The Founders of Hartford
Deacon Joseph Easton, born ab. 1602, Cambridge; freeman, March 4, 1635; an original proprietor at Hartford;
his home-lot, in 1639, was on the south side of the highway, now Elm St., near the west end. Chosen
chimney viewer, 1649 ; surveyor of highways, 1652, 1656, 1666 ; constable, 1658. He in. Hannah, dau. of James Ensign,
of Hartford. He bought land on the east side of the river, of Richard Goodman, and was one of the committee on fencing
the meadow in 1683; d. Aug. 19, 1688, aged SG.-Ch.: i. Joseph, settled in East Hartford; lived in the North Meadow
ab. 1700; chimneyviewer, 1669; townsman, 1704; deacon; d. Dec. 30, 1711. ii. John, Hartford ; admitted to the South
Church, Aug. 28, 1670 ; surveyor of highways, 1671 ; townsman, 1693; in. Elizabeth -, who d. June 10, 1710. He d. Nov.
2, 1716. iii. Mary, m. John Skinner, of Hartford; d. June 18, 1695. iv. Sarah, m. Robert Shirley, of Hartford.
Colonel James Easton, of Hartford, afterward of Pittsfield, who was associated with Colonel Ethan Allen in the
taking of Ticonderoga, was a great-grandson of Joseph Easton, of East Hartford.
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