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James Hosmer (b....died 1605) Ticehurst, Sussex, England, married Anges....(died 1614); their son:

Stephen Hosmer (baptized December 26, 1570,) married January 25, 1601/2 Doroty Selden (born about 1582) and settled neawr Hawkhurst, England; their son:

Thomas Hosmer (baptized February 2 1602/3) died April 12, 1687. (see Hosmer family by James B. Hosmer). Settled in Newton, now Cambridge, Mass. as early as 1632 and was admitted freeman in in 1635. Removed to Hartford, Comm., in June 1636; was one of the original settlers of Hartford and was in the first record of Town Proprietorers of land - January 14, 1639, there was set for him 60 acres. His first wife, Frances ------- died Febrary 1675, aged 73. His daughter:

Hannah Hosmer, b...died 1674, married March ------- 1656,

Josiah Willard, son of Simon.

See Willard family, page 233 hereof.

HUBBARD
(From "Hubbard History" by Edward W. Day, 1895). An ancient family with several coats of arms, usually with swans and eagles all having the motto:

("Alta Petens")

George Hubbard, born in England, probably in the southeastern section. Tradtion says he came first to Watertown Mass., about 1633. His wife was Mary Bishop who was born about 1610 and who died at Guilford 9.14.1675. She was the daughter of John (ca 1590-1661) and Anne Bishop. He was admitted to Church membership 10.6.1650; deputy magistrate 165o to 1666; member of Assembly in 1667.

See numbers 1, 8, 16, 366 634, 912, 1496 2041, 2047.

JORDAN*

(By Hon. Ralph D. Smyth in New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 62).

John Jordan, of Kent England, was among the first planters at Guilford and signed the Whitfield covenant June 1, 1639. his name appears as one of the trustees in the Deed of Uncas to the settlers of Guilford, December 17, 1641, and again with Mr. Desborrow's in the Deed of Wequash to Mr. Whitfield, Sept. 20 1641. He married Anne Bishop in October, 1639 at Menunkatuck and died in 1650. His widow married Thomas Clarke of Milford in 1652. He died in 1668. She removed to Killingworth Conn. and died in 1672.