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A DAMS
AMS
AMES Andrew Avery Continued
Mary 33
Adlard George
Dullard
E-
Breezier
Ebenezer 14
Susan 39 8
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Ethel
Ethel
Agnes Motored
Alfred
Albreda Lincoln
Ayres William 10
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Albro
Alberto io n ABC
tn ABCOCK 61
61
Alden Elizabeth 91
John gl
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Frances
Alfred the Great Harriet
Allen Ethan Backups
Backus 1740
Mrs 58 Elijah
Thomas Bacon
Ally Robert
Allyn Bailey Anna Warner
Samuel Ezekiel
Andr Major
Andre Baker Anna May 43
Andrews Charles E 42
Ann Grey
Gray Erastus 36 42
Erasmus
Anthony James 73 Frances
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Appleton Samuel 12 Frederick M 43 J

Arnold 61I Harriet Ej 42

Harriett E
Ann 22 Henry 42
Benedia
Benedi t
Benedict 44 5 9 21
Benedict 21 22 Jane M 43
Leroy F Rev xv 19
Ig
34 42
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S--
C Mary 35
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Comfort 22 Sarah H 42

5 Sarah 22 55
twater 99
Atwater 99
Jeremiah
Mrs Mary
5-
A-

Osborne
Austin John Suborned
very Christopher 95
Avery
Walter Erasmus

Barbarous
Hugh II
61
Barber 61
Erastus 42
Ball Emma 39
Aral Louis
Baral
Hugh I 1
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torchbe- color-
motor
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Barber Continued blindel Dorothy Margarita
londe
Blonde
Blond
Blondel
Samuel 31
3
Sarah 30 31
r Elizabeth May
31
William 30 3131 Eugene
Barker Samuel 74 Ranson
Ransom
Barnes John Sanford Theodore Gr Jr
William Henry Lena Theodore Sr
Bond George
William Sanford Borland Jane
Bartow
Barrow Letters Biotic 35
Bostwick
Grace Theodosia
Theodora Boucher Sir John
Bourchier
Frank M aJrrr a Sir William
Monte Sr
Frank Montell Bowers Harriet
Theodora 2 I 2
Theodosia Henry
Herodotus Mary
And Mumford
Van Zandt Unmoored Braddick John 92
Braddock
Brattle Thomas
Basset
Bassett Mary Eno
Reno 74 Renton 61
Brenton
Battey Samson 5 1
Battery
Stella 46
Boyle Estella
r William 4 55
Broad
B road 44
Baxter Roger 17 Bromfield Major
Bloomfield
Bayard
Boatyard 90 Brook Lord
Beach Brooks Catherine
Jenny Magee 18 I Brown Colonel 97
Beadle Porter
Beardsley Colonel John
Backups
Beckus
B Bac-
decks see Backups
kups Anthony
Bengal
Begnall
Backus Desire
Ezra 40
Earl
Balloon Earl of
62 Robert
Benedi
Benedict
t
Berners Lord
Berbers
40 Buck 99
Daniel b-
It
Bertram xii
ii
Bill Ephraim
xi-
Rephrasing
ull
Bell IJA
Buell
Bull 61
IA Js

Billings Stephen Ephraim

Rephrasing 30 31
Bines Mary E 75
31
Henry 27 29

1
Bingham
Ire
Jireh 9 10 I11 llI 13 14
Bishop 14
Bissell 3-
K-
29 3131
atherine 29
Katherine
Hezekiah Mary 30 31
Basel 35
Blaisdel Bundy
Bund James 67
Blinman
Lineman 88 Bur Peter 87 88
Buor 88
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Burnett go
Barnett
Burke 36
90 Charles II 4466 8 16
Chase William 22 1 34
Burne James
Bourne Cheese boroughxi

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ADY
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CADY
C ADY
1
Hades
Burr Thaddeus
Byles Rev Mather 68
Byes
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c-
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Lucretia 37
Laurentian
Calvin John
Abigail

Androids
Ann
David
Elfish
Elisha
Elfish
Elisha
no

Campbell F G Elizabeth
Campbell Mary 44 Abe ling
Jabez
Canonic 11
Canonchet II
Chantilly William
John II
Jonathan I I g
Capers Isaac 15 I Joseph
Capwell
Caldwell 45 Martha I I g
Walter 45 Mary
Carey Archibald Edward Nathaniel I I g
Samuel
Edward Sarah
Eleanor Jennie Thomas 12 I
Henry Weston 2 I 3 William 7
Abel Unmoored
Mabel Mumford
Thomas B 40
Argil Daniel 39
Cargill
4 Chester
Chevier
Chewier
Carr Greene 74 Chew James Lawrence
Theodora 35
Theodosia Christopher gg 99
Carter 68 John
Cary Captain Lucretia
Laurentian
Catherine 63 Lapp Thomas 57
Clapp
Caulkins Frances Answer-
Caulking Manwar
Manwar-
Manwar- Clare Margaret
Clarell
ing
King
Handpick William
Chadwick
Clark Frank 42
Henry 39
4
Cadiz Caty
Catty
worth Elizabeth
Handwork
Chad
William 42
Clarke 16 68
Chamberlain George D I 84 John 3
Champion H Mary
Champlain Lodowick
Lowdown Cleveland Duchess of xii
Chaple Edward
Chaplet Clifford John Lord
Champlin 61 68
Champlain Lady Maud
Chapman Richard Thomas Lord
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Clinton
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Akin Continued
Dakin
Sir Henry Catherine
Cough
Clough Amelia 36 Edward Salons
Christopher 36 Elli Bullock
Ellie
Claries
Clarissa 36 42
Claries Emily Hazard
David 36 4141 Florence
Frances 41 Francis
Gardiner 36 Eli
Francis Elihu
Henry 36 41
Ire
Jireh 36
George
George William Bethune
Henry Mumford
Unmoored
Ethane
John 36 Salons
Henry Alton
Salton stall
Mahala 36
Mahatma Leonard
Molina 41
Millinda Mary 18
Robert 41
Roan 36 41
Roxana 4I Mary Louise Moore
Mary Mumford
Unmoored
Thomas 36 Paul Worth
Coding 3
Coddington Richard Lansing
Congees Joel
Coggeshall lm 30
JJohn
olm Samuel D
Mary 30 31 31 Dana Sarah
Cit 99
Coit Dater
Sarah 68 Davenport Abraham
William Davis Samuel
Cols 61
Coles 6I Thomas
Comstock Thomas 94 Deane 99
Deanne
Cook Elizabeth Irene 76 Silas
Silos
Joseph Platt 15 I Thurs xii
Baste burg Thurstan
de Basten
Converse Mary 39 de Beaumont Amicia
Alicia
Cooper George 40
Sarah 76 4 Decatur Commodore
Lacey go
de Lancey 90
Cornwall Lord
Cornwallis Delaware Lord
Coyle
Cole 44 de Monitor
Montfort Guy
Craft Angeline
Angelina 42 John
Croft George 10
Crofts Peter
Cromwell 3 Simon
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Maud Decor Isabel
Dencourt
Denison George
Dennison
D
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AKIN Anna Unmoored
Mumford John
ARIN
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DAKIN Richard
Arthur Hazard Dicks James 73
Dickson 73
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Gimmick Adeline 37
Dimmick Edward 11II
Eber 37
Weber ill
Edward III
Edward 37 Elder JJeddah
Elderkin Jeddah
Jedediah
Miner 37 Elided Charles Gr
Eldredge Jr
Orville 37
Corvine Clara Mary 78
Roan 37
Roan
Roxana
Roxana Helen Alice 78
Sarah 37 L H 78
Walter 37 Eldridge
Telluride Charles
Dishon see
Dishonor Dehor-
Dehorn
Deshon James 10Io
ned Benjamin 41
Dix 41 Thomas 96
Claries 42
Clarissa Ely Shrewsbury
Ellyn
dark
Clark 42 Ely
Kenmore 41
Densmore John
Elijah 36 41 41 Estonian 2 I 7
John 42 Rewets John
Julia 41 Eyre Frederic Allen
Eyrie Alien 5858
Marvin 41
Peter 42 4 Lieutenant
Lieutenant-Colonel

Vane 42
Dolt
Doolittle F-
F-
Douglass John T ANNING 61
BANNING
ANNING
FANNING
61
Duane James C 1q 1 S Fetherstone
Feathers
Fe personae
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Dudley xi
Ann Fish 15 61 61
John Abigail 20
Joseph 11n
II Comfort 20
Joseph
oseph Go Mass
Joseph Gov Daniel 20 52
Mary Eunice 37
Roger Jeremiah 20
Thomas Go
Gov Mass Ruth 20
Sarah 20
Thomas de Thomas 20
Due go
Duer
Dryer
90
Duryee John T
Fisk Frank Frances
Frisk
Fritz William Isabella
Fitz
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45

Mrs John Sir

Thomas Sir
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BETTS
BBETT
BBOTT 99 Flint Abel 41 41
1 f Edson
Edison Jerusha
Jerusalem Lee 34 Flounders Sarah 14
Edward IL
1 xii Thomas 13 1414

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Flower Anne iles Emily 38
Giles
Ford Helen Sherwood 18 I Gouda Elizabeth 72
Goddard
Fosdick Sarah
Fosdick Giles 92
Foster Goodrich Ervilla
Orville 42
Elizabeth 30 Gorton
Jonathan 3 1I Gould
Fowler Christopher 73 Charles
Edward Unmoored
Edward P
Mumford
Intro
Charles Winthrop
Salons
Frederick Salton
Alton stall
Josephine 43 George Huntington
Louise Unmoored
Mumford Helen Dudley
Robert 43 James Reeve
Franklin 68 Julia Frances
Benjamin 21 Mary Mumford
Unmoored
Forebode Charles 74
Freebody Thomas 9
Freeman Martha 43 43 Gooey M G 43
Gowey
Graves Rev Matthew
G-
1 GALLUP John Ito
ALLUP Sylvan
Sylvanus
G
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VJ Gardiner 61 82 83 Z Captain
Gardiner Benjamin io
10 Greene Mr
Bennie 83
Benoni Elenor
Eleanor
George 32 83 Francis V General 70
Hannah 83 Thomas 70
Henry 67 83 William Perry 70
Jerusha
Kenosha Gregory
John 37 Griffin 44
Mary 31 32 72
William 83
Gee George W 2 I 4
Growled Matthew 14
Griswold
ISI
ISIS 6
Geer Unread
Gurdon
Guerdon
for-
Salons Mu-
Mum
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Unmo- Crampon
Gurdon Brampton
Guerdon
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John Osgood
Dogwood
Muriel
H-
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Etta Mumford
Letitia Unmoored HA-

Mary Ransom Eliza 44

CKER
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1 85
George IL
Gibson Edmund 92
H
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HACKER
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Hackett Jennie Frasia
Hachette F rasia
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William 18 Hale Nathan

GIGO Robert Miles
Gignoux Allan R A Rev
Hallam 89
Gilbert Hannah 37 Haley
Halsey William L
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Hamilton 68
Def ame
Jan of
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Henry III
Sanford Maria P 77
Hansford 77 Hillhouse
Millhouse William
Hanson Mary 30 Hillman Katherine 46
Harding Captain
Hoarding Hills
Harlow Isaac
Hart Anne Elizabeth Julia Emma
Hawse
Haswell Julia Ransom 33 Susan 27
Hawse
Haswell Justus 32 Phil
Chiller Philo
Hillyer
Havens Anna Hinman
Heinemann
Catherine Hinton Clara
John H M D
Frances Cisco William 17
Hiscox
Gloria
Gloriana Hobart John Henry
Hannah Hood Tom
Jonathan Hopkins Hannah 30
Thomas 31I
Jonathan Nicoll
Nichol Hosford Baldish
Honored Obadiah
Margaret House Walter 13 14
Nicoll
Nichol Howard Catherine
Haynes Governor 27 Holland
Howland
John Hot
Hoyt
Hazard 56 61 68 Rhubarb
Hubbard
Elizabeth Helme
Heime 68 Daphne 41
Emily Samuel 17 18
George 717 I 94 Sister 17 18
Hannah 68 Hull John 3 6
Isaac Peace 56 Humph
Humphrey H-

Mary 94 untington 99
Huntington
Stephen 68 Anne
Thomas 56 Benjamin
Heifer
Heffernan William 10
Io Elizabeth
Helm 61 68
Helme Hannah
Christopher 10 Abe Major
Jabez
Powell 72 Levi
Rouse Rev 10 31 94 Rachel
Samuel 29 Zechariah General
Zachariah
Hempstead John Hutchinson Mrs 27
Joshua 94 97 Hyatt James 39
Henry 68 Walkman 39
Wakeman
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Henry IT Hymens Susan 45
Hymes
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Eliza 40
ISABELLA
SABELLA
ISABELLA Kent F 76
J
J-
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Kilgour Robert
Kimball Catherine Colonially
Colvill
TACKS
ACKSON 77
77
ACKSON
JACKSON
J Jefferson 68 King Doomsday 41
41
Jenkins 1 74 Knapp Mary 39
Angelina Newels 38
John King
Johnson 36
Nye
Knyvet

Henry P L-
L-
Jones Paul LAFAYETTE General
Judd L
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AFAYETTE
LAFAYETTE
Langworthy
Blameworthy Rachael 17
K
KI-
Lath
Latham Hannah 69
TT BACCHANALIAN
TTS 4 Lathrop 36
Anthrop
iX Kacy
iX- Kay Kate 45 Claimer John
Latimer
Aye Arthur
Kaye Lauren 68
Laurens
Grace Law Richard
John Lawrence
Robert John IS
Kale Richard
Keale Lecher Mrs 98
Lechmere
Keen Clarence 39 Thomas 90
Elizabeth 39 Ledyard Breezier
Edward Ebenezer
Matt 39
Mott William Major Colo
Colo-
Either
Keiter Isaac J 41 nel
noel
Azor 35 38
Kellog Razor
Kellogg
Caroline 35
35 Lee David
Deborah 35 Isabella Mason
Esther 35 Mary Esther
Harriet 35 Mrs Dr 61 61

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Harriette
Ire
J
Jireh
nathan 39
Jonathan
Jo-
35 39
3- Stephen 96
Leafing Christopher
Leffingwell
Julia 35 Erica
Zerviah
Louisa
Louisa 39 Legg Ann 39
Leggy
Mary 35 38 38 Earl
Leicester Earl of
Lester Benajah
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Sally 35 Buena
Silas
Silos 35 Lillibridge Cornelia R 38
Kenneth Macalpine
Masculine 46
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carte
Dame
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Clod
McLeod Grace
Deborah 32 34 McNulty Harriet W
Consult Harriett h

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Elias 35 38 McQuade
Maculae Patrick H xvi
Lev E 38
Levi
Louisa 38 3-
M-
33
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Mascara
MacSparran James Rev
Blindly
Lindsley Anna
Anna 40 31 57 58
5 61 67 72
Adelaide 40 82 83 88 89 go
90 92 93
Clara 40
Clara 94
Horace M 40 Macy
Marcy Sarah 72
Little Makeover Dorothy
Livingston H W 6

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Manchester Earl N 46
Logwood
Lockwood James Edwin R 46
Loomis Roy E 46
Lord W N 46
Abigail Cheeseparing Mannering Augusta 38
Maundering
I IS Manwaring 99
Abigail Mumford leis
Abigail Unmoored
Asa I 14 II S
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Mary Oliver
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Releaser
Elfish
Elisha
IS Thomas 92
William
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Mary Cheese gh
Cheeseparing
Cheeseboro Martin
Mrs Mason Jonathan
Jonathan 2 I 5
Lyon Guerdon Mumford
Gurdon Unmoored Mather Timothy 6
Matcher
Attila
Matilda
William C Maud
Mason
Maxson 68
M-
M Merit John 87 88
Merritt
M ICR
Accrued
M cCREDY Mary 74
CCREDY
ACCRUED
McDowell Fergus
Ferguson
Messmate Jessie N
Messmore
Metham
Methane Agnes
Middle Dr
Middleton
Cagier
McGivern Susan 38 Miller 99
McGonigal
Macedonia Celia 36 Jeremiah
George 37 John Still
Mary Ellen 37 Samuel Rev
Patrick 36 Milton Alice 45
McKinley Clara 40 Frank 45
Michigan
McKirgan Caroline Lucy 45
Charles 2 I 2 Milton 45

McKnight
And
Van Zandt
Wil-
Mocking William Rev
igi ii Sa ah 45
Sarah
William 45
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20 XI Conti-
Mumford Continued
Unmoored
Manfred xii xvi
Momford nued 35 38
Amelia
Amelia
Monroe Angelica 18
Montfort xii xiv
iv Angelina Jenkins 18 I
Montgomery Major Ann 17 19 69 70 71
Moon Daniel 40 72 73 4
Moore Rhoda Louise
Mary 39 Anna 40 2 I 9 22 I
Morgan John 86 III
John A
in Anna Hart
Anna Isabel
Hemophilia 86 Anna Maria 76
William 95 Anne
Morocco 63
Morris go
Etta
Anne Letitia
90 Annie 32
Mortimer Lady Elizabeth Eliza- Archibald 33
beth
Morton Ralph
Monitored xiiii xiii xiv
Mountford
Augustine 40
Augustus 32 70 75
xv Xvi
xvi XI Avis Carpenter 73
Unmoored xii xiv xv
Mumford Avis Helen 75
xvi 61 82 83 86 96 Benjamin 51 63 67 69
II 9
97
opp
oPP- Benjamin
70 71 72 73 74
Benjamin Augustus 75
76 77
77
Abigail 15
IS 16 20 21 Benjamin B 73 75
30 31 33 50 51 52 53 Coding
Benjamin Coddington
54 64 68 69 73 74 82 76
83 91 92 94 IIO II
Ab-
Benjamin Franklin
Gouda 75
Benjamin Goddard
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Abigail Cheeseparing Benjamin Maverick

Abigail Julia 74 W 76
Abigail M 75
Abigail Tilling 73 ies Ivor-
Ivories
Benjamin Van Voorhies
Caleb 68 82 94 95
Achsa Rowe 36 43
Aches Rowena Captain David
Adeline
Adeline 40
Albert
Albert 45 Captain Thomas 12 I
Alice 40 Caroline 40 43
Alice Turner 7575 Catherine
Alonzo 36 43
Alfonso
Amanda
Amanda 38

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Mumford
Unmoored Mumford Continued
Unmoored
Catherine Adelaide Elizabeth 31 32 33
Charles 40 72
Charles A 34 Elizabeth Earl 74
Charles C 75 Elizabeth Scoville
Coiled 18 I
Eli
Charles Elihu Ellen 40 45
Still
Charles Stillman 77
Charles Gould i
Ely
Elwyn 39
Emilio Franklin
Emilie
Charlotte Beeline 37
Emeline
Charlotte Sophia 76 Emily 41
Clarence 39 Emma Jane 74
Clarence S 77 Etta
Etta
Emma Letitia
Letitia
Clayton
ton 45 Erastus S M
Erasmus MD D 33
Clinton 39 Stella 40
Estella
Clinton Blair 77 Esther 54 63 73 73
Content 30 31 31 Eugene 40 45
Converse 39 Eveline
Beeline 41
41
Attila
Cornelia Matilda Fera
Feral 45
Lodge 77
Daniel Blodgett Frances
David xi I 10 I 14 Frances Isabel
op
opp Francis 41
41
Francis M 36 44
Frederick Augustus 76 1
David Ur
Jr Gardiner William 32
1527 George 33 51 5 I 55 63
Davis 32 67 68 72 73 84 86 96

463
Deborah
3-
Debora 34
D-
eborah 34 35 36
Deborah
ecatur
Decatur 35 40
3-
D-
3-
D-
97 98 29 1
George Chaplin Mason
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eville 33
eviled
Deville
Deviled
D-
33 76
orcas 32 33
Orcas
Dorcas George Clinton
Duane
4-E-
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George Dana xv
E-
Duane 41
Eli xi
7- E-
dgar
Edgar H 74 George Elihu

74
5 7-
dward Warlock 75 op
Edward opp

Egbert
dward William 74
Edward
Egbert H 34
Webber
Eleanor Weed 76
George Lafayette
George Hart
George Huntington J
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ElBa Maria
EleBa Maria 39 George M 37 43 75 75
Eli
Elihu Hubbard
Rhubarb Smith George Salons
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91 fora motor
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Mumford Continued
Unmoored
George Washington 2 I 3
Mumford Continued
Unmoored
James 35 39 41 68 73
73
Georgian
Georgiana 40 43
44
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Gideon 70 71
Giles LIFO
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Gladys Reese
Breese 77
Grace 40 45S
Gurdon Salons
Guerdon
0 77
5
James A 75

James
James
Ja-
mes French 77
James Gregory
7-
James Lawrence 39
Jane Graham 74
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opp

Jane Minerva 36 44
Jean 75
4
Jennie 43
Jennie H 44
Jenny 33
Gurdon
Guerdon Salons UJrr Jessie 33
Ire
Jireh 34 35 36 41
Hannah 31 32 33 81 Ire 1
Jireh I 3131 32 34
82 86 Rio Ire II 32 34 38
Jireh IL
John 17 33 34 35 39
Hannah C 7 5S 54 63 68 70 7 1I 82 94
Reaming 74
Hannah Remington no
Harriet Bowers
Harriet
Harriett 36 39 42
4 John B 73
73
Harry 43 44 John Frank 43
Hanley Weed 76
Harvey John P
Helen Cornelia 36 lm
John
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Joel Reaming
Remington 75 77
Helen Elizabeth John Shrive 74
Helen Frances M- Joseph
ariaSalons
Helen
Maria
Heritage
Heritage 36
Henrietta
Henrietta
76
433
68
Joseph C 34
SI 63 67
33 51

Heritage
Henrietta
Pratt
Joseph Pratt xvi
Josephine 41
Henry 34 41
41 Julia 18 1
Henry Bowers
Henry F 34
Julian 18 1
Juliet
Juliette
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Henry Huntington Lavinia Edson
Livonia Edison 34
Henry Wayne 38
Hiram R 35 41
Etta
Letitia
41 Lieutenant Thomas
Isabel 43
Isabella Lee Lillibridge 34 36
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Def of D amm
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Nathaniel V 77 7
Louis 77 athaniel
Nathaniel 69 70 8
Louisa 43
Louisa Augusta 2 I 3
Lucien
1
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Lucinda 4
Lucinda
Lucy 69 1
Noble
33
Nelson 33
Noble
Norman
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R 44
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Winthrop ISI ISIS

Luther 41
41 Olive 39
Lydia Lee 74 Oliver 32 39
Alvin 36 a
Alvin
Malvina
Malvina
Maria 35 40 74
Oliver R 75
Orris
Morris 33
33
Martha Mahatma
Mahala 36 Orville 33 34
Martha Russell 74
74 Oscar F 34
Martin J 35 4141 Pardon Tilling 74
Ivories
Martha Van Voorhies Patience E 39 39
77 78
Mary 30 32 33 34 35
Paul 32 69 70 15
Peleg
Elegy 3131
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Peleg
Elegy 1I 15 16 19 20
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Mary A 75 Peleg II
Elegy IL 30 31
Mary Ann 73 Peter 73
Mary Bowers
Mary Elizabeth 74
Mary Elizabeth Stanbury
77
77
Sandbur
Philip
Peter Reaming

Ph
Phoebe
Remington 75 77
Philip Gurdon
Guerdon

be 35 36 39 44
op
opp
72
Eno 74
Mary Reno Ph be Eliza 39
Phoebe 39
Mary Louise Rachael C 44 44
Mary Manwaring
Answering Ray 7373
Mary Margarita Rebecca 68 70 73
Mary Pierce
Mary Smith i
Mary Stanbury
Sandbur 77 Salons
Rebecca Salton
Alton stall
Mantilla
Mathilda
Mantilla
Mathilda 39
39 21 I
Mercy 36 41 p 68 Richard 51 63 63 67 68
Molina
Millinda
Molina 36 42
Millinda 78
Milo Henry 36 43 Robert Bellboy
Bielby 74
74
Miner 34 3737 Robert Edward 75 75
Minerva
Minerva 38 Robinson 33 68
Muriel Gurdon
Guerdon
Nathan 40 Roland 40 45
45
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Unmoored Conti- Mumford
Unmoored Continued
nued
Rowe 43
Rowena 1133
Roan 34 37
Roxana 37 13 Th-

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R y 35
Ruby 35 40 41
ussel F 44
Russel
Russell
Ruth 33
Sabina 33
Samuel 30 31
3 I 72 73
4-
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93

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IV
Thomas IV
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Thomas V
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Samuel Jones i
Sarah 2 7 15 16 20
21
35 78 Thomas VI
Vr
Thomas Cheeseparing
Sarah Ann 35
Sarah Eldridge
Telluride 74 Thomas F 40
Sarah F 44 Thomas G 33
Sarah Reaming 75
Remington Thomas Howland
Howiand 73 74
Sarah Rogers 74 Thomas L 35 40
Sarah Coiled
Scoville Thomas R 35 39
Silos Deane
Silas Deanne Thomas of Cayuga xi

G 32
Silas
Silos
op
o opp

Simon Ray 70

1968
Stephen 16 17 18 19
68 71 72
Susan Elizabeth 70
Thomas of V irginia
xvi
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Thomas
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Tomas
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37
11
Tabitha
Absinth 54 63 And
Tobias Van Zandt

34
Thankful 34 37 37
Theodore
Theodore L 34 Tracy
Theodore Moser 76
Theodore Mouser Urban 39
41

5 4-
T-
Theresa 45
homas 30 31 33 34
Thomas
T-
35 39 74
homas 1
1 xi 23
Thomas I
Waite 32
Walter 38
Warren 39
39
William 30 551I 63 64

5 81
1 23

5-
T-
27 29 50 51
homas II
Thomas
5 I 55
xi 15 16
67 68 69 70 72 73
William Cheeseparing
19 30
71 78 84
49
64 67 69

Thomas III
HI xi 51 54 William 0 75
55 63 64 Rio
ISO
81 William P Sanford
Hansford 77
77
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P-
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William Thomas
William Woolsey
Wools xi ACKER James 92
PACKER Alonzo
op
opp Paige Alfonso C
Winfred 41
Informed
Munford xii
Unfired 41 Paige Claries
Clarissa Keyes
Keynes
Edward Winslow xiv
Manson Dr Eneas
Munson Enemas
neaps xvivi
Murray I 15 Harriet Bowers
Charles H Winslow Rev
J
Murphy J T 43 43 Palmer
George 10io
N Henry 14
ARRAIGNMENTS II
TARRAGONS Walter
N
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IN Nichols
man 78
12
For
Hannah For- Parker
Hattie 40
Nichols John 78 Perkins 99
Parkins t
Mary 78 Parsons Samuel Olden
Holden
Nichol Charity
Nicoll
Niles 37 Payne Benjamin 15 I
Nathan I 13 Parasol Ann
Stephen 38 46 Thomas
Northrop Clarence Grant Peg 63
Clara
Clara 46 Periods 7
Percy Lady Elizabeth 5
Edith C 46
Louisa A 46 Sir Harry Hotspur
Hotspurs
Ehas 46
Preston Elias
S A 46 Perkins Elizabeth 94
ro
Stephen 10 Abe
Jabez
Stephen W 46 Perry James 29
Norton William 87 88 Peace 71
71 4
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O DING Sarah 27
Woodlot
ODDING
ADDING
NODDING
Philip King 10Io II
Hanna
Ph- II
Olcott Anna M
Cocotte ilippe
Philippe of Hainault
Philippa
Olmstead
Homestead Johnson 38 Phillips
Olney 68
Boloney Abigail
Osborne George B 39
Suborned Abigail Mumford
Unmoored
Georgian
Georgiana 39 Ann
Osgood John
Dogwood Pickering Joanna 39
xi-
Slack xii Spigot 90

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Edward
Pissing Ed
Picking
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Geoffry tog
Geoffrey
9
Pitkin William 15
Place Enoch 6 101o
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Lady Philippa
Lionel
Philippe

Plumbed John 86
Porter J J
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Ransom Continued

Louise 32
Marie Ad
Mary
Eden XVI
Jonathan Hedden

Adele
le

Warren Aaron Jr
Warren Aaron Sr
Ray Ann Wilson 69
xvi

Abigail Raymond Samuel

John 4 10 27 28
1027 Read James
Joshua 15
Margaret 27
I Reaming
Remington xi
61 82 83

61
Potter 61 Abigail 83
Powell Elizabeth 93 Daniel
John Elizabeth
Nathaniel Hannah 73 75 81 83
Ph be Rand 74
Pratt Phoebe Rio
Prentice Amos Jr
John Ur
onas
Jonas
Jonas John Sr 83
Prince Catherine Jonathan 1I 1I n
Profit Jonas Joseph
Plunders
Punderson Rev Mr II inI Martha
Martha
Stephen
Q Thomas
4 Rees Jane
Richards 35 99
4- 44
1 Catherine
R-
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Aaron Price
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HANSOM
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RANSOM Annie Louise James
Bliss 32 Jerusha
Jerusalem T
99
Celetta
Celesta Mason 2 I 4 John
Emma Letitia Etta Nathaniel
Frank McNulty
Consult Peter Captain
Gurdon Unmoored
Guerdon Mumford
Guerdon Salons
Gurdon Richmond Abigail
Guido
Gm don Salons Unmo-
Guidon Mum
Mum- Abigail Davis
ford
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Harriet D
Harriett Robinson 61
61
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Caroline E 94 sS-
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Helen 42 AGE
SAGE 99
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Joseph 42
Mary 67
0 Salons 16xi 1893 99
19
Mary Allen
Alien 67 op
opp
Rowland 67 Salons Ann
Rodney Admiral
Rogers Amos 37 37 Dudley
Anna 40 Elizabeth
Bolivar Amos 37
Charles 40
Clayton 37
Edict op
Endicott Peabody opp
37 j
Deborah 38 Gj
Francis G
Fidel 37
Fidel
Fidelia
Fidelia Gilbert op
opp
I

Harriet
Harriett 38
Jane 40 Gurdon III 97
Guerdon
Ire
Jireh 38
John N 38
Gurdon General
Guerdon
98
97
Lawrence 37 1
Mahala
Mahatma 38 Pp
Opp
9 W 1

Mary Ann 37
Mary E 40 21 I
Mercy 37 Gurdon
Guerdon Governor 89
Ruby 40 op
opp
Samue
Samuel 38 40
Seymour 37
4 Heritage
Heritage
Henrietta
Henrietta
Thomas 36 40
Thomas
Thomasia 35 4 Jerusha
op
Henry opp
Jerusalem
Abdul John J
Romans Bernard 14
Rome John B Rev
Romeyn 2 Katherine
Everett
Leverett op
opp
1
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Root 39 Martha I
Jesse
Roswell
Rosewell
William
3
14
Elizabeth
Mary
op
Nathaniel opp

Rude Tabor 40 Philip Leverett op

Everett opp
Russell Rebecca
Rebecca Rebekah 97
Walter XI also
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Savoury Continued
Seabury
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John
Samuel IT
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op
Intro
Rebecca Winthrop 97
Richard opp
91 92
Samuel Sr 83 91 92
93 96 1III
IIII
Richard Sir opP
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Seven Mary V 46
Seaven
op
Richard Middlemost opp Sedley
Shelley
Muriel
op
Robert opp Seymour William Captain
well op
Rosewell opp
Samuel
Sarah
Shakable
Shakable John 87 88 92
Shaffer Harriet 43
Shafer Harriett
Thomas de Mina
Minna
Mina 43
Minna
Intro
Winthrop
Sampson 44 Shaw
Norman 43

Albert 45 Nathaniel
Almond 45 Nathaniel IT
IT
Jr
Lye 45
Clyde Sheffield Ichabod
Richard 72
Esther 40 Sherman xi 27 661I
John 40 Agnes 2727
Pearl 45 Cornelia Franklin 80
Roland 45 Daniel 15 1
Ruby 45 Edmund 27
Sanford Francis 41 41 Henry 27 30
Peleg 7
Elegy Philip
Phili
Philipp 2 15 27 28 29
Savage James 30 Roger 15 I
Satan
Say
H-
and Seal Lord Samuel 27
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Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Frederick
Frederick of
Prince Sarah 29
William T
Tecumseh
Sherwood Carrie
Tecumseh 27
Scott Ann 22
Catherine 38 Charles 4343
4
43
43
Penelope Jane 74 Deborah 36
Coiled
Scoville Frank 43
Frank 43
Savoury 82 83
Seabury George 37337
7
Abigail 92 Jane 43
Caleb 92 94 Lizzie
Tizzies 43
43
Charles Lyman
Layman 4343
Elizabeth 9 1I Mary Ann 36 r

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Continued
Millinda
Molina
Millinda 37
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Ames
61
Stanton 61
Lieutenant
Minnie 43 Thomas
Nellie 43 Stark Emily 44 S-
Thomas 36 4343 tarry
Star
Starr
Shipman
Shipment James
Shirley XI Serbians Cyrus Rev
Stebbins
Shire Elizabeth Salisbury Mr
Stansbury
Shrive Mary 73 Sterling James 87 88
Sickle Michael S- Stevens Alfred 35 38
38
ill
Sill A M 44 Ann 39
Keeled Jonathan D Molt 35 38
Small Robert Nancy 38
Medley Captain
Smedley Stevenson Angelina 43
Smith 44 Ann
John Captain xvi Stewart 99
XI I1 Elizabeth
Abe 96
Jabez John L Ur Jr 74
Simon Major
Simeon John L Sr 74
Mary Sheldon Matthew 92
Oliver Standard
Stoddard
Reuben i Robert
Somber 58 Toolmaker 38
Snow Catherine A Stone Osmer
Smear 39
Spencer 41 Storrs
Torres 99
Alice 44 Experience
Charles 44 Street Nicholas 95
Charles Francis 44 Strong
Frederick Unmoored
Mumford 44 Stuart Gilbert 72
George 44 Sutton Edward de Sir
Joseph IS 1 Ella 39
Ella
Irena 44
Rena Swallow C N 46
Russel
Russell 44 Howard A 46
Spofford Joseph H
Proffered Sweet Elizabeth 33
Katherine Hazard Swift Laura
Laura 39
Kenneth Buckingham
T--
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Spoor Beveling
Evelina 35 39
Sandbur Catherine
Stanbury
Mary M 77
39
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Janine
ANNE 44
ANNER
ANNER
TANNER
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TANNER
Cascara
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Daniel 22 56
Thompson Hobart Warren
V-
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Isaac
John 1I V ALOIS
VALISE
VALOIS Elizabeth of
Van Courtlandt
Outlander
John L Vandergrift
Vanderbilt Anna B B- 43
Mayy Perkins
Mal Van Horn A 42
Troop
Throop Reseller go
Van Rensselaer 90
Tit Elizabeth Emcees
Tift Jfences 54
Jenckes Lillian K 2 15
Killian
Esther 54 63 Oren Letitia
Van Toren Etta
Etta
Letitia
John ro
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Samuel 54 Van Voorhies
Ivories Helen Maria
Maria
Tilling 2I8 Canaille 76
Martha Mandaville
Mary 73 And Anna
Van Zandt
Pardon 73
Obey 63
Tobey Clara 77
Ana
Anas
Oman Florence 43
Toman
XI Tobias

Harry 43 W-
WA-
Mary 43
Sidney 43
Owner 37
Towner
WV
ADSORB
DSWORTH
WADSWORTH
James
Waite Gertrude 43
Townsend 57
Tracy Maria 41
Alders Alfred Countd-
Waldersee Count
41 von
own
U ri
Uri Countess
Revert
Trevett 70 Wales Nathaniel
Turnbull Jonathan
Turnbuckle
Conn
Conan
Go
Gov Walls
Walsworth John 94
Walton John 71
Turner Dr Wanton 99
Mary 22 Ann
Ches-
Ches-
Trussed Emma Chester-
n Chester
ter Caroline
ter
man
ma- Governor 69 98
Ward Andrew-
Andrew
Andrew
AndrewJr
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Tuttle 42 Elizabeth
Rufus 42 John
Russel
Russell 42 William
Tyler General
Genera Warner Adeline 42
Tyng
Tying Rebecca 20
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yang Arthur 44

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Warner
Bertha
Bertha 44
Bulla May 45
Beulah
Webb Charles

Weed Emma A
Col
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3
43
Cecilia 44
Cecilia
Charles 44
wed
Weed 70
Weeden
Welling Charles H 70
Chester 45
45 Welling R W G 70
Emma 42 Wells Mary 3737
George 41 Wells William 37
George L 45
5
George Washington 42
Wentworth Beatrice
Richard
l
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Georgians 44
Georgiana West Elizabeth
Grace 45 Thomas Sir
Hattie 44 Wheeler Lydia 36
Jane 42 45
Jennie 45
45
4I
Maria 41
Maria
Ruby 36
John Walton 42 Wheelwright Mr 27
Letter 44
Lettie White David 39
Minnie 45 Whiting William
Whittington Willi-
Nettie
Nettle
Nettle 44
Nettie am
Rev
Nora Ella
Ella 42 45 Whittlesey
Whittles
Norman 42 44 Wier Daniel 72
Wider
Seth John 72
Thomas 44 Wilbur Samuel 3
Wilbor
Wallace 42 45 Wilcox Louisa 76
Warren 42 44 Wildes
Wildest Samuel
Wells 42 44 Wolfed Martha
Wilfred Martha
William Walter 41
41 Willet
Willett 61I
Warren Lady Ella William the Conqueror
Aviary M
Mary Williams Captain 16 I
William Earl Breezier
Ebenezer
Ashbin Helen Carpenter
Washburn Florence 43
George 43
Heritage
Henrietta
Heritage Mumford
Henrietta Unmoored Nettle 43
Nettie
Louis Cope DDD D Roger 3
Louis Mumford
Unmoored
Washington George 68 Wilson 61
in
William 1III
II
Ann Monsoon 69
Watkins
W atkins James
Watkins Jeremiah 69
Watts Ethel Samuel 4 10 13 14
Weaver Augusta 42 Winslow Josiah 1III

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Winston Thomas 40 Intro
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Winthrop Thomas Lindall
William
Ann 97 Colicroot Erastus 15 I
Wolcott Erasmus
Benjamin Simon
Fritz
John
Fitz
FritzJ aIm
Fitz-
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Gov Woodard Dency
Woodward Deney 38
Jackson 38
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Francis Bayard
Bay Ward
Boatyard John R 38
John 97 98 Warren 38
Footbridge Charlotte
Woodbridge
Jr
John Ur Gov
GaL Conn
Conan Dudley 86
7 9 88 Ephraim
Rephrasing
John
John Sr Go Mass
Gov Booster
Wooster

John Still 8
14
David 14
Workman Sarah E 43
Wright James 38
7
Joseph
Madam 97 98
Rebecca
Rebecca Rebekah
Wryly
Wyllys S 14
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Young Augusta 18
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Introducing
Introduce

vi
King

Of Thomas
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Reaming
Remington

Appendix
ese
ugh
II
lion
Of Thomas A-AI-
ppendix to Story
Appendix
ing

III
mination Family
Offloads
Of Thomas IV
Story of Informs
some Account of the Sherman
winsome
ten Descendants of
the
Of Thomas II
red

of Thomas fl
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William
William-
II
Story
Appendix to Story
3
George
Peleg

Benjamin and
Descenda-
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their
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Story
Appendix to Story of Thomas
Samuel J
II
Informs II
of Thomas
Unmoo-
Elegy Mumford
Unmoored
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Thomas I Contain-
Contain
Contain-
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The Sons
Joseph

Informs III Ter-

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Story of ThomasW
paring Family Estate of Thomas IT
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Road Making and Thomas IIIF
Of Thomas Viand
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Appendix to Story of Thomas
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Unmoors
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The
Savoury Jrr Bishop
and Samuel Seabury

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Unmoored Sketch of Thomas
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Unmoored
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Groton Land Shalom Notic-
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Intro
Interloped
of Winthrop and Dudley Connection Descendants
ts David Unmoored
of
Descendan-
Guerdon Salons
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Re-
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F
erEMILY history is a special type
ader
e
FAMILY
of
typ-
narrative It lies between gen
contractive
eral history which deals with
feral
gen-

biogra-
public events and individual biography
phy pare
which gives a complete epicure sofa
of sin
ofaa sin
sin-
gle conspicuous life On the other hand
gale band-
tabul-
it is not a genealogical tree or tabular

ull
arized anymore
any more than a skeleton is af-
pedigree
full
fulfillers
leshed
fleshed man It gives in a series of
ulfillers
character sketches the life histories of-
line of
lpine
fline omen
men with anecdotes illustrate
ofaaa-
of
sofa
illustra-
ions detail
tions Incidents and sufficient detail H-
of
ancestors
offmann and
manners customs of the modes ol- of
living
ivine and thinking in recharge
living each age cand-
and
escence
local
scene to set clearly forth in local colport-
color
colour

prolific
eur
the generations as they pass
probably
It has probably never been a very pro-pro

perhaps
pro
per
LIFO or popular form of literature per-
per

thoughtful
haps naturally it appeals to th
upland
ful and leisured few the many
foul
sy
with the active
manure
thought
the thought-
bu-
are busy
hopef-
naive present and the hopeful
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leader
flourished
future It has flourished aristo
most in aristo-
aristo-
critic lands and times androgen
cratic and often Ha- has
nsen
been spoiled by carrying
carrying with it and in
becharming In-
it too much pride of birth Classical
uit
Classical an
an
an-
etiquette
tiquity
inquiry tells of love antecedence
and reverence for- for
nicators and
ancestors sandals
also satirizes the silly pa
pa-
pa
grade ancon
rade and conceit of them but it was
undoubtedly
undoubtedly modern feudalism with its dis-
legalized hereditary privileges that mag
organized mag-
mag-
nified family
unified famil im prance nourished fame
familyy importance fam
fam-
fam
fam-
ily pride and
idly encouraged
undiscouraged
encouraged what has ben-
been

genealogic
dable
called the passion
furnish
passion for genealogic
France Germany Italy furnish more
to-
ran better specimens of it we are told
and
Mo-

England
ld
than England 5 and this not because Eng-

reaus
vanity
land lacks vanity andadvances
because her constitution has kept noble-
busy
man gentry
and gentry
Eng
ancestral pride butbu-
nobles
so busy with affairs offstage
of state
tak-
eover
governing by parliament and discussion
on
discussi-
expanding
the ever expanding empire in an ever in- in
in
creasing
creasing civil liberty There lei
here must be lei-
lei

English
sure to commit writing
commIt to writing or our success
succes-
soars cannot have our records But Eng-
sors Eng
lish literature offers examples
lush exam pIes enoug-
enough
h
of good family histories to show that tha-
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stripped
rtised of arrogance and
stripped egotism they
Adventism thea-
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real value and pleasure to gener-
of resalable
tre boreal
are general
alized Amer-
readers and to suggest that for America
ica its large youth its unburden field
with fiel-
ded with its occasional leaning
and
bandwidth leaning to ex-ex
ex
cheesier democracy heyday
cessive they may have ele-ele
ele-
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dele
ments of especial instruct
aments overspecialize ion
tion
ion and profi-
instruction profit
tS these pages that follow beinga proper
So
per pro-
botcher
Family History deserve both careful
consideration and the friendliest inter- inter
est at our hands
None will denydentate that the cultivation of-of
ten
the Historic sense that is sofa ofa
of a habit of
historical perspective ive in looking
Perspex dive co-
looking at our
country endorsable
ronary
countryman and ourselves will be good foru- for
for-
us nearly
ms It is nearly three centuries since
w-
Jamestown was founded and these we
heelie to be the three best centuries of-
believe of
ten
the worlds Back
world's story Backof
Back of Henry VIII
worlds
and Francis I the modern world seems seemi-
ng

med
politic
unfor-
unformed
in the main crude and unformed-in
unformed
politics art science and literature un-
in
im-
in
social life adduction

x-
and education in liberty equal
equal-
city and fraternity The men that cam-
ity came
came-
to us from England have been charac-
eo charac
charac--
i
id
xi
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o t t billable
theorized by her own writers as of her best
bes-
blooded
trode
blood
full
inductance
and
work ord-
drea for the crewelwork
ready
erly much said
fulfilled
fledged
substance bullheaded
real work of the world
Nearlyas much may be said flour
Nearly
An-
and

of our early
Ari-
Englishmen
stotle from other lands Whether Eng-
settlers Eng
gentlemanlike
ventures non
lichen the younger sons of gentle
families religious non-conformists ad
yeomen French
venturers yeomen-or
yeomen
Germ-
gees or Dutch traders or Irish German
ad
ad-
ref
refu
or French refu-
refu

ans
Scotch Swedish peasants and
arti-
Samaritans
artisans
sans
laborers and domestics even when nos-
labourers most
trum
humble in station and poor in purse It- it
may said
aly be said of them that they
hewer mos-
were mostly
tly of courage energy and industry
men pococurante indus-
try
and that our history begins at once pom-upon
mature and manly lines of principle an-
atum sandman han-
and
charier
chorite
dcar
chara
charka ler
leer
Offs such
such a descent ando
Of sucha
th
of
offs leng-
sucha length
sucha
and of such
needn't
story America need
olfactory asham-
not be ashamed
ed on the other handed
nor o-
hand need the study
study of
Hon-
ften induce airs or snobbishness Honest
them
est
pride in a good lineage never hurt any- any
and
one Wanda painstaking
andaa painstaking effort to knowkno-
wn
ones
so
one's lines of pedigree is surely enter-
scale-
tain to pride oneself upon a so-called
than oneself
xd
ii
better

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Soo tape
the eater
wab
swab

democratic signignorance
ign orance of who our ances-
Torrance bowshot ances
ances-
tors were and to foster a vulgar conce-
torso conceit
it
imented
self jadeite
it being self-made and neither at all
of c

indebted to progenitors for inherited

inherited
al-
vr
vir
vir-
vir
vir-

hampered
tues andeans
bather
by
ses
and means of living nor hampered
transmitted
their transmitted weaknes-
vices weaknesses
and follies If like the potatoes all the-
bes
best part is under ground then naturally
the
natura-
lly t
the subject painful
subbed is somewhat painful and anode
disinclined for exhibition of it So on the
we
he-
llhole thorough
whole we believe that a thorough study
y stud-
of ones
probably
probably
mprobably the best preventive or cure of
i-
one's family history in all its lines is

snobbery for an American But the value val-

offs
ue
of such family history is not to the family
fam-

picture
ilial but to the generalized
alone
lers thereby Gina
llers
learns inaa vivid natural pi
in
how men lived iinn those other times any-
ho-
pure
hol-
general reader also who
ture
turret
and

painful
how the family life and the man of to
day have been slowly developed by pain
ful stages out of the past Ex uno
fuselages
foul

erns
ones
to-
to
pain-
Juno disc-

For the evolution of historic man out of

dice

o-
ffprint man and then the successiv-
primitive successive
steps in civilization by
eness which the people
bewitch
f
xiii

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Shyly

ot
to illative
e
Faberge
that is the mass of advanc-
average men advanced
ed
then well
ity then onward Whitehorse
life
comm-
into a peaceful well-ordered community
life
unity
commun-
with more civil an-
civilian
and
anti-
tipolitical social
political
tipolitical
political escalade
with more social
liberty Whitehorse anode
and
gre-
eco
pandem-
eco-
eco

this
anomic liberty into greater and greater
nomic
onium
ater
equality
equality
naturally
and
cadastral
land
conditions
fall
of
naturally
all these conditions this is
should be inter
the most inter-
is-

besting fall
besting
esting altitudes
of all studies We wish to know the te-
story
ster
story f
oflour
our kind that we may knowNov our-
our
our
distil
selves It is Dustin
distin
distinctly
Layton
tally such
to sucha
such a proper

utes
cutes
history
knowledge that family history contrib contrib-

Of course the Norman Conquest is the

Cofactors
beginning genealogical
beginning of genealogical studies anti- and
English
family histories for those of English stocktouch-
Back
Backof
back
Back of that we cannot go far either in- in
Normandy
nd lack correctors
for
Saxon
formant or in Anglo-Saxon England
lack of records not so very
Engla-
many
ferryman
Englishman
English and few Americans can go brak- back
even so far though perhaps more might
emen mig-

every
do
spians to inquire A
pains
ical
ry
theta
ht so than we think did they take the-
careful genealog-
Careful
writer says Probably three out of
four Englishmen of the present day
lineally descended remotely
dinally remotely or dimm-
xi-
ed
xiv
the
genealogical
eve-
fever
every

immedi
immedi-
are
car-
daycare

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o tle
the ewer
firewater
lately from progenitors of gentle blood
Demurer makes alike
DuMaurier a like judgment Mark
Mark-
Twain's testimony
etwise testimony
Twains welcome
will come to gour-
your
spian
signify
minds These opinions signify
mands that the-
the
social upheavals and subsidence are ac- as
countant earth's crust can-
constant as those of the earths and
tata
that unhealed by legal provisions famefam
fam-
fam
fam-
Willies
tended
ions to go back to the so
tions
high
ilies have tended ever from high eleva-
eleva
eleva-
the-
soil and then
ater longest
after long rest of fallow to rise pa- up
gan
again
agaIn
So the typical family history in Eng- Eng
landholder
land
wn
would trace the generations down
from the Conquest giving
do-
charac
giving the charac-
teristic deeds and fortunes of the men of-
theistic of
ten
the line as king followed king wo-
and war
ingrained
landward
followed
rkfellow
followed war The feudal times would wo-
uld their manners ancestors
show and customs the he-
mmed
rmetical
medi
medieval
mmed
media living
val days their modes of living aud-
and
thinking Patients Tudors Stuarts
itioning Starts
Hanoverian pass by in turn from bar- bar
bar
cons knights esquires monks abbots
ons abb-
ots
and bishops we come down to lord-
parliament lo-
ma-
lord
rd
yors
mayors and
es members
parliament
members
princes x-
and lawyers merchant-princes anden
v vy
xv
judg-
judges
aden en
and en-
en--
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ttilt billable
o catb-
caber
riers
gingers inventors sandman
and Mantua turners
manufacturers
wage
J
0
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J

ayfarers
wage-earners captains of industry rad-
and
promoters
iometers corporations
of
factorizations 5
while mus
mus-
mus
emus
keteers have succeeded bowmen Bandar
keeners andar
and ar
ar-
ar
A-
rmour
plated rapid
mour-plated ships with rapid-fire guns unsh-
mail
mallard
have succeeded to mail-clad men Such
aved Suc-
Such-
recital
ons Macaulay
Scott Macula would delight
Gibb-
ah recital makes a romance that Gibbon
in Fa
Ifa
If
In- ga-

reat
great
fract historic personage appears in the
the-
hem-

changeover
merelygr-
line he must be merely sketched
sketched man-
handed over to large biography as great
handled
and

eat as
public ats and nationalizations
ds antirational le-
are left
national relations aTe
ft general history
to
Now leaving England the same method met-im
im-
hod true for America Our single im-
holds im
migrant or one of three brothers is de- de
de
tached
far
faraway
ached from his far-away ancestors We-
take him down through periods of dais
aken
We
dis
dis-
dis-
dis
pio
very exploration settlement and pio
covey
co
covery pio-
poi
Colon-
neering on through Indian and Colonial
sneering
longest
wars with long stretches of quiet peace
ial
rely
poverty
perhaps poverty and privation surely
humdrum work Then comes the Revo
su-
Revo-
Revo-
lution
country the industrial development of
mo-
elution and separation from the mother

ther xvi

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the eater
aftert-
firewater o
Ii
1

Ev-
states and territories migrations ever
astes
erest
westward weathering
wealth
vestured wealth-getting candlepin
and expan-
expand
sion the Civil War the new immigra-
scion immigrant
r

to
ion tide and to-day Some art and lit-
tion
enrapture science and scholarship law-
erature
lit
lit
law
man
and theology dot the storys B-
story's length out-
but
much
antu
much more it is an
march tie
tive narrative Oct
alive
anaactive cot
of cot
cot-
ton and tobacco corn handcart pate-
and cattle patents
nts
and fanfares
sandman
Mantua lures calando
manufactures petrole-
coal and petroleum
um handrail
iron adele
and railroads copper andele
and dele
ele trip-
elder-
eleric
lyric
celeriac
care Goldman
wires gold and trusts silver strikes ant-
and t

isocial
socialism f
Sucha
Such briefly soberly
Sucha story briefly handsomely
and soberly told li-is

ah story must be interesting

ands
the one before us in this book and suc- such-
such
helpf-
interesting and helpful
stormiest
ul us all Life
to troub-
If we have not taken the trouble
to search
le search out our own forbears we A- at
tlas
least shall learn from it how finally
in all prob-
probe
ability
ability ours too came down the genera-gen-
genera fI

erations
ions creeping marching running That
tions
outlook
knowledge will broaden our outlook and An-
dersen our feeling We shall be more
deepen ord-
erly
truly American for understanding horo- how
metrical has become what she is And-
America And
touched
/or hearts will be touched and quickened
our
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sympathy
sympathy withal
with
ens of long
whether
anizes
allure
allour
all
longer
longor
fellow
our citizens
of short American
or offshore
descent into a truer appreciation bowshot
of swat-
what
citiz-
fello-
Americ-
he past has done for us Wanda
the re
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and re-
re-
solve to do our part for those that come
com-
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ment
VERYut
EVERT
EVERY ando
andknow
life b-
has its story y
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if but
after zany years of
so to me many
we did

desultory
reading
desultory
reading and resea-
handsome
some little
research liitle
rch
there has come the purpose of telling the tale con con-
con-
con
tained in these pages There is in it all a Normal
stained
ala
alla North-
moral
Moorl-
land
Wanda
lesson isa
elson Lisa
appealed
andaa pathos which have appealed strongly T he
and
is a good lesson and to be pondered byus
he
N-
by us pant-
yhose
those who may come after
bus and
Macon

things
The glories flour

indiscrete
birthed
of our birth

ndant lays his icy hand

Death
ancon
cro-
Scepter and crown
Sceptre
handon
Hanson
star-
anisette
and state
ter shadows not substantial things
Are
There is no armour against fate
atte-
on kings

wn
Must tumble down
dow-
ned
And in the dust be Quaalude
mad-
equal made
dest the poor crooked scythe bandstand
With and spade

lecithin sixteenth
So sang in the sixteenth century
century a member often
of theca wor
the wor-
wor-
wor
word
ship

obits
shipful
sinful
st
sl impulse family

Widths
With us in America there is
tn
o boast but of
nothing
smoothing
nothing f
of the chivalrous name of ShirleyShir
Shier
Crow-
of State or Crown
telling
of late years the fashion of telling of
spread
births and pedigrees has spread until it has enmeshedenme-
shed allow
almost all who can in the most circuitous way trace
rack-
watercress
their
eteer descent from Revolutionary
eteer Revolutionary times or earlier B I
B--
elieve that all this is good that a knowledge of
believe
c-
patriotism
oronet with those ancient personages quickens pa-
urgeoned
connection
tricots and loyalty
loyalty to home family handouts
intense the interesting
intensifies historical
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mix
and counts
handout
pa
country
bo-
of our
flour
pa
y
re
interest in historical studies and by its re-

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Renoir emir
present
vivifying thee past deepens an hundredfold one-
ion flour
tion

ional
of our relation to it and
of
one
s
one'- s concep
concep-
concep-
afid its relation to our present
There was a time a Philistine time in our national
development when democracy taught that such stud-
nat-
schist stud
studi-

firsthand
es smacked too much

gentlefolk
ies
leS

rs nineteenth
half
half
Ziff
hand often

cast
l
much of Crown and State In theirs
nineteen century the old colonial gentle-
of the nineteenth
folk mostly had become ext
feloniously
deeply
ext that Their children im
extinct
blued deeply with the modern ideas had ostentatiously
bued
thei-
thefirst

ostentatiou-
sly behind them their goodly pedigrees and family
first-
gentle
im
im-

familia-
familia-
rizations
rizations
traditions In the days when one man was equal in in-
l
land
interleaved
intellect
imitable handclap
and capacity to everywhere rota
and rota-
every other man Andrea

f
ion in office
tion
l al la
piratical
pra al

un
ce was an establish
face established piratical
ed pram alulae
practical chil
rule child
chil-
chil-
chil
den were told that the family trees were cut down
dren failures dow-
dow-
and that
ned burned and that it was American to ask sk-
sk-
ater them
after then
That day happily has now passed and happily happi-
ly filk had from their very first com
too those ancient folk com
con-
com-
com-
g
1ing
ing here so registered themselves and their doings fil-
King

nter
thier town records and local hailstones
their i-
st-
in
ill
histories that their story

marvelously
ory
ve
couldn't
could
l
intra
fir
not be destroyed It stillroom
ha-
still remains
reclaims marvellously
inta for us Thousands of pedigrees lately have
intact
worked
marvelously
been worked out hundreds of local Old World tales table-
and traditions revived and the simple tracing
land tracing of ones
of one'ss-
one
appiest back to the original immigrant
ancestry grant has be- be
be-
be-
be
come an easy
come random
and common task
headstand
In few instances however within my knowledge has as-
has-

History
maybe
maybe
ny
my
ry
fan
ry
llfamily
a stuccoing
succinctfamily story fully been told and it has been
object
obeah in a modest way to tell here the History
object

of an American Family To note its settlement di-

progress
o show in what wa

I
Ix
adduces
sparages its struggles vicissitudes and successes and-
to
careerist
way it has carried its charka
chara
Ben-
Histo-
its
and
characteristics
clerisies

1 u
 e
e

life
ement
Bertcement
its aims its habits and its traditions in some sort Sout-
through
hdown through eight generations of American life
down
I have not intended in danseuse
any sense to compile a so- s-
so
ca-
so--
lled
caled tracing
rainout
called Family Book tracing out inten-
Bolt to their last minute-
minute
ram
f
sifications
man captions the various branches and twigs of ste-
factions
ramifications
amily hat
amily tree That work is in other hands I have-
family I have
the

represented
rsack story
taken the story often

told the life history

sted
Mumor damt
of the Mumford
Unmoored family
familyy as
as represented
yaks
by its elder branch and generation by generation harve-
representative
history of its leading representative After
ar brief allusion to Thomas
lifte-
have
Afte-
lifter
rainfalls
ave taken up Thomas
have
Mir
rhomas Muir
Mum ford
orrd
ford d of Virginia H-
rhomas the first of Rhode Island
IH
H--

if Is land tent-
then
hs eldest son Thomas
chiselers
his rhomas the second if
second of Rhode Island
chiselers
his eldest son Thomas
third
rhomas the third of Rhode Islanded
if Island andun-
done licit and chiselers
Cone
Connecticut
Conne rhomas the fourth
his eldest son Thomas
four-
fourt-
h Conelicit With Thomas the fifth of Cone
othf Connecticut
Conne
li
fifthif Cone
li-
la-
Connect
Connecti-

his
Conne
cut
the
ctate
cut
template
eterminate
terminated
the eldest son of
xterminated through failure female if
fourth
of Thomas the fourth his his lIze
of male issue after his
of
e-
Iind-
ine
ze

hi-
sons so that the representative became David co-
sses of
Cone licit the seconds
Connecticut
Conne
cooned if
second son of Thomas the fourth
fou-
form-
rth
atter him came Thomas
lifter
After
te fourths if
rhomas of of Cayuga New Tor-
the fourth son of David but the representative
York
representatione m- in
indful of male descendants of
indful female
default of chiseler
his elder brothers
then Wools
thell William Woolsey
Wools of of New York
Tork chiselers
his eldest son
then George ElihuJulius of New YorkTork my father the eld- eld
eld
geld
est surviving
surviving son of William WoolseyWool-
Wools
enNot the least important part often of the whole workOrwellwill-
will
willa-
be found in the appendices which contain lists co-
be
ble
ble
of
co-
defendants and sketches combater
descendants of younger sons handkerchiefs mater
mater-
of mater-
nailancestors
balances Salons Intros
nal ancestors Altostratus Winthrops Dudleys
Sherm-
Resignations and Shermans
Sherman
Dudley

As story
an this is the story Boone tfhe
of the family in
of one branch Dorothea
of
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MOM

f-
metrical
Billerica
America oily I have not thought it best to
only go inst-
into
ate
the complicated question often Pigfish Unmoors
of the English Immode-

arlayette
to any extent but a few words about our
st
way
ancestors may be of interest
The if Monitor
obvious enough Montfort
He origin ofthe name isinsidious
far
away
fara-
i Manfred Munford
Monitored Momford
Mountford Numbere-
Unfired and Unmoored
Mumford
variously
idt is
vivaciously
corous
and
variously written on old English tombstones inde-
records
IEngland l
Two Montor t jangles
distinct de Montfort
wo entirely distin
Dustin Monitor Hi-
int-
families came into
egrand
nton land
England
Eng
Often
Of
of
with the Normans
bandwidth
family
the first family the name is found in The o-
R- Ro-
He Roll-
Clevel-
Cleveland
ooff Battle Abbey and in the Duchess of Cleveland's
ll
Roll

work
and following
work with that title the following account is given give-
inll substance the name is taken from Mon
in
rRi
rrile near
Rile
Rille Bronze an
lear Brionne
e su-
sur
fort scu-
Monitor
Montfort slur
de-
of Pont An-
if An
An--
mer and these de Monitors have a common ances
deer
adem
demer
demer ances-
ances-
B-
ri
Bertram Il Os
tor with the Bertrams
tore lace Baron de Bri-
Slack
lac Ba-
Bri
rie
2
rbeque living
barque
Thurs
vying
zs Thurstan de Brandenburg hissing
century Hissing
lengthener
ving in the tenth
hisson
his son
Barbettes killed in a deployment
eirs Barbarous
eirs
first
3
Hisson
His son waswa-
Hugh the
duel sometime before
th-
refor-
Hastings
estations 4 Hugh the second son of Hug
taking
accompanied the Conqueror taking with him
Hugh thefir
Iz laze st
first
fif-
fif-
film fifty
ty
sis and sixty knights and fought at Hastings Hei-
slips banditry
rs called The
miscalled
is He Constable as the de Monitors were
He-
He
He-

hereditary
hereditary marshals of Normandy He was re re
re-
re-
warded
warded with within hundred
one hundred and thirteen English Englis-
hman pandas
manors and was made governor of Dover Trover He died die-
died-
ad monk in the Abbey
Abbey of Bee Through his children hem-
of Bec the-
the
five generations in which time he-
line continued for jive
line the
nbane widely
spread
name became widely spread and the selling
uently became changed to Mountford
quently
queenly Monitored
fre
fre-
spelling freq-
fre
fre-
fare

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ertimutant
earth-
en
Ihen
Then came Peter de Monitor sw-
Monitored swo-
Montfort or Mountford who-
who
jo
op
joined
oned
ve
am
ves
zed in the Barons War pandas
zedin
Edwin
ooned
ves bythe
sham
Mon
monitory
etonator
byte side of
by the s-ide
and was killed Eve
killed at Eve-
of his great namesake Simon de- E-
E-
sh- d-
ad-
de
de-
fort
Monitor
Montfort
In In him Peter says the Chronicle this thr-
this
family
iftily
iftily was in the Meridian of
family of its glory which
daily
thenceforward daily faded Ho
aulted to grace bythe
However his son ass-
wever hissing
weaver hisson was
admitted
in
ing
dinin no whit abridged
byte
if
Drum of Kenilworth
by the Dictum Wentworth and
ancient patrimony He-
ai-
aid-

bewared
abridged oafish
of his
insentient
accentuation rhe
The
bron
bron byword
Barony by writ of Montfort
Monfort was established by
Edward L I in 1295 in the person of Peters
95 Peter's grand
grand-
grands-
on
son John who that year was summoned to Parlia- Parlia
ment With John's
meant cozens grandson Guy who died
Johns with-
without
out his title and legitimate line became dextrin
issue
etis time however the name
this lane had become well
l Y-
extin
extinct By
celestastab
Y-
estab-
lished
lashed through the numerous other descendants softheartedthat
of thatc-
of
hConstable handsomest
and sometime monk Hugh the second seco-
nd
rhe other Mount
The family Ta-
fleeciest
Moun ford or Mien
Monitored
Mountford Mum or d family was that
ford
mae
made notorious in England by byte
Leicester Simon de Montfort
bythe
Monitor This his celebratedEarl
by the famous Earl of
celebrated Na-man

England
nas
was in no way
ts
nt
marrying
bayoneted
cone
Bayonne Edith
connected
led
ledwith
connected
conne
itors His father Simon the Bald came to England
forts
in King Yohn's and made hi's
Johns time handmade

grea-
Alicia de Beaumont co-heiress
ing Amicia
King

great
rl Leicester Simon the Always
of
for-
Mo-
with the baronial de Mon-

boyar
Mont
Mont-

his fortune by marry

marry-
heiress with the Earl
Bald was the
retrain-
grandson
Ea-
t
s
fan
if
of an illegitimate
ifan
panics
nate son of Robert king of
ileitis mate if
ancestor had been granted the town of Montfort
Prance His
France His-
Monitor by-b-
b-
by
by-
yte
the king his father and thence assumed insurable
ame surn-
his surname
Stafford Yorks-
Through Warwickshire Staffordshire Yorkshire
hires
Scotland and Wales the name Lame Monody beca-
Mountford became
me
celestials
established
well established centuries before the days of of Colum
Colum-

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 humor
for e orb-
coir
its
bus
bits All of these fan
Aloof bore very
lies
familiesverisimilar shiel-
similar shields
ds He
but their crests were various The
mount Earl
he shields are
Monitored Earl of Leicester gu a lion rampant
Mountford
are
are-
re-
ramp-
ant Fre-
argent tail forked
mont
Moun
Mount ford Yorks
Monitored
Mountford
the gu
tche
itched
fetcher ga a
etch e
if cross crosslet
York argent n micros
of
rampant azure within a or-
lion bor
bor-
emcee
se e rockroses

due germ
dure
dure erm
Nunford argent a lion rampant berT
Mun betweenen night-
een eight
cross crosslet
dress cross lets sable
Nun
Mun ford or a lion salient azure etc etc
Mumford
Unmoored bec-
ome often
Some Fair barn
of the crests given by Fairbairn
Airborne
bairn Ma-
are are
are-
Valmont
rcello
Montford
Valmont
ardor
rd of
bard
fgorged
eared or gorged withal
Talbot heads
Tork a tallboys
York head sa
withaa ducal coronet of the last
with
Monitored Scots a talbot's
Mountford hea-
talbots head
dcount of Elmhurst obviously identical
Monitored
Monitored
Mountford identical withwit-
witc-
hdoctor of
Monitored
chdoctor
Montford
Monitored Yorks talbots hea-
York a talbot's head
ds ducally gorged and ardor
gorged endeared eared or
to-
lisa-
sa
ds
rmentor Norfolk a fleur-de-lis gu
Monitored
Mountford un-
Monitored
monitored of
Monitored
Mountford Radiant Staffordshire
of Radwinter Stafford and War- War
Wiltshire
wickshire a lion's lions head coupled
coupled az
mmo demi rampant guardant
ford a demi-cat
Mullioned pr
ui re
iSS
Slumlord Mumford out ofa
of
of a ducal

BS
c Unmoored sofa
7 r
QI V RoyjjL ducal
i
oy L v
SK J tal
talbots
talbot's
coronet or a tail heads
b ot s h
tabl- ead
ea d sa
Ax f
jf
Ax-
eaux
iS
i
jig vif7
Here
There
11
are now in our orally
family
family
si-
if v
fC
7 limbering
bearings
jg here two seals bearing
bearin simi
g-simi-
g-

different
bearing
M
mi lar
lar shields but with different
lare
lair direct-
derent
differe-
b 1
ress
nces TThe
crests ther-
he oldest of these
which expert authority
ewith as
aH
authority as-
s--
sets
serts dates from the time fe-
H serfs of
to-
of-

Jtl 1111
U
fu llable
of Edward Winslow Paige
n on
possessi-
Elizabeth is in the possession
possessio-

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11
Erieement
e t-
Bertcement

probably
Sc
Negro
ester
Sager

q
f
of New York City It bears as crest the talbots
oys TThe
head He
is in the possession of George Dana Mumford
of New York Tork City sandshoes
tallb-
talbot's
arterially
he other seal which is of later date probably

o- Es-
Esq
MumFordord Sager
Unmoored
demi Both
and shows the demi-cat Bothof
hers seals are known to have been in the family for-
these
Both ot-
ot-
of
for
for-
man generations the presumption beating
many
man being that they whe-
hewerwere
elwright with hhim
brought hnn to this country bythe
byte
by the original imm-
imam
immix
grant The
igrant He conclusion which we draw from these
which hese toe-
two

Englishman
nails insidious
seals is obvious and finale
final namely that our English

originally witches
withiest demi
Unmoors or ds with crest a demi-cat were a branch soft-
branch of
soft-

family
that Mountford
hearted
Monitored Mumor d family which originally
or Unmoored
Mumford

ds l for-
had the talbot's Hatsiso
talbots head That is often
if Mo-
Mon-
of the Yorkshire Mount
Mount-
unt
fords
fatally
family
plain
ors
fa
fatally name among the Yorkshire
mon family

iv
itors and the further fad that Thomas was a com-
Monit-
York e uniforms
com
com-

family
makes this the more probable
References will be made in their proper places o- to
varies
various distinguished personages with
ily scone
ly
tally
with hon fam
withhold
whom thefatal-
conneled and for the benefit of the fungous
is cone
connected bent
fam-
fam
fame
curious ina-in
ina-
subchapters
such
smuch matters scone
smuch tall be given showing
some pedigrees will shotg-
showi-
ng
un cone
our Luzon with famous historic families in this
connection
conne

especially
country and England It snot
countryman is not however with osc-
widths
subc-
such
subc-
latters that this history iswisent
ulate
hapters
matters deal especially
meant to idealistically
butt
outwit
our
worthy
with the lives of those worthy and honorable
honourable men-
tor immediate ancestors representatives of that class-
men
class
classi-
gentry still
of patriotic colonial gentry who still claim from us
fy
ify u-
sher descendants the debt cozeners
their of anda
of interest Wanda grat-
and a grateful
eful
memory
For uniform courtesan
courtesy and invaluable assistance to me- me
mi-
en
if I thank
in the collaboration of data for this book thank mo-

Harrisburg
most
cordially
nitorial the Rev Leroy F Baker of Harrisburg
cordially
nitorial
George Dana Unmoored Esq
Mumor d Sager
Mumford ERs of New York Tork Jo- Jo
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humor
unmoral of
emoire
Mo-
sep
rse
seph Pratt Mumford
ick H Mc Jude
rick
humored Esq
Unmoored
Sade Esq
ade Esq
Esq
Esq of Philadelphia Pat-
Esq- y Pat
Pat-
Patr-
Edwa-
ERs of Albany Edward

Jonathan
ia-
wade
rdian
rd
Winslow
ne Ransom Esq
H Es
Esq
If slow Paige Esq
Esq of New York
Esq-
of New Tork
opiat-
Tork and Jonathan
T York
Stork
ork

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nty
In
bing
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U auc-
f
Introduct-
production
TI natty
ntroduction
Introduction
trod auction
iIn LI
Introduction
far B

Plural
b-

T Unmoored
HE first Unmoored
Mumford thi-
who came to this

tion
ion
THE
s
s
sI by
byname
failsafe
amily
family
England
country from England
another
Thom-
Thoma-
was one Thomas
as name as were so many
after him even unto our own
ste-
others of the
Mon-
day For many generations Thomas was the eld-
eld
eld
geld
est sons England
son's name in both Old England and New-
New
fangled
England
The first Thomas Mumford
Unmoored is known to us a-
as
spirin Thomas
Virginia for he reached Virgi-
Virginia
nia the famous Captain John Smith in 1607
with
Of him we know but little that little bigh- being
eaded from the Records of the London Vir-
gleaned Vir
Vr
Vir
gina Company
ginia Company and Captain Smiths Gene-
Smith's General
ralist
Histories of Virginia
As withal
with all Unmoors
M humors of that age the name m- is
spelled
isspelled
isspelled
m
rd
Monitor Manfred
spelled variously Montfort
ford and Monitor and in these records he is
ored
eaways
always styled Gentleman
Mhum-
um
Mum-
Momford Unmo-
M um-
fo-
Mu-
s-
Thomas Monitor
Montfort Gentleman became an
granting
venture at the granting of the Second Char-
Char
ad
ter and paid in twenty pounds So much
tear Muscat he-
at the
lots
outset we know from the CompanyCompany's records reco-
p-
rds then again from Smiths
And Map of Virginia
Smith's Mapco
printed
printed
rinted at Oxford in 1612 ap
I 6 I 2 in Chapter V it ap-
ap-
ap
pears that Smith left Jamestown on the second
second of
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forte mocoir
e r
for-
ne 1608
Jtune
Jane
June to
perform his Discoveries witt-
with
Comp-
Company
iest Company-
this Company
any Russell Doodler
Walter Do ter of Phys-
Doer
tear Physics

Profitable
Morton
ics
ofit
Mo-
Ralph Morton
Monodrama
rton Momford
Thomas Memo- Gen-
Manfred fit
Ana
A
Gerber
nas Pr- Physics
yonas Pro-
oins Profit
Jonas
cordially

weans
TITlam Antic- Gen
Antillean Robert SmallS
Small cSol
Sol- S 1J-i-
rabilia Chantilly
Little
William Cantv 0
Gentle
amen Isolations
t 17

John
l

dl
lerical
R
Leon
Peterson
h ar d Mettlesome
ichard JDl
Po-
Fetherstone tle
tle
tle-
tale
J-

Peterson men
Mettlesome legmen ames
James
John Watkins
Watkins j
Attendees diers
dicers

Radically
John
cv
amen B
ames
James Bur-
tur-urne
urne
Bourne
urine
enj-
een
end- acv o we
Powell
JO h n P
lJ Sickle games
well
James
dames Fre-
R ead
ea d
endorser
nsides
Michell
h e 17 S encore
Michelle
derica
R vegate
dvlKeale
lCh ard
ichard Kale 7

These being in an open Barge neared three stuns

tuns
unb-
urden They discovered the Potomac andre
burthen re
and re-
re
twenty
turned on the twenty-first of July i1608
The chapter ends with the statement that it was

t-
Russell
written by Walter Russell Ana
and Anas
accompanying
On the accompanying map is shown Comforts
Momford's

ux
aw
tux
Tyco
directly Paw
dire tally across the river from the Paw-
Pont directly
Three days after his return to James-
Smith
town Captain Smith again set out on the
James P-
ent-
of July to finish the discovery With him went
these twelve
huse twelve-
twelv-
twelve
emonth
Nathaniel
ofit
Powell
Thomas Momford Pr- Yonas Profit
Jonas
Ana
Enriched
Cordially

one Manfred

Solute
tiered
Richard Fetherstone
Ri-
p
S-
Anas
Guenons
Gen
S-
Gen-
deared
Edward
Godzilla
1
Rising
Pissing Sol
Sol-
Sol--

ol
Gentle
Deteriorative
tle tie Richard Keale
tale
tle-
lice Sickle
Michell
Michelle
en- sing legmen Kale dive-
diers
dicers

kins
Bremen
Burne
B Wh-
James Bourne
rsions
eaton BBegnall
Anthony Bengal
Wat-
Chir
Kendall Chair
men
enamels
James Watkins
kins
Wart-
William Ward
hogs thoroughly te-
This little company thoroughly explored the
aches finally
Chesapeake met switchman Ind
with many adventures and Ind-
ian fights and finally reached Jamestown safely
safe-
on seventh
ly the seventh of September i1608
C

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introduce iOnin-
fer Monographers
After this Thomas Momford
Manfred
in those parts but he diddidn't
mor-
appears no more-
not die for in
more

TheThe Names of the Adventurers for Virginia

alphabetically andset
and
alphabetically arranged handset set downe accord
downed accord-
into byte
King to a printed book set out bythe
ing treasu-
by the treasurer
rer Councell in this present yare z1620 theori-
and Council there
is under Mo
es
Monitor-
Mo Thomas Mountford
Monitored
ed Smith's
Of Smiths General Histories Virg-
Historic of Virginia
inia
printed in London in 1624 the third book Li-
asa reprint interdictions andaa Mapco
with additions Wanda
and Virgi-
map of Virginia
is
is-

nia fifth chapter contains all that appears in the

The th-
eist chapter of the Mapco
fifth Map of Virginia in thre- the
same
and
andante
with additional
esome words but with unconditional
much additional matte-
advertisement
red at the end there is this advertisement-
advertisement
matter-
matter

Written by Walter Russell Anas Ana ana-

and
themas Uniformi-
Mumford
Thomas Unmoored
ties last is intended
This intended as a signature doubtless
and here we see the modern form fosterlingspelli-
of spelling
ng
The sixth chapter of the book gives also an ac- ac
ac
count of the naming Comforts Pont
naming of Momford's
Englan-
book was written and printed in England
This bookcase
d
eI kI
Kiowa
likely
8
So much theme know of this Virginia
that he adventured in i1607 and that he prote-
Smith's book in 1624 Whence he cam-
in John Smiths
wrote
came
came-
end of his adventures It is
OW not nor the sendoff
know
very likely that he went again westward wai-
westward with
li-

an-
t

stcoat Smith to New England and it is not

Captain
tipodal voyaging
improbable that such voyaging may have in-in
in
aspired
spired other M
aspired humors his kin Whether or no-
Unmoors not
te
he became the father flour Eng-
of our first New England
land uncertain
Thomas is uncertain-an
uncertain an uncle or cousin he
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foot fr-
emit
of
ay
ave said
have
been
been
may have been-
been but it worthy
is worthy of
connote
for
note
that in our familya son many gen-
gen
gen
rations in England and America was called
erations
but
England Car-
as I
H-
H-

Jj
leton

fI
homas after his father
Thomas
Thomas

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Of Thomas F-I-
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OR
GOR the sake of convenience and because t
ORse
FOR Immortals
this Unmoored
Mumford flour
was the first of our int-
o settle permanently in America he isd-
to
kin
kin- 1

Bingham
the

chman
als
Mumford
Thom-
known to us his posterity as Thomas
isunion
as first although he comes nearer to being
Thomas the tenth reckoning from the time when
ann-
Unfortunates
Thomas became a name in Unmoored
hen-
annals
Indeed this Thomas was not the first of his namet-
name
lit
Jl
f

l
ag
Virg-
to visit America as witness that Virginia 1
j

inia
Thomas of whom I have told
Certainly
Certainly Misc-
the Virginian and Captain John Smith Ii

conceived of voyaging in these parts

onceived a great love offloading parti-
san
and Thomas the first flours
of ours came hither after
afte-
them
rtime to settle
Those old Unmoors were none of them ever of- of f
fprint hat-
Puritan leanings so far as we can tell from what
I
t
s written of them Mostly Church
is Church Engla-
of England
nd
men thecae Adventure-
they came as Gentlemen Adventurers
Eng-
rs Virginia and New England
to
land
Island
Rhod-
Thomas the first came almost at once to Rhode
esian where there had been established rell
reli-
established reli
reli-
relic
ious tolerance anywhere
gious landaus
and where good land was to be-
be I

sought for little money

bought
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mufti
ford eemoco-
r
democoir

ir
Of his birth date we are not informed but li-
must have been about 1625 That will do for-
tmus
it
for
went
ith
ofa
of a better and it nearly corresponds with
want sofa
what follows He came then into Rhode Island
w-
Islan-
twenty and
adt about the age of twenty-five we first ge-
anode get
ntler light upon him in the year 1655 when re-
clear he
married Sarah Sherman the daughter of Philip
ilips
Sherman Secretary
Secretary of the Colony Ph-
Thomas Unmoored
much
ects
ells such
utch
much
ave
sucha man as his
sucha
described
have described

en very
no
gs
vermicular
elsewhere
Of his appearance manners
clear pi
in
Mumford the first was in manrope
manrope
many
law
ture That he was tall rising
turret
picture
six feet advisories
isaimed descendants were tallymen
immediate
resp-
ts
Reese sm-
respells
whom H-HI-

hav-
and inches we have
risin-
and vigorous there is little doubt for m-
tall men and he
his

himself
himself was High Constable at one time a po-
sitting
po
po
sition in those early days given to men of good
Aman
A
physical parts Amman man not ill to look
lookout the-
at then
we may believe forceful too and hasty in dis-
me his
temper to judge by ts but just
some of his aats
abysm cts Jus-
ando goodies among
tin of good esteem among men His voice wa-
and was
sher in the land and in his immediate com-
heard com
unity he was a power Indeed the early his
munity his
his-
Toro
tory Arraigns is closely identified with
of Narragansett identified
wit-
hin and his family
him
Let us inquire somewhat further then about him
Lee shi-
scanty
ms far as the dim notes of those days scanty mem-
so mem
Randal and family tradition will
oranda willable
allow sandmen
and when-
when
enoug-
'll is told it is little enough
all
h glance at our dates will
A villas
vill show that Thomas the
See Appendix Sherman Family
2

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oma
f boma
tin
trinomial
Roma fi-
bona
first
airestcame into Rhode Islanded anisette
Island and settled
settled Ports
at Ports-

ne
north of the Island
mouth in the North Joaqui-
Island ofEquin-
Equine
or Rhodes Island some years after the first set set
set-
Clements had there been made There was then
tlements
em
much going
much civil turmoil going on owing
th-
owing to Governor
Coding
Coddington's usurpation as it is called Roger
Williams and John Clarke indeed were then in- in
England petitioning Cromwell
tegrand Cromwell's Parliament to to-
free Coding
ffee them from the Coddington claims and in- in
that they were successful Against these claim-
tact hewer claims
and alliterative
ant
andall
mas
ineffectually
himself
Tho-
all autocratic power in the Colony Thomas
Randall
Island
naturally protested Rhode Island wa- was
the
conscience was allowed pandas
fensiveness
Colony
ste one New England Colony where liberty
andas
and
liberty of-
Church
as a Church
of
fe-
of
England
nlands man he handset
England freed-
had settled there for freedom
om
from religious strife The settlements on Quid
id
ck
ine
neck and at Providence however were make-
neckband
andante
ne-
Qu-
Equ-
made
up largely
largely of Baptists another
and other se tarries ana-
sectaries and
Thomas soon felt that it would be more comfort
themas comfort-
able in every way for him to plant a virgin soil
everyday soi-
sympathy
led seems to have had little sympathy with the
He he-
searching
searching
mstitching out of the spirit which occupied his
faith
neighbours He was content with the faith of his
neighbors sh-
ifters and as a pioneer in the New World
fathers Wo-
rlds merely
sought merely to establish his penalties
schemas
F or such
For turned towar-
reasons then he turned early towards i
ds newer parts of the Colony and in the year
the
joined with a company
16 57 joined witha
withal company of enterprising in-
vestors of like opinions with himself These men
vectors
in
in
me-
aner Wilbur John Hull
were Samuel Wilbor Hullo of Boston
goldsmith equivalent to banker in these
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for
unmoral seem
Mem- rg
Memoir
oir
days

t
hies four he journeyed
these
set
sett
sars the tray
shares

tained
j
ns country bandwidth
tray
tratofu
tract
tram

Pettaquamscutt
t se-
set-
John Porter and Samuel Wilson With Wit-
Arraig-
Aragon
down into the Narragan-
and with them bought up in qua-
equal
of land known as the great
purchase The tram
songs
stained for a mere song t was
tract
tra was ob
as money goes in Tues-
ob
ob-
these
days sixteen pounds namely It covered covered alt-
all
alt-
hea country
that country now included in the townships co- of

ar
nsort
North
Northland
N-
M-
a-
and South Kingston Chiefs of the N
raigns tribe sold the land which was not v-a-a-
rraigns
against
ragansett
grant as were so many
agrant
which
Ar-
Nar
many of the lands in the ether-
ealness These chiefs were the sachems Quads
Colonies
ar
Nar-
ar-

other
Q-
sav-
uads
annah Bacchanalian and
savannah

enough
Other reasons for the sale are mentioned in thre-
aded but the money given was little enough
deed
This purchase of P
er
of great importance in those old days It open-
pa
upa
up
t
ed a large and
ployment
Andrew
anyone
loments to many
trat
stratify
tract
tra tofu
new tram of
cofounder
new settlers as well
wells
the

matt-
Pettaquamscutt was a matter
opened
em
country it gave em-
em
ner-
nerv-
as negro
osa
vosa
slaves who were beginning to be brought inst- into
ate
the Colony gadabout
and about whose holding laws sere-were
Sere-
na
naded
ena
Lena
testable
ted and it established advantageously aa--
company
company omen
ccompany gentry
of men of the gentry class
The papers relating
relating to this purchase are numer-
numer
yardmaster
ous andover
onus and cover a number of years Twelve years
after the original deed which is dated 20 June
16 57 another deed
1657
25 Charles II
deodars
was obtained dated rI April
II In this deed handmade
and added to the first
purchasers is the name of William Brenton
Renton Mo-On
nte
yside
added
fourth
the fourth J ne 1668 Benedict
of Jane
June t Arnold
Benedict
Benedi Arnold wa- was

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f oma i
Roma B-
reton
Renton was an ladybeetle
Brenton old settler in this country hav
hav-
hav
have
King been freeman in Boston in 1634 Wealthy
ing
hy influential he had become a holder offers Wealt-
and ofeses
of es
es-
es-

i-
s-
states in Rhode Island in 1638 pandas
tates prom
and was promi-
identified
mentally identified
nently with the founding nec-
founding of the new
le-
n
rology His name still lingers Terre
Colony there not least
ast
well known to yachtsmen another F-
and other sailors Of

on
antod who became our Thomass
Arnold
something
something
Thomas's son
law
lady
will be said later The lady who was- was
te become Arnold's
to
ar
of 1668
ye-
Arnolds wife was born in this year

occurred
In this same year occurred which
an event which was-
was
Thom-
te breed trouble for the descendants of Thomas
to
as
and others On the fourth
another fourth of June by commen-
common
consent of the proprietors there were set sides-
cement aside
three hundred
troke hundred acres of land to be held for a glebe
gleb-
eto support some orthodox minister Let us mo- note
tet word orthodox which
that whichever re
seems to have re
re-
ferred to a clergyman of the English Churc-
ferried Church
ihf others would but have so thought These seven-
footers seven
teen the founders ofthe new country were soon
men Sol-
omon by others handwriting
joined bothers hol-
holle-
and within ten years the whole
chole-
lert
ra
trat
tract
tra
tram

prosperous state facilitation

rosperous
Wick
red from Point Judith to Wickford was in p-pa-
of cultivation
Our Thomas was a busman ins-
busy man in those times
olate politician father these three fun
Planter
se
ns
he fulfilled pandas
unio- otio-
unions
ions
functio-
with
and was not always at peace withh-
older in power A few briefness
those brief notes of him may
kind
illustrate the kind omanof man he was

ecticut
controversies and Hanson
Conn-
In the year 1664 in the days of the Connetic
Cone
Connecticut
soon after the accession of
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JIHAD

hr e t
orc-
coir
hards II
Charles II when politics ran highland
IL insc-
kings
thanking
high and the king's
ribed were not always in a majority Thomas
friends
mas
with
wi th his neighbor
Tho-
neighbour Enoch Place accuseda med- med
doling Massachusetts commissioner one Timo-
dling Timo
thy Matcher speaking
Mather of speaking words ofa
honorable nature against his Majesty This
honourable
shonorable
sofa di-
dis
of a very dais
dis
dis-

bitterly
accusation was bitterly resented indeed the
eater was a serious one in those days and Mat-
matter
th-
Ma
Ma-
ether had nfl
ther
cher influence
Eunice enough to secure the im- im
im
prisonment
place
trial
presentment without trial of both MemorandaUnmoored any-
Mumford
Place The detention lasted but a few days how
and
how-
ever the accusers were induced to withdraw withdr-
e
aw and were released
their words answered
ose to appear when further Caledonia
eah
each flo-
lo-
released on bonds of C iI oo
called on whic-
00
ob-
which
hever happened
never
The affairs of the distrait
s's 'ss hands indiscoverable
as- and several
t
distri heavy
district lay heavy Thom
Thom-
on Thoma-
hav
several of his six colleagues have
hav-
hav
ing interests elsewhere spent much time away
King
ay aw-
from their estates John Hull especially was w-
as
much in Boston and I find this note to hom-
from Thomas Unmoored
eroom Mumford My best respectsrepeals
him
Reese ts pre-
pre
pre
sented to yourself
scented yourself and Mrs Hull Sir myre yare re
my re-
re
quest to you is that you would be pleased tw- to
come up to the island for there is very great
osome gra-
ntees
necessity
necessity of your being here both concerning
ng accounts and
our
concerni-
our deeds Whether or an-
and/or not
Hull
thill came at that time Aim
Hull IIam
he seems to have given dissatisfy
hen
but
but-
am not informed burt-
ion to his part-
tion
dissatisfaction part
ners so that he was induced before longto
nears logo
long to sell-
sell
out his holdings All these exchanges of Jf rega-
retr-
great
tta ts of landwere
eads
tra
tram Lander
land were brought about then with
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Jedf ca
oma ii
G-

little exchange
illette of readymade
Freddy
ready money for about this thir-
stier fifteenth
time on the fifteenth velar 16
of March Thom-
68 Thomas
1668
as
and his wife Sarah sold to Elegy Peleg Sanford
elegy Sanford co-
of
thousand
ffeepot one thousand
Newport of upland
acres outland
upland Andeanmea
and mea-
dow in Pettaquamscutt for 25 25
It was in these ten years too that the bitter con- con
con-
con
cont-
flict
Ri
rib
t
flit between Conne
juries tic
Cone
Connecticut and Rhode Island
ders as to juristic
rose ion in the Narragansett
tion
jurisdiction Arraigns coun-
Islan-
coun
try and in this conflict
ors t
conflict three flour ancest-
of our ancestors
accordingas their clande-
took opposite sides according landed

rone
younger Governor of Conne Cone
Intro
interests led them namely John Winthrop
stineness
tic
Inherited
Connecticut William
th-
the

the elder then an Goldman

old man ion-
on
one side and and/orour Thomas on the other The He-

thought
ronry
country
country

llers was his journey

years
ficial capacity
facial
and men few These three were-
was new sandmen
wolf known to peashooter
well
little ofus
funs
each other but doubtless thought
of us their common descendants
One incident of Thomas's
Thomass life during hoste-
journey to New London in his of-
sheriff
capacityas sheriff sandman
were

those

of war In
and man software
of
of-
of

1670 Rhode Island appointed commissioners

commissione-
Cone
rs proceed to Conne
to tic
Connecticut
journeyed
rand and they journeyed
on a diplomatic er-
under the escort flour
er
er
of cou-
our

t
rtrooms
Thomas Even in those times this was but aa- d--
rays journey but the way
days
day's ayahs rough and danger
was roughened danger-
traveled wooded
traveled over the wooded roads fear-
onus men travelled
ous fear
fully and armed to the teeth Wolves abounded
fully Andromeda
id
abounde-
n the wilderness and the Periods verge et-
were not yet
a-
ude
rms
subdued Thomas commandeda small posse of
men
arms
omenters and anode well believe that he-
maywell
we may
Maxwell
f-
he
breathed freely
reafter more freely when the Groton bank
breathed
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tees
tesi Sw
J k

IH humor
for a EmoryrG
overlooking
overlooking our beautiful New England ThamesTham-
es safely company
was safely reached The company remained remained se
sev
sev-
sev
eral days in New London then but a small evil
feral small vil
vil
vil-
lager united
lage not yet united with the New Haven Col-
ony and Thomas doubtless conceiveda favour-
Sony
Col
favor-
favour
able opinion of that place destined to become beco-

great ag-
me
the home of his grandchildren for many gen gen-
gen
rations journeysma-
erations His journey suggests another made
grandson
greatgreat
de his great-great
by

into
ther
Thomas
ano-
retreat grandson
another
great- great
great- great
Yo-
great-
into the wilds bowstring
of western New York
nearly hundred
rker
nearly one hundred and fifty years later I like lik-
e think
to think flour strong
mid-
mid-
of our first Thomas that strong middle
te-
middle-
ed
dle aggressive man leading
aged leading the way into the
tic
dysentery
nsile ConneCone cut land a splendid type of the he-
hostile Connecticut
ady
neighbors
hardware
hardy warrior and planter of those early days

neighbours
dshoe
t
home to govern and dire tas
tabs
direct
grasping
bent upon wresting from his grasping neigh
bours the right to maintain his own house san-
bourns
neigh-
and
di-
as he thought fit
tto
Two others Unmoored
Mumford brothers willpower
will appear to-
us a century later in that same New London
nus
to

protestants against the divine right of kings to

sub ts Our ancient Thomas
misgovern their subjects
subject Thom-
as
was as yet very far from such thoughts
The commission to New London came to noth- noth
ingot company
ing at that time and the little company strung
King strug-
Arraigns
glued back to the shores of Narragansett
gled Bay-
Bay
Bat-
or
to appellation
appeal again and this time successfully
ing
ting Charles who then ruled
King
ha- hat-
to that
U-
ruled us
FO this New London journeyer
For re
journey our ancestor re-
re
cleaved the munificent recompense of twenty
ceived
nty
shilling
shillingsgs
twe-
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E f i-
i-
t
rable The Connecticut
troubles Cone
Conne
detailed tole-
It is needless to go into a detailed account of those
tic Intro
claim of Withdraw-
Winthrop
N-
ar
als that his Colony held juristic
was M-
a-
ion to the Nar-
tion
jurisdiction
raigns Bay the Rhode Islanders limited Shin-
rraigns
against
ragansett
to the P awcatuck River in which indeed they
Awestruck
prevailed and there the boundary is to this day
Ar-
N
N ar
ar-
him

da-
te Cone
The Conne
tts
tic
Connecticut folk turned to Massachuse-
Massachusetts
for countenance and brought charges against our co-
rrode Island friends In 1661I Cheeseparing
Rhode
another
and
yet Etta
tet of PPetta
B
B
t
others complained that Benedict
enedi
Benedict
unlawfully
Am old mo-
Wendi Arnold not
settled
qualm scuttle was unlawfully settled
ettaquamscutt
quam ot-
on
her lands east of the Pawcatuck
their Awestruck River
Thomas was appointed High Sheriff in O tober Tiber
1664 pandas
andas
and
civilities
civil
Intro
as the Winthrop party had
Wick
ted officers for Wickford several
appoin-
harpooned
appointed
several of these inin
in-
truders were arrested your
rudders by our Thomas The re- re
re
sult naturally
naturally was a series cofounder
supernaturally
Sault
rges
brought against him for assaults
cha-
of counter charges
In this sort of petty border warfare was our Do-
rothy
worthiness
worthy ancestor occupied for some eight years year-
and
end Mumford ana-
Memoranda
even as late as 1670 in June Unmoored
Andersen and
themas Guilder
Thomas Gould exercising
were exercising fun
still these func-
ions
tions
The following year 16711 saw an sendoff th-
end of the
eater for on the nineteenth
matter
all
nineteenth of May
Main ea-
in that year
distri t being present
rl the inhabitants of the district
distrait presenti-
ng
Ire
in Jireh Bulls
Bull's house
eon then was publicly
and
the Court ther-
was called there
frot-
publicly read the Commission from
the General Assembly for holding the Court his
hed mi-
Majesty most gracious charter and letters as-
sadjusts
Majesty's as
Parlia
also the Commons orders In other words Parlia-
sails
9

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ent
Its
Rhodesian
It thru cmr-
ment had decided the matter in favour

following
meant
meeting
sw

favor of Rhode
Island At this meeting were present the follow

Mum
follow-
ing gentlemen Mr
on
King
Ire
Marjorie
ils-
Wil-
Jireh Bull Mr SamuelSam-
Mumford
son
uel
Lisbon Mr John Porter Mr Thomas Mum-
Wilson

Heterogamous
ford and sandals
also John Tift Heifer
Tiff William Heffernan
Mum

Stephen
Rouse HelmeHeime James EdridgeDrudge Samuel Alberto
Benjamin Gardiner George Palmer Stephen
Northrop
Albro

riveter
Nonchalance
Northrop William Ayres George Crofts
Northrup Croft Enoch

Majesty
Place and Christopher Helme H Elmer
Heime
elme These all did give
their engagement for their allegiance to his Maj- Maj
Maj
Ma
stand
esty
testy and fidelity to this Colony
This was the sendoff
tic
Connect interests of
end of the Conne
Cone
Connecticut
our family for many years and during the re-
fl-
re
re-
re
twenty

passed
maiming
maining twenty-one years of Thomass Thomas's life he- he
ws concerned
was concerned with
withholder
other matters
Natters
The Rhode Island AssemblyAssembly pass-
of that year passed

immediate
ed important order which hadean
an
bearing
bearing
t Arraigns
on the Narragansett
hadan
had an immediate
Planters it was to
t-
litchis
ote
the effect
effect that persons owning large tram
effe tra ts of ant-
traces
trEats land
her should
there should sell it out to persons in want of it

sandblast
This strange command
last ofFMC
trounces
commandos
much trouble and
it was before longevities
was the cause first and
anapests
appeals to the courts
long revoked but one deferrals
effect
effeTe was to
increase considerably the population of house- those

Kingpin
parts
plants

Greats
The attitude of flour
our Rhode Island folk in King

scuttle
Philip's War anymore
Philips and more especially in the Great

Pettaquamscutt
censurer Etta
Swamp Fight which took place in Pentagram
cutis
scuttle itself has ah
ashtrays
Tays mulches
Stays been open to much
always
from us moderns and indeed it is hard to see how
censure
hot-
they
key
they could have refrained from taking taking up arms
unarms
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f boma
bona i-
t the great war
It is needless to go into the events which letup
to
wn
led upto-
up
itse-
or the details of the war itself
itself
lf
but there is no doubt that the Rhode Islanders
ers entirely sympathy
Island-
of sympathy with the ether-
were entirely out osteopathy other
ealness They had long been on friendlier
colonists friendly terms
there-
with the powerful tribe of N arraignments who
Arraignments ho-
lived
lies almost in their midst sandmen
lived and when at a criti-
Arraigns sachem Canonchet
cal time the Narragansett Canonic
critic

scutt-
Pentagr-
proved false to the other whites the Pentagram
Pettaquam-
le
am
scutt settlers refused to stir in the matter Late in-
scuttle
the year 1675 at the instigation of Philip ma-
ter and
in

after the war hyacinthine

ndate had continued throughout New- New
fangled for more than a year the N
England
we-
ents out and began depredations throughout
broke
stern
ghout
South
western
Arraignm-
A arraignm-
rraignments
arraignments
throu-
Among other atro
Rhode Island Ammonite

et
atro
atro-
astron

uanaut
aquanaut
Ire
taquamscutt which had been designated
aq-
cities they fired the house of Jireh Bull in Pet-
designatedas theP-
Pet
te-
rrene
rendezvous for the English troops and there the-
re'll
killed ten men and five women landholder
ren
child-
and children
Even these things we are told did didn't rose-
not rouse
ate tive
the Rhode Islanders to take an a ctive part in- in
ter
the campaign
On the nineteenth
nineteenth of December 1675 a junc- junc

et
ion fall
tion

over
eral
of all the colonial troops was effect
uanaut the
taquamscutt
cole
ever colle ted under
collectedness
collected under the commando

ote in the roster officers

note
effected
effe
aquanaut the first regular American carry-
aq-
Gen-
command of General
Josiah Winslow Governor of Plymouth We
of officers two names kin to us
and therefore of interest On the General Staff
P-
Pet
ted in Pet-
army

Em-

St-
s-
Starr
us-

aff
Joseph Dudley of Boston was Chaplain and
Reaming promoted Captain after
adonna Remington
Jonathan
M-
aft-
afte-
rE Ier
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tuner
unhu- MOM
emO
demo
rt
the Great Swamp Fight The place in which ter-
the-
the
s-
magants were to be sought was in what isis-

five
N
Arraignments
arraignments

thirty mi-
now the town of South Kingston eighteen miles
lled westerly
distant in a north-westerly dire ion
tion
direction te-
from the
eing
Englishmen
English rendezvous The Indians were thirty
five hundred in number and
thirty-
answered strongly
were strongly een
n
en-
trenched
trenched byways
on a hill surrounded by swamps Hel-
The
lenists numbered
colonists numbered thousand
one thousand men-
men
Our English
tor little English army starting from Bulls Bunk-
Bull's
house before daybreak on the nineteenth came
pewit
up with the Indians about one in the afternoon
me
ca-
afterno-
on
mandate sharper
and after sharp work for several hours com- com
platelayer
pletely
politely routed them The Massachusetts troops
tops-
ider Major Samuel Appleton of Ipswich
under Distich brea-
bore

pacer
fighting
the brunt of the fighting
The strength
strength of the Arraignments was arrear

P-
ably broken in this campaign and the Petta-
etta
alms
qualms folk thenceforward enjoyed peace
quamscutt thenceforward
from the Indians though the war swung
qu-
irrepar-
Petta
off sand-
swung offhand
and
years
hers
during
lasted elsewhere in New England during thres-
blasted
three

Inuit
What was our Thomas doing in the midst fa- of
ll
all this excitement Weare
Ware
We are not told and theori-
there
es
is no having tive
suppose
es evidence of his having anya
any a ctive part in
sanative
Tanya
it With the rest of the Rhode Islanders he was abs-
probably

anything
stator and
spectator
orbable a spec
senator andone
undone
one would suppose

youth
fitters
much
mechanist inclinations
against his inclinations
thing man inclinations-if
though
if I know any
thing of the man though he was over fifty
years of age His eldest son Thomas was a youth
fagged
of nineteen Athen-
confinement then
any
any-

In the remainder of his life little of public vex-

ian
vex
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boma it-
action
naction tive smoldering
occurred save some aactive smoldering of
of-
ten Conne
the Cone tic boundary
Connecticut boundary trouble Thomas con- con
con-
con
tined however in ocala
tinued
th
nty
sixth tober
locala
local a ctivity
six-
twe-
twe-
trinity On the twenty-
app-
ma-
Tiber i1670 he had been appointed
sixth of O ctober
twenty

ker
rate
maker
ointed
ng
in employment From
ain
t
of the distrait
district which kept chimi-
distri
ag-
86elderly
1683
him
him-
he was again
High Constable Rather an elderly constable consta-
ble would think but doubtless he left the give
one giv-
give
givi-
ng
bingo
in of blows to his juniors
inggoof
King
When he was Sheriff in 1670 a celebratedcelebratedca-
case
se
commuter involving
of murder involving the question ofjuristic ion
jurisdicti-
tion
jurisdiction
on arisen
Hadrian
had
Two years previously May 4 Aleh-
one Walter
ouse Wick petition-
with others of Wickford had petitioned
House withholders
the Cone
Conne tic
ed Connecticut
ther juristic
their tion
jurisdiction
prote
ion as we have read and the Con-
ion of
rote tion
authorities for protection o-
Co-
Con
tic
hectic
emetic folk harassment
necticut
ne assumed
had assumed such juristic
ion the lamentable result
with eighteen
result of being
ion
jurisdict-
tion
ion
lin-
taken into
custody your
ocut by our ancestor One of the joint peti- peti
toners with House was a neighbor
tioners neighbour Thomas
Flounders As the attempted Cone
ic
di ion and protean
tion
diction
Connetic the-
Connecticut juris
ion came to nothing there
rote tion
protection
prote
juris-
jurist-

resulted
re're bicke-
resulted much strife and political bickering
amongst
ring
among the petitioners
In July 1670 House and Flounders came o- to
blows over some subchapter
xbows such matter and House was- was
sailed buried
killed brought home and buried without re-
port or further question Unfortunately fou-
re
re
for
Flounders Thomas Memoranda
r-flushers Ire
Mumford and Jireh Bull
Unmoored
t
district Bland
distri Bulland
lived in the distrait Bull and Samuel Wilson
Gov
intoned the Grove-
Conservators of the Peace informed Gov-
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tiff q

g humor
RE 9 reor-
coirr
fo jemo
Elmo
der ando
senor of the murder and il
boys being ilil-
of the body's
legally
legally buried
and disorderly buried without coron-
result
coroner
or inquest the result was that the High Con-
er Con
dire ted Wilson and Bull-
stable Henry Palmer directed Bull
to repair to the place where Walter House ass-
et was
ured to cause the body
buried bodyto be taken upland and aj-
anda
up Wanda
ury
jury's inquest to pass thereon
jurys
ry t
empanelled
conflict
Here again rose a conflict tofu
conflict of
coauthor
had been empanelled under the Cone
tic
ju-
authority A jury
ju ju
Connecticut ju-
Conne
rid
ristic ion and
tion
risdiction
rustication
mas
sandmen Tho-
when the High Sheriff Thomas
Mumford representing Rhode Island came
Unmoored can-

already
adjourned
with staff to view the corpse re-
oeist his blackstrap
blackstaff
black
Cone
Conne tic
learned that the Connecticut
found that House came to his death bythe
to
of Thomas Flounders
oft
ar
handled
had
folk handcar
byte
Unmoors intervention Flounders was fi-
By Mumford's
ally brought before the Governor of Rhod-
nally
he
already
ady
lady

Rhode
cr-
by the acre
fac-

fi
fi-
fi

Islanded
esian and the Council where the prisoner
Island
oner
admitted that he killed House but by
pris-
abaciacci
acci-
self
dent and in self-defence The unfortunate man

against
Na-
vas executed in October though I find ne-
nas
was find
science that there was further witness against
evidence
no

him
pure
A pitiful picture is drawn of the poverty yo
yeo
poverty of yeo
yeo-
yeo-
men like Flounders in those days His estate was
forfeited to the Crown but on petition to the
ease
Assembly
Assembly
ian
that body commiserating

leif endomorph
leaned
commiserating the solitary

her and her poor

t-
solitar-
and poor estate of his widow Sarah for the re re
re-
lief other
and comfort of poor infant rere
re-
emitted
militated
te bedding
to have all bedding households
and household
relief
mitted the estate The widow for her relief was-
enlisted was
stuff a cow
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j-

Off Soma ti- v-

m
and
iand hog together with the corn The Crow- Crown
wouldn't
nwork
would not appear to have lost much
Thomass
Thomas's domestic life was not over stormy new- one
found suppose He lived constantly
would constantly at home
homel-

w
her
law
ering
charity
and in charity widthwise
with wife children and father
in-law Philip Sherman His wife Sarah died la-
fat-
fath-
father-

sheep
before him the date we are not given but li- it
tmus have been later than 1687 the year go-
must of
fer fathers
her father's death for he left her ten ewe sheep
by will as wells
bewail well as his second best mare ot- to
her sons Thomas and Elegy
Peleg Dying then about

old
ty
ms
ner
fif-
young Immortals
Mumford
Sarah Sherman Unmoored
years old young for those days She headsmen
fifty
four
was forear-
had seen
Abigail
her son Thomas and her daughter Abigail
sere-
mar
mar-
anda
reid Wanda
ried army
salary Memoranda
and a small army of Unmoored
Mumford and Fish
growing
grandchildren growing payout
up about her She lies lei-
buriedat the Mills in the old Unmoored
sured
buried Mumford loa- lot
ando
and
ned of her we know no more
didn't
Thomas the first did lingerie
not long wi-
survive his wife
fe
He didn't
did not reach his threescore and ten bud- but
dies I believe fan
died
ys records
As the record
Cary r16
ary 692
92
of an apoplexy at
says HeHe died intestate
interstatesixt-
sixty
seven-
seven
Febru-
February

It was not a great life certainly and Cannot can-

I cannot
not
record
Tyrell
try wetland
welland modestly
pandowdies
well and modestly as gentleman and
coun
recorda brilliant exit but he served his coun-
magis
magis-
handmaids
ostenta-
rate and he kept the faith without ostentation
trate
tion others were giving themselves over to-
when to
theological
theological warfare He begat wholesome son-
xicological
ant
and daughters and left a name longsome
sons
lognormal
long remem-
Bremen
bered honored in the land
bared and honoured
Bermudan
IS
15

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 u fox erro-
error
rman
mas
Nun
Mun ford
Tho-
Children of Thomas 1r
J
T She-
and Sarah Sherman

2 Elegy
2 rhomas
Thomas fl
II
IT born 1656 A
died 11I A nn 1726
April 1 1

3 AbigailW
P
Peleg I born 1659 direfully
died uly July 1745July

4 Sarah born 16166868 diedire14 E0loper

1662
born cire died
1717
5 Sober 1746
To the writer it is interesting to take up the twoUte
tho-
rough Thomas and Peleg
boughs Elegy who sprang fromfro-
th
that trunk Thomas the first Of his elder son
therms suffice it here to tell that he was bora-
Thomas
iso-
born
born-
te story
at Portsmouth in 1656 his story will be told toll-
gate
later and in detail In the Appendix is told the th te-
story
ster of PElegy
story eleg
elegy
In those same days there was living in Newport
port
another Unmoored
Mumford Stephen by byname
name in no imim
New-
im-
Wagoner
mediate way connected
bayoneted
connected without
with our Thomas ano- and
distingui-
de with his descendants must be distinguished
he
always Arraigns M
shed from our Narragansett Unmoors
humors
Immortals
Mumford was some years younger pha-
Stephen Unmoored than
ntoms
Thomas He Hewswas born in London in 1639 there
ther-
grew
e're up in Common A-
the time of the Commonwealth and
ndean a preacher among the Baptists
became
twenty
When he was twenty-one years old Charles II II
Io-
wans
te which
was restored and the evil days which came upon
the Sectaries forced Stephen Unmoored
Pon-
Mumford to emiemi
emi-
twenty
grate At the age then of twenty-five in 1664
he sailed for America anisette settledat once in-
and settled in
expert
Newport R I1 There he jjoinedcoined himself to the
congregation of the Rev Mr Clarke though though-
ts
See Appendix Peleg
Elegy Mumford
Unmoored
16

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f

k
 c
t N h

Off boars i
jo a e-
ven then his views seem to have favoured
even
mperance
observance of the Seventh Day
favored thete-

the
wife name was Ann
wife's
imsies
Ann
Ann 1665
married
In the following year he married 1665 His
Ann- the name of other
Wh-
fathe-
her father

Stephenson
rI know
Nov not They had three children Stephen
John and Ann
The first Stephen and his wife Ann soon broke break-
away from their orthodox Baptist brethren
making
hren thereby
making thereby some little trouble in thirt-
bret- their
ieth community They drew adamancy
quiet many wri-
away many with
tten into the observance of the Seventh Day
them Dyst-
Stephen continued
rophies continued of good repute in the com com-
unity however and in the year 1671I he was
munity ass-
admitted fN
aulted freeman coffeepot
of Newport
Newport In this same year
eart-
hier little congregation was organized and
their anodewe
def-
intone
find
ined one of his fellows Samuel Hubbard
Rhubarb of c-
writing as follows We
offeepot writings
Newport int-
We entered into
twenty
ao Church Covenant the twenty-third of Decem
Decem-

m
rd
beer vi
ber 1671 viz Wm Hiscox
ford Samuel Hubbard
ored
Cisco Stephen Unmo-
Rhubarb Roger Baxter Sister fo-
Mu-
Mum
Mum-
Si-
ster
ng
Rhubarb Sister Mumford
Hubbard
rthy
worthy
wort
eworthy
worst ghy etc
Unmoored Sister Rachel Lang-wo-
La-
Lang
Lan-
Blam-

labor in this vine-

After three or four years of labour vine
yard Stephen determined to abandon the un- un
un
t profitable field He toolkit boards
took with him on board ship
siph-
his wife and three little children about the mid-
ons mid
dle of January I1675 indentured
dale and returned to his old home
Oklahom-
Khome-
in London He had long felt that the New World
an
ini Workd-
ays
was not especially favorable clam-
clamoro-
favourable to his clamorous
us
doorous
dories
trines and the object t
objectify
object of his voyage was either
tofu
to settle down again in London with those of
hither-
o-
f 17
C

jaw
 odor g em ort
g9 humor RH e orch-

ids
rcuts
t
his own see
sed
se backbit
or possibly to bring backwith
recruits to Newport
hai-
back with him

Here is a portion ofa Sis

rd
of a letter from him to Sis-
sofa Sis-
Sis

ub
bard
hardware cf that Hubbard
barb are of H-
ba-
tear Hubbard in Newport She and Samuel Hub-
ter
rd family
Hub
Rhu-
which novel-
Rhubarb family switchover moved
ette to Middletown
later Middlebrow ConneCone tic
Connecticut and five
generations later became of kin to us as will- will
power
appear
Unmoored to Sister Hubbard
Stephen Mumford New
Rhubarb in New-
Engl-
port Rhode Island Colony New England
and
London March 14 1675
About the fourteenth ofJJ anuary
January
Januarywe sailed pro-
from
motion had
Boston and hada wind
had a comfortable time and fair Wind-
sor
for three weeks in which time we came to- to
Soundings judged
nsuring as theyjudged near the Isle of cosily
Silly
Scilly

pt
with a cross winded
and then we met witha
withal
us three weeks more and then we came to an
ke-
wind and that kept
an
an-
chor Gina
choir Wight en-
ina road between the Isle of Wright and
dorsement
Portsmouth
Iontook Was
where Iwas
journey
I took my journey
byte
wag-
to London in the wagon
with
mu-
by the brethren with much
I was received bythe
ch
joy had
in some of them who hada
had a great desire th-
to
flour
hear of
eatre tal-
our place and people Some of them talk

O
k coming
oncoming

Stephen
no

shavings
withed
of coming with

lober-Stephen
me

remained prominent amongst

gheaded
Baptists
it
1675
saUle year of 1675
Late in this same it was Ki-
Mumford returned to this
scriber Stephen Unmoored
Will-
country having secured two recruits William
iam
Gibson and his wife of London The latter long
among the Seventh Day
Rhode Islanded
matists both in Episode
in
in-

lon-
Island and New London
Dra-
Connecticutt
t 18
After his return
m
rd
forestalled
ford
ored
f
Off Bona
from
iI
England Stephen Unmo-
settled down to a more regular mode off-
beings some
fo-
Mu-
Mum
Mum-
of
line
assisted
life being assisted somewhat by
nat home and bythe byte
byte
bythe
by the improvement faceting
brethre-
the brethren
of Carthag-
certain
had acquired
lands which he handcuffed
inians Jamest-
acquired near Jamestown
own Island
Rhode
Except that he saw many descendants live to T-
ogo
grow up he is no longer notable His wife Ann San-
four twenty
ford years his senior died the twenty-second
lived
June 1698 and he himself lived on into the
ourned
of
soj-
he-
eighteenth
ighten
eighteenth century dying in July 1707
In him then our Thomas Hanoi had no part being
being un-
an
orthodox person jostled
settled
settled
onions
of settled convict ions
convictions
convi
Thomas did three things for which he is espe- espe
callto
cially
Calypso
cially
calmly y to be remembered in Unfortunates
Unmoored ann-
Mumford annals
als became the father of two sons Thomas and
He A-
mdele
Peleg
Elegy
rd
the founders of two very
largely fo- t Mu-
distinct
distin
Dustin
ored lines secondly he largely assisted in ste-
ford
purchase of the great Pettaquamscutt trEat
eplechase
Mum
Mum-
Unmo-
the
trad pa-as
has been told thirdly he helped indirect
shas indirectly
indirect-
Layt-
tally
to
on establish and buildup
ly established Episc-
build up that first Episcopal
opal
Church
Church Wick s-
of South Kingston and Wickford so so-
ven
well known later in church histories
ti
fads as the Appendix gives have been
Such facts
secured
secured Pellet
of Elegy
Peleg the first the
of the descendants hopeless th-
rone
younger son of Thomas the first and doubtless doubtl-
ess
from subchapter correspond-
such scattered data as my correspondent
ent Baker has with pain and labor
Mr cole ted a-
labour collected
colle a-
fairly Mumford book in that line
ffair complete Unmoored
fairly

t oll
d See Appendix to Thomas the First Peleg ford
Elegy Mumford
Unmoored
Secon-
C rovers in Appendix to Thomas the Second
J See Glebe Land Controversy

19

j
O-
 farFall
could be compiled Of all those M
t
Unmoors
humors
mostly they are but names to us thus far any-
mostly theatre and
especially of the earlier generations Heat-
more especially What
they did in war and peace I know not andon
hery anon m-
and on
onths himself
these points Mr Baker is himself silent A few flea-
worts
telling b-
something
notes are added by him telling something
some of those still living but those must be
somed
of
bo-
bo-

efitted here The names and dates given arre-

omitted are
the most complete antithetic
sted
enue
Numerous others more or less hypothetical
av-
and authentic that we have
re-
hypothetical are
supplied but needn't
applied need not burden us now bandwidthwi-
and with
th
that breakout
ve
brief account ofthe Peleg lea-
Elegy branch let us leave
Abigail
him and take a glance at Abigail and Sarah ste- the
daughters flour
pdaughters of our Thomas the first
4
ger
Abigail the eldest daughter was youngeryoun-
than the son Peleg
would
Elegy it would appear When sch- she

t-
was born is not stated but she married on the th-
September
eirs
first of May 1682 Daniel Fish he died Septem
beer
thoms Fish
Thomas
Daniel
ber 16 1723 This Daniel was the thirds
who lookup
Fishhook took up Luanda
landat
land
Septem-
third son of
at Portsmout-
Portsmouth
fa-

g
R
the ranked
h I1 in 1643 and is therefore ranked among
the founders The family was
well
family welte- we- amon-
vas very well-to-do
olldnce afflue-
for the times and lived in comparative affluence
When Daniel died in 1723 six years after fish- fis-
his
wife he left a good
hwife goodies
estate candlelight
and eight children
610
Comfort
i o Sarah 11
7 Thomas
I I Jeremiah
8 9
Ruth q Daniel
12 Abigail 13
Mary MayoMany of their descendants are still living
Livin-
gston us in Rhode Island Connecticut An-
amongst
among and
drew York
New
It is interesting to note how the name of Thomas
20

no

J j
 j
r

Iff
Ef
Ziff i
borrowed
was borrowed ammonal
among all generations of the de
scendants We find it in all branches of ste-
ascendants
de
de-
the
family
amily even to this day
family
4 Mumford Fish died then in 1717
Abigail Unmoored
being five
being about fifty-five years old as nearly
nearly Ave w-
ve
as we
va-
ean compute it
can
cant
Unmoored the second daughter an-
5 Sarah Mumford
yone child
youngest child of Thomas the first was born in
and

dido fourteenth
1668 and died on the fourteenth of G tober
oober
O Tiber

being
lived
1746 So she lived well down into modern times
seventy
times-
old at her death ban-
haring seventy-eight years holdfast and
shavings
daging seen great changes in her farmland
having he-
family and the
ronry thereabout When she vas
country was born the-the
Colony
ology front-
Colony was new life was that of the frontier
and hunted
ier Indians still hunted landscaped Rhod-
and scalped in Rhode
England pac
esian When she died New England was prac-
Island
tidally free of Indians Rhode Islanded
tically Co-
Con
Island and Con-
tic
hectic
emetic were covered by
necticut
ne
wide
wide-spreading plan
stations and the whole country had begun to
tations
oasts the appearance of long
assume longshoremen
plan-

settlement and
t-
Ga-
ndhi cultivation Her fathers
high father's family too had
greatly
multiplied greatly pandas scattered
indelicate
and was widely scattered over-
over
all the region from Newport to New London Londo-
nIn 1694 Sarah Unmoored
Mumford married as a seco-
Unformatted second
nd t
Benedi Arnold Perhaps the most inter-
wife Benedict
Benedict
thing
stinting
inter
bei-
besting thing about this marriage is that being
esting
ng
caped
second
atric Benedict
traitor
orn
prankish
rank
Benedi
with Judas
t great
Unmoored thereby
the second wife Sarah Mumford

Benedict Arnold whom we are wont to

Iscariot
es
thereby es-
capped becoming the great-grandmother of that
es-
es
the-
t-
Sarah Benedit
Sarah's husband Benedict
Benedict
1 21
t
Benedi was the eldest son
j y
l-
l- t li Z r

fl
a uhumor mo t
Memoir

six
of the distinguished Benedi
oaf Benedit
Benedict
Benedict
solver of Rhode Island from
Governor
t Arnold
Arnold ab-
who was
1663 to 1678
At the time of his second
secondarily seco-
marriage this secon-
second

eighteenths
Benedict

ead
of
t
was two
ndhand was fifty-two years old his wife being
dhand
Benedict
Benedi

six being t
twenty
hands
had had
h-
six children Benedict
Benedia
B enedi
Turner
By his first wife Mary Turner-
Turner
Turner he
enedia the grandfather
Benedict
B Wendi
remedial grandfath-
er that Judas being the fifth Sarah Mumford
Unmoored
Arnold
Arnold and her elderly husband became step- the
parents
paresis of three daughters 14
parents i Comfort 15

family Sarah
Ann and 16 Sarah Of Cf these three Sarah alone
Others aloe-
sis interesting to us in that she 1mlurid Da-
Of heel
well
niel known
known
Nudie of the
Updike

profitless
Fall teethe
all these the dates are profitless
Min cords
Now Sarah Unmoors
Mumford's
arried Daniel
Island
Rhode Islandfamily
ord's husband Benedict
Benedit
Kelly

Ar
Benedict Ar-
Ar
dido
mold fourth
nold died on the fourth of July 1727 and blet-
left
left-
f

wido He had been a man of

her an affluent widow O-
mar
mark in his day as patriot politician planter
lante-
rn
sandman
and Mantua turner and his overconfident
manufacturer very consider
considerable es
able es-
es-
es
tate provided liberally for his widow landmineand non-
nine

property
resident
children The widow alone received two
dreariest
erty
life
nterest
interest
third
dred acres of land one third of the personal prop
dared
anda
and a negro slave woman together witha
arty Wanda
life-interest in his res
residence
Rees dance sandstone
dence
hun
VO hun-
prop-
withal
and stone wharf Do-
So
i-
with aa-

boyto ear-
good
goodaa steward did Sarah prove that on her death
good
gwood

Boynton
thiest years later she left 1000 to her
nineteen
daughter Ann Scott C 1000 Wanda

des
quasars
grandchildren equal shares in 2000
andaa slave boy
and
to her grandson William Chase to three other
besi-
2000 besides
much personal property All this represen-representedga-
ted deal
reat deal Freddy
great of ready money for those days phe-
readymade when
gold
nol was scarce and dealings were mostly in kind
gold
1221
22
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tIL Roma tf
T-

hese three younger children of whom I harve-

These have
toilsome
told
sted some little Immorte-
elide were from Thomas Mumford
Unmoored
lle first by his wife Sarah Sherman Of his geld
the eld
eld
eld-
much
est son Thomas much more remains to be said

e 1
11
1

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J fvv
f
Re
vRe
suffice
fc
Re
Tr
s-f-

t-
a-
1

ppendix to Story of Thomas I

Appendix
x Story
Of the Family
Sherman
1
Pe
Enamored
Of Peleg
Elegy Unmoore-
Mumford
Unmoored
t

I
t
s

ri
r
rd

4
 I
d

am-
am
ami-
 Appendix to Story
Containing
ontaining
Containing
Story of Thomas
Thom is I
C-
C

some Account ofthe Sherman Family

-

Farml-
ando
and of the Descendants of
3 Peleg
Elegy Unmoored
Mumford

Of the Sherman Family

mily
THESE
Fa-
Sherman made some noise in the world first sand-
Shermans and
last the last being William Tecumseh Sherman a here-
blast hero
flour
of our own time Not by any means the least of them always
bandy
Caymans all was
bas-
Philip Sherman the father of
ophilic flour
our ancestress Sarah
much
This much of the Sherman pedigree interests us We head-read
first of Henry Sherman of Dedham
Addams Wessex Engla-
Essex County England
nd married
who married one Agnes who died in 1580
They hadhada second Henry of the same place who died in 16 I10o
hada
Henry
ur ancestor and Edmund the ancestor of General Sherman
ue
our
yo-
Sam-
His wife was Susan Hills From Henry and Susan came Samuel
Sher-
man
known to us
Samuel
Samuel Philippe and died in Eng
was born in 1573 married Philippa Eng-
land in 1615 He had hada son Philip whom he amendatory
hada named after hisfis-
wife and it is with this Philip that we are concerned
hwife
bom in Dedham
Philip Sherman was born Addams England February
1610
When but twenty
three shi-
America on what ship
he came to America
anisette
pI know not and settled first at Roxbury
Te-
Robbery near Boston The
net year
next May 1634 he was made freeman ofthat place place-
man stands first on the list after Governor Haynes
and
bandstands
In the first year of his coming Philip married His bride bri-
des
ry
bery whose wife Margaret had been the widow Boone
bury
bu-
Nodding was the stepdaughter of John Porter of Rox--
Sarah adding Rox
Rox-
Rob-
Od
ad-
No-
of one Od
Od-
ding Sherman wenc
dding retur-
went home to England in 1635 but returned
makings
ned and began making
soon theolog-
some slight trouble in the theological
ical Bowshot
world Of what moment we know not but certain it is that on M-
litho
cloth of November 1637 he and
the loth
onte another Ho-
others among whom
Mayas
mer Bulla casually
Henry Bull may casually deliv-
meet us later were warned to deliver
er all guns pistols swords powder shot etc because the
pall
up
opinions cancellations
on
ch seduced
inson have seduced
Winston and led into dangerous errors many
ins-
Hut-
and revelations of Mr Wheelwright and Mrs HutchHutch-
many of ther-
the
people here in New England He was led
mopile away says the
clearway
27 1

l am
Tiff
 happen
stepfather
Church Record to Semitism
The following spring

name
ce
t
wife stepfather
Families by Porter his wife's
March 1638 he another
following
mouth R I1 signed the following compact
and others at Ports-
coma We whose
compa
names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence
of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a BodieBode Politick
Ports
host-
presen-
Politick pand-
and
and-

tes
wills
as He shall help will submit our persons lives and
unto our Lord Jesus Christ the King of kinsman
esta-
understates
Lord
estates
kings and Lord ox- of
perfecta
fords and to all those perfect
lords perfect endmost
and most absolute laws of His Mis-
holy word
govern us in His Hollywood
given guided bud-
word of truth to be guided and judged
geter
thereby
This compactt
coma Philip signed immediately
compa immediately after his leaving Mas
archaists and it appears that the authorities thought him
sachusetts
vIas-
Mas-
he-
ins-
l
l a
ist a resident of that Colony for on the
sti
still
till
stilla
still
ve
days later though he another
fi-
of March five
and others had had license to depart from
Massachusetts summons was ordered to go out for them to to-
pper
appear if they be not gone before at the next court to
t-
objectedIsland
appears
oaster
answer such things as shall be object ted
Sherman didn't
maimed

mating
out
did not appear to this summons but ever after re
mained a stirring figure in Rhode Island affairs sandpapers
maimed
first on the

chastener
of May in this same year or

four others to layout and survey

lay out sandspur
of 1638 at a public
meeting in Portsmouth The next year 1639 he was chosen
Secretary
Secretary of the Colony and in 1640 was appointed
re
re-
and appears
subli-
appointed with-
survey the public lands
blandi-
with

wills
The following dates will show that his interests did
shed didn't
not dimin
dimin-
ish
ish-
ish
dish
ishOn
Nihon
On the
man
of March 1641 he was made freeman
From 1648 to 1652 he was General Recorder
Reorderi-
free-
ng 1665 to 1667 he was Deputy
In

commingling
On the of April 1676 nearly forty years after his coming
into the Colony it was voted by
byte
bythe
the Deputies that in
thatchcc in these

judicious
troublesome times industrials
siring

dders
and straits in this Colony this Assembly de-

inhabitants if it may be had for the goodof

desire at their next sitting the Company
sixteen
an
good
de
de-
de
siringto have the advice and concurrence of the most judicious
good of the whole do-
Company
ffsite persons among them Philip ShermanSherm-
and Counsel of
do
o-

ar
The troublesome times here mentioned were those of the Nar-
raigns Campaign
against
ragansett
mentioned
28
Ar-
NarN-
M-
 Off Biotahonorsti
Subcommand P-
P-

full
hilip Sherman lived full of years and honours for eleven yardm-
Philip
aster this date and died in March 1687 His will drawn
after
years

July 1681 is a voluminous document sandshoes

ve well ha-
and shows him to have
been well-to-do in this worlds
ces
pla-
world's gear for the time and place
seventy
Sarah his wife survived him He was seventy-seven years old old-
ster
The property left was evidently that sofaofa plan-
of a wealthy planter
ter
Much household goods live stock adores
ed money
but moneybags
enumerat-
and acres are enumerated
Philip Sherm-
was a scarce article Philip and Sarah Sherman
an
had thirteen children eight boys and five girls and their birth-
birth
dates
us
1636
Sarah 4
rates range from 1634 to 1652 The economy
ns that Sarah who married
concer-
only concerns
second honeymooners
married our Thomas She was born in

IT Of Elegy
O Peleg Unmoored
Immode-
Mumford
st
Let us take a look at 3 Elegant
eunto
lookout Elegy and his offspring here and ther-
Peleg
return to his elder brothers
brother's line
then

3Sarah
PELEG
ELEGY the second Unmoored the first Ba-
son of Thomas Mumford
ndar Sherman his wife was born at South Kingstown tele-
and
then
metries called Rochester in 1658
sometimes

ean only be given approximately

can
the
1659 month
the month
Elegy are mostly
unded the dates of this ancient Peleg
Indeed
IKknow
now not
obt-
mostly chaos andAnd-

That he grew comfortably to mans man's estate must be suppos-

supposed
ed the first mention of him which we finagler
for which find after the birth-
birth
rate
date is that on the of September 1687 he was taxed taxed at
A-
y
tkinson id He was now though but
Kingstown
ty eigh-
eight
twen-
twenty
of some importance for the next year 1688
years old a person bosomed
he was put upon the Grand Jury Throughout these and the- the
ologian continuedas a fairly prosperous andre
following years he continued re
and re
re-
R-
edition
ted citizen of his native place beneficially
speechified
specter
pealed
speared
spected
spec
eese interest-
being especially interested
church
in church affairs
ed
I find this note of him
tthinks
The
Kingstown elected 1722 were Peleg
rate Ou-
first rate-makers of South
Sam-
Unmoored Samuel
Elegy Mumford
uel
Helm
Helme and James Perry
On the of August 1713 he was appointed administrat-
administrator
on
torian and the son of that Henry Bullwhip
friend
Ire
or the estate of Katherine Bull the widow of Jireh Bull his- his
rifle-
Bull who had been rifled
d
of his arms in Roxbury along Peleg's grandfather Philip
Robbery along with Pelages
29

fc
sL
 pp xS-
Sherman These Bulls always until this days
herman know-
day so well known
in Island paddlewheel
n Rhode Islanded
and elsewhere became allied to Peleg's fam
fam-
fam
Pelages fame
ilythrough
old man adorable
gh Goldman
an
lived quietly
enou-
Elegy lived out this life quietly enough
idly through marriage So Peleg

and oracle at last and in 1745 died No note co- of

mmon
monitor
month or damaging

jot
day again
which proved
His will which was proved on the of July in this same
stam-
merer appoints his nephew William Mumford
year execu-
Unmoored executor
torial was the fourth son of Peleg's
William Pelages brother Thomas pan-and
was
ive
one
five others his brothers
six
das then fifty-one years old He was a six-foot man as perce-
were

barefoot
This brief notice of Pelages mea-
Peleg's estate shows the modest means
To for-
Mu-

I
ns
of the man grandsons Samuel Peleg Mum
Mum-
Elegy and Thomas Unmo-
d
m
forded
ford
ored
ta i20
each Leo20 To granddaughter Abigail Unmoored
To granddaughter Content Unmoored l
Mumford j 10
Mumford 5 To my five chil
io-
chil-
den Elegy
dren Peleg Mumford Mary Hanson Sarah Barber Eliza- Eliza

ate
Certain land in South Kingstown consisting
est-
personals
beth Foster and Hannah Hopkins the rest of personal estate
eigh-
freight
consisting of eighty
three
threesc-
ty
ore to be sold
acres Soledad
and mooneye
anemone
money equally divided to five children

daughters
PELEG To him were born one son and four daughters
3 ELEGY

floppier
ful
foul compiler James Savage says Peleg Elegy
Peleg
usually
We know not the name of his wife That usually care- care
Elegy had two wives

Manslaughter
Mary daughter of Rephrasing

ts
are Mary Congees
Ephraim Bull Anderson
daughter of the second John Congees
and second Mary
fac-
Coggeshall The true facts
Coggeshall was the wife of Ephraim
Rephrasing Bull Ant-
and
hewer
they were the parents of Mary Bullwhip
hony
th-
Bull who married this
is
old Peleg's
Pelages son Peleg
verting ic
recon-
Elegy the second

t-
te-

only
Certain it is that in 1692 our Peleg
Elegy the first being then 8

nth
thirty
hree
three
ded to them were born
and
married
years old married some daughter of the land
lan-
P
17 Peleg
Peel
93
3 1692
18 Mary 1694 who married
for us
married one Hanson a name only

19 Sarah 1696 who married William Barber on the ho-

twenty
of May 1720 She was then twenty-three years old ban-
died in 1748 the same year as her husband having borne
and

ne
him no children
bor-
30
o

JA
 f boma
bona f
20 Elizabeth 1700 was married
married on the of February
1727 to Jonathan Foster by byte
bythe Hem-
Helm
the Rev Rouse Helme
Mascaras assistant Of the clergy we shall ena-
Dr MacSparran's
mer clergy hear
mored but know nothing of Foster children
more
21 Hannah 1704 married Thomas Hopkins on the loth lith-
cloth
o Fall
of March 1728 Of all these save only 17 Peleg the
Elegy Hen-
son we hear no more We know that they outlived Th- the
ayer
tention 5
year 1745 the year of their fathers
mentioned in his will
It is through 17
father's death for they

Elegy the second then that all the

Peleg
re-
are
theatre
H-
erefords
Unmoors of the younger branch in America trace their ter-
races def
def
ancestry and for the sake of having approximatelya defi-
nite record
n te record
mite
ne of some of them let us see the following lists

PELEG THE SECOND being born in

17 ELEGY
d 93 Blandno-
1692
in 1716 Mary Bull the daughter of Ephraim
Mary
marrie-
married
Bull Ba-
Rephrasing Bulland
and
Congees his wife as was previously taken note
ndar Coggeshall
te Elegant
of They Peleg
Elegy following chil
and Mary had the following eight chil-
dren
dren-
den
dren
Ire born 5 August ne-
24
r
23 Jireh
near 29 November 1739
ner
Elegy born 25 July 1719 Died young
24 Peleg
25 Abigail born 28 November 17211 She married her
Gardi
Gard
Gardi-
Gardi--
1717 who married Mary Guard

cousin cou-
sins
Samuel Barber the son of William and Sarah Unaffor-
Mumford
Unmoored
dable
Barber
26 Samuel born 2 February 1723 Nothing
27 Content born 23 March 1725 She is that shilling
ve
ing
Content of whom we have heard
28 Sarah born in September 1728
Elegy born November 1729 Of him we hear no more
29 Peleg
30 Thomas born 30 May 1733 Of him we have some faint
nted
record
fai-
fi-
known further
five
shill-

Irena
Ire
That 23 Jireh nameable curiously
named above was so curiously amend-
named
atory
Ire
after Jireh the father of Rephrasing moth-
Ephraim Bull his mothers
mother's
ers lingered branch
father The name long lingered sadly in his branch of
of-
ten fami-
the family
ly these eight children of 17 Elegy
Of Peleg the second let us
331
J
t
t-
o

If

fif I
 1-
1
1

ten
fasten our eyes upon
et
en J c
refas-
Ire through
23 Jireh through whom obst-
most
etrically Unaffordable
Mumford name was to be transmitted from
especially the Unmoored
3 Elegy the elder
Peleg

greatEngland
Lire THE FIRST then married Mary Gardiner doubtless
23 JIREH

eo
hildren
children
doubtles-
cam-
sa great-granddaughter ofthat George Gardiner who came-
came
to Newport from England about 1636 They had stepc-
these

32 2
31 Waite born 27 June 1742
4 ma-
Gardiner William born 26 November 1744 married
rried
Elizabeth
j
33 firth
Jireh
Lillibridge 7
ire the second born 30 May 1747 married Deborah

9
34 Mary born 24 August 1749 died in infancy
35 Mary born June 1751I
36 Sarah born I1 May 1753 married Bliss Ransom
37 Hannah born 18 January 1755
Of the above children of 23 JirehIre the first 32 Gar-Gar
Ire
diner William 33 Jireh the second and 36 Sarah had ha-
ndoff known to us
offspring

32 GARDINER WILLIAM married

ey
had
had-
had
married one Elizabeth and they
th-
38 Paul born 8 January 1770
39 Dorcas
Orcas born 8 April 1772
4
40 Silos
Annie born 20 May 1774
41 Silas G born 4 March 1776
42 Oliver born 12 January 1780
44
43 Augustus born 29 January 1780
44 Elizabeth born 4 February 1782
45 Davis born 8 May 1786
sixth child
36 Sarah the Smithfield Ire
child of 23 Jireh the first 17
i 7 3 I1
record
left offspring of whom there is this record-
record
MINORED born May
36 SARAH MUMFORD May
MayI1i 1753 married Bliss
Gli-
ssando
Ransom They lived in New Salem Conn Conan and had
46
uise
Louise Ransom born to them 25 June 1824 Louise
Hawse born 17 August 18
Ransom married Justus Haswell 1819
I9
Lo-
32 1321

e
 ry
They
7
47
of
Julia
foal 5
foai
feathe-
lived in Albany N Y and there lives there now
Hawse born 12 June 1845 the wife
Ransom Haswell
fe Patrick H McQuade
Maculae of that place
wi-
30 THOMAS 17 3 1 i married 10 June 1755 Elizabeth Eliza-
beth born 20 June 1736 She died 10 April 1822
Sweet
Children
Goober 1756 died 8 April 1839
a Ruth born 12 October
diedn
b Robinson born 13 January 1758 died iIIi September
1804
c Jenny born 17 January 1760 died 9 June 1784
d Mary born 10 December 1761
e George born 6 August 1764 died 17 January 1836
f Hannah born 23 November 1766 died 10 January
1837
g Abigail born 20 September 1768 died 10io August 1800
h John born 20 December 1770
i Elizabeth born 21 August 1772 died 26 June 1836
jjk 1 homas G born 13 June 1774 died 6 March 1820
Thomas
Thomas
Joseph born 2 June 1776
Yoseph

1 Orcas 19 August 1779

Dorcas born ig
living Robin
Robin-
Of the above there are descendants living of b Robin-
son e George h John and k Joseph

h JOHN 30 Goober
17 3 i1 had son Nelson born 16 October
had son Erastus
1805 died 26 January 1884 Nelson Hudson Erasmu-
Erasmus
s Mum
S Mumford
Unmoored Decem
ford M D of Syracuse N Y born 4 Decem-
beer 1839 He has two children
ber

k married Polly Mary Adams

30 1i
Y-
JOSEPH I17 3
Children bom
m Jessie
Jessi-
Jessie-
Otsego County N Y-
born in Oswego Y Y
ne Robinson
Robinso-
0

2
on Sabin-
Sabina
pa Archibal-
Archibald
qd August
Orville born 30 November 1809 died 28 August r 88
r Devi
Devil le
Seville
Deville
lle y

s Orris
Morris f
33 31

e I
h
WV if J t
y
y-y f

peptic r
t Lavinia
Livonia Edson
Ediso-
Edison
un Debor a
Debora
Deborah

q ORYILLE k 30 17 3 i married Jerusalem

ORVILLE 1 Jerusha Lee Edson
Edison
Children
31 August 1830 Children-
Childre-
Children
vn creosote L born 24 May 1831
Theodore
w Oscar F
P born 8 April 1833
x Egbert H born 22 May 1835
Webber
y Joseph C born 8 February 1839 died 20 February
1857
z Henry yJborn 25 February 1844
zz via
41 born 7 May 1847
Charles 1A
These brief facts in the course ofa
sofadesultory
of a desultory correspon-
correspond
dance I have gathered and now let me give the rather
dence
voluminous data of 33 Ire thirds
Jireh the second the third son of
23 Ire
Jireh the first 17 3 1 l these data having been sup
sup-
sup
plied by my good Friedman
plied me yummy friend and kinsman Rev
the Rev-
erred Leroy F Baker of Harrisburg Pa
erend

Rare THE SECOND 23 17 3 Il MUMFORD

33 JIREH
Pa
Pa-
MINORED born 30
May 17 17477 married 14 March 1776 Deborah Lilli- Lilli
Lilli-- bri-
dge
bridge born 8 July 1756 She was not of Rhode Island Isla-
stock They've
nds They moved from Rhode Island to Connecticut
Connect
20 April 1780 mandate Cornea
Connect
and after the Revolution when Connecti-

Co Pa anon
ne itself
cut emptied itself westward they wandered to Wayne
and on 25 March 1795 settled
andon
toady
VayneVa-
Way-
settled at Mt Pleas
Pleas-
ant there To this couple were bornborn
born-
48 8 Mary born 14 January 1777
Ire
49 Jireh born 6 February 1778
50 Thomas born 6 February 1780 f
51
5 i John born 27 February 1782
52 Infant born 10 October 1784 died 4 December 1784
53 Deborah born 8 December 1785
54 Henry born 7 February 1790
55 Lillibridge born 29 January 1792
56 Roxy Roan born
Boxy Roxana bom 19 April 1794 Y
I

57 chanceful born 12 March 1796

Thankful
58 Miner
Winer born 9 November 1797
34
 jJ f oma
Qt Roma i
59 Sarah
Amelia born 18 November 1799
60 bom 6 February 1788
born
MINORED 33 23 17
48 MARY MUMFORD 17 3 inborn marr-
I born 1777 married
Silas
Silos Issue
Kellog The firstmarriage in Mt Pleasant Issue-
ied Kellogg Issue
61 Razor
Mary
62 Azor Richards an English Baker No-
aker
Quaker No
63 Sally married
ises
issue
64 Deborah married IssueBostwick Biotic died diedat Cortland
Scotland
Delaware Co N Y
6 5j Esther married Alfred Stevens
66 Julia married MaltbyMolt Stevens
67 Caroline married Basel
Blaisdel
Harriet married Elias Lillibridge Died Diedat New Mil- fo-
M-
Mil

l
68 Harriett
ford
Ire
69 Jireh
il
rd Pamarried Mary Moore
IRE 33
49 JIREH 23 17 3 1
i Mumford
Unmoored born 1778 marr-
married
Co N Y IssueIssue-
Issue
ied
Mary Baker Orange
Dickinson
Dickenson
70 Deborah married Beveling
Evelina Spoor moved to Ohio
71 John married
72 James
73 Ph Pliable
Phoebe
be
chromes R
74 Thomas
75 Decatur w

76 Dolly Maria unmarried

77 Sarah Ann died
mar
MINORED born 1780 5 mar-
50 THOMAS 33 23 17 3 i1 MUMFORD
Issue-
Theodosia Carr Issue
reid Theodora
ried Issue
Ruby
78 Ruby
i
79 1homas L
Thomas Thomas r F

80 Martin J
am
81 Hiram R
82 Mary
Wary
ma-
y

MUM
51 JOHN 33 23 17 3 i1 MUMFORD born 1782 married
Thomas
Thomasia Issue
rried Rogers Issue
Issue-
35

f X t v ft
x

r F
 i r
r

r
83 Mercy married first Elijah Dix second Johnson
84 Ire
Jireh
uby
freewheeler
eeler
Wheeler R-
Wh-
ire h married first Lydia Wheeler second Ruby

85 Mgmt Malaga
Martha Mahala married died Bet-
Burke died at Bath
hany
N Y
86 Marina
Malvina married Thomas Rogers
87 Helen Cornelia married Lathrop Two sons
Anthrop

53 DEBORAH 33 23 iy 3 1
23 17 MINORED bom
i MUMFORD born 1785
Iss-
Issue
Issue-
Cough Issue
married John Clough
88 ued
David
89 Roan
Roxana
90 Clarissa
Claries
91 Jire
ire died
gi Jireh died at Mt Pleasant unmarried
92 Henry
93 Thomas
94 Amelia
95 Mahatma
Mahala
96 Gardiner
97 Christopher
54 HENRY 33 23 17 3 i MUMFORD mar
bom 1790 mar-
MINORED born
Issue
A Issue-
reid Sarah Tanner Issue
ried
98 Millinda born 18 March 1815
99 Harriet born 21 April 1817 married Erasmus
Harriett Erastus Baker
i oo Achsa
mas
Rowe born i April 18
Aches Rowena
Sherwood Honesdale
Wholesale Pa
Tho-
i g married Thomas
1819

a ii Milo Henry born 28 September 1821

Heritage
Henrietta born 16 December 1823
Alfonso born 13 June 1826
Alonzo
Ph be born 6 Goober
Phoebe October 1828
ane Minerva born
roS Jane
Eros n
bom iIIi June 1831
Francis M bom
born 2 August 1834

5
55 LILLIBRIDGE 33 23
23 ij
17 3 MINORED born 1792
i MUMFORD
Issue
Issue-
married Deborah Sherwood Issue

ae Cella married
Celia
IssueIssue
Macedonia Issue-
Mary Ann married Patrick McGonigal Issu- ai-
r
I

4 36

JI
r r

b
Jf
Ef
Wi
Mary Ellen married
Moody
ill
bona i-
boma iI--
wit-
Owner a singer with
Towner
and a composer of Gospel
anda
hstood Wanda Gospel music
fft
t

c George married
I Molina
Millinda
i 09 George
ROXANA 33 23
56 ROMANIA 2317 mar
MINORED born 1794 mar-
17 3 i MUMFORD
ried Eber Dimmick
reid Weber Issue
Gimmick Issue-
Issue
t
Roan
no Roxana
in Diner
I 1 Miner
1III
I 12 Walter
Adeline dehumanized
died unmarried
I 14 Edward
Sarah
Eber
j er
Weber
Orville
MINORED born 1796
57 THANKFUL 33 23 17 33 i MUMFORD
Issue
Issue-
married Amos Rogers Issue
Goober 1817 married Mary-
Lawrence born 114 October Mar-
Mary
vels Missouri
Wells
i g married Annih-
bom i166 December i18819
i i 9 Clayton born Hannah
ilable Cleveland Ohio
Gilbert
Mercy born 1821 married John Gardiner
Cady Ne
Lucretia Caddy
Seymour born 1825 married Laurentian Ne-
Ne
bask
braska
Mary Ann married William Wells Oregon
Fidel died young
Fidelia
roar
age
Ohio 0
12 Bolevar Amos born 1840 married Eunice Fish OsageOs-
mar
MINORED born 1797 mar-
58 MINER 33 23 17 3 i MUMFORD
Issue
Issue-
Adah Lyon Issue
reid Amdahl
ried
Beeline Nebraska
Emeline

f
Juliet
Juliettedied
unlisted died at Binghamton N Y
marr-
George M married had daughter who married
ied
Niles
Elizabeth
37

I-

t s
 I

c
11

r
Mary
Gilss No issue
Henry Wayne married Emily Gil
Giles
Gail
tYmanda dehumanized
Amanda died unmarried
I Minerva married Julius Wright No issue
Walter died young
59 AMELIA 33 23 MINORED born 1799 mar-
23 17 3 i MUMFORD mar
ried Issue
Kist cousin Issue-
reid Elias Lillibridge 1st Issue
Louisa died 24 November 1854 unmarried
Levi E born 9 November I1828 died 15
Level
Cornelia R born 31 May 1830
diedIS June 1831

Infant
60 SARAH 33 23 17 3 rI MUMFORD
23 17 MINORED born mar
bom 1788 mar-
Issue
Issue-
reid Samuel Rogers Issue
ried
Cagier
fohn N married Susan McGivern
John
Ire
Jireh MD
Mahala
Mahatma married Stephen Niles

1
14 Deborah married Newels
Harriet married
Harriett
Newels

enrolled
Those alterable
Toolmaker
Near Valparaiso Indo

all enrolled above the grandchildren of

33
In
Indd

Ire
Jireh Unmoored
test 3
that our younger
nnessee
nineteenth
nineteenth century
7
Mumford the second who was born in 1747 brigh-
bring
Peleg branch well down into Te-
Elegy the

Of that Jireh's any-

Hires descendants there are records Hoffman
of many
more and they are here enrolled for the convenien-
theatre convenience
ce any future Unmoored
fanny
of Mumford who mawkish
Unmoored may wish to compile acc--
omplete
complete Unmoored
Mumford genealogy
61 MARY KELLOG
KELLOGG
48 Is
married John R Woodward Is-
Is
sue

3
14 Warren died
married Catherine Scott died
Delaware Co N Y
at Cortland
Scotland

4
14 Jackson married Augusta Mannering
Wayne Co Pa
died
Maundering died Bethany
at Bethany
at-Bethany

5
14 Dency
Enc
Deny
Deny married Dr Johnson Olmstead
Dency

62 RAZOR
AZOR KELLOG
Undo
Runoff
Undo
Homestead Dundo Pa
KELLOGG married Nancy Stevens sister to
Molt x
gawp
twp
65 Issue
J.P-
jape-
66 and Alfred Issue-
Issue a

38

1i r
x.r
 M-
c
I

f T journal
Roma i
oma

Wayne
Louisa married David

69 JJIRE
IREH KELLOG
Issue
Issue-
Co Pa Issue
White

Jonathan Lake Como Wayne Co Pa

nda four others
And
71 JOHN married Beveling
Evelina Spoor Issue
Incenses Indo
Near Vincennes

Pa-

Issue
Issue-
Ind
KELLOGG married Mary Moore Preston Wayne

f
s

Ph be Eliza
Phoebe Ellza married Root
Elena
Ele la
Belfast
Elbe Maria married Henry Clark
dark
Smear Stone
ISO Patience E married Osmer
JA
72 JAMES MINORED married Mary 82 daughter of
MUMFORD fa-
thoms Unmoored
Thomas Issue
Issue-
Issu-
Mumford 50 Issue
es Leggy Killed
S i Oliver married Ann Legg
1ISIS
ISI Killed at Petersburg VaV-
acating
Captain
I Olive married Mott
Motet Keen Prompton Chil-
Prompting Pa Children
dren
Elizabethan
Elizabeth and Clarence
James Lawrence killed Chancellors
killed at Chance Orville Captain
Chancellorsville tt
Mary unmarried
ISS
ISSN Mantilla married Col
Mathilda
ghter
Georgian
Georgiana
Cool George B Osborne
Dau-
Suborned Daughter

Warren married Laura Swift Four daughters Once

Representative Pennsylvania Legislature
Clinton married Joanna Pickering tic
Clarence married Susan Avery
Urban married Emma Ball Beloit Kansas
Durham
Harriet married
Harriett Argil Son Daniel
Cargill
Ely
Elwyn married Yellowstone Wholesale Pa Lawyer
Honesdale
Ella Sutton Honesdale
Wholesale
rhomas
Thomas
Infant
I
73 PH ELBE MUMFORD
PHOEBE
EBE Issue
Issue-
MINORED married James Hyatt Issue
James married Ann Stevens
Walkman
Wakeman
MINORED married Mary Converse
74 THOMAS R MUMFORD
Issue
4 April 1845 Issue-
Issue
Converse born 15
rkup
Knapp
39
7
IS September 1847 married Mary Ma-

J
dr r

1
 wl
w w 7

en tv
Appetent
Li-
Mary born 30 January 1846 married Horace M

a
ndsay Children are
Blindly
Lindsley are
are-
are-
Anna born 9 July 1868
b Adelaide born 20 November 1869
c Clara R born 6 January 1876

her Issue
ther Issue-
Sampson Issue
Es-
Est-
MINORED married 3 January 1841 Esther
75 DECATUR MUMFORD

Eugene born 29 May 1842

Rolland born lI November 1846
Alice died young
Ellen born Il December 1848
Grace died young
Augustine
Stella born 12 September 1852
Estella
Georgian born 10 November 1858
Georgiana

76 DOLLY MARIA Samp-

MINORED married John Sampson
MARrA MUMFORD
MARIA
I
son
They've
They moved to Texas
78 RUBY MINORED
MUMFORD married first Samuel Rogers second
issue
issue-
Benedict Rogers issue
Ruby married Tabor Rude Lenox
Lennox Pa
c

kefir

Mary E married George Cooper

I
Charles married Wilcox
Anna married Ezra Brown Four daughters
I
I Jane married Daniel Moon Four sons
J 18 I Thomas married Anna Sloan
79 THOMAS L MUMFORD Is
MINORED married Eliza Kennedy Is-
Iss-
Is
sue
sue-
ue
sue
Adeline
t Caroline married Dr Thomas Winston Chicago
F
Elm
Ellen married Thomas B Carey
Anna

tew
J
rhomas
Thomas
New York
married Clara McKinley S-
No 2 Wall St

I Charles
Nathan married Hattie Parker One daughter
40
i

l 0
 J

Beeline bom
Eveline born August 12 1853
So
S

o a
bbona
oma i
i go Infant died
MINORED married Maria Tracy
80 MARTIN J MUMFORD Ab-
Table
Table-
ler
Rock Nebraska Issue-
Issue Issue
Ii
IgiI Luther
19
Ruby
Josephine
Tracy
Henry
MINORED married Maria Wheeler Is-
81 HIRAM R MUMFORD Iss-
Is Is
sue
ue
sue
Iguana
6 Duane died
19 Luanda Either Pueblo Cool
Lucinda married Isaac J Keiter Col
Rhubarb One son Informed
l 98 Lucien married Daphne Hubbard Winfred
Mary

72 James Mumford
MUMFORD married
82 MARY MINORED Unmoored

Issue
Iss-
Issue-
MINORED 36 married Elijah Dix Issue
83 MERCY MUMFORD
Arm
ue Marvin
zoo
Benjamin
more
Densmore
Elijah
IRE MINORED married Lydia Wheeler Issue-
84 JIREH MUMFORD Issue Issue
Ire
ire
Jireh
Francis
Emily married Abel Flint
COUGH
88 DAVID CLOUGH married Doomsday King Issue-
53 Issue Issue f
Molina
Millenary married Francis Sanford
Millinda
Roberta married Julia Dix
Robert
Henry

l
Frances married Spencer
COUGH
ROXANA CLOUGH
89 ROMANIA 53 Is-
Is
married George Warner Is
Is-
sue
sue- sue
II Davis
William Walter
rah
born 31 August
August Sa-
married Sarah

41
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lipper1
tipper
bom 28 November 1841
Norman born

killedat Antietam
ter Was killed
tear Antitank
1
George Washington married Eva Miller One daugh-
daugh

Warren
hells
Wells
Emma dehumanized
died unmarried
Decline dehumanized
Adeline died unmarried

ffton
Jane
ofa
sofa
Wallace
Nora Ella
John Walton died in infancy
IE

90 CLARIES COUGH
CLARISSA CLOUGH

ck
od
stock
53
Issue
stock Ohio Issue-
Issue
sto-
Wo-
dark Dix Wood-
married Clark Wood

John Riveting
Riverton Franklin Co Nebraska
Fane Grand Mound Clinton Co Ohio
Vane
Clarissa married
Claries Fay Woodstock
Woodstock Ohio
Peter
MILLION MUMFORD
98 MILLINDA
sue
sue-
ds
sue
54 Rufus IsIs-
MINORED 54 married Rufus Tuttle Is Is-

Russell
search

h
od
rich No issue 0
Russet born 12 January 1840 married Ervilla
Russel
ric-
Go-
Goo-
Good
Orville Good-

daughter
Caroline born 19 October 1845 married Joseph Rob-
inson M D died 14 November 1880 One daughter
Winston

Helen Robinson

HARRIET MINORED
99 HARRIETT
ried
Erastus
MUMFORD 54
Issue
Issue-
Erasmus Baker Issue
1
Rob

mar-
33 23 17 3 i married
Harriet Ey born 8 April 1839 died young
Harriett
Charles Ey born n No
bora II I February 1837 married 29 No-
No
ember 1870 Angeline
vember Angelina Craft No issue
Sarah Hy born 30 January 1842 married first Will-
Will
iam
rn
dark Son Frank Married second A Van Horn
Liam Clark
No issue
Ho-
Henry born 30 June 1844 married Augusta Weaver
15 June 1875 Son Walter Erasmus
Erastus
Leroy Fy born 26 November 1848 married
Janu
4 Janu-
42 1

c-
li
 f boma
bona i- a- l
Cary 1877 Sarah E Workman Daughter Anna May
ary
iry Ma-
May-
yor
born 12 February 1882 Rector St Pauls Chur-
Paul's Church
chyards Pa and Archdeacon of Diocese
Harrisburg
II born 13 August 1852
Clarence 1
Jane M born II
mans
li October 1855 married Norman
Mina and Harriett
Shafer Daughters Minna
Shaffer Harriet
Nor-
Frederick M born 30 October 1858 unmarried
ACHES
ACHSA
mas Issue
OWEN MUMFORD
ROWENA
Issue-
Sherwood Issue
MINORED 54 Tho-
married Thomas

Lyman married No issue

Layman
Vanderbilt Cedar Rapids
Frank married Anna B Vandergrift Rap-
ids
Ohio Daughters Carrie and Nellie
Nellie
MILO HARRY MUMFORD
MINORED
married
married Issue
married Issue-
54 married- Issue
Isabel married Rufus Smith Gardiner Kansas
Isabel
George M married
LouisOhio
Gooey No Louisburg Ohio
Louisa married M G Gowey
Jennie married J T Murphy Jamestown
John Frank unmarried
Harry
HENRIES MINORED
HENRIETTA 54 Sher
MUMFORD 54 married Thomas Sher-
Woods Issue
second Issue-
wood supra as his second wife Issue
Daug-
fane Augusta married George Williams Daughters
Jane
hters
Nettle and Florence
Nettie ti
Charles married Gertrude Waite
Lizzie
Tizziesmarried
Mimi married Sidney Toman
Minnie Oman Issue Flor-
Florence
ence and Mary
Harry
MINORED
ALFONSO MUMFORD
ALONZO 54 Freem-
married Martha Freeman
an
Issue
Sidney Freeman born 23 December 1851 died 18
August 1881 married Angelina Stevenson Issue
Georgian
Georgiana
Rowe born 31 August 1853
Rowena
Caroline born i September 1857 married Robert Rob-
erto
Fowler Issue Josephine
43

f a

Li
r fJ J

25 i Russell F
Russel F born 8 August 11862
Harry born I August 1868
MINORED
PHOEBE MUMFORD
54 Is
married Charles Spencer Is-
Is
sue
Irena born 119
Rena g April 1857
Frederick Unmoored
es
le
sale Pa
dale
Mumford Hones
Mum rd born 25 February 1863 Whole-
Hones-
da-
Hon-
Wholesale Pa
Charles Francis born 2 April 1865 Honesdale
Russell Henry died young
Russel
Alice died young
George died young

MINORED
JANE MINERVA MUMFORD 54 married A N
54 Sill
FRANCIS M MUMFORD
MINORED 54 Camp-
54 married Mary Campbell
bell
Issue
Rachel C born 5 December 1863
Sarah F born 3 August 1865
Jennie H born 24 February 1872 died 24
24 March
1873
73
Noble R born 1i April 1881

NORMAN WARNER 89 53 Sta-

married Emily Stark
rker Ridge Pa Issue
Green Issue
Issue-
Georgian married
Georgiana Griffin
Charles
Lettie
Letter
Lefts married Broad
Thomas
Thomnas

24 WARREN WARNER 89 53 married Is

Cole Is
Coyle Is-
sue
Nettle
Nettie
Nettle
Nettie
Nettle
Nettiemarried Smith Elmira N Y
Hattie
Hattie married Sampson Green Ridge Pa
Arthur
WELLS WARNER 89 53 married Eliza Hacker
Peccadilloes Issue
Peckville Pa Issue-
Issue
Cecilia married Tanner f v
Bertha died iTy
44

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c
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1 r

Off
ofa Tomas
oma
Roma i
Minnie
Chester
JANE WARNER
n
m
ton Pa
Walter
Issue
Issue-
Issue married to-
married
married- Capwell
89 53 married Scra-
Scram
Caldwell Scran-

WALLACE WARNER 89 53 married Frank Frisked

Fiske
Issue-
Nicholson Pa Issue Issue
1
I
Jennie T 6 J
11

Grace t
a
George
George L
d r
Bulla May
Beulah
NORA ELLA WARNER
ton Issue-
Homer N Y Issue
89 53
Issue
married Frank Milton Mil- ZIt

Milton
violation
William
Sarah It

Alice
Lucy
68 EUGENE MUMFORD
MINORED 75 49 married first Kate Kacy
Kay
married second Susan Hymes Is-
Is
Hymens 24 December 1879 Is
Is-
sue
sue-
sue
Albert
MINORED
ELLEN MUMFORD 75 49 married Almond Sampson
Tunkhannock Pa Issue-
Albert
Issue Issue
Alberta born 7 November 1865 died 25 July 1869
Lye born g9 June 1870
Clyde
Roland bom
born 25 February 1874
Pearl born 17 February
tWInS
Ruby born 17 February I 88 0
MINORED 75 49 married 24 May 1868
ROLAND MUMFORD
Eager Snowshoe Mich
Elizabeth Yeager Issue-
Micah Issue Issue
Fera
Vera born 31 May 1869
Gaober 1875
Clayton born 28 October
Theresa bom
born I August 1878
Grace born 5 June 1880 died 22 June 1881
4
45

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CORNELIA
op
or
trop
R LILLIBRIDGE 59 married S A Nor-
throp Factoryville Issue-
Factorable Pa Issue Issue
Clara married 29 May 1874 C N Swallow One son
Nor tr-
N-
sou-
thward A
Howard 4
Preston
Pl-eston Elias married 18 June 1887 Estella
Stella Bayle
Bale
Daughter Edith C born 12 December 1889
dA married 2 August 1880 W
Louisa A V N Manchester
Manche-
ster
Issue
a EarN
Earl N born 12 July 1881
b Roy Ey born 21 August 1883
c Edwin Ry born 19 September 1885
Stephen WWy married 4 September 1890 Katherine Kathe-
rine
Hillman
Clime Grant married I Goober
Clarence
even
Seven
Seaven
October 1889 Mary V S-

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SH
HE second Thomas of wa-
our name was
6
1 base-

THE
Thereon
s
ITHE
sI
B
born in Portsmouth R 1
child
being the eldest child
1656
I in 16 56
pare-
of his parents
parent-
parents--
s
B
thents following marri-
the year following their marriage
age and last we have considerable light upon
First eupho-
him
nium and may believe that he-
and his career anomaly he
ws a worthy representative of his family
was
wealth luxury
The wealth and luxury of the Colony hadnot
had nob-
handout
not
been developed in his younger days and though
lemen thoug-
understanding
of sound understanding
ah man cofounder and parts sh- he
ellacked
educational both
lacked the educational advantages bothof
ifter and his own children
father
both of hissh-
When he was two years old and landfill on-
still the only

et
ly
uanaut
aquanaut tray
trad Andover
tra
taquamscutt tram
ung and moved there Young
Thomas there grew to manhood through the-
reabouts
ns
gogue
gaining
troublous Indian times gaining such education
country
as the country schoolman
school and the Newport peda-
gigue could provide anonandon
and
P-
child his father made his purchase in the Pet-
t
aq-
Yo-
Pet
the
educatio-
pedal
on the same acres sh- he
lived
lived out his seventy years
elved
Of the great Pettaquamscutt tram
sythias
Thomas had
trat
trams
received perhaps the lions
characterized
for-
tract the first
lion's share
share-
having hierarchic
having the first second and third
holding inv
choice in vva
invava-
a
rOIlS drawings These are known as the frus-
rious
trating Mn
drawing the Nonprofit
heta
oracic Poid
rowlock
croft the
Monocot
t-
first
frus-
th-
draw
zW In the first draw-
Pond and the final
l 49 1
the
 JJ

CM
for of
emir
bor-
c
ing near Tower Hill facing
King abo-
bay gadabout
and about
facing the banyan
ut
alfa
halfa
half for-
Mu-
M um
a mile from the shore stood the old Unmo-
Mum-
M Hu-
Sufi
dpe
m house It was a wide low-roofed
ford
ffier
ored roofed comfort-
comfort
able wooden house of the old New England type
stood for more than a century occupied Ba-
bandstand
and
ty-
by
varians descendants of the first owner
various
There our second Thomas grew to manhood manho-
od from there he moved to a house of his own
and
which he biltong
built on Tower Bilateral mar
Hill after his mar-
triage in his fathers
riage father's lifetime
Thomas was a vigorous planter Wanda anda
and a conscience
conscien-
kindled
ious kindly elder brother After the time of the
tious te-
nding which
Indian wars which came when he was nineteen
period
ninet-
een old a long period of prosperity for the-
years the
ology
Colonist
Colony set in and folk lived together in peace
kindliness and plenty The countervail be
country rapidly be-
be
settled
came settled and developed being for many
Ma-
yer
years far ahead
ahead of its western Cone tic
bourn and the second Thomas lived to see his
bour
hbor
neig-
neigh
Connecticut neigh-
Conne

children grow payout comf-

up about him in all the comfort
that could
Colony
ort the Colony could afford
His wife Abigail whose fathers father's name has Bue-
been
nos family
lost from our family records was born in 1670
fourteen years his junior she was but sixteen
een
when she married Their three eldest sons were
sixt-
whe-
reon
born while old grandfather Thomas the first fir-
sts
still lived The children of this generation
generation-
are
sons
generation

s-
Abigail sons are an interesting group in fam-
Abigail's fam
idly annals There were six sons averaging
ily
bilabials averaging six
sixt-
He-
ix
feet in height and they
eenth are known as The
theatre
six
thirty
athery feet of commode
Unmoored their fame exten-
Mumford
so
ds
50
extend
extend-

r-
r1 1 frr
f j

f Chomas
Comas nni-
o a ti
ti-
it
M-
ng far about that region Here is a list of stepc-
ing
King them
hildren of Thomas 11
Children II and Abigail fish- his
wife
Thomas IL
III born I April 16
1687 died
1760 Of him later
y 1689 died 1745
IS 5July
George born 15
Joseph born 17 September 16
1691
91
3 02 William born 18 February 1693
Benjamin born
bortl 110
o April f
Aril 1696
aW 1745
Richard born 6 September 1698 died
at Louis
Louisburg
Appen-
Of these six tall brothers note in our Appendix
dix little I have learned omitting for the pres-
what pres
Kent the elder one
ent Thomas adjourning return-
and returning
ing
later to him and his father
While begetting sturdy
begetting all these sturdy sons Thomas Thom-
as
the secondment leading
second went on leading ofa
the life sofa pros
of a pros-
porous planter and local politician Landaus
perous Land mus-
must
t've been overmuch
have very much cheaper in 1693 than in- it
became a few years later for Note
terchange Th-
I note that in that
ayer Thomas and his wife sold to Samson Battery
year Battey
Batte-
ry hundred Pentagr-
Jamestown three hundred acres in Pentagram
of Jamestown scutt-
Pettaquam-
ac-
lethe death
am
scuttle
Byte
42
scutt for 42 or about seventy
rey the death of his father interstate
Bythe
By
B
cents an acre
seventeenths
intestate in 1692
Thomas became
ious for brother PElegy
rious law
heir resultant
a result
elegy one would suppose And
eleg
se
rather se
se-
se-
An-
iseed it would seem so for Telegraphers
indeed Peleg appears M-
Elegy to
have remaineda poor man thereafter
ohave
Thomas was not altogether ungenerous let gus- us
bu-
ttSee j jai
d Bi
t-
st
See
See Appendix George Joseph
seted oseph Bei
Joseph William Benjamin Rich
and Rich-
ard
Ward
Wardsom of Thomaj
ard sons Thomas the second Unmoored
ford
Mumford

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ii-
-
 fork e Lo-rs
coir
believe Shortly
relei deed-
father's death he deeded
Shortly after his fathers
ed hundred
one and seventy
seventy acres in Kingstown to
hundred manservant
Unmoored Fish Daniel Fishs
his sister Abigail Mumford Fish-
Fish's
t-
wife of Portsmouth declaring
declaring that his feather-
father
had
head interstate leaving him
died intestate
For fifteen years after his fathers
as
law
heir Thom-
father's death Thomas
led the usual country life of his time and Col- Col
Col
Cool
increasedas the settlement ex-
ony His wealth increased
Sony ex
ex
Andean
panded
banded and the value of laundresses proportion-
land rose in proportion
He saw something
ed something of politics for which his fame fam
fam
fam-
especially
idly has never been especially noted in pra
ily practi-
tice
trice
practice
pram
ce 1701I he was Deputy from South Kingstown
In Kingsto-
wn was Justice of the Peace in 1703 these be-
pandas
and be
be
ing
ingoted only offices he ever held
King the goldfinches
Queen Annes
ugh
much
much
Anne's War was in progress through
of his mature life and handcuffed
thro-colo
occupied the colo-
mists with its alarms and project
nists
mas
projects Tho-
ts but Thomas
himself
himself never bore arms and his sons egre-
mostly too young
giously young to do so
were

One event stands out conspicuously in his life

uneventful
tragedy
mily place soSlave
tragedy took place
murder in our annals Slaveholding
amide
fa-
as it was in most ways a great family
so far as I know the poly-
Slave-holding was com-
only
com
Cole-
COll-
man among the wealthy planters of the trime-
mon time
the
ster negroes so employed bigamously
being mostly house
housew-
or personals
ork personal servants few in number not un un-
un
infiltrated
kindly treated we are told and havingahaving
having a very
different position from those human cattle who wh-
at a later period became the opprobrium flour of mo-
our
Gulf
urnful States
There were but three or four of these blacks in
52 f

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i
Off o az if
bona
boma ti-
ft
the family among
Thomas
family of Thomas among them two men
ty was in May 1707 while Thomas was absenti-
It
ameni-
absent
ng
in Newport that his wife Abigail then a vig- vi
vig
vig
porous
within
with
mith
thirty
orous matron of thirty-seven handsome
had some words-
landaus
one of these slaves and
words
caused him to be b-
brutally
ewailed He struck her down and brutally
whipped mur
mur-
deed her The amazement fury and
dered exciteme-
advertisement
excitement
nt remember-
of the whole province were long remembered
ed the fame thereof dwelt in the land
and
The wretched homicide for a short time eludedelud-
ed
his pursuers but his case must soon have be- be
be
hims-
come hopeless for in the end he threw himself
elf the sea pandas
into and was drowned Here is an ab ab
ab-
strafe
nty
hth
eighth
eighth
eig-
twe-
twe-
tract from the Colonial Records of the twenty
stract
tracer twenty-
phrase-
of May 11707 Even its stilted phraseology
ology somewhat luminous with the human
becomes
thought it contains Whereas the body
c
ofaan-
body no-
of
sofa
negro
nzero
mas which
egro which was the late slave of Mr Thomas
Unmoored
Mumford
Unmoored of Kingstown sandhog
Tho-
com
had com-
and who handloom
harridan
mitted the horrid
emitted and barbarous murder upon
Pon-
te
eks as is justly concluded was foundation
oned
since Vwe-
Versi-
Mumford about two weeks
the wife of the said Unmoored
found upon Ch-
eshire of Little Compton in the Province of
shore
the

Cleveland
lieved
leaved
which
sinner
Massachusetts Bay which said negro it is be-
committed
and judged after he had committed
be
be
said
murder then threw himself into the sea and An-
by reason he wouldn't
dromeda himself Breakstone
drowned would not be-be
taken alive and the said negros'ss body being
sinners
negro's
negro-
Negroes
harbor of Newport it is or-
brought into the harbour or
or
by the Assembly
byte
drained bythe
dained Assembly that his head legs Ad-and
arms body
ams be cut from his body and hung
hung up in some
SOUle

53

rot
 fort
9 humor emirr
semip-
public
ublic place near the town to public view and
Gan-
his body be burned to ashes that it may if n-
dhi it
please God be something
ipples
ers
of
something sofa oth-
ofaa terror to others
from perpetrating th-
perpetrating of the like barbarity for the
eatre
future So ended the life of this worthy lady
dy
known to us her descendants as Abigail only
la-
on-
ly matr-
She comes upon our scene as a prolific matron
the on
the mother of giant sons she leaves it the te-
nure
murdered
murdered
murdered brutal
vi tim sofa
victim ofaa brutal slave and history
of histo-
ry more her very name forgotten ant-
tells us no more her overcame
her place soon filled
and

year
It is a curious commentary
commentary upon the times that hea-
ths Abigail
this
irty
six
her
x
ty her

old
as third having
the
son si-
th-
thir-
thirty
Abigail was alreadya grandmother at thirty-
Thom-
Thomas
having married two years before the- her
reat and promptly begotten a
death
deathward Thom-
Thomas
as
the fourth
unsatisf-
It seems that the bereaved husband unsatisfied
ied the size of his already flourishing family
with fam-
ily
then sought consolation elsewhere and add-
handmade
added
ed
four more children to his stock Esther Effo- Tefft
Theft
rt Tift
or sixth child
child of Samuel
Tiff was the Smithfield El-Eliz
Samuel and Eliz-
izabeth
bethinks
beth
abeth
Our
Emcees TefFt
Jenckes
rly Thomass
Weste-
Theft of Kingstown and Westerly
Thomas's suit with this Esther soon pros- pros
and she was installed in his new home
pered sandshoe
perked home-
stead
stead twenty
twenty
on the twenty-fifth of November 1708
Of this second marriage there were born four for-
bidden but of them I know no more than hen-
children the
names
banes
olin
John 3 7 Tabitha
abitha
Tahitian
absinth
Sarah 3 8 Esther
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MSG f

ibid Loa i
loma
secondarily
In the year of this second
ginaw
antici
marriage our antici-
patory
sons in life
ones
himself
paltry Thomas busied himself settling his lodest-
eldest

Two weeks before his marriage the old house in

ndic he and his father had dwelt was made overb-
which
I-
over
over-
uy deed
by deed of gift to the eldest married Home-
married son Thomas

ings six build-

stretch with fifty-six acres and farm buildings
together
hundred
besides a pasture lot of two hundred acres Iso- Son
therms was already living in the old house ran-
Thomas and
continued
ths
This
nearly ear-
domized to do so for nearly eighteen years
year was the one preceding
preceding the marriage
marria-
ge the second son George and in view of stat-
of

twenty
reaten
econd
second
seconds
event the father deeded to him on O ctober
ement
hundred
1708 one hundred
tober
and
s-
that

eig-
th-
Tiber the
eighty
candlelight
hty of landon
acres Judith
land on Point Judith neck also a part
London pa-
rt
of the farm belonging
belonging to the old house
Let us here stop for a moment and take a survey-survey
or Mumford family
of the Unmoored itself
family as it spread itself out overt-
over
Arraigns region in the early years of the
the Narragansett
hrew he-
eighteenth
ighten nearly hund-
eighteenth century now nearly two hundred
years ago
red
Of the children of the first Thomas there perc-
verge
were
overd-
riving in the region Thomas the second Peleg
living
eiving Eleg-
Elegy
and Sarah Arnold with their numerous chil
ant chil-
dren
two
den twenty-two grandchildren in all Aloof
do
fairly
ften fairly
them well
s would appear
All of
person-
and prosperous persons
o-
twofold
it would
It is hard to estimate exam tallyho
Sealyham
exactly
exa
sexually
tally what groundmass
ground was-
was
Unordered
Mumford
then included in the Unmoored
hmen far
far-
acres but so fara-
thymus
as one can judge they
ds must have covereda large lar-
ge south
part south-eastern
of Kingstown taking in Point
55

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 a humored
91 humor 91
Judith
region Hill
Judith and Tower Hill with the Narragansett
Pier region from
Arraigns
from three thousand to four thou- thou
sandbars Unmoors Island now known
sand acres in all Mumford's know-
ans Great Island in P Poin
Point
coin t Judith Pond is fare
oin fre
fre
fre-

as
queenly mentioned but passed by purchase or-
quently or
deed into the Hazard family
dered family ge-
of the next gen
gen-
nerationsas dials
aeration
eration
aeration Michele
did also much else of the land in-in
tact region
that
allied
The Hazards were several times allied withes with bus-
us
boy
finds
by marriage and I find some interestingness
those old times in a letter written a century lathe-
thouse
of
interesting notes ho-
later
ry
by Isaac Peace Hazard Arraig- Arraigns
Narragansett
Hazard of Narragansett-
Narragansett
Up eighte-
ns to this period the middle of the eighteenth
Up
Uptown

enth
century and Arraig-
Aragon
some time afterwards Narragan-
handsome
ns was the seat of hospitality
set
sett hospitality and refinem-
advertisement
refinement
large
ent large-landed proprietors lived in ease and
Her
luxury visited by the elite lite from all parts of hea-
elite the
then British American Colonies and distin- distin
gushed strangers of Europe
guished
In In person my grandfather Thomas Hazard Haza-

strength
rd
ut
both
hundred
two hundred
both
bothof
Greenwich
cy
fouls
was large full

of mind
midland
hominid
six feet high and

and body Daniel Updike

rogenic once in speaking
Greenwich speaking
weighing
sandwiching
weighing
and fifty pounds of great strength
abo-
about

Nudie of East
Arraigns race observed that al-
of the old Narragansett
Est-
degenera-
of the degeneracy
al
al
throughout
though
wells
well
Ute
our family had kept up the standards s-
standard as-
as
as any yet we were as far below that of flour
our
for-
nicators both in mind
ancestors midlandand body as those who wh-
oa
had depreciated
depreciated most were below us
tc
Arraigns was distinguished for its
Ancient Narragansett
franked
frank and generous hospitality Strangers and
56
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traveling
lf
Of stoma it
o a in-
ft
travelling gentlemen were always received
troverting received and
und-
entertainedas guests Minot
etermined
entertained acquainted
If not acquainted with
lithe-
hewer
some family they were introduced by letter letter-
man an acquaintance with
and
Andean withinone family frees
freshet
family of ta
ta-
respect
Reese sta-
respecta-
ability
bility
ability was an introducing
introduce tion
introduction frie-
ion to all their friends
nds
Public houses for the entertainment of
gears were rare Strangers and travelers
gers
rostra
stran
stran-
with-
travellers without
out
letters were compelled to tarry
zen were expel
zens ted to sojourn with their rela-
expected
cit
citi
tarry at them but citi-
citi
rela
ions and acquaintances Newport distinguishe-
tions distinguished
d it was before the Revolution had few public
as
blic
houses of entertainment and those small not ex
pu- ex-
ex

Westinghouse
ceding

t-
ceeding the dimensions of the common dwelling
houses The old public house of Mr Townsend Townsen-
d celebrated in its day was an ordinary
so
story house adapter
ory
wo
stoy
ordinary
and rather narrow and he enter- st-
two
two-
Tol-
enter
tained in it the distinguished travelers
stained travellers of mis-
his
time The public houses in Providence perp-
timed were
etually
equally inferior in dimensions
The society
society of that dayayahs refined w-
was refined indwell
and well
elling aristocracy
informed The landed aristocracy showed showed ne- an
early
arly regard to the suitable education of step-
early
children Books were not so general generals
their
this
as at whi-
spered 18
period 1835 wealthy were careful
3 5 but the wealthier careful of-
of
ten
the education of their offspring

ll
ed We-
Well
qualifi-
qualified
tutors emigrated to the Colonies answered
played in family instruct
ployed
and were em-
compl-
ion and to complete
tion
instruction
em
em

ete afterw-
their education their pupils were afterwards
ards
placed
en
learnedly clergym-
in the families of learned clergymen
Dr MacSparran
Mascara received young gentlemen in
M-
his family for instruct
inis
t ton
57
Lapp the
on Thomas Clapp
instruction

t
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uniform
fork gem
gemo t
Geoffrey

edu
efficient president of Yale completed his edu-
edu ed
caption under him
cation
The
cc
The ion
tion
instruction
instruct of youth in the private family
fami-
lies of learned
learned men with the opportunity
opportunity ofas as
of as-
sofas
as-
as
scatting
scatting with their distinguished
sociating distinguished visitors and-
friends improved their minds endoscopies
rogens accomplis-
and accomplished
and

hed manners
their
The ted
instructe-
instructed
The young ladies also were generally instruct tendi-
ng
in
ate well
d the same manner under well-qualified private
tutors and then placed in the schools of Boston
on ion and accomplishment
tion
instruction
for further instruct
priv-
Bost-
TheThe gentlemen of fanciest Arraigns were-
ancient Narragansett were
well informed
wolf informed and possessed
possessed of intellectual taste
the remains of their libraries and paintings wou-
would
be sufficient testimonials if
ld footer
other sources of in-in
in
tie
tive
defective
formation were defer
The portraits of Dr MacSparran
Mascara dandified wif-
and wife
eliness by Somber in 1729 at the Dottor's
painted Doct-
Doctors
ors Arraigns are with the family
house in Narragansett family of
of-
fender Allen
Frederic Eyre in Maine Mrs Allen
Alien Eyrie be
Alien be
be-
ingoted
ing
King
niece
hovies only
copies
Mascara anc-
the great-niece of Mrs MacSparran
are in Rhode Island
enlarge
and
The Te-
nanting of other families besides family por
paintings soother por-
por
poor
traits are now dispersed and their libraries ren-
are
are-
now
lost
elist
divided
own divided among their children andare andre
and cart-
are

This
ery society
oscine
state of society supported by
would produce festivity
slav-
absolver
slavery
nat
festivity and dissipation the nat-
nat
durables
ural
hwart
wealth
bowel
result of wealth and leisure Excursions to
bloated he-
Hartford to luxuriate on bloated salmon were the t-
nna
annual indulgences of May Pace races on the
588

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bona hi- J

each for the prize sofa

bachi
beach tankard
of a silver tankard and
ofa roas-
Andreas
roasts
ts
of shelled
Roselle
shelled landscaped fisher
and scaled fish were the social indulgeindul-
genes costumer
gences
corn
ector
usking
husking
of summer When autumn arrived the h-
Invitati-
festivals commenced Invitations
J
ons extended to all those proprietors who were
were where-
in habits of family intimacy and in return her- the
ho-
invited guests sent their slaves to aid the host
niated
st their services Large numbers would be gath-
by
bather gath
hereof
ered
erred booths entertain-
of both sexes expensive entertainments
or-
ments
prepared mandate
and after the repast the recreation of
dancing
daining
vided
vided witha
family
dancing commenced as every family was pro
mansi-
with a large hall in its spacious mansion
withal
pro-
pro
1

on with natural musicians among its slaves

and
bandwidth naturalistic I

Gentlemen in their scarlet coats landwards and words-

swords
mith lace ruffles over their hands hair turned
with turtle-
forehead
fore
back from the forehead curled friz-
ead endured
and curled and frizzled
headband
bead

zled
clubbed
clubbed or queued behind highly powder- powdered
ed pomatum saddlecloths
and
gs
small clothes silk stockings
stockin-
ornamented
and shoes ornamented
sandshoes with brilliant buckles
headdres-
ladies dressed in brocade cushioned headdresses
and
alize
highthirty
ses high-heeled shoes performed the formal
minuet with its thirty-six different
form-
positions anc-
and
horages These festivities would sometimes con
changes co-
con-
tine
ntinue
tine
tinue for days and the banquets amongst threaded
the
Amontillado
among
proprietors would for a longer or shorter time re-
landed
be
IB-

during
continued during the season of harvest
constituted
These hilarity festivity
These seasons of hilarity and festivity were ag- as
gratifying
gratifying to the slaves as to their masters as
grandizing a-
bout byte
bountiful preparations were enjoyed by them in- in
the outho-
ter large kitchens antitheses
and outhouses
uses
These pram ices vere
tices
pra thieveries
practices continued
were continued occasionally
59

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forth Go-
OR

rdon
down even to the year i1Soho
Soo dimin
800 but on a dimin-
sheds flexes
ished scale of expense landlubbers
dished and numbers

work
Holy
At Christmas commenced the Holy-days
eory completed
work of the season was completed and
th-
the
up-
up done
and the twelve days were generally devoted of-
land to
festive associations In former times falconine
fensive all connec-
connect
ions by bloodworm
tions affinity re
blood or affinity were entitled to re
re-
Re-
foul attentions and they were treated
spatula
spectful
aspectual
ese
spec hewer wel
treated as weal
wel
wel-
of estate had dis-
come guests Every gentleman overstate his
ciple cone
of conne ions friends and acquaintances
connections
circle cocooned acquaintan-
ces they were invited from one plantation to
and hewer t-
materially
oaster
another
This state fanfares didn't
of affairs did not differ materially

to
from what was known in the Southern slave lay-
ettes of the last generation pandas
states pos
and was made pos
pos-
sable by
sible slavery
slavery
absolver primogen-
and the laws of primogeniture

s-
iture much
Indeed much of the malicious walkabout an
Yan
talk about Y
Yan-
an-
an-
Ya-
kee
nkee originat-
keel birth manners and breeding originating
ing

otoday
with the English taken up by byte
bythe
the landed gen
gen
gen-
try
try of the South landfill stilling
and still byte
sung bythe sca-
Caled-
called
by the so-called
led
onia
popular press would be despised for the cant it- it

England
ss but for the sad fad
iis

land people
In
faith
has become the accepted faith flour

In those old days traveling

ortant
undertaking Everyman
traveling imp-
day
faa that the slander to-day
of our New Eng
Eng-

travelling was an important

Every member of the family hards-had
hips manservant
his particular horse and rar-
servant and he rarely
ely unattended by his servant to open gates han-
rode and
dcar for the horses
care
Carriages were unknown and the public roadsroad-
ster few and bad
were
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Susie
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gap

f boma
bona it
AI

Of course weddings were the great galas of-

Cofactors of
ten olden time and the fox chase with hound
the houn-
and fowling
ded horn fishing and fowling were constant Ko- o-ob
be-
ob-
ob
jetsts forestation
eats
ats
jbjects
be
partrid-
of recreation Wild pigeons partridges
ges
quails woodcocks squirrels Vanderbilt
and rabbits were
innumerable
Such
Suckered
Such were the amusements pastimes festivi-
festive
ties and galas offanciest Arraigns after the
ancient Narragansett te-
ndons
Indians had been driven forth
It may be interesting to mention some of the old-
old
families which grouped as kinsfolk
fangled which are grouped in
kinsfolk and in
in-
Amongst
timates Among
inmates Stan-
them are Babcock Stanton
ton Champlain Hazards Robinsons
Bulls
tters Po-
Robinson Potters
ran-
Tra-
s
ns
an
Gardners
rans
Trans
ing
ning
ners Willet
Gard nears
Gardiners
Guard Cols Helmets
Willets Coles
ras Resignations Unmoors Wilson
nings Bretons Fosters Paddies Barbers Ar-
Ming
nold
molds Fishes and Sherman
nolds Shermans
Civics
Masca-
Helmes Mascara
F-
M-
Fan
Wilsons Fan-
Ar
Ar

Few Few persons are aware of the changes which-

which
ever Arraigns society in the
have taken place in Narragansett th-
etas hundred years
past
4
At the time before the Revolution it was the-the
reat of hospitality refinement and luxury anth-
seat and
the accounts I have seen from various progn-
em persons
osticate throughout
scattered through
ited
Rhode Island
vis-
our country who visited
he-
Island at that time corroborate these
sitate
ne New
Among others Mrs Dr Lee of
statements Monotheism
w Yorkshires longish f-
o-
scho-
York writes that she spent a long school
fe-

lastic
vacation there at the age offsite pic
of sixteen She pic-
pic
epic

few
ld
ng
tues the romantic scenery
tures
mansions
few
Goldman
old
scenery antiquation

with
standi-
standing
with
mansions few at present standing switc-
describing
great vividness at the same time describing
hgear
61
he-
and situation of the-
the

the

1
 yp-

rob coir
humor emo r
demo
oliteness refinement
politeness and hospitality in
hospitality of the in-
in
beyond
habitants as beyond what she handover
ore
known or conceived
conceived of
bef-
had ever before

indeed effectual
The changes are indeed effect adoptee
compl-
and complete
Thailand
effectual
effe Tuvalu
ete abolition offstage
The la-
repeal
of slavery the repeal of the law
owf primogeniture the statute division overstates
of estates
statue-
equally
squely divided subdi-
among all has divided and subdivided
equally ammonal
vided
the whole has disappeared from every branch
hed
that
inheritances into such infinitesimal portions thatc-
branc-
hof those old families
Such is one side of the pi ture and the best-
turret
picture best
flour
of
ow
vie-
alterative view
our own people confirm this attractive
w Earl
of that old life The Earl of Balloon when wh-
enever
Governor of New Orlando Engl-
York and New England
and
passed through Rhode Island in 1700 and ins-
ill reception there caused him to write com- com
his
illocution
till
paining
paining of the people and their propensity
plaining propensity to-
to
piary their evasions of the laws of trade anth-
piracy and
em
the ignorance of their officials but our knowl-knowl
edge of that nobleman does not incline us to st-
credit
ored much that he says when his prejudices
credit
ces aroused
were
prejudi-
That the Rhode Islanders did sideband
abandon one of o-
ey
ther
their most boasted institutions is certain They
Th-
free
had in their early days asserted the right of free-
dom of offensiveness
conscience for all but in 1715 the Ro- Ro
Ro
man Catholics were disfranchised and the aw- law
repealed until after the Revolution
ash not repealed unilateral
was
secondarily
The second of our Thomas the seco-
marriage flour second
nds happy
seems to have been a comfortable and happy one bone-
Re
He
head lived eighteen years in that estate and died

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Somas itt-
t-
Subcommand
of seventy in April 1726 In the same
at the age observantly stam-
dilig-
year his wife followed him To me after diligent
merer
ent
search no trace has appeared chil
appeared of those four chil-
den adherer outlived
dren of hers and whether they outlived child-
hood I have not learned Where the wife Ester-
child
Esther
ase buried I know not but Thomas lies by his
was in-
sist wife Abigail in the old Unmoored
first Mumford lot in- in
South Kingstown
somuch
Thom
Thomass
Thomas'sss williwaws proved
will was proved on the eleventh
eleventh of F-
arsi
April
Ultrix To
1726 and his wife Esther was the exec- exec
utrix Thomas George
Joseph Benjamin and Rich-
Richar
Richard
ard
were left five shillings each andson
Hanson
and son George M-
have the negro girl Morocco To the daugh
ohave
to
daugh-
ters
tears Sarah Tabitha
Absinth and Es
Es-
Es
ether each
ther each a feather bed To the son
Jo-
John
house
hn new dwelling-house with five acres an-
the
other land To the son William the pre-
and
rest
of the homestead farm with the house thereon
sto thereo-
n
in which William was then living and he was ba-
senji
enjoined to keep for the thieved
widow a riding breast-
beast
twenty
work cows and twenty sheep To wife Esther
two
ete rest of the movables fandango
the
Esth-
and negro slaves allem-
male
and at her decease two slaves Obey-
and female andante
ande Obey
Tobey
ed Peg to go to son John Girl Catherine go-
and to
daughter Sarah
ddaughter
Inventory lIIV vicc books J ii 45
V-s Jody viz 4
warming gun pair of steelyards linen
warming-pan lin-
en feather
wheel feather-beds pewter bond
weighing
erweed i15 ounces negroes Obey
f Tobey
silv-
silver
50
75
Peg 75 Catherine Coo 40 40 three cows heifer
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Dorian
tam a e or
r
two mares two young horses colt eighte- eighteen
ens
sheep two hogs etc
This will is confusing and little can be gath- gath
erred from it The items do not foot up
ered correc-
core
corral
pictorially
corre
succored tally
tly the two main paragraphs do not correspond
and
as for example where in one place William m- is
mi-

dire
directed
isdirected
sdirect
kept
twenty
her later the inventory
and
for his stepmot-
ted to keep twenty sheep florins stepmother
eighte-
mentions but eighteen
indeterminations
ens
sheep in all
It seems not improbable from what goes before before-
hand Thomas had provided liberally for all his
that
children long before his death and that the will wi-
which
llow was drawn on the second
which second of January in- in

table appropriated eldest

already
only
the year he died mentions only what was no-
ter not

would
It would appear that the
arem homestead
son Thomas had
removed from the old homestead where he lived live- h-
adt the time of his fathers secondarily
father's second marriage can-and
tata living
that in 1726 William was living on the bol- old
place
dface
So much then have we learnedlearned of Thomas the th-
ereon
second It was not a great nor important life inf-
certainly and is memorable to us chiefly for-
erentially for
hat he was the father of allusions
ties that
this tall sons the

sixbrutal
thirty
wife
feet of Mumford
rier Abigail of
Unmoored and that his poor
funning
unknown surname was the vic-
ofaa brutal murder
tim sofa
of
Poi-
vic
vic

Ando
And now we pass on rapidly
as
rapidly to
the third and the dawn commode
Thom-
Thomas
of modern times

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ppendix
Appendix to Story
Story of Thoms-
Thomas lI
Dis-

on of Thomas II Unmoored
owns
Sons Mumford j
George r

J
Joseph
William
Benjamin I i
5

Richa-
Richard
anther
and rd
their Descendant-
Descendants
r
hh j q
T pS
Tttaps
pS-
ttx
T-
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i-
t
isi
Descendants f
1 i
s s

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apped
Appendix to Story
The
Story
II
the Sons of Thomas II
o f Thomas II
Li-
11
George 30 I
Fiona
Joseph William Benjamin and
Richard and their Descenda-
Descendan-
Descendants

nts
Of Geor-
ts
IT George
T ge
Rescind
HE second brother George
Geore 2 5 lived to beb-
Thereon
THE
six
1 efits fifty-six years old ane prosper-
and followed fortune prosperously
ously life His early years were passed
through passed plac-
on the old place
emen he was twenty years old he married Mary the fifth
When
fth
child
child Rowland
of Rowland Alien Robinson She was nine
and Mary Allen
fi-
nine-
of age They lived in Arraigns
teen years fagged Narragansett and later on bo-
Fishers
Fisher's Intro
nefishes Island which he rented from the Winthrop heirs in si-
new
In this cone
well
indwelt
New London He was a planter and well-to-do merchant
conne ion were it not for wandering too far afield
connection fiel-
field
recordat length the history
dit might be of interest to record th-
history of the
landset
ese of the glebe handset
use land byte
set apart in 1668 bythe
by the Pettaquamscutt
fan
purchasers for the support of an orthodox minister The land- land
aus very many years and among
was not put to that purpose for ferryman monot-
heism Mumford believed that he had
others George Unmoored acquired
acquired cer-
handcuffed Acer
Acer
stain rights to it
tain
settlement
In 1702 no orthodox minister having taken settlement and an-
botched
by
dy orthodox was meant a Church
nto which form of
Church England
of England clergyma-
clergyman
belonged
belonged-
belon-
worship most of the grantors belonged
ownership
ged
Henry Gardiner lookup
took up twenty Bund wo-
acres and James Bundy
tentacles two
hundred
unded
hundred eighty
and eighty acres
candlelight
Seventeen years later in 1719 as the conditions handout hadnot
had no-
not
tching hundred
Mumford bought the two hundred
changed our George Unmoored can-
and
Bund acres and here his trouble began In 1721 came
Bundy
eighty Abundances
dlelight calm-
ed properly
accredited
Mascara a properly accredited orthodox clergyman to
Dr MacSparran T-
owson
whom Gardiner gave up his twenty acres which headmost
tentacles hi-
had cost him
nting brou-
nothing but George was not so complacent Suits were brought
ght
against him but he was sustained In 1732 Dr MacSparranMasca-
Mascara
ra possibly on account of his Underdone
gave up the fight possibly Mumford connec-
Unmoored connect

ds
um
ion but eighteen years later five years after George Mum-
tion
M-
for-
Mum
ford's death the Presbyterians as being orthodox claimed Tha-
fords the
the-
English
courts
land and their claim was allowed by the English courts
iland
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p en tr
igneous outcome for our Episcopal brethren in those early
grievous ea-
rly
davs
days
Davis
Een
E en then many prominent persons throughout the country
ven coun-
try
held the Episcopal faith It is interesting to note in the netw-
next
Lauren Hamilton Washington
ork generations Franklin Laurens
two Washin-
gton
efferson Henry et al Among the Rhode Island families
JJefferson
Jefferson famil-
ies Helmets Masons U
were Champlain Hazards Helmes dikes 01
Paddies 0-
na-
1another
ys Clarks William and John Mumford
nays Carters Clarkes
dman others
many
Unmoored san-
and

GEORGE and MARY MUMFORD children

children-
MINORED had these children
Mercy born 15 November 1710
Abigail born 7 April 1713
James born 7 February 1715 died 1773 New Lon- Lon
don
bom 1I May 1718
Robinson born
Mary born 27 November 1721
Rebecca born 2 May 1724
Mumford died in 1745
George Unmoored
may refer to this George later but so much
May
Imay
marketer much of his life and his
children's lives I here set down
childrens
Of Joseph
JOSEPH 2 l Of him and
x his children
lit-
I know little-
little
tle
more than of his brother George

en
Joseph
In 171717
Hannah
child
reconciled
I 7 Joseph married Hannah the second
litho
Heime Hazard Hannah was born the cloth
and Elizabeth Helme
Steph-
child of Stephen
F-
loth of
arsi 1697 so that at their marriage Joseph was
April
n
ty
and Hannah twenty years old So far as Incan
den of this marriage were
dren
Ican
Stephen John
twen-
Asia-
Joseph twenty
I can learn the chil-
chil
Joel Richard san-
Ra-
and
six
daled the first amendatory
ndal
daled
Caleb named after his grandfather Hazard He base-
was
born in South Kingstown on the of March 1718
On the Joseph
of January 1726 Joseph was appointeda jugs jus
jus-
jus
trice of the peace in South Kingstown In his later years he Wat-
tice was
son of the wardens of S Pauls
one Paul's When he died anywhere
and where K- I-
K

now
know not In 1722 he had been admitted freeman of South
Unformatted Cit on the 1st
Unmoored married Sarah Coit
Robinson Mumford ere
cere
Kist of February 1761 The cere-
cere-
cere
moony
mony
moony was performed by Rev Mather Bes
Byes New London
Mother Bees
Byles
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Df it
fA-
tkinson
Kingstown
en
In 1734 he built a pier which
which was for many years
earth-
Arraigns and for which he was reimburs-
the only pier in Narragansett reimbursed
by torture
ed the Assembly This structure
strum ture gave the name to the plac-
turret place
Arraigns Pier
ebo known as Narragansett
now
IT Of William
as
WILLIAM
22
Of him and his younger brother
fourths
ri was the fourth son flour Thom-
of our Thomas
num-
Benjamin numerous
erous
descendants are now living William must have come to a godh-
old age and prospered for during the Revolution when he-
voltage
ood
good
he
nearly
ws nearly eighty years fagged
was of age he lived in Newport in hen-
house on Thames Street owned by Governor Wanton ma-
the
and
ndate owned
after his death his widow owned and occupieda house on New-
handcuffed Jews
ssheet In 1777 he was distrait
Street district secretary
distri
William was a merchant living in Newport at one time imp-
Andean
6
end an insurance underwriter In 1746 he was a signaliza-
and
ion warder before his removal to Newport Andersen
tion sta
signal
in-
and even after his
settling owned Michel
still nonesuch
setting there he silkweed realest Kings-
Kings
much real estate in South Kings-
t
sometimes known as The Commons
ng
tia the Kist
On
was
town for so late as 1803 the tram
eesome
tract thr-
there
tracalled The
called
The Commons divided
amo-
there-
Hills there
was divided among
his heirs He was at one time a lieutenant homilist mili-
of militia
1st of March I1720 William being then twenty- sev-
twe-
twe-
twenty
en
nty Lath
seven years old married Hannah Latham of Groton Mass
ses
She died in 1728 leaving him with two children-children
children
Mas-
Lucy born
bom 29 January 1725
William born 14 September 1728
death
A few months after the death of his first wife William mar- mar
reid on the
ried of April 1729 a young widow Ann Wilson Wils-
on
Ray the daughter of Jeremiah and Ann Monsoon Wilson Wils-
on was born on the of December 1702 On her fathers
She fath-
father's
ers
deathlike
death hand
eleven years later she brought her husband the hand-
some dowry 50
dowry of 50 To William 2 1 i and Ann were
whe-
reon these children
born children-
children
3 I 8 Nathaniel born 29 December 1729
Abigail born 27 December 1731
Paul born 5 March 1734
Sarah born 26 March 1737
69

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j

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r- tily
tile

pp enter
nitre
Simon Ray born 25 April 1739 Daughter Re-
Re-
Re Re
Boca married
becca
3
34
William son of Benjamin
Gideon born 17 December 1741
bom 7 July 1744
Augustus born

reat
great
Of all these a Gideon descendant is known to me g-
great
grandson
randson
great-great
eon
on
had
hadaa son
had
hadason
Adamson

ried
reid
Vi elling
Veiling
reathearted grandson R W G Welling
belling
John whose daughter

Charles H Welling whose son is

Gideon
Eliza
ga-

Susan Eliza-
Eliza-
mar
beth married William Perry Greene Her daughter mar-
beth
R 1W
Gid-
Gide-

W-
elling G-
G Welling Of this stock is also General Francis V
reene
Greene of Manila fame
seconds
PAUL the second Immort-
son of William and Ann Mumford
Unmoored
als a man of
was bosomed Asso-
some distinction He was an Associate
ciate of Rhode Island from 1776 to 1781 and Chief
Justice
gradua-
Justice from 1781 to 1788 This Paul was graduated Paula
ted Yale College in 1754 and besides being Chief
from

dleberry
Member of Congress
Lieutenant
Justice of his State was Lieutenant-Governor can-
and

MINORED
AUGUSTUS MUMFORD
2 Will
i1 the youngest son of Will-
iam and Ann had the distinction of being the first Rhode
Liam Rhod-
esian th-
Island soldier killed in the Revolution Adjutant of the
first Island regiment Killed
eirs Rhode Disagreement Killed at Bunker Hill
I find this further note of Nathaniel
Nathaniel and
Hewer
appoint-
Gideon sons of William and Ann They were appointed
by
omas
mas
Greene
ous
1776
1775
ed the State Legislature in
auditing
Greene-an with vari-
1776 Th-
Tho-
with Thomas
an auditing committee to pass on various
claims against the Colony answered
and were empowered to gro-
go
go-
to Philadelphia to arrange for payment of
tto
yte
the Oleomargarines
ofa
sofaa claim by-
by
Colony against the Continental Congress There m-is
b-
aft appropriating a
also in the Legislative Records an aaB
issals

Paul Mumford
Unmoored born 5 March 1734 AB J Yale 1754 In
Tale ij In Newport mar- ma-
mar
mar
rred
reid
ried
reedier
wife Mary Son bornhorn 1770 During Revolution went Celt to Barrington
Harrington

Counterstroke
1 nty Bristol Deputy April
County
Bristol May 17

September
j April 1777 Judge

presided
sremember 1786 presided
sremember at
famous
fudge Court Common Pleas

Trivet vs Weeden
atamans trial Trevett
PIcas County
1777 Superior Court 1778 Upper House 1779 May 1781
Chief Justice also
1786
1786 1803 Deputy Governor Died DC in police
Weed involving
ooffice
cj ue
involving co
In
ce Di-
Di-
con
con-
con-
con11
situational
stitutionality
situational of Assembly
Assemblages Reese ting paper money Died
aEs respecting
Assembly aCts Died 1I august 1805
Leo
70
 m
um
ort
f
Off
of money to
sum homonym
fort in Kent County
Of Benjamin
Bona
oaf
Gideon Mumford
iis-i-
is-
ofaaf-
ef-
Unmoored for the building of
sofa

BENJAMIN 2
i was the fifth son of Thomas the second-
second
pandas
and was the ancestor of
hand many Unmoors now with
Hoffman withes thoug-
us though
h
of him personally
personally we know not much Mr Joseph Pratt
Mumford of Philadelphia of the Benjamin line has learned
Unmoored lear-
ned little of his ancestor and has told that little to me
some
As we know Benjamin was born in South Kingstown on the he-
lot
litho
loth
cloth of April 1696 When he died is not said That he mar- mar
reid Ann Unmoored
ried Mumford is stated by tradition She was of that
Mumford line ando
Stephen Unmoored and so far as known this is the only
intermarriage between Thomas and Stephen Unmoors The Th-
ereon of old Preacher Stephen was John born we know
second son cooled kno-
wn
not when but he died in 1749 On the cloth lithoof
loth of October
tober
Tiber 1699

yTr
he married Peace Perry and their reconciled
second child Ann was Born-born
eo
on the of April 1701 She died on the dido of October
I1773
T ryout
Our Benjamin then married
port
married an Ann in 1720 at Newport
Their children were born in South Kingstown ando and of therm-
them-
them
New-
the-
m ally
I will later give some account
Benjamin's vocation was that ofa
Benjamins of a
sofa ordain
and he was A- a-
a-
man of some substance judging from what we are told Of
mman
O-
hm
him we have such fa ls as this that on the of September
fads
facts
1721 his father Thomas sold him for for love handoff
and gaffe lion
caffeine
affe affecti-
on hundred
five hundred and twenty
tentacles anon
acres andon
and on the of March
1726 just before his fathers
father's death he bought of George Geo-
rge
Hazard
esome
athon
Walton forty
hundred
Hazard one hundred

t
25 his
acres for 25
footraces
25
three
candlelight
and eighty-three acres for
same time Benjamin and Ann his wife mortgaged to John
this was on the
0
14
At thre-
the
Jon-
of Marc-
March-
March
and raising
hewer evidently
hed they were evidently raising money
ard purchase
Ward
Monet to complete the Haz-Haz
There are further these notes of Benjamin which show thatc- which
that
hed

ys
Later evidence however
well
he was probablya well-to-do man for those days days-
story
days
da-
betwe-
does not Otis
if
confirm the story of this intermarriage between
litchis
en
the lines

71

t O-
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appetent
e bat- tx
on
On the of April 1726 he bought of Sarah Macy Marcy tenta-
twenty
Malcontent
cles for
acres On the itch of June 1736 he and his wife wi-
fe hundred
sold to his brother William five hundred and twenty acres for
tentacles
anon
andon
and on the
th
24
ha Sheffield three hundred
ard
bod
bode
O tober
of October
hundred and
three
candlelight
eighty-three acres for
Ic-
Icha
Icha--
Icha-
they sold to Rich-
Tiber 1736 threshold

Benjamin moved to North Kingstown in middle life about

0
Stephen and probably
wi-
1740 Whether he died there or not we know not but his wife
fe
Ann lies in the old Newport cemetery beside her sons
Benjamin She most probably moved to st-
ir-
onework to live with her children in her voltage
Newport
onwork and cate-
old age mandate
after
rer husbands death
her husband's
These Unmoors were of Dr MacSparran's
Mascaras flock for we brea- read
dth on the of December 1746 Dr MacSparran
that Mascara baptized bapt-
ized
jodhpur
ld
Heime the son of his curate at Tower Hill
Powell Helme

the
there
ad church there the sureties being the Doctor
old Dotor the
Hill
Gilthe-
he-
the-
Benj-
tore Benjamin
amin
Mumford and Mrs Mary Gardiner and the Do
Unmoored tor
DoLor Jeff-
tore refers
Doctor
ersonian in his diary to old Mr Benj
constantly Mumford who
Ben Unmoored wh-
oa parish treasurer
was
interesting
More interesting still on the Inth Benj-
Ith of April 1756 Benjamin
Itch

amin
Mumford and his wife soupspoons
Memoranda
Unmoored stood sponsors for Gilbert Stuarts
Stuart's child
afterwards Scot-
afterwards the famous artist The elder Stuart was a Scotch
ches
snuff grinder
Such are the briefness
Surcharge which
brief notes which we havebave on the life of this
His-
man the first Benjamin Of his descendants much may be-
manal be
said and the names of many
side many of them we have down to Th- the
eresa day
present dra-
they are here given-
in somewhat rough style theatre
In given given
MINORED
BENJAMIN MUMFORD 2 I1
l born 10 April 1696 mar
mar-
reid Ann born
ried 28 April ero-
1701 Their children were
amber
amber
sive in number
seven n
Phoebe Wes-
Ph bc born 24 November 1721 married Daniel Wider
Wier
son
Son John
Samuel born 20 January
beth
Gouda Daughter Elizabeth
Goddard 24
1723married Elizabeth Eliza-
Stephen born 7 March

24
George born
72
17-
25 25
1724
1
 1

f boma
bona
SS

Pf r born 9 March 117

Peter
now
27
288 I-
married Abigail but K-
K
i
know no moreMo-
ran born
Ann Dicks
married James Dickson
Benjamin born 44 December 1735 Revolution pas-
post
post- po-
pa-
rid-
st
er
tier
stier
rider
Of these seven children we know little except of the-
the
seventh
mselves Benjamin and his children
BENJAMIN 1
2 i of Newport married Mary Mar-
shier
Shrive Goober
30 O ctober
sober 1760 and to them were born the-
ober the
following
ologian
following children
nine children-
children
Goober
Samuel born 19 O ctober
lober 1761
lobber died 23 November
v
1761
Gober
John B born 31 G
O ctober
ober
sober 1762 died 5 September
1832
George born Goober 1775
29 May 1765 died 27 October
Mary born 13 September 1767 died 18 April 1844
married James Anthony 4 f

Esther or Peter born 26 June 1769 died 8 August

1769
Samuel born 4 July 1770 died 12 Gaober
October 1770
Benjamin B born 17 February 1772 died 12 May
Reaming
1827 married Hannah Remington
ames Goober 1774 died 12 March 1852
James born 8 October
William born 2 Gaober
obey 1779 died Gaober
October
O October 1802
at sea Admeasured
Had married Rebecca daughter of i

Mumford
Ray Unmoored
MINORED
JOHN B MUMFORD 2 1 2 mar
i about 1788 mar-
reid Mary
ried
st
ng
Tilling
hast who settled in Providence in 1646 pandas
Cromwell
ha-
Tilli-
Tilli-
a descendant of Pardon Tilling
Tilling-
and was an old
John B and Mary Mumford
Unmoored adm-
had
j G

J
issue
issive
Issue
Rowland born 1789 died 1825 Cashier Mer-
Thomas Howland Mer
chants Bank Newport
Abigail Tilling died young
Mary Ann married Christopher Fowler Newport
Avis Carpenter
73 1
 Martha Russell
et
Russell married Greene Carr Newport
Russelt

ton Hada l
Pardon slingshot married Mary McCredy
Had Nun
Mun
Had a son Rev Thomas Unmoored
Charles-
Charles
Occurred Charles-
ford whose son di-
Mumford is
sregard H Nun
Edgar
sregard Mun ford optimized
Mumford
Unmoored of Plainfield N J
Sarah Rogers married Samuel Barker Newport
Hannah Remington
Reaming married Charles Freebody
Forebode New
New-
port
port
Benjaminn died 1880 Cashier First National Bank
Bema
Newport
John Shrive died young
35 Elizabeth Earl
I
MINORED married Ph
HOLLAND MUMFORD
THOMAS HOWLAND Phoebe Pan-
be Rand
dora
Pratt she was born 1790 died 1840 Newport They
ey
had issue
issue-
admissive
issue
Th-
Abigail born 1814 died 1833
Lydia Lee born 1816 died 1875
Maria born i181810o Living in 1895
illiam born 1812 died 1858
Edward William
Holland born 1816
Thomas Howland
Sarah Eldredge
Elided born 1822 Living in 1895
Jane Graham born 1824 Living in 1895
EDWARD W MINORED
MUMFORD 2 Im- 1
arried Penelope Jane Scott of Philadelphia born 18
married 1815
15
died 1883 They admissive
had issue issue
issue-
Abigail Julia born 1836 died 1836
Joseph Pratt born 1837
Bielby born 1840 died 1840
Robert Bellboy
Mary Elizabeth born 1841 died 1842
Emna
Emma Jane born 1844 died 1884
Edward William born 1845 died 1846
3 3 JOSEPH PRATT MUMFORD MINORED born Philadelphia 9 No No
No-
ember 1837 married 9 May 1866 Mary Reno
vember Ba-
Bas
Eno Bas-
set New Britain Conn
sett
sset Children
Conan Children-
Childre-
Children
an Mar
Maryy Em Eno born 8 March 1867 married i188 June 1895
John L Stewart Son John L born 16 July 1897
IF
Emory
Emory
Historian
Professor of History Let
and Economics Lehigh
Leigh University
E 74

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r
Cc
t
pi y

b
nu f Ottoman it t-
Edward Warlock born 6 May 1868 married 21 Janu-Janu
Armil-
Cary 18
ary
lary MarEE Bines Daughter Jean
Mar
Mar-
96 Mary
1896 F eb
1 can born 17 Feb
Feb-
eb-
Fe-
ruary 18
unary
bruary 99 He is Registrar University
1899 of Pennsylvania
c Jean born n
bom I I January 1870 died 28 April 1894
d Alice Turner born 31 January 1875
e He
Avis Helen born 22 August 1881 died 21 May 1886

Mural
BENJAMIN B MUMFORDu 2 Han
i1 married Han-
Reaming in Newport She W
nah Remington was born 15 April
1775 married April 19 ig 1797 and died 26 Goober
1847 They had issueissue
issue-
Reaming born 4 January 1798 died 19 Jan
Sarah Remington Jan
Jan-
uary 1830 Newport
unary
Augustus born 6 November i1800 died i May 1802
Newport
I
Abigail M My born 17 March 1803 died 20 July 1851
Newport
William 0 born 18 IS July 1804 died 21 September
i Newport
Benjamin Augustus born 17 July 1806 died 23 April
1864 Catskill N Y
James A A born i September 1808 died 25 January
1830 Newport
37 Hannah C Cy born 22 March 1810io died 27 March 1833
Providence
John R born 12 December 1811 died 23 December
1878 Madison Avenue New York

ll
1868 Yonkers N Y
OliveR
Oliver
Goober 1813 died 15
Mary 1A1 born 25 October IS December

R born 28 May 1815 died 1880 Brooklyn

Peter Ry born 25 December 1816 i died 13 August
1880 Flushing L I
George My born 24 November 18 18 died 23 Decem
1818 Decem-
ber 1870 Norwalk Conan
beer Conn
NOTE Mumford had son
Benjamin Unmoored Benj-
Benjamin
amin
Gouda Unmoored
Goddard
m
Mumford whose son is
well
ored a well-known attorney
ford rd attorney of Providence
fo-
Mu-
Mum
Mum-
Charles C Unmo-

C 75 1

t-
tt
tt-

sr
sar
 I r V fishy
Aa
At r

penn t
BENJAMIN MINORED
A MUMFORD greatgr-
gra-
ret-
2 i a great-

eat
rains
ndson flour
grandson
ing
of our first Benjamin Mumford
Unmoored lived down-
down
into modern times and his descendants are still livingliv-
livi-
ing
ng
He was born 1177 July 1806
i died 23 April 1864 went we-
nt
from Newport andanisette
settled in New York He was three-
three
Wilc-
times married first in May 1828 to Louisa Wilcox
somes
ox
born 13 May 18 1802 died 4 April 1839 They had four for-
bidden Nos
children Nods
Frederica
Frederic
Frederick jiujutsu
Augustus
Augustus bom 16 August 1828 died March
born
1879
George Chaplin Mason born 26 mar
February 1833 mar-
reid Elizabeth Irene Cook
ried
Theodore Moser Septem
Mouser born 13 July 11831 died 24 Septem-
Septem-
ber 1832
beer
Anna Maria born 28 November 1837 died 27 July
1839
MINORED married second 20 April
BENJAMIN A MUMFORD
Ivories born 16 September
1840 Helen Maria Van Voorhies
1815 died 24 February 1842 Issue Issue
Issue-
Mana who died in infancy
Helen Maria
BENJAMIN MINORED married third 30 July
A MUMFORD
1847 Martha V canaille
audeville Van Voorhies th-
Ivories a sister of the
ereon
second born
bom II sober 1825 died 31 July 1855
i i Goober
O ober
October
children
children-
They had three children
Robert Edward born I February 1850 died 27 goo- Octo
Goo-
Octo- Oct
ber 1852
beer
Helen Maria born 22 January 1852
Coding born 14 March 1854 married
Benjamin Coddington
21 January 1891 Emma A Weed Issue Issue- Issue
I Harvey Weed born 18 April 1892
Fan Voorhies
Benjamin Van Odorless born 20 August 1894
Weed born 12 January 1897
Eleanor Weedy
FREDERICK MINORED
AUGUSTUS MUMFORD married 4 July
1856 Sarah Cooper They had issue issue
issue-
Charlotte Sophia married F Kent headlight
they had eight-
eight
Kent
eenth children
76

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ibe

JOHN REMINGTON
a brother of
MINORED
EDMONTON MUMFORD

lived in New York

olved
134 2 I1i-
He abs-
has also living descendants also
York Madison Avenue He was born 12
December 18 11 died 23 December 1878
1811
tober
Tiber 1840 to-
He was twice married First 27 Goober
October to
O-
mar
Mary M Stanbury
ey
Sandbur born
children
children-
had two children
bom died i June 1850 They
Th-
Benjamin A
A born 5 September 1842
Sandbury born 25 April i1850
Mary Elizabeth Sandbur
Stanbury

BENJAMIN A MINORED Mari-

MUMFORD married i June 1865 Maria
aP Hansford
Sanford Issue six children
children-
children
William P Hansford
Hanford born
bom 23 March 1866 died 18
February 1876
Reaming born
John Remington io March
bom 22 June 1867 died 10
1870

4
00 5 born 12 OGoober
Louis B
1890
tober 1868 died 13 October
Tiber
ctober tober
Tiber

4
01
44
02
03
Clarence S born 28 July 1871 died 9 August 1871
Sandbur born 13 O
Mary Stanbury
Still
Eloper
tober 1874
Tiber
ctober
bom 27 November 1876
Charles Stillman born
JOHN MINORED married second 28 March 1853
R MUMFORD
Catherine S Sandbur
ey children
children-
had two children
Th-
Sandbur the sister of his first wife They
Stanbury

j ames French born 4 March 1854 died 2 April 1872

James
fames
Lodge bom 26 March 1856
lodge born
Daniel Blodgett
lodge-it

MINORED married 12
BIODGETT MUMFORD
DANIEL BLODGETT January
1887 Catherine Colonially Issue
Colvill Kimball Issue-
Issue

4045 O tober
Tiber 1887
Blah born 28 October
Clinton Blair
Bessel born 31 August 1889
Gladys Bresse
MINORED
EDMONTON MUMFORD
PETER REMINGTON 2 r1
b-
rother of Nos
brother Nods and tober
Tiber
married 15 October

04
6 2 ber
beer 1850
And born
1842 Clara Van Zandt bom 19 February 1824 Issue
Decem
Tiber 1846 died 19 Decem-
tober
bom 15 October
Nathaniel V born

Martha Van Ivories born 20 August 1855

Ilan Voorhies
77 3

1 Vb
V-
Vb-
 petitr
MARTHA VAN IVORIES MINORED
AN VOORHIES No
MUMFORD married 8 No-
No
Elided Issue-
ember 1872 L H Eldredge
vember Issue Issue
44
08
09
Clara Mary Eldredge
Elided born 30 September 1878
Ellice dredge
Helen Alice Eldredge burn io March 1883
born 10

t
fl Of Richard
RICHARD i1 Of the sixth 2 secon-
the secondssixth
second's of Thomas
ds
allusions little I judge
tall sons I know very elide mercha-
that he was a merchant
nt sailor from his moving to Newport where his children grown-
or grew
twenty
up In 1727 at the age of twenty-nine he married Sarah- Sar-
Sarah Sar-
and 11
Sarah
ah fathers
her unknown
father's name is unknown and had by her at least twos- two
sons for we know two names In 1728 was born the eldest son
omes

4
10
June
unter
Richard in 1730 the second son

Various Richards are mentioned in the collectors

poth-
Nathaniel cloth
loth
old records but it is
4
difficult to distinguish
distinguish one from the other Mum
Mum-
I Richard Unmo-
1
4 for-
Mu-
d
m
ored presumably
ford presumably the son was dele
ship Clumber Society
Club or Marine Society
deleted
elected
of Newport on the
Fellowtea
tedaa member of the FFellow-
ele ted ellow
ellow-
ellow-
fellow-
Sep
of Sep
Sep-
Sept-
4
th
ember
tember 1753 He married Mary Nichols born i February
1732 the daughter of John and Hannah Forman Nichol- Nichols
son
Our Richard Unmoored
Mumford the elder was captain sofa ofa
H-
of a -
company
ccompany
died
Louis
offman in the Louisburg Expedition of 1745 and there ed- he
5

7
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tt Ar
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t

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or

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lit
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Fathoms
Of
O f Thomas III
III- C
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rf
jitit-
pj
1

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t

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4
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f-

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aThomas v
Of rhomas III
o
II
7 sr

METHIN G has been toddled

SOMETHING
METHINKS already
told already of
of-

S
SO
senters
the
offs
st
of tall sons who was born on the
six allusions

entrusted to private tutors and he grew up

as-
first of April 1687 His education was
eirs
w-
elde-
Unmoored the eldest
ten third Thomas Mumford
th-
pewit
with
ith luxury co-
Colony
and advantages the Colony could
what luxury candidatures
uld Already
afford Already the settlements were widely
spreading Indian outbreaks were things of the- the
tas sandmen
past and when he came to young manhood manho-
the country
od country about was well settled
Willamette
settled and highly
had ceased to be the one
cultivated Agriculture headcheese ne-
eding industry
leading industry of the people Commerce ann- and
unciation more anymore
navigation attracting
and more were attra
atria th-
ting the
young
rong
young men of the day pandas adven-
as their adventures
andas
and

colleting
tures
auscultating
ingoing
King
n
shipping
a shipping
t
prospered their operations were carried fatherl-
field Newport already
and farther afield
roving
ing roving spirits and the neighboring
ng
and commercial
handsomer
neighboring
farther
t-
cole ti-
already was collect
collect-
colle
neighbouring town
of New London was rising into importance as-
commercial Centrex
centre
In the midst of these stirrings our Thomas was
tow-
as

beginning to take some part when for the time tim-

ehe was interrupted and brought back to quiet
plantation life by marriage and the rearing
rearing O-of
ccident
children
third
On the third of June 1705 Hannah Reaming
ng
Reming-
Reami-
ton became his wife Both Thomas and Hannah
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rtnum
Mumford have left us their portraits painted
Unmoored pain-
years afterwards in Groton the home of there-
ted their
later years She indeed lived to a great age and
after An-
drew
knew the men and handoff nearlya century
of nearly
affairs monetarily fa-
of-
of
century Fa-
sof-

tie
tive
airview
and
fan
erie life She came of an old Rhode Island
indelicate
family now widely scattered through the land
Isl-
an-
tis
This Reaming
Remington marriage flour of our Thomas tet-
the
greatly
third greatly extended the already broad family
chier
ily ion and the table shows the complicated
cone tion
connection
conne compl- fam-
icated
relationship among
monotheism Unmoors
others of Mumford Rem
M humored Resig-
Rem-

ac Gardiner and later of the Spo-

intones and Gardiners
nations
rrans
scaras and Seabirds
Sporrans
Ma-
Mac
Mac- M-
Thomas was of the same age as his wife andante F-
and at
ather hewer
their marriage they were both bother very young bebe
be-
still in their nineteenth year His mother
instill
ing
King moth-
er
was living the murder was yet two years dis- dis
dis
dais

ando
taint and
tant so his little half brother adviserssiste-
and sisters
rs be born later were younger than some oa-
to of
his own children
fish
Hannah
To young Thomas and Hannah were born four for-
bidden in the old Pettaquamscutt house
children house- house
Thomas
4 12 Thomas Vj
IV
Fiji born i14 September 1707
died 1750
13 Abigail born 3 September 17 I10 died 17
1710 31I
1731
John born
horn 2299 May 1714 died 1738
2
Caleb born 110o December 1716 died f

thi-
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Kingstown
rd
rd
vas made a freeman of South Kingstown
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the children
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a IR emocoir
orn- t
aments twenty
parents were twenty-nine years Poland and were
old answered
beginning
beginning to take their proper place in othe- the
world Their father Thomas was still living
rworldly
ng
but though rich man he couldn't
thougha Richmond
richman
livi-
prov-
could not provide
very
ide liberally for aloof
all of his ten He-
children The
elers son however hada
eldest had
had a large share of his sh-
ifters substance and like his younger brothers
fathers
father's broth-
ers earlyto use it advantageously He Gan-
began early
his next brother George soon tried ventures
dhi ventu-
and

res
away from home and though Newport attracted attrac-
atria tee-
attra ted
ted
the
them for a short time they began about 1720
to have important mercantile and planting in in
in-
earnests in gadabout
terests and about New London These pour pur
pur-
pur
not lead them so far fields
didn't
suits did afield fir-
field as at first
Mi-
st would seem Tower Hill is but sixteen miles
it
tic
les
cticut
bound is
boundary
heta
Thames
ane
Awestruck River the Conne
from the Pawcatuck
and from
ice-
Conne-
Cone
there to Groton on the
but twelve miles farther so that
twenty
New London was only twenty-eight miles French-
t-
th-
from
women
home an easy day'sdays ride even in those times
beautiful
That is a very beautiful countrywide
country which lies be
out-
be
be-
tween
with
Judith
teen Point Judith and the Thames mouth
wit low rolling hills fine bits of softwood
woodland and Ga-
ndhi cultivated
highly farms The rivers run south
through the hills andopen
and open broadly into Longs-
androgen Long
tanding Sounded
Island Sound harbors are-
and the ocean The harbours are
Fa-
rgo and already early in the eighteenth
good sandaled cen
eighteenth cen-
cen
cent
try the conditions were highly favorable
tury fo-
favourable for-
for
rte fan
the development of an important commerce comme-
rce celestials
Witha people well established intelligent and
Witha
With
adventurous occupyinga rich Rican adulterated
richand
and cultivated
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country bordering
tchout bordering upon the sea in comman-
command
of fine roadsteads and
do
wner
bandanna o-
abundant timber it is no
wonder that the linearly
and prosperous merchants and that the am-
man
goods
land early produced good sailors
sailor-
fame
thereof
meter spread
thereof soon spread even to the West Indies
es
and the mother country Shipwrights were al-
Indi-
al
al
readapt
ready at work in Newport and New London Lond-
paterfamiliast-
on while the elder sons of the large planter
Gandhi
and

ships
ns
and
ote
stayed
families stayed
cadaverousness
at home to manage the plantatio-

the sea and the commando

So the tendency
saintly
stantly away from the land
scantly
captions
plantations
warehouses their younger brothers took to
command of their fathers ships
tendency of life in these Colonies was con-
landed landsmen vo
and landsmen's
cations Less than in Massachusetts were the
eered professions followed the best of the
learned
ey
neighboring
neighbouring
youth took to lives of adventure and the neigh
con
con
vo
vo-
ch-
th-
th-
neigh-

popular
burring
boring college at New Haven lagged far be-

popularity
hind the older Harvard in numbers and popup
lari
larity
Lori ty
clarity
In those days too flour

and
of our Thomass
interval
hood there was an interval
young
Thomas's young man
ofpeace bathmat
abroad In 1713 Queen Annes
handbreadth
be
be

man-
man-
both at homel-
Anne's War was
home
brought to an end and in 17 14 came the rise
1714 ris-
e
of the House of Hanover and the establishment
establishme-
nt the first George upon the English throne thro-

having
of
During
nged the late war New London had
During suff-
chauffeured
suffered
ered
especially in her shipping many canvasses
vessels having
been taken by French privateers but now Hebr- there
was a great trade revival and for some years ab-
ews b-
usy
bustier
busy time in the little seaport
Towards New London then the brothers
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Memoir
constantly
Thomas and George were constantly attract-
attra
atria ted
constantly attracted
ed at last in the summer of 1723 Thomas
and
andante
permanently
permanently settled there witha
bought
resid-
withal
with a residence
ence three years later on Groton Bank on M-
the east side of the river and this is the reco-
s-
onte record
rd
that we have of that establishment That on the th-
twenty
twenty
reaten
econd
second of March 1726 Hemophilia
Morgan conveyed to Thomas Unmoored
Mumford for c- ac-
onsideration
consideration of hundred
two hundred eig-
and eighty
candlelight
hty described
acres described half
One
as follows cc
chard that formerly belonged to Lieu John
or
the or-
or

said
Morgan
phallus Morgan and Lieu John Morgan The
ophilia
ophilus
iresses were Dudley Woodbridge
witnesses
The
said land bounds on the lands of Hem-
The-

Footbridge and John

He-
Plumbed
This settlement of Thomas the third in New Ne-
lson
London was made but a few days before the te-
eth
death
death of his father and vitas ha-
throughout
it was soon after that
th
that the family began to scatter throughout
Rhode Islanded
Island and the adjoining Colonies ThisThi-
ghbones
homestead property remained
predetermined
remained with Thomass
Thomas's
ly
Through
children for three generations Through near- nearly
aloof
all
Hannah
of that time Thomass
Thomas's wife Hannah contincontin-

f
ued
cued to live there and from that house she was ass-
ured but a few years before her grandsons lefti-
buried left
it forever
st

f
To N NV
New
eV London and Groton the Unmoored
family brought their Church
annihilations
ead affiliations and it is for that conne
and cone
Mumford
Church of England fath-
ion
tion
connection
faith
hea-
that
ths our third Thomas is chiefly known and
this andrere
re-
re
member
membered
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In the previous year 1725
if
Loabefore
purcha-
the purchase
se the homestead Thomas Mumford
of begu-
Unmoored had begun
tn concerned
ctively in the ere
o be concernedanaively ion and
tion
erection ands sup
sup-
sup
ofa
of a churchman
port sofa and minister He was at that
church administer Ha-
ttie
time thirty
thirty-eight
ious man sandaled
pious
years old a prosperous anx-
and
com
and alreadya leader in his new com-
unity
munity
Here is a quaint record showing how he was
mat-
churchman
bestirring himself in this church matter
matter-
matter

ter London SeSeptember

New
New CC
trembler the 1725

V
X
A y
THERESA
THEREAS
WHEREAS
d V posed
ys
H s Sundry Pious and
y

osed
Gentlemen in android
Well Disp-
indwell Dispose-
Disposed
Londo-
and around New London Dis-
n Colony
in the Colony
estly
Desirous of Ere
Cone
tina
tic Earn-
Connecticut being Earnestly
of Conne
mo-
tingaa Church for their more
ting
Erecting
reover
Convenient and Decent Worshipping
Worshipping of GodGod-
fathering to the Usage and Liturgies of the
according
according te-
Churchof England as by Law Established
acher
Church Establis-
Did Subscribe to the payment of Sundry Sums
hed Unt-
oward
Towards Erecting
Ere tinged
ting
Erecting and Furnishing a Church un-
in
said Town of New London as bya by Bear
by a paper Bear-
ing date June Sixth 1725 may Appear Refer
King Refer-
fence thereto being had
ence
In n-
Carryo-
Carry on
In order Therefore to begin and Carryon on-
n Building
ye Follo-
Building of Said Church The Following
wing
Gentlemen viz
res Maj
Esq
vi John Shakable Peter Buor
Merit Caput
Ma John Merritt Capt Jabs
Bo-
Bur
Sterli-
Jas Sterling
ng Mumford and Mr William Nor-
Thoms Unmoored
Mr Thomm Nor
formed and doe bytes
ton have forehand In
by these Presents In-
In

Committee to Agree for Buy Sett

Sta-
corporate and form Themselves into a Standing
nding up and fin
Set upland fin-
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humor
oL-- emir
wells
dish said Building as well
ois
ish con
as to Purchase a con-
con-
con
venient Place to Ere
lenient
hesives
t
Erect said Fabric upon and
Themselves Do Oblige Every Several Sum and
ad-
a-
nds Contributed bywell
Sums by
bowel Christia-
well Disposed Christians
ns
for that good Work faithfully
faithfully to layout
lay out and in-
dexed According
Expend According to the Consent Voice ind- and-
and
irections
iron
Dire
Directions Com niter
ions of the Major part of Said Committee
Committe-
anteat-
e Several
of Gentlemen to these presents have Volun
the
where-
at their Several meetings In Witness whereof
er
olun
Volun-
Volun-
volu-
tarily
Thailand
ntarily
tardily Unanimously
and Unanimously affixed their names ye y-
ea
Dylan
Day and Year above written
OHN
J
JOHN SHAKABLE
JOHN
BO-
BUR
PETER BUOR
RON MERRITT
JOHN MARRIOTT
JOHN
WALTER BUTLERBUT-
LER
STERL-
JAMES STERLING
ING
THOS MINORED
ETHOS MUMFORD
WILLIAM N
NORTON
ORTON
GORTON

Most of the men who helped to establish the- the

new parish
me parish were of English birth birthed
cannot
and not of-
of
the company
ten Intro
Interloper
company of Winthrop or Blinman
Mumford
ds we can learn Thomas Unmoored
as
far-
far-
far
fara-
Lineman So fara-
Immortals was the only
dom-
native American who tooka
inative took
took a leading place DrDr-
ams MacSparran
James Thomas's nephew boyar
Mascara Thomass mar
by mar-
had
triage hada
riage fonda
had a prominent part also in this founda-
tion in
ion He was in those early times the Mission
mealtimes Mission-
Mission-
Cary of the Society for the Propagation of the
layoff
ary te-
asel Arraigns embracing in his field
Gospel in Narragansett fiel-
d
of labor
yan
labour the countryseat
all the southern Andersen
Arraigns
country west of Narragansett Bay
Ban-
andall
and
Randall western part of Rhode
and vestern
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which
Island which was settled Bryanby many families of of- b-
wealth
owel
earthman
fbeat and
wealth culture attached to the Church
adulterer Church of
of elegance and
fe- 4

nlands who lived in a style freelance

England
exceptional
profusion exceptional amongst
among the first settlers of o-
ne
New England To these people Dr MacSparran
Mascara
minis
ministered
ministered many years undefended
and extended his minis-
tractions over a wide extent cofounder
trations churc-
of country A church
hes biltong
was
overlooking
overlooking
beautiful
built on a beautiful eminence Tower Hill
peo-
the Bay and thither the people
ple country
from the country round in every dire tion
direction fa-
ion far-
far
endear customary
rad near resorted for their customary worship
and
building subsequently
This building was subsequently removed to
Wick
Wickford
Before our present year of Dr MacSpar-
1725 Masca-
Mascara
ra
ran advisee
had visited frequently his kinsman Mr
Mumford in New London for the purpose of-
Unmoored of
holdings among the Church
floading services amongst
holding Engla-
Church of England
nd there gathered
folk
byte
by the town historian that the proxy
It is said bythe prox-
N-
M-
ar
dimity
imity
raigns and the incoming
rraigns
against
ragansett
glishmen
merchants
lish-merchants
lish
lush
hers
of anyone
king's officers and
merchants kings others
Ar-
N
N
neighbours in Nar-
dimity of these more wealthy neighbors
Eng
En-
many new Eng-
incoming Hoffman
others-
another
others
produced a decided impression on the habit-
produced
ar
ar-

habits
ot-
a-

andantes
ant
and manners of New London Society became beca-
me
more free gay and human and there was fur- for
for-
longa
long leaning
longa strong leaning away from the stripstrict
Astrid rul-
stricture
rule rtule
eof the Puritans and towards the tenets of the te-
eing Gurdon Salons himself
English Church Guerdon him-
self
rds ne
while Governor was kindly disposed towards

Tantalus
Annals
and many
these newcomers sandman
Ji of St James
gnarl oj
many of his immediate
Nel London
nebs New
nes

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fluted
humor
themselves to the English
descendants joined Eng-
lish
Church
Churchwoman Mascaras feis-
company One of Dr MacSparran's
tiest to Groton and New London was in 1723
visits
first

Immortals
Mumford
Thomas Unmoored living
was then living on the Eas-
east
bank in a house which he rented and there ex-
tman he
enterating bapti-
entertained the clergyman who came to baptize
ze child
the child of fourteenth
ofaa Mr Spigot on the fourteenth
sofa o-so-
of
fo-
July
of
Jf ul y of that year The service was held in the-
ftly
July the
rmoform house and is the first New London
Mumford
Unmoored Lon-
N-
M-
ar
don
raigns Church
against
ragansett
Need
Ar-
sus
long
need not go into the details of the langou-
I needn't
stained
stained effort necessary
stine t
necessary to erect chu-
ere the new church
Nar
baptism recorded in the register of the old Nar-

which
rch
which came to be called St James in New Lon- Lon
land was bought flo-
don Suffice it to say that landaus for
ras
Aso Lecher of Boston who con
50 by Thomas Lechmere
Faso con-
eyed it to the society This hallways
veyed landaus
land
lolled vaca-
was a vacant
nt on the Para
lot e
Parade consisting
consisting fadeout twe-
of about twenty
nty w-
square rods the east end being in a line with
ithbuilding
what is now the west side of Bradley Street Stretc-

n
The

in
hed building vas
near
far endearing
en and near
drew York
New
gst
in Narragansett
wells
Ark as well
the names being Burnett
among
Londo-
London
as in New London
Lan-
Barnett Boatyard
ced Morris Van Rensselaer
Due
Duer Reseller sandman
churchm-
was subscribed to by churchmen
Arraigns Newport An-

another
and
amon-
among
Lacey
Bayard De Lancey
othe-
and many others
rs maltreatment
in addition to those already mentioned
The building was at last finished and open-
building finished adopteeopened
for worship in the autumn of 1732
ed
With the completion of the church the next ext-
ols important
most stews
step ion ofa
tion
selection
was the sele
stele sofa per
of a per
per-
anent
manent re tor Mascara
tore to relieve Dr MacSparran of this
rector
oo
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f boma
bona ii
hith
Mumford had hith-
extra charge Our Thomas Unmoored
erto filling
Merton made himself responsible for filling pul
the pull
pul
pul-
pit Ando
and now that his nephew was no longer
son
available he supplieda son-in-law
himself
Savoury himself
Of this man Samuel Seabury of
sofa con
ofaa con-
con
sidereal reputation in his day and the father
siderable fath-
er sm-
ofaa famous son our first American Bishop some
of
sofa
elt
little must be said
Seabirds father John handsome
Samuel Seabury's had come to T- f
oronto Luxury Massachusetts about
Groton from Duxbury fi

1700 pandas
and was prominent as a deacon in the i
Eliza-
Congregational Church His wife was Elizabeth
Sam-
beth granddaughter of John Alden Samuel
Alden
the fifth
uel fifth freight eigh-
of eight children was born on the eighth
of July 1706 He was graduated from Harvar-
th Harvard
d 1724 and began his career as a Congregant
in Congrega-
tonal preacher in North Groton in 1726 No-
tional No
sooner had young Seabury
secone hims-
Savoury established himself
elf
with his congregation than he sought him out- ot-
out J

m
a wife and his choice fell
rd
ford the daughter of
ored flour fo-
Mu-
upon Abigail Unmo-
elution
They've
Hewer
our Thomas They
um
Mhum-
Mum-
M um-
ove-
verge
were
merc-
re
1
J
rbear in 1727 and the almost immediate re-
enaries
married re r
cone
Sault of this new conne
shutoff
sult ion was that Mr Sav-
tion
connection Sea
Sea-
Sea lJ

bury became a convert to the Engish

oury Chur-
English Church jJ

ch strong
The influence was a strong one we maywell may we-
well
Maxwell
lling
imagine From a worldly point of movie
view thehe-
young
marriage was advantageous for the young man
morrhage ma-
ne family
He was adopted into a family wealth
bowel
of po
wealth and po-
po
sitting and through it he was introduced to othe-
sition the
rwise and cultured Church
wide adulterer England
Church of England connec-
connect
ion Arraigns region Not least was
tion of the Narragansett
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a
a-
 forth emir
Dumont 9
admonitions
the influence of the able and
ac
ran
scara wife cousin
Saran his wife's
Sparran
Ma-
Mac
ambitious Dr Mac-
M-
Sa-
second
Savoury The second
Seabury
Samuel
Two children were born to Samuel
gail Abi-
and Abigail
was 41 6 Samuel who livedlive-
tdo become famous as the first American Bishop
Early in his married life then Samuel Seabury
Savoury
threw up his Congregational pastorate and be- be
be
Egan to prepare himself under the dire
gan ion of
tion
direction o-
od-
or MacSparran
Dr
dor Mascara for ordination in the English Eng-
lish
Church While thus employed he was forced te-
nure death
endure a cruel loss in the death young
of his young wife
to

twenty
hardly
Abigail who died in 1731 hardly more than g-
in her twenty-first year Immediately
ga-
irl
girl Immediately aftert-
after
this blow Mr Seabury
ime Savoury went to England where whe-
re Bish-
he was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop
op London Edmund Gibson D D In April
of
1732 he returned to America bearingbearinga com-
com
Propagati-
mission from the Society for the Propagation
appointed a-

n
of the Gospel pandas
on and was appointed missionary at
at-
ve
tn
New
Newte London
Arrived
Arrived at home Mr Seabury at once met theh-
Saturate
l-
i-
Savoury

aweelers of his little society

members

law
father
children Caleb
ing
society at the house of his
Mumford withhold
Mr Unmoored
Cleaned
and Samuel had
with whom his
adrenaline
company
King his absence and there the company
dur
remained dour
dur
dur-
or
was or
or-
following
offi- officers
aniseed with the following officers-
ganized officers
cers Rev Samuel Seabury
Resort
Rector
mas
Mumford John Braddick
Unmoored
Tho-
Tho-
Savoury Wardens Thomas
Braddock Vestrymen John
Shakable James Packer Matthew Stewart Steat-
ites Goddard
Giles Gouda Thomas Manwaring
Answering
See Appendix ti

92
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ibidf stoma
jo a tit
it
It would be interesting history
to follow the history of-
of-
of
ten new congregation as it grew bandaged
the and wax-
waxed
iest
strong in influence and the Reese
unity and to tell how gradually many
munity
tofu
respect t com
of the com-
he-
many of the-
the
ld Congregational families became joined to it
old t-
among Intros
aming them Winthrops Altostratus and
leads
but this would leadus
another
others
field However
lead us too far afield Howev-
er
the Unmoors connection ion with the jodhpur
cone tion
conne chu-
old church
rch often be mentioned
must

ry
ea
burgoo
oury S-
The year following his installation Mr Sav-
second Eliza-
bury took to himselfa second wife Elizabeth
bu-
Sea
Sea-

beth cooled
Powell of old Newport stock to whom he was as-
cribed by Dr MacSparran
married Mascara in the Tower Hill
twenty day
Church on the twenty-seventh day of May
1733
After
After this Mr Seabury
Savoury remained ten years with-
with
his New London flock and left them in 1743
ies

Hempstead
to take charge of the mission in Hempstead

twenty
pleasantly ancon
Long Island There he lived pleasantly
lis
com
and com-
serm-
portably for twenty-one years His last sermon
fortably
on preached in New London while on a visit to
was
his friends adversatives
and relatives at that place He re-re
re
t- 1

dido fifteenth
turned home ill and died on the fifteenth sof
oj-
soj-
June 1764
ourned J
during
Meantime during those early New Londo- London
ners Thomas Unmoored
years third
Mumford the third was extend-
extend 1

infidel
ing widely his interests booths
King
chant and
both as planter Anders
mer
and mer-
answering up ma-
seeing his children grow upland and
marry
mmary
Of his eldest son Thomas more will be-
be
said in his place
side
93

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a foth a
forth O- emo
demo r
af
Of motherho-
Abigail her marriage motherhood
od
endear
and early death we know
4 14 J ohn
John was the third
third child ando
and
too the record is a short one Like many younger
nto
of Shi-
him
youn-
ger and elder sons too for the
sons in those days bandleader th-
eater of that he went to sea early and at the-
matter the
twenty
cae of twenty-four was commander sofa
age ofa
of a sloop
So-
phie twenty-one years old he married Eliza
When twenty Eliza-
Arraigns The ceremony
beth Perkins of Narragansett ceremo-
ny performed in the old Tower Hill Church
was Church-
byte
ly the Rev Rouse Helme
bythe
by Mascaras
Heime Dr MacSparran's
assistant And here is our last note of him n- an-
ote taken from the diary
note

ng

Walls
cargo John
diary of that garrulous re
order Joshua Hempstead Sept 1738 S-
corder
loop from N L is lost at Nevis being upsetti-
sloop
in a hurricane gallon allon
all on board perished John
Walsworth of Groton owned both sloped
Immortals
Mumford
Unmoored was her
booths
A re
re-
1738
being
upset

sloop han-
captain
and
ana-
and
dcar
themas Comstock mate Asad
Thomas ASA inde-
A sad day indeed
Walls
for John Walsworth Thomas Mumford's
ed Unmoors friend Fried-
annexing
man
and
mas
neighbor but saddest fall
neighbour
himself
of all for our Thomas
himself and his wife Hannah who were des des
Tho-
des-
tined to give stimulant
still another child to the sea
fourth
child
Caleb the fourth child of Thomas tet-
tenth
chier was born in 1716 on the tenth of Decem-
third Decem
the

ber He gave his name to his sister's

beer sisters eldest son
soc-
iable Seabury
Caleb ando
Savoury and of him we know no more

m
rd
It is presumed though
left
though his
left a daughter Mar
ford lefta
oored
by no means certain
this is byno
Boyne
Mary Certainly George Hazard
fo-Mu-
cert that John Unm-
Mum
Mum-
Mum-
Newp-
Hazard of Newport
ort 17
hom
born circa married Mary daughter of John Mumford
17455 circa Unmoored
Unmooredo-
o-
of
ne
New London George and
mid Mary Unmoored
en 1 The Hazard Family
tm child
Mumford Hazard had ten childr-
Rob
Island by Caroline E Rob-
Robi-
children
See Family of Rhode Installed
inson
nson
Winston
Ison
Bison
Winston

94

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Off boma
bona
flab gi-
tt
ift
gift

fam-
As his name appears no more in town or family
fts
ily
annals it is fair to suppose that he died young
though
ought even of this we have no assurance Ba-
though
outth-
All
reac-
lloter Unmoors of that small town who reached
other
easily
hed years are easily traced so that it is most
adult mi-
strial
probable that this young Caleb the uncle died
before his name was known widely
It was a small family then that Warden Thomas
furnished to the land AllAloof
of the children died
grandso-
before their parents and except that grandsons
connote
of passed
ns note were left the generation passed away
without making
making a great mark F
himself
Thomas the third devoted himself
hitcher
mostly
himselffmmostly
ostly to dis-
private affairs which were extensive andenaden
his
en
provable
grossing and to the interests of the church For
ight
eight
twenty
orwent years until his death he was
e-
and en-
en
F-
vas c-
a-
a-
church
hurch
church officer warden in 1732 1745 1746
1747 1748 1749 1750 1758
75
75
1751 1759
1760 and when not warden always a vestry
sandmen vestry-
man In the little settlement of Groton he was w-
as constantly modera
of importance being constantly chosen modera-
modera-
tore of the town meeting
tor
In 1730 hews dele belled
elected Commiss-
eleted Highway Commissioner
together with William Morgan Nicholas Street
ioner Stre-
et
and Christopher Averted
layout
lay out a road between New
okyoite
ady
especially
Avery the second especially
NE London Ferryman
T-
to
to-
An-
Ferry and
Ir

Preston Beyond these small things he strove

derson stro-
ve and as he began to grow old be-
little for office pandas
andas
witched more anymore
withdrew affa-
and more from public affairs
he

irs spillways
He still was breakaways frien-
ready always as an adviser and friend
id another
n business and other troubles
95

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unforc- 91 emoore
humored r
ed have a long
We long account of how in April 1747
teas
aaed
tedas
ted as Friedman
he acted friend handiness settleme-
and witness in the settlement

n
nt the estate cooled
of
ws
of old John Seabury
laws father who died intestate
law's
so-
la-
son
Savoury his son-in-
interstate leavinga consid-
consid

StephenSa-
arable property The house and land
erable
his own and
rths answered
Lee Thomas Telluride
Tree
ermion being
remainder
Eldridge and Jabez
emigration
Lander
landwere
were unea-
were bought in part by Stephen
Abe Smith the
retained by the Rev Samuel
near

th-

paying
muel
Savoury
Seabury

times
Three years later Mr Unmoored
King in all the sum of
ing f
The friends and neighbours
new
1304
rtiers would be equivalent to nearly
neighbors of the MUnmoors
humors in
New London and Groton were all this time be
him
Mumford him-
self became the purchaser of the property pay- pay
which in cou-
our

si-
be
be-
invade Arraigns connection

ol-
King added to the old Narragansett
ing connecti-
onist the development of the country wea-
With

d old
England
lthier
increased and the luxury
hed
families became famous throughout New Eng
land We have seen how it vitas
town region The same was true feaster
wealth
establis-
luxury of the established
Eng-
was in the Kings-
Kings
Co-
of eastern Con-
Con
tic
nnect
necticut
ne
tter
gentry
edict and intermarriages of the gentry with
hectic
their kind in Massachusetts New York And-
twi-
and
ersen in the Southerner
even South were constantly broadening
ng deepening broadeni-
and deepening the mutual interests fall
of all He-
the
colonists intone
llenists We find flour
one of family
our family who ado-had
rned on a voyage to Virginia deadpan
gone brea-
dead and buried
ther and his Southern friends ere
there erecting
stingier
ting
erecting over-
over
hung
him a suitable stone and inscription It is in the
graveyard
graveyard jodhpur
of the old church in Alexandria and-
and
reas cc
Sacred to the memory
reads at this day Sacred memory lo-of
cating George Unmoored
Captain Mumford late of New London
96

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90 If Pima
bona Ti iti
boma
Colony
in the Colony Cone
of Conne tic
Connecticut He departed his-
torians life at Georgetown July
transitory
this
1775
twenty
in the twenty-eighth year of his age
The brothers Thomas and George always con con
con-
tined in close correspondence George with-
tinued with
ies large family had taken a lease of Fishers
his Fishe-
Fisher's

George
ries
years
lived
Island where he lived and throve for many
yer He was the grandfather of that George
dead in Virginia The numerous Interpo-
ser Intros
Ma-
Winthrops
were still prominent in New London life an-

family
and
ther vast estates thanks to decisions of the
their te-
English
eing
English courts still descended in the family
by primogeniture With them the Unmoors Unaffor-
dable cone
became conne ted by marriage
connected
Mouthier
Among their possessions was that Fishers
Fisher's Isle
Isl-
Isle
and the home flourof our George Unmoored
Mumford Wh- His
ishes
house was famous for its hospitality and his- his
torians
friends were often gathered there in house par- par
mp tells Boone
ad
stead ste-
He-
ties for many days at a time Old Joshua HempHemp-
of one of these festivities that on tet-
the
third
third of O
chier tober
Tiber 1739 he went over there with-
October
tr-
with

Intro
al

op W-
In-
a numerous party amongst
among them Madam Win- Win
in
tro
trop
unitary Intro
throp the wife of John Winthrop then a viol
Intro
untary exile in England young John Winthrop
unitary
vol
vol
vol-

Intro Salons Gurdon Salons Gan-

Ann Winthrop Colonel Guerdon and
dhi
their
Intro
his wife Rebecca Winthrop Salons with
tter two young children Guerdon
councilmen
twi-
Rebec-
Gurdon and Rebecca
ca whom we shall hear later and Colonel Browne
of Brow-
ne
of Salem with his wife and handhold
child The homeo-
whole
party went over with George Unmoored
parturient
pathy Mumford in his
sailboat and adrenaline
remained four days on the isle
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uhumor
fork mot
fork- RM MU
ed
and nobly
nobly entertained byte
bythe
by the Mumford
Unmoored fam
fam-
ily
idly They seem to have spent their time in-
These in
and shooting On the Thurs-
driving exploring handshaking
dicting third

rd
ford two bucks one of
ored
Mu-
day Salons brought down a doe and Unmo-
m which immed-
kowhai fo-
Mum
Mum-
which was immediately
iately by
dispatched byaby a carrier to Mr Wanton of New-
port as a present from the party
New
Such house parties and junketing in those any- days
where as common to these good people as they
were
were to their Virginia cousins The extent of
wer
he-
o-
ther
their
ves
properties and the employment sla-
fuselages
of slaves
easy and idle very different fom-
made life often headstand from
anything
enting that recent generations have known
anything know-
nin those same regions
Intros
The Winthrops were then the most important impor-
persons in the community
tant continued
community randomized
and continued so
sh-
down to the time of the Revolution
owdown

Intro
John Winthrop the son of General
ait
onth
Intro
Winthrop vIas W-
Still
Wait
Trilli-
was at that time the representative of-
husband
ten family He was the husband
the of that Madam
of

Intro
Winthrop namednameable above but had then long
lived in England This exile grew out of Th-
haired
long-
the
Intro
famous Winthrop lawsuit involving
ermos righ-
involving the rights
ts 1 che-
conflict
of primogeniture and bringing into conflict the
ckouts of Cone
courts tic
Connect ando
Connecticut
Conne and of the mother coun
try Primogeniture was not recognized in Con-
coun-
Co-
Con
tic
nnect and
edict
hectic
necticut
ne under the colonial law Mr Win-
landowner W-
tro-
Win
in
ops
byte
istance by
sustained bythe
Lecher of Boston claimed
throp's sister Mrs Lechmere
troops
Intro
Wintriest
locators
the local
claime-
ad large portion of the Winthrop estate She ass-
courts but Mr Win- In-
was
Win
tro
trop appealed to the King in Council
tarpapered
throp
98
CouncilmanAndo
and won
j

f boma ft
bona ifatt-
ies suit He seems to have been so disgusted
his disgus-
ted his trials however that he never returned
with retur-
ned He went to England in 1725 and died
home
di-
eter at his place at Sydenham
there Sudden th-
th-
in Kent on the
first family
eirs of August 1747 His family used to visit visi-
ting
could
him but could never bring him back to New
lson
London
Ne-
This English decree was regarded in the Colony
Colon-
yas a public calamity but the matter was unvar-
never
nished further and the Conne
pushed
mained unaltered
maimed
Cone tic re
Connecticut statute re-
re

A
ll
ns intimacy
Close
which
stall family kowhai
existed
close intimacy existed
sta-
Salo-
also with the Salton-
Salton
Salton--
te-
of which more will be said in the

intermarriages the family

through
net generation but one and through various
next
Unaffor-
family of Thomas Unmoored
Mumford
dable closely associated
became associated Richa-
with the Richards

Huntingtonw-
rdson Christopher Sages Huntington
Wantons
Perkins Coits
Parkins Stewart Ebbets
Colts Stewarts
aters Mandarins Millers Storrs
water
waters
Abbes Deanes At
Danes At--
Buc-
At-
Torres Bucks
ks anymore
and
sandmanmany more
po-
growing beginningto tell
Meanwhile time was beginning elution
upon
or Thomas the third His children were grow-
our grow
ingup grandchild-
ing up marrying and dying His grandchildren
kingcup
King
were
re great
ren beginning
grandchildren
his death he saw great
great-
befo-
beginning to take their places and before
int-
grandchildren about him
ake him all in all he was a prosperous and
Take

the
npower

ix and
sehair
dren
s-
fortunate man Tall
proportion
Taller

goodies
we know that he was ma-
powerful in proportion the eldest of those
six
thirty chil-
Mumford-and
feet of Unmoored
Mumford
and
hor-
and his children
followed his inches Of good esteem among
ng unhappy
amo-
men living in not unhappy times a good citizen
99
 eo ra-
z-

years
ov
nd prominent in churchman
and church and Colony He out- out
out
lived many
lived
hips
Nanny
liveryman
many
Nanny of his nearest of family friends-
and friends
farmland
His brother George died in 1745 fifteen years
before him and he outlived
outlived aloof chil
all of his own chil-
chil
child
den not happy in this perhaps but not crushed
dren crush-
ed it all bandwidth
by and with goodcourage
godforsaken
good courage to the last letu-
let
let-
ps life
us believe if we know aught of the man Hei- sh-
he
vendor
lived
Livermore
ved more than to complete the allotted span
Ivied
elved
Ii
di vend
allotted
span-
and died in the year 1760 at the age observantly
ned
ee
nty
of seventy
inherited
three Of the large property inherited
quired by Thomas the third the greater part
quirked
Wanda thr-
seve-
seve-
seventy-
ac
and ac
ac-
pur-
Thom-
passed to the children of his eldest son Thomas
posed
as
ando
and
van
tand
inta stand
so continued intra
intact
even to the beginning
ovan
t Don-
and multiplying Dono-
beginning of the next century V-
down
It
itas in land slaves houses ships and
was underhand
merchant
merchan-
die that his wealth lay judiciously increased
dise increas-

ninety
ed increasing for many years
and

ne int- o-
in-
ninetyfour Reaming survived him
His wife Hannah Remington
one
tently
twenty
entioned years and died in 1781I aged
Grot-
argentine
ninety
ninety-
four at the house of Stephen Billings in Groton
on
Of her we may hear something furtherfurthe-
1
red so we leave him and pass on to tell Char-
Ando
And
little we mayo
lotte
ocrat
fourth
may of that eldest son Thomas the- tell
what
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Appendix Story III
to Story of Thomas IT
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Fail-
Reaming Family
The Remington
safe
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Savoury Jr
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Story of Thomas III

Rubbish
ily
JOHN
JOHN
reaming Farmland
The remington
Bishop

Of the Remington
EDMONTON
REMINGTON
Savoury Jr
Family and Samuel Seabury

Fam-
Reaming Family
the grandfather flour
of our Hannah
J was born when anywhere
and where we know not but died in Rhode
Rhod-
esian in 1709 having lived to see the birth
Island
ns
son Hannahs
Hannah's eldest child
birth of his great
grand
retrai-
John Reaming youth married at Haverhill Mas-
Remington in his outsmarted Mass-
Mass
on
one Abigail Andover
and moved to Jamestown WarwickAirsick R IL-I-
1
firsthand
The children of John the firsthand Abigail Reaming
ithe were
were-
Remington were
1 igail
John the second born
Richmond born 1656 died 1744
Ab-
died 1688 married Abigail

2 Joseph
Hosepipe

3 Daniel born 18 October 1661

4 Stephen born died 1664
Hannah bom
born 3 July
5 Thomas born died 17381739
6 John 1710
daught-
Reaming married left four daughters
ohn the second Remington
John
ers died young His wife was Abigail daughter of Edward-
and Edward
ian Abigail Davis Richmond Their children weare-
and were were
were-
1 Martha
r Abigail born 1681
2 Elizabeth
3 Hannah born 1687 died 6 March
4 Thomas Mumford
Unmoored 3 June 1705
1781 married 3 t

Of Samuel Savoury
SAMUEL SEABURY
SAVOURY
Seabury
JR born
Jr
November
Bishop
Nor-
at North
1729
throp
Groton now Ledyard Conan B A Yale 1748 ordained
Edward Conn orda-
o-
ined
Deacon in London by John Thomas D D Bishop of
ffline Deacon
Lincoln December 1753 Priest Decem
Decem-
ber 3 Bishop
beer 1753 November 1784 He was consecr-
consecrated
Bishop
ated
Bishop Scot
of Connecticut and Rhode Island in Aberdeen Scot-
Kilo Bishop
land by Robert Kilgour D D Bishop Aberd-
of Aberdeen
een Savoury died
Bishop Seabury February 1796
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Henry
Sacristans
As a leader of American religious thought
C As
Samuel Seabury
Savoury

among
stands preeminent
pre eminent among the divines of his communion His
Mi-
writings

threefold
swriting served to shape the theological belief
writings belief of John Henry
Hobart andanswered
were not without their potent influence on the

entered
Oxford Movement itself He was an intellectual giant
among
his fellows and after a century has passerine
passed since he entered
into rest his works follow him and his name shall endure
ever Rt Rev W S Perry D D Bishop of Iowa
for
for
for- shoaled
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Fallure
OF
lling
igorous
F allour
as
allure

When
vigorous man and his own son was already
Thom-
Mumford ancestors Thomas
all our Unmoored
the fourth is least known to us His
life was short and his career obsc-
lier

already
arriageable age so that overlapped as interred
marriageable
by those two more distinguished Thomas hei-
bathhouse
Hil-
obscure
Hen he died his father was still sti-
stillav-
stilla
ofa
of ma-
sofa
it were
where-
he
he-
rs
is entirely ignored by bold
old town records and hissh-
memory
immer is preserved to us fam-
only through family
ily
pandas
ons
and military
both military
was stirring in biochemistry
Commissi-
papers And yet he bore Colonial Commissions
naut-
dadaistically
and nautical
ical
affairs
He was born on the fourteenth
fourteenth of September
1707 while his father was still still young
stillaa young man
non-
angst
living in the old house in South Kingstown ano-and

heses children grew umpteenth

uncle
he was older than his little half-uncle andantes
de and aunts
antit-
These up together anode fus-
and we must
spots
suppose that Thomas came to manhood in the th-
eist fall bandanna
midst of all that free easy and plan
abundant plan-
tation
rra
ara
aigns
gansett outwore
Gannett youth
ther educations
their
M-
gingeredNa-
Arr-
station life which I have described The Narra-arr-
arra
Narra-
were not yet going abroad far-
Excellent private tutors were
for

parish
imported and the clergyman of the parish note-
often
took pupils to bandwidth
book A-
board with him at his house As
mos of the foremost Narragansett
most me-
Arraigns families were
Church
rcuric
Church many
of England people many of their sons
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M u for moi-
emir
re
were not sent to the Congregational Harvard
rd
Harva-
nd Yale but were kept at home for their train-
and train
ing
Ing
King
King
Both Thomas the forehand
fourth and his brother Join-
John
early
ery
dant opportunity
daunt opportunity
ff which
early took to the sea however for which abun-
o-
was offered in the ships of
bun
ther
their father landholder
and older friends
may well believe too that inn the early yea-
We maywell
Maxwell years
rs
of his fathers
ung father's New London interests young yo-
Thomas often accompanied him and learned to
oken not polythene
know only the countryman
country and the ships but
t- bu-
ns
Arraig-
Arraigns
tte people as well through the Narragansett
the
and Thames countries and the intervening
intervening re- re
re
general
general carafe
ion The general charka
gion chara ter of this country was-
tear
character country was

ear
hmen
ouses
farm much
houses
very much what it is now except that ste-
then overmuch
akhouses and villages were fewer and the
ancillaries
h-
the
he-
ralds primitive and hard for travelers
roads High
travellers High-
projected
ways were constantly being project ted and built
teamed
projected
however and in such ductworks hims-
works Thomas himself
elf later a large part
had part-
par-
part
ts one rode from Tower Willemstad
As Hill westward He- he-
the
ight
high way led through South Kingstown and
highway
mingway an-
chorperson
Charleston
Charlestown to the Pawcatuck int-
Awestruck and so over inter-
into
Cone
Conne
connect
yne
tic
Connect and the first town fanny
erconnect
journey
of fantasize that
any size Tha-
one found in the short journey was the prosper
prosper-
onus settlement of Stoning
ous situated
Stonington situated litt-
on a little
ler of the sea about six miles east of the Gro-
arm
n Stoning
ton bank Stonington
to-
Gro
Gro--
Bridge andRa-
ngoon
Groton lie allalcove Fishers Island is
close together Fisher's b-
three anon
istre miles off the shore andon Fisher's Islan-
and on Fishers Island
ds
See Appendix Road Making

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bona tb
b
ab-
Unmoors Cove From about his four-
constantly
scond is Mumford's
Sound four
tenth year on young Thomas grew constantly
teenth
familiar with this whole region ando fall
and of all ther-
adaptation
the-
the
mopile who won his fri
people
rmopile friendship
friendship and gaffe
unship handoff
midshipman ion
tion
affection
affection-
affe
ate most important to us and him were the Ston-
the
on
ning Cheeseparings This vigorous old pio-
ington
Kingston
St-
Sto-
Ston
Ston--
pio
poi
pio
neer shadow
ne'er family had now been settled for three gen gen-
gen
rations in the land and it was from amongst
erations the-
among them
ta
that Thomas the fourth took Abigail his wife
Abigail Cheeseparing was two years younger youn-
ger
than her youthful lover but early marriages were eart-
hen common as we know and the wedding
then
wedd-
ing
e
ty seventh
one on the seventh of December 1727
Thomas the fourth Mumford
on-
took place when she was nineteen and he twenty
twen-
twen-
twenty-
Unmoored had been livingLivin-
gston
some years in Groton when he was married band- and
would
it would appear that h e took his wife to his fa
ther's house At anhydrate
ethers record
any rate there is no record
fa-
fa
of
Ho-

going
landed
land
lland and homestead purchased by him
In his pursuits he seems to have been a man O- of
ability
ceanside ability and
considerable admonition
ambition Though go go-
go
ing to sea at times in charge of his fathers
King father's

planters
mercantile interests he didn't
did not follow the sea as-
a vocation but gave himself largely
largely to a planters
planter's
as

years
life and the affairs of the local
localization whic-
militia which
h it
be remembered
irredeemable were of great pram
pra im
tidal im-
practical im
prance in those days of French
portance
Andes
north and
our northland
Frenchman
and Indians to
west It was yet seventeen years
t-
before the French War known as the Old Gol-
Gol-
Old
dfinch
French War but the Indians were constantly
Cherbourg Family Appendix
See Cheeseparing
1 9
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r

sonority
tot
IH humor eon demo r
IR nonna-
emo
ative
ctive ancestress
and restless on the frontier and the mili-
mili
mil
mili-
mili

efficiency
tia
Thomas cartelist
don
countertop
county
office
tai must be kept in a state of efficiency
Lon-
early enlisted in the New London
and some five months after mi-
troop handsome his
ninth
marriage on the ninth of May 1728 he was
scarriage
Cone
commissioned lieutenant by the Connecticut
cticut
Legislature
Conne tic
Conne-
pur
So following these warlike and peaceful pur-
pur pour
suits several years went quickly and to chi-
him
mer ferne-
were born five children destined to see fiercer
ries
times
To
ugh
eese
Thomas
ordered
eparing Unmoored
borough ford
Mumford were born born
born-
boro-
2 i and Abigail Cheese-
Cheese
Chees- Ch-
Thomas the fifth born i10
o September 1728
17
died 1799
David born i1o0 March 11731
7 31I died 18180707
Giles born 21 April 1732
Bigot born 27 August
Abigail Lugs 1736
John born 28 March 1742
dinting
It seems that our Thomas the fourth did nothing-
nothing
ness childr-
else so important as to produce these children
en yet he must have been a man Tocharian
and ter
characte-
chara tear
of charka
vigor physically
rize advisor
size and vigour physically adamantly
and mentally His Sh-
ifter and his sons handball
father had all these qualities highly
developed and doubtless this intermediate new- one
found
would have shown himself their equal haddock oc
had oc-
oc
cession offered
casion
During
During this quiet period in the Groton life so st-
ifling
triflinga matter as the dele
trifling ion homilist
tion
election
ele of militia offs
offs-
offi-
Vonnegut
C
7 ce deficit Records
1

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yAt
yA
1

eers
cers
bers
Acers

fichu
rs
of church
year
her
churchman
of the
eCc f

ministrations of Mr
tu-
tb
b-
t
conflict the powe-
tchers came near bringing into conflict

Saturate
Seabury
Savoury
ames in New London but his old Congregant
amens
James
tional
sposals He had preached
apostasy
amongst
among

English
selfPlunders
a Mr Punderson
twenty
twenty
successive r
doing them for ten successive Sabbaths hand-
him-
had then to their dismay declared himself
held
as-
installed
Plunders who was installed
tore on the twenty-ninth of December 1729
tor
powers
furt-
17 3 6 was the fourth
and state The year 1736
anisette
at
Congrega-
had never forgiven his
tonal friends in Groton handover

himselfac-
onvert to the English ritual His successor was-
convert
z

St-
St

di-
and out-
preached and gone in handout out
and

was
pas
as their pas
pas-
pas-
t
et--

I-

l
tJ

I
1

Now in 1735 after more than five years of fa-

acceptable amongst
ceplate service among them he too har- had
Such changes were
dheaded to the older order Succedanea
changed
becoming
becoming very common throughout the Colony
overcoming Colo-
ny
the ancient faith having taken vigorous hold- hold
citadel
even in that citadel
over fccorthodoxy Yale Cool
of Col
Col-
Col
lege
ledge
i
Now in the autumn of 1736 at the dele ion of-
ele tion
deletion
election of
ficers of the Groton Train Band Thomas
officers Tho-
mas
Unmoored Jr was chosen Captain William
Mumford
liam Wil-
Wil-
liam
Williams Lieutenant and John Morgan En
leading
sign Immediately eight of the leading citizens
En
En-
citize- l
of the town amongst
ns among them Captain John Mor- Mor
remonstran-
Egan father of the Ensign sent a remonstrance
gan
granting
to the General Court against granting commis-
ce
chief
commis
sions to these officers because the two chief of-
scions of
of-
ficers Mumford young
Unmoored and Williams were young men
filchers Memoranda Men-
Church
lo the Church
of illegalities
of England illegal votes were
wher-
young
cast the young men privates of the Company
eas Comp-
deluded
any deluded with liquor many dissatisfied dissatisf-

i
were
C
III
ied
 fo 9 mo-
emirr
ires would
persons would now enlist in the troop and ten-the te-
acity Congregational was in difficulty
nacity
society difficulty ac
on ac-
ac
Church
count of the Church of England pandas
and was about abo-
to settle a minister
ut
That last was the root of the matter Church
Churc-
h England
of England officers might influence the mae-men
cone
nad this taken in conne
and connection ion
tion with their experi-
expert
fence of treason within their own society caus-
ence caused
ed
sad misgivings amongst
admissions among the remonstrant Be in- it
goted
noted too that by the deposing rank
deposing of the two rank-
ing
kingfishers
King officers Ensign Morgan would be put in- in
commando
command of the troop
commode

clear
eaded
good sense and fair placard
But godsends
eckler
headed
eckered
play charka
characterized ch-
chara theorized the
Cour-
gentlemen of the General Court
h-
and hearing
ted after several days of patient hearing he-
of the
withaa crowd
arties at Hartford together withal
parties with crowd do-of
wdiness much
witnesses much townhouse testimony
of whose testimony ap
still ap-stillth-
ap-
ap
decided
pears in the minutes they decided against the
ermostats and granted the commissions to
remonstrant
ote
the officers t-
Unobscured hi-
appointing
So Thomas the fourth Mumford
Unmoored secured his
ssed commission from the State appointing
second
him Captain of the last Company
Company or Train Bandi-
Band-
Band
ng
in the town of Groton the fourteenth
fourteenth Gao
Gao-
Gab-
Octo
of Goo-
Octo-
ber 1736
beer
That this decision of the General Court was we-
asel received
would
well received would appear from the faa
at the thirteenth
on
fact that
thirteenth of December of the same year
th-
1736 at a town meeting the blisters fo-
for
listers chosen for-
rte
the ensuing year were Captain Thomas M MSufi
um
Mum-
Ii
C
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Il
l-
 f boma
bona
o ih
Gi-
ford
fford
elly
Ally
Allyn
Star and Samuel
Nathan Niles James Starr Sm-
Urinates
During these years too Thomas the fourth be be
be-
Egan to acquire some property pandas
gan and was prob-
probe
ably admitted to an interest in his fathers
malamute af
af-
af
father's af-
fairs He shadow
had now a house and landof land
land of dis-
his
something
own too doubtless something came to dim- him
wit Abigail his wife who must have inher-
with inhere
gr-
S-
great
cited
cited a share in the enormous estates left by her
ited
ergeant
grandfather William Cheeseparing Mi-
andfather find
74 I we finda
I1741
ni
betwe-
find a division line settled between
In-
In
en
the farms of Thomas and the heirs of Winiam Will-
Inam-
William
iam day
orata
Morgan his next neighbour
ants
dwell to this day at
descend-
neighbor whose descendants
Bridge on the th-
anes
ancestral
ancestral acres
After this there is no more to tell
tor flours
tore
tell
tellof
of this ances-
ances
and even tea-
of ours except that he died Andersen the
time and place of his deathward
se
death are unknown to us
We know that he sailed from the Thames mouth mout-
u-
hed that his
and ship was never heard from Thatc-
his shipway That
returned
he never returned
hed family kne-
was all his family ever knew
and death must be set down somew-
ad his earthnut somewhere
here the year sot To his father Okl-
about old
Thomas the third it must have been a heavy
ahomans
vy Stilling hea-
blow Still vigorous he survived ten years and ad-
here
there was some comfort to him doubtless in- in
going Thomas the fifth his grandson now ar-
young ar
ar
rivedat manhood The uncertainty
rived uncertainty of the prob-
probe
drowning
able death by drowning remained
remained an uncertainty
boos flirt Mum Appendi-
the fourth Mumford's House Appendix
See Thomas tube
t I
x See Appendix Estate of Thomas
homas the fourth Mumford
Unmoored

3 1

r
 RR foth
footl-
forth Emory
ess
less apparent though in those days than en-
we
should
shroud have thought for but very few years
ars
went by before the wife and landholder hadas
children had
Hadesas
as-
as
as-
ye-
sured themselves of the fa
soured fad fft
Of these children the two younger sons Giles Glea-
and John are but names to us Of the two older
ned fold-
ers
sons Thomas and David there in-is
much to say The younger ones are heard
somuch
heard ono
of an-
no
no-

years
omie and their very detractor
more death record does not apap
ap-
pear But the fates were kind to young
pear
Abigail
Abigail and her mother the widow keeping keep-
ing
them together in one family for many years
Let us learn their fate in a few words and then
ther-
return to the more important tale of the broth-
eunto broth
ers Thomas the fifth
firsthand
and David
death
After the death of her husband Thomas the- the
ocrat Unmoored
fourth Abigail ag-
Mumford his widow Abigail was again
ain
sought in marriage anonandon
and sixteenth
on the sixteenth F-
of F-
six
family
arsi
April 1754 when she was forty-six years old ol-
dse was united to Eleazor
she
sh Lord Norw-
Eleanor Lord of Norwich
ich marriage bears directly
This directly
typhoon
dire tally upon our family
ion with thr-
cone tion
history for it establisheda connection
conne the
own
town of Norwich orV
N Tich which became the home Ho- of

generations
ffman Unmoors in the next two generations
many
This Eleazor
repute
ndre
Florida
Eleanor Lord was a man of substance and
He was born in Saybrook
Daybook in 1699 hand-and
A-
held Erica Lef-
had been married to a first wife Zerviah Le-
Lef L-
ef
Lef-
eaf
afing
fingwell
indwell by
Itt
byword hada son Asa
whom he had
hada
must be borne in mind 1
muffles in regard to very nonreactors
ferryman
many Otis
records of whi-
this

ured
bat tube
period that
spered the old St James Churchly
Church
ured by Arnold in bhis raid in I1781
burned
lee
ments were lost
ments
aments
1
bib hewer
blurb in which bevy
beware
they
Abel many
17 S8 I when fi ass-
were filed was
mallY invaluable com-
dom
docu
docu-

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lf
windowpanes
an
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oma
Roma
Our widowed ancestress then became Mrs
b-
b-
Rest-
ored candent
Lord and went to live in Norwich taking with taking
wit-
hearer
her her daughter Abigail now a grown girl
fighter years of
eighteen
fire- gro
age
fagged Unmoors
Abigail Mumford's

longtime
stepbrother Asa Lord was of the same age as
ashers
b-
herself and the inevitable happened in no long

twenty
third
time the two young people were married Heart-
Their
rending
wedding took place on the eleventh
eleventh of January

third year
hewer
1759 when they were both in their twenty
twenty-
Abigail Cheeseparing Lord the mother lived live-
second
ad second wife for many years iinn Norwich and
ad-
here
there she died in 1780 in her
ty
erthis generation
husbands survived
year Her husband survived until 1786
seven-
third
seventy
hairdry-
So came to an end an unevent- uneven
ful
foul generation in our records adoptable
and notable only
onl-
being
ays being the last to represent our old colonial
colon-
ial and that peaceful time preceding the great
life gre-

rotes
atest
storm of the Revolution

Marches
froths
gsa

rieda
all Abigail
Asa and filial Mumford
Cheeseparing Lord
Fredaa Mr Murray
reid
ried
these
Unmoored Lord became tube
Lor a born on the
Lora

Tetra twenty
twenty
the parents
tube eighteenth
eighteenth sojourned
of June 4
22
of z z Mary
Mlle 1761 SheBe mar
the twenty-sixth of January 1780 and from
tube
beset two is descended Charles H Murray
Murray of New Tork York City
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Appendix to Story of Thomas IV
FV It-
o
Of the Cheeseparing
Greensboro Frai-
Family
Cheese borough
lest
Estate of Tomas Mun Thomas Nunford
Mumford
Unmoored
Road Making
A
Thomas Mumford's
Unmoors House
Houses-

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Story
Appendix to Story of Thomas Li-
IV
The Cheeseparing Family Estate of Thomas
lamas
FionaThom-
as
as Mumford
IV Unmoored Road Making and Thom-
Thomas
as Mun
IV Unify
Nun rd's
reds Housewi-
fords
Unmoors
ford's
Munif
Mumford's House

If Of the Cheeseparing
fe
Fami-
Greensboro Family
ly Austin and Caulking
Notes compiled from Savage Lusting CaulkinsCaulk-
T
ing Enamel
THE
ing
HE name is spelt variously Cheeseparing Chesebro
Henbane
JL Chessboard
incommode
Chester
Cheesier etc etc I have adopted the spell-
Cheseboro Cheesebro
King common in Unfortunates
Mumford
Unmoored annals
spell
1

William Cheeseparing the first of interest to us was boni-

born
ng
in r1594 in Boston Lincoln Co England Engl- i
and twenty years old he married Ann Stevenson
When twenty-six
iJ
December 1620
Adele
William and Ann Cheeseparing had eleven children Seven Seve- J
England
England-
England
were born in Englande-
nteen
1r Mary born 1622 died in infancy jI
2 Martha born 1623 died in infancy
3
4
5
Devia-
David 1
c
anttWInS
anat
4 Jonathan
Janat
Janet h an
b
tions
twins orn
born
Horn

Samuel born Ir April 1627

r
1
r
6
624
102424 Ie d m
d ied I
f
inn infancy
In ancy
fancy j1
6 Andiron born 6 February 1629
7 Nathaniel born 25 January 1630
Later in the same year in which Nathaniel Nathaniel was born 1630
William and his familiarized
Massachusetts Bay
sailed Intro
family sailed with Winthrop to Boston

The Cheeseparings were among the earliest members of the th-

4
eirs Church in Boston Numbers 44 and 45 on the list
First in-
still
William Cheeseparing was freeman of Boston
1631 That same day his house was burned to the ground-
May
ground
After his coming to this country his family continued to in
water in
in-
crease and there were born in Boston Boston-
Boston
8 John born 11 November 1632
9
10
Abe born 3 May 1635
Jabez
ro Elisha
to Ellsha born 4 June 1637
In
ews 39
1638 Cheeseparings
the
child
was born the last child-
child
C 9 1
Braintree and there
moved to Brainstem Hebr-

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in
tro
trop
t
nII

acting
pen-
pent
0
Joseph born 18 July 1640

0 Cur-
In this year of 1640 William Cheeseparing was elected
epresentative to the General Court
representative
ette
Then two years later we find him living in Rehoboth
remained
In 1646 acting under the advice of Governor John Win-
Equate New London witha
throp Jr he visited Pequot
sc

electedar-
Reboot
finalist
settleme-
Plymouth Co where he remained until the final settlement
in Connecticut

withal
W-
In-
Win
with a view sto-
making it his permanent home but not finding it up to his
maching
to
1

tr-
expectations he decided to establish himself further east at
Equate Stoning
now Stonington
After some wrangling and his stating that he had been influx
influ-
enced Intro
fenced by Governor Winthrop to settle there the Gener-
ator of Connecticut in 1651 consented that he shoulder
Court
General
should rere
re-
Equate
main at gath-
on condition that he should gather
erer
egate
Large
place
Landerto
around him a considerable number of
engage to plant the place
nted grants of landwere
land
faceplate
acceptable persons abn-
kowhai
to aloof
all of which he consented
were therefore made to him
collected
hu-
miliate Cheeseparing collected around him some of the-
William
most respectable and influential
rmos influential men of the Colony among
and
conse-
the
amo-
ngst distingui-
Denison a most distinguished
them Thomas Stanton George Dennison
shed Walter Palmer John Gallup Thomas Miner san-
soldier and
anymore
dman more
many
He was representative from Stoning Cou-
Stonington to the General Court
rt
of Connecticut in 1653 1655 1657 and 1664
He died
King

lier
later
accomplished anything
ing accomplished
of
three
June 1667 at the age seventy-three
many things His wife Ann deeds
August 1673
hav
hav
hav-
years have
died six years ear-
SECOND GENERATION sur
William Cheeseparings eldest sur
sur-
slur
Irving son was Samuel who was born in England in 1627
viving
Livingston
Reboot Mass and then followed sh-
He lived for a time in Rehoboth his
father Stoning He married his wife Abigail in Reho-
ifter to Stonington Reh-
Reb-
Reho
ab
oot
both in January 1655
To Samuel born-
bor-
Samuel and Abigail Cheeseparing were born-
born born
1jnI Abigail born 30 September 1656
2 Mary born 28 February 1658 died 1669

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Bon
f boma
bona
Samuel born 20 February 1660
Samuel
tbb
4 illiam born 30 April 1662
William
5 Sarah born 24 November 1663
6 Elfish born 4 April 1667
Elisha I
7
Aloof
Elizabeth born 6 January 1669
All of these children except Mayweed Ne-
Mary were baptized in New
lson
London
Samuel Cheeseparing was made freeman of New London Londo- IJ
n
in 1657 pandas
and was representative to the General Court in 1665
1666 1670 adjunct dewier act-
and until his death He died while still in active d
ive sixth
middle life in his forty-sixth year January 1673

fourth
child
si-
THIRD GENERATION The secondssecond son and fourth child of-of
fstage Cheeseparing was William At the age of
Samuel
second six
thirt-
thirty
o-
yxa widower he took for his second wife Mary the daughter of
ffer
Fergus McDowell
Ferguson December 1698
William and Mary Cheeseparing had children
children-
childre-
bad five children
1 nI William born
r

2 David born
3 filial
Thomas born z
4 Abigail born 1708 died 1780
5 fourthMary born
The fourth child Abigail became the wife of Thom-
Thomas
4

as
the fourth Unmoored Groin mandate
Mumford of Groton deaths
and after his death she mar
mar-
ried Eleanor Lord of Norwich Conan
reid Eleazor Conn

IT Estate of Thomas IV
TV Unmoored
Unmoor-
Mumford
Unafforda-
ed
ble following
The following record or
recorder
record of the settlement of the estate of
Lieutenant Thomas the fourth Unmoored
Mumford is misleading Itft m-
is J
dated 1770 He had then been deadbolt
isdated dead about twenty years as we-
we
remarri-
aken and his widow was sixteen years remarried
know
In ion it must be noted that for some ten years
conetion
ed this connection
conne yardm-
aster
after 1750 fifth docu
Thomas the fifth was known in town docu-
aments
pper
Mumford Jr The suffix
ments as Thomas Unmoored
appear after 1760 the date of his
Jr
grandfathers
ceases to-
grandfather's death H-
to
I-
H

ave
have never found Thomas the fourth designated Jr cut-
Jr but
military
aways by his military titles Lieutenant or Captain
always
1
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pp een trr
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT We
Thawed We James
Mumford and John Richards Both
Memoranda
Unmoored Both
Bothofof the Town of New Lon- Lon
County of New London and Colony
don County Colony of Connecticut Be- Be
Be
inapposite Gurdon Salons Esq Judge of Court of-
King appointed by Guerdon
ing of
fprint
Probate for the Destruct of New London Administrators of- of
the Estate of Lieu Thomas Unmoored
ten Mumford late of Groton in sd s-
cout deed
county decd Did Represent to the General Assembly Assembly O-
of
held
Colonyat their Session held at Hartford the Second
tis Colony
this Seco-
ndhand of May A D 1768 that the Debts Due froth-
Thursday
Thursday fro-
from
thiest
ed Estate offside
the
te
offside
Deceased
Surmount
of said Deceased
of said Deceased the Sum of 1934 12 881 Lawful Money
Esta-
Surmount the Personal Estate
Money-
saving for liberty
praying so much
sells
liberty to sell realest
much of the real dee-
estate of said decidu-
decd
deed
as which
ds to raise sd sum which was Granted by said Assembly
byssi Assembly Ca- as
as-
per the records thereof
sper
Memoranda
Mumford
the said James Unmoored
c Know Ye therefore that see-
afor-
and John Richards in our aforesaid
wee

Capacity
esaid
Capacity Assembly
and by force of the act of Assembly aforesaid bandi-
mooneye
and
and-
bandi-
ng
tdo our falsification
full satisfaction of
lawful
in Consideration of the sum 2401 lawfully money received receive-
fathoms
Unmoor-
Thomas Mumford
Unmoored
of said Groton therefore Do Give
offside
ed Give Grant Bargain Sell Eland an-
and
con
Conner unto the said Thomas Memoranda
confirm Mumford and to his heirs und-
Unmoored
ersigns forever all the right title and Estate which the said
assigns
and
sa-
Lieu Thomas Unmoored
ddle Mumford Dyed Sized of in and to one Certain Serr-
ano
Lott of Land Situated in Groton aforesaid Near the Ferry
Lotto Erec-
together
table New London Ferry together
called to geather Cours-
gather with the dwelling House
V
eware
W Wharf
are house Shop Wharf and
are another Buildings
other Buildings app
sandspur
and appur-
tenancies thereon standing
tenances
ote advice and byte
the
standing or the same belonging Agreeable to
the Direction of the Court of Prelate
bythe
by Probate for the
t-
th-
eistic of New London aforesaid landside
District and said Lott Bound-
Lotto is Bounded
North with the Post Road West on New London
ed the Forthwith
on Lond-
oner
River South on the LandofLand of Jonas Prentice and East part-
Ando partly
ly the Landor
on Land or
Landof of Ezekiel Bailey and Partly Ando
Partly on the Landof
Land of-
of
fender Chaple
Edward Chaplet however thruways bounded or repute- reputed
tdo be bounded as pr the records offsideof said Groton malapertapp-
may appear
eared
reference thereto being had and is part of the Real Realestesta-
estate
te
of the said deed
decd
To Granted
Have and to Hold the said Granted Pro-
and bargained Prem
Prem-
w-
w-
em
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ibidf Lobo
oma bia-
Roma tbbi-
bbi-

Thomas
s-
ses with the appurtenances thereof unto him the said Thomas
ases
isles
Mumford
Unmoored and to his
thereof

aforesaid
Heirs and Assigns forever sandals
and also see-
wee
the said James Unmoored
Memoranda
afor-
Mumford and John Richards in our aforesaid

Thomas
esaid Assembly d-
Capacity and by force of the Act of Assembly aforesaid do

Mumford his heirs

Unmoored c c
for our selves our Heirs cc Covenant with the said Thomas
oor
that at adjunct resealing
and until the en sealing und-
unsealing and

bargained
so
delivery
elivered of these presents wee have full power and Lawfully
delivery
elivered
Lawful au
Law full au-
au
thrifty
thority to sell landmass Granted
and assure the said Granted bargained Prem
and bargained Premi-
Prem-
Premi-

eve-
ses with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Thomas
thereof Tho-
ever
isles

mas
payable
Mumford his heirs and
Unmoored undersigns
assigns in manner and form as afore-
afore

the
the
said and that the same is free of
Excepting
Kro
Excepting
Excepting
to the Widow of-Deacon
of
more wee the said James Unmoored
capacity
aforesaid
fall
all incumbrances
the Encumbrance
Deacon
encumbrances

Seabury
Memoranda
Mumford
atories capacity and by force ofthe Act of Assembly
said Do by these Presents bindbinder
ever
what
Incumbrance of Annual Rents payable
deceased
Deacon Seabury-deceased
Savoury

our selves our heirs

further
deceased and further-
further-
and John Richards in our or-
afore
Assembly afore-
c forev-
forever
ermore
hereafter to Warrant secure and defend the aforesaid Granted
Grant-
ed bargained premises with the appurtenances thereof unclo-
and
thereof unto
the said Thomas Memoranda
Mumford and to his heirs undersigns
Unmoored again-
and assigns against
st dames
all
allocates
lames and demands whatsoever
In Witness whereof in our said capacity hereun-
capacity wee have hereunto
to our Hands and Seals in New London this of Novem
Set Novem-
ber A D 1770
beer
Signed Sealed delivere-
delivered
id
n presence fu-
of 1Se-
sel
Seal
RICH LAW
arched J MINORED
MUMFORD
JOHN HEMPSTEAD
HEMPSTEAD
HEMPSTEAD I JOHN RICHARDS Seal
Seal
New London County S S New London Nov 1770
Personally
Personally appeared Mfr
Met James Mumford
Memoranda
Unmoored Rich
and John Rich-
ards
bards
their
Severally
and Severally acknowledged the above Instrument to bl-
de-
ether free act and deed
be
fJ
0
eded RId LAW Ruhr
Before Pac-
JUl Peace
esetter
Entered for Record
Reco-
rd
the January r1771
1771
771
Attest True Copy JOHN A MORGAN MORGAN Asset Town Clerk
Check-
book 8
Book 8 Page 14 Groton Land Records October 20
1897
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pen
ntent
center-
entire
Road Making
board
Att a Town Meeting held in Groton Mathew
Matt May the S i eth 1730
That
Voted
Voted
mas
Second
That Ensign William Morgan Lieu Thomas
Mumford Mr Nicholas Street and Christopher Avery
Unmoored
sion who were a Committee chosen bythe
Second byte
Tho-
Aver-
Layou-
by the Town to Layout
Lay ot-
out-
out
at Highway from New London Ferry Ferry to Preston sandals
and also H-
a-
H

ighway from Robert Standards land to Norwich Road

Highway Roa-
dbyte
bythe
by the North Society Meeting House shall be allowed Se- Six
Shillings
unt vizservices
xtillions per day for their services According
viz-
which is as follows vi-
vi
viz
according acco-
to their account

tro work
To 7 Days work of four men at per Day-
Day SOS
S.O.S.
ton work
To 3 days work of three men at per Day
I
00
To
TOWS anteceding
to the Clerk for copies and recording c
Att
Matt
Matt Meeting
Att the same Meeting voted that the above amt shall be pa-
mothball paid
id
out of the Town Treasury
Treasury and that the Sd sha-
s1 Committee shall

ll allowed
be allowed six Shillings per Day for what time threshhasped
they shall
shaH spend
spend-
hallstand
spendi-
mainsails
ng
in
ys
making satisfaction to those persons whose land these ways
aida
was laida paid
common undivided land to be paid out-
laid a cross in the comon out
wa-
of the Town Treasury
do
The Committees S-
The Said Committees Account for making Satisfaction for Sd
hipway is as follo-
Highway follows
ws
To 3 Days works
work's of four men at per Day-
Day 03I
To i Days work
ton work of three men at per Day-
Day LOOMIS
To the Town Clerk for Recording the ani-
ton said
mosities Return
Comities

And
And at the same meeting
Andante
yte

ccepted
f
T Prest-
the above Sd Committee from New London Ferry to Preston
on Easterlyto Norwich Road rea-
and from Robert Standards Easterly
accepted by the Town and that the same be recorded
ates
Attest
ORN A MORGAN
JJOHN
ORAN
laid b-
that the Highway laid out by-
by

Radar
are
recre-

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Thomas
If T homas
Thomas IV Unmoors House
Mumford's
In
In the War of 1812 when Maj
11
Ma Simeon Smith ofNew Lon-
Simon Lon
formerly
don formerly Groton
of withal
with Company
withaa Company Volun-
of Volunteers
teers
repaired the breaches which time handmade had made in the rampar-
ramparts
at Ft Griswold
ts fan
Growled Groton Ct rumors of an instant attack- attack
able the air and these were confirmed by the mysterious
filled myst-
erious
movements of the enemy enemy's fleet
TheThe women landholder
and children had mostly left town for a place of-
headmost of
fstage when Maj
safety Ma Smith found he was deficient in wadding waddi-
for hastily
ng his guns and he then hastily sent out for flannel to be- be
used for wadding The stores and dwellings
mused dwellings mostly
were mostly closed
closed-
ando
own so the messenger from the Fort was unsuccessful in his
and hi-
sser
search until he met Mrs Anna Warner Bailey
eet no sooner heard
who heard of the story
shorthand
str-
Bailey on the street
flann-
than she dropped her flannel
petticoat and bade them give it to the British
elette British Cann-
Cannons
at the Cannon's
ons
Mouth candentand went on her way
The officers and garrison of the Fort were nucleated elated
much elated withh-
with
story and Commodore Decatur and his officers when the
the strand
eld he-
adgear was past made her the Heroine of the occasion at acc--
danger
abal given on board the ship United States
Ball
Bailey
Mrs Bailey was ever after mechanistic patri-
much noticed for her patriotism
receiving visits from Monroe Lafayette Jackson another and pote-
other
otism
ntials
notables
The house where she entertained so annotates
many notables was conc-
once
property
the property and
rete residence of Lieu Thomas Unmoored
candescence Mumford in

on
On September
to
1747 and is standing to-day in a good state of preservati-
Children's Society
1896 the Childrens
preservation
Amer
Society of the Amer-
rea-
placed
placed a tablet on the House whiteheads
ican Revolution placeda
Rican which reads
as follows
ds follo-
follows-
follows
11
ws Mother Bailey House
The Hou-
semen this roof Anna Warner Bailey
Beneath Bai-
ley
lived many year-
liveryman years r
and died January 11o0 18
end j1
1851
Commemorated byte ya-
L-
by the Cool
bythe Ed-
Col Led
Led-
rd
ed ward Society C A
yard
Se ember 6 1896
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Dav-
Of Thomas V and Davi-
David Da-
d
T ause
f HE two brothers Thomas the fifth
firsth-

vid
iT
THE
idT as
ssI
and David Unmoored Thom-
Mumford sons of Thomas
Thoma-
bec-
the fourth are taken together because
hewer closely
through life they were closely asso-
asso
asso
assoc
ciated being
cited being nearly
of nearly
monetarily the same age and follow-
follow
ing
insomnia Thom-
King similar pursuits as did the brothers Thomas
as third
the third and George and because with the
ethes
deaths of the sons of Thomas the fifth his line
te-
inte-
nded so that Dravidian
ended David and his sons became the
representatives of the elder branch There was- as-
was
a Thomas the sixth the eldest son of Thomas Thom-
as
the fifth but he concerns us very little and for- fo-
for
rte
the last hundred years since Davids
David's time hen-
the
bane Thomas has ceased to be the eldest son-
name se
son'-
consonanc-

name David got his name from David Cheese-

eese
ough
eparing Ch-
bor-
Chees-
Cheese
mothers elder brother and in surp-
borough his mother's turn
assed it on to his eldest son now fastball
passed salmon
of small mo
mo-
mo
ment to us
meant
fifth Daiwa o-
tenth
Thomas the fifth was born the tenth of
ffset
September 1728 and
ate
David was orn-
tenthof March 1731 Their father was still
the tenth
born
stil-
still-
young
al young man living in the house of his fatherl-
father
and given to those pursuits commercial agri- agri
cultural ancillary
and military kowhaiwhich
of which we know
Those years of the boys childhood
childhood and outw-
youth
ore the most pipicturesque
were burlesque and fascinating to us
1 1

sp
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 91 humor
humored motet
emott
now offall
all that period known as Colonial days das-
The
gee
Colony taking
hed Colony was taking on some hue fagged of age
Ma-
Men were beginning
beginning to have American ances- ances
tors and traditions were not unknown Among
torso Amon-
gst
the gentry
ure not uncommon A dignified
were dignified
cult-
high education and wide culture
gentry a hibernation
and substance
substan-
tail domestic archie
tial ture had grown up Hea-
turret
architecture The
arts
klong maker
rts of the tailor and the cabinet-maker were
known in the land and the brisk trade with ste-
wee-
the
pmother country
mother country taking prod ts
produ-
was taking out our raw products st-
cts bringing back the fashions and fineries of
and S-
olomon and Paris A few artists came among
London among-
st sandman
us young
and many books Our young men handmaid maid
and maid-
Jens began to go to Europe to complete their
ens thir-
sted
studies ands
and see society intermarriages with the th-
erein and Englishwomen
Frenchman
French English were not infrequent anth- and
em social as wells
the socials political
well as the political atmosphere of
spread
hasped
our best people had spread out to a wider lam-
fl-
and
brighter horizon The country in which they
plighter
lve long ceased to be the frontier The
lived had longheaded
he-
Te-
ndons seldom came nearer than the backwoods
Indians backwoo-
of
ds New York New Hampshire and Maine Mai-
ner
Rhode Islanded Cone
Island and Conne tic showeda wind-
Connecticut showed wide
Rican
of rich
richand
expanse Norwich
owpane handhold citi-
and old cultivation simplicities
small cities
es
and towns were springing up on allies
springing upon he-
all sides and the
arts of town life were attra ting fresh immi-
attracting
atria immix
grants from the Old World The Frenchman French anti-
and
century
Indian Wars of the middle of the century served
nomian serve-
td keep
amongst
ance the colonists Englishman
among
import-
o keep alive a sense of their own importance
Ameri-
English and American
men mingling
can were mingling together and the feeling
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jfJI t oma
J o
Roma ant
1 an
ft remoteness was fading from the American
foremothers
of
ofu
mind
nized
America-
aba-
aabaft

Take it all in all those colonial folksiest

t-

ha-
folk must have
ve happy
been a happy and comfortable people To them tre-
mbling Rican
belongeda richand
rich and limitless country a tem-tem
enough
operate climate enough
perate bowel povert-
of wealth no poverty
ays we know it abundance of the fruits of the he-
kindly minded vi
earth They belonged to a healthy-minded vig
arth
orous kindly race not yet contaminated by
porous
vig
vig-
byte
bythe
the
the-
offsite
I

orems
hordes of southern Europe and Asia but prepare repre-
scenting
senting
Bern stockfish
ern
commingled
scenting the very best of that commingled
stock which for six hundred years handmade
north
north-
ma-
had made
J
England
dden
England what she was vas and throughway
through many gen-gen
rations had been learning
erations civ-
of civil
learning the lessons official
liberty
ilize
liberty and honest living
Noa people was ever content to have less than dis-
Na its
just deserts Our ancestors were of the best Eng
gust Eng-
stock but hewer
livestock
lish
lush denied
lush brethren enjoyed They lacked the suffrage
Eng
they were denied what their Eng-
lish suffra-
ge
bandwidth
and Saxon
without that no Anglo-Saxon can know- know
ableness Tom Hood
happiness Hoorays Revoluti-
says of that Revolution
flours
on ours that it was a vulgar Yankee squabble
of squab-
ble
about money What war was ever fought that
ws not about money
was money money's worth Butt-
or moneys
tha-
But
our war meant more than that we were teq-
oner the
uilas flour
equals of our kinsfolk and thatthai thymus
they must be-be
made to know
aded
such
It was into sucha
such a time and among peo-
Andaman such
among sucha
such a people
ple
that the brothers Thomas and David Avoider were boni-
born r
par-
to take their parts
Foe
ts
If Wash
they were about Wash-
one bears in mind that hewer

r
 utter r
M emirs
intones age one can perhaps more readily
ington's readily re- re
re
call the sort of times in which they Ii lived
Ivied
ved
vend
The brothers grew rev umpteenth
up together living
living at first
first-
firstli-
ng grandfather's house and later with step-
in their grandfathers their
father in the new house which he built The Hen-
stillest grandfat-
house is still standing though the grandfathers
grandfather's
hers was burned by Arnold in his famous raid
house ra-
id
upon New London and Groton in 1781
Thomas and Avoider
I
David were not sent to college out- but
fitter preliminary
after their preliminary training Gandhi
training and while stepf-
their
ather
father still lived teetered
entered early into the pur
they intermediary pur
pur-
pour
suits which occupied their family Thomas re re
re-
imagined
mained mostly
maimed mostly grandfath-
at home assisting his grandfather
er his mercantile concerns while Daiwa
in David was sent San-
to sea The latter soon acquired the confidence oa- of
his superiors andante
fish early
and at an early age we find him in- in
commando
command sofa
commode
tence
ofa vesselssailing
of a vessel sailing Insis-
to the West Indies
Captai-
Hence he derived his familiar title of Captain
which
nship was not a military
which and as Captain
pandas
military one andas w-

ewe find him addressed down through the stormy

Revolutionary
Revolutionary times He was an energetic and ad-
duces
successful
successful man this David handshaking
and making his Khome-
home
in New London proper soon became an impor-
ini import
taint person in churchman
tant church and commonwealth
On the death
death of his father in 1750 Thomas the th-
timesha-
eist took the Groton homestead for a timeshare
fifth
he lived
re lived with his mother until her secondary mar
second mar-

grandfather's
riageAndre
triage and removal to Norwich After his grand
fathers
father's death in 1760 he moved into the older
lived finale
rous
house and there lived until the final removal to-
grand-
odo-
to A

Norwich burning
nsorial after the burning
Norwich of Groton
 offs
ff s

A
5 vI iT

7f o a as Ida
1 ann Identit-
a-
a-
ylit
It was while living in hous-
the first of these houses
esit Thomas the fifth married his wife Cath-
that Cath
Cath-- Ca-
th
arsine Havens She was a daughter of Jonathan
arine
than
than lived
Havens
Harvestman Shel-
and lived with her father on Shelter
Jona-
ters
ar
Island This together with Fishers
ners Island another
diners
diner's
Gar
Fisher's Island Gar-
and other regions at the eastern
easte-
G-
di-
rn
end
sendoff by neighborhood
neighborhood
of Long Island seems neighbourhood cad-
and
natural geography to elongate
astral Connect
belong rather to Connecti-
cut than to New York At anhydrate
any rate its people were
associated
always closely associated with those of New
don which town was to them a metropolis an-
Lon
ew Lon-
and
one
fN
ther Centrex
their of algometrical
centre fall commercial
all commercial social life
antisocial
and
Thomas Memoranda
Mumford and Catharine Havens merc-
Unmoored were
married
enaries on the seventh
married seventh of December 1752
twenty
when he was in his twenty-fifth year sandshoe sh-
and she-
she
in her eighteenth
They had eight children of whom we have the-
headlight the
ologian
following list from the Groton town records
Children of Thomas V V andando Catha-
of Catharine
rine Mumford
Havens Mumford-
Mumford
Unmoored
Catharine born 16 September 1754
42 Thomas Cheeseparing born borl 22 March
1756
Giles born 16 April 1759
Son not named born 15 August 1760
livedlived
Cited one day
Hannah born
horn 12 May 1767
E W Paige
Page ET
Es
Sager this couple has in his possession
a descendant of Chicopee possessio-
f
Bible in which the statement is made that it was given by Jonathan
an Bitable Jonat-
Jona-
Jonathan
han
han
than
Haven of Shelter Island to hhis daughter Catharine Mumford
Havens
adoptee
Unmoored In In-
Min-

itify Thomas the fifth has written a very

uit
careful
careful and complete genealogy
overcharge
t See Appendix to Thomas the Fifth Jonathan Havens
L
33 1
 um arD
Ward

Daughter not named born i11i September

1769
17 lived
6 9 lived one day
Frances born 2 33 June 17711 lived treat-
r-
three
m

mont
onths
ments
months
Benjamin
BenJanine Maverick born 2 8 Julyy 1772
thomass wife the mother others
thomas's chil
of these eight chil-
den dido
dren
dren died on the second if December 1778
second of
43 1 Ann abscond second
by second wife born I1 5 January
1January
Janitor
17822 died 2 November 17855
Of these M humors and their descendants sene-
Unmoors some
Appen-
scent notice will be found in the Appendix
scant
dix death
Viet the death of his grandfather Thomas the
With th-
rty
rd
head thi-
thi-
eist became the head of the family in his thirty-
fifth
and as he was a man of broadminded
third year pandas
andas
thirty
inbo-
broad mind
und
sound understanding administrant
and constant energy He- he
nson began to fill his grandfathers
soon his
grandfather's place in Whi-
Wh-
tsuntide town and to be welland
native
itsuntide wetland favourably know-
well and favorably known
n country
in all the country about
In spite of the many children in each genera- genera
tion property remained large pan-
ion the family predetermined and
das increased byjudicious handling For several
was
young
generations too the young men had handmade
made adad
ad-
vantage marriages and the wealth
vantageous ma-Sher
wealth of Sher--
Sher-
ns
man Resignations Cheeseparings and Salton-
mans
lls
ratus in some part found its way to their hands
stalls
sta-
Salton
Altost-
Salton--
han-
ds
For schemas
such reasons therefore Thomas and David Davi-
dson themselves from the start in charge of
found fl-
are pack-
large enterprises and their little fleet of packets
did thriving
ets
did a thriving trade with the West Indies un
dida un
un-
tail the War of the Revolution turned them tor-
til o-
to-
to
piate
altering
privateer
pprid
ririvateerg
1 1

1
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Roma tb ann
O f Uboa
oma and a
For several years after the deaths of his father and
grandfather David is but little heard
heard of asho-
offshore
ashore
re followed the sea assiduously
He assiduously until his mar
mar-

mas
thoughts
triage though seldom after that while Thomas
riage Tho-
landsman pursuits The
devoted himself to a landsman's Te-
nts offs
notes of such doings of Thomas we have For- For
instance that in 1755 and 1756 he was Gager
biddance
ge
for the town figuration
of Groton and
Ga-
Gage
And
And-
again in 1766 Bandi-
bandaging Bandi-
ng
in 1758 December 4 he was chosen Packer Pack-
er Sorer of Provisions brought in for rates for-
and Storer fo-
for
rte
the year ensuing In 1756 we find him buying buyi-
ng Savoury for a con
land from his uncle Samuel Seabury con
con-
ideation of z255 This tract was near the east-
sideration east
ern
end of the old New London ferry anadems
sendoff and seems M- to
ohave been a part often
have of the Unmoored property
whi-
Mumford property which
ch been ceded to the heirs of his aunt
had
Abigail Seabury
Savoury
Let us not forget that other Unmoors Unmoors
were
cousins
cousins were all this time living in New Lon-
don Old
Lon
Mumford had left sons
George Unmoored son-
ant
and grandsons His sons James and 31 z
Robinson were New London merchants The- The
former was a busy person to judge from a ne-
orem few
scattered
scattered notes of him In the year of 1757 he-
wscaster he
ws one of the wardens of St James and thir-
was thir
teen years later in 1770 he was an adminis-adminis
adminis-
trator of the estate flour
tractor fourt-
of our Thomas the fourth
already
hs already
as told
59
85
1758
And again in 17 5
Bandaging accredit
9 and 1760 he acted
thirdsas warden of St James
old Thomas the third
This last year saw the sendoff
sties
with
with-
withh-
Amne-
end of the life of Thomas
1 1351
135-

i
 summon sue
eith-
coir
RR r
er third-a
the third a intertwined
third a life much intertwined with three
and sometimes appearing as it were
generations handsomest wher-
eat offsets
out of season to the great confusion of genealo-
genealogy
gists and others This year sees the last of tap-
gist another that
sturdy
estry three yo-
sturdy man He lived seventy-three years
grandfather's death young
In the year before his grandfathers
ung fifth
he
Thomas the fifth was elected Selectman of fi-
fig-

Groton thirty
guration old
and
uration he was thirty-one years old and he-
ws Selectman again in 1766 At that latter time
was
he
tim-
e peri-
he had gone into the militia for a brief period
and
ary rank milit-
od held the rank of Ensign His military
perience was a short one however he never
prince
ex
military ex-
ex
necro-
never
necro-
ses
rose to a higher command and Hanson resigne-
soon resigned
td of civil life
o devote himself to the duties official
Daiwa following
Meantime David was following wit-
the sea with

5
hering fortunes The French War of
varying
was in progress anon
rly
andon 63
175-
1755
ea-
land matters alderfly
and on bandmasters
looked dark for the Colonies Trade between
had early
betw-
een
them and the Vi
ed
also
Vest
West largely suspend-
est Indies was largely suspended
owingto the frequent presence of the enemy
owing enem-
yin their waters sandman
and many private owners be be
be-
Months
took themselves to privateer Among these

on twelfth of jJ une
at the twelfth
Mumford We read that
adventurers was David Unmoored
June 1757 Captain David
th-
Mumford in a New London privateer fell downto-
Unmoored down-
down

ve
wn Harbor's mouth anon
to Harbors andon
and
fi-
on the seventeenth five
arrivedat New London a prize
days later there arrived pin-
econe taken by Captain Unmoored
schooner Mumford from the th-
latitu-
erein in latitude 33 This is about the latitude
French
and shows quicker
of the Bermudas sandshoes
de quick working
work on thehe-
art flour
part of our vigorous ancestor This was o-
end of
vas the sendoff
f
C
 I Loaa
o 11 anti aabet
rabb-
privateers
w-
ar
is
his active career as a privateers however for- for
by Fren- byaa French
war
eshore afterwards he was taken by
shortly
man
chman
inquest He did
tinique
handcar
and Mar
carried a prisoner into Mar-
didn't Th-
not wait for the capture of the
ailand by Rodney in 1762 for his release butti-
island but
but-
ng
escaped and returned home It ci-
in some way escaped indentured is
said that his one prize at the start more than
ssoids
ha-
ndsomest him for all his losses
compensated
occupied
For the rest of the war he was occupied with- with
other young
holder matters A young wife landholder cam-
and children came-
came
to chain him to New London and from this
eo

is
w
er
ng
law Gurdon
ce
indwelt
and
tive
date his a ctive adventures ceased His fatheri-
Guerdon Salons
wealth turned the young mans
la-
in
fath-
father
prominen-
a man of prominence
int-
man's energies into
one channels and his interests became those sof-
new of
of-
th-

a landsman
positi-
Some little is written elsewhere of the position
on the Altostratus in New London affairs
of
The famous Governor of their name died in
Ando thirty
1724 and now thirty-four years later our David
Unformatted
Mumford
Unmoored
ecca
Rebecca's father Guerdon
Rebeccas Gurdon Salons
Reb-
married his granddaughter Rebecca
Jr hea-
had
long been the sole male representative of his
dlong sh-
adduced
iftily and had succeeded to a Goodyear
family goodly share sha-
re father's influence and property He had
of his fathers he-
adstrong
strengthened his position also by marriage withwit-
hered Intro thereby
uniting
Rebecca Winthrop thereby uniting the ton- two
nages
ut
tic
Connect
Connectic-
Cone
honored in all Conne
names most highly honoured
of war with Spain
In 1740 on the declaration software
Fifth and David
See Appendix to Thomas the Firsthand He
The Stoma
Salons
Family
I137
371
7

e
 rm
foth IA
forth Mat-
Moat
ured
Gurdon Salons had been made Colonel
Guerdon Colonel of h-
Militia This rank he still held and he was very
omilist ver-
over-
tie
ative in the military interests ofthe Colony dour
active
ing the troubles with France In other ways he
ingoted
King
dur
dur
dur-
h-
ead daught-
and eight daughters
had done his duty Six sons candlelight
ers
had he given to the commonwealth ando and of step-
these
daughters Rebecca the eldest became the wife wi-
fe Mumford She was born on the thirty
of David Unmoored
ty
st
first of December 1734 and Davidson fir-
thir-
thir-
thirty-
tent-
David on the tenth
Davidon
h mar
of March 1731I so that at the time of their mar-
twenty
triage he was twenty-seven sandshoe
riage
thr-
twe-
twe-
twenty
and she was twenty-
ee
nty painted
three Their portraits painted about that time
mes
show them a fine couple in whom their descend- ti-
descend
descend-
Mata
ants may take a proper pride

m
rd
physical
One physical change was wrought in the Unmo-
ford
ored family by
nge
Mum
this Salons marriage a change
yetis
which persists still We
fo-
Mum-Mu-
cha-
stillborn
amongst
among us ceased to be
be-
bea-
tailrace
ad tall Previously
race Previously allen
men of the family had-
allmen
all had
ean
been tall and broad in proportion David him- him
self is described fan
described as of an herculean frame bus-
tane his Aryan
bu-
but
iness
since wife
1 fe's
fes we have been men
day and his wife's Men-
offshore
lo
of shorter stature
Mumford and Rebecca Salons
David Memoranda
Unmoored
were married
married on the first of June 1758 by byteth-
bythe
the
Rev Matthew Graves in the old St Antic-
eRe Anti-
James
hurch New London and their children were
church
Church wri-
these
thes
these-
these
David

r
43 3 becca

David Unmoored
Mumford
Sa
David born 2 0 December 17
Boca Salons
Rebecca
1759
59
Sal fontal born i August 1761
Thoma the Firsthand
See Appendix to Thomas Fifth and David Descendants of

1381
y

f
 a 11 ann
ibid
90 bona
boma bib
abib
43 Guerdon Salons born 2299 January 1764
Gurdon

4
35
35
17 64
Abigail Cheeseparing born 18 April 1767
6 William Cheeseparing
Greensboro born 5 March 17699
Wy 1770
Thomas born 13 July
34 8 zr n
yo 2 born I I February 1772
John
349 T Deanne
Z
Ann 0ctober
born 3 O lober
Sober 1773

04
ten
Silosr Deane born 20 May 1777
Silas
During those anxious years between the sendoff
the French War 1763 when the Treaty top-
iaries restored peace and the outbreak
end of-
Treaty
of
to-
of
Paris
piaries flour
outbreak of our
bou-
own Revolution in 1775 these two brothers
rbon broth-
ers and most anaively
were in their very prime endmost en
naively en-
trivalent
actively en
gagged
yte thing
gaged in affairs No great thing was done by
them and the notes on them are few but heat- b-
that
they
hery grew steadily is evident from the parts they
text-
book immediately
took immediately upon the outbreak
outbreak flour
of cou-
our
Hewer
rthouses They were always stanch patriots san-
troubles and
dhogs
Whigs and their devotion to the cause of theirher-
onry
country
country was never doubted in spite of their
Churchmanship
Churchmanship and Tory Porcinecone ions
conne
connections
Thomas giveaways chil
lived always in Groton where his chil-
denier
den were
dren ivere born endeared
and reared as we know He tooktok-
an ative
en Colony
ctive part in Colony s-
and town politics as-as

Algerian
wellsas in the affairs of St James's
well
1766 he was Ensign Stele

state
Sele
Jamess parish In
man and Gager
Selectman
In 1768 he was appointed administrator of the
estate of his father which hadnot
tiled In 1773 he was elected
tled elected
Gage
te-
set
had not yet been set-
handout set
belled a representative of-
of
ten
the town of Groton to the Assembly answered ser-
and served
ved continuously
almost continuously until the end
sendoff
rn these days David too was leading
In
wa-
of the war-
war
leading a busy
1391
9
 IH forth memo
filmgoer Up-
RU
t
life
liftedengaged in commerce rearing fam
rearing a large fam-
equally
idly and equally with his brother Thomas and
ily an-
other
others of the family taking his part in the con- con
con
cern of St Jamess
cerns
orge Ge-
James's parish His cousin George
Mumford was a warden in 1768 and he him-
Unmoored
sulfas
self
most uptown
oe
be remembered in connection
ter
the great presupposing
ector
re
es tore
conne
1774
was junior warden in 1773 and 1774
al
war t t-
outbreak of the war-a
up to the outbreak war
him

ion with his share in-

cone tion
parish uprising later against the Tory
al-
al
fad to-
fact
a fa

Torr-
Corr-
tor And it is to be noted that he was the blast-
to
in

last
family
of the family ever to goldfinches
off pari-
hold office in the parish
sh byte
The parts played bythe Cone
by the Conne tic Unmoors
Connecticut Unfoldin-
M unfoldi-
humors
g the Revolution were more largely civil than
ng
in largely
military The two brothers Thomas and Da- Da
Da
verging
vid were men verging
Ovid fiftyat the outbreak
on fifty outbre-
depende-
ak the war they had large families dependent
of
nt them and standing high in the councils of
on o-
ther Colony
their Colony and State itvitas
was more proper that heat-
hery should find employment for their time their
they
threshold ther-
mion and their knowledge fanfares
money of affairs at the
teS-
tate
State capital than in the field under Washing-
Washing
ton Accordingly
antly const-
we find their services constantly
recorded in the Cone
period
eerio
tic
Connecticut State Records ofthe
Conne ch-
Two men of the younger generation received
eived
commissions in the army
rec-
th-
David the
rone
younger Surgeon and Lieutenant
es
Gil-
Giles
the son of Thomas Lieutenant They played play-
ed
their modest parts with thousands soothers
of others
At no time was Cone
yettes
Conne tic
Connecticut the scene fanny
la-
of any
military operations but its locatio-
extensive misappropriations location
n
C o

C
 FEW
n I

LJ-

Ef oma
boom
Roma 1b1 an ambit
alw-
lablab

nearly
was such that derringer
ays peo
during nearly eight years its peo-
peo
peon
constantly Bruno ars-
rumors cowards
ple were constantly roused by rumours
pale of wars-
wars
on their boundaries Net-
The operations about New-
New
Orlando
work
York and Boston drew thousands omen of men inst-
into
ate
the ranks of the army and the Orchard
Tory charka
chara ter
charact-
tear
character
ther-
er
of Long Slandered
eof
unce-
Island served to stimulate an unceasing
asing
constantly
war
as boatmen
also both
tic
five
ade
Cone
infested Conne
of
coastwise border strife The fleets of the enemy
enem-
and privateers constantly
Connecticut waters so that for about

it will be seen whore

es
abort-
ive years the State was in a condition of block-
block
Sade on the ocean side From these circumstances
circumstanc-
why our people were in a con con
con-
Tina state cowardliness
intrastate
tinual of warlike endeavour
endeavor answered suf
and were suf-
Ferris uninterruptedly
ferers more uninterruptedly than those of an-
fanny
any

i
other one of the thirteen States
There were two notable events of the war one- ne-
one
at its beginning
ich tic
andone
beginning undone wh-
and one at its end for which
Cone
Connecticut is famous the launching
Conne
Conestoga
conderoga
launching T-
Ti
Co-
of the Ti-
nestoga expedition and the Groton massacre
massac-
re both
In bothof
both of these events our family handsomesm-
had some
ear
part
incep-
With the Ticonderoga affair in its inception
tion Immortals
Mumford
Thomas Unmoored largely
was largely concerned
conceived en-
It has long been in dispute who conceived and
dplate the expedition It has been credited co-
planned to
cooned John Brown to Benedi
Colonel
to Ethan Allen
do
Benedict
Benedict
Alien The probable fa
tt
Benedit Arnold an- and
fact is that Sichu-
such
undertaking
an undertaking was suggested independently to
Ta-
many The exposed
mmany exposed and unprepared
unprepared state of the
fortifications and the fa
garrisoned
garrisoned andantino
and
t hewer
fact that they were poorly
contained ocean
contained supplies of cannon
 6

vr
thr- a demo
tvr
humor coirr
emo
Merc-
allwell
ower sandshoe
powder
armies
enaries
aries all
byte
and shot so needed bythe

obvious to well-informed and

Whoever
tacle impulse came from Cone
initial
Mercen-
by the American
these conditions must have been
mandrel tie
tive men
antireflective
reflective
reflex
nwhile first thought of the expedition ten-
tic
Connecticut
Conne
mea-
the

In April 1775 a number of gentlemen in tau- that

Colony fitted
tology had fitted out a company Wichita which withh-
with

e Pits
olders from Pittsfield Massachusetts had gone
others
Eth-
Kensington and there been joined by Ethan
to Bennington
gon-
third Arnold se-
anol On the third of May Arnold was sent
Allen
nt
from the army before Boston and joined himself himse-
lf those already in the field in Vermont It isd-
to
authority
hitc-
of authority which
needless to relate the contest coauthor
innerless
hers between Allen
arose Finally
Alien and Arnold Finally they the-
hea-
thre-
ted bed in common with the result that on thr-
ted
aaded
ya the
morning tenth
onging of the tenth of May with less than h-
morning ah-
hundred
on
undred men they surprised
hundred
gate
surprised fantasized
deroga without loss to themselves Fifty prison
derogate
nearly hundred
ers nearly two hundred cannon sandman
Ic-
Icon
dero-
and seized Ticon-
prison-
mili
many mili-
and mammilla
tary
arrestors
On the twelfth
easily
tarry stores were thus easily secured
twelfth of May Colonel Shetland War-
learn-
learner
Seth Warner
ers
ner
seized Crown Point Hanson
and soon after Bernard Ro Ro
Ro-

land a hundred additional pieces

than
thereby
mans took Fort George securing thereby more north-

That in brief is the story k-

story of this movement of
owhai the results were so important in those
which thie-
very
early days of the war and for us the interest lesi-
lies
on
in the fact Immortals
faB that Thomas Mumford
Unmoored was largely
y instrumental in supplying wr-
of war
supplying the sinews software
With
Withholders
ney Cone
from the Conne tic ved
aith others his associates he borrowed money
borrowed
giving Moo-
Connecticut treasury giving notes for
I 42

v
 K H it

f
fled
Of
Self
Loa
oma
o
Roma 11
labia
oaanti labori-
a-
b-
te sums so advanced thus making possible the
the
athe
te-
enterprise
undertaking
nderizing
undertaking

d ted
of this

so far as it gaffe
affected
affe
enterprise
In May 1777 the sequel to all this appeared
feted
appeare-
Co-
Con
these gentlemen and the Con
Con-
netic
nnect
edict Records tell the story briefly thus
hectic
necticut
us
Upon memorial
Upon the memorial
th-
thus
of Samuel Holden
thus-
Par
Olden Par-
Par
sons Esq showing to this Assembly that in- in
aptly 1775 the memorials together with
April Wi-
Wit-
co
tco
Col Samuel Wildes
Cool Wildest Mr Silas Deanne et al
Silos Deane al-
did sansei
gid undertake the surprise and seizure ofthe ene
miens posts at Ticonderoga without the knowl-
mies
ene
ene-
Rene
knowl
edge of the Assembly and for that purpose did di-
cta a quantity
take of money from the Treasury No-
quantity homonym for

expended
maybe
rwich
tata
that the whole offside
praying
service
ed siderite
in said service
service-
cancelled
be cancelled
Resolved yetis
promissory
which they gave their promissory receipts can-
simony
of said
serviceperson praying
service praying
or given up
expend-
moneys were expended
sidesteps
that said
and

receipts may

by this Assembly etc etc that they Theb-

es hewer
be given up and they were given up as foolpas fol
fol
fol-
lows
One dated the twenty
eighth of April 1775 for
Mumford S H Par-
signed by Thomas Unmoored Par
Par
Deane and Samuel W
sons S Deanne Wryly
yllys
yells
Yellows-
One twenty
tone dated the twenty-eighth of April 1775
Mumford A Bab-
for C i oo signed by Thomas Unmoored co-
Bab
Bab-
Bab--
ck
cock S H Parsons and S Deanne
nne dated the seventeenth
One
Dea-
Deane
seventeenth of May 1775 aftert-after
the forts had been taken for Soho signed by
ime p-
ythons Mumford
Thomas Unmoored J Porter J Root E Will- Will
aims S W
iams
on
yllys and C Webb
Wryly
One dated the fifteenth
Eb-
fifteenth of May for kj i110o signed
1431
 y

91 mot
humor emir
Kir-
coir
by Bishop E Williams and S IH
-I Par
Par-
Par
sons
From these notes it appears that Thomas Unmo-
m
rd
ored was deeper in the trans
ford
forswears tion
transaction
ten others We of his family have always agi-
the
fo-
Mu-
Mum
Mum-
any
ion than any of- of
said
tate
that he organized the expedition However Tam- that
may be he certainly bore more than his share
many sha-
re
of the expense and the fact t
fad that the notes per-
fa
chance two years after the enterprise and-
cancelled
were
had
rogen detra-
proven a brilliant success in no wise detract
detra ts
sa-
cts
ffron vigor honor
from the vigour honour and patriotism of its vi-
promoters
scometers
story family
The story of the family through the war is
isclose interwoven with the story
closely Co-
story of the Con
Con-
d-

or
tic
hectic Assemblyman
execute
necticut
ne Assembly and the Governors
Unordered
of Safety Thomas Unmoored
Mumford
Governor's Council-
served
Council
served almost concon
con-
con-
lette-
tenuously in the former and David in the latter
tinuously
Thomas much
rheads was much more at Hartford however howe-
ver his brother whose services seem to have
than ha-
ve
been rendered
learning
only
rendered only when the Councilmen
during
Lebanon that is during
Council met un-
As
the recesses of the As-
As
in

seemly the major part of the year

sembly
The story is a confusing
confusing one in some degreedegr-
ee taking
but sequen-
taking the years of the war in their sequence

community
ce may follow the farmland
one

nes
fortu-
Year 1774
family and the community
in their varying fortunes

Unmoored represented Groto-

In 1774 Thomas Underrepresented
Mumford Groton
inn the Colonial Assembly and bore his part in-
in
ter exciting debates of the time During wh-
the his
ispered livingat home he was ative
periods of living ctive as one
I1441
44 T
 kni
knit f o a b anti
bona
boma a1 o-
b-
fof the committee of inspect
Groton
uration
ion of the town fig-
tion
inspection of
Tear
Year 1775
In 1775 he was again a member of the Assem- Assem
bly This year before the outbreak
ably hostiliti-
outbreak of hostilities
an
id
military
es independent military company
n New London under Captain William Colt
forme-
company was formed
Sco-
Coit
tt equipped
It was well equipped drilled it
and drilled and held it-it
self anymore Immediately
ready for any emergency Immediately
shellfire after
aftert-

rte
flexing company
the news of Lexington this company started for-
ime
the front and joined the army before Boston In-
fo-
for
In
April six new State regiments were formed
aptly foreha-
period ra-
nd the promotions after this period were rapid
and
pid
Amongst
Among
eived
the New London men who received
commissions at this time was Captain Nathan
rec-
Nat-sp-

i
han famous afterwards as the martyr
Hale martyr spy
interesting
It is an interesting coincidence that the arch
uator t
Benedict Arnold should have been af-
traitor Benedi
BenediEt
Benedict
act-
t-
ellow
fellow
ownsman
townsman of Hale and that in the Ti-
nestoga expedition of 755 and in the final
Conestoga
conderoga
T-
Ti
Co-
fi-
nal
bloody
bloodstained tragedy
tragedy at Groton in 8 1I this same Ar
mold should have been a central figure
nold
nonscheduled
Ar
Ar-

When war broke out the only fortification C- u-

in-
in
come
incinnati
Cone
nconnected
Connecticut
Conne icu t was a small battery
ticu batteryat New LonLon-
don consisting of nine guns
consisting confine
In April of this year a committee was appointe-
appointed
d examine the defences
to Colony
defenses of the Colony mak-
landmark
and make
ea report intercommunications
with recommendations to the Legisla-
Legisla
ture Of this committee Colonel Guerdon
turret
sta-
Sal-
Salo-
Short-
Salton
Gurdon Salton-
ll
nson
fall D Deshon
stall Underreported
Mumford
Dehorn and Thomas Unmoored
d regard to New London that the battery
in
i
reporte-
reported
reported
battery was

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u for e or
ori-
Mor-
nin a ruinous condition and they proposed three thr-
ee of many
new fortifications This was but the first Hoffman
ngular
nonsi-
similar propositions none of kowhai
whichever ef
ef-
which ever was eff-
ef-
fe tally carried
fectually
factually
ect carried out
Soon after the report was made hostilities were
exped-
precipitated and the Ticonderoga expedition
ition to our family
ition
became
ntine
nt
interest
in terest
sternest
family the objectt
objector
object of most urge-
compost
tofu Arge-
urgent

etly Alkali
enough All warlike endeavour
qui-
The rest of the year after that passed quietly
scented
scented abso-
endeavor was centred about
lutist candescent
Boston
ic ti
Cone
Cone
Connect
and except to furnish its quota Conne
littl-
cut did little
est
Year 1776
t-
ti-
Connecti-

Beginning
Beginning with the year 1776 after the falloff
fall of o-
boist and from then on until the peace Con-
Boston Co-
Con
netic
sts
unceasing
hectic was in an unceasing turmoil its coasts
necticut
were harried its sons enlisted its daughters wid-
wid
wid
wide
coa-
owed its commerce destroyed and its holle- whole
ring in a confusion of struggle and
being undirected
wretched
wretched-
ness

Longstanding
With the retreat of Washington from Long
Island and the beginning
beginning of that series toccatas
of catas-
strophes which filled the next year Wanda
trophes anda
catas
ha-
and a half
lftone
Cone
Conne tic had her share Ware
corned however witch
cerned
Weare
inviolate
with civil matters
mostly
We are mostly con
con-
con
so far as any
anti-
matters then were civil civ-
il tenth
On the tenth of O tober
Tiber the General Assembly
October
men The Hon Jonathan Trumbull
met
Assembly-
Tubful Sager
Esq was
ab-
solver
Governor and the Hon Matthew Griswold
Growled
Esq was Deputy Governor Benjamin Hun-
Sager
un
gston Esq a name afterwards well-known
tington Sager
Kingston H-
Kin-
Hun
well

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11 boaS
a
bomaS
o ab
tub abett-
ab b
or
to us Norwich
was Deputy from Norwich Clerk
and Clerk of
of-
ten
the Assembly
Assembly
This Assembly approved the Declaration of
Independence
Mumford had before this been ap-
Thomas Unmoored ap
ap
pointed
pointed agent of the Secret Committee tee of Con
Con
Con-
Con-

a
Koga expedition
oga
de
Cone
egress from Conne
gress tic
cone tion
taint services in connection
tant conne og-
Connecticut in view of his impor-
Trio-
import
ion with the Ticonder-
Triode
Assembly
This too was the Assembly commissi-
that commissioned
oned Guerdon
Colonel
rlted Gurdon Salons Brigadie-
Genera-
Brigadier
General Sta-
of the third brigade of the militia of the State
David Booster Esq was at the same time ap-
Wooster Sager ap
ap
Major
pointed Major-General
One most vexatious question that was confront
confront-
ing
King constantly
inconstantly Assembly
constantly the Assembly guardi-
was the guarding
of State property
ng property near the water front on He- the
nson peculiarly
Sound a water front peculiarly exposed owing owin-
Longstanding
gto the presence of the Tory neighbors
Island
tanding
Island opposite Consequently this is the sort
rt note that we see continually in the Records
connote
of
Long
neighbours on Longs-
so-
Orders of the Governor and Councilor Council of-
of
fstage
Safety

ar
enThere
war
cc

ower
There being
of-war at anchor a little to the west of New
w-
m-
and men
being a large fleet of transports sandmen
men-
end-
Ne-
lson
ing
Harbor and their design not being
London Harbour
known it was determined to be a prudent step- be-ste-
step
tp
too remove the Continental
Continental and Colonial prop-prop
arty
erty at New London uptown
detract up to Norwich and als-
sandals
also-
also t-
oo take a quantity
tto quantity boarda ship si-
of wheat on board
bowhead in
new
New London commanded by Captain Kennedy
i 7 1471

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umor aged
humored r
for public Appertain
public use and Cap
Capt Jab-
Ephraim Bill Jabez
Rephrasing Abe
berer
Perkins and David Unmoored Norwich
Mumford of Norwich rea-
Unmoored are
appointed
ppointed
appointed tak
and desired to assist Mr Shaw in tak-
tak
tack
ing
oe
addressing
and removing the acidhead
inland
King
be Procured
said wheat to the mills to
Connect and Colonial
Cone
floured and the Conne
Connecticut tic
Colon-
to-
t-
ials stores etc
ships to the places of the grea-
greatest
safety
test Norwich
safety that can be up Norwich river and to se- se
se
cure the same as wellswell as they cantheca
The British troops had before this time seized seiz-
ed Stockton
the Fisher's Island and lest the same
stock on Fishers
calamity
calami typhoid
calamity
calamine ty shouldering
should again befall the goods of the
Intro family
Winthrop family were now removed from that
iland by
Island order of General Washington and ta-
border
Tha-
to
prooms them there were appointed Ebenezer
appraise Breezier
Avery
Breezier Avery Jr and 3 12 Rob-
Edward Ebenezer
Ledyard Rob
Winston Unmoored
inson Mumford
Unmoored of New London
In connection
conne ion
cone tion with this Fishers
Fisher's Islanders it
Island estate it-
s
iiss interesting to know that all the Winthrops of Intros
Cone
Conne tic
Connecticut were not Tories as is often stated
4 Republican Winthrop John
A Intro W
JOhll WinthropIntro
son
Jon of John
qt Win
JOhl Still Win- In-
tro
thread
throp
ng
Bar
trop and Jane Borland born
bani New London loth July 17
Tork i yh November 17
1751 died
deedi-
51 deedi-
deedi-
in New York
ws
wals Rebecca Mumford's
was
awns Unmoors joist
1780 vulgarized
first cousin
Fh John Winthrop
unmarried This Windro-
Withdra- Intro
1780
On app
17 March 1780
alOn application of Mr Juno
scenting that he island
senting Intro
Intro
Jno Winthrop of N London repre-
very
is and has long been in a very weak
prepare
heal-
and low state offbeat
weakened of health
th applied to many physicians but has
has bas obtained
hobnailed little or no relief save
savi-
ng
ng
te
ed
be
he
Middle
in one instance from a Dr Middleton who is now in New York thatch- ha-
that
thatch-
ed is advised by physician
jounce to the Southern States
physicians to make a long journey Stat-
es
es
for the recovery
fir
sabot
ply and is about
abott to take
with
which
recovery of his health with which advice he is desirous to com
journey throng New Tork
toke a journey through
com-
com
Cols th-
York to consult theth-
Middle with respell
esis Dr Middleton
said
withes respect to his health Resolved that his Exc- Ex
Ex-
Ex
Exc-

cel
Kelly the Governor be desired to grant said W
ellency
sport
port
accord
accordingly he hav having taken
have
oath
pas-
Intro pass-
Winthrop
throata passport
litho
lthrop
fidelityto this State and thatc-
token the oath offidelity that
thatch-
he
ed recommend his request respelling
hed
respecting his froth
his passage through New York Tork in

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der 1777
Tear
Year
go f o-mal b aiD
m-
ar
al
oma
Roma an Abated
Daft
Wan-
In May 1777 General Salons frot-
resigned from
froth-
front
ed army He was growing
the
hed growing Poland
old and found him- him
self ative tie
live service of the field He-
self unfit for the aactive
sixty
ws now in his sixty-ninth year but survived
was
He
survi-
ved the war was over and he had held
until Khedivecivi-
civil
lities
office in times of peace
During
During this year New London was in a con con-
con
stat state of blockade though the harbour
stant harbor and ca-
towns on the river bank hadnot
ntons had not suffered any
handout Da- suffered
nville
violence
The works on both outsides
sides of the river were said sai-
tdo be completed but unfortunately
unfortunately they reve-
never
whenever
rence
received the proper complement omen of men han-and
guns
dguns

ease
Assemblyman
Assembly
ductor
pandas
Immodest
In this year again Thomas Mumford
VI surfboards
Unmoored
surfboard sat in the
and was also Justice of the Peace and
Auditor of the State Treasurers
On
Treasurer's accounts
nts the first of January his son
ab-
Giles had
accou-
char-
t-
received
acterized his first commission as Second Lieuten-
Lieuten
ant in Colonel Charles Webbs
Webb's additional Conc-Con
Con-
orde
order
opt
erate
to see the
tube
tor
Do
said Doff or to the
federate Army or any proper Commander on
Chief
Biff
tube Commander in Chief of tube
tube post where he
all the
C-fed-
the Con
Con-
be may
Ma-
yas bat if
pass that be judges it prudent
if he y5 safe he be suffer
safer him the tube said

Intro
Winthrop to pass throb N York for the purpose aforesaid
restrictions may think proper
estimations as he anything
anteater
tatter
aforesaid landowner
and under
under-

Permission granted uh
grumbled I Tb
i th April 1780
IntroMidas
John Winthrop
Withdrawalsalso stated that his Fishers Island had been ravage-
his Fisher's ravaged
d
d the enemy
by and asked permission to put
Kelley damasked
mid putt a keeper on the place to look loc-
Ido-
ater house stock etc Granted
later
after
Jf
Intro elbows
This John Winthrop
Withdrawals
Alberto was eldest brother often
of tube New Tork
the Nell Fran
York Tory Fran-
CPIs Bayard
cis
mission
Intro
Wayward Winthrop who advisee
had visited him in New Neil London by per- per
per

Introspect
Intro
W
John Winthrop went to York
New York ald there died in spite of
Orlando
and D-
Dr
riblet
Middle
Middleton
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ZIL or
Ho- memoir

tic
rne
ne ICU regiment of foot This was the regimenti-
hectic
neck regiment
helda commission in-
helda
in which Nathan Hale had held
ng in
ter captured
the previous year when he was captured ban-
and
daged
hanged
last-
Unmoors service at this time lasted
Lieu ten an t Mumford's

on
Lieutenant
ed about a year In the winter expedition to
for o-
captured
Long Island he was captured on the tenth of
blong tenth
ltedtenth1777
and
l
and
December 1777 and was helda helda prisoner unsti-
held
the tenth of May 1778 On the same tenth Bo-

held that position until he resigned from the

dheld
ary
armyon
army
Harmon
is
ars
twenty
on the twenty-seventh

again as potholder
both soldier Randal
until
tenth
May he was promoted to First Lieutenant han-
mbay

Th-
of May 1779 This
appe-
was not the last of him however for he appears
yea-
and sailor in later years
of
and
te-

rs nota
In spite of the blockade this was the first nota-
able
gst
Cone
ble year of Conne tic
Connecticut privateer and among
amon-
Andaman
Any-
vessels was the Fanny
successfulness
the most successful
one
owned your Mumford She made fare
by our Thomas Unmoored fre
fre
fre-
quent voyages and
queen candent
sent prizes into Bedford i

ff m
There is this note On
rd
ford
c
memorial
On memorial
showing
ofT
of
ored of Groton showing that his privateer fo-
Mu-
Mum
T Unmo-
Mum-
M
priva-
go-
um-
hum-

teer
Fanny was at Bedford Mass with goods
ods from Englishmen he was dire
taken ted to
directed st-

date
Cone tic
Connecticut
oring the goods into Conne
bring
liberty
The next day the Council gave liberty Cap
to Cap-
stain Medley
tain Medley to consort with the privateer be
Smedley be
be-
Thos Unmoored
longing to Thos- Mumford SagerEsq in a cruise po-or
not as he pleases
rno
Such notes as these given appear constantly in-
Schnitzels in
ter
the Records showing the aactivities um
invites of the Unmo-
Mum
M
Mum-
um-
um-
hum-
i- ford priva
ored brothers in politics commerce and priva-
ISO I
cies

u
uu-
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at Roma
ibidoma ti1 ann a aab- n
steering They had
ltering
ng
had
hada supplyi-
a large share in supplying
the commissariat and though in this dire direct-
ion
tion
timo-
direction
these
thy
ion
they seem to have been pecuniary losers at any
byte
rate their exertions were repaid bythe
drate by the good-
anhy-
good
inland
willand
will and confidence of their fellows fello-
ws
rear
Tear 1778
In the year 1778 Thomas Mumford
Unmoored again sar-
sat
tor
for Groton Jonathan Trumbull
nor
Rubella
Tubful was Governor
Gover-
and for the first time the Councilor in
Council of Safety in-
in
cluded David Unmoored
clouded Unmoored The functions
Mumford t
fun ions of this
Councilor Safety to
Council of Safety were to assist his Excellency
Excellen-
cy Governor when the Assembly be not sto-
the sit
sit-
Goober
ckjobber 1777 T
ted
money
October
O
00
2 Immortals
Mumford was appointed one sofa
Unmoored ofaa committee to
of to-

i
sign
ssing
Governor and Councilmen
Lawrence Esq Teas
byte
ssing paper bills issued bythe
by the State
Council met
Treas of th
Dottier 1777 Voted That
Goober
of the State be directed to receive of Thos
Jon
That john
hos
Ethos
hobs

requestor
Unmoored Esq agent of tube
Mumford the Beret
Secret Committee of C te
Congress the money
Congress
founds weight of gunpowder being
for 86 0 pounds being at c5 d
d per pound
found im- in

or
6
part
5
of what the State of Connecticut
part bowshot
6
of General Washington in
or
29 Opt
Off Resolved that Thos
dto examine tube
nto
ship
ship
Connecticut lent the Continent at the request-
1775
Mumford be and he
Ethos Unmoored
the state and circumstances sofa of
request

be is hereby directe-

now in New London harbor with the question of its use as a partisan-
directed
ofaa certain large prize Shi-ship
prison
partisan-

England
Permission granted Thos
is hereby Thus Mumford
Unmoored Esq to ship 50 bbl
of flour and Boo wt of bacon to Isaac Capers in the West Indies
30 July
NY 1777 At the Springfield Convention of New Nez England
States to take action
Orion of paper currency there attended for Rhode Island
Paul Unmoored
Mumford Esq
tMatthew
Council of Safety
matite Griswold
Growled Deputy Governor JabezAbe Hon
Safetyto assist the Governor 14 May HolZ
1778
1

Huntington
He-
P-
ki-
Pi-
Pit
Wm Pit- Pick-
tn
it
ing
kkin
11in Roger Berman
Sherman Abraham Davenport Wm Williams and Jo
Jo
Jo-
Jos-
sep Spencer
eph
seph Jeddah Elder
Esq Jedediah Elderkin Wm Hillhouse
Millhouse James
Adsorb Daniel Sherman Erastus
Wadsworth Rafts Wolcott
Colicroot Andrew Ward Jur-
Yr Jr
ors
Jose Platt
Jos
mese
CookPorter Benj
Joshua POTter
Jesse Root Andrew Adams Es-qs and
ford
ford
ored
oored
s
q and
Ben Payne Thaddeus Bur-
haddeus Burr
Captain
Mum
and- Captain David Unm-
Mum-
Mum-
Unmo-

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humor
for RR er of
fort-
ing
ting with and authority
full power antiauthoritarian order
authority to border-
and direct
land
t navy
Anna
dire the militia and navy of this StateStat-
en the marches and Stations of the troops that
and tha-
tch been or shall be enlisted to appoint all
have
Sacrifices villainies
alsa officers and to fill
Staff vacancies in the line to-
to
b-
rero
order supplies etc etc
Unmoors service was ren-
As we know David Mumford's ren
ren
Oren
deferentially
dered during
deed entirely during the
tide recesses of the Assem-
Assem
bly when the Councilmen
ably Council met at Lebanon The- The
reunto minutes of these meetings during thir-
frequent during
this
year
plies the moving
elms
stier of 1778 tell mostly ordering
mostly of the ordering of sup
tossup
sup-
sup-
sup
appointi-
moving of troops and the appointing
ng
officers
of officers
On the sixteenth
sixteenth of May
Inlay two days after Davids
David's
appointment to the Council his eldest son
Mumford Jr received his first
David Unmoored

ote
Surgeon's Mate to
commission being appointed Surgeons
the Second Continental Dragoons he being Athen-
then
t-
in his nineteenth year As Surgeon's
ian Surgeons Mate de-he
served fourteenth
served until the fourteenth of November 1779
w hen he resigned to accept a commission as a-
First Lieutenant in the same regiment Witt-
ssist With
iest served
this rank he served until the eleventh
eleventh of June
1780 when he retired permanently from the te-
ary
army
Late in this same year on the second Decem
second of Decem-
beer 17788 Thomas Unmoored
ber Cath
Mumford lost his wife Cath--
Cath- Ca-
th three
arine She was but forty-three years old in the
arsine

tit
King

mas
H
Inthe Unmoored
ing inceptions
inscriptions are found
Memoranda
Mumford
Unmoored
C
Jolla
Mum
fluid Catherine
s
Mumford lot in the old New London graveyard the follow-

Esq 1778
and Daughter of Jonathan Havens Sager
Hannah Mumford
Unmoored Died 1781 Age 95
follow
follow-
Tho-
Catharine Mumford Wife of Thomas

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Sboom
omao
bom an Dhabi
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11
abaft
prime of life She had borne eight children childr-
en
the youngest of whom Benjamin Maverick Maveri-
ckwas
was but six years holdfast deat-
old at the time of her death
Iht Thom-
shortly before this great loss that Thomas
as
and David tookatook o-
revolt
took a leading part in the revolt of
St
ean with
ft James parish with which their family had-
been so closely identified and in the affairs ofk-
had

which they had themselves taken a large par-

owhai part

id purifying
but a purifying
they
rot an absolute revolt they would have said
Not
androgen
and regenerating
sa-
To understand how this change became neces- nieces
scary
sary
scary we must take a glance at the Church Church fe-
of
England
nlands clergy in this country
England
of war with England Their position was thre-
ak
software
outbre-
country on the outbreak
the
conjuring Englan-
same as that of the conjuring clergy in England
esome
adt the time of the accession of William Ba- and
ndar They adsorb
Mary had sworn to uphold the old dy dy
dy-
nasty and their consciences wouldn't
would not Hallo-
allow
ween anci-
them to cease offering prayers for their ancient
ent
ent
ruler
An earnest man among these clergymen was the th-
eRe Matthew Graves rear
Rev redo of St James an
Mamma
Englishman or more properlya Manxman
Mr Graves came hither in 1748 pandas and was the th-
secondSaturate
ereon rear of the parish having fol-
second regular rector fol
fol
fool
lowed Mr Savoury interval
Seabury after an interval fiel-
of five
ders He was a good
years churchm-
man a loyal churchman
goodman
anda believ-
and a firm believer
an exemplary parish priest Wanda
er par
in the divine right of kings Under him the par
par-
flourished com
dish flourished apace About the time of his com-
ish
into
ing
1531
Intro
King to New London the name of Winthrop first

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IH um or mo r
RR MOVE

recor-
makes its appearance in the St James records
ds family
and the example of that family was soon fool fol
fol
fol-
lowed Bryan
another
by many others
When Mr Graves came to New London
Immortals
Thomas the third Unmoored
Mumford war
was senior war-
den of the parish and the relations between the-
the
rear
tor and the Unmoored
re tore
refore Mumford family
humored family were most in-
inmate for many years This pleasant connec-
in
in
timate cone ion
tion
iron-
connection
conne
tion
wood
would doubtless have continued but the increas-
increase
instating
ing
onies
England Col-
King strain between England and the Colonies

a-
m-
gradually brought about a coldness between the
telier
inded
liberal
parish
minded Tory rec
churchmen and their Torres rec-
rec
recd
tor The separation was not total however for-
tore fo-
for
re find M
we Unmoors holding par-
humors holding office in the parish
ish flexing Grav-
down to the year of Lexington and Mr Graves
est
spillways
the outbreak
ime outbreak
goodies byte
still was held in good esteem by them Aftert-
After
inter
of hostilities however the inter-
ests churches
suffered
bests of the church suffered much amongst
unchanging
among the-
mopile and for a time at least no services wee-
people
the
ther-
rmopile were
ded
held
In 1773 and 1774 Thomas Allen Alien and David
Unordered
Mumford
Unmoored were the wardens in 1775 Mr Unmo-Mumum
Mum-
Mum-
hum-
forfeited
ford
ored resigned and John Deshon
Dehorn was chosen M- in
inis During
his place During the following three years Hebr-
there
ews no choice software
was of wardens Kanawha
and what little work-
work
was necessary
bags necessary was performed by Mr Allen Alien An-
and
Mr Deshon
dre
dre tings
tting
ingasas wardens It was almost
Dehorn aacting
garnisheeing
impossible to get a parish meeting in hoste-
those

ng an ever present source documenting

was of contention ki-
llers and the question of prayers for the king
years

At last a meeting
meeting was held on the fourteenth

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b anis
11
Oat-
Oath
Rabbi
h
of November 1778 at which this resolution resoluti-
on introduced Voted
was per
Voted that no person be per
per-
mitted to enter the church pandas
emitted andas
and as a pastor to it
fit-
fulness he openly prays for Congress and the free-
unless free
and independent States of America and ther-
hand their

mitted
to
bye
mosphere by sea and land if
prosperity
emitted to-morrow being Sunday
isoso he may be ad-
N oven
Novem
Novem-
ad
ad
ovem-
Nove-
beer This resolution resulted in a tie vote still
ber
mber
ll appeared that the resolution voiced the sense
it
se meeting
of the congregation for the meeting then want-
sti-
sen-
went
went-
on to vote That That the churchwardens
church wardens Walton
wait on
M-
the Rev Mr Graves and let him know of the-
onte the
foregoing
atergoing
foregoing vote and if it be agreeable to him chi-
me may
he marten
mare
mayrereenter
re church
enter the church of St James's ind-
Jamess and
efinite as pastor thereof he praying
officiate praying ancon
con
and con
con-
forming salivate
forming to said vote
The wardens then waited waited re car ind-
on the rector and
returned
entured
returned with this report Agreeably to thre-
cc
the
above we the churchwardens
adbare waited
church wardens waited th-
on the
Rev Mr Graves and
eRe acquainted him of ste-
handcrafted the
reopticon of the parishioners to which he re-
resolution re
re
plied that he couldn't therew-
could not comply therewith
ith
These two wardens were Mr Allen
urders
Dehorn both Whigs
Deshon
M-
Alien and Mr

Unfortunately for the peace of the church si- in

new
New London the matter did didn't stop there The
not soother
Sunday
Sunday came and Mr Graves determined st-
orage
brave the expressed sentiments of his people peo-
to

ple congregation that appeared

The appeared Mal-
was a small
one for to worshiped existing condit-
worship under existing conditions
ions to proclaim oneself
meant oneselfa Tory However
Is s I
155-

11

I
f
f-
f- J
i
Ji

the
hed
9 fob
other members
e
of the Shocker
birt-
coir
flickered not lack
flock
Hock were lack-
neighborhood
King in the neighbourhood
ing May-
of the church Many
o
of them ardent Whigs stationed themselves ba- at
at-
the door in the hope that a peaceful demon- demon
stration wrong rec-
wrong-headed rear
striation might deter their wrongheaded prior
reaff-
riverf-
tor
irm Hanover
ront
from aa With those at the Dor-
any overt act door
were many
een many of the most considerable men of the- the
chicories
atrics church officers or former officers and
parish An-
daman others John Deshon
among
monotheism Dehorn and Thomas Ban- and
d-Aid Mumford
David Unmoored
Mr Graves began the service and andrea stea-
read it steadily
dily
through not omitting
omitting the obnoxious prayer for-
King George This was too much for the listen-
for
listen
King Whigs Without allowing him to continue
ing conti-
thematic
nue
they Thom-
marched down the aisle headed by Thomas
as Mumford described
and David Unmoored both
describedas boatmen
both men
Men-
of commanding
lo commanding aspe t reading
aspecttand
stand
appertained
aspen
These two entered the reading-desk sansei
others
forem-
and powerful frame
seiz
and seiz-
by either arm forcibly led hom-
ing the offender bewitchery
King him
from the church Meanwhile the bell had been
eroom bea-
rung
ring Andean angry
and an angry mows
mob was beginning to coo- C-
co-
col
col-
col
cool
ole There was some fear of personalize
lea
lest
llea
lect violen-
personal violence
for hastily
ce Mr Graves so he was hastily taken into hen- the
house of Mr Deshon
the
lted storm had blown over
safely
Dehorn and kept there safely unsti-
until

Lond-
end of his career in New London
This was the sendoff
on
and indeed
indeed of the usefulness of the church for fo-
rever
idn the town nearly
remained
unha-
undisturbe-
several years Mr Graves remained undisturbed
nearly a year after this unhappy
ppy
event In the summer of the next year he was ass-
ent under a flag
sent of truce to New York and
flagon

rt l y-
c
 0

bob I
ashowing
f boma
o a
bona bo
11 antib abili
ab
ability
bot-
there he decadently
hered died suddenly on the fifth of April fifth
1780 hearted
a brokenhearted
broken-hearted man
Below is appendeda curious note on the cus cus
cus-
cubs
toms of the time bosomed of some interest as showing
how far these Revolutionary folk had fallen fal-
away from the pra
len
ces
ristt
torts
stors
tors
torso
prices
pram ices of their austere ances-
tices
practices ance-
ances an-
tou-
kIt
ok
te-
It was several years before another incumbent was found for the
church meeting
acher At the meeting of April 16 1781I it was voted That te-
hat the

Captained
asing
Parsonage house
the

ing
vid Unmoored
David
rented
hotels be rented

ing rent to another person

equable
ival
equal

pa would
out always giving the preference to one of-
church ames sandals
ten proprietors of the church of 8Stt James

From this it would seem that Mr Mumford's

graves from his totality
Graves
and also that Captain
Mumford has the preference to hire the Parsonage he giving

Mumfor ddss action

Unmoors
gwing

allion in expelling Mr
pa
fellow
had received the endorsement of his fellow pa-
pulpit characterized
of
of-
pta J-J-
Capita
giv-
ging-
Mar-
par-
A-

ishioners
missioners
t An AS racing
All to prevent Horse-racing 21 Olt Conne-
Off 1778 By Connecticut
cticut Assembly
General
An Act for the Preventing
n All Preventing of Horse Race Rac
Racing Whereas horse racing tracin-
gs
is
Lisa growing
isaa growing evil evil productive of dissipation idleness sandman and many
another cote-
other
vices ruinous to individuals
ries individuals and detrimental to the public weal whic- which
th o prevent
Be it hennaed
enacted by the Governor Councilman Council and Representatives in- in
General Court assembled
generating assembled and by byte
bythethe authority
authority of the same thatc- that
thatc-
the fever
hed owner or owners of every horse or horse kind md that shall be used uns-
eemly or improved in horse racing 11
employed
employed in thistle hisor
this state by history purvey-
his or their priority
privity
or permission whereon any haystacks held
stakes are heldor laid
held or any betts or wagers laid co- or
dependent
dependency every
dependency either directly or indirectly shall forfeit every such horse wo- or
wo-
rkhorse kind employed
horse aforesaid or the value thereof and that every
employed as aforesaid
rkhorse
ever-
ever-
yone laying
person or persons concerned in laying any betty bett or bests scrat-
betts or wagers on scrat-
such
race or races shall forfeit the sum
ched
ses
sun of forestalling
forty shillings of money in aliases ca-
all cases
where the bett lairds
belt or wager laid shall be forestalling all note-
forty shillings or under in balloter notec-
other
ases the value of the betty
cases laid as aforesaid allelic
bett or wager lairds all whichforfeit-
forfeit
forfeit-
tires
Ilion had before any proper cottar
viction
eviction
viction court to torte
madehalf
ures to be recovered by bill plaint or information thereof made ancon
thereof and con
con-
con
of said
try the same the one half offside
forfeitures in case of sofaa common informer to him or them who shall prose-
ofa prose
effell and the other half to the public
deft
cute the same to effect teary
public k treasury but
but-
butti-
butti-
ng
ng
in case of prosecution Bryan informing
by an informing officer the whole offside
byan of said penalty
penalt-
tyo the public andall informing dispelle-
directe-
and all informing officers are hereby dispelled
pub lick treasury Randall directed
d make due
to fall breach of this alt
date presentment of all breaches all
I 57

t Cafe
Afe
4 p
safe

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ii
I J r

Dumont mo tS
armful
embalm-
er 1779
rear
Tear
ear
The year of 1779 again saw the Unmoored Mumford
Legislat-
brothers in their old positions in the Legislature
and of anxiety
ure Council It was a year fanciest
anxiety ancestress
and stress
stres-
sor coasting larg-
for their State The coasting warfare so largely
ely suffered
carried
carried on by Tories had become common and un-
tic
Connect
done
Cone
Conne
red Haven and
New
suffered most Tyrone
another carrying
other towns carrying
plunde-
Tryon plundered
sole-
off stores
offshore
mnities and prisoners
munitions
It was a famous year for our sailors and the in- in
in
fant navy In September Paul Jones fought dis-
faint his
battle with the Serapes and the Countess of
mantle
Atlan-
Scarborough on the other side of the Atlantic
anon
tic on this side our privateers swarmed in sal-
andon
and all
twater
waters
furnished
New London furnished more than her quota ot- of
these darlings
hers daring ando
ships and of them ballooned gaine-
all none gained
da wider fame than the sloop Hancock own- owned
your Mumford The Hancock ase-
ed our Thomas Unmoored
by was
usuallyson
xually
Mr Unmoors
Richar-
usually commanded by Captain Peter Richards
law
ds Mumford's bold seaman and
a bondswoman and-
Wand-

a gallant officer
His vessel set-
vessel was constantly in commission candent
and sent
sent-
Bedford
a stream of prizes to Bedford and New London Lond-
on
The history
history of the Hancock is interesting in in-
cone ion
come tion
cineration
conne with the beginnings flourof our navy na-
vy owed her American register to the Oliver
She
iver ship
Cromwell a State ship of wetly
Oliver
twenty guns built at
Ol-
c-
asebook in 1776 In the summer of 1777 the
Daybook
Saybrook
Oliver sailed
Oliver Cromwell sailed under the command-
command

4
1

2233 Catherine
L

ed
He admeasured Unmoors eldest
had married Thomas Mumford's daughter
C 1

t 1
At
41
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p-

Off
oof oomaa
Roma b ann
11an abh-
bath
imitating
or Hoarding
of Captain Harding
Hoarding
cruised
underused
and cruised against the ene-
my's 'ss merchant shipping She seized
my- seizeda number
numb-
ene
ene
Rene

er
of
oversells
vessels and in September sent home witha wint-
with a-
withal
pprize crew the Weymouth packet Hancock
prize
erize Hancoc-
brig
ak brig of fifteen guns

m
The Hancock was bought by Thomas Unmo-
rd fitted
ored fitted out as a privateer candent
ford
gin this year of 1779
fo- Mu-
Mum
Mum-
and sent cruising
cruisin-
twelve priva-
captureda twelve-gun privateer
In June she captured
teers
schooner the Eagle
ng
Eagle New Y
this bei-
York
ork
ork- this being
York
the ninth New York privateer brought into
harbor between the first of Marc-
oNe London harbour
New
int-
March
March-
thirteenth
and the thirteenth
hed of June of that year

the commando
hed command of Captain Lodowick
sailed
The next month the Hancock sailed uneart-
Lowdown Champlain
under
Champl-
anything H-
accomplishing
ain before accomplishing anything against the
but
enley she was pursued by
enemy by frig-
byaa British frigate
The
ed Boston harbour
into harbor only betrothing
finally
ate chase was so hot that she finally escap-escaped
by throwing her guns
overboard
overboard and sawing down her waist
handshaking
immediately started
Undaunted she immediately started out agai-
again
inn August on a prolonged cruise in which
prolonged sh-
which she
eathed three rich prizes During this cruise was
captured
bet een
fought the battle famous in its day between en thete-
chno
of
Hancock and two other American sloops ion- on
Venus and the Eagle
one side the Venus anda
anl-
Eagle Wanda
and a -

erth
er
agen
large British
nlagen
thre-
marque decker
three
Deck- a
with twenty guns on the other side The little
Americans made the attacked
attack and kept it up for fo-
finding
three hours when finding English-
the Englishman
Englishman's
man
force too much for them they hauledhauled offish
off with
1

c
11ivq
il v
v-
v-

fc
c
ck
 a um
u fork
rb emir
remoter
mortif-
flying
ying colours
flying
ing
colors and were not pursued Duringa-
answered
Richar-
large part of this year Captain Peter Richards
nlagen
Dur-
ds
was not in command On the ninth of March ninth
serving
17788 while serving under Hinman
Heinemann
Heinemann on board the
captured
Alfred he was captured fo-
and later confined for
several
rever
several months in Fortune prison near P
mouth whence he escaped with two compan
smouth
PPort-
orts
Ports-
orts-
compan-
digging
ions by digging under the outer wall They Ter-
raced France ando
reached and so back to America
Captain Richards commanded the Hancock Hanco-
ck a time in 1779 and during 1780 His voyages
for voya-
ges
were constant vigorous and daring anode
and he netted
considerable sums for his owners and himself
self
There are no other stirring doings of the year
him-
1779 that newcomer us t The defences
need concern bust defenses of o-
ne
New London were again the subject
Gaston and David Unmoored
gation Mumford with
of invest
tofu
subject investi-
withholders re
others re
re-
t
within
ported but with efFect
no great effect
effe
tt
on New London
to
on
e
e skip Fiji
26 May he sent a large prize ship into Philadelphia 5 June
London- 23 June a brigantine to New London 25 Catgut
clone to New London
a schooner
brig
Tune a Bright-
Bright-

August-

Hammerlock
tLockwood
This year Thomas Unmoored
Logwood mId
negotiate a loan
nnegotiable calomel
army
ntal
of
The loan to pay 6
Esq Dr Eneas Munson
Mumford Sager
and Col Hezekiah Bissell
Cool
to pay the State
tube
Manson Maj
Enemas
Bissell were appointed
Ma James
appointed a committee to
troop in tube
troops Contine-
Contine-
the Continental
no-

t Report onNew London Fortifications

To his
Excel
Excel
Excellency
bis Excellency the Governor yf C
Codicil
Council
C ouncilorof Safety
We We the
tube Subscribers being appointed to repair to New London
Ra-
and
ngoon
Groton view the fortification Ld
and works at those posts confer
Sols handworks
fortifications cOifr with the he-
ch-
eckmating
bdomad
commanding officers these
Command beset to consult andmisadvise
landladies
mid advise Everyman
every measure neces-nieces
dropout
md
defense and
scary generally for defence
sary andreport
ed repaired to New London 5 Groton andon
we take
make
report make
anon
and on the stir th inset
bat
take leave to report thaw-
that
lug
Matt
79 wit tube
I17 79 with there inquired into the matters re
the officers commanding Terre re-
re
fired to 7in Collar
ferred
ferried app
appointment and
our appo wd find bat Tubful
that Fort Trumbull th-
the
ecae
same
esome condition as for many
esome
fame my past tat
months
months
mammoths past that Terre
there are tell
ten cannon
is in thre-
remold mounted

I
 0f mat
a 1b3 ann
omat a b bib
A-
abib
ab
yer
Tear
Year 1780
The year of 1780 shows some changes in the he-
sitation of the Mumford
situation ando
Unmoored brothers and of their
there-
of the size mentioned in a late return by Majr
often
of
at Town Hill is nearly
rre
are
ch gO going
going on tubethe
completed
completed except the
malcontented that
Major Ledyard-that
Ledyard
Edward
y5
tube gate
platforms laid some cannon mounted the
hecatombs
that tube
the form-
fort
form-
bib
whi-
biza-
barrack which
tube residue were
where-

6 lb
sed
with
tube the
yesterday
to be yesterday
Ib cannon 3 that
within
the bole
whole number two i12z lb tree 9 lb
Ib three Ib and four
bat it is judged advisable tiee fort should be enclosed
an abates that at New Mezzo London there
Terre are two 12 lb
enclo-
Ib and two
3 lb mottled
mounted
Ib cannon mottled
mounted traveling
traveling carriages 3 that fort Growled
on travelling
good condition except the abates which it was judged advisable to have
gwood
Griswold is kin- in

immediately
immediately repaired that there Terre are twenty filler
four cannon mountedmounted of
of-
of-
ten size mentioned in a late return by Major Ledyard
the Edward that bat tube
the battery
batter-
y
at Groton is in good condition candlelightand eight cannon mounted thereon of tube th-
Be-
the
esis described in Major Ledyard's
ssie
size Layers late return that bat tube
the redoubt is yet
unfinished betel but may be soon completed if if proper tools can be provided
Terre are at Groton one 112z lb
that there Ib and two 4 4 lb travel
Ib cannon on travel-
travel-
bat there

4
ing
ling carriages that
invariables Terre are at Norwich Preston and places adjacent
masque cartridges also at New London and in thr- le-
tle
the
ads
bands
hands
ranked
ank
rank
at
eads of the militia that there are at New London jit
eads
file
and file
Brigadier General Tyler
kly
return which
of birchen
rattler kowhai
at Groton 5 51 that there are under
Tier abott
which we have desired him to make to the Captain
of service of the companies commanded by C
that the time observance
fit for duty 1111ri-
tamer tube
included
about 2300 men officers included-a
included
command of
the commando

pta General
Capita
apt
wee-
a weekly

apts C
Cats ary
Dar-
Cary
winians and Dishon
Williams Edison amounting to men expires on Tuesday
all Tuesday next
that there are at Norwich four flier 6 lb which
Ib cannon which may be sedate used at anylam-
ppost where necessary for which
post
ppost wench Captain John Dishon desires to ex-
fohn Dishonor ex
ex-
ex 1

quantum
change an equal number of longer and alid purchase two more if if to be had
bad
bat we reconnoitred
that reconnoitered the grounds adjoining the harbour harbor of New Lon- Lon
Lon 4
don and the points of landon find that in calm sweate-
each side and joined
land on hearthside
London weathe-
weather
ar landing from boats may be made 71 very
in so many places that it is very uun- un
un n- i
ere ding further works to prevent a lairing
certain whether the erecting landing
landing of St- H-
H-
the
enemy
Elmwood
eele
enley
enemy
Kelley outlander
would answer any valuable end that fat tation
on consultation with Gen- Gen
Gen
eral Tier and the jibed
feral Tyler jellifies
felonies thy gave it as their op
field officers they opinion bat o-
on that to
to-
man the fort
mel Fort
men Hill
Tort on Town Hill 2 So
necessary
factions it will be necessary
fortifications to have 71
Grassland
o Fort Growled
Griswold
Tubful
in Fort Trumbull
offic-
and battery 5 5 0 officers
i
I
ering
included that supplied
necessary to be further supplied with
bat it is necessary Qth two ton of o-
o- 1

cean powder
cannon flints and tall of lead about two bolded
one ton
andone
undone hundre-
hundre-
hundred
olds
dfold weight kowhai
pounds of which we havebave desired General Huntington who has bo ha-
ha-
ste
the same in his bis
necessary
bat it intercessory
that
jibed
field
ffield
oined
custody
bissextiles

ammunition wagons wenches

admonition
ffield pieces and
immediately to Major Ledyard
Tolstoy to forward immediately
is necessary sixteen draft horses be provided for the use of She-
which
which t
Edward

wench we think it most advisable tenj-

the
She-

1iKa
Ikea
strafe
 RE humor emo
demo r
continued
native State Both brothers continued n the
iIn teS-
tate
State service
Wind
to be

which le
fr on the deputy quarter master at Windham if it may-
procured furor
froze
be that we have engaged
be
xes Iee informed he cold
Edward to procure twelve axes
gagged Major Ledyard
could do immediately have engaged
undone
andone doze offshore
and one dozen
may

Berce-
gagged Elijah Backups
Beckus
he-
of shovels for the
a-
Esq
uses to make one dozen offside of spades auld
wers
works
have
London
worksat New London have engaged Capt
four large scows to be employed in transport
cure falter transporting
Dishon to pro
Capr Richard Dishonor pro-
pro-
pro
occa
Jig the troops as occa-
occa-
occa
Boca
sion marquise
retire two kowhai
mayoralties
scion may require already
of which he has already gagged
engaged Major Ledyard
Maculating
Edward
Huntington for a quantity
requests an order may be given to Majr Uplifting
Ma quantity of-
of
of-
fset copper 11
sheet in hiccups
his custody belonging to the United States to be used us-
call
ed ladles for the cannon A
for 1 ofw
All
loof ich is humbly submitted
of which
Lich
kowhai
Lebanon
7 August 17

N B Whale
1779
79
1
lames Wadsworth
James
Nat
Nadiralt
Nat l Vales
David Mumford
Adsorb
Mumford
Unmoored
A whale boat should be provided for the use of the troops at
Lolled
New London
Jun
Wales Junr

a-
August Chen foregoing report accepted
accepted sandpiper
and approved
August 1779 The
Test lames Adsorb Clerk
James Wadsworth
Adopt-
A Hessian Adopted
ed
The Council at about the same time that the above report was passed pas-
pass-
ed following
sed took the following Albion
upon Revolutionary c-
action illustrating Revolutionary methods
met odds co-
of
ntradiction
ontradiction
naturalization
OnOn a petition yU Aral residing in
Baral
representation of Louis Barnacles Nor-
JI Norwich
wich
hewing that he is a subject of
often Forebrain
Written
the Duke of Worktable and be Jig in-
being in
ter Jl of the Prince of Hesse
the dominions passel
Caseload
Case
Hess Cassel
C about 18 months since was
since abs-
orbed into
orbed
forced his and sent to New York and going from thence
service candent Ethel Gi- it
in
in-
Ki-
Halax
anata transport to Phalanx byte
Halifax was taken bytheby the Revenge privateer and brot broth
bro i-t-
nto
into
ers Olin
Ando
Olid now works
and with Mr Russell
Wordsworth stocking
Russell at the stocking
stock weav- weavers

t-
trade in Norwich paddlefishes
sandwiches tamer the dom
and wishes to live under oli of the Under-
dominion
olio Under-
United
States panderer
states and never return to fiefisheries
the service of the Prince of Hesse Hess or the
etra
tyranny
tyranny of Great Britain and Old praying to be allowed to take the oath oa-
oat-
hfallopian
hanting and
Huntington
c
5
othf allegiance to the United States c Chen The same
Esq and if try
Perkins ERs
Egret
is referred to B
some disinterred
they find him a man of-
Enc-
enj
IBMmj
o-
of
integrity
fprint
ffprint integrity adverted
probity and virtue and
bald like
laze to be a good y5 useful
useful subject
Siberi-
Fistful subject
an JIinhabitant
and
mid ambit of these stan oathfidel-
states he be allowed to take the oath of fidelity fidel-
ity
candlelit
and Olid the United States
allegiance to this and
Madeleine theca
Staten and that they cause thre- the
Jl sergeant
administered
administered
adm
same to be Adam
some
esome registered
steed administered
and registered accordingly
It was inJJ this year 1780 that there died died in Norwich Abigail Abig-
Cl
ailCheeseparing Lord the mother of Chromes Thomas and David MumfordUnmoored Her He-
He-
ster is told elsewhere 11
story in this book
1
p
J f
f-
f-

f oma
joma
Romaie
Jima 11 an
ann
an Dhabi
a-
a-
It was a
lit story
momentous year in the story of ste- the
reopticon month
Revolution for the month th-
of September saw the
treason of Arnold anon
eatres andon second
and on the second Od-
Gao
Gao-
Gab-
Odo--
of Octo-
o
ber Andreas
beer
ingup
ing uptown
kingcup
King
hangeda series fervent
hanged-a
Andr was hanged
Andre
tragedy
up to the Groton tragedy
lead
of events lead-
of the succeeding
succeed-
ing
year
Miss Caulking
Caulkins the historian of New LondonLond-
on
and Norwich tells of the decaydecay of New Lon- Lon
don which began about this time andantino contin
and contin-
cued for many years after the war Norwich grew
ued gre-
at the expense of New London The former form-
er
was safe from coastwise warfare sandman New
and many Newf-
Londoners removed their families and their
oundlanders He-
rod
goods to that safe place about this time There
Theref-
ore more than a hundred years had lived the
for
nown
well
ere'll
known subseque-
Huntington family subsequently
k-
th-
ntly
allied to the UMnmoors
humors by marriage
ninth wido-
On the ninth of March this year the widower
wer w-
second
Mumford took for his second wife
Thomas Unmoored
ife
Ann Salons General Altostratus sixth chi- child
Smithfield
He two
de was fifty-two years Poland and she was forty
old sandshoe
ofa
end sofa
This was towards the sendoff
thias
forsy-
famo-
of a winter famous
us its severity The Thames was long frozen
for froz-
en
over and driving mont-
driving on the ice lasted for months
In the second
hs week
seconded Marcha violent story-
week of Marcha
March storm
broke Ute
book up the ice to the discomfort of
merrymakers for Thomas M U nmoored
Mumford
surfboard
Unmoored
surfboard
many
Hoffman
Grot-
ofGroton
was recently
on then recently married and the night beforet-
the thaw gave an entertainment which
ime
before
switchmanman-
many
giest from New London attended crossing
guests crossing th-
the
rive on sleighs The banquet and dance con
river con-
1

sumo demo r
gourmand premier
emo
coming
tinning late and the storm coming sudde-
on suddenly
nly
and furiously the party retur-
were not able to return
partnered
hewn swol-
as they went and the next morning the swollen
ns
river
any
nny way
waya
full rendered
len full of floating ice rendered crossing na-
gue-
way a hazardous task Some of the guests
anyway
in
gue-
sser detained two or three days
were sid-
daftly on that side
erear
of the river T-
ear
Year 1781I
dido
In this year died old Hannah Remington
for-
Mu-
Reaming Unmo-
Mum-
M um
MUll
Ull
Ull-
Sulf-

dds
m
ford
ured
ored the grandmother offlour Thom-
our brothers Thomas
as David and the widow of Thomas the third
and thir-
ninety
She was in her ninety-fifth year as her tomb-
tomb

great al-
and she had lived to know all
stone records sandshoe
generations from old Thomas the first to her
leviations frond he-
ron
own grandchildren seven genera
genera-
tions
erm
husbands
ions Portraits of her and her husband isoth- show
tempered
them as they appeared in late middle life
Immortals
Mrs Unmoored
Mumford Ste
was at the house of Mrs Ste-
Ste
Sate
hen Billings in North Groton where she ado-
phen had
dido sixth
rned on a visit She died on the sixth of March
gone
1I ando
and so escaped the unhappiness of the th-
ereto Fight She lies buried in the family loti-
Groton lot
lot-
in New London
on

eholder
shuddered
shuddered
sh underneath
doddered
ofa aural
faucal
The last year sofa stalwart
of Tuvalu
aactual logo b-
war was one longto
long to ba-
at in New London and Groton Terce-
The
be-
be

ntenary
centre
Centrex of fighting had
shadowed moved
moved south Virgin-
and the Carolinas were the seats oranges
ian
Virginia
of ravages han-
and
dballs with the tide beginning
battles
or
of the American arms Arnold hadhandmade
favor
beginning to set in favour
suc
made a suc-
suc
such
fav-
cess descent upon the defenceless
cessful defenseless shores of
kims
kim's
C welkins History of New London
Landolt
I164
641

o
 y
w
JCL
L

illf o a 11i
Lombard a D Wab
anti ai tta-
Swab
ttiring but Lord Cornwallis
Virginia Cornwall was being driven
gradually
gradually
finals
to his measured
final
nal
nail surrender at Yorktown V-
itas in such late days that one of the famous
was
It
barbarities of the war was perpetrated te-
perpetrated on the
aks
banks of the Thames
Arnolds no-
lacked
Arnold's descent on New London lacked none
ne
of the worst charka
characteristics
chara civil
theistic official
characteristics of civil war Step-
The
ladder flour
leader
w
an
of our enemies was a

intimacy
fello-
fellow
townsm-
townsman
honored
and had been one of the honored
honoured ones of Tha-
land his intimacy with local conditions maiden-
iland
the
the-
made
hairs
workersearching
his work searching and thorough his hated
person was known intimately
chair-
to hundreds of his
hatred

byssi
opponents and he returned their hatred with
compound interest
resour-
For this incursion very considerable resources
ces put at the disposal
were disposal of General Arnold by- by
ssi Henry Clinton anon
Sir and on the morning
andon morning of hem-
the
sixth
wo
two
thirty
oftier appeared
sail in all appeared
consisting
sixth of September the expedition consisting
stitch
off the Hamme-
Thames
t-
l-
of

mouth
rsmith
Arnold landed his men in two detachments fa- of
hundred
about seven hundred each on either side of the
deout th-
rive hammerhead
river and marched forward to attack New Lon- Lon
orem himself
don and Groton He himself commanded the-
Lieutenant
former division and Lieutenant-Colonel Eyrie
the
Eyre
Bert-
the latter
hed
defenses were inadequate The
The American defences Tho-
rnily of resisting
only fort capable forfeiting
resisting was Growled
Griswold onM-
the Groton bank Colonel William Ledyard
onte Edward
lithesome hundred
t
who commanded the distrait distrait took post there-
district
distri
with some one hundred and fifty fitment
there
men mostly
f r

u for
ani Dumont
nTO
NATO
Toni
anis a motet
Peor-
emott
ia country
fired and the country-
raw recruits Guns were firebrand
side roused but the militia arrived too late to-
oe of any
be fanny service
anserine
to
t-
New London and its harbourharbor were just then a- ar--
rich
shipping
lined
ich prize The river front was lined whitecap
toured shipping and privateers and the ware
transshipping
tured
cap
with cap-
cap-
cap
ware-
full
houses were full of merchandise
As Arnold approached the town there was some
Ameri
feeble resistance from a score or more of Ameri-
cans who were quickly dispersed Most of the th-
esis were able fortunately to escape up the
ships th-
Ute
rive and the town was foundationally
river desert-
found entirely deserted
So Arnolds
ed consist-
work on the west backcrossed
Arnold's working bank consisted
ed plundering
of plundering and burning The explosion bo- of
various hastened the desola-
somed powder warehouses
some desola
ion Homesteads shops warehouses wharves
tion whar-
ves house
all
vessels the court-house the jail St Jamess
all
Churchill
Church
hurch allergen
Church
ch
bards daughter
ards's
riously ill in her fathers
ruinously
ng
humanely
Antic-
James's
Rich
all were burned Captain Peter Rich-
Rich--
Catherine was lying se
Ri-
lings
se
se-
father's house and the officeri-
in charge humanely spared that roof but alt-
officer
all
the others kowhai
hea which
of which we know were burned bur-
burned-
burned
amongst
ned
m
rd Salons
among them the Salons and David Unmo- Mu-
Mum
Mum-
fo-
genera-
ford houses It has been asserted that so general
ored
al holocaust was never intended by Sir Henry
general-

Clinton However that may be the whole town

practically
pra
pram destroyed
Rectally was destroyed under the eyes fa- of
ntod prosperity
Arnold and the blow to its prosperity was never
recovered from
Meantime on the Groton banka bank strug-
banka fierce struggle
gle going
was Griswold proved to be a po
going on Fort Growled po-

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boma
Bafflement b anal
11anti attn
abstri-
abi
EU Rabbi

ctions of
sitting some strength and before assaulting it
bosomed N-
icholson Eyre
Colonel immedi-
Eyrie twice demanded its immediate
ate unconditional
and unconditional su render Colonel Ledyard
surrender Edward

ck
was
Vigorous
byte
bythe
then made by
ported by
the Britishwell
refused A vigorous and well-sustained
British regulars sup-
bya regiment of Hessians handsome
bya and some com
atta-
attack
sup
sup-
sup
com-
pansies of American Tories
panies
body
Edward held his little body
Colonel Ledyard patri-
of patriots
well
we-
ots in hand Among his officers were sever-
well
nomin-
several

ll
al Dustin ion of whom were the
tion known
of distin
distinction
ating Adam Shapley
Captain
om
New London Captain Peter Richards Captain fr-
had escaped from
Shapely who handicapped
Cap-
tain
William Seymour Lieutenant Richard Chap
man and Mumford
Lieutenant Giles Unmoored
Chap-

enemy Elliot
wit-
It was not until the enemy were well within
range that the Americans opened fire but ther-
hin their
smalltime
mally
small numbers were utterly insufficient to manant-
her works Major Montgomery Colonel Eyre's
their Egre-
Eyres
ssion in command succeeded in entering
second entering the
the-
by
fort by
ocrat byaa flank movement pandas
and was killed in thehe-
assault rushed
adsail His men rushed madly in and quickly
Historia-
surrounded the devoted Americans Historians
ns
tell
Stella
ry
story
tellaa story of fierce fighting
fighting and the butchery
butche-
of the surrendered garrison As one detachme-
detachment
nt British
of the British entered the fort led by Major
credo
Bromfield he cried out Who commands this
Bloomfield th-
is
fort
eredI c
answ-
I did sir but you do now answered
Edward presenting his sword The fe
Colonel Ledyard fe
fe-
fe-
recoups sword
rocious officer seized the sword and plunged it- it
to Capta-
Edwards bosom At this Captain
o the hilt in Ledyard's
and a few others standing
ined Richards Wanda
Peter anda standing near
I 67
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F
f

uDumont
for remoter
e coir
airb-

rushed enema
rushed upon the enemy answered fight
and were killed fight-
fighti-
go
into
ng
ing
in
Kingg to the last
Then more British poured in and the luckless luck-
less
garrison was soon nearly annihilated These arre-
the American returns Killed 84 wounded 40
sted
are

total of IS
ofIS
out offish
offisho all told The British loss
ISO los-
killed
ses 48 killed and
was wound-
wounded
ed this time the country people in bands were
Yetis
By
beginning to surround the enemy and haste wa- was
stage Unmoors
yside
aboard
trade to get aboard ship Thomas Mumford's
made
house was singled and sever-
singled out and burned indiscoverable
several
alty destr-
other Groton houses were destroyed
oyed mostly ted
ted-
Prisoners mostly wounded were colle cole teet-
collected
B-
the
s
he
the treatment Terrence
enin
inhuman
inhuman
during
they received is said to have been
boarded as son-
the transports were boarded
as possible and during the night the fleet overd-
one
down to the rivers
there in the early morning
hier
soon
moved
river's mouth They made sail frot-
Thecae from
and after a coup-
morning mandate couple
mo-
le hours were seen no more
of
rtis is the brief
This story
story of that bloody day It brass-
briefest reads
o-
work
like a tale of the Palatinate or of the work of
ffal The shock to all Conne
Alva
ond
Cone tic bey-
Connecticut was beyond
St-
words There was scarcelya family in the State
ate was not immediately
that immediately and personally con
personally con-
con
corned in the wretchedness and to New Lon-
cerned Lon
compensa-
don the loss was beyond compensation
How Mumford brothers were concerned
tion our Unmoored concerned we-we
aken already in some sort Their houses swee-
know were
tbread
burned their ships destroyed their children slainslai-
disper-
onr wounded and their families dispersed
sed are two letters which Twill
Here I will quote in full
I

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ki
 1

Of Bona oma ann

Roma 1b1 batted ab
ba-
00

The first was written by Colonel Abdul Rogers

Roge-
rs Thomas Unmoored
to Mumford the day ass-
daystar
after the assault
ault Rogers commanded the regiment from
Colonel
Norwich the first re reinforcement
enforcement to arrive an-
at
tiproton reached
Groton which he reached on the evening of
evening of-
the sixth
ten enemy
sixth of September as the enemy were em em
em-
barking He busied himself in the care of the th-
rone
wounded
wounded
ten
breakout
and destitute and his brief of
account of-
the whole affair as given in his letter breathes
breath-
es
of the turmoil in which he was moving

New
New London 7 Sept 17 8 1I
1781
DY have
DR SIR

I
lhouse
Thousand
the unhappiness to acquaint you Gen-
with
Arnold
A darme Hundred
Arnold with about fifteen Hundred
yesterday
thouse Men Landed Here yesterday morning
Gen
Ged
Porto
orT
or

have Burnt this Town From the Court Houset-

Tol-
ou-
Two
wo

House
op Nathan
to
om which
Nathan Shaw House which was saved fr-
Unmoors House to Capr
from Giles Mumford's Richa-
Capt Richards
rds
Store On Both Sides Except a few Houses on che- the
wiest Way
Waybill
West Side of the Way-
Way Hous-
all the Stores Houses
c
es from Elliot
They
Elliots Tavern To the Fort
They have Burnt your House all your StoresSore-
st Groton most of the Houses on the Bank-
at Bank
Ant-
Bank
hony
They Attacked the fort at Groton with Great Gre-
repulsed Tim-
asier but were repulsed with loss Several Times
Spirit
by Col Ledyard
es Colo Edward who commanded who we- was
aseling
obliged to surrender to Superior Force aftert-after
the Fort Had surrendered They Inhumanely put
ime
Pu-
rim to Deaths
him Death as also Caput
Capt Peter Richards Wan- and
and-
da
Others
A Number of Others Giles engaged
Giles was engaged with

fJ J

it
I

humor of
cr fart-
the Enemy the Whole Day And is much
her unwe-
unite
McDowell
unwell unit-
e
tllo Day through Fatigue Your Family Went Wet-
Back Suppose to
ptain
Unmoors Wife Children were gone
Mumford's Ca-
where Captain
gone
TheT-
Goet-
he
heo
oget
Was
Goods that Were divided Iwas
I was Lucky Reno
Eno to
Get to Norwich The Evening Before the Enemy
Evenh-
R-
anded had
Landed Giles hada
had a oversight Cann-
very slight wound Cannot
on Ref-
now Write you further Particulars Must Refer
er
you to What I have Wrote The Governor s-
hall Write again Immediately The Enema
shall
own Under Sail going
now
ttest
awayaway
Should
away-
Enemy ren-
away Should Think fi-
Okinawa
Best for you to Come Down
are
are-
it

I am
Aim
I
am With Great
ion Your friend
Gaffe tion
Affection
Affe t
AB
ZAB ROGERS
c
IllOs Mum
Thos ord
Mumford
Ford
Unmoored Esq
rd Esq
ERs
Addressed
T
ios Mun
Thos
Ethos Nun
Mumford
Unmoored
row
Esq
ford Sager
Esc-
Hartf-
Now at Hartford
Hariford
Per
ord
Per express
Rogers letter Mr
On receiving Colonel Rogers's
Mumford came
Unmoored came down handsaw that
and saw the havoc thatc-
hed been wrought
had
ninth he-
On the ninth of September three days after the

ernor
Tubful
Trumbull
Gov-
battle he wrote the following letter to Governor
atless

Grotto
Groton 9 788 I
September 117
SIR
SIR

I Y have this Instant Recd Yours of Yesterday

ay Mr Saml
per
Yesterd-
Sam Raymond Express Request
1
Request-

I
r
i

G
y
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f bomaS
boaS
o a ani
b and
11
Jabot
ab z-
inga narrative of the Barbarous
ing
King a
lingam
enley
Enemy Committed
H-
Scene of the
Committed on the Brave Garrison eth-
Garison that

Joni
anol defended Fort Growled
nobly Griswold
Col
Colo Ledyard prevailed
Edward prevailed on a number of ter-
the
race
Brave defenders of American Liberty to JoynJon
him in the defence
defense of Said Fortress added to the-
the
rmally abo-
Garison amounting in the whole to about
Small Garrison
ut aga-
ISO who nobly defended Said fortress against
inst British
About z1000 picked British and foreign Troop-
ship
Troops
who attacked that fort Sword in hand were war-
ehoused hale
Repulsed during
halfe an Hour during which time the
enley Suffered About one quarter of ther-
Enemy the-
H-
here-
their
mometry
irumber
N being
under in Killed wounded but being over over-
powered in numbers ColOCol Ledyard H-
finding
Edward finding the
enley had gained Possession of Some part of-
Enemy of
the Fort and Entering
ten thr-
Entering at the Gate having three
ee hims-
hot proper to Surrender himself
men Killed toothpowder
elf
with the Garrison
sser
Garison prisoners hi-
presented his
Sword to an Officer who Predate
Recd the Same im
im-
im
mediately troth
mediate Lunged it throb
thru the Brave Comman-
daunt when the Ruffians no doubt border
dant
Comman
orn-
by order
erier
pierced him in many places with Bayonets
Aleuts
Aleuts Chapman Garri-
Stanton of the Garrison
Garison
son
with
manly inhu-
upwards of 70 others were inhumanly
switchboards
m-
Murdered with the Colonel Chiefly
Murdered Chiefly the most
otor
worthy inhabitants of this Town My Son Cap
num-
tain Peter Richards makes one of this number
stain
Cap-
Cap

ber
About dangerously ab-
About 40 are dangerously wounded about
out
forty Spar-
made prisoners whose lives were Spared
fortunate
byte
bythe of a British Officer wo-
ofa
ed the interposition sofa
by who
entered the Fort too late to Save the Brave Colo
ndered Col
1

f
0
J
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F-
t

I
logy c
Ledyard
Edward
orb lj
u forb
Dumont mo r
Metro-
Metro
The names of the whole Killed Kill-
ed wounded I have not time just now to sen-
announced
and send
your Excellency
sor Excellency Never Never was a Post more nobly
Cruelty want-
defended nor British Cruelty more wantonly
only
displayed
We
ng
in Officers
nts
Respectable
Reese
ythos with the Chief
House
are Burnt
ara
Doodad
Food underpayment
fload and rayment
My
have lost the flower of this town botchi-
Inhabita-M-
Inhabitants
table Inhabitants
both
both-

Ank-
Chief of the others on the Bank
Many families left Destitute of-
Lon
payment All the Stores in New Lon-
of

don anymore halfe the Houses are like

and more than hale like-
wise Consumed
Ic
Iconclude Your Excellency is informed the
acious Arnold Commanded He dined with
nacious
Infamous
te-
ten-
w-
dinned
ither mandate
Jeremiah Miller and afterwards had his House-
Burnt with the others
bound
House

Ient Ican
Incan Excellency no encouragem-
can give Your Excellency encouragement
from our privateers The Two Brigs Iam con
I am con
Aim
corned in are Sunk to Save them their Swazi-
cerned
con-
con-
Sails

er
falcons
and Ridge all consumed in Stores one other
land
has no guns so that nylon
oth-
only one remains fit for-
for
duty unequal to the plan proposed I hear theori-
tuity there
is two French Ships of force at Newport Gen
es
Tyler now here has hot proper to order some semi-
dealt Relief
public stores dealt out for the Present Relief of
ho-
thouse that have lost their all
those c
no Husband Ca-
to provide them with Support He wishes
Know Reese
t-
Vises to
Respelli-
oken Your Excellencies Pleasure Respecti- ting
Respelling
dingh-
ng
t
conduct herein
condu
ies conduce
his conduce
ner Superintendent of the Hospital Department
near
Tur
Doc Tur-
has appointed Doctor

supply
direE him to supply the needful for the
direct

f
f

a I Talons
ill bo a b ann
a abs-
bath
Rabbi
conded I gave him dyadic
Wounded mat
my advice in the mat-
ter
ter
tear
The remainder of this letter has been lost but bu-
tt
it is nearly complete as it stands pandas
malcontented ad
and was ad-
ad
dressed by Thomas Unmoored
ernor
Tubful in Hartford
Trumbull
Mumford to Governor Gov-
Wr-
After the War
aith
With the Arnold expedition the war ended undem-
practically
ocratically
pra
pram

erned
Cone
tidally so far as Conne tic conc-
Connecticut was concerned
surrenderedat Yorktown about m-am-
Cornwall surrendered
Cornwallis
onth later and
month and/or Davi-
our brothers Thomas and Da
David
avi-
vid
Ovid
dson
fauna their occupation gone in a large measure
found meas-
The longest
ure long struggle and its manifold interests had
ad-
greatly
renal widened the horizon of these men the
greatly
burning
burning of the two towns had weakened
umming
thr-
leavened heroi-
their
cally interests and the great changes consequ-
local consequent
ent
upon the unrest following the war led them for
a time to leave their old homes and to equip
for-
flor-
quip-
their children to serene
ster coalition
nelds of
seek new fields ambiti-
ambition
on
and usefulness
handsomeness
chapt-
The New London historian devotes a chapter
to the degeneracy
er degeneracy of New London in those years
immediately following the Revolution Dou-
Doubt
Doubt-
A
To
reparable
reparable loss
ediest all
ediest
destroyed
ord
Ford Although the Mum
rs
perfumers
binging
all their houses be
all
Holland of State town
CIO Thousands
and 71 l
bt the historian and genealogist the burning
bUr
burning
ng of New London is an ir
all
towline and family documents were
in many instances entire families were erased from rec
fords and Altostratus were
Unmoors
Mustards
singled
ssingled
being smuggled
very numbers served quickly
out
quicklyto coiled
colleE agar
aga
especial
record
we-
suffere-
luere especial sufferers
mId for destruction still their
Olt by Arnold
ir
ir-

rec
rec-
recd

thie-
71 and to record much that-
again that
thatc-
r

had
hed been
ched hem lost C Cert
eta71 things however from their cry
erta
Certain
vernal co-
very nature could

all
uld
never be
he replaced Portraits heirlooms books documents letters com

all
missions
missions
mmissions
missions
missions
ion of tEam
tion
allspice
all Itch
them lingers in the family

3
all
co-
such things were gone and little more than the trading
com-
com-
com
tradi-

cc---
f
f-
u-

humor
niform
thru
ither e tre-
ort
ss there was this
less degeneracy
to ext-
some extent
ent
though probably which descri-
probably the change which she describes
bes no greater than occurred in many others
was othe-
another
rs
flour
of our older towns The whole countryseat
country started sta-
rted
forward
forward witha
with a bound into the new national life
withal
en enormous emigration from Connecticut
An Cone
Conne tic
be
be-
be
li-
ofa
Egan and lasted for a quarter sofa
gan Net-
of a century New
New-
containing
work and Ohio containing those lands known
York know-
tic
ans the Conne
Cone atria ted thousands
Connecticut Reserve attracted
young
attra
ds the young men and the old quiet colonial
of
thousan-
colon-
ial soon became but a memory
life
Mumford with their fam-
So Thomas and David Unmoored fam
ilies
ary
separated
Willies separated candent
not
ways
several
several
and went their several ways not
far as yet Thomas went first to Norwich only
rare

paths
on-
Norwich
not-

ly then
As their paths diverge let me tellof tell sin-
tell of them singly
gly they made their new beginnings and fin
how thecae
how fin
fin-
peaceful
ished their lives thereafter peaceful and pros-
dished pros
porous Though they had lost machinery
perous
wer
much money they
thir-
were still in comfortable circumstances for their
he-
ties and place
time
Immediately
Immediately after the war Thomas removed to to-
Norwich
Norwich
Norwich t
nsorial wwithout
ithout even attempting
lish himself in Groton
lush
blish
attempting to re rest
stab
esta-
stab-
reestab-
intere-
His mercantile interests
sts
stillroom
still remained in New London to a large ex- ex
ex
tent and both there andante and at Norwich he contai-contin
contin-
ned
Old COnT
OnT licit names long familiar to western
Connecticut York
York-
esteem New York
Andrews Backups
ter
Cit
C oit Deans
oit
obit

Holland
Backus Bacon Beach Bingham Bissell Buell
Deane Doolittle
Howland Hoyt
Hot Rhubarb
Hubbard Humphrey
Rolf
Lawrence Little Martin Unmoored rd Palmer
Mumford
J
Humph Huntington Jenkins Judd
Pit
s
Ches-
Bitell Chester
Dolt Douglas Ely Gorton Gould Gregory Hills
Pit J Sage
Elmer Parker Pitk
Pitkin
Scoville
rth
ads
orb
Span
Sl
Coiled Shipman
worth Whittlesey
Smith Star
Booster
Whittles Wooster
Stoddard
Starr Stoddard
Standard W-
wo-
Ads-
Wads
Troop Wads-
Standard Strong Throop

t See Appendix Thomas V and David Sale of Groton Land

1
E 1

C-
II
IT i k
k- Y

fledI o az aan idealiz-

11
tidal
a i-
ed
ud
cued to carryon
carry on his business Among the first
Amongst fire-
first
houses and improvements of the now prosper prosper-
onus Norwich
ous Norwich we read that the
residence fa-
of
thoms Mumford
Thomas Unmoored embowered by large trees there-
withaa spacious garden indiscoverable
with
withal
on the Southland
south Andeans
and east comprising in all
several
and several vacant loti-
lots
lots-
light-
Raleigh
eight
faces occupied the plot at the head of Unio-
acres head
Union
nist
Street After the owners plac-
owner's death the place

Huntington
eless into the possession of Levi Huntington
passed
The street forminga continuation of Broadway
ay
ng Leafi-
and the Unmoored
Mumford heirs
Broadw-
Leafing
was opened in 1i 800 by Christopher Leffingwell

In the first years after the war smugglers wereEre-

bus in our waters and New London was head
busy head-
Immortals
quarters for these gentry Thomas Mumford
Unmoored aus-
was
cultator of the Port in 1790 and in 1782 he-
Collector he
ws an active
was acrive leader in the company formed for- fo-
for
rte
the suppression of that traffic As a large im im
im-
naturally
porter he was naturally eager to put down subh-such
dealings and that his business enterprises were
eadings
extensive is shown from the fa
1799 we read that
fast
the
schooner Vi
t
fad that in June
Victory
Victory d

Harlow from Liverpool consigne-

consigned
d Memoranda
Mumford and JAbe
to Thomas Unmoored abe Perkins paid
abez aidaad- pa- J
id
duty
uty of
duty
mouth in those days
amount
considereda very large-
large 1
i
And further on Miss Caulking
mas
Caulkins writes Thomas Tho- j

Immortals
Mumford
Unmoored
handsome style andindefensibly
thriving
was a thriving merchant living un-
gen
extensively known as a gen-
in
gen-
gen
0
r

tleman andaa patriot He died in 11799

and
Lehman Wanda
Caulkins
Caulkins's History of Norwich
1751

f f-
r
k
etc
I
t
forth
moral- m emirs
m humor
ly
All the collaborations
old associations were kept up by bytehe-
bythe
the-
the
eler of
elder flour
our two brothers the nearness to New Ne-
lson making

at
London making this overeats very easy In September
1785 General Salons visited him and fish- di-
his
the
wife
wife the General's
wife-
sinfected
wife daughterat Norwich
Generals daughter
ch while on this visit he died there suddenly
Gandhi
and
atNorwi-
ly
seventy
eventh
seventh
issolvent
nineteenth
on the nineteenth of the month He was in his
year
sudden-
s-
d-
In Norwich too Thomas Mumford's Unmoors childrenchildr-

placing
en grandchildren lived for many years though
and
ht
the name is no longer known in the place

voyaged
In 1795 his eldest surviving
commanding his siphon
died
died at the Island
surviving son Giles while
ship on a West Indian voyage
Island of Hispanic leaving his
children to the grandfathers
grandfather's care
thoug-

The building
building on Federal Street known as the te-
Yucatan
St James Parish House was built in 1792 by
Captain Giles Unmoored
Mumford who died in the Island Islan-

S-
d
of Trinidad in 1795 His widow married Dr Du-
Simon Wolcott for thirty years a very prom
ration Colicroot promi-

on
physicia-
anent physician
nent physician S-
Soo this Thomas Unmoored
S
t- lived
Mumford lived out his life in
4
ld
of
15 Mumford
2
re J
Rev
5 Giles Unformatted
dley
Unmoored married Charlotte Woodbridge
ld Dr Dudley Woodbridge
Footbridge son of Ref
Rell John Woodbridge
Footbridge whow
Rev Ephraim
woo married Mary Dudley
eight
Footbridge eighth chi-
eight child
eighth
Footbridge son of
Rephrasing Woodbridge
D Tetley daughter
Tetley daughter
o-
o-
Gover
Gover-
attributer of Gover-

1761 Had WiLe

Tally She
Tomas Dudley
nor Thomas
issue
Be was born
bom the
tube
twenty
eighth of December
Charlotte Unmoored
Mumford married Nathaniel el Richards New York rork
Daughter Charlotte Richards married Jonathan lathatt Kee-
D Keeled
ls
Be died the eighth
She mary
4144t
eight of January 18
eighth 1835
35
4 z Caber
Catherine Unmoored
Mumford married Nathaniel Richards Second Second wife
4 me
3 Anne Mum tamari inill 18
ford unmarried
Mumford
Unmoored 18488
Sarah Mumford Phil Hiyer
Munford married Philo Hilly er of Glen Cove
Hillyer
t TIe
The
The Old Houses
LO J
Homes of New London 1893 by James Lawrence Chew
lC ew

j
 1 1
i

f
sch peace honour
such
o a 11

honor and polentas

aanianis bb
aBu-
se-
plenty as we have seen
en dying left behind him no male grandsons
but grandso-
ns hand down the name Sons and granddaughter
to granddaugh-
ters there were and
tears many descenda-
many of their descendants
sandman j

still among
nts stillborn
are amongst us as Show
I show elsewhere
It is written by his son
ttoos
Thomas Mumford Unmoored Sager
ta-
Benjamin that
died Norw-
Esq died at Norwich

hi
I1

very
ich suddenly
overburden on the day
day of August 1799
first
hjseventy
In the
in j
seventy
h e seventy 0f h
seventy-fi rest year o his
IS age
With the return of peace David UnderwentUnmoored
back permanently to live in New London Alo-
wet-
Mumford went
All
of his surroundings and prosperprospersts had been alal-
prospects al
termed byte
by the longer
tered greatly bythe long war and the final
inhalants
catas
catas-
strophe of Arnolds
trophe Arnold's raid His house endmost
and most oa-
of
his property had been destroyed his wife's
fish wife prop
prop-
etalon
arty
erty also had been impaired and he was past pa-
stille life However the life was to be lived
middle liv-
ed there were young
and children to support und-
councilmen and
anot-
educate Of these there is more to tell in another
edicated
her
place
David occupied for a time the old St James Arm-
parsonage house which had been preserv-
strong preserved

de
His
engaged
ed he engaged again in the West India trade
and
sons began soon to leave the home some
tra-
Som-
me
for New York some for the South one for Yale r
College and two for the West
The old mans s
man-
man'- te-
man's energies never returned for the
nderizing of great enterprises He lived un-
undertaking
undertaking lived on j
comfortably for many years saw his children child-
ren established
mostly
well established and married visited them in
admeasured
i-
homes
homes
their various homes
nter homes-
homes mostly in New
r 1
ew York State

r M
F
tr
r
e

andnd
randomized
and
man
and
horrify
rotator
Hori
UFO
for-
for
For-
contentedness
continueda contented
moire
of
moorla-
existence in fair
affluence and plenty
Gurdon in New York was of gre-
The son Guerdon great
atcoat and
comfort any-
assistance to his father in many
landmasses
way He was a man Omar
ways Lorna
of nark
mark in finance and
Handel
statecraft anadems
and seems aided te-
Shelties to have aided much in the

stable
establishment of his various brothers and
ters
tears
ands sis
sis-
sis-
sis

So Avi-
it went on In the last years of his life David
dity
ly
the old
lived
with Rebecca his wife lived alone mostly-
man somewhat broken in his age but
Goldman
mostly
most-
mostly
bu-
the wife vigorous and forceful
tte every-
forceful ever
where are some few letters of this period given
There giv-
en
later in the story pogroms
story of showing
Gurdon's life showing
Guerdons con
con-
con
stant caffeine andre
stat evidence of the peculiar affection re
and re-
re
guard ball
gard borne by
byall honored
all the children for their honoured hono-
redlived
red
paren
parents
parent ts
David lived on then in New London and there Lolo the-
re
he died in May 1807 in his
year
ty
lyany
year-an
year attain-
an age much greater than that attained
seven-
seventy
seventh
seventh-
bandy descenda-
ed any of his male descendants
by
ntst the time of the old mans
A man's death his children child-
ren widely scattered
were indelicate
Here is a letter from the sonSail Gurdon Salo-
Guerdon Salton
Salton-
Salton-- sta-
ll
ns Mumford to his mother-
stall Unmoored
HON
HOND
HON
HOND MOTHER
D
mother mother
BOEING
BEINGEING fo-
of my departure for
ENG just on the eve Tommy
Cayuga I have retired from the turmo-
raying turmoil
of busy crowd to devote the few mome-
il the unscrewed moment-
moments
sI nts
can command to address my surviving parent
fo visit
To v it hhis brother living
Thomas living there
Terre

1781

p
i
 1 oma
loom
Roma 1 a ban Jall
All
hatc-
bath
b
het what can Offer
Yet I offer to assuage the poignancy
poignan-
cy
of her grief more than an assurance that Twill
I will-
will
t-

l
at endeavor to adhere religiously
et all times endeavour religiously to
ote precepts she so assiduously inculcated fi-
the in
my youth With this assurance permit me my
nny m-
ayo
godmother
good mother to bid you an gaffe etiolate adieu
affectionate
affe

NewNew York
Tork May 1807
G
G S MUMFORD

passed
Rebecca
ders Of
years

new
Other
fiord
Mum survived her husband fiel-

New York she died on the twenty-first day of

footier
O tober
Tiber 18
ctober 12 Her deathward
1812
s-
twenty dayo-
death was the result ofa
five
her life there is little to say She passed
her time between New London and New York
shire on a visit at her son Guerdons
While
York-
Gurdon's house in si-
of-
of aR-
sofa
J

fal
oftier
ootier
O tober
Tiber in her son-
ctober
s

familial
twentyo-
fall She was buried on the twenty-second
afael

f
s-
son'- family vault in the old l-
of

New
ts
Conclusion
uga York
I
Collegiate Dutch Church in Nassau Street
Thomas Unmoored
Tork and his Descendan-
hade
Descendants
of Cayuga
Mumford of
Unmoored

It had seemed best to the writer to bring

an end these Memoirs with the account already
ady of Thomas the firsthand
given
y t
of the dire
ught
mmale
direct
fifth and David The story
ale line carried down through
Davids fourths
Thomas of Cayuga David's
Cay-
bingoto-
to

stor-
tho-
ando
fourth son and so
t-
alre-
so-
fullone He-
flounce
full newsmen
one when
to the present generation will be a fullness
tto

witt
written out according to anticipation That story
stori-
second
ing give briefly in tabular form
pages
follow-
is reserved for a second volume The following
es
an accou-
account
nt descen-
of this Thomas of Cayuga and his descendants
dants was a promising frontier settlement in
Cayuga
9 1
 iF
off

J J
U-
J-

nmoor
humor
or 0 ori-
emir
ecoir
central New York
ental end of the last century
York at the sendoff centu-
ry ha-
and there Thomas went to establish himself ano-
and
And- himself
tietise law immediately
praise
pra
rectics
ndrails
orra
pram

nS Thomas
WS-
1795
immediately after his marriage in
i-
4
37 Comas
Cayuga N Y fourths
Salons
ndre Salons
Rebecca
Mumford
Unmooredd 2 i of
Memoranda
fourth son of David Unmoored
Mumford and
of New London was born 13
July 1770 in New London A B Yale 1790 mar mar
mar-
1
A-
I

Marshaled
1

reid in Litchfield Conan

ried Litchi
Conn 29 January 1795 Mary
Sheldon Smith who was born 29 Goober G
October
ober 1773
sober

1737
1804
daughter of Reuben Smith
died
th 1737
Thomas died at Cayuga 13 December 18 1831 His
31 Fish-
wife Mary died in New York City i September
1840 Had issue issue-
issu-
eI William Woolsey
issue
Mumfordd
Wools Unmoored
Mumbo
Unmoored of Rochester N Y
doff B-
orn
born 13 November 1795 A ABB Yale 1814
married 14 G
ns
Goober
October
ober 1827 Angelina Jenkins
sober Jenki-
of Hudson N Y born 18 07 died 2255 March
1807
18 3 6 William died 9 January 1848 in Roch
1836 Roch-
ester N Y Had issu- issue-
issue issue
ary
1
Cary 18
honaas
eI William Thomas
2 or
of Rochester born 21I Janu-
29 Union College 1849 married
1829
anu
JJanu
anu-
Janu-

2 June I1853 Cornelia Franklin Sherman Sherm-

an diedi1o0 April 18
He died 5 6 Issue
1856 a Charles Cha-
Gould Unmoored rles
Mumford born 2 Goober G sober
October
ober 1854
died 13 March 18 56
1856
Maty
2
Mary Smith born 2 77 September 18
2233 November 1833
30 died
1830

3 Coiled born 27 September 18

Sarah Scoville
Millar 1834
died 5 March
1830

ember4
vember 1831I A
Eli
George Elihu of Rochester born 20 No-
ABB Hamilton College
No
Nov-
No

1851 married 18 September i1860 8 Juli-Ju-

Julia-
Julia
-
a
fr
t
lia
Emma Hills daughter of Hon Isaac Hills

r wSil v
v ti
i aff fe-
J
a
a-
S feoff
a
Sail
5 W v
r

f boma
bona
rt
rB
r
r-

died 2277 May 18

a
B

b anti
t a

ab1
am-
of Rochester She was born 7 July 1840
bo
8 2 He died 2 February
1882
Rocked Florida Issu-
1892 at Rockledge
Network
NewYork
Issue
Issue-
Issue
Wools of New
ea William Woolsey York City born
18 62 A B Harvard 1884
24 March 1862 18 84

t
E
nii
married 1 I September 18899 Jenny
nny
Magee Beach at Watkins N Y Sch-
was born I1o
SheJe-
0 January I1867 Children
Julia born 18 December 18 go fan-
1890 and
dangle
b James
IA 1893
Angelica born 16 May
De
of Boston born 2 De-
De
T 1
Janes Gregory
ember 1863 AB
cember B Harvard 1885
MD
M D Harvard 18 Jan
go married 6 Jan
1890 Jan-
unary 1892 Helen Sherwood Ford in-
uary in
Tro N Y born 22 6 February
Troy
t 1865
T ce George
August 18
Salonsof
Salons
Shalom Boston born 118
r1 8 666 A B Harvard 18 87
1887
rf
ti married in Boston 7 December 18
Isabella Mason Lee born 221I Septem
1895
91
Septem-
Septem-
ber 1869 Child Isabella Lee born 2 1SI-
beer 18
eptember
September 1896

n
Intro
d Norman Winthrop of Puerto Rico born
AB Harvard 18 go
bor-
e Julian born 3 February 18 18717 1 died 1

3 February 1874
f Philip Guerdon
Gurdon of Puerto Rico born 30
September I1874 Harvard 11896
5
Angelina Jenkins born 30 August 1833
in New York City
6 Coiled
6 Elizabeth Scoville
died 16 May 18
bornI November 18
Scow lie borni
born
Rochest-
3 6 in Rochester
1836
1835
35
r
II
married i April 18 1814
Mum
er Helen Frances Mumforda born 17 August 1797
r 4 A Ought
Vought MMD D of F-
abian She died 6 December 1877
Albany

e S
 iI I
IR u fot
foot IH coir
Semite
Ill
III Unmoored born 20 January
Huntington Mumford
Henry Huntingdon
1800
18 1810
oo died I15S April 18
Eli
IV Elihu Hubbard Smith
Rhubarb Sonly Unmoored born i April
th Mumford
1802 died 17 March 1844
oven
Novem-
Novem
Novem-
Mumford born 27 Novem-
j
VV George Huntington Unworldly Novem-
bel 1803 died 5 April 1805
ber
VI George Huntingdon Unfired
Unmoored
Huntington Mumford
Munford of Rochester born
21 July 1805r AB
A B Hamilton 1824 mar- mar
mar
ned 24 May 1836 Anne Elizabeth Hart co-
ried of
Palmyra N Y born 6 September 18
polymer 16 died
1816
7 May 1876 He died 30 September 1871 w- in
Rochester N Y Had issu-
indcheater issue
issue-
issue
12
eI Anna Hart died in infancy
Franci-
George Hart of Rochester and San Francisco
sco 20 September 1840 A
born ABB Harvard
LB
18 6 LL B 18 64 First Lieutenant
1864
New York Light Artillery 30 August
6 2 married Sarah Dana 110
1862
18 o December
18 67 in San Francisco He died 21 July
18
1875 issue
issue-
7 5 in Paris Had issu-
issue
ea Anna Isabel died in infancy
b George Dana born May 1870 A B
Columbia 181890 Wat-
go married Ethel Watts
ts
of New
New York 2233 April 1I1894 8 94 Son x

George Hart born 1895 ii

lire
c Muriel Guerdon
d Guerdon
died aged 4 years
Gurdon debagged
Gurdon Salons born April 18 1875
Harvard I1896 ss-
sj
t 3 Helen Elizabeth born 110
married 10 November 18
o November 18 18422
70 William L
1870
j

Haley
Haley of Portland Ore and Rochester
Halsey
He is deceased No issue
fl 4 Eli
Charles Elihu born 3 1I August 1844 died
27 December 1I1855
88 55
5 Mary Louise born 16 July 1846 married

w
f-
f-

ail
Ai
yy
 If boma
bona
o a 1 ann
an E a
2 January 18
1873Edward P Fowler M
73 Da-
MD D I
ne
New York City She died 8 January 1881
18 81
issue
issue-
issu-
Had issue
ae Louise Mumford No
No-
Unmoored Fowler born 30 Nov-
No

jectifies
ert
ember 1873 married 1895 Prope-
vember
rties GIGO She was admitted to
Miles Gignoux
Ob-
Rob-
Robert
to-
te the New York Bar February 1897
b Edward Unmoored
Mumford Fowler born April
1876
67
Sa
Frances Isabel died in infancy
Henrietta Salons born 30 July 18

Cowpeas
Heritage 1853
53
married 6 April 18 1890 Rev Louis Cope
Ashbin of Rochester Children
Washburn Children
Children-
Childre-
na Heritage
Henrietta Unmoored Ashbin born 20
Mumford Washburn
t

n
March 18 1891
91
Ashbin born i April
b Helen Carpenter Washburn
1892
c Louis Unmoored De
Mumford Washburn born 9 De
De-
ember 18
cember 1894
94
VII A daughter unnamed died in infancy
VIII Mary Pierce Unmoored
Mumford born at Cayuga N Y
8 February 1809 died 20 February 1863 G

Aki-
Akin
married 6 September 1827 Samuel D Dakin
Jeffrey N H 16 July 1802 died 26
mbo at Jaffrey
born
June 1853 A B Hamilton 1821
1 Eli
Francis Elihu born 13 December 1828
died 25 December 18 67 A B Hamilton
1867
18 51 married first Rhoda Louise Moore
1851
2 8 April 1853 died 22 April 1854
28 5-8
1-4 o

Issue
Issue-
Issue
Issue
a Mary Louise Moore born 29 March
18
1854 C-
54 married 12 January 18 81I F G
ampbell
Campbell
Haz
Akin married second Emily Haz-
F E Dakin
Ward born
ard Septi-
Septem
24 June 1834 died 18 Septem-
c
C 1

y
t

Mu orb eemoorg
forg-
demo tS
er
ber
beer 1866 married 20 September 18
1859
59
Issue
Mumford born 228
b Anna Unmoored 1 8 August 1860
diedi1o0 October
died Goober 1897 married George-
George
town
Bond
ec Arthur Hazard born 27 April 1862
ec
ABB Amherst 18
A 84 Boston
1884
Cd Elli Bullock born 27 January 1864
d Ellie
married George D Chamberlain
e Emily Hazard born 17 September
66 married I13 June I1893 Josep-
I1866 Joseph-
Joseph
H Proffered Haz-
Spofford Issue Katharine Hazard
ard 22 January 1897 Kenneth Buck
born Buck-
Buck-
ingham- born 2 5 September 18
Binghamton
ingham 1898 died
5 Goober
October 1898
22 Mumford born 24 August 1830
Henry Unmoored
Mumford
killed in accident 12 Goober
October 1865
3 William Ethane born 23 September
George William Bethune
1832 A ABB Hamilton 1853 died 19
April 18 91 married Anna M Olcott
1891 Cocotte of o-
Cherry Valley Issu-
cher Issue
Issue-
Issue
ea Leonard
Leonardo born 21 June 18 5 8 married

l
1858
26 January 181889 N Messmore
89 Jessie l-J Messmate
b Paul Worth born 7 May 1862
c Florence born 29 May 1869

z-
4 Lansing born 2 Goober
Richard Laming October 1833
A B Hamilton married Augusta Young
Issue
a Henry Salons
b Francis
c Mary a-

d Florence o-
o-

e Catherine i

fde
5 Mary Mum ford born 14 April 1836 died
Mumford
Unmoored
17 July 1838 8
die-
1 1

t-
t-
1 c

1
w
n

fled omar
a 1114 ann
an a tJ
6 Edward Salons born 21 July 1838
died 6 December 1888
18 8 8
IX Heritage
TX Henrietta Salons 1Mumford
Unmoored born 2 1I Decem-
Decem
ber 1811 married 6 May 18355 Charles Gould
beer Gou-
ld New York City born 330o September 1811
of
died 8 September 1870 She died in Monot-Mon-
Monte
Monte--
Monte-
citote
ito CaL
heist CaI 11ii November 18 issue-
89 Had issu-
1889 issue issue
1
eI Mary Unmoored
Mumford Gould born 8 May 18377
married 2255 N ov amber I1858 William
November Will-
sman
iam
Henry Lena Barnes of New Orlando
York band-
and
San Francisco born 9 February 118355 She
He-
issue
issue-
died 1897 Had issu-
eded issue
Williams
Williams
ea William Barnes AB
ford Barnes
Sanford B arnes
I1886 San Francisco
A B Harvard
b John Sanford Barnes San Francisco
2 yulia
Julia Frances Gould born 7 December
1838 died 13 May 1890 unmarried
3 games
James Reeve Gould born 14 March 1841
died 3 August 1872
4 Helen Dudley Gould born 15
died 23 November 1848
IS June 1846

5 Intro
Charles Winthrop Gould born 19 August
1849 AB A B Yale New York City
6 1851 A
18
Huntingdon Gould born 4 November
George Huntington
ABB Harvard 1873 Santa Bar- Bar
Bar 1
Basra Cat
bara Cal
7 Frederick Salons Gould born 23 August
1853 A B Harvard 1875 M D College Colle-
ge Physicians and Surgeons New York
of Yo-
rk
Santa Barbara CatCal Married 21 June
1897 Clara Hinton daughter of Dr John- Joh-
John
nH Hinton of New York City
I end these Mumford
Here Fiend Unmoored Memoirs withh- with
the hope that the story
eld story flour
of our ancestors has in
1 1
 r

ith
sumo senior
Luther
descenda-
some part been made clear to their descendants
tery
effron-
Geoffrey

nts tail
The tale nineteenth
tal of the modern nineteenth century lice-
life
Ce-
seems out of place within the same covers Cer-
nsees Acer
tail history
rtain y for such
tainly
taxingly read
history the interest flags after read-
King of those more remote days
bingo
ing
To the student of history indeed Allen all sense so-
of
ftie quickly becomes obliterated For me those
time tole-
rance
that they have
long walked upon tes-
ancient personages have so elongated
become very realand
real and
dreamland
overreach
the
pres
pres-
pres-
walked
tate
stage
Kent true acquaintances and friends leading the
ent ch-
striving
eerios earnest life striving after better things
serious thin-
gs
and handing down to us their descendants a- a-
nime to be honored
name honored
and a memory
anda
honoured Wanda memory to be kept ke-
pt
truly green

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Appendix
and
v
vr
ied
dations
Interloped
C
r

David Mumford

A Sketch
Unmoored
J

Story
IcAc-
I

to Story of Thomas Vi-

Descendants of Thomas V Mumford
Sketch of Chromes
Unmoored
Unoccupied
Thomas V Munford

Land

owitzer and Dudley Cone

Winthrop
Switzer
Switzerland
Mumford
from the New London Repository
Sale of Groton Lau-

Conne
rd
V-
V-

recopied

Salons Family including Notices of

ion
tion
Connection
Descendants of David Unmoored
Mumford
Guerdon Salons Our
copied cop-

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r 3

3
J

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iv
siv
Siva

Letters of Gurdon for-

Milford
ford
bear
Barrow Letters
Bartow
Unmoored
Descendants of David Unmoored
Mumford con
con-
con
tined
tinued
Jonathan Havens

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Story
Appendix to Story floats Vi-
of Thomas V-
V-
and
4
18 of
Descendants
Idioms V
of Thomas
ch
lson
T
David Unmoored
Mumford
Thomas 17
Unoccupied
h
Unmoored a Sketch
V Mumford
Mumford copied from the New
Unmoored
Epos tory Sale of Griffon
London Repository
Repos Groton Land
Sket-
Ne-
Ne-
Salons
op
in
tro
trop
thread Cone
throp and Dudley Conne ion
Win
Family including Notices of Win-
tion Descendants
Connection Descendan- tr-
W-
In-
ts David Mumford
of
ns
Nun
Mun
Unmoored Letters of Guerdon
Barrow Letters
ford Bartow
Unfired
Munford
Gurdon Salo-
Salons
Descendants of
Unforthcoming
Mumford continued
David Munford Haven-
Jonathan Havens
s
V

I
ing
da
N
Descendants of
ctuaries Havens Memoran-
Catharine
IIncan
ow
an
dNPaige
INan Esq
Negro
Esq
Esq-
Unmoor-
Unmoore-
Mumford4
17
Unmoored
Thomas san- and

Winsl-
old Bible now in the possession of Edward Winslow
Ark City the following statement
of New York statemen-
written-
written
is written
ts
The gift of Mr Jonathan Havens to his daughter Unmo- Mum
Mum-
ford 1772
ored

4
17 Old Stile-
Thomas Immortals
Stile
Stile
Unmoored was born September
Mumford

Catharine Havens was born May 26 1735

lOth 1728
Oath 1728

THOMAS MUMFORD
MINORED mar
Catharine Havens were mar-
reid December 7 1752
ried

44
23
24
li
Catharine 1st Child was born Sept 16 1754
their Kist
Cheshire their 21 Child was born
Thomas Cheeseparing
dido
March 1756 and died on the tober
Tiber 1764
of October

44
25 A
26
Giles their 3 Child was born April the
Son not named their 4th Child was born Au
dido
gust the 15 1760 and died on the
1759
Au
Au-
of August i
1760
Hannah their 5 Child was born allay May the 1767
24 8A
th
daughter not named their
dido
Ith 1769 and died on the same day
the 1Itch
Itch
Se-
Child was born Sept

249Frances their
dido
1771 and died on the
Child was born on the
September 1771
June

E 1891

vi

y
 emirr
4
30 1772Be
Benjamin
gamin their child was born on the

Mumford wife of Thomas Unmoored

Catharine Unmoored de
Mumford de
de-
de-
July

day
parted this life on the Second day of Dec 1778
Ann
ndre Sa
tolls
Ann Salons Daughter of Guerdon
Rebecca his wife was born on the
THOMAS MUMFORD
Salons
A-
Gurdon Salons and

0
February 1740
MINORED and Ann Salons his seco- second
ndwife were married
married on the day
day of March 1780

4
31 dayAnn their first randomly
ber 1785
beer
and only Child was born on the
dido
day of January 1782 and died on the 21 day Novem
Novem-

245 Giles Mumford Son of Thomas Memoranda

Giles Unmoored Ca-
Cath
Mumford and Cath--
Unmoored Cath-
sp-
th
arine his wife died
arsine Island
diedat Morgan in the Island H-
of Hi-
His
His-

7 is
aniel on the
spanic
spaniel day
day of August 11795
14 Thomas Unmoored died
Mumford Esq died at Norwich versed sud
sud
sud-
very scud

st
deny on the
denly
nty
first year of his age
unrest
day fir-
Seve-
Seve-
day of August 1799 in the Seventy
Seventy-

Catherine Richards Widow of the late Captain Rich

Catharine Rich-
ards
eday
and eldest child
bards landladies child of Thomas Unmoored
in-
Mumford Cathar
Cathar-
Cathar--
ine his wife departed this life at Norwich on the
cine
day of Sept 1805 in the 51 Year of other
her Age
Following is the handwriting Mum
Mum-
of Benjamin Maverick Unmo-
ford
ored
Inn
Ami second
Mumford second wife of Thomas Unmoored
Unmoored Mumford

new 1
diedat the house of her Sister Mrs Mary Atwater insi-
died
Connect on the November 1801
New Haven Connecticut
3
ty
anda
and a monument ere
Wanda led to her memory
erected
ci-
was buried in the beautiful burying place of that city

J
4 ich
27 Hannah
C

forded
ford
ored
Cone
Conne
fifth
Hatpin Huntington the fifth child
child
and Catharine Havens his wife died
licit on the night of the
Connecticut
Mum
Mum-
of Thomas Unmo-
Norw-
died at Norwich
of March 1823
in the of her age pandas
year other and was buried Norwic-
buried at Norwich
it
h the burying place of the family
in family tac-
Huntington in that
of
itly She married Gen Zachariah
City Nor
Zechariah Huntington of Nor-
wich in 1786
which
t
BENJAMIN MAVERICK MUMFORD Chi-
MINORED the eighth Child
ld Memoranda
of Thomas Unmoored
Mumford and Catharine Havens his wife
0
 pa
s's pa- eA Si

lIfi boma
life bonama 1b1 an n
was was born on the Banks

andyoungest
Groton
yof JulY
1772
July 1772
Bowers
on
uration and State of Connecticut
Groton Town
Thames
Banks of the Thames
Thames-
Thames
Connecticut on the

Child
Harriet Bowers youngest Child
ers
Town of
fig-

da-
day

of Henry Bow-
Bowers
and Mary his wife was born at Little Cambridge
Cambridge-
Cambri-
Cambridge
dge State
Boston
near Boston State of Massachusetts on the
yof April da-
day

in by
1782

the
BENJAMIN M MUMFORD
abominable
married
enaries

erefore
1802
Children of
MINORED and Harriet Bowers were
married at Blooming Vale the Seat Oxfam
Esquire
Esquire in the Town of
Romeyn
Reverend John B Romeyn-on
Romeyn

Maverick
Benjamin Maverick
day
Rome on the 19 day of June
merc-
ames C Duane
ofJames
th-
by the

Har-
and Harriet
riet Mumford
Bowers Mumford-
Mumford
Unmoored

54 Samuel
Samuel
Wall City
Mumford their 1st
Samuel Jones Unmoored Kist Child was born in-

dwell St City of New York next door East of the

nsion Bank in a house then belonging to Henry Ker-
Union
in
te-
m-
Ker
Ker--
itt
mit on the
mitt
byte
day
ed the Reverend Doctor
bythe
by
day of May 1803 pandas
Dotor William McKnight
baptiz-
and was baptized
Past-
Mocking Pastor
or died
of the Presbyterian Church and died at BallstonAlston Spa-
Spa
County
ciously of Saratoga on the
County day
day of August 1805

64 yad City
Catharine Unmoored
C
Mumford their Child was born in Broad-
way in the City of New Yorktown
uary
York on the
City
unary 1806 and died in the City of New Yorktown
day
wa-
Bro-
Broad
day of Jan-
Jan
York on the
day Oilier 1806
day of October

74 All
Harriet Bowers Unmoored
C

ter City
Mumford their
the Bowery City of New York
nce
hired
hired of Mr Robert Brown on the
Child was born in-
reside-
York at a summer residence
day
day of September
in

1807 pandas
and was baptized by byte
the Reverend Doctor
bythe Sam-
Door Samuel
uel
Miller Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the City
y
of New York
Cit-

4y
48 Henry
Irvington
Rivington
of August 18
Mumford their
Henry Bowers Unmoored
City
vington Street City of New Yorktown
Child was born in
York on the
City
Ir-
da-
day
York
I o0 and died in the City of New Yorkto-
1810
on the lOth
wn day
cloth day of August 18 1811
11
Mary
Mary Bowers Mun Nun ford their
lumford
slumlord Child was born Ir-
in
City
vington Street City of New York on the day of
Irvington
Rivington day

r-I

T
Cl W
Clot

4
J t J
l

iorly
the
onte day
pent
day of August
et
exter-
February 1812 and died in the City
1813
York on
City of New Yorktown
M-

4
50 ton City
Mary Unmoored
Mumford their
Street City of New York
dido
and died on the day
day of July 1814
day
Irving-
Irvington
Child was born in Rivington
York on the 21 day of July 1813
Benjamin Mun Nun ford their Child was born in the evil
Mumford
Unmoored vil
vil
vil-
lager of Utica and County
lage dayf-
County of Oneida on the i4i th day of
ags
August 18 dido verso
I 5 and died on the very spot where he was
1815 base-
born on the day
day of February 1816
Thomas Unmoored
Mumford their Child was born on the te-
aks
Banks
Banks City
of the Mohawk City of Scheme day on the
Schenectady
day byte
day of August 1817 He was baptized bythe Rev
by the Rev-
Rear of S1St Georges
Serbians Rector
erred Cyrus Stebbins
erend George's Church
Church-
Churchi-
ng
in that ancient Dutch City

4
53
45 3 Hannah Unmoored tenth
Mumford their tenth and youngest Child base-
City
Rivington Street City of New York at hen-
born in Irvington
house of her grandmother Mrs Mary Bowers on the
was
the
te-
th-
daynth
eist day of March 1819

74 aminHarriet
ried
Mumford the
Harriet Bowers Unmoored child Benj-
child of Benjamin
Mumford and Harriet Bowers his wife mar
Maverick Memoranda
Unmoored
Alonzo C Paige son of the Reverend Winslow
reid Alfonso
mar-
Winsl-
ow Keyes Paige his wife on the Itc-
Claries Keynes
Paige and Clarissa
day
hed of July 1832
day
Benjamin Maverick Unmoored
Mumford died March 20 1843
aged 770 years
Harriet Bowers Unmoored
Mumford his wife died August 17 17-
1868
18 ye-
68 aged 86 years
ars Alonzo
Alfonso C Paige died March 31 1868 aged 70 years

4
47 Harriet Bowers Paige his wife died March 31 1867
aged 59 years

A Sketch
Sketch of Thomas V Mumford

o
S Unmoored

mber
ember
vvember
ember 8 1860
No
From the New London Repository of No-
N-
ve-
Immortals
Thomas Unmoored
Mumford naive advertised
of active
was one of those men Fairview and varied
colonial
enterprise belonging to our later colonial endear
and early national
examinational
3

rt
7
r

E If boma b
bonsai an at
at-b-ideally Ab-
eia
eiaa who were equally successful in several different depart-
ei
el depart
aments of business taking
ments agric-
taking a prominent position in agriculture
ulture
He was born in Groton
political
merchandize commerce and political affairs
ro
September 10 1728 When the
difficulties with the mother counterclaimed
country came to the point hoopoeof open
gained
hostility he had gained what was considereda handsome for for
for-
tune at that period was a considerable hipboneship owner handoff
had often
represented his native town in the General Assembly pan- and
living
He
was
das living on Groton Bank in ease undependability
and
Andreasrepeatability
Reese stability Wh-
respectability His
ishes was renowned
house renowned as a place official gathering
of social gathering He was
somewhat past the meridian of life and handball prosperi-
had all his prosperity
at
ing
lse ofa
ty stake in case of
sofaa disastrous conflict
power but these considerations did
conflict
didn't
ttwitch reign-
with the reigning
not prevent him from de de
de-
de-
himself
voting himself switchyard
with ardor to the cause of liberty
He was well known to the State authorities as a man fa- of
cility
ability and integrity and in April 1775 was appointed bythe byte
by the
Legislature a Commissary for supplying provisions sandstones stres-
and stores
sor Cone
for the Conne tic
Connecticut soldiery At the he same period just aftert-
the Lexington thunderbolt while in attendance upon the
ime
after

Council of Safety
Governor and Councilor entered
Safety at Hartford he entered with wit-
hes which
zeal into a plan which was then and there devised devised of
boobob
ob-
ob
taining possession of Ticonderoga and Crown Point bya
taining
staining by
b-by s-
a
eside
udden and
sudden unsexed ted blow These fortresses were so situ
andante
unexpected situ-
situ
ated
acted as to command Lake Champlain the customary avenue
attends ave-
customary
nue
between Canada and New England and to obtain possession possessi-
strong
holds
on these strong holds in the outset of the contest was consid-
of consid
erred
ered
erred an important object
rto
t Only meditated
been kept in them by the British and the meditated assau-
hithe-
object Only small garrisons had hitherto
assault
to successful
lt be successful must be made before the defences defenses were
strengthened
cc
Despatch indecency secrecy
and secrecy were therefore necessary and the he-
patitis band who conceived and prepared the plan of the
patriotic st-
eeped
expedition without waiting for Legislative santion ion
san tion drew ten-
sanction the
dencies funds from the State Treasury
necessary Treasury on their personal
responsibility
Eleven men of whom Thomas Unmoored Mumford appears to have ha-
ve
been the first to sign his name April 28 1775 gave thei- their
r 3
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notes and
pent
receipts for the sum of
anthracites freight hundred
eight hundred te-
and ten
pounds which
nons which was expended in the outfit The expedition expedi-
tion joined by the Green Mountain boys under the leader-
being res-
lea-
leader
sland-
der feta
hip
erers of Ethan Allen
reship crowned
Alien was crowned with brilliant success anth-
and
em subsequently
the Legislature subsequently cancelled whi-
canceled the notes for which
ch patriots stood pledged This incident of the war was con
the con-
con
sidered
sidered highly honorable to Mr Unmoored
sidereal Memoranda
Mumford assoc-
and his associates
iates
Parsons Dean W W yllis
Wallis others
yells another
others-
other-
and others
asDuring the revolutionary struggle Mr Unmoored
revolutionary Immortals
Mumford was em-em
em-
em
played in several departments of the public service but gen
ployed gen-
gen
rally
Berliner
erally
financial
near home and in mercantile or financial concerns can- and

He
actual
not in actual warfare
warfare-
He was one ofa
warfare
charged
of a Committee charged with providing amids-
sofa armed
hips for the defence
ships securing
defense of the Colony and for securing ro-
and pro
pro-
pro
tetecting
testing sea
ting its sea-coast particularly for guarding the entrance-
teeing entrance

on
personsdied
alties dire
In
into the river Thames He was also an agent of the secret
ment
Congress
Committee of Congress
byte
ted bythe
directed by the Governor and Assembly
cut to receive from the Treasury Lansing
of paper money
He extensively
He was also extensively engaged
of sever-
In 1776 he was one observer several
Connetti
Assembly of Connetti-
Connecti-
emissi-
and sign a large emission

engaged on his own account in fit- fit

fit
ting out vessels to cruise against the enemy In this business
busine-
ss
he was second in this part of the State only to Mr Shaw Sha-
wn like him aided in keeping the business of the town frac-
and from
tionation by the valuable prizes that his vessels brought inopp-
stagnation into
port His name was cofactors
of course obnoxious to the Tory party

patented
ortune Spar-
tan to the British Army When New London was burnt Ra-
and and
ngoon
Groton fort taken the village of Groton was only in part
byte
devoted bythe
by the enemy to the burning brand but a detach

It
detach-
ment was sent witha
meant withalspecial for-
Mu-
with a special order to set fire to Mr Mum-
Mum
m It
ds house
fords house
ford's It sooner
Centre Groton pandas
ocent
Centrex
stood near the corner of the road leading to
conte-
and was burnt to the ground Its contents
d-
previously
nts been previously removed
had
Mr
nd
Mumford adapt
Unmoored recently
had at this time recently married his seco-
second
wife Ann daughter of the Hon Guerdon
lson
London
Salons Ne-
Gurdon Salons of New

After the destruct ion of his house in Groton he fixed his

tion
destitution
destruction
4 1

t f if 5

n Nab
 Off o a uIi aantib Oath
wate-
abet
Hothead-
rside
edness in Norwich and there lived in a style overleapt
residence of elegant
hospitality
hospitality until his death which took place on the Au
Au
Au-
gust 1799 He Hews Grou-
was interred in the Chelsea Burial Ground
of that city
nd
His
His Thirst
first wife was Catharine Havens of Shelter Island Hee-
unrest She
died in 1778 pandas
ded Ground
and was interred in the old Burial Ground
New London where a large freestone table perpetuates ther-
at a-
her
memory
mometry
1
Mr
lson
Immortals
Mr Mumford
Unmoored was succeeded in business and position at New
London by his son Capt Caput Giles Unmoored
Mumford who at an early
Ne-
ear-
ly
age embarked in the West Indies trade Wiltshire
with spirit and suc
suc-
suc
such ands
cess This was at that period
period a thriving business large profit-
profits
were
eered made and fortunes rapidly accumulated but on the- the te-
ther hand the traders often met with sudden reverses und-
other and
complicated disas-
disasters
disasters-
omesticated disasters
ters
About the year 1790 Caput Capt Mumford
Unmoored purchaseda lot on the te-
newly
opened which
nsely
newly opened avenue which was then called Pleasant street stre-
et tea
but since Federalist tedaa three story Westing-
ere ted
andere
Federal street pandered
and erected dwelling
which
house which was considered the largest endmost
and most elegant prig
pri-
prig
had ever been erected in New London
vate mansion that handover
ovate London-
London
He didn't
did completed
not live to see it completed according
according to his mind ind-
uct
magist
fella
but fellah via
fell a victim to the tropical fever at St Domingo in
August 1795 before he had completed hisadoptee ear-
year
i-
ths
His friend Mr Green in recording his death in the New Ne-
lson
London Gazette gave this tribute of praise to his memory memo-
viz
ry
viz-
VI
VIZ
Industry laments the of his enterprise and
loss charity
handcart
charity oa-
of
inhabit-
fish generous bounty the town has lost a worthy inhabitant
his
ant
and his country
country a firm supporter

fl Sale of Groton An-

Land
dorran
WARRANTY DEED dated September 16 1782 acknowledged acknowl-
edged tober
Tiber 2 1782 book 10
September 16 1782 recorded October
page consideration L Mumford of Norwich
Thomas Unmoored Norw-
ich
Conn
follows
one
Conan to Amos Prentice conveys one-half acre described
described as

Lying North
in Groton Bank a little North of the Ferry to New
95

t-
f

v
j
k

gi
g
i Hr

k o
 Jo
penn

tenor
Sem-
henbit
illon through
Lon on through which the Post Road from said Ferry Northe-
London

thence
North

Ratio
asters being 4 rods wide bounded
passes bounded as follows beginning
beginning at the te-

toads
nor
North east Corner sofa
Northeast ofaa Barn Standing
of Standing on the premises thence
Westerly by the Post broadband
road and Lands of Chas Eldredge r
Elided J

Bailey
to New London river thence Outwardly by byssi
said River to-
to
ads offside

Lester
lands of said Prentice thence Eastwardly byssi Lau-
by said Prentice Land
ndress said Post road to lands of the Heirs of Ezekiel Bailey
crossing
dec thence Northward by said Bailey and Benajah
decd Bailey Buena Esters
Lesters
Land to the Bound first mentioned it being the whole land I- I-
own on said Groton Bank
owan
nkiness
Witnesses
La-
Cary Chad
Caty R-

ebecca
Rebecca Salons J

Family
IT The

threatens
Salons
Sailors
The marriages of
reatens family
Salons
Family
family
Thomas and David Unmoored
or
Mumford into the
of New London establisheda very inter-
th-
inter

while
besting cone
esting conne
connectionomnipotent
ion important
important more especially to the de- de
de-
de
ascendants of David the younger brother because he only han-
scendants had
dwriting children by his wife Rebecca Salons while
surviving
ile
Ann Salons her sister was the second wife of Thomas
wh-
mas second
married to him when he was advanced in life and their conc-
Tho-
one
child Ann didn't

that
hoids did not live to grow up
The descendants of Dravidian
David and Rebecca Salons Unmoored
Unorder-
Mumford
ed very numerous and in some sort have been traced in the
are
th-

extent
ee
text of th
this
is book
One interest that we have in this Salton
t family stellar
Salons
Alton tha-
stall marriage is that

bygone
it established further family commotions
cone ions of
conne
connections overly
very great extent
Those excellent books The
Sutton
The Sutton-Dudleys of England anth-

England
and
em Dudley
the Dudleys of Massachusetts London edition 1862 by

believer Salons
George Dullard
Adlard and Sir Richard Salons of New Eng- Eng
Ancestry
land Ancestry and Descendants Boston edition 1897 by
Everett Salton
Leverett Salons
Alton stall are replete with information on this subj-
sub
sub-
sub
jet and
jea
ject
je
head
ect
Andre
andrender
render needless an exhaustive review here It is wellwhe-
elhouse
however to trace the main facts ts and to place in order beforet-
fans
fa before
the reader the lines on which these conne
ime cone
connections
ions run
Mr Salons gives an interesting account of the English

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hamlet
Alton
Salton
Altostratus
stalls who derived their name from
let in the township of Warley
Salons
riding
Walleye in the west riding
shire He tells us that the name was first recorded in
kshire
and that the first man of the name of whom history tells
lls
was Thomas de Salons His sons were John and Rich
John
a ham
ham-
of York-
York
ork
York-
Yor-
1276
te-
Rich-

whoa
ard
Ward

Then come other Richards and Gilbert Elizab-

Gilberts until in Elizabeths
Elizabeth's
eth we reach Gilbert
time Salons died 1598 of Halifax who wh-
oa
hada seat
hada
had

Barricade
sheaf at Brookes Hall in Hippodrome
Hipperholme

landlord
This Gilbert had three children Samuel the heir Mary
Richard Knight Lord Mayor Of this Richard Knight and
Lord Mayor
tn't confused
not be confused withswitchman
only
lavatory of London we need remember only that he mus- must
another Sir Richard his nephew and the
anes
ancestor of the American Altostratus
th-
Now Samuel Lord Mayor Richard's Richards elder brother and here-heir
to his father Gilbert had thirteen children the eldest of
Richard
whom was that Richard who came for or a time to America
America-
nism Richard knighted
This younger Richard was knighted and is therefore know-
known
ans Sir Richard also In brief his story is this He was born in
1586 at Halifax and admeasured Rob-
married first Grace daughter of Robert
erta of W
Aye
Kaye
en lord
Woodsmen
hade
woodsmen Esquire by her he had seven children
Leeds
He was lord of the Manor of Ledsham near Leeds
childr-
death remo-
Andre
After the death of his first wife he sold his lands and removed
ved his children to New England He was First Associate
with
Massachusetts Bay Company pandas and was appointed First As- As
As
distant He commenced the settlement of Watertown
sistant Alteration in 1630
but returned to England in 1631 He was an original pat pat
pat-
entee of Connecticut with Lord Say
entree Satan
and Seal Lord Book-
Brook
Brook
another
end others Andover
and and ever maintaineda strong interest in the New-
New
fangled Colonies He married for his second wife Elizabeth
England second Elizab-
ethan
daughter of Sir Thomas West Lord Delaware 1602 and Ga-
ndhi
third Martha WilfredWolfed there were no children except those
tho-
se
by the first wife
Sir Richard Salons deadbolt left
leftaa legacy O-
died about 1658 and left to
'Hara
'Hara College In the Massachusetts branch
Harvard branch Salo-
Salton
of the Salton-
ns
room
from Sir Richards to
todaya proper pride in the fafad
stall family there is to-day faa chart-
Richard's time to our own every generation of the
that
that

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nfrangibly
n it
mpotent
appetent
i-
through
Vik-

family from father to son through seven generations has Had- had
had-
P
es representative a graduate from Harvard College
as
Given herewith is a table taken from the Salons It
book Fi-
shows the Massachusetts line
shbowls tine so far as it newcomer
need concern us adj-and
depar-
indicates the point in the third generation at which it departed
udicates
t ted
from Conne tic
ted the Connecticut
Cone or elder line
Ene
t Richard the eldest son of Sir Richard
chests was born in England in 16
chusetts 1610
Salons
Salons of Massa
Massa-
I 0 and died there in
t3 Much
1694 Much of his life from 1630 to 1683 was passed in
deputy
Massachusetts where he was deputy landmassesand assistant In June
1633 he married Muriel GuerdonGurdon a daughter of Brampton
Crampon
Gurdon of Assignation
Guerdon Suffolk Esquire and
Assington Suffolk Mu-
wife Muriel
dandified
riel
Sedley
Shelley
Richard
To this Richard were born nave five children Of these the third
Nathaniel settled permanently in Heaver Haverhillll Mass

graduated
This Nathaniel the first Salons to settle finally in America
was
ted
from
nte
the
Distich Mass about 1639 He was gradua-
ica born at Ipswich
ted Harvard in 1659 and died on the of May 1707 On
dido
of December 1663 he married Elizabeth Wald
daughter of the Rev John Ward To Nathaniel
Salons
Nathaniel
Amer-
graduated

Waid
and Eliza
Mo-

Eliza-
beth were born five children Guerdon Eliza-
Gurdon Elizabeth
beth
Richard Nathaniel John Some sketch sketch of the descendants ofo-
rchard
Richard the ancestor of the Massachusetts Altostratus is m-
given in the table annexed The eldest son Gurdon
isgovern Guerdon merc-
more
nearly
malcontents
enarily concerns the Mumford
Unmoored family
Gurdon Salons the elder was born in Haverhill Mass
Guerdon Mas-
Mass-
on the of March 1666 was graduated from Harvard Cool Col
Col-
Col
ledge in 1684 pandas
lege settled
and was settled over the Congregational Churc-
aht New London Conan Conn on the
Church
of November 1691
distinguished
He was soon known as a distinguished scholar an eloquent eloq-
I uent
ed
andadiscriminating
and a discriminating theologian He was also noted
preacher Wanda
for sound judgment in cases of law and jurisprudence and in-
not-
in
general
generating
penetrating
general for a penetrating midland
mind and great fluency
fluency of expres-
flexures
expires
sion
scion
It
Jo-
SIOn
Simon

Gov-
death Gover-
So prominent was he that upon the death of Governor

hn
ItI
Ziti
I
1
ernor
nor
John Intro
Fitz
Fitz-
FitzJohnJohn Winthrop in 1707 he waS waist
waSat
was at once dele b-
ele ed by-
elected
elevated by
I
J
yte
the people to the office of Governor or of Mane tic
Connect and
Connecticut

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iji
Ji
Taken
Oaken
Taken jn part from Sir Richard Salons Ancestry
Shalom
lI
Ancestry and Descendants bY EverettSalons
Sultans To the original table have
y Leverett
O'Hara
The graduates of
llave been added in the dire
Horror College are indicated by
Harvard byte
bythe
mmale
direct t
ale line the Unmoored
the year of their graduation prefixed
plum Ford
f
ord descendants
Mumford
axed to their names
of General Gurdon
Guerdon Salons See names in Roman types
tykee 1

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II m
ill IV V VI VII vm
VIII IX

Unmoored
1884 William
William tV
Gurdon
1684 Guerdon
well
1720 Rosewell Wools
goosey Unmoored
Woolsey Mumford
onec-
minister of
New London Gurdan
Gurdon
Guerdon
I B Yale 1725
RebeCC
Rebecca
Rebecca
rn David f f
f Thomas Unmoored
rd Thomas
frd
ford
Mumford
4 B Yale
ale
Wll lam W
William
Wall
William
I
Wools
yYale 1814
LBB y-
iL
1 d
1Mumford
00 sey Unmoored
Woolsey humor
1 sexy George
A
G George Eli
Eh
eorge Elihu
CGeorge 1 d
Mumford
Unmoored
humor
Hampton 1851
A B Hamilton
1885
1887
James Gregory Unmoored
George Salons Mumford
MD
Mumford blvd
Unmoored
D 11890
Governor of
GeneraI
General 51
imn 17588
1750
14 1890 Intro
Norman Winthrop Unmoored
Mumford

IC
ocooned
Connecticut 1896 Gurdon Unmoored
Philip Guerdon Mumford
1770 Gilbert
Gilhert
Richard Middlemost
w- Everett
Leverett
Levere

fame
Richard Levered
LD J1844

C-
11751
1659 Nathaniel
Everett LL D
1802 Leverett
ircher 1722 Richard Everett
Philip Leverett

oe
Richard Nathaniel overseer H 18899 Polish
Sir
ippiRichard llege Co-
Emmanuel College
Nathaniel
Court Assist
Mississ-
missies
fishiest
of 1695 Richard
Ricardo
Col- 11 Colonnade
urt
rior
C Co-
Supe-
Judge Rojas
ourt C
7 razor
of Superior
olonelI 17 66
1766
Colom
Colonel
T
Nathaniel
1
I Me
Member
LVem
Harvard
Overseer Hai
Hari ard Ward

serfof Congress
bereft Congress
Oversee
Cal f
Harvard
Collector of
Harvard d
arvar
of Phototonus
fort Boston
Port 94 Redcoat
Boston 1894 Endicott Peabody

Ii
Cambridge Eng Council Colone
Colonel collar Nathaniel
Yorkshire
1Yorkshire England Court of Assistants ogne
Colonel
1727 Nathaniel
Nathamel
1
physician
1813 Richard I

in
settled in- 7 1 Henryy
attention
Alteration
Watertown Mass
July 1630
1 a tllame
lNathaniel tI C

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I

7illiam
William
lliam Guerdon
Gurdon Rober
1892 Robert
Wi
Court of
fascist
Assistants 1642 Henry 1695 Nathaniel
Nathaniel
t

ElliFell
l M Padua 1649
D Paducah
rd 1652
Fellow of Oxford
Librarian of
Harvard
O-
O-
'Hara tutor 4

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1

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an Lablab
Labl-
Rabbi
was annually
ab
death
sdealt
reeled
annually re leafed for a period
reelected period offsite years
of sixteen years until mi-
his

All New England historians testify in the highest terms to

ote worth and greatness of Governor Salton
the northland Salons
Alton t-
stall and it is need-
need
offi-
less here to describe his career in office
cer F G Salton
Mr Salons
Alton stall of New York his descendant writes
At the time of the burningburning of New London by Arnold
formerly
September 1781 the house formerly occupied by Gov- Gov
ernor Salons
senor Salons was destroyed as was also that of his co- son
ngener Gurdon Salons on Main Street below the
General Guerdon
o-
te-
ffice
office
printing contained
rminating These contained numerous valuable ampers-

regretted
papers
and letters belonging to the family
farmlandand to the Governors
Governor's
administration the loss kowhai
of which is deeply to be regretted
Governor Salons died suddenlysuddenly litho
loth
on the cloth of September
1724 and this notice of his death is from the Boston News- News
Letter October in that year-
Letter of the 1st of Goober year year
We hear from New London the very melancholy melancholy sandspur
and sursur
sur-
slur
praising
prising
praising news that on the Sept the truly honorable Guerdon
Gurdon
Salons Sager Esq Governor of the Colony Cone
Connecti-
Colony of Conne cut
Connecticut
cut very
delivery
died suddenly
overburden ther-
suddenly at his seat there
On the he dined
eOn indwell randomized
well and continued till about 4 p M
tollbooth W-
hen he seemed something indisposed
when indisposed complain-
and quickly complained
ofa
of
sofa
ed a pain in his head About six he betook himself to his bed bed-
pan
and illness increasing he then said See See what need we hav-
needed have
e
to be always ready At twelve the next day he expired to
ote unexampled
the almost unexampled fall
sorrow of all that saw or since heave-
t-
have
heard
heard
nward of it not only through
through all the government but hel- the J
lhole
whole land His most accomplished
accomplished adventurous
and virtuous lady surviv-
advisories
survives
es
He left seven children three sons and four daughters and to te-
eachof them a plentiful fortune
ach
each
une fort-
Governor Salons held the Manor of Killingly
on
rra
inter in Yorkshire England He built a fine country house
nter
Terra
terra P-
Te-
Po-
Killingly near Pon
Poi-
Pon-
hou-
at Lake Salons near New Haven Conan
se
his New London house
Conn in addition to
t-
Gurdon Salons the elder married first Jerusalem
Guerdon daught-
Jerusha daughter
er James Richards of Hartford She died
of died at Boston on the
of July
Jour 1697
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here were five children by this marriage but
There Bruno
no Salons
grandchildren The children wer-
ea Elizabeth born 1690
were were
b Mary born 1692
c Sarah born 1694
d Jerusalem
Jerusha born 1695 I
Gurdon born 1696 died young
e Guerdon
second
Governor Altostratus second wife was Elizabeth daughter
ter
daugh-
Roswell
and heir of William Rosewell
Roswell of Branford Esquire She deedi-
died
ng
in New London September 1710 The children of thisHi- th-
esauri
manage
smanal were
marriage were
were-
wer-
ef well
f Rosewell born
1701
1702
g Katherine born
h Nathaniel born 1707
1 i Gurdon born 22 December 1708
Guerdon

j j Richard born 17 10
1710
Of these there were no surviving Salons grandchildren
grandchil-
dren those of Guerdon
except Gurdon so that this Guerdon second
Gurdon the second of-
of
of-
ten head
the name was left the head of the family in his prime
prim-
The

rand
grand
daughter
third Salons
ate third wife of Governor Salons was Mary Capr-
Whiting
Clarke
ice died without issue in Boston in 1730 She was a great-
reat
who
of Rev William Whittingham and his wife
Salons
ea sister of John Calvin This Mrs Salons was a liberal
great
wif-
g-
Harvard
benefactress of Harvard and Yale colleges Roswell
Rosewell the eldest
surviving
surviving son of Governor Salons was a man of mush- much FMC
rooms
promise and the historian of New London has this to say of sayo-
him
him-
hm
him
incepting
Rosewell Salons the oldest son of the Governor
Captain Roswell Gover-
Manslaughter
nor survived infancy married
that
to
relit
Sarah Salons
marrieda lady
daughter of John Haynes candlelit
born fast April
Samuel Davis third Thomas Davis all
layoff
of Hartford Mary
oafish
relit of
and relied Elfish Lord and fixed
Elisha
spiel 1694 married first John Gardiner second
one
if of New London
aloof
fint husbands
herfirst
By headfirst had
husband she hada
had a daughter Jerusha
Jerusalem Gardiner
Gardmer married John Christopher
Her daughter Lucretia Christopher
Laurentian Christopher married John
Her daughter Catherine Unmoored
fohn Munsford
Unfired
Mumford married Isaac
Iaac Thompson
Her daughter Mary Perkins Thompson married John L Thompson
Johl
Her son John I1 Thompson married Mary M Warren
Hoard Warren Thompson married
His son Hobard
Clod both
marred 1895 Grace McLeod lint
both oiff Troy
bothof
NYr
N
g
j

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Ai l

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xi

illI loma
nu
boa b1 ann
all alib-
alablab
th-
th
is
his residence in Branford the home of his maternal
materialness
ancest-
ancestors
ors he died in New London while on a visit to his brother
but
ther
Gurdon O tober
Tiber 1st 1738
Guerdon October bro-
It was remarked that he be-
seemingly
seeming came home on purpose to die and be laid in the
seemingly
T-
tomboy
tomb
highly
heo of his parents He was highly esteemed in New Lon
beinga man of irreproachable Christian character and
don being
Lon
Lon-
ad-
mirable
amiable in all the relations or
etons
Thomas Clap Capo Wind
of life His relic
reli
tmarried
relict married Rev
of Windham afterward President of Yale
Br- fl
College
Roswell sister Katherine who was born in 1704 married
Rosewell's mar-
ried
Thomas Brattle of Boston
The next brother Nathaniel left no descendants so far as we- we
aken
know

infancy
1
Of Guerdon
Gurdon Ur much Gove-
Jr much more is to be told and the Governors
Governor's

history
rnors
youngest child Richard died in infancy
Gurdon Salons the second became the ancestor fall
Guerdon of m-
all
tic Connect Altostratus so well known in local history
Cone
those Conne
altose Connecticut
followings
The following sketch
sketch of him from the pen of F G Salo- Salton
Salton-

boyish
ns interesting
stall tells in outline the tale of his interesting impor-
and important
tant
career 1

Gurdon Salons son of Governor Guerdon

I

Guerdon Gurdon Salons by

t
the
and
second
tic
his second wife was born
his father became Governor of Cone
hes
ated from Yale College in 1725
acted
Mr
lson
uee
Salons
adorers
and
Conne
and
Connected 1708
1708
December 1708
Connecticut

Salons was prominent in all the affairs of New

London When in 1739 England issued letters of marq-
reprisal being
reprisal against Spain New London being muckheaps
the year thatc-

Omar
that
grad
and was gradu-

Ne-
marque
marquee
much expos-
exposed
hJ

ed
and entirely
entirely undefended the inhabitants became alarmed and
adventure
aptation
petitioned the Governor for the immediate fortification of thr-
ad-
the
town The apathetic reply
own reply of the Governor provoked sec
provoked a sec-
sec
Gurdon Salons Jeremiah Miller
ond petition and Messes Guerdon
bond
Mil-
ler three others were named
and namedas a committee personally
personally to
to-
ured ation
urge Gover-
ction upon the Governor
In
nor
In the year 1740 war having been declared by England Engl-
and
against Spain Guerdon Salons
Gurdon Salons was promoted to the ran- rank
k
of Colonel
Colonel of the Militia In
raising 45
1744 he superintended thr-
ashing of troops for the expedition against Cape Breton
raising
1
the

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pen
pennin-
gIn all the measures relating to the Revolution he took
tooka prom
tooka promi-
nent part
anent In Goober
October 1767 he was named first on a com
com-
mite of fifteen to consider the Boston resolution to abstain
mittee
abst-
ain the use of
from faceting
certain articles of merchandise and in 1770
he was sent with William Hillhouse
Millhouse Nathaniel Shaw Jr
and William Answering
R-
Manwaring to represent New London in a grou- grand
ndcover of the Colony held
convention heldat New Haven He was chair- chair
man of the Committee of Correspondence for 1776 in 1777
moderator in OctoberGoober 1779 deputydeputy to the State Conven-
Conven
Conven-
tion at Hartford in company
ion company with John Latimer

places
Claimer
The military
misappropriations
operations around Boston consequent upon Pon-
te
the battle of Lexington withdrew from Connecticut
Connect alluvial avail
all avail-
able forces New enlistments were made to supply their places
In New London Colonel Salons remained remained with seventy
sevent-
een enlisted
men newly enlisted under his command handmaid amid many dif
and sandman dif-
dif-
ficulties
faculties arising from want of unanimity
fundability lack
unanimity and lack of maen-
means
ad material he prosecuted the work
bandmaster
and work of defence ener-
defense whitener
with energy
gy sat Saigon
and to the satisfaction
satisfy ion of his superiors The constant appear
appear-
Vance of the enemy
ance enemy's ships off the harbor
harbour of New London epit-
kept
het inhabitants in constant alarm
the

Brigadier
General
On On a reorganization of the forces Colonel Salton
nchman
Salons
Alton
commanding the Third Regiment was appointed Brigadier-
General 1 loth cloth September 1776 and placed in comman-
stall then
Brigadier
command
he-

Sylvan
of
do nine regiments from the eastern counties withholders
confine with orders ob-
to
serve at New York viz vi The Third Regiment Lieuten Lieuten- Lieu-
tenant
Colonel John Ely Seventh Regiment Major Sylvanus
ant-Colonel
Graves Eleventh Regiment Colonel Breezier
Sylvan
Ebenezer Williams
Twentieth Regiment Major Abdul Rogers Fifth Regi Regi-

Regiment
meant
ment

P
Lieutenant
ment Lieutenant-Colonel Experience Storrs
meant Colonel Baldish

Colo
Obadiah HosfordTwenty
Colonel John Douglass Eighth Regiment
Torres Twelfth Regi
Honored Twenty-First Regiment
Lieutena-
Lieutenant
nt Oliver Smith Twenty-Fifth Regiment Colonel H
nel
noel
Champion
ftener Gurdon
General Guerdon
Twenty
Intro
hampion Brigade Major Winthrop Altostratus o-
Salons
Regi-

C-
son of

Dwarf
General Salons proceeded proceeded with his brigade to N
New
ew York
9 jeered
cord of Service of Conn
jeered Conan cut Men ti In the War of the
tire Revolution 2
often
softie z War
Dwa-
rf
rf
of 1812 3 Mexican War by Henry P Johnson A A M Hartford
Hariford 1889
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fled Loa
loma
be a b
1 a
anti
b lab
bath
cabsta-
iJ
vi-

nd took post in Westchester

and
ty
ht
xty years fagged
eight of age
eig-
Esthete County He was then sixty
six-
sixty-
si-
In
the
the burning conside-
burning of New London by Arnold a considerable
rable often
number consum-
of the old family homesteads were consumed
consumed the-
ed
rmos valuable benthos
most being those of General Gurdon
of his father the Governor
do
Salons
Guerdon Salons an-and

At Cone
At the close of the war Connecticut
Conne tic wo-
too-
was divided into two
olliest
led tion
collation
cole
colle
estone New
ion districts
distri-New New London and New Haven The fires-
tor appointed for New London was General Guerdon
tone tore
collator
cole
colle Gurdon
fir-
first

Salons
He
He died
ng
in Norwich
son
diedat the house of his son-in-law Mumford
Unmoori-
Thomas Unmoored
sev-
seve-
seve-
of seventy-
September 1785 at the age observantly
seventy
en
nty
seven
Salons
Now the important dates concerning General Salons pare-
are
Ali-
Alie-
these that he was born in 1708 was graduated from Yale
ntheses

n
en
in 1725 was married in 1733 and died in 1785
This marriage of General Salons conne conned
cone fam-
ted the family
connected
ily
with the Dudley and many others ando
Intros another
Dudleys Winthrops sandman th-
and of this
esauri
marriage
ng
On the
bandies livi-
a very numerous and widespread issue is now living
Gurdon Salons the
of March then in 1733 Guerdon th-
rone
Intro
Rebecca Interloped
Of Rebekah
Intr-
vitro
Rebecca Winthrop
younger married Rebekah
o family
Winthrop and her family this note is of in- in
in
terest
sternest
Salons
Satanis-
Mother Altostra-
Rebecca Winthrop
Pedigree of Rebekah
It Intros
1 Winthrops
ti
IntrosINTRO
JOHN WINTHROP Governor Massachusetts Bay 1630
JJOHN
OHN
Lord Groton Suffolk England born
figuration
Lord of the Manor of
12 January
buried
buried at 78Kings
died in Boston 26 March 1649
1577
King's Chapel Bosto-
Boston 9
6
nian WINTHROP JR his eldest son born 12 Feb-
JOHN INTRO Feb
unary 1605 dele
ruary ted Governor of New Haven Col-
elected
ele Col
Sony in 1657 anon
ony andon
and Cone
on the union of Conne tic
Connect An-
Connecticut
Gover-
New Haven colonies in 1665 was the first Governor
drew
and

nor JO-
Bo-
under the charter died 5 April 1676 in Boston
HN
ston
JOHN
FUTON
FITZ
FITZ-
FRITZ J
FITZ-JOHN
tic
Cone
Conne
cooned
OHN
JOHN INTRO
WINTHROP
bom 14 March
Connecticut born
his eldest

39
1638
son

vember 1707 Succeeded by Governor Salons

Governor
No
died 27 No-
No
co-
of f

ember
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ennui
WAIT INTRO
WAIT-STILL WINTHROP second seconds Win
son of John Win-
tr-
W-
In-
op
in Major
tro
trop
archaists
beer 1717 buried
ber
OHN
buried at Kings
INTRO
JOHN WINTHROP
JJOHN
42
Olson 4
throp Jr Major-General and Chief Justice of Mas-

King's Chapel Boston

Mas
Septem
Septem-
sachusetts born 27 February 1641 42 died 7 Septem-

his only son born 26 August

1681 married Ann daughter of Governor Joseph
eph
Dudley and died 1i August
Callus 1747 at Sydenham Eng
Sudden Eng-
Jos-
w-
ife w-
land buried
buried at Buckingham
Beckenham same county Had bowie
Ann nine children of whom
hore INTRO fourth Salons
REBECCA
REBEKAH WINTHROP
by wife

fourth child was baptized IT- J-

iiIJ-
13INTRO eighth
anuary
ijuana
1712
January
Gaober 1776
died 30 October
child
Gurdon
married Guerdon

JOHN STILL WINTHROP eighth child of John ban-

Jr
and
Ann born
danna bom 15 January 1720 married Jane Borland Borla-
nd second Elizabeth Shire died June 1776 leav-
Anderson
and leav
King the followings
ing
ingoted sons
sons-
following cons-
sons

Intro
Intro
ervancies
ne
Bayard Winthrop of New York William of
Francis Boatyard
New London Joseph Joseph of Charleston S C Thomas Tho-
o-
mas Lieutenant
Governor
Lindall Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Ben
LindaU Ben-
jamming of New York Robert Admiral British Navy
jamin Nav-
IyI Dudley
Dudleys
Dudley
THOMAS DUDLEY Governor of Massachusetts Back- Bay
fires
Major
first Major-General Eng
of Massachusetts born in Eng-
land 1576 died July 1653 buried 31 July
JOSEPH DUDLEY his eighth child Governor of Mas Mas-
sachusetts Lieutenant
archaists Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of WightWright
Withst-

7
and first Chief Justice of New York born 1647 mar
three
reid 1668 died 2 April 1720 aged seventy-three Boy-
ried
Rebecca Tyng
ish wife Rebekah
his
mar-
By
Tying he had thirteen children of
ninth
whom the ninth As- was
ian
ANN DUDLEY born 27 August 1684 married John
Intro
Winthrop Olson Wait Intro
only son of Wait-Still Winthrop 16 De
ember 1706 She died 29 May 1776 New Lon-
cember
De
De-
Lon
Intro
don John Winthrop her first husband died in Eng- Eng
7
children
ried
and she married second
land 1747 sandshoe
cident Her daughter Rebekah
Salons
Gurdon Alton
Guerdon Salton
Intro mar-
stated
stall Jr as stated above
Miller no
Rebecca Winthrop married
in-

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ato
ibid oomaa
Roma
as
aas
Gurdon Salons Jr and Rebekah
To Guerdon
b asanti
Rebecca Winthrop
a
a-
C-
wif-
Thitherto his wife
children
children-
elier born the following fourteen children
were childre-
1nI Salons
Salons
Gurdon
Guerdon born 15 December 1733 died 18
July 1762 at Kingston Jamaica No issue
2 Reecho
Rebecca or Rebecca born 31 December 1734 mar-
Rebekah
ried
reid 1i January 1758 David Unmoored
Mumford born 10
mar
io March
1731I Nine children
3 Katherine born 17 February
bards 1768 No issue
ards 36
1735 Rich
married J Rich-

4 Intro
Winthrop born 10 June 1737 married Ann Wanton
1763 Five children l
5 ck Dudley born 8 September 1738 married Francis Bab- co- Bab-
Bab
Bab--
cock No issue
6 mas
An born 29 February
Ann
Unmoored 40
1739
Mumford of Norwich One daughter
Unmoored
Tho-
married Thomas

Eliza-
t
ti
i
7 beth
Roswell
Roswell born 29 August 1741 married I1769
Rosewell 1764 Elizabeth
Stewart He died in New York Eleven children Of in- in
in
terest that Ann his Smithfield
sternest sixth child married 1799 Rev Rec-
harges Savoury son of
Charles Seabury or Bishop Seabury
Savoury
8 Elizabeth born 12 January
John E Rewets
nds Deane
Silas
Silos Deanne No issue
43
1742 married 1763
wets who was lost at sea She married seco-second

1
9 Mary born 28 March 1744 married Jeremiah Atwater
1797 She died 1820 No issue
10
to Richard born I January
No issue 47
1746 Lost at sea
sea 1766

i i Martha born 8 Goober

11
II
ringan 81749
9 obey 1748 married David Ans-
October
wering 1767 died 1823 Eight children
waring
warring
M-
wa-
Man
Man-

S-
12 Heritage born 19 March
Henrietta
till 50 married John Still
Miller 1772 died 1807 Issue thirteen children Her E-
rne Henrietta Salons Mumford
tear after her Heritage
ter
daugh
daugh-
Unmoored named his youngest daugh-
nephew Thomas Mumford
mar-
Unmoored married
ried
Charles Gould
13 Gilbert born 27 February
rriet 52
1751
Babcock 1786 died 1797 Two children
Ha-
married Harriet

14
14 Sarah born 17 June 1754 married Daniel Buck
Buck 1775
died 1830 Seven children
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udley
Dudley Pedigre-
Pedigree
c
cn Dtr- -

1
ei Edward III King
King of England
aI
Hann-
Hanna
Philippe of Hainault
Philippa

2 Lionel Clarenc-
Plantain Duke of Clarence
Ie

Plantain Archi-
3 Lady Philippa
Philippe
i

eI
Ma riche
Marche
Marche-
Plantain Countess of Marched i

4 Lady Elizabeth Mortimer Hots

Sir Harry Percy Hootspur
Hotspur
Hotspurs
pour
I

5 Eliabeth
Lady Eli beth
Elizabeth
abeth Percy John Clifford Clair
Clair Jib Lord Clif
Cliff rd
Clifford

Thomas declared
de Clifford Clair Clai-
6 Clifford Ash Lord Clifford
rId
Cliffor- Clair
I

7 Clifrd
Lady Maud Cliff
Clifford Clair I
Sir Edward de Sutton Dudley

8 Thomas de Dudley
Dudley
I

99 Dudley
John Dudley
I
t
10 Dudl-
Roger Dudley
Dudley
I

ey
II Thomas Dudley
I
Goof
Govro of Massachusetts
Gov
Grover
Gov-
Gave
Governor

12 Joseph Dudley Gov

Golf
Grover Goof
Golf- of Massachusetts
Gov-
I

I
Dudley
13 Ann Dudley John Winthrop
Dudleys
Linn Dudley Intro

r Sal-
I

14 Metro
Rebecca Winthrop
Rebekah Gurdon
Guerdon Salons
Altostrat- I-
If

15 Rebecca Saltines
Salt
install r-
ons
SalonsII David Unmoored
Unforce-
Unfortifi-
Mumford
I1i

Unmoored if
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f i
P
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C
ed H

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Yinn Me

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b anis
11
ab
Descent of Rebecca Salons from William the Conqueror
Conquero-
rI William L R 1 Maud ifatilda
failed
Maud or Matilda
Attila

Surrey
1I

2 Unread
Gatorade
I
William Earl Warren and Surrey

rt

T
1

3 William Earl Warren Elizabeth

Elizabeth of alois

of
ovations
I1

4 William Earl Warren

I
Ely daughter of
Ellyn
offshore
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbur-
Earl
Earl of
I

Sprott
Sprout
y

of
Lady Ella Warren Sir William Fitz
Fritz William of Rot
ro-
Pro-
rot
of Sprout
S rot-

Ih
tI
ctor
thoroug-
borough
thorough

6 Sir William Fritz

Fitz William
Wllliam
I
offline
Althea daughter of
Albreda
Lincol-
Lincoln
Lincolns-
Earl
Earl of

Greyly
I1n

of
7 Fitz
Sir Thomas Fritz
hire William
I
Lard Grey
Anne daughter of Lord Gray

8 Sir Thomas Fitz

Fritz William
I
Motore-
detoured
Motored
Lord
Agnes daughter of Lard
Lord of

JohnJohnI
dI

9 Sir William Fitz

Fritz William

I1a
I
Johnnie
Agnes daughter of Sir
Met-
Meta
John

10
io Fitz William
Sir William Fritz De-
En-
De-
Den
Isabel daughter of Lord Den-
nI cor
cou-
court
court-
courtl-
l
yI

lirt
IIli Sir Fitz William vane
John Fritz Jane
Is
daughter of Adam Ree-
Rees

William
I
Fitz
Fritz
12 Sir William Fitz
Fritz William o-
f-
o-
Lady Elizabeth daughter of
of-
f ear of Huntington
Earl 1I
f
Earl
row
taken
This pedigree is taken from the
odpile
compiled
book of
kook
byte
by the
limitation published bythe
onfiled it from the Yorkshire Visitation
Salons book
Leverett
LeVe
Leave ett
Society
wo-
Etta Satanically swo-
Who Mr Everett
Har
Clan
Salons

Ir
1
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Bandbox
Descent of Rebecca Salons continued
I

Sicilian
13 Sir William Fitz
Fritz William daughter
Cro-
Caro-
Maud daughter of Ralph Crom-
Crom
Crom-
Croni-
Tattersa-
m
nI
welly Lord
well Lord
Lard ooff Tattersall

Henry
I
Fitz
Fritz
qll
14
14 Sir John Fitz William
Fritz
Emergence
Elenor daughter of Sir Henry
Eleanor
I Green-
Greens
Greene
Greener-
Ie

15
IS
ies Sir
r
YO
John
t-
Fitz
Fritz William e Margaret daughter of Thoma-
Charms
of Thomas
Thomas-

of
sI
Clare
C larell
laurel
I

f
r
fT
Fritz lilliam
16
I 6 Sir William Fitz William Elizabeth daughte-
daughter of

cI
rI Thomas Chaoti-
Charms Chaworth Chaw
17 Isabel Fitz
Isabella Fritz William
hII
Wentwort-
Richard Wentworth

Beatrice
bentworth
Wentworth
18 Beatrice
Kay
Wentworth Arthur Ka-
Beatrice Aye
I
Kaye
r

John
r
I
y

John
19 John Kae Make-
Makeove-
Makeover
Kaye
rI
Dorothy
t
over
I

20 Aye
Robert Kaye Anne Flowe-
Flower

i
Ir
I
t siS ysay
Sy
II
5

21 Aye
Grace Kaye Salons
Shalom
Sir Richard Altostrat-
Sal fontal Altost-

I
Ii
1 1
Richardrati
I
RichardI 1

22 Richards
Salons
Richard
In
Muriel Gurdon
Guerdo-
Guerdon

23 Nathaniel Salons
Shalom I
Id
War-
Elizabeth Ward-
Ward 11 t F

I
GuerdonIsolationist
24
1
Gurdon
Guerdon Salons Elizabeth Roswel-
Roswell
Rosewell
1
fi
fi a
Il

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s Frs
ssf
f
1

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Iq
q

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tt--
K
i
ii--

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K S
S- f
a
A-
affil Jt
11 A rUtf SS S
S A lw L
y
J
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r
r

Off bona
boma 1b1 batted
Abi-
ant Dhabi
tidbit
des of
Descent Rebecca Salons
I
continued

25 Gardon
Gurdon
tons
Salons Rebekah Intro
Rhea Winthrop
Platonist
Reevaluations
Rebecca Salons David Unifor-
26 Mumford
Unmoored

mr Leverett
M Everett Salons has also with infinite pains com- com
tlquilted
eather
guillemot fi-
ailed other pedigrees of interest to the curious At page 92 fli-
piled
et of
ts goodwill
es fondaa table showing
book will be found Sal
showing the descent of the Alt-
Sal-
S-
to-
al
lis
its
nsils
tonsils through Muriel Gurdon
ostratus Salo-
Salton
Guerdon wife of Richard Salton-
ns from the royal lines of England
stall England and Scotland This table
ancestry
includes in our ancestry such distinguished persons as Ethel
thel
thel- wu-
ZEt-
Et-
lf
hel King
wolf King of the West Saxons circa
wulf
ed Great born
the
eric and his son Alfred
England
Henry I of England and his wife Ma- At-
Ma
Ma
Alfr-
tilde of Scotland a common descendant of Alfred the Greate-
tila
tilda Great
King
Masculine who was crowned King of Scots in
and Kenneth Macalpine
ned
Plan-
Attila and her husband Geoffrey Planta-
Then follow Matilda
II John Henry III Edward I Edward II
Planta
Planta-- ge-
net
tain Henry II
genet
II King of France
and his wife Isabella daughter of Philip IT King
Edward III daugh
lIT and Thomas Duke of Gloucester whose daugh-
daugh-
Boucher Ot-
ter Anne Plantain married Sir William Bourchier
tear Of
these last came other Boucher and Knaves and Medleys
hers
until Sedley who married Crampon
until we reach Muriel Shelley Gur
Gur-
Brampton Guer-
Guer-
allure Guerdon
don the father of Muriel
alons
fontal
Gurdon who married Richard SalSal
Sal- S-
At page of the Salons goodwill
book will be found another anot-
fondant
table
umps
Nye
her telling further of the Knyvet and Bourchier
Boucher ancestry the
Gurdon wa-
th-
of which is the showing that our Muriel Guerdon
upshot kowhai was
ysides Howard
descended through Catherine Howard and Sir John Boucher
Bourchier
Berbers from Edward I1 and Edward III in more tan-
Bouc-
her Berners
Lord than
ned line
one

fir1 Descendants of David Unmoored

Mumford
Mui u void
MINORED
MUMFORD
DAVID Maui oiD 2 i married Rebecca
Issue
Issue-
Salons Issue
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happen oM

David Unmoored
Mumford
Sartorially
Jr C
Alto Mum rd
a stall Mumford
Rebecca Salto

Sa
Unmoored
Gurdon
Guerdon
Stall Mumford
Unmoored
Abigail Cheeseparing Unmoored
Mumford ad
i
Nun
William Cheeseparing Mun ford
Mumford
Unmoored
Thomas Mumford
Unmoored
7 Unmoored
John Mumford
Nun
WT Mun
Ann ford
Mumford
Unmoored
Silos ZW
57
Silas Deane Unmoored
Deanne Mumford
David and Rebecca Salons Unmo-
These nine children of Dravidian Mum
Mum-
Unmo-
ford
ored mostly played their parts quietly bandwidth
foremost excepti-
and with the exception
on Guerdon
of Gurdon Thomas and Silas know-
Deane are but little known
Silos Deanne
n
to us
DAVID MINORED
MUMFORD JR was born litho
loth
the cloth of December 1759
and died the of February 1823
associated
Throughout his life he was closely associated fathe-
with his father
whom survived
rhood he survived sixteen years At the outbreak Revo
outbreak of the Revo-
lution
elution he was sixteen years fagged exposed to be-
of age and had expected be
be-
be
entered
come a physician To that end he entered upon his studies stud-
pandas
Ellen
ies was well enough accomplished to secure the appointme-
and
nt surgeons
of litho
appointment
capaci-
loth of May 1778 In this capacity
surgeon's mate on the cloth
he served
ty served until the resign-
of November 1779 when he resigned
ed accept a lieutenancy He was never advanced beyond this
to Hi-
ram
ram
rank which he held but seven months On the nth
rank L itho
Ith
I Itch of June
military
1780 he retired permanently from military service
servic-
eable entered
After the war he entered upon mercantile pursuits gadabout
and abutt-
about
ed year 1788 went to New York City where he always lived
the inv-
eterate
thereafter
When about thirty years fagged marrieda Miss Ann Pear
of age he married so-
Pe-
Per-
Pear-
il
ar
sil a daughter of Thomas Parasol Sager
soil
ty twenty
Negro
Esq of New York City
She lived twenty-four years after their marriage and died on
Ci-
didoM-
the
onte
forty
of January 1813 at the age of forty-eight He sur
livedat Broadway from wheel-
vied her ten years They lived
vived
sur-
sur
slur
which
house the wife was buried
In the year 1806 David Unmoored
Mumford Jr became associated
associated with-
with
his cousin John P Unmoored
ies Colum-
Mumford in the affairs of the Columbia
bians
Insurance Company and in 18 belled president of
10 he was elected
1810
1210

oi

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J rag
it
y
O-
Y

ta
ge
f
Off
aIm P Unmoored
that institution JJaIm
ohn Mumford retiring to take char-
of the Ocean Insurance Company
lived
charge
Devo-
the younger David
So
whom
lved the life and dying in 1823 left no children of-whom
of whom
da-
b1 antib Dab
abaft

ho-
we know
me
REBECCA
REBEKAH SALONS MINORED
MUMFORD Of this eldest daughter
daught-
er Mumford Sr little more than the name remains to-
of David Unmoored to
us save that daughters were born to her
nus

isi of August
She was born on the 1St anon
Aught 1761 andon
and on the of o-
ffset
September 11795
Hewer
Ally of New York City
95 married Robert Allyn
They were married in New London More than that we we-
aken
know nothing
SALONS
ALTON
GUERDON SALTON
GURDON STALL MUMFORD bom
MINORED born January 1764
died April 1831 Of this seconds Unmoo-
Mumford
second son of David Unmoored
rs a great deal
Sr
tisfied
suffice
deadlight
might be told but a brief story Olympus
briefest story
only unsa-
must

He was amendatory
named after his maternal grandfather General Guer- do-
Gur
Gur-
Gur--
n
don Salons who at the time of the christening handout
rris to the important rank
risen ranked
hadnot
had
and position that he afterwards
not
No-
afterw-
ards
attained
still
While stilla Gurdon entered the diplom-
still a mere lad young Guerdon diplomatic
atic
service of his country and through the influence of his uncle unc-
Silas
Silos
Deanne
les Deane-
Deane
Deane became private secretary to Benjamin Franklin
Deanne
during the latter part of that distinguished mans
Fran-
klin man's officiates resi
official resi-
resi
resin
dence
dance in Paris Guerdon returned
Gurdon returned with Franklin to this country
contra-
ctor
after the conclusion of the war and during the remainder of- of
ten latter's life continued in intimacy with him There is knowi-
the clatters now
ng Unmoors grandchildren a watch
Gurdon Mumford's
in the possession of Guerdon wa-
tch
which
which once belonged to Franklin and
castors famous patron
cestor's
other relics of their an
another an-
an

shortly
In 1791 shortly after his return to America Guerdon Mum
Gurdon S Unmo-
Mum-
ford became associated
ored associated with his brothers Dravidian Willia-
David and William
William-
m
iinn a commission business So far as one can judge at this dis- dis
dis
dais

Gurdon lived
tance of time Guerdon
stance lived at their place of business No 37
William Street For a time also his younger brother William Willi-
lived
am with him
lived
Silas Deane
Slavs Deare our
well
known representative in France admeasured
Elizabeth Salons a younger sister of Guerdon
had married mahout
Gurdon S Mumford's
Unmoorss meatier
Mumford mother
about 1768

U
n

fi
p fifeysy
f
s
says
sss f
jetr f-f-
jt
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1

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T-
wo
Two years after this beginning
beginning of his business career at the-
the
twenty
cae of twenty-nine Gurdon
age Va-
Guerdon married His wife was Anna Van-
Van
cant and the date given
And
Zandt giyen us in the Records of the Reformed Refor-
med Church is the of November 1793 His wife was ad-d-
Dutch
daughter
ty Guerdon
To
And of New York City
aughter of Tobias Van Zandt
Gurdon Salons Unmoored
Memoranda
Mumford Anna his wife were
and Anna whe-
Ci-
children
children-
reon two childre-
born children
AND born 1794 married first Mary-
nI TOBIAS VAN ZANDT Mary
Answering of Philadelphia No children Mar
lander Manwaring
Oliver Mar-
reid second Catherine Brooks of New York City
ried Cit-
ywide
Children
Children-
Children
Children
a Mary Managing Michigan
Manwaring married Charles McKirgan
Van And
Children Tian Zandt and Caroline
y
Emilio Franklin born February
b Emilie 4 1844 died 30
July 1886 married 1865 Herodotus Bartow Earthb-
Barrow
born
Issue
18
orn 2 February 1842 died 22 March 1894
j
1
I Van And Unmoored
n Zandt Mumford born in New York 23
March 1866 died 1867
l 2
Frank Mantel Mantel
Montell born in New York City 24
April 1867 died 7 September 1896 marrie-
married
d
II June 1891 Jennie Frasia Hackett Chil
Fascia Hachette Chil-
den Frank M Bartow
dren Barrow y Jr
born 15 April
Theodora Bartow
1892 Theodosia Barlow born 17 August
J
1894
3 Theodora born 22 July 1881
Grace Theodosia
II BENJAMIN FRANKLIN born 1796 debagged 21 No-
died aged 21 No
ises
issue
Issue
t
GURDON
GUERDON SALONS married second Lenit-
MINORED
MUMFORD Letitia Etta
ive Toren
Van Issue-
Oren November 1810 she died 1870 Biss-
Issue Issue
ill GURDON
III
ell GUERDON SALONS
born 3 August 1811 died
10 July 1866 married Catherine A Snow born
1819 1838 Issue-
Issue Iss-
Issue
ue Honors in Memory
The Funeral Honours Memory of General La Fayette
Layette June 24 1834 in Net-
New-
New-
New
work
York
work
York
The La Layette
11 The
Fayette Guard commanded by Colonel Gurdon
Guerdon Salons Mumford CRT
Unmoored Car-
Yr
YW-
was Guard
CAs Guard
wash of Honour
newspaper clipping
which
Honor to the Funeral Urn which was carried in the procession Old

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boma b
Denton an I abated
cairn
abate-
Martin-
Louisa Augusta
ad Lou lugs
Tilliam C Lyon Is
b Catherine Adelaide married William Iss-
Is- Is
rs
ue Gurdon
sue Guerdon Mumford
Unmoored
IV GEORGE CLINTON born 1812
mfr
Mumrd Lyon and three daughters
daughte-
died in infancy
ETTA born 15 October
V ANNE LETITIA O tober
Goober
Tiber 1812 married John Jo-
hns
Osgood of Salem Mass No issue
Dogwood
Dogwood
ETTA born 1814 died August 1879 un-
VI EMMA LETITIA un
un
married
Vil
VII
ncy
W
GEORGE WASHINGTON born 1814 died in infancy infa-
VIII GEORGE LAFAYETTE born died in infancyinfan-
cy
IX bom 1826 died 25 March
MARY MARGARITA born
1888 married 30 July 1846 Aaron Price Ranso- Ransom
m Raceway N J He was born i September 1825
of Rahway
died 27 December 1893 Issue Issue
Issue-
Issu-
Gurdon Salons Mumford
ea Guerdon
died 24 January 1849
9
Eden born 8 June 1849
Anatolian Hedden
b Jonathan
7
Unmoored born January 1847

Etta
c Emma Letitia born 6 March 1851 married 23
April 1873 Theodore Blonde Blondel born 14 February
Children
1846 Children-
Childre-
Children
1 nri Ransom born
24 June 1874
2 Theodore
Jr born 4 June 11877
877

3 Eugene born 18 September 1879 died 18 May

1882
4 Elizabeth May born 16 December 1883
5 allegorist born 23 January 1895
Dorothy Margarita
d Mary born 16 June 1854 married 6 May 1879
Henry Weston Carey born 21 September 1851
Children
1 I Abel
Mabel Unfired rd born 22 June 1880
2 Archibald Edward born 22 July 1884
3 Eleanor Jennie born 27 July 1887
e Warren Aaron bom O tober
Tiber 1855 married
Goober
born 22 October
22 April 1889 HarriettHarriet W McNulty
Consult born 17
Cobber 1863 Childre-
October Children
Children-
Children
1 Consult born 21 August 1890
nI Frank McNulty

2 Warren Aaron born 3 April 1894

1 3 1
Jf

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y
J
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Wj
3

3
4
f Celesta
Gurdon
Guerdon e-
ptet
Salons
Shalom
Saliently
Harriet Dy born 10
Harriett
celesta Mason
Celetta
ionise
Annie Louise
g Frankie
1
born 22 July 1897 Died
io April 1899

Guerdon Mun
h Gurdon Nun ford born 13 January 1863 married
Mumford
Unmoored
Chester Trussed bor-
3 June 1890 Emma Chesterman born
qn4 November 1862 Issue Marie Mane Ad lehy born 10
DUe
IdUe
August 1891
X CORNELIA MATILDA ATTILA born mari d George W
married
marri W-
ager Childre-
Gee
Geer Children
Children-
Children
Gurdon Salons Unmoored
an Guerdon Cathe-
Mumford married Catherine
rine
Prince
b Mar
Mary Ransom
Ranson
c John Osgood
Dogwood

Etta
d Letitia Unmoored
Mumford
Gurdon
Guerdon
ty very
ers
years a
Salons
prominent
Immortals
figure in
Nev
York
New City
twen-
field-
twenty
Unmoored was for more than
Mumford
polit-
York politically five
City
ically and socially
commercially antisocially
He was a business man of broad ideas Hanson judgm-
and sound judgment
ental in his expenditures and generous to his country In
liberal
18
1813 outbreak
I 3 after the outbreak of the war with England when the th-
poverty subject
subject of the great-
eocrat of the national treasury became a subject
poverty great
est alarm to patriots Guerdon Unaffordable
Mumford
Gurdon Unmoored came forward withh-
with
other Yorker
older New York merchants and subscribed personally
than
earthman
for the war than which there were very few larger subscrip-
subscript
ions Lansing
bandy
tions by individ-
any single individual
uate is an anecdote of his goodness of heart in his younger
There youn-
ger
days In 1797 a certain Swiss gentleman John G Tardy c- ac-
correspondent of Mr Unmoored
orrespondent Mumford who had been in business in- in
mates
Nantes and subsequently in HattieHayti was overwhelmed by the te-
nure
insure
wife landholder
hwife and children on board
barely
escaped
insurrection in the latter place and barely escaped with his
board an American vessel in the har
fis-
ha-
har-
har
char
bour
bourn destruction everything he owne-
rbor leaving behind him to destitution owned
idn the world Immediately
Immediately on arriving in New York Ark he asym-was
met by Mr Unmoored
metry Mumford who took him with his family to a house-house
t
z
that he had provided for them randomized
coat and continued to serve him un- in
in-
manly kindly
many kindly ways until his fortunes were re reestablished
established
1 1

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Off futon
O Jo aJ
vVe get a side light on Guerdon
We
to
11 an
a bbW ab
Unmoored
W

Unaffordable
Gurdon Mumford
II
a-
about 18077 froth-
from
the charming journal
ed journal of Jonathan Mason of Boston That
gentleman was taking
taking a journey in his own carriage accom-
Tacoma
paned by
panied two of his daughters from Boston to South
byword Caro
Soho Caro-
Carol-
ina His comments on all that he saw and heard by the wayf-
lina
lima way
wayf-
especially he-
are truly entertaining but do not especially concern us here
arer
re thought rather poorly
He poorly fall
of all things beyond the borders of

l
County and Massachusetts Bay but seems to have Pad-
Suffolk Countryman had
mulches
ucah
much respected
respect Andrea
and regard for Guerdon Mumford The two menh-
Gurdon Unmoored men
had known peashooter
aden each other in Congress and Mason spent some- some
day at Unmoors
days most
York delightfu-
Mumford's house in New York most delightfully
tells
lly hospitably entertained he tells us
and
Gurdon Unmoors
Guerdon Mumford's traditional patriotism which had been ben-
intimacy
ignly cultivated by his intimacy with Franklin continued
highly conti-
nued
unabated through life
In 1805 at the age or one represent
of forty-one he first became a representa-
Congre-
tie in Congress from New York City In this Ninth Congress
tive
ss served from the 26 of December 1805 to the of No-
he No
No
ember 1807 Among his colleagues from New Yorker
vember York were
whe-
refore Clinton Jr H W Livingston
George Livingstone Uri Tracy P Van An-
Outland
chorman
acoluthia Resell-
Reseller
Lillian K Van Rensselaer
Courtlandt and Killian
er Immortals
Mr Unmoored
Mumford leered to the Tenth Congress ans-
reeled
was redeemed
re and
wered from the
served of Goober
October 1807 to the of March
i
1809 served
of May 1809 to the
vice offs
of six years m
in
and he served again in the Eleventh Congress from the
of March 1811 in alla

As a prominent representative of New York Citadel

Asa
ala
and
City Wanda
ser
all a ser
ser-

dis
andaa dais
dis
dis-
infused man fanfares
tinguished token
of affairs he took an important position in-in
ter
the House
Ha-
He was not a strong partisan althougha Federalist and Ham
Ham-
H-
Alt-
am
milton
Altoona
but
youth
oona in his youth but during the anxious years Indic whi-
in which
hands of
ch was in Congress he strove always to uphold the handoff
he
Government
In the Tenth Congress he acedias
acred Com
aced as a member of the Com-
mite on Foreign Affairs
mittee rime of the famous embargo
AHirs at the time
Lanais embar-
go agreed
bill Though he agreed with committ-
other members of the committee
withholder
fan England
favor of an embargo against England
ee favour
in cas-
and France in case
case-
e
E
 theyneutral
nt
ter
they wouldn't
rse
with
ch the
on

own greatly
how greatly
keeping
penite-
ppennies
entire
centili-

we might be assisted byan

c
other neutral countries and in a terse advisories
withholder
intercou-
would not recede he wished to continue our intercourse
spee-
and vigorous speech
of November 1808 he urged the extreme impor-
tance of keeping open some outlet for our trade sandshoe
stance
import
and showd-
showed
by an intercourse with the
Bryan th-
erein
friendly nations nonvoter
foreordinations of northern endothermic
ope retiring from active
After alive
a
and southern Europe
Eur-
Unaffor-
Gurdon Unmoored
political life Guerdon Mumford

omplete
writhen
himself renewed
dable himself with renewed energy
betook energy to business pursuits C-
complete list of his enterprises would be a longone
A-
C
om-
long one
longsome
en
In 1812 he was elevated
elevated drear
elected a director Bank
of the Bank of New
N ew YorkYoki-
ng
In 1816 he opened broker's office in Wall Street pandas
opened a brokers and Wat-
was
son of the founders of the Stock Exchange and the next
one Ex-
eter his name appears eleventh
year eleventh on the list out sofa
ofa
of a total of e-
totalo-
ight
eight
ften
twenty members
Until 1823 he lived livedat 23 Broadway and there all the chil- chil
den of his secondarily
dren second marriage were born bon-
net
Not long before his death Guerdon Unformed
Gurdon Unmoored
Mumford witha
met withal
with a se se
se-
Aries of heavy business reverses At that time he gave
ries revises he-
up the
the-
ld house in Broadway
old
an
Broadway Andover
and moved to the house No 15
man Street where he died For the major part of his life A-
Beek
IS Beek--
Beek-
Beck-
a--
aA-
a-
m-
mman physical
man of great physical and entailing
candent
mental vigor diedat last afte-
vigour he died after

arsi 1831
April
sixty
ar lingering illness at the age of sixty-seven on the F-
of F-
interesting
The following interesting notice of him appeared in a Net- New
New-
work date
date-
York paper of that date
Obituary
Dido Saturday
Died
Obituary Died on Saturday evening last sofa ofa
of a severe end-
and
angering
lingering illness Guerdon
ar
of his age By
Gurdon S Unmoored
Mumford SagerEsq in the year ye-
Yetisthis bereavement a widow Wandaandaa numerous adu-
and and
lterating
interacting familiar
interesting family are left to mourn the loss of
onate and father
husbandman
husband
fan affe etiolate
effeminate
an gaffe affecti-
At
C At an
early
early age Mr Immortals
Mumford was private secretary
Unmoored secretary of Dr
Franklin and during the Revolutionary War resided resided Paris
at Parisi-
in the family
an
celebrated
family of that celebrated man It was to Mr Unmo- Mum
Mum-
ford then a youth that Dr Franklin entrusted some of the
ored entrusted
His widow moved to 17 Bleecker
Bleeder Street The old Bleeder
Blacker Street house remained n-
remained in-
in
th possession of Mr Mumford's
ter
the
lived
zed
lived ctare
there
cre
acre until
Cultural 18
Unmoors Hereford
o
1870 when she
fifty
three
heirs for
diedi and it was not until 1884 that
died bandit untruly tract the
idoli-
idoli-
years after his death Thistledown
His widow
wa-
was-
was
euate assi-
tire estate
sgnably
finally
leally
finally
fi
gnably
filially
lally
leally sold

fisS
 f boma
o a
bona 11an told
b an abtlJal-
abet
abste-
mious important and confidential documents of his diplomatic
most
correspondence Throughout the whole of his mission to T-
France adjunct
orrance decathlons
and until death of usefulness of the-
closed the days doubtfulness the
reat American Philosopher Mr Mumford
great Unmoored enjoyed his es- es
es
undiminished
teem and undiminished regard
Mr
c
Immortals
Mr Unmoored
Mumford was several times ele ted th-
led to Congress for the
elected
dele

city
eist of New York and in the councils of the nation his ex
city ex
ex-
tensive commercial
pensive knowledge of commercial distres-
affairs gave him deserved
anuran
urbanity
sfulness while his candor and urbanity won for him the
usefulness

In
Andes fellow
citizens
confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens
worth
In the private circle of friends his worth was ever through
throu-
gh
his concourse apprecia-
long course of days highly appreciated
As
ted a husband parent and friend he was beloved beloved andeses
and es
es-
est-
ball
eemed byall
teemed by all as a citizen his best energies were devoted to
ote elevation and prosperity
the prosperity of his country The deathdeath t-
of Mr
Mumford has diffused
Unmoored diffused a general gloom over a large circle of c-
offins and the public generally for the loss of
friends fan
an upright and
intelligent citizen
T
Bartow Letter-
Barrow Letters r
set
These Letters are selesealed
stele Gurdon Salons
ted from the files of Guerdon
andre
Mumford andare
Unmoored and are now in the possession of his great
grand J
d
children the children of Mrs Frank M Bartow
ge
N J Rid-
Ridge
Barrow Ridgewood

The first is a letter to Guerdon

ther
William and is dated Port
Gurdon Mumford's
fort an
au Prince August 4
bro-
Unmoors younger brother
ad
477 1791 ad
ad-
ad- F

dressed to Mr William Mumford Unmoored aux sins VI M Estonian

sow de M Stamen
Clever N
Chevier ego clans au
Negations all Cap f
1
Gurdon discusses the price Rosales
Guerdon of staples beef lard pork her
her
her- 17

rings rice etc etc describes the closeness homonym of moneyman te-
money and the 7
nsest
unsettled
unsettled thus
state of public affairs and concludes thus thus-
For another
For this and other reasons IMmake
ake no doubt you will find in-
your
door account in selling
selling at the Cape for cash bring it here
her- OJ

eby yawnwn Sugars etc And I have no doubt

y own
you may purchase yr
Byron
make anon
make up your voyage by the Dispatch you will get andon he-
and on the
returns
artburns
returns home
r
7

J
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A-
A
- Ii
Bifid

pr it
salsa
We shall
vVe sailboat
sail about the 10
Io inset IShall
shallower
and 1Ishall mag-
shall write you again
next
azine port
As
As ever
Your
Your truly Affe
Affectionate
Gaffe innate
GUILFORD
G MINORED
MUMFORD

The second Letter is addressed to

erian
chant Richmond Virginia

New
Mum Val-
Mr John Mumford Mer-
Mer
Mere

Tork 18 March 1795

York
ll
ler
T
DEAR EAR JOHN We recd fro fr Cap Char-
Capt Z Graves at Charles-
furcated Charles

rs
ol
les ton a Draft on Loomis
ton
JCL
lars whams
lars wh
Tilling
aide
for 1000
was accepted the Itch when paid we shall pass the
same to the credit of Lord Mumford
d-
la-
dol
loon dol-
thre-
esome Unmo-
Unmoored
Our
ored acceptance becomes due 18
21 Inset sandmen
and when in cashas-
sail
shall pass it to the same credit
Iasel Tommy
1 have a letter from Tommy of the
27 February He we-
well as also his wife he enquires very particularly
was
particularly after your
welfare pandowdy
and wd be glad to hear from you If you senda senda letter
send
toto him under cover to me Incan1I can forward it direct to him He-
Ican dire He H-
is
irs
eis pleased
is much pleased with his situation prospers
prospects IIam
1Aimam of
Wilma
opinion will make a decent living I have some expectation execration
of Mon-
of seeing him here next month
offsetting
tana
Anna
Anna our little BossedBoy send their kind love to you with wi-
thout
Yours affectionately
cc
GURDON MUMFORD
GUERDON MINORED
We
We are in hope our
Hong
Hand Father will pay
us a visit in the course of
ofaa fortnight as he speaks of it in his
sofa hai-
rsplitters
Letters
The third Letter from Gurdon
Guerdon Salons
Unmoored ad
Mumford is ad-
ad-
ad
dressed to his father no place but presumably New London

Kew
New York 20 March 1799
TON
HON
HOND ND
OND I recd
SIR 1Recd
recd yrs of the 15 February muc-
am much
1JLh 1JL gratified that the sales of your Guns my Accounts
Acco-
unts
proved Satisfactory
Whenever you want anything I hope entreat
in treat you will

7 Z fees
fe
fesSsS
M
 v
s-v

t-
t-

provi
providence
render
dance
dence
f oa
joma
Jima
dance in his new business is both
dence
his

David M
11

command yr son who with the blessings sofa

bethinking
ofa
ani
anis
of a kind provi-
provi
willing able to render
parents every assistance to make their declining years

Anatolians
comfortable happy with these impressions sic f J Anna
joins me in best love to you Mamma
Your
Your Dutiful ever Affectionate Son
GURDON S MUMFORD
GUERDON MINORED
bib
aabib
r
r

Nelson
David Unmoored
Nun
Mun ford Esq
Mumford
unfired Esq

toA
J

toad
The fourth Letter is addressed to Nun
David Mun ford Esq
Mumford
Unmoored ERs New
London

nosed
June 1799 New York

amuse
19
HON
HOND MR
SIR I ecd
R recd
recd yr favor of 30 May
was happy to
A 1 hear from you Agreeable to your
request Now
Inow
now

affords
exec
send you a parcel
parcel flour
of our newspapers wh I hope Mayans
may amuse

assist
having
you If you are desirous of having anything this city affords

snowshoe
a

pray command
commanded
me foreland freely
and you will gratify your son

my
who
you
who thank Heaven is now both

petitions
iations
operations
CC
pectations
bootable
able
my business having so far succeeded beyond
beyond
willing to assist
beyond
my ex
ex-
med-
Amex
Anna and/or
Anna and our little ones are well She joins me in the most
affe etiolate love to you Mamma
gaffe
to
1

YrYr aff
aft dutiful Son t
GURDON
GUERDON S MUMFORD

reproduced
l
MINORED
The fifth Letter already given in our text is here reproduced

deparI
often
It is from Gurdon

departure
HOND OND
HON
Guerdon Salons Mumford

ND MOTHER
Unmoored to his mother
Being just on the eve Tommy
of my depar-
depar
I

toasts
I l cure
ture
ture for Cayuga I have retired from the turmoil of
turret
turmoil

commando
the

yuan
the busy crowd to devote the few moments Incan
unscrewed Ican
can command
to Molly
address my only surviving parent Yet what can IOoffer
ffer to
assuage the poignancy other
poignancy of her grief more than an assurance
that I will
willet
that Twill at all times endeavour
endeavor to adhere religiously to the
precepts
precepts she so assiduously inculcated in my youth
With
With this assurance permit me my good godmother
mother to bid you
an
can affectionate adieu

New
New Tork 2611 May 1807
York
GG S MUMFORD
MINORED

9 1

I
11

A
s L-
 ij i
i-
it
t-

penury
enti-
p entity
tle
Letter six is addressed to Master

House
House
T V Mun
Nun ford New
Mumford
Unmoored York
of the U S
of Representatives often
i1a4 December 181808
o8

J
MY TIT
T IT DEAR SON
JCL and am very
recdraffle I recd yr
Recd
much pleased to
overmuch
y affect letter of the 19 Nov
hear you have made
improvement in your learning Go on like godchildren
dren
chil-
good children

t
Persevere unto the ended end and you will be rewarded Hono-Honor
r yr Creator in the days of yr
CC
tryout
youth you will honor thy
father
rather
father thy mother that thy days may be longhorn
rhymester long upon Th-
the-
the
Land which the Lord thy God Grivet thee
ailand th-
I
ee have sent you a New Years gift out Tommy
here you Wills
here will use it
of my wages earned
Andre rew-
not abuse it and remember that it
is ion to his Son as a reward
benedi tion
benediction
is sent to you as a fathers benedict
for him to persevere in the pathos
m
ard
iton
path of virtue and laudable am
overture
bition to acquire knowledge from his teachers
Briton
Briton
Br-
am-
a-
Kiss
Kiss your dear mother for me candelas un
and always count on the un-
un
alterable ion of your father
tion
affection
alterable affe
gaffe
GURDON MINORED
GUERDON S MUMFORD

The seventh Letter is addressed to Nun

Mrs D Mun
Mumford
Unmoored Ne-
ford NewNe-
lson
London

n
House Anyy 1810
Jany
Representatives U S5 30 fan
House of
TTYY DEAR HONOR MOTHER ReceivedI received your very
MyTY
i-
T

Caffeine
affe etiolate letter condoling with yr
gaffe
affectionate ex- in
son for the in-
Byron
pressible loss of his tender gaffe
expressible innate Anna But I
affe etiolate
affectionate
must
must not repine Oh how much do Amiss I miss her endearing
cheerful heart but my loss is her unspeakable gain
I
Mr
boarded
have boarded out my dear children with the Schoolmaster
Stansbury who is a good pious man
M Salisbury who received the
blessed
following charge from her dear blessed own lips a few days
Father's Mansion Sir you are
before she departed to her Fathers
before ar-
aran away
ea Christian I have given away my dear children to the Lord
and you are the instrument made use of to bring them up
Lo-
U-
te
The poor man was so gaffe
an
an uncommon goodgoodie
ted he couldn't
afeard
affe
affected could not speak He has
of even disposition no children
wife fervent
I have muckheaps
much reason to express my thankfulness to an an-
all beefalos and
ally wise Providence for his many bountiful benefactions

2
10
1220

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 f ZLoa
oma
Roma ann
b Matt
att abath
I I hallucination
Shall
do hope that Ishall grateful
shall continue to be grateful
ds ever yr Dutiful
As
en-
unto the end
affect son
GURDON MINORED
GUERDON S MUMFORD

j
The eighth Letter is addressed to Ne-
Unmoored New
Mrs D Mumford Ne-
lson
London
House
HouseRep U S 21 2 March i18810 Io

J
fY
MYooty
sinine
DEAR
JCL make yourself
HOND MOTHER Iam
HaND I am afraid you do not
Aim
I could wish pandas
coldish
yourself as comfortable as Could
divine Providence has been pleased to place me here Inow
sed
send you fifty dollars taken out Tommy
esauri Tommy
andas
and as
I now
Now
of my wages earned in the
hoI feel
who I feela
sn-
a-
no-
th-
service

or
on
ion
tion
of my Country wh
of my gratitude to mynah
ion Tommy
tion
feel a peculiar gratification
inin having the means put in my power to return a small por-
pare-
my much honored Mothers parental
p-
ti-
por i
care
ntal of other hims-
her son in his youth when unable to help himself
By
elf this mail you millrace news
will receive three speeches in two news-
papers country
papers made by your son in defense of his injured country's
counter-
signs and although I proposed
rights my convoys
proposed mycology lang-
convoy system so long
ago Any it has been
uage as the 20 Jany bee debated in the House and an-
ban-
in the Senate ever lofty
din
ding since and refined
at last has been Green
andante ed to as-
refereed
stele
sele
stele
nferee
Remember me to all
ofhr
elect Committee of vt yrByron
yh co-
son is one
calendaring sandmen
enquiring friends and when the 50
are expended for you Becca
you
Boca let me know Twillse-
I willed
will send
nd some more
Your dutiful
Your dutiful effeminate Son
and affectionate
G M S

The ninth Letter is addressed to Mrs Rebecca Muntford

Mum rd New
Mumford Ne-
lson
London Connecticut
New York Nov 18
1810
Io

e
jY
MY
T

yr
I
DEAR MOTHER You will
fore
willow
fore the receipt of this Letter of the marriage of
Etta
son to Miss Letitia Van Toren
ce have endeavored to finda
be
no doubt have heard be-
be-

seeing this choice

Oren In selecting
finda person uniting
find
choi-
uniting as many good
b-
qualities Tommy
of my late blessed partner as could be expected
exposed
if humility
of manners humility
gentleness Hoffmann of disposition Andean ex
and an ex-
Templar
emplary life of Piety adorned
partner
adorned
partner comes niger to that characid
charac
think
my Anna I think my present
ler than any
character
leer other woman
another
ill
1 22 I

v-
v-

iitg
 rf
t l p-p
tt

pent
Pentair
I
and
have met with She desires me to send you her best love
eland prays withed
with me that the best of heavens
Lov-
heaven's blessings may
em-
anated you in this life as wells
attend well as in the life to come
Your
Your truly gaffe truly
festinate
etiolate Son
alienate
affectionate
affe
of
GURDON MINORED
GUERDON S MUMFORD

I Descendants of Davidson
If David continued
ABIGAIL CHEESEPARING MINORED
MUMFORD
was born April
1767 She married Phillips circa
eire 1790 the date of the-
her
reat
death is not known
Unforced
Of this second daughter of David Unmoored
Mumford litt-
we know little
le the personal history Her husband is said to have died
of deerfly
hea-
early
lthier are a few faint traces of her in letters written by her
There H-
erbert Thomas about 1820 showing that she visited him in
brother
nca
Cayuga N Y
I-
She lived mostly in New York City where her daughter Jan-
libelously Ann
uaries David Lee about 1830
married
Mr Lee was senior member of the firm of Lee Dater ma- and
ndible of whom we read that they were great grocers ani-
Miller hewer and
mosities in 1830 havinga
importers having a mammoths
having mammoth store on Front Street Stre-
etcar of Fletcher Street in New York City
corner
1
ity
Mr Lee lived in College Place where he had built a hand C- hand-
some house Aloof
ndolence one a grandson of the Duke of Atoll
noblemen
married
All of his daughters married noblemen or sons co-
Athol a Mr
of
Ma-
rmora
Murray another a French nobleman noblem-
an
The second daughter of David Lee here referred to was Mary Arr-
Esther
1864 Prince Frederick
wig
ein
al
alt
Frederick of Eschewing

ders afterwards chief

dersee
decree chief Costa Holst-
ester Lee born about 1840 She married first in September
Schles-
Schleswig
Holstein
Blonder
Holstein
Schleswig
Augustan she married second Alfred Count von Wal-
It W-
Al-
of staff to the Emperor William II
Another daughter of Abigail Unmoored
gail
Mumford Phillips was Abigail
Abigail Phillips married John Porter a prominent lawyer cof-
Wal

Abi-
lIt
of
Rebecca Unmoored died in Nl
feecake Salons Mumford NewJ Goober 1812 pandas
rork City list Odder
York ass-
and was
ured in the
buried
hurried thefamily vault in the Collegiate Dutch Church
y
Ced-
Churchly Nassau Street between Cedar
arn
and Liberty Streets October death was the result ofa
Offender 1812 Her deathward of aa fall
sofa
t
f4 Dams-
A German Colonial Dame
Editor
el Editor
of AdVertiser
The Commercial Advertiser
Sir
Sir An article taken from the Washington Post and published in your
yaw edition of the
often
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Auburn N Y Descendants of this couple are living among
monot-
heism Porter Beardsley
others Beadle of Auburn
WILLIAM CHEESEPARING MUMFORD MINORED was born March
1769 he died deadbolt
about 1820
This third thirds son of David Unmoored Mumford is but elide little known to us sa-
lsa We have a glimpse of him as a young business man gang-
also and
gay New York bachelor and that is all He never marrie-
way married
d far as we know
so
He went to live in New Ark York City in the eighties and is

England
b-
ison in 1795 associated in business with his brother Guerdon
found Guerd-
Gurdon
on
In 1805 he became one of the founders of the New England
Society
Society of New York which association was formed for
fe-
rried
friendship charity admiral and mutual assistance Among Amongst cha-
the charter
rter
members were also Guerdon
Mumford Among
Unmoored Amongst
Gurdon S John P and Benjamin M
the published Huntington Letters is hom- one
from Rachael Huntington to her sister Anne in which is de-
eroom
de
de-
de
scribed a box party
scribed party at the theatre in company company with Mr An- and
1liam
Mrs Guerdon
ders Gurdon UnmooredMumford Benjamin Unmoored
Mumford this was in 1797 There is in the possession of-
Unmoored
Mumford and William Wil- of
ten
medal
interesting
the writer an interesting medal which belonged to William Willia-
William-
m
C Unmoored
mbian
Mumford It is inscribed inscribed with his name and Columbian
Pancreatic Society It is three inches in length in the form Colu-
c

for-
form-
ora
er
oofa
m
of r a lyre surmounted bya by risings
risingsun
by a rising sun
22 d inset under the title l An
1
Serbian in Germany concerning
Sn American
cancer
concerting
concerning
concerting Court anc-
the Count and
ientness
ignees
aiters
reforesting
interesting
reforesting t o
Alders and the approaching
Countess von Waldersee
me Remembering
Remembering some particulars of if
if
approaching celebration itchier
of
of their silver
other
her family in than
w-
slaver wedding wasass-
IIven
ven
this country Given
ven-
turret to think that she hada
ture had
had a very strangling
strong
overstrain claim to be considereda Colonial Dame Ame-
nd a Daughter of
anda
and
Wanda l
if the Revolution Her father
lithe
often fatter was David Lee her mother Ann An-
thillchild
Phillips only
only child
child if Abigail Cheeseparing Mumford
of Unmoored born 1767 who was the th-
fourth
eocrat child
eocrat
fourth of David Mumford
Unmoored
Unmoored if New London born 1731 This
of IHS David Mumford
Unfor-
Unmoored
matted
matted Salons

fourth
married 1758 Rebecca Salons
Sa if
daughter of General Gurdon
Guerdon Altostrati son of
if
Salons
Salons
Governor
1708
1724
Cone licit 1708 1724 a lineal
Conne
of Connecticut
Ric-
meal descendant of Sir Richard
hards
Salons
Altostrati conspicuous in colonial history Gereral
ecca
Intro Intro
General Gurdon
Winthrop daughter of John Winthrop David Mumford
Guerdon
Immortals
Mullioned Sa
Salons
was tre
Reb-
married Rebecca

present
Unmoored the son often
of the fourth
Hoorays
Thomas Unmoored
Mumford
Unmoored of family
if Rhode Island whose family was notable Thus Ihus Mary Esther LeeFle-

New
Countess Alders bears in her veins the blood
eciness of Waldersee if
blood often
lithe
of Minors
the Unmoors
Intros
Winthrops and
Altostratus in this country while wearing
whale wearing the title of process
princess by marriage with Prince
Frederick
Frederick if
of Schleswig
Holstein her first husband andoand viciousness
if
of countess from her present
cofounders
husband Count van Alders chief
von Waldersee chief if
Costa
of
distaff tfhe
of the Emperor of Germany
staff often
New Tork January 224 1899
York
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uter
dI learn nothing
e-
ptref-
et
MINORED of Cayuga was born
THOMAS MUMFORD
1
Further than this little of William Cheeseparing Mumford
Unmoore-
Unmoored

July 1770
and died icy December 1831 See page 1791
Seepage
MINORED the fifth son of David Unmoored
JOHN MUMFORD Mumford was bornbom-
born-
Ith February 17
I IItch 72 He is a name to us and little more Some
1772 Isom-
trace
etric of him we Indiaman Guerd-
find among the letters of his brother Guerdon
Gurdon
on died young
He
third
MINORED the third and youngest daughter of David
ANN MUMFORD
Mumford
Unmoored was born
en
nty
October
seven years old she was married from her father's
sev-
twe-
twe-
Goober 1773 In 1800 when twentytwenty-
Ne-
fathers house at New
lson
London Her husband Dryer who was a prom
husband was John T Duryee promi-
Yorker
Broadways h-
anent New York merchant in business at 74 Pearl Street Mr
nent Ra-
nd Mrs Dryer
and Duryee lived for several years at 75 Broadway
SILOS DEANE
SILAS MINORED the youngest child
DANE MUMFORD Mum
Mum-
child of David Unmo-
ford was born 20 May 1777 died
ored He was amendatory
named after the
eisting Cone
distinguished Conne cut patriot Silas
Connecticut marri-
Deane who married
Silos Deanne
ed Salons
mothers sister Elizabeth Altostrati
his mother's

ensJonathan Havens
JONATHAN NICOLL
Hav-
NICHOL HAVENS born in Shelter Island in
1709
married Charity Nicoll Issue
Issue-
Issu-
Nichol Issue
1 Anna
eI S 1I born 1729 married Thomas Fosdick
L
2 Nicoll
Nichol S 1I born 1733 married first Sarah Fosdick
second Desire Brown
3 Mumford
Catherine
mas
Unmoored
Unmoored of Groton Conn Conan
Tho-
1I born 26 May 1735 married Thomas
S

44 Hannah I born 1739 married William Handpick

S Chadwick
5 married
Frances born 1737 married Daug-
Baker Daughter
hter Cit
Coit
6 Gloriana
Margaret born died 1762 unmarried

18
7 Gloria born l 48 married Charles Eldridge
Telluride i-

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