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¹Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., History of Wethersfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's,, Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, vol 2 p 712. "
... one of the seven pillars of the Milford Church ..."

²Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 280.

³Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 736. "He had the prefix of Mr. attached to his name which at that time meant a great deal, and showed he was an important man in the community. Edmund was also chosen as one of the Judges with 4 others to hold offices for 1 year, until a body of laws should be established and they were 'to observe and apply themselves to the rules of the written word of God.' He took part in the ordination of Rev. Peter Prudden and was sent as a deputy to the Genereal Court in New Haven."

⁴Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 736.

Anna

¹Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 280.

Moses WHEELER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 149. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. Taxpayers of Oxford in 1802
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/149.html.

²1790 Derby Census.

³1800 Oxford Census.

⁴1810 Oxford Census.

⁵1820 Oxford Census.

⁶Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 479, 480. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/479.html.

⁷Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 81.

⁸Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 314.

⁹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 20. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/020.html.

¹⁰W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 79. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.

¹¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

¹²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

¹³Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 314. "WHEELER ...
Moses, of Derby, m. Lucy Hecock, of Waterbury, Dec. 26, 1770, by Rev. Mark Leavenworth."

Lucy HICKOCK

¹Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 479, 480. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/479.html.

²Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 81.

³Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 160.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 79. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.

⁵David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

⁷Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 314. "WHEELER ...
Moses, of Derby, m. Lucy Hecock, of Waterbury, Dec. 26, 1770, by Rev. Mark Leavenworth."

David WHEELER

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 313.

Asa WHEELER

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 312.

Gideon HICKOCK

¹Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap16.

²Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap142.

³Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 30.

⁴Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 6216.

⁵Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, p. 158.

⁶Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap64.

⁷Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 275.

⁸Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, p. 158.

⁹Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Ancient Cemetery, Oak St., Naugatuck, p. 264. "Hickox, Samuel, died Apr. 18, 1879, age 98.
Hickox, Sarah, wife of Samuel Hickox, died Jan. 19, 1879, age 93." The list gives the name of Samuel and the death year as 1879, but this appears to be an error for Gideon and Sarah (Upson), and an error for the year of death.
Gideon died Apr. 18, 1798, Sarah died Jan 19, 1809.
The last known people to be buried at this cemetery died in Oct. 1830.

¹⁰Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Vol 1, p 674. " ... Gideon Hikcox and Sarah, his wife - had lived more than ninety years."

¹¹Ancient Cemetery Photograph - Naugatuck, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem3295.html.

¹²Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, 158, 372.

Sarah UPSON

¹Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 372. "Sarah, d. Joseph, m. Gideon HIKCOX, s. of Samuel, b. of Waterbury, Aug. 15, 1734."

²Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap142. "Stephen Upson ... m. Sarah Bronson ...
... Sarah, b. July 26, 1715: m. Gideon Hikcox."

³Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap63. "Gideon Hikcox, s. of Sam. (2d), dec'd, m. Sarah Upson, d. of Stephen."

⁴Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 275. "Gideon ... m. 15 Aug 1734, Sarah Upson, dau. of Stephen."

⁵Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap142.

⁶Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, p. 372.

⁷Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, vol 1, p 674. " ... Gideon Hikcox and Sarah, his wife - had lived more than ninety years."

⁸Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Ancient Cemetery, Oak St., Naugatuck, p. 264. "Hickox, Samuel, died Apr. 18, 1879, age 98.
Hickox, Sarah, wife of Samuel Hickox, died Jan. 19, 1879, age 93." The list gives the name of Samuel and the death year as 1879, but this appears to be an error for Gideon and Sarah (Upson), and an error for the year of death.
Gideon died Apr. 18, 1798, Sarah died Jan 19, 1809.
The last known people to be buried at this cemetery died in Oct. 1830.

⁹Ancient Cemetery Photograph - Naugatuck, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem3296.html.

¹⁰Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, 158, 372.

¹¹Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Barbour Collection - Waterbury, p. 158.

James HICKOX

¹Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 158.

Elizabeth HICKOX

¹Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 157.

Amos CLARK

¹J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, p. 534. " The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ..."

²Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 38.

³David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #16.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 79. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Deaths...
1824...
Amos Clark, 48."

⁵David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #16.

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #16.

Lucy WHEELER

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 314.

²Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 480. . "Church Records."

³David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

⁴David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

Sheldon I. CLARK

¹Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 55. . " ... Dec. 11, 1775 ... Committee of Inspection ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/055.html.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710. " ... was a merchant at Old Town until just before the Revolution, when he established his store at the Narrows, being an influential man in the town some years."

³Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 710.

⁴Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 210.

⁵Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem10173.html.

⁶1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, p. 204. http://www.oxfordpast.com/elmstcemscan204.html.

⁷George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 15.

⁸Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 258.

⁹Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 710.

¹⁰Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 503.

Betty KEENEY

¹Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

²George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 15.

³Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 258.

⁴Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 503.

⁵George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 15.

⁶Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 258.

⁷Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 710.

⁸Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 503.

William CLARK

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 211.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

Lucy CLARK

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 210.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

Hannah CLARK

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 210.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

Sheldon C. CLARK

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 210.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

Watrous CLARK

¹Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 211.

²Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 710.

Josiah TUCKER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 71. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

²W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 149. Taxpayers of Oxford in 1802.

³W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 98. "� 27." 1792 - Tax List - Oxford
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.

⁴1790 Derby Census.

⁵1800 Oxford Census.

⁶1810 Oxford Census.

⁷1820 Oxford Census.

⁸Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, 58, 77, 81.

⁹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17.

¹⁰Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 77, 81.

Betty WHEELER

¹Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, 77, 81.

²Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 312.

³Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 480. . "Church Records."

⁴W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 77. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.

⁵Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 77. "ae. 42."

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

⁷David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

⁸Compiled By Carole Magnuson, Barbour Collection - Oxford, 77, 81.

Mary L. TUCKER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 71. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

²Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 77.

Harry W. TUCKER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 71. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

²Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 77.

George W. TUCKER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 71. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

²Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 77.

Sarah TUCKER

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 71. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

²Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 77.

Philo SANFORD

¹Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 87. . " The first church in Beacon Falls was a Methodist church at Pines Bridge. In this village lived some of the first Methodists in the Naugatuck Valley, in the Nyumph section and at Pines Bridge. Those remembered for their early loyalties to the denomination are Philo Sanford ..." http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp87.html.

²J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, p. 534. " The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ..."

³1810 Oxford Census.

⁴1820 Oxford Census.

⁵1830 Oxford Census.

⁶1840 Bethany Census.

⁷1850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

⁸1860 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

⁹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #18. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan18.html.

¹⁰David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #18. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan18.html.

¹¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 36. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/036.html.

Charity WHEELER

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²1860 Oxford Census.

³Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 313.

⁴Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 481. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/481.html.

⁵David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #18. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan18.html.

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #18. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan18.html.

⁷W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 36. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/036.html.

child SANFORD

¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

child SANFORD

¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

child SANFORD

¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

Polly SANFORD

¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #17. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan17.html.

Zodac SANFORD

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 98. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "� 27." 1792 - Tax List - Oxford
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.

²Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 305. . "Oxford Tax List, 1792." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.

³J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, p. 534. " The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ..."

⁴Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, p. 185. " ... Zodac Sanford of Oxford .... to Simeon Gunn of Oxford ... Niumphs ...." 6 May 1801.

⁵Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, p. 181. " ... Zodac Sanford of Oxford ... to Reuben Bunnell of Oxford ..." Arp 1801.

⁶Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, p. 114. "Eliakim Terril and Elizabeth ... to Zodac Sanford and Sarah Sanford his wife ... land lying in said Oxford ..." Aug 1800.

⁷Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, p. 115. " ... John Sanford of Oxford ... to Zodac Sanford of Oxford ... in Oxford Lying at a place called Niumphs ...." Aug 1800.

⁸Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 118.

⁹1790 Derby Census.

¹⁰1800 Oxford Census.

¹¹Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 67.

¹²David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), p. 22. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan22.html.

Sarah BRISCOE

¹Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, p. 114. "Eliakim Terril and Elizabeth ... to Zodac Sanford and Sarah Sanford his wife ... land lying in said Oxford ..." Aug 1800.

²Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 67.

³Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 118.

⁴David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #22. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan22.html.

⁵W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 76. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.

⁶Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 118.

⁷David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #22. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan22.html.

Sherman CLARK

¹J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, p. 534. " The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ..."

²1820 Oxford Census.

³Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 39.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 74. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Nathan, January 4, 1823, aged 69." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/074.html.

⁵David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.

⁶W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, 74, 78.

⁷W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 74. "Nathan, January 4, 1823, aged 69." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/074.html.

⁸David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #21. Buried beside his brother Sheldon.

⁹Pines Bridge Cemetery Photograph - Beacon Falls, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem10979.html.

Clara WHEELER

¹1840 Oxford Census.

²Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 313.

³Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 481. . "Church Records."

⁴W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 117. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

⁵David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #21.

⁷Pines Bridge Cemetery Photograph - Beacon Falls, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2277.html.

Thomas CLARK Jr.

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 50. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.

²W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 97. 1792 - Tax List - Oxford
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/097.html.

³Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 304. . "Oxford Tax List, 1792." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/304.html.

⁴1790 Derby Census.

⁵Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 39.

⁶Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 39.

⁷Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 211.

⁸Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 711.

⁹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 51. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/051.html.

¹⁰William C. Sharpe, History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies, Seymour, CT: Record Print, 1879, p. 128. "Thomas Clark, died, Oct. 11, 1997, aged 33 years."

Sheldon CLARK Esquire

¹J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, p. 534. " The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ..."

²1820 Oxford Census.

³B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2. . " Next is the historic college farm. This place was owned for nearly half a century by Sheldon Clark, a very eccentric old bachelor, who lived alone in the gloomy old mansion, never caring for company, his only companions being a mongrel dog, a few chickens and some cows. His only ambition was to accumulate money, and by being penurious he accumulated quite a fortune. when he realized that his earthly pilgrimage was drawing to an end he made a will giving all his earthly belongings to Yale College. Not long after this, as he was looking for eggs in the barn, he fell from the scaffold and broke his neck. He was buried in Pinesbridge cemetery. A small slab marks his resting place with simply the name, Sheldon Clark upon it. Some one visiting the cemetery wrote on the stone,
"Here lies a man who had no wife.
In search of eggs he lost his life."
But I think the following would have been more appropriate:
"Warm summer sun shine brightly here.
Soft southern winds blow lightly here.
Cold winters snow fall gently here.
Rest, peaceful, generous heart, Good bye.|
  After the death of Mr. Clark the place was rented to Michael Leek for a hundred and eighty dollars a year. He made a business of cutting and carting cord wood to Seymour, then Humphreysville. The farm comprises 80 acres and at the time of Clark's death was one of the best farms on Chestnut Tree Hill. But it has most of it grown up to wood and brush, and where were once fertile and productive fields is now a dense forest." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.

⁴Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 711. " ... donated land to Yale College."

⁵B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford. "Sheldon Clark: Another View
Published in History of Seymour.
SHELDON CLARK, ESQ.
Condensed from a sketch by Prof. Silliman kindly loaned for the purpose by the Secretary of Yale College.
  A little beyond our northern boundary, in Chestnut-tree Hill, is a tract of land owned by Yale College, given by one who is well worthy of a sketch on these pages. Sheldon Clark, a brother of Mrs. Abirim Stoddard of Seymour, was born in Oxford Jan 31, 1785, and died April 10, 1840, aged 55 years. His father died when he was very young and he was adopted by his grandfather, Thomas Clark, Esq., with whom he remained until the death of this venerable ancestor at the age of 82, April 5, 1811. The grandson wished to obtain a liberal education, but his grandfather disapproved of such a course as a waste of time and money, and he had no extraordinary opportunities for education except about a year at South Farms, in Litchfield, in 1805 and 1806. But his active mind prompted him to diligently read such books as he could obtain and thus cultivated habits of intellectual exercise and independence of character.
  The death of his grandfather left him to pursue such a course as his own judgment dictated, and he applied for advice to Prof. Silliman of Yale College and passed the autumn and winter of 1811-12 in a course of study in connection with the recitations and discussions of President Dwight.
  Among his numerous manuscripts is one dated January, 1812, giving an account of a dream or vision of the general judgement. The language is elevated and beautiful and the imagery splendid and sublime. It is remarkable for deep seriousness and reverence for the heavenly world.
  Ten years later he called on Prof. Silliman and stated that the twenty thousand dollars left him by his grandfather he had by industry and economy increased to twenty-five thousand, that he had no family, and might never have one, and that he was disposed to appropriate at least a part of his estate to the encouragement of learning. He therefore deposited $5,000, to be placed at compound interest until it should amount to a sufficient sum for the establishment of the Clark professorship. In 1824 he gave $1,000 for the purpose of establishing a scholarship. This new instance of liberality excited additional interest in the hardworking Oxford farmer, whose example had now placed him at the head of the benefactors of this ancient literary institution. In 1829 he presented to the College an excellent telescope, with a focal length of ten feet and an aperture of five inches, made to his order, and costing over $1,000.
  He was elected to the legislature from Oxford in 1825 and for several succeeding years. His sentiments and mode of thought may perhaps best be expressed in his own words, as in the following extract from a letter written by him in reply to acknowledgments of one of his bequests:
  "Oxford, Nov. 29th, 1832.
  "Respected Friends -- Man is a child of circumstances. While some are born to ease and plenty, seldom meet with disappointments, are surrounded by benevolent friends, always ready to assist, to comfort and to afford them the most ample means of enjoying the highest degree of mental culture; others are bon to poverty and servitude, unassisted, even by their nearest relatives, and denied the privilege of obtaining a good common school education, and are often dispirited by disappointments.
  "It was my destiny to belong to the latter class. Early in life, I had a tender father, who was in possession of a large amount of property. He intended, and often promised that I should have a liberal education -- but alas, before I was old enough to prepare to enter College, he died, and the estate proved to be insolvent.
  "Thus all my fond hopes of having a liberal education were frustrated, and I was left fatherless and penniless in a hard, unfeeling, selfish world, to provide, by my own industry, to satisfy those positive wants congenial to poor human nature. It fell to my lot to live, till I was of age, with my grandfather, a hard working, parsimonious farmer, but I was allowed the privilege of reading occasionally, on Sundays, stormy days, and in the long nights of winter. From these opportunities of reading, I was soon convinced that the power, the honor, and glory of nations, consisted in, and depended upon, their great man. What has Greece, or Rome, or any nation of antiquity transmitted to posterity, worthy of esteem and admiration, but the achievements of their heroes, and the productions of their artists, poets, and philosophers? And what else can we transmit to succeeding ages, to distinguish us form the unlettered savaged that roamed at large in the uncultivated wilds of America when discovered by our fathers? Full of this idea, and animated with an ardent desire to promote the honor and happiness of my own native country, I felt determined to do all I could to patronize and encourage literature and science, to provide the means of affording our literary and scientific genius a finished education.
  "Oft when toiling with ceaseless assiduity to accomplish that object, I have been pointed at, by my fellow-citizens, with the finger of scorn, and taunted by the tongue of ridicule. But for all of this I felt a reward in the anticipation of promoting the honor, and glory, and happiness of my beloved country. I never dreamed of personally receiving the grateful acknowledgments of one of the most respectable collegiate classes in the world. This I assure, my dear friends, is a rich compensation for all the labor, the hardships and privations I have suffered."
  --From his will, made in 1823, the following is taken"
  "Knowing the uncertainty of life -- thinking that we must always be prepared to die -- feeling that it is our duty to do all the good in our power, and believing that part of my prosperity will do more good if given to encourage literature than it would to descend according to law, I Sheldon Clark, of Oxford, am voluntarily and of my own accord, disposed to make the following will"
  "I wish to be buried in a decent manner, and to have decent grave-stones at the discretion of my executors. It is my will, that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my movable estate. I give and bequeath to the Corporation of Yale College in New Haven, all my homestead farm where I now live, with its buildings and appurtenances -- also all the land that was given to me by way of my grandfather, Thomas Clark, Esq. on the east side of the road that runs north and south of Mr. Samuel Tucker, with its buildings and appurtenances, also all my land that lies north of the road that runs by where George Drake now lives -- also my meadow that lies a few rods west of Rimmon school-house, and also all my Red Oak farm &c.
  "Funds being so liable to be lost by bad security, it is my will, that the lands I have given to said Corporation shall never be sold, but that they shall be let or rented in such way and manner ad the President and Fellows of said Yale College, and their successors, forever, shall judge to be for the best interest of said institution. It is my will =, that the annual income of said lands shall be annually appropriated for the advancement of literature in said Yale College, in such a manner as its President and Fellows, and their successors forever, shall deem the best and most beneficial for said institution; but no part of said donation or income shall ever be appropriated to erect or repair buildings.
  "I also give and bequeath to the Corporation of Yale College in New Haven, all the money I shall have on hand and all the notes I shall have due me at the time of my decease, (Except three hundred and thirty-four dollars for Chestnut-tree hill school district,) to be appropriated for the benefit of said Yale College, as its President and Fellows, and their successors forever, shall think shall be for its best good, and the most conducive to its prosperity and honor."
  He then gives in form, and with certain conditions, the above named sum to the Chestnut Tree hill school district. He gives also to his three sisters a valuable farm which fell to him and their brother, besides other lands acquired after his will was made; also, all his personal estate not otherwise disposed of; and on his death bed he expressed a wish, that the sisters should receive each one thousand dollars.
  He named Abel Wheeler, Esq. of Oxford, and Benjamin Silliman of New haven his executors, but Judge Wheeler did not survive him. He died April 11, 1840, from injuries received by a fall from a scaffolding in his barn. Under his extreme sufferings not a word escaped him as to his future prospects: he remarked only, that he endeavored to do all the good in his power, and as these pages show, his efforts were not in vain.
  A large concourse of friends and neighbors and people of the vicinage, with several of the officers of the college and the clergy attended him to his last home. A long retinue of rural vehicles wound slowly down the high hills and along the deep valleys to a secluded burying ground, which he had been instrumental in arranging, on a quiet and beautiful plain, shaded by pines and watered by the murmuring current of a branch of the Housatonic. A neat marble slab records his name as "a distinguished benefactor of Yale College." Such indeed he was. His benefactions to the institution, including the funded interest that had accumulated to the time of his death, amounted to full thirty thousand dollars -- three times as much as any other individual had ever given.
  This object was not accomplished without a long course of stern self-denial -- with great industry and severe economy. Mr. Clark expended very little on his own personal accommodation. The plain farmers house remained as his grandfather left it, without decoration and almost without repair; the furniture was of the humblest kind, but a warm welcome was given to his friends and to strangers, with ample provision not only of the produce of a farmer's cultivation and care, but occasionally, with a free hospitality in rarer things.
  His policy was, to augment as far and as fast as possible, his productive capital; he attempted no improvements in his agriculture; he hardly preserved fences and buildings in status quo; little return of manure was made to his hard worked soil and even his wood and timber, were, to a certain extend, sold for money and cleared away for market, by other hands. He kept his money always at work -- loaned all the cash he did not need, (and his personal wants were few) -- required his interest and payments at the day -- but was exactly just in his dealings -- prompt to give his advice when desired, and kind in his treatment of all. His hoarding was not for himself; wife and children he had none, and he laid by his thousands -- the results not of traffic or speculation , but of laborious thrifty industry -- to furnish the means of a superior education to the children of others, and to generations yet unborn." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/sc-silliman_bio.html.

⁶Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 122. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/122.html.

⁷W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 74. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/074.html.

⁸Litchfield & Hoyt, History of the Town of Oxford, p. 123. "He died April 11, 1840 from injuries received by a fall from a scaffolding in his barn." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/123.html.

⁹Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, p. 38.

¹⁰David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), p. 21. Buried beside his brother Sherman.
http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan21.html.

¹¹Pines Bridge Cemetery Photograph - Beacon Falls, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem10979.html.

infant CLARK

¹W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 50. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.