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near the crown of the hill on East Street,
Westfield, the son of Loren and Charlotte
(Roberts) Plum.
John Plum (Plume, Plumb, etc.), born
about 1603, undoubtedly in England, set-
tled at Saybrook, Connecticut ; he married,
1615, name of wife unknown; she died
after 1650. He was a citizen of Wethers-
field September i, 1636, and member of the
church there in 1637. In the same year
he was a soldier of the Pequot War. In
1644 he sold out thirteen parcels of land,
ranging from two to two hundred and
four acres and including two houses, and
removed to Branford, where he died in
1648. His third son, Robert Plum, was
born 1618, and was among the original
settlers of Milford, Connecticut, where he
died after 1704. He married, January 9,
1642, Mary Baldwin, born April 22, 162 1,
died May 12, 1655. Their eldest son,
John Plum, born July 12, 1646, lived at
Milford and died in March, 1728. He
married, November 24, 1668, Elizabeth
Norton, and their son, Benoni Plum, born
about 1687, lived in Milford, where he
died about 1744. He married, in Novem-
ber, 1709, Dorothy Cole, and their eldest
child, Samuel Plum, born August 18, 1710,
died July 15, 1794. He married, January 2,
1735, Patience Ward, daughter of John
and Margaret Ward of Middletown, and
their second son, Aaron Plum, was born
March 9, 1739. He was a farmer in the
Westfield section of Middletown, where
he died August 4, 1813. He married, January
25, 1776, Mary Cornmall, who was
born November 4, 1746, daughter of Elisha
and Ann (Johnson) Cornmall, died Au-
gust 24, 1813. Elihu Plum, third son of
Aaron and Mary, was born September
30, 1793, and engaged in agriculture in
Westfield with success. He attended religious
services at the Baptist Church. He
married, October i, 1817, Lucy Paddock,
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who was born December 30, 1797, daughter
of Robert and Martha (Loveland)
Paddock of Middletown.
The well-known Paddock family is among
the oldest in New England, founded by
Robert Paddock, who was in Plymouth,
Massachusetts, as early as 1643 ^nd probably
earlier, and died July 25, 1650, in Duxbury.
His second son, Zechariah Paddock,
born March 20, 1636, lived in that part of
Barnstable now Yarmouth, Massachusetts,
where he died May i, 1727. He married
Deborah Sears, daughter of Richard Sears,
who had a wife Dorothy, and lived early in
Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Deborah Sears
was born there in September, 1639, and died
August 17, 1732, "lacking about a month
of being ninety-three years old." She was
admitted to the Second Church of Yarmouth
by letter from the First Church,
August 6, 1727. They left forty-eight
grandchildren and thirty-eight great-
grandchildren, thirty of the latter de-
scendants of their second son, Zechariah.
Their fourth son, Robert Paddock, was
born January 7, 1670, and lived in Yarmouth.
There he married, March 6, 1702,
Martha Hall, born May 24, 1676, daugh-
ter of John and Priscilla (Pearce) Hall.
Seth Paddock, second son of Robert and
Martha, was born March 13, 1705, in Yarmouth,
and married there, April 13, 1727,
Mercy Nickerson, who was born Novem-
ber 22, 1706, daughter of John and Eliza-
beth Nickerson of that town.
Zachariah Paddock, son of Seth and
Mercy (Nickerson) Paddock, born 1728,
was the first of the family in Middletown,
where he settled as early as 175 1. It is
evident that he was a mechanic, for his
first purchase of land included only onefourth
acre, for which he paid three hundred
pounds; it was deeded by Samuel
Warner, Sr., dated July 24, 1751. He sub-
sequently purchased two other parcels