James Fitch
Reverend
Baptized: December 24, 1622 Bocking, Essex, England
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Married:October 1648 Guilford, Connecticut
Died:November 18, 1702 Lebanon, Connecticut
Father: Thomas Fitch
Mother: Anna Reeve b.1590
Spouse: Abigail Whitfield b.1622
Children
Hannah Fitch b.1653
Notes:
-The Reverend James Fitch began his religious study in England at Cambridge. He emigrated to the New World with his widowed mother around the age of 16. He was trained under Reverends Hooker and Stone in Connecticut. He served as a missionary to the local natives and he was ordained minister in Saybrook, until he moved to Norwich following his first wife's death. He became a fluent speaker of the local Mohegan language, and they granted him land on which he founded the town of Lebanon, CT.
-Ancestor of Supreme Court Justice Reinquist.
Sources:
-Birth Source: "Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 8", Gravestone
-Marriage Source: "History of Fitch Family..."
-Death Source: "Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 8"