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EBENEZER, m. Mary Loomis, July 16, 1696. Children-Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1698-9 ; Rachel, b. Jan. 23, 1699-1700.
THOMAS, m. Hannah Woolworth of Suffield, Dec. 22, 1743 ; had Daniel, b. Oct. 20, 1744.
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Marriages-THOMAS, Sr., m. Elizabeth Hinsdell of Hadley, June 25, 1683. SAMUEL, Sr., m. Frances Cranton of Gifford, March 25, 1703.
Deaths .- Mary of Thomas, d. April 9, 1685 ; Thomas, Sr., d. Oct. 17, 1700; Grace, d. Dec. 12, 1697; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas, Sr. ; d. Sept. 25, 1689.
DORCHESTER, ANTHONY, had John, b. Nov. 5, 1644.
JOHN, m. Mary Slade, Dec. 13, 1744.
DAVID, d. May 19, 1802, in 60th yr. ; his dan. Polly (by wife Susannah), d. Oct. 11, 1798, in 18th yr.
DORMAN, ROXANA, wife of Stephen, d. Nov. 17, 1789, in 25th yr.
DRAKE.
From an exceedingly interesting, and now rare, little pamphlet, entitled Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Family of Drake in America, published at Boston by S. G. Drake, in 1845, we glean the 'following items of the origin and antiquity of the name of Drake.
The family of DRAKE, according to the old English genealogists, " is one of great anti- quity." That it is of great antiquity there can be no question, for as early as the Norman Conquest there were several families of the name, residing chiefly within a small compass in the south part of the county of Devonshire. In Dooms Day Book, six places are mentioned as possessed by persons of the name. Indeed, we are told that ' Honiton, one of them, was well known to the Romans, and was held by DRAGO the Saxon, before the conquest.' * Hence the fact that the Drakes were Saxons.
How long families of the name had possessed these places before the con- quest, there remain no means of which I am aware to enable us to determine. Not long after the conquest of England by William of Normandy, however, we find a family seated at Exmouth, the head of which was JOHN DRAKE. But as the old authors to whom we are indebted for this information are so vague, we can with difficulty get an approximation to the dates or periods to
* See Magna Britannia, 1, 484.
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which they refer: thus, Prince, vicar of Berry-Pomeroy, who wrote and published " The Worthies of Devon," speaking of the family seated at Ashe (in the parish of Murbury, about 12 miles to the south of Axminster), says, " This ancient and honorable family came originally from Exmouth, a small hamlet on the east side of the river Ex, where it flows into the month of the British Ocean. Here dwelleth JOHN DRAKE, a man of great estate, and a name of no less antiquity." For this account Prince acknowledges himself indebted to Sir William Pole (descended from that family on the maternal side), who says, ' I copied it out of an old Roll, and written all with mine own hand, in the month of April, in the year of our Lord God, 1616.'
Much more that is curious might be said about the antiquities of the fami- ly, but this sketch will not allow it.
Of the origin of the name of DRAKE, the armorial bearings are sufficiently indicative .*
Arms .-- Argent ; a wivern with wings displayed ; gules.
It is a maxim with the heralds, that the more simple a coat of arms, the · more ancient it is ; this is too obvious to need any other proof in support of it, than the repetition of the maxim ; which eminently applies to the arms of DRAKE.
The crest of this coat, as given by Guilim, is an ' Eagle displayed,' which seems to have been laid aside for the ' dexter arm erect, holding a battle-axe,' some ages ago, but wherefore does not appear. The motto has always been :
AQUILA NON CAPIT MUSCAS.
The figure in the shield, or escutcheon, is called by heralds, a wivern, which is another name for the fabled Dragon of antiquity, DRACO or DRAGO, is the Roman name of DRAKE, and as late as the time of SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, writers frequently coupled his name with that of Dragon. Lope de Vega calls him by no other name throughout his long poem of ten books, which he composed about him ; and Sir Winston Churchill (who married a DRAKE), says, Sir Francis found no DRAGON more terrible than himself to guard the treasures of the Spaniards ; and surely the Spaniards had reason, if any people could have, to imagine that SIR FRANCIS DRAKE was descended, and that, too, in no remote degree, from the old master of all that was terrible.
The Romans had among their legions DRACONARII, who were the bearers of their standards ; hence the name DRAKE may have been derived from that Roman officer. The Romans got the name from the Greeks, and it seems to have been known other than an ideal one, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, in earlier and later times.
* Gower mentions DRAGONS, or, as he calle them, fire Drakes, being often seen in the air. Con. A. 6, vii.
" And as hee wolde awaie flie His thoughte ther stode Diveles there Al bronnyng as a DRAKE. . . "
Ritson, King of Tars, v. 408.
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We find that the DRAGON was displayed in the banners of the Britons as early as 1448, and that churches have borne the emblem from time immemo- rial."
Another coat of arms was granted by Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Francis, the great navigator.
The family of Drake has been distinguished in England, from the earliest ages, by a long array of noble men ; soldiers, navigators, clergymen, martyrs and authors. But our limits forbid us from entering more into detail; the curious reader will find these items in the little work from which we have made the preceding extracts. It is sufficient for our purpose to say that among the many noble families of the name, in Great Britain, the family who held their seat at Ashe, were ever prominent, and from them it is supposed that the Drakes of New England were descended.
Of this family was JOHN, one of the Council of Plymouth, a member of the original company established by King James, in 1606, for settling New Eng- land. Several of his sons came hither and settled, viz : RICHARD, who came over with two or more sons, and nine daughters, and settled at Hampton, N. H. ; and JOHN, who came to Boston in 1630, and settled at Windsor. From these are descended all of the name in America.
JOHN (the Emigrant). " Aug. 17, 1659, John Drake, sr., dyed accidentally as he was driving a cart loaded with corn to carry from his house to his son Ja- cobs, the cattle being 2 oxen, and his mare. In the highway, against John Grif- fin's, something scared the cattle, and they set a running, and he laboring to stop them by taking hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and the cartwheel went over him, brake one of his legs, and bruised his body, so that he was taken up dead, being carried into his daughter's house, had lifo come again, but dyed in a short time, and was buried on the 18th of Ang. 1659 (W. Rec.). "Old Widow [Elizabeth ] Drake, died Oct. 7, 1681, at 100th yr. of age, having lived a widow, 22 years " ( Old Ch. Rec.). Children- Job1 ; John 2 ; Jacob, m. Mary Bissell, April 12, 1649, " now it is 25 years and never had a child ;" his mother lived with him, after her husband's death (Ch Rec.) ; he d. about Sept., 1689.
Sgt. JOB,1 m. Mary Wolcott, June 25, 1646 ; d. Aug. 6, 1689 ; wid. Mary, d. Sept. 11, 1689; estate £583 4s. Children-Abigail, b. Sept. 28, 1648 ; Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1649 ; m. Thomas Marshall, 1685 : Job,3 b. and bap. March 28, 1652; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1654; Joseph, b. April, 16, 1657; Hepzibah, b. July 14, 1659 ; Hester, b. Oct. 10, 1662.
JOHN, Jr.,2 m. Hannah Moore, Nov. 30, 1648 ; was one of the first settlers at Simsbury ; inventory presented Sept. 12, 1689 ; Simsbury property amount- ed to £393 15s ; Windsor property, £223 2s ; had a son John (now of Dan- bury), who in 1708 chose a guardian : she d. Feb. 16, 1686. Children- Jolın,3 b. Sept. 14, 1649 ; Job.4 b. June 15, 1651 ; Hannah, b. Aug 8, 1653 ; Enoch,5 b. Dec. 8, 1655 ; Ruth, b. Dec. 8, 1657; Simon,6 b. Oct. 28, 1659 ;
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Lydia, b. Jan. 26, 1661; Mary, b. Jan. 29, 1666; Elizabeth, b. July 22, 1664 ; Mind well, b. Nov. 10, 1671; Joseph,7 b. June 26, 1674.
Lt. JOB,2 m. Wid. Elizabeth Cook )dau. of Daniel Clark), Sept. 13, 1677; he d. Nov. 9, 1711, in 60th yr; she d. Dec. 22, 1729, a 78. Children-Job, b. Jan. 26, 1678 (Old Ch. Rec.); Mary, b. April 29, 1680 (Old Ch. Rec.); Jacob, 8 b. Jan. 29, 1683 ; Sarah, b. May 10, 1686; m. Hon. Gov. Roger Wol- cott, Dec. 3, 1702 : Job,9 b. - , 1705.
JOB,4 m. Elizabeth Alvord, March 20, 1671. Children-Jonathan, 10 b. Jan. 4, 1672 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 4, 1675 ; Rebecca, b. Jan. 16, 1689.
ENOCH,5 m. Sarah Porter, Nov. 11, 1680 ( Old Ch. Rec.) ; who, after his death, m. Sgt. Josiah Barber, who, March 12, 1701-2, moved for a distribu- tion of Enoch Drake's estate ; d. Aug. 21, 1698. Children-Sarah, b. May 31, 1681 (Old Ch. Rec.) ; Enoch,11 b. May 5, 1683 ; Samuel, b. July 27, 1688 ; Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1695 ; Nathaniel (in Probate Record).
SIMON, 6 m. Hannah Mills, Dec. 15, 1687 ; she d. in 1712. Children-Si- meon, b. Aug. 27, 1690 ; d. Sept. 19, 1690 : Hannah, b. Sept. 29, 1694; Edee, b. Nov. 14, 1697 ; Frances, b. Oct. 16, 1701; d. June 5, 1713 ; Phineas, 12 b. Sept. 21, 1706.
JOSEPH.7 Children-Joseph, 13 b. April 24, 1697 ; Benjamin, b. April 14, 1699; John, b. May 6, 1703; Ann, b. Jan. 30, 1701; William, b. Dec. 30, 1705 ; Thomas, b. May 18, 1708 ; Abel, b. March 24, 1710; Moses, b. July 20,1716.
JACOB (son of Job),8 m. Hannah (dau. of Thomas) Loomis, June 28, 1704. Children-Jacob, 14 b. May 27, 1705 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 1706; Aaron, b. Nov. 25, 1710 ; d. Aug. 30, 1735.
Mr. JOB,9 m. Martha Moore, Nov. 16, 1730 ; he d. Dec. 9, 1789 ; she d. July 25, 1765, a. 34. Children-Martha, b. Oct. 31, 1731; d. July 25, 1765 : Au- gustine,15 b. Nov. 7, 1742.
JONATHAN, 10 m. Esther -; he d. 1716. Children-Benjamin, b. Feb. 1, 1709 ; d. 1717 : Esther, b. May 4, 1712; d. June 20, 1730 : Eunice, b. Feb. 4, 1715-16.
ENOCH, 11 m. Elizabeth Barber, April 20, 1704; she d. April 2, 1717; he m. 2, Lydia Cook, who d. May 18, 1718 ; he m. 3, Dorcas Eggleston, May 6, 1719. Children-Enoch,16 b. Jan. 12, 1705 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1707-8 ; Eunice ; Lois, b. June 15, 1710; Noah,17 b. June 13, 1714 ; Hannah, b. March 29, 1717; Jerusha, b. June 14, 1720; Hezekiah, b. Jan. 17, 1721-2; Dorcas, b. Scpt. 11, 1723; Dudley, b. Aug. 30, 1725 ; Lydia, b. Nov. 15, 1727; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 28, 1729 ; Isaac, b. July 13, 1733.
PHINEHAS, 12 m. Deborah Moore, Feb. 29, 1727. Children-Phinehas, b. Feb. 20, 1728 ; Prudence, b. April 5, 1735 ; Edee, b. July 6, 1737 ; Ennice, b. April 5, 1740 ; Roger, b. March '45, 1742 ; Hannah, b. June 14, 1744 ; Elisha, b. Ang. 4, 1748.
JOSEPH, Jr., 13 m. Sarah Eason of Hartford, May 31, 1721. Children-Sarah Eason, b. Jan. 15, 1722; Lemiwell, b. Sept. 12, 1723.
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JACOB, 14 m. 1, Hannah - , who d. July 6, 1722; m. 2, Catharine Porter, Jan. 10, 1727; he d. 1754. Children-Asahel,18 b. June 24, 1722 ; Catharine, b. July 5, 1729 ; Jacob,19 b. March 23, 1732-3 ; Aaron,20 b. Aug. 30, 1735 ; John, b. Oct. 27, 1739; Sarah, b. Dec. 12, 1741; Hepzibah, b. Jan. 27, 1744-5 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 13, 1746 ; m. Benjamin Case.
AUGUSTINE, 15 m. Mary Griswold ; lived on Broad st., Windsor, just north of where H. Sydney Hayden now lives; he d. May 6, 1777, a, 53 : she d. Jan. 22, 1816, a. 73. Children-Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1761 ; Elihu, b. Sept. 24, 1763 ; Martha, b. Sept. 20, 1765 ; Job,21 b. Aug. 23, 1767.
ENOCH, 16 m. Mary Barber, May 1, 1735. Children-Mary, b. Dec. 31, 1736 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1739 ; Enoch, b. Aug. 24, 1741; Elijah, b. June 20, 1744; Eunice, b. June 22, 1749 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 22, 1752.
NOAH, 17 m. Hannah Skinner, Oct. 1, 1741. Children-Noah, b. May 30, 1743 ; d. June 13, 1743 : Noah, b. May 5, 1744 ; d. July 21, 1744 : Noah, b. Sept. 3, 1745 ; d. Nov. 4, 1745.
ASAHEL,18 m. Damaris Kelly, of Hartford, Feb. 7, 1744-5. Children-Asa- hel, b. Oct. 10, 1745 ; Rhoda, b. Aug. 15, 1747 ; Damara, b. Dec. 26, 1752. JACOB, Jr.,19 had Adonis, b. May 12, 1765 ; Jacob, b. Jan. 20, 1768.
AARON, 20 m. Clotilda Gillett, July 21, 1757; had Chloe, b. May 17, 1758.
JOB,21 m. Jemima Gillett, Oct. 4, 1796; lived on Broad st. ; built the house where Miss Betsey Drake now resides. Children-Elizabeth, b. Nov. 12, 1797 ; Richard Griswold,* b. Sept. 13, 1803; d. Feb. 20, 1858 : Frederic Augustine, 22 b. June 11, 1810.
FREDERIC A.,22 m. Mary H. (dau. of Amos) Seward, of Guilford, Sept. 18, 1838 ; merchant at Georgetown, S. C. ; family reside at Guilford. Children- Mary Seward, b. Feb. 20, 1840 ; d. inf. : Frederic Richard Seward, b. Aug. 31, 1846 ; son, b. May 3, 1852; d. inf.
NATHANIEL, m. Rebecca Barber, Jan. 23, 1705-7. Children-Nathaniel, b.
* RICHARD GRISWOLD DRAKE, Esq., son of Job and Jemima Drake, was born at Windsor, Ct., on the 13th day of September, A. D. 1803. He was educated at Yale College where he graduated with distinction in the year 1830. He chose the Law as his profession, and pur- sued his preparatory studies, for a portion of the required time, in the office of the Hon. Isaac C. Bates, of Northampton, Mass., and was admitted to the har in the year 1832. For the first few years of his professional life, he was located in Windsor, and enjoyed the confi- dence of the community where he lived, as an honest counselor and sound lawyer.
In the year 1837, he was invited by Hon. Charles Chapman of Hartford, to remove to that city and enter into co-partnership with him in the practice of law, which invitation he ac- cepted. He continued in that business connection, under the name of Chapman & Drake, until his death. For the last two years of his life he suffered under a pulmonary difficulty, and in the autumn of the year 1857, went to Philadelphia for the purpose of spending the winter. During the winter his symptoms became more and more alarming, and on the 20th day of Feh., 1858, he died. His remains were removed to Windsor, and interred in the family hurying ground.
Mr. Drake did not determine to acquire a liberal education and pursue a profession, until
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June 4, 1708 ; Joseph, b. April 18, 1711 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 6, 1713 ; Rebecca, b. Dec. 30, 1715.
ISRAEL, had Job, b. Nov. 6, 1714.
JEREMIAH (E. W.), m. Hannah Burnham, Oct. 17, 1717; he d. 1746. Children-Hannah, b. April 20, 1718; m. Ebenezer Bissell : Jonathan, b. Sept. 28, 1717 ; Elizabeth, b. May 4, 1721; Ann, b. Sept. 2, 1722; m. John Prior : Ance, b. Sept. 22, 1724 ; Job, b. Feb. 1, 1725-6 ; Marcus, b. Jan. 13, 1727; Gideon, b. Aug. 31, 1729.
JOSIAH, had Joel, b. Jan. 30, 1738-9 ; Levi, b. Aug. 6, 1743 ; Jonah, b. Aug. 6, 1747 ; Moses, b. April 2, 1749 ; Aaron, b. April 13, 1751.
JOSEPH had Reuben, b. May 19, 1741.
THOMAS, m. Eunice Skinner, Jan. 25, 1750. Children-Amasa, b. Dec. 8, 1750 ; Thomas, b. Nov. 7, 1753; Elinor, b. Oct. 27, 1756; Abner, b. Sept. 23, 1758 ; Amy, b. July 7, 1755.
SAMUEL had Samuel, b. April 14, 1744; Rebecca, b. Jan. 24, 1745 ; Amy, b. Oct. 24, 1749 ; d. April 18, 1750 : Abigail, b. April 22, 1752.
JOB 2d, m. Hannah Goodrich, April 27, 1749. Children-Job, b. Oct. 15, 1750; John, b. Oct. 20, 1751 ; Hannah, b. July 4, 1753.
EBENEZER, Jr., m. Martha Steadman, Feb. 18, 1762. Children-Nancy, b. March 15, 1767; Warner, b. Jan. 3, 1771; Chauncey, b. Feb. 10, 1773 ; Rumah, b. May 12, 1775 ; Theodocia, b. May 11, 1777; Lucina, b. Sept. 4, 1781.
AMASA (E. W.). Children-Eunice, b. Dec. 2, 1775 : Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1778 ; Francis, b. Jan. 8, 1781; Thomas, b. June 30, 1779.
JOB, 3d, m. Hepzibah Willis, Feb. 7, 1774. Children-Matilda, b. May 15, 1774 ; Molly, b. Aug. 14, 1778 ; Patty, b. Oct. 23, 1780 ; Hepzibah, b. Feb. 14, 1784; Amelia, b. June 12, 17 -; Sabra, b. March 27, 1786 ; Sarah, b. May 20, 1791; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 12, 1737.
Dea. DANIEL (E. W.), m. Elizabeth Warner, Feb. 4, 1730-1; he d. March 24, 1800, in 92d year ; she d. Feb. 19, 1790, in 79th year. Children-Eliza- beth, b. Sept. 8, 1732; Waitstill, b. Nov. 2, 1734; d. Oct. 22, 1784: Natha- niel, b. March 4, 1736; Ebenezer, b. June 12, 1739.
Dea. NATHANIEL, had Silas, b. Jan. 8, 1741-2; Nathaniel, jr., and Elizabeth, had a dau., b. Sept. 7, 1747 ; lived 24 hours.
he had first prepared himself for other business pursuits. He had nearly reached his ma- jority before he commeneed the study of the classics, but having entered upon the study, he pursued it with great diligenee and success. His position in his class was a highly honor- able one, and on his graduation he received a first class appointment. In the study of his profession he was industrious and untiring, and entered upon the practice with a mind well stored with legal lore.
He was a gentleman of refined tastes and accomplished manners, an agreeable companion and firm friend. As a lawyer he sustained a highly respectable rank, was engaged in an extensive business, and enjoyed the uninterrupted confidence of his clients. As a man of good business habite, great firmness and unanilied integrity, he was held in high esteem by all who knew him .- Communicated by Hon. Charles Chapman.
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SILAS (E. W.) (son of Dea. Nathaniel above), m. Hannah West, Nov. 12, 1771 ; he d. April 20, 1827, a. 86; she d. Aug. 26, 1836, a. 89. Children- Ira, b. Oct. 8, 1772 ; Hannah, b. Sept. 8, 1776 ; Silas, b. July 4, 1779 ; Ches- ter, b. April 15, 1781; Anne, b. May 25, 1783; Elizur, b. March 29, 1785; Caleb, b. Aug. 21, 1787 ; Joshua, b. Aug. 21, 1787 ; Simeon, b. Oct 30, 1790.
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Births .- LORY, son of Lydia, and reputed son of Jasper Soper ; b. May 4, 1745. FRANCES, b. April 12, 1733.
Marriages .- JOHN, m. Esther Bissell, April 14, 1708. JOSIAH, m. Hannahi Wilson, May 7, 1735. NATHANIEL, jr. (E. W.), m. 1, Anna; she d. Sept. 9, 1769, a. 27 ; m. 2, Hopefull Wolcott, April 4, 1774, who d. May 22, 1815, a. 73; he d. Feb. 13, 1806, a. 69. GIDEON, d. Aug. 20, 1771. DAVID, m. Elizabeth Strong, March 12, 1747. DAVID, jr., m. Eunice Egleston, Dec. 12, 1820. EDWARD, m. Almira Gaylord, Jan. 18, 1827. H. N., m. Mary A. Fenton, March 28, 1832. FREDERICK, m. Eliza D. Phelps, March 6, 1843. EDMUND, m. Eliza Jane Knox, of Hartford, March 18, 1849.
Deaths (W. Rec ) .- JOSIAH (s. of Job), d. Jan. 18, 1681. BENJAMIN (s. of Job), d. Jan. 17, 1697. MARY (wid. of John), d. Aug. 7, 1693. SOLOMON, d. Dec. 21, 1711. JOB (s. of Lt. Job), d. Oct. 15, 1712. MRS. ELIZABETH, wife of Job, d. Dec. 22, 1729. Dea. JOB, d. April 19, 1733. AARON, d. May 20, 1734. JOHN (son of Jacob, jr.), d. Oct. 28, 1741. Mr. JACOB, d. Jan. 20, 1762. FRANCIS (son of Phinehas), d. Sept. 3, 1762. REBECCA, wife of Dea. Nathaniel, d. May 22, 1768, a. 81. Dea. NATHANIEL, d. May 23, 1769, a. 84. ELIJAH (son of Phinehas), d. Oct. 3, 1769. Mr. JACOB, d. Sept. 11, 1771. Mr. SAMUEL, d. Jan. 17, 1837. ELIHU, d. Jan. 17, 1839. LEMUEL, d. April 15, 1780, a. 57 : his wife Esther d. Sept. 10, 1818, a. 54. DAVID, d. March 28, 1822, a. 65. JOB, d. April 16, 1657. MARTHA, wife of Job ; d. March 22, 1768, a. 63. Lucy, d. June 24, 1840, a. 64. SAMUEL, d. Oct. 18, 1798, a. 86 ; his wife, Anne, d. Dec. 1790, a. 68.
(E. W. O.)-Capt. SIMEON, d. August 9, 1807, in 59th year ; wife Lois, d. March 30, 1833, aged 88 ; GIDEON, d. August 20, 1771, aged 42; wife Abigail, d. May 6, 1816, aged 81; EMELINE, dau. of Elizur and Mary, d. Jan. 21, 1827, aged 11. PIERCY, wife of Chester, d. Nov. 2, 1810, aged 28. BATH- SHEBA, wife of Shubael, d. July 18, 1795, in 45th year.
(W. N.)-CALEB, d. April 1, 1848, aged 61. JOSHUA C., son of Caleb and Sarah, d. Jan. 21, 1849, aged 25.
DUNLAP, ROBERT, m. Martha -; had James (b. upon sea), Oct. 2, 1721; Martha, b. Dec. 27, 1722 ; llannah, b. March 18, 1726 ; John, b. June 24, 1730.
EATON, DANIEL (E. W.), had Nathaniel, b. April 26, 1736 ; John, b. June 6, 1739 ; Daniel, b. Feb. 23, 1762; Enoch, b. Nov. 1, 1763 ; Chloe, b. Oct. 6, 1765 ; Stephen Davis, b. Feb. 13, 1767 ; Elihu, b. Oct. 17, 1768 ; Elihu, b. Oct. 21, 1770 ; Jonathan, b. Dec. 14, 1772; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 6, 1774;
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Amelia, b. March 19, 1776 ; Chloe, b. Dec. 20, 1780 ; Ardon, b. Jan. 21, 1778 ; Polly, b. June 20, 1782. AARON, m. Lydia Barber, Oct. 21, 1762. MARY, had Abigail, b. July 9, 1768.
EDWARDS.
We do not propose to give a full genealogy of this large and gifted family. The subject is so extensive and so interesting, as to utterly preclude the pos- sibility of our doing more than simply giving those portions of the family more immediately connected with the town of W. A large and tolerably correct genealogy will be found in Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, to which we acknowledge our indebtedness-but we venture to express a hope and a belief that some one of the numerous and able descendants of the Rev. TIMOTHY EDWARDS, will, at some not very distant day, give to the world a genealogical and biographical history of the family, worthy of the name. There are thousands in this country who are proud to trace their descent from, or con- nection with, the Rev. JONATHAN EDWARDS, the greatest theologian, and the most subtle intellect of New England, and who would hail with delight a record of the family of EDWARDS.
WILLIAM, a son of Rev. RICHARD, a noted Welsh clergyman in the days of Queen Elizabeth (see p. 229), was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Ct., where he m. Agnes (dau. of William) Spencer. He d. before 1672; and his son RICHARD, b. in 1647, m. 1, Elizabeth (dau. of William) Tuthill, of New Haven, in 1667 ; m. 2, Mary (dau. of Lt. Col. John) Talcott of Hartford, about 1692. His eldest son,
Rev. TIMOTHY, b. May 14, 1669, grad. at Y. C. in 1691, and was ordained pastor of the 2d church of W. (now East W.) in 1694 ; he m. Esther (dau. of Rev. Solomon) Stoddard of Northampton, Mass., Nov. 6, 1694 ; he d. Jan. 27, 1758, and his widow d. Jan. 19, 1770, both at East Windsor. Child- ren-Esther, b. Aug. 6, 1695, in W. ; m. Rev. Samuel Hopkins, 2d pastor of the First Ch. in West Springfield, June 28, 1727, by whom she had 4 child- ren ; he d. Oct. 5, 1755, in 62d yr. ; she d. June 17, 1766 : Elizabeth, b. April 14, 1697, in W. ; m. Jabez Huntington, Esq. of Windham, Ct., June 30, 1724 ; Col. H., d. Sept. 26, 1752, a. 60 ; she d. Sept. 21, 1733, a. 36 ; had 4 daus., one of whom, Tryphena (b. Aug. 27, 1729), d. and was buried in E. W. Aug. 19, 1745 ; after the death of Mrs. Elizabeth, Col. H. m. 2, wid. Sarah Wet- more : Ann, b. April 28, 1699, in W .; m. Capt. John Ellsworth of E. W. : Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1701 ; d., unm., in E. W., Sept. 17, 1776 : (Rev.) Jonathan, b. Oct. 5, 1703 : Eunice, b. Aug. 20, 1705, in W .; m. Rev. Simon Backus, pastor of Ch. in Newington Society, Wethersfield, Ct., Oct., 1729 ; he d. at Louisburg, while acting as chaplain to the British army, in 1746 ; she d. at E. W., June 1, 1788, a. 83; they had 8 children, of whom 2 d., and are buried in W .; Eunice, b. Jan. 14, 1733 ; d. 1808, unmarried ; and Mary, b. March 24, 1745 ; d. Dec. 27, 1751 : Abigail, b. Dec. 25, 1707, in W .; m. William Metcalf of Lebanon, Ct., Oct. 25, 1737 ; he d. June 15, 1773, in 65th year ; she d. Sept. 24, 1764,
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in 57th year ; 5 children : Jerusha, b. May 30, 1700, in W .; d. Dec. 22, 1729, in W .: Hannah, b. Feb. 8, 1713; m. Seth Wetmore, Esq. of Middletown, Ct., Jan. 15, 1746; she was his 3d wife ; she d. June 17, 1773 ; he d. April 12, 1778, a. 78 ; 3 children : Lucy, b. May 25, 1715, in W .; d. Aug. 21, 1736 : Martha, b. Jan. 5, 1718, in W .; m. Rev. Moses Tuthill of Granville, Mass., in 1746 (see p. 325) ;* le d. at Southold, L. I., Oct., 1785, a .. 70 ; she d. in Wap- ping, E. W., Feb., 1794. Children-4 daus., 3 of whom d., and were buried in E. W. (Wp.) ; Martha, d. March 15, 1837, a. 90; Hannah, d. Dec. 11, 1831, a. 81 ; Ruth, d. 1805, a. 52.
Rev. JONATHAN (s. of Rev. Timothy), grad. at Y. C. in 1720, before he was 17 years of age, and lived in college for nearly two years after, fitting himself for the duties of a minister ; In 1722, he went to New York, and preached for some months to a small society of Presbyterians; in 1724, he was appointed a tutor of Yale College, which office he held until 1726, when he was invited to preach as colleague in his grandfather Stoddard's church at Northampton ; where he was ordained as colleague in 1727. His work here was a great and useful one; but in 1750, his fearless dealings with the immoralities of some of his charge led to a separation from them ; driven from this place of his early and faithful ministration, he succeeded, in 1751, Mr. Sergeant, as a missionary to the Housatonic Indians, at Stockbridge, Mass ; after six years' labor in this field, he reluctantly accepted the invitation to become the president of the college at Princeton, N. J., but he had scarcely entered upon his new sphere of labor, before the prevalence of the small pox induced him to be inoculated, and this disease was the cause of his death ; he d. March 22, 1758. Jonathan Edwards is now considered as the greatest intellect, and the most eminen! theologian to whom America has given birth ; it might be expected that we should devote considerable space to an account of his life, works, and writings; but the absolute impossi- bility of extending our limits forbid us from attempting any further deli- neation of so great a character; a whole volume, or more, of the size of this, would scarcely contain his biography. We must therefore refer our readers to the memoir prefixed to his works by the pen of his descendant, Sereno E. Dwight; to the well written article in Allen's Am. Biog. Dict. ; the discriminating and excellent article in Appleton's Encyclopedia, written by the Hon. George Bancroft, the eminent historian; the article in Middleton's Evang. Biog .; the biography by Samuel Miller, in Sparks' Am. Biog. Ist series, viii, 1; and lastly, but not least to his own writings, which have attained a celebrity surpassed by none; it is also understood that a new and complete edition of Jonathan Edwards' writings are soon to be published by his great grandson, the Rev. Tryon Edwards, D. D. of New London, Ct.
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