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Joseph moved from East Hampton, New York to Guilford, Connecticut before 1670.
Joseph was a seafaring man, and on 10/19/1697, while on the sloop "Adventure" from Fayal was seized and carried to France as a prisoner by a French privateer, commanded by Captain John Le Prince, who boarded and pillaged the sloop. He married Esther Wilcox, daughter of John of Middletown, who died 3/15/1698. After his return from captivity he married Hannah, daughter of William Seward in 1699, but died or disappeared (probably lost of sea) shortly afterward, leaving no children by her. [N.E. Hist. and Gen. Rec., Jan., 1901, p. 31]

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Joseph moved fron East Hampton, New York to Guilford,Connecticut before 1670. On 10/27/1671, Benjamin Wright gave his land at Hammonassett in the east end of Guilford to Joseph Hand and his wife for life and afterward to thier children, and on 12/12/1671, Joseph Hand bought from Richard Hubbell all his land in the same quarter. [N.E.Hist. and Gen. Register, Jan. 1901, p. 31]
On 4/29/1695, Joseph Hand and Nathan Bradleycarried a petition to General Court, signed by 12 men living in Hammonassett, to be allowed to go to Killingworth to church instead of Guilford. Later they petitioned General Assembly that East Guilford be made a "society" and have a "meeting house." The petition was granted 5/1703.
March 25, 1699, Captain Stephen Bradley, Joseph Hand and Thomas Crittenden were appointeda committee to settle boundaries between Guilford and Clinton(Kenilworth); he was also on the committee to lay out Cohabit, 4/29/ 1708. He was a vessel builder or owner, as he petitioned the town, 5/25/1696, to let him take down the bridge on the Hamonassett River. to bring his vessels down. Later, in May, 1699, he was appointed to take care of the bridge.
He was Deputy to General Assembly in 1720. [ Hist. Guilford and Madison, Steiner, pp. 132, 162, 195, 199, 217, 345, 514].

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John Hand was a leading member of a company that came from Maidstone, Kent, England, about 1635, to Lynn, Mass. Not liking Lynn, they purchased a tract of land for 30 pounds, through the Govenors of Connecticut and New Haven, naming the place Southhampton, 1644. He was later (1649) one of the original patentees and proprietors of the Commonwealth of East Hampton, Long Island, and one of the Magistrates of East Hampton before 1657; also one of the civil magistrates untl his death in 1660. He was a prominent member of East Hampton. (East Hampton Town Record, Vol. II, pp. 51-52, 119).
John Hand, born in the parish of Stanstede, near Maidstone Co., Kent, England, came to America with his father in 1635. His father returned to England to obtain his property and was murdered on the high seas on his return voyage to America.
John Hand is mentioned as the head of the family in South Hampton, L.I. In 1648 he was one of the founders of East Hampton, his name heading the documents relating to the purchase of land from the Indians. ( American Ancestry, Vol II, PP. 50-51)
Earliest instrument of record in East Hampton is a letter of attorney from John Hans in relation to some lands in Stanstede in Kent, England; it bears the date of Oct. 31, 1649. Original Indian deed of Eastern Long Island is dated Aug. 1, 1660, John Hand one of the grantees. The first inhabitants settled on the southern part of the main street . John Hand's house was on the West side of the street. (Address of H.P. Hodges, East Hampton, 200th Anniversary, in 1849).

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Willcock (Wilcox) Old English meaning Little William.

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Widow of Joseph Farnsworth.

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William came to Massachusetts about 1634. he and his first wife Joan, were members, in 1635, of Rev. John Eliot's church at Roxbury. In 1636, he went with the "'Great Removal' to Connecticut, and in 1637 was one of the 37 soldiers from Hartford in the expedition against the Pequod Indians.
In 1638 he was at Saybrook. In 1639 he was back in Hartford and had a house lot of eight acres there 'No. 54, west of South St., south of the Lane' (near the north end of the present 1895 Village St.). In the earliest record of his land at Hartford, dated February, 1639, he is spoken of as "Wiliam Cornwell, Sergeant at Arms". He lived in HArtford til 1651m was a member of the church there, and probably all his children by his second wife Mary, were birn there; but he did not reside all of that period in the village, for a document dated 1648 speaks of him as 'at present resident in Hocanum, in the bounds of Hartford.' In 1651 he removed with the first settlers to Middletown. His house lot there was 'neare ye landing place by ye springe' (present corner of Main and Washington Sts.). His lands in Middletown on both sides of the Connecticut River were first recorded Feb. 30, 1657, 903 acres. He was representative from Middletown in 1654, '57, '64 and '65. In 1664 he was constable at Middletown. In 1666 he received a grant of land in East Hartford for his services in the Pequod war (knowledge of this fact has been traditionally in the family).