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Ancestors of Frank Nickolas Bryan

      1554. John Talcott, born Abt. 1630 in Braintree (Essex) England; died 7/23/1688 in Hartford (Hartford County) Connecticut. He was the son of 3108. John Talcott and 3109. Dorothy Mott. He married 1555. Mary Cook 11/9/1676 in New Haven, CT.

      1555. Mary Cook, born Abt. 1655. She was the daughter of 3110. John Cook.

Notes for John Talcott:
birth: 1625 (Accompanied father as a child to new world in 1632)

marriage: 1st to Helena Wakeman about 1650
2nd to Mary Cook about 1676 (estimate based on birth of first child)

death: 7/23/1688 (NYHGR; v. 34, 1923)
died intestate and property claimed by oldest son Joseph
property inventoried at 2,232p 3s pd.

Treasurer of Colony of Connecticut.
Served in King Phillip's War as Lieutenant-Colonel.
Oldest son Joseph was governor of Connecticut 1724-1741.


Children of John Talcott and Mary Cook are:

777	i.	Ruth Talcott, born 9/12/1677 in Hartford (Hartford County), Connecticut; died 7/20/1759 in Boston (Sussex County) Massachusetts; married John Read Abt. 1698 in Hartford, CT ?.
	ii.	Sarah Talcott, born 11/17/1679; died 12/6/1679.
	iii.	Rachel Talcott, born 2/23/1680-81; married Gershom Bulkley 3/21/1699-00 in Fairfield, CT.
	iv.	Jonathan Talcott, born 2/15/1683-84; died Bef. 1688.
	v.	Hezekiah Talcott, born 2/24/1685-86 in Hartford, CT; died 2/13/1673-74 in Durham, CT; married Jemima Parsons 1711.

      1556. Joseph Hawley, born Abt. 1603 in Parwich (Derbyshire), England; died 5/20/1690 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut. He was the son of 3112. Samuel Hawley and 3113. Mrs. [Hawley]. He married 1557. Katherine Birdsey 5/20/1643 in Fairfield Co. CT.

      1557. Katherine Birdsey, born Abt. 1620 in England; died 6/25/1692 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut. She was the daughter of 3114. Edward Joseph Birdseye ? and 3115. Abigail Phebe Dayton ?.

Notes for Joseph Hawley:

BIRTH: 1603 (Elias S. Hawley; The Hawley Record; 1890)

MARRIAGE: 1646 to Katherine Birdsey in Stratford (Elizabeth Hawley Everett;       Hawley and Nason Ancestry...;1929)

      There is some question as to the identity of his wife. The only       provable fact is that her name was Katherine and that they were       married about 1646 in Stratford. Several researchers and             descendants state that she was Katherine Birdsey, daughter of       William Birdsey of New Haven and Wethersfield, and niece of       John Birdsey of Stratford.

DEATH: 3/20/1690 in Stratford (gravestone)
will dated 9/17/1689
Confirmed lands given to children
Son Samuel got land and buildings in Parwich, England after death of Joseph's wife Katherine
Son Samuel got meadowlands at the Great Meadow and Galep's gap
Son Ephraim got 1 1/4 acres of Great Meadow land
Son John got Great Meadow lands
Grandchildren John and Joseph Chapman got 15 pounds each
Grandson Joseph Hawley got a lot of land at the Field Gate
Sons Ephraim and John got land on Clapboard Hill and Gallows Creek
Daughters Hannah Nichols and Mary Coe got 20 shillings
All grandchildren got 5 shillings
Sons Samuel, Ephraim, and John got lands at Stratford, Darby, and Woodbury to be equally divided
Wife Katherine was to be taken care of by her sons, and have whatever household goods and comforts she desired
Son John got the remainder of the indenture of Uriah Mills
Israel Chancey (brother-in-law of son Samuel) got 5 Pounds and was instructed along with John Beard (brother-in-law) to settle any difference of opinion among the executors
Sons Samuel, Ephraim, and John to be executors

Owned about five thousand acres in Stratford and Derby, CT
Landowner; ship builder; ordinary keeper; legislator
Town recorder of Stratford; town tresurer of Stratford;
Deputy to General Court of Connecticut from 1658-1690 (Hawley)

Trained as scrivener as wittnessed by his fancy script.

Arrived in new Haven about 1638 but left shortly thereafter for Stratford, possibly as a show of support for brother-in-law Moses Wheeler who was banished from New Haven for kissing his wife, Joseph's sister Miriam, on a Sunday.

Took in STEPHEN BURRITT, who succeeded him as town recorder, as his apprentice about 1650.


Children of Joseph Hawley and Katherine Birdsey are:

778	i.	John Hawley, born 6/14/1661 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut; died 7/27/1729 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut; married Deborah Pierson 4/23/1686 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut.
	ii.	Samuel Hawley, born 1647; died 8/24/1734; married (1) Patience Nichols; born 2/2/1659-60; died Aft. 1744; married (2) Mary Thompson 5/20/1673.
	iii.	Joseph Hawley, born 1/9/1649-50; died Abt. 1700.
	iv.	Ebenezer Hawley, born 9/17/1654; died 10/1681; married Hester Ward.
	v.	Hannah Hawley, born 5/26/1657; married (1) Josiah Nicholls 12/13/1678; born 1/29/1651-52; died 6/25/1692; married (2) John Wolcott 6/22/1692.
	vi.	Ephraim Hawley, born 8/7/1659; died 4/18/1690; married Sarah Welles 12/4/1683.
	vii.	Mary Hawley, born 7/16/1663; died 9/9/1731; married John Coe 12/20/1682.

      1558. Stephen Pierson, born Abt. 1645 in Suffolk County, England; died 5/14/1739 in Derby, (New Haven County), Connecticut. He married 1559. Mary Tomlinson Abt. 1665 in Milford, Connecticut.

      1559. Mary Tomlinson, born Abt. 1647 in Milford CT; died 9/25/1715 in Derby (New Haven County) Connecticut. She was the daughter of 3118. Henry Tomlinson and 3119. Alice [Tomlinson].

Notes for Stephen Pierson:
Arrived in New Haven in 1654 as an apprentice to Thomas Mulliner, a carpenter. Testified 6/30/1657 in case of slander when Mulliner claimed the pigs of ? Meeker were bewitched. In 1658 he appeared in probate court of New Haven to complain that Thomas Mulliner had not taught him the carpentry trade.
Original resident, along with EDWARD WOOSTER, of Derby, Conn. around 1666 where he had a homelot on meeting house hill.
Will dated 9/2/1733 does not mention a daughter DEBORAH, but no other Pierson family was in the area at the time; so, she is presumed to have been his daughter. She may not have mentioned in the will because she was well provided for after the death of her husband JOHN HAWLEY in 1729. Estate valued at 631 Pounds.
Died at age 94, leaving a second wife Esther.

birth: 1645 in England (age 94 at death per Pierson Genealogy)

marriage: 1665 in Milford to Mary Tomlinson (general estimate)
      (Pierson Genealogy)

death: 5/14/1739 in Derby (Pierson Genealogy)
      in present Oxford

Notes for Mary Tomlinson:
Birth: 1645 (estimate based on birth of sister Margaret in 1642)
4th child and 2nd daughter of Henry and Alice

Marriage: 1675 to Stephen Pierson in Milford, CT (Samuel Orcutt; The
Descendants of Henry Tomlinson; 1890)

Death: 9/25/1715 in Derby, CT (Orcutt)

Children of Stephen Pierson and Mary Tomlinson are:

779	i.	Deborah Pierson, born Abt. 1666 in Milford (New Haven County) Connecticut; died 12/3/1739 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut; married John Hawley 4/23/1686 in Stratford (Fairfield County), Connecticut.
	ii.	Stephen Pierson, born 1668.
	iii.	Sarah Pierson, born 1670; married ? Twitchell.
	iv.	Mary Pierson, born 1672; married ? Baldwin.
	v.	Abraham Pierson, born 1674.
	vi.	Bathsheba Pierson, born 1676; married James Blakeman 4/1708.
	vii.	John Pierson, born 1676; died 1704.

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