The Founders of Hartford
John Gennings (Ginnings) was a proprietor “by courtesie of the town,” and his home-lot, m 1639,
was on the brow of the hill now Asylum Hill, shutting on the highway on the west, on the west field on the east, on
Richard Lord's land on the north, and on Nathaniel Bearding's land on the south. He probably d. not long
after 16401
-Ch.: i. Nicholas, mine in the “Francis,” from Ipswich, 1634, aged 22; 12e also was a proprietor at
Hartford, “by courtesie of the town,” in 1639, and his home-lot was on the east side of the road to the
Cow Pasture; the town voted, Jan. 13, 1639-40, "that Nicholas Genings shall be sent vuto to come vnto the Towns
in a certeine tyme lymited and to take up his habitacon beer, or else his loos to returne vnto the Townes handes,
paying him for the worth of the labour done vppon it." Oct. 28, 1640, his house-lot “and y' in the Pyne
field” were given to Thomas Porter; but he was here shortly after, and owned a house-lot, which he bought of
William Adams, of Farmington, “abutting on the highway leading from Thomas Stanton's to the Pound hill,”
on the east. He m. Mary Bedford. He appears to have left Hartford sometime between 1650 and 1660. Matthew Beckwith
bought three parcels of land of him in 1650, apparently all he owned. Oct. 16, 1673, administration was granted to
John Ginnings on the estate of his father, Nicholas Ginings, “sometime of Saybrook.” ii. Joshua (prob. a
son of John) bought laud of Thomas Allcock (Olcott), being the western portion of Olcott's home-lot; and he owned
also another parcel of land with tenement, part of which he received from the town, and part of which he bought of
Olcott, “abutting on the meeting-house lott on the east, on a highway on the south, and on Thomas Olcott's land
on the west and north.” He m. Dec. 23, 1647, Mary Williams; removed to Fairfield ab. 1656 ; d. there,
1676.
1 Savage says that John Jennings removed from Hartford to Southampton, in 1641, where he
Was, in 1664.
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