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Dr. Daniel Porter's wife was dau. of Joshua Holcombe and Ruth Sherwood of Windsor.
Edward Porter, s. of Ezra, d. in Troy, N Y., 1794. Heirs, his brothers and sisters, Francis, Nathan, Daniel, Joseph, Ezekiel, Ezra, Mary Buell, Elizabeth, Huldah Wilcox.
Dr. James Porter and Lucy:
5. Henry, b. June 2, 1775.
Levi G. Porter, b. June 8, 1760, s. of Gideon of Farm., and Catharine Jones, b. Oct. 6, 1763, were m. Jan. 16, 1783.
I. Samuel, b. Mch. 24, 1784.
2. Huldah, b. Feb. 28, 1786; d. 1794.
3. Philander, b. Feb. 19, 1788.
4. Horace, b. June 15, 1790.
5. Rhoda, b. Apr. 20, 1792; d. 1795.
6, Levi Goodwin, b. Apr. 10, 1794.
7. Abel, b. Apr. 15, 1796.
8. Amanda, b. Aug. 18, 1798.
9. Huldah, b. June 20, 1801.
IO. Rhoda, b. Oct. 25, 1805.
Robert Porter m. 1644, Mary Scott, dau. of Thomas of Hartford:
I. Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1646; m. Benj. Andrus.
2. John, b. Nov. 12, 1648; d. before 1686.
3. Thomas, b. Oct. 29, 1650; m. May, 1678, Abigail Cowles, and d. 1719.
4. Robert, b. Nov. 12, 1652; d. 1689.
5. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, 1653-4; m. Thomas An- drews, s. of Francis of Hartford. He lived in Milford, 1675-1700.
6. Joanna, bapt Jan. 6, 1655-6.
7. Sarah, b. Dec. 20, 1657; m. Abr. Andrus.
8. Benjamin, b. Mch. 18, 1659-60; d. 1689.
9. Hannah, b Apr., 1664, m. John Browne.
Io. Hepzibah, b. Mch. 4, 1666.
Robert mar., after 1675, Hannah, wid. of Stephen Freeman of Newark.
Stephen Porter, s. of Thomas, m. Lydia Manvill of Watertown.
Daniel Potter d. Oct. 29, 1773; his wife was aged 54 yrs.
Russell Potter of West Troy, N. Y., m. Sarah Scott, Apr. 22, 1840.
Benjamin Prichard of Watertown m. Mrs. Alma Prichard, Apr. 10, 1842.
David Prindle m. Hope Wetmore:
Rachel, b. Oct. 15, 1775; m. Dr. R. S. Wood- ward of Watertown; Sally m. Jacob Turner; Linus; Rebecca m. - - Bronson; Eleazer; Jonathan; Rhoda m. - Welton; Ruth m. Asa Bronson; David; Hannah m. Eleazer Woodruff; Chauncey; Eunice m. Hershel Welton.
PRINDLE. STRICKLAND.
John Prindle, s. of John; will dated May 5, 1760-" being going on the expedi- tion against Canada.
Obadiah Richards m. Hannah Andrews, b. Feb. 26, 1647, dau. of John and Mary. John Richason's dau. Ruth was wife of John Hill of Guilford in 1738.
Deacon Josiah Rogers d. at Springfield, Oct., 1803, of pleurisy.
Col. Chauncey Root, s. of Enos, m. Hul- dah Fairchild, and for second wife Huldah's twin-sister, wid. Hannah Dutton. Removed West in 1843.
Phineas Royce's second wife was dau. of Daniel Palmer of Branford.
Miles Sanford may be Moses.
Zachariah Sanford m. Sarah Curtiss, dau. of Stephen.
Edmund Scott m. for second wife the wid. of Thomas Upson.
Joseph. Edmund. Samuel, b. 1660; m. 1686, Mary Orvice; he died 1745, a. 85; she, Nov. 28, 1748, a. 85. Elizabeth; m. - Davis. Hannah. Jonathan. George. David. Rob- ert, probably unmarried.
Esther Scott, dau. of Dr. Daniel, prob- ably m. Amasa Preston.
Gideon Seymour d. April 6, 1804, at Paris, N. Y.
II. Salmon, b. Nov. 2, 1779; d. Mch. 23, 1843, at Westmoreland, N. Y.
Andrew Smith m. Rachel Tuttle.
William Southmayd d. July 31, 1778, probably of small-pox. Irena m. Eliphaz Wright.
Calvin Spencer, b. Apr. 21, 1766, s. of Isaac, d. 1846. It is said of him by one still living, that "we boys used to quit our play on the village-green and steal into the 'meeting house' on prayer- meeting nights when we heard Deacon Spencer singing."
Thomas; m. Sally Baldwin, and had six chil- dren.
Harris; m. Thirza Buckingham, June 14, 1832, and had Ellen, b. June 19, 1837; Julia A., b. Oct. 29, 1839; Sarah G., b. Mch. 8, 1842.
Dr. Lucien; m. Harriet E. Thomas, and d. in trying to save his two boys from a burning house. All perished.
Calvin, d. 1839.
Gustavus; m. Julia Beecher, Nov., 1838.
Isaac Spencer is said to have been a Separatist minister " down East." His wife died at the house of her son, Cal- vin, at a time when a great freshet had swept away the bridge, and the funeral was delayed three days in consequence.
Daniel Stow d. in the camp at Lake George.
John Strickland d. Aug. 5, 1761, in camp at Crown Point with small-pox.
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HISTORY OF WATERBURY.
STANLEY. TYLER.
Timothy Stanley, living in Waterbury 1707, had land, "one parcel given him by the town (Farmington) which is called a soldier's lot."
Jared Terrell:
Esther; m. Capt. Levi Wooster.
Letsom; m. - - Smith, and had Monroe, b. Feb. 4, 1816; m. 1844, Mary, dau. of David Beecher.
Daniel Thomas, Jr., of New Haven m. Sarah Brown, dau. of James, Dec. 25, I735.
Joshua Thornton m. Sally (Judd), wid. of Benj. Hoadley.
Stephen Tinker m. Rachel Chatfield, dau. of Samuel, and d. in Pough- keepsie.
Rev. Samuel Todd, b. Mch. 6, 1716-17.
Samuel Towner, b. at Branford. 1690, youngest s. of Richard of Guilford and Branford (who d. in 1727), m. Rebecca Barnes, dau. of Thomas, Jan. 25, 1716, who d. Jan. 31, 1728, in Wallingford; and he m. June 27, 1728, Amy Ward, b. Apr. 7, 1707, dau. of Captain Wil- liam of Wall. In 1731 he removed to Waterbury, in 1739 to Goshen, to Woodbury, to Newtown, where in 1750 he sold his lands for £2000, and moved on to the now town of Sherman, where he d. in 1784, a. 94. Of his thirteen children, Phebe, the eldest, b. Sept. 14, 1717, m. Arah Ward, brother of Amy, his second wife; Samuel, his eldest son, was living in Waterbury; 1742, and must have died soon after, as his youngest son, b. 1746, was called Samuel; Lettice m. - Pringle and lived on Phillips' Patent; Amy, b. in Waterbury, 1735, m. David Barnum of New Fairfield, and two settled in St. John's, Canada.
Dan. Tuttle:
Simon and Salmon are elsewhere given as Lyman and Solomon.
Jesse Tuttle m. Eleanor Warner, dau. of Ephraim and Eleanor (Smith). She was b. Sept. 28, 1757.
Noah Tuttle removed, 1795, to Camden, N. Y.
3. Sarah may be Laura.
Obed Tuttle, b. June 26, 1776, at :New Haven, s. of Reuben, m. Lucretia Clark.
I. Rachel, b. Apr. 3, 1800.
2. Lauren, b. Mch. 13, 1802.
3. Eben Clark, b. Apr. 27, 1806.
4. Leonard, b. Mch 3, 1808.
5. Philemon, b. Nov. 19, 1814; m. 1836, Jane E. Eaves of Birmingham, Eng.
Alma Tyler m. Elias Porter, ISI7.
TYLER. WOOSTER.
Esther and Eunice Tyler had brothers, Isaac, Abram, Enos, Jacob and Miles, whose births should be on our records.
Phineas Tyler m. Elizabeth Hoadley, b. 1776, dau. of Jude.
Jesse Upson, s. of Benjamin, was a phy- sician. He had a son, Benjamin, killed in the war of 1812.
Arah Ward, b. in Wallingford, July 5, 1718, s. of William and Lettice (Beach of Milford), m. in Goshen, Aug. 13, 1740, Phebe Towner, dau. of Samuel. Diantha, b. 1741; m. David Candee.
Daniel Warner:
2. Sarah; m. John Hough, of Hanover, N. J.
David Warner, s. of Benj., d. in Strat- ford, Mch. IS, 1794, a. 62.
John Warner, Sr., m. Ann Norton, June 28, 1649; d. 1679, leaving John, Daniel, Thomas, and Sarah bapt. Mch. 15, 1656-7, and m. William Higason. Daniel d. before Nov. 26, 1679.
John Warner, Jr:, d. before Mch, 1706-7.
I. John, b. Mch. 1, 1670.
3. Ephraim, d. Aug. 1, 1753, in his 84th year.
3. Robert of Woodbury, d. 1759.
4. Ebenezer, b. 1677; was "captain" and "doc- tor," and d. Apr. 26, 1755, a. 78. (Roxbury cemetery.)
5. Lydia, bapt. Mch. 13, 1680-1; m. Samuel Bron- son.
6. Thomas, bapt. 1683; d. before his father.
John Warner m. Anne Sutliff.
David Wood: children:
Olive; m. - North of New Haven; Alonzo; Lorenzo. (Erase Ruth Allen.)
Samuel Woodruff m. Jemima Judd, Sept. 6, 17SI.
Israel Woodward m. Mch. 31, 1731.
Israel Woodward, Jr .:
I. Israel Bard.
Azariah Woolworth: erase granddau. of David Wood.
Albert Wooster m. Mitte (Chatfield), wid. of Lyman Smith.
C. W. Wooster m. E. A. Welton, dau. of Arad.
The following physicians, in addition to those mentioned in the second vol- ume, were living here between 1730 and 1780:
William Andrews, David Arnold (1769), John Crane (1768), Daniel Clifford (re- moved to Stratford), 1769, Benjamin Hull, James Porter, Peter Powers (1755), Daniel Scott (1733), Daniel Southmayd, Jesse Upson, John Warner, Ozias War- ner, William Warner (1773). Jonas Weed (1737.)
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TOWN CLERKS OF WATERBURY TO 1895,
WITH THE DATES OF THEIR APPOINTMENT.
-, JOHN STANLEY,
1696, THOMAS JUDD, JR.,
1709, DEACON THOMAS JUDD, 1712, JOHN HOPKINS, 1713, JOHN JUDD,
1717, WILLIAM JUDD,
1721, THE REV. JOHN SOUTHMAYD, 1856, NELSON J. WELTON, 1755, THOMAS CLARK,
1764, EZRA BRONSON,
1782, MICHAEL BRONSON,
1784, ASAHEL CLARK,
1787, WILLIAM LEAVENWORTH, 1793, JOHN KINGSBURY, ISC4, ABNER JOHNSON,
1806, ASHLEY SCOTT, 1812, JOHN KINGSBURY,
1817, ASHLEY SCOTT, 1831, ELISHA S. ABERNETHY, 1837, WILLARD SPENCER, 1839, CHARLES SCOTT,
1840, NORTON J. BUEL,
1841, SOLOMON B. MINOR, 1842, CHARLES SCOTT, HENRY B. CLARK, 1843, HORACE TUTTLE, appointed by the selectmen, IS44, SOLOMON B. MINOR, 1847, JOHN KENDRICK,
1848, LUCIUS A. THOMPSON, 1849, THEODORE S. BUEL, 1851, WALES B. LOUNSBURY, JOHN W. SMITH, assistant,
I852, SAMUEL C. WOODWARD, 1854, ISRAEL HOLMES, 2d,
1858, CHARLES W. GILLETTE, 1859, NELSON J. WELTON,
1861, CHARLES W. GILLETTE, IS62, NELSON J. WELTON, 1863, FRANKLIN L. WELTON, 1869, GEORGE L. FIELD,
[ CHARLES D. HURLBURT, IS70,- GEORGE H. COWELL, REESE B. GWILLIM, assistants, 1871, CHARLES B. MERRILL, 1877, THOMAS DONOHUE, 2d,
1878, JAMES C. WHITE,
ISSI, THOMAS DONAHUE,
1882, JAMES C. WHITE,
1890, JAMES J. MADDEN, 1894, FREDERICK B. MERRIMAN, appointed by the selectmen ; served for a few weeks, 1894, THOMAS F. McMAHON, 1895, EDWARD H. BELDEN.
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SOME AUTOGRAPHS OF EARLY SETTLERS. REPRODUCED FROM BRONSON'S "HISTORY."
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