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Sturges 2. of F. 31. July 1692, & for a second husband Judge Peter Burr. His d. Abigail m. William Hill 3. of F. 7. Oct. 1691. David the father died in 1679.
RICHARD, the s. of David Osborn I., settled at Ridgefield, Conn. in 1713, & purchased of Richard Whiting, one twenty-ninth part of that town. He is said to have lived to the advanced age of 103 years .*
SERGT. SAMUEL s. of Capt. John Osborn I., m. Abigail d. of - Their children were Sam- uel & Hannah bapt. 2 Jan 17034; Abigail 27. April 1709; Anne 15. July 17II ; Sarah 29. Nov 1713. Samuel the father died in 1751.
SERGT. JOHN 2. s. of Capt. John Osborn I., m. Abigail d. of - Their children were Abigail bapt. 5. March 17034; John 7. Oct. 1705 ; Jonathan 21. Dec 1707 ; Mary 17. Feb 171112; John 6. Feb. 171415; Mary 17. Feb 171611 ; Mary again 20. Aug 1721 ; Howes 3. Feb. 172223; Thankful 2. May 1725 ; Elizabeth 28. May 1727 ; Mary & Deborah Silliman, daughters of Capt. Osborn's present wife, bapt. 2 Nov. 1729, showing that his second wife was the widow of Silliman ; their d. Martha was bapt. 13. Sept 1730. Capt. John, the father died in 1761.
SERGT. DAVID 2. s. of Capt. John Osborn I., m. - d. of - Their children were David bapt. 8. Feb. 17078; William 22. May 1709 ; Sarah June 1711 ; John 8. Nov. 1713 ; Eliazer (who settled at New Fairfield in 1739.) 29. Jan. 171516; Dorothy 3. Nov. 1717; Hannah 5. Feb 172021; Grace 10. Jan 17245 ; David 6. Aug 1727. Sergt. David Osborn died in 1732.
JOSEPH s. of Capt. John Osborn I. m. Hannah d. of Their children were Elizabeth bapt. 28. June 1719 ; Nathan b. Jan. 172021 ; Hannah bapt. 21. June 1724 ; Sarah bapt. 5. May 1726 ; Abigail, b. --; Olive bapt. 7. Sept. 1729 ; Peter bapt. 23. May 1731. Joseph the father died in 1731. F. & G. H. Par. Rec.
Eleazer Osborn & Hannah Bulkley d. of Peter Bulkley, were m. 29. June 1738. Their chil- dren were Eleanor b. II. April 1739 ; Sarah 27. May, 1741, David 3. Sept. 1743, Gershom 23. April 1746, Hannah 21. Nov. 1748, Grissel 14 March 1751, Ellen 18. Dec. 1754, Ebenezer -. Eleazer the father d. 20. May 1788. F. Book of Births & Marriages.
READ
WILLIAM REED, Reid, or Read, recorded in 1673 a large amount of land, & also land deeded him by Thomas Skidmore of F., near the old Uncoway mill-creek. He may have been said Skid- more's son-in-law. He also purchased of Richard Hubbell a dwelling house on the n. w. of the Uncoway creek, near the present stone crossing, or Gould's Bridge as it is now called. There is a record 2. Sept. 1693, in A. F. T. D., of land deeded by him to his daughters Sarah & Abigail, & to his "loving son John Read." As early as 2. Sept. 1673, he purchased of Cornelius Hull land adjoining his dwelling-house, called "the calve's pasture." He was a large land-holder in F. A. F. T. D.
JOHN I. s. of William Read I., was b. at F. 29. Jan. 16798ª. (F. T. Rec.) & m. Ruth d. of Lieut. John Talcott of Hartford, & sister of Governor Joseph Talcott. He thus became brother- in-law of Lieut. Gov. Nathan Gold of F., who. m. his wife's sister Hannah Talcott (Savage's Gen. Dic.) He first studied for the ministry & preached at Waterbury, Hartford & Stratford. His talents meanwhile inclined to the law, & after due preparation, he was admitted to the bar in 1708; & appointed attorney for the Queen in 1812. He soon after settled at Redding Ct. where he purchased a large tract of land fron the natives. & where his home was called the Read manor. He removed to Boston about 1722, & was soon recognized as the most eminent lawyer in New England ; became a member of the Governor's Council, & was Attorney General of Mass. several years. He died in 1749, leaving to his six children an ample fortune. His children were Ruth who m. 14. Sept. 1737, Rev. Nathaniel Hum, first pastor of the church in Redding, Ct. (F. Par. & T. Rec.) "John ; William a lawyer of Boston who died a bachelor in 1780, aged 70 years ;
* Much of the above information has been furnished by John Osborn Esqr. of Norwalk, Conn.
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Mary, who m. Capt. Charles Morris of Boston, who afterwards removed to Halifax Nova Scotia, where he became Chief Justice of the courts ; Abigail who m. Joseph Miller of Boston ; & Deborah who m. first a Mr. Willstead, & second Henry Paget of Smithfield R. I." C. B. Todd's Hist. Redding.
JOHN 2. S. of John Read I., inherited the Read manor of Redding. He was a wealthy & influential gentleman, whose name often appears in the Rec's of F., where he was Justice of the Peace in 1756 ; & was appointed on the 3. Nov. 1757 Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Horse in Conn. He first m. Mary d. of John Hawley of Stratford 2. Sept. 1723. Their children were Mary b. 2. Sept. 1724 ; John 16. Jan, 17256 ; William 31. Jan. 17301 ; Hezekiah 23. Feb. 17345. Mrs. Mary Read d. 14. Feb. 1748. Mr. Read next m. 19. Dec. 1750. Sarah d. of Samuel Bradley of Greenfield. Their children were Sarah b. 27. Nov. 1751 ; Hezekiah 23 Feb. 1753 ; Ruth 25. Sept. 1754 ; Deborah 5. April 1756. F. Rec. of Births. Mary Read m. John Harpin ; John m. Zoa Hillard ; William m. Sarah Hawley of Redding ; Hezekiah m. Anna Gorham ; Sarah first m. Major Jabez Hill of Weston (who d. in 1779) & second Theodore Munson ; Ruth m. Jeremiah Mead ; Deborah m. Thomas Benedict, a lawyer ; Mabel m. Levi Starr ; Esther m. Daniel s. of Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett ; Zalmon m. Hulda Bradley of Greenfield. C. Burr Todd's Hist. of Redding.
ROBINSON
SAMUEL ROBINSON I. settled at Barlow's Plain. Both he & his wife Comfort died before 1680. leaving s. Samuel the sole heir of his estate. His wife Comfort appears to have been a d. of John Cable sr., as in the F. T. Rec. Samuel Robinson is called a grand-son of John Cable Sr.
SAMUEL 2. s. of Samuel Robinson I. also settled at Barlow's Plain, & m. Abigail 1. of Danie, Lockwood of Bankside. Their d. Damaris was b. 13. April 1696. His will of 2. April 1698 gives w. Abigail & d. Damaris his estate, to be equally divided between them. It does not appear that he left a son, but in the G. H. Par. Rec. the following record is to be found :
JONATHAN ROBINSON m. Lucretia Thorp - April 1752. Their children were Samuel b. - May 1753 ; Seth II. Aug. 1754; Jonathan 2. Nov. 1760 ; Jonathan Robinson next m. Elizabeth Canfield 14. April 1763. Their children were Elizabeth b. 18. Nov. 1764 ; Jonathan 13. Sept. 1765 ; Lucretia 9. Oct. 1768. G. H. Par. Rec.
ROOTS
SAVAGE says, Richard Roots was at Salem Church in 1636. He was made a freeman of the Mass. Bay Colony 9. March 1637. & was probably the same who removed to Fairfield early, & d. before 1653. His wid. Margaret m. Michiel Try.
JOHN ROOTS, nephew of Richard Roots, was given land by his Uncle Michiel Try at F.
The name of Roots, says Cothren, appears early at Hartford & Farmington. Thomas Roots was in the land division at Hartford 1639. John a freeman 1663 of Farmington, d. in 1685. leav- ing children Joseph, Caleb, Mary, (w. of Isaac Bronson) & Stephen. A John Roots, probably s. of the above John, was at Woodbury in 1685 ; his w. Dorcas d. 15. May 1720, & he d. 25. May 1723, leaving children. Savage's Gen. Dic.
Much may be found of the Root Family in " Hoare's Wiltshire " in the Congressional Library of Washington. They were evidently a family of distinction.
ROWLAND
HENRY ROWLAND was at F. as early as 164950, in March of which year, he purchased John Grey's home-lot on the Frost Square. He became a dividend land holder in the town, and was for some years an "ordinary " or inn-keeper. He died in 1691. His will is dated 30. Oct. 1690, in which he mentions that he was " well stricken in years." To his wife Rebecca he gave the use
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of the S. E. end of his dwelling house, house-hold goods & all moveable estate &c .; to his s. Joseph he gave 5$, he having also received his full portion of his estate, & to s'd. Joseph's d. 20.S, & to his other three children Is. each ; to his ss. Jonathan, Israel & Henry he gave all his lands, & all things which he had already divided to them by deed of gift ; to his d. Elizabeth, the wife of Sergt. John Wheeler 20s., & to each of her children Is. ; to his d. Abigail, the wife of Thomas Jones, 20s. & to each of the children Is. ; to Rebecca w. of Ebenezer Smith 205., & to each of her children IS. ; to d. Mary w. of Daniel Frost 20s., & to each of her children Is. ; & 55. to his grandson Jona- than Smith, then living with him. He left his wife sole executrix of his will, & his loving friends Capt. John Burr, & Sergt. John Thompson over-seers of his estate. His s. Henry died the same year 1691.
JONATHAN I. s. of Henry Rowland I , m. Abigail d. of John Barlow 2. 28, Jan. 1698, & died in 169I.
JOSEPH I. s. of Henry Rowland I., settled, at Greenfield, & m. Sarah d. of Antony Wilson. His older children were not bapt. until of age. When the Greenfield parish was formed in 1726, he with his second wife Abigail, "covenanted & were bapt. the same year ; his d. Sarah cov. & bapt. 24, April 1726 ; Mary, Hannah & Deborah, all cov. & bapt. 26, June 1726 ; s. Joseph bapt. at the same time. G. H. Par. Rec.
JOSEPH 2. s. of Joseph Rowland I., settled at Greenfield, & m. Sarah d. of -. Their children were Sarah and Abigail bapt. 24. April 1726, at F .; Hannah bapt. in infancy ; Joseph bapt. II. Aug. 1746 ; x Jeremiah b. 12. Sept. 1748 ; Daniel b. April 1750 ; Jeremiah again b. 30. July 1758. G. H. Par. Rec.
ISRAEL I. s. of Henry Rowland I., inherited the family homestead on the Frost Square, it having been deeded him by his father in 1689. He m. - d. of Their children were Mary & Elizabeth, bapt. 10. March 16945; Bethiah 13. June 1697 ; Rebecca 5. April 1702 ; Deborah 3. Oct. 1703 ; Jude-anne 2. June 1706; John I. Oct. 1710. F. Par. Rec.
SAMUEL S. of - Rowland, m. - d. of Their children were Grace bapt. 19. June 1709 ; Samuel I. July 1711; David 21. Nov 1714 ; Andrew s. of Samuel & Abigail (prob. second wife) 22. May 1737 ; Grace again 8. Oct. 1738 ; Abigail 27. Feb. 17423 F. Par. Rec.
Savage does not seem to be able to reconcile the relation of the early Stratford Samuel, to the Fairfield branch of the family. He says "Samuel may have been father to Henry I. of F., but possibly his d. Elizabeth m. before 1640, James Rogers, to whose eldest s. Samuel, he gave a large estate."
The Rowlands of F. have always stood among the leading citizens of the town, holding offices of trust & influence. The late Henry Rowland Esqr. whose elegant mansion stands on Obadiah Gilbert's lot, s. w. of the old Burr homestead, is one of the most imposing in the town.
SANDFORD
EZEKIEL SANDFORD was an English Engineer, & had charge of the erection of the stockade fort at Saybrook, which guarded the mouth of the Connecticut River. [Charles Burr Todd's Hist. of Redding p. 215. ] He was probably from the Milford branch of this family in New England. He was in F. before 1660, where he m. Rebecca d. of Henry Whelpley 25. April 1665. Their children were Sarah b. 5, March 1666 ; Ezekiel 6, March 1668 ; Mary 3. April 1670 ; Rebecca 13. Dec 1672 ; Thomas 2. May 1675 ; Martha 29, June 1677 ; Elizabeth 6, Sept. 1679. Sarah m. Cornelius Hull 2. ; Mary m. Theophilus Hull I .; & Rebecca m. John Seely. T. Rec.
EZEKIEL s. of Ezekiel Sandford I, m. - d. of Their children were Joseph, Lemuel, Zeckariah & Ezekiel, all bapt. at F. 27, May 1705 ; Rebecca 23. Feb 17061; Ephraim 27, March 1709 ; Abigail 29, Aug. 1714 ; Elnathan I, Sept. 1717; Ruth 28, June 1719. F. Par. Rec.
THOMAS s. of Ezekiel Sandford I., m. d. of Their children were Eliza-
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beth, Hannah, & Eunice, all bapt. 26. Aug 1705 ; Thomas 4, Oct 1707 ; David 24. Feb 171112 ; Mary 2. May 1714 ; Sarah II. Nov 1716; Tabitha 25. Jan 17181 ; Tamar 16. Aug 1724. F. Par. Rec.
The Sandfords first lived at Pequonnock, where Ezekiel I., owned a considerable land, & was a large dividend holder of lands in the township. His descendants were among the first settlers of Redding, where the name is still found to this day. His sons Ezekiel & Thomas Sandford agreed to divide their long-lot, which stretched up into Redding in 1699, & upon which they & their heirs settled.
SEELEY
ROBERT SEELEY probably came with Winthrop's fleet, & was made a freeman of Mass. Colony 18. May 1631, with Jehu Burr, Thomas Ford & William Bateman. He settled at Watertown ; was surveyor in 1634 ; removed to Weathersfield in 1636, & the same yr, was appointed by the Gen. Ct. of Conn. to take an inventory of John Oldham's estate. On the I. of May 1637, he was appointed as first Leut. of Capt. John Mason's expedition against the Pequot Indians, on the Mystic & Pequot or Thames Rivers. He proved a valiant soldier, & was one of the first, if not the first to enter the Mystic, fort & to clear away the brushwood entrance, after Capt. Mason had leaped over it. He received a wound in the eye-brow during the encounter. On the 2. of June follow- ing, the Gen. Ct. gave him command of thirty men out of the Connecticut River plantations, "to sit down in the Pequot country & river, in place convenient, to maintain the right that God by con- quest has given them." For his services he was paid 20s a week, "the week to consist of six days ; " & 150 bushels of corn from the inhabitants of Weathersfield. In 1639 he joined the New Haven Colony, where his name appears among the first list of freemen of that year. He signed the fundamental agreement, at the gathering of the church 4. June of the same year. In Oct. he was admitted a member of the Gen. Ct. of New Haven with others, who had been " members of other approved churches." At the same time he was chosen marshal ; "his employment & charge, from time to time, was to warn courts, according to the direction of the magistrates, to secure & execute warrants ; to attend the court at all times, to be ready & diligent in his person, or by his deputy to execute the sentence of the court ; & in all other occasions to attend the service of the plantation in things appertaining to his office." He was given leave to return to England in 1646, but came back in a few years, & in 1654, he led the forces raised in New Haven to be placed under the command of the English officers Sedgwick & Leavitt against the New Nether- lands ; but fortunately no blood was shed, by the timely tidings of peace in Europe: [New Haven Col. Rec.]. In 1662 the Gen .. Ct. awarded him 15.£. out of the public treasury, & ordered that the house at the Say-Brook Fort, should be repaired for his use, while he took charge of the ammuni- tion of the fortress. In Oct. of the same year, he was chosen by the Gen. Ct. of Conn. commis- sioner for Huntington, L. I. In May 1663, the Gen. Ct., after considering a controversy between him & the inhabitants of Stratford, ordered that town to pay him 256. in some current pay, & he was to make over to the town his lands there, whether he purchased them of the Indians, or received a grant of them from the town. In the same year he was appointed the chief Military officer of Huntington, to exercise their trained soldiers. Savage says he was in New York after it's conquest & there died. His widow Mary administered upon his estate 19. Oct. 1668.
LIEUT NATHANIEL s. of Robert Seeley I., who was in New Haven in 1646, about 1649, m. Mary d. of Benjamin Turney ; [A. F. T. Deeds] ; removed to F., & was made a freeman in 1647. He again m. Elizabeth, widow of Nehemiah Olmstead (who was probably a d. of Jehue Burr I.) In 1673, he recorded a grant of land from the town of 8 acres. & by part purchase land adjoining his home-lot, called Seeley's Neck, bounded n. with a highway at ordinary high tide ; e. & s. with creek or part of it, & on all other sides with his own land. He also purchased " a sedge marsh of 15 acres, lying between Paul's Neck & Seeley's Neck;" bounded s w. with the meadow of Wiliiam Hill & the commons. "He was not allowed to go further than his present dam, between Paul's
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Neck & a little Island west of it; no farther southward than his dam from the little Island, that ran into the east end of Paul's Neck, or between the two abovesaid dams, & the edge of the upland bank, next his marsh on the top of the bank, bounded on the n. e. with the sedge marsh ; n w. with his own land, & the south bend of the highway, before his house & the land of Robert Turney."* In 1675, he was commissioned by the Gen. Ct. of Conn. Lieut. of F. county in Philip's War, & was killed on the 19. Dec. in the Great Swamp Fight, while gallantly leading his men over the gnarled log or tree, at the entrance of the Indian fort. He left 10. children, namely, Nathaniel, Robert, Benjamin, Joseph, John, Mary, Sarah, Phebe & Rebecca. Elizabeth his widow deeded land to her son Obediah Seeley, after the death of lier husband.
OBEDIAH SEELEY, probably s. of Lieut. Robert I. settled at Stamford & m. the widow of John Miller of that place, but died in 1657, leaving widow & sons, Obediah, Cornelius & Jonas. Savage's. Gen. Dic.
SERGT. NATHANIEL 2., s. of Lieut. Nathaniel Seeley I., settled at F. & m. Hannah d. of John Odell I. Their children were Nathaniel b. 24. May 1678; James 19. April 1681 ; & probably others. He was deeded by his father the seventh part of his interest in his Perpetual Common. He sold in 1687 his interest in the nine score acres of land, given his father by the Indians at the junction of the Saugtauck & Aspetuck rivers, to his brothers Joseph & John. He was a large land holder in F. He died 1688. His widow m. Isaac Stirling.
ROBERT SEELEY S. of Nathaniel I., m. Sarah d. of -- & had sons Joseph & John & d. Sarah. He died early.
BENJAMIN s. of Nathaniel Seeley I., purchased in 1678, his father's mansion-house of his brother Nathaniel, as administrator on the estate of their deceased father. He m. a d. of John Sturges I., & sold to his father-in-law, John Sturges, one half of the family mansion, in which Joseph Turney lived, (who had m. his sister). No record of his children is found.
LIEUT. JOSEPH s. of Lieut. Nathaniel Seeley I., m. Sarah d. of -, & settled at Pequonnock. Their children were Ephraim b. 9. Sept. 1684 ; Samuel 12. April 1686. Both he & his wife were members of the church at Pequonnock in 1695. F. T. & Pequonnock C. Rec.
JOHN s. of Nathaniel Seeley I., settled at F., & m. Rebecca d. of Ezekiel Sandford I. He next m. Sarah, d. of George Squire. His children were Sarah bapt. 28. Oct. 1694 ; John the father died soon after, & his son Nehemiah was baptized by his mother Sarah, 12. July 1696 ; & sons Robert & Nathaniel, & d. Sarah 30. Aug. 1696. F. T. Rec.
SILLIMAN
DANIEL SILLIVANT, SILLEMAN or Sillemant, was in Fairfield 1658. The name is derived from a silly-man, not silly or witless, as the word is used in modern times, but innocent, free of guile,-a good man. About 1690 the name came to be spelled Silliman. Whether the above Daniel was related to Daniel Sillivant or Selevant of New Haven, who married before 1652 Abigail only d. of James Cole + of Hartford, is the Daniel S., who m. 17. Oct. 1654 Eliza Lamberton, d. of Capt. George Lamberton, (master of the famous Phantom ship, or the ship in the Air, lost in 1646), Savage does not seem to be able to reconcile. He states that in the New Haven records one William Trowbridge 9. March 1667 was married at Milford to Elizabeth widow of Daniel Sillivant & d. of George Lamberton. "But before this m. & after the death of Sillivant, his, Lamberton's widow Elizabeth, had, Oct. 1655, conveyed to John Cole of Hartford, the house & lands given to her husband & his former wife Abigail, by James Cole her father in his will," yet he goes on to state, " that the said Daniel died in Virginia in 1655, leaving a will, probated in June of the same
* This valuable record gives the full clue to the situation of Paul's Neck & Seeley's Neck.
+ James Cole m. the widow of - Edwards in England, who was the mother of William Edwards of Hartford. Richard the son of this William Edwards, m. Mary d. of Lieut Col. John Talcott of Hartford by his first wife Helena Wakeman, d. of Rev. John Wakeman of New Haven .- Goodwin.
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year, naming widow ; but there have been doubts, however indistinct, if the name were not the same with the (Daniel Silliman) man's in the former article." Turning to the 48 p. of Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, I find that he spells this name Sullavane & not Sillevant as Savage has it ; but it is plain that Daniel Sullavane & Daniel Sillevant were one & the same, who married James Cole's d : Abigail. The probability is that this Daniel Sillivant was closely related to the Daniel of F. Tradition relates that the first Daniel of F. was from Holland. Savage goes on to say, " & the derivation is quite distinct from the city of Lucca in Italy, in the early days of the Prot- estant reformation throughout Geneva, where had settled the father of one Daniel. This Daniel was chosen in 1575, into the Council of 200 for that Republic." It has been suggested by persons familiar with the nomenclature & pronunciation of family names, that this Sillivant may have been of Irish extraction. Close investigation upon this suggestion may lead to a clearer solution of facts.
DANIEL SILLIVANT I. of F. entered into a marriage contract in July 1661 with Peacable, the widow of John Eggleston * of F. He purchased of Joseph Middlebrook sr., as administrator on the estate of John Eggleston, ten acres of land left for the use of Eggleston's son, bounded n. & w. with a highway, s. e. with a run of water lying on the other side of the mill-creek, under the hill (Uncoway creek) near the place where Samuel Morehouse's old mill stood. This lot was s. w. of the present Black Rock bridge. He was afterwards granted 2} acres " at the wading place," over the creed, bounded west by a sedge marsh, the town reserving the right to use the stones to build a bridge over said creek. By his m. with Peacable Eggleston, it is said he had sons Daniel, Thomas & Robert. His second wife was Hannara, Henichy or Hannah widow of " Hendrick " or " Henry Hendrickson." He was a man of influence, & was one of the land dividend holders in the town. He died intestate in 1690. The inventory of his estate, valued at 3026. 148 6d., was made 13, of Jan 169091. His property was divided between his widow "Hannara " & his three sons.
DANIEL 2. s. of Daniel Silliman I., m. Abigail d. of -- who was not bapt. until 30, Dec. 1694. Their children were Daniel, John, Abigail, Mary, & Peacable, all bapt. 12. May 1695 ; & Jemima 11. April 1697. F. Par. Rec. Daniel the father died in 1697.
THOMAS Silliman died a bachelor in 1712 ; & his estate was divided between his brother Robert & the children of Daniel 2.
CAPT. JOHN I., s. of Daniel Silliman 2. m. Annah d. of Their children were Sarah bapt. 23. March 171718 ; Anne I. Nov. 1719 ; Abigail 5. Nov. 1721 ; Mary 23. Feb. 17234 DANIEL 3. s. of Daniel Silliman 2. m. Thankful d. of & died in 1717. He does not appear to have had any children.
ROBERT I., s. of Daniel Silliman I. m. Sarah d. of Cornelius Hull I. . Their children were Sarah bapt. 16. Sept. 1694 ; Nathaniel 27. Sept. 1696 ; Anne 12. March 1698º ; Martha 24. Aug: 1701 ; Robert 19. March 17034 ; Rebecca 8. April 1705 ; Ebenezer 21. Sept. 1707. Robert the father died in 1748.
Robert 2. s. of Robert Silliman I. m. 20. Oct 1715, Ruth d. of Samuel Tredwell of Pequon- nock. Their children were Robert, b. 26. Sept. 1716 ; Ruth bapt. 24. Aug 1718 ; Daniel b. 31. Dec 1722 ; Sarah b. 17. Feb 17289 ; John b. 9. April 1731. Ruth wife of Robert Silliman died 15. March 1756 ; & he m. 2d wife Mary Morehouse 14. Dec. 1756. Their children were Ruth b. 19. Aug 1760, & perhaps others.
EBENEZER S. of Robert Silliman I. m. 8. Oct. 1728, Abigail d. of Gold Selleck of Stamford. Their children were Gold Selleck, b, 7, May 1732, & bapt. 14. May following ; Ebenezer b. 21. June 1734 & bapt. 7. July of same year ; Amelia b, 30. Oct. 1736 & bapt. 31. Oct. next day ; Hezekiah b, II. March 1738/9, & bapt. 18. March following ; Jonathan b. 31. Aug. & bapt. 5. Sept. I742 ; Abigail b. 28. Oct. 1745, & bapt. 10. Nov. same year ; Deodate b. 13, Sept. 1749 & bapt 31. Dec. An illustration of early baptisms.
* John Eggleston died in 1659, leaving one son John, who died not many years after his father. 0
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Gen. GOLD SELLECK, s. of Ebenezer Silliman I. m. 21. Jan 1754 Martha d. of Rev. John & Martha Gold Selleck Davenport. Their children were William, b. 22. July 1756 ; Priscilla b. 22 June 1772 & d. 23. Nov. 1773. Mrs. Martha Silliman d. I. Aug. 1773. Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman m. 2d., 24. May 1775 at Stonington, Mary wid. of Rev. Joseph Noyes of New Haven, & d. of Rev. Joseph Fish of Stonington, & great grand daughter of John Alden & Priscilla Mullens. Their children were Gold Selleck, b. 26. Oct. 1777, & Benjamin b. 8. Aug. 1779 a well-known law- yer of New York. Gen Silliman d. 21. July 1790. His son Gold Selleck d. in Brooklyn L. I. 1868. Benjamin became the distinguished professor of Yale College, who d. in 1864 at a ripe old age & crowned with many honors. He left a son Benjamin, who also became a professor of distinction at Yale. William Silliman, s of Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman was a Major in the Revolution.
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