Nathaniel ELLSWORTH

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Nathaniel married Abigail STRONG on 1 Jan 1729 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America. Abigail was born on 11 May 1701 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 20 Jan 1745 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Nathanael ELLSWORTH was born on 9 Sep 1730 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 16 Sep 1730; was buried in Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
2. Abigail ELLSWORTH was born on 7 Aug 1731 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 Aug 1739 in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Aug 1739 in Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

Nathaniel married Catherine CHAPIN on 5 Feb 1746 in Enfield, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. Catherine (daughter of Ebenezer CHAPIN and Ruth JANES) was born on 4 Jan 1711 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1786 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Moses ELLSWORTH was born on 11 May 1748 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 31 May 1824 in Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut.
2. Joel ELLSWORTH was born on 9 Feb 1749 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 31 Jan 1831 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
3. Abigail ELLSWORTH was born on 3 Aug 1752 in Windsor, Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America; died on 1 Mar 1833 in Delhi, Delaware County, New York; was buried in Mar 1833 in Woodland Cemetery, Delhi, Delaware, New York.

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Thomas married Sarah MILLS. Sarah (daughter of Simon MILLS and Mary BUELL) was born on 16 Sep 1670 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 25 Mar 1719 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in 1719 in Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Poquonock, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
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• possessions: 19 Mar 1654, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Freeman: 21 May 1657, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Probate: 1689, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Will probated: 11 Nov 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

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BIOGRAPHY: There were apparently three brothers, sons of John Ellsworth, that left England because of religious persecution. Josiah was the 2nd to leave. Josiah's Name first appears on the Windsor Town Records in connection with his marriage; and, the same year he bought a house and lot south of the Rivulet (and near the Old Mill) on what was afterwards known as the Gillet place, opposite the residence of the late Hon. N. H. Barber. In 1655 he bought the property later known as the Chief Justice Ellsworth place. He was a juror in 1664; made freeman 21 May, 1667. Children are listed in the Ellsworth Genealogy and the Mathew Grant Record.

Josiah married Elisabeth HOLCOMBE on 16 Nov 1654 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Elisabeth (daughter of Thomas HOLCOMBE and Elizabeth FERGUSON) was born on 16 Nov 1634 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened in in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 18 Sep 1712 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried in Sep 1712 in Granby Cemetery, Granby, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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ELIZABETH2 HOLCOMBE (Thomas1) was born in 1634 at probably Dorchester, MA.17 She married Sgt. Josiah Ellsworth, son of John Ellsworth and Lucia Bower, on 16 Nov 1654 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.18,19,20 She died on 18 Sep 1712 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.21,22,23
2a. Older genealogies frequently included "three brothers came to America" tales and some fraudulent professionals invented noble origins for immigrant ancestors to satisfy clients seeking greater social status. Others have attempted to validate lines of descent from Sir John and Lucia (Bower) Ellsworth to other immigrants of colonial New England named Aylsworth, Ellsworth, etc. No original records have been found to document the existence of the Ellsworth-Bower family.

Children are listed in the Ellsworth Genealogy and the Mathew Grant Record.

Children of Elizabeth2 Holcombe and Sgt. Josiah Ellsworth were as follows:

9. i. JOSIAS3 was born on 5 Nov 1655 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He married Martha Gaylord, daughter of Samuel Gaylord and Elizabeth Hull, on 30 Oct 1679 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

ii. ELIZABETH was born on 11 Nov 1657 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She married Lt. Nathaniel Loomis, son of Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore, on 23 Dec 1680. She died in 1743.
Stiles says no issue. No children listed in the Ellsworth Genealogy. Bates lists Rebecca. The Loomis genealogy says no children.

10. iii. MARY was born on 7 May 1660 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She married Sgt. Daniel Loomis, son of Deacon John Loomis and Elizabeth Scott, on 23 Dec 1680.

11. iv. MARTHA was born on 7 Dec 1662 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She married Sgt. John Osborn, son of John Osborn and Ann Oldage, circa 1690.

12. v. THOMAS was born on 2 Sep 1665 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He married Sarah Mills, daughter of Simon Mills and Mary Buell, on 24 Jul 1691. He married Deborah (--?--).

13. vi. JONATHAN was born on 28 Jun 1669. He married Sarah Grant, daughter of Tahan Grant and Hannah Palmer, on 26 Oct 1693 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

14. vii. JOHN was born on 7 Oct 1671. He married Esther White, daughter of Lt. Daniel White and Sarah Crow, on 9 Dec 1696
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15. viii. JOB was born on 13 Apr 1674. He married Mary Trumbull, daughter of Joseph Trumbull and Hannah Smith, on 19 Dec 1695. He married Sarah Warner, daughter of Robert Warner and Elizabeth Grant, in Oct 1711.

ix. BENJAMIN was born on 19 Jan 1676.
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BIOGRAPHY: Simons' parents died when he was very young, about 1637/1638. It is believed that he was cared for by his uncle Simon. This uncle Simon Mills was an early settler, baker, and trader. It is believed that Simon grew up near the southern shoreline of the Farmington River where his uncle had land granted by a plantation in 1640. On the 10 of May 1653, when Simon was about 16 he purchased a houselot, with meadow adjoining (Loomis 1:64a) or his Uncle purchased it for him. Records show that this uncle kept an account with John Pynchon, a merchant of Springfield, Massachusetts for at least 14 years after the purchase of this land so it is presummed that this land was used just for grazing cattle because it was some distance for the Mill Brook district. This land has been identified as property on Broad Street (between Rowland Lane on the east, and Broad Street on the west and between the present "Windsor House" at the corner of Broad and Center Streets at the northern end, and the Windsor Library at the southern end of Windsor centere Green) (Stiles 2:500). After Simon married Mary Buell they made there residence on this land and that it was where their first seven children were born, three of whom died young. On March 23, 1660, Simon was chosen "Fence Viewer" by the Town of Windsor (Windsor Town Acts, 1:47b) and he was named as security in the pruchase of two stears and a cow by Edward King of Thomas Ford. Simon became a supporting member of the First Church in Windsor organized in 1630 and built in Windsor on the site marked by Founders Monument in 1960. Simon purchased a short seat, holding 3 persons. Mary's father was the carpenter who built the church. After 1670, Simon, having been given a grant of land in the new plantation, at that time called Massaco (later called Simsbury), took his family, wife Mary and children Mary, Hannah, John and Sarah, over the Talcott Mountains to a new home in the undeveloped plantation. When the town was burned in 1675 by King Philip's Indians, they returned temporarily to Windsor. Information from Hazel Bird. BIOGRAPHY: Some sources site Simons father as Simon instead of John. BIOGRAPHY: MATTHEW GRANT, WILLIAM BUELL, MICHAEL HUMPHREYS, SIMON MILLS, AND JOHN CASE On March 20, 1630, a ship called the "Mary and John" sailed from Plymouth, England, bearing 140 persons bound for New England in the American colonies. On May 30, they anchored in New England at the harbor of Nantasket (now Hull), Massachusetts. Among these passengers was a young man named Matthew Grant. The "Mary and John"'s passengers stayed briefly at the nearby town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. In September 1633, some of them set sail again, down the New England Coast to a site where a scouting colony had designed a section of land for a new town of Windsor, Connecticut. In the coming months, Matthew Grant, like other members of the "Mary and John"'s party and some other colonists, made the short voyage to help establish Windsor. In 1635 Windsor's settlers began dividing the land into lots for distribution among the town's founders. As a professional serveyor, Matthew Grant was closely involved in this process. BIOGRAPHY: Indeed, Matthew Grant was one of the most influential persons nvolved in the establishment of Windsor. In addition to being the town's surveyor for several years, he served as its Town Clerk for some terms. He maintained a thorough volume called the Old Church Records, which is one of the most important records documenting Windsor's early history. BIOGRAPHY: Michael Humphreys, was a pitch-and-tar manufacturer who received land title in 1647, the same year he married Matthew Grant's daughter Priscilla. In 1653, Simon Mills, a trader, bought land in Windsor, and, at some point, John Case also bought land in the town. BIOGRAPHY: In the 1660's, a major dispute wracked the Windsor Community Church (and other churches across New England). Most New England churches, including Windsor's, were governed by townsmen with strict Puritan inclinations. As immigration in the region grew, increasing numbers of settlers arrived who were more sympathetic to the established Church of England than to Puritan beliefs. Legally, these non-Puritan settlers had little choice other than to attend the Puritan worship services and to pay taxes to support the church and the pastor's family. The non-Puritan settlers began to insist that the laws governing church membership and support be modified to reflect the changing mix of Windsor's residents. BIOGRAPHY: Michael Humphreys was particularly outspoken on this point, even standing trial in local court for his challenge to the community church. By 1669, he had had enough. He left Windsor to helped establish the nearby settlement of Simsbury. Also among our Windsor ancestors to move to Simsbury were John Case and Simon Mills, Jr., the son of the early settler of Windsor, and his wife Mary Buell, the daughter of William Buell. Bradley Rymph Genealogy Page.

Simon married Mary BUELL on 23 Feb 1659 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of William BUELL and Mary POST) was born on 3 Sep 1642 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 24 Jun 1718 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: The original Will and original Inventory, which is kept on file at the Connecticut State Library, for the Estate of Mary Buell Mills Bissel, dated 9 Apr 1718 named her daughters, Mary, Hannah and Elizabeth, and grandchildren, heirs of son John Mills and heirs of daughter Sarah Ellsworth. She named son Simon Mills Jr., sole Executor of her Estate, and signed the document "Mary Bifel". A few of the items listed on the Inventory are: one mohair coat, one serge manto, riding hood, one silk hood, one pair of shoes, two pairs of gloves, a blue calico apron, one feather bed, two blankets, a warming pan, a spinning wheel, a great wheel, wool cards, one cow and one sheep. Information from Hazel Bird.

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John married Lucia BOWER on 20 Dec 1613 in Eelstown, Cambridgeshire, England. Lucia was born in 1590 in Eelstown, Cambridgeshire, England; died in in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: 1633, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; Migration 1633-Arrived a Dorchester, Massachusetts-Anderson's Great Migration.
• Residence: 1634, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; Freeman 14 May 1634
• Religion: 14 May 1634, First Parish Church of Dorchester, Massachusettes Bay Colony, Massachusetts; Membership
• Land Paquannick: 25 Dec 1640

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BIOGRAPHY: Although Thomas Holcomb and most of his descendants usually spell the name "Holcomb", it bears an "e" on Dorchester and Boston records. BIOGRAPHY: History:The sources on Thomas Holcombe differ considerably on Thomas' ancestry. Thomas was born in England, most probably in one of the southwestern counties, Pembrokeshire, Wiles, or Devonshire. We do not know the date of his birth but his wife seems to have been born about 1617 and their first child born about 1634: McCracken believes this would place his birth somewhere about 1610; Seaver says 1601. Seaver and other early researchers think that Thomas was born to Gilbert and Ann Courtney Holcomb. George McCracken Writing in the "American Genealogist" Vol 26:109, found that Gilbert Holcomb's oral will stated d.s.p. which meant died without issue and that Gilbert left his estate to his brother-in-law, Richard Bonithon. McCracken's research is based on J.L. Vivian's "The visitations of the County Devon", on pages 474 and 533. Jesse Seaver thought that English records indicated that Thomas Holcomb was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England to Ann and Gilbert Holcomb. BIOGRAPHY: Thomas is thought to have come on the 1630 voyage of the "Mary and John", (Our Heritage Vol.III) but there is no proof of it. In March, 1630, he was in a company which assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, where a large ship of 400 tons, chartered by Captain Squeb, for the voyage to America. It is thought that ship was the "Mary and John". On whatever ship they crossed, Thomas was in Massachusetts Bay by 4 May 1634 on which dat he became a freeman, and he is recorded as a resident of Dorchester. Refer to Internet printout for additional information. dl In the Spring of 1636, Reverend John Warham left Dorchester and came to Windsor,Connecticut, bringing his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, with him. Before leaving Dorchester Thomas sold his estate to Richad Jones (12 Aug 1635). Later, 1639, he moved to Poquonock, Hartford, CT., four miles west of Windsor, where he engaged in Farming. He was a Representative from Windsor and Hartford in the Convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut C olony. Thomas died at Windsor. His grave is located in an old cemetary near the old homestead at Poquonock. His grave was marded by a brown stone about 2X4 feet in size. The stone, having crumbled with age, was removed. It was replaced with a new marker that was inscribed with family information, much of which is wrong. There is a story of the tombstone reported by a Mrs. Carrie Marshall Kendrick who lived on Poquonock Ave in Windsor that there was formerly a small cemetery by her house in which Thomas Holcombe was buried in Oct 1657. Members of the Holcomb family "later"removed to what is now Granby and took with them Thomas Holcomb's tombstone, if not his remains also and inserted the 1657 stone into an obelisk-type monument in the Granby Street Cemetery in Granby. Mrs. Kendrick further stated, that after C.G. Flanders reported on all the stones of that graveyard in 1934, that family members had demolished the obelisk-type monument and replaced it with a modern granite monument, and the original slab was then thrown into a dump. The inscription on the new stone is as follows: THOMAS HOLCOMB, BORN IN ENGLAND, DIED OCT. 1657 THOMAS, HIS SON, DIED 1736 ELIZABETH PETTEBONE, HIS WIFE DIED 1740 DANIEL, THEIR SON DIED 1760 ESTHER BUEL, HIS WIFE DIED 1765 DANIEL, THEIR ONLY SON, DIED OCT. 12 1836 AE 85 SARAH, HIS WIFE, DIED SEPT. 5, 1835 AE 54 HEPZIBAH GRISWOLD, HIS WIFE, DIED JULY 11, 1814 AE 33 GAYLORD G., THEIR 2ND SONE, DROWNED, JULY 4 1844 AE 50 On the reverse side under Masonic emblem: ALFRED E. HOLCOMB, AUG. 5, 1867 - SEPT.13, 1956 MABLE METCALF, HIS WIFE, NOV. 26, 1881 - MAY 7, 1956 EDMUND HOLCOMB, DIED DEC. 20, 1874 AE 74 ELIZA M., HIS WIFE, DIED SEPT. 12, 1862 AE 55 EMILY H., HIS WIFE, DIED JULY 21, 1914 AE 82 DANIEL E., ONLY CHILD OF EDMUND AND ELIZA, DIED CAROLINE H. CASE, DIED OCT. 3 1911 AE 47 The data on the north side of the stone contain a number of errors. Thomas Holcomb had no sone named Thomas, and, though C.G. Flanders must have seen a stone for the son, with the date of death, given as 1736, he shows no first name. Thomas did have a son who died in 1736, Benajah. Benajah, however, married Sarah Eno, not Elizabeth Pettebone, and though there were Holcomb-Pettebone marriages, no Elizabeth Pettebone married any Holcomb in the period. Some researchers feel that son Joshua belongs on the stone in place of non-excistant Thomas. BIOGRAPHY: His property was inventoried 1 Oct, 1657, the inventory came to 294/9/8 Pounds. The surviving children are listed with ages as Joshua (17), Benajah (13), Nathaniel (9), Abigail (19), Deborah (5-7), but this overlooks the two eldest daughters Elizabeth and Mary who were already married. See Printout for more information. dl BIOGRAPHY: 10 children of whom 3 died in childhood. There is a record which suggests there may have been an older son named John. Son Nathaniel had a son Nathaniel recorded at Springfield on 11 June 1673, but the same Vital Records attribute the birth of a daughter Sarah on 6 Oct 1673 to a John Holcum. Nothing more is known of this John, either at Springfield or Windsor. It could have been an error by the town clerk at Springfield and the surname Holcum is wrong. Some researchers think John may have gone to Virginia. BIOGRAPHY: James Eno, with his three children, came to live at the Holcomb house, after the death of his first wife, and his marriage to Elizabeth. CONFLICT: http://claim.goldrush.com/~humbert lists Adm.Essex Holcombe and John Holcombe along with children of Thomas as generation 16. Who are they? dl CONFLICT: Beckler lists birth place as England.

Thomas married Elizabeth FERGUSON on 14 May 1634 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas FERGUSON and Elizabeth) was born in 1617 in Of Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 7 Oct 1679 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried on 8 Oct 1679 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: Beckler lists Elizabeth as Widow of Mr. Ferguson. If true Ferguson probably is not her maiden name. dl

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CONFLICT: Birth date 25 APR 1613 CONFLICT: Death date is after Burial date. BIOGRAPHY: Probably cared for Simon, John's son after John's death.

Simeon married Sarah BISSELL about 1635 in Of England. Sarah (daughter of Capt. John BISSELL and Elizabeth THOMPSON) was born in 1616 in France; died in 1637 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: Windsor's early settlers. One was William Buell, occupation, carpenter or joiner who acquired title to a land lot by 1640. BIOGRAPHY: Lived in the Mill Brook district of Windsor, William Buell having been granted a lot on what was then Silver street, later called East Road (Stiles 1:153) The Buell and Mills families were very near neighbors. BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert and Catherine Goode listed as Williams parents are unproven. ("Genealogy of Buell, Gillett, Hull, Pesinge Families". http://home.cdsnet.net/~beckler/c t9.htm CONFLICT: Last name Bewelle Bevil le AFN: C7CH-CX lists Maria Coles as Williams Mother.

William married Mary POST on 18 Nov 1640 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of William POST and Mary) was born in 1616-1619 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 2 Sep 1684 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: Name could be Mary Mills Post