Joseph FINCH

Abt 1647 - Bef 1713  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Joseph FINCH
  Born	Abt 1647	Stamford, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	Before 12 Mar 1713	Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
  Person ID	I250	ChristensenJames
  Last Modified	12 May 2013

  
  

  Father	John FINCH,   b. Abt 1595, County Essex, England ,   d. 05 Sep 1657, Stamford, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Martha BRETT,   b. Abt 1613,   d. Abt 1681, Stamford, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Married	Abt 1632	Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth AUSTIN,   b. Abt 1653, Stamford, Connecticut, USA ,   d. Abt 1697, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 44 years)
  Married	23 Nov 1670	Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
  Children	+ 1. Joseph FINCH,   b. Abt 1675, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 1727, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2012
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Abt 1647 - Stamford, Connecticut, USA Married - 23 Nov 1670 - Greenwich, Connecticut, USA Died - Before 12 Mar 1713 - Greenwich, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/i/n/Paul-R-Finch/PDFGENE2.pdf 23 Mar 1664, granted a piece of land at Mianus Neck, Greenwich. 30 Dec 1670, granted land. 1672: The land owners at this time in the town of Greenwich were 27 and were styled "the 27 proprietors of 1672" and their names on the town records were ... Joseph Finch ... (West Greenwich was then called Horseneck). 16 Dec 1673, granted land. 8 Jul 1684, Greenwich Early Records 1:46: Witnes these presents yt wee, John Austen, Thomas austen and Joseph Finch and Elizabeth his wife, all of Grenwich, have each of us Respectively for ourselves received have each [sic] Father-in-Law, Weliam Hubbert, ye ffull and Just sum and sums due to use as portions out of ye Eystate of our deceased Father, John Austen . . . being payed unto us in lands, Cattell and other speesie . . . In Greenwich this eight of July Anno 1684. 1688, Joseph Finch on a list of land owners in Greenwich and legal voters. 4 Oct 1691, sold property to J.Wright. 1694-5, Town list showing comparative wealth, lists Joseph Finch and Joseph Finch, Jr. 1697, Ruth Finch, wife of Joseph Finch Sr., had lands by a town grant. 2 Apr 1705, Joseph Finch, Sr., inhabitant of Greenwich, conveys for love to son Samuel. 7 Jun 1709, Joseph Finch selected delegate to General Assembly held in New Haven. 24 August 1710, Mr. Joseph Finch, along with Lieutenant Samuel Peck and Sergeant Robert Lockwood, empowered to select a new minister (Connecticut Archives, Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1658- 1789, 2:26). 31 Jan 1711/12, Joseph Finch, Sr., conveys for good will and fatherly affection to my natural son Jonathan Finch of Greenwich. 20 Mar 1712/13, Ruth Finch conveys to her two sons Jonathan Finch and Nathan Mead, both of Greenwich by consent of her husband Joseph Finch, Sr. 3 Jun 1713, sold property to son Joseph Finch. Joseph Finch served as selectman, Captain of the town company, and was four times elected constable. Apr 1714, Inventory of estate of Joseph Finch Sr. of Greenwich, agreement of heirs, Joseph Finch, eldest son, sons Samuel, Jonathan, and Benjamin, son-in-law John Reynolds, daughter Elizabeth Whitney, daughter Sarah Finch, son-in-law, Jonathan Mead. 12 Mar 1715/16, Jonathan Mead of Greenwich and others (brothers and sisters, Finch) convey to brother Samuel Finch, one half of homestead of father Joseph Finch, deceased. 1720, sons of Joseph Finch, Joseph Finch Jr. and Jonathan Finch, executors for their father, deeded lands to Joseph Reynolds, their brother-in-law. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Finch&GSfn=Joseph&GSby=1720&GSbyrel=before&GSdyrel=all&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=54709589&df=all&