The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1906-07-20

Fk<lNOAE OECNEALOOYs lOS@s10OO.
TO THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
PRINDLE (oR PR1NaLE), OF NEW HA-
VEN, CONN.,, 1854.
For more than four years pastI have
been engaged in collecting, from vari-
GUS sources, data from which to COM
pile genealogy of the Prindle family,
descendants of William, the original
settler and progenitor of the family In
America, who came from Scotland and
settled in New Haven, Conn.,, where
he is first found of record in 1854.
He married Mary Desborough there
in 1856, who bore him IL children, three
of whom died young. The others grew
to manhood and womanhood, married,
and settled in different parts of the
state, most Of whom reared large fam
lilies.
OF the sons, John settled in Derby,
Ebenezer first in Milford and then re-
moved to Newtown, where he was one
of the first proprietors; Joseph in
West Haven, Samuel in New Milford,
and Eleazer in Milford. or the daugh-
ters, Phoebe married Eleazer Beecher
and settled in West Haven, Mary mar
ried John Roach and settled in Mil
ford, while the history of Hannah is
involved in some uncertainty.
Their children and later descendants
have also been found in Bethel, Beth
lehem, Brookf1eld, Canaan, Cheshire,
Cornwall, Danbury. Fairfield, Green
wich, Guilford, Harwinton, Hunting
ton, Litch6eld, Meriden, Montville,
New Canaan, New Fairfield, New Ha-
ven, New Milford, Newtown, Norwalk,
Orange, Oxford, Preston, Redding,
Roxbury, Salisbury, Seymour, Sharon,
Southbury, Stamford, Stratford, Wal
lingford, Waterbury, Watertown,
Wethersfield, Wilton, Windsor, Wood
bury and other Connecticut towns,
with whose early history they were
more or less prominently identified,
and later in New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, New York, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska,
Washington, Oregon, California and
other states.
1t has been my aim to trace all Of
Williams descendants, as far as pos
slble, for six generations, and in SOME
lines to the seventh, eighth and ninth
generations; and in the case of my
great-grandfather, Zalmon, who was q
soldier of the Revolution, to the pres
ent time, thus embracing in his case
10 generations and covering q period
Of over 250 years.
Concerning the older generations,
have been favored with many interest
ing incidents of personal and historic
interest, which will make the record
Of special interest to all their descend
ants now living.
A number of the family served in
the Revolutionary War, whose names
and records are given, and which will
prove useful in establishing the eligi-
bility of living representatives for
membership in the patriotic societies
of the Colonial and Revolutionary
wars, based upon such service. Full
lists of these are given in the Appen-
dix, as taken from the official records
of the several states, the Pension Bu-
reau, and War and Treasury Depart
ments at Washington.
The Appendix also contains sketches
and interesting events of personal
history, and includes the Kimberly,
Cogswell, Andrew, and Oatman ances-
tries of Prindles back to the early set
tlement of these families in New
England.
This compilation is the result of
patient and long continued effort in
the searching of family, Bible, church,
cemetery, town, county, land, probate,
State and Government records, local
histories, many published genealogies,
etc., involving an extensive CORES
pondence and much time and labor.
Among the families allied by mar
riage to the Prindles the following
names may be mentioned, of whom
more or less data appears in the book,
many of whom were also soldiers of
the Colonial and Revolutionary wars,
Adams, Allis, Andrew, Baldwin, Bar
ney, Barton, Beecher, Boardman, Bob
it, Botstord, Bright, Brinsmade, Bris-
tol, Bronson, Brooks, Brown, Bucking-
ham, Camp, Canning, Carrick, Chat
field, Childs, Clark (e), Clinton, Cogs-
well, Cram, Deming, Derrick, Dunning,
Earle, Felt, Ferris, Foote, Fox, Frost,
Gilbert, Gillett, Gould, Graham, Gray,
Green, Hall, Halleck, Hine, Hinman,
Hobby, Holmes, Hoyer, Hubbell, Hull,
Huntington, Johnson, Judd, Kimber-
ly, Kirk, Knibloe, Lafrerty, Lambert,
Lloyd, Long, Lowry, Marsh, Meigs,
Mercier, Merrick, Mooney, Moore,
Niles, Norcott, Northrop, Norton,
Oatman, Peet, Platt, Pope, Porter,
Pritchard, Purdy, Randall, Rayner,
Reed, Roach, Root, Sanford, Seymour,
Scott, Shaut, Sherman, Smith, Snow,
Stearns, Stewart, Stilson, Taylor,
Thomas, Tobey, Tuttle, Twitchell,
Warner, Washburne, Welton, Wheeler,
Williams, Wright, Young.
The work is now completed, SO far
as the health Of the compiler will per-
NIT, and is in the hands of the printer
for publication.
The time, labor and cost Of investi-
cation and searches (amounting to
several hundred dollars) involved in
the preparation Of this family record
has been cheerfullY and freely CON-