Ruth Arnold line

Ruth Arnold was born July 31, 1768 at East Haddam, Connecticut a daughter of Daniel and Ruth Arnold. Daniel, 1; Gideon, 2; John, 3; Joseph, 4; John Arnold, 5 (1585) in England, came to America and was made a free man at Cambridge, Mass., 1635).

 

Daniel Arnold was born 1731, son of Gideon Arnold and Abigail Brainard. His wife was Ruth Arnold [DBM: Hale]. They were parents of ten children; seven girls and three boys. He united with the Church, February 14, 1762; died May 27, 1774, aged 43 years. He was elected Deacon November 27, 1771, First Congregational Church of Haddam. His wife was appointed guardian of their children. (Ref; Probate Court records of Middlesex County, Connecticut, vol. 4, [DH: page 66, vol. 3 page 66.])

 

Gideon Arnold was born at East Haddam, Connecticut., about 1702. He married Abigail Brainard, May 14, 1724. She was born June 18, 1702. He died before June 3, 1772 [DBM: 10 Feb 1772]. His father was John Arnold. (Ref: the two hundredth anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Haddam, October 14-17, 1900, History Catalog of Members of the Church, No. 18). He was a deacon from 1740 to 1772. The Arnold Family by Homer W. Brainard. Transcript, Brochure in the Library of the Connecticut Historical Society. Abigail Brainard was daughter of Elijah Brainard and Mary Bushnell. They were parents of eleven children.

 

John Arnold, father of Gideon, was son of Joseph Arnold and Elizabeth Wakeman. He was born 1664, at East Haddam. We have not been able to determine if his wife was Mercy Hulburt or Hannah Meakin.

 

Joseph Arnold was born 1625 in England. He died October 22, 1691. He was the son of John and  Susanna Arnold. He was one of the original settlers of East Haddam. Two men in 1662 bought a strip of land from the Indians on both sides of the Connecticut river. This was taken over by twenty-eight settlers, of which he was one. Daniel Brainard was another. The land on the west side was called Haddam, that on the east side was called East Haddam. (Ref: “Haddam and East Haddam” by D.D. Fields, and Connecticut Genealogy, vol. 3, page 1439.)

Here the Arnolds raised their families and they inter-married with the Brainards.  John Arnold was born 1585 in England. He came to America and was made a free man at Cambridge, Massachusetts 1635. He then moved to Hartford, Connecticut and was one of the original proprietors of Hartford in 1639. (Ref: Second Church of Hartford, page 24). He acted on a Church committee, and (page 28 [DH: 48]), Susanna, his wife, was reported in full fellowship. (Connecticut Genealogy, vol. 3, page 1359 [DH: 1349])