William Hyde

Church Records

Name:    John Post
Event Type:    Baptism
Birth Date:    1629
Baptism Date:    13 Sep 1629
Baptism Place:    Otham, Kent
Relation:    Son
Father Name:    Stephen
Mother Name:    Ellen

Source: Ancestry.com. Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Frank Watt Tyler. The Tyler Collection. Canterbury, Kent, England: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.

Town Records

The names & ages of two of the Children of John Post are as ffolloweth
Abigaell Post the Daughter of John Post & hester his wife was borne upon the 6th of November Anno Dom 1664
Samuell Post was borne upon the 8th of March Ano: 1668
Hannah Post was borne in Octob Anno 1671
William Hide Senior the father of Hester the wife of John Post Deceased upon the 6th of January Anno Dom 1681
Abigaell post Deceased in Aprill Ano: Do 1676
Lidiah post was borne in march 11th An: 1674
Hester post the Wife of John post Deceafed Novemb' 13th 1703
John Post Deceased Novembr 27th 1710

The marriage of Samuell Hide with Jane Lee Was in June Anno Dom 1659
Elizabeth Hide was borne in Agust Anno Dom 1660
Phebe Hide was borne in January An Do 1662
Samuell Hide was borne in May Anno 1665
John Hide was borne in Desember An 1667
Willyam Hide was borne in Jan Anno 1669
Thomas Hide borne in July An 1672
Sarah Hide borne in ffeb Anno 1675 & dyed in the same yeare
Jabez Hide borne in May Anno 1677
Saml Hide deceased in ye yeare 1677

Source: Vital Records of Norwich Connecticut, 1659-1848. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007.) Originally published as: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. Hartford, Society of colonial wars in the state of Connecticut, 1913.
[Note: Some letters transcribed in the above record as F probably should have been transcribed as S (letters S's at the time often appearing a long F-like letters). So, for example, "Defember" is actually "Desember" or December, "deceafed" is "deceased," and "Marfhall" is "Marshall." MB]

Name:    Hester Hide
Marriage Date:    Mar 1652
Marriage Place:    Saybrook, Connecticut, USA
Spouse:    John Post
[Original Text: John, m. Hester Hide, Mar. the last, [16]52]

Source: Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.

Name:    Joanna Abell
Spouse:    William Hide
Marriage Date:    4 Jun 1667
Marriage Place:    Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Name:    Samuel Hyde
Spouse:    Jane Lee
Marriage Date:    Jun 1657
Marriage Place:    Norwich, Connecticut

Source: Ancestry.com. American Marriages Before 1699 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.

Joanna and William Hide of New Norwich, June 4, 1667.

Source: Vital Records of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1642-1896. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.) Originally published as: Vital record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, intentions, births, deaths. With supplement containing the record of 1896, colonial returns, lists of the early settlers, purchasers, freemen, inhabitants, the soldiers serving in Philip's war and the revolution, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1897.

Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

Vol. 3
POST

JOHN, Saybrook, s. of Stephen, b. prob. in Eng. m. in the last of Mar. 1652, Esther, d. of William Hyde, had Margaret, b. 21 Feb. 1653; Elizabeth 22 Feb. 1655; John, 12 Apr. 1657; and Sarah, 6 Nov. 1659; rem. with first sett. to Norwich, there had Abigail, 6 Nov. 1664, d. at 11 yrs.; Samuel, 8 Mar. 1668; Hannah, Oct. 1671; and Lydia, 11 Mar. 1674; was in 1663, accept. to be made free, yet seems to have missed for sev. yrs. of taking the o. wh. the Dept. Gov. was requested to admin. in 1686 and again in 1668. In the list of 1669 he is includ. and his w. d. 13 Nov. 1703. He d. 27 Nov. 1710. Lydia m. Abel Moore, and next, Joseph Harris, both of New London.

Source: Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Boston, 1862, retrieved from http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/, Nov 2012.

Immigration Lists

Name:    William Hyde
Arrival Year:    1636
Arrival Place:    Connecticut
Source Publication Code:    1262
Primary Immigrant:    Hyde, William
Annotation:    Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.
Source Bibliography:    COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.
Page:    157

Source: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.

Family Histories

I. William Hyde (1) the first, of Norwich, is not certainly known to have been connected with any of the Hyde families who came to this country from England, of which there were several in the United States.
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The name of William Hyde (1), first appears at Hartford, Conn., in 1636. And his name is on the monument in the old cemetery at that place as one of the original settlers ; and he had lands assigned to him there.

Many families of the name of Hyde had been settled in different parts of England for five or six hundred years prior to the settlement of New England. One of the name, Sir Nicholas Hyde, was chief justice of the court of King's Bench in 1626 ; another. Sir Robert Hyde, was chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1660. And a third, Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards the Earl of Clarendon, was lord chancellor at the restoration, 1660 ; and was the grandfather of Queen Mary the 2d, and Queen Ann, and of Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, who was one of the provincial governors of New York.

William Hyde (1) the first of Norwich, was a cotemporary of Sir Robert Hyde and of the Earl of Clarendon; but was undoubtedly of humbler origin. I have not been able to ascertain from what part of England he came; to what family he belonged; or where he first landed in this country, or the precise time when he arrived here. He probably, however, came over in 1633, with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Hartford ; sojourned a short time at Newton, Mass., and removed with him to Hartford, in 1636. The time of his removal to Saybrook, is not ascertained, but he owned lands in Hartford as late as 1639. He probably went to Saybrook soon after that, and his dau. was m. there early in 1652. No information has been obtained as to the name of his wife, or when or where she died. From the age of the son when he died (forty), he must have been b. in 1636. His mother was of course then living, and probably died at Hartford or Saybrook, before the removal of her husband to Norwich; as no account of her death is found upon the Norwich records. The daughter either was born in England, or was married very young ; the date of her birth, or her age at the time of her death in 1708, have not been ascertained.

Norwich was settled in 1660. The 35 original proprietors of that town were the Rev. James Fitch, the first minister of that place; Major John Mason, afterwards Lieut. Gov. of Connecticut ; Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell ; Lieut. Thomas Tracy, and his eldest son, John Tracy; Deacon Thomas Adgate ; Christopher Huntington, and his brother, Deacon Simon Huntington ; Ensign Thomas Waterman ; William Hyde, and his son, Samuel Hyde, and his son-in-law, John Post ; Thomas Post ; Lieut. William Backus, and his brother, Stephen Backus ; Deacon Hugh Calkins, and his son, John Calkins, and his son-in-law, Jonathan Royce ; John Reynolds; Thomas Bliss ; Francis Griswold ; John Birchard ; Robert Wade ; Morgan Bowers ; John Gager ; Thomas Howard ; Dr. John Olmstead ; Nehemiah Smith ; Richard Edgerton ; John Elderkin ; John Bradford ; Thomas Bingham ; Robert Allen ; John Baldwin, and John Pease. Most of these original proprietors of Norwich were from Saybrook, and East Saybrook (now Lyme). Hugh Calkins, and his son and son-in-law, and John Pease, John Gager, Nehemiah Smith, and Robert Allen, were from New London. Thomas Waterman, and John Bradford, were from Marshfield, Mass.

William Hyde was a man of considerable importance among the settlers of Norwich, and was frequently elected as one of the townsmen, or selectmen. He d. at Norwich 6 January, 1681. His home lot was devised to his grandson, William Hyde (6) the second. And a part of it was owned by William Mansfield, a descendant of the latter ; and was occupied by him as the site of his dwelling-house in 1859.

The children of William Hyde were :

2. Samuel, b. about 1637, at Hartford, m. Jane Lee.+
3. Hester, b. prob. in England, m. John Post.+

SECOND GENERATION.
II. Samuel Hyde (2), born at Hartford, Conn., about 1637, only son of the first William Hyde of Norwich, m. in June, 1659, Jane Lee of East Saybrook (now Lyme).

She was the dau. of Thomas Lee and Brown, his wife.

[This Thomas Lee came from England in 1641, with his wife and three children. He d. on the passage; and his widow and children came to Saybrook. The first Thomas Lee of Lyme was a brother of Jane, wife of this Samuel Hyde. And Sarah Lee, who m. John Large of Lyme, and settled on Long Island, was their sister.]

Samuel Hyde (2) and his wife came to Norwich in 1660. Their eldest dau., Elizabeth, born in August of that year, was the first white child born in Norwich. He was a farmer, and had lands assigned to him at Norwich West Farms, where he d. in 1677, at the age of 40 years. And John Birchard became the guardian of his children, who were all minors at that time. The date of his wife's death is not ascertained.

Their children were :

4. Samuel, b. in May, 1665, at Norwich, m. Elizabeth Calkins.+
5. John, b. in Dec, 1667, at Norwich, m. Experience Abel.+
6. William, b. in Jan., 1670, at Norwich, m. Anne Bushnell.+
7. Thomas, b. in July, 1672, at Norwich, m. Mary Backus.+
8. Jabez, b. in May, 1677, at Norwich, m. Elizabeth Bushnell.+
9. Elizabeth, b. in Aug., 1660, at Norwich, m. Lieut. Richard Lord.+
10. Phebe, b. in Jan., 1663, at Norwich, m. Matthew Griswold.+
11. Sarah, b. in Feb., 1675, d. the same year.

II. Hester (Esther) Hyde (3), the daughter of William Hyde the first of Norwich, was probably b. in England. She m. in March, 1652, at Saybrook, John Post, b. about 1627, in Eng., son of Stephen Post, who was at Newtown 1634, removed to Hartford 1636, and d. 16 Aug., 1659, at Saybrook [Stephen Post had three sons and one dau. John who m. Hester Hyde; Thomas who m., 1, Mary Andrews, and 2, Rebecca Bruen of Norwich ; Abraham who m. and remained at Saybrook ; and Catherine whom., 1649, Alexander Chalker of Saybrook.] John Post and wife settled at Saybrook, where their four eldest children were born. They removed to Norwich in 1660. His home lot was on the opposite side of the street from that of his father-in-law, William Hyde, and was, in 1858, in the possession of two of his descendants, the widow, Lucretia Carew, and her daughter, the widow of Roswell Morgan, Esq. Mr. Post was an active, influential man in the town. His wife d. at Norwich, 13 November, 1703. He survived her, and d. there 10 February, 1711, aged 83, and is buried in the old cemetery near the church at Norwich Town.

Their children were:

13. John, b. 12 April, 1657, at Saybrook, m. Sarah Reynolds.+
14. Samuel, b. 8 March, 1668, at Norwich, m. Ruth Lathrop.+
15. Margaret, b. 21 Feb., 1653, at Saybrook, m. Caleb Abel.+
16. Elizabeth, b. 22 Feb., 1655, at Saybrook. I have not been able to trace her further. She probably died unmarried.
17. Sarah, b. 6 Nov., 1659, at Saybrook, m. Capt. John Hough.+
18. Mary, b. , 1662, at Norwich, m. Nathaniel Rudd.+
19. Abigail, b. 6 Nov., 1664, at Norwich, d. in April, 1676.
20. Hannah, b. Oct., 1671, at Norwich. She probably died unm.
21. Lydia, b. 11 March, 1674, at Norwich. She m., 1, Abel Moore of New London, and 2, Joseph Harris of New London, and probably died s. p.

What renders it almost certain that three of the seven daughters of Hester Hyde and John Post must have died previously to 18 of Jan., 1686, and probably unmarried, is that by a deed of that date, upon the Windham records, it appears that William Hyde willed to the daughters of his only daughter, Hester Post, certain lands in Windham. That a controversy arose between the eldest son of her brother and the devisees, in relation to the validity of this will ; and that a compromise took place between him and the three sons-in-law of Hester Hyde and John Post;
Caleb Abel, John Hough, and Nathaniel Rudd. And by their deed the latter three conveyed, to the said oldest son of Samuel Hyde the first, one-half of the lands in dispute, in compromise of his claim. And no mention is made of any other granddaughters of the testator, as being in existence, to make any claim to the lands under the will devising the same to the daughters of the testator's daughter, Hester Post.

Source: Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy: Or, The Descendants,in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich, Vol. 1, Albany: J. Munsell, 1864, pgs. 1-5. This book is available online at Google Books.

Local Histories

William Hyde, Hartford, an original propr., removed to Saybrook, thence, about 1659 or 60, to Norwich, there died 1681. The only children known of are Samuel and Esther, who married John Post.

Source: Whittemore, Henry, Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967 (excerpted and reprinted from The Spirit of '76, vols. V-XII, Sep 1898-May 1906), p. 279.

William Hyde

William Hyde died 1681. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Moved to Saybrook.
Children:

Samuel m Jane Lee June 1659
Esther m John Post

An original proprietor; his home lot in 1639 was on the south side of "the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow" (old Buckingham St); chosen surveyor of highways 1641; he removed to Saybrook and thence in 1659 or 60 to Norwich.

Source: Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1977, p. 334.

Cemetery Records

Name:    John Post
Birth Date:    abt 1626
Age at Death:    84
Death Date:    27 Nov 1710
Death Place:    Connecticut
Gender:    Male
FHL Film Number:    3357

Source: Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

POST: John, d. Nov. 27, 1710-aged 84 yr. (Location: Norwichtown, New London, Connecticut, United States, Cemetery: Cemetery located down Cemetery Lane)

Source: Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.)

Name:    John Post
Birth Date:    abt 1626
Death Date:    27 Nov 1710
Death Age:    84
Burial Place:    Norwich, New London, Connecticut, British America
Volume:    I
Cemetery:    Old Norwichtown Cemetery
Cemetery Notes:    Cemetery, down Cemetery Lane, Norwichtown, Conn. This does not include all of the tombstones in this cemetery. The brush and woods were so high, we did not get all of the stones. Copied August, 1968 by Mrs. W. P. Ellsberry, Mrs. Thomas Stanley, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Ellsberry assisted by Mrs. G. W. Prather and Kevin P. and Lesa Ellsberry.

Source: Ancestry.com. New London County, Connecticut, Cemetery Index, 1698-1968 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2001. Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Cemetery Records of New London County, Connecticut. Vol. I-II. Chillicothe, MO, USA: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, 1968.

Gravestone

Tombstone of Samuel Hyde, Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut (photo credit: Jim Boulden, findagrave.com):
Gravestone of Samuel Hyde

Tombstone of John Post, Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (photo credit: Scott Coyle, findagrave.com):

Gravestone of John Post