"Fifthly: I give to the eldest child of my daughter, Sarah Persons, dec'd, who was wife to Benjamin Persons of Springfield, 5 shillings. But even more exciting is that her offspring won the derby, open gundog & sweepstakes at the same event. He married Mary Marion Wyke 1562 in Fitzhead, England. Many persons who had determined to go, were detained a year or two in disposing of their property.". 1610-1699) before 1637. Dorchester town records tell that Dorchester was founded when the Dorchester Company ship the, One howse and barne Wth the home lott, in quantity about one, “The daughters portion of £20 to bee paid her at the age of 18 yeares, and the severall sonns portions to bee pd. There's much, much more information about, Thomas Cooper is listed in the Windsor founder's occupation list as servant and carpenter. Alexander Alvord came to Windsor after his older brother Benedict had settled there. His father John Rockwell was born 1560 in Fitzhead, England, and died February 1636/37 in Fitzhead, England. Joseph Loomis was a representative from Windsor to the Connecticut Courts in 1643. Warham and Maverick, and his fellow deacon, William Gaylord, approved to lay out the first land grants at Dorchester; and was one of the 24 freemen who took the oath of fidelity 18 May 1631. In 1636, 22 June, his house is referred to (pp. An dieser Stelle möchte ich mich auch beim „Macher“ der neuen Seite, Herrn Rodorff bedanken. This group included Great-grandfather Thomas Cooper, who was apprenticed as a carpenter to Stiles. "The Last Will and Testament made by me Richard Vore of Windsor, being at present perfect in memory not knowing how soon God may take me out of this world doe in order to that advice which God hath given me in his Word, viz: Set thy house in order, doe hereby dedare my mind and wfll respecting that small portion of outward estate which the Lord hath blest me with as followeth: "I doe make my well beloved wife Ann Vore to be my sole executrix to my estate, and my Will is that during her natural life she shall possess and enjoy my houseing and lands lying and cituate in the Township of Windsor, as also my goods, household goods and other estate, more particularly my house and home" lott on the north side of the Rivulett, with orchard, fences, yards, or what else belongs thereto, as also my land lying in a place called the neck, counted 3 acres. From the Joseph family history online at http://josfamilyhistory.com/locations/windsor-ct.htm (and relying on the History of Ancient Windsor) comes this description of the Palisado, the small defensive fortress noted on the plan above: "Upon the breaking out of the Pequot War in 1637, the Windsor people surrounded their dwellings at this spot with a fortification or palisado. Share The first show for English Setters was held at Newcastle-On-Tyne on January 28, 1859. Eltweed was a blacksmith by trade. Duee are to cast their lotts together next to those above named. These included a seven acre home lot just north of the Palisado and running down to the river, acres in the Great Meadow and a substantial lot for planting on the east side of the Connecticut River, running 3 miles east from the river. Their daughter Sarah married James Warriner, see Myrtie Bisbee Chart 2.5 for genealogical chart. & halfe                                                                   20 00 00, one yoake of oxen                                                                                                      15 00 00, two mares & a colt                                                                                                     18 10 00, two cowes and on young beast                                                                                    12 00 00, one soue & two piggs, 1 0 0; Ite: 2 stocks of bees, 2 10 00                                             3 10 00, 5 acres of corne vppon the grond                                                                                 05 00 00, 7 other acres of corne vpon the grond                                                                          05 00 00, in bedding, bedsteed and lyning                                                                                  09 10 00, his weareing cloathes, 5 10 0; Ite: pewter, 1 8 0                                                           06 18 00, a chest, a boxe, a cubberd                                                                                           00 11 00, one fowleing peece, suord, pouder & bullits                                                                 01 15 00, Wedges, & betle rings, 0 4 0; Ite: axes, spads & other tools, 1 10 0                               01 14 00, pots kettells of brass & iron                                                                                        07 00 00, hempe & flax, 1 £; Ite: a saddle & pillion, 1£ 4s                                                          02 04 00, meal, trow, tables, payles & small things                                                                     02 01 00, a table board, 0 6 0; a syth, 0 5 0                                                                                00 11 00, part in a sawe & shott mold                                                                                        00 06 00, a cart, plowe, harowe, howes and other things                                                             03 10 00, Som                                                                                                                      £213 00 00. The emigration [from Dorchester to Windsor], however, did not cease entirely until 1637. Eltweed Pomeroy was born in England, baptized in Beaminster, County Dorset, England on 4 Jul 1585. Mr. Warham and his friends in the New Hospital at Plymouth, England in 1629 and which came over to Dorchester, MA in 1630. Thomas Hooker. with most of the other members of Rev. According to the Walter Palmer Biography at, Bissell 10th Great-grandfather Elder John Strong was born about 1610 in Chard, Somerset, England and originally came to Dorchester, MA. I don't know if Thomas Bascomb was a person who made bricks as well as being a mason, but it is known that from its earliest days, Windsor became a center for brick-making as well as for tobacco growing, beginning in 1640, and for woodworking, which began from the time Windsor was founded. The Windsor historical society lists him as a founder, noting that his trade was as a blacksmith and that he served in various civil offices in the community and was a juror in the court system. He was a leader in his town, in his church and in the Connecticut Colony. They had been founders of Dorchester, Mass., many arriving there in 1630, on the ship, Another comprehensive source (in addition to the very important, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633). Warham's church on the ship Mary & John. He married his second wife, Bissell 9th Great-grandmother Mary Chauncey, on 28 June 1659. Thomas and Sarah are the 3G Generation’s 10th Great-grandparents. Mr. Hathorne to have 12 acres, Nicholas Upsall to –, Thomas Duee to have 8 acres with them, Richard Callecott to have 14 acres. By 1649, Griswold had a grant of land in Poquonoc, a few miles north of the Palisado, and along with a few other families developed a small settlement. He is listed as purchasing a lot eighteen rods (approximately 300 feet) wide at about the same time. What we know to date about those ancestors appears farther down below, with the ancestors listed in alphabetical order. Links to Stories Below About Ancestor Founders of Windsor, Alexander Alvord & Mary Vore             Thomas Holcombe & Elizabeth, Jeffrey Baker & Joan Rockwell             Joseph Loomis & Mary White, Thomas Bascomb & Avis                     Deacon John Moore & Abigail, Captain John Bissell                            William Phelps & Ann Dover, Thomas Cooper and Sarah Slye           Eltweed Pomeroy & Margery Rockett, Thomas & Frances Dewey                  Philip Randall & Joanne Fush, Thomas Ford & Elizabeth Chard          William Rockwell & Susanna Capen, Edward Griswold & Margaret              Elder John Strong & Abigail Ford, William Hannum & Honor Capen         Richard Vore & Ann Harris, This is an old postcard scene of "The Mill Pond, Windsor, Connecticut", From the very beginning, Windsor, Connecticut was packed with Bissell ancestors. [Thirteen of the group left to return to Dorchester, and]...those who remained in Connecticut suffered extreme destitution, being obliged to live on acorns, malt, and grains.". Not long after his oldest daughter's 1646 marriage, Richard gave her new husband, Alexander Alvord, the 42 acre parcel of land. Mr. Phelps, Junior is one of eight men who were given authority by the Massachusetts Bay Colony Courts to oversee the new "Colony of Connecticut" when Windsor was founded a few years ago. He's well-known in town for having helped write "the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut," the first written Constitution in America. John Porter, Windsor Founder. ", The "homelott" was located on the east side of present Broad Street (where the Academy stood in 1893.) IS THIS PORTER, JR. OR HIS FATHER??? Eventually, most of the remaining settlers were able to get on a vessel which appeared later in the winter, the Rebecca, and return to Dorchester. It abutted property owned by Samuel Wright, Jr. He died 27 April 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, at 44 years of age. Hier lässt sich ein munteres Städtchen mit wundervollen Einkaufsmöglichkeiten, Restaurants und dem Windsor Castle entdecken. Phillips, William Hubbard, Stephen French, John Haydon, shall have 8 acres apiece in Roxbury bounds, betwixt the two market Trees, to begin at [the] end which they shall agree off; to go in 40 Rod from the bound of the fresh Marshes are to be excepted from these lots. It was the fatigue of supplying these watches that so exhausted the men (as Mr. Ludlow sorrowfully wrote to Mr. Pyncheon, at Springfield, Mass., during the absence of the Windsor men on the Pequot expedition) “that they could scarce stand upon their legs.”. After Dewey died in 1648, Frances married George Phelps (who had been married to Frances' sister Philury, born in 1618, until Philury died, also in 1648.) A meeting was held on October 15, 1629, "at the Deputyes House." Windsor's original land has been used to spin off no fewer than 20 other Connecticut towns, in whole or part, from Litchfield and Torrington to the west, to Tolland in the east. Der English-Setter sollte eine Größe von 65-68 cm (bei Rüden) bzw. Pequot Indians had stolen and killed Eltweed's mare in Windsor. A colonial-era blacksmith worked with iron to make and repair tools people needed for farming, household tasks and other trades. One of the many small hamlets within County Somerset is the village of Alford and it is likely that Alexander Alvord's ancestors came from this village. An advance party of men from the Dorchester group trekked through the wilderness to the Connecticut River and what is now Windsor in the summer of 1635, after the Plymouth group had purchased the area from the Indians and just before the Saltonstall group arrived. But his brother Benedict is listed because he came to Windsor before the end of 1640, in 1637. See more about his woodworking activities at the Woodworkers of Windsor. Holcombe was on this land (spelled "Paquannick" in the Windsor land record) by 1640. Bissell 10th Great-grandfather Elder John Strong was born about 1610 in Chard, Somerset, England and originally came to Dorchester, MA. Griswold may have been one of the legal representatives of those merchants and Lords in England administering this grant. Pet Adoption In The Windsor Area: See The Latest Dogs, Cats - Windsor, CT - These local pets are searching for their forever homes.Meet Aster Aka Raven and more. Philip Riley Randall was born in about 1590 (based on estimated date of marriage) at Allington, Bridport Parish, Dorset,England. Besides the right to vote, freemen enjoyed advantages in the division of the lands ; and before the representative system commenced, they were all members of the General Court. Another early colonial leader attributed the desire to move to the Connecticut River to "the fruitfulness and commodiousness of Connecticut, and the danger of having it possessed by others, Dutch or English." Its west line extended northward 1,139 feet, along the brow of the hill west of the burying ground. The epidemic of small-pox which removed the last Indian from the Great Meadow and the Sequestered Meadow in Windsor may have contributed to a feeling that Windsor was now a good place to settle. Elizabeth and Thomas had a daughter together. bowmen100 has uploaded 111 photos to Flickr. In the words of poet Alfred Lord Tennyson: Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns, And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea.". He died in Northampton 14 April 1699. A great quantity of valuable furs had reached the Bay from the River Indians, and many of the Dorchester people were engaged in the fur business. 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