

http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families/kent.htm
Starting with Kent family of Suffield, we'll collect, clean up, "MP," and write good profiles About Me narratives for the early families of Suffield, Connecticut. Please email Hatte Blejer or any of the collaborators to join the project if you are interested.
The list from the above website is shown below. Feel free to add any additional families who settled early in Suffield, certainly those before 1800. Add profiles of spouses, children, and descendants if they were born or lived in Suffield, but just to keep the list shorter, only add heads of household (male or female) to the list.
You can read about the history of Suffield in this Wikipedia article.
"For a town its size, Suffield has had a remarkable effect on the history of the region and the nation. Its native and adopted sons include Olin Levi Warner; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators; and Thaddeus Leavitt,[2] inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.[3] Thanks to the town's early prominence and wealth, it boasts an astonishing collection of early New England architecture.[4] The Kent family, for whom the town's library is named, originated in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and boasted relations to many prominent early New England families, including the New England Dwight family of Northampton, Massachusetts, the Hooker family of Hartford, the Dudleys of Guilford, Connecticut and the Leavitts of Suffield.[5][6] Descendants of Robert Olds, who arrived from Sherborne, Dorset, in 1667, include automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds, Copperhead Ohio politician Edson Baldwin Olds, his great-grandson USAAF General Robert Olds, and his son, iconic USAF fighter pilot Robin Olds."
In 1682 sixty-two proprietors were heads of families ; the remainder were unmarried, and some of them young. The first proprietor to die was Samuel Harmon, in 1677 ; the last was Deacon John Hanchett, in 1744, aged ninety-five years. The first female white child born here was Mindwell, daughter of Robert and Susanna Old, Feb. 4, 1674. The first male white child born was Ephraim Bartlett, born June 17, 1673, son of Benjamin Bartlett, of Windsor, who bought a right in the Sufiield plantation of Major Pynchon, but abandoned it soon after.
The names of the first grantees and proprietors (one hundred in number), many of whom were from Springfield and Windsor, are :
The following had grants, but were not settlers, and received their proportion of subsequent divisions of land in compensation for some services rendered : Major John Pynchon, Benjamen Cooley, George Colton, Rowland Thomas, Thomas Cooper, John Ingersoll, John Ingersoll, Jr., John Petty, Joshua Wells, Samuel Cross. Thomas Cooper laid out the town of Suffield, being a talented man and surveyor.