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 1600 - 1681 (81 years)
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| Name |
William Hyde [1] |
| Birth |
1600 |
Stockport, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Jan 1681 |
Norwich, CT |
| Person ID |
I52705 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
1 Jan 2006 |
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| Notes |
came to America from Chestershire (Cheshire), England.
"Founder and original proprietor of Hartford, 1636. Selectman 1637." (This is stated on a monument in an old graveyard of First Church of Hartford, Conn.)
No children from his second marriage to Joanne, the widow of Robert Abell.
Willima Hyde came to New England from old England in 1633 in company with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister at Hartford. For a short time they remained at Newton, mass., and then both came to Hartord in 1636. |
At a later period, William Hyde went to Saybrook, where his daughter was married in 1652; still later, Mr. Hyde and son Samuel were among the thirty-five original proprietors of Norwich.
There he died in 1781, a man of considerable importance in colonial affairs.
(Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, page 301) |
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| Sources |
- [S910] Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut, (Connecticut. Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co., 1903.).
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