Timothy Stoughton

Timothy Stoughton was "a sadler by trade and at times he paid his rates by mending a saddle according to entries in the Rate Book kept by his uncle, Rev. Timothy Edwards for whom he had been named". He was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and thirty years later married in Hartford, Connecticut to Hannah Olcott, daughter of thomas and Sarah (Foote) Olcott. When Hannah died seven years later, Timothy "appears to have remained (in Hartford) for the following six or seven years. By 1751 he was in Somerset County, Province of New Jersey, the county in which his son William eventually married Catherine Covert.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	1703	Windsor, CT
1st Marriage	27 June 1733	Hartford, CT	to Hannah Olcott (b.4 Aug 1707) (d. Jan, 1740, Hartford CT)
2nd Marriage			Unknown
Death	bef. 26 Mar. 1780

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 7         Generation 8            Generation 9            Generation 10
                                                                  +-- Thomas Stoughton
                                                                  |   (1662-1749)
                                          +-- Timothy Stoughton --+
                                          |   (1703-????)         |
                  +-- William Stoughton --+                       +-- Abigail (Edwards) Lothrop
                  |   (1742-1822)         |
 John Stoughton --+                       +-- [unknown]
 (1773-1833)      |                           (????-????)
                  +-- [unknown] Vorhees
                      (????-????)

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Children

(children with 1st wife, Hannah Olcott)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Jonathan Stoughton	M	20 April 1735	Hartford, CT		d. 25 May 1813
John Stoughton	M	23 Nov 1738	Troy, NY	Ann Lewis	d. "short time after July 1809"
Samuel Stoughton	M	12 Dec 1734	Hartford, CT	1)Mary Severance, 1769 in Northfield, MA; 2)Sarah Munn,1771 in Gill, MA	d. 25 Jan 1814, Gill,MA	}

Children

(Children with 2nd wife, Unknown)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Stoughton
Stoughton

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Windsor, Ct	June 1703, birth	with parents
Hartford, Ct	Jun3 1733~-1746/47	with first wife Hannah
Somerset Co., NJ	by 1751
Frederick County, MD	by 1763
"Greenfield"	by 1780

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	The Stoughton Family of Gill, Massachusetts compiled by Ralph M. Stoughton, 1954, original from University of Wisconsin, Public Domain. Digitized by Google at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066287988&view=1up&seq=1&skin=2021. Biographical data beginning in England suggests John Stoughton as father of Thomas Stoughton (born ca. 1555). Thomas' son the Reverand Thomas Stoughton (b. 1593) embarked for New England with two children including Thomas Stoughton, Jr.( -1684). Thomas Jr. fathered Thomas Stoughton (1662-1749)and Thomas was father to Timothy, (b.1703- ). Details of their lives are included, including the first wife and her children with Timothy Stoughton.
2	Letter to Samuel Stoughton at Greenfield from his brother Jonathan Stoughton. This letter contained in the above document, Source 1. "Sur, ...I shall give you some Account of Your Relations and friends here at Windsor, my honoured father id Dead, uncle Thomas Stoughton is Dead, Aunt Abigail More is Dead....". (It is unclear where Greenfield is located, but probably Greenfield Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland. The other New England possibility is Greenfield, Massachusetts.
15	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, direct descendant and gr-granddaughter of Elizabeth A. Stoughton.