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Charissa, Jan. 26, 1783; m. Jan. 23, 1806 Roswell Doolittle of Jamaica, Vt.
Enos II., Apr 12, 1785; m. Apr. 12, 1806, Mary, dau. Oliver Atherton. Catherine, Feb. 28. 1788; m. Mar. 4, 1813, Thomas Crosby of Bratt.
"Miss Susanna Paine, daughter-in-law of Ebenezer Burt, d. at Dfd., Aug. 2, ISO3, a. 23."
9. JONATHAN, S. of Ebenezer (2), b. 1768; rem. to Bratt., 1794; thence to Guilford, Vt., where he d. Oct. 3, 1829. He in. Mar. 2, 1794, Bathsheba Woodward of Shel .; she was b. in Taunton and d. in Phelps, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1842.
Ch .: Erastus, Jan. 7, 1795; m. Aug. 5, 1818, Elizabeth, dau. Joseph Hall of Phelps; res. in Phelps, Newark, N. J., and Kendall, N. Y., where he d. Nov. 4, 1844.
Ebenezer, Aug. 23, 1796; d. Dec. 17, IS00.
David W., July 31, 1800; blacksmith; m. Aug. 22, 1818, Lucretia, dau. Jas. Reed, b. Apr. 10, 1800; he d. July 20, 1833.
Susanna, Apr. 2, 1802; m. 1823, Isaac
E. Jacobs.
Jonathan, Oct. 4. 1804; M. D .; m. Feb. 28, 1832, Mary A. Harris; sett. in Phelps.
Hollis, Mar. 24, 1809; m. Jan. 27, 1836, Electina Aldrich of Guilford; rem. to Stamford, Vt., thence to North Adams; d. May 6, 1865.
Abigail, Mar. 4, 1815; m. May 2, 1836, Francis P. Adams of Guilford; rem. to Branford, C. E.
1. BURT, ITHAMAR, S. of Daniel, b. 1755; tailor; of Dfd. 1778; rem. to Guilford, Vt., ISoo; later to Adams, N. Y .; in 1837 to Copen- hagen, N. Y., where he d. Sept. 25, 1841. He in. Dec. 6, 1781, Pru- dence, dau. Thomas Dickinson; she d. Feb. 10, 1843.
Ch .: Rodney, May 2, 1782 (2), Israel Kellogg of Copenhagen. John Morgan, Dec. 1, 1791 (4).
Pamelia, Dec. 27, 1783; m. Apr. 13, 1808, Elihu Field, Jr., of Guilford, Vt. Consider Dickinson, Feb. 3, 1787 (3). Honor, Dec. 16, 1788; m. Jan. S, 1817,
Alva, Mar. 6, 1793; d. Mar. 23, 1793. llarriet, Jan. 3, 1797; m. Apr. 2, 1815, Daniel Griffin of Sacketts Ilarbor.
2. RODNEY, S. of Ithamar (1), b. 1782; a sea captain 1804; dur- ing the Embargo Act he sailed under Portuguese and Spanish colors; was well versed in the languages of France, Spain and Portugal; was . of Adams, N. Y., 1815: rem. to Sacketts Harbor bef. 1840; thence to Meadville, Pa., where he d. Apr. 9. 1861. He m. Sept. 17, 1812, Nancy, dau. John Morris of East Haven, Ct .; she d. Jan. 13, 1869, a. 80.
Ch .: Elihu Field, July 9, 1815; a sea captain; d. in N. Y., Jan. 11, 1849. Hamil Newel, June 30, 1817; in. Henry George of Coldwater, Mich.
Anne E., Oct. 19, 1819; m. Dec. 12, 1839, Leon D. V. Shattuck of Meadville. Mary E., Nov. 4, 1823; m. May 15, 1847, Abram Holmes of Conneautville, Pa.
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Nancy Judson, Feb. 2, 1826; d. Nov. 7, 18.45. George Rodney, Feb. 1, IS29; res. on the Fiji Islands; "in IS68 his planta- tion was attacked by the natives, himself and partner, Underwood, were knocked down and injured; four Coolies and twoch. were k. and
eaten, together with six horses, sev- eral cows, 50 pigs and 60 goals; burned all the buildings and 150,000 pounds of Sea Island Cotton which was prepared to ship upon a vessel which then lay in the offing." [Letter fr. Rodney B. Field.]
3. CONSIDER D., s. of Ithamar (1), b. 1787; M. D .; lived in Adams, Columbus, O., and d. in Belleville, Ill., Mar. 10, 1859. He m. 1830, Elizabeth, dau. Arthur Fenner of Ohio; she d. 1835.
Ch .: Elizabeth, 1831; m. and d. in Jas- per Co., Ind.
Arthur Fenner, 1833.
4. JOHN M., s. of Ithamar (1), b. 1791; lived in Boston fr. 1812 to 1819, when he rem. to Adams; d. of yellow fever at N. O. Oct. 31, 1832. He m. Feb. 4, 1816, Catherine, dau. John Hendricks of Bos- ton; she d. at St. Louis, Jan. 29, 1874, a. 78.
Ch .: Francis Farwell, Nov. 30, 1816; m. Cynthia Guthrie; res. at St. Louis. Mary C., Jan. 3, 1819; m. July 3, 1856, Jonas C. Ivory of Stockton, Cal. Jane E., Mar. 25, IS21.
Ann Hendrick, Mar. 2, IS23; m. Dec. 23, 1846, Ellison E. Burton, Chicago.
Caroline, June 14, 1825; m. Jan. 19, 1847, Geo. A. Tisdale of Watertown, N. Y.
John M., Nov. 23, 1828; Maj .; m. Jan. 13, 1859, Eliza, dau. Geo. A. Boult of Watertown; she d. Aug. 31, 1875 (?); he d. May 21, 1876.
BURT, STEPHEN, taxed 1798.
BUTLER, DAVIS, taxed 1786.
CALEB, DEBORAH, an Indian woman, bap. by Parson Ashley, Sept. 27, 1741.
CALEB, SHARP, 1752; part or wholly of Indian blood; a success- ful hunter, judging from the amount of game and fur he exchanged for sundries at the store of Elijah Williams; was a carpenter and millwright; an early sett. of Conway and built a mill there before the incorporation of the town. He m. Elizabeth
Ch .: Caleb, Apr. 13, 1776. Sari, Feb., 1778. William, Feb., 1780.
Dorcas, Mar. 4, 1782.
1 Solomon, Apr. 13, 1784. Joshua, Dec, 21, 1786.
CALLEY, JESSE, 1772.
CAMPBELL, ROBERT, 1772; Rev. sol .; d. Jan. 18, 1827, a. 85. He in. Dec. 8, 1767, Elizabeth Waugh; she d. Apr. 22, 1833, a. 83.
1. CANTRAL, BENJAMIN, b. in Ireland; hatter; came to Phila. 1764; was of N. Y. 1766-70; of Boston during the Rev. war in which he served; wounded and had state aid; worked at his trade in Blem- ford and Col .; came to Deerfield, 1787, was living 1817. Ch .: Benjamin, 1770 (2).
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2. BENJAMIN, S. of Benjamin (1), b. 1770; d. Mar. 28, 1852. He 111. Caroline Graves; she d. June 22, 1850, a. So.
Ch .: + Benjamin (3).
3. BENJAMIN, S. of Benjamin (2). He m. Sophia, dau. Elisha De Wolf.
Ch .: | Susan Percil, Feb., 1848. James Ilenry, Nov. 17, 185.4.
Arrabilla, Sept. 1, 1850.
CAREY, HANNAH, taxed 1795-7.
CAREY, JAMES, 1771.
CAREY, MARV, 1769-74.
CAREY, RICHARD, 1747; d. Mar. 30, 1799, a. 82. He m. Mary
Ch .: + Dorothy. June 30, 1760. Patience, Nov. 27, 1766.
Lydia, Nov. 7, 1762. Son, Mar. 8, 1771; d. Apr. 2, 1771.
CAREY, Robert, 1787.
CAREY, STEPHEN, from New Salem, 1778; alive 1797.
CAREY, STEPHEN, JR., 1789; m. 1816, Tryphena Hogan.
CARR, WILLIAM; spinner in 1752. He m. July 25, 1735, Mary, dau. Samuel Smead; rem. to Ashuelot
Ch .: + Elizabeth, bap. Oct., 1748.
1. CARTER, JOSHUA, of Dorchester, 1633; rem. to Wind; d. in Hart., July 15, 1647. He m. Catherine --; she m. (2) Nov. 30, 1647, Arthur Williams of Wind. and Nhn; she m. (3) Feb. 11, 1677, William Branch of Spfd .; she d. Aug. 8, 1683.
Ch .: + Joshua, bap. Mar., 1638 (2). Elisha, bap. Feb. 3, -; burned 10 Elias, bap. Aug. 13. 1043; burned 10 death, May, 1653.
death, May, 1653.
2. JOSHUA, S. of Joshua (1), b. 1638; of Nhn. 1660; came here among the earliest sett .; was constable 1674; was one of the ill-fated ones who fell with Capt. Lothrop. He m. at Nhn, Oct. 22, 1663, Mary, dau. Zechariah Field.
Ch .: + Child, Feb. 27, 1664; d. May 17, Joshua, June 6, 1668 (3). 166.4. Prob. Joseph.
Abigail, Feb. 11, 1665-6.
3. JOSHUA, S. of Joshua (2), b. 1668; returned on the permanent sett., but aft. 1691 rem. to Hart. He m. May 21, 1691, Mary Skin- ner of Hart.
Ch .: + Joshua, -, who was of Hart. Mary, -; m .- Marsh of Litchfield, 1783. Sarah, -; m. - White of Hart.
Ruth, -; m. Thomas Spencer of Hart.
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Abigail Carter, who m. July 6, 1724, Jacob Benton, may have been a dau. of Joshua.
A granddaughter, Abigail Dodd, was living in Hart., 1763.
1. CARTER, SAMUEL, supposed by Savage and Judd to have been a son of Joshua (2); a recent discovery of old letters among his de- scendants, seems to prove that he was born in London abt. 1665, whence he was enticed by the captain of a ship, abt. 1677, and land- ed in Boston; he was one of those who came here on the permanent sett., and was prominent in the affairs of the town; his family was broken up in 1704 and the next year he rem. to Norwalk, Ct .; in a petition to the Gen. Court of Ct., May 8, 1707, Samuel Carter re- cites that: "The French and Indians rifled his house, destroyed his cattle, killed his wife and three of his children carrying four of them into captivity, whereof one was redeemed by paying £24 borrowed money. The Court judged his case called for charity of the good people of the towns of New Haven and Milford and also in the several towns in the County of Fairfield, and a brief was ordered him;" he d. Sept., 1728. He m. Dec. 4, 1690, Mercy, dau. William Brooks; she d. Jan. 22, 1700; (2) July 1, 1701, Hannah, dau. John Weller; cap. 1704, and k. on the fifth day's march towards Canada; (3) Jan., 1706, Lois Sention; she d. Jan. 12, 1752, a 83.
Ch .: Samuel, Mar. 1, 1692; cap. 1704; never returned.
Mercy, Dec. 17, 1693; cap. 1704: never returned; m. an Indian.
John, Sept. 22, 1695; cap. 1704; never returned.
Ebenezer, Sept. 9, 1697 (2). Thomas, Oct. 6, 1799; k. 1704.
Marah, Jan. 22, 1700-1 ; cap. and k. bef. the march began.
Joseph, May 1, 1702; d. May 8, 1702. Hannah, July 8, 1703; cap. 1704 and k. on the second day's march.
+ Lois, abt. 1708. For an account of the cap. Carter chil- dren see ante, p. 342, 355.
2. EBENEZER, S. of Samuel (1), b. 1697; cap. 1704; redeemed in 1707 by payment of £24; he came home by the way of Albany to his father in Norwalk and sett. in that part of the town which became New Canaan; d. July, 1774. He m1. 1721, Hannah, dau. Matthius St. John; she d. Feb. 5, 1774, a. 74.
Ch .: + Mercy, abt. 1722; m. abt. 1740, Ebenezer Seely; d. 1741.
Mary, abt. 1724; m. Dec. 3, 1744, Jonathan Husted; d. 1775. Samuel, 1725; d. 1735.
Hannah, abt. 1727; m. Apr. 7, 1746. . Jonathan Burrill.
Sarah, abl, 1728; d. abl. 1730.
John, Feb. 22, 1730; m. Oct., 1753, Han-
nah Benedict; d. 1819. Elizabeth, abt. 1732; m. 1752, Levi Ilanford; d. Sept., 1775.
For later generations see "The De- scendants of Samuel Carter of Deer- field, Mass., and Norwalk, Ct .; by Samuel Carter of Brooklyn, N. Y." 1885.
CARVER, EBENEZER; d. July 8, 1831, a. 91.
CARVER, JONATHAN; soldier, traveler, author; accounts of this man's origin are indefinite and contradictory. Judge Daniel W. Bond gives me the following as his probable ancestry.
1. WILLIAM JOSEPH CARVER, of Wigan, Lancashire Eng .; a capt. in the army of William III., later appointed to an office in Ct .; had son David (2).
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2. David; sett. in Canterbury, Ct., aft. 1714; Ens. 1720; Dep. to Gen. Court 1721-2; d. Sept. 14, 1727. He m. abt. 1702, Hannah Dyer of Weymouth; she was sis. of Col. John of Canterbury, and Col. Thomas of Windham, both prominent in the affairs of Ct.
Ch .: David. Sarah.
Samuel, who had wife Esther in 1727. Hannah.
Jonathan, b. abt. 1712 (3).
Benjamin, b. abt. 1722.
I print this with misgivings on several points; am quite sure Jona. was born later, prob. abt. 1729; nor do I feel at all sure that the Eng. capt. was grand- father to Jonathan. Dr. Lettsom, whom Bond followed, was very loose in his statements, and all abroad in matters relating to America.
3. JONATHAN, [s. of David (2), b. abt. 1712 ?] rem. to Mont. abt. 1749; was at Nfd. making shoes for Moses Field 1754; lived later at Dfd .; was on the roll of Capt. Elijah Williams 1755; was cap. at the fall of Fort William Henry in 1757, where in the barbarous massacre which followed he was wounded, stripped, and only escaped with his life by a mere accident; was 2d lieut. under Capt. John Hawks in 1758; lieut. under Capt. Salah Barnard 1759; capt. under Col. John Whitcomb and Col. Saltonstall and served through the war. In June, 1766, he set out on an exploring expedition to the far West; he vis- ited twelve Indian tribes abt. Lake Superior and the headwaters of the Mississippi river, and was everywhere hospitably received; was five months with the Nandowissies, who named him Shebaygo and made him a chief. He arrived in Boston on his return, Oct. 1768; the next year he sailed for England, where he laid his papers before the government with a petition for a reward for his service; he rec'd little encouragement, but was given leave to publish his journal and charts. He "disposed of these to a bookseller," but soon after he was ordered to deposit in the Plantation office all his charts and pa- pers relating to his discoveries, and was reimbursed the amount of his expenses. He prudently retained copies of them all, and in 1778 he published in London a fine illustrated Svo vol. of 543 pages, and a second edition in 1779. The work was well received. Carver says in the introduction to a third edition, Nov. 1779, "two large edi- tions having been run off in a few months," There was call for an- other, although one had been issued in Dublin the same year. This third London edition was somewhat enlarged by the author; it was published in 1781, with a memoir of Carver by Dr. John C. Lettsom. Before the close of the century eight editions had been published in Europe and at least eight in America; there have been many editions here since. Carver reaped so little of the fruit of his toil that he actually died through want in London, Jan. 31, 1780. Dr. Lettsom, who was a distinguished London physician, printed in his memoir of Carver a deed, which he believed authentic, from two chiefs of the Nandowessie tribe, dated May 1, 1767, conveying to Jona. Carver some 12,000 square miles on the Mississippi, east of Lake Pipen and the falls of St. Anthony. In an affidavit, sworn to in 1806, and again in 1824, Rev. Sam'l Peters, LL. D., says he was present when Car- ver laid this deed before the King and Council in Feb. 1775, with a petition that the land be confirmed to him and that his expenses be paid by the government; he says that Carver and his friends were
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ordered to retire to another room, whence after a time they were called in, and the Minister said to Capt. Carver, " His Majesty has graciously granted your petition and has ordered a gratuity of £1373, 6s, 8d, to be paid you, and that you prepare to sail from New Or- leans next June and take possession of your territory with one hun- dred and fifty men, of whom you will be the commander; and his majesty will provide ships, men and necessaries to convey you there." Peters says the money was paid, and all arrangements were being made, when the news from Bunker Hill was rec'd and all was dropped. Peters was rector of chhs. in Hart. and Hebron, Ct .; being a violent Tory he was forced to leave the country; he claimed to have been intimate with Carver both in Ct. and in London to the day of his death; he is the only authority for the above statements; he may have told the truth, but as he is considered by all historical students a "notorious liar," his unsupported testimony goes for little. Capt. Carver, in an appendix to his book, says that he "and others" in- terested Richard Whitworth, M. P., in a project of building a fort at Lake Pepin as a basis of operations for discovering a northwest passage to India; that the government favored the plan and that the grant and other requisites were nearly ready, when the Revolution broke out and put a stop to the matter; Whitworth had engaged Capt. Carver and Maj. Robert Rogers as assistants, with fifty or sixty mechanics and mariners to build the fort and necessary ves- sels; Carter maps out several desirable sites for settlements in the region where he traveled, but in all his writings, from first to last, there is not a syllable referring to the Indian deed, although he de- scribes a meeting of the tribe on that same May I, and gives the speech he made on that occasion with the reply by one of the chiefs. The Reverend Peters also says that abt. 1798 a company was formed in London to prosecute a claim for the "Carver tract." They pro- cured fr. Martha Carver, supposed to be sole heir of her father, such title as she could give, and spent some £6000 in fruitless attempts; he is the only authority for this transaction. May 9, 1794, the chil- dren of Carver in America made over their claims under the deed to Edward Houghton of Vermont for £50,000; in 1822 Houghton deeded the claim to the "Mississippi Land Co." of N. Y. In the archives of the P. V. M. Association are two deeds fr. Phineas Munn to Consider Dickinson; one, dated July 31, 1797, conveys "Sixteen Thousand acres of that Tract of Land lying on the East bank of the Mississippi River, which was granted in the year 1767, by the Nan- dowise Tribe of Indians to Capt. Jonathan Carver, Late of London, Dec'd, which said sixteen thousand acres I hold by deed from the widow Sarah Church, one of the Heirs at Law to said Carver."
The other deed is dated Sept. 11, 1797, and conveys 160,000 acres of the same tract, which Munn held "by Deed from Rufus Carver, son of said Jonathan." It seems to have been the habit of Carver's children to deed land right and left regardless, to any sanguine enough to snap at the bait, and still keep the field themselves as claimants; in 1804 the Carver heirs appear before Congress by their agent, petitioning for a confirmation of the Indian deed to Carver. In 1806 the veracious Peters makes oath before a Congressional com- mittee that the title to the Carver Tract is vested solely in him; he
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gained nothing by his claim and petition, but the matter was not dropped until final action in Jan., 1825, when a report was adopted by Congress that the petition of Peters ought not to be granted; this seems to have been the end of the Carver deed, but "Carver" coun- ty, "Carver" town, and "Carver" river, still testify to the "travels" and mark the scene of our hero's adventures. He m. in Canterbury, Oct. 20, 1746, Abigail Robbins; (2) in London, Mary -, who sur- vived him.
Ch .: + Mary, Apr. 8, 1747; m. July 18, 1765, Simeon King of Mont.
Abigail, May 29, 1748; pub. to Joshua Goss of Mont., Sept. 10, 1774. Sarah, June 8, 1750, at Mont .; m. June 19, 1775, Samuel Church; she was a wid. in 1797.
Rufus, Dec. 14, 1754 (4).
Olive, July 19, 1757; m. July 19, 1781, Moses Gunn of Mont.
Jonathan, Jan. 3, 1759; may have been that Jona. serving in the Continental
army at the siege of Boston 1776. Mindwell, May 1, 1762.
Child, b.in London; d. young ; aft. 1780. Martha, --; sd. by Dr. Peters to have been adopted by Sir Richard Pear- son, fr. whose house abt. 1798, inter- ested parties, who believed her sole heir to her father, induced her to ab- scond, to marry a sailor [prob. named Pope] who was an instrument in their hands to get possession of the "Carver grant.'
4. RUFUS, s. of Jonathan (3), b. at Mont. 1754; shoemaker; Rev. sol. fr. Nfd. and Dfd .; was in the battle of Bunker Hill and in the campaign when Burgoyne was cap .; served three mos. at Danbury on the invasion of the Tories; left Dfd. abt. 1797 for Brandon, Vt .; was living at Sodus, N. Y., 1837. He m. Nov. 16, 1780, Priscilla Cummings of Hinsdale, N. H .; she prob. d. Jan. 22, 1825, a. 76. Ch .: + Levens. Jonathan.
Mindwell, --; m. - Ambler of East Troy, Wis.
Olive, -; m. Walter Cooley.
Fanny, -; m .- Kceler of Brandon, Vt. Abigail, -; m. David Beal of Oxford, N. H. Sally, 1788; pub. June 17, 1815, lo Eleazer Warner.
CARVER, STILLMAN; d. Mar. 13, 1837, a. 22.
1. CATLIN, CATLING, CATTELL, JOHN, of Weth .; estate ap- praised July 17, 1644, amt. £69. He m. Isabella, prob. sister of Law- rence Ward of New Haven, Branford, Ct .; and Newark, N. J., where he d. 1670, leaving property to Isabella, in the care of his nephews, John Ward and John Catlin; she ni. (2) James Northam of Hart., 1657, of Weth. 1659, and one of the first sett. of Had .; he d. 1660; she ni. (3) Joseph Baldwin of Milford, Weth. and Had .; she d. Dec. 8, 1676. Ch .: + John (2), and prob. another child.
2. JOHN, S. of John (1), b. abt. 1643; of Weth., 1662; of Branford, 1665, whence he rem. to Newark, where he was a teacher 1676; in 1678 he was "Town's Attorney (not lawyer), an 'honest brother,' to take care that all town orders be executed, and if a breach occurs to punish the offender;" selectman 1676-81; was of Hart. 1683, of Dfd. soon after, as one of the early permanent settlers, where he was dig- nified by the title of "Mr." and took a prominent part in affairs; no family suffered more than his at the desolation of the town 1704; his buildings were all burned, and himself and s. Jonathan consumed with them; one s. was k. in the Meadow fight; another and three daus. were
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cap., and two of the latter k. on the march. He m. at Weth., Sept. 23, 1662, Mary, dau. Joseph Baldwin of Milford, Weth. and Had .; saved fr. destruction 1704, by her practical Christianity, she survived the terrible tragedy but a few weeks, dying Apr. 9, 1704.
Ch .: + John, July 21, 1663, at Weth .; d. young.
Mary, -; m. Oct. 18, 1683, Thomas French; k. 1704.
Elizabeth, -; m. abt. 1690, James Corse; k. 1704.
Hannah, --; m. abt. 1691, Thomas Bascom of Nhn.
Esther, -; m. abt. 1694, Ebenezer
Smead.
Sarah, -; m. abl. 1694, Michael Mitchell.
Joseph (3).
Jonathan, --; k. 1704. Ruth, -; cap. 1704; ret. 1707. John, Jan. 8, 1687 (4).
3. JOSEPH, s. of John (2), he was one of the seven brave men who defended the Benoni Stebbins house 1704, and one of the nine who fell in the Meadow fight. He m. June 26, 1701, Hannah, dau. Ens. John Sheldon; she was in the Benoni Stebbins house with her hus- band and was wounded in the attack; she was carried to Nhn., where she m. Oct. 26, 1705, Nath'l Clark of Nhn .; she d. July 13, 1764, a. 81.
Ch .: + John, Sept. 24, 1702; d. young. John, posthumous, May or June 1704 (5)
4. JOHN, s. of John (2), b. 1687; ret. fr. cap. 1706; "house wright" and rope maker; sett. on that part of lot No. 29, which his father bought of Samson Frary in 1685, and where his house was burned 1704; now the Hoyt place; he d. Dec. 1, 1766. He m. Mar. 1, 1715, Jemima, dau. Edward Allen; alive 1770.
Ch .: John, Nov. 19, 1715; a sea capt .; lived at New Haven.
Nathan, Sept. 11, 1717 (6).
Mary. Feb. 3, 1719; m. May 7, 1746, Jona. Smith of New Haven.
Ruth, Feb. 26, 1721-2; m. Oct. 19, 1743, John Barnard, who rem. fr. Shutes- bury to Shel.
Jonathan, Mar. 19, 1724 (7).
Elizabeth, Mar. 31, 1726; m. Thomas Mallory of N. Haven, Litchfield and Woodbury, Ct.
Abigail, June 23, 1728; was an invalid; d. unm. May 1, 1772.
Samuel, July 9, 1731; m. (pub. Jan. 7, 1756)Rhoda Mitchell; he was a team- ster and sol. in the French and In- dian war; was of Had. 1743; of Hat. 1743; of Dfd. 1761-88. Esther, May 24, 1733; m. Eben'r Trow- bridge, a sea capt. at N. Haven. Jemima, Mar. 4, 1735-6; m. Mar. 6, 1777, Sam'l Munn of Shel.
Sarah, Apr. 25, 1738; m. Apr. 16, 1761, Moses Smith; rem. 10 Shel.
Hannah, June 7, 1741 ; m. May 3, 1770, Isaac Amsden of Con.
5. JOHN, s. of Joseph (3), b. 1704; capt. ; he early entered the military service; served under Capt. Kellogg in Father Rasle's war; lietit. of a company of snow-shoe men, 1743; in command of Fort Shirley from Dec. 10, 1747 to Apr. 3, 1749; in the summer of 1749 was in command of a company above Nfd .; Sept. 13, 1757, he led a company of 52 men from Dfd. to Fort Mass .; in 1758 was in com- mand of the cordon of 12 forts, extending from Nfd. to Pontoosuc, with headquarters at Burke's fort Ber., where he d. Sept. 24, 1758. He m. June 15, 1727, Mary, dau. Benj. Munn; she d. Nov. 10, 1763, a. 58.
Ch .: John, Aug. 8, 1727; d. next day. Catherine, Jan. 8, 1728-9; m. Jan. 10, 1750, Ebenezer Clapp of Nhn .; d. Apr. 22, 1798.
Rachel, Sept. 9, 1730; m. June 1, 1749, Abner Barnard of Nhu.
Joseph, Ang. 4, 1732 (8). Seth, July 16, 1734 (9).
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Mary, Nov. 27, 1736; m. Oct. 5, 1758, John Partridge Bull.
Oliver, Jan. 16, 1738-9.
Mercy, Sept. 13, 1741 ; m. Dec. 11, 1765,
Consider Arms of Con.
Dorothy, bap. Dec. 18, 1743; m. Dec. 29, 1763. Phineas Munn.
6. NATHAN, S. of John (4), b. 1717; rope maker and maker of pew- ter buttons; known as "Master Catlin ;" lived on No. 24, where he d. Dec. 7, 1793. He m. (pub. Oct. 5, 1752) Thankful Foster of Wall- ingford, Ct .; she d. Aug. 23, 1760; (2) Susan Bartlett of Had.
Ch .: Timothy, Nov. 5, 1753 (10). well.
Rachel, Aug. 20, 1756; m. Eldad Bard- John. July 21, 1759 (II).
7. JONATHAN, S. of John (4), b. 1724; one of the first sett. of Shel., 1754; rem. to Gfd. where he had a saw mill, 1764-84, when he sold out to Daniel Nash; June 18, 1772, he was arraigned before the chh. for "unnecessarily absenting himself from public worship and the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, and accusing the church of oppression ;" he acknowledged the truth of the complaint, but profess- ing himself willing "to be rectified in his sentiments if they were mis- taken;" sentence was deferred to the 29th, "when sd Catlin appeared sensible of his error and was restored to good standing." He m. May 17, 1752, Mercy Allen, who d. July 25, 1771.
Ch .: | Jonathan, bap. Sept. 1, 1754. Zilpha, bap. Aug. 29, 1756.
8. JOSEPH, S. of John (5), b. 1732; sett in Con .; alive in 1782. He m. Dec. 11, 1754, Abigail, dau. Thomas French.
Ch .: + Tirza, bap. June 27, 1756. Silas, bap. May S, 1763.
Oliver, bap. Mar. 26, 1758. Caroline, bap. Dec. 15, 1768.
John, bap. Oct. 1760.
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9. SETH, S. of John (5), b. 1734; maj .; was drummer in the com- pany of his father, 1757-8; second lieut. under Salah Barnard, 1759; lieut. 1760; came out of the war as quartermaster in Col. Ruggles' regiment; for an account of his position and experience during the Rev. war, see ante, p. 741; on the return of peace Maj. Catlin took a prominent part in the affairs of the town; was often in town office, and selectman three years; he did not accumulate great possessions, and it was said, "Maj. Catlin was too much of a gentleman to be a rich man;" Reuben Bardwell writes of him in 1837: "He was a man of urbanity, and strict integrity, but of very strong feelings; could never pass a scene of distress on the other side, or suffer guilt to pass with impunity;" being reproached by some Tory friends for naming them at some judicial investigation, the major burst out in- dignantly, "You didn't expect I was going to lie did you?" he lived on No. 22, where he kept tavern; he was a lover and breeder of fine horses, and met a fatal injury in being crushed against the side of a stall by a high mettled barb; he d. Mar. 19, 1798. He m. July 1, 1762, Abigail, dau. Aaron Denio; she d. at Nhn., Dec. 6, 1805, a. 67. Ch .: Dorothy, May 7, 1763; d. Nov. 30. Abigail, Feb. 14, 1767; m. June IS, 1787. Ebenezer Barnard. 1807.
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