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Ancestors of Frank Nickolas Bryan

      1548. Cornelius Hull, born 4/9/1628 in Crewkerne (Somerset) England; died 9/1695 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut. He was the son of 3096. George Hull and 3097. Thomazin Mitchell. He married 1549. Rebecca Jones 11/19/1653 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut.

      1549. Rebecca Jones, born 1633 in Northhampton, England; died Abt. 1696 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut. She was the daughter of 3098. John Jones and 3099. Sarah [Jones].

Notes for Cornelius Hull:

BIRTH: 4/9/1628 in Crewkerne, England (Crewkerne parish record)

MARRIAGE: 11/19/1653 to Rebecca Jones in Fairfield, CT (Allan Fowler Hull; The History of the Hull Family)

DEATH: Sept., 1695 in Fairfield, CT
will dated 9/16/1695, proved 10/7/1695 named children Samuel, Cornelius Jr., Theophilus, Rebecca, Sarah, and Martha; gave son Cornelius 75 acres, meadow land, and additional land; son Theophilus got meadow land; daughter Rebecca got home lot house, household goods, a cow and heifer, and barns; daughter Sarah Silliman got 65 acres; daughter Martha Stratton got 20 acres; grandson George, son of Cornelius, got a farm; son Samuel got a gun; and remainder of estate was to be divided between sons Samuel, Cornelius, and Theophilus


grant of land for services in King Philip's War (Hull)
parcel of woodland granted on 2/23/1687 (Hull)

deputy to General Court eight terms (Hull)

Lieutenant in Major Treat's Life Guard in 1675 and government spy during KPW (Hull)

Notes for Rebecca Jones:

birth: 1633 in England (age 2 in 1635 "Defense" passenger list)

marriage: 11/19/1653 to Cornelius Hull in Fairfield (Pedigrees of Colonial Clergy)

death: Hull family tradition says she was killed by Indians while washing clothes at an unknown date. Other sources say she survived her husband and married Phillip Theal, dying in 1696. She is not mentioned in the 1695 will of Cornelius Hull suggesting she was dead at that time.

Children of Cornelius Hull and Rebecca Jones are:

774	i.	Cornelius Hull, born Abt. 1655 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut; died 5/7/1740 in Greenfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut; married Sarah Sanford Abt. 1685 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut.
	ii.	Sarah Hull, born 1630; married (1) John Knapp; married (2) Robert Silliman.
	iii.	Martha Hull, born 1633; married Cornelius Stratton.
	iv.	Samuel Hull, born 1650; married (1) Deborah Beers; married (2) Sarah Hubbell.
	v.	Rebecca Hull, born 1657; married John Lyon.
	vi.	Theophilus Hull, born 1652; died 6/5/1710 in Fairfield, CT; married Mary Sanford Abt. 1690; born 4/3/1670; died Aft. 1710.

      1550. Ezekial Sanford, born Abt. 1637 in Dorchester (Suffolk County) Massachusetts; died 1683 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut. He was the son of 3100. Thomas Sanford and 3101. Sarah Walker. He married 1551. Rebecca Whelpley, (AKA Rebecca Wiekle) 4/25/1665 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut.

      1551. Rebecca Whelpley, (AKA Rebecca Wiekle), born Abt. 1645; died Aft. 1683. She was the daughter of 3102. Henry Whelpley and 3103. Mrs. Henry Whelpley.

Notes for Ezekial Sanford:

birth: 1637 in MIlford, CT (Donald Lines Jacobus; Old Familes of Fairfield)

marriage; 4/25/1665 to Rebecca Wiekle in Fairfield (Fairfield records)
Identification of Rebecca Wiekle remains in question, but she does not appear to have been a daughter of James or Henry Wakelee as some researchers have claimed. Wiekle could be a misreading of Whelpley, however, and Henry Whelpley was living in Fairfield at the time and has association with Cornelius Hull whose sons Cornelius and Theophilus married daughters of Ezekial and Rebecca.

death: 1683 in Fairfield (Jacobus)
inventory taken 1683 names widow, sons Ezekial and Thomas, and daughters       SARAH, Mary, Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth (Jacobus)
agreement of children Ezekial, Thomas, CORNELIUS HULL for wife SARAH,       Theophilus Hull for wife Mary, John Seeley for wife Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth Sanford signed 11/2/1697.

received grant of land from town of Fairfield 1/16/1674.

building engineer who built fort at Saybrook and mill on Mill river near Fairfield (History of Redding; Charles Burr Todd)

Notes for Rebecca Whelpley, (AKA Rebecca Wiekle):
Controversy exists over the proper identification of Ezekial Sanford's wife but the name Wiekle as his wife is called in his marriage record is a non-name, and the most likely candidate for is wife is Rebecca, daughter of Henry Whelpley, who had many associations and some relationship with the Sanford and Hull families. She has also been identified as a daughter of Henry or James Wakelee, but this seems unlikely, as the Wakelee family was not in Stratford at the time of Ezekial's marriage, and had no close association with the Sanford family or any related family.

Wiekle is probably a mistranliteration from the original record and probably was actually recorded as Whelple, the h then misread as an i and the lp as k.

Children of Ezekial Sanford and Rebecca Whelpley are:

775	i.	Sarah Sanford, born 3/25/1666 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut; died 6/1753 in Greenfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut; married Cornelius Hull Abt. 1685 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut.
	ii.	Ezekial Sanford, born 3/6/1667-68 in Fairfield, CT; died 3/2/1728-29 in Fairfield, CT; married Rebecca Gregory; born Abt. 1673; died 11/1765 in Redding CT.
	iii.	Mary Sanford, born 4/3/1670; died Aft. 1710; married Theophilus Hull Abt. 1690; born 1652; died 6/5/1710 in Fairfield, CT.
	iv.	Rebecca Sanford, born 12/13/1672; died 3/1725-26 in Stratford, CT; married John Seeley Abt. 1690.
	v.	Thomas Sanford, born 5/2/1675 in Fairfield, CT; died 5/20/1757 in Stratford, CT; married Hannah Stevens Abt. 1700; born 4/8/1679 in Killingsworth, CT; died 5/18/1755 in Strtafield, CT.
	vi.	Martha Sanford, born 6/29/1677; married Nathaniel Hoyt.
	vii.	Elizabeth Sanford, born 9/6/1679; married Joseph Jackson 11/23/1699.

      1552. William Read, born Abt. 1650 in unknown; died 1697 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut. He married 1553. Deborah Baldwin Abt. 1675 in Fairfield, Ct..

      1553. Deborah Baldwin, born 1652 in Milford (New Haven) Connecticut; died Bef. 1689 in Fairfield, Ct.. She was the daughter of 3106. Nathaniel Baldwin and 3107. Johanna [Westcott].

Notes for William Read:

birth: 1650 at unknown location (general estimate based on life events)
cannot be William son of William and Ruth Crooke b. 2/3/1655. He died before 1662 when William and Ruth named a third son William

marriage: 1st 1675 to Deborah Baldwin in Fairfield
      received gift of land from wife's step-father Thomas Skidmore in 1675 and first child born about 1676 (Jacobus)
      2nd after 1689 to Mary Brinsmade who d. 1704 (Donald Lines             Jacobus; Families of Old Fairfield)

death: 1697 in Fairfield
      Gave land to daughter Sarah Barlow 5/7/1697. (Jacobus)
      Estate acquitted by widow 6/23/1697 (Jacobus)

real estate: purchased land from CORNELIUS HULL before 1673 (Jacobus)
      gift of land from Thomas Skidmore in 1675 (Jacobus)
      bought land from Sarah Baldwin in 1675 and from Daniel Westcott in 1681 (Jacobus)
      conveyed Hedge's lot to children Sarah and Abigail, and rest of land to son JOHN 9/2/1693. (Jacobus)

Notes for Deborah Baldwin:

birth: 1652 in Milford (Donald Lines Jacobus; Families of Old Fairfield)

marriage: about 1673 in Fairfield to William Read (estimate based on birth of first child)

death: before 1689 (husband remarried after 1689 to Mary Brinsmade)

Children of William Read and Deborah Baldwin are:

776	i.	John Read, born 1/29/1679-80 in Fairfield (Fairfield County), Connecticut; died 2/7/1748-49 in Boston (Sussex County) Massachusetts; married Ruth Talcott Abt. 1698 in Hartford, CT ?.
	ii.	Sarah Read, born Abt. 1676; married Joseph Barlow.
	iii.	Abigail Read, born 3/1/1677-78.

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