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Descendants of Richard Lettin

Generation No. 2

2. JOSIAH² LATTING (RICHARD¹ LETTIN)³ was born February 20, 1640/41 in Concord,Mass.. He married SARAH WRIGHT, daughter of NICHOLAS WRIGHT and ANN BEAUPRE. She was born Abt. 1640.

Notes for JOSIAH LATTING:

JOSIAH ' b. - at Concord, Mass .,Feb. 20. 1641; came with his father to Hempstead in 1853, thence to Oyster Bay and Huntington. He appears to have continued a resident of Huntington after his father's return to Oyster Bay. In 1665 lie is fband to De the owner of a house and home-lot in Huntington ; being proprietor, also, of about twenty " cattle," which were at pasture on the common lands of Huntington. He was certainly still a resident of that place in 1666, when he appears in the Court records as a party to a suit with Caleb Wood, also of that place. On 22d Oct. 1667, his father executed to him a conveyance of all 'his (the father's) lands within the limits of "New York shire " (with certain, reservations for his own life), with a provision that in case of his son's death they should go to " Sarah Wright, his. intended wife." He shortly afterwards married Sarali Wright, daughter of Nicholas Wright, one of the early proprietors of the town, and probably removed to the latter place, where he soon became a prominent actor among the settlers and proprietors.' The Town Records are replete with frequent entries of " awards " and " allotments " to him of sundry " plotts " of land as " home-lots, " with rights of " commonage as a townsman ; " the earliest order being one for two acres in the village of Oyster Bay, adjoining to Caleb Wright's land, made December 23d, 1667.
He continued to reside in Oyster Bay till 1680, when he removed to what was then known as Matineeock, where he erected a dwelling-house on a tract of land still owned by his descendants, consting part of the present hamlet of Lattingtown. After the erection of this dwelling-house, the'Matinecock Indians, Suskanemen and Wehrow, on 5th July, 1681 gave him a deed for the ground, containing ten acres, then described as "woodland," and reciting it as bounded " northward to the Highway or street where his now dwelling house stands." From this time to 1688 he, with Edmund 'Wright his wife's brother, and his brother-in-law, John Davis, John Robins, and William Hudson (who had married his sisters), made other purchases of adjacent lands from the Indian proprietors. These purchases comprised the whole of the prewnt site of Lattingtown, and extended northwardly to Long Island Sound.

He is named as one of the original patentees in the Confirmatory Patent Of the town, granted by Governor Andross, Sept. 24, 1677.
During all of this period, and nearly up to the time of his death, he is prominent in all the town meetings, being entrusted with numerous town offices, and on several occasions deputed by the town to settle and adjust " boundary difficulties." Was a proprietor in Unkaway and Latting Necks, at South Oyster Bay, the latter being named for him The latest entry of any public act for the town by him is the following: 1" 1703, Jany. 13. Josias Latting Senr. chosen by vote of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town, to carry the pattn & y' quit rent y' is due upon y' same down to New York & then to return it to ya officer appointed to receive the sd quit rentt, & show him yo patten, &- then to return it to yo Town again."
The latest deed executed by him is dated May 28, 1719, in which he is described as " of Oyster Bay Yeoman, " whereby " in cousideration of natural love and affection," he conveys to his " son-in-. law, John Provoce, of New York, Cooper, and Sarah, his wife, daughter of said Josiah, for their better livelihood and subsistence, the moiety or equal half of a lot in the Old Purchase of Oyster Bay, contaiuing 75 Acres, on the Highway near Jerico." He died in the following year, 1720, being then eighty years of age.
Issue.-
i. Ricard
ii Josiah
. iii. Sarah, m. June 25, 1718, in the Dutch Church, New York, to Johannes Provoost, of New York.

Children of JOSIAH LATTING and SARAH WRIGHT are:

4.	i.	JOSIAS³ LATTING, b. Abt. 1678, Huntington, LI, NY; d. WFT Est. 1721-1760.
5.	ii.	RICHARD LATTING, b. Abt. 1680, Lattingtown, Ulster, NY; d. Bet. 1754 - 1755, Lattingtown, Ulster, NY.
	iii.	SARAH LATTING, b. Abt. 1699; m. JOHANNES PROVOOST, June 25, 1718, Dutch Church,New York; b. of New York.

3. THOMAS² LATTING (RICHARD¹ LETTIN) was born Abt. 1642 in Concord,Mass.. He married MERCY WAKELYN in abt 1687. She was born in of Fairfield,Conn..

Notes for THOMAS LATTING:

Thomas, 2d son of Richard Lettin continued at Fairfield in Connecticut, and married, about 1687, Mercy, daughter of Henry Wakelyn, or Wakeley, of Stratford, Connecticut, to which latter place he re- moved about this time. We cannot learn that he was ever owner of any lot or land in the present village of Stratford. His name does not appear among the proprietors on any list recorded in the Town Reemda. The earliest notice of his name is under date of June 26, 1688, in VoL 2 of the Town Records, page 3, where a description is given of the " ear marks " of his cattle as follows -- - " Thomas Lattin ear marks with a sliltt on yo under side the right ear, which slitt hath its first entrance about ye middle of the ear, and bends backward toward Ye root of the ear." Under date of March 22, 1689, is the entry, of a sale by him and Richard Raynor (Nathaniel Sherman acting for Raynor) to William Junes, of a yoke,of oxen, describing color and marks, and also of a sale by Thomas Lattin to William Junes of a 11 Brown Nagg," the contract of sale being witnessed by Samuel Galpin and Mark Meggs. It is probable he resided in or near Oronoke, a little north of the village, where many of the later Stratford settlers took up their abodes,since on the 4th of November, 1709, he bought from James Clarke, Jr, of Stamtford, 12 acres of land lying in the woods on the west side of Oronock Highway, near the present site of Putney Chapel.
He died Feby. 24,1712/3. His widow, Mercy, survived him; and subsequently, August 31, 1790, married Moses Wheeler, of Stratford.

Children of THOMAS LATTING and MERCY WAKELYN are:

	i.		PATIENCE³ LATTING, b. December 31, 1688; m. JOHN GILBERT, November 25, 1714.
	ii.		JACOB LATTING, b. November 09, 1696.
	iii.		DAVID LATTING³, b. November 18, 1698, Strafford,Conn.; d. Abt. 1750; m. COMFORT TITTERTON, November 08, 1721, ? Strafford,Conn..

Notes for DAVID LATTING:

was a twin to Thomas

6.	iv.		THOMAS LATTING, b. November 18, 1698, Strafford,Conn.; d. October 1773, Huntington,LI,NY.
7.	v.		BENJAMIN LATTING, b. April 13, 1702, Strafford,Conn..

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