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

Notebooks - Dad's Families No. 5

New England Towns in 1700

Calder, Isabel. The New Haven Colony, New Haven, CT: Yale University President, 1936

At this stage in the evolution of a colonial government the plantation-colony of New Haven was invited to join a confederation of the Puritan colonies of New England. Such a confederation had first been proposed in August, 1637, soon after the arrival of the Davenport company in New England, when representatives of the towns on the Connecticut River visited the Bay Colony in connection with the Pequot War and the Hutchinsonian controversy. At this time five proposals made by some of the assistants of Massachusetts Bay proved acceptable to the magistrates and people of Connecticut, but a sixth, providing for the reference of intercolonial disputes to commissioners to be appointed by the colonies, the decision of a majority of the commissioners to be accepted as final, met with opposition. In May, 1638, John Haynes, William Pynchon, and John Steele of Connecticut laid before the general court of Massachusetts Bay at Newtown revised articles providing for the reference of intercolonial disputes to commissioners, the decision of the latter to be accepted as final only if unanimous. The Bay Colony seized upon this opportunity to advance its claim to Agawam or Springfield, most northerly of the river towns. The delegation from Connecticut assented to the claim, but Massachusetts demanded the assent of the general court of the colony. When

Ahnentafel #513 - Hannah Adgate

Hannah Adgate

Born: Oct. 6, 1653, Saybrook, Middlesex Co., Connecticut
Died: September 18, 1695 Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut

Buried: Old Norwich Cemetery

Married:  Nov. 1675 Samuel Lathrop in Norwich, Connecticut

Research Log - New London County, Connecticut

There are a couple places where many of our families meet and stay for more than a generation.  New London County Connecticut is one of these places.  More specifically the towns of New London, Norwich and Lebanon.  Dates are approximate times when person lived in the named town

New London - settled 1646, named 1658 is located at the mouth of the Thames River on Long Island Sound and has an excellent harbor. 

"The Indian name of New London," says Trumbull, "was Nameaug, alias Towawog." The first was undoubtedly the prevalent name: it was used, with many variations in the spelling, to designate both the site of the town and the natives found upon it. The Indian names are all descriptive, and this is supposed to mean a fishing place, being compounded of Namas, fish, and eag, aug, eak, terminations which signify land. 

The other name, Tawaw-wog, is not often found on record: it occurs however, as an alias, in several deeds, about the date of 1654. It is probable that this also has a reference to fish; and may be derived from Tataug or Tatau-og, black-fish, for which the neighboring waters are still renowned.

Research Log - Map of Norwich

Notebook - Connecticut No. 1

Allis, Marguerite. Historic Connecticut, New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, nd.

Further excursion among the stones revealed monuments to five Lathrops and six Leffingwells.  Still musing, the Pilgrim trudged off beside the meadows to where the two Old Lathrop Houses face one another across the brink of Washington Street. [Norwich, CT]

The lower one stands on land Samuel Lathrop inherited from his mother, but his seventeenth century house was burned in 1745.  Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his grandson, was responsible for the present structure, yet it cannot be said that he built it, for there is no way of knowing how much was reclaimed from the former damaged abode.  It is quite possible that this very kitchen saw Mohegan Indians lying before the fire of an autumn night, for the Lathrops would never close their doors against the original owners of the soil, and Colonel Simeon, one of Samuel's sons, was a great sympathizer with the wrongs of the Mohegans. 

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Barber, John. Connecticut Historical Collections, New Haven, CT: Durrie & Peck & J.W. Barber, nd

Norwich, Lebanon, New London, Windsor, New Haven, Farmington, Norwalk, Saybrook, Guilford, Stonington, Hartford, East Hartford

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Barbour, Lucius. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1977. 

Notebook - Massachusett No. 1

Barber, John. History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts, Worcester, MA: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839. 

Barnstable County incorporated in 1685, description of the county

Barnstable is the county town of Barnstable county, and is a port of entry.  It was incorporated September 3d, 1639. There is no particular account to be found of the first settlement of this town.  Probably there was none made much before its incorporation, as but two persons are named in the original grant.  "The Indian name of the place appears to have been Mattacheese, Mattacheest, or Mattacheeset,.   The church at Scituate being in a broken condition, the Rev. John Lothrop of that place removed with part of the church to Barnstable, in October, 1639, the same year the town was granted by the Old Colony.  It appears from the records which have been preserved, that all the south side of the town was amicably purchased of Wianno, and several other sachems, about 1650.  Three is reason to believe that all the north part was likewise purchased of the natives, although no record of it now remains.

The Rev. John Lothrop was the first minister in this town, as has been stated; his successor was the Rev. Thomas Walley, who was ordained in 1663 . . .

It has been stated "the West Barnstable church is the first independent Congregational church of that name in the world."  It was organized in 1616, in England, principally through the instrumentality of Rev. Henry Jacob, who was chosen and constituted its first pastor. 

In Memoriam July 21st

1707 Thomas Adgate in Norwich, CT he was 86.  Thomas was born in 1621 probably in England.  He settled in Saybrook, CT and married 1) unknown and they had Elizabeth, Hannah and Abigail.  He married 2) Mary Marvin and they had Thomas, Rebekah and Sarah.  Thomas is buried in the Old Norwichtown Cemetery in Norwich, CT.

1850 Samuel Darby age 98.  He was born ca. 1752 to William & Mary (?) Darby.

1962 Elzora (Crumbacher) Slade age 85 in Illinois.  The daughter of James & Nancy (Gentle) Crumbacher Elzora was born 1877 in Illinois.  She married Sherman Slade.  Elzora is buried in Gunion Cemetery in Wayne Co., IL.

1993 Velma (Robertson) Shoulders Drew in Dixon, IL, she was the daughter of John & Rose (Moore) Robertson.  Velma was born in Wayne Co., IL in 1916.  She married 1) Nathan Shoulders in 1935 and they had five children: unnamed son, Ronald, Darrel, Carrol, and Earl.  After Nathan’s death Velma married 2) Merle Drew in 1968.  She is buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Park in Dixon, IL.

Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich, Connecticut is a hub of the Lathrop family.  Samuel & Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop moved there in 1668.  They were the first of four generations to live there through the American Revolution.  Their children married into Norwich families: Adgate, Crow, Perkins, Hodges, Leffingwell, Bushnell, Mason and Fitch among others. This is also the place where the name changes from LOthrop to LAthrop.

October - No Dates

Birthdays: 

1641 Priscilla Mason in Windsor, CT.  She was the daughter of Capt. John & Anne (Peck) Mason. 

1653 Hannah Adgate in Saybrook, CT the daughter of Thomas Adgate.  She died in 1695.

1655 Sarah Lathrop in New London, CT the daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop.  She died in Wallingford, CT. in 1706