General Notes

1  NAME Stephen /Dodd/
2  GIVN Stephen
2  SURN Dodd
2  SOUR S200


Stephen Dodd (1655-1691) settled in Guilford, Connecticut, where his two oldest sisters, Mary Blachley and Anna Fowler lived. He married Sarah Stevens on May 18, 1678. Mary died some time before Stephen, who died October, 1691, at age 37. His land and movable estate were left to his sons except that he gave a cow to his cousin Mary Wheeler who lived with him, and he gave the wedding gown of his late wife to his sister Anna Fowler. Stephen and Mary had just two sons: Daniel and Samuel. In 1707, son Daniel, by then in Newark, New Jersey, signed a document giving all right and title in the lands and tenements left to him in Guilford to his brother Samuel. The original Dodd genealogy gives Stephen's wife's name as Mary Stevens, but other records show fairly conclusively that it was Sarah, not Mary Stevens, who was married to Stephen Dodd.