FITCH, Benjamin

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Family/Spouse: READ, Hannah. Hannah was born on 1 Jul 1688 in Norwich, CT; died on 19 May 1761 in Norwich, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. FITCH, Benajah was born on 30 Jul 1721 in Preston, CT; died on 25 Jan 1805 in Preston, CT; was buried in Preston, CT.

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Samuel married BREWSTER, Mary Anne. Mary (daughter of BREWSTER, Capt. Benjamin and ADDIS, Ann) was born on 10 Dec 1660 in Norwich, CT; died on 2 Dec 1750 in Guilford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Founding settler of Norwich and Saybrook, Connecticut. Rev. James Fitch was the first ordained minister of Saybrook Congregational Church and the First Congregational Church of Norwich. He was instrumental in getting Uncas and the Mohegans and the Pequot Indians to side with the English against King Philip's Narragansett tribes. Their fair dealings with the Indians spared these settlers who were on the very frontier at that time. Grave inscription in Latin "In Hoc Sepulcro Depositae Sunt Reliquiae Viri Vere Reverendi D: Jacobi Fitch: Natus Fuit Apud Bocking in Comitatu Essexlae in Anglia, Anno Domino 1622 Decembr 24 Qui Post-Quam Linguis Literatis Optime Instructus Fuisset In Novangliam Venit Aetat. 16 Et Deinde Vitam Degit Harteordlae Per Sepennium Sub Institutione Virorum Ceeeberimorum D: Hooker Et D: Stone Postea Mtnere Passorali Functus Est Apud Saybrook Per Annos 14 Illinc Cum Ecckesiae Maiori Parte Norvicum Migravit Et Ibi Ceteros Vitae Annos Transegit In Opere Evangelico In Senectute Vero Prae Corporis Infirmitate Necessario Cessabat Ab Opere Publico : Tandemque Recessit Liberis Apud Lebanon Ubi Semianno Fere Exacto Obdormivit In Iesu Anno 1702 Novebr 18 Etat 80 Vir, Ingenii Acumine, Pondere Judicii, Prudentia Charitate, Sanctis Laboribus, Et Omnimoda Vitae Sanctitate Peritiaquoque Et Vi Concionandi Nulli Secundus." Translated "In this grave are deposited the remains of that truley reverend man, Mr. James Fitch. He was born in Bocking, in the County of Essex, in England, the 24th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1622; who after he had been most excellently taught the learned languages came into New England at the age of sixteen, and then spent seven years under the instructions of those very famous men, Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone. Afterwards he discharged the pastoral office fourteen years at Saybrook. Thence he removed with the major part of his Church to Norwich, where he spent the other years of his life in the work of the gospel. In his old age indeed he was obliged to cease from his public labors by reason of bodily indisposition and at length retired to his children at Lebanon, where after spending nearly half a year, he slept in Jesus in the year 1702, on the 18th day of November, in the 80th year of his age. He was a man as to the smartness of his genius, the solidity of his judgement, his charity, holy labors, and every kind of purity of life, and also as to his skill and energy of preaching, inferior to none." Three books are available at Amazon.com about Rev. James Fitch. PURITAN IN THE WILDERNESS: A Biography of the Rev. James Fitch 1622-1702; Descendants of the Rev. James Fitch 1622-1703, Vol 1 & 2. by John T. Fitch.

James married WHITFIELD, Abigail. Abigail was born on 1 Sep 1622 in Ockley, Surrey, England; died on 9 Sep 1659 in Middlesex County, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benjamin married ADDIS, Ann on 18 Feb 1659 in Norwich, CT. Ann was born on 17 Mar 1628; died on 9 May 1709; was buried in Preston, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jonathan married OLDHAM, Lucretia on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, MA. Lucretia (daughter of OLDHAM, William and SOWTER, Phillipa) was born on 14 Jan 1600 in Derbyshire, England; died on 4 Mar 1671 in Preston, CT; was buried in Preston, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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