David Strong (1704 - 1801)

Born 5 Dec 1704 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Thankful (Loomis) Strong — married 3 May 1732 (to 21 May 1771) in Windsor, Connecticut

Husband of Abigail (Pettibone) Strong — married 1 Jan 1772 (to 1787) in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 25 Jan 1801 at age 96 in Bolton, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Deacon David Strong was born in 1704 in the small, deeply religious town of Windsor. He was a farmer at Bolton and for 65 years a deacon in the Congregational Church.

He married his first wife, Thankful Loomis, in 1732 when he was 28 and she was 22. They had ten children together, born between 1733 and 1754. Details on seven children have been attached to this profile. Note: See the Strong family source below for birth dates and other information for the remaining children (Bathsheba, Hepzibah and Ebenezer).

David remarried a widow shortly after Thankful died in 1777, as was the custom. He outlived his second wife who died in 1787 at age 80. In 1793, when he was 88, he married Zilpah Davis, who was 18 and did outlive him. No children were born to his second and third marriages. David died in Bolton in 1801 at age 96.

Sources

• Dwight, B.W. The history of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1871. Pages 39-40. https://books.google.com/books?id=AUPuAgAAQBAJ
• Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, page 30, see K. Pontius.
• Tom Bredehoft, information from LDS FamilySearch, Pedigree Resource File.