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             Husband: Abijah CHATFIELD (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
                Born: OCT 1767 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (10 11 12)
             Married: 12 JAN 1792 in Oxford Congregational Church (63 64 65 66)
                Died: 19 NOV 1835 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (14 15)
              Father: Oliver CHATFIELD
              Mother: Zerviah TOMLINSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Hannah BALL (16 17 18)
                Born: 13 DEC 1753 in New Haven, CT (19 20)
                Died: 28 NOV 1826 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (21 22 23 24 25)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (26 27)
              Father: Timothy BALL
              Mother: Mary HINE
             Spouses: Isaac BEECHER
Children
01               (M): Lewis CHATFIELD (28)
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: Patty BALDWIN
02               (M): Chester M. CHATFIELD (29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38)
                Born: 07 JUL 1794 (39)
                Died: 16 JUL 1881
             Spouses: Clarissa BUCKINGHAM; Cynthia B. BUCKINGHAM
03               (M): Enos CHATFIELD (40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50)
                Born: l 1797 (51)
                Died: 05 JUN 1869 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (52 53 54)
             Spouses: Roxy SPERRY
04               (F): Hannah CHATFIELD (55 56 57 58 59 60 61)
                Born: l 1799
                Died: 27 OCT 1883 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (62)
             Spouses: Roswell CABLE

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 97.
    [Oxford Tax List - 1792
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/097.html.]
  2. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 52.
    [property in Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_052.html.]
  3. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 70.
    ..1798...Grand Juror.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  4. Ibid., 304.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/304.html.]
  5. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #140.
    [Chestnut Tree Hill Road Extension, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  6. 1800 Oxford Census.
  7. 1810 Oxford Census.
  8. 1820 Oxford Census.
  9. 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 170.
  10. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 20.
    ...Abijah, born October 5, 1767....
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp20.htm.]
  11. 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 I - Page 316.
    Abijah, b. 8 Oct. 1767...
  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), 207.
    Oct. 8, 1767.
  13. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  14. Ibid., 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  15. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem870.html.]
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ...
    Isaac Beecher, Apr. 9, 1774 ...
    Hannah, wife of Isaac Beccher, Feb. 5, 1775 ...
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  17. 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 170.
  18. Ibid., vol 1, p 159.
  19. 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 1, p 316.
  20. 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 109.
  21. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  22. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 74.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/074.html.]
  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 1, p 316.
  24. 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 109.
  25. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 37.
  26. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  27. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1594.html.]
  28. 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 102.
  29. Oxford 1798 Dodrasquicentennial (Oxford Historical Society, Inc., 1973), 26.
    1836 ... The following three hundred and thirty one electors Cast ballots to elect Hiram Osborn as Representative to the General Assembly. Abner Cable ...
    [http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  30. 1820 Oxford Census.
  31. 1840 Oxford Census.
  32. 1850 New Haven Census.
    House painter.
  33. 1860 New Haven Census.
    H painter.
  34. Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1872), 51.
  35. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 36, 37.
  36. 1870 New Haven Census.
    Carriage Maker.
  37. 1880 New Haven Census.
  38. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 148.
  39. Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1872), 62.
  40. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 65.
    [1843 - St. Peter's Church
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_065.html.]
  41. The Diaries of Laura Davis 1856-1857.
    Thurs 8th Coldest day we have had this winter. Sewing Society met at Enos Chatfield's.
    [Jan 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  42. Ibid.
    Tues 20th Clear and not quite as cold as yesterday. Father went to help break paths. Got as far as Enos Chatfields, came home. Got to go again another day and dig over to Oxford.
    [Jan 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  43. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #140.
    [Chestnut Tree Hill Road Extension, Oxford, CT
    http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  44. 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 1693.
  45. 1840 Oxford Census.
  46. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  47. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  48. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Proceeding north a short distance from the Tucker homestead we come to the old Chatfield residence situated on the corner of the road leading to Oxford Center. The house is large and roomy. Many additions having been built onto it from time to time. It was the birth place of Enos Chatfield, who lived there all his long and useful life. He married Roxy Sperry of Bethany and had nine children - Mary, Beecher,Charles, Emily, Harriett, Bennett, Wales, Helen and Julia.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  49. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  50. Family.
    Photograph Courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thompson.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pho1488.html.]
  51. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  52. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 122.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/122.html.]
  53. 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 1, p 316.
  54. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Chatfield, Enos, died June 5, 1869, age 72 yrs.
    Chatfield, Roxy, died May 22, 1864, age 62 yrs.
    Smith, Charles, died at Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1855, age 19 yrs.
    Bennett, Alfred, died at Idaho Territory, Aug. 1864, age 27 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  55. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 61.
  56. 1850 Oxford Census.
  57. 1860 Oxford Census.
  58. 1870 Oxford Census.
  59. 1880 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ Glover and family.]
  60. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [
    Mrs. R. Cable, Chestnut Tree Hill Road.]
  61. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 33.
  62. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4170.html.]
  63. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 34.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/034.html.]
  64. 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 I - Page 316.
  65. 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 170.
  66. Ibid., vol 1, p 109.

Revised: 04-Dec-08
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