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Spencer, and granddaughter of William
and Agnes Spencer, of that town, and
widow of Nathaniel Humphries. Their
oldest son, John Hubbard, born April 25,
i~2i, in Hartford, lived in Bloomfield,
where he was a slave holder, and died
November 24, 1760. He married Hannah
Cadwell, born 1729, died May 5, 1796, the
daughter of Thomas and Hannah Cad-
well. She married (second) January 19,
1764, Jonathan Palmer, of Bloomfield.
Oliver Hubbard, youngest child and posthumous
child of John and Hannah (Cad-
well) Hubbard, was born April 16, 1761,
and lived in Bloomfield. His wife was
Sylvia (Pennoyer) Hubbard, whose
father was John Pennoyer, probably of
Hudson or Newburg, New York. The
baptisms of his children are recorded in
the Wintonbury church. The eldest of
these was Sylvia, baptized September 28,
1788, in Wintonbury, and who became
the wife of Justus Gillette.
Their son, Norman Hubbard Gillette,
was born December 24, 1808, and baptized
at Wintonbury church, September
3. 1815. At the same time were baptized
three other children of Justus Gillette,
namely, Justus Pennoyer, Anson Center,
and Sylvia Permelia. He removed to
Hartford when a boy, and in early life
was a merchant there. In 1831 he removed
to Russia, New York, and was
a member of the mercantile firm of Stan-
ton & Gillette, until 1834, when he became
a merchant miller at Odgensburg,
New York. Here he was head of the
firm of Norman H. Gillette & Company.
Nine years later he built a flour mill at
the foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, where
he carried on an extensive milling busi-
ness for a period of five years. From 1848
to 1853, he kept the Syracuse House at
Syracuse, New York. Later he was in
the real estate commission business at
Hartford, and in the summer of 1859, con-
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ducted the Fairfield House at Fair-
field, Connecticut. He was appointed
inspector of customs at New
York City, July 10, 1861, and continued
in that position until his retirement on
account of ill health in 1876. He died in
Hartford, July 5, 1881. He married,
April 28, 1834, Jane Shepard, who was
born August 24, 1808, daughter of Phineas
and Mary (Webster) Shepard, descended
from Edward Shepard, who was a mariner
and came from England to New England
and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Violet Shepard, supposed to be his wife,
died there January 9, 1649. His will was
proved August 20, 1680, and a year later
his son John sold the homestead. The latter
was born about 1627, in England, and
lived in Hartford on what is now known
as Lafayette street, a short distance south
of the new State House. He owned lands
extending to Wethersfield bounds, was a
man of consequence in the colony, known
as Sergeant John Shepard. He married,
October 1, 1649, Rebecca Greenhill,
daughter of Samuel Greenhill. Their
fourth son, Thomas Shepard, was born
November 12, 1666, and was admitted to
the First Church of Hartford, March 1,
1695, an d died between February 2, 1742,
and March 6th of the following year. He
married, September 5, 1695, Susannah
Scott. She was probably Hannah Scott,
born August 11, 1679, daughter of
William and Hannah (Allie) Scott, of
Hatfield, Massachusetts. Their eldest
child was Thomas Shepard, born April 2,
1697, in Hartford. He resided in West
Hartford and in that part of Windsor
which is now Bloomfield, and died in
WT
est Hartford, May 25, 1775. He mar-
ried Mary Eggleston, born July 20, 1697,
and died March 22, 1736, the daughter of
Isaac and Mary (Stiles) Eggleston and
granddaughter of Begat Eggleston, a
pioneer settler of Windsor. Their only