Person:Joseph Kellogg (17)

DEATH: (Probate), Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes for Lieut. JOSEPH Kellogg "The three Kellogg brothers Joseph, Daniel, and Samuel, like their relative. Nathaniel made their first appearance in America in the settlements of Connecticut and Massachusetts, but we have no record of their sailing from England.... Wherever they settled they not only retained their original grants (of land) but bought other land and the records prove that they were able to provide liberally for their children." p 19-20.

Joseph "was in Famington_ Conn_ in 1651, here he was an early settler and served several terns as selectman. He and his wife were "joined" to the church- 9 Oct- 1653. His home lot, consisting of four acres, was purchased from John Andrews, from whom he also bought a twelve-acre lot of plowing land curiously called "Nod Land" He sold this property in Feb., 1655, and removed, about 1657, to Boston, where "Joseph Kelog. weaver, late of Farmington, in the colony of Connecticut, now of Boston." bought from Peter Oliver and his wife. 16 Oct. 1659, "their dwelling house, fronting to the street leading to Roxbury, for one hundred and fortry pounds starling. " Joseph "Kellog" and Joanna, his wife, mortgaged the same premises 18 Nov.1659, to Sergt Thomas Clarks to secure the payment of one hundred pounds to be paid "in good wheate. pork and pease at merchants currant price." They sold the same premises to John Witherden, 13 lone, 1661. This land (now covered in part, by the Advertiser Building on Washington Street), which Joseph bought for seven hundred dollars in 1659, is one of the most valuable parcels of land in Boston, being worth more than one hundred dollars per square foot.

He removed from Boston to Hadley and was one of the proprietors. In 1661, the tern made an agreement with him to keep the ferry between Hadlcy and Northampton, and he built his house on a small "hone lot" which had been reserved by the town turn "Ferry Lot".( Robert Bartett, our 71h great grandfather also ran a ferry boat on the same river for the city of Northampton and most likely new Joseph. The two families intermarried several generations later.)

In January, 1675 a committee appointed by the Court made an agreement with him (Joseph). He was to have a boat for horses and a canoe for persons, and to receive for man and horse, 8d, in wheat or other pay, or 6d, in money; for single persons, 3d., and when more than one, 2d. each. On Lecture days, people passing to and from Lecture, if six or more went over together. were to pay 1d. each. Troopers, passing to and From trooping exercises, were to pay only 3d. for man and bourse. He was also granted liberty to entertain travelers_

The Court, 1 June, 1677, ordered that "Joseph Kellogg, ferryman of Hadley, be paid forty pounds for loss of his team impressed for the country's service and with reference to his ferriage of souldjers."

In 1687, another agreement was made with him, and tie was allowed to take double price alter dark until 9 o'clock. At later hours, and in storms and floods, those who would cross must agree with the ferryman. Others night not carry over persons within fifty rods of the ferry place. except men to their day-labor. He and his son. John, and grandson­James Kellogg, kept this fern until 1758-almost a century; and Stephen Goodman, who married a daughter of James Kellogg_ kept it still later, and from him it received its last name, "Goodman's Fern".

He was selectman in Hadley, 1665; 74,'77.`7'9.8l.'85.'92 In 1686 he was on the committee "to consider the method that may be best for laying out of the common lands." In the division which followed, he and his sons, John, Edward and Nathaniel, received grants of land on the "Highway which runs down to Foot's Folly from New Swamp." He was on the committee for the purchase_ from the Indians. of Swampfield From Swampfield (for which the Indians received 26 pounds) Lane been formed, in whole or in part, the towns of Sunderland, Montague and Levorett.

He was a member of the school committee in 1686, and opposed taking the management of the Hopkins School from the committee. After a sharp contest, the committee succeeded in having the management of the school retained in their hands.

Early in the history of New England, Military Companies or "Train bands" were formed to protect the settlers. As early as 16 May, 1661, Hadlcy voted there should be training. The County Court approved the choice of Joseph Kellogg as Sergeant of the Company_ Mar_ 1663. The General Court of Massachusetts appointed him 9 May 1678, Ensign in the Foot Company in Hadley, and 7 Oct., of the same year, Lieutenant in the same company. He served in that office until 1692. his military service thus extending over nineteen consecutive years__ Possible Cyrus Kellogg Commction-3 of 10

He sustained his part in the struggle of the settlers against the Indians, and was in command, as Sergeant, of the Hadley troops at the famous "Turner Falls " fight, 18 May 1676 which broke the power of athe river tribes.

In 1661, when he settled in Hadley, his estate was assessed at 100, and at the time of his death his personal estate alone, was inventoried at about 400 pounds and he had previously given various sums to his children. His wife Abigain in 1673 was among those presented by the jury at the March Count of Hampshire, as persons of small estate who "use to wear silk contrary to law. She was acquitted, but this attempt to enforce the sumptuary laws agains her showed that her husband's estate was below 200 pounds needed to allow her to wear "gold or silver lace, gold or silver buttuns, bone lace above 2s per yard, or silk hoods or scarfs" which the good men of that period looked upon as extravagance in dress"

Source: The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New World by Hopkins, T. pg 25-28.

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
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   "JOSEPH, Farmington, weaver, freem. 1654, had Elizabeth b. 3 Mar. 1651; Joseph, 11 Aug. 1653; Nathaniel, bapt. 29 Oct. 1654; wh. all d. young; John, bapt. 28, not. as print. in Geneal. Reg. XIV. 126, mak. it Monday, 29 Dec. 1656; and Martin; rem. 1659 to Boston, had Edward, b. 1 Oct. 1660, but next yr. sold his prop. in B. and went to Hadley; where his first w. Joanna d. 14 Sept. 1666, and he m. 9 May foll. Abigail, d. of Stephen Terry. Beside these ch. he had Samuel, 28 Sept. 1662; Joanna, 8 Dec. 1664, wh. m. 29 Nov. 1683, John Smith of H.; and Sarah, 27 Aug. 1666; all by first; and by sec. w. had Stephen, 9 Apr. 1668; Nathaniel, 8 Oct. 1669; Abigail, 9 Oct. 1671; Elizabeth Oct. 1673; Prudence, 14 Oct. 1675; Ebenezer, 22 Nov. 1677; Jonathan, 25 Dec. 1679; Daniel, 23 Mar. 1682, d. in 2 yrs.; Joseph, 12 May 1684; Daniel, again, 10 June 1686 and Ephraim, 1687, d. young. All the ds. were m. In the Falls fight he was a lieut. and command. the men of H. He d. 1707, then hav. of the twenty, fourteen adult ch. As they scatt. so much, I give the places of resid. of most of the eleven s. John, wh. had ten ch. by two ws. liv. at Hadley; Martin was at Hatfield, and Deerfield; Edward had nine ch. b. at Hadley, and then rem. to Brookfield; Samuel, sett. at Hartford, had nine ch.; Stephen, in Westfield, had eleven ch.; Nathaniel, at Hadley and Amherst, had eight or nine ch.; Ebenezer, and Jonathan sett. at Colchester; Joseph, wh. had no ch. and d. 9 Sept. 1724, was at Hatfield."

2. ↑ Joseph Kellogg, in Hopkins, Timothy. The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New. (San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Company, 1903)
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   17. JOSEPH KELLOGG, son of Martin (7), bap. in Great Leighs, England, 1 Apr. 1626;

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Joseph Kellogg, in Hopkins, Timothy. The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New. (San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Company, 1903)
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   He d. between 27 June 1707, when his will was dated and 4 Feb., 1708, when it was proved.