Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 72

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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(VIII) Henry Otis, son of Otis Packard, was born in 1853, at Ware, Oakham. He was educated in the public schools of Ware. Dur- ing his boyhood he worked on his father's farm. Then he became clerk in the meat and provision market of Mr. Barnes, and after a few years engaged in the ice business in part- nership with Edward Lawton, continuing until 1906, when he sold his interest in the busi- ness to Mr. Snow. He has been in the retail coal and wood business since 1905, and has a large and flourishing trade. He has built a number of houses and been interested in vari- ous other enterprises in Ware, and is known as one of the most active and progressive busi- ness men of the town. In politics he is a Re- publican, with an active influence in public affairs. He has been selectman of the town, and held other positions of trust and respon- sibility. He is a member of Ware Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of Oasis Lodge, Daugh- ters of Rebekah, and is a Free Mason. He is a prominent member of the Congregational church of Ware. He married, 1880, Sarah Coney, born at Ware, October 4, 1849, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary (Semple ) Coney. (See Coney, VII.) Children, born at Ware : I. Dwight Edward, August 6, 1882. 2. Mary E., February 5, 1883. 3. George Otis, Janu- ary 17, 1885.

The surname Coney, Cony, Con- CONEY nin or Conny, as variously spelled in early records, appears as early in England as the Roll of the Battle Abbey. The name is of Norman origin, being

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originally a local or place name. The ancient seat of this family is in Lincolnshire, England, and its coat-of-arms is: Sable a fesse argent cotised or between three conies of the second. (2) Gules a bend between three fleurs-de-lis argent. The crest with the ancient coat-of- arms as seen in the Herald's Visitation of Lin- colnshire, 1592, is a demi-coney sable holding a pansy flower purple stalked and leaved vert. The traditional coat-of-arms of the family is still preserved and cherished by the descend- ants of the late Judge Cony, of Augusta, Maine. It is the same as that borne on the portrait of Dr. Robert Cony, painted in 1722, by Alexander Venderhagen, still to be seen in the Bodlein Library at Oxford, and shows the family arms borne by Robert Conny, of God- manchester, plainly traceable to the "antient coate of Conny" now to be seen among the manuscripts in the British Museum. This portrait was engraved the same year it was painted, by John Faber, of London, and a copy of the engraving is in the possession of the American family and is greatly prized. The English ancestry as traced by Governor Joseph H. Williams in his pamphlet has been shown to be incorrect. (See New Eng. Gen. Reg., 1907, p. 47). The ancestry given below has been absolutely established by documentary proof.

(I) John Coney, first known progenitor lived at Boston, Lincolnshire. A widow, Ann Cunny, supposedly his wife, died at Boston, and was buried in St. Botolph church-yard, May 9, 1652. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, baptized February 21, 1599; married Mary Hawkredd, daughter of Anthony, as shown by Anthony's will; Thomas was town clerk of Boston, England, about 1620, and was succeeded by his son John, who was baptized November 28, 1619; Thomas died July 31, 1649, in England.

(II) John (2), son of John (I) Coney, was baptized at St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Eng- land, October 21, 1596. He married, Decem- ber 16, 1624, Elizabeth Hawkredd, daughter of Anthony. Her father was born about 1571, and his will, dated August 12, 1626, mentions sons, Anthony, John and Samuel; Mary, wife of Thomas Coney; Elizabeth, who married John Coney, and Sarah, who married William Story. Sarah (Hawkredd) Story married (second) April 25, 1632, Rev. John Cotton, whose first wife had died. Rev. John Cotton was vicar of St. Botolph's, Boston, England, and the famous minister of Boston, in New England. After his death Sarah married

(third) Rev. Richard Mather, pastor of the church at Dorchester, Massachusetts. John Coney died at Boston, England, April 6, 1630. His widow married ( second ) Oliver Mellows, and went to Boston with others of the family and had children there: Samuel Mellows, bap- tized December 7, 1634; Martha Mellows, born 1636 ; Mary Mellows, 1638. Widowed again, she married (third) Thomas Makepeace, being his second wife. Children of John and Eliza- beth (Hawkredd) Coney, born in Boston, Eng- land: I. Marie, baptized October 9, 1625; buried December 10, 1625. 2. Marie, baptized June 28, 1627; buried August 16, 1627. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Marie, baptized May 2, 1630; married James Dennis, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts.

(III) John (3), the immigrant ancestor, son of John (2) Coney, was baptized in St. Botolph's, Boston, England, July 17, 1628. He came to Boston, Massachusetts, with his mother and stepfather, about 1633. He was appren- ticed to John Milom, cooper, before 1649. At the town meeting February 25, 1655, with William Dinsdale, he was chosen a packer of fish and meat and gauger of casks; was constable in 1669; clerk of the market in 1672 and 1687 ; inspector of chimneys in 1676-89-90. His resi- dence was on what is now Cross street, about midway between Endicott and Salem streets, Boston. He was on a committee of six for the Second Church to receive subscriptions for Harvard College in 1678. He died December 24, 1690. He held various other places of trust and owned much real estate and was an owner in the ship "Rebecca and Elizabeth." His estate was administered by Thomas Wal- ter. He married, June 20, 1654, at Boston, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Nash. Her father died September 13, 1661. She died De- cember 16, 1687, aged fifty-two years. (Gran- ary burying-ground, Boston, northwest angle, contains her tombstone). Children, born in Boston: I. John, January 5, 1655 ; goldsmith ; married (first ) Sarah -; (second) No- vember 8, 1694, Mary, daughter of Joshua At- water, widow of Captain John Clark; Paul Revere's father learned his trade as goldsmith under Coney. 2. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, May 22, 1660. 4. Joseph, April 27, 1662. 5. Elizabeth, April 2, 1664; died in Bos- ton, June 16, 1664. 6. William, born July 5, 1665. 6. Thomas, September 26, 1667. 7. Mary, March 10, 1668. 8. Rebecca, June 18, 1670; married, December 7, 1692, Joylieffe Price. 9. Elizabeth, February 24, 1671 ; mar- ried, April 11, 1705, Thomas Booth, of Strat-

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ford, Connecticut. 10. Benjamin, October 16, 1673.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of John (3) Coney, was born in Boston, about 1658 or 1775, prob- ably the latter. He resided in Boston until 1720, then at Sudbury, Rehoboth and Stough- ton, Massachusetts. He was an innholder and farmer. He deeded land to his son, Nathaniel, June 29, 1737. His homestead at Stoughton was part of what was called the Dorchester school farm. He dicd suddenly November 19, 1742, at Boston, and a coroner's inquest next day decided that the cause of death was "by the act of God." He married, October II, 1699, Elizabeth Greenland, died May 7, 1711 ; (second) September 6, 1711, the widow of Ebenezer Ager, daughter of Thomas Skinner ; (third) December 27, 1736, Mary Royal. The proof of Nathaniel's connection with the family is found in two Middlesex deeds, one dated March 4. 1716, from John Coney, of Boston, goldsmith, eldest son and joint heir of John Coney, of Boston, deceased, land in Dunstable to "my brother Nathaniel Coney of Boston, tailor ;" the other deed is from Nathaniel Coney, of Boston, tailor, to Thomas Hutchin- son, of Boston, conveying the same land, "partly in right of my father John Coney late of Boston, cooper," and also "given and grant- ed to me by my brothers John and Benjamin Coney and my sister Elizabeth Booth, who were his children and heirs of my said father." Children of first wife, all born in Boston: I. John, January 14, 1700; died August 20, 1726. 2. Infant, July 5, 1702. 3. Infant, April 4, 1704. 4. Nathaniel, December 18, 1705; died February 2, 1779. 5. Daniel, October 17, 1709; married, August 2, 1733, Sarah Jones. 6. Sarah, March 20, 1771; married Ebenezer Holmes. Children of second wife: 7. Abigail, July 28, 1712; married Michael Lowell, of Boston. 8. Thomas, July 2, 1714; died May 16, 1749. 9. Elizabeth; May 15, 1716; married Joseph Pittce, of Walpole. 10. Samuel, April 5, 1718; married Rebecca Guild, of Dedham. Il. Mary, March 18, 1720; marricd Samuel Pittee, of Walpole. 12. Priscilla, born at Sud- bury, April 2, 1722; died unmarried. 13. Joseph, born at Rehoboth, May 8, 1724; mar- ricd Sarah Savcll, of Roxbury. 14. William, sec forward. 15. Anna, born in Stoughton, September 23, 1728; married Aaron Guild, of Dedham.

(V) William, son of Nathaniel Coney, was born March 29, 1727, at Rchoboth; died at Brookfield, November 1, 1805. His wife, Me- hitable Ellis, was born in 1728, and died Au-

gust 14, 1777. He married (second) Mary Carr, widow of Aquila Robbins. He was a soldier at the siege of Louisburg, 1745-6. He removed from what is now Sharon, Massachu- setts, to Brookfield, and during the revolution settled at what is now Ware, building his house among the rocks on Coy's Hill, where his son, and later his grandson, Thomas A. Coney, livcd. He was a man of small stature, and always wore knee breeches after the old fash- ion. He was very pious and a zealous member of the Orthodox church. His son, Oliver, came even earlier and owned the farm where George Rich lately lived. Children: I. Cap- tain Oliver, born June 11, 1749; died at Ware, December 13, 1830; commanded a company in the revolution. 2. Nathan, born at Sharon; died in infancy. 3. Abigail, born 1753; mar- ried Phille Morse, of Sharon ; came with Oliver Coney and Daniel Gould to Ware; their de- scendants at last accounts lived on the home- stead. 4. John, born 1755; lived in Hawley, Massachusetts ; removed to western New York, and has descendants in Chautauqua county. 5. Molly, born 1758; married Captain Ephraim Scott; they lived at Ware, then Belchertown, Massachusetts. 6. Milley, born December 13, 1760; married Ebenezer Gould, January 2, 1781 ; died June 17, 1851, at Ware Centre ; their children went west. 7. Priscilla, born August 28, 1762; married James Brakenridge, January 2, 1781 ; eight children ; she died Sep- tember II, 1840; he died December 10, 1828; his parents were William and Agnes ( Sinclair) Breakenridge (as then spelled) both of whom were born in the north of Ireland. (The immi- grant ancestor, James Breckinridge ( Breaken- ridge ), was born in 1696, was of Scotch ances- try, left Ireland, July 16, 1727, with three sons, James, William and Francis, who died on the voyage ; settled at what is now Palmer, with other Scotch-Irish, and died there April 5, 1767 ; his wife, Sarah, died November 17, 1773, at Palmer). 8. William, born February 3, 1765 ; lived on the homestead at Ware. 9.

Daniel, born January 13, 1768 ; mentioned below. IO. Ellis, born April 19, 1770; a physician, of Goshen, Massachusetts ; died October 29, 1807 ; family moved to Wethersfield, Henry county, Illinois, in 1838.

(VI) Danicl, son of William Coney, was born at Sharon (Stoughtonham), January 13, 1768, and died at Warc, October 23, 1860. He was a farmer. He married Sally Andrews, born October 6, 1774, dicd 1857, at Ware. Children, born at Ware: I. Aaron, October 7, 1795: dicd 1864, at Ware. 2. Ellis, 1799;

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died 1829, at Ware. 3. Thomas, 1804; men- tioned below. 4. Dwight, 1810; died 1872, at Ware. 5. Daniel, 1812; died 1898, at Ware; unmarried ; a real estate dealer.

(VII) Thomas, son of Daniel Coney, was born at Ware, in 1804, and died in 1878. He inherited the homestead on Corey's Hill, and was a farmer. He married Mary Semple, born in the north of Ireland, in 1807; died at Ware, 1887. Children, born at Ware: I. Dwight, 1832 ; died 1892, at Ware. 2. Sarah, October 2, 1849 ; married Henry O. Packard, of Ware. (See Packard, VIII).

James Northam, immigrant NORTHAM ancestor, was born in Eng- land. He settled in Con- necticut, as early as 1640 (Connecticut Rec. i., P. 45), and at Wethersfield, in September, 1644 (ibid L, p. IIO). Other references to him occur under dates of 1648-55-58. He was admitted a freeman in 1658. He was one of the seceders who agreed to leave Connecticut and locate at Hadley, Massachusetts, but he died before 1662. He married Widow Isabel Catlin for his second wife. After he died she removed to New Jersey, but afterward re- turned to Hadley, where her stepson lived, and there married Joseph Baldwin.

(II) Samuel, the only known child of James Northam, by his first wife, was born about 1650, and died at Colchester, Connecticut, No- vember 12, 1726. He removed from Hart- ford to Hadley, thence about 1686 to Deerfield, and before 1709 to Colchester. He was a townsman of Colchester, elected December 13, 1709. He married, in 1674, Mary, daughter of John Dickinson, of Hadley. Children, born at Hadley: I. Samuel, May 4, 1675. 2. Mary, January 6, 1676. 3. Elizabeth, April 1I, 1680. Also Jonathan, Ebenezer and John, all men- tioned below.

(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Northam, was born May 18, 1682, at Hadley, and re- moved to Colchester with the rest of the family. He was highway surveyor of Colchester in 1717, way warden in 1723. He married, De- cember 20, 1722, Mary Day. Children, born at Colchester : I. Mary, November 28, 1723. 2. Jonathan, born August 29, 1725. 3. Doro- thy, March 17, 1727. 4. Asa, mentioned below. 5. Israel, January 24, 1731.

(III) John, son of Samuel Northam, was born about 1690-5. He married, May 9, 1721, Hannah Pomeroy, and lived at Colchester. He was a lister (assessor ) in 1718; surveyor, 1720. Children, born at Colchester: I. Hannah, ii-30

June 6, 1722. 2. Lurannah, May 25, 1723. 3. Hannah, May 29, 1724. 4. John, May 29, 1725. 5. Sarah, August 6, 1726. 6-7. Ruhama and Ann (twins), October 15, 1727. 8. Eliz- abeth, April 20, 1729. 9. Abigail, August 23, 1731. IO-II. Katharine and Experience ( twins ), born April 13, 1733.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Northam, was born about 1690-95. He lived at Col- chester. Children, born there: I. Samuel, October 29, 1720 (a Samuel went to Conway, Massachusetts, after the revolution) ; was a conductor in the revolution, furnishing the government with twelve teams. 2. Ebenezer, June 22, 1721. 3. Timothy, June 16, 1723 (a Timothy, of Colchester, perhaps his son, was wounded in the battle of White Plains). 4. Mary, February 13, 1725. 5. Lydia, October 25, 1727. 6. Elijah, June 18, 1833. (The family being small is given in full, three gen- erations ).

(IV) Asa, son of Jonathan Northam, was born at Colchester, December 4, 1728. When the fed- eral census of 1790 was taken the only heads of families of this surname in the county were Asa, probably son of this Asa, having no wife or family ; and Jonathan, Jr., a nephew, hav- ing two males under sixteen and one female in his family.

(V) Asa (2), son of Asa (I) Northam, was born in Colchester, about 1760. He and his wife joined the Colchester church in 1795. He removed to Williamstown, Massachusetts. He married (first ) Polly Bridges, of Colches- ter ; (second) Almira - Children, born at Colchester : 1. Asa, January 16, 1794; died soon in 1795. 2. Asa, mentioned below. 3. Harriet, April 21, 1798, at Williamstown ; died 1875; married William Sherman. 4. Edward F., April 3, 1800. 5. Eliza, January 16, 1802. 6. Annie, October 5, 1804.

(VI) Asa (3), son of Asa (2) Northam, was born in Colchester, April, 5, 1796. He lived at Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(VII) Solomon Scovell, son of Asa (3) Northam, was born in Williamstown, 1823, and died at Westfield, Massachusetts, 1896. He had a common school education. He followed farming and lumbering through his active life. raising tobacco, having an excellent dairy, and ranking among the most enterprising and suc- cessful farmers of his day, in the town of Westfield. He married, in 1850, Lucy Leon- ard Miller, born 1819, at Feeding Hills, a vil- lage in Agawam, Massachusetts, and died Oc- tober 19, 1904, at Westfield. Children: I. Samuel D., born 1851 ; died 1875; unmarried.

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2. Heber M., born 1853. 3. Nellie, 1855; lives in Westfield. 4. Harry H., mentioned below.

(VIII) Harry H., son of Solomon Scovell Northam, was born May 8, 1859, at Feeding Hills. When he was about two years old his father moved to Westfield and located on the farm on which he spent his boyhood and youth. He attended the public school of Westfield. He remained at home and assisted his father in the milk business for several years. He spent four years ranching in the west, then returned to Westfield and worked for a time in the whip factory. He became associated with his father in conducting the farm, and when his father died he succeeded to the homestead, in 1888. He sold out a few years later, and bought a smaller place near the village, 52 South Maple street. In addition to farming he has a real estate business, and has been interested in the lumber business. He is a member of the Sec- ond Congregational Church. In politics he is inclined to be a Socialist. He married, Octo- ber 10, 1906, Catherine Banks Hinsdale, daugh- ter of William E. and Christianna (Goodwin) Hinsdale, of Westfield. (See Hinsdale, VIII).

HINSDALE The family of Hinsdale had its origin in the district of Loos, in the country of

Liege, now in Belgium, where it was settled as early as the end of the twelfth century. While the family was doubtless originally French, the name is as much Dutch as French in its derivation. Dal, or Dale, is the French for valley, and corresponds with the English Dale and the Dutch Dael. The surname is there- fore a place name. Various spellings are found-Hinisdal, Hinisdael, Henisdael, Henis- dal, Hinesdale, Henesdale, Hinisdale, Hinnis- dale, Hynsdale, Hinsdael and Hinnisdal. The last spelling is most common in France. In England, Hensdell, Endesdale and Ensdale are used, while the American immigrant used Hinsdall, Hensdell, Hinsdall, etc. The name is not found in England earlier than the six- teenth century, and there is good reason for believing the family came from France to England at the time of the Huguenot persecu- tions. The founder of the French family was Robertus de Hinnisdal, and the name occurs frequently in the subsequent generations of that family. It is possible that the immigrant, Robert, was of this stock. As the pedigree given in France includes only the eldest son, it is impossible to trace the connection. The only coat-of-arms granted to the family is : De sable, au chef d'argent, charge de trois merles

de sable. Crest : Couronne de comte. Sup- ports : Deux levriers. Motto: Moderata durant.

(I) Deacon Robert Hinsdale, immigrant an- cestor, came to Dedham, Massachusetts, prob- ably from Dedham, county Essex, England, and was a proprietor of that town in 1637. He was selectman the same year and after- wards, and his home was "on the Easternmost playne." He received a grant of land in 1638. He was one of the eight founders of the Ded- ham church, November 8, 1638. He was ad- mitted a freeman March 13, 1639. He had other grants of land, and was a leading citizen of the town, serving on important committees, and as surveyor of highways in 1641. On January I, 1645, he with others signed a peti- tion for a free school at Dedham, agreeing to raise twenty pounds a year for the support of the school. This is supposed to have been the first school in the country supported in this manner. In 1645 he was chosen a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. On November 14, 1649, he was one of a committee to organize a new town, afterwards Medfield, incorporated 1651. He was one of the first selectmen, and served six years. He was one of the first thirteen who took up house lots there, and his home was on what is now North street. The original well is still in use. He built his house in 1652. In 1659 he bought a "bell and brought it up for the use of the town." Soon after the town granted him forty-six acres near what is now Collin's mill. He built a mill there which was burned by the Indians in 1676. He was active in organizing the first Medfield church. About 1667 he removed with his family to the Con- necticut valley, settling first at Hadley, where in 1672 he was released from military duty "on account of age and a sore leg." He was an original proprietor in the eight thousand grant made by the Dedham people at Deerfield, and drew lot 31, the present site of the Willard House. He and his four sons were inhabitants of Deerfield, November 13, 1673. He was 'deacon of the First Church and a foremost citizen. He was one of the five men of the thirty-two original proprietors who settled in Deerfield. He and his three sons (Samuel, Barnabas and John) were slain in the fight at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. The inventory of his estate was taken October 22, 1676. He married (first) probably in England, Ann, daughter of Peter Woodward, of Ded- ham. She was a sensitive and timid woman, and fainted away on making of her profession

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of faith before the church at Dedham, June 2, 1639. She was allowed to go through the ordeal in private. She died June 4, 1666, and he married (second) about 1668, Elizabeth, widow of John Hawks, of Hadley. The mar- riage was not happy, and they soon separated. For this they were before the court, March 30, 1674. She refused to answer the charge, and appears to have got off clear ; but he said "he did it as being her head and having the rule of her in the Pointe and that he did it for her correction of her disorder towards him." The court held that he had "broken the Perfect

rule of divine law * ** * and the law of the Colony in the intent if not in the letter in the first living assunder," and ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body," and imposed a fine for which his sons became re- sponsible, and which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. On June 25, 1683, his widow, Elizabeth, married Thomas Dibble, of Windsor, Connecticut. She died September 25, 1689. Children, all by the first wife: I. Elizabeth, married James Rising. 2. Barnabas, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, born about 1641-2 ; married Mehitable Johnson. 4. Gama- liel, born March 5, 1642-3; married Rachel Martin. 5. Mary, born February 14, 1644; married Daniel Weld. 6. Experience, born January 23, 1646; married Mary Hawks. 7. John, born January 27, 1647-8; married. 8. Ephraim, born September 26, 1650; married Mehitable Plympton.

(II) Barnabas, son of Deacon Robert Hins- dale, was born November 13, 1639, probably at Dedham, and baptized November 17, 1639. He went with his father to Hadley, and lived for several years at Hatfield. He removed to Deerfield in 1674, when he sold his Hadley homestead and lived on lot nine in Deerfield, and also owned lot fifteen. On May 3, 1667, he was one of the petitioners for a church at Hatfield. He was killed at Bloody Brook. He married, October 15, 1666, Sarah, daughter of Elder John White, of Hartford, and widow of Stephen Taylor, of Hatfield. She married (third) February 3, 1679, Walter Hickson, and died August 10, 1702. Children : I. Barn- abas, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, married Deacon Samuel Hall. 3. Elizabeth, born Octo- ber 29, 1671 ; died March, 1672. 4. Isaac, born September 15, 1673; married Lydia Loomis. 5. Mary (posthumous), born March 27, 1676; married Thomas Hayward.

(III) Barnabas (2), son of Barnabas (I) Hinsdale, was born February 20, 1668, at Hat- field. He was admitted an inhabitant of Hart-

ford in 1693, and died there of a "great sick- ness," January 25, 1725, aged fifty-six. He was an original proprietor of lands at Harwin- ton, in western Connecticut. His grave is in Centre cemetery, back of the First Church, Hartford, and a stone marks the spot. He married, November 9, 1693, Martha, daughter of Joseph Smith, of Hartford. Children: I. Barnabas, born August 28, 1694 ; married, June 17, 1725, Hannah Skinner ; settled in Tolland, Connecticut ; died there January 24, 1728. 2. Martha, born February 17, 1696; died April 15, 1761 ; married, November 9, 1736, Thomas Bull. 3. Jacob, born July 4, 1698; married Hannah Seynour. 4. Sarah, born July 22, 1700; married Nathaniel White. 5. Elizabeth, born January 9, 1702 ; married, April 4, 1728, Jacob Benton. 6. Mary, born July 13, 1704; married, March 30, 1738, James Skinner, Jr. 7. Captain John, born August 13, 1706; mar- ried Elizabeth Cole. 8. Daniel, born May 15, 1708; mentioned below. 9. Amos, born Au- gust 24, 1710; married Experience

(IV) Deacon Daniel, son of Barnabas (2) Hinsdale, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, May 15, 1708, and baptized at the South Church, May 17, 1708. He was a weaver by trade, and lived at Hartford. He was deacon of the church, and died September 13, 1781, aged seventy-three years. His will was dated December II, 1780, and proved March 22, 1782, his son, Barnabas, being executor. He married, August 21, 1737, Catherine Curtis, of Wethersfield, who died April 12, 1778, aged sixty-eight years. Both are buried in the Centre Church cemetery, Hartford. Children : I. Barnabas, born February 23, 1738; men- tioned below. 2. Daniel, born about 1740; married Elizabeth 3. Martha, married

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 72

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008