I will abstract a few pages per day to the list. I have had so very many request for look-ups, and this volume is not indexed, and as you will see it jumps about a great deal. I hope it will help some of our cousins. One note about sources. If sources were noted I will include that data as well. Remember folk, I did not write this nor am I taking any credit for materials. Just use it as you would any other materials without documentation. My kindest regards, Steve Turner Family Magizine: Vol. I (sic): January 1916 by William M. Clements THE FAMILY OF TURNER An ancient house of Norman-French origin, the Turn- ers appear in England at the time of the Conquest. In the thirty-five different branches of the British family there are as many varied coats-of-arms. The distinguishing feature of a majority of these is the mill rind in which the center of the millstone is set, indicating that the early Turners were millwrights or millers. In America perhaps the earliest arrival was Humphrey Turner, who settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1628. He became prominent in Scituate and conducted a tan- nery there as early as 1636. The Turners became a numerous family in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and in Maine. During King Phillip's War, Captain William Turner gained a great victory in the Connecticut Valley, where Turner's Falls, near Greedfield, Mass., was afterward named for him. In Maine the town of Turner was named for Rev. Charles Turner, one of the descendents of the first Hum- phrey. In Pennsylvania and Virginia, there were early arrivals who establshed large and prosperous communities. As early as 1672, Henry Turner was living in Northamp- ton Parish, Va. In 1750 the Turners were firmly settled in North Carolina. The Turner Family Magizine will endevor to present in each issue, new and heretofore unpublished records of the Turners in America, and private data and records from family bibles are solicited for publication. In future numbers we purpose to print nearly complete lists of the early Turner marriages from all the United States, from 1630 to 1875. These alone will be well worth the price asked for the magazine. W.M.C. EARLY SETTLERS IN CONNECTICUT In 1760, the first permanent settlers came to North- field, Conn., in the Litchfield hills. These came from North Haven by ox team, one, Titus Turner, building a log house. The well dug by TUrner is still in use, though the house has disappeared. Others followed these first settlers, and in 1762, the first child, James Marsh, was born in the new settlement, then called Litchfield Southeast farms. In 1778 the woods were still thick so that little Rhoda Turner, daughter of the first settler, when sent with dinner to workmen cutting timber, lost her way and the whole settlement was roused to find her. There is a tradi- tion of a bettle betewwn the Litchfield Indians, or "Bunk- ers" and the New Haven Indians, who had come up the valley in quest of certain shiny stones for traders, which resulted in victory for the former. There were several taverns in Northfield, as the stage route between Albany ans Hartford ran through the vil- lage. One was on the top of a hill where the churches which have succeeded "the church and the meetin' house" are still located. There taverens were built in 1782, it is said. About 1800, Jacob Turner, a descendant of the first Titus, estabilished a tavern, whose sign is still in existence, which was a half-way house, where travelers were refreshed and horses changed in the old stage coach days. In 1791, when the first post-office was established in Litchfield, a post rider left it once a week, on Monday morning, carry- ing with him the mail for "South East Farms," when on his way to Hartford. South East Farms was incorporated by the legislature as a winter parish, from November to April of each year, in 1789, and the first meeting is said to have been held October 15 of that year. At this meet- ing it was voted to hire a minister to preach the gospel for six months, and on November 2, it was voted to lay a tax of 25 pounds, one-third to be raised in money, the remaining two-thirds in wheat, rye, corn, buckwheat or oats. In 1794 it was voted to build a meeting house was of Titus Turner's, if that worthy consented to let the society have a con- venient spot for a green. In 1794 Northfield petitioned the general assembly to be set off as a parish and it was in- corporated in the fall of that year. The Rev. Joseph E. Camp was pastor from 1795 to 1837, and was known as "Priest Camp." He married Rhoda Turner, daughter of Titus Turner, already referred to as the little girl lost in the woods in 1778. He made brick in the brickyard of Chauncey Warner in the first years of his ministry and later taught school in his house. One of his sons was for many years a physician at North- field, Dr. David Bushrod Washington Camp- usually known as "Dr. Bushrod"- another was Dr. Joseph W. Campr, of Bristol, one was a clergyman, another a judge. Vol. I ends. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.