Some Descendants of Jabez Fitch (Jabez, James, James) and Lydia Huntington of Canterbury

  1. Ebenezer Fitch was born on 26 Sep 1756 in Norwich. [CVR][TCBD] He died on 21 Mar 1833 in West Bloomfield, New York. [TCBD] He married Mary (Backus) Cogswell in May 1792. Mary was the daughter of Maj. Ebenezer Backus. [TCBD]
    Ebenezer graduatd from Yale in 1777. [TCBD] He taught in Hanover, New Jersey for a year. [TCBD] He received his D. D. degree from Harvard in 1800. [TCBD] He was a tutor at Yale from 1780 to 1783. [TCBD] For the following three years he unsuccessfully followed a business career. [TCBD] He was a gain a tutor at Yale from 1786 to 1791 and also acted as the librarian. [TCBD] He was licensed to preach in May 1787. [TCBD] He was elected precepter of a new academy in Williamstown, Massachusetts in Oct 1790. [TCBD] In 1793 this academy was incorporated as Wiliams College and Ebenezer was appointed the first president. [TCBD] He was ordained on 7 Jun 1795. [TCBD] He resigned from Williams in May 1815 and became the pastor of the West Bloomfield Presbyterian church, a post he held for the rest of his life. [TCBD]
  2. Lydia Fitch was born on 9 Oct 1758 in Canterbury. [CVR] She died on 2 Aug 1759 in Canterbury. [CVR] She is buried with her sister Abigail in the Cleveland cemetery in Canterbury click here to see a photo of her grave.
  3. Lydia Fitch was bron on 14 Jun 1760 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 22 Jun 1760 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 148] She died of illness on 21 Jan 1800 in Marietta, Ohio. [MFK, p. 45] She married Eliphaz Perkins in 1780. [MFK, p. 46]
  4. Abigail Fitch was born on 24 Jul 1762 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 2 Aug 1762 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 149] She died on 24 Apr 1763 in Canterbury. [CVR] She is buried with her sister Lydia in the Cleveland cemetery in Canterbury click here to see a photo of her grave.
  5. Jabez Gale Fitch was born on 20 Mar 1764 in Canterbury. [CVR] He was baptised on 1 Apr 1764 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 150]
  6. Sarah Fitch was born on 28 Apr 1766 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 11 May 1766 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 151]
  7. Anne (Anna) Fitch was born on 3 Feb 1769 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 7 Feb 1768 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 151] She married Daniel Clark Sanders. [NEAH, 136;317]
  8. Chauncey Fitch was born on 17 Jan 1771 in Canterbury. [CVR] He was baptised on 20 Jan 1771 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 152]
  9. Samuel Fitch was born on 30 Mar 1773 in Canterbury. [CVR] He was baptisesd on 4 Apr 1773 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 153]
  10. Lucy Fitch was born on 24 Mar 1777 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 5 May 1777 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 153]
  11. Alice Fitch was born on 2 Jun 1781 in Canterbury. [CVR] She was baptised on 22 Jul 1781 in the Congregational Church in Canterbury. [RCCC, p. 153]

References

CVR AmericanAncestors.org, Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.
TCBD Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, The Biographical Society, 1904.
MFK May, Richard Holman,. The May family of Kingston, Ohio: A genealogy of Henry and Susannah McCutchen May and their descendants, with sections on the McCutchen and Taylor families and related lines, Washington, D.C, Privately published, 1969.
RCCC Records of the Congregational Church in Canterbury Connecticut 1711-1844, published jointly by the Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Mayflower Descendants of in the State of Connecticut, Hartford, 1932.
NEAH Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The New England Ancestry of H.R.H. The Princess of Wales," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 136, 1982, 85-103, 307-336.

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