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Northrops
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Before the founder England
Joseph Northrup
1619(1639)-1669 Milford
Joseph Northrup
1649 Milford ~ ???1700
James Northrop
1693 Milford ~ 1747
James Northrop
1719 Ridgefield ~ 1784
Amos Northrop
1778? Milford 1855 Warren
Alvin Northrop
1803 Ridgefield, Kent, Milford, Salem ~1875 or 86
George Elmore Northrop
1844 Cornwall~1906 Southport
George Ives Northrop
1871 Southport ~ 1923 Southport
Alvin Jennings Northrop
1905 Southport/Norwalk ~ 1980 Fairfield
Hannigan
Ives
Jennings
Keeler
Webster (offsite)
This is a work in process and there are still other possible fathers for Amos.
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Amos Northrop b ~ 1779-80 divisions of Kent
Following the auction of the First Division of lots in Kent in 1738, starting the development of the town, the division and sale of lots continued in a fairly orderly fashion through the tenth division 1771-3. These lots on the east side of the river formed the town, contributed taxes and were under the supervision of the Town Fathers.
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Itinerant Methodist Clercy, Litchfield County
Alfred E. Ives, Joel S. Ives, Mark Ives
Among the first division of Kent were:
Ephraim Hubbel, m. Abigail Bradley \, Sherwood, Noble, Fuller
Peter Hubbel, of greenfield ,, hurlburt
Richard Hubbel, stratford, ffld, newtown fairweather, burritt wheeler
Jedediah Hubbel ...Fairfield, Newtown Stratfield Bradley (mother) Noble, Northrop, Hickox, Hurlbut, Wheeler later Lanesboro
Johnathan Hubbel, multiple Fairfield, Newtown, Stratforfd Bethlehem, Derby Prudden, Burr, Silliman Morehouse,Wakeman in 1631 in Eng Alford m. in Ill Samuel Canfleld, multiple Samuel Canfield and others, and later =
John Smith, multipleDavid Smith,Nathaniel Smith,
Joseph Fuller,
Pelatiah Marsh.Cyrus Marsh, ,multipleEbenezer Marsh, multiple ,Heirs of Colonel Ebenezer Marsh,William Marsh
Azariah Pratt, Daniel Pratt, multiple Joseph Pratt Jr., Daniel Pratt, Peter Pratt,
Joseph Peck,
John Porter,
,Nathaniel Sanford,
Nathaniel Sanford and Henry Silsby,
Jabez Swift,
multiple Zephania Swift,
Nathaniel Slosson,
Isaac Camp, Isaac Camp 1738,
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1738
John Knapp
John Smith
Josiah Starr
John Seely
Ephraim, Peter, Richard & Jonathan Hubbel
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1738
John Knapp
John Mills
John Seely
Josiah Starr
John Smith
Ephraim, Jonathan, Richard, Peter Hubbel
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1739
John Knapp
John Smith
John Seely
Josiah Starr
Peter, Jonathan, Ephraim, Richard Hubbel
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1740
Nathaniel Bostwick
Ebenezer Lyman
Ebenezer Marsh
Azariah Pratt
Joseph Peck
John Porter
John Roberts
John Smith
Nathaniel Sanford
Richard, Ephraim Hubbel
Ebenezer Marsh
Ebenezer Lyman
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1748
Josiah Starr
Nathaniel Bostwick
John Davis
Josiah Starr
John Fitch
John Mills
Ebenezer Marsh
Daniel Pratt
Josiah, Thomas, Ephraim, Richard Hubbel
John Fitch
Nathaniel Sanford
David Smith
Josiah Thomas
Cyrus Marsh
John Roberts
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1750
Nathaniel Bostwisk
Ebenezer Marsh
John Daivs
John Mills
Cyrus Marsh
John Smith
Nathaniel Sanford
David Smith
Josiah Thomas
Richard, Ephraim Hubbel
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1752
John Davis
Ebenezer Marsh
Ephraim, Richard Hubbel
David Smith
John Smith
Josiah Thomas
Pelatiah Marsh
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1755
Nathaniel Smith
John Mills
Ebenezer Marsh
Pelatiah Marsh
Juban Strong
Nathaniel Smith
Ephraim Hubbel
Heirs David Smith
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1761
David Ferriss
Ephraim Hubbel
Richard Hubbel
John Mills
John Smith
John Seely
Josiah Starr
John Knapp
John Porter
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1773
Ephraim Hubbel
Jedediah Hubbel, Esq.
Isaac Camp
Heirs Gol Ebenezer Marsh
Eleazer Thomson
Joseph Pratt, Jt.
Isaac Camp
Daniel Pratt
Peter Pratt
Joseph Whittlesey
Amaziah Ferris
Joel Ferriss
Ebenezer Strong
Philip Strong
Jedediah Hubbel
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This area was part of the Western Lands (Goshen, Colebrook, Kent, Hartland, Norfolk, Canaan, Cornwall, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington, Barkhamsted, Harwinton, Winchester and New Hartford) made over to Hartford and Windsor in 1686 to save them from being taken by the Royal Gov. Andros. The land at Kent was unnamed when sold at auction at the Windham Court House in March 1738. Kent was annexed for a time to Hartford County in May 1738 and incorporated as a town in October 1739. A part of the town was set off to the town of Washington in 1779 and a part to Warren in 1786. Town vital records cover 1739-1795 and begin again in 1850.
Barbour collection records cover 1739-1852
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in 1707 there was a large tract of land granted to Hon. Nathaniel Gold, Peter Burr and several others of Fairfleld for a township in what is now the southern portion of Kent and the northern portion of New Milford, and that they in turn sold a part or all of it to Robert Silliman, Richard Hubbell and Benjamin Fairweather, some 3,800 acres and was six miles in length from east to west and three hundred rods wide. When the owner died the large tract was divided between his heirs.
Kent’s fascination with iron began with the very settling of the town. Lots of the First Division were auctioned at Windham in March of 1738. By September of that year a Town Meeting was held at the home of Ebenezer Barnum, a Kent Proprietor. This was located in North Kent on the twelve rod highway, Kent’s Main Street, two lots below Nathaniel Berry’s farm which is on the west side of the highway at the corner of the old road to the North Kent Bridge where we now go to the dump.
This Town Meeting, among other things, voted to lay out the town’s second highway, “at the foot of the mountain (Cobble Hill’s south end) to continue up the notch (1989 past Walker’s) to the foot of the ‘eight lots’ so-called, eight rods between twelve rods to the Iron Pots.”
Ebenezer Barnum came from Danbury and he may have known that the Ore Bed was open. As early as May 1738, at the second Town Meeting it was voted “that Ebenezer Barnum shall take the 49th lot or share in the First Division on condition that he build a sawmill by the last of December next and also a grist mill in two years.” This lot was way to the south of his homesite and he turned back this offer to the town. Instead he bought the lot in Flanders now occupied by the Kennedy’s and put his grist mill on the east side of Cobble Brook north and across from the sawmill his neighbor Jonathan Morgan had built earlier on the next lot to the south.
Across the highway and south of Barnum’s homesite in North Kent when the Second Division of lots was drawn in 1739, a road was opened up East Mountain to the ridge (Botsford Road), then straight south past the west side of North Spectacle Pond to the Fairweather Purchase on the New Milford border. By 1744, Ebenezer must have explored this road and the North Spectacle area and seen its possibilities for an Iron Works, for he bought two lots in the Second Division on the west side of the pond.
He must have presented a plan to the Town Fathers for at a Town Meeting in that year, 1744, it was voted “Ebenezer Barnum may lay out six acres for the convenience of making an Iron Works dam and that Ebenezer Barnum may lay out four acres more for an Iron Works.” This location was at the outlet of North Spectacle Pond, the northeast side of the pond and this ten acre unit appears in all deeds pertaining to the Iron Works from 1744 through to the end of Morgan’s Forge in 1867.
Barnum sold his grist mill in Flanders to Jonathan Rowley, and set up the Iron Works as a family operation with his sons, Gideon, Ebenezer, Jr., and Richard. They were able to get a plant started. It was an early form of ironworks able to turn out bar iron (pig iron) for the local blacksmiths, forges, and puddling works. It never became a blast furnace…
MACEDONIA’S FORGES AND MILLS
Mills and forges below the gorge on Macedonia Brook began much earlier than has generally been realized. Water coming from the Nodine Hollow Brook, joined by the Fuller or Pond Mountain Brook forming the Macedonia Brook was harnessed to provide power.
Following the auction of the First Division of lots in Kent in 1738, starting the development of the town, the division and sale of lots continued in a fairly orderly fashion through the tenth division 1771-3. These lots on the east side of the river formed the town, contributed taxes and were under the supervision of the Town Fathers.
Across the river were the Country Lands or Colony Lands, not part of the town, and a few people had settled there before Kent was started. These lands, some 11,000 acres caught the eyes of a number of men who felt there was desirable land to acquire easily, without obligation to the town for taxes or regulation, and with few people having much knowledge of what was available and what it might offer.
Joseph Fuller and Joseph Lasell, original Kent Proprietors, were the first to be tempted by the west bank of the river. They staked out large tracts of land and appealed to the General Assembly for approval of grants, disguising the amount of land involved and presenting themselves as hard-pressed farmers. The legislature was skeptical of their claims and reduced their acreage considerably.
Moses Rowley (or Rowlee) of Sharon must have had some information as to what the land offered, for he acquired almost the whole of Macedonia in a fairly legitimate fashion. At least he paid someone for what he acquired.
February 19, 1743-4, he bought a tract of land from Samuel and Rebecca Algur for 30 pounds containing a small dwelling, called the Algur “home lot” which Obadiah Hawley of Stratford had given to Rebecca Algur (his daughter) by deed executed April 17, 1732, recorded in the first book of Records of Sharon. (1)
In addition, on the same date, for 700 pounds in bills of credit old tenor, Rowley bought from Samuel Algur “1/2 part of the land Samuel Algur and William Castle bought of Joseph and William Hart of Farmington November 17, 1739, before Joseph Hooker, Justice of the Peace.” (2)
On the first map of Kent the Algur Grant is shown on the west side of our Kent Bridge. It follows the road northwest and along the ridge of the mountain on the north side of the road about three quarters of the way to Eads corner. (1989)
Five years later, May 10, 1748, Rowley added a very large tract purchased from Robert Watson of Stratford. This joined the Algur tract on the south, went to the “York Line on the west, up Fuller Mt. road to the crest of the hill then again west to the York Line.” This covered a large chunk at the beginning of what is Macedonia Park and included the gorge of the Macedonia Brook. (3)
This large tract Robert Watson of Stratford had acquired with Benjamin Hollister and Henry Stevenson the month before, April of 1748, for 200 pounds with a lease for 999 years from Captain Maheu, Keft Sawmill Cokenes, Jobe Mahew, John Anteney, Thomas Suknes, and John Sokenes, Indians of Nodine Hollow. (4)
Watching the haphazard acquisition of the Colony Lands, the townspeople of Kent, anxious to have control of the area for sale and town support, as Charles Grant surmises, appealed to the General Assembly to be allowed to annex the lands. (5)
“With some perspicacity, the General Assembly, studying the situation, ordered that the land be annexed to the town only with reference to town privileges and without passing the fee thereby.” This measure was passed in 1743. The lands were not surveyed until 1752 when Roger Sherman was appointed surveyor by the General Assembly. He and two chairmen took seventeen days to divide the 11,000 acres into 28 lots. Then an Act of 1853 ordered the sale of these lots at auction. Somehow Moses Rowley’s land was missed in the survey and (his land) was not sold with the rest in 1753-54. (6)
At first Rowley probably used the Algur house, but after the 1748 land purchase, according to later deeds, he built a house and sawmill on the south side of the road on what is now the Preston Mountain Brook. Later in 1788, this was the site of the Converse forge. There’s no record of Rowley having a forge there.
“In 1769 he received an eviction order and petitioned plaintively against it. His memorial to the General Assembly pleads that Watson had purchased the land of the Nodines, April of 1748. He had entered upon and made improvements and built a sawmill supposing he had good title and other buildings.” (7)
A committee investigated and satisfied itself that what Rowley alleged was true. They recommended that he receive a grant to include his sawmill. The General Assembly approved and the grant was formalized in 1769. Moses had further trouble. In 1771, it was charged that he had deceived the Assembly and that the land granted him had been represented to be small in comparison to what it really was. After two more investigations, Moses was ordered to appear in New Haven ‘to say why the grant should not be declared void.’ Moses admitted to 900 acres. If this was smaller than the actual land claimed he was really gambling on obscurity. The General Assembly records show no disposition of the case but Kent Records show he became a public charge so that the grant probably had been rescinded. (8)
“Whereas the subscribers, selectmen of the town of Kent have inspected into the affairs of Moses Rowlee of Kent and find he is guilty of poor husbandry and mismanagement in his business and is thereby in great damage of wasting his estate, we do therefor appoint Abraham Fuller to be overseer over said Moses Rowlee to order and direct him in the management of his business until the selectmen of Kent aforesaid shall give further order.
Justice of the Peace
Feb. 25, 1771
Town Clerk’s Office Kent
Just previous to this problem with the Assembly, Moses had sold 150 acres to Peter Pratt, July 2, 1770. This tract included the gorge with the waterpower of Macedonia Brook with extensive acreage up to the top of Fuller Mountain. Pratt held this for three years and apparently started an iron works on the brook. He sold the property to Hendrik Winegar of Amenia Union in Dutchess County, New York in 1773. (Winegar had built the big brick house still standing in Amenia and had a large farm there.
The family had originally come from the German Palatinate, expelled by the king and helped by Queen Anne of England to this country, they settled in Northeast and Germantown in New York State. They were millers and ironworkers as well as farmers.) (9)
Two years later Hendrik Winegar (1775), sold the piece now recorded as 130 acres (maybe the “more or less” terminology was at work) bought of Peter Pratt with Ironworks and coal house and grist mill building on the premises. This is the first mention of Ironworks in deeds pertaining to the tract. It indicates that the ironworks was well established. (10)…
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Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
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Reasons for Issuing Bounty Land Grants
by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
A land bounty is a grant of land from a government as a reward to repay citizens for the risks and hardships they endured in the service of their country, usually in a military related capacity.
In their colonial tradition, the Revolutionary governments patterned their struggle for independence from Great Britain on the principle of bounty lands. They generally offered free lands in exchange for military service, but they strategically did so on the presumption that they would be victorious in their struggle. They would not actually award the lands until the war had been concluded and the British defeated. Such a policy not only imposed no financial constraints on the war effort but also insured a degree of support for the Revolutionary cause. The Revolutionary governments were cognizant that to the victor belonged the spoils and that defeat brought no reward. Bounty lands were an effective propaganda technique for enrolling support for the war among the citizenry and preventing them from lapsing into the British fold when the tide of battle ebbed.
Those colonies with unseated lands used their advantage to enlist support for the cause with the offer of free lands. Unfortunately, some of the Original Thirteen enjoyed no such advantage. There was no bounty land policy in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Those states lacked enough vacant land to support such a policy. Bounty lands were a feature, however, in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Administratively, these nine states selected reserves in their western domains for the location of bounty lands. Such a choice was seemingly quite logical. By placing veterans on the frontier, the states would be able to rely upon a military force which in turn would be able to protect the settlements from Indian incursions. These state governments also realized that they had to encourage the ex-soldiers to occupy their newly awarded bounty lands, so they granted exemptions from taxation ranging from a few years to life to those veterans who would locate on their respective bounty lands. Such a policy also had the effect of retarding the exodus of a state's population.
Since most of the Indian nations had supported the British during the Revolutionary War, the Thirteen States were cautious in approaching their former enemies. Populating the frontier with citizens skilled in defense offered the best prospect in enticing other settlers to join them. Veterans were knowledgeable in the use of firearms and in military strategy. Knowing that they would be defended if the need arose was reassuring to many settlers. The state governments also realized that the revenue derived from the sale of vacant lands in the west was badly needed. The extension of settlements on the frontier would, in time, also increase the tax rolls and contribute to the reduction of their Revolutionary War debts. In the aftermath of the war, the states with transappalachian claims ceded some of those claims to the federal government, but not until they had the assurance of being able to fulfill their bounty land commitments.
Accordingly, the issue of bounty lands has far wider geographical implications than the area encompassed by the nine state governments which instituted the practice. Besides the original states of Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee were directly affected by the bounty land system. While the administrative records were, with one exception, the purview of the former nine, the bounty land reserves involved the five transappalachian states. The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina either had no claims to transappalachian territory or relinquished their claims to the national government. Accordingly, their reserves for bounty lands lay within their own western borders. In the cases of Georgia and New York, these reserves were to be situated on the definition of their western borders as they existed in 1783. The bounty land reserves in those two states today would be described as being centrally located. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allotted its bounty lands in the then District of Maine, which in 1820 achieved statehood status.
While most of the states awarded bounty lands for military service, there were two exceptions. Connecticut compensated its citizenry with lands in Ohio if their homes, outbuildings, and businesses were destroyed by the British. The Nutmeg State seemingly awarded no bounty land for military service per se. Georgia also issued lands to its civilian population who had remained loyal, or at the very least neutral, to the Revolutionary cause after the British restored royal control. There were no Revolutionary War bounty land grants within the current borders of the southern states of North Carolina and Virginia. The former issued its bounty lands in its western lands which became Tennessee. The latter selected reserves for its bounty lands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio before ceding its claims to the federal government.
It is important to emphasize that the Continental Congress also made use of the policy of bounty lands. The index to those claims appears in the Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976). The federal bounty land records are included in the National Archives micropublication, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Series M804, 2,670 rolls. Abstracts of these files appear in the four-volume work of Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tenn.: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1990-1992). The federal government likewise selected a reserve in the Northwest Territory where bounty land warrants could be used to locate land. The U.S. Military Tract in Ohio encompassed portions or all of the counties of Coshochton, Delaware, Franklin, Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Marion, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. These records appear in the micropublications U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty-Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Related Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, 1806), Series M829, 16 rolls, and in Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, Series T1008, 1 roll. Since the federal land grants are readily accessible via these sources, they are not included in this work.
With the exception of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the other states permitted qualified veterans and/or their dependents to receive bounty lands from both the federal and the respective state governments. Accordingly, there may be relevant bounty land files for soldiers in the Continental Line at both the federal and state levels. While New York made some adjustments, double dipping was the norm in the other states.
Following the American victory at Yorktown in 1781, the various governments sought to implement their bounty land programs. The delay in establishing a governmental agency to fulfill the bounty land pledge holds dual benefits genealogically. Firstly, it increases the likelihood of the survival of a paper trail for proving Revolutionary War participation for many individuals who may not be mentioned in any other record. Secondly, because the benefits were still being processed as late as the 1870s in some jurisdictions, there may be a wealth of information pertaining to heirs in bounty land files. Not only do the records locate the veteran in time and place him in a given locality during the Revolutionary War, they also do so for him and/or his dependents in the years following independence when internal migrations within the nation complicate the identification of specific individuals in their various removals.
The appearance of an individual or family in the west after 1783 offers considerable challenge in learning the former domicile or in establishing filiation. A master index to the bounty land grants of the relevant state governments seemed to offer expeditious access to the records holding the potential solution to such a dilemma. While access to the federal records has long since been available in a master index, and while many localities have been treated individually by others works of varying quality, the absence of an overall index has impeded effective use of these significant records.
Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck, a native of Vandalia, Illinois, is the supervisor of the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas. He holds an A.B. cum laude from Greenville College, an M.A. from Southern Illinois University, and an M.S. from the University of Illinois.
Active in numerous hereditary organizations, he has been the Librarian General of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution and the Registrar of both the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry and the Order of Founders and Patriots of America. A sought-after public speaker on a number of topics, Mr. Bockstruck is widely recognized as one of our leading authorities on the genealogical sources of the American Revolution. In 1983 the National Genealogical Society recognized him with its Award of Merit and in 1989 the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him the History Award. His other publications include Virginia's Colonial Soldiers and Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants.
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Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants: Awarded by State Governments. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1996. "A land bounty is a grant of land from a government as a reward to pay citizens for the risks and hardships they endured in the service of their country, usually in a military related capacity." This volume lists bounty land grants in Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and "Virginia-Indiana."--Introduction, p. v-xxv.
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Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants: Awarded by State Governments
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996
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mention of Benjamin Northrop in Merryall
Findagrave Upper Merryall Cemetery
1790 Caleb Northrop New Milford
1790 Caleb Solomon New Milford
1790 Samuel Couch New Milford
William Clark
Daniel Clark
Isaac Clark
Thomas Clark 2nd
Edmond Clark
John Couch Jr
Samuel Couch
Thomas Clark Jr
James Clark
John Couch 2nd
Joseph Clark
John Clark
Joab Fenn ?
Epometius Gunn
Abel Gunn
Nathan Gunn
James Gunn
John Hull
Eleazer Hendrick
Watrous Hubbell
Francis Knap
Ebener Keeler
Josiah Lockwood
Nathaniel Lockwood
David Lockwood
James Lockwood
Israel Lockwood
Nathan Lockwood
Stephen Morehouse
John Morehouse jr
Lemuel Morehouse
Stephen Morehouse Jr
David Merwin 1st
Ezra Merchant
Benjamin Morehouse
John Morehouse 2nd
Squier Morehouse
Joel Northrop
David Northrop
Caleb Northrop
Solomon Northrop
Stephen Osborn
Ezra Sherman
Eli Sherman
Daniel Sherman
Benoni S Sanford
Reubben Sherwood
Samuel Sanford
??Jesse Sanford
Nathaniel Sanford
Augustus Sturges
Zaccariah Sanford
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New Hartford 1800
Austin
Joshua Cady
Elias Gilbert
Elijah Strong
New Milford 1800
Benjamin Northrop 10th from the beggining of the census
Martha Hendrick
Saml Peet
Joseph Peet
Elnathan Peet 2nd
Jonathan Hill
John Hatch
Joseph Waller
Zach..h Bostwick
Benj..n Northrop
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Among the first division of Kent were:
Ephraim Hubbel, multiple m. Abigail Bradley d. Kent, Sherwood, Noble, Fuller
Peter Hubbel, multiple of greenfield connection to betts,, hurlburt
Richard Hubbel, multiple stratford, ffld, newtown fairweather, burritt wheeler
Jedediah Hubbel (also as JH, Esq. both later)...Fairfield, Newtown Stratfield Bradley (mother) Noble, Northrop, Hickox, Hurlbut, Wheeler later Lanesboro
Johnathan Hubbel, multiple Fairfield, Newtown, Stratforfd Bethlehem, Derby Prudden, Burr, Silliman Morehouse,Wakeman in 1631 in Eng Alford m. in Ill
Samuel Canfleld, multiple Samuel Canfield and others,
and later
John Smith, multipleDavid Smith,Nathaniel Smith,
Joseph Fuller,
Pelatiah Marsh.Cyrus Marsh, ,multipleEbenezer Marsh, multiple ,Heirs of Colonel Ebenezer Marsh,William Marsh
Azariah Pratt, Daniel Pratt, multiple Joseph Pratt Jr., Daniel Pratt, Peter Pratt,
Joseph Peck,
John Porter,
,Nathaniel Sanford,
Nathaniel Sanford and Henry Silsby,
Jabez Swift,
multipleZephania Swift,
Nathaniel Slosson,
Isaac Camp, Isaac Camp
1738,
The old deeds refer frequently to the Fairweather purchase, but as there is no deed on record in Kent of this property a search was made through the old colonial records where it was found that in 1707 there was a large tract of land granted to Hon. Nathaniel Gold, Peter Burr and several others of Fairfleld for a township in what is now the southern portion of Kent and the northern portion of New Milford, and that they in turn sold a part or all of it to Robert Silliman, Richard Hubbell and Benjamin Fairweather, the latter being described as the "cornet of the troop in Fairfleld." The latter's purchase contained some 3,800 acres and was six miles in length from east to west and three hundred rods wide. When the owner died the large tract was divided between his heirs. |
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