Woodward and Kingsbery Genealogy

Husband: Major James FITCH 1 2 3 4 5
Born: 02 Aug 1649 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Married: 08 May 1687 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 45 46 47 48
Died: 10 Nov 1727 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut 14 15 16 17 18 19
Father: Rev. James FITCH
Mother: Abigail WHITFIELD
Spouses: Elizabeth MASON

Notes:

"Lord of the Mohegan (Mohican) Valley
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Founded Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut
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Early settler of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut
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Secured "the grant of the original Charter of Yale College. He gave the glass and nails for its first edifice, and (1701) an endowment of 637 acres of land, which ensured its permanent establishment."
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"Major James Fitch from early manhood was actively employed in civil and military affairs. He wholly re-established the colonial government after the revolution of 1689, and was appointed assistant in 1690. He was serfeant-major of New London county, in 1696, and led military expeditions to guard the frontiers. He exercised jurisdiction over the Mohegans; he was a warm friend of the Indians, with whom he had more influence than any one else in the colony. He also served as treasurer of the county of New London; but little progress had been made in the settlement of this county until 1697, when he removed thither with his family, digging the first cellar and erecting the first permanent habitation in what is now the township of Canterbury. He selected for his permanent residence the neck of land enclosed by a curve of the Quinebaugh river. At the time of his settlement, he was little past middle age, and had been for many years one of the most prominent men in Connecticut." (Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 531 in The Bradford Line section)

Wife: Alice BRADFORD 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
Born: 1659 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 39 40
Died: 15 Mar 1746 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut 41 42 43
Father: Major William BRADFORD
Mother: Alice RICHARDS
Spouses: Rev. William ADAMS
Children
01 (M): Ebenezer FITCH 49 50
Born: 10 Jan 1690 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 51 52
Died: 20 Sep 1724 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut 53
Spouses: Bridget BROWN
Additional Information

Major James FITCH:

Buried: Canterbury churchyard, Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut 20

Tombstone inscription:
Here lies the Body of Maj'r James Fitch Esq'r son of ye Rev'd Mr. James Fitch Pastor first of Saybrook then Norwich. He was born at Saybrook 1647. He Was very Useful in his Military & in His Magistracy to which he was chose'n & Served successively many years to ye Greate Acceptance & Advantage of His Country: being: A Gentleman of Good Parts & very forward to Promote ye Civil & Religious interes'ts of it. He died Nov. 10, 1727 Aged 80 y.

Alt. Birth: 02 Aug 1647, Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut 21

Residence: 1659, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 22

Property: New London County, Connecticut; 3 acres of land given to him by his father on the Yantic River 23

Property: 1683, 100 acres of land granted to him 24

Military Service: 1675, during King Philip’s War 25 26

Occupation: 1681, Colony of Massachusetts; Major and Assistant 27

Residence: 1697, Peagscomsuck (Canterbury), Windham County, Connecticut 28 29 30

Occupation: 1701, Colony of Massachusetts; Assistant Governor 31

Alice BRADFORD:

Buried: Canterbury churchyard, Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut

Alt. Baptism: 1745 44

Footnotes
  1. Cutter, W. R., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth .... (1911. Lewis Publishing Company, NY (Ancestry.com, 2002)).
  2. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (1860-1862. Boston. (Ancestry.com and Google Books)), Vol.2, page 170.
    Quality: 3.
  3. Walworth, Reuben, H., Mason Family: some of the descendants of Major John Mason, the Conqueror of the Pequots (1861. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 15: 117-122, 217-224, 318; Vol. 16: 39-42, 214-219).
  4. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  5. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  6. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 18, 38.
    Quality: 3.
  7. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (1860-1862. Boston. (Ancestry.com and Google Books)), Vol.2, page 170.
    Quality: 3.
  8. Mackenzie, G. N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America (1907. New York. (1999, Ancestry.com)).
  9. Cutter, W. R., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth .... (1911. Lewis Publishing Company, NY (Ancestry.com, 2002)).
  10. Walworth, Reuben H., Minutes Relative to the Bradford Family (1860. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 14, p. 174-175).
  11. Walworth, Reuben, H., Mason Family: some of the descendants of Major John Mason, the Conqueror of the Pequots (1861. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 15: 117-122, 217-224, 318; Vol. 16: 39-42, 214-219).
  12. Cutter, W. R., New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, Vol. II (1915. Reprint 1997, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore), p. 1343.
    Quality: 3.
  13. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 17.
    Quality: 3.
  14. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 38, 49.
    Quality: 3.
  15. Mackenzie, G. N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America (1907. New York. (1999, Ancestry.com)).
  16. Letter from Jean Stewart-Williams, Feb. 22, 2004.
  17. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  18. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  19. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 17.
    Quality: 3.
  20. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 49.
    Quality: 3.
  21. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  22. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 2.
    Quality: 3.
  23. Ibid., p. 4.
    Quality: 3.
  24. Ibid., p. 38.
    Quality: 3.
  25. Ibid., p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  26. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  27. Mackenzie, G. N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America (1907. New York. (1999, Ancestry.com)).
  28. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 43.
    Quality: 3.
  29. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  30. Cutter, W. R., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth .... (1911. Lewis Publishing Company, NY (Ancestry.com, 2002)).
  31. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. I (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 99.
    Quality: 3.
  32. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 46.
    Quality: 3.
  33. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (1860-1862. Boston. (Ancestry.com and Google Books)), Vol.2, page 170.
    Quality: 3.
  34. Mackenzie, G. N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America (1907. New York. (1999, Ancestry.com)), Rev. James Fitch biography.
    Quality: 3.
  35. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  36. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  37. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  38. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 8.
    Quality: 3.
  39. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  40. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 8 and 17.
    Quality: 3.
  41. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  42. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 17.
    Quality: 3.
  43. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  44. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  45. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 49.
    Quality: 3.
  46. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  47. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  48. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 17.
    Quality: 3.
  49. Cutter, W. R., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth .... (1911. Lewis Publishing Company, NY (Ancestry.com, 2002)).
    Quality: 3.

    Father of Alice Fitch, son of Major James Fitch, grandson of Rev. James Fitch

  50. Ibid.
  51. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 49.
    Quality: 3.
  52. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 18.
    Quality: 3.
  53. Letter from Jean Stewart-Williams, Feb. 22, 2004.
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