Robert Wilson (abt. 1625 - 1655)

Husband of Elizabeth (Stebbins) Cadwell — married about 1649 in Hartford, CT

Descendants

Died 21 Jul 1655 at about age 30 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Robert Wilson was "of Windsor and Farmington", but his wife was of Hartford. All three early Connecticut towns were near each other.

Marriage and Children

Robert Wilson of Windsor, Connecticut, later of Farmington, married Elizabeth Stebbing, daughter of Edward and Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, about 1649, at her home town of Hartford, Connecticut^[1][2] They had two sons, John and Samuel.^[2][1]

Death

Robert Wilson died 21 July 1655 at Farmington, Connecticut.^[1][2] John's widow, Elizabeth (Stebbing) Wilson, married 2nd, Thomas Cadwell about 1656 at Hartford, where Thomas was a ferryman on the Connecticut River.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn. by George McCracken, TAG Vol 52 (1976), pages 77-79
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut, by John Coddington, TAG Vol 30 (1954), pages 203-204

See also:

• McCracken, George E., Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn., The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1976) Vol. 52, Page 76-9
• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut, by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G. of Washington, D.C. (Part I) and Mrs. Florence E. Skillington of Leicester, England (Part II) Vol. 30, pages 193-212, see especially pages 203-204
• Isham, Norman Morrison. Early Connecticut Houses (Preston & Rounds Co., Providence, R.I., 1900) Page 18