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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Surname Saturday ~ COLVER of Connecticut

COLVER

Edward Colver was a signer of “The Covenant” that formed Dedham, Massachusetts in 1636. He was a wheelwright and was granted two acres in 1637. He took part in the Pequot War that same year. Edward was a talented Indian scout, and it is thought that King Uncas named his own son after Colver’s son, Joshua. For this military service Edward Colver received two more grants of land, two hundred acres in 1652/3 and four hundred acres in 1654 near the head of the Mystic River in Connecticut.

Edward Colver removed to Connecticut where he helped the Winthrops build a fort at Saybrook. He bought a lot from Robert Burrows in Pequot around 1653, and that same year was granted land as “Goodman Colver”. In Mystic he built a grist mill. The Winthrop family also ran a grist mill nearby, and twice sued for Colver’s land.

By 1675 the settlers were again fighting the native Indians in King Phillip’s War. Edward Colver was elderly but he went out to fight in the Great Swamp Fight near Tiverton, Rhode Island with his sons. He was the only man with experience from the previous war. Frederic Lathrop Colver stated it was Edward, the settler who fought, but Donald Lines Jacobus stated it was more likely to have been Edward, Jr.

Edward Colver died in 1685 in Mystic, having deed his lands to his sons. He and his wife, Ann, are buried with a small headstone with the rough initials E. C on one side and A. C on the other. His house was known as “Chepados” (a native Indian word for an intersection in trails) and it is still standing at 279 Ledyard Highway, Mystic, Connecticut.

Click here to see a photograph of Chepados http://173.254.28.14/~collvero/family/doc/chepados_04.html

For more information on Edward Colver:

Colver-Culver Family Genealogy as Descended from Edward Colver of Groton, Connecticut to the Thirteenth Generations in America, by Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Santa Monica, California: privately published, 1984.

The Town of Dedham, by Don Gleason Hill, Dedham, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1886, Volume 3. (available to read online at www.archive.org )

Public Records of Connecticut, 1665 – 1677, Volume 2, pages 408 and 417. (Internet Archive has these to read online, see this link: http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/ )

Genealogy:

Generation 1: Edward Colver, born about 1610 in England, died 1685 in Mystic, Connecticut; married on 19 September 1638 in Dedham, Massachusetts to Ann Ellis, daughter of John Ellis. Nine children.

Generation 2: Mary Colver, born 4 November 1652 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, died 1731; married on 14 December 1670 in New London, Connecticut to John Burrows, son of Robert Burrows and Mary Unknown. Nine children.

Generation 3: John Burrows m. Lydia Hubbard,

Generation 4: Desire Burris m. Moses Gore

Generation 5: Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford.

Generation 6: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 7: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Surname Saturday ~ Burrows of Connecticut

Robert Burrows was an unmarried man who arrived in the New World aboard the Arabella, the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. I had several ancestors also on this voyage: including Edward Convers and Thomas Mayhew. Burrows traveled with his good friend Robert Parke, and they both settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut by 1639. Later he removed to Mystic, and he was appointed the ferryman across the Mystic River by the General Court of Connecticut in 1660. Governor Winthrop of Connecticut often visited him at Mystic.

Robert Burrows died in 1682. His homestead at Mystic was occupied by his son John, and held by the Burrows family for 215 years, until 1904. It was the home of Reverend Roswell Burrows in the seventh generation. John Burrows died in 1716 without a will and was buried at the Wightman Burying Grounds under a large flat granite stone inscribed “J. B. 14 died 1716”. All his children were born in Groton and baptized by the Reverend James Noyes of the First Congregational Church of Stonington.

John Burrows, Jr. lived in the part of New London that became Groton in 1705. They belonged to the Congregational Church in Stonington, and he is on record for being “re-admitted July 20, 1701, having been suspended for offense to Mr. Saltonstall”. This was an episode of dissention in the church over the establishment of a new church east of the Thames River. He was later dismissed to the church at Poquonnock in Groton.

For more about Robert Burrows:

Robert Burrows and his Descendants 1630 – 1974, by R. E. Burrows, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1975, Volumes I and II (this book is available to read, and searchable, at Ancestry.com)

Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, by Henry Reed Stiles, Part 1, page 168 (available to read, and searchable, at Google Book Search)

History of New London, Connecticut, by Francis Caulkins, Carlisle, Massachusetts: Applewood books, (originally published 1895), pages 301-302.

Genealogy:

Generation 1: Robert Burrows married about 1641 in Wethersfield, Connecticut to Mary, the widow of Samuel Ireland. She died on 3 October 1672 in Mystic, Connecticut. Two children.

Generation 2: John Burrows, born about 1642 in Wethersfield, died 12 February 1716 in Groton, Connecticut; married on 14 December 1670 in New London, Connecticut to Mary Colver, daughter of Edward Colver and Ann Ellis. She was born about 4 November 1652 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died in 1731. Nine children.

Generation 3: John Burrows, born 2 September 1671 in New London, died 26 May 1752 in Groton; married on 14 October 1700 to Lydia Hubbard, daughter of Hugh Hubbard and Jane Latham. She was born 7 February 1675. Nine children.

Generation 4: Desire Burris, born about 1718 in Groton, died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada; married on 27 May 1740 in Preston, Connecticut to Moses Gore, son of Samuel Gore and Hannah Draper. He was born on 23 September 1709 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Eight children