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Second Generation. Hester, b. in England, m. at Saybrook John Post, son of Stephen Post, March, 1652. They had two sons and seven daus. John Post was also one of the "35", and his home was across the street from his wife's father's. He was an active, influential man in the town. Hester Post, d. Nov.13, 1703. John Post, d. Nov. 27, 1710, aged 84. Many distinguished people are among their descendants. 155 SAMUEL, b. 1636, probably at Hartford, m. Jane Lee, June, 1659, of Saybrook, "In Aug., 1660, was b. to Samuel and Jane Hyde, a dau. Elizabeth, the first white child b. at Norwich." (Christopher Huntington was the first male child.) "The home where this first child of Norwich opened her eyes to the world, stood on a declivity sloping to the town street, with higher land in the background, bristling with massive rocks and heavily shadowed with chestnut and oak." This homestead remained in the Hyde family for five generations, the last occupant of the name being Elisha Hyde, Esq., mayor of the city. Samuel Hyde, d. in 1677. His widow afterward m. John Burchard. She lived to be 90. Third Generation. Phoebe, b. June, 1663, m. Matthew Griswold of Lyme, grandson of the first Matthew, brother of Edward. The first Gov. Matthew Griswold was their grandson. Maj.-Gen. Pope and many other distinguished men were among their descendants. SAMUEL, Jr., b. May, 166', m. Elizabeth Calkins (152), Dec. 16, 1690. He lived first at West Farms, now Franklin, but removed to Windham and afterwards to Lebanon. At the first town meeting held at Windham, June 11, 1692, Samuel was chosen as one of the town officers. He d. Nov. 6, 1742. John, b. Dec. 1667, m. Experience Abell. They had a large family, most of whom lived to be very old. President Grover Cleveland is a lineal descendant of John Hyde, and also of Hester Hyde and John Post. William, b. Jan., 1670, m. Ann dau. of Richard Bushnell. He inherited the homestead of his grandfather in the town plot. He lived to be nearly 90, and d. Aug. 8, 1759. He had ten children, nine of whom left descendants. His oldest son, William, was the first Hyde to receive a college education. He graduated at Yale, 1721. Sarah, b. Feb., 1675. Thomas, b. July, 1672. Jabez, b. May, 1677, the year his father died. The five sons of Samuel, Sr., had forty children, of whom twenty-five were sons and reared families. This accounts for the rapidity with which the name spread through the county. In 1779, there were upwards of twenty families of Hydes, numbering over one hundred and fifty members, in the town plot and western part of Norwich, and notwithstanding the removals to other parts of the country, the census in 1791 records thirteen families of the name in Franklin and eight others in Norwich. The Hydes have been pioneers in every generation. As soon as civilization overtook them, some would "move on," until they were distributed from Maine to California, and from Florida to Puget Sound. No doubt some have made their way to Alaska, not that they avoid civilization, for wherever they settle there is soon seen a church and a school. The pioneer spirit is as much an inheritance as a love of travel. It is the spirit of progress working out in different ways. Fourth Generation. Samuel, b. at Windham, Sept.10, 1691, m. Priscilla Bradford, Jan. 14, 1725, great granddaughter of Gov. William Bradford, who came in the Mayflower. She was also, on her mother's side, granddaughter of Maj. John Mason, who was a leader of the Pequot war, which gained him a high standing among the military commanders of the time. " He became renowned as an Indian fighter and stood forth a buckler of defense to the exposed colonists, and a terror to the wild people of the wilderness." They settled at Lebanon, where he d. Feb. 14, 1776. She d. May 14, 1778. They had nine children. Daniel, b. at Windham, Aug. 16, 1694, m. Abigail Wattles, settled at West Farms, where he was a distinguished and active member of the church and community. He d. Dec.26, 1770. They had eleven children. Sarah, b. Dec.20, 1696, m. Ebenezer Brown, Feb. 25, 1714, a grandson of Maj. John Mason. She lived to be one hundred years and two months old. Caleb, b. April 19, 1699, m. Mary Blackman, Sept.17, 1724. He d. March, 1765. Ebenezer, b. 1701, m. (i) Dorothy Throop, Feb. 25, 1729, (2) Elizabeth Graves. He d. Aug. 21, 1742 Elizabeth, b. Dec. 12, 1703, m. Jan. 16, 1723, Rev. Timothy Collins. He graduated at Yale 1718; studied medicine and surgery as well as theology. He was ordained as the first minister of Litchfield, Conn., June 19, 1723, and by the terms of the town grant became entitled to a large tract of land which subsequently gave wealth to him and his children. In 1752, he withdrew from that position, and in 1755 he went as surgeon with the troops sent to the relief and protection of Crown Point. He returned to Litchfield and was appointed justice of the peace and devoted the rest of his life to that office, and to the practice of medicine. His wife, Elizabeth Hyde, was a woman of marked and varied ability. She was quite a famous nurse and survived her husband many years. The date of her death is not known, but she was living in Jan., 1780, the "cold winter," when she was sent for and drawn on a hand sled four miles to Goshen to attend upon a lady who needed her services. Timothy and Elizabeth Collins had nine children. Two m. Hydes and one a Huntington. One went a missionary among the Indians and never returned. Three granddaughters, sisters, Rhoda, Elizabeth and Lois Collins, rn. three brothers, Evelyn, James and Robert Pierrepont, sons of Rev. James Pierrepont. Rev. John Pierrepont, the poet, was a son of James and Elizabeth. Another grandson, Rev. Ashbel Baldwin, a graduate of Yale, then an officer in the Revolution, and an Episcopal clergyman, was one of the first two to be ordained in the Episcopal form in the United States. The other was Rev. Philo Shelton, a brother of Ashbel, was an officer in Col. Zebulon Butler's regiment at the massacre of Wyoming, and was one of the few who escaped. Many other distinguished people are proud descendants of Timothy Collins and Elizabeth Hyde. ELIJAH, b. at Lebanon 1705, m. Ruth Tracy dau. of John Tracy and Elizabeth Leffingwell (126) of Norwich. They settled at West Farms where they resided until 1742, when they moved to Lebanon. She d. Oct. 15, 1773. He m. (2) Mercy Coleman, 1774 Ann, b. 1708, m. (I) Simon Gray, (2) Capt. Adoinjah Fitch, great grandson of Maj. John Mason. Lydia, b. 1710, m. Jonathan Metcalf. They had thirteen children. She d. 1793. This closes the record of the ancestry of Moses Hyde and Sarah Dana, and brings us to the period of the Revolution. No doubt there were many individuals along the way who had their tempers, peculiarities, idiosyncrasies, but after diligent search through records and histories, reading very many biographies and personal sketches, following them into their home as well as public and official life, I have failed to find one single instance of any kind of meanness. They seem all and always to have been active, useful, thoughtful, helpful men and women. All were imbued with a deeply religious spirit and endeavored to live up to that spirit at all times. In all cases where no other occupation is mentioned, they were farmers, legitimately, but were, especially in the early days, obliged to do much mechanical work, and so they helped themselves and each other. In the earlier times they owned large tracts of land but built their houses in groups for the better protection against the Indians, and also for the convenience of church and school and social privileges, for, if somewhat austere in their religious ideas, they were a social people and had their festivals, chief of which were Thanksgiving and Training Days. Sleigh rides and other gatherings were not uncommon. In the middle period, between the strict Puritan times and the Revolution, dancing was a common diversion of young people. Balls and midnight revels were interdicted, but neighborly dances, either with or without a fiddler, often a part of the company singing for the others to dance were frequent. At a great wedding dance, which took place at New London, we read that: "92 gentlemen and ladies attended and danced 92 jigs, 52 contra dances, 45 minuets and 17 hompipes and retired at 45 minutes past midnight." They began in the morning. At this period there were many half-way houses between Norwich and other towns, which were often the terminus of sleighing parties. One kept by a Hyde seems to have been especially popular.
GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF MOSES HYDE AND SARAH DANA Andrew, b. Sept.10, 1732, at Norwich, m. Hannah Thomas, Aug.21, 1755. They settled at Nor- wich, but about 1760 moved to Mass. They had two sons and four daus. Elijah, b. Jan.17, 1735, m. Mary Clark of Lebanon, Feb.24, 1757. He was a confidential friend of the first Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, of Conn. He commanded a regiment of light horse during the Revolution, and was on duty with the northern army at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. At the close of the war he returned to his home at Lebanon, where he d. Dec.31, 1810. His wife d. April 30, I831. They had twelve children, including two pairs of twins. Eliphalet, b. May 4, 1737, d. Nov. 4, 1743. Caleb, b. July 29, 1739, at Norwich, m. Elizabeth Sackett, 1761, dau. of Capt. John Sackett, a physician of Oblong, N. Y., and niece of Admiral Richard Sackett. They settled at Lenox, Mass., in 1769. He was a captain and saw much active service in the Revolution. He was subsequently sheriff of the county of Berkshire, Mass. He afterwards moved to Lisle, N. Y., at what is called "The Hyde Settlement," and became a leading man in that part of the State. He was Maj.-Gen. of Militia and was elected Senator from the western district of New York in 1803, and in 1804 was chosen by the Assembly as one of the "Council of Appointment." They had fifteen children; one pair of twins. He d. Dec.25, 1820. She d. June 6, 1806. Zina, b. at Lebanon, April 2, 1741, m. (i) Sarah Goodwin, 1769, (2) Lois Bosworth, 1785. He d. Jan.13, 1796. He had six children by first wife and three by second, but only three lived to grow up and marry. (There is a tradition in the family that Zina also served in the Revolution, was taken prisoner and escaped by a very ingenious strategy, but I was unable to entirely verify it.) Eliphalet, 2d, b. May 9, 1744, m. (I) Norma Flint of Farmington, May 20, 1766, (2) Abigail Washburn. He also was an officer in the Revolution. He subsequently settled at Whitingham, Vermont. He was the first town clerk of that town. In 1780 they moved to Pittstown, N. Y. He d. March, 1825. He had eight children, one pair of twins. Ruth, b. May 5, 1746, m. April 17, 1768, Capt. Andrew Huntington, a descendant of Simon the Deacon. He also was active in the Revolution. They lived at Lebanon, where he d. July 15, 1811. She d. 1825. They had eleven children. Moses, b. at Lebanon, Sept. 11, 1751, m. Sarah Dana, Dec. 6, 1787. They settled at Lebanon, but eventually moved to Middleburg, N. Y., where he purchased a large tract of land. After having erected buildings and made extensive improvements, a prior claim to the land all through that district was put in - an old land grant that had been over looked. The claimant offered to sell the land over again, but at such exorbitant prices that most of the settlers preferred to abandon the situation. Among them was Mr. Hyde, who took his family to Livonia, in western New York in 1812, where he d. in 1828. His wife survived him many years and d. in 1856, aged 93. Moses Hyde did not enter into field service like so many of his brothers, but he is recorded as being "active in opposition to British aggression" at Lenox in 1774. Ebenezer, b. Nov.26, 1753, at Lebanon, m. Lucy Huntington, cousin of Capt. Andrew, his sister's husband, Nov.17, 1776. They settled at Lebanon, but like his brothers he eventually went into active service in the Revolution, was taken prisoner and died on the "Jersey" prison ship, the horrors of which are beyond description. He left a young wife and two very young daus., Elizabeth and Eunice. His wife survived him more than fifty years, but never married again. She d. May, 1833. Sixth Generation.
Lewis Hyde received a good education, supplementing the usual school work with special studies with a lawyer. He taught school several years in addition to the management of his farm. He served in the war of 1812, and his widow drew a pension for his services. His wife also was a teacher before her marriage. In May, 1832, he moved to Michigan with his family, wife and six children. They traveled with household furniture and provisions to Rochester, twenty-five miles, in wagons, then by Erie canal to Buffalo and through Lake Erie and Detroit river on the Superior," the second passenger steamer built to ply on that lake to Detroit, then in wagons again to Auburn, Oakland county, twenty-five miles, where his younger brother had located three years before. The journey occupied five days. They remained a year at Auburn, then Mr. Hyde took up eighty acres of land from the government in Southfield, same county, and built a comfortable log house and moved his family there. The next year a log school house was built, and Mr. Hyde was the first teacher, his six children attending. He was a Presbyterian and brought up his family religiously.
Children of Lewis & Lucy Hyde:
Charlotte 1822 to 1903 Mariette 1827 to 1889 Cordelia 1825 to Avoline 1835 to 1873 Harrison Dana 1818 to 1897 William Herschel 1820 to Joseph Warren 1830 to 1896 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/4791/hyde-dana.html
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