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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1685 | | Death Date | 1748 | | Father | Samuel II Cowles | Born: 1661 MAR 17 Kensington Conn | Died: 1748 OCT 14 | | Mother | Rachel Porter | Born: 1658 | Died: 1743 | | Thomas Cowles
Notes: | THOMAS COWLES, son of Samuel• (9), b. Feb. 5, 1685-6 at Fannington, Conn.; d. there March II, 1750--1, m. Jan. 6, 1713-14, Martha, b. Sept. n, 1692; d. Oct. 15, 1768 at Farmington · (gravestone), dau. of Capt. Thomas and Sarah (Freeman) Judd of Waterbury, Conn. Capt. Judd was deputy to the General Court Oct. 1696 and many subsequent terms; many times townsman; school committees; rate maker, etc.; ensign in 1702-3 until 1715 when promoted to be first Captain of the Waterbury trainband. He was son of William and Mary (Steele) Judd, and grandson of Thomas Judd and John and Rachel (Talcott) Steele of Farmington, Conn., the emigrants.
| | Notes: | "Mr. Worshipful" John Talcott, of Hartford, Conn., brother of Rachel (Talcott) Steele, was the father of Lieut.-Col. John Talcott, of Hartford, one of the patentees named in the ChartPr or Patent of the Colony of Connecticut granted by Charles II in 166-?, and one of the three custodians of the same from that date, ancf it is now claimed, on good authority, that he saved the Charter from falling into the hands of Sir Edmund Andros in 1687, and not Joseph Wadsworth as tradition says. Joseph Talcott, son of Lieut.-Col. John, was governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1725 to 1742 and the governors son, Joseph, was treasurer of the Colony from 1756 to 176g. A sister of Rachel (Talcott) Steele was the wife of William Wadsworth of Hartford, the progenitor of the distinguished Wadsworth family of Connecticut. . Capt. Thomas Judd in. Feb. 9, 1687-8, Sarah, dau. of Stephen and Hannah (Astwood) Freeman of Milford, Conn., and later of Newark, N. J. Hannah was a daughter of Capt. John Astwood of Milford, Conn. Thomas Cowles was somewhat taller than his father, brown hair, blue eyes, small trim legs, mild disposition, reserved in conversation, affectionate to his family and friends, attentive to his business and Calvinistic in his religion. Mr. Thomas Cowles lived on his fathers place in Fannington, known in 1850 as the Dr. Carrington place. His will, and ·also that of his wife Martha, are on file in the State Library at Hartford, Conn.
| |  | | Birth Date | 1692 | | Death Date | 1768 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Martha Judd Notes: | dau. of Capt. Thomas and Sarah (Freeman) Judd of Waterbury, Conn. Capt. Judd was deputy to the General Court Oct. 1696 and many subsequent terms; many times townsman; school committees; rate maker, etc.; ensign in 1702-3 until 1715 when promoted to be first Captain of the Waterbury trainband. He was son of William and Mary (Steele) Judd, and grandson of Thomas Judd and John and Rachel (Talcott) Steele of Farmington, Conn., the emigrants. | | Individual Notes: | | | |
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