Lucy Hungerford

“in her 77th year”

Biography

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS FOR THOMAS HUNGERFORD OF HARTFORD AND NEW LONDON, CONN. AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA By F. PHELPS LEACH. (1932) Page 24-25

20. CAPT. JoHN4 HUNGERFORD (Thomasa, Thomas2, Thomas1 ) , of Farmington and Southington, Conn., born 4 Mar. 1718, at East Had- dam; baptized 4 May 1718. He died in Southington, 24 Dec. 1787, and was buried in the old graveyard at Plainville, Hartford County.

He married

first, 27 Dec. 1739, DEBORAHi HUNGERFORD, bapt. 27 Aug. 1721; died before 6 Mar. 1745; daughter of 7. Johna and Deborah (Spencer);

secondly,---, Lucv ---,b o rn ---; died 10 Feb. 1798, aged 77 years (gravestone).

Captain Hungerford was prominent in military affairs. In 1751-2 he removed to Farmington and in May 1754 was commissioned by the General Assembly of Connecticut, ensign of the train band of that town, the sixth company. In May 1757 he was appointed lieutenant of the train band in the parish of New Cambridge (now Bris- tol), formerly in the town of Farmington, and in May 1758 he was commissioned captain of this company in the First Regiment. He had a seat in the meeting house in 1785, and was assessed on one hundred and eighty-seven pounds in 1786, at Southington. His father's will dated 6 Mar. 1745, mentions his two grandsons, Levi and Thomas Hungerford.

Children by first wife, born in East Haddam:

• + 98. i. LEVI", b. 28 Dec. 1740; d. 1814; m. SARAH RoBERTS.
• + 99. ii. CAPTAIN THOMAS, b. 19 July 1742; m. (1st) NAVINE MOODY.
• 100 iii. OLIVER , bapt. 10 Mar. 1745; m. 24 Dec. 1767, Lucy STOw.

Children by second wife, first four baptized in Millington:

• 101. iv. URIAH°, bapt. 9 Aug. 1747; estate settled 6 Jan. 1777.
• 102. v. AMASA, bapt. 21 May 1749; d. about 1792; m. ELIZABETH SEELEY.
• 103 vi. DEBORAH, bapt. 8 Sept. 1751; m. 5 Nov. 1767, ABRAHAM BROOKS.
• +104. vii. LYDIA, bapt. 7 June 1759; d. 29 Nov. 1850; m. 1424 ROSWELL CONE.
• +105. viii. JoHN, b. - - 1761, in Farmington; d. 18 May 1830, ae. 69.
• 106. ix. LucY.
• 107. x. ELIZA.
• 108. xi. HuLDAH, m. 16 May 1776, AzEL HILLS.

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