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Glastonbury, which town he represented
in the Legislature in 1775, 1776 and 1780.
He died, January 10, 1785. In 1776 he
was on a committee "to see that every
able bodied man was provided with a
good gun." He married, in Farmington,
October 1, 1752, Mehitable Judd, born
October 6, 1732, died in her twenty-sixth
year, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah
(Hollister) Judd, of Glastonbury. Sarah
Hollister Judd, born January 6, 1699, was
the eldest daughter of John and Abigail
Hollister, granddaughter of John and
Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister.
John Hollister, eldest child of Elijah
and Mehitable (Judd) Hollister, was born
February 2, 1756, in Farmington, and
lived in Glastonbury, where he died Feb-
ruary 27, 1835. He married, December 6,
1 781, Mary, daughter of William Wells,
of Glastonbury, born August 14, 1757,
died April 2, 1838, surviving her husband
more than three years.
Josiah Hollister, third son of John and
Mary (Wells) Hollister, born February
21, 1790, in Glastonbury, lived in that
town, and died January 28, 1857. He
married, January 28, 1818, Rebecca,
daughter of William Stevens, born in
1793, died April 7, 1826.
Horace Hollister, second son of Josiah
and Rebecca (Stevens) Hollister, was
born June 19, 1821, in Glastonbury, where
he was a farmer, and died October 22,
1877. He married, January 1, 1844, Rhoda
Strickland, born November 16, 1824, died
March 30, 1884, daughter of Jared and
Sarah Strickland. They had two sons
Norman Edward and Justin Kilbourn,
and a daughter Mary, born August 14,
1853, died August, 1853.
Norman Edward Hollister, eldest child
of Horace and Rhoda (Strickland) Hol-
lister, was born April 28, 1845, m Glas-
tonbury, where he has spent an active
and useful life engaged in general agricul-
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ture and growing of tobacco. His educa-
tion was obtained in the public schools
of his native town, and for many years he
has occupied a farm on the east side of
Main street, Glastonbury, and has been
recognized among the most substantial
citizens of the town. A Republican in
politics, he has always sustained his prin-
ciples, but has taken little part in the conduct
of public affairs. Mr. Hollister and
family are members of the First Congregational
Church of Glastonbury.
He was married in that town, October
19, 1870, to Charlotte Elizabeth Talcott,
born January 4, 1852, in Glastonbury,
daughter of Charles Henry and Cornelia
Melinda (Bissell) Talcott, descendant of
one of the oldest families in Connecticut.
The name of Talcott is an old one in England,
and members of the family removed
from Warwickshire to County Essex.
The coat-of-arms borne by the family is:
Argent, on a pale sable, three roses of the
field.
Crest—A demi-griffin erased, argent, wings
endorsed collared sable, charged with three
roses of the first.
Motto
—
Virtus Sola Nobilitas.
John Talcott was living in Colchester,
County Essex, England, before 1558, and
died there, leaving a large estate. His
first wife was a Wells, and mother of
John Talcott, who died early in 1604,
before his father's death. He married
Anne, daughter of William Skinner, of
Braintree, County Essex, England, who
survived him with their five children. He
bequeathed his homestead in Braintree to
his wife. Among his children was John
Talcott, born in Braintree, the pioneer of
the family in America. He embarked for
New England, June 22, 1632, in the ship
"Lion," settled first at Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts, where he was admitted freeman,
November 6, 1632, was deputy to