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             Husband: Joseph TWITCHELL (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13)
                Born: 15 FEB 1717 (14 15)
Married: 14 MAY 1739 (89 90)
Died: 22 AUG 1797 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (16)
Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (17 18)
Father: John TWITCHELL
Mother: Sarah PIERSON
Spouses:
                Wife: Elizabeth TOMLINSON (19 20 21 22 23)
                Born: 29 DEC 1720 in Derby, New Haven, CT (24 25 26)
Died: 07 FEB 1789 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27 28 29)
Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (30 31)
Father: John TOMLINSON
Mother: Elizabeth WOOSTER
Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Wooster TWITCHELL (32 33 34)
Born: 12 JAN 1740 (35 36 37)
Died: 1768 (38)
Spouses: Elizabeth HULL
02               (M): Isaac TWITCHELL (39 40 41)
Born: 19 DEC 1741 (42 43)
Died: 10 FEB 1776 in Wolcott, New Haven, CT (44)
Spouses: Deborah ALCOTT
03               (F): Phebe TWITCHELL
Born: 19 MAY 1744 (45 46 47)
Died:
Spouses: Abel WOOSTER
04               (F): David TWITCHELL
Born: 10 FEB 1747 (48 49 50)
Died: young
Spouses:
05               (F): Mary TWITCHELL (51)
Born: 23 MAY 1750 (52 53 54)
Died:
Spouses:
06               (M): Joseph TWITCHELL
Born: 16 SEP 1751 (55 56)
Christened: OCT 1751 in St. James Episcopal Church, Derby, New Haven, CT
Died:
Spouses:
07               (M): Enoch TWITCHELL (57 58 59)
Born: 18 JAN 1754 (60 61 62)
Died: 07 OCT 1802 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
Spouses: Abiah CAMP
08               (M): David TWITCHELL (63 64 65 66 67)
Born: 10 JUN 1757 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (68 69 70)
Died: 19 JAN 1796 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (71 72)
Spouses: Margaret JOHNSON
09               (F): Elizabeth TWITCHELL (73 74 75 76)
Born: 10 Feb 1760 (twin) (77)
Died:
Spouses: Eliakim TERRILL
10               (F): Mary TWITCHELL (78 79)
Born: 10 Feb 1760 (twin) (80 81 82)
Died: 06 AUG 1833 (83)
Spouses: Benjamin BUNNELL
11               (F): Amy TWITCHELL
Born: 18 AUG 1762 (84)
Died: 30 AUG 1762 (85)
Spouses:
12               (F): Amy TWITCHELL
Born: 26 SEP 1766 (86 87)
Died: 11 FEB 1838 in Burlington, CT (88)
Spouses: Zachariah MARKS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 98.
    £ 27.
  2. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 23-4.
  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 2, p 365.
  4. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 423.
  5. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 602.
  6. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), #20.
    [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.
    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/josiah-twitchell_rowland-homestead.html

    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Twitchell_Homestead.pdf.]
  7. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #109.
    [Oxford Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  8. WEBSITE, http://www.electronicvalley.org/tour/josiahtwitchell.htm ([photograph of Josiah Twitchelll house]).
  9. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 744.
  10. 1790 Derby Census.
  11. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
  12. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 180.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 12.
    Elizabeth ye Wife of Joseph Twitchel received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Janr 27th, 1746.
  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), 17.
  15. 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.
  16. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 17.
    Twichel, Mrs. Elizabeth, consort of Mr. Joseph, died Feb. 7, 1789, age 69 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Joseph, died Aug 22, 1797, age 80 yrs.
    Terril, Philo, died Sept. 22, 1827, age 47 yrs.
    Terril, Eunice, wife of Philo, died Mar. 23,1833, age 55 yrs.
    Terril, Leonard, son of Philo, died Sept. 30, 1832, age, age 26 yrs.
  17. Ibid., 17.
  18. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
  19. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 12.
    Elizabeth ye Wife of Joseph Twitchel received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Janr 27th, 1746.
  20. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 23-4.
  21. 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 2, p 365.
  22. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 180, 423, 744.
  23. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 602.
  24. Ibid., vol 3, p 590.
  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), 300.
  26. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 771.
  27. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 590.
  28. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 17.
    Twichel, Mrs. Elizabeth, consort of Mr. Joseph, died Feb. 7, 1789, age 69 yrs.
    Twichel, Mr. Joseph, died Aug 22, 1797, age 80 yrs.
    Terril, Philo, died Sept. 22, 1827, age 47 yrs.
    Terril, Eunice, wife of Philo, died Mar. 23,1833, age 55 yrs.
    Terril, Leonard, son of Philo, died Sept. 30, 1832, age, age 26 yrs.
  29. 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.
  30. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 17.
  31. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 74.
    Deaths..
    Dean, Elizabeth, widow of Ichobad D. and Wooster Twichel, Oct. 9, 1822, aged 88.
  33. 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.
  34. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 40.
  35. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  36. 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.
  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), 307.
  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), 50.
  39. Ibid., 50.
    ... born probably in Derby, Conn., Dec. 20, 1742. He settled in Wolcott ...
  40. 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 1, p 13.
  41. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 184.
  42. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 602.
  46. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  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), 307.
  48. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. 1790 Derby Census.
  58. 1800 Oxford Census.
  59. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
  60. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  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), 50.
  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. 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 1326.
  64. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
    Twichel, Anson, son of David and Margaret, March 10, 1790.
    Twichel, Polly. d. of Eben and Jerusha, March 8, 1800.
    Twitchel, Edwin, son of Sheldon and Mary, Oct. 16, 1827.
    Twitchel, children of Benjamin and Claraina:
    Robert, Jan. 9, 1777 Grace, July 26, 1785.
    John, July 21, 1779. Ruth Ann, April 1, 1790
    Esther, July 15, 1781. Hannah, Oct., 1792
    Lusaner, Aug. 20, 1783. Benjamin Starr, Feb. 27, 1798.
  65. 1790 Derby Census.
  66. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 78.
    David, s. John, d. [ ], 1796, ae. 43.
  67. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 24.
  68. Ibid., 24.
  69. Derby Land Records (Vol 7 pg 250).
  70. 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.
  71. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 51.
    1796, Jany 19th, David Twichel, died.
  72. Ibid., 99.
    Timothy Johnson died Aug. 29th, 1796, and David Twitchell Jan. 19, 1796.
  73. 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.
  74. 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), 51.

    She married ICHABOD DEAN.
    [
    This seems to be an error for her brother's wife, Elizabeth Hull. Page 50 cites her brother, Wooster:
    "Wooster Twitchell ... married at Derby, Conn., Oct. 11, 1764, ELIZABETH HULL, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Lum), Hull, and died in 1768. His widow died in 1822, aged eighty-seven years."
    Sharpe's History of Oxford,
    page 31: "1775 ... Octr 22d, Ichabod Dean & Elizabeth Twitchel, Married."
    page 74: "Deaths ... Dean, Elizabeth, widow of Ichobad D. and Wooster Twichel, Oct. 9, 1822, aged 88."]
  75. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, 114.
    Eliakim Terril and Elizabeth ... to Zodac Sanford and Sarah Sanford his wife ... land lying in said Oxford ...
    [Aug 1800.]
  76. 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 7, p 1726.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 31, 78.
  80. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 15.
  81. 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 2, p 365.
  82. 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.
  83. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 15.
    Bunnell, Reuben, died Jan. 31, 1853, age 87 yrs.
    Bunnell, Sarah, wife of Reuben, died Sept. 4, 1854, age 84 yrs.
    Bunnell, Horace, son of Reuben & Sarah, died Nov. 14, 1878, age 58 yrs.
    Bunnell, Levina Hitchcock, daughter of Reuben & Sarah, died May 1, 1850, age 61 yrs.
    Twichell, Jerusha, wife of Gilbert, died June 9, 1822, age 40 yrs.
    Clark, Clarrisa, wife of David M., died Aug. 7, 1839, age 42 yrs.
    Brothwell, Beach, died Apr. 26, 1832, age 37 yrs.
    McGarry, Henry A., died Feb. 24, 1834, age 32 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Miss Hannah, died Feb. 7, 1836, age 80 yrs.
    Storrs, Clark, son of John & Sarah, died Feb 28, 1830, age 3 yrs. 1 mo. 23 days.
    Bunnell, Benjamin, died Sept. 20, 1840, age 77 yrs.
    Bunnell, Mary, wife of Benjamin, died Aug. 6, 1833, age 73 yrs.
    Bunnell, Chester, died Mar. 5, 1843, age 55 yrs.
  84. 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.
  85. Ibid., 306.
  86. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 423.
  87. 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.
  88. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 423.
  89. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 590.
  90. 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), 300.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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