Michael's Founders and First Families

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Founders and First Families of Towns in the United States

Contents 1 OHIO 1.1 New Somerset, OH 2 CONNECTICUT 2.1 Danbury, CT 2.1.1 Afilliated Families 2.2 Hartford, CT 2.2.1 Affiliate Families 2.3 Milford, CT 2.4 New Haven, CT 2.5 Norwalk, CT 2.6 Suffield, CT 2.6.1 Affiliate Familes 2.7 Wethersfield, CT 2.8 Windsor, CT 3 MASSACHUSETTS 3.1 Brookfield, MA 1660 3.2 Dedham, MA 1635 3.3 Deerfield, MA 3.4 Dorchester, MA [1] 3.5 Hadley, MA 3.6 Gloucester, MA [2] 3.7 Medfield, MA 3.8 Newbury, MA 3.9 Northampton, MA 3.10 Roxbury, MA 1630[3] 3.10.1 Between 1631 - 1650 3.10.2 Associates 4 New Jersey 4.1 Elizabeth 5 Sources

OHIO

New Somerset, OH

• Baltzer Kolb

CONNECTICUT

Danbury, CT

• James Benedict
• Sarah Gregory Wife of James Benedict and sister to Judah Gregory (founder)
• Thomas Taylor

Afilliated Families

• Josiah Starr Patentee

Hartford, CT

See Also: Founders of Hartford, Connecticut

• Matthew Allyn
• Francis Andrews
• Robert Bartlett
• Matthew Marvin (Founder of Norwalk)
• Thomas Roote
• John Skinner
• Thomas Woodford

Affiliate Families

• John Boughton

Milford, CT

• Thomas Betts
• Thomas Ford

New Haven, CT

• Henry Peck

Note: No signers of the New Haven Fundamental Agreement

• Samuel Whitehead UNCLE brother of Isaac Whitehead
• Benjamin Wilmot UNCLE, son of Benjamin Wilmot, Sr.

Norwalk, CT

• WikiPedia:History of Norwalk, Connecticut#Settlement

• Matthew Marvin
• John Boughton, Jr.
• Walter Hoyt

Suffield, CT

• Thomas Hanchett
• Esther Pritchard, wife of John Hanchett, daughter of William Pritchard
• William Pritchard is a Proprietor.
• Anthony Austin
• Esther Huggins, Brother John, Proprietor
• John Harmon

Affiliate Familes

• Hayward, Lydia wife of John Hanchett, Sr.
• Huggins, Esther wife of Anthony Austin
• Langton, Deliverance wife of Thomas Hanchett
• Skinner, Mary wife of Nathaniel Harmon and John Hanchett, Sr. (Harmon Descendants)
• Sheldon, Jonathan

Daniel, Joel, Mary, Thomas Jr.

• Southwell, Mary wife of Jonathan Sheldon, Sr.
• Smith, Mary wife of Thomas Sheldon, Jr.
• Stebbins, Sarah wife of John Hanchett, Sr. (Southwell Descendants)

Wethersfield, CT

• Thomas Hurlbut

Windsor, CT

• Matthew Allyn
• Thomas Ford
• Thomas Gunn
• Simon Hoyt
• Joseph Loomis
• Mary Merwin
• Thomas Newberry
• John Taylor

MASSACHUSETTS

Brookfield, MA 1660

• William Pritchard in MA by 1639

Dedham, MA 1635

• Robert Hinsdale admitted Dedham, MA 1637
• John Huggins Dedham, 1636

• Francis Austin Uncle
• Thomas Alcock Uncle
• Nathaniel Whiting Uncle

Deerfield, MA

(Pocumtuck, 1670)

• John Stebbins purchased land but did not settle there
• Samuel Hinsdale
• Robert Hinsdale

Dorchester, MA ^[1]

• Roger Clapp
• Thomas Ford
• Joanna Ford wife of Roger Clapp, daughter of Thomas Ford

Hadley, MA

• William Partridge
• Mary Smith wife of Wm. Partridge, dau. of Christopher Smith of Newport, RI.
• Lt. Samuel Smith may have stayed a short time in Hadley

Gloucester, MA ^[2]

• Thomas Very

• Bartholomew Foster, later arrival, p. 94.

Medfield, MA

• Robert Hinsdale
• Samuel Hinsdale
• Mehitable Johnson wife of Samuel, granddaughter of John Johnson

Newbury, MA

• Anthony Morse

Northampton, MA

Nonotuck 1654

Founders

• Robert Bartlett
• Isaac Sheldon Arrival 1655, Death 1708

• Deacon Thomas Roote, Jr. UNCLE

Roxbury, MA 1630^[3]

• John Johnson - worked for John Winthrop FOUNDER

• George Alcock Uncle FOUNDER

Between 1631 - 1650

• Mary Blott wife of Thomas Woodford, m. about 1634 in Roxbury.
• William Cheney
• John Harmon
• John Stebbins - Needs further verification
• Rowland Stebbins
• John Stebbins son of Rowland
• Thomas Woodford early inhabitant, moves to Hartford, CT, then Northampton, MA.

• William Heath Uncle
• Isaac Heath Uncle

Associates

• John Coggeshall - Anne Hutchinson and Newport, RI
• John Porter- Anne Hutchinson and Portsmouth, RI
• John Eliot Indian Apostle

New Jersey

Elizabeth

• Nathaniel Bonnell

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org/index.php/dorchester-descendants-project/early-dorchester-settlers-and-citizens
2. ↑ History of Goucester
3. ↑ Walter Eliot Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904,p.44.

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