Tyler, Sarah (b. 22 JAN 1774, d. 20 FEB 1840)

Source: (Name)
Title: Desc. of Captain Thomas Hewitt of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Virginia Hewitt Watterson
Publication: 1996
Media: Book

Note: SHS-CS71 H6 1996

Page: pg 53
Data:
Text: This gen. gives Sarah Tylers parents as Broadstreet Tyler & Sibble Commins.

Source: (Name)
Title: Internet-Descendants of Benjamin Taft
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Data:
Text: Denise' research indicates that is it more likely that Sarah's parents were John & Thankful [Williams] Tyler.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Internet-Descendants of Benjamin Taft
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Page: Denise Tyler

Source: (Death)
Title: Rev. War Pension Rec.
Media: Book

Death: 20 FEB 1840 Canal Twp, Venango, PA

Death: 1 OCT 1790 North Canaan, Litchfield, CT

Death: 27 DEC 1816 North Canaan, Litchfield, CT

Death: 6 DEC 1823 Stillwater, Saratoga, NY

Burial: Yellow Mountain House Cemetery, Stillwater, Saratoga, NY

Death: 21 AUG 1837 Milton, Saratoga, NY

Burial: Frink Cemetery, Milton, Saratoga, NY

Death: 1800 Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Death)
Title: OneWorldTree
Media: Ancestry.com

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Death: 27 JUL 1786

Source: (Name)
Title: Derthicks and Related Derricks
Author: Spencer & Goodpasture
Publication: Gateway Press, Inc. 1986
Media: Book

Death: AFT 3 DEC 1713 Plympton, MA

Note: In 1761, Walter inherited 62 acres of land in Stonington from his father. The land was to be Walter's for his lifetime and then pass to his 4 eldest sons - Walter Jr., Richard, Benjamin and Gershom. The property was sold by agreement of the 5 parties to Charles Phelps, Esp. of Stonington in 1786. (Land Records, Vol, 11, p. 29). Gershom and Benjamin Hewitt signed the deed on 15 April 1785 in Canaan, Conn. Walter and his sons, Walter Jr. and Richard Hewitt, signed the deed on 3 March 1786, at Stillwater, Albany Co. (now Saratoga Co.), New York.

The sons, Walter, Jr., Benjamin and Gershom, moved to Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn. about 1766. Walter and the other members of his family may have followed them to Canaan before resettling in Stillwater, NY. Only Benjaimim and Gershom stayed in Canaan to raise their families, the rest went to New York or Pennsylvania. It isn't known when Walter settled in Stillwater, NY, however, he was there by March 1786, when he signed the deed of land sale.

Wheeler, in The History of Stonington, Connecticut, has omitted Walter's first wife, Hepsibah, and the children born to them. The American Genealogist, Vol. 39, p. 173 and Vol. 44, p. 79, carried a discussion by researchers as to the parents of Hepsibah. It seems most likely that she was the daughter of Richard Stephens and Sarah Harker, whose daughter Hepsibah was born in Stonington, Conn., 25 July 1712 (VR). No proof has been found to confirm this supposition.

Source: (Name)
Title: Derthicks and Related Derricks
Author: Spencer & Goodpasture
Publication: Gateway Press, Inc. 1986
Media: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: WFT 11, #3036
Media: Family Archive CD

Occupation: Place: Deacon

Death: AFT 3 MAR 1786 Stillwater, Saratoga Co, NY

Christening: 20 MAY 1683 Stonington, New London, CT

Death: 12 MAY 1761 Stonington, New London, CT

Burial: Hewitt Burying Ground, Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: Derthicks and Related Derricks
Author: Spencer & Goodpasture
Publication: Gateway Press, Inc. 1986
Media: Book

Death: ABT 1817

Note: Deacon Palmer came to Stonington with his father and family. The records show that on June 6, 1684, Gershom received 500 acres of land in Stonington as part of his father's estate.

In 1693, Gershom is listed in the town records as a Lieutenant. He served as a selectman in 1691, 1700, 1701 and 1704. In 1706, he was a representative to the Connecticut General Court. Gershom died in Stonington on September 27, 1718.

Gershom was the brother of Hannah Palmer who married Thomas Hewitt, founder of the Hewitt family in Connecticut. It was, therefore, her grandson, Benjamin who married her niece, Ann Palmer. Or, in other words, Benjamin Hewitt's father-in-law, Gershom Palmer, was also his great-uncle.

Death: 27 SEP 1718 Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Death: 17 NOV 1706 Stonington, New London, CT

Note: Moses was a blacksmith. He and his son, John, made guns that were used in the Revolutionary War.

Source: (Name)
Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1860 - Green Lake Co, St. Marie

Source: (Name)
Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1880-NV, Humboldt, Winnemucca, pg264

Death: AFT 1900 Prob. CA

Note: Edmund Fanning, the emigrant ancestor of the family, died in Stonington, Connecticut, December 1683. He left a widow, Mrs. Ellen Fanning, 5 sons and l daughter. He was the great grandson of Dominicus Fanning, who was Mayor of a city in Ireland under Charles the 1st and was taken prisoner at the battle of Drogheda in 1649, all the garrison, except himself put to the sword, he was beheaded by Cromwell, his head stuck upon a pole at the principal gate of the city, his property confiscated, because when Charles 1st made proclamation of peace, as member of the Irish Council, he advised not to accept unless the British Government would secure to the Irish their religion, their property and their lives. His son Edmund, born in Kilkenny, Ireland and married Catherine, daughter of the Earl of Connaught, and came to New England with two sons, Thomas and William, and settled in Stonington. This is taken from an old tombstone at Riverhead, Long Island, New York.

Edmund Fanning was the emigrant ancestor of the Fanning family of this region. He was doubtless of Irish origin, but his native place cannot be defined, for there are two storied traditions relative to it, which are so variant in their conditions and locality, that it is impossible to determine his nativity. One tradition speaks of him as escaping from Dublin in Ireland, in 1611, at the time of the great rebellion in which 100,000 Protestants fell victims to the fury of the Roman Catholics, which tradition followed him in his travels over the ocean and to America, where after a few years he located himself in that part of New London, now Groton, in I652. Later on he removed to Stonington, Conn. where he lived the remainder of his life.

The other tradition would make him a descendant of Dominicus Fanning, who was mayor of a city in Ireland under Charles the First, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Drogheda in I649. All of the garrison except himself was put to the sword. He was beheaded by Cromwell, and his head was stuck on a pole at the principal gate of the city. His property was confiscated, because when Charles the First made a proclamation of peace, he was a member of the Irish Council. He advised not to accept, unless the British Government would secure to the Irish their religion, their property and their lives. His son, Edmund, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and married Catharine, daughter of Hugh Hayn, Earl of Connaught, and emigrated to this country with two sons, Thomas and William, and settled in Stonington, Conn. This tradition is taken from an old tombstone at Riverside, Long Island, and is claimed by many as the ancestral connecting line of Edmund Fanning, who died in Dec. 1683, neither of which storied traditions are to be relied upon as correct for they are so variant in their descriptions of his ancestry, marriages and names of his wives that places them beyond an intelligent belief.

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Death: DEC 1683 Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Data:
Text: Surname unknown

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Title: Internet-Descendants of Benjamin Taft
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Data:
Text: Surname "Butler"

Death: 1688 Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: VR-Conn.
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Death: 3 JUN 1686 Stonington, New London, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Hadley, Mass
Author: Sylvester Judd
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Death: 15 JUN 1731 Branford, CT

Note: George sailed for New England with his family on the "Lyon" in 1631. During the two months that it took the Lion to cross the Atlantic, eleven year old George was tutored by the Reverend John Eliot, the future "apostle" to the New England Indians.

In 1640, at the age of 20, George Denison married Bridget Thompson, the daughter of John Thompson, gentleman of Preston, Northamtonshire, England, whose widow, Alice, had immigrated to New England and was living in Roxbury.

After three years of marriage, Bridget died in June, 1643, leaving two baby daughters, Sarah and Hannah. As the story goes, George, in overwhelming grief, turned from the grave, mounted his horse, and without stopping even for his razor, rode to Boston and left on the first ship sailing for England. He enlisted in Cromwell's Ironsides unit to fight the Royalist forces and was commissioned a captain in the calvary.

During the Battle of Naesby, George was taken prisoner, but soon was able to escape. He was severely wounded at the important battle of Marston Moor in which Charles I was defeated. George Denison was carried from the battle field to the home of John Borodell, a cordwainer, from Cork who was living in England at the time. George fell in love with his nurse and the daughter of the house, Ann Borodell. They were married in 1645 he and returned with her to New England that same year.

Upon their return, George and his bride were given a royal welcome. The Governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, noted in his diary, "... Ann Borodell Denison appears to have charmed everyone." She is reported to have been very pretty, tall, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Now a local hero, many of the young men of Roxbury wanted the dashing cavalry officer to head the local militia. However, despite George's recent military experience, the more conservative town leaders favored an older, more mature man, and George was beaten by a close vote. Angered by what he considered to be an insult, George left Roxbury a second time. With his wife and family, he moved south to the Pequot settlement on the west bank of the Thames, now New London, Connecticut. Here he received a house lot from the town.

At once George took a prominent part in the affairs of the frontier community. He was elected captain of the local militia which must have gratified him greatly. The local records are filled with his activities, among them census taker, tax assessor, inspector of the port, and deputy to the General Court at Hartford. In the colonial records of 1654, there are two interesting entries about George Denison. For services to the community he was given a land grant of 200 acres. For selling rum to one of his Indian friends, he was fined twenty-four shillings.

It was also in 1654 that George moved once again. This time it was to the village of Stonington. On a rocky shelf above a stream, called by the Indians, Pequotsepos (the little river of the Pequots), Denison first built a rough lean-to of poles covered by thick slabs of bark with a stone fireplace and chimney at one end. Because of the constant threat of Indian attacks, he surrounded the house with a strong wood stockade. Perched on this ledge of rock, like a baron in his castle, George Denison had a commanding influence on his townsmen for forty years.

Half a dozen pioneers had taken up land along the Connecticut coast. To the east, at the rocks of the Pawcatuck, the official interpreter of the colony, Thomas Stanton, had built his Indian trading post. Five miles to the west were the area's first white settlers, William Chesebrough and Walter Palmer.

While this vanguard, along with those who joined them over the next few years, were fiercely independent, they and their families were devout Puritans. It deeply disturbed them that there was no church close enough for them to attend. The nearest church was at New London, a half day journey over a rough Indian trail with two large rivers which had to be crossed. The Stonington settlers petitioned the General Court at Hartford several times for permission to set up their own church, but each time they had been turned down.

Because Massachusetts also claimed the area, George Denison proposed that they turn to the Bay Colony for permission to erect a church and officially organize a town. His neighbors approved his rebellious suggestion, and because his brother was the son-in-law of the Massachusetts governor, George was elected to hand carry the petition to Boston. The commissioners of the colonies settled the dispute by giving the territory east of the Mystic River to Massachusetts. Captain Denison became the most important figure under the new jurisdiction. He was a principle town officer, town clerk, and one of three with the authority to hear and decide small disputes. Because there was no local minister, Denison was given the unusual authority to perform marriages.

Four years later, the new charter from King Charles II moved the boundary west to the Pawcatuck River, and once again Stonington was in Connecticut. The authorities at Hartford welcomed back all the inhabitants with the exception of Denison. He had been the ring-leader of the Massachusetts insurgents, so they not only refused him civil rights, but fined him twenty pounds for "illegally performing marriages." This infuriated him so much that he refused to pay the fine and performed two more marriages, one of them for his own daughter. The Hartford court raised the fine to 100 pounds and ordered his to appear before them in person; an order which George simply ignored.

Captain Denison was an important person and had many friends and influential relatives. Accordingly, after a two year deadlock, the Connecticut General Court begrudgingly forgave him and restored his civil rights in the community. His neighbors immediately elected him to a number of responsible town offices. He was an excellent surveyor and was named to fix the boundaries of the new town of Stonington and also to lay out a road from the ford at Pawcatuck to the ferry at the Thames. This road is still known locally as the Old Pequot Trail. The commissioners of the United Colonies also called on Denison's services. They appointed him and their interpreter-general, Thomas Stanton, to set aside 8,000 acres as a home for the scattered remnants of the Pequot Indian tribe, the first Indian reservation in the country.

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Baptism: 10 DEC 1620 Bishop's Stratford, Hertfordshire, England

Death: 3 OCT 1694 Hartford, CT