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"William [15] married Mary daughter of the Rev'^ Mr. Woodbridge,
Minister at Hartford.
"Joseph [16] married : first, Mary daughter of Richard Lord of Hart-
ford [great great granddaughter of the first Thomas Lord of Hartford],
by whom he had seven [nine—A. P. P.] children—she died October 10,
1740, aged thirty-eight; secondly, Eunice daughter of John Chester of
Wethersfield ; and, thirdly, Mrs. Law, the widow of Gov. Law of Milford,
who survived him. He died November 3o'\ 1763 [1762—A. P. P.], aged
sixty-seven.
"Thomas [18] married EHzabeth [Rebecca—A. P. P.] daughter of
Capt. [Samuel—A. P. P.] Welles, and removed to Bolton, which town
he frequently represented in the General Assembly. By his will he gave
three of his slaves their freedom at his decease, which took place July 20*^
1 766, when he was at the age of sixty-six.
"Sarah [19] married Col. Eleazur Porter of Hadley, Mass.
"John [21] married Miss Ann [Elizabeth—A. P. P.] Olcott. After
being employed in many civil and military affairs, he died June 5'^ 1790,
aged eighty-three.
" Jerusha [22] married: first, Samuel Edwards of Hartford ;
secondly,
the Rev** Ashbel Woodbridge of Glastonbury, by whom she had seven
sons and one daughter [two daughters—A. P. P.]. Her husband served
as a Chaplain in the expedition in 1 745 and 1 746, and died August 6*-^,
1758. She survived, and died July 31'*', 1799, aged eighty-nine.^^
"William [15] Pitkin the third, eldest son of William Pitkin the
second, was more distinguished both in public and private life than any
other of his father's numerous family.
" The advantages of education in the colony at that time were very
small. His early education, therefore, was quite partial. Few in Connec-
ticut at that time, especially those who had large families, were able to
educate their sons at Harvard, and Yale College was then in an embryo
state. Few young men, therefore, in the colony at that period had the
advantages of a collegiate education. Their parents, however, were fully
sensible of the importance of having their sons brought up in habits of
industry, and in some steady and regular employment ;
and,
in case of
" The Woodbridge Record. ... By Louis Mitchell. Privately Printed. New Haven,
1883, p. 29.
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