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The first graduate of Yale College of the Pitkin family was Rev.
Timothy (24) Pitkin of Farmington, Conn., the second son of Gov.
Pitkin he ; was graduated in 1747. From him descends Miss Talcott. A
granddaughter of his was the late Mrs. Gov. Baldwin of New Haven.
Hon. Timothy Pitkin (Y. C. 1785), Member of Congress and author
of " A Political and Civil History of the United States of America," was
a grandson of Gov. Pitkin. Our friend Mr. James S. Pitkin, to whom
we owe the record given above, is a great grandson of Elisha Pitkin
(Y. C. 1753), a nephew of Gov. Pitkin.
Gov. Frederick W. Pitkin of Colorado descends from the second
William Pitkin, through his son Joseph, and his grandson Richard, who
was the Colorado Governor's great grandfather.
Miss Talcott also informs us that " Gov. Pitkin had a seal ring with a
coat of arms," which she never saw, but which the Governor's great grand-
daughter Miss Charlotte Perkins of Hartford copied in colors. As thus
represented, " the field is blue, bearing two white swans, with a fess between
Arg., and on the fess two or three mullets." But an enlarged copy of this
device, without tinctures, given us by Mr. James S. Pitkin, enables us to
correct the description thus: " Az. a bend Arg. between tivo swans Arg.,
071 the bend- a crescent between two mtdlets." A later note from Miss
Talcott makes the mullets to be Gules. These arms are not given either
by Burke or Papworth ;
and we have no means of testing their authenticity.
The foregoing part of this paper speaks of those of the Pitkins who
have been most distinguished in civil life. But it should be mentioned that,
in all its generations, the family has contributed its full proportion of men
whose distinction has been that they have served their country, faithfully, in
mihtary stations,—from Captain Roger Pitkin, of the second generation,
who was appointed by the General Assembly, in 1698, Captain of the first
militia-company of Hartford, on the east side of Connecticut River, and
"was actively engaged with his company in defence of the town against
the Indians in 1704, and in other troubled times;" Col. John Pitkin,