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1 NAME Gordon Fisher
1 ADDR 334 Franklin St
2 CONT Harrisonburg, VA 22801
2 CONT USA
1 PHON 703-433-0531
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1 NAME Jennifer Ione /FISHER/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JAN 1960
2 PLAC Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Must get autobiography from Jennifer
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1 NAME Gordon McCrea /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Professor
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 OCT 1925
2 PLAC St Paul, MN
1 FAMC @F2@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE Vita:
2 CONT b 1925 St Paul MN.  1930/31 Moved to Little Falls MN when my mother 
2 CONT divorced my father, after living short times in Fargo ND, St Cloud MN and 
2 CONT Minneapolis MN.
2 CONT 1940 Moved to Miami FL to live with aunt, Thelma (Mrs. Edward M., BROWN) 
2 CONT Rebozo, when mother died.  1942 Graduated from Miami Senior High School, 
2 CONT Miami FL.  1942-43 Worked as apprentice electrician, Charleston SC Navy 
2 CONT Yard; control operator and announcer WTMA, Charleston SC; odd jobs in NY 
2 CONT city, including copy boy, New York Herald Tribune.  1943-5 US Navy 
2 CONT Hospital Corps, Pacific service Fleet Hospital 115 Guam; H/A 1c (Hospital 
2 CONT Apprentice 1st Class); serial number 930-55-38; besides medical duties, 
2 CONT helped publish base newspaper; also stationed previously at Portsmouth NH 
2 CONT Naval Hospital; boot camp and Hospital Corps school at Bainbridge MD; 
2 CONT entered from SC 14 Dec 1943, separated at US Naval Hospital, Charleston SC 
2 CONT 28 Dec 1945.  1946-7 Student Univ of Miami FL, spring 1946-spring 1947.  
2 CONT 1947-9 US Army Signal Corps, Aleutian and Alaskan service with Alaska 
2 CONT Communication System (Adak, Juneau, Cold Bay/Fort Richardson, Anchorage), 
2 CONT serial number RA 14244832, primary MOS 766, radio operator, high speed 
2 CONT manual; recruit training, Ft Monmouth NJ; highest rank, Sgt, left as Cpl; 
2 CONT entered from Miami FL 5 Apr 1947; separated at Fort Lawton WA 13 Sep 1949. 
2 CONT  1949-51 Student, Univ of Miami FL; B A in mathematics, minor in 
2 CONT philosophy, 1951.  Sep 1951 met wife-to-be, Helene Dawn Smith ("Smitty"), 
2 CONT at Univ of Miami, when she came from NY city (by way of Goldens Bridge NY, 
2 CONT though b Yonkers NY Jan 31, 1930) as a graduate student in mathematics; I 
2 CONT was a graduate student in mathematics at Univ of Miami FL one semester, 
2 CONT fall 1951.  1951-53 Odd jobs, including one with an Army supported 
2 CONT intelligence group at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago IL summer 
2 CONT 1953.  1952. Joined Alcoholics Anonymous for about three years; have not 
2 CONT used alcohol since 1953.
2 CONT 1953-5. Graduate student and teaching assistant in mathematics, Tulane 
2 CONT University.  1955-6. Ditto, Univ of Michigan.  19 Jun 1956. Married Helene 
2 CONT Dawn Smith in NY city (Manhattan).  1956-7 Instructor in mathematics, Univ 
2 CONT of Miami FL.  8 Aug 1957. Daughter Andrea McCrea Fisher born in Coral 
2 CONT Gables FL (now Mrs. William Gordon Rowland).  1957-9. Graduate student and 
2 CONT teaching assistant in mathematics Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge LA; Ph 
2 CONT D in mathematics 1959.  1959-63 Instructor in mathematics, Princeton Univ, 
2 CONT Princeton NJ.  14 Jan 1960 Daughter Jennifer Ione Fisher born in Princeton 
2 CONT NJ.  1962-3 Junior Fellow in the Humanities (History of Science), 
2 CONT Princeton Univ.  1963-6 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer (1964) in 
2 CONT Mathematics and History and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Otago, Dunedin, 
2 CONT New Zealand.  1966-7 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, and History and 
2 CONT philosophy of Scioence, Univ of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. 1967-1991 
2 CONT Professor of Mathematics, James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg VA.  1983-6 
2 CONT Full-time graduate student in computer science, University of Virginia, 
2 CONT Charlottesville VA.  1987 Madison Scholar, James Madison Univ.  1989 Began 
2 CONT acting with Midsummer Players in Charlottesville VA:  Theseus in 
2 CONT *Midsummer Night's Dream*, co-directed by my daughter Andrea, when she 
2 CONT came to work at Univ of VA as assistant dean, etc. 1991-present. Professor 
2 CONT Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science, James Madison Univ.  1991. 
2 CONT Adam in *As You LIke It*, directed by Andrea.  1992. Dawn (Helene was 
2 CONT dropped long ago) and I visited daughter Jennifer in London ENG, where she 
2 CONT is special correspondent for Britain for US News & World Report magazine.  
2 CONT 1993. Justice Shallow in *Merry Wives of Windsor*, directed by Chris 
2 CONT Cleary.  1993. Dr Zubritsky in Neil Simon's *Fools*, with Valley Playhouse 
2 CONT in Harrisonburg VA, directed by Yvonne Owens.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My Ph D dissertation was on topology, entitled "On the group of all 
2 CONT homeomorphisms of a manifold", published in the *Transactions of the 
2 CONT American Mathematical Society* (v 97, 1960, p 193-212).  The main result 
2 CONT was presented in 1985 in a book called *Knots* by Gerhard Burde and Heiner 
2 CONT Zieschang under the name "Fisher's theorem".
2 CONT 
2 CONT Other publications:  "Cauchy and the Infinitely Small", *Historia 
2 CONT Mathematica*, v 5, 1978, p 313-331.  "Cauchy's Variables and Orders of the 
2 CONT Infinitely Small", *British Journal for the Philosophy of Science*, v 30, 
2 CONT 1979, pp. 261-265.  "The Infinite and Infinitesimal Quantities of du 
2 CONT Bois-Reymond and their Reception:, *Archive for History of Exact 
2 CONT Sciences*, v 24, 1981, p 101-164.  To appear (as of 16 May 1994): article 
2 CONT called "Veronese's non-archimedean linear continuum", p 107-145 in a book 
2 CONT edited by Paul Ehrlich called *Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, 
2 CONT and Theories of Continua*, to be published by Kluwer Academic.  Also 
2 CONT published in various places: an article on the structure of Euclid's 
2 CONT *Elements*, a study of Joseph Priestley, a critique of E. Wilson's 
2 CONT sociobiology, and a study of Sir Arthur Keith;s role in the Piltdown 
2 CONT fraud.  Also have reviewed many articles for the *Mathematical Reviews*, 
2 CONT chiefly of works in history and foundations of mathematics, written in 
2 CONT English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1967-abt 1975: The principal installer of the 1st full-time master's 
2 CONT degree in mathematics at James Madison Univ.  In those and other years, 
2 CONT taught many graduate course in mathematics, including real analysis, 
2 CONT complex analysis, differential geometry, topology, number theory and 
2 CONT history of mathematics.  Also taught most of the standard undergraduate 
2 CONT mathematics courses, though specialized in calculus, including elementary 
2 CONT and advanced calculus, differential equations, and applied mathematics for 
2 CONT physicists and engineers.
2 CONT 1983-1987: Taught several undergraduate courses in computer science: 
2 CONT elementary programming, data structures, file structures.  1986: Taught 
2 CONT graduate course in database systems in the first year of master's degree 
2 CONT program in computer science at James Madison Univ.  1994. Taught *last* 
2 CONT course in mathematics master's degree program, which was discontinued in 
2 CONT 1992; it was a special topics course in differential equations and 
2 CONT non-linear dynamical systems.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Taught philosophy of science course for philosophy department a couple of 
2 CONT times in the 1970's.  Taught several times an honors interdisciplinary 
2 CONT course called "Science in the World".
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1983-1986,  Completed 27 hours of graduate work in computer science (9 
2 CONT courses) in the computer science department of the Univ of Virginia, for 
2 CONT credit.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Summer 1985. Computer programmer on a NASA (National Air & Space 
2 CONT Administration) funded project.  Summer 1986: Awarded and attended a 
2 CONT week's course in Software Engineering for Computer Science Educators at 
2 CONT the Wang Institute for Graduate Studies.  1986. Attended a week's seminar 
2 CONT on relational database systems at George Washington Univ.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Late 1970's & early 1980's:  Attended two conferences in the history of 
2 CONT mathematics at the Smithsonian Institution.  Also, with grant from NEH 
2 CONT (National Endowment for the Humanities) attended an 8-week seminar on 
2 CONT philosophy of mathematics at Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1987-88.  Madison Scholar (got $500).  My lecture was called "Right as 
2 CONT Rain", and was on certain relations of mathematics and the natural 
2 CONT sciences to language and the humanities.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Summers 1988, 1989. Participated in 6 week workshops concerning freshman 
2 CONT seminars.  In 1989, an instructor in the science week of the workshop.  
2 CONT 1989. Participated in a seminar to develop material for possible use in 
2 CONT freshman seminars.
2 CONT 
2 CONT During a period from about 1980 to 1983, I had about 20 poems published in 
2 CONT various magazines.  Did several poetry readings, two of them in 
2 CONT conjunction with my daughter Andrea.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My wife (Helene) Dawn (Smith) Fisher is also a mathematician, and got her 
2 CONT Ph D in applied mathematics in 1986 from the University of Virginia (while 
2 CONT I was studying computer science there, and commuting back to Harrisonburg 
2 CONT to teach).
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1993. Taught one semester at new CISAT (College for Integrated Science and 
2 CONT Technology) at James Madison Univ,
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1991-1993.  Wrote two books, one about historical relations of astrology 
2 CONT and astronomy, another about genocide; neither has been published,
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1993.  My daughter Jennifer introduced me to genealogy, which has become 
2 CONT nearly a full-time obsession --- but a pleasant one.  :-)  (Symbol for 
2 CONT "smile" on Internet, where I root about in the genealogy list 
2 CONT ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
2 CONT 
2 CONT Here are a couple of stories about my military service.
2 CONT 
2 CONT    About my service in the U S Navy:  A yearbook called *Fleet Hospital 
2 CONT 115, Guam" published by George Fein & Co. 509-19 Vine St, Philadelphia 6, 
2 CONT Pa about 1945, shows that the hospital was commissioned Dec 7, 1944, was 
2 CONT built by us from the ground up, was scheduled to open July 1945, was in 
2 CONT full operation by April 1945 and "cared for more than 10,000 patients 
2 CONT during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns."  We were initially stationed 
2 CONT at San Bruno, CA (formerly a race track), and departed 20 Dec 1944 from 
2 CONT San Francisco for Guam on the transport ship USS General E T Collins.  We 
2 CONT docked for 3 days at Pearl Harbor, and spent 6 days at anchor in the 
2 CONT Marshall Islands (Eniwetok, etc.)  Leaving the Marshalls, our convoy 
2 CONT consisted of 9 freighters and transports plus 2 sub-chaser escorts.  We 
2 CONT arrived in Guam 17 Jan 1945.  From the text:  "Before dropping anchor off 
2 CONT treeless Eniwetok sleeping aboard the Collins was still practically 
2 CONT impossible.  By now the heat and stench in each compartment was almost 
2 CONT unbearable.  Devious, dubious and drastic maneuvers were engineered by all 
2 CONT hands in an effort to locate even a seat in which to catch a few winks of 
2 CONT much needed slumber.  Night sleeping on deck was strictly forbidden.  
2 CONT Those who tried it were unceremoniously driven below."  In fact, a buddy 
2 CONT of mine named Garrett (Fred, I think) and I tried sleeping in a lifeboat.  
2 CONT We were caught by the officer of the deck and told that to do this in time 
2 CONT of war was a capital offense, but that they weren't going to turn us in 
2 CONT because the captain of our ship was a little off in the head.  Among other 
2 CONT things, he currently had a court martial pending for running into a 
2 CONT fishing ship in San Francisco harbor which had the right of way.  One 
2 CONT early evening, when it was still light, the announcement was made that 
2 CONT "the smoking lamp is out," which meant no smoking on deck (for fear of 
2 CONT making us known to submarines).  Somebody absent-mindedly lit a cigarette 
2 CONT on deck, and the captain hollered to the seaman watch on the bridge (who 
2 CONT had a rifle), "Shoot that man." Fortunately, the seaman guard was so 
2 CONT flabbergasted he didn't react, and the poor fellow who had lit the 
2 CONT cigarette ran below and became anonymous in the crowd.  This yearbook 
2 CONT contains pictures of the pure jungle in which we started to build the 
2 CONT hospital, various stages of construction and finished items, and also two 
2 CONT pictures of me, one as a hospital corpsman on Ward 5A (General Medicine, 
2 CONT internal), and one as member of the TPR staff.  The TPR (= temperatire, 
2 CONT pulse, respiration---standard medical abbreviation) was a *daily* 
2 CONT newsletter, run by James Workman, and put out chiefly by him and me, 
2 CONT although there were 12 or so "reporters" from various parts of the base.  
2 CONT Workman had been a clerk of some sort in the state legislature of 
2 CONT Missouri, and I especially remember him suddenly exclaiming about 2 hours 
2 CONT after we heard of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt:  "My God, Harry is 
2 CONT president!"  (Harry Truman, of course.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT                              * * * * * * * *
2 CONT 
2 CONT About my service in the U S Army:  From Army Separation Qualification 
2 CONT Record:  "RADIO OPERATOR. HIGH SPEED, MANUAL (766).  Last served with 
2 CONT Alaska Comm System in Alaska.  Operated teletype and was assistant cashier 
2 CONT at Adak, Alaska [Aleutian Islands].  Operated CW, phones, and teletype at 
2 CONT Juneau, Alaska.  Was cashier and teletype operator at Cold Bay, Alaska 
2 CONT [tip of Alaska peninsula, where Aleutian islands begin].  Was operator and 
2 CONT transmitter attendant at Anchorage, Alaska."  (Dates of service in Army 
2 CONT were 5 Apr 1947 to 13 Sep 1949).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Here is an article I wrote for publication is some ACS (Alaska 
2 CONT Communcation System) periodical when I was about 23 years old:  "You may 
2 CONT as well face it--you are now at Thornbrough AFB, 650 long air miles from 
2 CONT Anchorage, Alaska.  The base is situated on the western shore of Cold Bay 
2 CONT (pronounced Cold Bay), a body of water roughly five by eleven miles in 
2 CONT size.  It (Cold Bay, not the base) wmpties into an etymologically 
2 CONT unfaithful Pacific on the south, and it is bounded on the other three 
2 CONT sides by towering mountains, eructivating volcanoes, dismal tundra-covered 
2 CONT hills, and several rows of empty beer cases.  (P) The geographical 
2 CONT descriptions which follow have been lifted bodily from a report written by 
2 CONT a former inhabitant of this region who is now happily ensconced in the ZI 
2 CONT [Zone of the Interior] or some similar paradise.  So, if the facts are in 
2 CONT error, don't blame *me*.  (P) I shall also appropriate my earnest 
2 CONT informer's locus operandi (a Latin phrase meaning, "out of many, one")  In 
2 CONT order that the unsuspecting visitor or the pitiable newcomer may be 
2 CONT oriented before beginning his seach for Cold Bay's evidences of nature's 
2 CONT handicaps, we select as a point of reference the main runway.  (P) If you 
2 CONT stand on the runway, facing the tower, you will be looking into the 
2 CONT northeast, and probably into the face of an irate tower operator who will 
2 CONT tell you to get the hell off the runway.  If you do an about face, turning 
2 CONT your back on this unaesthetic person, you will be facing Cold Bay's claim 
2 CONT to scenic fame--the inactive volcano, Mt. Frosty (pronounced Cold Bay), 
2 CONT altitude 5820 feet, distance, approximately 7 1/2 miles.  (P) To the right 
2 CONT of Frosty, some distance to the rear, is small Mt. Simeon (pronounced 
2 CONT Seattle).  During favorable weather (last year the favorable weather came 
2 CONT on a Wednesday), the saddle connecting Frosty and Simeon frames the 
2 CONT Shishaldin volcano (pronounced Times Square), the so-called King of 
2 CONT Aleutian volcanoes, which rises to a towering 9978 feet.  [I forgot to 
2 CONT mention it's active.]  It is located some 60 miles from Cold Bay on Unimak 
2 CONT Island (pronounced Rssycmck), which is separated from the Alaskan 
2 CONT peninsula by Isanotski Strait, commonly called False Pass by people who 
2 CONT can't pronounce Isanotski (pronounced Isanotski).  (P) Within the saddle 
2 CONT and slightly to tghe left of Shishaldin is another volcano of a serrate 
2 CONT rather than conical appearance.  It labors under the title, Mt. Isanotski 
2 CONT (Mama Isanotski was notoriously fecund), but has been re-named by the same 
2 CONT linguistic laggards, "Ragged Jack".  (P) If you now turn your head to the 
2 CONT extreme right until a distinct crick is felt in the back of the neck, you 
2 CONT will be dubiously rewarded with a view of Mt. Amak (pronounced any way you 
2 CONT damn well please), which rises from the sea like a second lieutenant's 
2 CONT wrath, without benefit of surrounding island.  (P) We now request that you 
2 CONT re-adjust your no-doubt aching neck, do another about face, ignore the 
2 CONT wildly gesturing tower operator, and look into the distance to the right 
2 CONT of the tower.  If your bifocals have been cleaned recently, you will be 
2 CONT able to observe the active volcano, Mt. Pavlov (pronounced Stalin), which 
2 CONT has been called by people who should know better, "the crowning glory of 
2 CONT the Cold Bay region".  This volcano has an altitude of 8900 feet, and 
2 CONT boasts a 50 square mile glacier plus several small ice fields of no 
2 CONT apparent use to anyone.  To the left of Pavlov is Cathedral Agglomerate, 
2 CONT so named, oddly enough, because its notched pinnacles bear some 
2 CONT resemblance to the towers of a cathedral.  It has been said that this 
2 CONT formation is actually a group of Aghileen pinnacles formed during the late 
2 CONT Tertiary age, but, not being one to pick up *every* piece of gossip that 
2 CONT comes along, I don't put much faith in the statement.  (P) Fossils of 
2 CONT trees, plants, and well-thumbed comic books have been found in the area, 
2 CONT indicating, according to the people who know what such things indicate, 
2 CONT that the area was once heavily vegetated.  However, sinvce early Tertiary 
2 CONT time, volcanic action and certain members of the military, whose names I 
2 CONT withhold at the request of the next of kin, have vastly changed the 
2 CONT topography.  In some areas, over 4000 feet of volcano detritus, as well as 
2 CONT some two feet of empty beer cans and worn-out GI boots, cover the fossil 
2 CONT remains.  (P) Of more recent origin than the fossils are the many fish 
2 CONT which abound during the summer in Russell and Frowsty creeks.  (Of course, 
2 CONT after a few of these fish have been laying on the bank a few days, you may 
2 CONT *wish* they were fossils, but that is neither here nor there.)  Varieties 
2 CONT included are: Rainbow and Dolly Varden trout, and Humpback or Pink, Red, 
2 CONT Silver Dog, and King Salmon.  Fox, wolf, brown bear, and land otter also 
2 CONT inhabit the outlying regions.  (P) During the spring and summer, the flora 
2 CONT include the lupine, anemone, violet, fireweed, monkshood, orchid, 
2 CONT buttercup, azalea, geranium, primrose, and daisy.  Also prevalent during 
2 CONT these seasons are several species of berry: wild strawberry, cranberry, 
2 CONT and salmon berry.  The raspberry is prevalent during all seasons.  (P) In 
2 CONT conclusion, I would like to quote a scintillating opinion of Cold Bay 
2 CONT voiced by a certain Pfc who, at the time this descriptive jewel was 
2 CONT uttered, had spent over 12 months in our glorious region. Looking out 
2 CONT across the tumbling hills to the snow-tipped mountains beyond, he took a 
2 CONT deep breath, sighed, and said with humble grace:  "I wanna go home!" "
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1 NAME Helene Dawn /SMITH/
1 SEX F
1 TITL Prof
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 JAN 1930
2 PLAC Yonkers, NY
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE Since marriage, uses Dawn Smith Fisher
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1 NAME Tully McCrea /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Accountant
1 BIRT
2 DATE APR 1892
2 PLAC St Paul, Ramsey Co, MN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 APR 1944
2 PLAC Allouez, WI
2 NOTE Reported by Jennifer to have died in Addison Miller Co. Camp B in Allones, 
3 CONT WI (no doubt the Allouez of his obituary in the general note is correct).  
3 CONT My recollection is that the cause of death was given as cerebral embolism. 
3 CONT  However, the primary cause no doubt was his chronic alcoholism.
1 FAMC @F8@
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE father of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT The name is said to be McCrea Fisher on the birth record in St Paul, MN; 
2 CONT the Tully was apparently prefixed later (I don't know about a former 
2 CONT middle name.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from a Superior, Wisconsin, newspaper, abt 23 Apr 1944 (date of 
2 CONT his death):  "Tully M. Fisher, about 60 [actually 58], clerk for the 
2 CONT Addison Miller Co, camp B at Allouez, died at the camp. Sunday."  Letter 
2 CONT to Jennie from Morris M. Gordon states that his death records are in 
2 CONT Superior, Wisconsin, "which is just across the river from Duluth, Minn.  
2 CONT He passed away in the state of Wisconsin."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from *Little Falls [MN] Daily Transcript*, 23 Apr 1944:  "FISHER 
2 CONT RITES (P) Funeral services were held at the Listoe and Wold chapel in St. 
2 CONT Paul Thursday for Tully McCrea Fisher, who died April 23.  Interment was 
2 CONT in Acacia Park Cemetery at Mendota.  Mr. Fisher, formerly a Little Falls 
2 CONT resident, was employed for several years by Foley Bros.  (P) Surviving are 
2 CONT two sons, Donald and Gordon.  Mrs. W. R. McMasters of Green Bay, Wis., 
2 CONT Mrs. M. M. Scott, Mrs. Emory Mortenson and George C. Fisher, St. Paul, are 
2 CONT sisters and brother of the deceased."
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Ione Adele /BROWN/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 AUG 1901
2 PLAC Little Falls, Morrison Co, MN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 FEB 1940
2 PLAC Rochester, MN
2 NOTE Committed suicide at the Rochester MN mental hospital (or whatever it was 
3 CONT called) by drinking a bottle of Lysol disinfectant.  She was confined for 
3 CONT "acute melancholia."
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE mother of Gordon Fisher
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1 NAME Charles Wiley /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Asst Insp General
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 SEP 1841
2 PLAC KY (not Schenectady, NY!)
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 FEB 1924
2 PLAC St Paul, Ramsey Co, MN
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE grandfather of Gordon Fisher (gf)
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the St. Paul (MN) Dispatch, Feb 7, 1924:
2 CONT 
2 CONT                "PAST STATE COMMANDER
2 CONT                 OF G.A.R. DIES HERE
2 CONT                 AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
2 CONT 
2 CONT                 CIVIL WAR VETERAN,
2 CONT                 OLD RESIDENT, DIES
2 CONT 
2 CONT                 Major Charles W. Fisher, 83,
2 CONT                 Was State Official for Many Years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT    Major Charles W. Fisher, a veteran of the Civil war, for forty-four 
2 CONT years a resident of St. Paul and for many years a state official, died 
2 CONT late Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Scott, 1152 
2 CONT Lincoln Avenue.  He was 83 years old.
2 CONT    Funeral services will take place at 2:30 P. M. Friday at the home of 
2 CONT his daughter, Mrs. Emory Mortensen, 1535 Grand avenue, Dr. H. C. 
2 CONT Swearingen officiating.  Burial will be in Oakland cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT                 Was Appointed Captain
2 CONT    At the outbreak of the Civil war, Major Fisher was commissioned as a 
2 CONT second lieutenant in I company, 10th  [should be 104th !]  New York 
2 CONT Volunteers.  During his first engagement his captain and first lieutenant 
2 CONT were killed and he was appointed captain, remaining in command of the 
2 CONT company until he was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, later being 
2 CONT captured and imprisoned at Libby prison where he was confined for several 
2 CONT months before an exchange of officers was effected.
2 CONT    At the close of the war, when he had attained the rank of major, he was 
2 CONT stationed at Madison barracks, New York, where he married Miss Sophie Hale 
2 CONT Camp, daughter of Colonel George Camp.  Mrs. Fisher died seven years ago.
2 CONT 
2 CONT                 Held State Position
2 CONT    Major Fisher later resigned from the army and served for several years 
2 CONT as an appointed official of the state of New York.  In 1880 he came to St. 
2 CONT Paul as paymaster of the Omaha railroad, resigning that position when he 
2 CONT was appointed assistant inspector general of Minnesota, which position he 
2 CONT held, under Governors Lind, Van Sant, Hammon 1 [sic], Johnson and 
2 CONT Eberhardt.
2 CONT    He was active in the G. A. R. for many years and was at one time state 
2 CONT commander of the Minnesota department.
2 CONT    Three daughters, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Emory Mortensen of St. Paul and 
2 CONT Mrs. Scott McMasters of Nashwauk, Minnesota, and five sons, Charles D., 
2 CONT Minneapolis; Allan B., George C. and Tully M. of St. Paul, and Rosswell F. 
2 CONT of Norfolk, Va., survive."
2 CONT 
2 CONT State of Minnesota death certificate (Ramsey county) lists as cause of 
2 CONT death "valvular heart disease," with "artero-sclerosis" contributing.      
2 CONT                      
2 CONT National Archives *Certificate of Medical Examination," Pension Claim No. 
2 CONT 114258, dated 21 Sep 1921, states that Charles W. FISHER was on this date: 
2 CONT "Very feeble (senility). Great deformity of left elbow; disabled Rt ankle 
2 CONT and wound of left knee.  Did not recognize me although he has known me 
2 CONT intimately for 30 years.  (P) This man has aged greatly, and though during 
2 CONT all of my knowledge of him he has been weak and infirm he is now in a 
2 CONT pitiable condition. This as a result of service and advance of years."  
2 CONT The form also states that the origin of his disabilities was:  "Compound 
2 CONT Fracture of R ankle (Potts' [?]) at 2nd Battle Bull Run.  Wounded in Left 
2 CONT knee at Gettysburg.  Wound of Left Elbow at 2nd Battle of Bull Run."
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1 NAME Sophia Hale /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 AUG 1851
2 PLAC Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 MAR 1915
2 PLAC Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
2 NOTE State of Minnesota death certificate lists cause of death as apoplexy.
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE grandmother of Gordon Fisher (gm)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from Minneapolis Tribune, Mar 6, 1915, p 13:  "Mrs. Sophie C. 
2 CONT Fisher of St. Paul was stricken Thursday afternoon with a hemorrhage of 
2 CONT the brain while she was presiding as chairman of a meeting of the Soldiers 
2 CONT Home Board of the Womens Relief Corps at the West Hotel.  (P) She was 
2 CONT taken to Asbury Hospital, but did not regain consciousness and died early 
2 CONT yesterday.  (P)  Mrs. Fisher was a life member of the Corps.  She was also 
2 CONT Past Department President of the Minnesota Womens Relief Corps and had 
2 CONT been for many years prominent in the work of the Corps throught the state. 
2 CONT  (P) Mrs. Fisher was born in Sacketts Harbor, NY., 67 years ago.  She 
2 CONT lived there for thirty years, and then came to St. Paul where she has 
2 CONT since lived.  Her home was at 1505 Grand Avenue.  She leaves her husband, 
2 CONT C. W. Fisher, five sons and three daughters.  C. D. Fisher lives in 
2 CONT Minneapolis, A.B., R.F., G.C., and T.J. Fisher live in St. Paul.  The 
2 CONT daughters are Mrs. Mcmasters, Hibbing, Minn., Mrs. E. Scott, and Mrs. E. 
2 CONT M. Mortensen, St. Paul."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from St Paul Dispatch, Mar 8, 1915:  "Honor Memory of Mrs. Sophie 
2 CONT Fisher  (P) Grand Army cirles of the state paid tribute today to the 
2 CONT memory of Mrs. Sophie Camp Fisher, the Minnesota Woman's Relief corps 
2 CONT leader, who died Friday, and whose funeral was held this afternoon from 
2 CONT the House of Hope church.  Services for the family were held from the 
2 CONT home, 1505 Grand avenue, at 1:30 P.M.  (P) At the House of Hope, following 
2 CONT the rites conducted by Rev. H. C. Cyearingen, the women of Garfield Relief 
2 CONT corps of which Mrs. Fisher was a member, took charge of the service under 
2 CONT the direction of Mrs. Marie Soule, the corps president, and staff.  (P) 
2 CONT The pallbearers were William Mitsch, E. J. Sawyer, J. B. Morton, R. D. 
2 CONT Dunwoody, A. M. Thompson and J. A. Boggs.  Interment was in Oakland 
2 CONT cemetery.  (P) Among those present at the services were corps leaders from 
2 CONT Minneapolis, Le Sueur, Duluth, Mankato and elsewhere, including Mrs. 
2 CONT Lodusky J. Taylor, past national president, of Le Sueur, and Mrs. Anna Van 
2 CONT Campen, department president of Cannon Falls.  (P) Mrs. Fisher's husband, 
2 CONT Major C. W. Fisher, is assistant inspector general in the department of 
2 CONT Adjutant General Fred B. Wood, whose offices were closed today."
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME George Hale /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Law clerk
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1817
2 PLAC prob Sacket's Harbor, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1883
2 PLAC Sacketts Harbor, NY
1 FAMC @F10@
1 FAMS @F9@
1 NOTE great-grandfather of Gordon Fisher (ggf)
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Mrs. Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins in the Genealogy Department of the 
2 CONT Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, NY 13601, undated but from occupation 
2 CONT of Charles W. Fisher and his obituary, along with date of death of George 
2 CONT Hale Camp, etc., I infer that it was probably written in the late 1880's:
2 CONT "GEORGE HALE CAMP  (P) George Hale Camp was one of the large and most 
2 CONT interesting family of the late Col. Elisha Camp, a pioneer in the 
2 CONT settlement of this county, and a man of wonderful energy and resource.  
2 CONT (P) The son, after becoming thoroughly versed in the branches usually 
2 CONT taught in the primary schools, and at an early age, commenced a course of 
2 CONT academic and collegiate studies.  When his course was finished, he was a 
2 CONT finished scholar for one of his age.  He graduated at Union College, and 
2 CONT soon after came to this place as a student at law in the office of the 
2 CONT late John Clarke.  He was admitted to practice in all the courts of this 
2 CONT state, but having soon directed his attention to other pursuits, he did 
2 CONT not continue extensively in the practice of his profession.  (P) On being 
2 CONT admitted to the bar, and in 1839, he married Mary Smith, a most estimable 
2 CONT daughter of the late Wm. Smith, and sister of George Smith of the 
2 CONT Jefferson County Savings Bank, and of the late John Clarke's first wife, 
2 CONT and also of Mrs. Samuel Fairbanks, now in her widowhood, and of Charle F. 
2 CONT Smith, both of Jacksonville, Florida.  (P) This union brought into closer 
2 CONT relations two families of prominent rank and influence in this county from 
2 CONT its earliest history.  Col. Elisha Camp and Wm. Smith were men of mark, 
2 CONT capable ion business and intelligent and liberal in contributing their 
2 CONT powerful aid in counsel and effort to all legitimate enterprises.  Indeed 
2 CONT much of the progress and development of Northern New York is due to the 
2 CONT comprehensive brain work and executive efficiency of these two men.  (P) 
2 CONT George Camp left surviving him the true and noble woman, who has been the 
2 CONT sharer of his fortunes and the light of his home through all the years of 
2 CONT their married life, and three daughters:  Harriet, wife of Major McCrea, 
2 CONT U.S.A., residing at a military post near San Francisco;  Margaret, wife of 
2 CONT Rodney Mason, a prominent lawyer of Washington, D.C., and Sophia, wife of 
2 CONT Charles W. Fisher, occupying an important official trust in the management 
2 CONT of one of the great Western railways, in which Hon. Roswell P. Flower is 
2 CONT largely interested.  (P) Three sisters of the deceased are also living:  
2 CONT Mrs. Boyd, wife of Rev. James Boyd of Geneva; Mrs. [Harriette A.] Folger, 
2 CONT wife of Frederick R. [prob F.=Fitch] Folger of Hudson; and Mrs. Spencer, 
2 CONT wife of Hamilton Spencer of Bloomington, Ill. [sic]  (P) George Hale Camp 
2 CONT died May 16, 1883 at Sacketts Harbor."
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Alice /SMITH/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1820
2 PLAC prob Watertown, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE JAN 1900
2 PLAC Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY
1 FAMS @F9@
1 NOTE great-grandmother of Gordon Fisher (ggm)
2 CONT 
2 CONT See note under Anne SKINNER, wife of Samuel HALE, about "Mary Smith".
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Mrs. Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins, Genealogy Dept, Flower Memorial 
2 CONT Library, Watertown NY 13601, an obituary notice dated Jan. 9, 1900:  "A 
2 CONT letter from her daughter, Mrs. Rodney Mason, announces the death of Mrs. 
2 CONT George H. Camp, at the home of her son-in-law, Col. Tully McCrea, 
2 CONT stationed at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island.  Mrs. Camp was in her 81st 
2 CONT year.  The funeral will be held at Sackets Harvor, tomorrow."
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Elisha (2) /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Lawyer, Col.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1786
2 PLAC Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1866
2 PLAC Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson Co., NY
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE great-great-grandfather of Gordon Fisher (2nd ggf)
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Mrs Carolyn C Perkins, Genealogy Dept, Flower Memorial Library, 
2 CONT Watertown NY 13601, 17 Jan 1994, document unidentified (continued from 
2 CONT General Note for Elisha Camp (SR)):  Elisha [CAMP (2)] was an unusual man. 
2 CONT  He graduated with highest honours --- valedictorian of his class --- at 
2 CONT Columbia College in 1804.  He then studied law.  With his brother-in-law, 
2 CONT Judge Sackett, he bought land in Jefferson County, N. Yl, and went to 
2 CONT Sackett's Harbor to live.  He at one time owned all the American side of 
2 CONT the Thousand Islands.  (This is given in one of the descriptive books of 
2 CONT the Thousand Islands, and Miss Folger, his grand-daughter, remembers 
2 CONT hearing her mother tell the same fact.)  He married Sophia Hale.  His 
2 CONT mother, Keziah Durkee Camp. came to Sackett's Harbor to live, and married 
2 CONT for her second husband, Capt. Enoch Ely.  They had children who are buried 
2 CONT at Sackett's Harbor.  Photographs of her show that she was a very 
2 CONT aristocratic woman.  Col. Elisha Camp's daughter spoke of her as "a very 
2 CONT lofty spirited lady, of a broad mind, stately carriage, and a power in her 
2 CONT household and character."  His daughter was Harriette A., who married 
2 CONT Frederick Fitch Folger.  Their daughter is Harriette A. and a Mrs. 
2 CONT Barnard.  (P) Victor Camp. brother of Minerva, lived near Rochester, N. Y. 
2 CONT  (P) MINERVA was born -----  She married Judge Augustus Sackett ... She 
2 CONT died -----.  Ch.: Alexander, George, Edward, Augustus, Minerva wh. married 
2 CONT Mr. Greeley and lived at Morgantown, North Carolina."
2 CONT 
2 CONT From a newspaper article sent by Mrs Perkins (later).  The date of the 
2 CONT article appears to be 1960:  "Nine years after they were deed to Cornell 
2 CONT university [sic] library of regional history the Elisha Camp papers are 
2 CONT becoming a source of a considerable number of writings on the early 
2 CONT history of the north country. ..... The papers were given to Cornell in 
2 CONT November, 1951, by Mrs. George M. (Sydney Mason) Smith, whose husband 
2 CONT Brig. Gen. George M. Smith was then commandant of the army R.O.T.C. unit 
2 CONT at Cornell.  [Margaret (CAMP) MASON, wife of Rodney MASON, was a sister of 
2 CONT my, Gordon's, great-grandfather George Hale CAMP.  Also my 
2 CONT great-grandmother's name (George's wife) was Mary Alice SMITH.]  (P) A 
2 CONT large section of the collection concern the activities of Elisha Camp 
2 CONT (1786-1866) when he was acting as land agent for his brother-in-law, 
2 CONT Augustus Sacket, for whom the village of Sackets Harbor [NY] was named.  
2 CONT .....  Camp arrived in Sackets Harbor in 1804 after graduating from 
2 CONT Columbia law school, and soon became one of the most prominent men in the 
2 CONT north country.  He became a postmaster, militia officer, lawyer, New York 
2 CONT state district attorney, politician, newspaper owner and editor, banker, 
2 CONT and a substantial landowner with interests in local mills, Lake Ontario 
2 CONT shipping, and land or water transportation that might benefit Sackets 
2 CONT Harbor and the north country.  The papers give vital insights on the 
2 CONT developments in these fields during Camp's lifetime.  (P) The early papers 
2 CONT of the collection include accounts of 13 letters to George Hale, a member 
2 CONT of his wife's family and a prominent merchant first in Providence, R.I., 
2 CONT and then in Glastonbury, Conn., relating to the sale of livestock, rum, 
2 CONT pork, sugar, and other goods, as well as giving advice to a young 
2 CONT merchant, and giving instruction as to the printing an dplaying with 
2 CONT geographical cards.  [His wife's father was George HALE, a DIRECT 
2 CONT ANCESTOR; however, this sounds like it may have been a brother-in-law 
2 CONT George HALE, son of my director ancestor George HALE.]  (P) Closely 
2 CONT related to the land papers are the materials reflecting Camp's interest in 
2 CONT lake shipping and the promotion of roads, a canal, and railroads.  (P) The 
2 CONT papers on shipping include an agreement in 1816 by the heirs of R. L. 
2 CONT Livingston and E. P. Livingston and Robert Fulton with Charles Smyth, 
2 CONT Joseph C. Yates, James C. Duane, and David Boyd, all residents of the 
2 CONT Sackets area, giving steamboat privileges on Lake Ontario.  (P) Also: 
2 CONT items (1816 to 1822) relating to the Lake Ontario Steamship company; 
2 CONT Articles of Association (1818) between Camp, Butterfield, and Kendall for 
2 CONT the Sackets Harbor Steam and Ferry Boat company; accounts (1819-1832) for 
2 CONT the construction, machine maintenance, and labor costs of the steamboat 
2 CONT Sophia [his wife's, my, Gordon's, GREAT-GRANDMOTHER's first name], and 
2 CONT lists of passengers and freight for her first four trips.  (P) Others tell 
2 CONT of agreements, accounts, letters, and other items for the steamboats 
2 CONT Ontario (1821 to 1825), Sir William Wallace (1836), and Telegraph (1837), 
2 CONT for the schooners George N. Walker (1838 to 1842), William S. Maloon (1840 
2 CONT to 1842) and Baltic (on Great Lakes, 1849), and for a brig, the Col. E. 
2 CONT Camp (on Great Lakes, 1844 to 1855).  (P) From 1819 Campt led the 
2 CONT agitation for a canal to connect Black river with Lake Ontario at Sackets 
2 CONT Harbor.  The papers relating to this unsuccessful project "for diverting 
2 CONT the surplus waters of the Black river into Pleasant or Mill creek and 
2 CONT thene to Sackets Harbor" and to Camp's role as one of the surplus water 
2 CONT commissioners include petitions to the legislature; advice from interested 
2 CONT persons; subscription lists and receipts (1829 to 1831) for payments, with 
2 CONT some in kind; construction contracts (1827 to 1832; accounts (1829 to 
2 CONT 1832) for labor, excavations, supplies, complaints (1831 to 1837) by 
2 CONT settlers, farmers, and rival interests over the flooding of roads and 
2 CONT lands, over other mishaps, and over the surplus water taxes and threatened 
2 CONT monopoly; contracts and leases for water rights along the canal; and 
2 CONT drafts of speeches by Camp emphasizing local transportation needs in terms 
2 CONT of Whig promises.  Unfortunately the canal was never built.  (P) Political 
2 CONT materials in the papers include broadsides and pamphlets, many rough 
2 CONT drafts by Camp for editorials, handbills and speeches, and some letters 
2 CONT from state and local politicians and local settlers with the bulk being 
2 CONT between 1826 and the early 1840's.  There are numerous letters from 
2 CONT Watertown and Oswego and other towns that throw light on the politial and 
2 CONT economic rivalries in this period.  Anti-Masonic letters, a letter on 
2 CONT Negro colonization and letters on the temperance movement from Gerrit 
2 CONT Smith are also included.  (P) There are numerous letters with regard to 
2 CONT the War of 1812, some with regard to the Mexican war and a large number in 
2 CONT reference to the Civil War.  There are also letters between Camp and a 
2 CONT son, Elisha E. Camp, who was the Washington and Oregon territories during 
2 CONT their development [sic --- something missing].  (P) The organization and 
2 CONT subsequent development of such institutions as Union academy, Belleville; 
2 CONT the Sackets Harbor bank; the Jefferson County bank; the Sackets Harbor and 
2 CONT Ellisburg railraod; the Watertown and Rome railroad; a proposed railroad 
2 CONT between Sackets Harbor and Saratoga railroad, the Jefferson County 
2 CONT Agricultural society, and churches and local goernment are included in the 
2 CONT collection.  (P) Other documents are a letter (1822) from DeWitt Clinton 
2 CONT concerning his refusal to pardon a prisoner; a letter to Jesse C. Smith 
2 CONT from James Buchanan after his election expressing his worry over the 
2 CONT forming of the cabinet and inquiring about the availability of Smith for 
2 CONT the post of attorney-general; and other papers of miscellaneous 
2 CONT character."
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME Sophia /HALE/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1789
2 PLAC Hartford, New Britain, CT
2 NOTE According to Jennifer's tree, no source known as yet.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1866
2 PLAC prob Sackets Harbor NY
1 FAMC @F11@
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE great-great-grandmother of Gordon Fisher (2nd ggm)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jacobus & Waterman have:  "Children of Col. George and Hopeful (Moseley) 
2 CONT Hale:  1. SOPHIA, m. Col. ELISHA CAMP, son of Elisha and Keziah (Durkee) 
2 CONT Camp."  They give no dates for this, and list two further daughters 
2 CONT without names or dates.
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME George (1) /HALE/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Col
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1756
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co, CT
2 NOTE Jennifer has "about 1763" in her tree; source unknown at the moment.  On 
3 CONT the other hand, though Jacobus & Waterman have "say 1756," they state that 
3 CONT he was buried 1803, aged 45, which seems to make it 1758.  See general 
3 CONT notes.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 AUG 1803
2 PLAC Catskill, NY
2 NOTE Actually, *buried* this date according to Jacobus & Waterman.
1 FAMS @F11@
1 NOTE 3rd ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT Like his father, George Hale had a brother and sister among his 
2 CONT great-grandparent, namely Samuel Welles (Sr) and Elizabeth Hollister.  His 
2 CONT father had a similar situation.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Col. GEORGE HALE ..... born [say 1756], buried at Catskill, NY., 16 Aug. 
2 CONT 1803, aged 45:  married at Glastonbury, 4 Jan. 1787, HOPEFUL MOSELEY, born 
2 CONT at Glastonbury, Conn., 5 July 1784, died after 1803, daughter of Capt. 
2 CONT Joseph and Hopeful (Robbins) Moseley. (P) In 1789 he was associated with 
2 CONT the Pitkin family in setting up a glass factory in East Hartford, and they 
2 CONT were granted a lottery to raise funds.  In Oct. 1790 he was made 
2 CONT Lieutenant of the 6th Troop, 1st Regt., of Light Horse.  In the 1790 
2 CONT Census he was at Glastonbuty with a family of three females and a slave.  
2 CONT (P) On 10 Oct. 1793, a regiment of Militia was organized in the town of 
2 CONT Catskill, then in Albany County, of which George Hale was appointed second 
2 CONT Major, and in 1798 he became Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of this 
2 CONT regiment.  After Greene County was set up in 1800, he is mentioned as 
2 CONT still in command, but a successor was appointed for him 27 March 1802, 
2 CONT after he was appointed Sheriff."
2 CONT    ---Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, *Hale, House and 
2 CONT Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley*, Hartford, CT 
2 CONT (Connecticut Historical Society) 1952, p. 87.  They say (p. 88) that 
2 CONT George and Hopeful had two daughters besides SOPHIA, but they're not 
2 CONT named.
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Hope(ful) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX F
1 REFN 5
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUL 1764
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co, CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1850
2 NOTE Jacobus & Waterman say "after 1803."
1 FAMC @F35@
1 FAMS @F11@
1 NOTE 3rd ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mr. [James] Richards bequeathed [a Naubuc farm] to his daughter Mary 
2 CONT Richards in 1680, who by the name of widow Mary Alford, conveyed the same 
2 CONT to Joseph Maudsley of Westfield, Mass., in 1718.  In the final division of 
2 CONT common lands in the First Society, Abner and Isaac Mosely, (into which the 
2 CONT name had been changed,) sons of Mr. Joseph Mosely, were regarded as 
2 CONT representing one householder at the incorporation of the Town. .....  The 
2 CONT earliest settler of this name [Moseley or Maudsley] in the Colony, came 
2 CONT from Mass. To Windsor, where he married Mary, daughter of Benjamin 
2 CONT Newberry, Dec. 14th, 1664.  He lived in Windsor, until about 1677, when he 
2 CONT removed to Westfield.  He subsequently returned to Windsor, where he died 
2 CONT in 1690.  His children were--- Benjamin, b. Oct 13, 1666, Rec'd in 
2 CONT Windsor. [four who died young] John, b. Aug. 21, 1678.  Comfort, b. Dec. 
2 CONT 3, 1680, d. 1711.  Margaret, b. May 22, 1683.  Elizabeth, b. Nov. 17, 
2 CONT 1685.  Hannah, b. ? d. 1708.  Joseph Mosely, the purchaser of the Mosely 
2 CONT farm, was the third child of Capt. John Moseley.  He married Abigail Root, 
2 CONT in 1696.  He resided for a time in Westfield, but removed to Glastenbury, 
2 CONT in 1715, where he died in 1719, leaving nine children, viz.--- Abigail, b. 
2 CONT 1697, m. John Lyman, Northampton.  Abner, b. 1699, m. Elizabeth Lyman, of 
2 CONT Northampton, 1722.  Sarah, b. 1702.  David, b. 1704.  Mary, b. 1707, m. 
2 CONT Benjamin Lyman, Northampton.  Hannah, b. 1709, m. Samuel Talcott, 1732.  
2 CONT Isaac, b. 1712, m. Ruth Welles, 1738.  Rachel, m. Daniel Pomeroy, 
2 CONT Northampton.
2 CONT Job.
2 CONT    --- Rev. Alonzo B. Chapin, D.D.; Glastenbury for Two Hundred Years, A   
2 CONT             Centennial Discourse. May 18th, A.D. 1853; Hartford, CT (Case, 
2 CONT Tiffany          and Company) 1853, p. 175.
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph (3) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Capt
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1735
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1806
1 FAMS @F35@
1 NOTE 4th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT The MOSELEY ancestors in this tree are conjectural, based on James Savage, 
2 CONT *A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England*, vol. 3, 
2 CONT 1861, p. 178-9.  On p. 179, Savage says:  "The name was spell. with many 
2 CONT variat. as Mawdesly, Modesly, Madesly, but long has been fixed at Moseley, 
2 CONT yet liable to be much mistak. as in Genealog. Reg. VI. 268, print. 
2 CONT Morely."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Now also based on one entry by Rev Alonzo Chapin, *Glastenbury for Two 
2 CONT Hundred Years*, Hartford, 1853, p 175.
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Hopeful(l) /ROBBINS/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1735
2 PLAC Wethersfield, CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 APR 1826
2 PLAC Wethersfield CT
2 NOTE Had ---- 1806 here; not sure why, but probably confused with her husband.  
3 CONT See note under Sarah WOLCOTT.
1 FAMC @F168@
1 FAMS @F35@
1 NOTE 4th ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT Possible lead:
2 CONT 
2 CONT "JOHN [ROBBINS], Wethersfield 1638, by w. Mary had Mary, b. 20 Jan. 1642; 
2 CONT Hannah, 30 Apr. 1643; Comfort, 12 Oct. 1646; John, 29 Apr. 1649; Joshua; 
2 CONT all liv. in 1667; and Samuel, wh. d. 1659, as did his w. was rep. 1656, 7, 
2 CONT and 9, and d. 27 June 1660.  .....  JOHN [ROBBINS], s. of the first John, 
2 CONT perhaps was of Lyme in 1671, by w. Mary had John, b. 1676, d. in a few 
2 CONT yrs.; Joshua, 1678; Samuel, 1680; John, again 1684; and Richard, 1687; 
2 CONT made his will 1 July 1689, and d. prob. in Nov. foll. unless Hinman, 291, 
2 CONT be right in prolong. his days."
2 CONT    ---James Savage, *A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of 
2 CONT New England*, vol. 3, 1861, p. 545.
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME Charles D. /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE APR 1872
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME Marjory M. (SCOTT) /FISHER/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE AUG 1876
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy (McMASTERS) /FISHER/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE MAY 1878
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Middle initial:  H.
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME George C. /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE APR 1881
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME Roswell "Ross" P. /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE JUN 1883
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME Allan R. /FISHER/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Jennie has Allen B.
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME Mrs (MORTENSEN) /FISHER/
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Husband's name:  Emery MORTENSEN
0 @I176@ INDI
1 NAME Andrea McCrea /FISHER/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 AUG 1957
2 PLAC Coral Gables, FL
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F223@
0 @I425@ INDI
1 NAME Jonathan /ROBBINS/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Capt
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1694
2 PLAC Wethersfield, CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1777
2 PLAC Wethersfield, CT
1 FAMS @F168@
1 NOTE 5th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT R R Hinman, *Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the 
2 CONT Colony of Connecticut* has an extensive genealogy of the Robbins family.  
2 CONT Capt Jonathan ROBBINS fits HOPEFUL ROBBINS best.  His children aren't 
2 CONT listed by Hinman.  Hinman has (No. 5, p. 292):  "Robbins, Capt. Jonathan. 
2 CONT son of Joshua, sen'r. and grandson of John, m. Sarah, dau. of Capt. Robert 
2 CONT Welles, in 1728.  He d. 1777, and left an estate of #8946 [pounds], 
2 CONT including his farm on which [son] Solomon then lived, the farm [son] Levi 
2 CONT sold and the land in Beaver meadow, Bishop meadow, and in Sandisfield, 
2 CONT Nass., and other lands."
0 @I483@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah (3) /WELLES/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 FEB 1708/1709
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 MAY 1776
2 PLAC maybe 1777?
1 FAMC @F226@
1 FAMS @F168@
1 NOTE 5th ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT See note under her mother Sarah WOLCOTT.
0 @I526@ INDI
1 NAME William /ROWLAND/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1953
2 PLAC Bay Village (Cleveland) OH
1 FAMS @F223@
0 @I532@ INDI
1 NAME Robert (5) /WELLES/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Capt
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1684
1 FAMS @F226@
1 NOTE 6th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT See general note under husband Capt Jonathan ROBBINS.
0 @I533@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1686
1 FAMC @F273@
1 FAMS @F226@
1 NOTE 6th ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "SARAH [WOLCOTT], b. Aug. 14, 1686; m. Dec. 12, 1706, Capt. Robert Wells 
2 CONT [sic], of Wethersfield.  (P) Their dau., Sarah Wells [SARAH (3) WELLES of 
2 CONT this db], b. Feb. 5, 1708; m. Nov. 28, 1728, Capt. Jonathan Robbins, of 
2 CONT Wethersfield.  She d. May 5, 1776.  (P) Their dau., Hopeful Robbins, b. 
2 CONT Aug. 13, 1735; m. Dec. 10, 1761, Capt. Joseph Moseley, of Wethersfield, 
2 CONT son of Capt. Abner Moseley.  He was b. Aug. 13, 1735, and d. Oct. 25, 
2 CONT 1806.  She d. Apr. 7, 1826.  (P) Their son, Dr. Abner Moseley, b. Mar. 13, 
2 CONT 1766; m. Nov. 14, 1792, Eunice Wells [sic], dau. of William and Jerusha 
2 CONT Merrick Wells.  He d. Sept. 20, 1811.  She was b. July 27, 1767, at 
2 CONT Wethersfield, and d. Jan. 26, 1811, at Glastonbury, Conn.  (P) Their dau., 
2 CONT Eunice Moseley, b. Oct. 8, 1793; m. Dec. 28, 1814, Winthrop Buck, of 
2 CONT Wethersfield; d. Aug. 24, 1862.  (P) Their son, Henry Buck [descendant of 
2 CONT Henry BUCK of this db?], b. Dec. 6, 1834, at Wethersfield; m. Nov. 30, 
2 CONT 1875, Theresa Robinson, dau. of George and Harriet W. (Bradley) Robinson, 
2 CONT of Hartford, Conn.  (P) Their son, Henry Robinson Buck, b. Sept. 14, 1876, 
2 CONT at Wethersfield, Conn.; m. Dec. 3, 1901, Mary Ladoyett Wolcott ..., dau. 
2 CONT of Charles and Harriet B. Libby Wolcott of Wethersfield, Conn."
2 CONT    --- Chandler Wolcott, *Wolcott Genealogy:  The Family of Henry Wolcott, 
2 CONT One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut*, Rochester NY (The 
2 CONT Genesee Press) 1912, p 51
0 @I563@ INDI
1 NAME George H. (JR) /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1847
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT NOV 1872
2 PLAC Houghton, Mich.
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE From Mrs. Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins, Genealogical Dept, Flower Memorial 
2 CONT Library, Watertown, NY 13601, an obituary dated Nov. 5, 1872:  "The death 
2 CONT of George H. Camp, jr., occurred Nov. 1 at Houghton, Mich., from typhoid 
2 CONT fever.  He was the only son of George H. and Mary Alice Camp of Sackets 
2 CONT Harbor."
0 @I564@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE From an undated obituary only the latter part of which was sent by Mrs. 
2 CONT Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins, Genealogical Dept. Flower Memorial Library, 
2 CONT Watertown, NY 13601 (based on statements below, my guess at the date of 
2 CONT the obituary, is about 1919):   
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mr (-----) Mason was born July 26, 1869, the son of Col. Rodney Mason and 
2 CONT Margaret Camp Mason.  His birth occurred in the house in which he was 
2 CONT living at the time of his death [it appears from something that appears 
2 CONT later in the article that he died when the house burned].  It was built in 
2 CONT 1816 by Col. Elisha Camp [DIRECT ANCESTOR], one of the pioneer settlers of 
2 CONT the North Country and Mr. Mason's great-grandfather [he was my, Gordon's, 
2 CONT GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER !!!].  The house was built of brick and many of 
2 CONT the materials came from overseas.  George Camp, a son of the colonel and 
2 CONT grandfather of Mr. Mason [and my, Gordon's, GREAT-GRANDFATHER], also 
2 CONT occupied the house for a time. ..... Mr. Mason was an active member of the 
2 CONT Episcopal church.  Besides his widow and aged mother, he is survived by 
2 CONT two daughters, Miss Rodney Mason, a student in Cornell university, who 
2 CONT arrived home this morning; and Miss Sidney Mason, of Sackets Harbor.  Both 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Mason were well known in army circles and had a wide 
2 CONT acquaintance among officers and their families who had lived at Madison 
2 CONT Barracks.  For many summers they had conducted their home as "Camp Manor 
2 CONT House" for the benefit of summer visitors."
0 @I565@ INDI
1 NAME Harriet /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE OCT 1917
2 PLAC Hampton, VA
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F240@
1 NOTE An obituary notice dated 1917 sent by Mrs. Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins, 
2 CONT Genealogical Dept, Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, NY:
2 CONT MRS. TULLY M'CREA DIES IN HAMPTON, VA.  (P) FORMER SACKETS HARBOR WOMAN, 
2 CONT WIFE OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL, PASSES AWAY  (P) Sackets Harbor, Oct. 29. --- 
2 CONT Mrs. Tully McCrea, wife of General Tully McCrea, brigadier general, 
2 CONT retired, ordnance corps, formerly of Sackets Harbor, died at the home of 
2 CONT her daughter, Mrs. Tschappat, wife of Colonel Tschappat, of the ordnance 
2 CONT corps, at Hampton, Va., on Wednesday last.  (P) Mrs. McCrea was born in 
2 CONT Sackets Harbor, the daughter of George Hale Camp, and was a granddaughter 
2 CONT of Colonel Elisha Camp.  Besides her daughter, Mrs. Tschappat, Mrs. McCrea 
2 CONT is survived by her sister, Mrs. Rodney Mason, of Sackets Harbor and her 
2 CONT husband, General Tulley [sic: prob. should be TULLY] McCrea.  (P) A friend 
2 CONT today paid the following tribute to Mrs. McCrea:  "The passing away beyond 
2 CONT natural sight of Mrs. Harriet Camp McCrea comes with a great shock to her 
2 CONT family and many friencs.  No adequate testimony in words can be borne to 
2 CONT the superlative sweetness and strength of her character.  Gentle and 
2 CONT tender both by nature and grace, her presence diffused constant 
2 CONT benedictions.  No physical weakness or affliction daunted her courage and 
2 CONT hopefulness of soul.  Like a rare jewel ever undimmed her bright spirit 
2 CONT gave light and cheer to all about her.  With an amazing power of will 
2 CONT which nothing seemed able to subdue she devoted herself to the happiness 
2 CONT and welfare of others.  Complete self-forgetfulness lifted her above what 
2 CONT her own feelings and wishes might seem to justify.  Her never failing 
2 CONT faith and buoyance kept herself and others from depression.  Her words and 
2 CONT actions bespoke the purity and sincerity of her good will.  Richly endowed 
2 CONT with the power of love she gave herself with a largeness which bound 
2 CONT others to her.  She loved and was loved, and death cannot sever nor weaken 
2 CONT the ties.  Her influence abounds in lives made richer by her presence.  
2 CONT God's gentleness made her great.  Thus we say farewell with a sorrow not 
2 CONT unmingled with a sense of triumph, conscious of the passing of one of the 
2 CONT sweetest of souls that ever looked through mortal eyes."
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was my (Gordon's) GREAT AUNT (a pun there).
0 @I566@ INDI
1 NAME Tully /MCCREA/
1 SEX M
1 TITL General
1 FAMS @F240@
0 @I567@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Moseley /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1812
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1889
2 PLAC prob NY
1 FAMC @F10@
1 FAMS @F241@
1 NOTE "My maternal grandfather was the Rev. James Robert Boyd, D. D., of 
2 CONT Greenbush Heughts, near Albany, and of Geneva, New York.  He was a tall 
2 CONT man and "spare" in build, and wore a long, white beard.  He taught school 
2 CONT [English Literature] at Maplewood Institute in Massachusetts and at 
2 CONT Hamilton College in Clinton and Hobart College in Geneva, New York. ..... 
2 CONT Professor Boyd spent much time in his library.  He could read French and 
2 CONT German, Latin and Greek, Hebrew and Sanscrit [sic].  He annotated works 
2 CONT such as Milton's "Paradise Lost," Thompason's "Seasons," Young's "Night 
2 CONT Thoughts," Baon's "Life and Essays," Cowper's "Task and Table," a 
2 CONT "Westminster Catechism," etc.  He wrote a "Composition and Rhetoric" and 
2 CONT an "Elements of Logic," which were widely used in the schools of the 
2 CONT eastern United States in the early 1840's.  (P) Professor Boyds's mother 
2 CONT was Mary Scott, a cousin of Sir Walter Scott. .....  My maternal 
2 CONT grandmother, Elizabeth Camp Boyd, was a daughter of Colonel Elisha Camp 
2 CONT [THEREFORE A SISTER OF MY, GORDON'S, GREAT-GRANDFATHER].  Her father's 
2 CONT name had been Elisha de Camp, but he dropped the 'de' when he came over 
2 CONT from France [!!!  I DOUBT THIS VERY MUCH --- SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE TURNED BY 
2 CONT A CHILD INTO A FAMILY TRADITION].  They lived in a staunchly-built brick 
2 CONT house at Sackett's Harbor on the shore of Lake Ontario, New York, where he 
2 CONT helped successfully to fight the British in the War of 1812.  The lovely 
2 CONT old home is still standing with its beautiful gardens.  Cousins of my 
2 CONT mother, the Masons, live in it."  This item is signed:  Walter F. JUDD, 
2 CONT Box 605, Kaneohe, HI 96744, and dated 1-15-90.
0 @I568@ INDI
1 NAME James Robert /BOYD/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Rev
1 FAMS @F241@
0 @I569@ INDI
1 NAME Sophia Augusta /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1815
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Married Edgar DAY of Catskill NY.
0 @I570@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Francis /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1819
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Married Edgar SPENCER of Utica NY.
0 @I571@ INDI
1 NAME Harriette Ann /CAMP/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1822
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Married Frederick F. FOLGER of Hudson NY.
0 @I572@ INDI
1 NAME Elisha Ely /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1824
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 AUG 1867
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE ggu of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT Married Louise Kellar.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Camp, Elisha Ely.  N.Y.   Army.  Served as enlisted man under name of 
2 CONT Henry Leon; pvt gen ser 4 to 31 Aug 1847; 2 lt 3 drgs 28 Aug 1847; resd 4 
2 CONT Feb 1848; 2 lt 9 inf 14 May 1857; 1 lt 14 May 1861 to 31 Dec 1862; capt a 
2 CONT q m 3 Aug 1861; bvt maj and lt col 13 Mar 1865 for fai and mer ser dur the 
2 CONT war; died 4 Aug 1867."
2 CONT    --- Francis B Heitman, *Historical Register and Dictionary of the 
2 CONT United States Army, 1789-1903*, Washington DC, 1903 (reprinted 
2 CONT Genealogical Publishing Co, 1994), v 1, p 276
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Mrs. Homer J. (Carolyn) Perkins, Flower Memorial Library, Watertown 
2 CONT NY 13601, item signed (I think) Walter Judd:  "Elizabeth Scott Boyd 
2 CONT journal, Feb 18, 1862, NYC:  "Uncle Elisha married to Miss Lou Keller 
2 CONT [sic] of Washinton."  Feb 20, 1862.  "She is 18 years old."  Agnes Hall 
2 CONT Boyd journal, Feb 22, 1862, NYC:  "Aunt Lou is only 18 [on Jan 4, 1862], 
2 CONT will be 19 in March, is fat and plump, not pretty, has a little lisp, and 
2 CONT a southern accent."  Elizabeth Scott Boyd journal, Nov 24, 1866:  "Uncle 
2 CONT Elisha ordered to Fort Laramie."  Elizabeth Scott Boyd journal, Aug 4, 
2 CONT 1867:  "Uncle Elisha died.  Sick 10 days." "
2 CONT Walter Judd says:  "I have a vague suspicion that Louise Kellar *may* have 
2 CONT been his second wife.  Just a hunch."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Evidently this Elisha CAMP had something to do with the development of the 
2 CONT Washington and Oregon territories; see article in general note for his 
2 CONT father Col. Elisha CAMP.
0 @I573@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar Boyd /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1827
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Married Mary E. Porter.
0 @I574@ INDI
1 NAME Erskine Mason /CAMP/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1830
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Married Julia L. Griffin.
0 @I648@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 APR 1656
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1695
2 PLAC Wethersfield CT
1 FAMC @F284@
1 FAMS @F273@
1 NOTE 7th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "[p 40] SAMUEL WOLCOTT b. April 16, 1656 [p 48] m. Mar. 6, 1678, Judith, 
2 CONT dau of Samuel Appleton, Esq., of Ipswich, Mass.  She d. Feb. 19, 1741, 
2 CONT aged 88 years.  Mr. Samuel Wolcott was a merchant in Windsor in 1685.  He 
2 CONT subsequently removed to Wethersfield and located on "Wolcott Hill" about a 
2 CONT mile west of the village; d. June 14, 1695.  Children:-- (P) (1) SAMUEL, 
2 CONT b. Apr. 11, 1679 [p 67] m. Dec. 27, 1705, Abigail, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel 
2 CONT Collins, of Middletown.  It is reported "that the 'Worshipful Samuel 
2 CONT Wolcott built and occupied the mansion which afterwards became famous as 
2 CONT the Washington Headquarters in Wethersfield." He commanded a military 
2 CONT company, was an importing merchant and appears to have been a rich man for 
2 CONT his day. ..... He d. Sept. 15, 1734.  [back to p 49] (2) GERSHOM, b. Nov. 
2 CONT 14, 1680; d. Sept. 23, 1682.  (3) JOSIAH, b. Feb. 27, 1682; d. Oct. 28, 
2 CONT 1712.  (4) HANNAH, b. March 19, 1684; m. May 8, 1704, Rev. William 
2 CONT Burnham, of Kensington.  He was b. July 17, 1684, and d. Sept. 23, 1750.  
2 CONT She d. Mar. 16, 1748. ..... (5) SARAH [see under SARAH WOLCOTT].  (6) 
2 CONT LUCY, b. Oct. 16, 1688; m. Feb. 1, 1713, Samuel Robbins, of Wethersfield.  
2 CONT Their dau., Mary Robbins, b. 1721; m. Joseph Wells [sic]. .....  (7) 
2 CONT ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 23, 1690; d. Nov. 9, 1714.  (8) ELIZABETH, b. May 31, 
2 CONT 1692; d. March 15, 1765.  (9) MERCY, b. May 14, 1694; m. May 26, 1716, 
2 CONT John Stillman."
2 CONT    --- Chandler Wolcott, *Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, 
2 CONT One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut*, Rochester NY (The 
2 CONT Genesee Press) 1912.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "SAMUEL WOLCOTT, son of Henry Wolcott ... and Sarah Newberry ..., was born 
2 CONT in Windsor, Conn., April 16, 1656.  He was a merchant like his father.  In 
2 CONT 1685 he was elected a Deputy from Windsor to the General Court.  Soon 
2 CONT after this he removed to Wethersfield and made his home on what is now 
2 CONT called Wolcott Hill,  He died June 14, 1695, and his estate, which was 
2 CONT inventoried at #1137 [pounds] 2s. 8d., was administered by his widow, the 
2 CONT legatees being Mrs. Judith Wolcott and eight children, all minors.  
2 CONT (Manwaring's *Hartford Probate Records*, I: 524.)"
2 CONT    --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph 
2 CONT Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 241.  Boardman lists the 
2 CONT children of Samuel Wolcott and Judith Appleton as follows:  "I. Samuel 
2 CONT [from p. 170-172: b, 11 Apr 1679 in Windsor CT; "Captain Wolcott was one 
2 CONT of the leading merchants of Wethersfield, and one of the most active of 
2 CONT its men in public affairs, holding nearly all the town offices.  In 
2 CONT October, 1705, he was made Captain of the Hartford County dragoons, and in 
2 CONT May, 1725, received his commission as Captain of the Second Company or 
2 CONT trainband in Wethersfield."  He died 15 Sep 1734, estate inventoried at 
2 CONT #5097 [pounds] 2s. 10d.]   II. Gershom, b. Nov. 4, 1680; d. Sept. 23, 
2 CONT 1682.  III. Josiah, b. Feb. 27, 1681-2; d. Oct. 28, 1712.  IV. Hannah, b. 
2 CONT Mch. 19, 1683-4; m. May 8, 1704, Rev. William Burnham of Kensington, Conn. 
2 CONT  V. Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1686; m. Dec. 12, 1706, Capt. Robert Welles of 
2 CONT Wethersfield.  VI. Lucy, b. Oct. 16, 1688; m. Feb. 1, 1713, Samuel Robbins 
2 CONT of Wethersfield.  VII. Abigail, b. Sept. 23, 1690; d. Nov. 9, 1714.  VIII. 
2 CONT Elizabeth, b. May 31, 1692; d. Mch. 15, 1765.  IX. Mary, b. May 14, 1694; 
2 CONT m. May 26, 1715, John Stillman."
2 CONT 
2 CONT With regard to Samuel son of Samuel (number I above), Joseph O. Goodwin 
2 CONT says in "East Windsor" in *The Memorial History of Hartford County, 
2 CONT Connecticut, 1633-1884, ed J Hammond Trumbull, vol. 2, 1886, p 117-118:  
2 CONT "The first mention of a school supported by public money on the east side 
2 CONT of the [Connecticut] river belongs to the year 1698.  On the west side of 
2 CONT the river schools had been kept for almost half a century before one was 
2 CONT established upon the east side.  In April, 1698, the town agreed to hire a 
2 CONT schoolmaster who was to teach nine months of the year upon the west side 
2 CONT and three months upon the east side.  At the time Samuel Wolcott, 
2 CONT great-grandson of Henry Wolcott, the American founder of the Wolcott 
2 CONT family, was in Harvard College, and was to be graduated in the coming 
2 CONT summer.  He was hired to begin upon this work of instruction as soon as he 
2 CONT had received his degree at Cambridge.  By the agreement of the town with 
2 CONT Mr. Wolcott he was "to keep a reading, and cyphering and grammar school," 
2 CONT and he was "to take none but such as are entered in spelling."  This last 
2 CONT clause seems to imply thaqt either in private schools or in families the 
2 CONT children should be so far brought forward as to be masters of the earliest 
2 CONT elements of education before they were admitted to this school kept and 
2 CONT supported by the town."
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Samuel [WOLCOTT] ([son of] *Henry*, [son of] *Henry*), merchant in 
2 CONT W[indsor]; dep. to Gen. Ct. 1685; rem. to Wethersfield; located on Wolcott 
2 CONT Hill, still inhab. by his desc. including all of the name now residing in 
2 CONT that town.  He m. 6 Mch., 1678, Judith (dau. Esq. Sam'l) Appleton of 
2 CONT Ipswich, Mass., who d. 19 Feb., 1741, ae. abt. 88. He d. 14 June, 1695,  
2 CONT *Children*:  1. Samuel, b. 11 Apl., 1679.  See *Wolcott Memorial*.  2. 
2 CONT Gershom, b. 14 Nov. 1680; d. 23 Sept,m 1682.  3. Josiah, b. 27 Feb., 1682; 
2 CONT d. 28 Oct., 1712.  4. Hannah, b. 19 Mch., 1684; m. 8 May, 1704, Rev. 
2 CONT William Burnham, of Kensington, Conn.  5. Sarah, b. 14 Aug., 1686; m. 12 
2 CONT Dec., 1706, Capt. Robert Wells of Wethersfield.  6. Lucy, b. 16 Oct., 
2 CONT 1688; m. 1 Feb., 1713, Samuel Robbins of Wethersfield.  7. Abigail, b. 23 
2 CONT Sept., 1690; d. 9 Nov., 1714.  8. Elizabeth, b. 31 May, 1692; d. 15 Mch., 
2 CONT 1765.  9. Mary, b. 14 May, 1694; m. 26 May, 1715, John Stillman."
2 CONT    --- Henry R Stiles, *The History of Ancient Windsor*, 1893, vol. 2, p 
2 CONT 802
0 @I649@ INDI
1 NAME Judith (5) /APPLETON/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1653
2 PLAC prob Ipswich MA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 FEB 1740/1741
1 FAMS @F273@
1 NOTE 7th ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The wife of Samuel Wolcott was JUDITH APPLETON, daughter of Major Samuel 
2 CONT Appleston of Ipswich, Mass. ... and Hannah Paine ,,,, who was born in 
2 CONT Ipswich, about 1653.  She married March 6, 1678, and survived her husband 
2 CONT nearly half a century.  She lived on the place, since famous as the 
2 CONT headquarters of Washington, and called the Webb place.  Her property was 
2 CONT left by her will to her five surviving daughters and the children of her 
2 CONT deceased son, Captain Samuel Wolcott.  She is buried in the Wethersfield 
2 CONT cemetery, where her gravestone has the following inscription:  Here lies 
2 CONT Interr'd the | Body of Mrs. Judith | Wolcott, Relict of Mr. | Samuel 
2 CONT Wolcott Dec'd, | and Daughter of the | Worshipfull Samuel | Appleton Esq, 
2 CONT of | Ipswich, who Died | Feb'ry 19th 1740/1741, about | 88 years of Age."
2 CONT    --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph 
2 CONT Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906 p 241-242
0 @I690@ INDI
1 NAME Henry (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Mr
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JAN 1610/1611
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1680
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMC @F288@
1 FAMS @F284@
1 NOTE 8th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "[p 40] HENRY WOLCOTT [son of HENRY (1) WOLCOTT] came to America with his 
2 CONT parents and was admitted a freeman by the General Court at Boston, April 
2 CONT 1, 1634, which shows that he was at that time a member of the Dorchester 
2 CONT Church.  He removed with the family to Windsor in 1636, where he m. Nov. 
2 CONT 18, 1641, Sarah, dau. of Mr. Thomas Newberry.  Children:-- [numbering 
2 CONT omitted]  HENRY, b. Jan. 6, 1643 [p 47] m. Oct 12, 1664, Abiah, dau. of 
2 CONT Edward Goffe, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass.  She was b. April 1, 1647. [back 
2 CONT to p 40]  JOHN, b. Feb. 28, 1645 [p 47] m. (1st) Feb. 13, 1677, Mary, dau. 
2 CONT of Capt. John Chester and granddau. of Gov. Thomas Wells [sic].  She was 
2 CONT b. Dec. 23, 1654, and d. July 10, 1689.  He settled in Wethersfield and 
2 CONT was selectman in 1679.  He removed to Windsor and was chosen Deputy to the 
2 CONT General Court in 1698 and subsequently.  [back to p 40]  SAMUEL, b Oct. 8. 
2 CONT 1647; d. May 10, 1648.  SARAH, b. July 5, 1649; m. June 6, 1674, Capt. 
2 CONT John Price of Salem, Mass.  She d. March 25, 1698. 
2 CONT .....  MARY, b. Dec. 6, 1651; m. June 2, 1679, James Russell, Esq., of 
2 CONT Charlestown, Mass..  HANNAH, b. March 8, 1653; d. at Charlestown, Sept. 4, 
2 CONT 1683, a month after her sister Mary.  SAMUEL, b. April 16, 1656 [see under 
2 CONT SAMUEL (2) WOLCOTT].  JOSIAH, b. July 21, 1658 [p 52] was first a merchant 
2 CONT at Windsor, then removed to Salem, Mass.  Married (1st) Feb. 19, 1685/86, 
2 CONT Penelope, dau. of Capt. George Corwin, of Sa;em; (2nd) May 1, 1694, Mary, 
2 CONT dau. of John Freke, Esq., of Boston.  She was b. May 6, 1674.  [back to p 
2 CONT 40-41]  Mr. Henry Wolcott was an importing merchant, and his ledger has 
2 CONT been preserved. He appears to have been in England on business in the 
2 CONT spring of 1654.  He was engaged in public life, and held various 
2 CONT appointments; was one of the nineteen gentlemen prominent in the Colony 
2 CONT who were named in the Charter of Connecticut. He was elected a member of 
2 CONT the House of Deputies in 1660, and of the House of Magistrates in 1662, 
2 CONT and successively after, until his death.  (P) He was master of a shorthand 
2 CONT to which we did not imagine thqat any key could ever be found.  Among the 
2 CONT papers deposited in the library of the Connecticut Historical Society, 
2 CONT many years since, was a stout little vellum-covered volume of nearly four 
2 CONT hundred pages, closely written in this hand, with no clue to the subject 
2 CONT nor to the writer's name.  It lay unnoticed until about the year 1857, 
2 CONT when it attracted the attention of J. Hammond Trumbull, LL. D., who 
2 CONT succeeded in deciphering it, and found it to consist of notes of sermons 
2 CONT and lectures, delivered in Windsor and Hartford, between April, 1638, and 
2 CONT May, 1641, in regular course.  The writer's name is not given, but his 
2 CONT birthday is noted on the first leaf of the volume, in the words "the day I 
2 CONT was born was the 21 of Jan. 1610," and this and other facts identified him 
2 CONT as Henry Wolcott, Jr.; and it is a curious fact that the only record of 
2 CONT his birth is found among these hieroglyphics.  The alphabet made use of is 
2 CONT nearly the same with that of Willis (published in 1607 [JOHN WILKINS?] but 
2 CONT the great number and variety of arbitrary signs introduced by the writer 
2 CONT made the task of deciphering a difficult one.  (P) Mr. Wolcott gave much 
2 CONT attention to the cultivation of fruit of which he kept a record in his 
2 CONT shorthand volume.  He rented to several tenants in England the estate 
2 CONT which his father had bequeathed to him.  He appears to have taken as 
2 CONT prominent a part in church matters as in town and state affairs.  D. July 
2 CONT 12, 1680.  Widow of Henry Wolcott d. July 16, 1684."
2 CONT    --- Chandler Wolcott, *Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, 
2 CONT One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut*, Rochester NY (The 
2 CONT Genesee Press) 1912.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "HENRY WOLCOTT, son of Henry Wolcott ... and Elizabeth Saunders, was born 
2 CONT in England, January 21, 1610-11, came to New England with his parents, and 
2 CONT was admitted a freeman in Boston, April 1, 1634, being them a member of 
2 CONT the Corchester church.  He removed with that company to Windsor in 1636, 
2 CONT and there spent the remainder of his life.  (P) Mr. Wolcott was a 
2 CONT prominent importing merchant, conducting a large and successful business.  
2 CONT In his town and in the Colony, he was a citizen of prominence and 
2 CONT influence.  In 1660, he was Deputy to the General Court, and Magistrate in 
2 CONT 1662, and thereafter until his death.  He was one of the patentees 
2 CONT mentioned in the Charterm in 1662.  He died in Windsor, July 12, 1680."
2 CONT    --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph 
2 CONT Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 291.  The children of Henry and 
2 CONT Sarah Wolcott are given as:  "I. Henry, b. Jan. 6, 1642-3; m. Oct. 12, 
2 CONT 1664, Abiah, dau. Edward Goffe, who d. Feb, 18, 1709-10.  She d. June 18, 
2 CONT 1718, ae. 72.  II. John, b. Feb. 28, 1644-5; m. 1sr, Feb. 13, 1677, Mary, 
2 CONT dau. Capt. John Chester, who d. July 10, 1689; 2nd, June 22, 1692, Mrs. 
2 CONT Hannah Nicholas.  He d. Jan. 23, 1711-12.  III. Samuel, b. Oct. 8, 1647, 
2 CONT d. May 10, 1648.  IV. Sarah, b. July 5, 1649, m. June 6, 1674, Capt. John 
2 CONT Price of Salem, Mass.  V. Mary, b. Dec. 6, 1651; m. June 2, 1679, James 
2 CONT Russell of Charlestown, Mass.  VI. Hannah, b. Mch. 8, 1653-4, d. Sept. 4, 
2 CONT 1683.  VII. Samuel [see under his name].  VIII. Josiah, b. July 21, 1658; 
2 CONT m. 1st, 1686, Penelope, dau. Capt. George Corwin; 2nd, 1694, Mary, dau. 
2 CONT John Freke, who d. 1752."
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Henry (Mr.)([son of] *Henry 1), adm. freeman Boston, 1 Apl., 1634, and 
2 CONT was then memb. of Dorchester Ch.; rem. to W[indsor] 1636; was an important 
2 CONT mcht.; was in Eng. on bus. in 1634, and again 1671; engaged in public life 
2 CONT and held various appointments; was one of 19 prominent men of the Col. 
2 CONT named in the Charter of Conn.; a memb. of House of Dep. 1660, and of House 
2 CONT of Magistrates 1662, and annually re-elected until his deathl was master 
2 CONT of a short-hand, in which he has preserved many items of value to W. 
2 CONT history (see p. 11, Vol. I); gave much attention to fruit culture; was 
2 CONT prominent in ch. matters.  He m. 8 Nov., 1641, Sarah (dau. Mr. Thomas) 
2 CONT Newberry (*O.C.R.), who d. 16 July, 1684; she adm. to W. Ch. Jan., 1665. 
2 CONT ---*O.C.R.*  He d. 12, bu. 13 (*O.C.R.*) July 1680.  His est. invent., 
2 CONT real and personal in W., #1,550 [pounds], 12, 0; ppy. mostly real est. in 
2 CONT Wethersfield, #1,234, 04, 00; lands in Eng., housing and mill at #52 per 
2 CONT ann. #1,033.00; revision of a living at #10 per ann., #160.00 Among other 
2 CONT items enumerated are "several divine and history books, #13, 07, 08; 
2 CONT silver, gold, and plate, #74, 15, 00;" also "servant *Cyrus*, valued at 
2 CONT #30."  *Children (*bp. O.C.R.*): 1. Henry, b. 6, bp. 8 Jan 1642(3). ... 2. 
2 CONT John, b. 28 Feb. 1644(5); bp. same mo. ... 3. Samuel, b 8 Oct., 1647; d, 
2 CONT 10 May, 1648.  4. Sarah, b. 5 July, 1649; m. 6 June, 1674, Capt. John 
2 CONT Price of Salem, Mass.  5. Mary, b. 6, bp. 7 Dec., 1651; m. 2 June, 1679, 
2 CONT James Russell, Esq., of Charlestown, Mass.  6. Hannah, b. and bp. 8 
2 CONT (*O.C.R.* says 7) Mch., 1653/4; d. at Charlestown, 4 Sept., 1683; d. a mo. 
2 CONT after sister Mary.  7. Samuel, b. and bp. 16 Apl., 1856 (*O.C.R.) ,,, 8. 
2 CONT Josiah, b. 21, bp. 25 (*O.C.R.*) July, 1658; rec. a classical education at 
2 CONT school; began as merchant at W.; rem. to Salem, Mass., where he was a 
2 CONT useful and honored citizen; d. 9 Feb., 1729; was one of orig. proprietors 
2 CONT of Thompson, Conn.  He m. (1) 1686, Penelope (dau. Capt. George) Corwin of 
2 CONT S[alem?]; (2) 1694, Mary (dau. John) Freke of Boston, who d. 1752; he had 
2 CONT 11 ch."
2 CONT    --- Henry R Stiles, *The History of Ancient Windsor*, vol. 2, p 800
0 @I691@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /NEWBERRY/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 JUL 1684
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMS @F284@
1 NOTE 8th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I698@ INDI
1 NAME Henry (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 6 DEC 1578
2 PLAC Lydiard St. Laurence Parish
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1655
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMC @F290@
1 FAMS @F288@
1 NOTE 9th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "XV.  Henry Wolcott (the emigrant), who conveyed the manor-house to his 
2 CONT son Henry."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4.  Boardman says, p 312:  
2 CONT "Through the researches of Mr. Somerby, of Boston, in the *Herald's* 
2 CONT office, among the subsidy rolls, wills, and parish records of England, the 
2 CONT genealogy of Henry Wolcott, Esquire (the emigrant), has been traced 
2 CONT through fifteen generations. back to Sir John Wolcott, knight, as 
2 CONT follows:".  Each entry in this list has here been placed in its 
2 CONT appropriate place in the tree, with its corresponding Roman numeral.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "HENRY WOLCOTT, son of John Wolcott of Tolland, England, and descended 
2 CONT from an ancient family of position and wealth, was baptized December 6, 
2 CONT 1578, in the Parish of Lydiard St. Laurence.  [Footnote:  Authorities on 
2 CONT the Wolcott family are *The Wolcott Memorial* and Stiles's *History of 
2 CONT Windsor*.]  He removed to New England with his wife and several children, 
2 CONT in March, 1630.  He was one of the first twenty-four freemen of 
2 CONT Dorchester, Mass., and received grants of land there as early as April, 
2 CONT 1633, and probably before; and was Selectman in 1634.  He was one of those 
2 CONT most interested in the Connecticut settlement, and removed to Windsor in 
2 CONT 1636, as one of the original proprietors.  In the year following he took 
2 CONT an active part in the earliest legistlative proceedings of the new Colony; 
2 CONT was elected a Magistrate in 1643, and continued to hold this office until 
2 CONT his death, May 30, 1655.  Mr. Stiles, the historian of Windsor, says of 
2 CONT him:--- "He was probably, after the pastor, the most distinguished man in 
2 CONT Windsor."  (P) In speaking of the life and public services of Henry 
2 CONT Wolcott, Mr. Hollister, in his *History of Connecticut*, says:--- "In the 
2 CONT 78th year of his age, but with a judgment unclouded, and his usefulness 
2 CONT unimpaired, the venerable Henry Wolcott, one of the principal magistrates 
2 CONT and advisers of the colony, quickly followed his comrade (Haynes) to the 
2 CONT grave.  I cannot help making a brief mention of him, and yet were I to 
2 CONT speak at any considerable length of all the bright examples of patriotism 
2 CONT and exalted worth that have borne the name of Wolcott in Connecticut, I 
2 CONT should find this work extending itself beyond the limits that I have 
2 CONT marked out for it."  (P) "Henry Wolcott, Esquire, ther ancestor of all the 
2 CONT Wolcotts of this State, was of a very ancient family, and the owner of a 
2 CONT large estate in Somersetshire.  He was born in Tolland, on the 6th of 
2 CONT December, 1578, and was the son and heir of John Wolcott of Galdon Manor.  
2 CONT The manor-house is still standing, and is of very great antiquity and 
2 CONT extent.  It was originally a splendid mansion, designed as well for the 
2 CONT purposes of defense against the excesses of a lawless age, as for a 
2 CONT permanent family residence.  It is still richly ornamented with carved 
2 CONT work, and if left to itself unassailed by the hand of violence, it will 
2 CONT stand for ages.  The familiar motto of the family arms, borrowed from the 
2 CONT Roman poet, is still to be seen upon the walls of the manor-house, its 
2 CONT bold words informing us that the family who have adopted it as their text 
2 CONT of life were "accustomed to swear in the words of no master."  It is alike 
2 CONT in keeping with the independent spirit of an English gentleman of the 
2 CONT middle ages, and with that of a Puritan of the 17th century who spurned 
2 CONT the dictation of ecclesiastical dominion."  (P) "In his early life Henry 
2 CONT Wolcott lived after the manner of the landed gentry, at an era when the 
2 CONT term "country squire" was synonymous with whatever was bold, athletic, and 
2 CONT hardy in the steeplechasing, hospitable days of "merry England."  But as 
2 CONT the years stole on, and the principles of the Reformation, making little 
2 CONT progress at first, began to invade not only the wrestling-ring of the 
2 CONT yeoman and the counting-room of the merchant, but the hall of the 
2 CONT county-gentleman, Wolcott, among others, was led to direct his thoughts to 
2 CONT more serious topics than the pastimes that had engrossed his earlier 
2 CONT manhood.  While meditations respecting a future state of being occupied 
2 CONT his mind, a religious teacher, Mr. Edward Elton, became his guide, and led 
2 CONT him to that clear understanding of the doctrines of Christianity, and 
2 CONT those firm convictions of its truth, that remained with him to the day of 
2 CONT his death.  Of an ardent temperament and lively sensibilities, and seeing 
2 CONT that much needed to be reformed in the severities practiced upon so many 
2 CONT of the best subjects of the realm, he soon became identified with the 
2 CONT Puritan party, sold a large estate in lands, including the manor-house, 
2 CONT for which he received about eight thousand pounds sterling, probably much 
2 CONT less than its value, and made preparations to spend the remainder of his 
2 CONT days in America.  In 1628 he visited New England to examine the country, 
2 CONT and returned.  His sympathetic nature could not fail to attach itself 
2 CONT inseparably to the self-accusing, though charitable, Wareham, and he 
2 CONT sailed with him for the new world in the same ship, and arrived in 
2 CONT Massachusetts in May, 1630.  Roger Ludlow was of the same party.  Wolcott 
2 CONT remained in Dorcherster until 1636, when he removed to Windsor upon the 
2 CONT Connecticut river.  He was, as most of our best inhabitants were, a 
2 CONT planter, and was the principal one in Windsor.  He was a member of the 
2 CONT General Court of Connecticut in 1639."  (P) "In 1643 he was chosen into 
2 CONT the magistract, and continued to be one of its most safe and immovable 
2 CONT pillars till his death in 1655.  His monument of imperishable sandstone, 
2 CONT built by the same hands that fashioned the one that stands over the 
2 CONT Fenwick tomb at Saybrook, has always been a shrine to tempt towards it the 
2 CONT feet of his numerous descendants, who have piously guarded it and lovingly 
2 CONT adorned it for two hundred years.  Time has spared, and the gray moss not 
2 CONT obliterated, the quaint and simple epitaph, whose plain lettering tells us 
2 CONT that it is the resting place of "Henry Wolcott, some time a magistrate of 
2 CONT this jurisdiction."
2 CONT    --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph 
2 CONT Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 308-311.  Boardman lists the 
2 CONT children of Henry Wolcott and Elizabeth Saunders as follows (p 312):  "I. 
2 CONT John, bap. Oct. 1, 1607; d. without issue in Eng. after 1631 and before 
2 CONT 1655.  II. Anna, m. Oct. 16, 1646, Matthew Griswold of Windsor and 
2 CONT Saybrook.  III.  Henry [see under HENRY (2) WOLCOTT].  IV. George, m. 
2 CONT Elizabeth Treat, and d. Feb. 12, 1662.  Res. Wethersfield.  V. 
2 CONT Christopher, d. unm. Sept. 7, 1662.  VI. Mary, m. June 25, 1646, Job Drake 
2 CONT of Windsor, and d. Sept. 16, 1689.  VII. Simon, b. abt. 1625; m. 1st, Mch. 
2 CONT 19, 1657, Joanna, dau. of Aaron Cook, who d. Apr. 27, 1657; 2nd, Oct. 17, 
2 CONT 1661, Martha Pitkin, who m. 2nd, Daniel Clarke, and d. Oct. 13, 1719, ae. 
2 CONT 80.  He d. Sept. 11, 1687."
2 CONT 
2 CONT "HENRY WOLCOTT (1636), from Dorchester, had a lot granted to him ten rods 
2 CONT wide. His children were born in England.  Both himself and wife died, 
2 CONT 1655.  Of his sons, Henry had a lot granted to him twelve rods wide.  He 
2 CONT married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Newberry, 1641, and had three sons and 
2 CONT two daughters.  After the death of his brother Christopher he had his 
2 CONT father's homestead.  He died, 1680.  Christopher had a lot granted to him 
2 CONT six rods wide.  He had no family, and died, 1662.  His brother Simon had 
2 CONT his place.  George removed to Wethersfield.  Simon married first a 
2 CONT daughter of Aaron Cook in 1657.  She died a month after, and he married 
2 CONT Martha Pitkin, "late from England." 1661.  He had three sons and three 
2 CONT daughters.  He lived first on the richard Whitehead place; second, on his 
2 CONT brother Christopher's place.  He removed to Simsbury previous to King 
2 CONT Philip's War, and he then removed to the east side of the Great River."
2 CONT    --- Jabez H Hayden, "Early Windsor Families," in *THe Memorial History 
2 CONT of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, ed J Hammond Trumbull, v. 2, 
2 CONT 1886, p 560
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The register of the parish of *Lidiard St. Lwrence*, adjoining that of 
2 CONT Tolland, contains the following:  "HENRY, ye sonne of John Wolcott, was 
2 CONT baptized the VI of December, 1578"; and "HENRY Wolcott & Elizabeth 
2 CONT Saunders [of Lydiard St. Laurence, b. 1584], were married 19 January, 
2 CONT 1606."  (P) Henry Wolcott, whose m. and bp. are thus recorded, was the 
2 CONT emigrant to Windsor, Conn.  As the second son of John Wolcott, of Galdon 
2 CONT Manor, Tolland, Co. Somerset, Eng., he held a fair position among the 
2 CONT landed gentry, and an estate which placed him in affluent circumstances.  
2 CONT By the decease of his elder bro. Christopher, intestate, 1639, the family 
2 CONT estate, including the manor-house, mill, etc., also came into his 
2 CONT possession after his removal to America.  The earlier portion of his life 
2 CONT was passed in the quiet pursuit of a country squire's duties and 
2 CONT responsibilities: but, becoming converted under the teaching of the Rev. 
2 CONT John Elton, he soon found himself closely identified with the Puritan 
2 CONT party in the religious and political revolution which then convulsed 
2 CONT England.  America presented to him, as to hundreds of others like-minded, 
2 CONT the only asylum where civil and religious freedom could be found; and, 
2 CONT though then past 52 years of age, and with children of an age when they 
2 CONT most needed the social and educational advantages afforded in their native 
2 CONT land, --- to emigrate to a new home beyond the ocean.  Taking their three 
2 CONT sons, and leaving them behind them for a time two daughters and their 
2 CONT youngest son (ae. 5), they joined the Warham and Maverick emigration of 
2 CONT 1630, on the 19th of October in which yr. we find Henry Wolcott's name as 
2 CONT one of the first list of freemen of Boston.  He rem. from Dorchester to W. 
2 CONT in 1635; in 1637 was elected a member of the lower house of the first 
2 CONT Gen'l Assembly of Conn.; in 1640 stands first in a list of the inhabitants 
2 CONT of W.; in 1643 was elected to the House of Magistrates (the present 
2 CONT Senate) of Conn., and was annually re-elected during life, and was 
2 CONT probably, after the pastor, the most distinguished citizen of W.; the 
2 CONT younger ch. who had been left behind, rejoined the family between 1631 and 
2 CONT 1641.  He d. May, 1655; his wid. d. on July 5, same year.  His estate was 
2 CONT inventoried at #764 [pounds], 8s., 10d., not a large sum for one who is 
2 CONT known to have sold about #8,000 worth of estate in Eng. preparatory to 
2 CONT removing to America, and illustrating the remark of the historian 
2 CONT Trumbull, that "many of the adventurers expended more, in making 
2 CONT settlements in Conn., than all the lands and buildings were worth, after 
2 CONT all the improvements which they had made upon them." [Hist. Conn., i, 117] 
2 CONT  Mrs. Wolcott wa adm. to W. Ch. Apl., 1640. ... In the ancient "Family 
2 CONT Chronologie" it is recorded of Henry Wolcott and his wife, that "these 
2 CONT both dyed in hope and Ly buried under one Tomb in Windsor."  Ch.:  1. 
2 CONT John, bp. 1 Oct. 1607; living in England 1631; d. without issue, in Eng., 
2 CONT previous to date of his father's will, 1655.  2. Anna. came over to Am. 
2 CONT between 1631 and 1641; m. 16 Oct. 1646, Matthew Griswold of W., afterwards 
2 CONT of Saybrook.  3. Henry, b. 21 Jan., 1610/11. [see under Henry (2) WOLCOTT] 
2 CONT  4. George [see under George WOLCOTT], b. ---  5. Christopher, came to Am. 
2 CONT with his father, 1630; rec'd by will his father's homestead in W.; d. 
2 CONT unmarried 7 Sept., 1662; by his (nuncupative) will, est. divided among his 
2 CONT brothers and sisters, Henry being the chief legatee.  6.  Mary, m. 25 
2 CONT June, 1646, Job Drake of W.; both d. 16 Sept., 1689. [see under Mary 
2 CONT WOLCOTT] 7. Simon, b. betw. 11 Sept., 1684, and 11 Sept., 1635."
2 CONT    --- Henry R. Stiles, *Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor, 
2 CONT Connecticut*, vol. 2, 1892, p. 799-800
2 CONT 
2 CONT "[p. 34] HENRY WOLCOTT, who emigrated from England and was the ancestor of 
2 CONT the family in this country of which a record is given here, was the second 
2 CONT son of John Wolcott of Tolland in Somersetshire, England, and was baptized 
2 CONT in the adjoining parish of Lydiard St. Lawrence, Dec 6, 1578.  He m. Jan 
2 CONT 19, 1606, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Saunders, of Lydiard St. Lawrence.  
2 CONT She was baptized, Dec. 20, 1584.  Children:-- (P)  (1) JOHN, bap. Oct. 1, 
2 CONT 1607, was living in England in 1631, and apparently never emigrated to 
2 CONT this country.  He had d. without issue previous to the date of his 
2 CONT father's will in 1655.  The family record makes no mention of him.  (2) 
2 CONT ANNA.  She came over with her sister and youngest brother after the family 
2 CONT had become settled; m. Oct. 16, 1646, Matthew Griswold, of Windsor.  (3)  
2 CONT HENRY b. Jan. 21, 1610/11 [see under HENRY (2) WOLCOTT].  (4) GEORGE [p. 
2 CONT 41-2: came with his parents from England.  He was made a freeman by the 
2 CONT General Court of Connecticut, May 21, 1657, and settledin Wethersfield.  
2 CONT His history is more obscure than that of his brothers.  The names of his 
2 CONT children are given in the Family Chronology but none of their descendants. 
2 CONT  We learn from this that he m. --- Treat, and d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 12, 
2 CONT 1662; and from the Probate records that the Christian name of his wife was 
2 CONT Elizabeth.  Children: -- ELIZABETH, b. June 20, 1650; m. Dec. 15, 1686, 
2 CONT Gabriel Cornish.  GEORGE b Sept. 20, 1652 [p 53] m. Aug. 30, 1691, 
2 CONT Elizabeth Curtis who d. Aug. 13, 1741.  He lived in Wethersfield and d. 
2 CONT July, 1726.  [back to p. 42] JOHM. b/ Aig. 5, 1656.  Nothing more is known 
2 CONT of him except that he was living at the date of his father's death in 
2 CONT 1662.  MERCY, b. Oct. 4, 1659; was living in 1687 an invalid. [back to p. 
2 CONT 34]  (5). CHRISTOPHER.  He emigrated to America with his parents and two 
2 CONT older brothers in 1630.  The family homestead in Windsor was bequeathed to 
2 CONT him by his father.  He d. unm. 
2 CONT Sept 7, 1662.  ...  (6) MARY.  She m. June 25, Job Drake of Windsor.  She 
2 CONT and her husband d. the same day, Sept. 16, 1689.  .....  (7) SIMON, b. 
2 CONT between Sept. 11, 1624, and Sept. 11, 1625.  [p. 42] was but five years 
2 CONT old when his father emigrated to America.  He remained in England with his 
2 CONT two sisters until the family had effected a settlement in this country; 
2 CONT they came over within ten years after, but the exact time of their arrival 
2 CONT we have not been able to ascertain.  He was admitted a freeman in 1654.  
2 CONT He m. (1st) March 19, 1657, Joanna, dau. of Aaron Cook, one of the first 
2 CONT settlers of Windsor; she was b. Aug. 5, 1638.  Her married life was brief; 
2 CONT she d. Apr 27, 1657.  He m. (2nd) Oct. 17, 1661, Martha Pitkin described 
2 CONT in the Windsor Records as "late from England."
2 CONT    --- Chandler Wolcott, *Wolcott Genealogy:  The Family of Henry Wolcott, 
2 CONT One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut*, Rochester NY (The 
2 CONT Genesee Press) 1912
2 CONT 
2 CONT From same, p 16:  "The old "Famely Chronologie, 1691," has this entry 
2 CONT respecting the parents, Henry and Elizabeth Wolcott:  "This happie pair 
2 CONT were married About ye year 1606.  He came to New England about the year 
2 CONT 1628, and in the year 1630 brought over his family, to avoid the 
2 CONT persecution of those times against dissenters."  There follows a quotation 
2 CONT from Macaulay's History of England, vol. I, p 69, 71:  "Every corner of 
2 CONT the nation was subjected to a constant and minute inspection.  Every 
2 CONT little congregation of separatists was tracked out and broken up.  Even 
2 CONT the devotions of private families could not escape the vigilance of spies. 
2 CONT  And the tribunals afforded no protection to the subjects against the 
2 CONT civil and ecclesiastical tyranny of that period. ..... This was the 
2 CONT conjuncture at which the liberties of England were in the greatest peril.  
2 CONT The opponents of the government began to despair of the destiny of their 
2 CONT country; and many looked to the American wilderness as the only asylum in 
2 CONT which they could enjoy civil and spiritual freedom.  There a few resolute 
2 CONT Puritans, who, in the cause of their religion, feared neither the rage of 
2 CONT the ocean nor the hardships of uncivilized life; neither the fangs of 
2 CONT savage beasts nor the tomahawks of more savage men, --- built, amidst the 
2 CONT primeval forest, villages which are now great and opulent cities, but 
2 CONT which have, through every change, retained some trace of the character 
2 CONT derived from their founders.  The government regarded these infant 
2 CONT colonies with aversion, and attempted violently to stop the stream of 
2 CONT emigration, but could not prevent the population of New England from being 
2 CONT largely recruited by stout-hearted and God-fearing men from every part of 
2 CONT old England."  Chandler Wolcott continues (p 16-18):  "It was at this 
2 CONT juncture that HENRY WOLCOTT left England; and no one will question his 
2 CONT title to the character of "a resolute Puritan, --- a stout-hearted and 
2 CONT God-fearing man."  He was not an obscure adventurer, but held a fair 
2 CONT position among the gentry in England, possessing an estate which yielded 
2 CONT him a fair income, and his property was freely devoted to the service of 
2 CONT the expedition which he accompanied. .....  The company of which they [he, 
2 CONT his wife, and children Henry, George and Christopher --- 3 children were 
2 CONT left behind temporarily] were members consisted of one hundred and forty 
2 CONT persons; and the historian of Connecticut makes the following mention of 
2 CONT them:"  Here Chandler Wolcott quotes from Trumbull, *Hist. Conn.*, 1.23:  
2 CONT "In one of the first ships which arrived this year [1630] came over the 
2 CONT Rev. Mr. John Warham, Mr. John Maverick, Mr. Rossiter, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. 
2 CONT Henry Wolcott, and others of Mr. warham's church and congregation, who 
2 CONT first settled the town of Windsor, in Connecticut.  Mr. Rossiter and Mr. 
2 CONT Ludlow, were magistrates.  Mr. Wolcott had a fine estate, and was a man of 
2 CONT superior abilities.  This was an honorable company.  Mr. Warham had been a 
2 CONT famous minister in Exeter, the capital of the county of Devonshire.  The 
2 CONT people who came with him were from the three counties of Devonshire, 
2 CONT Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire."  Chandler Wolcott continues (p 18):  
2 CONT "They sailed from Plymouth, in England, on the 20th of March, 1630, in the 
2 CONT ship *Mary and John*, of four hundred tons burden, Captain Squeb, master.  
2 CONT B4efore their embarkation, after their passage had been engaged, they were 
2 CONT allowed the privilege of organizing themselves into an independent church. 
2 CONT  This is now the First Church in Windsor, --- the oldest in the State of 
2 CONT Connecticut.  The Barnstable and Plymouth churches, in Massachusetts, had 
2 CONT been organized in the same way; and these three, as far as we know, are 
2 CONT the only New England churches which had a trans-atlantic origin.  (P) They 
2 CONT arrived at Nantasket on the Lord's Day, May 30th, 1630, after a voyage of 
2 CONT two months and ten days, and landed the next day."
2 CONT 
2 CONT "HENRY [WOLCOTT]  Came on "Mary and John" 1630 following earlier visit ca 
2 CONT 1628, Dorchester (Mass.) 1630, Windsor 1636.  d. Windsor 30 May 1655.  
2 CONT Deputy.  Assistant.  *European and American family of Wolcott* (pamph.) 
2 CONT 1912, *Wolcott genealogy* 1912; *Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Conn.* 1950."
2 CONT    --- Meredith B Colket, *Founders of Early American Families*, Cleveland 
2 CONT OH 1985, p 363
0 @I699@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /SAUNDERS/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 2 DEC 1584
2 PLAC Lydiard St. Laurence Parish
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 JUL 1655
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMS @F288@
1 NOTE 9th ggm of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Henry Wolcott married, January 19, 1606, ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, daughter of 
2 CONT Thomas Saunders of Lydiard St. Laurence, who was baptized in that parish 
2 CONT December 2, 1584.  She came with him to New England, outlived her husband, 
2 CONT and died July 7, 1655, in Windsor, Conn."
2 CONT    --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph 
2 CONT Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 311-312
0 @I702@ INDI
1 NAME John (6) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Galdon Manor in Tolland, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 10 NOV 1623
2 PLAC England
2 NOTE "Will proved Nov. 10, 1623." (Wm F. J. Boardman, p 314)
1 FAMC @F291@
1 FAMS @F290@
1 NOTE 10th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "XIV. John Wolcott, of Galdon Manor, in Tolland.  Will proved Nov. 10, 
2 CONT 1623."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I703@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs J (6) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F290@
1 NOTE 10th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I704@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas (3) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC poss. Tolland, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT NOV 1572
2 PLAC poss. Tolland, England
1 FAMC @F292@
1 FAMS @F291@
1 NOTE 11th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "XIII.  Thomas Wolcott, who married Alice.  Will dated Nov. 4, 1572."  
2 CONT (Somerby's list, Boardman, p 312-4)
0 @I705@ INDI
1 NAME Alice (Th 3 Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F291@
1 NOTE 11th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I706@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1552
2 PLAC prob Tolland, England
1 FAMC @F293@
1 FAMS @F292@
1 NOTE 12th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "XII.  Thomas Wolcott, who was living in Tolland in 1552."  (Somerby's 
2 CONT list, Boardman, p 312-4)
0 @I707@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs Th 2 Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F292@
1 NOTE 12th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I708@ INDI
1 NAME William (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1500
2 NOTE "His will is dated A.D. 1500."  (Wm F. J. Boardman, p 313)
1 FAMC @F294@
1 FAMS @F293@
1 NOTE 13th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "William Wolcott, who married Elizabeth.  His will is dated A.D. 1500."  
2 CONT (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I709@ INDI
1 NAME Eliz. (Wm 2 Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F293@
1 NOTE 13th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I710@ INDI
1 NAME William (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 PLAC prob Tolland, Somersetshire
2 NOTE "... settled in Tolland, Somersetshire."  (Wm F. J. Boardman, p 313)
1 FAMC @F295@
1 FAMS @F294@
1 NOTE 14th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "X.  William Wolcott, settled in Tolland, Somersetshire."  (Somerby's 
2 CONT list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I711@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs Wm (1) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F294@
1 NOTE 14th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I712@ INDI
1 NAME Roger (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Esq
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott, England
1 FAMC @F297@
1 FAMS @F295@
1 NOTE 15th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "IX.  Roger Wolcott, of Wolcott, Esq., who married Margaret, daughter of 
2 CONT David Lloyd, Esq."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I713@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /LLOYD/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F295@
1 NOTE 15th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I716@ INDI
1 NAME John (5) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F299@
1 FAMS @F297@
1 NOTE 16th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "VIII.  John Wolcott of Wolcott who married Matilda, daughter of Sir 
2 CONT Richard Cornwall, of Bereford, knight."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 
2 CONT 312-4)
2 CONT 
2 CONT "In relation to the Wolcott coat-of-arms*, the following is of interest to 
2 CONT those who are curious in matters of heraldry.  John Wolcott of Wolcott, 
2 CONT who lived in the time of Henry V, and who m. Matilda (dau. of Sir Richard) 
2 CONT Cornwell of Beresford, Kent, assumed for his arms the three chess rooks 
2 CONT instead of the crow with the fleur-de-lis borne by his ancestors.  It is 
2 CONT recorded in the old family pedigree, that, "plainge at ye chesse with 
2 CONT Henry ye Fifthe, Kinge of Englande, he gave hym ye checke matte with ye 
2 CONT rouke, whereupone ye Kinge changed his coate of-armes, which was ye crosse 
2 CONT with clower de luces, and gave him ye rouke for a remembrance. ..... It 
2 CONT seemes these Chess Rooks were first called Rooks for being in defence of 
2 CONT all ye rest; and therefore they stande in ye uttermost corners of ye Chess 
2 CONT board as Frontier Castles.  Kinge Wm. ye Conqueror lost greate Lordships 
2 CONT at this playe.  And it might well become a Kinge, for therein are 
2 CONT comprised all ye Stratagems of Warr, or plotts of Civill State." --- 
2 CONT *Herald's Visitation.*
2 CONT    --- Henry R. Stiles, *The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, 
2 CONT Connecticut; including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor 
2 CONT Locks, and Ellington, 1635-1891; Hartford CT (Case, Lockwood & Brainard), 
2 CONT vol. 2, 1892, p. 798-199; also in Stiles' *The History of Ancient 
2 CONT Wethersfield, Connecticut*, NY NY (Grafton Press), vol. 2, 1904, p 838-839
0 @I717@ INDI
1 NAME Matilda /CORNWALL/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Bereford
1 FAMS @F297@
1 NOTE 16th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I720@ INDI
1 NAME John (4) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F300@
1 FAMS @F299@
1 NOTE 17th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "VII.  John Wolcott."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I721@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs John (4) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F299@
1 NOTE 17th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I722@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F301@
1 FAMS @F300@
1 NOTE 18th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "VI.  Thomas Wolcott."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I723@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs Th. (1) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F300@
1 NOTE 18th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I724@ INDI
1 NAME John (3) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Knight
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1382
1 FAMC @F302@
1 FAMS @F301@
1 NOTE 19th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "V.  Sir John Wolcott, of Wolcott, knight, A.D. 1382."  (Somerby's list, 
2 CONT Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I725@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs John (3) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F301@
1 NOTE 19th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I726@ INDI
1 NAME John (2) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott
1 FAMC @F304@
1 FAMS @F302@
1 NOTE 20th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "IV.  John Wolcott, of Wolcott, who married Alice, daughter of David 
2 CONT Lloyd, Esq."  (Somerby's list, Boardman 312-4)
0 @I727@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /LLOYD/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F302@
1 NOTE 20th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I730@ INDI
1 NAME Philip /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Knight
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott
1 FAMC @F306@
1 FAMS @F304@
1 NOTE 21st ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "III.  Sir Philip Wolcott, of Wolcott, knight, who married Julian, 
2 CONT daughter of John Herle."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-314)
0 @I731@ INDI
1 NAME Julian (female) /HERLE/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F304@
1 NOTE 21st ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I734@ INDI
1 NAME Roger (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott
1 FAMC @F308@
1 FAMS @F306@
1 NOTE 22nd ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "II.  Roger Wolcott, of Wolcott, who married Edith, daughter of Sir Wm. 
2 CONT Donnes, knight."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4)
0 @I735@ INDI
1 NAME Edith /DONNES/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F306@
1 NOTE 22nd ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I738@ INDI
1 NAME Jeran /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wolcott
1 FAMC @F310@
1 FAMS @F308@
1 NOTE 23rd ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "I.  Jeran Wolcott (son of Sir John), of Wolcott, who married Anna, 
2 CONT daughter of John Mynde, of Shropshire."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 
2 CONT 312-314)
0 @I739@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /MYNDE/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Shropshire
1 FAMS @F308@
1 NOTE 23rd ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I742@ INDI
1 NAME John (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Knight
1 FAMS @F310@
1 NOTE 24th ggf of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT Boardman, p 312:  "Through the researches of Mr. Somerby, of Boston, in 
2 CONT the *Herald's* office, among the subsidy rolls, wills, and parish records 
2 CONT of England, the genealogy of Henry Wolcott, Esquire (the emigrant) [HENRY 
2 CONT (1) WOLCOTT of this database], has been traced through fifteen 
2 CONT generations, back to Sir John Wolcott, knight, as follows:"  Each entry in 
2 CONT the list is placed here in its proper position in the tree, with the 
2 CONT present JOHN (1) WOLCOTT as root.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The name in Somersetshire is spelled *Wol*; in Shropshire, Lincolnshire, 
2 CONT and elsewhere, *Wal*.  The ancestral seat in England of the family which 
2 CONT came to Windsor was at Tolland Co. Somerset, though its branches reside in 
2 CONT adjacent parishes.  "Tolland," says H. G. SOMERBY, Esq., in a letter to 
2 CONT the family, "is one of the most secluded, quiet, and picturesque villages 
2 CONT in England.  The Galdon Manor, which I sketched, and which is now occupied 
2 CONT as a farm-house, must at one time have been very extensive, and the 
2 CONT principal room very splended for the period.  It is still richly 
2 CONT ornamented with carved work, etc.  I visited the old Mill, which belonged 
2 CONT to the Family at least 300 years ago.  The house connect with it, now 
2 CONT somewhat dilapidated, is the same which was then standing, and is a 
2 CONT curious specimen of architecture, both internally and externally.  The 
2 CONT mill is also the original one, with a modern addition to one end; I made a 
2 CONT sketch of the house and mill.  The manor-house, which is still standing, 
2 CONT is said to be of very great antiquity and extent.  It was originally a 
2 CONT splendid mansion, designed, as well for the purposes of defense against 
2 CONT the excesses of a lawless age, as for the purposes of a permanent family 
2 CONT residence.  It is still richly ornamented with carved work, and if left to 
2 CONT itself unassailed by the hand of violence, it will stand for ages.  The 
2 CONT familiar motto of the family arms, borrowed from the Roman poet, is still 
2 CONT to be seen upon the walls of the manor house, its bold words informing us 
2 CONT that the family who have adopted it as their text of life were "accustomed 
2 CONT to swear in the words of no master: (*Nullius addictus jurare in verba 
2 CONT magistri*).  It is alike in keeping with the independent spirit of an 
2 CONT English gentleman of the middle ages and with that of a Puritan of the 
2 CONT 17th Century, who spurned the dictation of ecclesiastical domination."
2 CONT    --- Henry R. Stiles, *Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor, 
2 CONT Connecticut*, vol. 2, 1892, p. 798
0 @I743@ INDI
1 NAME (Mrs John (1) Wolcott) /---/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F310@
1 NOTE 24th ggm of Gordon Fisher
0 @I744@ INDI
1 NAME John (7) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1 OCT 1607
1 DEAT
2 NOTE Boardman says (p 312) "d. without issue in Eng. after 1631 and before 
3 CONT 1655."
1 FAMC @F288@
0 @I745@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F288@
0 @I746@ INDI
1 NAME George /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1662
2 PLAC Wethersfield CT
1 FAMC @F288@
0 @I747@ INDI
1 NAME Christopher /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 SEP 1662
1 FAMC @F288@
0 @I748@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1689
1 FAMC @F288@
0 @I749@ INDI
1 NAME Simon /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1625
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 SEP 1687
1 FAMC @F288@
1 FAMS @F883@
1 NOTE 8th ggu of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT The youngest son of Simon and Martha Wolcott was Roger Wolcott, born 4 Jan 
2 CONT 1679, m. Sarah Drake 3 Dec 1702, rose from selectman of Windsor in 1707 to 
2 CONT Governor of Connecticut in 1750.  (Rev Increase Tarbox, "South Hartford,: 
2 CONT in *The Memorial of Hartford County ,,,*, ed Trumbull, v. 2, 1886, p 
2 CONT 133-134).  A son of Roger, Alexander Wolcott, b. 7 Jan 1712, grad. Yale 
2 CONT 1731, m. Lydia dau. of Jeremiah Atwater of New Haven 4 Dec 1732, was for 
2 CONT many years a prominent physician in Windsor CT, d. 1795, aged 83.  (Same 
2 CONT source, p 136)
0 @I750@ INDI
1 NAME Henry (3) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 JAN 1642/1643
1 FAMC @F284@
1 FAMS @F585@
0 @I751@ INDI
1 NAME John (8) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 FEB 1644/1645
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JAN 1711/1712
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I752@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUL 1649
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I753@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel (1) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 OCT 1647
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1648
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I754@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 DEC 1651
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I755@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 MAR 1653/1654
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 SEP 1683
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I756@ INDI
1 NAME Josiah /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUL 1658
1 FAMC @F284@
0 @I852@ INDI
1 NAME Abner (2) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 APR 1766
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 FAMC @F35@
1 NOTE See note under Sarah WOLCOTT.
0 @I854@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail (3) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1763
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I855@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin (2) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 JAN 1772
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I861@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth (3) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 MAR 1771
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I864@ INDI
1 NAME John (3) /MOSELEY/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 AUG 1769
2 PLAC Glastonbury, Hartford Co CT
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I1464@ INDI
1 NAME Matthew (2) /ALLYN/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Hon, Col
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUN 1660
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1758
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMS @F584@
1 NOTE 1st cousin 9 times removed of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Hon. and Col. Matthew Allyn, son of Captain Thomas Allyn, was born June 
2 CONT 5, 1660.  He married, January 5, 1686, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry 
2 CONT Wolcott Jr., and granddaughter of Henry Wolcott, Sr.  She inherited from 
2 CONT her grandfather an estate in the parishes of Toland and Ledyar St. 
2 CONT Lawrence, country Somerset, England, and at Wellington, called Long Forth, 
2 CONT England.  The rents of these lands, held by her husband in her right, were 
2 CONT disposed of by him in his will, 1740, to their three living sons, and the 
2 CONT four sons of his deceased son Thomas. His estate amounted to #1,806 
2 CONT [pounds], and he left four pounds to the First Society of Windsor.  "The 
2 CONT Hon. Col. Matthew Allyn Esq, who was many years one of the Council and 
2 CONT Judge of the Superior Court, for the Colony of Conn., died Feb. 17, A. D. 
2 CONT 1758. in ye 98th year of his age.  Mrs, Elizabeth Allyn, his consort, died 
2 CONT June ye 4th, A.D. 1734, in the 69th year of her age."
2 CONT                    And here their Bodies sleep in Dust,
2 CONT                    Till the Resurrection of the Just.
2 CONT Children:  Captain Thomas;  Sergeant Matthew, August 9, 1687; Peletiah, 
2 CONT metioned below;  Jospiah, March 9, 1692-93;  Henry, December 16, 1699;  
2 CONT Theophilus, August 26, 1702."
2 CONT    --- William Richard Cutter, *Families of New England*, NY 1913, p 154 
2 CONT (v. I)
0 @I1465@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 AUG 1665
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMC @F585@
1 FAMS @F584@
0 @I1466@ INDI
1 NAME Abiah /GOFFE/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 APR 1647
2 PLAC "of" Cambridge MA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 JUN 1718
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
1 FAMS @F585@
0 @I2060@ INDI
1 NAME Martha (1) /PITKIN/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1639
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 OCT 1719
2 PLAC (ae 80)
1 FAMS @F883@
1 NOTE 7th gga of Gordon Fisher
0 @I2061@ INDI
1 NAME Roger (3) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Gov
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JAN 1679
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1767
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 FAMC @F883@
1 FAMS @F884@
1 NOTE 1st cousin 8 times removed of Gordon Fisher
0 @I2062@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /DRAKE/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1686
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JAN 1748
1 FAMS @F884@
0 @I2063@ INDI
1 NAME Oliver /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Gov
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1726
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 DEC 1797
1 FAMC @F884@
1 FAMS @F885@
1 NOTE 2nd cousin 7 times removed of Gordon Fisher
2 CONT 
2 CONT Signer of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
0 @I2064@ INDI
1 NAME Lorraine (or Laura) /COLLINS/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 JAN 1732
2 PLAC prob Guilford CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 APR 1794
1 FAMS @F885@
0 @I2185@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /ROBBINS/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 JUN 1680
2 PLAC Wethersfield CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1753
2 PLAC "in old age"
1 FAMS @F948@
1 NOTE 1st cousin 7 times removed of Gordon Fisher
0 @I2186@ INDI
1 NAME Lucy /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1688
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 NOV 1753
2 PLAC prob Wethersfield CT ("in 65th yr.")
1 FAMC @F273@
1 FAMS @F948@
1 NOTE 6th gga of Gordon Fisher
0 @I2338@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel (3) /WOLCOTT/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 APR 1679
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 SEP 1734
2 PLAC prob Wethersfield CT
1 FAMC @F273@
1 FAMS @F1024@
0 @I2339@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail /COLLINS/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC "of" Wethersfield CT
1 FAMS @F1024@
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2@
1 WIFE @I3@
1 MARR
2 DATE 19 JUN 1956
2 PLAC New York, NY (Manhattan)
1 CHIL @I176@
1 CHIL @I1@
0 @F2@ FAM
1 HUSB @I4@
1 WIFE @I5@
1 MARR
2 DATE 8 DEC 1924
2 PLAC St Paul
1 CHIL @I2@
1 NOTE It might have been 1925.  They might not have been married in St Paul.
0 @F8@ FAM
1 HUSB @I16@
1 WIFE @I17@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1865
1 CHIL @I141@
1 CHIL @I142@
1 CHIL @I143@
1 CHIL @I144@
1 CHIL @I145@
1 CHIL @I146@
1 CHIL @I147@
1 CHIL @I4@
0 @F9@ FAM
1 HUSB @I18@
1 WIFE @I19@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1839
1 CHIL @I17@
1 CHIL @I563@
1 CHIL @I565@
1 CHIL @I564@
0 @F10@ FAM
1 HUSB @I20@
1 WIFE @I21@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1811
1 CHIL @I567@
1 CHIL @I569@
1 CHIL @I18@
1 CHIL @I570@
1 CHIL @I571@
1 CHIL @I572@
1 CHIL @I573@
1 CHIL @I574@
0 @F11@ FAM
1 HUSB @I22@
1 WIFE @I23@
1 MARR
2 DATE 4 JAN 1787
2 PLAC Glastonbury, CT
1 CHIL @I21@
0 @F35@ FAM
1 HUSB @I68@
1 WIFE @I69@
1 MARR
2 DATE 10 DEC 1761
2 PLAC Glastonbury CT
1 CHIL @I854@
1 CHIL @I23@
1 CHIL @I852@
1 CHIL @I864@
1 CHIL @I861@
1 CHIL @I855@
1 NOTE From IGI (Mormon) surname search by Ancestry, Inc.
0 @F168@ FAM
1 HUSB @I425@
1 WIFE @I483@
1 MARR
2 DATE 28 NOV 1728
2 PLAC prob Wethersfield CT
1 CHIL @I69@
0 @F223@ FAM
1 HUSB @I526@
1 WIFE @I176@
1 MARR
2 DATE JUN 1987
0 @F226@ FAM
1 HUSB @I532@
1 WIFE @I533@
1 MARR
2 DATE 12 DEC 1706
2 PLAC prob Wethersfield CT
1 CHIL @I483@
0 @F240@ FAM
1 HUSB @I566@
1 WIFE @I565@
0 @F241@ FAM
1 HUSB @I568@
1 WIFE @I567@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1832
0 @F273@ FAM
1 HUSB @I648@
1 WIFE @I649@
1 CHIL @I533@
1 CHIL @I2186@
1 CHIL @I2338@
0 @F284@ FAM
1 HUSB @I690@
1 WIFE @I691@
1 MARR
2 DATE 8 NOV 1641
1 CHIL @I750@
1 CHIL @I751@
1 CHIL @I752@
1 CHIL @I753@
1 CHIL @I754@
1 CHIL @I755@
1 CHIL @I648@
1 CHIL @I756@
0 @F288@ FAM
1 HUSB @I698@
1 WIFE @I699@
1 MARR
2 DATE 19 JAN 1606
2 PLAC prob Lydiard St Laurence Parish
1 CHIL @I744@
1 CHIL @I745@
1 CHIL @I690@
1 CHIL @I746@
1 CHIL @I747@
1 CHIL @I748@
1 CHIL @I749@
0 @F290@ FAM
1 HUSB @I702@
1 WIFE @I703@
1 CHIL @I698@
0 @F291@ FAM
1 HUSB @I704@
1 WIFE @I705@
1 CHIL @I702@
0 @F292@ FAM
1 HUSB @I706@
1 WIFE @I707@
1 CHIL @I704@
0 @F293@ FAM
1 HUSB @I708@
1 WIFE @I709@
1 CHIL @I706@
0 @F294@ FAM
1 HUSB @I710@
1 WIFE @I711@
1 CHIL @I708@
0 @F295@ FAM
1 HUSB @I712@
1 WIFE @I713@
1 CHIL @I710@
0 @F297@ FAM
1 HUSB @I716@
1 WIFE @I717@
1 CHIL @I712@
0 @F299@ FAM
1 HUSB @I720@
1 WIFE @I721@
1 CHIL @I716@
0 @F300@ FAM
1 HUSB @I722@
1 WIFE @I723@
1 CHIL @I720@
0 @F301@ FAM
1 HUSB @I724@
1 WIFE @I725@
1 CHIL @I722@
0 @F302@ FAM
1 HUSB @I726@
1 WIFE @I727@
1 CHIL @I724@
0 @F304@ FAM
1 HUSB @I730@
1 WIFE @I731@
1 CHIL @I726@
0 @F306@ FAM
1 HUSB @I734@
1 WIFE @I735@
1 CHIL @I730@
0 @F308@ FAM
1 HUSB @I738@
1 WIFE @I739@
1 CHIL @I734@
0 @F310@ FAM
1 HUSB @I742@
1 WIFE @I743@
1 CHIL @I738@
0 @F584@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1464@
1 WIFE @I1465@
1 MARR
2 DATE 5 JAN 1686
2 PLAC Windsor CT
0 @F585@ FAM
1 HUSB @I750@
1 WIFE @I1466@
1 MARR
2 DATE 12 OCT 1664
1 CHIL @I1465@
0 @F883@ FAM
1 HUSB @I749@
1 WIFE @I2060@
1 MARR
2 DATE 17 OCT 1661
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
1 CHIL @I2061@
0 @F884@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2061@
1 WIFE @I2062@
1 MARR
2 DATE 3 DEC 1702
2 PLAC Windsor CT
1 CHIL @I2063@
0 @F885@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2063@
1 WIFE @I2064@
1 MARR
2 DATE 21 JAN 1755
2 PLAC prob Windsor CT
0 @F948@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2185@
1 WIFE @I2186@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1 FEB 1713
2 PLAC prob Wethersfield CT
0 @F1024@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2338@
1 WIFE @I2339@
1 MARR
2 DATE 27 DEC 1705
0 TRLR