Martha PITKIN

Martha married Rev Edward EELLS, Sr. on 24 Jul 1740 in Middletown, Connecticut. Edward (son of Rev Nathaniel EELLS and Hannah NORTH) was born on 3 Jan 1712/3 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 12 Oct 1776 in Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Major Edward Eells was in the militia service, organized in 1774. He fought with Col. Samuel Wylly's and Col. Comfort Sage. He fought in the war from April 21, 1775 to June 1783 and fought from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. He was also one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati. Who's first president was General George Washington.

Edward married Sarah EDWARDS on 27 Jan 1763. Sarah was born on 18 May 1740 in Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 4 Jul 1769 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Abigail DUNHAM on 26 Aug 1770 in Middletown, Connecticut. Abigail was born in 1737; died on 24 Jan 1825; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rachel Stanley married second, John Eells, son of rev. Edward Eells, of upper Middletown, October 12, 1806. His first wife was Elizabeth Lord of Middletown, by whom he had seven children. He was a weaver by trade, and lived in New Britain on the "new Highway" leading from Stanley Quarter to Hartford. He removed about 181 to Lenox, Mass., where he died November 3, 1840, aged eighty-seven, and his wife November 16, 1835, aged seventy-four.

John married Elizabeth LORD in 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Rachel STANLEY on 12 Oct 1806. Rachel (daughter of Timothy STANLEY and Lydia NEWELL) was born on 20 Mar 1761; died on 16 Nov 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]