Samuel CHITTENDEN

Male 1664 - 1694  (29 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Samuel CHITTENDEN was born on 20 Sep 1664 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut (son of Thomas CHITTENDEN and Joanna JORDAN); died on 15 Jan 1694.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Thomas CHITTENDEN was christened on 20 Nov 1636 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England (son of Maj. William CHITTENDEN and Joanna SHEAFFE); died in Oct 1683 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

    Thomas married Joanna JORDAN before 1664. Joanna (daughter of John JORDAN and Anne BISHOP) was born before 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Joanna JORDAN was born before 1640 (daughter of John JORDAN and Anne BISHOP).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Dau. of John and Anna Jordan of Guilford, Conn.

    Children:
    1. 1. Samuel CHITTENDEN was born on 20 Sep 1664 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 15 Jan 1694.
    2. William CHITTENDEN was born on 05 Oct 1666 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 11 Aug 1738 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    3. Joanna CHITTENDEN was born on 13 Dec 1668 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 14 Jan 1752.
    4. Abigail CHITTENDEN was born on 15 Dec 1670 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    5. Thomas CHITTENDEN was born on 12 Jan 1674 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died in 1722.
    6. Mehitabel CHITTENDEN was born in 1675 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    7. Josiah CHITTENDEN was born in 1677 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 28 Aug 1759 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Maj. William CHITTENDEN was christened on 17 Jul 1608 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died before 24 Oct 1660 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: Mar 1594
    • Death: Feb 1661

    Notes:

    Name:
    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]


  2. 5.  Joanna SHEAFFE was born about 1614; died on 16 Aug 1668 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Children:
    1. Joanna CHITTENDEN was christened on 19 Oct 1634 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died after 15 Feb 1688.
    2. 2. Thomas CHITTENDEN was christened on 20 Nov 1636 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died in Oct 1683 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    3. Elizabeth CHITTENDEN was born in 1638; died on 17 Feb 1675 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
    4. Nathaniel CHITTENDEN was born in 1640 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died in Jun 1691.
    5. John CHITTENDEN was born in 1642/3; died before 14 Apr 1716 and 7 Oct 1717 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    6. Mary CHITTENDEN was born in 1645; died on 9 Mar 1712 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
    7. Deborah CHITTENDEN was born on 15 Nov 1649 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 16 Sep 1654 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    8. Joseph CHITTENDEN was born on 14 Apr 1652 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 22 Jun 1652 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    9. Hannah CHITTENDEN was born on 14 Apr 1652 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 13 Sep 1674 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

  3. 6.  John JORDAN was born in England; died on 1 Jan 1650 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    "History and Genealogy of the families of Old Fairfield": John Jordan, perhaps was bro. of Mr. Thomas Jordan, who was Deputy for Guilford to the New Haven Colony Leg., May 1653, and May 1654; and Commissioner to Mass. Colony, June 1653, and June 1654; who returned to England, leavng here a dau. Elizabeth, who was m. 1 June 1669 to Andrew Lette, by his father Dep. Gov. William Leete.
    Mr. John was early at Guilford, where his will was presented 1 Sept. 1650, but we fail to find its terms recorded. His widow Anne m. (2) by 1654, Mr. Thomas Clark, who was bur. at Guilford, 10 Oct. 1668. Mrs. Anne Clark d. at Saybrook, 1 Jan. 1671/2, and adm'n on her estate was granted to Abraham Post.

    John married Anne BISHOP in 1640. Anne (daughter of John BISHOP and Anne ?) was born in England; died on 3 Jan 1671/2 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Anne BISHOP was born in England (daughter of John BISHOP and Anne ?); died on 3 Jan 1671/2 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
    Children:
    1. Mary JORDAN was born about 1640; died between 23 Mar 1683 and 1684 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
    2. Elizabeth JORDAN was born about 1642 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    3. Hannah JORDAN was born in 1644 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died in 1720 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
    4. John JORDAN was born in 1645 in Connecticut.
    5. 3. Joanna JORDAN was born before 1640.


Generation: 4

  1. 14.  John BISHOP was born in England; died on 07 Feb 1660/61 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Birth: Abt 1604, England
    • Death: Jan 1660, Guilford, Connecticut

    John married Anne ? about 1610. Anne was born in Suffolk, England; died in Apr 1676 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 15.  Anne ? was born in Suffolk, England; died in Apr 1676 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    Children:
    1. John BISHOP died in Oct 1683 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    2. Mary BISHOP was born in England; died on 14 Sep 1675 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    3. 7. Anne BISHOP was born in England; died on 3 Jan 1671/2 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
    4. Sarah BISHOP was born in England; died on 30 Sep 1657 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
    5. Stephen BISHOP was born in England; died on 01 Jun 1690 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    6. Bethia/Betsey BISHOP was born in 1631.