A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families |
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Abigail aged Amesbury Anna April 17 April 20 April 9 Benj BENJAMIN Betsy Canaan Capt Charles Chester Chil Children Curry Rivel Danbury Daniel David deeds ear-mark Ebenezer Eliza ELIZABETH,8 farmer father George Haight Hait HANNAH,6 Harriet Hayt Henry Hoit Hoyt family Hyatt Isaac James Hoyt Jane John Hoyt Jonathan Joseph July July 26 June June 17 land lived in Danbury lived in Norwalk lived in Stamford living in N. Y. Lydia March March 14 March 23 March 30 Martha Mary Hoyt Mass Moses N. Y. Chil N. Y. City Nancy Nathan Norwalk Ohio Parish Phebe Polly Poundridge prob probably Rebecca records Ruth Salem Salisbury Sally Samuel Sanbornton Sarah Hoyt Smith Stamf Stephen Thomas town unmar VIII W.ch Walton William
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Page 244 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 126 - We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with ARMS oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American COLONIES.
Page 267 - But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him; and his righteousness unto children's children ; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 264 - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself and make them sit down to meat and shall come and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Page 241 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 160 - ... deepest stain upon the character of our country, and removing all cause of reproach on account of it, by foreign nations — If I could only be instrumental in ridding of this foul blot that revered state that gave me birth, or that not less beloved state which kindly adopted me as her son, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror.
Page 264 - If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, and it shall be given ; but all our diligence will fail if we are remiss in this particular.
Page 286 - House this year, for such of the said company as are shortly to come over, which afterwards became the meeting-house ; and Mr. Bright, Minister to the Company's servants. " By whom it was jointly agreed and concluded that this place on the north side of the Charles River, by the natives called Mishawum, shall henceforth, from the name of the River, be called Charlestown, which was also confirmed by Mr. John Endicott, Governor.
Page 313 - Noble, lately deceased, and having no issue of his own body, left his estate to his widow during her life, and at her death to the people called Quakers, the land then being in the possession of the widow and the petitioner. In consideration of the request of the deceased, the petitioner had erected a meeting-house for the Quakers in that town at his own charge, and prays that certain tracts of land may be confirmed to him at the death of the widow.
Page 343 - Hoyt, tho wife of Isaac Hoyt, then late of Danbury, shewed to the Assembly, that she had ever been a good whig, and a true friend to the rights of her country, and that her husband, when the enemy entered said Danbury, being an enemy to his country, went off and joined the British, by which he had justly forfeited all his estate, both real and personal ; and that the selectmen had seized upon all the personal estate of her husband, by means of which she was deprived of...