Nielsen Hayden genealogy
George Sumner Arnold
1846 - 1888 (42 years)1. George Sumner Arnold was born on 16 Apr 1846 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (son of Ebenezer Arnold and Ann Eliza Sears); died on 7 Nov 1888. Notes:
A merchant of New Haven.
Family/Spouse: Evelyn Greenwood Thompson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- George Stanleigh Arnold was born on 3 Apr 1881 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 18 Jan 1942 in Marin, California.
2. Ebenezer Arnold was born on 5 Jul 1792 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (son of Ebenezer Arnold and Persis Hubbard). Notes:
A merchant of New Haven. He and his wife Ann Eliza Sears were second cousins once removed, he a great-grandson of Stephen Miller (1699-1785) and Anna Goodrich (1711-1777), and she a great-great granddaughter of the same couple.
Ebenezer married Ann Eliza Sears on 13 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ann (daughter of Elisha Sears and Esther Southmayd Hendley) was born on 7 Oct 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Ann Eliza Sears was born on 7 Oct 1825 (daughter of Elisha Sears and Esther Southmayd Hendley). Children:
- 1. George Sumner Arnold was born on 16 Apr 1846 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 7 Nov 1888.
Generation: 3
4. Ebenezer Arnold was born on 15 Mar 1766 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (son of Ebenezer Arnold and Anna Miller); died before 1800. Ebenezer married Persis Hubbard on 7 Apr 1791 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Persis Hubbard Notes:
She subsequently married Noadiah Whitmore of Middletown, Connecticut, a great-great grandson of the original immigrant Francis Whitmore (1625-85).
Some sources show her as a daughter of Manoah Hubbard (1739-62) and Hannah Woodward, born in Middletown 8 Jul 1762. But the Persis Hubbard born on that date died 7 Mar 1767. It's possible that she was a subsequent Persis born to that couple, but no records have been found to confirm this.Children:
- 2. Ebenezer Arnold was born on 5 Jul 1792 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. Elisha Sears was born on 26 Jan 1801 (son of Stephen Sears and Phoebe Knowles); died on 29 Apr 1877. Elisha married Esther Southmayd Hendley on 28 Nov 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Esther Southmayd Hendley (daughter of Henry Hendley and Esther Miller). Notes:
Born on an August 4, year unknown.
Children:
- 3. Ann Eliza Sears was born on 7 Oct 1825.
Generation: 4
8. Ebenezer Arnold was born on 26 Sep 1727 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (son of John Arnold and Edith Markham); died before 14 Sep 1807; was buried on 14 Sep 1807 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ebenezer married Anna Miller on 26 Sep 1753 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Stephen Miller and Anna Goodrich) was born on 15 Apr 1734 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 18 Feb 1825 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Anna Miller was born on 15 Apr 1734 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (daughter of Stephen Miller and Anna Goodrich); died on 18 Feb 1825 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Children:
- 4. Ebenezer Arnold was born on 15 Mar 1766 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died before 1800.
12. Stephen Sears was born on 11 Dec 1768 (son of Stephen Sayre and Mary Chapman); died on 16 Nov 1807. Stephen married Phoebe Knowles. Phoebe was born about 1775; died in Mar 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Phoebe Knowles was born about 1775; died in Mar 1807. Children:
- 6. Elisha Sears was born on 26 Jan 1801; died on 29 Apr 1877.
14. Henry Hendley was born on 18 Jan 1770 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1807 in At sea. Notes:
"[C]ame to Middletown in 1791. He was a tanner by trade and worked for Samuel Frothingham during the summer and followed the sea in the winter. He was lost at sea in 1807. He formed one of the crew of the brig Marlboro, of Glastonbury, Wadsworth, master. On her passage from St. Croix to Middletown, she foundered at sea and all on board perished." [History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, citation details below.]
Said by some to have been a son of William Hendley of the Boston Tea Party.Henry married Esther Miller on 27 Dec 1795. Esther (daughter of Joshua Miller and Anna Starr) was born before 29 Aug 1775; was christened on 29 Aug 1775 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Esther Miller was born before 29 Aug 1775; was christened on 29 Aug 1775 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (daughter of Joshua Miller and Anna Starr). Children: