Elizabeth CHITTENDEN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of William Chittenden and Joanne Sheafe
• Death: 24 Aug 1683

Elizabeth married Thomas WRIGHT, Jr. on 16 Jun 1657. Thomas (son of Thomas WRIGHT, Sr. and Mary CRANBROKE) was born in 1630; died on 24 Aug 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas WRIGHT, III was born on 1 Mar 1660/1; died on 18 Apr 1711.
2. Mary WRIGHT was born on 04 Mar 1664; died on 08 Sep 1741; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.
3. Elizabeth WRIGHT died in young.
4. Hannah WRIGHT was born on 10 Mar 1671; died on 27 Apr 1698.
5. Lydia WRIGHT was born on 12 Mar 1672/3; died after 1720.

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• Baptism: Mar 1594
• Death: Feb 1661

Notes:

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He came from East Gilford in county Sussex, adjoining Rye on the British Channel, near the border of Kent, or perphaps from Kent, with wife, Joan, dau. of Dr. Jacob Sheaffe of Cranbrook, Kent, and sister of Jacob Sheaffe, and the wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield; and in 1639, he and his brothers-in-law took up their residence at guilford. Was one of the founders of the church there, June, 1, 1639; Representative at 27 sessions between 1643 and 1661, (Savage, Gen Dic. of N.E., I, p 382.) and a magistrate unitl his death. He was one of the six persons selected to purchase the lands in Guilford from the Indians, also one of four who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the publick weal and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us." he was the principal military man in the plantation. He had been a soldier in the English army in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years' War and had reached the rank of Major. His home lot was on the south side of Broad Street at the turn west of the Green.

William married Joanna SHEAFFEEngland. Joanna was born about 1614; died on 16 Aug 1668 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Dr. Jacob Sheaffe and Joanna Jordan of Cranbrook, Kent, England