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Hill - The Ferry Keeper's Family, Luke Hill and Mary Hout, Who Were Married in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1651 and Fourteen Gen (Paperback)
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Hill - The Ferry Keeper's Family, Luke Hill and Mary Hout, Who Were Married in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1651 and Fourteen Gen (Paperback)
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This book tells the story of a yeoman farmer and ferry keeper and
his wife from the time of their marriage in 1651 in Windsor,
Connecticut, until they died in Simsbury, a town which they helped
to found. It also tells of their eight children and their spouses,
and it continues to follow this family down to the present. The
author tells of the rare occupation of the right of ferriage-how it
was compensated, and what was expected of the ferry keeper. The
duties of the ferry keeper were well known at one time, even
legendary. The ferry keeper has now all but disappeared from
America, along with the telegraph operator and pony express rider.
This story involves more than 4000 descendants of the ferry keeper
and his wife, about whom much is known in some instances. Many are
known only by name; and in recent generations, because of privacy
concerns, many are anonymous. The ferry keeper's four sons and four
daughters and their children receive special attention, and their
lives are carefully reconstructed from the historical records. The
choices they faced for survival, and the decisions they made, were
by and large successful. But not all were equal. Luck apparently
favored some. All married well, but some married better than
others. Typical among early Colonial American families, the
youngest son of the founder of this family inherited the father's
estate with the proviso that he would care for his aged parents
until they died. The father had already accumulated a large amount
of land, and the youngest son made good use of this property. His
two marriages were to the daughters of leaders of the town, and he
died a wealthy man. This book is family history, based on genealogy
and enriched with biography. Some of the characters are notable,
such as Roger Enos, a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary War,
who later became a Major General. Enos' son-in-law, General Ira
Allen, was a founder of Vermont. He was the brother of Ethan Allen,
famous leader of the Green Mountain Boys. In a later generation,
Lucius Barnes Barbour, who created the Barbour Collection of
Connecticut Vital Records, was one of the ferry keeper's
descendants. There are many others whose reconstructed lives are
interesting, and who are exemplars of their times, though they have
since been forgotten. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century,
most were sturdy farmers and farm wives, who occasionally had
another profession such as blacksmith, teacher, or doctor. Some of
the men were in all of the American wars except, probably, the war
with Spain. They were in the French and Indian Wars, the
Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Typical of the
descendants of a Connecticut Yankee, most were in the Union Army,
and only a few fought for the South. Only one was known to be a
slave-holder, and probably only one fought in the war with Mexico.
Multiple marriages were seen in many branches of the family,
usually because a husband died, or a wife, but at least two
husbands deserted and their wives remarried. Several joined the
Mormons, and the men had overlapping wives and families. In the
late twentieth century, the records of marriage and divorce, and of
child-bearing without marriage, show a family that is very
different from the past. While continuing for the most part to be
white and Protestant, this family is now becoming as diverse as a
large American family can be. Numerous photographs, illustrations,
and maps, as well as a full-name index augment the text.
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