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Notes for *Timothy TODD Esq. | ||||||||||||||||
According to Frederick Virkus, Timothy graduated from Yale in 1747. -------------------------------------------------- 97"In 1773, suit was brought by Timothy and Abigail Todd of Guilford, Stephen Crane of New Milford, Jonathan Paddock and wife Mary of South Precinct, Dutchess County, NY., Joshua Barnum and wife Andrea of the same, and Allen Ball and wife Ann of New Fairfield, against Joseph, David and Ephraim Jackson, Theophiolus Hull and wife Martha, of Redding, and Dan Jackson of Ridgefield (children of Ephraim Jackson dec'd), and Elnathan Sturgis and Martha his wife of Ridgefield." According to the source, Joseph and Mary Couch Crane of Dukesfield, Dutchess County, NY had conveyed land from the estate of Mary's father Samuel Couch, deceased, to Ephraim Jackson and their son, Zebulon Crane of Norwalk.The book doesn't give the outcome of the suit. 98On pg. 166-167 it states, "The Committee of Southold had anticipated the result of the Battle of Long Island (Aug. 27, 1776) by sending its cannon and ammunition to Saybrook. (Ap. A. 9) Two days after the Battle, the Convention recommended to the Inhabitants of Long Island 'to remove as many of their women, children and slaves, and as much of their live stock and grain, to the main, as they can; and that this Convention will pay the expense of removing the same.' (Ap A. 13). This was the first general permission for the removal. ... it has been shown that it was both necessary and natural that the Refugees should cross to Connecticut. There appears in this book a listing of individuals who held such offices as Justices of the Peace and Selectmen. In the first grouping is found the name Dr. Eleazer Mather of Lyme. (Ap. I. 8) Whether this gentleman is of the family from which the later Timothy Mather/Marther Todd gets his middle name is unknown. There follows a listing of the Committees of Inspection, so far as they were related to the Refugees. Timothy Todd is listed as a Clerk of Guilford's Committee. "Timothy Todd, Esq. was one of a committee appointed Dec. 14, 1776 to confer with committees from other towns or governments to receive charitable donations for the distressed poor in Boston, who were suffering in the Common cause." From "Fifty Puritan Ancestors" by Eliz.Todd Nash. 98According to information located in Appendix C, pg. 821 of source, Timothy was paid for what appears to be 4 days service onboard the sloop "Humbrod", with Joab Scranton as Captain, which was "imployed by the Committee of Inspection for the Town of Guilford to bring Stock and people from Long Island" in the month of September of 1776. The records showed that the captain "has exhibited the within account which we have examined and do approve of the Same." There follows a listing of the Committee members with Timothy Todd's name at the top of a list which includes Timothy Hill, Samll Brown, Nathel Ruggles and Nathn Stone. Among the stock transported were "several hundred sheep which were suitably marked and put into the Guilford flock." The book has real problems when it comes to identifying Timothy in his family tree. They state the generations as being Christopher Todd, John Todd to Timothy Todd. I'm sure the author(s) must have figured John and his son, Jonathan were the same individual. Looking at the dates of birth should have told them there was a problem. For John to have been Timothy's father means John would have been eighty years old at the time of Timothy's birth. Although "Todd Family in America" attributes enlisting in the Coast Guard on May 15, 1780 to this Timothy, I would think it more likely with this man's date of death stated as Jan.3, 1779, that his son Timothy did the enlisting. Of course, the same type of argument could be made in regard to the above mentioned Committee of Inspection. His son would have been 18 years of age in 1776. -------------------------------------------------- 96In Timothy's son, Jonathan's application for pension as a Rev. War veteran, the following text is found written by Jonathan. "lived with my parents till Sept 1772 when I went I entered as a student of Physick under the direction of Doctor Benjamin Gale of Killingworth whose name I cannot mention but with the greatest emotion of gratitude, as he was not only my instructor but almost a father to me. Whilst I lived with my parents I labored constantly in the summer after I was old enough to endure labor and attended a common school generally in the winter. My father dealt in European goods, though not largely. Taught school commonly in the winter. In the summer did something at farming. His education and health did not admit his being expert in farming. He was handy with his pen to draw instruments of conveyance, and by his and my mother's indusstry they got a decent livelihood though very far from being rich. Soon after opening a new trade and laying out largely in P______ Works in the year 1772 he was seized with a Billious Disorder which ... to teach a school & continued there 'till September following when I again returned to East Guilford. I practiced Physick till Dec. 10th when I again undertook a school in East Guilford. I had taught school but four days when my father was taken ill with the Small Pox. He continued sorely distressed for fifteen days when he departed this life to the inexpressible grief of the family." | ||||||||||||||||
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