The history of Waterbury, Connecticut; the original township embracing present Watertown and Plymouth, and parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck. With an appendix of biography, genealogy and statistics, Part 15

Author: Bronson, Henry, 1804-1893
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: Waterbury, Bronson brothers
Number of Pages: 722


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Thomas Clark's son Thomas succeeded his father in the oc- cupancy of the homestead, and kept a tavern till his decease, Oct. 25, 1779. The house was the scene of some interesting events during the Revolutionary War. Capt. Lemuel Har- rison's dwelling was built, for the most part, on the same foun- dations as the "old Clark house."


JOSEPH GAYLORD.


He was the son of Walter Gaylord and the grandson of Dea. William Gaylord of Windsor; the latter a leading man of that town. He was born May 13, 1649, and m. July 14,


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1670, Sarah, d. of John Stanley of Farmington. Whether he removed from Windsor first to Farmington and then to Mat- tatuck, or directly from Windsor to Mattatuck, is uncertain. He was not one of the first subscribers of the articles ; but was accepted Jan. 15, 1677, (1677-8.) He came to Mattatuck early, probably in the spring of 1678, and is named in the four divis- ions of fence. Still, he did not keep his engagements, and his right was declared forfeited, Feb. 1682-3. But he "submit- ted," and by better performance, regained and perfected his title to an £80 propriety. He is mentioned in all the lists of proprie- tors. He was collector of minister's rates in 1698, 1699 and 1700. In 1687, his lot of three acres was on the corner of East and North Main streets-south and west on highway, north on John Stanley and east on common. This place, with the house and barn, he sold, Feb. 2, 1703, (1703-4,) to Stephen Welton, son of John, reserving a quarter of an acre at the east end on which his son Joseph had erected a dwelling. After this, he built a house at Breakneck, (or at any rate he owned one there with twenty-two acres of land,) which he sold and deeded, Feb. 26, 1705-6, to John Bronson, " son of Isaac," as already stated. Whether he lived for a time at Breakneck, I have no means of ascertaining with certainty, though it is probable he did. Most likely he sold out as a preparation for removing from the town. Several members of his family had already gone to Durham, and he soon followed, there being no traces of him in Waterbury after the sale referred to. I find him in Durham in the carly part of 1708, where he died before 1713.


Children :


1. Sarah; b. July 11, 1671; m. Thomas Judd, known as Thomas Judd, Jr.


2. Joseph ; b. April 22, 1673; m. Feb. 8, 1699-1700, Mary, d. of Joseph Hickox, decd., of Woodbury, and had three children, Elizabeth, Joseph (died in infancy) and Thankful, all born in Waterbury. He was chosen fence viewer in 1698 and 1703, and admitted to bachelor privileges in 1699. He built a house on East Main street, on the east end of his father's lot. In April, 1702, the propri- etors granted him and his brothers John and William, and Richard Porter, "eight acres apiece, at the place they talk of going to live at on the west side [the river], provided they go and live there with their families." To this place, presumed to be Breakneck, where his father built a house, he (and the others) did not go. Afterwards, probably in 1703 or 1704, he and his brother John erected houses on Buckshill and removed thither. They were, however, not contented ; but soon


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pulled up and went to Durham. Joseph had left as early as Jan. 7, 1705-6. The names of both and that of their father, and also of their brothers-in-law, Joseph and Stephen Hickox, are mentioned in the patent of Durham, in 1708. In Oct. 1708, for "eleven pounds in building and four pounds teen shillings to be dun in worek at sd durrum," Gaylord deeded to Richard Welton his house and lot of seven acres at Buckshill-"east on highway, west on said Gayland's land, south on John Gayland's house lot, north on John Warner's house lot."


Joseph Gayland, 2d, after having lived in Durham many years, removed to Wallingford. He and his brothers, John and Benjamin, and his sister, Joanna Royce, were in the latter place in 1722. "Joseph Gaylord, Jr.," was in Water- bury in 1730, apparently from Wallingford.


3. John ; b. April 21, 1677 ; was one of the first nine bachelor proprietors, ad- mitted March 26, 1799. He lived by the side of his brother Joseph on Buckshill, having a lot of six and three quarter acres, butting north on Joseph Gaylord, Jr's house lot, east and south on highway, west on common, which he bought of "John Warner of Buckshill." He removed with his elder brother to Durham, and finally to Wallingford, where he d. about 1753. Ilis will was presented to the Probate Court in New Haven the first Monday in January, 1754, in which he names six sons and five daughters. His estate in Wallingford amounted to £1,995, and in Farmington to about £560.


Sarah, Joseph and John Gaylord, children of Joseph, Sen., were born in Windsor. 4. William. He was accepted as a £40 proprietor, March, 1701, but forfeited his right, removed to Woodbury and joined the church there, Jan. 13, 1706. He was among those taxed for the "North Purchase" in 1712, (Cothren, Vol I, p. 83.) Afterwards he removed to New Milford,* where he d. about 1753. Ilis will was approved Nov. 23, 1753, in which is mentioned his wife Merey and six children. Ile was an ensign, and his first wife's name was Joanna, who joined the church in Woodbury, Dec. 7th, 1712. His son Nathan, of New Milford, m. Hannah, d. of John Bronson, son of Isaac.


5. Benjamin. He lived in Durham.


6. Elizabeth ; b. 1680; m. (the same day as her brother Joseph) Joseph Hickox, son of Sergt. Samuel, deceased.


7. Mary ; m. March 4, 1701-2, Stephen, son of John Welton, 1st, and d. July 18, 1709.


8. Abagail; b. in Waterbury, and bap. in Farmington, Nov. 7, 1686, and m. James Williams. They both lived in Hartford in March, 1722.


9. Joanna ; m. Robert Royce. They were both of Wallingford, Nov. 1722.


10. Ruth ; m. Stephen Hickox, and lived in Durham.


THOMAS HANCOX.


He was an early settler of Farmington and one of the eighty-four proprietors of 1672. He was one of the first thirty who signed the Mattatuck articles; but was dilatory in his movements, and is not mentioned in the first three divisions of


* He is stated, erroneously, in the extracts from Mr. Griswold's sermon, in Barber's Con. Historical Collections, to have come from Windsor.


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fence. He was among the delinquents whose allotments were condemned by the act of Feb. 1682-3 ; but he subscribed (June 4, 1683) to the new conditions imposed by that act, "reform- ed," and was restored to his rights, having a £100 propriety. I cannot find that he did anything to preserve his memory in Mattatuck ; but he left his name to the brook and meadows at Waterville. His house and home lot of one and three quar- ter acres were on the north side of West Main street. The lot was bounded north and south on highway, east on Thomas Newell and west on Robert Porter. These Hancox sold, to- gether with other lands and his propriety right, in Feb. 1687-8, to Lieut. Judd, and quit the town, shaking the dust from his feet, perhaps. Ile probably left about the time of the above sale. He was in Farmington Dec. 22d, 1688, in Hartford June, 1695, and in Farmington, (Kensington,) again, Jan. 1720-21.


Thomas Hancox m. March 17, 1684-5, Rachel Leonard of Springfield.


Children :


1. Thomas ; b. March 13, 1685-6, and lived in Hartford and Boston.


2. John ; b. Aug. 1, 1688, and lived in Springfield.


3. William; b. March 1, 1690-91, and d. 1721.


4. Rachel ; b. Feb. 7, 1692-3, and d. 1737.


5. Daniel ; b. Jan. 1, 1694-5, and m. June 4, 1724, Rachel Porter.


6. Mehitabel ; b. Dec. 4, 1698, and m. Ebenezer Barnes.


HICKOX.


The planters of Waterbury bearing this name, Samuel and Joseph, are supposed to have been brothers, and sons of Wil- liam Hickox of Farmington, one of the original proprietors and first settlers of that town. The latter died early. The names of Samuel and Joseph are on the list of the proprietors of Farmington, in 1672.


SAMUEL HICKOX.


He was one of the original thirty, and is believed to have been a member of the first company that came to our town. He was one of the assignees of the first Indian deed, and is named in all the fence divisions and proprietors' lists. So far as appears, he never once halted in the work he had underta- ken. He lived where C. B. Merriman now resides, having a


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home lot of two acres, bounded, in March, 1690-91, south on highway, north on "highland," west on Joseph Hickox's heirs, and east on Benjamin Barnes. He was called sergeant as early as 1686. When the train-band was organized, or re- organized, after the resumption of the colonial government under the charter, he was appointed sergeant and was ever af- terwards known as Serg. Samuel Hickox. He held different offices by appointment of the grand committee and proprie- tors-was townsman in 1682, &c. He was one of the leading men of the settlement, and died at his post, at a critical time, when men of the right stamp could be poorly spared. His inventory was taken Feb. 28, 1694-5, amounting to £434.


Children :


1. Samuel ; b. 1669 ; m. April 16, 1690, Elizabeth, d. of John Plumb of Milford. He had a grant of land from the proprietors when he was but eighteen years old, " three acres at Pine swamp by the path that leads to the saw-mill." Jan. 20, 1692, he had two acres granted " on the side of chesnut hill near to his boggy meadow convenient for a yard," (for drying cloth ?) He lived on the corner of East Main and Cherry streets, where he had built a house before Sept. 1703. This place, bounded west on Stephen Welton and Samuel Stanley, north on John Bronson, south and east on highway, he conveyed, Jan. 26, 1705-6, to his brother Thomas, the latter having built him a barn and chimney and deeded to him sixteen acres of land at Judd's Meadow. The barn and chimney were proba- bly at Judd's Meadow, where Samuel " had set his house " as early as Dec. 21, 1702, and where he was certainly living before December, 1705. He was probably the first settler of Naugatuck. He erected a fulling-mill on Fulling-Mill Brook (so called from the mill) about 1709, and his house was by the brook. Some of his lands " ran across the road that led to New Haven."


Samuel Hickox died in the great sickness, June 3, 1713, and his widow, Oct. 17, 1749. They had ten children, six of whom lived to be married. Ebenezer and John were bachelor proprietors. The first, after 1741, removed to Danbury and Norwalk, and the last, before July, 1720, to Durham.


2. Hannah ; b. 1671 ; m. John Judd of Waterbury.


3. William ; b. 1673 ; m. about 1696, Rebecca, d. of Abraham Andruss, (1st,) and d. Nov. 4, 1737. He was a bachelor proprietor and man of note-grand juror, school committee, surveyor, constable, townsman, (many times,) moderator of town meeting, captain in 1727, and deputy in 1728. He was always known by his military title. He lived where the church of the First Congregational Society now stands. The place he bought of Joseph Hickox (son of Joseph, decd.) of Woodbury, May 17, 1699. The lot, containing two acres, was bounded, March 12, 1704-5, north on common land, south on highway, east on a house lot of the heirs of Serg. Hickox, decd., west on a house lot of the heirs of Philip Judd, decd. The house lot which was Philip Judd's he afterwards purchased. Still later, he came into possession of three quarters of his father's homestead. In Sept. 1732, for £300, he deeded all to Samuel Camp, son of Edward, of Milford, seven


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acres, with the house, barn, and mill-house, butted east on land of Joseph Smith, north on Samuel Scott, son of George, west on Dea. Clark, south on highway, re- serving one quarter part of his father's lot belonging to the heirs of Thomas Hickox, decd., and reserving also "twenty foot square of land down the hill near the mill house as it is stoned out." This property, with the same reservations, Camp (who then improved it) conveyed, in 1736, for £185, to Dea. Thomas Judd.


Capt. William Hickox lost three sons in the great sickness of 1713. One son only, Capt. Samuel, survived him and had a family. His will bears date Jan. 4, 1732-3. Among his effects were Lewis, a negro man @ £140, and " fillis a negro woman " @ £100.


4. Thomas ; b. 1675 ; m. Mary, daughter of Serg. Isaac Bronson, and d. June 28, 1728. His widow married Dea. Samuel Bull of Woodbury, and died a widow. March 28, 1694, he had a grant of land, four acres for a house lot, on the west side of Carrington Brook, on the south side of the highway to Farmington ; but he does not appear to have built on it. He was made a bachelor proprietor in 1699 ; was grand juror, school committee, and townsman, at different times ; represented the town in the Legislature two sessions, in 1722 and 1723, and was appointed a deacon in 1724, being the second who had held this office in the church. He is called "' husbandman " in a deed. His residence was on the corner of East Main and Cherry streets, being the place he bought of his brother Samuel in 1705-6. He died in the prime of life, much regretted. His estate was valued at £1,251, and his homestead at £140.


5. Joseph ; b. 1678, and m. Elizabeth Gaylord. He was accepted as a bachelor proprietor, March 26, 1699, and in the same month received a grant of land "on ye east side of ye little brook buting on gorg scott hom lot being a triangle peace betwein ye highways for a hous lot on condition yt he fence and improue it four yeirs not to pregedis ye high wayes nor hinder ye town coming to ye claypits." On this lot, which lay between North Main and Grove streets, east of Andrew Bryan's house, Hickox built a house, which he deeded, with three and a half aeres of land, to John Judd, (1st,) Nov. 5, 1714, bounded east, west, north and south, on. highway. He obtained the office of "chimney viewer " in 1701 and 1703, and begat two children, Joseph and Hannah, both of whom (and also a sister, Ruth) were living in 1725-6. Being satisfied with what he had done for Waterbury, and having made fast his propriety right, he quit the place, going to Durham with the Gaylords, where he died in 1725. He was a carpenter.


6. Mary ; b. 1681 ; m. John Bronson, son of Isaac, and died " March 21, 1713." 7. Elizabeth ; bap. Nov. 12, 1682; m. Dec. 1724, John Norton, (of Durham, previously of Saybrook ?)


8. Stephen ; bap. April 12, 1685, and m. Ruth Gaylord. He was admitted a bachelor proprietor, Jan. 7, 1705-6 ; but soon caught the run-away fever and followed his brother and father-in-law to Durham, thus losing his bachelor right. He was one of those whose feelings were hurt that the proprietors should give away their lands so liberally, he having a small interest after the decease of his father. His death took place before 1737-8. He had sons and daughters, Sam- uel, Stephen, Ruth Johnson and Sarah Spelman.


9. Benjamin ; b. 1686. He was "of Stamford " in 1715, and had a suit in the Superior Court at Fairfield; about a negro boy, Dunboy, whom he claimed and had attached. He was living in Norwalk in May, 1735.


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10. Mercy ; bap. April 8, 1689.


11. Ebenezer ; b. 1693. He chose, in 1707, his brother William his guardian. He was in Danbury in June, 1722.


JOSEPHI HICKOX.


I suppose him to have been younger than his brother Sam- uel. He subscribed the articles in 1674, and had a $60 allot- ment. He was early in Mattatuek, but was not there in "a steady way," I conclude; for though his name is in the first, second and fourth fence divisions, it is not in the third. He lived next west of his brother Samuel, between the latter and Philip Judd, having a lot of two acres. This lot, bounded north on common land, his son Joseph sold and conveyed, May 17, 1690, to his cousin William Hickox, as before stated.


Only the scantiest memorials remain of Joseph Hickox, first. He was the first proprietor that left the settlement, (and the first that died.) He removed to Woodbury, (Southbury,) in the early part of 1686 ; joined the church there May 2d, 1686, and died in 1687. His estate amounted to £107 in Wa- terbury and £100 in Woodbury.


JOHN HOPKINS.


His grandfather, John Hopkins, settled at Cambridge, Mass., in 1634; was made a freeman in 1635, and removed to Hartford, in 1636, where he became a juror, in 1643. It is not known what relation, if any, he bore to Stephen Hopkins, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, or to Edward Hopkins, who ar- rived at Boston in 1637, afterwards governor of Connecticut. He could not, however, have been a near relative of the last. His will was dated in 1648, and the inventory of his estate taken April 14, 1654. He left a widow Jane, who after- wards married Nathaniel Ward, and two children, Stephen and Bethiah. The last married Samuel Stocking of Middle- town.


Stephen Hopkins, the father of John of Waterbury, made a freeman 1656, married Dorcas, daughter of John Bronson, 1st, of Farmington. He died about 1689, and his widow, May 10, 1697. His will bore date Sept. 28, 1680, and his in- ventory, (amounting to £591,) Nov. 6, 1689. His children named in his will, were :


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1. John; 2. Stephen; b. 1665; m. Sarah, d. of Lient. Thomas Judd and Hannah - -. He had children, Thomas, Sarah and Rachel, and d. 1704. 3. Ebenezer; b. 1669, and m. Mary Butler, d. of Samuel of Wethersfield, Jan. 21, 1691. 4. Jo- seph ; m. Hannah, d. of Paul Peek of Hartford, April 27, 1693. 5. Dorcas; m. Jonathan Webster, May 11, 1681. 6. Mary ; m. Samuel Sedgwick.


John Hopkins, the son of Stephen of Hartford, came to Mattatuek to tend his father's mill. The mill was built ap- parently in 1680, and John probably took charge of it at that time. He did not however become a proprietor immediately. Perhaps he was not then of age. His name is not on either of the fence-division lists, so frequently referred to. The fath- er had a house lot granted him, Feb. 5, 1680-81, which was probably intended for the son. The latter is first mentioned, Feb. 6, 1682, (1682-3,) when Dea. Lankton's forfeited allot- ments were confirmed to him by the committee. He was then called " the present miller."


John Hopkins was one of the most respected and influen- tial of the early settlers of Waterbury. He ground the peo- ple's corn, " corn being suitable to grind," and was one of the youngest of the original proprietors. He subscribed to the £60 settlement of the first minister; was townsman in 1692, and several times afterwards; constable in 1702 ; grand juror for two years; deputy in 1704, and many times from 1708 to 1726; justice of the peace from 1725 to 1729, inclusive. He held the office of town elerk in 1713. He wrote his own signature in a fair hand ; but his chirography was generally bad and his ink poor, making the records, as kept by him, difficult to deci- pher. He was also tavern keeper from 1712 to 1718, inclusive, and probably earlier, and "ordinary keeper" in 1714 and 1715. He obtained, too, military honors so much sought for in his day, being sergeant in 1714, ensign in 1715, and lieu- tenant in 1716. After the latter date, he was known as Left. Hopkins. When the new meeting house came to be seated in 1729, he was one of the revered dignitaries who were voted " into the first pew at the west end of the pulpit."


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bounded, Dec. 26, 1691, north and west on highway, south on Thomas Warner, and east on common land. The house stood on Main street a little east of the lane put down on the map as Brook street.


John Hopkins was a large landholder. He gave away much land during his life time to his children, by deed ; still, he left a considerable estate. He died Nov. 1632, his inven- tory amounting to £1,251, 15s. His wife's name was Hannah -, and their children were:


1. A daughter; b. Dec. 22d, 1684, and d. Jan. 4, 1684-5-the death being the first recorded in the town.


2. John; b. March 29, 1686; bap. in Hartford and died in Hartford, Dec. 5, 1709.


3. Consider; b. Nov. 10, 1687; m. Elizabeth Graham, "relict of George Gra- ham of Hartford," and died in Hartford in 1726.


4. Stephen ; b. Nov. 19, 1689, and died 1769. He received "bachelor accom- modations," in 1712; was townsman in 1724 and afterwards; deputy many times after 1732 ; special agent to the General Court, in 1737 and 1738, &c. He was a prominent man in his day. His house was near the west corner of East Main and Mill streets. The lot his father bought of Richard Porter in May, 1711, described as "before Thomas Hickox's house, two acres, east, west and north on highway, south on common land." In Oct. 1713, the "town" granted to Stephen Hopkins one and a half acres, (laid out as two acres,) south of the above land, and adjoining to it. In June, 1718, the father deeded to the son his two acres, on which a house had been built, valuing both to him at £35. Afterwards, (Dec. 11, 1729,) the latter sold the house and lot of four acres, bounded north, south, east and west on highway, to Jonathan Garnsey, and Garnsey conveyed it, March 19, 1735, to Thomas Barnes.


Stephen Hopkins I suppose to have assisted his father in the care of the mill. After the death of the latter, Stephen and Timothy, executors of the will of the deceased, sold out the mill and mill lands, the deed bearing date Jan. 1732-3. About this time, probably, (certainly before Oct. 7, 1734,) Stephen removed to Judd's Meadow, locating himself on, or near, the New Haven road and Fulling Mill Brook.


5. Timothy; b. Nov. 16, 1691, and d. Feb. 5, 1748-9 .* He had a bachelor right granted him in 1715. He was a farmer ; was called "yeoman" and " hus- bandman," in deeds, and had much to do with public business. He was on seve- ral occasions, constable, seclectman, grand juror and moderator of town meeting. He was justice of the peace from 1734 to 1742 inclusive, and, for many years, a representative to the General Court. He obtained military distinction, and was made a captain in 1732. No man of the town seems to have had, in a greater de- gree, the confidence of the public.


* On his tombstone, now standing, is this not unfamiliar verse :


When this you see,


Then think on me.


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Timothy Hopkins, after his marriage, lived with his father, the latter having conveyed to him, in June, 1719, by deed, one half of the house and homestead of two acres, valuing them to him at £40 advancement. After the decease of the father, the son became the owner of the whole ; and in April, 1740, added to it the lot (with a house) adjoining on the south, two and three quarter acres, bought of John Pun- derson of New Haven, and which Punderson purchased of James Johnson, bound- ed west on highway, &c. The entire lot, then called four and a half acres, the son conveyed "with the buildings, fencings, orcharding," &c., April 4th, 1743, to Lieut. John Bronson, for £540 old tenor, bounded southerly on Stephen Upson, easterly on Jonathan Baldwin's home lot, &c.


After the sale of his homestead, Capt. Hopkins appears to have owned a house and other buildings beyond the limits of the village, out East, whither he, per- haps, removed.


6. Samuel; b. Dec. 27, 1693. He settled in West Springfield.


7. Mary ; b. Jan. 27, 1696-7 ; m. Samuel Hickox.


8. Hannah ; b. April 23, 1699, and m. Daniel Porter, 2d.


9. - - -; b. at same date as the last, and d. an infant.


10. Dorcas; b. Feb. 12, 1705-6, and m. James Porter.


BENJAMIN JONES.


He was accepted in the place of John Andruss, and was not one of the first company of settlers. His name is first mention- ed among those who had allotments in the fourth division of fence, about 1680-81. But little is known of him. His house and lot of two acres were on the west side of Willow street, south of William Brown's dwelling. The land was bounded, in 1687, southwest on "a great lot," northeast on Thomas Judd's land and highway, westwardly on Ensign Thomas Judd's land and eastwardly on highway. He removed to New Haven about 1689, where he bought of William Johnson of N. H., for £50, sixty-six and a half acres of land at a place on " West Side," (West Haven,) called Shepherd's Hill, "running to a highway next the sea." His propriety right of £100 was sold by his son Benjamin, in 1715, to Dea. Thomas Judd, for forty shillings, and was conveyed by the latter, in April, 1717, to his son William.


Whence Benjamin Jones came, and from whom lie de- scended, I am not informed. He was married to Hannah Spencer, at Milford, May 2d, 1661, and had a son Benjamin born there, in June, 1662. (S. Judd.) He died in New Haven, Dec. 30, 1690, and his estate was settled in the County Court of N. H. His widow, Hannah, was administratrix, and guardian of the only child, Benjamin. This minor son was not, of course,


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the one born in Milford, in 1662. The latter must have died, and another been born having the same name. Isaac Bronson and Thomas Judd, smith, took an inventory of the deceased man's estate in Waterbury.


Benjamin Jones, 2d, had born in New Haven, between 1706 and 1722, Benjamin, Hannah, Ruth, Vinson, Martha and Ebenezer.




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