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Charles (7), born Dec. 13, 1802, married Fidelia Starr, daughter of Edward Starr, and second, Anna, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, and settled in New Haven, Conn. His children by his first wife were: Julia (8), died in infancy ; Cornelius Starr (8), and Fidelia Starr (8). Cornelius Starr (8), has been, since 1859, a member of the well known book printing house of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, of New Haven. He married, Dec. I, 1852, Eliza Kimberley, daughter of William Kimberley and Ruth Ann Nichols, grand-daughter of Eli and Sarah (Lyon) Nich- ols, of Redding. Eliza Kimberley died Jan. 8th, 1899. Their only child, Mary Louise (9), was born July 19, 1856, and was married, May 4, 1880, to the Rev. Edwin Stevens Lines, for twenty-five years Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, New Haven, Conn., and now Bishop of the Diocese of Newark, N. J. Their children were: Edwin Morehouse (10), Henry Starr (10), Margaret Kimberley (10), who died in in- fancy, and Harold Stevens (10) .*
It is probable that the Jonathan Morehouse who was admitted to the church in Redding from Fairfield, July 5, 1741, was identical with the Jonathan, Jr., son of Jonathan, Sr., the son of Thomas, Jr., the son of
*From Ancestry and Descendants of Gershom Morehouse, Jr., by Nelson D. Adams, 732 7th St. N. E., Washington, D. C., and others. Members of the family are invited to communicate with Mr. Adams, who is compiling a genealogy of the Morehouse family.
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Thomas (I). His children were: Joanna and Mary, bapt. Apr. 13, 1738; Hannah, bapt. June 3d, 1739; Elijah, bapt. Mch. II, 1742; Phebe, bapt. May 27th, 1744; Ruth, bapt. June 14, 1747.
PERRY.
Ebenezer Perry removed to Redding, probably from Stratford, in 1735, in which year he was admitted church-member. His children were: John, baptized May 10th, 1741; Ebenezer, June 12th, 1743; probably others.
Daniel Perry, son of Joseph Perry and Deborah Burr, of Fairfield, removed to Redding about 1770, and settled in the south-western part of the town. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Peter Sturgis, of Fair- field, and second, Sarah Wilson. His children, all by the second wife, were: Grissel, born February 10th, 1745-6; Daniel, born April 15th, 1747; John, born December 30th, 1748; Deborah, born October 8th, 1750; George, born November 26th, 1752; Isaac, born November 3d, 1754; Thomas, born February 21st, 1757. Of the sons, two at least, Daniel and John, settled in Redding. Daniel married, February 19th, 1772, Elizabeth Gorham, of Greenfield. His children were: Timothy, baptized January 10th, 1773; Isaac, baptized August 23d, 1778; perhaps others.
PLATT.
Richard Platt, first of the name in America, supposed to be the one bapt. Sept. 28, 1603, in Parish of Boringdon, near Hertford, England, came to America, 1638, and settled in New Haven. The next year, 1639, he, with sixty-five others, founded the town of Milford, Conn., where he was deacon and a prominent citizen. His wife, Mary, died in Milford, January, 1676. His children were: Mary, John, Isaac, and Sarah (all probably born in England and bapt. in Milford), Epinetus, Hannah, Josiah, and Joseph. Richard Platt died 1684, and left an estate of about £600.
His third child, Isaac, settled in Huntington, L. I., and married there, Elizabeth Wood. He was ancestor of Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York. This Isaac had a son Jonas, who had a son Obadiah, who married Mary Smith, Aug. 10, 1722,* and had eight children, one of whom, Jonas Platt, born Oct. 9, 1727, settled in Redding, Conn., having, with his wife, been admitted to church-membership there, Feb. 5, 1749. He married, Oct. 17, 1747, Elizabeth, daughter of Ephraim Sanford, of Redding. Their children were (as recorded in Redding) : John, bapt. Feb. 5th,
*Perhaps identical with the Obadiah Platt who appears in Redding as early as 1737, and had two children baptized there, viz. Mary, bapt. Feb. 20, 1737, and Elizabeth, bapt. May 15th, 1739.
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1752; Daniel, bapt. Aug. IIth, 1754, and Eunice, bapt. May 30, 1756. Jonas Platt, in middle life, removed to New York State. His son John returned to Connecticut and settled in the town of Washington; married Elizabeth Parmalee, July 7, 1775, and had, among others, Daniel Gould Platt, born July 25, 1797. He married Almyra Hitchcock, Jan. 3, 1817, and had, among others, Orville Hitchock, born July 19, 1827, a Senator of the United States. Senator Platt married Ann Bull, of Towanda, Pa., May 15, 1850, and had children: James Perry, now Judge of the United States District Court of the District of Connecticut, and Daniel Gould, who died in boyhood .*
(Condensed from the Platt genealogy.)
Timothy Platt was admitted a church-member May 10th, 1741, on recommendation of Rev. Mr. Chapman. But one child is found-Abi- gail, baptized April 8th, 1736; married Nathaniel Hill, May 28th, 1754. He was probably father of the Timothy Platt who married the sister of John R. Hill, and settled in Lonetown, on the farm now owned by Henry Adams. Timothy Platt died December 5th, 1769, aged sixty-two years. The children of Obadiah Platt were: Mary, baptized February 20th, 1737; Elizabeth, May 15th, 1739.
Hezekiah Platt appears in Redding as early as April 4th, 1762, when his son Justus was baptized. His other children recorded were: Heze- kiah, January 16th, 1764; William, May, 18th, 1766; Griswold, December Ist, 1767; Robert, September Ist, 177I.
READ.
Mr. John Read, perhaps the earliest settler of Redding, was one of the most eminent men of his day. He was born in Connecticut in 1680, graduated from Harvard College in 1697, studied for the ministry, and preached for some time at Waterbury, Hartford, and Stratford. He af- terward studied law, and was admitted an attorney at the bar in 1708, and in 1712 was appointed Queen's attorney for the colony. In 1714 he bought of the Indians a large tract of land in Lonetown and settled there. He continued to reside in Redding until 1722, when he removed to Bos- ton, and soon became known as the most eminent lawyer in the colonies. He was Attorney-General of Massachusetts for several years, and also a member of the Governor and Council. He died in February, 1749, leaving a large estate. His wife was Ruth Talcott, daughter of Lieuten- ant-Colonel John Talcott, of Hartford, and sister of Governor Joseph Talcott. They had six children: Ruth, born (probably) in Hartford in 1700; died in Redding, August 8th, 1766. She was the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Hunn, first pastor of the church in Redding. They were mar- ried September 14th, 1737. John, born in Hartford in 1701; lived in
*For a sketch of Senator Platt, see Chapter xix.
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Redding at the "Lonetown Manor," and was a leading man in his day in the colony; was much in public life, both civil and military, and was noted for his public spirit, patriotism, and piety. He married twice. His first wife was Mary -, a Milford lady. His second wife was Sarah Bradley, of Greenfield Hill. His children were: William, who married Sarah Hawley, of Redding; Zalmon, who married Hulda Brad- ley, of Greenfield; Hezekiah, who married Anna Gorham; John, who married Zoa Hillard; Mary, wife of John Harpin; Sarah, wife of Jabez Hill, and afterward of Theodore Monson ; Ruth, wife of Jeremiah Mead; Deborah, wife of Thomas Benedict, a lawyer; Mabel, wife of Levi Starr; and Esther, wife of Daniel C. Bartlett, son of Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett. One of his children, a lad of four years, fell into a burning coal-pit in 1739, and was so badly burned that he survived but a few hours. His father wrote a letter to his father in Boston, informing him of the mel- ancholy event, and his father sent back a letter in reply. Both of the letters are yet preserved, after a period of one hundred and sixty years, and are both remarkable for the piety and Christian resignation mani- fested in them. William, born in Connecticut about 1710, was a lawyer in Boston, and afterward a judge in several of the courts there. He lived a bachelor, and died in 1780, aged seventy years. Mary, born (probably) in Reading, Conn., April 14th, 1716; married Captain Charles Morris, of Boston, afterward of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was for many years chief-justice of the courts. They had nine sons and two daughters. Abigail married Joseph Miller, of Boston. Deborah married a Mr. Will- stead, and afterward Henry Paget, of Smithfield, Rhode Island.
To the above sketch by Mr. George Read, of Boston, I will add that Colonel John Read, son of the Mr. John Read mentioned, appears as one of the original members of the first society in 1729, coming from Ridge- field, and was the Colonel John Read so often referred to in the town records. His "manour" comprised nearly all of what is now Lonetown, and his manor-house stood on the exact site of Henry A. Dimon's present residence. He had a fenced park, in which he kept deer, nearly opposite the present residence of Mr. John Read.
The late Mr. George Read, of Redding Centre, had a very interesting collection of old papers belonging to the colonel, such as wills, deeds, account-books, etc. In one of them directions are given his men about feeding the deer, letting the cattle into the long meadow, etc. Another is Mr. Read's commission as colonel, and is of sufficient interest to war- rant its insertion here. It is as follows:
THOMAS FITCH, EsQ., Governor and Commander in chief of his Majes- ty's Colony of Connecticut in New England,
TO JOHN READ ESQ., GREETING.
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Whereas you are appointed by the General Assembly of said Colony to be Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Horse in said Colony. Repos- ing special trust and confidence in your Loyalty, courage, and good con- duct, I do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Colonel of said Regiment. You are therefore to take the said Regiment into your Care and charge as their Colonel, and carefully and diligently to dis- charge that Care and Trust in Ordering and Exercising of them, both Officers and Soldiers in Arms according to the Rules and Discipline of War, keeping them in good Order and Government, and commanding them to obey you as their Colonel for his Majesty's service, and they are commanded to obey you accordingly, and you are to conduct and lead forth the said Regiment, or such part of them as you shall from time to time receive orders for from me, or from the Governor of this Colony for the time being, to Encounter, Repel, Pursue, and destroy by force of Arms, and by all fitting ways and means, all his Majesty's Enemies who shall at any time hereafter in a Hostile manner attempt or enter- prise the Invasion, Detriment, or Annoyance of this Colony. And you are to observe and obey such Orders and Instructions as from time to time you from Me, or other your Superior Officers, pursuant to the trust hereby Reposed in you and the laws of this Colony. Given under my hand and the seal of this Colony, in New Haven, the 3d Day of Novem- ber, in the 31st year of the Reign of our Soverign Lord George the Sec- ond, King of Great Britain &c. Annoque Dom's, 1757.
THOS. FITCH.
By His Honor's Command,
GEORGE WYLLYS, Secty.
Of the children of John Read, 2d, given above, we will trace to present times the descendants of but one, Zalmon, the second son, who settled in Redding, and was one of the leading spirits of the Revolution there. According to the church records he was bapt. July 23, 1738, and was therefore, on the opening of the historic struggle, about thirty-seven years of age. He married in 1754 (family record), Huldah Bradley, of Greenfield Hill, Conn. Their children were, according to the family bible: I, Zalmon, born Apr. 28th, 1759; 2, Huldah, born in 1761, mar- ried Laban Smith, had children, and died in Redding aged 25 years; 3, Samuel, born in 1763; 4, Eli, born in April, 1765; 5, Aaron, born June 8, 1767. Zalmon Read was a captain in the Revolution. (See chap- ter VII.) He died and is buried in the Read burying ground, Redding.
Of the children named above, Zalmon, the eldest son, married, first, Huldah Gray of Redding, and second, Hannah Bassett of Birmingham, Conn. His children by the first wife were: Aaron, born Apr. 23, 1781 ; Harry, born Nov. II, 1787; Betsey, born Feb. 24, 1792; Clarissa, born
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Apr. 8, 1795; Samuel, born June 9, 1797; Caroline, born Oct. 12, 1802, and by the second wife: Frederick, Mary, and Benjamin. (Family Rec- ord.) He lived and died in Redding in the old homestead later occupied by his daughter Clarissa and his son Benjamin. He died Oct. 3d, 1846, aged 88 years. His wife Huldah died June 27, 1810, aged 49 years, 7 months.
Huldah, second child of Zalmon the Ist, married Laban Smith, and died aged twenty-three years, leaving children.
Samuel, third child of Zalmon Ist, married Rebecca Lockwood, and settled in Rahway, N. J., where he died at the age of 63 years, leaving children.
Eli, fourth child, married Mabel Lyon; lived in Redding, where he died aged 78 years.
Aaron, the fifth child, settled in Bedford, N. Y., where he became a prominent man, serving for years as magistrate. He married, Dec. 21, 1790, Sally Fleming, of Bedford. Their children were: I, Frederick F., born Feb. 23, 1792, died Oct. 7th, 1794; 2, a son born Aug. 27, 1795, died in infancy ; 3, Aaron F., born Sept. 5, 1804, and settled in Cincinnati, O., where he died October, 1847, leaving children; 4, Frederick G., born Aug. 15, 1810.
Sally Fleming died Aug. 21, 1829, and on March 3d, 1836, Judge Read married, second, Miss Mary Mead, of Bedford, N. Y. He died Mrs. Mary Read is still living in Bedford, aged 85 years.
Of the children of Zalmon Read, 2d, named above, Aaron married Maria Hawley of Redding, and in 1818 removed to Sharon, Conn .; thence, after some years, to Troy, N. Y., where he was prominent in the business, social and religious life of the town. His son, the Rev. Charles Read, D. D., was for nearly fifty years pastor of one of the largest and wealthiest churches of Richmond, Va.,-the Grace Street Presbyterian- and was a learned, pious and eloquent divine. Dr. Read was one of the principal speakers at the 150th anniversary of the First Church of Christ of Redding in 1883.
Harry, 2d, married Sally Jackson of Norwalk, and lived and died in Lonetown near his father, in the house now owned by William Louns- bury. He had one child, Huldah, who never married.
Samuel Read lived in the house now occupied by Captain Day, below the Congregational Church. He was a deacon in that church for many years, and a man of prominence in town affairs. He maried Laura -, and had two daughters, Clarissa and Betsey.
Clarissa, daughter of Zalmon, lived, unmarried, in the old homestead of her father in the rear of the residence of the late Mrs. Catherine Read.
Frederick Read married, Nov. 20, 1839, Eleanor, daughter of Joel
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Gray, of Redding, a prominent man in the town and state .* Their children were: I, Charles F., born June 5, 1843; married, July 29, 1869, Rowena S. Wood of Redding, and has children : Daniel, Nellie, and Maude, deceased, 2, Delia Gray, born Oct. 8, 1846; married, first, Nov. 8, 1890, Jesse B. Sherwood, and second, John Burr Goodsell; no children. 3, George, born November 30, 1848; married April 24, 1873, Miss Hattie Bassett, of Birmingham, Conn .; has one son, Frank. 4, Aaron, born Sept. 15th, 1855 : married, Sept. 10, 1879, Miss Ella A. Wright, of Dan- bury, Conn .; no children. 5, Zalmon, born Oct. 8, 1859; married Miss Jennie F. Olmstead, of Redding, Dec. 16, 1886, and has children, Harold Frederick, Ernest Olmstead, and Eleanor Gray. Frederick Read, the father, died in Redding, Sept. 6, 1891, aged 74 years. His wife Eleanor, died April 1, 1899, aged 80 years.
Benjamin Read, youngest son of Zalmon 2d, married Miss Catherine Sellick of Danbury, Jan. Ist, 1851. Their children were: John C., born Oct. 13, 1853; William S., born Oct. 12, 1855; Mary C., born in 1861, died in infancy ; Carrie C., born Dec. 13, 1862. Of these children, John married Miss Jennie Lyon, of Redding, Apr. 7, 1880, and has children, Herbert, who graduated at Cornell University 1905, and is now an elec- trical engineer in Pittsburg, Pa .; Elizabeth Skidmore, who graduated from the St. Louis, Mo., High School in 1900, and later from the St. Louis Normal School, and is now a teacher in the public schools of St. Louis ; and 3d, Ferris Lyon.
William S. Read is a prominent business man in Tucson, Ariz., with large mining interests in Mexico. He married Miss Gertrude Strauss, of Tucson, June 25, 1889, and has two children, Olive and Lacy.
*His grand-daughter, Mrs. John Burr Goodsell, of Redding, has his com- mission as Cornet in the State militia, signed by Gov. Oliver Wolcott. It reads as follows :
Oliver Wolcott, Esquire, Captain General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Connecticut in the United States of America, To Joel Gray, 2d, Gent.
Greeting :- You being by the General Assembly of this State accepted to be Cornet of the Third Company of the Third Regiment of Horse Artillery, in the Militia of this State, to take rank from the 26th day of June, A. D. 1818, reposing special trust and confidence in your fidelity, courage and good conduct, I do by virtue of the laws of this State me thereunto enabling appoint and empower you to take the said Company into your care and charge as their Cornet, carefully and diligently to discharge that office and trust, exercising your inferior officers and soldiers in the use of their arms according to the rules and discipline of war or- dained and established by the laws of this State, keeping them in good order and government and commanding them to obey you as their Cornet, and you are to observe all such orders and directions as from time to time you shall receive either from me or from other your superior officers pursuant to the trust hereby reposed in you.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of this State at New Haven, the 20th day of October, A. D. 1818.
By his Excellency's command,
OLIVER WOLCOTT.
THOMAS DAY, Secretary,
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Carry C. married Harry Olmstead, June 16, 1886, and has two chil- dren : Edith and Edmund. They reside in Chicago, Il1.
Hezekiah Read, son of Col. John Read, born Feb. 25, 1753, married, May 12, 1774, Anna Gorham, and had a son, Hezekiah, Jr., born March 23, 1783, who married, for his first wife, Anna Banks, of Greenfield Hill, Conn., and had a daughter, Amelia U., now living in Ypsilanti, Mich. Anna Gorham, first wife of Hezekiah Read, Sr., died Feb. 23, 1785, and he married second, Abigail Hull, Feb. 22, 1789, and had a daughter, De- borah, who married John Read Hill, a well known citizen of Redding, who lived many years at the "manor" of his ancestor, Col. John Read, now owned by Mr. Henry A. Dimon. Also a son, Samuel B., born April I, 1802, who married Camille Lyon, and settled first at Sharon, Conn., where a son, John, was born to them. When the latter was twelve years old they removed to Ypsilanti, Mich., where the father, Samuel, died in 1884, aged 83 years. His son John, married, in 1900, his cousin, Amelia U., and died June 30, 1902, aged 76 years.
Hezekiah Read, Sr., was the ancestor of Mrs. Dora Read Goodale, and of Elaine and Dora Goodale, the poets.
ROGERS.
James Rogers was a prominent man in his day and filled many re- sponsible offices in the town. He appears as early as 1762. His children were: Joseph, born Oct. 31st, 1762; Chloe, born Oct. 24th, 1766; James, born April 28, 1768; Haron, born Aug. 22, 1770. (Town record.)
RUMSEY.
Joseph Rumsey appears in Redding as early as 1747. His will, dated December 27th, 1754, mentions his wife Sarah, and children Isaac, Sarah, Joseph, Daniel, William and Ephraim. The will of Daniel Rumsey, of Reading, probated March 10th, 1761, mentions his father, Robert, broth- ers John Rumsey and Seth Hull. John Rumsey settled in Reading; his children by his wife Esther, were: Abigail, bapt. Feb: 19th, 1751; Rachel, bapt. Feb. 25th, 1753 ; Mary, bapt, June 5th, 1755; Nathan, bapt. Aug. 8th, 1756; David, bapt. Jan. 28th, 1759; Mary, bapt. June 15, 1761 ; Esther, bapt. May 13th, 1764; and Eben, bapt. Feb. 4th, 1768.
Isaac Rumsey married Abigail St. John, May 23d, 1761. Children : Abigail, born Dec. 25th, 1761; Jeremiah, born May 23, 1762; Ruth, born Dec. 29, 1763; Noah, born Mch. 28, 1768.
SANFORD .*
Thomas Sanford, born in England probably from 1600 to 1610, son as we believe of Anthony Sanford (and Joan, daughter of John Strat-
*Condensed from Miss Rebecca D. Beach's Beach-Sanford Genealogy, and from the records of Edward J. Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn.
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ford), the son of Raulf Sanford, of Stowe, County Gloucester, England. This Thomas married Dorothy, daughter of Henry Meadows, of Stowe, and they came soon after with the John Winthrop colony to Boston, Mass. First appears of record in Dorchester, Mass., where he received land, 1634 and 1635. Made freeman in the colony March 9th, 1637. In 1639 he came with a colony from Dorchester and Watertown and settled in Milford, Conn., where his name appears in the earliest records. His wife Dorothy probably died in Dorchester. He had two children by her, Ezekiel, and Sarah who married Richard Shute, of East Chester, Conn., Aug. 14, 1656. Thomas Sanford married second Sarah His children by her were Mary, born in Milford, Jan. 16, 1741 ; Samuel, born Apr. 20, 1643; Thomas, Jr., born December, 1644; Ephraim, born May 17th, 1646; Elizabeth, born Aug. 27th, 1648, married, Oct. 21, 1669, Obadiah Allyn, of Middletown, Conn. Thomas Sanford died in Milford, October, 1681. His will is dated Sept. 23, 1681. Estate appraised by John Beard and Samuel Clark, Oct. 21, 1681. Amount, £450, 18s. 3d. He was one of three appointed by Governor Treat, May, 1661, "in the Marshall's absence," to seach for the regicides, Whalley and Goffe.
Ezekiel, eldest child of Thomas above, settled in Fairfield, and mar- ried, April 25th, 1665, Rebecca Wickla (Schenck's History of Fairfield says Rebecca, daughter of John and Rebecca Whelpley, of Fairfield.) He died in Fairfield, 1683, where he was a large land holder. His widow Rebecca was administrator of his estate. She died before it was settled ; final settlement in 1697. Their children were : Sarah, born Mar. 5th, 1666, married Cornelius Hull, Jr .; Ezekiel, Jr., born March 6th, 1668; Mary, born April 3d, 1670, married Theophilus Hull; Rebecca, born Dec. 13th, 1672, married John Seeley; Thomas, born May 2d, 1675; Martha, born June 29th, 1677; Elizabeth, born Sept. 6, 1679.
Of the above children we are concerned with Ezekiel, Jr., who mar- ried, in 1696, Rebeccah Gregory. Their children were: Joseph, born March 27, 1697, in Fairfield, where he lived and died; Lemuel, born Dec. 16th, 1699, settled in Redding; Zachariah, born Nov. 24th, 1701; Ezekiel 3d, born July 27, 1704; Samuel, born Feb. 20th, 1707-8, settled in Red- ding; Ephraim, born Feb. 12th, 1708-9, settled in Redding; Rebeccah, born Nov. 21, 1710, married, about 1730, William Hill; Abigail, born Aug. 29th, 1714, married, Dec. 4th, 1735, James Bradley ; Elnathan, born Sept. Ist, 1717, probably died young.
Of the above children three, Lemuel, Samuel and Ephraim, settled in Redding, Lemuel being one of the original members of the Congrega- tional Church here, and Samuel and Ephraim joining it in the first year of its existence, viz. 1734. There was another of the name-Nathaniel- who was an original member; no doubt the son of that Ephraim given above, the son of Thomas, who married, Nov. 18th, 1669, Mary, daughter
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of Thomas Powell, of New Haven, Ct., and, according to Savage, had children Mary, Samuel, Ephraim, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Zachariah.
This Nathaniel settled in Umpawaug. His children recorded were: Abel H., baptized March 25th, 1733; Ruth, baptized May 12th, 1737; Esther, baptized May 27th, 1744.
I have no further record of this family.
Lemuel Sanford settled in the Centre. He was one of the first com- mittee-men of the society, and prominent in public affairs. He married, May 12, 1730, Rebecca Squires, of Fairfield. Their children were: Hezekiah, probably born in Fairfield; Sarah, bapt. Sept. 19th, 1734; Anne, bapt. Nov. Ist, 1736; Lydia, bapt. June 4th, 1738; Lemuel, bapt. April 20th, 1740; Ezekiel, bapt. July 4th, 1742; Anne, bapt. Oct. 7th, 1744; Roda, bapt. Feb. 26th, 1749.
Hezekiah married Hannah , and settled in the Centre, on the farm now owned by Mr. Hinckel. His children were: Aaron, bapt. May 29th, 1757; Hannah, bapt. August 26th, 1759; William, bapt. Oct. 14th, 1764 ; Eunice, bapt. June 7th, 1772; Huldah, bapt. May 18th, 1777.
Aaron, his eldest son, settled in the Centre, and lived in the house later owned by Mrs. Connors .* He married Lydia Hawley, daughter of William Hawley, November 2d, 1780. Their children were: Betsey, born Oct. 5th, 1781 ; Hannah, born May 31st, 1784; Aaron, born July 8th, 1786; Hawley, born July 16th, 1789; Jesse Lee, born July 27th, 1791 ; Eunice, born August 10th, 1793; Walter, born Feb. 18th, 1796; Char- lotte, born Jan. 8th, 1800; Lydia, born Sept. 23d, 1803; William A., born Jan. 15th, 1807.
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