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• Birth	1592	Long Buckley, Northants, England
  Gender	Male
  Name	William Wadsworth
  Died	1675	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Person ID	I00934	Edminster & Related Families
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2009
  Father	William Wadsworth,   b. 1655,   d. 1622
  Family ID	F00354	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth Stone,   b. 1621, Hereford, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 1682, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Married	02 Jul 1644  [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Wadsworth,   b. 17 May 1645, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 12 Mar 1715, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   2. Samuel Wadsworth   3. Joseph Wadsworth   4. Thomas Wadsworth   5. Rebecca Wadsworth   6. Mary Wadsworth
  Family ID	F00282	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Mr. Wadsworth was in middle life in 1636. On the 2d day of July, 1644, he married Elizabeth Stone, a sister of the Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hartford. He was an original proprietor of Hartford, and in the land division of the town in 1639. He held several important offices in the town and colony, sustained a high rank with the best Puritan families of Hartford, both in character and wealth. His estate was £1677:13:9. The children of Mr. Wadsworth, by his marriage with Miss Stone were, Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rebecca, and perhaps Mary. Hehad by his first wife, a son John, and perhaps Sarah. John settled atFarmington before the death of his father. Mr. Wadsworth died at Hartford in 1675--his widow Elizabeth survived him, and died in 1681-2. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was b. May 17, 1645. She m. John Terry,son of Stephen, of Windsor, in 1662, and had children, Elizabeth, Stephen, Sarah, John, Rebecca, Mary and Solomon. His daughter Sarah was bap. in 1649, and m. Jonathan Ashley, son of Robert, of Springfield, Ms. Jonathan settled at Hartford, and d. there in 1704, and left five children, viz. Jonathan, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah and Rebecca. I find JohnMilrock, of Hartford, m. Sarah Wadsworth, of Hartford, on the 17th ofSept. 1646--she was probably the daughter of William, by his first wife, or his sister who came with him from England, as his was the only family by the name in the colony in the early settlement. Sarah had a daughter Sarah, b. Oct. 3, 1648, and d. soon after; and on the 18th ofJan. 1649, Mr. Milrock was again m. to Miss Stoughton. Rebecca, another daughter of Mr. Wadsworth m. a Mr. Stoughton. Little is known of this branch of the family, only that the Stoughton family were among thebest families of Windsor. Mr. Wadsworth, in his will, notices his grand daughter Long. It is supposed he had a daughter Mary, who m. ThomasLong, sen'r., who d. in 1711--he left a son Samuel, and other children. Thomas Wadsworth, son of William, sen'r., was provided for in his father's will, by giving him all his lands located east of Connecticut river, with a barn then building upon it. It is therefore presumed that Thomas settled in East Hartford. His children were, John, Thomas, jr., Sarah and Elizabeth. Thomas, jr. m. Sarah ---, who was his executrix, after his decease, in 1717--he d. before his father, and it is notknown whether he left children. John, the son of Thomas and his sister Elizabeth, neither of them being married, left no children; they resided together in Hartford, in the present old brown house directly inthe rear of the dwelling house of Doctor Sumner, where they both diedin old age, about 1776. She was known as Aunt Betty, for many years previous to her death. Her sister Sarah m. Mr. Burr, of Hartford, and had several children--these children inherited the estate of John and Aunt Betty; the two last are now distinctly recollected by Mr. JonathanOlcott, of Hartford, aged 90 years. Thomas d. in 1726. Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut.

• Sources

  [S00050] A catalogue of the names of the first Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut.