Epenetus WEED

Epenetus married Abigail WATERBURY on 25 Dec 1735 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Lieut. John WATERBURY and Hannah CROSS) was born about 1714; died on 30 Dec 1736 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Epenetus married Mary BELDING on 01 Jun 1738 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born about 1717; died on 08 Apr 1756 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Epenetus WEED was born on 28 Apr 1739 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
2. Benjamin WEED was born on 18 Jun 1741 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 6 Sep 1758 in Died in the Army at Lake George.
3. Abigail WEED was born on 16 Aug 1749; died on 8 Sep 1751.
4. Abigail WEED was born on 20 Nov 1757?.
5. Sarah WEED was born on 9 Feb 1754 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Epenetus married Sarah SLASON on 22 Feb 1758 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of John SLASON and Rebecca BRUSH) was born on 21 Apr 1729 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 15 Oct 1795 in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Weed Cemetery #2, Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin WEED, III was born on 18 Dec 1758 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Jan 1846 in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
2. John WEED was born on 20 Aug 1760.
3. Prudence WEED was born on 4 Mar 1763.

Jonas married Sarah WATERBURY on 20 Jan 1703/4 in Noroton Corners, Stamford, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Lieut. David WATERBURY and Sarah NEWMAN) was born on 10 Jan 1684 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 05 Feb 1726 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonas married Bethia HOLLY on 16 Nov 1676 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Bethia (daughter of John HOLLY and Mary WAITSTILL) was born on 06 Jan 1654/55 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Dec 1713 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was commissioned Ensign of Dragoons, April 1690, and Lieutenant of the Stamford Trainband, May 1698; and often served as Deputy. His will, dated 24 Mar. 1703/4, names his son Jo (who got considerable land at Noroton River), son David (who was to have the dwelling house), son Ebenezer, wife Sarah (executrix), and three daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah and Ruth; a codicil 20 Nov. 1706 refers to the fact that he now has another child, Mercy.

David married Sarah NEWMAN about 1679 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of William NEWMAN and Elizabeth BOWSTREET) was born about 1663 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died between 1685 and 1698 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Connecticut Ancestry": the authoritative account of his life that appears in the book, "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie", by Paul W. Prindle, F.A.S.G., may be relied upon with confidence. As reported by Prindle and others, Jonas Weed was a passenger in the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the Massachusetts By in 1630, although the exact name of the ship he sailed on within that fleet cannot be determined. His residences in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Wethersfield, Connecticut prior o Stamford are already well documented by others including Paul W. Prindle and Robert C. Anderson and need not be duplicated here.

No birth records appear to have survived for any of his 10 children, but they are all evident from other surviving records, and they were almost certainly all born in Connecticut. the list given by Prindle has recently been updated by Anderson (the Great Migration Begins) and is used here in preference to the Prindle list. All except the first three were probably born at Stamford.

Jonas married Mary ? about 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born about 1604; died between 1689 and 1690 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Holly, of Stamford, was an early settler of the town and was employed almost constantly in the affairs of the town or colony. In 1647 he was appointed marshal of the settlement, an office requiring great intelligence and business tact. Later he was made collector of customs and excise, which office he discharged with great satisfaction to the General Court from which he received the appointment. He represented the town at the General Court, and was frequently one of the selectmen of the town. he was often appointed on important commissions, both by the town and by the General Court. He came of a distinguished family in England, one of whom, Dr. Luther Holly, was born in St. Leonard's parish, Shordith, London, Oct. 29. 1556.

John married Mary WAITSTILL. Mary was born about 1621; died after 1692 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Dec 1621, Sudbury, England

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"Connecticut Ancestry": John Waterbury was born say about 1614, based upon the marriage of his daughter Rachel in 1659. However, he may also have been the son of William Waterbury of Sudbury baptized 30 December 1621. He died intestate at Stamford, Connecticut 31 July 1658.

John Waterbury sold his house and 8 acres of land at Watertown, Massachusetts to Robert Pearce/Pierce on 15 October 1646, and presumably moved about that time to Stamford, where he was first of record in 1650.

His wife's name was Rose ?, since it was Rose Waterbury who married Joseph Garnsey at Stamford on 11 My 1659. Many early writers have claimed that she was named Rose Lockwood, and this marriage is often found in the secondary literature. Prindle (Gillespie Ancestry) showed, however, that she could not possibly have been a Lockwood, and that she was instead probably named Rose Taylor, that is, a putative daughter of Gregory Taylor of Watertown and Stamford. He was unable to prove this Taylor connection to his own satisfaction, however, and continued to place a question mark before her surname.....

The connection with the Taylor family, however, is a sure link to this Stamford family's connection with the Massachusetts Bay. Gregory Taylor of Watertown, another passenger of the Winthrop fleet, member of the original Boston Church, and resident of Watertown, also moved from Watertown to Stamford where he died on 24 September 1657. John Waterbury had a claim on the estate of Gregory Taylor at Stamford, as already noted, and our interpretation of this claim is that John Waterbury's mother had become Taylor's wife....

John Waterbury served as Deputy from Stamford to the General Court of the New Haven Colony in 1657 and 1658 (the year of his death). Prindle assigned an age at death of only "37 or 38 years" in 1658, but when Anderson's estimate of his birth year is used (1614) then his age at death is a bit more reasonable (44 years). this may be an additional reason for following Anderson's caution about the identity of the William and John Waterburys of Sudbury.

John Waterbury's widow Rose married Joseph Garnsey/Guernsey at Stamford on 11 May 1659, and had a son, Joseph Garnsey Jr., bon 30 june 1662. Waterbury's estate was not settled by the Probate Court until 1669, at which time Joseph Garnsey was appointed administrator, and Mr. Holly and Lieutenant Bell were appointed overseers of the children "and their disposals and portions." On 14 July 1666 and 19 day 12th month (February) 1668 respectively, Zachariah Dibble for his wife Sarah and John Holmes for his wife Rachel, gave receipts to Joseph Garnsey for their shares in the estate of their wives' deceased father, John Waterbury. On 3 July 1674, John, Jonathan and David Waterbury assigned to their father in law Joseph Garnsey their rights to land in Rocky Neck "which our own father Jno. Waterbury deceased bought of Mr. Law of Stamford & is now in ye possession of Jno. Miller of Stamford..." Then, on 12 February 1684/85, Jonathan and David Waterbury discharged their father in law Joseph Garnsey "forever conserning our portions" of their father's estate, having received their portions in full.

John married Rose TAYLOR in 1638 in Watertown, Massachusetts. Rose (daughter of Gregory TAYLOR and Achsah ?) was born in 1621 in England; died between 12 Feb 1683 and 1684 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Connecticut Ancestry": William Newman was born about 1610, and died at Stamford between 18 August and 18 November 1676, the dates of his will and its probate..A wife Elizabeth ? for whom we have no further information, was named in his will.

He and his father were both settlers of Stamford during its first year, 1642. They probably did not come from Wethersfield with the majority of the other early settlers, but their place of origin is still unknown.

the lands of William Newman were recorded at Stamford on 1 March 1649/50 as follows:

1. One house and home lot containing an acre and a half, Bounded by William Graves to the east, John Elliot west, abutting the highway north and the meadows south;
2. Also another house and house lot, containing 3 acres, bounded by Nicholas Knapp and common land to the north, Henry Ackerly, William Potter and Common Land south, butting to the highway west and the common east;
3. In the North Field, 12 acres of upland, bounded by David Mitchell north, Nicholas Theale south, butting to the fence east, and the River west;
4. In the same field, 10 more acres of upland, bounded by Thomas Newman south, Nicholas Knapp north, butting to the highway east, and the River west;
5. In the same field, 3 more acres of upland, bounded by the rails (fence) east, Henry Smith and Francis Bell west, Thomas Neman south, Francis Bell north;
6. In Rocky Neck, 7 1/2 acres of upland, 4 1/2 acres of the said parcel is waste land, bounded by Francis Bell to the south, William Mead to the north, butting to William Mead, thomas Morehouse & Thomas Newman west, Nicholas Knapp east, a highway through the west end of it;
7. In the East Field, 4 acres of meadow, bounded by Thomas Hyatt south, Vincent Simkins north, butting Henry Ackerly west, the highway east, with 12 rods fence as it was layed out by ?;
8. In the same field, 6 acres meadow down in the South field fence belonging (?), bounded by Vincent Simkins on the south and north, butting to the highway east, Jeffery Ferris and John Finch west;
9. In the same field, 2 more acres of meadow, bounded by Daniel Scofield south, Henry Ackerly north, butting to the highway west, and Jonas Weed east.

Difficulties with the Court at New Haven in 1654 (along with his father) have already been described. Just prior to his father's death, on 25 May 1659, the New Haven Court turned to William Newman to settle a dispute that was current in the colony concerning "wrong done in the sizes of shooes." William Newman of Stamford was said to have been in the possession of an instrument that he had brought from England, that was capable of determining the correct sizes of shoes, and that instrument was ordered to be bought to New Haven to serve as model for a standard to be made to serve the needs of the entire Colony. There is no further information on this subject, and we may assume that William either complied, or the illness and death of his father intervened in the completion of this project.

His will was dated at Stamford on 18 August (6th month) and probated on 18 November (9th month) 1676. He mentioned his wife Elizabeth, and children Thomas, Daniel, "John" (who died before the probate), Sarah, Elizabeth and Hannah. His inventory was taken and filed on the date of probate. Also on the same date of probate, an agreement was made between and among the (remaining) heirs.

William married Elizabeth BOWSTREET. Elizabeth was born in Nov 1621 in England; died in 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]