Bacon Family of Middletown, Connecticut

Descendants of Nathaniel Bacon

(Mostly the Loomis/Bunce Family’s Direct Line)

Nathaniel Bacon, b. ca. 1630, parish of Stretton, County Rutland, England, m. ca. 1660, in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, to Ann Miller, b. 1640, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, (dau. of Thomas Miller who d. at over age 70 on 14 Aug 1680, and his wife Isabel _____, who d. 1666), who d. at Middletown, and was bur. there. Nathaniel also d. at Middletown, Connecticut. Nathaniel’s father was William Bacon, b. ca. 1608, who had a “numerous” family in Stretton (or Stretland?) parish, County Rutland, England. Nathaniel came to Hartford with his uncle Andrew, and in 1650, he joined the group of settlers at Massabeseck, which became Middletown. (For Sources, see list below genealogy.) Children:

i.John Bacon, b. 14 Mar 1661, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 26 Nov 1689, at Middletown, Connecticut, Sarah Wetmore, b. 27 Nov 1664, at Middletown, (dau. of Thomas (Whitmore) Wetmore and Sarah Hall), who d. 14 Feb 1698, at Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and was bur. 16 Feb 1698, Middletown, Connecticut. John d. 4 Nov 1732, and was bur. 6 Nov 1732 at Middletown.

ii.Mary, b. 7 Apr 1664.

3.   iii.Andrew Bacon, b. 14 Jan 1666.

iv.Lydia Bacon, b. 18 Feb 1672, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 6 Jun 1706, in Middletown, Connecticut, Joseph Wetmore, b. 5 Mar 1662, (son of Thomas (Whitmore) Wetmore and Sarah Hall), d. 25 Mar 1717, Middletown, Connecticut, was bur. 27 Mar 1717. Lydia d. at Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.

v.Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., b. 1 Mar 1674, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. Hannah Wetmore, b. 4 Jan 1680, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, (dau. of Thomas (Whitmore) Wetmore and Katherine Leet), d. 7 Sep 1722, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, bur. 9 Sep 1722, Middletown, Connecticut. Nathaniel d. 6 Jan 1759, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut and was bur. 8 Jan 1759, at Middletown.

Second Generation

2.  Mary Bacon, b. 7 Apr 1664, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 13 Dec 1687, in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, Samuel (Whitmore) Wetmore, b. 10 Sep 1655, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, (son of Thomas (Whitmore) Wetmore and Sarah Hall), d. 12 Apr 1746, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, was bur. 14 Apr 1746, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. Mary d. 24 May 1709, at Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. Children:

i.Mahitable Wetmore, b. 14 Nov., 1689, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.

ii.Samuel Wetmore, b. 13 Mar 1692, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 23 Jun 1722, in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, Hanna Hubbard, b. 21 Jul 1700, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, who d. 4 Jun 1794, at Middletown, and was bur. there on 7 Jun 1794. Samuel d. 30 Dec 1773, at Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and was buried there 4 Jan 1774.

iii.Mary Wetmore, b. 29 Jun 1694, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.

iv.Benjamin Wetmore, b. 17 May 1696, at Middletown, m. 24 Sep 1719, in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, to Marcy Roberts, who was also b. in Middletown.

v.Thomas Wetmore, b. 26 Aug 1698, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. (1) 11 Dec 1751, in Middletown, to Ann Hale, also b. Middletown, who d. 28 Sep 1753, Middletown, bur. 2 Oct 1753 in Middletown; m. (2) ______; m. (3) Rebecca Lewis, b. Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

vi.Daniel, b. 9 May, 1703, at Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 26 Aug 1725 in Middletown to Dorothy Hale, who was bap. 21 Mar 1707/08 in Middletown.

vii.Bethia Wetmore, b. 22 Jan 1706/7, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 20 Apr 1732, in Middletown, to Joseph Bacon, also b. in Middletown.

viii.Jabez Wetmore, b. 14 May 1709, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.

3.  Andrew Bacon, b. 14 Jan 1666, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, m. 12 Feb 1691/2, in Middletown, to Mehetable Wetmore, b. 1 Jun 1669, also in Middletown (dau. of Thomas (Whitmore) Wetmore and Mary Platt Atkinson), who d. 19 Jan 1732, in Middletown and was bur. there. Andrew died 1 Jun 1723, at Middletown, and was bur. there. Children:

i.Abigail Bacon, bap. 8 Feb 1712, m. 26 Apr 1732, to Josiah Loomis, Jr., who was b. 11 Mar 1708/9 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

SOURCES

  • 3 Nov 1992 letter with computer printout from John M. Stewart of Port Republic, Md., whose source was research done by an aunt at the Mormon Church Archives in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as another correspondent who had also done research at the Mormon Church Archives, and he said the two records “dovetailed beautifully.”

  • 11 Nov 1992 message on the Genealogy Forum of Prodigy network by Helen Dennett of Illinois, who was descended from Nathaniel Bacon through his daughter, Mary, who married Samuel Wetmore, which referenced her sources as:  the Wetmore Family Genealogy and A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England:  Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer’s Regis­ter, by James Savage, published in Boston 1860-1862, now available on the world wide web, vol. 3, p. 211.

  • 3 Mar 1994 message on the FidoNet National Genealogical Echo by Dave Moors of Witchita, Kansas which referenced the Bacon record in William Cutter’s Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, published in 1911.

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