Joseph KELSEY

Joseph married Abigail GRISWOLD on 16 Jan 1745 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Michael GRISWOLD and Elizabeth HULL) was born on 12 Apr 1717 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joel KELSEY was born on 12 Apr 1747 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died between 4 Nov 1826 - 3 Apr 1827.

Joseph married Temperence HAND on 16 Sep 1752 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Temperence (daughter of Ebenezer HAND and Susanna FRENCH) was born on 17 Jul 1725 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died after 1798. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Concurrence HAYDEN on 12 Jan 1704 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Concurrence (daughter of Nathaniel HAYDEN and Sarah FRENCH) was born about 1685 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died in 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah DISBOROUGH in 1668 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Hannah died on 23 Oct 1718 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Nicholas Disborough and Mary Bronson

Nathaniel married Sarah FRENCH on 17 Jan 1677 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Thomas FRENCH and Deborah ?) was born on 25 Aug 1650 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 19 May 1717 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey": Bethia possibly died about 1636 and William may have married a second wife shortly after this, who would thus have been the mother of the four younger children, and possibly of John. There is no mention of William Kelsey's wife in any known records.

William married Bethiah HOPKINS in bet. 1625-1628 in England. Bethiah was born between 1605-1610 in England; died about 1636. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Hayden, of Devon, came to Dorchester, Mass., with the first settlers; (prob. in the MARY AND JOHN, May 30) 1630; was made freeman in 1634; served under Capt. Mason in the famous Pequot fight of 1637, and saved the Commanders life in the storming of the Fort, an exploit thus commemorated by Wolcott in his poem of 1721:

"But fate, that doth the rule of action know,
Did this unequal combat disallow;
For quite too much to force one man alone,
To beat an army, take a garrison,
Sent HAYDEN in, who with his sun-steeled blade
Joining the General, such a slaughter made,
That soon the Pequots ceased to oppose
the matchless force of such resistless foes."

The "sun-steeled blade" which turned the tide of battle is now in the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society at Hartford and the deed is represented by one of the crests on the book-plate of his great-great-grandson, Dr Moses Hayden, ...

William Hayden became a proprietor at Hartford in 1637, and at Windsor in 1639, building in the latter place a house on the site since occupied by the residence of the late Ezra H. Hayden, South-east of Hayden Station. Beyond on the West, he opened in 1654 a stone quarry (now called "Rocky Hill") which furnished most of the early gravestones and foundation walls of Windsor. In 1657-8 he is one of 17 making the first troop of horse raised i Connecticut. In 1660 he is charged 7s. for a "short seat" in the Old Windsor Meeting House. But in 1664 he removed to Fairfield, and the next year to Killingworth (in each place becoming a proprietor) and represented the latter place as Deputy to the General Court in 1667; and there (at Killingworth) he died, Sept. 26, 1669/

William married Sarah BIRDSEYE. Sarah was born in 1616 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 16 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Deborah ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]