Nehemiah Hoyt
Nehemiah Hoyt was born at Stamford on 13 April 1718, a son of Samuel Hoyt, the town smith, and his second wife, Mary Scofield. His ear-mark was entered at Stamford on 18 March 1731, when he was twelve. In March 1742 he and his brother Jonathan sold land in Stamford together, and he sold more on his own in 1742 and 1744.
On 25 November 1742 he married Ruth Peck of Greenwich, the next town west. She was the daughter of Samuel Peck, a Greenwich carpenter and farmer who had died in 1733. In February 1745 Nehemiah and Ruth sold to her brother Samuel Peck of Greenwich land in Stamford that had been her father's. They lived in the Stanwich part of Greenwich, on the Stamford line, and the Peck genealogy places them there.
They had at least thirteen children. Their son Nehemiah, born in 1752, went up to Castleton, Vermont, at about nineteen, fought in the Revolution, was with Ethan Allen at the taking of Ticonderoga in 1775, and was afterwards taken prisoner and carried to Montreal. Their son Noah, born in 1759, followed him to Castleton. Jesse, a lieutenant, and Joel stayed in Stamford.
Nehemiah made his will on 1 February 1785. It was proved on 6 September 1785, with his wife Ruth still living.
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Cite: Heirology, "Nehemiah Hoyt (1718-1785)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/nehemiah-hoyt-1718-1785-ebefea.