10th Great Grandfather John Arnold Founder of Hartford

(Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, By Lucius Barnes Barbour, pg.20)

John ARNOLD

John Arnold born 1595 died Dec 1664 (1 Ch Rec) Will dated Aug 20, 1664 Mar. Susanna.

• Josiah. [Hartford, freeman, 1657.]
• Joseph m Elizabeth Wakeman (Samuel). Elizabeth m/2. [Freeman, 1658; one of the first settlers of Haddam, d. Oct. 22, 1691.]
• John
  
• Daniel m Elizabeth Osborne (James). [Freeman, 1665 ; d. May 10, 1691, leaving wife and ch.]
• Dau m ( ) Buck
• Dau

John Arnold, freeman Cambridge May 6, 1635; an original proprietor of Hartford; received 16 acres in the division of 1639-40 when a lot was given him on the south side of the road leading from George Steel’s to the south meadow. Inv Dec 26, 1664: L105-10. John Arnold early member 1 Ch. Signed Agreement to remove to Hadley but did not go. Name on Founders Monument. Susannah widow of John Arnold original member 2 Ch - Feb 22, 1670, separated from 1 Ch.

[His widow, Susannah, was one of the original members of the South Church.]

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Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist

JOHN1 ARNOLD, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1603 in England, and died bef. 26 Dec 1664 in Hartford, CT (inventory). He married SUSANNA ______ bef. 1625 in England. She was born abt. 1598 in England, and died aft. 12 Mar 1666/67 in Hartford, CT.

John Arnold emigrated from England to Cambridge (then Newtown) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 where he was made freeman 6 May 1635. He was an original proprietor of Hartford, where in the land inventory of February 1639/40 he held eight parcels of land: two acres on which his dwelling house stood, located on the south side of the road from George Steele’s to the South Meadow; three acres of upland; ten acres and two roods of upland; one rood and three perches in the Little Meadow; four acres in the South Meadow; two acres in the forty acres of meadow; one acre and three roods in the Great Swamp; and two acres and one rood in the Swamp by the Great River.

He was chimney viewer in Hartford in 1643.

His will was dated 22 August 1664, the inventory of his estate was taken 26 December 1664, and his will was proved 2 March 1664/5.

Recommended Genealogy: “Some Descendants of John Arnold a Founding Father of Hartford, CT and his son Joseph Arnold, a Founding Father of Haddam, CT”, Preston T. Arnold, Leesburg, Florida, 2008 (However, it must be noted that in this genealogy the compiler claims a first wife, Elizabeth for the immigrant John Arnold, offering scant proof and running counter to “The Great Migration”, which latter source is considered definitive.

Ancestry Chain: John ARNOLD 1635 Immigrant [b.1595], Daniel ARNOLD b.1620, Hannah ARNOLD b.1660, Lydia MASON c.1696, Lucretia SEYMOUR b.1730, Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet. b.1756, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.