WOLSTON & HANNAH (BRIGGS) BROCKWAY, BIO & FIND-A-GRAVE

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(1) WOLSTON & HANNAH (BRIGGS) BROCKWAY ,BIOGRAPHICAL & FAMILY DATA, from "The Brockway Family : Some records of Wolston Brockway, and his descendants," compiled for Francis E. Brockway with assistance of D. Willilams Patterson (See source attached to this record for publication details.]

WOLSTON BROCKWAY, the progenitor of the

New England family bearing his name, was probably

born in some part of England, not far from 1638. In

a deposition made by him 10 July 1714, and recorded

in Lyme, his age is stated at ' 'seventy years or thereabouts,

' ' and he stated that he had dwelt in Lyme

for fifty years past; but there are indications that

both his age and the length of his residence in Lyme

were placed too low. He bought land with a house

and barn thereon, of John Reynolds, both of Saybrook,

Conn., 3 December 1659, the land being

described as ' 'one ye east sid of ye riuer ouer against

ye towne of Saybrooke," and the consideration, ^20

sterling. The natural inference is that he was of full

age when he made this purchase, and that he settled

at once in his new house, and that would fix the date

of his birth about 1638, and make his residence in

Lyme to cover nearly fifty-five years, in July 1714.

His first home in Lyme was probably on Duck River,

at some distance south'of the present village of Lyme,

and near Long Island Sound.

A highway laid out 24 March 1698-99, is described

as follows : "The highway "on the Southward side of

Duck riuer is as follows : First, the highway from

Wolston Brockway's Landing place is four rods wide,

I'iRST GENERA T10N

the landing place being in length from said highway,

southwest ten rods and a half to a stub" etc. This

road passed the "planting field" and thence to "Black

Hall river." Between Smith'sNeckand the planting

field it passed Thomas Champion's house, Richard

Smith's yard, Edward Lay's land and William Brockway's

comer. In 1675 he sold to Isaac Watterus of

Lyme, a piece of land in "the planting field,"

bounded northerly by the lands of the said Isaac, and

easterly by the Black Hall river. \.\\ this deed he

was styled Planter. See Lyme deeds Vol. I, p. 66.

On the 9th of Febniary 1676-77, in a deed to Richard

Smith he was styled Cooper. He sold land 29 April,

1682 to Christopher Christophers of New London, describing

it as "all of my laud purchased of John Reynolds,

in the neck of land commonly called Black

Point," twenty acres of upland and three and a half

of meadow. He and wife Hannah, by deed dated 13

March 1707-08, gave their homestead to their son,

Richard Brockway, with reservation during their

lives, and a stipulation that he should pay ^ 1 5 to his

brother, John Brockway, on their death. In a deed

to his youngest son, John Brockway, 5 September

1716, conveying five acres of land near Flat Rock

Hill, he again styled himself Cooper.

He was frequently elected to some office in the

town. As hayward, 13 Feb. I 6 J 6 - J J ; fence-viewer,

24 Sept. 1677 and 9 Dec. 1679 ; hayward, 29 Dec.

1684; and pound-keeper on the same date; surveyor,27

Nov. 1689 and 16 Dec. 1690; fence-viewer, Dec. 1690,

14 Dec. 1697, 15 Dec. 1698 and 15 Dec. 1701. He

was elected constable 18 Dec. 1699, but refused to

serve. He owned land at Tantum Morantum, near

what is now Brockway's Ferry, as. early as r Feb.

1702-3, at which date he bought forty acres of land

there of Rev. Moses Noyes, which was already in

Brockway's possession, but. it is not known that he

lived there. His car-mark for cattle, recorded at

Lyme 1 June, T6—was afterward transferred to his

grandson, William Brockway, Jr.

The townsmen of Lyme, '27 Aug. 1688, assessed

him as "Walstone Brockway," as follows :

"3 persons, 60 00 00

"house and Lands 02 00 00

'2 Oxen, two Cowes 16 00 00

'1 : 3 yerliug 5 : 2 yerlings . . 12 10 00

'1 Mare 2 hogs 12 sheep . . . . 13 00 00

The tax on this amount was 103 [POUNFS] See

the New England Historical and Genealogical

He married with HANNAH BRIGGS, widow of John

Harris of Boston, Mass, witfi whom she married 10

September, 1657.* She was born at Boston, 28 August,

1642, daughter of William and Mary Briggs. t

She died at Lyme, 6 February, 1687-8S. He married

with a second wife whose name was HANNAH, but her

maiden name has not been found. He gave his land

to his children during his life. Perhaps the latest

deed was to his daughter, Hannah Wade, dated 16

May, 1717, giving her certain personal property, to

take efiect on the death of himself and wife.

He died not long before 11 November 1717, at

which date his son, Richard Brockway, was granted

administration on his estate. Probably his widow

died before 7 April, 1719, at which date the administrator

reported that he had paid debts and charges,

amounting to £ 24 : 1 : 7, and that £ 1 : 13 : 8, remained

for distribution. The court ordered that the

eldest sou should have a double portion, 6s., each of

the other seven children y . and 3s. to the children of

Wolston Brockway, Jr., deceased, and 3s . to the children

of Mary Mott, deceased. He was probably buried

in Duck River cemetery in the village of Old Lyme.

* The date of the death of John Harris has not hcen found.

He left one son, John Harris, born at Boston, 8 August, 165S, who

lived at Lyme.

»* tJob5* Briggs, the father of Mrs. Brockway, lived most of his

life in Boston ; but he bought land in Lyme, 27 October 16S0, of

his son-in-law, Wolston Itrockwuy, iiml Holil the riiliuc lo hitt son,

John llriugs, 15 l'ubrtuiry, 1680-81, "with the frame of a house thereon

standing, which I purchased of John Lareby." Before 1685 he

had returned to Boston.

SECOND GENERA TION

Children of Wolston and Hannah (Briggs) Brockway:

I. HANNAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn.,

14 Sept. 1664, [not 24 Sept. as others have read i t ] ;

married there 23 Aug. 1682, with THOMAS CHAMPION,

who was born at Saybrook, Conn., in April 1656,

son of Henry and Deborah Champion. He died at

Lyme in 1705. She married (2d) with JOHN WADE,

and as "my daughter, Hannah Wade, of Lyme,'

received a deed from her father 16 May 1717, conveying

to her certain personal property, on the death of

himself and wife.

II. WILLIAM BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn.,

25 July 1666 ; married there 8 March 1692-93, with

ELIZABETH . Gregory Wilterton, of

Hartford, Conn., by his will of 1674, gave him a legacy

of ^"10, in consideration of which his father

deeded laud to him in 1709. Pie settled at Brockway's

Ferry, in that part of Lyme to which Joshua, the son

of Uucas, gave the name of Joshuatowu ; and died

there 29 March 1755, in the 89th year of his age, as

testified by his grave stone, still legible in the family

cemetery at that place. His wife, it is said, was buried

by his side, but no stone is there to tell the date.

His father deeded land to him at Tantum Morautuni,

(Joshuatowu) 8 June 1697, Lyme Records II, 302.

On this laud he probably settled. At the May session,

in 1724, the General Court granted to him, in con-

nection with William Pratt, who lived on the west

side of Connecticut river, the right to keep a ferry,

which is still known as Brockway's Ferry. He

signed a paper, 7 Dec. 1724, relating to ecclesiastical'

matters in Lyme, North Quarter, now Hamburgh.

III. WOLSTON BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, iS

Conn., 7 Feb. 1667-68 ; married there 4 Dec. 1688,

with MARGARET . His ear-mark for cattle

was recorded at Lyme, 19 May i696,and he died there

early in 1707. Letters of administration on his estate

were granted to his widow, 4 June 1707, and the estate

was distributed 17 March 1713-14. She married (2d)

at Lyme, 7 Feb. 1710-n, with Thomas Eunis, and ' I

died there 17 Jan. 1738-39, aged j ^ years. By her

second marriage she had one son, Thomas Ennis,

born at Lyme, 28 May 1712. \

IV. MARY BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 25

16 Jan. 1669-70 ; married there 6 April 1692, with

SAMUEL MOTT, of Lyme, and they had a gift of land • i

from her father, 27 March 1697. Her name on the

town record is written Marah, that being .the form

which town clerk, Joseph Peck, was in the habit of

using for Mary.

V. BRIDGET BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn.,

9 Jan. 1671 [1671-72]. The copy in Register, Vol.

33, p. 427, has the month July, which is erroneous.

Beman Brockway's pamphlet says she married in

1714, with JONATHAN BICEBE. If so she must have

been his second wife. Bridget, wife of Jonathan 1

Beebe, died in East Haddaui, Conn., 6 April 1756,

aged eighty-six years., according to her gravestone.

VI. RICPIARD BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn./ 33

30 Sept. 1673 i auc*- t n e record says 31 Sept.; married

there 25 Oct. 1697, with RACHEL . She died

at Lyme, 9 April 1718 ; and he married (ad) 5 May

1720, with ELIZABETH TIFFANY. In Dec. 1718, he

was surety for Edward Lay and Samuel Chapman, to

the Governor and Council of Conn. He joined the

First Church in Lyme, in Oct. 1739.

VII. ELIZABETH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme,

Conn., 24 May 1676 ; married there about i7or, with

WILLIAM HARRIS, of Lyme, and her father gave land

to them 23 Jan. 1705-06. He probably died as early

as 1710, and she married (2d) in March 1711-12, with

Roger Alger, Sr. "Elizabeth, widow of Roger

Alger, late of Lyme, deceased, formerly the wife of

William Harris, dyed in July, in ye year 1729."

VIII. SARAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn.,

23 Sept. 1679 ; married [East Haddam -records,] 20

Jan. 1703 [1703-04] with NATHANIEL BECKWITH, and

they were living at East Haddam 23 Nov. 1704, when

her father gave land to his "well beloved son-in-law,

Nathaniel Beckwith, of liadam, on the east side of

the river."

IX. DEBORAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme,

Conn., 1 May 1682.

X. JOHN BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., date

not found ; had an ear-mark for cattle recorded 12

Feb. 1729-30. His father, in deeding his homestead

to Richard Brockway, 13 March 1707-08, provided

that Richard should pay ^"15 to John Brockway, on

the death of their father. He was probably the son

of the first wife, but it is possible that the second

wife was his mother.

(2) WOLSTON BROCKWAY, FIND-A-GRAVE MEMORIAL #19880375

Birth: 1638

London, England

Death: Sep. 14, 1717

Lyme

New London County

Connecticut, USA

Family links:

Spouse:

Hannah Briggs Brockway (1642 - 1686)*

Children [PARTIAL LIST]:

William Brockway (1666 - 1755)*

Wolston Brockway (1668 - 1707)*

Bridget Brockway Beebe (1671 - 1756)*

Sarah Brockway Beckwith (1679 - 1739)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Duck River Cemetery [The headstone pictured to the right is of Wolston's son .It is highly possible

that Wolston is not buried in this cemetery..]

Old Lyme

New London County

Connecticut, USA

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Originally Created by: voodoothatudo

Record added: Jun 14, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 19880375

(3) HANNAH (BRIGGS) BROCKWAY, FINDA-GRAVE MEMORIAL #19880397:

Birth: Jun. 28, 1642

Boston

Suffolk County

Massachusetts, USA

Death: Feb. 6, 1686

Lyme

New London County

Connecticut, USA

Family links:

Parents:

William Briggs (1605 - ____)

Spouse [#2]::

Wolston Brockway (1638 - 1717)

Children [PARTIAL LIST]::

William Brockway (1666 - 1755)*

Wolston Brockway (1668 - 1707)*

Bridget Brockway Beebe (1671 - 1756)*

Sarah Brockway Beckwith (1679 - 1739)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Duck River Cemetery

Old Lyme

New London County

Connecticut, USA

Maintained by: svandee

Originally Created by: voodoothatudo

Record added: Jun 14, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 19880397