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  • Category: Derivative
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  • Author: Frances Manwaring Caulkins
  • Publisher: 1852
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Page: 158
  • Pages: 158-159
  • Text: John Elderkin was a mill-wright, ship-wright, and house-carpenter, and the general contractor for the building of mills, bridges and meeting-houses, in New London, Norwich and the settlements in their vicinity, for a period of thirty-five years. He had been engaged in the same line in Massachusetts, before he came to Pequot; and can be traced as a resident in various places, pursuing these occupations. In a deposition of 1672, he states his age to be fifty-six, and that he came to New London the same year that Mr. Blinman's company came. This was early in 1651, when the town mill was built. Mr. Winthrop had solicited his services two years before, and had engaged Roger Williams to mediate in his favor, from which it may be inferred that Elderkin was then at Providence [1]. He built not only the first meeting-house in New London, but the second, which was erected in Mr. Bradstreet's time.

    Mr. Elderkin was apparently a married man when he came to New London: he was at least a householder, and this supposes a family. But of this wife or of children by her there is no account on record. He married, after 1657, Widow Elizabeth Gaylord, of Windsor, and by her had several children. She had also two children by her first husband. Mr. Elderkin died at Norwich, June 23d, 1687; Elizabeth, his relict, June 8th, 1716, aged ninety-five. [2]

    [1] Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. 10, p. 280.
    [2] In Hist. of Norwich, p. 117, the age and death of Elderkin's wife are given as his age and date of death. The error appears to have been caused by the omission of a line in printing.
Page: 305
  • Text: Benjamin Atwett, died 1683.

    The name suggests a family connection with the Benjamin Atwell killed by the Indians, while he was engaged in hay-making, August 11th, 1676, at Casco, within a mile of the present Portland, Maine. Benjamin Atwell of New London, had been at that time about ten years an inhabitant. He was constable of the town in 1675. He had a son Benjamin, whose birth is not recorded in New London; Thomas born 1670; John, 1675; Joseph, 1677; Richard, 1679; and Samuel, the youngest child, born April 23d, 1682. Joseph, Richard, and Samuel, settled about 1710, on wild land in the North Parish of New London. Joseph died without issue. Descendants of the others remain in that vicinity.

    Two of the grandchildren of Samuel, that is, of the fourth generation from the first settler Benjamin, were living at the commencement of the year 1850. These were Samuel Atwell and his sister Lucretia, children of Samuel Atwell second. Samuel died Nov. 26th, 1850, aged ninety-five years and six months; Lucretia, daughter of Samuel second and relict of Joseph Atwell, died Oct. 25th, 1851, aged 102 years. She was born Nov. 19th, 1749, O. S. Here are three generations covering the space from 1682 to 1851.

    Benjamin and Thomas Atwell, the two oldest sons of Benjamin senior, died in New London leaving descendants. John, in 1712. was of Saybrook.
  • Text: Daniel Comstock, died 1683.

    William Comstock the father of Daniel, came from Hartford in 1649 and lived to old age in his bouse upon Post Hill; (near north corner of Williams and Vauxhall Streets.) His wife Elizabeth was aged fifty-five in 1663. No record has been found of the death of either. His land was inherited by his son Daniel, of New London, and grandson William, of Lyme. The latter was a son of John Comstock deceased--and his mother Abigail in 1680, was the wife of Moses Huntley, of Lyme. It is probable that Daniel and John were the only children of William Comstock, sen., and his wife Elizabeth. John is the ancestor of the Lyme family of Comstocks, and Daniel of those of the North Parish or Montville. The latter as appears from statements of his age, was born about 1630. His wife, whose name was Paltiah, was a daughter, or step-daughter of John Elderkin. They had a son Daniel and eight daughters, whose births are not recorded; but they were all baptized by Mr. Bradstreet in April and November, 1671. After this two other sons were baptized; Kingsland in 1673. and Samuel in 1677.
Page: 314
  • Text: John Stebbins, died probably in 1685.

    In one deposition on record, his age is said to be sixty, in 1661, and in another, seventy, in 1675. Where the mistake lies, cannot be decided. It is probable that he was the John Stebbins who had a son John born at Watertown, in 1640 [Farmer's Register]. His wife, Margaret, died January 1st, 1678-9. Three children are mentioned: John, Daniel, and the wife of Thomas Marshall, of Hartford. John Stebbins, 2d, was married about 1663; his wife was Deborah, and is supposed to have been a daughter of Miles Moore. He died in 1707. Daniel Stebbins married Bethiah, daughter of Daniel Comstock. The brothers, John and Daniel Stebbins, were of that company to whom the Mohegan sachems made a munificent grant of a large part of Hebron and Colchester.

    The name is almost invariably written in the earlier records, Stubbin, or Stubbing.
Page: 321
  • Text: Abel Moore, died July 9th, 1689.

    This event occurred at Dedham, Mass., and was caused by the extreme heat of the weather. He was constable of the town that year, and had been to Boston, probably on business connected with his public duties.

    Abel Moore was the son, and as far as we know the only son of Miles Moore, and his wife Isabel Joyner. Of the death of the parents we have no account, but it is probable that they had deceased before their son. They were both living in 1680, when Mr. Bradstreet records as admitted to full communion in the church, "old goodman Moore and his wife, sometime members of the church at Guildford." Guilford is here unquestionably a mistake for Milford. Miriam, wife of John Willey, is the only daughter of Miles Moore that is well ascertained, but it is probable that Deborah, wife of John Stebbins, Jun., had the same parentage.

    Abel Moore married, September 22d, 1670, Hannah daughter, of Robert Hempstead. Their children were Miles, born September 24th, 1671; Abel, July 14th, 1674; Mary, born in 1678; John in 1680, and Joshua to whose birth or age no reference has been found. Hannah, relict of Abel Moore, married Samuel Waller.
Page: 325
  • Pages: 325-326
  • Text: William Chapell, died in 1689 or 1690.

    This name is often in the confused orthography of the old records confounded with Chappell, but they appear to have been from the first, distinct names. Some clerks were very careful to note the distinction, putting an accent over the a, or writing it double, Chaapel. William Chapell, in 1659, bought a house-lot in New Street, in partnership with Richard Waring, (Warren?) In 1667, he was associated with William Peake, in the purchase of various lots of rugged, uncleared land, hill, ledge and swamp, on the west side of the town plot, which they divided between them [2]. William Peake settled on what has since been called the Rockdale farm, now James Brown's, and William Chapell, on the Cohanzie road, upon what is at present known as the Cavarly farm. A considerable part of the Chapell land was afterward purchased by the Latimer family.

    Children of William Chapell and his wife Christian

    1. Mary, born February 14th, 1668-9; married John Wood.
    2. John, born Feb. 28th, 1671-2; married Sarah Lewis, August 26th, 1698.
    3. William, "born nigh the end of Sept. 1677."
    4. Christian, "[born nigh the] end of Feb. 1680-1;" married a Fairbanks.
    5. William.
    6. Joseph, married Bethiah Dart.

    Edward Stallion married Christian Chapell, relict of William, in 1693.

    In February, 1695, William Chapell, aged eight years and a half was delivered "to Jonathan Prentis, mariner, to be instructed in the mariner's art and navigation, by said Prentis, or in ease of his death, by his Dame." This lad died in 1704. The descendants of John and Joseph Chapell, the oldest and youngest sons of William and Christian, are numerous. There was a John Chapell, of Lyme, in 1678, and onward, probably brother of William, senior, of New London.

    [2] A considerable part of the Peake and Chapell land was sold by them to Mrs. Ann Latimer. On this Latimer purchase, which lay on the south-eastern slope of Wolfpit Hill, (now Prospect Hill,) the Cedar Grove Cemetery was laid out in 1851.
Page: 367
  • Pages: 367-369
  • Text: Richard Dart, died September 24th, 1724.

    This was sixty years and twelve days after the date of his first purchase in New London. He was eighty-nine years of age. His oldest son, Daniel, born May 3d, 1666, married, August 4th, 1686, Elizabeth Douglas, and about the year 1716, removed to Bolton, in Hartford county. Most of his children, eleven in number, either went with him or followed in his track. The other sons of Richard and Bethiah Dart, were Richard, born May 7th, 1667; Roger, November 22d, 1670, and Ebenezer, February 18th, 1672-3. These all became fathers of families, and their descendants are numerous.
Page: 370
  • Pages: 370-371
  • Text: Samuel Fox, died September 4th, 1727, aged seventy-seven.

    Samuel and John Fox were sons of Thomas Fox, of Concord. Samuel Fox married Mary, supposed to be daughter of Andrew Lester, and born in Gloucester, in 1647, March 30th, 1675-6. They had a son Samuel, born April 24th, 1681. After this he contracted a second, third and fourth marriage, and had sons, Isaac, Samuel and Benjamin, which should probably be assigned to the second wife, Joanna, who died in 1689. The third wife was Bathsheba, relict of Richard Smith, and daughter of James Rogers, (born in Milford, 1650.) There is no record made of any marriages or births in the family after 1681. A singular caprice led Mr. Fox and some others in that day to give the same name to two children by a different mother. When a name, therefore, is repeated in a list of children, it is not always an indication that the first named had died before the birth of the other. Samuel Fox, in his will, makes bequests to his two sons, Samuel the elder and younger. The former had settled in the North Parish, at a place still known as Fox's Mills. He is the ancestor of the Fox families of Montville.
Page: 373
  • Pages: 373-374
  • Text: Fargo.

    The first of this name in New London was Moses, who became a resident in 1680. He had nine children, of whom the five youngest were sons--Moses, Ralph, Robert, Thomas and Aaron. Moses Fargo, or Firgo as it was then often written, and his wife Sarah, were both living in 1726.
Personal Names
PersonClaimDetailEvidence
Benjamin AtwellNameBenjamin Atwell [S366] [S2056:3] [S2056:7] [S2058:305]
secondary
Bethiah _____NameBethiah _____ [S2055:455] [S2058:367]
derivative
Bethiah ComstockNameBethiah Comstock [S366:704] [S2053] [S2056:3] [S2058:314]
secondary
Bethiah DartNameBethiah Dart [S2053] [S2055:455] [S2058:325]
secondary
Christian _____NameChristian _____ [S2055:475] [S2058:325]
derivative
Daniel ComstockNameDaniel Comstock [S366] [S2053] [S2055:132] [S2056:2] [S2056:3] [S2057:2] [S2057:6] [S2058:305] [S2058:314] [S2078:1023]
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Daniel ComstockNameDaniel Comstock [S366] [S2053] [S2055:132] [S2056:2] [S2056:3] [S2057:2] [S2057:6] [S2058:305] [S2058:314] [S2078:1023]
secondary
Daniel StebbinsNameDaniel Stebbins [S366:704] [S2053] [S2055:132] [S2055:419] [S2056:3] [S2058:314] [S2075:25] [S2077:673] [S2078:1022] [S2078:1023]
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John ElderkinNameJohn Elderkin [S2053] [S2056:3] [S2057:6] [S2058:158] [S2058:305]
secondary
John ElderkinNameJohn Elderkin [S2053] [S2056:3] [S2057:6] [S2058:158] [S2058:305]
secondary
John StebbinsNameJohn Stebbins [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] [S2078:1021]
derivative
Joseph ChapelNameJoseph Chapel [S2055:132] [S2055:455] [S2055:475] [S2056:17] [S2057:25] [S2058:325]
derivative
Kingsland ComstockNameKingsland Comstock [S366] [S2056:3] [S2056:7] [S2057:6] [S2057:12] [S2058:305]
secondary
Margaret _____NameMargaret _____ [S366:704] [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] [S2078:1021]
secondary
Mary LesterNameMary Lester [S366:281] [S2058:370] [S2075:19]
secondary
Moses FargoNameMoses Fargo [S366] [S2055:129] [S2058:373]
secondary
Paltiah ElderkinNamePaltiah Elderkin [S366] [S2056:2] [S2056:3] [S2057:2] [S2057:6] [S2058:305] [S2077:673]
secondary
Richard DartNameRichard Dart [S2053] [S2055:455] [S2058:367]
secondary
Robert FargoNameRobert Fargo [S2053] [S2055:129] [S2058:373] [S2439:RFSr]
primary
Samuel FoxNameSamuel Fox [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2080:41] [S2438]
secondary
Samuel FoxNameSamuel Fox [S366:281] [S2053] [S2055:176] [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2438]
secondary
Samuel FoxNameSamuel Fox , the elder [S2058:370] [S2075:7] [S2075:19] [S2075:25]
derivative
Sarah (Fargo)NameSarah (Fargo) [S366] [S2055:129] [S2058:373]
secondary
Thomas FoxNameThomas Fox [S366:281] [S366:462] [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2075]
secondary
William ChapelNameWilliam Chappel [S2058:325]
derivative
William ComstockNameWilliam Comstock [S366] [S2055:132] [S2056:1] [S2056:2] [S2057:2] [S2058:305]
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Relationships
PersonClaimDetailEvidence
Robert FargoFatherMoses Fargo (e1666-1726) [S2055:129] [S2058:373]
derivative
Robert FargoMotherSarah (Fargo) (e1667-) [S2055:129] [S2058:373]
derivative
Joseph ChapelFatherWilliam Chapel (e1649-1690) [S2055:475] [S2058:325]
derivative
Joseph ChapelMotherChristian _____ (e1650-) [S2055:475] [S2058:325]
derivative
Kingsland ComstockFatherDaniel Comstock (1633-1683) [S2053] [S2055:132] [S2056:3] [S2057:6] [S2058:305]
secondary
Kingsland ComstockMotherPaltiah Elderkin (e1632-1713) [S2055:132] [S2056:3] [S2057:6] [S2058:305]
derivative
Daniel ComstockFatherWilliam Comstock (~1595-~1683) [S2055:132] [S2056:2] [S2057:2] [S2058:305] [STEST]
primary
Paltiah ElderkinFatherJohn Elderkin (~1616-1687) [S2056:3] [S2057:6] [S2058:305]
derivative
Samuel FoxFatherSamuel Fox (1651-1727) [S2053] [S2055:365] [S2058:370]
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Samuel FoxMotherMary Lester (1647-) [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2075:19]
derivative
Samuel FoxFatherThomas Fox (e1619-1658) [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2075:15]
derivative
Daniel StebbinsFatherJohn Stebbins (~1601-1685) [S2055:419] [S2058:314]
derivative
Daniel StebbinsMotherMargaret _____ (e1602-1679) [S2055:419] [S2058:314]
derivative
Bethiah ComstockFatherDaniel Comstock (1633-1683) [S2055:132] [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] [S2078:1023] [STEST]
primary
Events & Attributes
PersonClaimDateDetailAgeEvidence
John StebbinsBirth 1601 - 1605England [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] [S2078:1021]
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John ElderkinBirthabt 1616England [S2058:158]
derivative
Daniel ComstockBirthabt 1630England [S2055:132] [S2056:2] [S2056:3] [S2058:305]
derivative
Richard DartBirthabt 1635Connecticut, United States [S2055:455] [S2058:367]
derivative
John StebbinsImmigrationbef 1640 [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2078:1021]
derivative
John StebbinsLiving1640Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [S2055:419] [S2058:314]
his son was born
derivative
William ComstockLivingbef 1649Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States [S2058:305]
derivative
Samuel FoxBirthabt 1650 [S2055:365] [S2058:370]
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John ElderkinMoved1651New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:158]
came with Mr. Blinman's company
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John StebbinsDeposition1661New London, Connecticut, United States [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] 60y
derivative
Benjamin AtwellLivingabt 1666Casco, Cumberland, Maine, United States [S2058:305]
derivative
John ElderkinDeposition1672New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:158] 56y
derivative
Kingsland ComstockBaptismNov 2, 1673Uncasville, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2053] [S2055:132] [S2056:3] [S2056:7] [S2057:6] [S2057:12] [S2058:305]
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Benjamin AtwellPosition1675Constable, Casco, Cumberland, Maine, United States [S2058:305]
derivative
John StebbinsDeposition1675New London, Connecticut, United States [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] 70y
derivative
Samuel FoxMarriage 1stMar 30, 1675/76Mary Lester, New London, Connecticut, United States [S366:281] [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2075:19]
secondary
Margaret _____DeathJan 1, 1678/79New London, Connecticut, United States [S366:704] [S2055:419] [S2058:314] [S2077:673] [S2078:1021]
secondary
Moses FargoMovedabt 1680New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:373]
derivative
Samuel FoxBirthApr 24, 1681Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2075:25]
derivative
Daniel ComstockDeath1683Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States [S366] [S2055:132] [S2056:2] [S2056:3] [S2057:2] [S2058:305]
secondary
Benjamin AtwellDeath1683New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S366] [S2058:305]
secondary
John StebbinsDeath1685New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:314] [S2078:1021]
derivative
John ElderkinDeathJun 23, 1687Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:158]
derivative
William ChapelDeath1689/90New London, Connecticut, United States [S2055:475] [S2058:325]
derivative
Richard DartDeathSep 24, 1724New London, Connecticut, United States [S2055:455] [S2058:367] 89y
derivative
Moses FargoLiving1726New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:373]
derivative
Sarah (Fargo)Living1726New London, New London, Connecticut, United States [S2058:373]
derivative
Samuel FoxDeathSep 4, 1727Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States [S366:281] [S2055:365] [S2058:370] [S2438] 76y
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