Eleazer HUBBELL

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• Baptism: 18 Aug 1700

Eleazer married Abigail BURR on 25 May 1727. Abigail (daughter of John BURR and Deborah BARLOW) was born on 13 Mar 1701; was christened on 16 Mar 1701; died on 06 Apr 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 12 Nov 1734
• Will Proved: 08 Aug 1738

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Richard served as Lieutenant of the Stratfield trainband and as Deputy;2nd wife was Hannah Swillaway (m. October 12, 1692.

Richard married Hannah SILAWAY on 12 Oct 1692 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Hannah was born about 1671 in Mauldon, Mass.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Sillway
• Fact: Daughter of Henry Swillaway and Margaret
• Birth: Feb 1665/6, Malden, Massachusetts

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• Will: 05 Apr 1699
• Will Proved: 20 Nov 1699

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Richard was from Wales, and was on the fidelity list of March 7,1647-8 in New Haven, where he married, in 1650 the daughter of John and Thomasine (Fry) Meigs (a son of Vincent Meigs). Like many of the ingabitants of Wales at the present day, (1880), he could not write the English language.
The first settles of (now) Bridgeport, and members of the church, were Richard Hubbell, sen'r, Isaac Wheeler, James Bennett, sen'r., Samuel Beardsley, Matthew Sherman, Richard Hubbell,jr., David Sherman, and John Odell, Jr., in 1695. It was a part of the town of Stratford. Most of these names are yet familiar in the town of Bridgeport.
He was admitted a planter at Guilford, Connecticut, February 25, 1653-1654. About 1663 he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, and was accepted as a freeman of Connecticut colony, October 13, 1664. At Fairfield he was Sergeant of the trainband, and he served as Deputy to the General court at three sessions, May, 1678, 1679, and 1681. He acquired a good estate, and was an original member of the Stratfield church in 1695. He married first about 1651, Elizabeth Meigs , married second about 1669, Elizabeth Gaylord b. October 4, 1647 (daughter of Samuel Gaylord), died probably early in 1688; married third by marriage contract dated April 16, 1688, Abigail, daughter of Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, and widow of Joseph Walker of Stratford.
A peculiarity of this family is that he had 2 sons named Samuel, the one by his first wife being called Senior, and the one by his second wife, Junior. His will, made a few months before his death, named his last wife and all his children. The widow died early in 1718, leaving a will.

Richard married Elizabeth MEIGS between 1651 and 1652 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John MEIGS and Thomasine FRY) died in 1664/5 in Peguonnock, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Sarah WAKEMAN on 30 Apr 1621 in Bewdley, Worcester, England. Sarah (daughter of Frances WAKEMAN and Anne GOODE) was christened on 23 Apr 1593; died in 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah's brothers John and Samuel Wakeman were prominent settlers in New Haven.

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• Fact: 1657, Freeman

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John changed the spelling of the name to Meigs, its present form. He was married in England, and his eldest child, Mary was born there. John resided in Weymouth, Mass. and in New Haven, Conn. in 1647; removed to Guilford, Conn. in 1654, and to Killingworth, Conn, in 1663, where he was made a freeman in 1669. In 1654 he was admitted a planter in that portion of Guilford now included in Madison, upon certain conditions pertaining to the purchase of land there. He is not represented as having been a quiet man, nor Puritanical in his character, for he was sometimes turbulent and given to having litigation with the town authorities. Yet he was public spirited withal, and rendered some good public services.. He was a man of superior intellectual type, as appears by the manuscripts and books mentioned in his will, and he must have been a man of considerable education and culture. He was many times entrusted with public business, serving as Constable, and Representative to Hartford. Was a tanner , had a large estate, and some books, of which one was a Latin and Greek Dictionary. John was a one time, 1648-1658, second owner by purchase of the Cutler lot (SE corner of Chapel and Church streets, New Haven). The deed of conveyance reads: "Wm Jeanes passeth over to John Meigs his house and house lot lying at the corner over against Mr. Gregson's--betwixt the house lot of John Budd and the highway." Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was a descendant, whose son became Governor of Ohio and Postmaster-General of the United States.
According to Stiles' History of the Regicides, it was John Meigs who rode to New Haven to warn the regicides.

John married Thomasine FRY in 1630. Thomasine (daughter of William FRY and Sarah HILL) was born in 1610 in England; was buried in Guilford Cementary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]