(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
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William Hill, the founder of this HILL family, immigrant to New England in the ship "William and Francis," which landed her passengers in the new world June 5, 1632. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he became a man of much prominence. November 5, 1633, he was admitted freeman, and November 12, 1635, he received a grant of land; in 1636 he was selectman of Dorchester; soon afterward he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was granted a home lot and "set out an orchard." In 1639 he was appointed by the general court to examine the arms and munitions of the towns in the colony, and was also auditor of public accounts. From 1639 to 1641 and in 1644 he was deputy to the general court. Later he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he finally settled and died about 1649, as his first wife is called a widow that year in the town records. In Fairfield he was also deputy to the general court and collector of customs. He and his son William, were granted by the town home lots between Paul's Neck and Robert Tourney's lot on the northeast side of Dorchester street and the Newton Square. In his will, dated September 9, 1649, and proved May 15, 1650, he names wife Sarah and children; Sarah, married, 17 September, 1646, Joseph Loomis; William, referred to below; Joseph, Ignatius, James, Elizabeth.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) and Sarah Hill was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1684. He immigrated with his father and followed him to Dorchester, Windsor and Fairfield, where he was granted the home lot already described, and became one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was town recorder in 1650 and for several years afterward, and Roger Ludtow entrusted to his care town papers of much value when he left Fairfield in 1654. February 1, 1673, he received his portion of his father's estate from his "father-in-law,"(probably his stepfather), Mr. Greenleaf, February 13, 1670, the town granted him the Lewis lot on the northwest corner of Newton Square. He married, at Fairfield, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Jones. Children: William (3), died 1728, married, October 7, 1691 Abigail Osborne; Eliphat, died 1695, married Esther Ward; Joseph, died 1696 unmarried John, referred to below; James, Sarah, married, 15 April, 1686, Richard Widden; Ignatius, James.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Elizabeth (Jones) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and died there in 1727. He married Sarah _____. Children: Sarah, baptized 15 May, 1701; John, referred to below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 29, 1707, and died there December 17, 1759. He married, January 27, 1729, Esther, baptized December 30, 1713, daughter of Joseph and Esther Bulkley (see Bulkley). Children: Nathan, referred to below; Esther, born April 21, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Daniel Wakeman; Sarah, born April 28, 1742, died February 6, 1832, married June 17, 1762, George Wakeman; Isaac, born September 25, 1745; Joseph, May 2, 1752; John, December 17, 1754.
(V) Nathan, son of John (2) and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, October 9, 1731, and was baptized there in Christ Church, February 21, 1741-2. He married (first), July 3, 1753, Eunice, born January 31, 1735, and died January 29, 1765, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Wakeman (see Wakeman). He married (second), August 25, 1765, Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, a first cousin of his first wife, who was baptized August 15, 1736, and died March 9, 1766. He married (third), in December, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom Whitehead. Children, five by first marriage and one by third: Eunice, born June 3, 1754, married David Meeker; Aaron, referred to below; Rebecca, baptized October 22, 1758; Sarah, born November 17, 1760; Stephen, November 16, 1762; John, June 5, 1767.
(VI) Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 12, 1755, and baptized there in Christ Church, February 8, 1756, died in Saratoga county, New York. During the revolution he served in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess county militia. He married, September 15, 1777, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, who was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762 (see Fiske). Children: Nathan, born March 23, 1778; Asa, May 17, 1781; Hannah, January 22, 1784; Ezra, May 1, 1786; Cynthia, August 17, 1789; Aaron (2), January 26, 1791., Robert S., November 30, 1792; Jonathan, June 8, 1796, died in May, 1886, married, February 5, 1818, Sarah Wright; Lydia, born January 22, 1798; Elizabeth, May 4, 1800; Ephraim, referred to below.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Aaron and Hannah (Fiske) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 20, 1804, and died in Knowlesville, Saratoga county, in 1889. He was a farmer. In the spring of 1838 he moved to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and settled there. He was a captain in the militia. He married, at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830, Amanda Smith, of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. Children: Aaron Lester, born March 7, 1832, married, 1882, Sabra Russell; Sears S., referred to below; Ora, and seven daughters.
(VIII) Sears S., son of Ephraim and Amanda (Smith) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 12, 1836. He was about eighteen months old when his father moved by the canal route to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and as he grew up he assisted his father in working the one hundred and sixty acre farm there, which he afterward inherited, and on which he lived till about eight years ago, when he retired from active life and removed to Medina. He became a member of the Knowlesville Baptist church in 1866, and for a number of years was trustee, and after settling in Medina he joined the Baptist church there. He enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry Regiment at Rochester in 1865, and was mustered out later in the same year. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 6, 1866, Helen, daughter of William and Amanda (Barker) Ives, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, who was born in 1839. Children: 1. William, born November 20, 1866; married Nellie McNall, children: Francis, Arthur and Claire. 2. Ernest, born October 5, 1868; married Nellie Thurston; children: Mildred and Alice. 3. Gertrude, born April 18, 1877; married Frank Chamberlain; children: Harold, Marion and Frank. 4. Glenn, born May 15, 1879; married Susie Marshall; child: Derenwood.
(The Bulkley Line).
Rev. Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of the parish of Odell, Bedfordshire, England, the founder of this family, was born January 31, 1583, in Bedfordshire, England, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 1659. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1655. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Allen; (second) Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwoode, who survived him and died in New London, Connecticut, April 21, 1669. Children, thirteen by first marriage: Edward, born June 15, 1614; Mary, baptized August 24, 1615, died young; Thomas, referred to below; Nathaniel, born November 29, 1618, died 1627; John, born February 17, 1620, died after October 11, 1689, married Avis _____; Mary, born November 1, 1621, died 1624; George, born May 17, 1623; Daniel, born August 28, 1625; Jabez, born December 20, 1626, died before 1639; Joseph, William, Richard, Gershom, born December 6, 1636, died December 13, 1713, married October 26, 1659, Sarah Chauncey; Eliezer, born about 1638, died unmarried; Dorothy, born August 16, 1640; Peter, born June 12, 1643, died after March 25, 1691.
(II) Thomas, son of Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkley, was born in Bedfordshire, England, April 11, 1617, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, before February 26, 1658. He married, Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Massachusetts, who survived him and married (second) Anthony Wilson. Children: Sarah, born August 12, 1640, married Eleazer Brown; John, born about 1642, died in February, 1709, married Eliza _____; Joseph, referred to below; Rebecca, born about 1646, married Joseph Whipley; Hannah, born about 1648.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Jones) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644. He married Martha Beers, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Children: Thomas, born 1678, died May 25, 1756, married Abigail _____; Daniel, born 1680, married Hannah Bartram; Joseph, referred to below; Peter, born May 21, 1684, died 1753, married Abigail_____; Sarah, baptized September 23, 1684; John, baptized March 22, 1701, married Martha _____; Rachel, baptized March 23, 1706; Grace, baptized May 27, 1711.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
(The Wakeman Line).
Francis Wakeman, the founder of this family, lived at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, where he died September 2, 1626. He married Anne Goode, who died January 29, 1621. Children: Mary, baptized 1591, married January 14, 1622, John Wowen; Sarah, baptized 23 April, 1593, married April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell; Martha, baptized March 27, 1596, died in 1664, married November 30, 1621, William Davis; John, referred to below; Samuel, baptized September 25, 1603, died 1641, married Eliza _____; Isaac, baptized August 3, 1606, died April 14, 1609; Joseph, baptized April 23, 1609; Anne, baptized July 3, 1726; Moses, August 8, 1726, died May 14, 1764, married, August 21, 1745, Mary Goodsell; Anna, August 8, 1726, married Nathan Hubbell; Elizabeth, 1729, married, June 23, 1746, John Lyon; Sarah, October 5, 1731, died January 18, 1769, married November 2, 1756, Gershom Hubbell; Samuel, March 10, 1734, died August 6, 1809, married Mabel Burr; Martha, referred to Seth, January 8, 1738; George, January 1, 1740, married January 17, 1762, Sarah Hill.
(VI) Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 15, 1736, and died there March 9, 1766. She married, as second wife, August 25, 1765, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(V) Stephen, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born October 15 1702, and died in 1761-2. He married at Fairfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1727, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, who was baptized February 24, 1712, and died in 1762. Children: Sarah, born March 12, 1728, died June 11, 1728; David, baptized January 11, 1730, died 1813-14, married, February 17, 1754, Mary E. Jennings; Daniel, born April 6, 1732, married, May 28, 1761, Esther Hill; Eunice, referred to below; Squier, born June 29, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Damaris Bradley; Stephen, born November 19, 1740, died May 7, 1744; James, born May 19, 1743, died about April, 1768; Stephen, born October 23, 1745, died about April, 1768; Sarah, born January 26, 1748, died April 26, 1779, married, November 11, 1772, John Alvord; Noah, born November 28, 1751, died November 5, 1777.
(VI) Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, January 31, 1735, and died there January 29, 1765. She married, as first wife, July 3, 1753, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(The Fiske Line).
William Fiske, the founder of this family, was born in England about 1613, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, in December, 1654. He was son of John Fiske, and brother of Rev. John Fiske, pastor at Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts. From 1643 to 1650 he was the first town clerk of Wenham, and deputy to the general court 1647-52. He married, at Salem, in 1643, Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England, who survived him and married (second), November 3, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem. Children: William, referred to below; Samuel, died October 31, 1716, married (first), November 6, 1679, Phebe Bragg, (second) Mrs. Hannah Allen; Joseph, born about 1650, married, May 22, 1677, Elizabeth Haman; Benjamin, married, November 6, 1674, Bethusha Moore; Martha.
(II) Deacon William (2) Fiske, son of Hon. William (I) and Bridget (Muskett) Fiske, was baptized at Wenham, Massachusetts, June 4, 1642, and died there February 5, 1728. He was lieutenant in the train band, and elected deacon in the Congregational church in 1679. He was moderator of the town, 1702-14, and deputy to the general court 1707-17. He married, in Wenham, January 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of Austin and Alice Kilham, of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1646, and died January 26, 1737. Children: William, born January 30, 1663, died December 10, 1745, married Marah or Mary ____; Sarah, born February 5, 1664, married September 14, 1688, John Cook; Ruth, born March 2, 1666, died before 1725, married _____ _____; Samuel, born March 2, 1667, died young; Martha, born May 5, 1668; Joseph, born February 10, 1669, died young; Samuel, referred to below; Joseph, born April 14, 1672, died May 2, 1745, married (first) Susan Warner, (second), January 7, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller; Benjamin, born April 6, 1674, died June 6, 1742, unmarried; Theophilus, born July 28, 1676, died September 6, 1759, married (first), July 18, 1700, Phebe Lampson, (second), July 26, 1756, Mehitable Wilkins; Ebenezer, born March 22, 1679, died September 30, 1771, married (first), May 24, 1710, Elizabeth Fuller, (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball; Jonathan, born July 22, 1681, died February 14, 1705, unmarried; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1684.
(III) Samuel, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1670, and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He removed from Wenham to Reading, Massachusetts, in 1710, and to Rehoboth some time before 1728. He married, December 5, 1699, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. Children: Elizabeth, born December 8, 1700; Josiah, referred to below; Rhineas, born May 5, 1705; Lois, October 1, 1710; Anna, twin with Lois.
(IV) Josiah, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Browne) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 7, 1702, and died at Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1773. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 20, 1723, Sarah Bishop. Children: Esther, born May 4, 1725; Samuel, 23, 1727; John, February 20, 1729, died February 12, 1789, married May 5, 1755, Mary Bartlett; Rachel, born July 1, 1730, married, August 20, 1749, Benoni Studley; Joyce, born February 24, 1732; Sarah, September 5, 1733; Jonathan, referred to below; Martha, May 10, 1741; Mary, April 12, 1743.
(V) Jonathan, son of Josiah and Sarah (Bishop) Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August 13, 1739, and died near Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, December 22, 1816. During the revolution he served in the Connecticut line, and was granted a revolutionary pension. After the war he removed to Saratoga county, and lived in the log house, three miles from the village of Schuylerville. He married Hannah _____, born November 18, 1743, died September 17, 1814. Children: Jonathan, born December 12, 1760, died November 2, 1853, married, April 20, 1779, Mercy Robinson; Hannah, referred to below; Huldah, born July 19, 1765; Martha, August 13, 1767; David, June 17, 1769, died in November, 1849, married, December 26, 1790, Mary Gree; Doshe, born July 20, 1771; Cloah, April 13, 1774; Lydia, May 19, 1776; Aza, April 26, 1778, died 1832, married Lydia Hamilton; Abigail, born May 13, 1780; Stephen, May 1, 1782, died July 21, 1855, married Hannah Curry; Benjamin, born July 5, 1788, married Rebecca _____.
(VI) Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762, married, September 15, 1777, Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, referred to above.
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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE BUILDING OF A NATION COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A.M. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND HISTORIAN OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, LIBRARIAN EMERITUS OF WOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY; AUTHOR OF "CUTTER FAMILY." "HISTORY OF ARLINGTON," ETC., ETC. VOLUME I, ILLUSTRATED, NEW YORK, LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1912.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
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William Hill, the founder of this HILL family, immigrant to New England in the ship "William and Francis," which landed her passengers in the new world June 5, 1632. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he became a man of much prominence. November 5, 1633, he was admitted freeman, and November 12, 1635, he received a grant of land; in 1636 he was selectman of Dorchester; soon afterward he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was granted a home lot and "set out an orchard." In 1639 he was appointed by the general court to examine the arms and munitions of the towns in the colony, and was also auditor of public accounts. From 1639 to 1641 and in 1644 he was deputy to the general court. Later he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he finally settled and died about 1649, as his first wife is called a widow that year in the town records. In Fairfield he was also deputy to the general court and collector of customs. He and his son William, were granted by the town home lots between Paul's Neck and Robert Tourney's lot on the northeast side of Dorchester street and the Newton Square. In his will, dated September 9, 1649, and proved May 15, 1650, he names wife Sarah and children; Sarah, married, 17 September, 1646, Joseph Loomis; William, referred to below; Joseph, Ignatius, James, Elizabeth.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) and Sarah Hill was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1684. He immigrated with his father and followed him to Dorchester, Windsor and Fairfield, where he was granted the home lot already described, and became one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was town recorder in 1650 and for several years afterward, and Roger Ludtow entrusted to his care town papers of much value when he left Fairfield in 1654. February 1, 1673, he received his portion of his father's estate from his "father-in-law,"(probably his stepfather), Mr. Greenleaf, February 13, 1670, the town granted him the Lewis lot on the northwest corner of Newton Square. He married, at Fairfield, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Jones. Children: William (3), died 1728, married, October 7, 1691 Abigail Osborne; Eliphat, died 1695, married Esther Ward; Joseph, died 1696 unmarried John, referred to below; James, Sarah, married, 15 April, 1686, Richard Widden; Ignatius, James.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Elizabeth (Jones) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and died there in 1727. He married Sarah _____. Children: Sarah, baptized 15 May, 1701; John, referred to below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 29, 1707, and died there December 17, 1759. He married, January 27, 1729, Esther, baptized December 30, 1713, daughter of Joseph and Esther Bulkley (see Bulkley). Children: Nathan, referred to below; Esther, born April 21, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Daniel Wakeman; Sarah, born April 28, 1742, died February 6, 1832, married June 17, 1762, George Wakeman; Isaac, born September 25, 1745; Joseph, May 2, 1752; John, December 17, 1754.
(V) Nathan, son of John (2) and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, October 9, 1731, and was baptized there in Christ Church, February 21, 1741-2. He married (first), July 3, 1753, Eunice, born January 31, 1735, and died January 29, 1765, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Wakeman (see Wakeman). He married (second), August 25, 1765, Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, a first cousin of his first wife, who was baptized August 15, 1736, and died March 9, 1766. He married (third), in December, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom Whitehead. Children, five by first marriage and one by third: Eunice, born June 3, 1754, married David Meeker; Aaron, referred to below; Rebecca, baptized October 22, 1758; Sarah, born November 17, 1760; Stephen, November 16, 1762; John, June 5, 1767.
(VI) Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 12, 1755, and baptized there in Christ Church, February 8, 1756, died in Saratoga county, New York. During the revolution he served in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess county militia. He married, September 15, 1777, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, who was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762 (see Fiske). Children: Nathan, born March 23, 1778; Asa, May 17, 1781; Hannah, January 22, 1784; Ezra, May 1, 1786; Cynthia, August 17, 1789; Aaron (2), January 26, 1791., Robert S., November 30, 1792; Jonathan, June 8, 1796, died in May, 1886, married, February 5, 1818, Sarah Wright; Lydia, born January 22, 1798; Elizabeth, May 4, 1800; Ephraim, referred to below.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Aaron and Hannah (Fiske) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 20, 1804, and died in Knowlesville, Saratoga county, in 1889. He was a farmer. In the spring of 1838 he moved to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and settled there. He was a captain in the militia. He married, at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830, Amanda Smith, of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. Children: Aaron Lester, born March 7, 1832, married, 1882, Sabra Russell; Sears S., referred to below; Ora, and seven daughters.
(VIII) Sears S., son of Ephraim and Amanda (Smith) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 12, 1836. He was about eighteen months old when his father moved by the canal route to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and as he grew up he assisted his father in working the one hundred and sixty acre farm there, which he afterward inherited, and on which he lived till about eight years ago, when he retired from active life and removed to Medina. He became a member of the Knowlesville Baptist church in 1866, and for a number of years was trustee, and after settling in Medina he joined the Baptist church there. He enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry Regiment at Rochester in 1865, and was mustered out later in the same year. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 6, 1866, Helen, daughter of William and Amanda (Barker) Ives, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, who was born in 1839. Children: 1. William, born November 20, 1866; married Nellie McNall, children: Francis, Arthur and Claire. 2. Ernest, born October 5, 1868; married Nellie Thurston; children: Mildred and Alice. 3. Gertrude, born April 18, 1877; married Frank Chamberlain; children: Harold, Marion and Frank. 4. Glenn, born May 15, 1879; married Susie Marshall; child: Derenwood.
(The Bulkley Line).
Rev. Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of the parish of Odell, Bedfordshire, England, the founder of this family, was born January 31, 1583, in Bedfordshire, England, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 1659. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1655. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Allen; (second) Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwoode, who survived him and died in New London, Connecticut, April 21, 1669. Children, thirteen by first marriage: Edward, born June 15, 1614; Mary, baptized August 24, 1615, died young; Thomas, referred to below; Nathaniel, born November 29, 1618, died 1627; John, born February 17, 1620, died after October 11, 1689, married Avis _____; Mary, born November 1, 1621, died 1624; George, born May 17, 1623; Daniel, born August 28, 1625; Jabez, born December 20, 1626, died before 1639; Joseph, William, Richard, Gershom, born December 6, 1636, died December 13, 1713, married October 26, 1659, Sarah Chauncey; Eliezer, born about 1638, died unmarried; Dorothy, born August 16, 1640; Peter, born June 12, 1643, died after March 25, 1691.
(II) Thomas, son of Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkley, was born in Bedfordshire, England, April 11, 1617, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, before February 26, 1658. He married, Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Massachusetts, who survived him and married (second) Anthony Wilson. Children: Sarah, born August 12, 1640, married Eleazer Brown; John, born about 1642, died in February, 1709, married Eliza _____; Joseph, referred to below; Rebecca, born about 1646, married Joseph Whipley; Hannah, born about 1648.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Jones) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644. He married Martha Beers, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Children: Thomas, born 1678, died May 25, 1756, married Abigail _____; Daniel, born 1680, married Hannah Bartram; Joseph, referred to below; Peter, born May 21, 1684, died 1753, married Abigail_____; Sarah, baptized September 23, 1684; John, baptized March 22, 1701, married Martha _____; Rachel, baptized March 23, 1706; Grace, baptized May 27, 1711.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
(The Wakeman Line).
Francis Wakeman, the founder of this family, lived at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, where he died September 2, 1626. He married Anne Goode, who died January 29, 1621. Children: Mary, baptized 1591, married January 14, 1622, John Wowen; Sarah, baptized 23 April, 1593, married April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell; Martha, baptized March 27, 1596, died in 1664, married November 30, 1621, William Davis; John, referred to below; Samuel, baptized September 25, 1603, died 1641, married Eliza _____; Isaac, baptized August 3, 1606, died April 14, 1609; Joseph, baptized April 23, 1609; Anne, baptized July 3, 1726; Moses, August 8, 1726, died May 14, 1764, married, August 21, 1745, Mary Goodsell; Anna, August 8, 1726, married Nathan Hubbell; Elizabeth, 1729, married, June 23, 1746, John Lyon; Sarah, October 5, 1731, died January 18, 1769, married November 2, 1756, Gershom Hubbell; Samuel, March 10, 1734, died August 6, 1809, married Mabel Burr; Martha, referred to Seth, January 8, 1738; George, January 1, 1740, married January 17, 1762, Sarah Hill.
(VI) Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 15, 1736, and died there March 9, 1766. She married, as second wife, August 25, 1765, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(V) Stephen, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born October 15 1702, and died in 1761-2. He married at Fairfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1727, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, who was baptized February 24, 1712, and died in 1762. Children: Sarah, born March 12, 1728, died June 11, 1728; David, baptized January 11, 1730, died 1813-14, married, February 17, 1754, Mary E. Jennings; Daniel, born April 6, 1732, married, May 28, 1761, Esther Hill; Eunice, referred to below; Squier, born June 29, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Damaris Bradley; Stephen, born November 19, 1740, died May 7, 1744; James, born May 19, 1743, died about April, 1768; Stephen, born October 23, 1745, died about April, 1768; Sarah, born January 26, 1748, died April 26, 1779, married, November 11, 1772, John Alvord; Noah, born November 28, 1751, died November 5, 1777.
(VI) Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, January 31, 1735, and died there January 29, 1765. She married, as first wife, July 3, 1753, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(The Fiske Line).
William Fiske, the founder of this family, was born in England about 1613, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, in December, 1654. He was son of John Fiske, and brother of Rev. John Fiske, pastor at Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts. From 1643 to 1650 he was the first town clerk of Wenham, and deputy to the general court 1647-52. He married, at Salem, in 1643, Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England, who survived him and married (second), November 3, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem. Children: William, referred to below; Samuel, died October 31, 1716, married (first), November 6, 1679, Phebe Bragg, (second) Mrs. Hannah Allen; Joseph, born about 1650, married, May 22, 1677, Elizabeth Haman; Benjamin, married, November 6, 1674, Bethusha Moore; Martha.
(II) Deacon William (2) Fiske, son of Hon. William (I) and Bridget (Muskett) Fiske, was baptized at Wenham, Massachusetts, June 4, 1642, and died there February 5, 1728. He was lieutenant in the train band, and elected deacon in the Congregational church in 1679. He was moderator of the town, 1702-14, and deputy to the general court 1707-17. He married, in Wenham, January 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of Austin and Alice Kilham, of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1646, and died January 26, 1737. Children: William, born January 30, 1663, died December 10, 1745, married Marah or Mary ____; Sarah, born February 5, 1664, married September 14, 1688, John Cook; Ruth, born March 2, 1666, died before 1725, married _____ _____; Samuel, born March 2, 1667, died young; Martha, born May 5, 1668; Joseph, born February 10, 1669, died young; Samuel, referred to below; Joseph, born April 14, 1672, died May 2, 1745, married (first) Susan Warner, (second), January 7, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller; Benjamin, born April 6, 1674, died June 6, 1742, unmarried; Theophilus, born July 28, 1676, died September 6, 1759, married (first), July 18, 1700, Phebe Lampson, (second), July 26, 1756, Mehitable Wilkins; Ebenezer, born March 22, 1679, died September 30, 1771, married (first), May 24, 1710, Elizabeth Fuller, (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball; Jonathan, born July 22, 1681, died February 14, 1705, unmarried; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1684.
(III) Samuel, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1670, and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He removed from Wenham to Reading, Massachusetts, in 1710, and to Rehoboth some time before 1728. He married, December 5, 1699, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. Children: Elizabeth, born December 8, 1700; Josiah, referred to below; Rhineas, born May 5, 1705; Lois, October 1, 1710; Anna, twin with Lois.
(IV) Josiah, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Browne) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 7, 1702, and died at Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1773. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 20, 1723, Sarah Bishop. Children: Esther, born May 4, 1725; Samuel, 23, 1727; John, February 20, 1729, died February 12, 1789, married May 5, 1755, Mary Bartlett; Rachel, born July 1, 1730, married, August 20, 1749, Benoni Studley; Joyce, born February 24, 1732; Sarah, September 5, 1733; Jonathan, referred to below; Martha, May 10, 1741; Mary, April 12, 1743.
(V) Jonathan, son of Josiah and Sarah (Bishop) Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August 13, 1739, and died near Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, December 22, 1816. During the revolution he served in the Connecticut line, and was granted a revolutionary pension. After the war he removed to Saratoga county, and lived in the log house, three miles from the village of Schuylerville. He married Hannah _____, born November 18, 1743, died September 17, 1814. Children: Jonathan, born December 12, 1760, died November 2, 1853, married, April 20, 1779, Mercy Robinson; Hannah, referred to below; Huldah, born July 19, 1765; Martha, August 13, 1767; David, June 17, 1769, died in November, 1849, married, December 26, 1790, Mary Gree; Doshe, born July 20, 1771; Cloah, April 13, 1774; Lydia, May 19, 1776; Aza, April 26, 1778, died 1832, married Lydia Hamilton; Abigail, born May 13, 1780; Stephen, May 1, 1782, died July 21, 1855, married Hannah Curry; Benjamin, born July 5, 1788, married Rebecca _____.
(VI) Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762, married, September 15, 1777, Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, referred to above.
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(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
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William Hill, the founder of this HILL family, immigrant to New England in the ship "William and Francis," which landed her passengers in the new world June 5, 1632. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he became a man of much prominence. November 5, 1633, he was admitted freeman, and November 12, 1635, he received a grant of land; in 1636 he was selectman of Dorchester; soon afterward he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was granted a home lot and "set out an orchard." In 1639 he was appointed by the general court to examine the arms and munitions of the towns in the colony, and was also auditor of public accounts. From 1639 to 1641 and in 1644 he was deputy to the general court. Later he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he finally settled and died about 1649, as his first wife is called a widow that year in the town records. In Fairfield he was also deputy to the general court and collector of customs. He and his son William, were granted by the town home lots between Paul's Neck and Robert Tourney's lot on the northeast side of Dorchester street and the Newton Square. In his will, dated September 9, 1649, and proved May 15, 1650, he names wife Sarah and children; Sarah, married, 17 September, 1646, Joseph Loomis; William, referred to below; Joseph, Ignatius, James, Elizabeth.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) and Sarah Hill was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1684. He immigrated with his father and followed him to Dorchester, Windsor and Fairfield, where he was granted the home lot already described, and became one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was town recorder in 1650 and for several years afterward, and Roger Ludtow entrusted to his care town papers of much value when he left Fairfield in 1654. February 1, 1673, he received his portion of his father's estate from his "father-in-law,"(probably his stepfather), Mr. Greenleaf, February 13, 1670, the town granted him the Lewis lot on the northwest corner of Newton Square. He married, at Fairfield, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Jones. Children: William (3), died 1728, married, October 7, 1691 Abigail Osborne; Eliphat, died 1695, married Esther Ward; Joseph, died 1696 unmarried John, referred to below; James, Sarah, married, 15 April, 1686, Richard Widden; Ignatius, James.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Elizabeth (Jones) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and died there in 1727. He married Sarah _____. Children: Sarah, baptized 15 May, 1701; John, referred to below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 29, 1707, and died there December 17, 1759. He married, January 27, 1729, Esther, baptized December 30, 1713, daughter of Joseph and Esther Bulkley (see Bulkley). Children: Nathan, referred to below; Esther, born April 21, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Daniel Wakeman; Sarah, born April 28, 1742, died February 6, 1832, married June 17, 1762, George Wakeman; Isaac, born September 25, 1745; Joseph, May 2, 1752; John, December 17, 1754.
(V) Nathan, son of John (2) and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, October 9, 1731, and was baptized there in Christ Church, February 21, 1741-2. He married (first), July 3, 1753, Eunice, born January 31, 1735, and died January 29, 1765, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Wakeman (see Wakeman). He married (second), August 25, 1765, Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, a first cousin of his first wife, who was baptized August 15, 1736, and died March 9, 1766. He married (third), in December, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom Whitehead. Children, five by first marriage and one by third: Eunice, born June 3, 1754, married David Meeker; Aaron, referred to below; Rebecca, baptized October 22, 1758; Sarah, born November 17, 1760; Stephen, November 16, 1762; John, June 5, 1767.
(VI) Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 12, 1755, and baptized there in Christ Church, February 8, 1756, died in Saratoga county, New York. During the revolution he served in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess county militia. He married, September 15, 1777, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, who was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762 (see Fiske). Children: Nathan, born March 23, 1778; Asa, May 17, 1781; Hannah, January 22, 1784; Ezra, May 1, 1786; Cynthia, August 17, 1789; Aaron (2), January 26, 1791., Robert S., November 30, 1792; Jonathan, June 8, 1796, died in May, 1886, married, February 5, 1818, Sarah Wright; Lydia, born January 22, 1798; Elizabeth, May 4, 1800; Ephraim, referred to below.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Aaron and Hannah (Fiske) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 20, 1804, and died in Knowlesville, Saratoga county, in 1889. He was a farmer. In the spring of 1838 he moved to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and settled there. He was a captain in the militia. He married, at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830, Amanda Smith, of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. Children: Aaron Lester, born March 7, 1832, married, 1882, Sabra Russell; Sears S., referred to below; Ora, and seven daughters.
(VIII) Sears S., son of Ephraim and Amanda (Smith) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 12, 1836. He was about eighteen months old when his father moved by the canal route to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and as he grew up he assisted his father in working the one hundred and sixty acre farm there, which he afterward inherited, and on which he lived till about eight years ago, when he retired from active life and removed to Medina. He became a member of the Knowlesville Baptist church in 1866, and for a number of years was trustee, and after settling in Medina he joined the Baptist church there. He enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry Regiment at Rochester in 1865, and was mustered out later in the same year. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 6, 1866, Helen, daughter of William and Amanda (Barker) Ives, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, who was born in 1839. Children: 1. William, born November 20, 1866; married Nellie McNall, children: Francis, Arthur and Claire. 2. Ernest, born October 5, 1868; married Nellie Thurston; children: Mildred and Alice. 3. Gertrude, born April 18, 1877; married Frank Chamberlain; children: Harold, Marion and Frank. 4. Glenn, born May 15, 1879; married Susie Marshall; child: Derenwood.
(The Bulkley Line).
Rev. Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of the parish of Odell, Bedfordshire, England, the founder of this family, was born January 31, 1583, in Bedfordshire, England, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 1659. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1655. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Allen; (second) Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwoode, who survived him and died in New London, Connecticut, April 21, 1669. Children, thirteen by first marriage: Edward, born June 15, 1614; Mary, baptized August 24, 1615, died young; Thomas, referred to below; Nathaniel, born November 29, 1618, died 1627; John, born February 17, 1620, died after October 11, 1689, married Avis _____; Mary, born November 1, 1621, died 1624; George, born May 17, 1623; Daniel, born August 28, 1625; Jabez, born December 20, 1626, died before 1639; Joseph, William, Richard, Gershom, born December 6, 1636, died December 13, 1713, married October 26, 1659, Sarah Chauncey; Eliezer, born about 1638, died unmarried; Dorothy, born August 16, 1640; Peter, born June 12, 1643, died after March 25, 1691.
(II) Thomas, son of Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkley, was born in Bedfordshire, England, April 11, 1617, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, before February 26, 1658. He married, Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Massachusetts, who survived him and married (second) Anthony Wilson. Children: Sarah, born August 12, 1640, married Eleazer Brown; John, born about 1642, died in February, 1709, married Eliza _____; Joseph, referred to below; Rebecca, born about 1646, married Joseph Whipley; Hannah, born about 1648.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Jones) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644. He married Martha Beers, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Children: Thomas, born 1678, died May 25, 1756, married Abigail _____; Daniel, born 1680, married Hannah Bartram; Joseph, referred to below; Peter, born May 21, 1684, died 1753, married Abigail_____; Sarah, baptized September 23, 1684; John, baptized March 22, 1701, married Martha _____; Rachel, baptized March 23, 1706; Grace, baptized May 27, 1711.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
(The Wakeman Line).
Francis Wakeman, the founder of this family, lived at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, where he died September 2, 1626. He married Anne Goode, who died January 29, 1621. Children: Mary, baptized 1591, married January 14, 1622, John Wowen; Sarah, baptized 23 April, 1593, married April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell; Martha, baptized March 27, 1596, died in 1664, married November 30, 1621, William Davis; John, referred to below; Samuel, baptized September 25, 1603, died 1641, married Eliza _____; Isaac, baptized August 3, 1606, died April 14, 1609; Joseph, baptized April 23, 1609; Anne, baptized July 3, 1726; Moses, August 8, 1726, died May 14, 1764, married, August 21, 1745, Mary Goodsell; Anna, August 8, 1726, married Nathan Hubbell; Elizabeth, 1729, married, June 23, 1746, John Lyon; Sarah, October 5, 1731, died January 18, 1769, married November 2, 1756, Gershom Hubbell; Samuel, March 10, 1734, died August 6, 1809, married Mabel Burr; Martha, referred to Seth, January 8, 1738; George, January 1, 1740, married January 17, 1762, Sarah Hill.
(VI) Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 15, 1736, and died there March 9, 1766. She married, as second wife, August 25, 1765, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(V) Stephen, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born October 15 1702, and died in 1761-2. He married at Fairfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1727, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, who was baptized February 24, 1712, and died in 1762. Children: Sarah, born March 12, 1728, died June 11, 1728; David, baptized January 11, 1730, died 1813-14, married, February 17, 1754, Mary E. Jennings; Daniel, born April 6, 1732, married, May 28, 1761, Esther Hill; Eunice, referred to below; Squier, born June 29, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Damaris Bradley; Stephen, born November 19, 1740, died May 7, 1744; James, born May 19, 1743, died about April, 1768; Stephen, born October 23, 1745, died about April, 1768; Sarah, born January 26, 1748, died April 26, 1779, married, November 11, 1772, John Alvord; Noah, born November 28, 1751, died November 5, 1777.
(VI) Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, January 31, 1735, and died there January 29, 1765. She married, as first wife, July 3, 1753, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(The Fiske Line).
William Fiske, the founder of this family, was born in England about 1613, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, in December, 1654. He was son of John Fiske, and brother of Rev. John Fiske, pastor at Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts. From 1643 to 1650 he was the first town clerk of Wenham, and deputy to the general court 1647-52. He married, at Salem, in 1643, Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England, who survived him and married (second), November 3, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem. Children: William, referred to below; Samuel, died October 31, 1716, married (first), November 6, 1679, Phebe Bragg, (second) Mrs. Hannah Allen; Joseph, born about 1650, married, May 22, 1677, Elizabeth Haman; Benjamin, married, November 6, 1674, Bethusha Moore; Martha.
(II) Deacon William (2) Fiske, son of Hon. William (I) and Bridget (Muskett) Fiske, was baptized at Wenham, Massachusetts, June 4, 1642, and died there February 5, 1728. He was lieutenant in the train band, and elected deacon in the Congregational church in 1679. He was moderator of the town, 1702-14, and deputy to the general court 1707-17. He married, in Wenham, January 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of Austin and Alice Kilham, of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1646, and died January 26, 1737. Children: William, born January 30, 1663, died December 10, 1745, married Marah or Mary ____; Sarah, born February 5, 1664, married September 14, 1688, John Cook; Ruth, born March 2, 1666, died before 1725, married _____ _____; Samuel, born March 2, 1667, died young; Martha, born May 5, 1668; Joseph, born February 10, 1669, died young; Samuel, referred to below; Joseph, born April 14, 1672, died May 2, 1745, married (first) Susan Warner, (second), January 7, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller; Benjamin, born April 6, 1674, died June 6, 1742, unmarried; Theophilus, born July 28, 1676, died September 6, 1759, married (first), July 18, 1700, Phebe Lampson, (second), July 26, 1756, Mehitable Wilkins; Ebenezer, born March 22, 1679, died September 30, 1771, married (first), May 24, 1710, Elizabeth Fuller, (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball; Jonathan, born July 22, 1681, died February 14, 1705, unmarried; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1684.
(III) Samuel, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1670, and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He removed from Wenham to Reading, Massachusetts, in 1710, and to Rehoboth some time before 1728. He married, December 5, 1699, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. Children: Elizabeth, born December 8, 1700; Josiah, referred to below; Rhineas, born May 5, 1705; Lois, October 1, 1710; Anna, twin with Lois.
(IV) Josiah, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Browne) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 7, 1702, and died at Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1773. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 20, 1723, Sarah Bishop. Children: Esther, born May 4, 1725; Samuel, 23, 1727; John, February 20, 1729, died February 12, 1789, married May 5, 1755, Mary Bartlett; Rachel, born July 1, 1730, married, August 20, 1749, Benoni Studley; Joyce, born February 24, 1732; Sarah, September 5, 1733; Jonathan, referred to below; Martha, May 10, 1741; Mary, April 12, 1743.
(V) Jonathan, son of Josiah and Sarah (Bishop) Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August 13, 1739, and died near Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, December 22, 1816. During the revolution he served in the Connecticut line, and was granted a revolutionary pension. After the war he removed to Saratoga county, and lived in the log house, three miles from the village of Schuylerville. He married Hannah _____, born November 18, 1743, died September 17, 1814. Children: Jonathan, born December 12, 1760, died November 2, 1853, married, April 20, 1779, Mercy Robinson; Hannah, referred to below; Huldah, born July 19, 1765; Martha, August 13, 1767; David, June 17, 1769, died in November, 1849, married, December 26, 1790, Mary Gree; Doshe, born July 20, 1771; Cloah, April 13, 1774; Lydia, May 19, 1776; Aza, April 26, 1778, died 1832, married Lydia Hamilton; Abigail, born May 13, 1780; Stephen, May 1, 1782, died July 21, 1855, married Hannah Curry; Benjamin, born July 5, 1788, married Rebecca _____.
(VI) Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762, married, September 15, 1777, Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, referred to above.
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(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
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William Hill, the founder of this HILL family, immigrant to New England in the ship "William and Francis," which landed her passengers in the new world June 5, 1632. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he became a man of much prominence. November 5, 1633, he was admitted freeman, and November 12, 1635, he received a grant of land; in 1636 he was selectman of Dorchester; soon afterward he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was granted a home lot and "set out an orchard." In 1639 he was appointed by the general court to examine the arms and munitions of the towns in the colony, and was also auditor of public accounts. From 1639 to 1641 and in 1644 he was deputy to the general court. Later he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he finally settled and died about 1649, as his first wife is called a widow that year in the town records. In Fairfield he was also deputy to the general court and collector of customs. He and his son William, were granted by the town home lots between Paul's Neck and Robert Tourney's lot on the northeast side of Dorchester street and the Newton Square. In his will, dated September 9, 1649, and proved May 15, 1650, he names wife Sarah and children; Sarah, married, 17 September, 1646, Joseph Loomis; William, referred to below; Joseph, Ignatius, James, Elizabeth.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) and Sarah Hill was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1684. He immigrated with his father and followed him to Dorchester, Windsor and Fairfield, where he was granted the home lot already described, and became one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was town recorder in 1650 and for several years afterward, and Roger Ludtow entrusted to his care town papers of much value when he left Fairfield in 1654. February 1, 1673, he received his portion of his father's estate from his "father-in-law,"(probably his stepfather), Mr. Greenleaf, February 13, 1670, the town granted him the Lewis lot on the northwest corner of Newton Square. He married, at Fairfield, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Jones. Children: William (3), died 1728, married, October 7, 1691 Abigail Osborne; Eliphat, died 1695, married Esther Ward; Joseph, died 1696 unmarried John, referred to below; James, Sarah, married, 15 April, 1686, Richard Widden; Ignatius, James.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Elizabeth (Jones) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and died there in 1727. He married Sarah _____. Children: Sarah, baptized 15 May, 1701; John, referred to below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 29, 1707, and died there December 17, 1759. He married, January 27, 1729, Esther, baptized December 30, 1713, daughter of Joseph and Esther Bulkley (see Bulkley). Children: Nathan, referred to below; Esther, born April 21, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Daniel Wakeman; Sarah, born April 28, 1742, died February 6, 1832, married June 17, 1762, George Wakeman; Isaac, born September 25, 1745; Joseph, May 2, 1752; John, December 17, 1754.
(V) Nathan, son of John (2) and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, October 9, 1731, and was baptized there in Christ Church, February 21, 1741-2. He married (first), July 3, 1753, Eunice, born January 31, 1735, and died January 29, 1765, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Wakeman (see Wakeman). He married (second), August 25, 1765, Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, a first cousin of his first wife, who was baptized August 15, 1736, and died March 9, 1766. He married (third), in December, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom Whitehead. Children, five by first marriage and one by third: Eunice, born June 3, 1754, married David Meeker; Aaron, referred to below; Rebecca, baptized October 22, 1758; Sarah, born November 17, 1760; Stephen, November 16, 1762; John, June 5, 1767.
(VI) Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 12, 1755, and baptized there in Christ Church, February 8, 1756, died in Saratoga county, New York. During the revolution he served in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess county militia. He married, September 15, 1777, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, who was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762 (see Fiske). Children: Nathan, born March 23, 1778; Asa, May 17, 1781; Hannah, January 22, 1784; Ezra, May 1, 1786; Cynthia, August 17, 1789; Aaron (2), January 26, 1791., Robert S., November 30, 1792; Jonathan, June 8, 1796, died in May, 1886, married, February 5, 1818, Sarah Wright; Lydia, born January 22, 1798; Elizabeth, May 4, 1800; Ephraim, referred to below.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Aaron and Hannah (Fiske) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 20, 1804, and died in Knowlesville, Saratoga county, in 1889. He was a farmer. In the spring of 1838 he moved to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and settled there. He was a captain in the militia. He married, at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830, Amanda Smith, of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. Children: Aaron Lester, born March 7, 1832, married, 1882, Sabra Russell; Sears S., referred to below; Ora, and seven daughters.
(VIII) Sears S., son of Ephraim and Amanda (Smith) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 12, 1836. He was about eighteen months old when his father moved by the canal route to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and as he grew up he assisted his father in working the one hundred and sixty acre farm there, which he afterward inherited, and on which he lived till about eight years ago, when he retired from active life and removed to Medina. He became a member of the Knowlesville Baptist church in 1866, and for a number of years was trustee, and after settling in Medina he joined the Baptist church there. He enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry Regiment at Rochester in 1865, and was mustered out later in the same year. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 6, 1866, Helen, daughter of William and Amanda (Barker) Ives, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, who was born in 1839. Children: 1. William, born November 20, 1866; married Nellie McNall, children: Francis, Arthur and Claire. 2. Ernest, born October 5, 1868; married Nellie Thurston; children: Mildred and Alice. 3. Gertrude, born April 18, 1877; married Frank Chamberlain; children: Harold, Marion and Frank. 4. Glenn, born May 15, 1879; married Susie Marshall; child: Derenwood.
(The Bulkley Line).
Rev. Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of the parish of Odell, Bedfordshire, England, the founder of this family, was born January 31, 1583, in Bedfordshire, England, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 1659. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1655. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Allen; (second) Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwoode, who survived him and died in New London, Connecticut, April 21, 1669. Children, thirteen by first marriage: Edward, born June 15, 1614; Mary, baptized August 24, 1615, died young; Thomas, referred to below; Nathaniel, born November 29, 1618, died 1627; John, born February 17, 1620, died after October 11, 1689, married Avis _____; Mary, born November 1, 1621, died 1624; George, born May 17, 1623; Daniel, born August 28, 1625; Jabez, born December 20, 1626, died before 1639; Joseph, William, Richard, Gershom, born December 6, 1636, died December 13, 1713, married October 26, 1659, Sarah Chauncey; Eliezer, born about 1638, died unmarried; Dorothy, born August 16, 1640; Peter, born June 12, 1643, died after March 25, 1691.
(II) Thomas, son of Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkley, was born in Bedfordshire, England, April 11, 1617, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, before February 26, 1658. He married, Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Massachusetts, who survived him and married (second) Anthony Wilson. Children: Sarah, born August 12, 1640, married Eleazer Brown; John, born about 1642, died in February, 1709, married Eliza _____; Joseph, referred to below; Rebecca, born about 1646, married Joseph Whipley; Hannah, born about 1648.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Jones) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644. He married Martha Beers, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Children: Thomas, born 1678, died May 25, 1756, married Abigail _____; Daniel, born 1680, married Hannah Bartram; Joseph, referred to below; Peter, born May 21, 1684, died 1753, married Abigail_____; Sarah, baptized September 23, 1684; John, baptized March 22, 1701, married Martha _____; Rachel, baptized March 23, 1706; Grace, baptized May 27, 1711.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther _____. Children: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to below; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth _____; Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married September 2, 1754, Beulah Henry; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized December 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (I) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
(The Wakeman Line).
Francis Wakeman, the founder of this family, lived at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, where he died September 2, 1626. He married Anne Goode, who died January 29, 1621. Children: Mary, baptized 1591, married January 14, 1622, John Wowen; Sarah, baptized 23 April, 1593, married April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell; Martha, baptized March 27, 1596, died in 1664, married November 30, 1621, William Davis; John, referred to below; Samuel, baptized September 25, 1603, died 1641, married Eliza _____; Isaac, baptized August 3, 1606, died April 14, 1609; Joseph, baptized April 23, 1609; Anne, baptized July 3, 1726; Moses, August 8, 1726, died May 14, 1764, married, August 21, 1745, Mary Goodsell; Anna, August 8, 1726, married Nathan Hubbell; Elizabeth, 1729, married, June 23, 1746, John Lyon; Sarah, October 5, 1731, died January 18, 1769, married November 2, 1756, Gershom Hubbell; Samuel, March 10, 1734, died August 6, 1809, married Mabel Burr; Martha, referred to Seth, January 8, 1738; George, January 1, 1740, married January 17, 1762, Sarah Hill.
(VI) Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth Wakeman, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 15, 1736, and died there March 9, 1766. She married, as second wife, August 25, 1765, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(V) Stephen, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born October 15 1702, and died in 1761-2. He married at Fairfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1727, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, who was baptized February 24, 1712, and died in 1762. Children: Sarah, born March 12, 1728, died June 11, 1728; David, baptized January 11, 1730, died 1813-14, married, February 17, 1754, Mary E. Jennings; Daniel, born April 6, 1732, married, May 28, 1761, Esther Hill; Eunice, referred to below; Squier, born June 29, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Damaris Bradley; Stephen, born November 19, 1740, died May 7, 1744; James, born May 19, 1743, died about April, 1768; Stephen, born October 23, 1745, died about April, 1768; Sarah, born January 26, 1748, died April 26, 1779, married, November 11, 1772, John Alvord; Noah, born November 28, 1751, died November 5, 1777.
(VI) Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Morehouse) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, January 31, 1735, and died there January 29, 1765. She married, as first wife, July 3, 1753, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(The Fiske Line).
William Fiske, the founder of this family, was born in England about 1613, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, in December, 1654. He was son of John Fiske, and brother of Rev. John Fiske, pastor at Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts. From 1643 to 1650 he was the first town clerk of Wenham, and deputy to the general court 1647-52. He married, at Salem, in 1643, Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England, who survived him and married (second), November 3, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem. Children: William, referred to below; Samuel, died October 31, 1716, married (first), November 6, 1679, Phebe Bragg, (second) Mrs. Hannah Allen; Joseph, born about 1650, married, May 22, 1677, Elizabeth Haman; Benjamin, married, November 6, 1674, Bethusha Moore; Martha.
(II) Deacon William (2) Fiske, son of Hon. William (I) and Bridget (Muskett) Fiske, was baptized at Wenham, Massachusetts, June 4, 1642, and died there February 5, 1728. He was lieutenant in the train band, and elected deacon in the Congregational church in 1679. He was moderator of the town, 1702-14, and deputy to the general court 1707-17. He married, in Wenham, January 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of Austin and Alice Kilham, of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1646, and died January 26, 1737. Children: William, born January 30, 1663, died December 10, 1745, married Marah or Mary ____; Sarah, born February 5, 1664, married September 14, 1688, John Cook; Ruth, born March 2, 1666, died before 1725, married _____ _____; Samuel, born March 2, 1667, died young; Martha, born May 5, 1668; Joseph, born February 10, 1669, died young; Samuel, referred to below; Joseph, born April 14, 1672, died May 2, 1745, married (first) Susan Warner, (second), January 7, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller; Benjamin, born April 6, 1674, died June 6, 1742, unmarried; Theophilus, born July 28, 1676, died September 6, 1759, married (first), July 18, 1700, Phebe Lampson, (second), July 26, 1756, Mehitable Wilkins; Ebenezer, born March 22, 1679, died September 30, 1771, married (first), May 24, 1710, Elizabeth Fuller, (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball; Jonathan, born July 22, 1681, died February 14, 1705, unmarried; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1684.
(III) Samuel, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1670, and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He removed from Wenham to Reading, Massachusetts, in 1710, and to Rehoboth some time before 1728. He married, December 5, 1699, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. Children: Elizabeth, born December 8, 1700; Josiah, referred to below; Rhineas, born May 5, 1705; Lois, October 1, 1710; Anna, twin with Lois.
(IV) Josiah, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Browne) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 7, 1702, and died at Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1773. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 20, 1723, Sarah Bishop. Children: Esther, born May 4, 1725; Samuel, 23, 1727; John, February 20, 1729, died February 12, 1789, married May 5, 1755, Mary Bartlett; Rachel, born July 1, 1730, married, August 20, 1749, Benoni Studley; Joyce, born February 24, 1732; Sarah, September 5, 1733; Jonathan, referred to below; Martha, May 10, 1741; Mary, April 12, 1743.
(V) Jonathan, son of Josiah and Sarah (Bishop) Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August 13, 1739, and died near Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, December 22, 1816. During the revolution he served in the Connecticut line, and was granted a revolutionary pension. After the war he removed to Saratoga county, and lived in the log house, three miles from the village of Schuylerville. He married Hannah _____, born November 18, 1743, died September 17, 1814. Children: Jonathan, born December 12, 1760, died November 2, 1853, married, April 20, 1779, Mercy Robinson; Hannah, referred to below; Huldah, born July 19, 1765; Martha, August 13, 1767; David, June 17, 1769, died in November, 1849, married, December 26, 1790, Mary Gree; Doshe, born July 20, 1771; Cloah, April 13, 1774; Lydia, May 19, 1776; Aza, April 26, 1778, died 1832, married Lydia Hamilton; Abigail, born May 13, 1780; Stephen, May 1, 1782, died July 21, 1855, married Hannah Curry; Benjamin, born July 5, 1788, married Rebecca _____.
(VI) Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762, married, September 15, 1777, Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, referred to above.
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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE BUILDING OF A NATION COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A.M. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND HISTORIAN OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, LIBRARIAN EMERITUS OF WOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY; AUTHOR OF "CUTTER FAMILY." "HISTORY OF ARLINGTON," ETC., ETC. VOLUME I, ILLUSTRATED, NEW YORK, LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1912.
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