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Haven, Connecticut, October, 1697. He
was living in 1755. He married Hannah
Frost, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary
(Tuttle) Frost, who was born in June,
1706. Children : i. Eunice, born March
28, 1 73 1. 2. Sarah, born May 20, 1732. 3.
Mary, born October 5, 1733. 4. Lieuten-
ant Jared, of whom further.
(IV) Lieutenant Jared Hill, son of Obadiah
and Hannah (Frost) Hill, was born
in North Haven. Connecticut, August 10,
1736. He was a private in the French and
Indian War and was a lieutenant in the
Revolution. He removed to Waterbury,
Connecticut, in 1784, and purchased a
farm on East Mountain. He died April
20, 1816. He married Eunice Tuttle,
daughter of Daniel and Mary (Mansfield)
Tuttle, who lived to be very old, and died
in 1829, aged ninety years (born in 1739).
She was a person of rare qualities of head
and heart, distinguished for her beauty
and courage (see Tuttle V). Children: i.
Obadiah. 2. Charles, died in Cheshire,
Connecticut. 3. Hannah, married Thomas
Welton. 4. Eunice, of whom further. 5.
Jared. 6. David. 7. Samuel Mansfield.
8. Lydia, baptized July 6, 1796. 9. Sam-
uel, baptized July 6, 1796. And other
children.
(V) Eunice Hill, daughter of Lieutenant
Jared and Eunice (Tuttle) Hill, mar-
ried Daniel Frisbie (see Frisbie IV).
(The Culver Line).
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Crest—A dexter cubit arm holding in the hand
a club proper underneath the crest an empty shield
argent.
This patronymic is derived from the
word Colver, meaning a pigeon or dove.
The name, although not very numerous
in England, appears there in the early sixteenth
century. William Culvere is an
early name mentioned in the Hundred
Rolls.
(I) Edward Colver, the Puritan foun-
der of this family, emigrated to this coun-
try with John Winthrop, the younger son
of the Governor John Winthrop. He was
a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
in 1635 and settled in Dedham, Mas-
sachusetts. He participated in King Phil-
ip's War. He removed to Roxbury between
1644 and 1648, and finally to Mystic,
Connecticut. He died there in 1685, aged
about eighty-five years. He married, in
Dedham, Massachusetts, September 19,
1638, Ann, daughter of John Ellis. Chil-
dren: I. John, born April 15, 1640; baptized
September 19, 1641, at Dedham,
Massachusetts. 2. Joshua, of whom fur-
ther. 3. Samuel, born January 9, 1644;
baptized January 29, i6zj4. 4. Joseph, bap-
tized at Dedham, September 20, 1646. 5.
Gershom, baptized at Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, December 3, 1648. 6. Infant
daughter, baptized at Roxbury, April il,
1652. 7. Edward, Jr., born about 1654.
(II) Joshua Colver, son of Edward and
Ann (Ellis) Colver, was born at Dedham,
Massachusetts, January 12, 1642. He died
at Wallingford, Connecticut, April 23,
171 3. He married, December 23, 1672,
Elizabeth Ford, daughter of Timothy
Ford. Children : i. Elizabeth, born Oc-
63
tober 7, 1673 ; died May 2, 1676. 2. Ann,
born May 15, 1677; died September 8,
1677. 3. Elizabeth, born August 21, 1678;
died April 19, 1704. 4. Joshua, born September
21, 1684. 5. Samuel, of whom
further. 6. Abigail, born December 26,
1686. 7. Sarah, born January 23, 1688. 8.
Ephraim, born September 7, 1692.
(III) Samuel Culver (as this line uses
the name), son of Joshua and Elizabeth
(Ford) Colver, was born in Wallingford,
Connecticut, September 21, 1684, twin
with his brother Joshua. He died July 4,
1750. He married (first) Sarah, who died
January 18, 1727; and (second), January
3, 1728, Ruth Sedgwick. Children (by