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 (8) Deacon John Me 
 
 Hannah Willard. 
 
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 (27)Capt. JehielMe 
 
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 I A/nNir« Bishop. (83) Sergt. Daniel Me 
 
 (156) Sergt. Benjamin Stone Meigs. 
 (197)Capt. l.i'THER Meigs. ■ ■ I 
 
 LAN/ H.CHITTRNDEN. (i6i)Da 
 
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 (57) Major John ^ 
 1. Noah Porter. 
 
 i." — i — "Maria Keei.rh. (119) Proe. Chas.D.Meios.B — ,— BMarv Montgc 
 
 (301) John, 
 (303) Guv, 
 
 . Lucrbtia Tuller. 
 ( Harriet Sparrow 
 j Juliette Hcvt. 
 ( Drucilla Allen. 
 
 (581) Gl'V. ni. I.AVINIA 
 (581) Am. 
 
 (583) Minerva Chitte 
 
 (584) Ebene/er Stock 
 
 (585) Roxana. 
 
 (586) Heman Allen, n 
 
 (587) RowENA, m. Jamb 
 
 (588) Phoeiir Ann. 
 1589) Elvira Emerson 
 (590J Lucv Ball. 
 (59i)AzuiiAH Lvdia.it 
 (591) Luther. 
 
 (66SIJ0HN Henry 
 
 (669) David Fiele 
 
 (670) James Rich, 
 
 (671) Nathan Kel 
 (*7!) Marv Eluai 
 
 ah Jane Buell. 
 .lie Horsford. 
 » A, Griswold. 
 
 (378) Maria Lucretia. 
 
 (379) Caroline E. 
 
 (380) Amanda Maria. 
 
 (381) John Henshaw. 
 
 (382) James Kebler. 
 
 (383) Richard Augustus. 
 
 (384) Richard. 
 
 (385) Sarah M. 
 (386)THAnDEUsP. 
 (387) Charles A. K. 
 {388) Annie Spencer. 
 
 Children : 
 
 {398) Maj. Gen. MontgomskvCunninokam, m. Louisr Rodgr 
 
 1399) Dr. Charles Dkluceha, m. Eliiareth Leaming. 
 
 (400) John Forsyth, m. AnsW. Inorrsoll. 
 
 (401J William Montgomert. 
 
 (403) Henry Vincent, m. Kinrietta H. Stewart. 
 (403I Emily Skinner, 111. Jonathan W. Bidule. 
 
 (404) William MoNTOOMRRr, m. Jbrusha E. Turner. 
 
 (405) Capt. Samuel Emlen, m. Cornelia Rogers. 
 
 (406) Franklin Bachb. 
 
 (407! Mary Craythornk, iii.Dr. Harry C. Hart. 
 
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 HISTOKlCAl, NOTES. 
 
 Churchill. Probably sailed from Weymouth, 
 
 ; Madison,) in 1653, where he died in 1658. and was the 
 
 (I) Vincent Meggs. was born probably in Devonshire (?). England, about 1583. 1 
 England in 1634. and first settled at Weymouth, Mass.; New Haven, 1644; Hai 
 first person buried in East Guilford. • 
 
 {3) John Meigs, the emigrant, and son of Vincent, first settled in the New World at Weymouth, Mass., about 1634-5. He is found at New 
 Haven in 1644. where he owned Cutler Corner, now the most prominent and important property in the city of New Haven, where he took the oath of 
 fidelity and was admitted a freeman. When the trouble between the Colonies of New Haven and Connecticut arose, he took an active part on the 
 side of Connecticut, and accepted an appointment of constable for Guilford, (the ofhce of constable was an important oflice in those days) in defense 
 of the Conn, jurisdiction. •• Settled at Guilford in 1647, and was admitted a planter there on his buying one hun 3red pound allottment at Hammon- 
 assett, March 3rd, 1653. Made a freeman in 1657. He was a patentee in the charter of Guilford, in which his name occurs four times. He repre- 
 sented Guilford at Hartford in i647-*** In 1668 moved to Killingworth. where he died January 4th, 1671, leaving a vast landed estate. •*•• One of the 
 most interesting incidents of his life is recorded in many histories and romances of New England. \ " On the nig'it of May isth, 1661, John Meigs, of 
 Guilford, reached New Haven in time to notify Rev. John Davenport that agents of the King were at Guilford on their way to New Haven to seize 
 the Regicides, Whalley and Goffe. then in hidmg at Mr. Davenport's. The Regicides being duly warned hurried away to another of their mysterious 
 hiding places, and John Meigs was considered to have saved their lives. It is also understood that he carried food forthem to their hiding place." 
 
 (8) Deacon John Meigs, was the first deacon of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, which position \ eheld from the organization of the 
 church until his death, November 9, 1713. " A good man was Deacon John Meigs." f 
 
 (11) Deacon John Meigs 3rd was the progenitor of many distinguished people including the Rev. Benjamin Cl'ark Meigs, missionary to India, and 
 Henry Meiggs, the South American Railroad King. See Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 (12) Capt. Janna Meigs, was the first magistrate of East Guilford, Conn. Deputy Governor from 1716 to i;26; Commander of a Military Band 
 from 1710 to 1731. tt Representative to General Assembly of Connecticut several times. See Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 (13) Ebenezer Meigs was the progenitor of most of the families who settled in Massachusetts and Maine, and who still reside in those States. In 
 all generations these families have been distinguished people. See Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 (6a) Nathaniel's sister (63) Elizabeth m. Thomas Chittenden, President of the Republic of Vermont ; its first, and fornineteen years its Governor. 
 See Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 [396) Major-General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. For a detailed account of the life of this distinguished scientist, engineer and soldier, 
 read Meigs Genealogy, pp. 258 to a68. 
 
 (a) William Fry was born in Weymouth, England, about 1600, and died at Weymouth, Mass., in 1643. See ^eigs Genealogy, pp. 172-3-4. 
 
 (b) William Wilcoxson, born 1601. at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, came to America in the ship " Planter," April, 1635. First settled at 
 
 Concord, and was made a freeman there December 7, 1636, moved to Stratford abnu 
 man of the township. Dr. Trumbull says : " William Wilcoxson, one of the first 
 Made representative at Hartford, 1647. X 
 
 (c) Major Simon Willard, of Horsemonden, Kent, England, where he was born i 
 " In 1635 at the house of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Mr. Simon Willard, John Jone 
 
 liles square. That said Willard and others did pay for s 
 . there in 1635, and led a busy, active, vigorous publi 
 aner, Judge of the County Court, and Major. 
 ;ral of the Massachusetts Bay force sent against the Nia 
 [he corner of Rhode Island which bordered on Connectic 
 
 1602, came to New England in 1634, and settled at Cambridge. Jt 
 I and Mr. Spencer, and others did purchase of squaw Sachem 
 
 ch land in Wampumpeague, hatchets, hoes, kni\ 
 life. Was Clerk of the Writs, Surveyor of Arm; 
 
 I Deputy, 
 
 Of the settlement of Con 
 til they c 
 
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 ord, Ridpath 
 
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 cloth and shoes." tU He 
 Military Commander, Conn 
 
 He was Commander in 
 Nioriquet, whose chief seat 
 
 little company of twelve volunteers, led by Simon Willard and Peter Bulkeley, marched through the wood: 
 sixteen miles from Boston, and there laid the foundations of Concord" §g 
 
 In 1654 he was made Assistant for Massachusetts Colony, which office he held until 1675. §§g On August and, 1675, the Major who had been in 
 command of a Middlesex County Regiment for twenty years, at the head of forty-six dragoons, with Capt. Parker, of Groton, marched to the rescue 
 of Brookfield, Mass., where the Indians were massacring the inhabitants, thence to Hadley, Mass., and did not return to headquarters at Boston 
 until the last of August. John Fiske | gives the following atcoufit of the rescue : " That noon (August 5th, 1675) the gallant Simon Willard, ancestor 
 of two presidents of Harvard College, a man who had done so much toward building up Concord and Lancaster, that he was known as the " Founder 
 of Towns," was on his way from Lancaster to Groton, at tht head of forty-seven horsemen, when he was overtaken by a courier with the news from 
 Brookfield. The distance was thirty miles, the roads scarcely fit to be called a bridle-path, and Willard's years more than three score years and ten, 
 but by an hour after sunset he had galloped into Brookfield and routed the Indians, wlio fled to a swamp ten miles distant." There were three 
 hundred Indians led by King Philip himself. 
 
 Palfrey says : ||| " Willard was at liome in the saddle notwithstanding his seventy years, and he came in lime to save his friends another night of 
 sleepless misery. God who comforted the holy apostle Paul by the coming of Titus unto him, so he greatly comforted his distressed servants, both 
 soldiers and town inhabitants, by the coming of the said honored Major and those with him." In 1676, despite his advanced age. Willard raised a 
 force of troopers and dragoons and was actively engaged .n securing and protecting the defenceless frontier towns until, while at Chnrlestown. 
 Mass., he took the prevailing epidemic cold, of which disease he died April 24. '676, in his 72nd year. ||| His first wife was Mary Sharpe. daughter 
 of Henry and Jane Ffevde Sharpe. After her death he married Elizabeth Dunster, sister of President Dunster. of Harvard College ; she soon died, 
 and he married for his third wife. Mary Dunster, a relative of his second wife. He had eighteen children. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 ' Rockey's New Hnveti Co., p. aQ. 
 
 (IniilnES of New England, 
 
 Numbers in parenthesis eorresponj will, Ihe „„„be„ ,.,r .he same people in Mei^s Genenlogy.