The Hendee Family Tree

Source: A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887

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Title A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887

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Eliphalet Hendee

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A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887 : containing also some genealogical notes on the Connet, Connett and Connit families
by Conant, Frederick Odell, b. 1857
pp 165-6
Publication date 1887
Publisher Portland, Me. : Private printing [Press of Harris & Williams]

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21. Elizabeth3 (Exercise, Roger), bapt. 29 July, 1677, at
Beverly; m. 17 Oct., 1695, as his second wife, Richard, son of
Richard Hendee, of Norwich, Conn. Richard Hendee was
one of the first proprietors of Killingworth, Conn. In 1689
he purchased land in Joshua's Tract of Joseph Fitch, on which
he settled as early as 1691. Joshua's Tract took its name from
the fact that it was given by Joshua, grandson of Uncas, to a
company of gentlemen of Norwich ; the name was soon
changed to Windham. In 1692 he was granted the privilege
of building a dam and saw mill on Beaver brook, also half a
mile of land adjoining for timber and pasture. Richard Hen-
dee was admitted an inhabitant 30 May, 1693. He d. 6 Feb.,
1743 ; his wife d. 23 Sep., 1762. By his first wife, Sarah Smith,
he had one son, Jonathan, who is the ancestor of the Pittsford,
Vt., Hendees.

Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Conant) Hendee: —

i. Hannah, b. 25 Dec, 1697; m. Hurd, of Stratford.

ii. Sarah, b. 16 Apr., 1700; m. Casey, of Mansfield.

iii. Caleb, b. 12 Mch., 1704 (d. young?).

iv, Josiah, b. 25 Apr., 1707; lived in Ashford; left a large family. One of his descendants (Caleb) was one of Gen. Washington's Life Guards. Many of his descendants
still live at Ashford.

V. Elizabeth, b. 28 Apr., 1710; m. Brown, of Windham.

vi. Barzillai, b. 18 June, 1713; lived and died at Woodbury, Conn. Left a large family who, it is supposed, removed to western New York,

vii. Asa, b. 25 Aug., 1715; settled in Coventry, Conn., where he died leaving children:

1. Asa, removed to Utica, N. Y., where he died leaving Asa, Cyrus, Cloa, Zoa, Lota and Esther.

2. Eliphalet, m. Mary Loomis, of Bolton; settled in Coventry where he d. 1827, leaving (a) Abner, now of Hebron, Conn. ; (b) Mary, now of Andover, Conn. ; (c)
Eliphalet, of Andover, Conn., m. Amelia Babcock, of Columbia; is the father of Lucius J. Hendee, President of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company of Hartford; (d)
Leonard, of Andover.

3. Lydia.

4. Mary.

5. Esther.

viii. Nathaniel, b. 10 Aug., 1718.

ix. Mary, b. 6 July, 1720; m. Dudley, of Woodbury, Conn.