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From: rleutner <>
Subject: Why Essex Co. folks to Norwich CT?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:35:23 -0600 (CST)


Hi Craig,

I don't think it's off the mark at all to ask why so many
Essex families show up in Norwich & then Windham Co CT, and so
I have cc:'d your question back to the Essex list.

Norwich and its hinterland opened up to white settlement
fitfully after King Philip's War, with no little disagreement
over political jurisdiction, since the whole Narragansett area
was vaguely claimable by CT, MA, and RI.

I think you'll find that it's not that the area was a kind of
colony of Essex Co., but rather that there was substantial
migration from all of the coastal New England centers --
Essex/northeast, Boston/etc./Middlesex, Dedham & environs,
Plymouth, the various RI centers. It just looks like that if
you're working with Essex families.

Hope this helps.

Bob Leutner
Iowa City IA


On Tue, 3 Feb 1998 wrote:

> In a message dated 98-02-03 21:08:54 EST, you write:
>
> << Subj: Re: George Family
> Date:98-02-03 21:08:54 EST
> From: (rleutner)
> Sender:
> To: (Phil Ellsworth)
> CC: ('essex roots')
>
> Hi Phil, et al.:
>
> Typically, this response isn't to your question, but a query
> inspired by yours, namely, who are the DOWNING folks you
> mention? I have been scrounging around all over Essex (and
> elsewhere) looking for DOWNINGs who might account for my David
> DOWNING of a 1737 marriage to Anna BLUNT in Norwich CT.
>
> TIA for anything at all!
>
> Bob Leutner
> Iowa City IA
>
> >>
>
> This is way off the mark as concerns the original post (and I apologize if I
> asked you this question before), but do you know why a number of our Essex
> ancestors settled in Norwich, CT in the early 1700s ? My Tenney ancestors
> moved there and I am curious as to why. Thanks Bob.
>
> Craig Heberton
>

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