Person:Henry Doude (1)

HENRY DOWD, one of the signers of the compact of June 1, 1639, died or was buried Aug. 31, 1668. Probably with his wife Elizabeth (16_-1683) there were also brought over from England some of his eight children, for the last birth recorded by Savage is in 1653. In 1680 all but two of the children were living.

1. ↑ , in Atwater, Edward E. (Edward Elias); Robert Atwater Smith; Bessie E Beach; and Lucy M Hewitt. History of the Colony of New Haven: To Its Absorption into Connecticut. (New Haven, Conn.: The Author, 1881)
   Ch. IX pp. 161, 167.

   (p.161)
   ...the covenant which Mr. Whitfield's company made and signed on shipboard...
   
   "In witness whereof we subscribe our hands the first day of June, 1639...
   Thomas Nash
   Henry Kingsnorth
   Henry Dowd
   Thomas Cook"
   
   (p.167)
   The planters who had not been admitted as freemen were: (list created about 1650)
   John Bishop, sen.
   Thomas Chatfield
   Francis Bushnell
   Henry Dowd...

2. ↑ Dowd, W. W. (Willis Wedworth). The descendants of Henry Doude, who came from England in 1639. (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1885)
   pp.2,3.

   GENERATION I
   
   1. HENRY DOUDE came from Surrey or Kent County, England, in 1639 (probably Guildford, of Surrey County, seventeen miles southwest of London), with a colony under the Rev. Henry Whitfield, and settled in Guilford, Conn. He was located on land which lies about one-quarter mile from the northeast corner of the "Green." It is not far distant from the house now [1885] occupied by William Dowd, one of his descendants. Whether he lived here at the time of his death or not, and where he was buried, is unknown.
   He was probably married before leaving England, as there is no record of the maiden name of his wife. Her Christian name was Elizabeth, and she died in 1713. [alt. d. 1684]
   Henry died in 1668, thirty years after landing. There is no record when Thomas, his oldest child, was born, nor is there any of some of the other children.

3. ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   Guilford:65.

   'Henry [Dowd/Doud/Doude],bd.Aug.31,1668'