This descendant of the John and Ann (___) Latimer family of early Wethersfield, Conn. erected this memorial in 2010 with the intent of providing a comprehensive sketch for the benefit of fellow descendants. Due to a period of inattention, over the ensuing 11 years third-parties were able to modify the memorial claiming Ann's family name was Grimes. And, companion Wikipedia, Ancestry, FamilySearch, Geni, FamilySearch etal trees were created to support such claim. Unfortunately, no factual basis exists that Ann's family name was Grimes. Nor is there any factual basis of who were John Latimer's parents.
In modern genealogy research one learns when something is claimed with no basis of proof provided, you search for when the claim began. Often it leads to someone extracting material from published genealogies upwards of 150 years old whose claims have no reference to a primary record and cannot be independently substantiated. In the 1904 "Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia" is found one Robert Root Bennett, a lawyer b. in Toledo, OH in 1865. He claimed he was a 5th great grandson of "John Latimer (--- 1662) and Ann (----) Latimer (---)" and after intervening generations he was the 2nd great grandson of "John Latimer (1715-1792) and Anna (Grimes) Latimer (--- 1797)" [pp. 43-45]. Did someone manipulate things to provide a perceived solution to an ancestral identity problem?
John and Ann (___) Latimer's son Bezaleel married Sarah "Saint" Robinson, the younger sister of Bezaleel's older brother John's wife Mary, daughters of Thomas and Mary (___) Robinson of Guilford, Conn. Following the ca. Nov. 1686 death of Bezaleel, the widow Sarah married as her 2nd husband, William Tryon of Wethersfield. In 1980 Wesley Tryon published The Tryon Family in America, Second Edition in which Tryon claimed Ann, wife of John Latimer of Wethersfield, and Mary, wife of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, were sisters with the family name of "Welds." However, Tryon corrupted the surname from the actual claim of "Wells," latter based on a fictitious family promoted by Stiles in his History of Ancient Wethersfield. For related details see Mary Robinson.
From where John Latimer and wife Ann came to Wethersfield remains unknown. They first appear in the records of Wethersfield in 1646 nearly 10 years after Wethersfield's first settlement. During his known lifetime John Latimer was involved in Wethersfield town and Hartford county public service serving as a town selectman, on town committees and multiple times as a juryman on the colony courts. Being sick and weak in body he signed his 8 April 1662 Wethersfield will by his mark and died the following day. The will was witnessed by John Chester, John Betts and Hugh Wells with John Chester the likely writer of the will.
John's estate inventory rendered on 29 April 1662 totaled £1667-06-08, net of £100 in outstanding estate debts, with £880 in the value of his houses and lands, £319 in cattle, £24 in an Indian servant and £24 in a Negro woman and child. In the will John provided for his wife Ann without naming her; divided his real estate between sons John, Jonathan and Bezaleel to take possession when they came to the age of 21; and individually bequeathed £130 to daughter Rebecca, £80 each to daughters Naomi and "Abigah," and £60 to daughter Elizabeth to receive their portions when they reached the age of 18 ; with his unnamed wife [Ann] named executrix with Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Samuel Boreman and Thomas Hurlbut of Wethersfield as overseers.
The widow Ann Latimer was living as late as 1680 but when she died is not of record. In June 1672 Ann gave by deed of gift 28 acres at the Rocky Hill section of Wethersfield to son-in-law Thomas Hollister and in 1680 gave him an additional 225 acres at Nayaug on the east side of the Connecticut River in present-day South Glastonbury. In 1678 by deed of gift the widow Ann gave son-in-law John Reynolds 25 acres in Wethersfield adjoining her son John Latimer.
Children of John and Ann (___) Latimer recorded at Wethersfield, Conn.:
• 1. Rebecca, b. 6 October 1646; m. Lieut. James Treat of Wethersfield; 9 children; Rebecca d. 23 Aug. 1734 and James d. 12 Feb. 1708/9
• 2. Naomi, b. 4 April 1748; m. (1) bef. 1667, John Reynolds, and (2) bef. 1685 Philip Goff; 5 children by Reynolds and 3 by Goff
• 3. Abijah, b. 6 August 1649; was not named Abigail as claimed by Stiles and was living on 2 August 1662 when in her father's will was called daughter "Abigah," not as Abigail as subsequent claimed by Manwaring in his corrected version of John Latimer's will; she likely d. prior to 1672 when her sister Elizabeth's 2nd child was named Abijah; she did not as Abigail m. Josiah Atwood as claimed by Stiles. Josiah Atwood was b. at Wethersfield in 1678 and m. Abijah's niece Bathsheba Latimer, daughter of her brother Bezaleel Latimer [*1]
• 4. John, b. 4 January 1650/1; m. 29 April 1680, Mary Robinson, dau. of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, Conn.; 6 children; Mary d. 22 July 1725 and John 3 March 1727/8.
• 5. Elizabeth, b. 26 December 1652; m. ca. 1670 as his first wife, Lieut. Thomas Hollister, and d. ca. 1684; 8 children
• 6. Jonathan, b. 6 August 1655; was living 2 August 1662 when named in his father's will but n.f.r. known; it was not this Jonathan but the son of Jonathan's brother Bezaleel, who in Stile's Ancient Wethersfield land holdings 1:284 had m. Abigail Rose, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Rose, b. 14 September 1683.
• 7. Bezaleel, b. 26 July 1657; m. 18 Aug. 1680, Sarah "Saint" Robinson, sister of brother John's wife; d. intestate ca. Nov. 1686 leaving son Jonathan and daughter Bathsheba; the widow Sarah m. (2) William Tryon.
[*1] Recorded in the Wethersfield vital records as a son named "Bygaash," which by any reasonable person was not a likely reading of or actual entry in the original records. Her niece Abijah Hollister, daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Elizabeth (Latimer) Hollister and wife of her cousin Sgt. John Hollister, is repeatedly called "Abiiah" in the record of her children. The second "i" is actually a "j" characteristic of the name Benjamin written in early Conn. town records as "Beniamin." Her 1719 recorded death entry at Wethersfield calls her Abijah while her still standing gravestone is inscribed as "Abiiah" but misinterpreted on Findagrave.com as Abiah.
Revised 9/12/2021
In modern genealogy research one learns when something is claimed with no basis of proof provided, you search for when the claim began. Often it leads to someone extracting material from published genealogies upwards of 150 years old whose claims have no reference to a primary record and cannot be independently substantiated. In the 1904 "Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia" is found one Robert Root Bennett, a lawyer b. in Toledo, OH in 1865. He claimed he was a 5th great grandson of "John Latimer (--- 1662) and Ann (----) Latimer (---)" and after intervening generations he was the 2nd great grandson of "John Latimer (1715-1792) and Anna (Grimes) Latimer (--- 1797)" [pp. 43-45]. Did someone manipulate things to provide a perceived solution to an ancestral identity problem?
John and Ann (___) Latimer's son Bezaleel married Sarah "Saint" Robinson, the younger sister of Bezaleel's older brother John's wife Mary, daughters of Thomas and Mary (___) Robinson of Guilford, Conn. Following the ca. Nov. 1686 death of Bezaleel, the widow Sarah married as her 2nd husband, William Tryon of Wethersfield. In 1980 Wesley Tryon published The Tryon Family in America, Second Edition in which Tryon claimed Ann, wife of John Latimer of Wethersfield, and Mary, wife of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, were sisters with the family name of "Welds." However, Tryon corrupted the surname from the actual claim of "Wells," latter based on a fictitious family promoted by Stiles in his History of Ancient Wethersfield. For related details see Mary Robinson.
From where John Latimer and wife Ann came to Wethersfield remains unknown. They first appear in the records of Wethersfield in 1646 nearly 10 years after Wethersfield's first settlement. During his known lifetime John Latimer was involved in Wethersfield town and Hartford county public service serving as a town selectman, on town committees and multiple times as a juryman on the colony courts. Being sick and weak in body he signed his 8 April 1662 Wethersfield will by his mark and died the following day. The will was witnessed by John Chester, John Betts and Hugh Wells with John Chester the likely writer of the will.
John's estate inventory rendered on 29 April 1662 totaled £1667-06-08, net of £100 in outstanding estate debts, with £880 in the value of his houses and lands, £319 in cattle, £24 in an Indian servant and £24 in a Negro woman and child. In the will John provided for his wife Ann without naming her; divided his real estate between sons John, Jonathan and Bezaleel to take possession when they came to the age of 21; and individually bequeathed £130 to daughter Rebecca, £80 each to daughters Naomi and "Abigah," and £60 to daughter Elizabeth to receive their portions when they reached the age of 18 ; with his unnamed wife [Ann] named executrix with Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Samuel Boreman and Thomas Hurlbut of Wethersfield as overseers.
The widow Ann Latimer was living as late as 1680 but when she died is not of record. In June 1672 Ann gave by deed of gift 28 acres at the Rocky Hill section of Wethersfield to son-in-law Thomas Hollister and in 1680 gave him an additional 225 acres at Nayaug on the east side of the Connecticut River in present-day South Glastonbury. In 1678 by deed of gift the widow Ann gave son-in-law John Reynolds 25 acres in Wethersfield adjoining her son John Latimer.
Children of John and Ann (___) Latimer recorded at Wethersfield, Conn.:
• 1. Rebecca, b. 6 October 1646; m. Lieut. James Treat of Wethersfield; 9 children; Rebecca d. 23 Aug. 1734 and James d. 12 Feb. 1708/9
• 2. Naomi, b. 4 April 1748; m. (1) bef. 1667, John Reynolds, and (2) bef. 1685 Philip Goff; 5 children by Reynolds and 3 by Goff
• 3. Abijah, b. 6 August 1649; was not named Abigail as claimed by Stiles and was living on 2 August 1662 when in her father's will was called daughter "Abigah," not as Abigail as subsequent claimed by Manwaring in his corrected version of John Latimer's will; she likely d. prior to 1672 when her sister Elizabeth's 2nd child was named Abijah; she did not as Abigail m. Josiah Atwood as claimed by Stiles. Josiah Atwood was b. at Wethersfield in 1678 and m. Abijah's niece Bathsheba Latimer, daughter of her brother Bezaleel Latimer [*1]
• 4. John, b. 4 January 1650/1; m. 29 April 1680, Mary Robinson, dau. of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, Conn.; 6 children; Mary d. 22 July 1725 and John 3 March 1727/8.
• 5. Elizabeth, b. 26 December 1652; m. ca. 1670 as his first wife, Lieut. Thomas Hollister, and d. ca. 1684; 8 children
• 6. Jonathan, b. 6 August 1655; was living 2 August 1662 when named in his father's will but n.f.r. known; it was not this Jonathan but the son of Jonathan's brother Bezaleel, who in Stile's Ancient Wethersfield land holdings 1:284 had m. Abigail Rose, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Rose, b. 14 September 1683.
• 7. Bezaleel, b. 26 July 1657; m. 18 Aug. 1680, Sarah "Saint" Robinson, sister of brother John's wife; d. intestate ca. Nov. 1686 leaving son Jonathan and daughter Bathsheba; the widow Sarah m. (2) William Tryon.
[*1] Recorded in the Wethersfield vital records as a son named "Bygaash," which by any reasonable person was not a likely reading of or actual entry in the original records. Her niece Abijah Hollister, daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Elizabeth (Latimer) Hollister and wife of her cousin Sgt. John Hollister, is repeatedly called "Abiiah" in the record of her children. The second "i" is actually a "j" characteristic of the name Benjamin written in early Conn. town records as "Beniamin." Her 1719 recorded death entry at Wethersfield calls her Abijah while her still standing gravestone is inscribed as "Abiiah" but misinterpreted on Findagrave.com as Abiah.
Revised 9/12/2021
This descendant of the John and Ann (___) Latimer family of early Wethersfield, Conn. erected this memorial in 2010 with the intent of providing a comprehensive sketch for the benefit of fellow descendants. Due to a period of inattention, over the ensuing 11 years third-parties were able to modify the memorial claiming Ann's family name was Grimes. And, companion Wikipedia, Ancestry, FamilySearch, Geni, FamilySearch etal trees were created to support such claim. Unfortunately, no factual basis exists that Ann's family name was Grimes. Nor is there any factual basis of who were John Latimer's parents.
In modern genealogy research one learns when something is claimed with no basis of proof provided, you search for when the claim began. Often it leads to someone extracting material from published genealogies upwards of 150 years old whose claims have no reference to a primary record and cannot be independently substantiated. In the 1904 "Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia" is found one Robert Root Bennett, a lawyer b. in Toledo, OH in 1865. He claimed he was a 5th great grandson of "John Latimer (--- 1662) and Ann (----) Latimer (---)" and after intervening generations he was the 2nd great grandson of "John Latimer (1715-1792) and Anna (Grimes) Latimer (--- 1797)" [pp. 43-45]. Did someone manipulate things to provide a perceived solution to an ancestral identity problem?
John and Ann (___) Latimer's son Bezaleel married Sarah "Saint" Robinson, the younger sister of Bezaleel's older brother John's wife Mary, daughters of Thomas and Mary (___) Robinson of Guilford, Conn. Following the ca. Nov. 1686 death of Bezaleel, the widow Sarah married as her 2nd husband, William Tryon of Wethersfield. In 1980 Wesley Tryon published The Tryon Family in America, Second Edition in which Tryon claimed Ann, wife of John Latimer of Wethersfield, and Mary, wife of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, were sisters with the family name of "Welds." However, Tryon corrupted the surname from the actual claim of "Wells," latter based on a fictitious family promoted by Stiles in his History of Ancient Wethersfield. For related details see Mary Robinson.
From where John Latimer and wife Ann came to Wethersfield remains unknown. They first appear in the records of Wethersfield in 1646 nearly 10 years after Wethersfield's first settlement. During his known lifetime John Latimer was involved in Wethersfield town and Hartford county public service serving as a town selectman, on town committees and multiple times as a juryman on the colony courts. Being sick and weak in body he signed his 8 April 1662 Wethersfield will by his mark and died the following day. The will was witnessed by John Chester, John Betts and Hugh Wells with John Chester the likely writer of the will.
John's estate inventory rendered on 29 April 1662 totaled £1667-06-08, net of £100 in outstanding estate debts, with £880 in the value of his houses and lands, £319 in cattle, £24 in an Indian servant and £24 in a Negro woman and child. In the will John provided for his wife Ann without naming her; divided his real estate between sons John, Jonathan and Bezaleel to take possession when they came to the age of 21; and individually bequeathed £130 to daughter Rebecca, £80 each to daughters Naomi and "Abigah," and £60 to daughter Elizabeth to receive their portions when they reached the age of 18 ; with his unnamed wife [Ann] named executrix with Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Samuel Boreman and Thomas Hurlbut of Wethersfield as overseers.
The widow Ann Latimer was living as late as 1680 but when she died is not of record. In June 1672 Ann gave by deed of gift 28 acres at the Rocky Hill section of Wethersfield to son-in-law Thomas Hollister and in 1680 gave him an additional 225 acres at Nayaug on the east side of the Connecticut River in present-day South Glastonbury. In 1678 by deed of gift the widow Ann gave son-in-law John Reynolds 25 acres in Wethersfield adjoining her son John Latimer.
Children of John and Ann (___) Latimer recorded at Wethersfield, Conn.:
• 1. Rebecca, b. 6 October 1646; m. Lieut. James Treat of Wethersfield; 9 children; Rebecca d. 23 Aug. 1734 and James d. 12 Feb. 1708/9
• 2. Naomi, b. 4 April 1748; m. (1) bef. 1667, John Reynolds, and (2) bef. 1685 Philip Goff; 5 children by Reynolds and 3 by Goff
• 3. Abijah, b. 6 August 1649; was not named Abigail as claimed by Stiles and was living on 2 August 1662 when in her father's will was called daughter "Abigah," not as Abigail as subsequent claimed by Manwaring in his corrected version of John Latimer's will; she likely d. prior to 1672 when her sister Elizabeth's 2nd child was named Abijah; she did not as Abigail m. Josiah Atwood as claimed by Stiles. Josiah Atwood was b. at Wethersfield in 1678 and m. Abijah's niece Bathsheba Latimer, daughter of her brother Bezaleel Latimer [*1]
• 4. John, b. 4 January 1650/1; m. 29 April 1680, Mary Robinson, dau. of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, Conn.; 6 children; Mary d. 22 July 1725 and John 3 March 1727/8.
• 5. Elizabeth, b. 26 December 1652; m. ca. 1670 as his first wife, Lieut. Thomas Hollister, and d. ca. 1684; 8 children
• 6. Jonathan, b. 6 August 1655; was living 2 August 1662 when named in his father's will but n.f.r. known; it was not this Jonathan but the son of Jonathan's brother Bezaleel, who in Stile's Ancient Wethersfield land holdings 1:284 had m. Abigail Rose, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Rose, b. 14 September 1683.
• 7. Bezaleel, b. 26 July 1657; m. 18 Aug. 1680, Sarah "Saint" Robinson, sister of brother John's wife; d. intestate ca. Nov. 1686 leaving son Jonathan and daughter Bathsheba; the widow Sarah m. (2) William Tryon.
[*1] Recorded in the Wethersfield vital records as a son named "Bygaash," which by any reasonable person was not a likely reading of or actual entry in the original records. Her niece Abijah Hollister, daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Elizabeth (Latimer) Hollister and wife of her cousin Sgt. John Hollister, is repeatedly called "Abiiah" in the record of her children. The second "i" is actually a "j" characteristic of the name Benjamin written in early Conn. town records as "Beniamin." Her 1719 recorded death entry at Wethersfield calls her Abijah while her still standing gravestone is inscribed as "Abiiah" but misinterpreted on Findagrave.com as Abiah.
Revised 9/12/2021
In modern genealogy research one learns when something is claimed with no basis of proof provided, you search for when the claim began. Often it leads to someone extracting material from published genealogies upwards of 150 years old whose claims have no reference to a primary record and cannot be independently substantiated. In the 1904 "Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia" is found one Robert Root Bennett, a lawyer b. in Toledo, OH in 1865. He claimed he was a 5th great grandson of "John Latimer (--- 1662) and Ann (----) Latimer (---)" and after intervening generations he was the 2nd great grandson of "John Latimer (1715-1792) and Anna (Grimes) Latimer (--- 1797)" [pp. 43-45]. Did someone manipulate things to provide a perceived solution to an ancestral identity problem?
John and Ann (___) Latimer's son Bezaleel married Sarah "Saint" Robinson, the younger sister of Bezaleel's older brother John's wife Mary, daughters of Thomas and Mary (___) Robinson of Guilford, Conn. Following the ca. Nov. 1686 death of Bezaleel, the widow Sarah married as her 2nd husband, William Tryon of Wethersfield. In 1980 Wesley Tryon published The Tryon Family in America, Second Edition in which Tryon claimed Ann, wife of John Latimer of Wethersfield, and Mary, wife of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, were sisters with the family name of "Welds." However, Tryon corrupted the surname from the actual claim of "Wells," latter based on a fictitious family promoted by Stiles in his History of Ancient Wethersfield. For related details see Mary Robinson.
From where John Latimer and wife Ann came to Wethersfield remains unknown. They first appear in the records of Wethersfield in 1646 nearly 10 years after Wethersfield's first settlement. During his known lifetime John Latimer was involved in Wethersfield town and Hartford county public service serving as a town selectman, on town committees and multiple times as a juryman on the colony courts. Being sick and weak in body he signed his 8 April 1662 Wethersfield will by his mark and died the following day. The will was witnessed by John Chester, John Betts and Hugh Wells with John Chester the likely writer of the will.
John's estate inventory rendered on 29 April 1662 totaled £1667-06-08, net of £100 in outstanding estate debts, with £880 in the value of his houses and lands, £319 in cattle, £24 in an Indian servant and £24 in a Negro woman and child. In the will John provided for his wife Ann without naming her; divided his real estate between sons John, Jonathan and Bezaleel to take possession when they came to the age of 21; and individually bequeathed £130 to daughter Rebecca, £80 each to daughters Naomi and "Abigah," and £60 to daughter Elizabeth to receive their portions when they reached the age of 18 ; with his unnamed wife [Ann] named executrix with Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Samuel Boreman and Thomas Hurlbut of Wethersfield as overseers.
The widow Ann Latimer was living as late as 1680 but when she died is not of record. In June 1672 Ann gave by deed of gift 28 acres at the Rocky Hill section of Wethersfield to son-in-law Thomas Hollister and in 1680 gave him an additional 225 acres at Nayaug on the east side of the Connecticut River in present-day South Glastonbury. In 1678 by deed of gift the widow Ann gave son-in-law John Reynolds 25 acres in Wethersfield adjoining her son John Latimer.
Children of John and Ann (___) Latimer recorded at Wethersfield, Conn.:
• 1. Rebecca, b. 6 October 1646; m. Lieut. James Treat of Wethersfield; 9 children; Rebecca d. 23 Aug. 1734 and James d. 12 Feb. 1708/9
• 2. Naomi, b. 4 April 1748; m. (1) bef. 1667, John Reynolds, and (2) bef. 1685 Philip Goff; 5 children by Reynolds and 3 by Goff
• 3. Abijah, b. 6 August 1649; was not named Abigail as claimed by Stiles and was living on 2 August 1662 when in her father's will was called daughter "Abigah," not as Abigail as subsequent claimed by Manwaring in his corrected version of John Latimer's will; she likely d. prior to 1672 when her sister Elizabeth's 2nd child was named Abijah; she did not as Abigail m. Josiah Atwood as claimed by Stiles. Josiah Atwood was b. at Wethersfield in 1678 and m. Abijah's niece Bathsheba Latimer, daughter of her brother Bezaleel Latimer [*1]
• 4. John, b. 4 January 1650/1; m. 29 April 1680, Mary Robinson, dau. of Thomas Robinson of Guilford, Conn.; 6 children; Mary d. 22 July 1725 and John 3 March 1727/8.
• 5. Elizabeth, b. 26 December 1652; m. ca. 1670 as his first wife, Lieut. Thomas Hollister, and d. ca. 1684; 8 children
• 6. Jonathan, b. 6 August 1655; was living 2 August 1662 when named in his father's will but n.f.r. known; it was not this Jonathan but the son of Jonathan's brother Bezaleel, who in Stile's Ancient Wethersfield land holdings 1:284 had m. Abigail Rose, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Rose, b. 14 September 1683.
• 7. Bezaleel, b. 26 July 1657; m. 18 Aug. 1680, Sarah "Saint" Robinson, sister of brother John's wife; d. intestate ca. Nov. 1686 leaving son Jonathan and daughter Bathsheba; the widow Sarah m. (2) William Tryon.
[*1] Recorded in the Wethersfield vital records as a son named "Bygaash," which by any reasonable person was not a likely reading of or actual entry in the original records. Her niece Abijah Hollister, daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Elizabeth (Latimer) Hollister and wife of her cousin Sgt. John Hollister, is repeatedly called "Abiiah" in the record of her children. The second "i" is actually a "j" characteristic of the name Benjamin written in early Conn. town records as "Beniamin." Her 1719 recorded death entry at Wethersfield calls her Abijah while her still standing gravestone is inscribed as "Abiiah" but misinterpreted on Findagrave.com as Abiah.
Revised 9/12/2021
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