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About Jonathan Atwater
- Atwater https://archive.org/details/Vol1AtwaterHistoryAndGenealogy Full Text: "Atwater History and Genealogy VOL. I" Compiled by Francis Atwater 1901
- :Atwater https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge02atwa#page/n5/mode/2up II Full Text:"Atwater History and Genealogy VOL. II " Compiled by Francis Atwater 1907
- Atwater: https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge03atwa#page/n5/mode/2up Full Text: "Atwater History and Genealogy VOL. III" Compiled by Francis Atwater 1918
- Atwater: https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge04atwa#page/n5/mode/2up Full Text: "Atwater History and Genealogy VOL. IV" Compiled by Francis Atwater 1927
- Atwater: https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge05atwa#page/n287/mode/2up Full Text: "Atwater History and Genealogy VOL. V" by Charles Hobart Atwater 1956 p. 272
- Atwater: : https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge04atwa#page/10/mode/2up/... Atwater history and genealogy : comprising the results of seventy-seven years research by Rev. E.E. Atwater and the compilerby Atwater, Francis, b. 1858; Atwater, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1816-1887 (1927)
Volume I, Pages 97 and 98l No. 7
7 . Jonathan, son of David, lived in New Haven; m. June 1, 1681, Ruth. dau. of Rev. Jeremiah Peck. She d. June 3, 1726. He is described in a deed as a merchant. Her will was probated Oct. 5, 1741- The Rev. Jeremiah Peck, father of Ruth, was a son of William Peck, Deacon, one of the original settlers of New Haven, also a signer of the “ Fundamental Agreement of Quinnipiack/’ He was born in England about 1623. In 1656 he kept a school in Guilford, Conn., where he remained until 1660. That year he was established, according to an act of the court, in the Hopkins Collegiate Grammar School of New Haven, and there “taught the languages of sciences.” In 1661 he was a minister at Saybrook. In 1677, unwilling to abide by the union of the New Haven Colony with the “lax and broader principaled" Colony of Connecticut, he, with a few others, departed for Newark, N. J., to form a colony more congenial to their views. He there resided in 1674. He then removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., thence to Greenwich, Conn., where he was minister to 1689; thence to Waterbary, Conn., where he was the first minister, and there d. June 7, 1699, aged 76. He married, Nov. 12, 1656, Joanna Ketchel, dau. of “Mr." Robert Kctchcl and Margaret Sheaffe.
30. Joshua, b. Feb. 29, 1682 d. March 16, 1682.
31. David, b. Aug. 5, 1683.
32. Jeremiah, b. Jan. 31, 1685.
33. Mary.' b. Dec. 31, 1686; m. Isaac Dickerman.
34. Ruth, b. Dec. 31, 1688; m. Samuel Ives.
35. Jonathan, b. Nov. 4, 1690.
36. Lydia, b. April aS, 1693; d. Aug. 2, 1694.
37. Joseph, b. Dec. 9, 1694.
38. Stephen, b. Dec. 4. 1696; d. Oct. 23, 1704.
39. Damaris, b. Oct. 9, 1698; m. Caleb Hall.
40. Lydia, b. July 31, 1701; d. March 30, 1708.
“One of the earliest of New Haven’s successful merchants was Jonathan Atwater, and his profits from trade were such as might well have satisfied the commercial ambition of the planters. The inventory of his estate, as found in the Probate Records, covers over eight closely written pages and gives a variety of objects, great and small, suggestive not only of wealth but of the processes of its acquisition. There are several farms, with tracts of land amounting to some four thousand acres; province bills and interest-bearing notes; a stock of merchandise for a retail store, indicating barter In local produce and in manufactures from beyond the seas, such as fine cutlery, silks, broadcloth, Turkish wrought cushions; a wardrobe containing a number of coats with silver buttons; a gold seal ring; an ivory-headed cane and a watch that had belonged to Mr. Diswell, the regicide ; and finally, three negroes, a form of property less common in Connecticut than farther South. The whole estate was appraised at £ 15.323, which was nearly half as much as the official valuation of all estates in New Haven."*
“The inventory of Jonathan Atwater’s estate is full of suggestions concerning the life of those early times. Its list of articles tells of energy, industry and thrift There are the simple tools for every kind of work that filled the women's hands within doors and employed the men outside, from knitting needle to spinning wheel and loom, from shoemaker’s awl to ax and scythe and lumber.
But quite as suggestive as anything we find is the absence of objects that are familiar to us. There are no musical instruments, not a flute or harp or violin in the house or in the store. Neither do we find a painting mentioned or any picture, though the sideboard is adorned with pieces of heavy wrought silver, and some of the furniture is.elegant, as well as the wardrobe.
“The stock of books is meagre, the appraisal of the whole being less • than eight pounds. Among them are named two Bibles, two Psalm books, two Psalters and fifteen dozen Catechisms, with a number of books whose titles are not given.f This is hardly indicative of literary habits, either in the home or in the community. Happily Yale College was established about this time, and the beginnings were made of a new order of things for New Haven.” J (NOTE: Inventory and Legal information may be found in Volume I, from page 99)
- Reference-Full Text: https://archive.org/stream/atwaterhistoryge04atwa#page/10/mode/2up/... Atwater history and genealogy : comprising the results of seventy-seven years research by Rev. E.E. Atwater and the compilerby Atwater, Francis, b. 1858; Atwater, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1816-1887 (1927)
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The fourth son was Jonathan. He married Ruth, daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Peck. He had eleven children. He was the merchant prince of New Haven, and his profits must have satisfied his ambition. The inventory of his estate found in the probate records, covers over eight closely written pages, and gives a variety of objects, great and small, suggestive not only of wealth but of the processes of its acquisition. There were several farms with tracts of land amounting to four thousand acres; province bills and interest bearing notes, a stock of merchandise for a retail store, indicating barter in local produce and in manufactures from beyond the seas, such as fine cutlery, broadcloth, Turkish wrought cushions; a wardrobe containing a number of coats with silver buttons; a gold seal ring, an ivory-headed cane and a gold watch, and finally three negroes. I lis whole estate was appraised at 15,323 pounds, which was nearly half as much as the official valuation of all estates in New Haven. This inventory is full of suggestions concerning the life of those early times. [ts lisl tells of energy, industry and thrift. He lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four years.
Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 61, 537, 1384
Buried at Center Church on the Green Churchyard in New Haven, CT
Note: buried in the New Haven Green; no tombstone remaining
GEDCOM Source
@R-2138463064@ Family Data Collection - Individual Records Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. 1,4725::0 Birth year: 1656; Birth city: Off; Birth state: CT. http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=82531&ti=0&indiv=t... Birth date: 12 July 1656 Birth place: Off, New Haven Fairfield, CT Death date: 3 June 1726 Death place: New Haven, New Haven, CT Marriage date: 1 June 1681 Marriage place: Off, New Haven Fairfield, CT 1,4725::82531
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@R-2138463064@ Family Data Collection - Individual Records Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. 1,4725::0 Birth year: 1656; Birth city: Off; Birth state: CT. http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=82531&ti=0&indiv=t... Birth date: 12 July 1656 Birth place: Off, New Haven Fairfield, CT Death date: 3 June 1726 Death place: New Haven, New Haven, CT Marriage date: 1 June 1681 Marriage place: Off, New Haven Fairfield, CT 1,4725::82531
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Jonathan Atwater's Timeline
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July 12, 1656
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New Haven, New Haven Colony, Connecticut, New England, BNA
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1676
Age 19
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| 1681 |
February 21, 1681
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New Haven, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
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| 1683 |
August 5, 1683
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
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| 1685 |
January 31, 1685
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New Haven, New Haven County, Province of Connecticut, British Crown Colony
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| 1686 |
December 31, 1686
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
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| 1688 |
December 31, 1688
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New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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| 1690 |
November 4, 1690
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
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| 1693 |
April 18, 1693
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New Haven, New Haven, CT
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