The Sturdevant Website Library

This wheel signed 'J. Sturdevant',owned by J. Clark of Virginia.

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This is NOT the home page of Sturdevant genealogy. It is rather, a links page. Everything related to Sturdevant genealogy posted on this site will be linked from here. Very loosely organized, by category, it will contain links and descriptions to photos, images, scans, maps, outside links, documents, and files.

Whatever I have used, using, or may be used will be deposited here. Feel free to browse, but we recommend you tour our site, by following this button

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Original Sturdevant Genealogy Site

These pages first appeared in 2001, my first effort in web creation, and one I am still quite proud of. It was originally created in Front Page, the menu did not work for Netscape, as neither did the css and javascript used on the Family Tree page. Be warned that some things do not work, and some of the information is out of date. Nice pictures though. Thanks again Barbara!

Use this list to navigate the following pages.

Original Home Page Family Tree Introduction

William John I John II John III John IV

John Sanford Sturdevant Eli Arthur Jesse

Credits

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Memorial Day 2005 - The Story of Joel - Kidnapped by Indians!

Joel is the son of John Sturdevant III of Brookfield and Mary Sanford, brother to our John Sturdevant IV, the spinning wheel maker of New Milford.

Contemporary newspaper accounts from late summer/fall of 1766. Two accounts from the Connecticut Courant, and the New Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle. Kidnapped and Buried Alive.

Survived!

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A 1.6 MB file, please be patient.

June 2005 - Brookfield Historical Society

These files are result of a visit to the
Brookfield Historical Society

Visit was arranged through John Furlong and files were copied by Marilyn. Thank you so much.

I have tried to cite the sources where known.

Brookfield Founder

1696 and Which Sturdevant would this be?

Newbury to Brookfield 1700 to 1789
Barbara Todd
Bicentennial Commission/Brookfield, CT

Founder

Rufus and Timothy family trees

Handdrawn Family Tree

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Rufus

Marriage, children, land sale then for comparison the Annals of Brookfield
Emily C. Hawley; Hildreth & Company, 1929

Note 1
Annals

Timothy

4 cards, 4th card only 1 side

Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Note 4

Samuel

3 cards

Note 1
Note 2
Note 3

John II

Identified as John Sr. on notes, land sales back to 1758

Children identified as John Jr., Timothy, Jane, Sarah

Note 2
Note 3
Note 4

John III

Brother of Timothy, stockholder, land sale

One Note

my little jewel. Brothers John III and Timothy were among the first in line upon incorporation of the Town of Brookfield in 1788 to register their marks. Indicates a transfer of John's mark to Elias Sturdevant in 1817. Timothy's remained untransferred so he stayed in Brookfield, while John had moved on to Vermont.

Mark

John X

Which John is not identified. Dates encompass 1780s. Samuel and Jane mentioned.

Note 4
Note 5
Note 6

Property location of John Sturdevant along Still River in 1754 Newbury Parish.

Is this property of John II or John III?

Is this where Joel's kidnapping by Indians occurred?

John 1754

This same property is shown to be owned by E. Sturdevant, a 100 years later in 1854 Brookfield map.

Property 1854

John IV

The first spinning wheel maker and owner of 9 Hearths.

New Milford Vital Records Index

Marriage to Sarah Barnum, children Andrew, Hannah, Sarah Ann, John Sanford, Lucy

This file also contains references to John IV from the Orcutt book History of New Milford and Bridgewater

VR Index & Orcutt

9 Hearths

John's wonderful house built in 1812.

Article from Homes of Bridgewater

Records of Rev. E.L. Whitcome

Church records of St. Paul's Episcopal of Brookfield

Angeline, Emeline, Florence Peck, Henry L., Horatio N., John, Sophia

Church Records

Wilton Parish - The Story of Jonathon

From the Wilton Library, "Wilton, Connecticut" Three Centuries of People, Places, and Progress by Robert H. Russell

large file, contains story of Jonathon's leaving the parish for Bedford, because of his Presbyterianism. First mention I have seen of a Thomas Sturdivant in 1712 Wilton, and the birth notice of William's children Sarah and John.

Jonathon

Ridgefield - June 2005

A short look at the Vital Records of early 1700s Ridgefield

Thanks to Bob Law of the Ridgefield Historical Society for providing this introduction.

Sturdevant references from the indexes to Land Records 1 and 2

Index to Land Records 1 and 2

The Proprietors of Ridgefield by Welsh

John Sturdevant I

These references to John and Jonathon Abbott provide the backdrop for the marriage of John II and Keziah Abbott. I have included the genealogy of Abbots as I understand it and as it pertains to Keziah - daughter of Jonathon, and Mary who married a Jackson as sister to Jonathon.
Very Large File! 2.5 mb

John I

Bridgewater - Church Records

Gathered from St. Marks Episcopal Church, Bridgewater CT, June 2005

Eli - Death

Eli listed as Senior Warden, death noted in Little Rock Arkansas, Aug. 07, 1904. Burial in Bridgewater Aug. 11

Eli

Isabella - Death

Eli's wife Isabella M.(Tappen)Sturdevant, death at 56 years of age, buried May 22, 1894.

Isabella

Eli & Arthur

2nd and 3rd sextons of Center Cemetery Association.

Eli elected part of first directory in 1891 and secretary/treasurer. He served 20 years as sexton.

Father & Son Sextons

Arthur & Gertrude

So cool to see the marriage record of your paternal grandparents. The year 1900. 22 and 19 they became the first to head west.

Married in the home of Wm. H. and Mary (Stone) Vass, the parents of the bride.

Arthur & Gertrude

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In Ray Sturtivant's English research of the Sturtivant name, at Sturtivant.org he indicates that most of the early bearers of our surname were located in the shires of Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. Only the Nottinghamshire branch survived to the 1600 - 1700s, when we first came to the new World.

William Sturtivant of Norwell Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, who died in 1629/30, was most likely the grand patriarch of all the surviving spellings of the name. His two grandsons John and Francis are the patriarchs of the surviving branches worldwide.

The name William, or rather the lack of the name William, in the American Connecticut line and the dominance of John is a matter of much discussion. There is only one William, but many John and Samuels.

While we wait for Ray to sort this all out for us, we have a good sense that Nottinghamshire is our ancestral home.

Parish records show a 1630 apprenticeship for Joseph and Samuel, sons of John of Kneesall. Ray notes that no other records of this Samuel could be found. Perhaps he is the emigrant, Samuel of Massachussets.

They also show a William son of John and Isebell baptised in 1641 Newark, St. Mary Magdalene, followed by a brother John in 1643.

If William came from England to Connecticut, rather than being born in the New World, this William is the most likely candidate. At his death in 1715, he would have been in his 70s. This was the only William I could find in Ray's Parish records that would fit. The other explanation, of course, is that William is an offspring of either John in Virginia or Samuel in Massachussets, both of whom enter the records long before William. It seems, only DNA testing will reveal William's ancestry