THIRTEENTH GENERATION
"FITCH, ...(5029i) THOMAS, Norwalk 1652, br. of (5029v) Rev. James, prob. came with him in 1637, freem. 1657, was early the richest inhab. had Thomas, an[d] John bef. ment. and with them and well grown gr. childr. was liv. in 1688. But strangely Farmer makes him f. of Gov. Thomas."
"FITCH, ...(5029ii) JOHN, Rehoboth 1644, prob. had John, wh. was bur. Apr. 1676, prob. posthum. for I suppose the f. was k. by the Ind. 26 Mar. preced. a volunteer under Pierce. Baylies, II.200."
"FITCH, ...(5029iv) ZECHARY, Reading, freem. 7 Sept. 1638, had Samuel, b. 6 Mar. 1645; and Zechary, 20 June 1647; beside sev. other ch. was deac. and d. 9 June 1662. His will of 3 May preced. names w. (5029iv[1]) Mary, s. Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, John, Jeremiah, and Thomas, beside d. Sarah, w. of John Wessen or Weston of Salem. In some rec. this man's name and his S. are spell. Fitts and often, Fitz. Four of the name had, in 1828, been gr. at Harv. and sixteen at Yale.."
"WHITING, (5029viii[1][1]) WILLIAM, Hartford 1636, a wealthy merch. who had been engag. in a patent for lds. at Swamscot with Lord Say and Lord Brook, and had w. (5029viii[1]) Susanna, s. William and perhaps (5029viii[1][1]1) John bef. [[vol. 4, p. 522]] leav. Eng. but possib. came over in 1633 with their agent or gov. Thomas Wiggin, whose w. I think was his sis. as in his will he gives to her and ea. of her ch. decent legacies.
Indeed we kn. not from what part of Mass. he went, but prob. from Cambridge, since other promin. persons rem. thence that yr. and he in 1637 was one of the first ho. of reps. in 1641 an Assist. and treasr. of the Col. from 1643 to his d. in 1647, when he was call. major. Yet he was mak. voyages oft. certain. in anticipat. of one, made his will 20 Mar. 1643 (in wh. he calls his s. William less than 21 yrs. of age, and so, when draw. codic. 2 Apr. 1646), but it may have been only to the Delaware riv. where he maintain, trad.-ho. as also as Westfield, addit. to that will was declar. 24 July 1647, soon after wh. he d. for his wid. had admin. 2 Sept. foll.
We kn. not dates of b. of any one of the five ch. nam. in that will, the two bef. ment. and (2515i[2][1]) Samuel, of wh. however we never hear more, Sarah, who m. first, Jacob Mygatt, near the end of 1654, and in 1683, John King, or Mary, who m. 3 Aug. 1664, Rev. Nathaniel Collins of Middletown; but of Joseph, ment. in the first codic. we learn from Goodwin, that he was b. 2 Oct. 1645; and ano. s. was b. posthum. as we learn from the order of Ct. in Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 495, but of him no more is told. His wid. m. 1650, (5029viii) Samuel Fitch of H. and next m. Alexander Bryan of Milford, but d. bef. him, at the ho. of her d. Collins, and was bur. at Middletown, 8 July 1673."
-- James Savage, op. cit. "FITCH, ...(5029viii_a) SAMUEL, Milford, s. of Samuel, by w. (5029viii_a[1]) Sarah had only ch. Sarah, and d. 1690."
"FITCH, ...(5029viii) *SAMUEL, perhaps at Milford 1644, certain. of Hartford 1650, schoolmr. m. that yr. or early in the next, (4877) Mary, wid. of (4876) William Whiting, freem. 1651, rep. 1654 and 5, d. 1659; he had (5029viii_a) Samuel, wh. went to Milford; and Thomas, b. 1652, wh. liv. at Wethersfield. His wid. m. (4877[3]) Alexander Bryan of Milford."
"FITCH, ...(5029ix) JOSEPH, Norwalk 1652, perhaps br. of (5029i) Thomas, rem. 1655 to Northampton, thence in 1660 to Hartford, m. (5029ix[1]) Mary, d. of Rev. Samuel Stone, had Joseph, Nathaniel, perhaps ano. s. certain. sev. ds. was rep. 1662-8, then rem. to Windsor, there had large farm, enjoy. by sev. generat. of his posterity, and was liv. in 1713. With his mo. and elder br. he owned est. at Birch in Essex, wh. they gave power to Samuel Wyllis, when he went to Eng. to sell. He sold to his br.-in-law Hezekiah, s. of Gov. Haynes."
"SHERWOOD, ...(5029x[1]) THOMAS, Stratford, or Fairfield, first at S. 1645, had come to Boston, 1634, in the Francis from Ipswich, aged 48 with w. (5029x[1][1]) Alice 47; and ch. Ann, 14; Rose, 11; Thomas, 10; and (5029x[2][2]) Rebecca, 9; and may be thot. to have had others, b. bef. or aft. or both, for his will of June 1657, pro. 4 June 1658, ment. s. John and (5017ix[1]) Thomas, d. Mary, w. Sarah, and refers to other ds. without nam. them. His est. was good."
"BANKS, ...(5029x[2]) JOHN, Windsor, one of the first sett. m. a d. of Charles Taintor of Wethersfield, as tradit. tells, had one ch. b. there, where he was town clk. 1613, rem. soon after to Fairfield, of wh. he was rep. sev. yrs. betw. 1651 and 66, rem. to Rye, and was rep. from that town 1670-3; had good est. made his will 12 Dec. 1684, and d. next mo. He ment. in it w. (5029x) Mary (not, prob. his first), s. John, Samuel, Obadiah, and Benjamin; ds. Susanna Sturges, Hannah, w. of Daniel Burl; and Mary Taylor. His c. Joseph had d. Oct. 1682, perhaps unm. as he gave est. to four brs. and sis. Mary Taylor; of Samuel nothing, is kn. but Obadiah d. we are told, in Fairfield Feb. 1691, and Benjamin next yr. and both at F. and Greenwich, adjac. to Rye, the name contin. 1713."
"HART, ...(5029xi[1]) STEPHEN, Farmington, s. of the preced. d. 1689, leav. Stephen, aged 27; Thomas, 23; John, 20; Samuel, 17; Sarah, 14; Ann, 11; and Mary, 7."
"CROSBY, ...(5029xii[1]) THOMAS, Eastham, eldest s. of first Simon, b. in Eng. an inf. brot. by his f.; H. C. 1653, preach. yet not ord. at E. d. 1721 acc. the Catal. but by the later rept. of a very careful searcher, 13 June 1702, at Boston; had Thomas, b. 7 Apr. 1663; Simon, 5 July 1665; (5029xii[1]a) Sarah, 24 Mar. 1667; (2399v[1]) Joseph, 27 Jan. 1669; John, and Thomas, tw. Dec. 1670, of wh. Thomas d. in 10 wks.; William, Mar. 1673; Ebenezer, 28 Mar. 1675; Ann, (2399viii[1]) Mercy, and Increase, at one b. 15 Apr. 1678, d. all soon; and Eleazer, 30 Mar. 1689."
5028. Thomas Fitch
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1640 Greenwich, Fairfield, CT
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"WHITFIELD, ...(5030) HENRY, Guilford, came to New Haven in July 1639, with Col. George Fenwick and his lady, and a ch. of famous John Davenport, who, in a letter of 27 Sept. aft. to lady Mary Vere, tells of the ship, that she was the first "that ever cast anchor in" that place. See Geneal. Reg. IX. 149 No Doubt he was bred up for the pulpit, but of his place of educ. wh. are ign. The common acco. of him is, that he was s. of a lawyer, b. a. 1597, sett. as min. at Ockham, a. 20 ms. from London, in Co. Surry, but others day Ockley or Okely in that sh. a. three ms. from the metrop.
"was one of the founders of the ch. at G. yet the establishm. of the ch. seems to be postpon. to 1643, prob. from the slow growth of the town. He had propty. eno. and disregard. the fulminat. of Bp. Laud for no read. the royal proclaim. for sports on Sunday, resign. his place without dispute, after serv. at the altar near twenty years in his native ld.
"Later in the autumn of 1650, he went home, publish. the two foll. yrs. relattions of the spread of the gospel among our aborig. and d. in the city of Winchester, it is said, in the office of min. tho. of this I much doubt, if my construct. of the lang. of letters from his s.-in-law and neph. both nam. (5011ii[1]) John Higginson, as to his long life, be correct. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 200, 1 and 4. Commonly it is said he had ten ch. but I kn. only of (2515) Abigail, the first w. of (2514) Rev. James Fitch, and (5011ii) Sarah, wh. m. Rev. John Higginson."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"HIGGINSON, ...(5031ii[1]) JOHN, Salem, disting. in the annals of that place, eldest s. of [John Higginson] b. 6 Aug. 1616, at Claybrook, Co. Leicest. (wh. was dwell. of ano. fam. of the same name), came with his f. was freem. 25 May 1636, serv. as chaplain 1637, at Saybrook, but in 1641 went to Guilford, and was some yrs. collea. with (5030) Rev. Henry Whitefield, whose d. (5031ii) Sarah he m. by wh. he had (5031ii[1]a) John; Nathaniel, b. 11 Oct. 1652, H. C. 1670; Thomas; Francis, b. 9 June 1660, went to Eng,. and was, it is said, sent to the Univ. by his uncle Francis, [[vol. 2, p. 414]] but d. at London, of smallpox, 1684; Henry, 22 Dec. 1661, or 2, wh. d. 1685 at Barbados, of smallpox; beside two ds. Sarah m. 1672, Richard Wharton; and Ann m. 4 Oct. 1682, William Dolliver of Gloucester.
"On a design of going to Eng. he came in 1659 to Salem, there was prevailed on to remain, ord. Aug,. 1660, and d. among the most honored of our clerg. 9 Dec. 1708. He had sec. w. Mary, wid. of Joshua Atwater of Boston, only three mos. surv. him."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
a. John Higginson
"William Bell & Anna Quinby m. 14 Jan 1724 - by Rev. Ebenezer Rosseter"
-- Extracted from History of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, CT; Richard Wheeler, Norwich, 1875 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ct/ston_marr_grm.htm
INDEX
1 Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) c/o ancestry.com
5030. Rev. Henry Whitfield
5031. Dorothy Sheaffe
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