Reuben Case (abt. 1717 - abt. 1790)

Born about 1717 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Goodrich) Case — married 9 Jul 1747 (to 23 Jan 1782) in Wintonbury Church, Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 1790 at about age 73 in Montgomery, New York, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Reuben Case and Ruth Goodrich married 9 July 1747^[1]

He died in 1790/1799, probably in Montgomery County, New York

"Deacon Reuben Case and his sons Reuben, Ashbel, Darius, Elihu, and Allen came from Wintonbury, Ct., and settled in Kingsborough, NY or its vicinity, not far from the year 1790. Wintonbury is now the town of Bloomfield. It was a precinct composed of contiguous positions of Windsor, Farmington, and Simsbury; hence the name, compounded in Connecticut fashion. The Case family were from the Simsbury portion.

Deacon Reuben Case died soon after the removal, at an advanced age. His son Darius, m Nov 21 1779 Hephzibah Foote, b Feb 1 1762, dau of Samuel Foote of Simsbury, and a descendant of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Ct. Dea Darius Case, son of Dea Reuben, d in Kingsborongh May 23, 1797, a 49."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ [https://books.google.com/books?id=7esnAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA63 Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths, pg. 68
2. ↑ The Giles Memorial. Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes ... Also Genealogical Sketches of the Pool, Very ... and Other Families, with a History of Pemaquid, Ancient and Modern; Some Account of Early Settlements in Maine, and Some Details of Indian Warfare (1864) No. 414, pg. 305

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7HM-WTL : 3 December 2014), Ashbel Case, 17 Jun 1752; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• No. 454, pg 133 - The Foote family: or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with genealogical notes of Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., and John Foote and others of the name, who settled more recently in New York by Nathanial Goodwin (1849) - https://books.google.com/books?id=3aFMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=ashbel+case&source=bl&ots=WMgM1M5jO9&sig=L67AhYt5EPPncTvz6UdmTJHtyjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAkOaRqLDOAhVspIMKHebHC44Q6AEITDAJ#v=onepage&q=azubahl%20case&f=false
• http://bearstoc.com/fam/hist/PafVersion/pafg301.htm#9672
• http://bearstoc.com/fam/hist/PafVersion/pafg300.htm#11080
• The Douglas Archives - Deacon Reuben Case, Abt 1725 - 1799 (~ 65 years)
• Ted Steele's Steele Family History
• John Case and his Descndants by Ruth Cost Duncan (1991), No. 44, pg. 28

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Albert Case for starting this profile.
• Pedigree Chart of Hazel B. Pike prepared by her husband Harold B. Risdon in 1966.