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I. JOHN,3 b. as early as 1735; m. Elizabeth Clark. He was a captain in the war of the Revolution; farmer in Wells, in that part that is now Kennebunk. The record of births subjoined was found in an old Bible in possession of the family:
I. PATIENCE,4 b. in 1756; m. - Waterhouse.
II. JOSHUA, 4 b. May 11, 1758; m. Lydia Waterhouse.
III. NATHANIEL,4 b. Aug. 27, 1760; m. - Kimball, and lived in Ken- nebunk; ship-carpenter.
IV. JOHN, + b. Oct. 11, 1762; m. Lydia Mitchell, and lived on the home- stead; d. Oct. 22, 1835. Six children, named as follows :
(1). James,5 b. April 25, 1795 ; m. and had two sons: George,6 m. and lives in Medford; Edgar,6 m. and lives in Watertown. He re- moved to Watertown, Mass., and changed his name, or reduced it, to "Gill," minus the "patrick."
(2). Thomas,5 b. Oct. 7. 1797 ; m. three times but did not have issue; d. Sept. 28, 1858, in Kennebunk.
(3). Elisa,5 b. Mar. 1, 1799 ; d. Oct. 3, 1872.
(4). Hannah,5 b. Aug. 26, 1802; d. Mar. 27, 1878.
(5) Mary,5 b. Mar. 20, 1805; d. July 10, 1878.
(6). Ivory,5 b. Aug. 14, 1807 ; m. and settled in Kennebunk, where he d. Mar. 20, 1866, leaving two sons: John,6 b. Oct. 14, 1835 ; d. Jan. 11, 1885, unmarried ; George A.,6 b. Dec. 24, 1849; m. and has William S. and Frances G.7
V. ELIZABETH,4 b. July 18, 1765 ; m. -- Clark.
VI. MARY,4 b. July 6, 1766; m. Nathaniel Sawyer.
VII. JOSIAH,4 b. July 24, 1768 ; end unknown ; a seaman.
VIII. JOSEPH,4 b. Sept. 10, 1770 ; m. Abigail Cousins, and settled on a lot of wild land in Biddeford, in 1798. His original tract consisted of only eighty acres ; by additional pieces since purchased the farm now con- tains two hundred acres. His wife d. Jan. 2, 1815, aged 41. He m., second, Dolly Dyer. He d. Sept. 1, 1837. Nine children, as follows :
(1). Lucy,5 b. Sept. 10, 1799; d. young.
(2). Samuel,5 b. Oct. 19, 1801 ; succeeded to the homestead.
(3). Joseph,5 b. Dec. 26, 1803.
(4). Mary.5 b. Nov. 27, 1805.
(5). Lucy,5 b. Mar. 16, 1808.
(6). Humphrey,5 b. May 2, 1810.
(7). Jolin,5 b. Apr. 30, 1812 ; m. three times. His last wife, Anna A., dau. of Capt. Stephen Shepley, a niece of Judge Shepley. He d. in Saco, July 20, 1872. He left home when a lad and found employment in the mills at Saco, and by steady application to work and habits of saving he laid up capital to engage in busi- ness for himself, which he found more congenial to his naturally independent temperament. He was an extensive dealer in corn and flour until 1861. He was also engaged in ship-building and interested in navigation. He was a man of integrity and correct
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habits, who held the respect of the public. He d. from paralysis. Children: Estella A.," Grace L.," Mary," Charles," and John G.6
(8). Abigail,5 b. Jan. 21, 1815; m. Daniel Dennett, of Buxton, and d. there.
(9). Priscilla,5 became the wife of Leonard Rumery.
IX. EBENEZER,4 b. Mar. 31, 1772.
X. BETSEY,4 b. Sept. 10, 1773 ; m. Jonathan Clark.
XI. THOMAS,4 b. Sept. 16, 1775.
John Gillpatrick,8 son of James,2 who was son of Thomas,1 the immi- grant, was born in Wells, Me .; married Elizabeth Thompson, in 1758, and had six children, namely :
I. JAMES,4 of whom no particulars.
2. HANNAH,4 m. Elijah Hatch, Feb. 9, 1780.
3. JOSEPH,4 b. 1762 ; m. Mary Jefferds, Nov. 19, 1786; she d. April 10, 1809, aged 44. He m. Esther Mitchell, Feb., 1810, who d. without issue, Jan. 21, 1820, aged 52. He m. third, Feb. 20, 1821, Alice Hart, of Kennebunk. Children by Mary as follows :
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I. RHODA,5 b. June 14, 1787 ; went out West.
II. POLLY,5 b. Sept. 6, 1788; m. Jacob Smith, of Lyman.
III. GEORGE," b. Aug. 30, 1790; in the Northwest.
IV. JOHN,5 b. Sept. 6, 1792 ; in the Northwest.
V. SIMON,5 b. Aug. 21, 1794, of whom no record.
VI. REV. JOSEPH,5 b. Jan. 23, 1798; in. Electa, granddaughter of Colonel Taylor, Sept. 10, 1820. She d. Mar. 27, 1873. He d. July 2, 1852. He was converted when eighteen years of age and became a close student of the sacred Scriptures. He was a successful teacher in the common schools, and in 1824 began to preach. His journal, now before me, written on coarse, discolored paper, under gray, hand- made covers sewed on, is filled with a record of his experiences from day to day while engaged in teaching. He must have been a man of deep piety and great earnestness. About the time he began to speak in public he wrote as follows: "I pray that God would make plain to me the path of duty. If it is to preach the gospel, may I be weaned from the perishing things of earth ; may my mind be more and more led to prayer and holy meditation, and may I be built up in faith and in the order of the gospel." He was chosen agent for the Maine Sunday-school Union, and assigned to the churches in York county. He was ordained and settled over the Baptist church at South Berwick in 1826, where he was very successful. In 1832 he was chosen missionary to visit the weak churches of York county. In 1834 he settled as pastor in Shapleigh, where many were gathered into the church under his labors.
He was a man of very tender heart. When he arose to address his hearers his countenance betrayed his all-controlling emotion, and tears would stream down his cheeks while he preached the word of life. Prudent in his financial affairs, he saved from a small salary enough to make his family comfortable. When he closed his pil-
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grimage it was the universal expression that an able and good man had fallen at his post. Children as follows :
(1). George J.,6 b. June 24, 1822 ; teacher; single ; d. in June, 1854.
(2). Bradford,“ b. May 9, 1824; m. Caroline Hooper, of Shapleigh ; wheelwright and farmer; d. in 1856.
(3). Electa C.," b. Feb. 8, 1827 ; m. Benjamin Abbott, of Shapleigh ; now a widow in Danvers, Mass.
(4). Joseph,6 b. Dec. 30, 1831 ; went to California and not heard from for thirty-five years.
(5.) Simon J.,6 b. Apr. 17. 1834; m. Julia Garvin, of Acton; lived in Lyman; farmer; d. Dec. 13, 1881.
(6). Charles E.,6 b. Apr. 6, 1837; m. Nellie Tripp, of Sanford, and had one child; graduated from Brunswick Medical College; set- tled as a practitioner in Sanford. He was a fine-looking, culti- vated, promising young man; d. Feb. 8, 1870.
(7). Mary E.,6 b. Apr. 27, 1839; m. Charles E. Butler, of Sanford ; lives in Springvale in that town, in a spacious, beautiful home ; a lady of culture and amiability.
(8). Martha A.,6 b. Mar. 30, 1843 ; d. in infancy.
V11. JAMES,5 b. Mar. 8, 1800.
VIII. NANCY,5 b. Sept. 7, 1802.
4. JUDAH,4 of whom no record.
5. JONATHAN,4 settled in Orland (?).
6. SALLY,4 of whom no record.
Capt. Samuel Gilpatrick,+ married Hannah 'Townsend, July 9, 1796, and sailed many years to the West Indies, and "coasting." His children were:
I. ELIZABETH S.,5 b. June 27, 1797, in Biddeford.
2. SAMUEL,5 b. Feb. 24, 1799, in Biddeford.
3. MARY P.,5 b. Mar. 11, 1803, in Biddeford.
JOHN T.,5 b. April 1, 1804, in Biddeford.
5- MARY B.,5 b. June 25, 1809, in Saco.
6. GEORGE,5 b. Jan. 26, 1813, in Saco.
Joshna Gillpatrick,2 of Biddeford, was probably one of the younger sons of Thomas1 and Margaret, but as there were grandsons about the same age, we cannot ascertain, in the absence of full records, with certainty, which one heads this family. He married Elizabeth Smith, Mar. 1, 1750. He was one of forty men in Capt. John Lane's company, of Biddeford, in 1756, "able to serve in the present expedition against Crown Point." He was then twenty- seven years of age; hence, his birth was in 1729. He had been married six years. As I find no record of birth of children subsequent to his leaving for Crown Point, I query, was he lost while in the army? No record of his death has been found in the Saco or Biddeford registers. The following baptisms recorded in what is now Saco :
1. JONATHAN,3 bapt. April 21, 1751.
2. JOSHUA,3 bapt. Juneį28, 1752.
3. OLIVE,3 bapt. April 4, 1754.
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Jonathan Gillpatrick, 3 son of John 2 and Elizabeth Thompson, and grand- son of Thomas,1 the immigrant, was born in Wells, Me., in Oct., 1769. He learned the blacksmith's trade of Richard Gillpatrick, his cousin, and went down to Orland, where he cleared his farm, and made music on his anvil for many years. Here he married Prudence, daughter of Gen. John Hancock, cousin of Gov. John Hancock of Revolutionary fame, and reared a family of ten children, the average number for a Gillpatrick. He died Mar. 18, 1837, aged 68 years and 5 months. His widow survived till 1860, aged 89 years. The names of children as follows: SAMUEL,4 SUMNER,4 JAMES, 4 JOHN,4 EMERY, + ABIGAIL,4 SARAH,4 BETSEY, 4 PRUDENCE, 4 LYDIA.4
I. JOHN H., 4 b. Nov. 7, 1813: m. Dec. 10, 1836, by John Burnham, Esq .. to Lydia A. Bowdoin, dau. of Robert and Hannah, of Swanville, Me., and settled on the homestead, being a blacksmith. He died Dec. 27, 1889, aged 76 years ; his wife d. Dec. 7. 1891, aged 76 years. These had issue as follows :
I. CHARLES,5 b. Apr. 16, 1840, in Brewer, Me .; m. May 5, 1868, in Rondout, N. Y., to Jennie DuBois; tradesman in Wilbur, N. Y.
1I. GEORGE E.,5 b. Dec. 4. 1844, in Orland; m. Mar. 9, 1869, Lena, dau. of Henry and Margaret Keyes. He lives on the homestead once occupied by his father and grandfather. One child, Eva L.,6 b. Jan. 24, 1871.
I11. FRANK E.,5 b. Apr. 10, 1849; m. Lucy E., dau. of Newton and Lydia Heath, and had two children. He was lost on the Grand Banks in the month of June, 1885. His wife d. in Orland, July 29, 1881.
(1). Frankie L.,6 b. Dec. 9, 1873; m. Apr. 2, 1892, to George F. Sev- erence, of East Orrington, Me.
(2). John H.,6 b. July 3, 1875; resides in Orland, Me.
IV. AMY J.,5 b. July 9, 1851 ; m. Dec. 25. 1874, John C. Felker, Jr., of Boston, where they reside.
v. HELEN M.,5 b. Mar. 28, 1855; m. Jan. 11, 1874, to Foster L. Kim- ball, who d. in Bucksport, Aug. 23, 1877; she m., second, Austin E. Kimball, brother of Foster E. Six children.
2. JAMES,4 m. Lucretia Crane, and lived and died in Whiting, Me. He had issue, six children, named as follows: Caroline,5 m. J. C. Littlefield ; Clarinda,5 m. C. C. Watts; Jane" m. L. J. Lincoln; Edgar,5 m. Lizzie P. Smith ; Thayer5 and James,5 deceased.
There are many others, descendants of Jonathan Gilpatrick and Prudence Hancock, living in Orland, Bucksport, Whiting, and Wiscasset, Me., but they have not responded to my letters of inquiry.
GILPATRICKS OF TRENTON, ME.
Isaac Gilpatrick,2 son of the original Thomas 1 and Margaret, was an early settler in what was then a part of Trenton, now Lamoine, Me. Capt. Berry stated that the first settlement was made by Capt. Isaac Gilpatrick, with six sons and two daughters, who removed from Biddeford, Me., in 1774, and com- menced a clearing at a place since called "Gilpatrick's point." A son-in-law, Edward Berry, said to have come from Londonderry, N. H., went with the
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Gilpatricks. I have found the record of births of but six children. His wife, to whom he was married July 25, 1751, was Mary Jameson, of Saco. The records of some descendants cannot be found.
I. JOANNA,3 bapt. Nov. 9, 1752.
2. MARGARET,3 bapt. July 7, 1754; m. Edward Berry, and settled in Trenton, Me.
3. HANNAH,3 m. a Mr. Richardson, "down east."
4. ISAAC,3 of whom no record.
5. ROBERT,3 mn. Polly Berry, of Trenton, Me., and had a numerous family. named as follows : Charles,4 Morton.4 Jeremiah,+ Edward,+ Robert,+ Ivory,+ Naham,4 Luther,4 Samuel,4 and Sarah.+
6. SAMUEL,3 bapt. Feb. 14, 1768; m. Betsey Lord, of Surry, Me., and had issue, Samuel,4 and probably others.
7. JOHN,3 removed to Washington county, Me., and his descendants are supposed to be living in Pembroke, Me.
8. JAMES,3 m. and had several sons; probably daughters. Of the sons the following has been furnished me:
I. BENJAMIN.4
Il. GEORGE, 4 who was lost at sea, leaving sons, Georges and John.3
III. JAMES,4 settled in Topsham. Me., and had issue : William C.,5 John H., James H.5 and Frederick R.5
1V. MARTIN,+ was lost at sea.
V. ISAAC,4 of whom no record.
VI. RUFUS,4 M. D., was shot during the late Civil war while dressing the wounds of a rebel soldier. He had children named: Erastus,5 who lived at Saladvale, Col .; William,5 and Phebe," who was the wife of Charles N. Stevens, of Toledo, Ohio.
9. MARTIN J.,4 never married.
IO. THOMAS,4 of whom no record.
Edward Gilpatrick,4 son of Robert3 (5), m. Sarah Smith, of Ellsworth, Me., and had children named as follows :
I. MATILDA J.,5 married Seth Paddleford, of Ellsworth, Me., in 1850, and had issue.
2. SARAH,5 m. Gilman B. Hodgkins, of Lamoine, Me., where she resides, with issue.
3. MARY,5 m. Warren King, of Lamoine, Me., where she resides. Children.
Howard Gilpatrick, Esq.,5 a grandson of Robert 3 (5), is a lawyer at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Robert Gilpatric, son of Charles, lives on the homestead in West Wash- ington, Me. These families removed from Saco or Biddeford to the eastern part of the state, and the descendants are now numerous and very respectable.
Evander Gilpatrick, son of preceding, is a contractor and builder in Waterville, Me. The grandmothers of his wife were daughters of William and David Gilpatrick, of the same race and family connection.
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MARRIAGES.
1804, April 14, Olive to Jeremiah Cole.
1803, June 26, Elizabeth S. to Benjamin Haley.
1805, Lydia to Capt. James Murch.
1805, Mrs. Lydia to Rishworth Jordan, 3d.
1828, Mar. 27, Mary to Edward Gordon.
1743, Thomas to Elizabeth Slemons.
1765, Nov. 2, Rebecca to John Sackpole. 1812, Mary to Joseph Haley.
1802, Mar. 28, Jotham to Sarah Cole.
1761, Aug. 29. Sarah to Nathaniel Tarbox.
1779, Nov. 25, Sarah to Abijah Tarbox.
1782, Nov. 30, Elizabeth to Nathan Tarbox.
1784, Feb. 7, Jane to Carrill Tarbox.
1785. Jan. 7, Benjamin to Rebecca Hill.
1785, Oct. 12, Miriam to Nathaniel Libby.
1788, April 19, Charity to Joseph Stevens.
1791, Dec. 10, Mary to Paul Junkins.
1792, June 9, Abigail to Noah Tobey (Topsham).
1793. Feb. 23, Benjamin to Sally Nason.
1795, Nov. 7, Josiah to Polly Moore.
1796, July 9. Capt. Samuel to Hannah Townsend. 1840, Nov. 15, Daniel H. to Betsey Lebarron of Hiram, Me.
1832, Nov. 3, Eliza to James Hartford, Hiram, Me.
1844, Jan. 13. Betsey to Jeremiah Chappel, Hiram, Me.
1757, Nov. 27, Ruth N. to James S. Gould, Hiram, Me.
1861, June 1, Cyrus W. to Sarah F. Rounds, Hiram, Me.
William Kilpatrick and wife, Jane Dunlap, came from County Antrim, Ireland, in 1816, and settled in Washington county, Pa. They moved to Harrison county, thence, in 1825, to Coshockton county, Ohio, where Mr. Kil- patrick d. April 17, 1880 ; his wife had d. Oct. 20, 1870. They had ten chil- dren, four sons and six daughters, all reaching maturity and named as follows: JOHN, JAMES, WILLIAM, ROBERT, MARGARET, SARAH, MARY A., ELIZABETH, JANE, and EMELINE. Only four are living. James is at Bonhoma, So. Dak., and Robert at Concord, Ohio. "An honest, industrious people, well-to-do; some of them college graduates."
Larrabee Family.
Introductory. - The surname Larrabee, sometimes spelled " L'Arabie," "D'Arabie," and "Arabie" in foreign documents and books. is of undoubted French origin ; or, rather, has long existed in France. It has been stated that a Count Larrabee figured conspicuously in French history and that the Larra- bees, being devoted Huguenots, fought for their religious rights under the brave Coligny; but I have failed to find such statements in any French history. It has been the almost universal family tradition, in the American branches,
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that the early ancestors were Huguenots, and this is strengthened by a corre- sponding tradition handed down in the Larrabee families now living in France. In my correspondence with Charles Larrabee, Esq., of Pau, France, he says: "I am almost of the conviction that some members emigrated [to America] at the time of the wars against the Huguenots. My ancestors left nothing, and I do not know that they had any position or fortune. Some shadows obscure the past." A protracted search in the great National Library in Paris fails to reveal any published account or view of an old Larrabee chateau or modern country seat in France, and it seems evident that the family, once numerous, were nearly all killed in the Huguenot wars or driven from the country.
The traditions of a French origin among the American branches has, by the mutations of time, assumed a variety of forms and these show to the consid- erate author the fallacy of building a genealogical structure on so frail and unstable a foundation. One Larrabee has written me: " My grandfather was a Frenchman who settled in Lynn, Mass .; " another states: "My father was born in France and came to America with his parents when a child," and still another : "Five brothers, French Huguenots, settled in Shoreham, Vt., and from these have sprung all the Larrabees in America." We can only say in conclusion, that the family at large, so far as known, have developed many physical characteristics which indicate a French origin, and the various tradi- tions now existing probably took their rise from a fountain-head of truthful statement made by the earliest American ancestors.
The first persons in New England bearing this name of whom we have found authentic record werc probably brothers or near relatives. A Greenfield Larrabee was before the court as a mariner in New London, Conn., for doing some work on board his vessel during a storm, while lying in the harbor, on the Sabbath, in 1637, and in 1647, just ten years later, William Larrabee, a "stranger," was called to answer for the same offense. Here we have docu- mentary evidence to prove that the tradition, which made the earliest Larrabee ancestors come over after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, is untrue. Certainly these men, Greenfield and William, probably foreign born, were here from thirty-eight to forty-eight years before that event. As we find no further mention of William in Connecticut, and as a William Larrabee was married in Malden, Mass., in 1655, these may have been identical. No fami- lies in Connecticut who could have descended from the before-mentioned William have been found, while the connections between Greenfield Larrabee and the branches in that state have been, in our estimation, clearly established. Before the light of the facts just stated another published account relating to the American Larrabees crumbles into dust. Charles H. Larrabee, in the Hathaway Genealogy, has made the following statement: "The Rev. Charles Larrabee was a Huguenot pastor, who escaped with a portion of his flock from the south of France during the massacre which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Oct. 16, 1685, and landed at Baltimore, Md. From him have sprung all of the name in America. The family was nearly exterminated during the massacre of that period. Some of the descendants are in Baltimore, others went to Connecticut, one to Maine, one to Vermont, and one to upper Canada."
NOTE .- There are families in Canada named "Larabe " and "Laraby." Some of these have come to the States. They are genuine French-Canadians and speak the language. Froin those interviewed nothing trustworthy concerning their origin or ancestry could be learned.
A family living in Prince Edward Island claim that their progenitors were from some New England state, and that the first of whom they hold tradition was killed in the American Rev- olution. These spell the name "Larabe."
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Charles Larrabee, Esq., of Windham, Conn., * has an old, double-cased watch claimed to have been handed down as a family heirloom from the Rev. Charles Larrabee, his reputed ancestor. Upon the case a shield was en- graved, surrounded by some fanciful and not very graceful ornamentation, which was supposed to have been the Larrabee coat of arms, but there is no heraldic evidence to support the theory. Notwithstanding the importance attached to this watch story, I challenge any tradition that makes the said Rev. Charles Larrabee the ancestor of the Connecticut family if he came later than 1637, for the connections between them and Greenfield Larrabee have been traced link by link through the painstaking of William Larrabee, Esq., of Phebus. Va., as will appear in the genealogy further on. William Larrabee, of Malden, Mass., of whom particulars in the genealogy, made his will Oct. 24, 1692, in which he mentions the following "loving kinsmen and kinswomen " as legatees, namely: Stephen, William, John, Thomas, Samuel, Isaac, Benjamin, Ephraim, Jane, and her daughter Hannah. Although this designation, "loving kinsmen and kinswomen." has not been found as applied to children in legal documents, some have been ready to assume, with no other grounds for the assumption, that William Larrabee was the father of the eight whose names we have recorded. However, the late William Sar- gent, of Portland, discovered an old petition, of date Mar. 6, 1732, by Isaac Larrabee, then of Lynn, Mass., in which appear the identical names found in William's will as children of Stephen Larrabee. Moreover, the following clause in the will, connected with a corresponding one in the petition men- tioned, makes the identity of the two lists of names still stronger :
"ITEM :- In case my loving kinsman, John Larrabee, comes from beyond the sea before ye abovesaid legacies are paid, then my executor is to pay, or what may be to pay to him, in time and manner abovesaid; and ye abovesaid Legatees are to rest Satisfied with his Love."
In the petition of Isaac Larrabee alluded to, he mentions John, who " went to see and Dyed abrode," as one of the eight sons of Stephen Larrabee, and Ephraim, as another son, who was killed by Indians at North Yarmouth. The question now naturally suggests itself, who was the said Stephen Larra- bee whose numerous children were "loving kinsmen" of William Larrabee, of Malden? We can only answer that the degree of relationship has not been ascertained with certainty, but he may have been one of the three tradi- tional brothers who are said to have come from France - not. however, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
We shall formulate the genealogies of the numerous branches under proper designations, in consecutive order, by generations, an arrangement that will obviate the printing of the same person's name in two places.
LARRABEES OF CONNECTICUT.
Greenfield Larrabee,1 styled " an original emigrant," appeared in Con- necticut as early as 1637, at which time he was brought before the court in
* CHARLES LARRABEE writes: "The old watch in my possession is an old-fashioned, silver. hunting case, with the Larrabee arms engraved on one side and my grandfather's initials, 'F. L.,' and various Masonic emblems on the other side. The watch was manufactured by Dufour and (the other name obliterated), in Geneva. It has three pointers on the dial, one for the hour, our for the minutes, and one for the day of the month. I wind it up occasionally, but it is un- certain how long it will run." * * * "The coat of arms consists of a shield with something like horns on each side and three rampant lions on the front. On top of the shield is an np- raised arm with sword in hand. Underneath the whole is a scroll with the Latin inscription, Quo, Fatu, Tocant."
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New London for violating the Sunday law, he having done some work on his vessel lying in the harbor during a storm, to save his property. He is men- tioned as a seaman belonging to the "Phenix," in 1647. His name often appears on the old documents at subsequent periods .* He m. Phebe Brown, widow of Thomas Lee, an emigrant who died on the passage from England, and settled at Saybrook, Conn., where his children, whose names, as far as known, will follow, were born. If he was a man of foreign birth I conjecture that he was an Englishman of French ancestry; I infer this from his christian name which was evidently taken from the Greenfield family, one of whom may have been his mother.
I. GREENFIELD,2 b. Apr. 20, 1648; m. Alice, dau. of Thomas Burke, in March, 1672, and settled in Norwich, Conn., on the eastern side of the river near his father-in-law. In this place he prospered, acquired ex- tensive lands, and brought up a family of children as will presently appear. His name is found on many early documents. Alice, his wife, d. Nov. 23, 1729. He d. Feb. 3, 1739, rising 90.
2. JOHN,2 second son of Greenfield, Ist, b. Feb. 23, 1649; removed to Windham, Conn., from Norwich with a family. In 1691, he had broken land, built a house, and established himself upon a tract granted him on condition that he build upon it and run the ferry for seven years. He was admitted and enrolled as one of the inhabitants of Windham, May 30, 1693. Chidren's names with third generation.
3 ELIZABETH,2 b. Jan. 23, 1652.
4 JOSEPH,2 b. in March, 1655; d. Aug. 10, 1657.
5. SARAH,2 b. Mar. 3, 1658; m. John Fox, of Concord, June 20, 1678.
THIRD GENERATION.
CHILDREN OF GREENFIELD, 2D, AND ALICE:
I. THOMAS,3 b. June, 1675; in. Mary Willett, July 19, 1697, and had five children, whose names will appear with fourth generation.
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