lived in this area. The first Wooster, Edward, lived in a house on the east side of the Naugatuck River, near the old Episcopal Cemetery at Old Towne, Derby. He married first Elizabeth French and then Tabithia Tomlinson. He was in business of hop raising.
    Children by his first wife included Elizabeth, who married Col. Ebeneezer Johnson; Mary, who was the first white child born in Derby; Thomas, who married Phebe Tomlinson; Abraham, who married Mary Walker; Sylvester and Ebeneezer. The father, Edward Wooster, died on July 8, 1689, at the age of 67 years.
    Edward's son Abraham married Mary Walker on November 22, 1799. Abraham Wooster became a weaver and settled at Farmill River in Stratford soon after his marriage. About 1719, he moved to the Quaker's Farm area of Oxford. He had several children, including Ruth, Joseph, Abraham, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and David. Of these, his son David became famous as a military man and eventually achieved fame as a Patriot hero. General David Wooster lost his life in the defense of Danbury, Connecticut, when it was attacked by the British in the American Revolution.
    Other parts of the family tree were involved in the Tory side of that struggle. Edward's son, Lieutenant Thomas Wooster, was a brother of Abraham and an uncle of David Wooster. Lieutenant Thomas Wooster had six children - one of them was Thomas Wooster, born Feb. 18, 1692. The son Thomas married Sarah Hawkins and they had eight children.
    Among his eight children were five brothers, who were Tories. One of them, Captain John Wooster, was born in December, 1719. This Wooster was known as Captain for his role in the local militia and not for service in the colonial armies which were assembled against the British.
    Many interesting anecdotes of his life in Oxford have been handed down from generation to generation. He married Eunice Hull on June 18, 1746. He was associated with Captain Bradford Steele (who was a patriot from Seymour), Ebenezer Keenery, and Joseph Hull, Jr. in the first manufacturing business in Seymour. They manufactured scythes and did other blacksmithing business. Previous to the establishment of the blacksmithing business, they set up fulling mill, a sawmill and a grist mill. The land was