Hannah BOUTON

Hannah married Timothy DELEVAN on 23 Feb 1736/37 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Timothy (son of Cornelius DELEVAN and Deborah GREEN) was born on 29 Jul 1713 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 01 Feb 1803 in North Salem, Westchester, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Hannah BETTS about 1720 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of John BETTS and Hannah BELL) was born on 20 Oct 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They settled at Norwalk where he owned land jointly with his brother Matthew Bouton, which according to town records, he sold Jan. 25, 1693, to Mercy Lockwood, widow of Ephraim Lockwood. The town records of Danbury contains records of his conveyance of lands at that place, and the records of New Canaan state that he, together with John Jr., Nathaniel, Daniel and Eleazar, were among the constituents of the Society of New Canaan.

John married Sarah GREGORY. Sarah (daughter of John GREGORY, II and Elizabeth MOULTHROP) was born in Dec 1667. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah BELL on 29 Oct 1685 in Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of Jonathan BELL and Mercy CRANE) was born on 29 Oct 1665 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died before 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John II Bouton

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"History and Gen. of the Families of Old Fairfield":
Deputy (Norwalk) to Conn. Leg., Oct. 1669, Oct 1671, Oct. 1673, May 1674, May 1675, Oct. 1676, May and Oct. 1677, May 1678, Oct. 1679, May 1680, May 1681, May and Oct. 1682, May 1683, May and Oct. 1685. Sergt., Norwalk Trainband.
Will of John, Sr., 25 Dec. 1706, poved 27 Jan. 1706-07; wife Mary; grandchild John Bowton of Danbur; sons Mathew and Joseph Bowton; dau. Rachel Sension; son Thomas Bwton; dau. Elizabeth Warrin; son Richard Bowton; da. Mary Bowton; three sons Joseph, Thomas and Richard. Matthew Sension, "Edman Waren", and James Betts, sons-in-law to the dec'd, appealed.
On 16 July 1720, Mary Bouton of Norwalk distributed property to son Thomas Bouton, dau. Mary Morehouse, to "Thomas and Richard:, eese to Thomas Bouton, he to give one gander and two geese to John Betts' wife; my three gr. children Thomas Bouton, Richard Bouton and mary Morehouse land at "Compow in Fairfield": my gr. children Mary Hyes, Ruth Bouton, and Gabriel Morehouse.

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JOHN BOUTON, son as is supposed, of the Count Nichols Bouton, was a Huguenot and during the existence of the great persecution fled to England, where the Government were offering to send emigrants to America, on condition they would swear allegiance to the Crown of England. A registry of such emigrants was kept at London, a copy of which has been examined by the compiler of this work, and as only one person by the Bouton name is found on that registry, embracing a period of 100 years, from 1600 to 1700, it is supposed that said person was the John bouton of whom this account is traced, and that all the families of Boutons or Boughtons in this country prior to 1700, were descended from said John Bouton, who embarked from Gravesend, England, in the barque ASSURANCE, July, 1635, and landed at Boston, Massachusetts, in December, 1635, aged 20 years; whether married or not at the time is not known.

He married 1st, Joan Turney, and lived in Boston and Watertown, Mass., and early in the settlement of Hartford, Conn., moved to that place, and again in 1651, soon after the commencement of the settlement of Norwalk, he removed to that place, where his wife Joan soon died, and where he became an influential citizen, and in 1671, and for several years subsequent, he was a representative in the general court of the colony of Connecticut, and served his townsmen in many official capacities in Norwalk. He m. 2nd at Norwalk Ct., Jan. 1, 1656, Abigail Marvin, (dau. of Matthew Marvin, who came from London, Eng.) She was born at Hartford about 1640 and died at Norwalk, about 1672. He married 3d, at Norwalk about 1673, Mrs. Mary Stevenson, widow of Jonathan Stevenson, who was killed in a swamp fight with the Indians near Norwalk.

He gave land to his sons John and Matthew, as appears on the Norwalk town records, and at his death, which occurred at Danbury, Ct., 174-5, he left in estate at Norwalk, a part of which has remained in possession of his descendants until the present time, July,1888, now over 200 years.

John married Abigail MARVIN on 01 Jan 1656 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Matthew MARVIN and Elizabeth ?) was born between 1636 and 1638 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died about 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1647

John married Elizabeth MOULTHROP on 18 Oct 1663 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He, the ancestor of the American family, came to America, as early as 1634 being then twenty-one years old, and became one of the founders of Guilford. No record of the ship on which he came to America. It is supposed he came with relatives or friends and being a minor his name was not recorded as was often the case. He brought with him a Bible dated 1691, which is still in possession of the family. Unfortunately the first page, which may have recorded his father's name, are missing. First records of him, Book Apxl Court Records, in Guilford under the date August 14, 1645, records Mr. Thomas Betts, member of the church and took their oath. He received several allotments of land being one of the original forty settlers. He must have joined the colonists from overland. Besides the births of his children there is little about him from 1644 to 1657. On November 17, 1657, he sold his "outland" and three days later his home lot. He removed to Milford, where he remained until 1660, when he purchased the home lot of Nathaniel Eli and Ralph Keeler in the town of Norwalk, which was ever afterwards his home. He was made a freeman October 13, 1664, which made him eligible for office and proved him a church member. His taxable estate was valued in 1671 an 146 pounds 10 shillings and he appears in the 1672 census with the largest family in town, consisting of eight children.
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His name appears in a list complied in 1656 of the original settler of Norwalk; it appears again in R. R. Himan's 1846 "Catalogue of the names of the First Puritain Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut" (pp. 18-19).

Thomas owned land valued at 146 pounds, 10 shillings in 1673.

Thomas Jr., his eldest, owned land valued at 10 pounds (p. 61).

Thomas Betts on 12 Dec 1687 participated in a drawing for lots of land "over Norwalk River, below the path leading to the meadow field," "to be granted to those only who are proper inhabitants," and was number 4, receiving 4 lots. John Betts was number 7, receiving 11 lots;

Samuel Betts received 35,

Thomas Jr, 40, and

Daniel, 44 (pp. 82-83).

Hall, Edwin. Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement and of the Town in 1847. Norwalk, CT: James Mallory, 1847.

He is mentoned again in The History of Guilford and Madison Connecticut by Bernard Christian Steiner (Google books, http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNYLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thomas+Betts%22&dq=%22Thomas+Betts%22& lr=&pgis=1, original edition 1897), page 125:

"Thomas Betts was one of the first settlers and of the smaller class of planters. He removed to Milford in 1657 and sold his accommodations to George Highland. In 1660 he again removed to Norwalk, where he died in 1688, aged about 70."

Thomas married Mary RAYMOND in 1643 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Redmond

Jonathan married Mercy CRANE on 22 Oct 1662 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Mercy (daughter of Jasper CRANE and Alice ?) was born on 01 Mar 1644/5 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Oct 1671 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]