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- John is the son of Sarah Hadlock & Williams Simons.1
. Prior to 1749 the towns of Enfield & Somers belonged to Massachusetts.
Children of Sarah Geer & William Simons are:
1. John Simons, 1724 Mar 19 Enfield - d. Enfield, married in 1748, Miriam Jones. 11 children;
2. Sarah Simons, 1726 Aug 22 Hartford, Conn - d. Connecticut;
3. Paul Simons, 1726 Sep 11, Enfield - 1778 May 24 Enfield, married Mary X, 2 children;
4. Ebenezer Simons, 1732 Feb 19 - 1755 Mar 11;
5. Asbel Simons, 1734 Apr 7- 1811 Jun 3 Enfield, was a soldier in the expedition to Fort Edward, Oct., 1757. Married, June 19, 1759, Mehitable Isom, b. 1740 Ellington or Windsor - d. April 8, 1813, aged 73. Their child Joseph, b. in Enfield, Nov. 20, 1772;
6. Charity Simons, 1736 Jul 27- 1737 Feb 17, Enfield;
7. Charity Simons the Second, 1738 Sep 4 -1805 Jun 13, 1805. Red sandstone monuments reads In memory of Mrs. Charity Abbe, wife of John Abbe, who died Jun 13, 1805 in the 67th year of hear age;
8.* Bathsheba Simons.1, 1740 Jan 24 -1742 Oct 4, Enfield;
8. Titus Simons, 1743 Jun 7 - d. Enfleld, & married Jan. 20, 1763, Sarah Simons of Windsor. Children: b. in Enfield: i. Titus, jr., b. Jan. 30, 1765, d. June 14, 1771; ii. Sarah, b. July 31, 1767.
9.* Bathsehebe Simons - 1748 Jun 9 Enflield - d. 1754 Apr 23, ye 2d 5y, daug'r of Mr. John Simons & Mrs. Sarah is wife in ye 6th year of her age, 2 children;
10. Bathsheba Simons.2, 1748 Jun 9 - 1754 April.
11. Edward Simons, 1750 Sep 3 Enfield, died unknown.
ALL buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, (except the unknown death of Edward Simons.)
. Cattle Marks & Town Meetings. [Life in the Village of Enfield]:
. Taken up by John Simons a white ear marked with a crop of the off Ear & a slice in the top of the near ear & a half penny the upper side the near Ear. Also a white ew marked with a half Crop the upper side of each ear.
. First Ecclesiastical Society in Enfield ( SHAKERS) 1770-1849
In Enfield until 1770 the parish lines were the town lines, the Society voters were the town voters & all society business was done in town meeting.
. A time of Remarkable Sickness & Mortality in this Town with Longfeaver [typhus].
1770 Aug 23 - when see fit to build a meeting house it should not he moved out of the Street … meetings warned by notifications at Taverns & Mills.
. Committee to uniting the 2 societies into one, inc. Lt Nath Geer. Ensign John Simons, Jun. Voted Shubael Geer shall pay what his rate would have been.
. [BARTER RATE]: Payment for building a Meeting House to be made in Indian Corn at 2shillings per bushel, Wheat at 4s/per bu.; Rye at 3, Port at pence per county, beef fit to Barrel at 2 p., Tobacco if raised by the hand that presents it for his own rate at 18s. per Hundred. Money always to be accepted instead if any person desires to cart each to the banks to Meeting House.
. 1772 Jul 9 - First Society Meeting convented.
. 1774 Oct 3 - Meeting Enfield, voted & chose Ensign John Simons to a 2nd. committee for the year ensuing. At the same meeting voted Mr. Isaac Kibbe have Liberty to put the Step Stones next May & Ens. John Simons be a Committee to finishing the meeting house & to say whither it be done according to garaging & to say shat step stones shall be at the Steeple door. Mr. Kibbee directed to lay a double floor in the new meeting house.
. Regulate seating young men to be seated at 16 & young women at 14 years old.
. 1784 Aug 30, Eliphalet Terry, Moderator, Capt. Ephraim Pease procured & presented a bell for the public Utility of a Meeting. It shall remain entirely for their use, excepting for Death & Funerals when the whole Town may have the Privilege of said Bell.
Ref: History of Enfield Connecticut, Town Records,
. 1775 Apr 19, Wed. News of the opening Battle of Lexington reached Enfield on Thurs. afternoon Apr 20, 175. Isaac Kibble kept the tavern near the church & soon as the messenger arrived, Kibbe procured a drum & Thos Abbe beat the long roll about the Meeting House. The church meeting was broken up by this Abbe's drumming. the next morning 75 of Enfield Minute Men march for Boston, each with his flint-lock musket & powder horn. the Long Roll are Maj Nathaniel Terry, Lieut. Richard Abbe, Capt. John Simons, & Corporals John Simons, 2nd., & Elusha Geer.
Ref: Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey.
. 1790 Census East Hartford, Conn.
John Simons, Male 1, Males under 16y 3, Females 5. - - -
Research & transcripts by PJ Ahlberg 2017. Thank you. - - -
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1694 - 1781 (87 years)