Tombstone Tuesday - Benjamin Bulkley, died 1822 at Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed at the Wethersfield Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut

In Memory of

Mr. BENJAMIN

BULKLEY, who

died August 16th

1822.

Aged 91 years.

Benjamin Bulkley, the son of Charles Bulkely and Mary Sage, was born 1 August 1731.  He married twice, first on 3 November 1757 to Susanna Kirby who died on 27 May 1776, and then on 6 February 1777 to Elizabeth Brownell, who died on 30 January 1816.  He survived both wives and died on 16 August 1822 in Farmington, and was buried at the Wethersfield Village Cemetery. 

Benjamin Bulkley is the great grandson of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, Massachusetts, who is my 10th great grandfather.  He descends from the Reverend's son Gershom, and grandson, Edward.  

Click here to see my BULKELEY lineage:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/surname-saturday-bulkeley-of-concord.html   

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday - Benjamin Bulkley, died 1822 at Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 8, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/tombstone-tuesday-benjamin-bulkley-died.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Toddler killed by a Sleigh, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1789

This tombstone was photographed at the Wethersfield Village Cemetery, in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Hannah Daughter

of Mr. John & Mrs

Unice Standish

who was killed by 

a Sleigh Janry 20th

1789

Aged 2 Years 

6 mos

& 20 Days

Oh, what a tragedy this must have been!  Did little Hannah fall from the sleigh, or was she struck by the running vehicle?  It doesn't matter, because her parents obviously grieved her loss, and erected this lovely gravestone.

I photographed this stone because I was struck by the epitaph, and I'm also a descendant of Myles Standish, the Mayflower passenger.  However, this child was not a distant cousin since this Standish family descends from Thomas Standish (1612 - 1692), an immigrant from Lancashire, England to Wethersfield.  

Hannah Standish was the daughter of John Standish (1735 - 1798) and Eunice Tryon (1763 - 1837).  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Toddler killed by a Sleigh, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1789", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 18, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/tombstone-tuesday-infant-killed-by.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Chester Bulkley, buried 1848 in Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed in the Ancient Burying Ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Chester Bulkley

Born Feb. 22, 1782

Died Dec. 4, 1848

Behold the upright

For the end of that man is peace

Caroline Maria

His wife

Born March 8, 1798

Died Sept 17, 1872

Asleep in Jesus

Chester Bulkley, son of Charles Bulkely (1734 – 1813) and Eunice Welles (1746 – 1827) was born 22 February 1782 and died 4 December 1848 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  He was married three times, first to Hannah Buck, second to Martha Riley, and third to Caroline Maria Latimer (1798 – 1872).   He had three children with his first wife, Charles Dean b. 1810 d. young; Silas Butler, b. 1812. d. young; and John b. 1814, d. 1833.  He is my 3rd cousin, 8 generations removed. We are both descendants of Rev. Peter Bulkely (1583- 1659) of Concord, Massachusetts. 

Chester Bulkley’s 1830 house still exists in Wethersfield at 184 Main Street, and it is a five guest room bed and breakfast.  See this link: https://www.chesterbulkleyhouse.com/ 

The Bulkley Family Plot in Wethersfield, Connecticut

For more information on the Bulkeley family see The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, by Donald Lines Jacobus, 1933.  The sketch of Chester Bulkley is on pages 659 – 660.    Also see Wethersfield Inscriptions, by Edward Sweetser Tillotson, 1899,  page 29.    (both books are available online at Google books, the second book is also at Archive.org )

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Chester Bulkley, buried 1848 in Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 13, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/tombstone-tuesday-chester-bulkley.html: accessed [access date]).  

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Lt. Joseph Goodrich, buried in Wethersfield, Connecticut 1768

This tombstone was photographed in Wethersfield, Connecticut Village Cemetery

In Memory of

Leiut. Joseph

Goodrich who

died January ye

31st 1768 in ye

77th Year of

his Age.

Lt. Joseph Goodrich was the son of Lt. William Goodrich (1661 – 1737) and Grace Riley (1662 – 1712) born on 28 February 1691/2 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was the grandson of the immigrant Ensign William Goodrich (1621 – 1676) from Bury St. James, Suffolk England.  Joseph married Mehitable Goodwin on 23 December 1714 at the First Church in Hartford, Connecticut and had at least four children:  Mehitable b. 1716; Nathaniel, b. 1717;  Samuel, 1719; Dnaiel b. 1723; and Thomas b. 1726.   Joseph Goodrich died 31 January 1768 in Wethersfield.

Source: "The Goodrich Family in America", Lafayette Wallace Case, M.D., (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company 1889).

UPDATE:  Within a few hours of publishing this post online, Brian Zoldack of Connecticut informed me that the carver of this tombstone was Gershom Bartlett (1723 - 1798).  He wrote up a nice biography of Bartlett at this link on Find A Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bartlett&GSfn=Gershom&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=49&GScnty=2952&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=43393024&df=all

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Lt. Joseph Goodrich, buried in Wethersfield, Connecticut 1768", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 4, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/tombstone-tuesday-lt-joseph-goodrich.html:  accessed {access date).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Above an Ancestral Church

It's Weathervane Wednesday!

I post a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique or unusual weathervanes, too!  If you know a great weather vane near you, let me know if you'd like to have it featured on this blog.

Today's weather vane was photographed in Connecticut.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #270?  Scroll down to find the answer.

I recently took a research trip to Wethersfield, Connecticut to research my FOOTE, SMITH, and BLISS ancestors.  Nathaniel Foote (1592 - 1644) is buried in the cemetery behind this church, the First Church of Christ on Main Street in Wethersfield.  We didn't find his grave, but we did find some cousins' tombstones and other interesting sights.  This church and the weathervane were fascinating to me.

The Puritan congregation in Wethersfield was first gathered in 1635.  This brick building dates from 1761.  The weather vane atop the steeple is a gilded banner, and it appears to be original to the building.  Did you know that George Washington attended a service here on May 20, 1781? 

First Church of Christ in Wethersfield, Connecticut:  http://www.firstchurch.org/

The First Church Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/FirstChurchPage/  

Click here to see the entire series of Weathervane Wednesday posts!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Above an Ancestral Church", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 3, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/08/weathervane-wednesday-above-ancestral.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ David and Martha Deming, Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed at the Ancient Burial Ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut

In Memory                  In Memory

of Lievt.                  of Mrs. Mar

David                    tha wife of

Deming he               Lievt. David

died Febr. ye 17           Deming.   She

1777 in ye 75              died Septr ye 7

Year of                     1763 in ye 62

his Age.              Year of

                             her Age.

I love double tombstones.  This one has souls with heads shaped like light bulbs, close set eyes and a distinctive bulbous nose I've only seen in Wethersfield.  Other soul's head noses seen in this same burial ground are triangles.  Very peculiar, don't you think? 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~  David and Martha Deming, Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 12, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/tombstone-tuesday-david-and-martha.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah (Treat) Goodrich, died 1711/12 in Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed in the Ancient Burial Ground, Wethersfield, Connecticut

HERE

LIETH YE

BODY OF SARAH

GOODRICH WHO

DECEASED IANUARY

26 AN DOM 1711-12

BEING IN HEAR

48th YEAR

Sarah Treat, daughter of Richard Treat and Sarah Coleman, was born June 8, 1664 in Wethersfield, and died January 6, 1711/12 in Wethersfield. She was the first wife of Capt. Ephraim Goodrich, married in Wethersfield on 20 May 1684.  They had seven children:  Richard, Thomas, Ephraim, Gideon, Sarah, William and David.  He married second to Jerusha Treat, widow of Capt. Thomas Welles.

I sometimes see double dating used in vital records or town records, but not often do I see double dating on gravestones.  Click HERE for an explanation of why double dating was used before 1752.

Another example of the old style calendar on a gravestone in Portsmouth, New Hampshire can be seen HERE.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah (Treat) Goodrich, died 1711/12 in Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 28, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/tombstone-tuesday-sarah-treat-goodrich.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Samuel Treat, died 1756 in Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed at the Ancient Burying Ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

In Memory of

MR. SAMUEL TREAT

Who Departed this

Life Febry 2nd 1756

In the 33rd year

of his Age.

The winged soul on this tombstone is missing a piece of his cheek.

Many of the red sandstone gravestones in this cemetery were broken

because the material is very soft and crumbly.

Samuel Treat was born 26 December 1723 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was the son of Samuel Treat and Sarah Wolcott.  He married Jerusha Andrews and had five children - Sarah, Wolcott, Samuel, Jerusha and Martha.  Samuel Treat was the great grandson of immigrant ancestors Richard Treat and Alice Gaylord.

Another Samuel Treat (1650 - 1717) was the grandson of settlers Richard Treat and Alice Gaylord.  He married Elizabeth Mayo, my 8th great aunt.  I descend from her sister, Mary Mayo who married Jonathan Bangs. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Samuel Treat, died 1756 in Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 21, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/tombstone-tuesday-samuel-treat-died.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ African Burial Ground, Wethersfield, Connecticut

These photographs were taken at the Ancient Burying Ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

In front of the cemetery is a small, segregated area where the Africans were buried in colonial times.  You can almost imagine a fence around these graves to separated them from the white settlers.  In other New England towns like Portsmouth, New Hampshire or Boston the slaves were buried in a completely separate cemetery. 

In memory of

Quash Gomer: a

Native of Angola in

Africa, brought from

there in 1748 &

died June 6th 1799

Aged 68 years. 

Do the math.  Quash was only a teenager about 17 years old when he was sold into slavery.  According to one history, Quash Gomer bought his freedom from John Smith for 25 pounds. 

This stone and the others show evidence of being lovingly restored.  The original sandstone is quite prone to wear and weathering. 

In Memory of

FRANCOIS

who was born in Africa

and died July 11

1816 aged about 

55 years

Here lyeth

What was

mortal of Pri-

mus.  Free Negro Dec.

Novembr 17  1731

Aged about 70 Years.

For more information on the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground and Village Cemetery, see this website for photos, transcriptions and GPS coordinates of each stone:
http://wethersfieldhistory.org/burying-ground

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ African Burial Ground, Wethersfield, Connecticut",  Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 14, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/tombstone-tuesday-african-burial-ground.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ A Very Worn Ledger Stone

This tombstone was photographed at the Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, behind the First Church of Christ on Main Street.

Here

lies Interr'd

the Body of

Capt. Thomas

Wells who Deceased

September the 21st

1741, in the 63rd

Year of his

Age.

P. NELSON 2014

This very worn ledger stone was intriguing.  The soft sandstone was completely worn, but someone had recently altered it by adding a new plaque on top with what I assume is the original inscription.   

This tombstone is listed in the very complete book Wethersfield Inscriptions: A complete record of the inscriptions in the five burial places in the ancient town of Wethersfield, by Edward Sweetser Tillotson, 1899, page 136.   Perhaps this is how the descendants figured out what to put on the new plaque?  Note that the book was written in 1899, and the replacement plaque is dated 2014 - plenty of time for the soft sandstone to wear away.  

I have seen descendants erect replacement stones for ancestors, but this is the first time I have ever seen a tombstone altered with additional materials to replace the epitaph. 

For more information on the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground and Village Cemetery, see this website for photos, transcriptions and GPS coordinates of each stone:
http://wethersfieldhistory.org/burying-ground

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ A Very Worn Ledger Stone", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 7, 2016,  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/tombstone-tuesday-very-worn-ledger-stone.html:  accessed [access date]).

The Nathaniel Foote Memorial in Wethersfield, Connecticut

These photographs were taken on the village green in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  This was the site of the Nathaniel Foote homestead (Nathaniel Foote 1592 - 1644)  The monument was placed here by the original Foote Family Association in 1908.  This organization was active between 1907 and 1934, and then reorganized and is 30 years old.  The monument was restored during the 2009 Foote Family reunion.  We parked on a nearby residential street corner to visit this monument.  When we walked back I saw that we were parked under the street sign "Foote Path"! 

NATHANIEL FOOTE

THE SETTLER

BORN IN ENGLAND 1590

DIED IN WETHERSFIELD 1644

ERECTED BY THE

FOOTE FAMILY ASSOCIATION

OF AMERICA

ON THE ORIGINAL HOME LOT

SEPTEMBER 17, 1908

[Back of the monument]

HIS CHILDREN

ELIZABETH

NATHANIEL

MARY

ROBERT

FRANCES

SARAH

REBECCA

You can learn more about the Foote Family Association of America at their website:  www.footefamily.org

My FOOTE lineage can be seen at this previous “Surname Saturday” post:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-foote-of-wethersfield.html

Generation 1:   Nathaniel Foote m. Elizabeth Deming

Generation 2:   Nathaniel Foote m. Elizabeth Smith

Generation 3:   Nathaniel Foote m. Margaret Bliss

Generation 4:   Eunice Foote m. Michael Taintor

Generation 5:   Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6:   Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7:    Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

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 Wilkinson (my grandparents)

PS -  I had two immigrant ancestors named FOOTE.  There is Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and also Pasco Foote of Salem (Manchester), Massachusetts.  Here is a link to the "Surname Saturday" post about Pasco Foote:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-foote-of-salem.html 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The Nathaniel Foote Memorial in Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 6, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-nathaniel-foote-memorial-in.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Rev. and Hon. Gershom Bulkely (1636 - 1713) Wethersfield, Connecticut

This tombstone was photographed at the Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, behind the First Church of Christ on Main Street.

Rev. and

Hon. GERSHOM BULKELY

Died Dec. 2^nd 1713 aged 77.

He was honorable in his descent.

Of rare abilities, excellent in learning,

Master of many languages,

Exquisite in his skill in

Divinity, physic and law

And a most exemplary

And

Christian life.

In certam spem beatae resurrectionis repositus.

GERSHOM BULKLEY [upside down]

This tombstone is odd to me for several reasons.  First of all, I had never seen red, sandstone tombstones until we visited Wethersfield.  It is a very soft, crumbly stone, and many of the grave markers in this cemetery were in poor condition.  Gershom’s grave marker is a ledger style table, which was very worn and difficult to read.  Also, it is very odd that the family crest is so poorly carved, almost cartoonish.  And his name is upside down on the bottom?

Gershom Bulkeley, son of Rev. Peter Bulkeley (my 10^th great grandfather) and Grace Chetwood, was born in January 1636 in Concord, Massachusetts, and died 2 December 1713 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.  He married Sarah Chauncy, daughter of Charles Chauncy (2^nd president of Harvard College) and Catherine Eyre, on 26 October 1659 in Concord.  They had six children, and son John also became a minister (third generation). 

Gershom graduated Harvard College in 1655.  He served as a minister in New London and Wethersfield.  He was also a trained doctor and served as a surgeon during King Philip’s War where he was wounded near Mount Wachusett.  He was a deputy to the Connecticut General Court, and a Justice of the Peace.

Peter and Grace Bulkeley took their voyage to the New World in the 1630s.  During the voyage it appeared that Grace “apparently died and her husband, supposing land to be near and unwilling to consign the beloved form to a watery grave, urgently entreated the Captain that the body might be kept one day and yet another day.” [Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, by Henry R. Stiles, 2009] On the third day she stirred, and recovered. She gave birth some months later in Concord, Massachusetts and named the child “Gershom”, a biblical name which means “exile”.  It is supposed that part of this story is myth since the Bulkeley family came from England in separate ships to throw off the authorities that Rev. Peter Bulkeley was leaving England as a “non-conformist”. 

Gershom Bulkley's tombstone is next to

his son's, Charles Bulkley.  You can read a post

about Charles' tombstone HERE.  

For more information on the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground and Village Cemetery, see this website for photos, transcriptions and GPS coordinates of each stone:
http://wethersfieldhistory.org/burying-ground 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Rev. and Hon. Gershom Bulkely (1626 - 1713) Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 31, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/tombstone-tuesday-rev-and-hon-gershom.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mr. Charles Bulkley, Wethersfield, CT

This tombstone was photographed at the Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, behind the First Church of Christ on Main Street.

Here lies Interr'd

the Body of Mr.

CHARLES BULKLEY

who Departed this

Life Febry 21st 1758

In the 55th year

of his Age

Charles Bulkley is my 2nd cousin, 8 generations removed.  His grandfather, my 9th great grand uncle, Rev. Gerhom Bulkeley, removed from Cambridge, where he graduated from Harvard College in 1655, to be the minister at New London, Connecticut.  Charles was born in Wethersfield, the son of Edward Bulkeley and Dorothy Prescott, on 25 March 1702, and he died there on 21 March 1758.  He married Mary Sage on 28 May 1724 and they had eleven children.  

Charles Bulkely was the great grandson of Rev. Peter Bulkely (1583 - 1659), a founder of Concord, Massachusetts, and also my 10th great grandfather.  He is also the great grandson of John Prescott (1604 - 1681) and Mary Gawkroger, my 9th great grandparents.  Charles's is also a great grandson of Charles Chauncey (1592 - 1672), the second President of Harvard College from 1654 - 1671. 

For more information on the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground and Village Cemetery, see this website for photos, transcriptions and GPS coordinates of each stone:
http://wethersfieldhistory.org/burying-ground

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mr. Charles Bulkley, Wethersfield, CT", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 24, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/tombstone-tuesday-mr-charles-bulkley.html: accessed [access date])/

Surname Saturday ~ TAINTOR of Connecticut

TAINTOR

The gravestone of Michael Taintor in Colchester, Connecticut

In Memory of Mr.
Michael Taintor
Son of Deacon
Michael Taintor
Mrs. Eunice his wife
who died Nove. ye
25th 1748 ye 20th
year of his Age.

Charles Taintor was an early settler of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  His son Michael, AKA Micah or  Micaiell married Elizabeth Rose, the daughter of other early settlers.  The records do not mention his wife, nor did his other children leave descendants.  I have found no proof that he was from Wales, although several online sources  and Savage have stated that he was Welsh.   Charles was a merchant, and was lost at sea with a Connecticut neighbor, Jeremiah Jagger, in October 1654.   They were headed to the West Indies.

Michael Taintor (abt. 1620 – 1673) removed to Totoket, now Branford, Connecticut, about 1644 the same time his father Charles went to Fairfield with Jeremiah Jagger.   Michael was a sea captain and was at one time the master of a ship owned by Isaac Allerton (A Mayflower passenger and also my 11^th great grandfather in another lineage).  Allerton’s vessel sailed back and forth to Virginia.

Sources for Taintor family information:

Genealogy of the Taintor Family of Connecticut: Descendants of Charles Taintor of Weathersfield and Fairfield, Connecticut, a manuscript by Starr Taintor dated June 21, 1949, Chicago, Illinois and available to read at www.Ancestry.com

There are references to Charles and Michael Taintor in other books about early Wethersfield and Connecticut, such as:

Ancient Wethersfield, by Stiles, Volume II, page 693

Connecticut Colonial Records, Volume I, pages 149, 163

James Savages’ Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Volume IV, page 248

My Taintor genealogy:

Generation 1:  Charles Taintor, born about 1597 probably in Wales, died 1654 lost at sea on a voyage to the West Indies from Connecticut; married to Mary Unknown

Generation 2: Michael Taintor, born about 1625 in Wales, died about 1673 in Branford, Connecticut; married to Elizabeth Rose.  Five children.

Generation3: Michael Taintor, born 12 October 1652 in Branford, died 19 Feb 1731; married on 3 April 1679 to Mary Loomis, daughter of Thomas Loomis and Hannah Fox.  She was born 16 January 1659 in Windsor, Connecticut and died on 11 May 1695. Four children.  Michael Taintor remarried second to Mabel Olmstead.

Generation 4: Michael Taintor, born 30 September 1680 in Windsor, died 16 March 1771 in Colchester, Connecticut; married on 3 December 1712 to Eunice Foote, daughter of Nathaniel Fox and Margaret Bliss.  She was born 10 May 1694 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  Seven children.

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor, born on 13 April 1713 in Colchester, died after 1779; married on 4 August 1737 to Aaron Skinner, son of John Skinner and Sarah Porter.  He was born on 14 June 1713 in Colchester, and died on 17 November 1766 in Colchester.  Ten children.

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend 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 (my grandparents)

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-taintor-of-connecticut.html

Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ SMITH of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts

SMITH

Samuel Smith and his wife and four children sailed from Ipswich, England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony on board the ship Elizabeth in April 1634.  They first lived in Watertown, and then were in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635. 

In the records of Wethersfield Samuel Smith is called “The Fellmonger” because he was a fur trader and a tanner. He was also part owner and builder of the Tryal, which might be the first ship built in the Connecticut colony.  Around 1659 he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he appears in the records as “Lieutenant Smith”.   The regicides Whalley and Goffe supposedly hid in Smith’s home in Hadley.  (Seven men who signed the death warrant for King Charles I were known as the Regicides.  Edward Whalley, a relative to Oliver Cromwell, and his son-in-law, William Goffe,  escaped to Boston in 1660.  They lived openly for a while until orders arrived for their arrest. They fled to the New Haven colony, and then to Hadley where they lived for fifteen years.)

The only compiled genealogy about this family is Lieutenant Samuel Smith and His Children by James William Hook.  The sketch for Samuel Smith is found in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634 – 1635, pages 396 – 402. There is an article about the identity of Samuel Smith’s wife, who was Elizabeth Smith, in The American Genealogist, Volume 32, page 195 “The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield”.  The Smith family is listed on board the Elizabeth in NEHGS Register, Volume 14, page 329, Hotten’s Original Lists of Persons of Quality pages 280 and 282, Pope’s Pioneers of Massachusetts.  There is a short sketch about Samuel Smith in The History of Whately, Massachusetts.

My Smith genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Smith, born about 1602 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, died 16 Jan 1681 in Hadley, Massachusetts; married on 6 October 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Smith, born about 1602 and died 16 March 1686 in Hadley.  Six children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Smith, baptized on 28 Jan 1627 at St. Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died after 1701; married about 1646 to Nathaniel Foote, son of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming.  He was born on 5 March 1619 in Colchester, Essex, England and died in 1655 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Four children.

Generation 3:  Nathaniel Foote m. Margaret Bliss

Generation 4: Eunice Foot m. Michael Taintor

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend 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 (my grandparents)

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-smith-of-wethersfield.html

Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ FOOTE of Wethersfield, Connecticut

FOOTE

from the Foote Family Association website www.footefamily.org

I have two separate FOOTE lineages.  Last year I wrote up a Surname Saturday post for my lineage from Pasco Foote (about 1608 – 1670), who lived in Salem, Massachusetts.  You can read it at this link:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-foote-of-salem.html

Today I’m posting about my immigrant ancestor, Nathaniel Foote (1592 – about 1644) of Wethersfield, Connecticut.   There is no proof that the two Foote families are connected genealogically.  

Nathaniel Foote was born in Shalford, England.  He had an amazing number of interesting relations and ancestors in England, including a first cousin who was Sir Thomas Foote, the Sheriff of London in 1649 and also Lord Mayor of London in 1650.  Nathaniel was apprenticed to a grocer as a young man.  He married Elizabeth Deming, whose brother John Deming was also one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  Mary, Nathaniel’s sister, married John Hewes and had three children who came to Roxbury, Massachusetts. (Joshua Hewes, Elizabeth Hewes married Ralph Hemingway, and Pheobe Hewes who married Richard Gorde ).

By 1633 Nathaniel Foote and his family had arrived in Boston and then Watertown, Massachusetts.  By 1635 he was one of the first settlers to Wethersfield.  Nathaniel Foote received a ten acre house lot on Broad Street, and the owner of several other grants of land nearby.  His house lot is now a public park on Broad Street in Wethersfield.

In the early days at Wethersfield there were many conflicts with the native Indians, and the Foote family suffered several losses, including a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren taken captive, and another grandchild killed, another daughter and three grandchildren killed while her husband and another two children were captured. 

Nathaniel Foote died in 1644 and his widow, Elizabeth, married Thomas Welles, who was later the Governor.  Although Nathaniel died intestate, Elizabeth’s will names her children and grandchildren, and she left a large piece of land to her son Robert Foote. 

For more information on the FOOTE family, see The Foote Family, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1849 and Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield. There is a sketch of Nathaniel Foote in the Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume II, pages 540 -544 and there are also three articles mentioning  the Foote family in The American Genealogist, Volume 58, 165 – 167; Volume 71, pages 149 – 150; and also Volume 72, page 49 – 55.  There is an active Foote Family Association of America and website at www.footefamily.org 

My Foote Lineage:

Generation 1: Nathaniel Foote, son of Robert Foote and Joanne Brooke, born about 21 September 1592 in Shalford, Colchester, England and died before 20 November 1644 in Wethersfield, Connecticut;  married about 1615 in England to Elizabeth Deming, daughter of Jonathan Deming and Elizabeth Gilbert.  She was born about 1593 in Shalford, died 28 July 1683.  She married second on 2 March 1645 in Wethersfield as the second wife to Governor Thomas Welles. Eight children.

Generation 2: Nathaniel Foote, born 5 March 1619 in St. James, Colchester, England and died about 1655 in Wethersfield; married about 1646 to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Samuel and Smith and Elizabeth Smith (they were both Smiths). She married second to William Gull. Four children. 

Generation 3: Nathaniel Foote, born 10 January 1648 in Wethersfield, died 12 January 1703 in Wethersfield; married on 2 May 1672 in Springfield to Margaret Bliss, daughter of Nathaniel Bliss and Catherine Chapin. She was born 12 November 1649 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died 3 April 1745 in Colchester, Connecticut.  Nine children.

Generation 4: Eunice Foote, born 10 May 1694 in Weathersfield; married on 3 December 1712 to Michael Taintor, son of Michael Taintor and Mary Loomis. Four children.

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend 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 (my grandparents)

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