Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family: Who Are Descended From Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn;, And Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn
This book, which is the genealogy of the descendants of only two of the Hitchcocks who early settled in this country, scarcely needs an introduction. The family seems to have been, and still is, a very numerous one in England, the Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury showing a list of 116 of this name between the years of 1590 and 1670. It would probably not be difficult to trace the ancestry back to England of the descendants of Thomas Hitchcock who at the age of 22 came to Virginia in the Paule of London, or of the Thomas Hitchcock who with Alice his wife came to Virginia in the Marygold in 1624 and settled on Hog Island, or of the William Hitchcock who sailed in 1635 in the Plaine Joan for Virginia. But Matthias, Luke and Edward came and left no trail behind them. Probably they were men in the humbler walks of life. All attempts have failed to discover any trace of them previous to May, 1635 when Matthias at the age of 25 landed in Boston and settled for a short time in Watertown, Mass., from which place he soon removed to East Haven, Conn., where our history of the family begins. There he was joined by Luke and Edward as early as July 1, 1644 at which date they both took Freemans oath in New Haven. Matthias and Edward remained in East Haven and in this and the towns in the neighborhood of New Haven the descendants of Matthias settled for several generations. About 1645 Luke removed to Wethersfield Conn., dying there in 1659 after which date his children removed to Springfield, Mass. And in this neighborhood the records of the earlier generations of his descendants may be found.
It may be of interest to state that the Hitchcock family is supposed to have come originally from the county of Wiltshire, England.
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