Mercy LEETE

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• Birth: 1685

Mercy married Samuel HOOKER on 9 Jan 1711. Samuel (son of Samuel HOOKER and Mehitabel HAMLIN) was born on 6 Apr 1688 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 1 Mar 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He succeeded in a good degree to the position of his father, in managing the affairs of the town and to some extent of the Colony. In 1677 he was elected to the honorable office of Assistant in the Connecticut Colony, and was annually reelected until his death. It was while holding this office that he became principally instrumental in secreting and preserving the Charter of the Colony during the usurpation of the government by Major Andross. For a season the charter was kept in his house at Guilford. he was a member of the General Court of Conn. that granted the Charter to Yale College.

Andrew married Elizabeth JORDAN on 1 Jun 1669. Elizabeth died on 4 Mar 1701 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Jordan