Querists are requested to write all names of persons and places so that they cannot be misunderstood, to write on only one side of the paper, to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and ten cents in stamps for each query. Those who are subscribers will be given preference in the insertion of their queries and they will be inserted in the order in which they are received. All matters relating to this department must be sent to THE CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE, Hartford, marked Genealogical Department full name and post office address. It is optional with querist to have name and address or initials published. CORRECTIONS. Query No. 77- Date in fourth line of query should read 1679 instead of 1719. Query No. 92. Ann and Eliakim Hitchcock were married about 1736-7 instead of the parents of Ann, whose birth, names, marriage and death records are wanted. ANSWERS. To No. 74.-Ebenezer Russell of Branford married Abigail Rossiter, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Moss, Baldwin) Rossiter of North Guilford. June 23, 1784. He died in North Guilford Oct. 12, 1850, aged 92. B. R. To 80 (a).-A genealogy of Bishop of Guilford and of some other Bishop families may be found in Putnam's Historical Magazine, 1896-1899. Enquire at any large library. To Query 89 (b), The Chatham records show three, possibly four Jesse Higgins. 1. Jesse, b. Dec. 4, 1756, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth Cole Higgins. He (it is supposed) died at Danbury, Ct., of an accidental wound, Nov. 24, 1777. His line is Jesse, Lemuel5, David1 (b. Eastham or Orleans, Mass., 1706, d. in Give Middle Haddam, 1771) Richard3, Benjamin, Richard', of Plymouth and Eastham, Mass. 2. Jesse, b. June 28, 1731, at Eastham or Orleans, Mass., m. Nov. 16, 1752, Ruth Darte, dau. of Ebenezer and Ruth (Loomis) Darte of Haddam Neck, Conn. Mrs. Ruth Darte Higgins d. Oct. 1, 1776. And Jesse5 is said to have died in 1778 in the War. They had at least two children: Jesse, b. 1753, m. Jan. 26, 1772, Keziah. Stevens. Ruth6, b. 1755 (?), m. May 5, 1773, John Wright, Jr. The line of Jesse is Israel4 (m. Ruth Brown) Samuel (M.Hannah Cole), Benjamin2, Richard1, of Eastham, Mass. 3. Jesse? Higgins, b. in Chatham, Conn., Jan.25, 1784, was son of Lemuel and Charity Eddy Higgins. Lemuel was brother of Jesse 1. above. Jesse and Keziah (Stevens) Higgins had: Samuel, b. Sept. 16, 1774. Jesse', b. Aug. 21, 1776, m. Lucynthia Smith, Nov.9,1798. Seth, b. Dec. 2, 1778, m. Nancy S. Spencer, April 1, 1800. I know nothing. about the ancestry of Keziah Stevens. HOMER W. BRAINARD, 88 Kenyon St., Hartford. 494 QUERIES. 97. (a) Merwin.-Mary, wife of Lieut. names of father and mother of Mary. E. S. CHITTENDEN, St. Paul, Minn. 98. Baldwin.-Henry. 99. Revolutionary soldier, private 6th Company, 7th Regiment. Enlisted from Saybrook, Conn., July 11, 1775. Discharged Dec. 18,1775. Capt., Edward Shipman, After the war Col., Chas. Webb. married Jane Shipman of same place and moved to Cornwall, Conn. Who were the parents of Henry Baldwin and Did they have any Jane Shipman? brothers and sisters? L. J. T. I. Wilcox. John, of Hartford, died Sarah 1651; his son John2, m. Wadsworth. 2. Katherine Stoughton. 3. Esther Cornwall, and moved to Middletown, Conn., after second marriage. His sons were: Israel3, b. 1656. Samuel3, b. 1658, and Epraim3, b. 1672 who m. Silence Hand. Israel3, m. Sarah Savage and had Israel4, b. 1679, John, b. 1682, Samuel1. b. 1685, and Thomas1, b. 1687. It is desired to connect with the foregoing, John Wilcox, who was b. in Killingworth, April 15, 1732, m. Anna Stevens,and had : Ebenezer, John, James, William, Anna, David, Levi, Amy and Dinah. 100. T. Grihme (Graham).-Henry Grihme and his wife Mary lived in Wethersfield Lane, Hartford, 1661. They had three sons: Benjamin, John and Joseph. Benjamin was afterward known as Ben- ΙΟΙ. Platt. Zebulon, Redding to New Fairfield, Conn., in 1791. He married before 1773 Eunice, daughter of Abel Hubbell of Fairfield. It is thought his father's name was Timothy Platt, Jr. mother's name? 102. What was his W. C. P. (a) Andrews.-Joseph, fourth son of John the settler, born at Farmington, May 26, 1651, married Rebecca They located about the center of Newington. Who was she? of (b) Curtiss.-Dr. Joseph Andrews, (c) Huriburt.-Elijah, third son of (d) Wright.-John Stanley, son of John Stanley and Esther Newell, born Feb. 17, 1682, married Mary Wright of Wethersfield, Dec. 9, 1714. Who were her parents? (e) Mix.-John Stanley, son of John A VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT. LONG the line of improvements in public libraries, now common, and public art galleries, which it is hoped, soon will be common, the village improvement in its various lines, play an important part as educational factors in the life of the people. The tendency for private enterprise to take an interest in what has heretofore been regarded as public work is a good sign, and the more this is done in the right spirit, the better for all. It is gratifying to note the interest taken in many places in the village green or city park, but it is not gratifying to note the almost universal neglect throughout Connecticut accorded our railroad stations. The entrance to a town should be more worthy of it. There should be some means taken to remedy the appearance of what is usually the most unattractive spot in the town. An instance worthy of emulation in this respect is what has been done in the town of Norfolk in this state. Led by a few public spirited residents, who stood not upon precedents, but stepped boldly forth to a new order of things, the result is a model of its kind inside and out. The means necessary, to accomplish like results in other places will of course vary with the circumstances of each case. Every town has public spirited individuals who could and would do much more for the town's improvement in various ways with a little more encouragement of custom. In this respect Norfolk holds a prominent place. No town is a better example throughout, of public spirit by private individuals. Let their example be contagious. RAILROAD VINDICTIVENESS. The "Consolidated" road believes most thoroughly in the principle of "Living," but the "Letting live" is entirely another story. Its whole career is marked and marred by a series of petty persecutions of its competitors in business, and its patrons also, that if recounted, would show as contemptible and disgraceful a record as one would care to contemplate. The latest of its achievements is the spiteful attempt to block the Central New England Railway Company's extension line to Springfield. By buying land to shut off the right of way, and then by securing injunctions through legal technicalities in defective charter rights, it has succeeded in delaying the completion of the line, but we hope in the name of common justice and for the best interests of the state that the delays will be of short duration. N the year 1839 the town of Sharon, IN Cony, celebrated the first century of its existence, and an historical address was Mr. One of the most persevering and care- several of them entirely new to the pub- HISTORICAL NOTES. The field day of the Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution at New London and Groton on the 6th of the present month calls up many thrilling incidents of our little state's history. The day was chosen in commemoration of the burning of New London by the British troops and the massacre of the garrison at Fort Griswold across the river from the town. On September 6, 1781, the British troops to the number of 1600 were landed in two equal parties, one of which attacked the town and the other the fort at Groton. The defenses of the town were of little account and the defenders few in number. The British headed by Arnold soon entered the town where they set fire to the principal dwellings and storehouses, destroying 143 buildings, and to the shipping at the wharves. The other party attacked Fort Griswold on Groton Heights and after the garrison of 120 men had killed more than that number of the enemy the fort was sur- |