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John THOMPSON / Priscilla POWELL

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Joseph LOOMIS / Sarah HILL

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[NI1751] Granted 4 acres of land from the Plantation on 3 May 1643. Freeman in 1654. In 1660 he acquired land on the east side of the Conn. River. He was a member of Windsor Troop of horse, and was in King Phillip's War, 1675-6.

[NI1758] Sarah was the eldest dau. of Wm. and Phillis (Lyman) Hill, of Windsor.

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James EZELL / Sarah Elizabeth SEATON

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[NI2938] There is a strong possibility that James is a brother to Hiram. A Jonathan Ezell is listed in 1860 Maries Co, MO along with James Ezell, Hiram Ezell, Eliza Evans, and James Seaton on adjoining farms.

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Robert CRAIGHEAD / (Unknown)

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[NI5152] Was the minister of Donoughmore, in Donegal, Ireland. He was transferred to Derry in the beginning of 1690, and continued there until his death. He was the author of books of piety and a religious controversy with Bishop King.

[10438] Minister at Donoughmore, Donegal, Ireland

[NI5134] A slate stone in the graveyard of Chilmark marks her burial place. It bears the following inscription: "Here lies buried the body of Katherine Homes the very pious relict of the Reverend William Homes late deceased who departed this life to a better. April ye 10th 1754 in ye 82nd year of her age".

[NI5155] He was educated at the University of Glasgow, was a divinity student at Edinburgh, and studied at Leyden, Holland. He was ordained in Dublin in 1709. He was Pastor at the Capell Street Presbyterian Church in Dublin, jointly with Rev. Iredell. He was a Moderator of the Irish Synod, 1719. He died in Dublin, 1738.

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George SANDERS\SAUNDERS / Mehitable BARTLETT

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Josiah BALDWIN / Mercy CAMP

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[NI7832] Daughter of Edward Camp.

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Otto MUTZ / Ella Porter RUSSELL

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William WADSWORTH / Unknown

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[NI10453] Was among the wealthier and more influential proprietors and settlers of Hartford. His house lot was nearly co-extensive with the square enclosed by Asylum, Trumbull, and West Pearl Streets, and the road by the river; which continued in the Wadsworth family until 1773, when it went into the hands of George and William Burr, who were relatives of the family.
, Sept. 16, 1632. She brought, says Winthrop, "one hundred and twenty-three passengers, whereof fifty were children, all in good health." They had been aboard twelve weeks, and eight weeks from Land's End. The ship first made land at Cape Ann, and it being foggy could move only by using the lead. She was five days in Massachusetts Bay before coming to anchor before Boston.
, only the names of about thirty are preserved, and of these the name of William Wadsworth heads the list, stating his family to consist of four persons.
nly three or four miles from Boston. He was a man at this time in middle life, at just what age is not known. It has been stated that he was born in the year 1600, though the year or the place of his birth in England is not definitely known. Hinman, in his history of the early settlers of Hartford, says: "In what part of England he was born or emigrated to America from is not known. In Farmer's Journal, giving the biography of Hon. James Wadsworth, of Geneseo, New York, he (James) is described as having descended from a native of the county of Palatine of Durham," though other places have been designated, probably with equal authority. Those people most familiar with history incline to the belief that William was a member of Rev. Mr. Hooker's church before he came to America. He went to Newtown with those people, and helped to induce the reverend gentleman to come to this country with others of his parishioners, after they arrived here. Rev. Mr. Hooker's church in England, of which he had pastoral charge, was in Chelmsford, about twenty miles north of the London district, which contained about that time thirty parishes; but from which particular parish these people came is yet uncertain. In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Chelmsford was a part of the pope pious of the Bishop of London. The members of Mr. Hooker's church were fervently attached to him. Soon after their arrival here they solicited him to come over; and after his arrival Mr. Wadsworth was in full communion and a member of his band. No one of the family now appear to know anything concerning his first wife, as no account is found of her death. It is possible that she died before he came to this country. By this wife he had four children: Sarah, who married John Wilcox; William, who died in infancy; Mary, who married Thomas Stoughton, and John, who settled at Farmington. Soon after he removed to Cambridge he was the possessor of a house and a home. His residence was on the westerly side of Holyoke Street, near Harvard Square. On his removal to Hartford he sold his house to Elder Champney.
n the town organized, was chosen a member of the first board of selectmen, holding the office in the years 1634-35. During these years reports were continually coming to the ears of these settlers of the rich and valuable unoccupied lands on the Connecticut river. Rev. Mr. Hooker, who had in the mean time arrived, and, with most of the members of his church, had resolved to remove thither as early as 1635. Several persons from the Massachusetts Colony did go that year; but this company did not, on account of the opposition of the other settlers. But in 1636 the journey was undertaken and completed. Among them were William Wadsworth and his family. The distance from Dorchester, where the company started, to what is now Hartford, at this time was a long one. There were no bridges and no roads. They pursued their course by blazed trees. There were one or two invalids in the company, to be carried on litters, and lots of small children, with no canopy to cover them at night but the starry heavens. The journey lasted several days, they largely subsisting on the milk from their herds of cattle, which they drove along with them. The settlement they called Hartford. In 1637 William Wadsworth was chosen collector; from 1642-47 was one of the selectmen, and throughout his life was one of the most active men of the colony, both in church and state. Hinman says: "In 1639 he held several important offices in the town and colony, and sustained a high rank with the best puritan families of Hartford, both in character and wealth." In 1644 he married for a second wife Miss Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone. The children by this wife were Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Mary. A further account of these children is given in the genealogical register. William died at Hartford, 1675, his wife surviving him. In his will, dated 16 June 1675, he gave nothing to his daughter Sarah, and but £10 to his son John, by his first wife, who was then married and settled at Farmington. It is presumed that they had previously received their share. He gave to his son Thomas his lands, with buildings thereon, at East Hartford, upon which he settled. Joseph, of Charter Oak fame, settled and died in Hartford; and these three sons of William--John, Thomas and Joseph--are all of his male children that have descendants by the name of Wadsworth now living. William's estate at death was £1677 13s 9d. His widow died 1682.

[NI10473] Settled in Farmington, CT. Deputy 1672-1677; Assistant 1679-1689; one of the Standing Council during King Philip's War.

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William BASSETT / Anna MAYHEW

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Emanuel WALTZ / Hannah

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