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8. Three volumes of ancient Colonial (Conn.) Records, dis- covered by C. J. Hoadly, LL.D., State Librarian, and deposited in the State Library, at Hartford -containing transcripts of the Land Records,
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and of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of Windsor, Wethersfieldl, Fairfield, and some other towus, recorded by order of Court, and thus forming authenticated and reliable records.
9. Records of First Church of Windsor, commencing with cases of confessions and discipline, 1723 ; ending 25 Jan., 1746 7, in hand- writing of Rev. Jonathan Marsh ; then in writing of Rev. Wm. Russell, under date of 24 July, 1751, an account of the proceedings of his ordina- tion ; followed, Mch. 27, 1776, by a similar record, in his own handwrit- writing, of the ordination of Rev. David Rowland : then Baptisms, by Mr. Russell, 4 Aug., 1751, to May 2, 1773 ; continued from Apl .. 1776. to Mch. 1, 1788, by Rev. D. Rowland ; continued 31 Jan., 1790, to Sept. 20, 1801, by Rev. H. A. Rowland ; Deaths, 6 May, 1790, io 29 Mich., 1805 : Marriages, 1708 and Feb., 1777, to 17 May, 1800 ; Baptisms, 11 Apl., 1736, to 8 June, 1746.
Also Records of the First Ch of W., commeneed by Rev: D. S. Row- land - Marriage, 1771 to 1-46; Baptisms, 1790 to 1855 ; Deathe, 1790- 1857.
10. Pastoral Records of the North Society of Windsor, under the ministry of the Rev. Theodore Ilinsale, 1761 to 1794.
11. Pastor's Record (private), kept by Rev. Hezekiah Bissell, pas- tor of Wiutonbury (now Bloomfield) Church.
12. An ancient private Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Wintonbury Parish (now Bloomfield) furnished by Eliza Mills Randall, Seneca Falls, N. Y.
13. C. R. ( E. W. C. R. in first edition.) The Cook Record of Burials and Baptisms in East Windsor, so called from its having been for many years kept in the Cook family, on E. W. Hill. It is entitled " An exact acovnt of the Parfons Berned In the Bering Yard In Windsor, on the East Side of Connectient River."
After this title, the recorder " dropped into poetry." as follows :
"Death is a Terror vnto Kings The King of Terrors two. Both Old & Young Both Rich & poor When Sumonfl they muit go.
" When In this Book You Eys thay Lock their Names for to Behold Remember then how Sone 'twill be Or Ear Your" Is Inroled "
" The furst parfon bvrved In the Burving Place | Was Thomis Morton Who died Jvly the | Twentieth, 1708."
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Commencing with this death record, the oldest MS., or what re- mains of it (for the last leaf has evidently been lost) ends at 12 Nov., 1774. It has also been eaten by mice, so that a portion of the second leaf is gone, injuring records from Oet. 5, 1709, to March, 1711 ; and from Oet. 30, 1723, to June 11, 1724, which has been pieced out in this copy from the Cook copy. It seems to be. up to Nov. 12. 1774, in the handwriting of Deacon, Doctor, and Reverend Matthew Rockwell, and the latter part bears evident marks of his advancing age; but the earlier part (s: y, from 1706-17 ) puist have been copied by him from some other record, as he was born Jan. 30, 1707/S, only a few months before its first entry. The poetry with which it opens, however, sounds like his. In many places where he seemed not to know the full facts, he left a line or lines blank, as if intending to complete the record when the facts could be learned.
The Cook capy seems to be a copy of this Rockwell copy. from the beginning to the end of the year 1761, up to which time there are varia- tions, always such as have been made in copying, but never giving addi- tional faets ; while, after that date, the record seems to have been kept independently, varying in dates and facts. and frequently giving more. The deaths are contimed to 21 Oet., 1911, at which the " old manu- script " ends, and what follows (a few entries between Nov., 1811, and Jan. 28, 1801, and between Jan., 1846, and Apl. 9. 1869) is in a differ- ent hand on whiter paper, of which three leaves have been, at three different times, appended to the book.
Of Baptisms, the record commences with ". November 22, 1761, that was the fust Sabbath day [that we] met in our new meeting-house -- there was 4 Children Baptized that day," and extends to July 3, 1833, and then, on an inserted leaf, is continued a record of baptisms under the ministration of Rev. Chauncey G. Lee, 24 June, 1832, to June 8, 1845.
It is evident that this curious old record was always a private copy, possibly at some time in the hands of a sexton, but never a church record.
We have spoken of the Rockwell and the Cook copies. From these copies, one was made by Mr. D. Williams Patterson, the genealogist, who, in 1879, bought from Mrs. Collins (a descendant, through the Grants, from old Matthew Rockwell) the "oldest copy," and from the Cook family borrowed another. With the "oldest copy" he found one leaf of one still older, * probably the one from which the beginning of the Rockwell copy, or " oldest," was made. Mr. Patterson's careful and critical revisien, collation of all authorities, and annotations have rendered his version the most reliable for our use.
* These have been bound together, and presented by Mr. P. to the Library of the New Eng. Hist .- Gen. Society, at Boston.
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11. Private MS. of Rer. Timothy Edwards, first pastor of East Windsor. While preparing our first edition, we were favored with the loan from Mrs. L. Weld of Hartford. Conn., of a small bound volume filled in the minute but very legible handwriting of the Rev. Timo. Edwards, with memoranda of church and parish records, a copy of the original E. W. Church Covenant ; List of Church members in 1700; Baptisms from 1698 to July, 1703; notes on certain " Remarkable Providences " which had befallen this good man from his boyhood up, etc., etc., the most valuable portions of which will be found incorporated in this work.
15. Records of Births. Marriages, and Deaths kept by Rer. Shubael Bartlett, of Scantie Parish, E. W., 1805 to 1553.
16. Records of Town of East Windsor. Town Clerk's office.
17. " A History of Changes on the Main Street in South Windsor, Conn., between the Congregational Church and East Hartford line. Facts gathered, mostly in 1874; Reed & Barber's Map of the Street, as it was about 1890, being the starting point and following the homes and families down to 1874. By Mrs. Jane M. Stiles, South Windsor, Conn." This JAS. of 226 pages is a modest " labor of love " for her native town. by a lady whose domestic duties have certainly interfered with the de- velopment of an excellent genealogist.
Condensation, both as to form of expression and arrangement of matter, has been forced upon me by the extraordinary amount of material placed at my disposal ; and (especially in the genealogical portion of the work) this has taken the form of abbreviations, of which a list follows this preface.
OLD AND NEW STYLE.
At the time of the first settlement of New England the English people began the new year on the 25th of March, Annunciation (or Lady) Day. Any dates between January 1st and March 25th appearing on the original records of those times should have one year added. Later a new form of designating the year was adopted; the first time it was used by the General Court of Connecticut was " this 20th day of March, 1649-50"- 1630, by our present reckoning. This style prevailed about one hundred years, and the date of all the months of the year should be carried forward between 1600 and 1700, ton days: between 1700 and 1752, when the English Government changed their dates from old style to new style, there should be eleren days added. In 1752 the Parliament of Great Britain made September 3d the 14th.
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ABBREVIATIONS.
RULE FOR FINDING THE DAY OF THE WEEK ON WHICH A GIVEN DATE FALLS.
Add to the number of the year its fourth part, omitting fractions. If the date is in Old style, add 1 to the result. If in New style, add 5 for years from 1582 to 1699 inclusive, 4 for years from 1200 to 1729 inclusive, 3 for years from 1800 to 1899 inclu- sive, and 2 for years from 1900 to 2099 inclusive. Divide the sam thus obtained by 7, and note the remainder. If the remainder is 0, March 1 of the given year falls on Sun- day: if 1, on Monday; if 2, on Tuesday, and so on. The day of March 1 being known, That belonging to any other date in the same year is easily ascertained. N. B. - Nov. 1 always falls on the same day as March 1.) E. g .. A. D. 337; 937+94+1 = 422, rem .= 2 March 1 -- Tuesday: Constantine died May 22, 347, Sunday. A. D 1415; 1415+338 +1=1769, rem .- 5: March 1 == Friday. Battle of Agincourt. Oct. 25. 1115, Friday (same week day as Nov. 1). A. D. 1572; 1512-+333+1 =1967 rem. = 6; March 1 =Sat- urday. Massarre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, 1572, Sunday. A. D. 1776-1776+ 114+4 =9904, rem. = 5; March 1 = Friday; July 4, 1776 -Thursday. A. D. 1887: 18-7+ 471+3 == 2301, rem. = 2; March 1=Tuesday. A. D. 1900, 1900+475 +2=23377. rem =4, Nov. 1=Thursday. End of nineteenth century, Dec. 31, 1900. Monday. A more elaborate rule, giving at once the week day for any date in the year, may be found in the Harvard Register for June, 1881. - J. M. P. in Boston Transcript.
ABBREVIATIONS USED.
3, 2.
aged.
nåt. about.
ac. according to.
a. p. acting pastor; i. e., hired, but not settled by Council.
B. Bloomfield Old Graveyard.
b. born.
Blfd. Bloomfield.
bp.
baptized.
bu.
buried.
Col. Rec.
Colonial Records, see No. 8, list of MS. Authorities, p. 11.
Ct. Connectient.
0. R. the Cook Record!, see No. 13, list of MS. Authorities, p. 12. died.
d. dy.
day.
dau.
daughter.
E !! I. W.
Ellington.
East Windsor.
E. W. C. R. East Windsor Church Records.
E. W. O.
The Old E. W. Graveyard (E. W. Hill), South Windsor.
E. W. H.
East Windsor Hill, South Windsor.
E. W. St. the Graveyard on E W. Street, between Warehouse Point and E. W. Hill. . Town Rec. of East Windsor.
E. W. Rec.
gd-d grand-daughter.
grand-son.
grad. H.
graduated. Hartford.
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hu. I. inf.
home.
Ireland Street (now Melrose), E. W. Graveyard. infants.
J. G. B.
John G. Baird.
Jabez II. Hayden.
see No. 17, MS. Authorities, p. 14.
Ketch Mills (now Windsorville). E. W. Graveyard.
land
married.
mno.
month.
memb.
member of.
ment.
mentioned.
N. S. R.
Pastoral Rer. of " North,"4, 7 Soc. of W. See No 10. M.S. Authorities Old Church Rec., see p. 10, and Appendix A.
O. C. R. ord. p. i. 4 . p. o.
ordained.
pastor by installation, that is, settled by a " Council," but already or- dained to the ministry.
ordained pastor.
Poq.
Poqnonnoe parish (Windsor).
Poq. N.
Poquounoe ( Windsor) New Graveyard.
Poquonnoe ( Windsor) Old Graveyard.
Poq. O. poss. prob.
possibly.
probably.
rein. removed.
residence.
res. R. MS. the Rundall MS., see No. 12, Authorities, p. 12.
R. I. S. iiuin t'. speirs . s. son. Sc . Scauric parish, E. W. Graveyard.
sett.
settled.
South Windsor.
sine proli, without issue.
Rev. Shubael Bartlett's records. - Senutie parish, E. W., No. 15, Authori- ties, p. 14.
W. W. O.
Windsor.
Windsor Oldl Cemetery.
Wby. Wintonbury Parish, Windsor (now Bloomfield).
Wby. C. R.
Wintonbury Church Records.
W. Rec. Windsor Records.
Windsor Church Records.
W. C. R. wk. week. Wp. Wapping parish, East (now South) Windsor.
Wp. O. Wapping (So. Windsor' Old Graveyard.
Wp. N. Wapping (So, Windsor) New Graveyard.
y. yy.
y Har. young.
J. Il. 11. J. M. S. K. M. 1.1. In.
So. W. s. p. S. B.
HISTORY OF ANCIENT WINDSOR.
CHAPTER I.
FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER TO THE SET- TLEMENT OF WINDSOR 1614 . - 1025.
rTo the Dutch in.doubtedhs belongs the honor of the first discovery and occupation of the Connectiont Valley. in 1614, when Nieuw Amsterdam was but a feeble settlement of a few months' uncertain growth, Adriaen Block. Hendrik Corstiaensen, and Cornelius Jacobson Mey. all experienced captain- in the Dutch merchant service, commenced an exploration of the Great River of the Manhattans. At the very outset of the voyage. however, Black's vessel was borned. But, nothing Haunted, he speedily constructed. on the wild and rocky shores of Manhattan island, a small so bit of 10 tous, which be named the Onrust, or Restless.' In this vessel be explored the Be + River, which he named Halle Got. established the insider nature of Long Island, and. passing along the northern shore of the Sound, discovered fler Honsatonie River and the Norwalk Islands. Eastward of these, be vance to the month of a large stream flowing from the northwest, which he ascended as high as Al drg. 45 min. (about half way between the present towns of Hartford and Windsor). where he found an Indian village or fort, belonging to the Navaux. This fortified village. in the opinion of Hon. J. Hammond Trumbill, " was on the east side of the river, in what is now Sinth Wind- sor, between Podunk and Seantie rivers, on the ground called Nucashe (which seems to be the equivalent of the Dutch . Nowaus') by the Indians, who sold it to the Windsor plantation in 1986," (see Chapter on Indian Purchases.) and was probably palisades as a defense against the Po- quots. Block appears to have explored this river, which he named the "Versche" or " Fresh River." and which is now called by its Indian name, Connecticut," as far as the rapids at the head of navigation, viz.,
O'Callaghan's Hist. of New With Land, i. 18: Bruelhead's Hist. of State of New York, 2d edit., i. 56.
' In the Indian tongue Quarentacut, or Connettocock, meaning, as some say. " the long river", according to others, " the River of Piues, " from the extensive pine forests which onre clothed its bank. Block noticed, when he entered the river, that it had a strong
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Enfield Falls. at Warehouse Point. Beyond that point he was to have inade no further explorations : but returning to the Sound. coasted along to Cape Cod. where he met his friend. Captam Corstiaensen. Mey, meanwhile, had been exploring the Atlantic coast south of Manhattan Island.
The discoveries thus made opened to the adventurous merchants of Holland large and inviting channels of trade in beaver skins and furs. especially with the Indians of the north, which they were by no means slow to see and improve. The Dutch West India Company was formed in 1621. and as the settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam, under its fostering care, gradually increased in size and permanence, so their commercial relations expanded and brightened. Their traders traversed the trackless forests or paddled their light canoes along silent rivers, and visited the red man in his wigwam. The little fort at Manhattan was never free from stately Indian chiefs, whom the desire of barter and the fame of fair dealings had rempted thither: while annually, from the goodly harbor, went forth a gallant fleet of broad-bottomed Dutch vessels, richly laden with furry treasures, to glailden the hearts of the honest burghers of Amsterdam and Hoorn.
Yet, during all this time and for many years after, there was little of no attempt at colonization. The rich and beautiful comdry to which they had gained access was occupied by only a few strageling and seantily-garrisoned log forts, which served as centers of trade; and their government was merely the agency of a wealthy mercantile corporation at home, whose objects and regulations were unfavorable to agricultural or independent industrial pursuits. As yet no plans of comfortable settlement or visions of future empire had troubled the Dutchman's busy brain. The meadows of the Connecticut Valley were lovely in his eyes. not as the home and inheritance of his race, but for the 10,000 beaver- skins which were annually gathered from thence.' Meanwhile events were transpiring on another continent and in another nation, which were destined to wrest this territory from the Dutch, and to give it for a goodly heritage unto men of a different mould and nobler aims.
England at this time was overcast by the thick-gathering cloud of civil and religious persecution. Church and State were becoming more and more exacting in their demands; all rights of conscience and faith were abnegated, and every heart was filled with forebodings of the future. "Every corner of the nation," says Macaulay, " was subjected
downward current at a short distance above its mouth, so that his appellation of "Fresh " signifie i that the tide did not set back as far from the mouth of this stream as in rivers usually.
' Winthrop, i. 113.
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THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.
to a constant and minute inspection. Every little congregation of Sep- aratists was tracked out and broken up. Even the devotions of private families could not escape the vigilance of spies. And the tribunals afforded no protection to the subject against the civil and ecclesiastical tyranny of that period." It was then that America. long known to the English people for its valuable fur trade and fisheries, began to be re- garded as an asylum by those whose principles and persecutions had left them no alternative but exile. Hope whispered to their saddened hearts that, perhaps, in these savage western wilds. they might be permitted to enjoy those privileges which were denied them at home. The experiment was made. In 1620, the Rev. John Robinson's congregation, who for eleven years had found a home with the kind-hearted Hollanders, em- barked for America, and on the memorable 11th of December (Old Style ) landed upon the bleak and rock-bound coast of Plymouth. It is not our purpose to dwell upon the details of that scene which has become one of the grandest epochs of the world's history. Suffice it to say, ihat the experiment was a success. Starvation, cold, and all the novel dan- gers of a new settlement, failed to extinguish the life or check the growth of the Plymouth colony. On this portion of the Western Continent were now planted two races of Europeans with different natures and aims : the Dutchman., with his fondal institutions and a soul absorbed in pelf ; the Englishman, with his deep religious zeal, his love for popular liberty, and, it must be confessed, as great a love of trade as his Teutonic rival. The probability that, sooner or later, their claims must conflict, was warranted equally by their national antecedents and their diversities of character. Yet it was not imtil 1627 that there was any actual commu- nication between the two colonies.
Then the Dutch sent a pacific and coninercial emlassage to Plymouth. Their envoy, Captain De Rasiere, was courteously welcomed and honorably attended with the noise of trumpets. The meeting was pleasant to both parties. The Dutchman was the countryman of those who had befriended them in the day of their affliction. "Our children after us," said the Pilgrims, "shall never forget the good and courteous entreaty which we found in your country, and shall desire your pros- perity forever." He in turn, seeing the sterility of their soil, invited them, as old friends, to remove to the fertile and pleasant lands on the Connecticut-"and wished ns to make use of it."-Bradford, 311. But the Pilgrims, with a frankness which savored almost of discourtesy, questioned the right of the Dutch to the banks of the Hudson, and re- quested them to desist from trading at Narragansett, at the same time plainly suggesting the propriety of a treaty with England. Good feeling, however, prevailed in their intercourse. It could hardly be otherwise, with so many pleasant memories to bind them together. Yet, when De
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Rasiere returned to New Amsterdam, it must have been with an uneout- fortable approbation of future trouble with their English neighbors : for, soon after his return. the authorities sent home to the Directors in the Fatherland for a reinforcement of forty soldiers. The Dutchman's heart was kind and his voice was ever for peace. But the plain words and grasping attitude of the Plymouth colonists had sown seeds of di-sension which could not fail to disturb his tranquillity. Nor were these fears groundless. The success of the Plymouth Colony, as well as the continuance of religious perseention and intolerance in the mother country, gave a decided impetus to the progress of emigration to New England.
The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, granted in 1628, was confirmed in 1629. and the same year the first settlement under its provisions was made at Salem by Gov. Endicott and 500 ofhers. Charlestown was next settled hy a portion of the Salem people, and the same year the patent and government of Massas lansere was transformed to New England. This was but the beginning. The next year not less than 17 ships arrived. bringing some 1.500 or 1.700 immigrants. Dorchester, Watertown. Roxbury, Medford and Weymouth were rapidly settled by the new comers. And the social necessities of these colonists, as well as their restless petivity and nun tais, forbyde the supposition that they would long remain within the narrow limits when they became acquainted with the better lands and resources of the interior.
Foremost among these colemies of 1680, both as regards the char- acter of its members and the date of its arrival, was the one which settled at Dorchester and which afterwards removed to Windsor, Conn. It had been formed mostly from the western counties of England!' early in the spring of 1629. by the exertions of the Rev. John White of Dorchester. whose zeal and labors fairly entitle him to the appellation of the - great patron of New England emigration."
"(rest pains were taken," says the historian, -to construct this company of such materials as should compose a well-ordered settlement, containing all the elements of an independent community. Two de- voted ministers, Messes. Maverick' and Warham, were selected, not only with a view to the spiritual weltare of the plantation, but especially
' Trumbull says this "honorable company" was derived from the counties of Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire.
History of the Turn of Darel ster, Max., edited by a committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society.
3 JOHN MAVERY K Was the son of 1 Devon clergyman, a graduate of Exeter College, and a minister of the Established Church, residing about forty miles from Exeter, England1; he is first mentioned at the time of the assemblage in the New Hospital, Ply-
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THE DORCHESTER (MARS ) KOLONY.
that their efforts might bring the Indians to the knowledge of the Gospel. Two members of the government, chosen by the freemen or stockholders of the company in London, assistants of directors, Messrs. Rosseter and Ludlow, men of character and education, were joined to the association, that their counsel and judgment might aid in preserving order and founding the social structure upon the surest basis. Several gentlemen, past middle lite, with adult families and good estates, were added. Henry Wolcott, Thomas Ford, George Dyer, William Gaylord, William Rockwell, and William Phelps were of this class. But a large portion of active, well-trafi ! young men, either just married or without families. such as Israel Stoughton. Roger Clap, George Minot, George Hall, Rich- ard Collicott, Nathaniel Duncan, and many others of their age, were the persons upon whom the more severe trials of a new settlement were ex- perted to devolve. Three persons of some military experience - viz. : Captain John Mason, Captain Richard Sontheote, and Quartermaster John Smith - were selected as a suitable appendage, as forcible resistance From the Indians might render the skill and discipline which these gen- tlemen had acquired under D. Vere, in the campaign of the Palatinate ou the Continent, an element of safety essential to the enterprise."
"These godly people," says Roger Clap, one of the number,' " resolved
mouth, England, to organize a church. Cotton Mather includles bim in the " First Classis " of minister. viz : "hove who " were in the actual exercise of their ministry when they left England." He was " somewhat advanced of age," at that peried. He took the freeman's oith May 18, 1631. A curious account of his drying some gun- powder in a pan over the fire, in the Dorchester meeting-house, which was used as a magazine also, and the wonderful escape of Maverick in the consequent explosion of a " small barrel," are described in Winthrop's Journal, i. * >. Mr. Maverick expected to remove to Connecticut. but lied Feb. 3. 1636-7, aged " about sixty." "A godly man, a beloved pastor, a site and truthful guide." Samuel Maverick, an Episcopalian, at early settler of Nod Le's Island, and afterwards royal commissioner, was a son of Rev. John. For a full account of each. See Summer's flext. of East Boston. A. H. 4.
4 Rev. JouN WARHAM, like Mr. Maverick, was an ordained minister of the Church of England, in Exeter, and eminent as a preacher. Roger Clap, who, when a lad, lived about three miles from Exeter and often went to the city on a Lord's Day, where, as he "IF>, " were many famous preachers of the Word of God." adds: ' I took such a liking to the Rev. Mr. Wartam, that I did desire to live near him, so I removed into the city." Mr. Warham, says Res. Gowen C. Wilsom ( Hartford Co. Mem. Hext., 536), " was drubt- less descended from the same stock with William Warham, D. D. and LL D , Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who died in 1532. The Archbishop had a brother John, whose grandson also bore that name. A branch of this family settled in Dorset, where for several generations the name John Warbam is met with, until 1647, when one of that Dime sold an estate in that shire. There can be but little doubt that he belonged to thi- family; but the names of his parents, the year and place of his birth, where he was educated, with all else connected with his life previous to coming to this country, are now unknown. Ile was a young man, however, at that time, while Mr. Maverick was somewhat advanced in years." Mr. Warham (according to Muss. Hist. Soc. Proceed., xvii 848) was a graduate of Oxfordi.
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