Hubbell, Richard Jr
Lieut. Richard HUBBELL Jr (1654 - 1738) and Rebecca MOREHOUSE (? - 1692)
my 8g-grandparents
Richard HUBBELL Jr was born about 1654 in Guilford, CT, the son of Richard HUBBELL Sr (1626 - 1699) and Elizabeth MEIGS (? - 1665). He married Rebecca MOREHOUSE, and they had 4 children in Stratfield, Fairfield County, CT. Rebecca died on 2 Apr 1692, just 8 days after giving birth to Jonathan, my 7g-grandfather. Richard remarried on 12 Oct 1692 to Hannah SILLIMAN, of Malden, MA. They had 7 more children, in Stratfield.
Richard's parents, Richard Sr and Elizabeth, were married in New Haven about 1650 or 1651, and removed to Guilford, CT in 1653, and then to Stratfield in 1664, where they lived the rest of their lives. They had 9 children. So Richard Jr was about 10 when his family moved from Guilford to Stratfield.
Richard was a farmer, and also had a copper mine and a lead mine.
Rebecca MOREHOUSE was the daughter of Lieut. Samuel MOREHOUSE and Rebecca ODELL, of Fairfield.
Map of Early Fairfield [HF, Vol I, image 34] The area labeled Pequonnock was later called Stratfield, then Bridgeport.
Before the English settlers arrived, the Pequonnock Indians of the Paugussett nation lived on the banks of the Pequonnock River. One village on the west bank had about five or six hundred inhabitants in approximately 150 lodgings.
"In the year 1640 a commission was appointed by the General Court at Hartford, to go down to Pequonnock and settle the question of boundary, concerning which a dispute had arisen with their neighbors upon each side. Some time after this date the name of the plantation was changed from Pequonnock to Stratfield, a name compounded of Stratford and Fairfield, as a part of the settlement lay upon each side of the boundary line between these two places." [SNB, p. 34]
Richard HUBBEL Jr settled in Stratfield, often called by its Indian name, Pequonnock. It is now part of Bridgeport, in Fairfield County. Richard's 11 children were probably all born in Stratfield.
1 Richard Lieut. HUBBELL b: 1654 in Guilford, CT, d: 1738
+ Rebecca MOREHOUSE m: 05 Nov 1685, d: 02 Apr 1692
......2 Peter HUBBELL b: 10 Aug 1686, d: 1780
...... + Katherine WHEELER b: 1694, m: 19 Jan 1709 in Stratfield, Fairfield, CT, d: 16 Mar 1742
...... + Sarah d: 1780
......2 Ebenezer HUBBELL b: 19 Sep 1687, d: 06 Mar 1761 in CT
...... + Sarah b: 1695, d: 20 May 1788 in CT
......2 Elizabeth HUBBELL b: 23 Oct 1689
...... + Nathan BEARDSLEY
......2 Jonathan HUBBELL b: 25 Mar 1692 in Fairfield, Fairfield, CT, d: 08 Sep 1766 in Newtown, Fairfield, CT
...... + Peaceable SILLIMAN b: Bef. 12 May 1695 in Fairfield, CT, m: 18 Nov 1713 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT, d: Bef. 1766
... + Hannah SILLIMAN b: Malden, MA, m: 12 Oct 1692
......2 Zechariah HUBBELL b: 25 Aug 1694
...... + Abigail BENNETT m: 26 Jan 1714
......2 Richard HUBBELL b: 20 Oct 1696, d: 26 Jun 1787
...... + Penelope FAYERWEATHER b: 1704, m: 09 Dec 1725, d: 29 Aug 1791
......2 Hannah HUBBELL b: 07 Jul 1698
......2 Eleazer Capt. HUBBELL b: 15 Aug 1700, d: 03 Sep 1770
...... + Abigail BURR b: 13 Mar 1701, m: 25 May 1727, d: 06 Apr 1780
......2 Nathaniel HUBBELL b: 11 Aug 1702, d: 1761
...... + Esther MIX m: 05 Mar 1721/22
...... + Elizabeth d: 1779 in Elizabeth, Essex, NJ
......2 Margery HUBBELL b: 17 Jan 1704/05
......2 Abigail HUBBELL b: 19 Sep 1709
Sources
[HF] The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818, by Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck, Vol I Vol II
[HH1] History of the Hubbell Family, Containing a Genealogical Record (1881) by Walter Hubbell (the title page is image 13)
[HH2] History of the Hubbell Family, Containing Genealogical Records of the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Hubbell (1915) by Walter Hubbell
[MB] 1850 Map of Bridgeport, CT
[MF] 1856 Map of Fairfield County, CT
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