Dorothy (Otis) Langrell (1721 - 1794)

Born 16 Apr 1721 in New London, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Asahel Bigelow — married 13 Dec 1737 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Isaac Day — married 12 Oct 1762 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Joseph Langrell — married Dec 1768 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1794 at age 73 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Dorothy was the daughter of Nathaniel Otis & Hannah (Thacher) Otis. She is a descendant of Mayflower Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley, through her mother.

She was married three times: first to Asa Bigelow with whom she had Asa (1738-1754), Jonathan (1740), Dorothy (1742-1761), Sarah (1744), Otis (1747), Betty (1749-1752), Delight (1751-1754), Betty (1753) and Asa (May 12, 1755).

After the death of Asa, Dorothy married Isaac Day in 1762, who already had 7 children with Ann (Foote) Day. With Isaac, Dorothy a son, Charles.

Isaac died in 1765 and she married once again to Joseph Langrell.

Sources

• Taintor, Charles Micaiell. Extracts from the Records of Colchester (Case, Lockwood & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1864) Page 86
• Sextons Records, 1733-1927, of Goshen Cemetery in Lebanon, Connecticut (Connecticut State Library) Page 7.
• White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, Page 515.

• "born in New London, Conn., (recorded in Colchester, Conn.)"

• Find A Grave: Memorial #45042591
• Howe, Gilman Bigelow. Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America (C. Hamilton, Worcester, Mass., 1890)
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55. Volume 7, General Ed White, 2009
• New London, Colchester Marriages [1]
• Bigelow Society[2]
• Rowley and Langrell Family Charts[3]
• Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WQ-FQF : 7 January 2020), Dorothy Otis, 1721.
• Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F759-9QR : 11 January 2020), Dorothy Otis in entry for Asa Bigelow, 1737.
• Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F76S-44M : 16 January 2020), Dorothy Otis, 1795.

John R Totten. Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910. p231-2.