"87. Nathaniel3 Hitchcock (Nathaniel2, Matthias1) son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Moss) Hitchcock, was born in East Haven, Conn., July 28, 1678. He married Dec. 23, 1702, Rebecca Morris, daughter of Eleazer and Anna Morris, born at East Haven, July 20, 1682. He settled at South End Neck, as appears in New Haven records, Vol. 4th: 'Agreement between John Thompson, Thomas Hitchcock (son of Eliakim) John Dennison, Nathaniel Hitchcock and Samuel Smith, proprietors of South End Neck, to lay out all said land in equal proportion: each one to have all he now possesses and improves. What any one wants, to be equal to any other in what he now possesses as taken up by first proprietors of said neck, shall be made up to him in 1st or 2d division of land.' Nathaniel Hitchcock died Dec. 5, 1726. His widow Rebecca was appointed guardian of the minor children July 2, 1729. She died in 1729."