- 1634: English immigrant to America
Andrew Bacon was born 1605 in England and died 4 October 1664 Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Mary Sherman (1599-1648) May 1619 in England. He married Elizabeth Morrice (1603-1679) 1648 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Biography
Hartford Founders Monument
Hartford Founder's Monument at Old Church Graveyard
The original brownstone monument erected in 1837 was replaced by this one in 1986, by the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford. It stands in the Ancient Burying Ground, which is located to the rear of the First Congregational Church at the corner of Main and Gold Streets in Hartford. This cemetery is also known as Old Center Cemetery. It lists the original Founders of Hartford.
Andrew Bacon was an original proprietor of Hartford, and in the distribution of 1639-40, received a lot on the east side of Main St., immediately south of the Little River. He was chosen townsman, 1641, 1658, deputy, 1642-1656. In 1642 he, with Captain John Mason and Mr. Clark, was appointed by the General Court to prepare carriages for the pieces (guns) that came from Piscataqua. In 1643 he, with Mr. Talcott, was appointed to take a record of the debts of the country. He was also a committee, with Mr. Webster, for Hartford, to join the magistrates in pressing men in each town for service, in 1654. He was exempted from training, watching, and warding, May, 1656. He was a committee, with Mr. Steele and Mr. Boosy, "to provide at Hartford for the comely meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies." In 1658 a complaint was preferred in the General Court against him, Gov. Webster, and others, who were about to withdraw from the church, and from Hartford. He signed the contract to remove to Hadley, in 1659; freeman, Massachusetts, March 26, 1661. He married in 1661, Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Stanley, of Hartford; probably a second wife. He died in Hadley, October 4, 1664, without children. His widow returned to Hartford to live with her son, Caleb Stanley; died February 23, 1679, aged about seventy-six.
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See Also
- Andrew Bacon
- Bacon Family
- Bacon in Hartford County, Connecticut
- Bacon in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Andrew Bacon, FoundersOfHartford.org, https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/andrew-bacon/, retrieved 23 May 2024
- Andrew Bacon of Hartford and Hadley, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Andrew-Bacon-of-Hartford-Hadley/6000000000436782358, retrieved 23 May 2024
- SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 229. Retrieved: 3 May 2011