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

26 FITCH FAMILY
Priseilla, born February 5, 1702, married Rev.
Solomon Paine, of Canterbury, Conn.
John, born March 18, 1705.
Descendants of the Rev. JAMES FITCH, the Set-
tler, in the Line of his Son Jeremiah.
" (Capt.) Jeremiah Fitch 6 ,
ancestor of the Cov-
entry, Columbia, Andover, Willimantic and Bolton
families of the name, settled at Lebanon, Conn.,
where lands had been granted him soon after his
marriage. He remained there until 1703, (perhaps
a little later) where he removed and settled on
lands now included in South Coventry. The home
farm owned by him in Coventry (in which it was
included in 1723), is yet in possession of his des-
cendants, being owned by the heirs of the late Dea.
Appollos Fitch. The old homestead was a little
north of the present home and on the other side of
the road. Miss Caulkins gives it as a tradition that
the Fitchs always selected their farms beside rivers,
and were noted for securing the best lands. Capt.
Jeremiah certainly acted in accordance with the
tradition ;
his farm (which is located in the "Flan-
ders District" and was called "the mile and a