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

GENEALOGY, V
salary, although he was a large land holder in Norwich,
as well as in the towns of Lebanon and Wind-
ham. Jn 1702, he retired to Lebanon, where sev-
eral of his children had settled and where he died."
"During the early colonial period in which Mr.
Fitch lived, the clergy held the predominant influ-
ence in New England, in secular as well as religious
affairs. Their countenance and advice was sought,
not only in spiritual matters, but in the decision of
political questions, affecting the public interest, as
well as the worldly affairs of their parishioners.
Thus we find that Mr. Fitch, in addition to being
an original proprietor of Norwich, was one of the
legatees of Joshua Uncas, and thus an original
proprietor also of the town of Windham, where he
received an allotment of five of the forty-eight
shares, (of a thousand acres each) into which that
township was divided, lie was, also, much inter-
ested in the settlement of the town, as well as of
Lebanon, and there is the best reason for believing
that his counsel and assistance was frequently soli-
cited by the early planters of those places. At the
first town meeting held in Windham, June 11,
1692, a committee was appointed 'to go to Mr.
Fitch to advise with him about a minister,' and it
is probable that he often visited the new planta-