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William BACKUS
(Abt 1626 – Abt 1721)

 

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1. Elizabeth PRATT

William BACKUS 1 2
  • Born: Abt 1626, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
  • Marriage (1): Elizabeth PRATT on 11 May 1660 in Mohegan Plantations, Connecticut Colony 1
  • Died: Abt 1721, Norwich Settlement, New London County, Connecticut Colony about age 95
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bullet  General Notes

    William Backus, Jr., was described as "an active man in town affairs and generally called Ensign or Lieutenant, was both patentee and proprietor of Norwich. He also signed the contract with Uncas. Ensign Backus chosen town officer 1679, 1680, 1684, 1686." In 1689, this William Backus was chosen Town Marshall. He was also on the building committee for First church arsenal and garrison fort. William Backus and Francis Griswold both patentees of the town of Norwich, given under Robert Treat, Governor, March 30, 1687. "Lieutenant William Backus was doubtless the last of the proprietors to leave earth. He was living in 1718."
    (Source: Fifty Puritan ancestors, 1628 –1660 : genealogical notes, 1560 –1900 New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1902, 234 pgs. by Elizabeth Todd Nash.)

— notes courtesy of Doneva Sheppard's online tree. kmh.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • Parents: William BACKUS, Sr. And Sarah CHARLES.
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William married Elizabeth PRATT on 11 May 1660 in Mohegan Plantations, Connecticut Colony.1 (Elizabeth PRATT was born on 1 February 1642 in Saybrook Plantations, Connecticut Colony and died in 1703 in Norwich Settlement, New London County, Connecticut Colony.)


bullet  Marriage Notes

now known as Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA 1

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. William C. Armstrong, Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey (1979).


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