George GRAVES was born about 1600. He died in Hartford, , Conn.
Was a deacon.
He had the following children:
M i John GRAVES Capt.
Robert CHITTENDEN was born about 1555 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. He married Ellynor HATCHE in 1583.
Other marriages:MERRIAM, Mary
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]
Ellynor HATCHE was born in 1559 in Sellinger, Kent, England. She married Robert CHITTENDEN in 1583.
I have found on one of the WFT CDs (#20, family tree #111) the family of Robert CHITTENDEN and wife Eleanor (HATCHE). Eleanor was born 1559 in Sellinger, Kent, ENG., and the report gives five generations of her ancestors. Robert and Eleanor Children:
1. Thomas (my line) born 1584, married 1624 Rebecca ?, and died after Oct1668 in Plymouth, MA.
2. John
3. William (your line) married Joanne Sheaffe
4. NathanielHope this helps some, let me hear from you if we can prove the above somehow. Hugh Rutherford, [email protected]
They had the following children:
M i Thomas CHITTENDEN M ii John CHITTENDEN was born in 1586. M iii Nathaniel CHITTENDEN
Edmund SHEAFFE [Parents] was born in 1559 in , , England and was christened on 17 Mar 1559. He died in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Edmund married Elizabeth TAYLOR on 30 May 1586.
Other marriages:JORDON, Joanna Kitchell
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.
Elizabeth TAYLOR was born about 1560. She married Edmund SHEAFFE on 30 May 1586.
Thomas SHEAFE [Parents] was born in 1535 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. He married Mary HARMON.
Mary HARMON was born in 1536. She died in Nov 1609. Mary married Thomas SHEAFE.
They had the following children:
M i Edmund SHEAFFE
Abraham KIMBERLY [Parents] was born on 21 Mar 1708/1709. He died on 19 Feb 1797 in Guilford, , Conn.. Abraham married WINSCOTT.
Other marriages:SHERMAN, Mary
Ancestry.com has 14 children listed: Jacob, Benjamin, Sherman, Robert, Ruth, Isaac, Mary, Katherine, Abraham, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, George, Abigail.
WINSCOTT was born about 1715 in Long Island, , NY. She died on 2 Jun 1796. married Abraham KIMBERLY.
Nathaniel KIMBERLY Jr. [Parents] was born on 4 Jan 1667. He died in 1720 in West Haven, , Conn.. Nathaniel married Hannah DOWNS on 12 Sep 1692.
Lived in West Haven, Conn. Talcott gives dod of 28 Nov 1719, but I am not sure if it is his or his wife's. Talcott gives 7 children.
Hannah DOWNS was born about 1671. She married Nathaniel KIMBERLY Jr. on 12 Sep 1692.
They had the following children:
M i Abraham KIMBERLY
Benjamin SHERMAN [Parents] was born on 26 Dec 1675 in Portsmouth, , Rhode Island. He died in 1734. Benjamin married Mary LAWTON on 9 Apr 1702 in Portsmouth, , RI.
Mary LAWTON [Parents] was born on 20 Feb 1681/1682 in Portsmouth, , Rhode Island. She married Benjamin SHERMAN on 9 Apr 1702 in Portsmouth, , RI.
Another source gives her parents as Robert Lawton and Mary Wodell, so this line back from her may not be correct.
They had the following children:
F i Mary SHERMAN
Nathaniel KIMBERLY [Parents] was born in 1636 in Dorchester, , Mass.. He died on 27 Oct 1705 in West Haven, , Conn.. Nathaniel married Mary.
Lived in Stratford and New Haven, according to Talcott, who lists 4 children.
Mary was born about 1640. She married Nathaniel KIMBERLY.
They had the following children:
M i Nathaniel KIMBERLY Jr. F ii Mary KIMBERLY
Thomas KIMBERLY [Parents] was born in 1604 in , , England. He died in 1673/1675. Thomas married Alice.
Born in England. Came to America in 1636 and to New Haven in 1638.
He may have had a second wife, Mary, as she is listed in the Meeting House list. See "History of the Colony of New Haven" by Edward Atwater, p. 714., and Talcott's book, Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, p. 729. The latter says that he "lived in Dorchester, Mass. 1635, New Haven 1638, and Stratford, Conn. 1659. The latter book lists his 8 children.
Alice was born about 1605. She died in 1659. Alice married Thomas KIMBERLY.
They had the following children:
M i Nathaniel KIMBERLY
Abraham KIMBERLY was born in 1580 in , Gloucestershire, England.
He had the following children:
M i Thomas KIMBERLY