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             Husband: Phineas MEIGS
                Born: 11 JUL 1760 (1)
             Married:
                Died:
              Father: John MEIGS
              Mother: Rebecca CLARK
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Sarah TOMLINSON
                Born: 12 MAY 1765 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 13 DEC 1856 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (2 3)
              Buried: in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (4 5)
              Father: Isaac TOMLINSON
              Mother: Sibyl RUSSELL
             Spouses: John GRISWOLD
Children
01               (M): John MEIGS
                Born: 26 OCT 1787
                Died: 31 DEC 1802
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Benjamin Clark MEIGS
                Born: 09 AUG 1789
                Died: 12 MAY 1862
             Spouses: Sarah Maria PEET
03               (M): Samuel MEIGS (6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
                Born: 27 APR 1791
                Died: 10 APR 1855 in Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (13 14)
             Spouses: Lorena TOMLINSON; Hannah L.
04               (M): Charles MEIGS
                Born: 25 OCT 1793
                Died:
             Spouses: Harriet LATHROP

Footnotes

  1. Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 2, p 813.
  2. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 119.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/119.html.]
  3. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 42.
    Tomlinson, Simon, died Aug.25, 1818, age 31 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Marian Harriet, daughter of David & Lorena, died Mar. 21, 1832, age 31 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Henrietta Louisa, daughter of David & Lorena, died Aug. 14, 1829, age 21 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Bennet Benedict, son of David & Lorena, died Sept. 4, 1822, age 23 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Lorena, wife of Hon. David, died Oct. 25, 1837, age 71 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Hon. David, died Mar, 24, 1822, age 61 yrs.
    Griswold, Sarah, wife of Rev. John, her first husband was Doctor Phineas Meigs, died Dec. 13, 1856, age 91 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  4. Ibid., 42.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan42.html.]
  5. Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem525.html.]
  6. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 67.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/067.html.]
  7. Ibid., 177.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1829-1830, 1834
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.]
  8. Ibid., 171.
    ... lived..and died, at Quaker Farms ... Judge of the County Court, and many years a Justice of the Peace.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/171.html.]
  9. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #34.
    [Sold land to brother-in-law, George Tomlinson, 1848, Barry Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  10. 1840 Oxford Census.
  11. 1850 Oxford Census.
  12. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 58.
    ... wid. Hannah Hyde ... of Oxford ...
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 140.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/140.html.]
  14. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 43.
    Meigs, William Henry, son of Samuel & Hannah, died Aug. 23, 1850, age 14 yrs.
    Meigs, infant of Samuel & Hannah, died Mar. 5, 1834
    Meigs, David Tomlinson, son of Samuel & Lorena, died July 9, 1889, age 67 yrs.
    Meigs, Samuel, died Apr. 10, 1855, age 64 yrs.
    Meigs, Lorena Tomlinson, wife of Samuel, died Mar. 8, 1826, age 32 yrs.
    Meigs, Benjamin Clark, son of Samuel, died Apr. 12, 1821, age 8 mos.
    Lum, George G., died Jan. 6, 1850, age 36, yrs.
    Lum, Jane G. Meigs, died Oct. 25, 1902, age 84 yrs.
    Dick, Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Charles L., died July 16, 1888, age 72 yrs.
    Dick, Charles L., died at Harpers Ferry, Va., Dec 22, 1862, age 47 yrs., Civil War (Marker).
    [http://oxfordpast.net/bscemscan43.html.]

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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