assistant
aged 46 years
Hezekiah Brainerd served in the Lower House of Representatives from October 13, 1720 (as clerk) until May, 1725 (as Speaker of the Lower House) when he was appointed Assistant to the Upper House of Representatives, also serving as Justice of the Peace and Quorum for Hartford Colony. During a session of the Upper House, he died at the house of Secretery Hezekiah Wyllys, his brother-in-law, their wives being sisters (daughters of Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard of Haddam, CT) on the same day that he was 46 years of age. The Assembly granted L10 towards the expenses of his funeral and burial in the Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT.
aged 46 years
Hezekiah Brainerd served in the Lower House of Representatives from October 13, 1720 (as clerk) until May, 1725 (as Speaker of the Lower House) when he was appointed Assistant to the Upper House of Representatives, also serving as Justice of the Peace and Quorum for Hartford Colony. During a session of the Upper House, he died at the house of Secretery Hezekiah Wyllys, his brother-in-law, their wives being sisters (daughters of Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard of Haddam, CT) on the same day that he was 46 years of age. The Assembly granted L10 towards the expenses of his funeral and burial in the Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT.
assistant
aged 46 years
Hezekiah Brainerd served in the Lower House of Representatives from October 13, 1720 (as clerk) until May, 1725 (as Speaker of the Lower House) when he was appointed Assistant to the Upper House of Representatives, also serving as Justice of the Peace and Quorum for Hartford Colony. During a session of the Upper House, he died at the house of Secretery Hezekiah Wyllys, his brother-in-law, their wives being sisters (daughters of Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard of Haddam, CT) on the same day that he was 46 years of age. The Assembly granted L10 towards the expenses of his funeral and burial in the Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT.
aged 46 years
Hezekiah Brainerd served in the Lower House of Representatives from October 13, 1720 (as clerk) until May, 1725 (as Speaker of the Lower House) when he was appointed Assistant to the Upper House of Representatives, also serving as Justice of the Peace and Quorum for Hartford Colony. During a session of the Upper House, he died at the house of Secretery Hezekiah Wyllys, his brother-in-law, their wives being sisters (daughters of Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard of Haddam, CT) on the same day that he was 46 years of age. The Assembly granted L10 towards the expenses of his funeral and burial in the Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT.
Inscription
HERE LYETH BURY
ED ye BODY OF
HEZEKIAH BRAINERd
ASSISTANT WHO
DIED MAY ye 24
A.D. 1727
AGED 46 YEARS.
Footstone:
HEZEKIAH
BRAINERD
Hezekiah is claimed to have been b. on May 24, 1681, but a record of such specific date of birth cannot be found. He was baptized of record at Middletown, Conn. Mar. 7, 1681/2. Based on his purported date of birth, he died on his 46th birthday and was then 46 years old, but Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age) 47, not 46 as inscribed. Otherwise, if his inscribed age was calculated from his recorded date of baptism, he died 45 years old and Ætatis suæ 46 as inscribed.
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