Ancestors

William Pitkin

William Pitkin was attorney for the colony of Connecticut, the officer who acted for the colony in its courts. He became treasurer in 1676. In 1690 he was chosen an assistant, one of the magistrates who sat in the upper house of the General Assembly and as judges. He married Hannah Goodwin. Their daughter Hannah, born in 1666/7, married Timothy Cowles in 1689/90. He died on 16 December 1694.

Little is known of his family in England. The Pitkin genealogy of 1887 says so plainly: "Of the father of William Pitkin ... little is known." He had a brother, Roger, who lived in London in Helmet Court, and a sister, Martha. A letter written to him from London in November 1667 came down in the family, and the original was in the 1887 compiler's hands. It was addressed "ffor William Pitkin at Hertford Towne neare Coneticut river," and it carried news of his brother's family after the plague and the Great Fire.

He made his will on 27 September 1694. He left ten shillings each "to my brother Roger Pitkin and to my sister Martha Clarke and to my Cousin Roger Pitkin," his brother's son. He called Capt. Caleb Stanly and Nathaniel Goodwin his brothers. The will names his daughter Hannah Cowles. His youngest children were George, who would be twenty the next September, Elizabeth, eighteen, and Ozias, sixteen.

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Cite: Heirology, "William Pitkin (d. 1694)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-pitkin-1694-3b923d.