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Individual:
BRISTOL
The name Bristol may have originated as a place-name. Harrison's "Surnames of the United Kingdom" gives us four forms of the name - Bristow, Bristowe, Bristoll, and Bristol. Harrison says that it derives from the Anglo-Saxon "Bricq" and "stow(e)" or place; hence Bridge - place. Several other origins of the name have been suggested,but there is no proof as to any of them. In the present family it was spelled Bristow(e) in the earliest times, occasionally Bristoll through the 5th generation in America, and since then usually Bristol,excepting in some sections of the country where the older spellings persist to some extent.
Richard Bristow and his younger brother Henry came from England, probably not together, the former settling in Guilford, Connecticut. As Richard had no children, Henry remains as the immigrant ancestor of many of the American Bristols.
1625: Henry Bristol was born in England and came to New Haven, some say as a stowaway, a few years after that colony was founded, which was 1638. He was indentured to William Davis, a cooper, perhaps before his arrival in New Haven.
1647, March: He took the freeman's oath, presumably at age 21, and was of course a member of the Rev. John Davenport's congregation. He and his first wife, Rebecca, were assigned seats in the church, his being at first "before Mr. Tuttle's" and later "next to the soldiers"; she to sit "in the seat before the little short seat".
1649, October 2: At a court, "Henry Bristow, because the scabbard of his sword was broke, so that the point came out which is dangerous, was fined 12d".
1653, December: He was found innocent of a charge of sleeping while on watch.
1656, May 19: He was appointed "a packer of flesh", and later was cleared of a charge of "false meat packing".
1663: He was appointed fence-viewer.
1666: " . . . to gage calfs for this year" which fitted in whith his trade.
His home lot in New Haven was at the present corner of Elm and Temple Streets, now occupied by the New Haven Free Public Library, his descendants having lived on this site until Miss Mary Bliss Bristol sold it to the city.
1667, January 7: It is recorded, he bought of John Morris 114 acres "beit more of less" of land on "the western side of town" (now West Haven).
1668: At a town meeting he mentions his land at Malbon's (Malebon's) Cove near Oyster River, which forms the present boundary between West Haven and Milford.
In addition, then, to his trade of cooper, he was a meat packer and farmer, probably simultaneously.
"Bristol Genealogy" by Warren Edwin Bristol; p. 2; The Bristol Family Association; Milford, Connecticut; 1971 (929.2 B7759BA ACPL)
1695: Henry Bristol died.
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; p. 100; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 (974.0 NEa/Marriage SCGS)
1650c: Henry Bristol married Rebecca (unknown) at New Haven, Connecticut.
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700"; compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; p. 100; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 (974.0 NEa/Marriage SCGS)
"Bristol Genealogy" by Warren Edwin Bristol; p. 2; The Bristol Family Association; Milford, Connecticut; 1971 (929.2 B7759BA ACPL)
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