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Sergeant Abel GUNN

1Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 303. . Indian Deed - 1709
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/303.html.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 8, p 1899.

3Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

4Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 606.

5Oxford Land Records Vol. I, p. 16. "Aprill 1727  There was a lot layed out for the heirs of Abel gunn deceased in the right of William Tomlinson Senior deceased partly in the ____  Woodbury bounds."

6Oxford Land Records Vol. I, p. 17. " ... Abel Gunn's heirs in right of Wm Tomlinson Jun joining upon Woodbury bounds ... bounded with Benjamin Hyde's lot ..."

7Oxford Land Records Vol. I, p. 20. "Aprill 27th 1727  There was a lot layed out to Abel Gunn heirs in the right of Samuel Washbon on Red Oak Hill."

8Donald 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 438; vol 2, p 76.

9Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

10Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 726, 729.

11Susan 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. 176.

12Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.

13Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 320.

14Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 256. "Gunn, Abel, Sarg't., died Feb. 9, 1720, age 41." http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan256.html.

15Compiled 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. 229. "GUNN ...
 Abel, Sergt., d. Feb. 26, 1720/1."

16Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 256. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan256.html.

17Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem216.html.

18Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 2.

19Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229. " ... by John James."


Agnes HAWKINS

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 8, p 1899.

2Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

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. 43. . http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/043.html.

4Susan 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. 320.

5Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 2.

6Donald 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 438.

7Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

8Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 726.

9Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 2.

10Compiled 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. 229. " ... by John James."


Enos GUNN

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. 229.

2Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 256. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan256.html.

3Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 807. "Here lyes ye body of Enos Gunn."

4Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem9997.html.


Isaac NICHOLS

1Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

2Donald 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  438.

3Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p  438.

4Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p  438.

5Compiled 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. 272.

6Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 256. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan256.html.

7Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem3866.html.

8Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p  438.

9Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.


Agnes HAWKINS

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 8, p 1899.

2Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

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. 43. . http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/043.html.

4Susan 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. 320.

5Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 2.

6Donald 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 438.

7Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

8Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 726.

9Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p  438.

10Compiled 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. 229.


Samuel CAMP

1Donald 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  438.

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. 175.

3Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 331.

4Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 176.

5Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 331.

6Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 176.

7Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 331.


Agnes HAWKINS

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 8, p 1899.

2Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

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. 43. . http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/043.html.

4Susan 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. 320.

5Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 2.

6Donald 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 438.

7Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

8Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 726.

9Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 331.


Jobamah GUNN

1Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776 (http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/). Freemen at Milford, 1669
http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/.

2Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 606.

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. 318.

4Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p  412. "John Smith of Milford, New Haven Colony, and His Descendants to the Fifth Generation
Compiled by Robert Atwater8 (Bassett8, Clark8) Smith, of New Haven, Conn."

5Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 106.

6Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1182.

7Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 6, p 1410.

8Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 244.

9Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 653.

10Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.

11Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.

12Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.


Mary BRISTOL

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. 318.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.

3Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.

4Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 318.


Mehitable GUNN

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. 319.


Doctor Jasper GUNN

1Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 173. "Norton ... John bought property, September 29, 1659, in Hartford, Connecticut, of Jasper Gunn, which he sold February 22, 1664, to John Spencer."

2Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776 (http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/). Freemen at Milford, 1669.

3Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 606.

4Susan 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), pp. 316-7. "Jasper arrived in Boston, Mass. 8 October 1635 in the ship "Defense" that sailed from London 14 July 1635 when he was 29 years old ... He settled in Roxbury, Mass. ... 1639 ... The same year he was given lot # 24 in Milford, Conn. as a freeplanter ... Gunn was Milford's first physician, a mender of brass and copper vessels, (for medicine alone could not support a family in those times), schoolmaster, sealer of weights and measures, a deacon of the church and generally a man of importance in the community."


Christian

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. 182.

2Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 316.


John LANE

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. 318.


Captain Abel GUNN

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, p. 362.

2Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 725. " ... Capt. Abel Gunn ..."

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. 466.

4Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449. " ... Abel Gunn, third."

5Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 559.

6Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 591.

7Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

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, p. 45. "Capt. of 1st Co., in Oxford."

9Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.

10W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 6. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... between the dwelling houses of Abel Gunn and John Holbrook ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/006.html.

11Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 320.

12Compiled 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. 229.

13Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.


Hannah HARGER

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. 466.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 559.

3Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 591.

4Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 725.

5Compiled 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. 229.

6Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.


Abel GUNN

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. 229.

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. 321.

3Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 321.


Enos GUNN

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. 229.

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. 321.

3Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.

4Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 321.


Abel GUNN

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. 229.

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. 321.


Captain Abel GUNN

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, p. 362.

2Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 725. " ... Capt. Abel Gunn ..."

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. 466.

4Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449. " ... Abel Gunn, third."

5Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 559.

6Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 591.

7Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

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, p. 45. "Capt. of 1st Co., in Oxford."

9Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.

10W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 6. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... between the dwelling houses of Abel Gunn and John Holbrook ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/006.html.

11Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 320.

12Compiled 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. 229.


Hannah FRENCH

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 765.

2Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449.

3Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.

4Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

5Compiled 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. 230.

6Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

7Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

8Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 806. "Here  |  lies the body of  |  Mrs Hannah Gunn  |  wife and relict of Capt Abel Gunn  |  who departed this  |  life Jan 24 A D  |  1781 in the 66 year  |  of her age."

9Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem221.html.


Francis FRENCH

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 86. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 101.

3Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 765.

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. 45. .

5Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 1, p 237.

6Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449. "
... He was High Priest of Solomon Chapter for twenty years."

7Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721. "He lived on his father's homestead; was high sheriff of the town; was a man of positive character, and stood high as a Royal Arch Mason."

8Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 449.

9Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

10Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.

11Compiled 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. 225.

12Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

13Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 225.

14Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 1, p 237.

15Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 449.

16Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

17Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.


Anna BOWERS

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 101.

2Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449.

3Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 1, p 237.

4Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 449.

5Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

6Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.

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. 225.

8Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 1, p 237.

9Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 449.

10Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

11Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.


Charles FRENCH Esquire

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 765.

2Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624. " ... Registrar of Derby 39 yrs."

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. 224. "Feb. 14, 1709."

4Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

5Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.

6Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

7Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 224.

8Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449.

9Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

10Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 806.

11Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 721.

12Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

13Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 806. "In memory of Charles  |  French Esqr who died  |  Nov the 9 1783 in the 77th year of his age  |  He was Register for the  |  town of Derby 39 years
 A soul prepared heeds no
 Delays the summoms come
 The saint obeys, swift was
 His flight and short the
  Road - he closed his eyes
 and saw his God."


Francis FRENCH

1Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.


Nathaniel FRENCH

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. 226.

2Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 449.

3Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 624.

4Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.

5Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

6Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 449.

7Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 624.

8Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 250. http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan250.html.

9Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 806. "In memory of Mr  |  Nathaniel French who  |  died Nov 3 1781 aged 64 years.
 Here lies his body
 Blended with the dust
 Waiting the Resurrection of the just."


Lydia FRENCH

1Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 765.


Captain John HOLBROOK

1Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 68. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp68.html.

2Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5. "April 23, 1752, he deeded two parcels of land to his son John, Jr. One piece being part of Quaker Farms purchase on Rockhouse Hill, bought from Abraham Persons."

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. 320.

4Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 729. " ... His residence was adjoining the old Episcopal grave-yard. He and his wife Abigail gave the ground for this grave-yard and the site for the first Episcopal church. He was one of the reliable, successful men of his day ...."

5Donald 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 2, p 76.

6W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 6. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... between the dwelling houses of Abel Gunn and John Holbrook ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/006.html.

7Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 3.

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. 241.

9Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 5.

10Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 241.

11Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 815.

12Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 815. "Here lies intered the  |  body of Mr John Holbrook  |  who departed this life June 5 1752  |  in the 53 year of his age."

13Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem224.html.

141934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, p. 215. http://www.oxfordpast.com/elmstcemscan215.html.

15Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 3.

16Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.

17Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 320.

18Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 729.


Abigail GUNN

1Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 68. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp68.html.

2Donald 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 2, p 76.

3Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

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. 229.

5Susan 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. 320.

6Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 5.

7Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 189.

8Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 815.

9Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 815. "Here rest the body  |  of Mrs Abigail Beach  |  widow of the Rev John Beach  |  of Newtown  |  departed this life  |  Feb 7 1783  |  in the 76th year of her age."

10Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem222.html.

111934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, p. 219. http://www.oxfordpast.com/elmstcemscan219.html.

12Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 3.

13Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 229.

14Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 320.

15Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 729.


Abigail HOLBROOK

1Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

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. 240.

3Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 729.

4Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 5.

5Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 729.