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