Deacon Hugh
Calkins2209,2614,2616,2617,2772,2773,2774,2775 was born in 1600 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England.2615,2616,2775,2776
He took the oath of freeman in 1642.2773
He moved from Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts to New London, New London
County, Connecticut in 1651.2773,2777 October 19, 1650, grants
of land were made by the townsmen of New London to "Mr. Richard Blynman,
Obadiah Bruen, Hughe Calkin, Hughe Roberts, John Coite, Andrew Lester, James
Averye and Robert Isbell." Mr. Blynman was a minister at Gloucester, Mass.,
engaged to become the minister at Pequot Plantations as New London was then called.
The others were a party of his friends from Gloucester and Salem who purposed
to come with him and came on to make preparatory arrangements. Early in 1651,
New Street, in rear of the town plot, was opened for the accommodation of the
Cape Ann Company, as this little group was known. This was designated as "beyond
the brook and the ministry lot." It was made into houselots and called Cape
Ann Lane, nine lots on this street of six acres each. Beginning at the lower
end Hughe Calkins had the first lot by the Lyme Road, or highway to Nahantic,
next him, his son-in-law, Hughe Roberts, then John Coite, Andrew Lester, James
Averye, Robert Allyn, William Meads, William Hough and Robert Isbell. Later,
lands near New London, were laid out to Robert Isbell, Capt. John Avery and John
Pickett, near Jonathan Brewsters in Poquetannock, and those were called the "Poquetannock
Grants." December 1659, his house on New Street was sold to William Hough,
and in 1665 the farm in the northern part of the town in what is now (1943) Ledyard
and on which he had lived, was bought by George Geer.
From "The Descendants of Robert Isbell in America" (on line @ GenealogyLibrary.com), p. 3 He died in 1690 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.2616,2773,2775,2776 He was a husbandman.2620 Deacon Hugh Calkins and Ann Eaton were married in 1622 in England.2209,2615,2616,2621,2774,2775