Ninth Generation

260. Joseph CHANDLER Sr. (*) was born on 4 June 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 5 January 1749 at the age of 65 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

"Pomfret was settled during the earliest times of colonization in the New England area. As a result, the Pomfret that visitors find today features several historic buildings and churches. The town began as the "Mashamoquet Purchase" in 1686 and was incorporated in 1713."
He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the South Cemetery (also known as the Sabin Cemetery and the Wappaquoian Burial Ground), near Walhhaquian's Brook. Joseph has Ancestral File Number 92RC-ML. Susanna PERRIN (*) and Joseph CHANDLER Sr. (*) were married on 22 June 1708 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. From the "Early Settlement of Pomfret, Connecticut":

"The town of Pomfret is one of the central towns of Windham county, lying a little north of the geographical center. It is surrounded by its sister towns, Woodstock on the north, Putnam and Killingly on the east, Brooklyn on the south, Hampton on the southwest, and Eastford on the west. Its original territory has been diminished by contributions toward Brooklyn on the south, Hampton on the southwest, and Putnam on the northeast. Its present dimensions are about six miles square, with irregular excesses of a mile in the southeast part, and a mile and a half upon the northwest corner of Brooklyn. Its area is about forty square miles. The surface of the town is hilly and rolling, but a large part of it presents a good soil and is well adapted for profitable culture. The Quinebaug river, which flows along the southern half of the eastern boundary, receives the Mashamoquet, which drains a large part of the surface of this town. The New York and New England railroad crosses the town diagonally from southwest to northeast, affording stations at Elliotts, Abington and Pomfret Centre. Each of these localities has a post office and the town contains other post offices, Pomfret and Pomfret Landing. The main village, known as Pomfret Street, is. located on a beautifully commanding hill in the northern part of the town. The wide old street, lined with majestic shade trees and borders of the richest verdure, is filled with homes that speak from their neatness and luxurious furnishings, of peaceful, refreshing, health giving rest and enjoyments which they must afford to those whom fortune has favored with a resting place within them.

Agriculture is the chief support of this town. In later years its attractions have been discovered by city people who have adopted the habit of coming hither for a breathing spell in the heated season of the year. Manufacturing has never gained a foothold to any extent within the present limits of the town. Its beginnings at the northeast corner of the town, which were later included in the town of Putnam, will be noticed elsewhere. Its streams afford many sites for mills, and these have been utilized for grinding grain and sawing timber. Saw mills are operated by Joshua Angell, Joseph H. Bacon, William H. Braman, Lucien N. Holmes, Samuel Lynn and Horace Sabin. Grist mills run by Fremont Bruce, William Brayton and G. H. Sessions.

The population of Pomfret at different periods has been : in 1756, 1,727; in 1775, 2,306; in 1800, 1,802; in 1820, 2,042; in 1840, 1,868; in 1870,1,488; in 1880, 1,470. The grand list showed : in 1723, X5,588; in 1777.5,;6,27,711; in 1800, $55,154; in 1845, $30,751; in 185 7, $32,820; in 1887, $801,711.

The territory occupied by Pomfret was included in the Wabbaquasset country, and came into the possession of Major Fitch in 1684. A number of Roxbury men having heard favorable reports of the land lying southward in Connecticut, opened negotiations with 'Major Fitch, and purchased 15,100 acres to be located by their choice in the Wabbaquasset country near the line of the Nipmuck country. The deed of this sale bore date May 1st, 16S6, and the grantees named in it were Samuel Ruggles, Sr., John Chandler, Sr., Benjamin Sabin, John Grosvenor, Samuel Ruggles, Jr., and Joseph Griffin. A stipulation of the transfer deed was that within three years the ground should be chosen and that it should be owned in fourteen equal shares, twelve of which should be held by the grantees and two by Major Fitch. May 30th the deed was confirmed by the consent and signature of Owaneco and Josiah, his eldest son and heir. Six other proprietors who were admitted to make the required twelve were John Pierpont, John White, John Ruggles, John Gore, Samuel Gore and Thomas Mowry. These twelve were then residents of Roxbury, Mass.

During the summer of 1686 the tract was located on the Mashamoquet river, and the name of that river was applied to the tract. A patent for a township, including this purchase and land adjacent, was granted by the Governor and Company of Connecticut, July 8th, 1686, to John Blackwell, James Fitch, Samuel Craft, Nathaniel Wilson and their associates for this new plantation in the Wabbaquasset country."

"Deacon John Chandler, of Woodstock, died in 1702, leaving to his youngest son, Joseph, ' the lot in Mashamoquet, lying upon the line, and, if he see cause, all the Mashamoquet lands.' The one hundred and fourteen acres upon the line were valued in the appraisal of the goods at £20; two hundred acres on Mashamoquet brook, £12; purchase lands still undivided at £-."

"In 1706 Joseph Chandler sold a hundred acres of land west of Sessions', on the Mashamoquet, to Richard Dresser, of Rowley, who conveyed the same the following year, together with a small dwelling house built upon it, to Abiel Lyon, of Woodstock. Mr. Lyon at once occupied this dwelling, and set up a saw mill on the Mashamoquet. Joseph Chandler married in 1708 Susanna Perrin, of Woodstock, and settled on the "lot on the line." bequeathed him by his father. Part of this land, and other land bordering on Woodstock, were purchased and occupied by Edward Payson, of Roxbury, in 1705."

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261. Susanna PERRIN (*) was born on 20 June 1687 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 22 January 1755 at the age of 67 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She has Ancestral File Number 92PZ-5G. Susanna was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery (also known as the Wappaquoian Burial Ground), near Walhhaquian's Brook.

Children were:

	i.	Joseph CHANDLER Jr. (1st) was born on 1 April 1709 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 19 August 1709 at the age of 0 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He has Ancestral File Number 92RC-NR.
	ii.	Joseph CHANDLER Jr. (2nd) was born on 16 June 1710 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 4 July 1780 at the age of 70. He has Ancestral File Number 92RC-PX. Joseph was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery near Walhhaquian's Brook.
130	iii.	David CHANDLER Sr. (*).
	iv.	Susanna CHANDLER was born on 10 February 1713 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 26 April 1801 at the age of 88 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. She has Ancestral File Number 92RC-R9.
	v.	Peter CHANDLER (1st) was born on 17 May 1716 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 14 January 1732 at the age of 15. He has Ancestral File Number 92RC-SG. Peter was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery.
	vi.	Dorothy CHANDLER was born on 12 April 1718 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 20 May 1773 at the age of 55. She has Ancestral File Number 92RC-TM.
	vii.	Hepzibah CHANDLER was born on 12 August 1720 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 19 June 1810 at the age of 89 in Thompson, Windham County, CT. She was buried in West Thompson, Windham County, CT. Hepzibah has Ancestral File Number 92RC-VS.
	viii.	Stephen CHANDLER was born on 25 August 1722 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 21 July 1752 at the age of 29. He has Ancestral File Number 92RC-W0. Stephen was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery.
	ix.	Josiah CHANDLER was born on 2 October 1724 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 12 December 1798 at the age of 74. He has Ancestral File Number 92RC-X5.
	x.	Eunice CHANDLER was born on 17 December 1726 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 18 November 1769 at the age of 42. She has Ancestral File Number 92RC-ZB.
	xi.	Daniel CHANDLER was born on 21 March 1729 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 7 January 1790 at the age of 60. He was buried in Mansfield, Tolland County, CT. in Buckland Corners. Daniel has Ancestral File Number 92RD-0G.
	xii.	Peter CHANDLER (2nd) was born on 23 June 1733 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. The 1810 Census for Pomfret Township contained a listing for the household of a Peter Chandler, age over 45. That may have been him. He died on 25 October 1816 at the age of 83. He has Ancestral File Number 92RD-1M.