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• Gender	Male
  Person ID	I95180	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2005 00:00:00
  Father	John MATSON
  Mother	Dorcas WEED
  Family ID	F41416	Group Sheet
  Family	Lydia MERRITT
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Children	> 1. Edwin MATSON > 2. Horton MATSON
  Family ID	F41417	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Joseph Weed and Deborah Moses of Simsbury, CT are descendants of two Puritan immigrants that came to New England during the Great Migration of the1630. Joseph was the great-grandson of Jonas Weed who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late spring of 1630 with the Gov. John Winthrop fleet. Jonas settledin Watertown, MA and moved with others in 1636 and 1637 south along the Connecticut River and settled the town of Wethersfield, CT, the oldest established settlement in the Colony of Connecticut. In 1641 he was an early settler in Stamford, CT and he died there in 1676. Descendants of the line of Jonas Weed to Joseph Weed were in Stamford, Derby, Waterbury and finally Simsbury, where the subject Joseph settled by 1757. Deborah Moses was the second great-granddaughterof John Moses of Plymouth, MA who came to New England between 1630 and 1640. Her great-grandfather, also named John, was in Windsor, CT in 1647. Her grandfather, another John Moses, was also born in Windsor and was the first of the Moses family to came to Simsbury, CT about 1681. The author is a fifth great-grandson of Joseph Weed and Deborah Moses through his mother, Mary Frances Maloney, his grandfather, Frederick George Maloney, and his great-grandmother, Sarah Weed. This work is in four sections, which are: Joseph Weed and Deborah Moses and their descendants through seven generations, The ancestry of JosephWeed, tracing the direct line from Jonas Weed to Joseph Weed, The ancestry of Deborah Moses, tracing the direct line from the original John Moses to Deborah Moses and The descendants of Sarah Weed, the daughter of Fellows Weed andMary Hare, and the author's great-grandmother Simsbury and granby, connecticut In the seventeenth century, Simsbury - or Massacoe, as it was originallyknown - comprised all of that area that today includes the Hartford County towns of Simsbury, Granby, East Granby, West Granby, Canton and North Canton. Although never included within the town limits of Windsor, it was generally considered a parish of that town and the early settlers of Simsbury were from Windsor.In 1642, an act of the General Court specified that, "It is ordered, that the Governor and Mr. Haynes shall have liberty to dispose of the ground upon that part of Tunxus river, called Massacoe, to such inhabitants of Windsor, as they shall see cause." The first Indian deed for any of this area was given in 1648by three Indians, Pacatoco, Pamatacount and Youngcoout, to John Griffin with the two witnesses to this deed given on the 28th day of June, 1648 were Windsorresidents, George Abbet and John Moses, the great-grandfather of Deborah Moses.Grants of land were made by the General Court to numerous persons but a permanent settlement was not established until about 1664, and it was not until 1666that a committee, appointed by the General Court, specified the terms upon which Windsor residents may take up land in Massacoe. The first grants of land weremade by that committee the following year and it is believed that all of the first settlers were there by 1669. One of those grants in "Weatogue, east" was to John Moses, Sr., Deborah's great-grandfather. Until 1668 Massacoe was still associated with the town of Windsor but that year the General Court "doth desire that Massacoe, which hitherto hath been an appendix to the town of Windsor,may be improved for the making of a plantation." Further, the Court went on toorder the previosly appointed committee to "make such just orders as they shall judge requisite for the well ordering of the said plantation, so they be notbe repugnant to the public order of this Colony." As a result of this order, Massacoe had some measure of local control as a plantation and in 1670 the General Court incorporated it as a separate town and the name changed to Simsbury. The Court set Simsbury's boundaries as running "from Farmington bounds to the northward tenn miles, and from Windsor bounds, on th

• Sources

  [S1822] Descendents of Thomas Matson, (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cgarner/Matson_Family/thomasmatsondesc.htm).