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A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut with the time of their arrival in the Country and Colony their standing in Society, Place of Residence, Conition in Life , where from
Business , &c as far as is found on Record
ASHLEY, JOHN, the 3d son of David, b. in 1669; had three wives, first, Sarah Dewey, m. 1692, she d. in 1708;

he m. for his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon in 1703, she d. in 1735;

for a third wife, he m. Hannah Glover, in 1735. The second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, was the relict of Joseph Sheldon, Esq., of Suffield, (who went from Northampton ;) she was the daughter .of Joseph Whiting, of Hartford, who was the Treasurer of Connecticut, for some years. This Joseph Whiting resided a few years in Westfield, and m. Mary Pyncheon,

the only daughter of Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, Oct. 5, 1669; she was born Oct. 28, 1650. Mr. Whiting had by Mary Pyncheon in Westfield, Mary, b. Aug. 19, 1672, and Joseph b. 1674, who d. young.

Mr. Whiting returned to Hartford, and his wife soon after died, and he m. a daughter of Hon. John Allyn, for his second wife. This Mary Whiting, b. 1672, the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon, m. Joseph Sheldon, about 1694; she had a son Joseph b. in Northampton, 1695; the other children most or all of them were born in Suffield, Conn., viz: Amy, Mary, Joseph b. in 1700, (the first Joseph died,) Rachel, b. 1703; Benjamin, 1705. Joseph Sheldon d. July 2, 1708, at Boston, where he was attending the General Court as Representative of Suffield. His widow, (the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon,) rn. John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield. The children of John Ashley, of Westfield, by his wife, Sarah Dewey, were: Sarah, b. 1693; Hannah, 1695; John, 1697, (died young;) Moses, 1700; Ebenezer, 1702; Noah, 1704; Roger, 1705; Lydia, 1708. By his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, he had John b. 1709, and Preserved, 1711, the latter died young. John Ashley, of Sheffield, was the only child of John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield, by his 2d wife, (Mary Sheldon,) who lived. John Ashley, Esq., who had been much employed in public business, and held many responsible places of public trust in Westfield, d. April 17, 1759, aged 89 years. Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, d. in 1703, but his estate, for some reason, was not fully settled until 1737. In that year there was about £8000 of his estate remaining not distributed, which consisted chiefly of land, and two-thirds of this, or £5312 was given by the Probate Court to the heirs of his son John, and one-third, or £2656 to the heirs of his grand-daughter, Mary Ashley, " alias Sheldon, alias Whiting,",(so the record reads;) of this £2656, Joseph Sheldon had a double portion, £758 ; Benjamin Sheldon, £379 ; Amy, wife of James Warriner, £379; Mary, wife of Ebenezer Hitchcock, £379; Rachel, wife of Jedediah Bliss, £379; (these were the five Sheldon children,) and John Ashley, son of Mr. John Ashley, £379; all having the same mother. This John Ashley, who afterwards settled at Sheffield, was a great-grandson of the first Robert Ashley; he was also the great-grandson of Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, and of William Whiting, one of the first settlers of Hartford.

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GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as ( Capt .) Joseph

DEATH: Also shown as Died Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

(Capt.) married Whiting, Mary about 1687 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Whiting, Captain Joseph and Pynchon, Mary, daughter of Whiting, John and Allun, Ann) was born on 19 Aug 1672 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died about 1676 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried about 1726 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut with the time of their arrival in the Country and Colony their standing in Society, Place of Residence, Conition in Life , where from
Business , &c as far as is found on Record
ASHLEY, JOHN, the 3d son of David, b. in 1669; had three wives, first, Sarah Dewey, m. 1692, she d. in 1708;

he m. for his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon in 1703, she d. in 1735;

for a third wife, he m. Hannah Glover, in 1735. The second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, was the relict of Joseph Sheldon, Esq., of Suffield, (who went from Northampton ;) she was the daughter .of Joseph Whiting, of Hartford, who was the Treasurer of Connecticut, for some years. This Joseph Whiting resided a few years in Westfield, and m. Mary Pyncheon,

the only daughter of Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, Oct. 5, 1669; she was born Oct. 28, 1650. Mr. Whiting had by Mary Pyncheon in Westfield, Mary, b. Aug. 19, 1672, and Joseph b. 1674, who d. young.

Mr. Whiting returned to Hartford, and his wife soon after died, and he m. a daughter of Hon. John Allyn, for his second wife. This Mary Whiting, b. 1672, the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon, m. Joseph Sheldon, about 1694; she had a son Joseph b. in Northampton, 1695; the other children most or all of them were born in Suffield, Conn., viz: Amy, Mary, Joseph b. in 1700, (the first Joseph died,) Rachel, b. 1703; Benjamin, 1705. Joseph Sheldon d. July 2, 1708, at Boston, where he was attending the General Court as Representative of Suffield. His widow, (the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon,) rn. John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield. The children of John Ashley, of Westfield, by his wife, Sarah Dewey, were: Sarah, b. 1693; Hannah, 1695; John, 1697, (died young;) Moses, 1700; Ebenezer, 1702; Noah, 1704; Roger, 1705; Lydia, 1708. By his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, he had John b. 1709, and Preserved, 1711, the latter died young. John Ashley, of Sheffield, was the only child of John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield, by his 2d wife, (Mary Sheldon,) who lived. John Ashley, Esq., who had been much employed in public business, and held many responsible places of public trust in Westfield, d. April 17, 1759, aged 89 years. Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, d. in 1703, but his estate, for some reason, was not fully settled until 1737. In that year there was about £8000 of his estate remaining not distributed, which consisted chiefly of land, and two-thirds of this, or £5312 was given by the Probate Court to the heirs of his son John, and one-third, or £2656 to the heirs of his grand-daughter, Mary Ashley, " alias Sheldon, alias Whiting,",(so the record reads;) of this £2656, Joseph Sheldon had a double portion, £758 ; Benjamin Sheldon, £379 ; Amy, wife of James Warriner, £379; Mary, wife of Ebenezer Hitchcock, £379; Rachel, wife of Jedediah Bliss, £379; (these were the five Sheldon children,) and John Ashley, son of Mr. John Ashley, £379; all having the same mother. This John Ashley, who afterwards settled at Sheffield, was a great-grandson of the first Robert Ashley; he was also the great-grandson of Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, and of William Whiting, one of the first settlers of Hartford.

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died 13 Mar 1735

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 8 Sep 1695

Isaac married Woodford, Mary. Mary was born on 24 Jan 1636 in Probably Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; was christened in in Roxbury, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States; died on 17 Apr 1684 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States; was buried on 17 Apr 1684 in Bridge St. Cem., Northampton, Hampshire, Massaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph Whiting
BIRTH 2 Oct 1645
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
DEATH 19 Oct 1717 (aged 72)
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
BURIAL
Center Church on the Green Churchyard
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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The son of William & Susanna (Wiggins)(Mygatt) Whiting, he married (1) Mary Pynchon in 1669/70 and (2) Anna Allyn, daughter of Col. John Allyn in 1676. He was a merchant and Treasurer of the colony from 1678 - 1717 and died while he was attended the General Assembly of Hartford.


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William Whiting
1602–1647

Susanna Wiggins Bryan
1609–1673

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Anna Allyn Whiting
1652–1734 (m. 1676)

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John Whiting
1635–1689

Sarah Whiting Mygatt
1637–1704

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Margaret Whiting Marsh
1689–1747

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John Whiting
1693–1767

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Memoir of the life and character of Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman: with a ...
By John Frederick Schroeder
6. JOSEPH. He " appears to have been born after the will of his father was made," (1619,) who " provided for him by a codicil."* He was for thirty-nine years, 1679-1718, Treasurer of the colony ; for twenty-one years, 1725-1746, a member of the General Assembly ; and for twelve years, 1732-1744, one of the Judges of the colony. When James II of England sncceeded to the British throne, in 1685, his lawless and cruel condnct toward the colonies led a Special Assembly of Connecticut to appoint (1680) Mr. Whiting their agent, to repair to England, and endeavor to preserve the colony's chartered rights. This he did, mnch to the satisfaction of his constituents ;t and, in the reign of William and Mary, he cooperated with Mr. Increase Mather, in effecting a renewal of the charter, to the colony's great joy.f [I thought this Mr. Whiting was the oldest brother William.]

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Sources of Information:
1. Notebooks of Naoma Manwaring Harker and Mark Whiting.


!BIRTH: TIB; Goodwin Notes GS Conn 28 p.346; Whiting Notes GS FConn10 pt.27;
New England Regis v.5 p.463; Hartford Historical catalog p.201; Hartford Church Rec GS 1448 pt.5;

!BIRTH: A.F. Whitney Genealogical Notes GS 1453 pt.27; Hist. Catalog of
Hartford, Conn p.162, 163, 172; Extraction record.
!MARRIAGE: Source - NEHG Register, Vol 123, page 259, The ceremony was
performed by Judge Pynchon (2) 6 Oct 1676 Anna ALLYN
!DEATH: Source - "Inscription on Tombstones in New Haven, Connecticut" from
Papers of the New Haven Colony, Historical Society, Vol. III, page 608.
Hartford Deeds GS 1761 pt.4, v.1 p.153, v.2 p.63, v 3 p.140, 14;
pt.5 v 4 p.309, pt.8, v.11 p.120;

"Inventory 1849-06-08 (English Money") He was a merchant, first of Westfield, Mass., later of Hartford, Conn; whither he returned about the time of King Phillip's War.
He was Captain of the Hartford County Troop in May 1692..He was treasurer of the colony of Connecticut from 1678 -1687, 1690-1701, 1705,1706 1708-1717 a period of thirty- nine years. He was a wealthy and distinquished citizen.
The Joseph Whiting House in Hartford stood on the corner of Charter Oak Avenue and Main Street, it was built previous to 1650 and purchased in 1682 by Joseph Whiting. It probably never faced upon the street, but looked out upon the garden which lay between it and what was then the highway to the South Meadow. The Whiting house was a hospitable place. Many distinguished guests, prominent in colonial days, were the guests of Captain Joseph Whiting. He was a man of considerable importance in the public life of his day.
In 1784, the Ecclesistical Society was organized in the Whiting house.
After the organization, the Council marched in procession to the Second Church, which stood in the highway in front of the house, and installed the Reverend Benjamin Boardman as pastor of the Church.
The Whiting House was demolished in 1914.
He married first, Oct 5th 1669 Mary, daughter of Hon. John Pynchon and grand-daughter of Hon William Pynchon. Her mother was Anna, daughter of Hon. John Wyllis. His second marriage was in 1676 to Anna, daughter of Col. John Allyn, son of Matthew Allyn; her mother was daughter of Hon. Henry Smith of Springfield, Mass. She was born Aug 18 1652 and died Mar 3 1735 at New Haven, Conn. Joseph Whiting died Oct 8 1717. He died while attending a session of the General Assembly in New Haven. Date given is 19 Oct 1717. States he was 73 years old.

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New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4 (Google eBook)
(II) Joseph, son of Major William and Susanna Whiting, was born October 2, 1640, at Hartford and died there October 8, 1717. He was a merchant, first of Westfield, Massachusetts, later of Hartford, whither he returned about the time of King Philip's war. He was treasurer of th colony of Connecticut from 1678 until his death, a period of thirty-nine years. His son John succeeded him in this office and held it for thirty-two years. He was a wealthy and distinguished citizen. He married (first) October 5, 1669, Mary, daughter of Hon. John Pynchon and granddaughter of Hon. William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, Her mother was Ann (Wyllys) Pynchon. daughter of Hon. George Wyllvs (not John ). He married (second)1 in 1676, Anna, daughter of Mathew Allyn. Her mother was a daughter of Hon. William Smith, of Springfield, and granddaughter of William Pynchon. She was born August 18, 1652, and died March 3, 1735, at New Haven. Joseph Whiting died October 19. 1717. Children of first wife: Mary, born August 19, 1672, married (first) Joseph Sheldon and (second) John Ashley; Joseph, October 5, 1674, died young. Children of second wife: Anna, born August 28, 1677, died April 18, 1684; John, November 13, 1679, died young; Susanna, June 18, 1682, married (first) Samuel Thornton, (second) Thomas Warren; Wrilliam. March 14, 1685, died September 6, 1702; Anna, August 18, 1687; Margaret, January 5, 1690, married Rev. Jonathan Marsh; John, December 15, 1693, mentioned below.
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Joseph was a wealthy and distinguished merchant. He lived first in Westfield, MA, where he married Mary Pynchon and had two children before her death. While in Westfield Joseph was made cornet of the Hampshire troops in 1672. He moved back to his family home in Hartford where he married Mary's first cousin, Anne. They lived at the corner of Main and Charter Oak streets. Joseph was also treasurer of the colony of Connecticut from 1678 until his death, a period of thirty-nine years.
Their headstone inscriptions read:
Here Lyes Ye Body Of Mr. Joseph Whiting Treus'r
Who Dyed October Ye 19, 1717 Aged (73 Years)

Here Lieth ye Body of Mrs. Anna, ye widow
of Capt. Joseph Whiting, who died March ye 3d
AD 1734/5 in ye 82nd year of her age.

!MARRIAGE: TIB for Jerusha Lord;

!DEATH: TIB; Hale's Collection of Vit Rec (deaths); Hartford's Deeds GS 1761
pt.8 v.11 p.120 & pt.9 v.12 p.182;

BAP & END: TIB;

Naoma Manwaring Harker FGS #123-125
1. Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1969, originally published 1856 (BYU Reference: 929.174/G 635g).
974/D2g/1969 Old Ref: Goodwin Notes GS Conn 28 p.344;
2. Genealogical Notes of the Whiting Family, by A.F. Whiting, 1888. Listed as Genealogical Notes by A.F.W. (or A.F. Whitney -wrong should be Whiting), and Whiting Notes GS FConn10 pt.27; Call# Film 003,011 Old Call # 1453 pt. 27
Colonel John Whiting succeeded his father in 1717 as Treasurer of the Colony and retained his office 32 years. He was a merchant in Hartford and a man of property.
3. New England Regis v.5 p.463;
4. Historical Catalog of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1885
Listings: Historical catalogue of Hartford, Hist. Catalogue, Hartford Ch. Rec (old Call #; Conn H4a) Film# 004,600 p.162, 163, 172
5. Vital Records of Connecticut, Congregational Churches, Hartford Second Church Records. Old Call #: Hartford Church Rec GS 1448 pt.5; Film #002,843
6. Hale's Collection of Vit Rec (deaths)
7. Hartford's Deeds (GS ser #1761 pt.4 vol 1 p. 153
Joseph Whiting deeds land belonging to his father William, deceased 6 Apr 1700 vol 2 p. 63
Joseph Whiting deeds land which had belonged to John Allyn, deceased vol 3 p. 140
Joseph Whiting deeds to his son John (Aug 1714) p. 14
Joseph Whiting and Ann and William and Mary deed (1715) pt. 5 vol 4 p. 309
Deed from Anna Whiting of Hartford to son John -- land of her father John Allyn, granted to him 1671
Joseph Whiting was a merchant, first of Westfield, Massachusetts, but returned to Hartford 1675-6.Treasurer of Connecticut 1678 till death

!Margaret Neuffer: Colonel John Whiting, son of Joseph and Anna (Allyn) Whiting, was born in Hartford, Dec. 15, 1693. He succeeded his father in 1717 as treasurer of the colony, holding the office for 32 years. He was a merchant in Hartford and a man of wealth and standing. He commanded a regiment in the French and Indian wars. He died Feb. 12 1766. He married Jerusha, daughter of Richard Lord, of Hartford, grandson of Thomas Lord, one of the first settlers of the town of Hartford. She was born Feb 25, 1699 and died October 21, 1776 at Windsor, Connecticut. Source - Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut Vol II p 664.

:A.F. Whitney Genealogical Notes GS 1453 pt.27; Hist Catalog of Hartford, Conn p.162, 163, 172;

MARRIAGE :(2) 6 Oct 1676 Anna ALLYN
DEATH :Vit Rec Conn-Hale's Collect (deaths); Gen Notes GS Conn 28 p.344;
Hartford Deeds GS 1761 pt.4, v.1 p.153, v.2 p.63, v 3 p.140, 14;
pt.5 v 4 p.309, pt.8, v.11 p.120;

!Margaret Neuffer: "Inventory 1849-06-08 (English Money": He was a merchant, first of Westfield, Mass., later of Hartford, Conn; whither he returned about the time of King Phillip's War. He was treasurer of the colony of Connecticut from 1678 until his death, a period of thirty-nine years. He was a wealthy and distinquished citizen. The Joseph Whilting House in Hartford stood on the corner of Charter Oak Avenue and Main Street until 1914 when it was demolished."

!Item 2 - edited by Wm. Inglis Morse
Joseph Whiting's residence was on Main Street, Hartford, near the corner of Charter Oak Avenue. The house was built previous so 1650 and purchased in 1682 by Joseph Whiting. It probably never faced upon the street, but looked out upon the garden which lay between it and what was then the highway to the South Meadow. The Whiting house was a hospitable place. Many distinguished guests, prominent in colonial days, were the guests of Captain Joseph Whiting.
In the Whiting house was convened the Ecclesiastical Society in 1784. After it's organization the council marched in procession to the Second Church, which stood in the highway in front of the house, and installed the Rev Benjamin Boardman as pastor of the church.
Captain Joseph Whiting was a man of considerable importance in the public life of his day.
He married first, Oct 5th 1669 Mary, daughter of Hon. John Pynchon and grand-daughter of Hon William Pynchon. Her mother was Anna, daughter of Hon.
John Wyllis. His second marriage was in 1676 to Anne, daughter of Col. John Allyn, son of Matthew Allyn; her mother was daughter of Hon. Henry Smith of Springfield, Mass. She was born Aug 18 1652 and died Mar 3 1735 at New Haven, Connectictu. Joseph Whiting died Oct 8 1717.

DOCUMENTATION (by Margaret Neuffer):

ref: "By Thier Markers Ye Shall Know Them; A Chronicle of the History and restoration of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground"
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Vol IV (p g 1665)

http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shopefamily/Tree/famf406.html
Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early CT Probate Records ((Hartford, CT, R.S.Peck & CO, 1904-1906)), Vol. 2, p. 450.
Quality: 0.
Page 295. Whiting, Joseph, Hartford. Invt. £1849-06-08. Taken 26 February, 1717-18, by William Whiting, Aaron Cooke and Thomas Hosmer.
Court Record, Page 47 — 5 December, 1717: Adms. granted to Mrs. Anne Whiting, widow of sd. decd.
Page 84 — 7 October, 1718: Invt. exhibited by Mrs. Anne Whiting and John Whiting.
Page 151 — 8 May, 1721 : Mrs. Anne Whiting, Adms., exhibits an additional invt. of £696-18.09. Accepted.
Page 101 (Vol X) 23 September, 1725: Anna Whiting and John Whiting, Adms., exhibit an account of their Adms. And the Court order that £38-15-11 be set out for the widow's necessary support. Page 336 (Vol. X, Probate Side) : This writing witnesseth an agreement made and concluded this day (24 January, 1738-9) by us the subscribers relating to the estate of our honoured father, Joseph Whiting, Esq., deceased, and our honoured mother, Mrs. Anna Whiting, as followeth: First. We have fully agreed and settled both of sd. moveable estates. 2nd. That all the lands are divided and made even, Nathaniel Stanly's part in the house and homested that his hond. father dwelt in having been paid to Jonathan Marsh for his part thereof. And Mr. Thomas Warren's part is ye sd. house and homested that was formerly belonging to his predecessor, Mr. Thornton, he having paid his brother Marsh for his part of sd. house and homested. The rest of the land belonging to the aforesd. estate is all belonging and appertaining to John Whiting, and divided and set out to him by our agreement as his part of the aforesd. estate, except what is under mentioned, which remains and belongs to us all in proportion as thereafter mentioned, sd. Whiting having paid Thomas Warren for his fifth part. First, a right of land in the northwest township named Hartland, which descended to us by our father being a £75 list in the patent, belongs three-fifths parts to John Whiting and one-fifth part to Nathaniel Stanly, and one-fifth part to Jonathan Marsh, yet lying in that maner in common between us. Also a right of land at Salmon Brook, about 10 acres, 2-5 to John Whiting and 1-5 a piece to Nathaniel Stanly, Jonathan Marsh and Thomas Warren. A right of land descended to us by our mother in the five miles on the east side of the Great River, and another in the three-mile lots, which descended to our mother by Col. Allyn, 2-5 of these lots belong to John Whiting and 1-5 apiece to Nathaniel Stanly, Jonathan Marsh and Thomas Warren. A right at Keney's Point, about 7 acres and 1-2, the same proportions. Another right of land in the neck at Hartford, descended to us by our mother from Col. Allyn, 2-5 belong to John Whiting, and 1-5 apiece to Nathaniel Stanly, Jonathan Marsh and Thomas Warren. A right in the house Moses Cook lives in, descended to us by our mother from Col. Allyn, 2-5 belongs to John Whiting, and 1-5 apiece to Nathaniel Stanly, Jonathan Marsh and Thomas Warren. Signed : NATH : STANLY, JONATHAN MARSH, THOMAS WARREN, JOHN WHITING. Witness : Elnathan Whitman, John Austin.

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Notes:
1. Named in his father's codicil. Appears to have been born after the writing of the will in 1647 but before the recording of the will in 1649.
2. Birth recorded in Hartford Second Church. No mother's name included on the birth entry.

Joseph married Pynchon, Mary on 5 Oct 1669. Mary (daughter of Pynchon, John and Wyllys, Amy) was born on 28 Oct 1650 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States; died after 5 Oct 1674 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!Gen Notes, by Goodwin (Conn. 28) p. 344 Sheet submitted by Mamie P. Rogers, Joseph City, AZ (Alma Porter, d 4gg nep.il)





OUR WHITING FAMILY

Hartford, Connecticut




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Generation 1
WILLIAM WHITING (mar. Susannah Wiggin)

Generation 2
JOSEPH WHITING (mar. Mary Pynchon)

Generation 3
MARY WHITING (mar. Joseph Sheldon)







WILLIAM WHITING
Generation 1


WILLIAM WHITING, one of the early settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, is mentioned in the histories of this country as early as 1632 or 1633. He was an original proprietor of the town.
William Whiting was a merchant of wealth, and had dealings with Virginia and Piscataqua. Between 1631 and 1633, “The Bristol men had sold their interest in Piscataqua, to the Lords Say and Brooke, George Wyllys and William Whiting, who continued Thomas Wiggin their agent.” Mr. Whiting retained his interest in Piscataqua until his death, and was one of the most efficient promoters of the trade and commerce of Hartford. He was also engaged in a patent for lands at Swampscott with Lords Say and Brook. He also had a trading-house at the Delaware River, and also at Westfield, Mass.
William married SUSANNAH WIGGIN in 1647. We know nothing about her lineage.
He was “one of the most respectable of the settlers in 1636” – “one of the civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut,” a man of wealth and education, styled in the records “William Whiting, Gentleman.” Several of his letters, written in 1637, now in the State Archives, are sealed with his arms, which are a variation of those of the family of Whiting of Boston, Lincolnshire, England.
William Whiting sat with the Court of Magistrates in 1637.
In 1638 William was allowed to trade with the Indians; and he was appointed with Major Mason and others to erect fortifications in 1642. In the same year he was appointed with Mason to collect tribute of the Indians on Long Island and on the Main.

His home-lot in 1639 was on the east side of the street now called Governor Street.

William was made a freeman in February of 1640. In 1641, he was chosen Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, which office he retained for seven years, until his death. In 1642, he was chosen to be a magistrate, and continued in that office also, until his death.
In 1646 “a plot was laid by Sequasson, Sachem of the Naticks, to kill Governors Haynes and Hopkins and Mr. Whiting, on account of the just and faithful protection which these gentlemen had afforded to Uncas. The plot was made known by a friendly Indian and the danger averted.”
William Whiting bore the title of Major in 1647.
William began his will, dated 20 March 1643, by stating that he intended “a voyage presently unto sea.” The last addition to his will was made on 24 July 1647, and he probably died soon after, leaving his widow Susanna. The inventory of his estate amounted to £2854. His will can be seen in Trumbull’s Colonial Records of Connecticut (Vol. I, p. 493).


FOUNDERS' MONUMENT

Because he was an Original Proprietor, William Whiting's name appears on the Founders' Monument which occupies a place of honor in Hartford's Old Burying Ground behind the "Center" Church. His name appears on the south face, fifth from the bottom.


Founders' Monument, Hartford, Connecticut

William Whiting is considered to be one of the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut. All of his descendants are eligible to be members of the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, and many other honorary societies.


SUSANNAH

Susannah really would have had her hands full then. Her eldest son was probably thirteen then, our ancestor Joseph was not yet two, and evidently there was one other son born after William’s death in 1647. It is highly likely that William left sufficient assets to provide Susannah with all the help she needed to raise her family in the style to which they were accustomed.
The Whiting’s social circle would have paralleled that of other prominent families in Hartford. So as our Joseph grew up, he would have been in close proximity to and association with the children of the John Pynchon family, one of New England’s most powerful and influential families.
William’s widow, Susannah, remarried in 1650, Mr. Samuel Fitch, of Hartford, by whom she had two sons. Samuel Fitch died in 1659, when our Joseph would have been only fourteen years old. Susannah remarried for a third time, Mr. Alexander Bryan, of Milford, Connecticut. She died at Middletown, at the house of her daughter, a Mrs. Collins, and was buried there on 8 July 1673. Our Joseph would have been 28 years old when his mother died.



CHILDREN of WILLIAM & SUSANNAH WHITING


William Whiting. In 1686, the Assembly of Connecticut appointed him their “agent to present their petition (in reference to the Charter) to the King of England.” He remained there and became a London merchant and died there in 1699.

John Whiting, born in 1635; d. 1689 in Hartford, Conn.

Samuel Whiting.

Sarah Whiting, born about 1637; mar. (1) Jacob Mygatt, and (2) John King. Died 1704.

Mary Whiting; died 25 October 1709.

JOSEPH WHITING, born 2 October 1645, at Hartford, Connecticut. He married Mary Pynchon, the daughter of John and Amy (Wyllys) Pynchon.

A son, born 1647, after the death of his father [see Trumbull, p. 495].


Dawn’s Fernswag Graphic



JOSEPH WHITING
Generation 2


As an adult, JOSEPH WHITING left Hartford and became a merchant first at Westfield, Massachusetts.

On 5 October 1669, Joseph married MARY PYNCHON, born 28 Oct 1650, the daughter of the Honorable John Pynchon and Amy Wyllys Pynchon.

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PYNCHON FAMILY

Given the wealth and importance of Joseph’s family in Hartford, not to mention Mary’s father’s wealth and social status, the youngsters must have celebrated as elegant a wedding as her station in life would allow. What started out, however, as a brilliant match with a bright future, ended in grief all too soon, as was very often the case in colonial America out on the frontier, such as Westfield Massachusetts was. Mary had given Joseph two children, a girl and a boy, but by 1675 or early 1676, she died, more than likely in childbirth.


Joseph removed from Westfield, Mass. back to Hartford in 1675 or ‘76 – with Mary before she died, or afterwards, is unclear. But given an appropriate period of time for mourning, Joseph married again, in 1676, his second wife, Anna Allyn, and was again in Hartford for the rest of his life.
Anna was born 18 August 1654, the daughter of Col. John Allyn. Anna’s mother was a granddaughter of the Honorable William Pynchon, just as was Joseph’s first wife, Mary.
Joseph Whiting was appointed Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut in 1679 and served – for 39 years – until his death. His son John succeeded him to the same office for another 32 years.
Joseph Whiting died in 1718. His second wife, Anna Allyn Pynchon died 3 March 1735.


CHILDREN by MARY PYNCHON

MARY WHITING was born 19 August 1672 at Westfield, Massachusetts. She married Joseph Sheldon.

Joseph Whiting was born 5 Oct 1674; died young.


CHILDREN BY ANNA ALLYN

Anna Whiting, born 28 August 1677 at Hartford, Connecticut. She died 18 April 1684.

John Whiting, born 13 November 1679 at Hartford; died young.

Susannah Whiting, born 18 June 1682 at Hartford. She married (1) Samuel Thornton; (2) Thomas Warren.

William Whiting, born 14 March 1685 at Hartford. He died 6 September 1702.

Anna Whiting, born 18 August 1687 at Hartford.

Margaret Whiting, born 5 January 1690 at Hartford. She married Rev. Jonathan Marsh.

John Whiting, born 15 December 1693. Served as Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut 32 years, 1718-50.

Ralph married Stone, Barbara on 27 Apr 1629 in Bakewell, England. Barbara was born in 1609 in Ashford, Derbyshire, England; died in 1651 in Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nearly a century later, the university was at the centre of a Protestant schism. Many nobles, intellectuals and even commoners saw the ways of the Church of England as being too similar to the Catholic Church and that it was used by the crown to usurp the rightful powers of the counties. East Anglia was the centre of what became the Puritan movement and at Cambridge, it was particularly strong at Emmanuel, St Catharine's Hall, Sidney Sussex and Christ's College.[25] They produced many "non-conformist" graduates who greatly influenced, by social position or pulpit, the approximately 20,000 Puritans who left for New England and especially the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Great Migration decade of the 1630s. Oliver Cromwell, Parliamentary commander during the English Civil War and head of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660), attended Sidney Sussex.

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Ancestry
William Whiting in the Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1639-1700
Name: William Whiting
Location: Hartford
Date of Will: 20 Apr 1643
Page: 493-495
Full Text: Invt. œ2854-00-00. Taken 20 April, 1643. I, William Whiting, doe intend a voyage presently unto sea. I give to my wife halfe my household stuffe of all kinds, and one fourth parte of my personal estate, and her widdowes estate in my now dwelling house and lands at Hartford untill my sonne William be 21 years of age; and after, if she continue a widow, I give her the halfe of my sd. howse and land for life. I give to my sonne William œ100 more than I give to either my sonne John or Samuel; I give to John & Samuel œ100 more to each than I give to my daughter Sarah or Mary. I give œ20 to Mr. Hooker, œ10 to Mr. Stone, œ5 to mending the Highway betwixt my howse and the meeting house, also œ5 to some godly poore of the towne. I desire Mr. John Haynes, Mr Edward Hopkins, Mr. John Webster, with Mr. Hooker & Mr. Stone, to be Overseers. I give to my father & mother œ20.William Whiting.2 April, 1646.Intending another voyage, my will is, my son Joseph shall have an equal portion with sonnes John & Samuel. I give William œ50 more; to Mary, œ10 more; to my sister Wiggin, œ5; and to each of her children, œ3; I give to Margery Parker œ10, my former will to remain in force.William Whiting.In presence of Edward Hopkins.William Whiting, upon his death bed: It is my minde that the children which God hath given me since the will was made wch I have in Mr. Hopkins hands, shall have an equal portion in all my estate together with the rest of my children as I have to these devised. Also I confirme œ10 given to Mr. Hopkins, œ10 to Mr. Webster, œ10 to Mr. Hooker's Children, œ10 to Mr. Stone's Children, œ10 to the poor, œ5 to Hartford, & œ5 to the other two towns, Wyndsor & Wethersfield, and œ5 to Mr. Smith's Children, of Wethersfield.William Whiting.In presence of Henry Smith. James Cole.24th July, 1647.Paper on file compared with original.Court Record, 24 April, 1649. Then the Court Ruled upon a Construction of the will.Page 157.2 September, 1647, Mrs. Whiting is admitted to Adms. according to the will.Page 262.3 October, 1654. Mr. Webster, Mr. Stone, Mr. Fitch, Mr. Will Whiting, John Whiting, presenting to this Court a distributiyon of Mr. Whitings estate agreed upon by them (signed & sealed), bearing date 30 Sept. 1654, this Court allowes to be recorded.Page 69--(Vol. III).29 October, 1667. Whereas, Mr. Alexander Briant and Mrs. Susannah Fitch have, by an Instrument of Resignation bearing date 27 June, 1662, resigned their Interest in and unto the estate of Mr. William Whiting, Decd, that hath bee in ye possession and Improvement of sd. Susannah in the time of her Widowhood, unto the Children of ye sd. Mr. Whiting, and they desire the favor of the Court to have Deacon Edward Stebbing & Thomas Bull as Adms, on the remayning part of ye Estate.
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According to Wikipedia, The Rev. Hooker died during an "epidemical sickness" in 1647, at the age of 61. The location of his grave is unknown, although he is believed to be buried in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground. Thomas died 7 July 1647. William Whiting died July 1647. Could it not be that they both died of the same "epidemical sickness"?
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1647: EPIDEMICAL SICKNESS

In the early summer of 1647 “an epidemical sickness” swept through parts of New England. Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts reported that it seized the victims “like a cold and light fever with it”. On 7 July JAMES’ mentor, the Reverend Thomas Hooker, died at Hartford, Connecticut.
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Historical.
The following extract is taken from the annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health: —
In the early history of Massachusetts it appears that influenza occasionally prevailed. In 1647, according to Governor Winthrop,: "a malignant fever prevailed, and an epidemic influenza passed through the whole country and universally affected the colonists and natives; but it was not very mortal. Wherein a special providence of God appeared; for, not a family nor but few persons escaping it, our hay and corn had to be lost for want of help; but such was the mercy of God to his people as few died — not above forty or fifty in Massachusetts, and near as many at Connecticut."

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" In 1647 an epidemic sickness passed through the whole country, affecting the colonists and natives, English, French and Dutch. It began with a cold, and in many was accompanied with a light fever. Such as bled, or used cooling drinks, died. Such as made use of cordials, and more strengthening things, recovered for the most part. It extended through the plantations in America and in the West-Indies. There died in Barbadoes and St. Kitts, five or six thousand each. Whether it was a plague or pestilential fever, it prevailed in tlte islands, accompanied with a great drought, which cut short potatoes and fruits."
Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, in a letter to his friend, Mr. Richard Vines, who had just before removed from New-England to Barbadoes, gave him some account of this epidemic in Massachusetts. • Fortunately Mr. Vines' answer, dated Barbadoes, April 20, 1648, is preserved and printed in Governor Hutchinson's Collection of Papers. In this the writer gives the following account of the epidemic in that island: " The sickness was an absolute plague, very infectious and destroying, insomuch that in our parish there were buried twenty hi a week, and many weeks together fifteen or sixteen. It first seized on the ablest men, both for account and ability of body. Many who had begun and almost finished great sugar-works, who dandled themselves in their hopes, were suddenly laid in the dust, and their estates left unto strangers. Our New-England men here had their shares and so had all nations, especially Dutchmen, of whom died a great company, even the wisest of them. The contagion is well-nigh over; the Lord make us truly thankful for it, and ever mindful of his mercy."
Here we have a clear and sufficiently precise account of an influenza or epidemic disease w

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Will of William Whiting died 24 July 1647
William Whiting was at Hartford in 1636, a wealthy merchant who had been engaged in a patent for lands at Swamscot with Lord Say and Lord Brook. He had wife Susanna, son William and perhaps John before leaving England. Savage says that possibly he came with Thomas Wiggin in 1633, and probably he came from Cambridge MA, since other prominent persons removed thence that year. He was an early member of First Church, and his name is on the Founders Monument of Hartford. In 1637 Whiting was one of the first representatives; in 1641, Assistant; and he served as Treasurer of the Colony from 1643 to his death in 1647, when he was called Major.
In 1646/1647, Magistrate William Whiting sued Thomas Ford for slander; Thomas was fined more than L4 and costs of court.
William made several voyages, making his will 20 March 1643 in anticipation of one. A codicil drawn 2 April 1646 also mentioned a voyage, but it may have been only to the Delaware river, where he maintained a trading house, as also at Westfield. An addition to that will was declared 24 July 1647, and he died soon after, for his widow was granted adminisration on 2 September 1647.
The probate record shows: "Whiting, William, Hartford.

Inv. L2854-00-00 taken 20 April 1643. I, William Whiting, doe intend a voyage

presently unto sea. I give to my wife halfe my household stuffe of all kinds,

and one fourth parte of my personal estate, and her widdowes estate in my now

dwelling house and lands at Hartford untill my sonne William be 21 years of age;

and after, if she continue a widow, I give her the halfe of my sd howse and land

for life. I give to my sonne William L100 more than I give to either my sonne

John or Samuel; I give to John & Samuel L100 more to each than I give to my

daughter Sarah or Mary. I give L20 to Mr. Hooker, L10 to Mr. Stone, L5 to

mending the Highway betwixt my hwse and the meeting house, also L5 to some godly

poore of the towne. I desire Mr. John Haynes, Mr. Edward Hopkins, Mr. John

Webster, with Mr. Hooker & Mr. Stone, to be Overseers. Alls, I doe bequeath unto

my father and mother L20. and if the bee dead my mind is it should be given unto

my brother and his children.. William Whiting.

"2 April 1646. Intending another voyage, my will is, my son Joseph shall have an

equal portion with sonnes John & Samuel. I give William L50 more; to Mary, L10

more; to my sister Wiggin, L5; and to each of her children L3; I give to Margery

Parker L10, my former will to remain in force. William Whiting In presence of

Edward Hopkins.

"William Whiting, upon his death bed: It is my minde that the children which God

hath given me since the will was made wch I have in Mr. Hopkins hands, shall

have an equal portion in all my estate together with the rest of my children as

I have to these devised. Also I confirme L10 given to Mr. Hopkins, L10 to Mr.

Webster, L10 to Mr. Hooker's Children, L10 to Mr. Stone's Children, L10 to the

poor, L5 to Hartford, & L5 to the other two towns, Wyndsor & Wethersfield, and

L5 to Mr. Smith's Children, of Wethersfield. William Whiting In presence of

Henry Smith, James Cole. 24th July 1647.

Paper on file compared with original.
"2 September 1647, Mrs. Whiting is admitted to Adms. according to the will.
"3 October 1654. Mr. Webster, Mr. Stone, Mr. Fitch, Mr. Will Whiting, John Whiting, presenting to this court a distributiyon of Mr. Whitings estate agreed upon by them (signed & sealed), bearing date 30 Sep 1654, this Court allowes to be recorded.
"29 October 1667. Whereas, Mr. Alexander Briant and Mrs. Susannah Fitch have, by an Instrument of Resignation bearing date 27 June 1662, resigned their Interest in and unto the estate of Mr. William Whiting, Decd, that hath bee in ye possession and Improvement of sd. Susannah, in the time of her Widowhood, unto the Children of ye sd. Mr. Whiting, and they desire the favor of the Court to have Deacon Edward Stebbing & Thomas Bull as Adms. on the remayning part of ye Estate."
Further probate records pertaining to this family are found under Nathaniel Collins: "Court Rec. p. 92 - 4 Sep 1684: Mr. John Whiting, Mr. Joseph Whiting, Mr. John King in Right of Mrs. Sarah his wife, and Mr. Nathaniel Collins in Right of Mrs. Mary his wife, are plaintiffs; Corporall Thomas Bissell, Defendant; in an Action of the Case of unlawfull detaining from them their proportion of Land now in your possession, sometime the Land of their Father Mr. William Whiting, Decd, given them by the will of their Father.
1:385 William Whiting. Court Record Page 92 - 4 Sep 1684: Mr. John Whiting, Joseph Whiting, John King in right of Sarah his wife, Mr. Nathaniel Collins in right of Mary his wife, Plaintiff; Capt. Thomas Bissell Defendent. For unlawful detention of Lands, their Proportion, sometime the land of their Father, Mr. William Whiting, Decd. Nonsuited."

In the Granberry Family, the MARGERY PARKER mentioned in the 1646 will above is

identified as the wife of William Parker; both were born in England. William

died at Saybrook CT 21 December 1686, and Margery died at Saybrook 6 December

1680. The authors comment on the L10 legacy: "This was a good-sized legacy to

receive from a man, even though wealthy, who had a wife and children; and though

no relationship is mentioned, it is likely that Margery was connected in some

way with the Whitings or that they brought her to this country as a member of

their household. The Parker children were all recorded at Saybrook, though the

older ones must have been born at Hartford. The eldest was born in 1637, so the

marriage of William and Margery probably occurred soon after they came to

Hartford."

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire gives information about Capt. Thomas Wiggin, gentleman. Wiggins witnessed delivery of the Vines patent 25 June 1630, the Hilton patent 7 July 1631, and of Piscataqua 22 October 1631. He was in England 31 August 1632, and there on 19 November 1632 when he wrote to Sec. Cooke estimating the English in N.E. as about 2000. A week later a patent was granted by the Council of N.E. In March 1632/1633 he was called the chief agent (in England) of the honest men about to buy out the Bristol men's plantation at Piscataqua and plant 500 people before Michaelmas. Winthrop, on 10 November 1633, records his arrival at Salem in the James with about 30 men. He went directly to Piscataqua from where he wrote a letter in November 1633. As agent for Lords Say and Brooke and in his own interest, he was opposed to the Mason claims, and in time became a strong adherent of Massachusetts and a help in extending their power. His wife Katherine was willed L5, and each of her children L5 by her brother Mr. William Whiting.
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A source of Will The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony by J. Hammond Trubull 974.6/N2c/Vol. 1 1635-65

Digital Image of Will http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brookefamily/whitingwilliam.htm

Marriage 1 Susanna b: in England
Married: BEF 1633 in England 9 10
Children
William WHITING b: in London, England
John WHITING b: 1635
Samuel WHITING
Sarah WHITING b: 1637 in Hartford, Hartford County, CT
Mary WHITING b: 1640/1643
Joseph WHITING b: 2 OCT 1645 in Hartford, Hartford County, CT
(son) WHITING b: AFT JUL 1647 in Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Sources of Information:
1. Notebook of Naoma Manwaring Harker and Mark Whiting.
2. Will found in Trumbull's "Colonial Records of Connecticut," vol. I, page 493.
3. The New England historical and genealogical register - v. 106 (1952); coat of arms for William Whiting (FHL US/CAN book 974 B2ne v. 106 ).
4. Diane C. Watts Heraldry - coats of arms : National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century; Whiting arms and crest (Washington, D.C. : National Society, Colonial Dames XVII Century, 2003) (FHL US/CAN book 973 D6w).


Sources:
Title: Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Abbrev: James Savage
Publication: Originally published 1860-1862. Reprint published Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary
Page: 4:519-522
Title: Browne, Foster & Related Families
Author: Florence A. Browne
Abbrev: Browne
Publication: West Hartford, CT: 1967
Abbrev: Browne/Foster
Page: pp. 138-139
Title: A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records
Author: Charles William Manwaring
Abbrev: Manwaring
Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995
Abbrev: Early Connecticut Probate
Page: 1:40-42 Whiting, William, Hartford
Title: The Granberry Family and Allied Families
Author: Edgar Francis Waterman & Donald Lines Jacobus
Abbrev: Waterman & Jacobus
Publication: New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1945
Abbrev: Granberry Family
Page: p. 288
Title: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
Author: Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby & Walter Goodwin Davis
Abbrev: Noyes, Libby & Davis
Publication: Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., reprinted 1996
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
Page: p. 752
Title: A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records
Author: Charles William Manwaring
Abbrev: Manwaring
Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995
Abbrev: Early Connecticut Probate
Page: 1:292-293. Nathaniel Collins, Middletown
Title: Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. Volume I: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes. Dawes and Allied Families. Volume II: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. Gates and Allied Families
Author: Mary Walton Ferris
Abbrev: Ferris
Publication: Privately printed, 1931 & 1943
Abbrev: Dawes-Gates
Page: 1:294-301
Title: Ancestors of American Presidents
Author: Gary Boyd Roberts
Abbrev: Roberts
Publication: Carl Boyer 3rd, Santa Clarita, CA, 1989
Abbrev: Ancestors of American Presidents
Page: pp. 32-37
Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Author: Clarence Almon Torrey
Abbrev: Torrey
Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 & 1992
Abbrev: New England Marriages
Page: p. 809
Text: William Whiting (-1647) & Susanna (___) (-1673), m/2 Samuel Fitch 1650, m/3 Alexander Bryan 1662; b 1633; Hartford/Newport
Title: Families of Early Milford Connecticut
Author: Susan Woodruff Abbott
Abbrev: Abbott
Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979
Abbrev: Families of Early Milford
Page: p. 124

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Descendants of William Whiting


Generation No. 1


1. MAJOR WILLIAM2 WHITING (JOHN1)1,2,3 was born Abt. 1609 in Suffolk Cty, England, and died 24 Jul 1647 in Hartford, CT. He married SUSANNAH WIGGIN Abt. 1632 in England. She was born Abt. 1609 in England, and died 8 Jul 1673 in Middlesex, CT.

Notes for MAJOR WILLIAM WHITING:
We've elected to begin the Whiting journey with Major William Whiting, our immigrant ancestor. We believe William was born in Suffolk County, England sometime around 1609 and is believed to be the son of John and Isobel Whiting. As one of the founding fathers of Hartford Connecticut, it is unknown when William arrived in the colonies. According to Joseph Hunter in "Suffolk Emigrants" William's connection with the American colonies is recorded as early as 1632 when he and several other prominent men in England bought land here, a large land holding he would retain until his death. (Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England). It is entirely possible he came to the colonies with his sister Katherine/Catherine and her husband Thomas Wiggin, on the "James" that arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on 10 November 1633, but no records or other publications have been found to verify this.

William's early life in Hartford was pretty well documented and he held many enviable positions among the early settlers of Hartford. According to the noted genealogist, Joseph Hunter, he was "one of the most respectable of the settlers (of Hartford) in 1636, one of the civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut, a man of wealth and education, styled in the records, William Whiting, gentleman." (Suffolk Emigrants)

For more information on William and Susannah see "Our Whiting Heritage" book located on Randys' Web Page.

The following information is on William's sister Katherine/Catherine Whiting and excerpts were taken from The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 pages 1982 - 1985.

Thomas Wiggin's connection with the Whiting family is through his wife Katherine/Catherine Whiting, our immigrant ancestor's sister. Their marriage certificate gives her name as Catherine, but Thomas Wiggin's will spells her name as Katherine. It is believed Thomas Wiggin first arrived in the Colonies in Piscataqua sometime in 1630. He returned to England in early 1632 and married our immigrant ancestor sister, Katherine/Catherine Whiting, in London on 11 Jul 1633. Records show that Katherine and Thomas arrived at Salem, Massachusetts on the "James" 10 November 1633 and settled in what would become New Hampshire.

Thomas Wiggin, besides being a man of wealth, also was a great friend of John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Sir John Cooke of England. In a letter he wrote to Sir John, dated 19 Nov 1631, he described the rich resources found in New England and gave tremendous credit to the colonist, both young and old, who accomplished more in three years than others have done in seven times with ten times less expense. He is often called the founder of New Hampshire and has been mentioned in various records and journals as William's agent. Some of the public positions Thomas held were, Governor of Piscataqua (Dover), Magistrate (1650, 1657, 1660, 1661 and again in 1663), and Commissioner at Piscataqua in 1641.

Children of WILLIAM WHITING and SUSANNAH WIGGIN are:
i. WILLIAM3 WHITING4, b. Abt. 1632, England; d. 1699, London, Eng.
Notes for WILLIAM WHITING:
William was probably born in England before William & Susannah immigrated. It is unclear when he went back to England, but he went back presumably as a business partner in his father’s trading business, and became an influential merchant in London. In 1686 he was appointed by the Assembly of Connecticut as their agent to present their petition to the King. "He exerted himself in behalf of the colony and received the thanks of the Assembly for his services, and was requested to continue them." (Goodwin pg. 330).

No concrete information has been discovered on whom William married. In a letter written by Thomas Fairchild, dated December 1662, to John Winthrop of Hartford (who was in London at the time) a Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting, of the city of London, was mentioned. Some genealogist, such as Nathaniel Goodwin, believes this Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting was the wife of William. We do know that William's son Joseph, was appointed administrator of his estate when William died in London in 1699. (Goodwin pg. 143).

ii. SAMUEL WHITING5, b. Abt. 1633, England; d. Unknown, Prob Hartford, CT.
2. iii. REV. JOHN WHITING, b. Oct 1635, Hartford, CT; d. 8 Sep 1689, Hadley, MA.
3. iv. SARAH WHITING, b. 1637, Hartford, CT; d. 17 May 1704, Northampton, Mass.
4. v. MARY WHITING, b. 1643, Hartford, CT; d. 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, CT.
5. vi. CPT. JOSEPH WHITING, b. 2 Oct 1645, Hartford, CT; d. 8 Oct 1717, Hartford, CT.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/h/i/Randy-Whiting/GENE2-0001.html

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The signers of the Mayflower compact and their descendants - Page 19 - Google
1. Elizabeth Adams, born Feb. 23, 1681; married 1st. Rev. Samuel Whiting of Windham, Sep. 4,1696, when she was but sixteen years of age, and her children were distinguished; 1st Col. William Whiting engaged in the French war; 2nd. Rev. John Whiting of the second church in Windham (Scotland parish) and resigning his office he was judge of probate and also colonel; 3d, Col. Nathan Whiting; 4th, Mary, born 1712; married Nov. 23, 1727, Rev. Thomas Clap, her father's successor in Windham and afterward President of Yale College; her daughter Mary Clap, who married Daniel Wooster of New Haven; and Temperance Clap, who married Timothy Pitkin, of Farmington.
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Hon. Wm. Whiting, the American ancestor of the Connecticut branch of the Whiting family, came to New England in 1633, and resided for three years in Newtown (now Cambridge), removing thence with Rev. Thomas Hooker and others to Hartford, Conn., of which he was an original proprietor. Frequent mention is made of him as "one of the fathers of the colony." He was referred to in the town records as "William Whiting, Gentleman." He was several times representative to the General Court; was one of the Magistrates in 1642, was chosen Treasurer of the Colony in 1641, and continued in that office till his death. By his wife Susanna, he had issue, John.
Rev. John Whiting, son of Hon. William and Susanna ( -) Whiting, was born in
1625, graduated at Harvard College in 1653; preached several years at Salem, Mass., was ordained over the First Church in Hartford, Conn., 1660. He married Sybil Collins, daughter of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, and had a son, Samuel.
Rev. Samdel Whiting, son of Rev. John and Sybil (Collins) Whiting, was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1670 ; died at Enfield, Conn., in 1725. He married Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass.
Rev. William Adams, (son of William (2) son of William Adams (1) of Cambridge, in 1635, or earlier, was born at Ipswich, Mass., May 27, 1650, died Nov. 17, 1685 ; married 1st, Mary, daughter of William Manning ; married 2nd, Alice, daughter of Major William Bradford, son of Governor William Bradford. (See page 19.)
They had issue, Elizabeth Adams, born Feb. 23, 1680, who was married Sept. 4, 1696, to Rev. Samuel Whiting.
Rev. Samuel W7hiting, by his wife Elizabeth (Adams) Whiting, had several children, among whom was Mary.
Mary Whiting, daughter of Rev. Samuel Whiting was born in 1712, married Nov. 23, 1727, Rev. Thomas Clap.
Rev. Thomas Clap, by his wife Mary (Whiting) Clap had issue, Temperance and Anne.
Temperance Clap, eldest child of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Whiting) Clap, was born April 29, 1732 ; she married Rev.

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MRS. MARY ANNA B0ARDMAN.
I. HER FOREFATHERS.
" The blessings of my progenitors."
" It is indeed a blessing, when the virtues
Of nohle races are hereditary ;
And do derive themselves from th' imitation
Of virtuons ancestors." Nass.

Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman was the descendant of a worthy ancestry, whose names arc conspicuous in our country's annals.
The Honorable William Whiting, her father's remote progenitor, and Major General John Mason, to whom her mother's lineage is traced, are both named among " some of the principal characters who undertook," in the year 1036, "the great work of settling Connecticut, and were the civil and religious fathers of the colony."* These, we are told, were " the first class of settlers," and all, except the ministers, were chosen Magistrates, or Governors of the colony.
Mr. Whiting came to America from England, and set
•Trumbull's Hist, of Conntcticnt, B. I, ch- IV, A. D. 1636.
tied at Newtown, (now Cambridge,) in Massachusetts. He was a devoted friend and disciple of that patriarch of the Puritans, the Rev. Thomas Hooker, called "The light of the Western Churches."* When Mr. Hooker, after his arrival (1633) in America, having for three years resided at Newtown, removed (1636) to Connecticut, with about a hundred of his company, Mr. Whiting was one of his cooperators, in founding the colony at Hartford. In a list of the original land-holders in that colony, in February, 1639, his namef is found; and, in various existing manuscript and printed documents and books that relate to the foundation of this settlement, frequent mention is made of him, as one of the " fathers of the colony."
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!Naoma Manwaring Harker FGS #126-128
1. Goodwin Notes Conn 28 p.342;
2. Colonial Rec of Conn-Trumbull v.1 p.495;
3. Whiting Notes F Conn 10 pt.27;
4. Gen of Samuel Smith A18A77 p.315;
5. American Families A9C34 p.329;
6. Gen notes by A.F. Whiting 1453 pt.27;
7. American Genealogist Conn N2b v.8 p.1971;
8. Heraldic Journal (Am. AC vol 1 p. 61)
9. Hartford Probate vol 1 p.41
10. Hartford deeds
11. Committee on Heraldry (Correspondence)
12. PC. C. wills in England
13. Correspondence: Searches in London parish registers and Boston, Lincolnshire
14. Connecticut State Library: copies of letters of William Whiting Jr. from London
15. Memorial History of Hartford, vol 1 p.269
William Whiting was one of the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut, a man of wealth and education, styled in the records as William Whiting, gentleman. In 1642 he was one of the magistrates, in 1641 treasurer of the colony, which he retained until his death. He used a somewhat similar coat of arms as Samuel Whiting of Lyn Massachusetts.
New England register vol 106 p. 259; Third part of a roll of arms registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society; #210; WHITING, Major William, an original proprietor of Hartford, living 1687; arms: Azure a leopard's face gold between two flaunches ermine, in chief three bezants.
Attempt was made in 1967 at the Herald's College in London to establish these arms with Whitings on file there, but nothing was found.

!QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO BE OUR WILLIAM WHITING ON THE ENGLISH SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC: From information in Conn., it is known that William Whiting was a man of wealth, and distinction. He had a coat of arms registered among those of early emigrants, and to be so registered they had to prove they were entitled to it. Naoma Manwaring Harker has contacted the officials there,but they have no information at this late date as to what proof or records William offered at his registration. The picture shows it was similar to that of John Whiting, whom we know came from Lincolnshire, England. A researcher from the Genealogical Society went to England and was empowered to go th the Herald's College in London to see if arms of William could be established with the Whitings on file there, but no connection was made.
It is documented that William had a wife Susannah, whom he had married in England and that he came to America with two children, William and Samuel who were both born in England, the next son John being born 1635 in Hartford, Conn. This son later returned to and lived in London, and died in 1699 there. Copies of some of his letters to his father William (the letters are not addressed to his father William) are in the Conn. State Library (The Edwin Whiting Org has copies of them), but they give no indication as to the exact "Parish" or locality in London, nor to any relatives of the family there. (?Coleman Street Ward)
It is also documented that William had a sister (called Sister Wiggins in his will) Catherine, who married 11 July 1633 in London. This marriage has been found and parish registers searched. While Whitings abound, no connection has been made.
Thomas Wiggins and William Whiting, his brother-in-law were proprietors of the Squamscot Patent (See Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, page 233).
Thomas Wiggin had been in America but returned to England in 1633 where he married Catherine Whiting.

POINTS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN DOING RESEARCH IN ENGLAND ON WILLIAM WHITING:
1. He would be born around 1600-1605. (Could vary)
2. You must establish that he had a sister Catherine with her birth date and place.
3. You must consider that the sister Catherine was married in London in 1633 she would not, as a very young girl be living there alone. So either her parents or some relatives were in the vicinity with her.
4. You should find the marriage of William to Susannah, date and place before accepting any christening of a William.
5. You must find the christenings for William and Susannah's two sons, William, no doubt the oldest, and Samuel, both said to be born in England.
6. Naoma Harker has seen a statement that William, son of William and Susannah was born in London. He came to America with his parents but returned to London where he became a merchant (my source for this is not at hand).
7. The usual references on the former home of William, Sr., (as used for all early New England emigrants) give nothing of his birth place. I have seen the following reference: "William Whiting, known as Major, came from Boxford Sussex to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1633, one of the original settlers of Hartford in 1636, died 1647. (No reference as to the origin of this information was given).

The English Gazetteer shows no parish Boxford in Sussex. There is one in Suffolk and one in Berkshire. Suffolk would be most likely.

8. When William made his will in 1643, he mentioned his parents "if they were living". He had apparently been out of touch with them for a long time. This might suggest he had left home and gone to London in his early youth, but they might also have been in London.
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***Great care should be excercised in accepting a connection in this line. The name Whiting is common, and William's may be found with birth dates near the proper one, but the above mentioned factors must be considered, especially that of a sister Catherine, and his own marriage to a Susannah.
-Notes on William Whiting: By Naoma Harker, 1977 (Above from Mark Whiting);
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Memorial History of Hartford County "The Original Proprietors":
The value of property inventoried 20 April 1643. 2,854 lbs.
Final codicil to will made upon his deathbed 24 July 1647 in the presence of Henry Smith and James Cole.
His Father and Mother (were evidently alive at this time -1643-) as they are mentioned in his will, each to receive 20 lbs.
2 April 1646--- an addition to the will was made and son Joseph was given an equal portion with sons John and Samuel. (Joseph was born 2 October 1645.)
Upon his deathbed, William Whiting said "It is my minde that the children which God has given, since the will was made, which I have in Mr Edward Hopkins hands, shall have an equal portion in all my estate, together with the rest of my children as I have to these devised."
24 July 1647 - Early Connecticut Probate Records - Vol. I 40 -41.
Court Record date 24 April 1649. On this date in the Court Record we read "The Courte taking into serious consideration Mr Whitings will, and judging it necessary for preventing of future differences to express their judgments therevpon, do conceiue that it was according to his true meaning and intent that the last sonne born after his death should have an equall portion with the rest of his sonnes, except the eldest."
He also gave 5 lbs to his sister Wiggin, and 3 lbs. apeece to her children. -edited by Margaret M. Neuffer

James Savage states in "A Genealogical Dictionary of New England"
"William Whiting's sister was (probably) Thomas Wiggins Wife. (Catherine)"

Major William was an original proprietor of Hartford; his home lot in 1639 was on the east side of the street, now Governor Street.
In 1633 "the Bristol men had sold their interest in Piscatuqua to the Lords Say and Brook, George Wyllys, and William Whiting, who continued Thomas Wiggins their Agent." Mr Whiting retained his interest in Piscataqua until his death, and was one of the most efficient promoters of the trade and of the commerce of Hartford. He was also engaged in a patent for land for Swampscott with Lords Say and Brook.
He was one of the committee, who for the first time sat with the Court of Magistrates in 1637; freeman Feb 1640; Treasurer of the Colony 1641- 1647; Chosen Magistrate 1642- 1647.

In 1638, he was allowed to trade ------) with the Indians; and he was appointed with Major ( ------) Mason and others to erect fortifications in 1642, and the same year he was appointed with Mason to collect tribute of the Indians on Long Island and on the Main.
He was a merchant of wealth and had dealings with Virginia and Piscataqua; had a trading house at the Delaware River and also at Westfield.
He probably died soon after an addition to his last will was made, July 24, 1647.
His widow Susanna - married (2) in 1650 - Samuel Fitch of Hartford.
(3) Alexander Bryan of Milford. She died at Middletown July 8, 1673.
(Memorial History of Hartford County "The Original Proprietors")

BIRTH: Goodwin Notes Conn 28 p.342; Colonial Rec of Conn-Trumbull v.1 p.495;
Whiting Notes F Conn 10 pt.27; Gen of Samuel Smith A18A77 p.315;
American Families A9C34 p.329; Gen notes by A.F. Whiting 1453 pt.27;
American Genealogist Conn N2b v.8 p.1971;

!Steven Whiting Hatch swhatch@flash.net (4-2000):
In Suffolk Emigrants, Joseph Hunter writes that the Whiting family came from Suffolk County, England in the vicinity of Basford. Mormon ancestral records list William Whiting, son of John, as being born around 1600. William Whiting's connection with the American colonies is recorded as early as 1632 when he and others in England bought land there. He immigrated by 1636 and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. Frequently mentioned in Goodwin's Genealogical Notes,2 he is called one of the "civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut" and is styled in the records as "William Whiting, Gentleman." William Whiting served as Treasurer of the Colony from 1641 to 1647, and was chosen as Magistrate in 16422.
Several sources report that William Whiting bore the title of Major when he died in July of 1647. In his will, he mentions his wife Susannah, sons William, John, Samuel, and Joseph and daughters Sarah and Mary. Refer to Attachment 1. William Whiting died as a man of means; his estate inventory was taken on 20 April, 1647 and was worth ££2854.00, a great sum at that time. He showed his generosity by leaving twenty pounds to the church, five pounds towards the mending of the highways between his home and the Meeting House, and five more to "some godly poore in the Town."
References
1. "Suffolk Emigrants," by Joseph Hunter, Massachusetts Historical Collections, Series 111, Volume X, p. 171.
2. Genealogical Notes - First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts by Nathaniel Goodwin, Hartford, CT, 1987.
3. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Whiting McNair, Library of Congress.
4. A Memorial Volume of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Town of Windham, Connecticut, Hartford, CT, 1893.
5. Stamford's Soldiers - Genealogical Biographies of Revolutionary War Patriots from Stamford, Connecticut, compiled by Wicks and Olson.
6. Genealogies of the Town of Stratford, Connecticut, by Orcutt.
7. The Raleigh Register, Wednesday, January 17, 1855.
8. The Daily Sentinel, Raleigh, NC, February 24, 1870.
9. The New York Times, Friday, September 4, 1925.

Families of Early Hartford Conn. Lucious BARNES Barbour Reprinted by
Genealogical Pub co. of Baltimore in 1977. Page 675 bottom for William Whiting
says wife was called Mrs. Mary in HTR=- Hartford Town Records, Susanna Wiggin
in Soc C Wars = Society of Colonial Wars papers. Trowbridge. (Francis Bacon
Trowbridge) Trowbirdge Gen Libr Cong #cs71.t863 to a 1908 supplement.
Trowbridge himself = Ashley Gen 1896, LCMicrofilme 68659 or 39, next the
Champion genealogy 1891 M#12173, hoadley genealogy 1894 M#84\7916

WHITINGE Robert, of Beddington co. Surrey, gent, bachelor, 36, and Jane COLE, Sevenoaks, Kent, widow of one COLE, late of said parish, innkeeper, aged about 42, alleged by Robert CHRISTMAS, of London, gent
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Letter from William Whiting to Fitz-John Winthrop, 4 March 1703/4 [1704]


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In this detailed account written only a few days after the events described in it, William Whiting of the Connecticut colonial forces informs Governor John (commonly known as "Fitz-John") Winthrop of Connecticut of the devastating attack by French and Indian forces on the Massachusetts frontier settlement of Deerfield on the night of 29 February 1703/4.

In the hours before dawn, traveling across a winter landscape covered by deep snow, a large and diverse force of French and Canadian soldiers, together with Native American allies drawn from many tribes, fell upon sleeping Deerfield. The attackers managed to enter the stockade that protected the settlement (here referred to as "the garrison") by the aid of snow drifted up against the wall and a wild and confused house-to-house battle followed. As Whiting informs Winthrop, reinforcements from Massachusetts settlements further south were ambushed when they came to the aid of the beleaguered town, and without snowshoes they were unable to pursue the retreating attackers through three feet of snow.

Although often referred to by later generations as the "Deerfield Massacre," this term is not used in Whiting's account and apparently was not used to describe the raid until the 19th century. Of most concern to contemporaries who described the assault as "the destruction of Deerfield" or here as "the mischeif at Deerefield" was the very large number of captives taken--more than 100 men, women and children--of whom only about half ever returned to New England.

In a postscript, Major Whiting notes: "Mr. Williams his wife and Sev[e]n children Carryd away." Here he refers to the Reverend John Williams, who after his return from captivity would write the most famous account of the attack, The Redeemed Captive Returned to Zion, published in 1707.

Notes:
1. William migrated from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1633 with Thomas Wiggins. Wiggins had been in America before. Another source says that William first came to Cambridge in 1631 and later was an original settler of Hartford (New England Register vol. 103 pg 35).
2. An original settler at Hartford in 1636. He came to Hartford with Thomas Hooker, a reverend with the Puritans. Both William Whiting and Thomas Hooker were nonconformists. William was a wealthy merchant dealing with grain from America to England. He had a trading house on the Delaware River and at Westfield and had dealings with Virginia. He owned land in Connecticut and New Hampshire.
3. Dep. from Hartford to Connecticut General Court, 1637; a member of the General Court in 1637.
4. In 1638 he was allowed to trade with the Indians and in 1642 appointed to collect tribute of the Indians on Long Island and on the mainlands.
5. In 1640 William was admitted as a freeman. In 1644 he was listed as a merchant. In 1645 he became the constable in Hartford.
6. William served as the second colonial treasurer of Connecticut 1641-1647.
7. William was a Major in the colonial forces.
8. William served as commissioner of the United Colonies for Connecticut 1646-7.
9. William was a leading man in the Connecticut colony and was of a gentleman's status. He was a man of wealth and prominence. His estate at his decease was worth 9000 pounds sterling. He made several trips to England.
10. William made his will on 20 March 1643. Codicils were added on 2 April 1646 and on 24 July 1647. (William amended his wills before his voyages at sea to England.) The codicils indicate he had other children since the making of his original will. The will was recorded on 24 April 1649. William named his children as William, John, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, and Joseph. Joseph was likely born after the initial will was made as he was not mentioned in it; he was provided for in a codicil. William had a "sister Wiggins" who had children. He also gave money to Margery Parker, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Webster, to the children of Mr. Hooker, to the children of Mr. Stone, to the poor of Hartford, to the town of Hartford, to the poor of Windsor, to the poor of Wethersfield. Mrs. Whiting had the will probated on 2 September 1647. William left money to his father and mother (in his 1643 will) if they were still living, and if not, the money was to go to his brother. The parents and brother were not named. On 29 October 1647 Mrs. Susanna (Whiting) Fitch by an instrument of resignation dated 27 June 1662 resigned her interest in the estate of Mr. William Whiting, deceased. On 5 October 1654, Mr. Webster, Mr. Stone, Mr. Fitch, Mr. William Whiting, Mr. John Whiting, presented to the court a distribution of Mr. Whiting's estate agreed upon by them.
11. William was a man of weath and education, one of the most respectable settlers in 1636 and one of the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut.
12. He was closely associated with George Wyllys and Thomas Wiggin.
13. Searches made by James Cunningham in England in 1949 - Deptford St. Nicholas, Kent 1592 to 1600 - produced no trace of William Whiting. He did find the marriage of John Whiting and Margaret Bonner on 22 December 1586 in Boston, Lincolnshire. According to the will of this John Whiting, he did not have a son William. The researcher stated that it is possible that the Whiting family was in Boston, Lincoln before the registers began.
14. A researcher located in the Bishop of Lincoln probate court a will dated 21 October 1617 (1617, i, folio 239) for John Whiting the elder of Boston, woollendraper. John named a daughter Margarett, wife of Richard Carter; wife Isabell who receives his house in Boston; son James; son Samuel who was at Cambridge; son John; daughter Awdree, wife of Robert Wright. John is the eldest son. His son James is not yet 23. John marked, not signed, the will. Proved on 31 Oct 1617. Witnessed by William Whiting. No son William or daughter Catherine.
15. A William Whiting of Boston also left a will dated 1618. He christened a son William at Boston in 1602. The child christened in 1602 cannot be the emigrant because he would have known that his father was dead when he wrote his own will in 1643. However, he could be related. William's 1618 will stated that he was a woollen draper of Boston, had a wife Margaret, youngest son Isaac (minor), son Robert, son William, brother Francis Whiting, and cousins John Whiting and Richard Carter. The researcher assumed that the John Whiting who died in 1617 (the father of the emigrant Samuel Whiting) and the William Whiting who died in 1618/9 were brothers. However, William's 1618 will says that John is his cousin. "There was another brother Francis who may have had children and no doubt there were many other Whitings nearly related. The name occurs frequently in Lincolnshire probate courts." (Letter dated 18 June 1958)
16. William Whiting was using a similar coat of arms as John Whiting from Boston, Lincolnshire and John's son, the Reverend Samuel Whiting who migrated to New England and lived at Lynn, Massachusetts. Therefore, there is likely a connection between the ancestral William and these Whiting men of Boston, Lincolnshire. Several letters written by Willliam Jr., his son, are sealed with a coat of arms which are a variation of those used by the family of Whitings of Boston, Lincoln. The coat of arms is described in "Roll of Arms" registered by Committee of Heraldry, New England Historical and Genealogical Society. Major William Whiting, original proprietor of Hartford, liv. 1687 - azure a leopard face gold between two flaunches ermine in chief 3 bezants; crest a demi-eagle displayed with two heads proper (New England Register vol. 106 pg. 258). The family's coat or arms were quartered at a Chantry of St. Lawrence at Leake, which is not far from Boston, Lincolnshire. Gordon C. Whiting's book includes a graphic of the coat of arms for Thomas Whiting (1400s) and his descendants in Leicestershire and Essex (page 35). It is very similar to the coat of arms claimed by William Whiting (page 55). See Heraldic Journal, volume 1, pages 61, 160.
17. William was possibly living near his sister Catherine in London at the time she married in 1633 and returned to America with her and her husband in 1633.
18. Researcher in England found the Whiting surname popular in St. Magnus the Martyr parish in London. But no Catherine Whiting was listed.
19. A marriage found for a William and Susan Whiting. "William Whiting of St. Mary Magdalene Canterbury, woolendraper, bachelor, 23, son of William Whiting, Alderman of Canterbury, who consents, and Susan Sabin, virgin, 17, dau of Alvert Sabin, Alderman of Canterbury, who also consents. To marry at St. Mary Bredman's Canterbury." William was christened on 2 April 1615 at St. Mary Magdalene, son of William. He had a sister Katherine christened on 19 Sep 1619. But the William and Susan Whiting who married in Canterbury also christened children in Canterbury down to 1653 and cannot, therefore, be the ancestors who were in America by 1633. (Letter dated 18 June 1958)
20. The 1648 will of James Whiting of Boston, woollen draper was examined. He named his wife Mary, son John (minor), son Samuel (minor), brother Samuel Whiting now in New England, sister Wright, brother John Whiting. So he was the son of the John Whiting who wrote the 1617 will.
21. A researcher stated he checked subsidy and assessment lists for London and found a William Whiting living on Thames Street in St. Michael Queenhithe parish in 1638 [but the ancestral William was in New England then]. The researcher thought this could be the ancestor. Another person of interest was Samuel Whiteing of St. Magnus parish which adjoined and was later absorbed with St. Margaret New Fish Street. The registers of St. Michael Queenhithe do not start until October 1653. (Letter dated 27 June 1958) Samuel Whiting of St. Magnus parish was a freeman of the Fishmongers' Company and was a member of the City of London Livery Companies in 1641. A William Whiting was a freeman of the Blacksmiths' Company. A Joseph, son of Samuel Whiting, attained freeman status in the Fishmonger's Company in 1651. This Samuel Whiting could be the same man who christened 11 childeren in St. Magnus the Martye parish. The researcher searched the records of the Fishmongers' Company. He thought that the William Whiting admitted to the Freedom in 1621 was likely the emigrant and that William was a brother of Samuel (whose family was in St. Magnus parish). The lead led to a search in Stroud, Gloucester. The "Register of Apprenticeship Bindings & Admissions to the Freedom, 1614-1668" for the Fishmongers' Company of London included: 18 June 1621 William Whitinge, late apprentice to John Whitinge, claiming his freedom by service, is admitted and sworne; 15 November 1619 Samuel Whitynge, late apprentice to John Cole, claiming his freedom by service, is admitted and sworne; 29 November 1624 Thomas Whiteinge, son of Thomas Whiting of the Stroude Water in Gloucester, yeoman, put himself apprentice to Thomas Roberts fishmonger for nine years from michaelmas last 1624. The researcher searched Stroud parish (which is incomplete before 1640) and Painswick in Gloucester. He found a William christened in 1622; no Catherine. He studied wills for Whiting testators of the Stroud and Painswick area. Nothing.
22. A John Dumbleton may have been a servant of William Whiting for two years before coming to New England and then for another 4 or 5 years in New England (History of Windsor, CT pg. 49, 155).
23. Longden's "Northamptonshire and Rutland Clergy" include information about Samuel, son of the John Whiting of Boston, Lincolnshire, who left the 1617 will. The bio for Samuel stated he was the son of John Whiting, merchant of Boston, Lincoln and was christened there on 21 November 1597. Graduated from Emmanuel College at Cambridge. Ordained a priest in 1621 at Peterborough. Served as a minister at Lynn, Norfolk and rector of Skirbeck, Lincoln, in 1625. Went to Boston, New England in April 1636 and then to Lynn, Massachusetts where he was a minister from 1638 to 1679. He died there on 11 December 1679. His eldest son John Whiting was a rector at Leverton, Nottingham.
24.Steven Whiting Hatch stated that "Suffolk Emigrants" declares that the Whiting family came from Suffolk County, England in the vicinity of Basford. (There isn't a parish named Basford in Suffolk, but there is a parish named Boxford. A christening for a William, son of William and Elizabeth Whiting, was found in Aldringham parish dated 9 September 1600.). Holmes' "Dictionary of Ancestral Heads of New England Families" states he came from Boxford, Sussex. (There isn't a parish named Boxford in Sussex but there is a parish named Boxgrove.)
25. Two old undated, unsigned pieces of paper located by Evelyn W. Baird in 1998 while at the Connecticut Historical Society stated that William's wife Susanna was Susanna Wiggins. The researcher did not know the origin of this information.
26. "Whitings in England Before 1650" by Gordon C. Whiting (1978) poses that the most likely place of origin (due to William's nonconformity) is East Anglia (which can include Lincolnshire).
27. Gordon C. Whiting states that Miss M. Packman located the administration of William Whiting's estate in England (1648) and that he left "any and all English property" to his wife. Miss Packman also believes that William could be closely connected to the Whitings of Boxford and Hadleigh in Suffolk or to the Whitings of Boston (and Deptford, Kent) in Lincolnshire. Gordon Whiting states that the Whitings of Boston, Lincolnshire loaned money to the colony of Massachusetts. In Gordon's book are listings of Whitings by county that Miss Packman collected. Many are from Lincolnshire and London--two prime areas for William Whiting.
28. A family tree found on FamilyTreeMaker concerning the Descendants of John Whiting states that William Whiting was born in Boxford "Sussex" and died in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut. His wife Susannah Wiggin was born in 1609 in Milford, Connecticut and married William in 1635 in Hartford. Also claims that William's son William was born in 1631 in Milford, Connecticut and his daughter Sarah was born in 1632 in the same place. This pedigree seems to contain multiple errors and speculation.
29. The coat of arms used by William Whiting Jr. matches perfectly with the description of the coat of arms used by the Giles Whiting family of Etton, Northamptonshire. Giles was the rector of Etton and died there in 1627. According to the burial entry for Giles' wife Margerie, the couple had 41 grandchildren by that year. Only 11 of these children were listed in the 1619 heraldic visitation for Leicester. Giles' sons John and Timothy and one of Timothy's sons were also clergymen with the Church of England. One of Giles' grandsons, Nathaniel Whiting, emigrated to Massachusetts about the same time as did William Whiting. Giles Whiting left a will in 1627 (Church of England. Consistory Court of the Diocese of Peterborough Probate records, 1541-1858 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958) (FHL British film 174844)). The will did not mention William, but it also did not name all of Giles' grandchildren. Giles Whiting's pedigree was also found in the 1634 visitation of Essex. Giles and his two sons who became clergymen are found in Henry Isham Longden's Northamptonshire and Rutland clergy from 1500 (Northampton, England : Archer & Goodman, 1938-1943) (FHL British book 942.5 D3L v. 15).

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Hartford, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Margery, m. bef. 1637 William Parker; lived Hartford and Saybrook
Posted by: Duane Boggs (ID *****6286)Date: February 20, 2011 at 11:50:26
of 1716

On or about April 2, 1646, William Whiting of Hartford, in what would later become Connecticut, wrote a Will. He made a bequest of 10 pounds to a Margery Parker. I believe this was likely the same woman as the Margery who had married William Parker before 1637, resided for a time in Hartford, but then had moved to Saybrook before 1646. Many, if not most, Parker researchers suggest that Margery's maiden name was Pritchard (a/k/a Prichard).

I have recently found an abstract of the William Whiting Will at the following source:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2rOoX4UHRxAC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=saybrook+%22Margery+Parker%22&source=bl&ots=xqJwJPXncC&sig=I4DjLOULlQ9JqSk9aAKpqHqNFdA&hl=en&ei=XlRhTamDHYqr8Abj1ZCxDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=saybrook%20%22Margery%20Parker%22&f=false

"A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of ...", by Royal Ralph Hinman, at p. 97:

“Whiting, William, Hartford - was a member of the General Court in 1637. The Court ordered him to supply 100 pounds of beef (for Hartford) to carry on the Pequot war, in 1637. He was treasurer of the colony in 1641 to 1647. . . . . . His estate at his decease was over £9000 sterling. In 1649 [DAB: sic-is this a typo for 1647? LDS and World Connect trees all suggest an important date (of Will? Probate? Death? Burial?) of July 24, 1647] he made his will. His children were William, John, Samuel, Sarah, Mary and Joseph. Joseph appears to have been born after the will was made, and he provided for him by a codicil to his will. He had a sister Wiggins who had children. He gave £10 to Margery Parker, £10 to Mr. Hopkins; £10 to Mr. Webster; £10 to the children of Mr. Hooker; £10 to the children of Mr. Stone; £10 to the poor of Hartford; £5 to the town of Hartford; £5 to the poor of Windsor; £5 to the poor of Wethersfield, and £5 to the children of the Rev. H. Smith, of Wethersfield. His son William was a merchant in London, and sold the lands he received by his father to Siborn Nichols, of Witham, in England.” Cyprian Silborn NICHOLS b: ABT 1620 in Witham, Essex, England

I have also found an as-yet unverified statement that William Whiting's widow, Susannah, died July 08, 1673 in Hartford.

The Saybrook Vital Records have a record of the births of William Parker's children, and state "Margery, wife of William [Parker] Sr, died Dec 6, 1680". See
Saybrook Vital Records from Barbour, 1668-1852 - P, transcribed by Coralynn Brown.

Many, if not most, Parker researchers suggest that Margery's maiden name was Pritchard (a/k/a Prichard). I am presently formulating a theory that Margery (Pritchard) Parker might have been the sister of Susannah (MNU) Whiting, wife of William.

Please note that the abstract of the Will also states that William Whiting had a "sister Wiggins" who had children. I believe that some researchers have mis-interpreted this reference and have reached a faulty deduction that Susannah (MNU) Whiting was born a Wiggins. I find this to be a less reasonable interpretation than the following alternative.

In 1647, a man could use the term "sister" to refer to a full sister (shared

parents), a half-sister (only one shared parent), a step-sister (no shared

parents), a sister-in-law (e.g., married to one's brother), a sister-in-law (the

sister of one's wife), or a sister-in-law (the wife of one's wife's brother). So

which would be most likely to be remembered by a man in his Will? I think the

most likely response is that he was referring to his own married sister and her

children (who would have been William Whiting's nieces and/or nephews). There is

a possibility (but not a probability) that William Whiting had married the

sister of his brother-in-law Wiggins (i.e., WW's sister married a Wiggins and WW

married the sister of that Wiggins). While there are certainly some instances of

such marriages, they were certainly not the most common, or the norm.

Because the abstract does not state that Margery Parker was a "sister", it is likely that the Will itself did not contain any such explicit language. Nonetheless, I believe that it is more likely than not that Margery was somehow related to William Whiting, and possibly through his wife.

Consider the other bequests in the Will. The "Mr. Hopkins" is almost certainly a reference to Edward Hopkins, a founder of Hartford and sometime governor (and who reportedly had married an Ann Yale). The "Mr. Webster" is almost certain referring to John Webster, another Hartford founder and a magistrate. Thus we see gifts to two men who were among the civic leaders, and with whom WW would have had frequent contact (and likely friendship). The bequests to the children of Hooker (i.e., Rev. Thomas), of Stone (i.e., Rev. Samuel) and of the Rev. H. Smith (of Wethersfield) all fall into the category of the clergy and/or ministers of the Puritan flocks. The gifts to the poor are obviously charitable gifts.

So why would William Whiting leave a gift to a woman, Margery Parker, and not to her husband, William Parker (formerly of Hartford, but by 1647 of Saybrook)? I believe it is because Margery was a relative of William Whiting's wife, Susannah. The most likely relative would be that Susannah and Margery were sisters.

Therefore, I would propose as a theory that William Whiting's wife was born Susannah Pritchard. Of course this needs further research, but this theory is statistically more likely than the notion that she was Susannah Wiggins.

If anyone has any information that would shed light on these issues? Please share by posting here or by contacting me directly at duaneaboggs@live.com.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried 12 Apr 1671

William married Mygatt, Susannah about 1625 in England. Susannah (daughter of Mygatt) was born in 1609 in England; died on 8 Jul 1673 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; was buried on 8 Jul 1673 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Will: 27 Nov 1654
I Joseph Mygatt of Hartford do make this my last Will & Testament : Whereas, in a Writing bearing date 27 November, 1654, I have already engaged the manner of a dispose of my Estate after my Death, I do now for the substance thereof fully consent thereunto, only some things mentioned needing some explication I thought good to mention, 1st, that I have already paid the marriage portion for my son Jacob as is expressed in the Agreement, & have built a house for him of more value than was promised, & have truly fulfilled that first particularly.

2nd, Whereas it is mentioned in the Agreement with Mrs. Susannah Fitch, & the Trustees

in behalf of her Brother,

that the Estate by her should be let out to procure a farm, that it might have been so but they conceived that it might be more advantageous to adventure the Money abroad, being at that time in a way of Trade, the which with their desire I consented too, - these things being confiscated, I do dispose of my whole Estate as is there mentioned, only my Mind is that in Case the £12 be not paid to my wife (as is expressed), that so much of my Lands be sold (that may best be spared) as may enable the true performance of the yearly Annuity willed to her during her natural life.
I give unto Joseph Deming, my gr. son, all my Wearing apparrel. I appoint my gr. child Joseph Mygatt to be my Executor. I desire my friend Paul Peck sen. and my son John Deming to be Overseers. Witness: Jos: Haines, Jo: MYGATT. Ls. Paul Peck.

http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shopefamily/Tree/famf790.html

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She d in Milford, Feb'y 20,1661, and he m. 2"^ Susannah Fitch,
wi.loNV of Mr. Samuel, of Hartford. Susanah was V wite ot
William Whitin-, who with Lords Say and Brooke, and George
Wyllys bought the interest of the Bristol men in Piscataqua
about 1631 to 1633. From 1641 to his death he was treasurer o
Conn. Colony, and in 1642 one of the magistrates. He was styled
"The Worshipful William Whiting." She m. 2°Mn IboO, Mr.
Samuel Fitch, of Hartford, many years teacher there by whom
sh. had two sons. He d. 1659 and she m. 3"^ 1663, Mr. Bryan.
She d. at Middletown, Conn., July 8 1673, at the home of her son-
in-law, Rev. Nathaniel Collins, of that place.
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!MARRIAGE: (1) William WHITING (2) 1650 Samuel FITCH (3) Alexander BYRON
!Rec of Doris Ball- Union, OR;

!Margaret Neuffer- 2003 Valley View Dr. Columbia, MO 65201: Susanna.....Whiting md (2) 1650 Samuel FITCH of Hartford and had 2 more children. Mr Fitch died 1659 and she md (3) Alexander BRYAN of Milford Conn., but died before him at the house of her daughter, Mary Collins of Middletown, Conn. and was buried in Middletown 8 July 1673. Susannah surname Wiggins. (Margaret Neuffer 9-92):

!Families of Early CT-Lucius Barnes Barber; Society of Colonial Wars- shows William married Susannah Wiggins. She is not in IGI US or Eng 88. Catherine Whiting, William's sister md Thomas Wiggins in London.

DOCUMENTATION (by Margaret Neuffer):

!MARRIAGES: Source - Torrey, Clarence Almon, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700, page 111" (1) William WHITING; (2) 2 Jan 1650/51 Samuel FITCH
(3) Alexander Bryan 27 Jun 1662."
!DEATH: Source - Mass. Historical Society Collections, fifth series, Vol.8, page 148. Governor John Winthrop, writing from "Hartford, July 15, 1673" to his son Fitz-John Winthrop, says: "Old Mrs Bryan, Mr Whitings mother, died at
Middleton Sabath day was seven night, where she was buried the Tuesday following: had not been sick above a weeke.."

!Barbour, Lucius Linus, "Families of Early Hartford, Conn", page 675 states, "Susanna was called Mrs Mary in Hartford town records, Susannah Wiggin in Soc C Wars papers (Trowbridge)"

Sources of Information:
1. Notebooks of Naoma Manwaring Harker and Mark Whiting.

Notes:
1. She may have died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Collins, at Middletown.
2. Her maiden name could be Wiggins, but this is not documented.
3. She apparently had two sons by her husband Samuel Fitch.
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4. A family tree found on FamilyTreeMaker concerning the Descendants of John Whiting states that William Whiting was born in Boxford "Sussex" and died in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut. His wife Susannah Wiggin was born in 1609 in Milford, Connecticut and married William in 1635 in Hartford. This pedigree seems to contain multiple errors and speculation.

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Susanna

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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FAMILY OF ALEXANDER BRYAN
On page 7 of this work the Judge states that he purchased in London a deed which has been preserved among the papers of the descendants of WilHam Penn. This deed is printed on pages 8 to 10 of the Bryan pamphlet. This document dated July 20, 1663, is a conveyance from Richard Bryan of Milford in New England and his father Alexander Bryan also of Milford to Edward Baldwyn of Beconsfield in the county of Bucks in consideration of i 40 "All those twoe messuages or tenements and garden with all the outhouses " appurten nts thereunto belonging situate lying " being in the North Streete of Wendover, in the said county of Bucks, and now or late in the occupation of the widow Ovyatt (?) or her underten nt or underten nts which said messuage or tennements were given to Anne Bryan, mother of the said Richard Bryan deceased, " to the said Richard Bryan " their heires by the last will " testament of Richard Baldwyn of Dundridge, in the said County of Buck, deceased." From these documents it will be seen that Anne wife of Alexander Bryan, the emigrant and head of the Bryan family of Milford, was daughter of Robert Baldwin of the Baldwin family of Buckingham County, England. "Anne Briant" was admitted to full communion in the Milford Church, August 23, 1640. The record also states that she died February 20, 1661. Alexander Bryan married, second, Susanna widow of both William Whiting and Samuel Fitch of Hartford. There is no record of this marriage, but it probably took place soon after June 27, 1662, when "M"" Allexand"^ Briant and M" Susannah ffitch" signed an agreement transferring to the children of her first husband William Whiting, certain property that had been in her possession as his widow and administratrix, and requested the court to appoint new administrators on the estate.-^

Mrs. Susannah Bryan was admitted to the Milford Church December 6, 1669. Following the record of her admission on the Church book is this entry : "buried at Middletown July 8.73" John Winthrop Junior, Governor of Connecticut, in writing to his son Fitz-John Winthrop from "Hartford, July 15: 1673", said ' Hartford, Conn., County Court Records, vol. 3, reverse end, p. 69.

ALEXANDER BRYAN
"Old M''^ Bryan, M^ Whitings mother, died at Middleton Sabath day was seven night, where she was buried the Tuesday following: had not beene sick above a weeke.""*

Alexander Bryan made his will April 24, 1679 and July 22 following he made a codicil thereto. In the document he referred to himself as being weak of body. To his grandson Alexander Bryan he gave " 500 in addition to what he had already received. The house and home-lot where the testator then dwelt were to be considered a part of the i 500. He also gave him the old warehouse and one-half of the pasture land in Milford. These bequests including all previous payments were to be appraised and the value thereof in excess of i 500 was to be paid by the legatee to Samuel Bryan, another grandson of the testator. Alexander Bryan, child of the testator's grandson, Alexander, was given all the interest in the house and land at Eaton's Neck, Long Island, of which he was to come into possession when he became nineteen years old.

Hannah Harriman, grandchild of the testator, was given i 40, part of which she had already received.

The testator had previously given to his granddaughter Sarah Fitch, i 40 in a house which the testator had bought of Samuel Baldwin's widow. "My son in law Samuel Fitch" was directed to pay to the testator's grandson, Samuel Bryan, the amount due for the rest of the said house and lot.

Said Samuel Bryan was also given the testator's house and land in Milford opposite his son Richard's dwelling house, also the new warehouse and land at Indian Side, formerly belonging to Samuel Baldwin.

To his grandson, Richard Bryan Junior, he gave a house and home-lot bought of Samuel Eells, said Richard to come into possession thereof at the age of nineteen years.

If Richard should die under that age, the property was to go to the executor. The three grandchildren, Richard Bryan, Frances Bryan and Abigail Bryan, were given the household goods, plate, brass, pewter and all moveable goods in equal shares. If either child should die before coming of age or unmarried, the share of such child was to go to the survivors.

Mass. Historical Society Collections, series 5, vol. 8, p. 148.

APA: Starr, Frank Farnsworth. (2013). pp. 292-3. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Vol. 2). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1915)
MLA: Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. Vol. 2. 1915. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. 292-3. Print. Next >>
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FAMILY OF ALEXANDER BRYAN
On page 7 of this work the Judge states that he purchased in London a deed which has been preserved among the papers of the descendants of WilHam Penn. This deed is printed on pages 8 to 10 of the Bryan pamphlet. This document dated July 20, 1663, is a conveyance from Richard Bryan of Milford in New England and his father Alexander Bryan also of Milford to Edward Baldwyn of Beconsfield in the county of Bucks in consideration of i 40 "All those twoe messuages or tenements and garden with all the outhouses " appurten nts thereunto belonging situate lying " being in the North Streete of Wendover, in the said county of Bucks, and now or late in the occupation of the widow Ovyatt (?) or her underten nt or underten nts which said messuage or tennements were given to Anne Bryan, mother of the said Richard Bryan deceased, " to the said Richard Bryan " their heires by the last will " testament of Richard Baldwyn of Dundridge, in the said County of Buck, deceased." From these documents it will be seen that Anne wife of Alexander Bryan, the emigrant and head of the Bryan family of Milford, was daughter of Robert Baldwin of the Baldwin family of Buckingham County, England. "Anne Briant" was admitted to full communion in the Milford Church, August 23, 1640. The record also states that she died February 20, 1661. Alexander Bryan married, second, Susanna widow of both William Whiting and Samuel Fitch of Hartford. There is no record of this marriage, but it probably took place soon after June 27, 1662, when "M"" Allexand"^ Briant and M" Susannah ffitch" signed an agreement transferring to the children of her first husband William Whiting, certain property that had been in her possession as his widow and administratrix, and requested the court to appoint new administrators on the estate.-^

Mrs. Susannah Bryan was admitted to the Milford Church December 6, 1669. Following the record of her admission on the Church book is this entry : "buried at Middletown July 8.73" John Winthrop Junior, Governor of Connecticut, in writing to his son Fitz-John Winthrop from "Hartford, July 15: 1673", said ' Hartford, Conn., County Court Records, vol. 3, reverse end, p. 69.

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Abt 1628

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OUR PYNCHON FAMILY




Graphic, by US Gen Net


Generation 6
JOHN PYNCHON (mar. Amy Wyllys)


Generation 7
MARY PYNCHON (mar. William Whiting)







MAJOR JOHN PYNCHON
Generation 6

The powerful Pynchons – William and his son, MAJOR JOHN PYNCHON – were the first of the Connecticut Valley “River gods”, a title given to the men of wealth and influence whose vision and ambition shaped the future of the country. The town records style him “The Worshipful Major Pynchon”, and later, “The Worshipful Colonel”.
John Pynchon was probably born in 1626 at Springfield, in the Parish of Chelmsford, County of Essex, England. He was brought to Roxbury, Massachusetts at the age of four. When he was ten, his father moved the family to the settlement of Agawam in the Connecticut Valley. In 1641, Agawam was renamed Springfield in honor of John’s father.
He was probably educated at the desks of his parents and the Rev. George Moxon, a graduate of Cambridge University. Rev. Moxon was a lifelong friend of his father and was installed in 1637 as the first pastor at the new settlement of Agawam.
During John’s youth, few in Springfield had much of an education at all. The town was created out of a virtual wilderness. He possessed a superior native intelligence, but to obtain a formal English education such as he received was remarkable.
Along with, and certainly as part of, his studies, John interacted with simple frontier farmers, tradesmen, and Indians of different tribes, obtaining a vast knowledge in the nuances of trade, working in his father’s fur-trading and mercantile businesses. He learned at least one Algonkian dialect. He was one of the very few Puritan officials to understand the nature and importance of intertribal rivalries and warfare. He led his own people along a middle road that ensured peace with the Pocumtuck Confederacy until 1675.
He had ample opportunities to watch his father’s conduct in public offices and on the bench as a magistrate and judge in Springfield. As a result, at a young age he was prepared to deal with all classes and types of men. He developed the attributes of a country gentleman and an English aristocrat, but with a depth of character rarely seen today.
John and his sister, Mary, were Springfield’s two most prominent children. Not much different than today, yesterday’s children of prominence would get a lot of “press” where possible. You can read an example of that in a charming but romanticized story about the Bay Path, used when the original families migrated to Agawam in 1636.
As he matured, John learned how to think and express his thoughts clearly. His penmanship was strong and clear, entirely unlike that of his father. His journaled business transactions show a lack of system and orderly arrangement. His style of writing, however, seems fresh for the time. In his ledger, he often adds picturesque comments or bits of conversation that reveal a little local color, for instance, describing the leather breeches made for him by John Barber.
John Pynchon was reared in, and maintained throughout his life, the old-school concept of an almighty God. During the ministry of George Moxon, as a youth, he took notes, in a kind of short-hand, the leading points in the sermons, which are now in possession of the City Library. His shorthand was only recently decoded. He believed in and observed the Puritan resignation to the will of God, never questioning His ways or His means. God’s Hand was to be seen in every moment of the day. The Lord’s ultimate responsibility for everything comforted and sustained him in all situations. He believed, for instance, that King Philip’s War was God’s means of punishing a sinful New England, the Indians being divinely appointed to chastize the white sinners.
John Pynchon actually became much more important to the Massachusetts Colony than was his father. He was considered, even up to the time of his death, the “chief man in all the west”. He fit no mould, nor did he conform to any of the familiar colonial types. John Pynchon had style, what we would today call “panache”. There were none other like him; he stood alone in the select company of frontier builders. He chose a public life because it was the function proper to a gentleman.
The scope of John’s life is so broad that I’ve arranged what interested me into subject matter categories.


MARRIAGE

On the 30th of October 1645, John married AMY WYLLYS of Hartford. She was the daughter of the late Governor of Connecticut, George Wyllys. Marriage greatly enhanced the Pynchon name among the first families of New England.

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WYLLYS FAMILY

About John, his father wrote, in a letter to Governor Winthrop on October 30, 1645, "My only son is now married & he hath brought home his wife this day to my howse, where he may continue as long as he finds comfort & benefit."


HOME AND HOME LIFE

John made his first trip to England in 1656, by this time thirty years of age. He resided either in London or Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, from the September 10, 1656, until November 3, 1657. Unfortunately, there are no letters from this period.
On January 12, 1659, he placed an order for 50,000 bricks to be burned at Northampton for his new mansion, the bricks to be completed by the 12th of December.


(Click on this picture to see a larger view.)

His new mansion would be the first brick home in the Connecticut Valley. The house was built to connect with the older wooden house of his father, which became a wing of the new brick one. The carpenters and masons were from Windsor. The building was 42 feet long, and 21 feet wide. The walls, thick and solid, rose about 22 feet from the ground to the eaves. The roof was very steep, and the ridge was about 22 feet in perpendicular height above the garret-floor.
The house was intended to be a fortified house and was known as the "Old Fort". During King Philip's War, John was in Hadley with his troops on October 16th, 1675, when the Indians attacked and burned the town. The Pynchon "fort" became a refuge during the attack and subsequent burning of the town.


The Pynchon Fort

The mansion was used by the Pynchon family until it was moved in 1831, to make room for a more modern house. In 1831, it was removed to Cross Street, where it served as a house and laundry. It was again altered in 1883, at which time there were still marks of antiquity about it.
Like most of the leading Puritans, he lacked a sense of humor. He had not even a smidgen of Cotton Mather’s wit, and nowhere in his correspondence do we detect a light note. About everything, he was deadly serious and unimaginative.
On September 28, 1651, just prior to his departure for England, John’s father quietly conveyed to him, all his lands (about 280 acres) and buildings, and all his business enterprises. John also received the same special privileges which had been granted to his father concerning trade with the Indians. On November 27th 1652, all of William’s accounts were closed out. In future years, John made several trips to England in connection with his father's estates.
John Pynchon was the most substantially wealthy person in the upper Connecticut Valley. Western Massachusetts was unoccupied land, which needed first to be cleared and settled, then converted into productive farmland.


Amy Pynchon may have introduced John to the Winthrops of New London and Fishers Island. In time he and John Winthrop, Jr., corresponded regularly, and the two families were close. For more than a year, 1654-1655, Amy lived in the Winthrop household at New London while John Winthrop, Jr., treated her for a lingering ailment. A similar closeness developed with the other rich and influential families of Hartford, providing John Pynchon’s entry to the topmost rank of the governing oligarchy of Massachusetts Bay.
His letters are full of reports of family illnesses. One guesses they were not hardy enough for life on the frontier, even with the help of indentured servants and/or slaves that I am certain they had.
John’s father, William, died at Wraysbury, Essex, England on October 29th, 1662. Around October of 1663, John sailed for England again, where he remained until December 30th, 1664, settling his father’s estate (of which he was the principal beneficiary). After completing his commercial arrangements in England, he returned to Springfield. He visited England several times in connection with his father's estates, before and/or after his father's death.

Life changed on the frontier even during John's lifetime. The deer and beaver were gone, most of the Indians moved west into New York. Now the farmers were producing corn, wheat, and lumber. The life of the frontier, created more by Pynchons than anyone else, was gone forever. From his point of view, he was the agent of God in this process.


LAND MATTERS

John obtained land by purchase or exchange — some in payment of debts; some as an allotment due to his role as a town proprietor; and some by town grants in connection with the erection of mills for corn, grist, or lumber, or ironworks.
In 1659, he petitioned the General Court for a grant of land. He stated that his father, William, had brought over from England several servants, promising them 50 acres of land each, which the Massachusetts Bay Company had agreed should be allowed to each person so coming, and that some of these servants were still asking him for their land.
John Pynchon was also a partner in land speculation with James Rogers, the foremost New London [Conn.] merchant of the 1660s and 70s, and it seems likely they were engaged in joint mercantile enterprises. The statement has been made that Pynchon and James Rogers of New London, as partners in land speculation, "engrossed" over 2000 acres in Groton from small holders. On April 25, 1680, John deeded his Boston and New London properties to his son, John Jr.
It was consistent with the times that the devotion of time and energy to civil service would sometimes be rewarded by the General Court with grants of land, and John occasionally obtained large grants from the General Court. One such grant was made in 1681, the island in the Connecticut River just north of the railroad bridge at Warehouse Point, in Connecticut. Warehouse Point is on the east side, and just across the Connecticut River from Windsor Locks.
Charges against John’s father were once made that he had created a monopoly, and charges were also made against John, that he had used his position and monopoly of wealth in western Massachusetts to accumulate the best lands in the Valley. He paid more in the use of his time, labor, energy, advice, and wealth, than he ever received. The Colony at that time had more land than cash, and land was the only medium in which he could be paid. No one today – or for the last couple of hundred years for that matter – approaches doing what he did for the people in the Valley and the state of Massachusetts with the land, and in light of that, those charges seem ridiculous.
No one was more capable and adept at being a frontier leader than John Pynchon. Settlers knew they were fortunate when John Pynchon was there for he was able and willing to use his capital in getting our new country started, generating new wealth from the land.
The fertility of the Valley soil had drawn many of the original settlers to the Springfield area, but it had been money generated by William Pynchon’s prosperous fur-trading endeavors that stimulated it’s growth and provided the necessary capital to establish other towns north along the Connecticut River.


TOWN BUILDING

People were streaming into the Valley and they needed land. John Pynchon was the man to dispense it. He brought together the would-be land purchasers and the River Indians by means of a series of mutually agreeable land deeds. From the Indians, he bought the greater part of the Connecticut River Valley, from Enfield and Suffield in Connecticut up to the northern line of Massachusetts. From these lands, he was important in establishing and laying out the towns of Hadley, Hatfield, Northfield, and Westfield. In addition,
1653 – Northampton: He advanced the purchase price for the founding of Northampton (Nonotuck), Mass. On January 12, 1659, John bought land at Northampton for settlers from Hartford.

1667 – Brookfield (Quabaug), Mass. John was a Founder. The first entries in the Account Book for the Quaboag Plantation are on July 14, 1668 for “bacon, corn, salt, and white meale”. John owned a mill at this settlement. The contract with the mill operator appears below.

1670 – Suffield. Major Pynchon paid the Indians thirty pounds for a six-mile tract of land known as Stony Brooke Plantation and settlement began. Brief history of Suffield, Connecticut.

1673 – Governor John Leverett and John Pynchon projected a new plantation west of Springfield (perhaps Westfield).

1674 – Enfield, Conn. The Massachusetts General Court granted land stretching as far south as Asnuntuck Brook to the Town of Springfield. John Pynchon built the first European structure in what would soon be Enfield, a saw mill on the Brook. The saw mill was destroyed one year later during King Philip's War. The first settlers arrived in 1679 from Salem, Mass., and spent their first winter camping in a shelter dug into the side of a hill; 25 families by the end of 1680.

Deerfield, in the late 1600s, was still a frontier outpost, but a small number of absentee landowners retained rights there, such as the three Connecticut Valley ministers who held cow commons in Deerfield. John Pynchon retained considerable land and rights in Deerfield through the 1680s, which extended well beyond ownership of land. In 1685 the Massachusetts General Court granted him 1,000 acres "nere to Millers River, above Dearefeild, & nere ye great river," to start a mining venture, "to finde out metall." As the region’s dominant trader, he maintained many ties to Deerfield. In the 1680s, for instance, at least one-fifth of Deerfield's men were involved with Pynchon in trade, rental, or other form of exchange. He gave long-term leases to tenant farmers who in return for low rents were obligated to build dwellings and barns.

On 2 March 2, 1693, John went to Hartford again to promote an expedition to the eastward.


BUSINESS INTERESTS

It would require a volume to treat in full of John Pynchon's business transactions, but a selected account here serves to give an example of the scope of his character and work.
The economic life of a community depends on its commercial connection with the outside world. Producing the resources to bring in much-needed European goods was a persistent problem. Fur and wampum fueled the local economy through the 1650s and no one did it better than John Pynchon.
John traded fur directly with the Indians, and through agents at such locations as Westfield, Northampton, Hadley, and Albany. He sent the furs down the river to his warehouse at East Windsor, called Warehouse Point. From there he shipped south to Hartford, Boston and then to England. Shipments of English finished goods would return to stock his “general store”, the largest in the whole area for many years. His mercantile transactions extended up and down the Connecticut in the early years from Northampton south to New Haven. In 1654, he spent the months of July and August in Boston on commercial business; he must have done that on a number of occasions.
Consistent with the dangers of shipping on the high seas during that era, Pynchon’s shipments were subject to, and suffered, piracy, such as in October 1653 when six hogsheads of furs were seized at sea by a Dutch privateer; and again, on July 25th, 1666, a shipment of beaver pelts were lost when the Dutch took John Plumb’s vessel.
From its peak in 1656, the beaver trade went into decline, but still remained an important source of income for John. In 1659, he joined a number of influential merchants of Salem and Boston to form a company having as one of its objectives an end to the Dutch monopoly. John ceased all fur-trading activities, however, in 1673, just a few years before King Philip's War.
The interplay between resources and peoples which produced Pynchon’s wealth had vanished by the end of the 1660s. Now it was to be wheat and other English grains which would make the Connecticut River Valley the breadbasket of Massachusetts and more. From his own vast farming enterprises, or with cash and barter, John obtained corn, wheat, grains, peas, flax, hay, beef, and pork. He was shipping 1,500 bushels of wheat every year to his coastal clients. It was New England wheat that relieved the Virginia famine of 1674.
The English Civil War of the 1640s temporarily dampened commercial relations with the mother country, and at this time, New England merchants increasingly turned to fishing, and to the West Indian trade where there was no market for furs. Shipments abroad kept up the supplies in his store so very much needed in the frontier settlements.
International Shipping. Between 1652-1689 he built, owned or had interests in at least five vessels, engaged largely in coastal trading all the way from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. In April of 1653, he outfitted a ship for the Barbados sugar trade. In 1659-60, John dispatched a ship on another trading voyage to the West Indies. Peleg Sanford, out of Newport, served as his agent in the Caribbean in 1664.
Sugar. John was involved with his brother-in-law, Samuel Wyllys, and Richard Lord, of Connecticut, in the production of sugar on the Cabbage-Tree Plantation, St. Paul’s Parish, Antigua in the Leeward Islands.
On 17 November, 1677, John sent some pinetree shillings (New England money) to “Cousin Richard Lord” of Hartford to take to Antigua “to improve for promoting the designe of the Plantation and sugar work there”.
In an interesting note, on 15 August 1685, in a controversy between Samuel Wyllys and Richard Lord (the owners; John Pynchon was unnamed in this matter), and John Lucas (the lessee), the arbitrators ruled that John Lucas was to deliver to the Messrs. Wyllys and Lord the four African children (Combo, Mingo, Dick, and Jack) that were then on the Cabbage Tree Plantation. (See The Wyllys Papers, in References).
After all these many years involved in the West Indies, he withdrew from planting in Antigua and from the West Indian trade in general in 1689.
Sawmills, Lumber. In 1667, John erected the first sawmill at Springfield. In time, he owned several sawmills. In 1680 began a new lumber business, and on April 27th, he made a shipment of 8,000 feet of boards to Antigua. By the 1690s, he was shipping profitable quantities of lumber and timber products, all out of Warehouse Point on the river to Boston, New York, other New England ports and to the West Indies.
Corn and Grist mills. He owned and operated many mills around the area, including one at Brookfield. On November 28, 1672, John contracted with John Ayres for the operation of the mill, which arrangement was in place until Ayres’ death.
Agreed with G. Aires, to keep my mill at Quabauge and tend it, to grind corn brought there, for one year, he to take the tole allowed, viz., one half peck out of a bushel, on all the corn that shall be ground by one and all; and for his tending the mill, he is to have one third of the tole, I am to have the rest for my part paid. He is to grind all the corn at the mill except Gdm. Pritchard's corn. Gdm. Pritchard having liberty to grind his own corn only.
Trading Goods. On April 20, 1675, he joined in partnership with Timothy Cooper at Albany, for seven years, supplying trading goods. I assume this was Albany, New York.
On the 5th of October of 1684, John received a renewal of his grant of land on the Connecticut for his warehouse, but he must rebuild it within three years. He completed the building in 1685, which indicates he was still in trade at that time.
Mills. In February of 1688, John erected a dam and built a cornmill and a sawmill at Suffield.
Tar and Resin. Stemming, I’m sure, from his lumber business, he had an interest in a plant for the distillation of turpentine and the manufacture of resin in 1692, and at least during the next two years. He suffered much from lameness at this time.
Sheep and Cattle. John raised sheep and cattle for distant markets, wintering sheep near Newport and driving cattle overland to points such as New London and even Boston.
Iron works. In November of 1700, just a few years before his death, he was working on a project with John Eliot of Windsor to erect an ironworks, which project was approved at a town meeting at Suffield. He was also involved in lead mines.
Finance. And all during these years, Pynchon might also finance local artisans, such as blacksmiths, who could furnish goods useful in the Indian trade and to the Valley in general. Not to mention the financing of prospective land owners.


CIVIL SERVICE

John became a freeman of the Bay colony on April 13, 1648 at the age of 22.
Selectman. Chosen; 1650-1651-1652, but was discharged from this office on November 27, 1652, when he (along with Samuel Chapin, and Elizur Holyoke), by order of the General Court, took their oaths before the selectmen as Springfield Commissioners. In 1659/60, he was again elected and served for about eleven years. And as Town Moderator, to preside at town meetings, with only a few intervals, he continued in this office until 1694.
Town Treasurer. Chosen 1650. Again chosen in February 1659/60, and served for three successive terms. References that he served again as Treasurer (this time as County Treasurer) in 1690 and in 1693.
Town Clerk. Chosen in 1652.
Commissioner. On 27 Nov 1652, John was appointed one of three commissioners to administer justice at Springfield. As such, he was one of the commissioners who received the surrender of New York by the Dutch in 1664.
Recorder. Chosen in November 1652 to record lands, town orders, and "the publike occasions of the Towne." Again chosen in February 1659/60 and served for three successive terms.
Town Committees. Between 1660 and 1685 John was often appointed to committees dealing with everything from town rates, town boundaries, accounts of selectmen, settlement of the county government, county rates, laying out highways, disposing of town lands, establishing mills, lands at Woronoco, poor relief, Indian matters, a new meeting house, defense measures, lands at Freshwater Brook, and land grants to the minister.
Magistrate. Early in 1653, The Pynchon Court Record shows that John took his father’s seat on the bench as magistrate in Springfield, to try small causes. Held court for over 21 years, dealing fairly with both red man and white.


Below is an example of a “small cause”. This involves Samuel Terry, who had been indentured to John’s father, William, in exchange for his passage to Massachusetts. Just prior to his permanent departure to England, William had “bound him out” as an apprentice to learn the art of linen weaving. There appears to have been some relationship of friendship between the elder Pynchon and the Terry family. This was one in a long list of case entries for a court session held on September 24, 1661. Present were Captain John Pynchon, Mr. Samuel Chapin, and Elisur Holyoke, Recorder. There were twelve jurymen.
Samuel Terry and his wife [Ann Lobdell] beinge presented for that they beinge marryed on the 3d of January last they has a Son born the 10th of the 5th month beinge about 12 weeks short of the ordinary tyme of womens going with child: This Corte concluded it maifest that they did abuse one another before marriage: and therefore did adjudge Samuell Terry for his offence and misdemeanor eyther to pay as a fyne to the County the summe of 4 pounds to be paid with 20 dayes or that he and his wife should be whipt on their naked bodys with 10 lashes appice: Samuell Terry chusing the punishment by fyne: his choyce was accepted.


And in another case held on 30 September 1676, Philip Butler was brought before John Pynchon on charges for being drunk. Samuel Terry and Isack Morgan both testified that around midnight while they were on watch, “Philip Butler came to them, and gave them ill and high language: his Toung run excedingly and he spake we knew not what and coming in to the house would not goe out nor be ordered but he said he has as much to doe there as wee thought it were the house we were to watch in: we Judged him Drunk or at lease well in drink” Philip Butler was to pay 10s to the County: and “12d a peice” to the two witneses.

See full text of the contract on Debbie Jeffers’ Terry Family Rootsweb site.



Hampshire County Court:
In March of 1663, the new Hampshire County Court heard its first case, with John Pynchon presiding. Soon afterward, he was chosen to be Assistant in the Council (or Upper House) for Massachusetts, a position he held until 1701.
– Head of the Court of Inferior Pleas and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of Hampshire established under the Second Charter.
– Justice of the Peace, 1692.
– Judge of Probate for Hampshire County, June 1692 and continued until his death.
Massachusetts General Court:
– Deputy. Appointed in May 1659 to serve as deputy to the General Court; served as such until 1665.
– Assistant under the first Massachusetts Royal Charter, May 1665 until May of 1686.
Governor's Councillor:
1686 – Appointed Councillor to Governor Dudley’s Council, May 1686.
1688-89 – Appointed Councillor to the Andros Council, where he sat until the overthrow of the Dominion of New England (see below). On 21 July John and Wait Winthrop were “persuaded” to visit Hartford to encourage Connecticut to ally itself with Massachusetts under Andros.
1693 – Appointed Councillor. Under the new Massachusetts Charter in 1691, his name had been omitted from the list of councillors; this error was rectified in 1693 and he was appointed annually from then through 1703, when he died in office.
1693-1703 – annually elected under the new charter, and died in office.

He was named to only a few court committees, except those relating to protection and settlement of the frontiers of the colony. For instance, this court’s records, and those of the later Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in a number of instances show him charged with the duty of providing for or maintaining the house of correction at Springfield.
John's last Indian case was in 1696. The Court of Oyer and Terminer* at Northampton, presided over by Mr. Pynchon, convicted four New York Indians for the murder of settlers.


* The “Court of Oyer and Terminer” was a court that could quickly begin to hear (“Oyer”) and determine (“Terminer”) the backload of cases pending, since the regular courts, by law, could not sit until after the election of the Massachusetts General Court.



In the course of his many years of public service, he continually had to deal with the government's reluctance to reimburse him for expenses he had paid with his own resources. For example, in 1696, he petitioned the government for payment of various expenses he had made for the colony which were 4-1/2 years in arrears.
John Pynchon was accepted in the top rank of the government. He conducted many diplomatic exchanges with officials of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. He could defer to higher authority because he respected, rather than resented, those over him. He strove to carry out orders precisely and promptly; was sure of himself, but cautious. He never sought offices, yet often burdensome responsibilities were thrust upon him.


THE DOMINION OF NEW ENGLAND 1686-1689

The Dominion of New England (1686-90) was a short-lived administrative union of five New England colonies. Two years later, the Province of New York and both East Jersey and West Jersey were added. The union was decreed in 1686 by King James II as a measure to enforce the Navigation Acts and to coordinate the mutual defense of colonies against the continuing threat of the French and hostile Native Americans.
Unifying the northern colonies for purposes of defense and administrative control was regarded in Britain to be a thoughtful move and not a punitive measure. We thought differently on this side.
Joseph Dudley served briefly as the first president of the Dominion, but was replaced by Sir Edmund Andros. Although Andros was an experienced soldier and dedicated to public service, he lacked the common sense and personal skills to be successful in this position. He followed orders assiduously. He terminated local assemblies, taxed the colonists without the consent of their representatives, and vigorously tried to end smuggling through strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts. This centralized authority from England was highly unpopular. Besides which, he supported the Church of England and accepted the loose behaviors of the English soldiers garrisoned at Boston, which greatly angered many loyalists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Read here Wikipedia’s article on The Dominion of New England.

The Dominion caused fury in other colonies as well. For instance, in 1687, Andros was so angered by Connecticut's failure to cooperate with the new regime that he and armed retainers tried to take physical possession of the colony’s charter. According to legend, the Connecticut colonists hid the document within a crevice of an old oak tree.* Following the overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution in 1688, the Dominion ceased to exist.



* That old oak tree was called "The Charter Oak" and was on the Gov. Wyllys property.
An online book entitled Wadsworth, or The Charter Oak contains an exciting and entertainly presented account of Connecticut’s opposition to Govenor Andros and the struggle over the Connecticut Charter, and how important that piece of paper was to the citizenry of Connecticut.
The book was written in 1904 by W. H. Gocher, primarily as a family history of the Wadsworth family. Capt. Joseph Wadsworth "secured the Charter of the Colony in a very troublesome season." John Pynchon appears in the account, as well as Amy Pynchon’s brother, Samuel Wyllys, if for no other reason than the Charter Oak was on his property.
The historical original has for many years reposed in "the charter box" in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society; the complete charter, the historical duplicate, is exhibited in the Connecticut State Library at the Capitol.



MILITARY SERVICE

John Pynchon’s first assignment under the First Charter was as Lieutenant of the training band, to which post the General Court of Massachusetts confirmed John Pynchon in 1653. In 1657, he was promoted to Captain of the company.
In the autumn of 1663, he was in touch with the Dutch at Fort Orange about Indian relations. A life of military service, at this place and time in history, more often than not involved dealing in matters concerning Indians, as we will see.
John Pynchon was rarely called upon to act in a military capacity prior to King Philip's War. In August 1664, the General Court sent the Capts. John Pynchon and Thomas Clarke to inform the English commissioners that military assistance by the Bay Colony would be furnished "in reducing the Dutch at the Monhatoes into the obedience of his Majestie". As deputies, both men were signatories to the articles of capitulation consented to later in the month at New Amsterdam.
During the Summer of 1666, the Mohawks destroyed the fort of the Pocumtucks near Deerfield.
In 1669, Chickataubut’s attack on the Mohawks, strongly disapproved of by the Massachusetts authorities, resulted in a total defeat of the Massachusetts tribes and the Indian leader’s death.
In 1671, John was promoted to Sergeant Major of the cavalry company. Before long, he became commander of all the military forces in western Massachusetts. As the principal military officer on the ground, he directed the defense of the new communities against incursions by enemy Indians and the French. This involved, as Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Hampshire County, active service during King Philip’s War (1675) and the first of the French & Indian wars. He was noted for his skill in the management of the Indians, by whom he was greatly beloved.


KING PHILIP'S WAR 1675

John Pynchon did not play a conspicuous role on the field. For the most part, he was useful in procuring aid and assistance from the Bay and the Connecticut authorities and in coordinating the activities of the local, the Bay, and the Connecticut forces.
On August 4, 1675, he confirmed Indian intelligence of the attack on Brookfield by the Nipmucks. Immediately, he sent to Hartford for aid in securing Springfield, aiding Brookfield, and giving "present chase" to the Indians. He wrote, "We are very raw and our People of this Towne extreamely scattered so that our owne Place needs all and how soone these Indians may be upon this Towne we know not."
Same date, he told his friend, John Winthrop, Jr., that Philip and a small band of followers were at Ashquoash, about 23 miles from Springfield. They had escaped from the Pocasset swamp on the night of July 29. He urged swift action to destroy Philip, but the Connecticut authorities were skeptical of the intelligence.
A party of English was ambushed on August 25 below Deerfield while pursuing some River Indians who formerly occupied a fort on the west bank between Northampton and Hadley. This was the first combat along the River. The militia disarmed this group. They proceeded to avow great loyalty to the English and promised that they would fight against Philip. And so they were re-armed in hopes they might help out with other hostile groups.
Shortly it became plain they were not trustworthy, and the council at Hadley demanded their arms on August 24 but met a show of defiance. The Connecticut Council attempted to disuade John from disarming the Indians, "least it might prove to be provoakeing or discourageing to our Indian Neighboures." Pynchon was "of a differing mind", which offended some, and he wrote: "When I Recollect things: I cant but conclude that this was a Contrived busyness of the Indians."
The Indians had the whites “marching and countermarching” all over the place, in response to their tactics, e.g., an attack upon Deerfield, the ambushing of forces marching to the relief of Northfield. Pynchon wrote despondently: "When we go out after the Indians they doe so sculk in swamps we cannot find them and yet do waylay our people to there destruction."
On September 8, a council of war decided to give up operations in the field and only garrison the towns. Connecticut disagreed and urged a more aggressive campaign, but a few days after, bolder counsels prevailed at Hadley and Major [Robert] Treat was sent up the River with a large force of Connecticut troops.
On September 21, the Commissioners for the United Colonies at Boston had decided to raise 1,000 men, John Pynchon being appointed commander-in-chief; Major Treat, second in command.
Responding to skirmishes in the neighborhood, John Pynchon went with his troops up to Hadley, and was there when the Indian attack and burning of Springfield occurred on October 5, 1675. Within days, he wrote the following letters of despair.



Sp[ringfield]., Octo., 1675

Dear Son Joseph:
The sore contending of God with us, for our sins, unthankfulness for our former mercies, and unfaithfulness under our precious enjoyments, hath evidently demonstrated that He is very angry with this Country. Fod having given the heathen a large commission to destroy this People — And exceeding havock have they made in this Country, destroying two or three small places above Northampton and Hadley, and lately they have fallen upon Springfield, and almost ruined it by burning of Houses. About 30 or 32 dwelling Houses are burnt down, and some 25 Barns full of corn and hay. The Lord hath spared my dwelling house, but my barns and outhousing are all burnt down, and all my corn and hay consumed, and not anything have I left of food either for man or beast. All my mills, both corn and saw mills, are burnt down. Those at home in this Towne and also those I had in other places and four of those houses and barns to them, were burnt down in this Towne, belongeth to me also, so that God hath laid me low. My farmers also undone, and many in Towne that were in my debt, entirely disabled. So that I am really reduced to greate straites. But it is the Lord's good pleasure it should be so. And he is most Just and Righteous, yea in very faithfulness hath he done it, for the good of my Soule. I have not the least cause to murmur and repine, at the wise dispose of a Gracious God and loving fathe, but desire to acquiesce in his good pleasure, and to lye at his foote in holy submission to his blessed will. This Providence and the unsettled state of this country in reference to this Indian War affords matter for consideration, in reference to your coming over, which I have much desired, and wrote to you for — but now shall leave you to your liberty, not having ground, or seeing cause to put you upon it, further than you shall yourself see reason for it. Though I and your mother should be exceeding glad to see you, yet as tymes are, question whether it be best to come over yet (I mean now) and how God may dispose of us I know not. We are yet here in Springfield, my house garrisoned with soldiers and full of troubles and hurrys. The Lord help us to remember our peace and quietness, and to lament our abuse thereof and heartily and really turne to himself, by unfeigned repentance. The Lord is in good earnest with us, and truly expects our being in good earnest with Him in returning to himselfe. Oh dear Son, how sweete is an interest in Christ Jesus, in these distracting tymes, and it is good knowing in whom we have believed. Treasure in Heaven is abiding, when the greatest worldly enjoyments may soon fail us, and come to nothing. Let us therefore, while we have them, so use them, as not using them — setting loose from them them, and being contented to part with all, when God calls for it. In the improving of the creature, to set loose from it, is a sweete and blessed frame, for I know it is a duty to look after and manage what God hath given us, and in that respect I may call on you to doe your best (in a way of prudence) to settle your Estate in England and in it to advise with Mr. Wichens and Bro. Smith, who I know will afford the best helpe they can, and doe as you are able. I am not able to afford you any helpe, but by the prayers I am always putting up for you, and as God shall enable shall be ready to do my utmost for you.
The Lord in many other ways be good to you and us. How he may deal with us I know not. Where his Providence may cast me, whither to Boston or further, or whether I may live to get out of this place, it is with himself and on that strong Rock I desire to depend for Salvation, here and hereafter. I am in straites and hurrys, and may only add mine and your mothers endeared Love and Affection, to you, and with hearty wishes and prayers for you, commend you to the grace of God in Christ Jesus, and am your afflicted and loving Father,
John Pynchon.
P.S.
Dear Son: I should not have you troubled at these sad losses which I have met with. There is no reason for a child to be troubled when his Father calls in that which he lent him. It was the Lord that sent it to me, and he that gave it hath taken it away; and blessed be the name of the Lord. He hath done very well for me, and I acknowledge his goodness to me, and desire to trust in him and submit to him forever, and do you with me, acknowledge and justify Him."



To Rev. John Russell of Hadley:


We came to a lamentable and woeful sight. The town in flames, not a house nor barn standing, except old Goodman Branch's, till we came to my house and then Mr. Glover's, John Hitchcock's, and Goodman Stewart's burnt, some with barns, corn, and all they had....They tell me 32 houses and the barns belonging to them are burnt, and all the livelihood of the owners, and what more may meet with the same stroke the Lord only knows."



On October 8, 1675, John Pynchon wrote to Governor Leverett:

Sir I am not capable of holding any Command being more and more unfit and almost confounded in my understanding, the Lord direct your Pitch on a meeter person than ever I was: According to Liberty from the Councill I shall devolve all upon Captain Appleton unless Major Treat return againe.
Maj. John received the news that he had been relieved by Captain Samuel Appleton on October 12, "the Councill having seriously considered the earnest desires of Major Pincheon and the great affliction upon him and his family."
Almost all of Springfield was burned out, many losing all they had. Few in New England, however, lost more heavily in buildings, rents, and goods during King Philip’s War than John Pynchon, and recovery would take a long time. In 1676, he gave up command of the forces of western Massachusetts, principally for family and personal reasons.


JOHN'S WORK WITH THE INDIANS

Pynchon's military duties, however, did not end with King Philip's War. Like Washington in the next century who often tried to quit but he was too valuable, John was called upon, mostly, it seems, in a diplomatic function. The Mohawks referred to Massachusetts as “Pinshon”. On April 28, 1677, John and James Richards of Hartford made a "long, troublesome and hazardous" journey to Albany on behalf of Connecticut and Massachusetts to renew ancient friendships with the Mohawks and to settle and conclude a "league of Freindship and amity between the English of New England" and the Mohawks. The Mohawks sought protection for the "friendly Indians" and destruction of "enemy" Indians allied with the French, referred to as the "North Indians". By the end of the year, John was back in command of the Militia.
The Mohawk Indians came from New York causing trouble and damage to Massachusetts settlements. In August of 1680, John was sent again to Albany, New York, to confer with the governor, Sir Edmund Andros. For four months, until November, he treated with the Mohawks regarding the depredations they were inflicting upon some of our outer settlements. He was able to establish friendly relations with them. In negotiating a renewal of the covenant, or treaty, the Indians gave him a written answer, which was originally drawn in Dutch, but was translated into English, and recorded in the colony records. The General Court paid him £12 for his work on this.
In 1686, Gov. Edmund Andros made John a Colonel.
On July 27, 1688, a small party of Canadian Indians killed five friendly natives at Spectacle Pond near Springfield. John took prompt measures to improve defense against such attacks, but on the 6th of August the same war party killed six settlers at Northfield. John sent soldiers there at once.
In August and September of 1689, John made another trip to New York with some Connecticut agents. They went to give presents to the Mohawks, to inspire them and their allies to make war upon the French. “Albany is a dear place,” he reported to Boston. From 1689 to 1696, he was preoccupied with frontier defense, especially in dealings with Connecticut and the Mohawks.
In 1690, John sent out scouting parties and provided for all sorts of defensive measures against the French and Canadian Indians.
On May 1st of 1691, a congress of colonies met in New York to coordinate military action against the French. Later that year, in November, 150 Indians from New York settled close to Deerfield for winter hunting, claiming to be friendly. Over the years, he would send reinforcements to Deerfield when that town was experiencing significant and repeated Indian attacks. In his own words, John stated that Deerfielders were “in a sense in the enemy’s Mouth almost, and are often and so continually pecked at.” And as is well known, Deerfield suffered its most tragic attack in 1704. There is a page on this website devoted to the Deerfield Massacre of 1704.
On 12 May, 1692, John travelled to Hartford to ask the Connecticut authorities to supply money, as well as to send men, to fight the French and Indians. Sure enough, it wasn't long (July 20th) before the French Indians attacked Brookfield, and for ten days they were pursued by John’s militiamen. On the 27th of July, two hostile Indians escaped from the prison at Springfield.
A couple of years later, in September of 1694, John and others went to Albany to meet yet again with the Mohawks. And in December, he further strengthened the frontier defenses.
Becoming an old man of 69, in 1695, John's activity in military and Indian affairs came to an end.
On December 12, 1695, John Pynchon was called out of bed by news of a war party near Northfield [Mass.]. He quickly despatched Capt. Colton and 24 troopers up the east bank of the Connecticut River.
At about this time, John ceased working in defense of the western frontier. In November of 1696 he outlined his services at length in a petition to the Governor and the General Court for “a meete Compensation for his Past and already chearful service hithertoe in this time of War.” About a year later he was awarded £10 for his “extraordinary service and expenses with the regiment under his command, lying frontier to the enemy.”
In July of 1698, two settlers were killed by Indians at Hatfield and two others taken captive. John Pynchon wrote a letter to Gov. Bellomont of New York and laid the blame on their “counterfeit friends,” the Scagadacooks, accusing them of having a hand in all the Indian outrages in the Valley since 1688. The governor, however, took no effective action to curb these Indians.
But wait!! We see Mr. Pynchon again involved in military affairs. In December of 1702, a list of the militia and civil officers of the province shows John Pynchon was Colonel of the 1st Hampshire regiment, and had mustered over 800 soldiers. Here's what happened. In June that year (just seven months before his death), some French were ranging the Hampshire woods and hunting with the Indians. John and Samuel Partrigg wrote a report, and as a result, the Connecticut Council ordered that all civil and military make strict search and cause the strangers to be apprehended and sent down to Boston to give account of themselves to the governor. In July the Council advised that the Governor write Pynchon to send his Lieutenant Colonel to Deerfield to view and have the fortifications repaired, covering the work with a scout out of other towns, and to perform the same task at Brookfield.


BOUNDARY WORK

The Colonial authorities had great confidence in John Pynchon’s ability and all during his long service in the General Court, there was scarcely an important question concerning boundaries, or where tact and diplomacy were needed, that he wasn't given the task of bringing about a peaceful resolution.
For instance, in 1671, John negotiated with Connecticut over its boundary with Massachusetts. In what must have amounted to much labor, he prevented encroachments by the expansionists of Connecticut onto Massachusetts land. In 1680, he was appointed with Joseph Dudley to establish the boundary line between the two states. He was one of the committee to make the final settlement of the boundary line between Springfield and Northampton in 1685.


THE END OF AN ERA

Amy Wyllys Pynchon died on January 9, 1699, at age 74.


"The Honourable Colonel John Pynchon, esquire, was sick and died in the seventy-seventh year of his age." He died in Springfield, “about sun-rise” on January 17, 1702/3. He had outlived most of his contemporaries, being characterized by one diarist as “an old man and full of days”. His only surviving child was John Pynchon Jr., who had become a merchant in Boston and later removed to Springfield.
His lengthy funeral sermon was delivered by a well-known Northampton minister named Solomon Stoddard. One passage provides a fitting eulogy:
Observe, That God has removed one that has been along while Serviceable. That has been improved about Publick Service for above Fifty Years: he has been Serviceable unto the Country in General, and in special among our selves. He hath had the principal management of our Military Affairs, and our Civil Affairs; and laboured much in the setling of most of our Plantations, has managed things with Industry, Providence and Moderation. He has been careful in time of War and as there has been occasion, has been a Peace Maker among us, and helpfull in composing differences: he has discountenanced Rude and Vicious Persons, bearing his Testimony against Them.
"It is to be feared that we shall feel the sorrowful effects of his removal a long while . . . He was honourable and had great influence upon men in Authority abroad, and upon the People at home, and had more experience by far, than any other among us.
He was a father to the country.


The final settlement of Pynchon’s estate was not made until 1737 when it was valued at £8,446.16.6 of which only £165/18/2 consisted of personalty.


CHILDREN of JOHN & AMY WYLLYS PYNCHON All born at Springfield, Massachusetts

Joseph Pynchon, born 26 July 1646. Joseph, boarded at Cambridge with Goodman Beale while preparing for entrance to Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1664. He became a doctor, practicing in Boston, Massachusetts, and died, unmarried, on 30 Dec 1682.

John Pynchon, born 15 Oct 1647. John's father estalished him as a merchant at Boston in the autumn of 1669. He mar. Margaret Hubbard and became a Colonel. He died 25 April 1721. His grandson, William, (1723-1789) wrote a diary of remarkable interest, covering the entire period of the American Revolution.

MARY PYNCHON, was born on 2 or 28 Oct 1650. She was probably some time later stricken with poliomyelitis. She married Joseph Whiting of Westfield, Mass.

William Pynchon born 11 Oct 1653. He died 15 Jun 1654 at 8 months of age.

Mehitable Pynchon, born 22 Nov 1661. He died 24 July 1663 at 1 year 8 months of age.






MARY PYNCHON
Generation 6

MARY PYNCHON, was born on 2 or 28 Oct 1650. She was probably some time later stricken with poliomyelitis. She married JOSEPH WHITING of Westfield, Mass., the son of William and Susannah Whiting.

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RESOURCES

Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts (1639-1702): The Pynchon Court Record. Ed. Joseph H. Smith. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1961.

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. Jill Lepore. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, pp. 78-80 passim.

Record of the Pynchon Family. Pgs. 6-7. Settlement of estate of John Pynchon.

The Pynchon Papers. Vol. I: Letters of John Pynchon, 1654-1700. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. (Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1982). Publications, Vol. 60.

The Pynchon Papers, Vol. II: Selections from the Account Books of John Pynchon, 1651-1697. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh.

Pynchon, John. Account Books of 1651-1705. 6 vols. Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, Mass. Vol. II, p. 215.

Pynchon, John. Hampshire County Court Records (Wastebook). Apr. 1663 - Jan. 1672. Connecticut Valley Historical Society Library, Springfield, Mass.

Pynchon, John. Magistrate Book, 1639 - 1702. Connecticut Valley Historical Society, Springfield, Mass.

William Pynchon Papers, 1640-1647. Massachusetts Historical Society: Manuscripts Call number(s): Ms. N-760.
One narrow box of papers related to Pynchon's defense against charges by the Connecticut General Court related to his trading of corn with the Mohawk Indians of the Connecticut River Valley (now Mass.). The charges maintained that Pynchon raised the price of corn for his own economic gain. Included here is Pynchon's defense to the Church of Windsor, Conn. from which he sought public support after being fined by the General Court. The Church was unconvinced by Pynchon's attempted defense.

The Pynchons of Springfield. Founders and Colonizers (1636-1702). Frances Armytage and Juliette Tomlinson. 1969. Pg. 15.

William Pynchon. Merchant and Colonizer 1590-1662. Ruth A. McIntyre. 1961. Pgs. 10-11, 21.

William Pynchon, the Founder of Springfield. Samuel Eliot Morrison. 1931.

Cabbage Tree Plantation – See The Wyllys Papers, Vol. VIII, Item 595.

Connecticut Valley History Museum. Springfield, Massachusetts.

Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield. Stephen Innes (Princeton University Press, 1983).

Letter to Sir H. Vane, from Gov. Endicott and his council of Assistants. 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 35.

Hampshire County Probate Court Records. Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. Settlement of John Pynchon's estate.

History of Western Massachusetts. Pg. 88.

Records of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628-86. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. Boston, 1853-54. Vol. III. Pp. 82, 105, 215, 230.

The New England Quarterly, 60/2 (June 1987) 296-299.

A New England Town, The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736. Kenneth Lockridge. (New York, 1970). Pg. 76.

Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century. Michael Zuckerman. (New York, 1970). Pg. 219.

The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places. Drake. 1878. Pg. 12.

The First Century of the History of Springfield. Vol. 1, ps. 80. Henry M. Burt. Springfield, Mass., 1898.

Springfield 1636-1886. Mason A. Green. (C. A. Nichols & Co., 1888).

Springfield 1636-1986. Ed. Michael F. Konig and Martin Kaufman. Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1987.

Bremer, Francis. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Winthrop Fleet of 1630. Banks. 1630. Pp. 53-54.

The Wyllys papers; correspondence and documents chiefly of descendants of Gov. George Wyllys of Connecticut, 1590-1796 George Wyllys (Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society, 1924). In regards to litigation concerning the Cabbage-Tree Plantation, see principally, pp. 281-87, 295-96, 313-16, and 383-85.


WEBSITES OF INTEREST

The Cambridge Agreement – presented online at The Winthrop Society website.

Hampden County, Mass. – a USGenNet Website
Soldiers in King Philip’s War
Soldiers In King Philip's War From 1620-1677. George Madison Bodge. 1906. This online book draws from the ancient account books of Mr. John Hull, Treasurer-at-war of Massachusetts Colony, from 1675-1678. Webmistress Debbie Jeffers. A USGenNet website.

History of Springfield. Vol. II.

PYNCHON SITES
Good Site for Pynchon Family

William Pynchon Genealogy.
On the website by of "New England Ancestors of Forrest King" (Oct. 24, 2003). Click "edit" and then "find on this page", search for "pynchon".

The Terry Family website
Terry’s apprenticeship bond and much more interesting stuff. The webmistress is descended also from William and John Pynchon.

University of Massachusetts website: The Connecticut River, and William Pynchon.

Memorial Hall Museum Online: The Digital Collection. Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Home Page.
The Pynchons and the People of Early Springfield.
Lesson 4. By Stephen Innes.

Massachusetts: American Local History Network, hosted by USGenNet. Kathy Leigh, Webmistress.
Home Page
The Bay Path and Along the Way, Chapter 3 of the online book by Levi B. Chase (Norwood, Mass.: The Plimpton Press, 1919).
A charming, romanticized story about the Bay Path, which features John Pynchon and his sister, Mary.














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John married Wyllys, Amy on 30 Oct 1645 in Boston, Massachusetts. Amy (daughter of Wyllys, George and Young, Bridget) was born about 1624 in of Fenny Compton, England; died on 9 Jan 1698 in Springfield, Hampden, Massaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]