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Stephen, born February 19, 1798; Edmund,
April 23, 1799; George, March 16,
1801, owner of various stage, express and
freight lines; Emily, March 15, 1804;
Philip, June 25, 1805 ; William, mentioned
below; Henry, 181 1; Ebenezer,
July 31, 1814.
William Hart, son of Stephen Hart,
was born in New Britain, October 12,
1808. He married (first) July 28, 1830,
Rhoda Judd, daughter of Daniel and
Hannah (Bartholomew) Judd. She was
born November 4, 1809, and died September
2, 1856. He married (second) May
26, 1857, Laura Jane Gladden, born January
7, 1809, daughter of Reuben and
Sarah (Hotchkiss) Gladden. He was a
brass founder. He was deacon of the
Baptist church and a prominent citizen.
Children by first wife: Henry William,
born February 10, 1832, married, October
14, 1862, Elizabeth Black; Francis, May
25, 1834, married, May 4, 1867, Hattie
Andrews ; Jane, April 22, 1836, married,
May 19, 1859, Leonard Orters ; Hannah
Jane, February 1, 1840, married, March 4,
1868, William E. Beers (see Beers), died
in June, 1874; William Delos, September
30, 1844, killed in the Civil War; Helen
Grace, March 3, 1846, married, Novem-
ber 20, 1866, William S. Judd.
FENN, Edward Hart,
Journalist, Legislator.
Mr. Fenn is descended from several of
the oldest American families, and exem-
plifies in marked degree the worthy qualities
of the New England pioneers. The
name is ancient in England, derived from
a locality, and is often spelled Fen in the
early records.
The first in this country was Benjamin
Fenn, born 1612, who came from the
parish of Whittington, Musworth, England,
about 1630, to Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts, where he was one of the pro-
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prietors in 1637. He removed to Milford,
Connecticut, then to New Haven, where
he was a magistrate, representative to the
General Assembly in 1653, assistant from
1665 to 1672, and died in the latter year.
He left a large estate in this country and
in County Bucks, England, the latter
inherited by his son Samuel. He married,
March 12, 1664, Susannah Ward,
who made her will, September 9, 1674,
when about to embark for England,
where she probably died, as the inventory
of her estate was filed in November,
1676. Among the beneficiaries of her will
was her mother, Susannah Ward, of
Buckley, County Worcester, England, a
parish on the border of Herefordshire.
Their youngest child, Lieutenant James
Fenn, was born May 14, 1672, and died
in 1754. He settled in Milford, Connecti-
cut, and owned lands in Waterbury in
that State. He married Johanna Prud-
den, born in May, 1676, granddaughter of
the Rev. Peter Prudden, born 1600, in
England, who owned a good estate in
Edgeton, Yorkshire, from which his heirs
received rents for several generations. He
came to Boston, Massachusetts, with Rev.
John Davenport, was in New Haven in
1638, in Milford the following year, and
was the first pastor there. He married,
in England, Johanna Boyce, who died in
1654. Their son, Samuel Prudden, born
1644, m Milford, married, December 31,
1669, Grace Judson, born February 19.
1657. She was a granddaughter of William
Judson, born in Yorkshire, died July
29, 1662, in New Haven, Connecticut. In
1634 he came to New England, settled
first in Concord, Massachusetts, removed
thence to Hartford, in 1639 to Milford,
later to Stratford and New Haven. His
wife, Grace, died in 1659. Their son, Joseph
Judson, born 1619, in England,
was ensign and lieutenant during King
Philip's War, deputy to the General
Court from Stratford in 1655, and died