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Ozias Goodwin has a numerous posterity, and his descendants have been prominent among our best citizens. The late Judge Nathaniel Goodwin, the distinguished antiquarian and genealogist, was a great-great-grandson of Nathaniel, above. In the line of Nathaniel, by his second wife, were his great-grandson, George Goodwin, of the firm of Hudson & Goodwin, for many years publisher of the "Connecticut Courant," and also the late Major James Goodwin.
SETH GRANT came to New England in the "Lion," Sept. 16, 1632, with Good- win, Olmsted, etc. ; he was an original proprietor of Hartford, and his home- lot, in 1639, was on the southeast corner of the highways now Pearl and Trumbull streets. He d. prob. in 1646-7 ; inv. March 4, 1646-7, £141. 10. 8. His children are mentioned several times in the Book of Distribution. Paul Peck bought land of the estate ; June 10, 1651, Bartholomew Barnard owned land "in the Neck," bounded N. by land belonging to Seth Grant's children. The name of only one is known : Elizabeth ; m. Feb., 1655, Robert Warner, . of Middletown.
GEORGE GRAVE,1 weaver ; an original proprietor ; his home-lot was on the high- way now known as Elm St., near the Little River; chosen townsman, 1650, 1668 ; deputy, 1657, 1658 ; fence-viewer, 1666 ; against the " With- drawers " from the First Church, 1658, but afterward an original member of the Second Church, with his wife, Sarah, Feb. 12, 1670, and deacon ; d. in Sept., 1673 ; inv. Sept. 30, £278. 13. 2. His wife, Sarah, was probably sec- ond wife, as she was the "mother-in-law " of his son, George. Wm. Andrews, in his will, calls him "Brother." - Ch. : i. George, b. ab. 1629 (aged 58, April, 1687) ; m. April 2, 1651, Elizabeth Ventris; townsman, 1672; re- moved to Middletown ; for some years Marshal of the Colony ; d. Dec. 3, 1692. ii. John, m. (1) Nov. 26, 1657, Elizabeth, dau. of Jasper Stilwell, of Guilford ; rem. to Guilford ; deputy, 1670 and 1676 ; m. (2) 1690, Hannah, dau. of Philip Davis, of Hartford. iii. Sarah, m. Nov. 21, 1660, Jonathan Deming, of Wethersfield ; d. June 5, 1668. iv. Mary, m. Dec. 12, 1665, Samuel Dow, of Hartford, a sailor. v. Priscilla, m. William Markham, of Hartford, afterward of Hadley ; d. ab. 1688. (Thomas Thornton owned, in 1699, the messuage, tenement, etc., which had belonged to " Marshal George Graves," containing " five roods more or less, and whereof my said Brother Died Seized." Did he marry another dau. of George Grave, Sr. ? )
BARTHOLOMEW GREENE, Cambridge, freeman, May 14, 1634 ; came from England the year before, and died the year following, while making preparations to remove with the major part of his neighbors to Conn., as is said ; his land in Hartford was forfeited, and allotted to John Crow. His widow and ch. remained in Cambridge, where the widow, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 28, 1677, aged 88.
SAMUEL GREENHILL came from Staplehurst, Co. Kent, to N. E., May, 1634, in the same ship with William Pantry, Timothy Stanley and wife, Mr. Simon Willard, and others ; freeman, Mass., March 4, 1634-5. An original propri- etor of Hartford ; his home-lot was on the west side of Main St., stretch- ing from the highway on the bank of the Little River to the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow (Buckingham St.). He d. soon after his removal to Hartford, and his widow, Rebecca, m. Jeremy Adams (q. v.). - Ch. : i. Thomas, bapt. Jan. 20, 1632-3, at Staplehurst, Co. Kent ; betrothed to Sarah Fruen ; d. 1653, in Hartford, unm .; will dated July 16, 1653.2 ii. Rebecca, b. ab. 1634 ; m. Oct. 1, 1649, John Shepard, of Cambridge, who removed to Hartford ab. 1666 ; d. in Hartford, Dec. 22, 1689, aged ab. 55. (Judd says she d. Dec. 26, 1690.)
THOMAS GRIDLEY, Hartford, 1639, a proprietor " by courtesie of the town ;" his 1 " George Graue, freeholder in the Borongh of Hertford, 1621." - Cussan's Hertfordshire. 2 His will is referred to, Priv. Contr. ii. 2.
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home-lot was on the south side of the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow ; was of Windsor, Sept. 5, 1639 ; had been one of the thirty men sent from Windsor to the "Pequot fight " under Capt. Mason, and his heirs received a grant of fifty acres, Oct. 12, 1671. He m. Sept. 29, 1644, in Hart- ford, Mary Semmor, perhaps Seymour, and she may have been sister of Richard Seymour. He appears to have been interested in the settlement of Nonotuck (Northampton), as he was present at a meeting of the propri- etors held in Springfield, Oct. 3, 1653. But he d. in Hartford ; inv. June 12, 1655, £282. 12. 6. His widow, Mary, m. (2) Deacon John Langdon, of Farmington.
SAMUEL HALE (HALES) was an original proprietor at Hartford, and his home-lot in 1639 was on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture ; he had been a soldier in the Pequot War, 1637, receiving a lot for this service in the " soldier's field." He was juror twice in 1643; removed to Wethersfield, but in 1655 his name appears on the Records of Norwalk, in a table of " Estates of land," etc. He sold his land there to John Platt, in 1669. He was deputy for Norwalk, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1660. He lived on the east side of the river in Glastonbury, having bought land of the Rev. Henry Smith before 1668. He d. Nov. 9, 1693, leaving a wife, Mary. Chapin says he returned to Wethersfield, in 1660, when he sold four acres near "the Commoning," in Norwalk, to Robert Stewart.
THOMAS HALE, Roxbury, freeman, Mass., May 14, 1634; a single man, says the church record ; an original proprietor at Hartford ; his home-lot was on the west side of the road from Seth Grant's to Centinel Hill ; had served in the Pequot War ; granted fifty acres, Oct. 12, 1671, for his services ; signed the agreement for planting Norwalk, June, 1650, and was there in Feb., 1651; his name occurs in a list of inhabitants there, 1655. He m. in Feb., 1640, Jane Lord, of Roxbury. Savage suggests that he perhaps died in Charlestown.
JOHN HALL, born in the Co. of Kent, 1584 ; freeman, Boston, 1635 ; went with John Oldham to view the lands in Connecticut, in 1633 ;1 Hartford, 1639, was a proprietor "by courtesie of the town;" his home-lot was on the brow of "the Hill," about where the Catlin place now is ; this lot he sold to William Spencer; removed to Middletown, where his land is recorded, June 10, 1654 ; collector of customs there, 1659; m. (1) Esther, who prob. died bef. he left England; (2) Ann, dau. of John Willcock, of Hartford ; he d. May 26, 1673, "in the 89th year of his age, and the 40th of his being in N. E." His widow, Ann, d. July 20, 1673, aged ab. 57.
STEPHEN HART, Cambridge, 1632 ; freeman, Mass., May 14, 1634 ; an original proprietor at Hartford, his home-lot in 1639 was on the west side of the road to the Neck, now Front St., near where Morgan St. crosses it. He re- moved to Farmington ; one of the original members of Farmington church, Oct. 13, 1652, and Deacon ; deputy from Farmington, May, 1647 to 1655, and again in 1660 ; one of the eighty-four proprietors of Farmington in 1672 ; m. (1) name unknown; (2) Margaret, widow of Joseph Nash, and before him, of Arthur Smith ; d. March, 1682-3, aged 77; will dated March 16; inv. March 31, £340. 4. His widow survived him, and d. March 1, 1693-4.
WILLIAM HAYDEN, Dorchester, came prob. in the "Mary and John," 1630; re- moved to Connecticut ; served in the Pequot War ; land granted to his heirs, 1671, for his services ; an original proprietor at Hartford; his home-lot, in 1639, was on the road to the Neck ; he sold this lot Feb. 9, 1642-3, at about which time he bought lands in Windsor, "towards Pine Meadow." He re- mained in Windsor until 1664, when he removed to Fairfield, and from there to Killingworth, in 1665 ; deputy from K. 1667. His first wife d. in Wind-
1 Hall Family Records, p. 1.
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sor, in 1655, and he m. (2) Margaret, widow of William Wilcockson, in Fair- field. He d. in Killingworth, Sept. 27, 1669.
HON. JOHN HAYNES born 1594 was the eldest son of John Haynes, of Coddicot, in the County of Hertford,1 also owner of Old Holt, in Essex. John Haynes, Sr., in his will, dated Oct. 20, 1605, calls himself "of Coddicot in the County of Hartford, Esquier," mentions his lands in the parishes of muche Haddam and Widford, and the manor of Haynes at Mill, in the county of Hartford, also lands in the parishes of Birche, much Birche, Copford, and Laiermar- To: Hayns: ney in Essex.2 He m. Mary Michell; "Thom- as Michell, of Tvinge, in the county of Hart- ford, gent.," was one of the overseers of his will, perhaps a brother- in-law. He had another son, Emanuel, and nine daughters. Gov. John Haynes m. (1) Mary, dau. and coheir of Robert Thornton, of Hingham, Co. Norfolk ; purchased the estate of Copford Hall, Co. Essex, of Allen Mount- joy, before 1624. This property is still (1884) in possession of his descend- ants in the female line. He came to New England in the " Griffin," arriving Sept. 3, 1633, with Rev. Thomas Hooker; freeman, Mass., May 14, 1634; chosen Assist- ant and Governor next year; again Assistant, 1636 ; removed in May, 1637, to Hartford. He m. (2) Mabel, dau. of Richard Harlakenden, of Earl's Colne Priory, Co. Essex ; bapt. at Earl's Colne, Dec. 27, 1614. He was an original proprietor, and his first lot in Hartford was on Main St., opposite the Meeting-House Yard ; but he sold that and purchased the lot of Richard Webb, before Feb., 1639-40, on the corner of the highways now Front and Arch streets. He presided over the de- liberations of the General Court, Nov., 1637, and con- tinued to do so until he was chosen the first governor of Connecticut, April 11, 1639. He was elected gov- THE HAYNES ARMS. ernor alternate years until his death ; and chosen deputy- Edward Hopkins. governor, 1640-44-46-50, and 52, interchanging with He made a voyage to England in 1646. His son, General Hezekiah Haynes, wrote June 27, 1675 : "It is sufficiently knowne how chargeable the government was to the magistrates in that first planting wherein my father bore a considerable part to the almost ruine of his family in England, for by a clear acct it may be made evident that he had transmitted him into these parts out of his estate in England, between 7 & 8000 £, besides what he had of my Mother-in-Law's portion, which was a thousand pounds, & by reason thereof we that were the children by his first wife suffered exceed- ingly." He d. in Hartford, March 1, 1653-4. Will dated in 1646, " being called to the undertaking of a voyage into my native country of England." Inv. £1540. 6. 3. He mentions wife Mabell ; John eldest son by wife Mabel ; Roger, second son ; Joseph, youngest son ; "my Sonn, M' Nathaniel Eldred;" daur8 Ruth and Mabell. His widow m. (2) Nov. 17, 1654, Samuel Eaton, of New Haven, son of Gov. Eaton ; d. in July, 1655. - Ch. by his first wife :
1 May not the fact that Governor Haynes's ancestors lived in Hertfordshire have had some- thing to do with the name given to the settlement of which he was such a prominent founder ? 2 " John Haynes, of Haddam Magna, gentleman, was one of a number of individuals assessed £20 for the defence of the country in 1590." -Cussan's Hertfordshire.
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i. Robert, left by his father at Copford Hall ; espoused the Royalist side in the Civil Wars ; during Cromwell's time imprisoned in the Tower ; d., s. p., Aug. 1657. ii. Major-General Hezekiah, b. 1619, took the side of the Par- liament ; he was one of Cromwell's trusted generals ; military governor of the Eastern Counties during the Civil War ; upon the accession of Charles II. he was imprisoned in the Tower; pardoned Nov. 17, 1660, but again im- prisoned, Oct., 1661 ; set at liberty, April, 1662. He made one or two visits to New England, having some interest in a grant of Indian lands. He m. Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Smithsby, of London, Hackney, and widow of Bushel, a Turkey merchant. He entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Essex, Anno 1664 ; aged ab. 68, Anno 1687. His gr.s., Hezekiah Haynes, d. at Copford Hall, Nov. 15, 1763, æ. 80, and the estate passed into the possession of his cousin, Rev. John Harrison, and is now (1884) owned by Thomas Haynes Harrison, Esq. iii. A dau., m. Nathaniel Eldred, of London. By second wife : iv. John, Harvard College, 1656 ; freeman, Conn., Feb., 1656-7 ; soon afterward went to England, and in 1660 took the degree of M.A. at Pembroke Hall, University of Cambridge. Feb. 3, 1665-6, he de- scribes himself in a deed to his brother, Joseph, as "of Hemmington in the County of Suffolk, Clerk ;" instituted, May 28, 1668, rector of Swansey, near Copford Hall; remained there until his death, which occurred before April 25, 167I. v. Roger, was a student at Harvard ab. 1656 or 57, but did not graduate ; he sailed for England, but d. early, perhaps on the voyage. vi. Joseph, b. 164I ; Harvard College, 1658 ; supplied the pulpit in Wethers- field, 1663 and 64; succeeded Mr. Stone as pastor of the First Church, Hart- ford, in 1664 ; m. ab. 1668, Sarah, dau. of Capt. Richard Lord, of Hartford ; d. May 14, 1679, aged 38. His only son, John, grad. H. C. 1689 ; m. Mary Glover, of Springfield, 1693; chosen magistrate, 1708, and held the office until his death, 1713; also Judge of the Superior Court. His dau. Mary, b. 1704, was the sole survivor and heir of the Haynes family. She m. (I) May 2, 1723, Elisha Lord, of Hartford ; he d. April 15, 1725, aged 24. Their only child, John Haynes Lord, b. Jan. 13, 1725, Yale Coll., 1745, perpet- uated the name of his distinguished ancestor, having a son and grandson of the same name. Mrs. Mary (Haynes) Lord, m. (2) April 6, 1727, Roswell Saltonstall, of Branford, son of Gov. Saltonstall; had four ch. After his death she m. Feb. 5, 174I, Rev. Thomas Clap, President of Yale College. vii. Mary, b. 1643 ; m. Joseph Cooke; d. 1702, aged 58. viii. Ruth, m. ab. 1654, Samuel Wyllys, of Hartford (q. v.). 9. Mabel, b. in Hartford, March 19, 1645-6 ; m. James Russell, of Charlestown ; d. before 1680.
REV. JOHN HIGGINSON, son of Rev. Francis Higginson, b. Aug. 6, 1616, at Clay- brook, Co. Leicester ; came with his father, in the "Talbot," 1629, to Salem ; freeman, Mass., May 25, 1636 ; chaplain at the Fort at Saybrook, 1637-8. Porter says he was one of the first settlers of Hartford, "although he appears not to have had a house-lot." He was a schoolmaster in Hartford, and may have occasionally " stepped into the pulpit." Mrs. Higginson sold land to Thomas Olcott, before Jan. 1639-40; he was at Guilford in 1641; col- league with Rev. Henry Whitefield, whose dau., Sarah, he m. He returned in 1659 to Salem, and remained there until his death, Dec. 9, 1708. He m. (2) ab. 1677, Mary, widow of Joshua Atwater, and dau. of Rev. Adam Blakeman, of Stratford.
WILLIAM HILLS, an original proprietor ; his home-lot in 1639 was on the corner of the highways now Front and Sheldon streets. He is supposed to have been the William Hills who came in the "Lion" in 1632 ; freeman, Mass., May 14, 1634 ; m. (1) Phillis, dau. of Richard Lyman ; removed to Hartford ; chosen constable, 1644; removed early to Hockanum, where it is a well- accepted tradition that he was one of the first settlers. He was captain of the first trainband on the east side of the river, in 1653 ; made freeman 1669;
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he was shot by the Indians1 in the beginning of King Philip's War, 1675 ; he m. (2) Mary, widow of John Steele, Jr., of Farmington, and dau. of An- drew Warner, of Hartford ; but he m., for 2d or 3d wife, the widow of Rich- ard Risley.2 Died July, 1683; inv. £274. 3; will, dated Feb. 25, 1681-2, names wife Mary and children ; mentions lands in Farmington that he has a right unto by right of his wife. - Ch. : i. Mary. ii. Hannah. m. Sergt. Thomas Kilbourn, of East Hartford. iii. William, proposed freeman, May, 1668 ; buried at Hartford, Aug. 15, 1693 ; left seven ch. iv. John, buried at Hartford, April 5, 1692, leaving wife and 2 daurs. v. Joseph ; his descendants reside in Glastonbury. vi. Benjamin, m. Jan. 11, 1688, Mary, dau. of John Bronson. vii. Sarah, m. William Ward, of Middletown ; d. before 1660. viii. Susannah, b. 1651 ; m. March 4, 1674, John Kilbourn, of Glastonbury ; d. Oct. 1701, aged 50. ix. Lieut. Jonathan ; m. (1) Dorothy, dau. of Samuel Hale, of Glastonbury ; (2) Mary, dau. of Robert Reeve, widow of Asa Mer- rills ; a prominent man in East Hartford ; townsman, 1698, 1706, 1712. JOHN HOLLOWAY came to Boston in the " Elizabeth," from London, 1635, aged 21, in the same ship with Clement Chaplin, William Ruscoe, and others. He served in the Pequot War; granted 50 acres for his services in 1671. He was a proprietor " by the town's courtesie " in 1639 ; his home-lot was on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture, on the point made by the junction of the two highways now Main and Village streets, near the Pound; signed the agreement for planting Norwalk, June 19, 1650, but did not go ; he m. Mary - ab. 1663. Freed from watching and warding March 2, 1670-1; died, s. p., Oct. 13, 1684; inv. £41. 3. Left all his property to the First Church in Hartford.
WILLIAM HOLTON (HOUGHTON, HOLTEN) came in the " Francis," from Ipswich, 1634, aged 23. An original proprietor at Hartford ; his home-lot in 1639 was on "the road from George Steel's to the Great Swamp," now Washington St. Removed to Northampton in 1654; was the first deacon there ; member of first Board of Magistrates ; deputy several years ; d. in Northampton, Aug. 12, 1691 ; his widow, Mary, d. Nov. 16, 1691.
REV. THOMAS HOOKER, b. at Marfield, Co. Leicester, 1586 ; son of Thomas Hooker, or Hoker, of Marfield, in the parish of Tilton, grandson of Kenelm Hooker, of Blaston, who was the only son of Thomas Hooker or Hoker of Blaston, Co. Leicester, whose will, dated Sept. 2, 1559, was proved Jan. 27, 1561-2, by Cecelia Hooker, his relict and executrix. It is supposed that this Thomas Hooker held some stewardship, or like office, under the Digby family, who possessed estates in that part of Leicestershire. "Kenellime Digby," Esq., is a witness, and named as "supervisor " of the will, and the son Kenelm, or Kenellyme, Hooker undoubtedly received his name from Kenelm Digby, who was the grandfather of Sir Everard Digby, executed in 1606 for his complicity in the "gunpowder-plot," and great- grandfather of the learned Sir Kenelm Digby. Thomas Hooker, father of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, occupied in 1586 land in Frisbye and Gaddes- by, Co. Leicester. The parish register of Tilton records the burial of " Thomas Hooker, of Marfield, July 24, 1635," and administration on his estate was granted to his eldest son, John Hooker, in the Archdeacon's Court at Leicester, Jan. 11, 1636-7, and he is there described as "Thomas Hooker of Marefield, in the parish of Tilton, gentleman." The Tilton Register, under date of April, 1631, gives the burial of Mrs. Hooker, wife to Mr. Hooker, of Marfield ; probably the wife of Thomas. Rev. Thomas Hooker married in
1 " The enemie having come to Hockanum and shott at William Hill and sorely wounded him, the Councill sent forth a party of soldiers to make search for the enemie."- Col. Rec. ii. 410. Feb. 18, 1675.
2 See Dist. 219. Thos. Bunce bought land, Feb. 26, 1680, of Wm. Hill, in Podunk Swamp, wh. formerly belonged to Richard Risley, and came to sd. Hill by right of his wife, relict of sd. Risley.
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England ; and the only clew to his wife's family is obtained from a little book called " Trodden down Strength by the God of Strength ; or, Mrs. Drake re- vived." This Mrs. Joan Drake, wife of Francis Drake, Esq., was a daughter of William Tothill, Esq., of Shardeloes, one of the six clerks in Chancery. She lived at Esher, in Surrey and Mr. Hooker received, about 1620, from her husband, the cure of Esher, "having his diet and lodging" in Mr. Drake's house. Here he married Mrs. Drake's " waiting-gentlewoman," Susan, who, according to the custom of the times, was probably a relative of the family. Francis Drake, of Esher, bequeaths in his will, May 13, 1633-4, £30 to Johanna Hooker, "now in New England, to be paid to her on the day of her marriage." Mr. Hooker was an original proprietor of Hartford, and his home- lot was on the highway on the north bank of the Little River, now Arch St. ; Samuel Stone, the teacher, and William Goodwin, the ruling elder, having lots between his and the Main St. Mr. Hooker's children were : i. Johanna ; m. Rev. Thomas Shepard, of Cambridge; died April 28, 1646. ii. Mary, m. Rev. Roger Newton, the first minister at Farmington, afterward of Milford ; died Feb. 4, 1676, at Milford. iii. Anne, " dau. of Thomas Hooker, clerk, and Susan his wife ; " bapt. at Great Baddow, Essex, Jan. 5, 1626. iv. Sarah, bapt. at Chelmsford, Essex, April 9, 1628; buried there Aug. 26, 1629. v. John, under age at the time of his father's death, 1647 ; in his father's will he was "not forbidden from seeking and taking a wife in England," but he " was forbidden from tarrying there." He is mentioned in the will of his uncle, John Hooker, Esq., of Marfield, gentleman, in 1655, as a student at Oxford. In 1660 he became vicar of Marsworth, in Buckinghamshire, and in 1669 he was presented by Sir Edward Pye, Bart., to be rector of Le- champsted, in the same county. He died in 1684; buried at Marsworth. vi. Samuel, grad. Harvard Coll., 1653; he preached at Plymouth, Mass., for a time, and m. there, Sept. 22, 1658, Mary, dau. of Capt. Thomas Willet, afterward first mayor of the City of New York. He was ordained at Farm- ington, July, 1661 ; he was appointed one of a committee of four persons to go to New Haven and arrange for an amicable union of the two colonies, in 1662. He died at Farmington, Nov. 5 or 6, 1697 ; his widow m. (2) Aug. 10, 1703, Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Saybrook. vii. Sarah, mn. Rev. John Wilson, of Medfield, Mass. He had a numerous family, and is the ancestor of all of the name in Hartford County.
GOVERNOR EDWARD HOPKINS was born at Shrewsbury, Co. Salop, in England, in 1600 ; son of Edward, or Edmund, Hopkins and Katherine, sister of Sir Henry Lello, Knight, Warden of the Fleet, and Keeper of the Palace of Westminster; 1 a Turkey merchant ; arrived in Boston, June 26, 1637 ; came to Hartford, perhaps, the same year ; he was an original proprietor, and in 1639 owned a home-lot opposite the Meeting-House Yard on Main St., and he also owned a large tract of land on the south bank of the Little River, east of the present Front St. Chosen Assistant, 1639; Governor the next year, and thereafter in alternate years with John Haynes until he went home in 1652. His brother, Henry Hopkins, who had received the office of Warden of the Fleet from his uncle, Sir Henry Lello, d. in 1654-5, and by his will consti- tuted Governor Hopkins Warden of the Fleet, and Keeper of the Palace of Westminster. His wife was Ann, dau. of David Yale, of Denbighshire. He d. in London, 1657 ; will dated March 7, proved April 30, 1657, by Henry Dalley, nephew and sole executor. He remembered the plantations in Con- necticut, leaving money in trust to his friends, Theophilus Eaton, Esq, Mr. John Davenport, Mr. John Cullick, and Mr. Goodwyn, "for the breeding up of hopeful youths in a way of learning, both at the Grammar School and College; ". and the Hopkins Grammar Schools in Hartford and New Haven still perpetuate his memory.
1 His seal is in the Winthrop Papers impaling the arms of Lello, of Herefordshire.
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JOHN HOPKINS, Cambridge, 1634 ; freeman, Mass., March 4, 1635 ; removed to Hartford, where he was an original proprietor ; his home-lot was on what is now the East Park; chosen townsman, 1640; juror, 1643; d. in 1654; inv. April 14, 1654, £236. 8 .; left a widow, Jane, who married (2) Nathan- iel Ward, of Hartford, afterward of Hadley (q. v.). - Ch. : i. Stephen, b. ab. 1634 ; Hartford; freeman, 1657 ; m. Dorcas, dau. of John Bronson, of Farm- ington ; chosen townsman, 1668, 1672; d. Oct. 1689. The great theolo- gian, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, of Great Barrington and Newport, was his great- grandson. ii. Bethia, b. ab. 1635 ; m. (1) May 27, 1652, Deacon Samuel Stocking, of Middletown ; (2) James Steele, of Hartford.
THOMAS HOSMER, son of Stephen and Dorothy Hosmer, was born in Hawkhurst, Co. Kent, Jan. 2, 1603. Stephen Hosmer d. in Hawkhurst, May 24, 1633. Thomas Hosmer was in Cambridge, 1632; freeman, Mass., May 6, 1635 ; removed to Hartford in June, 1636 ; he received 60 acres in the distribu- tion of 1639, and his home-lot was on the edge of the South Meadow, near the south end of Governor St. He was chosen constable, 1639, 1663 ; towns- man, 1643, 1647 ; also deputy several times. His first wife, Frances, d. Feb. 15, 1675, aged 73. He m. (2) May 6, 1679, Katherine, widow of David Wil- ton, of Northampton ; removed to Northampton, where he d. April 12, 1687, aged 83. (Tomb-stone.)1 - Ch. : i. Stephen, b. 1645 ; Hartford ; m. Hannah, dau. of Deacon Francis Bushnell, of Saybrook ; appointed townsman, 1673, 1676, 1677, 1689 ; chosen deacon of the First Church, 1686; d. Nov. 4, 1693; he had a large family ; the late James B. Hosmer was his great-great-grandson.2 ii. Clemence, m. (1) Sept. 3, 1662, Deacon Jonathan Hunt, of Northamp- ton ; (2) 1694, John Smith, of Milford. iii. Hannah ; m. (1) March 20, 1657, Josiah Willard, of Wethersfield ; (2) Maltby. iv. Hester ; m. Sept. 20, 1666, Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Saybrook.
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