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PORTRAITS and GENEALOGIES
By
MARY E. PERKINS
NORWICH, CONN.
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By Mary E. Perkins.
All 7-is^Jits reserved.
Press of The Bulletin Co., Norwich, Conn.
Coloii'd Map by Tlic Heliotypc Printing Co., Boston.
PREPACK.
np HIS book is one of a projected series of volumes, which will aim to give an account of the
old houses of Norwich, their owners and occupants, from the settlement of the town to
the year iSoo.
This first volume includes all the buildings on the main roads, from the corner of Mill
Lane, or (Lafayette Street), to the Bean Hill road, at the west end of the Meeting-house Green.
In the genealogical part will be found the first three generations of the earliest set-
tlers, but beyond this point, in order not to add to the bulk of the book, the only lines
carried out, are of those descendants who resided in the district covered by this volume, and
these, only so long as they continued to reside in this locality. An effort has been made to
follow back the direct line of each resident to his first American progenitor, but this has not
been feasible in every case, owing to the great expense of such a search, in both time and
money. In these difficult cases, a possible ancestry is sometimes given, marked by a line
across the page, in the hope that some descendant, through family papers or personal search,
may furnish the missing links, or prove another line of descent.
The records of the early land grants of Norwich are very imperfect, and various attempts
were made from the year 1672 to the beginning of the eighteenth century " to find the names of
the first purchasers and what estate each of them put in " to the town. The first book of
records give the bounds of estates, but not the measurements, and the second and third registers
vary, as other lands have been added to or .sold from the original grants. Then some of the
proprietors failed to record their home-lots, and the measurements and situation of these can
only be ascertained from the deeds of sale, so, in the map of 1705, it was found impossible to
accurately define the home-lots, or to give more than their approximate measurements or outlines.
In many cases, houses have probably, for a longer or shorter period, been occupied by
other tenants than those mentioned, but unless they were actual purchasers of the property, there
is often no trace of this occupancy, as leases were seldom recorded, and even in case of an
actual purchase, the grantee does not necessaril}' become an occupant, so mistakes are easily
made. It has been endeavored, when possible, by reference to deeds and other records, to dis-
tinguish between owners and occupants, but if any persons, through documents in their possession,
can rectify any errors in this respect, or in any dates of births, deaths, or marriages, or in lines
of descent, and will address P. O. Box 63, Norwich, Conn., such information will be gratefully
received.
In the long period of 140 years (1660-1800), many generations come and go, and new resi-
dents are continually appearing, .so space will not permit any very extended account of each
iv PREFACE.
individual, still the author hopes that the meagre details she has given of these lives of the
early inhabitants, may be of some interest to their descendants of the present da}'.
To mention all the genealogical and historical works consulted, and all the persons who
have furnished copies of pictures, dates, and many items of interest, would be impossible, so
the author must confine her acknowledgments to those who have made more substantial con-
tributions to the work : as to Donald G. Mitchell, who has generously given the colored map,
the frontispiece, which will recall to his contemporaries many old landmarks which have long
since passed away ; to the Hon. John T. Wait, who has supplied most of the anecdotes and re-
miniscences of the past which help to enliven these otherwise dry pages ; to H. \V. Kent of the
Slater Museum, who has furnished the map of 1705, and the Church plans of 1756 ; to Frederic
P. Gulliver, who has drawn the map of 1795 ; to Charles E. Briggs, who has contributed
photographs of the old Indian sites, and the relics of the last "Church on the Hill;" to
Henry McNelly and Edwin S. Barrows, who have given the author much information about the
old localities ; to J. Millar Wilson, by whose aid the material for the book-cover was procured ;
to Ruth H. Bond of New London, who supplied the cover design ; to the Town Clerk of
Norwich, Samuel H. Freeman, whose courtesy and helpfulness have been unfailing, and under
whose careful supervision, the old town books have been copied, fully indexed, and attractively
bound, and are now a pleasure to the eye, and accessible for reference ; to the Rev. Richard
H. Nelson, Rev. Charles A. Northrop, Herbert L. Yerrington and William H. Allen, for
access to the records and pamphlets of Christ Church and the First and Second Churches ; to Mrs.
Daniel F. Gulliver, for^the sketches of the lives of her father and grandfather, Henry Strong and
the Rev. Joseph Strong ; and last but not least to Ellen D. Larned, author of the History of
Windham County ; Mrs. George B. Ripley, Maria P. Gilman, Mrs. Frederic L. Osgood, Emily
N. Perkins, Sarah H. Perkins, Mrs. Henry Reynolds, and Mrs. Henry L. Butts of Norwich ;
Mrs. Clarence Deming and Louise Tracy of New Haven ; Julia Chester Wells and Elizabeth N.
Perkins of New York ; John Bliss of Brooklyn, L. L ; Gen. Edward Harland of Norwich ; Henry
R. Bond of New London ; Warren F. Kellogg of Boston, Mass., publisher of the New England
Magazine ; William Read Howe of Orange, N. J. ; William H. Shields of Norwich ; Rev.
Christopher Leffingwell of Bar Harbor, Me. ; and Joseph H. Carpenter of Norwich, who
by information furnished, and the loan of valuable books, newspapers, manuscripts, letters, &c.,
have greatly facilitated the author's labors.
M. E. p.
Norwich, Conn., Nov. 26, 1S95. ,
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
Projected Settlement at Mohegan. — Deed of Land from Uncas, Owaneco and Attawanhood. —
Arrival of the Settlers. — Naming of the Town. — List of Settlers. — Indian Attack. —
Poem on Norwich by McDonald Clarke. — Description of Norwich by Mrs. Sigourney.
Chapter II.
Home-lots and Fences. — Houses and Furniture. — Modes of Heating. — Vehicles and Roads. —
First Turnpike-road and Toll-rates.
Chapter III.
Dress of the Early Settlers. — Law of 1676. — Fashions preceding and during the Revolution. —
Fashions of 1793. — Letter of Rachel Huntington. — Fashions of the 19th Century. — Enter-
tainments. — Guy Fawkes' Day. — Barrel-bonfires on Thanksgiving Day.
Chapter IV.
Classes, Trades, and Occupations. — Business Enterprises.
Chapter V.
John Reynolds' Home-lot. — Old Reynolds Homestead. — Journal of Abigail Reynolds. — Visit
to Lyme. — Small-pox. — Epidemics of 1792-3-4-5. — Drought of 1795. — Influenza of 1793.
Chapter VT.
Home-lot of Thomas Bliss. — Samuel Bliss, as a Merchant. — Inventory of Elizabeth (Bliss)
White. — Geometry Bridge. — Mills of Christopher and Elisha Lefifingwell. — Old Stocking
Shop. — Louis Barrel and William Cox. — Jackson Browne House.
Chapter VII.
Lt. Thomas Leffingwell's Home-lot. — Samuel Leftingwell, 2nd. — Col. Hezekiah Huntington. —
Capt. William Hubbard. — Love Letter of Daniel Hubbard to Martha Coit. — Boston Citizens
take refuge in Norwich at the beginning of the Revolution. — Hezekiah Williams. — Joseph
Strong. — Meteorological Disturbances of 1806-S.
Chapter \"III.
Lt. Thomas Leflfingwell's Home-lot, (continued). — House built by Thomas Leffingwell, 4th. —
Peabody Clement. — Capt. Samuel Leffingwell's House. — Judge John Hyde. — Samuel
Leffingwell's Stocking Factory. — Rufus Darby. — Capt. Philemon Winship's House.
vi CONTENTS.
Chapter IX.
Jonathan Pierce's Home-lot. — Col. Hezekiah Huntington. — John Hutchins. — Dr. Jonathan
Marsh, ist. — Dr. Jonathan Marsh, 2nd. — Anecdotes of Dr. Samuel Lee, and Dr. Benjamin
Dyer. — Jacob Ladd. — Family of Joseph Marsh.
Chapter X.
Thomas Letifingwell, 2nd's, First Grant. — Joseph Bushnell's Home-lot. — Bushnell House. —
James Lincoln's House.
Chapter XI.
Home-lot of Thomas Leffingwell, 2nd, (later Ensign T. L. ) — Old Garrison House on Sentry
Hill. — Thomas Leffingwell, 3rd. — House of Thomas Leffingwell, 4th, (now known as Edger-
ton House),
Chapter XII.
Home-lot of William Backus, Sen. — Stephen Backus, ist. — Stephen Backus, 2nd. — Leffingwell
Inn. — Ensign Thomas Leffingwell. — Benajah Leffingwell. — Col. Christopher Leffingwell. —
Leffingwell Row. — Stocking Factory, Mills and other Business Enterprises of Col. Leffing-
■^■ell. — War Correspondence. — Visit of Gen. Washington. — Ruth Leffingwell, (widow).
Chapter XIII.
William Backus' Home-lot (continued). — Footpath. — Opening of Lower Road or Cross Highway. —
Leffingwell Shop (later Strong Shop). — Shop in rear of Leffingwell Shop. — David Greenleaf's
House. — Jesse Williams. — (Widow) Mary Billings. — Timothy Lester. — House of Capt.
William Billings. — John Huntington, Jun. — Joseph Coit. — Charles Lathrop. — Goodell
Family. — Miss Sally Goodell's School. — Cary Throop's shop. — First Fire Engine House. —
Judah Paddock Spooner. — Thomas Hubbard and Ebenezer Bushnell. — William Leffing-
well. — Visit of Dr. Mason Cogswell. — John Huntington, Jun. — Epaphras Porter. — House
owned by Thomas Williams. — Rufus Sturtevant. — Ira Tossett. — Col. Leffingwell's Stone-
ware Kiln (later Charles Lathrop's). — ChristoiDher Potts & Son. — Cary Throop's Shop.
Chapter XIV.
Home-lot of Ebenezer Carew. — Old Carew Homestead and Shop. — Carew Lineage and
Family. — Changes in the Lower Road.
Chapter XV.
Rev. James Fitch's Home-lot. — Zebadiah Lathrop House. — Asa Lathrop. — Jabez Avery
House. — Rev. John Sterry. — Luther Case. — Capt. Joseph Winship's House. — Thomas
Tilden. — Hon. John T. Wait. — Rockwell Manning House. — William Baldwin. — Samuel
Manning House. — Diah Manning. — Revolutionary Services of Diah and Roger Manning. —
Asa Manning's Service in the War of 1812. — Jean Pierre Boyer, afterward President of the
Republic of Hayti. — William Clegg.
Chapter XVI.
Rev. James Fitch's Home-lot (continued). — Fitch Homestead. — Life and Family of Rev. James
Fitch. — Inscription on the Rev. James Fitch's Grave-stone. — Love Letter of Rev. Edward
Taylor to Elizabeth Fitch. — Theological Students. — John Waterman. — Eleazer Lord's
Tavern. — Winthrop Saltonstall and Judge Marvin Wait. — Asa Lathrop, — William
Lathrop. — Bridge Across the Yantic.
CONTENTS. vii
Chapter XVII.
Common Lands on Town Street. — Early Home-lots. — Highway Survey of 1705. — Old High-
way Over Sentry Hill. — Common Lands laid out in 1737-S.
Chai'TF.r XVIII.
Shop of Tracy & Coit. — Charles P. Huntington. — Epaphras Porter. — Jesse Huntington. —
Law Oflfice of Henry Strong.
Chapter XIX.
Shop of Huntington & Carew. — David Nevins' Shop. — James Lincoln. — William Cox. — House
of Thomas Harland. — Watch and Clock Trade. — Fire Engine.
Chapter XX.
Thomas Williams' House and Shop. — William Beard. — Naming of the Town Streets. — Cary
Throop.
Chapter XXI.
Brick School House. — Mrs. Sigourney's Early School Experiences. — Consider Sterry. — Hon.
John T. Wait's Early Teachers, Dyar Harris and Samuel Griswold. — Asher Smith. — George
Bliss.
Chapter XXII.
Col. Simon Lathrop's Shop. — Rufus Lathrop's Shop. — Old Primus and Flora. — Fire Engine
House. — Oldest Fire Engine of Norwich. — Subscription List of 1769. — Bills for Work on
Engine.
Chapter XXIII.
Slavery in Early Times. — Slave Advertisements and Bills of Sale. — Runaway Slaves. — Aaron
Cleveland's Articles Against Slavery. — Grave-stones of Bristo Zibbero and Boston Trow-Trow.
— Laws Against Slavery. — Anti-Slavery Society. — Records of Slave Births. — Abolition of
Slavery.
Chapter XXIV.
John Olmstead's Home-lot. — John and Elizabeth Olmstead. — Samuel Lathrop, 2nd. — Division
of Lathrop Property. — Col. Simon Lathrop's House. — Mason Controversy. — Campaign
Song. — Obituary Notice of Col. Lathrop. — Rufus Lathrop. — Jonathan Bellamy. — Aaron
Burr. — Lucretia and Rufus Huntington.
Chapter XXV.
John Olmstead's Home-lot (continued). — Thomas Lathrop. — Dr. Daniel Lathrop. — Madam
Jerusha Lathrop. — Mrs. Sigourney's Reminiscences of the Lathrop House and Family. —
Daniel Lathrop. — Stephen Fitch. — Mrs. Elizabeth (Coit) Gilman.
Chapter XXVI.
Simeon's Case's House. — Dr. Joshua Lathrop. — Mrs. Sigourney's Recollections of Dr. Lathrop
and His Wife. — Gardner Thurston.
viii CONTENTS.
Chapter XXVII.
Lathrop Drug Shop. — Drs. Daniel and Joshua Lathrop. — Benedict Arnold. — Solomon Smith.
— Dr. Joseph Coit. — Coit & Lathrop. — Daniel Lathrop Coit. — Ebenezer Carew.
Chapter XXVIIL
Thomas Lathrop's House. — Thomas Lathrop's Family. — Letter of Rev. David Austin. — Mrs.
Thomas Lathrop.
Chapter XXIX.
Josiah Read's Home-lot. — Josiah Read. — Capt. Richard Bushnell, — Great Snow-storm of
1717-18. — Capt. Benajah Bushnell. — Gift of Christ Church Lot to the Episcopal Society. —
Church Lot given by Phinehas Holden. — Capt. Joseph Coit. — Early Voyages. — Daniel
Lathrop Coit. — Thomas Coit. — Dr. Joseph Coit. — Journey to Europe of Daniel Lathrop
Coit. — Daniel Wadsworth Coit. — Old Elm Trees.
Chapter XXX.
Noah Mandell's Shop. — Jabez Perkins. — Old Elm Trees of Norwich. — Nathan Cobb. — Na-
thaniel Parish House. — Ebenezer Case. — Calvin Case. — Adgate Shop. — Samuel Case. —
James Norman's Home-lot. — Ebenezer Case House. — Asahel Case. — Joshua Prior House. —
Gideon Birchard. — Jeremiah Griffing. — Joshua Norman. — Elisha Birchard. — Mrs. Mary
Lathrop. — Hannah Dawson. — Joseph Smith. — Abial Marshall Lot. — Aaron Chapman's
House. — Matthew Adgate, 2nd. — John Huntington's House and Shop.
Chapter XXXI.
Home-lot of Dea. Thomas Adgate. — Dea. Thomas Adgate, 2nd. — Adgate Shop. — Matthew
Adgate. — William Adgate's House. — Lathrop Cotton Factory. — Joseph Lord's Shoemaker's
Shop. — Daniel Lathrojj's Shop. — Henry Cobb.
Chapter XXXII.
Christopher Huntington's Home lot. — Christopher Huntington, ist. — Christopher Huntington,
2nd. — Jeremiah Huntington. — Samuel Avery. — Caleb Huntington. —John Huntington. —
Ezra Huntington. — Malt House. — Old Huntington Homestead. — John Huntington, ist. —
Capt. Rene Grignon. — Isaac Huntington. — Isaac Huntington's Day-Book. — Benjamin
Huntington. — Poem by Benjamin Huntington. — Philip Huntington. — Joseph Gritifin.
Chapter XXXIII.
Land Owned by Josiah Read. — Jonathan Crane House. — Israel Lathrop. — William Lathrop. —
Reasons Given by William Lathrop and Wife for Joining the Separatists. — Capt. Ebenezer
Lathrop. — Jedediah Lathrop. — Felix Huntington, ist. — Augustus Converse, Sen. — House
Built by Felix Huntington. — Daniel Lathrop. — James Stedman. — George C. Raymond. —
Daniel Tracy's House. — Stephen Backus. — Capt. Elisha Leffingwell. — Charles Bliss. —
George Rudd.
CONTENTS. ix
Chapter XXXIV.
Home-lot and House of Thomas Sluman. — Thomas Huntington. — Barn-lot of Jonathan
Crane. — Blacksmith Shop. — Shop of Avery & Tracy. — Samuel Avery & Son. — Roger Hunt-
ington & Co. — Hou.se of William Lathrop, Jun. — Ezekiel Huntley. — Early Home Life of
Mrs. Lydia (Huntley) Sigourney. — First Inexperiences as a School-teacher. — Marriage to
Charles Sigourney of Hartford.
Chapter XXX\'.
Thomas Danforth's House. — John Danforth's House. — Lineage of Thomas Danforth. — Dan-
forth Shop.
Chapter XXXVI.
Land granted to John Elderkin. — Home-lot of Samuel Lathrop, ist. — Rev. John Lothropp (or
Lathrop). — Removal of Samuel Lathrop from New London to Norwich. — Abigail (Doane)
Lathrop. — Israel Lathrop. — Jabez Lathrop.
Chapter XXXVII.
Samuel Lathrop's Home-lot (continued). — Capt. Joshua Huntington. — Hannah (Perkins) (Hunt-
ington) Lynde. — Zachariah Huntington. — Judge Andrew Huntington. — Death of Lucy
(Coit) Huntington. — Hannah (Phelps) Huntington. — Bill of Wedding Dress. — Dr. Charles
Phelps of Stonington. — Lathrop Lots. — Felix Huntington Shop. — Samuel Danforth's Shop.
— Roger Huntington & Co.
Chapter XXXVIII.
Samuel Lathrop's Home-lot (continued). — House of Samuel Lathrop, 2nd. — Joseph Lathrop,
ist. — Joseph Lathrop, and. — Thomas Grist. — Early Meeting of the Episcopal Society at
the house of Thomas Grist. — Shop of John Grist. — Zephaniah Huntington.
Chapter XXXIX.
Samuel Lathrop's Home-lot (continued). — House of Col. Joshua Huntington. — Capt. Charles
Whiting's House. — Mundator Tracy.
Chapter XL.
Samuel Lathrop's Home-lot (concluded). — Zachariah Huntington's Shop. — Gen. Jedediah Hunt-
ington. — Samuel Loudon. — House of Gen. Jedediah Huntington. — Faith (Trumbull) Hunt-
ington. — Ann (Moore) Huntington. ~ Entertainment for French Officers. — Duke de Lauzun.
— Gen. Lafayette. — His Last Visit to Norwich in 1S24. — Gen. Ebenezer Huntington.
Chapter XLI.
Home-lot of Lt. Thomas Tracy. — Tracy Ancestry. — Division of Property. — Sale of the Tracy
Homestead to Israel Lathrop. — Daniel Tracy. — Accident at Lathrop's Bridge. — Purchase
by Daniel Tracy, 2nd, of part of the Tracy Home-lot from Israel Lathrop. — Samuel Tracy —
Maj. Thomas Tracy. — Ann Thomas (Tracy) Richards. — Shop of Capt. Charles Whiting. —
Charles Beaman. — Roswell Huntington. — Mundator Tracy.
X CONTENTS.
Chapter XLII.
Home-lot of Lt. Thomas Tracy (continued). — Dr. Solomon Tracy's Home-lot. — Simon Tracy,
ist. — Simon Tracy, 2nd. — Shop of Simeon and Jabez Perkins. — Nathaniel Townsend. —
Talleyrand.
Chapter XLIII.
Home-lot of Lt. Thomas Tracy (concluded). — Gov. Samuel Huntington. — Nathaniel Hunting-
ton, Jun. — Betsey Devotion. — Mrs. Gov. Huntington. — Public Life of Gov. Huntington. —
Death and Funeral. — Visit of Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell. — Gov. Samuel Huntington of
Ohio. — Frances (Huntington) Griffin. — Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin. — Asa Spalding. —
Luther Spalding.
Chapter XLIV.
Home-lot of Simon Huntington. — Simon Huntington, 1st. — Inventory of his Library. — James
Huntington. — Peter Huntington. — Col. Samuel Abbot. — Capt. Simeon Huntington. —
Francis Green of Boston and the Sons of Liberty. — Cemetery Lane.
Chapter XLV.
Home-lot of Simon Huntington (continued). — Philip Turner. — John Manly. — Thomas Dan-
forth. — Richard Charlton. — Charlton Family. — Jesse Charlton. — Samuel Charlton. — Capt.
Jacob Perkins. — Mrs. Martha Greene. — Capt. Russell Hubbard. — David Nevins. —
Drowning of David Nevins, ist. — Revolutionary Services of Capt. David Nevins.
Chapter XLVL
Home-lot of Simon Huntington (continued). — Simeon Carevv. — Joseph Carew. — Com. Gen.
Joseph Trumbull. — Business Life. — Visits to Norwich of Gov. Trumbull and his Wife. —
Mrs. Trumbull's Scarlet Cloak. — Com. Gen. Joseph Trumbull's Public Services and Death. —
Epitaph. — Amelia (Dyer) Trumbull's Costly Dress. — Newcomb Kinney. — Asa Lathrop.
— Alice Baldwin.
Chapter XLVII.
Home-lot of Simon Huntington (continued). — Grant to Simon Huntington, 2nd. — Samuel Abbot's
Shop. — Thomas Carey. — Daniel Abbot. â €” Capt. Joseph Carew. — Family of Capt. Joseph
Carew. — Joseph Huntington. — Hon. Jabez Huntington. — Obituary Notice.
Chapter XLVIII.
Simon Huntington's Home-lot (continued). — John Arnold. — Samuel Huntington. — Home-lot of
John Bradford. — Thomas Bradford. — Sale to Simon Huntington, 2nd. — Division of Simon
Huntington, 2nd's, Property. — David Rogers. — Cyrus and Lucy (Huntington) Miner. —
Lyman Roath's Shop. — Boy's Lending Library.
Chapter XLIX.
Simon Huntington's Home-lot (continued). — Andre Richard. — Daniel Needham. — Benjamin
Butler. — Anecdote of Benjamin Butler. — Dr. Benjamin Butler. — Gardner Carpenter. —
Rev. Hiram P. Arms.
CONTENTS. xi
Chapter L.
Home-lot of Simon Huntington (continued). — Gen. Jabez Huntington's Distillery and Cooper's
Shop. — Andrew Huntington. — William Bradford Whiting. — Emigrates to New York. —
Anecdote of Amjs wife of William Bradford Whiting. — Zenas Whiton (or Whiting). — His
Skill as a Bridge-builder. — Dr. Rufus Spalding.
Chapter LI.
Home-lot of Simon Huntington (concluded) and part of John Bradford's Home-lot. — Joseph
Carew's Shop. — Asa Lathrop's Shop. — Shop of Charles Gildon. — Isabella Gildon's School.
— Shop of Capt. Jacob Perkins. — Capt. Russell Hubbard. — David Nevins' Hat Factory. —
Samuel Gaine. — Simon Carew. — Jeremiah Leach's Shop. — Simeon Huntington's Store and
Blacksmitli Shop. — John Hughes. — Nathaniel Townsend. — Jabez Perkins. — Capt. Joseph
Gale. — Azor Gale. — Shop of Gen. Jabez Huntington. — Andrew Huntington. — Shop of
Zachariah Huntington.
Chapter LIL
Home-lot of John Bradford (continued). — Gen. Jabez Huntington. — Revolutionary Services. —
Illness and Death. — Elizabeth (Tracy) Backus. — Hannah (Williams) Huntington. — Col. John
Chester and His Wife, Elizabeth Huntington. — Gen. Zachariah Huntington. — Leader of the
Choir. — Family of Gen. Zachariah Huntington.
Chapter LIIL
Peter Morgan's Home-lot. — Rev. Joseph Strong's House. — Rev. Joseph Strong. — Henry
Strong. — ]\Iary (Huntington) Strong. — Robert Lancaster's House and Shop. — John
Lancaster.
Chapter LIV.
Home-lot of the Rev. James Fitch. — Maj. James Fitch's House. — Public Career of Maj. James
Fitch. — Alice (Bradfoi'd) (Adams) Fitch. — Family of Alice (Bradford) Adams. — Rev.
Samuel Whiting.
Charier LV.
Home-lot of the Rev. James Fitch (continued). — Illness of the Rev. James Fitch. — Efforts of
the Church to Procure a Settled Pastor. — Rev. Jabez Fitch. — Rev. Henry Flint. — Rev.
Joseph Coit. — Settlement of the Rev. John Woodward. — Disagreement about the Saybrook
Platform. — Dismissal of the Rev. John Woodward.
Chapter LVI.
Home-lot of the Rev. James Fitch (continued). — Sale of the Parsonage to Madam Sarah Knight. —
Lineage of Madam Knight. — Her Journal. — Removal to New London. — Edmund Gookin.
Chapter LVIL
Home-lot of the Rev. James Fitch (continued). — Curtis Cleveland's House. — His Lineage. —
Joseph Peck. — Elizabeth (Lathrop) (Carpenter) Peck. — Gardner Carpenter. — Andre
Richard. — Sylvanus Jones. — William Darby. — Capt. William Fountain. — Huguenot Ances-
try of Elizabeth (Rame) Fountain. — Capt. Philip Turner. — Joseph Peck. — Peck Tavern. —
Entertainments at the Tavern. — John Wheatley. — Service in the Revolution. — Deodat
Little. — Jonathan Trott. — Peace Celebrations. — Trott Lineage and Family.
xii CONTENTS.
Chapter LVIII.
Home-lot of Rev. James Fitch (continued). — Sylvanus Jones' House. — Ebenezer Jones. — Sale
of Lots. — George Wickwire's House. — Asa Lathrop's Shoe-shop. — Eliphaz Hart's Dwelling
House. — Sketch of the .Wickwire Family. — John Manly's Shop. — Thomas Danforth's
Shop. — William Morgan. — William Morgan's House. — James Noyes Brown. — Lineage of
James Noyes Brown. — Nathan Stedman. — Dr. Gurdon Lathrop. — Gerard Lathrop. —
Peter Lanman.
Chapter LIX.
Home-lot of Rev. James Fitch (concluded). — Jonathan Wickwire's House. — Jonathan Goodhue. —
Samuel Waterman's Shop. — Sketch of Goodhue Family. — John Perit. — Rev. Peter Perit. —
Inscription on Grave-stone. — Family of Rev. Peter Perit. — John Peril's Services in French
War and in the Revolution. — His Family. — Perit Shop. — Asa Spalding. — County House