Nathan Fish III (1749 - 1806)

Born 17 Jul 1749 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Packer) Fish — married 11 Aug 1771 in Groton, Connecticut

Descendants

Died Aug 1806 at age 57 in Halifax, Vermont, United States of America

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Biography

Nathan Fish III was born 31 JUL 1749 at Groton, Connecticut. He was a son of Catherine (Katharine) Niles & Nathan Fish.

He married 11 Aug 1771, at Groton, Connecticut, Phebe Packer. They were married by Rev. Timothy Wightman ^[1].

Soon after marriage they settled at Halifax, Vermont. This couple had a total of 14 children-- 9 daughters, 5 sons, all born at Halifax, Vermont. These were included:

• Katharine (Catherine) Fish, b. 10 December 1771 ^[2]; may have married James Henry
• Dudley Fish (3 Nov 1773 - Mar 1813 ^[3]); may have married Patty Henry (uncertain)
• Edward Fish, b. 28 July 1775
• Prudence Fish (15 Sep 1776 - 6 May 1852 ^[4]); married David Henry (16 Jun 1772 - 26 Sep 1857 ^[5]); 14 children
• Phebe (Fish; 1778-1855); married Cephas Fitch; d. 13 Feb 1855 @ Noank, Connecticut
• Betsey Fish (1779 - 8 Feb 1845 ^[6]); married Benjamin Henry (1 May 1779 - 11 May 1864 ^[7])
• Anna Fish (1781 - 4 Jul 1785)
• Eleanor (Fish) Breed (1783-1845); married Henry Green Breed
• Sarah "Sally" Fish, b. 13 December 1785; married David Orr
• Nathan Fish (1787-1822); married Mary Packer
• Joseph Fish, b. 14 Oct 1788 ^[8]; married Patty Ayres
• Annis Fish (28 March 1791 – 15 October 1873); married Samuel Henry (8 Apr 1769 - 1856)
• Simeon Fish (1792-1846); married Mary Ann Richardson
• Sophia (Fish) Richardson (1794-1865); married James Bell Richardson

Nathan Fish died Aug 1806 at Halifax, Vermont. His final resting place is unknown ^[9].

Notes

A) Care should be taken to avoid confusion regarding this Nathan Fish with others living contemporaneously in adjacent geographies. This particular Nathan Fish and his wife Phebe Packer migrated from Groton, Connecticut to southern Vermont, where they settled and raised their family. Other same named persons include Fish-2020 and Fish-3373, who were respectively from Groton, Massachusetts and Canterbury, Connecticut; neither of those other two Nathan Fish named persons migrated to, or resided in, Halifax, Vermont.

B) Care must be taken when presuming the location of 'Halifax' in the purported source references. The 'Halifax' associated with this person's death location is a small town in southern Vermont, not Nova Scotia. Several members of this family, and others from Stonington, migrated to Vermont in the 1700s.

C) The Henry surnamed spouses of children Katharine, Dudley, Prudence, Elizabeth, and Annis, probably were children or close family of Benjamin Henry (1742-1816) and Martha (Ayer) of Colrain, Massachusetts. Some of these relationships are summarized in the caption of the online memorial site for Martha (Ayer) Henry ^[10].

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection); Ancestry.com; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
2. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFVQ-QLC : 19 February 2021), Katharene Fish, 1771.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #71887812
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #99013335
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #99013330
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #101373139
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #101373147
8. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFVQ-Q2N : Tue Oct 31 14:15:19 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Fish and Nathan Fish, 14 Oct 1788.
9. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #181915802
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #99013334

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut; p. 373, no. 33: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n395/mode/1up

• The Fish Families in America (1948) p. 393, no. 1879: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=353