John Deming
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Patentee — Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
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| Born | 1615 Essex, England |
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| Died | November 21, 1705 Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA |
| Spouse | Honor Treat, daughter of Richard Treat |
John Deming (abt 1615 - 11-21-1705) was an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony.[1]
Deming was born in Shaford, Essex County, England. He arrived in New England during the Great Migration with his older sister Elizabeth and her husband Nathaniel Foote.[2] Deming and the Footes first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, but left for the Connecticut River Valley in 1636, where they helped found the town of Wethersfield.
Deming was brother-in-law to Connecticut governors Robert Treat and Thomas Welles. After Foote died Deming's sister Elizabeth married Welles in 1646.[3]
Trumbull named Deming one of the "fathers of Connecticut."[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Deming, Judson Keith (1904). John Deming and His Descendents. Dubuque, Iowa: Press of Mathis-Mets Co., 4. OCLC 2285125.
- ^ Some historians disagree whether John Deming and Elizabeth Deming were actually siblings. However, Deming and the Footes founded Wethersfield together.
- ^ Demings in America. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ Trumbull, Benjamin (1818). A Complete History of Connecticut, Volume I, New London, Connecticut: Maltby, Goldsmith, and Co., 46. OCLC 2610754.
