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             Husband: William Scott HOTCHKISS (1 2)
                Born: 17 MAY 1798 in New Haven, CT
             Married: 25 DEC 1823 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (39)
                Died: 16 AUG 1835 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (3)
              Buried: in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (4 5)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses: 
               Title: Jr.
                Wife: Jennet Adeline TOMLINSON (6 7 8 9 10)
                Born: 06 JUL 1803 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (11 12)
                Died: 13 APR 1847 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Buried: in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (15 16)
              Father: David TOMLINSON
              Mother: Lorena BACON
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Louisa Augusta HOTCHKISS (17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24)
                Born: 12 APR 1825 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (25)
                Died: 17 APR 1895 (26)
             Spouses: Frederick Augustus CANDEE
02               (M): William Augustus HOTCHKISS (27 28)
                Born: 29 MAY 1827
                Died: 17 SEP 1867 (29 30)
              Buried: in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (31 32 33)
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Bennett Benedict HOTCHKISS
                Born: 15 AUG 1829
                Died:
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Henrietta Maria HOTCHKISS (34 35)
                Born: 05 NOV 1831 (36)
                Died:
             Spouses: Henry C. HAWKINS
05               (?): Infant HOTCHKISS
                Born:
                Died: (37)
              Buried: in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (38)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #20.
    ... built around 1840 by Janette and William Hotchkiss..
    [ A map, photo and information about this house can be found in this book.
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  2. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 49, 75.
    ... of New Haven ...
  3. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 42.
    Hotchkiss, William A., son of William S. & Jennett, died Sept. 17, 1867, age 40 yrs. Civil War (Marker)
    Tomlinson, David Jr., son of David & Lorena, died Sept. 22, 1814, age 23 yrs.
    Tomlinson, David , son of David & Lorena, burried at Woodbury, Mar. 1, 1788, age 8 mos.
    Hawley, Jane Caroline, wife of Jared, died Apr. 24, 1821, age 23 yrs.
    Hawley, Jared Esq., died Jan. 27, 1822, age 41 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, William S., died Aug. 16, 1835, age 37 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, Jennet A.., wife of William S., died Apr. 13, 1847, age 43 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  4. Ibid., 42.
    William S.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  5. Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem7965.html.]
  6. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #20.
    ... built around 1840 by Janette and William Hotchkiss..
    [ A map, photo and information about this house can be found in this book.
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  7. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 45.
    Stone broken and frozen to ground.
    Chatfield, Mary L., daughter of Albert & Ann J., died Apr. 28, 1878, age 9 mos.
    Nichols, Benjamin, born Apr. 10, 1817, died Mar. 5, 1897
    Nichols, Minerva Tomlinson, wife of Benjamin, born Dec. 7, 1818, died Nov. 12, 1896
    Nichols, Arthur Russell, son of Benjamin & Minerva T., born Dec. 7, 1846, died Sept. 10, 1851
    Wirth, Nancy E. T., wife of Henry P., born June 12, 1843, died Oct 22, 1900
    Tomlinson, Nancy, wife of Truman, died Nov. 8, 1841 age 58 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Truman, died Dec. 25, 1846, age 65 yrs.
    Tomlinson, George A., died Nov. 15, 1891, age 59 yrs. 10 mos.
    Tomlinson, Jane C., died Dec. 13, 1904, age 57 yrs. 7 mos.
    Tomlinson, Eliza, daughter of George A. & Ellen, died Nov, 11, 1867, age 24 yrs. 9 mos.
    Tomlinson, David Wells, son of George A. & Eliza A., died Apr. 27, 1854, age 19 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Eliza, A., wife of George A., died Oct. 4, 1841, age 35 yrs.
    Tomlinson, George A., died Dec. 9, 1860, age 57 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Ellen Candee, wife of George A., died Apr. 17, 1891, age 72 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, Infant of Jennett A.
    Lewis, Infant of Maria T.
    Tomlinson, Infant of Eliza A.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan45.html.]
  8. 1840 Derby Census.
  9. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 49.
    ... of Oxford ...
  10. Ibid., 75.
    ... twin ..
  11. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 70.
    Tomlinson, children of Esq. David and Lorena:
    Charles, June 19, 1785. Bennett Benedict, May 5, 1799.
    David, July 11, 1787. Mary Ann, March 10, 1801.
    Maria Theresa, Aug. 1, 1789. Janet Adeline, July 6, 1803.
    David, Aug. 1, 1791. George Albert, July 6, 1803.
    Lorena, Aug. 4, 1793. Eliza, May 29, 1805.
    Lydia Augusta, Sept. 25, 1795. Henrietta, Sept. 13, 1807.
    Jane Caroline, June 30, 1797. William Augustus, Sept. 13, 1805.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/070.html.]
  12. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 74.
    ... twin ...
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 139.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/139.html.]
  14. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 42.
    Hotchkiss, William A., son of William S. & Jennett, died Sept. 17, 1867, age 40 yrs. Civil War (Marker)
    Tomlinson, David Jr., son of David & Lorena, died Sept. 22, 1814, age 23 yrs.
    Tomlinson, David , son of David & Lorena, burried at Woodbury, Mar. 1, 1788, age 8 mos.
    Hawley, Jane Caroline, wife of Jared, died Apr. 24, 1821, age 23 yrs.
    Hawley, Jared Esq., died Jan. 27, 1822, age 41 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, William S., died Aug. 16, 1835, age 37 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, Jennet A.., wife of William S., died Apr. 13, 1847, age 43 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  15. Ibid., 42.
    Jennet A.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  16. Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem5147a.html.]
  17. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #20.
    ... in 1848 title was conveyed to Lousia Candee ...
    [Quaker Farms Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  18. 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), 47.
  19. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 34.
    ... of Oxford ...
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 105.
    From the Records of St. Peter's Church ... Infant Baptisms ...
    George Augustus Candee, Dec. 28, 1858; Louisa A. Candee, Jane Jennette Hotchkiss, Dec. 28, 1856; sponsors Jane. E. Hotchkiss, Jane E. Hubbell, S. Clark.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/105.html.]
  21. 1850 Oxford Census.
  22. 1860 Oxford Census.
  23. 1870 Oxford Census.
  24. 1880 Oxford Census.
  25. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 112.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/112.html.]
  26. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 3.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan3.html.]
  27. Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889), 705.

    Twentieth Regiment Infantry
    Company F ...
    Hotchkiss, Wm. A.
    Residence: Derby
    Date of Enlistment: Aug. 16, '62
    Date of muster in this organization: Sep. 8, '62
    Remarks: Wd. May 3, '63, Chancellorsville, Va. Disc. dis. Dec. 10, '63.
  28. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 508.
  29. American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/file0014.html.]
  30. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 42.
    Hotchkiss, William A., son of William S. & Jennett, died Sept. 17, 1867, age 40 yrs. Civil War (Marker)
    Tomlinson, David Jr., son of David & Lorena, died Sept. 22, 1814, age 23 yrs.
    Tomlinson, David , son of David & Lorena, burried at Woodbury, Mar. 1, 1788, age 8 mos.
    Hawley, Jane Caroline, wife of Jared, died Apr. 24, 1821, age 23 yrs.
    Hawley, Jared Esq., died Jan. 27, 1822, age 41 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, William S., died Aug. 16, 1835, age 37 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, Jennet A.., wife of William S., died Apr. 13, 1847, age 43 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  31. Ibid., 42.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  32. Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem7007.html.]
  33. American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/file0014.html.]
  34. 1850 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ Hanford and Delia Fairchild.]
  35. William Leavenworth, A Genealgy of the Leavenworth Family in the United States (Syracuse, N.Y., S. G. Hitchcock & Co., 1873), 108.
    ... of Oxford ...
  36. Harriet's Friendship Quilt (Oxford Historical Society).
    [http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/harriet-quilt/Hotchkiss-Henrietta-M_Oxford-1850.html
    [Her name is among the first, signed 1850, Oxford. Hanford has two nieces, Anna and Ellen, whose names are also on the quilt in dated 1853, Oxford.]
    http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/harriet-quilt/
    [note: It is my personal opinion that most of the names on the quilt were written by one person, and Henrietta seems to me to be one of the most likely people to have done so.]]
  37. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 45.
    Stone broken and frozen to ground.
    Chatfield, Mary L., daughter of Albert & Ann J., died Apr. 28, 1878, age 9 mos.
    Nichols, Benjamin, born Apr. 10, 1817, died Mar. 5, 1897
    Nichols, Minerva Tomlinson, wife of Benjamin, born Dec. 7, 1818, died Nov. 12, 1896
    Nichols, Arthur Russell, son of Benjamin & Minerva T., born Dec. 7, 1846, died Sept. 10, 1851
    Wirth, Nancy E. T., wife of Henry P., born June 12, 1843, died Oct 22, 1900
    Tomlinson, Nancy, wife of Truman, died Nov. 8, 1841 age 58 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Truman, died Dec. 25, 1846, age 65 yrs.
    Tomlinson, George A., died Nov. 15, 1891, age 59 yrs. 10 mos.
    Tomlinson, Jane C., died Dec. 13, 1904, age 57 yrs. 7 mos.
    Tomlinson, Eliza, daughter of George A. & Ellen, died Nov, 11, 1867, age 24 yrs. 9 mos.
    Tomlinson, David Wells, son of George A. & Eliza A., died Apr. 27, 1854, age 19 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Eliza, A., wife of George A., died Oct. 4, 1841, age 35 yrs.
    Tomlinson, George A., died Dec. 9, 1860, age 57 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Ellen Candee, wife of George A., died Apr. 17, 1891, age 72 yrs.
    Hotchkiss, Infant of Jennett A.
    Lewis, Infant of Maria T.
    Tomlinson, Infant of Eliza A.
    [ Three infants are listed on one stone. They are all grandchildren of David and Lorena Tomlinson. The stone is next to that of their son George. No dates are given.
    http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan45.html.]
  38. Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem8892.html.]
  39. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 49, 75.
    ... by Rev. Manzies Raynor, of Huntington, Conn.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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