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executrix being his wife Dennis, or Dionis,
who died in 1692. Children of Wil-
liam (i) Havens: i. William (2). 2.
John, married Ann, and both died in 1687.
They had sons William, John, Nicholas,
Daniel. 3. Sarah, married John Tyler,
who died in 1700. She died in 1718. 4.
Thomas, died in 1704. He had sons, William,
Thomas, and Joseph. 5. Robert;
wife Elizabeth ;they had children, Robert,
Ruth Elizabeth, William, George, Joseph.
6. George (2), of whom further. 7. Mary,
married Thomas Cook, and died in 1670.
8. Ruth, married a Card. 9. Dinah. 10.
Elizabeth. 11. Martha. 12. Rebecca. 13.
Margaret.
George (2) Havens, son of William and
Dionis Havens, was born at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, and died on Shelter Island,
New York, February 21, 1706-7. He was
made a freeman in 1680; taxed in Kingstown,
Rhode Island, 1687 ; constable in
Jamestown, Rhode Island, July 15, 1695.
He was on Shelter Island in 1701. He
married, in 1674, Eleanor, daughter of Edward
and Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston,
Quakers of Newport. She was born in
March, 1655; died November 7, 1747. She
married (second) a Terry, of Newport.
Children, born in Rhode Island: i. George
(3), of whom further. 2. Jonathan, born
February 22, 1681 ; married, January i,
1706-7, Hannah Brown. 3. William, died,
unmarried, in 1746. 4. John, married
Sarah (surname unknown) and had nine
children. 5. Content, married Cornelius
Payne. 6. Patience, married a Soper. 7.
Desire, married Henry Gardiner, August
4, 1710. 8. Abigail.
George (3) Havens, son of George (2)
and Eleanor (Thurston) Havens, died at
Fishers Island, March 14, 1734; buried, on
the i6th, at Groton, Connecticut. He is
said to have been born on Shelter Island
but in a deed given by George Havens of
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Kingstown, Rhode Island, in 1701, the
giver calls himself the son of George of
Shelter Island. His wife's name was
Mary. Their children: i. Joseph. 2
Edward, married, 1724, Desire Terry. 3
George. 4. William. 5. Ebenezer. 6.
Thurston, married, 1752, Jerusha Polly
7. John. 8. Eleanor, married a Davilt. 9
Abigail, married a Fish. 10. Hannah. II
Mary. 12. Ruth.
Jonathan Havens, brother of George
Havens of Shelter Island, had a son
George, a grandson George, and a greatgrandson
George, of Shelter Island. The
public records of Somers, Connecticut, in
Volume III, of "Allen's Enfield, Connecticut,"
contains the following tombstone
inscriptions in evidence that George
Havens lived in that town : "David, son
of George and Sarah Havens, died September
22, 1822, aged ten weeks," and
"Infant son of George and Sarah Havens,
died May 2, 1837." George Havens, greatgrandson
of Jonathan Havens, married,
November 22, 1 781, at Saybrook, Connect-
icut, Lucretia Denison, and there was a
Jonathan Havens in New London County,
Connecticut, in the census of 1790.
Colonel Havens' grandfather was
George (one of the more immediate an-
cestry) Havens, who was a resident of
Somers, Connecticut. His son was George
(2) Oliver Havens, born November 6,
1831, at Somers; died July 31, 1918, at
Bridgeport. He was reared on a farm and
educated in the district schools. In 1859
he came to Bridgeport and entered the
employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine Company, and he remained with
that concern until 1912, a period of fiftythree
years, when he retired. He was
ever interested in local affairs of Bridge-
port, being also a Republican in his poli-
tics ; and he gave excellent service both as
councilman and alderman from the old