc., vii.

+ If this date is correct, and the tradition that the Huntingtons and Thomas Stoughton were follows passengers is true, then s. come not over an early as has been suppres \ Thomas Huntington of W. huys land there in 1656, "58, and 61. and sells in 1662; prob. a son of the wid, Huntington stunghton I. R. s.

In Land Rec., ii, Ser's of State's office, Hartford, Conn , is a letter ( copied by Mi- R. T Sperry), medressed by one Peter Baret, from Norwich. Eng . 20 Apl., 1650, to " Cozen Chris upher Huntington." con. morning family money affairs In this mention is made of the death " in Ang lad." of the writer's father; "f " my brother Huntington." of " my brother Storton." The money is divided between " yourselfe, Somon, Thomas, and Ans." the four children, as We believe, of Simon and Margaret Huntington. He also says " the parliament bath taken all the king's officers' place away from them all Bag over, that I have hereupon lost 20 pounds ayr by the- Art, that now I am removing myself towards London, & so canned by reason of the i wractions think of sending you any Merchandising commodity"."

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merons rec. relative to Israel) except that, in a " Map of the Meddows beyond the Neponset river and how yt is allotted out " (D). Town .lets) we find: "81. Ancient Stoughton 6 a. this runs vp between the highland & in' Rositor." Also, " 85 El: Pomery Ga., " and " M Stoughton 16 a." This map probably made not later than 1637 (Track, V. Eng. Gen. Hist. Reg., June, 1881) Boundaries of lots, in a few in- stances, are fixed by the boundary of a Thomas Stoughton's lot, but no deed is recorded by him. Savage gives date of Thomas's admission as freeman, as found in D. Church I've. In D Ist Ch. R.c. is but one reference to a Thomas, apparently referring to a baptism, tho' this not clear from the context. viz. :

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The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Vol. II, Part 132

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909 Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company Number of Pages: 1012

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company
Number of Pages: 1012