Maternal
Lineage: Tryphenia6, Nathaniel5, Jonas4, Jonas3, Gabriel2, Gabriel

  WESTOVER, 1567-1815 Related Families:  Dawleigh | Gifford | Griswold | Case | Eno | Kellogg

Migration: Taunton, Somersetshire, ENG>Boston, MA>Simsbury, CT>Windsor, CT>Killingworth, CT

 

        (1)  Gabriel Westover, born 1567 Taunton, Somerset, England.  He married 29 February 1592 Elizabeth Dawleigh/Dawley, born 12 February 1573 Taunton, Somerset, died before 1605.

Children:

  1. Francis, born 12 September 1599
  2. Gabriel, mentioned below

 

        (2) Gabriel Westover, born 1593, Taunton, christened 1597.  He married 29 June 1618 Joane Gifford/Jefford, born 1598 Taunton, died 22 April 1692 Wedmore.

Children:

  1. John, born 7 May 1619
  2. Joane, born 10 September 1620
  3. Gabriel, born 22 May 1622
  4. Richard, born 7 March 1624;  married Judith
  5. Jane, born 1 March 1626;  married 20 November 1647 William Williams, born  1625, died 1689
  6. Jonas, mentioned below
  7. Samuel, born 2 March 1634/5
  8. Joshua, born 8 January 1636/7

 

        (3)  Jonas Westover, born 4 May 1628 was the emigrant to America that founded the Westover family of New England which spread throughout America.  Jonas came from England.  The family lived in Taunton, Somerset where he was born.  The exact date of his arrival in America was not definitely determined as of a search performed in October 1961 in the New England records.
        Early genealogical records give Jonas as a boy of 14 years of age arriving in Simsbury, Connecticut in the year 1654.  This would give a birth date of the year 1640.  Other dates give some substance to this date.  He became a freeman in 1658, he received title to a lot in Simsbury and he was married in 1663 -- he became a freeman at the age of 18, a propertty owner at 21 and married at age 23.
        Other sources state that a Jonas Westover was in Windsor in the year 1649 and assume this Jonas to be the Jonas from England born in the year 1620.  These sources give this Jonas as the one who married Hanna Griswold in Simsbury.  Further research may be needed to establish the correct birth date of the emigrant.
        Jonas Westover entered America through Massachusetts Bay, as that was the most commonly used entry at that time to the New England area.  He had relatives there when he arrived.  One relative was Jane Westover who had married 20 November 1647 William Williams.  Jane lived in the Simsbury area of Connecticut at the time of Jonas' arrival in Windsor.
        In 1663 Jonas married Hannah Griswold, born in Windsor 19 August 1642, daughter of Edward and Margaret Griswold, a prominent family in Windsor, Connecticut.  After the birth of their first child they moved southward to a new settlement called Killingworth.  The move was made with the father-in-law's family, the father-in-law having helped found the new settlement.  There they lived for about eleven years and then moved back to Simsbury.  Jonas and his family had been active members of the established First Church of Killingworth.
        Jonas came to Simsbury, Connecticut, in New England before 1654 and died there in 1708/9.

1649 A Jonas Westover was reported in Windsor, Connecticut.
1654 Jonas was brought to Simsbury, Connecticut.
1658 Jonas was a freeman in Windsor, Connecticut.
1661 A lot was granted to Jonas in Bowfield district of Windsor, (never used).
1663 Jonas married 19 November 1663 to Hannah/Anna Griswold, daughter of Edward and Margaret Girswold.
1664 Jonas signed a church petition in Windsor asking for church privileges and baptism for their children.
1664 Jonah, Hannah and first child removed to Killingworth, Connecticut, with her father's family.  Jonah chose his home lot next to Samuel Buel, his brother-in-law and also next to Edward Griswold, his father-in-law.
1664-1680 Jonas' and Hanna's children were born.
1665 Jonah became a member of the First Church of Killingworth.
1669 Jonah's name appears on the list of freeman in Killingworth.
1675 Jonah and family move back to Simsbury, Connecticut, obtaining land from Capt. Benjamin Newbury.  The area became known as "Westover's Plain" and gave its name to a school district there.
1702 Jonah made a will in Simsbury 20 September 1702 naming sons John and Jonathan and daughters Margaret, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Joanna and son-in-law Samuel Case.
1709 Jonah died in Simsbury 15 January 1708/9.
1713 Hanna made a will in Simsbury 1 August naming the two sons and six daughters.
1714 Hanna died 3 May
 Children of Jonas and Hannah Westover:
  1. Jonas/Jonah, mentioned below
  2. Margaret, born 19 February 1666, Killingworth, CT
  3. Hannah, born 8 April 1668, Killingworth, CT;  married 22 May 1693 Josiah  Alford
  4. Elizabeth, born 3 May 1670, Killingworth;  married 1 May 1670 Thomas Baker, 1654-1735.
  5. Jane, born 22 March 1672, Killingworth;  married John Byington
  6. Sarah, born Killingworth, CT, died 15 August 1718, Simsbury, CT
  7. Mary, born Simsbury, died 27 September 1713;  married Samuel Case
  8. Joanna, born Simsbury, CT;  married 27 January 1712/13 Steven Wilton

 

        (4) Jonas/Jonah Westover, Jr., was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, and baptised 20 September 1664 at Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut.  Jonas married 1 September 1701 to Abigail Case at Simsbury in a double wedding with her brother Richard Case.

1665 “Jonas Westover 28 weeks, son of Jonas of Windsor and grandchild of Edward Griswold, was treated” by Doctor Winthrop.  This item from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop, (American Genealogist, Vol 24, 1948, p589).
1697 Among donors to ordination expenses for the First Church of Christ of Simsbury, Jonas gave 84lbs. of beef and 3lbs. of butter.
1697 Jonas was a member of First Church of Christ, Simsbury, CT, 1697-1710
1701 Jonas married 1 September to Abigail Case
1702-1714 Jonas and Abigail Westover’s children were born
1708 Jonas’ father died
1714 Jonas’ mother died May 3.  Land in Simsbury was given to Jonas and Jonathan.
1714 Jonas died June 3.
 Children:
  1. Abigail, born 1702, Simsbury
  2. Sarah, born 1795, died 15 August, 1718, age 13
  3. Nathaniel, born 1704, mentioned below
  4. Jonah, born 1708/9, died 10 August 1768; married Deborah Eno.  Deborah and Jonah buried in Bow Wow Cemetery.
  5. John, born 1711/12 Simsbury;  married 25 December 1735 Rachel Morton in  Simsbury
  6. Abigail, born about 1714;  married 15 December 1726 John Furbs.

 

        (5) Nathaniel Westover, born 1704, died 11 November 1755.  He married Mary Eno, born about 1712, Sheffield, Massachusetts, died 23 November 1760.

Children:

  1. Anna, born 1731
  2. Elizabeth
  3. Sarah, born 1733
  4. Mary Ann, born 1735
  5. Anna, born 1738
  6. Oliver, born 1739, died 1792
  7. Theophilus, born 1745, West Stockbridge
  8. Lydia, born 1747
  9. Lucretia, born 1749
  10. Tryphenia, born 1751, died 29 March 1815; married Elijah Kellogg, born 1751, died 14 February 1819.
  11. Silvania, born 1753
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