Samuel SHERMAN [Parents] was born on 12 Jul 1618 in Dedham, Colchester, Essex, England and was christened on 12 Jul 1618 in ., Dedham, Essex, England. He died on 5 Apr 1700 in Stratford, Fairfield, Conn, CO and was buried on 5 Apr 1700 in , Stratford, Fairfield, Conn.. Samuel married Mary Sarah MITCHELL in 1640 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT.
Mary Sarah MITCHELL [Parents] was born on 14 Oct 1621 in South Owram, Halifax, Y, England and was christened on 14 Oct 1621 in Dedham, Essex, England. She married Samuel SHERMAN in 1640 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT.
They had the following children:
M i Samuel SHERMAN was born on 19 Jun 1641 in Stratford, Fairfield, Conn, CO. He died on 5 Apr 1700 in Stratford, Conn, CO. M ii Theophilus SHERMAN was born on 28 Oct 1643 in Stratford, Fairfield, Conn, CO. He died on 16 Feb 1711 in Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut. M iii Mathew SHERMAN was born on 24 Aug 1645 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. He died in 1698 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. M iv Edmund SHERMAN was born on 4 Dec 1647 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. He died on 5 Nov 1683 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. M v John SHERMAN Capt. F vi Sarah SHERMAN M vii Nathaniel SHERMAN was born on 21 Mar 1656 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. He died on 19 Apr 1712 in Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut. M viii Benjamin SHERMAN was born on 29 Mar 1662 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT and was christened on 29 Mar 1662. He died on 27 Aug 1741 in Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut. M ix David Daniel SHERMAN was born on 15 Apr 1665 in Stratford, Fair, Conn, CO. He died on 1 Jan 1753 in Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut.
William CHITTENDEN Major [Parents] was born in Mar 1593/1594 in Cranbrook, Kent, , England and was christened in Mar 1594 in Parish of Marden, Kent, , England. He died in Feb 1660/1661 in Guilford, New Haven, Conn.. William married Joanna SHEAFFE in England.
Arrived in America 10 Jul 1639. William was one of the company led by Rev. Henry Whitfield (a relative, as he was married to the sister of Rev. Whitfield's wife, Dorothy). They were married in England. William was the principal military man of the Plantation, having been a soldier in the English Army and having fought in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years War, where he attained the rank of Major. He was one of the six men selected to secure the land from the Indians and one of the four Magistrates chosen to have "full power and authority to act, order, and despatch all matters respecting the publick weale and civile government of the Plantation, until a church is gathered among them".
On the gathering of the church, June 29, 1643, these Magistrates resigned their trust and William was elected principal military man of the colony, also Magistrate of the Plantation, and Deputy of the General Council until his death in 1660. It is said that he was one of the leaders of the emigrants from Parish of Cranbrook in Kent. There is listed a Joanna Chittenden as a child of William but with no birth date.?? I am descended from this William six times: William, Thomas, William, etc.; William, Thomas, Josiah, etc.; William, John, etc.
Talcott says: [In the New Haven Colonial Records, p. 417, we find this entry:
"An Inventory of the estate of William Chittenden of Guilford, deceased, was presented, amounting to �677 16s. 7 d. as presented and proved in court at Guilford, the 21st of February, 1660-1, upon oath of Joane Chittenden, the widow and relict of the sayd William Chittenden, deceased, for the quantity, and by the testimony of Abraham Cruttenden Senior, John Fowler, and William Stone, appraisers, for the valuation to be just. William Lette, Governor."]I am descended from all of the above named persons...John Wayland
Joanna SHEAFFE [Parents] was born about 1613. She married William CHITTENDEN Major in England.
Other marriages:CRUTTENDEN, Abraham
Sister of Dorothy, wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield, leader of the colony expedition to the new world. Under her descendant, Henry W. Chittenden, husband of Griffing, son of Abraham, has in his notes in the Chittenden book, "priding himself upon his ancestral blood, especially in the Sheaffe line, which he claimed to be 'allied to royalty,' going back to the lines of the kings of Scotland."
They had the following children:
M i Thomas CHITTENDEN F ii Elizabeth CHITTENDEN M iii John CHITTENDEN F iv Joanna CHITTENDEN was born about 1643. M v Nathaniel CHITTENDEN F vi Mary CHITTENDEN F vii Hannah CHITTENDEN was born on 15 Nov 1649 in Guilford, , Conn.. She died in 1650 in Guilford, , Conn.. F viii Hannah CHITTENDEN was born on 14 Apr 1652. She died on 13 Sep 1674.
Twin to JosephM ix Joseph CHITTENDEN was born on 14 Apr 1652 in Guilford, , Conn.. He died on 22 Jun 1652 in Guilford, , Conn.. F x Deborah CHITTENDEN was born on 12 Dec 1653 in Guilford, , Conn.. She died on 16 Sep 1674.
William CHITTENDEN [Parents] was born on 5 Oct 1666 in Guilford, New Haven, Conn.. He died on 11 Aug 1738 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. William married Hannah.
Other marriages:, Elizabeth
Hannah was born about 1676. She died on 31 Jan 1703 in Guilford, CT. Hannah married William CHITTENDEN.
They had the following children:
M i Ebenezer CHITTENDEN F ii Hannah CHITTENDEN
William CHITTENDEN [Parents] was born on 5 Oct 1666 in Guilford, New Haven, Conn.. He died on 11 Aug 1738 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. William married Elizabeth.
Other marriages:, Hannah
Elizabeth was born about 1685. She married William CHITTENDEN.
They had the following children:
M i William CHITTENDEN F ii Rebecca CHITTENDEN was born in 1708. She died on 6 Mar 1712.
Chittenden Family - William Chittenden of Guilford, Connecticut
and his Descendants
by - Alvan Talcott L of C CS71.C543 1882M iii Jared CHITTENDEN was born in 1710 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. He died on 18 Mar 1712.
Chittenden Family - William Chittenden of Guilford, Connecticut
and his Descendants
by - Alvan Talcott L of C CS71.C543 1882F iv Thankful CHITTENDEN
Caleb BENNETT was born about 1660. He married Abigail CHITTENDEN.
Abigail CHITTENDEN [Parents] was born on 15 Dec 1670 in Guilford, , Conn.. She married Caleb BENNETT.
Robert CHITTENDEN was born about 1555 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. He married Mary MERRIAM.
Other marriages:HATCHE, Ellynor
It is said that the name "Chittenden" is a corruption of an ancient Welsh and Cornish name, originally written "Chytanedin," derived from the words "chy", meaning "house," "tane," meaning "lower," and "din" or "dun," meaning "hill." Its literal meaning is the "lower house on the hill." The namesake were chiefly seated in Wales and in the Counties of Cornwall and Kent, England. Most families were of the yeomanry and merchant classes of the British Isles.
The following was posted to the Chittenden group 3/99:Don't know how accurate the Robert Chittenden/Eleanor Hatche data is from the WFT cd, but I have the following taken from the Hawkhurst, Kent parish registers:
(1) William Chittenden married Elinore Hatch on Feb. 21, 1587 (have baptisms of 8 children), and (2) Robert Chittenden married Elizabeth Hatch on Nov. 15, 1593 (have baptisms of 3 children in Hawkhurst before Elizabeth dies Oct. 9, 1604.
This post was made to the Chittenden group:
[Ellynor Chittenden and children were named in her brother's (John Hatch of Tenterden, co. Kent) will. Her children were named as follows: "viz: eldest son Thomas Chittenden; second son John Chitttenden; youngest son William Chittenden; her son Nathaniel Chittenden,s son Nathaniel (under twenty-one)Among those who "married my kinswomen" was one Robert Chittenden. Joanna Sheaf(f)e, wife of William, has been documented with related families back to the 1400's in one of my books about my New Eng. ancestry.
[email protected] Billie Redding Lewis]
I corresponded with her and she sent this:
[I don't think any "early" genealogist used John Hatche's will to satisfy their curiosity; however, it could have been, but someone sent me a copy of the will which was written on 13 April, 1535. I agree that the Hatch/Chittenden marriage could have been Major William's grandfather because John Hatch died the following year and that gives almost two generations between Major William and that marriage > 60 years from time of the will to Major William's birth. I had to laugh when the person more or less pooh-poohd the idea but yet more or less emphatically gave Mary Merriam and Robert Chittenden as Major's parents. I know the baptism record shows Robert as the father of William so there is no doubt about that, but I do wish we could find a documentation for the Merriam gal being his mother.
The Hawkhurst, co. Kent marriage of Robert Chittenden and Elizabeth Hatch marriage listed in the parish records on Nov. 15, 1593 would make a good match for William's parents for two reasons: First, there is no Ellinor in any of his children's names but there is an Elizabeth for at least three generations. On the other hand Queen Elizabeth was the one honored with the naming of so many Elizabeths. Secondly, since there was a Robert Chittenden/ELLINOR Hatch marriage, it seems very likely that another combination of families could take place since it seems that people did marry into the same families very often back then. I read some place that the usual distance between the bride and groom was never more than seventeen miles. According to all of my research in co. Kent there was only one Chittenden family and after William came to New England that family disappeared from that shire.
John Leslie wrote me that Marden is in co. Essex, but if I am not mistaken there is a Marden in co. Kent, also and it was co. Kent where William and his family came from. I hope this makes sense. Billie]
Mary MERRIAM was born about 1560 in Mardin Essex, , England. She married Robert CHITTENDEN.
This wife is not proven to be correct, but it was found in the LDS.
They had the following children:
M i William CHITTENDEN Major
Abraham CRUTTENDEN [Parents] was born about 1610 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. He died on 14 Sep 1681 in Guilford, , Conn.. Abraham married Joanna SHEAFFE on 31 May 1665 in Guilford, , Conn..
Other marriages:HINKSON, Mary
The following is from the "Genealogies of Connecticut Families", Vol. 1., p. 502: "Abraham Cruttenden was one of the first settlers of Guilford and was one of the 25 signers of the Plantation Covenant in 1639. It is said that he came from the county of Kent in England and had been a neighbor of William Chittenden, whose widow he afterwards married (late in life). He was probably married in England about 1630, and was probably about 28 or 29 years old at the time of the settlement of Guilford. He died in January, 1683, aged about 73 years. None of his children's births are recorded in Guilford, though some must have been born after he came to that place. On April 30, 1646, he was appointed 'overseer of the mill bay dams or floodgates.' On June 6, 1651, he was chosen assessor and on June 9, 1653, townsman. In addition to his home lot he owned 'a parcel of upland 20 acres abutting to the common woods,' and a 'parcel of marsh land to the South 10 1/2 acres' and a 'parcel of upland over against the mill' containing 19 acres. The name is also spelled Crittenden.
He married first, Mary_____, who died 1664; second, widow Joanna Chittenden, May 31, 1665. She died August 16, 1668. His children were all by his first wife" Talcott gives his dod as Jan 1683.
Joanna SHEAFFE [Parents] was born about 1613. She married Abraham CRUTTENDEN on 31 May 1665 in Guilford, , Conn..
Other marriages:CHITTENDEN, William Major
Sister of Dorothy, wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield, leader of the colony expedition to the new world. Under her descendant, Henry W. Chittenden, husband of Griffing, son of Abraham, has in his notes in the Chittenden book, "priding himself upon his ancestral blood, especially in the Sheaffe line, which he claimed to be 'allied to royalty,' going back to the lines of the kings of Scotland."
Edmund SHEAFFE [Parents] was born in 1559 in , , England and was christened on 17 Mar 1559. He died in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Edmund married Joanna Kitchell JORDON.
Other marriages:TAYLOR, Elizabeth
Given the title of "Dr." His dtr. Dorothy was the wife of the Rev. Henry Whitfield, first minister and leading member of the Guilford Colony, and close friend of William Chittenden.
Joanna Kitchell JORDON was born about 1575. She died on 1 Aug 1659 in Guilford, , Conn.. Joanna married Edmund SHEAFFE.
They had the following children:
F i Joanna SHEAFFE M ii Jacob SHEAFFE
Thomas WRIGHT was born about 1633. He died on 23 Aug 1683. Thomas married Elizabeth CHITTENDEN on 16 Jun 1657.
"Of Wethersfield, Conn." according to Talcott.
Elizabeth CHITTENDEN [Parents] was born about 1637. She married Thomas WRIGHT on 16 Jun 1657.
Bill Floodeen has Elizabeth and Nathaniel with the same year of birth, but with no explanation. She would have been only 14 when married, so do not know if this is accurate or not. He gives no sources for his information.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas WRIGHT F ii Mary WRIGHT was born on 4 Mar 1664. She died on 8 Sep 1741. F iii Hannah WRIGHT was born on 10 Mar 1670. She died on 27 Apr 1698. F iv Lydia WRIGHT was born on 12 Mar 1672. She died after 1720. F v Elizabeth WRIGHT was born on 17 Feb 1675. She died before 23 Aug 1683.
Nathaniel CHITTENDEN [Parents] was born about 1645 in Guilford, CT. He died in Jun 1691 in Killingworth, CT. Nathaniel married Sarah WRIGHT.
"His residence was on Crooked Lane, now State Street...a lot now known as the Starr Place" by Talcott 1882.
Sarah WRIGHT was born about 1646. She married Nathaniel CHITTENDEN.
They had the following children:
M i Nathaniel CHITTENDEN Jr. F ii Sarah CHITTENDEN F iii Mary CHITTENDEN M iv Joseph CHITTENDEN F v Hannah CHITTENDEN was born on 15 Mar 1680. F vi Deborah CHITTENDEN was born on 15 Oct 1682. She died in 1684. M vii Cornelius CHITTENDEN