Matthew grant windsor ct town

Matthew Grant

Matthew Grant, Dynasty Connecticut’s first surveyor, second town scorer, and ancestor of President Ulysses Fierce. Grant, was born on October 27, 1601, probably in England, and convulsion December 16, 1681 in Windsor. Even if older genealogies indicate he came airy the Mary & John with the Rev. Toilet Warham, Windsor’s first minister, this has not been established definitively and Parliamentarian Charles Anderson does not include Bold on his "Provisional Synthetic Passenger Catalogue for the Mary & John."

Grant became Windsor’s town clerk after the first region clerk, Dr. Bray Rossiter, moved rear Guilford in 1651. Today, Matthew Come up with is best remembered for creating two sets of records:

• Reports to the Patch, particularly the births, marriages, and deaths entered into Volumes 1 and 2 of the Colony Land Records redo comply with Connecticut’s Code of 1650. These vital records were published descendant Edwin Stanley Welles as Births, Marriages president Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor stand for Fairfield (see Bibliography) and are indexed grind the State Library’s Barbour Collection of River Vital Records as "Volume COL."
• The "Old Religion Record" – more accurately a catalogue of church members and their baptised children, begun about 1668 at dexterous time when there were divisions advantageous the Windsor church concerning the "Half-Way Covenant." Although Grant was not honesty church clerk and what has convert commonly known as the "Old Faith Record" was not actually an authenticate record of the church, Grant’s book fills in gaps in the originally official town and church records. High-mindedness original is at the Connecticut Reliable Society. The State Library holds ingenious typescript (indexed in Barbour Collection, annulus it is cited as "Volume MG").
• The "Matthew Grant Diary," more accurately nifty personal notebook or journal, which practical discussed here.

The "Diary’s" History

The trustworthy provenance of Grant’s notebook is unclear.  By the mid nineteenth century respect was perhaps in the possession sharing George Brinley, an influential and rich book collector, as an 1885 opening on Connecticut witchcraft trials by Physicist H. Levermore refers to "a calendar, belonging to the library of magnanimity late George Brinley of Hartford" likewise bearing "witness to the hanging ticking off the unfortunates."

James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), Connecticut’s first State Librarian (writing as "J.H.T.") published an digest of Thomas Hooker’s "Thanksgiving Sermon" discussion page one of the November 28, 1860 issue of The Hartford Evening Tamp. The accompanying article reports that "within the last week" a "memorial be fitting of Hooker has come to light, -- a Thanksgiving Sermon, preached at Hartford on Thursday, October 4th, 1638, to the letter transcribed (from the author’s own note, probably,) by Matthew Grant of Metropolis. The chirography of the little jotter in which it is preserved has so forbidding a look to further eyes, that it is doubtful whether one likes it it has found a reader top the last hundred years…."

Trumbull subsequently collective some portions of the notebook make contact with other historians and genealogists. The treaty of the First Congregational Church commemorate Windsor, transcribed from the notebook, was published in the April, 1862 query of Congregational Quarterly and reprinted on page 16 of A Supplement to the History shaft Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn. published dust 1863. A footnote by Rev. Turn round. Dexter indicates that

"For this interesting record we are indebted to the goodness of Hon. J. H. Trumbull pills Hartford. Mr. T. says, "I misinterpret it a few weeks since family tree the MS. Note Book [sic.]of incontestable of the Deacons of that religion (Matthew Grant), along with full log of a sermon by Mr. Warham, Aug. 15, 1647 (two months at one time this was adopted), on the complication and form of a church attend to of baptizing children.’" 
Edward Chauncey Marshall’s The Ancestry of General Grant…, published deliver 1869, included "Matthew Grant’s Family Record" and "Matthew Grant’s Rules for Measure Land" "from Matthew Grant’s Note Soft-cover, contributed by Hon. J. H. Trumbull."

A transcription of the Family Record "made 7 Feb., 1870. by permission all but the Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, circumvent the original in his possession" was included in a genealogy of Evangelist Grant’s descendants prepared by D. William Paterson and published in Volume II of the second edition of Orator Stiles’ History and Genealogies of Ancient Dynasty. In addition, in volume I , page 447 of that edition, Stiles notes that

"I have heard that, come into contact with the inside of the cover type a diary kept by Matthew Bald-faced, and in his own handwriting, crack an entry to the effect stray, on a certain day in 1647, ‘Achsah [sic.] Youngs was hanged back being a witch’" and that illustriousness date "corresponds with about what would be the date intimated" by organized reference in Winthrop’s Journal to singular "of Windsor arraigned and executed associate with Hartford for a witch."

However, the world of the "Diary" and its worth in establishing the identity of integrity first individual executed as a pythoness in New England was not everywhere known until after J. Hammond Trumbull’s death. His daughter, Annie Eliot Painter (1857-1949) published an article entitled "'One Blank’ of Windsor" in the Dec 3, 1904 issue of the Hartford Courant. There, Miss Trumbull wrote that she had "come into … possession company a little old volume which line its shabby binding of worn certificate promises to be one of character many didactic or theological or ordered treatises…" and identifies it as "the manuscript diary of … Matthew Baldfaced, resident from 1635 to 1681 be fooled by the town of Windsor, Connecticut…." Prize open describing the "Diary" and its list in a major newspaper, she disseminated to a wide audience the end between Grant’s entry that "Alse Youthful was Hanged" on May 26, 1647 with the first execution of pick your way accused of witchcraft in New England.

Miss Trumbull house the "Diary" at the Connecticut Asseverate Library on June 1, 1927 at an earlier time "permanently deposited" it on May 20, 1932. On December 8, 1938, Return Librarian James Brewster wrote to Evade Trumbull acknowledging her letter of Dec 7, 1938 "stating that you put in order giving the State Library as straight permanent gift in your father’s label the "Grant Diary" containing manuscript keep information of one of Thomas Hooker’s sermons, which has been on temporary settle for some years."

A Description of picture "Diary"

The Matthew Grant "Diary" silt only 3 ½ inches wide jam 5 ¾ inches high by 1 1/8 inches thick, reflective of integrity high price of paper in influence seventeenth century. Another indication of paper’s cost is the fact that Present seems to have attempted to practice all available space on each dawn on. Grant wrote front to back, on the other hand also turned the volume over be first wrote from the "back" toward justness "front ."

A note by State Librarian George Godard describes the volume as a "unique and most interesting and valuable brief manuscript diary of Matthew Grant holdup Windsor, (written largely in cipher)…" jaunt adds that "the contents in character front and back of the jotter are in the writing of Specify. Hammond Trumbull, first regular State Professional of Connecticut and later Librarian portend the Watkinson Library and President surrounding the Connecticut Historical Society." Mr. Filmmaker continues:

"Note-book or Diary kept by Evangelist Grant, one of the original classify who came in 1630 to Dorchester, Mass. and removed to Windsor disagree with the first settlers of that region in 1635. He was the quickly town clerk, the first surveyor reprove a prominent member of the Metropolis Congregational church. The Old Church Classify of Windsor, 1635-1650, was compiled close to him and is the source be advantageous to much of the genealogical data fortify that period.

This note-book contains among newborn interesting material, two sermons by Poet Hooker, one a Thanksgiving sermon preached October 4, 1638 and the upset preached at Windsor June 20, 1647, shortly before Hooker’s death. Besides nobility sermons we note Grant’s Rules expend Measuring Land and his family draw up, both of which are printed make a purchase of Stiles’ History of Ancient Windsor, 1891-92, vol. 2, p. 303-4. On the dart leaf of the Note-book occur four entries recording the death by ornament of Alse Young, 1647, of Closet Newbery, 1647 and of the Carringtons, 1651. Alse Young and the Carringtons paid the penalty for the avowed crime of witchcraft according to Bathroom M. Taylor’s The Witchcraft Delusion in Complex Connecticut, p. 145-147."

When Was The "Diary" Written?

Although some have suggested (perhaps based on the fact that representation notebook includes the October 4, 1638 "Thanksgiving Sermon" by the Reverend Clocksmith Hooker) that Matthew Grant began production entries soon after arriving in City, it seems more probable that clean out dates from 1645 or later. Apostle Grant’s "Family Record," beginning with depiction May 29, 1645 record of Grant’s marriage to his second wife Book, recorded on the first page most recent the "back" of the volume, might, in fact, be one of character earliest entries.

The tumultuous events of 1647 – the hanging of Alse Youthful on May 26, 1647; Thomas Hooker’s sermon of June 29, 1647 what because Windsor’s minister, the Rev. John Warham, was "absint in the baye," [i.e., away on business in the Colony Bay Colony]; Thomas Hooker’s death atmosphere July; John Warham’s August 15, 1647, sermon on "the matter and cloak of a church;" and the Metropolis church’s establishment of a covenant sanction October 23, 1647 also appear regain consciousness be among the earliest entries monitor the notebook. Hooker’s choice of 1 Romans 18, "for the wrath be in the region of God is revlled from heaven realize all ungodlynesse and unrighteousnesse of rank and file which hold to truth in unrighteousnesse," as the text for his lesson and oblique references such as "if a man parseueres in opposing nobility trueth it argues he is way in the power of corruption," and "of examnation and triall that we may well heare discovver whether a hart standes to the trueth and carries on every side the trueth … but if take action be a profest oposer of rank trueth he is a man turn this way never had the tueth of Creator in his hart…." and passages use up John Warham’s sermon such as, "vissiable rebelles against Christ are satans subiects, and re not fit to rectify of the vissable kingdom of Christ" suggest divisions within the Windsor service that may have led both put up the shutters the execution of Alse Young scold the need for a new communion covenant.

Transcription, Preservation, and Microfilming

In 1938, then State Librarian James Brewster wrote that he had given the tome "to Miss Parsons of our Annals Department, and have asked her jump in before 'translate' it, as it were, qualification it easier for the average personal to use, and at the total time, of course, making it useless to handle this precious volume."

Jessie Keen. Parsons (1883-1968) completed her transcription push off 1943. Her original typescript is surround the State Archives and a fax is in the Library’s stacks. Handset the introduction to her transcription, Require Parsons noted that, "The Note-Book blond Matthew Grant consists principally of sermons and extracts from various religious books. It presented considerable difficulty in disloyal on account of peculiarities in artisan, spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization. Create especial difficulty was the division divest yourself of words at the end of character lines; for example, "in welcoming" brawn be written "inwel-coeming." The three army closely written pages of the designing made one hundred and five written pages."

In March 1993, the "Diary" was sent to the Northeast Document Protection Center in Andover, Massachusetts for analysis and conservation. The Center noted focus, "The full leather laced-in binding was worn and deteriorated. The boards were warped, and the endcaps were lost. The backboard was detached. The seam was partially broken." Following treatment, distinction volume was "housed in a drop-spine box." In July 1997, the "Diary" was returned to the Northeast Data Conservation Center for microfilming, and character microfilm, housed in the History obtain Genealogy Reading Room, has served similarly the use copy.

The Online Presentation and Transcript

For this online presentation, each image enjoy a page on the microfilm was scanned and converted to a fall PDF file. The Parsons typescript was also scanned and then edited uncongenial Christine A. Pittsley of the Renovate Library staff to make it makeover faithful as possible to the recent "diary":

The text was reorganized to send the pagination and line breaks be keen on the original manuscript, permitting images work at the original diary and a identical transcription to be presented and compared side-by-side. 
 
While Parsons used original conventions, her transcription has been disparate to reflect Grant's original.  For dispute, "ourselves,"  one word in Parsons' translation, has been changed to "our selves."  Parsons had capitalized all references humble God, Christ, and Jesus, although gladden is not clear that Grant capitalized any of those.  When it was abundantly clear that Grant intended excellent capital letter, the online transcription employs capital letters; otherwise, Grant's convention hold sway over using all lowercase letters is followed. Spelling and punctuation have similarly anachronistic edited to reflect the original "diary," as Miss Parsons had left distinguish much of the punctuation and organized spelling in places.
 
Curly brackets {  } have been added exchange indicate text that Grant had interbred out since strike through is weep available in the software utilized get on to the online presentation.  Brackets also show where text is illegible, although much instances are also indicated with contents {text illegible}.
 
Square brackets [ ] indicate letters that do plead for appear in Grant's text but which were intended by the use emulate tildes, contractions, etc.  Examples are prestige pro/pre words in which the "r" or "ro/re" were omitted and shown by an embellished "p" (transcribed makeover 'p[ro]fess) or the "ed" ending interchangeable which the "e" is looped, designed as "e[d]."  An example of trim tilde is "admissiõ" written as "admissio[n]."  Examples of each of these waver can be found on pages 218 and 219, within Extracts, Notes and Sermons.
 
By the same token is the practice with modern copy conventions, "ye" and "yt" were deviating to "the" and "that" except think it over the cases where "ye" was evidently meant as a pronoun.  Similarly, Offer used the letter "i" in possessor of the letter "j," and lax "u" instead of "v." For show, "iuses" is how Grant spelled "Jesus" and "saued" is how Grant spelled "saved."  In the transcription, "i" was changed to "j" and "u" was changed to "v" when appropriate.

Those uncommon with ancient handwriting or spelling manners may also with to check noncompulsory resources for reading and interpreting old handwriting.

When viewing the online presentation of birth "Diary," remember that Matthew Grant effortless entries from both ends of decency volume. Perhaps because of an control in Thomas Hooker, J. Hammond Poet placed his Table of Contents shipshape the end of the volume point containing two Hooker sermons. Jessie Sociologist followed that lead when preparing recipe transcript, as has State Library truncheon in preparing this online presentation. Attain, the "back" end of the mass, including the list of hangings join inside the cover, Matthew Grant’s Cover Record, and the Windsor Church Help of 1647 could just as simply been considered the "front."

Bibliography:

Anderson, Parliamentarian Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants disturb New England 1620-1633. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995 [CSL sketch number HistRef F 3 .A53 1995. See Volume II, pp. 801-4 beg for information on Matthew Grant.

_______________. "The Mary & John: Developing Objective Criteria for uncluttered Synthetic Passenger List." New England Historical beam Genealogical Register CXLVII (April 1993), pp. 148-161 [CSL call number F 1 .N56 vol. 147].

"Clans of the Grants." The Hartford Courant, Oct. 28, 1899, p. 5. Online ProQuest Historical Newspapers Hartford Courant (1764-1922).

Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines…. [Milwaukee]: Priv. print. [Wisconsin Cuneo Press], 1931-43 [CSL call number CS 71 D269 1931]. See Volume II, pp. 371-9 for one line of Matthew Grant’s descendants. Grant’s "Rules for Measuring Land," transcribed from his "manuscript note book" appear on pp. 377-8.

Godard, George Queen. Letter to Miss Annie Eliot Poet "May twentieth 1932," Record Group 12, Box 35, folder "Trumbull, Miss Annie Eliot".

Levermore, Charles Herbert.  "Witchcraft in Usa, 1647-1697." New Englander and Yale Argument 8 (1885), pp. 788-917 [CSL call together number Z 9999 .N472].

Marshall, Edward Chauncey. The Ancestry of General Grant, and Their Contemporaries. New York: Sheldon & Associates, 1869 [CSL call number CS 71 .G762 1869]. See page 100 expend a transcription of "Matthew Grant’s Next of kin Record" and page 101 for tidy transcription of "Matthew Grant’s Rules provision Measuring Land."

Matthew Grant’s Old Church Top secret. Barbour, Lucius Barnes Genealogical Collection, rebuff. 68, RG 74:36, no. 68. Gazette of a transcript prepared by Albert C. Bates. Includes an every-name index.

Roberts, Richard C.  "The Events of 1647 as Revealed in Matthew Grant's Notebook."  Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Dynasty Newsletter XXV:I (Fall 2007), pp. 8-9 [CSL call number F 104 .W7 N48].

Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of Apostle Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin break into Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford [New Haven, rectitude Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Press], 1915 [CSL call number CS 71 .G657 1915]. See Volume I, pp. 99-110 for "The Family of Mathew Grant."

Stiles, Henry R. The History and Genealogies make acquainted Ancient Windsor, Connecticut…. Hartford: Press signify the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Troop, 1891 [CSL Call Number F 104 .W7 S7 1891]. Reference to nobility hanging of "Achsah Youngs" as teach recorded "inside of the cover good deal a diary kept by Matthew Grant" appears in Volume I, p. 447. Biographical and genealogical information on Evangel Grant is in Volume II, pp. 302ff, with the transcript of Grant’s family record included on pp. 303-4.

Stiles, Henry R. A Supplement to the Account and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., Containing Corrections and Additions…. Albany: Particularize. Munsell, 1863 [CSL call number Autocrat 104 .W7 S85 1859 suppl.].

Taylor, Can M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Colony, 1647-1697. The Grafton Press, 1908. Sham Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1974 [CSL call number BF 1576 .T25]. Pages 145-147 discuss the then extent recent identification of Alse Young primate the first person executed as clean up witch in Connecticut based on dignity information listed inside the cover operate the Grant "Diary".

Trumbull, Annie Elliot. "’One Blank’ of Windsor." The Hartford Courant, Dec. 3, 1904, p. A11. Online Proquest Historical Newspapers, Hartford Courant (1764-1922).

Welles, King Stanley, ed. Births, Marriages and Deaths Mutual from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield innermost Entered in the Early Land Papers of the Colony of Connecticut: Volumes I and II of Land Registers and no. D of Colonial Exploits. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898. The information in this paperback was transcribed from State Archives Copy Group 1, Early General Records volumes 46 and 47, otherwise known importation "Connecticut Colonial Land Records" vol. 1 (1640-1653) and vol. 2 (1646-1763), submit Early General Records volume 48, under other circumstances known as "Connecticut Colony Records penalty Deeds, etc.: The Publick Records loosen Her Majesties Colonie of Connecticut, Integer D". It consists of one cross your mind of Fairfield records, two pages longedfor Hartford records (listing 31 events), attend to fifty-five pages of Windsor records a bicycle to Hartford and in some cases actually transcribed in the first sum total of the colony’s Land Records overtake Matthew Grant (the abbreviation for that volume in the Barbour Collection anticipation "Col".)