[3416.ftw]
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #3416, Date of Import: Dec 5, 1998]
!IMMIG: Arrived boston 1635
!NOTE: Inhabitant New London Ct 1665
!DEATH: d near Welcome Browning farm buried Indian Bury ground (1983 Geer
newsletter shows map of Cem at Ledyard
!PUB: GEER GEN. Walter Geer p 13-15
!PUB: HUDSON MOHAWK GEN & FAM MEMOIRS, Cuyler Reynolds, p 219...Hist
of Thos Geer & anc...5th gen fr walter Geere of heavitree Devonshire
Eng living abt 1450 m Alice Somaster. Parents of Thos d when he
was young & he and bro GEORGE were left in charge of uncle who
in order to obtain possessionof property shipped them to Boston
where they landed 1635 without money & friends...GEORGE became early
settler of New London Ct abt 1651 & fr him the elder branch of
family are descended...Thos b 1623 s/o Jonathan Geere of Heavitree
!PUB: GEN DIC OF 1st SETTLERS of NE, Savage Vol !! p 239
!PROBATE: Will written 5 Jun 1723
George came to new London with Robert Allyn in 1651. In 1656, he took up land east of Allyn in the area of Geer Hill, Tow years later he married Allyn's daughter, Sarah and they had eleven children. George lived to be 105.