Person:Eleazer Isbell (3)

BIOGRAPHY: The Descendants of Robert Isbell in America By Edna Warren Mason Published 1944 The Tuttle,Morehouse & Taylor Company New Haven, Connecticut Page 2 Eleazer Isbell (Robert), son of Robert and Ann ( ) Isbell, born probably Salem, Mass., about 1640, died Killingworth, Conn., September 2, 1677. Married there, November 11, 1668, also recorded at New London, Conn., Elizabeth French, born Guilford, Conn., August 25, 1650, daughter of Thomas and (1) wife, Mary (Button) French.

  The little village of Killingworth was founded in 1663 and its Indian name was Hammonassett. In October 1663 the Colonial Legislature resolved that there should be a town at this place and during the same month twelve settlers from nearby towns moved there. In the course of the next two or three years they were joined by sixteen others, thus increasing their count to twenty-eight. The Town was divided into thirty sections or rights, the two extra ones being reserved for the first minister who should settle there, and the second for the support of the ministry forever. For about four years after this settlement Killingworth was known as the "Plantation at Hammonassett." In May 1667 it was given the name of Kenilworth after the town of that name in Co. Warwick, England,  as one or more of its earliest inhabitants were born there, late it was changed to Killingworth. The original Killingworth had a breadth of about four miles and extended back from Long Island Sound from ten and one-half to thirteen miles. It is now divided into two parishes, the first being Killingsworth, and the second North Killingsworth. The settlement of the latter was begun in 1716.
  The present (now 1943) Clinton, Conn., was the original Hammonassett, Main Street the ground where the first settlers took their horne lots: these were surveyed in 1663 and were allotted to them by "drawing cuts." The following allotment of the several inhabitants of Hammonacit is from page one of Kennelworth Towne Records. "William Kelcey and John Meggs, granted, John Shethar purchased of Jonathan Dennin, Eliezer Isbell, granted." Among the names on the list of freeman of the "Towne of Kennelworth" in 1669 were Eliezer Isbel, Nathaniel Parmerly, John and John Pickett, near Jonathan Brewsters in Poquetannock, and those were called the "Poquetannock Grants." December 1659, his house on New Street was sold to William Hough, and in 1665 the farm in the northern part of the town in what is now (1943) Ledyard and on which he had lived, was bought by George Geer.
  The surname Isbell was in use in England as early as 1583, and on early Connecticut Records is found in the following forms, Isbel, Isbell, Isbal, Isbil, Isbill and Isble; Isbel and Isbell being the most frequent.

1. ↑ Killingworth Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   1:79.

   ISBELL, Eleazer, d. Sept. 2, 1677