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• Birth	27 Oct 1596	Hollingbourne, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Aug 1659	Oyster River Quarter, Saybrook, , Connecticut
  Person ID	I7737	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	06 Nov 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Abraham POSTE, b. 18 May 1566, England
  Mother	Anne HUNTE, b. 1580, Hollingbourne, Kent, England
  Family ID	F3198	Group Sheet
  Family	Eleanor Langley PANTON, b. 1605, England
  Married	October 17 1625 (Banns)	Parish Of Langley, Kent England
  Children	1. Katherine POST, b. 15 Sep 1627/1630, England   2. John POST, c. 13 Sep 1629   3. Thomas POST, b. 1631   4. Joseph POST, b. 9 Aug 1633, Otham Kent England > 5. Abraham POST, b. 1629/1640
  Family ID	F3197	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Stephen Post was the first of our Post line to settle in North America. He settled in Connecut in 1634 with his wife and children. Stephen and his wife were married by banns and resided in Otham Kent England prior to coming to the United States. As sited by the writings of Nettie Leitch Major Author of C.W. Post the Hour and the Man Stephen was a follower of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, but due to the impending birth of a child, they sailed four months after the Griffen on which Hooker was the leader. Stephen Post's name appears on the monument as one of the co-founders of Hartford Connecticut at Hartford. He migrated to Saybrook,Connecticut where he purchased his first land in Oyster River in 1648. The ancestrial line of Stephen has been in question for many years by many researchers. It is strongly believed by most though that Abraham is his father. The ancestrial line above Abraham should be viewed with skepticism and accepted with much apprehension. Nothing above Abraham has yet to be proven with documentation. I have chosen to record it so if in the future it is proven with documentation to be correct and factual, then the work for my family is done. It is also there for them to remove it if it is proven with documention to be false. This note remains with my family tree records for them for the future. The information gathered on this family tree line came from the following sources: Genealogical infromation printed in The Post Family and the Beginning of Post Mills; Genealogical information printed in C.W.Post the Hour and the Man; Genealogies of Connecticut Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Connecticut Vital Records; The printed genealogical information from The Colonial Post family of Saybrook and Hebron,Connecticut: Abraham Post and his Descendants; Personal records and research records of Anne Powell; Personal records and research records of Debra Mann; Personal records and research records of Graham Post; Personal records and research records of Albert Post; Family Bible information taken from the Bible handed down to Ezekiel Post from his mother Mariah Post in 1851; Family Bible information taken from the Bible of Joseph Post; Ontario Census records 1851,1861; IGI records from the Church of the Latter Day Saints web site; And several other sources where people have provided their own descendant lines that are too numerous to mention. Founders of HartfordThe following is a list of names of the Founders of Hartford that are engraved on the FoundersMonument in the Ancient Burying Ground, also sometimes referred to as the "Old" or "Center"Cemetery. The original brownstone Monument erected in 1837 was replaced by one of pinkConnecticut granite in 1986. The cemetery is located at the rear of the First Congregational("Center") Church at the corner of Main and Gold Streets in Hartford.Jeremy Adams Matthew Allyn William Andrews John ArnoldAndrew Bacon John Barnard Robert Bartlet John BayseyRichard Butler Francis Andrews John Bidwell Thomas BirchwoodWilliam Bloomfield Thomas Bull Thomas Bunce Benjamin BurrWilliam Butler Clement Chaplin Richard Church John ClarkNicholas Clark James Cole John Crow Robert DayJoseph Easton Edward Elmer Nathaniel Ely James EnsignZachariah Field William Gibbons Richard Goodman Ozias GoodwinWilliam Goodwin Seth Grant George Graves Samuel GreenhillSamuel Hale Thomas Hale Stephen Hart William HaydenJohn Haynes Thomas Hooker William Hill William HoltonEdward Hopkins John Hopkins Thomas Hosmer William HydeThomas Judd William Kelsey William Lewis Richard LordThomas Lord Richard Lyman John Marsh Matthew MarvinJohn Maynard John Moody Joseph Mygatt Thomas OlcottJames Olmsted Richard Olmsted William Pantrey William ParkerStephen Post John Pratt William Pratt Nathaniel RichardsRichard Risley Thomas Root William Rusco Thomas ScottThomas Selden Richard Seymour John Skinner Arthur SmithThomas Spencer William Spencer Thomas Stanley Timothy StanleyThomas Stanton Edward Stebbing George Steele John SteeleGoerge Stocking Samuel Stone John Talcott William WadsworthSamuel Wakeman Nathaniel Ward Andrew Warner Richard WebbJohn Webster Thomas Welles William Westwood John WhiteWilliam Whiting John Wilcox Gregory Wolterton George WyllysFor additional information, see:Talcott, Mary Kingsley. The Original Proprietors. Reprint, Society of The Descendants of theFounders of Hartford, Inc., 1986 [CSL call number: HistRef F 104 .H353 A26 1986]. Includesinformation on the individuals above as well as additional individuals having been proved to haveresided in Hartford prior to 1640. Should you wish to purchase a copy of this booklet or correspondwith the Society, contact the Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105.Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. Baltimore: GenealogicalPublishing Co., Inc., 1977 [CSL call number: HistRef F 104 .H353 A22 1977]. Containsgenealogical information on over 950 families of early Hartford.For a more thorough outline of our genealogical collections, along with our genealogical search service is neededplease see, <http://www.cslib.org/indexsch.htm>.I hope this information is helpful.Most sincerelyMel E. Smith, Librarian IIHistory and Genealogy Unit