Phebe Trumbull

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Category:Lyme, ConnecticutCategory:Saybrook, ConnecticutCategory:Hebron, ConnecticutCategory: WeaversCategory: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Connecticut
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Biography

Phebe, daughter of John Lay Jr, was born 13 Jan 1684 (1684/5), in Lyme Connecticut.≤ref>"Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Lyme, Conn" New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 24:31, 1870≤/ref>≤ref> "Lyme (Conn.) Vital Records" The American Genealogist. 10:218 citing p. 24 of original records. Lists "The burth of John: Laye Junr. his Children."≤/ref> John Lay's wife was Sarah Andrews.≤ref> McCormick III, Robert Hall. "Sarah Andrews as wife of John Lay "Drummer": McCormick-Hamilton Lord-Day Ancestral Lines (1957) pp 637-640.≤/ref>

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}}Phebe Lay married Jordan Post, 17 Nov 1703, in Saybrook, Connecticut.≤ref name=SaybrookBC>White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collectionof Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Saybrook p 93.≤/ref> Besides being a farmer's wife and mother, she probably had some skill as a weaver. Jorden died 20 Jan 1747, in Hebron.≤ref>Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Hebron p. 111≤/ref>≤ref>Photo of Gravestone Findagrave 45179347 Jordan Post. Andover Road Cemetery, HebronTolland County, Connecticut, USA≤/ref> His will written the day before his death, left provision for his "well beloved wife Phebe" giving her the use of the west room in his dwelling, and part of the orchard and garden. These items were to revert to son Jordain, when she died orremarried. He also left her a pair of worsted cams and a pair of weavers looms and all the tackling and some household items to be hers forever, indicating that she was the weaver in the family. The will also made bequests to their children, Gordain, Jedediah, John, Phebe, Ann, and Sarah.≤ref>Probate Packets, Patterson-Puffer, 1741-1880 Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Jordain Post. Hebron 1747 #2466. East Haddam/Colchester Probate District. Accessed at Ancestry.com. as Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999≤/ref>
Phebe and Jordan moved several times. The moves can be tracked by the births of their children as well as land records.≤ref name=Rudy>Rudy, Michael. "The Colonial Post Family of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut: Abraham Post and his Descendants". New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146:211. Children of Jordan on 228. 1992≤/ref> They went from Saybrook, where they married and the Post family lived, to Haddam, Connecticut, about 1708. He sold his house in Haddam in 1713.≤refname=Rudy /> Hebron, Connecticut, was a new town in 1708, settled in 1704/5 by members of the Post and Lay families and others. Jedediah's birth about 1716 and Elenor's about 1719 went unrecorded, perhaps because the rules about birth registrations didn't yet exist or were not being well kept.

1. Phebe Post was born in Saybrook, 22 Oct 1704.≤ref name=SaybrookBC /> Phebe died 10 June 1750 in Glastonbury. She was married Jonathan Strickland.≤ref name=Rudy /> She died 10 June 1750, age 46, and was buried Old Eastbury Cemetery in Glastonbury, Connecticut.≤ref>Photo of gravestone. Find a grave 40361271 Phebe Post Strickland. Old Eastbury Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA≤/ref>#Anne Post, daughter of Jordan and Phebe, was born in Saybrook, 23 May1707.≤ref name=SaybrookBC /> She married her cousin Phineas Post.≤refname=Rudy /> She died 16 Oct 1771 and was buried at the Old Cemetery in Hebron (now Andover Road)≤ref>photo of gravestone Find a grave 45179685.Ann Post Post. Andover Road Cemetery, Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA≤/ref>#Jorden Post Jr. was born in Haddam, Connecticut, 11 Nov 1709≤ref name=HaddamBC>White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Haddam. p. 65≤/ref> He married Mahittibell Curtis 1 Apr 1742 in Haddam.≤ref name=HaddamBC />
2. Sarah Post was born in Haddam, 8 Mar 1711/2.≤ref name=HaddamBC />#Jedediah was born about 1716. He was age 70 when he died 20 Mar 1786 age 70.≤ref>Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Gilead Cemetery.≤/ref>≤ref>Photo of Gravestone Find a grave 7566557 Capt Jedidiah Post. Gilead Cemetery, Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA.≤/ref> He was married three times.≤ref name=Rudy />#Eleanor Post was born about 1719. She was 19 when she died, at Hebron, on 17 June 1738. Her birth was not recorded. She did not figure in her father's will, because she predeceased him. However her gravestone is next to Jordan's in the Old Cemetery in Hebron (now called Andover Road Cemetery.≤ref>Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Old Cemetery Hebron.≤/ref>≤ref>Photo of gravestone Find a grave 45179388. Elener Post. Andover Road Cemetery, Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA≤/ref>#John, son of Jordan, was born in Hebron, 10 Nov 1723.≤ref name=HebronBC>White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. pp 229-234≤/ref> John of Hebron m. Katherine Northum of Colchester, 8 May 1760;≤ref name=HebronBC /> m. Comfort Goodrich 17 Jan 1762;≤ref name=HebronBC /> He died 26 May 1773≤ref name=HebronBC />

Phebe remained a widow, until she was 76, when she married Benoni Trumbull Jan 1760 at the Hebron Congregational Church.≤ref name=HebronCh />
Phebe Trumbull, wife of Capt Benoni, died 19 Sep 1762,, in Hebron, Connecticut.≤ref name=HebronCh> Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Volume 054 Hebron p. 87/8≤/ref> She is buried next to Benoni in the Gilead Cemetery, in Hebron.≤ref>Photo of gravestone Find a grave 7569852. Phoebe Lay Post Trumbull. Gilead Cemetery, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.≤/ref>≤ref>Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Gilead Cemetery, Hebron, Connecticut.≤/ref>
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Sources

≤references />* ≤span id='Gay'>≤/span>Gay, Frank. The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut (Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT, 1933) Page 33
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