Chauncey Trowbridge

Chauncey married Catharine Fish on 31 Dec 1829 in Troy, Rensselaer County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 15 May 1753, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Military Service: Apr 1775, CT and MA; responded to Lexington alarm as private in Capt. Nathaniel Johnson's co.
• Residence: 1790, Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1800, Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont
• Residence: 1810, Washington County, OH
• Residence: 1820, Chenango, New York, USA
• Residence: 1840, Gallia, Ohio, USA

Notes:

Levi Trowbridge enlisted at the outbreak of the Revolution in Capt. Thomas Clark's Derby company, which marched to relieve Boston at the Lexington alarm and was on duty two days. ("Connecticut in the Revolution", p. 8) Family tradition credits him with a later enlistment, and says he was taken prisoner with his brother by the British and confined in a prison ship, where both had the smallpox, of which his brother died.

After his marriage he settled on a farm in Oxford. He and his wife were admitted members of the Oxford Congregational church 18 Apr 1784. He followed his father to Fair Haven, VT., and in Aug 1786, the latter gave him his "second division lot" lying on the south side of the river. He sold this after his father's death and went to live on West street in the village. He lived there until the spring of 1810, when he emigrated to Washington county, Ohio, and settled near Marietta. He removed to Ames township, Gallia county, where he passed the remainder of his life until shortly before his death.

Buried:
Thomas Waugh Cemetery

Levi married Hannah Smith on 29 Dec 1782 in Fair Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of Benjamin Smith and Abigail Smith) was born in 1760 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jan 1832 in Amesville, Athens, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Fair Haven Church

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1790, Danby Twp., Rutland County, VT

Notes:

Israel Trowbridge came with his father to Oxford, Conn., and was engaged in farming there, his home being near the meeting-house. In the summer or fall of 1780 he removed to the town of Fair Haven, VT., where he settled on a farm in the eastern part of the town, near the west line of Castleton and on the north side of the road leading from Hydeville. He was one of the proprietors named in the charter of Fair Haven, and located in Sept., 1780, three divisions of his right, nearly three hundred acres, in one body, along Castleton line and the river.

Israel married Mary Johnson in 1747 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Johnson and Mary Baldwin) was born on 3 Dec 1724 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died in 1781 in Fairhaven, Rutland, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Abigail Smith on 13 Jul 1742 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Jr. John Smith and Mehitabel Talmadge) was born on 10 May 1724 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died in Jun 1812 in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Isaac Trowbridge received a grant of land from his father at the north end of Long Hill in Stratford, and settled there after his marriage. He conducted a tannery in Stratford for a number of years. On January 28, 1719/20, he was appointed with Col. Ebenezer Johnson of Derby a committee to run a line between the town and the Indians. The following year he removed to the parish of Ripton (Huntington), where he and his wife were among those who organized the Congregational church in that parish on February 12, 1724. He was elected a grand juror of Stratford in December, 1732.

He removed to the adjoining township of Derby, and lived in that part now the town of Oxford, "the southwest part of Waterbury woods." In May, 1740 he was a petitioner for the setting apart of Oxford as a separate parish. The petition was granted May 7, 1741, and he was chosen clerk of the new parish at the first meeting, which was held June 30, 1741. He was active in organizing the Congregational church in Oxford, and he and his wife were among its first members, being received October 27, 1745, from the church in Ripton.

Isaac married Ruth Perry about 1717 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Ruth (daughter of Arthur Perry and Anna Judson) was born on 5 May 1690 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Jan 1767 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Mary Baldwin in 1722 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born on 22 Jun 1701 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Hannah Hale on 30 Dec 1702 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Hannah was born about 1681; died on 13 Mar 1723/24 in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mehitabel Talmadge about 1707. Mehitabel (daughter of Enos Talmadge and Hannah Yale) was born on 13 Dec 1686 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Aug 1750 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]