The Founders of Hartford
John Baysey, weaver (autograph on will, Baisie), was an original proprietor; his house-lot was on the
south side of the road from the mill to the south meadow, now Elm St. He was chosen chimney-viewer, 1649; surveyor
of highways, 1652 ; constable, 1656 ; fence-viewer, 1667; townsman, 1669 ; d. August, 1671 ; will dated Aug. 14; inv.
Aug. 29, £383. 2. 6. His widow, Elizabeth, d. in 1673; inv. Dec. 13. - Ch.: I. Mary, m. Samuel Burr, of Hartford
(q. v.). ii. Lydia, m. John Baker (q. v.), who lived on the highway afterw. called Baker's Lane, in Hartford; she d.
May 16, 1700. iii. Elisabeth, bapt, in Hartford, Aug. 23, 1645; m. Paul Peck, Jr., of Hartford (q. v.). The name
Baysey was handed down to the present century as a Christian name in the Burr and Baker families, and the Welles
family of West Hartford.
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