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FAMILY-RECORD

DANIEL DOD,
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WHO SETTLED WITH
THE COLONY OF BRANFORD, 1644,
WHERE HE niED IN 1665:
AND ALSO
OF HIS nESCENDANTS IN NEW JERSEY.

COMPILED BY STEPHEN DpDD,
, PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN EAST HAVEN.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1839.

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TO MY KINSMEN, GREETING:
Brethren, — To you this family history and genealogy
is committed. To collect the materials for it, has cost the
compiler much time and labor. Only a part of it is matter
of public record. The old generations that, a few years ago,
could have given us considerable information are nearly ex
tinct or are superannuated. So that our traditional history
of Marriages, Births and Deaths, and other family matters,
is drawing to a close. I have endeavored to collect and
save some of the fragments from total dispersion and ob
livion. You will, doubtless, discover mistakes and omissions.
Having resided at a distance from the family for thirty-six
years, persons and events have passed away without my
personal observation. And I could not devote that attention
to the subject which might have rendered this little family
history more full and accurate. But with some aid from
friends in New Jersey, I have done what I could. And now
I commit this collection to you, with all its imperfections,
lest by further delay, what has been done should be lost.
And I bid you a farewell — wishing and praying, that what
ever may become of your earthly genealogy, your names
may he found written in the LamVs book of life.
STEPHEN DODD.
East Haven, Aug. 1839.

HISTORICAL REMARKS
INTRODUCTORY TO THE GENEALOOY OF THE FAMILY OF
DANIEL DOD AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Our English ancestors who emigrated from Great Britain
to this country, in regard to their religion were Puritans and
Congregationalists; and for the sake of religious and civil
liberty, left their native country and took up their residence
on the rocky shores of New England about two hundred
years ago. They embraced poverty, exile, and suffering,
rather than live under prelacy, oppression, and the corrup
tions of the British Court. They cast their lot with the
Godly Puritans, in the vast and hazardous, and almost hope
less enterprize, of colonizing the Indian wilderness ; but
their hope and strength and safety was in Jehovah Nissi —
the Lord is my banner — and they succeeded in the great
enterprize. They appear to have arrived at Boston and other places
in that vicinity at an early period of these Colonies. A set
tlement was soon formed at Sagus, now Lynn, beyond Bos
ton ; and a Church was gathered there October 8th, 1636.
It is probable that Daniel Dod and his connections were
of that Colony. The name is on the Record of that Town ;
and is also at the present,time a common name there and in
that vicinity. V
By Winthrop's Journal we are informed that, in May,
1640, divers of the inhabitants of Linne finding themselves
straitened, looked out for a new plantation, went to Long
Island and located themselves at Southampton. " And be
ing now about 40 families, they proceeded in their planta
tion and called one Mr. Abraham Pierson a Godly learned
1*

6 historical remarks.
man and a member of the Church at Boston, to go with
them, who, with some seven or eight more of the company,
gathered into a Church at Linne or Lynn, be'fore they went,
and the whole company entered into a civil combination with
the advice of some of our magistrates to become a corpora
tion." Mr. Abraham Pierson was from Newark, Yorkshire,
England ; and was the ancestor of the Piersons of New
Jersey. In 1644, William Swayne and others of Weathersfield
bought Totoket of New Haven at cost, being £12 or £13,
and began to settle it that year and called it Brentford,
which has since become Branford. " At the same time,"
says Trumbull, Hist. Conn., "Mr. A. Pierson with a part
of his Church and Congregation, from Southampton, Long
Island, removed and united with the people of Weathersfield
in the settlement of the town. A regular Church was soon
formed, and Mr. Pierson was chosen Pastor." This settle
ment made progress in population and means of subsistence
and future prosperity. But in 1662, Connecticut Colony
having obtained a Charter from King Charles II, including
what was then called the New Haven Government, in oppo
sition to the wishes of the people, demanded the cessation of
a separate government and a union with Connecticut. This
arrangement being hostile to some of the main principles
upon which New Haven government was founded, the ma
gistrates refused to accede to their demand. This produced
an altercation till May 11, 1665, when Connecticut and
New Haven Colonies (including Branford) were united un
der one government, founded on the aforesaid charter : but
many were dissatisfied. Mr. Davenport of New Haven and
Mr. Pierson of Branford, who were among the principal
men of influence, were opposed to it.
About this time the lands of New Jersey, bought of the
Duke of York by Lord Carteret and others, were brought
into market, which excited the attention of Branford and the

historical remarks. 7
neighboring towns. " And in 1665, agents were sent from
Branford, Milford, and Guilford to view the country, to
learn the terras of purchase, and the state of the Indians in
the vicinity. They discharged their commission, made a
favorable report and were sent back with power to purchase
a township, to select a proper site for a town and make ar
rangements for an immediate settlement. The committee
who accomplished' this business consisted of Capt. Robert
Treat, John Curtis, Jasper Crane, and John Treat. The
purchase included the whole of the ancient township of
Newark. And the price of this purchase was £130 New
England currency, 12 Indian blankets, and 12 Indian guns."
In the contemplation of this intended settlement, the in
habitants of Branford adopted the following fundamental
agreement. " October 30, 1665.
"At a meeting touching the intended design of many of
the inhabitants of Branford, the following was subscribed :
Deut. i, 13. 1 1st. That none shall be admitted freemen
Exod.xviii,21. , or free burgesses within our town, upon
Deut. xvii, 15. (Passaic River, in the Province of New Jer-
Jer. xxxvi, 21.J sey, but such planters as are members of
some or other of the Congregational Churches ; nor shall
any but such be chosen to magistracy or to carry on apy
part of civil judicature, or as deputies or assistants to have
power to vote in establishing laws, and making and repeal
ing them ; or to any chief military trust or office. Nor shall
any but such church members have any vote in. any such
elections; though all others admitted to be planters have
right to their proper inheritances, and do and shall enjoy
all other civil liberties and privileges, according to all laws,
orders, grants, which are or hereafter shall be made for this
town. " 2d. We shall with care and diligence provide for the
maintainance of the purity of religion professed in the Con-

8

historical remarks-

Whereunto subscribed the inhabi-
Ebenezer Canfield,
John Ward, senior,
Ed. Bali,
John Harrison,
John Crane,
Thomas Huntingdon,
Delivered Crane,
Aaron Blatchly,
Richard Laurance,
John Johnson, his
Thomas L Lyon.
mark."
In November, 1666, many of the inhabitants of Branford
united with their associates in this enterprize.
The remo'val from Branford took place before the 24th
of June, 1667; for on that day all the inhabitants of the
town met and subscribed to the above agreement, as speci
fied by the following record.
"And upon the reception of their letters and subscrip
tions, the present inhabitants in November following, de
clared their consents and readiness to do likewise, and at a
meeting the 24th of the next June following, in 1667, they
also subscribed with their own hands unto the two funda
mental agreements expressed on the other side. Their
names are as follows :

gregational Churches.
tants of Branford.
" Jasper Crane,
Abraham Pierson,
Samuel Swaine,
Laurence Ward,
Thomas Blatchly,
Samuel Plum,
Josiah Ward,
Samuel Rose,
Thomas Pierson,
John Warde,
John Catling,
Richard Harrison,

Robert Treat,
Obadiah Bruen,
Matthew Camfield,
Samuel Kitchell,
Jeremiah Pecke,
Michael Tompkins,
Stephen Freeman,

Thomas Johnson,
John Curtis,
Ephraim Burwell,
Robert Denison's mark R.
Nathaniel Wheeler,
Zechariah Burwell,
William Campe,.

HISTORICAL REMARKS. 9
Henry Lyon, Joseph Walters,
John Browne, Robert Daglesh,
John Rogers, Hauns Albers,
Stephen Davis, Thomas Morris,
Edward Rigs, Hugh Roberts,
Robert Kitchell, Ephraim Pennington,
J. Brooks' mark J. B. Martin Tichenor,
Robert Lymen's mark V. John Brown, jun.
Francis Links' mark F- Jonathan Seargeant,
Daniel Tichenor, Azariah Crane,
John Bauldwin, sen. Samuel Lyon,
John Bauldwin, jun. Joseph Riggs,
Jonathan Tompkins, Stephen Bond."
George Day,
The Indians called the town Passaic, (New Town,) but
the settlers named it Newark, after the name of the town
in England from which Mr. Pierson came. 'Trumbull says,
" that Mr. Pierson and almost his whole Church and Con
gregation were so displeased (with the charter business) that
they soon removed into Newark, New Jersey, carried away
the Church records, and after it had been settled almost
twenty five years, left it almost without inhabitants ; for
more than twenty years from that time, there was not a
Church formed in that town."
Daniel Dod's name is not among the subscribers to the
agreements subscribed in Oct. 1655, because he was then
dead, and his sons were all minors. Nor was Daniel, the
oldest, of age in 1667. But he had a grant of land for his
home lot in Newark about Bridge street and northward.
His farm lands were on the hill west of the town, with one
lot in the neck and salt meadow. In March, 1678, Daniel
Dod and Edward Ball were appointed to run the northern
line of the town from Passaic river to the mountain. About
this time Daniel Dod surveyed and had located to him a
tract of land on and adjoining to Watsessing plain, and

10 HISTORICAL REMARKS.
bounded on the west and south by unlocated lands. A con
siderable portion of this land is yet in the possession of his
descendants. He was chosen a deputy to the Provincial
Assembly in 1692, being then 42 years of age. It is a
family tradition that he was killed by a fall from a load of
hay. Of the three sons of Daniel, Jun., viz. Daniel, Stephen,
and John, Daniel lived the longest, and died about the year
1766, being eighty years of age or upwards. From 1721
to 1731 Daniel was filling the offices of freeholder and sur
veyor and then living on his patrimony. In the year 1737
his brother John appears in the office of surveyor. He
died about the year 1762. In 1754, his son John was ap
pointed assessor, and is then called John 3d till 1762, the
period of his father's death, when he was called John, Jun.
Previous to this, John the son of Daniel, who came from
Guilford, was called John, Jun. About the year 1762, the
names of Isaac and Amos Dod begin to appear in various
offices of the town. Isaac was captain, and at the begin
ning of the Revolution was appointed justice of the peace,
which office he sustained till his death in 1804. Amos was
also captain and Caleb was major in the same regiment.
After the death of the English Daniel his sons petitioned
the Court that "Richard Lawrence and Laurence Ward
might be their guardians and might have administration in
trust granted to them in their behalf. They were appointed
and empowered to gather in the estate to be assessed, and
to see that all debts and dues to and from the estate be duly
prepared, and to look after the children."
" An inventory of all the goods and chattels of Daniel
Dod, of Branford, deceased, being appraised upon oath, by
Lieut. Swayne, John Wilford and John Ward." This ap
pears on Probate Record, New Haven, 2d. B. p. 8. The
clear estate amounted to £146 17s. 4d. This was probably
nearly equal to sterling money ; and if so, it was about
$650.

HISTORICAL REMARKS. 11
The condition of our family two hundred years ago af
fords nothing to gratify pride. As to wealth or dignities
we have nothing to boast of. Our English father was com
paratively a pqor man, and his children became orphans in
their minority ; and with a very small patrimony were cast
upon the wide world. But he was a Christian and a mem
ber of the Church of God in Branford ; and the Lord made
a bountiful provision for his children and their children's
children even unto the third and fourth generation. And
the fifth and sixth generation are generally in as comforta
ble circumstances as the cotemporary families of Branford
and Newark. They have generally been farmers, leading
retired and industrious lires, in a state of comfort and local
usefulness. Some of them have annexed mechanical em
ployments to their agricultural occupations. And as to
general character, for a family so numerous, they may bear
no mean comparison with any of the families of the co-
temporaries of Daniel Dod of Branford or their respective
descendants. A large proportion of the family have ap
peared as the professed disciples of Jesus Christ, and in
general have been steadfast in the religion of their fathers,
and exemplary in the support of gospel institutions and
good order in the community. And from their puritan and
republican original have derived and maintained the princi
ples of freedom bequeathed to them- And it is with no
small satisfaction that I record the fact, that with five or
six short exceptions, their hands are clean from the slavery
of the negroes ; and especially so far as I know, that I in
herit neither blood nor property through the bondage and
labor of the African race.
It appears that the name Dod was so written from the
earliest period known to us, even before the emigration of
our English ancestor from England. About the close of
the revolutionary war, it began to be written Dodd, and for
the last fifty years it has been so written by the younger

12 HISTORICAL REMARKS.
generations of the family except the Guilford branch. It
is now universally written Dodd in Boston and vicinity and
in Hartford. In England the change from Dod to Dodd
took place more than a century ago, and will doubtless
finally be adopted by all the family.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE
NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS
OF THE
ENGLISH DANIEL DOD AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

DANIEL DOD married Mary  probably about the
year 1646. He died in the winter of 1664-5. She died
May 26, 1657, and were both buried in Branford. They
had Marj"^, who married Aaron Blatchly about the time of
her father's death. Daniel was born in 1649 or early in
1650. Ebenezer was born Dec. 11, 1651. A daughter
March 29, 1653. Stephen Feb. 16, 1655. Samuel May 2,
1657. DANIEL, Jun., had Daniel, Stephen, John, Dorcas.
These all removed from Ne«fark to the land left them by
their father on or adjoining to- Watsessing plain. Daniel
built a house where or in which Amos Dodd now lives.
Stephen built where the late Nehemiah Ward lived. John
built where David Dodd lives. Dorcas married the ances
tor of Zebina Ward, probably his grandfather.
Daniel married Mary Ailing of Newark, and died at
about 80 years of age. They had Eunice Nov. 3, 1718. She
died Oct. 20, 1803, aged 85. She married David Baldwin,
and had eight sons and two daughters.
Sarah, born Dec. 28, 1720. She married Timothy Free
man and had three sons and a daughter.
Thomas, born Jan. 7, 1723. He died Sept. 8, 1815, aged
92 years and 8 months.
Daniel, born May 1, 1725, and died in 1795, aged about 70.
Isaac, July 8, 1728. He died Aug. 19, 1804, aged 76.
2

14 NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Joseph, Sept. 12, 1731, and died June 4, 1789, in his
58th year.
Moses, June 18, 1734 — died in his youth.
Amos, Sept. 15, 1737, and died Oct. 7, 1811, aged 74.
Caleb, May 26, 1740— died in Caldwell.
Thomas married Sarah Newcombe. She died March
31, 1791, in her 68th year. They had Eunice, who married
Joseph Crane, and died Feb. 20, 1822, aged 80.
EzEKiEL * * * had Jemima.
Samuel • * * had Hannah, Isaac, David.
Nancy married Amos Tompkins.
Elias married Lydia Ward and had George, Abraham,
Charlotte. Daniel married * * * and had Robert, Nancy.
Enos married Mary Edo. They had Jemima Oct. 21,
1776, and married Samuel Dodd 4th, Aaron, 19, 1*79. Sa
rah, Dec. 2, 1782. Samuel, March 6, 1787. Jonas and
Hannah, March 28, '92. Jonas, Sept. 6, 1796.
Jonathan married Eunice Smith. They had Hiram,
Phebe, Thomas.
Thomas married Mary Hallam, and had John, William.
Sarah married and had children.
Daniel 4th married Jane Smith and Widow Martha Har
rison, but had no children.
Isaac married Jemima Williams, who was born Jan. 6,
1729, and died July 25, 1810, aged 81 years and 6 months.
They had Sarah, born March 2, 1753, and died 1838, aged
85. She married Matthias Baldwin and Aury King. She
raised two sons and two daughters.
Moses, Dec. 9, 1755 ; Abijah, Nov. 9, 1758, who died in
Sept. 1837, aged nearly 80. Abby, Oct. 8, 1759, and died
Dec. 24, 1764. Joanna, March 9, 1762, married Ichabod

names, marriages, births and deaths. 15
Baldwin. Abby, Oct. 26, 1764, and married John Dodd
3d, Jepthah, May 17, 1767 — died young. Jairus, Jan. 21,
1770. Isaac, Dec 23, 1772, and died Sept. 8, 1806.
Moses married Lois Crane July 3, 1775. ^ She was born
March 26, 1754, and died Oct. 17, 1818, in her 65th year.
They had Stephen, March 8, 1777. Hiram, Nov. 22, 1779,
and .died 21 July, 1833, aged 43 years and 8 months. Abi
gail, Jan. 20, 1782, married Jacob Ward, Junr., Jan. 31,
1800. Betsey, May 3, 1784, married Henry King, Oct. 15,
1803. Ira, June 22, 1786. Fanny, April 25, 1791, mar
ried Rev. Humphrey M. Perrine, Feb. 15, 1813.
Stephen, married Phebe Peirson, Nov. 29, 1799. She
was born Aug. 25, 1776, and died Feb. 27, 1815. He then
married Abigail Ann Law, Feb. 1816.
Rev. Stephen Dodd was ordained to the gospel ministry
Sept. 28, 1803. Supplied two congregations for 7 years,
in the town of Carmel, Dutchess County, N. Y. In Oct.
1810, he removed into the town of Waterbury, Ct. and be
came the Pastor of the Congregational Church of Salem.
He resigned that office in May, 1817. He then supplied
the congregation in East Haven, and on the 10th Dec. 1817,
was installed Pastor of the Congregational Church there,
in which relation he still continues.
Hiram, married Julia Crane, Feb. 14, 1799. They had
Abel Jackson, Christina, Fanny. Mehitabel, died June 25,
1815, aged 12. Moses, Jairus, Lois, Stephen, Lewis. Mar
garet died young.
Ira married Ann Harrison, Sept. 20, 1810. They had
Mary, (married Isaac Newton Dodd,) Moses Woodruff'e,
Phebe, Amarintha.
Abijah married Mary Dodd. They had Jepthah, Cyrus,
Rhoda, Lucy, died young, Isaac, Joel, David, Morris, Abi
jah. Lucy mar'ried Thomas Exley.
Jepthah married Eunice Baldwin ; they had Betsey,
Mary. Second wife, Phebe Munn, had Jane.

16 NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Cyrus marfied Mary King, and had Catharine.
Isaac married Catharine Canfield. They had Horace,
Edwin. Joel married Betsey Harrison. They had Phebe, Mary,
Jane, Cyrus, David. i
Jairus married Sarah Davis, Sept. 1792. They had Jo
anna, Jan. 23, 1794. William, June 6, 1795. Abigail,
June 4, 1797. Isaac Davis, April 17, 1799. Sarah, April
25, 1801. Ambrose, Jan. 22, 1803. Moses, March 20,
1805. Mary, May 20, 1807. John, June 4, 1809. Na
thaniel, Oct. 13, 1811.
Isaac, Junr. married Widow Jane Smith. They had
Moreau St. John, RoIIin Horace, and both died infants.
Hannah married Caleb Davis, Lydia married Marquis D.
Thomas. Joseph married Mary Lindsley ; she died Feb. 14, 1763,
aged 29. They had Matthias, Ebenezer, Rachel, married
Bethuel Munn. Joseph and Mary, born Oct. 10, 1760; she
married Aaron Williams, and he died in 1816. Second wife,
Sarah Williams, who died Sept. 2, 1818, aged 76. They
had Abigail, 1769, and died Sept. 1, 1777, aged 8 years.
Amos, Daniel, Moses, Lydia who married James Reynolds,
Abby married Samuel Crane, Allen.
Matthias married Sarah Munn. They had Jared, Will
iam, Rachel, Lewis, Abby, Charlotte, Nancy, Mary, Be
thuel.* ¦
Ebenezer married Deborah Crane. They had Betsey
Orra Buel, Mary, Nancy, Lois, Ebenezer, Joseph Hollo-
way, Joshua Horton, John, Valeria.
* Jared went to sea in his 20th year, and was pressed into the Brit
ish Navy and disappeared. William, aged 20, was killed by lightning
June 18, 1799, on Governor's Island. Rachel, being 20 years of age,
was drowned with her father and cousin Munn, at Coney Island in
1800.

names, marriages, births and deaths. 17
Joseph, Junr. married Eunice Baldwin. Slie was born
March 5, 1763, and died in 1814. They had Mary, March
27, 1788. Sarah, Sept. 11, 1788, died 1813. Joseph, Sept.
12, 1790. Louisa, Nov. 1, 1792. Zophar Baldwin, Oct.
28, 1794. Lydia, Nov. 1, 1798. Martha, Nov. 27, 1798,
died 1803. William, Feb. 28, 1801, died 1824. Matthias,
April 3, 1803, died 1805.
Joseph 3d, married Nancy Clark, 1813. They had Sarah,
Amarintha, Caroline, Margaret, George, William, Eunice.
Zophar B. married Jane Cockran. She was born May
12, 1794. They had Thomas Cochran, Jan. 15, 1818. Sa
rah Louisa, Feb. 22, 1819, Mary Jane, May 23, 1820. Es
ther Caroline, Dec. 19, 1821. Edward Mills, June 23, 1824.
Esther Catharine, June 26, 1829. Catharine Maria, Oct. 8,
1835. Moses, son of Joseph, married Mary Smith, who died
May 6, 1819, in the 35th year of her age. They had Mary,
Moses, Edward, Jane.
Allen, married Mary Osborn. They had Joseph, died
Sept. 3, 1816, in his 5th year. George, Daniel, Mary, Eliz
abeth. Amos, of Daniel 3d, married Hannah Condit, who died
June 23, 1826, in her 87th year. They had Isaac, June ^7,
1763. Eunice, June 2, 1765, married Joel Williams. Mary,
July 29, 1768, married John Condit. Sarah, Aug. 4, 1770,
married Squire Baldwin, and died Nov. 25, 1832. Eliza
beth Feb. 28, 1773, and di«d Oct. 4. 1776. Daniel, March
2, 1776. Amos, Oct. 4, 1781.
Isaac married Polly James, who died Dec. 8, 1826, in
her 68th year. They had Betsey, married Eleazar D. Ward.
Lucy married Jabez Cook- Maria.
Daniel married Esther Ward. They had Phebe, mar
ried Jacob K. Mead. Lewis, Josiah, Philetta, Abby, Isaac
Newton, Sarah Ann, Augustus. 2*

18 names, marriages, births and deaths,
Amos, Junr. married Polly Canfield. They had James
CoUord, David Canfield, Harriet Newel.
Caleb, of Daniel 3d, married Hannah Harrison. They
had Rebekah, married Joseph Patterson. Elijah, Caleb.
Elijah married Lois Williams, and they had Jabez and
four daughters. One married William Scott. One married
Rev. Mr. Thanouse.
Caleb, Junr. married Polly Bates, and they had Elijah,
Phebe, Sarah, Philemon, Ezra Squires.
Stephen, son of Daniel, Junr. married Phebe Harrison,
and had Nathaniel, Silas, Stephen, Joshua, Phebe married
Jonathan Williams.
Nathaniel married Ruth Condit, and had Parmenas,
Matthew, Mary, who married Daniel Condit, Lydia, Jane
married Nathaniel Harrison, Reuben.
Parmenas married Jane Crane. They had Thaddeus,
Nathaniel, Stephen, Jepthah, Daniel, Matthew, Albert, Ab-
ner, Reuben, Isaac.
Matthew married Charlotte Martin. They had Jane
Caroline, died aged 2 years. He died April 20, 1826.
Reuben married Lydia Dodd. They had Zebina,. Na
thaniel.* Silas, of Stephen, married Hannah Smith. They had
Dorcas, who married Japhiah Condit. Jane married Amos
Munn. Stephen, Junr. marrried Ruth Peck. They had Jemi
ma, Phebe, Stephen, Jerriah, Abigail.
Joshua married Abigail Condit. They had Bethuel,
Nathaniel, Phebe married Jehabad Harrison, Betsey mar
ried Stephen Harrison. >
* Reuben was drowned in the Narrows below New York, 1802.

names, marriages, births and deaths. 19
Rev. Bethuel Dodd married Sarah Peirson. He grad
uated at Queen's College, New Brunswick, and became the
first pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Whitesborough,
New York, about 1794, and died in 1799.
Nathaniel married Lucy Baldwin, They had Bethuel,
Matthias, Robert, Alvin, William.
John, son of Daniel, Junr. married * * * Sampson.
They had John, David, Abigail married Job Crane, Mary
married David Chandler, Phebe married Elihu Ward, Eliz
abeth married John Peck;
John, Junr. married Jane Smith. They had Hannah,
married Bethuel Ward, Eleazar, Uzal, John, Linas.
Eleazar married Abigail Harrison. They had Hannah,
Stephen, Abiel, Lydia.
Uzal married Phebe Freeman. They had Mary, mar
ried Caleb Baldwin, Samuel Morris, Amanda, Lucinda.*
John. 3d, was born Nov. 5, 1761, and died Sept. 5, 1826,
aged 64. He married Abigail Dodd. They had Jemima,
Jane, married Joseph Rogers, Joseph Smith, Amri ; both
graduated in Princeton College, 1813, The first is a prac
ticing physician, the other engaged in the profession of law,
and died in 1838, Sarah, married William Whelpley, Char
lotte, married Hugh Randolph, Phebe, Louisa married
Jesse Pitt.
Dr. Joseph Smith married • * * Grover, They
had John, Stephen * *. * a daughter. Second wife
* * * had two children.

* Oct. 24, 1831, Samuel M., with his only son Samuel C, aged 9,
and a young negro, went to work in a distillery, which had not been
used for a long time. They opened a large cider cistern, probably to
clean it ; and they were all found dead at the bottom, fallen upon
one another, having been destroyed by the bad air contained in the
cistern.

20 NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
LiNAS married Betsey Peirson, They had Achsah, mar
ried Daniel D, Condit. Calvin.
David, son of John, Junr. married Sarah Harrison, and
died March 31, 1817, aged 83. She died March 12, 1827,
aged 90 years. They had Polly, married Abijah Dodd,
Zebina, Elizabeth, who died Aug. 21, 1794, aged 30, David,
Sarah, Abby, married John Baldwin, Phebe, Lydia mar
ried Reuben Dodd and John Baldwin.
Zebina married Betsey Range. They had Polly, Lydia,
both died with consumption, Nancy, who married * * •
Meeker. John Range, Tyler, Israel.
David, Junr. married Lydia Ward. They had Ezra,
Mary, Chandler, Reuben, Josiah, Margaret, Almira, who
died Sept. 16, 1822.
Ebenezer, the second son of the English Daniel, is no
ticed on the Town Records of Newark, March 19, 1674;
being then about 23 years of age; was admitted an inhabit
ant on subscribing the fundamental agreement, and had
land allotted him. But then he disappears, and probably
died about that time.
Stephen, the third son of the English Daniel Dod, set
tled in Guilford, Connecticut, and married Mary Stevens
May 18, 1678. They had Daniel and Samuel. He died in
Oct. 1691, in the 37lh year of his age ; his wife died before
him. The last Will and Testament of Stephen, Dod of Guil
ford, in the county of New Haven, dec'd. 26, Oct. 1691.
"We whose names are underwritten do testify that the said
Stephen Dod being of sound mind and memory did make
his Will and Testament as followeth. Imprimis ; The dis
posal of his soul and body, and payment of his just debts
being premised, according to the usual course. He gave

NAMES, marriages, BIRTHS AND DEATHS. 21
the one half of all his land and meadow together with his
dwelling-house and the appurtenances thereof, to his oldest
son Daniel. Item, He gave the other half of all his other
lands and meadow to his younger son Samuel. Item, He
gave all his movable estate to be equally divided between
his sons Daniel and Samuel, except only that as a legacy,
he gave a cow to his cousin Mary Wheeler who lived with
him. As also he gave the wedding gowne of his late de
ceased wife unto his sister, Anna Fowler. Item, for the
fulfilling and true performing of this his said will, he con
stituted and made Deacon William Johnson and Lieut. Ste
phen Bradley his administrators. New Haven probate rec
ords 1 B. page 194. His estate was appraised Nov. 3, 1691,
and was £337. 2 B. page 121. At this period money was
not worth as much as at the period of his father's death.
In the 3d Book of Deeds, Town Records, Guilford ; is re
corded a quit claim deed of Daniel Dod, of Newark, Essex
county. New Jersey, to his brother Samuel Dod, Guilford,
in which he quits his claim to all right and title to the lands
and tenements left him by his father Stephen Dod of Guil
ford, dated May, 3, 1707. Most of these lands are in the
hand of the Burgis' family and other descendants of Sam
uel Dod."
Daniel, the son of Stephen Dod of Guilford, was born
about the year 1679, and married Elizabeth, when he was
23 or 23 years of age, and removed to Newark when he
was about 27. They had Stephen April 4, 1703, John,
Timothy. Stephen 2d married Deborah Brown. They had Leb-
beus, Thaddeus, Daniel, Parmenas, Ucal, Elizabeth, Keziah,
Deborah, Sarah, Hannah, Abigail.
Lebbeus married Mary Baldwin. They had Hannah,
Eunice, Phebe, Stephen, Abner, Rachel, Mary, Daniel, Abi
gail, Elizabeth.
Stephen married Mehitable Gould. They had Mary,
Lebbeus, John Gould, Sarah Ann, Charles, William, grad-

22 NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
uated at Princeton College 1833, and is Professor of Math
ematics, Center College, Kentucky! Stephen, Mehitabel.
Abner married Hannah Gould. They had Horace, Su
san, Charles, Jacob, Catharine.
Daniel married Nancy Squire. They had Ezra Kitchel,
Robert Baldwin, Jjcwis Southard, Caroline, Susan, Rev.
Albert Baldwin, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton Col
lege, where he graduated in 1822, Mary, Charles."'
Rev. Thaddeus, was graduated at Princeton College,
1773, and settled in the gospel ministry in western Penn
sylvania. He married Phebe Baldwin, and had Cephas,
Stephen. Daniel, of Stephen 2d, married Charity Freeman.
They had Daniel, Mary, Ziba, Phebe, Stephen, Azuba,
Mary. Ucal married Abigail Homan and had Martha.
John, son of Guilford Daniel, married Jemima iftarrison.
They had Adonijah, 2. Matthew, James, 4. Cody, Abel,
6. Jemima, 7. Betty. 2. 4. 6. 7. did not marry.
Adonijah married Mary Ogden. They had Aaron, Cath
arine, Samuel, Matthew.
James married Sarah Harrison. They had Abraham,
Phebe, Hannah, Naomi.
Abel married Martha Osborn. They had Jemima, Ra
chel, Polly, Phebe, John, William, William ; these three
last died infants.
Timothy married * " and had Jesse, Timothy, Phe-
¦be, the two last did not marry.
Jesse married » • • Perry. They had Joseph, and
one daughter, who married Riker.
Samuel, son of Stephen Dod, Guilford, (died May 24,
1757), he married Hannah Savage of Middletown, Jan. 10,
" This Daniel went out from Elizabethtown with a steamboat which
he had just finished, to try her machinery, and was blown up with his
men, and perished in the ruins.

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1704. They had Ebenezer Dec. 22, 1705, who died May
19, 1782. Samuel, Feb. 28, 1707, who died unmarried, Aug.
25, 1751. Hannah, July 28, 1712, f nd died July 26, 1795.
She married Thomas Burgis May 18, 1737. They had two
sons, one died in infancy, and three daughters, — Sarah, April
24, 1715, and died Jan. 1787. She married John Burgis,
but had no children. Second wife, Hannah Benton, 31st
Aug. 1737. Third wife, Mary Evarts, April 22, 1741.
They had Mary Jan. 10, 1742, and died same month, and
the mother died Nov. 19, 1790.
Ebenezer married Sarah White of Hadley. They had
Sarah, who married Giles White of Hadley, — Mary married
Leumen Ward of Guilford, both removed from Guilford
many years since. The Dod family in Guilford, in the line
of Samuel, is now extinct.
In town meeting at Newark, Feb. 13, 1679, SAMUEL,
the 4th son of the English Daniel Dod of Branford, was
admitted a citizen and planter, and had his land assigned
to hiin on the hill north end of the town, since called the
Governeur place. And afterwards had new land assigned
him on the east side of his brother Daniel's land on Wat
sessing plain. He had a son Samuel, who was born about
the year 1694, and died April 16, 1773, in his 78th year-
He married Mary Peirson, who died in 1795, a few days. be
fore her son Samuel. They had Martha, May 20, 1731,
and married Matthew Harrison. Mary, Dec. 26, 1732-
Hannah, Dec. 18, 1734, married * * * Smith. Sam
uel, Jan. 11, 1736, and died with small pox in July, 1795.
Aaron, Jan. 13, 1738, and died March 19, 1821, aged 83.
Rebekah, Feb. 5, 1740, and married Samuel Fairchild. Ke-
turah, July 26, 1744. Jemima, March 25, 1747, and mar
ried Isaac Suverill.
Samuel 3d married Elizabeth Hinman. They, had Jonas
1762, who died Aug, 20, 1770, aged 8 years. Naomi 1764,

24 NAMES, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
died May 24, 1766, in her 2d year. Abiathar. Second
wife, Sarah Baldwin, who died Oct, 14, 1819, They had
Elizabeth, who died Aug, 20, 1770, in her 2d year. Eliz
abeth, who died June 13, 1790, aged 16. Samuel, Abner,
who died Jan. 17, 1833, in his 54th year. Patty married
Jacob K. Mead. Naomi married Joseph S. Ward.
Abiathar married Cornelia Cadmus. They had Corne
lia. Second wife, Sophia Coggswell. They had Christo
pher Columbus Washington, Cornelius. Third wife,
Mary Bigelow ; had William.
Samuel 4th married Jemima Dodd. They had Samuel,
Sarah, Aaron, Mary, Martha, Lorinda married Isaac King.
Abner married Betsey Canfield and had Eliza, Abner,
John, Ann. Second wife, Charlotte Walter, had Samuel,
Charlotte. Aaron married Sarah Nutman. She died Sept. 26, 1805,
aged 60. They bad Mary, married Rev. Amzi Armstrong.
Job died with cholera 1834, aged 58. Rebekah married
Samuel Ingham. Joanna, died Sept. 27, 1815, aged 31
years. Robert, George Adams, died Feb. 5, 1812 in his
24th year.
Robert married Rebekah Randal. They had Joanna,
and he died with consumption.
The family of Aaron Dodd is now extinct in the male line.

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