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             Husband: Ebenezer TWITCHELL (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
                Born: 30 JUL 1765 (12 13)
             Married: 13 MAR 1783 in Oxford Congregational Church (48 49)
                Died: 17 MAR 1852 (14)
              Father: Wooster TWITCHELL
              Mother: Elizabeth HULL
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Jerusha FINCH (15)
                Born: 1764 (16)
                Died: 02 JUN 1827 in Derby, New Haven, CT (17)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (18 19)
              Father: Daniel FINCH
              Mother: Jerusha BARTHOLOMEW
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Jeremiah Hull TWITCHELL (20 21 22 23 24)
                Born: 14 MAR 1784 (25)
                Died: 26 FEB 1867 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (26 27 28 29)
             Spouses: Annie T. CANDEE
02               (M): Daniel TWITCHELL (30)
                Born: 1786 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (31)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (F): Lucina TWITCHELL (32 33 34)
                Born: 1788 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (35)
                Died:
             Spouses: Caleb CANDEE; Daniel BOTSFORD
04               (F): Betsey TWITCHELL
                Born: 1790 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (36)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Polly TWITCHELL (37 38 39 40 41)
                Born: 08 MAR 1800 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (42 43 44)
                Died:
             Spouses: Asa JOHNSON; Benjamin Vincen LINES
06               (M): Sheldon Wooster TWITCHELL
                Born: in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: Infant
             Spouses: 
07               (M): Sheldon Wooster TWITCHELL (45 46 47)
                Born: 14 JUN 1805 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: Mary ATWATER

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/071.html.]
  2. Ibid., 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  3. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 18.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.]
  4. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 71.
    The first men to take the oath as Freemen ...1799..
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/071.html.]
  5. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  6. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, 134.
    ... Elihu Bates of Oxford ... to Ebenezer Twitchell of Oxford ... near ye meeting house ...
    [1801.]
  7. 1790 Derby Census.
  8. 1800 Oxford Census.
  9. 1820 Oxford Census.
  10. 1850 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ daughter Polly and her husband Benjamin B. Lines.]
  11. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 79.
  12. Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927 (Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company), 50.
  13. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 306.
  14. Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family - Record of the Descendants of the Puritan BENJAMIN TWITCHELL, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts 1632 - 1927 (Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., 1929, Rutland, Vermont, The Tuttle Company), 50.
  15. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 79.
  16. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 18.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.]
  17. Ibid., 18.
    Humphreys, infant son of Cyrus & Nancy, died Aug. 31, 1823
    Twitchel, Jerusha, wife of Ebenezer, died June 2,1827, age 63 yrs.
    Hinman, Eben, died Nov. 18, 1795, age 86 yrs.
    Hubbell, Lois, wife of Ephraim, died Feb. 12, 1823, age 40 yrs.
    Griffin, John, died Feb. 19, 1819, age 94 yrs. (Flag)
    Dutton, Doct. Hosea, died Oct. 9, 1826, age 72 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.]
  18. Ibid., 18.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.]
  19. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem10279.html.]
  20. Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), 25.
  21. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 105.
  22. 1840 Oxford Census.
  23. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  24. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
    [His son-in-law, David C. Riggs, is head of household.]
  25. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), #20.
    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/josiah-twitchell_rowland-homestead.html

    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Twitchell_Homestead.pdf.
    [
    A few corrections:
    The house would have been built by Joseph Twitchell, the great grandfather of Jeremy.
    Jeremiah5, Ebenezer4, Wooster3, Joseph2, John1 [the original settler in Oxford in the 1790's]
    Jeremy's daughter was named Esther, she married David C. Riggs, as shown at that location on the 1868 map.]
  26. Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), 116.
  27. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 179.
  28. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 61.
    Twitchell, Jeremy H., died Feb. 26, 1867, age 83 yrs.
    Twitchell, Annie Candee, wife of Jeremy H., died Jan. 13, 1848, age 62 yrs.
    Pearsall, Mary J. Twitchell, wife of John, died May 27, 1872 age 57 yrs.
    Twitchell, Martha Maria, daughter of Jeremy & Annie T., died Sept. 7, 1822, age 1 yr. 11 mos.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan61.html.]
  29. Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 208.
  30. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 105.
  31. Ibid., 179.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 61.
  33. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 105.
  34. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 34.
    Sine.
  35. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 179.
  36. Ibid., 179.
  37. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 65.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/065.html.]
  38. 1840 Oxford Census.
  39. 1850 Oxford Census.
  40. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 52, 53, 56.
    ... of Oxford ...
  41. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1102.
  42. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/071.html.]
  43. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 179.
    Mary (Polly) Twitchell ... She married a Mr. Johnson, and had one son, who was master of a sea-going vessell, name unknown.
  44. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 79.
  45. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
  46. 1860 Berlin, Hartford, CT Census.
  47. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
  48. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 32.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/032.html.]
  49. Compiled by Debra F. Wilmes, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 25 - Litchfield 1719-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 105.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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