Abigail Finch

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From the Lebanon, Conneticut town website:

http://www.lebanontownhall.org/trumbulltownhist3.htm

Settlement of the Town of Lebanon
The town of Lebanon was formed by the consolidation of a number of tracts of land when the town was incorporated by the General Assembly on October 10, 1700. The tracts of land included early land grants by the General Assembly, cessions by Mohegan Indians, and proprietary purchases by settlers from the Mohegans in the 1690s. The area encompassed nearly 80 square miles. It included the modem town of Columbia and a small section of the town of Andover.
In 1663, the General Court granted to Major John Mason of Norwich a tract of 500 acres of land for services to the colony. Mason selected a tract northwest of Norwich, in what is now the Goshen section of Lebanon, at a place along the Yantic River that the Indians called Pomocook. It was on the Hockanum Path, the Indian path from Norwich to the Connecticut River.

The tract officially confirmed and surveyed in 1664, was the first land grant in what would later become the town of Lebanon. It contained extensive stands of white cedar, valuable for shingles, clapboards and cooperage stock, and was called Cedar Swamp. In 1666, the colony granted the Rev. James Fitch, the minister in Norwich and Mason's son-in-law, a tract of l20 acres adjoining Major Mason's land.

Captain Mason's Mile, as it is first referred to in colony records, was a one-mile wide, seven-mile-long grant from Joshua, son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, to Captain John Mason, Junior, in March 1675/76. This large tract was adjacent to the earlier Mason and Fitch grants.

Before he died in September 1676, John Mason, Junior, conveyed half the Mile to his father-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch. John Mason 111, as the heir to one half of the Mile, and his grandfather, James Fitch, surveyed the land in 1695 and distributed the land. The area is also called "Fitch's and Mason's Mile."
In 1663, the General Court granted to Major John Mason of Norwich a tract of 500 acres of land for services to the colony. Mason selected a tract northwest of Norwich, in what is now the Goshen section of Lebanon, at a place along the Yantic River that the Indians called Pomocook. It was on the Hockanum Path, the Indian path from Norwich to the Connecticut River.

The tract officially confirmed and surveyed in 1664, was the first land grant in what would later become the town of Lebanon. It contained extensive stands of white cedar, valuable for shingles, clapboards and cooperage stock, and was called Cedar Swamp. In 1666, the colony granted the Rev. James Fitch, the minister in Norwich and Mason's son-in-law, a tract of l20 acres adjoining Major Mason's land.

Captain Mason's Mile, as it is first referred to in colony records, was a one-mile wide, seven-mile-long grant from Joshua, son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, to Captain John Mason, Junior, in March 1675/76. This large tract was adjacent to the earlier Mason and Fitch grants.

Before he died in September 1676, John Mason, Junior, conveyed half the Mile to his father-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch. John Mason 111, as the heir to one half of the Mile, and his grandfather, James Fitch, surveyed the land in 1695 and distributed the land. The area is also called "Fitch's and Mason's Mile."

The settlers in the Square were primarily from towns in the Norwich area and from a number of Massachusetts towns, including a large group from the Northampton area. Many of the families were closely related to each other, either through marriage or direct kinship. The first ten allotments were granted to a group of these Massachusetts men, who assigned these lots on their own. How they came to acquire these ten allotments has yet to be discovered.

[These early Fitch Families likely related to Abigail, wife of Joseph Reynolds (Runnals).-mfe

Abigail married Joseph of Mass Reynolds 1698, North Kingstown, Rhode Island . Joseph (son of Jonathan of John [A101] Reynolds and Rebecca Heusted/Husted) was born 1669, Watertown, Massachusetts; died 1727, Watertown, Massachusetts, or Stamford Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Joseph2 married Ruth Ferris/Farris. Ruth (daughter of Peter Ferris/Farris and Elizabeth Reynolds) was born 1699, North Kingstown, Greenwich, Rhode Island; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Rebecca Palmer. Rebecca was born Est 1705, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

John married Ruth Reynolds. Ruth was born Abt 1708, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Married Abigail and Mary (no last name for either)
Son Nehemiah m. Mary Armstrong and 2nd unk.
Jacob, 1751-1831, m. Sarah Hart
Robert 1798-181798-1890 m. Pamelia Norton'Samuel: b 1842 m. Mary Cornelia Rossiter

Ruben married Elizabeth Mead. Elizabeth was born Est 1713, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Joseph3 married Lydia Parker. Lydia was born Est 1737, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Joseph3 married Ruth Rich. Ruth was born Est 1727, Watertown, Massachusetts Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Israel married Deborah Thacker. Deborah was born Est 1755, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Baptist Minister. m 2nd Rhoda Carter

Parker married Esther Doggett. Esther was born 1755, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Parker married Rhoda Carter. Rhoda died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]