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From "The Hitchcock Genealogy":
He first settled in Enfield, then Mass. now Conn., where he married 1st, Feb. 7, 1705, Elizabeth (Mighill) Batt of Boston, widow of Paul Batt, whom she had married Feb. 13, 1700. Her child Paul had died in 1702 and her husband Paul Batt in 1703, when, as above, she married David Hitchcock of "Endfield." She died Sept. 11, 1715, and he, May 15, 1717, married, 2d, Mary Thomas. He removed to Springfield and from there to Brimfield, Mass. before 1727. For time and money expended in attendance at General Court in Boston in 1729 and June, 1731, the town voted him four shillings a day for himself and horse, amounting to two pounds. He was appointed Assessor at the first town meeting, March 16, 1731. At the drawing of public lands, 1732, he had 45th choice. He was a blacksmith, moderator of eleven town meetings, and for five years selectman of Brimfield. In 1742 he was the first schoolmaster on the town records, and for it received 7œ, 10s., and continued schoolmaster for seven years. In his will, signed May 6, 1743, he mentions his son Jonathan, wife Mary and two daughters Anna and Phebe.
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