Tryal MEIGS

Tryal married Andrew WARD in 1668 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Andrew (son of Andrew WARDE and Hester SHERMAN) was born in 1642 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died in 1690 in Killingworth, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt Andrew WARD was born about 1669 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 07 Aug 1756 in Guilford, Connecticut.
2. John WARD was born on 16 Mar 1671 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died in 1700.
3. Abigail WARD was born on 15 Sep 1672 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 10 Aug 1733 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut.
4. Sarah WARD was born on 15 Nov 1674 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 08 Dec 1763.
5. Capt Peter WARD was born on 14 Oct 1676 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 18 Dec 1763 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
6. William WARD was born on 18 Oct 1678 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 19 Dec 1768 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
7. Samuel WARD was born on 24 Sep 1680 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 30 Apr 1681.
8. Hester WARD was born on 02 May 1684 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 17 Jun 1684.
9. Mary WARD was born in 1687.
10. Anna WARD was born in 1692; died on 01 Jun 1746.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1657, Freeman

Notes:

John changed the spelling of the name to Meigs, its present form. He was married in England, and his eldest child, Mary was born there. John resided in Weymouth, Mass. and in New Haven, Conn. in 1647; removed to Guilford, Conn. in 1654, and to Killingworth, Conn, in 1663, where he was made a freeman in 1669. In 1654 he was admitted a planter in that portion of Guilford now included in Madison, upon certain conditions pertaining to the purchase of land there. He is not represented as having been a quiet man, nor Puritanical in his character, for he was sometimes turbulent and given to having litigation with the town authorities. Yet he was public spirited withal, and rendered some good public services.. He was a man of superior intellectual type, as appears by the manuscripts and books mentioned in his will, and he must have been a man of considerable education and culture. He was many times entrusted with public business, serving as Constable, and Representative to Hartford. Was a tanner , had a large estate, and some books, of which one was a Latin and Greek Dictionary. John was a one time, 1648-1658, second owner by purchase of the Cutler lot (SE corner of Chapel and Church streets, New Haven). The deed of conveyance reads: "Wm Jeanes passeth over to John Meigs his house and house lot lying at the corner over against Mr. Gregson's--betwixt the house lot of John Budd and the highway." Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was a descendant, whose son became Governor of Ohio and Postmaster-General of the United States.
According to Stiles' History of the Regicides, it was John Meigs who rode to New Haven to warn the regicides.

John married Thomasine FRY in 1630. Thomasine (daughter of William FRY and Sarah HILL) was born in 1610 in England; was buried in Guilford Cementary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]