Samuel Pond, of Windsor

Not a proven child of Robert Pond, of Dorchester & Mary Shepard

Disputed Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pond-136

No source has been identified that shows Samuel Pond's parents were Robert Pond Sr. (1592-bef.1648) and Mary (UNKNOWN) Shepard (1585-aft.1674). They have been detached from his profile pending reliable sources showing that they are correct.

Samuel Pond: Probate

• Source: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.1650 to 1663
  • Original Image at: Ancestry.com.
  • Transcribed at: Google Books.
• Location: Windsor
• Date of Will: 19 Mar 1654
• Died 14 March, 1654-5.
• Invt. £129-02-00. Taken 19 March, 1654-5, by Henry Wolcott Jr., John Moore, Robert Howard, Benedictus Alford sen.
• Legatees: Wife Sarah, son Isaac 8 years of age, Samuel 6, Nathaniel 3 1/4, Sarah 2 1/2 years.
• This Court order to Dist. to the Mother £40, the rest of the Estate to be equally divided between the 4 Children.

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Biography

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1198.htm#19615

Samuel POND [son of Robert Pond and Mary] [sic] ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1617 in Groton, Suffolk, England. He died 14 Mar 1654 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Samuel married 6 Sarah WARE on 18 Nov 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

Sarah WARE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 was born 1618 in , , England. She died 6 Jul 1665 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah married 7 Samuel POND on 18 Nov 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. She married John LINSLEY 2nd on on 6 Jul 1655 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut.

Samuel and one or two brothers from Groton, England came to Massachusetts in 1630 aboard the ship Arabella with the eminent Gov. John Winthrop.

Samuel named freeman in Brandford, CT.

Married 18 Nov.1642 Sarah Ware in Windsor, CT.

Samuel Pond's name can be seen on a monument which was erected in the town square of "Ancient" Windsor, CT there to comemorate the original settlers, where he moved to in 1635.

Children:

• 1. Isaac Pond, b. 16 March 1646, Windsor, d. 15 Nov 1668, Windsor, m. 10 May 1667 to Hannah Griffin, b. 4 July 1649 Windsor.
• 2. Samuel Pond, b. 4 March 1648 (or 1640) , Windsor, d. 30 Jan 1718 prob. in Bedfort, CT, m. 3 Feb 1669Branford, to Mirium Blatchley, b. 2 May 1652, d. 1694 Boston, d/o Thomas Blatchley and Susanna Ball, d/o Alling Ball.
• 3. Nathaniel Pond, b. 2 Sept or 21 Dec 1650, d. 19 Dec 1675, killed by the Narragansett Indians in the swamp fight.
• 4. Sarah Pond, b. 11 Feb 1652, m. Jonathan Hoyt of Guilford, CT..

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Samuel Pond (Samuel 2, Robert1), at the age of 18, was one of the charterers of Branford, CT. Other signers included his father-in-law Thomas Blatchley, Bartholomew Goodrich whose day/Abigail m. Samuel Pond III, and John Linsley, husband of Sarah Ware Pond. In 1672 Samuel was made a freeman at Hartford, which meant he was allowed to own property and could vote. He was a deputy to the General Court for Branford in 1678, "82, '87; Sergeant of "ye trainband" in 1683 and was made Lt. by the General Court in 1695. In 1687 he was listed as a member of the First Congregational Church in Branford. He served in the Colonial Wars and was commissioned as an Ensign in 1689 and as a Lieutenant in 1695, serving in Branford, CT Melitia.

3. Nathaniel Pond

4. Sarah Pond

The above source was Betty Pond snyder, DAR, 1992, "Pioneer Pond People,"

The below source was Paul Herbig, "Herbig-Cracken Family Chronicles, 1997, p. 155.

email: prfssrpah@aol.com

Pond is of Norman origin, de la Ponder, de la Pond, Ponder, Ponde, Pond.

Married 18 Nov 1642 WIndsor, CT Sarah Ware.

Children:

Isaac

nathaniel

Sarah

Samuel m. Mirium Blakely.

References

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=merrygo&i... (dead link)
• WikiTree contributors, "Samuel Pond (abt.1617-1655)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pond-136 : accessed 10 February 2024). cites

1. ↑ A genealogical record of Samuel Pond and his descendants. By Daniel Streator Pond. Pages 8 & 9. (https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00inpond/page/8/mode/2up)
2. ↑ “Pond, Samuel. 1641, bought (in several panels) a lot 28 ½ rods wide, on Silver St. bounded S. E. by Hallow Fall, N. by Wm Buell; he died 1654; his widow sold house and lot to Richard Saxton, 1655, and he sold the front part with house to Wm Buell for his son Samuel, 1664, and (same date) the rear to Thos. Barber, Jr.” The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, by Henry Reed Stiles. Page 164. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/164/mode/2up )
3. ↑ Barbour collection. Windsor vital records. General index Pha - Poq. Image 9984 of 10307. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-D3C8-4YY?i=9983&ca...)
4. ↑ Families of Ancient Windsor. By Henry Reed Stiles. 1891. Volume 2. Page 620. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil/page/620/mode/2up)
5. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMC-WLVF : 15 April 2022), Samuell Pond in entry for Sara, 18 Nov 1642; citing Marriage, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272251.
6. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 5 & 6 (Rome: Clarence D. Smith, 1929); images of pp. 1453-54 at InternetArchive.org.
7. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 5 & 6 (Rome: Clarence D. Smith, 1929); images of p. 1454 at InternetArchive.org.
8. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMC-WLVF : 15 April 2022), Samuell Pond in entry for Sara, 18 Nov 1642; citing Marriage, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272251.
9. ↑ The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, by Henry Reed Stiles, 1891. Volume 2, page 620 (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil/page/620/mode/2up)
10. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPSK-YKXJ : 15 April 2022), Isaac Pond in entry for Hannah Griffin, ; citing Marriage, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272232.
11. ↑ "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMW-8SV9 : 22 July 2021), Isaac Pond, 1669.
12. ↑ Barbour collection. Windsor vital records. General index Pha - Poq. Image 9986 of 10307. Also Col. 2 - 155. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-D3C8-WV4Q?i=9985&c...)
13. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-YYQ : 7 January 2020), Samuell Pond in entry for Samuell Pond, 1648.
14. ↑ Early Connecticut Marriages as found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, by Frederick W. BAILEY, Vol 2, 1896 (http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/branford_newhav_marr.htm) "Samuel Pond & Mirriam Blatchley married 5 Jan 1669 by Rev. Abraham Pierson"
15. ↑ Branford Vital Records 1644-1850. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Image 187 of 251 (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/40113:1034?_phsrc...) Specifies bride as "Mirriam Blachly". Date = 5 Jan 1669
16. ↑ Will of Thomas Blatchlye says "Sam'l Pond, husband of Miryam, daughter of Thomas Blatchlye". Probate Records, Vol 1-2 1647-1703. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data:Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.(https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007626...)
17. ↑ New Haven (Conn.) probate records. Probate records v. 3-4 1703-1719. Image 471 of 502 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9ZT-V) He mentions his wife Miriam. He mentions his sons, Samuel, Moses, Josiah & Nathaniel (deceased). Daughters: Abigail, wife of Isaac Tyler, Lois, Miriam & Mindwell.
18. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-YB4 : 7 January 2020), Samuell Pond in entry for Nathanell Pond, 1650.
19. ↑ The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut: By Henry Stiles, 1891. Page 620. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil/page/620/mode/2up)
20. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WW-M4G : 7 January 2020), Samuell Pond in entry for Sara Pond, 1652.
21. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2SZ-PTP : 7 January 2020), Sarah in entry for Jonathan Hoyt, 1672.
22. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627...). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Hartford, Probate Packets, Phelphs, Job-Porter, David, 1641-1880, image 1099. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data:Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. (Free image by Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26099626?h=f87f79&utm_campaign=ban...)
23. ↑ Barbour collection. Windsor vital records. Volume MG. Page __. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-D3C8-49Z3?i=9984&c...)
24. ↑ The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut. Henry Reed Stiles. 1891. Page 878. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/878/mode/2up). See also volume 2 of the same genealogical history which notes the deaths of these 2 children on page 620 (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil/page/620/mode/2up )
25. ↑ Barbour collection. Windsor vital records. Vol. MG. Page ___.
26. ↑ The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut. Henry Reed Stiles. 1891. Page 882. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/882/mode/2up)
27. ↑ Barbour collection. Windsor vital records. General index Pha - Poq. Image 9987 of 10307. Also Col. 2 - 160. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-63C8-WV1S?i=9986&c...)
28. ↑ Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut. Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898. (https://archive.org/details/birthsmarriagesd00well_1/page/43/mode/1...)
29. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627...). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Hartford, Probate Packets, Phelphs, Job-Porter, David, 1641-1880, image 1099. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data:Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. (Free image by Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26099626?h=f87f79&utm_campaign=ban...)
30. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 5 & 6 (Rome: Clarence D. Smith, 1929); images of pp. 1453-54 at InternetArchive.org."She was not named Ware, as by misreading is often falsely stated."
31. ↑ Welles, Edwin Stanley (ed.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut: Volumes I and II of Land Records and No. D of Colonial Deeds. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1898) Page 42. (https://books.google.com/books?id=0woWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&...).
32. ↑ Branford land records. Volume 1. Page 170 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-B3LY-Q?i=93&c...) "John Linsly and Sarah Pond married July: 6 : 55"
33. ↑ Early Connecticut Marriages As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Edited by Fredieric W. Bailey, 1896. Second Book. Page 99 (Marriages performed in Branford by Rev. Abraham Pierson (https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hM0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA2&hl=en)
34. ↑ Corbin, Frances Harrison. "The Linsleys in American", The Connecticut Magazine (Hartford, Conn., 1908) Vol. 11, Pt. 2, Page 664
35. ↑ A genealogical record of Samuel Pond and his descendants. By Daniel Streator Pond. Pages 8 & 9. (https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00inpond/page/8/mode/2up)
36. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630, (Boston, 2018, New England Historic Genealogical Society), pp. 536-537.
37. ↑ The Winthrop Fleet. Charles Edward Banks. 1930. Page 86 (https://archive.org/details/winthropfleetof100bank/page/86/mode/2up...)
38. ↑ Colonial Families of the United States of America. Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. 1912. Volume 2. Page 582.(https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61175/images/colon...)
39. ↑ Regarding the reliability of the 7 volumes series Colonial Families in the USA, see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/744590/how-reliable-are-the-works-of-g.... "Generally the compilers of these books didn't do original research in primary sources. They got submissions from families and printed what they were given."
40. ↑ The American genealogist. Vol. VI (1931). Page 1453. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B2-V94Y-4?i=96&c...)
41. ↑ Comstock - Thomas ancestry of Richard Wilmot Comstock. By Harold Minot Pitman, FASC and Donald Lines Jacobus, FASC. 1964. Page 221. (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/19783/?offset=0#p... )

See also:

• Corbin, Frances Harrison. "The Linsleys in American", The Connecticut Magazine (Hartford, Conn., 1908) Vol. 11, Pt. 2, pg 664
• Vol. 6. The American Genealogist by Donald L. Jacobus.
• Early Records of Windsor, Ct. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5:360 (1851)
• Welles, Edwin Stanley (ed.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut: Volumes I and II of Land Records and No. D of Colonial Deeds. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1898) pp 11, 22, 28, 37, 42, 43; available at HathiTrust.org.
• Cone, William Whitney. Record of the Descendants of John Bishop, One of the Founders of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639 (J.G. Bishop, Nyack, N.Y., 1951) Page 277
• “Pond, Samuel. 1641, bought (in several panels) a lot 28 ½ rods wide, on Silver St. bounded S. E. by Hallow Fall, N. by Wm Buell; he died 1654; his widow sold house and lot to Richard Saxton, 1655, and he sold the front part with house to Wm Buell for his son Samuel, 1664, and (same date) the rear to Thos. Barber, Jr.” The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut, by Henry Reed Stiles. Page 164. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/164/mode/2up )
• "Samuel Pond (1641) bought a lot twenty-eight and one half rods wide. He married Sarah Ware, 1642, and had three sons and one daughter. He died, 1654. His son Isaac married Hannah, daughter of John Griffin, 1667. He had one daughter. He died, 1669. His son Nathaniel was mortally wounded at the storming of the Narragansett fort, 1675." The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884. Clarence F. Jewett. 1886. Page 556 (https://archive.org/details/memorialhistoryo02trum_0/page/n645/mode... )
• A re-creation of a plan of ancient Windsor 1630 – 1650 was first published in The memorial history of Hartford County. The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884. Clarence F. Jewett. 1886. Page 501 (https://archive.org/details/memorialhistoryo02trum_0/page/n583/mode... ) showing the location of the home lot of Samuel Pond.
• Page 153 of Stiles cites records showing that Buell lived between Sarah Pond and John Hillier (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/152/mode/2u...)
• Page 151 of Stiles cites records showing that Thomas Barber built on a lot formerly owned by Samuel “except about 1 1/2 acres, next to Silver St., on wh. P's ho. stood.” (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/150/mode/2u... )
• Page 178 – 179 of Stiles -- January 18, 1G59-60. "A note [was] taken what dwelling houses are in the town, that the owners of them have paid for seats in the Meeting house, and how much and by whom. … Samuel Pond - 5 s” (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/178/mode/2u... )
• Page 879 Stiles cites a town record saying that Samuel Pond was one of four people who died in Windsor in 1654. (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/878/mode/2u... )
• Page 882 of Stiles cites Windsor town records from August 17, 1677 showing that Samuel Pond had 4 children born in Windsor while Isaac Pond had one child born in Windsor (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/882/mode/2u... )
• Page 878 of Stiles cites a Windsor town record of May 23 1676 saying that in “the 47 year” (1647), along with 25 other persons, “Samuel Pond’s 2 children died” (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil/page/878/mode/2up )