Captain Samuel ... leaves his farm in "Woodbury, within Oxford Parish," to son Samuel and Caleb.

Caleb Cande and his Wife Lois received to Communion from ye Pastor and Church of Christ in West-Haven.

..died Oct. 4th, 1777, aged 55..

..d 20 Oct 1776 ae. 54 OxfC, 4 Oct 1777 ae. 55 Jack's HillT.

Candee, Patty, daughter of Capt. Samuel & Mabel, died Sept. 23, 1791, age 3 yrs. 10 mos.
Candee, Caleb, died Oct. 19, 1777, age 55 yrs. (Flag)
Candee, Louis, wife of Caleb, died Mar. 31, 1790, age 68 yrs.
Candee, Diriah, wife of David, died June 17, 1785, age 33 yrs.

Caleb Cande and his Wife Lois received to Communion from ye Pastor and Church of Christ in West-Haven.

1790, March 1st..

.. d 1 Mar 1790 OxfC, 31 Mar 1790, ae. 68 Jack's HillT.

Candee, Patty, daughter of Capt. Samuel & Mabel, died Sept. 23, 1791, age 3 yrs. 10 mos.
Candee, Caleb, died Oct. 19, 1777, age 55 yrs. (Flag)
Candee, Louis, wife of Caleb, died Mar. 31, 1790, age 68 yrs.
Candee, Diriah, wife of David, died June 17, 1785, age 33 yrs.

..Selectmen..

..chosen fence viewer..

The First Town Meeting ... first selctmen of the town of Oxford..

Oxford Tax List, 1792.

The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...

... Samuel Andrew Buckingham of Oxford ... to John Buckingham of Oxford ... west on land belonging to Caleb Candee ...

Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1767. Caleb Candee, Jr., and Anna, his wife, Mar. 8.

The Congregational Church.
BAPTISMS ...
... 1776 ...
March 17th Cyrus Son to Caleb Cander Jnr & Anna his Wife.
March 17th Mable Daughter to Shours Ufford & Elizabeth his Wife.

..died December 16, 1828..

Candee, Erastus, died June 27, 1817, age 33 yrs.
Candee, Anna, wife of Caleb, died Sept. 2, 1817, age 76 yrs.
Candee, Caleb, died Dec. 1, 1828, age 85 yrs. 3 mos. Revolutionary War (Marker)
Candee, Moses, died Aug. 2, 1833, age 68 yrs.
Candee, Sarah, wife of Moses, died Nov. 24 1841, age 72 yrs.

ae. 85 y.

Oxford Tax List, 1792.

Candee, Patty, daughter of Capt. Samuel & Mabel, died Sept. 23, 1791, age 3 yrs. 10 mos.
Candee, Caleb, died Oct. 19, 1777, age 55 yrs. (Flag)
Candee, Louis, wife of Caleb, died Mar. 31, 1790, age 68 yrs.
Candee, Diriah, wife of David, died June 17, 1785, age 33 yrs.

... 1774 ...
Octr 2d, David Cande & his wife Dinah owned ye Covenant.

Janr 3d, 1797, Voted that David Cande be Recomended to the Pastor & Chh at Harrington as having Renewd his Covenant and of a good moral character.

The Congregational Church.
BAPTISMS ...
... 1776 ...
Augst 25th Lucena & Lucinda Daughters twins to David Cande & Daniah his Wife.

... 1798 ... Grand Juror ...

Oxford Tax List, 1792.

... 1774 ...
April 24th, Gideon Candee owned his Covenant.

December 23, 1793, at a meeting of the Church in Oxford, he was appointed to build the meeting house; and at the same time it was voted to give him for it, six hundred and seventy-five pounds. It is said that sum did not pay him, and the embarrassment caused him to sell out and remove to Pompey.

It was in meeting on the23rd day of December, 1793, that Mr. Timothy Candee was appointed to build the meeting house, the same vote agreeing to give him therefor the sum of six hundred and seventyfive pounds, about $2,253.75. It was told me that the stipulated sum did not pay to Mr. Candee the expenses of the building; to meet the expenses of the house so embarrassed him pecuniarily that he gave up what of estate he had and removed to Pompey, N. Y., where he lived out his time.

The Oxford Hotel on Oxford Road was built.. 1795 by Daniel and Job Candee. Daniel Candee, who was also Oxford's first postmaster, operated the inn until about 1811. David Candee succeeded him as innkeeper until his death in 1851. Frederick Candee then inherited the inn from his father and ran it for some twelve years. In 1865 the inn passed through inheritance to David R. Lum, he was follwed by Mary R. Lum and then Franklin Lum in 1873.

..owned his Covenant.

He was in service at Bunker Hill ... He was a farmer and scythe maker ...

Capt. Samuel.

Candee, Patty, daughter of Capt. Samuel & Mabel, died Sept. 23, 1791, age 3 yrs. 10 mos.
Candee, Caleb, died Oct. 19, 1777, age 55 yrs. (Flag)
Candee, Louis, wife of Caleb, died Mar. 31, 1790, age 68 yrs.
Candee, Diriah, wife of David, died June 17, 1785, age 33 yrs.

... Hosea Dutton and Elizabeth his wife ... to Samuel Candee of Southbury ... certain piece of land lying at Riggs Hill in Oxford ...

Samuel, Capt. of 1st Co., in Oxford.

... the Department of the Interior at Washington furnished the following to John D. Candee, of Bridgepoprt, March 15th, 1882:
Sir: In accordance with your request for information of the military services of your grandfather Samuel Candee, in the Revolutionary war, the following statements are furnished from his declaration:
He entered the service at Derby May 1st, 1775, in Lieut. Bradford Steel's company, in Colonel Wooster's Connecticut regiment; marched to Boston, and was immediately appoined sergeant, the warrrant being signed by Col. Wooster, but is lost. He remained at the seige of that city during his 7 months term of enlistment, which ended January 1, 1776, but he was persuaded by his officers to remain 20 days longer. In Jul, 1776, he was a sergeant in a company of Woodbridge militia, then a part of New Haven, when the entire company was called out to go to New York city, and they left Woodbridge on the 213d of July. On their arrival they were ordered to Long Island, being attached to Col. Thompson's Connecticut regiment, where the company was engaged in several skirmishes with the enemy, followed by the retreat of the enemy to New York, and the evacuation of the city.
While engaed in throwing up entrenchments, the British sailed up the East river, landed at Turtle Bay, and on Sunday, September 15, an engagement ensued, and the enemy retreated to New York. Col. Thompson's regiment was the last to retire from the occupation of the City, and he was killed in one of the battles that occurred soon after. Samuel Candee and his brother Job, who was in Capt. Beecher's Company, and Col. Thompson's Regiment, were both standing near him when he was killed, and but a minute previous had been conversing with him.
He volunteered as sergeant under Capt John Riggs of Oxford, where he was at the time, for service, which continued 6 weeks, when the British invaded New Haven, July 5th, 1779, and burned Fairfield about the 9th of the same month ...
He was born in Derby December 15th, 1753 ...

Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Mable, wife of Samuel Cande, April 5, 1778.

Oxford Tax List, 1792.

Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Eunice, wife of Justus Cande, March 19, 17__.

... 1780 ...
March 19th, Justus Cande owned his covenant.

Candee, Esther, relict of Naboth, died July 31, 1813, age 87 yrs.
Candee, Naboth, died Oct. 30, 1784, age 50 yrs.
Candee, John, born May 4, 1816, died Mar. 22 1895
Candee, Lucy A., wife of John, born Jan. 19, 1836, died Mar. 6, 1900
Candee, Mary A., died Aug. 20, 1873, age 53 yrs.
Candee, Eunice A., died Sept. 20, 1860, age 50 yrs.
Candee, Melissa, wife of Isaiah, died Aug. 22, 1867, age 82 yrs.
Candee, Isaiah, died Sept. 20, 1856, age 77 yrs.
Candee, Julia A., daughter of Isaiah & Melissa, died Feb. 5, 1816, age 2 yrs. 5 mos.
Candee, Burritt, son of Justice & Eunice, died Aug. 16, 1807, age 21 yrs.
Mallory, Eunice C., daughter of Ransom & Lucy, died Mar. 13, 1815, age 7 days
Candee, Justus, died Dec. 25, 1842, age 87 yrs.
Candee, Eunice, wife of Deacon Justus, died Dec. 25 1840, age 83 yrs.

1784 ... May 16th, Nehemiah Cande & Content his wife, receivd to communion.

July 28th, 1793, Voted that Nehemiah Cande and Content his wife (being removed from us into the New Settlements) be recommended to any Church where God in his Providence may call them.

..revolutionary pensioners, Oxford men.

The Oxford Hotel on Oxford Road was built.. 1795 by Daniel and Job Candee. Daniel Candee, who was also Oxford's first postmaster, operated the inn until about 1811. David Candee succeeded him as innkeeper until his death in 1851. Frederick Candee then inherited the inn from his father and ran it for some twelve years. In 1865 the inn passed through inheritance to David R. Lum, he was follwed by Mary R. Lum and then Franklin Lum in 1873.

Oxford Tax List, 1792.

... Captain Job, of Oxford, Connecticut; Lieutenant in 1792; Captain in 1802. He was a member of the Connecticut Legislature... He was a Revolutionary pensioner. His monument says:
"Captain Candee was the last survivor of nine brothers, whose united ages were 785 1/4 years, averaging 87 1/6 years. Reader, yet a few years or days or months pass in silent lapse, and time to you will be no more."

Job, Capt. of 1st Co., in Oxford.

After several week's vacation, I will again resume the Reminiscences of Oxford and follow up the Riggs street road. After leaving the Albert Smith homestead we cross a rustic bridge over which the once famous Jack's Brook which was once noted as a good trout stream. It has its source at the Towantic Pond, where the railroad crosses, and flows down through a fertile country to where it joins the Little River, near the residence of F. A. Leek.
A short distance above this bridge we come to an old cellar where many years ago stood an old Gamble roofed house, the home of Capt. Job Candee, who was a soldier in the war of 1812. He has two sons, Enos and Davis. The house was burned many years ago. He died about the year 1838, at the age of 78 years.

... the hotel building, now styled "Oxford House," was erected by Daniel and Job Candee, The same was first and for many years occupied by Daniel Candee as inn holder. He was succeeded by his nephew, David Candee, who continued in the position a space of forty years.

... 1788.
July 20, Isaac Brizcho & Mary his wife renewed their covenant.
Job Candee & Sarah his wife Renewd their covenant.

... 16th day of August 1832 ... Job Candee a resident of Oxford ... aged 72 years ...
In July 1776 I volunteered as a musician for the term of three months in a company commanded by Captain Isaac Beecher of New Haven and a few days after my enlistment into said company we sailed from New Haven to New York where we joined Colonel Jabez Tompson's Regiment. We were placed in Queen Street in the city of New York and remained there about three weeks as I now think and were then ordered to Long Island where we remained a few days during which time it rained incessantly. The British Army was in plain sight of us (at Flatbush) while we were on the Island and about 26th or 27th of August a skirmish took place between our army and the British and the Americans retreated back to New York in the night. When we were crossing from the Island to New York we lay down in the boats, it being considered a precautionary measure although the night was very dark.
We took our quarters in Queen Street as before and remained there a few days, when seven British armed ships sailed up the East River, and ankered at a place called Turtle Bay, a short distance above the city. We kept our station in Queen Street, and the British kept on board their ships for several days, during the nights of which we were engaged in digging entrenchments at Bulls Head near Turtle Bay.
Early in the morning on or about the 7th or 8th of September the British landed from on board their ships at Turtle Bay and the American Army on the same day retreated to Harlem about seven miles north of New York. Colonel Tompson's Regiment was the last that left the city and left about 12 o'clock noon. The rest of the American Army left the city at an earlier hour in the day. On our retreat we were fired at by the British and Colonel Tompson and several others were killed.
The next day after we retreated to Harlem we were engaged in the morning in raising a ___ work and in the afternoon a battle was fought between the American and British Armies in which the British met a partial defeat and retreated back towards New York. We remained at Harlem until the expiration of the said term of three months which expired in the forepart of October in said year and then we returned to West Haven in Connecticut. On our retreat to and with 4 or 5 miles of Harlem we found a man whom I supposed belonged to some other Regt that had retreated before us, in a state of insensibility and when we first came upon him we thought he was dead, but on examination found that he breathed and had probably sunken under fatigue. We took him in a blanket and by taking turns we carried him to Harlem and I understood he got well - his name I never knew. While we were at Harlem we lived in bush huts and effected an entrance into New Haven in that way.
They burnt several buildings on the wharf, plundered the city and then returned on board their ships, sailed down the sound.
They had some 12 Pounders on board the boats that came to the shore when they landed for I was fired at when on guard and saw one of the balls strike in the water near the shore and when the tide went out I went onto the edge of the water and got the ball and the same is in my possession now it weighs 12 pounds. The last mention of time of service was twelve months and was the term for which I enlisted.
On the 3d day of April 1780 I again enlisted in the same Captain Bradlee's company and under the same Lieutenant Kimberly. Served a term of nine months at West Haven. The company was divided and commanded as in the term lat mentioned.
At the time of this enlistment to wit on the 3d day of April 1780 the understanding between myself and the officers was that I would serve as long as should from circumstances be necessary and I enlisted accordingly for and indefinite period of time.
In April 1777 I volunteered and went to Danbury but did not arrive there until that place was burnt, General Wooster was killed a little distance from Danbury at the same time I was out but three or four days and then returned home.
On the 9th day of February A.D. 1778, I enlisted in a company of Artillery which was commanded by Captain Phineas Bradlee and Lieutenant Asel or ___ Kimberly. The said company consisted of about 100 men and was kept up for the defense of New Haven, It was also divided into three divisions and I think it was some of the time into four. One was stationed at New Haven, another at East Haven, and another under the command of Lieut. Asabel or Asel Kimberly and to which I belonged at West Haven. Capt. Phineas Bradlee commanded the Division at New Haven but I do not recollect the officers names who commanded at East Haven.
In the first part of July A.D. 1779, 2000 British amd Tories landed at West Haven and attempted to cross to New Haven over the West Haven Bridge, but we opposed them and they went around through Tompson ____
While we were at West Haven during the last mentioned term of nine months, we had frequent skirmishes with the British, as they frequently ___ from Long Island in the night .... We were dismissed from this term of service on the first day of January 1781.
On the 27th day of July A.D. 1781, I then living in Oxford, in the State of Connecticut, it then being a part of the town of Derby, I took the place of Alexander Johnson, who had been drafted for a term of three months, __ the Militia, and was in the Militia for the said Alexander Johnson for said term of three months, in a company commanded by Capt. Joel Hotchkiss, Lieutenant ___ Porter, and Ensign Henry Tomlinson. Colonel Canfield commanded the Regiment. We marched to West Point, through the towns of Newtown, Danbury, etc., and was out a term of three months at West Point. At said West Point ... When our time was out we were dismissed and I returned home to Oxford. The only memories of the company that I was in at this time, and who served with me, of whom I have any recollection, are Henry Tomlinson who was the Ensign, and Daniel Chatfield, and Jeremiah M. Kelle, who were, I believe, privates. All the rest I believe are dead. When I entered the service as when stated = July 1776, I lived at West Haven, now called Orange, Jeremiah Smith now living in said Orange was a member with us in Captain Bradlee's company, and was with me in the same. I know of no other living member of said company.David Humphrey was ___ of the Regiment, to which Captain Bradlee's company was attached. Samuel Candee, of Oxford was a member of Captain Baldwin's company, in the same Regiment.
... that in the 9th day of February A.D. 1779, I enlisted in a company of Artillery ... under Captain Phineas Bradley, at that time I lived in said West Haven (now Orange). Jeremiah Smith and Thomas Painter, now of said Orange, were members with me in said last mentioned company. At the time of my enlistment in the 3d day of April 1780, I lived at said West Haven. Jeremiah Smith was a member with me of said company at said last mentioned date and was in the same company the same length of time that I was in, I think. .... Each of said companies that I enlisted in were Connecticut State troops. I never belonged to the Continental Army. I was born in Oxford on the 20th day of April 1760. .... I removed to West Haven when I was nine years of age, and was placed as an apprentice to the black smith ... There I lived until I was about 21 years old. Then I removed back to Oxford ... I never received any written discharge. I have no documentary evidence to effect my claim. I am known to Hon. William Bristol, Hon. David Bassett, Hon, Nathan Smith and others of which are Rev. Asbel Baldwin, Rev. M. Brown, Samuel Wire, Noah Stone, and numerous others of Oxford who can testify to my character for veracity, and their belief of my service as a Soldier of the Revolution.

Signature on pension papers.

Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1800.
May 1st, Voted that Lyda, the wife of Daniel Candee, by a letter Recommendatory from the Pastor and church of Harwinton be Recd a Member of this church.

The Oxford Hotel on Oxford Road was built ... 1795 by Daniel and Job Candee. Daniel Candee, who was also Oxford's first postmaster, operated the inn until about 1811. David Candee succeeded him as innkeeper until his death in 1851. Frederick Candee then inherited the inn from his father and ran it for some twelve years. In 1865 the inn passed through inheritance to David R. Lum, he was follwed by Mary R. Lum and then Franklin Lum in 1873.

Oxford Masonic Societies.

... the hotel building, now styled "Oxford House," was erected by Daniel and Job Candee, The same was first and for many years occupied by Daniel Candee as inn holder. He was succeeded by his nephew, David Candee, who continued in the position a space of forty years.