William HYDE

- 1681

• Name	William HYDE  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	Bore Place, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1659	Removed to Saybrook, Conn.   [1]
  Residence	Abt 1660	Removed to Norwich, Conn.   [1]
  Death	06 Jan 1681	Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA   [4]
  Notes	Excerpt from New England Families: William was among the founders of Hartford, Connecticut, and his name is on the monument to the first settlers there. He was a man of considerable importance and wealth for his day, and was frequently selectman and held other places of trust. "Hyde Genealogy": The name of William Hyde, first appears at hartford, Conn., in 1636. And his name is on the monument in the old cemetery at that place as one of the original settlers; and he had lands assigned to him there. Many families of the name of Hyde had been settled in different parts of England for five or six hundred years prior to the settlement of New England. One of the names, Sir Nicholas Hyde, was chief justice of the court of King's Bench in 1626; another, Sir Robert Hyde, was chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1660. And a third, Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards the Earl of Clarendon, was lord chancellor at the restoration, 1660; and was the grandfather of Queen Mary the 2d, and Queen Ann, and of Edward hyde, Lord Cornbury, who was one of the provincial governors of New York. William Hyde the first of Norwich, was a contemporary of Sir Robert Hyde and of the Earl of Clarendon; but was undoubtedly of humbler origin. I have not been able to ascertain from what part of England he came; to what family he belonged; or where he first landed in this country, or the precise time when he arrived here. He probably, however, came over in 1633, with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister of hartford; sojourned a short time at Newton, Mass., and removed with him to Hartford, in 1636. The time of his removal to Saybrook, is not ascertained, but he owned lands in Hartford as late as 1639. He probably went to Saybrook soon after that, and his dau. was m. there early in 1652. No information has been obtained as to the name of his wife, or when or where she died. .... [5]
  Person ID	I31700	Main Tree
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	? UNKNOWN
  Marriage	Abt 1630	London, London, England
  Children	1. Hester HYDE,   b. 1635/6, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Nov 1703, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 67 years)  [Birth] + 2. Samuel HYDE,   b. 1637, Hartford, Connecticut d. 1677, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 40 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F04563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2021

  
  

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• Sources

  [S02583] Local and Familiy Histories: CT, 1600s-1800s: New England Families, Vol. IV. [S02785] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2006, Vol. 160 January. [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut. [S10371] Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. [S5004] Reuben Hyde Walworth, "Hyde Genealogy, or, The Descendants, in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde, of Norwich" Vols. I & II, (Albany: J. Munsell, 78 State Street - 1864).