The Founders of Hartford
James Wakeley, perhaps son of Henry, who mentions a eon James in his will; one of the inhabitants
who received lands “by the courtesie of the town ;” his home-lot was on the north aide of the road from
George Steel's to the South Meadow, “which the Townsmen bought of Arthur Smith, and was parcell of his home-lott
and now settled on James Waklie by the inhabitants of this town,” Feb. 1639-40 ; m. Oct. 5, 1652, Alice, widow
of James Bousy; removed to Wethersfield, and thence to Newport, 1665; to 1680 he sent to Connecticut from Providence
a petition for a divorce; his wife desired it also, but neither prevailed ; she d. 1683.
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