Person:Nicholas Desborough (1)
Nicholas Desborough
chr.16 Jan 1613/14 Saffron Walden, Essex, England
d.Bef 31 Aug 1683
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Nicholas Desborough1613/14 - Bef 1683
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Nicholas Desborough1613/14 - Bef 1683
  • W.  Mary BrownsonEst 1622/23 - Bef 1671
m. Abt Mar 1640
  1. Mary DisboroughEst 1641 - Bef 1709
  2. Sarah DisboroughEst 1642 - Bef 1690/91
  3. Hannah DisboroughEst 1644 - 1718
  4. Phebe Disborough1646 -
  5. Abigail Disborough1648/49 -
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m. Aft 1669
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Nicholas Desborough
Alt Name[6] Nicholas Disborough
Gender Male
Christening[1][7] 16 Jan 1613/14 Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Military[6] 1637 Soldier in the Pequot War
Marriage Abt Mar 1640 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Brownson
Marriage Aft 1669 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Shepard
Death[2] Bef 31 Aug 1683
Estate Inventory[2][8] 31 Aug 1683
Probate[8] 18 Dec 1683 Administration to Joseph Strickland.

'Nicholas Desborough (Disbro, Desbrough, Disborow Desbrow), Hartford, 1639, a proprietor “by courtesie of the town”; his home-lot was on the east side of road to the Cow Pasture (North Main St.), not far from the present tunnel. He served in the Pequot War; received a grant of fifty acres for his services, May 11, 1671. ... Chosen chimney-viewer, 1647, 1655, 1663, 1669 ; surveyor of highways, 1665 ; freed from training, etc., March 6, 1672-3, when sixty years old. ... Cotton Mather (Magnolia, vi. 69) tells a marvellous story of molestations in Desborough's house by invisible hands, in 1683.'[5]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Walter Desborough, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    2:343.

    Nicholas Desborough married at Saffron Walden of 18 October 1610 Mary Gilbye, and had second child Nicholas baptized there on 16 January 1613/4.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Coddington, John Insley. The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1962, Apr 1963)
    38:209.

    'Nicholas himself died shortly before 31 Aug. 1683 [date of inventory of his estate], aged about 70; ...'

  3.   Coddington, John Insley. The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1962, Apr 1963)
    38:208.

    'Mary was hastily married off, at Hartford, before 2 Apr. 1640, to a safe, substantial, and somewhat older man, Nicholas Desborough (or Disborough, Disbrow).'

  4.   Coddington, John Insley. The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1962, Apr 1963)
    38:208-9.

    '... it seems to the contributor quite likely that he belonged to the same family as William 'Disberowe' of Walden [Saffron Walden], co. Essex ...'

  5. ↑ Nicholas Desborough (Disbro, Desbrough, Disborow Desbrow), in Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915)
    2:203-10.
  7. ↑ message 444, posted 29 Jul 2004 by Charlotte Dolan, in Bronson Family Genealogy Forum, Genealogy.com online (genforum.genealogy.com/bronson/), accessed Aug 2009.

    Nicholas Desborough, chr. Jan 1614, Saffron, Walden, Essex, Eng., s/o Nicholas Desborough & Mary Gilbye.

  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Nicholas Disbrowe, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:298.
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