Blake's Taunton Regiment
Parliamentary Forces ("Roundheads")
English Civil War
Thomas Trowbridge
Born: Feb. 8, 1598 Taunton, Exeter, England
Died: Feb. 7, 1673, Taunton, Exeter, England
Parents: John
Trowbridge & Agnes Prowse
Occupations: wool mercer (merchant), merchant, West Indies trade routes
(Trinidad)
Military Service: Captain, Blake's Taunton Regiment,
"Roundheads"
Parliamentary Forces, (anti-royalist
army under Cromwell), English Civil
War
First Marriage: Mar. 26, 1627, Taunton, Exeter, England
First Wife: Elizabeth Marshall
Born: 1603, London, England
Died: 1640, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut
Parents: John
Marshall & Alice Bevys
Second Marriage: Feb. 10, 1641, St. David's Church, Taunton, Exeter,
England
Second Wife: Francis Godsall (cousin)
Born: 1619, Taunton, Somersetshire, England
Died: after 1673, England
Parents: Robert
Godsall & Dorothy Trowbridge
First Marriage (Francis Godsall): unknown, Taunton, England
First Husband (Francis Godsall): Mr. Shattuck
Born: unknown, England
Died: before 1640, England
Children:
(Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall)
Elizabeth Trowbridge
Born: 1627, Taunton, Somersetshire, England
Died: May, 1630, Taunton, Somersetshire, England
Baptism: Mar. 6, 1627, Taunton, Somersetshire, England
Buried: St. Petrock's, Exeter, England
In the list of marriage licenses issued for the diocese of Exeter it is
recorded that on March 24, 1627, Thomas Trowbridge of the parish of St.
Petrock was licensed to marry Elizabeth Marshall of the parish of St.
Mary Arches. In the parish register of St. Mary Arches appears the
following entry: "26 March 1627 Mr. Thomas Trobrige and Elizabeth
daughter of Mrs. Alice Marshall widoe married, Jeremy Short parson."
FROM THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY BY FRANCIS B. TROWBRIDGE
Both the Trowbridge and Marshall families were prominent
and well to do families in Taunton, England. The Trowbridges were
identified with woolen trade and manufacturing. Thomas Trowbridge left
his son John in England and the rest of the family came to Dorchester,
Mass. sometime about 1636. It is believed his wife died in New Haven,
Conn. about 1641.
He returned to England to settle his affairs, leaving his sons with a
servant. The Civil War in England it is believed kept him from
returning to America.
THOMAS TROWBRIDGE, THE FIRST TO COME TO AMERICA, CIRCA
1636
Written by unknown descendant
From the webpage of Sylvie Higgins
Paine"For what reason did Thomas Trowbridge come
to America? First let me go over some oral history passed down over the
years in our branch of the Trowbridge family. Thomas Trowbridge came to
this country to start a trade route, it was a business reason only. He
planned to return to England after his business was fully established.
The reason he brought his family was he would be here for a few years.
Note, he left his oldest son John in England under the care of his
father, why? When Thomas Trowbridge's wife died in America, it was
believed that the reason he left his sons here under the care of a
former servant, was that he planned to return. Our oral history has
Thomas returning
to England to settle the estate of his late wife. Why did he remain in
England, and leave his sons in America? Or why didn't he send for his
sons and have them return to England? This was a mystery for our branch
of family. Note, on Jan. 19, 1663-4, Thomas Trowbridge executed and
sent to his three sons a power of attorney, making over to them jointly
and severally his property in New England wherever found, to be
retained and equally divided between them."
"In 1991 I wrote to the Somerset County Council, Taunton, England. I
was sent a packet of material from which I found the following on
Thomas Trowbridge, which gives a clue to his return from America, circa
1641. It states, Thomas Trowbridge served as a Captain in the
Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War. This suggests that his
reasons for leaving England in 1636 were religious and that he returned
to England to take part in the resistance to King Charles I. The
document is clear
that he served directly under the Roundhead leader, Robert Blake,
commander of the besieged garrison of Taunton in 1645, and probably
remained in England to enjoy the more liberal regime of Cromwell's
Commonwealth. By the time the restoration of Charles II took place in
1660 he would have been at least 60 years of age and probably too old
to
remove himself to America."
"In the Quarter Sessions records for Somerset (Somerset Record Office)
are a number of petitions, mostly undated but of about 1650, addressed
to the Justices of the Peace from Parliamentary supporters of King
Charles I. Among them is that of Emanuell Butler of Taunton, cordwainer
(shoemaker) part of which reads as follows:
'That Emanuell Butler during the several sieges of Taunton was a
faithfull souldier in the States service under the command of Captain
Thomas Trubbridge in the regiment of Collonel Robert Blake in which
service he received a shott from the enemy through the bodie and stood
in great hazard of his life. By the meanes he is in a great measure
disenabled to gett maintainance for himselfe and his wife and child and
he hath lost three sonnes in the States service' - The petition is
supported and signed: Thos. Trowbridge."
"There can be little doubt that the Captain under whom Butler served
was our ancestor after his return from America and before his death in
1672.
There can be little doubt, having this evidence, that it was the
oppressive regime of Charles I that decided Thomas
Trowbridge to emigrate to the New World circa 1636 and that he returned
to England to fight as a 'Roundhead' officer in the Parliamentary army.
Robert Blake was one of the most famous Parliamentary leaders and under
Cromwell's Commonwealth became Admiral of the English navy. Despite
appalling siege conditions he held Taunton against superior
forces which destroyed at least a third of its houses, until its relief
in 1645. The inference of the above petition is that Thomas Trowbridge
was present in Taunton throughout the siege."
TAUNTON DEANE EXTRACTS, RECORDS FROM TAUNTON, ENGLAND
From the webpage of Sylvie
Higgins Paine
"April 3, 1652, Thomas Trowbridge of Taunton, gent., was admitted to a
parcel of land late of the waste of the lord, lying behind the stable
of the castle of Taunton and near the west gate of the said castle,
containing three daynes of land and one little parcel of land lying
near the river of Tone and the pond of the castle called the Mote,
extending from the water gate to the said parcel of land behind the
stable, containing four daynes of land in the tithing of Hull, sometime
the land of William Hill and late of John Trowbridge, deceased, by
surrender of John Lane. (the surrender to Lane, made by John Trowbridge
in 1649, was a mortgage to secure 43 pounds 4s)" "This is the only
found information that Thomas Trowbridge held land in Taunton after his
return from America, and the only information relating to his
inheriting land from his father, John Trowbridge."
RECORDS FROM TAUNTON, THOMAS TROWBRIDGE, OUR FOUNDER From the webpage of Sylvie
Higgins Paine
"A subsidy roll (taxation list) for Taunton Borough, dated 15812,
heldat the Somerset Record Office, shows Thomas Trobrydge as paying 6
poundsin respect of goods. Only seven others were paying more than this
and eleven further men were also assessed at 6 pounds. This shows that
Thomas was a man of wealth"
"The Taunton Deane manor records show the gradual build-up of the
estate of Thomas Trowbridge, date 1620. The commercial importance of
Thomas Trowbridge within the borough is shown by the number of licences
whichhe purchased to prosecute tenants of Taunton Deane (mainly for
debt) beyond the jurisdiction of the manor court." "Extract from the
fine books of Taunton Deane manor. Records of absolute and conditional
surrenders, 1630-1649. 'Jan. 9, 16323. Thomas Trowbridge surrendered a
cottage with curtilage of 3 daynes of land in Millane, a cottage in the
same tithing, a messuage and 5 acres of bondland in the said tithing,
and another messuage and 5 acres of bondland there, late of Thomas
Trowbridge his grandfather, to use of Francis Ancketill of Yard, esq."
THE MARSHALL FAMILY
TROWBRIDGE, Thomas, the first of his family to come to
America, was the son of John Trowbridge, a wealthy merchant and
prominent citizen of Taunton, Somersetshire. His father had long been
identified with the woolen trade in Taunton, which was noted for its
manufacture of that staple, and it was natural that the son when he
grew up should turn his
attention to some branch of that industry, and he is found in early
manhood established in business as a mercer in the neighboring city of
Exeter in Devonshire At the time when he took up his residence there
he found that the name Trowbridge was a well-known and respected one in
Exeter, with which members of the family had beer long identified
through business and residence, and there also his sister Prudence went
to live after her marriage in 1621 to William Mace, a leading merchant
of the city. In the pedigree of the Marshall family of Exeter was found
the name of "Thomas Trobridge of Taunton." This reference was the clue
that led to the finding of the record of the marriage of Thomas
Trowbridge. In the list of marriage licenses issued for the diocese of
Exeter-it is recorded that on March
24, 1627, Thomas Trowbridge of the parish of St. Petrock was licensed
to marry Elizabeth Marshall of the parish of St. Mary Arches. In the
parish register of St. Mary Arches appears the following entry; "26
March 1627 Mr. Thomas Trobrige and Elizabeth daughter of Mre Alec
Marshall widow, married, Jeremy Short parson." In the parish register
of St.Petrocks, Exeter, are recorded the following:
BAPTISMS
1627
Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Trubbrudge
6 Mare-h 1627-8
1629
John the son of Thomas Trubbridge
5 November 1631
Thomas the sonne of Thomas Troubridge
the 11 December.
1633
William the sonne of Thomas and Elizabeth Trawbridge
3 September.
BURIAL
1630
Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Troubridge
10 May.
Elizabeth Marshall, the wife of Thomas Trowbridge, was a member of a
family of the name that flourished in Exeter during the seventeenth
century. The first of the name mentioned by Westcot's "Devonshire
Families" is William Marshall, who had issue Robert
Marshall, who married Joan, daughter and heir of Owsley of Chillington,
county Somerset. His will, dated August 7, 1576, was proved by her Oct.
9 following, (prerogative court of Canterbury, carew, 29,) in it he is
described as of Ashewille in the parish of Ilminster, and desires to be
buried in the churchyard of Ilminster. He gives to his son Edmund
Marshall his rynes and bark and his tanne vates with a mill to grind
bark, (from this bequest it seems that he was by trade a tanner.);
mentions his sons, John, Nicholas, Willima, and John (the younger) and
Thomas (all under age.) and appoints his wife Joan (who appears to have
brought him some property) sole executrix and residuary legatee. He
appears to have had two other children, Roger and Anne, who may have
been twins, born posthumous. His wife, as ?Joanne Marshall?, had been
named as sister in the will of William Owseley of Chillington, near
Ilminster, in Somerset, dated October 8, 1558.
(Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wells 22.)
John Marshall (the younger) probably settled in Exeter in early life.
He was ?the worshipful Mr. John Marshall.? He was Bailiff of Exeter in
1601, sheriff in 1609, and mayor in 1615. retaining afterwards
the position of Alderman. He married at St. Mary Arches 30 August 1595,
Alice Bevys (Bevy or Beavis), daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Prouz)
Bevys. The Bevys family is traced to Devonshire to the reign of Henry
IV. Richard Bevys became sheriff of Exeter in 1591, governor of the
Guild Mechant Adventurers in 1594,and mayor in 1602, dying Aug. 26 of
the latter year. He made a deed of trust June 16, 1602, to William
Tickle and John Marshall, Gent., for a benefaction to provide marriage
portions during future years to worthy young women of several parishes.
His wife, Elizabeth Prouz (Prouze, Prowse, Prowse, was probably a
relative of Richard Prowse, mayor of Exeter in 1578. According to the
pedigree of Prouze of Chagford, near Exeter, a very old family, Richard
the mayor was the second son of Lawrence Prouz of Exeter and estate of
Chagford going to Lawrence?s eldest son, John, who had a daughter
Elizabeth, apparently of about the age of Elizabeth, married to Richard
Bevys. The will of Nicholas Bevys, son of Richard, a merchant of
Exeter, dated November 8, 1612, and proved June 2, 1613,
named as one of the executors of ?my brother John Marshall.? Of the
other sons of Richard Bevys, Peter and Richard, the former was more
prominent and became lord of the manor of Bishops?s List, near Exeter.
The family is traced in Devonshire to the reign of Henry IV.?
Special thanks to Nancy for providing this information on the
Marshall family.MORE FROM THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY, PAGES 46-47 BY
FRANCIS BACON
TROWBRIDGE
It must be remembered that the Civil War in England began
soon after Thomas Trowbridge left America. Taunton was taken by the
Parliament forces in August, 1642, and the principal gentry of the
neighborhood, the trained hands, the mayor, and principal inhabitants
of the town aided with horse and foot the intention of securing this
place for the
Parliament. The attempt to secure and fortify Taunton in the interests
of the Parliament soon met with a temporary impediment and defeat, for
in the next year the marquess of Hertford drove out the Parliament
forces and took possession of it in favor of the King. But the fruits
of this victory were not lasting, for on July 8, 1644, soon after the
battle of Marston Moor, Colonel Blake and Sire Robert Pye again took
Taunton for the Parliament. For some months things remained in a quiet
state at Taunton, but early in the spring of 1645, an army of ten
thousand of the kings forces under Lord Goring marched to the attack of
the town and began what is known as the siege of Taunton. The history
of the siege, ending with the final relief of the town, is well known.
Thomas Trowbridge after the death of his father came into his
inheritance, being the only surviving son. He succeeded his father as
the chief Trowbridge in Taunton, just as the latter had succeeded his
father, and that he was a man of consequence there is shown by the
prominence given him in the pedigree in the wife's family, which has
been previously quoted. He rote often to the authorities in New Haven
to bring Gibbons to an account for his breach of trust, but Gibbons
kept possession of the Trowbridge estates in New Haven for many years,
and affairs remained thus until the sons came of age.
They had continued in the meantime to pass their boyhood under the care
of Sergeant Jeffrey, their father evidently being satisfied with that
arrangement. They had received a good education under the instruction
of Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, the famous colonial schoolmaster who taught the
first school in New Haven. In the colony records it is noted that at a
court held Feb. 8, 1643-44, "Mr. Cheever desired 4-3-6 out of the
estate of Mr. Trowbridge which is justly due him for teaching the
children." The course of instruction to be pursued by
the schoolmaster for his cholars at that time was "after they are
entered and can read in the Testament; to perfect them in English; and
teach them Latin tongue as they are capable, and to write."
Soon after he came of age William Trowbridge endeavored to have an
accounting made of his father's estate that was left in New Haven, and
for this end presented to the court two letters from his father, one
dated March 6, 1655, and the other, March 4, 1658, wherein his father
wrote that he "marvells that there is not an account of it given." This
attempt to to recover from Gibbons was a failure, but finally, on
January 19, 1663-64, Mr. Trowbridge executed, and sent to his three
sons a power of attorney, makiing over to them jointly and severally
the property in New England wherever found, to be retained and equally
divided between them, and bring the said Gibbons to account and
punishment:
"To all Christian people in whom this present writing shall come
greeting:
Know ye that I Thomas Trowbridge of Taunton in ye county of Somerset.
Gent doe hereby make ordaine, constitute and depute and in my place and
stead put my three sons Thomas Trowbridge and William Trowbridge of New
Haven, and James Trowbridge of Dorchester in ye Bay in New England in
ye ports of America beyond ye seas, to be my true and lawfull
attornies, jointly, and severally for me and to my name to aske, sue
for, and chattles whatsover, which I left in trust in New England
aftersaid with Henry Gibbons, sometimes my servant, or doe otherwise
belongs unto me and upon detaining thereof or of any particular parcell
therof, to are or any particuar parcell theroff, to arrest, attach,
call to an account, sue implead and imprison ye said Henry Gibbons, and
all and every other person and persons whatsover in whose lands,
custody, or possession of
my estate, houses, lotts, goods, eattel and chattels whatsoever are or
have or hath beene in any way or course of law or equity. And ye same
suit or suits to persecute and issue to judegement, sentence and final
execution, until recovery shall be had off my said estate, houses,
lotts, goods, cattle and chattels whatsoever with all costs and
deamages to be had for detaining the same. And upon receipt htereof or
of so much thereof as my said attourneys or any or eyther of them shall
agree for and accept by way of composition, the said person of persons
soe by my said atturnies or any or eyther of them said atturneyes or
any or eyther of them sued or imprisoned, out of prison to release and
discharge and also to make seale and deliver acquittances releases or
other sufficient discharge to and for the same or any part therof, and
I
doe hereby given and grant unto my said attornies, jointly and
severally, my full and whole power and authoirty in and around the
premises and by the aforesaid or any other lawful waies and means
whatever to get in and recover my said estate, houses, lotts, goods,
cattle and chattles whatsover in as full and ample manner in every
respect to all intents considerations and purposes as allowing and
confirming whatsover my said atturnies or any or either of them sall
lawfully doe or cause to be done in ye premises by virtue of these
presents, and I do alsoe hereby order and appoint that all and
whatsover of my said este, houses lott goods cattle or chattels
whatsover shall be recovered and received by my said attornies or any
or either of them shall be kept and enjoyed by my three sons Thomas
William and James equally divided etween them to their own use and
behoff without any account to be rendered unto me for ye same. In
whitness thereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale, the nineteenth
day of Jan. in ye fourteenth year of ye reign of King Charles the
second et Anno gr. deus
1663.
Thom. Trowbridge, [Seale]
Sealed and delivered in yepresence of Henry Chase Notary Publick.
Robert Chase, John Chambers
The above written is a true record of the originel composed therewith
and recorded ye 26th day of Feb., 1683.
By John Nash, recorder"
{New Haven Land Records, vol 1, p. 202]
The sons sued Gibbons for possesion, but as matters were found, a
settlement could not easily be effected before Mr. Trowbridge's
death, which occurred in Taunton, Feb. 7, 1672-3. The suit was finally
settled in 1680 by Gibbons "for sundry good cause best known to myself,
who made a deed of the property for Thomas Trowbridge, the younger to
take effect after the death of Gibbons. This deed included his house
and lot, and sundry other property including "the bed and bolster I lie
on."
"To all people to whom the present writing shall come greeting. I Henry
Gibbons of New Haven in New England husbandman bring greeting. Know ye
that I the said Henry Gibbons for and in considertion of sundry good
causes and reasons (best known to myself) have given, granted, conveyed
made over. And by these presents doo give, grant convey & make
over unto Thomas Trowbridge of Newhaven, merchant, in New England
aforesaid merchant as follows viz: Imrints my houses home-loft
& yard, scituate lying 7 being in the towne of Newhaven
aforesaid, bounded on ye South with the house & homelott now
belonging
unto Nathan Andrews, on the West by ye homelotts now belonging unto
John Winston & Wm. Johnson on the NMorth with a
homelott bel0onging unto Allen Ball and on the East with the streets or
highway. Also foure acres of meadow lyeing by the old ferry &
three acres & a half of upland lying in the suburbs quarter
alsoe in ye town of New haven aforesdid as the bed & bolster I
lye on. To have & to hold after my decease all &
singular, the houses land mew and be as aforesaid to the aforesaid
Thomas Trowbridge his heirs, executors, administrators, or assignees
for ever to his & their power use and behoof, thereof &
therewith to doe & dispose at his will and please. In witnesse
whereoff I have hereunto sett my hand & seal dated at Newhaven
this fifth day of Feb. in the yeare of our Lord, one thousand six
hundred and eighty. Henry his (=) marke Gibbons Signed sealed &
delivered in the presence of us, John Nash, William Gibbons (his mark)}
Henry Gibbons appeared in Newhaven this 5th of Feb. 1680 &
acknowledged the above written deed to be his voluntary act according
to the law. Jn Nash Assistant"
[New Haven Land Records, vol. 1, p. 162]
Gibbons died in 1686, and as his brother William Gibbons refused to
take out letters of administration, Thomas Trowbridge was appointed
administrator, and as the said Henry Gibbons had no children, the
matter was concluded.
[86] A COURT HELD AT NEWHAVEN THE 5TH OF APRIL 1644
"...forasmuch as the whole estate of Thomas Trowbridge of
Newhaven is to
be sequestred for the paymt of his debts, (he absenting himself,
and takeing no course concerning the same) and his famyly to be
disolved, Sargeant Geffrey and his wife being willing to take the
children of the said Thomas Trowbridge upon tearmes as followeth, thatt
he may have 20 bushells of corne, a brass pot, and a bed for the
children to lye upon, the Court ordered thatt the children should be
putt to the said Sargeant Jeffrey upon the said tearmes; provided thatt
in case their father shall come over, or send to take order concerning
them, thatt then he will referr himself to the court to judg and
determine whatt is equall for him to have for keeping of them,
& in the
meane time he will take care thatt they be well educated and nurtered
in
the feare of God.
(New Haven Court Records, Pages 133-34)
A GENERAL COURT HELD THE 8TH OF DECEMBER, 1645
"...Mr. Trowbrige, his howse for want of due &
timely repaire falling
more & more into decay, the court thought firt, for the
advantage of
the creditors as shallbe thereafter ordered by the court of
magistrates,
to selll it to Mr. Evance vppon such considerations as are expressed in
a wrighteing & agreement about it, but herevppn Mr. Evance
propownded
and desired the court to grant him the cellar formerly belonginge to
Mr.
Trobridge before his howse lott, but not within the compass of it, with
some small inlargement to build a ware howse vppon, which was granted,
provided tht in the whole it exceede not twenty foote square..."
(New Haven Court Records, pge 219)
A COURT HELD AT NEW HAVEN THE 3rd OF NOVEMBER, 1641
A Court Held att Newhaven the 3rd of Novem: 1641 It is
ordered that an
attachment to be sent forth to distraine the goods of Mr. Trobridge, to
pay
the townes rates, and to satisfie the demaunds of those persons to whom
he
is indebted as Mr. Gregson 20, Mr. Whitfield 20 with divers others of
this town
(New Haven Colony Records, page 50)
FROM THE TROWBRIDGE FAMILY OF POMFRET, CT. The Trowbridge Family of Pomfret, CT
Extracted from Historic Homes & Institutions and Personal
Memoirs of
Worcester, County, Massachusetts. Prepared
under the Editorial
Supervision of Ellery Bicknell Crane, and Published by the Lewis
Publishing Company, 1907. VOL. # II pages 385-387
The name of Trowbridge is of high antiquity in England as persons
bearing the name are found to have lived during the reign of William
the Conqueror. The first of the name are found in Trowbridge, a market
town and parish in Wiltshire, England, which town received its name
from that of one of the family, being their residence for many
centuries and the property of one of the name in the reign of Edward I.
The name of
Trowbridge first appears in the Doomsday book. Trowbridge formerly had
a castle but no trace now remains. It was besieged by Stephen about A.
D. 1135. A younger branch of the Trowbridges settled in Somersetshire
as early as 1541. They resided at Taunton in that county and from this
branch sprang the Trowbridges of America. That the Taunton family
descended from that of Wiltshire is sufficiently proven by their arms,
precisely the same as those seen in the stained glass window of the
chancel of St. James Church, Taunton, England. (Copied from "History of
Woodbury, Connecticut") John Trowbridge, the grand father of the first
settler in America, lived at Hutton, Somerset county, England, and died
there in 1575. In his will, dated February 17, 1575, he names two sons,
Thomas and Edmund, the former being remembered to this day for his
bequest to the poor, the income of which is annually distributed in the
parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, at Taunton, England. The latter,
Edmund, was the father of the emigrant ancestor, Thomas. John
Trowbridge's will named as executor his two brothers, both named Thomas
and designated as Thomas, Sr., and Thomas Jr., after an idiotic custom
of out English forefathers. These cases of two sons of the same name
living at the same time are great sources of grief to the genealogists
of the present day. Edmund Trowbridge was given five silver spoons and
a gold ring by his father.
(I) Thomas Trowbridge, son of Edmund Trowbridge, mentioned above, was
born in England, about 1610. He came from Taunton, Somersetshire,
England, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, as early
as 1636. His wife joined the church there in 1636, and their son was
born there that year. He drew a lot of land January 2, 1637, and at
various times after that. Later in 1638 or early in 1639, however, he
removed to New Haven. He was in the foreign shipping business and he
continued in business, making voyages between the Barbadoes and
England. He owned a house and lot in New Haven as early as 1639, but
was apparently not living there. He and his wife and three children
were living there in 1643 and he was rated as one of the richest men of
the
colony, paying taxes on five hundred pounds. In 1644 Mr. Cheever, the
celebrated pedagogue, received payment for teaching Trowbridge's
children; evidently the children were well educated for their day. He
went to England in 1644, leaving his three sons and all his American
property in charge of Henry Gibbons, who proved unfaithful to his
trust. Sergeant Thomas Jeffries took the boys into his own family.
Thomas Trowbridge wrote often from England to have Gibbons brought to
account, but without avail. Even a power of attorney to his sons was
not effective. Thomas Trowbridge died in Taunton, England, February 7,
1672,
and soon afterward Gibbons gave to the sons a deed of everything he
had, even to the bed he slept on, in an endeavor to make good the
property of the family. When Gibbons died in 1686 Thomas Trowbridge was
appointed his administrator and recovered all there was left of his
father's estate in New Haven.
THE NINE SQUARES OF ANCIENT NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
(From the Big GEDcom,)
1641 Brockett map as shown in "Three Centuries of New Haven,
1638-1938"by Rollin G. Osterweis, published in 1953 by Yale University
Press
SQUARE 1 (top left)
Edmund Tapp, James Prudden, Peter Prudden, William Fowler, Thomas
Osborne, Wid. Baldwin, An Elder, Richard Platt, Zachariah Whitman.
SQUARE 2 (top middle)
Thomas James, T. Powell (?), Widow Greene, Thomas Yale, Thomas Fugill,
John Punderson, John Johnson, Abraham Bell, Edward Wigglesworth, John
Burwell(?), Joshua Atwater, Mrs. Constable, Mr. Mayres, John Evanse
SQUARE 3 (top right)
William Thorp, Robert Hill, Wid. Williams, Andrew Low, Jeremiah Dixon,
Edw. Tench(?), Anne Higginson, Mr. Lucas, Deamor(?), David Atwater,
John Goffinch(?), Francis Newman,
Henry Browning
SQUARE 4 (center left)
Thomas Buckingham, Thomas Welch, Jo. Whitehead(?), Samuel Bailey,
William Hawkins, Richard Miles, Nathaniel Axtell, Stephen Goodyear,
Henry Stonehill, Thomas Gregson
SQUARE 6 (center right)
Francis Brewster, Mark Nance(?), Jarvis Boykin, Benjamin Ling, Mrs.
Eldred, Robert Newman, Mr. Marshall,
Richard Beckley, William Andrews, John Cooper
SQUARE 7 (bottom left)
Roger Alling, John Brockett, Mr. Hickocks, John Budd, William
Jeanes(?), Nath Elsey(?), Robert Seeley, Benjamin Fenn, William Wilkes,
George Lamberton, Thomas Jeffrey, Mr. Mansfield, Richard Hull, William
Preston
SQUARE 8 (bottom center)
Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Kimberly, Owen Rowe, Mr. Davenport's Walk, An
Elder, Jasper Crane, John Davenport, John Chapman, John Benham, Thomas
Nash, Richard Malbon
SQUARE 9 (bottom right)
Richard Perry, Nathaniel Turner, Ezekial Cheever, Theophilus Eaton,
David Yale, Mr. Eaton, Samuel Eaton, William Tuttle
OTHER
William Ives, George Smith, Widow Sherman, Matthew Malstron, Anthony
Thompkin, John Reeder, Robert Cogswell, Mathias Hitchcock, Francis
Ball, Richard Osborne, William
Potter, James Clark, Edward Patteson, Andr. Hull, Saml. Wilthead, John
Clark, Edw. (?), John Moss, John
Charles, Richard Beach, Arthur Halbidge, William Peck, Timothy Ford,
John Potter, Widow (?), Thomas Trowbridge
, Henry Rutherford, John Livermore, Peter
Brown, Daniel Hall(?), James Russell, George Ward,
Lawrence Ward, Moses Wheeler
