John Brundage (abt. 1634 - 1697)

Born about 1634 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Unknown) Brundage — married 1660 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1697 at about age 63 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Thomas William Brundage includes the following about John Brundage in his Brundage Genealogy:

"John was one of the original founders of Rye, and served as the clerk of the town for over 30 years. He was a representative to the General Court at Hartford, was selected to lay out new land areas, and was a church warden. He was referred to as "Stout Old John" Brundage. He died intestate at Rye; his estate was inventoried at 73 Pound Sterling for chattels and 220 Pound Sterling in land and housing. His four sons filed articles of agreement on the distribution of the estate, including provision for their mother."

Thomas William Brundage adds,^[1] John was b. 1633-5, Salem or Watertown? d. ante 10/2/1697, Rye, NY; m. 1660 to Hannah (Hunt?), b. 2/12/1640/41, Concord MA, d/o William and Elizabeth (Best) Hunt.

Perry Streeter also refers to Hannah__________. He says John Brundage, jr.; born, probably in Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts about 1633-5; died Rye, New York before 10/2/1697; married HANNAH____________;...^[2]

He was married to *Hannah Hunt about 1660. From "The Washington Ancestry", Vol. 3, by Charles Arthur Hoppin, 1932, page 544: ^[3]

"Sometime after the death of his mother about 1643, and when he had become old enough to be apprenticed, to sell his labor, or to run away and maintain himself independently, he left his stepfather, Anthony Wilson of Fairfield, and entered into some engagement with one of the several families that had settled in the westeern part of Stamford that became in 1665 the town of Greenwich in the colony of Connecticut. When John Brundish arrived there the place was in the colony of New Haven. Probably he was there by 1650, alone of his family. On June 29, 1660, Peter Disbrow and two others at Greenwich purchased of Indians the island of Manussing in Long Island Sound, and in July or August, 1661, they with John Brundish and eleven other Englishmen removed to it. Manussing Island was then not under the jurisdiction of any colony or province, but the colony of Connecticut soon claimed it; later the province of New York included it in a new township of Rye, also originally claimed by Connecticut but later yielded up as the easternmost town in the county of Westchester, province of New York.^[3]

So John Brundish was one of the fifteen founders of the town of Rye, and one of its first settlers. These few men, in boldly and privately effecting the purchase of the island and in removing there, were viewed with suspicion by the chief officials of the colony of New Haven.... These men took up a most unusual position, as is indicated in a document now quite famous, locally, which they prepared and proclaimed.... The inference is easy to draw from the declaration of the nine signers of the locally famous instrument that they were averse to permitting themselves and their island to fall under the jurisdiction of the colony of New Haven or of the province of New York. They gave the name of Hastings to their settlement, afterward changing to the name of Rye, it covering a section of the adjacent mainland as well as the island.... ^[3]

'Hasting, July 26, 1662. Know all men whom this may Concarn that we the inhabitants of minnussing Iland whos names are here under writtne do Declare unto all the trueth that we Cam not hether to live without government as pretended and therfore doe proclayme Charles the Second our lawful lord and King; and doe vollentaryly submitt our selves and all our lands that we have bought of the english and yndians; under his gratious protection: and do expect According to his gratious declaration: unto all his subjects which we are and desierre to be subject to all his holsom lawes that are Just and Rightious According to God and our Capablenes to Receive; where unto we do supskribe. ^[3]

The mark of Samuell Alling the mark of Robert Hutsone John Brondish The mark of Frederick Harminsone The mark of Thomas Aplebe Peter Disbrow John Coe The marke of Thomas Stedwell The mark of William Odelle ^[3]

Here is the evidence of the beginning of a town, so definite that it can go down in history free from the vagueness and doubts in which such events are sometimes obscured....
On March 26, 1663, John Brundish signed his name 'John Brondig,' with nine others, to a formal address to their 'Much Honnored Sires', the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, setting forth that the signers have established the town of Hastings upon land which 'wee have bought with our money: the which: wee understand doth lye within your patent,' and acknowledging the jurisdiction of the colonial court, appointing their deputy to attend its sessions, and requesting the court to give their newly chosen constable at Hastings the power to grant warrants in case of need. A month after this address, the four original purchasers of Manussing Island and Hastings from the Indians, conveyed by deed of April 28, 1663, the island and some land on the main to John Brondig and six others, at the price of forty shillings a lot payable in cattle or corn. There were one hundred acres of good land on the island. A section of Hastings became known as Rye, both names being given for the two adjoining towns of Hastings and Rye in the county of Sussex, England. On May 11, 1665, the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut decreed that the entire area of the town of Hastings be called Rye, and on May 10, 1677, John Brundish was elected by the inhabitants of Rye as their representative for that year to the colonial legislature at Hartford. He served another term, beginning on May 12, 1681. [Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, II,300; III,75.] He also served as selectman (townsman) of Rye, having the administration of town affairs in general. He was the first formally chosen clerk of the town of Rye. The town records are in his handwriting. He served for nearly all of the more than thirty years of his life at Rye. He was succeeded in that office at his death in 1697 by Samuel Lane. He became one of the company called 'The Eighteen Proprietors of Penningo Neck,' that purchased Peningoe Neck, on the mainland in Rye. These owners were more commonly called 'The Eighteen Men.' They ruled the town. John Brundish was empowered by the town on November 23, 1686, to procure for the town a patent from the colony of Connecticut.... John Brundish was selectman of Rye at the outbreak of King Philip's War in July 1675.... On May 21, 1696, John Brundage 'made application for himself and Richard Griffen to purchase one hundred acres of vacant land on Byram River near fourteen miles from the Sound, for which they desire a patent.' [Indian Deeds, Warrants for Survey. Albany, NY., Liber I] This land, in what is now the town of North Castle, Westchester County, New York, was close to or adjoining, or perhaps was in part the land purchased in 1701 by his son-in-law, Richard Schofield, of Stamford, as we have seen. The death of John Brundish at Rye in 1697 prevented his development of that patent of land. At his death, the dispute over the boundary line between the province of New York and the colony of Connecticut was unsettled. The king of England finally settled the question in October, 1700, by giving Rye to the province of New York, thus deciding against the claims of the colony of Connecticut which had held more or less of Rye since it was founded in 1661. The settlement of the estate of John Brundish was effected in the probate court of Fairfield County, Connecticut (abstract): [Fairfield Probate Records, IV-141]:

October the second day 1697, the Inventary of John Brundage decased. The whole Inheritance of houseing & land & movbls, 288 ll 6d Samuel Knifen Hackeliah Browne John Lyon.

Hannah Brundage ye Relict of John Brundage decesed made oath to ye truth of the above Inventory. The names of the Children: John Brundag, Daniell Brundage, Joshua Brundage, Ruth Schofield, Mary Brundage, Hannah Brundage.

John Brundage of Rye deceased he dieing Intestate An Inventory of his Estate being Exhibitedto ye County Court in Fairfield this 2d of November, 1697.... Ye widow to have her dowry in houseing and Land.... as much of the moveables as the Eldest son's portion Coms to... Richard Schofeild his wife hath receaved ten pounds which is to be Rekoned to him as portion, and the Court deem him to have had no more." Children were: Thomas? Brundage , John Brundage, Ruth Brundage, *Daniel Brundige, Joseph Brundage, Joshua Brundage, Mary Brundage, Hannah Brundage.^[3]

The following is copied from: "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", volume 49, by Peter Henry Greene, et al., (pages 290-294).^[4]

John Brondage was deceased Oct. 2, 1697, when an account of the settlement of his estate was given. He left a widow Hannah; sons John, Joseph, Daniel and Joshua "Brondag;" daughters Ruth Scofield, Mary Brondag and Hannah Brondag. (Fairfield Probate Records, Liber i, p. 14.) When the estate of John Brondage was settled by mutual agreement of the heirs, it was decided that Daniel Brondage should have the White Plains land as his share. {Rye Land Records, Liber B, p. 86.) In addition to this inheritance from his father, Daniel Brondage bought up the rights of several of the patentees, and their homelots, which had been laid out to them on "the highway," as it was then called. He applied, in June, 1721, with Samuel Hunt (see preceding Humphrey Underhill notes), for a survey of the White Plains land, that they might "ascertain the land belonging to them." In November the other inhabitants of White Plains, headed by David Ogden and Caleb Hyatt, protested against the granting of this survey until they should be heard from. In December, Samuel Hunt and Daniel Brondage sent in another petition for a survey, claiming 380 acres for Samuel Hunt, and 300 acres for Daniel Brondage. A map of White Plains was filed Feb. 24, 1722. This has been published in the several histories of the county, and the lines given upon it for the Brondage patent are the lines used on the map accompanying this description. Daniel Brondage finally received a patent for 195 acres, and Samuel Hunt for 294. (New York Calendar of Land Papers, p. 154, etc.) It appears that Daniel Brondage did not receive a patent for his land on White Plains St. (land which he had purchased) but only for the land above the Long Meadow brook. The other land, below the brook, and running to the highway, was however always described as lying "within Daniel Brondage's patent;" the earliest account of its transfer to be found, is in 1730, when Jonathan Hiatt sold to Caleb Hiatt land still described as lying "within the Brondage Patent." (Westchester Co. Land Records, Liber G, p. 174.) (p 293).
As before stated, Samuel Hunt had a corn mill at the lower end of the Patent. In 1726, Benjamin, son of Daniel Brondage, entered into an agreement with John Walton to build "a grist mill by the brook that runs out of Long Meadow, and so near said Brondage's house," but "said Brondage has desired to throw up his part and hath received 30 shillings, that sd. Walton may have forever a privilege to build, erect, maintain," etc., "a mill on any part of land belonging to, or contained in, sd. Brondage's fathers, viz., Mr. Daniel Brondage's Patent of land in White Plains," etc. (Westchester Co. Land Records, Liber F, p. 243.) Evidently John Walton built the mill, for in 1729, John Walton of Norwich, Conn., sold to Daniel Brondage of White Plains, "The corn mill, standing near the upper end of White Plains Patent, and near Benjamin Brondage's dwelling house, and all lands with it." (Westchester Co. Land Records, Liber F, p. 315.) In 1730 Daniel Brondage sold the mill to Eleazer Yeomans (p. J//)-. The acreage is not given, but the land belonging to the mill extended all around the mill pond, which mill pond John Walton had evidently made, and it did include some other land about the mHl. Eleazer Yeomans and wife Mary, sold the mill in 1744, to John Horton. Daniel Brondage deeded the rest of his patent to his son Benjamin, in 1730 (p 294).^[4]

Death and Legacy

John was deceased by 2 Oct 1697,^[5] when an account of the settlement of his estate was given. Surviving him were his widow, Hannah, and sons: John Joseph, Daniel and Joshua "Brondag;" and daughters: Ruth Schofield, Mary Brondag ad Hannah Brondag [Fairfield Probate Records, Liber 1, p 14].^[4]

Research Notes

The births of the children as given by Thomas Taylor, From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley, The Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812), Xlibris, 2008, p 257:

John b 1664

Thomas - no date given

Joseph b 1667

Ruth b 1672

Daniel b 1675

Joshua b 1680

Mary b 1683

Hannah b 1685 (m to David Husted) d 1776 so this is the same person often seen as Johanna.

According to the following Pedigree File, there is one child of Joseph, b. 1667, (The son of Stout Old John. ) and Mary, who is Joseph, b. 1698, m. Elizabeth Jennings. Joseph and Elizabeth had 8 children. ^[6] One of the 8 children is Nathaniel Brundage, b. 1726. Unfortunately there are no children of Nathaniel. Note that Perry Streeter suggested that Nathaniel, b. 1726, was possibly the father of Nathaniel, b. 1756, and Solomon, b. 1763. See page 3 of the Summary and Commentary.^[7]

Perry Streeter lists the following children: John b. 1660-1664 (1662?); Daniel b. 1660-1664 (1664?), Ruth b. 1660-1664 (1667?); Joshua b. 1665-1669 (1669?); Joseph b. 1670-1672 (1671?); Mary b. 1673-1678 (1675); and Hannah (Johanna) b.1673-1678 (1677?). He does not mention Thomas or David identified by WikiTreers.^[8] As mentioned above the following source does mention a Thomas Brundage as a child of John Brundage, 1633-1635 and Hannah Hunt.^[9]

Perry Streeter also lists the grandchildren of Stout Old John, b. 1635/6. He says that there were: 3 Johns; 3 Josephs; 2 Johnathans; 4 Davids; 3 Joshuas; 3 Hannahs; 2 Deborahs/Debras; and many others. There was only one Benjamin, one Absalom, and one Abraham. There were no Solomons. Some of the multiple names were identified by From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley The Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812) by Thomas Taylor, Pub. 2008, Chapter: The Brundidge Family Connection.

Sources

1. ↑ A Brundage Family Genealogy, An Account of Some of the American Descendants of John Brundish (1593-1639), Who Came from England to Massachusetts in 1635 by Thomas William Brundage, 1989. The following web site appears to contain 13 pages of Chapter 2, and a couple pages of Chapter 3, that is, 3-33 and 3-34. There appears to be a total of 54 pages in Chapter 2 that is not in this web site. So, apparently there are only 13 pages out of 54 pages. See: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/73570863?p=21538652&returnLabel=John%20Brundage%20(LDBV-TG7)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.familysearch.org%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fmemories%2FLDBV-TG7
2. ↑ John Brundish (Brundage) of Wethersfield, CT and The Colonial Ancestry by Perry Streeter - www.perrystreeter.com/brundage.pdf
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Hoppin, Charles Arthur, The Washington Ancestry ... (Vol 3, Pages 544-49) Greenfield, Ohio : Priv. print., 1932, HathiTrust accessed June 25, 2015
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Bristol, Theresa Hall, (1918) "Genealogical Gleanings from Land and Probate Records at White Plains and Rye, Ney York." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society [ Archive.org] (Vol 49, Pages 293-).
5. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627300_00459). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Fairfield, Probate Records, Vol 1-5, 1648-1750, image 459. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data:Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. (Free image by Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26094507?h=190415&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url)
6. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9HYZ-MPT : accessed 19 December 2019), entry for Joseph Brundage (32FW-3RK); submitted by Mary Sutton [identity withheld for privacy].
7. ↑ Summary and Commentary. by Perry Streeter: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~streeter/genealogy/brundage/The%20Descendants%20of%20Solomon%20Brundage%20by%20William%20E%20Brundage/Part%20IV%20--%20From%20Thomas%20Brundish%20to%20Solomon%20Brundage/05_Summary.pdf
8. ↑ The Colonial Ancestry, p. 12,, which may be found at http://www.perrystreeter.com/brundage.pdf compiled by Perry Streeter
9. ↑ From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley The Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812) by Thomas Taylor, Pub. 2008, Chapter: The Brundidge Family Connection.

See also:

• The Williams Families of New Jersey by Lyle Keith Williams, page 279, and digital page 287/422; and page 280, digital page 288/422

• How John Brungage became 1 of 15 Founders of Rye and reference of marriage to Hannah [1]

• John Brundage Notes Re: Land in White Plains, NY - also source of death date [2]

• The following source says that John Brundish and Rachel Hubbard had the following children: 1) James Brundage, 2) Mary Brundage, 3) Ann Brundage, 4) John Brundage, 5) Bethia Brundage and 6) Unknown Brundage; that John, b. between 1633-1635 in Salem or Watertown, CT and d. before 12/2/1697. From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley The Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812) by Thomas Taylor, Pub. 2008, Chapter: The Brundidge Family Connection.

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3CY4-1R8 : accessed 19 November 2018), entry for John /Brundage/; "Martindale Demond" file (2:2:2:MMD5-9J1), submitted 27 May 2016 by melmmart [identity withheld for privacy].

• "History and genealogy of the families of old Fairfield; v. 01B" https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2130331 (Hint: use "control F" to search this source for "Brundish") (This source says that John Brudish, 1635-1695, removed from Fairfield to Rye where he was the first town clerk and deputy 1677. It says that he and Hannah had the following children: John, Joseph, Daniel, Joshua, Ruth Scofield, Mary, and Hannah.)

• Mead, Daniel M., A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn. (Baker & Godwin, New York, 1857)

• Page 306: Brundig Family. The inhabitants of Greenwich (Conn.) bearing this name are descended from one John Brondish or Brondig, who was one of the first proprietors of Manursing Island and Rye Neck, in 1662.

• https://www.geni.com/people/John-Brundage/6000000003938599437

• "Roots City," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:3:MMPS-2MK : accessed 18 December 2019), entry for John Brundage; "User:Susan_Dakin Tree:Dakin Skeeles Möller Welsh" file (2:3:2:MMMS-QMF), submitted 9 March 2019 by Susan Dakin.