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

GENEALOGY. 25
the family over a hundred years. He had a super-
ior education for that day and was a prominent and
useful citizen. He was chosen Town Clerk of
Windham, Dec. 4, 1704, which office he held by
successive annual re-elections, until his death in
1743, a period of thirty-eight years. He was also
for a short time Judge of Probate, and Captain of
Militia, and represented the town in the Colonial
Legislature at twenty different sessions, from 1712
to 1742. He first "owned the covenant" in the
Xorwich Church, of which he was a full member
in 1700. He was a man of wealth, high social
position, and extensive influence.
He married July 10, 1695, Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of Thomas and Miriam (Tracy) Waterman,
of Norwich, Conn. He died May 24, 1743,
.aged 75 years; she died June 25, 1751, aged about
76 years. Children :
Elizabeth, born June 1, 1696, married Xathaniel
Webb, of Windham, son of Samuel Webb, the first
Windham settler of that name, and became the ancestor
of the Windham and Scotland Webb
families.
Miriam, born October 17, 1699, married Heze-
kiah Riley, of Windham, and died in 1744, with-
out issue.