General Notes

Name: John Lee
Sex: M
Birth: ABT. 1621 in England, sailed on Francis, age 13, 1634
Death: 8 AUG 1690 in Farmington, Hartford, CT
Note:
John Lee24. Born 1620 in probably Colchester, Essex, England. Died 8 Aug 1690 in Farmington, Conn. Occupation Settler, farmer.

Born between April 10 and Aug. 8, 1620, the patriarch of the Lee family sailed from Ipswich April 10, 1634, aged 13. No record of his parents has been found. However, it was said he was sent to America by his father, who planned to come later, but never did. He lived in Cambridge, Mass., for a year, and came to Hartford in 1635 with his guardian. In 1641, he was among the 84 settling proprietors of Farmington and was a constable in 1657. He lived on the west side of the main street. A monument to him was put in the old cemetery in 1876.24

"Born in the years of the Pilgrim exodus, in Colchester, Essex County, England -- a place which had long been noted as a hot-bed of the new ideas and spirit -- John Lee, a boy of 14 years, came to America under the care of William Westwood, a man of prominence and a member of the first General Court, landing at Boston in 1634. The following year he settled in Connecticut, making Hartford, then in its beginnings, his home until 1641. He then joined a second company which settled in Farmington, nine miles distant, a first company having located there the year before. His name appears among those of the first proprietors of the town. Here in this frontier settlement, he grew to manhood; was married at the age of 38 to Mary, daughter of Stephen Hart, leader of the colony; reared his family of six children; passed through all the vicissitudes of those early and trying years; died at length in
1690 at the age of 70, and was buried in the old Farmington Cemetery, where 20 years since a handsome monument was erected to his memory, replacing the original stone so long lost, with its rudely chisled inscription, and which now finds a place beside it."
--The Rev. Dr. Bacchus of Plainville, Conn.26
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