Christopher Christophers

• Christopher Christophers
• Birth: unknown Devon, England
• Death: Jul. 23, 1687 New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
• in ye 56 year of his age
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Mary Berry Christophers (____ - 1676)
• Children:
  • Richard Christophers (1662 - 1726)*
• Inscription:
• Here lyes ye body of Mr. Christopher Christophers who died July ye 23 1687 in ye 56 year of his age.
• Burial: Ancient Cemetery, New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 11349704
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11349704 ______________
• CHRISTOPHERS, Christopher
• b. 1631 Devonshire, England
• d. 23 JUL 1687 New London, New London, CT.
• Family:
• Marriage: 16 AUG 1654 New London, New London, CT.
• Spouse: BERRY, Mary
• b. 1621 Devonshire, England
• d. 13 JUL 1676 New London, New London, CT.
• Children:
  • CHRISTOPHERS, Mary
  • CHRISTOPHERS, Richard
  • CHRISTOPHERS, Hannah
• Family:
• Marriage: ABT 1667
• Spouse:BREWSTER, Elizabeth
• Children: CHRISTOPHERS, John b. 3 SEP 1668 New London, New London, CT.
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_11c.htm#21 ____________
• Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania By John W. Jordan
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• Pg. 1052
• ley, and daughter of Jonathan Brewster, of whom a more particular account is given below. She died in 1708, aged about seventy years.
• Christopher Christophers was a trader and importer, in partnership with Charles Hill, under the firm name of Hill & Christophers. He is mentioned in the earlier records as a "Mariner", and the firm of Hill & Christophers, had a ship of Seventy tons burden, built for them, called the "New London", delivered to them June 25, 1666. They subsequently had a number of other vessels built and were the principal traders of that part of the New England coast, carrying on a large trade with Barbadoes and the West Indies. . . . . Here he died July 23, 1687, aged fifty-six years.
• Richard Christophers, son of Christopher and Mary Christophers, according to an ancient record in the family, was born July 13, 1662, at Cherston Ferrers, .... He married (first) January 26, 1681, Lucretia Bradley, born 1660, died 1691, daughter of Peter Bradley, of new London, Connecticut, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Brewster, who after his death married Christopher Christophers, father of Richard. Peter and Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradley had three children, Elizabeth, married Thomas Dymond; Peter, Jr., married May 9, 1678, Mary Christophers, the sister of Richard; and Lucretia, above mentioned, who married Richard Christophers. He married (second) Grace Turner, daughter of John and Mary (Brewster) Turner, of Scituate, Massachusets.
• Jonathan Brewster, father of Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradley-Christophers, was born at Scrooby, England, in 1593, and was a son of Elder William Brewster, born about 1560, the ruling elder and spiritual guide of the Pilgrim Fathers, whom he accompanied to New England in the "Mayflower", which landed it living freight of intrepid pioneers at Plymouth, December 11, 1620. Jonathan Brewster married, in England, and his wife "Mistress Lucretia Brewster", accompanied her father-in-law, Elder William Brewster, in the "Mayflower", with one child. He husband Jonathan Brewster, followed in the ship "Fortune", which arrived November 10, 1621. "Mistress Lucretia Brewster" as she is usually denominated in the ancient records, was a woman of note and respectability among her compeers: she is often referred to in some useful capacity, an attendant upon the sick and dying, or a witness to wills, deeds and other public documents. She survived her husband.
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• Pg.1053
• .... Of the nine children of Jonathan and Lucretia Brewster, the four eldest seem to have remained at Duxbury, Massachusetts, viz: Two sons, William and Jonathan, who are on the military roll there in 1643; and two daughters, Lucretia, and Mary, who married John Turner, of Scituate, Massachusetts, and was the mother of Grace Turner, the second wife of Richard Christophers. Those who removed with him to New London were: Benjamin, who settled at Brewster's Neck; Elizabeth, born 1638, died 1708, who married as before stated, first Peter Bradley and second Christopher Christophers; Ruth, who married John Picket; Grace, who married Daniel Wetherell; and Hannah, who married in 1664, Samuel Starr.
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The ancestry of Christopher Christophers is unknown

The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 131

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“In 1665, Charles HILL and Christopher CHRISTOPHERS appear on the roll of inhabitants. They were traders in partnership, and made their first purchases on Mill Cove, of warehouses and wharfage, where Richard HARTLEY and John TINKER had previously traded. The firm of HILL & CHRISTOPHERS was probably the first regular copartnership in the town. Mr. CHRISTOPHERS was a mariner, and engaged in trade with Barbadoes. He had an older brother, Jeffrey CHRISTOPHERS, also a mariner, who probably settled in the place at the same time, though his name does not occur so early. They both brought families with them.” Source: HISTORY OF NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF ITS PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN. COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF D. HAMILTON HURD J. W. LEWIS & CO., PHILADELPHIA, 1882 PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA [transcribed by Janece Streig] CHAPTER XI. 1 [1. Condensed from Miss F. M. CAULKINS' excellent "History of New London."] NEW LONDON - (Continued). Pages 148 - 168 Early Settlers-Incidents, etc. (Added to profile by Aurora Elisa Deiri)