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- !Birthdate and Baptismal date from Barbour's "New Milford V.R. p.14 - 15." He was baptized by Rev. Stanley Griswold.
DOCUMENTATION
!BIRTH: Barbour - "Vital Records of New Milford, Litchfield, Conn.", Vol.II. page 14/15
!BAPTISM: Source - same as for birth. He was baptized by Rev. Stanley
Griswold.
!MARRIAGE: Source - same as birth.
!DEATH: Source - Orcutt, Samuel. "History of the town of New Milford and
Bridgewater, Conn., page 580/581.
PROFESSION: Lawyer
William was a graduate at Yale, 1812. He studied law in Litchfield and
Cambridge, Mass. He settled in his profession at New Haven Conn.,
He was judge of probate, member and speaker of the House of
Representatives, and of the Senate of the state, and member of Congress.
!Source - Genealogies of Conn. Families, (NEHGR) Vol. II, page 534.
He was living in New Haven in 1859.
At his death he left a widow but no surviving children.
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