The Founders of Hartford
Andrew Warner1 came from Hatfield, Co. Gloucester, son of John Warner, yeoman in said Shire and
Town; Cambridge, 1632, freeman May 14, 1634;2 one of the Commissioners for ordering affair at
Connecticut, March, 1635-6 ; an original proprietor at Hartford, where his home-lot in 1639 was on the south bank of
the Little River. He m. in Hartford, prob. as second wife, Hester, widow of Thomas Selden; he was chosen Deacon of
the First Church, Oct., 1633 ; removed to Hadley in 1659, with Elder Goodwin and the “withdrawers;” took the
oath of allegiance at Hadley, Feb. 8, 1679, and d. there Dec. 18, 1684, or possibly the month following, a. almost 90.
His widow, Hester, d. 1693.
1 From old acct. book of Jabez Warner, of Middletown, b. 1710, quoted by Andrew F. Warner in letter
to R. R. Hinman, May 14, 1849.
2 Savage thinks that the name should be that of Andrew Ward (iv. 418).
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