Saturday, November 13, 2021

In Memoriam - Kelsey Morris

Kelsey Lynn Morris

Born: June 25, 1990, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois
Died: November 10, 2021, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois

Ahnentafel:
1. Kelsey 
2. Anita Lathrop
3. Bryan Morris 1958-2021

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

In Memoriam - Janet Lathrop

Janet Sue (Warren) Lathrop

Born: April 25, 1941, Sims, Wayne Co., IL
Died: July 3, 2021 Peoria, IL

Married: June 5, 1965 Virgil Grant Lathrop, Wayne Co., IL

Children:
Neal md. Kelly Durbin  
  • Brandy
  • Cody
  • KeneDi
  • Brinlee
Jay
  • Aubrey
  • Grant

Monday, March 29, 2021

In Memoriam - Sharon Dove


Sharon A. Dove 

Born: June 2, 1942, Wayne County, IL
Died: March 28, 2921 Fairfield Memorial Hospital, Fairfield, IL

Buried: Mt. Zion / Farnsworth Cemetery, March 31, 2021

Ahnentafel:
1. Sharon Dove
2. Keith Dove
3. Bernice Harper
4. Joseph Mason Dove
5. Clara Bell Wood
6. Charlie Harper
7. Cora Anderson
9. Alice Goss
10. William Wood
11. Phoebe Solomon

Friday, March 12, 2021

Ahnentafel #1087 - Anne Peck

Interior, St. Andrew Church

Anne Peck

Born: 1619 Hingham, Norfolk, England
Baptized: 1619 St. Andrew Church, Hingham, Norfolk, England
Died: 1672 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Founders Cemetery, Norwich, Connecticut

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Ahnentafel #1086 - John Mason

Major John Mason

Born: ca. 1600, England
Died: between May 9 & June 6, 1672 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Norwich Burying Ground

Married: 
1) (--?--) by 1638 in England or in Connecticut. 
2) Anne Peck, July 1639, Hingham, Massachusetts

Occupation:  Soldier, served in English army under Lord Fairfax in the Netherlands fighting on behalf of the Dutch against Spain. In 1630 he was in Sir Horace Vere's forces engaged in the battle of Bois-le-Duc.
  • Made Captain by 1637
  • Made Major June 1654
Magistrate:
  • Deputy for Dorchester to Massachusetts Bay General Court, March 4, 1634/35, Sept. 2, 1635
  • Connecticut Deputy Governor: May 1660, May 1661, May 1662, October 1662, May 1663, May 1664, May 1665, May 1666, May 1667, May 1668

Monday, March 8, 2021

Ahnentafel #1085 - Anne Reve

Anne Reve or Reeve

Born: ca. 1590, Gosford, Essex, England
Died: after 1669 Hartford, Connecticut

Buried: Unknown

Married: August 8, 1611, Thomas Fitch in St. Mary's Church, Bocking Essex, England

Immigration: between 1648 and 1650 to Connecticut with her sons Thomas, Samuel and Joseph. 

Records:
1620 - September 23 - Essex - Anne was mentioned in her father, John's will. 

1633 - Bocking, Essex - Anne was the sole executor of her husband, Thomas' will. 

1649 - Bocking, Essex - Anne was sole executor of her son, Nathaniel's will. 

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Ahnentafel #1084 - Thomas Fitch

Aerial view of St. Mary the Virgin Church in Bocking, England

Thomas Fitch

Born: between 1574 & 1583 probably in Braintree, Essex, England
Died: ca. 1632 England
Buried:  Unknown

Married: August 8, 1611, Annie Reve, Church of St. Mary, Bocking, Essex

Occupation: clothier - the Bocking-Braintree area of Essex was a center for the cloth industry from Saxon times forward. As early as 1303, Bocking had a fulling mill for treating woven cloth.  In the late fifteenth century, Essex possessed a considerable woolen industry making broadcloths, a wool fabric, tightly woven in a plain or twill pattern and having a sheen. By 1556 there were three fulling mills in Bocking. By the late 16th and early 17th century the broadcloth industry had been replaced by the manufacture of worsted.  This is made from long-staple wool that has been combed and then firmly twisted into yarn. Work would have been done in people's homes. The raw wool combed, spun into yarn, the yarn then woven into cloth and the cloth taken to the mill for fulling. 

Clothiers bought the wool, parceled it out to workers, collected the woven cloth, ran it through fulling mills and dyed it. 

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Ahnentafel #1081 - Alice Carpenter

Alice Carpenter

Born: by 1590 Somersetshire, England
Died: March 26, 1670, Plymouth Plantation, MA
Buried: March 30, 1670 Plymouth Plantation, MA

Married:
1) May 28, 1613, Edward Southworth, Leiden, Holland
2) August 14, 1623, William Bradford in Plymouth Plantation

Immigration: She arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts July 14, 1623 on the Anne. 

Records:
1623 - Plymouth, MA - Alice received a single share in the land allotment because she came on the ship Anne

Monday, March 1, 2021

Ahnentafel #1080 - William Bradford

Governor William Bradford

Born: ca. 1588, Yorkshire, England
Baptized: March 19, 1589/90 Austerfield, Yorkshire, England
Died: May 9, 1657 Plymouth Plantation, MA

Buried: May 1657 Burial Hill, Plymouth Plantation, MA 
Tombstone: 
HI - William Bradford of Austerfield Yorkshire, England was the son of William and Alice Bradford. He was Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1621 to 1633, 1635, 1637, 1639 to 1643, 1645 to 1657

God is my strength [in Hebrew]. Under this stone rest the ashes of Will'm Bradford a zealous puritan & sincere christian Gov. of Ply. Col. from April 1621 to 1657 (the year he died aged 69) except 5 yrs. which he declined. Oua patres difficillime adepti sunt nolite turpiter relinquere. [What our forefathers with so much difficulty secured, do not basely relinquish.]

Married:
1) December 10, 1613 Dorothy May in Amsterdam, Holland

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Ahnentafel #1079 - Mary Norton

Mary Norton

Born: ca. 1635 Bedfordshire, England
Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Samuel Rockwell, April 7, 1660, Windsor, CT

Friday, February 19, 2021

Ahnentafel #1078 - Samuel Rockwell

Samuel Rockwell

Born: March 28, 1631 Dorchester, MA
Died: 1711 Windsor, CT

Buried: Unknown

Married: Mary Norton, April 7, 1660, Windsor, CT

Records:
1637 - Windsor, CT - Rockwell family moved from Dorchester, MA to Windsor, CT.

1652 - Sept. 13 - Windsor, CT - Samuel Rockwell & Isaac Shelden granted permission to "keep house together in the house that is Isaac's, so they carry themselves soberly and do not entertain idle persons, to the evil expense of time by night or day." 

1662 - April 6 - Windsor, CT - Samuel admitted to Church

1668/69 - Jan. 18 - Windsor, CT - Account of town debts that have to be paid by a town rate to be made,

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Ahnentafel #1077 - Elizabeth Moore

Elizabeth Moore

Born: by 1635 Windsor, Connecticut
Died: 1728 Connecticut

Buried: probably in Windsor, CT

Married: 
1) November 24, 1653 Nathaniel Loomis in Windsor, Connecticut
2) after 1688 John Case of Simsbury, Connecticut

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Ahnentafel #1076 - Nathaniel Loomis

Nathaniel Loomis

Born: ca. 1626 Essex, England
Died: Windsor, Connecticut, August 19, 1688

Buried: Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, CT

Married: Elizabeth More, November 24, 1653, Windsor, Connecticut

Immigration: April 11, 1638 from London to July 17, 1638 to Dorchester, Massachusetts on the Susan & Ellen 

Records:
Nathaniel was a member of the Windsor Troop of Horse during King Philip's War.

1640 - Hartford, CT - Nathaniel purchase land from George Phelps estate - 14 acres in breadth seventeen rods in length, towards Hartford. 

1654 - Windsor, CT - Nathaniel admitted as freeman.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Ahnentafel #1075 - Mary Steele

Mary Steele

Born: by 1637 probably in Hartford, Connecticut
Died: October 27, 1718, Farmington, Connecticut

Buried: unknown

Married: William Judd, March 31, 1657

Records:
1690 - December 27 - Farmington, CT - Mary is given her widow's dower in the distribution of William's estate: 

A Distribution of ye Estate of Sergt William Judd Late of ffarmington Deceast as it was made by us ye subscribers Decemb'r ye 27th 1690. pursuent to an act of ye adjourned Court held at Hartford Novemb'r 5, 1690

To ye widdow for her Dower during life yn ye Reale Estate:
  • by ye Now 2nd of ye house with halfe ye bredth of ye lott viz: ye south sid[e] of it from ye Street soo farr as ye orchard extends with ye use of ye ciller & oven yn ye other Rooms and the use of

Ahnentafel #1074 - William Judd

William Judd aka Sergeant William Judd

Born: by 1635
Died: 1690 Farmington, CT

Buried: probably in Farmington, CT. 

Married: March 31, 1657 Mary Steele

Records:
1663/34 - January 30 - Farmington, CT - William was mentioned in his father-in-law John Steele's will:

to "my son-in-law William Judd one third part of my land called Cock's Crook" . . . to "my sons-in-law William and Thomas Judd my now dwelling house and barn, house lot, yards, garden, orchard" after "mine and my wife's departure out of this natural life"; . . . residue to "my two sons-in-law William and Thomas Judd and do make them my sole executors." 

1656 - May 15 - Farmington, CT - William was made a freeman. 

1679 - May - Farmington, CT - William received land from his father Thomas Judd:

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Ahnentafel #1073 - Mary (--?--)

Mary (--?--)

Born: ca. 1610 England
Died: April 4, 1662 Northampton, Massachusetts

Buried: in the minister's plot in the Northampton cemetery

Married: by 1635 in England William Janes

Immigration: ca. 1637 with William and son Joseph.

Records:
1639 - New Haven, CT - settled there with her husband William.

1656 - Northampton, MA - the family moved with 9 children between ages of newborn and 26 years of age. 

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Research Notes - Northfield Settlement & Raids

Northfield, Massachusetts

The town, as granted by the General court in 1672, was eight miles long by four and a half miles wide, extending 3/4 of a mile from the river west, and 3 3/4 miles east.  . . . The outlines were not regular. 

The river is the Connecticut river which runs north to south.

Second settlement - 1685 - added a tract of land to the south, on the east side of the river.  Another addition was made so that the town bounded Deerfield to the south.

River Indians:
In the 1670s thought to be have been about 1200 people and of that 300 warriors

Agawam - occupied region above & below Springfield. 

Nonotucks / Norwottucks - head of the falls of the Connecticut to Mount Wequomps / Sugarloaf

Squakheags - claimed area of Northfield

Pacomptocks - valley of the Deerfield river, largest, most warlike, best known

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Ahnentafel #1072 - William Janes

signature of William Jeanes
William Janes

Born: 1610, Essex, England
Died: September 20, 1690, Northampton, MA

Buried: Northampton, MA

Married: 1) Mary (--?--) by 1635 in England - a William Janes md. Marie Hewes June 12, 1632 in London. This is a possibility as William may have been a member of Rev. John Davenport's church in London. 
2) Hannah (Bascom) Broughton, November 20, 1662, Northampton, MA

Occupation: teacher and teaching elder/minister in the church

Immigration: 1637 

Biography:  William Jeanes or Janes, came from England in 1637, settled in New Haven, June 4, 1639, and was admitted a freeman in 1648. He was by profession a school-master, and taught in New Haven for a number of years. In 1651, he proposed that the town should pay a portion of the salary of the teacher, instead of the whole being paid by the parents of the children. He went to Wethersfield soon

Friday, February 5, 2021

Ahnentafel #1061 - Hannah Little

Hannah Little

Born: by 1641 Plymouth, Massachusetts
Died: May 13, 1710, Scituate, Massachusetts

Buried: Unknown

Married: Stephen Tilden Jan. 25, 1661/62 in Scituate, MA

Children:
Hannah

Thursday, February 4, 2021

In Memoriam - Dean Wilson


Dean Chauncey Wilson

Born: April 11, 1959, Concord, California
Died: February 1, 2021, Riviera, Texas

Buried: February 8, 2021 Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery, Corpus Christ, Texas

Married: Rebecca Schubert 1985

Children:
Chauncey md. Berenice (--?--)
Cassie md. Michael Stastney

Ahnentafel: 
1. Dean Wilson md. Rebecca Schubert
2. Dean Harlane Wilson
3. Josephine "JoAnn" Spielmann

1. Rebecca Schubert

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Ahnentafel #1060 - Stephen Tilden

Stephen Tilden

Baptized: October 11, 1629, St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England
Died: August 22, 1711, Scituate, MA

Buried: Unknown

Married: Hannah Little, January 25, 1661 in Scituate, MA

Religion: Member of the 2nd Church of Scituate

Residence: Occasionally Stephen is listed as being of Marshfield, and he did have land there.  However, in the probate records he is said to described as "Stephen Tilden Late of Sittuate."  It's possible that the family moved to Marshfield for a time and that he moved back to Scituate to live with one of his children.  He was, after all 82 when he died. 

Records:
1635 - March 4 - Sandwich, England - Immigration at age 6 with his family:

"Nathaniel Tilden of Tenterden in Kent, yeoman, & Lidia his wife," children "Joseph, Thomas,

Monday, February 1, 2021

Ahnentafel #1058 - Joseph Truman

Joseph Truman or Trueman

Born: Nottinghamshire, England
Died: between 1697 & 1699 New London, CT

Buried: New London Ancient Cemetery

Married: (--?--) probably in England

Biography: He was born in Nottinghamshire, England. He married in England but neither his wife's name, nor the name of her family has yet been ascertained. He appeared with his wife, and perhaps some of his children, at New London, Connecticut in 1666. In the following year he was chosen constable, a position of considerable honor in those days. He purchased in 1667 from Alex. Piggins, and about 1670 from Hugh Roberts, some pits for tanning, which were located in a meadow near the entrance of Cape Ann Lane. Truman Brook and Truman Street are named after him and his family. The brook ran into Bream Cove near the Hempstead lot. He appears as plaintiff in law suits in October 1682, May 1683, October 1683 and May 1685. He died in 1697 at New London, Connecticut. In his will, executed in September 1696, he mentions four children, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth and Mary, his daughter Ann having died before the will was made. In a note-book now [1901] in the possession

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Ahnentafel #1057 & 1063 - Isabella Button / Buxton?

Isabella Button(?), some people say Buxton

Born: ca. 1633
Died: unknown

Buried: unknown

Married by 1656 Rowland Powell, possibly in England or in Massachusetts.  Marriage is not recorded in Gloucester, MA where they lived.

History of Gloucester, MA: Rowland Powell recorded land, in 1659, to John Collins, which had the same

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Ahnentafel #1056 & #1062 - Rowland Powell

Rowland Powell

Born: ca. 1629
  • Rowland Powell baptized Dec. 26, 1619 St. James Garlickhithe, London, England, son of Rowland & Elizabeth (--?--) Powell
  • Rowland Powell was baptized in Lydbury, Shropshire, England August 15, 1630, son of Thomas 
  • Rowland Powell was baptized May 1, 1631 at St. Dunstan in East London, son of Rowland Powell
  • Rowland Powell born Oct. 9, 1636 in Low Dinsdale, Durham, England, son of John Powell
  • Rowland Powell born May 1, 1631 son of Rowland & Emylyn (Salisbury) Powell
  • the family is said to be of Welsh origins . . . 
Died: ca 1718 Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried:

Married: by 1657 Isabella Button/Buxton(?), possibly in England, possibly in Massachusetts, not in Gloucester, MA

History of Gloucester, MA: The first ordering, settling and disposing of lots, was made by Mr. Endicott and Mr. Downing, commissioners, 2d month, 1642. How many people were then here is not known:

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Ahnentafel #1039 - Hannah Lake

Hannah Lake aka Ann 

Baptized July 3, 1621 North Benfleet, Essex, England
Died: after 1698

Buried: unknown

Married: by 1644 John Gallop in Boston, Massachusetts

Immigration: 1635 on the Abigail arriving in New England on October 6 after a 10 week voyage. She came with her mother and sister Martha as well as her aunt Elizabeth (Reade) Winthrop the wife of Governor John Winthrop, Jr.  Hannah's brother stayed in England. 
 
Records:
1623 - November 20 - Wickford, Essex, England - Edmund Reade, Hannah's grandfather wrote his will, mentioning her parents, brother and herself:

I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, John Lake, and to my Daughter Margarett Lake, forty shillings apiece to make ym rings, and to John Lake and Anna [Hannah] Lake, theire children, 20

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Ahnentafel #1038 - John Gallop


Captain John Gallop also written as Gallup, Galloup, Galloupe ang Gallupe

Baptized: Jan. 25, 1620/21, St. Mary's Church, Bridport, Dorset, England
St. Mary's Church, Bridport, Dorset
Died: Dec. 19, 1675 in the Narragansett Swamp fight in present South Kingston, Rhode Island

Buried: Dec. 1675 near Wickford, Rhode Island

Married: Hannah Lake by1644 in Boston, MA

Immigration:1633 with his mother and siblings.  John's father immigrated on his own in 1630. 

Occupation: 
  • soldier 
  • Indian interpreter
  • representative at the General Court in Stonington, CT from Oct. 1665 to May 1667
Military Service: Soldier in Pequot War and captain of the 1st Connecticut Company during King Philip's War, John Gallop was killed in action at the Great Swamp Fight.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Ahnentafel #1037 - Mary Andrews

Mary Andrews

Born: ca. 1631
Died: after 1700

Buried: unknown

Married: 
1) 1648 William Hodges in Massachusetts
2) ca. 1654/55 Peter Pitts

Records:
1652 - March 13 - Taunton, MA - Mary is mentioned in her father Henry's will:

gives to daughter Mary Hedges, wife of William Hedges, a house and land, with reversionary interest to her son John Hedges, who is to have also a silver cup

1653/54 - Taunton, MA - Mary is mentioned in her mother Mary (--?--) Andrews' will:  "unto my Daughter Mary hodgis my best stammell petticoat which I bought of Edward Case and my cloath gounne and to my soninlaw William hodgis one of the Coslets in my hous." 

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Ahnentafel #1036 - William Hodges

William Hodges - may have been Hedges

Born: 1620, England
Died: April 2, 1654 Taunton, Massachusetts

Buried: unknown 

Married: Mary Andrews in 1648 Massachusetts 

Immigrant: arrived in Massachusetts ca. 1633

Biography:
William Hodges went to Taunton (perhaps from Salem) soon after Taunton was purchased by the first proprietors and his name is in the second list of early settlers made out by the Town Clerk, John Wilbore. His first certain appearance on the records is in August 1643, in the list of males at Taunton between the ages of 16 and 60, able to bear arms. On March 24, 1643/4 the town voted "that a sufficient carte-way be made from the houses into the woods behind the ground of William Hodges, William Evans and Aaron Knapp, where it is most convenient."  At Plymouth Court, Oct. 4, 1648, William Hodges was accused "for yt the sd. Hedgges, knowing of one yt hath traded shote unto the Indians, and refusing to declare who it is, by a sommons sent unto him is required to appeer at the next Generall

Monday, January 18, 2021

In Memoriam - Warren Thomason


Warren Lee Thomason

Born: March 2, 1971 Aurora, IL
Died: January 2, 2021 Aurora, IL

Buried: January 9, 2021 Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, IL

Married: (--?--)

Children:
Michael md. Jannea (--?--)
  • Benjamin
David md. Kayla (--?--)
Matthew

Ahnentafel:
1. Warren Lee Thomason
2. Warren Thomason
3. Linda Whitlow
6. Lea Roy Whitlow

Ahnentafel #1034 - Thomas Lovell

Thomas Lovell

Born: ca. 1610
Died: Jan. 2, 1709/10 Ipswich, MA

Buried:

Married: Ann (--?--)

Possibly married twice 1) unknown and 2) Demaris (--?--) Robinson.  I have no idea if this is true. 

Immigrant, but have found no record of his arrival. 

Records:
There are two Thomas Lovell's in the records of Ipswich & Essex County or it's possible that the majority of the Ipswich / Essex County records are really about a Thomas Lovell, a currier [leather dresser], who migrated to New England from Dublin, Ireland ca. 1640.  He appears not to have been married when he migrated.  He had two sons: Alexander b. 1657, d. age 2 and Nathaniel b. 1658, living 1707.  Take all the records below with a grain of salt.

1646 - Salem, MA - Thomas Lovell appeared in the Essex County court at Salem as a witness with Thomas Robins against Peter Sims alias Ford for stealing Indian corn out of the water mill. 

Sunday, January 17, 2021

In Memoriam - Nancy Butler

Nancy Elizabeth Butler

Born: July 6, 1955, Geff, Illinois
Died: January 13, 2021 Belleville, Illinois

Buried: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Dahlgren, IL

Never married, no children. 

Ahnentafel:
1. Nancy Butler
2. Minor Butler
3. Rachel Hutchcraft
4. Charles Butler
5. Nancy Hall 
8. Isaac Butler
9. Nancy (--?--)

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Ahnentafel #1033 - Judith Gater

Judith Gater

Baptized: March 19, 1589/90 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Died: after 1654, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Buried: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, MA

Married: John Perkins, October 9, 1608 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
St. John the Baptist, Hillmorton
photo by A.R. Thomson


Immigration: Left England December 1, 1630 on the Lyon with her husband and five of her seven  children ranging in age from 7 to 22 The ship landed at Nantasket, Massachusetts on February 5, 1630/31, a voyage of 67 days. 

Records:
1631 - Boston, MA - Judith was admitted to membership in the First Church of Boston as member #108. 

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Ahnentafel #1032 - John Perkins

John Perkins

Baptized: Dec. 23 1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Died: between March 28 & Sept. 26, 1654 Ipswich, Massachusetts

Buried: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, MA

Married: Judith Gater, Oct. 8, 1608 Hillmorton, Warwick, England

Immigration: On the Lyon sailed from Bristol on December 1, 1630 and landed Feb. 5, 1630/31 at Natasket, Massachusetts

Biography: John Perkins, senior, as he is called on the records, the immigrant ancestor . . . was among the earliest emigrants from the mother country, sailing from Bristol, England, Dec. 1, 1630 in the ship Lyon, William Pierce, master, bound for Boston in America, taking with him his entire family, consisting them of his wife and five children. His fellow passengers were, the afterward divine, Rev. Roger Williams, and others; twenty in all. After a stormy pa saissage of sixty-seven days they arrived at Nantasket, Feb. 5, 1631, and on the 6th came to an anchor before Boston. The following extract from Prince's Annals of New England gives a graphic account of the condition of the colony at the time of

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Ahnentafel #1031 - Mary (--?--)

Mary (--?--) 

Born: ca. 1620 in England
Died: Feb. 6, 1710/11 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, CT

Married: Thomas Leffingwell ca. 1645 probably in New England.  Some people claim that Thomas Leffingwell returned to England to marry her.  There is no evidence to back this up. 

Records:
Some people claim she is Mary White, daughter of Edward & Martha (King) White who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1635 on the Abigail. According to the Great Migration study Edward & Martha's daughter Mary was bapt. 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent England and migrated to

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Ahnentafel #1030 - Thomas Leffingwell

Lieutenant  Thomas Leffingwell 

Name has been spelled Leafphingwell, Levingwell, Lephingwell, Lefingwell, Leapinvill, Lepingwell, Leppingwell, Leapingwell

Born: ca. 1623 England
Died: 1714 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Founders Cemetery, Norwich, CT

Married: Mary White(?) by 1648(?) probably in Saybrook, Connecticut. There is a story that Thomas returned to England to marry, but no evidence to back it up. 

Biography: About the year 1637, only a short time after the first settlement of New England, there appears among the forests of Connecticut a young hunter calling himself Thomas Leffingwell. The prototype, perhaps, of Cooper's Deerslayer, he was even at that early day on friendly terms with the Mohegan Indians, and especially their young chief Uncas; nor is it improbable, that occasionally he lived among them, acquiring their language and sharing their adventures. Very dim, however, are the glimpses which we then obtain of him. He was gifted, tradition tells us, with unusual physical strength, which, for a time at least, appeared in his descendants; he was endowed, as we know, with that courage

Friday, January 8, 2021

Ahnentafel #1029 - Elizabeth Goodwin

Elizabeth Goodwin 

Born: ca. 1620, Essex, England
Died: after 1686

Buried: probably in Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT

Married: ca. 1638 John Crow in Hartford, CT

Immigration 1632 on the Lyon with her parents.  They lived first at Cambridge, Massachusetts and removed to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636.  

Records:
1632 - June - The Lyon set sail from London with Elizabeth, her parents and aunt, uncle and cousin.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

In Memoriam - Gerold Legg

Gerold Ray Legg 

Born: June 7, 1940, Wayne Co., IL
Died: January 4, 2021, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mt. Vernon, IL

Buried: January 12, 2021, Pin Oak Cemetery, Wayne Co., IL

Married: Patricia Robertson, August 31, 1963 at Elmer Legg's home in Sims, IL

Children: 
Lanny Legg md. Stacy Rigg
  • Aspen Legg
  • Rigger Legg
Lisa Legg (twin) md. Michael Scarbrough
  • Amy Scarbrough

Ahnentafel #1028 - John Crow

Hartford Founder's Monument
John Crow

Born: 1606 Essex, England
Died: Jan. 16, 1685/6 Hartford, Connecticut

Buried: Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT

Married: 1) (--?--)
2) ca. 1640 Elizabeth Goodwin

Biography:
John Crow was one of the first settlers [of Hartford] and one of the original proprietors of our soil. He was a large land-owner and lived near the site of the late Ozias Roberts homestead, - an old unused well remaining there to-day. He owned a tract of land extending from near the present Hockanum bridge north to the neighborhood of "Smith's Lane," and running eastward to the end of the three-mile lots. Crow Hill, in the river swamp, still retains his name. He married Elizabeth Goodwin, only daughter of William Goodwin. With his father-in-law he bought 776 acres of land on this side of the river in 1639, a

Monday, January 4, 2021

Ahnentafel #1026 - Thomas Adgate

Thomas Adgate tombstone
Here lies the body of Deacon Thomas Adget
Who died July 1707 in ye 87th year of his age
Deacon Thomas Adgate

Born: 1623, England
Died: July 21, 1707, Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Old Norwich Town Cemetery

Married: 1) (--?--) ca. 1650, probably in     Saybrook Colony
2) 1659 Mary (Marvin) Bushnell in Saybrook, Connecticut

Religion: Congregational, served as deacon in Saybrook from continuously from 1646 until his move to Norwich in 1660 where he was appointed a deacon of the Norwich church. 

Civic Offices: 
Townsman in Norwich in 1674, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1686 Townsmen or selectmen were elected to perform the business of the town

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ahnentafel #1025 - Elizabeth Scudder

Elizabeth Scudder 

Born:  ca. 1625 Strood, Kent, England
Died:  ca. 1688 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: unknown

Married: Nov. 28, 1644 Samuel Lothrop in Barnstable, MA by Mr. Freeman

Biography: She is reported by Savage as a sister to that John Scudder who was in Barnstable in 1640. Samuel Lothrop had made the acquaintance of Miss Scudder in Boston, where he commenced his business life as house builder, afterwards combining with this extensive farming operations. Their marriage was recorded by his father [Rev. John Lothrop] on the Barnstable Church Register as follows: "My sonn Samuel & Elizabeth Scudder marryed at my house by Mr. Freeman, Nov. 28, 1644." 

They settled in Barnstable, where his house stood next that of John Scudder. 

In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. . . . His house lot in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John Winthrop, Jr., Esq. . . .