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October 8, 1690. He married, October 24,
1644, Sarah, daughter of John and Rose
Porter, born 1627, died March 16, 1697.
They were the parents of Grace Judson,
wife of Samuel Prudden, and grandmother
of Johanna Prudden, who mar-
ried Lieutenant James Fenn.
Their son, John Fenn, born 1714, died
September 4, 1793. He married Susannah
Gibson, born 1727, died February 13,
1797, daughter of Gamaliel and Susannah
Gibson.
Captain Aaron Fenn, son of John and
Susannah (Gibson) Fenn, was born December
1, 1746, in Milford, and in 1767
settled in that part of Waterbury, Con-
necticut, which was subsequently set off
as Watertown, and is now Plymouth, his
home being a mile north of the meeting
house, on a tract of land willed to him by
his grandfather, Lieutenant James Fenn.
Part of this homestead is still in posses-
sion of his descendants. He married
Mary Bradley, of Woodbridge, and their
eldest child was Lyman Fenn, born Au-
gust 26, 1770. He was undoubtedly the
father of Hart Fenn.
Hart Fenn was born about 1800 in
Plymouth, was a wheelwright and car-
riage builder, and died at the age of
thirty-seven years. He married Belinda
Blakeslee, born 1806, in Plymouth, died
1876.
They were the parents of Edward Hart
Fenn, born about 1830, who married
Frances Pitkin Talcott, a descendant of
the Worshipful Mr. John Talcott, who
was the pioneer of the family in Connec-
ticut. The Talcott family is of ancient
English origin, and the family is said to
have come from Warwickshire to County
Essex. The coat-of-arms borne by the
family is
:
Arms—Argent, on a pale sable, three roses
of the field.
Crest—A demi-griffin erased, argent, wings
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endorsed collared sable, charged with three
roses of the first.
Motto
—
Virtus Sola Nobilitas.
John Talcott, a descendant of the War-
wickshire family, was living in Colches-
ter, County Essex, England, before 1558,
and died near the close of 1606 in Col-
chester, leaving a large estate. His first
wife bore the family name of Wells and
was the mother of John Talcott, who
lived in Braintree, Essex, England, and
died early in 1604, before his father's
death. He married Ann, daughter of
William Skinner, of Braintree, and they
were the parents of John Talcott, born
there. He embarked for New England.
June 22, 1632, in the ship "Lion," and set-
tled at Cambridge, where he was admitted
a freeman, November 6, 1632, was deputy
to the General Court in 1634-35-36, selectman
in the latter year, and the fifth larg-
est landowner in the town. In 1636 he
sold his property and joined Rev. Thomas
Hooker's company, becoming one of the
founders of Hartford. In the year previ-
ous he sent Nicholas Clark, a carpenter,
to build a house. This stood on the site
of the present North Baptist Church.
John Talcott filled many positions of
trust and honor in the colony, and was
called "the Worshipful John Talcott."
He married Dorothy. Mott, daughter of
John and Alice (Harrington) Mott, of
Wiston, County Suffolk, England, who
died in February, 1670. He died early
in 1660, having provided as far as possi-
ble for an entailed estate according to the
English custom. His grandson, Joseph
Talcott, was Governor of Connecticut
from 1724 to 1741, holding the office
longer than it has been held by any other
except John Winthrop. His second son,
Captain Samuel Talcott, born about 1635,
probably in Cambridge, died November
11, 1691, in Wethersfield. He graduated