Category Archives: New London
Puritans and Pilgrims
I’ve had time lately to do some enjoyment reading as I sit for chemotherapy treatments these last few weeks. Finally, I’ve begun to read some from a stack of books that has been piling up since 2010. This week, I … Continue reading
Posted in Ashford, Dayghton, Howland, Mary Knight Haines Dayton, New Haven Colony, New London, Ralph Dayton, Skiff, Skiffe
Tagged Mayflower, Myles Standish, Pilgrim, Puritan, Ralph Dayton
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Abraham Dayton family in Brookhaven NY and New London CT
It’s difficult to escape the desire to discover what happened to Abraham Dayton in the late 1690s that seemed to change everything. Two particularly large and bothersome questions in his story are 1) the apparent separation of family and 2) … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Dayton, Deborah Dayton, John Rogers, New London, Rogerenes, Sweezey
Tagged Abraham Dayton, Abrham Dayton New London, Dayton family, Rogerenes
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To what extent were Daytons involved with the Rogerenes at New London?
There is the possibility that the Rogerene movement, an offshoot of the Anabaptists, had somehow been a factor in the marriage of Catherine Sweezey (many spellings) and Abraham Dayton, but to what extent it influenced or determined the course of unexplained … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Dayton, Brookhaven, Henry Dayton, New Haven Colony, New London, Sweezey
Tagged Abraham Dayton, Abraham Dayton family, Abraham Dayton's appeal to collect charity, Abraham Dayton's mysterious plunge to destitution, Catherine Sweezey Abraham Dayton, Daytons and Rogerenes at New London, Deborah Dayton married John Rogers 1718/19, Joshua Hempstead said "Jno & Deb Daton published", Rogerenes refused to pay a minister's tax
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Dayton Ancestry 