Capt Daniel FITCH

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He settled at new London, (at the place now known as Montville), Conn. He was an active soldier in the Indian wars of his day; and owned three farms, one at Dry Brook, one lying on both sides of "the Connecticut path', (the road to Hartford through Colchester), and a homestead at Trading Cove, which was a town grant to his father.

Daniel married Mary SHERWOOD on 04 Mar 1698 in Preston, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Matthew SHERWOOD and Mary FITCH) was born in 1674; died on 16 Sep 1752 in Montville, Conn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt Adonijah FITCH was born in Apr 1700.
2. Capt James FITCH was born on 18 Oct 1702 in Preston, New London Co., Connecticut; died in 1789 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA.
3. Lemuel FITCH was born in Jan 1704.
4. Mary FITCH was born in Sep 1707; died in 1768.
5. Daniel FITCH was born about 1709; died on 12 May 1755.

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Rev. Mr. James Fitch arrived in this country in 1638, aged sixteen years, as stated by the inscription on his gravestone in the old cemetery at Lebanon, Conn. He was born at Bocking, County Essex, England on December 24, 1622, son of Thomas and Anne (Reeve) Fitch.

Rev. Mr. Fitch finished his theological training at Hartford, Conn., under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hooker, who is named as a friend in the ill of Thomas Fitch of Bocking, and of Rev. Samuel Stone whose daughter married Joseph Fitch I.

The Rev. Mr. James Fitch is placed by Cotton Mather in his "second Classis" of New England ministers, consisting of "young scholars, whose education for their designed ministry not being finished, came over from England with their friends, and had their education perfected in this country before the college was come into maturity enough to bestow its laurels." (See Magnalia, I, 215, Hart. Edition).

In 1646, a church was organized at Saybrook, Conn., and the Rev. Mr. James Fitch was ordained as its first minister. This ceremony, a Congregational ordination in the strictest sense of the term, was graced by the presence of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, and Rev. Mr. Stone, and probably of Rev. Mr. Henry Whitfield, first minister of Guilford, Conn.

In the year 1701, the Rev. Mr. Fitch retired to Lebanon to spend the few remaining days of his eventful life. A Brief summer he passed inits quiet, secluded shades while death gently approached. Truly the inscription on his gravestone say, "he fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 18, 1720, in the 80th year of his age."

James married Priscilla MASON on 02 Oct 1664 in Norwich, New London County Connecticut. Priscilla (daughter of Maj. John MASON and Anne PECK) was born in Oct 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1714 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]