Founders of Windsor, First CT English Community
Society of Windsor Descendants Lists Names of First Settlers
Nov 1, 2008
The English founded a trading post at the present site of Windsor in 1633. They were invited by friendly Indians as mediators with threatening, more warlike tribes. In exchange, the Podunk Indians gave them land where the Farmington River meets the west bank of the Connecticut River.
Edward Winslow came from Plymouth to inspect the land and William Holmes led the first settlers. In 1635, clergymen from Dorchester brought a group of about 60 settlers. Most of them had embarked for America from Plymouth, England five years earlier aboard the ship Mary and John.
The Allyn, Barber, Case, Chaffee, Chapman and Ellsworth homesteads are on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Bissell Tavern, a former stagecoach stop.
The Society of Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor recognizes the following as founders of Windsor and accepts their descendants for membership.
A—B: George Abbot, Benedictus Alford, Samuel Allen, Matthew Allyn, Thomas Barber, John Bartlett, Thomas Bascomb, Thomas Bassett, John Benett, Richard Birge, Capt. John Bissell, Elder John Branker, Jonathan Brewster, Thomas Buckland, William Buell.
C—D: Joshua Carter, George Chappel, Daniel Clarke, Dea. Henry Clarke, Joseph Clarke, Mary (Merwin) (Tinker) Collins, Capt. Aaron Cooke, Thomas Cooper, Nicholas Denslow, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Dibble, John Dumbleton, John Drake, John Dyer.
E—F: John Eels, Bygod Eggleston, William Filley, Thomas Ford, Henry Foulkes, Lt. Walter Fyler.
G—H: Dea. William Gaylord, Francis Gibbs, William Gilbert, Jeremiah Gillett, Joathan Gillett, Nathan Gillett, Matthew Grant, Thomas Gridley, Edward Griswold, Matthew Griswold, Thomas Gunn, William Hannum, John Hawkes, Anthony Hawkins, William Hayden. Gov. John Haynes, William Hill, John Hillier, Thomas Holcombe, Lt. William Holmes, Mary Holt, Elder William Hosford, John Hoskins, Simon Hoyte, Samuel Hubbard, Rev. Ephraim Huit, William Hulbert, George Hull, John Hurd, Humphrey Hydes.
L—M: Joseph Loomis, Roger Ludlow, Henry Lush, Thomas Marshfield, Ann Marshall, Thomas Marshall, Major John Mason, Miles Merwin, Simon Mills, Thomas Moore.
N—P: Thomas Newberry, Thomas Newell, Richard Oldage, Thomas Orton, John Osborn, Sgt. Nicholas Palmer, Thomas Parsons, Elias Parkman, Edward Pattison, George Phelps, Frances (Unknown) (Clark) (Dewey) (Phelps), William Phelps, George Phillips, Humphrey Pinney, Eltweed Pomeroy, Samuel Pond, John Porter, Edward Preston.
R—S: Matthew Rainend, Philip Randall, Jasper Rawlins, John Reeve, John Rockwell, Dea. William Rockwell, Dr. Bray Rossiter, John St. Nicholas, Robert Saltonstall, Richard Samos, Matthias Sension (St. John), Nicholas Sension, Richard Sexton, Sgt. Thomas Staires, Aaron Starke, Francis Stiles, Henry Stiles, John Stiles, Thomas Stiles, Margaret (Barret) (Huntington) Stoughton, Ens. Thomas Stoughton, George Stuckey.
T—V: John Talcott, John Taylor, Stephen Terry, Thomas Thornton, William Thrall, John Tilley, Peter Tilton, Michael Try, Richard Vore.
W—Y: Rev. John Warham, Richard Weller, Richard Whitehead, Arthur Williams, John Williams, Roger Williams, Lt. David Wilton, Robert Winchell, Elder John Witchfield, Henry Wolcott, John Young.
Persons interested in joining the Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor, Inc., should write to the Membership Secretary at PO Box 39, Windsor, CT 06095.
SOURCES: THISTLEWAITE, FRANK, Dorset Pilgrims: The Story of West Country Pilgrims Who Went to New England in the 17th Century (London, Barrie and Jenkins:1989); "Descendants of the Founders of Windsor, CT," The Second Boat, Machias, ME, Vol. 5, No. 1, May, 1984; The Windsor (CT) Historical Society.
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