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Rh tha's Vineyard, and in 1676 he was living with his family in Saybrook, Conn., plying the trade of weaver, and he was then recommended to the Council of Hartford as a fit person to reside in and care for the newly repaired fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River. The appointment was probably made, for in 1683 and 1686 the town made him small grants of land con- figuous to the fort. Here probably was born to him his son, Theophilus, in 1652, whose mother soon after died, and before 1693, James had removed to Fairfield, Conn., married again, and before 1723 he died. The roving character of this ancestor of ours is rather remarkable, and few of the children of the early colonists appear to have had a more changeable disposition. Tanner, seaman and weaver seem to have been his successive occupations. Born in Newtown, Mass., apprenticed in New London, married in New Haven, resident for a time in Martha's Vineyard, then in Saybrook, and finally established at Fairfield until his death.

Theophilus, the only son of James by his first wife, learned and practiced the trade of carpenter. Shortly after becoming of age he settled in the town of Killingworth, Conn., in that part of it now called Clinton. He was married on December 24, 1706, to