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Should this narrative fall into the hands of any of those gentlemen officers, who af- forded me assistance, in those hours of horror & distress, they have my sincere thanks for it.
Fairfield SS. On the 2 day of August 1779 personally appeared Eunice Burr, wife of Thaddeus Burr Esqr & made oatlı to the above & foregoing narrative. Before me. Sam' Squier Just. Peace.
The testimony of Ann Nichols of lawful age & wife to Hez. Nichols of Fairfield is as follows, viz .-
That when the troops under the command of General Tryon came into Fairfield I was peaceably at home. & thereupon one of the soldiers came to me & with strong hand robbed mne of the buckles out of my shoes, & in the course of the night I was often treated with extravagant, insulting, & abusive language & threatning at my own house. I told them my husband was from home, but it availed nothing, & in the course of the night, the soldiers appeared to have full liberty, & many came in parties at different hours, & destroyed almost everything of furniture, & in the morning burnt down the house & barn. whereupon I saw General Tryon who appeared to be exceeding angry at something, I know not what, & I heard him tell a person that he would not spare one house more than another. One Thomas Chapman formerly of Stratford a tory was called a Captain.
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& appeared to be a principal hand in burning. I escaped from the conflagration of the town in the morning & concealed myself in a wet ditch & miry swamp. The soldiers generally appeared to be in a great panic thro' the night, & exceeding afraid that the rebels as they called us would be upon the (m) in the morning early.
ANN NICHOLS.
Fairfield County ss Fairfield July 21st 1779.
Personally appeared the above named Mrs. Ann Nichols & made oath to the truth of the same.
Before me Andrew Rowland Jus. Ps.
The testimony of Lucretia Readfield wife to John Readfield of Fairfield of lawful age is as follows, viz.
That in the evening succeeding the 7th of inst. July the enemy under command of Gen1 Tryon came to my house & there found me with one child peaceably at home: three officers enquired of me for my husband. I told them he was from home & could not say whether under arms or not, whereupon they said one of their men had just before been taken prisoner near this house, & order'd the house to be fired, which was accordingly done, & I extinguish'd it. Whereupon night came on & thro' the whole night the soldiers went where they pleased and did as they pleased, without any restraint from their officers so far as I could observe, & they came to my house & abused me with abusive & insulting language, carriage & behaviour : They destroyed the furniture in the house, & attempted, with threats & promises, to prevail upon me to yield to their unchaste & unlawful desires. I obstinately denied them my body: three men then & there appeared intent to compass their wicked design, seized me & dragged me to the bed & attempted violence, but thanks to God there appeared that instant to come two persons who rescued me from their violence, one of whom told me he had been a prisoner in this town, & that he had received great civility from the inhabitants, & that he had an opinion of their being a worthy kind people, & those two persons protected me thro' the remainder of the night. My house was fir'd four times that night & next morning, & every time I extinguish'd it with great danger, & saved it & also a shop. Our mother Mrs. Readfield is an aged woman & wido. She lived in the house & was in peace at home. She was much insulted & abused, her cloaths were pulled indecently & her buckles stripped out of her shoes, her pockets violently seized & rifled, & the house in general rifled & plundered. And further this deponent saith not.
SS. Fairfield July 21st 1779.
LUCRETIA READFIELD.
Personally appear'd Lucretia Readfield the above deponent, & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition.
Before me Andrew Rowland Jus. Ps.
The testimony of Ruana Roberson of lawful age, & wife of John Roberson of Fair- field is as follows, viz.
When the enemy on the evening of the 7th inst. first came into the westerly end of this town, I soon left my house & went to a neighbour's, which I heard was guarded, & there I found the general & a great number of officers, & one Mrs. Beardsley who be- longed to the house was there, & pregnant, & appeared to be in travel. All the officers appeared disposed to treat her, & her assistance with decency, & in the course of the night, I often heard the officers & the general say, there should not be left a house or barn standing in the town by, or in the morning: there was but few soldiers in the house
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& they employed in waiting on tables, & they spared that dwelling house on account of Mrs. Beardsley, who was supposed to be in labour. They said the Commissioners made offers of peace & the Americans refused to accept them, & that their orders was to burn all, & I understood the orders was from England: they said they would burn the church for that it was not the Church of England nor had it been since the war, for the pro- fessors did not comply with the articles of the Church of England. The Hessians ap- peared active in plundering & burning, & seemed not to understand English. I was at sundry houses where they came & plundered & they gave to understand they pursued orders. And further saith not.
RUANA J her
ROBERSON. mark
Fairfield July 22d 1779.
Personally appeared Ruana Roberson & made oath to the truth of the above. Before me Andrew Rowland Jus. Ps.
The testimony of Isabella Trubee wife of Ansel Trubee of Fairfield is as follows, viz. That when the enemy on the night of the 7th inst. came to the westerly end of the town they appeared to be generally Hessians, & I concealed myself with two children in the cellar under the dwelling house of uncle David Beers, & there continued untill the enemy set fire to the house. Mr. Beers aforesd was at home with his wife & daughter & some grandchildren in peace & about his lawful business, they seized him & made him prisoner. my aunt, his wife, told them he was unarm'd & had not shot a gun she supposed within thirty years, & thereupon they set fire to the house & burnt it down, & also his shop & all therein. About this time my father Mr. Josh Beers came a few rods out of his house where he had been all day, in peace with my mother, & he was captivated by the Hessians & remains in captivity, & his house & barn was burnt & property destroyed. Mr. David Beers has since returned & says he was released at their embarkation.
her ISABELLA | TRUBEE. mark
SS. Fairfield July 23d 1779.
Personally appeared Isabella Trubee abovesd & made oath to the above. Before me Andrew Rowland Jus. Ps.
Rec. State Conn., Vol. Il. pp. 546-553.
No. I11
The committee appointed by the General Assembly in October 1779 to appraise the losses of each individual who had suffered by the conflagration & depredations of the enemy in Fairfield on the 7th & 8th of July made the following returns, Dated at Fairfield April 27th 1780.
DAMAGE SUSTAINED IN THE TOWN OF FAIRFIELD.
Account of the losses sustained in the town of Fairfield by the British, valued as in the year 1774.
At Greens Farms-The meeting house & bell. £600; Rev. Mr. Ripley's house & barn,
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£300, also clothing, provisions, furniture, &c., £114:2:6; Nathan Godfrey's house, barn, clothing, furniture, & provisions, £362: 18; Grummond Morehouse's house, barn, provisions, &c., £80 : 4: 5; Doct. Ebenezer Jessup's house, barn, corn house, furniture, provisions, &c., £421 : 2:6; Simion Couch's house, barn, provisions, furniture, &c., f224: 12; Widow Eunice Morehouse's house, barn, clothing, furniture, &c., £103:6; Ebenezer Morehouse's house, barn & provisions, &c., £122:7:2; George Batterson's house, furniture, &c., £53: 11; John Davis' house, furniture, provisions, clothing, &c., £58: 16; Abraham Andrews' house, barn, store, clothing, furniture, &c., £468:10:5; Widow Sarah Andrews' house, barn, clothing, pro- visions, &c., £156: 14; Jessup Wakeman's house, barn, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c., £194:18; Gideon Morehouse's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c., £73:14; John Morehouse's barn, &c., £253: 19; Moss Kent's house, clothing, provisions, & furni- ture, &c., £316: 2.
At The Old Society of Fairfield-Steplien Thorp's house, barn, store-house, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £746: 17; Aaron Jennings' store-house, clothing, provisions, furni- ture &c., £91 : 19; Eliphalet Thorp's house, barn, storehouse, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c., £639; Increase Bradley's house, storehouse, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c., £150; Jonathan Darrow's house, barn, clothing, & provisions, &c., £306:9; Samuel Sturges' house, shop, provisions, furniture, &c., £280: 3: 3; James Bulkley, clothing, provisions, & furni- ture, £18:4; Moss Bulkley's house, £40; David Beers' house, shop, clothing, provisions & furniture, £196:3; Joseph Beers' house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £132:12; Reuben Beers' house, shop, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c., £530:6; Nathaniel Pierson's house, clothing &c., f90; Samuel Beers' house, clothing, provision, furniture &c., £141 :19:7; Solomon Sturges' house, barn, store, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £270; David Bar- low's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £387: 12:6; Jabez Thorp's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £181 : 13; Samuel Burr's house, barn, shop, furni- ture, provisions &c., £761 : 7: 5; Hezekiah Sturges' house, two barns, a shop, clothing, pro- visions, furniture &c., £819: 1 : 5; The heirs of Benjamin Osborn, a house, clothing, pro- visions, furniture &c., £186: 13: 6; Daniel Graham's barn, provisions, furniture, clothing &c., £20; The heirs of Joseph Sturges, a house, two barns, store, clothing, provisions, furniture &c., £400; The heirs of Peter Bulkley, a house, barn, clothing, provisions, furni- ture &c., £118 : 17 ; Ansel Trubee's house, furniture, clothing & provisions, £III: 6; Jonathan Sturges' house, barn, store-house, clothing, provisions, & furniture, £759:2:6; William Lovejoy, house of Doct. Forgue, £160; The widow & heirs of Seth Osborn, two houses, a store, provisions, clothing & furniture, £553:7: 6; Seth Sturges' house, barn, furniture, provisions & clothing, £453; Samuel Smedley's two houses, barn, shop, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c., £795; Stephen Jennings' house, barn, provisions, furniture & clothing, £279, David Jennings' house, shop, provisions, furniture & clothing, £310: 10; Widow Elizabeth Sturges' house, clothing, provisions, & furniture, fioo; The heirs of An- drew Jennings' house, clothing, furniture, & provisions, £255: 17: 6; John Smedley's two houses, clothing, provisions, &c., £792:18; The widow & heirs of Gershom Burr, a house, furniture, clothing, provisions, &c., £556: 9:6, Ebenezer Wakeman's house, furniture, provisions, & clothing, £141 : 17: II; The Episcopal Society in Fairfield, a house & barn, £195; The heirs of Col. David Burr, house, barn, &c., clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £427 : II : 6., Andrew Rowland's house, barn, store, clothing, furniture, & provisions, £475; Hezekiah Nichol's house, barn, shop, furniture, provisions & clothing, £524:6; Joseph Squire's shop, clothing, provisions & furniture, £424: 4:7; Samuel Rowland's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £522: 2:2; Widow Cutler's house, £30; Wakeman Burr's house, shop, furniture, clothing, & provisions, £456: 12: II ; William Dimon's house, shop, barn, clothing, furniture & provisions, £754: 18: 11 ; Thomas Hill's house, barn, corn-house,
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clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £330; Doct. John Allens' house, two barns, store, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £830; Jonathan Lewis' house, four barns, store, corn- house, three out-houses, clothing, furniture, provisions, &c. £973: 13:6; Thaddeus Burr's house, barn, store, out-houses, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £1,590: 19:8; Widow Ann Dimon's house, barn, & two out-houses, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c., £386: 7:9; David Allen's two houses, barn, shop, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £551 : 18:2; Samuel Penfield's house, barn, shop, out-house, stable, provisions, furniture, clothing, &c £1,120:10; Jonathan Maltbie's house damaged, f1:10, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £47:7; Doct. Nathaniel Lathrop, a house occupied by William Elliott, £180; Rev. Mr. Elliott's clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £365: 1: 2; Capt. Job Bartram's house, shop, two barns, store, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £1.210: 3:8; Thomas Hanford Wake- man's house, barn, furniture, clothing, provisions, &c. £197:8; Doct. Francis Forgue, a barn & appendages, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £454; Widow Abigail Hubbell's house, provisions, furniture, clothing, &c. £214:16:6; Maj. Elijah Abel's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture, & c. £691 : 2: 10; Stephen Turney's house damaged, two barns, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c. £94: 5: 10; The heirs of Ebenezer Burr, a house damaged fio; Abel Gold, a barn, clothing, provisions & furniture, £124; John Parsott's house, provisions, clothes, furniture, &c. £136:6:6; Eleazer Osborn, Jr's house, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £211 : 9: 4; The widow of Col. Gold, house, provisions, furniture. clothing, &c. £282: 15; Edward Budington, (property of Samuel Squire,) house, £8o, cloth- ing, provisions, &c. the property of said Budington, £57:8: 10; John Wasson, a house, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £220; Capt. Ebenezer Bartram's house, £200; Samuel Squire, Jr., clothing, provisions, &c. £80 : 18: 6; Abraham Parrot, clothing, provisions, &c. £4: II; Daniel Osborn's house, clothing, furniture & provisions, £246: 15:6; George Allen's house, barn, shop, clothing, provisions & furniture, £316:9; Thomas Staples' house, barn, clothing, provisions & furniture, £294:2:2; Moses Jennings' house, barn, shop, clothing. provisions, &c. £697:13:6; Isaac Jennings' house, barn, shop, provisions, furniture, cloth- ing, &c. £409: 7: 10; Peter Burr's house, barn, store, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £377:0:9; Anthony Anabel, a house & shop, f60; Widow Rebecca Jennings' house, £80, barn, £15, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £47: 17; Peter Hendricks' house, clothing, furniture, provisions, &c. £392; Andrew Wakeman's house, clothing, &c. £252: 18; Seth Smith's house, clothing, &c. £56:7; The Widow Smith's house, provisions, furniture, &c. £41 : 0:6; Joseph Smith's clothing, provisions, -; Widow Hannah Taylor's house, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £45:4; Widow Mary Penfield's house, barn, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. £135; John Turney's two houses, barn, clothing, furniture, pro- visions, &c. f509: 10; Capt. Samuel Squire's house, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c. £518:6:4; Jeremiah Jennings' house, provisions, clothing, furniture, &c. £220:8; The gaol & gaoler's houses, £500, clothing, provisions, furniture, &c. -: The County house, £1,000; Two school houses, £115; The meeting-house, £1,200; The Episcopal church, £500 ; Nathan Thompson Nichol's house, £80, shop, fio, clothing, &c. £5 : 10.
Total-97 dwelling houses, 67 barns, 48 stores, 2 school houses, I county house, 2 meeting houses & I Episcopal church. Damage was done to other individuals not men- tioned aforesaid, to the amount of £1,855: 3: 2; by the destruction of personal property, a large share of which was owned by widows & other females .*
In May, 1787, Fairfield & the adjoining towns which had suffered from the attacks of the British, petitioned the General Assembly for the third time for a just remuneration of their losses. A final reply to these petitions was made in the following manner :
* State Records Conn., 1780. Hinman's War of Revolution, pp. 616-018.
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Lands Given The Sufferers For Losses Sustained During The War.
Upon a memorial in 1791 of the inhabitants of the towns of Fairfield & Norwalk, in Fairfield County, the great losses occasioned by the devastations of the British during the war were shown to the General Assembly; on which they prayed for remuneration from the State. A committee was appointed by the Legislature, in May, 1791, to ascer- tain from documents in the public offices, the losses, not only of the memorialists, but of others who had been sufferers under similar circumstances, that had been estimated in conformity to previous acts of the Assembly, such as had been occasioned by incursions of the enemy during the war. The Assembly, therefore, in May, 1792, by a resolution released & quit-claimed, to the sufferers, named on the State record, or to their legal repre- sentatives, if deceased, & to their heirs & assigns forever, 500,000 acres of land, owned by Connecticut, situated west of Pennsylvania, bounded north on Lake Erie, beginning at the west line of said lands, & extending eastward to a line running northerly & southerly parallel to the east line of said tract of land owned by this State, & extending the whole width of said lands, & easterly so far as to comprise said quantity of 500,000 acres (exclu- sive of former grants to sufferers, if any) to be divided among said sufferers & their legal representatives, in proportion to the several sums annexed to their names on record (which land is located in Huron County, in the State of Ohio).
The following sums were allowed to the sufferers in the several towns hereafter named, viz. :- Sufferers in Greenwich, £12,291 : 14: 01/4; sufferers in Norwalk, £26,066: 0:1; sufferers in Fairfield, £23,893 : 12: 8.
Additional losses sustained by several inhabitants of Fairfield, in the enemy's expe- dition to Danbury, viz .:- £1,436: 10: II; in Danbury £8,303 : 17: 101/4; in New Haven & East Haven £16,912 : 16: 6; in New London, £42,062 : 13: 7; in Ridgefield, £1,730: 1 : 10.
The sums advanced to Ridgefield by grants of the Assembly were deducted, & the net balances allowed.
To sufferers in Groton, £7,719: 12 : 2.
Whole amount of losses allowed to the sufferers by the grant of said lands, being £251,606:8:81/2 .*
* State Records Conn., 1791. Hinman's War of Revolution, p. 627.
GENEALOGICAL
GENEALOGICAL
ALLEN.
Gideon Allen I was at Swanzy in 1669, removed to Boston during Philip's war & afterwards to Milford. At Swanzy he had a son Jolin by his wife Sarah, who died be- fore his father. He left a widow & five children, Gideon; Sarah, & George twins 18 years old; Hannah 7, & Abigail 4 years of age. Savage makes a great mistake when he says that his second wife was Ann d. of Nathaniel Burr of Fairfield. See Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.
The Fairfield Town Records state that Dr. Gideon Allen In. Anna d. of Nathaniel Burr 2d, b. Jan. 1696. This m. occurring three years after the death of Gideon I of Milford, shows that Gideon 2. m. Anna Burr. The children of Gideon Allen 2, & Anna Burr were Sarah b. I. April 1697; Anna 6. Jan. 1700; Gideon 7. Jan. 1702; Abigail 6. June 1705; Mary 6. Aug. 1708; John 5 Dec. 1710.
Sarah m. Thomas Couch of Greens Farms, 7. Dec. 1721 ; Mary m. Peter Penfield 28. May 1730.
John Allen became a distinguished physician at Fairfield & m. Abigail Jessup 17. Jan. 1751; Their children were: Gideon b. 19. Oct. 1751; Abigail 13. March 1753; Martha I. April, 1755; Anna 19. Jan. 1757; John 14. Aug. 1759; James 14. July, 1762; Samuel 3. Aug. 1765; Sarah 25. Dec. 1768.
ANDREWS.
John Andrews I. b. in Essex, England, was a s. of Francis Andrews I. of Hartford & later of Fairfield, did not marry Sarah d. of Simon Couch of Fairfield as stated in Vol. I. p. 350; but according to the town records of Middletown, Conn., he m. Bethiah Kirby b. Feb. 14. 1658 d. of John Kirby of Middletown. John Kirby, the father was b. in 1623 & d. in 1677. In the distribution of the estate of John Kirby by his widow Eliza- beth, John Andrews of Fairfield was deeded, "in right of his wife's interest in her father's estate," her portion of his estate.
John Andrews 2. afterwards deeded, "by virtue of my father's right in my grand- father Kirby's estate certain lands within the town of Middletown, to my brother-in-law Richard Osborn of Eastchester, near Stamford, Conn."-Fairfield Town Rec. John An- drews 2. son of John I. m. Sarah d. of Simon Couch about 1678.
John Andrews 3. s. of John 2. m. Abigail - Fairfield, with his son John 27. June, 1708 .- Vol. I. p. 150.
- & was bapt. at Christ's Church,
John Andrews 4. son of John 3. married Sarah d. of Simon Couch Oct. 28. 1730 Their children were: Sarah b. Aug. 6. 1731; John March 17. 1734; Abraham Aug. 23. 1735; Abigail Dec. 13. 1736; Ellenor Aug. 4. 1738; Samuel Feb. 23. 1740; Isabel Sept. 20. 1742; Simon Oct. 28. 1744 .- Reg. of Births, Marriages & Deaths of the Town of Fairfield 1692 to 1855. Sarah Andrews m. Ist Jonathan Nash & 2d Lieut. Nathan Godfrey of Green's Farms. Ellenor m. Dr. Edward Jessup a physician of high repute, & a brave & distinguished surgeon in the War of the Revolution. Abigail m. Daniel Sherwood; Isabel
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m. Thomas Nash .- Fairfield Town Records. From John Andrews 5. & Lydia Gorham descended Judge Ebenezer Andrews of Chicago as follows: "Ebenezer Andrews, s. of John & Lydia Andrews m. Rachel Hyde of Greens Farms, who was a daughter of Arete Jessup & Joseph Hyde, & grand-daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Jessup & Eleanor Andrews. Judge Ebenezer Andrews was b. in Greens Farms, Conn., in 1795; graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1817, afterward became a teacher in Louisville, Ky .; studied law in Connecticut ; moved to Elyria, Ohio, where he lived a short time; m. Rachel Hyde in 1825; moved to Milan, Ohio, where he practiced law for some years; was made judge in Sandusky, Erie Co., Ohio, afterwards removed to Chicago where he d. in 1864."
Contributed by Miss Eleanor Andrews d. of Judge Ebenezer Andrews of Milan, Ohio.
CHAPMAN.
The Rev. Daniel Chapman born 14th of March, 1690, was a son of Deacon Nathaniel Chapman of Saybrook, one of the pioneers of that settlement; & a grandson of Robert Chapman, who tradition represents to have arrived at Boston, Mass., from Hull in York- shire, England, in 1635. He was a graduate of Yale College in 1707. Before settling at Green's Farms he married Grissel Lovell or Lovewell of Cape Breton. After settling at Green's Farms he married for second wife Grissel d. of Albert Dennie born 28. Feb. 1696, daughter of Albert Dennie & Elizabeth d. of Rev. Samuel Wakeman .- Fairfield Parish Records. He had seven children. The Rev. Daniel Chapman resigned his parish from ill-health, & died soon after Nov. 28th 1741. Mrs. Grissel Chapman, ye relic of ye Rev. Daniel Chapman departed this life 10 January, 1754 .- Greens Farms Parish Records.
Dennie Chapman, son of Mr. Daniel Chapman, married Desire Lovel, Oct 4th 1750. Their children were
Elizabeth born Aug 12th 1751. .
Mary born May 2nd 1753. Lovel born Jan'y 14th 1755. Dennie born Aug 28th 1757.
Capt. Phineas Chapman, son of Mr. Daniel Chapman, & Sarah Ketchum, daughter of Nathaniel Ketchum were married Sept. 22nd 1742.
Their children were
Daniel born Aug. 19th 1743.
Joseph born Aug. 29th 1745 Albert born Dec. 13th 1748.
James born April 8th 1750.
Molly born June 10th 1752. Grissel born April 16th 1755. John born Sept. 14th 1757.
Lieut. James Chapman s. of Lieut. Phineas Chapman & Abigail Sherwood were married March 4th 1779.
Their children were Abigail born April 25th 1782. James born March 28th 1784. May born June 25th 1786.
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Grissel born May 20th 1788. Moses born Nov. 30th 1790. Sarah born Nov. 12th 1792. Lucy born April Ist 1795. Samuel Sherwood Chapman born Oct 15th 1797. Jeremiah Sherwood Chapman born Oct 8th 1780 (First born child).
Greens Farms Parish Record.
Major Albert Chapman, another s. of Phineas Chapman, was one of the most active officers in the Revolution. He was promoted major from the 7th Regiment March 5, 1778. He was taken prisoner by the British in his own house, while making an effort to escape with his family from them; & so severe was the treatment he received that ill health, compelled him to resign from the army Jan. 1, 1781, & return to his home in Green's Farms, where he died in 1782, leaving a family of children, of which the author finds no mention. Before his death he was made a member of the "Order of Cincinnati."
CHAUNCY.
The Rev. Charles Chauncy b. 3rd Sept. 1668, was the eldest son of Rev. Israel Chauncy of Stratford, & his wife Mary d. of Isaac Nichols of same place. He was a grandson of Rev. Charles Chauncy, president of Cambridge College, & great grandson of George Chauncy of Yardly, Herts Co., England, about thirty-three miles from London. (Savage's Gen. Dic.) He m. 29th June, 1692, Sarah d. of John Burr. She died 15. Feb. 1698. He m. 16. March, 1699, second wife Sarah, d. of the third Henry Woolcot of Windsor, Conn. She died Jan. 1704. (Savage's Gen. Dic.) His third wife was Eliza- beth
In his will dated 24, Dec., 1714, he mentions wife Elizabethi & five children. Israel, John, Robert, Ichabod Woolcot, & d. Abiah. To his s. Israel he gave all his estate, "at Lambeth near ye city of Bristol in Great Britain." To his other sons & to his d. Abiah he left valuable land in New England and silver spoons & tankard. The Rev. Samuel Cook became guardian for his children during their minority. (Fairfield Probate Records.)
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