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Note for: Maude Henderson, 29 JAN 1881 - 7 FEB 1973 Index

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Maude was the daughter of Franklin Pierce Henderson and Mary Emma Dale.

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Note for: Daniel Flanders, 16 MAR 1673/74 - 1735 Index

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Daniel Flanders (Stephen2, Stephen1), born March 16, 1674/75, at Salisbury, Mass.; estate admitted to probate April 4, 1735, he being of Amesbury; married (1st) Sarah Colby, dau. of Sergt. John Colby; married (2nd), int. Oct. 24, 1724, Dorothy Worthen, widow of Joseph Hoyt, who died 1720.

In March 1697/8 Daniel Flanders was one of ten men "prest" for service against the Indians in King William's War by Benjamin Eastman who, the next year, married his aunt Naomi.

Children (from "Old Families of S. & Ames." All but iv recorded in Vital Records of Ames.):
i. Eleanor, b. Jan 19, 1701/2; m. May 20, 1726, Jonathan Watson.
ii. Jerediah or Jedediah, b. Apr. 13, 1705, m. Eleanor Barnard.
iii. Daniel, b. Aug. 9, 1707; m. Elizabeth Eastman.
iv. Judith, b. Feb 4, 1711/1; m. Oct. 22, 1728, at Ames., Samuel Hadley, 3rd.
v. Sarah, b. March 29, 1714; m. Dec. 20, 1733, Obadiah Clement of Haverhill, Mass.

Descendants of Stephen Flanders of Salisbury, Mass., 1646, by Ellery Kirke Taylor, Privately printed, 1932.

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Note for: Chester Alan Arthur, 5 OCT 1830 - 18 NOV 1886 Index

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Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States, assuming office when James Garfield was killed.

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Note for: Ellen Lewis Herndon, 30 AUG 1837 - 12 JAN 1880 Index

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Ellen Herndon was a distant cousin of William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner.

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Note for: John Hubbard, 30 JUL 1678 - 2 JAN 1726/27 Index

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P4 JOHN--b in Middletown July 30, 1678, d there Jan 2, 1726-7, m Feb 10, 1702-3, Mary Phillips (d Oct 21, 1736). He owned land on the East side of the river and in what is now known as Portland. He also had land "set to him" by the proprietors of the town. July 21, 1703, he bought 18 acres of woodland of Mary M., John and Thomas Hurlburt (which was 1/2 mile in length) "for the sum of ś10, current species of silver money." This was near the "Straits," about two miles below the city, on the "West side of the Great River," and bounded on the West by Francis Whitmore's land, on the East by "other land of Hubbards," and on the North by the Great River. In the distribution of his father's estate in 1704 he was given 17 and 1/2 acres, and was to pay to his sister Elizabeth ś9. 7s. 3d. Robert, George, John and Elizabeth are mentioned in this division. Robert was given the "home-lot" and obligated to provide a comfortable subsistence for the mother during her natural life on account of this more valuable consideration. Children--JOSEPH (b Mch 21, 1703-4), JOHN (b Aug 13, 1705, d in Middletown Mch 24, 1775, called "Lieut." on tombstone in Riverside Cemetery. Epitaph--"Behold The Noble, the Gen'rous, & The Brave must yield their Bodies Victims to the Grave."), ABIGAIL (b Apl 9, 1707, m Stephen Blake), P8 NATHAN (see elsewhere), DANIEL (b July 16, 1710), HANNAH (b July 13, 1711, d July 10, 1714), MARY (b Sep 20, 1713, m (???) and had Solonton and Hannah), SOLOMON (b Aug 20, 1715), and HANNAH (b Aug 8, 1718).

Source: One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, by Edward Warren Day

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Note for: Mary Phillips, - 21 OCT 1737 Index

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The connection of Mary to parents George Phillips and Sarah Elizabeth Hallett seems very questionable. A number of published gedcoms make this connection, but none show sources. The time between the birth of the alleged mother and the marriage of the daughter was less than 30 years.

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Note for: Robert Porter, ABT 1612 - 17 SEP 1689 Index

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Settled in Farmington, Conn with brother Thomas in 1640. In 1672, he was listed as one of the 84 proprietors of Farmington.

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Note for: Thomas Scott, 1594 - 6 NOV 1643 Index

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     No record of his arrival, but SAVAGE places him in Hartford, 1637, and
AISI places him there in 1635. He was killed in act of carelessness by
John Ewe and made an oral will before he died. The will, held good,
provided for his wife Ann and four children.
THOMAS SCOTT was first in Cambridge in 1634 and owned a house and five acres of land. He then removed to Hartford where he kept a bridge in 1635 over Brick Kiln Brook at five shillings per annum. He was a man of good character and is named among the proprietors of undivided land in Hartford in 1639.

He was killed 6 Nov. 1643 by John Ewe carelessly, for which Ewe was fined ś5 to the Colony and ś10 to the widow. After being wounded he made a nuncupative will which was held good, though incomplete in not naming overseers, providing for his widow Ann, his son Thomas and three daughters. The son was infirm in body or mind, perhaps both, and did not live long. The widow married Thomas Ford 7 Nov. 1644 and died at Northampton 5 May 1675. His estate was valued at ś174.

A monument erected by the Ancient Burying Ground Assn. of Hartford in memory of its First Settlers has among others, the names of Richard Lyman, John Marsh, Matthew Marvin, Thomas Scott and John Webster.

Children:
       Mary m. Nov. 7, 1644, Robert Porter.
       Sarah m. Dec. 6, 1645, John Stanley.
       Elizabeth m. Feby. 3, 1649, John Loomis.
       Thomas died about 1644.

Source: Bibliographic Information: Paine, Lyman May. My Ancestors. Privately Published. 1914.

THOMAS SCOTT, baptized Feb. 26, 1594-5 in Rattlesden, Suffolk Co.,
        Eng; died at Ipswich, Feb. 1653-4; son of Henry and Martha
        (Whatlock) Scott, of Rattlesden; married Elizabeth Strutt,
        July 20, 1620; she married secondly Rev. Ezekiel Rogers.
Thomas, his wife and his three oldest children came in the "Elizabeth" to America in April 1634, with Richard Kimball, his brother-in-law, and the latter's family, and also with his mother, Martha.

        Children:
        2. Elizabeth, b. 1625 in Eng.; m. John Spofford.
        Abigail, b. 1627 in Eng.
        Thomas, bapt. June 15, 1628 in Rattlesden, Eng.
        Benjamin, bur. Aug. 30, 1633 in Rattlesden, Eng.
        Mary, m. Thomas Patch.
        Hannah, b.
        Sarah, b.

Source: Bibliographic Information: Abell, Horace A. One Branch of the Abell Family. Privately Printed, Rochester 1933.

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Note for: Henry Scott, 1 NOV 1560 - 24 DEC 1624 Index

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Page 243. 11. Henry Scott was son of Edmund and Johan Scott, and
      grandson of Robert Scott, all of Rattlesden. His widow Martha and
      her son Thomas with his wife and three children, came with the
      Richard1 Kimball family in 1634. Her son Thomas, bapt. Feb. 1595,
      m. 1620, Elizabeth Strutt, bapt. 1594 (Christopher).

Source: Bibliographic Information: Preston, Belle. Bassett-Preston Ancestors. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Co., 1930.

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Note for: George Hubbard, 1601 - 18 MAR 1683/84 Index

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Some sources of information about this line of Hubbards
Title: "A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut"
Author: Hinman, R. R.
Publication: Hartford, CT, 1846

GEORGE HUBBARD was born in 1601, and probably in eastern or southeastern England, where those bearing the name were located in great numbers. Nothing in the form of records has yet been found determining his birthplace or time of arrival in America. His name first appears in 1639 in a list of the early settlers of Hartford. These settlers came overland from the vicinity of Boston during the years 1635 and 1636, and located the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, Ct., also Springfield, Mass. GEORGE HUBBARD was one of the number. He was given six acres of land "by courtesy of the town, with privilege of Wood & keeping cows on the common," and resided
on a lot adjacent to the land of James Ensign and George Graves on a road that ran parallel with the Connecticut River, according to an early map, now extant. This road ran from the South Meadow to George Steel's land, and then turned and ran across the "ox pasture" towards Wethersfield, passing near to the Great Swamp. In 1640 he married Elizabeth Watts, daughter of Richard(*) and Elizabeth Watts, and was then assigned a "home-lot" and land upon the east side of the "Great River." The colonial records show that "William Swayne and George Hubbard were appointed Sep 4, 1640, appraisers of the estate of Edward Mason," and, April 24, 1649, Geo. Hubberd was "fined ś10 for exchanging a gunn with an Indian." He appears to have disposed of his land and removed with about fifteen other families in March, 1650-51, to Mattabesett, so called until 1653, when it became Middletown. It swelled rapidly in size from accretions from Wethersfield, Ct., and Rowley, Chelmsford, and Woburn, Mass., requiring afterward a division into sections known as, respectively, Middletown, East Middletown or Chatham--now Portland, North Middletown or Upper Houses--now Cromwell, and, later, Middlefield and Westfield. About 1650, or when he left Hartford, he carried with him a commission from the Colonial Government as "Indian Agent and Trader for the Mattabesett District." In 1654 he was made freeman, and settled with his son-in-law, Thomas Wetmore, upon opposite corners on the east side of Main Street. He owned large land tracts on the west side and on the cast side of the river. These lands were recorded Sep 5, 1654. He, Thomas Wetmore and two other land owners on the west side of the street, gave land for the second meeting-house. Steps were taken for erecting the first meeting-house Feb 10, 1652. Mr. Samuel Stow of Cambridge College, England, for several years temporarily had charge of this congregation. The records read: "It was agreed at a meeting at John Halls hous to build a meeting hous and to make it 20 fot square & 10 fot between sill and plat, the heygt of it." This structure was a one-story log house with a palisade around it, and GEORGE HUBBARD, living adjacent, was naturally
selected as its keeper. Dec 17, 1666, he was allowed "40 shillings for sweeping the meeting-house and keeping the glass [hour-glass]." This also included the services of his eldest son, Joseph, who beat the drum to assemble the congregation and to give warning of the approach of Indians. Ten men organized this church formally in 1668 and signed its covenant, the first minister, Nathaniel Collins, one of the first graduates of Harvard, heading the list of signatures. Much of the "confession of faith" is still the creed of the church, which eventually came to be known as the Old North Church. The donated land abutted "against the corners of George Hubbard & Thomas Wetmer on the cast side--Thomas Wetmer half a rod at ye north corner; George Hubbard half a rod wide, three rods in length, against ye body of ye meeting-house and from thence out into an angle thre or four rods further," making in all thirty-two feet square. In case the meeting-house was removed the land given was to "return to ye proprietors again." This site was exactly in the middle of the highway, near or between what are now known as Liberty and Grand streets. Most of these covenanters located near this meeting-house, at the northern end of Main street, where is now St. John's Square, though three resided at "Upper Houses." An appraisement of his property March 22, 1670, showed him to be worth ś90. 10s. 15d., and in 1673 ś132. 10s. At his death his inventory showed him worth ś243. 10s., and possessed of a dwelling-house and home lot worth ś50, "2 1-3 acres of long meadow" worth ś18. 10s., 3 "acres of meadow (at (?) Pessenchaug) on the east side the Great River" worth ś9, a tract at Long Hill of 226 acres, another "parcell west from the towne" of 300. acres, one "parcell on the east side the Great River" of 464 acres, and the "one-halfe Lott" of 30 acres, a total of over one thousand acres. His original will is on file in the Hall of Records at Hartford, Ct., in a box labelled "Wills--H, 1647 to 1750," and bears date of May 22, 1681. In this document he states that he is "eighty years in age, yet in comfortable health of body & haveing the use of my understanding," etc. In his inventory, taken May 13, 1685, it is stated that he "deceased the 18 of March, 1684." Sergt. Samuel Warde, John Hall, senior, and Ebenezer Hubbard were the witnesses. His widow died in 1702. One record of him says that he was "highly respected, and of marked integrity and fairness." He appears at this distance of time to have been devout, industrious, and possessed of those sturdy, wholesome qualities of mind and body without which the composition of our country to-day would not possess that element of robustness and stability that has enabled it to so successfully withstand foreign infections, manners, and monarchisms. This New England fibre in the governmental-politico texture is now, sad to note, becoming gradually obliterated by unAmerican innovations and practices. He must have been a man of "marked integrity and fairness" to have been selected by the colony as its Indian Trade. Much judgment had to be used by this representative of the colony in these dealings. Promiscuous trading by any one was forbidden, as fire-arms and fire-water were frequently bartered by indiscreet persons, which produced direful results. This resulted in the selection of one man to do the trading for all. On his judgment and prudence much depended. He must have erred, however, at one time, for the Colonial Court fined him ś10 for exchanging a gun with an Indian. In a spirit of charity, his descendants are privileged to conjecture that he might have regarded the gun as an old and harmless one and incapable of going off and hurting any one.

Source: One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, by Edward Warren Day

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Note for: Elizabeth Watts, 1622 - 6 DEC 1702 Index

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Numerous internet pedigrees show Elizabeth Watts to be the grandchild of Richard Watts and Agnes Mackworth, Agnes having royal ancestry. Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts shows Agnes Mackworth to have married second William Crowne, who was born about 1617. That would make her second husband 55 years her junior, if this were the same Agnes Mackworth. Further, the same pedigrees show her having a child with Crowne, which would have put her age at about 80 when that child was born.

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Note for: Richard Watts, - 20 MAR 1653/54 Index

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(*) He was an origlnal proprietor of Hartford, and died about 1665 and his widow about 1676. They
had children besides Elizabeth (Watts) Hubbard, William Watts, who returned to and died in England,
and Captain Thomas Watts, who married Elizabeth Steel, sister of James Steel who married
Ann Bishop, the sister of Mary Bishop who married George Hubbard of Wethersfield. Captain
Thomas Watts commanded the troops against the Narraganscit Indians in 1675 and the river expedition
in 1677. He died about 1683 quite wealthy, leaving an estate of ś1,383. 10s., of which ś100 apiece
went to the children of George Hubbard; and to his son Samuel Hubbard, whom he brought up, being
childless, be left his home lot and cousiderable more property, real and personal. The other daughter
of Richard and Elizabeth Watts was Eleanor, who married Dec 23, 1647. (1) Nathaniel Brown, son of
Perey Brown of Snelston, Derbyshire. Eng., and nephew of Lady Elizabeth Morgan and Sir John
Morgan, Kt., of Chillworth. Surrey, Eng He came over under the oharge of Rev. Thomas Hooker.
Eleanor (Watts) Brown then married (2) Jaspor Clements of Middletown, b in England in 1614. d in
Middletown in 1678, leaving a handsome bequest for the support of schools. She then married (3)
Nathaniel Willett of Hartford and died Sep 28, 1703, leaving Thomas, Nathaniel, John, and Benoni.

Source: One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, by Edward Warren Day

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Note for: Arnulf of Metz, ABT 580 - ABT 640 Index

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     Arnulf of Metz (August 13, 582 - August 16, 640) was a Frankish noble, who had great influence in the Merovingian kingdoms as bishop and was later made a saint.

Arnulf gave distinguished service at the Austrasian court under Theudebert II (595-612). In 613, however, with Pippin of Landen he led the aristocratic opposition to Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia that led to her downfall and the reunification of Frankish lands under Clotaire II. About the same year, he became Bishop of Metz.

From 623, again with Pippin, now Mayor of the Austrasian palace, Arnulf was adviser to Dagobert I, before retiring in 627 to become a hermit in the Vosges mountains with his friend Romaric.

Before he was consecrated, he had three children by his wife, Doda:

       * Ansegisel
       * Chlodulf
       * Martin

Ansegisel married Pippin's daughter, Begga, and the son of this marriage, Pippin II, was Charlemagne's great-grandfather.

Arnulf was canonized and is known as the patron saint of brewing. His feast day is either July 18 or August 16. In iconography, he is portrayed with a rake in his hand. He is often confused in the legends with Arnold of Soissons, another patron saint of brewing. He is also known as Saint Arnold.

Wikipedia

Saint Arnulf of Metz

born c. 580, near Nancy [France]
died July 18, 640?, Remiremont; feast day August 16 or 19

French Saint Arnoul de Metz bishop of Metz and, with Pippin I, the earliest known ancestor of Charlemagne.

A Frankish noble, Arnulf gave distinguished service at the Austrasian court under Theudebert II (595–612). In 613, however, with Pippin, he led the aristocratic opposition to Brunhild that led to her downfall and to the reunification of Frankish lands under Chlotar II. About the same year, he became bishop.

From 623, again with Pippin, who was by then mayor of the Austrasian palace, Arnulf was adviser to Dagobert I, before retiring (629?) to become a hermit. Arnulf's son Ansegisel married Pippin's daughter Begga; the son of this marriage, Pippin II, was Charlemagne's great-grandfather.

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Weis has seven more generations of ancestors for Arnulf: Bodegeisel II, St. Gondolfus, Munderic, Coderic, Sigebert the Lame, Childebert, and Clovis the Riparian.

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Note for: Pepin of Landen, - ABT 640 Index

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Pippin I
Encyclopćdia Britannica Article

died c. 640

also spelled Pepin , byname Pippin of Landen or Pippin the Elder , French Pépin de Landen or Pépin le Vieux councillor of the Merovingian king Chlotar II and mayor of the palace in Austrasia.

Through the marriage of his daughter Begga with Ansegisel, son of Arnulf (d. 641; bishop of Metz), Pippin was the founder of the Carolingian dynasty. Deprived of his mayoralty at the accession (629) of Dagobert I, he regained power in Austrasia after that king's death (January 639) but did not long survive to enjoy it.

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