Enno, Sarah (b. 15 JUN 1649, d. APR 1732)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Eno
Title: n.a., The Eno Family: New York Branch (n.c.: n.p.,1920)

Given Name: Sarah

Death: APR 1732

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: John Collins made his living as a shoemaker and tanner. He moved to Middletown from Boston in 1663 and was at Guilford by December 1669.

In 1682 he was appointed to teach the grammar school for a quarter of the year as a trial. He obviously performed satisfactorily, as he continued to teach the school for some years afterwards.

Given Name: John

Death: 10 DEC 1704 Guilford, Connecticut

Change: Date: 12 Apr 2003

Given Name: Mary

Death: 1667

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Samuel Cornwall lived most of his life in Middletown, Connecticut, and was presumably a farmer. He left an estate of 600 pounds.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: NEHGR--CONN.
Title: Genealogies of Connecticut Families

Page: Vol. I, pp. 484-490

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Samuel

Death: 6 DEC 1728 Middletown, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: NEHGR--CONN.
Title: Genealogies of Connecticut Families

Page: Vol. I, pp. 484-490

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Rebecca

Death: AFT DEC 1728

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Comfort Starr lived in Boston before moving to New Haven and then to Middletown. The house he built on the south corner of High and Cross Streets remained in the family until 1810.

He held many town offices and was one of the sixty-four subscribers to purchase "a belle to be hanged up in the meeting house."

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Marshall
Title: Information from John Marshall's website. To be checked.

Given Name: Comfort

Death: 18 OCT 1693 Middletown, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: According to John Eliot, the minister of the Roxbury church and known to history as the Apostle to the Indians because he translated the Bible into their language, "the cause of the bitter name marah is that the father, Joseph Weld, is now in great affliction by a sore on his tongue." He died shortly afterwards, apparently a victim of cancer.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Marshall
Title: Information from John Marshall's website. To be checked.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.

Given Name: Marah

Death: 1688

Change: Date: 12 Apr 2003

Note: Samuel Baldwin was a blacksmith and was invited by the town of Guilford to settle there in 1675. In the next year the town granted him half an acre "for his encouragement and accomodating of his trade, &c."

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: NEHGR--CONN.
Title: Genealogies of Connecticut Families

Page: Vol. I, p. 71

Given Name: Samuel

Death: 12 JAN 1696 Guilford, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Given Name: Abigail

Death: AFT 22 JUN 1701

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Ephraim Roper moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, as a young man. In early 1676 the town was attacked by the Indian leader known as King Philip and perhaps as many as 1500 warriors. Forty-two or more settlers, including Ephraim, his wife and infant daughter sought refuge in the partially fortified house of the Reverend Rowlandson. The house was attacked shortly after dawn and as Mrs. Rowlandson wrote in her "Removes," 'quickly it was the dolefullest day that ever mine eyes saw." Of all the people in the Rowlandson house, only Ephraim Roper managed to escape while the rest were killed or captured. His wife and daughter perished and the town was burned.

Roper joined the command of Captain Turner sent to attack King Philip and they did so at the falls of the Connecticut River on May 18 1676, killing many in what a contemporary called "a great and noble slaughter." But Philip counterattacked as Turner and his men retired and Turner was killed. The falls near where he was found are named for him.

Ephraim Roper lived in Cambridge for some time after the massacre but returned to Lancaster early in 1684.

Twenty-one years later the Indians, this time stirred up by the French, attacked the rebuilt town once more and this time twenty-one were killed, among them Ephraim, his second wife, and one of their daughters. Their son Ephraim was captured and lived with the Indians for two years.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Roper II
Title: Kenneth L. Roper, The Ropers: A Biographical Record from Circa 1300 to 1
982 (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press 1983)
982
982. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press 1983.

Given Name: Ephraim

Death: 11 SEP 1697 Lancaster, Massachusetts

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Hannah, although not present in Lancaster when the massacre took place, suffered from it in a curious way. On Aug 7 1676 three Indian women and three children were murdered near Huckleberry Hill outside of Lancaster in an act of cold-blooded revenge for the massacre. Four soldiers confessed to the crime or to having been present. The two perpetrators, Daniel Goble and his brother Stephen, Hannah's husband, were hanged on Sep 26 1676 as was an Indian named One-eyed John, who had played a major part in the massacre. The other two soldiers, who had merely been present, had their sentences commuted.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Roper II
Title: Kenneth L. Roper, The Ropers: A Biographical Record from Circa 1300 to 1
982 (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press 1983)
982
982. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press 1983.

Given Name: Hannah

Death: 11 SEP 1697 Lancaster, Massachusetts

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Richard Moore was a farmer in Needham, Massachusetts, where he was among the original petitioners for its incorporation as a town in 1710. He served there as selectman in 1712, 1713, and 1714. He was also town clerk in 1714.

On Jun 6 1714 he sold his 230 acres in Needham and moved to Oxford, where he bought a house in August and soon became a major landholder, the largest on the south side of town. In Oxford he kept an inn and served as selectman, town clerk, and town treasurer. he was called captain. In 1721 he served as the town's first representative to the General Court and was its first justice of the peace.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: NEHGS/Register
Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register

Page: Vols. 57 (1903) and 58 (1904)

Given Name: Richard

Death: 19 NOV 1767 Oxford, Massachusetts

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Given Name: Mary

Death: 12 JUL 1760 Probably Oxford, Massachusetts

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Edmund Dolbeare was a pewterer and taught this trade to his two elder children. Ashburton, in Devonshire, was a center of the English pewter industry, located close to the Cornish tin mines. No known pewter of Edmund Dolbeare survives, and his pewterer's mark is unknown.

We know Edmund Dolbeare emigrated to Boston by 1671 as he gave a deposition in a court case on Sep 16 of that year. His wife and two children either came with him at that time or followed later. The family lived in Boston except, apparently, for the years 1684-1691, when his first five children by his second wife are recorded as being born in Salem.

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

Given Name: Edmund

Death: BEF 24 JUL 1711 probably Boston, Massachusetts

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Matthew Sherwood was appointed an Ensign in the Fairfield County troop in August, 1673, and of the training band in October, 1685. He was a lieutenant by April, 1690, and was appointed captain of a troop raised for King William's War in the same month, as well as a later one raised in June, 1697.

He served as a deputy in the General Court in May and June, 1692, and was commissioner for Fairfield in 1694-96 and for "Fairfield Village" in 1697. He was a justice from 1698 to 1708.

Given Name: Matthew

Death: 26 OCT 1715 Stratfield, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Given Name: Mary

Death: 25 DEC 1730 Stratfield, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Nathaniel Burr was made a freeman of Fairfield in 1664. He served as constable in 1669 and as a representative to the General Court in 1692, 1693, 1694, and 1695.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Burr
Title: Charles Burr Todd, A General History of the Burr Family in America (Ric
hardson Reprints, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1985. Originally published in 1878
.)
hardson Reprints, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1985. Originally published in 1878
.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Nathaniel

Death: 26 FEB 1712/13

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Given Name: Sarah

Death: BEF OCT 1698

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Simon Huntington was Deacon of the church for many years as his father had been before him. At one time or another he held most of the important town offices.

His house served as the magazine for the town's weapons and in 1720 it contained a half barrel of gun powder, 31 pounds of bullets, and 400 flints.

One can only wonder what Mrs. Huntington's opinion of half a barrel of powder--quite enough to blow the house to matchsticks--must have been.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

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

Given Name: Simon

Death: 2 NOV 1736 Norwich, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Lydia

Death: 8 AUG 1737 Norwich, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003