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Descendants of George Stocking

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  GEORGE¹ STOCKING was born 1582 in Suffolk, England, and died 25 May 1683 in Hartford, Ct..  He married (1) ANNA.    He married (2) AGNES. 

 

Notes for GEORGE STOCKING:

George appears in the book: History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 with a Genealogical register by Lucius R. Paige, H.O.Houghton & Co., Boston, The Riverside Press, 1877.

On page xvi, in the Key to the Plan of Cambridge in 1635, #43, George Stocking is listed.  In 1642, the lot belongs to William Manning. There is also a map of the town, with the location of everyone's lot.  #43, George was on the corner of Crooked Street and Spring or Mount Auburn Street.

There is a wonderful discussion of  reasons why the Hooker party(.of which George Stocking was a member,) left Cambridge:

 

pg. 30-33

"Mr Hooker and Mr. Cotton were deservedly in high esteem ; some of the principal persons were strongly attached to one of them, and some to the other.  The great influence which Mr. Cotton had in the colony inclined Mr. Hooker and his friends to remove to some place more remote frtom Boston than New Town.  Besides, they alleged, as a reason for thier removal, that they were straitened for room, and thereupon viewed divers places on the sea-coast, but were notn satisfied with them. (Hist. Mass,. i.43)

"Very  probably such jealousies and rivalries (between who was going to run the church..Mr.  Hooker, Mr. Cotton and others) had some influence upon the removal of Mr Hooker and friends.  It is known that Winthrop and Haynes (governer of Mass. who allowed Hooker and his group to leave) differed in judgement upon public policy, the former advocating a mild adminsitration of justice and the latter insisting on strictness in civil government and military discipline...The Antinomian controversy, which did not culminate until a year or two later, had commenced as early as 1635; in which Hooker and Coton espoused opposite side,and were among the most prominent clerical antagonists.  Up to the period of removal, it seemed doubtful which party would prevail.  Both parties were zelous, both lauded their own clergymen, and soke harshly of their opponents.  It is not surprising, therefore, that Cotton and Hooker should feel that their close proximity was irritating rather than refreshing...Howerver doubtful the cause, the fact is certain, that the greater part of the First Church and Congregation removed from New Town(the name of Cambridge back then); more than 50 families went to  Hartford, and other elsewhere."  George Stocking is listed is listed as an inhabitant in 1634, who removed to Hartford.

 

George is also listed again in the genealogies, on page 663.

Stocking, George, (otherwise written stockine) was an early inhabitant, and res. 1635 at the S.W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop Streets.  He rem. with Hooker to Hartford, where he was Selectman in 1647.

 

from: http://home.pmt.org/~ljobe/stocking/pafn10.htm

http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/olcott.htm The Files of Stephen M. Lawson

The Stocking Ancestry by Hobart

 Stocking

George Stocking immigrated from England in 1633 on the ship Griffin. On his will, his name is signed with an X.  When George reported for jury duty in 1657, his name was recorded as "Geo Stocken" and on the Quarter Court Record, HArtford, Ct., in 1662, it is written as "Georg Stockim".  On his will his name is written George Stocking.  He lived to be 101 years old.  His will, dated Jul 15, 1673, named Anne his wife, his daughter Lydia Richards, the wife of John Richards, daughter Sarah Olcott, the wife of Samuel Olcott, daughter Hanna's husband Andrew Benton and their children.  Hanna was deceased.  His son, Samuel, moved on to Middletown.

Anna and George emmigrated to Cambridge, MA in 1635.  They built a house at the corner of the present Holyoke and Winthrop Streets.  George was made a free man on May 6, 1635.  In 1636, he joined Rev. Thomas Hooker's group and travelled through the wilderness to Ct, to found Hartford.  He received 20 acres on the south side of the road from George Steele's.

 

website: www.kinnexions.com/album/hartford/

George Stocking's name on Founder's Monument (1986), located in the Ancient Burying Ground, (Center Church Cemetery.  Picture of monument in The Original Proprietors, by the Soc. of the Descendents of the Founders of Hartford, Inc.

 

Savage's Dictionary:

George Stocking, Cambridge, freeman, 6 May 1635, rem. to Hartford prob. with earliest settlers and his name is in the list of freemen, 1669, tho. excus, prob. by reason of age, in 1660, from the com. duty of train. watch, and ward.  He died May 1683, at great age, leaving Samuel and his three daughters, Hannah, wife of Andrew Benton, Sarah, wife of Samule Olcott and the wife of John Richards; but Benton's wife was dead, leaving children.

 

 

rstocking@aol.com Lived in UK for 4 years..could not find info on George..being a dissenter, most records were purged he feels.

 

Resources for future research:

 

stephen.clarke@ukonline.co.uk

 

Society of the Descendents of the Founders of Hartford

they are online www.societyct.org  and:

Henry McNulty

75 Bellamy Rd

Cheshire, Ct. 06410-3038

 

LDS Family History Library film # 950452  Glemsford Records in St. Edmundbury Church

reference from:  James Leroy Stocking ancestors

www.home.pmt.org/~ljobe/stocking/pafn12

 

A book I fund at the UCONN Library, which has some information about Suffolk.

Feudal documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds / edited by D.C. Douglas.

 

Relevance:         

Database:      UCAT- UConn Libraries

Main Author:        Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds.

Title:       Feudal documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds / edited by D.C. Douglas.

Publisher:      München : Kraus Reprint, 1981.

Material Type:      Book

Subject(s):     Land tenure--England--Suffolk.Great Britain--History--Norman period, 1066-1154--Sources.

         

 

       

Location:       Babbidge Library

Call Number: HC251 .B7 v. 8, 1981

 

This is from Old English Books On Line....from the UCONN.  I have to find the complete citation.

 

Another reason for someone in the Stocking trade, to leave England....article piece at bottom of this e-mail...and....

I have also come across histories of the Abby at Bury St. Edmunds, and other churches and they comment..this window/alter, etc. was spared from the fire and clubs of the Puritan mobs.......the churches all sound so Catholic...no wonder the Puritans could not take it!  Lots of descriptions of beautiful gold chalises...stained glass window of the "Blessed Virgin MAry."!!  Interesting stuff.    The book I found on social life in mediveal days...documents from Bury St. Edmund Abby...done by Abbot Baldwin...are all in latin..mixed in with middle english letters....there is a whole several pages on Scnadinavian names and infleucnes...eastern Scandinavia and Denmark...

 

CHAPTER VI.

The prosperity of the cloth-making population of the 16th century may be regarded as the primary reason for the prosperity of the agricultural population to whom they looked for their food supply. At the end of Elizabeth's reign (1603) Western Suffolk with its poorer soil was almost entirely given up to sheep fanning and the comments of Daniel Defoe in his "Tour of the Eastern Counties" in 1732 are also illuminating. With the decline of the Wool Trade, the agricultural workers were the first to suffer and there is evidence of continuing poverty among the inhabitants of Glemsford. The succeeding centuries tell of a constant battle to preserve the prosperity of the parish. The first records to show the increase in the number of poor people in Glemsford are found in the Survey of the Manor of Glemsford made in 1658. These show that from 1591 there was a spate of wills which left charity for the poor of the parish. Thomas Gardiner 10,8,1591 John Allen, Clothier 15,4,1598 and Agnes Gardiner 12.5.1600 all left money for the "deserving poor". Agnes Gardiner's will has a clause by which money was left to be distributed "to widows and maids". This has continued to the present day, Others followed, William Barrell of Chequers Lane 13.3.1609, George Hicke 26,1.1624, Richard Scott, and Edward Scott Senior 26.18.1642, John Pooley 1651 and John 2O.10,1657. George Hicke among other bequests left "6d for the minister to preach a sermon on Good Friday and 3d to the poor". In 1658 William Dodd, Clerk, gave money for the erection of Stocks and left some land, now Bible Meadow, for buying Bibles for poor children. On July 22nd 1695 the feoffees or trustees were Henry Kedington of Egremont Street, Henry Kedington Junior of Brook Street and Ambrose and John Bigg, These charities and others of later date are now known as the Glemsford United Charities. They are administered by Trustees nominated by the Parish Council with the Rector of the Parish, These details from the Manor Rolls show that there was a realisation of the needs of the poor and incidentally show that the practice of leaving money for the saying of Masses for the Dead had now ceased.

A list of the leading clothiers of Glemsford in this period (1558 - 1640) were John Howe, John Gueret, John Frost, Thomas Fyrman, John Allen, William Abbitts, John Biggs, George Howe, Ambrose Brage and Abraham Kenington. They were makers of Suffolk Broadcloth and there was a cloth known as "Gleynforth" which took its name from Glemsford.

The second piece of evidence to show the decline of Glemsford was the fact that the last Coroner for the Parish of Glemsford, George Collingwood, was appointed in Elizabeth's reign and the parish officers had to submit to the authority of the county officer when Roger Kedington became Chief Constable of the Hundred on 12th March 1645,

Further evidence from the area around shows how the wool merchants made strenuous efforts to preserve their livelihood. A Glemsford clothier attended a meeting in Bury St. Edmunds in 1610 when the clothiers, woollen weavers and tailors were incorporated into a Company framed after the model of a London Livery Company. Among other things, the Bury Corporation controlled the engagement of workers, journeymen and apprentices, and the payment of wages, Glemsford joined in this effort to regulate the Wool Trade in lest Suffolk but the Corporation did not last long as the formation of these companies had an adverse effect upon the free trade in Wool. Within 20 years many wool merchants in Suffolk were made bankrupt, some had migrated to Holland and the wool industry was transferred to Yorkshire and the West Country. This migration from Glemsford took place between the years 1772 to 1796, Its chief cause was the invention of the steam powered loom for the wool industry and the development of the Industrial Revolution around the coalfields of the North.

The Poor Laws were closely bound up with the history of the Cloth Industry in Suffolk. By the reign of Charles II (1660 - 85) Suffolk stood twelfth among the counties of England in the average amount of its poor rate, and in this century the old broadcloth industry of Suffolk went into decline. That Glemsford suffered we cannot doubt. At about this period the manufacture of finer woollen cloths, worsteds and even stockings was introduced to the area, chiefly at Sudbury. There is no direct evidence that these new draperies were made in Glemsford but it is safe to assume that they were. However, a century later the village was still impoverished as the Poor Relief Records show. The Rate for the poor in 1772 amounted to £678 when the population was as high as 2,400 inhabitants. By 1792 the rate had risen to £1,102 with a sharp rise to £2,129 in 1796. It appears they had their worries ovsr rate increases in other days beside our own!

 

From:

Bury Record Office <Bury.Ro@libher.suffolkcc.gov.uk> Suffolk, England

 

Dear Deb

 

I have looked at the following indexes to see if the family names Stocking (variants) and Merryll (variants)appear.

 

"Military Survey of Babergh Hundred 1522 (this is the administrative district which included Glemsford and surrounding Parishes. There was nothing for Stocking but four entries for various Meryll.

 

"Suffolk in 1568 Subsidy Return" Nothing for Stocking but Meryll mentioned several times

 

"Suffolk in 1524 Subsidy Return" Several entries for Stockyng

 

Forham Omnium Sanctorum (Fornham is a Parish close to Bury St Edmunds)

Thomas Stockyng in goods 10s

William Stokyng (mentioned as labourer)

William Stokyng in goodes £4

Thomas Stocking mentioned as paying subsidy in Mildenhall (to the north west of Bury St Edmunds)

 

The Parish Registers for Glemsford begin in 1550, they can be searched on you behalf for any entries for the surname Stocking, this would come under the terms of our research service for which there would be a charge.

 

I also looked at the index for Will of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury there are quite a few for this family name;

STOCKING

Elizabeth widow Fornham 1610

George weaver Glemsford 1610

James yeoman Fornham All Saints 1588

William Kirtling 1579

William Kirtling 1581

 

STOCKYNGE

Joan widow Fornham All Saints

 

STOCKEN

Hugh Mildenhall 1593

John Fornham All Saints 1590

John Fornham All Saints 1592

John , weaver Glemsford 1632

John maltster Mildenhall 1589

Mary widow Glemsfoed 1649

Robert yeoman Wetherden 1558

 

STOKINGE

Anne widow Cockfield 1578

 

STOKKING

John Hopton 1530

Richard Hopton 1495

Thomas the elder Fornham All Saints 1526

 

I hope this information is of some interest. Do not hesitate to contact me again if you require any further assistance.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

Jean

Searchroom Assistant

 

 

 

       

Children of GEORGE STOCKING and ANNA are:

2.                i.    SAMUEL² STOCKING, b. 1620; d. Dec 1683.

                  ii.    LYDIA STOCKING, d. Aft. Jul 1712, Hartford, Ct.; m. JOHN RICHARDS; b. 1631, England; d. 1712, Hartford, Ct..

 

Notes for JOHN RICHARDS:

Resources for future research:

Info on Richards/Stocking family can be found at:

www.execpc.com/~drer/ear1

 

On pg. 49 of the Morse book:

John Richards, b. 1808, married Hannah Bigelow, daughter of Timothy Bigelow of Lyons Farm, New Jersey; they resided in Newark.

 

These 2 references are from www.bigelow.simplenet.com

 

 

3.              iii.    SARAH STOCKING.

4.              iv.    HANNAH STOCKING, d. Abt. 1673.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  SAMUEL² STOCKING (GEORGE¹) was born 1620, and died Dec 1683.  He married BETHEA HOPKINS 1652.  She was born 1641 in Hartford, Ct., and died 1698 in Hartford, Ct..

 

Notes for SAMUEL STOCKING:

source:

www.kinnexions.com/smlawson/olcott

The Stocking Ancestry by Hobart Stocking

 

"Deacon at Middletown, Ct. where he settled about 1655. Sgt. in King Philp's War.  Married Bethea Hopkins on May 27, 1652.

 

Families of Early Hartford, Ct., Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Clearfield Pub., Baltimore, MD., 1977

F104.H3B371997

pg. 586

"Deacon Samuel Stocking , son of George and Agnes, died Dec. 1683.  He married on May 27, 1652, Bethia Hopkins who also married James Steele.  She was the daughter of John Hopkins and Jane."   All of their children are listed in Barbour, with dates and spouses.  Bethia birth, spouse and marriage, John, birth and death Ebenezer,just birth George, birth and spouse Stephen, just birth Daniel,birth and spouse Lydia,birth and 2 spouses and Thomas, no dates or spouse.

 

More About SAMUEL STOCKING and BETHEA HOPKINS:

Marriage: 1652

       

Children of SAMUEL STOCKING and BETHEA HOPKINS are:

5.                i.    DANIEL³ STOCKING, b. 1677; d. 1733.

                  ii.    HANNAH STOCKING, b. 30 Oct 1654.

 

Notes for HANNAH STOCKING:

birth listed in e-mail of elacia3577@aol.com on CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com list.

 

Birth: Hannah, dau Samule of Middletown, b. Oct. 30, 1654.

 

6.              iii.    BETHIA STOCKING, b. 10 Oct 1658; d. 06 Nov 1732.

7.              iv.    GEORGE STOCKING, b. 20 Feb 1664, Middletown, Hartford Co., Ct.; d. 17 Feb 1727, E. Middletown, Middlesex Co, Ct..

                  v.    JOHN STOCKING, b. 1660; d. 1725.

 

Notes for JOHN STOCKING:

Source: A Digest of Early Ct. Probate Records, vl. III, Manwaring, 1906.

pg. 660.

 

page 384-5

Stocking, John, Middletown, Wil dated 2 Dec. 1746.  I, John Stocking of Middletown,in the county of HArtford, being bound ona voyage to sea, do make this my last will and testament: I give to my honoured mother Stocking the improvement of the 1-2 of my dwelling house, barn and homelott; alos the use of my negro girl Rose for and during the term of my sd. mother's natual life.  I give to my wife Mary, all my estate, both personal and real,,and furthur, my will is that all my negro servants that shall survive my sd. wife shall go free.  And I do appoint my wife Mary to be sole executrix.

Wintess: Thomas Goodwin, Mathew Talcott, Jabez Hamlin.

 

                 vi.    EBENEZER STOCKING, b. 1666.

                vii.    STEPHEN STOCKING, b. 1673.

               viii.    LYDIA STOCKING, b. 1662; m. (1) JOSEPH HOWELL; m. (2) EDWARD RANNEY.

 

Notes for LYDIA STOCKING:

Lettie Genung Groshel  lylettie@aol.com  Lydia Stocking on ancestry Stocking family list.

 

More About EDWARD RANNEY:

Alternate spelling of nam: Rayner

 

                  ix.    THOMAS STOCKING.

 

 

3.  SARAH² STOCKING (GEORGE¹)  She married SAMUEL OLCOTT¹. 

       

Children of SARAH STOCKING and SAMUEL OLCOTT are:

                   i.    SARAH³ OLCOTT, b. 1655.

8.               ii.    MARY OLCOTT, d. 07 Mar 1697.

                 iii.    ELIZABETH OLCOTT.

                 iv.    THOMAS OLCOTT.

                  v.    GEORGE OLCOTT.

 

 

4.  HANNAH² STOCKING (GEORGE¹) died Abt. 1673.  She married ANDREW BENTON 1649.  He died 31 Jul 1683 in Hartford, Ct..

 

Notes for HANNAH STOCKING:

From:  www.kinnexions.com/smlawson

Hannah d.  by 1673.  Admitted to church at Milford, Ct. by Oct. 13, 1650.  Married about 1649, Andrew Benton.

 

Notes for ANDREW BENTON:

 

Andrew Benton  is also listed in "Familes or Early Milford, Abbott..pg. 101

 

"Andrew Benton died Hartford, Conn., July 1683.  He married /1 Hannah Stocking who died ca 1670, dua of George of Hartford.  He married/2 Anne Cole who died 4 April 1686.  He was admitted to the church in Milford, Ct. in 1648, and dismissed to Hartford  church 1666, residing there from 1662 until death."

 

More About ANDREW BENTON:

Baptism: 15 Oct 1620, Epping, Essex, England

 

More About ANDREW BENTON and HANNAH STOCKING:

Marriage: 1649

       

Children of HANNAH STOCKING and ANDREW BENTON are:

                   i.    JOHN³ BENTON.

                  ii.    HANNAH BENTON, m. JR. JOHN CAMPS.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

5.  DANIEL³ STOCKING (SAMUEL², GEORGE¹) was born 1677, and died 1733.  He married JANE MOULD 27 Aug 1700.  She died 1758.

 

Notes for DANIEL STOCKING:

scans of Middletown vital records come from CarAnne at char.anne@verizon.net, owner of the Redfield Family page

 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Shores/7019/index.html

 

Source: A Digest of Early Ct. Probate records, by Charles William Manwaring, vl.

iii, Hartford District, 1729-1750. Genealogical; Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, 1906. pg. 117.pg. 124.  

Stocking, Daniel, Middletown. Court Record, pg. 83- 22 Feb, 1732-3: Jane Stockingm widow, and Joseph Stocking refuse to take Adms., whereupon Adms. is granted to John Stocking, one of the sons of the deceased, who gave bond with John Stow of Middletown.

Elisha Stocking.  Court Record. Page 80- 1st Feb., 1732-3; Elisha Stocking, son of the deceased, 19 years of age, chose Nicholas Ayeault of Wethersfield to be his guardian.  Recog. 100 British lbs.

 

From Early Families of Hartford, pg. 198: ( Familes of Middletown)

Stockin, Stocken, Stocking, Daniel, Middletwon, youngest s. of Samuel of the same, m. 27 Aug. 1700, Jane Mould, perhpas d. of Hugh of New London, had Daniel, Joseph, Ebenezer, John, Jonathan, Elisha, Jane, all b. Mr. Parsons says bef. 1712.  George, cambridge, freem. 6 MAy 1635, rem. to Hartford, prob. with earliest settlers and his name is in the list of freem. 1669, tho. excus. prob. by reason of age, in 1660, from the com. duty of train, watch. and ward.  He d. May 1683, at gr. age, leav. Samuel, and had three ds. Hannah, w. of Andrew Benton; Sarah, w. of Samuel Olcott; and the w. of John Richards; butBenton's w. was d. leav. children.  George, Middletown, s. of Samuel, by w. Eliz. had Stephen, b. 1694, Eliz. 1697, Samuel 1700, Bethia 1703, George 1705, nathaniel; but the rec. is defic. in mons. and days; and he d. 17 Feb. 1714.  Samuel, HArtford, s, of the first George,b .prob. in England, m. 27 May 1652, Bethia, d. of John Hopkins of H., had Hannah, b. 30 Oct.1654, wh. d. bef. her f.: Samuel, 19 or 29 Oct. 1656; Bethia, 10 Oct. 1658, wh. m. 16 Oct. 1675, Thomas Stowe; John, 24 Sept. 1660, Lydia, 20 Jan 1663, George, 20, Feb, 1665, Ebenezer, 23 feb. 1667, Stephen, 28 Mar 1673: and Daniel, 14, April 1677; liv at Middletown, when freem. 1654, and was rep. 1665, 9, and 74, was deac. and perhaps serv. in Phillips' war, for in 1677, he was made serg. and he d. 31, Dec. 1683.  His iwd. m. James Steele.

 

More About DANIEL STOCKING and JANE MOULD:

Marriage: 27 Aug 1700

       

Children of DANIEL STOCKING and JANE MOULD are:

9.                i.    JOSEPH⁴ STOCKING, b. 1703; d. 1783.

                  ii.    DAUGHTER STOCKING.

 

 

6.  BETHIA³ STOCKING (SAMUEL², GEORGE¹)² was born 10 Oct 1658, and died 06 Nov 1732.  She married THOMAS STOW 16 Oct 1675.  He was born 1650, and died 19 Mar 1730 in Middletown, Ct..

 

More About BETHIA STOCKING:

Date born 2: 1658, Middletown, Ct.

 

Notes for THOMAS STOW:

Source: A Digest of the Early Ct. Probate records, Manwaring, vl. III, 1906. pg. 118.

page 48-9.

Stow, Thomas, Middletown, Invt. 696 lbs-01-06.  Taken 29 April, 1730 by John Warner, John Shepard and Hugh White.  Will dated 12 MArch, 1728.

 

The last will and testament of Thomas Stow, late of Middletown: I give to my wife, Bethiah Stow, so much of my estate to be to her use as she shall find useful during her natural life.  I give to my wife, to be at herdisposal, all my stock of creatues which I shall leave, as alsomy right of land on the east side of the Great River that is lying in that tract of land belonging to Middletown which is called the last division, which sd. stock of creatures and land is to be at her dispose, so much of it as is left after my just debts are paid out.  I give to my son Samuel the whole of my homelott, with that part of the building which belongs to me, as also I give him all my part of land called the Island, in Pistol Pint, as also 3-4 of my boggy meadow lott, as also I give him that part of my brother John Stocking's lott in the west quarter which fell to my wife, called the mountain; alos I give him so much of what remains of the sd. lott that is not before disposed of and which lyes this side ye mountain, that is to say, on the east side of the mountain, as shall be in proportion a third part of sd. land; all this besides which I have formerly given him by deed of gift.  I give to my son, Thomas Stow, 1-4 part of my boggy meaduw lott, as also 1-3 part of the lottment of land in the west quarter which fell to my wife by brother John Stocking, that is to say, 1-3 part of what belongs to me of sd. lott on the east side of the mountain and which is not before disposed of: this besides which I have formerly given him by deed of gift..  I give to my son Joseph Stow half of my pasture in Burch Swamp, my land in Wongogue Meadow, all my land at Timber Hill and 1-3 part of my right of land in the lottments of John Stocking's 1-3 part of what remains east side of the mountain; this I give to my son Joseph, he paying 10 lbs to his sisters.  I give to my two daughters, Bethiah and Hannah, each of them 1-3 part of my household goods after my wife's decease.  I give to my daughter Bethiah 10 lbs in money.  I give to my daughter hannah my right of land in John Stocking's lottment in the  west quarter that remains undisposed of and lies on the west side of the mountain.  I give to my daughter Mary's children 1-3 part of my household goods after my wife's decease; also give them 10 lbs in money. I give to our present minister, Joseph Smith, 20 shillings.

Thomas Stow LS.  Wintess, John Sheperd, Thomas Johnson, Samuel Sheperd.

Court record: Page 13-3 MArch 1729-30: Thomas Stow, a minor, 12 years of age, this court appoint Thomas Stow of Middeltown to be his guardian.

pagr 34 Oct. 7, 1735: Thomas Stow, an orphan, 17 years of age, chose William Rockwell of Middletown to be his gaurdian.

 

Information is also in "Familes of Early Milford", Abbott, pg. 713.

 

More About THOMAS STOW and BETHIA STOCKING:

Marriage: 16 Oct 1675

       

Children of BETHIA STOCKING and THOMAS STOW are:

10.              i.    HANNAH⁴ STOW, b. 11 Feb 1696; d. 07 Mar 1780.

11.             ii.    SAMUEL STOW, b. 1681; d. 28 Sep 1740.

                 iii.    THOMAS STOW.

                 iv.    JOSEPH STOW.

                  v.    BETHIAH STOW.

                 vi.    MARY STOW.

 

 

7.  GEORGE³ STOCKING (SAMUEL², GEORGE¹)³ was born 20 Feb 1664 in Middletown, Hartford Co., Ct., and died 17 Feb 1727 in E. Middletown, Middlesex Co, Ct..  He married ELIZABETH Abt. 1693 in Middletown, Ct..  She was born 1674 in Middletown, Ct., and died 16 Nov 1737 in Middletown, Ct..

 

More About GEORGE STOCKING:

Burial: Old Cemetary, Portland, Ct.

 

More About GEORGE STOCKING and ELIZABETH:

Marriage: Abt. 1693, Middletown, Ct.

       

Children of GEORGE STOCKING and ELIZABETH are:

12.              i.    SAMUEL⁴ STOCKING, b. 16 Oct 1700, Middletown, Ct.; d. 21 Jul 1772, Chatham, Ct..

13.             ii.    GEORGE STOCKING, b. 16 Aug 1705, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Ct.; d. 23 Aug 1790, Middle Haddem, Ct..

                 iii.    ELIZABETH STOCKING, b. 06 Mar 1687, Middletown,Ct..

                 iv.    BETHIA STOCKING, b. 12 Apr 1703, Middletown, Ct.; d. 24 Jan 1781.

                  v.    NATHANIEL STOCKING, b. 28 Jun 1709, Middletown, Ct.; d. 24 Jan 1779, Haddam Neck, Ct..

                 vi.    STEPHEN STOCKING, b. 20 Aug 1694, Middletown, Ct.; d. 1789, Chatam, Ct..

 

 

8.  MARY³ OLCOTT (SARAH² STOCKING, GEORGE¹) died 07 Mar 1697.  She married JONATHAN BIGELOW.  He was born 11 Dec 1646 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA..

 

Notes for JONATHAN BIGELOW:

Source:

www.bigelow.simplenet.com

Their source was Howe, Bigelow Family in America, Early Families of Hartford, Mainwaring.

Early Ct. Wills and Probate records

Goodmin Ancestral Lines

records if Ct.towns.

 

Jonathan Bigelow, born in Watertown, MA. in 1646..."He early went to Hartford, Ct., where he married in 1671, Rebecca Shepard, daughter of John and rebecca (Greenhill) Shepard....She died  before 1686, when Jonathan married MAry Olcott, daughter of Samuel and Sara (Stocking) Olcott.  Mary was probably mother of Jonathan's five youngest children.  She died 7 March 1697.  He then married Mary (Benton) Cole, widow of Nathaniel Cole, and a daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Stocking) Benton."  JOnathan died 9 Jan. 1711, and  his widow then married 19 March  1713, Deacon John Shepard, brother of Jonathan'sa first wife. 

Jonathan's land was recorded as early as 1674, and is describe as bounded west on the road leading to Wethersfield. 

Jonathan's will appointed Mary his wife and son Joseph as executors, and mentions all surviving children, with Thomas Olcott appointed as guardian of the two youngest sons, who were 15 and 18 years of age..."

Mry Olcott was probably mother of the first 5 children.  All of the children were born in Hartford, Ct.

 

More About JONATHAN BIGELOW:

Date born 2: 11 Dec 1646

       

Children of MARY OLCOTT and JONATHAN BIGELOW are:

                   i.    JONATHAN⁴ BIGELOW, b. 22 Mar 1673.

                  ii.    REBECCA BIGELOW.

                 iii.    JOHN BIGELOW, b. Abt. 1677.

                 iv.    MARY BIGELOW.

                  v.    SARAH BIGELOW.

                 vi.    VIOLET BIGELOW.

                vii.    SAMUEL BIGELOW, b. Abt. Mar 1685.

               viii.    ABIGAIL BIGELOW, b. Abt. Nov 1690.

                  ix.    JOSEPH BIGELOW, b. Abt. 1691.

                   x.    DANIEL BIGELOW, b. Abt. 1693.

                  xi.    SAMUEL BIGELOW, b. Abt. Mar 1695.

                 xii.    CHILD BIGELOW.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

9.  JOSEPH⁴ STOCKING (DANIEL³, SAMUEL², GEORGE¹) was born 1703, and died 1783.  He married ABIGAIL RANNEY 20 Dec 1726.  She died 1772.

 

Notes for JOSEPH STOCKING:

Cromwell, Connecticut, 1650-1990, ther history of a port town, Decker, Robert, Cromwell Hist. Soc.,, Phoenix Pub. Co., West Kennebunk, Maine1991.

pg. 42

Same Joseph?

".."the brothers Joseph Stocking and John Stocking petitioned the town on Dec. 24, 1744, to build a warehouse on four rods of land south of Samuel Frary's warehouse.  The town approved and sold them a lot north of the Ranney and Stow

 lot.

pg. 43:

"By the end of the first hundred years Upper Houses was still a small agricultural community.  Family names of the early settlers, such as Kirby, Martin, Ranney, Sage, Savage, Stocking, White and Wilcox, would continue to figure in the community's affairs for many years."

 

More About JOSEPH STOCKING and ABIGAIL RANNEY:

Marriage: 20 Dec 1726

       

Children of JOSEPH STOCKING and ABIGAIL RANNEY are:

14.              i.    DANIEL⁵ STOCKING, b. 1728; d. 1800.

                  ii.    SAMUEL STOCKING⁴.

 

Notes for SAMUEL STOCKING:

Cromwell, Connecticut, 1650-1990, ther history of a port town, Decker, Robert, Cromwell Hist. Soc.,, Phoenix Pub. Co., West Kennebunk, Maine1991.

pg. 57

"Nathan Sage and Charles Churchill formed a partnership and purchased the Northern Wharf with warehouse privileges and the store from Samuel Stocking (son of Joseph) in Feb. of 1787."

 

 

10.  HANNAH⁴ STOW (BETHIA³ STOCKING, S