Ann Scott, afterwards Ann Ford

d. 1675 · Hartford CT → Windsor CT → Northampton MA

Died 1675

Children include Sarah

She was the wife of Thomas Scott of Hartford, and on 6 November 1643 John Ewe killed him, by misadventure in the jury's word. The court fined Ewe ten pounds to her and five to the colony, and her husband, wounded and dying, spoke a will that provided for her, for their son Thomas and for their three daughters. The son was infirm in body or mind or both and did not live long, so she was left with three girls and a farm.

On 7 November 1644, a year and a day after the killing, she married Thomas Ford of Windsor, whose own first wife had died in April 1643. Her daughter Mary was married to Robert Porter in the same ceremony. Ford had four grown daughters of his own by then, all born in England, and the household she joined was already full of other women's children.

She lived another thirty one years in it. Ford was a Windsor representative through the 1640s and 1650s and in old age removed to Northampton, where his stepson in law and his own son in law had settled, and she died there on 5 May 1675. He followed her eighteen months later. Her maiden name and her birth are not known, and she is called Ann in every record.

Children

Sarah Scott d. 1661

Sources

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, ed. J. Hammond Trumbull, vol. I (Hartford, 1850), the undated Particular Court at pp. 102-103 and the Court of Election of April 1644 at p. 103

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1862), vol. IV, under SCOTT

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