Bravo, Dan. Great work! We should all pitch in and send you and yours to other locales of interest. Doug At 07:38 PM 12/29/97 -0500, you wrote: >My wife Suzanne and I recently spent two days at the Stamford, CT, >Historical Society going through some ancient records. I would like to >pass on some of our discoveries. > >1. We were able to go through the Stamford Grand Lists from 1650 >through 1819 - these are the tax lists, down to the number of cows >owned. We were able to verify the Stamford Tryons previously known, at >least the descendants of Rowland, son of Ziba, who was the first one >there. > >2. I have grave doubts that Edward Trehern of Stamford is the same >Edward Tryon of Bibury as claimed by Wesley Tryon. He was never >referred to as Tryon until the mid-1800's. He would have been 31 (per >Edward Tryon's baptism record in Bibury) when town records show he was >cutting up with some boys outside church one Sunday, throwing stones in >the swamp, wrestling and using tobacco. It just doesn't fit, and I fear >Wesley jumped to an unfortunate conclusion. Trehern married but had no >offspring, contrary to Wesley's claim, based on a hasty conclusion made >in the mid-1800's by a Rev Huntington. All in all, I feel that it is >highly improbable that Edward Trehern of Stamford is the same Edward >Tryon of Bibury, England. > >3. A new John Tryon has been discovered in the Stamford records, who is >definitely not either of the Johns previously known there. This John >Tryon was born 18 April 1781, married Polly Weed, daughter of Jonas Weed >and Ruth Waterbury. He died 18 April 1860, she was born ca. 1783, died >5 November 1855, aged 72. Nothing else is known. (This from Stamford's >Soldiers, by Wicks & Olson, 1976.) I cannot find anything on this >John. He was not known to Wesley. I can't find any census records that >fit this description. Any ideas??? > >4. There is absolutely no doubt that Hannah Weeks married Benjamin Tryon >OF STAMFORD (not of Coxsackie) and gave him a few children. The records >are crystal clear. Forthermore, her name was interchangably Weeks or >Wicks. > >5. A really loose cannon has been discovered in one Edward Tryon of >Woodstock, Windham, CT, who enlisted 11/25/1755 during the French and >Indian war. He was discharged the following spring. He served in Capt. >Israel Putnam's company (later a Rev War general of some fame), and was >in garrison at Fort Edward. According to History of Woodstock by Bowen, >1926, Edward Tryon was from Woodstock. This is the first and only Tryon >ever found in Windham county (except for 20th century). One possibility >is that he is the same Edward Tryon born and baptised in Middletown in >1739 and who next shows up in Saybrook married to Mercy Harris in 1759. >But what was he doing all the way up north in Woodstock??? Or maybe >this is a descendant of Thomas Tryon, son of William of Wethersfield. >His descendants are known to have wandered all over. Any ideas? > >6. There is a report that Samuel Tryon served in the Rev War (he did) as >well as in the French-Indian War. His birthdate is given as 1743 in the >Lockwood Bible and 1748 in CT Church Records. Either way he was pretty >young to have served in 1755. The original claim is in the Lockwood >Bible, but not in Rev Huntington's History of Stamford, 1868. But why >would such a claim be in a Bible inscription if there were not some >basis in fact? There are NO rosters in existence. The Lockwood Bible >is at the Fairfield Historical Society, Fairfield CT, so maybe we should >take a look at it. > >7. The parentage of Benjamin Tryon b 1755, thought to be son of Rowland, >is now up for grabs. A land record states that Benjamin's mother's name >was Sarah, but Rowland's wife's name is thought to be Elizabeth. I >shall have to get copies of all the Stamford recorded land deeds to >straighten this one out. > >If anybody has any questions regarding Stamford Tryons please contact us >and we will see what we have. > >Dan Brevik & Suzanne DeMillar > > >