Thursday, July 31, 2014

April 1743, Connecticut

Connecticut River Panorama (#66)
Connecticut River Panorama (#66) (Photo credit: Christopher Chan)
April 3, 1743- A daughter, Eunice Tyler, is born to Nathan Tyler & Rachel Tuttle in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

April 6, 1743- Joseph Sanford, son of William Sanford & Hope Sisson, marries Bethiah Lothrop, daughter of John Lothrop and Elizabeth Abell, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.

(Joseph Sanford is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton.
Eunice Tyler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Sergeant Abraham Doolittle, Deacon Paul Peck & Martha "Hannah" Hale and John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.)

Monday, July 28, 2014

April 1743, Massachusetts

English: Sgt. William Harlow Family Homestead,...
 Sgt. William Harlow Family Homestead, Plymouth Massachusetts, April 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
April 1, 1743- A daughter, Elizabeth, is born to Deacon Robert Harlow & Susannah Cole in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America.
Elizabeth is a descendant of four Mayflower Passengers, Richard Warren, Mary Allerton and her parents, Isaac Allerton and Mary Norton.

April 6, 1743- George Sherman marries Rebecca Sherman in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. George is a blacksmith, and would become a soldier of the Revolution serving as Captain in Colonel Jacob Statford's Independent Company of Volunteers.. He marched Aug 14, 1777 and fought in the battle near Bennington Aug 16, 1777.

( Elizabeth Harlow is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hugh Cole & Mary Foxwell.
Rebecca Sherman is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)