"[May 1725] [477] Upon the petition of Elizabeth Ensworth of Canterbury, in the county of New London, setting forth to this Assembly that her husband, John Ensworth of said Canterbury, deceased, with Tyxall Ensworth and John Dyer, all of said Canterbury, purchased one parcel of land of Mr. Samll Fitch of Jameco in Queens County and Province of New York, all joyntly together, being in quantity one hundred and fifty acres of land in said Canterbury, on the east side of Quinabaug River, be the same more or less; bounded as by the deeds given by said Fitch to said John and Tyxall Ensworth and John Dyer, dated March 10th 1720/1, for said hundred and fifty acres of land; and said John, said petitioners husband, in his life time sold his part of said hundred and fifty acres to his brother Thomas Ensworth for the sum of thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence, which sum he, said Thomas, paid to his said brother John Ensworth, and said John Ensworth since is dead and never gave said Thomas a deed for his, said John Ensworth's, part of said hundred and fifty acres off: And to that end that justice may be done, and that said Thomas muy have a deed for said John Ensworth’s part of said hundred and fifty acres of land above described, this Assembly enacteth, and fully impowreth Elizabeth Ensworth of said Canterbury, widow and relict of said John Ensworth, to give said Thomas Ensworth a deed for said John Ensworths part of said hundred and fifty acres; which deed, given by said Elizabeth to said Thomas for said John Ensworths part of said hundred and fifty acres, shall be as good and effectual in tho law for his, said Thomas’s, holding the same to himself, his heirs and assigns for ever, as if said deed had been given by said John Ensworth to said Thomas in his life time."
Tyxhall and Thomas Ensworth were sons of Tyxhall Ainsworth/Ensworth whose baptism were recorded at Hartford. No birth or baptismal record appears for John Ensworth, but this record establishes him as another, although unrecorded, son of the elder Tyxhall as does the Canterbury church record of his marriage to Elizabeth Cleveland.
