Hyde genealogy, or, The descendants, in the female as well as in ...

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HYDE GENEALOGY.
U. S. A. ; of Samuel Burr Sherwood of Westport, Conn.,
who grad. at Yale in 1786, and was a member of congress ;
of Sarah Sherwood, wife of the late Gov. Bissell of Conn.
and of Kachel Hyde, wife of Judge Ebenezer Andrews of
Milan, O., who grad. at Yale in 1817.
4. John Hyde of Richmond, Va., who came to America
about 1750, and has
Union.
descendants in various parts of the
The name of William Hyde (1), first appears at Hart-
ford, Conn., in 1636. And his name is on the monument
in the old cemetery at that place as one of the original
settlers ; and he had lands assigned to him there.
Many families of the name of Hyde had been settled in
difierent parts of England for five or six hundred years
prior to the settlement of Kew England. One of the
name. Sir Mcholas Hyde, was chief justice of the court of
King's Bench in 1626 ; another. Sir Robert Hyde, was
chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1660. And
a third. Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards the Earl of Clarendon,
was lord chancellor at the restoration, 1660 ; and was
the grandfather of Queen Mary the 2d, and Queen Ann,
and of Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, who was one of
the provincial governors of New York.
William Hyde (1) the first ol Norwich, was a cotcmporary
of Sir Robert Plyde and of the Earl of Clarendon
but was undoubtedly of humbler origin. I have not been
to
able to ascertain from what part of England he came ;
what family he belonged ; or where he first landed in this
country, or the precise time when lie arrived here. He
probably, however, came over in 1633, with the Rev.
Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Hartford ; sojourned
a short time at ISTewton, Mass., and removed with Inm to
Hartford, in 1636. The time of his removal to Sayl;)rook,
is not ascertained, but he owned lands in Hartford as late
as 1639. He probably went to Saybrook soon after that,
and his dau. was m. there early in 1652. No information
has been obtained as to the name of his wife, or when or
wdiere she died. From the age of the son when he died
(forty), he must have been b. in 1636. His mother was
of course then living, and proliably died at Hartford or
Saybrook, before the removal of her husband to Norwich
as no account of her death is found upon the Norwich records.
The daughter either was born in England, or was
married very young ; the date of her birth, or her age at
the time of her death in 1708, have not been ascertained.
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