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             Husband: John TWITCHELL (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
                Born: 01 JUN 1713 (11 12)
             Married: 20 MAR 1734 (64)
                Died: 19 NOV 1804 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (14)
              Father: John TWITCHELL
              Mother: Sarah PIERSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Ann HARGER (15 16)
                Born: 25 SEP 1708 (17)
                Died: 16 JAN 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (18)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (19)
              Father: Jabez HARGER
              Mother: Ann GILBERT
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Annis TWITCHELL
                Born: 05 FEB 1734 (20 21)
                Died:
             Spouses: John STARR
02               (F): Patience TWITCHELL
                Born: 24 MAR 1736 (22 23)
                Died: 28 JUN 1752 (24 25)
             Spouses: Joseph HURD
03               (M): Edward TWITCHELL (26)
                Born: 10 OCT 1737 (27 28)
                Died: infant Death in Oxford, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Sarah TWITCHELL
                Born: 04 SEP 1739 (29 30)
                Died: 15 MAR 1821 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (31 32 33)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (34 35)
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Hannah TWITCHELL
                Born: 18 MAR 1741 (36 37)
                Died:
             Spouses: Joseph TUTTLE
06               (F): Elizabeth TWITCHELL
                Born: 07 DEC 1742 (38 39)
                Died: 23 SEP 1786 (40)
             Spouses: Henry WOOSTER
07               (M): Samuel TWITCHELL (41)
                Born: 14 FEB 1744 (42)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
08               (F): Eunice TWITCHELL
                Born: 30 SEP 1745 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (43 44)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
09               (M): John TWITCHELL (45)
                Born: 11 OCT 1746 (46 47)
                Died: l 1801 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: Rheuamy SMITH
10               (M): Benjamin TWITCHELL (48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55)
                Born: 10 JUL 1748 (56 57)
                Died: 06 OCT 1805 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (58 59 60)
             Spouses: Clarina HAWKINS
11               (M): Jabez TWITCHELL
                Born: 18 MAR 1750 (61 62)
                Died: 06 FEB 1789 (63)
             Spouses: Elizabeth HARGER

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 6.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_006.html.]
  2. Ibid., 22, 23.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_022.html.]
  3. 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 8, p 1900.
  4. 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: ...
  5. Gordon Markiewicz, Tories in Oxford? 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/Tories4.html.]
  6. 1790 Derby Census.
  7. 1800 Oxford Census.
  8. Emma Lounsbury, Oxford - A Historical Sketch (Seymour Record, 1914).
    The Presbyterian church as it was called at that date was a small affair which stood in front of where the present store now is; prior to this they held meetings in people's houses.
    "September ye 14, 1742, a society's meeting lawfully warned at ye house of Mr. John Twitchel cenyour in ye parish of Oxford, voted and passed in said meeting that Mr. John Lum shall be in with ye committee appointed to build a meeting house:
    "Voted and passed in said meeting too pray for a tax upon all the unimproved land within ye bounds of the parish of Oxford and that ye tax may be six-pence upon ye acre, yearly for ye space of four years, that we may go with building a meeting house and settling a minister."
    "December ye 30th day, 1742, at a society's meeting lawfully warned and held at Mr. John Twitchel's cenyour in the parish of Oxford:
    "Voted and passed in said meeting to levy a tax of nine pence upon the pound upon ye list of 1742, to defray ye charges of hiring Mr. Birdsey and Mr. Newton.
    "Voted in passed in said meeting that Mr. Zachariah Hawkins shall be collector and treasurer of said nine-penny rate, and said rate to be gathered by the 16th day of January next ensuing.
    "Voted and passed in said meeting the committee appointed by ye society to build the meeting house shall have the power to sign all bills relating to that affair."
    Isaac Trowbridge
    Society Clerk.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/short-stories/lounsbury-sketch.html.]
  9. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 470.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/470.html.]
  10. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
  11. 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), 17.
  12. 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.
  13. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 14.
    Twichel, Ruth M., daughter of Benjamin & Clarina, died Nov. 10, 1803, age 15 yrs.
    Twichel, Miss Sarah, died Mar. 15, 1821, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Benjamin, died Oct. 6, 1805, age 57 yrs.
    Twichel, Mrs. Ann, wife of Mr. John, died Jan. 16, 1794, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. John, died Nov. 19, 1804, age 91 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  14. Ibid., 14.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  15. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 22, 23.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_022.html.]
  16. 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 8, p 1900.
  17. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 725.
  18. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 14.
    Twichel, Ruth M., daughter of Benjamin & Clarina, died Nov. 10, 1803, age 15 yrs.
    Twichel, Miss Sarah, died Mar. 15, 1821, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Benjamin, died Oct. 6, 1805, age 57 yrs.
    Twichel, Mrs. Ann, wife of Mr. John, died Jan. 16, 1794, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. John, died Nov. 19, 1804, age 91 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  19. Ibid., 14.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  20. 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), 48.
  21. 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.
  22. 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), 48.
  23. 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.
  24. 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), 48.
  25. 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), 307.
  26. 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 6, p 1538.
  27. 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), 48.
  28. 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), 307.
  29. 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), 48.
  30. 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), 307.
  31. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 78.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/078.html.]
  32. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 14.
    Twichel, Ruth M., daughter of Benjamin & Clarina, died Nov. 10, 1803, age 15 yrs.
    Twichel, Miss Sarah, died Mar. 15, 1821, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Benjamin, died Oct. 6, 1805, age 57 yrs.
    Twichel, Mrs. Ann, wife of Mr. John, died Jan. 16, 1794, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. John, died Nov. 19, 1804, age 91 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  33. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 79.
    Sarah, [d. Mar. [ ], 1821], ae. 85.
  34. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 14.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  35. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem495.html.]
  36. 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 8, p 1900.
  37. 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.
  38. 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), 49.
  39. 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.
  40. Ibid., 319.
  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 6, p 1538.
  42. 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), 49.
  43. Ibid., 49.
  44. 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.
  45. 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), 103.
  46. 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), 49.
  47. 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.
  48. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/071.html.]
  49. Ibid., 73.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/073.html.]
  50. Ibid., 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  51. 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), 54.
  52. 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), 103.
  53. 1790 Derby Census.
  54. 1800 Oxford Census.
  55. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 46, 78, 85.
  56. 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), 49.
  57. 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.
  58. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 24.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_024.html.]
  59. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 14.
    Twichel, Ruth M., daughter of Benjamin & Clarina, died Nov. 10, 1803, age 15 yrs.
    Twichel, Miss Sarah, died Mar. 15, 1821, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Benjamin, died Oct. 6, 1805, age 57 yrs.
    Twichel, Mrs. Ann, wife of Mr. John, died Jan. 16, 1794, age 85 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. John, died Nov. 19, 1804, age 91 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan14.html.]
  60. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
  61. 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), 49.
  62. 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.
  63. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 16.
    Davis, Mrs. Sarah, daughter of Col. John & Mrs. Mehitable, died Dec. 6, 1808, age 26 yrs.
    Twitchel, Mr. Jabez, died Feb. 6, 1789, age 37 yrs.
    Loveland, Betsey Ann, wife of Miles, died July 13, 1827, age 49 yrs.
    Finch, Jane, daughter of Joel & Grace, died Mar. 2, 1846, age 5 yrs.
    Welton, Andrew, died May 3, 1846, age 73 yrs.
    Johnson, Jarome, son of Henry and Sabra, died May 24, 1817, age 7 yrs.
    Welton, Damaris, wife of Andrew, died Feb. 3, 1847, age 76 yrs.
    Conner, Mary Ann, daughter of Joseph & Phebe M., died Feb. 9, 1842, age 5 yrs. 9 mos. 7 das.
    Conner, Martha, daughter of Joseph & Phebe M., died May 11, 1842, age 1 yr. 10 mos. 4 das.
    Spence, Thomas, died Oct. 13, 1845, age 37 yrs.
    McGuire, Ellen S., daughter of William & Delia, died June 9, 1831, age 3 yrs.
    Hitchcock, Mrs. Hannah, wife of Mr. Samuel, died Mar. 7, 1813, age 56 yrs.
    Jones, Miss W. A., daughter of Elisha & Abigail, died Jan. 6, 1824, age 22 yrs.
    Bassett, Marvin, son of Ezra L. & Susan, died Sept. 20, 1825, age 11 yrs. 10 mos. 20 das.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan16.html.]
  64. 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), 231.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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