Person:John Sedgwick (17)

A Sedgwick Genealogy Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick Compiled by Hubert M. Sedgwick New Haven Colony Historical Society New Haven, Connecticut 1961 Page 53

  John Sedgwick, 2d child and eldest son of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick (B) and Ann (Thompson) Sedgwick, was born at West Hartford, Conn., and baptized there March 7, 1742. The family moved to Cornwall Hollow in 1748. He was left an orphan at the age of fourteen and duties devolved upon him largely as the oldest son in raising a family of six. He became one of the most prominent citizens and largest landowners  of that section of the state and employed a large number of laborers who lived on his estate in ten log houses contiguous to the home of the owner. He died at the Hollow August 28, 1820, aged 78.
  He was twice married, 1st to Abigail Andrews, daughter of Stephen Andrews of Wallingford, Conn., February 3, 1763. She died April 26, 1811. He married, 2d, Mrs. Sarah Lewis of  Farmington, Conn., who died May 18, 1854, at Simsbury, Conn., aged 95. Mr. Sedgwick and his first wife are buried in the "New Cemetery" at Cornwall Hollow. He had 13 children, all by his first wife.