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necticut annals with George Hubbard
who settled in Hartford as early as 1639,
and since including many pioneer families
and leading citizens down through
the generations. In the paternal Hne, he
belongs to a family noted for stalwart
men, both physically and mentally, men
of sound judgment, industrious and suc-
cessful, contributors to the general welfare
of the community, and respected by
their contemporaries. His maternal ancestors
may well be included in the same
class. As shown elsewhere, intermarriages
since the first settlement of Middletown
have brought to Mr. Hubbard the
inheritance of many valuable qualities
and made him a leader among his fellows.
Among the pioneer names still or recently
well known in Middletown, in this list, are
those of Miller, Roberts, Stocking, Sears,
Hedges, Tryon, Crowell, Hubbard (sev-
eral lines), Wetmore, Hall, Savage, Corn-
wall, Bacon and Paddock. His mother,
Julia Ann Paddock, was descended from
Robert Paddock, who was in Plymouth,
Massachusetts, as early as 1643, ^"^ prob-
ably earlier (see Bacon, L. P., for extended
history of the generations). Robert
Paddock was the father of Zachariah
Paddock, born March 20, 1636, died in
Yarmouth, 1727. His son, Robert Paddock,
born January 17, 1670, lived in Yarmouth,
married Martha Hall, and they
were parents of Seth Paddock, born 1705
in Yarmouth, married Mercy Nickerson
and lived in that town. Zachariah Pad-
dock, son of Seth and Mercy, born 1728,
was the first of the family in Middletown,
where he bought a lot in 1751. His
sixth son, George Paddock, born in Mid-
dletown, was one of the founders of
the South Church, owner of much city
property, and a pioneer settler in Herkimer
County, New York, and other sec-
tions of the Empire State. He married
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Mary Wetmore, second daughter of Captain
John and Mercy (Bacon) Wetmore,
born May 12, 1771, and they had fourteen
children. The fourth son and eighth
child was Robert Paddock, a prominent
citizen of Middletown, who married. May
5, 1785, Martha Loveland, born July 4,
1767, baptized July 12, 1767, daughter of
John and Susan. Their youngest and
sixth daughter, Julia Ann, born April 12,
1812, on South Main Street, Middletown,
became the wife of Hon. Alfred Hubbard.
Robert P. Hubbard, fourth son of Alfred
and Julia A. (Paddock) Hubbard,
was born March 6, 1847, in the brick house
on West Long Hill, now occupied as a
residence by his brother, Frank C. Hub-
bard. The district school of the neighborhood
supplied his early education, and
he attended the private school of Daniel
H. Chase in Middletown during one win-
ter, while farm labor was partially sus-
pended. Later he was a student at the
famous Eastman's Business College in
Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he
was graduated in 1866. He now determined
to engage in some independent
occupation and his father, noting this,
presented him with ten acres of land. On
this small tract he set to work, and his
industry and determination brought him
further encouragement from relatives. He
was soon able to purchase more land
from his father, and by purchase and ultimate
inheritance he became the possessor
of one hundred acres of very desirable
land on West Long Hill, where he contin-
ues to reside and is one of the most active
men of his age to be found anywhere.
In his long and busy career he has cul-
tivated a variety of crops, and otherwise
demonstrated his shrewdness and alert-
ness. In his early experience he gave
considerable attention to sheep raising,
and had a flock of one hundred and fifty