Oxford Past Genealogy Project

Citations

Anson GILLETT

¹Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 79. . " ... first class leader of Great Hill Methodist Church ..." http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp79.html.

²1800 Derby Census.   This part of Rock House Hill was part of Derby until 1844.

³1810 Oxford Census.   This part of Rock House Hill was part of Derby until 1844.

⁴1820 Derby Census. " ...
Luther Fowler
Anson Gillette
John Smith
Richard Holbrook
John Holbrook
Abram English
Josiah Nettleton
James Beardsley."   This part of Holbrook Road and Rock House Hill Road were part of Derby until 1844.
 Compare to Great Hill on 1852 Oxford Map.

⁵1830 Derby Census. " ...
Luther Fowler
Anson Gillette
John Smith
Daniel Holbrook
John Holbrook
Judson English
Abraham English
Josiah Nettleton
James Beardslee."   This part of Holbrook Road and Rock House Hill Road were part of Derby until 1844.
 Compare to Great Hill on 1852 Oxford Map.

⁶1840 Derby Census. " ...
Judson English
Sheldon Chatfield
Benjamin F. Holbrook
Daniel L. Holbrook
John Smith
Anson Gillette
Luther Fowler."   This part of Holbrook Road and Rock House Hill Road were part of Derby until 1844.
 Compare to Great Hill on 1852 Oxford Map.

⁷Donald 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 4, p 887.

⁸Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 457. " ... Resided on Great Hill."

⁹Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 3, p 660.

¹⁰Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 457.

¹¹Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 99. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan99.html.

¹²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 3, p 660.

¹³Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 99. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan99.html.

¹⁴Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem4656.html.

¹⁵Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 3, p 660.

¹⁶Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 457.

Betsey MANSFIELD

¹Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 79. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp79.html.

²1850 Seymour Census. Living w/ son Eli.

³1860 Seymour Census. Living w/ son Eli.

⁴Compiled 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. 265.

⁵Donald 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 3, p 660.

⁶Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 457. " ... born Nov. 30, 1777."

⁷Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 99. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan99.html.

⁸Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 3, p 660.

⁹Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 457.

¹⁰Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 99. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan99.html.

¹¹Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem5799a.html.

¹²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 3, p 660.

¹³Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 457.

Lucius GILLETT

¹1850 Seymour Census. "Farmer." Living w/ brother Eli.

²1860 Seymour Census. Living w/ brother Eli.

³1870 Seymour Census.

⁴Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 458.

⁵Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 98. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan98.html.

⁶Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 458. " ... died unmarried, Nov., 1878."

⁷Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 98. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan98.html.

Mary GILLETT

¹Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 458.

²Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 458.

Charles GILLETT

¹Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 458.

²Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 458.

Captain Jeremiah GILLETT

¹1800 Derby Census.

²Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 457. " ... Resided on Great Hill and kept a tavern. He was known as Captain."

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), p. 301. " ... Gillett ... Jeremiah b. 18 Dec 1734 ... mar/2 Hannah (___) prob b 8 Oct 1744 dau of Abel and Hannah (Harger) and widow of Edward Smith and Dan Davis."

⁴Donald 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 3, p 659. "d. 27 May 1715 SheltonT." Gives "(perhaps) Canfield" as son of Jeremiah and Sarah (Smith) Gillet.

⁵Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 301.

⁶Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 559.

⁷Selected 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 591.

⁸Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 659.

⁹Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 301.

¹⁰Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 559.

¹¹Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 591.

¹²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 659.

Sarah SMITH

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. 293.

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. 301.

³Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 301.

Jehiel GILLETT

¹Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 457.

Whiting MITCHELL

¹Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 24, 58. "
... of Oxford ..."

²W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 140. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

³Compiled By Carole Magnuson, Barbour Collection - Oxford, 24, 58. "
... by Rev. Abner Smith, of Derby ..."

Sarah BALDWIN

¹Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 24, 58. "
... of Oxford ..."

²Compiled By Carole Magnuson, Barbour Collection - Oxford, 24, 58. "
... by Rev. Abner Smith, of Derby ..."

Samuel BOTSFORD

¹Copied 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.), 474, 476, 477, 479, 480. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/474.html.

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. 195.

Elizabeth WATKINS

¹Copied 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.), 474, 476, 477, 479, 480. . "Church Records."

Ebenezer BOTSFORD

¹1790 Derby Census.

²1800 Oxford Census.

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. 195.

William BOTSFORD

¹Copied 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. 479. . "Church Records."

Zeba BOTSFORD

¹Copied 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. 480. . "Church Records."

Charity BOTSFORD

¹Copied 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. 480. . "Church Records."

Joseph DOWNS

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 3, p 574.

²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

³W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 116.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 152.

⁵Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

Phebe 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 3, p 574.

Laban DOWNS

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 3, p 577.

²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

Joshua DOWNS

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 3, p 577.

Seth DOWNS

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 3, p 577.

Adda DOWNS

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 3, p 577.

Seth DOWNS

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 7, p 1667.

²W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 152.

³Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 573.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 115.

⁵Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 573.

⁶Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1667.

⁷W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 116.

Mercy SPERRY

¹W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 152. "Mary Sperry."

²Donald 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.

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

⁴Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1667.

⁵W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 116.

Mercy DOWNS

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 3, p 577.

²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

³Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

Joshua 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 6, p 1327.

²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

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

⁴Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1667.

⁵Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1667.

Amy MUNSON

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 6, p 1327.

²Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 577.

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

Samuel HALE

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 3, p 692.

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. 276. "
PIERCE ... Anne, m. Samuel HAILL, Nov. 23, 1757."

Ann PIERCE

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. 276. "
PIERCE ... Anne, m. Samuel HAILL, Nov. 23, 1757."

Earle Albert SMITH

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 25 - Naugatuck 1844-1853, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 251. " ... of Oxford ..."

³Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 72. "In 1881, he is a manufacturer in Waterbury, Connecticut."

⁴Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy, p. 72.

⁵Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, 251, 255. " ... by Rev. Joseph Scott."

Ellen L. FRENCH

¹Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 25 - Naugatuck 1844-1853, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 251. " ... of Naugatuck ..."

²Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, 251, 255. " ... by Rev. Joseph Scott."

William Clark BALDWIN

¹Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 72.

²Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, p. 62. http://www.oxfordpast.com/jhcemscan62.html.

³Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 751.

⁴Susan 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. 24.

Charlotte Maria SMITH

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 72.

³Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, p. 62. "Smith, Sally, wife of Isaac, died Sept. 27, 1854, age 87 yrs.
Smith, Isaac, died Dec. 24, 1832, age 54 yrs.
Baldwin, Charlotte M. Smith, wife of William C., died Feb. 24, 1860, age 32 yrs. Buried in New Haven
Smith, Susan S. Stone, wife of Abraham E., died Dec. 8, 1865, age 59 yrs. Buried in Middleburg
Smith, Abraham E., died Dec. 6, 1874, age 82 yrs.
Smith, Maria E. Candee, wife of Abraham E., died June 13, 1833, age 37 yrs.
Smith, Caroline Candee, wife of Abraham E., died June 24, 1861, age 59 yrs.
Farnum, Lucretia, died Nov. 24, 1839, age 82 yrs.
Lewis, Irene, died Apr. 22, 1862, age 75 yrs." http://www.oxfordpast.com/jhcemscan62.html.

⁴Jack's Hill Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem7790.html.