Person:Rutherford Trowbridge (1)

Rutherford Trowbridge's two wives, Dorcas Hitchcock and Thankful Alling, were first cousins.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} 16. Rutherford Trowbridge, in Trowbridge, Francis Bacon. The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. (New Haven, Conn.: The Compiler, 1908)
   67-68.

   "16. Rutherford Trowbridge (Daniel⁹, Thomas⁴, Thomas², Thomas¹), born February 3, 1744, in New Haven, Conn.; died April 6, 1825, in New Haven; married, first, July 9, 1767, in New Haven, Dorcas Hitchcock, daughter of Capt. Amos and Dorcas (Foote) Hitchcock, born November 10, 1746, in Woodbridge, Conn.; died February 12,1788, in New Haven. He married, second, January 1, 1793, in New Haven, Thankful (Alling) Mix, widow of Nathaniel Mix of New Haven and daughter of John and Abiah (Hitchcock) Alling, baptized October 12, 1755, in New Haven; died August 8, 1831, in New Haven.
   
   Rutherford Trowbridge resided all his life in his native town. He learned the mason's trade, which he followed for some years, and acquired considerable wealth. He lived in a brick house, built in 1774, the second brick house in New Haven, which is still standing, near the southeast corner of Water street and Columbus avenue. After the Revolution had begun he petitioned for the right to manufacture salt-petrel which was granted him by the state and he received the first bounty for making that commodity. He conducted his salt-petre works on the large plot of land opposite the present railroad station, which had been set off to the original Trowbridge settler, and there, where the tide ebbed and flowed, were the big water lots where the salt-petre was manufactured. A large share of that article used in the Revolution was produced on that site and was sent to Enfield to be used in the manufacture of powder. He was a man of sterling integrity and worth. He was an intimate friend of President Dwight of Yale College. He was admitted a member of the First Church October 26, 1788, the first admission under Rev. James Dana. His wife Dorcas had been admitted February 25, 1781. He was one of the early members of Hiram Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., of New Haven, being elected in 1765. His gravestone in the Grove street cemetery is a fine example of the old-fashioned sandstone monument and recites that 'He met death, not as a king of terrors, but as a messenger of peace.'"

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Trowbridge, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   8:1858.

   "Rutherford (Trowbridge), b 3 Feb 1744 (Family, Bible or private records), d 6 Apr 1825; Census (NH) 2-2-5; …"

3. ↑ Rutherford Trowbridge, in Find A Grave.