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• Title	Sergeant
  Birth	21 Feb 1615	Nazeing, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Dec 1707	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Person ID	I51746	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	23 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	John CURTIS (CURTYCE), b. 15 Sep 1577, Nazeing, Essex, England
  Mother	Elizabeth HUTCHINS, b. 1587, Nazeing, Essex, England
  Family ID	F22539	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth WELLES
  Married	1641	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Children	1. John CURTIS, b. 14 Oct 1642, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut > 2. Israel CURTISS, b. 3 Apr 1644, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   3. Elizabeth CURTIS, b. 2 May 1647, Stratford, Frfld, Conn   4. Thomas CURTIS, b. 14 Jan 1648, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   5. William CURTIS, b. Abt 1650, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   6. Ensign Joseph CURTIS, b. 12 Nov 1650, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   7. Benjamin CURTIS, b. 30 Sep 1652, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   8. Hannah CURTISS, b. 2 Feb 1654, Stratford, Frfld, Conn   9. Phoebe CURTIS, b. 1660, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Family ID	F13547	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Baptized, 26 Feb 1614, at Nazeing, England. Sailed from London on ship "SAFETY" 10 Aug 1635. aged 21. Ship scheduled to go to Virginia. Apparently wound up in Connecticut. Parents came 2 to 4 years later. On 10th of August 1635, John Curtiss, aged 21, eldest son of John Curtiss and Elizabeth Hutchins sailed from London, England in the ship "Safety" to Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. In 1639, John Curtiss became a resident of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. In 1640, John Curtiss removed from Wethersfield to Cupheag (Stratford), Hartford County, Connecticut. In May 1658, John Curtiss was made a freeman. On 29th of December 1675, "Sergeant John Curtiss was elected Town Teasurer of Stratford". In 1678 John and William Curtiss on town committee to build a new meetinghouse. John Curtiss served as a soldier in the King Philip's War, obtaining the rank of Ensign or second lieutenant. DEATH: Town of Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut Volume 2, part 2 (1684-1729), Curtis, John Senior aged 96 died 2 Dec 1707