Bygod Eggleston Genealogy
Record modified: 2023-01-29
This is my ancestor 11 generations back.
Born: 1587-02-20 Settrington, Yorkshire England
Died: 1674-09-01 Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut USA
Marriages:
1. Mary Wall
Children of Bygod Eggleston and Mary Wall:
Notes:
from Eggleston website
Baptized in All Saints Church at Settrington, East Riding, (now North Yorkshire) England 1587-02-20 Settrington, Yorkshire, England (1586 old-style)
He came over from England on the ship Mary & John, which sailed from Plymouth, England on 1630-03-20, just a few days ahead of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630. They landed ten weeks later at Dorchester, Massachusetts. About 1635 he moved to Windsor, Connecticut, which is at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers. Windsor is about six miles north of where the city of Hartford stands today.
He brought to the colonies with him three sons, James, John and Samuel. A daughter Mary, another son James, and his first wife, are assumed to have died before Bygod left England and little else is known about them.
He married again, Mary, and again, her surname is unknown. Together they had seven children; Thomas, Mercy (Marcy), Sarah, Rebecca (Deborah), Abigail, Joseph and Benjamin. Bygod was fined 20 shillings in 1645 for "bequeathing his wife to a young man." The young man, a George Tuckye, was fined 40 shillings, but he took off and didn't pay.
Bygod survived his second wife as well, and married for a third and final time. Once again, her name is unknown. No known children came of this marriage.
Much uncertainty about his mother. Could be Margaret Harker.
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"A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records"
p136
Bygatt Eglestone
Location: Windsor
Invt. L116-03-00. Taken 24 October 1674 by Old William Trall, Thomas Dibble sen., Matthew Grant.
Will dated 13 November 1673:
I Bigat Egllstone of Windsor, in ye county of Hartford, being aged and weake, doe make this my last will & Testament as followeth:
My Estate, which is but Small, This is my will: My House & Land after my decease I give to my son Benjamin, he being ye staff of my age, on this condition, that he shall maintaine his Moother during her life and pay my Debts.
And in case yt my son Joseph should come and demand a portion, his brother shall pay him forty shillings as he is able with conveniency.
Also to my son James & my son Samuel & my son Thomas, And to my Daughters Mary, Sarah & Abigail, to eyther of these three shillings apeece.
All ye rest of my estate I give to my son Benjamin, and doo make him my exsequitor.
Witness: Nath. ffyler, Abraham Randall, John Hosford
Beget Egleston
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1132
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