Founders of Hartford, Connecticut

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
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Surname/tag: Connecticut

The Monument dedicated to the Founders of Hartford is located in the Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, located on Main Street, between Gold and Pearl Streets. It was erected in 1989 replacing the original brownstone monument erected in 1837. The 1837 monument did not contain as many names as are now included. old list (I think)

Part of Connecticut Project 1640 Map of Hartford used on profiles of Founders of Hartford

Hartford in 1640 prepared from the original records by vote of the town and drawn by William S. Porter. Image by The Connecticut Historical Society

Background image used on Founder's profiles is ABGE-79.jpg

See side panel for photos of the four sides of the Founders Monument

Charter Oak

Founder's List

On East Face of Base:

"Erected by

the Society of the Descendents of The Founders of Hartford
A. D. 1986 to Commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the City.

This stone replaces the original sandstone monument of 1837"

East Face

In Memory of the FIRST SETTLERS of HARTFORD

Jeremy Adams, Matthew Allyn, William Andrews, Francis Andrews, John Arnold, Andrew Bacon, John Barnard, Thomas Barnes, Robert Bartlett, John Baysey, Thomas Beale, Nathaniel Bearding, Mary Betts, John Bidwell, Richard Billing, Thomas Birchwood, Peter Blachford, Thomas Blackley, Thomas Bliss, Sr., Thomas Bliss, Jr., William Blumfield, James Bridgeman, John Bronson, Richard Bronson, Thomas Bull, Thomas Bunce, Benjamin Burr, Richard Butler, William Butler, Clement Chaplin, Dorothy Chester, Richard Church, John Clarke,* Nicholas Clarke, William Clarke, James Cole, William Cornwell.

North Face

John Crow John Cullick, Philip Davis, Fulke Davy, Robert Day, Nicholas Desborough, Joseph Easton, William Edwards, Edward Elmer, Nathaniel Ely, James Ensign, Zachary Field, Thomas Fisher, John Friend, Samuel Gardiner, Daniel Garret, John Gennings, William Gibbons, Richard Goodman, Ozias Goodwin, William Goodwin, Seth Grant, George Graves, Bartholomew Greene, Samuel Greenhill, Thomas Gridley, Samuel Hale, Thomas Hale, John Hall, Stephen Hart, William Hayden, John Hayes, John Higginson, William Hills, John Holloway, William Holton, Thomas Hooker, Edward Hopkins, John Hopkins, Thomas Hosmer, George Hubbard, Thomas Hungerford.

West Face

William Hyde, Jonathan Ince, Thomas Judd, Nathaniel Kellogg, Ralph Keeler, William Kelsey, Edward Lay, William Lewis, Sr., Richard Lord, Thomas Lord, Thomas Lord, Jr., Richard Lyman, John Marsh, Matthew Marvin, Reinold Marvin, John Maynard, John Moody, John Morris, Benjamin Munn, Thomas Munson, Joseph Mygatt, Thomas Olcott, James Olmsted, John Olmstead, Richard Olmsted, William Pantry, William Parker, Paul Peck, William Phillips, John Pierce, Thomas Porter, Stephen Post, John Pratt, William Pratt, John Purchas, Nathaniel Richards, Thomas Richards, Richard Risley, Thomas Root, Nathaniel Ruscoe, William Ruscoe, John Sable.

South Face

Thomas Scott, Thomas Selden, Richard Seymour, John Skinner, Arthur Smith, Giles Smith, Thomas Spencer, William Spencer, John Stanley, Thomas Stanley, Timothy Stanley, Thomas Stanton, Edward Stebbins, George Steele, John Steele, George Stocking, John Stone, Samuel Stone, John Talcott, Thomas Thompson, Thomas Upson, Robert Wade, William Wadsworth, Henry Wakeley, James Wakeley, Samuel Wakeman, Nathaniel Ward, Andrew Warner, John Warner, Richard Watts, Richard Webb, John Webster, Thomas Welles, William Westley, William Westwood, John White, Samuel Whitehead, William Whiting, John Wilcock, Gregory Wolterton, Thomas Woodford, George Wyllys.

• John Clark had no known wife or children. He has a [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/371/23894730

Great Migration Sketch], but no Wikitree profile. Maybe Clark-1315