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

GENEALOGY.
Fitch had again "dispossessed" him—when the
jury gave a verdict for the defendant. So Capt,
Fitch was left in quiet possession. Among the
participants in the expedition and riot was Stephen
Brown, the first Willimantic settler of that name.
He was the cousin of Capt, Fitch, his mother and
Jeremiah's hoth being daughters of Maj. John
Mason.*
Capt. Jeremiah Fitch married Ruth, probably
daughter of Stephen Giffordt and Hannah Gallup,!
of Norwich. Capt. Fitch died in Coventry, Conn.,
May 22, 1736, aged 65 years, his wife survived
him, and was living in 1756.
Children ;
Jeremiah, born probable in 1707 or 1708.
(Twins), Lucy and Ruth, born April 18, 1699, in
Lebanon, Conn. Ruth married Daniel Whitmore,
of Coventry, Conn.
Hannah, born January 18, 1701, in Lebanon,
Conn., married Humphrey Davenport, of Coven-
try, Conn., May 9, 1726.
Aimer 2 , born July 8, 1703, in Lebanon, Conn.
Gideon, probably born in Coventry, Conn., mar-
* Weaver says, with truth that the Masons and Fitches
were all powerful in Eastern Connecticut in their day, and
their influence was felt in the whole Colony.
t Appendix III. t Appendix IV.
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