STOCKING, Captain George

1705 - 1790  (85 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	STOCKING, George
  Prefix	Captain
  Birth	16 Aug 1705	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Aug 1790
  Death	23 Aug 1790	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	4 Mar 1921
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  Person ID	I22302	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	SAVAGE, Mercy ,   b. 10 Apr 1706, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesd. 1787, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1727	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F11920	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  The Stocking ancestry reaches back to the early settlement of New England, even to George Stocking, who was born in Suffolk, England, in 1582 and crossed the ocean to America with his wife and four children on the ship Griffin in 1633. He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where, in 1635, he built a house at the corner of the present Holyoke and Winthrop streets. He was made a freeman May 6, 1635. He joined the company of Rev. Thomas Hooker and traveled on foot through the wilderness to Connecticut in 1636, and was one of the original founders and a prominent proprietor of Hartford, Connecticut. In the general distribution of land, he received 20 acres and later was given other grants. After the death of his wife, Anna, whom he had married in England, an authority says he married Agnes (Shotwell) Webster, the widow of John Webster, governor of the colony. From the beginning he took an active part in public affairs; was selectman in 1647; surveyor of highways in 1654 and 1662 ; chimney viewer in 1659, but owing to his age was excused from military duty. He died May 25, 1683, aged 101 years. His name is inscribed on a large monument erected in memory of Hooker's party, which still stands in the old Center Church burying-ground in Hartford, where also rests the dust of the ancestors of some of the most distinguished men and women of the present generation. SOURCE: Gansser, Augustus H. History of Bay County, Michigan: and Representative Citizens / Ed. and Comp. by Augustus H. Gansser. Chicago :: Richmond & Arnold, 1905. Internet resource.