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

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HYDE GENEALOGY.
291. Mary, b. 22 Sept., 1729, at Norwich. She m. 26 March,
1754, Thomas Langrell, and d. 15 Dec, 1766, s. j).
292. Priscilla, b. 10 Jnne, 1734, at Norwich. She in. Jonathan
Buddington, and d. after 1766, s. p.
293. Hannah, b. 19 May, 1738, at Norwich, m. Timothy Bigelow.t
IV. Richard Hyde (44), born at Nonvicli, Conn., 10
Feb., 1707, the third son of William Hyde (6) and Anne
Bushucll, was a grandson of Samuel Ilyde (2) the first,
and Jane Lee, of I^orwich. He m. 12 E'ov., 1730, his
second cousin, Anne Tracy, b. 29 Nov., 1708, at E'orwich,
the second daughter of John Tracy the second, and Elizabeth
Letfingwell, of jS'orwich {see No. 38, and Appeyidix, B).
His first cousin, Elijah Hyde (24), at the same time m. her
sister, Ruth Tracy.
[Tliis Elizabeth Letfingwell, wife of John Tracy the
second of ISTorwich, was a daughter of Thomas Letfingwell
the second of ]Srorwich, who was b. 27 August, 1649, the
eldest son of Lieut. Thomas Leflingwell, one of the original
^proprietors of Norwich, b. at Croxhall in England,
who was one of the first settlers of Saybrook. This Lieut.
Thomas Letfingwell the first of Norwich is the person
described by Miss Fanny M. Calkins, in her history of
Norwich, as having, in connection with the first Thomas
Tracy of Norwich, and Thomas Miner, relieved Uncas,
the sachem of the Mohegans with provisions, when he
was besieged by the Narragansetts in his fort on Shattock
Point; and which probably led to the subsequent grant
by Uncas and his sons of nine miles square of lands, to
Letfingwell and his ascociates, in 1659, for the original
township of Norwich. His son, Thomas Letfingwell the
second, came with him to Norwich in 1660, being then
about eleven years of age. He m. Mary Bushnell, b. in
Jan., 1655, at Saybrook (the eldest daughter of Richard
Bushnell and Mary Marvin of Saybrook), sister of Richard
Bushnell the first of Norwich, and granddaughter of the
first Mattliew Marvin of Hartford. ^See No. 6."]
Richard Hyde settled at Norwich, and resided on Bean
Hill, and succeeded his father as a justice of the peace of
Norwich. He was a very intelligent and influential man,
and was for many years one of the leading men of the
town. His wife cl. 20 April, 1762. He survived her, and
d. 22 Dec, 1785, and was buried in the old part of the
cemetery near the church at the town of Norwich. He
was a lawyer.