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Genealogy of the Fitch family in North America - citizen hylbom blog

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APPENDICES. 113<br />

remnant <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pequots, after <strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir fort at<br />

Mistic by Capta<strong>in</strong> Mason. He brought his wife, Christobel,<br />

from England. He died <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> summer <strong>of</strong> 1650. His will<br />

provides for wife and ehileren, and gives £2 to a new meet<strong>in</strong>g<br />

house <strong>the</strong>n build<strong>in</strong>g. Will <strong>of</strong> widow (published <strong>in</strong> Gen. Reg.,<br />

V. 444i was made 1055. Children, John, Samuel, Nathaniel,<br />

Joan, married Thomas Joy. (See also, Heral. Jour. No.<br />

XXII.. 73.)<br />

Capta<strong>in</strong> John Gallup, 2d <strong>of</strong> Boston (son <strong>of</strong> proceed<strong>in</strong>g) born<br />

<strong>in</strong> England, served <strong>in</strong> Pequot war, under Major Mason, for<br />

which Connecticut gave him a grant <strong>of</strong> 100 acres <strong>of</strong> land ; was<br />

at Taunton. 164.".. a short time and removed to New London,<br />

<strong>in</strong> 1651, and to Ston<strong>in</strong>gton, <strong>of</strong> which he was representative,<br />

October. 1665, and May 1067. He was one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> six Connec-<br />

ticut Capta<strong>in</strong>s killed <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> great Narragansett Swamp Eight,<br />

19th December, 1675, <strong>the</strong> hardest battle <strong>of</strong> Philip's War, where<br />

80 men were killed and 150 wounded, <strong>of</strong> whom many died<br />

before relief could be had. He married Hannah (daughter <strong>of</strong><br />

Margaret) Lake, a widow, who resided at John W<strong>in</strong>throp's.*<br />

Children ; Hannah, born 1044, married, 1072, Stephen Gilford,<br />

<strong>of</strong> Norwich, as his second wife; John, made a freeman 1073;<br />

Es<strong>the</strong>r, born 1653, married U>74, Henry Hodge, <strong>of</strong> Taunton ;<br />

* Margaret bake. (Mrs.) was at New London, 104(5, and many<br />

years after, see (ien. Reg. vii. 165). She was <strong>the</strong> daughter <strong>of</strong><br />

Col. Edmund Bead, <strong>of</strong> Wickford Co., Essex, Eng., and eldest<br />

sister <strong>of</strong> Elizabeth, second wife <strong>of</strong> John W<strong>in</strong>throp, Jr., John<br />

Lake, her husband was descended from <strong>the</strong> Lakes, <strong>of</strong> Normanton,<br />

Yorkshire, who claimed descent through <strong>the</strong> ( ailleys<br />

from <strong>the</strong> Alb<strong>in</strong>is. Earls <strong>of</strong> Arundel and Sussex, from <strong>the</strong><br />

Counts <strong>of</strong> Loura<strong>in</strong>e, (<strong>the</strong> right l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> Charlemagne) and from<br />

"William <strong>the</strong> conqueror. (Heraldie Journal, No. xxii., 75.)<br />

She died, says Felt, 1672, leav<strong>in</strong>g two daughters. Hannah,<br />

who married John Gallup 2d ; Martha, who married Thomas<br />

Harris.

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