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Levinia Porter, daughter of Preserved
Porter. 4. Olive, born July 26, 1775 ; mar-
ried Moses Hall. 5. Anna, of whom fur-
ther. 6. Chauncey, born April 24, 1779.
7. Timothy Hopkins, born November 28,
1785-
(V) Anna Porter, daughter of Dr. Timothy
and Margaret (Skinner) Porter, was
born April 5, 1777. She married Richard
Fenton Welton (see Welton V).
References—Ferguson's "Names," Marshall's
"Genealogical Guide," Orcutt's "Stratford," Savage's
"Genealogical Dictionary," Manwaring's
"Hartford (Connecticut) Probate Records," Orcutt's
"Walcott," Hosley's "Dr. William Hill,"
Hotten's "Emigrants," Hoadley's "New Haven
Colonial Records," Grannis Family, New Haven
Vital Records, Tuttle "Genealogy," Anderson's
"Waterbury, Connecticut," Culver "Genealogy,"
Holmes' "Ancestral Heads of New England Families,"
Bronson's "Waterbury," Schenck's "Fairfield,"
"American Families," Burke's "General
Armory," Matthews' "American Armory," Family
data.
GODFREY, Charles CartUdge, M. D.
Physician, Snrgeon.
Since 1685, Fairfield County, Connecticut,
has not been without its Godfrey
families and since 1688 Greens Farms has
been the family seat. There Christopher
Godfrey owned land in 1686, and there
generation after generation of the ances-
tors of Dr. Charles C. Godfrey owned the
land and tilled the soil. Christopher God-
frey was succeeded by his son, Christopher
Godfrey, who married Margery
Sturgess of Fairfield, and had issue, including
a son. Lieutenant Nathan God-
frey, born September 25, 1719, who became
one of the wealthiest and most in-
fluential men of Greens Farms. His
homestead was near the summit of Clapboard
Hill and in 1779 was burned by
British soldiers. During the French and
Indian War in 1756 he was a lieutenant
and was at the storming of Crown Point
and Ticonderoga. His son Benjamin died
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while serving in the Continental Army.
Lieutenant Nathan Godfrey had by his
second wife, Mrs. Sarah (Andrews) Nash,
a son Jonathan (i) Godfrey, who was the
father of Jonathan (2), father of Rev.
Jonathan, and grandfather of Dr. Charles
C. Godfrey.
Jonathan (2) Godfrey, of Greens Farms,
was born there June 2, 1798, died August
3, 1882. Like his grandfather. Lieutenant
Nathan Godfrey, he was a man of wealth
and influence in his community, active in
church, charity and public life. He was
representative from the town of Fairfield
for several terms and held many other
offices. He married, January 19, 1823,
Elizabeth Hubbell, of Southport, daugh-
ter of Aaron and Elizabeth Hubbell, of
Southport, town of Fairfield. Their adult
children were : Rev. Jonathan, mentioned
below ; Elizabeth, the author of a "His-
tory of Fairfield," married Adrian V. S.
Schenck, son of Dr. Ferdinand S. Schenck
of New Jersey ; Samuel H., married Har-
riet A. Godfrey ;
Mary Catherine, married
Calvin G. Childs, of Norwalk, Connecti-
cut.
Rev. Jonathan Godfrey, of the sixth
American generation, was born at the
village of Southport, town and county of
Fairfield, Connecticut, February 11, 1820,
died January 22, 1865, and is buried at
Fairfield. After completing public school
study he entered Trinity College, Hart-
ford, there pursuing a full course, termin-
ating with graduation. He then took a
course in divinity, was ordained a priest
of the Protestant Episcopal Church and
for several years was rector of the Say-
brook Church. Prior to i860 his health
failed and he removed to Aiken, South I
Carolina, but the outbreak of the Civil
War in 1861 caused the family's return
to Southport, where he died in 1865. He
married Mary Cartlidge, born at Lynde