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Chittenden Family: William Chittenden, Guilford, Conn. and his
Descendants, compiled by Alvan Talcott
This company sailed from England for America about the
20th of May, 1639, in a ship of 350 tons, and after a passage of
about seven weeks arrived in New Haven about the 10th of July .(See
Appendix A.) They made arrangements for settling in Guilford in the
autumn of the same year, adding to their company some few whom they found in
New Haven. The deed of purchase of the lands for the colony from Shaumpishum the sachem squaw of Menumkatuck,
is dated Sept. 29 (Oct. g, N.S) 1639. Prominent among the original
settlers of Guilford was William Chittenden. He came from the
parish of Cranbrook, in Kent, some 35 miles S.E. of London. Little
is known of his antecedents. In the record of baptisms in the
parish of Marden, near Cranbrook, occurs this entry: ‘March
1594. William, son of Robert Chittenden.
(Signed) Salmon Boxer, Vicar of Marden.’ There is no reason to
doubt that this William is identical with William the emigrant. No
other records of the Chittenden family can be found in the adjacent parishes,
Cranbrook, Marden, Welford and Goudhurst, for the
last half of the sixteenth century.
Mr Chittenden was a man of ability and influence, and
during his whole life filled many important offices in the
plantation. He was one of the six persons selected to purchase the
lands of Guilford from the native owners, and was also one of four (Robert Kitchell, William Chittenden, John Bishop and William Leete) who received
according to the record, ‘full power and authority to act, order and dispatch
all matters respecting the publick weale and civile government of
the plantation, until a church is gathered amonge
us’. On the gathering of the church, June 19 (June 29 N.S), 1643, these
four magistrates resigned their trust to the church, which is in New Haven. exercised control in secular and civil matters, as well as
in those relating to religion.
Mr Chittenden was the principle military man of the
plantation, bearing the title of Lieutenant, Savage states I. 381, that ‘he had
been a soldier in the English Army in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years War,
and that he reached the rank of Major’. He was a magistrate of the
plantation and deputy to the General Court until his death. His
lands are thus described in Guilford Proprietors’ Records, I. 2:
One home lot, containing and allowed for three acres and a quarter, fronting to
the street on the North, rearing back to the land of Thomas French on the
South, bounded with the home lot of Mr Jacob Sheafe
on the East. Adjoining to which said home lot the said William
Chittenden hath sixteen acres of upland and seven acres and on-half of meadow
land, more or less, abuttung against the land of
Richard Hues on the South, and encompassed with the West River on the West and
North. Item;- One Piece of upland in the plain,
containing and allowed for six acres and three-quarters, more or less, butting
up to the lane by the mill lot, rearing back to the marsh land of John Bishop,
on the West, bounded with the land of Henry Goldam on
the South, and the land of George Chatfield on the North. Other
lots are described in a similar manner, and the amount of the whole is about
100 acres. The home lot and land adjoining first described above,
passed upon his death, into the possession of his oldest son,
Thomas. Thomas divided it equally between his two married
sons, William and Josiah, each son having one and three-quarter acres fronting
on the street (now named Broad Street) and
eight acres of upland adjoining with a portion of the marsh land.
Josiah’s portion was east of William’s, and extended around William’s in the
form a an L, both portions being bounded on the West
by the river. These portions have since been united and the old
ancestral property has been in the possession of some one of the descendants of
the first William in every generation down to the present time. The present
owner is Hon. Simeon B. Chittenden, 419, of Brooklyn, N.Y., of the seventh
generation, who has done much to improve and beautify the place of his birth,
making it his summer residence. The spot selected by
William Chittenden 240 years ago for his new home is a remarkably fine
location. It overlooks the Menunkatuck
river, which winds its way like a ribbon of silver, through a wide expanse of
meadow gained from the sea, and level as a floor, clothed in summer with
herbage of the richest green, but converted, when the tide is quite high into a
smooth lake half a mile in width, which, as if by magic, in six hours vanishes
away with the receding tide, leaving only a gentle flowing
stream. William Chittenden was married while in England
to Joanna Sheaffe, daughter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe, of Cranbrook, Kent. [Dorothy Sheaffe, sister of Joanna, was the wife of Rev. Henry
Whitfield, first minister and leading member of the Guilford
colony.] It is probable that two or more of Mr. Chittenden’s
ten children were born in England. The birth of his sixth child,
Hannah, is on the Guilford Records at the date of Nov. 15, 1629, previous to
which time no provision seems to have been made in the plantation for the
public record of births. Mr Chittenden died at the age
of about 67 years in Feb. 1660-1. In the New Haven
Records, p. 417, we find this entry: ‘An Inventory of the estate of Will*
Chittenden of Guilford, deceased, was presented amounting to 677 pounds,
16 shillings, 7 pence, as presented and proved in court at Guilford, the 21st
of February 1660-1, upon oath of Joane
Chittenden, the widow and relict of the said Will* Chittenden, deceased, for
the quantity and by the testimony of Abraham Cruttenden
sen’, John Fowler, and Will* Stone, appraisers for
the valuation to be just. Will* Leete,
Governor’. Joanna Chittenden, widow of William, married
2nd in 1665, Abraham Cruttenden of
Guilford as his second wife. She died in Guilford, Aug. 16,
1668. Her mother, Joanna Sheaffe, widow
of Dr. Edmund Sheaffe, emigrated with the family from
England and died in Guilford, August 1. 1659. 2. Thomas m Joanna Jordan. 3. Elizabeth m
Thomas Wright. 4. Nathaniel m Sarah. 5. John m
Hannah Fletcher. 6. Mary m John Leete.
7. Hannah, Nov. 15, 1649, died 1650. 8. Joseph (twin)
Apr 24, 1652, died June 22, 1652. 9. Hannah (twin) Apr 24,
1652, died Sep. 13, 1674. 10. Deborah, Dec 22, 1653, died
Sept 26, 1674. 12. Joanna. It is
stated in N. Eng. Gen and Hist. Reg., XXII, 160 that Mary Merriam (widow of
Robert, who died July 22. 1693) mentions in her will dated Feb 15, 1688, four
children of her sister Chittenden, John, Nathaniel, Mary and
Joanna. The other six had died previously to that date. E.S.C.
2. Thomas Chittenden, son of William, probably born in
England, married Joanna Jordan, daughter of John and Anna Jordan, of
Guilford. His residence was on the old homestead. He
died October. 1683. 12. Samuel b Sept 20, 1664 died Jan 15,
1694. 13. William b Oct 5, 1666, m Hannah.
14. Joanna b Dec. 13, 1668 s died Jan 14, 1672. 15.
Abigail b Dec 15, 1670 m Caleb Bennett. 16. Thomas b Jan 12,
1674 s died 1722. 17. Mehitabel. 1675. 18. Josiah. 1677 m Hannah Sherman.
3. Wright Elizabeth Chittenden,
daughter of William, was married June 16, 1657, to Thomas Wright of
Wethersfield, Conn., who was born in 1632, and died, aged 51, August 23,
1683. Thomas b Mar. 1, 1660 m Sarah Benton.
Mary, Mar. 4, 1662. Hannah, Mar. 10, 1670. Lydia, Mar.
12, 1672. Elizabeth, Feb 17, 1675.
4. Nathaniel Chittenden, son of William, resided in Gulford. He married Sarah -------- and died
June 1691. His residence was on Crooked Lane, now State Street - a lot now
known as the Starr Place. 19. Nathaniel b Aug 20, 1669 m
Elizabeth Stevens. 20. Sarah, Mar 2, 1672 m James
Patterson. 21. Mary, Feb 6, 1675 m Thomas Boreman.
22. Joseph, Sept 6, 1677 m Mehitabel
Pierce. 23. Hannah, Mar 15, 1680. 24.
Deborah, Oct 25, 1682 died
1684. 25. Cornelius, 1685 m Abigail Rutty.
5. Sergt. John Chittenden, son of William m Dec. 12,
1665, Hannah Fletcher daughter of John Fletcher, of Milford. He
died in Guilford, April, 1716, aged 73. 26. John b Oct. 19, 1666 m Sarah
Clay. 27. Elizabeth, Jan. 26, 1670 m Thos. Cruttenden.
28. Joseph, Mar 26, 1672 m Mary Kimberly. 29. Gideon, Sept.
23, 1678 died 1679. 30. Abel, May. 14, 1681 m Deborah Scranton. 31. Lydia, Mar 30,
1684 m William Hall.
6. Leete Mary
Chittenden, daughter of William, married Oct. 4, 1670 John Leete,
oldest son of Gov. William Leete and Anna Payne, born
in 1639, said to be the first white child born in Guilford. He died
in Guilford, aged 53, Nov. 25, 1692. Mary died, aged 65, March 9,
1712. Ann b Aug 5, 1671 m John Collins.
John, Jan. 4, 1674 m Sarah Allen. Joshua, Jul. 7, 1676 m Mary Munger.
Sarah, Dec. 16, 1677 m Eliakim
Marshall. Pelatiah, Mar. 26, 1681 m Abigail Fowler. Mehitabel, Dec.
20, 1683 m Dr. Anth. Laborie. Benjamin, Dec. 26, 1686 m Rachel Champion. Daniel, Sept. 23, 1689 d. y. The descendants of
this family down to the present time are exceedingly numerous.
11. Joanna Chittenden, daughter of
William. Her record is not found. Although here placed
last, she was probably not the youngest child of Lieut. Chittenden.
Chittenden Genealogy: Derivation of Family Names –
Considers the name as derived from corrupt British and
Welsh - from the words chy “house”
tane “lower” and din or dun
“hill”, the lower house on the hill. The orthography of the name has
been subject to great variations, as is the case with most names in the earlier
periods. At present almost uniform usage
has settled upon the form Chittenden. The name is quite common at
the present day in London and other parts of England. We have a
record of only two families of Chittendens as coming
to this country in its early history. One of those was Thomas
Chittenden, linen weaver, who came with his son Isaac in 1635 from Wapping in
Kent and settled in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass.
His descendants are still found in that vicinity. The relationship
of this Family to the Connecticut Chittendens, though
probable, has not been ascertained. The ancestor of this latter
Family which it is the object of this work to sketch,
was William Chittenden. He was one of the company
of twenty-five, gathered chiefly from the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex,
in the south of England, who determined to leave their native land and seek a
new home in the wilderness, in order to enjoy the free exercise of their
religious principles. Their first recorded act as a separate
community was the Covenant they signed on ship-board while on the passage and
which is here transcribed “We whose names are hereunder written,
intending by God’s gracious permission to plant ourselves in New England, and
if it may be, in the southerly part, about Quinnipiack:
We do faithfully promise each to each, for ourselves and families, and those
that belong to us: that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join
ourselves together in one entire plantation: and to be helpful each to the
other in every common work, according to every man’s ability and as need shall
require; and we promise not to desert or leave each other or the plantation,
but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of the company who have
entered into this engagement. As for our gathering together in a church
way, and the choice of officers and members to be joined together in that way,
we do refer ourselves until such time as it shall please God to settle us in
our plantation. In witness whereof we subscribe
our hands the first day of June, 1639. Robert Kitchell, John Bishop, Francis Bushnell, William
Chittenden, William Leet, Thomas Joanes, John Jordon, William Stone, John Headley, John
Stone, William Plane, Richard Guttridge, John Hughes,
William Dudley, John Parmelin, John Mepham, Henry Whitfield, Thomas Norton, Abraham Cruttenden, Francis Chatfield, William Halle, Thomas Natsm, Henry Kingsnorth, Henry
Downs, and Thomas Cooke
Chittenden Thomas: Vermont’s First Statesman” by Frank Smallwood (New England
Press, 1997, $19.95. 278 pp)
Source = Burlington_Free_Press;
Date = 01.02.1998; Section = Books; Page = 03. Review by Gregory
Sanford - special to the Free Press “He presided over the creation of
Vermont and guided the fledgling state through 14 years of independence and its
first six years of union with the United States. His contemporaries
elected him governor 19 times and, during his life, named a county and a town
after him. Yet Thomas Chittenden remains an elusive figure in
Vermont history. Compared to the outpouring of scholarly and
popular attention given the more boisterous and self-promoting Allen
brothers, Chittenden has, until now, been accorded only an 1846 biography
and a 1969 compilation of his papers. Frank Smallwood, in this
highly readable biography, has begun to bring Vermont’s first governor into
focus. This is not an easy task given the paucity of Chittenden’s personal papers and the reality that his
public papers were filtered through the writings of his personal secretaries
and associated. Smallwood begins by tracing the Chittenden family
from Cranbrook, Kent, England, to Connecticut. The Chittenden
pattern of settlement, land speculation and migration is a tale common to many
of Vermont’s earliest European settlers. Thomas was born in
Guilford, Conn., on Jan 6. 1730, and with his wife Elizabeth, moved to
Salisbury, Conn., in 1749. In Salisbury, Chittenden achieved
economic success through land speculation and became acquainted with the Allens. He also honed his political skills,
holding town offices, winning election as a militia captain and representing
Salisbury in the General Assembly seven times between 1764 and
1772. Again bestirred by entrepreneurial
restlessness, in 1774 the Chittendens moved to
Williston in the area know as New Hampshire Grants. Within two
years, Chittenden was an active participant in the conventions that culminated
in the creation of a new state in 1777, Chittenden not
only participated in the writing of Vermont’s 1777 Constitution, but also
chaired the Council of Safety, which served as the government until elections
could be held in 1778. At those elections, Thomas Chittenden became
governor. It is almost impossible for us to truly comprehend the
problems confronting the new state and its government. Today we see
raw fissure lines in our state caused by issues such as growth and development,
education, taxation, logging and property rights. But can we
imagine starting a state whole cloth, while surrounded by a country that refused
to recognize our rights to exist, neighbouring states that were all too willing
to divide our land among themselves, and four internal factions desperately
fighting to secure their disputed land titles and competing visions of the
future?. And to do so against a backdrop of a prolonged war for
independence that turned Vermont into a war zone in the path of armies?. Smallwood notes Chittenden was the steadying
hand, able to bridge factions, entice alliances, partly through the use of land
grants to create common goals, conduct a dangerous foreign policy to offset
external threats, and, when necessary, use force to suppress
dissidents. Even with Vermont’s statehood in 1791.
Chittenden continued a difficult balancing act. The British remained
a threat to our northern border. Chittenden had to relinquish
control of a distinct Vermont foreign policy in favour of the new federal
government, while still protecting Vermonters from excursions.
Internally, the governor had to contend with economic disruptions that followed
the war, the state’s need for revenue, and the need to protect creditors
without destroying the small farmer debtor class that was the backbone of early
Vermont settlement. Even before statehood, Chittenden had to cope
with a new faction. Smallwood describes them as lawyer-reformers,
uncomfortable with the loose governing style and agenda of the revolutionary
founders. Some of the early leaders, notably Ira Allen, fell before
the lawyer-reformer (Federalist) faction and even Chittenden was briefly
unseated in 1789. Chittenden, who retained his popular support,
recaptured the governorship in 1790 and served until his death in
1797. Smallwood’s effort is noteworthy for several
reasons. After years of scholars wondering why Chittenden has been
neglected, he has provided a solid start in recognizing this remarkable man’s
role in creating Vermont and assuring its survival. Smallwood’s
solid synthesis of scholarship on early Vermont makes this a useful volume for
novice and serious student alike. Despite the lack of personal
material, Smallwood’s use of public papers ad
anecdotes provided a better picture of Chittenden’s
political ability and sympathy for the common man than could have been
anticipated. Even after the biography, Chittenden remains
somewhat elusive. The final chapter on “Thomas Chittenden’s
Legacy” mostly recounts events illustrating the governor’s political and
entrepreneurial skills,, while attempts to identify a
true legacy such as the long-term survival of town representation are
sure to spark debate. All of us who live in Chittenden’s
one undisputed legacy the State of Vermont should celebrate this long deserved
biography. Gregory Sanford of Marshfield is the Vermont state
archivist”.
Chittenden Thomas by Walter H. Crocket:
Among the notable figures of that remarkable group of
pioneer leaders who, amid manifold perils, established the commonwealth of
Vermont, Thomas Chittenden ranks among the greatest of the wise master builders
of the Green Mountain State. Its first governor, elected chief
executive for eighteen terms, and defeated once for re-election, he held this
position longer than any other incumbent of that office during more than a
century and a half of history. He was a plain, rugged individual,
without the learning of the schools, lacking the graces and culture of polite
society, but he was a born leader of men. His leadership differed
widely from that of Ethan and Ira Allen. He lacked Ethan’s
commanding figure, his ready use of tongue and pen, his magnetic personality,
and Ira’s tact and diplomacy, but he was richly endowed with shrewdness,
sagacity, and the quality for which there is no substitute, common
sense. Daniel Chipman quotes Ethan Allen
as saying that Governor Chittenden “was the only man he ever knew who was sure
to be right in all, even the most difficult and complex cases, and yet could
not tell or seem to know why he was so.” Thomas Chittenden was born
in East Guilford, in the colony of Connecticut, January 6, 1730, being of the
fourth generation from Major William Chittenden, who emigrated
to America in 1639, after honorable service in the
Thirty Years’ War. His educational advantages were
meagre. Finding the life of a New England farm lacking in
adventure, at the age of eighteen he signed as a sailor on a voyage to the West
Indies. Great Britain and France were engaged in one of their
periodic wars, and a French warship captured the trading craft, landing the
crew upon a barren island of the West Indies.
After enduring many hardships, Thomas Chittenden made
his way back to his Connecticut home. In process of time he married
a comely New England maiden, Elizabeth Meigs, removed
to Salisbury, Connecticut, raised a family of
four sons and six daughters, became a man of substance, and was honored by being chosen a justice of the peace, member of
the Connecticut Assembly and colonel of a regiment. There is in the
Chittenden family a legend to the effect that the subject of this sketch led a
rescuing party in the pursuit of a band of Indians which had taken captives
from Connecticut and had started for Canada. The pursuers followed
the Connecticut and White River valleys, crossed over to the valley of the
Winooski, rescued the captives and returned home. The story goes
that the party camped overnight on an intervale in Wiliston, which Colonel Chittenden determined to
own. In 1773, he purchased a large tract of fertile itervale land on the Winooski, sufficient for large farms
for himself and his sons. In June, 1774, the family removed to the
new home, where a clearing had been made and a log house built.
With the outbreak of the American Revolution the frontier was not a safe place
for the Chittenden family. After the Canadian campaign had ended in
an American disaster, in the spring of 1776 Thomas Chittenden buried some of
his possessions, and taking his family on the backs of horses and oxen, he made
his way to Danby, where he rented a farm. During the next few years
the family resided at Pownal, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, and Arlington. Chittenden’s
experience in public life in Connecticut commended him to the Green Mountain
Boys, and he was elected chairman of the Council of Safety. The New
Hampshire Grants, at least that portion west of the Green Mountains, had
refused to recognize the governmental authority of New York.
A rudimentary form of government had been established by means of local
committees of safety, a central committee of safety, and delegate conventions
held from time to men of integrity and distinguished for wisdom and
abilities.” He died August 25, 1799. Over his grave in
the old cemetery at Williston the state of Vermont has erected a monument, on
which is fittingly inscribed the words: “Out of storm and manifold perils rose
an enduring state, the home of freedom and unity.”
Chittenden William & Joanna:
William Chittenden, son of Robert, bapt Mar 1594, Parish of Marden (near Cranbrook) England. died Feb 1660[61], Guilford,
Connecticut [age 67 yrs] married in England Joanna Sheaffe,
dau of Dr. Jacob and Joanna, born ??? died 16th Aug 1668, Guilford,
Connecticut. Her 2nd married 1st May 1665,
Abraham Cruttenden of Guilford,
Connecticut. Children: 1.
Thomas, b England, d Oct 1683; m Joanna Jordan.
2. Elizabeth, m 16th Jun 1657, Thomas Wright, Jr., of
Wethersfield, CT. 3. Nathaniel, d. Jun 1691; m Sarah
[_____] 4. John Chittenden, b 1643, Guilford,
CT., d Apr 1716; m 12th Dec 1665, Hannah
Fletcher, Guilford, CT. 5.
Mary Chittenden, b 1647, d 9th Mar 1712; m 4th Oct 1670,
John Leete [eldest son of Governor Leete]. 6.
Hannah Chittenden b 19th Nov 1649, d 1650, Guilford, CT. 7.
Joseph [twin] b 14th Apr 1652, d 22nd
Jun 1652. 8. Hannah [twin] b 14th Apr
1652, d 13th Sep 1674 [age 22 yrs] unm.
9. Deborah, b 16th Dec 1653, d 16th Sep
1674. 10. Joanna Chittenden. Notes:
William Chittenden, the immigrant ancestor, came to this country from the
parish of Cranbrook, Kent, England, to seek a new home in the wilderness and to
enjoy the free exercise of religious principles. He was one of
a company of twenty-five who sailed from England for America about the 20th
of May 1639, and after a passage of about seven-weeks arrived in New Haven
about the 10th of July. They made arrangements for
settling in Guilford in the autumn of the same year, adding to their company
some few whom they found in New Haven. The deed of purchase of the
lands for the colony from Shaumpishuh, the sachem
squaw of Menunkatuck is dated September 29th
[9th Oct N.S.], 1639. William Chittenden is
believed to have been the son of Robert Chittenden. In the record
of baptisms in the parish of Marden, near Cranbrook, there is an entry of
William, son of Robert, March 1594. William Chittenden
was a man of ability and influence, and during his whole life, filled many
important officers in the plantation. He was one of the six persons
selected to purchase the lands in Guilford from the native owners, and was also
one of four [Robert Kitchell, William Chittenden,
John Bishop, and William Leete], who received , according to the record “full power and authority
to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the public weale and civile government of
the plantation, until a church is gathered amonge
us.” On the gathering of the church, [19 june
N.S.], these four magistrates resigned their trust to the church, which as in
New Haven, exercised control in secular and civil matters, as well as in those
relating to religion. He was the chief military man of the
plantation and bore the title Lieutenant. Savage says that he had
been a soldier in the English army in the thirty-years-war in the Netherlands,
and had received the rank of Major. He was a magistrate and deputy to
the general court until his death. His lands in Guilford comprised
about 100 acres, the most of which is still in possession of a descendant
[1882]. In the New Haven Colonial Records [Pg 417]:- “An
inventory of the estate of William Chittenden of Guilford, deceased was presented
a mounting to L677.16s 7d, as presented and proved in court at Guilford
the 21st of Feb 1660[61], upon the oath of Joanne Chittenden, the
widow and relict of the said William Chittenden, deceased, for the quantity,
and by the testimony of Abraham Cruttenden, Sr., John
Fowler and William Stone, appraisers for the valuation to be just. Note;
It is stated in New England Gen and History. Reg., XXII,Pg 160. ‘That Mary Merriam (widow
of Robert who died 22nd Jul 1693] mentions in her will [dated 15 Feb
1688], four children of her sister, Joanna Chittenden: John, Nathaniel, Mary
and Joanna. The other six had apparently died previously.
Chittenden Data from A
History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck
–
And of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut, by
Bernard Christian Steiner, published by the author, Baltimore, MD
1897:- Ebenezer Chittenden 2nd great-great-grandson of
Lt. William Chittenden, was born 11th Sept
1726, in East Guilford, whither his father had removed. His mother
was a sister of Dr. Samuel Johnson of Stratford. He settled in New
Haven. Possessing great mechanical genius, he invented, among other
curious machines, one for bending and cutting card teeth in a single
movement. It is said sone unscrupulous
person obtained knowledge of this invention and patented it in England as his
own. Eli Whitney had an exalted opinion of Mr. Chittenden’s
skill and judgement as a mechanic. He died 11th May
1812. (p. 483)
Thomas Chittenden, brother of the last mentioned, was
born in East Guilford 6th Jan 1730. On 4th
Oct 1749, he married Elizabeth Miegs and soon after
moved to Salisbury. There he resided, cultivating a farm, until
1774, he showed such ability that, though only possessing a common school
education, he was sent to the Colonial Legislature from 1766 to 1769, and in
1772 he was made Colonel of Militia and Justice of the Peace. In
1774 he settled in Vermont, at Williston on the Onion River.
“Driven out of Williston by the British in 1776, he moved to Danby, Pownal and Arlington and returned to Williston in 1787,
remaining there until his death, 24th Aug 1797. He had
served in the Vermont Legislature and was elected its first Governor in 1778,
serving in that capacity until his death.”
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden, Sr. was born at Guilford 29th
Mar 1814, and died at Brooklyn, NY 14th Apr 1889, he went into
business in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved to New York City in
1843. He made a fortune in dry-goods trade, and retired in 1875
with a large fortune. He married twice, had two children by his
first wife: S. B. Chittenden, Jr, of Brooklyn and
Mary, who was married to Dr. William T. Luck of New York City. (Condensation of pp. 487-488).
Henry Abel Chittenden, who died 22nd May
1895 at Montclair, NJ, was the youngest child of Abel and Anna Hart (Baldwin)
Chittenden, and was born in Guilford, 29th Apr 1816. He
went into business in New Haven, then moved to Hartford, and finally to New
York City where he was in business with his brother, Simeon Baldwin Chittenden,
in the wholesale dry-goods business. He lived in Brooklyn until
1858 when he moved to Montclair, NJ. He married in Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1844, Henrietta Gano
who was a descendant of francois Gerneux, a Huguenot refugee, one of the founders of New
Rochelle, NY. (Condensed from p.502)
Chittenden: Volume III. Howe. (The Chittenden Line)
This surname is derived from the corrupt British and
Welsh words chy, meaning “house” and tane, “lower” and din or dun,
“hill,” the lower house on the hill. The name is quite common in
England, and the spelling, which has been greatly varied, is almost always
Chittenden at the present time. Only two families of the name were
early immigrants to America. Thomas Chittenden, a linen weaver,
came with his son Isaac from Wapping, in county Kent, and settled in Scituate,
Massachusetts, where his descendents are still found. It is not
known whether he was related to William Chittenden, mentioned below.
(V) Governor Thomas (2) Chittenden, son of Ebenezer
Chittenden, was born in Guilford, 6th Jan 1730. He
was educated there in the common schools. He
removed from his native place to Salisbury, Litchfield county,
Connecticut, when he came of age, and was one of the first settlers and became
one of the leading citizens there, holding various civil and military
offices. In 1773 he moved to what were known as the New Hampshire
grants in Vermont and purchased a large tract of land on Onion river, then a wilderness, afterward the town of
Williston. During the revolution he had to abandon his home on
account of its exposed situation. He was a leader in the movement
to establish a separate and independent government for Vermont,
and in 1778 was chosen first governor of the state, continuing in office with
the exception of one year until he died. He received the degree of
Ph.D. from Yale in 1880; LL.D. in 1903 from the University of Toronto: Sc.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1904. Indefatigable in labority investigation, Professor Chittenden has displayed
equal ability in the presentation of his results in literary form.
He became associate editor of the English Journal of Physiology in 1890 and of
the Journal of Experimental Medicine in 1896. He was active in
establishing the American Journal of Physiology, of which he is also an
associate editor. He is on the staff of the Journal of Biological
Chemistry. He published “Studies in Physiological Chemistry” (three
volumes, 1885-89), a record of the investigations of himself and pupils,
furnishing material which has been utilized in all standard text-books since
then. He published in 1894 “Digestive Proteolysis” and in 1901
“Studies in Physiological Chemistry,” Yale Series: in 1904 “Physiological
Economy in Nutrition,” and in 1907 “Nutrition of Man.” He has
written a multitude of papers for periodicals and learned societies on a wide
range of subjects, and he has been in constant association with leaders in
research and thought in chemistry and physiology. He became a
member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1890. He is also a
member of the American Physiological Society, of which he has been on the
council since 1887, and was president 1895 - 1904; of the American Society of
Naturalists, of which he was president in 1903; of
the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in
(IV) Simeon, son of Josiah and Hannah (Sherman)
Chittenden, was born in Guilford, 28th Dec 1714, and married 26th
Jan 1737, Submit, daughter ofJohn and Mary (Norton)
Scranton, of Guilford, born 18th Jun 1712. She died 15th
Apr 1796. He removed to North Guilford, and acquired a large landed
property there. He was chosen deacon of the church there, 25th
Oct 1760. He served in the revolution, Lexington Alarm, Captain
Noah Fowler’s Company, seven days. He died 12th Apr
1789. Children: Mabel, born 5Nov 1737; Josiah, 13th
Nov 1739: Simeon, 13th Apr 1742, mentioned below; Submit, 9th
Dec 1744; Mary, 12th Oct 1747;
Abel, 2nd Nov 1750; David, 1755.
(V) Simeon (2) son of Simeon (1) and Submit (Scranton)
Chittenden, was born 13th Apr 1742, and married, 15th Dec
1773, Sarah, daughter of Selah and Rachel (Stone) Dudley, of Guilford, born 3rd
Dec 1746. She died 12th Mar 1841. He lived
in North Guilford, where he was a farmer by occupation and noted for his
kindness and liberality to the poor. He was killed by a vicious
bull, 22 Sep 1812. Children, born in Guilford: Josiah 14th
Oct 1774, died 23rd Sep 1781; Sally, 9th Jan 1776; David,
23rd Sep 1777; Abel. 31st
Aug 1779, mentioned below; Simeon, 1781, died 4th
Mar 1782; Lucy, 19th Mar 1783; Ruth, 19th Jan 1785;
Rachel, 28th Apr 1787; Simeon, 3rd Jan 1791.
(VI) Abel, son of Simeon (2) and Sarah (Dudley)
Chittenden, was born 31st Aug 1779, in Guilford, and married 19th
Jun 1804, Anna Hart, daughter of Timothy and Olive (Norton) Baldwin, born 8th
Feb 1784. She died 4th Jun 1845. He lived in
Guilford on the lot occupied by the first William, and died there 5th
Dec 1816. Children, born in Guilford: Henry Baldwin, 9th
Nov 1805, died 27th Jun 1806; Olove
Norton, 21st Apr 1807; Sarah Dudley, 21st Dec
1809; Anna Hart, 14th Apr 1812; Simeon Baldwin, 29th
Mar 1814, mentioned below; Henry Abel, 29th Apr 1816.
(VII) Simeon Baldwin, son of Abel and Anna Hart
(Baldwin) Chittenden, was born in Guilford, 29th Mar 1814, and
married (first) 10th May 1837, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Sherman
Hartwell, of Warren, Connecticut, born 29th Sep 1818, died 3rd
Sep 1852. He married (second) 11 Oct 1854, Cornelia
Baldwin, 1907 he was president of the American Society of
Biological Chemists. As an indication of the standing of Professor
Chittenden among scientists, it is appropriate to repeat the sentence from the address
of President Daniel C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, at the
semi-centennial celebration of the Sheffield Scientific School; “Nowhere else
in this country, not in many European laborities, has
such work been attempted 171 and accomplished as is now in progress on Hillhouse Avenue, unobserved, no doubt, by those who daily
pass the laboratory door, but watched with welcoming anticipation where ever
physiology and medicine are prosecuted in the modern spirit of
research. “In 1908 he was appointed by President Roosevelt a member
of the referee board of consulting scientific experts to aid the secretary of
agriculture in deciding questions connected with the pure food laws of the
country. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a Protestant
Episcopal. A lover of nature, he takes delight in outdoor
recreation, especially in fishing. His home is at 83 Trumbell Street..
Professor Chittenden married, 20 Jun 1877, Gertrude L., daughter of Charles F.
and Hannah Maria (Bradley) Baldwin, who came from county Kent, England.
Children: 1. Edith Russell, graduate
of Smith College in 1899. 2. Alfred Knight, Ph.B., Yale,
1900; M.F., Yale, 1902. 3. Lilla
Millard, born 31st March 1885.
(III) Josiah Chittenden, son of Thomas Chittenden
(q.v.), was born 1677, and married, 8th Jan 1707, Hannah, daughter
of John and Elizabeth Sherman, of Woodbury, Connecticut, baptized July
1680. She died
30th Jul 1744, aged
sixty-four. They lived
in the eastern part of the old Chittenden homestead, in Guilford, which had
come to him from his father. He died there, 28th Aug
1759. Children born Guilford: Josiah, 21st
May 1710, died 11th aug 1729; Simeon, 28
Dec 1714, mentioned below; Joanna, 2nd Jan 1716; Mehitabel,
28th July 1719; Mary 14th Sep 1721; Abigail, 31st
Oct 1723, died 21st Aug 1732.
widow of Rev. Walter Colton, of Philadelphia, chaplain in
the Navy, and daughter of Oren and Mary R. Baldwin Colton, of Philadelphia,
born 13th Feb 1817. Mr Chittenden was for the greater
part of his life a merchant, and carried on a successful and extensive business
first in New Haven, and after 1842, in New York. Until his
retirement in 1874, his form was second to none in financial standing and
business enterprise. In the fall of that year he was elected member
of Congress from the state of New York, and continued in that office by
successive reelections until 1881. He was
a ready and forcible speaker, and had sound views on subjects of national
interest, especially in financial matters; on that account, he exerted a wide influence
in the direction of public affairs. Children: Mary H., 18th
Aug 1840; Simeon B., 6th Jun 1845,
mentioned below; CharlesS., 11th Aug
1850.
(VIII) Simeon B., son of Simeon Baldwin and Mary
Elizabeth (Hartwell) Chittenden, was born 6th Jun 1845, in Brooklyn,
New York, 172 and married 21st May 1868, Mary warner,
daughter of John Joel Hill, of Brooklyn, New York. She was born in
Albany, New York, 22nd May 1847. Her mother was Mary
Elizabeth McMurdy of Albany, and was from an old
family of albany.
She is a descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth
Tilley, and through them is a member of the Mayflower
Society. She is also a member of the Colonial Dames of New York
State. Mr Chittenden graduated from Yale College in 1865, and
became a lawyer in New York City. His winter residence is in
Brooklyn, New York, 212 Columbia Heights. In summer he lives in
Guilford, Connecticut. Children: 1.
Alice Hill, born 27th Jun 1869, unmarried. 2.
Mary Hartwell, 28th Jan 1872, widow of Augustus F. Holly,
Jr. 3. Anna Gansevoort, 2nd Feb 1876,
married Charles Martin Thayer of Worcester; no children. 4.
Simeon Baldwin, 7th Apr 1879, married Grace Chapman; children: i. Alice Fay. ii Lydia
Barrett. 5. Paul, deceased.
Chittenden Ruth: Arnold High School,
Cluster County, Nebraska. Class of 1929.
The Chittenden Way of Life:
“The first governor of Vermont lived in Arlington, up
near the railroad station where the new Masonic building stands. A
bronze memorial tablet on that slope commemorates the presence here of the Chittendens’. But no homely stories
of everyday life ever get put into bronze. It costs too
much. So, from the inscription on the tablet, you would never guess
what kind of people the Chittendens were.
They were perfectly in accord with the general Vermont idea that people who
don’t work with their hands and muscles have no call to look down on those who
do. One of the favorite stories still
told about them in Arlington is of a well-dressed traveler,
who had business with Governor Chittenden, riding up from the South and looking
for somebody to ask about the whereabouts of the Chittenden home. When he
drew near to Aldington, the narrow dirt road was completely blocked by a big
hay wagon. The driver, who sat high up on it driving the two
horses, was an old fellow with grizzled hair and plain farmer’s
clothes. The stranger, who wore a three-cornered hat and a
wide-skirted bright blue coats with lace ruffles and gold buttons, called out
to him. “Can you tell me where His Excellency Governor Chittenden
lives”. The old farmer turned his head and
called back. “I’m going there. Follow me.” The
elegant stranger assumed that the old fellow in the workingman’s smock-frock
was one of the servants employed at the gubematorial
mansion; for in the American colonies of the eighteenth century the
governors lived in “a style befitting their rank” as the saying used to
run. For the same reason, dressed handsomely, too, with silk coats
and velvet breeches, silk stockings, and silver buckles on well-polished
shoes. The hay wagon crawled slowly around many turns in the narrow
road. The gentleman rider jogged impatiently behind it.
Finally they arrived at a plain, small, farmer’s house. Across the
road was a barn and barnyard. And here the hay wagon turned
in. The astonished rider followed. The hay wagon
halted, the old farmer slid to the ground, gave the reins to a waiting boy,
turned to the man in fine broadcloth, dusted off his hands, and said
pleasantly, “I’m Governor Chittenden. What can I do for you?”
Another story is about Mrs Chittenden. Some fine city folks had come up from
Massachusetts to see her husband about business. These
visitors from a state where the governor never appeared without a powdered wig
and never went out except in a coach were surprised to see Mrs Chittenden
herself, aproned from neck to hem, getting the
dinner, bustling to and from the kitchen into the dining room where a long
table was spread. But they were more surprised when the wife
of the chief executive of Vermont stepped to the door and rang the big bell
which, she explained, was to call in the men working in the
hayfield. Seeing the gentlemen look surprised, she said
mildly, with the dry Vermont, ironic turn which we treasure, “I know, it must seem odd to you that we eat at the same table with
the haymakers. Of course I realize they’ve been out in the hot sun
all morning, while we have been here, comfortable, in the house. By
rights, they should eat first and we should wait our turn.
But I thought since you were company, they wouldn’t mind having us all eat
together
Chittenden Widow: Extract from a diary of Israel Litchfield from 1775 “April the
24th Anno 1775
In the morning we saw several vessels off the
harbour. We shifted our quarters from Mr Otis’s to the Widdow Chittenden’s
house. There we had two rooms and a chamber given up to us.”
Aldrich History of Bennington County Vermont
“A council of safety was appointed to administer the
affairs of the State until some other provision in that regard should be
made. No list of the members of this council is to be found, but is
is known that Thomas Chittenden, Ira Allen, Moses
Robinson, Jonas Fay, Joseph Fay, Paul Spooner, Nathan Clark and Jacob Bayley were of the number.” “The situation in
which the inhabitants of the grants found themselves after the Declaration of
Independence necessitated the calling of another convention of delegates from
the several towns on the west side of the mountains, but desiring delegates
from the east also: which convention duly assembled, according to
warrant, at the tavern of Cephas Kent, in the town of
Dorset, on July 24, 1776. Delegates for the town of Williston….
Colonel Thomas Chittenden.” In a committee chosen to present the
action of the convention to congress, and to petition that body that the State
have a representation therein, was composed of Jonas Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen and Reuben Jones, and the duly assigned to them
was performed in due season.” “Resolved, That the petition of Jonas
Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen and Reuben Jones,
in the name and behalf of the people, styling themselves as aforesaid,
(inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants,) praying that their de, that they
would consider themselves as a free and independent State, may be received;
that the district in the said petition described, may be ranked among the free
and independent States; and that the delegates there from may be admitted to
Congress, “be dismissed.” There is a letter written by Thomas “To
the inhabitants of the State of Vermont”. “The election for
State offices was held on the first Wednesday of March 1778. Each
town elected a representative, or at least was permitted so to do, while the
State officers - the governor and council - were chosen at large by the
freeman. The State officers first elected for Vermont were as
follows: Governor - Thomas Chittenden, of Williston, Lieutenant Governor
- Joseph Marsh of Hartford. Councilors -
Ira Allen, of Colchester, Jacob Bayley, of Newbury;
Joseph Bowker, of Rutland; Timothy Bronson, of
Sunderland; Benjamin Carpenter, of Guilford; Jeremiah Clark, of Shaftsbury;
Benjamin Emmons, of Woodstock; Jonas Fay, of Bennington; Thomas Murdock, of
Norwich; Peter Olcott, of Hartland; and Moses
Robinson, of Bennington.”
Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England
Families: 1620-1700 compiled by Frank
R. Holmes & published in New York in1923
“Chittenden from Cornish British and
Welsh, from Chy - tane -
din, City, a house, tane .lower, and din, a hill. i.e. the lower house on the
rising or fortified ground..” John,
son of Robert of Cranbrook, Kemt, Eng, bapt 1594. He was a major in the English
army: arrived at New Haven, Conn. 1639, and one of the first settlers of
Guilford, Conn. Thomas Chittenden, linen weaver, came
from Kent County, born England, 1585, came to Scituate, Mass. 1635.. William, brother of John, settled
in New Haven, Conn., 1639: afterwards a resident of Guilford, Conn..
From: Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable
Thirty families Ezra S. Stearns,
a.m. History
of Rindge, N. H. History of Asburnham, Mass. History of Plymouth,
N.H. published by George E Littleford, Boston 1911. Under the name Jacob Galusha are listed 16 children, the fourth of which was
Elijah, born 23 Oct 1757 who married Beulah Chittenden, a daughter of Gov.
Thomas and Elizabeth (Meigs) Chittenden.
He died a few years later. His widow married, second, Col. Matthew
Lyon, a native of Ireland, who lived several years
in Fairhaven, VT. and later in Kentucky and
Arkansas. He was a member of Congress from Vermont and Kentucky,and a delegate from the
territory of Arkansas. He died 1 Aug 1822. His widow
died 1824, near Little Rock, Ark. The story of his career is one of
romantic incident and of unusual interest. His sons were able and
brilliant men. Jacob Galusha’s
fourth child was Jonas, born 4 Feb 1752. He lived in Shaftsbury and
was constantly employed in public affairs. He was a sheriff,
councillor, judge of the county court, president elector, and governor of
Vermont 1809 to 1819, except 1813 and 1814. He married Mary
Chittenden, a daughter of Gov. Thomas and Elizabeth (Meigs)
Chittenden. She died 30 Apr 1704. He married second,
Martha Sammons, who died 10 Nov 1797: he married third, 30 Jun 1808, Abigail
Ward, who died 6 May 1809: he married fourth, Abigail (Atwater) Beach, who died
30 Jul 1831. He died 25 Sep 1834.
From” American Marriages before 1699 compiled by Wm
Montgomery Clemens in 1926:-
Chittenden Mary & John Leete, 4 Oct 1870, Guilford, Ct.
In the Fletcher Family History
page 285:-
Chittenden John S. of Buffalo,
married Annie Lorenz Platt. They had John, Phoebe and
Annie..??? Frederick Fletcher b. 1804 in Woodstock, VT
1804 m. 1831 Maria Chittendon who died 1834.
He married Beaulah Chittendon 1936. Daughter by 1st
marriage: Mary M. B. By second marriage, Frederick Fayett
and Truman Chittenden ???.
The Great Migration. Vol. 11. Article about
Thomas Chittenden of Wapping, Middlesex migrating in 1635
Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope. “Chittenden, Chettenden,
Thomas, age 51, with wife Rebecca, age 40, and children, Isaac, age 10, and
Henry, age 6, in the ‘Increase’, April 1635. He settled in
Scituate, linen-weaver. Took Oath of Allegiance 1
Feb 1638. Will dated 7 Oct 1668, probate 4 Jun
1669. Bequest all to sons Isaac and Henry (REG.
VII. 178)”. Page 27 re Baker
family. “Rev. Nicholas who came early to Hingham
1635/6. First wife is not named, 2nd wife Grace,
had several children, one of which was Deborah bapt. 6 Jun 1652, who married Israel Chittenden”. Page 271 re Vinal family. “Stephen, Scituate, 5 Mar 1638/9. Anna,
spinster (his widow?) received deed of land with other property. In 1648. She died 6 Oct 1664: administration of her
estate granted to Stephen and John V. (Reg. VI. 186) Stephen married 26 Feb
1662, Mary Baker, Martha married Apr 1646, Isaac Chittenden”.
NEHGS Newletter
1995. April-June issue,
Vol.5:
Article re the Lathrop Church - last paragraph “As a
result, there were only ten male members of Lathrop’s church left behind in
1640 - Humphrey Turner, Edward Foster, Timothy Hatherly,
Thomas Laphan, Isaac Stedman, William Vassall, Isaac Chittenden, John Winter, Richard Sillis and Thomas King. These were the
men who would have to face the problem of gathering a new church”.
NEHGS Newsletter. 1850. Vol 4, Page 165:
Nathaniel Chittenden m Desire Otis,
1749. Page 257:
Isaac Chittenden, under Scituate 1643 “List of
those able to bear Arms in New Plymouth”.
NEHGS Newsletter. 1848
“Moses Paine of Braintree inventory of his goods
signed by Robert Kitchell, William Chittenden, Benjamin ??? and John Reade”
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers on New
England:
Showing three generations of those
who came before May 1690 on the basis of Farmer’s Register, by James Savage. Volume 1, published in Boston by Little,
Brown and Company 1860:- Chittenden
Henry, Scituate 1651, son of Thomas born in England, had Joseph, born 1657,
beside Susanna, Eliz and Ruth, and died 1713 leav. Died Eliz. Extrix. Of his will, in which he devised to Nathaniel, son of
Joseph born 1694, the lds of Cohasset, and mentioned
other great grand children Mary Morton, Ruth Stetson and Alithea,
perhaps sister of Nathaniel, Isaac, Scituate, elder of the preceding, came with
his family April 1646, Mary, eldest daughter of widow Ann Vinal,
had Sarah and Rebecca, twins, born 25th Feb 1647, Mary 17th
Aug 1648, Israel 10th Oct 1651, Stephen 5th Nov 1654,
Eliz 9th Sep 1658 and Isaac 30th Sep 1663, beside Benjamin,
without date of birth, but kn to have come before the
last, perhaps even earlier, for he was married, without issue, when he fell, as
a soldier under Captain Michael Pierce 26th Mar 1676, in that last
Rehoboth fight when Canonchet took wild compensation
for the cruelty of our NH.E. powers to his father Miantonomi the saddest example of judicial blindness in our
first generation. He was representative 1658, often after, and was
killed 20th May following the loss of his son when the Indians
assaulted the town. Sarah married 1666 Captain Anthony Collimore. Israel, Scituate, son of the
preceding married 1678 Deborah, daughter of Rev. Nicholas Baker, had Nicholas,
born 1678, Isaac 1781 and Israel 1690, mwh yr je was
lieut. In the sad expedition of Phips, when Sylvester, Captain John Stenson, ens,
of his company were lost. John, Guilford, youngest son of
William, married 12th Dec 1685, Hannah, daughter of John Fletcher,
had John born 19th Oct 1666, Eliz 26 Jan 1669, Joseph 26th
Mar 1872, Gideon 23 Sep 1678, died young, Abel 14th May 1681, and
Lydia 30th Mar 1684 and died Apr 1717. Nathaniel, Guilford, brother
of preceeded by wife Sarah, had Nathaniel born 1st
Aug 1669, Sarah 2nd Mar 1672, Mary 16th Feb 1675, Joseph
6th Sep 1677, Hannah 15th Mar 1679 or 80, Deborah 15th
Oct 1682, died at 2 years, and Cornelius, 1685, and died Jun 1689.
Stephen, Scituate, brother of Isaac, married 1679, Mehitable,
daughter of Isaac Bush, had Thomas born 1688, and perhaps other children.
Thomas, Scituate, a linen weaver, from some part of
County Kent, it is said, came from London in the “Increase”, 1635, age 51 with
wife Rebecca, 40, and those children before mentioned, Isaac 14 and Henry 6,
unit with his wife 12th Feb 1637, to Lothrop’s Church, had grant of
house. Lot. 1638, on Kent Street.
He died 1668 and his will was of 7th Oct. inv. 9th Nov of
that year.
Thomas, Guilford, eldest son of William married Joanna
(the name following is Jordan, but is crossed out), perhaps daughter of John,
had Samuel born 20th Sep 1664, died unmarried at 30
years. William 5th Oct 1666, Joanna 13th Dec
1668, died young, Abigail 5th Dec 1670, Thomas 12th Jan
1673, Mehitable 1675 and Josiah 1678, died Oct
1683. William and Josiah had progeny, and one (I know not which)
was grandfather of Thomas, the first Governor of the State of Vermont, whose
son Martin Dart Chittenden 1789, was also Governor and died 1840
Genealogies by the Library of Congress: 1986 Section III:
CS71.C543 1895 Genealogical and revolutionary records
of Edwin Sedgewick Chittenden and Nile Searles Chittenden of St. Paul, Minn. [microfilm] – [Saint
Paul??: s.n., 1895?] 8 p.,
[1] leaf of plates: ports: 25 cm. Cover title. Descendants of William
Chittenden, 1594-1661. “Taken [with additional notes] from the Year Book
of Minnesota Society Sons of America Revolution. Published at St. Paul,
1895”-P. [1] Notes in manuscript throughout text. Illustrated material
preserved in MicRR. Call numbers of original: CS71,
C543 1895 Master microform held by: DLC. Microfilm, Washington,
D.C. Library of Congress Photo duplication
Service, 1985. 1 microfilm reel: 35 mm Microfilm 84/8217 [C] 84-248145
[8910]
General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars: 1899-1902:
Chittenden Major William, 1593-1660. Colony of Conn. In 1643 elected principal military man,
Magistrate of the Plantation, and Deputy until his death. Brewer William A. 460. Buell Frederick F. 55. Buel, Jno L. 296. Chittenden Edw.
A. 360. Chittenden Edwin S. 432. Fletcher, Truman C. 362. Leete Charles S. 304. & nb
sp: Stetson George R. 325. Tracy Robert S. 453.
History of Hartford:
“The greatest of all evils which they suffered were
derived from the savages. These people kept the colonist, after the
first hostilities commenced, in almost perpetual terror and alarm.
The first annunciation of an Indian war is its actual commencement.
In the hour of security, silence and sleep, when your enemies are supposed to
be friends quietly employed in hunting and fishing when they are believed to be
at a distance of several hundred miles, and perfectly thoughtless of you and
yours; when thus unsuspecting, slumbering on your pillow, your sleep is broken
up by the war-whoop; your house, your village are set on fire; your family and
friends are butchered and scalped, yourself 1 The 1st section
of the “Militia Act,” passed in February, 1779, made the lieutenant-governor
major-general. In a letter written by Gov. Chittenden to Lieut-Gov. Marsh, 29th Apr 1778, he addressed
him as major-general.
History of Litchfield County, page 455
“The first National Bank of New Milford originally a
State Bank, the Bank of Litchfield County, with capital of
$100.000. The first meeting of stockholders was held 6th
Dec 1852 and Board of Directors was chosen - F Chittenden. The
banking house was the small brick building on Main St. Mr
Chittenden was compelled to resign 7th Apr 1853. While
the State Bank and very soon after its organization, the Bank of Litchfield
County sustained heavy losses on account of the misdoings of it’s President, Frederick G Chittenden…. Page 456…. The
Union Library of New Milford was established in the centre of New Milford, 18th
Feb 1796. Among the first proprieters,
Stephen Chittenden, Jr.
History of Orlando: ‘From Florida Sand to the Beautiful’ by E. H. Gore,
Orange Press, 2d ed. 1951, pp 268-269:
‘Chittenden and Van Horn’ George Curtis
Chittenden and wife, Anna Rose, were born in England and came to this country
in 1876 and settled in Fairfield, Illinois. In May 1884 they
decided to go South and grow up with the country, so
located in Orlando. Mr Chittenden engaged
in architecture and building, and planned and built many of the first large
frame houses constructed in Orlando. He
took an active part in lodge circles and was a charter member of Eureka Chapter
No. 7, R.A.M. and served as its first High Priest in 1886. He was
Grand Tyler when Orlando Lodge No. 69, F. & A.M.
laid the cornerstone for the brick court house in 1892. He also
served as Noble Grand of the Odd Fellows Lodge. Mr. Chittenden
raised two children, Geo. J. Chittenden and Florence Chittenden.
They were members of the Episcopal Church and were buried in Greenwood.’
‘Mr. Wm. Perry Van Horn married Florence Chittenden in Fairfield, III., and came to Orlando in
1884. They had two children, Harry C. and Annie C., one of whom,
Mrs. Annie C. Gore still resides in Orlando, 512 Macy
Street. She is the widow of Frederick Delmar Gore who with his
brother, William E. Gore, came in early days to work on the first brick
buildings as they were experienced brick layers. They built the old
red brick court house.’ ‘Harry C. Van Horn left Orlando in 1903 and served as Grocery Dept. manager for
Baker and Holmes in Jacksonville, Fla., for 23 years. Now he
resides in Valdosta where for years he has been connected with a turpentine and
rosin company.’ ‘During the war he was chairman of the
U.S.O., President of T.P.A., Exalted Ruler of the Elks and District Deputy of
South Georgia, Chancellor Commander of Knights of Pythias.’
His mother,Mrs Florence Van Horn, conducted a
dressmaking parlor in the two-story wooden block,
corner of W. Church and Orange Avenue, where the First National Bank building
is now located.’
NOTE: My great-grandfather was William E.
Gore, brother of Frederick Delmar Gore, born 4 Jul 1873 in Cuthbert, (Randolph
Co.), GA, died 4 Oct 1933 in Orlando. My
mother remembers Annie May Chittenden Van Horn Gore as a lovely
person. Annie and Fred married 6 Sep 1901 in Orlando
(Orange Co.) Florida. I have that Annie was born ca 1886 in Fairfield, IL, and
died 5 Feb 1973 in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is buried in
Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, along with her
husband. Florence Chittenden Van Horn enjoyed a fine reputation as
a dressmaker. Orlando is my home town - Chanda.
History of Portage County, Ohio Warner, Beers & Co, Chicago, 1885.
John Parmelee, a native of
England, who with his family and twenty four other men, presumably also with
families, set sail for America in 1639. While on
shipboard and a few days out of Boston, the company entereed
into the following covenant or agreement. “We, whose names are
hereunder written, intending by God’s gracious permission to plant ourselves in
New England, and it may be in the southern part about Quinnipisack
(or New Haven) we do faithfully promise each to each for ourselves and our
families and those that belong to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, set
down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation, to be helpful each
to the other in any common work, according to every man’s ability and as need
shall require, and we promise not to desert or leave each other on the
plantation but with the consent of the rest or greater part of the company who
have entered into this engagement, as for our gathering together in a church
way, and the choice of ! …. Officers and members to be joined together in that
way do refer to ourselves until such time as it please God to settle us in our
plantation, in witness whereof we do subscibe our
hands thus 1st day of June 1839 - Robert Rickell,
John Bishop, Francis Bushnell, William Chittenden, William Leete,
Thomas Joans, John Jurden,
William Stone, John Hoadley, John Stone, William Plam, Richard Suttridge, John Housinger, William Dudley,
John Parmelee, John Mepham,
Thomas Norton, Abraham Crittenden. |Francis Chatfield, William Noble, Thomas Naish, Henry Kingston, Henry Doude,
Thomas Cook, Henry Whitfield.” They were Presbyterians and the last named was
their minister. This company located in Guilford, Conn.
History of Santa Cruz: by Steve Williams.
“George Augustus Chittenden - This gentleman is one of
the well-known Native Sons of Santa Cruz Parlor No. 90,
and a prominent young businessman of this city, being associated with L .J. Dake, under the firm name of Dake
& Chittenden, the California market. He is the son of J. H.
Chittenden, and was born near Petaluma, Sonoma County, September
17, 1862. He came to Santa Cruz with his parents when six years of
age, and has been reared and educated here. His business experience
began as a dry goods clerk in 1878, in which capacity he worked for eight
years, when he established himself in business, as above noted. The
venture has proved very successful, which of itself is strong proof of the
popularity of the firm, and the best evidence of their method of conducting
business and efforts to please patrons. Mr. Chittenden
is an active member of the Santa Cruz Parlor
N.S.G.W., having passed through all the chairs of the order, at present being
Past President. He is prominent in committee work and energetics endeavors to further
the interests of the order and promote the welfare of Santa Cruz, He is also Vice President and Director of Santa Cruz Parlor No. 90, N.S.G.W., Building Associate Mr.
Chittenden is an industrious and temperate young man of good habits and
business ability.”
History of Scituate, Massachusetts: From it’s First Settlement
to 1831.” Samuel Deane (1733-1814)
Lieut. Isaac Buck, Blacksmith. He died
intestate 1695. Commissioners divided his estate as follows:
Excerpt:- “To Mehitable,
wife of Stephen Chittenden”
History of Washington State Public Works: “Building Washington” Paul Dorpat
and Genevieve McCoy. Tartu Publications, Seattle, 1998
“Colonel Hiram Chittenden arrived [in Seattle] in 1906
as the Corps’ [of Engineers] chief engineer for the Seattle office ….. Hiram
Chittenden renewed the public’s faith in the full-sized [ship canal] with its
masonry lock at Ballard (in 1954 it was named for him) and wide cut at Montlake as significantly superior to Moore’s smaller
timber lift. The federal government’s $2.275 million appropriation
to the project eliminated any need for anxious canal boosters to again turn to
private developers. Ground was broken Nov. 10, 1911 …. (and on) February 2, 1916 …. The first vessels to pass
through the still opengates carried commuters
…. On Jul 4th 1917, the Lake Washington Ship Canal was
dedicated. Confined by stroke to a wheelchair the partially paralyzed Chittenden watched what he could of the naval
parade from the prospect of his Capitol Hill home. He died 97 days
later.”
History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut
1658 May |
Wright Thomas married (Wethersfield Recs., 11. P.
171. and Talcott’s N.Y. & New England Families,
p. 729, say 16 Jun 1657) to Elizabeth (dau of
Lieut. William) Chittenden (acc, to Chapin, tho’ Savage thinks this marriage
may have been that of Thomas, of Guilford) She died 17 Feb 1675, age 38, he
died 23 Aug 1683 |
p 851 |
1688 Apr 27th |
Goodrich, Col. David m (1) Hannah (dau of Thomas Jr. & Elizabeth Chittenden) Wright, of
Wethersfield died Wethersfield , age near 28 |
p 374 |
|
Elizabeth Chittenden married Thomas Wright, was the dau of Lieut William & Joan
(Sheaffe) Chittenden: b. Cranbrook, Co. Kent, Eng.,
1694 son of Robert & Mary (Merriam) Chittenden: d in England 22 Jul 1593.
See American Ancestry |
Vol
5, p. 16 |
1767 Apr 29th |
Chittenton “The aged Mrs” died - Newington Church Records |
p. 207 |
1783 Jan 16th |
Mercy Chittenden m Sgt John Francis Wethersfield |
p 338 |
|
Lusk William T. m (1) Mary Chittenden (2) Matilda
Thorn: he was an eminent N.Y. Phys. Grad. Y. C., and Bellevue: served in
Civil War |
p 493 |
1841 Oct 10th |
Stillman Deacon Ebenezer m Anna Chittenden of Guilford,
Conn., d 4 Jun 1845 |
p. 678 |
1876 Dec 10th |
Wolcott Hannah Blinn (dau of Charles Wolcott & first wife Hannah Blinn) |
|
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b 27 Jun 1848 m George M Chittenden. Issue: 1.
Elizabeth Wolcott Chittenden |
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b 31 Mar 1884: 2. Marion Chittenden, b 9 Oct 1888 |
p. 846 |
History of Worcester and Its
People, by Charles Nutt. Volume 1. Pages 153,154
Representative citizen of Worcester, whose death at
his home there on Fep 19th 1894, was felt
as a severe loss by a large circle of friends and business associates, was a
member of an old New England family, which for many years was most closely
identified with the life and affairs of the State of Vermont. It
was a member of this family who was the first governor of the newly made State
after the Revolution. Thomas Chittenden was one of the most
conspicuous figures of the Green Mountain State at that period, and was the
natural choice of his fellows for the first and highest honor
in their gift. The Chittenden family is of Welsh origin and the
name derived from 3 Gaelic words, chy, tane, den or din, which has significance of a castle or
fortress in a valley between mountains. William Chittenden, a
native of Cranbrook, Kent, England, who in the year 1639 came from his native
land and settled at Guilford, Conn. He was the
great-great-grandfather of Governor Chittenden and also of Bethuel
Chittenden, the first Protestant Episcopal minister in the same
state. Thomas Chittenden was born Jan 6th
1730, at east Guilford, Conn, and like many of the prominent figures in our
early history was brought up on a farm. When 18 years old he went
to sea, and as England and France were then at war,
his vessel was captured by a French cruiser. He was sometime in
winning his liberty, and when he did so, he found himself friendless and
indigent in a West Indies port, from which he had great difficulty in making
his way home again. He decided thereafter to make his home on the
land and became rapidly well lnown in the Winooski
Valley, situated on the southside of the river of
that name, and about 12 miles above its union with Lake Champlain.
Here he lived and prospered until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, in the
disturbances preceding which he had taken a prominent role. At the
conclusion of this trouple he was elected first
federal Governor and distinguished himself most highly in that difficult post
when unusual powers of organization were required. He married
Elizabeth Meigs, and they were the parents of 10
children. It was from such sterling stock as this that Collins
Williams Chittenden was descended, and he himself displayed in his character the same strong and trustworthy traits that were
possessed by his ancestors.
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical & Family Memoirs: (Lewis Historical Publishing Coy, 1911; edited by Cuyler Reynolds)
Vol. 2. Pp. 656-657: William Chittenden was a magistrate of
Guilford, Connecticut, from 1639 to 1743, and a deputy to the general assembly
of Connecticut, 1646-51-53-60. He was Lieutenant of the town
militia, 1648. He died in February 1660-61. He married Joana Sheaff, died August 16th 1668.
(ii) Nathaniel, son of William and Joana (Sheaff)
Chittenden, died June 1691. Married Sarah – (iii)
Nathaniel (2) son of Nathaniel and Sarah Chittenden, was born August 10th
1669; married Elizabeth Stevens, born July 14th 1668, died November
15th 1738. (iv) Nathaniel (3) son of Nathaniel (2)
and Elizabeth (Stevens) Chittenden, was born June 6th 1701, died
August 1762; married January 6th
1735, Lucy Nettleton. (v) Daniel, son of Nathaniel (3) and
Lucy (Nettleton) Chittenden, was born August 27th 1739; married at
Killingworth, Connecticut, Grace Watrons.
(vi) Wise, son of Daniel and Grace (Watrons)
Chittenden, was born April 17th 1775, died December 1857; married October 15th 1798, Huldah Buell, born August 29th 1777, died
February 18th 1868. (vii) Harlow Watrons, son of Wise and Huldau
(Buell) Chittenden, was born March 22nd 1817, died July 24th
1872. He was the first general superintendent of the consolidated
New York Central Railroad lines. He married December 18th
1837, Nancy Jane Williams, born October 25th
1820. (viii) Helen Maria, daughter of Harlow Watrons and Nacy Jane (Williams)
Chittenden, married December 13th 1865, Dr. John Seymour Clarke, of Syracruse, New York. (ix) Marian
Chittenden Clarke, daughter of Dr. John Seymour and Helen Maria (Chittenden)
Clarke, married General Charles Whitney Tillinghasti.
Minnesota Railroads 1849-1875. “The Vigilante, the
Explorer, The Expounder and the First Superintendent
of the Yellowstone National Park
Page 658: On the night of September 19th,
the explorers camped at the junction of the Firehole
and Gibbon Rivers. The bivouac at that spot has made it historic,
for there the idea of establishing a National Park bloomed and blossomed forth
in full flower and became a practical one. General H. M. Chittenden
retired, when Engineer in Charge of road construction, etc., in the park, very
properly placed a large tablet at this point to commemorate that
truth. To a high hill or salient at this point has also been given
the name National Park Mountain.
Page 661: General H. M. Chittenden, in his
fine and very conscientious work, “The Yellowstone National Park,” published in
1895, treats this matter thus
Page 662: I have the greatest admiration and esteem
for General Chittenden as a personal friend, a man, and a
historian. But I cannot but feel that he has, with the best motives
and intentions in the world, scarcely awarded the honors
in the affair in an equitable manner. He has given Hayden, who did
not, originally, have any faith in the idea, entirely too much credit, and to
Langford and Clagett altogether too
little. Langford was the John the Baptist of the National Park
idea, crying aloud both in the wilderness and out of it, in advocacy of the Park, beofre Hayden ever saw the
region. As previously stated, the first suggestion of it that came
to Hayden was from Langford’s (p 662) own lips from the lecture
platform. Langford and Clagett, as will
appear later, had the movement for segregation well under way before Hayden
became connected with it, or possibly, even knew of it
Page 662: It is a matter of regret that John Muir ever
expressed such an opinion. Mr. Muir may, possibly, base his belief
upon what General Chittenden has said, and further, perhaps, upon what the U. S.Geological Survey has stated, for the latter also seems
disposed to uphold Hayden as the one all important factor in the establishment
of the Park
The American Fur Trade: by Hiram Chittenden
Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. Nebraska.
Volume 11, 1986.
www.thefurtrapper.com/indian_disease.htm
“Vermont Historical Gazetter.”
By Hemenway. Hinesburgh
Page 832. “Hon. Noah Chittenden, oldest son of Governor
Thomas Chittenden, born in 1753, had entered public life previous to his coming
to Jericho, as we find him sheriff of Addison County in 1785. He
married a daughter of John Fasset of Bennington, and
had two children: Thomas, born in 1791, and Hannah wife of
Hon. Truman Galusha, born in 1795.
His son Thomas, or as he was commonly called, Judge Thomas, after his father’s
death, removed to Ohio, where his son Thomas Jefferson still
resides. Most of the original titles to land were lost by sheriff’s
sale for taxes. By this means “Judge Noah” became the owner of nearly or quite
2000 acres, by far the most opulent landholder in town. He had
therefore, a great influence, and was much employed in public business in town
and county. We remember him well - a hale, stout, vivacious old
gentleman. He died rather suddenly of apoplexy in 1835.
Hon. Martin Chittenden lived many years in Jericho, near his brother
Noah. Representative many years before he removed to Williston