Capt Nathaniel FITCH

Nathaniel married Ann ABEL on 10 Dec 1701. Ann was born about 1674; died on 3 Jul 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Mindwell TISDALE on 17 Sep 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rev. Mr. James Fitch arrived in this country in 1638, aged sixteen years, as stated by the inscription on his gravestone in the old cemetery at Lebanon, Conn. He was born at Bocking, County Essex, England on December 24, 1622, son of Thomas and Anne (Reeve) Fitch.

Rev. Mr. Fitch finished his theological training at Hartford, Conn., under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hooker, who is named as a friend in the ill of Thomas Fitch of Bocking, and of Rev. Samuel Stone whose daughter married Joseph Fitch I.

The Rev. Mr. James Fitch is placed by Cotton Mather in his "second Classis" of New England ministers, consisting of "young scholars, whose education for their designed ministry not being finished, came over from England with their friends, and had their education perfected in this country before the college was come into maturity enough to bestow its laurels." (See Magnalia, I, 215, Hart. Edition).

In 1646, a church was organized at Saybrook, Conn., and the Rev. Mr. James Fitch was ordained as its first minister. This ceremony, a Congregational ordination in the strictest sense of the term, was graced by the presence of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, and Rev. Mr. Stone, and probably of Rev. Mr. Henry Whitfield, first minister of Guilford, Conn.

In the year 1701, the Rev. Mr. Fitch retired to Lebanon to spend the few remaining days of his eventful life. A Brief summer he passed inits quiet, secluded shades while death gently approached. Truly the inscription on his gravestone say, "he fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 18, 1720, in the 80th year of his age."

James married Priscilla MASON on 02 Oct 1664 in Norwich, New London County Connecticut. Priscilla (daughter of Maj. John MASON and Anne PECK) was born in Oct 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1714 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne REEVE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Maj. John Mason was born in England in the year 1600, was bred a soldier and served in the English army, and after his election as lieutenant, served under Sir Thomas Fairfax. He emigrated to America in 1632 and settled first in Dorchester, Mass., and represented that town in the General Court. In 1635 he removed to Windsor, Conn., in company with he Rev. John Warham, Henry Wolcott and others, prominent settlers of that town, where he was elected an assistant or magistrate of the Connecticut Colony in 1642. In May, 1637, he commanded the successful expedition against the Pequot Indians, when he and his famous ninety men immortalized themselves in overthrowing and destroying the prestige and power of the Pequots and their fort near Mystic River, on Groton side, which event is commemorated by a boulder monument on Mystic Hill upon the pedestal of which is a life size statue of Maj. Mason drawing his sword, when he heard the war-shoop of 'Owanux', 'Owanux', by the Indians in their fort. In 1647 he removed his family to Saybrook, where he continued to live until 1660, when he united with a number of distinguished families in the settlement of Norwich, Conn., where he was Deputy Governor and Major General of the forces of Connecticut, and held other prominent official positions. After a life of great usefulness and eminence, he d. Jan. 30, 1672. His widow d. shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, the first wife of Maj. John Mason is not known, but she did not live long, but was the mother of one daughter.

John married Anne PECK in Jul 1640 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Anne (daughter of Rev Robert PECK and Anne LAWRENCE) was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England; was christened on 18 Nov 1619; died in 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1638 Robert and Anne emigrated to New England with their children, Joseph and Anne, and Robert's younger brother, Joseph Peck. They settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, but in 1641 Rev. Robert Peck returned to England with his wife and son, and resumed the rectorship of Hingham, Norfolk.

Robert Peck left a will dated 24 July 1651, proved 10 April 1658, mentioning sons Thomas and Samuel (to be executors); unnamed children (all under 21) of sons Thomas and Samuel; Robert (under 23), John and Benjamin (both under 22), sons of son Robert Peck, deceased; children of daughter Anne Mason "wife of captain John Mason of Seabrooke on the river Connecticut in new England"; son Joseph to be maintained by sons Thomas and Samuel; m now wife Martha Peck. the testator asked to be buried in the churchyard in Hingham near "Anne my wife deceased."

Robert married Anne LAWRENCE. Anne was buried on 30 Aug 1684 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]