The Founders of Hartford
Samuel Whitehead, Cambridge, 1635; an original proprietor at Hartford, where his home-lot before 1639 was or
Main St., on what is now the south corner of Pearl and Main Sts.; but he had sold part of it to Richard Lord, before
Feb., 1639-40, and part to John Skinner. He served in the Pequot War, 1637, and received a grant of land for his
services, in 1671 ; he removed to New Haven, where he was admitted freeman, and a member of the General Court, Aug.
6, 1642; m. May, 1676, Sarah, widow of John Gilbert, den. of Thomas Gregson; d. Sept. 1690.
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