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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Hon. William Pitkin |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Abt 1664 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1687 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Elizabeth).
to Elizabeth Stanley |
| Will[5] |
15 Oct 1722 |
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[1][2] |
5 Apr 1723 |
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Burial[4] |
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Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Probate[5] |
2 Jul 1723 |
Will proved. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 William Pitkin, in Pitkin, Albert Palmer. Pitkin Family of America: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Pitkin, the Progenitor of the Family in this Country, from his Arrival from England in 1659 to 1886, with Additional Historical and Biographical Notes of the Family, etc. also, Additional Notes of the Descendants of Martha Pitkin, who Married Simon Wolcott. (Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1887)
4.
William Pitkin, 2d ch. m. Elizabeth Stanley, [dau. of Capt. Caleb Stanley, and sister of Roger's wife.] He was b. 1664. m. 1686. d. Apr. 5, 1723. … He was educated by his father in his profession of the law. He was Judge of the County and Probate Courts and Court of the Assistants from 1702 till 1711. Upon the establishment of the Superior Court, in 1711, he was appointed Judge of that court, and in 1713 he was made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court He represented Hartford in the General Assembly in 1696. In 1697 he was elected one of the Council of the Colony, and was annually reelected for twenty-six (26) years till his death (see Trumbull's 'Hist. Conn.,' pp. 425, 469, 477). He was one of the commissioners to receive the Earl of Belmont on his arrival in New York. He was Commissioner of War in 1706 and 1707 (Col. Rec. p. 535). He was one of the committee to prepare the manuscript laws of the Colony in 1709; also committee on the revision of said laws (Col. Rec., Vol. V, p. 479). In 1718 he was appointed one of a committee of three, by the General Assembly, to build the first State House in the Colony, at Hartford (Col. Rec., Vol. VI, pp. 157 and 197). He was also one of a committee to procure a map of the course of the Connecticut River from the 'mouth of it to the north bounds of this Colony, to be inserted in the plan of the Colony now ordered to be drawn.' He was a military officer in the company of his brother Roger."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 William Pitkin, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
456.
"William Pitkin s of William & Hannah (Goodwin) born 1664 died Apl 5, 1723 ae 59 … William Pitkin owned cov 1 Ch Sept 4, 1687, ad full com 1 Ch Aug 14, 1697."
- ↑ William Pitkin, in 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)
3:441.
"William (Pitkin), Hartford, s. of the preced. m. 1686, Eliz. d. of Caleb Stanley, had Eliz. b. 30 Aug. 1687, d. soon; Eliz. again, 18 Aug. 1689; Martha, 28 Feb. 1692; William, 30 Apr. 1694; Joseph, 26 May 1696; Sarah, 26 Mar. 1698, d. soon; Thomas, 18 June 1700; Sarah, again, 28 Nov. 1702; John, 18 July 1706, d. soon; John, again, 18 Dec. 1707; and Jerusha, 22 June 1710; was rep. 1696, next yr. Assist. and he d. 5 Apr. 1723, in his will of Oct. preced. naming w. and the eight liv. ch."
- ↑ William Pitkin, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pitkin, William, Sen., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
2:561.
"Probate Records. Vol. X, 1723 to 1729. Page 168-9-70-1.
Pitkin, William, Sen. Will dated 15 October, 1722: I, William Pitkin, Sen., of Hartford, being of sound mind and memory and willing to set my house in order, doe make and ordain this my last will and testament: I give unto my wife the use of 1-3 part of my real estate during her natural life, and £100 as money out of the moveable estate, she to have her choice of my goods to that sum, which £100 I give to my wife to be at, her own dispose; also she is to have the use of 1-2 of my dwelling house during her widowhood if she need it for her comfort and for the comfort of my children. I give to my son William Pitkin land bounding north on my brother Nathaniel Pitkin's, east on the street, south on Joseph Olmsted, and west on the meadow lott; also a piece of land near the ferry which my honoured father Capt. Caleb Stanly gave me; also one piece I had of William Morton; also all my land in Stafford; also 1-2 of my land in Coventry which I bought of Deacon Fuller, excepting one piece of 70 acres: also 10 acres on the Plaine, bounding west on Timothy Cowles, south on John Case, east on my brother Ozias Pitkin, and north on Deacon Olmsted. I give to my son Joseph land near William Warren's house. I give to my two sons William and Joseph my fulling mills (with right of stream to next fall below). I give to my son Thomas Pitkin all my land within the Town of Bolton; also 70 acres in Coventry; also 6 acres at Podtinck. I give to my son John Pitkin my dwelling house, barn and other buildings (except my clothier's shop, which I give to my son William). To my son John my lot on which the corn mill and saw mill stand, except what is given to William and Joseph; to John all my parts of ye corne and saw mill; also I give to my son John all that my 210 acres of land which I bought of Capt. William Clark and Deacon Josiah Dewey, in Lebanon, in ye new parish commonly called ye Crank. To my daughter Elizabeth Pitkin, to Martha Welles, to Sarah Porter, to Jerusha Pitkin. I appoint my wife Elizabeth and my sons William and Joseph executors.
WILLIAM PITKIN, LS.
Witness: Nathaniel Pitkin, Ozias Pitkin, Timothy Cowles.
Court Record, Page 23—2 July, 1723: Will now exhibited by Mrs. Elizabeth Pitkin and sons William and Joseph, executors. Proven. Invt. exhibited and allowed."
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