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Family/Spouse: William PRATT. William was buried on 19 Jan 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: Nathaniel was a Sergeant at Windsor as early as 1711 and is mentioned in a meeting of the govenor and council at New Haven, CT. on 22 May 1712.

Nathaniel married Martha THRALL on 21 Sep 1693 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Martha (daughter of Timothy THRALL and Deborah GUNN) was born on 31 May 1673 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died in 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Birth: Dec 1641; Alt. Birth
• Baptism: Jan 1642

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Nathaniel married Sarah GRISWOLD on 21 Jul 1670 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Edward GRISWOLD and Margaret BLENCOW (HICKS)) was born on 10 Jan 1635 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England; died on 6 Nov 1715 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Timothy married Deborah GUNN on 10 Nov 1659 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Deborah (daughter of Thomas GUNN) was born on 21 Feb 1641 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 7 Jan 1694 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: Humphrey was named executor in the will of his uncle, Edmund. It is believed he returned to England to settle the estate, probably before Aug 1633, when he received a grant of 4 acres at Dorchester, MA. Edmund Pinney left a considerable estate and named Humphrey as his chief beneficiary, calling him "son", which has led to some confusion about his actual relationship. Humphrey was made freeman 14 May 1634 and on 4 Jan 1635 he was granted 20 acres of land between Dorchester & Roxbury. He later received 10 acres of meadow land beyond Neponset River. He was an original settler at Windsor, his early residence being on the west side of the Main street, about 1 mile north of the present Congretional Church. In 1675, Humphrey, along with Thomas Ford, George Hull, and Thomas Lewis, purchased land from the indians for the inhabitants of Windsor.

Humphrey married Mary HULL on 14 May 1634 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Mary was born in 1618 in England; died on 18 Aug 1684 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Attorney, Deputy to the General Court, Magistrate, Captain
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• Arrival: Abt 17 Aug 1639, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1649, Poquonock, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Granted Land
• Founded Killingworth: 1666, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Freeman: 1669, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

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Related to Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) U.S. Vice President (1925-1929), Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1931), Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1925, banker, Comptroller of the Currency, attorney, and author.

Lt. Col. Rufus R. DAWES (d. 1899) and Mary Beman GATES (1842-1921)
Beman GATES (1818-1894) and Betsy Sybil SHIPMAN (1816-1895) [see below]
Aaron GATES (1780-1850) and Ruth BEMAN (1784-1858)
Daniel BEMAN and Abigail ACKLEY (1761-1805)
Thomas BEMAN and Lydia ROBERTS (1735-1809)
Samuel BEMAN (1704-1753) and Sarah PINNEY (1707-1783)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1671-1764) and Martha THRALL (1673-p1710)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1640-1676) and Sarah GRISWOLD (1635-1715)
Edward GRISWOLD (1607-1691) and Margaret (d. 1670) <../ancestries/phelps.htm>

Edward married Margaret BLENCOW (HICKS) in 1629 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Margaret was born in 1609-1611 in Marston, St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Genevieve Tylee Kiepura writes in "Griswold Ancestry in England" (The American Genealogist 39:176-180) that "Edward GRISWOLD m. Margaret BLENCOW of Marston St. Lawrence, co. Northampton, dau of John BLENCOW and his wife Mary WALLISON." However, in "Note on the Ancestry of the Griswolds of Connecticut" (The American Genealogist 40:43-44), John G. Hunt conclusively shows that the Edward GRISWOLD who married Margaret BLENCOW is not the immigrant to CT, and Genevieve Tylee Kiepura concurs. The Griswold Family Association identifies the husband of Margaret BLENCOW as Edward GRESWOLD (1594-1633) son of Thomas GRESWOLD and Elizabeth SHUCKBURGH - this Edward being father of the American immigrant Michael GRISWOLD of Wethersfield, CT.

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William Thrall is the founder of the Thrall family in the United States. He was born in 1605 in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England and came to the Colonies on the "Mary and John" in the year 1630. The "Mary and John" was a vessel of four hundred tons captained by a man named Squeb and the vessel sailed with 180 passengers.
William was part of a company of Puritans under the leadership of Rev. John Wareham of Exeter and Rev. John Meverick, both ministers of the Church of England Setting sail from Plymouth, England on 20 March, they first came ashore on 30 May 1630. They disembarked with what goods they had, to some high land in the salt meadow, now a part of the city of Boston. They named the place Dorchester, which was selected by the captain of the "Mary and John" as he came from Dorchester, England. Page 277 of Prince's Chronology of New England records "May 30, Lord's Day. Mr. Wareham and his church, and their goods, were put ashore at Nantasket Point. The went immediately to Charlestown, and from thence to Mattepan, and began a town and named it Dorchester, and the native Indians were kind to them."
Revs. Wareham and Meverick and their group stayed in Dorchester less than five years, as a number of their menfolk had discovered more fertile land below the first falls of the Connecticut River, at the junction of the Farmington River just above Hartford. Part of the Colony went by boat and the remainder traveled across the one hundred miles of virgin forest, to establish the town of Windsor. Windsor was unofficially known as Thrallville in the early years.
The first we know of William Thrall is that he is listed with the following men who were among the thirty men who went from Windsor to join in the fight against the Pequod Indians in May 1637. Capt. John Mason, Sgt. Benedict Alvord, Thomas Barber, Thomas Buckland, George Chappel, John Dyer, James Eggleston, Nathaniel Gillet, Thomas Gridley, Thomas Styles, Sgt. Thomas Stares, Richard Osborn, Thomas Parsons, William Thrall. The Indian village in this case was so completely destroyed that for many years, the settlers had no further trouble with the Indians. Some years later, the participants were given land grants. To quote from Dr. Styles records with regard to the first Indian war in New England, "The danger was imminent, and so complete the victory that it caused universal rejoicing throughout New England, and a grant of land was given each soldier and officer, and to this day the memory of an ancestor who was in the Pequod fight, is an honorable heirloom in every Connecticut family".
William Thrall is mentioned many times in the early records. His lot shows up in the first plot of Windsor, between the lots of Nicholas Palmer and Thomas Bascomb, and ran from the road to the Farmington River. In 1646, William sold this lot to Nicholas Palmer and moved to Simon Hoyte's place, north of the village. Robert Wilson bought a half interest with William in the Hoyte's 80 acres, but sold his half to Thrall in 1654. This 80 acres has been part of the holdings of the Thrall family ever since, thanks to William Thrall's will
We know very little about the wife of William Thrall. She is referred to in the Old Windsor records as Goode Thrall, but "Goode" was an expression applied to women with families and it is simply an abbreviation of "Goodwife". Whether she came over to New England on the "Mary and John" with her husband or they met in Dorchester, has never been established The record of her death simply states, "Goode Thrall, wife of William, died 30 July 1676".

William married Elizabeth GOODE in 1632 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Elizabeth was born about 1609 in France; died on 30 Jul 1676 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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