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Wale, Joan (b. , d. BEF 31 OCT 1604)

Given Name: Joan

Death: BEF 31 OCT 1604

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Adams, John (b. ABT 1503, d. BEF 1543)

Note: Hardly anything is known of John Adams, despite exhaustive research, and he is the furthest back that the Adams line can be traced.

It seems he was a tenant farmer and his name appears is a few military records.

Given Name: John

Death: BEF 1543 Probably Barton St. David, Somerset

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, Alice (b. )

Given Name: Alice

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Almy, John (b. )

Given Name: John

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----------, Reignolds (b. )

Given Name: Reignolds

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Dolbeare, George (b. 1 JUN 1715, d. 27 MAR 1772)

Note: George Dolbeare was a man of considerable means, thanks to the prodigious fortune of his father, and he lived the life of a country gentleman farmer. In addition to more than 2200 acres of land in and around New London, Connecticut, he owned four saw mills.

The inventory of his estate showed household effects in the value of four or five hundred pounds and a total estate worth 9032 pounds.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dolbeare
Title: Winifred Lovering Holman, Early Dolbeares (NEHGR Vol. 112 (1958) pp. 17
0-184.)
0-184.

Given Name: George

Death: 27 MAR 1772 New London, Connecticut

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Sherwood, Mary (b. 1 JUN 1710, d. 1 JAN 1790)

Given Name: Mary

Death: 1 JAN 1790

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Huntington, Jabez (b. 7 AUG 1719, d. 5 OCT 1786)

Note: Jabez Huntington attended Yale and graduated in 1741. He entered the West Indies trade and, according to the Huntington Genealogy, "by an honorable and efficient business career, laid the foundation of one of the amplest fortunes of that age." In 1750 he was elected to the General Assembly and served in that body until 1764, serving as clerk from 1757 to 1760 and as speaker from 1760 to 1764. In 1764 he was elected to the Governor's Council. In 1765 Huntington and six other members (of a total of twelve) walked out of the council rather than take an oath to enforce the Stamp Act.

While the advent of the Revolution could only be financially disastrous to one engaged in the shipping industry, Huntington was active from the beginning in the patriot cause. In 1776 he and David Wooster were appointed major generals in joint command of the entire state militia. When Wooster fell at the Battle of Danbury the following year, Huntington assumed sole command of the militia.

During the revolution he was a member of the Council of Safety, which, together with Governor John Trumbull, provided the political leadership of the state at this time. Three of its ten members were Huntingtons. Next to Governor Trumbull, Jabez Huntington was its most influential member and attended over 1200 meetings in the years 1776-1779.

His health was ruined by overwork, however, and he suffered a disabling stroke in February 1779 although he lived another seven years.

In his sermon at Huntington's funeral in 1787, the minister said, "As the train of melancholy distress which brought him to his end probably originated from his painful and unremitted exertions for his country, in the time of danger; his country, surely, will not withhold the tear of grateful sorrow, but pay deserved respect to his memory, and teach succeeding generations to revere his dust; and as they pass his urn, to say, 'there lies the man who devoted his all to the public good; who sacrificed his ease, his health, and eventually his life, to serve and save his country."

General Huntington and his first wife were second cousins. She apparently died of complications of childbirth a week after the birth of their second son.

There are articles on General Huntington in the Dictionary of American Biography and in the American National Biography. His portrait, painted by John Trumbull, the son of the governor, hangs in the Connecticut State Library in Hartford.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DAB
Title: Dictionary of American Biography

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: ANB
Title: American National Biography

Given Name: Jabez

Death: 5 OCT 1786 Norwich, Connecticut

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Backus, Elizabeth (b. 9 FEB 1720/21, d. 1 JUL 1745)

Given Name: Elizabeth

Death: 1 JUL 1745 Norwich, Connecticut

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Moore, Thomas (b. 1722, d. 19 JUN 1784)

Note: Thomas Moore was sent to England for his education and attended Westminster School there. Returning to New York he opened a ship chandlery, but according to his son John, he was an inept businessman and his career was a series of failures and bankruptcies.

He was a vestryman of Trinity Church from 1750 to 1762 and again from 1779 to 1784, although the building itself had been destroyed in the fire of Sep 1776 that burned about one-third of the city.

Like most of the Moore family he was a strict Tory, but when he moved to the house of his son-in-law General Huntington a month before his death, the latter was, in the words of his son John Moore, "graciousness itself."

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Moore 2
Title: John Moore, "Memoirs of an American Official In Service to the King" (T
he Journal of American History, Vol. 4, 1910, pp. 29-47.)
he Journal of American History, Vol. 4, 1910, pp. 29-47.

Given Name: Thomas

Death: 19 JUN 1784 New London, Connecticut

Burial: Moore Vault, Trinity Church, New York City

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Channing, Elizabeth (b. 1728, d. 1805)

Given Name: Elizabeth

Death: 1805

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Lyman, Moses (b. 27 FEB 1689/90, d. 24 MAR 1762)

Given Name: Moses

Death: 24 MAR 1762 Northampton, Massachusetts

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Sheldon, Mindwell (b. 22 MAR 1692, d. 23 MAY 1780)

Given Name: Mindwell

Death: 23 MAY 1780

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Hayden, Samuel (b. 28 FEB 1677/78, d. 12 OCT 1742)

Note: Samuel Hayden was given fifty acres by his father and probably held other lands as well, for he was apparently a successful farmer. He moved to Harwinton in the last years of his life.

Given Name: Samuel

Death: 12 OCT 1742 Harwinton, Connecticut

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Holcomb, Anna (b. 19 MAR 1675, d. 13 JUN 1756)

Given Name: Anna

Death: 13 JUN 1756

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Collins, John (b. 1665, d. 24 JAN 1751/52)

Note: John Collins lived in Guilford for all of his long life and was a tanner and cordwainer. In 1716 he was on the tax rolls with a list of 138 pounds.