Richard Hubbell
Richard Hubbell was born in England about 1627 and came to New England between 1640 and 1645. On 7 March 1645 he took the oath of fidelity in the New Haven Colony, the oath every settler swore to its government.
In 1650 or 1651 he married Elizabeth Meigs, the daughter of John Meigs and granddaughter of Vincent Meigs. Their first son, John, was born at New Haven about 1652. On 25 February 1653 Richard bought land at Guilford, and the family moved there. Their children Richard, James, Samuel, Elizabeth, Ebenezer and Mary were all born at Guilford.
In 1656 he was tried at New Haven and fined for sedition, for putting his name to a paper the magistrates called seditious. Asked whether he was sorry, he answered "that it was only his desire to have what our law did allow, & no more." Soon afterwards he left the New Haven jurisdiction for Fairfield, in the colony of Connecticut. Fairfield accepted him to be made a freeman on 13 October 1664, and he was made free on 10 October 1669.
He settled to the north west of the plateau at Pequonnock, on the homelot he bought from Thomas Wheeler senior. He became one of the leading men of the town and one of its largest landholders. He is named in the Fairfield Patent of 1685, the colony's grant confirming the town's land. Schenck's history of Fairfield says that he and his sons were active in the Indian wars of the colony, and that he was remembered as one of the leading citizens of the town.
He married three times. His first wife, Elizabeth Meigs, died at Fairfield some years before 1688. His second wife's given name is not known: her gravestone in the old Stratford burying ground carries only the initials E. H. and the year of her death, 1688. They had four children, Samuel, Abigail, Sarah and James. In 1688 he married Abigail Walker, a widow of Stratford, who bore him Joseph, who died in 1700, and John, born in April 1691.
He died on 23 October 1699, aged about seventy two. His gravestone stands near his second wife's in the old burying ground of Stratford, marked R. H., the date worn away. His will was sealed with his family seal, a bird holding an olive branch, and his estate was inventoried at 816 pounds.
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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Hubbell (1627-1699)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-hubbell-1627-1699-0786ba.