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Nathaniel, b.
Jan. 27, 1715, had be his wife Sarah
Lockwood, in addition to the children
enumerated above: 7. Sarah, b. Feb. 8,
1762, d. Aug. 31, 1849; m. Mch. 29, 1784,
--------- Smith. 8. Philemon, b. Feb. 21,
1764, d. July 28, 1825; m. (first) Oct. 21,
1787, Hannah, dau. of Caleb Mead, who was
born Jan. 6, 1756, d. Feb. 24, 1811, and
(second) Sarah Holmes, on Feb. 20, 1814, by
whom he had no issue. His will is recorded
in White Plains, N. Y. he had by Hannah
Mead: 1. Amy, b. Sept. 17, 1788; m. Samuel
Buddington. 2. Arney, b. Sept. 22, 1790; m.
Henry Close, Sept. 29, 1812, and d. Apr. 9,
1870. 3. Hiram, b. Dec. 14, 1792. 4.
Hannah M., b. Feb. 2, 1795; m. Amos Searles.
5. Theresa M., b. Oct. 10, 1797; m. George
Miller. 6. Warren, b. Feb. 18, 1800. 7.
Rachel, b. June 11, 1802; m. James Scoffield.
Nathaniel, b.
Jan. 27, 1715, by his wife, Sarah Lockwood,
in addition to the above: 9. Ebenezer, d.
unm. 10. Deborah, b. May 13, 1766; m. Uriah
Lockwood. 11. Lockwood, b. Mch. 20, 1768,
d. June 7, 1827.
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Ebenezer,
seventh child of Jonathan, the second child
of John the emigrant, had in addition to the
children enumerated above: 7. Enos, b.
about 1717. 8. Timothy, b. about 1719, d.
1748, served in the French And Indian War;
his widow, Anna, survived him and was
appointed administratix of his children, all
infants: 1. Jeremiah. 2. George. 3. Asa.
4. Abel. 5. Jared, d. 1822, without issue.
6. Timothy, d. 1816, had: 1. Samuel H. 7.
Elijah. 8. Abigail. 9. Anna.
Ebenezer, the
posthumous son of Jonathan, the second son
of John the emigrant, has also: 9. Rebecca
who m. Samuel Bursham. 10. Eliphalet, b.
about 1722, settled at Nine partners,
Dutchess Co., N. Y.
The above
dates, which have been obtained from the
original records, do not agree as far as the
day of the month is concerned with the
genealogy of the children of Ebenezer, which
dates are probably the dates of baptism.
The above
completes the descendants of Jonathan, the
second child of the emigrant John, as far as
they have been ascertained.
JOHN REYNOLDS, (SECOND) SON OF JOHN THE
EMIGRANT.
The first
entry on the first page of the first book of
deeds in Greenwich, February 1, 1663,
records the purchase from Angell Heusted of
sixteen acres of land on the west side of
the Myanos River, by John Ronalds, of
Greenwich. This purchase was augmented by
five pieces of land which Jonathan Ronalds
had purchased of Richard Vowles, December 5,
1665, and transferred on the same day to his
"brother John Ronalds."
On October
24, 1669, John was made freeman of
Greenwich.
On July 18,
1670, William Grimes left all his "lands to
ye disposal of Joseph Mead, John Renals and
Eliphalet Jones to be disposed of by them in
such a waye as they shall judge meet for ye
inlarging of ye town of Greenwich by
accomodating such inhabitant or inhabitants
as shall be admitted into ye town in an
orderly way, provided they bee such men as
ye afore sd Mean, Renolds & Jones shall bee
desirable for ye promoting of chuch &
commonwealth." This William Grimes had on
January 7, 1666, been fined for swearing and
Jonathan Renolds had gone from Greenwich to
Stamford to appear against him. It was not
until March 7, 1694, that it was decided to
dispose of the land "for ye use of a
ministric and if no ministric be in ye place
ye profit of sd land and meadow shall go to
helpe maintain such as shall be employed in
teaching children to reade."
In 1669 John
was appointed one of a committee of five to
purchase from the few remaining Indians
living about the west end of the town, the
Horseneck tract three miles to the west of
"Old Greenwich," from which it was separated
by the Myanos River. the original settlers
remained for the most part in the homelots
at Old Greenwich and Horseneck, now
Greenwich, was largely settled by their
children, who styled themselves as the "27
proprietors of 1672." Among these Jonathan
Reynolds ranked second and his brother John
was the twenty-second among the proprietors.
By the
Greenwich inventory of 1688 it appears that
the number of "Inhabitants" had increased to
fifty, among whom was John Reynolds, who was
the wealthiest man. It would appear that
his homelot adjoined the Church of the
Second Society, for on November 28, 1694, he
was appointed "to supervise the building of
a meeting house which is next to his own
house." His name constantly appears in the
Greenwich Records up to the time of his
death. John was appointed justice of the
peace for Fairfield County, February 24,
1687, and King's Commissioner, 1690-97.
His will,
recorded in Fairfield, Connecticut, dated
April 21, 1699, and a codicil dated November
8, 1701, mentioned his wife, Judah, and
children John, Judah (or Judith), James,
Mary, Jonathan, Joshua, and David. At the
time of his death in 1701 he was the
wealthiest "Inhabitant" of Greenwich. The
widow was appointed administratix, and the
inventory was taken prior to December 17,
1701, when it was filed. The three
distributors were all of Stamford. Joshua,
the son of the deceased, chose his brother,
John Reynolds, as guardian, while David
chose Joseph Knapp as guardian. To James
was given land next to Gearsham Lockwood.
Joshua received land next to Jno. Heusted
and David land next to Joseph Ferris and
Ephraim Palmer. The widow, his son John,
and son-in-law Samuel Betts, were appointed
overseers. The daughter, Mary, had already
received her portion.
The town tax
list of Greenwich in 1701-02 contained the
following of the name:
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Mr. John Renalls, 93 pounds; Sargent
Jonathan Renalls, 22 pounds; Joseph, Jr., 52
pounds; Jonathan Jr., 27 pounds; John Jr.,
72 pounds; Ebenezer, 44 pounds; James, 46
pounds; John, Sr., 712 pounds.
On February 4, 1701-02, the town made
another distribution of land; eighteen acres
were allotted to "Mr. Rendals deceased." He
was the largest landholder in Greenwich at
the time of his death, and this land was
distributed among his sons, who, in 1706,
sold to one another the various portion
which their "honored father, Mr. John Renals
deceased" had obtained from the many
distributions of town land, with the evident
intention of concentrating their individual
holdings.
Judah, the
wife of John, was probably the daughter of
John Palmer, one of the early settlers of
Greenwich. In the settlement of his estate
recorded at Fairfield, Connecticut, the
heirs of Judah Reynolds appear with William,
Ephraim, James and Joseph Palmer, John
Palmer is stated to have "died many years
ago." This bears the entry "due August,
1716" in addition was made to the inventory
on April 17, 1778.
Her mother's
name was Judah, who was married after the
death of John Palmer to Jeffery Ferris, one
of the two purchasers ofd Greenwich Point,
July 18, 1640, whose will, executed January
6, 1664, recorded in Fairfield, mentioned
his wife "Judy," who was his third wife.
She receipted for her dower May 6, 1667, as
"Judah Bowers, lately widow Ferris, sometime
wife to Jeffery Ferris." Ferris left ten
pounds apiece to the four "boies" of his
wife, evidently the William, Ephraim, James
and Joseph Palmer above mentioned.
This is till
further confirmed by the will of Ephraim
Palmer above mentioned, who died August 9,
1684, and who will is filed at Fairfield in
books 1675-1689, page 140. The inventory
was taken by John Reynolds; John Bowers was
the administrator, and mentions his daughter
Judith, aged 11 years. If the above
relationship is correct, John Reynolds would
have been the brother-in-law of Ephraim
Palmer, John
Bowers would have been
his stepfather, and his daughter, Judith,
born in 1673, would have been named for his
sister Judith, wife of John Reynolds, or for
his mother.
The will of
John Bowers, of Greenwich, drawn March 16,
1693-94, gives property "that was her
mother's to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Judah
Reynolds,' and again speaks of his "daughter
Juda Reynolds and son Mr. John Ronalds."
In colonial
times the stepchildren were received into
the family and referred to a sons and
daughters, thus ina deed dated April 8,
1675, and recorded at Greenwich in Vol. A.,
p. 64, John Bowers gives land bounded by
that of John Renalds to his son "Ephraim
Palmer."
Judah, the
wife of "Mr. John Ronalds," had her first
child as early as 1670. As Susanna
Lockwood, the second wife, of Jeffery
Ferris, did not die until December 23, 1660,
she could not have been a daughter of
Jeffery Ferris by his third marriage. Since
Jeffery Ferris did not die until May 31,
1660, it is still less possible that she
could have been a daughter of John Bowers.
We are forced, therefore, to conclude that
Judah Reynolds was the daughter of Judah by
a marriage previous to that to Jeffery
Ferris, and the Palmer records above quoted
make us consider the conclusion warranted
that her father was John Palmer.
John bowers
married, after the death of Judah, Hannah
Knapp, widow of Joshua Knapp, the parents of
Ruth, born 1667, who married John Reynolds,
son of Jonathan, and of Joseph Knapp, who
married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan
Reynolds.
John Reynolds
and his wife, Judah Palmer, had the
following children:
1. John, born
about 1670. 2. Judith, born about 1672. 3.
James, born 1674. 4. Mary. 5. Jonathan,
1682. 6. Joshua, born about 1686, and 7.
David, born about 1689.
1.
John--John--John.
1.
John was known as "The Cooper," and
was born about 1670. He received from his father in 1695 his
house and homelot at Horseneck. He died in
December, 1732, and left a will in which he
appointed his brother James and his
son-in-law, Samuel Mills, as his executors.
He left the following children; 1. Peter,
born about 1695. 2. Judith, b. about 1697.
3. David, b. about 1699. 4. Lydia and 5.
Ruth.
1.
Peter--John--John--John.
1.
Peter, the eldest son, was b. about
1695, and d. in 1743. He m., Jan. 14, 1718, Sarah, Knapp, who
survived him. Their children were the
following: 1. Peter, b. Dec. 14,
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1719. 2. Sarah, b.
Aug. 19, 1721. 3. Hannah, b. Sept. 6,
1723. 4. John, b. Aug. 10, 1725. 5. Lydia,
b. Mch. 6, 1727, who m. a Ferris. 6.
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1729. 7. Judith, b.
July 29, 1732.
2.
Judith--John--John--John.
2.Judith, the second
child of John, "The Cooper," was b. about
1697, and m. Samuel Mills.
3.
David--John--John--John.
3. David was b. about 1699, and d. in 1750.
Letter of administration recorded at White Plains, June 3,
1751. He m. Lydia, a dau. of Caleb Knapp.
He had three children who are known: 1.
David, who was born about 1730. 2.
Penelope, who was born about 1732. 3. James
Reynolds, b. 1738, m. Judith --------, b.
1743. He lived in New Rochelle, and was
elected constable and collector, Dec. 22,
1783. They had: 1. David, b. 1761. 2.
Mary, b. 1763. 3. Samuel, born 1766. 4.
Penelope, b. 1769. 5. Peter, b. 1772. 6.
Joshua, b. 1775. 7. Enos, b. 1778. 8.
Nathan, b. 1785. 9. Elizabeth, b. 1786.
7, Enos, b.
1778; married Hannah Love, and had: 1.
Mary, b. 1801, m. Job Tripp. 2. James, b.
1803, m. Harriet Boyden. 3. Sophia, b.
1804. 4. Sidney, b. 1806, m. Juliana
Brewster. 5. Ira, b. 1807. 6. Francis, b.
1811. 7. Eliza, b. 1813. 8. Vincent, b.
1815. 9. Milton, b. 1817. 109. Lawson, b.
1820.
Nothing is
known of the descendants of 4. Lydia, the
fourth child of John, "The Cooper," but 5.
Ruth, the fifth child, who was born in
17092, m. Nov. 19, 1729, John Reynolds, the
son of Joseph, who was the son of Jonathan,
the son of the emigrant John, and had: 1.
Ruth, b. Sept. 28, 1730, and 2. John, b.
Nov. 7, 1732.
2.
Judith--John--John.
Judith was born about 1672, and married
Samuel Betts, of Norwalk, Dec. 10th, 1692, and had the
following children: 1. Mary, b. Sept, 10,
1693. 2. Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1695. 3.
Stephen, b. Aug. 1, 1698. 4. Nathan, b.
Nov. 5, 1700. 5. Hepzibah, b. Oct. 29,
1703. 6. Judith, b. Oct. 25, 1714.
The
descendants of James, the son of John, are
given hereinafter.
Nothing is
known of the descendants of Mary, the fourth
child.
4.
Jonathan--John--John.
The fifth child, Jonathan, b. about 1682,
was made an inhabitant of Greenwich, May 3, 1704, and d. in
1708. He m. Mary Mead, of Greenwich, and
had one child, Hezekiah, who was born about
1707, and d. in 1756, and m. in 1734, Sarah,
dau. of Joseph Webb, and had the following
children: 1. Hezekiah, b. May 22, 1738. 2.
Jonathan, b. Feb. 28, 1739-40. 3. Joseph,
b. Nov. 19, 1741. 4. David, b. Mch. 25,
1743-44. 5. Israel, b. May 11, 1746. 6.
Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1749.
5.
Joshua--John--John.
Joshua was born about 1686, and was a member
of the Connecticut legislature. He left the following
children: 1. John, b. about 1712. 2.
Daniel, b. about 1714. 3. Caleb, b. about
1717, and 4. Mary, b. April 28, 1723.
1.
John--Joshua--John--John.
1.
John (b. about 1712), m. Feb. 16,
1740, Johannes Winans, by whom he had: 1. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 5,
1742. 2. Joshua, b. Nov. 30, 1743. 3.
Sarah, b. Apr. 15, 1746. 4. Geradus, b.
Oct. 17, 1748. 5. John, b. Oct. 29, 1750.
6. Joanna, b. Dec. 11, 1753. 7. Jacob, b.
May 23, 1756, and 8. Alpheius, b. May 11,
1760
The seventh
child, Jacob, was born May 23, 1756, and
removed to Westerlo, Albany Co., N. Y.,
where he organized a church in 1804. He
died in 1828, and had by his wife, Martha
Winans: 1. Alphius,. 2. James. 3. John.
4. Ira. The latter was b. in 1794, and d.
in 1844, and in 1814, m. Maria Snyder
Westerlo, by whom he had: 5. Jacob Ira, b.
in 1815. D. 1870, who m. in 1840, Amelia
Disbrow, of Westerlo, by whom he had David
H., the father of Hoffman Kissam Reynolds,
of New York City.
2.
Daniel--Joshua--John--John.
Daniel, the second son of Joshua, was b.
about 1714, at Greenwich, and removed to Courtlandt Manor,
Westchester, N. Y. He died in 1803 and
had: 1. Samuel, whose descendants are
unknown. 2. Daniel, who was b. Nov. 9,
1768, d. June 2, 1831, ands was buried at
Old Greenwich, Conn.: he m. Oct. 3, 1790,
Sarah Heusted, who was b. Apr. 13, 1766, and
d. Nov. 3, 1848. They had: 1. John H., b.
July 23, 1701, at Greenwich, and removed to
Courtlandt Manor. 2. Shubal. 3. Isaac. 4.
Hannah. 5. Anna.
3.
Caleb--Joshua--John--John.
Caleb, the third son of Joshua, was b. about
1717, and d. in 1765, leaving a son: 1.
Caleb, who was b. about 1739, and was m. to
Hannah Brown, a granddaughter of James
Winans. He removed to Pine Plains, Dutchess
Co.,
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N. Y., where he had:
1. Abraham. 2. David. 3. Daniel. 4.
Nathaniel. 5. Isaac. 6. John. 7. Caleb.
8. Anna. 9. Rhuama. 10. Phebe. 11.
Clara. Caleb, the son of Joshua, had
besides the above: 2, anna, b. about 1741.
3. Mercy, b. about 1743, who m. a
Carpenter. 4. Joseph, b. about 1745. 5.
Eunice, b. about 1747. 6. David, b. about
1749, d. unm. In 1770. 7. Mary, b. about
1755, and d. young.
Nothing is
known concerning the fourth child of Joshua,
i. e., Mary, excepting that her birth is
given in the Greenwich records as April 8,
1723.
6.
David--John--John.
The seventh child of John, the son of the
emigrant John, was David, born about 1689. In October, 1720, he
was appointed ensign of the East company,
and in May, 1729, was created a lieutenant
of the Connecticut Regulars. He died in
1749. He m., Nov. 14, 1720, at the Second
Society of Greenwich, Abigail, daughter of
Joseph Reynolds, who was the son of
Jonathan, the son of John the emigrant. His
widow survived him, and was granted
permission by the General Assembly, held in
Hartford, May 1st, 1751, to sell
enough of his land to pay 598 pounds, which
was the amount of hi debts. The tax books
of Greenwich show that his estate for the
times was a very large one. He had the
following children: 1. David, b. Sept. 19,
1722, d. unm., Oct. 12, 1745. 2. Abigail,
b. Mch. 9, 1724, m. Mch. 26, 1756, William
Blake. 3., Jemima, b. July 27, 1726, m.
James Mead. 4. Benjamin, b. Nov. 27, 1728,
d. before 1753, m. Susanna -------------; no
issue. 5. Abraham, b. Sept. 19, 1731. 6.
Elizabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1733. 7. Deborah, b.
Feb. 24, 1734-35, removed to Norwalk,.
Connecticut, prior to 1758, and probably
married a Reynolds. 8. Sarah, b. Aug. 7,
1740, m. Jonas Weed, of Stamford,
Connecticut.
James--John--John.
4.
James Reynolds, son of John and his
wife, Judah, was born in Greenwich, in 1674,
and on May 10, 1697,
together with several others of "ye young
men belonging to the towne," received an
allotment of a homelot at Horseneck (three
acres at Horseneck and ten between the Two
Brothers' Brooks).
Up to 1703 all town meetings had been held
at Greenwich Old Towne, but in that year it
was determined to hold half of the them at
Horseneck, which was rapidly outgrowing in
importance the older settlement, and James
was one of those who signed the petition to
the General Assembly. In 1705 the town was
divided into two societies, and he was
appointed selectman (Dec. 31, 1705) to the
Second Society on "ye West sd. Of Myanos
River."
In the Common Place Book at Greenwich is the
entry: "Nov. 1, 1706. Recorded unto James
Renals his ear mark which is a cross upon ye
top ye neer ear and two half pennies under
ye side of he same ear."
James was elected lieutenant of the train
band, May 14, 1719, and captain May 9,
1728. He was the deputy from Greenwich to
the General Assembly, 1721-24, and 1727-38,
and justice of the peace of Fairfield
County, 1735-1741. Beginning with 1723, he
was for many years the moderator of the
Second Society. The last record of him in
the books of the Society is dated December
7, 1750.
That James Reynolds was a very large land
holder is made apparent from the many deeds
recorded in Greenwich. As early as April
21, 1706, he obtained by grant of the town
eight acres at Clap-board-tree -ridge, a
hill laying about a mile and a half back of
Greenwich. This was increased by purchase
from his brother John, December 2, 1712, and
other grants November, 1797 and 1712, until
he owned a large tract.
On March 14, 1710, he sold to Edward Avery
"a piece of ground in Horseneck, my homelot
of 14 acres with present dwelling, house
barn, and orchard bounded on the east by a
highway, southerly and westerly by ye
highway and northerly by ye land of Ebenezer
Mead and common land."
There was recorded at white Plains, December
13, 1745, the deed from James Reynolds and
three c0-partners of a very large tract of
land in Westchester County, held "by virtue
of patent granted in1701 and called the East
patent."
On May 10, 1736, he deeded his "well beloved
and dutiful son Gideon Reynolds" a very
large tract of land on Clap-Board-tree-
ridge, and augmented it with another granted
February 21st, 1743. On April
29, 1738, he deeded part of his "homelot in
Greenwich to his loving and dutiful son
Justus.' On September 24, 1748, he gave his
son Jeremiah fifty acres. On February 17,
1748-49, he gave his son, James jr., his
house and orchard on Clap-Board-Tree Ridge.
This house,
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A large gambrel
structure surrounded by enormous box trees,
was still standing in 1897, and was owned by
the descendants of Gideon Reynolds. On
March 4, 1752, he deeded his lands on the
Indian fields to his sons James Jr., and
Gideon, both of Greenwich. On March 24,
1752, he gave his lands at North castle to
his son James Jr.
From the
distribution of his property it is apparent
that he intended moving from Greenwich to
New York state, where he was probably
interested in the Nine Partners Patent. He
figures in the Greenwich tax lists as late
as 1761, and in deeds describes himself as
of Greenwich in 1759-61-62.
Nevertheless,
his granddaughter, anna Palmer, daughter of
Nathaniel Reynolds, deeded, October 1, 1760,
land on Clap-Board-tree-ridge, "in said
Greenwich, which was given to her by her
honored grandfather, James Reynolds,
formality of said Greenwich but now of
Dutchess in the Province of New York."
(Greenwich Deeds, vol. VIII.)
James, in a
deed dated August, 1761, described himself
as of Peekskill, in the county of
Westchester. James died February 14, 1767,
at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., and was
buried in the Amenia City (Smithfield)
graveyard, where his tone still exists.
Family tradition sates that he was visiting
his son Isaac, who is also buried there. A
letter written in 1848 states that "he was
large and made a fine appearance."
From a deed
signed December 22, 1731, by Captain James
Reynolds, and his wife Sarah, it appears
that she was the daughter of Mary Hobby, who
married, November 18, 1686 (Stamford
Records, p. 118), Stephen Holmes, (b. Jan.
14, 1664065, at Stamford, d. may 15, 1710,
Greenwich). The deed (Greenwich, vol. A, p.
131) covers "part of lot or right of land
that was given by John Hobby of Greenwich,
deceased, unto his daughter Mary and her
children, and I, Sarah Renyalls, am one of
the children of ye said Mary Holmes." The
said land was granted to her by her honored
father John Hobby "Dec. 22, Anno Dom.,
1731." The latter was on the voters' list
of Greenwich as early as 1658, and the
inventory of his estate, April 24, 1707,
mentions "day. Mary Holmes, wife of Stephen
Holmes." John Hobby was the son of John
Hobby, one of the seven original proprietors
of Greenwich (1664).
Stephen
Holmes, b. Jan. 14, 1664-65, in Stamford
(Stamford Records, p. 76), d. May 15, 1710,
in Greenwich (Stamford Records, p. 143), was
the son of John Holmes, b. 1635, d. July 6,
1703 (Stamford Records, p. 113), and Rachel
Waterbury, who removed to Bedford,
Westchester County, N. Y., in 1680. They
were married at Stamford, Dec. 3, 1659
(Stamford Records, p. 76). Rachel Waterbury
was the daughter of John Waterbury, who died
at Stamford 3-15-1658 (Stamford Records, p.
20). John Holmes receipted on behalf of his
wife" Rachel out of ye estate of her
deceased father John Waterbury 19-12m-1668"
(Stamford Records, p. 68).
The common
Place book at Greenwich gives the births of
four of James' children; "Sarah Renalds ye
daughter of James Renals was born (?) 25,
1698. James Renalds son of James Renals b.
July 6, 1700. Nathaniel Renals son of
James, b. Feb. 20, 1702-03. Mary Renals,
dau. of James, b. Feb. 9, 1704-05. That he
was the father of Gideon, Justus and
Jeremiah appears from the deeds of gifts
already quoted.
James had the
following children, though whether they were
all by Sarah Holmes is not known: 1. Sarah,
b. 1698, subsequent history unknown.
2.
James--James--John--John.
2. James, b. July 6, 1700, d. June 2, 1773,
buried at Amenia City (Smithfield), Dutchess County, N. Y.,
m. at Greenwich, May 24, 1731, Phebe Fowler,
and had the following children, all born in
Greenwich: 1. Mary, b. June 30, 1732. 2.
Phebe, b. June 27, 1734. 3. Sarah, b. Sept.
5, 1736. 4. Rebecca, b. Oct. 27, 1738./ 5.
Jemima, b. Feb. 9, 1741. 6. Hepzibah, b.
Sept. 18, 1744. 7. James, b. Jan. 5, 1746,
as in the War of the Revolution in the
Connecticut forces. 8. Justus, Apr. 2,
1748, was in War of Revolution in
Connecticut forces, d and buried at Amenia,
N. Y. 9. William, b. Jan. 18, 1751, m.
Rhoda, d. Nov. 24, 1813, and was buried at
Amenia City, N. Y., and had: 1. Justus, d.
1793, at Amenia, N. Y., and probably
others,. 10. Sophia, b. Sept. 25, 1754.
11. Dorcas, b. Sept. 9, 1756.
The
descendants of Nathaniel, the third child of
James, son of John, the son of John the
emigrant, will be given hereinafter.
4. Mary, b.
Feb. 9, 1744-45, entry of her birth the only
record.
5.
Gideon--James--John--John.
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Gideon, the
fifth child of James, the son of John, the
son of John the emigrant, was born in 1706,
was a member of the Connecticut legislature,
and married Bethia -----------. He d. in
1769, leaving a will dated Oct. 23, 1765,
proved at Stamford, Mch. 7, 1769. His widow
survived him. He had: 1. Gideon, b. about
1732, m. Hannah Rundle, he d. in 1772,
leaving a will dated Feb. 18, 1772, proved
May 5, 1772, at Stamford. His widow
survived him; they had: 1. Hannah, b. 1758,
m. at Greenwich, Feb. 8, 1776, Shubal
Rundle. 2. Tamar, b. 1760, m. at Greenwich,
Nov. 14, 1787, Thomas Peck. 3. Gideon, b.
in 1763, d. unm. At Stamford, devising his
estate to his brothers. 4. Oliver, b. about
1765. 5. Abraham, b. about 1769.
Horton, the
second son of Gideon, the son of James, b.
about 1734 was a sergeant in the
Revolutionary Army, wounded in the battle of
White Plains. Admitted to the Second
Society of Greenwich, June 8, 1774, died
leaving will executed Aug. 24, 1796, proved
at Stamford, May 2, 1797. He m. Lydia, dau.
of Caleb Knapp and Clemence Mills, who
survived him and had: 1. Horton, d. before
1815, his widow Abigail survived him and
afterward m. Shadrach mead, who was
administrator of his estate. At the time of
his death his children were infants: i.
e.: 1. James H. 2. Abigail J. 3. Emeline.
4. John J.
Horton and
Lydia Knapp also had: 2. Charity, m. Benoni
Platt. 3. Mary, m. Caleb Purdy. 4. Lydia,
m. Elisha Belcher, 5. Bethia, m. Feb. 19,
1789, Nathaniel Sackett. 6. Rachel, m.
-------- Sanford. 7. Anna, m. Feb. 25,
1790, David Hobby., 8. Ruth, m. Ebenezer
Knapp.
Gideon, fifth
child of James, the son of John, the son of
John the emigrant, had a third child,
Sylvanus, b. about 1736, m. in the Second
Society of Greenwich, May 7, 1776, Mary
Mead. In his will dated Aug. 27, 1819,
proved at White Plains, Nov. 1, 1820,
describes himself as of Bedford, Westchester
County, N. Y. He had: 1. Mary, m. James
Platt. 2. Gideon. 3. Sylvanus. 4. Tyler.
5. Jesse. 6. Elizabeth. 7. Theodosia. 8.
Bethia, who m. Caleb Reynolds. |
