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(Porter) Goodwin, married, about 1659,<br />
Hannah, daughter <strong>of</strong> Thomas and Bene-<br />
dicta Stanley, who were in Hartford as<br />
early as 1636. Benedicta, second daugh-<br />
ter <strong>of</strong> Samuel and Hannah Goodwin, bap-<br />
tized February 25, 1694, became the wife<br />
<strong>of</strong> Jacob Goodrich, and the mother <strong>of</strong><br />
Sarah Goodrich, who married Captain<br />
Jonah Gillett.<br />
Their second son, Jonah Gillette, baptized<br />
April 17, 1757, in Wintonbury,<br />
served as a drummer in the Revolution,<br />
enlisting July 6, 1775, and serving until<br />
December 8th following, as drummer <strong>of</strong><br />
the Fourth Company, commanded by<br />
Captain Elihu Humphrey, <strong>of</strong> the Eighth<br />
Regiment <strong>of</strong> <strong>Connecticut</strong> Militia, Colonel<br />
Jedediah Huntington. This regiment was<br />
located on the sound until September 14,<br />
1775, when it was ordered to Boston and<br />
served at Roxbury in General Spencer's<br />
brigade. Jonah Gillette lived in Bloom-<br />
field where he died September 18, 1825.<br />
The Wintonbury records do not show his<br />
marriage and the family name <strong>of</strong> his wife,<br />
Elizabeth, born in 1764, died December<br />
30, 1825, is unknown.<br />
Their son, Justus Gillette, born September<br />
28, 1783, in Bloomfield, was bap-<br />
tized at Wintonbury, October 10, 1793,<br />
and died October 17, 1825. He married<br />
Sylvia Hubbard, born June 14, 1787, bap-<br />
tized September 28, 1788, daughter <strong>of</strong><br />
Oliver Hubbard, <strong>of</strong> Bloomheld, descend-<br />
ant <strong>of</strong> George Hubbard, the ancestor <strong>of</strong><br />
a very large family in this country. The<br />
name seems to be identical with Hobart,<br />
Hubert and Herbert, all personal names,<br />
and is found under some fifty different<br />
spellings in the early Colonial records <strong>of</strong><br />
America. The family was prominent and<br />
ancient in England where it bore coatarmor,<br />
and there is record <strong>of</strong> a John Hubbard,<br />
born about 1235 in Norfolk, Eng-<br />
land, who was the patriarch <strong>of</strong> very numerous<br />
posterity. George Hubbard, born<br />
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY<br />
11<br />
about 1601 in England, was a resident <strong>of</strong><br />
Hartford, <strong>Connecticut</strong>, before 1639. He<br />
came overland with the first travellers<br />
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and<br />
was given six acres <strong>of</strong> land by courtesy<br />
<strong>of</strong> the town, and resided near the South<br />
meadow, on a road running parallel with<br />
the <strong>Connecticut</strong> river. In March, 1651,<br />
with some fifteen others, he settled in<br />
what is now Middletown, <strong>Connecticut</strong>. In<br />
1650 he was listed as an Indian agent<br />
and trader, and in 1654 was admitted a<br />
freeman at Middletown. There he owned<br />
lands on both sides <strong>of</strong> the river, and he<br />
had a residence on both sides <strong>of</strong> Main<br />
street. With Thomas Wetmore and two<br />
others he gave land for the Second Meet-<br />
ing House, March 18, 1684, "highly re-<br />
spected and <strong>of</strong> marked integrity and fair-<br />
ness." In 1640, he married Elizabeth,<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> Richard and Elizabeth Watts,<br />
at which time he was living on the east<br />
side <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Connecticut</strong> river. His third<br />
son, Samuel Hubbard, born in May, 1648,<br />
in Hartford, was reared by his uncle, Cap-<br />
tain Thomas Watts, who was childless,<br />
and on the death <strong>of</strong> the latter, inherited his<br />
property and removed to Hartford, where<br />
he died November 4, 1732. He married,<br />
August 9, 1673, Mary Kirby, who was<br />
born January 16, 1654, in Middletown, the<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> John and Elizabeth (probably<br />
Hinds) Kirby, <strong>of</strong> Hartford, Wethersfield,<br />
and Middletown, formerly <strong>of</strong> Rowington,<br />
near Kenilworth, Warwickshire,<br />
England. Their fourth son, Lieutenant<br />
John Hubbard, born in August, 1691,<br />
settled in Simsbury in that portion annex-<br />
ed in 1643 to Bloomfield. About 1740 he<br />
removed to Windsor, and died there<br />
February 14, 1775. The house in which<br />
he lived remained in possession <strong>of</strong> his de-<br />
scendants as late as 1859. He married,<br />
in October, 1717, Agnes (Spencer)<br />
Humphries, born 1669, died April 11, 1773,<br />
the daughter <strong>of</strong> Samuel and Sarah