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Elizabeth FITCH

Elizabeth FITCH

Female 1652 - 1689  (37 years)

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  1. 1.  Elizabeth FITCHElizabeth FITCH was born in Jan 1651/2 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA (daughter of Rev James FITCH and Abigail WHITFIELD); died on 07 Jul 1689 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.

    Elizabeth married Rev Edward TAYLOR on 05 Sep 1674 in Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Edward was born in 1642 in Leicestershire, England; died on 29 Jun 1729 in Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Anne TAYLOR was born in 1696; died on 05 Jul 1748.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rev James FITCH was born on 24 Dec 1622 in Bocking, County Essex, England (son of Thomas FITCH and Anne REEVE); died on 18 Nov 1702 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.

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    Rev. Mr. James Fitch arrived in this country in 1638, aged sixteen years, as stated by the inscription on his gravestone in the old cemetery at Lebanon, Conn. He was born at Bocking, County Essex, England on December 24, 1622, son of Thomas and Anne (Reeve) Fitch.

    Rev. Mr. Fitch finished his theological training at Hartford, Conn., under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hooker, who is named as a friend in the ill of Thomas Fitch of Bocking, and of Rev. Samuel Stone whose daughter married Joseph Fitch I.

    The Rev. Mr. James Fitch is placed by Cotton Mather in his "second Classis" of New England ministers, consisting of "young scholars, whose education for their designed ministry not being finished, came over from England with their friends, and had their education perfected in this country before the college was come into maturity enough to bestow its laurels." (See Magnalia, I, 215, Hart. Edition).

    In 1646, a church was organized at Saybrook, Conn., and the Rev. Mr. James Fitch was ordained as its first minister. This ceremony, a Congregational ordination in the strictest sense of the term, was graced by the presence of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, and Rev. Mr. Stone, and probably of Rev. Mr. Henry Whitfield, first minister of Guilford, Conn.

    In the year 1701, the Rev. Mr. Fitch retired to Lebanon to spend the few remaining days of his eventful life. A Brief summer he passed inits quiet, secluded shades while death gently approached. Truly the inscription on his gravestone say, "he fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 18, 1720, in the 80th year of his age."

    James married Abigail WHITFIELD on 1 Oct 1648 in Connecticut. Abigail died on 09 Sep 1659 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Abigail WHITFIELD died on 09 Sep 1659 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
    Children:
    1. Major James FITCH was born on 02 Aug 1649 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 10 Nov 1727 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, USA.
    2. Abigail FITCH was born in Aug 1650 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 18 Sep 1676 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    3. 1. Elizabeth FITCH was born in Jan 1651/2 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 07 Jul 1689 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    4. Hannah FITCH was born in Sep 1653 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 Nov 1702.
    5. Samuel FITCH was born in Mar 1655 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died after 1719/20.
    6. Dorothy FITCH was born in Apr 1658 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Jun 1691 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.


  

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