1st. Lt. Stephen Post

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A Founder of Hartford Connetticut https://www.foundersofhartford.org/founders/

Event: Relocated 1636 Hartford,Conn

Event: Was a Founder of Hartford. His name is included on the Monument.

Event: Misc. 1642 Was a Constable BIRTH-MAR-DIED C.W. Post: The hour and the Man by N.L. Major, book 9 21.73 P845m; Rudy NEGHR 146:211-213, 1992; Ancestral File 842Q-65 1642 was a constable in Hartford, Conn

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From NEHG Register, Volume 147, January 1993, page 61 and 62, Author Unknown at this time. "When researching the descendants of Abraham Post, I was unfortunately unaware of the work of the late Donald E. Poste (1916-1990) of Buffalo, N.Y., and Newberry, S.C. Mr. Poste spent over fifty years tracing the Connecticut Post family. A copy of his manuscript has been donated to the Connecticut Historical Society and is another valuable resource for descendants of this family. I would like to mention a special word of thanks to Don E. Post, PhD of Kingwood, Texas, who has shared his research notes with me. Don is currently working on a genealogy of the family of Deacon William Post (No. 13.vii.) of Georgia, Vermont. Although the subject of the English origins of Stephen Post was not within the scope of the present article, both Don and I would like to caution researchers interested in Stephen Post's English origins. As was presented in Major, "C. W. Post", 233, based on research undertaken in the 1930s by an English genealogist, Frank W. Tyler, F.S.A., F.S.E., Stephen Post was probably the Stephen Post of Hollingbourne, Kent, whose marriage banns to Ellen Panton were published in the parish of Langley, Kent, 17 October 1625, and who subsequently had three children baptized at Otham, Kent (Bishop's Transcripts) between 1629 and 1633. He is presumably the Stephen Post who then appears at Newtowne, Massachusetts, in 1634. In the Canterbury Marriage Licenses there is also record of a license between Allen Wenn and Mary Post of Bredgar, daughter of Abraham Post of Hollingbourne, 1 March 1632, with Stephen Post of Otham, carpenter, as bondsman. It thus appears possible that Stephen was a son of the Abraham Post of Hollinbourne who married there 26 April 1595 Anne Hunte. However, as yet there is no direct proof of Stephen's parentage. A number of fantastic pedigrees have been constructed for Stephen Post based on material in "The Post Family" by Marie Caroline De Trobriand Post (Mrs. Charles Alfred Post) (New York, 1905), concerning the supposed origins of Richard Post of Long Island. Researchers should note that the material on this Richard Post in England is largely a fabrication. The late Donald E. Poste addressed this issue several times and Don and I would like to quote from a manuscript he wrote on the English origins of Stephen Post (of Connecticut): I have discussed in the past with individual correspondents and many years ago in the columns of the "Boston Transcript" the ancestry of Richard Post of Long Island as forged by H. G. Somerby. It is on the surface an utter hoax, perpetuated upon a presumably rich American, similar to the Sears and the Belden ancestry also forged by this gentleman, although far less artful. It consists of altered documents, vital statistics which are non-existent, and the stringing together of totally unrelated people, with generations in excess of 100 years. It must be noted, however, that nowhere does Mr. Somerby profess to give the ancestry of Stephen Post of Saybrook. This is an assumption made by careless American genealogists. Nor can Mr. Somerby be blamed for the fact that as soon as it became reasonably evident that Stephen Post's father was Abraham Post of Hollingbourne, Kent, more American genealogists immediately stated, with no proof whatever, that this Abraham was identical with an Abraham Van der Poest baptized in the Dutch Church of Austin Friars, London, to one Pauwel Van der Poest. The reliance upon Mr. Somerby's fake pedigree is clear, in the clinging to the name Panwell instead of Pauwel. Both author and editor would like to express thanks again to Jean Rumsey, F.A.S.G., who kindly provided most of the following corrections and additions to the article (all not otherwise attributed), and also to David L. Greene, F.A.S.G., and Judith Miller Hine Luedeman, C.G., for their contributions."

http://bocasource.com/todmar/post_main.htm He was a follower and adjerent of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. His name appears on the monument as one of the founders of Hartford, CT. He migrated first to Newtowne (Cambridge), MA in 1634, then joined Rev. Hooker's group at Hartford, CT, then to Saybrook, CT, where he purchased his first land in Oyster River in 1648. Stephen died on August 16, 1659 in Saybrook, Middlesex, MA.

Source: "The Founders of Old Saybrook Colony and Their Descendants 1635-1985", compiled by the Old Saybrook Founders Committee, 1985. The Founders of Saybrook Colony 1635-1660 Post, Stephen Post, John Stephen Post helped build the original fort at Old Saybrooke.
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Saybrook Land Records Book 3 Page 381 Its agreed this 12th day of August 1651 between Stephen POST ye one partie & John LAY ye other partie as followeth, The said John LAY Doth by these presents make over to said Stephen POST all his lands at Pochuge viz fifty four acres of upland with ye meadows & Commonage there unto belonging & such a proportion of meadow as belongs to a hundred pound right for which ye said Stephen POST is to pay fifty pounds in well conditioned Country pay to Mr. HOPKINS or his assigns for John LAY & to take of ye rate for an hundred pound Estate & this payment to be made between the date hereof & ye 19th of September in the next year. In WITNESS whereof we have subscribed In presents of James FITCH Robert CHAPMAN Stephen POST (Mark) John LAY (Mark) Rec'd ye 8th of Feby 1724/5

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Saybrook Land Records Book 1 Page 16 FHL Film #5536 The Lands of Stephen POST his house and home lott in the towne abutting east north and south to the highway and west to the land of Simon HUNTINGTON 2. Ack in the Calves pasture abutting south to the land of Robert PARGO west to the highway north to Richard TVOSLAND. 3. 3 Ack and half of meadow in the planting field abutting east to the Cove South to Richard TVOSLAND north to John BUSHNELL. 4. 7 Ack of upland at penny wise abutting east to the land of John CLARKE west to the ox pasture north to the highway. 5. 5 ack of meadow more or less at south end of the said upland abutting east to the meadow of John CLARKE's and west to the ox pasture 6. the Comonage in the towne Comons belonging to the estate of one hundred and fifty pound. Stephen POST departed this life the 16th of August in the year of our Lord 1659 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (Hartford District), Charles W. Manwaring, Hartford, 1902, Vol 1, p 144 Stephen POST, Seabrooke. Invt. £442-03-06. Taken ye last of August, 1659, by John CLARKE, Thomas LEFFINGWELL, Chistopher HUNTINGTON. This According to our best Light is a true Inventory of the Estate of Stephen POST of Seabrook, lately deceased. Original signatures on File (C.W.M.) John CLARKE, Thomas LEFFINWILL, Christopher HUNTINGTON Recorded 1659.
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Founders of Hartford The following list is based on the names that were engraved on the original Founders Monument in the Ancient Burying Ground, also sometimes referred to at the "Old" or "Center" Cemetery. The cemetery is located at the rear of the First Congregational ("Center") Church at the corner of Main and Gold Streets in Hartford. The original brownstone Monument erected in 1837 was replaced by one of pink Connecticut granite in 1986, and the names on the new monument differ slightly from the list shown here. Jeremy Adams Matthew Allyn Francis Andrews William Andrews John Arnold Andrew Bacon John Barnard Robert Bartlet John Baysey John Bidwell Thomas Birchwood William Bloomfield Thomas Bull Thomas Bunce Benjamin Burr Richard Butler William Butler Clement Chaplin Richard Church John Clark Nicholas Clark James Cole John Crow Robert Day Joseph Easton Edward Elmer Nathaniel Ely James Ensign Zachariah Field William Gibbons Richard Goodman Ozias Goodwin William Goodwin Seth Grant George Graves Samuel Greenhill Samuel Hale Thomas Hale Stephen Hart William Hayden John Haynes William Hills William Holton Thomas Hooker Edward Hopkins John Hopkins Thomas Hosmer William Hyde Thomas Judd William Kelsey William Lewis Richard Lord Thomas Lord Richard Lyman John Marsh Matthew Marvin John Maynard John Moody Joseph Mygatt Thomas Olcott James Olmsted Richard Olmsted William Pantrey William Parker Stephen Post ** John Pratt William Pratt Nathaniel Richards Richard Risley Thomas Root William Rusco Thomas Scott Thomas Selden Richard Seymour John Skinner Arthur Smith Thomas Spencer William Spencer Thomas Stanley Timothy Stanley Thomas Stanton Edward Stebbing George Steele John Steele Goerge Stocking Samuel Stone John Talcott William Wadsworth Samuel Wakeman Nathaniel Ward Andrew Warner Richard Webb John Webster Thomas Welles William Westwood John White William Whiting John Wilcox Gregory Wolterton George Wyllys