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ID: I420
Reference Number: 420
Title: Sgt. 1
Name: John DEMING 1
Sex: M
Change Date: 02 MAY 2000
Death: 23 JAN 1711/12 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT 2 3 4
Occupation: kacker (a maker of small work, or rope maker) 4
Birth: ABT 1632
Note:
On Aug. 25, 1682 John Deming [Jr.] gave his age as "about 50
years".
5 6 7
Note:
"HE WAS A SELECTMAN, 1662: REP. TO GEN. CT., 1669 AND 72; ON A
COMMIS. TO RUN THE N. LINE OF TOWN, 1651; IN 1692 HE WAS CALLED
A "KNACKER' I.E. A MAKER OF SMALL WORK, OR ROPE MAKER, AS WERE
HIS FATHER AND BRO. DAVID. STILES, HISTORY OF ANCIENT
WETHERSFIELD, CONN.
ACCORDING TO SAVAGE, HE WAS BORN IN 1638, THOUGH NO AUTHORITY
IS GIVEN, AND HINMAN SAYS THAT HE WAS BORN IN 1632, AND IF THIS
DATE IS CORRECT HE MUST HAVE BEEN BORN BEFORE HIS FATHER MOVED
TO WETHERSFIELD. IN THE RECORDS HE IS CALLED SERGEANT JOHN
DEMING IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH HIM FROM HIS FATHER, AND THE
TITLE SHOWS THAT HE MAY HAVE TAKEN PART IN THE INDIAN WARS AT
THAT TIME. IN 1662 HE WAS ONE OF THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN, AND
FROM 1669 TO 1672 HE WAS REPRESENTATIVE FROM WETHERSFIELD TO
THE GENRAL COURT. HE AND HIS WIFE WHERE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH
AT WETHERSFIELD IN 1694. HIS SON JOHN PROBABLY REMAINED WITH HM
ON THE FARM, WHILE THE OTHERS SCATTERD. NO TRACE CAN BE FOUND
OF SAMUEL, OF MARY OR SARAH. FEB. 16, 1712, HIS SONS JOSEPH,
JOHN, JONATHAN AND HEZEKIAH DEEDED TO EACH OTHER PROPERTY WHICH
THEY HAD OWNED AT THE DEATH OF THEIR FATER, AND THIS SHOWS THAT
JACOB AND SAMUEL WERE NOT LIVING AT THE TIME. ONE AUTHORITY
SAYS THAT HE WAS A PACKER IN 1692, AND THIS WAS POSSIBLE HIS
FATHER'S TRADE, AS HE INHERITED HIS FATHER'S TOOLS. HIS BROTHER
DAVID, TO WHOM HIS FATHER FIRST BEQUETHED THE TOOLS AND THEN
WITHDREW THE BEQUEST WAS A KNACKER, WHICH WAS A MAKER OF SMALL
WORK, OR A ROPEMAKER. - CUTTER + J.K. DEMING
DREW LAND IN 1694 ALLOTMENT; THE TOWN GAVE HIM, 1674, TEN ACRES
AT RY H. BORDERED N.E. BY HIGHWAY LEADING TO GREAT RIVER; LAND
OF JOSEPH SMITH'S HEIRS, S.E.; ON ADDITIONAL SMITH'S LAND, E.
AND S.; HIGHWAY TO MIDDLETOWN, N.W.; THE COMMON W.
STILES - HIST. OF ANC. WETH. VOL 1 P. 205 LAND HOLDINGS
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1482, Date of Import: Oct
9, 1999]
"HE WAS A SELECTMAN, 1662: REP. TO GEN. CT., 1669 AND 72; ON A
COMMIS. TO RUN THE N. LINE OF TOWN, 1651; IN 1692 HE WAS CALLED
A "KNACKER' I.E. A MAKER OF SMALL WORK, OR ROPE MAKER, AS WERE
HIS FATHER AND BRO. DAVID. STILES, HISTORY OF ANCIENT
WETHERSFIELD, CONN.
ACCORDING TO SAVAGE, HE WAS BORN IN 1638, THOUGH NO AUTHORITY
IS GIVEN, AND HINMAN SAYS THAT HE WAS BORN IN 1632, AND IF THIS
DATE IS CORRECT HE MUST HAVE BEEN BORN BEFORE HIS FATHER MOVED
TO WETHERSFIELD. IN THE RECORDS HE IS CALLED SERGEANT JOHN
DEMING IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH HIM FROM HIS FATHER, AND THE
TITLE SHOWS THAT HE MAY HAVE TAKEN PART IN THE INDIAN WARS AT
THAT TIME. IN 1662 HE WAS ONE OF THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN, AND
FROM 1669 TO 1672 HE WAS REPRESENTATIVE FROM WETHERSFIELD TO
THE GENRAL COURT. HE AND HIS WIFE WErE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AT
WETHERSFIELD IN 1694. HIS SON JOHN PROBABLY REMAINED WITH HiM
ON THE FARM, WHILE THE OTHERS SCATTERD. NO TRACE CAN BE FOUND
OF SAMUEL, OF MARY OR SARAH. FEB. 16, 1712, HIS SONS JOSEPH,
JOHN, JONATHAN AND HEZEKIAH DEEDED TO EACH OTHER PROPERTY WHICH
THEY HAD OWNED AT THE DEATH OF THEIR FATER, AND THIS SHOWS
THAT JACOB AND SAMUEL WERE NOT LIVING AT THE TIME. ONE
AUTHORITY SAYS THAT HE WAS A PACKER IN 1692, AND THIS WAS
POSSIBLE HIS FATHER'S TRADE, AS HE INHERITED HIS FATHER'S
TOOLS. HIS BROTHER DAVID, TO WHOM HIS FATHER FIRST BEQUETHED
THE TOOLS AND THEN WITHDREW THE BEQUEST WAS A KANCKER, WHICH
WAS A MAKER OF SMALL WORK, OR A ROPEMAKER. - CUTTER
The birth date of 9 Sept.