Francis Stoughton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1531

Family/Spouse: Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1555
• Alternate birth: Abt 1556, Sandwich, Kent, England

Notes:

Described by Robert Charles Anderson as "a leading light of Elizabethan Puritanism who was silenced in the reign of James I and spent the rest of his life producing theological pamphlets." [The Great Migration Begins, volume 3, p. 1777.]

Amelia Morrow, from Connections: Morrow, Porter, Sanders, etc.:

Matriculated at Queens College, Cambridge 1573 and received the degree of bachelor of arts in 1576-7. Made a Fellow of the College in 1579 and became a Master of Arts in 1580. He was ordained deacon and priest at Lincoln, Feb 13, 1582. In July 1586, he was installed Rector at Naughton in Suffolk. [...]

Between 1594 and 1600, Thomas assisted the minister at Burstead Magna, Essex, where the birth of his daughter Judith is recorded. In 1600, Thomas became vicar at Coggeshall in Essex. The birth record of Israel appears in this church, as well as the burial of Thomas's wife Katherine. Thomas was "deprived of his vicarage" in 1606, but the reason was not recorded. It may have been nonconformity with the Church, as Thomas was frequently recorded as outspoken. [...]"

Thomas published a treatise called "Two Profitable Treatises" (British Museum 4371, a.a. 27) in 1616 that was written "from my chamber in the Hospital at St. Bartholomewes by Sandwich Sept. 3, 1616." The treatise says he was born and bred in Sandwich. His treatise "The Christians Sacrifice as set forth in Romans XII, 1, 2" (British Museum 4371, b.20) was printed in 1622 "with the Author's postscript to his children as it were his last Will and Testament unto them."

Todd Whitesides, writing on FindaGrave.com:

He was ordained deacon and priest at Lincoln Cathedral on Feb. 13, 1582, and was brought to the attention of Robert, 3rd Lord Rich by John Butler of Thoby Priory, Essex, and continued to benefit from Rich's patronage for many years. He was rector of Naughton from 1586 until 1594, at which time he was made curate of Great Burstead, Essex. He published "A general treatise against poperie, and in defence of the religion by publike avthoritie professed in England and other churches reformed" (Cambridge, 1598), which was dedicated to Lord Rich. In 1600 he was instituted vicar at Coggeshall at Lord Rich's presentation, but due to his nonconformity he was admonished by Bishop Richard Vaughan and deprived of Coggeshall by the High Commission in 1606. Despite being removed from his living it was reported in 1606 that he "doeth often expound the Word in his deske". In 1610 at Great Totham, Essex, he signed the dedicatory epistle to his work "The dignitie of Gods children". By 1616 he had returned to his native Sandwich, where he remained living in poverty until his death.

He continued to expound on his beliefs, publishing 'Two Profitable Treatises' in 1616, followed up in 1622 with "The Christians Sacrifice", a text of some 251 pages, which was dedicated to his patron, who had since purchased the title Earl of Warwick. He signed the dedicatory epistle to this on 20 Aug. 1622 from "my poore lodging in the poor Hospitall called S. Bartholomewes by Sandwich in Kent", and further stated he was now "ready to be dissolved, and to laye down my earthly Tabernacle...the time of my departing being at hand..." Two days later he appended the work with "The Authors postscript to his Children as it were his Last Will and Testament unto them".

At the end of his life he recalled being present at Hampton Court 43 years earlier, where he heard ministers preaching before Queen Elizabeth.

In 1606 Stoughton was a legatee, along with others, in the will of Timothy Saint Nicholas, who "moste humblie thanckinge them for their faithefull endeavor and for their earnest labour and paines for the instruction of my conscience and the consciences of many men in the knowledge of Gods truthe and relligion". Described as "a silenced preacher", he received a bequest in the 1610 will of Alice Wade of Bildeston, Suffolk, and in 1612 was mentioned in the will of his first cousin Thomas Stoughton of St Paul's Parish, Canterbury. In the 1619 will of Charles Eure, esquire, fourth son of William, 2nd Lord Eure, Stoughton being described as of St Bartholomews in Sandwich, Kent received the generous bequest of £10.

From The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 by Arnold Hunt (Cambridge University Press, 2010):

Thomas Stoughton's Two Profitable Treatises (1616) [...] despite being "much enlarged" for print, was written in the style of an oral sermon so that readers could imagine it "rather...as presently by lively voice uttered, than as formerly by dead letter onely written." Whereas Dod and Cleaver had removed colloquial expressions in order to achieve a more dignified style, Stoughton went to the other extreme, filling the text with proverbial and colloqiual remarks ("soft fire maketh sweetest malt"; "Sathan bestirreth his stumps to hurt and destroy") and repetitions ("labour, labour, I beseech you"; "alas, alas"; "take heed, take heed") in order to recreate the experience of hearing a live sermon.


Rev. Thomas Stoughton (~1555-~1622) = Katherine (1560-~1603)
Elizabeth Stoughton (~1597-1647) = John Scudder (b. ~1590)
Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700) = Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700)
Samuel Lathrop = Hannah Aldgate
Hannah Lathrop = Jabez Perkins
Hannah Perkins = Joshua Huntington
Lydia Huntington = Ephraim Bill
Lydia Bill = Joseph Howland
Susan Howland = John Aspinwall
Mary Rebecca Aspinwall = Isaac Roosevelt
James Roosevelt = Sara Delano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Rev. Thomas Stoughton (~1555-~1622) = Katherine (1560-~1603)
Israel Stoughton (1603-1645) = Elizabeth Knight (d. 1681)
Rebecca Stoughton (1641-1708) = William Tailer (1611-1682)
Elizabeth Tailer (1667-1734) = John Nelson (d. 1734)¹
Mehitabel Nelson (1691-1775) = Capt. Robert Temple (1694-1754)
Robert Temple (1728-1782) = Harriet Shirley (d. 1802)²
Mehitabel Hester Temple (1758-1798) = Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin & Clanboye (1758-1839)
Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin & Clanboye (1794-1841) = Helen Selina Sheridan (1807-1867)³
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin & Clanboye (1826-1902), Governor-General of Canada 1872-78; Viceroy of India 1884-88.

¹ One of the leaders of the 1689 revolt against Gov. Andros.

² Daughter of William Shirley, colonial governor of Massachusetts and later of the Bahamas.

³ Granddaughter of playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Thomas married Katherine in 1585 in Naughton, Suffolk, England. Katherine was born about 1560; died on 18 Apr 1603 in Coggeshall, Braintree, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A probable "gateway ancestor" of AP, depending on whether the mother of his great-great grandmother Joan Roberts (~1484-1548) was in fact Isabel Culpepper (d. 1491), as seems circumstantially likely.

In about 1624 he and his wife moved to Aller, Somerset, very likely because of his brother John's appointment as vicar at Aller that year. According to Robert Charles Anderson in Puritans and Pedigrees (citation details below), "During his years at Aller, Thomas Stoughton would have become acquainted with the network of West Country puritan ministers with whom John Stoughton was associated, including Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorset, the instigator and organizer of much of the migration from the West Country to New England in the 1620s and 1630s. This would explain why Thomas Stoughton, presumably accompanied by his three surviving children — Sarah, Katherine, and Thomas — appeared at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, having almost certainly been passengers on the Mary & John. The Stoughton-Cudworth connection explains how an East Anglian family migrated to New England on a ship carrying mostly West Country families from a West Country port."

Along with the rest of the Mary & John contigent, he was a founder of Dorchester, Massachusetts. From Puritans and Pedigrees again: "As the population density began to increase in the original Massachusetts Bay towns, pressure grew to remove to hospitable inland locations. In 1635 and 1636 many of the West Country immigrants went west to settle the town of Windsor on the Connecticut River. Thomas Stoughton joined that migration…Thomas Stoughton remained in Windsor for the remainder of his life…He was frequently addressed by the honorific 'Mr.' and served as Deputy from Windsor to the Connecticut General Court on several occasions from 1639 to 1648."

He spent his final years, over a decade, excommunicate, having stubbornly taken the position that the Sabbath began on Sunday morning rather than, as the consensus of other Puritan divines coalesced upon, Saturday evening. In 1648, the last year in which he was a deputy to the Connecticut General court, he signed a letter "Thomas Stoughton, son & heir of Thomas Stoughton deceased suffering," thus (as Robert Charles Anderson has pointed out) explicitly connecting his punishment of 1648 to his father's deprivation of 1606. "Thomas Stoughton definitely proved himself to be his father's son, stubbornly refusing for more than a decade to budge on what was in his case a quite narrow point of ecclesiastical practice."

He was not baptized in Naughton on 23 Jan 1593 as reported in volume 3 of Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins (page 1778). Wrote Anderson in 2020 in Puritans and Pedigrees (again, citation details below): "The Naughton, Suffolk parish register, which for the years in question is a parchment copy of an earlier paper register has Thomas Sloughe [sic] baptized in 1588 and Thomas Stoughton baptized in 1593. The Archdeacon's Transcripts, which are contemporaneous copies and are better evidence, have Thomas baptized in 1588 and John baptized in 1593, which is in better agreement with later records for these men. My thanks to Randy West for sorting this out."

Thomas married Elizabeth Tompson on 5 May 1612 in Great Totham, Essex, England. Elizabeth died before 29 Dec 1627; was buried on 29 Dec 1627 in Aller, Somersetshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A probable "gateway ancestor" of Teresa and GFS, and also of Fritz Leiber and Theodore Sturgeon, depending on whether the mother of her great-great grandmother Joan Roberts (~1484-1548) was in fact Isabel Culpepper (d. 1491), as seems circumstantially likely.

"After the 1639 death of her second husband the Rev. Robert Chamberlaine, Elizabeth (Scudder) (Chamberlaine) Stoughton 'came to New England with her children Elizabeth Scudder and Samuel and Joanna Chamberlaine, following her brothers Thomas and Israel Stoughton, and her son John Scudder, all of whom were here by 1635'. She was certainly in New England by 6 October 1644, when, as 'Mestres Chamberlin,' she joined the Rev. John Lothrop's church at Barnstable. She apparently moved to the Bay Colony shortly thereafter, for on 14 May 1645, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, calling her 'Mrs Chamberlin, widowe, sister to Mr Iraell Stoughton,' directed, '[u]pon weighty reasons moveing,' that she be allowed either a cow or £5." [Jane Fletcher Fiske, "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network," citation details below.]

Elizabeth Stoughton (~1597-1647) = John Scudder (b. ~1590)
Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700) = Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700)
Samuel Lathrop = Hannah Aldgate
Hannah Lathrop = Jabez Perkins
Hannah Perkins = Joshua Huntington
Lydia Huntington = Ephraim Bill
Lydia Bill = Joseph Howland
Susan Howland = John Aspinwall
Mary Rebecca Aspinwall = Isaac Roosevelt
James Roosevelt = Sara Delano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Elizabeth married John Scudder on 4 Sep 1613 in St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, England. John (son of Henry Scudder and Elizabeth) was born about 1590 in Horton Kirby, Kent, England; died before 1627 in Strood, Medway, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Robert Chamberlaine on 30 Apr 1627 in Strood, Medway, Kent, England. Robert (son of Rev. Thomas Chamberlayne and (Unknown first wife of the Rev. Thomas Chamberlayne)) was born between 1582 and 1583; died before 1 Jun 1639; was buried on 1 Jun 1639 in Strood, Medway, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not mentioned in the article quoted below is that at his death, he was one of the largest landholders in the Bay Colony.

From Wikipedia:

Born in England, a younger brother of John Stoughton, he emigrated to New England in 1632. He settled at Dorchester, of which he was admitted a freeman on 5 November 1633. He was chosen representative for Dorchester in the assemblies of 1634 and 1635.

When the colony was disturbed by the Antinomian Controversy, Stoughton wrote a book which attacked the constitution of the colony and offended the general court. The author somewhat strangely petitioned that the book might be "forthwith burnt, as being weak and offensive." In spite of Stoughton's subsequent submission, he was declared incapable of holding office for three years. This sentence, however, was remitted in 1636, and Stoughton was chosen assistant in 1637.

He was entrusted with the command of the Massachusetts force against the Pequot Indians, where he took brutal measures. Stoughton was annually chosen as assistant till 1643, and in 1639 he, together with John Endecott acted as a commissioner on behalf of Massachusetts to settle a boundary dispute with Plymouth Colony.

Stoughton visited England towards the end of 1643 or the beginning of 1644, returned to America, and crossed again towards the end of 1644. He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln. His children included William Stoughton, best known as the chief magistrate of the Salem witch trials.

Israel married Elizabeth Knight on 27 Mar 1627 in Rotherhite, Surrey, England. Elizabeth (daughter of William Knight) died on 6 Aug 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married John Wilcox, Jr. on 18 Jan 1650 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. John (son of John Wilcox and Mary) was born about 1620 in England; died on 24 May 1676 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Nov 1700

Notes:

"She came to England probably with her mother and half-siblings Samuel and Joanna Chamberlaine. On 10 Nov 1644, the Boston Church granted to 'our sister Elizabeth Skuddar' a letter of recommendation to the Church at Barnstable. 'John Lathrop the sonne of our sister some time or formerly called Elizabeth Skuddar' was baptized 7 Dec 1645. The baptismal record continues 'now the wife of one John Skuddar,' an error for 'Lothrop' that is mentioned by Savage and noted in the published version." [Jane Fletcher Fiske, "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network," citation details below.]

"[Elizabeth Scudder's] parents were John SCUDDER and Elizabeth STOUGHTON.  Many genealogies say that her parents were John's brother Thomas Scudder and sister-in-law Elizabeth Lowers. But their daughter Elizabeth married Henry Bartholomew and they had ten children between 1641 and 1658. Elizabeth died 1 Sep 1682 in Salem. There were two Elizabeth Scudders. Her cousin Elizabeth died 28 Feb 1700 in Salem." [Miner Descent]

Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts on the (literally) hundreds of notable descendants of the Scudders and Stoughtons:

www.americanancestors.org/immigrant-stoughton-siblings/

www.americanancestors.org/descendants-henry-scudder/

Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700) = Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700)
Abigail Lathrop (b. 1665) = John Huntington (b. 1666)
Martha Huntington (1696-1779) = Noah Grant (1693-1727)
Noah Grant (b. 1719) = Susanna Delano (1724-1806)
Noah Grant (1748-1819) = Rachel Kelley (d. 1805)
Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) = Hannah Simpson (1798-1883)
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885)

Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700) = Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700)
Samuel Lathrop = Hannah Aldgate
Hannah Lathrop = Jabez Perkins
Hannah Perkins = Joshua Huntington
Lydia Huntington = Ephraim Bill
Lydia Bill = Joseph Howland
Susan Howland = John Aspinwall
Mary Rebecca Aspinwall = Isaac Roosevelt
James Roosevelt = Sara Delano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Elizabeth married Samuel Lathrop on 28 Nov 1644 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Rev. John Lothropp and Hannah Howse) was born about 1621; died on 28 Feb 1700 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Richard Betts. Richard was born in 1613 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 18 Nov 1713 in Newtown, Long Island, New York; was buried on 20 Nov 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Oversaw the Salem witch trials, first as Chief Justice of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692, and then as Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693. Wikipedia: "In these trials he controversially accepted spectral evidence (based on supposed demonic visions). Unlike some of the other magistrates, he never admitted to the possibility that his acceptance of such evidence was in error." He was later acting Governor of Massachusetts (1694-1699). He never married. Stoughton Hall on Harvard Yard is named after him; the first building of that name was made possible by a £1,000 donation from him. The town of Stoughton, Massachusetts is also named after him.

Hannah married James Minot on 9 Dec 1653. James (son of George Minot and Martha Stocke) was born on 31 Dec 1628; was christened on 6 Jan 1629 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died on 30 Mar 1676 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel married Sarah Savage on 28 Mar 1678 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of John Savage and Elizabeth Dublin) was born on 30 Jul 1657 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 8 Feb 1724 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Abigail Whitmore on 9 May 1683 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Francis Whitmore and Isabel Parke) was born before 3 Jul 1659 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was christened on 3 Jul 1659 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jul 1687 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ruth Royce on 15 Dec 1669. Ruth (daughter of Robert Royce and Mary) was born on 7 Dec 1645 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died after 19 Feb 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Nathaniel Royce on 21 Apr 1681 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of Robert Royce and Mary) died on 8 Feb 1736 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel married Rebecca Bliss on 8 Apr 1686 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Rebecca (daughter of Thomas Bliss and Elizabeth) was born on 18 Mar 1663 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 22 Aug 1737 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joseph Swazey. Joseph (son of John Swazey and Catherine King) was born about 1653 in of Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died in 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1727

Samuel married Hannah Sage on 3 Mar 1715 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of John Sage and Hannah Starr) was born on 21 Dec 1694 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was christened on 23 Dec 1694 in First Congregational Church, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 22 Jan 1750 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Esther Bushnell on 14 May 1707. Esther (daughter of William Bushnell and Rebecca) was born on 2 Nov 1683 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 18 Mar 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Samuel Post on 17 Mar 1698. Samuel (son of John Post and Hester Hyde) was born on 8 Mar 1668 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 25 Apr 1735 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 29 Jul 1687, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

History of Wallingford mistakenly gives her as "Lois Royce."

Love married Samuel Hall on 2 May 1704 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Deacon Samuel Hall and Hannah Walker) was born on 10 Dec 1680 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 15 Jun 1770 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; was buried in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his second wife Mary Kelly joined the Separatist movement in the 1730s.

William married Mary Kelley on 5 Aug 1731. Mary was born about 1695; died on 19 Apr 1760 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1678
• Alternate death: 22 Feb 1724

Joanna married Capt. Israel Parshall on 4 Dec 1702. Israel (son of James Parshall and Elizabeth Gardiner) was born on 18 Apr 1680 in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York; died on 17 Apr 1738 in Aquebogue (Now Riverhead), Suffolk, Long Island, New York; was buried in Old Bethany Cemetery, Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First county judge in western New Jersey.

Samuel Swazey (1689-1759) = Penelope Horton (169-1746)
Rev. Samuel Swazey (1712-1784) = Hannah Horton
Samuel Swazey = Elizabeth Putnam
James Swayze (d. ~1808) = Elizabeth Starke
Alexander Swayze (~1808-<1851) = Amanda Littleton
James Wesley Swayze (1840-1893) = Sarah Elizabeth McDonald (1851-1907)
Jesse Elijah Swayze (1890-1925) = Mamie Bell Johnson (b. 1895)
Jesse Wayne Swayze (1925-1982) = Patsy Yvonne Helen Karnes (b. 1927)
Patrick Wayne Swayze (1952-2009)

Samuel Swazey (1689-1759) = Penelope Horton (169-1746)
Richard Swazey (1717-1786) = Sarah Horton
Richard Swazey (d. >1775) = Hannah Budd
Mary Swazey (d. 1825) = Henry Noble (1772-1852)
Sarah Noble (living 1831) = John J. Lamb
Sarah C. Lamb (b. 1831) = Joh Sloman (b. 1831)
Emma Louisa Sloman (b. 1862) = Henry Samuel Ball (b. 1858)
Mary Blanche Ball (b. ~1894) = William Frankin Beedle (1891-1967)
William Franklin Beedle (1918-1981), known to moviegoers as William Holden

Samuel Swazey (1689-1759) = Penelope Horton (169-1746)
Mary Swayze (1733-1816) = John Seward (1730-1797)
Samuel Sweezy Seward (1768-1849) = Mary Jennings
William Henry Seward (1801-1872), 24th U.S. Secretary of State

Judge married Penelope Horton about 1709. Penelope (daughter of Barnabas Horton and Sarah Windes) was born on 14 Feb 1690 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died on 1 Dec 1746 in Chester, Morris, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John and Hannah Wilcox were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of John Wilcox and Katherine Stoughton.

Hannah married John Wilcox on 6 Jul 1738 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. John (son of Samuel Wilcox and Esther Bushnell) was born on 1 Aug 1712 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was christened on 10 Aug 1712 in Middletown First Church, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 21 Oct 1795 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Westfield Cemetery, Westfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John and Hannah Wilcox were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of John Wilcox and Katherine Stoughton.

John married Hannah Wilcox on 6 Jul 1738 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Wilcox and Hannah Sage) was born on 24 Dec 1718 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 13 Nov 1807 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Westfield Cemetery, Westfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Deacon Joseph Bingham on 25 Nov 1731 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Deacon (son of Sgt. Thomas Bingham and Hannah Backus) was born on 4 Jun 1709 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 4 Nov 1787 in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont; was buried in Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated from Yale, 1727. Ordained first minister of Meriden, Connecticut, 29 Oct 1729.

From Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen:

"He was a man of quite small stature, but possessed much dignity of manners united with the greatest affability, persuaded of the truth of Christianity, and deeply sensible of its importance, he was well able to defend it; his sermons were ably written and delivered with great fervor; his pastoral visits were frequent and conducted judiciously; he was humble, self denying, full of the love of souls, prayerful and zealous for the cause of Christ; during his ministry of 37 years in Meriden, 250 were added to the church; he possessed great firmness of character, and was a zealous advocate of civil and religious liberty; he published two sermons on the death of Rev. Isaac Stiles; two on faith; and one on the ordination of Rev. Matthew Morrison, of Berwick, Maine."

Theophilus married Hannah Avery on 22 May 1734. Hannah (daughter of James Avery and Mary Griswold) was born on 7 Apr 1712 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; died in Oct 1791 in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a private in the Connecticut militia during the Revolution, serving under his brother, Captain Andrew Lathrop, in Major Backus's regiment of light horse. Discharged 2 Nov 1776.

Zachariah married Mehitable Cleveland on 24 Apr 1768 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Mehitable (daughter of Josiah Cleveland and Joanna Porter) was born about 1748; died on 15 Sep 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Keziah married Joseph Mapes on 12 Jan 1727. Joseph (son of Jabez Mapes and Elizabeth Roe) was born in 1705 in of Mapes' Neck, Southold, Long Island, New York; died between 23 May 1771 and 10 Feb 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His second or perhaps only wife was Phebe Ayers. It is unclear whether she was the mother of any of his children.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Revolutionary War soldier. Two months in Capt. Blake's company, Col. Wadsworth's regiment, Connecticut militia. Six months in Capt. Churchill's company, Col. Sage's regiment, stationed at Governor's Island until the British took New York City; thereafter in Harlem and New Rochelle until discharged. Enlisted 1779 in Capt. Alley's company, Col. Sage's regiment, where he served three weeks at New Haven doing guard duty when it was supposed that the English were about to land.

Comfort married Patty Banks on 12 May 1803 in Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire. Patty (daughter of John Banks and Hannah Pelton) was born on 4 Aug 1784 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 5 Jun 1839 in Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire; was buried in East Lempster Cemetery, Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Bingham Family in the United States, citation details below:

Joseph's birth on 14 Apr 1738 was recorded in the Norwich records, but he was baptized on 16 Apr in the Franklin church. He grew up in the Franklin section of Norwich and may have served in the militia in the French and Indian War. When he was twenty-one he married Rachel Ween 5 Jul 1759. In 1760, their first child was born and the birth recorded in the Norwich records under the name James. Joseph's other children's births are not recorded in Norwich and other records have not been found to document Joseph's life after 1760. Neither are there records for James. However, it is known that Joseph's parents moved to Charlemont MA in 1760 and to Bennington VT between 1773 and 1779 and that Joseph's son, Jeremiah 2nd, was an apprentice in Bennington in 1777.

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A document at familysearch.org claims that "Joseph served in the French and Indian war as a Quartermaster of a troop of horses, fifth regiment in May 1757. He was Cornet in Oct 1761, and Lieutenant in Oct 1764."

"The town of Bennington voted each year from 1768 to 1771 to aid Joseph who has been under confinement. This Joseph, wife Rachel, and their named children were warned out of Bennington in 1768. The town discussed moving Joseph back to Norwich and to try to recover costs from Norwich in 1770. The town, again, voted assistance for the doctoring, nursing, and board for Joseph in 1771." [Early Vermont Settlers to 1784, citation details below.]

The town records of Charlemont, Massachusetts show payments in Dec 1773 to "Joseph Bingham, for work at the Road 6/ [shillings/pence], Calvin Bingham, for work at the Road 13/6, Daniel Kinsley, for work at the Road 30/6." If these Binghams are ours, this would be more likely to be this Joseph, as his father Joseph was 64 in 1773.

Joseph married Rachel Ween on 5 Jul 1759 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Rachel was born in of Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Aug 1820, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire

Notes:

Graduated from Yale, 1756; ordained minister of the First Congregationalist Church at Rochester, New Hampshire, 15 Oct 1766. Dimissed 10 Apr 1775; removed to Wakefield, where he was a magistrate and justice of the peace.

Avery married Hannah Chesley about 1766. Hannah (daughter of James Chesley and Mehitable Waldron) was born about 1737 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died about 1770 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Hezekiah Allen on 9 Oct 1791. Hezekiah (son of Hezekiah Allen and Elizabeth May) was born on 23 Feb 1767 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 Jul 1821 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1744

James married Deliverance Hawkins on 14 May 1764. Deliverance (daughter of Eleazar Hawkins and Ruth Mills) was born on 23 Oct 1744 in Stony Brook, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died on 10 Jun 1829 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; was buried in Mills Cemetery, Head Of The Harbor, Suffolk, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Alice D. Serrell (citation details below), he served in the American army in the Revolution and was granted land near Brooklyn, New York.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]