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1635 Thomas Hooker 82 82 Robert Hunt BIOGRAPHY: Of Elizabethtown, New Jersey Mary PORTER 1734 - 1807 Mary EDWARDS 72 72 Elisha Parsons BIOGRAPHY: Of Northampton and then Stockbridge. 1728 - 1805 Sarah EDWARDS 76 76 Rhoda EDWARDS 1747 - 1762 Elizabeth EDWARDS 14 14 Mercy Sabin 1764 - BET 11 JUN 1840 AND 1846 Theodore DWIGHT BIOGRAPHY: Was a lawyer in Haddam and Hartford, Connecticut.  Became amember of congress.  Was editor and proprietor of the New York Daily Advertiser.  He authored "History of the Hartford Convention."  Received honorary A.M. from Yale in 1798. 1756 - 1821 Erastus DWIGHT 64 64 BIOGRAPHY: Attended Yale.  He was mentally incapacitated upon hearing ofhis father's death in 1777 and remained a recluse until his death living his entire life in the house of his great-grandfather, Nathaniel Dwight.  He would go to his mother's house for dinner every night after others were done and, after his mother died, did the same at his brother Cecil's house.   1774 - 1839 Cecil DWIGHT 65 65 BET 31 JAN 1763 AND 1770 - 1831 Nathaniel DWIGHT BIOGRAPHY: After some years of medical practice he turned his attentionto theology and settled at West Chester, Connecticut before moving to Oswego, New York.  Received an honorary A.M. from Williams College in 1801 and from Yale in 1815.  In 1796 he published a geography which was extensively used. Eleazar PORTER BIOGRAPHY: Of Hadley, Massachusetts 1740 - 1804 Susannah EDWARDS 63 63 Rhoda Ogden 1745 - 1801 Jonathan EDWARDS 56 56 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale (or Princeton?) in 1765 and tutored atPrinceton, 1766-69.  Studied with Rev. Dr. Bellamy in Bethel, Connecticut before settling in New Haven, 1769-95, and then in Colebrook, Connecticut, 1796-99.  President of Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1799 until time of death.

Edwards, Jonathan, theologian, was born in Northampton, Mass., May 26, 1745; second son of the Rev. Jonathan (qv) and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards; and grandson of the Rev. Timothy Edwards and of the Rev. James Pierpont. His youth was spent at Stockbridge, Mass., at that time an Indian settlement, and there he acquired a mastery of the dialect of the Housatonnuck Indians. His father desired that he should become a missionary among the aboriginal tribes and he began to study the dialect of the Oneidas with the Rev. Gideon Hawley (qv), stationed on the Susquehanna river, but the French and Indian war put an end to his project after six months' sojourn with the tribe. The removal of his father's family to Princeton, N.J., and the sudden death of his father, mother and sister, caused him to change his plans. Friends assisted him to prepare for college and he was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1765. He then studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Bellamy at Bethlehem, Conn., and was licensed to preach by the association of Litchfield county in 1766. He returned, however, to Princeton, where he was tutor in the college, 1767-68, and in January, 1769, he became pastor at White Haven, Conn. Here he met the opposition of the advocates of the "half-way covenant," and also the reaction incident to the extravagant religious fervor brought about by the revival of 1740-42. The churches were at the same time also greatly divided and impoverished by reason of the war with the mother country, and his own congregation took advantage of all these causes to rid themselves of their minister. He was dismissed from his charge, May 19, 1795, and found a church at Colebrook, a retired country parish in Litchfield county, where he ministered to a small and not exacting congregation, 1796-99, meanwhile pursuing his theological and metaphysical researches. He was called from his retirement in 1799 to assume the presidency of Union college, Schenectady, N.Y., rendered vacant by the resignation of the first president, the Rev. Dr. John Blair Smith. He was eminently successful in his administration and won the friendship of his faculty, the students and the citizens of Schenectady. He received the degree of A.M. from the [p.401] College of New Jersey and from Yale in 1769, and in 1785 that of S.T.D. from the College of New Jersey. By an odd coincidence, on the first Sunday of the year of his death, 1801, he preached from the text, "This year thou shalt die," as his father had done. He prepared of the works of his father left unpublished, History of the Work of Redemption, two volumes of sermons and Miscellaneous Observations on Important Theological Subjects in two volumes. He published of his own writings, A Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity, sermons on The Necessity of the Atonement and Its Consistency with Free Grace in Forgiveness (1785), and observations on the Language of the Muhhekeneew Indians. The Rev. Tryon Edwards, his grandson, edited with a memoir most of his published writings (2 vols., 1842). He died in Schenectady, N.Y., Aug. 1, 1801. [The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans]   Thomas Pollock BIOGRAPHY: Of Newbern, North Carolina 1743 - 1822 Eunice EDWARDS 79 79 1738 - 1813 Timothy EDWARDS 75 75 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Princeton in 1757.  Was a merchant inElizabethtown, New Jersey until 1771 and then in Stockbridge, Massachusetts where he was deacon in Congregational Church and in public office until 1787.  Member of State Council, 1775-80, and Judge of Probate, 1778-87. 1783 - 1863 Timothy WOODBRIDGE 80 80 BIOGRAPHY: Lost his sight while preparing for the ministry but completedhis studies and settled in Green River, New York and, after marriage, to Spencertown, New York. 1752 - 1817 Timothy DWIGHT 64 64 BIRTH: Clark has birth on May 14.
BIOGRAPHY: Pastor of church at Greenfield Hill, Greenwich, Connecticutand, from 1795 to 1817, professor of theology and President of Yale.  He was a tutor at Yale, 1771-77, chaplain in the Revolution, 1777-78, and teacher in Northampton, 1778-83, before pastoring at Greenfield Hill, 1783-95.  President of Yale 1795-1817.
 Sarah BURR Jonathan Walter Edwards BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1789 and became an eminent lawyer. 1750 - 1826 Pierpont EDWARDS 76 76 BIOGRAPHY: After his parents died at age 10 he came under his brotherTimothy.  Graduated from Princeton in 1768.  He was a lawyer in New Haven, a soldier in the revolution, a member of the Continental Congress, and Judge of the U.S. District Court for Connecticut. William EDWARDS BIOGRAPHY: Tanner in Northampton. 1741 - 1832 Giles PIERPONT 91 91 Hannah 1726 - 1777 Timothy DWIGHT 50 50 BIRTH: Solomon Clark has birth in 1720.  Fort Dummer is now Brattleboro.  Although birth was in Vermont, it is recorded in Northampton, Massachusetts vital records.
BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1744.  An extrensive trade and large landholder.  He built and occupied a house on King Street which was later occupied by Dr. Fisk.  Was for many years selectman, town recorder, register of probate and judge (for 16 years) of the court of common pleas.  He possessed great muscular strength. 
DEATH: He invested heavily in a colony on the Mississippi and died away from home when he journeyed there.  Franklin Dexter has death on June 10. 1730 - 1747 Jerusha EDWARDS 16 16 DEATH: She was engaged to Rev. David Brainerd who became sick whilevisiting.  She nursed him from July 25 until his death on Oct. 9, 1746 and also became sick.  She survived him for four months. 1700 - 1780 Mary HOOKER 80 80 1698 - 1761 Abigail HOOKER 63 63 1705 - 1764 Joseph HOOKER 59 59 1708 - 1777 Ruth HOOKER 69 69 1710 - 1774 Roger HOOKER 63 63 1702 - 1779 Esther HOOKER 76 76 1702 Sarah HOOKER 1757 Timothy Russell Dorothy FLINT John HOOKER 1586 - 1647 Thomas HOOKER 61 61 BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Thomas Hooker was born at Marfield, Leicestershire,England, the son of Thomas Hooker of Devonshire, on July 7, 1586. He entered Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1604, receiving a B.A. degree in 1608, and an M.A. in 1611. He then began the study of divinity, and was elected Fellow of the College, but left school before completing his first course. He started preaching in the Cambridge and London area. In 1626 he became a lecturer and assistant to the Rev. Mr. Mitchell at Chelmsford, and had the opportunity to speak to noblemen and others of high standing in English society. Rev. Hooker became a victim of religious persecution. In 1630 he was tried in Spiritual Court at Chelmsford, and silenced for non-conformity. He continued to work nearby, teaching at a school at Little Braddow. After a petition to have him reinstated in the English Church was turned down, he decided to move to Holland. He remained there for three years, first in Amsterdam, then Delft, and finally in Rotterdam. He then returned to England for a visit, but found that his enemies were still active. He was forced to go into hiding, and in July 1633 he escaped by concealing himself on the ship "Griffin", sailing from the Downs. He arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1633, and on October 11 was chosen pastor of the church at Newton, where he remained for the next two and one-half years. In June, 1636, he joined a group forming a settlement at Hartford, Connecticut, and became identified with all the major developments of the colony. Rev. Roger Newton became a student of his at Hartford, and married his daughter, Mary, in 1644. Rev. Hooker published many books and sermons between 1637 and his death. He became ill with a violent epidemic disease and died enroute to Hartford, Connecticut on July 7, 1647, his 61st birthday.
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HOOKER, Thomas (1586-1647), A.B., Cambridge 1608; fled from; Eng. to Holland, 1630, thence in the "Griffin" to Boston, 1633; freeman, 1634; elected pastor of the 8th Ch., Newton, Mass. and moved with his congregation and family to Hartford. Conn.. 1636, of which he was the founder: m Susanna -----. In 1633 he came to America. He brought with him the memory of the wrongs he had received from English Kings and he brought also the inspiration that he had received from the Sons of Liberty in Holland. He came here to do his part in founding a community in which persecution for thought's sake should never be a cornerstone, and where men might carve out their futures for themselves. "It was 1633, Thomas Hooker was settled as the pastor of the church at Newtowne, Massachusetts. The church was composed of men who had been his followers in England, who had crossed the ocean, established themselves at Newtowne, formed a church organizaton and called him to be their preacher and leader there, while he was in exile in Holland. They were men who were in full accord with his political as well as with his religious ideas. They were men who had left their homes in the Old World to seek for liberty under a leader they loved, in the New World. "As I have studied the character of Thomas Hooker, more and more I have come to see him as a statesman, rather than as a preacher. It was his to champion the cause of liberty, rather than to preach the creeds of theology. It was his to found democracies rather than to establish churches. At Newtowne he had as devoted a congregation as ever listened to the preaching of a preacher, for it was a congregation of men and women who had left all to follow him and his principles. "But Massachusetts was a theocracy and consequently an aristocracy, and Thomas Hooker was a Democrat. In Massachusetts it was the church that ruled, almost as the church ruled at Rome, only it was another church and there was no Pope. No man could vote unless he was a church member. Out of more than three thousand inhabitants, two thirds of them men of mature age, there were only three hundred qualified electors. The church was dominant in the State, and the dominancy of the church is always despotism. "Hooker was not at all in accord with the theocratic idea. It has been said that he removed his congregation to Connecticut because he and they differed with the majority of the inhabitants of Massachusetts upon religious questions. It is a mistake. He moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut for the same reason that he had moved from England to Holland and from Holland to America, to find a place not so much where he could worship God as he chose as where he could be a free citizen, with the right and the power to work out his own destiny for himself and to found a real democracy for himself and for his devoted followers. He moved from the valley of the Charles to the valley of the Connecticut in order to escape from a government theocratic in its origin and inevitably aristocratic in its nature, to a place where a real democratic government could be established--where the people could rule. It was a political rather than a religious migration. ________Hooker had, as a curate of a parish in Clemsford, as early as 1629, been engaged in the theological warfare with the "Divine right" and "unlimited prerogative" dogmas of those turbulent times, and had with others been silenced for non- conformity to the rites and worship of the Established church, and in after years as a leader of the Separatists, had the reputation "of a most eloquent preacher, a wise counsellor, a discerning and far-sighted statesman." He had in Samuel Stone, who like himself, was graduated from Cambridge, an able assistant, and one possessing the requisite qualities of mind for the enterprises proposed, and with about one hundred persons, and the equipments necessary, they planned the emigration to this colony so graphically described by the friendly sachems as "the fertile lands upon the borders of the great river." A few of the band preceded the great body of the company in the autumn of 1634, who with Hooker and Stone left the Massachusetts Colony in June of the following year, and were some two weeks on their journey. They made purchase by deed of the land, which was substantially what is now the limits of the city, and formed friendly relations with the neighboring tribes, with whom they carried on extensive trading, doubtless to their mutual advantage. There had been almost simultaneously, or some months previously, small settlements at both Windsor and Wethersfield, above and below Hartford, and these three townships, as they were shortly called, comprised the new colony, and each, by town meetings respectively held, sent their representatives to the first General Court, held at Hartford, April 26, 1636.
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BIOGRAPHY: THOMAS HOOKER BY ALICE PORTER  Published in the Connecticut Magazine July - August 1906
It is my privilege and pleasure to write of an honored ancestor, t h e well known New England divine, Rev. Thomas Hooker, who was born at Marfield, Leicester County, England, probably about July 7th, 1586.
The little hamlet of Marfleld is one of the four towns which make up the Parish of Tilton, whose records, previous to 1610, having perished, it is impossible to ascertain the exact date of his birth. The common place of worship for this parish was the noble old church of St. Peter, built some time in the Twelfth Century and commanding a wide view over one of the most beautiful portions of midland England. This church is the place where Thomas Hooker was baptized, and where during his boyhood he doubtless attended divine worship. One wonders to find so beautiful and costly an edifice, with its embattled tower, containing its peal of Jour bells and lofty spire in so quiet and rural a spot. The grand old church of gray stone on the hill top, surrounded by the graves of the rude forefathers, the wide stretching prospect of wooded landscape and open fields, the small thatch covered village of Tilton, and the little hamlet of Marfleld, embowered in trees down in a valley, about a mile and a half away, is probably not much altered since Thomas Hooker looked upon it as a boy.
The Hooker family seems to have been one of some note, as the parish register and the records of the court of administration speak of the father and brother respectively as "Mr. Hooker, gentleman," designations which at that date were given only to persons of some social standing. Who his mother was is unknown, but she lived to see her son become a preacher of note and the object of special hatred by Archbishop Land, and banishment from the Kingdom.
The family life may have been comfortable and happy in the little Marfield home, but it must have been comparatively narrow and limited, the chief point of interest outside the concerns of home being the church. At the age of 13 or 14 young Hooker was determined on getting an education, and there is no doubt that the place of his training, preparatory to the University, was the school at Market Bosworth. It was just at this time that the great Puritan and antiPuritan conflict was then in progress, and echoes of the stirring events connected with these public matters must have reached Market Bosworth, and have been the subject of frequent converse among the bright boys gathered there. Hooker was about 18 years of age when he entered the University. Here, then, at Cambridge as a student for certainly seven years, and as a Fellow resident for some years more, Thomas Hooker was from the age of 18 to 28 or 30, in the midst of the most considerable actions in the great events of the times.
There is a story of one of the incidents of his life about this time, which may be of interest:
"On returning home, after his course of preparation for the ministry, he found his friends and townsmen in a great state of excitement over what was considered to be a haunted house. The house was a solitary one, standing on the outskirts of the town, and had been empty for several years, the owners being unable to rent or sell it, or even persuade a care-taker to live in it, rent free.
"Strange sounds were heard from the house at night, and lights were seen flashing from the windows, wierd shapes were seen by the terrified watchers passing to and fro within the house, and it was rumored that the Devil himself, in proper array, with horns, hoofs and tail, had been seen.
"This young clergyman, being of a bold nature, volunteered to sleep in the house and ascertain the truth of the stories. In spite of the entreaties of his friends he went to the house and to bed in a second story room, his pistols on a table by his side.
"The early, part of the night passed quietly and he slept. soundly, but by and by he was awakened, by the, certainty that some one, was, in the room with him. Sitting up he, struck a Lght and there saw, gloweing at him in the dim light the alarming figure of the Devil, standing motionless at the foot of the bed.
"Without an, instant's hesitation our hero, seizing his pistols, sprang from the bed `and threw, himself at the intruder. The Devil turned and fled, the young clergyman after him. Down the stairs they. went, through the house, until they reached the cellar stairs. Down went the Devil and his: pursuer came tumbling after. reaching the ground just in timc to see a square of light in the floor, through which the Devil was disappearing. He grasped the edge of the trap door before it could be fastened and dropped into the subterranean passage, which opened out into a larger brightly lighted room. Here he found a number of men, engaged in making counterfeit money, and to his horror he recognized some of his friends and fellow townsmen, wellknown citizens, prominent in church and business. They all clustered about the breathless Devil and a hurried consultation was held, as to what should be done with their unwelcome visitor.
"As soon as the latter had recvered his breath he said. cooly: `Gentlemen, it is publicly known that I slept in this house to-night, and if I do not appear in the morning, this house will be razed to the ground, and y,our secret be `discovered. If you will solemnly promise to cease this wicked work for ten years from this night, I will on my side solemnly promise you not to mention for, ten years what I have learned to-night.' This was agreed tol and Thomas Hooker then returned to ,his bed where he spent the rest of the night in peace.
"The next morning he,, reported that there was nothing uncanny about the house and that he had found everything much to his taste.
"The house was soon, after rented, and nothing more was heard of the ghost stories.. Time passed and the young minister joined the Puritans, and came to America., When nearly 11 years passed Mr. Hooker received from over the. sea: a package which contained' a magnificent silver tankard with, the; inscription `ompliments of the, Devil.' The tankard has been handed down for many' generations, a treasured heirloom."
Mr. Hooker was first, called to preach at Esher in Surrey, a small place 16 miles, from Westminster Bridge, with, a scanty living of 40 pounds a year. Here he met and married his wife, a lady of culture and worthy to be the companion of such a man.
About 1625 he accepted an invitation to establish himself as lecturer at Chelmsford, Essex County. Here be labored for three years and many people flocked to hear hith, some of great quality, among them being the Earl of Warwick, who afterwards sheltered and befriended his family when Mr. Hooker was forced to flee the country.
These lectures attracted the attention and displeasure of Land, Archbishop of London, who, on account of Mr. Hooker's popularity with the people, was anxious to silence him.
Shortly after this he was forced to lay down his ministry in Chelmsford and retired to Little. Baddow where be kept a school in his own house. Here he employed as an assistant John Elliott, afterward the celebrated apostle to the Indians.
Land's vengeance pursued him and he was cited to appear before the High Commission Court. On account of sickness he did not respond. His friends gave bonds to the amount of 50 pounds, which they afterwards paid, and Hooker secretly went aboard a vessel for Holland.
He was pursued, but the officer arrived at the sea shore just too late for his arrest. He arrived safely in Holland, and was for an uncertain period resident in Amsterdam, where he went to Delft and afterward to Rotterdam.
But the state of things in Holland was unsatisfactory, and probably before this negotiations had already been opened for him to go to New England. As early as August, 1632, a company called Mr. Hooker's company were already at Mt. Wallaston. Some time in 1833 Mr. Hooker crossed over from Holland to England and after a very narrow escape from arrest, be, with Mr. John Gotton, and the Rev. Samuel Stone, his assistant, boarded the Griffin, at the Downs and concealed their identity till they were well out at sea.
Eight weeks brought them to New England and brought Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone to the congregation waiting for them at Newtown, the place to which the Braintree Company had been ordered to remove from their first settlement at Mt. Wallaston. Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone arrived in Boston September 4th, 1633. They went at once to Newtown, and on the 11th of October following, in connection with a "fast" were chosen Pastor and Teacher; and thus the grave,, godly, and judicious Hooker and the rhetorical Mr. Stone entered upon their work side by side. A house of worship was erected, with the then very unusual appointment of a "bell upon it." The church doubtless' prospered, as well as most of the new churches of the country. Its minister was as honored as any man in the colony, its prominent lay member, Mr. John Haynes, was chosen Governor of Massachusetts in May, 1635, on which occasion he signalized his liberality by declining to receive the usual salary of the office.
The town was apparently as prosperous and wealthy as any in the Bay, but there was all along from very near the arrival of the Griffin's Company, a certain uneasiness in respect to their situation, all the causes of which are somewhat difficult to trace, and which at last, culminated in the removal of nearly the entire membership of the church and population of the town to Hartford, Conn.
The Newtown pilgrims struck out into the pathless woods. There were hills to be climbed and streams to be forded, and morasses to be crossed. Their guides were the compass and the Northern star. The Pastor's wife, Mrs. Hooker, was carried in a litter because of her infirmity. Men and women of refinement and delicate breeding turned pioneers of untracked forests in search of a wilderness home. The lowing of cattle sounding through the forest aisles, not to mention the bleating of goats and the squealing of swine, summoned them to each morning's advance. The day began and ended with the voice of prayer. Their toilsome and devious way led them to near the mouth of the Chicopee, not far from where the City of Springfield now stands.
Thence, down along the Connecticut was a comparatively straight and easy pathway.
The wide full river, flowing with a larger tide than now and swollen with its northern snows, was crossed on rafts and rudely constructed boats, and cheered by the sight of some pioneer attempts at habitation and settlement, the Ark of the First Church of Hartford rested and the weary pilgrims who bore it thither stood still.
Arriving upon the ground one of the earliest transactions was the purchase of land from the Indians. A temporary structure was first built to afford a meeting place for the people, and the first meeting house was erected in 1638. The worshippers were seated by public authorities according to their rank, men and women apart and on opposite sides.
The year 1638 witnessed the preliminary proceedings very imperfectly recorded of one of the most interesting events in all civil history, the establishment of a written constitution for the government of the Colony.
"The first written Constitution in the history of the Nations."
John Fiske says: "It was the first written Constitution known to history, that created a government, and it marked the beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves, more than any other man, to be called the father.
The Pastor of the Hartford Church was Connecticut's great Legislator.
Mr. Hooker made the journey from Hartford to Boston and back on public business certainly. three times through the trackless wilderness on horse-back. After nine years of labor in Connecticut, an epidemical sickness prevailed over the whole country, and the blow fell hard in Hartford.
Many of the citizens of the town died and among them that faithful servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Hooker, who for piety, wisdom, learning and zeal might be compared with men of greatest note.
The fruits of his labors in both England's shall preserve an honorable and happy remembrance of him forever.
He died July 7th, 1647, at the age of sixty-one. He is buried in the old cemetery at the rear of the First Church of Hartford, in which such splendid work has lately been done by the Ruth Wyllis Chapter, D. A. R. They have cleared, restored and brought into view this cemetery, where repose the bones of so many of Connecticut's early settlers.
The cemetery was entirely hidden from view by tall buildings surrounding it, neglected, unseen, and forgotten. Through the efforts of these women a large sum of money was raised with which the unsightly buildings on one side of the cemetery were purchased and torn down, thus bringing the sacred lot into view, and opening onto a street which runs from Main Street to the Park.
The tangle of weeds that had overgrown the entire ground was mown down, the broken stones mended and restored, and the place is now one of beauty, with its trees and winding walks, and of great interest to all who care to visit it. Here repose the mortal remains of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, whose soul is with the just, and whose memory is that of one of the greatest and best of men.



BIRTH: Descendants of Thomas Hooker has birth in 1604.
May have been born in a parish other than Markfield in Leicester County.
Buchroeder spells birthplace Marefield. 1736 - 1786 Lucy EDWARDS 50 50 1738 - 1796 Jahleel WOODBRIDGE 58 58 1749 Desiah Russell 1751 John Russell 1754 Lemuel Russell 1759 Lois Russell 1762 Mol Russell William RUSSELL Of Middletown, Connecticut. BET 23 NOV 1702 AND 1703 - 1740 Mary PIERPONT 1747 Noadiah Russell 1763 Prudence Russell 1706 - 1763 Mehitabel HOOKER 57 57 1700 Richard HOOKER 1698 - 1703 Roger HOOKER 5 5 BET 1 FEB 1691 AND 1692 - 1756 Thomas HOOKER 1690 - 1787 Giles HOOKER 96 96 1667 Samuel SHEPARD 1783 Giles PIERPONT 1688 - 1787 Samuel HOOKER 98 98 BET 7 FEB 1748 AND 1749 - 1800 Frances OGDEN 1728 Lois Bliss Benjamin PIERPONT 1710 - 1763 Nathaniel HOOKER 52 52 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1729. 1598 - 1676 Susanna HARKES 78 78 Bradley, Collette et al has surname as Garbrand.
BIRTH: Bradley, Collette et al has birth in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. ~1600 - >1670 Susannah GARBRAND 70 70 1625 - 1684 John HOOKER 59 59 1628 - 1629 Sarah HOOKER 1 1 1633 - 1697 Samuel HOOKER 64 64 D. 1646 Joanna HOOKER 1637 - 1712 Mary WILLET 74 74 BIOGRAPHY: Of Swanzey (Swansea), Massachusetts 1659 - 1720 Thomas HOOKER 61 61 No children by Mary Smith. 1661 - 1730 Samuel HOOKER 69 69 1663 William HOOKER 1664 - 1746 John HOOKER 82 82 1666 - BET 12 MAR 1741 AND 1743 James HOOKER BIOGRAPHY: First judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Guilford and a magistrate. 1668 - 1698 Roger HOOKER 29 29 BIOGRAPHY: Never married 1671 - 1711 Nathaniel HOOKER 40 40 1673 - 1740 Mary HOOKER 67 67 Third wife of James Pierpont. 1675 - 1686 Hezekiah HOOKER 11 11 1669 - 1742 Daniel HOOKER 73 73 BIOGRAPHY: First tutor at Yale. 1681 - 1759 Sarah HOOKER 78 78 ~1643 - 1702 Mary SMITH 59 59 1675 Stephen BUCKINGHAM BIOGRAPHY: Of Norwalk 1669 - 1742 Abigail STANLEY 72 72 Could also be spelled Standley. ~1588 Frances Hooker ~1637 Alice HOOKER ~1564 - 1631 Susan 67 67 1626 Anne HOOKER 1586 - 1667 Anne Hooker 81 81 ~1588 - 1684 John Hooker 96 96 ~1588 Dorothy Hooker 1597 Elizabeth Hooker 1603 - 1616 William Hooker 13 13 1690 Susanna Hooker BET 4 JAN 1659 AND 1660 - 1714 James PIERPONT BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Harvard in 1681.  Pastor of First Congregational Church in New Haven in 1684.  Took possession of Mansion House and land granted him by the town in 1686.  One of the founders of Yale. Sarah STANDLEY 1666 - 1752 Mary LEETE 85 85 1688 - 1756 Hezekiah HOOKER 67 67 1691 - 1692 Abigail HOOKER 1 1 1693 - 1693 John HOOKER 1m 1m DEATH: Died young.

BIRTH: Ray's Place has birth on Dec. 17 in Farmington. 1695 John HOOKER BIRTH: Ray's place has birth in Farmington. 1677 - 1753 Mary STANLEY 75 75 Could also be spelled Stanley. 1710 - 1758 Sarah PIERPONT 48 48 BIRTH: Savage has birth in June. 1703 - 1758 Jonathan EDWARDS 54 54 BIOGRAPHY: Began study of Latin at age six and graduated from Yale in 1720.  Received his degree of A.M. in 1723 and tutored at Yale 1724-26.  He was the third minister at Northampton, 1727-50, and was known as a preacher, theologian and author of world wide celebrity.  Sent as missionary to Indians at Stockbridge in August 1751 which he did until he was chosen as President of Naussa Hall College (Princeton) in 1758 just before his death.

DEATH: Of smallpox after innoculation. BET 13 FEB 1731 AND 1732 - 1758 Esther EDWARDS DEATH: Smallpox BET 4 JAN 1715 AND 1716 - 1757 Aaron BURR BIOGRAPHY:  Graduated from Yale in 1735 and was a Berkeley Scholar for one year after.  Licensed to preach in 1736 and two months later was approached by the Prebsyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey.  He began preaching on Dec. 21, 1736 and was ordained on Jan. 25, 1737-38.  Pastor for ten years in Newark, New Jersey and then President of Princeton College from 1748 to 1755 before the college was moved from Newark to Princeton. 1756 - 1836 Aaron BURR 80 80 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from College of New Jersey in 1772.  Vice President of the United States 1644 - 1644 John SHEPARD Thomas SHEPARD 1646 John SHEPARD 1704 Esther PHELPS BET 1709 AND 1710 - 1753 Sarah BRECK First wife of James Pierpont. 1699 - 1776 James PIERPONT 77 77 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1718 (which was then called Saybrook College) and tutored there 1722-24.  Settled in Boston after marriage but soon returned to New Haven where he was instrumental in forming White Haven Church in 1742.  He also contributed largely to "Blue Meeting House" located on southeast corner of Elm and Church Streets. 1700 - 1724 Samuel PIERPONT 23 23 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1718.  Ordained Dec. 22, 1722.
DEATH: Drowned while crossing Connecticut River with an Indian in a canoe.  His body was found 44 days later on Fisher's Island off Stonington, Connecticut and was buried there on the south side of the island. 1704 - 1748 Joseph PIERPONT 44 44 Lived in North Haven, Connecticut. 1706 - 1706 Benjamin PIERPONT 1707 - BET 1733 AND 1737 Benjamin PIERPONT BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1726. 1712 - 1741 Hezekiah PIERPONT 29 29 1697 - 1760 Isaac STILES 62 62 BIOGRAPHY: He was brought up to the business of a weaver till he was towards 20 years of age, when he applied to Learning, and under the Tuition of the Reverend Timothy Edwards the Minister of [East] Windsor, he made such proficiency as to enter Yale College at six weeks before the commencement of the year 1719. Here he continued till 1722 when he proceeded Bachelor of Arts,?? and Master of Arts in 1725, being the first of the name and blood that had a liberal education in America. He was a good classical scholar, especially in Latin, few exceeding him either before or since, much addicted to the study of Oratory and the Bible all his Life. The valedictory Oration he made at the Examination, 1722, is a piece of elegant Latin. The old Logic, Philosophy & Metaphysics he read, but never understood, because unintelligible. The Mathemetics he was ignorant of beyond the 5 first Rules of Arithmetic. He had a Taste for polite Writings in prose & Poetry especially the latter. He delighted in the Spectator, Guardian, in Pope & Swift's works--he was sublimely fired with Dr. Watts' Lyrics, but above all with Milton and Young. With all but the last he was acquainted at College. The Newtonian Science had not passed the Atlantic; and after its Arrival he had no Taste or Genius for more than a superficial knowledge of it. After he had graduated in 1722--that year in which Dr. Cutler & others apostatized to Prelacy--he read some Divinity and became tolerably acquainted with the System contained in the Westminster Confession. Having begun to preach he traveled into the Jersies, being sent to by a destitute Chh. After this he returned to New England--kept School at Westfield, [Mass.] where he preached on probation & had a call to settle in the Ministry, the Reverend Edward Taylor being super-annuated; which he declined," as the church and society were not so united on him as he desired. He was also the second choice in Bolton, Conn., in May 1723, when that church called Jonathan Edwards, likewise a son of East Windsor.  In January, 1724, he began to preach to the church in the North parish of New Haven (now North Haven), which had been left vacant since the withdrawal of the Rev. James Wetmore (Y. C. 1714) a year before. After a trial of his gifts he was called to settle on an annual salary of œ70, to be raised gradually to œ120, and was ordained Nov. 11, 1724, as his son remarks, 'with absolute unanimity.  He was of above medium stature (the largest of the Family) upright, alert & active, unbowed to the day of his Death. Had a small piercing black eye, which at Times he filled with Flame & Vengence. Quick in his Temper & passionate to the last Degree. On occasion none could be more cheerful & merry in Company--but when alone, or with his Family only, he was gloomy or perpetually repining. He would not have enjoyed himself easy in affluent circumstances--much less in his narrow living & under some peculiar & pressing trials. Books & friends gave him some Relief & Respite. He did little at secular labor & always kept much at home & in... Sarah HOOKER BET 22 FEB 1709 AND 1710 - 1761 Daniel HOOKER 1708 Susanna HOOKER 1713 - 1781 Sarah HOOKER 68 68 Ephraim GOODRICH 1707 - 1792 Abigail HOOKER 85 85 1709 - 1795 Eunice TALCOTT 86 86 1761 - 1783 Ruth HOOKER 22 22 1759 - 1801 Nathan Hayes Whiting 41 41 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1770.  Entered Army in 1780 and wasLieutenant in Col. Webb's regiment; also served in Col. Alexander Scammell's Light Infantry Corp.  Participated in capture of Yorktown.  Left Army on Jan. 1, 1783.  Was representative in General Assembly for several sessions 1784-99; Justice of Peace 1790 until his death. Nathaniel H. Whiting 1730 Noadiah RUSSELL Hezekiah PIERPONT 1777 - 1813 John Starke EDWARDS 35 35 1786 - 1870 Henrietta Frances EDWARDS 83 83 1766 - 1796 Maurice William DWIGHT 29 29 1768 - 1847 Fidelia DWIGHT 78 78 1772 - 1813 Elizabeth DWIGHT 41 41 1776 - 1824 Henry Edwin DWIGHT 47 47 1754 - 1783 Sereno Edwards DWIGHT 28 28 1759 - 1800 Jonathan Edwards DWIGHT 41 41 1761 - 1805 Sarah DWIGHT 44 44 1763 - 1813 Mary DWIGHT 50 50 1693 - 1756 Mary HOOKER 62 62 BET 26 JAN 1694 AND 1695 Ann HOOKER BET 26 FEB 1695 AND 1696 - 1769 Sarah HOOKER 1702 - 1724 William HOOKER 21 21 BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Yale in 1723. 1704 - 1775 Mehitabel HOOKER 71 71 John HART Thomas SMITH John BARTLETT John SMITH James PIERPONT Joseph PIERPONT Samuel PIERPONT Hannah RUSSELL 1728 - 1803 Anna SHERMAN 75 75 1641 - 1668 Samuel SHEPARD 26 26 D. 1760 Abigail PHELPS BET 16 FEB 1694 AND 1695 - 1782 William HOOKER Lydia WOODFORD Descendants of Thomas Hooker has Woodcart. Anna STEELE Mehitable HAMLIN BET 6 MAR 1731 AND 1732 - 1735 Anna HOOKER BET 10 JAN 1733 AND 1734 - 1735 William HOOKER Lydia HEMENWAY 1738 - 1760 Jacob PIERPONT 22 22 DEATH: Died while in the army. 1741 John PIERPONT 1744 - 1835 Sarah BEERS 90 90 1768 - 1838 Hezekiah Beers PIERPONT 69 69 Lived on the heights in Brooklyn, New York. 1776 Hannah PIERPONT 1778 Mary PIERPONT 1780 - 1836 John PIERPONT 56 56 1782 - 1803 Nathan PIERPONT 21 21 1765 - 1836 Stephen WOODBRIDGE 71 71 1767 - 1808 Jonathan WOODBRIDGE 41 41 1769 - 1848 Lucy WOODBRIDGE 79 79 1771 - 1829 Joseph WOODBRIDGE 57 57 1773 Elizabeth WOODBRIDGE 1775 - 1837 Sarah Edwards WOODBRIDGE 62 62 1777 - 1844 John Eliot WOODBRIDGE 67 67 1779 - ~1788 Anne WOODBRIDGE 9 9 Sarah WORTHINGTON Susannah Nathaniel HOOKER 1699 - 1765 Mary HOOKER 65 65 1701 - 1750 Alice HOOKER 49 49 1704 - 1775 Sarah HOOKER 70 70 Benjamin LORD Edward BAILEY Benjamin CHAMBERLAIN D. 1797 Hannah HOOKER Mary HOOKER Elijah PECK Margaret HOOKER Marcy LEETE BET 4 MAR 1712 AND 1713 Andrew HOOKER 1714 - 1784 Elizabeth HOOKER 70 70 1719 - 1810 Mercy HOOKER 90 90 1722 Mehitable HOOKER 1724 - 1820 Sybil HOOKER 96 96 1726 - 1807 Samuel HOOKER 80 80 1728 Anne HOOKER 1731 - 1757 Ester HOOKER 26 26 1734 Thomas HOOKER Martha COOK 1734 - 1817 Martha HOOKER 83 83 1723 - 1750 Roger HOOKER 27 27 1725 - 1736 Lydia HOOKER 11 11 1727 - 1728 Richard HOOKER 1 1 1729 - 1783 Isaac STILES 53 53 1731 - 1768 Kasia STILES 37 37 1734 - 1734 Ashbell STILES 3m 3m 1735 - 1810 Ashbell STILES 75 75 1736 - 1737 Esther STILES 8m 8m 1738 - 1738 Job STILES 3m 3m 1739 Esther STILES 1741 - 1751 Job STILES 9 9 1744 - 1759 Ruth STILES 15 15 1746 - 1751 Lucy STILES 5 5 Daniel COIT 1742 William COIT 1742 Sarah COIT BET 18 FEB 1745 AND 1746 Mehitable COIT BET 18 FEB 1749 AND 1750 - 1750 Esther COIT 1751 - 1753 Daniel COIT 1 1 Robinson MUMFORD Abigail CURTIS 1717 - 1796 Hezekiah HOOKER 79 79 1722 - 1759 Josiah HOOKER 37 37 1724 - 1750 Abigail HOOKER 25 25 BET 8 JAN 1726 AND 1727 Mary HOOKER BET 30 JAN 1728 AND 1729 - 1798 James HOOKER 1729 - 1815 William HOOKER 86 86 1732 - 1750 Jesse HOOKER 18 18 1734 - 1750 Eunice HOOKER 15 15 1736 - 1810 Asahel HOOKER 73 73 1739 - 1815 Sarah HOOKER 76 76 Mary HART Hannah STILES 1616 - 1674 Mary HOOKER 58 58 Buchroeder has her mother as Susan Harkes Garbrand. 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