Timothy NORTH

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• Fact: Son of Thomas North and Hannah Woodford

Timothy married Hannah NORTH on 25 Jan 1738/9. Hannah (daughter of Thomas NORTH and Martha ROYCE) was born on 17 Sep 1722; died on 23 Feb 1811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He joined the church in 1708, and lived in Farmington, on the south side of the Hartford road, and probably built the house where his grandson Seth North lived. the house stood next east of that of Samuel North, and next west of that of Joseph Bird.

He inherited lands in Farmington from his brother Samuel.

Thomas married Hannah WOODFORD on 4 Dec 1699. Hannah (daughter of Joseph WOODFORD and Rebecca NEWELL) died on 4 Nov 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They lived in Farmington on the north side of the Hartford road, a little east of Edward Norton's farm buildings. He, with his father and brother John, were among the eighty-four proprietors between whom the unoccupied lands of Farmington were divided in 1672. After his death his widow married (2) in 1685 John Rew(?).

Samuel married Hannah NORTON on 3 Jan 1666. Hannah was born in 1649 in Branford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John and Elizabeth Norton

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Freeman, 1664; he was an extensive land-owner, "Supposed by some to be son of Thomas, of Hartford, without any evidence to sustain the conjecture and against the presumption to be derived from the will of Thomas." (Savage, 4, p. 638.) Savage thinks he may have been born inEngland. At the Oct. session 1663 of the General Assembly, Joseph Woodford was named among those who were "to stand at the Court in May next for their freedome." At that session the record reads, "this court orders...that those of Farmington have the oath of Freedom administered to them by Mr. Howkins; This Court having accepted of the persons presented by the Deputies of the aforesaid towns, as freeman." Undoubtedly he was at this session made Freeman. His death does not appear to have been recorded; the fact that he made his will in 1701 has led writers to state that he died that year; that such an inference is wrong is shown by the heading to the inventory of his estate, dated Oct 25, 1710:--
"An inventory of the estate of Joseph Woodford Senier of farmington Latly deseased is as follows".

Joseph married Rebecca NEWELL. Rebecca (daughter of Thomas NEWELL and Rebecca OLMSTEAD) was born about 1643; died before 29 Mar 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Probably died before mar 29, 1700, as she is not mentioned in the will of her husband. On Mar 29, 1700, Joseph Woodford conveyed some land to his "Well beloved Daughter Hannah more especially for her Reward for her Love, Laber & Care to her mother in her sore and long sorrow." Mr. Starr thinks this refers to her mother's last illness. (Farmington Land Rec., 3, p. 160.)

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John North sailed from London at the age of 20 in the SUSAN AND ELLEN and landed at Boston April 16, 1635. Among his fellow voyagers were many of the founders of the sturdy New England families so intimately connected with the development of the colonies and the United States. The ships lists were often headed with the words: "The men have taken the oath of allegiance and supremacie," or they swear "that they are no Subsedy men." This is explained by the fact that King James issued a proclamation that no person take passage in any ship to America (being subsidy men or their value) without license from his Majesty's Commissioners for the plantations, nor any under the degree of subsidy men, without a certificate that they have taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy, and a testimony from the ministers of the parish of their conformity to the orders and disciple of the Church of England.

John North and his wife were members of the Farmington Church, which she joined in 1656. He was made freeman of Connecticut, May 21, 1657.

There is a mystery surrounding John North's marriage. Did he marry twice? There is no authentic record. He was married before leaving Ipswich, for his first child was born, there in 1641. But the vital records of that town contain no births or marriages of any Norths or Birds. Most records state that his wife was Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bird. In the distribution of the latter's estate, August-September, 1662, portions were set to Mary Northe and to Hannah Scott, again mentioned March 3, 1663, as good wife Northe and Hannah Scott. From this statement is probably drawn the conclusion in the "Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines," by F.F. Starr, that Mary Bird was John North's second wife, and that Hannah was probably the first wife of Edmund Scott. Savage does not give the name of Edmund Scott's first wife and says his second wife was Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Upson. John North's oldest daughter was named Mary. None bore the name Hannah, but both names occur among his granddaughters.

No satisfactory explanation being obtainable from this meagre information, it perhaps strengthens the reliability of the various old family records, which state that Hannah Bird was John North's wife.

It is interesting to conjecture when and where the Norths and the Birds came in contact with each other. From Mr. Starr's book we learn that the first record of Thomas Bird in America was in 1639, when he bought land in that part of Boston later set apart as Braintree, and that by May, 1644, he was in Hartford, and shortly afterward removed to Farmington, where he bought land. But the present compiler believes that the Thomas Bird who was granted in April, 1639, a house and lot in Ipswich, and six acres of planting land in "reedy marsh," according to the Ipswich town records, was this same Thomas Bird, and that he probably went to Braintree later in the same years. His stay in Ipswich therefore probably covers the period when the two families were in contact. But there is always the interesting possibility that the families may have known each other in England, as previously suggested by the fact that early in the seventeenth century there were families of Norths and Birds in Yorkshire, whence both may have come.

John married Hannah BIRD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Families of Early Hartford": Came to Boston in the "William and Francis" ; embarked March 7, arrived June 5, 132; settled at Roxbury, freeman March 4, 1635; came to Agawam with Mr. Pynchon's Company, where he signed the agreement of May 16, 1636, and had an allotment of land. Named in the distribution of 1639 at Hartford, when he was one who received land "by the courtesie of the town"; his home lot was on the west side of the highway now Front St. He was chosen with Arthur Smith Feb 10, 1639/40 to attend the townsmen, and to do any official services required by them, as to give notice of town meetings, impound stray cattle, etc.; appointed to act as sexton march 3, 1640 to "attend the making of graves for any corpses deceased"; to "receive for giving notice by ringing the bell, making the grave, and keeping of it in seemly repair, so that it may be known in future time, when such graves have been made for the lessor sort 2s. 6d; for the middle sort 3s., and for the higher sort 3s 6d; also appointed town crier, and to be paid 2d for crying anything lost. His wife probably died in Hartford. He removed about 1656 to Northampton where he died.

Thomas married Mary BLOTT about 1636. Mary was christened in 1609. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Robert Blott

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He is said to have been of Hertfordshire, England; was a settler at Farmington not long after 1640. His name is on the list of Farmington Freemen of October, 1669, and also in the list of 84 proprietors, 1672. United with the church, Jan. 30, 1652/3 and wife joined July 12, 1653. He was constable in 1660 and 1673, he served on the preliminary committee that visited Mattatuck, now Waterbury, to examine the land with a view to making a settlement there, and signed a petition for "liberty of planting the same." He also signed the articles providing for the settlement, but did not go to the new town. His house was just at the north part of the village fronting on the main street. Tradition says an Indian fort was located just back of it.

Thomas married Rebecca OLMSTEAD between 28 Sep 1640 and Jan 1643. Rebecca (daughter of Richard OLMSTEAD and Frances SLANY) died on 24 Feb 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]