The Founders of Hartford
John Warner; a John Warner (prob. the same) was entered for passage in the “Increase,” in April,
1635, “aged 20;” in the same ship came Isaac Mom, “aged 13,” Matthew Marvin, Wm. Rusco, and others.
He served in the Pequot War; was one of the inhabitants of Hartford who received land “by the courtesie of
the town;” his home-lot in 1639 was on the east side of the read to the Cow-Pasture; he m. in Hartford, in 1649,
Ann, dau. of Thomas Norton, of Guilford, a second wife ; he was an original proprietor and settler of Farmington;
joined Farmington Church, March 15, 1656-7, with ch.: freeman, 1664 ; freed from watching and warding, etc., May, 1670;
he went in 1673 to view Mattatuck to ascertain if it were desirable to plant them, and was a patentee for Mattatuck
in 1674; d. before removal, in 1679, leaving a widow, Margaret.
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