Matthew ST. JOHN

Abt 1687 - 1755  (68 years)

• Name	Matthew ST. JOHN  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	He, Matthew St. John, was of the company who bought of Ridgefield of the Indians Sep 30, 1708. He was chosen lister Dec. 19, 1716, and surveyor, Dec. 20, 1722. April 6, 1723, he sold his whole right at Ridgefield and settled at Pympawaug now in the town of Wilton, Conn. They were members of the first Cong. church in Norwalk, 1725. March 10th, 1729, ensign Matthew St. John was appointed a committee of the society to visit Hartford and lay before the Legislature a complaint against the town of Norwalk. Feb. 13, 732, the names of Matthew St. John and wife were included in a list of members of the church of Wilton. He was chosen as clerk of the society at Wilton and served as such from 1731 to 1745, when having bought, Mar. 5, 1745, a farm of Samuel Comstock about two miles north of Sharon Village for L655, old tenor. The church record of their removal dates June, 1745, in which he is called captain and soon after coming to Sharon he was chosen by the church to be their third deacon. [1]
  Birth	Abt 1687	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	03 Aug 1755	Sharon, Connecticut   [1, 2, 4]
  Person ID	I54331	Main Tree
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	Mattias ST. JOHN, III,   b. 1667   d. 17 Aug 1728, Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Rachel BOUTON,   b. 15 Dec 1667, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1685  [2]
  Married	Abt 1690  [3]
  Family ID	F13855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne WHITNEY,   b. Abt 1691, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 09 May 1773, Sharon, Connecticut (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	13 Oct 1709	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Children	1. Matthew ST. JOHN,   b. 23 Jun 1711, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   2. Sarah ST. JOHN,   b. 08 Sep 1713, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   3. Mark ST. JOHN,   b. 15 Aug 1715, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 1770 (Age 54 years)  [Birth]   4. Anne ST. JOHN,   b. 01 May 1717, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   5. Thaddeus ST. JOHN,   b. 1720, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 04 Oct 1736, Wilton, Connecticut (Age 16 years)   6. Luke ST. JOHN,   b. 28 Aug 1721, Wilton, Connecticut   7. John ST. JOHN,   b. 01 Nov 1723, Wilton, Connecticut d. 30 Dec 1784, Sharon, Connecticut (Age 61 years)   8. Hannah ST. JOHN,   b. 07 Jan 1729/30, Wilton, Connecticut  [Birth]
  Family ID	F13854	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S6864] James Boughton, "Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France, Who Embarked from Gravesend, En., and landed at Boston in December, 1635, and Settled at Norwalk, CT, (Albany, NY - Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1890). [S03262] RootsWeb: World Connect - Stamford, CT Familes (1641-1935) by Barbara Kaye. [S01785] Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;). [S01702] S. Whitney, Ancestry.com: "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations", (Name: Name: New York: Privately Printed 1878;;). [S03882] The History of Ridgefield Connecticut - Marriages & Deaths, by George L. Rockwell. [S03423] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Portland, Prospect, Redding and Ridgefield.