Today's birthdays:
Anne Morehead
daughter of Alexander Morehead in Northumberland Co, VA.
1789 Lydia Wolfe
daughter of John & Elizabeth (Cornwell) Wolfe. She died 1875.
1897 Donald Austin
in Wayne Co., IL son of Wilco & Nora (Boswell) Austin. He died 1980 in Morton, IL and is buried in
Mt.Zion/Farnsworth Cemetery in Wayne Co. IL
Janice Fitzgerald
d/o James & Dorothy (Hughes) Fitzgerald
James Meckley husband
of Connie Jones
A single anniversary:
1664 Rev. James
Fitch & Priscilla Mason in Norwich, CT.
James born 1622 in Bocking, England was the son of Thomas & Annie
(Reve) Fitch. The family immigrated to
New England in 1638. In 1646 James moved
from Hartford, CT to Saybrook, CT where he served as the first minister. He married 1) Abigail Whitfield in 1648 and
they had six children. He moved his
family to Norwich, CT in 1660. Priscilla
the daughter of Captain John & Anne (Peck) Mason was born 1641 in Windsor,
CT. They had eight children. Rev. James died 1702 in Lebanon, CT.
Grave
inscription in Latin reportedly written by James’ son Jabez. ”In Hoc Sepulcro
Depositae Sunt Reliquiae Viri Vere Reverendi D: Jacobi Fitch: Natus Fuit Apud
Bocking in Comitatu Essexlae in Anglia, Anno Domino 1622 Decembr 24 Qui
Post-Quam Linguis Literatis Optime Instructus Fuisset In Novangliam Venit
Aetat. 16 Et Deinde Vitam Degit Harteordlae Per Sepennium Sub Institutione
Virorum Ceeeberimorum D: Hooker Et D: Stone Postea Mtnere Passorali Functus Est
Apud Saybrook Per Annos 14 Illinc Cum Ecckesiae Maiori Parte Norvicum Migravit
Et Ibi Ceteros Vitae Annos Transegit In Opere Evangelico In Senectute Vero Prae
Corporis Infirmitate Necessario Cessabat Ab Opere Publico : Tandemque Recessit
Liberis Apud Lebanon Ubi Semianno Fere Exacto Obdormivit In Iesu Anno 1702
Novebr 18 Etat 80 Vir, Ingenii Acumine, Pondere Judicii, Prudentia Charitate,
Sanctis Laboribus, Et Omnimoda Vitae Sanctitate Peritiaquoque Et Vi Concionandi
Nulli Secundus.”
James Fitch Tombstone |
Translated
“In this grave are deposited the remains of that truley reverend man, Mr. James
Fitch. He was born in Bocking, in the County of Essex, in England, the 24th day
of December, in the year of our Lord 1622; who after he had been most
excellently taught the learned languages came into New England at the age of
sixteen, and then spent seven years under the instructions of those very famous
men, Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone. Afterwards he discharged the pastoral office
fourteen years at Saybrook. Thence he removed with the major part of his Church
to Norwich, where he spent the other years of his life in the work of the
gospel.
In his old age indeed
he was obliged to cease from his public labors by reason of bodily
indisposition and at length retired to his children at Lebanon, where after
spending nearly half a year, he slept in Jesus in the year 1702, on the 18th
day of November, in the 80th year of his age. He was a man as to the smartness
of his genius, the solidity of his judgement, his charity, holy labors, and
every kind of purity of life, and also as to his skill and energy of preaching,
inferior to none.”
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