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the Plantation Covenant. Probably this was the elder who died in 1646. The Rev. John Hoadley who signed the covenant came over on the same ship. On the voyage his grandson, the famous Bishop, Benjamin Hoadley says he met Sarah Bushnell, daughter of Francis whom he afterward married.

      Francis Bushnell, Jr., probably came over in April, 1635, on "The Planter" with his wife and infant daughter.

      John Bushnell, the glazier, another son, came over in the "Hopewell" in the same year. Both brothers were at Salem in 1637.

       See numbers 71, 98, 168, 400, 1141.

CHATFIELD*
      ("The Chatfield Family" by William C. Sharpe, 1896, Seymour, Conn.)
      The arms of the Chatfield family were granted in the year 1564, and recorded in the Herald's College, London and are thus described:
         Argent, a griffin sable on a chief purple, three escalloped shells argent.
                                                                 Crest
              An heraldic antelope's head erased argent, ducally gorged or.
                                                                 Motto:
            
                                                    "Fides and extremum".
   
            Three brothers, Francis, George and Thomas Chatfield, came from England in 1639, Rev. Henry Whitfield's company to Guilford where Francis died unmarried in 1647.  Thomas Chattfield removed to New Haven, there married Ann Higginson, daughter of Rev. Francis Higginson and removed to East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y., where he was long a magistrate of the Connecticut jurisdiction. George Chatfield married (1) Sarah Bishop who died in 1657, leaving no issue. He married secondly Isabel Nettleton, daughter of Samuel Nettleton.  Their great, great, great, great, grand daughter, Ruth Ann Chatfield (1817-1904) died in Middlefield, Ohio.
           
          See numbers 6, 876, 1544, 1545.

CHITTENDEN*
          ("The Chittenden Family" by Alvan Talcott, A. M., M. D., 1882).

           William Chittenden was prominent among the original settlers of Guilford.  He came from the parish of Cranbrook, Kent, some thirty-five miles south east of London. He was one of six persons selected to purchase lands in Guilford from the native owners and was also one of the fourt (Robert Kitchell, William Chittenden, John Bishop and William Leete) who received "according to the record", "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the public weale and civic government of the plantation, until a church is gathered among us."
            Mr. Chittenden was married while in England to Joanne Sheaffe, daughter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe of Cranbrook, Kent. (Dorothy