WOLSTON & HANNAH (BRIGGS) BROCKWAY, BIO & FIND-A-GRAVE
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
Register, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 379 to 381.
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
Maintained by: svandee
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