Joseph Arnold, of Haddam

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• His birth year and place of birth have no sure source.. Wikitree gives the following rationale to this matter:—
  • "Joseph Arnold has no proof of birth year. Anderson says about 1634, but it is not known whether he was born in England or America.[1] Some sources put his birth as early as 1625" [e.g., AGBI; U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900].
  • Note: Find A Grave cites no source for showing May 1628 as Joseph's birth with a written caveat in the Bio stating: "No proof exists of Joseph Arnold's birth year, and it is not known whether Joseph Arnold was born in England or America, but he is believed to have been the son of John and Susannah Arnold. By 1639, he was certainly living in Hartford among the original settlers."
• Wikitree's profile for John, Joseph's father, does not state when the family arrived in New England. The first recorded mention of him in New England is an account on 4 Aug 1634, "when he received a five acre grant of land in the Westend Field in Newtowne.[3]"
• Before 1666, Connecticut Colony had no counties.
• For events occurring between Hartford's founding in October 1635 and 1665 inclusive, the place-name should read:— Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• All records for Haddam and East Haddam before May 1785 appear with Hartford County following these town names. Therefore, all references to Haddam, Middlesex County for events occurring between from 1666 to 1785 have been changed from what was entered.

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Joseph Arnold

• Born about 1634 in England
• Died 22 Oct 1691 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
• Son of John Arnold and Susannah
• Husband of Elizabeth Wakeman — married 6 Sep 1662 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
• Father of Gideon Arnold, John Arnold, Joseph Arnold, Samuel Arnold, Josiah Arnold, Susannah (Arnold) Brooks, Jonathan Arnold, Elizabeth Arnold and Elizabeth (Arnold) Brown

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BOOK

• The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Haddam ... By First Congregational Church (Haddam, Conn.), p. 44
  • Joseph Arnold son of John and Susannah Arnold, and the father of Jospeh Arnold the third deacon of this church, came to Haddam at the beginning but subsequently lived in Hartford for a few years. The original front of his original home lot was given to the town for a burying-ground in exchange for another home lot taken out of the common land and located,it is believed, a few rods southerly of the current county jail. His first dwelling seems to have been on his additional lot, near the Field Park entrance. He probably settled on the second lot at a date of the following town vote:
  • It was agreed and voted by the inhabitants that the settled place where the meeting house shall be built is at the front of the minister's lot in the little meadow lying against the home lot of Joseph Arnold that he now dwells in.
  • As late as 1690 he and his wife Elizabeth Wakeman were members of the church in Hartford. He died in Haddam in 1691 and his widow became the wife of the second Deacon Daniel Brainerd.

Free eBook

• A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of ..., by Royal Ralph Hinman, p.58.
  • Joseph Arnold was an original settler of Hartford.
  • He died Oct. 22, 1691.
  • Estate 151pounds, 10s.
  • His will was offered in court by his widow and sons Joseph and Josiah in 1692.
  • The estate was divided by his children in 1693, at which time his widow had remarried.
  • Children, viz, John, age 29; Joseph, 26; Samuel, 23; Josias, 21; Jonathn, 12; and daughters Susannah, 16 and Elizabeth, 9.
  • Samuel had his portion at E. Haddam by a deed by his father at "Matchit Moodis."
  • Joseph Arnold was the original proprietor of Haddam, but whether he removed himself to the first settlement of Haddam is doubtful; his son Joseph and Samuel probably settled at Haddam.

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Haddam History: "Plantation at Thirty Mile Island"

• Source: HaddamHistory.org:—
  • In 1660, the Connecticut Colonial Legislature sent Matthew Allyn and Samuel Willys down the Connecticut River from Hartford to purchase land from the Wangunk Indian Tribe at the place the English called 'Land of Thirty Mile Island'. The island, now known as Haddam Island was thought to be thirty miles from the mouth of the "Grate River" at Long Island Sound (it is only 17 miles from the mouth of river).
  • In May 1662 the Englishmen finally purchased land comprising approximately 104 square miles and extending in six miles on each side of the river from the straits at "Pattyquonck" (now Chester) to the Mattabeseck-Mill River (now Middletown) across to the line of Chatham (now East Hampton). The English paid 30 coats (worth approximately $100) for the land from four Native American chiefs, two queens and others. The Native Americans did set aside some property for their own use including 40 acres at Cove Meadow (Chester) and Haddam Island as well reserving the right to hunt and fish where they pleased.
  • The first settlers were twenty-eight men and their families from Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor:—
    • Arnold –John & Lydia (Backus) Bailey – James & Hannah (Withington) Bates – Daniel & Hannah (Spencer) Brainerd – Thomas & Alice (Spencer) Brooks – Samuel & Elizabeth (Olmsted) Butler – William & Katherine (Bunce) Clark – Daniel & Mehitable (Spencer) Cone – William Corby (No Wife Listed) – Abraham & Lydia (Tefft) Dibble – Samuel & Anna (Burnham) Gaines – George & Sarah (Olmstead Gates – John & Martha (Steele) Hannison – Richard & Elizabeth (Carpenter) Jones – Stephen Luxford (No Wife Listed) – John Parents (No Wife Listed) – Richard Piper – Thomas & Alice (Spencer) Shayler – Simon & Elizabeth (Bateman) Smith – Thomas Smith (No Wife Listed) – Gerrard & Hannah (Hills) Spencer – John & Rebecca (Howard) Spencer – Joseph & Elizabeth (Spencer) Stannard – William & Elizabeth (No Maiden Name Listed) Ventres – John & Hannah (Unknown Maiden Name) Webb – James & Elizabeth (Clark) Wells – John & Mary (Bronson) Wyatt
  • Originally there were two small settlements on the west bank of the river: the Town Plot was laid out along the southern end of what is presently Walkley Hill Road and extended to the old burying ground (Burial Yard at Thirty Mile Island Plantation) and the Lower Plantation was settled south of the Mill Creek in the area now known as Shailerville. Each proprietor was given a home lot and land for farming. There was also land set aside for a meetinghouse and ministers lot. In October 1668 town was incorporated and given the name Haddam after Much Hadham in England. Haddam had very little tillable agricultural land and the best farming land was located along the river. Early residents utilized all of the natural resources available to them including water, fish, timber and granite in order to survive. The Connecticut River was a major source of income and transportation for the first 200 years of the town existence. Shipyards were built along the river, while many other small tributaries provided waterpower for mills and eventually factories.
  • In 1685 a group of residents moved across the river to settle East Haddam including some members the Gates, Ackley, Brainerd, Cone, Spencer, and Bates families. In 1700 East Haddam formed their own ecclesiastical society and became a separate town in 1734. Haddam Neck, which is also located on the east side of the river, was settled around 1712 but remained a part of Haddam and continues so today.
  • By 1720 the population of Haddam had grown to 500 and continued to grow steadily, forcing new settlers and younger generations to expand inland to the less fertile areas. Families that came to Haddam in the late 17th century included Walkley, Scovil, Dickinson, Hubbard, Hazelton, Higgins, Knowles, Lewis, Ray, Thomas, Tyler, Burr and Smith, some of which settled in the interior portions of town including Ponsett, Candlewood Hill, Little City, Burr and Turkey Hill....
• Sources for Haddam History:
  • Bayles, Richard M. "Town of Haddam." In History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, edited by J. B. Beers. New York: J. B. Beers and Company, 1884.
  • Beers, J. H. Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1903.
  • Brainerd, Eveline Warner. "Haddam Since the Revolution." Connecticut Magazine, December 1899, pp.591-604
  • ____________________. "The Plantation of Thirty Mile Island." Connecticut Magazine, November 1899, pp. 543-552.
  • Brooks, Lillian Kruger. Life Flows Along Like a River: A History of Haddam Neck. Haddam Genealogical Group, 1972.
  • Cunningham, Janice and Elizabeth A. Warner. Portrait of a Town: The History and Architecture of Haddam, Connecticut. Greater Middletown Preservation, Middletown, CT, 1984.
  • Field, David Dudley. A Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex in Connecticut, Middletown, Connecticut: Clark and Lyman, 1819.
  • ___________________. A History of the Towns of Haddam and East Haddam, Middletown, Connecticut: Loomis and Richards, 1814.
  • Knowles, The Reverend William C. By Gone Days of Ponset-Haddam. New York: Printed by the author, 1914.
  • Sandin, Katherine. Country Church, Country People 1740-1974. Detroit: Harlow Press, 1974.
  • Selden, Henry. "Haddam Neck." In The History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, edited by J.B. Beers. New York: J.B. Beers and Company, 1884.
  • Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Haddam, Connecticut, 1700-1900. Haddam, Connecticut: The DeVinne Press, 1902.

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GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE

• Source: 'Town of Haddam, by Richard M. Bayles. (transcribed by Janece Streig)
  • This town lies upon the Connecticut River, and is the only township in the State that is bi-sected by that water. Salmon River forming a part of its eastern boundary, it includes what is known as Haddam Neck upon the east side of the Connecticut. The town is bounded on the north my Middletown and Chatham; on the east by East Haddam; on the south by Chester and Killingworth; and on the west by Killingworth and Durham. Its location is central in the county, and the county is central in the State.
  • The town contains four railroad stations, on the Connecticut Valley Railroad, viz.: Higganum, Haddam, Arnold's and Goodspeeds; four post offices: Haddam, Higganum, Haddam Neck, and Tylerville; eight churches; and fourteen school districts.
  • Extensive flats of natural meadow of apparently exhaustless fertility skirt the river at Haddam, on the west side, and opposite Shailerville and Higganum on the east side. The town contains about 30,000 acres. That part of it lying on the west side of the river was formerly called Haddam Society, that on the east side Haddam Neck, and a section in the northwest part, which has since been joined to Durham, Haddam Quarter.
  • The surface of this town on both sides of the river rises into hills, which, with the intervening valleys, form a succession of varying undulations. The elevations reach from 200 to 300 feet in height, though their average is less. The "Strait Hills" run across the northwestern part, and another range runs nearly parallel with them. "Long Hill" lies back of the hills near the river, below Mill Creek, and stretches away toward "Turkey Hill," in the southern part of the town. These ranges of hills, in a general way, extend nearly north and south. The rocks of this town have yielded valuable specimens of the precious minerals. Among these are beryl, garnet, black tourmaline or schorl, pyrites, and quartz crystals. Many rich specimens from here have been secured for the museum of Yale College and private collections without number.
  • The surface of the town is traversed by a number of small streams. The largest of these is Higganum River, called in the early days of the settlement "Tom Hegganumpos." It has three branches: the northern branch, called the Shopboard Brook, the middle or west branch, called also the Candlewood Hill Brook, and the south or Ponsett Stream. The first rises in Middletown, the second in the northeastern part of Killingworth, and the third in the western part of this town. Just below the junction of the three branches the water has a very abrupt descent of 30 feet, through a rocky gorge less than 30 rods in length.
  • Mill River is another considerable stream, which rises in the southern part of the town and after receiving the waters of Beaver Brook flows eastward into the Connecticut. This stream takes its name from the fact that upon it was erected the first corn mill in the town.
  • The soil of this town is generally good, but the surface is for the most part too hilly and rocky for cultivation. The southern part of the town is sandy, especially in the neighborhood of the river. In some of the intervals along the streams there are tracts of level and productive land.
  • One of the most remarkable rocks in the town is that known by the singular name of Shopboard rock. It is about half a mile above the village of Higganum. The rock presents a bare, worn, and sloping surface about 60 feet high and 75 feet across. Tradition says that the name was derived from the circumstance that a tailor once cut a suit of clothes on it for a customer whom he met at the place, and the stream flowing by it was names Shopboard Brook.
  • From the fact that the name appears on the records as early as 1713, the event in which it originated must have taken place at a very early date.
  • Two islands lie in the middle of the river opposite this town. These are Lord's Island, called by the early settlers Twenty Mile Island, from the fact that it was supposed to be 20 miles from the river's mouth, and Haddam Island, in the same way called Thirty Mile Island. The first is on the line between this town and Chester, only the upper end of it being abreast of this town. The second lies between Haddam Centre and Higganum. The distances suggested by their names are considerably in excess of the truth, and they are not 10 miles apart. Haddam Island, which is entirely within the limits of this town, was for many years one of the most valuable fishing stations on the river. The water upon the east side of the island was deep and much frequented by fish, and being narrow, was easily swept with a seine. Two fishing companies, one at either end, occupy it for this purpose. Legends exist that some of KIDD's fabulous treasurer were deposited on this island, and many seekers after hidden wealth have dug for it here.
  • The following turnpikes have been in operation in this town: The Middlesex Turnpike, along the river, chartered in 1802, and abandoned since the completion of the railroad; the Haddam and Durham Turnpike, running from Higganum to Durham, chartered in 1815, abandoned nearly 50 years ago; the Haddam & Killingworth Turnpike, chartered in 1813, from Higganum to Killingworth; and a branch of the latter, diverging from it in the Burr District, and running to Haddam Centre through Beaver Meadow, granted in 1815. All these have been abandoned for several years.
  • The town is remarkably healthy, as shown by its mortuary records, though it has been visited by several severe and fatal epidemics.
  • The latest grand levy shows the town to contain 480 houses; 21,890 ¾ acres of land; 31 mills, stores, etc.; 192 horses; 1,012 neat cattle; sheep valued at $557; 39 carriages and wagons subject to tax; clocks and watches valued at $840; musical instruments to the value of $2,825; bank, insurance, and manufacturing stock held to the amount of $81,917; railroad and other corporation bonds, $6,600, etc. During the previous year the amount expended on roads and bridges was $2,789.09. PURCHASE AND SETTLEMENT.
  • The first purchase or occupancy of any of the land within the limits of this town by Englishmen, of which there is any account, was about 1652, when Captain John CULLICK, who had for some time been secretary of the colony of Connecticut, having extinguished the Indian title, obtained a confirmatory grant for what was then called Twenty Mile Island, now LORD's Island, and a tract on the east side of the river near it, the dimensions of which are not given. CULLICK had probably made little or no improvement upon his land previous to the settlement of Haddam.
  • The locality and afterward the newly organized town, took its name from Thirty Mile Island. Individuals contemplated making a settlement here as early as 1660, and in October of that year the Legislature accordingly appointed a committee to purchase the lands from the Indians. For some unknown reason the negotiation was not consummated until nearly two years later. The desired purchase was finally made on the 20th of May 1662, when the committee above referred to, consisting of Matthew ALLYN and Samuel WILLYS, obtained from four kings and two queens of the Indian tribes that occupied them a deed for these lands. The value of the articles given in payment would probably not exceed $100. The territory extended from "Mattabeseck mill river," a stream afterward called Miller's Brook or Sumner's Creek, substantially on the line between the subsequent towns of Chatham and Haddam on the north, down to "Pattaquounk" Meadow, which is now called the Cove Meadow, at Chester.
  • Soon after this purchase, a company of 28 men from Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield, in whose behalf the purchase had been made, entered upon the land and commenced improvement. These men were: Nicholas ACKLEY, Joseph ARNOLD, Daniel BRAINERD, Thomas BROOKS, Daniel CONE, George GATES, Thomas SHAILER, Gerrard SPENCER, John SPENCER, William VENTRES, John BAILEY, William CLARKE, Simon SMITH, James WELLS, James BATES, Samuel BUTLER, William CORBEE, Abraham DIBBLE, Samuel GANES, John HANNISON, Richard JONES, Stephen LUXFORD, John PARENTS, Richard PIPER, Thomas SMITH, Joseph STANNARD, John WEBB, and John WYATT. The first 10 as here named are known to have come from Hartford, while the places whence the others severally came are not definitely known.
  • They are supposed to have been mostly young men, many of whom were just married. They paid back the expense of the purchase of installments as they were able. Some part of the amount seems to have remained unpaid for several years. March 13th 1669, the town voted to pay to James INSIGNE, of Hartford, 38 shillings, 6 pence, which the record says was part of the purchase money of the plantation. The whole number of those whose names appear as the founders of the settlement did not come here at once, but remained at some other place, where, perhaps, business or some other attraction detained them for a greater or less period of time. Indeed, it is possible that a few of them never settled here at all, but sold out their interest to others; and of those who did settle there were some who remained but a short time. Some of them were so slow in improving their rights here that the action of the society appeared necessary to prompt them. Nicholas ACKLEY, for example, was so far delinquent that the little colony took such action in his case that resulted in obtaining the following covenant from him to assure them that he would in fact become one of them:
  • "This writing made ye eight off november 1666 bindeth me niklis AKLEY of Hartford to come with fy ffamely to setle att thirte mille Iland by ye twenty ninth of october next inseuing date hereof, ealso to have my part of fence up yt belong to my home lot by he Last of --- nexst inseuing as of failing hereof to forfit ten pound to ye inhabitant of thirte mile Iland as wines my hand and Seall.
    • "Nicholas ACKLY "witness James BATE."
  • It is probable that the settlement progressed but slowly and no formal or systematic organization of the society was effected within three or four years from the date of the purchase. If anything was done in this direction no record of it remains. One of the earliest scraps of evidence extant in regard to organizing the settlement on a basis looking toward the establishment of permanent homes for individuals is the following:"
    • "may sixty-six --- whom it may consearne --- ---- ----- written was apyntted by the Gennarl Corte of Connecticut a Committee to Plant the Plantasion at thirty mile Island or to order the planting of the sayde Plantasion and accordingly we did Promote the planting of the sayd Place what in us lay, and in order thearto we did make a purchase of the Indians of such Lands as we thought convenient for the Peopell that should inhabit the said p'antasion and that land which we did intend for thirty mile Island Plantasion ----- that land from Midleton boundes to the sowth [towards] the end of the purchas which if we mistake not runnes to the brooke belowe Pattaquonch meadows we say all that Land we did grant ot he sayd Plantasion for we did not intent any of it for Saybrook or any other Plantasion, Judging it might be but a competency for that plantasion upon which purchas of the sayd Land for that place the peopell nowe inhabiting at thirty mile Island weare encouraged to setell themselves and ffammilyes at the sayd thirty mile Island Plantasion.
  • "Samuel WILLIS. "Matthew ALLYN. "Wm. WADESWORTH. "Samuel CORMEN."
  • Soon after the "settling of the plantation" others joined the settlers. Among the first of these were Richard WALKLEY from Hartford, John BATES, and William SCOVIL. In October 1668, the town was invested with privileges as such, and about that time the name Haddam was given to it, as it is supposed out of respect to Haddam or Hadham in England.
  • Desirable persons were admitted by vote of the town to the privileges of inhabitants and were granted accordingly shares in the common proprietorship and allotments of land to their individual use. All lands held in individual fee were taxes on a fixed scale of valuations, which varied from 5 to 20 shillings per acre according to the availability and situation of the land. The character of those who proposed to join their society, or indeed who frequented it, was subject to rigid scrutiny, and a remarkable degree of candor was evinced in their expressions of disapproval when an undesirable person lingered in their society, as the following extracts will show. April 10th 1673, it was "agreed by voate that John SLED and his wife should not be entertained in the town as inhabitants or resedence and also Goodman CORBE was forwarned not to reseave him into his hows becose they weare not persones qualified according to Law." Again, January 1st 1683, the townsmen were ordered "to warne Frederick ELIES and his wife to departe the towne by the next march inseueing."
  • On the 11th of February 1686, a patent was granted by the Assembly to the inhabitants for all the lands of their town that had previously been granted them and confirming those grants with all their appurtenances and privileges to them and their heirs and assigns forever. THE SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES.
  • At the first, or at the least as soon as some degree of order could be established, the settlers opened a highway running substantially where the old country road from the court house to the foot of Walkley Hill now does. Why they chose such a rough spot of ground it is hard to understand, but the evidences prove beyond a doubt that here they laid out the "town plot" and built their houses. Some of the cellars remained visible until within the memory of persons now living. Nineteen home lots were laid out here, and houses were probably built on the most of them. For the greater part the lots were nearly uniform, being about four acres each, and extended from the highway to the river, a distance of from 80 to 125 rods. Each man also had a lot of about three acres on the opposite side of the highway from his four acre lot. These lots must have been seven or eight rods in width on the highway. Those on the east side of the road are all bounded on the northeast by the "Great River." From data gleaned from the records, and carefully compared and verified, the writer has arranged a map of the original town plot. While it is impossible to assert anything in regard to the definite shapes of the lots, their relative position in regard to each other, and to other objects specified, is accurate and can be abundantly verified by the records. Some objects then existing remain to the present time, and help to locate the whole plot by fixing certain points. The burying ground, without a doubt, remains where it was then provided for, adjoining the lot of Joseph ARNOLD. The "highway that leads into the woods" is probably the road that starts back of the court house and runs westerly up the hill. The other "highway into the woods" is the road that runs from the old road up the hill past the residence of Mr. Zachariah BRAINERD and the Methodist church. Wells' Brook still runs through its primitive gorge. [transcribers note: Map on accompanying page lists the following names: J. BATES, A. J. HANNISON, J. PARENTS, A. DEIBLE, John WIATT, Richard JONES, Wm VENTROUS, Wm. CORBEE, Thos. RICHESON, James BATES, John HANNISON, John PARENTS, Abram DEIBLE; Nicholas ACKLY. N. ACKLEY, Tho's. SHALLER, John HENERSON, T. B., S. L., SMITH, MINISTER, Parsonage, G. S., T. S., J. B., D. B., D. C., J. S., S. S., W. C., G. G., J. ARNOLD, R. P., James WELLS, Samuel BUTLER, John SPENCER, James WELLS, Tho's. BROOKS, Stephen LUXFORD, Blacksmith sold to John ELDERKIN, First Minister, Parsonage forever, Gerrard SPENCER, Tho's. SMITH, John BALIE, Daniel BRAINERD, Daniel CONE, Joseph STANNARD, Simon SMITH, William CLARKE, Geo GATES, Reserved for Burying Ground and Meeting House, Joseph ARNOLD, Richard PIPER, R. PIPER's home meadow.]
    • Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Haddam_The_Original_Proprietors

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Source

• Arnold Family History · 6 November 2014 · by DaLene (Day) Bryant
  • There are many Arnold families that are not related who emigrated to New England when it was in various colonies. The Arnold’s of this history who settled in Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, have never been connected to the nobility of England or Wales.1
  • John Arnold Freeman (c. 1590 - 1664) Probably John was born at Braintree, County Essex, England, about 1590, and emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled at Cambridge, where he was made a ‘Freeman’ on 6 May 1635. He married Susannah ???.
  • John was one of the original settlers of Hartford in Connecticut Colony, and received 16 acres on the south side of the road leading from George Steeles homestead to South Meadow, south of Little River, 2 in the division of lands in 1639/40.
  • A Will for John Arnold is dated 22 August 1664, and his estate was inventoried on 26 December of the same year. The Will mentions his “loving wife Susana.” Sons Josiah, and Joseph was left the land at Hartford on the condition “if he Return to Dwell in Hartford again within two years after the date hereof.” Daniel was provided for “if he live, and be married and have children.” John also required that “my loving Brethern Edward Stebbing and Leftenant Bull to be overseers.”
  • Will and Testament of John Arnold
    • “I John Arnold of Hartford, upon the river of Connecticut, being very aged and weak in body & in a dayle expectation of my change from henc, Doe make and Ordain this my last will and testament in manner and fforme as ffoloweth: Imprimis. I give unto my Dear and loveing wife Susana Arnold the sole and fful use of my now Dwelling hows and howse lott, the barne & all Appurtenances belonging to the aforesaid premises, during the fful term off her naturall life; alsoe my two Kowes. Item. I give my wif to be for her use & at her own dispose all my household goods, my said wife paying or causeing to be paid such Legacies as I shall here bequeath unto my Dear and Loving children, viz: I give unto my son Josiah Arnold one cowe and my two acres of Land in the clayboard swamp, after the death of my wife, & my other upland lotto neer the townes End. If my son Joseph Arnold Returne to Dwell again in Hartford within two yeares after the date heeroff, I give the one halfe of the said Lott to him and his heirs forever; the other part of it I give to my son Daniell & his heirs forever. Item. I give unto my son Daniell; after the decease off my fore said wife, my now dwelling house, houselott & Barne, with all Appurtenances there unto belonging. My will is that if my son Daniell shall live and be marred & have a child or children, that the fore said premises shall be to him and his heirs for ever; But if he shall mary and dye without issue my will is that his wife shall Enjoy the foresaid premises diring her naturall lif, and after he Discease my will is that all those premises I have heerin given to my son Daniell Shall be the estate of my son Joseph Arnold & his heirs for ever. Item. I give unto my dear, loving grandchild Mary Buck ffourty shillings, to be paid at her adge of eighteen yeares or within one full yeare after the decease of my fore said wif. That this my last will and Testament be truly performed, I entreat my loveing brethren Edward Stebbing and Leiftenant Bull to be Overseers hereunto. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this two & twentieth day off August , 1664. John Arnold
  • Witness hereunto: James Ensign
    • Thomas Bull. [Proven 26 December, 1664]”
  • An inventory of John’s estate was taken on 26 December 1664. His estate was valued over £100.3

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For widow Susannah, she pulled her membership in the First Church of Hartford and became an original member of Hartford’s Second Church on 22 February 1670.
John and Susannah (???) Arnold had six children. See: https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/11391050
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• Joseph Arnold Freeman, Deputy (c. 1630 - 1692)
  • Joseph was the second son of John and Susannah (???) Arnold, and may have been born about 1630. Around 1660, Joseph married Elizabeth Wakeman (b: about 1633 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; d: about 1696 at Haddam, Connecticut). Elizabeth was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (???) Wakeman of Hartford, Connecticut (they came to New England on the ship “Lion” in September 1631, and removed to Hartford in 1635/36).
  • Joseph was made a Freeman at Hartford in 1658, and he was one of the first settlers at Haddam before 7 December 1667, when the community gathered to vote for the site of the new meeting house “lying against the end of the home lot of Joseph Arnold that he now dwells in.” At Haddam, Joseph was made a Freeman in October 1669.
  • An inventory of his estate was taken on 2 March 1691/92. Since the settlement of John’s estate didn’t make mention of his wife or her maintenance, the court stipulated “that, although she be married , this court confirms the agreement with the condition that if the woman see cause she shall have her thirds of the profits during life, the agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.” The date of the document is 30 March 1693, and on this date Elizabeth married for the second time to Deacon Daniel Brainerd.
  • From 1689-1691, Joseph was a Deputy to the General Court in five sessions for Haddam. He was a very prominent man of the town.
  • Joseph and Elizabeth (Wakeman) Arnold had seven children.
  • CHILDREN
    • 1. John Arnold - Born 1662/63. Married to Hannah (Hurlbut?).
    • 2. Joseph Arnold - Born 2 March 1666, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married on 28 January 1695, to Susannah Smith (b: 1669; d: 14 June 1742). He died on 8 January 1752.
    • 3. Samuel Arnold - Born 1668/69, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to Abagail ???. He died 20 March 1739.
    • 4. Josiah Arnold - Born 1670/71, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to Mary (Wells?). He died on 27 January 1711/12. Mary’s estate was inventoried on 4 December 1714.
    • 5. Susannah Arnold - Born 1675/76, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married on 16 November 1696, to Thomas Brooks.
    • 6. Jonathan Arnold - Born 1679/80, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married on 12 August 1699, to Elizabeth ——— [not provably née Smith]. His estate was inventoried on 22 January 1729.
    • 7. Elizabeth Arnold - Born 1682, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut.
• John Arnold, constable (1662 - ????)
  • John was born in 1662/63 at Hartford, Connecticut Colony. Married to Hannah (Hurlbut?) (b: 1654/74; d: 11/13 April 1719). Haddam’s early land records mention purchasing land. At Haddam, John was made constable on 22 December 1692.
  • John and Hannah (Hurlbut?) Arnold had nine children.
  • CHILDREN
    • 1. Joshua Arnold - Born 1687, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. He was a physician.
    • 2. John Arnold - Born 1689, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. He was a physician.
    • 3. Gideon Arnold - Born 1691, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married 14 May 1724, to Abigail Brainerd. He died in March 1772.
    • 4. Ebenezer Arnold - Born about 1696, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    • 5. Mehitable Arnold - Married to Zebulen Lewis.
    • 6. Hannah Arnold - Died about 1739.
    • 7. Rebecca Arnold - Born 1702. She died on 6 November 1746.
    • 8. Elizabeth Arnold.
    • 9. Jonathan Arnold.
• Gideon Arnold Farmer, Deacon (c. 1687 - 1772), son of John and Hannah (???) Arnold of Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. He married on 14 May 1724, to Abigail Brainerd of Haddam. (Please see Brainerd family history.) Gideon’s occupation was that of a farmer of Haddam Neck. He was elected as Deacon of the Congregational Church in Middle Haddam on 8 November 1740.
  • A second marriage took place after 1758/59 to Sarah Brainerd (b: 11 March 1699/1700, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut). She was the daughter of William Brainerd and Sarah Bidwell.
  • Gideon was respected and an honor to the Christian religion. On his death in March 1772 he was greatly lamented.
  • Gideon and Abigail (Brainerd) Arnold had eleven children.4
  • CHILDREN
    • 1. Abigail Arnold - Born 7 March 1726, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Probably died young.
    • 2. Jerusha Arnold - Born 21 March 1728, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to David Arnold.
    • 3. Joseph Arnold - Born at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    • 4. Daniel Arnold - Born about 1731, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to Ruth Hale.
    • 5. Gideon Arnold - Born about 1735, Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married on 2 September 1761, to Lucy Hinckley (d: 1 March 1801). He died 7 February 1807.
    • 6. Jacob Arnold - Born at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    • 7. Hannah Arnold - Born at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to James Hazelton.
    • 8. Abigail Arnold - Baptized 26 July 1741, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married on 31 May 1758, to Lemuel Warren.
    • 9. Mary Arnold - Baptized 6 May 1743, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    • 10. Jacob Arnold - Baptized 10 November 1745, at Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut. Married to Anna ???. He moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
• Daniel Arnold Deacon (c. 1731 - 17?? ) Born about 1731 at Middle Haddam (now Portland), Middlesex County, Connecticut. Married on 27 November 1755, to Ruth Hale (bap: 3 November 1734), at Haddam. (Please see Hale family history.) The family lived at Haddam Neck (now East Hampton). Daniel died on 27 May 17??.
  • Daniel and Ruth (Hale) Arnold had ten children.5
  • CHILDREN
    • 1. Mary Arnold - Born 5 July 1756.
    • 2. Ashbil Arnold - Born 17 March 1758.
    • 3. Eunice Arnold - Baptized 31 August 1760. Married 12 October 1780, to Elisha Smith.
    • 4. Abigail Arnold - Baptized 15 August 1762.
    • 5. Elizabeth Arnold - Baptized 28 September 1764. Married 8 October 1799, to Roswell Sexton.
    • 6. Daniel Arnold, Jr. - Baptized 10 August 1766.
    • 7. Ruth Arnold - Baptized 31 July 1768. Married 27 August 1798, to James Gardner Miller. She died 7 September 1816. (Please see Miller family history.)
    • 8. David Arnold - Baptized 12 August 1770. Married 8 April 1792, to Elizabeth Hubbard.
    • 9. Martha Arnold - Baptized 3 August 1772. Married 1st on 26 March 1797, to Abijah Brainerd, Jr.; 2nd on 7 September 1841, to Hiram Chase at Seneca, New York.
    • 10. Elisha Arnold - Baptized 27 November 1774.

ENDNOTES

1. James W. Hook, compiler, Arnold Family of Haddam and East Haddam. (Booklet found at Connecticut State Library and had no title page.) (FHL-USA/CAN 929.); John Wesley Arnold, M.D., A Connecticut Arnold Memorial. (Long Beach, California: Self-published, revised 1999) (FHL-USA/CAN 929.273 Ar64aw.) NOTE - All data from these two sources unless noted.
2. Royal R. Hinman, Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut. Volumes I-V. ( Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1852) V. 1, p. 58. (FHL-USA/CAN 974.6 D2hra v. 1.)
3. Hinman, v. 1, p. 58.
4. Lucy Abigail Brainard, The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America, 1649-1908. (Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Press, 1908) Pp. 42-43. (FHL-USA/CAN 929.273 B731b 1987 v. 1.)
5. Arnold, p. 71.

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