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arrived May [6, 1634, in New England.
In the following year he settled in Windsor
and was a soldier of the Pequol War
fr< >m thai town. 1 1 is u ife, Jam-. w hi mi he
married October 7. 1640, died September
10, lf^).', ami he died on the following
day. Their third son, Samuel Barber,
born October 1. [648, in Windsor, lived
on the paternal homestead. He owned
the halfway covenant at the Windsor
church, December i-\ [671. lie lived a
little north of Mill Brook in Windsor, and
in 1676 removed to Simsbury, where he
died March, 170S. He married, June 25,
1676, Ruth Drake, baptized December 6,
1657, died November 13, 1731, daughter
of John and Hannah (Moore) Drake,
granddaughter of John Drake, who was
descended from an ancient English family
who came to Boston, Massachusetts,
thence to Windsor in 1639. His ancestry
has been traced in England to 1360, when
John Drake was a resident of Exmouth.
He married Christian, daughter of John
Billet. The line descends from him to the
Windsor emigrant, through a continuous
line of Johns, with the exception of the
seventh and eighth generations occupied
respectively by Robert and William
Drake. The last named was the grandfather
of John Drake, of Windsor. John
Barber, eldest child of Samuel and Ruth
(Drake) Barber, was born January 25,
1677; an d lived in Simsbury. He mar-
ried, July 24, 1717, Jane Alford, born January
14, 1699, eldest daughter of Jeremy
and Jane (Hoskins) Alford, descendant
on both sides from leading Windsor families.
This name appears as Alvord
and Alford, and was brought to New
England by Thomas Alvord, whose
father was John Alvord, a son of John
Alvord, born about 1530 in England.
Thomas Alvord, son of Benedictus Al-
vord, was in Windsor in 1637, returned
to England, was there in 1639, was in
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Massachusetts in 1640, joined the Wind-
sor church in t04I, and was a juror
in that town two years later. He wa
..nit in the PeqUOt War in [6
served in various town offices, and died
April -'.?. il ed eighty tl
leaving an estate of two hundred and
twenty-nine pounds, three shillings and
nine pence 1
1'- married, X' >\ ember
o, Jane Newton. Their youngesl child,
Jeremy Alvord, born December 24, 1055,
died June 6, 1709. He married Jane Hoskins
born April 30, 1671, fourth daughter
of Anthony and Pabelle (Brown)
Hoskins, died M.i\ [9, 1715. Their daugh-
ter, lane Alvord, born January 14, i