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  2. John Oldham (colonist) - Wikipedia

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    John Oldham (July 1595 – July 20, 1636) was an early Puritan settler in Massachusetts.He was a captain, merchant, and Indian trader. His death at the hands of the Indians was one of the causes of the Pequot War of 1636–37.

  3. Richard Treat - Wikipedia

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    In the list of Freeman (Colonial) of Wethersfield for 1659, only three besides Richard Treat, Sr., are styled Mr., and he bore that title as early as 1642, and perhaps earlier. Mr. Treat must have been a man of high social standing and of much influence in the town of Wethersfield, and in the colony of Connecticut.

  4. John Belding - Wikipedia

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    John Belding (also recorded as John Beldon or John Belden) (January 9, 1650 – November 26, 1713) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.He was a member of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1691 and May 1705.

  5. Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The burying ground was established by the town of Wethersfield on Hungry Hill in 1638. As was the custom during the colonial period, burial plots were free of charge and were permitted wherever there was room. [1] Though the burial ground was in use in the 17th century, very few markers from that period survived the centuries.

  6. Nathaniel Foote - Wikipedia

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    Nathaniel Foote (21 September 1592 – 20 November 1644), was an early English immigrant and surveyor to Connecticut who was born in Colchester, England.He was part of the settlement party that founded Wethersfield, Connecticut, the oldest town in that state. [1]

  7. Andrew Warde - Wikipedia

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    He held this estate until 1642, some seven or more years after he had left Watertown. By 1640, Warde also owned over 350 acres of land in Weathersfield, Connecticut Colony. A historical marker in Wethersfield credit Warde with the other nine adventurers who founded arguably the oldest English town in Connecticut. [3] "

  8. Nathaniel Dickinson (pioneer) - Wikipedia

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    In Wethersfield, Connecticut, he served as de facto town clerk before being officially appointed in 1645. He served until 1659. He was a deputy to the Connecticut General Court from 1646 to 1659. Other positions he held included jury member of the Particular Court in 1642, selectman of Wethersfield in 1646, and deacon of the Wethersfield church ...

  9. First Church of Christ, Wethersfield - Wikipedia

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    The First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is an American Colonial Era church located in the Old Wethersfield Historic District of Wethersfield, Connecticut.The congregation was founded in 1635, and the cemetery dates from the 1600s, but the current Georgian-style, brick meetinghouse, with its distinctive white steeple, was built in 1761. [1]