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George JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 2, p 360.

2Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 594.

3Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap110.


Hannah DORMAN

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 2, p 360.

2Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 594.

3Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap110.


Mary JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 342.


John JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 342.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p 342.


Robert JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 342.


Joseph JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 342.


Thankful JOHNSON

1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 342.


Austin LUM

1Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, p. 43. "Lum, Hannah, wife of Austin, died Nov. 18, 1818, age 29 yrs."

2George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 36.

3Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 515. "Austin was in the War of 1812; enlisted from Bethlehem, Ct."

4Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 514.

5Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 515.

6Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 515.


Hannah DURAND

1George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 36.

2Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 514.

3Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.

4W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 22. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.

5Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, p. 43. "Lum, Hannah, wife of Austin, died Nov. 18, 1818, age 29 yrs." http://www.oxfordpast.com/bscemscan43.html.

6Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, p. 43. http://www.oxfordpast.com/bscemscan43.html.

7Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem166.html.

8Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 515.


Polly A. LUM

1Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 515.


Jonathan LUM

1Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 25. "Bates, Amos, s. Elihu, m. Lydia LUM, d. Jonathan, Jan. 29, 1802."

21790 Derby Census.

31800 Oxford Census.

41810 Oxford Census.

5Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 21.

6Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 57.

7Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap110.

8Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 514. " ... one of the first deacons of the Great Hill Congregational church."

9W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 31. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.


Lydia PRITCHARD

1Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 21.

2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 280.

3Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap110.

4Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 57.

5W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 31. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.


Sherman LUM

1Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 514.


Nehemiah DURAND

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 149. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. Taxpayers of Oxford in 1802
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/149.html.

2W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 97. 1792 - Tax List - Oxford
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/097.html.

3George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 26.

4Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 304. . "Oxford Tax List, 1792." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/304.html.

51800 Oxford Census.

61810 Oxford Census.

71820 Oxford Census.

8Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 41. "Naham."

9Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 504.

10W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 9. "Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1794.
July 6, Ruth, wife to Nehemiah Durand."  (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.

11W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 13. " ... 1791 ...
August 7th, Nehemiah Durand & Ruth his Wife Renewd their Covenant."  (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.

12Copy of the bill of expense submitted by Captain Daniel Chatfield in connection with the pursuit of the Dayton Robbers. http://www.oxfordpast.com/Dayton.jpg.

13Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 220.

14Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.

15Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 718.

16Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 10.

17W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 20. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/020.html.

18W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 79. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.

19Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 41. "Naham ... ae. 72."

20Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 43. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan43.html.

21Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.

22Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 43. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan43.html.

23Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2008.html.

24W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 33. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/033.html.

25Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.


Ruth JONES

1George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 26.

2Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 41.

3Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 504.

4W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 9. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1794.
July 6, Ruth, wife to Nehemiah Durand."  (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.

5W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 13. " ... 1791 ...
August 7th, Nehemiah Durand & Ruth his Wife Renewd their Covenant."  (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.

6Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.

7W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 77. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.

8Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 43. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan43.html.

9Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 43. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan43.html.

10Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2009.html.

11W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 33. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/033.html.

12Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 446.


John DURAND

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 62. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/062.html.

2Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 41.

3W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 23.

4Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 446.


Susanna DURAND

1Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 446.


Stephen PIERSON

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 85. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/085.html.

2Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), p. 21. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_021.html.

3Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle,  Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 9. . "March : 15 : 16670 The in habetants of Pagaset are as foloeth : Ed: woster: frances french: Joseph Hawkins: Samuell Riges: Ephraim Smith  Abell Gun: Stephen person  Jerymiah Johnson." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/009.html.

4Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 23. 11 Apr 1672 - Pagasett
http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/023.html.

5Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 595.

6Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1667.

7Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 15.

8Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 2, p 184.

9Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 191, 764.

10Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 769.

11Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 278.


Mary TOMLINSON

1Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), p. 21. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_021.html.

2Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 15.

3Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 191, 764.

4Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 769.


Stephen PIERSON

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 85. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/085.html.

2Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), p. 21. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_021.html.

3Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle,  Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 9. . "March : 15 : 16670 The in habetants of Pagaset are as foloeth : Ed: woster: frances french: Joseph Hawkins: Samuell Riges: Ephraim Smith  Abell Gun: Stephen person  Jerymiah Johnson." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/009.html.

4Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 23. 11 Apr 1672 - Pagasett
http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/023.html.

5Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 595.

6Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1667.

7Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 15.

8Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 2, p 184.

9Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 191, 764.

10Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 769.

11Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 278.


Esther SPERRY

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 46.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 4, p 797.

3Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1667.

4Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 184.


John TWITCHELL

1Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford, Available at (http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm) (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #87. Academy Road, Oxford, CT
  Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.

2Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), pp. 21 - 22. . " ... he built what came to be known later as the "Washband Tavern, in 1714. He had been a soldier in the expedition against Canada in 1690 ...
 ... in 1741, ... from the "North Farmers" ...
 ...Oxford Congregational Church.. meeting of Oct. 6, 1741 ... house of John Twitchell... on Academy St ...  Oxford Center ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_021.html.

3WEBSITE, http://www.electronicvalley.org/tour/oxforduppergreen.htm. [photograph of John Twitchell house on Academy Rd., Oxford, CT]
http://www.electronicvalley.org/tour/oxforduppergreen.htm.

4Gordon Markiewicz, Tories in Oxford?, p. 4. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/Tories4.html.

5Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 15. "In the formation of the ecclesiastical society, named 'Oxford,' his name appears among the signers of the petition from the 'North Farmers.' ... He was still living in 1756, as the records recite that a tract land ... proprietors ..."

6Oxford Land Records Vol. I, p. 9. "March 22 1726/7  There was laid out a lot upon Toantuck Hill unto John Pringle Sen ... bound north with a lot of John Twitchel in right of Josiah Baldwin & south with the lot of Thomas Wooster in right of Samuel Moss. ..."

7Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Images of America, Oxford, Charleston, Arcadia Publishing, 2004, p. 11. . " ... 1741, a meeting was held at the home of John Twitchell to decide the location of the new meeting house. This house has also been a greneral store, the post office, and the parsonage to St. Peter's Church ... where the Morning Star Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masoms was organized in 1804 ..." Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.

8Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Images of America, Oxford, pp. 14 - 15. " Joseph Montroski's mill cut lumber for local landowners ..." Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.

9Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Images of America, Oxford, p. 11. Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.

10W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 5. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... 1740 ... Timothy Worster, John Twitchel and John Towner, &c., dwelling in the northwest part of the township of Derby ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/005.html.

11Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, CT, p. 6. " ... the first John Twichel, who signed the petition for the separation of Oxford Congregational Society from that of Derby." http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_006.html.

12W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 7. "At a society meeting held Oct. 6th, 1741 ... which was held at the house of John Twitchel, John Chatfield moderator ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/007.html.

13Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, CT, p. 21.

14Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 11.

15Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 15.

16Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 277.


Sarah PIERSON

1Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), p. 21. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_021.html.

2Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 15.

3Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 307.

4Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 15.

5Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 277.


Sarah TWITCHELL

1Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 17.

2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 307.


Elizabeth TWITCHELL

1Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 17.

2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 306.


Joseph TWITCHELL

1Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 3. " ... avenged the murder of his father, serving as a soldier in Captain Woosley's company ..."

2Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 6. " ... a noted Indian fighter and served in the Colonial army in the Narragansett campaign commanded by Genereal Josiah Winslow, governor of Plymouth Colony, being a soldier in Captain Samuel Mosely's company ..."

3Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 4. " ... b. in Dorchester before 1640."

4Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 11.


Lydia JOHNSON

1Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company, p. 5. " ... LYDIA, probably JOHNSON, who was from Lancaster ..."

2Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Twitchell Family, p. 5.


Stephen PIERSON

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 85. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/085.html.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 191.

3Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 205.


Mehetabel CANFIELD

1Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 706.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 191.

3Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 205.


Elizabeth PIERSON

1Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 277.


Job PIERSON

1Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, vol 1, p 349. "In 1733 ... Joseph Weed was on Straits mountain, near the top of the mountain. In the same year Job Pierson was on the same mountain."

2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 277.


Sergeant Thomas CANFIELD

1Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776 (http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/). Freemen at Milford, 1669.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 340, 428, 549, 654.

3Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 190. " ... arrived in Milford by 1646 as he was alotted a home lot # 55 consisting of 3 acres .. Sgt. in the trained band and represented the town in the General Court in October 1674 and 1676."

4Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 706. " ... was not one of the first settlers at Milford, Conn., but was probably there in 1647, from New Haven, where he received a home lot of three acres, and purchased other pieces of land. He also received four acres of the town for supporting a gate at Newfield. He was sergeant of the train band, and represented the town of Milford in the General Court in Oct. 1674, and in Oct. 1676 ..."

5Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 222.

6Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 412. " ... sergeant of the trained band. He represented the town of Milford in the Colonial court in 1674-1676."


Phebe

1Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 340, 428, 549, 654.

2Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 706.

3Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 412. "Phebe Crane."


Mary CANFIELD

1Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 191.

2Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 706.


Abigail CANFIELD

1Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 706.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 191.