Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell - (PDF ... - Adkinshorton.net

WilcoxThe wife of Abraham Hurd was a Wilcox - Mary S. Wilcox. The first of herfamily line in America was William Wilcox (also found as Wilcocks andWilcockson) who was one of the founders of Stratford, Conn. He had come toAmerica in 1635 aged about 34 years with his wife Margaret--; his birthplacehaving been St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. William's son Joseph Wilcoxmoved to Killingworth and Joseph's son Samuel Wilcox married Ruth Westcott.Samuel Wilcox Jr. their son was a grandfather of Molly Hurd and he and hiswife who had been Mary Stevens were the grandparents who may have beenpresent at the wedding of Daniel Everts when he married Molly Hurd on theanniversary of grandfather Wilcox's birth. Samuel would have been 84 yearsold on that day (and his wife Mary Stevens either 84 or 85), which was alsotheir 60th wedding anniversary of their 1720 marriage.StevensMary Stevens wife of Samuel Wilcox, Jr. was of another Killingworthfamily. The emigrant from England of her line was John Stevens (often spelledSteevens and Stephens in early records). Coming probably from Kent, England,he was one of the first Guilford settlers and was Judge of the town in 1645. HisGuilford home lot was one and a half acres on the east side of Fair Street, nextnorth of William Dudley's. He also had 36 acres of "upland". His son WilliamStevens born about 1630 in England, came to Guilford with his father and in1653 married Mary the daughter of John and the grandaughter of Vincent Meigs.William Stevens moved from Guilford to Killingworth where his son SamuelStevens, later known as Ensign Samuel Stevens (from service in the French &Indian Wars) was born. Samuel Steven's daughter Mary Stevens was the onewho married Samuel Wilcox Jr. on 8 Nov. 1720. Mary's mother Elizabeth --died when she was 5 years old and her step mother was Meletia Bradford, thedaughter of Governor Bradford of Mass.StoneJohn Everts born 1708 who removed from Guilford to Salisbury, Conn,had married Submit Stone of Guilford (born 1717) some time before theremoval. She was descended from William Stone who had come with hisbrother John in 1639 with the Rev. Henry Whitfield's Company from England.On shipboard coming over, there was formed a plantation agreement to settlenear Quinnipeack (present New Haven). Upon arrival in that harbor, the firstvessel that ever entered it, they inspected the countryside and the location ofpresent Guilford was agreed upon for settlement. Submit was of the 4thgeneration from the emigrant William Sr. who died in 1683, and whose wifewas Hannah --; their son William Jr. married Hannah Wolfe and amongothers had a son Stephen Stone who married Elizabeth Lemon daughter ofChristopher and Esther Barnet Lemon. Stephen and Elizabeth Stone werethe parents of Submit born in 1717. It is not known from what part of EnglandWilliam Stone and his brother John came. However the annals ofGuilford town state that it was named for Guildford in Surrey, England fromwhich many of the Whitfield Company came. Both John and William cultivatedfarms in Guilford and William had an Inn.47